Wikiquote enwikiquote https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page MediaWiki 1.47.0-wmf.9 first-letter Media Special Talk User User talk Wikiquote Wikiquote talk File File talk MediaWiki MediaWiki talk Template Template talk Help Help talk Category Category talk Draft Draft talk TimedText TimedText talk Module Module talk Event Event talk 0 30 3961220 3951224 2026-07-05T17:15:35Z Koavf 6765 3961220 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell.jpg|thumb|[[Love]] is wise – [[hatred]] is foolish.]] [[File:Young Bertie.jpg|thumb|The [[good]] [[life]] is one inspired by [[love]] and guided by [[knowledge]].]] '''[[w:Bertrand Russell|Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell]]''' ([[May 18]], [[1872]] – [[February 2]], [[1970]]) was a British [[w:philosopher|philosopher]], [[w:logician|logician]], [[w:mathematician|mathematician]], [[w:historian|historian]], and [[w:social critic|social critic]]. In 1950, he was awarded a [[w:Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize in Literature]]. : See also: ::'''''[[The Problems of Philosophy]]''''' (1912) ::'''''[[Political Ideals]]''''' (1917) ::'''''[[Marriage and Morals]]''''' (1929) ::'''''[[The Conquest of Happiness]]''''' (1930) ::'''''[[Mortals and Others]]''''' (1931-35) ::'''''[[A History of Western Philosophy]]''''' (1945) ::'''''[[Unpopular Essays]]''''' (1950) ::'''''[[The Impact of Science on Society]]''''' (1952) ::'''''[[The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell]]''''' (1967-1969) == Quotes == === Youth === [[File:Russell as a boy.jpg|thumb|My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.]] [[File:Russell1893.jpg|thumb|Cambridge is one of the few places where one can talk unlimited [[nonsense]] and generalities without anyone pulling one up or confronting one with them when one says just the opposite the next day.]] [[File:Russell1907-2.jpg|thumb|Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.]] * I do wish I believed in the life eternal, for it makes me quite miserable to think man is merely a kind of machine endowed, unhappily for himself, with consciousness. ** ''Greek Exercises'' (1888); at the age of fifteen, Russell used to write down his reflections in this book, for fear that his people should find out what he was thinking. * The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. * Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. * I should like to believe my people's religion, which was just what I could wish, but alas, it is impossible. I have really no religion, for my God, being a spirit shown merely by reason to exist, his properties utterly unknown, is no help to my life. I have not the parson's comfortable doctrine that every good action has its reward, and every sin is forgiven. '''My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.''' ** ''Greek Exercises'' (1888), written two days after his sixteenth birthday. === 1890s === * I am looking forward very much to getting back to Cambridge, and being able to say what I think and not to mean what I say: two things which at home are impossible. Cambridge is one of the few places where one can talk unlimited nonsense and generalities without anyone pulling one up or confronting one with them when one says just the opposite the next day. ** Letter to Alys Pearsall Smith (1893); published in ''The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell, Volume 1: The Private Years (1884–1914),'' edited by Nicholas Griffin * Thee will find out in time that I have a great love of professing vile sentiments, I don't know why, unless it springs from long efforts to avoid priggery. ** Letter to Alys Pearsall Smith (1894). Smith was a Quaker, thus the archaic use of "Thee" in this and other letters to her. * Thee might observe incidentally that if the state paid for child-bearing it might and ought to require a medical certificate that the parents were such as to give a reasonable result of a healthy child – this would afford a very good inducement to some sort of care for the race, and gradually as public opinion became educated by the law, it might react on the law and make that more stringent, until one got to some state of things in which there would be a little genuine care for the race, instead of the present haphazard higgledy-piggledy ways. ** Letter to Alys Pearsall Smith (1894); published in ''The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell, Volume 1: The Private Years (1884–1914)'', edited by Nicholas Griffin. It should be noted that in his talk of "the race", he is referring to "the human race". Smith married Russell in December 1894; they divorced in 1921. === 1900s === * '''[[Pure mathematics]] consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true of ''anything'', then such and such another proposition is true of that thing.''' It is essential not to discuss whether the first proposition is really true, and not to mention what the anything is, of which it is supposed to be true. Both these points would belong to [[applied mathematics]]. We start, in pure mathematics, from certain rules of inference, by which we can infer that if one proposition is true, then so is some other proposition. These rules of inference constitute the major part of the principles of formal logic. We then take any hypothesis that seems amusing, and deduce its consequences. ''If'' our hypothesis is about ''anything'', and not about some one or more particular things, then our deductions constitute mathematics. Thus '''mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.''' People who have been puzzled by the beginnings of mathematics will, I hope, find comfort in this definition, and will probably agree that it is accurate. ** ''Recent Work on the Principles of Mathematics,'' published in ''International Monthly,'' Vol. 4 (1901), later published as "[[s:Mysticism_and_Logic_and_Other_Essays/Chapter_05 Mathematics and the Metaphysicians|Mathematics and the Metaphysicians]]" in ''[[w:Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays|Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays]]'' (1917) * [Unlike the] utilitarian... I judge pleasure and pain to be of small importance compared to [[knowledge]], the appreciation and contemplation of beauty, and a certain intrinsic excellence of mind which, apart from its practical effects, appears to me to deserve the name of virtue. [For] many years it seemed to me perfectly self-evident that pleasure is the only good and pain the only evil. Now, however, the opposite seems to me self-evident. <br /> What first turned me away from utilitarianism was the persuasion that I myself ought to pursue philosophy, although I had (and have still) no doubt that by doing economics and the theory of politics I could add more to human happiness. It appeared to me that the dignity of which human existence is capable is not attainable by devotion to the mechanism of life, and that unless the contemplation of eternal things is preserved, mankind will become no better than well-fed pigs. But I do not believe that such contemplation on the whole tends to happiness. It gives moments of delight, but these are outweighed by years of effort and depression. ** Letter to Gilbert Murray, April 3, 1902 * It seems to me now that '''mathematics is capable of an artistic excellence as great as that of any music, perhaps greater'''; not because the pleasure it gives (although very pure) is comparable, either in intensity or in the number of people who feel it, to that of music, but because it gives in absolute perfection that combination, characteristic of great art, of godlike freedom, with the sense of inevitable destiny; because, in fact, '''it constructs an ideal world where everything is perfect and yet true.''' ** Letter to Gilbert Murray, April 3, 1902 * Again, in regard to actual human existence, I have found myself giving honour to those who feel its tragedy, who think truly about Death, who are oppressed by ignoble things even when they are inevitable; yet these qualities appear to me to militate against happiness, not only to the possessors, but to all whom they affect. And, generally, the best life seems to me one which thinks truly and feels greatly about human things, and which, in addition, contemplates the world of beauty and of abstract truths. This last is, perhaps, my most anti-utilitarian opinion: I hold all [[knowledge]] that is concerned with things that actually exist – all that is commonly called Science – to be of very slight value compared to the knowledge which, like philosophy and mathematics, is concerned with ideal and eternal objects, and is freed from this miserable world which God has made. <br /> [Utilitarians] have been strangely anxious to prove that the life of the pig is not happier than that of the philosopher – a most dubious proposition... ** Letter to Gilbert Murray, April 3, 1902 * What a monstrous thing that a University should teach journalism! I thought that was only done at Oxford. This respect for the filthy multitude is ruining civilisation. ** Letter to Lucy Martin Donnely, July 6, 1902 * Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance. ** Letter to Lucy Donnely, November 25, 1902 * '''Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.''' ** Letter to Gilbert Murray, December 28, 1902 * Pure Mathematics is the class of all propositions of the form "''p'' implies ''q''," where ''p'' and ''q'' are propositions containing one or more variables, the same in the two propositions, and neither p nor q contains any constants except logical constants. And logical constants are all notions definable in terms of the following: Implication, the relation of a term to a class of which it is a member, the notion of ''such that'', the notion of relation, and such further notions as may be involved in the general notion of propositions of the above form. In addition to these, mathematics ''uses'' a notion which is not a constituent of the propositions which it considers, namely the notion of truth. ** [[w:The Principles of Mathematics|''Principles of Mathematics'']] (1903), Ch. I: Definition of Pure Mathematics, p. 3 * '''The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age'''; and when this fact has been established, the remainder of the principles of mathematics consists in the analysis of Symbolic Logic itself. ** ''Principles of Mathematics'' (1903), Ch. I: Definition of Pure Mathematics, p. 5 * I may as well say at once that I do not distinguish between inference and deduction. What is called induction appears to me to be either disguised deduction or a mere method of making plausible guesses. ** ''Principles of Mathematics'' (1903), Ch. II: Symbolic Logic, p. 11 * What does not exist must be something, or it would be meaningless to deny its existence; and hence we need the concept of being, as that which belongs even to the non-existent. ** ''Principles of Mathematics'' (1903), p. 450 * Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which [[Christopher Columbus|Columbus]] discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers than he created the Indians. ** ''Principles of Mathematics'' (1903), p. 451 * I have been merely oppressed by the weariness and tedium and vanity of things lately: nothing stirs me, nothing seems worth doing or worth having done: the only thing that I strongly feel worth while would be to murder as many people as possible so as to diminish the amount of consciousness in the world. These times have to be lived through: there is nothing to be done with them. ** Letter to Gilbert Murray, March 21, 1903 * It is true that numerous instances are not always necessary to establish a law, provided the essential and relevant circumstances can easily be disentangled. But, in history, so many circumstances of a small and accidental nature are relevant, that no broad and simple uniformities are possible. Where our main endeavour is to discover general laws, we regard these as intrinsically more valuable than any of the facts which they inter-connect. In astronomy, the law of gravitation is plainly better worth knowing than the position of a particular planet on a particular night, or even on every night throughout a year. There are in the law a splendour and simplicity and sense of mastery which illuminate a mass of otherwise uninteresting details... But in history the matter is far otherwise... '''Historical facts, many of them, have an intrinsic value, a profound interest on their own account, which makes them worthy of study, quite apart from any possibility of linking them together by means of causal laws.''' ** ''On History'' (1904) * The past alone is truly real: the present is but a painful, struggling birth into the immutable being of what is no longer. Only the dead exist fully. The lives of the living are fragmentary, doubtful, and subject to change; but the lives of the dead are complete, free from the sway of Time, the all but omnipotent lord of the world. Their failures and successes, their hopes and fears, their joys and pains, have become eternal—our efforts cannot now abate one jot of them. Sorrows long buried in the grave, tragedies of which only a fading memory remains, loves immortalized by Death's hallowing touch these have a power, a magic, an untroubled calm, to which no present can attain. ...On the banks of the river of Time, the sad procession of human generations is marching slowly to the grave; in the quiet country of the Past, the march is ended, the tired wanderers rest, and the weeping is hushed. ** ''On History'' (1904) * A logical theory may be tested by its capacity for dealing with puzzles, and it is a wholesome plan, in thinking about logic, to stock the mind with as many puzzles as possible, since these serve much the same purpose as is served by experiments in physical science. ** "[[w:On Denoting|On Denoting]]", ''Mind'', Vol. 14, No. 56 (October 1905), pp. 479–493; as reprinted in ''Logic and Knowledge: Essays, 1901–1950'', (1956) * All's well that ends well; which is the epitaph I should put on my tombstone if I were the last man left alive. ** Letter to Lucy Donnely, April 22, 1906 * We tend to believe the premises because we can see that their consequences are true, instead of believing the consequences because we know the premises to be true. But the inferring of premises from consequences is the essence of induction; thus the method in investigating the principles of mathematics is really an inductive method, and is substantially the same as the method of discovering general laws in any other science. ** "The Regressive Method of Discovering the Premises of Mathematics" (1907), in ''Essays in Analysis'' (1973), pp. 273–274 * Take the question whether other people exist. ...It is plain that it makes for happiness to believe that they exist – for even the greatest misanthropist would not wish to be deprived of the objects of his hate. Hence the belief that other people exist is, pragmatically, a true belief. But if I am troubled by solipsism, the discovery that a belief in the existence of others is 'true' in the pragmatist's sense is not enough to allay my sense of loneliness: the perception that I should profit by rejecting solipsism is not alone sufficient to make me reject it. For what I desire is not that the belief in solipsism should be false in the pragmatic sense, but that other people should in fact exist. And with the pragmatist's meaning of truth, these two do not necessarily go together. The belief in solipsism might be false even if I were the only person or thing in the universe. ** "William James's Conception of Truth" [1908], published in ''Philosophical Essays'' (London, 1910) * Ironclads and Maxim guns must be the ultimate arbiters of metaphysical truth. ** Quoted in ''The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal'', Vol. 209 (1909), p. 387 ==== ''A Free Man's Worship'' (1903)==== [[File:Bertrand Russell, 1894.jpg|thumb|200px|Brief and powerless is Man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.]] * That Man is the product of causes that had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve individual life beyond the grave; that all the labors of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins – all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand. Only within the scaffolding of these truths, '''only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can the soul's habitation henceforth be safely built.''' * In spite of Death, the mark and seal of the parental control, Man is yet free, during his brief years, to examine, to criticise, to know, and in imagination to create. To him alone, in the world with which he is acquainted, this freedom belongs; and in this lies his superiority to the resistless forces that control his outward life. * In action, in desire, we must submit perpetually to the tyranny of outside forces; but in thought, in aspiration, we are free, free from our fellowmen, free from the petty planet on which our bodies impotently crawl, free even, while we live, from the tyranny of death. * '''Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.''' * Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time. * The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour. * The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long. * '''Brief and powerless is Man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.''' ==== "[[:s:Mysticism_and_Logic_and_Other_Essays/Chapter_04|The Study of Mathematics]]" (November 1907) ==== [[File:Bisection construction.gif|thumb|Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty.]] * To those who inquire as to the purpose of mathematics, the usual answer will be that it facilitates the making of machines, the travelling from place to place, and the victory over foreign nations, whether in war or commerce. ... The reasoning faculty itself is generally conceived, by those who urge its cultivation, as merely a means for the avoidance of pitfalls and a help in the discovery of rules for the guidance of practical life. * '''Mathematics''', rightly viewed, '''possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture''', without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show. The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry. What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to be assimilated as a part of daily thought, and brought again and again before the mind with ever-renewed encouragement. * '''Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity embodying in splendid edifices the passionate aspiration after the perfect from which all great work springs.''' Remote from human passions, remote even from the pitiful facts of nature, the generations have gradually created an ordered cosmos, where pure thought can dwell as in its natural home, and where one, at least, of our nobler impulses can escape from the dreary exile of the actual world. * The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture. * '''Mathematics takes us''' still further from what is human, '''into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the world, but every possible world, must conform.''' === 1910s === [[File:1+1=2.png|thumb|The above proposition is occasionally useful.]] [[File:Bertrand Russell.jpeg|thumb|It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.]] * The number of syllables in the English names of finite integers tends to increase as the integers grow larger, and must gradually increase indefinitely, since only a finite number of names can be made with a given finite number of syllables. Hence the names of some integers must consist of at least nineteen syllables, and among these there must be a least. Hence "the least integer not nameable in fewer than nineteen syllables" must denote a definite integer; in fact, it denotes 111, 777. But "the least integer not nameable in fewer than nineteen syllables" is itself a name consisting of eighteen syllables; hence the least integer not nameable in fewer than nineteen syllables can be named in eighteen syllables, which is a contradiction. This contradiction was suggested to us by Mr. G. G. Berry of the Bodleian Library. ** ''Principia Mathematica,'' written with [[Alfred North Whitehead]], (1910), vol. I, Introduction, ch. II: The Theory of Logical Types. This is a statement of the [[w:Berry paradox|Berry paradox]]. * '''I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe – because, like [[Baruch Spinoza|Spinoza]]'s God, it won't love us in return.''' ** Letter to Lady Ottoline Morrell, March, 1912, as quoted in ''Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations'' (2012), p. 1318 * Life seems to me essentially passion, conflict, rage... It is only intellect that keeps me sane; perhaps this makes me overvalue intellect against feeling. ** Letter to Lady Ottoline Morrell in 1912, as quoted in Clark ''The life of Bertrand Russell'' (1976), p. 174 * '''The above proposition is occasionally useful.''' ** Comment after the proof that 1+1=2, completed in ''Principia Mathematica'', Volume II, 1st edition (1912), [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=umhistmath&cc=umhistmath&idno=aat3201.0002.001&frm=frameset&view=image&seq=126 page 86] * '''When people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupid.''' ** ''Theory of Knowledge'' (1913) * People are said to believe in God, or to disbelieve in Adam and Eve. But in such cases what is believed or disbelieved is that there is an entity answering a certain description. This, which can be believed or disbelieved is quite different from the actual entity (if any) which does answer the description. Thus the matter of belief is, in all cases, different in kind from the matter of sensation or presentation, and error is in no way analogous to hallucination. '''A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.''' ** ''On the Nature of Acquaintance: Neutral Monism'' (1914) * In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word "experience" have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word. It is to be feared, however, that if the word is avoided the confusions of thought with which it has been associated may persist. ** ''On the Nature of Acquaintance: Neutral Monism'' (1914) *Essentially, this war...is a great race-conflict, a conflict of Teuton and Slav, in which certain other nations, England, France and Belgium, have been led into cooperation with the Slav. ... The conflict of Germany and Russia has been produced not by this or that diplomatic incident, but by primitive passions expressing themselves in the temper of the two races. **''War: The Offspring of Fear'' (1914), quoted in Ray Monk, ''Bertrand Russell: The Spirit of Solitude, 1872-1921'' (1996), p. 373 and Daniel Pick, ''War Machine: The Rationalisation of Slaughter in the Modern Age'' (1996), p. 152 *The Austrians are a highly civilised race, half-surrounded by Slavs in a relatively backward state of culture. ... Servia, a country so barbaric that a man can secure the throne by instigating the assassination of his predecessor, is engaged constantly in fermenting the racial discontent of men of the same race who are Austrian subjects. **''War: The Offspring of Fear'' (1914), quoted in Ray Monk, ''Bertrand Russell: The Spirit of Solitude, 1872-1921'' (1996), p. 373 and Daniel Pick, ''War Machine: The Rationalisation of Slaughter in the Modern Age'' (1996), p. 152 *It must not be supposed that this conflict is, on the part of the Teuton, aggressive in substance, whatever it may be in form. In substance it is defensive, the attempt to preserve Central Europe for a type of civilisation indubitably higher and of more value to mankind than that of any Slav State. The existence of the Russian menace on the Eastern border is, quite legitimately, a nightmare to Germany. **''War: The Offspring of Fear'' (1914), quoted in Ray Monk, ''Bertrand Russell: The Spirit of Solitude, 1872-1921'' (1996), p. 373 * Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict. ** ''Justice in War-Time'' (1916), p. 27 * '''No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.''' ** ''Justice in War-Time'' (1916), p. 70 * Righteousness cannot be born until self-righteousness is dead. ** ''Justice in War-Time'' (1916), p. 192 * It seems clear to me that marriage ought to be constituted by children, and relations not involving children ought to be ignored by the law and treated as indifferent by public opinion. It is only through children that relations cease to be a purely private matter. ** Letter to Ottoline Morrell, January 30, 1916 * I don't care for the applause one gets by saying what others are thinking; I want actually to ''change'' people's thoughts. Power over people's minds is the main personal desire of my life; and this sort of power is not acquired by saying popular things. ** Letter to Lucy Martin Donnelly, February 10, 1916 * I don't like the spirit of socialism – I think freedom is the basis of everything. ** Letter to Constance Malleson (Colette), September 29, 1916 * [One] must look into hell before one has any right to speak of heaven. ** Letter to Colette O'Niel, October 23, 1916; published in ''The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Public Years, 1914-1970'', p. 87 * I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who send men to be slaughtered, and the fathers who feel a smug pride when their sons are killed, and even the pacifists who keep saying human nature is essentially good, in spite of all the daily proofs to the contrary. I hate the planet and the human race – I am ashamed to belong to such a species. ** Letter to Colette, December 28, 1916 * How much good it would do if one could exterminate the human race. ** A characteristic saying of Russell, reported by Aldous Huxley in a letter to Lady Ottoline Morrell dated 8 October 1917<!-- (p. 395)-->, as quoted in ''Bibliography of Bertrand Russell'' (Routledge, 2013) * The principal source of the harm done by the State is the fact that power is its chief end. ** ''Principles of Social Reconstruction'' (1917), Ch. II: The State *'''It is preoccupation with [[possessions]], more than anything else, that prevents men from [[living]] [[freely]] and [[nobly]].''' The State and [[Property]] are the great embodiments of [[possessiveness]]; it is for this [[reason]] that they are against life, and that they issue in [[war]]. Possession means taking or keeping some good thing which another is prevented from [[enjoying]]; [[creation]] means putting into the [[world]] a [[good]] thing which otherwise no one would be able to enjoy. Since the material goods of the world must be divided among the population, and since some men are by nature brigands, there must be defensive possession, which will be regulated, in a good [[community]], by some principle of impersonal [[justice]]. But all this is only the preface to a good life or good [[political]] institutions, in which creation will altogether outweigh possession, and distributive justice will exist as an uninteresting matter of course. <br /> '''The supreme principle, both in politics and in private life, should be ''to promote all that is creative, and so to diminish the impulses and desires that center round possession.''''' ** ''Principles of Social Reconstruction'' [Originally titled ''Why Men Fight : A Method Of Abolishing The International Duel''], Ch. VIII : What We Can Do, p. 257 * That I, a funny little gesticulating animal on two legs, should stand beneath the stars and declaim in a passion about ''my'' rights – it seems so laughable, so out of all proportion. Much better, like Archimedes, to be killed because of absorption in eternal things... <br /> There is a possibility in human minds of something mysterious as the night-wind, deep as the sea, calm as the stars, and strong as Death, a mystic contemplation, the "intellectual love of God." Those who have known it cannot ''believe'' in wars any longer, or in any kind of hot struggle. If I could give to others what has come to me in this way, I could make them too feel the futility of fighting. But I do not know how to communicate it: when I speak, they stare, applaud, or smile, but do not understand. ** Letter to Miss Rinder, July 30, 1918 * What a queer work the Bible is. <br /> ...Some texts are very funny. Deut. XXIV, 5: "When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken." I should never have guessed "cheer up" was a Biblical expression. Here is another really inspiring text: "Cursed be he that lieth with his mother-in-law. And all the people shall say, Amen." St Paul on marriage: "I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn." This has remained the doctrine of the Church to this day. It is clear that the Divine purpose in the text "it is better to marry than to burn" is to make us all feel how very dreadful the torments of Hell must be. ** Letter to Colette, August 10, 1918 * In the visible world, the Milky Way is a tiny fragment; within this fragment, the solar system is an infinitesimal speck, and of this speck our planet is a microscopic dot. On this dot, tiny lumps of impure carbon and water, of complicated structure, with somewhat unusual physical and chemical properties, crawl about for a few years, until they are dissolved again into the elements of which they are compounded. They divide their time between labour designed to postpone the moment of dissolution for themselves and frantic struggles to hasten it for others of their kind. ** [https://users.drew.edu/jlenz/br-dreams.html ''Dreams and Facts''] (1919) * No man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is; no man can achieve the greatness of which he is capable until he has allowed himself to see his own littleness. ** ''Dreams and Facts'' (1919) ==== ''[[w:The Problems of Philosophy|The Problems of Philosophy]]'' (1912)==== {{main|The Problems of Philosophy}} * Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it? * Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life. * Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as a rule, be known to be true, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves; because these questions enlarge our conception of what is possible, enrich our intellectual imagination and diminish the dogmatic assurance which closes the mind against speculation; but above all because, '''through the greatness of the universe which philosophy contemplates, the mind is also rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.''' * For example, a man who had seen a great many white swans might argue, by our principle, that on the data it was probable that all swans were white, and this might be a perfectly sound argument. The argument is not disproved by the fact that some swans are black, because a thing may very well happen in spite of the fact that some data render it improbable. In the case of the swans, a man might know that colour is a very variable characteristic in many species of animals, and that, therefore, an induction as to colour is peculiarly liable to error. But this knowledge would be a fresh datum, by no means proving that the probability relatively to our previous data had been wrongly estimated. The fact, therefore, that things often fail to fulfill our expectations is no evidence that our expectations will not probably be fulfilled in a given case or a given class of cases. Thus our inductive principle is at any rate not capable of being disproved by an appeal to experience. The inductive principle, however, is equally incapable of being proved by an appeal to experience. **"On Induction" ==== ''Our Knowledge of the External World'' (1914) ==== [[File:LigUitLig.jpg|thumb|To realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.]] * Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning. ** Lecture I, Current Tendencies, p. 11 (New American Library edition, 1960) * The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic emancipates us from the straitwaistcoated benevolent institution which idealism palms off as the totality of being. ** p. 9 * The true function of logic ... as applied to matters of experience ... is analytic rather than constructive; taken a priori, it shows the possibility of hitherto unsuspected alternatives more often than the impossibility of alternatives which seemed prima facie possible. Thus, while it liberates imagination as to what the world ''may'' be, it refuses to legislate as to what the world ''is''. ** p. 8 * In fact the opposition of instinct and reason is mainly illusory. Instinct, intuition, or insight is what first leads to the beliefs which subsequent reason confirms or confutes; but the confirmation, where it is possible, consists, in the last analysis, of agreement with other beliefs no less instinctive. '''Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one. Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new.''' ** p. 21 * Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical. ** p. 33 * We are thus led to a somewhat vague distinction between what we may call "hard" data and "soft" data. This distinction is a matter of degree, and must not be pressed; but if not taken too seriously it may help to make the situation clear. I mean by "hard" data those which resist the solvent influence of critical reflection, and by " soft " data those which, under the operation of this process, become to our minds more or less doubtful. ** p. 70 * Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, '''to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.''' ** p. 167 ==== ''[[:s:Why Men Fight|Why Men Fight]]'' (1917) ==== * There are three forces on the side of life which require no exceptional mental endowment, which are not very rare at present, and might be very common under better social institutions. They are love, the instinct of constructiveness, and the joy of life. All three are checked and enfeebled at present by the conditions under which men live—not only the less outwardly fortunate, but also the majority of the well-to-do. Our institutions rest upon injustice and authority: it is only by closing our hearts against sympathy and our minds against truth that we can endure the oppressions and unfairnesses by which we profit. The conventional conception of what constitutes success leads most men to live a life in which their most vital impulses are sacrificed, and the joy of life is lost in listless weariness. Our economic system compels almost all men to carry out the purposes of others rather than their own, making them feel impotent in action and only able to secure a certain modicum of passive pleasure. All these things destroy the vigor of the community, the expansive affections of individuals, and the power of viewing the world generously. All these things are unnecessary and can be ended by wisdom and courage. If they were ended, the impulsive life of men would become wholly different, and the human race might travel towards a new happiness and a new vigor. ** pp. 18-19 * The power of the State may be brought to bear, as it often is in England, through public opinion rather than through the laws. By oratory and the influence of the Press, public opinion is largely created by the State, and a tyrannous public opinion is as great an enemy to liberty as tyrannous laws. If the young man who will not fight finds that he is dismissed from his employment, insulted in the streets, cold-shouldered by his friends, and thrown over with scorn by any woman who may formerly have liked him, he will feel the penalty quite as hard to bear as a death sentence. A free community requires not only legal freedom, but a tolerant public opinion, an absence of that instinctive inquisition into our neighbors' affairs which, under the guise of upholding a high moral standard, enables good people to indulge unconsciously a disposition to cruelty and persecution. Thinking ill of others is not in itself a good reason for thinking well of ourselves. But so long as this is not recognized, and so long as the State can manufacture public opinion, except in the rare cases where it is revolutionary, public opinion must be reckoned as a definite part of the power of the State. ** pp. 48-50 * '''Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth – more than ruin, more even than death.''' Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habits; thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of the well-tried wisdom of the ages. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. It sees man, a feeble speck, surrounded by unfathomable depths of silence; yet it bears itself proudly, as unmoved as if it were lord of the universe. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man. ** pp. 178-179 ==== ''Political Ideals'' (1917) ==== {{main|Political Ideals}} * Political ideals must be based upon ideals for the individual life. The aim of politics should be to make the lives of individuals as good as possible. * '''The best [[life]] is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.''' * Without [[effort]] and [[change]], human life cannot remain [[good]]. It is not a finished [[Utopia]] that we ought to desire, but a [[world]] where [[imagination]] and [[hope]] are alive and active. ==== ''The Philosophy of Logical Atomism'' (1918) ==== * The process of philosophizing, to my mind, consists mainly in passing from those obvious, vague, ambiguous things, that we feel quite sure of, to something precise, clear, definite, which by reflection and analysis we find is involved in the vague thing that we start from, and is, so to speak, the real truth of which that vague thing is a sort of shadow. * I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along. * My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at because '''the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.''' * The reason that I call my doctrine logical atomism is because the atoms that I wish to arrive at as the sort of last residue in analysis are logical atoms and not physical atoms. Some of them will be what I call "particulars" – such things as little patches of color or sounds, momentary things – and some of them will be predicates or relations and so on. * To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name. * In a logically perfect language, there will be one word and no more for every simple object, and everything that is not simple will be expressed by a combination of words, by a combination derived, of course, from the words for the simple things that enter in, one word for each simple component. ==== ''[http://archive.org/stream/mysticism00russuoft/mysticism00russuoft_djvu.txt Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays]'' (1918) ==== * Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the universe. ** Ch. 1: Mysticism and Logic * The facts of science, as they appeared to him <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[Heraclitus]]<nowiki>]</nowiki>, fed the flame in his soul, and in its light, he saw into the depths of the world. ** Ch. 1: Mysticism and Logic * Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one. ** Ch. 1: Mysticism and Logic * The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilized men. ** Ch. 1: Mysticism and Logic * When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself. ** Ch. 1: Mysticism and Logic * A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is. ** Ch. 1: Mysticism and Logic * A process which led from the amœba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress – though whether the amœba would agree with this opinion is not known. ** Ch. 1: Mysticism and Logic * Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires. ** Ch. 1: Mysticism and Logic * In science men have discovered an activity of the very highest value in which they are no longer, as in art, dependent for progress upon the appearance of continually greater genius, for in science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it. ** Ch. 2: The Place of Science in a Liberal Education * A life devoted to science is therefore a happy life, and its happiness is derived from the very best sources that are open to dwellers on this troubled and passionate planet. ** Ch. 2: The Place of Science in a Liberal Education * Such... but even more purposeless, more void of meaning, is the world which Science presents for our belief. Amid such a world, if anywhere, our ideals henceforward must find a home. That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the débris of a universe in ruins—all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain, that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand. Only within the scaffolding of these truths, only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can the soul's habitation henceforth be safely built. ** Ch. 3: A Free Man's Worship * '''The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interests of the desire to know'''—it involves suppression of hopes and fears, loves and hates, and the whole subjective emotional life, until we become subdued to the material, able to see it frankly, without preconceptions, without bias, without any wish except to see it as it is, and without any belief that what it is must be determined by some relation, positive or negative, to what we should like it to be, or to what we can easily imagine it to be. * Every great study is not only an end in itself, but also a means of creating and sustaining a lofty habit of mind. ** Ch. 4: The Study of Mathematics * The Calculus required continuity, and continuity was supposed to require the infinitely little; but nobody could discover what the infinitely little might be. ** Ch. 5: Mathematics and the Metaphysicians * If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all. ** Ch. 5: Mathematics and the Metaphysicians * Thus mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true. ** Ch. 5: Mathematics and the Metaphysicians * Formerly, it was held by philosophers and mathematicians alike that the proofs in Geometry depended on the figure; nowadays, this is known to be false. In the best books there are no figures at all. The reasoning proceeds by the strict rules of formal logic from a set of axioms laid down to begin with. ** Ch. 5: Mathematics and the Metaphysicians * An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might conclude that it is the nature of human beings to grow continually taller and wiser in an indefinite progress towards perfection; and this generalisation would be just as well founded as the generalisation which evolutionists base upon the previous history of this planet. ** Ch. 6: On the Scientific Method in Philosophy.[[File:Gillray New Morality portion.png|thumb|Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for co-operation with oneself.]] * '''Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.''' ** Ch. 6: On the Scientific Method in Philosophy * Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for co-operation with oneself. ** Ch. 6: On the Scientific Method in Philosophy * The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm. ** Ch. 9: On the Notion of Cause ==== ''Proposed Roads To Freedom'' (1918) ==== * The great majority of men and women, in ordinary times, pass through life without ever contemplating or criticising, as a whole, either their own conditions or those of the world at large. They find themselves born into a certain place in society, and they accept what each day brings forth, without any effort of thought beyond what the immediate present requires. Almost as instinctively as the beasts of the field, they seek the satisfaction of the needs of the moment, without much forethought, and without considering that by sufficient effort the whole conditions of their lives could be changed. ** Introduction, p. 4 * My own opinion—which I may as well indicate at the outset—is that '''pure [[Anarchism]], though it should be the ultimate ideal, to which society should continually approximate, is for the present impossible''', and would not survive more than a year or two at most if it were adopted. On the other hand, both Marxian Socialism and Syndicalism, in spite of many drawbacks, seem to me calculated to give rise to a happier and better world than that in which we live. I do not, however, regard either of them as the best practicable system. Marxian Socialism, I fear, would give far too much power to the State, while Syndicalism, which aims at abolishing the State, would, I believe, find itself forced to reconstruct a central authority in order to put an end to the rivalries of different groups of producers. The best practicable system, to my mind, is that of Guild Socialism, which concedes what is valid both in the claims of the State Socialists and in the Syndicalist fear of the State, by adopting a system of federalism among trades for reasons similar to those which are recommending federalism among nations. ** Introduction, p. 6 * Whatever bitterness and hate may be found in the movements which we are to examine, it is not bitterness or hate, but love, that is their mainspring. It is difficult not to hate those who torture the objects of our love. Though difficult, it is not impossible; but it requires a breadth of outlook and a comprehensiveness of understanding which are not easy to preserve amid a desperate contest. If ultimate wisdom has not always been preserved by Socialists and Anarchists, they have not differed in this from their opponents; and in the source of their inspiration they have shown themselves superior to those who acquiesce ignorantly or supinely in the injustices and oppressions by which the existing system is preserved. ** Introduction, p. 10 * [T]he plan we are advocating amounts essentially to this: that a certain small income, sufficient for necessaries, should be secured to all, whether they work or not, and that a larger income, as much larger as might be warranted by the total amount of commodities produced, should be given to those who are willing to engage in some work which the community recognizes as useful. ** Ch. IV: Work and Pay, discussing Universal Basic Income (UBI) [[File:Freedom.gif|thumb|Freedom is the greatest of political goods.]] * [Freedom] is the greatest of political goods. I do not say freedom is the greatest of all goods: the best things come from within—they are such things as creative art, and love, and thought. Such things can be helped or hindered by political conditions, but not actually produced by them; and freedom is, both in itself and in its relation to these other goods the best thing that political and economic conditions can secure. ** Ch. V: Government and Law, p. 75 * Many of the actions by which men have become rich are far more harmful to the community than the obscure crimes of poor men, yet they go unpunished because they do not interfere with the existing order. ** Ch. V: Government and Law * '''If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance with his instincts, he will accept it even on the slenderest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.''' ** Ch. VI: International relations, p. 97 * I believe that the abolition of private ownership of land and capital is a necessary step toward any world in which the nations are to live at peace with one another. ** Ch. VI: International relations, p. 99 * A world full of happiness is not beyond human power to create; the obstacles imposed by inanimate nature are not insuperable. '''The real obstacles lie in the heart of man''', and the cure for these is a firm hope, informed and fortified by thought. ** Ch. VI: International relations, p. 106 * Those who have been inspired to action by the doctrine of the class war will have acquired the habit of hatred, and will instinctively seek new enemies when the old ones have been vanquished. '''But in actual fact the psychology of the working man in any of the Western democracies is totally unlike that which is assumed in the Communist Manifesto. He does not by any means feel that he has nothing to lose but his chains, nor indeed is this true. The chains which bind Asia and Africa in subjection to Europe are partly riveted by him. He is himself part of a great system of tyranny and exploitation.''' Universal freedom would remove, not only his own chains, which are comparatively light, but the far heavier chains which he has helped to fasten upon the subject races of the world. ** Ch. VI: International Relations[[File:1815-regency-proposal-woodcut.gif |thumb|Often and often, a marriage hardly differs from prostitution except by being harder to escape from.]] * One of the most horrible things about commercialism is the way in which it poisons the relations of men and women. The evils of prostitution are generally recognized, but, great as they are, the effect of economic conditions on marriage seems to me even worse. There is not infrequently, in marriage, a suggestion of purchase, of acquiring a woman on condition of keeping her in a certain standard of material comfort. '''Often and often, a marriage hardly differs from prostitution except by being harder to escape from.''' The whole basis of these evils is economic. Economic causes make marriage a matter of bargain and contract, in which affection is quite secondary, and its absence constitutes no recognized reason for liberation. Marriage should be a free, spontaneous meeting of mutual instinct, filled with happiness not unmixed with a feeling akin to awe: it should involve that degree of respect of each for the other that makes even the most trifling interference with liberty an utter impossibility, and a common life enforced by one against the will of the other an unthinkable thing of deep horror. ** Ch VIII: The World As It Could Be Made, p. 129-130 * Government by majorities can be made less oppressive by devolution, by placing the decision of questions primarily affecting only a section of the community in the hands of that section, rather than of a Central Chamber. In this way, men are no longer forced to submit to decisions made in a hurry by people mostly ignorant of the matter in hand and not personally interested. ** Ch VIII: The World As It Could Be Made * '''There is a very great deal to be said for the Anarchist plan of allowing necessaries, and all commodities that can easily be produced in quantities adequate to any possible demand, to be given away freely to all who ask for them, in any amounts they may require.''' The question whether this plan should be adopted is, to my mind, a purely technical one: would it be, in fact, possible to adopt it without much waste and consequent diversion of labor to the production of necessaries when it might be more usefully employed otherwise? I have not the means of answering this question, but I think it exceedingly probable that, sooner or later, with continued improvement in the methods of production, this Anarchist plan will become feasible; and when it does, it certainly ought to be adopted. ** Ch VIII: The World As It Could Be Made p.196 ==== ''Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy'' (1919) ==== * '''The method of "postulating" what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.''' ** Ch. 7: Rational, Real and Complex Numbers * The question of "unreality," which confronts us at this point, is a very important one. Misled by grammar, the great majority of those [[logician]]s who have dealt with this question have dealt with it on mistaken lines. They have regarded grammatical form as a surer guide in analysis than, in fact, it is. And they have not known what differences in grammatical form are important. ** Ch. 16: Descriptions * For want of the apparatus of propositional functions, many [[logician]]s have been driven to the conclusion that there are unreal objects. It is argued, e.g., by [[w:Alexius Meinong|Meinong]], that we can speak about "the golden mountain," "the round square," and so on; we can make true propositions of which these are the subjects; hence they must have some kind of logical being, since otherwise the propositions in which they occur would be meaningless. In such theories, it seems to me, there is a failure of that feeling for reality which ought to be preserved even in the most abstract studies. Logic, I should maintain, must no more admit a [[unicorn]] than [[zoology]] can; for logic is concerned with the real world just as truly as zoology, though with its more abstract and general features. ** Ch. 16: Descriptions * In obedience to the feeling of reality, we shall insist that, in the analysis of propositions, nothing "unreal" is to be admitted. But, after all, if there ''is'' nothing unreal, how, it may be asked, ''could'' we admit anything unreal? The reply is that, in dealing with propositions, we are dealing in the first instance with symbols, and if we attribute significance to groups of symbols which have no significance, we shall fall into the error of admitting unrealities, in the only sense in which this is possible, namely, as objects described. ** Ch. 16: Descriptions * So much of modern mathematical work is obviously on the border-line of logic, so much of modern logic is symbolic and formal, that the very close relationship of logic and mathematics has become obvious to every instructed student. The proof of their identity is, of course, a matter of detail: starting with premisses which would be universally admitted to belong to logic, and arriving by deduction at results which as obviously belong to mathematics, we find that there is no point at which a sharp line can be drawn, with logic to the left and mathematics to the right. If there are still those who do not admit the identity of logic and mathematics, we may challenge them to indicate at what point, in the successive definitions and deductions of ''Principia Mathematica'', they consider that logic ends and mathematics begins. It will then be obvious that any answer must be quite arbitrary. ** Ch. 18: Mathematics and Logic === 1920s === [[File:Brocken-tanzawa2.JPG|thumb|200px|Mystery is delightful, but unscientific, since it depends upon ignorance.]] * People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: '''life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.''' ** Letter to Ottoline Morrell, 17 December, 1920 * In art [the Chinese] aim at being exquisite, and in life at being reasonable. ** ''The Problem of China'' (1922), Ch. XI: Chinese and Western Civilization Contrasted * I must confess that I am unable to appreciate the merits of [[Confucius]]. His writings are largely occupied with trivial points of etiquette, and his main concern is to teach people how to behave correctly on various occasions. When one compares him, however, with the traditional religious teachers of some other ages and races, one must admit that he has great merits, even if they are mainly negative. His system, as developed by his followers, is one of pure ethics, without religious dogma; it has not given rise to a powerful priesthood, and it has not led to persecution. It certainly has succeeded in producing a whole nation possessed of exquisite manners and perfect courtesy. Nor is Chinese courtesy merely conventional; it is quite as reliable in situations for which no precedent has been provided. And it is not confined to one class; it exists even in the humblest coolie. It is humiliating to watch the brutal insolence of white men received by the Chinese with a quiet dignity which cannot demean itself to answer rudeness with rudeness. Europeans often regard this as weakness, but it is really strength, the strength by which the Chinese have hitherto conquered all their conquerors. ** ''The Problem of China'' (1922), Ch. XI: Chinese and Western Civilization Contrasted * The typical Westerner wishes to be the cause of as many changes as possible in his environment; the typical Chinaman wishes to enjoy as much and as delicately as possible. ** ''The Problem of China'' (1922), Ch. XII: The Chinese Character * '''Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better.''' ** ''The Problem of China'' (1922), Ch. XII: The Chinese Character * The Chinese are a great nation, incapable of permanent suppression by foreigners. They will not consent to adopt our vices in order to acquire military strength; but they are willing to adopt our virtues in order to advance in wisdom. I think they are the only people in the world who quite genuinely believe that wisdom is more precious than rubies. That is why the West regards them as uncivilized. ** ''The Problem of China'' (1922), Ch. XIII: Higher education in China * '''Mystery is delightful, but unscientific, since it depends upon ignorance.''' ** ''[http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2529 The Analysis of Mind]'' (1921), Lecture I: Recent Criticisms of "Consciousness" * There is no logical impossibility in the hypothesis that the world sprang into being five minutes ago, exactly as it then was, with a population that "remembered" a wholly unreal past. '''There is no logically necessary connection between events at different times; therefore nothing that is happening now or will happen in the future can disprove the hypothesis that the world began five minutes ago.''' ** ''The Analysis of Mind'' (1921), Lecture IX: Memory, p. 159 * The supreme maxim in scientific philosophising is this: wherever possible, logical constructions are to be substituted for inferred entities. ** Quoted in Hawes ''The Logic of Contemporary English Realism'' (1923), p. 110;[[File:Russell in 1916.jpg|thumb|Most people would die sooner than think – in fact they do so.]] cf. [[William of Occam|Ockham]]'s [[w:Occam's razor|maxim]]: ''entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem''. * All traditional logic habitually assumes that precise symbols are being employed. It is therefore not applicable to this terrestial life but only to an imagined celestial existence... logic takes us nearer to heaven than other studies. ** [http://www.personal.kent.edu/~rmuhamma/Philosophy/RBwritings/vagueness.htm 'Vagueness'], first published in ''The Australasian Journal of Psychology and Philosophy'', 1 June, 1923 * It seems to me that science has a much greater likelihood of being true in the main than any philosophy hitherto advanced (I do not, of course, except my own). In science there are many matters about which people are agreed; in philosophy there are none. Therefore, although each proposition in a science may be false, and it is practically certain that there are some that are false, yet we shall be wise to build our philosophy upon science, because the risk of error in philosophy is pretty sure to be greater than in science. If we could hope for certainty in philosophy, the matter would be otherwise, but so far as I can see such a hope would be chimerical. ** ''Logical Atomism'' (1924) * We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices. The opposite view involves some effort of thought, and '''most people would die sooner than think – in fact they do so.''' ** ''The ABC of Relativity'' (1925), p. 166 *** Variant: "Most people would rather die than think; many do." * Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce. What it should produce is a belief that knowledge is attainable in a measure, though with difficulty; that much of what passes for knowledge at any given time is likely to be more or less mistaken, but that the mistakes can be rectified by care and industry. In acting upon our beliefs, we should be very cautious where a small error would mean disaster; nevertheless it is upon our beliefs that we must act. This state of mind is rather difficult: it requires a high degree of intellectual culture without emotional atrophy. But though difficult, it is not impossible; it is in fact the scientific temper. Knowledge, like other good things, is difficult, but not impossible; the dogmatist forgets the difficulty, the skeptic denies the possibility. Both are mistaken, and their errors, when widespread, produce social disaster. ** ''On Education, Especially in Early Childhood'' (1926), Ch. 2: The Aims of Education, p. 36.[[File:The Three Gossips.jpg|thumb|No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.]] * The instinctive foundation of the intellectual life is curiosity, which is found among animals in its elementary forms. Intelligence demands an alert curiosity, but it must be of a certain kind. The sort that leads village neighbours to try to peer through curtains after dark has no very high value. The widespread interest in gossip is inspired, not by a love of knowledge but by malice: '''no one gossips about other people's secret virtues''', but only about their secret vices. Accordingly most gossip is untrue, but care is taken not to verify it. Our neighbour's sins, like the consolations of religion, are so agreeable that we do not stop to scrutinise the evidence closely. ** ''On Education, Especially in Early Childhood'' (1926), Ch. 2: The Aims of Education, p. 50 *the average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself: in science, at least, his respect for authority is on the whole beneficial. ** ''On Education, Especially in Early Childhood'' (1926), Ch. 2: The Aims of Education, p. 63 * An irrational fear should never be simply let alone, but should be gradually overcome by familiarity with its fainter forms. ** ''On Education, Especially in Early Childhood'' (1926), Ch. 4: Fear * Written words differ from spoken words in being material structures. '''A spoken word is a process in the physical world, having an essential time-order; a written word is a series of pieces of matter, having an essential space-order.''' ** ''An Outline of Philosophy'' Ch.4 Language (1927) * Our words tend to conceal what is private and particular in our impressions, and to make us believe that different people live in a common world to a greater extent than is in fact the case. ** ''An Outline of Philosophy'' Ch.15 The Nature of our Knowledge of Physics (1927) * '''The tendency of our perceptions is to emphasise increasingly the objective elements in an impression, unless we have some special reason, as artists have, for doing the opposite.''' ** ''An Outline of Philosophy'' Ch.15 The Nature of our Knowledge of Physics (1927) * It must not be supposed that the subjective elements are any less 'real' than the objective elements; they are only less important... because they do not point to anything beyond ourselves... ** ''An Outline of Philosophy'' Ch.15 The Nature of our Knowledge of Physics (1927) * '''The camera is as subjective as we are.''' ** ''An Outline of Philosophy'' Ch.15 The Nature of our Knowledge of Physics (1927) * There is a connected set of events (light-waves) travelling outward from a centre... there are some respects in which all events are alike, and others in which they differ... We must not think of a light-wave as a 'thing', but as a connected group of rhythmical events. The mathematical characteristics of such a group can be inferred by physics, but the intrinsic character of the component events cannot be inferred. ** ''An Outline of Philosophy'' Ch.15 The Nature of our Knowledge of Physics (1927) * '''Modern physics... reduces matter to a set of events which proceed outward from a centre. If there is something further in the centre itself, we cannot know about it, and it is irrelevant to physics.''' ** ''An Outline of Philosophy'' Ch.15 The Nature of our Knowledge of Physics (1927) * '''Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little''': it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover. ** ''An Outline of Philosophy'' Ch.15 The Nature of our Knowledge of Physics (1927) * I went to Salt Lake City and the Mormons tried to convert me, but when I found they forbade tea and tobacco I thought it was no religion for me. ** Letter to C. P. Sanger, 23 December, 1929 ==== ''The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism'' (1920) ==== * I believe that Communism is necessary to the world, and I believe that the heroism of Russia has fired men's hopes in a way which was essential to the realization of Communism in the future. Regarded as a splendid attempt, without which ultimate success would have been very improbable, Bolshevism deserves the gratitude and admiration of all the progressive part of mankind. ** Preface * A fundamental economic reconstruction, bringing with it very far-reaching changes in ways of thinking and feeling, in philosophy and art and private relations, seems absolutely necessary if industrialism is to become the servant of man instead of his master. In all this, I am at one with the Bolsheviks; politically, I criticize them only when their methods seem to involve a departure from their own ideals. ** Preface * '''The hopes which inspire communism are, in the main, as admirable as those instilled by the [[Jesus#Chapters 5.E2.80.937.2C the Sermon on the Mount|Sermon on the Mount]], but they are held as fanatically and are as likely to do as much harm.''' ** Part I, The Present Condition of Russia, Ch. 1: What Is Hoped From Bolshevism * Soon after my arrival in Moscow I had an hour's conversation with [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]] in English, which he speaks fairly well... I have never met a personage so destitute of self-importance. He looks at his visitors very closely, and screws up one eye, which seems to increase alarmingly the penetrating power of the other. He laughs a great deal; at first his laugh seems merely friendly and jolly, but gradually I came to feel it rather grim. He is dictatorial, calm, incapable of fear, extraordinarily devoid of self-seeking, an embodied theory. The materialist conception of history, one feels, is his life-blood. He resembles a professor in his desire to have the theory understood and in his fury with those who misunderstand or disagree, as also in his love of expounding, I got the impression that he despises a great many people and is an intellectual aristocrat. <br /> ...When I suggested that whatever is possible in England can be achieved without bloodshed, he waved aside the suggestion as fantastic... He described the division between rich and poor peasants, and the Government propaganda among the latter against the former, leading to acts of violence which he seemed to find amusing. ** Part I, Ch. 3: Lenin, Trotsky and Gorky * I think if I had met him [Lenin] without knowing who he was, I should not have guessed that he was a great man; he struck me as too opinionated and narrowly orthodox. His strength comes, I imagine, from his honesty, courage, and unwavering faith—religious faith in the Marxian gospel, which takes the place of the Christian martyr's hopes of Paradise, except that it is less egotistical... I went to Russia a Communist; but contact with those who have no doubts has intensified a thousandfold my own doubts, not as to Communism in itself, but as to the wisdom of holding a creed so firmly that for its sake men are willing to inflict widespread misery. ** Part I, Ch. 3: Lenin, Trotsky and Gorky * ...it [is] possible to suppose that, if Russia is allowed to have peace, an amazing industrial development may take place, making Russia a rival of the United States. ** Part I, Ch. 5: Communism and the Soviet Constitution * One who believes, as I do, that the free intellect is the chief engine of human progress, cannot but be fundamentally opposed to Bolshevism, as much as to the Church of Rome. ** Part I, Ch. 9: International Policy [[File:Chandra Gamma Ray Burst 01.jpg|thumb|It is we who create value and our desires which confer value. In this realm we are kings.]] ==== ''The Prospects of Industrial Civilization'' (1923) ==== * ... it may be hoped that the white population of the world will soon cease to increase. The Asiatic races will be longer, and the negroes still longer, before their birth rate falls sufficiently to make their numbers stable without help of war and pestilence. But it is to be hoped that the religious prejudices which have hitherto hampered the spread of birth control will die out, and that ... the whole world will learn not to be unduly prolific. Until that happens, the benefits aimed at by socialism can only be partially realized, and the less prolific races will have to defend themselves against the more prolific by methods which are disgusting even if they are necessary. * '''To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true.''' * The governors of the world believe, and have always believed, that virtue can only be taught by teaching falsehood, and that any man who knew the truth would be wicked. I disbelieve this, absolutely and entirely. '''I believe that love of truth is the basis of all real virtue, and that virtues based upon lies can only do harm.''' ==== ''[https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/en/russell2.htm ICARUS, or, The Future of Science.]'' (1924) ==== :<small>Transcribed by Cosma Rohilla Shalizi. Berkeley, California (11 June 1994)</small> * '''Passing from quantity to quality of population, we come to the question of [[eugenics]]. We may perhaps assume that, if people grow less superstitious, government will acquire the right to sterilize those who are not considered desirable as parents. This power will be used, at first, to diminish imbecility, a most desirable object.''' But probably, in time, opposition to the government will be taken to prove imbecility, so that rebels of all kinds will be sterilized. Epileptics, consumptives, dipsomaniacs and so on will gradually be included; in the end, there will be a tendency to include all who fail to pass the usual school examinations. The result will be to increase the average intelligence; in the long run, it may be greatly increased. But probably the effect upon really exceptional intelligence will be bad. Mr. Micawber, who was Dickens's father, would hardly have been regarded as a desirable parent. How many imbeciles ought to outweigh one Dickens I do not profess to know. * Eugenics has, of course, more ambitious possibilities in a more distant future. It may aim not only at eliminating undesired types, but at increasing desired types. Moral standards may alter so as to make it possible for one man to be the sire of a vast progeny by many different mothers. When men of science envisage a possibility of this kind, they are '''prone to a type of fallacy which is common also in other directions. They imagine that a reform inaugurated by men of science would be administered as men of science would wish, by men similar in outlook to those who have advocated it. In like manner women who advocated votes for women used to imagine that the woman voter of the future would resemble the ardent feminist who won her the vote; and socialist leaders imagine that a socialist State would be administered by idealistic reformers like themselves. These are, of course, delusions; a reform, once achieved, is handed over to the average citizen. So, if eugenics reached the point where it could increase desired types, it would not be the types desired by present-day eugenists that would be increased, but rather the type desired by the average official. Prime Ministers, Bishops, and others whom the State considers desirable might become the fathers of half the next generation. Whether this would be an improvement it is not for me to say, as I have no hope of ever becoming either a Bishop or a Prime Minister.''' ==== ''What I Believe'' (1925) ==== [[File:Albert Roosenboom Two children playing dress up.jpg|thumb|Boys and girls should be taught respect for each other's liberty... and that jealousy and possessiveness kill love.]] * '''The good life is one inspired by love and guided by [[knowledge]].''' * '''We are and irrefutable arbiters of value''', and in the world of value Nature is only a part. Thus in this world we are greater than Nature. In the world of values, Nature in itself is neutral, neither good nor bad deserving of neither admiration nor censure. '''It is we who create value and our desires which confer value. In this realm we are kings''', and we debase our kingship if we bow down to Nature. It is for us to determine our good life, not for Nature – not even for Nature personified as God. * Love is better than hate, because it brings harmony instead of conflict into the desires of the persons concerned. Two people between whom there is love succeed or fail together, but when two people hate each other the success of either is the failure of the other. * At puberty, the elements of an unsuperstitious sexual morality ought to be taught. Boys and girls should be taught that nothing can justify sexual intercourse unless there is mutual inclination... Boys and girls should be taught respect for each other's liberty; they should be made to feel that nothing gives one human being rights over another, and that '''jealousy and possessiveness kill love'''. They should be taught that to bring another human being into the world is a very serious matter, only to be undertaken when the child will have a reasonable prospect of health, good surroundings, and parental care. But they should also be taught methods of birth control, so as to insure that children shall only come when they are wanted. Finally, they should be taught the dangers of venereal disease, and the methods of prevention and cure. The increase of human happiness to be expected from sex education on these lines is immeasurable. [[File:Carracci - Jupiter et Junon.jpeg|thumb|Moral rules ought not to be such as to make instinctive happiness impossible.]] * Certain forms of sex which do not lead to children are at present punished by the criminal law: this is purely superstitious, since the matter is one which affects no one except the parties directly concerned... The peculiar importance attached, at present, to adultery is quite irrational... Moral rules ought not to be such as to make instinctive happiness impossible. * We cannot suppose that an individual's thinking survives bodily death, since that destroys the organization of the brain and dissipates the energy which utilized the brain tracks. God and immortality, the central dogma of the Christian religion, find no support in science. But we in the West have come to think of them as the irreducible minimum of theology. No doubt people will continue to entertain these beliefs, because they are pleasant, just as it is pleasant to think ourselves virtuous and our enemies wicked. But for my part I cannot see any grounds for either. I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove Satan is a fiction. The Christian God may exist, so might the Gods of Olympus, Ancient Egypt or Babylon; but no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other. They lie outside the region of provable [[knowledge]] and there is no reason to consider any of them. * Religion, since it has its source in terror, has dignified certain kinds of fear and made people think them not disgraceful. In this it has done mankind a great disservice: all fear is bad. '''I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.''' I am not young and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting. Many a man has borne himself proudly on the scaffold; surely the same pride should teach us to think truly about man's place in the world. Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cosy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigour, and the great spaces have a splendour of their own. ** Cf. [[Richard Dawkins]] (2003), ''A Devil's Chaplain'': «There is more than just grandeur in this view of life, bleak and cold though it can seem from under the security blanket of ignorance. There is deep refreshment to be had from standing up and facing straight into the strong keen wind of understanding: Yeats's 'Winds that blow through the starry ways'.» * The philosophy of nature must not be unduly terrestrial; for it, the earth is merely one of the smaller planets of one of the smaller stars of the Milky Way. It would be ridiculous to warp the philosophy of nature in order to bring out results that are pleasing to the tiny parasites of this insignificant planet. Vitalism as a philosophy, and evolutionism, show, in this respect, a lack of sense of proportion and logical relevance. They regard the facts of life, which are personally interesting to us, as having a cosmic significance, not a significance confined to the earth's surface. Optimism and pessimism, as cosmic philosophies, show the same naive humanism; the great world, so far as we know it from the philosophy of nature, is neither good nor bad, and is not concerned to make us happy or unhappy. All such philosophies spring from self-importance and are best corrected by a little astronomy. * The old often envy the young; when they do, they are apt to treat them cruelly. ==== ''Review of The Meaning of Meaning'' (1926) ==== :<small> ''Dial'' (August 1926), Vol. 81, pp. 114-121.</small> :<small> Cf. [[w:C. K. Ogden|C. K. Ogden]] and [[w:I. A. Richards|I. A. Richards]] (1923), ''[[w:The Meaning of Meaning|The Meaning of Meaning]]''.</small> * When, in youth, I learned what was called "philosophy" ... no one ever mentioned to me the question of "meaning." Later, I became acquainted with [[w:Victoria Lady Welby|Lady Welby]]'s work on the subject, but failed to take it seriously. I imagined that logic could be pursued by taking it for granted that symbols were always, so to speak, transparent, and in no way distorted the objects they were supposed to "mean." Purely logical problems have gradually led me further and further from this point of view. Beginning with the question whether the class of all those classes which are not members of themselves is, or is not, a member of itself; continuing with the problem whether the man who says "I am lying" is lying or speaking the truth; passing through the riddle "is the present King of France bald or not bald, or is the law of excluded middle false?" I have now come to believe that the order of words in time or space is an ineradicable part of much of their significance – in fact, that the reason they can express space-time occurrences is that they are space-time occurrences, so that a logic independent of the accidental nature of spacetime becomes an idle dream. These conclusions are unpleasant to my vanity, but pleasant to my love of philosophical activity: until vitality fails, there is no reason to be wedded to one's past theories. (p. 114) * [Messrs Ogden and Richards] will reply that they are considering the meaning of a "thought," not of a word. A "thought" is not a social phenomenon, like speech, and therefore does not have the two sides, active and passive, which can be distinguished in speech. I should urge, however, that all the reasons which led our authors to avoid introducing images in explaining meaning should have also led them to avoid introducing "thoughts." If a theory of meaning is to be fitted into natural science as they desire, it is necessary to define the meaning of ''words'' without introducing anything "mental" in the sense in which what is "mental" is not subject to the laws of physics. Therefore, for the same reasons for which I now hold that the meaning of words should be explained without introducing images – which I argued to be possible in the above-quoted passage – I also hold that meaning in general should be treated without introducing "thoughts," and should be regarded as a property of words considered as physical phenomena. Let us therefore amend their theory. They say: "'I am thinking of A' is the same thing as 'My thought is being caused by A.'" Let us substitute: "'I am speaking of A' is the same thing as 'My speech is being caused by A.'" Can this theory be true? ====''[[w:Why I Am Not a Christian|Why I Am Not a Christian]]'' (1927)==== [[File: Spas vsederzhitel sinay.jpg|thumb|I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.]] *I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue. *'''I think all the great religions of the world - Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, and Communism - both untrue and harmful.''' It is evident as a matter of logic that, since they disagree, not more than one of them can be true. With very few exception, the religions which a man accepts is that of the community in which he lives, which makes it obvious that the influence of environment is what has led him to accept the religion in question. **Preface (1957) *Apart from logical cogency, there is to me something a little odd about the ethical valuations of those who think that an omnipotent, omniscient, and benevolent Deity, after preparing the ground by many millions of years of lifeless nebulae, would consider Himself adequately rewarded by the final emergence of Hitler and Stalin and the H-bomb. **Preface (1957) *Belief in eternal [[Hell|hell]] fire was an essential item of Christian belief until pretty recent times. In this country, as you know, it ceased to be an essential item because of a decision of the Privy Council, and from that decision the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Archbishop of York dissented; but in this country our religion is settled by Act of Parliament, and therefore the Privy Council was able to override Their Graces and hell was no longer necessary to a Christian. Consequently I shall not insist that a Christian must believe in hell. **[https://users.drew.edu/~jlenz/whynot.html What is a Christian?] (1927) *If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just as well be the world as God, so that there cannot be any validity in that argument. It is exactly of the same nature as the Hindu's view, that [[turtles all the way down|the world rested upon an elephant and the elephant rested upon a tortoise]]; and when they said, "How about the tortoise?" the Indian said, "Suppose we change the subject." The argument is really no better than that. **"The First-cause Argument" *If you accept the ordinary laws of science, you have to suppose that human life and life in general on this planet will die out in due course: it is a stage in the decay of the solar system... You see in the moon the sort of thing to which the earth is tending – something dead, cold, and lifeless. <br /> I am told that that sort of view is depressing, and people will sometimes tell you that if they believed that, they would not be able to go on living. Do not believe it; it is all nonsense. Nobody really worries much about what is going to happen millions of years hence. Even if they think they are worrying much about that, they are really deceiving themselves. They are worried about something much more mundane, or it may merely be a bad digestion; but nobody is really seriously rendered unhappy by the thought of something that is going to happen to this world millions and millions of years hence. Therefore, although it is of course a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out – at least I suppose we may say so, although sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives I think it is almost a consolation – it is not such as to render life miserable. It merely makes you turn your attention to other things. **"The Argument from Design" *...You could take up the line that some of the gnostics took up – a line which I often thought was a very plausible one – that as a matter of fact this world that we know was made by the devil at a moment when God was not looking. There is a good deal to be said for that, and I am not concerned to refute it. **"The Moral Arguments for Deity" * In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying. **"The Argument for the Remedying of Injustice" * I have no doubt that the present Prime Minister, for instance, is a most sincere Christian, but I should not advise any of you to go and smite him on one cheek. I think you might find that he thought this text was intended in a figurative sense. **"The Character of Christ" * I knew a parson who frightened his congregation terribly by telling them that the second coming was very imminent indeed, but they were much consoled when they found that he was planting trees in his garden. **"Defects in Christ's Teaching" *There is one very serious defect to my mind in Christ's moral character, and that is that He believed in hell. '''I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.''' **"The Moral Problem" *I do not think that the real reason why people accept religion has anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds. '''One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it.''' **"The Emotional Factor" *You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress of humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward the diminution of war, every step toward better treatment of the colored races, or even mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in the world, has been consistently opposed by the organized churches of the world. I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. **"The Emotional Factor"[[File:5 religions.gif|thumb|Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear.]] **Often paraphrased as "The Christian religion has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world." *[The church] is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in the world, because it has chosen to label as morality a certain narrow set of rules of conduct which have nothing to do with human happiness; and when you say that this or that ought to be done because it would make for human happiness, they think that has nothing to do with the matter at all. "What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy." **"How The Churches Have Retarded Progress" *Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear. It is partly the terror of the unknown and partly, as I have said, the wish to feel that you have a kind of elder brother who will stand by you in all your troubles and disputes. Fear is the basis of the whole thing – fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand-in-hand. It is because fear is at the basis of those two things. In this world we can now begin a little to understand things, and a little to master them by the help of science, which has forced its way step by step against the Christian religion, against the churches, and against the opposition of all the old precepts. Science can help us to get over this craven fear in which mankind has lived for so many generations. Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supports, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make this world a fit place to live in, instead of the sort of place that the churches in all these centuries have made it. **"Fear, the Foundation of Religion" *The whole conception of God is a conception derived from the ancient Oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of free men. When you hear people in church debasing themselves and saying that they are miserable sinners, and all the rest of it, it seems contemptible and not worthy of self-respecting human beings. We ought to stand up and look the world frankly in the face. We ought to make the best we can of the world, and if it is not so good as we wish, after all it will still be better than what these others have made of it in all these ages. '''A good world needs [[knowledge]], kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past, or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men.''' **"What We Must Do" ==== ''Sceptical Essays'' (1928) ==== * '''I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is this: that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true.''' ** Ch. 1: The Value of Scepticism * '''The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.''' ** Ch. 1: The Value of Scepticism * Man is essentially a dreamer, wakened sometimes for a moment by some peculiarly obtrusive element in the outer world, but lapsing again quickly into the happy somnolence of imagination. [[Freud]] has shown how largely our dreams at night are the pictured fulfilment of our wishes; he has, with an equal measure of truth, said the same of day-dreams; and he might have included the day-dreams which we call beliefs. ** Ch. 2: Dreams and Facts * '''Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.''' ** Ch. 2: Dreams and Facts * Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery. ** Ch. 6: Machines and the Emotions * A European who goes to New York and Chicago sees the future... when he goes to Asia he sees the past. ** Ch. 8: Eastern and Western Ideals of Happiness * We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practise, and another which we practise but seldom preach. ** Ch. 8: Eastern and Western Ideals of Happiness * The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others. ** Ch. 8: Eastern and Western Ideals of Happiness * It is obvious that "obscenity" is not a term capable of exact legal definition; in the practice of the Courts, it means "anything that shocks the magistrate." ** Ch. 10: Recrudescence of Puritanism * '''Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.''' ** Ch. 10: Recrudescence of Puritanism * [[William James]] used to preach the "will-to-believe." For my part, I should wish to preach the "will-to-doubt." None of our beliefs are quite true; all at least have a penumbra of vagueness and error. What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. ** Ch. 12: Free Thought and Official Propaganda * It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living. ** Ch. 12: ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=9tQsg5ITfHsC&q=&quot;It+is+clear+that+thought+is+not+free+if+the+profession+of+certain+opinions+makes+it+impossible+to+earn+a+living&quot;&pg=PA126#v=onepage Free Thought and Official Propaganda]'' * The State is a collection of officials, different for difference purposes, drawing comfortable incomes so long as the status quo is preserved. The only alteration they are likely to desire in the status quo is an increase of bureaucracy and the power of bureaucrats. ** Ch. 12: [http://books.google.com/books?id=9tQsg5ITfHsC&q=%22The+State+is+a+collection+of+officials+different+for+different+purposes+drawing+comfortable+incomes+so+long+as+the+status+quo+is+preserved+The+only+alteration+they+are+likely+to+desire+in+the+status+quo+is+an+increase+of+bureaucracy+and+the+power+of+bureaucrats%22&pg=PA134#v=onepage ''Free Thought and Official Propaganda''] * We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. ** Ch. 12: Free Thought and Official Propaganda * It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living. It is clear also that thought is not free if all the arguments on one side of a controversy are perpetually presented as attractively as possible, while the arguments on the other side can only be discovered by diligent search. ** Ch. 12: Free Thought and Official Propaganda, [https://books.google.com/books?id=9tQsg5ITfHsC&pg=PA127&dq=bertrand+russell,+%22diligent+search%22 books.google.com], [https://archive.org/stream/freethoughtoffic00russuoft/freethoughtoffic00russuoft_djvu.txt archive.org] * Americans need rest, but do not know it. I believe this to be a large part of the explanation of the crime wave in the United States. ** Ch. 13: Freedom in Society. [[File:Russell with John and Kate.jpg|thumb|The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.]] * '''Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.''' ** Ch. 13: Freedom in Society * Children must be under authority, and are themselves aware that they must be, although they like to play a game of rebellion at times. The case of children is unique in the fact that those who have authority over them are sometimes fond of them. Where this is the case, the children do not resent the authority in general, even when they resist it on particular occasions. Education authorities, as opposed to teachers, have not this merit, and do in fact sacrifice the children to what they consider the good of the State by teaching them "'''patriotism'''," i.e., '''a willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons'''. ** Ch. 13: Freedom in Society * The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them. ** Ch. 14: Freedom Versus Authority in Education * If human nature were unchangeable, as ignorant people still suppose it to be, the situation would indeed be hopeless. ** Ch. 17: Some Prospects: Cheerful and Otherwise ==== ''[[w:Marriage and Morals|Marriage and Morals]]'' (1929)==== [[File:Bertrand Russell with Alys.jpg|thumb|I believe marriage to be the best and most important relation that can exist between two human beings.]] [[File:Russell in 1924 01.jpg|thumb|To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.]] {{main|Marriage and Morals}} * Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives. * Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution. * To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. === 1930s === [[File:Malaysian playing golf.jpg|thumb|The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one – particularly if he plays golf.]] * '''The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one – particularly if he plays golf''', which he usually does. ** [http://www.utilitarian.org/texts/newgeneration.html Introduction] to ''The New Generation'' (1930) * Apart from autograph hunters, I get... many letters from Hindus, beseeching me to adopt some form of mysticism, from young Americans, asking me where I think the line should be drawn in petting, and from Poles, urging me to admit that while all other nationalism may be bad that of Poland is wholly noble. I get letters from engineers who cannot understand Einstein, and from parsons who think that I cannot understand Genesis, from husbands whose wives have deserted them – not (they say) that that would matter, but the wives have taken the furniture with them, and what in these circumstances should an enlightened male do? ...I get letters (concerning whose genuineness I am suspicious) trying to get me to advocate abortion, and I get letters from young mothers asking my opinion of bottle-feeding. ** Letter to Mr C. L. Aiken, March 19, 1930 * It is likely that America will be more important during the next century or two, but after that it may well be the turn of China. ** Letter to Rachel Gleason Brooks, May 5, 1930 * I quite understand the principle of confining employment as far as possible to the British without regard for efficiency. I think, however, that the Ministry is not applying the principle sufficiently widely. I know many Englishmen who have married foreigners, and many English potential wives who are out of a job. Would not a year be long enough to train an English wife to replace the existing foreign one in such cases? ** Enclosed reply to the Ministry of Labour, in defense of [[w:A. S. Neill|A. S. Neill]] (who declined to send it), 27 January, 1931 * Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. '''Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.''' ** ''The Scientific Outlook'' (1931) * '''The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition.''' The experimental habit of mind is a difficult one for most people to maintain; indeed, the science of one generation has already become the tradition of the next... ** ''The Scientific Outlook'' (1931) * A world without delight and without affection is a world destitute of value. ** ''The Scientific Outlook'' (1931) * All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man. ** ''The Scientific Outlook'' (1931), Part I, chapter II, "Characteristics of the Scientific Method" * I do not believe that science ''per se'' is an adequate source of happiness, nor do I think that my own scientific outlook has contributed very greatly to my own happiness, which I attribute to defecating twice a day with unfailing regularity. ** Letter to W. W. Norton (publisher), 27 January, 1931 * I think people who are unhappy are always proud of being so, and therefore do not like to be told that there is nothing grand about their unhappiness. A man who is melancholy because lack of exercise has upset his liver always believes that it is the loss of God, or the menace of Bolshevism, or some such dignified cause that makes him sad. When you tell people that happiness is a simple matter, they get annoyed with you. ** Letter to W. W. Norton, 17 February, 1931 * I shall keep it [the manuscript] by me until the end of May for purposes of revision, and of adding malicious foot-notes. ** Letter to W. W. Norton, 17 February, 1931 * You will have seen that my brother died suddenly in Marseilles. I inherit from him a title, but not a penny of money, as he was bankrupt. A title is a great nuisance to me, and I am at a loss what to do, but at any rate I do not wish it employed in connection with any of my literary work. There is, so far as I know, only one method of getting rid of it, which is to be attainted of high treason, and this would involve my head being cut off on Tower Hill. This method seems to me perhaps somewhat extreme... ** Letter to W. W. Norton, 11 March, 1931 * I am sorry to say that at the moment I am so busy as to be convinced that life has no meaning whatever... I do not see that we can judge what would be the result of the discovery of truth, since none has hitherto been discovered. ** Letter to Will Durant, 20 June, 1931 * A religious creed differs from a scientific theory in claiming to embody eternal and absolutely certain truth, whereas science is always tentative, expecting that modification in its present theories will sooner or later be found necessary, and aware that its method is one which is logically incapable of arriving at a complete and final demonstration. ** ''Religion and Science'' (1935), Ch. I: Ground of Conflict * While it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided at all, and lie outside the realm of truth and falsehood. Whatever [[knowledge]] is attainable, must be attained by scientific methods; and '''what science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.''' ** ''Religion and Science'' (1935), Ch. IX: Science of Ethics. ** Variant: "What science cannot tell us, mankind cannot know." (Attributed to Russell in Ted Peters' ''Cosmos As Creation: Theology and Science in Consonance'' [1989], p. 14, with a note that it was "told [to] a [[w:BBC|BBC]] audience [earlier this century]"). * Why in any case, this glorification of man? How about lions and tigers? They destroy fewer animals or human lives than we do, and they are much more beautiful than we are. How about ants? They manage the Corporate State much better than any Fascist. Would not a world of nightingales and larks and deer be better than our human world of cruelty and injustice and war? The believers in Cosmic Purpose make much of our supposed intelligence, but their writings make one doubt it. '''If I were granted omnipotence, and millions of years to experiment in, I should not think Man much to boast of as the final result of all my efforts.''' ** ''Religion and Science'' (1935) *New truth is often uncomfortable, especially to the holders of power; nevertheless, amid the long record of cruelty and bigotry, it is the most important achievement of our intelligent but wayward species. '" ** ''Religion and Science'' (1935), Ch. X: Conclusion *I am against a [[League of Nations|League]] war in present circumstances, because the anti-League powers are strong. The analogy is not [[w:Barons' War|King v. Barons]], but the [[w:War of the Roses|War of the Roses]]. If the League were strong enough I should favour sanctions, because the effect would suffice, or the war would be short and small. The whole question is quantitative. **Letter to [[w:Kingsley Martin|Kingsley Martin]] shortly before the [[w:Second Italo-Ethiopian War|Italo-Abyssinian War]] (7 August 1935), quoted in Kingsley Martin, ''Editor: A Second Volume of Autobiography, 1931-45'' (1968), p. 207 *At the present stage in the development of the art of war, there is only way of coping with them, and that is to keep out of war. In all the densely populated countries of Western Europe, it seems almost certain that, within a few days of the outbreak of war, panic will seize the surviving inhabitants of the capitals and the industrial areas, leading to anarchy, starvation, and paralysis of all warlike effort. The only sensible course, therefore, is to prevent war if possible, and to remain neutral if war occurs. **Letter to ''The New Statesman and Nation'' (10 August 1935), quoted in ''Yours Faithfully, Bertrand Russell: A Lifelong Fight for Peace, Justice, and Truth in Letters to the Editor'', ed. Ray Perkins, Jr. (2002), p. 109 *It is the duty of all who care for their country or for civilisation to point out that we cannot further any of our ideals by participation in the next war, and that we ought therefore to resist all measures based upon the assumption that we shall take part in it. In the late war it was arguable that victory, being possible, might do some good. With the modern technique of gas attack, no belligerent can hope for victory. Absolute [[pacifism]], therefore, in every country, in which it is politically possible, is the only sane policy both for Governments and individuals. **Letter to ''The New Statesman and Nation'' (10 August 1935), quoted in ''Yours Faithfully, Bertrand Russell: A Lifelong Fight for Peace, Justice, and Truth in Letters to the Editor'', ed. Ray Perkins, Jr. (2002), p. 109 * When I say that children should be told about sex, I do not mean that they should be told only the bare physiological facts; they should be told whatever they wish to know. There should be no attempt to represent adults as more virtuous than they are, or sex as occurring only in marriage. There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them, and feel justified in lying to them. ** [http://www.utilitarian.org/texts/oursexethics.html ''Our Sexual Ethics''] (1936) * '''It is only when we think abstractly that we have such a high opinion of man.''' Of men in the concrete, most of us think the vast majority very bad. Civilized states spend more than half their revenue on killing each other's citizens. Consider the long history of the activities inspired by moral fervour: human sacrifices, persecutions of heretics, witch-hunts, pogroms leading up to wholesale extermination by poison gases ... Are these abominations, and the ethical doctrines by which they are prompted, really evidence of an intelligent Creator? And can we really wish that the men who practised them should live for ever? '''The world in which we live can be understood as a result of muddle and accident; but if it is the outcome of a deliberate purpose, the purpose must have been that of a fiend. For my part, I find accident a less painful and more plausible hypothesis.''' ** Essay ''Do We Survive Death?'' (1936) * Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. ** ''The New York Herald-Tribune Magazine'' (6 March 1938) ==== ''The Conquest of Happiness'' (1930) ==== [[File:Love's Passing.jpg|thumb|Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.]] {{main|The Conquest of Happiness}} * '''Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.''' * Drunkenness is temporary suicide. * '''To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.''' * There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. * One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster. If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important. * The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile. * '''Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.''' ==== ''Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilization?'' (1930) ==== <small>[http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/russell2.htm Online text]</small> [[File:Kardos The God-fearing Job.jpg|thumb|I regard religion as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.]] * '''I regard [religion] as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.''' * It is amusing to hear the modern Christian telling you how mild and rationalistic Christianity really is and ignoring the fact that all its mildness and rationalism is due to the teaching of men who in their own day were persecuted by all orthodox Christians. ** "Sources of Intolerance" * If, when a man writes a poem or commits a murder, the bodily movements involved in his act result solely from physical causes, it would seem absurd to put up a statue to him in the one case and to hang him in the other. ** "The Doctrine of Free Will" * When a man acts in ways that annoy us we wish to think him wicked, and we refuse to face the fact that his annoying behaviour is a result of antecedent causes which, if you follow them long enough, will take you beyond the moment of his birth and therefore to events for which he cannot be held responsible by any stretch of imagination. ** "The Doctrine of Free Will" * No man treats a motorcar as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying behaviour to sin; he does not say, "You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go." He attempts to find out what is wrong and to set it right. An analogous way of treating human beings is, however, considered to be contrary to the truths of our holy religion. ** "The Doctrine of Free Will" * Now, what is 'unrighteousness' in practice? It is in practice behavior of a kind disliked by the herd. By calling it unrighteousness, and by arranging an elaborate system of ethics around this conception, the herd justifies itself in wreaking punishment upon the objects of its own dislike, while at the same time, since the herd is righteous by definition, it enhances its own self-esteem at the very moment when it lets loose its impulse to cruelty. This is the psychology of lynching, and of the other ways in which criminals are punished. The essence of the conception of righteousness, therefore, is to afford an outlet for sadism by cloaking cruelty as justice. ** "The Idea of Righteousness" * With our present industrial technique we can, if we choose, provide a tolerable subsistence for everybody. We could also secure that the world's population should be stationary if we were not prevented by the political influence of churches which prefer war, pestilence, and famine to contraception. The knowledge exists by which universal happiness can be secured; the chief obstacle to its utilization for that purpose is the teaching of religion. Religion prevents our children from having a rational education; religion prevents us from removing fundamental causes of war; religion prevents us from teaching the ethic of scientific co-operation in place of the old fierce doctrines of sin and punishment. '''It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.''' ** "The Idea of Righteousness" ==== ''Education and the Social Order'' (1932) ==== * '''I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair." In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.''' ** p. 31 * Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics. A great many young people lose faith in these dogmas at an age at which despair is easy, and thus have to face a much more intense unhappiness than that which falls to the lot of those who have never had a religious upbringing. '''Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.''' The craving for religious faith being largely an outcome of fear, the advocates of faith tend to think that certain kinds of fear are not to be deprecated. In this, to my mind, they are gravely mistaken. To allow oneself to entertain pleasant beliefs as a means of avoiding fear is not to live in the best way. In so far as religion makes its appeal to fear, it is lowering to human dignity. ** p. 107 * Owing to the identification of religion with virtue, together with the fact that the most religious men are not the most intelligent, a religious education gives courage to the stupid to resist the authority of educated men, as has happened, for example, where the teaching of evolution has been made illegal. So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence; and in this respect ministers of religion follow gospel authority more closely than in some others. ** p. 110 * I am sure that university life would be better, both intellectually and morally, if most university students had temporary childless marriages. This would afford a solution to the sexual urge neither restless nor surreptitious, neither mercenary nor casual, and of such a nature that it need not take up time which ought to be given to work. ** "Sex in Education", p. 119-120 * There are those who blame the Press, but in this I think they are mistaken. The Press is such as the public demands, and the public demands bad newspapers because it has been badly educated. ** p. 133 ==== ''Mortals and Others'' (1931-35) ==== {{main|Mortals and Others}} * It is generally admitted that most grown-up people, however regrettably, will try to have a good time. * '''The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.''' ** Often paraphrased as "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." ** Compare: "One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." B. Russell, ''[[Bertrand Russell#New Hopes for a Changing World .281951.29|New Hopes for a Changing World]]'' (1951). Compare also: "The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity." [[William Butler Yeats|W. B. Yeats]], ''[[William Butler Yeats#The Second Coming .281919.29|The Second Coming]]'' (1919). ** See also: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect#Historical_antecedents Dunning-Kruger effect, Historical Antecedents]. * To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom. ==== ''In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays'' (1935) ==== * First of all: what is work? '''Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first kind is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid.''' ** Ch. 1: In Praise of Idleness * Suppose that, at a given moment, a certain number of people are engaged in the manufacture of pins. They make as many pins as the world needs, working (say) eight hours a day. Someone makes an invention by which the same number of men can make twice as many pins: pins are already so cheap that hardly any more will be bought at a lower price. In a sensible world, everybody concerned in the manufacturing of pins would take to working four hours instead of eight, and everything else would go on as before. But in the actual world this would be thought demoralizing. The men still work eight hours, there are too many pins, some employers go bankrupt, and half the men previously concerned in making pins are thrown out of work. There is, in the end, just as much leisure as on the other plan, but half the men are totally idle while half are still overworked. In this way, it is insured that the unavoidable leisure shall cause misery all round instead of being a universal source of happiness. Can anything more insane be imagined? ** Ch. 1: In Praise of Idleness.[[File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Jeune Fille lisant.jpg|thumb|There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.]][[File:Beacon School.jpg|thumb|I think modern educational theorists are inclined to attach too much importance to the negative virtue of not interfering with children, and too little to the positive merit of enjoying their company.]] * '''The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.''' ** Ch. 1: In Praise of Idleness * Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease and security, not of a life of arduous struggle. Modern methods of production have given us the possibility of ease and security for all; we have chosen, instead, to have overwork for some and starvation for the others. Hitherto we have continued to be as energetic as we were before there were machines; in this we have been foolish, but there is no reason to go on being foolish for ever. ** Ch. 1: In Praise of Idleness * In the past, there was a small leisure class and a larger working class. The leisure class enjoyed advantages for which there was no basis in [[social justice]]; this necessarily made it oppressive, limited its sympathies, and caused it to invent theories by which to justify its privileges. ** Ch. 1: In Praise of Idleness, [https://books.google.com/books?id=CnlbMP_vBmgC&pg=PA13 p. 13] * '''There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.''' ** Ch. 2: 'Useless' Knowledge * For my part, while I am as convinced a Socialist as the most ardent Marxian, I do not regard Socialism as a gospel of proletarian revenge, nor even, ''primarily,'' as a means of securing economic justice. I regard it primarily as an adjustment to machine production demanded by considerations of common sense, and calculated to increase the happiness, not only of proletarians, but of all except a tiny minority of the human race. ** Ch. 7: The Case for Socialism * I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability. ** Ch. 8: Western Civilisation * It is, of course, clear that a country with a large foreign population must endeavour, through its schools, to assimilate the children of immigrants. It is, however, unfortunate that a large part of this process should be effected by means of a somewhat blatant nationalism. ** Ch. 10: Modern Homogeneity * No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact. ** Ch. 12: Education and Discipline * I think modern educational theorists are inclined to attach too much importance to the negative virtue of not interfering with children, and too little to the positive merit of enjoying their company. ** Ch. 12: Education and Discipline * Two men who differ as to the ends of life cannot hope to agree about education. ** Ch. 12: Education and Discipline ==== ''[[w:Power: A New Social Analysis|Power: A New Social Analysis]]'' (1938) ==== [[File:Nuremberg chronicles - Hilarius, Pope (CXXXVIv).jpg|thumb|200px|Every man would like to be God, if it were possible; some few find it difficult to admit the impossibility.]] * '''Every man would like to be God, if it were possible; some few find it difficult to admit the impossibility.''' ** Ch. 1: The Impulse to Power * '''The fundamental concept in social science is Power''', in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics. ** Ch. 1: The Impulse to Power * Most men do not feel in themselves the competence required for leading their group to victory, and therefore seek out a captain who appears to possess the courage and sagacity necessary for the achievement of supremacy. Even in religion this impulse appears. [[Friedrich Nietzsche|Nietzsche]] accused Christianity of inculcating a slave-morality, but ultimate triumph was always the goal. "Blessed are the meek, ''for they shall inherit the earth.''" ** Ch. 2: Leaders and Followers * I greatly doubt whether the men who become pirate chiefs are those who are filled with retrospective terror of their fathers, or whether [[Napoleon Bonaparte|Napoleon]], at Austerlitz, really felt that he was getting even with [[w:Letizia Ramolino|Madame Mère]]. I know nothing of the mother of [[w:Attila the Hun|Attila]], but I rather suspect that she spoilt the little darling, who subsequently found the world irritating because it sometimes resisted his whims. ** Ch. 2: Leaders and Followers * In former days, men sold themselves to the Devil to acquire magical powers. Nowadays they acquire those powers from science, and find themselves compelled to become devils. There is no hope for the world unless power can be tamed, and brought into the service, not of this or that group of fanatical tyrants, but of the whole human race, white and yellow and black, fascist and communist and democrat; for science has made it inevitable that all must live or all must die. ** Ch. 2: Leaders and Followers * Power may be defined as the production of intended effects. ** Ch. 3: The Forms of Power * Most people, at a crisis, feel more loyalty to their nation than to their class. ** Ch. 8: Economic Power * We thus have a kind of see-saw: first, pure persuasion leading to the conversion of a minority; then force exerted to secure that the rest of the community shall be exposed to the right propaganda; and finally a genuine belief on the part of the great majority, which makes the use of force again unnecessary. ** Ch. 9: Power over opinion * Competition for power is of two sorts: between organizations, and between individuals for leadership within an organization. ** p. 165 * In democratic countries, the most important private organizations are economic. Unlike secret societies, they are able to exercize their terrorism without illegality, since they do not threaten to kill their enemies, but only to starve them. ** Ch. 12: Powers and forms of governments * The "social contract," in the only sense in which it is not completely mythical, is a contract among conquerors, which loses its raison d'être if they are deprived of the benefits of conquest. ** Ch. 12: Powers and forms of governments * Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality. ** Ch. 15: Power and moral codes * An individual may perceive a way of life, or a method of social organisation, by which more of the desires of mankind could be satisfied than under the existing method. If he perceives truly, and can persuade men to adopt his reform, he is justified. Without rebellion, mankind would stagnate, and injustice would be irremediable. ** Ch. 15: Power and moral codes * The love of power is a part of human nature, but power-philosophies are, in a certain precise sense, insane. The existence of the external world, both that of matter and of other human beings, is a datum, which may be humiliating to a certain kind of pride, but can only be denied by a madman. Men who allow their love of power to give them a distorted view of the world are to be found in every asylum: one man will think he is Governor of the Bank of England, another will think he is the King, and yet another will think he is God. Highly similar delusions, if expressed by educated men in obscure language, lead to professorships in philosophy; and if expressed by emotional men in eloquent language, lead to dictatorships. ''Certified'' lunatics are shut up because of the proneness to violence when their pretensions are questioned; the ''uncertified'' variety are given control of powerful armies, and can inflict death and disaster upon all sane men within their reach. ** Ch. 16: Power philosophies * It is not altogether true that persuasion is one thing and force is another. Many forms of persuasion – even many of which everybody approves – are really a kind of force. Consider what we do to our children. We do not say to them: "Some people think the earth is round, and others think it is flat; when you grow up, you can, if you like, examine the evidence and form your own conclusion." Instead of this we say: "The earth is round." By the time our children are old enough to examine the evidence, our propaganda has closed their minds. ** Ch. 17: The Ethics of Power * The merits of democracy are negative: it does not insure good government, but it prevents certain evils. ** Ch. 18: The Taming of Power [https://books.google.de/books?id=uR7NDrA7YFsC&pg=PT311&dq=negative PT311 books.google] * '''To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.''' ** Ch. 18: The Taming of Power * Just as we teach children to avoid being destroyed by motor cars if they can, so we should teach them to avoid being destroyed by cruel fanatics, and to this end we should seek to produce independence of mind, somewhat sceptical and wholly scientific, and to preserve, as far as possible, the instinctive joy of life that is natural to healthy children. This is the task of a liberal education: to give a sense of the value of things other than domination, to help create wise citizens of a free community, and through the combination of citizenship with liberty in individual creativeness to enable men to give to human life that splendour which some few have shown that it can achieve. ** Ch. 18: The Taming of Power === 1940s === *Ever since the war began, I have felt that I could no longer go on being a pacifist, but I have hesitated to say so, because of the responsibility involved. If I were young enough to fight myself, I should do so, but it is more difficult to urge others. Now, however, I feel that I ought to announce that I have changed my mind. **Letter to [[w:Kingsley Martin|Kingsley Martin]] (June 1940), quoted in Kingsley Martin, ''Editor: A Second Volume of Autobiography, 1931-45'' (1968), p. 207 * Here, as usually in philosophy, the first difficulty is to see that the problem is difficult. If you say to a person untrained in philosophy, "How do you know I have two eyes?" he or she will reply, "What a silly question! I can see you have." It is not to be supposed that, when our inquiry is finished, we shall have arrived at anything radically different from this unphilosophical position. What will have happened will be that we shall have come to see a complicated structure where we thought everything was simple, that we shall have become aware of the penumbra of uncertainty surrounding the situations which inspire no doubt, that we shall find doubt more frequently justified than we supposed, and that even the most plausible premisses will have shown themselves capable of yielding unplausible conclusions. '''The net result is to substitute articulate hesitation for inarticulate certainty.''' ** ''An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth'' (1940), Introduction, p. 11 ** quoted in "[https://stanford.box.com/shared/static/phao9711s61u5liv3e22.pdf The Socratic Method: What it is and How to Use it in the Classroom]", ''Speaking of Teaching - Stanford University Newsletter on Teaching'', vol. 13 no. 1, fall 2003, page 2 * The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself. ** ''An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth'' (1940), Introduction, p. 15 * Science seems to be at war with itself.... '''Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism to be false. Therefore naive realism, if true, is false; therefore it is false.''' ** ''An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth'' (1940), Introduction, p. 15 * The first thing to realize, if you wish to become a philosopher, is that most people go through life with a whole world of beliefs that have no sort of rational justification, and that one man's world of beliefs is apt to be incompatible with another man's, so that they cannot both be right. People's opinions are mainly designed to make them feel comfortable; truth, for most people is a secondary consideration. ** "How to Become a Philosopher" (1942), in ''The Art of Philosophizing, and Other Essays'' (New York: Philosophical Library, 1968), p. 2 * The universe is what it is, not what I choose that it should be. ** ''The Value of Free Thought: How to Become a Truth-seeker and Break the Chains of Mental Slavery'' (1944), p. 24 * I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy. ** Quoted in ''Library of Living Philosophers: The Philosophy of Bertrand Russell'' (1944) * It is entirely clear that there is only one way in which great wars can be permanently prevented, and that is the establishment of an international government with a monopoly of serious armed force. ** "The Atomic Bomb and the Prevention of War" in the ''Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists'' (1 October 1945) * I am ashamed of belonging to the species Homo Sapiens...You & I may be thankful to have lived in happier times – you more than I, because you have no children. ** Letter to Lucy Donnelly (23 June 1946) * Men tend to have the beliefs that suit their passions. Cruel men believe in a cruel God, and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly God, and they would be kindly in any case. ** In [http://books.google.pt/books?id=l80fAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Men+tend+to+have+the+beliefs+that+suit+their+passions.%22&dq=%22Men+tend+to+have+the+beliefs+that+suit+their+passions.%22&hl=pt-PT&sa=X&ei=q9mEUcj-AoqM7AbW3IGoBQ&ved=0CFMQ6AEwBw ''London Calling''] (1947), p. 18 * There is a further advantage [to hydrogen bombs]: the supply of uranium in the planet is very limited, and it might be feared that it would be used up before the human race was exterminated, but now that the practically unlimited supply of hydrogen can be utilized, there is considerable reason to hope that ''homo sapiens'' may put an end to himself, to the great advantage of such less ferocious animals as may survive. But it is time to return to less cheerful topics. ** ''Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits'' (1948), part I, "The World of Science", chapter 3, "The World of Physics", p. 41 * A dog cannot relate his autobiography; however eloquently he may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were honest but poor. ** ''Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits'' (1948), part II, chapter 1, p. 74 * I do not believe that I am now dreaming, but I cannot prove that I am not. I am, however, quite certain that I am having certain experiences, whether they be those of a dream or those of waking life. ** ''Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits'' (1948), p. 172[[File:Milkyway-summit-lake-wv1 - West Virginia - ForestWander.jpg|thumb|The universe is just there, and that is all.]] * I once received a letter from an eminent logician, [[w:Christine Ladd-Franklin | Mrs. Christine Ladd Franklin]], saying that she was a solipsist, and was surprised that there were no others. Coming from a logician, this surprise surprised me. ** ''Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits'' (1948), Part III, chapter II, "Solipsism", [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.226781/page/n197/mode/2up p. 196] * Whatever we know without inference is mental. ** ''Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits'' (1948), p. 224 * Probably in time physiologists will be able to make nerves connecting the bodies of different people; this will have the advantage that we shall be able to feel another man's tooth aching. ** ''Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits'' (1948), p. 493 * I should say that the universe is just there, and that is all. ** BBC Radio Debate on the Existence of God, Bertrand Russell v. [[w:Frederick Copleston|Frederick Copleston]] (1948) * A physicist looks for causes; that does not necessarily imply that there are causes everywhere. A man may look for gold without assuming that there is gold everywhere; if he finds gold, well and good, if he doesn't he's had bad luck. The same is true when the physicists look for causes. ** BBC Radio Debate on the Existence of God, Russell vs. Copleston (1948) * The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth. ** BBC Radio Debate on the Existence of God, Russell vs. Copleston (1948) * Either we must have war against Russia, before she has the atom bomb, or we will have to lie down and let them govern us. ... Anything is better than submission. **Speech quoted in ''The Observer'' (21 November 1948), quoted in Robert Skildesky, ''Oswald Mosley'' (1981), p. 542 and Martin Ceadel, ''Thinking about Peace and War'' (1987), p. 52 * I am firm, you are obstinate, he is a pig-headed fool. ** Defining [[w:emotive conjugation]] on BBC radio program ''The Brains Trust'' (1948) * Instinctively we divide mankind into friends and foes - friends, towards whom we have the morality of co-operation; foes, towards whom we have that of competition. But this division is constantly changing; at one moment a man hates his business competitor, at another, when both are threatened by Socialism or by an external enemy, he suddenly begins to view him as a brother. Always when we pass beyond the limits of the family it is the external enemy which supplies the cohesive force. In times of safety we can afford to hate our neighbour, but in times of danger we must love him. ** ''Authority and the Individual'' (1949) * A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short. ** ''Authority and the Individual'' (1949) * '''Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much brings chaos.''' ** ''Authority and the Individual'' (1949), p. 37 * Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him. ** ''Authority and the Individual'' (1949), p. 59 * Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily contain within itself forces which must bring either decay or explosion? ** "Can a Scientific Community Be Stable?," Lecture, Royal Society of Medicine, London (29 November 1949) ==== ''[http://personal.kent.edu/~rmuhamma/Philosophy/RBwritings/bombCivilization.htm The Bomb and Civilization]'' (1945) ==== [[File:Operation Castle - Romeo 001.jpg|thumb|The prospect for the human race is sombre beyond all precedent. Mankind are faced with a clear-cut alternative: '''either [[w:Global catastrophic risk|we shall all perish]], or we shall have to acquire some slight degree of common sense.''']] * The prospect for the human race is sombre beyond all precedent. Mankind are faced with a clear-cut alternative: either [[w:Global catastrophic risk|we shall all perish]], or we shall have to acquire some slight degree of common sense.''' A great deal of new political thinking will be necessary if utter disaster is to be averted.''' * '''It is impossible to imagine a more dramatic and horrifying combination of scientific triumph with political and moral failure than has been shown to the world in the destruction of Hiroshima.''' From the scientific point of view, the atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination of genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind. ==== ''[[w:A History of Western Philosophy|A History of Western Philosophy]]'' (1945) ==== [[File:Bertrand Russell in 1924.jpg|thumb|Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.]] [[File:Bertrand Russell (c. April 1940).jpg|thumb|Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know.]] [[File:Da Vinci Vitruve Luc Viatour.jpg|thumb|Man is a rational animal – so at least I have been told.]] [[File:Russell and his son.jpg|thumb|"Look at me" is one of the most fundamental desires of the human heart.]] {{main|A History of Western Philosophy}} * Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination. * A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something that he can understand. * '''In the welter of conflicting fanaticisms, one of the few unifying forces is scientific truthfulness, by which I mean the habit of basing our beliefs upon observations and inferences as impersonal, and as much divested of local and temperamental bias, as is possible for human beings.''' ** Chapter XXXI "The Philosophy of Logical Analysis" * [T]he philosophy of Plotinus has the defect of encouraging men to look within rather than to look without: when we look within we see ''nous'', which is divine, while when we look without we see the imperfections of the sensible world. This kind of subjectivity was a gradual growth; it is to be found in the doctrines of Protagoras, Socrates, and Plato, as well as in the Stoics and Epicureans. But at first it was only doctrinal, not temperamental; for a long time it failed to kill scientific curiosity. [...] Plotinus is both an end and a beginning—an end as regards the Greeks, a beginning as regards Christendom. ** <small>{{cite book|last=Russell|first=Bertrand|authorlink=w:Bertrand Russell|title=History of Western Philosophy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iQZ6Xk9VdtAC&pg=PA296|year=2008|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-1-4165-9915-9|pages=296–297|orig-year=1945}}</small> ==== Philosophy for Laymen (1946) ==== :<small> First published in [http://www.users.drew.edu/~jlenz/br-lay-philosophy.html ''Universities Quarterly'' 1 (November 1946), p. 38] </small> * [[Mankind]], ever since there have been [[civilized]] communities have been confronted with [[problems]] of two different kinds. On the one hand there has been the problem of mastering [[natural]] [[forces]], of acquiring the [[knowledge]] and the [[skill]] required to produce tools and weapons and to encourage Nature in the production of useful animals and plants. This problem, in the modern world, is dealt with by [[science]] and scientific technique, and experience has shown that in order to deal with it adequately it is necessary to train a large number of rather narrow specialists. <br /> But there is a second problem, less precise, and by some mistakenly regarded as unimportant – I mean the problem of how best to utilize our command over the forces of nature. This includes such burning issues as [[democracy]] versus [[dictatorship]], [[capitalism]] versus [[socialism]], international [[government]] versus international [[anarchy]], [[free]] [[speculation]] versus [[authoritarian]] [[dogma]]. On such issues the laboratory can give no decisive guidance. '''The kind of knowledge that gives most [[help]] in solving such problems is a wide survey of [[human]] [[life]], in the [[past]] as well as in the [[present]], and an appreciation of the sources of misery or contentment as they appear in [[history]].''' * '''There are a number of purely theoretical questions, of perennial and passionate interest, which science is unable to answer, at any rate at present.''' Do we survive [[death]] in any sense, and if so, do we survive for a [[time]] or for ever? Can [[mind]] dominate [[matter]], or does matter completely dominate mind, or has each, perhaps, a certain limited independence? Has the [[universe]] a [[purpose]]? Or is it driven by blind [[necessity]]? Or is it a mere [[chaos]] and jumble, in which the natural laws that we think we find are only a phantasy generated by our own [[love]] of [[order]]? If there is a [[cosmic]] scheme, has life more importance in it than [[astronomy]] would lead us to suppose, or is our emphasis upon life mere parochialism and self-importance? '''I do not know the answer to these questions, and I do not believe that anybody else does, but I think human life would be impoverished if they were forgotten, or if definite answers were accepted without adequate [[evidence]]. To keep alive the interest in such questions, and to scrutinize suggested answers, is one of the functions of [[philosophy]].''' * '''The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.''' If you take your children for a picnic on a doubtful day, they will demand a dogmatic answer as to whether it will be fine or wet, and be disappointed in you when you cannot be sure. The same sort of assurance is demanded, in later life, of those who undertake to lead populations into the Promised Land. "Liquidate the capitalists and the survivors will enjoy eternal bliss." "Exterminate the Jews and everyone will be virtuous." "Kill the Croats and let the Serbs reign." "Kill the Serbs and let the Croats reign." These are samples of the slogans that have won wide popular acceptance in our time. Even a modicum of philosophy would make it impossible to accept such bloodthirsty nonsense. '''But so long as men are not trained to withhold judgment in the absence of evidence, they will be led astray by cocksure prophets, and it is likely that their leaders will be either ignorant fanatics or dishonest charlatans. To endure uncertainty is difficult, but so are most of the other virtues.''' For the learning of every virtue there is an appropriate discipline, and for the learning of suspended judgment the best discipline is philosophy. <br /> '''But if philosophy is to serve a positive purpose, it must not teach mere skepticism, for, while the dogmatist is harmful, the skeptic is useless. Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or of ignorance.''' * '''Knowledge is not so precise a concept as is commonly thought.''' Instead of saying "I know this," we ought to say "I more or less know something more or less like this." It is true that this proviso is hardly necessary as regards the multiplication table, but knowledge in practical affairs has not the certainty or the precision of arithmetic. Suppose I say "democracy is a good thing": I must admit, first, that I am less sure of this than I am that two and two are four, and secondly, that "democracy" is a somewhat vague term which I cannot define precisely. We ought to say, therefore: "I am fairly certain that it is a good thing if a government has something of the characteristics that are common to the British and American Constitutions," or something of this sort. And one of the aims of education ought to be to make such a statement more effective from a platform than the usual type of political slogan. * '''The pursuit of philosophy is founded on the belief that knowledge is good, even if what is known is painful.''' A man imbued with the philosophic spirit, whether a professional philosopher or not, will wish his beliefs to be as true as he can make them, and will, in equal measure, love to know and hate to be in error. This principle has a wider scope than may be apparent at first sight. * It is not to be supposed that young men and women who are busy acquiring valuable specialized knowledge can spare a great deal of time for the study of philosophy, but even in the time that can easily be spared without injury to the learning of technical skills, philosophy can give certain things that will greatly increase the student's value as a human being and as a citizen. It can give a habit of exact and careful thought, not only in mathematics and science, but in questions of large practical import. It can give an impersonal breadth and scope to the conception of the ends of life. It can give to the individual a just measure of himself in relation to society, of man in the present to man in the past and in the future, and of the whole history of man in relation to the astronomical cosmos. By enlarging the objects of his thoughts it supplies an antidote to the anxieties and anguish of the present, and makes possible the nearest approach to [[serenity]] that is available to a sensitive mind in our tortured and uncertain world. ==== ''[http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/russell8.htm Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?]'' (1947) ==== * '''Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.''' ** "Don't Be Too Certain!" * As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as an Agnostic, because I do not think that there is a conclusive argument by which one prove that there is not a God. On the other hand, '''if I am to convey the right impression to the ordinary man in the street I think that I ought to say that I am an Atheist, because, when I say that I cannot prove that there is not a God, I ought to add equally that I cannot prove that there are not the Homeric gods.''' ** "Proof of God" * When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. It is much more nearly certain that we are assembled here tonight than it is that this or that political party is in the right. Certainly there are degrees of certainty, and one should be very careful to emphasize that fact, because otherwise one is landed in an utter skepticism, and complete skepticism would, of course, be totally barren and completely useless. ** "Skepticism" === 1950s === * All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave. Many people desire those things only for themselves and their friends; they are quite content that their enemies should suffer. These people can only be refuted by science: '''Humankind has become so much one family that we cannot ensure our own prosperity except by ensuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.''' ** "The Science to Save Us from Science," ''The New York Times Magazine'' (19 March 1950) * As geological time goes, it is but a moment since the human race began and only the twinkling of an eye since the arts of civilization were first invented. In spite of some alarmists, it is hardly likely that our species will completely exterminate itself. And so long as man continues to exist, we may be pretty sure that, whatever he may suffer for a time, and whatever brightness may be eclipsed, he will emerge sooner or later, perhaps strengthened and reinvigorated by a period of mental sleep. The universe is vast and men are but tiny specks on an insignificant planet. But the more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces, the more astonishing becomes what human beings have achieved. ** "If We are to Survive this Dark Time", ''The New York Times Magazine'' (3 September 1950) * I feel like that intellectual but plain-looking lady who was warmly complimented on her beauty. ** In accepting his Nobel Prize, in December 1950; Russell denied that he had contributed anything in particular to literature. Quoted in [[w:Life (magazine)|''LIFE'']], Editorials: "A great mind is still annoying and adorning our age", 26 May 1952 * The Ten Commandments that, as a teacher, I should wish to promulgate, might be set forth as follows: <br /> 1. Do not feel absolutely certain of anything. <br /> 2. Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the evidence is sure to come to light. <br /> 3. Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed. <br /> 4. When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavour to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory. <br /> 5. Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found. <br /> 6. Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you. <br /> 7. '''Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.''' <br /> 8. Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent that in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter. <br /> 9. Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it. <br /> 10. '''Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.''' ** [http://www.panarchy.org/russell/decalogue.1951.html "A Liberal Decalogue"], from "The Best Answer to Fanaticism: Liberalism", ''New York Times Magazine'' (16/December/1951); later printed in ''The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell'' (1969), vol. 3: 1944-1967, pp. 71-2 * We need a science to save us from science. ** ''NY Times Magazine'', as reported in ''High Points in the Work of the High Schools of New York City'', Vol. 34 (1952), p. 46 * I have been accused of a habit of changing my opinions ... I am not myself in any degree ashamed of having changed my opinions. What physicist who was already active in 1900 would dream of boasting that his opinions had not changed during the last half century? In science men change their opinions when new [[knowledge]] becomes available; but philosophy in the minds of many is assimilated rather to theology than to science. ... The kind of philosophy that I value and have endeavoured to pursue is scientific, in the sense that there is some definite knowledge to be obtained and that new discoveries can make the admission of former error inevitable to any candid mind. For what I have said, whether early or late, I do not claim the kind of truth which theologians claim for their creeds. I claim only, at best, that the opinion expressed was a sensible one to hold at the time when it was expressed. I should be much surprised if subsequent research did not show that it needed to be modified. I hope, therefore, that whoever uses this dictionary will not suppose the remarks which it quotes to be intended as pontifical pronouncements, but only as the best I could do at the time towards the promotion of clear and accurate thinking. Clarity, above all, has been my aim. ** Preface to ''The Bertrand Russell Dictionary of Mind, Matter and Morals'' (1952) edited by Lester E. Denonn[[File:Chinese teapot.JPG|thumb|Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This is, of course, a mistake...]] * Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This is, of course, a mistake. '''If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes.''' But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time. ** [http://www.personal.kent.edu/~rmuhamma/Philosophy/RBwritings/isThereGod.htm "Is There a God?"] (1952), commissioned by ''Illustrated Magazine'' but not published until its appearance in ''The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Volume 11: Last Philosophical Testament, 1943-68,'' ed. John G. Slater and Peter Köllner (London: Routledge, 1997), pp. 543-48 * It is said (I do not know with what truth) that a certain Hindu thinker believed the earth to rest upon an elephant. When asked what the elephant rested upon, he replied that it rested upon a tortoise. When asked what the tortoise rested upon, he said, "I am tired of this. Suppose we change the subject." This illustrates the unsatisfactory character of the First-Cause argument. ** "Is There a God?" (1952) * People will tell us that without the consolations of religion they would be intolerably unhappy. So far as this is true, it is a coward's argument. Nobody but a coward would consciously choose to live in a fool's paradise. When a man suspects his wife of infidelity, he is not thought the better of for shutting his eyes to the evidence. And I cannot see why ignoring evidence should be contemptible in one case and admirable in the other. ** "Is There a God?" (1952) * When I come to my own beliefs, '''I find myself quite unable to discern any purpose in the universe, and still more unable to wish to discern one.''' ** "Is There a God?" (1952) * An atheist, like a Christian, holds that we can know whether or not there is a God. The Christian holds that we can know there is a God; the atheist, that we can know there is not. The Agnostic suspends judgment, saying that there are not sufficient grounds either for affirmation or for denial. At the same time, an Agnostic may hold that the existence of God, though not impossible, is very improbable; he may even hold it so improbable that it is not worth considering in practice. In that case, he is not far removed from atheism. His attitude may be that which a careful philosopher would have towards the gods of ancient Greece. If I were asked to prove that Zeus and Poseidon and Hera and the rest of the Olympians do not exist, I should be at a loss to find conclusive arguments. An Agnostic may think the Christian God as improbable as the Olympians; in that case, he is, for practical purposes, at one with the atheists. ** ''What is an Agnostic?'' (1953) * Many agnostics (including myself) are quite as doubtful of the body as they are of the soul, but this is a long story taking one into difficult metaphysics. Mind and matter alike, I should say, are only convenient symbol in discourse, not actually existing things. ** ''What is an Agnostic?'' (1953) * There are some simple maxims [...] which I think might be commanded to writers of expository prose. First: never use a long word if a short word will do. Second: if you want to make a statement with a great many qualifications, put some of the qualifications in separate sentences. Third: do not let the beginning of your sentence lead the reader to an expectation which is contradicted by the end. ** "How I Write", ''The Writer'', September 1954 * '''Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.''' ** Quoted in ''[[w:Look (American magazine)|Look]]'' (New York, 23 February 1954). ** Cf. Russell (1928), ''[[Bertrand Russell#Sceptical Essays .281928.29|Sceptical Essays]]'', «It is obvious that "obscenity" is not a term capable of exact legal definition; in the practice of the Courts, it means "anything that shocks the magistrate".» * Cock-sure certainty is the source of much that is worst in our present world, and it is something of which the contemplation of history ought to cure us, not only or chiefly because there were wise men in the past, but because so much that was thought wisdom turned out to be folly – which suggests that much of our own supposed wisdom is no better. I do not mean to maintain that we should lapse into a lazy scepticism. We should hold our beliefs, and hold them strongly. Nothing great is achieved without passion, but underneath the passion there should always be that large impersonal survey which sets limits to actions that our passions inspire. ** ''History as an Art'' (1954), p. 9 *Pi's face was masked, and it was understood that none could behold it and live. But piercing eyes looked out from the mask, inexorable, cold and enigmatic. ** "The Mathematician's Nightmare", ''Nightmares of Eminent Persons and Other Stories'' (1954) * What modern apologists call 'true' Christianity is something depending upon a very selective process. It ignores much that is to be found in the Gospels: for example, the parable of the sheep and the goats, and the doctrine that the wicked will suffer eternal torment in Hell fire. It picks out certain parts of the Sermon on the Mount, though even these it often rejects in practice. It leaves the doctrine of non-resistance, for example, to be practised only by non-Christians such as Gandhi. The precepts that it particularly favours are held to embody such a lofty morality that they must have had a divine origin. And yet ... these precepts were uttered by Jews before the time of Christ. ** "Can Religion Cure Our Troubles?", in Stockholm newspaper ''Dagens Nyheter'', part II (11 November 1954) * All the time that he can spare from the adornment of his person, he devotes to the neglect of his duties. ** Of [[w:Richard Claverhouse Jebb|Sir Richard Jebb]], ''Some Cambridge Dons of the Nineties'' (1956) * When I found myself regarded as respectable, I began to wonder what sins I had committed. I must be very wicked, I thought. I began to engage in the most uncomfortable introspection. ** Interview with Irwin Ross, September 1957;[[File:Michelangelo's "God", from "the Creation of Adam".jpg|thumb|If there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.]] ''Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell'' (2005), p. 385 * Choose your parents wisely. ** On the recipe for longevity; ''Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell'', Vol. 29 (2012) * '''The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, ''horrible.''''' ** Said in conversation with Mrs. Alan Wood; quoted in Alan Wood's ''Bertrand Russell, the Passionate Sceptic'' (Allen and Unwin, 1957), pp. 236-7 * If the Communists conquered the world, it would be very unpleasant for a while, but not forever. But if the human race is wiped out, that is the end. ** Television interview on March 24, 1958, as quoted in ''The United States in World Affairs'' (1959), p. 12 * What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices. ** Quoted on ''Who Said That?,'' BBC TV (8 August 1958) * I observe that a very large portion of the human race does not believe in God and suffers no visible punishment in consequence. And '''if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence'''. ** ''Bertrand Russell's Best: Silhouettes in Satire'' (1958), "On Religion".<!--originally taken from ''What is an Agnostic?'' (1953).--> * I have always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel. ** Quoted in Alan Wood ''Bertrand Russell: The Passionate Skeptic: A Biography'', Vol. 2 (1958), p. 233 * Thank you for your letter and for the enclosure which I return herewith. I have been wondering whether there is any means of preventing the confusion between you and me, and I half-thought that we might write a joint letter to ''The Times'' in the following terms: Sir, To prevent the continuation of confusions which frequently occur, we beg to state that neither of us is the other. Do you think this would be a good plan? ** Letter to Lord Russell of Liverpool, February 18, 1959 * There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir [[Isaac Newton]] was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less. ** "The Expanding Mental Universe", ''Saturday Evening Post'' (July 1959) * When I was 4 years old ... I dreamt that I'd been eaten by a wolf, and to my great surprise I was in the wolf's stomach and not in heaven. ** BBC interview on "Face to Face" (1959); ''The Listener'', Vol. 61 (1959), p. 503 * I should like to say two things. One intellectual and one moral. The intellectual thing I should want to say to them is this: "'''When you are studying any matter, or considering any philosophy, ask yourself ''only'': What are the facts, and what is the truth that the facts bear out. Never let yourself be diverted, either by what you wish to believe, or by what you think would have beneficent social effects if it were believed; but look only and solely at what are the facts.'''" That is the intellectual thing that I should wish to say. The moral thing I should wish to say to them is very simple; I should say: "'''[[Love]] is wise – Hatred is foolish.'''" In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other. We have to learn to put up with the fact, that some people say things we don't like. We can only live together in that way. But if we are to live together, and not die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance which is absolutely vital, to the continuation of human life on this planet. ** Response to the question "Suppose Lord Russell, this film were to be looked at by our descendants, like a dead sea scroll in a thousand years time. What would you think it's worth telling that generation about the life you've lived and the lessons you've learned from it?" in a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3aPkzHpT8M BBC interview on "Face to Face" (1959)] * Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, man has never refrained from any folly of which he was capable. The End. ** Full text of Russell's book ''History of the World in Epitome (For Use in Martian Infant Schools)'', written in 1959 and published on his ninetieth birthday, as quoted in Slater ''Bertrand Russell'' (1994), p. 136 * Fanaticism is ''the'' danger of the world, and always has been, and has done untold harm. I might almost say that I was fanatical against fanaticism. ** ''The Future of Science'' (1959), p. 79; also in BBC ''The Listener'', Vol. 61 (1959), p. 505 * When I was a boy, I had a clock with a pendulum that could be lifted off. I found that the clock went very much faster without the pendulum. If the main purpose of a clock is to go, the clock was the better for losing its pendulum. True, it could no longer tell the time, but that did not matter if one could teach oneself to be indifferent to the passage of time. The linguistic philosophy which cares only about language and not about the world, is like the boy who preferred the clock without the pendulum because, although it no longer told the time, it went more easily than before and at a more exhilarating pace. ** Foreword to Ernest Gellner ''Words and Things'' (1959) ==== ''Unpopular Essays'' (1950) ==== {{main|Unpopular Essays}} * Change is one thing, progress is another. * The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in ''what'' opinions are held, but in ''how'' they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment. * A man might say, with enough truth to justify a joke: "Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know." But it should be added that philosophical speculation as to what we do not yet know has shown itself a valuable preliminary to exact scientific knowledge. * All movements go too far. * '''Man is a rational animal – so at least I have been told.''' Throughout a long life, I have looked diligently for evidence in favor of this statement, but so far I have not had the good fortune to come across it, though I have searched in many countries spread over three continents. ** Often paraphrased as "It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this." * '''Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.''' * Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. ==== ''What Desires Are Politically Important?'' (1950) ==== :<small>[http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1950/russell-lecture.html Nobel Lecture, Stockholm (11 December 1950)]</small> * '''All human activity is prompted by desire.''' There is a wholly fallacious theory advanced by some earnest moralists to the effect that it is possible to resist desire in the interests of duty and moral principle. I say this is fallacious, not because no man ever acts from a sense of duty, but because duty has no hold on him unless he desires to be dutiful. '''If you wish to know what men will do, you must know not only, or principally, their material circumstances, but rather the whole system of their desires with their relative strengths.''' ** ([http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/russell/desire.wav wav audio file of Russell's voice]) * Man differs from other animals in one very important respect, and that is that he has some desires which are, so to speak, infinite, which can never be fully gratified, and which would keep him restless even in Paradise. The boa constrictor, when he has had an adequate meal, goes to sleep, and does not wake until he needs another meal. Human beings, for the most part, are not like this. * Acquisitiveness – the wish to possess as much as possible of goods, or the title to goods – is a motive which, I suppose, has its origin in a combination of fear with the desire for necessaries. * The world would be a happier place than it is if acquisitiveness were always stronger than rivalry. But in fact, '''a great many men will cheerfully face impoverishment if they can thereby secure complete ruin for their rivals. Hence the present level of taxation. ''' <br /> Vanity is a motive of immense potency. Anyone who has much to do with children knows how they are constantly performing some antic, and saying "Look at me." '''"Look at me" is one of the most fundamental desires of the human heart.''' It can take innumerable forms, from buffoonery to the pursuit of posthumous fame. * One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about. The condemned murderer who is allowed to see the account of his trial in the press is indignant if he finds a newspaper which has reported it inadequately. And the more he finds about himself in other newspapers, the more indignant he will be with the one whose reports are meagre. Politicians and literary men are in the same case... It is scarcely possible to exaggerate the influence of vanity throughout the range of human life, from the child of three to the potentate at whose frown the world trembles. Mankind have even committed the impiety of attributing similar desires to the Deity, whom they imagine avid for continual praise. <br /> But great as is the influence of the motives we have been considering, there is one which outweighs them all. I mean the love of power. Love of power is closely akin to vanity, but it is not by any means the same thing. What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it is easy to have glory without power. The people who enjoy the greatest glory in the United States are film stars, but they can be put in their place by the Committee for Un-American Activities, which enjoys no glory whatever.[[File:Knowledge-Reid-Highsmith.jpeg|thumb|The pursuit of [[knowledge]] is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power.]] * Power, like vanity, is insatiable. Nothing short of omnipotence could satisfy it completely. And as it is especially the vice of energetic men, the causal efficacy of love of power is out of all proportion to its frequency. It is, indeed, by far the strongest motive in the lives of important men. <br /> Love of power is greatly increased by the experience of power, and this applies to petty power as well as to that of potentates. * The pursuit of [[knowledge]] is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power. And so are all advances in scientific technique. In politics, also, a reformer may have just as strong a love of power as a despot. It would be a complete mistake to decry love of power altogether as a motive. Whether you will be led by this motive to actions which are useful, or to actions which are pernicious, depends upon the social system, and upon your capacities. * The politician may change sides so frequently as to find himself always in the majority, but most politicians have a preference for one party to the other, and subordinate their love of power to this preference. * A great deal of work is sedentary, and most manual work exercises only a few specialized muscles. When crowds assemble in Trafalgar Square to cheer to the echo an announcement that the government has decided to have them killed, they would not do so if they had all walked twenty-five miles that day. This cure for bellicosity is, however, impracticable, and if the human race is to survive – a thing which is, perhaps, undesirable – other means must be found for securing an innocent outlet for the unused physical energy that produces love of excitement. This is a matter which has been too little considered, both by moralists and by social reformers. The social reformers are of the opinion that they have more serious things to consider. The moralists, on the other hand, are immensely impressed with the seriousness of all the permitted outlets of the love of excitement; the seriousness, however, in their minds, is that of Sin. Dance halls, cinemas, this age of jazz, are all, if we may believe our ears, gateways to Hell, and we should be better employed sitting at home contemplating our sins. I find myself unable to be in entire agreement with the grave men who utter these warnings. The devil has many forms, some designed to deceive the young, some designed to deceive the old and serious. If it is the devil that tempts the young to enjoy themselves, is it not, perhaps, the same personage that persuades the old to condemn their enjoyment? And is not condemnation perhaps merely a form of excitement appropriate to old age? And is it not, perhaps, a drug which – like opium – has to be taken in continually stronger doses to produce the desired effect? Is it not to be feared that, beginning with the wickedness of the cinema, we should be led step by step to condemn the opposite political party, dagoes, wops, Asiatics, and, in short, everybody except the fellow members of our club? And it is from just such condemnations, when widespread, that wars proceed. I have never heard of a war that proceeded from dance halls. * What is serious about excitement is that so many of its forms are destructive. It is destructive in those who cannot resist excess in alcohol or gambling. It is destructive when it takes the form of mob violence. And above all it is destructive when it leads to war. It is so deep a need that it will find harmful outlets of this kind unless innocent outlets are at hand. There are such innocent outlets at present in sport, and in politics so long as it is kept within constitutional bounds. But these are not sufficient, especially as the kind of politics that is most exciting is also the kind that does most harm. '''Civilized life has grown altogether too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting.''' * It is normal to hate what we fear, and it happens frequently, though not always, that we fear what we hate. I think it may be taken as the rule among primitive men, that they both fear and hate whatever is unfamiliar. They have their own herd, originally a very small one. And within one herd, all are friends, unless there is some special ground of enmity. Other herds are potential or actual enemies; a single member of one of them who strays by accident will be killed. An alien herd as a whole will be avoided or fought according to circumstances. It is this primitive mechanism which still controls our instinctive reaction to foreign nations. The completely untravelled person will view all foreigners as the savage regards a member of another herd. But the man who has travelled, or who has studied international politics, will have discovered that, if his herd is to prosper, it must, to some degree, become amalgamated with other herds. * '''We love those who hate our enemies, and if we had no enemies there would be very few people whom we should love.''' <br /> All this, however, is only true so long as we are concerned solely with attitudes towards other human beings. You might regard the soil as your enemy because it yields reluctantly a niggardly subsistence. You might regard Mother Nature in general as your enemy, and envisage human life as a struggle to get the better of Mother Nature. If men viewed life in this way, cooperation of the whole human race would become easy. And men could easily be brought to view life in this way if schools, newspapers, and politicians devoted themselves to this end. But schools are out to teach patriotism; newspapers are out to stir up excitement; and politicians are out to get re-elected. None of the three, therefore, can do anything towards saving the human race from reciprocal suicide. * There are two ways of coping with fear: one is to diminish the external danger, and the other is to cultivate [[w:Stoicism|Stoic]] endurance. The latter can be reinforced, except where immediate action is necessary, by turning our thoughts away from the cause of fear. The conquest of fear is of very great importance. Fear is in itself degrading; it easily becomes an obsession; it produces hate of that which is feared, and it leads headlong to excesses of cruelty. Nothing has so beneficent an effect on human beings as security. If an international system could be established which would remove the fear of war, the improvement in everyday mentality of everyday people would be enormous and very rapid. Fear, at present, overshadows the world. The atom bomb and the bacterial bomb, wielded by the wicked communist or the wicked capitalist as the case may be, make Washington and the Kremlin tremble, and drive men further along the road toward the abyss. If matters are to improve, the first and essential step is to find a way of diminishing fear. * The world at present is obsessed by the conflict of rival ideologies, and one of the apparent causes of conflict is the desire for the victory of our own ideology and the defeat of the other. I do not think that the fundamental motive here has much to do with ideologies. I think the ideologies are merely a way of grouping people, and that the passions involved are merely those which always arise between rival groups. Ideologies, in fact, are one of the methods by which herds are created, and the psychology is much the same however the herd may have been generated. * If the Russians still adhered to the Greek Orthodox religion, if they had instituted parliamentary government, and if they had a completely free press which daily vituperated us, then - provided they still had armed forces as powerful as they have now - we should still hate them if they gave us ground for thinking them hostile. * I do not think it can be questioned that sympathy is a genuine motive, and that some people at some times are made somewhat uncomfortable by the sufferings of some other people. It is sympathy that has produced the many humanitarian advances of the last hundred years. We are shocked when we hear stories of the ill-treatment of lunatics, and there are now quite a number of asylums in which they are not ill-treated. Prisoners in Western countries are not supposed to be tortured, and when they are, there is an outcry if the facts are discovered. We do not approve of treating orphans as they are treated in ''[[Oliver Twist]]''. * Perhaps the best hope for the future of mankind is that ways will be found of increasing the scope and intensity of sympathy. * Politics is concerned with herds rather than with individuals, and the passions which are important in politics are, therefore, those in which the various members of a given herd can feel alike.[[File:Beacon (Russell).jpg|thumb|The main thing needed to make the world happy is intelligence.]] * Killing an enemy in a modern war is a very expensive operation... It is obvious that modern war is not good business from a financial point of view. Although we won both the world wars, we should now be much richer if they had not occurred. '''If men were actuated by self-interest, which they are not – except in the case of a few saints – the whole human race would cooperate.''' There would be no more wars, no more armies, no more navies, no more atom bombs. There would not be armies of propagandists employed in poisoning the minds of Nation A against Nation B, and reciprocally of Nation B against Nation A. There would not be armies of officials at frontiers to prevent the entry of foreign books and foreign ideas, however excellent in themselves. There would not be customs barriers to ensure the existence of many small enterprises where one big enterprise would be more economic. '''All this would happen very quickly if men desired their own happiness as ardently as they desired the misery of their neighbors.''' But, you will tell me, what is the use of these utopian dreams? Moralists will see to it that we do not become wholly selfish, and until we do the millennium will be impossible. * I do not wish to seem to end upon a note of cynicism. I do not deny that there are better things than selfishness, and that some people achieve these things. I maintain, however, on the one hand, that there are few occasions upon which large bodies of men, such as politics is concerned with, can rise above selfishness, while, on the other hand, there are a very great many circumstances in which populations will fall below selfishness, if selfishness is interpreted as enlightened self-interest. <br /> And among those occasions on which people fall below self-interest are most of the occasions on which they are convinced that they are acting from idealistic motives. '''Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.''' When you see large masses of men swayed by what appear to be noble motives, it is as well to look below the surface and ask yourself what it is that makes these motives effective. It is partly because it is so easy to be taken in by a facade of nobility that a psychological inquiry, such as I have been attempting, is worth making. I would say, in conclusion, that if what I have said is right, '''the main thing needed to make the world happy is intelligence'''. And this, after all, is an optimistic conclusion, because intelligence is a thing that can be fostered by known methods of education. ==== ''New Hopes for a Changing World'' (1951) ==== * Consider MacArthur and his Republican supporters. So limited is his intelligence and his imagination that he is never puzzled for one moment. All we have to do is to go back to the days of the Opium War. After we have killed a sufficient number of millions of Chinese, the survivors among them will perceive our moral superiority and hail MacArthur as a saviour. But let us not be one-sided. Stalin, I should say, is equally simple- minded and equally out of date. He, too, believes that if his armies could occupy Britain and reduce us all to the economic level of Soviet peasants and the political level of convicts, we should hail him as a great deliverer and bless the day when we were freed from the shackles of democracy. '''One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.''' ** Part I: Man and Nature, Ch. 1: Current Perplexities, pp. 4–5 * '''The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life.''' I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good. ** Part I: Man and Nature, Ch. 1: Current Perplexities, p. 10 * The old humility of the shepherds who felt themselves subject to the influences of Pleiades is no longer appropriate in the scientific world. But there is a danger lest it should be replaced by a species of arrogance towards nature, which can lead to great disasters. Man, however scientific he may be, is not omnipotent. He is hedged in by natural limits. By means of his knowledge and technique he can diminish the narrowness of these limits, but he can never remove them wholly. Some astronomers try to cheer us up in moments of depression by assuring us that one fine day the sun will explode, and in the twinkling of an eye we shall all be turned into gas. I do not know whether this is going to happen, nor when it will happen if it does happen, but I think it is safe to say that if it does it will be a matter outside human control, and that even the best astronomers will be unable to prevent it. This is an extreme example, and one which it is useless to think about, because there is no way in which human behavior can be adapted to it. It does, however, serve one purpose, which is to remind us that we are not gods. ** Part I: Man and Nature, Ch. 4: The Limits of Human Power, p. 26 * Modern industry depends upon raw materials which are found at, or near, the earth's surface. These raw materials are the product of past geological ages; for the most part they are not being reproduced by any natural process. The elements were built up long ago by a process which we are just beginning to understand, and which when understood may enable clever men to put an end to the human race. The process by which the elements were built up required enormous heat, the sort of heat that exists in the interior of the sun. In a great natural laboratory, nature, starting with hydrogen, arrived by various stages at a number of elements. The number used to be ninety-two but is now indefinite. The elements, at temperatures much lower than that at which they were formed, entered into chemical combinations. At a certain stage the earth was at a temperature peculiarly suitable to the formation of complex chemical combinations, and at last combinations were formed which had the properties that are characteristic of living matter. Living matter has a curious property which I have called "chemical imperialism." In virtue of this property, when it is put into a suitable environment, it transforms a mass of dead matter into a mass of living matter. It is this property which has made organic evolution possible. ** Part I: Man and Nature, Ch. 4: The Limits of Human Power, pp. 26–27 * All sources of energy upon which industry depends are wasted when they are employed; and industry is expending them at a continually increasing rate. Already coal has been largely replaced by oil, and oil is being used up so fast that East and West alike conceive it necessary to their own prosperity to destroy the industry of the other. And what is true of oil is equally true of other natural resources. Every day, many square miles of forest are turned into newspaper, but there is no known process by which newspaper can be turned into forest. You will say that this need not worry us, since newspapers will be replaced by radio, but radio requires electricity, electricity requires power, and power depends upon raw materials. ** Part I: Man and Nature, Ch. 4: The Limits of Human Power, p. 30 * Modern industry, in fact, is a kind of rape. All the long astronomical and geological ages during which the materials which we find useful have been built up, contribute a moment's blaze, a moment's frivolous exuberance. But when his fireworks are finished, what will become of industrial man? All this, of course, does not appear in practice in the tragic and catastrophic form in which I have been stating it. What we know is that the price of coal goes up, and we do not readily connect this fact with the second law of thermodynamics. If you look up this law in a textbook, you will learn that it states that entropy always increases, and if you are not a physicist you will not be much the wiser. But the law can be stated more simply, and is stated more simply by proverbial wisdom. It states, in fact, that you cannot unscramble eggs. It deals with all the irreversible processes of nature. Some processes are reversible, some are not. If you travel from London to Edinburgh, you can also travel from Edinburgh to London, but if coal is used to make your train go, there is no way by which you can collect the heat which it generates, and turn it back into coal. If you shuffle a pack of cards, you can, if you take enough trouble, unshuffle them again, but if you drop a drop of ink into a glass of water, the ink will gradually spread throughout the water, and there is no way by which you can collect it back again into a drop. All industry depends upon such irreversible processes; it all uses up the earth's capital. Modern industry is, in fact, a spendthrift, and sooner or later must suffer the penalty of spendthrifts. ** Part I: Man and Nature, Ch. 4: The Limits of Human Power, pp. 30–31 * I know that most people meet such considerations with a kind of facile optimism; they say "Oh, the men of science are sure to think of some clever invention, and even if they don't it will last my time." They feel like the proverbial Irishman — "Why should I do anything for posterity; it never did anything for me!" But I am concerned in this book with Man, considered as a single creature with a single biography. I cannot be content with a brief moment of riotous living followed by destitution, and however clever the scientists may be, there are some things that they cannot be expected to achieve. When they have used up all the easily available sources of energy that nature has scattered carelessly over the surface of our planet, they will have to resort to more laborious processes, and these will involve a gradual lowering of the standard of living. Modern industrialists are like men who have come for the first time upon fertile virgin land, and can live for a little while in great comfort with only a modicum of labor. It would be irrational to hope that the present heyday of industrialism will not develop far beyond its present level, but sooner or later, owing to the exhaustion of raw material, its capacity to supply human needs will diminish, not suddenly, but gradually. This could, of course, be prevented if men exercised any restraint or foresight in their present frenzied exploitation. Perhaps before it is too late they will learn to do so. But this is a question of politics, and I do not wish, as yet, to consider the political aspect of our problem. ** Part I: Man and Nature, Ch. 4: The Limits of Human Power, pp. 31–32 * So far I have been considering the raw materials of industry, but the matter is far more grave as regards soil, which is the raw material of food. Ever since agriculture began it has been carried on wastefully in most parts of the world. Where methods are completely primitive, the cultivator merely moves on after he has exhausted the soil of one piece of land. This requires, of course, a great deal of available territory, and even then, only offers a permanent solution if the damage done to the soil by cultivation is temporary and not permanent. It is no wonder that men worshiped fertility divinities or that they developed a belief in the magical efficacy of human sacrifice. But in former times, while the population of the globe was still sparse, the problem had not the tragic importance that it has in our own day. It has been treated very fully in two books: Fairfield Osborne's [''sic''] ''Our Plundered Planet'' and William Vogt's ''Road to Survival''. I could wish to see both these books carefully studied by all who allow themselves a facile optimism, and especially by those who believe that free enterprise and the profit motive will solve all problems. They will learn from these authors many tragic facts about formerly fertile hillsides now turned into barren rock, about irrigated plains now desert, and flourishing civilizations now buried beneath the sands. They will learn that this process, which devastated Western Asia and North Africa centuries ago, is in full swing at the present day in many parts of the Western hemisphere, including the United States. They will learn that the intense demand for food, which results from increase of population and development of industry, is becoming year by year more difficult to satisfy. We all know that the price of food goes up, but most of us attribute this to the wickedness of the Government. If we live under a progressive Government, it makes us reactionary; if we live under a reactionary Government, it turns us into Socialists. Both these reactions are superficial and frivolous. All Governments, whatever their political complexion, are at present willy-nilly in the grip of natural forces which can only be dealt with by a degree of intelligence of which mankind hitherto has shown little evidence. ** Part I: Man and Nature, Ch. 4: The Limits of Human Power, pp. 32–33 * Apart from the question of food, there is the question of energy. It seems clear that, if it were financially worth while, fairly economical methods could be discovered by which more use would be made than at present of energy from the sun. And in theory there is no calculable limit to what can be got out of atomic energy. When people have discovered how to turn hydrogen into helium, sea-water will become their raw material, and it will be a long time before this source of supply is exhausted. Speaking of less specific possibilities, we have to reflect that man has existed for about a million years, and scientific technique for at most two hundred years. Seeing what it has already accomplished, it would be very rash to place any limits upon what it may accomplish in the future. Scientific knowledge is an intoxicating draught, and it may be one which the human race is unable to sustain. It may be that, like the men who built the Tower of Babel in the hope of reaching up to heaven, so the men who pursue the secrets of the atom will be punished for their impiety by providing by accident the means of exterminating the human species, and perhaps all life on this planet. From some points of view such a consummation might not be wholly regrettable, but these points of view can hardly be ours. Perhaps somewhere else, in some distant nebula, some unimportant star has an unimportant planet on which there are rational beings. Perhaps in another million years their instruments will tell them of our fate, and lead them to agree on an agenda for a conference of foreign ministers. If so, man will not have lived in vain. ** Part I: Man and Nature, Ch. 4: The Limits of Human Power, pp. 33–34 * It is sometimes maintained that racial mixture is biologically undesirable. There is no evidence whatever for this view. Nor is there, apparently, any reason to think that Negroes are congenitally less intelligent than white people, but as to that it will be difficult to judge until they have equal scope and equally good social conditions. ** Part II: Man and Man, Ch. 12: Racial Antagonism, p. 108 * Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster. Psychologically the situation is analogous to that of people trampled to death when there is a panic in a theatre caused by a cry of 'Fire!' In the situation that existed in the great depression, things could only be set right by causing the idle plant to work again. But everybody felt that to do so was to risk almost certain loss. Within the framework of classical economics there was no solution. Roosevelt saved the situation by bold and heretical action. He spent billions of public money and created a huge public debt, but by so doing he revived production and brought his country out of the depression. Businessmen, who in spite of such a sharp lesson continued to believe in old-fashioned economics, were infinitely shocked, and although Roosevelt saved them from ruin, they continued to curse him and to speak of him as 'the madman in the White House.' Except for Fabre's investigation of the behavior of insects, I do not know any equally striking example of inability to learn from experience. ** Part II: Man and Man, Ch. 14: Economic Co-operation and Competition, pp. 132–3 * Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them. ** Part III: Man and Himself, Ch. 16: Ideas Which Have Become Obsolete, p. 158 * The criminal law has, from the point of view of thwarted virtue, the merit of allowing an outlet for those impulses of aggression which cowardice, disguised as morality, restrains in their more spontaneous forms. War has the same merit. You must not kill you neighbor, whom perhaps you genuinely hate, but by a little propaganda this hate can be transferred to some foreign nation, against whom all your murderous impulses become patriotic heroism. ** Part III: Man and Himself, Ch. 17: Fear, p. 175[[File:Shakespeare.jpg|thumb|[[Shakespeare]] did not write with a view to boring school-children; he wrote with a view to delighting his audiences. If he does not give you delight, you had better ignore him.]] * Children are made to learn bits of Shakespeare by heart, with the result that ever after they associate him with pedantic boredom. If they could meet him in the flesh, full of jollity and ale, they would be astonished, and if they had never heard of him before they might be led by his jollity to see what he had written. But if at school they had been inoculated against him, they will never be able to enjoy him. The same sort of thing applies to music lessons. Human beings have certain capacities for spontaneous enjoyment, but moralists and pedants possess themselves of the apparatus of these enjoyments, and having extracted what they consider the poison of pleasure they leave them dreary and dismal and devoid of everything that gives them value. Shakespeare did not write with a view to boring school-children; he wrote with a view to delighting his audiences. If he does not give you delight, you had better ignore him. ** Part III: Man and Himself, Ch. 20: The Happy Man, p. 201 * Man, in the long ages since he descended from the trees, has passed arduously and perilously through a vast dusty desert, surrounded by the whitening bones of those who have perished by the way, maddened by hunger and thirst, by fear of wild beasts, by dread of enemies, not only living enemies, but spectres of dead rivals projected on to the dangerous world by the intensity of his own fears. At last he has emerged from the desert into a smiling land, but in the long night he has forgotten how to smile. We cannot believe in the brightness of the morning. We think it trivial and deceptive; we cling to old myths that allow us to go on living with fear and hate – above all, hate of ourselves, miserable sinners. This is folly. '''Man now needs for his salvation only one thing: to open his heart to joy, and leave fear to gibber through the glimmering darkness of a forgotten past.''' He must lift up his eyes and say: "No, I am not a miserable sinner; I am a being who, by a long and arduous road, has discovered how to make intelligence master natural obstacles, how to live in freedom and joy, at peace with myself and therefore with all mankind." This will happen if men choose joy rather than sorrow. If not, eternal death will bury man in deserved oblivion. ** Part III: Man and Himself, Ch. 21: The Happy World, pp. 212–3 ==== ''The Impact of Science on Society'' (1952) ==== {{main|The Impact of Science on Society}} * '''It is not by prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.''' * Science, ever since the time of the Arabs, has had two functions: (1) to enable us to ''know'' things, and (2) to enable us to ''do'' things. * Some part of life – perhaps the most important part – must be left to the spontaneous action of individual impulse, for where all is system there will be mental and spiritual death. * Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible. Even if all are miserable, all will believe themselves happy, because the government will tell them that they are so. ==== ''Human Society in Ethics and Politics'' (1954) ==== :<small>{{cite book | title = Human Society in Ethics and Politics | year = 1954 | location = London | publisher = G. Allen & Unwin | lccn = 54004060 | ol = 14246427M | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=BdxDAAAAIAAJ }}</small> [[File:Russell in late 1924.jpg|thumb|The only thing that will redeem mankind is co-operation.]] * If throughout your life you abstain from murder, theft, fornication, perjury, blasphemy, and disrespect toward your parents, your church, and your king, you are conventionally held to deserve moral admiration even if you have never done a single kind or generous or useful action. '''This very inadequate notion of virtue is an outcome of taboo morality, and has done untold harm.''' ** p. 32 * '''Suppose atomic bombs had reduced the population of the world to one brother and one sister, should they let the human race die out?''' I do not know the answer, but I do not think it can be in the affirmative merely on the ground that incest is wicked. ** p. 47 * '''The only thing that will redeem mankind is co-operation''', and the first step towards co-operation lies in the hearts of individuals. ** p. 212 * We may define "faith" as a firm belief in something for which there is no evidence. Where there is evidence, no one speaks of "faith". We do not speak of faith that two and two are four or that the earth is round. We only speak of faith when we wish to substitute emotion for evidence. The substitution of emotion for evidence is apt to lead to strife, since different groups substitute different emotions. ** p. 215 * '''There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.''' Almost inevitably some part of him is aware that they are myths and that he believes them only because they are comforting. But he dare not face this thought! Moreover, since he is aware, however dimly, that his opinions are not rational, he becomes furious when they are disputed. ** p. 219-220 * If you think that your belief is based upon reason, you will support it by argument, rather than by persecution, and will abandon it if the argument goes against you. But if your belief is based on faith, you will realize that argument is useless, and will therefore resort to force either in the form of persecution or by stunting and distorting the minds of the young in what is called "education". This last is particularly dastardly, since it takes advantage of the defencelessness of immature minds. Unfortunately it is practiced in greater or less degree in the schools of every civilised country. ** p. 220 ==== ''The Russell-Einstein Manifesto'' (1955) ==== :<small>The [[w:Russell-Einstein Manifesto|Russell-Einstein Manifesto]] was issued in London on 9 July 1955 by Bertrand Russell and signed by 11 prominent intellectuals and scientists, most notably [[Albert Einstein]].</small> [[File:Operation_Upshot-Knothole_-_Badger_001.jpg|thumb|We are speaking on this occasion, not as members of this or that nation, continent, or creed, but as human beings, members of the species Man, whose continued existence is in doubt.]] * '''We are speaking on this occasion, not as members of this or that nation, continent, or creed, but as human beings, members of the species Man, whose continued existence is in doubt.''' * The world is full of conflicts; and, overshadowing all minor conflicts, the titanic struggle between Communism and anti-Communism. <br /> Almost everybody who is politically conscious has strong feelings about one or more of these issues; but we want you, if you can, to set aside such feelings and consider yourselves only as members of a biological species which has had a remarkable history, and whose disappearance none of us can desire. <br /> We shall try to say no single word which should appeal to one group rather than to another. All, equally, are in peril, and, if the peril is understood, there is hope that they may collectively avert it. * '''We have to learn to think in a new way.''' We have to learn to ask ourselves, not what steps can be taken to give military victory to whatever group we prefer, for there no longer are such steps; the question we have to ask ourselves is: what steps can be taken to prevent a military contest of which the issue must be disastrous to all parties? * The best authorities are unanimous in saying that a war with H-bombs might possibly put an end to the human race. It is feared that if many H-bombs are used there will be universal death, sudden only for a minority, but for the majority a slow torture of disease and disintegration. <br /> Many warnings have been uttered by eminent men of science and by authorities in military strategy. None of them will say that the worst results are certain. What they do say is that these results are possible, and no one can be sure that they will not be realized. We have not yet found that the views of experts on this question depend in any degree upon their politics or prejudices. They depend only, so far as our researches have revealed, upon the extent of the particular expert's knowledge. We have found that the men who know most are the most gloomy. * Here, then, is the problem which we present to you, stark and dreadful and inescapable: '''Shall we put an end to the human race; or shall mankind renounce war?''' People will not face this alternative because it is so difficult to abolish war. <br /> The abolition of war will demand distasteful limitations of national sovereignty. But what perhaps impedes understanding of the situation more than anything else is that the term "mankind" feels vague and abstract. '''People scarcely realize in imagination that the danger is to themselves and their children and their grandchildren, and not only to a dimly apprehended humanity. They can scarcely bring themselves to grasp that they, individually, and those whom they love are in imminent danger of perishing agonizingly.''' And so they hope that perhaps war may be allowed to continue provided modern weapons are prohibited. <br /> This hope is illusory. Whatever agreements not to use H-bombs had been reached in time of peace, they would no longer be considered binding in time of war, and both sides would set to work to manufacture H-bombs as soon as war broke out, for, if one side manufactured the bombs and the other did not, the side that manufactured them would inevitably be victorious.[[File:Bombes à retardement poster (crop).jpg|thumb|We appeal as human beings to human beings: Remember your humanity, and forget the rest. If you can do so, the way lies open to a new Paradise; if you cannot, there lies before you the risk of universal death.]] * Most of us are not neutral in feeling, but, as human beings, we have to remember that, if the issues between East and West are to be decided in any manner that can give any possible satisfaction to anybody, whether Communist or anti-Communist, whether Asian or European or American, whether White or Black, then these issues must not be decided by war. We should wish this to be understood, both in the East and in the West. * There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, [[knowledge]], and wisdom. Shall we, instead, choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? We appeal as human beings to human beings: '''Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.''' If you can do so, the way lies open to a new Paradise; if you cannot, there lies before you the risk of universal death. * We invite this Congress, and through it the scientists of the world and the general public, to subscribe to the following resolution: <br /> "In view of the fact that in any future world war nuclear weapons will certainly be employed, and that such weapons threaten the continued existence of mankind, we urge the governments of the world to realize, and to acknowledge publicly, that their purpose cannot be furthered by a world war, and we urge them, consequently, to find peaceful means for the settlement of all matters of dispute between them". ==== ''Portraits from Memory and Other Essays'' (1956) ==== * When I was a child the atmosphere in [[w:Pembroke_Lodge|the house]] was one of puritan piety and austerity. There were family prayers at eight o'clock every morning. Although there were eight servants, food was always of Spartan simplicity, and even what there was, if it was at all nice, was considered too good for children. For instance, if there was apple tart and rice pudding, I was only allowed the rice pudding. Cold baths all the year round were insisted upon, and I had to practice the piano from seven-thirty to eight every morning although the fires were not yet lit. My grandmother never allowed herself to sit in an armchair until the evening. Alcohol and tobacco were viewed with disfavor although stern convention compelled them to serve a little wine to guests. Only virtue was prized, virtue at the expense of intellect, health, happiness, and every mundane good. ** p. 9 * I was a solitary, shy, priggish youth. I had no experience of the social pleasures of boyhood and did not miss them. But I liked mathematics, and mathematics was suspect because it has no ethical content. I came also to disagree with the theological opinions of my family, and as I grew up I became increasingly interested in philosophy, of which they profoundly disapproved. Every time the subject came up they repeated with unfailing regularity, 'What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.' After some fifty or sixty repetitions, this remark ceased to amuse me. ** p. 9 * I think the first thing that led me toward philosophy (though at that time the word 'philosophy' was still unknown to me) occurred at the age of eleven. My childhood was mainly solitary as my only brother was seven years older than I was. No doubt as a result of much solitude I became rather solemn, with a great deal of time for thinking but not much [[knowledge]] for my thoughtfulness to exercise itself upon. I had, though I was not yet aware of it, the pleasure in demonstrations which is typical of the mathematical mind. After I grew up I found others who felt as I did on this matter. My friend G. H. Hardy, who was professor of [[pure mathematics]], enjoyed this pleasure in a very high degree. He told me once that if he could find a proof that I was going to die in five minutes he would of course be sorry to lose me, but this sorrow would be quite outweighed by pleasure in the proof. I entirely sympathized with him and was not at all offended. Before I began the study of geometry somebody had told me that it proved things and this caused me to feel delight when my brother said he would teach it to me. Geometry in those days was still 'Euclid.' My brother began at the beginning with the definitions. These I accepted readily enough. But he came next to the axioms. 'These,' he said, 'can't be proved, but they have to be assumed before the rest can be proved.' At these words my hopes crumbled. I had thought it would be wonderful to find something that one could prove, and then it turned out that this could only be done by means of assumptions of which there was no proof. I looked at my brother with a sort of indignation and said: 'But why should I admit these things if they can't be proved?' He replied, 'Well, if you won't, we can't go on.' ** p. 19 * My first advice (on how ''not'' to grow old) would be to choose you ancestors carefully. Although both my parents died young, I have done well in this respect as regards my other ancestors. My maternal grandfather, it is true, was cut off in the flower of his youth, at the age of sixty-seven, but my other three grandparents all lived to be over eighty. '''Of remoter ancestors I can only discover one who did not live to a great age, and he died of a disease which is now rare, namely, having his head cut off.''' ** p. 50 * I wanted certainty in the kind of way in which people want religious faith. I thought that certainty is more likely to be found in mathematics than elsewhere. But I discovered that many mathematical demonstrations, which my teachers expected me to accept, were full of fallacies, and that, if certainty were indeed discoverable in mathematics, it would be in a new field of mathematics, with more solid foundations than those that had hitherto been thought secure. But as the work proceeded, I was continually reminded of the fable about the elephant and the tortoise. having constructed an elephant upon which the mathematical world could rest, I found the elephant tottering, and proceeded to construct a tortoise to keep the elephant from falling. But the tortoise was no more secure than the elephant, and after some twenty years of very arduous toil, I came to the conclusion that there was nothing more that I could do in the way of making mathematical knowledge indubitable. ** p. 53 *The second matter in which [[John Stuart Mill|Mill]]'s principles condemn existing legislation is [[homosexuality]]. If two adults voluntarily enter into such a relation, this is a matter which concerns them only, and in which, therefore, the community ought not to intervene. If it were still believed, as it once was, that the toleration of such behavior would expose the community to the fate of [[w:Sodom and Gomorrah|Sodom and Gomorrah]], the community would have every right to intervene. But it does not acquire a right to intervene merely on the ground that such conduct is thought wicked. The criminal law may rightly be invoked to prevent violence or fraud inflicted upon unwilling victims, but it ought not to be invoked when whatever damage there may be is suffered only by the agents—always assuming that the agents are adults. **p. 139 * Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.' They may admit that in organic chemistry there is need of long words, and that quantum physics requires formulas that are difficult to translate into ordinary English, but philosophy (they think) is different. It is not the function of philosophy – so they maintain – to teach something that uneducated people do not know; on the contrary, its function is to teach superior persons that they are not as superior as they thought they were, and that those who are really superior can show their skill by making sense of common sense. No one wants to alter the language of common sense, any more than we wish to give up talking of the sun rising and setting. But astronomers find a different language better, and I contend that a different language is better in philosophy. Let us take an example, that of perception. There is here an admixture of philosophical and scientific questions, but this admixture is inevitable in many questions, or, if not inevitable, can only be avoided by confining ourselves to comparatively unimportant aspects of the matter in hand. Here is a series of questions and answers. <br /> ''Q''. When I see a table, will what I see be still there if I shut my eyes? <br /> ''A''. That depends upon the sense in which you use the word 'see.' <br /> ''Q''. What is still there when I shut my eyes? <br /> ''A''. This is an empirical question. Don't bother me with it, but ask the physicists. <br /> ''Q''. What exists when my eyes are open, but not when they are shut? <br /> ''A''. This again is empirical, but in deference to previous philosophers I will answer you: colored surfaces. <br /> ''Q''. May I infer that there are two senses of 'see'? In the first, when I 'see' a table, I 'see' something conjectural about which physics has vague notions that are probably wrong. In the second, I 'see' colored surfaces which cease to exist when I shut my eyes. <br /> ''A''. That is correct if you want to think clearly, but our philosophy makes clear thinking unnecessary. By oscillating between the two meanings, we avoid paradox and shock, which is more than most philosophers do. ** p. 159 * In fact, contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race. ** p. 198 * My objections to [[Karl Marx|Marx]] are of two sorts: one, that he was muddle-headed; and the other, that his thinking was almost entirely inspired by [[hatred]]. The doctrine of surplus value, which is supposed to demonstrate the exploitation of wage-earners under capitalism, is arrived at: (a) by surreptitiously accepting [[Thomas Malthus|Malthus]]'s [[w:Malthusian growth model|doctrine of population]], which Marx and all his disciples explicitly repudiate; (b) by applying [[David Ricardo|Ricardo]]'s theory of value to wages, but not to the prices of manufactured articles. He is entirely satisfied with the result, not because it is in accordance with the facts or because it is logically coherent, but because it is calculated to rouse fury in wage-earners. Marx's doctrine that all historical events have been motivated by class conflicts is a rash and untrue extension to world history of certain features prominent in England and France a hundred years ago. His belief that there is a cosmic force called [[w:Dialectical materialism|Dialectical Materialism]] which governs human history independently of human volitions, is mere mythology. His theoretical errors, however, would not have mattered so much but for the fact that, like [[Tertullian]] and [[Thomas Carlyle|Carlyle]], his chief desire was to see his enemies punished, and he cared little what happened to his friends in the process. ** p. 211<!--, "Why I am Not a Communist"--> ==== ''Why I am not a Christian And other essays on religion and related subjects'' (1957) ==== * The harm that is done by a religion is of two sorts, the one depending on the kind of belief which it is thought ought to be given to it, and the other upon the particular tenets believed. As regards the kind of belief: it is thought virtuous to have faith—that is to say, to have a conviction which cannot be shaken by contrary evidence. Or, if contrary evidence might induce doubt, it is held that contrary evidence must be suppressed. ** preface xxiii * The conviction that it is important to believe this or that, even if a free inquiry would not support the belief, is one which is common to almost all religions and which inspires all systems of state education. The consequence is that the minds of the young are stunted and are filled with fanatical hostility both to those who have other fanaticisms, and, even more virulently, to those who object to all fanaticisms. ** preface xxiii * A habit of basing convictions upon evidence, and of giving to them only that degree of certainty which the evidence warrants, would, if it became general, cure most of the ills from which the world is suffering. But at present, in most countries, education aims at preventing the growth of such a habit, and men who refuse to profess belief in some system of unfounded dogmas are not considered suitable as teachers of the young. ** preface xxiii-xxiv *As soon as it is held that any belief, no matter what, is important for some other reason than that it is true, a whole host of evils is ready to spring up. Discouragement of inquiry, ... is the first of these, but others are pretty sure to follow. Positions of authority will be open to the orthodox. Historical records must be falsified if they throw doubt on received opinion. Sooner or later unorthodoxy will come to be considered a crime to be dealt with by the stake, the purge, or the concentration camp. I can respect the men who argue that religion is true and therefore ought to be believed, but I can only feel profound moral reprobation for those who say that religion ought to be believed because it is useful, and that to ask whether it is true is a waste of time.3 **quoted from Why I Am Not a Muslim (1995), Ibn Warraq ==== ''My Philosophical Development'' (1959) ==== * There was once a millionaire who bought an infinite number of pairs of shoes and, whenever he bought a pair of shoes, he also bought a pair of socks. We can make a selection choosing one out of each pair of shoes, because we can choose always the right shoe or always the left shoe. Thus, so far as the shoes are concerned, selections exist. But, as regards the socks, where there is no distinction of right and left, we cannot use this rule of selection. ** pp. 93-93 * Some modern philosophers have gone so far as to say that words should never be confronted with facts but should live in a pure, autonomous world where they are compared only with other words. When you say, 'the cat is a carnivorous animal,' you do not mean that actual cats eat actual meat, but only that in zoology books the cat is classified among carnivora. These authors tell us that the attempt to confront language with fact is 'metaphysics' and is on this ground to be condemned. '''This is one of those views which are so absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them'''. ** p. 110 * I do not think it possible to get anywhere if we start from scepticism. We must start from a broad acceptance of whatever seems to be knowledge and is not rejected for some specific reason. ** <!--Ch. 16 Non-Demonstrative Inference,-->p. 200 * My abandonment of former beliefs was, however, never complete. Some things remained with me, and still remain: I still think that truth depends upon a relation to fact, and that facts in general are nonhuman; I still think that man is cosmically unimportant, and that a Being, if there were one, who could view the universe impartially, without the bias of ''here'' and ''now'', would hardly mention man, except perhaps in a footnote near the end of the volume; but I no longer have the wish to thrust out human elements from regions where they belong; I have no longer the feeling that intellect is superior to sense, and that only Plato's world of ideas gives access to the 'real' world. I used to think of sense, and of thought which is built on sense, as a prison from which we can be freed by thought which is emancipated from sense. I now have no such feelings. I think of sense, and of thoughts built on sense, as windows, not as prison bars. I think that we can, however imperfectly, mirror the world, like Leibniz's monads; and I think it is the duty of the philosopher to make himself as undistorting a mirror as he can. But it is also his duty to recognize such distortions as are inevitable from our very nature. Of these, the most fundamental is that we view the world from the point of view of the ''here'' and ''now'', not with that large impartiality which theists attribute to the Deity. To achieve such impartiality is impossible for us, but we can travel a certain distance towards it. To show the road to this end is the supreme duty of the philosopher. ** p. 213 * I ''must'' before I die, find ''some'' way to say the essential thing that is in me, that I have never said yet – a thing that is not love or hate or pity or scorn, but the very breath of life, fierce and coming from far away, bringing into human life the vastness and fearful passionless force of non-human things... ** p. 261 ==== ''Interview, Face to Face'' (1959) ==== * The moral things I wish to say to future generations is very simple. '''I should say love is wise hatred is foolish'''. In this world which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other. We have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don't like. We can only live together in that way, and if we are to live together and not die together we must learn the kind of charity and kind of tolerance which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet. === 1960s === * '''Of course not. After all, I may be wrong...''' ** When asked if he was willing to die for his beliefs. As cited by Leonard Lyons on June 23, 1964. (New York Post, Section: Post Daily Magazine, The Lyons Den by Leonard Lyons, Quote Page 27 (Magazine Page 3), Column 3, New York.) Quoted in ''The Times Book of Quotations'' (2000), p. 84. ** Paraphrased as "'''I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong'''" in ''The Fifth and Far Finer than the First Four 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said'', by Robert Byrne (Fawcett Columbine, 1993), 258. * '''I do like clarity and exact thinking and I believe that very important to mankind because when you allow yourself to think inexactly your prejudices, your bias, your self interest comes in in ways you don't notice and you do bad things without knowing that you are doing them: self deception is very easy. So that I do think clear thinking immensely important.''' ** Television interview ("On clarity and exact thinking" - available on youtube) * '''If you're certain, you're certainly wrong''', because nothing deserves certainty. ** ''Bertrand Russell Speaks His Mind'' (1960), p. 14 ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvOcjzQ32Fw&feature=youtu.be&t=598 video]) * I find that the whiter my hair becomes the more ready people are to believe what I say. ** ''Bertrand Russell Speaks His Mind'' (1960), p. 80 * The state is primarily an organization for killing foreigners. ** ''Bertrand Russell Speaks His Mind'' (1960), p. 83 * You, your families, your friends and your countries are to be exterminated by the common decision of a few brutal but powerful men. To please these men, all the private affections, all the public hopes, all that has been achieved in art, and knowledge and thought and all that might be achieved hereafter is to be wiped out forever. <br /> Our ruined lifeless planet will continue for countless ages to circle aimlessly round the sun unredeemed by the joys and loves, the occasional wisdom and the power to create beauty which have given value to human life. ** Leaflet issued while Russell was in Brixton Prison, 1961 * We used to think that Hitler was wicked when he wanted to kill all the Jews, but what [[John F. Kennedy|Kennedy]] and [[Harold Macmillan|Macmillan]] and others both in the East and in the West pursue policies which will probably lead to killing not only all the Jews but all the rest of us too. They are much more wicked than Hitler and this idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly and absolutely horrible and it is a thing which no man with one spark of humanity can tolerate and I will not pretend to obey a government which is organising the massacre of the whole of mankind. I will do anything I can to oppose such Governments in any non-violent way that seems likely to be fruitful, and I should exhort all of you to feel the same way. We cannot obey these murderers. They are wicked and abominable. They are the wickedest people that ever lived in the history of man and it is our duty to do what we can. ** "On Civil Disobedience", April 15th, 1961 * '''The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder's lack of rational conviction.''' Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately. ** Introduction to 1961 edition of ''Sceptical Essays'' (1961) * This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obey a government which is organising a mass massacre of mankind. ** Speech in Birmingham, England encouraging civil disobedience in support of nuclear disarmament (15 April 1961) * I resolved from the beginning of my quest that I would not be misled by sentiment and desire into beliefs for which there was no good evidence. ** ''Fact and Fiction'' (1961), Part I, Ch. 6: "The Pursuit of Truth", p. 37 * '''Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable.''' ** ''Fact and Fiction'' (1961), Part II, Ch. 10: "University Education", p. 153 * Either Man will abolish war, or war will abolish Man. ** ''Fact and Fiction'' (1961), Part IV, Ch. 10: "Can War Be Abolished?", p. 276 * Friends, <br /> [[File:Russell in 1920.jpg|thumb|I have a very simple creed: that life and joy and beauty are better than dusty death.]]This is an occasion that I hardly know how to find words for. I am more touched than I can say, and more deeply than I can ever hope to express. I have to give my very warmest possible thanks to those who have worked to produce this occasion: to the performers, whose exquisite music, exquisitely performed, was so full of delight; to those who worked in less conspicuous ways, like my friend Mr Schoenman; and to all those who have given me gifts – gifts which are valuable in themselves, and also as expressions of an undying hope for this dangerous world. <br /> '''I have a very simple creed: that life and joy and beauty are better than dusty death''', and I think when we listen to such music as we heard today we must all of us feel that the capacity to produce such music, and the capacity to hear such music, is a thing worth preserving and should not be thrown away in foolish squabbles. You may say it's a simple creed, but I think everything important is very simple indeed. I've found that creed sufficient, and I should think that a great many of you would also find it sufficient, or else you would hardly be here. <br /> But now I just want to say how it's difficult, when one has embarked upon a course which invites a greater or less degree of persecution and obloquy and abuse, to find instead that one is welcomed as I have been today. It makes one feel rather humble, and I feel I must try to live up to the feelings that have produced this occasion. I hope I shall; and I thank you from the bottom of my heart. ** Ninetieth birthday celebration speech, 18 May 1962 * I must confess that I am deeply troubled. I fear that human beings are intent upon acting out a vast deathwish and that it lies with us now to make every effort to promote resistance to the insanity and brutality of policies which encompass the extermination of hundreds of millions of human beings. ** Letter to [[Rudolf Carnap]], June 21, 1962 * '''Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country.''' ** ''Has Man a Future?'' (1962), p. 78<!--79--> * '''I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.''' ** ''Unarmed Victory'' (1963), p. 14 * I am writing to you to tell you of my decision to return to your Government the Carl von Ossietzsky medal for peace. I do so reluctantly and after two years of private approaches on behalf of Heinz Brandt, whose continued imprisonment is a barrier to coexistence, relaxation of tension and understanding between East and West... I regret not to have heard from you on this subject. I hope that you will yet find it possible to release Brandt through an amnesty which would be a boon to the cause of peace and to your country. ** Letter to Walter Ulbricht, January 7, 1964. Russell would later write, in his autobiography: "The abduction and imprisonment by the East Germans of Brandt, who had survived Hitler's concentration camps, seemed to me so inhuman that I was obliged to return to the East German Government the Carl von Ossietzky medal which it had awarded me. I was impressed by the speed with which Brandt was soon released". * In the name of national security, the [[w:Warren Commission|Commission]]'s hearings were held in secret, thereby continuing the policy which has marked the entire course of the case. This prompts my second question: ''If, as we are told, [[w:Lee Harvey Oswald|Oswald]] was the lone assassin, where is the issue of national security?'' Indeed, precisely the same question must be put here as was posed in France during the [[w:Dreyfus affair|Dreyfus case]]: ''If the Government is so certain of its case, why has it conducted all its inquiries in the strictest secrecy?'' ** [http://karws.gso.uri.edu/JFK/The_critics/Russell/Sixteen_questions_Russell.html "16 Questions on the Assassination"] in ''The Minority of One,'' ed. M.S. Arnoni (1964-09-06), pp. 6-8 * Your comments on the Cuban crisis are, to me, utterly amazing. You say that the way the solution was arrived at was that 'the Russians discontinued their suicidal policy; and President Kennedy by his resolution and farsightedness saved the world'. This seems to me a complete reversal of the truth. Russia and America had policies leading directly to nuclear war. Khrushchev, when he saw the danger, abandoned his policy. Kennedy did not. It was Khrushchev who allowed the human race to continue, not Kennedy. ** Letter to Lord Gladwyn, November 14, 1964.[[File:Simple beauty.jpg |thumb|There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere.]] * '''The degree of one's emotion varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts – the less you know the hotter you get.''' ** Attributed to Russell in ''Distilled Wisdom'' (1964) by Alfred Armand Montapert, p. 145 * Whatever happens, I cannot be a silent witness to murder or torture. Anyone who is a partner in this is a despicable individual. I am sorry I cannot be moderate about it... ** Quoted in ''The New York Times Biographical Service'', Vol. I (1970), p. 294 (said by Russell "in the spring of 1967") * There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere. ** Last Essay: "1967" * The tragedy of the people of Palestine is that their country was "given" by a foreign power to another people for the creation of a new state. The result was that many hundreds of thousands of innocent people were made permanently homeless. With every new conflict their numbers increased. How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty? It is abundantly clear that the refugees have every right to the homeland from which they were driven, and the denial of this right is at the heart of the continuing conflict. No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their country; how can anyone require the people of Palestine to accept a punishment which nobody else would tolerate? A permanent just settlement of the refugees in their homeland is an essential ingredient of any genuine settlement in the Middle East. ** "Message from Bertrand Russell to the International Conference of Parlimentarians in Cairo, February 1970," reprinted in ''The New York Times'' (23 February 1970) ==== ''The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell'' (1967-1969) ==== {{main|The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell}} * '''Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.''' These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair. * '''He asked my religion and I replied 'agnostic'. He asked how to spell it, and remarked with a sigh: 'Well, there are many religions, but I suppose they all worship the same God.''' This remark kept me cheerful for about a week. * We later learned that all the nineteen passengers in the non-smoking compartment had been killed. When the plane had hit the water a hole had been made in the plane and the water had rushed in. I had told a friend at Oslo who was finding me a place that he must find me a place where I could smoke, remarking jocularly, 'If I cannot smoke, I shall die'. Unexpectedly, this turned out to be true. * I have lived in the pursuit of a vision, both personal and social. Personal: to care for what is noble, for what is beautiful, for what is gentle; to allow moments of insight to give wisdom at more mundane times. Social: to see in imagination the society that is to be created, where individuals grow freely, and where hate and greed and envy die because there is nothing to nourish them. These things I believe, and the world, for all its horrors, has left me unshaken. === Attributed from posthumous publications === [[File:Bertrand Russell photo.jpg|thumb|Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.]] * I've got a one-dimensional mind. ** Said to Rupert Crawshay-Williams; ''Russell Remembered'' (1970), p. 31 * There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to [[Voltaire]] – poison and antidote. ** In ''Kenneth Harris Talking To: Bertrand Russell'' (1971) * Why? Surely they can find other men. ** Russell's reply when asked "if it wasn't unkind of him to love and leave so many women"; as quoted in ''My Father – Bertrand Russell'' (1975) by [[w:Lady Katharine Tait|Katharine Tait]], p. 106 * "I don't want to! Why should I?" <br /> "Because more people will be happier if you do than if you don't." <br /> "So what? I don't care about other people." <br /> "You should." <br /> "But why?" <br /> "Because more people will be happier if you do than if you don't." ** Dialogue between Russell and his daughter Katharine, as quoted in ''My Father – Bertrand Russell'' (1975) * It's not the experience that happens to you: it's what you do with the experience that happens to you. ** Attributed to Russell in Slaby's ''Sixty Ways to Make Stress Work for You'' (1987) * Yes, if you happen to be interested in philosophy and good at it, but not otherwise – but so does bricklaying. '''Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.''' ** When asked "Does philosophy contribute to happiness?" (SHM 76), as quoted in ''The quotable Bertrand Russell'' (1993), p. 149 * '''Wherever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure''': a larger heart, and a greater self-restraint, would put a calm autumnal sadness in the place of the instinctive outcry of pain. ** ''The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell: Contemplation and Action, 1902-1914,'' ed. Richard A. Rempel, Andrew Brink and Margaret Moran (Routledge, 1993, {{ISBN|0-415-10462-9}}: Textual Notes, p. 555; also in Laurence J. Peter ''Quotations for our time'' (1978), p. 188 * I cannot believe – and I say this with all the emphasis of which I am capable – that there can ever be any good excuse for refusing to face the evidence in favour of something unwelcome. '''It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth.''' ** "The Pursuit of Truth" in ''The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell'' (1993)[[File:Darkness.svg|thumb|There is darkness without and when I die there will be darkness within. There is no splendor, nor vastness anywhere; only triviality for a moment and then nothing.]] * There is darkness without and when I die there will be darkness within. There is no splendor, nor vastness anywhere; only triviality for a moment and then nothing. ** Attributed to Russell in Ken Davis' ''Fire Up Your Life!'' (1995), p. 33 * No man who believes that all is for the best in this suffering world can keep his ethical values unimpaired, since he is always having to find excuses for pain and misery. ** ''The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell: A fresh look at empiricism, 1927-42'' (G. Allen & Unwin, 1996), p. 217 * '''Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.''' ** ''A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42'' (1996), p. 281<!--Sceptical Essays (1928) ? --> * It seems that '''sin is geographical'''. From this conclusion, it is only a small step to the further conclusion that the notion of "sin" is illusory, and that the cruelty habitually practised in punishing it is unnecessary. ** ''A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42'' (1996), p. 283 * Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure... ** ''A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42'' (1996), p. 443 * It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go. The difference is that you can compel your car to go to a garage, but you cannot compel Hitler to go to a psychiatrist. ** ''A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42'' (1996), p. 544 * '''The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.''' ** Attributed to Russell in Crainer's ''The Ultimate Book of Business Quotations'' (1997), p. 258 * To choose one sock from each of infinitely many pairs of socks requires the [[w:Axiom of choice|Axiom of Choice]], but for shoes the Axiom is not needed. ** As quoted in [[w:David Williams (mathematician)|Williams]]' ''Weighing the Odds: A Course in Probability and Statistics'' (2001), p. 498 * '''Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.''' ** Attributed to Russell in ''Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists'' (2007), p. 346 {{Disputed begin}} == Disputed == * '''Not enough evidence God! Not enough evidence!''' ** As quoted in Wesley C. Salmon's "Religion and Science: A New Look at Hume's Dialogues," ''Philosophical Studies'' 33 (1978), p. 176. ** Also in the [[w:The New York Times|''New York Times'']] article ''So God's Really in the Details?'' (May 11, 2002) by Emily Eakin: "Asked what he would say if God appeared to him after his death and demanded to know why he had failed to believe, the British philosopher and staunch evidentialist Bertrand Russell replied that he would say, 'Not enough evidence, God! Not enough evidence.' ** The original source of this quote is an article by Leo Rosten published in [[w:Saturday Review (U.S. magazine)|''Saturday Review/World'']] (February 23, 1974) which features an interview with Bertrand Russell. There, Rosten [http://www.unz.org/Pub/SaturdayRev-1974feb23-00025 writes]: "Confronted with the Almighty, [Russell] would ask, ''''Sir, why did you not give me better evidence?''''" * '''War does not determine who is right – only who is left.''' ** This has often been published as a quotation of Russell, when an author is given (e.g. in ''Quote Unquote – A HandBook of Quotation'', 2005, p. 291), but without any sourced citations, and seems to have circulated as an anonymous proverb as early as 1932. * In all affairs – love, religion, politics, or business – it's a healthy idea, now and then, to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. ** As quoted in [[w:Reader's Digest|''The Reader's Digest'']], Vol. 37 (1940), p. 90; no specific source given. * '''If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.''' ** As quoted in [[w:Think (IBM)|''Think'']], Vol. 27 (1961), p. 32 * '''Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.'' ** Attributed to Russell in [[w:Herbert V. Prochnow|Prochnow]]'s ''Speakers Handbook of Epigrams and Witticisms'' (1955), p. 132 * I believe in using words, not fists... I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex. ** No known source; also attributed to [[w:Susan Sarandon|Susan Sarandon]].{{source}} * One must care about a world one will not see. ** Attributed to Russell in ''The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations'' (1997), p. 450, and in Robertson's ''Dictionary of Quotations'' (1998), p. 362, but no specific source is given. * A new moral outlook is called for in which submission to the powers of nature is replaced by respect for what is best in man. It is where this respect is lacking that scientific technique is dangerous. ** Attributed to Russell at the end of [[w:Isaac Asimov|Isaac Asimov]]'s short story [[w:Franchise (short story)|Franchise]] from Russell's essay ''Science and Values'', ''Scientific Outlook'' (1931). {{Disputed end}} {{Misattributed begin}} == Misattributed == *Better red than dead. ** Bertrand Russell attributed this phrase to 'West German friends of peace', but adopted this slogan for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament he helped found [http://books.google.com/books?id=c4UoX6-Sv1AC&pg=PA49] William Safire, ''Safire's Political Dictionary'', (2008) p. 49–50 * '''None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.''' ** Attributed to Russell in M. Kumar ''Dictionary of Quotations'', p. 76, but actually said by [[w:Jean Lannes|Marshal Lannes]], according to ''The London Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences'' (1824), p. 664 * <span id="foolish-thing"></span> '''If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.''' ** [[W. Somerset Maugham]], ''A Writer's Notebook'' (1949), entry for 1901 ** Sometimes misquoted as "If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." ** Sometimes misattributed to [[Anatole France]] ** Note that Russell does say something similar in [[Marriage and Morals|''Marriage and Morals'']] (1929): "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible." * '''The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.''' ** From Marthe Troly-Curtin's ''Phrynette Married'' (1912). Misattributed to Bertrand Russell due to an ambiguous entry in [[Laurence J. Peter]]'s ''Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time'' (1977) [http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/11/time-you-enjoy/] * The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. ** Attributed to Reverend [[w:Theodore Hesburgh|Theodore Hesburgh]] in Sol Gordon ''Let's Make Sex a Household Word: A Guide for Parents and Children'' (John Day Company, 1975), p. 79 * If a "religion" is defined to be a system of ideas that contains unprovable statements, then Gödel taught us that mathematics is not only a religion, it is the only religion that can prove itself to be one. ** [[John D. Barrow]], ''Between Inner and Outer Space: Essays on Science, Art and Philosophy'' (Oxford University Press, 2000, {{ISBN|0-192-88041-1}}, Part 4, ch. 13: Why is the Universe Mathematical? (p. 88). Also found in Barrow's [http://www.lasalle.edu/~didio/courses/hon462/hon462_assets/mathematical_universe.htm "The Mathematical Universe"] (1989) and ''The Artful Universe Expanded'' (Oxford University Press, 2005, {{ISBN|0-192-80569-X}}, ch. 5, Player Piano: Hearing by Numbers, p. 250 {{Misattributed end}} == Quotes about Russell == [[File:Bust Of Bertrand Russell-Red Lion Square-London.jpg|thumb|Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man. ~ [[w:A.J. Ayer|A.J. Ayer]] ]] [[File:Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell.jpg|thumb|It is difficult to overstate the extent to which Russell's thought dominated twentieth century analytic philosophy: virtually every strand in its development either originated with him or was transformed by being transmitted through him. ~ Nicholas Griffin]] [[File:Bertrand Russell with his children.jpg|thumb|He was the most fascinating man I have ever known, the only man I ever loved, the greatest man I shall ever meet, the wittiest, the gayest, the most charming. It was a privilege to know him, and I thank God he was my father. ~ Lady [[w:Lady Katherine Tait|Katherine Tait]] ]] [[File:Teaparty.svg|thumb|It is impossible to describe Bertrand Russell except by saying that he looks like the Mad Hatter. ~ [[w:Norbert Wiener|Norbert Wiener]] ]] * The war in Indochina had revived the passionate side of Bertrand Russell’s character. His political activities had spanned two world wars and he was to spend the last years of his life completely immersed in the battles that were being fought in Vietnam. He used the enormous authority that his name enjoyed throughout the world to aid the Vietnamese cause. **Ali, Tariq - Street fighting years_ an autobiography of the sixties-Verso Books (2018) * The popular conception of a philosopher as one who combines universal learning with the direction of human conduct was more nearly satisfied by Bertrand Russell than by any other philosopher of our time. ** [[w:A. J. Ayer|A. J. Ayer]], ''Bertrand Russell As a Philosopher'' (1972), p. 3 * '''Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man.''' ** [[w:A. J. Ayer|A. J. Ayer]], ''Bertrand Russell'' (1972) *(What are your feelings about the Johnson trial arranged by Jean-Paul Sartre and Bertrand Russell in Paris?) I admire Bertrand Russell very much, and I certainly welcome any instrument which may help to arrest the American madness. **1967 interview in ''Conversations with [[James Baldwin]]'' edited by Louis H. Pratt and Fred L. Standley (1989) * Bertrand Russell found [[Gottlob Frege|Frege's]] famous error: Frege had overlooked what is now known as the [[w:Russell's paradox|Russell paradox]]. Namely, Frege's rules allowed one to define the class of x such that P(x) is true for any "concept" P. Frege's idea was that such a class was an object itself, the class of objects "falling under the concept P." Russell used this principle to define the class R of concepts that do not fall under themselves. This concept leads to a contradiction... argument: (1) if R falls under itself then it does not fall under itself; (2) this contradiction shows that it ''does not'' fall under itself; (3) therefore by definition it does fall under itself after all. ** [[Michael J. Beeson]], "The Mechanization of Mathematics," in ''Alan Turing: Life and Legacy of a Great Thinker'' (2004) * As we all know, Mr. Russell produces a different system of philosophy every few years... ** [[w:C. D. Broad|C. D. Broad]], 'Critical and Speculative Philosophy' (1924), as quoted in ''Contemporary British Philosophy: Personal Statements'', ed. J. H. Muirhead, Volume 20, p. 79 * What a contrast between the audacious philosophy of [[Dante Alighieri|Dante]] reposeful, contemplative, infinitely confident and this view! To Russell, man is but the chance and temporary product of a blind and purposeless nature, an irrelevant spectator of her doings, almost an alien intruder on her domain. ** [[Edwin Arthur Burtt]], ''[[The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science]]'' (1925) * Bertrand Russell is the key defining figure of analytic philosophy. ** Nicholas Capaldi, in ''The Enlightenment Project in the Analytic Conversation'' (1998), p. 28 * The great thing about [Russell] is that he will not give in – to prudence, cynicism or simple horse sense. Sometime, somewhere, he agonizes, the rational man will make a decent world of his instincts. Considered as a type, he is a perennial scold. But considered as Bertrand Russell, he is surely one of the glories of our time... For he is at once a man of unyielding honesty, a first-class intellect and the possessor of one of the master styles of the English language. It is the last of these gifts that guarantees the onlooker an unflagging fascination with his life. For it gives charm to many a frailty, makes the world over every day in the light of his intelligence and his irony, and converts every political crusade, exchange of learned correspondence and lovers' quarrel into an episode as enchanting as a Mozart concerto. ** [[w:Alistair Cooke|Alistair Cooke]], 'Act II of a Prodigious Life', a [[w:Life (magazine)|''LIFE'']] book review of Russell's ''Autobiography'', 9 August 1968 *There have been two Bertrand Russells: one who died during the war; and another who rose out of that one's shroud, an almost mystic communist born out of the ashes of a mathematical logician. Perhaps there was a tender mystic strain in him always; represented at first by a mountain of algebraic formulae; and then finding a distorted expression in a socialism that has the earmarks rather of a religion than of a philosophy. The most characteristic title among his books is Mysticism and Logic: a merciless attack on the illogicality of mysticism, followed by such a glorification of scientific method as makes one think of the mysticism of logic. Russell inherits the English positivist tradition, and is resolved to be tough-minded, because he knows that he cannot...It is remarkable that after writing several volumes of this learned moonshine, Bertrand Russell should suddenly come down upon the surface of this planet, and begin to reason very passionately about war, and government, and socialism, and revolution,– and never once make use of the impeccable formulae piled like Pelion upon Ossa in his Principia Mathematica. Nor has anyone else, observably, made use of them...Freedom is the supreme good; for without it personality is impossible. Freedom of thought and speech would go like a cleansing draught through the neuroses and superstitions of the "modern" mind. For we are not so educated as we think; we are but beginning the great experiment of universal schooling; and it has not had time to affect profoundly our ways of thinking and our public life. We are building the equipment, but we are still primitive in methods and technique; we think of education as the transmission of a certain body of settled knowledge, when it should be rather the development of a scientific habit of mind. The distinctive feature of the unintelligent man is the hastiness and absoluteness of his opinions; the scientist is slow to believe, and never speaks without modification...There is nothing that man might not do if our splendid organization of schools and universities were properly developed and properly manned, and directed intelligently to the reconstruction of human character. This, and not violent revolution, or paper legislation, is the way out of economic greed and international brutality. Man has come to control all other forms of life because he has taken more time in which to grow up; when he takes still more time, and spends that time more wisely, he may learn even to control and remake himself. Our schools are the open sesame to Utopia...All in all, a very lovable man: capable of the profoundest metaphysics and the subtlest mathematics, and yet speaking always simply, with the clarity which comes only to those who are sincere; a man addicted to fields of thought that usually dry up the springs of feeling, and yet warmed and illumined with pity, full of an almost mystic tenderness for mankind. Not a courtier, but surely a scholar and a gentleman, and a better Christian than some who mouth the word. Happily, he is still young and vigorous, the flame of life burns brightly in him yet; who knows but this next decade will see him grow out of disillusionment into wisdom, and write his name among the highest in "the serene brotherhood of philosophs"? **[[Will Durant]], Story of Philosophy *Bertrand Russell, as all reading America knows, has a right to be proud of his name in respect of his own achievements. He is, I believe, a very great mathematician. But he is also a profound thinker on human affairs, and unlike so many important thinkers, he can write. His thoughts do not have to be dug up for general consumption out of long, badly constructed books full of highly technical terms. They reach us in small, clearly constructed books, and in English that is not only beautifully simple but often poetic… **''[[Crystal Eastman]] on Women and Revolution'' * '''Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.''' ** [[Albert Einstein]], in a letter to [[w:Morris Raphael Cohen|Morris Raphael Cohen]], professor emeritus of philosophy at the College of the City of New York, defending the [[w:The Bertrand Russell Case|controversial appointment]] of Russell to a teaching position at the City College of New York (19 March 1940) * ''Lieber Bertrand Russell! <br /> Ich habe schon lange den Wunsch, Ihnen zu schreiben. Nichts anderes wollte ich dabei, als Ihnen meine hohe Bewunderung ausdrücken. Die Klarheit, Sicherheit und Unparteilichkeit, mit der Sie die logischen, philosophischen und menschlichen Dinge in Ihren Büchern behandelt haben, steht nicht nur in unserer Generation unerreicht da.'' ** ''Dear Bertrand Russell'' <br /> For a long time I have had the wish to write you. All I wanted to do, was to express my feeling of high admiration of you. The clarity, sureness, and impartiality which you have brought to bear to the logical, philosophical and human problems dealt with in your books are unrivalled not only in our generation. ** [[Albert Einstein]], letter to Bertrand Russell (14 October 1931) (translation by Otto Nathan), in ''[[The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell]]'', 1914-1944, Vol. 2 (London: Allen & Unwin, 1968) * My husband, T.S. Eliot, loved to recount how late one evening he stopped a taxi. As he got in, the driver said: 'You're T.S. Eliot.' When asked how he knew, he replied: 'Ah, I've got an eye for a celebrity. Only '''the other evening I picked up Bertrand Russell, and I said to him: "Well, Lord Russell, what's it all about?" And, do you know, he couldn't tell me.'''' ** Valerie Eliot ([[T.S. Eliot]]'s widow), [http://books.google.pt/books?id=yh8nAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Letter+to+the+Times+of+London%22&dq=%22Letter+to+the+Times+of+London%22&hl=pt-PT&sa=X&ei=HBMCVJKvE5SA7Qa-goDQCA&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAA Letter to the ''Times'' of London] * What is it about the study of philosophy that tends to make brilliant minds stupid when it comes down to what are known as actual cases? Consider [[Martin Heidegger]], Bertrand Russell, [[Jean-Paul Sartre]], and [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]], the four great names in twentieth-century philosophy: the first was a Nazi, the second died certain that America was responsible for all the world's evil, the third was a Stalinist long after any justification for being so could be adduced, and the fourth lived on the borders of madness most of his life. Contemplation of the lives of philosophers is enough to drive one to the study of sociology. ** [[w:Joseph Epstein (writer)|Joseph Epstein]] (2012), ''Essays in Biography'', Axios Press, p. 52 *He was always ready to pose the truly awkward dilemmas, and time and again he swam against the stream. ... Few figures in history can match his persistent intellectual courage. ... He became one of the chief glories of our nation and our people and I defy anyone who loves the English language and the English heritage to think of him without a glow of patriotism. **[[Michael Foot]], ''Tribune'' (6 February 1970), quoted in Mervyn Jones, ''Michael Foot'' (1994), p. 318 *There were certain members of the British Mission, however, not entirely inclined to look in open-mouthed wonder at the things about them, with their mental eyes shut. These were not of the labouring element. One of them was Mr. Bertrand Russell. Very politely but decisively he had from the very first refused to be officially chaperoned. He preferred to go about himself. He also showed no elation over the honour of being quartered in a palace and fed on special morsels. Suspicious person, that Russell, the Bolsheviki whispered. But then, what can you expect of a bourgeois? **[[Emma Goldman]], ''Living My Life (1931)'' * Russell opened a school at Telegraph House... owned by [[w:Frank Russell, 2nd Earl Russell|his brother]].., and there is a famous anecdote... that a bishop once visited the school, knocked on the door. It was opened by a naked child and the bishop said, "My God!" and the child said, "There isn't one." So this is very characteristic of the kind of school that you would expect Russell to run. ** [[A. C. Grayling]], "Wittgenstein's Games" (Feb 16, 2020) {{w|Darwin College, Cambridge}}. A Youtube video source from the Darwin College Lecture Series channel, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmckTveYNI8&t=1773s 29:33.] * It is difficult to overstate the extent to which Russell's thought dominated twentieth century analytic philosophy: virtually every strand in its development either originated with him or was transformed by being transmitted through him. Analytic philosophy itself owes its existence more to Russell than to any other philosopher. ** Nicholas Griffin, in ''The Cambridge Companion to Bertrand Russell'' (2003) * I can remember Bertrand Russell telling me of a horrible dream. He was in the top floor of the University Library, about A.D. 2100. A library assistant was going round the shelves carrying an enormous bucket, taking down books, glancing at them, restoring them to the shelves or dumping them into the bucket. At last he came to three large volumes which Russell could recognize as the last surviving copy of ''[[w:Principia Mathematica|Principia Mathematica]]''. He took down one of the volumes, turned over a few pages, seemed puzzled for a moment by the curious symbolism, closed the volume, balanced it in his hand and hesitated.... ** [[w:G. H. Hardy|G. H. Hardy]] in ''[[w:A Mathematician's Apology|A Mathematician's Apology]]'' (1940) * Russell's prose has been compared by [[T.S. Eliot]] to that of [[David Hume]]'s. I would rank it higher, for it had more color, juice, and humor. But to be lucid, exciting and profound in the main body of one's work is a combination of virtues given to few philosophers. Bertrand Russell has achieved immortality by his philosophical writings. ** [[w:Sydney Hook|Sydney Hook]], ''Out of Step, An Unquiet Life in the 20th Century'' (1988) * As an admirer and reader of his, one day I could not contain myself and spoke to him. "Mr. Russell," I said, "I know why I eat here. It is because I am poor. But why do you eat here?" "Because," he said, "I am never interrupted." ** William Jovanovich (American publisher), in ''University: A Princeton Magazine'' (1964), p. 67 * When Bertrand Russell had, by his second wife, a first child, a friend accosted him with, "Congratulations, Bertie! Is it a girl or a boy?" Russell replied, "Yes, of course, what else could it be?" ** [[w:Steven G. Krantz|Steven G. Krantz]], ''Mathematical Apocrypha Redux'' (2005), p. 87 * I felt the [[w:Theory of relativity|theory]] [of relativity] was about the greatest intellectual advance and illumination that had ever happened. I explained it to Russell, who at that time knew no physics. He was similarly staggered. Suddenly he burst out (to [[w:Dora Russell|Dora]]'s consternation): ''''To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.'''' ** [[John Edensor Littlewood]], in ''A Mathematician's Miscellany'' (1953) * All Bertrand Russell said about [his meeting with Einstein] (apart from how wonderful Einstein looked, and his wonderful eyes) was that Einstein told him a dirty story. I said that Einstein was well known for consummate tact in adapting himself to his company. ** [[John Edensor Littlewood]], in ''A Mathematician's Miscellany'' (1953) * The mind of Bertrand Russell is the anthropomorphized apex of supreme intelligence. ** [[w:Ethel Mannin|Ethel Mannin]], in ''Confessions and Impressions'' (1930), p. 274 * Russell, when asked to give an example of how any statement whatever, say that Russell (a renowned atheist) is the Pope, might follow from the self-contradictory statement 5=2+2, suggested that 3 be subtracted from both sides of this supposed equality; it follows that 2=1, thus two different persons, viz. Bertrand Russell and the Pope, form one person; hence Russell is the Pope. ** Witold Marciszewski, in ''Logic from a Rhetorical Point of View'' (1994), p. 109 * At one time, many philosophers held that faultless "laws of thought" were somehow inherent, a priori, in the very nature of mind. This belief was twice shaken in the past century; first when Russell and his successors showed how the logic men employ can be defective, and later when [[Sigmund Freud|Freud]] and [[Jean Piaget|Piaget]] started to reveal the tortuous ways in which our minds actually develop. After Russell observed that the seemingly frivolous "Who shaves the Barber, who shaves everyone who does not shave himself?" was a truly serious obstacle to formalizing common sense logic, he and others tried to develop new formalisms that voided such problems -- by preventing the fatal self-references. But the proposed substitutes were much too complicated to serve for everyday use. ** [[Marvin Minsky]], [http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/jokes.cognitive.txt "Jokes and their Relation to the Cognitive Unconscious"] (1980) * Not since [[Lucretius]] has there been so much eloquence spent on proving the validity of "unyielding despair" as the foundation of our "safety." But whatever we think of this text, it is easy to derive from it the bitter attitude of [[w:Sisyphus|Sisyphus]] who knows the meaninglessness of his task and who performs it nonetheless (instead of choosing suicide) because of the supposed dignity of the gesture. It is equally easy to derive from it the only remaining program for man—other than absurd action, ''[[wiktionary:acte_gratuit#Noun|acte gratuit]]''—the esthetic creation by which he creates meaning (beauty) in a universe where none pre-exists him and none will survive him. ** [[w:Thomas Molnar|Thomas Molnar]], ''The Decline of the Intellectual'' (1961) Ch. 4 "The Intellectual as a Progressive," referencing Russell's ''Mysticism and Logic,'' Ch.3... "That man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end... Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the débris of a universe in ruins..." * Mr. Bertrand Russell has noted that each improvement in locomotion has increased the area over which people are compelled to move: so that a person who would have had to spend half an hour to walk to work a century ago must still spend half an hour to reach his destination, because the contrivance that would have enabled him to save time had he remained in his original situation now—by driving him to a more distant residential area—effectually cancels out the gain. ** [[Lewis Mumford]], ''Technics and Civilization'' (1934) * Its enduring value was simply a deeper understanding of the central concepts of mathematics and their basic laws and interrelationships. Their total translatability into just elementary logic and a simple familiar two-place predicate, membership, is of itself a philosophical sensation. ** [[w:Willard Van Orman Quine|W.V. Quine]] (on the ''[[w:Principia Mathematica|Principia Mathematica]]'') in ''From Stimulus to Science'' (1995) * Mr. Russell is one of the most readable of living writers, and it is very reassuring to know that he exists. So long as he and a few others like him are alive and out of jail, we know that the world is still sane in parts. He has rather an eclectic mind, he is capable of saying shallow things and profoundly interesting things in alternate sentences, and sometimes, even in this book, he is less serious than his subject. But he has an essentially ''decent'' intellect, a kind of intellectual chivalry which is far rarer than mere cleverness. Few people during the past thirty years have been so consistently impervious to the fashionable bunk of the moment. ** [[George Orwell]], Review of Bertrand Russell's ''Power: A New Social Analysis'', ''[[w:The Adelphi|Adelphi]]'' Magazine, January 1939 (pp.375-377). Reprinted in George Orwell, ''Seeing Things as They Are: Selected Journalism and Other Writings''. Penguin Books, 2016. * As an undergraduate I was a member of the Voltaire Society, and we used to have dinner with Bertrand Russell, and he was 85 years old. And we thought, you know, he is getting on in years, and we put the question to him, we said: "Well, suppose it were all true, that after you pass away you show up at the Pearly Gates, what would you say to Him?" And Russell didn't hesitate a minute, he said: "I would say to Him: you didn't give us enough evidence!" ** [[John Searle]], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT2O81SIVbY ''Closer To Truth'' interview] with [[w:Robert Lawrence Kuhn|Robert Lawrence Kuhn]] (2016) (at 1:22) * Oh, Bertrand Russell! Oh, [[w:Hewlett Johnson|Hewlett Johnson]]! Where, oh where, was your flaming conscience at that time? ** [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]] in ''The Gulag Archipelago'' (1974) * Russell's is undeniably one of the great minds of our time. It has always been impelled by a passionate and relentless curiosity and a hatred of cruelty and injustice. An aristocratic gadfly, he has never for any reason hesitated to speak out on any issue that engaged him. <br /> Although born in the Victorian era... he seems more like an 18th Century figure from the Age of Reason like [[Voltaire]], whom he strikingly resembles both in physiognomy and spirit. Philosophy is an abstruse subject, which Russell once defined as an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously; the fame of philosophers seldom spreads beyond the confines of university campuses. But Russell's has, because for the last 40 years he has striven to think about complex current issues – politics, history, ethics, economics – and to convey his thoughts to those who longed for insight in language they could understand. And whatever Bertrand Russell has done, wherever he has gone there has usually been laughter. ** [[w:Life (magazine)|''LIFE'']], Editorials, ''Bertrand Russell is 80'', 'A great mind is still annoying and adorning our age', 26 May 1952 * Russell is the greatest logician since Aristotle, but he is not always quite reasonable or consistent, partly, I think, because he is a socialist who has never discarded an aristocratic outlook. ** [[w:Nancy Mitford|Nancy Mitford]], 'Bertrand Bedazzled by Euclid and Free Love', a [[w:Life (magazine)|''LIFE'']] book review of Russell's ''Autobiography'', 28 April 1967 * Bertrand Russell won immortality with his contributions to our understanding of logic. ** [[w:Marshall Harvey Stone|Marshall H. Stone]], in a review of Russell's ''Autobiography'', featured in the ''Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists'', January 1968 * Christians were mocked for imagining that man is important in the vast scheme of the universe, even the high point of all creation – and yet my father thought man and his preservation the most important thing in the world, and he lived in hopes of a better life to come. He was by temperament a profoundly religious man, a sort of passionate moralist who would have been a saint in a more believing age. I believe myself that his whole life was a search for God... Somewhere at the back of my father's mind, at the bottom of his heart, in the depths of his soul, there was an empty space that had once been filled by God, and he never found anything else to put it in. ** Lady [[w:Lady Katherine Tait|Katherine Tait]] in ''My Father, Bertrand Russell'' (1975), p. 184 * I would have liked to convince my father that I had found what he had been looking for, the ineffable something he had longed for all his life. I would have liked to persuade him that the search for God does not have to be in vain. But it was hopeless. He had known too many blind Christians, bleak moralists who sucked the joy from life and persecuted their opponents; he would never have been able to see the truth they were hiding. ** Lady [[w:Lady Katherine Tait|Katherine Tait]], in ''My Father, Bertrand Russell'' (1975), p. 189 * '''He was the most fascinating man I have ever known, the only man I ever loved, the greatest man I shall ever meet, the wittiest, the gayest, the most charming. It was a privilege to know him, and I thank God he was my father.''' ** Lady [[w:Lady Katherine Tait|Katherine Tait]], in ''My Father, Bertrand Russell'' (1975), p. 202 * Russell is the most gifted Englishman alive. * Russell doesn't understand the importance of the past, or of tradition, and—he ''won't'' qualify. * Bertie says that I am muddle headed, but I say that he is simple minded. ** [[Alfred North Whitehead]], as quoted in ''Insights and Oversights of the Great Thinkers'' (1983) by [[Charles Hartshorne]], Ch. 22, p. 255 * Russell is a [[Plato|Platonic]] dialogue in himself. ** [[Alfred North Whitehead]], as quoted in ''Bertrand Russell's Theory of Knowledge'' (Routledge, 2013), 'Conclusion', p. 222 * A gentle, even shy man, Russell was delightful as a conversationalist, companion and friend. He was capable of a pyrotechnical display of wit, erudition and curiosity, and he bubbled with anecdotes about the world's greats. ** [[w:Alden Whitman|Alden Whitman]], in [http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/04/29/specials/russell-obit.html 'Bertrand Russell Is Dead; British Philosopher, 97'], ''The New York Times'', February 3, 1970 * '''It is impossible to describe Bertrand Russell except by saying that he looks like the [[w:The Hatter|Mad Hatter]].''' ** [[w:Norbert Wiener|Norbert Wiener]], ''Ex-Prodigy'' (1953) * Russell's books should be bound in two colours, those dealing with mathematical logic in red – and all students of philosophy should read them; those dealing with ethics and politics in blue – and no one should be allowed to read them. ** [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]], as quoted in ''Recollections of Wittgenstein'' (1984) by [[w:Rush Rhees|Rush Rhees]] * This is the great paradox of Russell. All his instincts were on the side of the "rationalists"; his greatest hatred was for those who exalted emotion, or any sort of mystic intuition, at the expense of reason. But because Russell was the greatest rationalist of all, he had to admit that reason cannot prove the mystics wrong. In fact, in some private moods he was a mystic himself. ** Alan Wood, in ''Bertrand Russell the Passionate Skeptic: A Biography'' (1958), Volume 2, p. 62 * I used generally to have tea with in his [Russell's] rooms in Trinity when I went to Cambridge. '''A more brilliant intellect I never met''', but he was much more approachable than [[J. M. E. McTaggart|McTaggart]] had been at first; and he had a peculiar charm of his own. His writings were most pessimistic, but he himself always appeared in the best of spirits—a feature which I had also noticed in pessimists on frontier expeditions. Apparently the way really to enjoy oneself is to be full of dark forebodings and expect the worst; then if the worst actually happens it is only what one had expected, and if anything less than the worst occurs one can be in uproarious good-humour. ** [[w:Francis Younghusband|Francis Younghusband]], ''The Light of Experience: A Review of Some Men and Events of My Time'' (1927), p. 219 == See also == {{Philosophy of science}} {{Social and political philosophers}} {{Math quotes}} ==External links== {{wikipedia}} {{Wikisource author}} {{commonscat}} * [http://www.personal.kent.edu/~rmuhamma/Philosophy/bertrandRussell.html Selected Writings by Bertrand Russell] * [http://russell-j.com/index-e.htm Portal Site for Russellian] * [http://www.mcmaster.ca/russdocs/russell.htm The Bertrand Russell Archives] * [http://www.angelfire.com/art/megathink/reviews/russell.html Quotes from Russell] selected by Alan Nicoll * [http://www.users.drew.edu/~jlenz/brs.html The Bertrand Russell Society] * [http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~bertrand/ The Bertrand Russell Gallery] === Online writings === * [http://www.personal.kent.edu/~rmuhamma/Philosophy/RBwritings/onDenoting.htm ''On Denoting'' (1905)] * [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/5827/5827-h/5827-h.htm ''The Problems of Philosophy'' (1912)] * [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25447/25447-h/25447-h.htm ''Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays'' (1918)] * [http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/b-russell/roads-freedom.pdf ''Proposed Roads to Freedom'' (1918)] * [http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/b-russell/analysis-mind.pdf ''The Analysis Of Mind'' (1921)] * [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13940/13940-h/13940-h.htm ''The Problems of China'' (1922)] * [https://russell-j.com/beginner/COH-TEXT.HTM ''The Conquest of Happiness'' (1930)] * [https://russell-j.com/CON-MORT.HTM ''Mortals and Others, Volume 1 : American Essays, 1931-1935''] * [http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html ''In Praise of Idleness'' (1932)] * [http://www.ntslibrary.com/PDF%20Books/History%20of%20Western%20Philosophy.pdf ''The History of Western Philosophy'' (1945)] * [http://www.personal.kent.edu/~rmuhamma/Philosophy/RBwritings/ideaHarmMan.htm ''Ideas that Have Harmed Mankind'' (1946)] * [http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/1950/russell-lecture.html Nobel Lecture (1950)] * [https://russell-j.com/B-STATE1.HTM "Statement to young Japanese from the President of The Committee of 100 in Britain" (1962)] * [http://www.personal.kent.edu/~rmuhamma/Philosophy/RBwritings/sixteenQues.htm ''Sixteen Questions on the Assassination'', shortly after the JFK assassination (1964)] * [http://www.personal.kent.edu/~rmuhamma/Philosophy/RBwritings/lastEssay.htm ''Last Essay'', "1967"] * [https://russell-j.com/beginner/AUTOBIO.HTM ''The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell'' (1967-1969)] {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Russell, Bertrand}} [[Category:1872 births]] [[Category:1970 deaths]] [[Category:Bertrand Russell| ]] [[Category:University of California, Los Angeles faculty]] [[Category:Nobel laureates in Literature]] [[Category:Prisoners]] nt5g3uxr3fgiy5odecv9y5brkx8ctv6 4 93 3961070 3960936 2026-07-05T13:32:57Z DanielTom 608538 /* Misattributed begin */ 3961070 wikitext text/x-wiki __NEWSECTIONLINK__ {{Wikiquote:Village pump/Header}} {{User:MABot/config |archive = Wikiquote:Village pump archive %(counter)d |algo = old(35d) |counter = 64 |maxarchivesize = 300K |minthreadsleft = 4 |archiveheader = {{Village pump archives}} |minthreadstoarchive = 1 |key = 3009d0c464caec663eab7ed3f8987744 }} == Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles == {{Archive top|{{ping|BD2412|Koavf|Anatole-berthe|DanielTom|PARAKANYAA}} This was left open for roughly a month, but considering the four votes (2 in favor for consistency, one in weak objection and one neutral), there is considerably some consensus to implement the title changes. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 14:53, 30 June 2026 (UTC)}} English Wikipedia long ago adopted the convention of eliminating the comma before Jr. (and Sr.); I propose that we follow suit, for consistency across the project. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 04:44, 29 May 2026 (UTC) :'''Weak oppose''' I'm a comma guy, but I can see the value in being consistent with en.wp. I certainly wouldn't try to fight it if this is consensus, but it's also not that big of a deal and ", Jr." is perfectly normal English. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 06:28, 29 May 2026 (UTC) ::I'm neutral. This is a little change. [[User:Anatole-berthe|Anatole-berthe]] ([[User talk:Anatole-berthe|talk]]) 06:54, 29 May 2026 (UTC) * {{Support}} for consistency with WP. ~ [[User:DanielTom|DanielTom]] ([[User talk:DanielTom|talk]]) 07:11, 5 June 2026 (UTC) :Support for consistency with enwiki. [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 00:17, 11 June 2026 (UTC) :{{support}}. I think our names should always match WP. Might as well iron out other differences like superfluous middle names which WP doesn't have if you are doing it, e.g. [[Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr.]]. [[User:GrimRob|GrimRob]] ([[User talk:GrimRob|talk]]) 05:42, 11 June 2026 (UTC) {{Archive bottom}} : I will review the most painless means of implementation. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 18:44, 30 June 2026 (UTC) == Portals == {{Archive top|Deleted per minimal consensus below. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 14:56, 30 June 2026 (UTC)}} I was doing a little maintenance and stumbled across [[:Category:Portal]] and [[Wikiquote:Portal]], which seems like maybe failed experiments. I'm inclined to delete them, but does the community find any value in 1.) keeping these and 2.) using the portal namespace? ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 18:26, 6 June 2026 (UTC) :0 value. They have no value even on the much better maintained and much more active enwiki ones (where they see no use). Here, a much less active project, their value is nonexistent. [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 00:13, 11 June 2026 (UTC) {{Archive bottom}} == Speedy deletion nominees are still up == * [[The Cricket in Times Square]] * [[The Thundermans/Season 2]] * [[Bing (Tv series)]] I nominated these articles for speedy deletion this past week yet they're still up. The first of these three doesn't have any quotes, while the other two are blatant test pages. [[User:03isrflo62410|03isrflo62410]] ([[User talk:03isrflo62410|talk]]) 14:41, 14 June 2026 (UTC) :{{done}} ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 14:49, 14 June 2026 (UTC) :There's quite a few built up again. [[User:GrimRob|GrimRob]] ([[User talk:GrimRob|talk]]) 16:28, 20 June 2026 (UTC) :: I've deleted the remaining pages. Also, the article page creations that didn't contain quotes at all, well, that was made by an LTA who often creates pages with said titles in the edit summary, and nothing else. They, as well as their remaining associated accounts, were blocked indefinitely. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:48, 20 June 2026 (UTC) == June 2026 Wikimedia Café meetups regarding the English Wikipedia Editor Reflections project == <div class="border-box" style="background-color: var(--background-color-warning-subtle, #f8eaba); max-width: 875px; padding: 5px; border: 1px solid black; margin: 5px; color: var(--clr-dark)"> <div class="box" style="float:left; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px;">[[File:Wikimedia Café logo in plain SVG format.svg|60px|alt=The logo for the Wikimedia Café]]</div> Hello! There will be two '''[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Caf%C3%A9 Wikimedia Café]''' discussion opportunities during the last weekend of June. Both sessions will focus on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editor_reflections English Wikipedia Editor Reflections project]. The featured guest in the Café will be [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Clovermoss User:Clovermoss]. Participants may attend either or both sessions. #'''27 June 2026 15:00 UTC''' ([https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1782572400 timestamp converter]), at a time friendly to the Americas, Africa, and Europe #'''28 June 2026 03:00 UTC''' ([https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1782615600 timestamp converter]), at a time friendly to Asia and the Pacific Please see the Café page for more information, including [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Caf%C3%A9#How_to_attend_the_session how to register]! <br /> [[File:Buntstifte Eberhard Faber crop 64h.jpg|860px|alt=cropped image of colored pencils]]</div> <span style="white-space:nowrap;">[[User:Pine|<span style="color:#01796f;text-shadow:#00BFFF 0 0 1.0em">↠Pine</span>]] [[User talk:Pine|<span style="color:DeepSkyBlue">(<span style="color:#FFDF00 ;text-shadow:#FFDF00 0 0 1.0em"><b>✉</b></span>)</span>]]</span> 04:08, 15 June 2026 (UTC) == Reformulating the bot policy == Currently, [[Wikiquote:Bots]] has a policy and bot request portion. However, I believe we should split this to two separate pages since we plan to expand the bot policy (including what a bot is, which request page a bot owner should have their bot approved, and global bots [since we now allow global bots; we should consider adopting parts of the [[m:Bot policy|standard bot policy]] on Meta]). To the above, I don't think we should allow automatic approval anymore since we have some active bureaucrats. Thoughts? [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 15:36, 16 June 2026 (UTC) :{{support}} Seems reasonable. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 15:38, 16 June 2026 (UTC) ::{{support}} the expanded proposal per the below comments. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 21:54, 30 June 2026 (UTC) :{{support}} [[User:PieWriter|PieWriter]] ([[User talk:PieWriter|talk]]) 01:14, 17 June 2026 (UTC) :{{support}} [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 04:53, 17 June 2026 (UTC) : I created [[Wikiquote:Bots/Proposal]] as a rough draft. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:32, 18 June 2026 (UTC) :: {{ping|Koavf|PieWriter|Saroj}} I expanded the policy proposal, apologies for the delay. Feel free to make any changes there (especially regarding the bot requirements, approvals, global bots, no automatic approval, etc.), but the changes will be implemented by Friday since there is clear support. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 19:41, 30 June 2026 (UTC) :::Thanks. And for my perspective, no need to apologize on taking time for volunteer work, especially when your contributions are so hi-quality. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 21:54, 30 June 2026 (UTC) :::: One quick note: does this proposal mean we might opt out of the standard bot policy, or we would remain opted-in but no longer allow automatic approval? [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:19, 2 July 2026 (UTC) ::::: CC to @[[User:Koavf|Koavf]]. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 17:13, 3 July 2026 (UTC) ::::::I'm not sure of the implications here. I'm indifferent. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 16:37, 4 July 2026 (UTC) :{{support}} [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 18:19, 1 July 2026 (UTC) : {{done}}. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 22:28, 4 July 2026 (UTC) == FYI: Quote Contest 2026: Record-Breaking Growth for Bengali Wikiquote == https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/06/18/quote-contest-2026-record-breaking-growth-for-bengali-wikiquote/ Great job to our colleagues at bn.wq. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 18:04, 18 June 2026 (UTC) == One Quotation found at Windows on Eurasia == Here's one quotation found at [https://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/06/putin-signs-measure-eliminating.html one online article] at ''Window on Eurasia'': “Political systems and people come and go, but the old city is eternal.” What theme is most appropriate for that quotation? -- [[User:Apisite|Apisite]] ([[User talk:Apisite|talk]]) 09:13, 19 June 2026 (UTC) == Guidelines for WQ:RFP == We need to discuss about guidelines to users to have some user rights, including [[Wikiquote:Patrolling]] (user groups, autopatroller and patroller), rollbacker, and TAIV. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:26, 19 June 2026 (UTC) :Sorry, I'm not sure that I understood what you wrote or what the problem is. Could you please elaborate on what needs fixing here? ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 19:36, 19 June 2026 (UTC) :: I am referring on guidelines for administrators to grant autopatroller, patroller, and rollbacker user groups, for example. For TAIV, it requires at least 300 edits and 6 months of editing history, but for the latter, any administrator may decline a request even if a user meets the required criteria. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 19:49, 19 June 2026 (UTC) == Call for non-admin page patrollers == Any autopatroller who has a good understanding of Wikiquote's article policies and guidelines may consider applying for patroller permissions at [[Wikiquote:Requests for permissions]]. To administrators, when reviewing a request, feel free to use your discretion when granting. Thank you. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 23:20, 22 June 2026 (UTC) == RFC about AI-generated content in Wikimedia Commons == <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr"> You are invited to participate in a [[c:Commons:Requests for comment/Policy update for AI content|request for comment on Wikimedia Commons about a policy update for AI content]]. This may affect files that are uploaded to Wikimedia Commons for use on this project. Thank you. [[m:User:Codename Noreste|Codename Noreste]] ([[m:User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]])</bdi> 17:12, 23 June 2026 (UTC) <!-- Message sent by User:Codename Noreste@metawiki using the list at https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Distribution_list/Global_message_delivery&oldid=30513860 --> == Add a tagline using CSS? == I would like to propose adding CSS to [[MediaWiki:Common.css]] to add a tagline, which is "From Wikiquote, the free quote compendium": <syntaxhighlight lang="css"> /* Display the tagline "From Wikiquote, the free quote compendium" */ #siteSub { display: inline; } </syntaxhighlight> Thoughts? [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 01:32, 25 June 2026 (UTC) :You got an example of what it would look like? Other wikis do this using siteSub? [[User:GrimRob|GrimRob]] ([[User talk:GrimRob|talk]]) 22:13, 25 June 2026 (UTC) :: Yes. English Wikipedia does this, and so does Spanish Wikiquote. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 22:40, 25 June 2026 (UTC) :Seems a good idea. [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 07:01, 26 June 2026 (UTC) : {{done}}. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:19, 2 July 2026 (UTC) == Deployment of Legal and Safety Contacts Link in the Footer of Your Wiki == <section begin="Message"/> '''Legal & Safety Contacts''' Hello community, the Wikimedia Foundation has provided a [[wmf:Special:MyLanguage/Legal:Wikimedia Foundation Legal and Safety Contact Information|single legal and safety contact page]], to be linked in the footer of your wiki, to ensure access to accurate legal information. This is a regulatory requirement. We have already rolled out links to English, German, Italian, Spanish and other wikis and we will deploy to your wiki soon. 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[[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 22:07, 26 June 2026 (UTC)''</div> == Misattributed begin == [[:Template:Misattributed begin]] creates a weird spacing issue on every article it is transcluded in. Can someone fix this? And also perhaps make it less ugly? [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 00:51, 4 July 2026 (UTC) : [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]], I have removed <code><nowiki><br /></nowiki></code> (line break tag) from the template, along with the same edit on [[Template:Disputed begin]]. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 04:26, 5 July 2026 (UTC) ::Thanks! [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 04:29, 5 July 2026 (UTC) ::: I think the line break is necessary in both templates. See [[Bertrand_Russell]] for an example of how they look without it. ~ [[User:DanielTom|DanielTom]] ([[User talk:DanielTom|talk]]) 13:32, 5 July 2026 (UTC) ph0w8y89fsl3osa5hviy29sm6qybpkd 3961221 3961070 2026-07-05T17:16:37Z Koavf 6765 /* Misattributed begin */ Reply 3961221 wikitext text/x-wiki __NEWSECTIONLINK__ {{Wikiquote:Village pump/Header}} {{User:MABot/config |archive = Wikiquote:Village pump archive %(counter)d |algo = old(35d) |counter = 64 |maxarchivesize = 300K |minthreadsleft = 4 |archiveheader = {{Village pump archives}} |minthreadstoarchive = 1 |key = 3009d0c464caec663eab7ed3f8987744 }} == Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles == {{Archive top|{{ping|BD2412|Koavf|Anatole-berthe|DanielTom|PARAKANYAA}} This was left open for roughly a month, but considering the four votes (2 in favor for consistency, one in weak objection and one neutral), there is considerably some consensus to implement the title changes. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 14:53, 30 June 2026 (UTC)}} English Wikipedia long ago adopted the convention of eliminating the comma before Jr. (and Sr.); I propose that we follow suit, for consistency across the project. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 04:44, 29 May 2026 (UTC) :'''Weak oppose''' I'm a comma guy, but I can see the value in being consistent with en.wp. I certainly wouldn't try to fight it if this is consensus, but it's also not that big of a deal and ", Jr." is perfectly normal English. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 06:28, 29 May 2026 (UTC) ::I'm neutral. This is a little change. [[User:Anatole-berthe|Anatole-berthe]] ([[User talk:Anatole-berthe|talk]]) 06:54, 29 May 2026 (UTC) * {{Support}} for consistency with WP. ~ [[User:DanielTom|DanielTom]] ([[User talk:DanielTom|talk]]) 07:11, 5 June 2026 (UTC) :Support for consistency with enwiki. [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 00:17, 11 June 2026 (UTC) :{{support}}. I think our names should always match WP. Might as well iron out other differences like superfluous middle names which WP doesn't have if you are doing it, e.g. [[Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr.]]. [[User:GrimRob|GrimRob]] ([[User talk:GrimRob|talk]]) 05:42, 11 June 2026 (UTC) {{Archive bottom}} : I will review the most painless means of implementation. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 18:44, 30 June 2026 (UTC) == Portals == {{Archive top|Deleted per minimal consensus below. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 14:56, 30 June 2026 (UTC)}} I was doing a little maintenance and stumbled across [[:Category:Portal]] and [[Wikiquote:Portal]], which seems like maybe failed experiments. I'm inclined to delete them, but does the community find any value in 1.) keeping these and 2.) using the portal namespace? ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 18:26, 6 June 2026 (UTC) :0 value. They have no value even on the much better maintained and much more active enwiki ones (where they see no use). Here, a much less active project, their value is nonexistent. [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 00:13, 11 June 2026 (UTC) {{Archive bottom}} == Speedy deletion nominees are still up == * [[The Cricket in Times Square]] * [[The Thundermans/Season 2]] * [[Bing (Tv series)]] I nominated these articles for speedy deletion this past week yet they're still up. The first of these three doesn't have any quotes, while the other two are blatant test pages. [[User:03isrflo62410|03isrflo62410]] ([[User talk:03isrflo62410|talk]]) 14:41, 14 June 2026 (UTC) :{{done}} ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 14:49, 14 June 2026 (UTC) :There's quite a few built up again. [[User:GrimRob|GrimRob]] ([[User talk:GrimRob|talk]]) 16:28, 20 June 2026 (UTC) :: I've deleted the remaining pages. Also, the article page creations that didn't contain quotes at all, well, that was made by an LTA who often creates pages with said titles in the edit summary, and nothing else. They, as well as their remaining associated accounts, were blocked indefinitely. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:48, 20 June 2026 (UTC) == June 2026 Wikimedia Café meetups regarding the English Wikipedia Editor Reflections project == <div class="border-box" style="background-color: var(--background-color-warning-subtle, #f8eaba); max-width: 875px; padding: 5px; border: 1px solid black; margin: 5px; color: var(--clr-dark)"> <div class="box" style="float:left; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px;">[[File:Wikimedia Café logo in plain SVG format.svg|60px|alt=The logo for the Wikimedia Café]]</div> Hello! There will be two '''[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Caf%C3%A9 Wikimedia Café]''' discussion opportunities during the last weekend of June. Both sessions will focus on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editor_reflections English Wikipedia Editor Reflections project]. The featured guest in the Café will be [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Clovermoss User:Clovermoss]. Participants may attend either or both sessions. #'''27 June 2026 15:00 UTC''' ([https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1782572400 timestamp converter]), at a time friendly to the Americas, Africa, and Europe #'''28 June 2026 03:00 UTC''' ([https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1782615600 timestamp converter]), at a time friendly to Asia and the Pacific Please see the Café page for more information, including [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Caf%C3%A9#How_to_attend_the_session how to register]! <br /> [[File:Buntstifte Eberhard Faber crop 64h.jpg|860px|alt=cropped image of colored pencils]]</div> <span style="white-space:nowrap;">[[User:Pine|<span style="color:#01796f;text-shadow:#00BFFF 0 0 1.0em">↠Pine</span>]] [[User talk:Pine|<span style="color:DeepSkyBlue">(<span style="color:#FFDF00 ;text-shadow:#FFDF00 0 0 1.0em"><b>✉</b></span>)</span>]]</span> 04:08, 15 June 2026 (UTC) == Reformulating the bot policy == Currently, [[Wikiquote:Bots]] has a policy and bot request portion. However, I believe we should split this to two separate pages since we plan to expand the bot policy (including what a bot is, which request page a bot owner should have their bot approved, and global bots [since we now allow global bots; we should consider adopting parts of the [[m:Bot policy|standard bot policy]] on Meta]). To the above, I don't think we should allow automatic approval anymore since we have some active bureaucrats. Thoughts? [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 15:36, 16 June 2026 (UTC) :{{support}} Seems reasonable. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 15:38, 16 June 2026 (UTC) ::{{support}} the expanded proposal per the below comments. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 21:54, 30 June 2026 (UTC) :{{support}} [[User:PieWriter|PieWriter]] ([[User talk:PieWriter|talk]]) 01:14, 17 June 2026 (UTC) :{{support}} [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 04:53, 17 June 2026 (UTC) : I created [[Wikiquote:Bots/Proposal]] as a rough draft. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:32, 18 June 2026 (UTC) :: {{ping|Koavf|PieWriter|Saroj}} I expanded the policy proposal, apologies for the delay. Feel free to make any changes there (especially regarding the bot requirements, approvals, global bots, no automatic approval, etc.), but the changes will be implemented by Friday since there is clear support. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 19:41, 30 June 2026 (UTC) :::Thanks. And for my perspective, no need to apologize on taking time for volunteer work, especially when your contributions are so hi-quality. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 21:54, 30 June 2026 (UTC) :::: One quick note: does this proposal mean we might opt out of the standard bot policy, or we would remain opted-in but no longer allow automatic approval? [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:19, 2 July 2026 (UTC) ::::: CC to @[[User:Koavf|Koavf]]. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 17:13, 3 July 2026 (UTC) ::::::I'm not sure of the implications here. I'm indifferent. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 16:37, 4 July 2026 (UTC) :{{support}} [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 18:19, 1 July 2026 (UTC) : {{done}}. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 22:28, 4 July 2026 (UTC) == FYI: Quote Contest 2026: Record-Breaking Growth for Bengali Wikiquote == https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/06/18/quote-contest-2026-record-breaking-growth-for-bengali-wikiquote/ Great job to our colleagues at bn.wq. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 18:04, 18 June 2026 (UTC) == One Quotation found at Windows on Eurasia == Here's one quotation found at [https://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/06/putin-signs-measure-eliminating.html one online article] at ''Window on Eurasia'': “Political systems and people come and go, but the old city is eternal.” What theme is most appropriate for that quotation? -- [[User:Apisite|Apisite]] ([[User talk:Apisite|talk]]) 09:13, 19 June 2026 (UTC) == Guidelines for WQ:RFP == We need to discuss about guidelines to users to have some user rights, including [[Wikiquote:Patrolling]] (user groups, autopatroller and patroller), rollbacker, and TAIV. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:26, 19 June 2026 (UTC) :Sorry, I'm not sure that I understood what you wrote or what the problem is. Could you please elaborate on what needs fixing here? ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 19:36, 19 June 2026 (UTC) :: I am referring on guidelines for administrators to grant autopatroller, patroller, and rollbacker user groups, for example. For TAIV, it requires at least 300 edits and 6 months of editing history, but for the latter, any administrator may decline a request even if a user meets the required criteria. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 19:49, 19 June 2026 (UTC) == Call for non-admin page patrollers == Any autopatroller who has a good understanding of Wikiquote's article policies and guidelines may consider applying for patroller permissions at [[Wikiquote:Requests for permissions]]. To administrators, when reviewing a request, feel free to use your discretion when granting. Thank you. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 23:20, 22 June 2026 (UTC) == RFC about AI-generated content in Wikimedia Commons == <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr"> You are invited to participate in a [[c:Commons:Requests for comment/Policy update for AI content|request for comment on Wikimedia Commons about a policy update for AI content]]. This may affect files that are uploaded to Wikimedia Commons for use on this project. Thank you. [[m:User:Codename Noreste|Codename Noreste]] ([[m:User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]])</bdi> 17:12, 23 June 2026 (UTC) <!-- Message sent by User:Codename Noreste@metawiki using the list at https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Distribution_list/Global_message_delivery&oldid=30513860 --> == Add a tagline using CSS? == I would like to propose adding CSS to [[MediaWiki:Common.css]] to add a tagline, which is "From Wikiquote, the free quote compendium": <syntaxhighlight lang="css"> /* Display the tagline "From Wikiquote, the free quote compendium" */ #siteSub { display: inline; } </syntaxhighlight> Thoughts? [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 01:32, 25 June 2026 (UTC) :You got an example of what it would look like? Other wikis do this using siteSub? [[User:GrimRob|GrimRob]] ([[User talk:GrimRob|talk]]) 22:13, 25 June 2026 (UTC) :: Yes. English Wikipedia does this, and so does Spanish Wikiquote. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 22:40, 25 June 2026 (UTC) :Seems a good idea. [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 07:01, 26 June 2026 (UTC) : {{done}}. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:19, 2 July 2026 (UTC) == Deployment of Legal and Safety Contacts Link in the Footer of Your Wiki == <section begin="Message"/> '''Legal & Safety Contacts''' Hello community, the Wikimedia Foundation has provided a [[wmf:Special:MyLanguage/Legal:Wikimedia Foundation Legal and Safety Contact Information|single legal and safety contact page]], to be linked in the footer of your wiki, to ensure access to accurate legal information. This is a regulatory requirement. We have already rolled out links to English, German, Italian, Spanish and other wikis and we will deploy to your wiki soon. [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_Legal_and_Safety_Contacts_FAQ|Please read more on the project page]] and leave any comments in this thread or on the [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Talk:Wikimedia Foundation Legal and Safety Contacts FAQ|talk page]]. <section end="Message"/> -- [[User:Sannita (WMF)|User:Sannita (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Sannita (WMF)|talk]]) 13:30, 25 June 2026 (UTC) <!-- Message sent by User:Sannita (WMF)@metawiki using the list at https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Sannita_(WMF)/Mass_sending_test&oldid=30731267 --> == @Baratiiman and [[2026 Iran war]]. == <div class="cd-moveMark">''Moved to [[Wikiquote:Administrators' noticeboard#@Baratiiman and 2026 Iran war.]]. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 22:07, 26 June 2026 (UTC)''</div> == Misattributed begin == [[:Template:Misattributed begin]] creates a weird spacing issue on every article it is transcluded in. Can someone fix this? And also perhaps make it less ugly? [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 00:51, 4 July 2026 (UTC) : [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]], I have removed <code><nowiki><br /></nowiki></code> (line break tag) from the template, along with the same edit on [[Template:Disputed begin]]. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 04:26, 5 July 2026 (UTC) ::Thanks! [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 04:29, 5 July 2026 (UTC) ::: I think the line break is necessary in both templates. See [[Bertrand_Russell]] for an example of how they look without it. ~ [[User:DanielTom|DanielTom]] ([[User talk:DanielTom|talk]]) 13:32, 5 July 2026 (UTC) ::::It looks fine for me. Maybe refresh or even [[:mw:Purge|purge]] the page? ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 17:16, 5 July 2026 (UTC) n2qekgmmvum46sa054g8h5q5inzxxax 3961224 3961221 2026-07-05T17:43:38Z PARAKANYAA 3180882 /* Misattributed begin */ Reply 3961224 wikitext text/x-wiki __NEWSECTIONLINK__ {{Wikiquote:Village pump/Header}} {{User:MABot/config |archive = Wikiquote:Village pump archive %(counter)d |algo = old(35d) |counter = 64 |maxarchivesize = 300K |minthreadsleft = 4 |archiveheader = {{Village pump archives}} |minthreadstoarchive = 1 |key = 3009d0c464caec663eab7ed3f8987744 }} == Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles == {{Archive top|{{ping|BD2412|Koavf|Anatole-berthe|DanielTom|PARAKANYAA}} This was left open for roughly a month, but considering the four votes (2 in favor for consistency, one in weak objection and one neutral), there is considerably some consensus to implement the title changes. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 14:53, 30 June 2026 (UTC)}} English Wikipedia long ago adopted the convention of eliminating the comma before Jr. (and Sr.); I propose that we follow suit, for consistency across the project. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 04:44, 29 May 2026 (UTC) :'''Weak oppose''' I'm a comma guy, but I can see the value in being consistent with en.wp. I certainly wouldn't try to fight it if this is consensus, but it's also not that big of a deal and ", Jr." is perfectly normal English. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 06:28, 29 May 2026 (UTC) ::I'm neutral. This is a little change. [[User:Anatole-berthe|Anatole-berthe]] ([[User talk:Anatole-berthe|talk]]) 06:54, 29 May 2026 (UTC) * {{Support}} for consistency with WP. ~ [[User:DanielTom|DanielTom]] ([[User talk:DanielTom|talk]]) 07:11, 5 June 2026 (UTC) :Support for consistency with enwiki. [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 00:17, 11 June 2026 (UTC) :{{support}}. I think our names should always match WP. Might as well iron out other differences like superfluous middle names which WP doesn't have if you are doing it, e.g. [[Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr.]]. [[User:GrimRob|GrimRob]] ([[User talk:GrimRob|talk]]) 05:42, 11 June 2026 (UTC) {{Archive bottom}} : I will review the most painless means of implementation. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 18:44, 30 June 2026 (UTC) == Portals == {{Archive top|Deleted per minimal consensus below. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 14:56, 30 June 2026 (UTC)}} I was doing a little maintenance and stumbled across [[:Category:Portal]] and [[Wikiquote:Portal]], which seems like maybe failed experiments. I'm inclined to delete them, but does the community find any value in 1.) keeping these and 2.) using the portal namespace? ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 18:26, 6 June 2026 (UTC) :0 value. They have no value even on the much better maintained and much more active enwiki ones (where they see no use). Here, a much less active project, their value is nonexistent. [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 00:13, 11 June 2026 (UTC) {{Archive bottom}} == Speedy deletion nominees are still up == * [[The Cricket in Times Square]] * [[The Thundermans/Season 2]] * [[Bing (Tv series)]] I nominated these articles for speedy deletion this past week yet they're still up. The first of these three doesn't have any quotes, while the other two are blatant test pages. [[User:03isrflo62410|03isrflo62410]] ([[User talk:03isrflo62410|talk]]) 14:41, 14 June 2026 (UTC) :{{done}} ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 14:49, 14 June 2026 (UTC) :There's quite a few built up again. [[User:GrimRob|GrimRob]] ([[User talk:GrimRob|talk]]) 16:28, 20 June 2026 (UTC) :: I've deleted the remaining pages. Also, the article page creations that didn't contain quotes at all, well, that was made by an LTA who often creates pages with said titles in the edit summary, and nothing else. They, as well as their remaining associated accounts, were blocked indefinitely. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:48, 20 June 2026 (UTC) == June 2026 Wikimedia Café meetups regarding the English Wikipedia Editor Reflections project == <div class="border-box" style="background-color: var(--background-color-warning-subtle, #f8eaba); max-width: 875px; padding: 5px; border: 1px solid black; margin: 5px; color: var(--clr-dark)"> <div class="box" style="float:left; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px;">[[File:Wikimedia Café logo in plain SVG format.svg|60px|alt=The logo for the Wikimedia Café]]</div> Hello! There will be two '''[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Caf%C3%A9 Wikimedia Café]''' discussion opportunities during the last weekend of June. Both sessions will focus on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editor_reflections English Wikipedia Editor Reflections project]. The featured guest in the Café will be [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Clovermoss User:Clovermoss]. Participants may attend either or both sessions. #'''27 June 2026 15:00 UTC''' ([https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1782572400 timestamp converter]), at a time friendly to the Americas, Africa, and Europe #'''28 June 2026 03:00 UTC''' ([https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1782615600 timestamp converter]), at a time friendly to Asia and the Pacific Please see the Café page for more information, including [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Caf%C3%A9#How_to_attend_the_session how to register]! <br /> [[File:Buntstifte Eberhard Faber crop 64h.jpg|860px|alt=cropped image of colored pencils]]</div> <span style="white-space:nowrap;">[[User:Pine|<span style="color:#01796f;text-shadow:#00BFFF 0 0 1.0em">↠Pine</span>]] [[User talk:Pine|<span style="color:DeepSkyBlue">(<span style="color:#FFDF00 ;text-shadow:#FFDF00 0 0 1.0em"><b>✉</b></span>)</span>]]</span> 04:08, 15 June 2026 (UTC) == Reformulating the bot policy == Currently, [[Wikiquote:Bots]] has a policy and bot request portion. However, I believe we should split this to two separate pages since we plan to expand the bot policy (including what a bot is, which request page a bot owner should have their bot approved, and global bots [since we now allow global bots; we should consider adopting parts of the [[m:Bot policy|standard bot policy]] on Meta]). To the above, I don't think we should allow automatic approval anymore since we have some active bureaucrats. Thoughts? [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 15:36, 16 June 2026 (UTC) :{{support}} Seems reasonable. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 15:38, 16 June 2026 (UTC) ::{{support}} the expanded proposal per the below comments. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 21:54, 30 June 2026 (UTC) :{{support}} [[User:PieWriter|PieWriter]] ([[User talk:PieWriter|talk]]) 01:14, 17 June 2026 (UTC) :{{support}} [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 04:53, 17 June 2026 (UTC) : I created [[Wikiquote:Bots/Proposal]] as a rough draft. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:32, 18 June 2026 (UTC) :: {{ping|Koavf|PieWriter|Saroj}} I expanded the policy proposal, apologies for the delay. Feel free to make any changes there (especially regarding the bot requirements, approvals, global bots, no automatic approval, etc.), but the changes will be implemented by Friday since there is clear support. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 19:41, 30 June 2026 (UTC) :::Thanks. And for my perspective, no need to apologize on taking time for volunteer work, especially when your contributions are so hi-quality. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 21:54, 30 June 2026 (UTC) :::: One quick note: does this proposal mean we might opt out of the standard bot policy, or we would remain opted-in but no longer allow automatic approval? [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:19, 2 July 2026 (UTC) ::::: CC to @[[User:Koavf|Koavf]]. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 17:13, 3 July 2026 (UTC) ::::::I'm not sure of the implications here. I'm indifferent. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 16:37, 4 July 2026 (UTC) :{{support}} [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 18:19, 1 July 2026 (UTC) : {{done}}. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 22:28, 4 July 2026 (UTC) == FYI: Quote Contest 2026: Record-Breaking Growth for Bengali Wikiquote == https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/06/18/quote-contest-2026-record-breaking-growth-for-bengali-wikiquote/ Great job to our colleagues at bn.wq. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 18:04, 18 June 2026 (UTC) == One Quotation found at Windows on Eurasia == Here's one quotation found at [https://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/06/putin-signs-measure-eliminating.html one online article] at ''Window on Eurasia'': “Political systems and people come and go, but the old city is eternal.” What theme is most appropriate for that quotation? -- [[User:Apisite|Apisite]] ([[User talk:Apisite|talk]]) 09:13, 19 June 2026 (UTC) == Guidelines for WQ:RFP == We need to discuss about guidelines to users to have some user rights, including [[Wikiquote:Patrolling]] (user groups, autopatroller and patroller), rollbacker, and TAIV. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:26, 19 June 2026 (UTC) :Sorry, I'm not sure that I understood what you wrote or what the problem is. Could you please elaborate on what needs fixing here? ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 19:36, 19 June 2026 (UTC) :: I am referring on guidelines for administrators to grant autopatroller, patroller, and rollbacker user groups, for example. For TAIV, it requires at least 300 edits and 6 months of editing history, but for the latter, any administrator may decline a request even if a user meets the required criteria. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 19:49, 19 June 2026 (UTC) == Call for non-admin page patrollers == Any autopatroller who has a good understanding of Wikiquote's article policies and guidelines may consider applying for patroller permissions at [[Wikiquote:Requests for permissions]]. To administrators, when reviewing a request, feel free to use your discretion when granting. Thank you. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 23:20, 22 June 2026 (UTC) == RFC about AI-generated content in Wikimedia Commons == <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr"> You are invited to participate in a [[c:Commons:Requests for comment/Policy update for AI content|request for comment on Wikimedia Commons about a policy update for AI content]]. This may affect files that are uploaded to Wikimedia Commons for use on this project. Thank you. [[m:User:Codename Noreste|Codename Noreste]] ([[m:User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]])</bdi> 17:12, 23 June 2026 (UTC) <!-- Message sent by User:Codename Noreste@metawiki using the list at https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Distribution_list/Global_message_delivery&oldid=30513860 --> == Add a tagline using CSS? == I would like to propose adding CSS to [[MediaWiki:Common.css]] to add a tagline, which is "From Wikiquote, the free quote compendium": <syntaxhighlight lang="css"> /* Display the tagline "From Wikiquote, the free quote compendium" */ #siteSub { display: inline; } </syntaxhighlight> Thoughts? [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 01:32, 25 June 2026 (UTC) :You got an example of what it would look like? Other wikis do this using siteSub? [[User:GrimRob|GrimRob]] ([[User talk:GrimRob|talk]]) 22:13, 25 June 2026 (UTC) :: Yes. English Wikipedia does this, and so does Spanish Wikiquote. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 22:40, 25 June 2026 (UTC) :Seems a good idea. [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 07:01, 26 June 2026 (UTC) : {{done}}. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:19, 2 July 2026 (UTC) == Deployment of Legal and Safety Contacts Link in the Footer of Your Wiki == <section begin="Message"/> '''Legal & Safety Contacts''' Hello community, the Wikimedia Foundation has provided a [[wmf:Special:MyLanguage/Legal:Wikimedia Foundation Legal and Safety Contact Information|single legal and safety contact page]], to be linked in the footer of your wiki, to ensure access to accurate legal information. This is a regulatory requirement. We have already rolled out links to English, German, Italian, Spanish and other wikis and we will deploy to your wiki soon. [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_Legal_and_Safety_Contacts_FAQ|Please read more on the project page]] and leave any comments in this thread or on the [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Talk:Wikimedia Foundation Legal and Safety Contacts FAQ|talk page]]. <section end="Message"/> -- [[User:Sannita (WMF)|User:Sannita (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Sannita (WMF)|talk]]) 13:30, 25 June 2026 (UTC) <!-- Message sent by User:Sannita (WMF)@metawiki using the list at https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Sannita_(WMF)/Mass_sending_test&oldid=30731267 --> == @Baratiiman and [[2026 Iran war]]. == <div class="cd-moveMark">''Moved to [[Wikiquote:Administrators' noticeboard#@Baratiiman and 2026 Iran war.]]. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 22:07, 26 June 2026 (UTC)''</div> == Misattributed begin == [[:Template:Misattributed begin]] creates a weird spacing issue on every article it is transcluded in. Can someone fix this? And also perhaps make it less ugly? [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 00:51, 4 July 2026 (UTC) : [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]], I have removed <code><nowiki><br /></nowiki></code> (line break tag) from the template, along with the same edit on [[Template:Disputed begin]]. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 04:26, 5 July 2026 (UTC) ::Thanks! [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 04:29, 5 July 2026 (UTC) ::: I think the line break is necessary in both templates. See [[Bertrand_Russell]] for an example of how they look without it. ~ [[User:DanielTom|DanielTom]] ([[User talk:DanielTom|talk]]) 13:32, 5 July 2026 (UTC) ::::It looks fine for me. Maybe refresh or even [[:mw:Purge|purge]] the page? ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 17:16, 5 July 2026 (UTC) ::::It looks fine without it? It looked terrible on every page I saw with it. [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 17:43, 5 July 2026 (UTC) 2zg5m56hj4k7j53liu46gpbxxf8kk4b 3961226 3961224 2026-07-05T18:05:56Z Codename Noreste 3154048 /* Many inactive bots */ new topic ([[mw:c:Special:MyLanguage/User:JWBTH/CD|CD]]) 3961226 wikitext text/x-wiki __NEWSECTIONLINK__ {{Wikiquote:Village pump/Header}} {{User:MABot/config |archive = Wikiquote:Village pump archive %(counter)d |algo = old(35d) |counter = 64 |maxarchivesize = 300K |minthreadsleft = 4 |archiveheader = {{Village pump archives}} |minthreadstoarchive = 1 |key = 3009d0c464caec663eab7ed3f8987744 }} == Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles == {{Archive top|{{ping|BD2412|Koavf|Anatole-berthe|DanielTom|PARAKANYAA}} This was left open for roughly a month, but considering the four votes (2 in favor for consistency, one in weak objection and one neutral), there is considerably some consensus to implement the title changes. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 14:53, 30 June 2026 (UTC)}} English Wikipedia long ago adopted the convention of eliminating the comma before Jr. (and Sr.); I propose that we follow suit, for consistency across the project. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 04:44, 29 May 2026 (UTC) :'''Weak oppose''' I'm a comma guy, but I can see the value in being consistent with en.wp. I certainly wouldn't try to fight it if this is consensus, but it's also not that big of a deal and ", Jr." is perfectly normal English. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 06:28, 29 May 2026 (UTC) ::I'm neutral. This is a little change. [[User:Anatole-berthe|Anatole-berthe]] ([[User talk:Anatole-berthe|talk]]) 06:54, 29 May 2026 (UTC) * {{Support}} for consistency with WP. ~ [[User:DanielTom|DanielTom]] ([[User talk:DanielTom|talk]]) 07:11, 5 June 2026 (UTC) :Support for consistency with enwiki. [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 00:17, 11 June 2026 (UTC) :{{support}}. I think our names should always match WP. Might as well iron out other differences like superfluous middle names which WP doesn't have if you are doing it, e.g. [[Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr.]]. [[User:GrimRob|GrimRob]] ([[User talk:GrimRob|talk]]) 05:42, 11 June 2026 (UTC) {{Archive bottom}} : I will review the most painless means of implementation. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 18:44, 30 June 2026 (UTC) == Portals == {{Archive top|Deleted per minimal consensus below. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 14:56, 30 June 2026 (UTC)}} I was doing a little maintenance and stumbled across [[:Category:Portal]] and [[Wikiquote:Portal]], which seems like maybe failed experiments. I'm inclined to delete them, but does the community find any value in 1.) keeping these and 2.) using the portal namespace? ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 18:26, 6 June 2026 (UTC) :0 value. They have no value even on the much better maintained and much more active enwiki ones (where they see no use). Here, a much less active project, their value is nonexistent. [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 00:13, 11 June 2026 (UTC) {{Archive bottom}} == Speedy deletion nominees are still up == * [[The Cricket in Times Square]] * [[The Thundermans/Season 2]] * [[Bing (Tv series)]] I nominated these articles for speedy deletion this past week yet they're still up. The first of these three doesn't have any quotes, while the other two are blatant test pages. [[User:03isrflo62410|03isrflo62410]] ([[User talk:03isrflo62410|talk]]) 14:41, 14 June 2026 (UTC) :{{done}} ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 14:49, 14 June 2026 (UTC) :There's quite a few built up again. [[User:GrimRob|GrimRob]] ([[User talk:GrimRob|talk]]) 16:28, 20 June 2026 (UTC) :: I've deleted the remaining pages. Also, the article page creations that didn't contain quotes at all, well, that was made by an LTA who often creates pages with said titles in the edit summary, and nothing else. They, as well as their remaining associated accounts, were blocked indefinitely. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:48, 20 June 2026 (UTC) == June 2026 Wikimedia Café meetups regarding the English Wikipedia Editor Reflections project == <div class="border-box" style="background-color: var(--background-color-warning-subtle, #f8eaba); max-width: 875px; padding: 5px; border: 1px solid black; margin: 5px; color: var(--clr-dark)"> <div class="box" style="float:left; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px;">[[File:Wikimedia Café logo in plain SVG format.svg|60px|alt=The logo for the Wikimedia Café]]</div> Hello! There will be two '''[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Caf%C3%A9 Wikimedia Café]''' discussion opportunities during the last weekend of June. Both sessions will focus on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editor_reflections English Wikipedia Editor Reflections project]. The featured guest in the Café will be [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Clovermoss User:Clovermoss]. Participants may attend either or both sessions. #'''27 June 2026 15:00 UTC''' ([https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1782572400 timestamp converter]), at a time friendly to the Americas, Africa, and Europe #'''28 June 2026 03:00 UTC''' ([https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1782615600 timestamp converter]), at a time friendly to Asia and the Pacific Please see the Café page for more information, including [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Caf%C3%A9#How_to_attend_the_session how to register]! <br /> [[File:Buntstifte Eberhard Faber crop 64h.jpg|860px|alt=cropped image of colored pencils]]</div> <span style="white-space:nowrap;">[[User:Pine|<span style="color:#01796f;text-shadow:#00BFFF 0 0 1.0em">↠Pine</span>]] [[User talk:Pine|<span style="color:DeepSkyBlue">(<span style="color:#FFDF00 ;text-shadow:#FFDF00 0 0 1.0em"><b>✉</b></span>)</span>]]</span> 04:08, 15 June 2026 (UTC) == Reformulating the bot policy == Currently, [[Wikiquote:Bots]] has a policy and bot request portion. However, I believe we should split this to two separate pages since we plan to expand the bot policy (including what a bot is, which request page a bot owner should have their bot approved, and global bots [since we now allow global bots; we should consider adopting parts of the [[m:Bot policy|standard bot policy]] on Meta]). To the above, I don't think we should allow automatic approval anymore since we have some active bureaucrats. Thoughts? [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 15:36, 16 June 2026 (UTC) :{{support}} Seems reasonable. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 15:38, 16 June 2026 (UTC) ::{{support}} the expanded proposal per the below comments. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 21:54, 30 June 2026 (UTC) :{{support}} [[User:PieWriter|PieWriter]] ([[User talk:PieWriter|talk]]) 01:14, 17 June 2026 (UTC) :{{support}} [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 04:53, 17 June 2026 (UTC) : I created [[Wikiquote:Bots/Proposal]] as a rough draft. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:32, 18 June 2026 (UTC) :: {{ping|Koavf|PieWriter|Saroj}} I expanded the policy proposal, apologies for the delay. Feel free to make any changes there (especially regarding the bot requirements, approvals, global bots, no automatic approval, etc.), but the changes will be implemented by Friday since there is clear support. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 19:41, 30 June 2026 (UTC) :::Thanks. And for my perspective, no need to apologize on taking time for volunteer work, especially when your contributions are so hi-quality. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 21:54, 30 June 2026 (UTC) :::: One quick note: does this proposal mean we might opt out of the standard bot policy, or we would remain opted-in but no longer allow automatic approval? [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:19, 2 July 2026 (UTC) ::::: CC to @[[User:Koavf|Koavf]]. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 17:13, 3 July 2026 (UTC) ::::::I'm not sure of the implications here. I'm indifferent. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 16:37, 4 July 2026 (UTC) :{{support}} [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 18:19, 1 July 2026 (UTC) : {{done}}. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 22:28, 4 July 2026 (UTC) == FYI: Quote Contest 2026: Record-Breaking Growth for Bengali Wikiquote == https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/06/18/quote-contest-2026-record-breaking-growth-for-bengali-wikiquote/ Great job to our colleagues at bn.wq. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 18:04, 18 June 2026 (UTC) == One Quotation found at Windows on Eurasia == Here's one quotation found at [https://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/06/putin-signs-measure-eliminating.html one online article] at ''Window on Eurasia'': “Political systems and people come and go, but the old city is eternal.” What theme is most appropriate for that quotation? -- [[User:Apisite|Apisite]] ([[User talk:Apisite|talk]]) 09:13, 19 June 2026 (UTC) == Guidelines for WQ:RFP == We need to discuss about guidelines to users to have some user rights, including [[Wikiquote:Patrolling]] (user groups, autopatroller and patroller), rollbacker, and TAIV. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:26, 19 June 2026 (UTC) :Sorry, I'm not sure that I understood what you wrote or what the problem is. Could you please elaborate on what needs fixing here? ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 19:36, 19 June 2026 (UTC) :: I am referring on guidelines for administrators to grant autopatroller, patroller, and rollbacker user groups, for example. For TAIV, it requires at least 300 edits and 6 months of editing history, but for the latter, any administrator may decline a request even if a user meets the required criteria. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 19:49, 19 June 2026 (UTC) == Call for non-admin page patrollers == Any autopatroller who has a good understanding of Wikiquote's article policies and guidelines may consider applying for patroller permissions at [[Wikiquote:Requests for permissions]]. To administrators, when reviewing a request, feel free to use your discretion when granting. Thank you. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 23:20, 22 June 2026 (UTC) == RFC about AI-generated content in Wikimedia Commons == <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr"> You are invited to participate in a [[c:Commons:Requests for comment/Policy update for AI content|request for comment on Wikimedia Commons about a policy update for AI content]]. This may affect files that are uploaded to Wikimedia Commons for use on this project. Thank you. [[m:User:Codename Noreste|Codename Noreste]] ([[m:User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]])</bdi> 17:12, 23 June 2026 (UTC) <!-- Message sent by User:Codename Noreste@metawiki using the list at https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Distribution_list/Global_message_delivery&oldid=30513860 --> == Add a tagline using CSS? == I would like to propose adding CSS to [[MediaWiki:Common.css]] to add a tagline, which is "From Wikiquote, the free quote compendium": <syntaxhighlight lang="css"> /* Display the tagline "From Wikiquote, the free quote compendium" */ #siteSub { display: inline; } </syntaxhighlight> Thoughts? [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 01:32, 25 June 2026 (UTC) :You got an example of what it would look like? Other wikis do this using siteSub? [[User:GrimRob|GrimRob]] ([[User talk:GrimRob|talk]]) 22:13, 25 June 2026 (UTC) :: Yes. English Wikipedia does this, and so does Spanish Wikiquote. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 22:40, 25 June 2026 (UTC) :Seems a good idea. [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 07:01, 26 June 2026 (UTC) : {{done}}. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:19, 2 July 2026 (UTC) == Deployment of Legal and Safety Contacts Link in the Footer of Your Wiki == <section begin="Message"/> '''Legal & Safety Contacts''' Hello community, the Wikimedia Foundation has provided a [[wmf:Special:MyLanguage/Legal:Wikimedia Foundation Legal and Safety Contact Information|single legal and safety contact page]], to be linked in the footer of your wiki, to ensure access to accurate legal information. This is a regulatory requirement. We have already rolled out links to English, German, Italian, Spanish and other wikis and we will deploy to your wiki soon. [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_Legal_and_Safety_Contacts_FAQ|Please read more on the project page]] and leave any comments in this thread or on the [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Talk:Wikimedia Foundation Legal and Safety Contacts FAQ|talk page]]. <section end="Message"/> -- [[User:Sannita (WMF)|User:Sannita (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Sannita (WMF)|talk]]) 13:30, 25 June 2026 (UTC) <!-- Message sent by User:Sannita (WMF)@metawiki using the list at https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Sannita_(WMF)/Mass_sending_test&oldid=30731267 --> == @Baratiiman and [[2026 Iran war]]. == <div class="cd-moveMark">''Moved to [[Wikiquote:Administrators' noticeboard#@Baratiiman and 2026 Iran war.]]. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 22:07, 26 June 2026 (UTC)''</div> == Misattributed begin == [[:Template:Misattributed begin]] creates a weird spacing issue on every article it is transcluded in. Can someone fix this? And also perhaps make it less ugly? [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 00:51, 4 July 2026 (UTC) : [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]], I have removed <code><nowiki><br /></nowiki></code> (line break tag) from the template, along with the same edit on [[Template:Disputed begin]]. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 04:26, 5 July 2026 (UTC) ::Thanks! [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 04:29, 5 July 2026 (UTC) ::: I think the line break is necessary in both templates. See [[Bertrand_Russell]] for an example of how they look without it. ~ [[User:DanielTom|DanielTom]] ([[User talk:DanielTom|talk]]) 13:32, 5 July 2026 (UTC) ::::It looks fine for me. Maybe refresh or even [[:mw:Purge|purge]] the page? ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 17:16, 5 July 2026 (UTC) ::::It looks fine without it? It looked terrible on every page I saw with it. [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 17:43, 5 July 2026 (UTC) == Many inactive bots == There are some bots who have been inactive for at least two years or more; their operators who have been recently active (whether locally or globally) will be pinged here. * {{no ping|AnankeBot}} (inactive since 2013-09-16, pinging [[User:Nemo bis|Nemo bis]]) * {{no ping|BrownBot}} (inactive since 2007-05-05) * {{no ping|ChenzwBot}} (inactive since 2009-03-03, pinging [[User:Chenzw|Chenzw]]) * {{no ping|ChtitBot}} (inactive since 2011-02-06) * {{no ping|Dexbot}} (inactive since 2016-01-18, pinging [[User:Ladsgroup|Ladsgroup]]) * {{no ping|Dinybot}} (inactive since 2007-12-16) * {{no ping|Hazard-Bot}} (inactive since 2013-11-08) * {{no ping|Idioma-bot}} (already globally locked) * {{no ping|KamikazeBot}} (inactive since 2010-12-16) * {{no ping|LaaknorBot}} (inactive since 2013-03-03, pinging [[User:Laaknor|Laaknor]]) * {{no ping|LeonardoRob0t}} (inactive since 2007-08-28) * {{no ping|Lucia Bot}} (inactive since 2011-08-13) * {{no ping|MalafayaBot}} (inactive since 2011-12-06) * {{no ping|RileyBot}} (inactive since 2016-06-29 [last deleted edit]) * {{no ping|RimBot}} (inactive since 2010-02-24, pinging [[User:Mmenal|Mmenal]]) * {{no ping|VolkovBot}} (inactive since 2013-03-16) [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:05, 5 July 2026 (UTC) hr1hy6thmaa9yxqp0xvl29khwvkyoq8 3961229 3961226 2026-07-05T18:25:08Z 03isrflo62410 1485946 /* The Cat in the Hat (2026 film) */ new section 3961229 wikitext text/x-wiki __NEWSECTIONLINK__ {{Wikiquote:Village pump/Header}} {{User:MABot/config |archive = Wikiquote:Village pump archive %(counter)d |algo = old(35d) |counter = 64 |maxarchivesize = 300K |minthreadsleft = 4 |archiveheader = {{Village pump archives}} |minthreadstoarchive = 1 |key = 3009d0c464caec663eab7ed3f8987744 }} == Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles == {{Archive top|{{ping|BD2412|Koavf|Anatole-berthe|DanielTom|PARAKANYAA}} This was left open for roughly a month, but considering the four votes (2 in favor for consistency, one in weak objection and one neutral), there is considerably some consensus to implement the title changes. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 14:53, 30 June 2026 (UTC)}} English Wikipedia long ago adopted the convention of eliminating the comma before Jr. (and Sr.); I propose that we follow suit, for consistency across the project. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 04:44, 29 May 2026 (UTC) :'''Weak oppose''' I'm a comma guy, but I can see the value in being consistent with en.wp. I certainly wouldn't try to fight it if this is consensus, but it's also not that big of a deal and ", Jr." is perfectly normal English. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 06:28, 29 May 2026 (UTC) ::I'm neutral. This is a little change. [[User:Anatole-berthe|Anatole-berthe]] ([[User talk:Anatole-berthe|talk]]) 06:54, 29 May 2026 (UTC) * {{Support}} for consistency with WP. ~ [[User:DanielTom|DanielTom]] ([[User talk:DanielTom|talk]]) 07:11, 5 June 2026 (UTC) :Support for consistency with enwiki. [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 00:17, 11 June 2026 (UTC) :{{support}}. I think our names should always match WP. Might as well iron out other differences like superfluous middle names which WP doesn't have if you are doing it, e.g. [[Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr.]]. [[User:GrimRob|GrimRob]] ([[User talk:GrimRob|talk]]) 05:42, 11 June 2026 (UTC) {{Archive bottom}} : I will review the most painless means of implementation. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 18:44, 30 June 2026 (UTC) == Portals == {{Archive top|Deleted per minimal consensus below. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 14:56, 30 June 2026 (UTC)}} I was doing a little maintenance and stumbled across [[:Category:Portal]] and [[Wikiquote:Portal]], which seems like maybe failed experiments. I'm inclined to delete them, but does the community find any value in 1.) keeping these and 2.) using the portal namespace? ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 18:26, 6 June 2026 (UTC) :0 value. They have no value even on the much better maintained and much more active enwiki ones (where they see no use). Here, a much less active project, their value is nonexistent. [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 00:13, 11 June 2026 (UTC) {{Archive bottom}} == Speedy deletion nominees are still up == * [[The Cricket in Times Square]] * [[The Thundermans/Season 2]] * [[Bing (Tv series)]] I nominated these articles for speedy deletion this past week yet they're still up. The first of these three doesn't have any quotes, while the other two are blatant test pages. [[User:03isrflo62410|03isrflo62410]] ([[User talk:03isrflo62410|talk]]) 14:41, 14 June 2026 (UTC) :{{done}} ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 14:49, 14 June 2026 (UTC) :There's quite a few built up again. [[User:GrimRob|GrimRob]] ([[User talk:GrimRob|talk]]) 16:28, 20 June 2026 (UTC) :: I've deleted the remaining pages. Also, the article page creations that didn't contain quotes at all, well, that was made by an LTA who often creates pages with said titles in the edit summary, and nothing else. They, as well as their remaining associated accounts, were blocked indefinitely. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:48, 20 June 2026 (UTC) == June 2026 Wikimedia Café meetups regarding the English Wikipedia Editor Reflections project == <div class="border-box" style="background-color: var(--background-color-warning-subtle, #f8eaba); max-width: 875px; padding: 5px; border: 1px solid black; margin: 5px; color: var(--clr-dark)"> <div class="box" style="float:left; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px;">[[File:Wikimedia Café logo in plain SVG format.svg|60px|alt=The logo for the Wikimedia Café]]</div> Hello! There will be two '''[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Caf%C3%A9 Wikimedia Café]''' discussion opportunities during the last weekend of June. Both sessions will focus on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editor_reflections English Wikipedia Editor Reflections project]. The featured guest in the Café will be [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Clovermoss User:Clovermoss]. Participants may attend either or both sessions. #'''27 June 2026 15:00 UTC''' ([https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1782572400 timestamp converter]), at a time friendly to the Americas, Africa, and Europe #'''28 June 2026 03:00 UTC''' ([https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1782615600 timestamp converter]), at a time friendly to Asia and the Pacific Please see the Café page for more information, including [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Caf%C3%A9#How_to_attend_the_session how to register]! <br /> [[File:Buntstifte Eberhard Faber crop 64h.jpg|860px|alt=cropped image of colored pencils]]</div> <span style="white-space:nowrap;">[[User:Pine|<span style="color:#01796f;text-shadow:#00BFFF 0 0 1.0em">↠Pine</span>]] [[User talk:Pine|<span style="color:DeepSkyBlue">(<span style="color:#FFDF00 ;text-shadow:#FFDF00 0 0 1.0em"><b>✉</b></span>)</span>]]</span> 04:08, 15 June 2026 (UTC) == Reformulating the bot policy == Currently, [[Wikiquote:Bots]] has a policy and bot request portion. However, I believe we should split this to two separate pages since we plan to expand the bot policy (including what a bot is, which request page a bot owner should have their bot approved, and global bots [since we now allow global bots; we should consider adopting parts of the [[m:Bot policy|standard bot policy]] on Meta]). To the above, I don't think we should allow automatic approval anymore since we have some active bureaucrats. Thoughts? [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 15:36, 16 June 2026 (UTC) :{{support}} Seems reasonable. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 15:38, 16 June 2026 (UTC) ::{{support}} the expanded proposal per the below comments. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 21:54, 30 June 2026 (UTC) :{{support}} [[User:PieWriter|PieWriter]] ([[User talk:PieWriter|talk]]) 01:14, 17 June 2026 (UTC) :{{support}} [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 04:53, 17 June 2026 (UTC) : I created [[Wikiquote:Bots/Proposal]] as a rough draft. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:32, 18 June 2026 (UTC) :: {{ping|Koavf|PieWriter|Saroj}} I expanded the policy proposal, apologies for the delay. Feel free to make any changes there (especially regarding the bot requirements, approvals, global bots, no automatic approval, etc.), but the changes will be implemented by Friday since there is clear support. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 19:41, 30 June 2026 (UTC) :::Thanks. And for my perspective, no need to apologize on taking time for volunteer work, especially when your contributions are so hi-quality. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 21:54, 30 June 2026 (UTC) :::: One quick note: does this proposal mean we might opt out of the standard bot policy, or we would remain opted-in but no longer allow automatic approval? [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:19, 2 July 2026 (UTC) ::::: CC to @[[User:Koavf|Koavf]]. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 17:13, 3 July 2026 (UTC) ::::::I'm not sure of the implications here. I'm indifferent. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 16:37, 4 July 2026 (UTC) :{{support}} [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 18:19, 1 July 2026 (UTC) : {{done}}. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 22:28, 4 July 2026 (UTC) == FYI: Quote Contest 2026: Record-Breaking Growth for Bengali Wikiquote == https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/06/18/quote-contest-2026-record-breaking-growth-for-bengali-wikiquote/ Great job to our colleagues at bn.wq. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 18:04, 18 June 2026 (UTC) == One Quotation found at Windows on Eurasia == Here's one quotation found at [https://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/06/putin-signs-measure-eliminating.html one online article] at ''Window on Eurasia'': “Political systems and people come and go, but the old city is eternal.” What theme is most appropriate for that quotation? -- [[User:Apisite|Apisite]] ([[User talk:Apisite|talk]]) 09:13, 19 June 2026 (UTC) == Guidelines for WQ:RFP == We need to discuss about guidelines to users to have some user rights, including [[Wikiquote:Patrolling]] (user groups, autopatroller and patroller), rollbacker, and TAIV. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:26, 19 June 2026 (UTC) :Sorry, I'm not sure that I understood what you wrote or what the problem is. Could you please elaborate on what needs fixing here? ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 19:36, 19 June 2026 (UTC) :: I am referring on guidelines for administrators to grant autopatroller, patroller, and rollbacker user groups, for example. For TAIV, it requires at least 300 edits and 6 months of editing history, but for the latter, any administrator may decline a request even if a user meets the required criteria. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 19:49, 19 June 2026 (UTC) == Call for non-admin page patrollers == Any autopatroller who has a good understanding of Wikiquote's article policies and guidelines may consider applying for patroller permissions at [[Wikiquote:Requests for permissions]]. To administrators, when reviewing a request, feel free to use your discretion when granting. Thank you. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 23:20, 22 June 2026 (UTC) == RFC about AI-generated content in Wikimedia Commons == <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr"> You are invited to participate in a [[c:Commons:Requests for comment/Policy update for AI content|request for comment on Wikimedia Commons about a policy update for AI content]]. This may affect files that are uploaded to Wikimedia Commons for use on this project. Thank you. [[m:User:Codename Noreste|Codename Noreste]] ([[m:User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]])</bdi> 17:12, 23 June 2026 (UTC) <!-- Message sent by User:Codename Noreste@metawiki using the list at https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Distribution_list/Global_message_delivery&oldid=30513860 --> == Add a tagline using CSS? == I would like to propose adding CSS to [[MediaWiki:Common.css]] to add a tagline, which is "From Wikiquote, the free quote compendium": <syntaxhighlight lang="css"> /* Display the tagline "From Wikiquote, the free quote compendium" */ #siteSub { display: inline; } </syntaxhighlight> Thoughts? [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 01:32, 25 June 2026 (UTC) :You got an example of what it would look like? Other wikis do this using siteSub? [[User:GrimRob|GrimRob]] ([[User talk:GrimRob|talk]]) 22:13, 25 June 2026 (UTC) :: Yes. English Wikipedia does this, and so does Spanish Wikiquote. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 22:40, 25 June 2026 (UTC) :Seems a good idea. [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 07:01, 26 June 2026 (UTC) : {{done}}. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:19, 2 July 2026 (UTC) == Deployment of Legal and Safety Contacts Link in the Footer of Your Wiki == <section begin="Message"/> '''Legal & Safety Contacts''' Hello community, the Wikimedia Foundation has provided a [[wmf:Special:MyLanguage/Legal:Wikimedia Foundation Legal and Safety Contact Information|single legal and safety contact page]], to be linked in the footer of your wiki, to ensure access to accurate legal information. This is a regulatory requirement. We have already rolled out links to English, German, Italian, Spanish and other wikis and we will deploy to your wiki soon. [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_Legal_and_Safety_Contacts_FAQ|Please read more on the project page]] and leave any comments in this thread or on the [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Talk:Wikimedia Foundation Legal and Safety Contacts FAQ|talk page]]. <section end="Message"/> -- [[User:Sannita (WMF)|User:Sannita (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Sannita (WMF)|talk]]) 13:30, 25 June 2026 (UTC) <!-- Message sent by User:Sannita (WMF)@metawiki using the list at https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Sannita_(WMF)/Mass_sending_test&oldid=30731267 --> == @Baratiiman and [[2026 Iran war]]. == <div class="cd-moveMark">''Moved to [[Wikiquote:Administrators' noticeboard#@Baratiiman and 2026 Iran war.]]. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 22:07, 26 June 2026 (UTC)''</div> == Misattributed begin == [[:Template:Misattributed begin]] creates a weird spacing issue on every article it is transcluded in. Can someone fix this? And also perhaps make it less ugly? [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 00:51, 4 July 2026 (UTC) : [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]], I have removed <code><nowiki><br /></nowiki></code> (line break tag) from the template, along with the same edit on [[Template:Disputed begin]]. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 04:26, 5 July 2026 (UTC) ::Thanks! [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 04:29, 5 July 2026 (UTC) ::: I think the line break is necessary in both templates. See [[Bertrand_Russell]] for an example of how they look without it. ~ [[User:DanielTom|DanielTom]] ([[User talk:DanielTom|talk]]) 13:32, 5 July 2026 (UTC) ::::It looks fine for me. Maybe refresh or even [[:mw:Purge|purge]] the page? ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 17:16, 5 July 2026 (UTC) ::::It looks fine without it? It looked terrible on every page I saw with it. [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 17:43, 5 July 2026 (UTC) == Many inactive bots == There are some bots who have been inactive for at least two years or more; their operators who have been recently active (whether locally or globally) will be pinged here. * {{no ping|AnankeBot}} (inactive since 2013-09-16, pinging [[User:Nemo bis|Nemo bis]]) * {{no ping|BrownBot}} (inactive since 2007-05-05) * {{no ping|ChenzwBot}} (inactive since 2009-03-03, pinging [[User:Chenzw|Chenzw]]) * {{no ping|ChtitBot}} (inactive since 2011-02-06) * {{no ping|Dexbot}} (inactive since 2016-01-18, pinging [[User:Ladsgroup|Ladsgroup]]) * {{no ping|Dinybot}} (inactive since 2007-12-16) * {{no ping|Hazard-Bot}} (inactive since 2013-11-08) * {{no ping|Idioma-bot}} (already globally locked) * {{no ping|KamikazeBot}} (inactive since 2010-12-16) * {{no ping|LaaknorBot}} (inactive since 2013-03-03, pinging [[User:Laaknor|Laaknor]]) * {{no ping|LeonardoRob0t}} (inactive since 2007-08-28) * {{no ping|Lucia Bot}} (inactive since 2011-08-13) * {{no ping|MalafayaBot}} (inactive since 2011-12-06) * {{no ping|RileyBot}} (inactive since 2016-06-29 [last deleted edit]) * {{no ping|RimBot}} (inactive since 2010-02-24, pinging [[User:Mmenal|Mmenal]]) * {{no ping|VolkovBot}} (inactive since 2013-03-16) [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:05, 5 July 2026 (UTC) == [[The Cat in the Hat (2026 film)]] == A page exists for this unreleased film (it is set for release this November) and was marked for deletion (for being unreleased AND having a lack of quotes) but it's still up. [[User:03isrflo62410|03isrflo62410]] ([[User talk:03isrflo62410|talk]]) 18:25, 5 July 2026 (UTC) hjghgjan5av814zyulxvqu1rzn3z566 3961230 3961229 2026-07-05T18:27:19Z Codename Noreste 3154048 /* The Cat in the Hat (2026 film) */ reply: {{done|Deleted}}. (-) ([[mw:c:Special:MyLanguage/User:JWBTH/CD|CD]]) 3961230 wikitext text/x-wiki __NEWSECTIONLINK__ {{Wikiquote:Village pump/Header}} {{User:MABot/config |archive = Wikiquote:Village pump archive %(counter)d |algo = old(35d) |counter = 64 |maxarchivesize = 300K |minthreadsleft = 4 |archiveheader = {{Village pump archives}} |minthreadstoarchive = 1 |key = 3009d0c464caec663eab7ed3f8987744 }} == Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles == {{Archive top|{{ping|BD2412|Koavf|Anatole-berthe|DanielTom|PARAKANYAA}} This was left open for roughly a month, but considering the four votes (2 in favor for consistency, one in weak objection and one neutral), there is considerably some consensus to implement the title changes. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 14:53, 30 June 2026 (UTC)}} English Wikipedia long ago adopted the convention of eliminating the comma before Jr. (and Sr.); I propose that we follow suit, for consistency across the project. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 04:44, 29 May 2026 (UTC) :'''Weak oppose''' I'm a comma guy, but I can see the value in being consistent with en.wp. I certainly wouldn't try to fight it if this is consensus, but it's also not that big of a deal and ", Jr." is perfectly normal English. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 06:28, 29 May 2026 (UTC) ::I'm neutral. This is a little change. [[User:Anatole-berthe|Anatole-berthe]] ([[User talk:Anatole-berthe|talk]]) 06:54, 29 May 2026 (UTC) * {{Support}} for consistency with WP. ~ [[User:DanielTom|DanielTom]] ([[User talk:DanielTom|talk]]) 07:11, 5 June 2026 (UTC) :Support for consistency with enwiki. [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 00:17, 11 June 2026 (UTC) :{{support}}. I think our names should always match WP. Might as well iron out other differences like superfluous middle names which WP doesn't have if you are doing it, e.g. [[Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr.]]. [[User:GrimRob|GrimRob]] ([[User talk:GrimRob|talk]]) 05:42, 11 June 2026 (UTC) {{Archive bottom}} : I will review the most painless means of implementation. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 18:44, 30 June 2026 (UTC) == Portals == {{Archive top|Deleted per minimal consensus below. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 14:56, 30 June 2026 (UTC)}} I was doing a little maintenance and stumbled across [[:Category:Portal]] and [[Wikiquote:Portal]], which seems like maybe failed experiments. I'm inclined to delete them, but does the community find any value in 1.) keeping these and 2.) using the portal namespace? ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 18:26, 6 June 2026 (UTC) :0 value. They have no value even on the much better maintained and much more active enwiki ones (where they see no use). Here, a much less active project, their value is nonexistent. [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 00:13, 11 June 2026 (UTC) {{Archive bottom}} == Speedy deletion nominees are still up == * [[The Cricket in Times Square]] * [[The Thundermans/Season 2]] * [[Bing (Tv series)]] I nominated these articles for speedy deletion this past week yet they're still up. The first of these three doesn't have any quotes, while the other two are blatant test pages. [[User:03isrflo62410|03isrflo62410]] ([[User talk:03isrflo62410|talk]]) 14:41, 14 June 2026 (UTC) :{{done}} ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 14:49, 14 June 2026 (UTC) :There's quite a few built up again. [[User:GrimRob|GrimRob]] ([[User talk:GrimRob|talk]]) 16:28, 20 June 2026 (UTC) :: I've deleted the remaining pages. Also, the article page creations that didn't contain quotes at all, well, that was made by an LTA who often creates pages with said titles in the edit summary, and nothing else. They, as well as their remaining associated accounts, were blocked indefinitely. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:48, 20 June 2026 (UTC) == June 2026 Wikimedia Café meetups regarding the English Wikipedia Editor Reflections project == <div class="border-box" style="background-color: var(--background-color-warning-subtle, #f8eaba); max-width: 875px; padding: 5px; border: 1px solid black; margin: 5px; color: var(--clr-dark)"> <div class="box" style="float:left; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px;">[[File:Wikimedia Café logo in plain SVG format.svg|60px|alt=The logo for the Wikimedia Café]]</div> Hello! There will be two '''[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Caf%C3%A9 Wikimedia Café]''' discussion opportunities during the last weekend of June. Both sessions will focus on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editor_reflections English Wikipedia Editor Reflections project]. The featured guest in the Café will be [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Clovermoss User:Clovermoss]. Participants may attend either or both sessions. #'''27 June 2026 15:00 UTC''' ([https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1782572400 timestamp converter]), at a time friendly to the Americas, Africa, and Europe #'''28 June 2026 03:00 UTC''' ([https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1782615600 timestamp converter]), at a time friendly to Asia and the Pacific Please see the Café page for more information, including [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Caf%C3%A9#How_to_attend_the_session how to register]! <br /> [[File:Buntstifte Eberhard Faber crop 64h.jpg|860px|alt=cropped image of colored pencils]]</div> <span style="white-space:nowrap;">[[User:Pine|<span style="color:#01796f;text-shadow:#00BFFF 0 0 1.0em">↠Pine</span>]] [[User talk:Pine|<span style="color:DeepSkyBlue">(<span style="color:#FFDF00 ;text-shadow:#FFDF00 0 0 1.0em"><b>✉</b></span>)</span>]]</span> 04:08, 15 June 2026 (UTC) == Reformulating the bot policy == Currently, [[Wikiquote:Bots]] has a policy and bot request portion. However, I believe we should split this to two separate pages since we plan to expand the bot policy (including what a bot is, which request page a bot owner should have their bot approved, and global bots [since we now allow global bots; we should consider adopting parts of the [[m:Bot policy|standard bot policy]] on Meta]). To the above, I don't think we should allow automatic approval anymore since we have some active bureaucrats. Thoughts? [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 15:36, 16 June 2026 (UTC) :{{support}} Seems reasonable. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 15:38, 16 June 2026 (UTC) ::{{support}} the expanded proposal per the below comments. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 21:54, 30 June 2026 (UTC) :{{support}} [[User:PieWriter|PieWriter]] ([[User talk:PieWriter|talk]]) 01:14, 17 June 2026 (UTC) :{{support}} [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 04:53, 17 June 2026 (UTC) : I created [[Wikiquote:Bots/Proposal]] as a rough draft. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:32, 18 June 2026 (UTC) :: {{ping|Koavf|PieWriter|Saroj}} I expanded the policy proposal, apologies for the delay. Feel free to make any changes there (especially regarding the bot requirements, approvals, global bots, no automatic approval, etc.), but the changes will be implemented by Friday since there is clear support. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 19:41, 30 June 2026 (UTC) :::Thanks. And for my perspective, no need to apologize on taking time for volunteer work, especially when your contributions are so hi-quality. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 21:54, 30 June 2026 (UTC) :::: One quick note: does this proposal mean we might opt out of the standard bot policy, or we would remain opted-in but no longer allow automatic approval? [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:19, 2 July 2026 (UTC) ::::: CC to @[[User:Koavf|Koavf]]. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 17:13, 3 July 2026 (UTC) ::::::I'm not sure of the implications here. I'm indifferent. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 16:37, 4 July 2026 (UTC) :{{support}} [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 18:19, 1 July 2026 (UTC) : {{done}}. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 22:28, 4 July 2026 (UTC) == FYI: Quote Contest 2026: Record-Breaking Growth for Bengali Wikiquote == https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/06/18/quote-contest-2026-record-breaking-growth-for-bengali-wikiquote/ Great job to our colleagues at bn.wq. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 18:04, 18 June 2026 (UTC) == One Quotation found at Windows on Eurasia == Here's one quotation found at [https://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/06/putin-signs-measure-eliminating.html one online article] at ''Window on Eurasia'': “Political systems and people come and go, but the old city is eternal.” What theme is most appropriate for that quotation? -- [[User:Apisite|Apisite]] ([[User talk:Apisite|talk]]) 09:13, 19 June 2026 (UTC) == Guidelines for WQ:RFP == We need to discuss about guidelines to users to have some user rights, including [[Wikiquote:Patrolling]] (user groups, autopatroller and patroller), rollbacker, and TAIV. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:26, 19 June 2026 (UTC) :Sorry, I'm not sure that I understood what you wrote or what the problem is. Could you please elaborate on what needs fixing here? ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 19:36, 19 June 2026 (UTC) :: I am referring on guidelines for administrators to grant autopatroller, patroller, and rollbacker user groups, for example. For TAIV, it requires at least 300 edits and 6 months of editing history, but for the latter, any administrator may decline a request even if a user meets the required criteria. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 19:49, 19 June 2026 (UTC) == Call for non-admin page patrollers == Any autopatroller who has a good understanding of Wikiquote's article policies and guidelines may consider applying for patroller permissions at [[Wikiquote:Requests for permissions]]. To administrators, when reviewing a request, feel free to use your discretion when granting. Thank you. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 23:20, 22 June 2026 (UTC) == RFC about AI-generated content in Wikimedia Commons == <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr"> You are invited to participate in a [[c:Commons:Requests for comment/Policy update for AI content|request for comment on Wikimedia Commons about a policy update for AI content]]. This may affect files that are uploaded to Wikimedia Commons for use on this project. Thank you. [[m:User:Codename Noreste|Codename Noreste]] ([[m:User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]])</bdi> 17:12, 23 June 2026 (UTC) <!-- Message sent by User:Codename Noreste@metawiki using the list at https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Distribution_list/Global_message_delivery&oldid=30513860 --> == Add a tagline using CSS? == I would like to propose adding CSS to [[MediaWiki:Common.css]] to add a tagline, which is "From Wikiquote, the free quote compendium": <syntaxhighlight lang="css"> /* Display the tagline "From Wikiquote, the free quote compendium" */ #siteSub { display: inline; } </syntaxhighlight> Thoughts? [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 01:32, 25 June 2026 (UTC) :You got an example of what it would look like? Other wikis do this using siteSub? [[User:GrimRob|GrimRob]] ([[User talk:GrimRob|talk]]) 22:13, 25 June 2026 (UTC) :: Yes. English Wikipedia does this, and so does Spanish Wikiquote. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 22:40, 25 June 2026 (UTC) :Seems a good idea. [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 07:01, 26 June 2026 (UTC) : {{done}}. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:19, 2 July 2026 (UTC) == Deployment of Legal and Safety Contacts Link in the Footer of Your Wiki == <section begin="Message"/> '''Legal & Safety Contacts''' Hello community, the Wikimedia Foundation has provided a [[wmf:Special:MyLanguage/Legal:Wikimedia Foundation Legal and Safety Contact Information|single legal and safety contact page]], to be linked in the footer of your wiki, to ensure access to accurate legal information. This is a regulatory requirement. We have already rolled out links to English, German, Italian, Spanish and other wikis and we will deploy to your wiki soon. [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_Legal_and_Safety_Contacts_FAQ|Please read more on the project page]] and leave any comments in this thread or on the [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Talk:Wikimedia Foundation Legal and Safety Contacts FAQ|talk page]]. <section end="Message"/> -- [[User:Sannita (WMF)|User:Sannita (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Sannita (WMF)|talk]]) 13:30, 25 June 2026 (UTC) <!-- Message sent by User:Sannita (WMF)@metawiki using the list at https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Sannita_(WMF)/Mass_sending_test&oldid=30731267 --> == @Baratiiman and [[2026 Iran war]]. == <div class="cd-moveMark">''Moved to [[Wikiquote:Administrators' noticeboard#@Baratiiman and 2026 Iran war.]]. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 22:07, 26 June 2026 (UTC)''</div> == Misattributed begin == [[:Template:Misattributed begin]] creates a weird spacing issue on every article it is transcluded in. Can someone fix this? And also perhaps make it less ugly? [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 00:51, 4 July 2026 (UTC) : [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]], I have removed <code><nowiki><br /></nowiki></code> (line break tag) from the template, along with the same edit on [[Template:Disputed begin]]. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 04:26, 5 July 2026 (UTC) ::Thanks! [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 04:29, 5 July 2026 (UTC) ::: I think the line break is necessary in both templates. See [[Bertrand_Russell]] for an example of how they look without it. ~ [[User:DanielTom|DanielTom]] ([[User talk:DanielTom|talk]]) 13:32, 5 July 2026 (UTC) ::::It looks fine for me. Maybe refresh or even [[:mw:Purge|purge]] the page? ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 17:16, 5 July 2026 (UTC) ::::It looks fine without it? It looked terrible on every page I saw with it. [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 17:43, 5 July 2026 (UTC) == Many inactive bots == There are some bots who have been inactive for at least two years or more; their operators who have been recently active (whether locally or globally) will be pinged here. * {{no ping|AnankeBot}} (inactive since 2013-09-16, pinging [[User:Nemo bis|Nemo bis]]) * {{no ping|BrownBot}} (inactive since 2007-05-05) * {{no ping|ChenzwBot}} (inactive since 2009-03-03, pinging [[User:Chenzw|Chenzw]]) * {{no ping|ChtitBot}} (inactive since 2011-02-06) * {{no ping|Dexbot}} (inactive since 2016-01-18, pinging [[User:Ladsgroup|Ladsgroup]]) * {{no ping|Dinybot}} (inactive since 2007-12-16) * {{no ping|Hazard-Bot}} (inactive since 2013-11-08) * {{no ping|Idioma-bot}} (already globally locked) * {{no ping|KamikazeBot}} (inactive since 2010-12-16) * {{no ping|LaaknorBot}} (inactive since 2013-03-03, pinging [[User:Laaknor|Laaknor]]) * {{no ping|LeonardoRob0t}} (inactive since 2007-08-28) * {{no ping|Lucia Bot}} (inactive since 2011-08-13) * {{no ping|MalafayaBot}} (inactive since 2011-12-06) * {{no ping|RileyBot}} (inactive since 2016-06-29 [last deleted edit]) * {{no ping|RimBot}} (inactive since 2010-02-24, pinging [[User:Mmenal|Mmenal]]) * {{no ping|VolkovBot}} (inactive since 2013-03-16) [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:05, 5 July 2026 (UTC) == [[The Cat in the Hat (2026 film)]] == A page exists for this unreleased film (it is set for release this November) and was marked for deletion (for being unreleased AND having a lack of quotes) but it's still up. [[User:03isrflo62410|03isrflo62410]] ([[User talk:03isrflo62410|talk]]) 18:25, 5 July 2026 (UTC) : {{done|Deleted}}. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:27, 5 July 2026 (UTC) 0xh7662ia9psdhtt6h8z0b7legf1ncy 3961231 3961230 2026-07-05T18:29:08Z 03isrflo62410 1485946 /* The Cat in the Hat (2026 film) */ Reply 3961231 wikitext text/x-wiki __NEWSECTIONLINK__ {{Wikiquote:Village pump/Header}} {{User:MABot/config |archive = Wikiquote:Village pump archive %(counter)d |algo = old(35d) |counter = 64 |maxarchivesize = 300K |minthreadsleft = 4 |archiveheader = {{Village pump archives}} |minthreadstoarchive = 1 |key = 3009d0c464caec663eab7ed3f8987744 }} == Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles == {{Archive top|{{ping|BD2412|Koavf|Anatole-berthe|DanielTom|PARAKANYAA}} This was left open for roughly a month, but considering the four votes (2 in favor for consistency, one in weak objection and one neutral), there is considerably some consensus to implement the title changes. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 14:53, 30 June 2026 (UTC)}} English Wikipedia long ago adopted the convention of eliminating the comma before Jr. (and Sr.); I propose that we follow suit, for consistency across the project. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 04:44, 29 May 2026 (UTC) :'''Weak oppose''' I'm a comma guy, but I can see the value in being consistent with en.wp. I certainly wouldn't try to fight it if this is consensus, but it's also not that big of a deal and ", Jr." is perfectly normal English. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 06:28, 29 May 2026 (UTC) ::I'm neutral. This is a little change. [[User:Anatole-berthe|Anatole-berthe]] ([[User talk:Anatole-berthe|talk]]) 06:54, 29 May 2026 (UTC) * {{Support}} for consistency with WP. ~ [[User:DanielTom|DanielTom]] ([[User talk:DanielTom|talk]]) 07:11, 5 June 2026 (UTC) :Support for consistency with enwiki. [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 00:17, 11 June 2026 (UTC) :{{support}}. I think our names should always match WP. Might as well iron out other differences like superfluous middle names which WP doesn't have if you are doing it, e.g. [[Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr.]]. [[User:GrimRob|GrimRob]] ([[User talk:GrimRob|talk]]) 05:42, 11 June 2026 (UTC) {{Archive bottom}} : I will review the most painless means of implementation. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 18:44, 30 June 2026 (UTC) == Portals == {{Archive top|Deleted per minimal consensus below. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 14:56, 30 June 2026 (UTC)}} I was doing a little maintenance and stumbled across [[:Category:Portal]] and [[Wikiquote:Portal]], which seems like maybe failed experiments. I'm inclined to delete them, but does the community find any value in 1.) keeping these and 2.) using the portal namespace? ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 18:26, 6 June 2026 (UTC) :0 value. They have no value even on the much better maintained and much more active enwiki ones (where they see no use). Here, a much less active project, their value is nonexistent. [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 00:13, 11 June 2026 (UTC) {{Archive bottom}} == Speedy deletion nominees are still up == * [[The Cricket in Times Square]] * [[The Thundermans/Season 2]] * [[Bing (Tv series)]] I nominated these articles for speedy deletion this past week yet they're still up. The first of these three doesn't have any quotes, while the other two are blatant test pages. [[User:03isrflo62410|03isrflo62410]] ([[User talk:03isrflo62410|talk]]) 14:41, 14 June 2026 (UTC) :{{done}} ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 14:49, 14 June 2026 (UTC) :There's quite a few built up again. [[User:GrimRob|GrimRob]] ([[User talk:GrimRob|talk]]) 16:28, 20 June 2026 (UTC) :: I've deleted the remaining pages. Also, the article page creations that didn't contain quotes at all, well, that was made by an LTA who often creates pages with said titles in the edit summary, and nothing else. They, as well as their remaining associated accounts, were blocked indefinitely. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:48, 20 June 2026 (UTC) == June 2026 Wikimedia Café meetups regarding the English Wikipedia Editor Reflections project == <div class="border-box" style="background-color: var(--background-color-warning-subtle, #f8eaba); max-width: 875px; padding: 5px; border: 1px solid black; margin: 5px; color: var(--clr-dark)"> <div class="box" style="float:left; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px;">[[File:Wikimedia Café logo in plain SVG format.svg|60px|alt=The logo for the Wikimedia Café]]</div> Hello! There will be two '''[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Caf%C3%A9 Wikimedia Café]''' discussion opportunities during the last weekend of June. Both sessions will focus on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editor_reflections English Wikipedia Editor Reflections project]. The featured guest in the Café will be [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Clovermoss User:Clovermoss]. Participants may attend either or both sessions. #'''27 June 2026 15:00 UTC''' ([https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1782572400 timestamp converter]), at a time friendly to the Americas, Africa, and Europe #'''28 June 2026 03:00 UTC''' ([https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1782615600 timestamp converter]), at a time friendly to Asia and the Pacific Please see the Café page for more information, including [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Caf%C3%A9#How_to_attend_the_session how to register]! <br /> [[File:Buntstifte Eberhard Faber crop 64h.jpg|860px|alt=cropped image of colored pencils]]</div> <span style="white-space:nowrap;">[[User:Pine|<span style="color:#01796f;text-shadow:#00BFFF 0 0 1.0em">↠Pine</span>]] [[User talk:Pine|<span style="color:DeepSkyBlue">(<span style="color:#FFDF00 ;text-shadow:#FFDF00 0 0 1.0em"><b>✉</b></span>)</span>]]</span> 04:08, 15 June 2026 (UTC) == Reformulating the bot policy == Currently, [[Wikiquote:Bots]] has a policy and bot request portion. However, I believe we should split this to two separate pages since we plan to expand the bot policy (including what a bot is, which request page a bot owner should have their bot approved, and global bots [since we now allow global bots; we should consider adopting parts of the [[m:Bot policy|standard bot policy]] on Meta]). To the above, I don't think we should allow automatic approval anymore since we have some active bureaucrats. Thoughts? [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 15:36, 16 June 2026 (UTC) :{{support}} Seems reasonable. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 15:38, 16 June 2026 (UTC) ::{{support}} the expanded proposal per the below comments. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 21:54, 30 June 2026 (UTC) :{{support}} [[User:PieWriter|PieWriter]] ([[User talk:PieWriter|talk]]) 01:14, 17 June 2026 (UTC) :{{support}} [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 04:53, 17 June 2026 (UTC) : I created [[Wikiquote:Bots/Proposal]] as a rough draft. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:32, 18 June 2026 (UTC) :: {{ping|Koavf|PieWriter|Saroj}} I expanded the policy proposal, apologies for the delay. Feel free to make any changes there (especially regarding the bot requirements, approvals, global bots, no automatic approval, etc.), but the changes will be implemented by Friday since there is clear support. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 19:41, 30 June 2026 (UTC) :::Thanks. And for my perspective, no need to apologize on taking time for volunteer work, especially when your contributions are so hi-quality. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 21:54, 30 June 2026 (UTC) :::: One quick note: does this proposal mean we might opt out of the standard bot policy, or we would remain opted-in but no longer allow automatic approval? [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:19, 2 July 2026 (UTC) ::::: CC to @[[User:Koavf|Koavf]]. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 17:13, 3 July 2026 (UTC) ::::::I'm not sure of the implications here. I'm indifferent. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 16:37, 4 July 2026 (UTC) :{{support}} [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 18:19, 1 July 2026 (UTC) : {{done}}. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 22:28, 4 July 2026 (UTC) == FYI: Quote Contest 2026: Record-Breaking Growth for Bengali Wikiquote == https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/06/18/quote-contest-2026-record-breaking-growth-for-bengali-wikiquote/ Great job to our colleagues at bn.wq. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 18:04, 18 June 2026 (UTC) == One Quotation found at Windows on Eurasia == Here's one quotation found at [https://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/06/putin-signs-measure-eliminating.html one online article] at ''Window on Eurasia'': “Political systems and people come and go, but the old city is eternal.” What theme is most appropriate for that quotation? -- [[User:Apisite|Apisite]] ([[User talk:Apisite|talk]]) 09:13, 19 June 2026 (UTC) == Guidelines for WQ:RFP == We need to discuss about guidelines to users to have some user rights, including [[Wikiquote:Patrolling]] (user groups, autopatroller and patroller), rollbacker, and TAIV. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:26, 19 June 2026 (UTC) :Sorry, I'm not sure that I understood what you wrote or what the problem is. Could you please elaborate on what needs fixing here? ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 19:36, 19 June 2026 (UTC) :: I am referring on guidelines for administrators to grant autopatroller, patroller, and rollbacker user groups, for example. For TAIV, it requires at least 300 edits and 6 months of editing history, but for the latter, any administrator may decline a request even if a user meets the required criteria. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 19:49, 19 June 2026 (UTC) == Call for non-admin page patrollers == Any autopatroller who has a good understanding of Wikiquote's article policies and guidelines may consider applying for patroller permissions at [[Wikiquote:Requests for permissions]]. To administrators, when reviewing a request, feel free to use your discretion when granting. Thank you. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 23:20, 22 June 2026 (UTC) == RFC about AI-generated content in Wikimedia Commons == <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr"> You are invited to participate in a [[c:Commons:Requests for comment/Policy update for AI content|request for comment on Wikimedia Commons about a policy update for AI content]]. This may affect files that are uploaded to Wikimedia Commons for use on this project. Thank you. [[m:User:Codename Noreste|Codename Noreste]] ([[m:User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]])</bdi> 17:12, 23 June 2026 (UTC) <!-- Message sent by User:Codename Noreste@metawiki using the list at https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Distribution_list/Global_message_delivery&oldid=30513860 --> == Add a tagline using CSS? == I would like to propose adding CSS to [[MediaWiki:Common.css]] to add a tagline, which is "From Wikiquote, the free quote compendium": <syntaxhighlight lang="css"> /* Display the tagline "From Wikiquote, the free quote compendium" */ #siteSub { display: inline; } </syntaxhighlight> Thoughts? [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 01:32, 25 June 2026 (UTC) :You got an example of what it would look like? Other wikis do this using siteSub? [[User:GrimRob|GrimRob]] ([[User talk:GrimRob|talk]]) 22:13, 25 June 2026 (UTC) :: Yes. English Wikipedia does this, and so does Spanish Wikiquote. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 22:40, 25 June 2026 (UTC) :Seems a good idea. [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 07:01, 26 June 2026 (UTC) : {{done}}. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:19, 2 July 2026 (UTC) == Deployment of Legal and Safety Contacts Link in the Footer of Your Wiki == <section begin="Message"/> '''Legal & Safety Contacts''' Hello community, the Wikimedia Foundation has provided a [[wmf:Special:MyLanguage/Legal:Wikimedia Foundation Legal and Safety Contact Information|single legal and safety contact page]], to be linked in the footer of your wiki, to ensure access to accurate legal information. This is a regulatory requirement. We have already rolled out links to English, German, Italian, Spanish and other wikis and we will deploy to your wiki soon. [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_Legal_and_Safety_Contacts_FAQ|Please read more on the project page]] and leave any comments in this thread or on the [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Talk:Wikimedia Foundation Legal and Safety Contacts FAQ|talk page]]. <section end="Message"/> -- [[User:Sannita (WMF)|User:Sannita (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Sannita (WMF)|talk]]) 13:30, 25 June 2026 (UTC) <!-- Message sent by User:Sannita (WMF)@metawiki using the list at https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Sannita_(WMF)/Mass_sending_test&oldid=30731267 --> == @Baratiiman and [[2026 Iran war]]. == <div class="cd-moveMark">''Moved to [[Wikiquote:Administrators' noticeboard#@Baratiiman and 2026 Iran war.]]. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 22:07, 26 June 2026 (UTC)''</div> == Misattributed begin == [[:Template:Misattributed begin]] creates a weird spacing issue on every article it is transcluded in. Can someone fix this? And also perhaps make it less ugly? [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 00:51, 4 July 2026 (UTC) : [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]], I have removed <code><nowiki><br /></nowiki></code> (line break tag) from the template, along with the same edit on [[Template:Disputed begin]]. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 04:26, 5 July 2026 (UTC) ::Thanks! [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 04:29, 5 July 2026 (UTC) ::: I think the line break is necessary in both templates. See [[Bertrand_Russell]] for an example of how they look without it. ~ [[User:DanielTom|DanielTom]] ([[User talk:DanielTom|talk]]) 13:32, 5 July 2026 (UTC) ::::It looks fine for me. Maybe refresh or even [[:mw:Purge|purge]] the page? ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 17:16, 5 July 2026 (UTC) ::::It looks fine without it? It looked terrible on every page I saw with it. [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 17:43, 5 July 2026 (UTC) == Many inactive bots == There are some bots who have been inactive for at least two years or more; their operators who have been recently active (whether locally or globally) will be pinged here. * {{no ping|AnankeBot}} (inactive since 2013-09-16, pinging [[User:Nemo bis|Nemo bis]]) * {{no ping|BrownBot}} (inactive since 2007-05-05) * {{no ping|ChenzwBot}} (inactive since 2009-03-03, pinging [[User:Chenzw|Chenzw]]) * {{no ping|ChtitBot}} (inactive since 2011-02-06) * {{no ping|Dexbot}} (inactive since 2016-01-18, pinging [[User:Ladsgroup|Ladsgroup]]) * {{no ping|Dinybot}} (inactive since 2007-12-16) * {{no ping|Hazard-Bot}} (inactive since 2013-11-08) * {{no ping|Idioma-bot}} (already globally locked) * {{no ping|KamikazeBot}} (inactive since 2010-12-16) * {{no ping|LaaknorBot}} (inactive since 2013-03-03, pinging [[User:Laaknor|Laaknor]]) * {{no ping|LeonardoRob0t}} (inactive since 2007-08-28) * {{no ping|Lucia Bot}} (inactive since 2011-08-13) * {{no ping|MalafayaBot}} (inactive since 2011-12-06) * {{no ping|RileyBot}} (inactive since 2016-06-29 [last deleted edit]) * {{no ping|RimBot}} (inactive since 2010-02-24, pinging [[User:Mmenal|Mmenal]]) * {{no ping|VolkovBot}} (inactive since 2013-03-16) [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:05, 5 July 2026 (UTC) == [[The Cat in the Hat (2026 film)]] == A page exists for this unreleased film (it is set for release this November) and was marked for deletion (for being unreleased AND having a lack of quotes) but it's still up. [[User:03isrflo62410|03isrflo62410]] ([[User talk:03isrflo62410|talk]]) 18:25, 5 July 2026 (UTC) : {{done|Deleted}}. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:27, 5 July 2026 (UTC) ::I recommend the page also be protected until it is released (on November 6th) to prevent recreations. [[User:03isrflo62410|03isrflo62410]] ([[User talk:03isrflo62410|talk]]) 18:29, 5 July 2026 (UTC) tpwb6em2xpbcm06wzf9lsk5dt6na4bp 3961233 3961231 2026-07-05T18:43:42Z Koavf 6765 /* The Cat in the Hat (2026 film) */ Reply 3961233 wikitext text/x-wiki __NEWSECTIONLINK__ {{Wikiquote:Village pump/Header}} {{User:MABot/config |archive = Wikiquote:Village pump archive %(counter)d |algo = old(35d) |counter = 64 |maxarchivesize = 300K |minthreadsleft = 4 |archiveheader = {{Village pump archives}} |minthreadstoarchive = 1 |key = 3009d0c464caec663eab7ed3f8987744 }} == Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles == {{Archive top|{{ping|BD2412|Koavf|Anatole-berthe|DanielTom|PARAKANYAA}} This was left open for roughly a month, but considering the four votes (2 in favor for consistency, one in weak objection and one neutral), there is considerably some consensus to implement the title changes. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 14:53, 30 June 2026 (UTC)}} English Wikipedia long ago adopted the convention of eliminating the comma before Jr. (and Sr.); I propose that we follow suit, for consistency across the project. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 04:44, 29 May 2026 (UTC) :'''Weak oppose''' I'm a comma guy, but I can see the value in being consistent with en.wp. I certainly wouldn't try to fight it if this is consensus, but it's also not that big of a deal and ", Jr." is perfectly normal English. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 06:28, 29 May 2026 (UTC) ::I'm neutral. This is a little change. [[User:Anatole-berthe|Anatole-berthe]] ([[User talk:Anatole-berthe|talk]]) 06:54, 29 May 2026 (UTC) * {{Support}} for consistency with WP. ~ [[User:DanielTom|DanielTom]] ([[User talk:DanielTom|talk]]) 07:11, 5 June 2026 (UTC) :Support for consistency with enwiki. [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 00:17, 11 June 2026 (UTC) :{{support}}. I think our names should always match WP. Might as well iron out other differences like superfluous middle names which WP doesn't have if you are doing it, e.g. [[Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr.]]. [[User:GrimRob|GrimRob]] ([[User talk:GrimRob|talk]]) 05:42, 11 June 2026 (UTC) {{Archive bottom}} : I will review the most painless means of implementation. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 18:44, 30 June 2026 (UTC) == Portals == {{Archive top|Deleted per minimal consensus below. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 14:56, 30 June 2026 (UTC)}} I was doing a little maintenance and stumbled across [[:Category:Portal]] and [[Wikiquote:Portal]], which seems like maybe failed experiments. I'm inclined to delete them, but does the community find any value in 1.) keeping these and 2.) using the portal namespace? ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 18:26, 6 June 2026 (UTC) :0 value. They have no value even on the much better maintained and much more active enwiki ones (where they see no use). Here, a much less active project, their value is nonexistent. [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 00:13, 11 June 2026 (UTC) {{Archive bottom}} == Speedy deletion nominees are still up == * [[The Cricket in Times Square]] * [[The Thundermans/Season 2]] * [[Bing (Tv series)]] I nominated these articles for speedy deletion this past week yet they're still up. The first of these three doesn't have any quotes, while the other two are blatant test pages. [[User:03isrflo62410|03isrflo62410]] ([[User talk:03isrflo62410|talk]]) 14:41, 14 June 2026 (UTC) :{{done}} ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 14:49, 14 June 2026 (UTC) :There's quite a few built up again. [[User:GrimRob|GrimRob]] ([[User talk:GrimRob|talk]]) 16:28, 20 June 2026 (UTC) :: I've deleted the remaining pages. Also, the article page creations that didn't contain quotes at all, well, that was made by an LTA who often creates pages with said titles in the edit summary, and nothing else. They, as well as their remaining associated accounts, were blocked indefinitely. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:48, 20 June 2026 (UTC) == June 2026 Wikimedia Café meetups regarding the English Wikipedia Editor Reflections project == <div class="border-box" style="background-color: var(--background-color-warning-subtle, #f8eaba); max-width: 875px; padding: 5px; border: 1px solid black; margin: 5px; color: var(--clr-dark)"> <div class="box" style="float:left; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px;">[[File:Wikimedia Café logo in plain SVG format.svg|60px|alt=The logo for the Wikimedia Café]]</div> Hello! There will be two '''[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Caf%C3%A9 Wikimedia Café]''' discussion opportunities during the last weekend of June. Both sessions will focus on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editor_reflections English Wikipedia Editor Reflections project]. The featured guest in the Café will be [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Clovermoss User:Clovermoss]. Participants may attend either or both sessions. #'''27 June 2026 15:00 UTC''' ([https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1782572400 timestamp converter]), at a time friendly to the Americas, Africa, and Europe #'''28 June 2026 03:00 UTC''' ([https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1782615600 timestamp converter]), at a time friendly to Asia and the Pacific Please see the Café page for more information, including [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Caf%C3%A9#How_to_attend_the_session how to register]! <br /> [[File:Buntstifte Eberhard Faber crop 64h.jpg|860px|alt=cropped image of colored pencils]]</div> <span style="white-space:nowrap;">[[User:Pine|<span style="color:#01796f;text-shadow:#00BFFF 0 0 1.0em">↠Pine</span>]] [[User talk:Pine|<span style="color:DeepSkyBlue">(<span style="color:#FFDF00 ;text-shadow:#FFDF00 0 0 1.0em"><b>✉</b></span>)</span>]]</span> 04:08, 15 June 2026 (UTC) == Reformulating the bot policy == Currently, [[Wikiquote:Bots]] has a policy and bot request portion. However, I believe we should split this to two separate pages since we plan to expand the bot policy (including what a bot is, which request page a bot owner should have their bot approved, and global bots [since we now allow global bots; we should consider adopting parts of the [[m:Bot policy|standard bot policy]] on Meta]). To the above, I don't think we should allow automatic approval anymore since we have some active bureaucrats. Thoughts? [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 15:36, 16 June 2026 (UTC) :{{support}} Seems reasonable. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 15:38, 16 June 2026 (UTC) ::{{support}} the expanded proposal per the below comments. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 21:54, 30 June 2026 (UTC) :{{support}} [[User:PieWriter|PieWriter]] ([[User talk:PieWriter|talk]]) 01:14, 17 June 2026 (UTC) :{{support}} [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 04:53, 17 June 2026 (UTC) : I created [[Wikiquote:Bots/Proposal]] as a rough draft. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:32, 18 June 2026 (UTC) :: {{ping|Koavf|PieWriter|Saroj}} I expanded the policy proposal, apologies for the delay. Feel free to make any changes there (especially regarding the bot requirements, approvals, global bots, no automatic approval, etc.), but the changes will be implemented by Friday since there is clear support. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 19:41, 30 June 2026 (UTC) :::Thanks. And for my perspective, no need to apologize on taking time for volunteer work, especially when your contributions are so hi-quality. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 21:54, 30 June 2026 (UTC) :::: One quick note: does this proposal mean we might opt out of the standard bot policy, or we would remain opted-in but no longer allow automatic approval? [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:19, 2 July 2026 (UTC) ::::: CC to @[[User:Koavf|Koavf]]. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 17:13, 3 July 2026 (UTC) ::::::I'm not sure of the implications here. I'm indifferent. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 16:37, 4 July 2026 (UTC) :{{support}} [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 18:19, 1 July 2026 (UTC) : {{done}}. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 22:28, 4 July 2026 (UTC) == FYI: Quote Contest 2026: Record-Breaking Growth for Bengali Wikiquote == https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/06/18/quote-contest-2026-record-breaking-growth-for-bengali-wikiquote/ Great job to our colleagues at bn.wq. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 18:04, 18 June 2026 (UTC) == One Quotation found at Windows on Eurasia == Here's one quotation found at [https://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/06/putin-signs-measure-eliminating.html one online article] at ''Window on Eurasia'': “Political systems and people come and go, but the old city is eternal.” What theme is most appropriate for that quotation? -- [[User:Apisite|Apisite]] ([[User talk:Apisite|talk]]) 09:13, 19 June 2026 (UTC) == Guidelines for WQ:RFP == We need to discuss about guidelines to users to have some user rights, including [[Wikiquote:Patrolling]] (user groups, autopatroller and patroller), rollbacker, and TAIV. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:26, 19 June 2026 (UTC) :Sorry, I'm not sure that I understood what you wrote or what the problem is. Could you please elaborate on what needs fixing here? ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 19:36, 19 June 2026 (UTC) :: I am referring on guidelines for administrators to grant autopatroller, patroller, and rollbacker user groups, for example. For TAIV, it requires at least 300 edits and 6 months of editing history, but for the latter, any administrator may decline a request even if a user meets the required criteria. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 19:49, 19 June 2026 (UTC) == Call for non-admin page patrollers == Any autopatroller who has a good understanding of Wikiquote's article policies and guidelines may consider applying for patroller permissions at [[Wikiquote:Requests for permissions]]. To administrators, when reviewing a request, feel free to use your discretion when granting. Thank you. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 23:20, 22 June 2026 (UTC) == RFC about AI-generated content in Wikimedia Commons == <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr"> You are invited to participate in a [[c:Commons:Requests for comment/Policy update for AI content|request for comment on Wikimedia Commons about a policy update for AI content]]. This may affect files that are uploaded to Wikimedia Commons for use on this project. Thank you. [[m:User:Codename Noreste|Codename Noreste]] ([[m:User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]])</bdi> 17:12, 23 June 2026 (UTC) <!-- Message sent by User:Codename Noreste@metawiki using the list at https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Distribution_list/Global_message_delivery&oldid=30513860 --> == Add a tagline using CSS? == I would like to propose adding CSS to [[MediaWiki:Common.css]] to add a tagline, which is "From Wikiquote, the free quote compendium": <syntaxhighlight lang="css"> /* Display the tagline "From Wikiquote, the free quote compendium" */ #siteSub { display: inline; } </syntaxhighlight> Thoughts? [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 01:32, 25 June 2026 (UTC) :You got an example of what it would look like? Other wikis do this using siteSub? [[User:GrimRob|GrimRob]] ([[User talk:GrimRob|talk]]) 22:13, 25 June 2026 (UTC) :: Yes. English Wikipedia does this, and so does Spanish Wikiquote. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 22:40, 25 June 2026 (UTC) :Seems a good idea. [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 07:01, 26 June 2026 (UTC) : {{done}}. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:19, 2 July 2026 (UTC) == Deployment of Legal and Safety Contacts Link in the Footer of Your Wiki == <section begin="Message"/> '''Legal & Safety Contacts''' Hello community, the Wikimedia Foundation has provided a [[wmf:Special:MyLanguage/Legal:Wikimedia Foundation Legal and Safety Contact Information|single legal and safety contact page]], to be linked in the footer of your wiki, to ensure access to accurate legal information. This is a regulatory requirement. We have already rolled out links to English, German, Italian, Spanish and other wikis and we will deploy to your wiki soon. [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_Legal_and_Safety_Contacts_FAQ|Please read more on the project page]] and leave any comments in this thread or on the [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Talk:Wikimedia Foundation Legal and Safety Contacts FAQ|talk page]]. <section end="Message"/> -- [[User:Sannita (WMF)|User:Sannita (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Sannita (WMF)|talk]]) 13:30, 25 June 2026 (UTC) <!-- Message sent by User:Sannita (WMF)@metawiki using the list at https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Sannita_(WMF)/Mass_sending_test&oldid=30731267 --> == @Baratiiman and [[2026 Iran war]]. == <div class="cd-moveMark">''Moved to [[Wikiquote:Administrators' noticeboard#@Baratiiman and 2026 Iran war.]]. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 22:07, 26 June 2026 (UTC)''</div> == Misattributed begin == [[:Template:Misattributed begin]] creates a weird spacing issue on every article it is transcluded in. Can someone fix this? And also perhaps make it less ugly? [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 00:51, 4 July 2026 (UTC) : [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]], I have removed <code><nowiki><br /></nowiki></code> (line break tag) from the template, along with the same edit on [[Template:Disputed begin]]. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 04:26, 5 July 2026 (UTC) ::Thanks! [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 04:29, 5 July 2026 (UTC) ::: I think the line break is necessary in both templates. See [[Bertrand_Russell]] for an example of how they look without it. ~ [[User:DanielTom|DanielTom]] ([[User talk:DanielTom|talk]]) 13:32, 5 July 2026 (UTC) ::::It looks fine for me. Maybe refresh or even [[:mw:Purge|purge]] the page? ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 17:16, 5 July 2026 (UTC) ::::It looks fine without it? It looked terrible on every page I saw with it. [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 17:43, 5 July 2026 (UTC) == Many inactive bots == There are some bots who have been inactive for at least two years or more; their operators who have been recently active (whether locally or globally) will be pinged here. * {{no ping|AnankeBot}} (inactive since 2013-09-16, pinging [[User:Nemo bis|Nemo bis]]) * {{no ping|BrownBot}} (inactive since 2007-05-05) * {{no ping|ChenzwBot}} (inactive since 2009-03-03, pinging [[User:Chenzw|Chenzw]]) * {{no ping|ChtitBot}} (inactive since 2011-02-06) * {{no ping|Dexbot}} (inactive since 2016-01-18, pinging [[User:Ladsgroup|Ladsgroup]]) * {{no ping|Dinybot}} (inactive since 2007-12-16) * {{no ping|Hazard-Bot}} (inactive since 2013-11-08) * {{no ping|Idioma-bot}} (already globally locked) * {{no ping|KamikazeBot}} (inactive since 2010-12-16) * {{no ping|LaaknorBot}} (inactive since 2013-03-03, pinging [[User:Laaknor|Laaknor]]) * {{no ping|LeonardoRob0t}} (inactive since 2007-08-28) * {{no ping|Lucia Bot}} (inactive since 2011-08-13) * {{no ping|MalafayaBot}} (inactive since 2011-12-06) * {{no ping|RileyBot}} (inactive since 2016-06-29 [last deleted edit]) * {{no ping|RimBot}} (inactive since 2010-02-24, pinging [[User:Mmenal|Mmenal]]) * {{no ping|VolkovBot}} (inactive since 2013-03-16) [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:05, 5 July 2026 (UTC) == [[The Cat in the Hat (2026 film)]] == A page exists for this unreleased film (it is set for release this November) and was marked for deletion (for being unreleased AND having a lack of quotes) but it's still up. [[User:03isrflo62410|03isrflo62410]] ([[User talk:03isrflo62410|talk]]) 18:25, 5 July 2026 (UTC) : {{done|Deleted}}. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:27, 5 July 2026 (UTC) ::I recommend the page also be protected until it is released (on November 6th) to prevent recreations. [[User:03isrflo62410|03isrflo62410]] ([[User talk:03isrflo62410|talk]]) 18:29, 5 July 2026 (UTC) :::{{done}} ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 18:43, 5 July 2026 (UTC) rwizqnw6w2ij3df2zs2bb1hx7ho25z9 3961384 3961233 2026-07-06T10:27:20Z Ladsgroup 47586 /* Many inactive bots */ Reply 3961384 wikitext text/x-wiki __NEWSECTIONLINK__ {{Wikiquote:Village pump/Header}} {{User:MABot/config |archive = Wikiquote:Village pump archive %(counter)d |algo = old(35d) |counter = 64 |maxarchivesize = 300K |minthreadsleft = 4 |archiveheader = {{Village pump archives}} |minthreadstoarchive = 1 |key = 3009d0c464caec663eab7ed3f8987744 }} == Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles == {{Archive top|{{ping|BD2412|Koavf|Anatole-berthe|DanielTom|PARAKANYAA}} This was left open for roughly a month, but considering the four votes (2 in favor for consistency, one in weak objection and one neutral), there is considerably some consensus to implement the title changes. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 14:53, 30 June 2026 (UTC)}} English Wikipedia long ago adopted the convention of eliminating the comma before Jr. (and Sr.); I propose that we follow suit, for consistency across the project. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 04:44, 29 May 2026 (UTC) :'''Weak oppose''' I'm a comma guy, but I can see the value in being consistent with en.wp. I certainly wouldn't try to fight it if this is consensus, but it's also not that big of a deal and ", Jr." is perfectly normal English. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 06:28, 29 May 2026 (UTC) ::I'm neutral. This is a little change. [[User:Anatole-berthe|Anatole-berthe]] ([[User talk:Anatole-berthe|talk]]) 06:54, 29 May 2026 (UTC) * {{Support}} for consistency with WP. ~ [[User:DanielTom|DanielTom]] ([[User talk:DanielTom|talk]]) 07:11, 5 June 2026 (UTC) :Support for consistency with enwiki. [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 00:17, 11 June 2026 (UTC) :{{support}}. I think our names should always match WP. Might as well iron out other differences like superfluous middle names which WP doesn't have if you are doing it, e.g. [[Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr.]]. [[User:GrimRob|GrimRob]] ([[User talk:GrimRob|talk]]) 05:42, 11 June 2026 (UTC) {{Archive bottom}} : I will review the most painless means of implementation. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 18:44, 30 June 2026 (UTC) == Portals == {{Archive top|Deleted per minimal consensus below. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 14:56, 30 June 2026 (UTC)}} I was doing a little maintenance and stumbled across [[:Category:Portal]] and [[Wikiquote:Portal]], which seems like maybe failed experiments. I'm inclined to delete them, but does the community find any value in 1.) keeping these and 2.) using the portal namespace? ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 18:26, 6 June 2026 (UTC) :0 value. They have no value even on the much better maintained and much more active enwiki ones (where they see no use). Here, a much less active project, their value is nonexistent. [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 00:13, 11 June 2026 (UTC) {{Archive bottom}} == Speedy deletion nominees are still up == * [[The Cricket in Times Square]] * [[The Thundermans/Season 2]] * [[Bing (Tv series)]] I nominated these articles for speedy deletion this past week yet they're still up. The first of these three doesn't have any quotes, while the other two are blatant test pages. [[User:03isrflo62410|03isrflo62410]] ([[User talk:03isrflo62410|talk]]) 14:41, 14 June 2026 (UTC) :{{done}} ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 14:49, 14 June 2026 (UTC) :There's quite a few built up again. [[User:GrimRob|GrimRob]] ([[User talk:GrimRob|talk]]) 16:28, 20 June 2026 (UTC) :: I've deleted the remaining pages. Also, the article page creations that didn't contain quotes at all, well, that was made by an LTA who often creates pages with said titles in the edit summary, and nothing else. They, as well as their remaining associated accounts, were blocked indefinitely. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:48, 20 June 2026 (UTC) == June 2026 Wikimedia Café meetups regarding the English Wikipedia Editor Reflections project == <div class="border-box" style="background-color: var(--background-color-warning-subtle, #f8eaba); max-width: 875px; padding: 5px; border: 1px solid black; margin: 5px; color: var(--clr-dark)"> <div class="box" style="float:left; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px;">[[File:Wikimedia Café logo in plain SVG format.svg|60px|alt=The logo for the Wikimedia Café]]</div> Hello! There will be two '''[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Caf%C3%A9 Wikimedia Café]''' discussion opportunities during the last weekend of June. Both sessions will focus on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editor_reflections English Wikipedia Editor Reflections project]. The featured guest in the Café will be [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Clovermoss User:Clovermoss]. Participants may attend either or both sessions. #'''27 June 2026 15:00 UTC''' ([https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1782572400 timestamp converter]), at a time friendly to the Americas, Africa, and Europe #'''28 June 2026 03:00 UTC''' ([https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1782615600 timestamp converter]), at a time friendly to Asia and the Pacific Please see the Café page for more information, including [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Caf%C3%A9#How_to_attend_the_session how to register]! <br /> [[File:Buntstifte Eberhard Faber crop 64h.jpg|860px|alt=cropped image of colored pencils]]</div> <span style="white-space:nowrap;">[[User:Pine|<span style="color:#01796f;text-shadow:#00BFFF 0 0 1.0em">↠Pine</span>]] [[User talk:Pine|<span style="color:DeepSkyBlue">(<span style="color:#FFDF00 ;text-shadow:#FFDF00 0 0 1.0em"><b>✉</b></span>)</span>]]</span> 04:08, 15 June 2026 (UTC) == Reformulating the bot policy == Currently, [[Wikiquote:Bots]] has a policy and bot request portion. However, I believe we should split this to two separate pages since we plan to expand the bot policy (including what a bot is, which request page a bot owner should have their bot approved, and global bots [since we now allow global bots; we should consider adopting parts of the [[m:Bot policy|standard bot policy]] on Meta]). To the above, I don't think we should allow automatic approval anymore since we have some active bureaucrats. Thoughts? [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 15:36, 16 June 2026 (UTC) :{{support}} Seems reasonable. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 15:38, 16 June 2026 (UTC) ::{{support}} the expanded proposal per the below comments. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 21:54, 30 June 2026 (UTC) :{{support}} [[User:PieWriter|PieWriter]] ([[User talk:PieWriter|talk]]) 01:14, 17 June 2026 (UTC) :{{support}} [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 04:53, 17 June 2026 (UTC) : I created [[Wikiquote:Bots/Proposal]] as a rough draft. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:32, 18 June 2026 (UTC) :: {{ping|Koavf|PieWriter|Saroj}} I expanded the policy proposal, apologies for the delay. Feel free to make any changes there (especially regarding the bot requirements, approvals, global bots, no automatic approval, etc.), but the changes will be implemented by Friday since there is clear support. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 19:41, 30 June 2026 (UTC) :::Thanks. And for my perspective, no need to apologize on taking time for volunteer work, especially when your contributions are so hi-quality. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 21:54, 30 June 2026 (UTC) :::: One quick note: does this proposal mean we might opt out of the standard bot policy, or we would remain opted-in but no longer allow automatic approval? [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:19, 2 July 2026 (UTC) ::::: CC to @[[User:Koavf|Koavf]]. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 17:13, 3 July 2026 (UTC) ::::::I'm not sure of the implications here. I'm indifferent. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 16:37, 4 July 2026 (UTC) :{{support}} [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 18:19, 1 July 2026 (UTC) : {{done}}. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 22:28, 4 July 2026 (UTC) == FYI: Quote Contest 2026: Record-Breaking Growth for Bengali Wikiquote == https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/06/18/quote-contest-2026-record-breaking-growth-for-bengali-wikiquote/ Great job to our colleagues at bn.wq. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 18:04, 18 June 2026 (UTC) == One Quotation found at Windows on Eurasia == Here's one quotation found at [https://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/06/putin-signs-measure-eliminating.html one online article] at ''Window on Eurasia'': “Political systems and people come and go, but the old city is eternal.” What theme is most appropriate for that quotation? -- [[User:Apisite|Apisite]] ([[User talk:Apisite|talk]]) 09:13, 19 June 2026 (UTC) == Guidelines for WQ:RFP == We need to discuss about guidelines to users to have some user rights, including [[Wikiquote:Patrolling]] (user groups, autopatroller and patroller), rollbacker, and TAIV. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:26, 19 June 2026 (UTC) :Sorry, I'm not sure that I understood what you wrote or what the problem is. Could you please elaborate on what needs fixing here? ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 19:36, 19 June 2026 (UTC) :: I am referring on guidelines for administrators to grant autopatroller, patroller, and rollbacker user groups, for example. For TAIV, it requires at least 300 edits and 6 months of editing history, but for the latter, any administrator may decline a request even if a user meets the required criteria. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 19:49, 19 June 2026 (UTC) == Call for non-admin page patrollers == Any autopatroller who has a good understanding of Wikiquote's article policies and guidelines may consider applying for patroller permissions at [[Wikiquote:Requests for permissions]]. To administrators, when reviewing a request, feel free to use your discretion when granting. Thank you. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 23:20, 22 June 2026 (UTC) == RFC about AI-generated content in Wikimedia Commons == <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr"> You are invited to participate in a [[c:Commons:Requests for comment/Policy update for AI content|request for comment on Wikimedia Commons about a policy update for AI content]]. This may affect files that are uploaded to Wikimedia Commons for use on this project. Thank you. [[m:User:Codename Noreste|Codename Noreste]] ([[m:User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]])</bdi> 17:12, 23 June 2026 (UTC) <!-- Message sent by User:Codename Noreste@metawiki using the list at https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Distribution_list/Global_message_delivery&oldid=30513860 --> == Add a tagline using CSS? == I would like to propose adding CSS to [[MediaWiki:Common.css]] to add a tagline, which is "From Wikiquote, the free quote compendium": <syntaxhighlight lang="css"> /* Display the tagline "From Wikiquote, the free quote compendium" */ #siteSub { display: inline; } </syntaxhighlight> Thoughts? [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 01:32, 25 June 2026 (UTC) :You got an example of what it would look like? Other wikis do this using siteSub? [[User:GrimRob|GrimRob]] ([[User talk:GrimRob|talk]]) 22:13, 25 June 2026 (UTC) :: Yes. English Wikipedia does this, and so does Spanish Wikiquote. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 22:40, 25 June 2026 (UTC) :Seems a good idea. [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 07:01, 26 June 2026 (UTC) : {{done}}. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:19, 2 July 2026 (UTC) == Deployment of Legal and Safety Contacts Link in the Footer of Your Wiki == <section begin="Message"/> '''Legal & Safety Contacts''' Hello community, the Wikimedia Foundation has provided a [[wmf:Special:MyLanguage/Legal:Wikimedia Foundation Legal and Safety Contact Information|single legal and safety contact page]], to be linked in the footer of your wiki, to ensure access to accurate legal information. This is a regulatory requirement. We have already rolled out links to English, German, Italian, Spanish and other wikis and we will deploy to your wiki soon. [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_Legal_and_Safety_Contacts_FAQ|Please read more on the project page]] and leave any comments in this thread or on the [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Talk:Wikimedia Foundation Legal and Safety Contacts FAQ|talk page]]. <section end="Message"/> -- [[User:Sannita (WMF)|User:Sannita (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Sannita (WMF)|talk]]) 13:30, 25 June 2026 (UTC) <!-- Message sent by User:Sannita (WMF)@metawiki using the list at https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Sannita_(WMF)/Mass_sending_test&oldid=30731267 --> == @Baratiiman and [[2026 Iran war]]. == <div class="cd-moveMark">''Moved to [[Wikiquote:Administrators' noticeboard#@Baratiiman and 2026 Iran war.]]. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 22:07, 26 June 2026 (UTC)''</div> == Misattributed begin == [[:Template:Misattributed begin]] creates a weird spacing issue on every article it is transcluded in. Can someone fix this? And also perhaps make it less ugly? [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 00:51, 4 July 2026 (UTC) : [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]], I have removed <code><nowiki><br /></nowiki></code> (line break tag) from the template, along with the same edit on [[Template:Disputed begin]]. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 04:26, 5 July 2026 (UTC) ::Thanks! [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 04:29, 5 July 2026 (UTC) ::: I think the line break is necessary in both templates. See [[Bertrand_Russell]] for an example of how they look without it. ~ [[User:DanielTom|DanielTom]] ([[User talk:DanielTom|talk]]) 13:32, 5 July 2026 (UTC) ::::It looks fine for me. Maybe refresh or even [[:mw:Purge|purge]] the page? ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 17:16, 5 July 2026 (UTC) ::::It looks fine without it? It looked terrible on every page I saw with it. [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 17:43, 5 July 2026 (UTC) == Many inactive bots == There are some bots who have been inactive for at least two years or more; their operators who have been recently active (whether locally or globally) will be pinged here. * {{no ping|AnankeBot}} (inactive since 2013-09-16, pinging [[User:Nemo bis|Nemo bis]]) * {{no ping|BrownBot}} (inactive since 2007-05-05) * {{no ping|ChenzwBot}} (inactive since 2009-03-03, pinging [[User:Chenzw|Chenzw]]) * {{no ping|ChtitBot}} (inactive since 2011-02-06) * {{no ping|Dexbot}} (inactive since 2016-01-18, pinging [[User:Ladsgroup|Ladsgroup]]) * {{no ping|Dinybot}} (inactive since 2007-12-16) * {{no ping|Hazard-Bot}} (inactive since 2013-11-08) * {{no ping|Idioma-bot}} (already globally locked) * {{no ping|KamikazeBot}} (inactive since 2010-12-16) * {{no ping|LaaknorBot}} (inactive since 2013-03-03, pinging [[User:Laaknor|Laaknor]]) * {{no ping|LeonardoRob0t}} (inactive since 2007-08-28) * {{no ping|Lucia Bot}} (inactive since 2011-08-13) * {{no ping|MalafayaBot}} (inactive since 2011-12-06) * {{no ping|RileyBot}} (inactive since 2016-06-29 [last deleted edit]) * {{no ping|RimBot}} (inactive since 2010-02-24, pinging [[User:Mmenal|Mmenal]]) * {{no ping|VolkovBot}} (inactive since 2013-03-16) [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:05, 5 July 2026 (UTC) :Hi, feel free to remove my bot's flag. I don't think I need it here. [[User:Ladsgroup|Ladsgroup]] ([[User talk:Ladsgroup|talk]]) 10:27, 6 July 2026 (UTC) == [[The Cat in the Hat (2026 film)]] == A page exists for this unreleased film (it is set for release this November) and was marked for deletion (for being unreleased AND having a lack of quotes) but it's still up. [[User:03isrflo62410|03isrflo62410]] ([[User talk:03isrflo62410|talk]]) 18:25, 5 July 2026 (UTC) : {{done|Deleted}}. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:27, 5 July 2026 (UTC) ::I recommend the page also be protected until it is released (on November 6th) to prevent recreations. [[User:03isrflo62410|03isrflo62410]] ([[User talk:03isrflo62410|talk]]) 18:29, 5 July 2026 (UTC) :::{{done}} ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 18:43, 5 July 2026 (UTC) ajgza8cs7jssm5gngsrj2kky0okbdjm 0 418 3961341 3960783 2026-07-06T00:50:27Z Richard75 2106543 /* The History of the Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire (1776–1788) */ 3961341 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Edward Emily Gibbon.jpg|thumb|There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times.]] '''[[:w:Edward Gibbon|Edward Gibbon]]''' (1737-05-08 [or 1737-04-27, O.S.] – 1794-01-16) was arguably the most important historian since the time of the ancient Roman [[Tacitus]]. Gibbon's ''magnum opus'', ''[[The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire]]'', published between 1776 and 1788, is a groundbreaking work of early modern erudition, the broad influence of which endures to this day. See also '''''[[The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire]]''''' == Quotes == [[File:Edward Gibbon by Henry Walton cleaned.jpg|thumb|All that is human must retrograde if it do not advance.]] [[File:Edward Gibbon.jpg|thumbnail|The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.]] * I disdain to add a single reflection; nor shall I qualify the conduct of my adversary with any of those harsh epithets, which might be interpreted as the expressions of resentment, though I should be constrained to use them as the only words in the English language which could accurately represent my cool and unprejudiced sentiments. ** ''Vindication'' etc. (1779), section IX * Mr. Gibbon may still maintain the character of an historian; but it is difficult to conceive how Mr. Davis will support his pretensions, if he aspires to that of a gentleman. ** ''Vindication'' (1779), section XI * The writer who aspires to the name of historian, is obliged to consult a variety of original testimonies, each of which, taken separately, is perhaps imperfect and partial. By a judicious reunion and arrangement of these dispersed materials, he endeavours to form a consistent and interesting narrative. ** ''Vindication'' (1779), section XII * It is the misfortune of controversy, that an error may be committed in three or four words, that cannot be rectified in less than thirty or forty lines. ** ''Vindication'' (1779), section XIV * '''There are some advocates who would disgrace Christianity, if Christianity could be disgraced, by the manner in which they defend her cause.''' ** ''Vindication'' (1779), section XIV * My readers, if any readers have accompanied me thus far, must be satisfied, and indeed satiated, with the repeated proofs which I have made of the weight and temper of my adversary's weapons. They have, in every assault, fallen dead and lifeless to the ground: they have more than once recoiled, and dangerously wounded the unskilful hand that had presumed to use them. ** ''Vindication'' (1779), section XVI *I cannot repress my indignation at the use of those foolish obsolete, odious, words Whig and Tory. **Letter to Lord Sheffield (7 August 1790), quoted in ''The Letters of Edward Gibbon: Volume Three 1784–1794, Letters 619–878'', ed. J. E. Norton (1956), p. 195 *[[Edmund Burke|Burke]]'s book is a most admirable medication against the French disease, which has made too much progress even in this happy country. I admire his eloquence, I approve his politics, I adore his chivalry, and I can even forgive his superstition. **Letter to Lord Sheffield after reading Burke's ''[[Reflections on the Revolution in France]]'' (5 February 1791) , quoted in ''The Letters of Edward Gibbon: Volume Three 1784–1794, Letters 619–878'', ed. J. E. Norton (1956), p. 216 *The primitive Church, which I have treated with some freedom, was itself at that time, an innovation, and ''I'' was attached to the old Pagan establishment. **Letter to Lord Sheffield (5 February 1791), quoted in ''The Letters of Edward Gibbon: Volume Three 1784–1794, Letters 619–878'', ed. J. E. Norton (1956), p. 216 *Poor Burke is the most eloquent and rational madman that I ever knew. I love [[Charles James Fox|Fox]]'s feelings, but I detest the political principles of the man and of the party. ... Should you admire the [[w:National Constituent Assembly (France)|National assembly]] we shall have many an altercation, for I am as high an Aristocrate as Burke himself, and he has truly observed that it is impossible to debate with temper on the subject of that cursed Revolution. **Letter to Lord Sheffield (31 May 1791), quoted in ''The Letters of Edward Gibbon: Volume Three 1784–1794, Letters 619–878'', ed. J. E. Norton (1956), pp. 229–230 *[I]n this rage against [[slavery]], in the numerous petitions against the [[w:Atlantic slave trade|Slave trade]] was there no leaven of new democratical principles, no wild ideas of the rights and natural equality of man? It is these I fear. **Letter to Lord Sheffield (30 May 1792), quoted in ''The Letters of Edward Gibbon: Volume Three 1784–1794, Letters 619–878'', ed. J. E. Norton (1956), p. 257 *I shuddered at [[Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey|Gray]]'s motion, disliked the half-support of Fox, admired the firmness of [[William Pitt the Younger|Pitt]]s declaration, and excused the usual intemperance of Burke. ... I see a [[w:Society of the Friends of the People|Club of reform]] which contains some respectable names. ... Will they heat the minds of the people? does the French democracy gain no ground? ... Will you not take some active measures to declare your sound opinions and separate yourselves from your rotten members? If you allow them to perplex government, if you trifle with this solemn business, if you do not resist the spirit of innovation in the first attempt, if you admit the smallest and most specious change in our parliamentary system, you are lost. You will be driven from one step to another, from principles just in theory to consequences most pernicious in practise, and your first concessions will be productive of every subsequent mischief for which you will be answerable to your country and to posterity. Do not suffer yourselves to be lulled into a false security. Remember the proud fabric of the French Monarchy. Not four years ago it stood founded as it might seem, on the rock of time force and opinion, supported by the triple Aristocracy of the Church, the Nobility, and the Parliaments. They are crumbled into dust, they are vanished from the earth. If this tremendous warning has no effect on the men of property in England, if it does not open every eye, and raise every arm, you will deserve your fate. **Letter to Lord Sheffield (30 May 1792), quoted in ''The Letters of Edward Gibbon: Volume Three 1784–1794, Letters 619–878'', ed. J. E. Norton (1956), pp. 257–258 *Had the French improved their glorious opportunity to erect a free constitutional Monarchy on the ruins of arbitrary power and the Bastille, I should applaud their generous effort; but this total subversion of all rank, order, and government, could be productive only of a popular monster, which after devouring every thing else, must finally devour itself. I was once apprehensive that this monster would propagate some imps in our happy island, but they seem to have been crushed in the cradle, and I acknowledge with pleasure and pride the good sense of the English nation, who seem truly conscious of the blessings which they enjoy; and I am happy to find that the most respectable part of opposition has cordially joyned in the support of ‘things as they are’. Even this country has been somewhat tainted with the Democratical infection, the vigilance of Government has been exerted, the malecontents have been awed, the misguided have been undeceived, the feaver in the blood has gradually subsided, and I flatter myself that we have secured the tranquil enjoyment of obscure felicity, which we had been almost tempted to despise. **Letter to Dorothea Gibbon (1 August 1792), quoted in ''The Letters of Edward Gibbon: Volume Three 1784–1794, Letters 619–878'', ed. J. E. Norton (1956), pp. 265–266 *[T]he last revolution of Paris appears to have convinced almost every body of the fatal consequences of Democratical principles, which lead by a path of flowers into the Abyss of Hell. **Letter to Lord Sheffield (23 August 1792), quoted in ''The Letters of Edward Gibbon: Volume Three 1784–1794, Letters 619–878'', ed. J. E. Norton (1956), p. 268 *My own choice has indeed transported me into a foreign land, but I am truly attached from interest and inclination to my native country: and even as a Citizen of the World, I wish the stability of England, the sole great refuge of mankind against the opposite mischiefs of despotism and democracy. **Letter to Lord Sheffield (1 January 1793), quoted in ''The Letters of Edward Gibbon: Volume Three 1784–1794, Letters 619–878'', ed. J. E. Norton (1956), p. 307 *[[w:Louis XVI of France|Louis]] had given and suffered every thing. The cruelty of the French was aggravated by ingratitude, and a life of innocence was crowned by the death of a saint, or, what is far better, of a virtuous prince, who deserves our pity and esteem. He might have lived and reigned, had he possessed as much active courage as he was endowed with patient fortitude. When I read the accounts from home, of the universal grief and indignation which that fatal event excited, I indeed gloried in the character of an Englishman. Our national fame is now pure and splendid; we have nobly stood forth in the common cause of mankind; and although our armaments are somewhat slow, I still persuade myself that we shall give the last deadly wound to the Gallic hydra. **Letter to Lady Elizabeth Foster (4 April 1793), quoted in ''The Letters of Edward Gibbon: Volume Three 1784–1794, Letters 619–878'', ed. J. E. Norton (1956), pp. 324–325 *My own contempt for the wild & mischievous system of Democracy will not suffer me to believe without positive proof that it can be adopted by any man of a sound understanding and historical experience. **Letter to John Gillies (24 June 1793), quoted in ''The Letters of Edward Gibbon: Volume Three 1784–1794, Letters 619–878'', ed. J. E. Norton (1956), pp. 337 ===''The History of the Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire'' (1776–1788) === :<small>For more from this see the article ''[[The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire]]''</small> * In the second century of the Christian era, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilised portion of mankind. ** First sentence of chapter one. *Wit and valour are qualities that are more easily ascertained than virtue, or the love of wisdom.{{cn}} * The policy of the emperors and the senate, as far as it concerned religion, was happily seconded by the reflections of the enlightened, and by the habits of the superstitious, part of their subjects. '''The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord.''' ** [http://www.ccel.org/ccel/gibbon/decline/files/volume1/chap2.htm Volume 1, Chapter 2 "Of the Union and Internal Prosperity of the Roman Empire, in the Age of the Antonines"]. The portion regarding the views of the religions of the time taken by various constituencies has been misreported as Gibbon's own assessment of religion generally. See Paul F. Boller, John George, ''They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions'' (1990), pp. 34–35. ** The bold text has been misattributed to [[Lucretius]] and [[Seneca the Younger]]. * The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive. ** Chapter 3. * It was dangerous to trust the sincerity of [[w:Augustus|Augustus]]; to seem to distrust it was still more dangerous. ** [http://www.ccel.org/ccel/gibbon/decline/files/volume1/chap3.htm Vol. 1, Ch. 3 "Of the Constitution of the Roman Empire, in the Age of the Antonines"] * A weak prince will always be governed by his domestics. ** Chapter 3 * [[w:Antoninus Pius|Antoninus]] diffused order and tranquility over the greatest part of the earth. His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history; which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. ** Chapter 3 ** _{This has often been paraphrased: '''History is indeed little more than the register of crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.'''} * If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of [[w:Domitian|Domitian]] to the accession of [[w:Commodus|Commodus]]. ** Chapter 3. (The period described is from AD 96 to 180.) * [[w:Vitellius|Vitellius]] consumed in mere eating, at least six millions of our money in about seven months. It is not easy to express his vices with dignity, or even decency. ** Chapter 3. (£6 million in 1776 would amount to approximately £855 million in 2025.<ref>[https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/inflation/inflation-calculator Bank of England website], retrieved 9 November 2025.</ref>) * It has been calculated by the ablest politicians that no State, without being soon exhausted, can maintain above the hundredth part of its members in arms and idleness. ** [http://books.google.com/books?id=aLcWAAAAQAAJ&q=&quot;It+has+been&quot;+&quot;calculated+by+the+ablest+politicians+that+no+State+without+being+soon+exhausted+can+maintain+above+the+hundredth+part+of+its+members+in+arms+and+idleness&quot;&pg=PA106#v=onepage Chap. 5] *[[w:Clodius Albinus|Clodius Albinus]] surpassed both his competitors in the nobility of his extraction. Which he derived from the most illustrious names of the old Republic, but the branch from which he claimed descent had long sunk into mean circumstances, and transplanted into a remote province. It is difficult to form a just idea of his character. Under the philisophic cloak of austerity, he stands accused of concealing most of the vices which degrade human nature. ** Chap. 5. * There is no surer proof of the military skill of the Romans, than their first surmounting the idle terror, and afterwards disdaining the dangerous use, of elephants in war. ** Chap. 5. * '''The true interest of an absolute monarch generally coincides with that of his people.''' Their numbers, their wealth, their order, and their security, are the best and only foundations of his real greatness; and were he totally devoid of virtue, prudence might supply its place, and would dictate the same rule of conduct. ** Chap. 5. * The contemporaries of [[w:Septimius Severus|Severus]], in the enjoyment of the peace and glory of his reign, forgave the cruelties by which it had been introduced. Posterity, who experienced the fatal effects of his maxims and example, justly considered him as the principal author of the decline of the Roman Empire. ** Chap. 5. * His rash ambition had climbed a height where it was difficult to stand with firmness, and impossible to fall without instant destruction. ** Chap. 6. The subject is [[w:Macrinus|Macrinus]]. * The most worthless of mankind are not afraid to condemn in others the same disorders which they allow in themselves; and can readily discover some nice difference of age, character, or station, to justify the partial distinction. ** Chap. 6. * [E]unuchs, that pernicious vermin of the East... ** Chap. 7. * Every mode of religion, to make a deep and lasting impression on the human mind, must exercise our obedience, by enjoining practices of devotion; and must acquire our esteem, by inculcating moral duties analogous to the dictates of our own hearts. ** Chap. 8. * The most civilised nations of modern Europe issued from the woods of Germany, and in the rude institutions of those barbarians we may still distinguish the original principles of our present laws and manners. ** Chap. 9. * A warlike nation like the Germans, without either cities, letters, arts, or money, found some compensation for this savage state in the enjoyment of liberty. Their poverty secured their freedom, since '''our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.''' ** Chap. 9. * Civil governments, in their first institutions, are voluntary associations for mutual defence. ** Chap. 9. * '''Wars, and the administration of public affairs, are the principal objects of history.''' ** Chap. 9. * It was easier to vanquish the Goths than to eradicate the public vices. **Chap. 10. * It was probably some ingenious fancy, of comparing the [[w:Thirty Tyrants (Roman)|thirty tyrants of Rome]] with the thirty tyrants of Athens, that induced the writers of the Augustan History to select that celebrated number, which has been gradually received into a popular appellation. But in every light the parallel is idle and defective. What resemblance can we discover between a council of thirty persons, the united oppressors of a single city, and an uncertain list of independent rivals, who rose and fell in irregular succession through the extent of a vast empire? Nor can the number of thirty be completed, unless we include in the account the women and children who were honoured with the Imperial title. ** Chap. 10. * When [[w:Aurelian|Aurelian]] assumed his seat, his manly grace and majestic figure taught the barbarians to revere the person as well as the purple of the conqueror. ** Chap. 11. *Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive. ** Chap. 11. * Since the foundation of Rome no general had more nobly deserved a triumph than [[w:Aurelian|Aurelian]]. ** Chap. 11. * '''Such was the unhappy condition of the Roman emperors, that, whatever might be their conduct, their fate was commonly the same.''' A life of pleasure or virtue, of severity or mildness, of indolence or glory, alike led to an untimely grave; and almost every reign is closed by the same disgusting repetition of treason and murder. ** Chap. 12. * Those who refuse the sword must renounce the sceptre. ** Chap. 12. * ...in the prosecution of a favourite scheme, the best of men, satisfied with the rectitude of their intentions, are subject to forget the bounds of moderation... ** Chap. 12. * '''The power of opinion is irresistible.''' ** Chap. 12. * Like Augustus, [[w:Diocletian|Diocletian]] may be considered as the founder of a new empire. ** Chap. 13. * The ideas of inheritance and succession are so very familiar that the generality of mankind consider them as founded not only in reason but in nature itself. ** Chap. 14. * The incredible speed which [[w:Maximinus Daza|Maximin]] exerted in his flight is much more celebrated than his prowess in the battle. ** Chap. 14. * '''[W]henever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind.''' ** Chap. 14. * The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian. He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she contracted in a long residence upon earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings. ** Chap. 15. * The paths of error are various and infinite. ** Chap. 15. * A state of scepticism and suspense may amuse a few inquisitive minds. But the practice of superstition is so congenial to the multitude that, if they are forcibly awakened, they still regret the loss of their pleasing vision. ... '''So urgent on the vulgar is the necessity of believing, that the fall of any system of mythology will most probably be succeeded by the introduction of some other mode of superstition.''' ** Chapter 15. * It was in the school of Alexandria that the Christian theology appears to have assumed a regular and scientifical form. ** Chapter 15. * But this splendid exaggeration, which even at present it would be extremely difficult to reconcile with the real state of mankind, can be considered only as the rash sally of a devout but careless writer, the measure of whose belief was regulated by that of his wishes. But neither the belief nor the wishes of the fathers can alter the truth of history. ** Chapter 15. The subject is [[w:Julian Martyr|Julian Martyr]]. * Such is the constitution of civil society, that whilst a few persons are distinguished by riches, by honors, and by knowledge, the body of the people is condemned to obscurity, ignorance and poverty. The Christian religion, which addressed itself to the whole human race, must consequently collect a far greater number of proselytes from the lower than from the superior ranks of life. This innocent and natural circumstance has been improved into a very odious imputation, which seems to be less strenuously denied by the apologists, than it is urged by the adversaries, of the faith; that the new sect of Christians was almost entirely composed of the dregs of the populace, of peasants and mechanics, of boys and women, of beggars and slaves, the last of whom might sometimes introduce the missionaries into the rich and noble families to which they belonged. These obscure teachers (such was the charge of malice and infidelity) are as mute in public as they are loquacious and dogmatical in private. Whilst they cautiously avoid the dangerous encounter of philosophers, they mingle with the rude and illiterate crowd, and insinuate themselves into those minds, whom their age, their sex, or their education, has the best disposed to receive the impression of superstitious terrors. ** Chapter 15. * But these transient persecutions served only to revive the zeal and to restore the discipline of the faithful; and the moments of extraordinary rigour were compensated by much longer intervals of peace and security. The indifference of some princes and the indulgence of others permitted the Christians to enjoy, though not perhaps a legal, yet an actual and public toleration of their religion. ** Chapter 16. * [T]he Christians, in the course of their intestine dissensions, have inflicted far greater severities on each other than they had experienced from the zeal of infidels. ** Chapter 16. * This variety of objects will suspend, for some time, the course of the narrative; but the interruption will be censured only by those readers who are insensible to the importance of laws and manners, while they peruse, with eager curiosity, the transient intrigues of a court, or the accidental event of a battle. ** Chapter 17. * The divided administration, which had been formed by Constantine, relaxed the vigour of the state, while it secured the tranquility of the monarch. ** Chapter 17. This refers to the division between civil and military governors of the provinces. * The same timid policy, of dividing whatever is united, of reducing whatever is eminent, of dreading every active power, and of expecting that the most feeble will be the most obedient, seems to pervade the institutions of several princes, and particularly those of Constantine. ** Chapter 17. * [T]he progress of despotism ... tends to disappoint its own purpose. ** Chapter 17. * A people elated by pride, or soured by discontent, is seldom qualified to form a just estimate of their actual situation. ** Chapter 17. * In the life of Augustus we behold the tyrant of the republic converted almost by imperceptible degrees into the father of his country and of human kind. In that of Constantine we may contemplate a hero, who had so long inspired his subjects with love and his enemies with terror, degenerating into a cruel and dissolute monarch, corrupted by his fortune, or raised by conquest above the necessity of dissimulation. ** Chapter 18. * If we consult the succeeding writers ... their knowledge will appear gradually to increase as their means of information must have diminished, a circumstance which frequently occurs in historical disquisition. ** Chapter 18. * But the genius of Constantine himself had been formed by adversity and experience. In the free intercourse of private life, and amidst the dangers of the court of Galerius, he had learned to command his own passions, to encounter those of his equals, and to depend for his present safety and future greatness on the prudence and firmness of his personal conduct. His destined successors had the misfortune of being born and educated in the Imperial purple. Incessantly surrounded with a train of flatterers, they passed their youth in the enjoyment of luxury and the expectation of a throne... ** Chapter 18. * The silence of flattery is sometimes equal to the most positive and authentic evidence. ** Chapter 18. * '''The timid are always cruel.''' ** Chapter 18. * Some particular instances may occur of eunuchs distinguished by their fidelity, their valour, and their abilities; but if we examine the general history of Persia, India, and China, we shall find that the power of the eunuchs has uniformly marked the decline and fall of every dynasty. ** Chapter 19. * The traveller who has contemplated the ruins of ancient Rome may conceive some imperfect idea of the sentiments which they must have inspired when they reared their heads in the splendour of unsullied beauty. ** Chapter 19. * In every age the Persians have been addicted to intemperance, and the wines of Shiraz have triumphed over the law of Mahomet. ** Chapter 19. * [C]aution and vigilance are the most important lessons of the art of war. ** Chapter 19. * [T]he cause of virtue derived very feeble support from the influence of the Pagan superstition. Under these discouraging circumstances a prudent magistrate might observe with pleasure the progress of a religion which diffused among the people a pure, benevolent, and universal system of ethics, adapted to every duty and every condition of life, recommended as the will and reason of the supreme Deity, and enforced by the sanction of eternal rewards or punishments. ** Chapter 20. Speculating on reasons why Constantine adopted Christianity. * The example and reputation of Constantine seemed to countenance the delay of baptism. Future tyrants were encouraged to believe that the innocent blood which they might shed in a long reign would instantly be washed away in the waters of regeneration; and the abuse of religion dangerously undermined the foundations of moral virtue. ** Chapter 20. * Constantine was satisfied that secret impunity would be less pernicious than public scandal, and the Nicene council was edified by his public declaration, that, if he surprised a bishop in the act of adultery, he should cast his Imperial mantle over the episcopal sinner. ** Chapter 20. *In every deed of [[mischief]] he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute. **Chap. 48. Compare: "He had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief", [[Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon]] (on Hampden), ''History of the Rebellion'', Vol. iii, Book vii, Section 84. *Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery. ** Chap. 49. * '''The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.''' **Chap. 68. Compare: "On dit que Dieu est toujours pour les gros bataillons" (translated: "It is said that God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions"), [[Voltaire]], Letter to M. le Riche. 1770; "J'ai toujours vu Dieu du coté des gros bataillons (translated: "I have always noticed that God is on the side of the heaviest battalions"), [[w:De la Ferté|De la Ferté]] to Anne of Austria. *Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave. ** Chap. 71. *All gates are shut against the unfortunate. **Vol. III *When Gallienus received the intelligence that his capital was delivered from the barbarians, he was much less delighted than alarmed with the courage of the senate, since it might one day prompt them to rescue the public from domestic tyranny as well as from foreign invasion. His timid ingratitude was published to his subjects, in an edict which prohibited the senators from exercising any military employment, and even from approaching the camps of the legions. But his fears were groundless. The rich and luxurious nobles, sinking into their natural character, accepted, as a favor, this disgraceful exemption from military service; and as long as they were indulged in the enjoyment of their baths, their theatres, and their villas, they cheerfully resigned the more dangerous cares of empire to the rough hands of peasants and soldiers. ** Chap. 10. *It is difficult to paint the light, the various, the inconstant character of Gallienus, which he displayed without constraint, as soon as he became sole possessor of the empire. [[File:Ritratto di gallieno, 253-268 dc ca, dalla casa delle vestali.jpg|thumb|left|There were, however, a few short moments in the life of Gallienus, when, exasperated by some recent injury, he suddenly appeared the intrepid soldier and the cruel tyrant; till, satiated with blood, or fatigued by resistance, he insensibly sunk into the natural mildness and indolence of his character.]]In every art that he attempted, his lively genius enabled him to succeed; and as his genius was destitute of judgment, he attempted every art, except the important ones of war and government. He was a master of several curious, but useless sciences, a ready orator, an elegant poet, a skilful gardener, an excellent cook, and most contemptible prince... There were, however, a few short moments in the life of Gallienus, when, exasperated by some recent injury, he suddenly appeared the intrepid soldier and the cruel tyrant; till, satiated with blood, or fatigued by resistance, he insensibly sunk into the natural mildness and indolence of his character. ** Chap. 10. *Our habits of thinking so fondly connect the order of the universe with the fate of man, that this gloomy period of history has been decorated with inundations, earthquakes, uncommon meteors, preternatural darkness, and a crowd of prodigies fictitious or exaggerated. ** Chap. 10. *A long period of distress and anarchy, in which empire, and arts, and riches, had migrated from the banks of the Tiber, was incapable of restoring or adorning the city; and, as '''all that is human must retrograde if it do not advance''', every successive age must have hastened the ruin of the works of antiquity. ** Chap. 71. *In a distant age and climate the tragic scene of the death of [[Husayn ibn Ali|Hussyn]] will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader. **Vol. 5, pages:391–392. *In the spirit of enthusiasm or vanity, the prophet [Muhammad] rests the truth of his mission on the merit of his book; audaciously challenges both men and angels to imitate the beauties of a single page; and presumes to assert that God alone could dictate this incomparable performance. This argument is most powerfully addressed to a devout Arabian, whose mind is attuned to faith and rapture; whose ear is delighted by the music of sounds; and whose ignorance is incapable of comparing the productions of human genius... If the composition of the Koran exceed the faculties of a man to what superior intelligence should we ascribe the Iliad of Homer, or the Philippics of Demosthenes? **EGPaIV" Edward Gibbon, [1788], [http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/gibbon/05/daf05010.htm Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire], Vol. 5, Chapter L: Description Of Arabia And Its Inhabitants. Part IV. *Benevolence is the foundation of Justice, since we are forbidden to injure those we are bound to assist. A prophet may reveal the secrets of Heaven and futurity, but in his moral precepts he can only repeat the lessons of our own hearts. **EGPaIV" Edward Gibbon, [1788], [http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/gibbon/05/daf05010.htm Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire], Vol. 5, Chapter L: Description Of Arabia And Its Inhabitants. Part IV. *To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor ... **Preface to the fourth volume of the original quarto edition ===''Memoirs'' (1796) === * The successors of [[w:Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor|Charles the Fifth]] may disdain their brethren of England; but the romance of ''[[w:The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling|Tom Jones]],'' that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the [[w:El Escorial|Escurial]] and the imperial eagle of the house of Austria. * Decent easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the founder. * It was here [at the age of seventeen] that I suspended my religious inquiries. * I saw and loved. **Vol. i. p. 106. Compare: "None ever loved but at first sight they loved", [[George Chapman]], ''The Blind Beggar of Alexandria''. * I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son. * Crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure. ** Referring to London. * The captain of the Hampshire grenadiers...has not been useless to the historian of the Roman Empire. * It was at Rome, on the fifteenth of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefoot friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind. *On the approach of spring I withdraw without reluctance from the noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure. **Vol. i. p. 116. *I was never less alone than when by myself. **Vol. i. p. 117. Compare: "Never less alone than when alone", [[Samuel Rogers]], ''Human Life''; "In solitude, where we are least alone", [[Lord Byron]], ''[[Childe Harold's Pilgrimage]]'', Canto III, Stanza 90. == Attributed == * My English is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language. ** Reported in Jaroslav Pelikan, ''The Melody of Theology: A Philosophical Dictionary'' (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1988), p. 97 {{Misattributed begin}} == Misattributed == * In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again. :* This quotation appeared in an article by [[Margaret Thatcher]], "The Moral Foundations of Society" ([https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/the-moral-foundations-of-society/ ''Imprimis,'' March 1995]), which was an edited version of a lecture Thatcher had given at Hillsdale College in November 1994. Here is the actual passage from Thatcher's article: :: <blockquote>''[M]ore than they wanted freedom, the Athenians wanted security. Yet they lost everything—security, comfort, and freedom. This was because they wanted not to give to society, but for society to give to them. The freedom they were seeking was freedom from responsibility. It is no wonder, then, that they ceased to be free. In the modern world, we should recall the Athenians' dire fate whenever we confront demands for increased state paternalism.''</blockquote> :: The italicized passage above originated with Thatcher. In characterizing the Athenians in the article she cited Sir Edward Gibbon, but she seems to have been paraphrasing statements in "Athens' Failure," a chapter of classicist [[Edith Hamilton]]'s book ''The Echo of Greece'' (1957), [http://www.ergo-sum.net/books/Hamilton_EchoOfGreece_pp.47-48.jpg pp. 47–48]). {{Misattributed end}} == Quotes about Edward Gibbon == *My highest ambition, and what I hope to do as far as I can, is to make my history the very reverse of Gibbon in this respect,—that whereas the whole spirit of his work, from its low morality, is hostile to religion, without speaking directly against it, so my greatest desire would be, in my History, by its high morals and its general tone, to be of use to the cause, without actually bringing it forward. **[[Thomas Arnold]], statement on his ''History of Rome'' (1826), quoted in A. P. Stanley, ''The Life and Correspondence and Thomas Arnold, Volume I'' (1845), p. 214 *In the pages of the ''Decline and Fall'', we seem to be taking a long journey, but all the time we remain in one place: we sit with Gibbon in the ruins of the Capitol. It is from the ruins of the Capitol that we perceive, as from a great distance, a thousand years filled with dim shapes of men moving blindly, performing strangely, in an unreal shadowy world. We do not enter the Middle Ages, or relive a span of human experience: still we sit in the ruins of the Capitol, becoming cramped and half numb listening, all this long stationary time, to our unwearied guide as he narrates for us, in a melancholy and falling cadence, the disaster that mankind has suffered, the defeat inflicted by the forces of evil on the human spirit. The ''Decline and Fall'' is a history, yes; but something more than a history, a memorial oration: Gibbon is commemorating the death of ancient civilization; he has described, for the “instruction of future ages,” the “triumph of barbarism and religion.” **[[w:Carl L. Becker|Carl Becker]], ''The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers'' (1932), pp. 117–118 * I don't know but you have spoken too highly of Gibbon's book; the Dean of Derry, who is our Club as well as Gibbon, talks of answering it. I think it is right that as fast as infidel wasps or venomous insects, whether creeping or flying, are hatched, they should be crushed. [...] He is an ugly, affected, disgusting fellow, and poisons our literary Club to me. ** [[James Boswell]], in ''Letters of James Boswell, Addressed to the Rev. W.J. Temple'' (1857) *In the ''Decline and Fall'', the [[w:Civic humanism|civic humanist]] cycle of corruption, so often repeated in Gibbon's history, was balanced by another and newer theme, the [[w:Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]]'s conception of the development of civilisation, which surrounds the work with an optimism which the story it tells, by itself, could hardly warrant. The notion of the gradual progress of the useful arts, through human industry, is one aspect of that optimism: Gibbon owes a debt, reflected in his footnotes, to [[Adam Smith|Smith]]'s ''[[w:The Wealth of Nations|Wealth of Nations]]''. It is true that this version of progress is not heavily stressed; in the ''Decline and Fall'', the most obvious antithesis is still the old one of republican patriotism and barbarian hardihood set against the "indolence", "luxury" and "effeminacy" of supine Asiatics and of once energetic former barbarian conquerors enervated by their own success. Yet there is clearly another possible antithesis to indolence and luxury: industry and a permissible (if still dangerous) civilised opulence. **[[w:J. W. Burrow|J. W. Burrow]], ''A Liberal Descent: Victorian Historians and the English Past'' (1981), p. 63 *I read Gibbon, and then first clearly saw that Christianity was not true. **[[Thomas Carlyle]], remarks to William Allingham (24 May 1874), quoted in William Allingham, ''A Diary'', eds. H. Allingham and D. Radford (1908), p. 232 *Oh, one must read Gibbon to get any insight into this wild history of mankind. **[[Thomas Carlyle]], remarks to William Allingham (24 June 1877), quoted in William Allingham, ''A Diary'', eds. H. Allingham and D. Radford (1908), p. 256 *It was, of all the books, perhaps the most impressive on me in my then stage of investigation and state of mind. I by no means completely admired Gibbon, perhaps not more than I now do; but his winged sarcasms, so quiet and yet so conclusively transpiercing and killing dead, were often admirable potent and illuminative to me. Nor did I fail to recognise his great power of investigating, ascertaining, grouping, and narrating; though the latter had always, then as now, something of a [[w:Theatre Royal, Drury Lane|Drury Lane]] character, the colours strong but coarse, and set off by lights from the side scenes. **[[Thomas Carlyle]], ''Reminiscences, Vol. I'', ed. James Anthony Froude (1881), p. 102 *I set out upon the eight volumes of [[Henry Hart Milman|Dean Milman]]'s edition of Gibbon's ''Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire''. I was immediately dominated both by the story and the style. All through the long glistening middle hours of the Indian day, from when we quitted stables till the evening shadows proclaimed the hour of Polo, I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all. I scribbled all my opinions on the margins of the pages, and very soon found myself a vehement partisan of the author against the disparagements of his pompous-pious editor. I was not even estranged by his naughty footnotes. On the other hand the Dean's apologies and disclaimers roused my ire. So pleased was I with ''The Decline and Fall'' that I began at once to read Gibbon's Autobiography, which luckily was bound up in the same edition. When I read his reference to his old nurse: "If there be any, as I trust there are some, who rejoice that I live, to that dear and excellent woman their gratitude is due," I thought of [[w:Elizabeth Everest|Mrs. Everest]]; and it shall be her epitaph. **[[Winston Churchill]], ''[[w:My Early Life|My Early Life]]'' (1930; 1990), pp. 125-126 *Gibbon's idol [[Tacitus]] had been as much moralist as historian. There is a general message in ''The Decline and Fall'', concerned with the worth of freedom and the idealisation of the Roman republic. Furthermore, Gibbon has no doubts about ethical standards of conduct and behaviour, singling out, for instance, the love of pleasure and the love of action as essential components of normal human nature. Some attempts have been made to trace Gibbon's politics specifically through his ''History'', but these have failed to reveal a simple pattern. His instruction has more to do with the principles of human nature and character. If there is any general lesson beyond that, it takes (as L. P. Curtis has observed) the form of a memorial oration to the governing classes on the subject of wisdom, virtue, and power. But Gibbon was too cynical to have had much faith in the effects of instruction, though that did not prevent him from making it part of his historical writing. The experience of past faults, he pointed out, was seldom profitable to the successive generations of mankind. **[[w:John Leonard Clive|John Clive]], ''Not By Fact Alone: Essays on the Writing and Reading of History'' (1989), p. 81 *The ''Decline and Fall'' is a memorial oration. It is, to boot, a sad, stupendous warning to the governing class. Here in the desolation of a thousand years of history lies proof of the destiny of states that depart from the maxims alike of the [[Roman Republic]] and of England's [[Glorious Revolution]]. Gibbon, soaked in the values of his order, taught its members what they already accepted. His entire history revolves around a formula, around three words, the contents of their social conscience. These words are virtue, wisdom, and power. **Lewis P. Curtis, ‘Gibbon's Paradise Lost’, in ''The Age of Johnson: Essays Presented to Chauncey Brewster Tinker'' (1949), p. 79 *Just now I am enthralled by Gibbon's Autobiography. There are passages in it that are more than "correct", and on the border line of beauty. What a giant he is—greatest historian & greatest <del>figure</del> name of the 18th century ''I'' say; whether it is his greatness or his remoteness that makes his goings on with religion so queer I do not know. **[[E. M. Forster]] to [[w:Malcolm Lyall Darling|Malcolm Darling]] (15 April 1910), quoted in ''Selected Letters of E. M. Forster. Volume One, 1879–1920'', eds. Mary Lago and P. N. Furbank (1983), p. 107 *[I]t is impossible, through reading alone, to interpret the past. Nor is emotion enough. The historian must have a third quality as well: some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius. In Gibbon, as in no other English historian, this tenuous circle was complete. He was a genius who read, dreamed, and also knew — knew, by direct contact, a fragment of the rough stuff of society, and extended his knowledge through the ages. ** [[E. M. Forster]], "Captain Edward Gibbon", (1931) in ''Abinger Harvest'', E. Arnold & Co.: London, 1936. * The Oxford edition of Gibbon consists of eight volumes with four or five hundred pages in each volume. The exact number of pages is 3,860. The fondest admirers of Gibbon cannot say that it is light reading. Evening after evening goes by, and, if the reader is conscientious, and does not skip, it is a long time before the work is read. Indeed, in these degenerate days I doubt whether there are many persons in the world who can say that they have read their Gibbon right through. ** Sir [[w:Arthur Helps|Arthur Helps]], in {{cite book|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015063911617;view=1up;seq=130|title=Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms|year=1871|pages=116–117|location=Boston|publisher=Roberts Brothers}} *As I ran through your volume of history with great avidity and impatience, I cannot forbear discovering somewhat of the same impatience in returning you thanks for your agreeable present, and expressing the satisfaction which the performance has given me. Whether I consider the dignity of your style, the depth of your matter, or the extensiveness of your learning, I must regard the work as equally the object of esteem. **[[David Hume]] to Gibbon (18 March 1776), quoted in Edward Gibbon, ''Memoirs of My Life and Writings'', in ''Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Vol. I'', ed. Lord Sheffield (1796), p. 148. Gibbon said this "letter from Mr. Hume overpaid the labour of ten years". *[T]he effect of [[Tacitus]], the best historian that Rome produced, can be felt in Gibbon, the best modern historian of Rome... Gibbon realized that Tacitus, sometimes seen as primarily a literary artist, preferring point and drama to the dispassionate search for truth, was a genuinely philosophic historian; and Tacitus showed him how a philosophic history could be not hindered but served by irony, disenchantment, and apophthegmatic wit... In both men this way of speaking brings out the ambiguity of history, the hiddenness of human motive. Influence or coincidence? It is impossible to be sure, but it is fair enough to say that Gibbon has Tacitus in his bones. **Richard Jenkyns, ‘The Legacy of Rome’, in Richard Jenkyns (ed.), ''The Legacy of Rome: A New Appraisal'' (1992), pp. 20–21 *Gibbon had no followers, founded no school, and his chief bequest to posterity was in fact his style, one of the most distinctive in the English language, whose influence is now and again detectable in the prose of English historians down to the present day. **[[w:John Philipps Kenyon|John Kenyon]], ''The History Men: The Historical Profession in England since the Renaissance'' (1983; rev. edn. 1993), p. 64 *The great joy I have had is a long dose of Gibbon, quite incomparable, especially on the [[Byzantine Empire|Eastern empire]]. I know no other panorama quite like that. [[w:George Finlay|Finlay]], I daresay, goes deeper, but he hasn't quite the same magic. **[[Harold Laski]] to [[Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.]] (4 September 1924), quoted in ''Holmes–Laski Letters: The Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and Harold J. Laski 1916–1935'', ed. Mark DeWolfe Howe (1953), pp. 655-656 *No matter what his weaknesses may be, his “writings will instruct the last generation of mankind.” This remark, which Gibbon made about Tacitus, can, with equal justice, be applied to Gibbon himself. **[[w:Andrew Lossky|Andrew Lossky]], ‘Introduction’, in Lynn White, Jr. (ed.), ''The Transformation of the Roman World: Gibbon's Problem after Two Centuries'' [1966] (1973), p. 29 *I picked up [[w:John Whitaker (historian)|Whitaker]]'s criticism on Gibbon. Pointless spite, with here and there a just remark. It would be strange if in so large a work as Gibbon's there were nothing open to just remark. How utterly all the attacks on his History are forgotten! this of Whitaker; [[w:Thomas Randolph (academic)|Randolph]]'s; [[w:James Chelsum|Chelsum]]'s; [[w:Henry Edwards Davis|Davies]]'s; that stupid beast [[w:Joseph Milner|Joseph Milner]]'s; even [[w:Richard Watson (bishop of Llandaff)|Watson]]'s. And still the book, with all its great faults of substance and style, retains, and will retain, its place in our literature; and this though it is offensive to the religious feeling of the country, and really most unfair where religion is concerned. **[[Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay|Thomas Macaulay]], journal entry (9 October 1850), quoted in George Otto Trevelyan, ''The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, Volume II'' (1876), pp. 284–285 * Is it perhaps Gibbon with his Fall of Rome that so darkens the air of eight hundred years with a squalid dust-storm of demolition as to obscure our sight of the unquenched lights of the mind of man? [[John Ruskin|Ruskin]] joins day to human day again. ** [[Alice Meynell]], ''John Ruskin'' (Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1900), p. 262 * Another damned thick book! Always scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh, Mr. Gibbon? ** Attributed to [[w:Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh|Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh]], 1781, upon receiving the second (or third, or possibly both) volume(s) of [[The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire]] from the author. quoted by [[w:Leslie Stephen|Sir Leslie Stephen]] in the ''[[w:Dictionary of National Biography|Dictionary of National Biography]],'' (1921), vol. 21, p. 1133 *It is melancholy to say it, but the chief, perhaps the only English writer who has any claim to be considered an ecclesiastical historian, is the infidel Gibbon. **[[John Henry Newman]], ''An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine'' (1845), p. 5 *Towards the end of the century, in the years 1776–88, a historian, the greatest of the century, as many believe, produced one of the most impressive books ever written on the ancient world – Edward Gibbon (1737–94), ''The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'' in six quarto volumes. The range of his reading in Latin and Greek widened and deepened during his years in Lausanne; he also admired [[w:Richard Porson|Porson]] and defended him against attacks. Porson in turn wrote a splendid review of Gibbon's work. For [[Richard Bentley|Bentley]] Gibbon found the most appropriate epithet, "tremendous". It is clear, too, from his great work that his qualifications for writing it included an acquaintance with the history of scholarship. **[[w:Rudolf Pfeiffer|Rudolf Pfeiffer]], ''History of Classical Scholarship from 1300 to 1850, Volume I'' (1976), p. 162 *[[w:Richard Porson|Porson]]...thought the ''Decline and Fall'' beyond all comparison the greatest literary production of the eighteenth century, and was in the habit of repeating long passages from it. Yet I have heard him say that “there could not be a better exercise for a schoolboy than to turn a page of it into ''English''.” **[[w:Samuel Rogers|Samuel Rogers]], ''Recollections of the Table-Talk of Samuel Rogers. To which is added Porsoniana'' (1856), pp. 302–303 *He said the facts that made up the volume of narrative were unparalleled in atrociousness, and that nothing equal in criminality was to be traced, either in ancient or modern history, in the correct periods of [[Tacitus]] or the luminous page of Gibbon. **[[Richard Brinsley Sheridan]], speech at the trial of [[w:Warren Hastings|Warren Hastings]], reported in the ''Morning Chronicle'' (14 June 1788), quoted in Edward Gibbon, ''Memoirs of My Life and Writings'', in ''Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Vol. I'', ed. Lord Sheffield (1796), p. 172, n *I have ten thousand apologies to make, for not having long ago returned you my best thanks for the very agreeable present you made me of the three last volumes of your History. I cannot express to you the pleasure it gives me to find, that by the universal assent of every man of taste and learning, whom I either know or correspond with, it sets you at the very head of the whole literary tribe at present existing in Europe. **[[Adam Smith]] to Gibbon (10 December 1788), quoted in ''Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Vol. II'', ed. Lord Sheffield (1796), p. 215 *Edward Gibbon...is the one irreplaceable English historian. What other 18th-century historian is still read, not only for his style, nor as a contemporary witness of events, but as an interpreter of past ages? Gibbon now seems much less dated than his great successors, [[Thomas Babington Macaulay|Macaulay]], [[Thomas Carlyle|Carlyle]], [[James Anthony Froude|Froude]]; nor can anyone, today, discuss the problem – the permanent problem – of the decline of the Roman Empire except in implicit dialogue with him. **[[Hugh Trevor-Roper]], 'May Gibbon rise again', ''The Times'' (2 May 1987), p. 20 *Gibbon was an exact and exacting scholar (hence his disdain for the French ''[[w:Philosophes|philosophes]]'' who subordinated scholarship to their philosophy). He read the latest articles, subscribed to the learned journals, cited and criticised his sources. His errors are remarkably few. Of course much has been written on the subject since his time. But his scholarship and his judgement can seldom be faulted. **[[Hugh Trevor-Roper]], 'May Gibbon rise again', ''The Times'' (2 May 1987), p. 20 *Gibbon's historical philosophy was...animated by...what we now call "[[w:Civic humanism|civic humanism]]": that is, the conviction that the progress of society depends on a certain moral force: the "spirit" which, to [[Montesquieu]], must animate the "laws" if history is not to be, as it often is, merely anarchical, "the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind". It was because he believed intensely in civic virtue that he deplored the attitude of the early Christians. When Roman civilisation was in danger, these men contracted out. They refused to serve the state and preferred to sit on pillars in the desert or waste their energies in sterile theological disputes. On the other hand, when the church, or churchmen, showed such a spirit, he would commend them. "Active virtue" was to be respected wherever it was expressed. **[[Hugh Trevor-Roper]], 'May Gibbon rise again', ''The Times'' (2 May 1987), p. 20 * Gibbon was not interested in religious doctrine, though he amused himself with its speculative refinements. But religion and Churches, he would admit, are a social and psychological necessity, and the particular forms which they take are important, for they can influence the progress or decline of civilization. Therefore the historical question he asked was, did the ideas of Christianity and the organization of the Church, as adapted to the Roman Empire, generate or stifle public spirit, freedom, and the advancement of knowledge and a plural society.<br>His answer was that they stifled it. If Christianity had first been established in independent city-states like those of Greece, perhaps it would have assumed a different and more useful form – as it eventually did in the communes of Italy and, more successfully, in the Protestant cities of Switzerland. But the very fact of its establishment by imperial power, as an ideological support to that power, made it subservient to a centralized, monopolist system whose organization and absolutism, in its own formative period, it imitated and sustained. ** [[Hugh Trevor-Roper]], Introduction to Edward Gibbon, ''The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire''. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.) *The penetration, solidity, and taste, that made you the first of historians, dear Sir, prevent my being surprised at your being the best writer of controversial pamphlets too. I have read you with more precipitation than such a work deserved, but I could not disobey you and detain it. Yet even in that hurry I could discern, besides a thousand beauties and strokes of wit, the inimitable eighty-third page, and the conscious dignity that you maintain throughout over your monkish antagonists. When you are so superior in argument, it would look like insensibility to the power of your reasoning, to select transient passages for commendation; and yet I must mention one that pleased me particularly, from the delicacy of the severity, and from its novelty too; it is, ‘Bold is not the word.’ This is the feathered arrow of Cupid, that is more formidable than the club of Hercules. **[[Horace Walpole]] to Gibbon on his ''Vindication'' (1779), quoted in ''The Letters of Horace Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford. Vol. X: 1777–1779'', ed. Mrs. Paget Toynbee (1904), pp. 367–368 *Though what Gibbon calls ‘the curiosity of the public’ may have exhausted itself long since, the candid judgment of many generations and of almost every class of readers has confirmed the opinion formed at once by Gibbon's own age. His great work remains an enduring monument of research, an imperishable literary possession and one of the highest encouragements to intellectual endeavour that can be found in the history of letters. **[[w:Adolphus Ward|Adolphus Ward]], ‘Historians. II. Gibbon’, in A. W. Ward and A. R. 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It's all right. == President Thomas Whitmore == * ''[to the pilots at Area 51 before the mass sortie]'' Good morning. ''[turns on mic]'' Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world, and you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind. ''[pauses]'' Mankind. That word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps it's fate that today is the Fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom. Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution… but from annihilation. We're fighting for our right to live. To exist. And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day when the world declared in one voice: We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive! Today, we celebrate ''our'' Independence Day! == Dialogue == :'''President Whitmore''': I have a confession to make. I'm sleeping next to a beautiful ''young'' brunette. :'''Marilyn''': You didn't let her stay up all night watching TV, did you? :'''President Whitmore''': Of course not. ''[pause]'' :'''Patricia''': Daddy let me watch [[w:The Late Show with David Letterman|Letterman]]. :'''President Whitmore''': Traitor. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Marty''': David! David, what the hell's the point of having a beeper if you aren't even gonna turn it on?!?! :'''David''': It was turned on, I was ignoring you. Hello, what's the uh... what's the big emergency? :'''Marty''': It started this morning, every station's making like it's the [[w:1950s|1950s]]... we got static, we got snow, all kinds of distortions! :'''David''': Wait! Marty- :'''Marty''': Nobody even knows- :'''David''': .....What the hell are you doin'? There's a reason we have... bins labeled recycle! What the hell's goin' on?! My god in heaven! :'''Marty''': So sue me, DAVID! We have a problem! <hr width="50%"/> :''[at the White House roof, President Whitmore and White House Communications Director Constance Spano stare in awe at the alien ship flying overhead]'' :'''Constance''': Now what do we do? :'''President Whitmore''': Address the nation. There's gonna be a lot of frightened people out there. :'''Constance''': Yeah. ''[in Whitmore's ear]'' I'm one of 'em. ''[Whitmore looks back at her then to the ship]'' <hr width="50%"/> :''[David finds Marty on the phone with his mother concerning the aliens]'' :'''Marty''': I know, Ma. Just try and stay calm! :'''David''': Tell her to pack up and leave town. :'''Marty''': Why?! What happened?! :'''David''': Just do it! :'''Marty''': ''[to the phone]'' Ma! Ma, listen! Uh, get your stuff together, and head for Aunt Esther's. Don't argue with me! Just go! ''[hangs up]'' David, why'd I just send my mother to Atlanta? David?! David, talk to me! :'''David''': Did you hear me tell you that the signal in the satellite feed is slowly recycling down to extinction? :'''Marty''': Not really. :'''David''': It's a countdown. :'''Marty''': A countdown? Wait, a countdown to what, David?! :'''David''': Uh, it's like in chess. First you strategically position your pieces. Then, when the timing's right, you strike. ''[turns Marty's attention to the monitor]'' See? They're positioning themselves all over the world usin' this one signal to synchronize their efforts. In approximately six hours, the signal's gonna disappear, and the countdown's gonna be over. :'''Marty''': And then what? :'''David''': Checkmate. :'''Marty''': ''[gasps]'' Oh, my God! Oh, my God! I gotta call my brother. I better call my housekeeper. I gotta call my lawyer. Aw, forget my lawyer. <hr width="50%"/> :''[the [[w:VMFA-314|Black Knights squadron]] is briefed on attacking the alien ship over Los Angeles]'' :'''Jimmy''': You scared, man? :'''Steven''': No. You? :'''Jimmy''': Nope. ''[pauses; leans head on Steven's shoulder]'' Hold me. :'''Steven''': Hey, pay attention. :'''Colonel''': Something you wanna add to this briefing, Captain Hiller? :'''Steven''': No, sir. I'm just a little anxious to get up there and whup E.T.'s ass. That's all. :''[everyone else laughs in agreement]'' :'''Colonel''': And you'll get your chance. You'll ''all'' get your chance. Good hunting. Dismissed! :'''Jimmy''': ''[as the pilots prepare to suit up]'' Let's kick the tires and light the fires, big daddy! <hr width="50%"/> :''[Inside Air Force One, David, Connie, General Grey, and Nimzicki are all talking at once, after David objects to them using nuclear weapons]'' :'''Nimzicki''': Shut up! Captain, get him out of here! :'''Julius''': Hey, don't tell him to shut up! ''[lets it sink in]'' You'd all be dead now if it wasn't for my David! None of you did anything to prevent this! :'''General Grey''': There was nothing we could do! We were totally unprepared for this! :'''Julius''': Bah! Don't give me "unprepared"! :'''Constance''': Come on, Julius, come on.... ''[tries to take Julius back]'' :'''Julius''': It was, what? In the 19-- what, 50s? Whatever; when you had that spaceship. :'''David''': Dad. :'''Julius''': Yeah, that thing you found in New Mexico! Where was that? :'''David''': Dad, no, not the spaceship, no. :'''Julius''': Roswell. [[w:Roswell, New Mexico|Roswell, New Mexico]], yeah! No, you had the spaceship and you had the bodies! They were locked up in a, in a bunker. Where was that? David? :'''Constance''': I don't know. :'''Julius''': In Area 51, right? Area 51?! You knew then! ''[hissing]'' And you did ''nothing!'' :'''President Whitmore''': Sir, regardless of what you may have read in the tabloids, there has never been any spacecraft recovered by our government. Take my word for it. There's no Area 51. There's no recovered ''spaceship.'' :'''Nimzicki''': Uh, excuse me, Mr. President? That's not ''entirely'' accurate. :''[uncomfortable silence amongst all on board]'' :'''David''': What, which part? <hr width="50%"/> :''[Dr Brakish Okun tours the president's party over Area 51's workspace]'' :'''President Whitmore''': I don't understand, where does all this come from? How do you get ''funding'' for something like this? :'''Julius''': You don't actually think they spend $20,000 on a hammer, $30,000 on a toilet seat, do you? <hr width="50%"/> :''[having arrived at Area 51 with his alien and a fleet of refugees, Steven talks to General Grey]'' :'''Steven''': Sir, I'm really anxious to get back to [[w:Marine Corps Air Station El Toro|El Toro]]. :'''General Grey''': ''[calmly]'' Hasn't anyone told you? El Toro has been completely destroyed. <hr width="50%"/> :''[the president scramble into an operating room's viewing deck after an alien revives itself and attacks the surgical crew]'' :'''Dr. Okun''': Release me... :'''Major Mitchell''': Open the door, get him out of there. :'''General Grey''': Wait! :''[they notice the tentacle wrapped around Okun's neck; the alien comes into view, speaking telepathically through Okun]'' :'''Dr. Okun/Alien''': Release me! Now! NOW! :'''President Whitmore''': I know there is much we can learn from each other, if we can negotiate a truce. We can find a way to co-exist. Can there be a peace between us? :'''Dr. Okun/Alien''': Peace?.... No peace... :'''Whitmore''': What is it you want us to do? :'''Dr. Okun/Alien''': Die... Die... == Taglines == * EARTH: Take a good look. It could be your last. * We've always believed we weren't alone. On July 4, we'll wish we were. * The question of whether or not we are alone in the universe...has been answered. * Don’t make plans for August. * WARNING! Your next stop may not be there. * On the Fourth of July, you will have a ringside seat for the ultimate fireworks show. * They only want one thing...DESTRUCTION. * On July 2, they arrive. On July 3, they strike. On July 4, we fight back. * A war is on, pitting superior alien technology against Humankind's will to survive. The odds are even. * THESE guys just picked the wrong world to invade. On July 4, we'll show them why. * Enjoy the Super Bowl - it may be your last. ** from the ''Independence Day'' [[w:Super Bowl|Super Bowl]] commercial == Quotes about Independence Day == * All of this feeds into a sliding scale of villain power. Culminating with the aliens of Independence Day. Notice, in that case, that you no longer need incompetence or corruption of our institutions. Jeopardy takes care of itself. The invaders are so badass that even the United States government and military are allowed to simultaneously be both capable and good! In order to provide spear-carrier support for the two or three point-of-view heroes. ** [[w:David Brin|David Brin]], [http://www.davidbrin.com/idiotplot.html Our Favorite Cliché: A World Filled With Idiots... or Why Film and Fiction Routinely Depict Society and its Citizens as Fools], ''DavidBrin.com'' * At one point the news comes that New York, Washington and Los Angeles have been destroyed, and is there grief? Despair? Anguish? Speculation about what that will mean for professional sports? Not a bit – the characters nod and hurry on to the next scene. ** [[Roger Ebert]], [http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/independence-day-1996 "Independence Day"] ''Chicago Sun Times'', 1996 as quoted in [https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jun/18/why-are-we-hooked-on-films-about-mass-destruction-independence-day-resurgence "Why are we hooked on films about mass destruction?"] by Nicholas Barber, ''The Guardian'', June 18, 2016. * I felt guilty about making my work look so good. I started thinking maybe I did my job too well, and it might have been the nucleus of an idea for someone to say: ‘Hey, let’s crash a plane into the White House.’ ** Joe Viskocil, film's pyrotechnics expert as quoted in [https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jun/18/why-are-we-hooked-on-films-about-mass-destruction-independence-day-resurgence "Why are we hooked on films about mass destruction?"] by Nicholas Barber, ''The Guardian'', June 18, 2016. ==Cast== * [[w:Bill Pullman|Bill Pullman]] - President Thomas Whitmore * [[w:Margaret Colin|Margaret Colin]] - Constance Spano * [[Jeff Goldblum]] - David Levinson * [[Will Smith]] - Captain Steve Hiller, USMC * Robert Loggia - Gen. William Grey, USMC * [[w:Vivica A. Fox|Vivica A. Fox]] - Jasmine Dubrow * [[w:Randy Quaid|Randy Quaid]] - Russell Casse * [[w:Judd Hirsch|Judd Hirsch]] - Julius Levinson ==External links== {{wikipedia|Independence Day (1996 film)}} * {{imdb title|id=0116629|title=Independence Day}} * {{rotten-tomatoes|id=1071806-independence_day|title=Independence Day}} * [http://dvdmg.com/id4.shtml Review of ''Independence Day''] * [http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/id4.html ''Independence Day'' script] * [http://www.foxhome.com/id4dvd/index_frames.html ''Independence Day'' official Fox site] [[Category:1996 films]] [[Category:Action films]] [[Category:1990s American films]] [[Category:Apocalyptic films]] [[Category:Science fiction films]] [[Category:Thriller films]] [[Category:Films about extraterrestrial life]] [[Category:War films]] [[Category:Airplane films]] [[Category:Films set in New Mexico]] [[Category:Films set in Houston]] [[Category:Films set in Los Angeles]] [[Category:Films set in California]] [[Category:Films set in New York]] [[Category:Films set in Washington, D.C.]] [[Category:Best Visual Effects Academy Award winners]] [[Category:Films directed by Roland Emmerich]] [[Category:Censored films]] [[Category:Films about the United States Marine Corps]] [[Category:Films about the United States Army]] [[Category:Films about alien invasions]] ge2kbhxgapgt9qrnoz36f333z78m9en 0 1613 3961337 3924619 2026-07-06T00:04:49Z Markjoseph125 19526 /* B */ added quote 3961337 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Minute Man, Daniel Chester French, Concord MA.jpg|thumb|Let us hope our weapons are never needed... Do not forget what the common people of this nation knew when they demanded the [[Bill of Rights]]. ~ [[Edward Abbey]]]] A '''[[w:Firearm|firearm]]''' is a portable gun (a barreled ranged weapon) that inflicts damage on targets by launching one or more projectiles driven by rapidly expanding high-pressure gas produced chemically by exothermic combustion (deflagration) of propellant within an ammunition cartridge. __NOTOC__ {{TOCalpha}} == Quotes == [[File:American officer and French partisan crouch behind an auto during a street fight in a French city. - NARA - 531322.tif|thumb|An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the final defense against tyranny. ~ [[Edward Abbey]]]] [[File:A_well.jpg|thumb|Most [[cowboys]] think it's an infringement on their rights to give up shooting in [[town]], and if it is, it stands, for your [[w:Six-shooter|six-shooters]] are no match for [[w:Winchester rifle|Winchesters]] and [[w:Buckshot|buckshot]]; and [[w:Dodge City, Kansas|Dodge]]'s officers are as [[game]] a set of men as ever faced [[danger]]. ~ Andy Adams]] [[File:Walther PPK.svg|thumb|If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns. ~ Anonymous]] [[File:Oslo view of city.jpg|thumb|The top 5 countries for mass shootings per capita all have "restrictive" gun policies. ~ Kyle Becker]] [[File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-P050127, Manöver der Reichswehr in Königshofen-Franken.jpg|thumb|Whatever happens, we have got the Maxim gun, and they have not. ~ [[Hilaire Belloc]] ]] [[File:Mitch McConnell by Gage Skidmore.jpg|thumb|Oh, you've got a gun? So, you want to pop that? ~ [[Snoop Dogg|Calvin C. Broadus]] ]] [[File:Burroughs1983 crop b.jpg|thumb|I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military. ~ [[William S. Burroughs]] ]] [[File:Afghanistan 02.jpg|thumb|I settle my vendettas with AKs, Berettas. ~ [[w:D12|Von Carlisle]]]] [[File:Non violence sculpture by carl fredrik reutersward malmo sweden.jpg|thumb|And I swear that I don't have a gun{{pbr}}No, I don't have a gun… ~ [[Kurt Cobain]]]] [[File:SQ Lethal Injection Room.jpg|thumb|I pull my trigger back; the bullets go. Boom, boom, boom! Now, I'm on death row. ~ [[w:RBX|Eric Collins]] ]] [[File:NIJ LVLIIIA Kogelvrij vest, BA8001.jpg|thumb|Going wild. Every night they shoot; it's like Beirut. Maybe you should get a Kevlar vest for your chest; anytime stepping through my hood. But that'll do you no good. One slug to your face? Don't hate. You're getting smoked, like wood. ~ [[w:RBX|Eric D. Collins]] ]] [[File:Colt Police Positive Special.png|thumb|The good people of this world are very far from being satisfied with each other and my arms are the best peacemakers. ~ [[Samuel Colt]] ]] [[File:Afrimil-ethiopiansoldier.jpg|thumb|You can get much farther with a [[kind]] [[word]] and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. ~ Irwin Corey]] [[File:Fintlock muskets Palace Armoury Valletta.jpg|thumb|[[War]]! What do you think all these bullets and all these [[w:Guns|guns]]'re made for? ~ [[w:David Banner|Lavell Crump]] ]] [[File:Scheme_human_hand_bones-en.svg|thumb|You gotta shoot straight! Straight doesn't seem good enough! ~ Hampton Fancher & David Peoples]] [[File:Kg99.jpg|thumb|Coming out the slums! It's the hoodlums, I'm pulling my gat out on all you bums! ~ [[w:B-Real|Louis Freese]] ]] [[File:Mahatma Gandhi Ghp.jpg|thumb|Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. ~ [[Mahatma Gandhi]] ]] [[File:US_Navy_051206-M-7173M-015_Hospital_Corpsman_3rd_Class_Jesse_Munsey,_assigned_to_the_2nd_Battalion,_6th_Marines,_Gulf_Company,_observes_the_road_up_ahead.jpg|thumb|Strapped up, ready to roll. ~ [[w:Boosie Badazz|Torrance Hatch]]]] [[File:RAH 1929 Yearbook.png|thumb|An armed society is a polite society. ~ [[Robert Heinlein]] ]] [[File:RepublicanWoman1936GTaro.jpg|thumb|There are no good guns. There are no bad guns. Any gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing. Any gun in the hands of a decent person is no threat to anybody — except bad people... ~ [[Charlton Heston]] ]] [[File:Stroop Report - Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 06b.jpg|thumb|The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. ~ [[Adolf Hitler]] ]] [[File:Chalk_outline_on_the_Museum_Mile.jpg|thumb|Having access to a firearm for a [[child]] who is experiencing a [[w:Behavioral health|behavioral health]] crisis is an absolute recipe for the most tragic things you can imagine. ~ Benjamin Hoffman]] [[File:AK-47 assault rifle.jpg|thumb|When that window rolls down and that [[w:AK-47|A.K.]] comes out? You can squeeze your little handgun, until you run out. ~ [[50 Cent|Curtis Jackson]] ]] [[File:Stack of 100 dollar bills.jpg|thumb|Fuck with my [[Money|dough]]? Then, the guns come out! ~ [[50 Cent|Curtis Jackson]] ]] [[File:101st with members of dutch resistance.jpg|thumb|our States assert, that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves, … or they may act by representatives, freely and equally chosen; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed; that they are entitled to freedom... ~ [[Thomas Jefferson]]]] [[File:Scarface_1932_Lobby_Card.jpg|thumb|As long as the [[gangster]] has access to guns, either [[pistols]] or [[machine guns]], he is a bold, bad-man, [[menacing]] [[society]] and [[mocking]] at [[law]] and [[decency]], but once [[robbed]] of his guns he is a yellow rat who will crawl into his hole. ~ [[w:Jason Joy|Jason Joy]]]] [[File:William_Shatner_Sally_Kellerman_Star_Trek_1966.JPG|thumb|By... '''our readiness to allow arms to be [[purchased]] at will and fired at whim; by allowing our [[movie]] and [[television]] screens to [[teach]] our [[children]] that the [[hero]] is one who masters the [[art]] of shooting and the [[technique]] of [[killing]]'''; by allowing all of these developments, we have created an atmosphere in which [[violence]] and [[hatred]] have become popular pastimes. ~ [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]]]] [[File:Stroop Report - Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 07.jpg|thumb|The majority falls prey to the delusion, popular in some circles, that ordinary people are too careless and stupid to own guns, and we would be far better off leaving all weapons in the hands of professionals on the government payroll. But the simple truth, born of experience, is that tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people. ~ [[w:Alex Kozinski|Alex Kozinski]]]] [[File:Varsovia.jpg|thumb|All too many of the other great tragedies of history, Stalin's atrocities, the killing fields of Cambodia, the Holocaust, to name but a few, were perpetrated by armed troops against unarmed populations. Many could well have been avoided or mitigated, had the perpetrators known their intended victims were equipped with a rifle and twenty bullets apiece. ~ [[w:Alex Kozinski|Alex Kozinski]]]] [[File:Stroop_Report_-_Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising_08.jpg|thumb|If a few hundred Jewish fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto could hold off the Wehrmacht for almost a month with only a handful of weapons, six million Jews armed with rifles could not so easily have been herded into cattle cars. ~ Alex Kozinski]] [[File:Fire_Lance_Knight.jpg|thumb|200px|Armed men don’t sit down and talk. ~ [[Ursula K. Le Guin]]]] [[File:Richard Henry Lee - crop.jpg|thumb|To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them. ~ [[Richard Henry Lee]]]] [[File:JeetKuneDo.svg|thumb|'''Nowadays you don't go around on the street kicking [[people]], punching people — because if you do (makes [[gun]] shape with hand), ''well that's it'' — I don't care how [[good]] you are.''' ~ [[Bruce Lee]]]] [[File:Harriet Tubman Civil War Woodcut.jpg|thumb|People, let me say God has made you free. Although you have been deprived of your God-given rights by your so-called 'masters', you are now as free as I am, and if those that claim to be your "superiors" do not know that you are free, take the [[sword]] and [[bayonet]] and teach them that you are; for God created all men free, giving to each the same rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. ~ [[Abraham Lincoln]]]] [[File:Muszkieterzy.JPG|thumb|200px|I think these things (firearms) were [[invented]] by [[Satan]] himself, for they can’t be defended against with (ordinary) [[weapons]] and fists. '''All human strength vanishes when confronted with firearms.''' A man is dead before he sees what's coming. ~ [[Martin Luther]]]] [[File:Stroop Report - Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - 26534.jpg|thumb|Because there is nothing proportionate between the armed and the unarmed; and it is not reasonable that he who is armed should yield obedience willingly to him who is unarmed, or that the unarmed man should be secure among armed servants. Because, there being in the one disdain and in the other suspicion, it is not possible for them to work well together. ~ [[Niccolò Machiavelli]]]] [[File:Honor guard of the People's Liberation Army.jpg|thumb|right|Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. ~ [[Mao Zedong]] ]] [[File:Aks74u.png|thumb|'''[[w:Riey Freeman|Riley Freeman]]''': [P]retend your some [[stupid]] [[parents]] [[activist]] [[person]]... <br> Who would you rather start a beef with – some [[nerd]] who makes [[video games]], or some [[dude]] with a warehouse full of [[AK-47]]s? ~ [[w:Aaron McGruder|Aaron McGruder]]]] [[File:Charlton_Heston_in_The_Ten_Commandments_film_trailer.jpg|thumb|'''[[w:Huey Freeman|Huey Freeman]]''': I’ll check the [[Old Testament|old testament]], but I’m pretty sure [[Moses]] wasn’t packin’ heat. ~ [[w:Aaron McGruder|Aaron McGruder]]]] [[File:Tompkins square riot 1874.jpg|thumb|Gun control has always been racist and discriminatory. The ultimate objective of gun control is to control an unarmed people by an armed oppressor. ~ Geoff Metcalf]] [[File:梨花鎗.jpg|thumb|200px|I can't even think about this movie. I don't WANT to think about it because if I think about it '''I will have to face an ugly truth that has been gnawing through my head...'''<br> This started out as a documentary on [[gun]] [[violence]] in [[America]], but the largest mass murder in our history was just committed — without the use of a single gun! Not a single bullet fired! '''No bomb was set off, no missile was fired, no weapon (i.e., a device that was solely and specifically manufactured to kill humans) was used. A boxcutter! — I can't stop thinking about this. A thousand [[gun control]] [[laws]] would not have prevented this massacre.''' What am I doing? ~ [[Michael Moore]]]] [[File:Flag of Mississippi (1894-1996).png|thumb|No freedman, Negro, or Mulatto shall carry or keep firearms or ammunition. ~ ''Mississippi Black Code of 1865'']] [[File:KristNovoselic2011.jpg|thumb|I mean I'm a gun-owning [[pacifist]], so there you go. ~ [[Krist Novoselic]] ]] [[File:Stroop Report - Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - 26546.jpg|thumb|Arms like laws discourage and keep the invader and the plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world... Horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world deprived of the use of them; for while avarice and ambition have a place in the heart of man, the weak will become a prey to the strong. ~ [[Thomas Paine]]]] [[File:Léonard-rouet.jpg|thumb|200px|The more people know that members of our community may be armed, the less likely they will be to single us out for attack. ~ [[w:Pink Pistols|Pink Pistols]]]] [[File:Minute Man Statue Lexington Massachusetts cropped.jpg|thumb|The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers. ~ [[Joseph Story]] ]] [[File:Mossberg 500 2 barrels.png|thumb|A shotgun is a tool. The correct application in the right situation will give you the best results. ~ [[w:Ken Swift|Ken Swift]] ]] [[File:Gabrielle Giffords shooting scene A.jpg|thumb|Why are the feds worried about me clocking on this corner, when there's politicians out here getting popped in [[Arizona]]? ~ [[w:Freddie Gibbs|Fredrick Tipton]]]] [[File:'Twenty_Thousand_Leagues_Under_the_Sea'_by_Neuville_and_Riou_034.jpg|thumb|[T]he balls sent by this gun are not ordinary balls, but little cases of glass. These glass cases are covered with a case of steel, and weighted with a pellet of lead; they are real Leyden bottles, into which the electricity is forced to a very high tension. With the slightest shock they are discharged, and the animal, however strong it may be, falls dead. ~ [[Jules Verne]]]] [[File:Tom 500 nightfiring.jpg|thumb|right|Even a pacifist would get violent if someone were trying to kill him or her. You would fight for your life, whatever your beliefs. ~ [[Bruce Willis]] ]] [[File:El subfusil de Neo en Matrix (5400871349).jpg|thumb|So what do you need? Besides a [[miracle]]? ~ [[w:Lilly Wachowski|Lilly Wachowski]] and [[w:Lana Wachowski|Lana Wachowski]]]] [[File:Indians_Attacking_a_Stage-Coach_BAH-p243.png|thumb|“People were allowed to own guns, and everyone did own guns [in the West], for the most part. Having a firearm to protect yourself in the lawless wilderness from wild animals, hostile native tribes, and outlaws was a wise idea. But when you came into town, you had to either check your guns if you were a visitor or keep your guns at home if you were a resident. ~ Adam Winkler]] [[File:Mexican_Standoff.jpg|thumb|200px|I've never seen any rhetoric from that time period saying that the only thing that's going to reduce violence is more people with guns. It seems to be much more of a 20th-century attitude than one associated with the [[w:Wild West|Wild West]]. ~ Adam Winkler]] [[File:Sniper is aiming at night at Fuerzas Comando 2011.jpg|thumb|right|Give a guy a gun, he thinks he's [[Superman]]. Give him two and he thinks he's [[God]]. ~ [[w:Barry Wong|Barry Wong]] and [[w:John Woo|John Woo]]]] [[File:Armstech (Metal Gear) Logo.png|thumb|"[[w:Video games|Games]] today are very, very real. It's the [[weapons]]; it's the [[w:Story line|story lines]], you know, that people get caught up in — even the optics that are used on the guns, it says L-3 [[w:EOTech|EOTech]]. It actually has the name of the brand on the side of it so you know which optic, you know, you could go out and buy. ~ Sami Yenigun]] [[File:Thomas_C2_interior_seats.jpg|thumb|Dear friends, on 9 October 2012, the Taliban shot me on the left side of my forehead. They shot my friends, too. They thought that the bullets would silence us, but they failed. And out of that silence came thousands of voices. The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions. But nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born. I am the same Malala. My ambitions are the same. My hopes are the same. And my dreams are the same. Dear sisters and brothers, I am not against anyone. Neither am I here to speak in terms of personal revenge against the Taliban or any other terrorist group. I am here to speak for the right of education for every child. I want education for the sons and daughters of the Taliban and all the terrorists and extremists. I do not even hate the Talib who shot me. ~ [[Malala Yousafzai]]]] [[File:FireLanceAndGrenade10thCenturyDunhuang.jpg|thumb|Even if there was a gun in my hand and he was standing in front of me, I would not shoot him. This is the compassion I have learned from [[Muhammad|Mohamed]], the prophet of mercy, [[Jesus Christ]] and Lord [[Buddha]]. This the legacy of change I have inherited from [[Martin Luther King]], [[Nelson Mandela]] and [[Muhammad Ali Jinnah|Mohammed Ali Jinnah]]. This is the philosophy of nonviolence that I have learned from [[Gandhi]], [[wikipedia:Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan|Bacha Khan]] and [[Mother Teresa]]. And this is the forgiveness that I have learned from my father and from my mother. '''This is what my soul is telling me: be peaceful and love everyone.''' ~ [[Malala Yousafzai]] ]] ===A=== * '''The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of [[democracy]].''' Not for nothing was the revolver called an "equalizer." Egalite implies liberte. And always will. '''Let us hope our weapons are never needed — but do not forget what the common people of this nation knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the final defense against tyranny.''' ** [[Edward Abbey]], ''Abbey's Road'' (1979) * I stand with Survivors Empowered and other organizations fighting for gun reform. And I've been a strong supporter of controversial activist strategies over the past 50 years. But we need to be effective so that we change the country for the better without curtailing the legitimate rights of others. As I have learned the hard way, social change is exceedingly slow and cautious, and moves at all only because we continually prod it to do so. We all seek peace, but as [[W.B. Yeats]] wrote, "Peace comes dropping slow." ** [[w:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar|Kareem Abdul-Jabbar]], [https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/kareem-abdul-jabbar-joker-gun-violence-protests-miss-mark-1244763 “Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Why the 'Joker' Gun Violence Protests Miss the Mark”], ''The Hollywood Reporter'', (10/2/2019). * The [[w:Bison hunting|buffalo hunters]] and range men have protested against the [[iron]] [[rule]] of [[w:Dodge City, Kansas|Dodge's]] peace officers, and nearly every protest has cost human life. ... Most [[cowboys]] think it's an infringement on their rights to give up shooting in [[town]], and if it is, it stands, for your [[w:Six-shooter|six-shooters]] are no match for [[w:Winchester rifle|Winchesters]] and [[w:Buckshot|buckshot]]; and Dodge's officers are as [[game]] a set of men as ever faced [[danger]]. ** Andy Adams, ''Log of a Cowboy'', (1903); as qtd. in Matt Jancer, [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/gun-control-old-west-180968013/ “Gun Control Is as Old as the Old West”], ''Smithsonian'', (February 5, 2018). * '''If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.''' ** [[Anonymous]] American adage, as quoted in ''The Wayward Welfare State'' (1981) by Roger A. Freeman, p. 286 ** When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns. *** Bumper sticker, quoted in ''Design with Type'' (1982) by Carl Dair, p. 174. * ''Лучше старенький ТТ, чем дзюдо и каратэ.'' ** The old [[w:TT pistol|TT]] is better than judo and karate. *** [[Anonymous]] [http://demotivation.me/iblspgblcmdnpic.html Russian proverb] * To suppose arms in the hands of citizens, to be used at individual discretion, except in private self-defense, or by partial orders of towns, countries or districts of a state, is to demolish every constitution, and lay the laws prostrate, so that liberty can be enjoyed by no man; it is a dissolution of the government. '''The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws'''. ** [[John Adams]], "A Defence of the Constitutions of the United States", (January 1787). * And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; '''or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms'''. ** [[Samuel Adams]], (6 February 1788), reported in Charles Hale, ''Debates and Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts'' (1856), p. 86. This language was proposed in the Massachusetts convention for ratification of the U.S. Constitution to be added to Article I of that document. * Fear of gun-buying restrictions has been the main driver of spikes in gun sales, far surpassing the effects of mass shootings and terrorist attacks alone. ** {{cite news |newspaper=[[w:The New York Times|The New York Times]] |title=What Happens After Calls for New Gun Restrictions? Sales Go Up |first1=Gregor |last1=Aisch |first2=Josh |last2=Keller |date=June 13, 2016 |accessdate=November 4, 2018 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/10/us/gun-sales-terrorism-obama-restrictions.html}} * Real G, thoroughbred from the streets. Pants sagging, with my gun in my drawers. **Akon, "Soul Survivor" (2005) *Suddenly the men of Troop G pause and wheel around, rifles upraised.&nbsp; At 12:24 one of them, possibly an officer, fires his weapon.&nbsp; This is immediately followed by a staccato sound like a series of giant firecrackers exploding.&nbsp; At least ten guardsmen fire fifty-five rifle bursts, five pistol shots, and a shotgun blast at students over a hundred yards away in the parking lot.{{pbr}}When echoes of the fusillade fade away, thirteen bodies are sprawled on the ground.&nbsp; Nine students are wounded.&nbsp; Four are dead—Allison Krause, Bill Schroeder, Sandra Scheuer, and Jeffrey Miller.&nbsp; Of the thirteen who were shot, only two have been hit frontally.&nbsp; Seven have bullets in their sides and four in their backs, proving they were not advancing but fleeing.{{pbr}}One young guardsman is horrified by the spectacle.&nbsp; Falling to the ground and tossing hysterically, he cries out, "I just shot two teenagers!"&nbsp; The other guardsmen march off up the hill, leaving the dead and wounded behind. ** [[w:Jules Archer|Jules Archer]] on the [[Kent State shootings]], [http://alexpeak.com/twr/kstttstn/ "Kent State—the Tragedy that Shook the Nation,"] chapter one of ''The Incredible Sixties: The Stormy Years that Changed America'' (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986), pp. 2–3 ===B=== * My correspondent also quibbled that we can’t compare the death rate by handguns in the United States to those in other industrialized nations in part because the US death rate is inflated by firearm suicides. I can’t help wondering why anyone bothers making such distinctions – the mortician certainly doesn’t.<br>The fact is, there’s a fundamental problem in using a gun for home protection. Burglars are unlikely to stand politely by while you unlock the gun cabinet and get the bullets out of the safe. For a gun to be of any use at all in such a case, it must be loaded and ready to hand. Those facts make it all too likely that the gun will be used on another family member in a moment of anger – or that it will fall into the hands of a child.<br>As of this writing, [[w:Killing of Kayla Rolland|Kayla Rolland]] is still dead. ** [[Dale Bailey]], Story Notes to ''Death and Suffrage'' (2003); in ''The Resurrection Man’s Legacy,'' <small> {{ISBN|1-930846-22-3}}, </small> p. 324 * The laws of [false utility] are those which forbid to wear arms, disarming those only who are not disposed to commit the crime which the laws mean to prevent. Can it be supposed, that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity, and the most important of the code, will respect the less considerable and arbitrary injunctions, the violation of which is so easy, and of so little comparative importance? Does not the execution of this law deprive the subject of that personal liberty, so dear to mankind and to the wise legislator? ** Cesare Beccaria, ''On Crimes and Punishments'', 1764, Chapter 40 [http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php/Laws_that_forbid_the_carrying_of_arms], this has sometimes been wrongly attributed to [[Thomas Jefferson]]. Jefferson transcribed this passage (in the original Italian) in his [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mtj5&fileName=mtj5page059.db&recNum=271&itemLink=%2Fammem%2Fmtjhtml%2Fmtjser5.html&linkText=6 ''Legal Commonplace Book'', item 828]. *The top 5 countries for mass shootings per capita all have "restrictive" gun policies. **Kyle Becker, [http://www.ijreview.com/2015/12/348197-paris-attack-claim-mass-shootings/ "If You Look at This Chart of Top 10 Nations in the World for Mass Shootings – One Thing Jumps Out"] (2015), ''IJReview'' * Whatever happens, we have got <br> The Maxim gun, and they have not. ** [[Hilaire Belloc]] ''The Modern Traveller'' (1898). *"The highest love, a woman's touch / Harmony, a strong mind, a strong body, beauty, all the things / He couldn't be, all / The things he couldn't have. / Little man with a gun in his hand" ** [[w:D. Boon|D. Boon]], The Minutemen * Zardoz, speaks to you, his chosen ones. You have been raised up from brutality to kill the brutals that multiply and are legion. To this end, Zardoz, gave you the gift of the gun. '''The gun is good. The penis is evil. The penis shoots seeds and makes new life to poison the earth with a plague of man, as once it was. But the gun shoots death and purifies the earth of the filth of brutals. Go forth and kill. Zardoz has spoken.''' ** [[Zardoz]] written by John Boorman *I am Boutros Boutros-Ghali; '''put down your guns and listen to [[Bob Marley]].''' **[[Boutros Boutros-Ghali]], as quoted in [http://www.listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=C5P9J1wCgNM "War"] (28 February 2003), [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0508528/?ref_=ttep_ep2 ''Da Ali G Show'']. *I've got my twin Glock 40s cocked back, me and my homies. So, drop that. **[[w:Ludacris|Christopher Bridges]], "Rollout" (2001), ''Word of Mouf'' *Oh, you've got a gun? So, you want to pop that? **[[Snoop Dogg|Calvin Broadus]], "Drop It Like It's Hot" (2004), ''R&G: The Masterpiece'' (2004) *Wait for your answer; go over there. But, if she pack a gun? You know you'd better run fast! **[[w:Shaggy (musician)|Orville Richard Burrell]], "It Wasn't Me" (2000), ''Hot Shot'' * After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who ''didn't'' do it. '''I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.''' ** [[William S. Burroughs]], “The War Universe: Interviews with Raymond Foye”, ''Grand Street'' no. 37 (1991), [http://www.jstor.org/stable/25007430?seq=16 p. 107] ===C=== * The firepower wielded by organised crime groups in Mexico has not only led to mounting instability in the US's southern neighbour, but also contributed to lawlessness on the two countries' shared border and the deaths of American agents. As the U.S. invests millions in Mexico's security through the [[w:Mérida Initiative|Merida initiative]], it does itself a disservice by allowing lax gun regulation to arm the same groups it is trying to combat. Poor gun regulation and oversight also threatens the U.S. by providing potential terrorists with easy access to military grade weapons, as was boasted by American-born [[al-Qaida]] member [[w:Adam Yahiye Gadahn|Adam Gadahn]] in a recent video. ** Rodrigo Camarena, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/jun/24/gun-control-gabrielle-giffords?INTCMP=SRCH "Time to Target Gun Control"], ''The Guardian'', 24 June 2011. * The spirit of murder seems to be on the increase in our day. This is partly due to the increase of firearms and to their cheapness, also to the fashion which prevails in many quarters of carrying deadly weapons. The frequency with which shooting is done also has its effect to break down the feeling of sacredness which should surround human life. ** [[George Q. Cannon]], “Obedience — Do not Kill,” ''[https://juvenileinstructor.org/the-spirit-of-murder-seems-to-be-on-the-increase-due-to-the-increase-in-firearms-george-q-cannon-denounces-gun-violence-1891/ Juvenile Instructor]'' 26:14 (July 15, 1891), 443 * I settle my vendettas with AKs, Berettas. ** Von Carlisle, [http://genius.com/D12-40-oz-lyrics "40 Oz."] (2004), ''D12 World'', Interscope Records * I've got army guns... Got a gun; never caught without one. ** [[Lil Wayne|Dwayne Carter]], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6Yyehm24Mo "Army Gunz"] (2006), ''Like Father, Like Son'' (2006), Cash Money Records * Brand new pistol, with a trigger like a hair-pin! ** [[Lil Wayne|Dwayne Carter]], [http://genius.com/21366/Lil-wayne-stuntin-like-my-daddy/I-can-stuff-a-coupe-like-a-motherfuckin-caravan "Stuntin' Like My Daddy"] (2006), ''Like Father, Like Son'' (2006), Cash Money Records * We are not anti-gun: we are anti-bullet holes in our patients. Most upsetting, actually, is death and disability from gun violence that is unparalleled in the world. ** Esther Choo, ''Twitter'', (Nov 8, 2018), as quoted in [https://www.npr.org/2018/11/11/666762890/after-nra-mocks-doctors-physicians-reply-this-is-our-lane "After NRA Mocks Doctors, Physicians Reply: 'This Is Our Lane'], ''Heard on All Things Considered'', ''NPR'', (November 11, 2018). * Guns are the Crutches of the Impotent. ** [[Arthur C. Clarke]], ''The Hammer of God,'' in [[w:Gardner Dozois|Gardner Dozois]] (ed.) ''[[w:The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection|The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection]],'' p. 199 (Originally published in the September 28, 1992 issue of [[w:Time (magazine)|Time]]) * Men who take up arms against the State must expect at any moment to be fired upon. Men who take up arms unlawfully cannot expect that the troops will wait until they are quite ready to begin the conflict. ** [[Winston Churchill]], speech in the House of Commons, July 8, 1920 [http://lachlan.bluehaze.com.au/churchill/am-text.htm "Amritsar"] ; at the time, Churchill was serving as [[w:Secretary of State for War|Secretary of State for War]] under Prime Minister [[w:David Lloyd George|David Lloyd George]] * When they kick out your front door<br>How you gonna come?<br>With your hands on your head<br>Or on the trigger of your gun?<br><br>When the law break in<br>How you gonna go?<br>Shot down on the pavement<br>Or waiting on death row?<br><br>You can crush us<br>You can bruise us<br>But you'll have to answer to<br>Oh, the guns of Brixton. ** The Clash, "[[w:The Guns of Brixton|The Guns of Brixton]]", from ''[[w:London Calling|London Calling]]'' (1980), lyrics by Paul Simonon * And I swear that I don't have a gun. No, I don't have a gun. No, I don't have a gun ** [[Kurt Cobain]], "[[w:Come as You Are (Nirvana song)|Come as You Are]]" by [[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]] from the 1991 album ''[[Nevermind]]''. * I pull my trigger back; the bullets go. Boom, boom, boom! Now, I'm on death row. Fuck it. ** [[w:RBX|Eric Dwayne Collins]], [http://genius.com/289895 "Lyrical Gangbang"] (1992), ''The Chronic'' (December 1992), Death Row Records. * Going wild. Every night they shoot; it's like Beirut. Maybe you should get a Kevlar vest for your chest; anytime stepping through my hood. But that'll do you no good. One slug to your face? Don't hate. You're getting smoked, like wood. ** [[w:RBX|Eric Dwayne Collins]], [http://genius.com/289895 "Lyrical Gangbang"] (1992), ''The Chronic'' (December 1992), Death Row Records. * The good people of this world are very far from being satisfied with each other and my arms are the best peacemakers. ** [[w:Samuel Colt|Samuel Colt]], in a [http://books.google.com/books?id=ygcO6WyqrYkC&pg=PA48&dq=%22good+people+of+this+wirld%22][http://books.google.com/books?id=ZbgSAQAAMAAJ&&dq=%22good+people+of+this+wirld%22 letter to Charles Manby (18 May 1852)]; originally rendered : "The good people of this wirld are very far from being satisfide with each other &amp; my arms are the best peesmakers." *It is a cliche that the gun is a penis-symbol as well as a weapon. Gun organizations are conventionally masculine in cultural style; hunting and gun magazines dress their models in check shirts and boots to emphasize their masculinity. The gun lobby hardly has to labour the inference that politicians trying to take away our guns are emasculating us. '''At both symbolic and practical levels, the defense of gun ownership is a defense of hegemonic masculinity.''' **[[Raewyn Connell]], ''Masculinities'' * The consensus is that no more than five to ten people in a hundred who die by gunfire in Los Angeles are any loss to society. These people fight small wars amongst themselves. It would seem a valid social service to keep them well-supplied with ammunition. ** [[Jeff Cooper]], ''Guns and Ammo'' Magazine, April 1991. * You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word. ** [[w:Irwin Corey|"Professor" Irwin Corey]][http://www.brooklyneagle.com/archive/category.php?category_id=27&id=14395][http://www.nycplus.com/nyc39/professorirwin.html]. Often humorously attributed to [[Al Capone]]. * Every black person in America should get a gun and join the National Rifle Association, America's oldest and most august civil rights organization. Apparently this has occurred to no one because our excellent public education system ensures that no American under the age of sixty has the slightest notion of this country's history. Gun control laws were originally promulgated by Democrats to keep guns out of the hands of blacks. This allowed the Democratic policy of slavery to proceed with fewer bumps and, after the Civil War, allowed the Democratic [[Ku Klux Klan]] to menace and murder black Americans with little resistance. Contrary to what illiterates believe, the KKK was an outgrowth of the Democratic Party, with overlapping membership rolls. The Klan was to the Democrats what the American Civil Liberties Union is today. Not every Democrat is an ACLU'er, but every ACLU'er is a Democrat. Same with the Klan. **[[w:Ann Coulter|Ann Coulter]], as quoted in [https://web.archive.org/web/20120503013852/http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2012-04-18.html "Negroes With Guns"] (18 April 2012), by A. Coulter, ''Ann Coulter''. * In 1640, the very first gun control law ever enacted on these shores was passed in Virginia. It provided that blacks, even freemen, could not own guns. Chief Justice Roger Taney's infamous opinion in ''Dred Scott v. Sandford'' circularly argued that blacks could not be citizens because if they were citizens, they would have the right to own guns: "[I]t would give them the full liberty," he said, "to keep and carry arms wherever they went." With logic like that, Republicans eventually had to fight a Civil War to get the Democrats to give up slavery. Alas, they were Democrats, so they cheated. After the war, Democratic legislatures enacted 'Black Codes', denying black Americans the rights of citizenship, such as the rather crucial one of bearing arms, while other Democrats, sometimes the same Democrats, founded the Ku Klux Klan. For more than a hundred years, Republicans have aggressively supported arming blacks, so they could defend themselves against Democrats. The original draft of the Anti-Klan Act of 1871, passed at the urging of Republican president Ulysses S. Grant, made it a federal felony to 'deprive any citizen of the United States of any arms or weapons he may have in his house or possession for the defense of his person, family, or property'. This section was deleted from the final bill only because it was deemed both beyond Congress' authority and superfluous, inasmuch as the rights of citizenship included the right to bear arms. Under authority of the Anti-Klan Act, President Grant deployed the U.S. military to destroy the Klan, and pretty nearly completed the job. But the Klan had a few resurgences in the early and mid-20th century. Curiously, wherever the Klan became a political force, gun control laws would suddenly appear on the books. This will give you an idea of how gun control laws worked. **[[w:Ann Coulter|Ann Coulter]], as quoted in [https://web.archive.org/web/20120503013852/http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2012-04-18.html "Negroes With Guns"] (18 April 2012), by A. Coulter, ''Ann Coulter''. *Following the firebombing of his house in 1956, Dr. Martin Luther King, who was, among other things, a Christian minister, applied for a gun permit, but the Alabama authorities found him unsuitable. A decade later, he won a Nobel Peace Prize. How's that 'may issue' gun permit policy working for you? The NRA opposed these discretionary gun permit laws and proceeded to grant NRA charters to blacks who sought to defend themselves from Klan violence, including the great civil rights hero Robert F. Williams. A World War II Marine veteran, Williams returned home to Monroe, N.C., to find the Klan riding high, beating, lynching and murdering blacks at will. No one would join the NAACP for fear of Klan reprisals. Williams became president of the local chapter and increased membership from six to more than 200. But it was not until he got a charter from the NRA in 1957 and founded the Black Armed Guard that the Klan got their comeuppance in Monroe. Williams' repeated thwarting of violent Klan attacks is described in his stirring book, ''Negroes With Guns''. In one crucial battle, the Klan sieged the home of a black physician and his wife, but Williams and his Black Armed Guard stood sentry and repelled the larger, cowardly force. And that was the end of it. As the Klan found out, it's not so much fun when the rabbit's got the gun. The NRA's proud history of fighting the Klan has been airbrushed out of the record by those who were complicit with the KKK, Jim Crow and racial terror, to wit, the Democrats. **[[w:Ann Coulter|Ann Coulter]], as quoted in [https://web.archive.org/web/20120503013852/http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2012-04-18.html "Negroes With Guns"] (18 April 2012), by A. Coulter, ''Ann Coulter''. * Gun control is always a scheme of the powerful to deprive the powerless of the right to self-defense. **[[w:Ann Coulter|Ann Coulter]], as quoted in [https://web.archive.org/web/20120503013852/http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2012-04-18.html "Negroes With Guns"] (18 April 2012), by A. Coulter, ''Ann Coulter''. * [[Blood]]y [[war]]! What do you think all these bullets and all these guns're made for? ** [[w:David Banner|Lavell W. Crump]], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhKVyOV8Z48 "Bloody War"] (2005), ''Certified'' (2005) * I wanted [[peace]], but now my piece is clearing out the block. ** [[w:David Banner|Lavell W. Crump]], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhKVyOV8Z48 "Bloody War"] (2005), ''Certified'' (2005) * If I've got nine slugs? Nine bullets're going to fly. If I've got a red beam? Nine people're going to die. Nine mothers gone cry; nine spirits in the sky. Nine preachers preaching nine sermons; telling nine lies. ** [[w:David Banner|Lavell W. Crump]], [http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/davidbanner/9mm.html "9mm"] (July 2007), ''The Greatest Story Ever Told'' (July 2008) ===D=== * The town in Georgia's got a law on the books / Says if we all got guns then we won't have crooks / Now what could make them think that way? ** [[w:The Dead Milkmen|The Dead Milkmen]], "Right Wing Pigeons", ''[[w:Big Lizard in My Backyard|Big Lizard in My Backyard]]'' (1985). * The sun is settin' on the century<br>and we are armed to the teeth<br>we are all working together now<br>to make our lives mercifully brief<br>schoolkids keep trying to teach us<br>what guns are all about<br>confuse liberty with weaponry<br>and watch your kids act it out<br>every year now like Christmas<br>some boy gets the milk-fed suburban blues<br>reaches for the available arsenal<br>and saunters off to make the news. * And If I hear one more time<br>about fool's rights<br>to his tools of rage<br>I'm gonna take all my friends<br>and I'm gonna move to Canada<br>and we're gonna die of old age. ** [[w:Ani DeFranco|Ani DeFranco]], "To the Teeth", from ''[[w:To the Teeth|To the Teeth]]'' (1999), lyrics by Ani DeFranco * To accept the principle that "all power proceeds from the barrel of a gun" is to accept a society which will be dominated by those with the biggest guns. ** [[Tommy Douglas]], speech delivered at Luther College, Regina, Saskatchewan, March 16, 1973. *A man's rights rest in three boxes. The ballot box, jury box and the cartridge box. Let no man be kept from the ballot box because of his color. Let no woman be kept from the ballot box because of her sex. **[[Frederick Douglass]], [http://books.google.ca/books?id=zFclDyk2LTEC&pg=PA57#v=onepage&q&f=false speech] (15 November 1867). * From the first I saw no chance of bettering the condition of the freedman until he should cease to be merely a freedman and should become a citizen. I insisted that there was no safety for him or for anybody else in America outside the American government; that to guard, protect, and maintain his liberty the freedman should have the ballot; that '''the liberties of the American people were dependent upon the ballot-box, the jury-box, and the cartridge-box; that without these no class of people could live and flourish in this country'''; and this was now the word for the hour with me, and the word to which the people of the North willingly listened when I spoke. Hence, regarding as I did the elective franchise as the one great power by which all civil rights are obtained, enjoyed, and maintained under our form of government, and the one without which freedom to any class is delusive if not impossible, I set myself to work with whatever force and energy I possessed to secure this power for the recently-emancipated millions. **[[Frederick Douglass]], [http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/dougl92/dougl92.html ''The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass''] (1892), p. 460. * Will it be a great source of comfort to certain Canadian boys to know that the bullet that maimed them for life was made from Canadian nickel sold by the [[w:Inco|International Nickel Company]]? ** [[Tommy Douglas]] Debate, House of Commons, Ottawa, Ontario, April 3, 1939. * While nearly anything, including human hands, may be used to kill, '''the gun is created for the specific purpose of killing a living creature'''.<br>Gun-love can be akin to non-chemical addictions like gambling or hoarding, either of which can have devastating effects, mainly economic, but '''murder, suicide, accidental death, and [[Mass shootings in the United States|mass shootings]] result only from guns.'''...<br>Although each of these mass killings is idiosyncratic, they often share many features, including but not limited to the most obvious, which bears repeating – their '''use of guns'''....<br>'''Guns are a sign of potency for many white Americans''' who otherwise feel they have been wrongly disempowered or disenfranchised, whether by the government, by an employer or colleagues, or by members of other social, political or ethnic groups. ** [[w:Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz|Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz]], Professor Emerita of Ethnic Studies at [[w:California State University, Hayward|California State University]] ({{cite news |first=Roxanne |last=Dunbar-Ortiz |authorlink=w:Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz |title=Inside the minds of American mass shooters |date=November 10, 2017 |newspaper=[[w:The Guardian|The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/10/us-mass-shootings-history}}; {{cite book |year=2018 |first=Roxanne |last=Dunbar-Ortiz |authorlink=w:Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz |title=Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment |isbn=9780872867246 |publisher=[[w:City Lights Bookstore|City Lights]]}}) ===E=== * The most important lesson I learned ... was that the winner of a gunplay usually was the one who took his [[time]]. The second was that, if I hoped to live on the frontier, I would shun flashy trick-shooting—grandstand play—as I would [[poison]] ... In all my life as a frontier peace officer, I did not know a really proficient gunfighter who had anything but [[contempt]] for the gun-fanner, or the man who literally shot from the [[hip]]... ** [[Wyatt Earp]]; as qtd. in ''Encyclopedia of Western Gunslingers by Bill O'Neal, University of Oklahoma Press'' (paperback edition), 1991; as qtd. in [http://shotdoc.com/myths.asp "Old West Myths ... And Things Little Known"], ''Shotdoc.com'', (Retrieved February 2, 2014). * I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it. ** [[Clint Eastwood]], "RJ Eskow: Confessions of a Gun Lover," ''Huffington Post'', (18 April 2007). *Come on, Hector: the MAC-10 submachine gun was practically [[designed]] for ''house''wives. **Regina Belmont (Catherine Mary Stewart) in ''[[Night of the Comet]]'' (16 November 1984), written and directed by [[Thom Eberhardt]]. * A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders. ** [[Larry Elder]], "Million Mom Madness," FrontPageMag (22 May 2000). * Hast thou named all the birds without a gun. Loved the wood-rose, and left it on its stalk. ** [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]], ''Forbearance''. ===F=== * If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them... Mr. and Mrs. America, turn 'em all in, I would have done it. I could not do that. The votes weren't here. ** Dianne Feinstein, interview with CBS-TV 60 Minutes (5 February 1995). * The [[report]] would be "routine retirement of a Replicant", which didn't make me [[feel]] any better about shooting a [[woman]] in the back. There it was again... feeling in myself... for her... for Rachael. ** Rick Deckard in ''[[Blade Runner]]'' (1982), as interpreted by [[w:Harrison Ford|Harrison Ford]], script by [[w:Hampton Fancher|Hampton Fancher]] & [[w:David Peoples|David Peoples]] * Not very [[sportsmanship|sporting]] to [[fire]] on an unarmed [[opponent]]. I thought you were supposed to be [[good]]. Aren't you the... "good" [[man]]? ** Roy Batty in ''[[Blade Runner]]'' (1982), as interpreted by [[w:Rutger Hauer|Rutger Hauer]], script by [[w:Hampton Fancher|Hampton Fancher]] & [[w:David Peoples|David Peoples]] * You gotta shoot straight! Straight doesn't seem good enough! ** Roy Batty in ''[[Blade Runner]]'' (1982), as interpreted by [[w:Rutger Hauer|Rutger Hauer]], script by [[w:Hampton Fancher|Hampton Fancher]] & [[w:David Peoples|David Peoples]] * Coming out the slums! It's the hoodlums, I'm pulling my gat out on all you bums! **[[w:B-Real|Louis Freese]], as quoted in the [https://listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=N9l23a3setM "I Ain't Goin' Out Like That"] (1993), ''Black Sunday'' (July 1993). ===G=== * Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. If we want the Arms Act to be repealed, if we want to learn the use of arms, here is a golden opportunity. If the middle classes render voluntary help to Government in the hour of its trial, distrust will disappear, and the ban on possessing arms will be withdrawn. ** [[Mahatma Gandhi]], [[s:The_Story_of_My_Experiments_with_Truth/Part_V/Recruiting_Campaign|"An Autobiography OR The story of my experiments with truth", Chapter 27, Recruiting Campaign]], from a leaflet urging Indians to serve with the British Army in World War II. * Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat. ** [[Hermann Göring]], radio broadcast (1936), as quoted in ''The New Language of Politics: An Anecdotal Dictionary of Catchwords, Slogans, and Political Usage'' (1968) by William L. Safire, p. 178 * The ease with which birds and beasts, men, women and children, can now be shot into sudden oblivion is breathtaking. If the murderer had nothing but his hands, he could kill only a few on a single outing, if lucky. But a victim might fight back, and win. What a limitation, a frustration, for the poor murderer. But with a Kalashnikov – joy! – all such frustration vanishes. In a few seconds dozens of human beings can be left twitching and bleeding on the ground, their possibilities, hopes, loves and endeavours abruptly and arbitrarily obliterated, their families drowned in shock and grief. How satisfying for the murderous of mind; how fulfilling; and all thanks to those who make and sell guns. ** [[A. C. Grayling]], ''Life, Sex, and Ideas: The Good Life Without God'' (2002), {{ISBN|0-19-517755-X}}, Chapter 32, "Guns" * But if someone has a gun and is trying to kill you... it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun. ** [[Tenzin Gyatso]], 14th Dalai Lama, as quoted in "Dalai Lama urges students to shape world," in ''The Seattle Times'' (14 May 2001) ===H=== * The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed. ** [[Alexander Hamilton]], ''Federalist No. 46''. * It's not gun registration that produces gun confiscation and genocide; it's people who do. **[[w:Bernard Harcourt|Bernard Harcourt]], "[http://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4029&context=flr On Gun Registration, the NRA, Adolf Hitler and Nazi Gun Laws: Exploding the Gun Culture Wars (A Call to Historians)]", 73 [[w:Fordham Law Review|Fordham Law Rev.]] 653, 660 (2004) * ... [I]f forced to take a position, it seems that the Nazis were more pro-gun than the predecessor Weimar Republic. ** Harcourt, at 671. * This Glock I clutch; in God I trust. ** [[T.I.|Clifford Joseph Harris, Jr.]], "Top Back" (2006), ''King'' * If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of examples of crime rates reduced by such legislation. That they cannot do so after a century and a half of trying — that they must sweep under the rug the southern attempts at gun control in the 1870-1910 period, the northeastern attempts in the 1920-1939 period, the attempts at both Federal and State levels in 1965-1976 — establishes the repeated, complete and inevitable failure of gun laws to control serious crime. ** [[Orrin Hatch]], "The Right to Keep and Bear Arms". * Strapped up, ready to roll. ** [[w:Boosie Badazz|Torrance Hatch]], as quoted in [https://listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=P8U206DGUBw#Lil_Boosie_-_We_Out_Chea_(Official_Video) "We Out Chea"] (2009). * Ain't hard to find, I'm in the street. Pocket monster in the club, [[wiktionary:murk|murk]] your ass instantly! ** [[w:Boosie Badazz|Torrance Hatch]], as quoted in [https://listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=P8U206DGUBw#Lil_Boosie_-_We_Out_Chea_(Official_Video) "We Out Chea"] (2009). * Well, in the first place '''an armed society is a polite society.''' Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. For me, politeness is a ''sine qua non'' of civilization. That's a personal evaluation only. But gunfighting has a strong biological use. We do not have enough things to kill off the weak and the stupid these days. But to stay alive as an armed citizen a man has to be either quick with his wits or with his hands, preferably both. It's a good thing. ** [[Robert Heinlein]], ''Beyond This Horizon'' (1942). * Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? ** Patrick Henry (J. Elliot, Debates in the Several State Conventions 45, 2d ed. Philadelphia, 1836). * It's easy to dispense with the first claim Obama made, that ''{{'}}this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries{{'}}''... Obama is wrong to say that ''{{'}}this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries{{'}}''. Clearly '''it does happen elsewhere, and not in trivial numbers'''. Seven of the countries saw double-digit numbers of people killed in mass shootings during that period. ** Keely Herring and Louis Jacobson, [http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/jun/22/barack-obama/barack-obama-correct-mass-killings-dont-happen-oth/ "Is Barack Obama correct that mass killings don't happen in other countries?"] (22 June 2015), ''Politifact''. * Let me make a short, opening, blanket comment. There are no good guns. There are no bad guns. Any gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing. Any gun in the hands of a decent person is no threat to anybody — except bad people... ** [[Charlton Heston]], on NBC's ''Meet the Press'', May 18, 1997. * England, where no one has guns; fourteen deaths. United States — and I think you know how we feel about guns; whoo! I'm getting' a stiffy — 23,000 deaths from handguns. But there's no connection, and you'd be a fool and a communist to make one. ** [[Bill Hicks]], Quoted in ''Love All the People: Letters, Lyrics, Routines'', 2004. * '''The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms.'''&nbsp; History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. ** [[Adolf Hitler]], dinner talk (April 1942), as quoted in [http://www.archive.org/stream/HitlersTableTalk#page/n429/mode/2up/search/foolish+mistake ''Hitler's Table Talk 1941-44: His Private Conversations''], pp. 425-426. *fire flashes from the gun<br />like a [[flower]] that blooms<br />madness **[[Linda Hogan (writer)]] Dark. Sweet.: New & Selected Poems (2014) * GUN CONTROL! That is what the Branch Davidian compound attack was all about. [[David Koresh]] was a gun collector and a tax evader. Boy, they didn't like him, and one of the purposes for that raid was to scare the American people into submission. You better register your firearms. Make sure they know. They might come for you as they did for Koresh. ** [[Kent Hovind]], "Unmasking the False Religion of Evolution Chapter 4" (1996). * The right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible. ** [[Hubert Humphrey]], “Know Your Lawmakers”, ''Guns'' magazine, February 1960, pg. 4. ===I=== * You see in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend. Those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig. ** "Blondie" in ''[[The Good, the Bad and the Ugly]]'' (1966) by [[w:Agenore Incrocci|Agenore Incrocci]], [[w:Furio Scarpelli|Furio Scarpelli]], [[w:Luciano Vincenzoni|Luciano Vincenzoni]], and [[w:Sergio Leone|Sergio Leone]]. ===J=== *Every night I talk to God, but he doesn't say nothing back. I know he's protecting me, but I still stay with my gat. **[[50 Cent|Curtis Jackson]], [http://genius.com/564862 "Many Men"] (2003), ''Get Rich or Die Tryin{{'}}'' *When that window rolls down and that [[w:AK-47|A.K.]] comes out? You can squeeze your little handgun, until you run out... God's on your side? Shit, I'm alright with that. Because we're going to reload the clips and come right back. **[[50 Cent|Curtis Jackson]], [http://genius.com/50-cent-heat-lyrics/ "Heat"] (2003), ''Get Rich or Die Tryin''' (2003), by C.J. Jackson III. *Gangsters use sign language, and let their guns talk... Fuck with my [[Money|dough]]? Then, the guns come out! **[[50 Cent|Curtis Jackson]], [http://genius.com/401133 "Gunz Come Out"] (2005), ''The Massacre''. *When I'm called on, I've got a sawed-off. Squeeze the trigger, and bodies are hauled off! **[[w:Ice Cube|O'Shea Jackson]], "Straight Outta Compton" (1988), ''Straight Outta Compton'' (1988). * No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms within his own lands. ** [[Thomas Jefferson]], [http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/jeffcons.asp Draft Constitution for Virginia (June 1776)] This quote often appears with the parenthetical omitted and with the spurious extension, "The strongest reason for the people to retain their right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government". (See [http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/no-freeman-shall-be-debarred-use-arms-quotation Jefferson Encyclopedia]). * A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks. ** [[Thomas Jefferson]], [http://www.constitution.org/2ll/2ndschol/19adec.pdf WRITINGS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON 341 (Andrew A. Lipscomb ed., 1903)]. Letter to his nephew. * One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them. ** [[Thomas Jefferson]], letter to [[George Washington]], 1796. (The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Lipscomb and Bergh, editors, 20 Vols., Washington, D.C., 1903-04, 9:341. * The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves, ... or they may act by representatives, freely and equally chosen; '''that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed'''; that they are entitled to freedom of person, freedom of religion, freedom of property, and freedom of the press. ** [[Thomas Jefferson]], Letter to Major John Cartwright (5 June 1824)[http://books.google.com/books?id=B6pGAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA395&dq=%22The+constitutions+of+most+of+our+States%22]. * As long as the [[gangster]] has access to guns, either [[pistols]] or [[machine guns]], he is a bold, bad-man, [[menacing]] [[society]] and [[mocking]] at [[law]] and [[decency]], but once [[robbed]] of his guns he is a yellow rat who will crawl into his hole. ** [[w:Jason Joy|Jason Joy]]'s report to [[w:Will Hays|Will Hays]], as quoted by Stephen Tropiano in [http://s3.amazonaws.com/halleonard-closerlook/00314772/ObsceneFilms_chap4.pdf “Obscene, Indecent, Immoral, and Offensive 100+ Years of Censored, Banned and Controversial Films”], Limelight Editions, 2009, ch.4 ===K=== * Nurses regularly witness the catastrophic consequences of gun violence. From treating victims in emergency rooms to supporting communities after mass shootings, nurses are well aware of the worsening nature of this crisis. Declaring gun violence a public health issue is an essential step towards determining practical solutions that can save lives and reduce the trauma and fear that grip communities nationwide. ** Jennifer Mensik Kennedy, [https://www.nursingworld.org/news/news-releases/2024/ana-applauds-surgeon-generals-declaration-of-gun-violence-as-public-health-crisis2/ ”ANA Applauds Surgeon General’s Declaration of Gun Violence as Public Health Crisis”], ''Nursingworld.org'', (Jun 29th 2024) * By... '''our readiness to allow arms to be purchased at will and fired at whim; by allowing our [[movie]] and [[television]] screens to [[teach]] our [[children]] that the [[hero]] is one who masters the [[art]] of shooting and the [[technique]] of [[killing]]'''; by allowing all of these developments, we have created an atmosphere in which [[violence]] and [[hatred]] have become popular pastimes. ** [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]], November 1963. Quoted in ''I have a Dream: the Life and Times of Martin Luther King, Jr.'' by Lenwood G. Davis, 1973. (p.266). *Little kids with guns, only fifteen. Roaming the streets, up to no good. When gunshots? Just watch us, run quickly. I could show you where. **Sean Kingston, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChBHD9WwIqU "Take You There"] (2007) * God created men. Colonel Colt made them equal. ** Old frontier saying ** [https://www.google.com/search?q=%22God+created+men.+Colonel+Colt+made+them+equal%22&hl=en&safe=off&biw=1231&bih=803&sa=X&ei=khbiUNr7DoPL0QGe24DICA&ved=0CCoQpwUoBA&source=lnt&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A1%2F1%2F1951%2Ccd_max%3A12%2F31%2F1979&tbm=bks Quoted in] Larry Koller, ''The Fireside Book of Guns'', 1959, page 136 *The majority falls prey to the delusion, popular in some circles, that ordinary people are too careless and stupid to own guns, and we would be far better off leaving all weapons in the hands of professionals on the government payroll. But the simple truth, born of experience, is that tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people... A revolt by Nat Turner and a few dozen other armed blacks could be put down without much difficulty; one by four million armed blacks would have meant big trouble. All too many of the other great tragedies of history, Stalin's atrocities, the killing fields of Cambodia, the Holocaust, to name but a few, were perpetrated by armed troops against unarmed populations. Many could well have been avoided or mitigated, had the perpetrators known their intended victims were equipped with a rifle and twenty bullets apiece, as the Militia Act required here. ... If a few hundred Jewish fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto could hold off the Wehrmacht for almost a month with only a handful of weapons, six million Jews armed with rifles could not so easily have been herded into cattle cars. ** [[w:Alex Kozinski|Alex Kozinski]], Circuit Judge, [http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-9th-circuit/1464183.html#search=%22ninth%20circuit%20%22second%20amendment%22%22 dissenting from denial of rehearing en banc in] ''[[w:Silveira v. Lockyer|Silveira v. Lockyer]]''. * Gun safety laws, there are a few inconvenient facts... Liberals are sometimes glib about equating guns and danger. In fact, it's complicated. The number of guns in America has increased by more than 50 percent since 1993, and in that same period the gun homicide rate in the United States has dropped by half... The assault weapons ban. A 113-page study found no clear indication that it reduced shooting deaths for the 10 years it was in effect. That's because the ban was poorly drafted and because even before the ban, assault weapons accounted for only 2 percent of guns used in crimes. Move on to open-carry and conceal-carry laws. With some 13 million Americans now licensed to pack a concealed gun, many liberals expected gun battles to be erupting all around us. In fact, the most rigorous analysis suggests that all these gun permits caused neither a drop in crime, as conservatives had predicted, nor a spike in killings, as liberals had expected... The fears were overblown... Liberals often inadvertently antagonize gun owners and empower the National Rifle Association by coming across as supercilious, condescending and spectacularly uninformed about the guns they propose to regulate. A classic of gun ignorance. New York passed a law three years ago banning gun magazines holding more than seven cartridges; without realizing that for most guns there is no such thing as a magazine for seven cartridges or less... If lawmakers want to pass gun legislation, they'd best learn about firearms first. ** Nick Kristof, [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/17/opinion/sunday/some-inconvenient-gun-facts-for-liberals.html?_r=0 "Some Inconvenient Gun Facts For Liberals"] (16 January 2016), ''The New York Times''. ===L=== * '''Nowadays you don't go around on the street kicking [[people]], punching people — because if you do (makes [[gun]] shape with hand), ''well that's it'' — I don't care how [[good]] you are.''' ** [[Bruce Lee]], ''Bruce Lee'' interview on ''[[w:The Pierre Berton Show|The Pierre Berton Show]]'' (1971) * To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them. ** [[Richard Henry Lee]], Letters from the Federal Farmer to the Republic, [http://www.constitution.org/afp/fedfar18.htm Letter XVIII] (25 January 1778). * Armed men don't sit down and talk. ** [[Ursula K. Le Guin]], ''[[w:The Eye of the Heron|The Eye of the Heron]]'' (1978), Chapter 8 * And the rest, all the rest. All the days and lights and winds and years that would have been, and that would not be, that should be and were not, because he was dead. Shot dead on the road, in the wind, at twenty-one. His mountains unclimbed, never to be climbed. ** [[Ursula K. Le Guin]], ''[[w:The Eye of the Heron|The Eye of the Heron]]'' (1978), Chapter 10 * Happiness is a warm gun. ** [[John Lennon]], ''[[w:The Beatles (album)|The Beatles]]'', a.k.a. ''"The White Album"'' (1968). In a 1970 interview for ''Rolling Stone'' Lennon attributed the words to the cover of a gun magazine ([[w:Jann S. Wenner|Jann S. Wenner]], ''Lennon Remembers'' (2000)). * [[Hands]] and arms can be the fastest-moving [[body]] parts. For example, an average suspect can move his hand and forearm across his body to a 90-degree angle in 12/100 of a second. He can move his hand from his [[hip]] to [[shoulder]] height in 18/100 of a [[second]]. The average [[Police|officer]] pulling the trigger as fast as he can on a [[Glock]], one of the fastest- cycling semi-autos, requires 1/4 second to discharge each round. There is no way an officer can react, track, shoot and reliably hit a threatening suspect's forearm or a [[weapon]] in a suspect's hand in the time spans involved. ** Bill Lewinski, [https://www.policeone.com/patrol-issues/articles/2071009-Why-shooting-to-wound-doesnt-make-sense-scientifically-legally-or-tactically/ "Why shooting to wound doesn’t make sense scientifically, legally, or tactically"], ''Policeone.com'', (May 26, 2010). * The upper [[arms]] move more slowly than the lower arms and hands. But shooting at the upper arms, there's a greater chance you're going to hit the suspect's [[w:Brachial artery|brachial artery]] or center mass, areas with a high [[probability]] of [[fatality]]. So where does shooting only to wound come in when even areas considered by some to ‘safe’ from fatality risk could in fact carry the same level of risk as targeting center mass? <br> “[[Legs]] tend initially to move slower than arms and to maintain more static positions. However, areas of the lower trunk and upper thigh are rich with vascularity. A suspect who’s hit there can bleed out in seconds if one of the major arteries is severed, so again shooting just to wound may not result in just wounding. ** Bill Lewinski, [https://www.policeone.com/patrol-issues/articles/2071009-Why-shooting-to-wound-doesnt-make-sense-scientifically-legally-or-tactically/ "Why shooting to wound doesn’t make sense scientifically, legally, or tactically"], ''Policeone.com'', (May 26, 2010). * In reference to you, colored people, let me say God has made you free. '''Although you have been deprived of your God-given rights by your so-called 'masters', you are now as free as I am, and if those that claim to be your "superiors" do not know that you are free, take the sword and bayonet and teach them that you are; for God created all men free''', giving to each the same rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. ** [[Abraham Lincoln]], speech to freed slaves in Richmond, Virginia (4 April 1865), as quoted in [http://web.archive.org/web/20130517052731/http://mrlincolnandfreedom.org/inside.asp?ID=84&subjectID=3 ''Recollected Words of Abraham Lincoln''] (1996), by Don Edward Fehrenbacher and Virginia Fehrenbacher, editor, p. 257. * I think these things ( firearms ) were invented by Satan himself, for they can't be defended against with (ordinary) weapons and fists. '''All human strength vanishes when confronted with firearms.''' A man is dead before he sees what's coming. ** [[Martin Luther]], ''Table Talk'' (1569), 3552. * Mr. Saturday night special<br>Got a barrel that's blue and cold.<br>Ain't good for nothin'<br>But put a man six feet in a hole. * Handguns are made for killin'<br>They ain't no good for nothin' else<br>And if you like to drink your whiskey<br>You might even shoot yourself<br>So why don't we dump 'em people<br>To the bottom of the sea<br>Before some ol' fool come around here<br>Wanna shoot either you or me ** [[Lynyrd Skynyrd]], "[[w:Saturday Night Special (Lynyrd Skynyrd song)|Saturday Night Special]]". from ''[[w:Nuthin' Fancy|Nuthin' Fancy]]'' (1975), written by Ed King & Ronnie Van Zant ===M=== * Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate Governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple Government of any form can admit of. Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the Governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. ** [[James Madison]], [http://books.google.com/books?id=qekJAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA265&dq=%22Besides+the+advantage+of+being+armed%22 Federalist No. 46] (1788). ** Sometimes paraphrased as: “Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the people of other countries, whose leaders are afraid to trust them with arms.” * Fackler [10, 13] however, disputed the shock wave hypothesis, claiming there is no physical evidence to support it, although some support for this hypothesis had already been provided by Harvey [20, 21], Kolsky [31], Suneson et. al. [42, 43], and Crucq [5]. Since that time, other authors suggest there is increasing evidence to support the hypothesis that shock waves from high velocity bullets can cause tissue related damage and damage to the nervous system. This has been shown in various experiments using simulant models [24, 48]. One of the most interesting is a study by Courtney and Courtney [4] who showed a link between traumatic brain injury and pressure waves originating in the thoracic cavity and extremities. ** Nick Maiden, ''Historical Overview of Wound Ballistics Research'', ''Forensic Sci Med Pathol'' (2009) 5:85–89 * Every communist must grasp the truth, "'''Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.'''" Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party. Yet, having guns, we can create Party organizations, as witness the powerful Party organizations which the Eighth Route Army has created in northern China. We can also create cadres, create schools, create culture, create mass movements. Everything in Yenan has been created by having guns. All things grow out of the barrel of a gun. ** [[Mao Zedong]], "[http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_12.htm Problems of War and Strategy]", 1938. * The guns of the Russian Communist Party created socialism. We shall create a democratic republic. Experience in the class struggle in the era of imperialism teaches us that it is only by the power of the gun that the working class and the labouring masses can defeat the armed bourgeoisie and landlords; in this sense we may say that only with guns can the whole world be transformed. We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war, and '''in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun'''. ** [[Mao Zedong]], "[http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_12.htm Problems of War and Strategy]", 1938. * Forty years ago, when the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised by an artful man, who was governor of Pennsylvania, to disarm the people; that it was the best and most effectual was to enslave them; but that they should not do it openly, but weaken them, and let them sink gradually, by totally disusing and neglecting the militia. ** [[George Mason]], June 14, 1788, ''The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adooption of the Federal Constitution'', 2nd ed. (1861), Jonathan Elliot, v. 3, [http://books.google.com/books?id=2i4MAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA380&dq=%22Forty+years+ago%22 p. 380]. (The "artful man" in the quote is Sir William Keith.) This quote has typically been rephrased by gun control opponents; for instance, "To disarm the people is the most effectual way to enslave them." *'''[[w:Huey Freeman|Huey Freeman]]''': I'll check the [[Old Testament|old testament]], but I'm pretty sure [[Moses]] wasn't packin' heat. ** [[w:Aaron McGruder|Aaron McGruder]], ''[[w:The Boondocks (comic strip)|The Boondocks]]'', (6/12/2000). *'''Huey''': It's not the guns that bother me. I believe in the [[w:Right to bear and keep arms|right to bear arms]] – :'''Caesar''': Right… :'''Huey''': It’s the frightening ideologies behind the guns that [[worry]] me. I say, let’s keep the guns … :'''Caesar''': True… :'''Huey''': And let’s ban the [[conservative]], [[imperialist]], [[capitalist]] oppressors who make the [[world]] such a [[violent]] place! <br> Think about it! We get rid of them, and we don’t '''need''' the guns anymore!! :'''Caesar''': You think they say the same thing about us? :* [[w:Aaron McGruder|Aaron McGruder]], ''[[The Boondocks (comic strip)|The Boondocks]]'',(6/14/2000) *'''Huey''': [E]veryone is [[worried]] about [[kids]] and [[violence]], right? And kids using guns – so why don't they go after the gun manufacturers and gun dealers instead of people who make [[video games]], it doesn't make sense. :'''Riley''': Sure it does, pretend your some stupid parents activist person… <br> Who would you rather start a beef with – some [[nerd]] who makes video games, or some dude with a warehouse full of [[AK-47]]s? :* [[w:Aaron McGruder|Aaron McGruder]], ''[[The Boondocks (comic strip)|The Boondocks]]'' (11/19/2000) * Control criminals not guns; criminals by definition are lawbreakers and will not alter their behavior in deference to a law. Enacting gun laws to control criminals makes as much sense as trying to require rapist to wear condoms. **[[w:Gary McLeod|Gary McLeod]], as quoted in [http://www.garymcleod.org/ ''Gary McLeod for U.S. Congress'']. * I'm going to get my gun! This motherfucker wants to [[Respect|disrespect]] me? I've got something for his ass. **[[Eminem|Marshall Bruce Mathers III]], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkAcAg7RzR0 "Get My Gun"] (2004), ''D12 World'' (2004). * One shot, two shot, three shots, four shots! All I hear is gunshots, this is where the fun stops. Bodies drop; hit the floor. Music's off; party stops. Everybody, hit the door! Somebody's licking shots off! ** [[Eminem|Marshall Bruce Mathers III]], [http://genius.com/Eminem-one-shot-2-shot-lyrics "One Shot, 2 Shot"] (2004), ''Encore'' (2004), by M.B. Mathers III. * I was attorney general; my name is Meese. '''I say, go to college. Don't carry a piece.''' ** [[Edwin Meese]], as quoted in [http://imdb.com/title/tt0508520/quotes?qt=qt1867438 "Law"] (21 February 2003), ''Da Ali G. Show''. * The only good [[bureaucrat]] is one with a pistol at his [[head]]. Put it in his [[hand]] and it's goodbye to the [[Bill of Rights]]. ** [[H.L. Mencken]], "A Time to be Wary" (1933), collected in ''A Carnival of Buncombe''. * Do you have any idea how many bullets I pull out of corpses weekly? This isn't just my lane. It's my [fucking] highway. ** Judy Melinek, ''Twitter'', (9 Nov, 2018); as quoted in [https://www.npr.org/2018/11/11/666762890/after-nra-mocks-doctors-physicians-reply-this-is-our-lane "After NRA Mocks Doctors, Physicians Reply: 'This Is Our Lane'], ''Heard on All Things Considered'', ''NPR'', (November 11, 2018). * Gun control has always been racist and discriminatory. The ultimate objective of gun control is to control an unarmed people by an armed oppressor. **[[w:Geoff Metcalf|Geoff Metcalf]], [https://web.archive.org/web/20020822214923/http://www.keepandbeararms.com/information/XcIBViewItem.asp?ID=581 "Racist gun control"] (4 October 1999), ''Keep and Bear Arms''. * Could you really feel the hand of destiny while pointing a Glock? ** [[China Miéville]], ''[[w:Kraken (Novel)|Kraken]]'' (2010), {{ISBN|978-0-345-49749-9}}, Chapter 62 (p. 385) * There's something [[demeaning]] about the first time you're knocked to the ground and punched in the [[stomach]] and have a gun waved in your [[face]] and realize that you're completely at somebody's [[mercy]]. And they can take your [[life]]. And at that point, you'll do anything. There's something so [[humiliating]] about that. ** [[Frank Miller]] in [https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/a-rare-interview-frank-miller-871654 “A Rare Interview With Frank Miller: 'Dark Knight,' the Unmade Darren Aronofsky Batman Movie, and Donald Trump“] by Borys Kit, ''Hollywood Reporter'', (3 March 2016) * No freedman, Negro, or Mulatto shall carry or keep firearms or ammunition. ** Mississippi Black Code (1865) * I can't even think about this movie. I don't WANT to think about it because if I think about it '''I will have to face an ugly truth that has been gnawing through my head...'''<br> This started out as a documentary on [[gun]] [[violence]] in [[America]], but the largest mass murder in our history was just committed — without the use of a single gun! Not a single bullet fired! '''No bomb was set off, no missile was fired, no weapon (i.e., a device that was solely and specifically manufactured to kill humans) was used. A boxcutter! — I can't stop thinking about this. A thousand [[gun control]] [[laws]] would not have prevented this massacre.''' What am I doing? ** [[Michael Moore]], {{cite web |title=Tears Down the West Side Highway |work=MichaelMoore.com |date=22 September 2001 |url=http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mikes-letter/tears-down-the-west-side-highway}} * I would like to graciously extend the invitation to the author of this tweet and anyone else from the NRA to join me at the hospital the next time I care for a child who has been hurt or killed by a gun that wasn't safely stored or was an innocent bystander. ** Jeannie Moorjani, ''Twitter'', (Nov 8, 2018); as quoted in [https://www.npr.org/2018/11/11/666762890/after-nra-mocks-doctors-physicians-reply-this-is-our-lane "After NRA Mocks Doctors, Physicians Reply: 'This Is Our Lane'], ''Heard on All Things Considered'', ''NPR'', (November 11, 2018). * Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security officer &ndash; its guarantor. The people's votes and the people's guns are always inseparable twins. **[[Robert Mugabe]], as quoted by Martin Meredith in "Our Votes, Our Guns: Robert Mugabe and the Tragedy of Zimbabwe" ** Said in 1976 while a leading commander of the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army * As long as I have a pen in my hand and a revolver in my pocket, I fear no one. ** [[Benito Mussolini]], 1914. Quoted in Paolo Monelli, ''Mussolini:the intimate life of a demagogue'', Vanguard Press, 1954. ===N=== * Creating new federal or state gun laws based on [[mental illness]] could have the effect of creating more barriers to people being willing to seek treatment and help when they need it most. Solutions to [[w:Gun violence|gun violence]] associated with mental illness lie in improving access to treatment, not in preventing people from seeking treatment in the first place. ** ''[[w:National Alliance on Mental Illness|National Alliance on Mental Illness]]'', [https://www.nami.org/learn-more/mental-health-public-policy/violence-and-gun-reporting-laws “Violence and Gun Reporting Laws”] * It is not generally recognized that when a high velocity missile strikes the body and moves through soft tissues, pressures develop which are measured in thousands of atmospheres. Actually, three different types of pressure change appear: (1) shock wave pressures or sharp, high pressure pulses, formed when the missile hits the body surface; (2) very high pressure regions immediately in front and to each side of the moving missile; (3) relatively slow, low pressure changes connected with the behavior of the large explosive temporary cavity, formed behind the missile. Such pressure changes appear to be responsible for what is known to hunters as hydraulic shock—a hydraulic transmission of energy which is believed to cause instant death of animals hit by high velocity bullets. ** E. Harvey Newton, Howard McMillen; '' An Experimental Study of shock waves resulting from the impact of high velocity missiles on animal tissues'', ''Journal of Experimental Medicine'', February 1947. * A gun is not just a bit of metal. There is a relationship between the person and the gun which develops and changes. It became something he (Hamilton) could show off, then an extension of himself. ** [[w:Mick North|Mick North]], interviewed by [[w:Ed Vulliamy|Ed Vullimay]], ''The Guardian'', pg. T2, (8 August 1996). North's daughter Sophie was killed in the [[w:Dunblane school massacre|Dunblane school massacre]] by Thomas Hamilton. * There's one thing for sure; you can't kill sixteen children in less than two minutes with a club, a knife or even a machete. ** [[w:Mick North|Mick North]], interviewed by [[w:Ed Vulliamy|Ed Vullimay]], ''The Guardian'', pg. T2. * I mean I'm a gun-owning [[pacifist]], so there you go. ** [[Krist Novoselic]], interviewed by [[Nick Gillespie]], "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4TPRH2uK9w Nirvana's Krist Novoselic on Punk, Politics, & Why He Dumped the Dems]", ''ReasonTV'' (19 June 2014), 11:30–12:03. * I own guns.&nbsp; I think they're a good [[tool]] to have out in the [[country]], and I should be able to [[protect]] my [[home]] and my [[family]]. ** [[Krist Novoselic]], interviewed by [[Nick Gillespie]], "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4TPRH2uK9w Nirvana's Krist Novoselic on Punk, Politics, & Why He Dumped the Dems]", ''ReasonTV'' (19 June 2014), 51:46–51:54. * I ''like'' my guns.&nbsp; Yeah, because it just makes me more [[comfortable]]. ** [[Krist Novoselic]], interviewed by [[Nick Gillespie]], "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4TPRH2uK9w Nirvana's Krist Novoselic on Punk, Politics, & Why He Dumped the Dems]", ''ReasonTV'' (19 June 2014), 53:36–53:39. * Someone should tell self-important anti-gun [[doctors]] to stay in their lane. Half of the articles in ''Annals of Internal Medicine'' are pushing for gun control. Most upsetting, however, the medical community seems to have consulted NO ONE but themselves. ** ''NRA'', ''Twitter'', (Nov, 7, 2018); as quoted in [https://www.npr.org/2018/11/11/666762890/after-nra-mocks-doctors-physicians-reply-this-is-our-lane "After NRA Mocks Doctors, Physicians Reply: 'This Is Our Lane'], ''Heard on All Things Considered'', ''NPR'', (November 11, 2018). * And in my mind, I'm going, 'why can't I just shoot this guy in the spine right now? Shoot him in the spine, explain the facts of life to him?' ** [[w:Ted Nugent|Ted Nugent]], as guest [[Disc jockey|DJ]] on WRIF-FM, Detroit, (28 September 1990); referring to an encounter with a Hare Krishna. * If it was up to me, if you uttered the word 'gun control,' we'd put you in jail. ** [[w:Ted Nugent|Ted Nugent]], as quoted in [http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/01/us-nra-convention-idUSTRE7402SL20110501 speech at the 2011 NRA Convention]. ===O=== * There are over 550 million firearms in worldwide circulation. That's one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. The only question is: How do we arm the other 11? ** [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399295/quotes?qt0403284 Arms dealer Yuri Orlov (played by Nicolas Cage)], ''[[Lord of War]]'', 2005. ===P=== * The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand, arms like laws discourage and keep the invader and the plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside. And while a single nation refuses to lay them down, it is proper that all should keep them up. Horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world deprived of the use of them; for while avarice and ambition have a place in the heart of man, the weak will become a prey to the strong. ** [[Thomas Paine]], as quoted in "[http://books.google.com/books?id=DTsPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA56&dq=%22The+balance+of+power%22 Thoughts on Defensive War]" (July 1775). Written anonymously but attributed to Paine. * It is the privilege of every citizen, and one of his most essential rights, to bear arms, and to resist every attack upon his liberty or property, by whomsoever made. The particular states, like private citizens, have a right to be armed, and to defend, by force of arms, their rights, when invaded. ** Debates in the House of Representatives, ed. Linda Grand De Pauw. (Balt., Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1972), 92-3. *Got a gun fact I got two{{pbr}}That's O.K. man 'cause I love god{{pbr}}Glorified version of a pellet gun{{pbr}}Feels so manly when armed ** [[Pearl Jam]], "[[w:Glorified G|Glorified G]]", from the album ''[[w:Vs.|Vs.]]'' (1993), lyrics by Eddie Vedder *The sense of impending conflict means business is picking up at the capital's 43 gun shops, even though they are only licensed to sell hunting guns or pistols. Customers are stockpiling bullets or shotgun cartridges, says Wiham Ghazi of the "Free Bird" gun shop, whose 12-gauge shotguns and .22 caliber rifles hang from gun racks on the wall of his shop, emanating a faint scent of gun oil. '''"It's our culture that people keep guns in their houses - it's inherited from our grandfathers," says Mr. Ghazi, sorting through an array of pistol bullets. Among the ammunition selection is a 12.7mm bullet for a heavy machine gun, with the red-painted tip of a tracer that burns bright as it flies.'''{{pbr}}"People are buying these kinds of guns just to protect themselves, in case of conflict," Ghazi says, adding that one customer Saturday morning came in looking for bullets for his father's .45 caliber pistol, which had been "put aside for years."{{pbr}}To explain their bond with weapons, Iraqis are fond of the modernized version of one traditional saying: "Give everything to your friend, except your car, your wife, and your gun." ** [[w:Scott Peterson|Scott Peterson]], [http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0310/p01s03-woiq.html "Iraqi public well-armed and wary"], ''The Christian Science Monitor'' (10 March 2003). * The more people know that members of [[LGBT|our community]] may be armed, the less likely they will be to single us out for attack. ** [[w:Pink Pistols|Pink Pistols]], ''[http://www.pinkpistols.org/ Pinkpistols.org]'', (2000) * I'm in the mood to strut. My [[w:AK-47|A.K.]] ain't even tucked! ** [[w:Kon Artis|Denaun Porter]], [http://genius.com/Eminem-one-shot-2-shot-lyrics "One Shot, 2 Shot"] (2004), ''Encore'' (2004), by M.B. Mathers III. ===R=== * There's no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons. **[[Ronald Reagan]], [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2202&dat=19670503&id=ClcmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZP8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=1072,5010951&hl=en "California Legislature Stunned By Invasion Of Armed 'Black Panthers'"], Gettysburg Times. (3 May 1967) * How many [[alcohol]] related [[deaths]] a year? 100,000? That's, what, 270 a day? [[Tragedy]]. How many firearms related deaths a year? 11,000? That comes out to a measly 30 a day! ** [[w:Jason Reitman|Jason Reitman]], ''[[w:Thank You for Smoking (film)|Thank You for Smoking]]'', (2006), based on the novel by [[w:Christopher Buckley|Christopher Buckley]]. * For those who [[question]] whether anything will ever be done to curb the use of [[military]] grade [[weaponry]] for [[w:Mass shootings in the United States|mass shootings in the United States]], [[history]] provides some [[w:Good news|good news]]—and some bad. The good news is that there is, within the recent past, an example of a [[President of the United States|president]]—namely [[Bill Clinton]]—who successfully wielded the powers of the [[w:White House|White House]] to institute a partial ban of [[assault weapons]] from the [[nation]]’s [[streets]]. The [[w:Bad news|bad news]], however, is that Clinton’s [[victory]] proved to be so [[costly]] to him and to his party that it stands as an enduring [[w:Cautionary tale|cautionary tale]] in [[w:Washington, D.C.|Washington]] about the [[political]] [[dangers]] of taking on the issue of gun control. ** Russell Riley, [https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/06/when-bill-clinton-passed-gun-reform/488045/ “When Bill Clinton Passed Gun Control”], ''[[w:The Atlantic|The Atlantic]]'', (June 25, 2016). * To be clear, gunmakers don’t benefit from tighter gun control. They benefit when there are talks of tighter gun control ''but those talks go nowhere''. ** Sam Ro, ''[[w:Business Insider|Business Insider]]'' ({{cite news |title=Smith & Wesson nails what Obama did for gun sales in one sentence |first=Sam |last=Ro |date=June 19, 2015 |accessdate=November 4, 2018 |publisher=[[w:Business Insider|Business Insider]] |url=http://uk.businessinsider.com/smith-and-wesson-obama-was-good-for-gun-sales-2015-6}}; {{cite news |title=Obama could be the best thing that’s happened to gun sales |magazine=[[w:Fortune (magazine)|Fortune]] |first=Chris |last=Matthews |date=June 19, 2015 |accessdate=May 28, 2018 |url=http://fortune.com/2015/06/19/obama-gun-sales/}}}). * You don't need no gun control. You know what you need? We need some ''bullet control''. Man, we need to control the bullets, that's right. I think all bullets should cost $5,000. $5,000 for a bullet. You know why? 'Cause if a bullet costs $5000, there'd be no more innocent bystanders... ** [[Chris Rock]], "Bigger and Blacker" (1999), ''HBO''. * When the [[Judgment Day]] comes civilization will have an alibi, "I never [[killing|took a human life]], I only sold the fellow the gun to take it with." ** [[Will Rogers]], as quoted in ''The Quotable Will Rogers'' (2006) by Joseph H. Carter. * You've never in your life seen a picture, I bet any one of you, never seen a picture of one of these old [[Pilgrims]] [[praying]] when they didn't have a gun right by the side of them. That was to see that he got what he was praying for. ** [[Will Rogers]] radio broadcast (14 April 1935) * A great many sportsmen have urged me to support this bill. It is hard for me to understand the interest of sportsmen in pistols. I myself have fished and hunted a great deal. I have a deep interest in outdoor sports and the various associations which foster them, but it is common knowledge, of course, that fishermen never use a pistol and hunters practically never use a pistol... '''[even for] theoretical self-protection, the value of a revolver is very problematical.''' ** [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], 1931, opposing the Hanley-Fake firearms bill which would have increased access to hanguns. Quoted in ''Gun Violence in America:The Struggle for Control'', Alexander DeConde, 2003 (p.132). * “Gunslingers are unimaginative men. If they had an imagination—” (and a brain, I mentally added) “—they wouldn’t use guns to solve every problem they come across. All they understand is shooting.” ** [[w:Kristine Kathryn Rusch|Kristine Kathryn Rusch]], ''Renn and the Little Men'' in [[w:Martin H. Greenberg|Martin H. Greenberg]] (ed.) ''Westward Weird'' {{ISBN|978-0-7564-0718-6}} p. 199 * For the purpose of securing the working class in the possession of complete power, and in order to eliminate all possibility of restoring the power of the exploiters, '''it is decreed that all workers be armed.''' ** [[w:Russian Constitution of 1918|Russian Constitution of 1918]], (Article I, chapter 2, paragraph G). ===S=== * The surprising thing about the bulletproof [[water]] was how poorly the high-powered [[rifles]] did. The full metal jacket bullets for the high-powered rifles came apart upon hitting the water. Even the dreaded [[w:.50 caliber rifle|.50 caliber rifle]] was only able to penetrate about 3 ft of water. ** [[w:Adam Savage|Adam Savage]] and [[w:Jamie Hyneman|Jamie Hyneman]], ''[[w:MythBusters|MythBusters]]'', Episode 34 “Bullet Proof Water”,(July 3, 2005); as qtd. in David Hambling, [https://www.wired.com/2007/06/shooting-throug/ “Super-Bullets Slice Through Water (And Flesh)”], ''WIRED'', 06.08.07. * The [[security]] of this [[country]] no longer is dependent on private gun ownership, and the [[weaponry]] used by members of the [[military]] is in no way dependent on personal gun ownership. <br> Uncontrolled gun ownership does not solve collective security; it has become the root of insecurity. ** Eugen Schoenfeld, [http://atlantajewishtimes.timesofisrael.com/worship-guns-worship-idols/ "Worship of Guns is Worship of Idols"], ''Atlanta Jewish Times'', July 20, 2016 * I have a love interest in every one of my films — a gun. ** [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]], interview with ''Playboy'' (January 1988). *'''Police officer''': What are you going to do with that gun? :'''[[Huey P. Newton]]''': What are you going to do with ''your'' gun? Because if you try to shoot at me, or you try to take this gun, I'm going to shoot back at you, swine ... You come from Georgia somewhere, you're downtown making $800 a month, and you come down here murdering and brutalizing black people in the black communities. They gave you sergeant stripes and I say you're nothing but a low-life, scurvy swine. A sharecropper from racist Georgia in the South somewhere. So if you draw that gun, I'll shoot back at you and I'll blow your brains out! :'''Police officer''': You ... you ... you ... you're just turning the Constitution around! :'''Newton''': I'm not turning anything around. And I got my gun. What are you going to do with yours? :* Confrontation related by [[w:Bobby Seale|Bobby Seale]], in ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=CJX_JX9jENgC&pg=PA90& Seize the Time; The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton]'' (1970) * For pediatricians, talking with families about locking up their guns away from their children has become a routine part of well visits, said Benjamin Hoffman, the president of the [[w:American Academy of Pediatrics|American Academy of Pediatrics]]. When children can’t get access to a gun, it prevents a large chunk of gun deaths and injuries — accidental shootings and suicides. <br> “Having access to a firearm for a [[child]] who is experiencing a [[w:Behavioral health|behavioral health]] crisis is an absolute recipe for the most tragic things you can imagine,” Hoffman said. <br> Even when children are not direct victims of a gun shooting, they may suffer from mental health blowback of gun violence, the report says. About half of teens in the U.S. worry about a school shooting. And in areas that have been exposed to a fatal shooting at a school, youth antidepressant use jumps by more than 20%. ** Amanda Seitz quoting [[w:Benjamin Hoffman|Benjamin Hoffman]],[https://apnews.com/article/surgeon-general-gun-control-violence-deaths-murthy-24b53f1aaace068e0cb24ae809853f66 “US surgeon general declares gun violence a public health crisis”], ''AP News'', (June 26, 2024) * '''If [[survival]] calls for the bearing of arms, bear them you must. But the most important part of the challenge is for you to find another means that does not come with the killing of your fellow man.''' ** [[Rod Serling]] Speech at Binghamton Community High School (1968){{fix cite<!-- published where? -->}} * “Strange,” he said in a conversational voice, “how, for some men, the possession of a gun acts as a powerful intoxicant. It destroys the reasoning faculties, eh, Carlo?” ** [[Robert Sheckley]], ''The Game of X'' (1965), p. 32 * The arms dealers were of especial interest to me. They commonly operated on street corners (some nights, in certain quarters, there seemed to be one on almost every corner) and offered a wide selection of handguns and ammo, the odd assault weapon—hardly surprising in a country where you could, I've been told, blow away a cow with a rocket launcher for a fee of two hundred dollars, less if you were prepared to haggle. I saw in them the future of my own country, where death was celebrated with equal enthusiasm, although candy-coated by Technicolor and video games and television news. When the coating finally wore off, as it threatened to do, there we would all be, in [[Cambodia]]. ** [[Lucius Shepard]], ''Dog-Eared Paperback of My Life'' (2009), in [[w:Nick Gevers|Nick Gevers]] and [[w:Jay Lake|Jay Lake]] (eds.), ''Other Earths'' (p. 249) * What makes a man with a gun seem bigger<br />than a man with [[almonds]]? ** [[Naomi Shihab Nye]] Voices in the Air: Poems for Listeners (2018) * For [[men]] know that throughout all the prior ages of [[history]] the bottom line in male-[[female]] relationships has always been woman's need for male [[protection]]. Women could not live [[alone]] for fear of predation by males. So they lived with a male protector and accepted his dictation of their role, either as a condition of receiving his protection, or because he would impose it upon them by physical force, or both. Access to firearms gives women, for the first time in history, the capacity to live independently and apart from men in [[safety]] and [[freedom]]. ** [[w:Carol Ruth Silver|Carol Ruth Silver]], and Don B. Kates Jr. (1979) ''Self Defense Handgun Ownership and the Independence of Women in a Violent Sexist Society''. Archived February 11, 2014, at the Wayback Machine. North River Press: Hawthorne, New York. Page 24. (This book is hosted online by the Second Amendment Foundation.) (Retrieved Mar 24, 2015.) * Had it? Should've shot it! Now, you're dearly departed. ** [[DMX (rapper)|Earl Simmons]], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpHtEa2II_s "Ruff Ryders' Anthem"] * Why would an ultimately factual question about the consequences of gun control laws divide people along ideological lines? Only if at least one set of people were more devoted to their vision than to the facts. This shows up when gun control zealots are asked whether whatever new law they propose would have prevented the shooting rampage that they are using as a stage from which to propose a new clampdown on gun ownership. Almost always, the new law being proposed would not have made the slightest difference. That too is part of the farce. A deadly farce. So is the automatic assertion that whoever engaged in a shooting rampage was a madman. Yet these supposedly crazy shooters are usually rational enough to choose some "gun-free zone" for their murderous attacks. They seem more rational than gun control zealots who keep creating more 'gun-free zones'. Gun control zealots are almost always people who are lenient toward criminals, while they are determined to crack down on law-abiding citizens who want to be able to defend themselves and their loved ones. ** [[Thomas Sowell]], [http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell101315.php3#4YYMQJpZ8MsvhIOA.99 "The 'Gun Control' Farce"] (13 October 2015), ''Jewish World Review''. * The grand illusion of zealots for laws preventing ordinary, law-abiding people from having guns is that "gun control" laws actually control guns. In a country with many millions of guns, not all of them registered, this is a fantasy and a farce. Guns do not vanish into thin air because there are gun control laws. Guns — whether legal or illegal — can last for centuries. Passing laws against guns may enable zealots to feel good about themselves, but at the cost of other people's lives. Why anyone would think that criminals who disobey other laws, including laws against murder, would obey gun control laws is a mystery. A disarmed population makes crime a safer occupation and street violence a safer sport. ** [[Thomas Sowell]], [http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell101415.php3#JWXUXMcddgXsE0HM.99 "The 'Gun Control' Farce: Part II"] (14 October 2015), ''Jewish World Review''. * Almost invariably, mass shootings occur in gun-free settings. Yet gun control zealots seem determined to create more gun-free settings. How often have supposedly mentally unbalanced shooters opened fire at a meeting of the National Rifle Association? They are apparently not that mentally unbalanced. They pick places where people are not likely to shoot back. A mass shooting at a movie theater a few years ago took place at a theater farther away from where the shooter lived than other theaters in the area that were showing the very same movie. The difference was that this theater had advertised that it was a gun-free zone. Who is more mentally unbalanced, those who are doing the shooting or those who refuse to examine the facts about what kinds of places attract such shooters? Schools and religious institutions are sitting ducks, and the shootings there have gone on until someone else with a gun showed up on the scene. That is what puts an end to the carnage, not gun control laws. People who are prepared to defy the laws against murder are not very likely to be stopped by laws against guns. Only law-abiding citizens are likely to be stopped by gun control laws, and to become sitting ducks. As for facts and statistics, the only ones likely to be mentioned by gun control zealots, including the media, are those on how many people were killed by guns. How many lives were saved by guns will never make it through the ideological filters of the media, the political establishment or our educational institutions. Yet factual data on how many threats or attacks were deterred in a given year by displaying a firearm have long been available. Seldom is it necessary to actually pull the trigger to get some thug or criminal to back off and go elsewhere, often in some haste. Are the only lives that matter those that are lost, usually because there is no gun immediately available to protect them, but not the lives saved because they did have a gun at hand to protect them? Gun control zealots seem especially opposed to people being allowed to carry their guns concealed. But concealed weapons protect not only those who carry them, but also to some extent those who do not, because criminals have no way of knowing in advance who does and does not have a gun. Muggings and rapes become much more dangerous activities for criminals where many law-abiding people are allowed to carry concealed guns. It can take a lot of the fun out of being a thug. ** [[Thomas Sowell]], [http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell010516.php3 "Showman-in-Chief"] (6 January 2016), ''Jewish World Review''. *I could be wrong but I have seen your face before<br>You were the man that I saw running from his door<br>You owed him money but you gave him something more<br>With a gun<br>With a gun<br>You will be what you are just the same<br>Did you pay the other man with the piece in your hand<br>And leave him lying in the rain? ** [[Steely Dan]], "With a Gun" from ''[[w:Pretzel Logic|Pretzel Logic]]'' (1974), lyrics by Donald Fagen and Walter Becker * What's the dirty little secret behind 'gun control' in America? Here are some hints. Working forever without pay. Whipping and torture. Buying and selling of human beings. Hate. Fear. Suspicion. Terrorism. These hints recall the evil days of slavery, and post-Civil War periods of rule by terror. Those who would own human beings as slaves created 'gun control' laws to keep the power in their own hands. They could not keep African slaves and their American descendants under lifelong control without making sure the slaves remained unarmed. Free black people had served honorably and with distinction in the Revolutionary War. Yet under a 1792 federal law, black men could not serve as part of the state militias. In Louisiana, slaves were forbidden to use a firearm even in self-defense. In South Carolina, slaves could not possess guns without a master's permission. Black persons, whether slave or free, had to have a license or a judge's permission before they could carry a firearm in Florida and Delaware. For black people, guns were banned entirely in several states. Florida laws empowered white 'citizen patrols' to invade and search blacks' homes for guns or other weapons. None of these policies applied, of course, to white people. After the Civil War, 'gun control' laws kept black people 'in their place'. Blacks had to obtain licenses to have guns in Mississippi and Louisiana. Alabama banned all guns in 1866; for blacks. Later, Alabama and Texas placed huge taxes on the sale of handguns, which effectively banned guns for the poor. Tennessee and Arkansas banned the inexpensive handguns which were the only types that poor black people could afford. South Carolina banned all handguns, except those for police and deputies. Those American 'gun control' laws worked; they disarmed most black people. The Ku Klux Klan and others could freely terrorize black families without fear. Unarmed victims couldn't shoot back. Lynch law ruled, and claimed at least 3,446 lives up through the end of the Civil Rights Movement. Gun registration. Licensing. Judicial permit. Police approval. High taxes on guns and ammunition. Selective gun bans. Total gun bans. Police 'gun sweeps' of private homes. Sound familiar? The 'gun control' lobby advocates all of these policies today. These policies historically worked in the past to disarm a targeted people. These policies will have the same effect now. Although the gun prohibitionists have dropped the race hate rhetoric, they use the tried-and-true methods of the slave owners and Klansmen. The same means must achieve the same end; control of the unarmed people. The slave owners feared that armed slaves would not long tolerate their condition. Modern politicians act like they have the same fear. Are we peaceful American citizens the modern day slaves who must be kept in our place? What do these politicians fear from an armed man who wants to defend his family from violence in a bad neighborhood? How does a woman who carries a concealed weapon while walking at night cause crime? Race-based 'gun control' is not ancient history. The federal Gun Control Act of 1968 was passed as a response to race riots in major cities. The GCA wasn't passed to combat ordinary street crime or gang violence; white 'liberal' racism energized that law. Makers, sellers and users of firearms can derail the recent law suits and destroy 'gun control' by putting the gun prohibitionists on the defensive. Make them explain why they favor racism-based laws. ** [[w:Richard W. Stevens|Richard Stevens]], [https://web.archive.org/web/20020422062807/http://keepandbeararms.com/information/XcIBViewItem.asp?ID=902 "Racist Politicians Want Your Guns"] (22 April 2002), ''Keep and Bear Arms''. * The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them. ** [[Joseph Story]], as quoted in [http://books.google.com/books?id=Ennw5lvHmcoC&pg=PA708&dq=%22The+right+of+the+citizens+to+keep%22 ''Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States''] (1833), p. 708. * '''Homer''': Just give me my gun! <br> '''Wiseguy''': Sorry, the law requires a five day waiting period. We've got to run a background check. <br>'''Homer''': Five days? But I'm mad now! Oh, I'd kill you if I had my gun. <br> '''Wiseguy''': Yeah, well, you don't. ** [[w:John Swartzwelder|John Swartzwelder]], ''[[The Simpsons/Season 9|The Simpsons]]'', "[[w:The Cartridge Family|The Cartridge Family]]" (1997). ===T=== [[File:HarryTruman.jpg|thumb|I do not believe in shooting anything that cannot shoot back. —[[Harry S. Truman]]]] * Black Americans don't seem to care that their ancestors suffered like hell for the legal right to own and use guns. Not just in wars, but in everyday life. As slaves before the Civil War, blacks had no right to own guns. As freedmen after the Civil War, state and local laws, and outright threats from armed whites, kept them from carrying guns. That meant blacks were easy marks for ordinary criminals, for racist criminals like the Ku Klux Klan, and for political criminals that kept them disarmed and out of the voting booth. But over the decades blacks armed themselves, fought back, and eventually won the fight to own and carry guns like other Americans. ** [[w:A. Texan|A. Texan]], [https://web.archive.org/web/20020106080010/http://www.keepandbeararms.com/information/XcIBViewItem.asp?ID=1754 "The Return of the Black Slave"] (5 June 2001), ''Keep and Bear Arms''. * It has been argued that the perfection of guns of great destructive power will stop [[warfare]]. So I myself thought for a long time, but now I believe this to be a profound mistake. Such developments will greatly modify, but not arrest it. On the contrary, I think that every new arm that is invented, every new departure that is made in this direction, merely invites new talent and skill, engages new effort, offers new incentive, and so only gives a fresh impetus to further development. Think of the discovery of gun-powder. Can we conceive of any more radical departure than was effected by this innovation? Let us imagine ourselves living in that period: would we not have thought then that warfare was at an end, when the armor of the knight became an object of ridicule, when bodily strength and skill, meaning so much before, became of comparatively little value? Yet gunpowder did not stop warfare: quite the opposite it acted as a most powerful incentive. ** [[Nikola Tesla]], [http://www.tfcbooks.com/tesla/1900-06-00.htm "The Problem With Increasing Human Energy: With Special References To the Harnessing Of The Sun's Energy"], ''Century Illustrated Magazine'', (June 1900). * I've got a nine millimeter, ready to go off any minute. So, you feel it? Because of the law, I've had to conceal it. If you fuck around you're going to make me reveal it. Hey! ** [[Akon|Aliaume Damala Badara Akon Thiam]], as quoted in [http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/davidbanner/9mm.html "9mm"] (July 2007), by Lavell Crump, ''The Greatest Story Ever Told'' (July 2008). * Why are the feds worried about me clocking on this corner, when there's politicians out here getting popped in [[Arizona]]? ** [[w:Freddie Gibbs|Fredrick Tipton]], [[w:Thuggin%27_(EP)|"Thuggin'"]] (2011), ''Thuggin{{'}}'' (November 2011). * I think the NRA is kooky, but I have no problem with firearms. ** [[w:Michael Totten|Michael Totten]], [http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blog/michael-j-totten/51-facts-about-me "51 Facts About Me"] (26 June 2006), ''World Affairs Journal'' * '''I do not believe in shooting anything that cannot shoot back.''' **[[Harry S. Truman]], ''Mr. Citizen'', Harry Truman (1960). * The right of self-defense is the first law of nature; in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest limits possible. Wherever standing armies are kept up, and when the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction. ** [[w:Henry St. George Tucker|Henry St. George Tucker]], as quoted in [http://www.friesian.com/quotes.htm ''Blackstone's 1768 Commentaries on the Laws of England'']. * He’d learned to strip and clean and reassemble the machine gun till he could do it with his eyes closed. It was an elegantly simple means of killing large numbers of men in a hurry, assuming that was what you wanted to do. ** [[Harry Turtledove]], ''The Great War: Walk in Hell'' (1999), <small> {{ISBN|0-345-40561-7}}, </small> p. 5 ===U=== * I don't believe in death row<br>Skid row or the gangs<br>Don't believe in the Uzi<br>It just went off in my hand. ** [[U2]], "[[w:God Part II|God Part II]]", from ''[[w:Rattle and Hum|Rattle and Hum]]'' (1988), lyrics by Bono ===V=== *See a gun is real easy<br>In this desperate part of town.<br>Turns you from hunted into hunter<br>Gonna hunt somebody down ... **"Meanstreet", from ''[[w:Fair Warning (Van Halen album)|Fair Warning]]'' (1981) by [[w:Van Halen|Van Halen]]. Lyrics by Michael Anthony, [[David Lee Roth]], Alex Van Halen and Eddie Van Halen. * [T]he balls sent by this gun are not ordinary balls, but little cases of [[glass]]. These glass cases are covered with a case of steel, and weighted with a pellet of lead; they are real Leyden bottles, into which the electricity is forced to a very high tension. With the slightest shock they are discharged, and the animal, however strong it may be, falls dead. ** [[Jules Verne]], ''Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea'', (1870), unabridged translation of ''Vingt milles lieues sous les mers'' based on the original French texts published in Paris by J. Hetzel et Cie. over the period 1869–71. Translated from the Original French by F. P. Walter. *Yo, peep. This me name be Gore Vidal. I is spitting rhymes about early history. Why homies give props to Uzis, not books? Ain't nothing but a mystery, aight. **[[Gore Vidal]], as quoted in [http://listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=GCXBuoCDcrI#Gore_Vidal_Rap_on_Da_Ali_G_Show "Jah"] (15 August 2004), ''[[:w:List of Da Ali G Show episodes|Da Ali G Show]]''. *A well-regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defense of a free state; that standing armies, in time of peace, should be avoided as dangerous to liberty; and that in all cases the military should be under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power. **[[w:Virginia Declaration of Rights|''Virginia Declaration of Rights'']] (12 June 1776). *[[Robert Kennedy]], whose summer home is eight miles away from the home I live in all year round, was shot two nights ago. He died last night. So it goes.<br /> [[Martin Luther King]] was shot a month ago. He died, too. So it goes. <br /> And everyday my government gives me a count of corpses created by the military service in Vietnam. So it goes.{{pbr}}My father died many years ago now—of natural causes. So it goes. He was a sweet man. He was a gun nut, too. He left me his guns. They rust. ** [[Kurt Vonnegut]], ''[[Slaughterhouse-Five]]'', 1969. ===W=== [[File:Mary Garrity - Ida B. Wells-Barnett - Google Art Project - restoration crop.jpg|thumb|A Winchester Rifle should have a place of honor in every black home. —[[w:Ida B. Wells|Ida B. Wells-Barnett]]]] [[File:Garry Wills 13724-119.jpg|thumb|We are captives of The Gun. The Gun is patriotic. The Gun is America. The Gun is God. [[W:Garry Wills|Garry Wills]]]] * '''Tank''': So what do you need? Besides a [[miracle]]?<br />'''Neo''': Guns. Lots of guns. ** ''[[The Matrix]]'' (1999), written by [[w:Lilly Wachowski|Lilly Wachowski]] and [[w:Lana Wachowski|Lana Wachowski]] [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/quotes?qt0324276]. * Americans' desire for a certain gun is elementary: if cops use a gun or if a weapon's availability is threatened, people demand the gun. ** {{cite news |title=Our Favorite Weapon |first=Michael |last=Washburn |date=January 27, 2012 |magazine=[[w:The New York Times Book Review|The New York Times Book Review]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/books/review/glock-the-rise-of-americas-gun-by-paul-m-barrett-book-review.html}} * It was a constant pressure among white racists to keep guns out of the hands of African-Americans, because they would rise up and revolt. The KKK began as a gun-control organization. Before the Civil War, blacks were never allowed to own guns. During the Civil War, blacks kept guns for the first time — either they served in the Union army and they were allowed to keep their guns, or they buy guns on the open market where for the first time there's hundreds of thousands of guns flooding the marketplace after the war ends. So they arm up because they know who they're dealing with in the South. White racists do things like pass laws to disarm them, but that's not really going to work. So they form these racist posses all over the South to go out at night in large groups to terrorize blacks and take those guns away. If blacks were disarmed, they couldn't fight back. ** [[w:Adam Winkler|Adam Winkler]] ''Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America'' W.W. Norton (2013). Op-Ed: ''The New York Times'', Charles M. Blow, “Gun Control and White Terror”, ''The New York Times'', (Jan. 7, 2016) * '''A free people ought not only to be armed but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well digested plan is requisite: And their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories, as tend to render them independent on others, for essential, particularly for military supplies.''' ** [[George Washington]], January 8, 1790, First State of the Union Address [http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/firsts/sou/text.html]; part of this accurate quote has also been used as part of improperly altered statements on the internet, and a few published works, such as ''America : The Final Chapter'' (2009) by Jessi Winchester, p. 213: "A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government." See also NRA edited version available on t-shirts: "A free people ought to be armed - George Washington." [http://www.nrastore.com/nrastore/ProductDetail.aspx?p=CT+437&ct=e]. * Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. ** [[Noah Webster]], ''Examination into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution'' (1787) in ''Pamphlets on the Constitution of the United States'', Paul Leicester Ford (1888), [http://books.google.com/books?id=OVYSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA56&dq=%22Before+a+standing+army%22 p. 56]. * If we don't get gun-control laws in this country, we are full of beans. To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States is pathetic. And I agree with Mayor Michael Bloomberg: It's time to put up or shut up about gun control for both parties. ** [[W:Harvey Weinstein|Harvey Weinstein]], as quoted in [https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/harvey-weinstein-colorado-shooting-dark-knight-rises-354978 Harvey Weinstein Calls for Filmmaker Summit on Violence in Movies After Colorado Shooting] by Pamela McClintock, ''HollyWood Reporter'', July 26, 2012 * A Winchester Rifle should have a place of honor in every black home. ** [[w:Ida B. Wells|Ida B. Wells-Barnett]], ''[http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/14975 Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases]'' (1894). * The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense. ** [[w:Ida B. Wells|Ida B. Wells-Barnett]], "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases", pamphlet, Chapter VI “Self Help,” (1892) * I have asserted the right of Negroes to meet the violence of the Ku Klux Klan by armed self-defense, and have acted on it. It has always been an accepted right of Americans, as the history of our western states proves, that where the law is unable, or unwilling, to enforce order, the citizens can, and must act in self-defense against lawless violence. ** [[w:Robert F. Williams|Robert F. Williams]], as quoted in [https://web.archive.org/web/20120503013852/http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2012-04-18.html ''Negroes With Guns'']. * People use guns but, in a sense, guns use people too. When we have the technology for violence easily to hand, our choices are skewed and we are more vulnerable to being manipulated into violent action. ** [[w:Rowan Williams|Bishop Rowan Williams]], [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/22/archbishop-canterbury-gun-controls-us "Archbishop of Canterbury backs calls for stricter gun controls in US"], ''The Guardian'', (December 22, 2012). * Remember when she had [[Tom Selleck]] on her program a while back? She blind-sided Tom Selleck! He's a good fella, ain't never hurt nobody, but he's in the NRA, so she hates that. She was like, 'Well, you're in the [[w:NRA|NRA]]. Let me tell you something, Tom: guns kill people!' Do you believe she said that? On the Rosie O'Fatass show! She looks right at him and says, 'Guns kill people!' Let me tell you something: husbands that come home early kill people! Alright? The gun was just sitting there! If guns kill people, I can blame misspelled words on my pencil! Git-r-done! ** [[Larry the Cable Guy|Daniel Lawrence Whitney]], as "Larry the Cable Guy", ''Git-r-Done DVD'', 2003. * In August 2009, MSNBC's Contessa Brewer was discussing a tea party rally in Arizona, where it's legal to carry an unconcealed weapon. She said: "A man at a pro-health care rally... wore a semiautomatic assault rifle on his shoulder and a pistol on his hip... There are questions about whether this has racial overtones, I mean, here you have a man of color in the presidency and white people showing up with guns." All that her audience was shown were a rifle and pistol strapped to a man's back. MSNBC concealed the fact that the armed man was black and did not show the interview he gave to the reporter. Brewer knowingly deceived her audience because '''an armed black man didn't fit the racial narrative'''. ** Walter Williams, [http://friesian.com/racism.htm "Leftist race-baiters stir up animosity"] (9 May 2012). * If you take guns away from legal gun owners then the only people who would have guns would be the bad guys. ... Even a pacifist would get violent if someone were trying to kill him or her. You would fight for your life, whatever your beliefs. You'd use a rock or tear one of these chairs out of the floor. Hey, maybe I've been watching too many Bruce Willis movies! ** [[Bruce Willis]], as quoted in [http://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/story/willis-speaks-out-for-guns_30_04_2006 "Bruce Willis - Willis Speaks Out For Guns" at ''ContactMusic.com'' (30 April 2006)]. * So this time let us skip all the sighing and promising and moments of silence. Why keep up the pretense that we are going to take any real and practical steps toward sanity? Everyone knows we are not going to do a single damn thing. We can't. '''We are captives of The Gun.<br>The Gun is patriotic.<br>The Gun is America.<br>The Gun is God.''' ** [[w:Garry Wills|Garry Wills]], June 15, 2016 ({{cite news |title=A nation captive to The Gun |authorlink=w:Garry Wills |first=Garry |last=Wills |date=June 15, 2016 |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/06/14/nation-captive-the-gun/eVN6Kh8hVhodxxMTZnrtBM/story.html}}) * “People were allowed to own guns, and everyone did own guns [in the West], for the most part,” says Winkler. “Having a firearm to protect yourself in the lawless wilderness from wild animals, hostile native tribes, and outlaws was a wise idea. But when you came into town, you had to either check your guns if you were a visitor or keep your guns at home if you were a resident.” ** Adam Winkler; as qtd. in Matt Jancer, [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/gun-control-old-west-180968013/ “Gun Control Is as Old as the Old West”], ''Smithsonian'', (February 5, 2018). * Frontier towns with and without gun legislation were violent places, more violent than family-friendly farming communities and Eastern cities of the time, but those without restrictions tended to have worse violence. “I've never seen any rhetoric from that time period saying that the only thing that's going to reduce violence is more people with guns,” says Winkler. “It seems to be much more of a 20th-century attitude than one associated with the [[w:Wild West|Wild West]].” ** Adam Winkler; as qtd. in Matt Jancer, [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/gun-control-old-west-180968013/ “Gun Control Is as Old as the Old West”], ''Smithsonian'', (February 5, 2018). * Give a guy a gun, he thinks he's [[Superman]]. Give him two and he thinks he's [[God]]. ** [[w:Barry Wong|Barry Wong]] and [[w:John Woo|John Woo]], in lines for superintendent Pang from the film ''[[Hard Boiled]]'' (1992). ===X=== * Last but not least, I must say this concerning the great controversy over rifles and shotguns. The only thing that I've ever said is that in areas where the government has proven itself either unwilling or unable to defend the lives and the property of Negroes, it's time for Negroes to defend themselves. Article number two of the constitutional amendments provides you and me the right to own a rifle or a shotgun. It is constitutionally legal to own a shotgun or a rifle. This doesn't mean you're going to get a rifle and form battalions and go out looking for white folks, although you'd be within your rights—I mean, you'd be justified; but that would be illegal and we don't do anything illegal. If the white man doesn't want the black man buying rifles and shotguns, then let the government do its job. [...] If he's not going to do his job in running the government and providing you and me with the protection that our taxes are supposed to be for, since he spends all those billions for his defense budget, he certainly can't begrudge you and me spending $12 or $15 for a single-shot, or double-action. I hope you understand. Don't go out shooting people, but any time—brothers and sisters, and especially the men in this audience; some of you wearing Congressional Medals of Honor, with shoulders this wide, chests this big, muscles that big—any time you and I sit around and read where they bomb a church and murder in cold blood, not some grownups, but four little girls while they were praying to the same God the white man taught them to pray to, and you and I see the government go down and can't find who did it. ** [[Malcolm X]], ''[[w:The Ballot or the Bullet|The Ballot or the Bullet]]'' [http://web.archive.org/20120113085909/homepage.mac.com/mseffie/assignments/invisible_man/ballot_cleveland.html speech in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964)] ===Y=== * "[[w:Video games|Games]] today are very, very real," Zelk says. "It's the [[weapons]]; it's the [[w:Story line|story lines]], you know, that people get caught up in — even the optics that are used on the guns, it says L-3 [[w:EOTech|EOTech]]. It actually has the name of the brand on the side of it so you know which optic, you know, you could go out and buy." ** Sami Yenigun, [https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2013/04/29/179853504/a-real-world-connection-between-video-games-and-guns “A Real-World Connection Between Video Games And Guns”], ''[[w:All things Considered|All Things Considered]]'', ''NPR'', (April 29, 2013). * Dear friends, on 9 October 2012, the Taliban shot me on the left side of my forehead. They shot my friends, too. They thought that the bullets would silence us, but they failed. And out of that silence came thousands of voices. The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions. But nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born. I am the same Malala. My ambitions are the same. My hopes are the same. And my dreams are the same. Dear sisters and brothers, I am not against anyone. Neither am I here to speak in terms of personal revenge against the Taliban or any other terrorist group. I am here to speak for the right of education for every child. I want education for the sons and daughters of the Taliban and all the terrorists and extremists. I do not even hate the Talib who shot me. ** [[Malala Yousafzai]] as quoted in [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/the-full-text-malala-yousafzai-delivers-defiant-riposte-to-taliban-militants-with-speech-to-the-un-general-assembly-8706606.html Malala Yousafzai delivers defiant riposte to Taliban militants with speech to the UN General Assembly], ''The Independent'', (12 July, 2013) * Even if there was a gun in my hand and he was standing in front of me, I would not shoot him. This is the compassion I have learned from [[Muhammad|Mohamed]], the prophet of mercy, [[Jesus Christ]] and Lord [[Buddha]]. This the legacy of change I have inherited from [[Martin Luther King]], [[Nelson Mandela]] and [[Muhammad Ali Jinnah|Mohammed Ali Jinnah]]. This is the philosophy of nonviolence that I have learned from [[Gandhi]], [[wikipedia:Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan|Bacha Khan]] and [[Mother Teresa]]. And this is the forgiveness that I have learned from my father and from my mother. '''This is what my soul is telling me: be peaceful and love everyone.''' ** [[Malala Yousafzai]] as quoted in [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/the-full-text-malala-yousafzai-delivers-defiant-riposte-to-taliban-militants-with-speech-to-the-un-general-assembly-8706606.html Malala Yousafzai delivers defiant riposte to Taliban militants with speech to the UN General Assembly], ''The Independent'', (12 July, 2013) ===Dialogue=== :'''[[Ninth Doctor|The Doctor]]''': Get out of the way! [[Rose Tyler|Rose]], get out of the way [[now]]! :'''[[Rose Tyler|Rose]]''': No. I won't let you do this. :'''The Doctor''': [[Dalek|That thing]] [[killed]] hundreds of [[people]]! :'''Rose''': It's not the one pointing the [[gun]] at me. :* [[w:Robert Shearman|Robert Shearman]], "[[w:Dalek (Doctor Who episode)|Dalek]]", ''[[Doctor Who|Doctor Who]]'', ''BBC'', (30 April 2005); The [[Ninth Doctor]] as interpreted by [[w:Christopher Eccleston|Christopher Eccleston]] and [[Rose Tyler]] as interpreted by [[w:Billie Piper|Billie Piper]]. {{clear}} {{Misattributed begin}} == Misattributed == * A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity. **Falsely attributed to Sigmund Freud. ** This has been sourced to ''General Introduction to Psychoanalysis'' [http://groups.google.com/group/alt.quotations/msg/5fc8dd0f7d56981e] [http://groups.google.com/group/uk.politics.guns/msg/4ad060e213bc5b6b] [http://groups.google.com/group/talk.politics.guns/msg/7fbce4b3fa5324a7] [http://groups.google.com/group/can.talk.guns/msg/a57bc07124e64fba] due to a misreading of a 1990 essay by [[w:Don B. Kates|Don B. Kates]] [http://www.guncite.com/journals/gun_control_katesreal.html]. The quote is Kates' own characterization of a passage in Freud and Oppenheim, ''Dreams in Folklore'', and not Freud's words. * The strongest reason for people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. ** Falsely attributed to [[Thomas Jefferson]]. ** This has been sourced to "The Papers of Thomas Jefferson", asserted to have been edited by C.J. Boyd. The quote does not appear in Jefferson's collected papers as searched in Google Print. The name of the editor is also problematic: some volumes of Jefferson's papers were edited by Julian P. Boyd, not C.J. 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You shouldn't go around doing it unless you are in love. —[[Wikipedia:Bettie Page|Bettie Page]]]] '''{{w|Human sexual activity}}''', '''human sexual practice''' or '''human sexual behaviour''' is the manner in which humans experience and express their [[w:Human sexuality|sexuality]]. __NOTOC__ {{TOCalpha|''[[#Dialogue|Dialogue]]''}} == A == * It is if you're doing it right. ** [[Woody Allen]], when asked "Is sex dirty?" on ''{{w|The Dick Cavett Show}}'' (20 October 1971) * For women, the best [[aphrodisiacs]] are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time. ** [[Isabel Allende]], ''Of Love and Shadows'' (1984) * In the old days a lot of people, men as well as women, didn't quite know what to expect from sex so they didn't worry when it didn't work too well. ** [[Kingsley Amis]], ''{{w|Jake's Thing}}'' (1978) * While [[God]] created [[Adam]], who was alone, He said, 'It is not good for man to be alone'. He also created a woman, from the earth, as He had created Adam himself, and called her [[Lilith]]. Adam and Lilith immediately began to fight. She said, 'I will not lie below,' and he said, 'I will not lie beneath you, but only on top. For you are fit only to be in the bottom position, while I am to be the superior one.' Lilith responded, 'We are equal to each other inasmuch as we were both created from the earth.' But they would not listen to one another. When Lilith saw this, she pronounced the Ineffable Name and flew away into the air. ** [[Anonymous]], [[w:Alphabet of Sirach|Alphabet of Sirach]], as reported in Naomi M. Hyman, [https://archive.org/details/biblicalwomeninm0000naom/page/8/mode/2up ''Biblical Women in the Midrash''] (1998), p. 8 * There was a young pair of Aberystwyth<br>Who united the organs they kissed with.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;But as they grew older<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;They also grew bolder,<br>And united the organs they pissed with. ** [[Anonymous]], ''Lapses in Limerick'' (Michigan, MS., 1938); in G. Legman, ''The Limerick'' (Citadel Press, 1979), p. 372 * Remember the good old days when the air was clean and sex was dirty? ** [[Anonymous]], as reported in James C. Hefley, [https://archive.org/details/sexsensenonsense00hefl/page/6/mode/2up ''Sex, Sense, and Nonsense''] (1971), p. 7; sometimes attributed to [[George Burns]] * ''Proeliare et fortiter proeliare, nec enim tibi cedam nec terga vertam. Comminus in aspectum, si vir es, derige, et grassare naviter et occide moriturus. Hodierna pugna non habet missionem.'' ** Now is come the houre of justing, now is come the time of warre, wherefore shew thy selfe like unto a man, for I will not retyre, I will not fly the field, see then thou bee valiant, see thou be couragious, since there is no time appointed when our skirmish shall cease. ** [[Apuleius]], ''{{w|The Golden Ass}}'', bk. 2 ch. 10, par. 17, as translated by {{w|William Adlington}} (1566) * What food is to a man's well being, such is sexual intercourse to the welfare of the whole human race. ** [[Augustine of Hippo]], ''De Bono Coniugali'', ch. 16; later quoted by [[Thomas Aquinas]], ''Summa Theologica'', part 2, question 153, article 2, adding: "Wherefore just as the use of food can be without sin, if it be taken in due manner and order, as required for the welfare of the body, so also the use of venereal acts can be without sin, provided they be performed in due manner and order, in keeping with the end of human procreation." * [N]ecessary sexual intercourse for begetting is free from blame, and itself is alone worthy of [[marriage]]. But that which goes beyond this necessity, no longer follows [[reason]], but [[lust]]. ** [[Augustine of Hippo]], ''The Good of Marriage'', ch. 11, as translated in ''A Library of Fathers of the Holy Catholic Church'' (Oxford, 1847), p. 287 == B == [[File:Jose Frappa - Phryne.jpg|thumb|right|Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.<br>—[[William J. Brennan Jr.]] ]] [[File:Paul Avril - Les Sonnetts Luxurieux (1892) de Pietro Aretino, 2.jpg|thumb|A man can fuck a whore but, unless his wife is a whore, he cannot fuck his wife….fuck is a…dysphemism….there is no love in it. —[[Anthony Burgess]]]] * [[Money]], it turned out, was exactly like [[sex]]. You thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did. ** [[James Baldwin]], "The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy", in ''Esquire'' (May 1961) * Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of [[time]] and causes the most amount of [[trouble]]. ** [[John Barrymore]], as quoted by Oliver Gaspirtz, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=AkLDBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=The+Little+Free+Book+of+Uncensored+Celebrity+Sex+Quotes&source=bl&ots=JvAbPT2Ha6&sig=AiQDRwmJCN-uChU6jTOBCBMdy0M&hl=en&sa=X&ei=5Z5TVdi3IcyqNsW1gZAD&ved=0CFAQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=The%20Little%20Free%20Book%20of%20Uncensored%20Celebrity%20Sex%20Quotes&f=false Famous Quotes About Sex]'' (2017) * Yes, I haven't had enough sex. ** Sir [[John Betjeman]], British poet laureate. He had been asked whether he had any regrets, in an interview for the television documentary ''Time with Betjeman'' (February 1983) * {{smallcaps|Adamant}}, n. A mineral frequently found beneath a [[w:corset|corset]]. Soluble in solicitate of gold. ** [[Ambrose Bierce]], [[w:The Devil's Dictionary|''The Devil's Dictionary'']] (1911) * '''Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.''' ** [[William J. Brennan Jr.]], Writing for the court, ''[[w:Roth v. United States|Roth v. United States]]'', 354 U.S. 476 (1957) * "Natural" is a very dangerous word to use about sexuality … Our society's notions of normality are completely fake and meta-trendy, since they rely on the changing standards of [[superstition]], [[religion]], [[Christianity]] and gender bias to define themselves. [[United States|Americans]], in particular, exhibit very childish reactions to sexual practices that are new to them, much like little kids who are offered a vegetable they haven't seen before: "That's disgusting!" "But darling, you haven't even tried it!" "I don't care, I hate it, I hate it!" ** [[Susie Bright]] and Jill Posner, ''Nothing But the Girl'' (1996) * He said it was artificial respiration but now I find I'm to have his child. ** [[Anthony Burgess]], ''{{w|Inside Mr Enderby}}'' (1963) * A man can fuck a [[whore]] but, unless his wife is a whore, he cannot fuck his wife….''fuck'' is a…dysphemism….there is no love in it. ** [[Anthony Burgess]], ''Flame Into Being: The Life and Work of D. H. Lawrence'' (1985), quoted in B. R. Myers, [http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/10/smaller-than-life/308212/ "Smaller Than Life"], ''The Atlantic'' (October 2010) * There is more difference within the sexes than between them. ** [[Ivy Compton-Burnett]], ''Mother and Son'' (1955) == C == [[File:Anaglyph painting 8.jpg|thumb|Do you know why they call it a blowjob? So it'll sound like it has kind of a work ethic attached to it. Make you feel like you did something useful for the economy. —[[George Carlin]]]] * Like and enjoy; to will and act is one:<br>We only sin when Love’s rites are not done. ** [[Thomas Carew]], "A Rapture", in ''Poems'' (1640) * Do you know why they call it a [[w:oral_sex|blowjob]]? So it'll sound like it has kind of a [[w:Work_ethic|work ethic]] attached to it. Make you feel like you did something useful for the economy. ** [[George Carlin]], ''Doin' It Again'' (1990) * Each of the two sexes is an image of the [[power]] and [[tenderness]] of [[God]], with equal dignity though in a different way. The union of [[man]] and [[Women|woman]] in marriage is a way of imitating in the flesh the Creator's generosity and fecundity ** [https://web.archive.org/web/20090304123934/https://www.vatican.va/archive/catechism/p3s2c2a6.htm ''Catechism of the Catholic Church''], 2nd ed. (1994–2016) * Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife. Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency. ** [[1 Corinthians]] 7:3–5 (KJV) * To have coitus other than to procreate children is to do injury to nature. ** [[Clement of Alexandria]], ''[[w:The Instructor of Children|The Instructor of Children]]'' (AD 191), II, 10; as qtd. in [https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/contraception-1017 "Fathers Know Best Contraception"]. EWTN. Retrieved 2016-02-14; from the January 1996 issue of "This Rock," published by Catholic Answers; [https://web.archive.org/web/20080419053817/http:/www.byzantines.net/misc/sex.htm "Contraception/Birth Control"]. Byzantines.net. Archived from [http://www.byzantines.net/misc/sex.htm the original] on 2008-04-19. Retrieved 2009-03-20. * The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off. ** [[Jean Cocteau]], reported in Robert Andrews, ''The Routledge Dictionary of Quotations'' (1987), p. 74 * It would take a far more concentrated woman than Amanda to be unfaithful every five minutes. ** [[Noël Coward]], ''Private Lives'' (1930) * If this secret [of sexual magic], which is a scientific secret, were perfectly understood, as it is not by me after more than twelve years' almost constant study and experiment, there would be nothing which the human imagination can conceive that could not be realized in practice. ** [[Aleister Crowley]], ''The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography'', ed. John Symonds (New York: Hill and Wang, 1969), p. 767. * It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse physical or mental stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be one with it; or fulfill it, and get it out of the system; but do not allow it to remain there and putrefy. The suppression of the normal sex instinct, for example, is responsible for a thousand ills. In [[Puritanism|Puritan]] countries one inevitably finds a morbid preoccupation with sex coupled with every form of [[perversion]] and degeneracy. ** [[Aleister Crowley]], ''[[w:Moon Child (novel)|Moon Child]]'' (1917), as quoted by Oliver Gaspirtz, [https://books.google.com/books?id=AkLDBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=The+Little+Free+Book+of+Uncensored+Celebrity+Sex+Quotes&source=bl&ots=JvAbPT2Ha6&sig=AiQDRwmJCN-uChU6jTOBCBMdy0M&hl=en&sa=X&ei=5Z5TVdi3IcyqNsW1gZAD&ved=0CFAQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=The%20Little%20Free%20Book%20of%20Uncensored%20Celebrity%20Sex%20Quotes&f=false ''Famous Quotes About Sex''] (2017) == D == * Nothing is better than sex and anyone who says so has never had a good woman. ** [[w:Roger Daltrey|Roger Daltrey]], in ''The Mirror'' (15 July 2000) * The act of sex, gratifying though it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand at superintendency. The whole ritual is a grotesque [[anachronism]], an outdated testament to man's waning power. It's all we've got and so we make the best of it. It is not, however, sufficient reason for matrimony. ** [[Bette Davis]], ''[https://archive.org/details/lonelylifeautobi00davi/page/250/mode/2up The Lonely Life: An Autobiography]'' (1962), p. 251; quoted in part by [[Walter Winchell]] in [https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=89231779 "Pass the Worm Pills"] ''Cincinnati Enquirer'' (January 20, 1963) and {{w|Liz Smith}} in [https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=89232913 "'Postman' Bares a Stamp of Sex,"] ''Daily News'' (1980), and by Davis herself—as simply '''"Sex is God's joke on human beings."'''—in ''[https://archive.org/details/thisnthatbetteda00davi/page/67/mode/2up This 'n' That]'' (1987), p.&nbsp;67 * It is very hard for a man to ask questions about sex. The smart ones do. ** Betty Dodson, as quoted by Oliver Gaspirtz, [https://books.google.com/books?id=AkLDBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=The+Little+Free+Book+of+Uncensored+Celebrity+Sex+Quotes&source=bl&ots=JvAbPT2Ha6&sig=AiQDRwmJCN-uChU6jTOBCBMdy0M&hl=en&sa=X&ei=5Z5TVdi3IcyqNsW1gZAD&ved=0CFAQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=The%20Little%20Free%20Book%20of%20Uncensored%20Celebrity%20Sex%20Quotes&f=false ''Famous Quotes About Sex''] (2017) * She's all states, and all princes, I. ** [[John Donne]], [[w:The Sun Rising (poem)|"The Sun Rising"]], st. 3, in ''Poems'' (1633) * Oh, my America, my Newfoundland, </br> My kingdom, safest when with one man mann’d. ** [[John Donne]], "To His Mistress going to Bed", in ''The Harmony of the Muses'' (1654) and ''Poems'' (1669) * Sylvia the fair, in the bloom of Fifteen<br>Felt an innocent warmth, as she lay on the green;<br>She had heard of a pleasure, and something she guest<br>By the towzing and tumbling and touching her Breast:<br>She saw the men eager, but was at a loss,<br>What they meant by their sighing and kissing so close;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;By their praying and whining,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;And clasping and twining,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;And panting and wishing,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;And sighing and kissing,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;And sighing and kissing so close. ** [[John Dryden]], [[s:Sylvia the Fair|"Sylvia the Fair"]], st. 1, in ''Sylvæ'' (1685) * ’Tis unkind to your Love, and unfaithfully done,<br>To leave me behind you, and die all alone.<br>[...]<br>Then often they died; but the more they did so,<br>The Nymph died more quick, and the Shepherd more slow. ** [[John Dryden]], "Whilst Alexis Lay Prest", sts. 2, 4, in ''Marriage-à-la-mode'' (1673) * Sex and drugs and rock and roll <br/> Is all my brain and body need. <br/> Sex and drugs and rock and roll <br/> Is very good indeed. ** [[w:Ian Dury|Ian Dury]], "[[w:Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll|Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll]]" (26 August 1977) == E == * "Can a woman not keep her lover without she study to always please him with pleasure? Pew! then let her give up the game. Or shall my lover think with pleasing of me to win me indeed? Faugh! he payeth me then; doth he think I am for hire?" ** [[Eric Rücker Eddison]], ''{{w|Mistress of Mistresses}}'' (1935) * Grishkin is nice: her Russian eye </br> Is underlined for emphasis; </br> Uncorseted, her friendly bust </br> Gives promise of pneumatic bliss. ** [[T. S. Eliot]], [[w:Whispers of Immortality|"Whispers of Immortality"]], in the ''Little Review'' (September 1918); collected in ''Poems'' (1919) * No one warns young people to follow Adam's example. He waited till God saw his need. Then God made Adam sleep, prepared for his mate, and brought her to him. We need more of this 'being asleep' in the will of God. Then we can receive what He brings us in His own time, if at all. Instead we are set as bloodhounds after a partner, considering everyone we see until our minds are so concerned with the sex problem that we can talk of nothing else when bull-session time comes around. It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women — but he can think of them as he ought — as sisters, not as sparring partners! ** [[Jim Elliot]], as quoted in Elisabeth Elliot, ''Shadow of the Almighty'' (1989), ch. 4 * Not being able to ban sexuality altogether, [[Catholicism]] has tried to reduce it to a mere biological fact, allowing its use in marriage only for procreation. Unlike certain ancient traditions, Catholicism has recognized no higher value, not even a potential one, in the sexual experience taken in itself. There is lacking any basis for its transformation in the interests of a more intense life, to integrate and elevate the inner tension of two beings of different sexes, whereas it is in exactly these terms that one should conceive of a concrete "sacralization" of the union and the effect of a higher influence involved in the rite. ** [[Julius Evola]], ''Ride the Tiger'' (1961) [2003 ed.], p. 190 == F == * The sex life of the [[working class]] is nasty, brutish and short. Every survey of behaviour, whether it's sexual offences or marital behaviour or premarital behaviour shows that. I had a dear friend who used to say 'tell me how a man makes love and I'll tell you how he votes', and that is absolutely justified in terms of what we know about class attitude and conduct in sexual matters. ** {{w|Beatrice Faust}}, in Olle, Andrew 1992, "Interview with Richard Walsh and Beatrice Faust", ''Radio 2BL'', 14 May; as qtd. in [http://www.aic.gov.au/media_library/publications/proceedings/20/goldsmith.pdf Sexual Offenders and Pornography: A Causal Connection?]'', by Marlene Goldsmith: Chairman Legislative Council Standing Committee on Social Issues Parliament of New South Wales. * What happens is that, as with drugs, one needs a stronger shot each time, and women are just women. The consumption of one woman is the consumption of all. You can't double the dose. ** [[Ian Fleming]], quoted in John Pearson, ''Life of Ian Fleming'' (1960) * Always fatuity, vulgarity, as soon as human passion is touched. [...] Just as some [[poetry]] is of the eye (form, colour) and some of the ear, so [[Keats]] is of the palate. Not only has he constant reference to its pleasures, but the general sensation after reading him is one of ''tasting''. 'What's the harm?' Well, taste for some reason or the other can't carry one far into the world of beauty—that reason being perhaps that though you don't want comradership there you do want the possibility of comradership, and A cannot swallow B's mouthful by any possibility:....and this exclusiveness (to maunder on) also attaches to the physical side of sex though not the least to the spiritual. ** [[E. M. Forster]], ''Selected Letters'': Letter 162, to Malcolm Darling, 1 December 1916 * Sex is like the pursuit of wild mushrooms: Both are fascinating hobbies, both can prove most addictive, and both for the most part yield tasty results.<br>And yet, for the novice, there exists always the chance of making that one fatal mistake. ** [[Esther Friesner]], ''Harlot’s Ruse'' (1986), p. 1 == G == [[File:Sculpture to Warren Cup. Cornwall LGBT History Project 2016. Malcolm Lidbury a.JPG|thumb|When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Avoid having sex with the authorities. —[[Matt Groening]]]] * And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. ** [[Book of Genesis|Genesis]] 2:23–4 ([[KJV]]) * Life to him was identified with the intimate charm of the feminine form in its greatest variety: and so he spent his days in quest of the red light. ** [[w:William Gerhardie|William Gerhardie]], ''The Polyglots'' (1925) * Bobby said he did it when he was 13 </br> Twenty five times take a look at me </br> Do it as often as you possibly can </br> Give it to me four times! </br> Do it a gain (1) and again (2) and again (3) and ag-ga-ain (4) </br> Sex! ** [[w:Debbie Gibson|Debbie Gibson]], "Sex" * When lovely woman stoops to folly,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;And finds too late that men betray,<br>What charm can soothe her melancholy,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;What art can wash her guilt away?{{pb}}The only art her guilt to cover,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;To hide her shame from every eye,<br>To give repentance to her lover,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;And wring his bosom—is to die. ** [[Oliver Goldsmith]], ''{{w|The Vicar of Wakefield}}'' (1766), Ch. 29 * When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned — avoid having sex with the authorities. ** [[Matt Groening]], ''[[w:Life in Hell|Life in Hell]]'' {{page needed|date=April 2019}}; as quoted in [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100368495/the-pantagraph/ "Olympic Watch: Let the Games Begin, Finally, Pullease"] by Bill Flick, ''The Pantagraph'' (June 28, 1996), p.&nbsp;12 ***'''Comment:''' <small>It appears that every subsequent citation of this quote, beginning with the [https://archive.org/details/ara_news_1998.01.26/page/n7/mode/2up?q=groening+%22sex+with+the+authorities%22 January 26, 1998 issue] of ''[[w:Anti-Racist Action Network|ARA News]]'' and continuing within a plethora of both [https://archive.org/search.php?query=%22authorities%20warn%20you%22%20%22sex%20with%20the%20authorities%22&sin=TXT in-print] and [https://search.yahoo.com/search?p=%22authorities+warn+you%22+%22sex+with+the+authorities%22&fr=yfp-t&fr2=p%3Afp%2Cm%3Asb&ei=UTF-8&fp=1 online quote compilations], has slightly reworded the punch line to read: '''"Do not have sex with the authorities."'''</small> * Amœbas at the start<br>Were not complex;<br>They tore themselves apart<br>And started Sex.<br>[...]<br>’Tis Sex that rules the lives<br>Of clods and kings;<br>It gives us books and wives<br>And other things—{{pb}}Ambition, love, and strife<br>And all the ills<br>And ecstasies of life—<br>And [[Sigmund Freud|Freuds]] and [[w:Abraham Brill|Brills]]. ** [[Arthur Guiterman]], "Sex", sts. 1, 5, 6, in ''The Light Guitar'' (1923) == H == [[File:Hentai - yuuree-redraw.jpg|thumb|The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.<br>— [[Hugh Hefner]] ]] [[File:Miyagawa Chosun - Nanshoku 04.jpg|thumb|I think that sex is necessary and bankers are not. —Lancelot Hogben]] * "Why do they call them love-spells, anyway?" he added bitterly. "It isn't love, you know."<br>"Maybe because some people can't tell the difference. ... Or if they suspect there's a difference, they don't want to know." ** [[Barbara Hambly]], ''The Rainbow Abyss'' (1991), {{ISBN|0-345-37101-1}}, p. 156 * Sex is a sure cure of boredom and an antidote to violence that is so American. Power to the People! ** [[Harry Hay]], ''Statement of Purpose: Gay Liberation Front'' (December 1969) * The major civilizing force in the world is not [[religion]], it is sex. ** Hugh Hefner, as quoted by Oliver Gaspirtz, [https://books.google.com/books?id=AkLDBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=The+Little+Free+Book+of+Uncensored+Celebrity+Sex+Quotes&source=bl&ots=JvAbPT2Ha6&sig=AiQDRwmJCN-uChU6jTOBCBMdy0M&hl=en&sa=X&ei=5Z5TVdi3IcyqNsW1gZAD&ved=0CFAQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=The%20Little%20Free%20Book%20of%20Uncensored%20Celebrity%20Sex%20Quotes&f=false ''Famous Quotes About Sex''] (2017) * I don't see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn't anything complex, it is simply the best thing in life, even better than food. ** [[Robert Heinlein]], as quoted by Oliver Gaspirtz, [https://books.google.com/books?id=AkLDBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=The+Little+Free+Book+of+Uncensored+Celebrity+Sex+Quotes&source=bl&ots=JvAbPT2Ha6&sig=AiQDRwmJCN-uChU6jTOBCBMdy0M&hl=en&sa=X&ei=5Z5TVdi3IcyqNsW1gZAD&ved=0CFAQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=The%20Little%20Free%20Book%20of%20Uncensored%20Celebrity%20Sex%20Quotes&f=false ''Famous Quotes About Sex''] (2017) * For him it was a dark passage which led to nowhere, then to nowhere, then again to nowhere, once again to nowhere, always and forever to nowhere, heavy on the elbows in the earth to nowhere, dark, never any end to nowhere, hung on all time always to unknowing nowhere, this time and again for always to nowhere, now not to be borne once again always and to nowhere, now beyond all bearing up, up, up and into nowhere, suddenly, scaldingly, holdingly all nowhere gone and time absolutely still and they were both there, time having stopped and he felt the earth move out and away from under them. ** [[Ernest Hemingway]], [[w:For Whom the Bell Tolls|''For Whom the Bell Tolls'']] (1940), ch. 13 * Adam had learned the jolly deed of kind: </br> He took her in his arms and there and then </br> Like the clean beasts, embracing from behind, </br> Began in joy to found the breed of men. ** [[A. D. Hope]], "Imperial Adam", ll. 25–28, in ''Poems'' (1960) * Mr. Mercaptan went on to preach a brilliant sermon on that melancholy sexual perversion known as continence. ** [[Aldous Huxley]], ''Antic Hay'' (1923) * A woman makes a guy come, it's standard. A guy makes a woman come, it's talent. ** [[w: Dante Hicks|Dante Hicks]] (Brian O'Halloran) in ''Clerks'' (1994) * I think that sex is necessary and [[Banking|bankers]] are not. ** [[w:Lancelot Hogben|Lancelot Hogben]], in Twentieth Century Authors, A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Literature, Edited by Stanley J. Kunitz, and Howard Haycraft. New York, The H.W. Wilson Company, 1950, (pp. 658-59) * Viewed from a wholly logical point of view the bearing and rearing of children is a thoroughly unattractive proposition. To a woman it means pain and endless worry. To a man it means extra work extending over many years to support his family. So, if we were wholly logical about sex, we should probably not bother to reproduce at all. Nature takes care of this by making us utterly and wholly irrational. ** [[Fred Hoyle]], ''The Black Cloud'' (1957), chapter 10 * It is only when it takes the form of physical [[addiction]] that sex is evil. It is also evil when it manifests itself as a way of satisfying the lust for power or the climber's craving for position and social distinction. ** [[Aldous Huxley]], ''Ends and Means'' (1937) == J == * Time is the great gift; sex is the great equalizer; love is the great mystery. ** [[w:en:John Jennings|John Jennings]] on ''[[w:en:Time* Sex* Love*|Time* Sex* Love*]]'' * The great thing about sex is that everybody has an opinion about it and you can't say "Oh you're not an expert." ** Allen Jones, [http://www.timeout.com/london/art/allen-jones-interview-they-are-intended-to-be-sexy-objects ''Timeout''] * ’Tis no sin love’s fruit to steal;<br>But the sweet thefts to reveal,<br>To be taken, to be seen,<br>These have crimes accounted been. ** [[Ben Jonson]], ''Volpone; or, The Fox'', act 3, sc. 6 == K == * Pop culture and porn would have us believe women's desire can be ignited by a single sultry gaze, and their genitals are ready to go at a moment's notice — much like those of men. This is not accurate information and can lead to painful or unsatisfying sex. ** Tanya Koens, [https://www.abc.net.au/life/how-women-can-explore-and-enhance-masturbation/10007656 “How women can explore and enhance masturbation”], ABC Life, (Posted 28 August 2019, updated 23 February 2020) * Remember a regular and pleasurable sex life either with yourself or a partner is linked to a youthful appearance, reduced chance of coronary incidents, fewer menopause symptoms and increased energy. ** Tanya Koens, [https://www.abc.net.au/life/how-women-can-explore-and-enhance-masturbation/10007656 “How women can explore and enhance masturbation”], ABC Life, (Posted 28 August 2019, updated 23 February 2020) * Not even when I was who I was, before, not even then had I ever known a woman so skilled in those arts of the body that are really the arts of the mind. ** [[w:Nancy Kress|Nancy Kress]], ''Stalking Beans,'' in [[w:Ellen Datlow|Ellen Datlow]] and [[w:Terri Windling|Terri Windling]] (eds.) ''[[w:Snow White, Blood Red (book)|Snow White, Blood Red]]'' (1993), p. 96 == L == * Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got. ** [[Sophia Loren]], as quoted by Oliver Gaspirtz, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=AkLDBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=The+Little+Free+Book+of+Uncensored+Celebrity+Sex+Quotes&source=bl&ots=JvAbPT2Ha6&sig=AiQDRwmJCN-uChU6jTOBCBMdy0M&hl=en&sa=X&ei=5Z5TVdi3IcyqNsW1gZAD&ved=0CFAQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=The%20Little%20Free%20Book%20of%20Uncensored%20Celebrity%20Sex%20Quotes&f=false Famous Quotes About Sex]'' (2017) * A promiscuous person is someone who is getting more sex than you are. ** [[Victor Lownes]], as quoted by Jon Winokur, ''The Portable Curmudgeon'' (1984), p. 224 * How alike are the groans of love to those of the dying. ** [[Malcolm Lowry]], ''{{w|Under the Volcano}}'' (1947) == M == [[File:1925 Wegener Les Delassements dEros 06 anagoria.JPG|thumb|Girls five or six years, or older, are quite likely to experience passive love for other girls of similar age, with or without mutual stimulation of the genital organs, as the case may be.<br>—[[William Moulton Marston]]]] * Let us roll all our Strength, and all<br>Our sweetness, up into one Ball:<br>And tear our Pleasures with rough strife,<br>Thorough the Iron gates of Life.<br> Thus, though we cannot make our Sun<br>Stand still, yet we will make him run. ** [[Andrew Marvell]], [[w:To His Coy Mistress|"To His Coy Mistress"]], in ''Miscellaneous Poems'' (1681) * [T]hough the fact seems little known, the [[w:Clitoris|clitoris]] of one woman may be stimulated nearly as effectively by the [[vulva]] of another woman, as can the [[Human penis|penis]] of a male with the [[w:Vagina|vagina]] of the female. The female emotion resulting from stimulation of the clitoris by another woman (as apparent in the behavior of women prisoners) seems fully as extensive as the male emotion resulting from stimulation of the penis. In this type of physical relationship, both women most frequently experience simultaneous stimulation of the clitoris with appropriate emotional states following. Neither woman, of course, receives stimulation of the mouth of the vagina. * Girls five or six years, or older, are quite likely to experience passive love for other girls of similar age, with or without mutual stimulation of the genital organs, as the case may be....At least two completed love affairs of this type between girls five to seven years old have been brought to my attention. In both cases the children were wholly normal so far as could be determined by medical and psychological examination. ** [[William Moulton Marston]], ''The Emotions of Normal People'', pp. 303, 318, as quoted in Noah Berlatsky, ''Wonder Woman: Bondage and Feminism in the Marston/Peter Comics, 1941–1948'', pp. 146–7 * Sex is natural, sex is good <br/> Not everybody does it, but everybody should. ** [[George Michael]], [[w:I Want Your Sex|"I Want Your Sex"]] (1987) * Continental people have sex-life; the English have hot-water bottles. ** [[George Mikes]], ''{{w|How to be an Alien}}'' (1946) * And leave it to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Norther Ireland to come up with a word for sex that could only have been come up with by someone who's never had it except perhaps once per conceived child, with every shade drawn, every light turned out, and somehow several woolen items of clothing being worn during it. ** Ben Miller on the coining of ''[[wikt:bonk|bonk]]'' ('[https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/mandeleson-a-homosexual-history Mandelson: A Homosexual History] - Episode Three' (12 May 2026), ''[[w:Bad Gays|Bad Gays]]'') * Sex is one of the nine reasons for [[reincarnation]]. The other eight aren't important. ** [[Henry Miller]], ''{{w|Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch}}'' (1957) * All of us have got some kinds of feelings and thoughts about sex, but the only genre connected to it is [[Pornography|this grubby, shameful one]]. That's a real pity. Sex is glorious, it's how we all got here, and it's most people's favourite activity. ** [[Alan Moore]] as quoted by Jeremy Duns in [http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/alan-moore-the-reluctant-hero-64407.html "Alan Moore: The reluctant hero"], ''Independent'', (15 March 2004). * Most of the people who get sent to die in [[wars]] are [[young]] [[men]] who've got a lot of [[energy]] and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out. ** [[Alan Moore]], "The Craft", interview with Daniel Whiston, ''Engine Comics'' (January 2005). == N == * Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. * I recall certain moments, let us call them icebergs in paradise, when after having had my fill of her—after fabulous, insane exertions that left me limp and azure-barred—I would gather her in my arms with, at last, a mute moan of human tenderness (her skin glistening in the neon light coming from the paved court through the slits in the blind, her soot-black lashes matted, her grave gray eyes more vacant than ever—for all the world a little patient still in the confusion of a drug after a major operation)—and the tenderness would deepen to shame and despair, and I would lull and rock my lone light Lolita in my marble arms, and moan in her warm hair, and caress her at random and mutely ask her blessing, and at the peak of this human agonized selfless tenderness (with my soul actually hanging around her naked body and ready to repent), all at once, ironically, horribly, lust would swell again—and "oh, no," Lolita would say with a sigh to heaven, and the next moment the tenderness and the azure—all would be shattered. ** [[Vladimir Nabokov]], [[w:Lolita|''Lolita'']] (1954) == O == == P == [[File:Ca. 1788 shogun by Katsukawa Shuncho - Erotic Pictures for the Twelve Months, August.jpg|thumb|Sex is an antidote to death, or at least, an adequate placebo.<br>— Tim Pratt]] [[File:Plüschow, Wilhelm von (1852-1930) - n. 10533 - Donna accovacciata su pelle di pantera - da - Il vero nudo, p. 17.jpg|thumb|On a sofa upholstered in panther skin<br>Mona did researches in {{w|original sin}}. </br> —[[William Plomer]]]] * Sex is a part of love. You shouldn't go around doing it unless you are in love. ** Betty Paige, as quoted by Oliver Gaspirtz, [https://books.google.com/books?id=AkLDBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=The+Little+Free+Book+of+Uncensored+Celebrity+Sex+Quotes&source=bl&ots=JvAbPT2Ha6&sig=AiQDRwmJCN-uChU6jTOBCBMdy0M&hl=en&sa=X&ei=5Z5TVdi3IcyqNsW1gZAD&ved=0CFAQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=The%20Little%20Free%20Book%20of%20Uncensored%20Celebrity%20Sex%20Quotes&f=false ''Famous Quotes About Sex''] (2017) * ''Foeda est in coitu et brevis voluptas<br>Et taedet Veneris statim peractae.'' ** Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short;<br>And done, we straight repent us of the sport. ** [[Petronius]], in Emil Baehrens, ''[[w:Poetae Latini Minores|Poetae Latini Minores]]'' (1882), vol. 4, no. 101; translated by [[Ben Jonson]] in ''Underwoods'' ([[w:Ben Jonson folios|F2]], 1640) * On a sofa upholstered in panther skin<br>Mona did researches in {{w|original sin}}. ** [[William Plomer]], "Mews Flat Mona: A Memory of the Twenties", in ''Collected Poems'' (1960), p. 116 * Sex is an antidote to death, or at least, an adequate placebo. ** [[w:Tim Pratt|Tim Pratt]], ''Cup and Table'' (originally published in 2006 in [[w:David Moles|David Moles]] & Susan Marie Groppi (eds.) ''Twenty Epics)'' and reprinted in [[w:Mike Ashley (writer)|Mike Ashley]] (ed.), ''The Mammoth Book of Extreme Fantasy'' (2008), p. 385 * There be three things which are too wonderful for me, Yea, four which I know not: The way of an eagle in the air; The way of a serpent upon a rock; The way of a ship in the midst of the sea; And the way of a man with a maid. ** [[Book of Proverbs|Proverbs]] 30:18–19 ([[KJV]]) * Some fuckin' is good for you, Jack. Gettin' some pussy beats havin' a war. ** [[Richard Pryor]], "Have Your Ass Home By 11:00", ''{{w|That Nigger's Crazy}}'' (1974) == Q == == R == [[File:Bisexual threesome.jpg|thumb|Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness. —Wilhelm Reich]] * These two did oftentimes do the [[w:beast with two backs|two-backed beast]] together, joyfully rubbing and frotting their bacon 'gainst one another. ** [[François Rabelais]], ''[[w:Gargantua and Pantagruel|Gargantua]]'' (1534), translated by Sir {{w|Thomas Urquhart}} (1653), [[s:Gargantua/Chapter III|ch. 3]]. Cp. ''[[Othello]]'', act 1, sc. 1, ll. 126–7 * '''Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.''' <!-- p. 173 --> ** [[Wilhelm Reich]], ''The Function of the Orgasm'' (1927), Ch. V : The Development of the Character-Analytic Technique. * What we refuse to believe is that it was intended by nature as a [[manufacturing]] process. In order to make certain the race would continue, nature made it the most exciting and alluring of experiences; thus, we have turned it into a diversion and an entertainment. Nonetheless, it is a manufacturing process. ** [[Edward G. Robinson]], ''All My Yesterdays: An Autobiography'' (1973), p.&nbsp;276 * Had she picked out, to rub her arse on,<br>Some stiff-pricked clown or well-hung parson, ...<br>Such natural freedoms are but just:<br>There’s something generous in mere lust.<br>But to turn a damned abandoned jade<br>When neither head nor tail persuade;<br>To be a whore in understanding,<br>A passive pot for fools to spend in! ** [[John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester|The Earl of Rochester]], "A Ramble in Saint James's Park"; ''Poems'' (1680) * Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love. ** [[Bertrand Russell]], ''{{w|Marriage and Morals}}'' (1929), == S == [[File:Wiki-trans-cis lesbian sex.png|thumb|Imagine what would happen if instead of centering our beliefs about heterosexual sex around the idea that the man "penetrates" the woman, we were to say that the woman's vagina "consumes" the man's penis.<br>—[[w:Julia Serrano|Julia Serrano]]]] * Venereal: From [[Venus (mythology)|Venus]], the goddess of love, this word refers to the reality of [[desire]]. With the rise of [[Protestantism]] and [[science]], the word "disease" was tacked on in a revealing combination of categorization and moralizing. "Which disease?" "The disease of love." ** [[John Ralston Saul]], ''The Doubter's Companion'' * He on her belly falls, she on her back.<br>Now is she in the very lists of love,<br>Her champion mounted for the hot encounter. ** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Venus and Adonis (Shakespeare poem)|Venus and Adonis]]'' (1593) * Your brother and his lover have embraced;<br>As those that feed grow full, as blossoming time<br>That from the seedness the bare fallow brings<br>To teeming foison, even so her plenteous womb<br>Expresseth his full tilth and husbandry. ** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Measure for Measure]]'', act 1, sc. 4 * Nay, but to live<br>In the rank sweat of an enseamèd bed,<br>Stew’d in corruption, honeying and making love<br>Over the nasty sty,— ** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Hamlet]]'', act 3, sc. 4 (The Closet Scene)<!-- — enseamed (Ff), inseemed (Q2 Q3), incestuous (Q4 Q5 Q6)--> * By Gis and by Saint Charity,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;Alack, and fie for shame!<br>Young men will do't, if they come to't;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;By cock, they are to blame.<br>Quoth she, before you tumbled me,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;You promised me to wed.<br>''He answers:''<br>So would I ha' done, by yonder sun,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;An thou hadst not come to my bed. ** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Hamlet]]'', act 4, sc. 5 (Ophelia's Mad Song)<!-- — Quoth she, before] Before, quoth she ([[w:Edward Capell|Capell]]); An ([[w:Sir Thomas Hanmer, 4th Baronet|Hanmer]]), And (Qq [[w:First Folio|Ff]])--> * Hymen hath brought the bride to bed,<br>Where, by the loss of maidenhead,<br>A babe is moulded. ** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Pericles, Prince of Tyre]]'', act 3, chorus * Imagine what would happen if instead of centering our beliefs about heterosexual sex around the idea that the man "penetrates" the woman, we were to say that the woman's vagina "consumes" the man's penis. This would create a very different set of connotations, as the woman would become the active initiator and the man would be the passive and receptive party. One can easily see how this could lead to men and masculinity being seen as dependent on, and existing for the benefit of, femaleness and femininity. ** [[w:Julia Serrano|Julia Serrano]] ''Whipping Girl: A Transexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Feminimity.'' p. 330 as quoted in Wonder Woman: Bondage and Feminism in the Marston/Peter comics, 1941-1948 p. 164 by Noah Berlatsky. * The pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, the expense damnable. ** Attributed to [[Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield]] * What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The only drawback in that freedom is that without it one would not be a human. One would be a monster. ** [[John Steinbeck]], as quoted by Oliver Gaspirtz, [https://books.google.com/books?id=AkLDBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=The+Little+Free+Book+of+Uncensored+Celebrity+Sex+Quotes&source=bl&ots=JvAbPT2Ha6&sig=AiQDRwmJCN-uChU6jTOBCBMdy0M&hl=en&sa=X&ei=5Z5TVdi3IcyqNsW1gZAD&ved=0CFAQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=The%20Little%20Free%20Book%20of%20Uncensored%20Celebrity%20Sex%20Quotes&f=false ''Famous Quotes About Sex''] (2017) * For all that she’d had no great expectations for it, sex was turning out to be even more squalid, tawdry, and cynical than she had suspected it would. ** [[Michael Swanwick]], ''[[w:The Iron Dragon's Daughter|The Iron Dragon's Daughter]]'' (1993), ch. 10 == T == * I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the subject of a coarse jest, yet when you speak earnestly and seriously on the subject, is silent. ** [[Henry David Thoreau]], journal entry (April 12, 1852); in Odell Shepard, ed., ''The Heart of Thoreau's Journals'' (1927), p. 126. * Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex. ** [[Hunter S. Thompson]], as quoted by Oliver Gaspirtz, [https://books.google.com/books?id=AkLDBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=The+Little+Free+Book+of+Uncensored+Celebrity+Sex+Quotes&source=bl&ots=JvAbPT2Ha6&sig=AiQDRwmJCN-uChU6jTOBCBMdy0M&hl=en&sa=X&ei=5Z5TVdi3IcyqNsW1gZAD&ved=0CFAQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=The%20Little%20Free%20Book%20of%20Uncensored%20Celebrity%20Sex%20Quotes&f=false ''Famous Quotes About Sex''] (2017) [[File:Antiquités étrusques, grecques et romaines - ou les beaux vases étrusques, grecs et romains, et les peintures rendues avec les couleurs qui leur sont propres (1787) (14781801754).jpg|thumb|The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation. ~ [[Pierre Trudeau]]]] * The [[state]] has no business in the bedrooms of the nation. ** [[Pierre Elliott Trudeau]], Canadian minister of justice, remark to newsmen, Ottawa, Canada (December 21, 1967), as reported in ''The Globe and Mail'', Toronto (December 22, 1967), p. 1. He was commenting on the government's proposal to overhaul Canadian criminal law, giving new recognition to individual rights in several areas, including sexual behavior. == U == == V == == W == * Once you've had a [[lover]]-robot, you'll never want a real [[man]] again. ** Gigolo Joe (Jude Law) in ''[[A.I. Artificial Intelligence]]'' (2001 film), written by [[w:Ian Watson (author)|Ian Watson]] and [[w:Brian Aldiss|Brian Aldiss]]. * All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day. ** [[Evelyn Waugh]], ''{{w|Vile Bodies}}'' (1930) * I consider sex a misdemeanor; the more I miss, de meaner I get. ** [[Mae West]], as quoted by Oliver Gaspirtz, [https://books.google.com/books?id=AkLDBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=The+Little+Free+Book+of+Uncensored+Celebrity+Sex+Quotes&source=bl&ots=JvAbPT2Ha6&sig=AiQDRwmJCN-uChU6jTOBCBMdy0M&hl=en&sa=X&ei=5Z5TVdi3IcyqNsW1gZAD&ved=0CFAQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=The%20Little%20Free%20Book%20of%20Uncensored%20Celebrity%20Sex%20Quotes&f=false ''Famous Quotes About Sex''] (2017) * A woman for duty, A boy for pleasure, But a melon for ecstasy. ** [[w:John Wells (satirist)|John Wells]], who attributed it to an Arabic or Turkish proverb * There are two kinds of sex, classical and baroque. Classical sex is romantic, profound, serious, emotional, moral, mysterious, spontaneous, abandoned, focused on a particular person, and stereotypically [[Femininity|feminine]]. Baroque sex is pop, playful, funny, experimental, conscious, deliberate, amoral, anonymous, focused on [[Senses|sensation]] for sensation's sake, and stereotypically [[Masculinity|masculine]]. The classical mentality taken to an extreme is sentimental and finally puritanical; the baroque mentality taken to an extreme is [[Pornography|pornographic]] and finally obscene. Ideally, a sexual relation ought to create a satisfying tension between the two modes (a baroque idea, particularly if the tension is ironic) or else blend them so well that the distinction disappears (a classical aspiration). ** [[Ellen Willis]], "Classical and Baroque Sex in Everyday Life" (1979), ''Beginning To See the Light: Pieces of a Decade'' (1981) * The problem is that sex is the most dangerous way of trying to achieve personal growth, because the life force has mixed it so liberally with a string sense of "magic", which, in the attempt at possession turns out to be an illusion. The attempt to possess a woman through an act of sex is as frustrating as trying to possess the scent of a rose by cooking and eating it. ** [[Colin Wilson]] in ''The Corpse Garden'', p. 250 (1998) * You never fuck the same woman twice. ** John Wise (after [[Heraclitus]]), in John H. Richardson, [https://www.elle.com/life-love/sex-relationships/a39189/long-term-polyamory "How Does a Polyamorous Marriage Go the Distance?"], ''Elle'' (14 September 2016) == Z == [[File:Sex Machines Museum Prague - Various sex toys.jpg|thumb|[[Love]] is what makes [[sex]] more than [[masturbation]]. If there is no love, even if you are really with a partner, you masturbate with a partner.<br>—[[Slavoj Žižek]]]] * Love is what makes sex more than masturbation. If there is no love even if you are really with a partner you masturbate with a partner. ** [[Slavoj Žižek]], Interview in HARDtalk, BBC World Service (12 January 2010) == Dialogue == :'''Hamlet''': Lady, shall I lie in your lap? [''Lying down at Ophelia’s feet.''] :'''Ophelia''': No, my lord. :'''Hamlet''': I mean, my head upon your lap? :'''Ophelia''': Ay, my lord. :'''Hamlet''': Do you think I meant country matters? :'''Ophelia''': I think nothing, my lord. :'''Hamlet''': That’s a fair thought to lie between maids’ legs. :'''Ophelia''': What is, my lord? :'''Hamlet''': Nothing. :— [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Hamlet]]'', Act 3, Scene 2 <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lucia DeLury''': Honey, I don't ''understand'' sex. I don't ''get'' it, get it? It's just, it seems like, uh… a lot of trouble for not much. Am I the only one that thinks this? :'''Bill Truit''': I don't think you're the tip of an iceberg, frankly. :'''Lucia DeLury''': Well, I- I would rather have a bathrobe. You know, it lasts longer, and there's no ''fluids''. You know, what's so great about ''that''? That's like, "Hi! I'd like to blow my nose on your face." :— ''[[w:The Opposite of Sex|The Opposite of Sex]]'' (1998), with [[w:Lisa Kudrow|Lisa Kudrow]] (Lucia) and [[w:Martin Donovan|Martin Donovan]] (Bill) <hr width="50%"/> :[Alvy confronts Annie about having an affair] :'''Alvy Singer''': Well, I didn't start out spying. I thought I'd surprise you. Pick you up after school. :'''Annie Hall''': Yeah, but you wanted to keep the relationship flexible. Remember, it's your phrase. :'''Alvy Singer''': Oh stop it, you're having an affair with your college professor, that jerk that teaches that incredible crap course, Contemporary Crisis in Western Man... :'''Annie Hall''': Existential Motifs in Russian Literature. You're really close. :'''Alvy Singer''': What's the difference? It's all mental masturbation. :'''Annie Hall''': Oh, well, now we're finally getting to a subject you know something about. :'''Alvy Singer''': Hey, don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love. :— ''[[w:Annie Hall|Annie Hall]]'' (1977), with [[w:Woody Allen|Woody Allen]] (Alvy Singer) and [[w:Diane Keaton|Diane Keaton]] (Annie Hall) ==See also== * [[Chastity]] * [[Promiscuity]] == References == * Marianne Hunter (ed.), ''Sex: A Book of Quotations'', Barnes & Noble Books, 2003. {{ISBN|0-7607-4072-0}}. * Baltimore Chronicle: Quotes about Sex == External links == *{{Wikipedia-inline}} *{{Wiktionary-inline|sex}} *{{Commonscat-inline}} [[Category:Sexuality]] 7euxmxy91gprc6kzy3kzbv7wzjpkri7 0 2153 3961147 3960969 2026-07-05T16:26:27Z BD2412 3982 /* September 2025 */ Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]], replaced: Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr. → Robert F. Kennedy Jr. using [[Project:AWB|AWB]] 3961147 wikitext text/x-wiki <!-- This is a controversial subject. 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Deals are my art form.]] '''[[w:Donald Trump|Donald John Trump]]''' (born [[June 14]], [[1946]]) is an American [[w:Political career of Donald Trump|politician]], [[w:Media career of Donald Trump|media personality]], and [[w:Business career of Donald Trump|businessman]] who is serving as the [[w:List of presidents of the United States|47th]] [[President of the United States|president]] of the [[United States|United States of America]] since January 20, 2025. He previously served as the 45th president from 2017 to 2021. :See also: ::'''''[[Quotes about Donald Trump]]''''' ::'''''[[Donald Trump on social media]]''''' ::'''''[[First presidency of Donald Trump]]''''' ::'''''[[Second presidency of Donald Trump]]''''' ::'''''[[Racial views of Donald Trump]]''''' ::'''''[[Trumpism]]''''' [[lv:Donalds Trumps]] ==Quotes== [[File:Donald Trump by Gage Skidmore.jpg|thumb|I stand before you now as proof that you should never believe that something is impossible to do. In America, the impossible is what we do best... We will stand bravely, we will live proudly, we will dream boldly, and nothing will stand in our way because we are Americans.]][[File:January 2025 Official Presidential Portrait of Donald J. Trump.jpg|thumb| I believe it is God’s job to sit in judgment; my job, to defend America and to promote the fundamental interests of stability, prosperity, and peace. [https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/05/trump-immoral-world-order/682826/ ]]][[File:Cabinet Meeting (49092290281).jpg|thumb| They let&mdash;I think the real number is 15, 16 million people into our country. When they do that, we got a lot of work to do. They’re poisoning the blood of our country.[https://variety.com/2024/biz/news/donald-trump-god-rnc-nomination-1236077838/]|alt=File:Main-qimg-021d8d22e0438179020144bbb4821733.jpg]][[File:Shinzo Abe and Donald Trump playing golf.jpg|thumb| That's one of the nice things. I mean, part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich. So if I need $600 million, I can put $600 million myself. That's a huge advantage. I must tell you, that's a huge advantage over the other candidates.[https://nypost.com/2024/07/25/us-news/trump-hopes-us-obliterates-iran-if-hes-assassinated-by-the-american-adversary/]]] [[File:This was the President Donald Trump's first trip aboard Air Force One (cropped).jpg|thumb|I know the best people. To me, it's all about people. You got to have the right people. When we have the right people, it runs beautifully[https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-tells-bronx-barbershop-what-he-would-do-differently-elected-second-time-its-all-about-people]]] ===1980s=== * '''Rona Barrett''': If you lost your fortune today, what would you do tomorrow?<br>'''Donald Trump''': Maybe I’d run for president. I don’t know. ** An [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-stat/graphics/politics/trump-archive/docs/rona-barrett-1980-interview-of-donald-trump.pdf interview] with [[w:Rona Barrett|Rona Barrett]] (1980) * '''Rona Barrett''': Would you like to be the [[President of the United States]]?<br>'''Donald Trump''': I really don't believe I would, Rona. But I would like to see somebody as the president who could do the job, and there are very capable people in this country.<br>'''Barrett''': Why wouldn't you dedicate yourself to public service?<br>'''Trump''': Because I think it's a very mean life. I would love, and I would dedicate my life to this country but I see it as being a mean life, and I also see it in somebody with strong views, and somebody with the kind of views that are maybe a little bit unpopular, which may be right, but may be unpopular, wouldn't necessarily have a chance of getting elected against somebody with no great brain but a big smile. ** An [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-stat/graphics/politics/trump-archive/docs/rona-barrett-1980-interview-of-donald-trump.pdf interview] with [[w:Rona Barrett|Rona Barrett]] (1980) * '''Rona Barrett''': How would you like to be remembered?<br>'''Donald Trump''': Well, as somebody that’s contributed something to the United States and to the [[New York City|City of New York]], and to the various other places that I’m going, and somebody that’s done a little bit better than other people at what he does. ** An [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-stat/graphics/politics/trump-archive/docs/rona-barrett-1980-interview-of-donald-trump.pdf interview] with [[w:Rona Barrett|Rona Barrett]] (1980) * I said, 'I will build you this incredible, gorgeous, gleaming hotel. I will put people to work in the construction trades and save hotel [[jobs]] and the Grand Central area will come around.' So the city made the deal. ** {{citation |title=The Empire and Ego of Donald Trump |journal=The New York Times |date=August 7, 1983 |first=Marilyn |last=Bender |url=http://www.nytimes.com/1983/08/07/business/the-empire-and-ego-of-donald-trump.html }} * "Give them the old Trump bullshit," he told the architect Der Scutt before a presentation of the [[w:Trump Tower|Trump Tower]] design at a press conference in 1980. "Tell them it is going to be a million square feet, sixty-eight stories." ** [[Marie Brenner]] "After the Gold Rush", ''[[w:Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]'' (September 1, 1990) * Some people have an ability to [[negotiate]]. It's an [[art]] you're basically born with. You either have it or you don't. * It would take an hour-and-a-half to learn everything there is to learn about missiles. I think I know most of it anyway. You're talking about just getting updated on a situation ** {{citation |title=Donald Trump, Holding All The Cards The Tower! The Team! The Money! The Future! |journal=Washington Post |date=November 15, 1984 |first=Lois |last=Romano |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/pb/archive/lifestyle/1984/11/15/donald-trump-holding-all-the-cards-the-tower-the-team-the-money-the-future/8be79254-7793-4812-a153-f2b88e81fa54/?resType=accessibility }}, talking about his desire to be involved in negotiations with the then Soviet Union * I have featured and will always continue to feature my name prominently in all my [[enterprises]]. **''[[w:Business Week|Business Week]]'' (July 22, 1985) * I look at things for the art sake and the beauty sake and for the deal sake. **''[[w:New York (magazine)|New York]]'' (July 11, 1988), p. 24 * I'm not big on [[compromise]]. I understand compromise. Sometimes compromise is the right answer, but oftentimes compromise is the equivalent of [[Failure|defeat]], and I don't like being defeated. **''[[w:Life (magazine)|Life]]'', Vol. 12 (January 1989), p. iii * [[Ed Koch|Mayor Koch]] has stated that hate and rancor should be removed from our hearts. I do not think so. **[http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1838466.1403324800!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_970/trump21n-1-web.jpg "Bring Back the Death Penalty. Bring Back Our Police!"] An advert taken out by Trump in the [[w:New York Daily News|''New York Daily News'']] and other newspapers in the wake of the arrests of the [[wikipedia:Central Park jogger case|Central Park Five]] (whose convictions were eventually {{w|vacate}}d in 2002 after Matias Reyes confessed to the assault) (May 1, 1989) * How can [[w:Society of the United States|our great society]] tolerate the continued brutalization of [[w:Citizenship of the United States|its citizens]] by crazed misfits? [[w:Crime in the United States|Criminals]] must be told that their [[w:Civil liberties in the United States|CIVIL LIBERTIES]] END WHEN AN ATTACK ON OUR SAFETY BEGINS! **[http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1838466.1403324800!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_970/trump21n-1-web.jpg "Bring Back the Death Penalty. Bring Back Our Police!"] An advert taken out by Trump in the ''New York Daily News'' and other newspapers in the wake of the arrests of the [[wikipedia:Central Park jogger case|Central Park Five]] (whose convictions were eventually {{w|vacate}}d in 2002 after Matias Reyes confessed to the assault) (May 1, 1989) * Let [[w:Politics of the United States|our politicians]] give back our [[w:New York City Police Department|police department]]'s power to keep us safe. Unshackle them from the constant chant of "[[w:Police brutality in the United States|police brutality]]" which every [[w:Misdemeanor|petty criminal]] hurls immediately at an officer who has just risked his or her life to save another's. ** [http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1838466.1403324800!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_970/trump21n-1-web.jpg "Bring Back the Death Penalty. Bring Back Our Police!"] An advert taken out by Trump in the New York Daily News and other newspapers in the wake of the arrests of the [[wikipedia:Central Park jogger case|Central Park Five]] (whose convictions were eventually {{w|vacate}}d in 2002 after Matias Reyes confessed to the assault) (May 1, 1989) * Of course I hate these people and let's all hate these people because maybe hate is what we need if we're gonna get something done. ** In [http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/07/politics/trump-larry-king-central-park-five/index.html 1989 interview] with {{W|Larry King}}, about the [[wikipedia:Central Park jogger case|Central Park Five]] (whose convictions were later vacated) * I like to hire people that I've seen in action. I often hire people that were on the opposing side of a deal that I respect. **''[[w:The Washington Post|The Washington Post]]'' (September 23, 1989), as quoted in ''The World According to Trump'' (2005) by Ken Lawrence, p. 25 * I think if this country gets any kinder or gentler, it's literally going to cease to exist. **''[[w:Playboy (magazine)|Playboy]]'' (March 1990) ====''[[w:Trump: The Art of the Deal|Trump: The Art of the Deal]]'' (1987)==== {{main|The Art of the Deal}} * I don't do it for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it. Deals are my art form. * I like thinking big. I always have. To me it's very simple: if you're going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big. Most people think small, because most people are afraid of success, afraid of making decisions, afraid of winning. And that gives people like me a great advantage. * I'm a great believer in asking everyone for an opinion before I make a decision. ... I ask and I ask and I ask, until I begin to get a gut feeling about something. And that's when I make a decision. I have learned much more from conducting my own random surveys than I could ever have learned from the greatest of consulting firms. * You can't con people, at least not for long. You can create excitement, you can do wonderful promotion and get all kinds of press, and you can throw in a little hyperbole. But if you don't deliver the goods, people will eventually catch on. * You can't be scared. You do your thing, you hold your ground, you stand up tall, and whatever happens, happens. ===1990=== [[File:Universal_health_care.svg|thumb|I'm very [[liberal]] when it comes to [[health care]]. I believe in {{w|universal health care}}. I believe in whatever it takes to make people well and better.]] [[File:Goddess_of_Democracy_at_UBC.jpg|thumb|upright|When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but [[w:Tiananmen Square protests of 1989|they put it down with strength]]. That shows you the power of strength.]] * What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate. ** ''Trump: Surviving at the Top'' (1990), p. 3 *She turned out to be the wife of a man who was then the prime minister of a major country. I'd heard stories about this lady, but I never thought much of them until that night. We met at the house of the friend who'd phoned me. After we'd all chatted for a while in the living room, the four of us who already knew each other drifted out to the kitchen, leaving Ben and Madame X in the living room to get better acquainted. Which they did. In fact, when we drifted back in, about ten minutes later, she and Ben were involved in an incredibly torrid scene on the couch. I remember standing there and thinking to myself, "Well, Donald, you're not in Queens anymore." ** ''Trump: Surviving at the Top'' (1990), p. 52 * "When a man leaves a woman, especially when it was perceived that he has left for a piece of ass—a good one!—there are 50 percent of the population who will love the woman who was left," he told me. ** {{citation |date=September 1, 1990|title=After the Gold Rush |periodical=Vanity Fair |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2015/07/donald-ivana-trump-divorce-prenup-marie-brenner}} by [[Marie Brenner]] * "I want five children, like in my own family, because with five, then I will know that one will be guaranteed to turn out like me," Donald told a close friend. ** {{citation |date=September 1, 1990 |author=Marie Brenner |title=After the Gold Rush |periodical=Vanity Fair |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2015/07/donald-ivana-trump-divorce-prenup-marie-brenner}} * Very good question. (pause) I don't think it's a sin but I don't think it should be done. ** in response to the question, "Is [[adultery]] a sin." ** in the ''[[New York Post]]'' (February 23, 1990), as [http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/10/30/donald-trump-in-1990-adultery-is-not-a-sin.html archived at ''the Daily Beast''] * [[Leona Helmsley]] is a truly evil human being. She treated employees worse than any human being I've ever witnessed and I've dealt with some of the toughest human beings alive. ** {{citation |year=1990 |month=March |author=Glenn Plaskin |title=The Playboy Interview with Donald Trump |periodical={{w|Playboy}} |url=https://www.playboy.com/read/playboy-interview-donald-trump-1990}} * When [[1989 Tiananmen Square protests|the students poured into Tiananmen Square]], the {{w|Chinese government}} almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength. ** {{citation |year=1990 |month=March |author=Glenn Plaskin |title=The Playboy Interview with Donald Trump |periodical={{w|Playboy}} |url=https://www.playboy.com/read/playboy-interview-donald-trump-1990}}, quoted in {{citation |date=2016-10-20 |title=Bury Trump in a Landslide |periodical={{w|New York Daily News}} |url=http://interactive.nydailynews.com/2016/10/daily-news-editorial-bury-trump-in-landslide/}} * I said to the [[bankers]], "Listen, fellows, if I have a problem, then you have a problem. We have to find a way out or it's going to be a difficult time for both of us." ** ''Fortune'' (August 13, 1990), as quoted in ''The World According to Trump'' (2005) by Ken Lawrence, p. 44 ** Cf. [[J. Paul Getty]]: "If you owe the bank $100, that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem." ===1991=== * You know, it doesn't really matter what the media writes as long as you've got a young and beautiful piece of ass. ** [http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a24057/donald-trump-presidential-run-2016-072913/ Esquire Interview] (1991) ===1992=== * You have to treat 'em [women] like s--- {{sic}} ** Reported in {{cite news |title=Fighting Back: Trump Scrambles off the Canvas |first=Julie |last=Baumgold |work=New York |volume=25 |number=44 |date=1992-11-09 |page=43 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BeUCAAAAMBAJ&q=%22trump+is+talking+about+women+and+says%22#v=snippet&q=%22trump%20is%20talking%20about%20women%20and%20says%22&f=false}}. Bowdlerization in the original. * Wow! Just think — in a couple of years I'll be dating you. ** to two 14-year-old girls in 1992 ** from the {{w|Chicago Tribune}}, as archived at [http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2016/10/13/in_1992_trump_told_two_14_year_old_girls_in_a_couple_of_years_i_ll_be_dating.html Slate] * He's a good guy, and he's not going to hurt anybody. . . . He treated his wife well and . . . he will treat Marla well. :Actresses, people that you write about just call to see if they can go out with him and things. :I mean, he's living with Marla and he's got three other girlfriends. :He does things for himself. When he makes a decision, that will be a very lucky woman. :* Speaking about himself under the pseudonym of [[w:Pseudonyms of Donald Trump#"John Miller" (1991)|John Miller]] in [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/05/13/transcript-the-full-text-of-john-miller-interview-about-donald-trump-with-people-reporter/?tid=a_inl a 1991 interview with a ''People'' reporter], [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/05/13/transcript-the-full-text-of-john-miller-interview-about-donald-trump-with-people-reporter/?tid=a_inl Donald Trump masqueraded as publicist to brag about himself], Washington Post * I'm gonna be dating her in ten years. ** of a 10-year-old girl, in 1992 ** {{citation |date=2016-10-13 |author=Emily Schultheis |title=More allegations, questionable Trump comments on women surface |periodical=CBS News |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/more-unearthed-footage-trump-says-of-10-year-old-i-am-going-to-be-dating-her-in-10-years/}} ===1993=== * '''Howard Stern''': So, you treat women with respect?<br>'''Donald Trump''': Uh, I can't say that either.<br>'''Stern''': Alright, good. ** An interview on ''[[w:The Howard Stern Show|The Howard Stern Show]]'', 1993 * You know, if you’re young, and in this era, and if you have any guilt about not having gone to Vietnam, we have our own Vietnam—it’s called the dating game... Dating is like being in Vietnam. You’re the equivalent of a soldier going over to Vietnam. ** An interview on ''The Howard Stern Show'', 1993, [https://people.com/politics/trump-boasted-of-avoiding-stds-while-dating-vaginas-are-landmines-it-was-my-personal-vietnam/ archived by ''People''] *I am not a {{w|law enforcement officer}}. I am not supposed to be going around checking {{w|Indian reservation}}s. That is what you have [[w:Federal Bureau of Investigation#Indian reservations|the FBI for]], and they are very capable, the most capable. **Oversight Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Native American Affairs of the Committee on Natural Resources, House of Representatives, October 5, 1993: In ''Implementation of Indian Gaming Regulatory Act: Oversight Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Native American Affairs of the Committee on Natural Resources, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress ... Public Law 100-497, the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988'', Part 5, page 187 ===1994=== * Well, I think that she's got a lot of [[w:Marla Maples|Marla]] [Maples, Trump's second wife], she's a really beautiful baby, and she's got Marla's legs. We don't know whether she's got this part yet [gestures toward own chest], but time will tell... ** [http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/04/06/video_donald_trump_on_his_one_year_old_daughter_s_brests.html On his then-one year old daughter Tiffany], ''Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous'', 1994 *Everybody's always blaming me for everything. **16 May 1994 in "For Sale by Owner" s4e24 of "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air", [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_wcNmQ_hEk&t=70 video here] ===1996=== * Let's make a deal; if you promise not to get "personal" with me, I will promise not to show you as the crude, fat and obnoxious slob which everyone knows you are. Sincerely, Donald J. Trump. ** [http://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/lifestyles/before-twitter-name-calling-letter-from-donald-trump/KaGSV40cQnefESyXhe5CuN/ Letter to journalist Shannon Donnelly], 1996 ===1997=== *“It’s amazing, I can’t even believe it. I’ve been so lucky in terms of that whole world, it is a dangerous world out there. It’s like Vietnam, sort of. It is my personal Vietnam. I feel like a great and very brave solider” **speaking of having [[sex]] and referring to women's genitals as “potential landmines”. ** An interview on ''The Howard Stern Show'', 1997, [https://people.com/politics/trump-boasted-of-avoiding-stds-while-dating-vaginas-are-landmines-it-was-my-personal-vietnam/ archived by ''People''] ===1999=== * I'm [[w:Conservatism in the United States|conservative]], and even very [[conservative]]. But I'm quite [[w:Liberalism in the United States|liberal]] and getting much more [[w:Healthcare reform debate in the United States#Liberal arguments|liberal on health care]] and other things. I really say: What's the purpose of a country if you're not going to have defensive and [[health care]]? If you can't take care of your sick in the country, forget it, it's all over. I mean, it's no good. So I'm very liberal when it comes to health care. I believe in {{w|universal health care}}. I believe in whatever it takes to make people well and better. ** [http://edition.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/10/08/trump.transcript/ Interview with Larry King] ''CNN'' (October 1999) * I surround myself with the best people. I know the best people. ** On an interview (1999 November 26) * The part of my life I think I'm most disappointed in is that I have not had the great marriage. And I would have thought that would have happened, because I came from a home—you know, it's not like some of my [[Friend|friends]], they get divorced, but their parents were divorced twice or three times. I came from a home where marriage was just incredible. I mean, my parents truly loved each other. ** ''Good Morning America'' (2 December 1999), as quoted in ''The World According to Trump'' (2005) by Ken Lawrence, p. 46 * I'm on the conservative side, but [[Pat Buchanan|[Pat] Buchanan]] is [[Attila]] the Hun. ** As quoted in ''Selected Quotes from Newsweek Magazine, 1999'' — {{cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001015150910/http://www.sph.umich.edu/~rwatt/old_nw3.htm |title=Richard Watanabe - Newsweek Quotes, 1999 |publisher=Sph.umich.edu |date= |accessdate=2010-06-13}} * People want me to [run for president] all the time … I don't like it. Can you imagine how controversial I'd be? You think about him ''[Bill Clinton]'' and the women. How about me with the women? Can you imagine? ** On ''{{W|Hardball with Chris Matthews}}'', as quoted in {{citation |date=1999-07-12 |author=Deborah Orin |title=Trump ‘toys’ with prez run |periodical={{w|New York Post}} |url=http://nypost.com/1999/07/12/trump-toys-with-prez-run}} ===2000=== * I generally oppose [[w:Gun control in the United States|gun control]], but I support the ban on [[assault weapon]]s. **{{cite book |title=[[w:The America We Deserve|The America We Deserve]] |authorlink1=w:Donald Trump |first1=Donald |last1=Trump |first2=Dave |last2=Shiflett |year=2000 |publisher=[[w:Renaissance Books|Renaissance Books]] |isbn=1580631312}}; {{cite news |title=Trump's Evolving Positions on Gun Issues |first1=Linda |last1=Qiu |first2=Kitty |last2=Bennett |date=March 12, 2018 |newspaper=[[w:The New York Times|The New York Times]] |accessdate=September 6, 2018 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/12/us/politics/trump-evolving-positions-gun-issues.html}} * So the [[wikipedia:Reform Party of the United States of America|Reform Party]] now includes a Klansman, Mr. [[David Duke|Duke]], a [[neo-Nazi]], Mr. Buchanan, and a [[communist]], [[w:Lenora Fulani|Ms. Fulani]]. This is not company I wish to keep. ** As quoted in {{cite news |last= |first= |date=14 February 2000 |title=QUOTATION OF THE DAY |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/14/nyregion/quotation-of-the-day-815233.html |newspaper=The New York Times |location= |access-date= }}<!--{{cite news |last1=Kaczynski |first1=Andrew |last2=Massie| first2=Christopher |date= Aug. 26, 2015, at 11:27 p.m. |title=Top Racists And Neo-Nazis Back Donald Trump |url=http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/meet-the-prominent-white-nationalists-fired-up-to-support-do#.vuV8WvAdp |newspaper=BuzzFeed News |location= |access-date= }}--> * I judge people based on their capability, honesty, and merit. ** [https://books.google.com/books?id=smMEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA23&dq=%22Trump%20towers%22 "Trump towers"], interview with Paul Alexander, ''The Advocate'' (15 February 2000), p. 23 * It's very possible that I could be the first [[w:United States presidential election|presidential candidate]] to run and make money on it. ** Reported by Jerry Useem, [http://fortune.com/2000/04/03/what-does-donald-trump-really-want/ "What Does Donald Trump Really Want?"], ''Fortune'', 3 April 2000. ===2002=== * I think the regulations are very tough, but I think they could be made tougher. And where they really have to be made tougher is when somebody is proven [[w:Unfair business practices|to be dishonest]], not a mistake, not an honest mistake because look, people make bad business deals all the time. When somebody is proven to be dishonest, really harsh punishment has to take place. **''[[w:Hardball with Chris Matthews|Hardball with Chris Matthews]]'' (15 July 2002), as quoted in ''The World According to Trump'' (2005) by Ken Lawrence, p. 23 * '''[[Howard Stern]]''': Are you for [[w:2003 invasion of Iraq|the invasion of Iraq]]? * '''Donald Trump''': Yeah, I guess so. I wish, uh, I wish [[Gulf War|the first time]] it was done correctly. ** Interview on [[wikipedia:The Howard Stern Show|Howard Stern Show]] (11 September 2002), reported by ''[https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/in-2002-donald-trump-said-he-supported-invading-iraq-on-the? BuzzFeed]'' (19 February 2016) * I've known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy. He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life. ** On [[w:Jeffrey Epstein|Jeffrey Epstein]]. Quoted in ''[https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/n_7912/ New York]'', 28 October 2002. * I don't know how you do it. I've put together some really impressive deals, but this thing you've pulled off, it's amazing: a Big N' Tasty for just a dollar. How do you do it? What's your secret? Together Grimace, we could own this town. ** Trump's lines in a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4QNXnNftWk McDonald's advert] (2002), quoted in {{citation|date=2019-01-15|author=Rachel Desantis|title=Donald Trump’s lifelong love of fast food, from his 2002 McDonald’s commercial to ‘hamberders’|periodical=New York Daily News|url=https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-news-donald-trump-has-always-loved-fast-food-20190115-story.html}} ===2003=== * I love beautiful women, and beautiful women love me. It has to be both ways. ** Interview with Norwegian talk show host [[wikipedia:Fredrik Skavlan|Fredrik Skavlan]] in (November 2003).{{fix cite}}<!-- published/quoted where? --> ===2004=== *Trump: My daughter is beautiful, Ivanka<br>Stern: By the way, your daughter,<br>Trump: She’s beautiful<br>Stern: Can I say this? A '''piece of ass'''<br>Trump: Yeah **September 2004 exchange with [[Howard Stern]] [https://www.cnn.com/2016/10/08/politics/trump-on-howard-stern reported in 2016 by CNN] * Now, if your boss is a sadist, then you have a big problem. In that case, fire your boss and get a new job. ** ''Trump: How to Get Rich'' (2004) * If you don't tell people about your success, they probably won't know about it. ** ''Trump: How to Get Rich'' (2004), p. xiii * Get going. Move forward. Aim high. Plan for a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here. ** ''Trump: How to Get Rich'' (2004), p. 74 * In business—every business—the bottom line is understanding the process. If you don't understand the process, you'll never reap the rewards of the process. ** ''Trump: How to Get Rich'' (2004), p. 86 * Watch, listen, and learn. You can't know it all yourself—anyone who thinks that they do is destined for mediocrity. ** ''Trump: The Way to the Top: The Best Business Advice I Ever Received'' (2004), p. 20 * I don't like firing people. It's not a pleasant thing and it's sad. ... In some cases, it's a terrible, terrible situation for the person who gets fired, how strongly they take it. So it's not something that any rational or sane person can love doing, but it also happens to be a fact of life in business. ** ''Boston Herald'' (7 January 2004), as quoted in ''The World According to Trump'' (2005) by Ken Lawrence, p. 16 * People say, "Do you have the same opportunity today as you had years ago?" And I said, "Absolutely." You always have an opportunity. There's always an opportunity, especially in this country. ** [http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0403/21/le.00.html Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer], ''CNN'' (21 March 2004) * All of the women on [[w:The Apprentice (U.S. TV series)|''The Apprentice'']] flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected. **[http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/gossip/donald-cuomo-mario-fired-article-1.612165 Ny Daily News] (24 March 2004) * ''[On "You're fired!":]'' There's a beauty in those two words. When you utter those words, there's very little that can be said. There's a succinctness to those words. ** {{citation |title=Trump TV / 'The Apprentice' takes realistic inside look at corporate world |journal=San Francisco Chronicle |date=2004-03-28 |first=David |last=Armstrong |url=http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Trump-TV-The-Apprentice-takes-realistic-2802491.php }} * My life is seeing everything in terms of "How would ''I'' handle that?" '''Look at the [[Iraq War|war in Iraq]] and the mess that we're in. I would never have handled it that way.''' Does anybody really believe that Iraq is going to be a wonderful democracy where people are going to run down to the voting box and gently put in their ballot and the winner is happily going to step up to lead the county? C'mon. Two minutes after we leave, there's going to be a [[revolution]], and the meanest, toughest, smartest, most vicious guy will take over. And he'll have [[w:Iraq and weapons of mass destruction|weapons of mass destruction]], which [[Saddam Hussein|Saddam]] didn't have. '''What was the purpose of this whole thing? Hundreds and hundreds of young people killed. And what about the people coming back with no arms and legs? Not to mention the other side. All those Iraqi kids who've been blown to pieces. And it turns out that all of the reasons for the war were blatantly wrong. All this for nothing!''' ** ''Esquire'' magazine (August 2004); [http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/interviews/a37230/donald-trump-esquire-cover-story-august-2004/ "Donald Trump: How I'd Run the Country (Better)" (18 August 2015)] * Pregnancy is "a wonderful thing for the woman, it's a wonderful thing for the husband, it's certainly an inconvenience for a business." ** About pregnancy (2004) * The concept of shaking hands is absolutely terrible, and statistically I’ve been proven right. ** Playboy, 2004 [https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/06/14/donald-trump-70-birthday-quotes/85619552/] * In many cases, I probably identify more as Democrat. It just seems that the [[economy]] does better under the [[Democrats]] than the [[Republicans]]. Now, it shouldn't be that way. But if you go back, I mean it just seems that the economy does better under the Democrats. ...But certainly we had some very good economies under Democrats, as well as Republicans. But we've had some pretty bad [[disaster]] under the Republicans. ** Said in an interview with CNN's [[Wolf Blitzer]], as quoted by {{citation |title=Trump in '04: 'I probably identify more as Democrat' | journal=CNN | author=Chris Moody | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2015/07/21/politics/donald-trump-election-democrat/index.html }} ===2005=== * I'll go backstage, before a show, and everyone's getting dressed and ready and everything else. And you know, no men are anywhere. And I'm allowed to go in because I'm the owner of the pageant and therefore I'm inspecting it. You know I'm inspecting, I want to make sure everything is good, the dresses, "Is everyone OK?", you know they're standing there with no clothes, "Is everybody OK?", and you see these incredible-looking women, and so I sort of get away with things like that. ** [https://soundcloud.com/user-735086019/101g1 Comments about his ownership of Miss Universe on the Howard Stern Show] (11 April 2005) * They had a person who was extremely proud that a number of the women had become doctors. And I wasn't interested. ** [https://soundcloud.com/user-735086019/101g1 Comments about his ownership of Miss Universe on the Howard Stern Show] (11 April 2005) * I did try and fuck her. She was married. '''I moved on her like a bitch, but I couldn't get there.''' And she was married. Then all of a sudden I see her, she's now got the big phony tits and everything. She's totally changed her look. I've gotta use some [[w:Tic Tacs|Tic Tacs]], just in case I start kissing her. You know, I'm automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. '''Just kiss. I don't even wait. When you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything... Grab 'em by the pussy. You can do anything.''' ** To {{w|Billy Bush}} in 2005; [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/us/donald-trump-tape-transcript.html "Transcript: Donald Trump's Taped Comments About Women"], ''The New York Times'' (8 October 2016) ===2006=== * It would be really disappointing — not really — but it would depend on what’s inside the magazine. I don’t think Ivanka would do that, although she does have a very nice figure. I’ve said '''if Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her'''. ** On 7 March 2006 during an appearance on the daytime talk show ''[[w:The View (talk show)|The View]]'' while discussing the possibility of [[Ivanka Trump]]’s posing for ''[[Playboy]]'' magazine. As quoted in ''[https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-date-daughter/ Did Donald Trump Say He’d Like to Date His Daughter?]'' by Dan Evon, 10 July 2015, ''{{w|Snopes}}'', and quoted with video clip in {{citation|date=2016-10-10|author=Adam Withnall|title=Donald Trump's unsettling record of comments about his daughter Ivanka|periodical=The Independent|location=UK|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-elections/donald-trump-ivanka-trump-creepiest-most-unsettling-comments-a-roundup-a7353876.html}} originally reported in [https://www.today.com/popculture/trump-jokes-he-d-date-daughter-wbna11714379 7 March 2006 article on Today via AP] * I thought today's women were independent and had a lot of sexual freedom. ... Well, I guess they fooled me. ** In April 2006, about women's disaproval of {{w|one-night stand}}s. As quoted in ''[https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-on-clinton-in-2008-shed-make-a-good-president-2016-07-11 Trump on Clinton in 2008: ‘She'd make a good president']'' (July 11, 2016) by Michael Rothfield and {{w|Mark Maremont}}, ''{{w|MarketWatch}}''. *She’s actually always been '''very voluptuous'''. She’s tall, she’s almost six feet tall and she’s been, she’s an amazing beauty. **October 2006 interview with [[Howard Stern]] about [[Ivanka Trump]] reported [https://www.cnn.com/2016/10/08/politics/trump-on-howard-stern 2016 by CNN] * '''Jon Ward:''' There's a lot of talk, which you no doubt heard too, about a sort of [[real estate]] bubble. What's your take on that pessimism? * '''Donald Trump:''' Well, first of all, I sort of hope that happens because then people like me would go in and buy. ** ''How to Build a Fortune'' (2006), Trump University audiobook, quoted in {{citation|date=2016-05-19|author=Jeremy Diamond|title=Donald Trump in 2006: I 'sort of hope' real estate market tanks|periodical=CNN|url=https://www.cnn.com/2016/05/19/politics/donald-trump-2006-hopes-real-estate-market-crashes/index.html}} * No, I have no age — I mean, I have age limit. I don't want to be like Congressman Foley, with, you know, 12-year-olds, ** [https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/donald-trump-howard-stern-tapes-women-35_uk_57fa46e1e4b01fa2b904368b Donald Trump Howard Stern Tapes Show Him Saying 35 Is 'Check-Out Time' For Women And Agreeing His Daughter Is A 'Piece Of Ass'] (2006) When asked if he has an age limit for women he'll sleep with. ===2007=== * Since I love what I do, I do it vigorously and I do it better. Because I inject it with enthusiasm and passion, it doesn't feel like work. My passion spills over to everyone around me and motivates them to do their very best. ** ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=uuR61zcvMTgC&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=%22since+I+LOVE+WHAT+I+DO,+I+DO+IT+VIGOROUSLY%22&source=bl&ots=ko6GrZPr-e&sig=x3zLQ1fWbNJIrx-7M0CzI-zPljg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjuncTq2OvRAhXCLMAKHTzHDNwQ6AEIGjAA#v=onepage&q=%22since%20I%20LOVE%20WHAT%20I%20DO%2C%20I%20DO%20IT%20VIGOROUSLY%22&f=false Trump 101 The Way to Success]'' (2007), p. 1 * Passion is absolutely necessary to achieve any kind of long-lasting success. I know this from experience. If you don't have passion, everything you do will ultimately fizzle out or, at best, be mediocre. ** ''Trump 101 The Way to Success'' (2007), p. 2 * [[Iraq War|The war]] is total disaster. It's a catastrophe, nothing less. It is such a shame that this took place. In fact, I gained a lot of respect for our current [[George H. W. Bush|president's father]] by the fact that he had the sense not to go in to [[Iraq]]. He won the war and then said let's not go the rest of the way and he turned out to be right. And [[Saddam Hussein]], whether they like him or didn't like him, he hated [[terrorists]]. He'd shoot and kill terrorists. When terrorists came in to his country, which he did control and he did dominate, he would kill terrorists. Now it's a breeding ground for terrorists. So, look, the war is a total catastrophe...and they have [[w:Sectarian violence in Iraq (2006–08)|a civil war]] going on. ** [http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0703/16/sitroom.03.html Interview on "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer] (16 March 2007) * I make that --- twice now, on a Monday I let returning Iraqi injured [[soldiers]] come to the premises. The most beautiful people I've ever seen. But they're missing arms and legs, they're with their wives, sometimes they're with their girlfriends. And the tears are coming down the faces of these people. I mean, thousands and maybe hundreds of thousands, and [[w:Casualties of the Iraq War#Total Iraqi casualties|the Iraqis that have been just maimed and killed]]. This war is a horrible thing. Now, President Bush says he's [[religious]]. And yet 400,000 people, the way I count it, have died, and probably millions have been badly maimed and injured. What's going on? What's going on? And the day we pull out it's going to explode. We're keeping the lid on a little bit. It's still a catastrophe, but the day we pull out, because they're in a [[w:Iraqi Civil War|civil war]]. Whether we want to admit it or not, they're in a civil war. ** [http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0703/16/sitroom.03.html Interview on "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer] (16 March 2007) * [[Hillary Clinton]] I think is a terrific woman. I am biased because I have known her for years. I live in New York. She lives in New York. I really like her and her husband both a lot. I think she really works hard. And I think, again, she's given an agenda, it is not all of her, but I think she really works hard and I think she does a good job. I like her. ** 2007 ''CNN'' interview, reported in [[w:Zeke J. Miller|Zeke J. Miller]], "[http://time.com/3962799/donald-trump-hillary-clinton/ When Donald Trump Praised Hillary Clinton]", ''[[w:Time (magazine)|Time]]'' (July 17, 2015). * {{w|Trump Steaks}} are the world's greatest steaks, and I mean that in every sense of the word. Treat yourself to the very, very best life has to offer you. And as a gift, Trump Steaks are the best you can give. One bite, and you'll know exactly what I'm talking about, and believe me. I understand steaks, it's my favorite food. ** Lines marking the introduction of Trump Steaks by The Sharper Image (2007) * My net worth fluctuates, and it goes up and down with the markets and with attitudes and with feelings, even my own feelings, but I try. ** Claimed in December 2007, quoted in [https://money.cnn.com/2011/04/21/news/companies/donald_trump/index.htm "Trump: I'm worth whatever I feel"], ''CNN'' (April 21, 2011) * Congratulations on being named Time magazine's 'Man of the Year' — you definitely deserve it. As you have probably heard, I'm a big fan of yours! ** [https://www.businessinsider.com/revealed-donald-trump-letters-to-vladimir-putin-miss-universe-russia-2020-8?r=US&IR=T Letter to Russian president Vladimir Putin] ===2008=== * They'll walk up, and they'll flip their top, and they'll flip their panties. ** [http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-details-sexual-attractions-relationships-radio-interviews/story?id=37190691 Interview on ''The Howard Stern Show''] (2008) * Hillary Clinton said she'd consider naming [[Barack Obama]] as her vice president when she gets the nomination, but she's nowhere near a shoo-in. ** About the [[w:Democratic Party presidential primaries, 2008|2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries]] in audio released by the ''Journal''. As quoted in ''[http://time.com/4402522/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-good-president/ Donald Trump Once Said Hillary Clinton Would Make A 'Good President']'' (July 12, 2016) by Tara John, ''{{w|The Times}}''. * For his part, Obama said he's just focused on winning the nomination although at least one member on his team said Clinton would make a good vice president. Well, I know her and she'd make a good president or good vice president. ** About the [[w:Democratic Party presidential primaries, 2008|2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries]] in an audio from "Trumped!", a syndicated radio feature that aired from 2004 to 2008. As quoted in ''[http://time.com/4402522/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-good-president/ Donald Trump Once Said Hillary Clinton Would Make A 'Good President']'' (July 12, 2016) by Tara John, ''{{w|The Times}}''. * It's very exciting we have a new president. It would have been nice if he ended with a 500 point up instead of down. It's certainly very exciting. His speech was great last night. I thought it was inspiring in every way. And, hopefully he's going to do a great job. But the way I look at it, he cannot do worse [[w:Presidency of George W. Bush|than Bush]]. ** [http://www.foxnews.com/story/2008/11/06/donald-trump-on-president-elect-obama-cannot-do-worse-than-bush.html "Donald Trump on President-Elect Obama: 'He Cannot Do Worse Than Bush'" Interview with Greta Van Susteren] [[Fox News]] (6 November 2008) ===2009=== * If I'd started in business thinking I knew everything, I'd have been sunk before I started... Never think of learning as being a burden or studying as being boring. It may require some discipline, but it can be an adventure. It can also prepare you for a new beginning. ** ''Think Like a Champion: An Informal Education In Business and Life'' (2009), pp. 16–17 * Without passion, you don't have energy; without energy, you have nothing. [[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel|Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.]] ** As quoted in ''Social Networking for Authors: Untapped Possibilities for Wealth'' (2009) by Michael Volkin, p. 60 *let's just talk. I'll give you as much time as you want. I'll tell you what you need to know **2009 to [[w:Bradley Edwards|Bradley Edwards]] (attorney prosecuting [[Jeffrey Epstein]]) as narrated by Edwards in December 2018 interview, according to [https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/07/prosecutor-in-2009-epstein-case-said-donald-trump-was-the-only-one-who-helped-him/ 7 July 2019 article by Joe Hoft of Gateway Pundit] ===2010=== *Well, I think I was born with a drive for success. I had a father who was successful. He was a builder in Brooklyn and Koreans. And he was successful. And, you know, I have a certain gene. I'm a gene believer. Hey, when you connect two race horses, you usually end up with a fast horse. And I really was -- you know, I had a -- a good gene pool from the standpoint of that. **[https://web.archive.org/web/20200924215510/https://us.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1002/10/ctw.01.html CNN interview] (February 2010) ===2011=== * Part of the [[beauty]] of me is that I am very [[rich]]. ** Interview with [[w:Ashleigh Banfield|Ashleigh Banfield]] on ABC's ''[[w:Good Morning America|Good Morning America]]'' (17 March 2011); also in {{citation |date=2011-03-17 |author=Neil King Jr. |title=Trump on 2012: ‘Part of Beauty of Me Is I'm Very Rich’ |periodical=Washington Wire |publisher=Wall Street Journal |url=http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/03/17/trump-on-2012-part-of-beauty-of-me-is-im-very-rich/}} * They asked [[John McCain]] for his [[w:Birth certificate|birth certificate]]. They've asked others for their birth certificate. They asked Bush for his birth certificate, by the way. I just found out over the weekend. And they would ask me for my birth certificate and by the way, it's sitting on the top of my desk. They give you a certificate of live birth, which anybody can get, just walk into the hospital, and you get a certificate of live birth. It's not even signed by people. Now, this guy either has a birth certificate or he doesn't. And I didn't think this was such a big deal, but I will tell you, it's turning out to be a very big deal because people now are calling me from all over saying, please don't give up on this issue. If you weren't born in this country, [[w:Natural-born-citizen clause|you cannot be president]]. ** About [[w:Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories|Barack Obama's birth certificate]]. {{citation |title=Fox & Friends |medium=Television |publisher=Fox News |date=2011-03-28}} ** {{citation |title=Fox Goes Birther: Trump Tells Unquestioning Co-hosts, "I'm Starting To Wonder...Whether Or Not <nowiki>[Obama]</nowiki> Was Born In This Country" |journal=[[w:Media Matters for America|Media Matters for America]] |date=2011-03-28 |url=http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201103280006 |accessdate=2011-03-30}} * So he could have come into the country, and they did it for social reasons they put it in! They did it for whatever reason. There are a lot of reasons you could have put an ad in. But he could have been born outside of this country. Why can't he produce a birth certificate and by the way, there is one story that his family doesn't even know what hospital he was born in! ** About [[w:Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories|Barack Obama's birth certificate]]. {{citation |title=Fox & Friends |medium=Television |publisher=Fox News |date=2011-03-28}} ** {{citation |title=Fox Goes Birther: Trump Tells Unquestioning Co-hosts, "I'm Starting To Wonder...Whether Or Not <nowiki>[Obama]</nowiki> Was Born In This Country" |journal=[[w:Media Matters for America|Media Matters for America]] |date=2011-03-28 |url=http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201103280006 |accessdate=2011-03-30}} * I start off every time I talk about [[w:Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories#Campaigners and proponents|the birthers]], I start off by saying, and it's very interesting, I was a great student at the best college in the country. You know? I want to let people know. I'm a smart guy. Because what they do to the birthers, and I don't even like the term, the birthers. I think it's unfair to them. These are people that want to see a birth certificate. They want to know that the president was born here! ** About [[w:Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories|Barack Obama's birth certificate]]. {{citation |title=Fox & Friends |medium=Television |publisher=Fox News |date=2011-03-28}} ** {{citation |title=Fox Goes Birther: Trump Tells Unquestioning Co-hosts, "I'm Starting To Wonder...Whether Or Not <nowiki>[Obama]</nowiki> Was Born In This Country" |journal=[[w:Media Matters for America|Media Matters for America]] |date=2011-03-28 |url=http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201103280006 |accessdate=2011-03-30}} * Because if you're not born in the United States, you cannot be president. And, there is a real question. And if this birth certificate exists, you know what I get a kick out of? [[w:Neil Abercrombie|The Governor of Hawaii]] says, "I remember when he was born 50 years ago." I doubt it. I think this guy should be investigated. I doubt it. He remembers when [[w:Early life and career of Barack Obama#Childhood years|Obama was born]]? Give me a break! He's just trying to do something for [[Democratic Party (United States)|his party]]. The fact is, if you're not born in the United States, you cannot be president. He is having a hard time — he spent millions of dollars trying to get away from this issue, millions of dollars in legal fees trying to get away from this issue. And I'll tell you what, I brought it up just routinely and all of a sudden, a lot of facts are emerging, and I'm starting to wonder myself whether or not he was born in this country. ** About [[w:Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories|Barack Obama's birth certificate]]. {{citation |title=Fox & Friends |medium=Television |publisher=Fox News |date=2011-03-28}} ** {{citation |title=Fox Goes Birther: Trump Tells Unquestioning Co-hosts, "I'm Starting To Wonder...Whether Or Not <nowiki>[Obama]</nowiki> Was Born In This Country" |journal=[[w:Media Matters for America|Media Matters for America]] |date=2011-03-28 |url=http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201103280006 |accessdate=2011-03-30}} * '''Donald Trump''': Meredith, he spent two million dollars in legal fees trying to get away from this issue. And if he weren't lying, why wouldn't he just solve it? And I wish he would, because if he doesn't, it's one of the greatest scams in the history of [[politics]], and in the history period. You are not allowed to be a president if you're not born in this country. He may not be born in this country. And I'll tell you what, three weeks ago I thought he was born in this country. Right now, I have some real doubts. I have people that actually have been studying it and they cannot believe what they're finding.<br>'''Meredith Vieira''': You have people now, down there searching—<br>'''Trump''': Absolutely.<br>'''Vieira''': I mean, in [[Hawaii]]?<br>'''Trump''': Absolutely. And they cannot believe what they're finding. I would like to have him show his birth certificate, and can I be honest with you, I hope he can. Because if he can't, if he can't, if he wasn't born in this country, which is a ''real'' possibility, I'm not saying it hap— I'm saying it's a ''real'' possibility, much greater than I thought two or three weeks ago, then he has pulled one of the great cons in the history of politics. And beyond politics. **{{citation |title=Today |date=2011-04-07 |publisher=NBC |medium=Television}} ** regarding Barack Obama ** Two million dollars is the sum of all the Obama presidential campaign's post-election legal expenses.[http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/apr/12/donald-trump/donald-trump-claims-obama-has-spent-2-million-lega/] * '''[[w:David Brody (journalist)|David Brody]]''': [[Radical Islam]]: to [[Evangelicalism in the United States|Evangelicals]], this is a bread and butter issue. You said there's a [[Islam in the United States|Muslim problem]] in this country. What do you mean by that exactly? <br> '''Donald Trump''': [[Bill O'Reilly (commentator)|Bill O'Reilly]] asked me is there a Muslim problem? And I said absolutely, yes. In fact I went a step further. I said I didn't see [[Swedes|Swedish people]] [[September 11 attacks|knocking down the World Trade Center]]. It was very interesting. I thought that was going to be a controversial statement and somebody, I think it was [[Dennis Miller]] introduced me, he was doing like an analysis of me, he said, I love it. The guy said what the truth is. He didn't mince his words. He didn't say, 'Oh, gee, no there's not a Muslim problem, everybody's wonderful.' And by the way, many, many, most Muslims are wonderful people, but is there a Muslim problem? Look what's happening. Look what happened right here in my city with the World Trade Center and lots of other places. So I said it and I thought it was going to be very controversial but actually it was very well received. I think people want the truth. I think they're tired of politicians. They're tired of [[politically correct]] stuff. I mean I could have said, 'Oh absolutely not Bill, there's no Muslim problem, everything is wonderful, just forget about the World Trade Center.' But you have to speak the truth. We're so politically correct that this country is falling apart. <br>'''Brody''': With some evangelicals there are some problems with the teachings of the [[Koran]]. Do you have concerns about the Koran? <br> '''Trump''': Well, I'll tell you what. The Koran is very interesting. A lot of people say it [[w:Religious views on love#Islam|teaches love]] and there is a very big group of people who really understand the Koran far better than I do. I'm certainly not an expert, to put it mildly. But there's something there that teaches some very negative vibe. I mean things are happening, when you look at people blowing up all over the streets that are in some of the countries over in the [[Middle East]], just blowing up a super market with not even soldiers, just people, when 250 people die in a super market that are shopping, where people die in a store or in a street. There's a lot of hatred there that's some place. Now I don't know if that's from the Koran. I don't know if that's from some place else. But there's tremendous hatred out there that I've never seen anything like it. So, you have two views. You have the view that the Koran is all about love and then you have the view that the Koran is, that there's a lot of [[w:Violence in the Quran|hate in the Koran]]. ** On [[w:CBN News|CBN News]]' "The Brody File" (12 April 2011) ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWzDAvemJG8 video]) ([http://blogs.cbn.com/thebrodyfile/archive/2011/04/12/brody-file-exclusive-donald-trump-says-something-in-koran-teaches.aspx transcript]) * I look very much forward to showing my financials. Because they are huge. ** {{citation |first=Michael |last=Scherer |title=In the presence of Donald Trump |date=2011-04-11 |journal=Time |url=http://swampland.time.com/2011/04/14/in-the-presence-of-donald-trump/ |accessdate=2019-10-28}} * I heard he was a terrible student, terrible. How does a bad student go to Columbia and then [[w:Early life and career of Barack Obama#Harvard Law School|to Harvard]]? I'm thinking about it, I'm certainly looking into it. Let him show his records. ** Associated Press interview, 2011-04-25 ** {{citation |first=Lucy |last=Madison |title=Trump: How did Obama get into the Ivy League? |date=2011-04-25 |journal=CBS News |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20057214-503544.html |accessdate=2011-05-01|archiveurl=https://archive.is/dnCsg|archivedate=2013-06-28}} ** About [[w:Barack Obama#Education|Barack Obama's education]], who graduated from {{w|Columbia University}} in 1983 and graduated ''magna cum laude'' with a {{w|Juris doctorate}} from Harvard Law School in 1991 * Today I'm very [[proud]] of myself, because I've accomplished something that nobody else has been able to accomplish. I was just informed, while on the helicopter, that our president has finally released a birth certificate. I want to look at it, but I hope it's true, so that we can get on to much more important matters, so the press can stop asking me questions. He should have done it a long time ago. Why he didn't do it when the Clintons asked for it, why he didn't do it when everyone else was asking for it, I don't know. But I am really honored, frankly, to have played such a big role in hopefully, hopefully getting rid of this issue. Now, we have to look at it, we have to see, is it real? Is it proper? What's on it? But I hope it checks out beautifully. I am really proud, I am really honored. ** press conference, 2011-04-27 ** {{citation |title=Trump Questions Obama Birth Certificate |date=2011-04-27 |journal=TMZ |url=http://www.tmz.com/2011/04/27/donald-trump-barack-obama-birth-certificate-comment-quote/ |accessdate=2011-05-01}} ** Regarding the release of Barack Obama's full birth record from Hawaii that morning * The word is, according to what I've have read, is that he was a terrible student when he went to [[w:Occidental College|Occidental]]. He then gets to [[w:Columbia_University|Columbia]] and then gets to [[Harvard University|Harvard]]. I heard at Columbia he was not a very good student, and then he then he gets into Harvard. How do you get into Harvard if you are not a good student? Maybe that's right, maybe that's wrong, but I don't know why he doesn't he release his records. Why doesn't he release his Occidental records? ** press conference, New Hampshire, 2011-04-27 ** {{citation |title=Schieffer: Racism underlying Trump's assertions |date=2011-04-27 |journal=CBS News |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20058072-503544.html |accessdate=2011-05-01|archiveurl=https://archive.is/ryIny|archivedate=2013-06-28}} ** About [[Barack Obama]], who transferred to Columbia from Occidental College in 1981, graduated from Columbia in 1983, and graduated ''magna cum laude'' with a Juris doctorate from Harvard Law School in 1991 * It's like in [[golf]]. A lot of people — I don't want this to sound trivial — but a lot of people are switching to these really long putters, very unattractive. It's weird. You see these great players with these really long putters, because they can't sink three-footers anymore. And, I hate it. I am a [[Traditionalistic|traditionalist]]. I have so many fabulous friends who happen to be [[Homosexuality|gay]], but I am a traditionalist. **{{citation |title=After Roasting, Trump Reacts In Character |date=2011-05-01 |journal=New York Times |first=Michael |last=Barbaro |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/02/nyregion/after-roasting-trump-reacts-in-character.html |accessdate=2011-05-06}} ** on his opposition to [[same-sex marriage]] * I know the [[Chinese people|Chinese]]. I've made a lot of money with the Chinese. I understand the Chinese mind. ** As quoted in {{citation |date=2011-05-03 |author=Tony Pierce |title=Donald Trump has read a lot of books on China: 'I understand the Chinese mind' |periodical=Los Angeles Times |url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/05/donald-trump-i-understand-the-chinese-mind.html}}, and in {{citation |date=2015-08-24 |author=John Mauldin |title=Playing the Chinese Trump Card |periodical=Forbes |url=http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnmauldin/2015/08/24/playing-the-chinese-trump-card/}} * I dealt with [[Muammar Gaddafi|Gaddafi]]. I rented him a piece of land. He paid me more for one night than the land was worth for two years, and then I didn't let him use the land. That's what we should be doing. I don't want to use the word 'screwed,' but I screwed him. That's what we should be doing. ** As quoted in {{citation |date=2015-07-22 |title=Donald Trump: In his own colourful words |periodical=BBC News |url=http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33619045}} * She's a slob, she talks like a truck driver. * If I were running my business, I'd fire Rosie, I mean, I'd look her right in that fat ugly face of hers and say, "Rosie, you're fired." ** On an interview on why he hates [[Rosie O'Donnell]] (28 August 2011) *[[Barney Frank]] looked disgusting--nipples protruding--in his blue shirt before Congress. Very very disrespectful. * Twitter, quoted by the [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/12/08/donald-trump-has-called-37-things-disgusting-on-twitter/ Washington Post] (20 December 2011) * Our president will start a war with [[Iran]] because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. He is weak and he is ineffective. So the only way he figures he is going to be reelected and as sure as you are sitting there, is to start a war with Iran. ** A now-deleted video on his YouTube video blog. {{citation |date=2020-01-03 |title=Trump repeatedly claimed in 2011 and 2012 that Obama would start a war with Iran to win reelection |author=Andrew Kaczynski |periodical=CNN |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/03/politics/kfile-trump-obama-2012-iran-war-reelection/index.html}} ===2012=== * [[Mitt Romney|Mitt]] is tough. He is smart. He is sharp. He is not going to allow bad things to continue to happen to this country that we all love. So Gov. Romney, go out and get em. You can do it. ** Quoted in {{citation | date = 2012-02-02 | url = http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57370443-503544/trump-endorses-mitt-romney-for-president/ | author = Corbett B. Daly | title = Trump endorses Mitt Romney for president | periodical = CBS News }} * No, I've never ''really'' changed. Nothing's ''changed'' my ''mind''. And by the way, you know, you have a huge group of people — I walk down the street, and people are screaming, "Please don't give that up." A lot of people are questioning his birth certificate. They're questioning the authenticity of his birth certificate. I've been known as being a very smart guy for a long time. I don't consider myself birther or not birther, but there are some major questions here and the press doesn't wanna cover it. The press just refuses to cover it. Now if that were somebody else, they would be covering it, and they'd be throwing people out of office. But they don't want to cover it. So it's interesting. ** {{citation | title = Telephone interview | publisher = CNBC | date = 2012-05-29 }}, quoted in {{citation | date = 2012-05-29 | title = Donald Trump Goes On Epic Birther Rant | newspaper = {{w|The Huffington Post}} | author = Melissa Jeltsen | url = http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/29/donald-trump-romney-obama-birther_n_1553074.html }} * '''Wolf Blitzer:''' Donald, you're beginning to sound a little ridiculous, I have to tell you.<br>'''Donald Trump:''' No I think you are, Wolf. Now let me tell you something, I think ''you'' sound ridiculous, and if you'd ask me a question and let me answer it —<br>'''Blitzer:''' Here's the question, did the conspiracy start in 1961 where the [[w:Honolulu Star-Bulletin|''Honolulu Star-Bulletin'']] and the [[w:Honolulu Advertiser|''Honolulu Advertiser'']] contemporaneously published announcements that he was born in [[Hawaii]]?<br>'''Trump:''' That's right. That's right. And many people put those announcements in because they wanted to get the benefit because of getting so-called born in this country. Many people did it. It was something that was done by many people even though they weren't born in the country. You know and so do I... And so do a lot of your viewers. Although you don't have too many viewers. * '''Donald Trump''' (clip): I have people that actually have been studying it and they cannot believe what they're finding.<br>'''Meredith Vieira''' (clip): You have people now, down there searching—<br>'''Trump''' (clip): Absolutely.<br>'''Vieira''' (clip): I mean, in Hawaii?<br>'''Trump''' (clip): Absolutely. And they cannot believe what they're finding.<br>'''Wolf Blitzer''': All right, tell us what your people who were investigating in Hawaii, what they found.<br>'''Trump''': Oh, we don't have to go into old news. That's ''old'' news.<br>'''Blitzer''': Well, what did they find?<br>'''Trump''': There's been plenty found. You can call many people. You can read many, many articles on the authenticity of the certificate. You can read many articles from just recently as to what the publisher printed in a brochure as to what Obama told him, as to where his place of birth is. And that's fine, Wolf.<br>Now, it's appropriate, I think, that we get to the subject of hand, which is — at hand, which is jobs, which is [[Economy of the United States|the economy]], which is how our country is not doing well at all under this leadership, which is how are we going to do something about energy, which is really that things that I wanted to talk to you about, but you like to keep going back to the place of birth. ** {{citation | title = The Situation Room | publisher = CNN | date = 2012-05-29 }}, quoted in {{citation | date = 2012-05-29 | title = Wolf Blitzer Spars With Donald Trump Over Obama's Birth Certificate | author = Elizabeth Flock | newspaper = US News & World Report | url = http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2012/05/29/wolf-blitzer-spars-with-donald-trump-over-obamas-birth-certificate }} ** Referring to a 1991 promotional booklet by literary agency Acton & Dystel with bios of 89 authors, that erroneously described Barack Obama as "born in Kenya".[http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthers/booklet.asp] * He [Obama] lost the popular vote by a lot and won the election. We should have a [[revolution]] in this country! * The phoney [sic] electoral college made a laughing stock out of our nation. The loser one! * More votes equals a loss... revolution! * This election is a total sham and a travesty. We are not a democracy! * The [[w:United_States_Electoral_College|electoral college]] is a disaster for a democracy. ** Tweets on November 6 and 7, 2012, some of which were later deleted. Trump falsely believed Barack Obama had lost the popular vote. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/11/15/trumps-flip-flop-on-the-electoral-college-from-disaster-to-genius/ Trump’s flip-flop on the electoral college: From ‘disaster’ to ‘genius’] * [[Republicans]] didn't have anything going for them with respect to {{w|Latinos}} and with respect to [[Asian people|Asians]]... The [[Democrats]] didn't have a policy for dealing with illegal immigrants, but what they did have going for them is they weren't mean-spirited about it... They didn't know what the policy was, but what they were is they were kind... He had a crazy policy of self deportation which was maniacal... It sounded as bad as it was, and he lost all of the Latino vote... He lost the Asian vote. He lost everybody who is inspired to come into this country... Take care of this incredible problem that we have with respect to [[Immigration to the United States|immigration]], with respect to people wanting to be wonderful productive citizens of this country. ** Interview with Newsmax (November 2012), quoted in {{citation|date=2015-07-10|author=Jim Geraghty|title=Trump 2008: Bush Is Evil, Talk to Iran, Obama Cannot Do Worse Than Bush|periodical=National Review|url=http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/420996/trump-2008-bush-evil-talk-iran-obama-cannot-do-worse-bush-jim-geraghty}} *[climate change was] "created by and for the Chinese in order to make US manufacturing non-competitive" ** said in 2012 according to [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51213003 What does Trump actually believe on climate change?] *"It doesn't matter who you vote for--it matters who is counting the votes." Be careful of voter fraud!. Oct 10 2012 [https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/256063573669855232] ===2013=== * Must be a pretty picture you dropping to your knees. ** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7NDpHfXTCI " to Brande Roderick, From The Apprentice, Season 6, Episode 1"] (3 March 2013) <!-- ''YouTube'' --> * I keep asking, how long will we go on defending [[South Korea]] from [[North Korea]] without payment? South Korea is a very very rich country. They're rich because of us. They sell us [[Television|televisions]], they sell us cars. They sell us everything. They are making a fortune. We have a huge deficit with South Korea. They're friends of mine. I do deals with them. I've been partners with them, no problem. But they think we're stupid. They can't believe it. We are defending them against North Korea, we're doing it for nothing. We're not in that position. When will they start to pay us for this defense? Isn't it really ridiculous when you think of it? They make a fortune on the United States and then they got some problems, and what happens? They call the United States to defend them, and we get nothing? **[https://www.youtube.com/watch/?v=agk9ZCrYol4 "From the Desk of Donald Trump: South Korea"] ''[[w:YouTube|YouTube]]'' (10 April 2013) * I’m a very compassionate person (with a very high [[Intelligence quotient|IQ]]) with strong common sense. ** "[https://edition.cnn.com/2017/10/10/politics/donald-trump-tillerson-iq/index.html Donald Trump's IQ obsession, in 22 quotes]" (April 21, 2021) * I do have a relationship and I can tell you that he's very interested in what we're doing here today, he's probably very interested in what you and I are saying today, and I'm sure he is going to be seeing it in some form. But I do have a relationship with him, and I think, er, it's very interesting to see what's happened. I mean, look, he's done a very brilliant job in terms of what he represents and who he's representing, if you look at what he's done with Syria, if you look at so many of the different things, he has really eaten our president's lunch, let's not kid ourselves. ** [http://www.msnbc.com/thomas-roberts/watch/trump-discusses-putin-in-2013-734124099973 Trump responding to a question about whether he had a relationship with Vladimir Putin during an interview with MSNBC's Thomas Roberts while visiting Moscow for the Miss Universe competition] (November 2013) ===2014=== *Healthy young child goes to doctor, gets pumped with massive shot of many vaccines, doesn't feel good and changes - AUTISM. Many such cases! **Twitter, [https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/449525268529815552?lang=en 28 March 2014] * If this doctor, who so recklessly flew into New York from West Africa, has Ebola,then Obama should apologize to the American people & resign! ** [https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-obama-ebola-tweet/ Snopes fact check: Did Trump Call for Obama to Resign After Ebola Doctor Returned to U.S.? (23 Oct)] ===2015=== ====May 2015==== * There is a way of beating [[Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant|ISIS]] so easily, so quickly, so effectively, and it would be so nice...I know a way that would absolutely give us guaranteed victory...the problem is then everybody will take the idea, run with it and then people will forget where it came from...'''I ran it past two or three people. [It's] so simple. It's like the paper clip.''' ** On his plan to defeat ISIS (May 2015) ====June 2015==== =====[[wikipedia:Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016#Announcement|Presidential bid announcement]] (June 16, 2015)===== :<small>[https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-announcing-candidacy-for-president-new-york-city "Remarks Announcing Candidacy for President in New York City"], ''{{w|The American Presidency Project}}''</small> [[File:Donald_Trump_crop_2016.jpeg|thumb|Sadly, the [[American dream]] is dead. But if I get elected president, I will bring it back bigger and better and stronger than ever before, and we will [[w:Make America Great Again|make America great again]].]] * They all said, a lot of the pundits on television, "Well, Donald will never run, and one of the main reasons is he's private and he's probably not as successful as everybody thinks." So I said to myself, you know, nobody's ever going to know unless I run, because I'm really proud of my success. * Our country is in serious trouble. We don't have victories anymore. ... When was the last time anybody saw us beating, let's say, China in a trade deal? They kill us. ... When did we beat Japan at anything? They send their cars over by the millions, and what do we do? When was the last time you saw a [[Chevrolet]] in Tokyo? ... When do we beat Mexico at the border? '''They're laughing at us, at our stupidity.''' ... The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else's problems. * '''When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best.''' They're not sending you. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people. But I speak to [[wikipedia:United States Border Patrol|border guards]] and they tell us what we're getting. ... They're sending us not the right people. It's coming from more than Mexico. It's coming from all over South and Latin America, and it's coming probably – probably – from the Middle East. But we don't know. Because we have no protection and we have no competence, we don't know what's happening. And it's got to stop and it's got to stop fast. * I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall. * Sadly, the American dream is dead. But if I get elected president, I will bring it back bigger and better and stronger than ever before, and we will make America great again. ====July 2015==== * '''Donald Trump''': Oh, well, if you look at the statistics, of people coming— I didn't say about Mexic— I say the ''[[illegal immigrants]]''— if you look at the statistics on [[rape]], on [[crime]], on everything, coming in illegally into this country, they're mind-boggling. If you go to [[w:Fusion News|Fusion]], you will see a story about 80% of the women coming in– I mean, you have to take a look at these stories. And you know who owns Fusion? [[w:Univision|Univision]]. It was in ''[[w:The Huffington Post|The Huffington Post]]''. I said, let me get some of these articles because I've heard some horrible things. I deal<!--sic--> a lot of talking with people on the border patrol. They're incredible people. They help our country.<br>'''Don Lemon''': But I want some clarification–<br>'''Trump''': No, but Don, all you have to do is go to Fusion and pick up the stories on ''rape'', and it's unbelievable when you look at what's going on. So all I'm doing is telling the truth.<br>'''Lemon''': I've read ''The Washington Post'', I read the Fusion, I read ''The Huffington Post''. And that's about women ''being'' raped, it's not about criminals coming across the border entering the country.<br>'''Trump''': Somebody's doing the raping, Don, I mean, you know– I mean, somebody's doing it. You think it's women being raped, well who's doing the raping? Who's doing the raping? I mean how can you say such a thing. So, the problem is you have to stop illegal immigration coming across the border. You have to create a strong border. If you don't, we don't have a country. **{{citation | date = 2015-07-01 | title = The Situation Room | medium = TV | publisher = CNN | url = http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/01/politics/donald-trump-immigrants-raping-comments/ }} [[File:Donald_Trump_by_Gage_Skidmore_2.jpg|thumb|I can't apologize for the truth.]] * '''I can never apologize for the truth. I don't mind apologizing for things but I can't apologize for the truth.''' ** {{citation | date = 2015-07-02 | title = TRUMP: 'I use the word rape and all of a sudden everyone goes crazy' | author = | newspaper = finance.yahoo.com | url = https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-word-rape-sudden-everyone-172614480.html }} *The Obama Administration's agreement with Iran is very dangerous. Iran developing a nuclear weapon, either through uranium or nuclear fuel, and defying the world is still a very real possibility. The inspections will not be followed, and Iran will no longer have any sanctions. Iran gets everything and loses nothing. Every promise the Obama Administration made in the beginning of negotiations, including the vow (made at the beginning of the negotiations) to get our great American prisoners returned to the U. S. has been broken. This is a bad deal that sets a dangerous precedent. This deal sets off a nuclear arms race in the Middle East, which is the most-unstable region in the world. It is a horrible and perhaps catastrophic event for [[Israel]]. Furthermore, we should have kept the billions of dollars we have agreed to pay them. Any great dealmaker would know this is a perfect example of "tapping along" and because they have been unchecked for so long throughout this extremely lengthy process, I guarantee they are much closer to producing a nuclear weapon than they were at the start of negotiations. The fact is, the US has incompetent leaders and even more incompetent negotiators. We must do better for America and the world. We have to [[Make America Great Again]]. **[https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/statement-donald-j-trump-the-iran-agreement Statement by Donald J. Trump on the Iran Agreement], ''American Presidency Project'', 14 July 2015 * And I had an idea recently. When they send illegals into our country, we charge Mexico $100,000 for every illegal that crosses that border because it's trouble. ** {{citation | date = 2015-07-15 | title = Fox News "Hannity"- Transcript: Trump On El Chappo And Undocumented Immigration | author = | newspaper = Fox News | url = https://votesmart.org/public-statement/1113598/fox-news-hannity-transcript-trump-on-el-chappo-and-undocumented-immigration#.XxcUdZMzbOQ }} * '''Donald Trump:''' 15,000 people showed up to hear me speak. Bigger than anybody and everybody knows it. A beautiful day with incredible people that were wonderful, great Americans, I will tell you. [[John McCain]] goes, "Oh, boy, Trump makes my job difficult. He had 15,000 ''crazies'' show up." Crazies. He called them all crazy. I said, they weren't crazy. They were great Americans. These people— if you would have seen these people— you— I know what a crazy is. I know all about crazies. These weren't crazy. So he insulted me and he insulted everybody in that room...<br>'''Frank Luntz:''' He's a war hero.<br>'''Donald Trump:''' He's not a war hero.<br>'''Luntz:''' He's a war hero.<br>'''Trump:''' He is a war hero—<br>'''Luntz:''' Five and a half years in a POW camp.<br>'''Trump:''' He's a war hero 'cause he was captured. I like people that weren't captured, OK? I hate to tell you.<br>'''Luntz:''' Do you agree with that?<br>'''Trump:''' He's a war hero. He's a war hero because he was captured, OK? You can have— and I believe— perhaps he's a war hero, but— but right now he said some very bad things about a lot of people. ** Family Leadership Summit 2015, quoted in {{citation | date = 2015-07-18 | title = Donald Trump tells John McCain: 'I like people who weren't captured' | author = Harriet Alexander | newspaper = The Telegraph | url = http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/republicans/11748859/Donald-Trump-tells-John-McCain-I-like-people-who-werent-captured.html }} * Look, having nuclear—my uncle was a great professor and [[Scientists|scientist]] and [[Engineering|engineer]], Dr. John Trump at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]]; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the [[w:Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania|Wharton School of Finance]], very good, very smart—you know, if you're a [[Conservatism|conservative]] Republican, if I were a [[Liberalism|liberal]], if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world—it's true!—but when you're a conservative Republican they try—oh, do they do a number—that's why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune—you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we're a little disadvantaged—but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me—it would have been so easy, and it's not as important as these lives are (nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35&nbsp;years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right—who would have thought?), but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners—now it used to be three, now it's four—but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven't figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it's gonna take them about another 150&nbsp;years—but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us. ** {{citation | date = 2015-07-21 | title = Speech in Sun City, South Carolina | author = | newspaper = Slate | url = http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2015/07/31/donald_trump_this_run_on_sentence_from_a_speech_in_sun_city_south_carolina.html }} * If you can't get rich dealing with politicians, there's something wrong with you. ** [http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/07/donald-trump-campaign-speech-lindsey-graham Campaign Rally in South Carolina] ** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImhJ2sFBJmA YouTube]<!--[Has to add exactly minute and second in this video]--> * I'm a Republican, I'm a conservative, I'm in first place, I want to run as a Republican and I think I'll get the nomination... [<nowiki/>[[Hillary Clinton]]] is easily the worst Secretary of State in the history of the country. She's going to be beaten and I'm the one to beat her. ** {{citation | date = 2015-07-23 | title = Donald Trump tours Mexican border with Texas | author = | newspaper = BBC | url = http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33645971 }} * '''Jose Diaz-Balart:''' Mr. Trump, you know 53,000 [[w:Hispanic-American|Hispanics]] turn 18 years of age in this country every month, born in the country of voting age. 54 million plus Hispanics — many feel that what you said when you said that the people who cross the border are rapists and murderers—<br>'''Donald Trump:''' No, no, no! We're talking about [[w:Illegal immigration in the United States|illegal immigration]] and everybody understands that. And you know what? That's a typical case. That's a typical case of the press with misinterpretation. They take a half a sentence, they take a half a sentence, then they take quarter of a sentence and put it all together. It's a typical thing...<br>'''Diaz-Balart:''' I'm not finished with my question.<br>'''Trump:''' No, no! You're finished! **{{citation | date = 2015-07-23 | title = Crowd Erupts in Applause at How Donald Trump Handles MSNBC Host at Presser: 'You're Finished!' | author = Oliver Darcy | newspaper = TheBlaze | url = http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/07/23/crowd-erupts-in-applause-at-how-donald-trump-handles-msnbc-host-at-presser-youre-finished/ }} * I think that I would be a great uniter. I think that I would have great diplomatic skills. I think that I would be able to get along with people very well. I've had a great success in my life. I think the world would unite if I were the leader of the United States. ** {{citation | date = 2015-07-30 | title = Trump: 'World would unite if I were the leader' | author = Jesse Byrnes | newspaper = The Hill | url = http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/249875-trump-world-would-unite-if-i-were-the-leader }} ====August 2015==== [[File:Donald_Trump_by_Gage_Skidmore_3.jpg|thumb|I do whine because I want to win and I’m not happy about not winning and I am a whiner and I keep whining and whining until I win.]] * I think the big problem this country has is being [[Political correctness|politically correct]]. ** Republican Presidential Debate 2015 — {{citation | date = 2015-08-06 | title = Annotated transcript: The Aug. 6 GOP debate | author = | newspaper = The Washington Post | url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/08/06/annotated-transcript-the-aug-6-gop-debate/ }} * You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever. ** [http://edition.cnn.com/2015/08/08/politics/donald-trump-cnn-megyn-kelly-comment/ On Megyn Kelly] (7 August 2015) * I cherish women. I want to help women. I'm going to do things for women that no other candidate will be able to do. ** {{citation | date = 2015-08-09 | title = 12 times Donald Trump declared his 'respect' for women | author = Gregoy Krieg | newspaper = CNN | url = https://edition.cnn.com/2016/10/07/politics/donald-trump-respect-women/index.html }} * I will be phenomenal to the women. I mean, I want to help women. ** ''Face the Nation'', 9 August 2015 *I think there has to be a trust. There actually has to be a trust. If you don't trust, you're not going to do very well. **In response to a reporter's line of questioning on what his specific plans will be to achieve the goals of his campaign. [http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/melanie-hunter/trump-specifics-his-proposals-trust-me "Trump on Specifics of His Proposals: ‘Trust Me'"] (12 August 2015), by Melanie Hunter * We have to keep the families together, but they have to go. What if they have no place to go? ** During the [[w:Iowa State Fair|Iowa State Fair]] (2015 August 15) * You know, when you put out policy, like a 14-point plan? A lot of times in the first hour of negotiation, that 14-point plan goes astray, but you may end up with a better deal. That's the way it works. That's the way really life works. When I do a deal, I don't say, "Oh, here's 14 points." I got out and do it. I don't sit down and talk about 14 points. ** Appearance at Iowa State Fair - {{citation | date = 2015-08-15 | title = Donald Trump's surprisingly savvy analysis of American politics | author = | newspaper = The Washington Post | url= http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/08/16/donald-trumps-surprisingly-savvy-comment-about-american-politics/ }} {{Paywalled source}} *What's the difference between a wet raccoon and Donald J. Trump's hair? A wet raccoon doesn't have seven billion fucking dollars in the bank. **20 August 2015 roast on Comedy Central [https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-roast-364701 transcribed by Newsweek] * Hillary Clinton was the worst [[United States Secretary of State|Secretary of State]] in the history of the country. The world came apart under her reign... I will be the one to beat Hillary.<br>If you start adding it up, our real unemployment rate is 42%. ** {{citation | date = 2015-08-20 | title = Donald Trump Explains All | author = | newspaper = Time | url = http://time.com/4003734/donald-trump-interview-transcript/ }}. For a discussion of this figure, see [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/11/upshot/the-real-jobless-rate-is-42-percent-donald-trump-has-a-point-sort-of.html "The Real Jobless Rate Is 42 Percent? Donald Trump Has a Point, Sort Of"] by Neil Irwin, ''The New York Times'' (10 February 2016). * You've seen my statements, I do very well, I don't mind paying some taxes. The [[w:Middle class|middle class]] is getting clobbered in this country. You know the middle class built this country, not the hedge fund guys, but I know people in hedge funds that pay almost nothing and it's ridiculous. ** Interview on [[w:Bloomberg News|Bloomberg]]'s ''With All Due Respect'' — {{citation | date = 2015-08-26 | title = Donald Trump Says He Wants to Raise Taxes on Himself | author = David Knowles | newspaper = Bloomberg | url = http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-08-26/donald-trump-says-he-wants-to-raise-taxes-on-himself }} * I do whine because I want to win and I’m not happy about not winning and I am a whiner and I keep whining and whining until I win. ** Interview with [[w:Chris Cuomo|Chris Cuomo]]{{citation | date = 2015-08-11 | title = Donald Trump: ‘I keep whining and whining until I win’ | author = Jeremy Diamond | newspaper = CNN | url = https://www.cnn.com/2015/08/11/politics/donald-trump-refutes-third-party-run-report/index.html}} ====September 2015==== * We're a nation that speaks English. I think that, while we're in this nation, we should be speaking English... that's how we assimilate. ** {{citation | date = 2015-09-03 | title = Donald Trump: "While We're in This Nation, We Should Be Speaking English" | newspaper = The Hollywood Reporter | url = http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/donald-trump-speak-english-spanish-820215 }} * "''Look'' at that face! [of [[Carly Fiorina]]] Would anyone ''vote'' for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next ''president''?!" ** {{citation | date = 2015-09-09 | title = Trump Seriously: On the Trail With the GOP's Tough Guy | newspaper = Rolling Stone | url = http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/trump-seriously-20150909 }} * The fact is all lives matter. That includes black, and it includes white, and it includes everybody else. And we have... Democrats that are afraid to even say that. ** As quoted in {{citation | date = 2015-09-09 | title = Donald Trump trashes Black Lives Matter: 'I think they're trouble' | author = Colin Campbell | newspaper = Business Insider | url = http://uk.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-black-lives-matter-2015-9?r=US&IR=T }} * This is a country where we speak English, not Spanish. ** Criticizing Jeb Bush for speaking Spanish on the campaign trail during a Republican Presidential Debate on CNN (16 September 2015) * '''Audience member''': We have a problem in this country, it's called Muslims. Our current President is one. We know he's not even an American. We have training camps growing where they want to kill us. That's my question, when can we get rid of them? <br>'''Donald Trump''': We're going to be looking at a lot of different things. A lot of people are saying that and a lot of people are saying that bad things are happening out there. We're going to be looking at that and a lot of different things. ** At a town hall meeting in New Hampshire — as quoted in {{citation | date = 2015-09-17 | title = Here's How Donald Trump Responded to a Person Saying President Obama is Muslim | author = Maya Rhodan | newspaper = Time | url = http://time.com/4039658/trump-obama-muslim/ }} * Am I morally obligated to defend the president every time somebody says something bad or controversial about him? I don't think so! * This is the first time in my life that I have caused controversy by NOT saying something. ** Tweets — quoted in {{citation | date = 2015-09-20 | title = Trump defend Obama? 'I don't think so!' | author = Doina Chiacu | newspaper = Reuters | url = http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/20/us-usa-election-trump-idUSKCN0RJ0KT20150920 }} * You can be politically correct if you want, but are you trying to say we don't have a problem? ... Most Muslims, like most everything, I mean, these are fabulous people... But we certainly do have a problem, I mean, you have a problem throughout the world. ... It wasn't people from Sweden that blew up the World Trade Center. ** On CNN's "State of the Union" with Jake Tapper — as quoted in {{citation | date = 2015-09-20 | title = Trump: 'We certainly do have a problem' with some Muslims | author = Timothy Cama | newspaper = The Hill | url = http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/254307-trump-we-certainly-do-have-a-problem-with-some-muslims }} * The first thing I'd do in my first day as president is close up our borders so that illegal immigrants cannot come into our country. ** Twitter question and answer session from Twitter's New York office — as quoted in {{citation | date = 2015-09-21 | title = Trump: I'll close US borders 'in my first day' | author = Jesse Byrnes | newspaper = The Hill | url = http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/254391-trump-ill-close-us-borders-in-my-first-day }} * You ever see guys with nothing on their desk? They always fail. I don't know what it is. I've seen it for years. ** Explaining his messy desk, ''The New York Times Magazine'' interview. {{citation | date=2015-09-21 | title=Donald Trump is not going anywhere | author = Mark Leibovich | newspaper = The New York Times Magazine | url = http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/magazine/donald-trump-is-not-going-anywhere.html }} * Why aren't we letting ISIS go and fight Assad and then we pick up the remnants? ** [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-60-minutes-scott-pelley/ Interview in ''60 Minutes''], 2015-09-27 ** Cited by [[Mitt Romney]] in [http://uk.businessinsider.com/mitt-romney-donald-trump-isis-60-minutes-ridiculous-2016-3?r=US&IR=T ''Business Insider''], 2016-03-03 * I will tell you in terms of leadership he is getting an 'A,' and our president is not doing so well. They did not look good together. ** {{citation |date=2015-09-30 |author=Reena Flores |title=Donald Trump gives Russia's Putin an 'A' in leadership |periodical=CBS News |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-gives-russias-putin-an-a-in-leadership/}} ====October 2015==== *All my friends who work out all the time, they’re going for knee replacements, hip replacements — they’re a disaster **4 October 2015 interview with [https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/magazine/donald-trump-is-not-going-anywhere.html New York Times] * I've always said, if you run for president, you shouldn't be allowed to use teleprompters. Because you don't even know if the guy is smart. ** Norcross, Georgia, {{#formatdate:2015-10-10}}, quoted in {{citation |date=2016-07-21 |title=Teleprompter Trump: the right temperament or low-energy Donald? |author=Joe Concha |periodical=The Hill |url=https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/288626-teleprompter-trump-the-right-temperament-or-low}} * He was such a nice guy. And he said, Oh, I'm never going to attack. But then his poll numbers tanked. He's got -- that's why he's on the end -- and he got nasty. And he got nasty. So you know what? You can have him. ** Response to [[John Kasich]] {{citation | date=2015-10-28 |title= CNBC Republican debate transcript |newspaper = CNBC |url = http://www.cnbc.com/2015/10/29/cnbc-full-transcript-cnbcs-your-money-your-vote-the-republican-presidential-debate-part-2.html }} ====November 2015==== * '''Trump''': I'm Donald Trump, and I'm running for president. Our country is in deep trouble because let's face it: politics are all talk and no action. My opponents have no experience in creating jobs or making deals. The fact is, I'm going to make the greatest trade deals we've ever made in our country. And I'm going to bring jobs and money back to the United States. I'll take care of our veterans and make our military so strong that nobody will ever mess with us. I'll secure our borders, and yes, we will have a wall. You can't have a country without borders. [[w:Affordable Care Act|Obamacare]] is a great plan . It will be repealed and replaced with something much better. If the people of Iowa vote for me, you'll never be disappointed. I don't disappoint people, I produce. Together, we're going to [[w:Make America Great Again|Make America Great Again]]. I'm Donald Trump, candidate for president, and I hate this message.<br>'''Female V/O''': Paid for by Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. ** Radio ad aired in Iowa (5 November 2015) * Watch and study the [[Mosque|mosques]], because a lot of talk is going on at the mosques. ** As quoted in [http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/16/politics/donald-trump-paris-attacks-close-mosques/index.html "Donald Trump: 'Strongly consider' shutting mosques"] (16 November 2015), by Gregory Krieg, ''CNN'' (2015), Atlanta, Georgia: Cable News Network. * I would certainly implement that. Absolutely... There should be a lot of systems, beyond databases. We should have a lot of systems... They have to be. They have to be... It's all about management. ** As quoted in [http://www.people.com/article/donald-trump-muslim-database-syrian-refugees "Donald Trump Says He Supports a Database and ID Cards to Track Muslims in the U.S.: 'We're Going to Have to Look at the Mosques'"] (20 November 2015), by Char Adams, ''People''. * Somebody said I’m the Ernest Hemingway of 140 characters. ** Quoted by {{citation | date=2015-11-20 |title= Trump says he’s the Hemingway of Twitter |newspaper = The Hill | author = Bradford Richardson |url = https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-primaries/260949-trump-says-hes-the-hemingway-of-twitter }} * Get him the hell out of here. ** As quoted in [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-supporters-black-lives-matter-protester-clash-at-rally/ "Trump supporters, Black Lives Matter protester clash at rally"] (21 November 2015), by Reena Flores, ''CBS News'', CBS Interactive, Inc. *I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down. And I watched in [[w:Jersey City, New Jersey|Jersey City, N.J.]], where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down. Thousands of people were cheering.<br>It was on television. I saw it. It was well covered at the time, George. Now, I know they don't like to talk about it, but it was well covered at the time. There were people over in [[New Jersey]] that were watching it, a heavy Arab population, that were cheering as the buildings came down. Not good. **21 November 2015 speech in [[w:Birmingham, Alabama|Birmingham, Alabama]], then next-day reply to [[George Stephanopoulos]], according to [https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/nov/22/donald-trump/fact-checking-trumps-claim-thousands-new-jersey-ch/ 22 November 2015 PolitiFact article] * Written by a nice reporter. Now the poor guy - you ought to see the guy: ‘Uhh I don't know what I said. I don't remember!' He's going, ‘I don't remember! Maybe that's what I said.' ** As quoted in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX9reO3QnUA&t=15 "Trump mocks reporter with disability"] (25 November 2015 by CNN) and [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/donald-trump/12019097/Donald-Trump-accused-of-mocking-disabled-reporter.html "Donald Trump accused of mocking disabled reporter"] (26 November 2015), by Rob Crilly regarding [[Serge Kovaleski]] =====''[[wikipedia:Crippled America|Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again]]'' (November 2015)===== :published 3 November 2015 * The enthusiasm was based on pure love and love of what we were doing. ** Preface, p. xiv * The fact is I give people what they need and deserve to hear - exactly what they don't get from politicians - and that is The Truth. Our country is a mess right now and we don't have time to pretend otherwise. We don't have time to waste on being politically correct. ** p. 8 * I use the media the way the media uses me—to attract attention. Once I have that attention, it's up to me to use it to my advantage. ** p. 10 * I've seen these so-called journalists flat-out lie. I say that because incompetence doesn't begin to explain the inaccurate stories they have written. ** p. 12 * Our country, our people, and our laws have to be our top priority. ** p. 30 * Citizenship is not a gift we can afford to keep giving away. ** p. 28 * I want good people to come here from all over the world, but I want them to do so legally. We can expedite the process, we can reward achievement and excellence, but we have to respect the legal process. And those people who take advantage of the system and come here illegally should never enjoy the benefits of being a resident--or citizen--of this nation. So I am against any path to citizenship for undocumented workers or anyone else who is in this country illegaly. They should--and need to--go home and get in line. ** p. 30 * Depending on the price of oil, Saudi Arabia earns somewhere between half a billion and a billion dollars every day. They wouldn't exist, let alone have that wealth, without our protection. We get nothing from them. Nothing. We defend Germany. We defend Japan. We defend South Korea. These are powerful and wealthy countries. We get nothing from them. It's time to change all that. It's time to win again. ** p. 34 * When Kuwait was attacked by Saddam Hussein, all the wealthy Kuwaitis ran to Paris. They didn't just rent suites—they took up whole buildings, entire hotels. They lived like kings while their country was occupied. Who did they turn to for help? Who else? Uncle Sucker. That's us. ** p. 34 * We can't be afraid to use our military, but sending our sons and daughters should be the very last resort. I've seen what wars do to our kids. I've seen their broken bodies, know all about the horrors that live in their heads, and the enormous effects of trauma. We cannot commit American troops to battle without a real and tangible objective. ** p. 35 * To me, for politicians to claim that we have an answer to every problem is silly. When you listen to some politicians reeling off their prepared answers, you almost fall for it. They're all experts. But nothing ever happens. ** p. 73 * I manage to blast through the ridiculous liberal bias of the media and speak right to the hearts of the people - or at least I try. ** p. 80 * It's not just jobs that are being lost to other countries. We are seeing whole industries vanish overseas. ** p. 85 * A great leader has to be flexible, holding his ground on the major principles but finding room for compromises that can bring people together. A great leader has to be savvy at negotiations so we don't drown every bill in pork barrel bridges to nowhere. I know how to stand my ground — but I also know that Republicans and Democrats need to find common ground to stand on as well. ** p. 96 * We look at politicians and think: This one's owned by this millionaire. That one's owned by that millionaire, or lobbyist, or special interest group. Me? I speak for the people. So the establishment attacks me. They can't own me, they can't dictate to me, so they search for ways to dismiss me. ** p. 97 ====December 2015==== * My policy has always been the same. We're fighting ISIS and Assad is fighting ISIS, but we're backing rebels to fight [[w:Bashar al-Assad|Assad]]. You can't fight everybody, you have to pick who you want to fight. And now you've got [[Turkey]], who like ISIS more than they like others, no one really knows because we don't have people that know what they're doing. So in my opinion, you go along, and [[Russia]] does not like ISIS, and people are starting to find out. I mean in all fairness lost an airplane, got blew out of the air. So Russia is not a fan of ISIS. Russia is bombing the hell out of them, starting to bomb them. I say isis is our number one threat. We can't be fighting everybody at the same time. ISIS is our number one threat. I would bomb the hell out of them -- I like to do one thing at a time. I would knock the hell out of ISIS. I would hit them ... so hard like they've never been hit before. ** In an interview with ''{{w|Fox & Friends}}''. [http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/trump-kill-isil-families-216343] (December 2, 2015) * They're using them as shields. It's a horrible thing. They're using them as shields. But we're fighting a very politically correct war. And the other thing is with the terrorists. You have to take out their families. When you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families. They care about their lives. Don't kid yourself. But they say they don't care about their lives. You have to take out their families. ** When asked how he would deal with civilian casualties. In an interview with ''{{w|Fox & Friends}}''. [http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/trump-kill-isil-families-216343] (December 2, 2015) * If you're in the [[w:White House|White House]], who wants to take a vacation? You're in the White House!… What's better than the White House? Why these vacations? **[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC_3IxKcQIA Hardball with Chris Matthews, August 4, 2017] December 5, 2015 rally * Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on... According to Pew Research, among others, there is great hatred towards Americans by large segments of the Muslim population. Most recently, a poll from the [[w:Center for Security Policy|Center for Security Policy]] released data showing "25% of those polled agreed that violence against Americans here in the United States is justified as a part of the global jihad" and 51% of those polled, "agreed that Muslims in America should have the choice of being governed according to [[Sharia|Shariah]]." Shariah authorizes such atrocities as murder against non-believers who won't convert, beheadings and more unthinkable acts that pose great harm to Americans, especially women. **[https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/donald-j.-trump-statement-on-preventing-muslim-immigration Statement on Preventing Muslim Immigration] (December 7, 2015) archived [https://archive.ph/TK7qR here] * We are losing a lot of people to the Internet. We have to do something. We have to go see [[Bill Gates]] and a lot of different people that really understand what's happening. We have to talk to them [about], maybe in certain areas, closing that Internet up in some way. '''Some people will say, ‘[[Freedom of speech]], Freedom of speech'. These are foolish people.''' ** [https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/08/googles-eric-schmidt-spell-checkers-hate-harassment-terrorism Google's Eric Schmidt calls for 'spell-checkers for hate and harassment'], 8 December 2015, by Alex Hern. * We have places in [[London]] and other places that are so radicalised that the [[police]] are afraid for their own lives. We have to be very smart and very vigilant. ** As quoted in [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/donald-trump-claims-parts-of-london-are-so-radicalised-police-officers-are-afraid-for-their-lives-a6765026.html "Donald Trump claims parts of London are 'so radicalised' police officers are 'afraid for their lives'"] by Rose Troup Buchanan, ''[[w:The Independent|The Independent]]'' (8 December 2015); also in [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3352406/Scotland-Yard-mocks-Trump-s-claims-London-police-terrified-Muslim-areas-officers-claim-tycoon-RIGHT.html "'Trump's not wrong – we can't wear uniform in our OWN cars': Five police officers claim Donald Trump is RIGHT about parts of London being so 'radicalised' they are no-go areas"] by Martin Robinson, ''Daily Mail Online'' (9 December 2015) * These are people that are outside the country, so we're really not talking about the [[U.S. Constitution|Constitution]]. And it's not about religion. This is about safety. This has nothing to do with religion. It's about safety. ** Interview on ABC's "Life with Kelly and Michael", as quoted in [http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/262615-trump-muslim-ban-not-about-religion "Trump: Muslim ban 'not about religion'"] by Jesse Byrnes, ''The Hill'' (9 December 2015) * We're doing really well with the [[Evangelicalism in the United States|evangelicals]], and, by the way: And again, I do like [[Ted Cruz]] -- but not a lot of [[Evangelicalism|evangelicals]] come out of [[Cuba]], in all fairness. It's true. Not a lot come out. But I like him nevertheless. But I think we're going to do great, and we are doing great with evangelicals.<br>I'm with you. I'm with everybody. I'm with everybody, look, I'm self-funding. I have no oil company. I have no special [[interest]]. I have no lobbyists.<br>Well look he's from [[Texas]] -- to the best of my knowledge, there's a lot of oil in Texas, right? So, he gets a lot of money from the oil companies, and he's against ethanol and everything you're else talking about. And I'm not I'm totally in favor. And you know it's a big industry here, it's a big industry. You know if that industry is upset Iowa's got problems.<br>I really do, I like Ted Cruz a lot, I would say that we would certainly have things in mind for Ted, to be honest with you. I mean, he's somebody that I could certainly say that [about] because I like him. **11 December 2015 during a rally in Iowa, according to [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/12/11/donald-trump-questions-ted-cruzs-ties-to-major-oil-companies/ Washington Post article] by Jenna Johnson, [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/in-iowa-donald-trump-hits-ted-cruz-on-ethanol-and-religion/ CBS News article] by Kylie Atwood, and [https://web.archive.org/web/20151213223442/http://blogs.reuters.com/talesfromthetrail/2015/12/12/donald-trump-and-ted-cruz-are-best-of-frenemies/ Reuters article] by Emily Stephenson * We're rounding 'em up in a very humane way, in a very nice way. And they're going to be happy because they want to be legalized. And, by the way, I know it doesn't sound nice. But not everything is nice. **27 December 2015 on ''60 Minutes'' * I know words. I have the best words. **30 December 2015 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn283OjPb1g speech in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina] reported by [https://gawker.com/yet-another-bold-claim-from-donald-trump-i-know-words-1750331997 Gawker] and [https://dailycaller.com/2015/12/30/trump-i-know-words-i-have-the-best-words-obama-is-stupid-video/ The Daily Caller] * I'm trying to figure out, let's see, I'm in my room, in [[New York City|New York city]], and I want to put a little spray, so I can, you know [mimes spraying] right, right, but I hear they don't want me to use the hairspray, they want me to use the pump, because the other one, which I really like better than going [mimes pumping] bang, bang, bang, and then it comes out in big globs, right, and it's stuck in your hair and you say, "Oh my god I've got to take a shower again, my hair's all screwed up", right, I want to use hairspray, but they say "Don't use hairspray, it's bad for the ozone", so I'm sitting in this concealed [sic] apartment, this concealed unit (you know I do live in a very apartment, right) but it's sealed (it's beautiful) I don't think anything gets out, and I'm not supposed to be using hairspray! **30 December 2015 [https://www.c-span.org/video/?402610-1/donald-trump-campaign-rally-hilton-head-south-carolina speaking at a rally in Hilton Head, SC] ===2016=== ====January 2016==== [[File:Donald_Trump_by_Gage_Skidmore_4.jpg|thumb|I'm very angry. Because our country is being run horribly. I will gladly accept the mantle of anger. Our military is a disaster. Our healthcare is a horror show. Obamacare, we're going to repeal it and replace it.<br> We have no borders. Our vets are being treated horribly. Illegal immigration is beyond belief! Our country is being run by incompetent people and yes, I am angry. I'm angry because our country is a mess!]] * The entire world has been upset. The entire world, it's a different place. During Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton's term, she's done a horrible job.<br>She has caused death. She has caused tremendous death with incompetent decisions. I was against the [[war in Iraq]]. I wasn't a politician, but I was against the war in Iraq. She voted for the war in Iraq.<br>Look at {{w|Libya}}. That was her baby. Look. I mean, I'm not even talking about the ambassador and the people with the ambassador. Young, wonderful people. With messages coming in by the hundreds, and she's not even responding. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about all of the death that's been caused and not only our side.<br>There was nothing saved. If we would have never done anything in the Middle East, we would have a much safer world right now. ... All of this has led to the migration. All of this has led to tremendous death and destruction. And she for the most part was in charge of it along with Obama.<br>She's constantly playing the woman card. It's the only way she may get elected. I mean frankly... Personally, I'm not sure that anybody else other than me is going to beat her. And I think she's a flawed candidate. And you see what's happened recently. And it hasn't been a very pretty picture for her or for Bill. Because I'm the only one that's willing to talk about his problems. I mean, what he did and what he has gone through I think is frankly terrible, especially if she wants to play the woman card.<br>I have more respect for women by far than Hillary Clinton has. And I will do more for women than Hillary Clinton will. I will do far more including the protection of our country. She caused a lot of the problems that we have right now. ** CBS interview with John Dickerson (taped 1 January 2016) for ''[[wikipedia:Face the Nation|Face the Nation]]'' — as quoted in [http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/trump-hillary-clinton-donald-217294 "Trump: Clinton has ruined the world"] by Nick Gass, ''Politico'' (3 January 2016) * They've created ISIS. Hillary Clinton created ISIS with Obama; created with Obama. But I love predicting because you know, ultimately, you need somebody with vision. ** At a rally, as quoted in [http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-created-isis-obama-2016-1 "TRUMP: 'Hillary Clinton created ISIS with Obama'"] by Colin Campbell, ''Business Insider'' (3 January 2016) * She [Clinton] has a terrible record as secretary of state. I mean, she's literally created ISIS. If you look at her, between her and Obama, they're the ones — we have this big ISIS problem they created with their bad policies and their bad thinking. ** On ''[[wikipedia:Fox & Friends|Fox & Friends]]'', as quoted in [http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-created-isis-obama-2016-1 "TRUMP: 'Hillary Clinton created ISIS with Obama'"] by Colin Campbell, ''Business Insider'' (3 January 2016) * Mexico is going to be the new China because what they're doing to us is unbelievable, although they did catch El Chapo. Good? Good? They did catch El Chapo, that's good. I mean I don't know, he better not escape a third time, you know? Those tunnels, bing, boom, right under the toilet, bing boom, right up. It's pretty amazing when you think about it, right? But anyway. I have an idea: Put him on the fourth floor this time, right? No more, no more first floors. ** Speech (9 January 2016), as quoted in [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/el-chapo-on-donald-trump-mi-amigo/ "El Chapo on Donald Trump: 'Mi Amigo!"], by Rebecca Kaplan, ''CBS News'' (10 January 2016). * I'm very angry because our country is being run horribly and I will gladly accept the mantle of anger. Our military is a disaster. Our healthcare is a horror show. Obamacare, we're going to repeal it and replace it. We have no borders. Our vets are being treated horribly. Illegal immigration is beyond belief. Our country is being run by incompetent people. And yes, I am angry. I'm angry because our country is a mess. ** [http://time.com/4182096/republican-debate-charleston-transcript-full-text/ Full Transcript of the Sixth Republican Debate in Charleston], ''[[wikipedia:Time (magazine)|Time]]'' (14 January 2016). * And just so — if I could, because he insulted a lot of people. I've had more calls on that statement that [[Ted Cruz|Ted]] made — New York is a great place. It's got great people, it's got loving people, wonderful people. When the World Trade Center came down, I saw something that no place on [[Earth]] could have handled more beautifully, more humanely than New York. You had two one hundred, you had two 110-story buildings come crashing down. I saw them come down. Thousands of people killed, and the cleanup started the next day, and it was the most horrific cleanup, probably in the history of doing this, and in construction. I was down there, and I've never seen anything like it. And the people in New York fought and fought and fought, and we saw more death, and even the smell of death — nobody understood it. And it was with us for months, the smell, the air. And we rebuilt downtown Manhattan, and everybody in the world watched and everybody in the world loved New York and loved New Yorkers. And I have to tell you, that was a very insulting statement that Ted made. ** [http://time.com/4182096/republican-debate-charleston-transcript-full-text/ Full Transcript of the Sixth Republican Debate in Charleston], ''[[wikipedia:Time (magazine)|Time]]'' (14 January 2016). * The truth is, he's a nasty guy. He was so nice to me. I mean, I knew it. I was watching. I kept saying, 'Come on Ted. Let's go, okay.' But he's a nasty guy. Nobody likes him. Nobody in Congress likes him. Nobody likes him anywhere once they get to know him. He's a very –- he's got an edge that's not good. You can't make deals with people like that and it's not a good thing. It's not a good thing for the country. Very nasty guy. ** About [[Ted Cruz]] in an interview on ''[[wikipedia:This Week (ABC TV series)|This Week]]'' [http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/01/17/donald_trump_ted_cruz_is_a_nasty_guy_nobody_likes_him.html] (January 17, 2016) * [[wikipedia:Tony Perkins (politician)|Tony Perkins]] wrote that out for me -- he actually wrote out 2, he wrote out the number 2 Corinthians, I took exactly what Tony said, and I said, 'Well Tony has to know better than anybody. * It's a very small deal, but a lot of people in different sections of the world say two, and I've had many, many people say that to me. My mother, as you know, was from Scotland, and they say two. ** In an interview with {{w|CNN}}'s {{w|Don Lemon}}, about saying "two Corinthians" instead of "Second Corinthians" during a speech at Liberty University. [http://edition.cnn.com/2016/01/20/politics/donald-trump-tony-perkins-sarah-palin/] (January 22, 2016) * Ted Cruz lies. He's a liar. And that's why nobody likes him, that's why his Senate people won't endorse him. That's why he stands on the middle of the Senate floor and can't make a deal with anybody. He looks like a jerk. He's standing all by himself. And you know, there's something to say about having a little bit of ability to get other people to do things. You can't be a lone wolf and stand there. That's sort of what we have right now as a president. ** [http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/trump-ted-cruz-lies-he-s-a-liar-608990275597 Morning Joe] (26 January 2016) * But you cannot say anymore that the United States is going to pay for the wall. I am just going to say that we are working it out. Believe it or not, this is the least important thing that we are talking about, but politically this might be the most important talk about. ** [https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/politics/australia-mexico-transcripts/?utm_term=.95d2f93766d6 Full transcripts of Trump's calls with Mexico and Australia By Greg Miller, Julie Vitkovskaya and Reuben Fischer-Baum; Aug. 3, 2017] (Friday, January 27, 2017) * So what I would like to recommend is – if we are going to have continued dialogue – we will work out the wall. They are going to say, "who is going to pay for the wall, Mr. President?" to both of us, and we should both say, "we will work it out." It will work out in the formula somehow. As opposed to you saying, "we will not pay" and me saying, "we will not pay." ** [https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/politics/australia-mexico-transcripts/?utm_term=.95d2f93766d6 Full transcripts of Trump's calls with Mexico and Australia By Greg Miller, Julie Vitkovskaya and Reuben Fischer-Baum; Aug. 3, 2017] (Friday, January 27, 2017) * Up in [[New Hampshire]] – I won New Hampshire because New Hampshire is a drug-infested den – is coming from the southern border. ** Actually, Clinton took NH; [https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/politics/australia-mexico-transcripts/?utm_term=.95d2f93766d6 Full transcripts of Trump's calls with Mexico and Australia By Greg Miller, Julie Vitkovskaya and Reuben Fischer-Baum; Aug. 3, 2017] (Friday, January 27, 2017) =====Speech at {{w|Liberty University}} (18 January 2016)===== : <small>[http://www.c-span.org/video/?403331-1/donald-trump-remarks-liberty-university Presidential Candidate Donald Trump at Liberty University], ''C-SPAN'' (18 January 2016)</small> * We've done great with the evangelicals. The evangelicals have been amazing. The [[Tea Party movement|Tea Party]] has been amazing and we're doing really well. * We're going to protect [[Christianity]], and I can say that. I don't have to be {{w|politically correct}}. We're going to protect it. I hear this is a major theme right here, but [[wikipedia:2 Corinthians 3|two Corinthians, 3]]:17, that's the whole ball game. "''Where the Spirit of the Lord''", right, "''where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is [[liberty]]''", and here there is Liberty College, but Liberty University, but it is so true. You know, when you think -- and that's really -- is that the one? Is that the one you like? I think that's the one you like because I loved it, and it's so representative of what's taken place. But we are going to protect Christianity. And if you look what's going on throughout the world, you look at Syria where if you're Christian, they're chopping off heads. You look at the different places, and [[Christianity]], it's under siege. * I'm a [[Protestantism|protestant]]. I'm very proud of it, [[w:Presbyterian|Presbyterian]] to be exact, but I'm proud of it, very, very proud. And we've got to protect because bad things are happening, very bad things are happening, and we don't -- I don't know what it is. We don't band together, maybe. Other religions, frankly, they're banding together. * This is a movement. It is a movement going on. We want to take our country back. Our country is disappearing. You look at the kind of deals we make. You look at what's happening, our country is going in the wrong direction, and so wrong, and it's got to be stopped and it's got to be stopped fast. * When our sailors were captured last week, I said that's one of the saddest things that I have seen when those young people were on their hands and knees in a begging position with their hands up and thugs behind them with guns, and then we talk like it's OK. It's not OK. It's lack of respect. We can't let that happen to this country. It's lack of respect. * The [[Persian people|Persians]], very good negotiators. Great negotiators, legendary negotiators. They're known for it. They're sitting across the table. * I hate to tell this to the woman, they're behind the fact, they're a little behind the fact. They haven't figured out that women may be in certain ways much better than men. But I don't want to say that because I will get myself in trouble with men. But they haven't figured this out yet but that's OK. * We spent 5 trillion dollars in the Middle East and our country is going to hell. We gotta bring it back. We gotta knock the hell out of ISIS. * I want to see a woman president soon, but not [Hillary Clinton]. She's a disaster. She's a disaster. She's a disaster. I mean, just think of the corruption and the scandal... We don't want to go through it. We want to see winning. We want to see win, win, win – constant winning. And you'll say – if I'm president... 'Please, Mr. President, we're winning too much. We can't stand it anymore. Can't we have a loss?' And I'll say no, we're going to keep winning, winning, winning... because we're going to make America great again. And you'll say, 'Okay, Mr. President. Okay.' =====Speech at {{w|Dordt University}} (23 January 2016)===== *{{anchor|shoot somebody|reason=linked to from w:en:Template:FBDB}}The people, my people, are so smart, and you know what they say about my people? The polls. They say I have the most loyal people — did you ever see that? Where '''I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters'''. It's like incredible. No, they say, "Trump we love you too." Trump's voters are by far, ya know, I'm at sixty-eight and sixty-nine percent, I'm at ninety percent, total, like, "Will you say absolutely?" I think it's sixty-eight and sixty-nine percent. "Will you most likely stay?" That gets into the nineties. Other guys like a ten. A guy like [[Jeb Bush]], he has a nobody, but he's like, they don't have people. They have nothing. Rubio, soft. They're all soft. My people stay, by the way, Cruz, soft. When they heard about this thing with that he was bordering Canada, nobody knew them? He lost a lot of people! He's gone down big in the polls. Ted Cruz has gone down big in the polls. That doesn't mean he's giving us a fight in Iowa, that doesn't mean you can stay home, okay, see, you with the smile? It doesn't mean that. You gotta go out cause we can't take any chances. ** [http://time.com/4191598/donald-trump-says-he-could-shoot-somebody-and-not-lose-voters/ Speech at campaign rally] (23 January 2016), Sioux Center, Iowa. ====February 2016==== * To have a crowd like this on our final day, can you believe it, this is the day. This is the day we take our country back. Remember that. This is the day we take our country back. So I got a little notice in case you see it. It's security guys. We have wonderful security guys. They said, "Mr. Trump, there may be somebody with tomatoes in the audience." So if you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously... Okay? Just knock the hell... I promise you I will pay for the legal fees, I promise. I promise. There won't be so much cause the courts agree with us too. What's going on in this country. ** [https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/trump-knock-the-crap-out-of-tomato-throwers/2016/02/01/1d1fe1e2-c92b-11e5-b9ab-26591104bb19_video.html At a rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.] (1 February 2016) * This has been going if it's not going to happen anymore, folks. We're going to bring businesses back. We're going to have businesses that used to be in [[New Hampshire]], that are now in Mexico, come back to New Hampshire and you can tell them to go f--- themselves...because they let you down, and they left. We want the businesses that stay. I know a lot of businesses up here and I knew a lot of businesses up here. These are great people, they could've left and they wanna stay. They willing to stay, they're fighting to stay. It's hard. With a highest tax nation in the entire world. It's hard for them to stay and they stay. Those are the people we have to cherish and love. These are the people that are great. ** [http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/may/18/priorities-usa-action/priorities-usa-donald-trump-women-ad/ At a rally in New Hampshire.] (4 February 2016) * '''Trump''': No, I didn't use the word. I never said the word, Bill. I don't know who told you -- I would never use the word. I didn't say the word. I said, "you can tell them to go [beat of silence] themselves."<br>'''O'Reilly''': But the lips kind of moved in the --<br>'''Trump''': Well, they might have. No, I didn't say the word. I wouldn't do that. Even I -- hey Bill, even I wouldn't do that, okay. No, I never said the word. ** On an interview on The O'Reilly Factor (6 February 2016) * [[Iraq|It]]'s the Harvard of Terrorists. ** [http://www.rawstory.com/2016/02/watch-as-charlie-rose-forces-trump-to-admit-he-agrees-with-obama-on-syria/ Interview with Charlie Rose] (17 February 2016) * Torture works, okay folks? [...] Believe me, it works. [...] Waterboarding is your minor form. Some people say it's not actually torture. Let's assume it is. But they asked me the question. What do you think of waterboarding? Absolutely fine. But we should go much stronger than waterboarding. That's the way I feel. ** [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-torture-works/ Donald Trump: "Torture works"]. CBS News (17 February 2016). Bluffton, South Carolina. * They were having [[terrorism]] problems, just like we do, and he caught 50 terrorists who did tremendous damage and killed many people. And he took the 50 terrorists, and he took 50 men and he dipped 50 bullets in pigs' blood — you heard that, right? He took 50 bullets, and he dipped them in pigs' blood. And he had his men load his rifles, and he lined up the 50 people, and they shot 49 of those people. And the 50th person, he said: You go back to your people, and you tell them what happened. And for 25 years, there wasn't a problem. Okay? Twenty-five years, there wasn't a problem. ** During a campaign stop in {{w|Pawley's Island, South Carolina}} (February 19, 2016) [http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/450574/donald-trump-tweet-fake-history-libel-war-crime]. Referring to a false story about [[John J. Pershing]] which has circulated on the Internet. * Bye bye. Look, see? He's smiling. See, he's having a good time. Oh, I love the old days, you know? You know what I hate? There's a guy, totally disruptive, throwing punches, we're not allowed to punch back anymore. I love the old days. You know what they used to do to guys like that when they were in a place like this? They'd be carried out on a stretcher, folks. You know, I love our police, and I really respect our police, and they're not getting enough. They're not. Honestly, I hate to see that. Here's a guy, throwing punches, nasty as hell, screaming at everything else when we're talking, and he's walking out, and we're not allowed -- you know, the guards are very gentle with him, he's walking out, like, big high fives, smiling, laughing -- I'd like to punch him in the face, I'll tell you. ** [http://www.weeklystandard.com/protester-would-be-carried-out-on-a-stretcher-in-the-old-days-trump-reminisces/article/2001211 At a rally in Las Vegas] (22 February 2016) * We won with young. We won with old. We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated. '''I love the poorly educated.''' ** [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/donald-trump-declares-i-love-the-poorly-educated-as-he-storms-to-victory-in-nevada-caucus-a6893106.html Donald Trump declares 'I love the poorly educated' as he storms to victory in Nevada caucus], 24 February 2016 * '''Ted Cruz''': Donald, relax.<br>'''Donald Trump''': I'm relaxed. You're the basket case. Go ahead, don't get nervous. ** [http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-wp-blm-carlson-6454d89c-dc90-11e5-8210-f0bd8de915f6-20160226-story.html CNN-Telemundo Republican debate] (25 February 2016) * If and when the Vatican is attacked by Isis, which as everyone knows is Isis’s ultimate trophy, the pope can have only wished and prayed that Donald Trump would have been president because this would not have happened. Isis would have been eradicated unlike what is happening now with our all talk, no action politicians. **As quoted in Ben Jacobs, ''[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/18/donald-trump-pope-francis-christian-wall-mexico-border Donald Trump calls Pope Francis 'disgraceful' for questioning his faith]'', ''The Guardian'' (February 18, 2016) ====March 2016==== * '''Donald Trump''': I think you've become very negative.<br>'''Bill O'Reilly''': Why would I do that?<br>'''Trump''': Who knows. You'll have to ask your psychiatrist. ** [http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/03/donald-trump-bill-oreilly-gop-debate-220241 "Trump to O'Reilly: 'I think you've become very negative'"] by Nick Gass, ''Politico'' (3 March 2016) * '''Bret Baier''': So what would you do as commander in chief if the U.S. military refused to carry out those orders?<br>'''Donald Trump''': They won't refuse. They're not going to refuse me, believe me.<br>'''Baier''': But they're illegal.<br>'''Trump''': Let me just tell you, you look at the Middle East, they're chopping off heads. And now we're talking about waterboarding. We should go for waterboarding, and we should go tougher than waterboarding….<br>And I'm a leader. I'm a leader. I've always been a leader. I've never had any problem leading people. If I say do it, they're going to do it. That's what leadership is all about. ** Fox News Republican debate, {{#formatdate:2016-03-03}}, quoted in [https://www.npr.org/2016/03/04/469149226/trump-attacked-from-all-sides-in-bitter-chaotic-gop-debate Trump Attacked From All Sides In Bitter, Chaotic Debate] ''NPR'' (March 4, 2016) * Look at those hands. Are they small hands? And he referred to my hands — if they're small, something else must be small. I guarantee you there's no problem, I guarantee. ** Fox News Republican debate, {{#formatdate:2016-03-03}}, quoted in {{citation|date=2016-03-04|author=Gregory Krieg|title=Donald Trump defends size of his penis|periodical=CNN|url=https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/03/politics/donald-trump-small-hands-marco-rubio/index.html}} * '''Anderson Cooper''': Is Islam at war with the West?<br>'''Donald Trump''': I think Islam hates us. There is something there, there is a tremendous hatred there, and we have to get to the bottom of it. There is an unbelievable hatred of us.<br>'''Cooper''': In Islam itself?<br>'''Trump''': You're going to have to figure that out, but there is a tremendous hatred and we have to be very vigilant, we have to be very careful and we can't allow people coming into this country who have this hatred of the United States and of people that are not Muslim.<br>'''Cooper''': The question is is there a war between the West and radical Islam or is it between the West and Islam itself?<br>'''Trump''': Well it's radical but it's very hard to define, it's very hard to separate because you don't know who's who. ** 9 March CNN interview, as quoted in [http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/us-election-2016-donald-trump-tells-cnn-tv-interviewer-islam-hates-us-1548760 "US Election 2016: Donald Trump tells CNN TV interviewer 'Islam hates us'"] by Harriet Sinclair, ''International Business Times'' (10 March 2016) * Come on, get 'em out, police, please. Let's go! ... Nobody wants to hurt each other anymore. ** During a St Louis, Mo., rally, as quoted in [https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/get-him-out-racial-tensions-explode-at-donald-trumps-rallies/2016/03/11/b9764884-e6ee-11e5-bc08-3e03a5b41910_story.html "‘Get 'em out!' Racial tensions explode at Donald Trump's rallies"], by Jose A. DelReal, ''The Washington Post'' (12 March 2016), Washington, D.C. * I promise you, I will not be taking very long vacations, if I take them at all. There's no time for vacations. We're not going to be big on vacations. ** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC_3IxKcQIA Hardball with Chris Matthews, August 4, 2017] March 14, 2016 rally *Iran has already, since the deal is in place, test-fired ballistic missiles three times. Those ballistic missiles, with a range of 1,250 miles, were designed to intimidate not only Israel, which is only 600 miles away, but also intended to frighten Europe and someday maybe hit even the United States. And we're not going to let that happen. We're not letting it happen. And we're not letting it happen to Israel, believe me.<br>Thank you. Thank you.<br>Do you want to hear something really shocking? As many of the great people in this room know, painted on those missiles in both Hebrew and Farsi were the words "'''Israel must be wiped off the face of the earth'''." You can forget that.<br>What kind of demented minds write that in Hebrew? **[http://time.com/4267058/donald-trump-aipac-speech-transcript/ 21 March 2016] address to AIPAC (America-Israel Public Affairs Committee) * '''Obama''': But you would rule in the possibility to fight against ISIS.<br>'''Trump''': Well, I'm never gonna rule anything out. And I wouldn't wanna say. Even if I felt -- it wasn't going -- I wouldn't wanna tell you that because, at a minimum, I want them to think maybe that we would use it. ** As part of a conversation with Barack Obama about ruling out the use of nuclear weapons (March 23, 2016) reported [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-open-to-nuclear-retaliation-after-brussels-attack/ 24 March 2016 by CBS] * If Saudi Arabia was without the cloak of American protection, I don't think it would be around. ** Interview on foreign policy given on 25 March 2016, published: [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/27/us/politics/donald-trump-foreign-policy.html ''In Donald Trump's Worldview, America Comes First, and Everybody Else Pays''], ''The New York Times'' (26 March 2016) * Talking about success, most people think success is measured in the form of monetary success. It's not really. I mean to be a successful person is to have a great family, is who loves the family, loves the children and the children love him or her. To me that's a much more successful person than a person that has made a billion dollars or ten billion dollars, and is miserable and doesn't have a good family and nobody likes that person. I think I've seen every type of person there is that God created. **<small>''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xuAO0zKRAk Donald Trump talks about Success and Happiness - Motivational speech held in Wisconsin on March 30, 2016]'', Mike Mohamed on YouTube. (2:37 to 3:05)</small> ====April 2016==== * I can be presidential, but if I was presidential I would only have - about 20% of you would be here because it would be boring as hell. ** At a rally in Superior, Wisconsin (4 April 2016) *''REPORTER: Mr Trump, please be specific and tell us your views on LGBT, how you plan to be inclusive as president. Speak about North Carolina bathroom law in particular.'' <Br>Trump: ''[...]'' One of the best answers I heard was from a commentator yesterday saying "leave it the way it is right now." There have been no-- very few problems. Leave it the way it is. North Carolina, what they're going through, with all of the business that's leaving and all of the strife and... and that's on both sides. You leave it the way it is. There have been very few complaints the way it is. People go, they use the bathroom that they feel is appropriate. There has been so little trouble and the problem with what happened in North Carolina is the strife and the economic- I mean economic punishment that they're taking. *''REPORTER: If [[w:Caitlyn Jenner|Caitlyn Jenner]] were to walk into [[w:Trump Tower|Trump Tower]], and want to use the bathroom, you would be fine with her using any bathroom she chooses?'' <Br>Trump: That is correct. *''On policies on bathroom use for transgender individuals:'' <Br>You know, there's a big move to create new bathrooms. Problem with that, is — for transgender — that would be a, first of all I think that would be discriminatory in a certain way. It would be unbelievably expensive for businesses and for the country. Leave it the way it is. ** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO6MLHLIfdc Donald Trump Town Hall: Abortion Exceptions, Immigration, Raising Taxes (Full) | TODAY] April 21, 2016 * I love working. I'm not a vacation guy. Right? Like Obama, he plays golf in Hawaii. He flies in a 747. ** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC_3IxKcQIA Hardball with Chris Matthews, August 4, 2017] April 21, 2016 rally * If you love what you do, you're happy. You don't take vacations. ** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC_3IxKcQIA Hardball with Chris Matthews, August 4, 2017] April 22, 2016 rally =====Foreign Policy Speech (27 April 2016)===== [[File:Maga.png|thumb|No country has ever prospered that failed to put its own interests first.]] : <small>[http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/28/us/politics/transcript-trump-foreign-policy.html Transcript: Donald Trump's Foreign Policy Speech], ''{{w|The New York Times}}'' (27 April 2016)</small> * It's time to shake the rust off [[Foreign policy of the United States|America's foreign policy]]. * My foreign policy will always put the interests of the American people and American security above all else... That will be the foundation of every single decision that I will make. [[America First (policy)|America First]] will be the major and overriding theme of my administration. * Our foreign policy is a complete and total disaster. No vision. No purpose. No direction. No strategy. * [[Barack Obama|President Obama]] has weakened [[United States Armed Forces|our military]] by weakening our economy. He's crippled us with wasteful spending, massive [[National debt|debt]], low growth, a huge trade deficit and open borders. * Our allies are not paying their fair share... The countries we are defending must pay for the cost of this defense, and if not, the U.S. must be prepared to let these countries defend themselves. We have no choice. * Israel, our great friend and the one true democracy in the Middle East has been snubbed and criticized by an administration that lacks moral clarity... President Obama has not been a friend to Israel. He has treated Iran with tender love and care and made it a great power. * We've let our rivals and challengers think they can get away with anything, and they do... If President Obama's goal had been to weaken America, he could not have done a better job. * We've made the Middle East more unstable and chaotic than ever before. We left Christians subject to intense persecution and even [[genocide]]. We have done nothing to help the Christians, nothing, and we should always be ashamed for that lack of action. * Hillary Clinton refuses to say the words radical Islam, even as she pushes for a massive increase in refugees coming into our country. After Secretary Clinton's failed intervention in Libya, [[wikipedia:2012 Benghazi attack|Islamic terrorists in Benghazi]] took down our consulate and killed our ambassador and three brave Americans. Then, instead of taking charge that night, Hillary Clinton decided to go home and sleep. Incredible. Clinton blames it all on a video, an excuse that was a total lie, proven to be absolutely a total lie. Our ambassador was murdered and our secretary of state misled the nation. * We're also going to have to change our trade, immigration and economic policies to make our economy strong again. And to put Americans first again. This will ensure that our own workers, right here in America, get the jobs and higher pay that will grow our tax revenues, increase our economic might as a nation. * I believe an easing of tensions, and improved relations with Russia from a position of strength only is possible. * Americans must know that we're putting the American people first again on trade, on immigration, on foreign policy. The jobs, incomes and security of the [[Working class in the United States|American worker]] will always be my first priority. No country has ever prospered that failed to put its own interests first. Both our friends and our enemies put their countries above ours and we, while being fair to them, must start doing the same. We will no longer surrender this country or its people to the false song of [[globalism]]. The nation-state remains the true foundation for happiness and harmony. I am skeptical of international unions that tie us up and bring America down, and will never enter America into any agreement that reduces our ability to control our own affairs. ====May 2016==== * We have a 500 billion dollar deficit, trade deficit with China. We're going to turn it around and we have the cards, don't forget, we're like the piggy bank that's being robbed. We have the cards, we have a lot of power with China. When China doesn't want to fix the problem in North Korea we say "Sorry folks, you've got to fix the problem." '''Because we can't continue to allow China to rape [[United States|our country]], and that's what they're doing. It's the greatest theft in the history of the world.''' **[https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-36185275/china-accused-of-trade-rape-by-donald-trump "China accused of trade 'rape' by Donald Trump"] ''BBC'' (2 May 2016) * You've been hearing me say it's a rigged system, but now I don't say it anymore because I won. It's true. Now I don't care. ** [http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-gop-rigged-but-i-dont-care-because-i-won/article/2590545 "Trump: GOP 'rigged,' but I don't care because I won"] by Ryan Lovelace, ''Washington Examiner'' (5 May 2016) ====June 2016==== * It's going to be like this. I'm not changing. ** Answer to the question whether the American public could expect a similar dynamic if he would win the presidential elections, quoted in {{citation |date=2016-06-01 |title=Donald Trump: Questions on money for war veterans |author=Alan Fisher |periodical=Al Jazeera |url=http://www.aljazeera.com/blogs/americas/2016/05/donald-trump-fumes-veterans-money-questions-160531203455389.html}} * '''He's a [[Mexicans|Mexican]]'''. We're building a wall between here and Mexico. ** About American judge Gonzalo Curiel (3 June 2016), as quoted in {{citation |date=2016-06-04 |title=Trump Presses Case That 'Mexican' Judge Curiel Is Biased Against Him |author=Nina Totenberg |periodical=National Public Radio |url=http://www.npr.org/2016/06/04/480714972/trump-presses-case-that-mexican-judge-curiel-is-biased-against-him}} * I'm truly honored by your support. Together, we accomplished what nobody thought was absolutely possible and you know what that is and we're only getting started and it's going to be beautiful, remember that. Tonight we close one chapter in history and we begin another. Our campaign received more primary votes than any GOP campaign in history, no matter who it is, no matter who they are, we received more votes. This is a great feeling. That's a great feeling. This is not a testament to me but a testament to all of the people who believed real change, not Obama change, but real change is possible. You've given me the honor to lead the Republican Party to victory this fall. ** Victory speech after winning New Jersey and other states Tuesday night (7 June 2016) – [http://time.com/4360872/donald-trump-new-jersey-victory-speech-transcript/ ''Time'' transcript] * To those who voted for someone else in either party, I will work hard to earn your support and I will work very hard to earn that support. To all of those [[Bernie Sanders]] voters who have been left out in the cold by a rigged system of super delegates, we welcome you with open arms. And by the way, the terrible trade deals that Bernie was so vehemently against and he's right on that will be taken care of far better than anyone ever thought possible and that's what I do. We are going to have fantastic trade deals. We're going to start making money and bringing in jobs. ** Victory speech after winning New Jersey and other states Tuesday night (7 June 2016) – [http://time.com/4360872/donald-trump-new-jersey-victory-speech-transcript/ ''Time'' transcript] * My goal is always again to bring people together. But if I'm forced to fight for something I really care about, I will never, ever back down and our country will never, ever back down. Thank you. I've fought for my family. I've fought for my business. I've fought for my employees. And now, I'm going to fight for you, the American people like nobody has ever fought before. ** Victory speech after winning New Jersey and other states Tuesday night (7 June 2016) – [http://time.com/4360872/donald-trump-new-jersey-victory-speech-transcript/ ''Time'' transcript] * We're led by [[Barack Obama|a man]] that either is not tough, not smart, or he's got something else in mind. And the something else in mind, you know, people can't believe it, people cannot believe that President Obama is acting the way he acts and can't even mention the words 'radical Islamic terrorism. There's something going on — it's inconceivable. There's something going on. He doesn't get it, or he gets it better than anybody understands. It's one or the other, and either one is unacceptable. ** Phone interview on ''Fox and Friends'', as quoted in {{citation |date=2016-06-13 |title=Trump on Obama and Islam: 'There's something going on' |author=Jesse Byrnes |periodical=The Hill |url=http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/283246-trump-on-obama-and-islam-theres-something-going-on}} * Belgium is a beautiful city. * Belgium is not the Belgium that you and I knew, Matt, from 20 years ago, which was one of the most beautiful cities and one of the safest cities in the world. Belgium is a horror show right now. ** [https://www.thebulletin.be/belgium-beautiful-city-according-donald-trump "Belgium is a “beautiful city”, according to Donald Trump"], ''The Bulletin'' (June 16, 2016) * Look, companies now are leaving the United States. Corporate inversion, they're leaving the United States, we have almost $5 trillion sitting out there, where they can't get the money back, they can't bring it in because there's no mechanism to bring it back in and the tax is so high. I'm going to bring tremendous amounts of money, tremendous amounts of jobs, tremendous numbers of companies, and yes the [[wikipedia:Political positions of Donald Trump#Taxes,_spending,_and_budget|tax is going to be cut]] from the highest tax nation anywhere in the world to a fairly low tax. Not the lowest in the world, but to a fairly low tax. * <p>'''Norah O'Donnell:''' Hillary Clinton called you the king of debt.</p><p>'''Donald Trump:''' Well, no she didn't call me, I called myself the king of debt. '''I'm the king of debt.''' I'm great with debt, nobody knows debt better than me. I made a fortune by using debt. And if things don't work out I renegotiate the debt, I mean that's a smart thing not a stupid thing. And I made a fortune.</p><p>'''O'Donnell:''' How do you renegotiate the debt?</p><p>'''Trump:''' Because you go back and you say, hey, guess what, the economy just crashed, I'm going to give you back half. I like debt for me, I don't like debt for the country. I like debt for my company, but I don't like debt for the country. For the country we have $19 trillion in debt, it's going to be very soon $21 trillion, not billion, $21 trillion in debt. And I will tell you we are sitting on a time bomb and Hillary Clinton doesn't have a clue. And President Obama has pretty much doubled the debt since he's been in office and somebody's going to pay a big price. We have to start chopping that debt down.</p><p>'''O'Donnell:''' [[Janet Yellen]], who you know, the chairman of the [[Federal Reserve System|Federal Reserve]] blasted you for saying that the U.S. could load up on debt and then make a deal with creditors if the [[Economy of the United States|economy]] has soured. She said there would be very severe consequences if an elected president tried to renegotiate the nation's debt.</p><p>'''Trump:''' I wouldn't renegotiate the debt.</p> ** In an interview with ''{{w|CBS This Morning'}}'' {{w|Norah O'Donnell}}, {{#formatdate:2016-06-22}}, quoted in {{citation |date=2016-06-22 |title=CBS' Norah O'Donnell Challenges Trump On His Economic Plan |periodical=Media Matters for America |url=https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/cbs-norah-odonnell-challenges-trump-his-economic-plan}} * Our enemies probably know every single one [of Clinton's deleted emails]. So they probably now have a blackmail file. . . . We can't hand over our government to someone whose deepest, darkest secrets may be in the hands of our enemies. Can't do it." ** speech, {{#formatdate:2016-06-22}}, quoted in {{citation |date=2016-06-22 |title=Nobody brings the crazy quite like Trump |author=Dana Milbank |periodical=Washington Post |url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/nobody-brings-the-crazy-quite-like-trump/2016/06/22/74ba5692-38bd-11e6-9ccd-d6005beac8b3_story.html}} ====July 2016==== * [[Saddam Hussein]] was a bad guy. Right? He was a bad guy, really bad guy. But you know what he did well? He killed terrorists. He did that so good. They didn't read them the rights—they didn't talk, they were a terrorist, it was over. [...] Today, Iraq is Harvard for terrorism. You want to be a terrorist, you go to Iraq. It's like Harvard. Okay? So sad. ** At a campaign rally in Raleigh, North Carolina (July 5, 2016), as cited in [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/07/05/donald-trump-praises-saddam-hussein-for-killing-terrorists-so-good/ "Donald Trump praises Saddam Hussein for killing terrorists ‘so good’"] ''The Washington Post'' (July 5, 2016). ** [[w:Jake Sullivan|Jake Sullivan]], then a policy advisor to Hillary Clinton, stated: "Hussein's regime was a sponsor of terrorism — one that paid families of suicide bombers who attacked Israelis, among other crimes." * I'll stand up for Article Two, Article 12, you name it of the Constitution. ** About the U.S. Constitution, which only has seven articles and 27 amendments; as recounted by [[Mark Sanford]], quoted in [http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/trump-changes-few-minds-with-meeting-on-the-hill "Trump Manages To Give Some House GOPers More Heartburn In Hill Meeting"] (2016), ''Talking Points Memo'' (July 7, 2016). * ''[Interviewer: You're not known to be a humble man. But I wonder—]'' I think I am actually humble. I think I'm much more humble than you would understand. ** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R42mFx3_ss During an interview] by {{WP|Lesley Stahl}} on ''{{WP|60 Minutes}}'' (17 July 2016) * Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. ** Press conference, reported in Ashley Parker and David E. Sanger, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/28/us/politics/donald-trump-russia-clinton-emails.html? Donald Trump Calls on Russia to Find Hillary Clinton's Missing Emails], ''The New York Times'' (July 27, 2016). * Though [[Bernie Sanders|Bernie]] is exhausted and has given up on his [[revolution]], many of his voters still want to keep up the fight. I expect that millions of Bernie voters will refuse to vote for Hillary because of her support for the War in Iraq, the [[2011 Libyan civil war|invasion of Libya]], [[wikipedia:North American Free Trade Agreement|NAFTA]] and [[w:Trans-Pacific Partnership|TPP]], and of course because she is totally bought and sold by [[Special-interest group|special interests]]. She and [[Bill Clinton|her husband]] have been paid millions and millions by [[Multinational corporation|global corporations]] and powerful interests who will control her every decision. She is their puppet, and they pull the strings. We welcome with open arms all voters who want an honest [[Federal government of the United States|government]] and to fix [[Politics of the United States|our rigged system]] so it works for the people. This includes fixing one of Bernie's biggest issues, our terrible trade deals that strip our country of its jobs and wealth. ** ''[http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/07/donald-trump-reddit-ama-ask-me-anything/493361/ How Donald Trump Beat Reddit]'', ''{{w|The Atlantic}}'' (July 28, 2016) * The things that were said about me. … You know what, I wanted to hit a couple of those speakers so hard. ... I was gonna hit one guy in particular, a very little guy. I was gonna hit this guy so hard, his head would spin. He wouldn't know what the hell happened. ** Press conference, reported in Jacob Bogage, "[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/07/29/i-wanted-to-hit-a-couple-of-those-speakers-so-hard-trump-says-of-dem-convention-critics/ ‘I wanted to hit a couple of those speakers so hard', Trump says of Democratic convention]", ''The Washington Post'' (July 29, 2016). * A guy who didn't have the guts to run for president. Little Michael. He doesn't know anything about me. But he never had the guts to run. He probably wished he did but he didn't. He spent millions of dollars on polling but he was missing one thing: guts. Little Michael. ** On [[Michael Bloomberg]]'s speech about Trump. At an interview with ''[[wikipedia:The New York Times|The New York Times'<nowiki/>]]'' [[Maureen Dowd]]. [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/30/opinion/trumps-thunderbolts.html] (July 29, 2016) * Obama gave a good speech but not nearly as good as the press would have you believe. Whether it's good or bad, the press will say it's fantastic. In many ways, I like Obama. It's hard to define. There's something about him I do like. I'm embarrassed to admit it. I give him a lot of credit. It's very unique and very hard to do and I give him tremendous credit. He became a two-term president of the United States. He's got some quality going. ** At an interview with ''[[wikipedia:The New York Times|The New York Times'<nowiki/>]]'' [[Maureen Dowd]]. [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/30/opinion/trumps-thunderbolts.html] (July 29, 2016) * Emails in general are terrible. There's no security. It happens so often. I'm old-fashioned. I put a letter in an envelope and have it hand delivered. My son is 10 years old, and he has grown up [[Computers|computer]] literate. They start using computers before they can walk. His computer was locked and he unlocked it. And I said, ‘[[w:Barron Trump|Barron]], how did you do that?' And he said, ‘I won't tell you, Dad. ** At an interview with ''[[wikipedia:The New York Times|The New York Times'<nowiki/>]]'' [[Maureen Dowd]]. [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/30/opinion/trumps-thunderbolts.html] (July 29, 2016) * Putin said I was a genius. I do say this: Wouldn't it be wonderful if we actually could get along with Russia and China and some other countries that we don't get along with, and then we go out and knock the hell out of ISIS? Wouldn't it be nice if we cleaned that mess up? Wouldn't it be smart? ** At an interview with ''[[wikipedia:The New York Times|The New York Times'<nowiki/>]]'' [[Maureen Dowd]]. [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/30/opinion/trumps-thunderbolts.html] (July 29, 2016) * I think he's a pervert. It's dangerous to allow him on the convention floor. ** About [[Anthony Weiner]] on the {{w|2016 Democratic National Convention}}. At an interview with ''[[wikipedia:The New York Times|The New York Times'<nowiki/>]]'' [[Maureen Dowd]]. [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/30/opinion/trumps-thunderbolts.html] (July 29, 2016) * Captain [[wikipedia:Humayun Khan (soldier)|Humayun Khan]] was a hero to our country and we should honor all who have made the ultimate sacrifice to keep our country safe. The real problem here are the radical Islamic terrorists who killed him, and the efforts of these radicals to enter our country to do us further harm. Given the state of the world today, we have to know everything about those looking to enter our country, and given the state of chaos in some of these countries, that is impossible. While I feel deeply for the loss of his son, Mr. Khan who has never met me, has no right to stand in front of millions of people and claim I have never read the Constitution, (which is false) and say many other inaccurate things. If I become President, I will make America safe again. * Hillary Clinton should be held accountable for her central role in destabilizing the Middle East. She voted to send the United States to war against Iraq, helped lead the disastrous withdrawal of American troops years later that created the vacuum allowing the rise of ISIS, and has never met a [[wikipedia:United States involvement in regime change|regime change]] she didn't like (which have all been disasters) – not to mention her invasion of Libya and her abandonment of American personnel in Benghazi. The loss of these lives in Libya is directly traceable to Clinton, but their families' testimonials were rejected by the media. * Clinton's actions have been reckless and have directly led to the loss of American lives. And her extreme immigration policies, as also laid out by American victims in Cleveland, will cause the preventable deaths of countless more -- while putting all residents, from all places, at greater risk of terrorism. As Bernie Sanders said on numerous occasions, Hillary Clinton suffers from "bad judgement." She is not qualified to serve as Commander in Chief. ** Written statement responding to [[Khizr M. Khan]] [http://web.archive.org/web/20160731082150/https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/setting-the-record-straight] (July 30, 2016) ====={{w|2016 Republican National Convention}} (21 July 2016)===== [[File:Donald Trump 2016 RNC speech (1).jpg|thumb|I have joined the [[political]] arena so that the [[powerful]] can no longer beat up on [[people]] that cannot defend themselves. <br /> Nobody knows the [[system]] better than me, which is why I alone can fix it.]] : <small>[https://www.vox.com/2016/7/21/12253426/donald-trump-acceptance-speech-transcript-republican-nomination-transcript "Full transcript of Donald Trump’s acceptance speech at the RNC", ''Vox'' (22 July 2016)] · [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fs0pZ_GrTy8 "Donald Trump's entire Republican convention speech", ''CNN'' (21 July 2016)] · [http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/full-transcript-donald-trump-nomination-acceptance-speech-at-rnc-225974 Donald Trump 2016 RNC draft speech transcript], ''{{w|Politico}}'' (21 July 2016)</small> * The attacks on our [[Law enforcement in the United States|police]], and the terrorism in our cities, threaten our very way of life. Any politician who does not grasp this danger is not fit to lead our country. * Americans watching this address tonight have seen the recent images of violence in our streets and the chaos in our communities. Many have witnessed this violence personally. Some have even been its victims. <br /> I have a message for all of you: The crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon — and I mean very soon come to an end. Beginning on January 20th 2017, safety will be restored. <br /> The most basic duty of government is to defend the lives of its citizens. Any government that fails to do so is a government unworthy to lead. * It is finally time for a straightforward assessment of the state of our nation. I will present the facts plainly and honestly. We cannot afford to be so politically correct anymore. <br /> So if you want to hear the corporate spin, the carefully-crafted lies, and the media myths — the Democrats are holding their convention next week. Go there. <br /> But here, at our convention, there will be no lies. We will honor the American people with the truth, and nothing else. * Decades of progress made in bringing down crime are now being reversed by this Administration's rollback of criminal enforcement. * America is far less safe – and the world is far less stable – than when Obama made the decision to put Hillary Clinton in charge of America's foreign policy. I am certain it is a decision he truly regrets. Her bad instincts and her bad judgment – something pointed out by Bernie Sanders – are what caused the disasters unfolding today. * This is the legacy of Hillary Clinton: death, destruction and weakness. * The problems we face now – [[Poverty in the United States|poverty]] and violence at home, war and destruction abroad – will last only as long as we continue relying on the same politicians who created them. A change in leadership is required to change these outcomes. * There can be no prosperity without [[wikipedia:Law and order (politics)|law and order]] * Our plan will put America First. [[wikipedia:Americanism (ideology)|Americanism]], not globalism, will be our credo. As long as we are led by politicians who will not put America First, then we can be assured that other nations will not treat America with respect. * Big business, elite media and major donors are lining up behind the campaign of my opponent because they know she will keep our rigged system in place. They are throwing money at her because they have total control over everything she does. She is their puppet, and they pull the strings. That is why Hillary Clinton's message is that things will never change. My message is that things have to change – and they have to change right now. * Every day I wake up determined to deliver for the people I have met all across this nation that have been neglected, ignored, and abandoned. I have visited the laid-off factory workers, and the communities crushed by our horrible and unfair trade deals. These are the forgotten men and women of our country, and they are forgotten, but they're not going to be forgotten long. These are people who work hard but no longer have a voice. I AM YOUR VOICE. * I have no patience for injustice, no tolerance for government incompetence, no sympathy for leaders who fail their citizens. * When innocent people suffer, because our political system lacks the will, or the courage, or the basic decency to enforce our [[Law|laws]] – or worse still, has sold out to some corporate lobbyist for cash – I am not able to look the other way. * When a [[United States Secretary of State|Secretary of State]] illegally stores her emails on a private server, deletes 33,000 of them so the authorities can't see her crime, puts our country at risk, lies about it in every different form and faces no consequence – I know that corruption has reached a level like never before. * I have joined the political arena so that the powerful can no longer beat up on people that cannot defend themselves. '''Nobody knows the system better than me, which is why I alone can fix it'''. <br /> I have seen firsthand how the system is rigged against our citizens, just like it was rigged against Bernie Sanders – he never had a chance. * [[Mike Pence|He]] (Mike Pence) is a man of character and accomplishment. He is the right man for the job. * An attack on law enforcement is an attack on all Americans. I have a message to every last person threatening the peace on our streets and the safety of our police: when I take the oath of office next year, I will restore law and order our country. * In this race for the White House, I am the Law And Order candidate. ... I will work to ensure that all of our kids are treated equally, and protected equally. ** "I am the law-and-order candidate" was a phrase used by [[Richard Nixon]] during his [[w:Richard Nixon 1968 presidential campaign|1968 presidential campaign]]. * Once again, [[France]] is the [[wikipedia:2016 Nice attack|victim of brutal Islamic terrorism]]. Men, women and children viciously mowed down. Lives ruined. Families ripped apart. A nation in mourning. * I will do everything in my power to protect our [[LGBT]] citizens from the violence and oppression of a hateful foreign ideology. * We must work with all of our allies who share our goal of destroying ISIS and stamping out Islamic terror. This includes working with our greatest ally in the region, the State of Israel. * We must immediately suspend immigration from any nation that has been compromised by terrorism until such time as proven vetting mechanisms have been put in place. * I only want to admit individuals into our country who will support our values and love our people. Anyone who endorses violence, hatred or oppression is not welcome in our country and never will be. * Decades of record immigration have produced lower wages and higher unemployment for our citizens, especially for African-American and Latino workers. We are going to have an immigration system that works, but one that works for the American people. * Of all my travels in this country, nothing has affected me more deeply than the time I have spent with the mothers and fathers who have lost their children to violence spilling across our border. * We are going to build a great border wall to stop illegal immigration, to stop the gangs and the violence, and to stop the drugs from pouring into our communities. * We are going to be considerate and compassionate to everyone. But my greatest compassion will be for our own struggling citizens. * I pledge to never sign any trade agreement that hurts our workers, or that diminishes our freedom and independence. Instead, I will make individual deals with individual countries. * No longer will we enter into these massive deals, with many countries, that are thousands of pages long – and which no one from our country even reads or understands. We are going to enforce all trade violations, including through the use of taxes and tariffs, against any country that cheats. * My Dad, {{w|Fred Trump}}, was the smartest and hardest working man I ever knew. * America is a nation of believers, dreamers, and strivers that is being led by a group of censors, critics, and cynics. * All of the people telling you that you can't have the country you want, are the same people telling you that I wouldn't be standing here tonight. No longer can we rely on those elites in media, and politics, who will say anything to keep a rigged system in place. * My opponent asks her supporters to recite a three word loyalty pledge. It reads, "I'm with her." I choose to recite a different pledge. My pledge reads, "I'm with you – the American people." I am your voice. So to every parent who dreams for their child, and every child who dreams for a better future, I say these words to you tonight: I'm with you, and I will fight for you, and I will win for you. To all Americans tonight, in all of our cities and towns, I make this promise: We will make America proud again, we will make America strong again, we will make America safe again, and we will Make America Great Again! God bless you and good night! I love you! ====August 2016==== [[File:Classified documents at Mar-a-Lago bathroom.jpg|thumb|In my administration, I'm going to enforce all [[laws]] concerning the [[protection]] of classified information. No one will be above the law.]] * He’s not going into Ukraine, OK, just so you understand. He’s not going to go into Ukraine, all right? You can mark it down. You can put it down. You can take it anywhere you want. ** Claimed about the Russian president Vladimir Putin after Putin had invaded Crimea, Ukraine and while fighting a war in Donbass, Ukraine, quoted in [https://edition.cnn.com/2016/07/31/politics/donald-trump-russia-ukraine-crimea-putin/index.html "Trump says Putin is ‘not going to go into Ukraine,’ despite Crimea"], ''CNN'' (August 1, 2016) * Don't worry about that baby. I love babies. I hear that baby crying, I like it. What a baby. What a beautiful baby. Don't worry, don't worry. The mom's running around like—don't worry about it, you know. It's young and beautiful and healthy and that's what we want. [...] Actually, I was only kidding, you can get the baby out of here. That's all right. Don't worry. I, I think she really believed me that I love having a baby crying while I'm speaking. That's OK. People don't understand. That's OK. ** [http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/trump-kicks-out-baby-rally-226566 At a rally in Ashburn, Virginia.] (August 2, 2016) * He's a terrible president, he'll probably go down as the worst president in the history of our country, he's been a total disaster. ** On Barack Obama during an interview with [[wikipedia:WJLA-TV|WJLA]]. {{citation |date=2016-08-02 |author=Eric Bradner |title=Trump responds to Obama: 'He's a terrible president' |periodical=CNN |url=http://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/02/politics/donald-trump-obama-election-2016/}} * [[Hillary Clinton|Hillary]] wants to abolish, essentially abolish, the [[Second Amendment to the United States Constitution|second amendment]]. '''If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the second amendment people, maybe there is''', I don't know. But I'll tell you what, that will be a horrible day. ** Rally in [[w:Wilmington, North Carolina|Wilmington, North Carolina]] on August 9, 2016 ({{cite news |title=Donald Trump Suggests ‘Second Amendment People' Could Act Against Hillary Clinton |newspaper=[[w:The New York Times|The New York Times]] |first1=Nick |last1=Corasaniti |authorlink2=w:Maggie Haberman |first2=Maggie |last2=Haberman |date=August 9, 2016 |accessdate=November 15, 2018 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/10/us/politics/donald-trump-hillary-clinton.html}}; {{cite news |title=Donald Trump hints at assassination of Hillary Clinton by gun rights supporters |first=David |last=Smith |date=August 10, 2016 |accessdate=November 15, 2018 |newspaper=[[w:The Guardian|The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/09/trump-gun-owners-clinton-judges-second-amendment}}). * In my administration, I'm going to enforce all laws concerning the protection of classified information. No one will be above the law. ** Statement in a [https://www.c-span.org/video/?414134-1/donald-trump-campaign-rally-charlotte-north-carolina campaign rally in Charlotte, North Carolina (18 August 2016)], as quoted in [https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-classified-above-law/ "Yes, Trump Said 'No One Will Be Above the Law' Regarding Protection of Classified Information" (9 June 2023)] * [[ISIS]] is honoring President Obama. He is the founder of ISIS. He founded ISIS. And I would say the co-founder would be crooked [[Hillary Clinton]]. ** During a Florida rally at the BB&T Center in Sunrise, as quoted in [http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-president-barack-obama-founder-isis/story?id=41286869 "Donald Trump: President Barack Obama 'Is the Founder of ISIS'"] by David Caplan, ''ABC News'' (August 10, 2016) * I will always tell you the truth. ** [https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/8/19/1561877/-Trump-I-will-always-tell-you-the-truth-up-to-30-percent-of-the-time "Trump: “I will always tell you the truth” up to 30 percent of the time"], ''Daily Kos'' (August 19, 2024) * No group in America has been more harmed by Hillary Clinton's policies than African-Americans. If Hillary Clinton's goal was to inflict pain on the African-American community, she could not have done a better job. It's a disgrace. Tonight, I'm asking for the vote of every single African-American citizen in this country who wants to see a better future. The inner cities of our country have been run by the Democratic party for more than fifty years. Their policies have reduced only [[Poverty in the United States|poverty]], joblessness, failing schools and broken homes. It's time to hold Democratic politicians accountable for what they have done to these communities. At what point do we say, "enough?" It's time to hold failed leaders accountable for their results not just their empty words over and over again. Look at what the Democratic party has done to the city as an example and there are many others of Detroit: forty percent of Detroit's residents live in poverty. Half of all Detroit residents do not work and cannot work and can't get a job. Detroit tops the list of most dangerous cities in terms of violent crime. This is the legacy of the Democratic politicians who have run this city. This is the result of the policy agenda embraced by Hillary Clinton: thirty-three thousand emails gone. The only way to change results is to change leadership. We can never fix our problems by relying on the same politicians who created our problems in the first place. A new future requires brand new leadership. Look how much African-American communities suffered under Democratic control. To those I say the following: What do you have to lose by trying something new like Trump. What do you have to lose? I say it again, what do you have to lose. Look, what do you have to lose? You're living your poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs. Fifty-eight percent of your youth is unemployed? What the hell do you have to lose? And at the end of four years, I guarantee you, that I will get over ninety-five percent of the African-American vote. I promise you. ** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5B5m1S5VTA Speech to the African-American community in Dimondale, Michigan] (August 19, 2016) * I'm going to be working for you. I'm not going to have time to go play golf. ** [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/02/13/trump-used-to-have-a-slightly-different-opinion-of-presidents-playing-golf/?utm_term=.d2f026a42e9c Trump used to have a slightly different opinion of presidents playing golf] by Phillip Bump, Washington Post, August 8 Virginia rally (August 20, 2016) * Immigration security, we need to protect American jobs. We need to protect American safety. We're going to build a wall folks, don't worry, we're going to build a wall. That wall will go up so fast, your heads will spin. And you'll say, "you know, know he meant it!" And you know what else I mean? Mexico is going to pay for the wall. ** On immigration at a rally in Akron, Ohio (22 August 2016) * It's our right as a sovereign nation to choose immigrants that we think are the likeliest to thrive and flourish and love us. ** Immigration speech (31 August 2016), quoted in [http://fox59.com/2016/08/31/donald-trump-delivers-immigration-speech-after-meeting-with-mexican-president/ "Donald Trump delivers immigration speech after meeting with Mexican president"] by CNN Wire, ''[[wikipedia:WXIN|Fox 59]]''. * The fundamental problem with the immigration system in our country is that it serves the needs of wealthy donors, political activists and powerful politicians. Let me tell you who it doesn’t serve: it doesn’t serve you, the American people. ** [https://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/donald-trump-immigration-address-transcript-227614 Immigration speech], Arizona (31 August 2016) * When politicians talk about immigration reform, they usually mean the following: amnesty, open borders, and lower wages. Immigration reform should mean something else entirely: it should mean improvements to our laws and policies to make life better for American citizens. But if we are going to make our immigration system work, then we have to be prepared to talk honestly and without fear about these important and sensitive issues. ** [https://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/donald-trump-immigration-address-transcript-227614 Immigration speech], Arizona (31 August 2016) * To all the politicians, donors and special interests, hear these words from me today: there is only one core issue in the immigration debate and it is this: the well-being of the American people. Nothing even comes a close second. ** [https://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/donald-trump-immigration-address-transcript-227614 Immigration speech], Arizona (31 August 2016) * You’re stealing my money! You’re stealing my fucking money! What the fuck is this? Why are you letting him steal my fucking money?<br>Fuck the law. I don’t give a fuck about the law. I want my fucking money. **??? when informed he was required to fund a transition. [https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/sep/27/this-guy-doesnt-know-anything-the-inside-story-of-trumps-shambolic-transition-team 27 September 2018 article in The Guardian by Michael Lewis ] =====Speech in Jackson, Mississippi (August 24, 2016)===== <small>Speech in {{w|Jackson, Mississippi}}. As quoted by ''{{w|CBS}}'' and ''{{w|The Hindu}}'' [http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/08/24/trump-clinton-bigot/][http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/republican-presidential-candidate-donald-trump-speaks-at-an-election-rally-in-mississippi/article9031151.ece] (August 24, 2016)</small> * '''Hillary Clinton is a bigot who sees people of color only as votes, not as human beings worthy of a better future.''' She's going to do nothing for African-Americans. She's going to do nothing for the Hispanics. She's only going to take care of herself, her consultants, her donors, these are the people she cares about. She doesn't care what her policies have done to your communities. She doesn't care. Remember this, you've had her policies — Democrats running some of the inner cities for 50, 70, 80, even over 100 years. And look what you have right now: poverty, no education, crime, you can't walk down the street with your child. We're going to fix it. Hillary Clinton has no remorse. I will fight to create a better future for every American. * Eight years of Obama-Clinton policies have sacrificed our safety and undermined our freedom and independence. ... The Obama-Clinton foreign policy has unleashed ISIS, destabilised the Middle East and put the nation of Iran — which chants [[Death to America]] — in a dominant position of regional power and, in fact, aspiring to be a dominant world power. * Our jobs have moved overseas, Islamic terrorism has spread within our shores and an open border has crushed low-income workers and threatened our security. The issues we face here in America are similar to the issues faced in Britain during their referendum on membership in the EU. This is the movement known as Brexit * Hillary wants to surrender America to globalism. She wants a country without borders. She wants trade deals written for the benefit of foreign corporations. She wants a government that ignores the will of the people. She wants to sell out American security to the Clinton Foundation for a pile of cash. It is hard to tell where the Clinton Foundation ends and the [[United States Department of State|State Department]] begins. ... Hillary Clinton has betrayed her duty to the people. * The job of a public official is to serve and protect the citizens of the United States. Not illegal immigrants, not foreign nationals seeking entry, but the people living here lawfully today — including millions of African-American and Hispanic citizens. * I will fight for their security, I will fight for their jobs, I will fight for their families. One American Nation. * It's time for America to recapture its destiny. Our government, our leaders, and our media have lost touch with the people. You need no better evidence of that than the fact that the media ignores the plight of Americans who have lost their children to illegal immigrants, but spends day after day pushing for amnesty for those here in violation of the law. * This is the legacy of Hillary Clinton: death, destruction, terrorism and weakness. But Hillary Clinton's legacy doesn't have to be America's legacy. * I have a message for the terrorists trying to kill our citizens: we will find you, we will destroy you, and we will win. This is not only a military fight, but we will also require cyberwarfare and financial warfare. It is also an ideological fight. We will confront directly the hateful ideology of Radical Islam — and promote American values, and American culture, and America's system of government. ====September 2016==== * We can't have someone in the Oval Office who doesn't understand the meaning of the word "confidential" or "classified". ** [http://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/15/politics/donald-trump-classified-information/ Trump campaign speech in Greenville, North Carolina] (6 September 2016) * For the first time in a long while, [[Hillary Clinton|her]] true feelings came out, showing bigotry and hatred for millions of Americans. How can she be President of our country when she has such contempt and disdain for so many great Americans? ** {{cite news |title=Clinton walks back 'deplorables' comment: I 'regret' using the term to describe 'half' of Trump's supporters |first=Beremy |last=Berke |work=[[w:Business Insider|Business Insider]] |date=10 September 2016 |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/clinton-regrets-deplorables-comment-2016-9/}} * While my opponent slanders you as deplorable... I call you hard-working, American patriots. ** [https://www.c-span.org/video/?415085-1/donald-trump-campaigns-ashville-north-carolina Donald Trump Campaign Rally in Ashville, North Carolina], ''C-SPAN.org'' (12 September 2016). *OK, what I do is, wash it with Head and Shoulders. I don't dry it, though. I let it dry by itself. It takes about an hour. Then I read papers and things…I also watch TV…OK, so I've done all that. I then comb my hair. Yes, I do use a comb…<br>Do I comb it forward? No, I don't comb it forward…I actually don't have a bad hairline. When you think about it, it's not bad. I mean, I get a lot of credit for comb-overs. But it's not really a comb-over. It's sort of a little bit forward and back. I've combed it the same way for years. Same thing, every time. **[https://www.newsmax.com/thewire/jimmy-fallon-donald-trump-mess-up-hair/2016/09/16/id/748677/ 15 September 2016 to Jimmy Fallon] * Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy. I finished it. I finished it. You know what I mean. President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period. Now we all want to get back to making America strong and great again. ** {{cite news |title=Trump finally says Obama born in U.S., blames Clinton for controversy |work=USA Today |date=16 September 2016 |url=http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/2016/09/16/donald-trump-barack-obama-hillary-clinton-presidential-campaign-birtherism/90471868/}} ** [[wikipedia:Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories|Conspiracy theories about Barack Obama's citizenship]] were not started by Hillary Clinton's 2008 campaign according to ''[http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/sep/16/donald-trump/fact-checking-donald-trumps-claim-hillary-clinton-/ PolitiFact.com]'', and Trump continued to question Obama's citizenship for years after he released his long-form birth certificate in 2011[http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/sep/16/donald-trump/donald-trumps-pants-fire-claim-he-finished-obama-b/]. * People don't know how great you are. People don't know how smart you are. These are the smart people. These are the smart people. These are really the smart people. And they never like to say it, but I say it. And I'm a smart person. These are the smart. We have the smartest people. We have the smartest people. And they know it. Some say it, but they hate to say it. But we have the smartest people. ** Council Bluffs, Iowa, quoted in {{citation |date=2016-09-29 |title=Donald Trump's Bizarre Speech: 'You Are The Smartest People' |periodical=Leading Britain's Conversation |url=https://www.lbc.co.uk/politics/us-election/donald-trump/donald-trumps-bizarre-speech-smartest-people/}} * On the question if he would honor the results of the election should he lose:<br>"We're going to have to see. We're going to see what happens. We're going to have to see." ** [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/01/us/politics/donald-trump-interview-bill-hillary-clinton.html?_r=0 In an interview with the New York Times]; [http://www.nbcnews.com/card/trump-appears-back-pledge-support-clinton-if-she-wins-n657866 Trump Appears to Back Off Pledge to Support Clinton If She Wins], NBC News (30 September 2016) =====First presidential debate (September 26, 2016)===== <small>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/09/26/the-first-trump-clinton-presidential-debate-transcript-annotated/#annotations:10505575 Transcript], ''{{w|Washington Post}}''</small> * Our jobs are fleeing the country. They're going to Mexico. They're going to many other countries. You look at what China is doing to our country in terms of making our product. They're devaluing their currency, and there's nobody in our government to fight them. And we have a very good fight. And we have a winning fight. Because they're using our country as a piggy bank to rebuild China, and many other countries are doing the same thing. ... We have to stop our jobs from being stolen from us. We have to stop our companies from leaving the United States and, with it, firing all of their people. ... We cannot let it happen. Under my plan, I'll be reducing taxes tremendously, from 35 percent to 15 percent for companies, small and big businesses. That's going to be a job creator like we haven't seen since [[Ronald Reagan]]. It's going to be a beautiful thing to watch. Companies will come. They will build. They will expand. New companies will start. And I look very, very much forward to doing it. We have to renegotiate our trade deals, and we have to stop these countries from stealing our companies and our jobs. * Our country's in deep trouble. We don't know what we're doing when it comes to devaluations and all of these countries all over the world, especially China. They're the best, the best ever at it. What they're doing to us is a very, very sad thing. * But in all fairness to Secretary Clinton, when she started talking about this, it was really very recently. She's been doing this for 30 years. And why hasn't she made the agreements better? The NAFTA agreement is defective. Just because of the tax and many other reasons, but just because of the fact Secretary Clinton and others, politicians, should have been doing this for years, not right now, because of the fact that we've created a movement. * The first thing you do is don't let the jobs leave. The companies are leaving. I could name, I mean, there are thousands of them. They're leaving, and they're leaving in bigger numbers than ever. And what you do is you say, fine, you want to go to Mexico or some other country, good luck. We wish you a lot of luck. But if you think you're going to make your air conditioners or your cars or your cookies or whatever you make and bring them into our country without a tax, you're wrong. And once you say you're going to have to tax them coming in, and our politicians never do this, because they have special interests and the special interests want those companies to leave, because in many cases, they own the companies. So what I'm saying is, we can stop them from leaving. We have to stop them from leaving. And that's a big, big factor. * '''CLINTON''': Donald was one of the people who rooted for the [[wikipedia:United States housing bubble|housing crisis]]. He said, back in 2006, "Gee, I hope it does collapse, because then I can go in and buy some and make some money." Well, it did collapse. : '''TRUMP''': That's called business, by the way. * We invested in a solar company, our country. That was a disaster. They lost plenty of money on that one. Now, look, I'm a great believer in all forms of [[energy]], but we're putting a lot of people out of work. Our energy policies are a disaster. Our country is losing so much in terms of energy, in terms of paying off our debt. You can't do what you're looking to do with $20 trillion in debt. The Obama administration, from the time they've come in, is over 230 years' worth of debt, and he's topped it. He's doubled it in a course of almost eight years, seven-and-a-half years, to be semi- exact. * We have to do a much better job at giving companies incentives to build new companies or to expand, because they're not doing it. * NAFTA is the worst trade deal maybe ever signed anywhere, but certainly ever signed in this country. And now you [Hillary Clinton] [[wikipedia:Political positions of Hillary Clinton#Trans-Pacific_Partnership|want to approve Trans-Pacific Partnership]]. You were totally in favor of it. Then you heard what I was saying, how bad it is, and you said, I can't win that debate. But you know that if you did win, you would approve that, and that will be almost as bad as NAFTA. Nothing will ever top NAFTA. * You are going to approve one of the [[wikipedia:Political positions of Hillary Clinton#Fiscal_policy_and_taxation|biggest tax cuts in history]]. You are going to approve one of the biggest tax increases in history. You are going to drive business out. Your regulations are a disaster, and you're going to increase regulations all over the place. And by the way, my tax cut is the biggest since [[wikipedia:Reaganomics|Ronald Reagan]]. I'm very proud of it. It will create tremendous numbers of new jobs. But regulations, you are going to regulate these businesses out of existence. ... The things that business as in people like the most is the fact that I'm cutting regulation. You have regulations on top of regulations, and new companies cannot form and old companies are going out of business. And you want to increase the regulations and make them even worse. I'm going to cut regulations. I'm going to cut taxes big league, and you're going to raise taxes big league, end of story. * She's telling us how to fight ISIS. Just go to her website. She tells you how to fight ISIS on her website. I don't think General [[Douglas MacArthur]] would like that too much. ... See, you're telling the enemy everything you want to do. No wonder you've been fighting ISIS your entire adult life. * I'm really calling for major jobs, because the wealthy are going create tremendous jobs. They're going to expand their companies. They're going to do a tremendous job. I'm getting rid of the carried interest provision. And if you really look, it's not a tax -- it's really not a great thing for the wealthy. It's a great thing for the middle class. It's a great thing for companies to expand. * We have the worst revival of an economy since the [[Great Depression]]. And believe me: '''We're in a bubble right now. And the only thing that looks good is the [[stock market]], but if you raise [[interest]] rates even a little bit, that's going to come [[Stock market crash|crashing down]].''' * I will release them as soon as the [[Auditor|audit]]. Look, I've been under audit almost for 15 years. I know a lot of wealthy people that have never been audited. I said, do you get audited? I get audited almost every year. And in a way, I should be complaining. I'm not even complaining. I don't mind it. It's almost become a way of life. I get audited by the [[IRS]]. But other people don't. I will say this. We have a situation in this country that has to be taken care of. I will release my tax returns -- against my lawyer's wishes -- when she [Hillary Clinton] releases her 33,000 e-mails that have been deleted. As soon as she releases them, I will release. ** About releasing his tax returns. * That makes me smart. ** About that Trump didn't pay [[wikipedia:Income tax in the United States|federal income taxes]]. * That was more than a mistake. That was done purposely. OK? That was not a mistake. That was done purposely. When you have your staff taking the [[Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Fifth Amendment]], taking the Fifth so they're not prosecuted, when you have the man that set up the illegal server taking the Fifth, I think it's disgraceful. ** About {{w|Hillary Clinton email controversy}} * As far as my tax returns, you don't learn that much from tax returns. That I can tell you. You learn a lot from financial disclosure. And you should go down and take a look at that. * I am very under[[wiktionary:leverage|leveraged]]. I have a great company. I have a tremendous income. And the reason I say that is not in a braggadocios way. It's because it's about time that this country had somebody running it that has an idea about money. * Maybe he didn't do a good job and I was unsatisfied with his work ... On occasion, four times, we used certain laws that are there. And when Secretary Clinton talks about people that didn't get paid, first of all, they did get paid a lot, but taken advantage of the laws of the nation. Now, if you want to change the laws, you've been there a long time, change the laws. But I take advantage of the laws of the nation because I'm running a company. My obligation right now is to do well for myself, my family, my employees, for my companies. And that's what I do. ... She [Hillary Clinton] doesn't say is that tens of thousands of people that are unbelievably happy and that love me. ** About not having paid to some of his employees. * We need law and order. If we don't have it, we're not going to have a country. ... We need law and order in our country. * We have a situation where we have our inner cities, [[African American|African- Americans]], [[w:Hispanic American|Hispanics]] are living in hell because it's so dangerous. You walk down the street, you get shot. * Now, whether or not in a place like Chicago you do [[wikipedia:Frisking|stop and frisk]], which worked very well, [[Rudy Giuliani|Mayor Giuliani]] is here, [[wikipedia:Stop-and-frisk in New York City|worked very well in New York]]. It brought the crime rate way down. But you take the gun away from criminals that shouldn't be having it. We have [[wikipedia:Gangs in the United States|gangs roaming the street]]. And in many cases, they're illegally here, [[illegal immigrants]]. And they have guns. And they shoot people. And we have to be very strong. And we have to be very vigilant. * Our police, in many cases, are afraid to do anything. We have to protect our inner cities, because African-American communities are being decimated by crime, decimated. * '''HOLT''': Stop-and-frisk was ruled unconstitutional in New York, because it largely singled out black and Hispanic young men. : '''TRUMP''': No, you're wrong. It went before a judge, who was a very against-police judge. It was taken away from her. And our mayor, our new mayor, refused to go forward with the case. They would have won an appeal. If you look at it, throughout the country, there are many places where it's allowed. : '''HOLT''': The argument is that it's a form of racial profiling. : '''TRUMP''': No, the argument is that we have to take the guns away from these people that have them and they are bad people that shouldn't have them. * You need more police. You need a better community, you know, relation. ... You need better relationships between the communities and the police, because in some cases, it's not good. * So when you [Hillary Clinton] tried to act holier than thou, it really doesn't work. It really doesn't. * We should be better than anybody else, and perhaps we're not. I don't think anybody knows it was Russia that [[wikipedia:Democratic National Committee cyber attacks|broke into the DNC]]. She's saying Russia, Russia, Russia, but I don't -- maybe it was. I mean, it could be Russia, but it could also be China. It could also be lots of other people. It also could be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds, OK? * We have to get very, very tough on cyber and cyber warfare. * President Obama and Secretary Clinton created a vacuum the way they got [[wikipedia:Withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq|out of Iraq]], because they got out -- what, they shouldn't have been in, but once they got in, the way they got out was a disaster. And ISIS was formed. * I said it to you once, had we taken the [[oil]] -- and we should have taken the oil -- ISIS would not have been able to form either, because the [[wikipedia:Oil production and smuggling in ISIL|oil was their primary source of income]]. And now they have the oil all over the place, including the oil -- a lot of the oil in Libya, which was another one of her disasters. * You [Hillary Clinton] look at the Middle East, you started the Iran deal, that's another beauty where you have a country that was ready to fall, I mean, they were doing so badly. They were choking on the sanctions. And now they're going to be actually probably a major power at some point pretty soon, the way they're going. * I think we have to get [[NATO]] to go into the Middle East with us, in addition to surrounding nations, and we have to knock the hell out of ISIS, and we have to do it fast, when ISIS formed in this vacuum created by Barack Obama and Secretary Clinton. And believe me, you were the ones that took out the troops. ... When they formed, this is something that never should have happened. It should have never happened. Now, you're talking about taking out ISIS. But you were there, and you were secretary of state when it was a little infant. Now it's in over 30 countries. And you're going to stop them? I don't think so. * I think the best person in her [Clinton's] campaign is mainstream media. * The single greatest problem the world has is nuclear armament, nuclear weapons, not global warming, like you think and your -- your president thinks. ====October 2016==== * I'd never withdraw. I've never withdrawn in my life. ** [https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/amid-growing-calls-to-drop-out-trump-vows-to-never-withdraw/2016/10/08/8c0b5b7a-8d68-11e6-bff0-d53f592f176e_story.html?postshare=8561475940907652&tid=ss_tw phone call to the Washington Post] (8 October 2016) * So important that you get out and vote. So important that you watch other communities, because we don't want this election stolen from us. We don't want this election stolen from us. ** [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/10/11/donald-trump-unplugged-as-ever/ Transcript of speech] at [[wikipedia:Ambridge, Pennsylvania|Ambridge, Pennsylvania]] (October 10, 2016) * '''Donald Trump''': Now, he's supposed to look like Donald Trump, but he's actually much too good looking. ''[to toddler]'' You are really handsome... Do you want to go back to [your parents] or do you want to stay with Donald Trump?<br>'''Toddler''': Trump. ** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snou8qrElnM Little Trump Look-Alike Comes on Stage with Donald in Wilkes-Barre 10/10/16], [[wikipedia:Right Side Broadcasting Network|Right Side Broadcasting]], ''YouTube''. Quoted in [http://people.com/politics/donald-trump-meets-his-mini-me-at-pennsylvania-rally/ "Donald Trump Meets His Mini-Me at Pennsylvania Rally"] by Dave Quinn, ''People.com'' (October 11, 2016). * Hillary Clinton meets in secret with international banks to plot the destruction of U.S. sovereignty in order to enrich these global financial powers, her special interest friends and her donors. * Honestly, she should be locked up. She should be. Should be locked up. ** [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/14/us/politics/trump-comments-linked-to-antisemitism.html at a rally in West Palm Beach, Florida] (October 13, 2016) * She [Clinton] walks in front of me, she walks in front of me, you know. And when she walked in front of me, believe me I wasn't impressed. * Reporters at [[The New York Times]] are not journalists. They're corporate lobbyists for [[Carlos Slim Helú|Carlos Slim]] and Hillary Clinton. * Believe me: She [one of the women accusing him of sexual assault] would not be my first choice, that I can tell you. ** [http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/14/politics/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-appearance-debate/ at a rally in Greensboro, N.C.] Also quoted in [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/15/us/politics/trump-speech-highlights.html Donald Trump's Barrage of Heated Rhetoric Has Little Precedent] (October 14, 2016) * Our movement is about replacing a failed and corrupt - and when I say corrupt, I'm talking about totally corrupt - political establishment [Obamacare] with a new government controlled by you, the American people. There is nothing the political establishment will not do. No lie that they won't tell to hold their prestige and power at your expense and that's what's been happening. The Washington establishment and the financial and media corporations that funded exist for only one reason: to protect and enrich itself. The establishment has trillions of dollars at stake in this election. As an example, just one single trade deal they'd like to pass involves trillions of dollars controlled by many countries, corporations, and lobbyists. For those who controlled the levels of power in Washington, and for the global special interests, they partner with these people that don't have your good in mind. Our campaign represents a true existential threat like they haven't seen before. ** At a campaign rally in Florida (13 October 2016) * No, no, lot of things are going on folks, lot of things. I think she's actually getting pumped up, if you want to know the truth, she's getting pumped up, you understand? In fact we're going to be talking about that in a few minutes. She's getting pumped up for Wednesday night. Let's see. You know, I don't know, maybe, we're like athletes, right? Hey, look, I beat seventeen senators, governors, I beat all these people, we're like athletes. Hillary beat Bernie, although it looks like Bernie got a little bit of a bad deal based on Wikileaks, right? If you look at Wikileaks. But we're like athletes, right? So athletes, they're making them more and more, but athletes, they make them take a drug test, right? I think we should take a drug test prior to the debate, I do. I think we should, why don't we do that? We should take a drug test, prior, because I don't know what's going on with her. But at the beginning of her last debate, she was all pumped up at the beginning, and at the end it was like, "Uh, take me down." She could barely reach her car. So I think we should take a drug test, I'm, er, anyway I'm willing to do it. ** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mE7YkeasOA At a rally in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, about his rival Hillary Clinton's performance during the presidential debates] (15 October 2016) * Such a nasty woman. [of Hillary Clinton] ** Third Presidential debate (19 October 2016), [http://fortune.com/2016/10/19/presidential-debate-third-transcript/ full transcript] at ''[[wikipedia:Fortune (magazine)|fortune.com]]''. * I would like to promise and pledge to all of my voters and supporters and to all of the people of the United States that I will totally accept the results of this great and historic presidential election, ''if I win''. ** 20 October 2016, quoted in {{citation |date=2016-10-20 |title=Donald Trump: 'I will totally accept' election results 'if I win' |author=Jeremy Diamond |periodical=CNN |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2016/10/20/politics/donald-trump-i-will-totally-accept-election-results-if-i-win/index.html}} * These events give not only the candidates a chance to be with each other in a very social setting; it also allows the candidates the opportunity to meet the other candidate's team — good team. I know Hillary met my campaign manager, and I got the chance to meet the people who are working so hard to get her elected. There they are — the heads of NBC, CNN, CBS, ABC — there's the New York Times, right over there, and the Washington Post. They're working overtime. True. True. Oh, this one’s going to get me in trouble. ** Al Smith charity dinner speech, 20 October 2016 *Hillary is so corrupt, she got kicked off the Watergate commission. **Al Smith charity dinner speech, [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2016-37724391 20 October 2016] * I'm going to fight for every American in every last part of this nation. We have a president who doesn't fight. He goes out and plays golf all the time. ** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC_3IxKcQIA Hardball with Chris Matthews, August 4, 2017] October 23 rally *She didn't know what to do, well how did you get him, uh well uh... they were sent by Russia! You know they're always using Russia **[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smKITCJJMnc&t=18m30s October 25, 2016 rally in Sanford] regarding [[Donna Brazile]] * And I have to give the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] credit, that was so bad, what happened, originally, and it took guts for [[James Comey|Director Comey]] to make the move that he made, in light of the kind of opposition he had, with their trying to protect her from criminal prosecution, you know that. It took a lot of guts, I really disagreed with him, I was not his fan, but I'll tell you what, what he did, he brought back his reputation, he brought it back. He's got to hang tough, because there's a lot of, lotta people, want him to do the wrong thing, what he did was the right thing. ** [http://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2016/10/31/donald-trump-james-comey-has-guts-grand-rapids-sot.cnn At a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan] shortly after Comey announced the FBI would investigate further emails relating to Hillary Clinton, but before his statement that no incriminating information was found within them (31 October 2016) =====Second presidential debate (October 9, 2016)===== <small>[http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/10/us/politics/transcript-second-debate.html Transcript], ''{{w|New York Times}}''</small> * '''[[Anderson Cooper]]''': You bragged that you have [[Sexual assault|sexually assaulted]] women. Do you understand that?<br>'''Donald Trump''': No, I didn't say that at all. I don't think you understood what was — this was locker room talk. * I have great respect for women. Nobody has more respect for women than I do. * ...if I win, I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your [Hilary Clinton's] situation, because there has never been so many lies, so much deception. There has never been anything like it, and we're going to have a special prosecutor. * '''Hillary Clinton''': ...it's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country.<br>'''Donald Trump''': Because you'd be in jail. * '''Cooper''': Please allow her to respond. She didn't talk while you talked.<br>'''Clinton''': Yes, that's true, I didn't.<br>'''Trump''': Because you have nothing to say. * '''[[wikipedia:Martha Raddatz|Martha Raddatz]]''': ...you, Secretary Clinton, purportedly say you need both a public and private position on certain issues....<br>'''Clinton''': As I recall, that was something I said about [[Abraham Lincoln]] after having seen [[Lincoln (2012 film)|the wonderful Steven Spielberg movie]] ...<br>'''Trump''': Now she's blaming the lie on the late, great Abraham Lincoln. That's one that I haven't... OK, Honest Abe, Honest Abe never lied. That's the good thing. That's the big difference between Abraham Lincoln and you. That's a big, big difference. We're talking about some difference. * I know nothing about Russia. I know — I know about Russia, but I know nothing about the inner workings of Russia. * '''Cooper''': Did you use that $916 million loss to avoid paying personal federal income taxes for years?<br>'''Trump''': Of course I do. Of course I do. And so do all of her donors, or most of her donors. ... I pay tremendous numbers of taxes. I absolutely used it. And so did Warren Buffett and so did George Soros and so did many of the other people that Hillary is getting money from. * ...NAFTA, signed by her husband, is perhaps the greatest disaster trade deal in the history of the world. ====November 2016==== * I'm also honored to have the greatest temperament that anybody has. ** Quoted by {{citation | author=Sam Stein | date=2016-11-03 |title=Donald Trump Is Honored To Have The Greatest Temperament, Donald Trump Says | periodical=Huffington Post | url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-temperament_n_581b75d3e4b0b8e11a135eac}} * Our movement is about replacing a failed and corrupt political establishment with a new government controlled by you, the American people. The establishment has trillions of dollars at stake in this election. For those who control the levers of power in Washington and for the global special interests, they partner with these people that don't have your good in mind. The political establishment that is trying to stop us is the same group responsible for our disastrous trade deals, massive illegal immigration and economic and foreign policies that have bled our country dry. The political establishment has brought about the destruction of our factories and our jobs as they flee to Mexico, China and other countries all around the world. It's a global power structure that is responsible for the economic decisions that have robbed our working class, stripped our country of its wealth and put that money into the pockets of a handful of large corporations and political entities. The only thing that can stop this corrupt machine is you. The only force strong enough to save our country is us. The only people brave enough to vote out this corrupt establishment is you, the American people. I'm doing this for the people and the movement and we will take back this country for you and we will make America great again. I'm Donald Trump and I approve this message. ** Closing argument for America (4 November 2016) *** Lines recycled from Trump's campaign rally in West Palm Beach, FL (10/13/2016) * No dream is too big, no challenge is too great. Nothing we want for our future is beyond our reach. America will no longer settle for anything less than the best. ** [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/10/us/politics/trump-speech-transcript.html Victory Speech] (9 November 2016) * I think I'm a sober person. I think the press tries to make you into something a little bit different. In my case, a little bit of a wild man, I'm not, I'm actually not. I'm a very sober person. ** During an interview on 60 Minutes (11 November 2016) =====''New York Times'' Interview (November 23, 2016)===== : <small>''{{w|New York Times}}'' Interview, [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/23/us/politics/trump-new-york-times-interview-transcript.html?smid=tw-share Transcript] (November 23, 2016)</small> * People are giving up tremendous careers in order to be subject to you folks and subject to a lot of other folks. But they're giving up a lot. I mean some are giving up tremendous businesses in order to sit for four or maybe eight or whatever the period of time is. But I think we're going to see some tremendous talent, tremendous talent coming in. We have many people for every job. I mean no matter what the job is, we have many incredible people. I think, [[wikipedia:Reince Priebus|Reince]], you can sort of just confirm that. The quality of the people is very good. ... We're trying very hard to get the best people. Not necessarily people that will be the most politically correct people, because that hasn't been working. So we have really experts in the field. Some are known and some are not known, but they're known within their field as being the best. That's very important to me. * I think the popular vote would have been easier in a true sense because you'd go to a few places. I think that's the genius of the [[w:United States Electoral College|Electoral College]]. I was never a fan of the Electoral College until now. * What we do want to do is we want to bring the country together, because the country is very, very divided, and that's one thing I did see, big league. It's very, very divided, and I'm going to work very hard to bring the country together. * I want to move forward, I don't want to move back. And I don't want to hurt the Clintons. I really don't. She went through a lot. And suffered greatly in many different ways. And I am not looking to hurt them at all. The campaign was vicious. They say it was the most vicious primary and the most vicious campaign. I guess, added together, it was definitely the most vicious; probably, I assume you sold a lot of newspapers. ... It's just not something that I feel very strongly about. ... I'm not looking to look back and go through this. This was a very painful period. This was a very painful election with all of the email things and all of the foundation things and all of the everything that they went through and the whole country went through. This was a very painful period of time. ** About not prosecuting Hillary Clinton. * Our country's really in bad, big trouble. We have a lot of trouble. A lot of problems. And one of the big problems, I talk about, [[divisiveness]]. I think that a lot of people will appreciate … I'm not doing it for that reason. I'm doing it because it's time to go in a different direction. * '''Clean air is vitally important. Clean water, crystal clean water is vitally important. Safety is vitally important.''' * Sometimes I'll say I'm actually an [[environmentalist]] and people will smile in some cases and other people that know me understand that's true. Open mind. * We're not a competitive nation with other nations anymore. We have to make ourselves competitive. We're not competitive for a lot of reasons. That's becoming more and more of the reason. Because a lot of these countries that we do business with, they make deals with our president, or whoever, and then they don't adhere to the deals, you know that. And it's much less expensive for their companies to produce products. So I'm going to be studying that very hard, and I think I have a very big voice in it. And I think my voice is listened to, especially by people that don't believe in it. And we'll let you know. * As far as the, you know, potential conflict of interests, though, I mean I know that from the standpoint, the law is totally on my side, meaning, the president can't have a conflict of interest. That's been reported very widely. Despite that, I don't want there to be a conflict of interest anyway. And the laws, the president can't. And I understand why the president can't have a conflict of interest now because everything a president does in some ways is like a conflict of interest. * I don't care about my company. ... Because it doesn't matter. The only thing that matters to me is running our country. * It's hard to explain. I don't care about anything having to do with anything having to do with anything other than the country. * In theory I could run my business perfectly, and then run the country perfectly. And there's never been a case like this where somebody's had, like, if you look at other people of wealth, they didn't have this kind of asset and this kind of wealth, frankly. It's just a different thing. * I've known [[Steve Bannon]] a long time. If I thought he was a [[Racism in the United States|racist]], or [[alt-right]], or any of the things that we can, you know, the terms we can use, I wouldn't even think about hiring him. First of all, I'm the one that makes the decision, not Steve Bannon or anybody else. * To me more important is taking care of the people that really have proven to be, to love Donald Trump, as opposed to the political people. And frankly if the political people don't take care of these people, they're not going to win and you're going to end up with maybe a total different kind of government than what you're looking at right now. These people are really angry. They're smart, they're workers, and they're angry. I call them the forgotten men and women. And I use that in speeches, I say they're the forgotten people — they were totally forgotten. * I would love to be able to be the one that made peace with Israel and the Palestinians. I would love that, that would be such a great achievement. Because nobody's been able to do it. ... I've had a lot of, actually, great Israeli businesspeople tell me, you can't do that, it's impossible. I disagree, I think you can make peace. I think people are tired now of being shot, killed. At some point, when do they come? I think we can do that. I have reason to believe I can do that. * [[The Times]] is, it's a great, great American jewel. A world jewel. ====December 2016==== * There is no global anthem, no global [[currency]], no certificate of global [[citizenship]], we pledge allegiance to one flag and that flag is the [[Flag of the United States|American Flag]]! ** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBqIUF-cdgY#t=15m38s Thank You Tour - Cincinnati, Ohio] (1 December 2016) * Funny how that term caught on, isn't it? I tell everyone, I hated it. Somebody said 'drain the swamp' and I said, 'Oh, that is so hokey. That is so terrible.' I said, all right, I'll try it. So like a month ago I said 'drain the swamp' and the place went crazy. And I said 'Whoa, what's this?' Then I said it again. And then I start saying it like I meant it, right? And then I started to love it, and the place loved it. Drain the swamp. It's true. It's true. Drain the swamp. ** [http://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/21/trump-adviser-says-he-is-ditching-drain-the-swamp.html During a rally in Des Moines, Iowa] (December 2016) * We will pursue a new foreign policy that finally learns from the mistakes of the past. We will stop looking to topple regimes and overthrow governments. ... Our goal is stability, not chaos, because we want to rebuild our country. It's time. ** Speaking at U.S. Bank Arena, quoted in {{citation |date=2016-12-01 |title=Trump's new foreign policy: 'We will stop looking to topple regimes' |author=Anna Giaritelli |periodical={{w|Washington Examiner}} |url=http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trumps-new-foreign-policy-we-will-stop-looking-to-topple-regimes/article/2608687}} ===2017=== {| style="float:center; background:none;border: 1px solid silver;{{Border-radius|35px}}; margin:15px; background-color:#F6F6F6;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);" |- |<div id="articlecount" style="width:100%; text-align:center; font-size:105%;"> 20 January 2017 [[File:Seal of the President of the United States.svg|20px]] - Donald Trump's presidency began</div> |- |} {{main|First presidency of Donald Trump}} * '''Reporter:''' Would a reasonable observer say that you are potentially vulnerable to blackmail by Russia or by its [[Espionage|intelligence]] agencies?<br>'''Trump:''' Lemme just tell you what I do. When I leave our country, I'm a very high-profile person, would you say? I am extremely careful. I'm surrounded by bodyguards. I'm surrounded by people. And I always tell them—anywhere, but I always tell them if I'm leaving this country, "Be very careful, because in your hotel rooms and no matter where you go, you're gonna probably have cameras." I'm not referring just to Russia, but I would certainly put them in that category. And number one, "I hope you're gonna be good anyway. But in those rooms, you have cameras in the strangest places. Cameras that are so small with modern technology, you can't see them and you won't know. You better be careful, or you'll be watching yourself on nightly television." I tell this to people all the time. I was in Russia years ago, with the Miss Universe contest, which did very well—Moscow, the Moscow area did very, very well. And I told many people, "Be careful, because you don't wanna see yourself on television. Cameras all over the place."<br>And again, not just Russia, all over. Does anyone really believe that story? I'm also very much of a germaphobe, by the way, believe me. ** [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/11/us/politics/trump-press-conference-transcript.html, Donald Trump Press Conference at Trump Tower] (11 January 2017) * People don't realize, you know, the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], if you think about it, why? ** [http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-why-couldn-t-civil-war-have-been-avoided-n753241 Trump: Why Couldn't the Civil War Have Been Avoided?] (May 1, 2017) ===2019=== * ''Q:'' Does the buck stop with you over this shutdown?<br />''Trump:'' The buck stops with everybody. **[https://theweek.com/speedreads/816895/president-trump-buck-stops-everybody January 10, 2019] * I just feel like a young man. I’m so young. I can’t believe it. I’m the youngest person. I am a young, vibrant man. I look at Joe — I don’t know about him. I don’t know. I would never say anyone is too old, but I know they’re all making me look very young, both in terms of age and I think in terms of energy. I think you people know that better than anybody. **[https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-marine-one-departure-40/ April 26, 2019] *The Jews always flip. **attested to by Michael Wolff [https://forward.com/fast-forward/425037/trump-jews-always-flip-michael-wolff-michael-cohen-david-pecker/ 28 May 2019] * Our army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do. ** Trump was describing battles in 1775, as quoted in [https://www.bbc.com/news/48885319 Trump blames 'airports' gaffe on teleprompter] *The kidney has a very special place in the heart. **[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2019/jul/11/the-kidney-has-a-very-special-place-in-the-heart-says-donald-trump-video 11 July 2019] ===2020=== ====January 2020==== * <!--[00:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxEwTFJG1DQ&t=0s): Tesla's now worth more than GM and Ford; do you have comments on Elon Musk? --><!-- [00:04](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxEwTFJG1DQ&t=4s):--> Well, you have to give [[Elon Musk|him]] credit. I spoke to him very recently, and he's also doing the rockets, he likes rockets, and he does good at rockets too, by the way. I never saw… where [[w:Falcon 9 first-stage booster|the engines]] come down with no wings, no anything, [[w:Falcon 9 first-stage landings|and they're landing]]. I've said I've never seen that before. <!--[00:19](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxEwTFJG1DQ&t=19s):--> And I was worried about him, because he's one of our great geniuses, and we have to protect our genius. We have to protect [[Thomas Edison]], we have to protect all of these people that came up originally with the [[w:light bulb|light bulb]], and the [[w:wheel|wheel]], and all of these things. And he's one of our very smart people, and we want to cherish those people, that's very important. But he's done a very good job. <!--[00:41](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxEwTFJG1DQ&t=41s):--> Shocking, how well, …how it's come so fast. You go back a year, and they were talking about the end of [[w:Tesla, Inc.|the company]] and all of a sudden they're talking about these great things. He's going to be building [[w:Gigafactory|a very big plant]] in the United States. He has to. Because we help him, so he has to help us. ** on [[Elon Musk]], [[Tesla]], and [[SpaceX]] after Tesla stock valuation beat [[w:General Motors|General Motors]] and [[w:Ford Motor Company|Ford]] combined ** {{citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxEwTFJG1DQ|title=Trump on Elon Musk: I was worried about him, because he's one of our great geniuses|interviewer=[[w:Joe Kernen|Joe Kernen]]|date=2020-01-22|work=CNBC Television|via=Youtube|location=[[w:World Economic Forum|World Economic Forum]], [[w:Davos|Davos]], Switzerland}} ====February 2020==== * There are a lot of dishonest slimeballs out there. Dishonest scum. Dirty cops, lot of dirty cops … the ones on top, they were absolute scum. ** Trump described former senior law enforcement officials who were involved in the FBI probes into his campaign, as quoted in {{citation|date=2020-02-20|title=Trump repeatedly struggles to pronounce words during conspiracy-laden rally, before suggesting he'll pardon Roger Stone in late-night tweet |author=Tom Embury-Dennis |periodical=Independent |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-rally-twitter-roger-stone-sentence-pardon-2020-election-rally-phoenix-arizona-a9345956.html}} * Can we get like ''[[Gone with the Wind (film)|Gone with the Wind]]'' back, please? ''[[Sunset Boulevard]]'', so many great movies. ** [https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/trump-slams-oscar-winning-south-korean-film-parasite-praises-gone-with-the-wind/videoshow/74251536.cms] ** [https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/trump-slams-oscar-winning-south-korean-film-parasite-praises-gone-with-the-wind/videoshow/74251536.cms Trump slams Oscar-winning South Korean film 'Parasite', praises 'Gone with the Wind']video posted February 22, 2020 ====March 2020==== :See also: ::'''''[[COVID-19 pandemic in the United States]]''''' * I know South Korea better than anybody, it's a very tight — do you know how many people are in Seoul? Do you know how big the city of Seoul is? 38 million people. That's bigger than anything we have. ** Trump talking about Seoul, which is a city with 10 million people according to the city government's English language website. As quoted by {{citation |date=2020-03-30 |title=Trump tried to flex by asking a reporter about the population of Seoul. Then he got it wrong by 28 million. |author=Jake Lahut |periodical=Business Insider |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-trump-got-the-population-of-seoul-wrong-by-millions-2020-3?r=US&IR=T}} ====April 2020==== * It's called "[[social media]]." It's social media. It gets out. I have, you know, hundreds of millions of people. Number one on [[Facebook]]. Did you know I was number one on Facebook? I mean, I just found out I'm number one on Facebook. I thought that was very nice for whatever it means. No, it represents something. And when I can explain to people: Just don't do it. You know, it's going to be bad if you do it. It's going to be really bad. And they don't need to do it. They have enough problems. [[Iran]] has enough problems without doing that. But we’ve been pulling back very substantially over the last year, in [[Iraq]]. And so, you know, that's the way it is. ** Coronavirus task force press briefing, {{#formatdate:2020-04-01}}, quoted in {{citation |date=2020-04-01 |title=Remarks by President Trump, Vice President Pence, and Members of the Coronavirus Task Force in Press Briefing |author=James S. Brady |periodical=White House |url=https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-vice-president-pence-members-coronavirus-task-force-press-briefing-16/}}. ** Note: At April 1, [https://web.archive.org/web/20200401020635if_/https://www.facebook.com/DonaldTrump/ Trump's official page], with 26.8 million likes and 28.5 million followers, was not among the [[w:List of most-followed Facebook pages|most-followed Facebook pages]]. At January 6, speaking on [[Rush Limbaugh]]'s radio show Trump stated that [[Mark Zuckerberg]] told him that he was "number one on Facebook", claim that was not refuted by Facebook as reported in ''[https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/trump-mark-zuckerberg-facebook_n_5e12e125e4b0843d3615393f Trump Claims Mark Zuckerberg Told Him He's 'Number One On Facebook']'' (January 8, 2020) by Josephine Harvey, ''{{w|HuffPost Australia}}'' ====May 2020==== *I have not touched my face in a week. **[https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-face-touching-video-proof_n_5e601ac1c5b6985ec91abce1] ====August 2020==== * I read a lot. I comprehend extraordinarily well. Probably better than anybody you’ve interviewed in a long time, ** As quoted by {{citation | author=Aaron Rupar | date=2020-08-03 |title=“They are dying. That’s true. It is what it is.” Trump’s Axios interview was a disaster. | periodical=VOX | url=https://www.vox.com/2020/8/4/21354055/trump-axios-interview-jonathan-swan}} * I don't know. I really don't know. I don't know. I don't know John Lewis. He chose not to come to my inauguration. He chose -- I don't -- I never met John Lewis actually, I don't believe. ** Trump was responding to how civil rights icon John Lewis will be remembered, as quoted by {{citation | author=Tyler Olson | date=2020-08-03 |title=Trump withholds praise for John Lewis, notes he 'didn't come to my inauguration'| periodical=Fox News| url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-john-lewis-inauguration}} * Yeah, I wish her well. * But I wish her well. * I do wish her well. ** Said about [[Ghislaine Maxwell]], quoted in [https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/04/trump-well-wishes-ghislaine-maxwell-391274 "Trump doubles down on well-wishes for alleged sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell"] ''Politico'' (August 4, 2020) * So showerheads — you take a shower, the water doesn’t come out. You want to wash your hands, the water doesn’t come out. So what do you do? You just stand there longer or you take a shower longer? Because my hair — I don’t know about you, but it has to be perfect. Perfect. ** Quoted by {{citation | author=Debbie White, Jon Rogers, Fionnuala O'Leary | date=2020-08-12 |title=US proposes change to shower rules after President’s hair-washing complaint | periodical=The SUN | url=https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12369436/donald-trump-latest-news-live-updates/}} * Don't buy GOODYEAR TIRES - They announced a BAN ON MAGA HATS. Get better tires for far less! (This is what the Radical Left Democrats do. Two can play the same game, and we have to start playing it now!) ** Quoted by {{citation | author=Betsy Klein | date=2020-08-19 |title=Trump 'cancels' Goodyear tires as he campaigns against 'cancel culture' | periodical=CNN | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/19/politics/trump-goodyear-cancel-culture/index.html}} * I don't know much about the movement other than I understand they like me very much, which I appreciate ** Said about the [[QAnon]] group, as quoted by {{citation | author=Kevin Liptak | date=2020-08-20 |title=Trump embraces QAnon conspiracy because 'they like me' | periodical=CNN | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/19/politics/donald-trump-qanon/index.html}} * If Jesus came down and was the vote counter, I would win California. ** [https://www.foxla.com/news/trump-tells-dr-phil-he-would-have-won-california-2020-jesus-was-counting-votes "Trump tells Dr. Phil he would have won California in 2020 if Jesus 'was the vote counter'"] ''Fox 11 Los Angeles'' (August 30, 2024) ====September 2020==== * CNN reported that I had a heart attack. ** Claimed as quoted by {{citation |date=2020-09-03 |title=Even Fox News is choosing not to cover Trump's rallies in full, but his falsehoods are still eye-popping |author=Brian Stelter | periodical=CNN |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/04/media/donald-trump-pennsylvania-reliable-sources/index.html}} * I don't think [[science]] knows, actually. * It'll start getting cooler. You just watch. ** Trump described his stance on [[Scientific consensus on climate change|climate science]] and [[global warming]], as quoted in {{citation | date=2020-09-14 | title=Trump baselessly questions climate science during California wildfire briefing | author= Maegan Vazquez | periodical=CNN | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/14/politics/donald-trump-wildfires-briefing-climate-change/index.html}} * Critical race theory, the 1619 Project, and the crusade against American history is toxic propaganda, ideological poison that, if not removed, will dissolve the civic bonds that tie us together. It will destroy our country. ** [https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-white-house-conference-american-history/ Remarks by President Trump at the White House Conference on American History] (17 September 2020) *She just died? Wow. I didn't know that. You are telling me now for the first time. She led an amazing life. What else can you say? Whether you agreed or not, she was an amazing woman who led an amazing life. I am actually sad to hear that. **[https://deadline.com/2020/09/donald-trump-ruth-bader-ginsburg-1234579988/ On the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg] (18 September 2020) * Can you believe it, in one week they nominated me, not for one, but for two Nobel prizes. But you know, you have a president, you love your president, and your president gets honored, because I’m not being honored, you’re being honored with the Nobel Peace Prize, for Israel, what we did with Israel. ** Quoted in {{citation | date=2020-09-19 | title=Trump’s Nobel Nonsense | author= Robert Farley | periodical=FactCheck.org| url=https://www.factcheck.org/2020/09/trumps-nobel-nonsense/}} * I’m the only man that got nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize and I didn’t get any press. They wouldn’t. For two of them. Last week, I’m not bragging about it. ** Quoted in {{citation | date=2020-09-21 | title=Trump’s Nobel Nonsense | author= Robert Farley | periodical=FactCheck.org| url=https://www.factcheck.org/2020/09/trumps-nobel-nonsense/}} * The stated goal of BLM people is to achieve the destruction of the nuclear family, abolish the police, abolish prisons, abolish border security, abolish [[capitalism]] and abolish school choice. ** Claimed about the Black Lives Matter movement, as quoted in {{citation | date=2020-09-25 | title=Donald Trump launches blistering attack on the Black Lives Matter movement | author= Graeme Massie | periodical=Independent.co.uk | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-rally-today-blm-black-lives-matter-b604727.html}} * Totally fake news ** [https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/27/trump-calls-nyt-tax-report-totally-fake-news-422330Trump responding] to the NYT report on the alleged tax avoidance by Donald Trump * [[Steve Jobs]] would not be happy that his wife is wasting money he left her on a failing Radical Left Magazine that is run by a con man (Goldberg) and spews FAKE NEWS & HATE. Call her, write her, let her know how you feel!!! ** [[Trump]] in [https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/06/business/donald-trump-laurene-powell-jobs/?iid=ob_lockedrail_longstory_pool Trump attacks the sixth-richest woman in the world for her ties to] [[w:The Atlantic|The Atlantic]] on September 6, 2020 ====October 2020==== * I think this was a blessing from God that I caught it. It was a blessing in disguise. ** Quoted by {{citation |date=2020-10-08 |title=Trump returns to Oval Office and says coronavirus diagnosis was 'blessing from God' | author=Kevin Liptak | periodical=CNN | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/07/politics/trump-oval-office-coronavirus/index.html}} * I'll walk into that audience. I'll walk in there, I'll kiss everyone in that audience. I'll kiss the guys and the beautiful women and the -- everybody. I'll just give everybody a big, fat kiss. ** Quoted by {{citation |date=2020-10-12 |title=Trump mocks virus as he launches potential superspreader sprint to win reelection | author=Stephen Collinson | periodical=CNN | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/13/politics/donald-trump-election-2020-campaign/index.html}} * They say he was born in Scranton, but he left, he left. He abandoned you. ** Trump referred back to when [[Joe Biden]] was 10 years old and the family moved from Pennsylvania to Delaware because his father started in a new job, as quoted by {{citation |date=2020-10-14 |title=Fact check: Trump continues dishonesty bombardment at Pennsylvania rally | author=Daniel Dale | periodical=CNN | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/14/politics/fact-check-trump-rally-johnstown-pennsylvania/index.html}} * That was an opinion of somebody and that was a retweet. I’ll put it out there. People can decide for themselves. ** Trump explained why he retweeted a claim that Osama bin Laden’s killing was staged and that members of Navy SEAL Team 6 had been killed to cover it up. Quoted by {{citation |date=2020-10-16 |title=Column: Trump and Biden town halls showed us two worlds, and only one of them is terrifying | author=Rex Huppke | periodical=Chicago Tribune| url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/rex-huppke/ct-trump-biden-town-hall-qanon-rogers-calm-election-polls-huppke-20201016-3oke7rhwhbdrfcshgbnpqmimbe-story.html}} * Would you like a nice low-income housing project next to your suburban beautiful ranch style house? Generally speaking, no. I saved your suburbs -- <b>women -- suburban women, you're supposed to love Trump.</b> ** Quoted by {{citation |date=2020-10-17 |title=Trump continues bizarre appeals to suburban women as he campaigns in Covid hotspots | author=Maeve Reston| periodical=CNN| url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/18/politics/donald-trump-women-gretchen-whitmer/index.html}} ===2021=== {| style="float:center; background:none;border: 1px solid silver;{{Border-radius|35px}}; margin:15px; background-color:#F6F6F6;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);" |- |<div id="articlecount" style="width:100%; text-align:center; font-size:105%;"> 20 January 2021 [[File:Seal of the President of the United States.svg|20px]] - End of presidency </div> |- |} ====February 2021==== * The [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] can never again be respected or strong with political “leaders” like Sen. [[Mitch McConnell]] at its helm. McConnell’s dedication to business as usual, status quo policies, together with his lack of political insight, wisdom, skill, and personality, has rapidly driven him from Majority Leader to Minority Leader, and it will only get worse. The Democrats and [[Chuck Schumer]] play McConnell like a fiddle—they’ve never had it so good—and they want to keep it that way! We know our America First agenda is a winner, not McConnell’s Beltway First agenda or Biden’s America Last. * It was a complete election disaster in Georgia, and certain other swing states. McConnell did nothing, and will never do what needs to be done in order to secure a fair and just electoral system into the future. He doesn’t have what it takes, never did, and never will. * Mitch is a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack, and if Republican Senators are going to stay with him, they will not win again. He will never do what needs to be done, or what is right for our Country. ** [https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000177-ad2a-d713-a777-edee3b100000 Statement by Donald J. Trump, February 16, 2021] ====March 2021==== * Do you miss me yet? Do you miss me? * Mr. McLaughlin just gave me numbers that nobody's ever heard of before, more popular than anybody. That's all of us. It's all of us. * We won the election twice. I mean, you know, think about it ... * But who knows? Who knows? I may even decide to beat them for a third time, OK? For a third time. * This election was rigged. And the Supreme Court and other courts didn't want to do anything about it. * And the only people that should be allowed to vote by mail are people that can be proven to be either very sick or out of the country or military where they can't do it. One day. * And then a Republican president will make a triumphant return to the White House. And I wonder who that will be. I wonder who that will be. Who, who, who will that be, I wonder? ** Quoted by {{citation |date=2021-03-01 | author = Chris Cillizza | title = The 50 most ridiculous lines from Donald Trump's CPAC speech | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/01/politics/donald-trump-cpac-speech/index.html |publisher=CNN}} * Karl Rove has been losing for years, except for himself. * He's a RINO of the highest order, who came to the Oval Office lobbying for 5G for him and a group. * He's a pompous fool with bad advice and always has an agenda. * If the Republican Party is going to be successful, they're going to have to stop dealing with the likes of Karl Rove and just let him float away, or retire, like Liddle' Bob Corker, Jeff 'Flakey' Flake, and others like Toomey of Pennsylvania, who will soon follow. * 31 million people listened to my CPAC speech online, and it had among the largest television audience of the week, even though it was on cable at 4pm on Sunday afternoon. ** Quoted by {{citation |date=2021-03-05 | author = Chris Cillizza | title = The 17 most outlandish lines from Donald Trump's attack on Karl Rove | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/05/politics/donald-trump-karl-rove-2020-election/index.html |publisher=CNN}} * I will not be endorsing, under any circumstances, the failed candidate from the great State of Alaska, [[w:Lisa Murkowski|Lisa Murkowski]]. She represents her state badly and her country even worse. I do not know where other people will be next year, but I know where I will be — in Alaska campaigning against a disloyal and very bad Senator. ** Quoted by {{citation |date=2021-03-06 | author = Alex Isenstadt | title = Trump vows to campaign against 'disloyal' Murkowski | url=https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/06/trump-lisa-murkowski-2022-474028 |publisher=Politico}} * No more money for RINOS. They do nothing but hurt the Republican Party and our great voting base--they will never lead us to Greatness. Send your donation to Save America PAC at DonaldJTrump.com. ** Quoted by {{citation |date=2021-03-10 | author = Michael Warren, Fredreka Schouten, Eric Bradner | title = Trump's clash with GOP over using his name in fundraising ignites midterm worries | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/10/politics/trump-republican-fundraising-midterms/index.html |publisher=CNN}} * I would recommend it, and I would recommend it to a lot of people that don't want to get it and a lot of those people voted for me, frankly. But again, we have our freedoms and we have to live by that and I agree with that also. But it is a great vaccine. It is a safe vaccine and it is something that works. ** On the COVID-19 vaccine. Quoted by {{citation|date=2021-3-16|author=Meredith McGraw|title=Trump encourages Americans to get the Covid vaccine|publisher=Politico|url=https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/16/trump-americans-covid-vaccine-476479}} * <i> About the {{w|2021 storming of the United States Capitol}}:</i> It was zero threat, right from the start, it was zero threat. Look, they went in, they shouldn't have done it. Some of them went in, and they are hugging and kissing the police and the guards, you know, they had great relationships. A lot of the people were waved in, and then they walked in and they walked out. ** Quoted by {{citation |date=2021-03-26 | author = Veronica Stracqualursi | title = Trump lies about Capitol riot by claiming his supporters were 'hugging and kissing' cops | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/26/politics/donald-trump-january-6-rioters-arrests/index.html |publisher=CNN}} * And China, the same thing, they never treated us that way, right? You saw what happened a few days ago, was terrible, and uh, the border is not good, the border is the worst anybody’s ever seen it, and what you see now, multiply it times 10, Jim — he’s the only one I know who would handle the border tougher than me. We have to, and the tough is…in the most humanitarian way, because that’s what it is. What’s happening to the kids, they’re living in squalor, they are living like nobody has ever seen anybody, there’s never been anything like what’s, and you’re gonna have hundreds, and you have it now, they have the airplane photos, the shocks, and they call ’em shocks, and these things are showing thousands and thousands of people coming up from South America and it’s gonna be, it’s just uh, look, it’s a disaster. It’s a humanitarian disaster from their standpoint, and it’s gonna destroy the country, and frankly, the country can’t afford it because you’re talking about massive, just incredibly massive amounts. Our school systems, our hospital systems, everything. ** Wedding toast, quoted by {{citation |date=2021-03-29 | author = Bess Levin | title = Of course Donald Trump crashed a wedding a gave a rambling, incoherent speech about Biden, Iran and China | url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/03/donald-trump-mar-a-lago-wedding-speech |publisher=Vanity Fair}} * Based on their interviews, I felt it was time to speak up about [[Anthony Fauci|Dr. Fauci]] and Dr. Birx, two self-promoters trying to reinvent history to cover for their bad instincts and faulty recommendations, which I fortunately almost always overturned. They had bad policy decisions that would have left our country open to China and others, closed to reopening our economy, and years away from an approved vaccine — putting millions of lives at risk * Dr. Birx was a terrible medical advisor, which is why I seldom followed her advice. * I only kept Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx on because they worked for the U.S. government for so long — they are like a bad habit! ** Quoted by {{citation |date=2021-03-29 | author = Benjamin Din | title = Trump lashes out at Fauci and Birx after CNN documentary | url=https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/29/trump-fauci-birx-cnn-documentary-478422 |publisher=Politico}} * Dr. Birx is a proven liar with very little credibility left. ** Quoted by {{citation |date=2021-03-29 | author = Brett Samuels | title = Trump targets Fauci, Birx in lengthy diatribe | url=https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/545472-trump-targets-fauci-birx-in-lengthy-diatribe |publisher=The Hill}} ====April 2021==== * Happy Easter to ALL, including the Radical Left CRAZIES who rigged our Presidential Election, and want to destroy our Country! ** Quoted by {{citation |date=2021-04-05 | author = Martin Pengelly | title = Who needs Twitter? Trump wishes happy Easter to 'radical left crazies' | url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/04/trump-wishes-happy-easter-to-radical-left-crazies |publisher=The Guardian}} * I'll give you a little breaking news, [[w:Pfizer|Pfizer]] is in with the FDA. What the FDA did with [[w:Johnson & Johnson|Johnson and Johnson]] is so stupid ** [https://web.archive.org/web/20210627112356/https://www.pharmamanufacturing.com/industrynews/2021/trump-blasts-fda-for-j-and-j-vax-pause-says-pfizer-in-with-the-agency/ TV interview with Sean Hannity] * Getting out of Afghanistan is a wonderful and positive thing to do. I planned to withdraw on May 1st, and we should keep as close to that schedule as possible. ** [https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-biden-afghanistan-pullout-wonderful-and-positive-thing-to-do-2021-4?r=US&IR=T "Trump says Biden's plan to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan is a 'wonderful and positive thing to do'"], Business Insider, 19 April 2021 ====May 2021==== *If a thief robs a jewelry store of all of its diamonds (the 2020 Presidential Election), the diamonds must be returned. **[https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news/statement-by-donald-j-trump-45th-president-of-the-united-states-of-america-05.10.21-4 10 May 2021] *The entire Database of [[Maricopa County]] in Arizona has been DELETED! This is illegal and the Arizona State Senate, who is leading the Forensic Audit, is up in arms. Additionally, seals were broken on the boxes that hold the votes, ballots are missing, and worse. Mark Brnovich, the Attorney General of Arizona, will now be forced to look into this unbelievable Election crime. **[https://www.donaldjtrump.com/desk/desk-4yeh37peju/ 15 May 2021] ====June 2021==== *Congratulations to the country of [[Nigeria]], who just banned [[Twitter]] because they banned [[Muhammadu Buhari|their President]]. More COUNTRIES should ban Twitter and Facebook for not allowing free and open speech — all voices should be heard. [[Mark Zuckerberg|Zuckerberg]] kept calling me and coming to the White House for dinner telling me how great I was. ** [https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-more-countries-should-ban-twitter-facebook-zuckerberg-2021-6] *They may allow me back in two years. We got to stop that. We can’t let it happen. So unfair. They are shutting down an entire group of people. Not just me. They are shutting down the voice of a much more powerful and a much larger group. ** about Facebook banning him, in rally speech [https://deadline.com/2021/06/donald-trump-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-1234770087/] ====July 2021==== *The American people’s birthright of freedom must prevail against [[Big Tech]] and other forces that seek to destroy it. **7 July 2021 [https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/07/trump-big-tech-lawsuit-498536 Politico, Trump plans class action suit against Twitter, Facebook] *Many say I am the greatest star-maker of all time. But some of the stars I produced are actually made of garbage. **[https://web.archive.org/web/20210715183933/https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news/statement-by-donald-j-trump-45th-president-of-the-united-states-of-america-07.15.21-06 15 July 2021 on DonaldJTrump.com] ====August 2021==== *There is massive and unconditional evidence that the election was shattered with fraud and irregularities at a level that our Country has never seen before. Much of it is already public, and a great deal more is coming out in the very near future. Every time you read a statement that there is “no evidence of election fraud,” about the 2020 election scam, just attribute that statement to a crooked and collusive media (they work closely together with the Radical Left Democrats) that will do anything to hide the real facts of this election fiasco. **[https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news/news-qvb8wmvsyn0 1 August 2021] *If I were President right now, with COVID raging back, people being shot and killed in record numbers all over our cities, and the Border totally open with criminals and heavily infected COVID people pouring through our Southern Border and into our communities, the Fake News Media would be having an absolute field day. **[https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news/news-kyatp4nd8q0 2 August 2021] * If our soccer team, headed by a radical group of Leftist Maniacs, wasn’t woke, they would have won the Gold Medal instead of the Bronze. * Woke means you lose, everything that is woke goes bad, and our soccer team certainly has. * They should replace the wokesters with Patriots and start winning again. The woman with the purple hair played terribly and spends too much time thinking about Radical Left politics and not doing her job! ** Said about the US women's national soccer team after winning a bronze medal in the Olympic Games in Tokyo, as quoted in [https://amp.theguardian.com/football/2021/aug/05/donald-trump-uswnt-usa-soccer-olympics-bronze-megan-rapinoe-tokyo-2020 "‘Woke means you lose’: Donald Trump rails at USWNT after Olympic bronze"], The Guardian, 5 August 2021 * I have quietly said for years that Mitch McConnell is the most overrated man in politics— now I don't have to be quiet anymore. ** Quoted in [https://www.newsweek.com/trump-calls-mitch-mcconnell-most-overrated-man-politics-ahead-infrastructure-vote-1617944 "Trump Calls Mitch McConnell 'Most Overrated Man in Politics' Ahead of Infrastructure Vote"], Newsweek, 10 August 2021 * I recommend: take the vaccines. I did it. It’s good. Take the vaccines. ** [https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/22/trump-booed-at-alabama-rally-after-telling-supporters-to-get-vaccinated.html "Trump booed at Alabama rally after telling supporters to get vaccinated"], CNBC, 22 August 2021 ====September 2021==== * If they let you do your job you wouldn’t have crime in New York! * I’ve been given so much support by the people who do what you do. * We love the blue. I’ll say it loud. You know, you’re not supposed to say that. We love the blue. **[https://nypost.com/2021/09/11/trump-makes-surprise-visit-to-new-york-police-and-firefighters/ Trump makes surprise visit to New York police and firefighters on 9/11] * We’re not going to have a country left in three years, I’ll tell you that. ** [https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-predicts-america-end-002940784.html "Donald Trump Predicts America Will End Within 3 Years"], quoted by David Moye, Yahoo News, 15 September 2021 * [[w:Anthony Gonzalez (politician)|1]] down, 9 to go! ** "[https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/sep/17/trump-celebrates-gonzalezs-exit-1-down-9-go/ Trump celebrates Gonzalez’s exit: ‘1 down, 9 to go!’]" (September 17, 2021) * Everybody will be watching [[Arizona]] tomorrow to see what the highly respected auditors and Arizona State Senate found out regarding the so-called Election! ** "[https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/24/arizona-review-draft-report-tally-biden-won-514088 GOP-led Arizona election review closely matches Biden's winning margin]" (September 23, 2021) ====October 2021==== * Nobody has done more for [[Christianity]] or for [[evangelicals]] — or for [[religion]] itself — than I have. ** Quoted in [https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-claims-nobody-has-done-more-religion-itself-him-1635036 "Donald Trump Claims Nobody Has Done More 'for Religion Itself' Than Him"], Newsweek, 2 October 2021 * the real insurrection happened on November 3rd, the Presidential Election, not on [[January 6th]]—which was a day of protesting the Fake Election results ** [https://www.npr.org/2021/10/06/1043746455/trump-continues-to-lie-says-real-insurrection-happened-when-he-lost-election Trump continues to lie, says 'real insurrection' happened when he lost election]" (October 6, 2021) * [[Republican]] [[Senators]], do not [[vote]] for this terrible deal ([[debt]] limit) being pushed by folding [[Mitch McConnell]]. Stand strong for our Country.  * The [[American]] people are with you! ** In an emailed statement "[https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/575876-trump-urged-gop-senators-to-vote-against-mcconnell-debt-deal Trump urges GOP senators to vote against McConnell debt deal]" (October 7,2021) * If we don't solve the Presidential Election Fraud of 2020 (which we have thoroughly and conclusively documented), Republicans will not be voting in '22 or '24. It is the single most important thing for Republicans to do. ** According to an MSNBC article and a short video "[https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/democrats-finally-have-reason-celebrate-one-trump-s-threats-n1281494 Democrats finally have reason to celebrate one of Trump's threats]" (October 13, 2021) * It’s so sad when you see that they are approving these windmills — worst form of energy, the most expensive. You talk about carbon emissions, well they are making them. More goes into the air than if you ran something for 30 years. * I’m not into golden showers. ** [https://news.yahoo.com/trump-touts-putin-relationship-rails-233840649.html "Trump Touts Putin Relationship, Rails About Wind Energy's 'Carbon Emissions' In Speech"], Yahoo News (October 16 2021) *I wanted to have people be ready because we were put on alert that they were going to do fruit. And some fruit is a lot worse than — tomatoes are bad by the way. **[https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21748396-trumpdepositionexcerptsefraingalicia42622/ Deposition], October 18, 2021 * After years of litigation, I was pleased to have had the opportunity to tell my side of this ridiculous story — Just one more example of baseless harassment of your favorite president ** "[https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-faces-pile-civil-lawsuits-depositions-begin-n1281612 Trump faces a pile of civil lawsuits as depositions begin]" (October 18, 2021) * Wonderful to see [[Colin Powell]], who made big mistakes on Iraq and famously, so-called weapons of mass destruction, be treated in death so beautifully by the Fake News Media. Hope that happens to me someday. He was a classic RINO, if even that, always being the first to attack other Republicans. He made plenty of mistakes, but anyway, may he rest in peace! ** {{cite news|author=Chris Cillizza |url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/19/politics/donald-trump-colin-powell-death/index.html |title=Donald Trump (yet again) proves there's no bottom |work=cnn.com|date=October 19, 2021 |accessdate=October 19, 2021}} *We live in a world where the Taliban has a huge presence on Twitter, yet your favorite American president has been silenced **"[https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/20/trump-announces-social-media-platform-launch-plan-spac-deal.html Trump announces social media platform launch plan, SPAC deal]" (October 20, 2021) *[[Israel]] doesn’t even control [[Congress]] anymore. **29 October 2021 per https://thepostmillennial.com/exclusive-president-donald-j-trump-speaks-to-the-post-millennial ====November 2021==== *RINOs who supported infrastructure bill should be ashamed of themselves **on Sky News Australia [[Youtube]] channel '''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZG-D0e8T0A video]''' (November 7, 2021) ====December 2021==== *He was very early. Like earlier than most. I haven’t spoken to him since. Fuck him, **10 December 2021 interview with Barak Ravid about [[Benjamin Netanyahu]] per [https://www.timesofisrael.com/fck-him-in-interview-trump-rages-at-netanyahu-over-congratulations-to-biden/ Times of Israel] * I thought the [[Palestinians]] were impossible, and the [[Israelis]] would do anything to make peace and a deal. I found that not to be true. ** [[Donald Trump]], [https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-i-thought-israelis-would-do-anything-for-peace-but-found-that-not-to-be-true/ Trump: I thought Israelis would do anything for peace, but found that not to be true], ''Times of Israel'' (11 December 2021) *Bibi did not want to make a deal. Even most recently, when we came up with the maps. Now I don’t know if he didn’t want to make it for political reasons, or for other reasons. I wish he would have said he didn’t want to make a deal, instead of…. Because a lot of people devoted a lot of work. But I don’t think Bibi would have ever made a deal. That’s my opinion. I think the general [Gantz] wanted to make a deal. **11 December 2021 quoted by [https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-i-thought-israelis-would-do-anything-for-peace-but-found-that-not-to-be-true/ Times of Israel] *There’s people in this country that are Jewish that no longer love Israel.<br>I’ll tell you the Evangelical Christians love Israel more than the Jews in this country.<br>It used to be that Israel had absolute power over Congress and today I think it’s the exact opposite, and I think Obama and Biden did that.<br>And yet in the election, they still get a lot of votes from Jewish people…which tells you that the Jewish people, and I’ve said this for a long time.<br>The Jewish people in the United States either don’t like Israel or don’t care about Israel.<br>I mean, you look at The New York Times, The New York Times hates Israel, hates them, and they’re Jewish people that run The New York Times, I mean the Sulzberger family. **17 December 2021 per [https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/12/donald-trump-anti-semitism-jews-israel Vanity Fair] *I think the origins are so obvious. They came out of the Wuhan lab. And I think if anybody thinks anything differently, they’re just kidding themselves. So, you can ask — China has to pay. They have to do something. '''They have to pay reparations'''. And China doesn’t have the money to pay those reparations. I believe that worldwide — I’m not just talking United States — worldwide, '''$60 trillion of damage''', $60 trillion. China doesn’t have $60 trillion. But they have to do something to make up for what they’ve done. What they’ve done to the world is so horrible. It’s been horrible, all over the world. And it doesn’t stop. **[https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/12/19/trump-china-must-pay-for-covid-origins-they-have-to-pay-reparations/ 19 December 2021] * <i> About developing vaccines against Covid-19: </i> Look, we did something that was historic, we saved tens of millions of lives worldwide. We, together, all of us, not me. ** [https://edition.cnn.com/2021/12/20/politics/donald-trump-booster-shot-boos/index.html "Trump met with boos after revealing he received Covid-19 booster"], CNN, 21 December 2021 * I came up with a vaccine, with three vaccines. ** [https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/public-global-health/587079-trump-pushes-back-on-candace-owens-people-arent-dying "Trump pushes back on Candace Owens: 'People aren't dying when they take the vaccine'"], The Hill, 23 December 2021 ===2022=== ====January 2022==== * If you take [[COVID-19 vaccine|the vaccine]], you're protected. Look, the results of the vaccine are very good, and if you do get it, it's a very minor form. People aren't dying when they take the vaccine. ** 6 January 2022, interviewed by [[Candace Owens]], discussing the [[COVID-19 vaccine]]; reported in Bruce Y. Lee, "[https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2021/12/24/trump-tells-candace-owens-that-covid-19-vaccines-work-one-of-the-greatest-achievements-of-mankind/ Trump Tells Candace Owens That Covid-19 Vaccines Work: 'One Of The Greatest Achievements Of Mankind']", [[Forbes]] (Jan 6, 2022) *I ran twice and we won twice.<br>This crowd is a massive symbol of what took place, because people are hungry for the truth. They want their country back. **15 January 2022 [https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2022/01/trump-arizona-rally-2024-election/621244/ via Elaine Godfrey of The Atlantic] *If I run and if I win, we will treat those people from January sixth fairly. We will treat them fairly.<br>And if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons. Because they are being treated so unfairly. **30 January 2022 [https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/hope-go-jail-get-book-thrown-deserve-lindsey-graham-susan-collins-buck-trump-vow-persecute-jan-6ers/ reported by TGP] *Actually, what they are saying, is that [[Mike Pence]] did have the right to change the outcome, and they now want to take that right away. Unfortunately, he didn’t exercise that power. '''He could have overturned the election!''' **31 January 2022, at a rally in Conroe Texas, as quoted in “[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/31/donald-trump-mike-pence-overturn-election Quiet part loud: Trump says Pence ‘could have overturned the election’]”, by Martin Pengelly, for ''{{w|The Guardian}}''. ====February 2022==== *I was right and everyone knows it. If there is fraud or large scale irregularities, it would have been appropriate to send those votes back to the legislatures to figure it out. **4 February 2022 per 7 February 2022 report by Reuters [https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pence-says-trump-was-wrong-that-he-could-have-overturned-2020-election-result-2022-02-04/ Pence says Trump was wrong that he could have overturned 2020 election] by Alexandra Ulmer * I went in yesterday and there was a television screen, and I said, 'This is genius.' [[Vladimir Putin|Putin]] declares a big portion of the Ukraine, of [[Ukraine]], Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that's wonderful. So Putin is now saying, 'It's independent,' a large section of Ukraine. I said, 'How smart is that?' And he's going to go in and be a peacekeeper. That's the strongest peace force. We could use that on our southern border. That's the strongest peace force I've ever seen. ... Here's a guy who's very savvy. ... I know him very well. Very, very well. ** Said about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in an interview at The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show, as quoted in [https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/23/politics/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-joe-biden/index.html "Trump sides with Putin as Biden tries to stop a war"], CNN, 23 February 2022. * They say, 'Trump said Putin's smart.' I mean, he's taking over a country for two dollars' worth of [[Sanction|sanctions]]. I'd say that's pretty smart. He's taking over a country — really a vast, vast location, a great piece of land with a lot of people, and just walking right in. ** [https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/24/politics/donald-trump-praises-putin/index.html "Why Donald Trump can't stop praising Vladimir Putin"], CNN, 24 February 2022 ====March 2022==== *They laid down the welcome mat and gave Russia the opening, now Putin may be getting everything he wanted, with Ukraine and the rest of the World suffering the consequences. It’s terrible, but this is what you get with Biden, the Democrats, and RINO warmongers! [https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news/news-cxhdzqwssb1663 03/01/22 ] * The vote counter is often more important than the candidate. ** [https://news.yahoo.com/trump-says-gop-needs-tougher-211714688.html "Trump says the GOP needs to get 'tougher' at the ballot box: 'The vote counter is often more important than the candidate'"], yahoo news, 6 March 2022 *Whatever happened to free speech in our Country? Incredibly, but not surprisingly, the Big Tech lunatics have taken down my interview with the very popular NELK Boys so that nobody can watch it or in any way listen to it....In Russia, the people are not allowed to know that they’re fighting a war with Ukraine, that’s where our media is going, and that’s where our Country is going because it quickly follows—just study history.We need freedom of speech again, we don’t have it and it’s getting worse every day! **[https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news/news-tayryvrzzk1694 Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America 03/11/22] *She owes me nearly $300,000, Now all I have to do is wait for all of the money she owes me. **[https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/mar/21/donald-trump-crows-liberal-9th-circuit-court-seals/ Trump crows as liberal 9th Circuit seals victory over Stormy Daniels, Michael Avenatti] *I listen to him constantly using the n-word, that’s the n-word, and he’s constantly using it, the nuclear word. They didn’t attack any other countries under us. I’m the only one where that didn’t happen. And with Bush, they took Georgia, and they took Crimea with Biden and Obama. And now he said ‘to hell with it. Let’s take the whole thing'. **[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-putin-nuclear-n-word-b2040702.html Trump says Putin keeps using the ‘n-word’ meaning ‘nuclear’ as he claims Russian leader is ‘different’ man to one he dealt with] *Single most dangerous time for our country in history... yet you have people like John Kerry worrying about the climate! The climate! Oh, I heard that the other day. Here we are, [Russian President Vladimir Putin is] threatening us [and] he’s worried about the ocean will rise one-hundredth of one percent over the next 300 fucking’ years. **[https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/28/two-stark-reminders-about-political-challenge-tackling-climate-change/ Two stark reminders about the political challenge of tackling climate change] *The Left has become so extreme that we now have a justice being nominated to the Supreme Court who testified under oath that she could not say what a woman is, And a party that's unwilling to admit that men and women are biologically different in defiance of all scientific and human history, is a party that should not be anywhere near the levers of power in the United States of America. **[https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/watch-single-most-dangerous-time-trump-blasts-climate-change-crt-and-kbj ‘Single most dangerous time’: Trump blasts climate change, CRT, and KBJ] ====April 2022==== *Happy Easter to all including the Radical Left Maniacs who are trying everything to destroy our country May they not succeed, but let them, nevertheless, be happy, healthy, wealthy and well! **[https://news.yahoo.com/biden-trump-release-very-different-202600019.html Yahoo!] *He went out of his way to deceptively edit an interview and got caught. That is a big story, isn’t it? **[https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news/news-hm9chvnk6z0 Donald Trump], [https://www.mediaite.com/tv/listen-trump-releases-audio-to-ending-of-doctored-interview-with-fool-piers-morgan/ mediaite] * I think I’m the most honest human being perhaps that god ever created. ** Claimed at an an event in Selma, North Carolina, on April 10, 2022, referred to in [https://www.thelist.com/829709/donald-trump-just-described-himself-in-a-very-unexpected-way/ "Donald Trump Just Described Himself In A Very Unexpected Way"], ''The List'' (April 12, 2022) * But when I didn’t win the election .. ** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DrQC-oNAeQ Marjorie Taylor Greene & Matt Gaetz NOT HAPPY with Jimmy & Trump FINALLY Admits Defeat] (Apr 11, 2022) (video) * Which would you rather be, a dumb person or a dictator? Perhaps a dictator would be better. I don't want to be a dumb person. ** [https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-rather-be-a-dictator-than-a-dumb-person-video-2022-4?r=US&IR=T Trump says he'd rather be 'a dictator' than 'a dumb person' after bragging about the cognitive test he took in 2018], Business Insider, 22 April 2022 April 2022 ====May 2022==== *With rampant and record setting crime, a 42.8% increase over last year was just announced, and every other unimaginable problem, no wonder everyone is leaving the New York State, including businesses left and right. **[https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news/news-sarvcupgsh1991 Save America] * I am not currently in possession of any Trump Organization-issued phones, computers or similar devices. :I believe the last phone or device I was issued by the Trump Organization was a cellphone in 2015. I no longer have the cellphone in my possession and I am not aware of its current location. :Since January 1, 2010, I previously owned two flip phones and a [[w:Samsung|Samsung]] mobile phone. I do not have the two flips [sic] phones in my possession and I do not know their current whereabouts.” :[Samsung] it was taken from me at some point while I was president. I do not have the Samsung in my possession and I do not know its current whereabouts. :* '''[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/11/trump-fine-contempt-new-york-letitia-james Trump must pay $110,000 fine to purge contempt, judge says]''' (Wed 11 May 2022 18.53 BST) *[[w:Kathy Barnette | Kathy Barnette]] will never be able to win the general election against the radical left democrats. She has many things in her past which have not been properly explained or vetted, but if she is able to do so, she will have a wonderful future in the Republican Party — and I will be behind her all the way ** [[Trump]] according to [https://www.smerconish.com/exclusive-content/pennsylvania-my-primary-concern Pennsylvania: My Primary Concern] (May 14) =====NRA convention speech (May 27, 2022)===== * The existence of evil in our world is not a reason to disarm law-abiding citizens. The existence of evil is one of the very best reasons to arm law-abiding citizens. * Every time a disturbed or demented person commits a hideous crime there is always a grotesque effort by some in our society to advance their own extreme political agenda. ** Speech at the NRA convention, Houston (May 27, 2022), as cited in [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/28/school-shooting-strengthens-case-for-guns-donald-trump-tells-nra "School shooting strengthens case for guns, Donald Trump tells NRA"] ''The Guardian'' (May 28, 2022) * We need a top-to-bottom security overhaul of schools [...] Every building should have a single entry point. No one should ever be able to get near a classroom until they have been checked, scanned and screened ... Above all, from this day forward, every school in America should have an armed police officer or an armed resources officer on duty at all times. [...] Clearly, we need to make it far easier to confine the violent and mentally deranged into mental institutions. ** Speech at the NRA convention, Houston (May 27, 2022), as cited in [https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/after-horror-failure-of-uvalde-massacre-business-as-usual-at-nra-meeting-in-houston-20220528-p5ap7y.html "After horror, failure of Uvalde massacre, business as usual at NRA meeting in Houston"] ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (May 28, 2022) ==== July 2022 ==== * Warmongering and despicable human being [[Liz Cheney]], who is hated by the great people of Wyoming (down 35!), keeps saying, over and over again, that HER Fake Unselect Committee may recommend CRIMINAL CHARGES against a President of the United States who got more votes than any sitting President in history, ** Said about Republican Congress Member Liz Cheney after she mentioned the possibility of raising criminal charges against Trump for his role in connection with the January 6 attack on the Congress of the United States, quoted in [https://nypost.com/2022/07/04/trump-rips-liz-cheney-after-she-suggests-jan-6-charges/ "Trump rips ‘despicable’ Liz Cheney after she suggests Jan. 6 charges for ex-president"], New York Post, 4 July 2022 * Leon’s, I’ll tell you what, Elon, Elon, is not going to buy Twitter. … He’s got himself a mess. He said the other day, ‘Oh, I’ve never voted for a Republican.’ I said, ‘I didn’t know that. He told me he voted for me.’ So, he’s another bullshit artist. But he’s not going to be buying it. ** Claimed about Elon Musk, who later [[w:Acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk | bought Twitter]]. Quoted in [https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-alaska-rally-elon-musk-1380402/ "Trump Bashes Elon Musk as ‘Bullshit Artist’ at Alaska Rally"], ''Rolling Stone'' (July 9, 2022) * I feel very confident that, if I decide to run, I’ll win. * In my own mind, I’ve already made that decision, so nothing factors in anymore. In my own mind, I’ve already made that decision. * I made America great again, and I may have to do it again. ** [https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/donald-trump-2024-decision.html "Donald Trump on 2024: ‘I’ve Already Made That Decision’ The only question left in the former president’s mind is when he’ll announce"], Intelligencer, 14 July 2022 ==== September 2022 ==== * J.D. is kissing my ass he wants my support so bad. ** Said about [[J.D. Vance]], Republican Senate candidate for Ohio, quoted in [https://edition.cnn.com/2022/09/19/politics/donald-trump-jd-vance-ohio-rally/index.html "Donald Trump humiliated J.D. Vance for fun"], CNN, 20 September 2022 * If you're the president of the United States, you can declassify just by saying it's declassified, even by thinking about it, because you're sending it to Mar-a-Lago or to wherever you're sending it. And there doesn't have to be a process. There can be a process, but it doesn't have to be. ** [https://www.baynews9.com/fl/tampa/politics/2022/09/22/trump--presidents-can-declassify-files-by--thinking-about-it- "Trump: Presidents can declassify files by 'thinking about it'"], Bay News 9, 22 September 2022 ==== October 2022 ==== * They actually taunted him, if you really look at it. Our country, and our so-called leadership, taunted Putin. I said, you know, they're almost forcing him to go in with what they're saying. The rhetoric was so dumb. ** [https://www.newsweek.com/trump-blames-us-almost-forcing-putin-invade-ukraine-1750145/ Trump Blames U.S. for 'Almost Forcing' Putin to Invade Ukraine], Newsweek, 8 October 2022 ==== November 2022 ==== * We're winning big, big, big in the [[Republican Party]] for the nomination like nobody's ever seen before :There it is, Trump at 71 [percent]. [[Ron DeSanctimonious]] at 10 percent. [[Mike Pence]] at 7 — oh, Mike Pence doing better than I thought​. :* [https://nypost.com/2022/11/06/trump-mocks-desantis-as-ron-desanctimonious/ Pompeo jumps to defend DeSantis after Trump's 'Ron DeSanctimonious' comments] (By Mark Moore November 6, 2022 1:41pm Updated) *The Absentee Ballot situation in Detroit is REALLY BAD.<br>People are showing up to Vote only to be told 'sorry, you have already voted.'<br>This is happening in large numbers, elsewhere as well.<br>Protest, Protest, Protest! **8 November 2022 [https://truthsocial.com/embed/109309832870332871 post on TruthSocia] later [https://twitter.com/JocelynBenson/status/1590079320302968832 quoted via screenshot in tweet] by [[Jocelyn Benson]] which was [https://www.yahoo.com/now/trump-amplifies-nonsense-claims-voter-212425641.html quoted by Yahoo News] * Well, I think if they win, I should get all the credit. And if they lose, I should not be blamed at all, OK, but it’ll probably be just the opposite. :* [https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/09/us/politics/trump-endorsements-midterms-gop.html Trump Hoped for a Celebration but Did Not Have Much to Cheer] (By By Michael C. Bender and Maggie Haberman November 9, 2022, 2:33 a.m. ET) * [[Ron DeSantis|Ron DeSanctimonious]] is playing games! The Fake News asks him if he's going to run if President Trump runs, and he says, 'I'm only focused on the Governor's race, I'm not looking into the future.' Well, in terms of loyalty and class, that's really not the right answer. ** Adam Carlson, Jay O'Brien, and Katherine Faulders, [https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-takes-aim-ron-desantis-suggesting-2024-rival/story?id=93084111 Trump takes aim at Ron DeSantis, suggesting he's a 2024 rival], ''ABC News'' (November 10, 2022). *He shows up with 3 people, two of which I didn’t know, the other a political person who I haven’t seen in years,” the former president wrote on Truth Social. “Fake News went CRAZY!” **29 November 2022 on Truth Social (per [https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/donald-trump-kanye-west-nick-fuentes-mar-a-lago-dinner-1234638552/ this article] by Charisma Madarang of Rolling Stone) after [[Kanye West]] showed up for dinner with Boeing employee Jamal and [[Nick Fuentes]] (the two unknowns) and [[Karen Giorno]] (an aide from Trump's 2016 campaign) in a meeting arranged by [[Milo Yiannopoulos]] (who did not attend) via Karen ====December 2022==== * People have been treated unconstitutionally in my opinion and very, very unfairly, and we’re going to get to the bottom of it. ** Comments made concerning rioters involved in the [[2021 United States Capitol attack]] during a fund raising speech cited in [https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/02/politics/donald-trump-january-6-rioters-support/index.html "Trump expresses support for Capitol rioters as he continues to embrace extremist groups"] ''CNN Politics'' (December 2, 2022) * Do you throw the Presidential Election Results of 2020 OUT and declare the RIGHTFUL WINNER, or do you have a NEW ELECTION? A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution. ** cited in [https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/03/politics/trump-constitution-truth-social/index.html "Trump calls for the termination of the Constitution in Truth Social post"] ''CNN Politics'' (December 4, 2022) ===2023=== ====January 2023==== *So an out-of-control wild man kills beautiful Ashli Babbitt, a true Patriot, who was the only one killed on January 6th.<br>Her mother goes to protest her death and memory, and they arrest her mother.<br>Something has to be done about these [[Communism|Communists]] and [[Marxism|Marxists]] that are taking over and destroying our Country.<br>Pray for Ashli, and her wonderful, brave mother! **8 January 2023 [https://gab.com/realdonaldtrump/posts/109655572118634418 gab] *The [[left-wing]] [[gender]] [[insanity]] being pushed on our children is an act of child abuse—very simple. **31 January 2023 [https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-attacks-transgender-rights-video-1234671967/ per Rolling Stone] ====February 2023==== * Rihanna gave, without question, the single worst Halftime Show in Super Bowl history—This after insulting far more than half of our Nation, which is already in serious DECLINE, with her foul and insulting language. Also, so much for her ‘Stylist!’ ** [https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2023/02/donald-trump-rihanna-super-bowl-halftime-performance-epic-fail-truth-social "Donald Trump Calls Rihanna's Super Bowl Halftime Performance an 'Epic Fail'"], Vanity Fair, 13 February 2023 ====March 2023==== =====CPAC keynote speech (March 4, 2023)===== <small>CPAC keynote address in National Harbor, Maryland, on March 4, 2023, reported in {{cite web|url=https://www.newsweek.com/five-key-moments-donald-trump-cpac-speech-1785586 |title=Five Key Moments from Donald Trump's Crucial CPAC Speech|first1=Khaleda|last1=Rahman|publisher=Newsweek|date=March 5, 2023}}</small> * I'm the only candidate who can make this promise: I will prevent, and very easily, World War III. * We are never going back to a party that wants to give unlimited money to fight foreign endless wars but demands we cut veteran benefits and retirement benefits at home. * We’re not going back to people that want to destroy our great Social Security system – even some in our own party; I wonder who that might be – who want to raise the minimum age of Social Security to 70, 75 or even 80 in some cases, and who are out to cut Medicare to a level that will be unrecognizable * In 2016, I declared: I am your voice. Today, I add: I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed: I am your retribution. * I will totally obliterate the deep state. I will fire the unelected bureaucrats and shadow forces who have weaponized our justice system like it has never been weaponized before. And I will put the people back in charge of this country again. *This is the final battle – they know it, I know it, you know it, everybody knows it. Either they win, or we win. And I promise you this: If you put me back in the White House, their reign will be over, and America will be a free nation once again. *'''Before I even arrive''' at the Oval Office, I will have the disastrous war between Russia and Ukraine settled.<br>I will get the problem solved.<br>And I will get it solved in rapid order and ''''it will take me no longer than one day''', I know exactly what to say to each of them, I got along very well with Putin. **the [https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/04/politics/trump-cpac-speech/index.html March 4th] speech was referenced when this was quoted [https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/07/politics/trump-desantis-ukraine-2024-campaign/index.html March 7th] by Stephen Collinson in a CNN analysis ***Trump later reuses the phrase "before I even arrive at the Oval Office" in [[#June 2024]] in Philadelphia ====April 2023==== *Republicans in Congress should defund the DOJ and FBI until they come to their senses. The Democrats have totally weaponized law enforcement in our country and are viciously using this abuse of power to interfere with our already under siege elections! **[https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/donald-trump-calls-defunding-federal-police-arrest-new-york-rcna78301 Donald Trump calls for defunding federal police after his arrest in New York] ''Truth Social'' (April 5, 2023) =====NRA convention speech (April 14, 2023)===== * Our country has been chock full of guns for centuries, and there was no talk of [[w:School shooting|massacres of schoolchildren]] until around the year 2000. That's what it really started. They started talking about it. '''This is not a gun problem.''' This is a mental health problem. This is a social problem. This is a cultural problem. This is a spiritual problem. * I will ask Congress to repeal totally ineffective legislation that makes it harder to protect our schools and easier for criminals to face absolutely no opposition when they go in. I will also create a new tax credit to reimburse any teacher for the full costs of a concealed carry firearm and training from highly qualified experts. Who's better? Who's better? '''If even 5% of teachers, people that are skilled with arms, we want that. 5% were voluntarily armed and trained to stop active shooters. We would achieve effective deterrence and the problem would cease to exist.''' ** From a [[National Rifle Association|NRA]] convention speech in Indianapolis (April 14, 2023), cited in [https://newsroom.ap.org/editorial-photos-videos/detail?itemid=97388003ab4443938dba616244ea0117 "Trump calls for arming teachers at NRA convention"] ''AP Newsroom'' (April 15, 2023) * [T]he only way to stop these wicked actions is to '''ensure that any sicko who would shoot up a school knows that within seconds, not minutes, they will face certain death.''' ** Speech at the NRA convention, Indianapolis (April 14, 2023), cited in [https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/14/trump-pence-nra-2024/ "Trump, in legal peril, draws cheers at NRA convention; Pence draws boos"] ''The Washington Post'' (April 14, 2023) ====May 2023==== *They’re dying, Russians and Ukrainians. '''I want them to stop dying.''' And I’ll have that done — '''I’ll have that done in 24 hours''' **May 2023 at a CNN Town Hall, quoted in [https://apnews.com/article/trump-russia-ukraine-war-un-election-a78ecb843af452b8dda1d52d137ca893 2 July 2024 article by Edith M. Lederer for AP News] ==== June 2023 ==== [[File:"TOP SECRET SCI" (Top Secret Sensitive Compartmented Information) cover sheets - from, Classified intelligence material found during search of Mar-a-Lago (cropped).jpg|thumb|I AM AN [[Innocence|INNOCENT]] MAN!]] * I have been [[Federal prosecution of Donald Trump|summoned to appear at the Federal Courthouse]] in [[Miami]] on Tuesday, at 3 PM. I never thought it [[possible]] that such a thing could happen to a former [[President of the United States]], who received far more [[votes]] than any sitting President in the History of our Country, and is currently leading, by far, all Candidates, both [[Democrat]] and [[Republican]], in Polls of the [[2024 United States presidential election|2024 Presidential Election]]. I AM AN [[Innocence|INNOCENT]] MAN! ** Web posting, reported in [https://www.local10.com/news/local/2023/06/08/trump-told-to-appear-in-miami-after-indictment-by-federal-grand-jury-abc-reporting/ "Trump told to appear in Miami after indictment by federal grand jury, ABC reporting" in ''WPLG Local 10'' (8 June 2023)] *'''This is the final battle'''. With you at my side, we will demolish the deep state. expel the warmongers from our government. We will drive out the globalists. We will cast out the Communists, Marxists, and Fascists, and we will throw off the sick political class that hates our country. We will rout the fake news media, and we will defeat crooked Joe Biden. We will liberate America from these villains once and for all. **[https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/06/trump-lists-all-the-villains-he-plans-to-destroy-in-a-second-term Trump told the audience at the Oakland County Republican Party’s Lincoln Day Dinner] *For three years, Biden and his radical left allies have waged war on American auto workers in his ridiculous crusade to force everyone into electric cars, ridiculous regulations kill more than half of US auto jobs and decimate the suppliers that they decimated already, decimate the suppliers and it’s going to decimate your jobs. **[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/06/26/donald-trump-accuses-joe-biden-environmental-extremism/ Telegraph] , [https://www.candgnews.com/news/trump-headlines-oakland-county-republican-party-lincoln-day-dinner-2796 Trump headlines Oakland County Republican Party Lincoln Day Dinner] ====July 2023==== *“Is it Crooked Joe and his wonderful son, Hunter? Release the findings, release the tapes. We can’t have a crackhead in charge of our Nuclear Arsenal!! **[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-hunter-biden-cocaine-justice-department-b2373556.html] *… He’s totally compromised...I don’t like doing the same word for two people. We’re using the word crooked for Joe Biden because Joe Biden is the most crooked president in the history. **[https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/us-news/trump-says-he-was-very-kind-to-biden-then-tells-us-president-gloves-are-off-articleshow.html republicworld] *We have potential for a war outside of Ukraine - Russia. We should have kept Bagram because Bagram is one of the largest military bases in the world cost us billions of dollars to build forget about Afghanistan, it's one hour away from where China is building their nuclear weapons. **[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct2Vl-NO6Og] [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OL8NDU16Ex8] [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TZvpAqhMwdg] *If China takes Taiwan they will turn the world off potentially. **[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct2Vl-NO6Og] [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OL8NDU16Ex8] [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TZvpAqhMwdg] *Millions of illegal aliens have stormed across our borders. It is an invasion, like a military invasion. Our rights and liberties are being torn to shreds,Your country is being turned into a third-world hellhole, run by censors, perverts, criminals, and thugs.” **[https://nationalpost.com/news/world/trump-u-s-is-being-turned-into-a-third-world-hellhole-run-by-perverts-and-thugs criminals and perverts] *America is tired of being ruled by radical bureaucrats in Washington the Bidens, the Clintons, the Obamas, the Radical Left Democrats, the Marxists – guys like Paul Ryan and Karl Rove. Their reign will be over, and it will be over quickly, and America will be a free nation once again. **speech [https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/trump-says-hes-the-only-candidate-that-cant-be-owned-or-controlled/] * Think of this. We give them everything, including military protection and trade, and now we have to pay them to go there. As President I will not allow this, will end very quickly. **“U.S. CITIZENS WILL HAVE TO PAY FOR A VISA TO TRAVEL TO EUROPE STARTING IN 2024.” [https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110776705512999901] *Gloves are off.Under crooked Joe Biden. I never called him that. I took the name away from Hillary Clinton. We call her beautiful Hillary now.Now it's crooked Joe, because it's a much more appropriate name right now for this man who's just destroying our country. **rally [https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/donald-trump-july-4-south-carolina/2023/07/01/id/1125653/] *As part of my plan to obtain total independence from China, we will phase in tariffs and import restrictions to bring back production of all essential medicines to the United States of America where they belong. I signed an executive order to begin this process in 2020 but Biden has shamefully failed to follow through. He wants it ended. He wants to take care of China. *[https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/trump-promises-to-return-production-of-cancer-drugs-essential-medicines-to-u-s/] *They don’t go after the people who cheated in the election, they only go after the people who report on, or question the cheating if you don't have strong borders you don't have a country, right now we don't have a country. **[https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110781850689911246] *Trumpism or America first is very simple low taxes and regulations , the most powerful military , tariffs on countries taking advantage, protection of section amendment , great healthcare , low energy prices, parental power on school boards, life , strong borders. **[https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110781828901024566] *I expect nothing from the meeting with my lawyers and the lunatics in the DOJ regarding January 6th. They just want to interfere with the Presidential Election on 2024. It is their new form of cheating, but we will win !!! How can deranged Jack Smith bring a case on January 6th., as ridiculous as it is anyway, when I have already won such a case, and been fully acquitted, in the U.S. Senate? In other words, I was Impeached on this, and won!!! **[https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110793264554684917] [https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110793284091097891] ====August 2023==== *These monsters, all controlled and coordinated by the DOJ and Radical Left Lunatics, are Criminalizing Political Speech, a total SHUTDOWN OF DEMOCRACY! **Truth Social Post 6:28 PM on August 15, 2023.[https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110895990420845351] *CROOKED JOE BIDEN IS TOTALLY CONTROLLED BY CHINA, UKRAINE, & VARIOUS OTHER COUNTRIES. THEY KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT HIM - ALL OF HIS MISDEEDS. HE IS A COMPROMISED PRESIDENT WHO IS LEADING OUR COUNTRY TO HELL. HE IS A MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE! **Truth Social Post 6:20 PM on August 15, 2023.[https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110895877441671196] *I believe we have a compromised president. He was bribed, and now he’s being blackmailed. He’s a Manchurian Candidate. That’s why Crooked Joe is letting other countries walk all over the United States. **Truth Social Post on August 15, 2023.[https://links.truthsocial.com/link/110895072887935769] *IMPOSSIBLE to get a fair trial in Washington, D.C., which is over 95% anti-Trump, & for which I have called for a Federal TAKEOVER in order to bring our Capital back to Greatness. It is now a high crime embarrassment to our Nation and, indeed, the World **https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110823476578708544 *I AM NOW GOING TO WASHINGTON, D.C., TO BE ARRESTED FOR HAVING CHALLENGED A CORRUPT, RIGGED, & STOLEN ELECTION. IT IS A GREAT HONOR, BECAUSE I AM BEING ARRESTED FOR YOU. Biden and his family steal Millions and Millions of Dollars, including BRIBES from foreign countries, and I’m headed to D.C. to be ARRESTED for protesting a CROOKED ELECTION. UNFAIR VENUE, UNFAIR JUDGE. We are a Nation in Decline. **https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110826519469646840 https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110826840688757163 *CONSIDERING THE FACT THAT I HAD TO FLY TO A FILTHY, DIRTY, FALLING APART, & VERY UNSAFE WASHINGTON, D.C., TODAY, & THAT I WAS THEN ARRESTED BY MY POLITICAL OPPONENT, WHO IS LOSING BADLY TO ME IN THE POLLS, CROOKED JOE BIDEN, IT WAS A VERY GOOD DAY! **https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110828062805817649 *A very sad day for America, and it was also very sad driving through Washington, D.C., and seeing the filth and decay and all of the broken buildings and walls and the graffiti. This is not the place that I left. It’s a very sad thing to see it. **https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/trump-tells-reporters-if-you-cant-beat-him-you-persecute-him-or-you-prosecute-him/ *They’re trying to make it illegal to question the results of a bad election…But only a party that cheats in elections would try to make it illegal, on Election Day 2024, we’re going to evict Crooked Joe Biden from the White House…We’re going to expel the criminals and thugs from the halls of power in Washington, D.C. **[https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/trump-draws-biggest-crowd-ever-to-alabama-gop-dinner/ Alabama] *We are NOT a free nation, We don’t have a free press. We have a corrupt press. *[https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/trump-the-tables-must-turn-and-we-will-quickly-destroy-the-deep-state/ Alabama] *OUR HIGHLY PARTISAN, AND VERY CORRUPT, DEPARTMENT OF INJUSTICE, COULD HAVE BROUGHT THIS BIDIN “OPPONENT” CASE YEARS AGO, BUT CHOSE TO WAIT AND BRING IT RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF MY ELECTION CAMPAIGN. NO WAY!!! I HOPE YOU ARE WATCHING AMERICA. OUR COUNTRY IS BEING DESTROYED. **https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110842856814664717 *This will be the single biggest and most important election in the history of our country - maybe in the history of the WORLD. **https://truthsocial.com/@RSBN/posts/110840001623943794 *The “shocking and totally unexpected” loss by the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team to Sweden is fully emblematic of what is happening to the our once great Nation under Crooked Joe Biden. Many of our players were openly hostile to America - No other country behaved in such a manner, or even close. WOKE EQUALS FAILURE. Nice shot Megan, the USA is going to Hell!! *https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110845290114601452 *WHAT THE DEPARTMENT OF INJUSTICE IS DOING TO ME IS THE SAME THING DONE BY THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES ALL OVER THE WORLD, BUT IT WILL NOT WORK. **https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/trump-explains-why-he-should-not-have-a-protective-order-placed-on-him-by-deranged-jack-smith/ *Let’s see! My political Opponent, Crooked Joe Biden, tells Merrick Garland and the DOJ to indict and arrest me on bogus charges and accusations, trying desperately to steal the Election. But that wasn’t enough! He now wants Thug Prosecutor, Deranged Jack Smith, to file for a Court Order taking away my first amendment rights, SPEECH. So, based on yet another Radical Left Hoax, I’ll be the only “Politician” in American history not allowed to SPEAK. THE NEVER ENDING WITCH HUNT CONTINUES. **https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110852063479466833 *They just found a letter from Crooked Joe Biden directly to Keven Archer. Oh well, so much for “Joe” not knowing anything about all of the money he extorted. At some point the LameStream Media will have to cover this story, perhaps the biggest scandal in U.S. history. When they do, our Country will start to heal! **https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110850107581995665 *HOW CAN MY CORRUPT POLITICAL OPPONENT PUT ME ON TRIAL(S) DURING A CAMPAIGN THAT I AM WINNING (BY A LOT!), BUT FORCING ME TO SPEND TIME AND MONEY AWAY FROM THE “CAMPAIGN TRAIL” IN ORDER TO FIGHT BOGUS ACCUSATIONS & CHARGES? IS THIS GOING TO BE THE FUTURE OF ELECTIONS IN AMERICA? CAN A PRESIDENT ORDER HIS DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE TO INDICT AN OPPONENT JUST PRIOR TO AN ELECTION? **https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110849582956879248 *Just found out that Crooked Joe Biden’s DOJ secretly attacked my Twitter account, making it a point not to let me know about this major “hit” on my civil rights. My Political Opponent is going CRAZY trying to infringe on my Campaign for President. Nothing like this has ever happened before. Does the First Amendment still exist? Did Deranged Jack Smith tell the Unselects to DESTROY & DELETE all evidence? **https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110860965885418709 *It’s not like the State or Country is coming down on me. It’s a dishonest politician and his gang of Thugs breaking the law in order to get re-elected. **https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110859441854770499 *So now that I have full Subpoena Power because of the Freedom of Speech Sham Indictment by Crooked Joe Biden, Deranged Jack Smith, and the DOJ, it has just been reported that the Unselect January 6th Committee of Political Hacks and Thugs has illegally destroyed their Records and Documents. This is unthinkable, and the Fake Political Indictment against me must be immediately withdrawn. The system is Rigged & Corrupt, very much like the Presidential Election of 2020. We are a Nation in Decline. **https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110857162338915853 *Thousands of veterans were put on secret medial wait lists and many of them were left to die, All of that changed when WE arrived at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. **https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/trump-lays-out-exemplary-agenda-that-will-restore-hope-and-care-to-americas-veterans/ *Whenever more Biden corruption is exposed his henchmen charge me with a crime. **https://truthsocial.com/@RSBN/posts/110855681234356104 *I think that Crooked Joe Biden is not only dumb and incompetent, I believe he has gone MAD, a stark raving Lunatic, with his HORRIBLE AND COUNTRY THREATENING ENVIRONMENTAL, OPEN BORDERS, & DOJ/FBI WEAPONIZATION POLICIES. HE IS A MENTAL CATASTROPHE THAT IS LEADING OUR COUNTRY TO HELL!What Crooked Joe Biden, who can’t string two sentences together, has done to our once great Country through his Open Borders CATASTROPHE, may go down as the greatest and most damaging mistake ever made in USA HISTORY. It is not even believable that such incompetence and stupidity could have been allowed to happen. OUR COUNTRY IS BEING DESTROYED BY A MAN WITH THE MIND, IDEAS, AND I.Q. OF A FIRST GRADER. THIS INVASION OF OUR COUNTRY MUST STOP IMMEDIATELY. IT CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO CONTINUE! **https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110865224814637476 https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110865185229848140 *The Fake Indictments against me didn’t come down from heaven, they came from the most corrupt President in the history of the United States, Crooked Joe Biden, in order to Rig & Steal another Election. **[https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110867274500411944] *Why is “Phoney” (Like in PERFECT “PHONE” CALL, get it?) Fani Willis, the severely underperforming D.A. of Fulton County who is being accused of having an “affair” with a Gang Member of a group that she is prosecuting, leaking my name in regard to a Grand Jury pertaining to Election Fraud & Irregularities that I say took place in Georgia. I made a PERFECT PHONE CALL OF PROTEST. What does Phoney Fani have to do with me? She should instead focus on the record number of murders in Atlanta! **https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/110882230702522121 *The only Election Interference that took place in Fulton County, Georgia, was done by those that Rigged and Stole the Election, not by me, who simply complained that the Election was Rigged and Stolen. We have Massive and Conclusive Proof, if the Grand Jury would like to see it. Unfortunately, the publicity seeking D.A. isn’t interested in Justice, or this evidence. Also, as in Manhattan, the corrupt DOJ is pushing hard trying to keep Biden in Office. The whole system is dishonest and broken! **https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/110882321735123573 *To say no comment is oftentimes fine, but to be smiling when you say it, especially again such a tragedy as this, is absolutely horrible and unacceptable, Our government was not prepared. And very importantly, the aftermath is going very poorly with the governor of the island wanting to do nothing but blame it on global warming, and other things that just happen to pop into his head. **https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4152554-trump-bidens-response-to-maui-fires-disgraceful/ *“Hey, I’m running against a guy, I’m going to Indict him 3 or 4 times to keep him busy.” Does anyone think that Crooked Joe Biden would have said something like this??? **https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110914172490735501 *David Rivkin, a highly respected Constitutional law scholar, just clearly stated that I have “Constitutionally-based immunity” and “absolute immunity! **https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110918895000463495 *Why should Crooked Joe Biden be able to force me into the time and expense of trials, especially before the Election, on bogus claims pushed by his chief political supporter, The Department of Injustice? What a horrible precedent this sets for future Presidential campaigns. Crooked Joe Biden’s only campaign strategy is Indicting me, going on extended vacations, and Sleep, Sleep, Sleep!!! **https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110918860464876718 https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110918173717605996 *I easily won the Great State of Georgia in 2016, did a fantastic job, as President, for Georgia and the entire USA, received 10 Million more votes than I got, nationwide, in 2016, got by far the most votes in history for a sitting President, but shockingly, “LOST” Georgia. All this despite winning nearby Alabama and South Carolina in Record Setting Landslides. Why did Georgia officials agree to, and sign, the one sided Consent Decree? Does anybody really believe I lost Georgia? I DON’T! **https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110916681777676824 ====September 2023==== *MINORITY VOTERS ARE ABANDONING CROOKED JOE BIDEN & THE DEMOCRAT PARTY FOR “TRUMP.” THANK YOU, A VERY WISE DECISION! **https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1110151303435539041 *It is all a shadow of its former self. Ukraine, Inflation, Bad Economy, Woke Military, No World Standing, No Respect, and today, 6 Billion Dollars for hostages. Where is the call from Republicans for the 25th Amendment. **Truth social *Can you believe that Crooked Joe Biden is giving $6 Billion to the terrorist regime in Iran? That money be used for terrorism all over the Middle East, and, indeed, the World. This incompetent FOOL is absolutely destroying America He had the audacity to announce this terrible deal today, September 11th. To pay for hostages will lead to kidnapping, ransom, and blackmail against Americans across the globe So, lets get this straight! We did a hostage TRADE with Iran. We gave them 5 very tough, smart people that they desperately wanted. We likewise got back 5 people BUT, we also gave them 6 BILLION DOLLARS! How much of a kickback does Crooked Joe Biden get Does anyone realize how much money 6 Billion Dollars is? When I was President, I got back 58 hostages for ZERO money. Remember Pastor Brunson? It sets a TERRIBLE precedent. Republicans, call out the 25th Amendment, NOW! Biden is INCOMPETENT **https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4199317-trump-rips-biden-for-release-of-6b-in-iranian-funds/ *Early in the administration Education department will be closing . we spend more money on education than any other country yet we are bottom of every list. **[https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=ojRde4zCYd0 Truth social] *Biden’s job killing EV mandate has dictated that nearly seven percent of all cars sold in the US must be fully electric in less than 10 years. Crooked Joe Biden is back like a wretched old vulture. **[https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/trump-crooked-joe-biden-is-back-like-a-wretched-old-vulture-trying-to-finish-off-his-prey/] *[[Mark Milley]], who led perhaps the most embarrassing moment in American history with his grossly incompetent implementation of the withdrawal from Afghanistan, costing many lives, leaving behind hundreds of American citizens, and handing over BILLIONS of dollars of the finest military equipment ever made, will be leaving the military next week. This will be a time for all citizens of the USA to celebrate! This guy turned out to be a Woke train wreck who, if the Fake News reporting is correct, was actually dealing with China to give them a heads up on the thinking of the President of the United States. This is an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH! A war between China and the United States could have been the result of this treasonous act. To be continued!!! **[https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/111111513207332826 Truth social] * Nobody has any idea where these people are coming from. And we know they come from prisons. We know they come from mental institutions, insane asylums. We know they're terrorists. Nobody has seen anything like we're witnessing right now. It is a very sad thing for our country. It's poisoning the blood of our country. It's so bad. ** ''The National Pulse'' interview, quoted in {{cite web |date=2023-10-17 |title=Trump - "Migrants Poisoning the Blood of Our Country" |work=Meidas Touch |url=https://www.meidastouch.com/:section/trump-migrants-poisoning-the-blood-of-our-country }} ====October 2023==== *We will immediately stop all of the pillaging and theft. Very simply: If you rob a store, you can fully expect to be shot as you are leaving that store... Shot! The word that they shoot you will get out within minutes and our nation, in one day, will be an entirely different place. There must be retribution for theft and destruction and the ruination of our country **2 October 2023 in [https://nypost.com/2023/10/02/trump-calls-for-shoplifters-to-be-shot-to-save-the-nation/ NY Post] *I had a wonderful life before all this stuff. I '''didn't know what a grand jury was''', I didn't know what a subpoena, '''what is a subpoena'''? I had a wonderful life. **5 October 2023 in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1uPUfVrb74&t=842s spoken interview] * lowlife with a very small brain and a very big mouth * by far the dumbest of my military people * incapable of doing a good job * It was too much for him, and I couldn’t stand the guy, so I fired him like a ‘dog’ ** Claimed about John Kelly, retired U.S. Marine Corps general, former Chief of Staff for Donald Trump, and before that US Homeland Security Secretary, quoted in [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/05/donald-trump-john-kelly-comments-military-veterans "‘Lowlife with small brain and big mouth’: Trump hits out at ex-aide Kelly"], ''The Guardian'' (October 5, 2023) * There’s a man, Viktor Orbán, did anyone ever hear of him? He’s probably, like, one of the strongest leaders anywhere in the world. He’s the leader of Turkey. **24 October 2023 in [https://www.politico.eu/article/trump-confuses-turkish-and-hungarian-leaders-orban-erdogan/ "Trump praises Hungary’s ‘Viktor Orbán’ as great ‘leader of Turkey’"], ''Politico'' ==== November 2023 ==== * We pledge to you that we will root out the Communists, Marxists, Fascists, and Radical Left Thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our Country, lie, steal, and cheat on Elections, and will do anything possible, whether legally or illegally, to destroy America, and the American Dream. The threat from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous, and grave, than the threat from within. Despite the hatred and anger of the Radical Left Lunatics who want to destroy our Country, we will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! ** [https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/donald-trump-fascist-vermin/ "The “Is Donald Trump a Fascist?” Debate Has Been Ended—by Donald Trump"], ''The Nation'' (November 14, 2023) ====December 2023==== *: ''Sean Hannity:'' Under no circumstances, you are promising America tonight, you would never abuse power as retribution against anybody? *:''Donald Trump:'' Except for day one. *: ''Sean Hannity:'' Except for— *: ''Donald Trump:'' ''[aside to audience, pointing at Sean]'' He's doing great. ''[to Sean]'' Except for day one. I want to close the border and I want to drill, drill, drill. * We love this guy. He says, "You’re not going to be a dictator, are ya?" I said: "No, no, no, other than day one. We're closing the border, and we're drilling, drilling, drilling. After that, I'm not a dictator." **5 December 2023 in Davenport, Iowa town hall, quoted in {{cite news |date=2023-12-05 |title=Trump to Hannity on Whether He’ll Abuse Power as President: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ |periodical=Rolling Stone |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/donald-trump-hannity-iowa-town-hall-1234917385/ }} * They let — I think the real number is 15, 16 million people into our country. When they do that, we got a lot of work to do.<br>They're poisoning the '''blood of our country''', that's what they've done.<br>They poison mental institutions and prisons all over the world, not just in South America, not just to three or four countries that we think about, but all over the world. They're coming into our country from Africa, from Asia, all over the world. **16 December 2023 in Durham, New Hampshire rally, quoted in {{cite news |date=2023-12-17 |title=Trump says immigrants are 'poisoning the blood of our country.' Biden campaign likens comments to Hitler. |periodical=NBC News |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-says-immigrants-are-poisoning-blood-country-biden-campaign-liken-rcna130141 }} *ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IS POISONING THE BLOOD OF OUR NATION **17 December 2023 per [https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-poisoning-blood-quote-fascism-b2465618.html Alex Woodward article in The Independent] on Trumps TruthSocial account after leaving New Hampshire ===2024=== ====January 2024==== *Even if you vote and then pass away, it's worth it. **14 January 2024 per [https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-worth-it-sick-vote-iowa-caucus-pass-away-2024-1 Business Insider] and [https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2024/01/15/donald-trump-vote-pass-away-iowa-caucus-vpx.cnn CNN] *“We’re going to place strong protections to stop banks and regulators from trying to debank you from your—our political beliefs what they do. They want to debank you. We’re going to debank—think of this. They want to take away your country. Electric cars... They wanna take away your rights. They wanna take away your country. The things they’re doing. All [[Electric vehicles|electric cars]]. Give me a break. If you want an electric car, great. But they don’t go far. They’re very expensive. They gotta be made in China. That’s why I think I’m gonna get the autoworkers to vote for Trump. You know, we’re having great, great talks. But think of what they wanna do. They wanna take away your rights.” **17 January 2024 at a campaign rally in New Hampshire, reported by several sources.<ref name="evdb">{{Cite web |website={{w|The Daily Beast}} |date=2024-01-21 |accessdate=2024-01-21 |title=We Need an Interpreter to Work Out Trump’s ‘Debanking’ Rant |department=The New Abnormal |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-debanking-rant-in-new-hampshire-and-electric-cars-makes-no-sense}}</ref><ref name="evmed">{{Cite web |url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/huh-trump-declares-they-wanna-de-bank-you-and-we-re-going-to-de-bank/ar-AA1n9KYV |title=Huh? Trump Declares, ‘They Wanna De-Bank You and We’re Going to De-Bank’ |first=Michael |last=Luciano |date=2024-01-18 |accessdate=2024-01-21 |website={{w|Mediaite}}}}</ref> * There is a great man, a great leader in Europe — [[Viktor Orbán|Viktor Orban]] [...] He is the Prime Minister of [[Hungary]]. He is a very great leader, a very strong man. Some people don't like him because he's too strong. **20 January 2024 at a rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, as cited in [https://news.yahoo.com/trump-hails-hungarian-pm-orban-162500247.html "Trump hails Hungarian PM Orban as 'great leader' and 'strong man'], ''Yahoo! News,'' reproduced from The New Voice of Ukraine (21 January 2024) * We have become a drug infested, crime ridden nation which is incapable of solvin’ even the sollest smallest problem. The simplest of problems, we can no longer solve. We can’t do anything. We are an institute in a powerful death penalty. We will put this on. ** [https://www.indy100.com/video/donald-trump-incoherent-sentence-video "Trump utter's incoherent sentence about US not solving 'sollest smallest problem'"], ''Indy 100'' (January 23, 2024) *You know, I had an uncle. He's the longest-serving professor, Doctor John Trump, in the history of MIT, with same genes—we have genes, we're smart people, we're smart people... We're like race—Mr. Lieutenant Governor—we're like racehorses, too. You know, the fast ones produce the fast ones, and the slow ones doesn't work out so well, right? But we're no different in that sense. ** [https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-migrants-bad-genes-1965004 January 2024] ====March 2024==== *There's a lot of good and there's a lot of bad with TikTok, but the thing I don't like is that without TikTok, you're going to make Facebook bigger, and I consider Facebook to be an enemy of the people, along with a lot of the media. I'm not looking to make Facebook double the size. I think Facebook has been very bad for our country. **11 March 2024 per [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-reversal-tiktok-ban-says-facebook-enemy-of-people/ CBS article by Jacob Rosen] * They call it BleachBit, but it’s essentially acid that will destroy everything, you know, within ten miles. **13 March 2024 about a computer software program, quoted in [https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-still-seems-to-think-hillary-clinton-used-acid-to-delete-emails "Trump STILL Seems to Think Hillary Clinton Used Acid to Delete Emails"], ''The Daily Beast'' * People who are coming from parts unknown, countries that you’ve never heard of. Languages that nobody in this country speaks. We don’t even have teachers of some of these languages. Who would think that we have languages that are like from the planet Mars? Nobody, nobody, knows how to, you know, speak it. **25 March 2024 [https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-out-of-this-world-claim_n_65e6de3ee4b0170871fb9275 "Donald Trump Dragged To The Moon Over New Interplanetary Dog Whistle"], ''Huffington Post'' ====April 2024==== *I called [Bill Bar] him ‘Weak, Slow Moving, Lethargic, Gutless, and Lazy,Based on the fact that I greatly appreciate his wholehearted Endorsement, I am removing the word ‘Lethargic’ from my statement. **25 April 2024 per [https://web.archive.org/web/20240426044532/https://gazette.com/news/wex/bill-barr-endorses-trump-despite-past-criticism/article_1c59037c-c234-5540-be2e-8a5e59bf3ad9.html archive of The Gazette] ====May 2024==== *These people are running a Gestapo administration,And it’s the only thing they have. And it’s the only way they’re going to win in their opinion. Once I got indicted, I said well, now the gloves have to come off,If you care too much, you tend to choke. And in a way, I don’t care. It’s just you know, life is life. **4 May 2024 per [https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-biden-administration-gestapo-private-donor-event-rcna150743 NBC writers] Burns/Brooks/Sonnier/Gomez/Terkel * We will make [[America]] ''[[powerful]]'' again. <br /> We will make America ''[[wealthy]]'' again. <br /> We will make America ''[[strong]]'' again. <br /> We will make America [[proud]] again. <br /> We will make America ''[[safe]]'' again. <br /> ''We will make America [[great]] again!'' ** [https://www.instagram.com/realdonaldtrump/reel/C7Z3M8Kudxd/?hl=en Presidential campaign slogans, Bronx, NY (25 May 2024)] * If he wins, our country is going to be destroyed. * He’s a demented tyrant. ** Claimed about President of the United States of America Joe Biden, quoted in [https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/05/politics-fear-itself-trump-maga/678311/ "The Politics of Fear Itself"], ''The Atlantic'' (May 7, 2024) * Our cities are choking to death. Our states are dying. And frankly, our country is dying. ** [https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/05/politics-fear-itself-trump-maga/678311/ "The Politics of Fear Itself"], ''The Atlantic'' (May 7, 2024) *I have been indicted more than the great Al Capone, on bullshit. **11 May 2024 per [https://www.insidernj.com/trump-delusionary-in-new-jersey/ InsiderNJ] writer Max Pizarro * Has anyone ever seen ''[[The Silence of the Lambs (film)|The Silence of the Lambs]]''? The late, great Hannibal Lecter. He's a wonderful man. He oftentimes would have a friend for dinner. **11 May 2024 from a speech in Wildwood, N.J. per [https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/13/trump-hannibal-lecter-immigration/ Washington Post], as cited 16 May 2024 in [https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/opinion/donald-trump-hannibal-lecter.html "When Donald Trump Met Hannibal Lecter"], ''The New York Times'' *I know we won (Minnesota) in 2020. We've got to be careful. We've got to watch those votes. ** 17 May 2024 during an address to the Minnesota Republican Party's annual Lincoln-Reagan Dinner in St. Paul per [https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/05/18/donald-trump-minnesota-election/73747544007/ Donald Trump falsely tells supporters he won Minnesota in 2020], ''USA Today'' *'''Before I even arrive at the Oval Office''', shortly after we win the presidency, I will have the horrible war between Russia and Ukraine settled, and we will restore, as we had just four years ago, peace through strength. They respected our country and they respected your President. **18 May 2024 in Dallas, Texas in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgl06asFsXc speech to NRA aired on Fox], transcribed [https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-speaks-at-nra-convention 20 May 2024] ***Trump had previously used the "before I even arrive at the Oval Office" phrase in [[#May 2023]] and would again use it in Philadelphia the following month in [[#June 2024]] *And if you vote for me, on Day One, I will commute the sentence of [[Ross Ulbricht]] **20 May 2024 (Saturday night) at Libertarian National Convention, reported in [https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/25/trump-commute-ross-ulbricht-sentence-libertarian-convention-00160025 25 May 2024 article] by Peter Shaefer of Politico *It boiled down to something that was very beautiful, the way it happened, and I got along with him very well.<br>He respected me, I respected him.<br>Very smart guy, very strong guy **28 May 2024 about Kim Jong-Un, dictator in North Korea, cited in [https://newrepublic.com/post/181993/trump-brags-beautiful-relationship-cruel-dictator-kim-jong-un "Watch: Trump’s Disgusting Praise for “Beautiful” Bond with Kim Jong Un"], ''New Republic'' *We have a country that’s in big trouble, but this was a rigged decision right from day one, with a conflicted judge who should have never been allowed to try this case, And we’ll keep fighting we’ll fight till the end and we’ll win because our country has gone to hell. We don’t have the same country anymore. We have a divided mess. We’re a nation in decline, serious decline, millions and millions of people pouring into our country right now, from prisons and from mental institutions terrorists, and they’re taking over our country, real verdict would come in November. **30 May 2024 from [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-reaction-guilty-verdict-new-york-criminal-trial/ Melissa Quinn of CBS] and [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-jury-reaction-hush-money-trial-b2554187.html Ariana Baio of The Independent] * Our witnesses were literally crucified by this man who looks like an angel, but he is really a devil. **31 May 2024 [https://x.com/Acyn/status/1796560554359996767 tweet by Acyn] shows footage of Trump saying this about Judge [[Juan Merchan]], after Trump was found guilty in concealing payment of hush money to adult film performer Stormy Daniels, cited in [https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/trump-ridiculed-over-literally-crucified-trial-witness-claim_uk_665c277be4b00474bee95ad7 "Social Media Mocks Trump's Claim That Trial Witnesses Were 'Literally Crucified'"], ''Huffington Post'' (June 02, 2024) ====June 2024==== *Don’t forget, if it weren’t me, they’d be going after somebody else. And I know a lot of the competition, They wouldn’t be doing so well right now. They’d be saying, ‘Mommy, take me home, I want to go home. **2 June 2024 cited in [https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/02/trump-biden-heat-2024-elections-00161168 Politico article] by Mia McCarthy *Wouldn't it be terrible to throw the President's wife and the former Secretary of State into jail? Wouldn't that be a terrible thing? But they wanna do it! It's a terrible, terrible, path that they're leading us to & it's very possible that it's going to have to happen to them. **5 June 2024 per [https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/trump-suggests-political-opponents-could-face-prosecution/ NewsNationNow article] by Brett Samuels of The Hill *[<i>Rachel Campos-Duffy:</i>] Would you declassify the 9/11 files?<br>[<i>Donald Trump:</i>] Yeah.<br>[<i>Campos-Duffy:</i>] Would you declassify the JFK files?<br>[<i>Trump:</i>] Yeah. I did a lot of it.<br>[<i>Campos-Duffy:</i>] Would you declassify the Epstein files?<br>[<i>Trump:</i>] Yeah. Yeah, I would. I guess I would. I think that less so because, you know, you don't know — you don't want to affect people's lives if it's phony stuff in there, because it's a lot of phony stuff with that whole world. **During an appearance on Fox & Friends Weekend, quoted in [https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/donald-trump-panics-when-asked-if-hed-declassify-epstein-documents-netizens-wonder-what-is-he-afraid-of-101717671792541.html Donald Trump ‘panics’ when asked if he'd declassify Epstein documents, netizens wonder ‘what is he afraid of?’] ''Hindustan Times'' (June 6, 2024)[https://www.rev.com/transcripts/donald-trump-interview-on-the-will-cain-show] *Those J6 warriors — they were warriors — but they were really, more than anything else, they’re victims of what happened... All they were doing is protesting a rigged election. That’s what they were doing. **9 June 2024 [https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4713140-trump-calls-j6-defendants-warriors/ "Trump calls Jan. 6 defendants ‘warriors’"] * I don't care about you. I just want your vote. **10 June 2024 [https://lamag.com/politics/i-dont-care-about-you-i-just-want-your-vote-trump-says-at-his-latest-rally "Trump to Nevada: ’I Don't Care About You... I Just Want Your Vote’"], Los Angeles Magazine * So I said, ‘Let me ask you a question. Nobody ever asked this question. And it must be because of MIT. My relationship to MIT. Very smart. I say, What would happen if the boat sank from its weight? And you’re in the boat and you have this tremendously powerful battery, and the battery is now underwater, and there’s a shark that’s approximately 10 yards over there. By the way, a lot of shark attacks lately. You notice that? A lot of shark. I watch some guys justifying it today. ‘Well, they weren’t really that angry. They bit off the young lady’s leg because of the fact that they were — they were not hungry, but they misunderstood what - who she was.’ These people are crazy. ‘There’s no problem with sharks. They just didn’t really understand a young woman swimming. No really got decimated and other people too, a lot of shark attacks. So I said, ‘So there’s a shark 10 yards away from the boat, 10 yards or here. Do I get electrocuted? If the boat is sinking, water goes over the battery, the boat is sinking. Do I stay on top of the boat and get electrocuted? Or do I jump over by the shark and not get electrocuted? ‘You know, nobody’s ever asked me that question.’ I said, ‘I think it’s a good question. I think there’s a lot of electric current coming through that water.’ But you know what I’d do if there was a shark or you get electrocuted? I’ll take electrocution every single time. I’m not getting near the shark! **10 June 2024 [https://newrepublic.com/post/182494/cognitive-decline-trump-rant-batteries "Cognitive Decline? Trump Short-Circuits During Bonkers Rant"], The New Republic *before I even arrive at the Oval Office, shortly after we win the presidency **22 June 2024 rally in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, quoted in a 2 July 2024 [https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/07/02/nato-second-trump-term-00164517 Politico article] by Michael Hirsh ***Trump had previously used the phrase "before I even arrive at the Oval Office" in [[#March 2023]], and also used it in a May 2024 speech to the NRA the previous month *I'm not rambling. **23 June 2024 [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/his-brains-are-pudding-internet-mocks-trump-for-incoherent-defense-of-rambling-rant/ar-BB1oHYc9?item=flightsprg-tipsubsc-v1a?loadin=defaultbrowser "'His brains are pudding': Internet mocks Trump for 'incoherent' defense of 'rambling' rant"], MSN *But I will tell you that would have never happened [if I was president]. Ukraine would have never happened. The israeli attack would have never happened and inflation would have never happened. Those are three big things. Inflation would have never happened.<br>No, I wouldn't support a national ban [on abortion]. No, I would not. **20 June 2024 [https://deepcast.fm/episode/46167/in-conversation-with-president-trump#quotes/ "In conversation with President Trump", on All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg, found on DeepCast] * I want you to remember what they did to me. They tortured me in the Fulton County Jail, and TOOK MY MUGSHOT. So guess what? I put it on a mug for the WHOLE WORLD TO SEE! **24 June 2024 [https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/donald-trump-georgia-fundraising/2024/06/24/id/1169939/ "Trump Fundraising Email: I Was 'Tortured' in Jail"], Newsmax * If I took this shirt off, you would see a beautiful beautiful person. But you would see wounds all over. I’ve taken a lot of wounds I can tell you. More than I suspect any president ever. **24 June 2024 [https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/donald-trump-talks-taking-off-105630724.html "Donald Trump Talks About Taking Off His Shirt To Show 'Wounds.' Internet Can't Even."], Yahoo News *Israel is the one. And you should let them go and let them go finish the job. He doesn’t want to do it. He’s become like a Palestinian, but hey, don’t like him because he’s a very bad Palestinian. He’s a weak one. **27 June 2024 per [https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4744809-donald-trump-joe-biden-debate-palestine-israel/ The Hill article] by Brett Samuels *If we had a real president, a president that knew -- that was respected by Putin ... he would have never invaded Ukraine. **27 June 2024 debate with Joe Biden, cited [https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/trump-says-he-can-end-the-russia-ukraine-war-in-one-day-russia-s-un-ambassador-says-he-can-t-1.6947744 1 July 2024] by Edith Lederer *I really don't know what he said at the end of that sentence. I don't think he knows what he said either. **About Joe Biden. [https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4744753-trump-jabs-biden-really-dont-know-what-he-said/ Presidential debate], June 27, 2024 ====July 2024==== * I know nothing about [[Project 2025]]. * I disagree with some of the things they’re saying and some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal. ** Claimed on July 5, 2024, quoted in: ::* [https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/11/politics/trump-allies-project-2025/index.html "Trump claims not to know who is behind Project 2025. A CNN review found at least 140 people who worked for him are involved"], ''CNN'' (July 11, 2024) ::* [https://www.huffpost.com/entry/russell-vought-project-2025-centre-for-climate-reporting_n_66be3e85e4b04090eac4512c "Project 2025 Co-Author Says Donald Trump ‘Very Supportive Of What We Do’"], ''Huffington Post'' (August 15, 2024) *It was God alone who prevented the unthinkable from happening...In this moment, it is more important than ever that we stand United, and show our True Character as Americans, remaining Strong and Determined, and not allowing Evil to Win **14 July 2024 [https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/it-was-god-alone-who-prevented-the-unthinkable-trump-on-assassination-attempt-6104182 per NDTV] *By luck or by God, many people are saying it’s by God I’m still here.<br>The agents hit me so hard that my shoes fell off, and my shoes are tight.<br>I had all prepared an extremely tough speech, really good, all about the corrupt, horrible administration. But I threw it away. I want to try to unite our country. **14 July 2024 cited by [https://nypost.com/2024/07/14/us-news/grateful-defiant-trump-recounts-surreal-assassination-attempt-at-rally-im-supposed-to-be-dead/ NY Post] writer Michael Goodwin and [https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/15/trump-assassination-attempt-rnc-speech-00168251 Politico] writer Isabella Ramirez * Kamala even wants to pass laws to outlaw RED MEAT to stop climate change. * You know what that means? That means no more cows. * I guess eventually she’s gonna mean no more people. Right? No more people. ** Claimed on July 25, 2024, without providing evidence, quoted in [https://www.yahoo.com/news/fact-check-kamala-harris-does-not-want-to-ban-red-meat-as-trump-keeps-falsely-claiming-204515645.html "Fact check: ​​Kamala Harris does not want to ban red meat as Trump keeps falsely claiming"], ''Yahoo News'' (August 1, 2024) * And then the [Kamala Harris] campaign says, 'I'm the prosecutor and he is the convicted felon.' **25 July 2024 [https://www.comicsands.com/harris-trump-ad-prosecutor-felon-2668815011.html# "Kamala Harris Uses 6-Second Clip Of Trump Telling The Truth About Her Campaign In New Ad—And It's Gold"], ''Comic Sands'' *They say something happened to me when I got shot. I became nice.<br>If you don't mind, I'm not going to be nice. Is that okay?<br>If border czar Harris is in charge, every week they'll bring in a neverending stream of illegal aliens, rapists, blood thirsty killers, child murderers to go after our sons and our daughters.<br>Everything Kamala touches turns into a total disaster. **25 July 2024 claims about US Vice President [[Kamala Harris]] at a sports arena in Charlotte, cited in [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13664627/donald-trump-Charlotte-north-carolina-kamala-harris.html "Donald Trump turns his attention to 'radical left lunatic' Kamala Harris in first rally since Biden dropped out"], ''Daily Mail'' *We have a new victim now, Kamala. A brand new victim, and honestly she’s a radical left lunatic. When you find out about her, all I have to say is defund the police,Three months ago, she was thought of so badly, [the media] were just killing her. And now they’re trying to make her into a, let’s say, Margaret Thatcher. I don’t think so. It’s not going to happen. Margaret Thatcher didn’t laugh like that. Did she? **27 July 2024 in [https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/27/trump-harris-minnesota-rally-shooting-00171526 Politico article] by Myah Ward *I pledge to the bitcoin community, that the day I take the oath of office, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ anti-crypto crusade will be over. On day one, I will fire Gary Gensler. **date unknown, [https://www.ft.com/content/03e8e1d2-4244-4eba-9248-9bbd8d1b0090 Financial Times article] *You won't have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what, it will be fixed, it will be fine, you won't have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians...I love you Christians. I'm a Christian. I love you, get out, you gotta get out and vote. '''In four years, you don't have to vote again, we'll have it fixed so good you're not going to have to vote.''' **27 July 2024 in a speech to Turning Point Action in West Palm Beach, Florida, quote from the Reuters article [https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-tells-christians-they-wont-have-vote-after-this-election-2024-07-27/ "Trump tells Christians they won't have to vote after this election"] by Tim Reid *I thought she was a little younger, but she's 60 **29 July 2024 about Kamala Harris, cited in [https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-2668835186/ "She'll 'destroy the country': Trump rambles about Kamala Harris in new Fox News interview"], ''RawStory'' ***Kamala Harris was born 20 October 1964 so would not turn sixty until 20 October 2024, two weeks prior to the upcoming election - she was actually 59 years 9 months old when he said this *I’m not so sure which is better. But she either likes or loves me. And that’s nice. **30 July 2024 about his wife Melania Trump, cited in [https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/07/30/trump-thinks-melania-either-likes-or-loves-him-following-assassination-attempt/ "Trump thinks Melania ‘either likes or loves’ him following assassination attempt"], ''Mercury News'' * Perverts and losers **30 July 2024 describing members of the Lincoln Project, an organisation of moderate conservatives who oppose Trump and trumpism. Quoted in [https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-rages-republicans-campaigning-lincoln-project-1849509 "Donald Trump Rages at Republicans Campaigning Against Him"], ''Newsweek'' * She doesn’t like Jewish people. You know it, I know it and everybody knows it and nobody wants to say it. **30 July 2024 claimed about US Vice President Kamala Harris, who is married to a Jewish husband. Quoted in [https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/trump-claims-harris-doesnt-like-jews-seems-to-agree-with-calling-her-husband-a-crappy-jew/ "Trump claims Harris ‘doesn’t like Jews,’ seems to agree with calling her husband ‘a crappy Jew’"], ''Times of Israel'' * If you are Jewish, regardless of Israel, if you’re Jewish, if you vote for a Democrat, you’re a fool, an absolute fool. **30 July 2024 [https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-agrees-with-radio-host-who-calls-doug-emhoff-a-crappy-jew "Trump Agrees With Radio Host Who Calls Emhoff a ‘Crappy Jew’"], ''The Daily Beast'' * So I've known her a long time - indirectly, not directly very much - and she was always of Indian heritage. And she was only promoting Indian heritage. I didn't know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black. And now she wants to be known as Black. So I don't know, is she Indian or is she Black? **31 July 2024 about Kamala Harris, whose mother was a biologist from India and father is an emeritus professor of economics at Stanford University, originating from Jamaica. Quoted in [https://www.nbcchicago.com/dnc-chicago-2024/all-of-a-sudden-trump-tells-black-journalists-in-chicago-that-kamala-harris-turned-black/3507125/ "‘All of a sudden': Trump tells Black journalists in Chicago Kamala Harris ‘turned Black'"], ''NBC Chicago'' * I don't want pronouns. **31 July 2024 [https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/donald-trump-gets-basic-english-123624171.html "Donald Trump Gets Basic English Lesson After Ridiculous Comment About His ‘Pronouns’"], ''Huffington Post / Yahoo Entertainment'' * A Black job is anybody that has a job. **31 July 2024 [https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/31/trump-black-journalist-convention-nabj.html "Trump questions if Harris is Black, downplays Vance pick at Black journalists convention"], ''CNBC'' ====August 2024==== * That’s a weird deal going on there. They’re the weird ones. Nobody’s ever called me weird. I’m a lot of things, but weird I’m not.<br>You notice the evening news, every one of them, you know, they introduced the word ‘weird’, and all of a sudden they’re talking about ‘weird’. No, we’re not weird people. We’re actually just the opposite. We’re right down the middle.<br>No, we're not weird. We're very solid people. We want to have strong borders. We want to have good elections. They’re the weird ones. **1 August 2024 [https://time.com/7009800/donald-trump-responds-weird-label-jd-vance-tim-walz-commentary/ Time] and [https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-stop-calling-jd-vance-and-me-weird "Donald Trump: Stop Calling Me and J.D. Vance ‘Weird’"], ''The Daily Beast'' * 24 HOURS UNTIL WE UNLEASH HELL. At this time tomorrow, Crooked Kamala’s worst nightmares come true.<br>Tomorrow I step on stage and deliver Open Border Czar Kamala Harris the WORST defeat of her failed political career.<br> **2 August 2024 campaign e-mail from Trump, cited in [https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4808393-trump-unleash-hell-atlanta-rally-harris/ "Trump vows to ‘unleash hell’ on Harris at Atlanta rally"], ''The Hill'' *This one is so smart, so sharp. She grabbed me. She gave me a kiss. I said "I think I'm never going back home to the first lady." See now for the average politician, that's death. For me, I don't care. **4 August 2024 about [[Michaelah Montgomery]] at a rally in Georgia about an incident earlier in 2024, cited in [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13707347/donald-trump-georgia-rally-activist-michaelah-montgomery.html "Trump's risqué remark to young activist who went viral for hugging him at Chick-fil-A after he invited her on stage at rally - as she makes VERY personal dig at Kamala"], ''Daily Mail'' * I’m for electric cars. I have to be, you know, because Elon endorsed me very strongly. So I have no choice. **5 August 2024 [https://www.benzinga.com/news/24/08/40154264/trump-says-electric-cars-are-fantastic-after-tesla-ceo-elon-musks-endorsement-i-have-to-be-you-know "Trump Says Electric Cars Are 'Fantastic' After Tesla CEO Elon Musk's Endorsement: 'I Have To Be, You Know… I Have No Choice'"], ''Benzinga'' * Kamabla Harris is afraid to Debate me on FoxNews **6 August 2024 cited in [https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-pathetic-way-attacking-120711256.html "Donald Trump’s ‘Pathetic’ New Way Of Attacking Kamala Harris Is Slammed Online"], ''Yahoo News / Huffington Post'' * What are the chances that Crooked Joe Biden, the WORST President in the history of the U.S., whose Presidency was Unconstitutionally STOLEN from him by Kamabla, Barrack HUSSEIN Obama, Crazy Nancy Pelosi, Shifty Adam Schiff, Cryin' Chuck Schumer, and others on the Lunatic Left, CRASHES the Democrat National Convention and tries to take back the Nomination, beginning with challenging me to another DEBATE. He feels that he made a historically tragic mistake by handing over the U.S. Presidency, a COUP, to the people in the World he most hates, and he wants it back, NOW!!! ** 6 August 2024 Cited in [https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-suggests-biden-may-try-take-back-nomination-1935550 "Donald Trump Suggests Biden May Try to 'Take Back The Nomination'"], ''Newsweek'' * Crazy Kamabla is, indeed, CRAZY. I HEAR THERE IS A BIG MOVEMENT TO “BRING BACK CROOKED JOE". ** 6 August 2024 Cited in [https://www.indy100.com/politics/trump/trump-truth-social-biden-walz "Trump shares outrageous Biden prediction in baffling Truth Social rant"], ''Indy100'' * If you look at Caracas, it was known for being a very dangerous city and now it's very safe. In fact, the next interview we do, we'll do it in Caracas, Venezuela, because it's safer than many of our cities. ** 6 August 2024 [https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/trump-says-caracas-venezuela-is-safer-than-many-us-cities-20962070 "Trump Says Caracas Is 'Safer Than Many of Our Cities'"], ''Miami New Times'' *I heard she's sort of a nasty person.<br>She doesn't do interviews 'cause she can't answer questions. **7 August 2024 about Vice President of the United States of America, Kamala Harris, cited in [https://newrepublic.com/post/184640/donald-trump-kamala-harris-attacks "Trump’s Latest Desperate Kamala Attacks Fall Hilariously Flat"], ''The New Republic'' * A ticket that would want this country to go communist immediately, if not sooner.<br>We’re gonna be living like dogs. Our whole country, our whole system, is gonna collapse. **7 August 2024 about [[Tim Walz]], cited in [https://voz.us/en/politics/240807/15242/trump-on-the-election-of-walz-ticket-that-would-want-this-country-to-go-communist-immediately-if-not-sooner.html "Trump, on the selection of Walz: 'A ticket that would want this country to go communist immediately, if not sooner'"], ''Voz'' (August 7, 2024) *Kim Jong Un liked me a lot. He doesn't like this group [the Harris campaign] **8 August 2024 cited in [https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-press-conference-mar-a-lago-updates.html "Trump Agrees to Debate Harris at Rambling Press Conference: How It Happened"], ''New York Magazine'' * I’ve spoken to the biggest crowds. Nobody’s spoken to crowds bigger than me. If you look at Martin Luther King when he did his speech, his great speech, and you look at ours, same real estate, same everything, same number of people, if not we had more. And they said he had a million people, but I had 25,000 people.<br>Nobody was killed on Jan. 6.<br>The presidency was taken away from Joe Biden, and I’m no Biden fan, but I tell you what, from a constitutional standpoint, from any standpoint you look at, they took the presidency away.<br>Twenty million people came over the border during the Biden-Harris administration — 20 million people — and it could be very much higher than that. Nobody really knows. **9 August 2024 quoted in [https://apnews.com/article/trump-news-conference-fact-check-misinformation-eb899c1fc734f5ecb42b8d0902e5c004 "FACT FOCUS: A look at claims made by Trump at news conference"], ''AP News'' *Christie, he’s eating right now. He can’t be bothered.<br>Sir, please do not call him a fat pig, that’s very disrespect.<br>See, I’m trying to be nice. Don’t call him a fat pig. You can’t do that.<br>I was extremely respectful of Sloppy Chris Christie today in New Hampshire. During a speech in front of a large crowd of Patriots, somebody shouted out that "Chris Christie is a fat pig." Rather than acknowleding that, which many speakers would have done, I said "No, No, he is not a fat pig." I'm sure Chris would have been very happy with my defense of him! **10 August 2024 [[Chris Christie]], cited in [https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/08/trump-is-pretending-he-didnt-call-chris-christie-fat-pig.html "Trump Is Pretending He Didn’t Call Christie a ‘Fat Pig’"], ''Intelligencer'' (August 10, 2024) *Has anyone noticed that Kamala CHEATED at the airport? There was nobody at the plane, and she ‘A.I.’d’ it, and showed a massive ‘crowd’ of so-called followers, BUT THEY DIDN’T EXIST! **10 August 2024 cited in [https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/08/trump-claims-ai-images-kamala-harris-rallies/679445/ "Trump’s Latest Falsehood Is a Huge Tell"], ''The Atlantic'' *She’s a CHEATER. She had NOBODY waiting, and the ‘crowd’ looked like 10,000 people! Same thing is happening with her fake ‘crowds’ at her speeches. This is the way the Democrats win Elections, by CHEATING ‒ And they’re even worse at the Ballot Box. She should be disqualified because the creation of a fake image is ELECTION INTERFERENCE. Anyone who does that will cheat at ANYTHING!<br>EVERYTHING ABOUT KAMALA IS FAKE! **12 August 2024, cited in [https://eu.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/08/12/trump-harris-rally-crowd-ai-conspiracy-theory/74763568007/ "Trump blames Harris' crowds on AI, so let's all assume everything we don't like is fake!"], ''USA Today'' *The worst president in history. And one of the reasons he was so bad, first of all, the Israeli attack would have never happened. Russia would never have attacked Ukraine and we'd have no inflation. And we wouldn't have had the Afghanistan mess if you think of it.<br>Now she's looking like she wants to be more Trump than Trump if that's possible.She wants to have open borders. And now she's going like she's tough on the border. It's such a lie. **12 August 2024 in [https://turboscribe.ai/transcript/share/4422534834081521519/HWE18owsC2u8E5u2HpZNikyBdermlV2YSwGlTEPKJJw/donald-trump-and-elon-musk-full-transcript-august-12-2024-https-x-com-i-spaces-1nakepnklwoxl TurboScribe article] *The ocean is going to rise one-eighth of an inch over the next 400 years. **13 August 2024 about sea level rise, which is currently at 4 mm (5/32") per year with an accelerating trend. Quoted in [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/12/trump-elon-musk-interview "Trump revisits most divisive talking points in rambling interview with Musk"], The Guardian *The biggest threat is nuclear warming. **13 August 2024 quoted in [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/12/trump-elon-musk-interview "Trump revisits most divisive talking points in rambling interview with Musk"], The Guardian *"I said to Vladimir Putin, I said, 'Don't do it. You can't do it, Vladimir, you do it, it's going to be a bad day. You cannot do it.' And I told him things that what I do. And he said, 'No way.' And I said, 'way.' And, you know, it's the last time we ever had the conversation. **13 August 2024 in [https://www.politico.eu/article/trump-zelenskyy-eu-freewheeling-musk-interview/ Politco article] *You’re the greatest cutter,...I need an Elon Musk — I need somebody that has a lot of strength and courage and smarts. I want to close up the Department of Education, move education back to the states. **13 August 2024 in [https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-elon-musk-x-twitter-livestream-83d6d07fc0ffef4151c96fc56aeec9ee AP News article] *Iran is no friend of mine, a lot of bad signals get sent.The reason is because I was strong on Iran and I was protecting people in the Middle East that maybe they aren’t so happy about that. **14 August 2024 per [https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/14/trump-iran-hack-campaign-00174002 political article] *Kamala has declared that tackling inflation will be a Day One priority, but Day One for Kamala was 3½ years ago. Why hasn’t she done it? .‌‌.‌‌She's a critic. That's all she is. **14 August 2024 per [https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trumps-economy-speech-veers-personal-attacks-harris-biden-rcna166652 NBC News article] * Can I hang our picture together in Mar-a-Lago?<br>I’VE ALWAYS WANTED TO MEET YOU! Chris, can we take a picture during our all-expenses-paid trip together? I already have the PERFECT spot picked out in Mar-a-Lago to show it off! * MEET TRUMP! ENTER TO WIN **14 August 2024 mass E-mail sent out to a large number of people. [https://politicalemails.org/messages/1521460 "Can I hang our picture together in Mar-a-Lago?"], PoliticalEmails.com (August 14, 2024) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBudZMFvcvY&t=115s "Trump Goes TOTALLY NUTS as his ENTIRE LIFE COLLAPSES"], ''MeidasTouch'' (August 14, 2024) *Miriam, I watched (Sheldon Adelson, her late husband) sitting so proud in the White House when we gave Miriam the Presidential Medal of Freedom. That’s the highest award you can get as a civilian, it’s the equivalent of the Congressional Medal of Honor, but civilian version. It’s actually much better, because everyone gets the Congressional Medal of Honor – that’s soldiers. They’re either in very bad shape because they’ve been hit so many times by bullets, or they’re dead. She gets it and she’s a healthy, beautiful woman, and they’re rated equal. **15 August 2024 [https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/16/politics/trump-medal-of-honor/index.html Trump says civilian award is ‘much better’ than Medal of Honor] * We’re talking about a thing called the economy.<br>We’re doing this as an intellectual speech.<br>We literally are a third world nation, we literally are a third-world nation. We’re a banana republic in so many ways, and we’re not going to let that happen because we’re starting a free fall.<br>For nearly four years Kamala has crackled as the American economy has burned.<br>What happened to her laugh? I haven’t heard that laugh in about a week. That’s why they keep her off the stage, that’s why she has disappeared.<br>That’s the laugh of a crazy person, I will tell you. She’s crazy.<br>Incompetent socialist lunatic.<br>Kamabla.<br>Rape and murder, rape and beatings, rape and something else, and sometimes just immediate killing. These people are brutal. These are people that came out of the toughest jails anywhere in the world from all over the world, and we can’t take them. **16 August 2024 per [https://eu.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/08/14/trump-rally-north-carolina-rambling-economy-harris-crime/74798514007/ "Trump's North Carolina speech went predictably off the rails. Can he even spell 'economy'?"], ''USA today'' * I think I’m entitled to personal attacks.<br>Now you’ll say he ranted and raved […] I’m a very calm person, believe it or not. **16 August 2024 from [https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/16/politics/trump-fury-harris-switch-campaign-analysis/index.html "Trump’s fury over Harris’ switch with Biden is increasingly driving his campaign"], ''CNN'' * She actually called me ‘weird. And she called JD and I ‘weird.’ He’s not weird, he was a great student at Yale.<br>We have this guy that’s running a failed, really a very failed state who’s had a terrible career. I mean you have him saying, ‘They’re weird.’ No, he’s a weird guy, and she’s weird in her policy. **16 August 2024 claim about Vice President of the USA Kamala Harris and Governor of Minnesota Tim Walz, quoted in [https://sg.news.yahoo.com/trump-denies-jd-vance-weird-040509909.html "Trump Denies He And JD Vance Are Weird In The Weirdest Way Possible"], ''Yahoo News / Huffington Post'' *I watched Sheldon sitting so proud in the White House when we gave Miriam the '''Presidential Medal of Freedom'''.<br>That's the highest award you can get as a civilian.<br>'''It's the equivalent of the Congressional Medal of Honor, but civilian''' version.<br>It's actually much better because everyone gets the Congressional Medal of Honor, they're soldiers.<br>They're either in very bad shape because they've been hit so many times by bullets or they are dead.<br>She gets it and she's a healthy, beautiful woman.<br>And they're '''rated equal''', but she got the Presidential Medal of Freedom. ** [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-medal-of-freedom-medal-of-honor/ "Trump says Medal of Freedom "equivalent" to and "much better" than Medal of Honor, sparking backlash from veterans"] ''CBS News'' (August 16, 2024) *Kamala will implement SOVIET Style Price Controls. EVERY American will be taxed up to 80% of their income!<br>If Kamala is elected and implements her Communist Price Caps, there will be famine, starvation, and poverty, the likes of which we have never seen. America will NEVER recover!<br>Kamala Harris wants to raise your taxes and make you pay for free healthcare and free housing in luxury hotels for her millions of illegal aliens. **16 August 2024 quoted in [https://www.rawstory.com/kamala-harris-vs-trump-2668979250/ "Donald Trump rants that 'famine' will come to America if Kamala Harris is elected"], ''RawStory'' *Starting the day I take the oath of office, I will rapidly drive prices down, and we will make America affordable again. **17 August 2024 At a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, quoted in [https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-claims-continues-personal-attacks-harris/story?id=112921505 Trump claims he's 'better looking,' continues personal attacks toward Harris] ''ABC News'' *I am much better looking than her. I’m a better looking person than Kamala.<br>I say that I’m much better looking than her. I had never heard that one. They said her biggest advantage was that she’s a beautiful-looking woman. Ha. I’d never thought of that.<br>I said, who am I running against, Harris? I said, ‘Who the hell is Harris?'<br>Joe Biden hates her.<br>They will say he’s rambling. I don’t ramble. I’m a really smart guy, **18 August 2024 per [https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-im-better-looking-than-kamala-and-dont-say-i-ramble "Trump: ‘I’m Better Looking than Kamala—and Don’t Say I Ramble’"], ''The Daily Beast'' *You know, he said we’re weird. That J.D. and I are weird. I think we’re extremely normal people. We’re like you, we’re exactly like you.<br>He [Tim Walz] is weird. Did you ever see him go on the stage and go, like, crazy? Between his movement and her laugh, there’s a lot of crazy. I’d say a step further than weird, weird is a nice word by comparison. **19 August 2024 to a small crowd in York, Pennsylvania, quoted in [https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-insists-extremely-normal-during-204337061.html "Trump Insists He’s “Extremely Normal” During Incredibly Weird Speech"], ''Yahoo News / The New Republic'' *Prices will come down. You just watch: They’ll come down, and they’ll come down fast, not only with insurance, with everything…. Prices will come down and come down dramatically and come down fast. **20 August 2024 from a recent speech in Asheville, North Carolina, quoted in [https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/20/business/trump-inflation-prices-deflation/index.html Trump promises to make prices plunge again. That’s a dangerous proposal] ''CNN'' *You can’t walk across the street to get a loaf of bread. You get shot, you get mugged, you get raped, you get whatever it may be. **21 August 2024 at a rally in Howell, Michigan, quoted in [https://ca.news.yahoo.com/trumps-latest-claim-crime-real-224038664.html "Trump's Latest Claim About Crime Is A Real Doozy"], ''Yahoo News / Huffington Post'' * That was a coup, it was a vicious violent overthrow of a president of the United States. **20 August 2024 about [[Joe Biden]] pulling out of the 2024 presidential election, quoted in [https://ktrh.iheart.com/featured/houston-texas-news/content/2024-08-20-trump-counters-dnc-with-rally-in-michigan-that-was-a-coup/ "Trump Counters DNC With Rally In Michigan - "That Was A Coup""], ''KTRH Local Houston and Texas News'' *We have a fool as a president. **20 August 2024 cited in [https://ktrh.iheart.com/featured/houston-texas-news/content/2024-08-20-trump-counters-dnc-with-rally-in-michigan-that-was-a-coup/ "Trump Counters DNC With Rally In Michigan - "That Was A Coup""], ''KTRH Local Houston and Texas News'' *I think that women living in the suburbs—I keep hearing about ‘the suburban woman doesn’t like Trump,’ well, I think it’s a fake poll because why wouldn’t they like me? I keep the suburbs safe. **202 August 2024 during a rally in a garage in Howell, Michigan, quoted in [https://newrepublic.com/post/185085/donald-trump-derails-speech-crime-complain-women "Trump Derails Weird Speech on Crime to Complain Women Hate Him"], ''New Republic'' *We're going to bring up electronics too. Electronics. We buy everything away. When you see the sophistication of the product I just saw at this place, electronics is peanuts. **20 August 2024 in [https://www.dailykos.com/story/2024/8/19/2264243/-Thanks-Joe-We-won-t-forget-who-was-POTUS-in-2020 "Thanks, Joe. We won't forget who was POTUS in 2020"], ''Daily Kos'' *Our primary focus is not to get out the vote, it is to make sure they don’t cheat. We have all the votes we’ll need. You can see it ... every house along the way has signs: Trump, Trump, Trump, Vance, Trump, Vance. **20 August 2024 in [https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-says-focus-ensuring-democrats-dont-cheat-not-voter-turnout-rcna167630 "Trump says his focus is ensuring Democrats 'don't cheat,' not voter turnout — echoing efforts to undermine election"], ''NBC News'' *There will be no future under Comrade Kamala Harris, because she will take us into a Nuclear World War III , She will never be respected by the Tyrants of the World! **23 August 2024 in [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/23/trump-reaction-harris-dnc-speech "Harris’s convention speech sparks live rant from outraged Trump"], ''The Guardian'' *My Administration will be great for women and their reproductive rights. **23 August 2024 [https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113012083325505976 Truth Social] *Kamala Harris is the weakest presidential candidate in history on crime.<br>She’s allowed millions of people to pour through our borders, many from prisons, mental institutions and, indeed, terrorists, coming in at levels never seen before.<br>What gives her the right to run for president?<br>She got no votes to Biden’s fourteen million.<br>She failed in her previous attempt, was the first one out of twenty-two people to quit, never made it to Iowa, and now she’s a presidential candidate?<br>This is a '''threat to democracy'''! ** [https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2669023213/ "'What gives her the right to run?' Trump launches overnight tirade at Kamala Harris"], ''RawStory'' (August 24, 2024) *The truth is, they’re trying to get out of it because she doesn’t want to debate. She’s not a good debater, she’s not a smart person. She doesn’t want to debate. **26 August 2024 in response to the Harris campaign‘s demand that their September 10th debate occur without muted microphones; in [https://nypost.com/2024/08/26/us-news/harris-campaign-urges-trump-to-take-abc-news-debate-without-muted-microphone/ "Trump says Harris ‘trying to get out of’ debate over unmuted microphones demand"] *15 stunning all-new digital trading cards, it's really something. These cards show me dancing, even holding some BitCoins! ** [https://www.rawstory.com/trump-digital-trading-cards-2669080783/ "Trump revives widely mocked digital trading cards as Harris gains in polls"], ''RawStory'' (August 27, 2024) *The Harris/Biden administration has been caught fraudulently manipulating job statistics to hide the true extent of the economic ruin that they’ve inflicted on America, Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the administration padded the numbers with an extra, listen to this one, 818,000 jobs that don’t exist. **[https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2024/job-data-manipulated-fact-check/ "Donald Trump falsely claimed that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris manipulated job data"], ''Poynter'' (August 27, 2024) * I think to a certain extent it’s Biden’s fault and Harris’s fault. And I’m the opponent. Look, they were weaponizing government against me, they brought in the whole DOJ to try and get me, they weren’t too interested in my health and safety,They’re saying I’m a threat to democracy,They would say that, that was standard line, just keep saying it, and you know that can get assassins or potential assassins going. That’s a terrible thing … Maybe that bullet is because of their rhetoric. ** With "dr Phil" [https://archive.ph/mamCT "Trump, without evidence, in part faults Biden, Harris for assassination attempt"], ''Washington Post'' (August 28, 2024) *Well, I think the six-week (ban) is too short. It has to be more time. So…and I’ve told them that, I want more weeks. I am going to be voting that we need more than six weeks…. I believe in exceptions for life of the mother, —if you look— incest, rape. ** 29 August 2024 when asked how he was going to vote on the Florida amendment to overturn the six-week ban on abortion; in [https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-says-wants-make-ivf-treatments-paid-government-insurance-compani-rcna168804 "Trump says he wants to make IVF treatments paid for by government or insurance companies if elected"] *I’m announcing today in a major statement that under the Trump administration, your government will pay for — or your insurance company will be mandated to pay for — all costs associated with IVF treatment. Because we want more babies, to put it nicely. **30 August 2024 in [https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/we-want-more-babies-trump-promises-free-ivf-treatments-amid-abortion-rights-debate-says-us-government-will-pay-but-how/articleshow/112909996.cms 'We want more babies': Trump promises free IVF treatments amid abortion rights debate, says 'US government will pay' - But how?] *I’ll be voting ’no’ for that reason<br>“’No’ on (Florida) Amendment 4?”<br>For that reason because it‘s radical. You talk about radical. Doing an abortion in the ninth month is unacceptable to anybody…. There‘s something in between, but the six (weeks) is too short, it‘s just too short a period and the nine months is unacceptable…. But for that reason, for the radicalization on the Democrats side, we‘re voting ’no’.<br>“…Would you veto a federal abortion ban?”<br>I‘m not going to have to think about it because it‘s working out so well right now. The states are doing it. It‘s a states issue…. Well, what‘s happening is you‘re never going to have to do it because it‘s being done by the states. The states are voting. And the people are now getting a chance to vote and this is the way everybody wanted it. **30 August 2024 when asked about how he would vote on the Florida abortion amendment in the upcoming election in [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pro-lifers-blast-trump-betrayal-shifting-abortion-stance-answer-florida-amendment-4 Pro-lifers blast Trump 'betrayal' with shifting abortion stance, answer on Florida Amendment 4] *It’s crazy. Our country is being '''poisoned''', and your schools and your children are suffering greatly because they’re going into the classrooms, they’re taking the seats and they don’t even speak English. **30 Aug 2024 quoted in [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/aug/30/our-country-is-being-poisoned-trump-says-as-he-cou/ Washington Times article by Ali Swenson and Will Weissert] * If you look at Kamala and you look at what she’s done to every place she’s touched has turned to s**t. Every single place she’s touched. I have to say, it. Every place she’s touched, you know? ** [https://www.yahoo.com/news/melania-plea-trump-control-swearing-202341688.html "Melania’s plea for Trump to control his swearing flops as he tears into Harris at rally"], ''Yahoo News / Independent'' (August 31, 2024) * I don’t need publicity. I get a lot of publicity. I would like to get a lot less publicity.<br>I would hire a public relations agent to get less publicity. ** [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/30/trump-pennsylvania-rally-arlington-cemetery-photo-op?utm_source=sdrn%3Avg%3Aarticle%3AJbnA66 "Trump denies exploiting visit to US soldiers’ graves: ‘I don’t need publicity’"], ''The Guardian'' (August 31, 2024) *Now, they have Kamala who has many deficiencies, but she's a nasty person. The way she treated [[Mike Pence]] was horrible. The way she treats people is horrible. **31 August 2024 [https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-saying-kamala-harris-was-horrible-mike-pence-mocked-1947392 Donald Trump Saying Kamala Harris Was 'Horrible' to Mike Pence Mocked] ====September 2024==== *you take a look at Venezuela as an example, the crime is down 72% because they've taken their criminals from Caracas, they've taken their drug dealers. They're emptying their prisons into our country **[https://www.wtae.com/article/kamala-harris-donald-trump-pennsylvania-fact-check/62048503] ** [https://www.factcheck.org/2024/06/crime-drop-in-venezuela-does-not-prove-trumps-claim-the-country-is-sending-criminals-to-u-s/ "Crime Drop in Venezuela Does Not Prove Trump’s Claim the Country Is Sending Criminals to U.S."], ''FactCheck.org'' (June 14, 2024) * I think you believe [in God] more, because when you speak to experts, like my sons who are shooting experts. But when you speak to experts, they said there was no chance that he could have missed from that distance....<br>I think you think like, if you believe in God, you believe in God more. And somebody said like, why? And I’d like to think that God thinks that I’m going to straighten out our country. Our country is so sick and it’s so broken. Our country is just broken. And maybe that was the reason, I don’t know. I don’t know, a lot of people have said that. ** Speaking about assassination attempt on July 14, 2024, in interview on Fox News “Life, Liberty & Levin”, quoted in [https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4858345-trump-id-like-to-think-that-god-thinks-that-im-going-to-straighten-out-our-country/ "Trump: ‘I’d like to think that God thinks that I’m going to straighten out our country’"], ''The Hill'' [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RbQ2Gb2AG4 YouTube interview] (September 1, 2024) *You just cannot let them have a nuclear weapon. But I will say this: If they do have a nuclear weapon, Israel is gone. ** [https://www.iranintl.com/en/202409014919 "Trump says if Iran gets a nuke, 'Israel will be gone'"], ''Iran International'' (September 1, 2024) * Whoever heard you get indicted for interfering with a presidential election where you have every right to do it? ** [https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-he-had-every-right-interfere-2020-election-2024-09-02/ "Trump says he had 'every right' to interfere in 2020 election"], ''CNN'' (September 2, 2024) * You know, I do the weave. You know what the weave is? I’ll talk about like nine different things, and they all come back brilliantly together and it’s like, and friends of mine that are, like, English professors, they say, ‘It’s the most brilliant thing I’ve ever seen.’ But the fake news, you know what they say? ‘He rambled.’ ** [https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/critics-call-hilarious-bs-donald-094722633.html "Critics Call Hilarious BS On Donald Trump's New Brag About His Speeches"], ''Yahoo News / Huffington Post'' (September 2, 2024) * [About Project 2025:] I know nothing about it, and they know that, too. Democrats know that, and I purposely haven't read it because I want to say to you I don't, I have no idea what it's all about.<br>It's easier than saying I read it and you know, all of the things. No, I purposely haven't read it, and I've heard about it.<br>I've heard about things that are in there that I don't like, and there's some things in there that everybody would like, but there are things that I don't like at all. ** [https://www.rawstory.com/trump-project-2025-2669122309/ "Trump says ‘purposefully’ hasn’t read Project 2025 — but everybody would like parts of it"], ''RawStory'' (September 3, 2024) *But I’ve done well with debates. I became president, and then the second time I got millions more votes than I got the first time. I was told if I got 63 million … you would win. You can’t not win. And I got millions of more votes than that and lost by a whisker but— and look at what happened with the world. **[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-lex-fridman-podcast-interview-b2606533.html Trump admits he lost 2020 election ‘by a whisker’ during Lex Fridman podcast], ''Independent'' (September 3, 2024) "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCbfTN-caFI Donald Trump Interview - Lex Fridman Podcast #442]" (at 10m51s), Lex Fridman, 3 September 2024. * I am proud to represent our Failing Nation in fighting the GREATEST POLITICAL WITCH HUNT IN HISTORY. REMOVE THE GAG ORDER SO THAT I CAN SHOW HOW CORRUPT OUR COURT SYSTEM IS. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES ARE NOT TO BE GAGGED! ** Claimed about a court order to stop repeatedly intimidating witnesses and attacking family members of a judge in a felony court case, quoted in [https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/i-am-proud-to-represent-our-failing-nation-trump-melts-down-in-early-morning-court-rant/ar-AA1pZ1jo "'I am proud to represent our failing nation': Trump melts down in early morning court rant"], ''MSN / Raw Story'' (September 4, 2024) *I’ve been preparing all my life for this debate. **Referring to his upcoming September 10th debate with Kamala Harris, in [https://www.wbtw.com/news/washington-dc-news/harris-and-trump-court-voters-ahead-of-first-debate/ Harris and Trump court voters ahead of first debate], ''News13 WBTW'' (September 4, 2024) * [Asked about what specific legislation Trump would advance to make child care affordable:] Well, I would do that, and we’re sitting down, and I was, somebody, we had Senator Marco Rubio, and my daughter Ivanka was so impactful on that issue. It’s a very important issue. But I think when you talk about the kind of numbers that I’m talking about, that, because, look, child care is child care is. It’s, couldn’t, you know, there’s something, you have to have it. In this country you have to have it. But when you talk about those numbers compared to the kind of numbers that I’m talking about by taxing foreign nations at levels that they’re not used to — but they’ll get used to it very quickly – and it’s not gonna stop them from doing business with us, but they’ll have a very substantial tax when they send product into our country. Those numbers are so much bigger than any numbers that we’re talking about, including child care, that it’s going to take care. We’re gonna have — I, I look forward to having no deficits within a fairly short period of time, coupled with the reductions that I told you about on waste and fraud and all of the other things that are going on in our country, because I have to stay with child care. I want to stay with child care, but those numbers are small relative to the kind of economic numbers that I’m talking about, including growth, but growth also headed up by what the plan is that I just, that I just told you about. We’re gonna be taking in trillions of dollars, and as much as child care is talked about as being expensive, it’s relatively speaking not very expensive compared to the kind of numbers we’ll be taking in. We’re going to make this into an incredible country that can afford to take care of its people, and then we’ll worry about the rest of the world. Let’s help other people. But we’re going to take care of our country first. This is about America first. It’s about Make America Great Again. We have to do it because right now we’re a failing nation, so we’ll take care of it. ** [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-childcare-economy-speech-b2607970.html "Trump tried to explain how he plans to make childcare more affordable. It was a word salad"], ''Independent'' (September 6, 2024)<!--Quoted by several other sources, such as ''All In with Chris Hayes'', https://www.rawstory.com/trump-decline/, see video here: https://www.c-span.org/video/?538141-1/fmr-pres-trump-remarks-economic-club-york--> * But the transgender thing is incredible. Think of it. Your kid goes to school and comes home a few days later with an operation. The school decides what's going to happen with your child. And you know, many of these childs [sic] 15 years later say, 'What the hell happened? Who did this to me?' They say, 'Who did this to me?' It's incredible. ** [https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-schools-transgender-surgeries/ "Trump's Claim That Children Received Gender-Affirming Surgeries at School Is False"], ''Snopes'' (September 5, 2024) * As the first order of business, this commission will develop an action plan to totally eliminate fraud and improper payments within six months, saving trillions of dollars ** [https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/06/technology/elon-musk-donald-trump-influence.html How Elon Musk Is Influencing Donald Trump], ''New York Times'' (September 6, 2024) * [On the likelihood of him sexually abusing a woman in 1979:] She said I was making out with her and then I grabbed her in a certain part. Think of the impracticality of this. I'm famous in a plane, people are coming into the plane and I grab a woman - what are the chances of that happening? Frankly, I know you're going to say it's a terrible thing to say but it couldn't have happened, it didn't happen because she would not have been the chosen one. **[https://www.the-express.com/news/politics/147957/donald-trump-e-jean-carroll-court-appeal Trump declares E. Jean Carroll 'not the chosen one' in bizarre rant following court appeal], ''Daily Express US'' [https://youtube.com/watch?v=mFdzWJXPYbo Trump mocks his sexual assault accuser: ‘She would not have been the chosen one’], MSNBC YouTube (September 6, 2024) *I am the Peace President, and only I will stop World War III! **[https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-loses-it-on-the-cheneys-after-they-endorse-harris-irrelevant-rino-along-with-his-daughter/ Trump Loses It on the Cheneys After They Endorse Harris: ‘Irrelevant RINO, Along with His Daughter!’] ''Mediaite'' [https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113093196894480530] (September 6, 2024) * I better win, I better win, or you're going to have problems like we've never had. We may have no country left. It may be our last election. ** [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-claims-israel-gone-two-years-harris-elected-president-video "Trump claims Israel will be 'gone' within two years if Harris is elected president: video"], ''Fox News'' (September 7, 2024) *WHEN I WIN, those people that CHEATED will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law, which will include long term prison sentences so that this Depravity of Justice does not happen again.<br>Please beware that this legal exposure extends to Lawyers, Political Operatives, Donors, Illegal Voters, & Corrupt Election Officials. Those involved in unscrupulous behavior will be sought out, caught, and prosecuted at levels, unfortunately, never seen before in our Country. **[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-threatens-long-prison-sentences-for-those-who-cheat-in-the-election-if-he-wins Trump threatens long prison sentences for those who ‘cheat’ in the election if he wins], ''PBS News'' (September 8, 2024) *The moment we win, we will rapidly review the cases of every political prisoner unjustly victimized by the Harris regime, and I will sign their pardons on day one. With your vote this election, their lying, cheating, thieving, hoaxing, and plotting will come to an end. We got to stop the cheating. If we stop that cheating, if we don't let them cheat, I don't even have to campaign anymore. We're going to win by so much. **At a rally in Wisconsin on Saturday, [https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/cnc/date/2024-09-09/segment/07 CNN News Central Transcripts] (September 9, 2024) * Can you imagine you’re a parent and your son leaves the house and you say, ‘Jimmy, I love you so much. Go have a good day in school’ and your son comes back with a brutal operation. Can you even imagine this? What the hell is wrong with our country? ** [https://uk.news.yahoo.com/trump-falsely-claims-children-being-195728811.html "Trump falsely claims children being forced into gender transition ops at school in rambling fantasy-filled rally speech"], ''Yahoo News / Independent'' (September 9, 2024) * I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT! ** [https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/15/trump-says-i-hate-taylor-swift-after-pop-star-endorses-kamala-harris.html "Trump says ‘I hate Taylor Swift’ after pop star endorses Kamala Harris"], ''CNBC'' (September 15, 2024) * Latin music superstar Nicky Jam. Do you know Nicky? She’s hot. ** Claimed about the singer after he endorsed Trump, quoted in [https://eu.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2024/09/15/donald-trump-nicky-jam-las-vegas-rally/75237185007/ "Donald Trump misgenders reggaeton star Nicky Jam at rally: 'She's hot'"], ''USA Today'' (September 16, 2024) *We have to call it Covid. What the hell does Covid mean. The China virus. A lot of people think they did that because they were not happy with me as president. **[https://www.the-express.com/news/politics/148953/trump Trump pushes theory that 'China created Covid-19 because they didn't like his presidency'] (September 17, 2024) *I don't know what happened. With the bomb threats. I know that it's been taken over by illegal migrants, and that's a terrible thing that happened. Springfield was this beautiful town, and now they're going through hell. **[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-life-in-springfield-has-been-disrupted-by-lies-about-its-haitian-community How life in Springfield has been disrupted by lies about its Haitian community], ''PBS News'' (17 September, 2024) * We have Bagram in Alaska. ** [https://alaskabeacon.com/briefs/at-town-hall-trump-mixes-up-alaska-and-afghanistan-with-confusing-remarks-on-oil/ "At town hall, Trump mixes up Alaska and Afghanistan with confusing remarks on oil"] ''Alaska Beacon'' (September 18, 2024) * Nobody can draw crowds like me... I’m the greatest of all time. Maybe greater even than Elvis. Elvis had a guitar, I don’t have a guitar. I don’t have the privilege of a guitar. ** [https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/donald-trump-boasts-he-is-greater-than-elvis/ar-AA1qPeXs "Donald Trump boasts he is ‘greater than Elvis’"], ''MSN'' (September 19, 2024) *She doesn’t like doing interviews. And she’s not knowledgeable about economy and various things, and I think it would be a problem. But you know what? [Biden] was pretty much gone. They said, 'Joe, it’s over. You're getting out.' And they put her in, and she somehow — a woman — somehow she's doing better than he did. But I can't imagine it can last. **During an appearance on Fox News’ ''Gutfeld!'', [https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-seemed-surprised-kamala-200648284.html Donald Trump Just Made An Eyebrow-Raising Observation About Kamala Harris], ''Yahoo News'' (September 19, 2024) * This is Martin Luther King on steroids. I told that to Mark. I said, 'I think you're better than Martin Luther King. I think you are Martin Luther King times two.' ** Said about candidate for North Carolina governor [[Mark Robinson (American politician)|Mark Robinson]], quoted in [https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/robinson-expected-attend-trumps-north-carolina-rally-amid/story?id=113873656 "Robinson not expected to attend Trump's North Carolina rally amid scandal: Sources"], ''ABC News'' (September 21, 2024) * Anybody that thinks crime is going down is a serious brain problem. ** [https://www.scrippsnews.com/us-news/crime/murder-other-violent-crime-rates-dropped-across-us-last-year-new-fbi-data-shows "Murder, other violent crime rates dropped across US last year, new FBI data shows"], ''Scripps News'' (September 23, 2024) * She had the other interview with the other guy who was a nice guy I think from Philadelphia from Pennsylvania, he was a nice guy, he was asking her all these (scrambles words) – the daily take – they don’t take like I do! Anybody wants to go, go what the hell differences they make – they have – and how dishonest was ABC. * I'm cognitively very strong. ** [https://au.news.yahoo.com/trump-teased-over-rambling-word-120404261.html "Trump teased over rambling ‘word salad’ at rally as he insists he is 'cognitively very strong'"], ''Yahoo News / The Independent'' (September 24, 2024) * If any senior doesn't vote for Trump, we're gonna have to send you to a psychiatrist to have your head examined. ** [https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-tells-another-group-of-voters-to-have-your-head-examined/ "Trump Tells ANOTHER Group of Voters to 'Have Your Head Examined'"], ''Mediaite'' (September 25, 2024) * Has there EVER been a WORSE HOST than Jimmy Kimmel at The Oscars. His opening was that of a less than average person trying too hard to be something which he is not, and never can be. * I said, ‘He’s one of the dumbest human beings ever.’ He should have listened to his wife. What a dope. ** [https://www.thewrap.com/jimmy-kimmel-live-trump-dumbest-human-being-response/ "Jimmy Kimmel Claps Back at Trump Calling Him ‘One of the Dumbest Human Beings Ever’: ‘He’s Confusing Me With One of His Sons’"] ''The Wrap'' (September 25, 2024) *If I were the president, I would inform the threatening country, in this case, Iran, that if you do anything to harm this person, we are going to blow your largest cities and the country itself to smithereens. We're going to blow it to smithereens. There would be no more threats. **[https://abcnews.go.com/International/trump-lashes-iran-security-officials-warn-rise-foreign/story?id=114086967 "Trump suggests Iran tied to assassination attempts, issues blunt warning"], ''ABC News'' (September 26, 2024) *It has been determined that Google has illegally used a system of only revealing and displaying bad stories about Donald J Trump, some made up for this purpose while, at the same time, only revealing good stories about Comrade Kamala Harris. This is an ILLEGAL ACTIVITY, and hopefully the Justice Department will criminally prosecute them for this blatant Interference of Elections. If not, and subject to the Laws of our Country, I will request their prosecution, when I win the Election and become President of the United States. **From a post on ''Truth Social'', cited in [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/27/trump-google-threat-criminal-charges Trump vows to seek criminal charges against Google if re-elected president], ''The Guardian'' (September 28, 2024) *Crooked Joe Biden became mentally impaired, Sad. But lying Kamala Harris, honestly, I believe she was born that way. There’s something wrong with Kamala. And I just don’t know what it is but there is definitely something missing. And you know what, everybody knows it. **[https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/trump-says-there-s-something-wrong-with-harris-and-that-she-s-mentally-impaired-1.7056321 "Trump says there's 'something wrong' with Harris and that she's 'mentally impaired'] ''CTV News / Associated Press'' (September 29, 2024) ====1st Debate with Kamala Harris (September 10, 2024)==== *<i>in response to Kamala Harris bringing up Project 2025:</I><Br>…she knows better than anyone, I have nothing to do with Project 2025. That's out there. I haven't read it. I don't want to read it, purposely. I'm not going to read it. This was a group of people that got together, they came up with some ideas. I guess some good, some bad. But it makes no difference. I have nothing to do -- everybody knows I'm an open book. Everybody knows what I'm going to do. Cut taxes very substantially. And create a great economy like I did before. **[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/harris-trump-presidential-debate-transcript/story?id=113560542 Harris-Trump presidential debate transcript], ''ABC News'' (September 10, 2024) *<i>regarding inflation during the Biden presidency:</i><br><b>I had no inflation,</b> virtually no inflation, they had the highest inflation, perhaps in the history of our country because I've never seen a worse period of time. <b>People can't go out and buy cereal bacon or eggs or anything else.</b> These the people of our country are absolutely dying with what they've done. They've destroyed the economy and all you have to do it look at a poll. The polls say 80 and 85 and even 90% that the Trump economy was great that their economy was terrible. **[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/harris-trump-presidential-debate-transcript/story?id=113560542 Harris-Trump presidential debate transcript], ''ABC News'' (September 10, 2024) *We hardly make chips anymore because of philosophies like they have and policies like they have. I don't say her because she has no policy. Everything that she believed three years ago and four years ago is out the window. She's going to my philosophy now. In fact, I was going to send her a MAGA hat. She's gone to my philosophy. But if she ever got elected, she'd change it. And it will be the end of our country. <b>She's a Marxist. Everybody knows she's a Marxist.</b> **[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/harris-trump-presidential-debate-transcript/story?id=113560542 Harris-Trump presidential debate transcript], ''ABC News'' (September 10, 2024) *But when you look at what she's done to our country and when you look at these <b>millions and millions of people that are pouring into our country monthly</b> where it's I believe 21 million people, not the 15 that people say, and I think it's a lot higher than the 21. That's bigger than New York state. Pouring in. And just look at what they're doing to our country. They're criminals. Many of these people coming in are criminals. And that's bad for our economy too. **[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/harris-trump-presidential-debate-transcript/story?id=113560542 Harris-Trump presidential debate transcript], ''ABC News'' (September 10, 2024) *<i>LINSEY DAVIS: …Vice President Harris says that women shouldn't trust you on the issue of abortion because you've changed your position so many times. Therefore, why should they trust you?</i><br>Well, the reason I'm doing that vote [voting “no” on the Florida abortion ban] is because the plan is, as you know, the vote is, they have abortion in the ninth month. They even have, and you can look at the governor of West Virginia, the previous governor of West Virginia, not the current governor, who's doing an excellent job, but the governor before. He said the baby will be born and we will decide what to do with the baby. In other words, we'll execute the baby. **[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/harris-trump-presidential-debate-transcript/story?id=113560542 Harris-Trump presidential debate transcript], ''ABC News'' (September 10, 2024) *But her vice presidential pick [Tim Walz] says abortion in the ninth month is absolutely fine. <b>He also says execution after birth, it's execution, no longer abortion, because the baby is born, is okay.</b> And that's not okay with me. Hence the vote. But what I did is something for 52 years they've been trying to get Roe v. Wade into the states. **[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/harris-trump-presidential-debate-transcript/story?id=113560542 Harris-Trump presidential debate transcript], ''ABC News'' (September 10, 2024) *And now states are voting on it. And for the first time you're going to see -- look, this is an issue that's torn our country apart for 52 years. Every legal scholar, every Democrat, every Republican, liberal, conservative, they all wanted this issue to be brought back to the states where the people could vote. And that's what happened, happened. **[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/harris-trump-presidential-debate-transcript/story?id=113560542 Harris-Trump presidential debate transcript], ''ABC News'' (September 10, 2024) *<i>KAMALA HARRIS: …But understand, if Donald Trump were to be re-elected, he will sign a national abortion ban….</i><br>I’m not signing a ban. And there's no reason to sign a ban. Because we've gotten what everybody wanted. Democrats, Republicans and everybody else and every legal scholar wanted it to be brought back into the states. And the states are voting. And it may take a little time, but for 52 years this issue has torn our country apart. And they've wanted it back in the states. And I did something that nobody thought was possible. The states are now voting. What she says is an absolute lie. And as far as the abortion ban, no, I'm not in favor of abortion ban. But it doesn't matter because this issue has now been taken over by the states. **[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/harris-trump-presidential-debate-transcript/story?id=113560542 Harris-Trump presidential debate transcript], ''ABC News'' (September 10, 2024) *<i>KAMALA HARRIS: …You will see during the course of his rallies he talks about fictional characters like Hannibal Lecter. He will talk about windmills cause cancer. And what you will also notice is that people start leaving his rallies early out of exhaustion and boredom….</i><br>First let me respond as to the rallies. She said people start leaving. <b>People don't go to her rallies.</b> There's no reason to go. And the people that do go, <b>she's busing them in and paying them to be there.</b> And then showing them in a different light. So, she can't talk about that. People don't leave my rallies. <b>We have the biggest rallies, the most incredible rallies in the history of politics.</b> That's because people want to take their country back. Our country is being lost. <b>We're a failing nation. And it happened three and a half years ago.</b> And what, what's going on here, <b>you're going to end up in World War 3,</b> just to go into another subject. What they have done to our country by allowing these millions and millions of people to come into our country. And look at what's happening to the towns all over the United States. And a lot of towns don't want to talk -- not going to be Aurora or Springfield. A lot of towns don't want to talk about it because they're so embarrassed by it. <b>In Springfield, they're eating the dogs. The people that came in. They're eating the cats. They're eating -- they're eating the pets of the people that live there.</b> And this is what's happening in our country. And it's a shame….<br><I>DAVID MUIR: I just want to clarify here, you bring up Springfield, Ohio. And ABC News did reach out to the city manager there. He told us there have been no credible reports of specific claims of pets being harmed, injured or abused by individuals within the immigrant community --</i><br><b>Well, I've seen people on television</b><br><i>DAVID MUIR: Let me just say here this ...</i><br><b>The people on television say my dog was taken and used for food.</b> So maybe he said that and maybe that's a good thing to say for a city manager.<br><i>DAVID MUIR: I'm not taking this from television. I'm taking it from the city manager.</i><br><b>But the people on television say their dog was eaten by the people that went there.</b><br><i>DAVID MUIR: Again, the Springfield city manager says there's no evidence of that.</i><br>*<b>We'll find out.</b> **[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/harris-trump-presidential-debate-transcript/story?id=113560542 Harris-Trump presidential debate transcript], ''ABC News'' (September 10, 2024) *But just to finish, I got more votes than any Republican in history by far. In fact, I got more votes than any president, sitting president in history by far. **[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/harris-trump-presidential-debate-transcript/story?id=113560542 Harris-Trump presidential debate transcript], ''ABC News'' (September 10, 2024) *<i>DAVID MUIR: You also said you would use local police. How would you deport 11 million undocumented immigrants? I know you believe that number is much higher….</i><br> Yeah. It is much higher because of them. They allowed criminals. Many, many, millions of criminals. They allowed terrorists. They allowed common street criminals. They allowed people to come in, drug dealers, to come into our country, and they're now in the United States. And told by their countries like Venezuela don't ever come back or we're going to kill you. Do you know that crime in Venezuela and crime in countries all over the world is way down? You know why? Because they've taken their criminals off the street and they've given them to her to put into our country. And this will be one of the greatest mistakes in history for them to allow -- and I think they probably did it because they think they're going to get votes. But it's not worth it. Because they're destroying the fabric of our country by what they've done. There's never been anything done like this at all. They've destroyed the fabric of our country. Millions of people let in. And all over the world crime is down. All over the world except here. Crime here is up and through the roof. Despite their fraudulent statements that they made. Crime in this country is through the roof. And we have a new form of crime. It's called migrant crime. And it's happening at levels that nobody thought possible.<br><i>DAVID MUIR: President Trump, as you know, the FBI says overall violent crime is actually coming down in this country, but Vice President the...</i><br>Excuse me, the FBI -- they were defrauding statements. They didn't include the worst cities. They didn't include the cities with the worst crime. It was a fraud. Just like their number of 818,000 jobs that they said they created turned out to be a fraud. **[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/harris-trump-presidential-debate-transcript/story?id=113560542 Harris-Trump presidential debate transcript], ''ABC News'' (September 10, 2024) *<i>Responding to Harris listing the criminal cases against Trump:</i><br>Excuse me. Every one of those cases was started by them against their political opponent. And I'm winning most of them and I'll win the rest on appeal. And you saw that with the decision that came down just recently from the Supreme Court. I'm winning most of them. But those are cases, it's called weaponization. Never happened in this country. They weaponized the justice department. Every one of those cases was involved with the DOJ, from Atlanta and Fani Willis -- to the attorney general of New York and the D.A. In New York. Every one of those cases. And then they say oh, he was -- he's a criminal. They're the ones that made them go after me. By the way, Joe Biden was found essentially guilty on the documents case. And what happened in my documents case? They said oh, that's the toughest of them all. A complete and total victory. Two months ago it was thrown out. It's weaponization. And they used it. And it's never happened in this country. They used it to try and win an election. They're fake cases….<br>…This is the one that weaponized. Not me. She weaponized. I probably took a bullet to the head because of the things that they say about me. They talk about democracy. I'm a threat to democracy. They're the threat to democracy – With the fake Russia Russia Russia investigation that went nowhere. **[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/harris-trump-presidential-debate-transcript/story?id=113560542 Harris-Trump presidential debate transcript], ''ABC News'' (September 10, 2024) *<i>Responding to Harris‘ statement that he inherited $400 million:</i><br>Well, first of all, I wasn't given $400 million. I wish I was. My father was a Brooklyn builder. Brooklyn, Queens. And a great father and I learned a lot from him. But I was given a fraction of that, a tiny fraction, and I built it into many, many billions of dollars. Many, many billions. And when people see it, they are even surprised. So, we don't have to talk about that. **[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/harris-trump-presidential-debate-transcript/story?id=113560542 Harris-Trump presidential debate transcript], ''ABC News'' (September 10, 2024) *She went out -- she went out in Minnesota and wanted to let criminals that killed people, that burned down Minneapolis, she went out and raised money to get them out of jail. She did things that nobody would ever think of. Now she wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison. This is a radical left liberal that would do this. She wants to confiscate your guns and she will never allow fracking in Pennsylvania. If she won the election, fracking in Pennsylvania will end on day one. **[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/harris-trump-presidential-debate-transcript/story?id=113560542 Harris-Trump presidential debate transcript], ''ABC News'' (September 10, 2024) *Because <b>the prices of energy were quadrupling and doubling.</b> You saw what happened to gasoline. So, they said let’s go back to Trump. But if she won the election, the day after that election, they’ll go back to destroying our country and oil will be dead, fossil fuel will be dead. We’ll go back to windmills and we’ll go back to solar, where they need a whole desert to get some energy to come out. You ever see a solar plant? By the way, I’m a big fan of solar. But they take 400, 500 acres of desert soil— These are not good things for the environment that she understands. **[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/harris-trump-presidential-debate-transcript/story?id=113560542 Harris-Trump presidential debate transcript], ''ABC News'' (September 10, 2024) *<i>DAVID MUIR: You were the president. You were watching [the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol] unfold on television. It’s a very simple question as we move forward toward another election. Is there anything you regret about what you did on that day? Yes or no.<br></i>I had nothing to do with that other than they asked me to make a speech. I showed up for a speech. I said, I think it’s going to be big. I went to Nancy Pelosi and the mayor of Washington, D.C. And the mayor put it back in writing, as you know. I said, you know, this is going to be a very big rally or whatever you want to call it. And again, it wasn’t done by me. It was done by others. I said I’d like to give you 10,000 National Guard or soldiers. They rejected me. Nancy Pelosi rejected me. It was just two weeks ago, her daughter has a tape of her saying she is fully responsible for what happened. They want to get rid of that tape. It would have never happened if Nancy Pelosi and the mayor of Washington did their jobs. <b>I wasn’t responsible for security. Nancy Pelosi was responsible. She didn’t do her job.</b> **[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/harris-trump-presidential-debate-transcript/story?id=113560542 Harris-Trump presidential debate transcript], ''ABC News'' (September 10, 2024) *<i>DAVID MUIR: Are you now acknowledging that you lost in 2020?</i><br>No, I don’t acknowledge that at all.<br><i>DAVID MUIR: But you did say that.</i><br>I said that sarcastically. You know that. It was said, oh we lost by a whisker. That was said sarcastically. Look, there’s so much proof. All you have to do is look at it. And they should have sent it back to the legislatures for approval. I got almost 75 million votes. The most votes any sitting president has ever gotten. I was told if I got 63, which was what I got in 2016, you can’t be beaten. The election, people should never be thinking about an election as fraudulent. We need two things. We need walls. We need — and we have to have it. We have to have borders. And we have to have good elections.<br>Our elections are bad. And a lot of these illegal immigrants coming in, they’re trying to get them to vote. They can’t even speak English. They don’t even know what country they’re in practically. And these people are trying to get them to vote. And that’s why they’re allowing them to come into our country. **[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/harris-trump-presidential-debate-transcript/story?id=113560542 Harris-Trump presidential debate transcript], ''ABC News'' (September 10, 2024) *<i>DAVID MUIR: And [many judges] said there was no widespread [election] fraud.</i><br> No judge looked at it. They said we didn’t have standing. That’s the other thing. They said we didn’t have standing. A technicality. Can you imagine a system where a person in an election doesn’t have standing, the President of the United States doesn’t have standing? That’s how we lost. If you look at the facts, and I’d love to have you — you’ll do a special on it. I’ll show you Georgia and I’ll show you Wisconsin and I’ll show you Pennsylvania and I’ll show you — we have so many facts and statistics. But you know what? That doesn’t matter. Because we have to solve the problem that we have right now. That’s old news. And the problem that we have right now is we have a nation in decline and they have put it into decline. We have a nation that is dying, David **[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/harris-trump-presidential-debate-transcript/story?id=113560542 Harris-Trump presidential debate transcript], ''ABC News'' (September 10, 2024) *<i>KAMALA HARRIS: …And world leaders are laughing at Donald Trump. I have talked with military leaders, some of whom worked with you. And they say you’re a disgrace….</i><br><i>DAVID MUIR: I’ll give you one minute to respond, Mr. President.</i><br>Let me just tell you about world leaders. Viktor Orban, one of the most respected men — they call him a strong man. He’s a tough person. Smart. Prime Minister of Hungary. They said why is the whole world blowing up? Three years ago it wasn’t. Why is it blowing up? He said because you need Trump back as president. They were afraid of him. China was afraid. And I don’t like to use the word afraid but I’m just quoting him. China was afraid of him. North Korea was afraid of him. Look at what’s going on with North Korea, by the way. He said Russia was afraid of him….<br>Look, Viktor Orban said it. He said the most respected, most feared person is Donald Trump. We had no problems when Trump was president. But when this weak pathetic man that you saw at a debate just a few months ago that if he weren’t in that debate he’d be running instead of her, she got no votes, he got 14 million votes, what you did, you talk about a threat to democracy. He got 14 million votes [in the primaries] and they threw him out of office. And you know what? I’ll give you a little secret. He hates her. He can’t stand her…. But he had 14 million votes. They threw them out. She got zero votes. And when she ran, she was the first one to leave because she failed. And now she’s running. I don’t understand it but I’m okay with it – because I think we’re going to do pretty well. **[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/harris-trump-presidential-debate-transcript/story?id=113560542 Harris-Trump presidential debate transcript], ''ABC News'' (September 10, 2024) *<i>LINSEY DAVIS: President Trump, how would you negotiate with Netanyahu and also Hamas in order to get the hostages out and prevent the killing of more innocent civilians in Gaza?</i><br>If I were president it would have never started. If I were president Russia would have never, ever -- I know Putin very well. He would have never -- and there was no threat of it either, by the way, for four years. Have gone into Ukraine and killed millions of people when you add it up. **[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/harris-trump-presidential-debate-transcript/story?id=113560542 Harris-Trump presidential debate transcript], ''ABC News'' (September 10, 2024) *She hates Israel. <b>If she's president, I believe that Israel will not exist within two years from now. And I've been pretty good at predictions.</b> And I hope I'm wrong about that one. She hates Israel. At the same time in her own way she hates the Arab population because the whole place is going to get blown up, Arabs, Jewish people, Israel. Israel will be gone. It would have never happened. Iran was broke under Donald Trump. Now Iran has $300 billion because they took off all the sanctions that I had. Iran had no money for Hamas or Hezbollah or any of the 28 different spheres of terror. **[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/harris-trump-presidential-debate-transcript/story?id=113560542 Harris-Trump presidential debate transcript], ''ABC News'' (September 10, 2024) *And I'll get the war with Ukraine and Russia ended. If I'm President-Elect, I'll get it done before even becoming president. **[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/harris-trump-presidential-debate-transcript/story?id=113560542 Harris-Trump presidential debate transcript], ''ABC News'' (September 10, 2024) *<i>KAMALA HARRIS: …It is well known that he said of Putin that he can do whatever the hell he wants and go into Ukraine. It is well known when that he said when Russia went into Ukraine it was brilliant….</i><br>They're the ones -- and she's the one that caused it, that's weak on national security by allowing every nation last month for the year, 168 different countries sending people into our country. Their crime rates are way down. Putin endorsed her last week. Said I hope she wins. And I think he meant it. Because what he's gotten away with is absolutely incredible. It wouldn't have happened with me. **[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/harris-trump-presidential-debate-transcript/story?id=113560542 Harris-Trump presidential debate transcript], ''ABC News'' (September 10, 2024) *<i>DAVID MUIR: …You have said you would solve this war [in Ukraine] in 24 hours. How exactly would you do that? And I want to ask you a very simple question tonight. Do you want Ukraine to win this war?</i><br>I want to get the war settled. I know Zelenskyy very well and I know Putin very well. I have a good relationship. And they respect your president. Okay? They respect me. They don't respect Biden….<br>If I win, when I'm President-Elect, and what I'll do is I'll speak to one, I'll speak to the other, I'll get them together. That war would have never happened. And in fact when I saw Putin after I left, unfortunately left because our country has gone to hell, but after I left when I saw him building up soldiers, he did it after I left, I said oh, he must be negotiating. It must be a good strong point of negotiation. Well, it wasn't because Biden had no idea how to talk to him. He had no idea how to stop it. And now you have millions of people dead and it's only getting worse and it could lead to World War 3. Don't kid yourself, David. We're playing with World War 3. **[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/harris-trump-presidential-debate-transcript/story?id=113560542 Harris-Trump presidential debate transcript], ''ABC News'' (September 10, 2024) *And we have a president that we don't even know if he's -- where is our president? We don't even know if he's a president.<br><i>DAVID MUIR: And just to clarify here.</I><br>They threw him out of a campaign like a dog. We don't even know, is he our president? But we have a president…<br><i>DAVID MUIR: Mr. President,--</i><br>…that doesn't know he's alive. **[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/harris-trump-presidential-debate-transcript/story?id=113560542 Harris-Trump presidential debate transcript], ''ABC News'' (September 10, 2024) *<i>KAMALA HARRIS: …If Donald Trump were president, Putin would be sitting in Kyiv right now….</i><br>Putin would be sitting in Moscow and he wouldn't have lost 300,000 men and women. But he would have been sitting in Moscow… But eventually, you know, he's got a thing that other people don't have. <b>He's got nuclear weapons. They don't ever talk about that. He's got nuclear weapons. Nobody ever thinks about that.</b> And eventually uh maybe he'll use them. Maybe he hasn't been that threatening. But he does have that. Something we don't even like to talk about. **[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/harris-trump-presidential-debate-transcript/story?id=113560542 Harris-Trump presidential debate transcript], ''ABC News'' (September 10, 2024) *And that's the kind of talent we have with her. She's worse than Biden. In my opinion, I think he's the worst president in the history of our country. She goes down as the worst vice president in the history of our country. But let me tell you something. She is a horrible negotiator. They sent her in to negotiate. As soon as they left Putin did the invasion. **[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/harris-trump-presidential-debate-transcript/story?id=113560542 Harris-Trump presidential debate transcript], ''ABC News'' (September 10, 2024) *<i>KAMALA HARRIS: [Regarding a peace deal Trump negotiated to end the Afghan War:] He bypassed the Afghan government. He negotiated directly with a terrorist organization called the Taliban. The negotiation involved the Taliban getting 5,000 terrorists, Taliban terrorists released.</i><br>So if you take a look at that period of time, the Taliban was killing our soldiers, a lot of them, with snipers. And I got involved with the Taliban because the Taliban was doing the killing. That's the fighting force within Afghanistan. They don't bother doing that because you know, they deal with the wrong people all the time. But I got involved. And Abdul is the head of the Taliban. He is still the head of the Taliban. And I told Abdul don't do it anymore, you do it anymore you're going to have problems. And he said why do you send me a picture of my house? I said you're going to have to figure that out, Abdul. And for 18 months we had nobody killed. We did have an agreement negotiated by Mike Pompeo. It was a very good agreement. The reason it was good, it was -- we were getting out. We would have been out faster than them, but we wouldn't have lost the soldiers. We wouldn't have left many Americans behind. And we wouldn't have left -- we wouldn't have left $85 billion worth of brand new beautiful military equipment behind. And just to finish, they blew it. The agreement said you have to do this, this, this, this, this, and they didn't do it. They didn't do it. The agreement was, was terminated by us because they didn't do what they were supposed to do. **[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/harris-trump-presidential-debate-transcript/story?id=113560542 Harris-Trump presidential debate transcript], ''ABC News'' (September 10, 2024) *<i>DAVID MUIR: …Why do you believe it's appropriate to weigh in on the racial identity of your opponent?</i><br>I don't. And I don't care. I don't care what she is. I don't care. You make a big deal out of something. I couldn't care less. Whatever she wants to be is okay with me.<br><i>DAVID MUIR: But those were your words. So, I'm asking --</i><br>I don't know. I don't know. All I can say is I read where she was not Black, that she put out. And, I'll say that. And then I read that she was black. And that's okay. Either one was okay with me. That's up to her. That's up to her. **[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/harris-trump-presidential-debate-transcript/story?id=113560542 Harris-Trump presidential debate transcript], ''ABC News'' (September 10, 2024) *<i>KAMALA HARRIS: …Let's remember, this is the same individual who took out a full-page ad in The New York Times calling for the execution of five young Black and Latino boys who were innocent, the Central Park Five. Took out a full-page ad calling for their execution….</i><br>This is the most divisive presidency in the history of our country. There's never been anything like it. They're destroying our country. And they come up with things like what she just said going back many, many years when a lot of people including Mayor Bloomberg agreed with me on the Central Park Five. They admitted -- they said, they pled guilty. And I said, well, if they pled guilty they badly hurt a person, killed a person ultimately. And if they pled guilty -- then they pled we're not guilty. **[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/harris-trump-presidential-debate-transcript/story?id=113560542 Harris-Trump presidential debate transcript], ''ABC News'' (September 10, 2024) *<b>I built one of the greatest economies in the history of the world and I'm going to build it again.</b> It's going to be bigger, better and stronger. But they're destroying our economy. They have no idea what a good economy is. Their oil policies -- every single policy -- and remember this. She is Biden. She's trying to get away from Biden. I don't know the gentleman, she says. She is Biden. The worst inflation we've ever had. A horrible economy because inflation has made it so bad and she can't get away with that. **[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/harris-trump-presidential-debate-transcript/story?id=113560542 Harris-Trump presidential debate transcript], ''ABC News'' (September 10, 2024) *She is destroying our country. She has a plan to defund the police. She has a plan to confiscate everybody's gun. She has a plan to not allow fracking in Pennsylvania or anywhere else. That's what her plan is until just recently. **[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/harris-trump-presidential-debate-transcript/story?id=113560542 Harris-Trump presidential debate transcript], ''ABC News'' (September 10, 2024) *<i>LINSEY DAVIS: …So tonight, nine years after you first started running, do you have a [healthcare] plan and can you tell us what it is?</i><br>Obamacare was lousy health care. Always was. It's not very good today. And what I said, that if we come up with something, we are working on things, we're going to do it and we're going to replace it…. And what we will do is we're looking at different plans. If we can come up with a plan that's going to cost our people, our population less money and be better health care than Obamacare, then I would absolutely do it. But until then I'd run it as good as it can be run.<br><i>LINSEY DAVIS: So just a yes or no, you still do not have a plan?</i><br>I have concepts of a plan. I'm not president right now. But if we come up with something I would only change it if we come up with something better and less expensive. And there are concepts and options we have to do that. And you'll be hearing about it in the not-too-distant future. **[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/harris-trump-presidential-debate-transcript/story?id=113560542 Harris-Trump presidential debate transcript], ''ABC News'' (September 10, 2024) *<i>Closing Statement:</i><br>…We're a failing nation. We're a nation that's in serious decline. We're being laughed at all over the world. All over the world, they laugh, I know the leaders very well. They're coming to see me. They call me. We're laughed at all over the world. They don't understand what happened to us as a nation. We're not a leader. We don't have any idea what's going on. We have wars going on in the Middle East. We have wars going on with Russia and Ukraine. We're going to end up in a third World War. And it will be a war like no other because of nuclear weapons, the power of weaponry. I rebuilt our entire military. She gave a lot of it away to the Taliban. She gave it to Afghanistan. What these people have done to our country, and maybe toughest of all is allowing millions of people to come into our country, many of them are criminals, and they're destroying our country. The worst president, the worst vice president in the history of our country. **[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/harris-trump-presidential-debate-transcript/story?id=113560542 Harris-Trump presidential debate transcript], ''ABC News'' (September 10, 2024) *It was 3 on 1, but they were mentally challenged people, against one person of extraordinary genius. **[https://www.mediaite.com/politics/abc-fake-news-trump-rages-network-under-investigation-after-debate-3-mentally-challenged-people-on-1-extraordinary-genius/] *They didn't correct her [Harris] once and they corrected me. Everything I said, practically, I think 9 times or 11 times. And the audience was absolutely, they went crazy. And the real, I thought, I walked off and I said, 'that was a great debate, I loved it.' **Regarding the debate audience (which there wasn‘t one), [https://www.newsweek.com/trump-praises-nonexistent-debate-crowd-they-went-crazy-1956251 Donald Trump's Debate Crowd Comment Sparks Confusion: 'They Went Crazy'], ''Newsweek'' (September 19, 2024) ==== October 2024 ==== * We do a lot of these beautiful rallies, and it's so great. We never have an empty seat, never have. Look at it. ** [https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-rally-videos-empty-seats-1966810 "Donald Trump Rally Videos Show Hundreds of Empty Seats"], ''Newsweek'' (October 10, 2024) *We have two enemies: We have the outside enemy, and then we have the enemy from within. And the enemy from within, in my opinion, is more dangerous than China, Russia and all these countries… But the thing that's tougher to handle are these lunatics that we have inside, like Adam Schiff — Adam 'Shifty' Schiff… I call him the enemy from within. When you look at the danger he put our country in potentially with Russia — with a phony, made-up deal that he made up with Hillary and some bad people. ** [https://www.foxnews.com/media/former-president-trump-calls-enemy-within-more-dangerous-any-foreign-entity Former President Trump calls the 'enemy from within' more dangerous than any foreign entity] ''FoxNews'' (October 13, 2024) *So we’re gonna take care of it, you and me. I’ll tell you, if everything works out and everybody gets out on January 5th, or before. You know, it used to be, you’d have a date. Today, you can vote two months before, probably three months after. They don’t know what the hell they’re doing. But we’re gonna straighten it all out. We’re gonna straighten that out, too. We’re gonna straighten out our election process, too. That’s gotta be important also. **[https://www.mediaite.com/politics/whoops-trump-tells-supporters-to-get-out-and-vote-on-january-5th/ Whoops! Trump Tells Supporters to Get Out and Vote on ‘January 5th’] ''Mediaite'' (October 14, 2024) *Let’s not do any more questions. Let’s just listen to music. Let’s make it into a music. Who the hell wants to hear questions, right? **[https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ar-AA1sha0E Trump sways and bops to music for 39 minutes in bizarre town hall episode] ''The Washington Post'' (October 14, 2024) *To me, the most beautiful word in the dictionary is tariff, and it’s my favorite word. It needs a public relations firm. **[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-10-15/in-trump-s-economic-plan-tariff-is-the-most-beautiful-word In Trump’s Economic Plan, Tariff Is ‘the Most Beautiful Word’] ‘’Bloomberg News’’ (October 15, 2024) * I’m the father of IVF. ** [https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/16/politics/fact-check-trump-false-claims-fox-townhall/index.html "Fact check: Trump makes at least 19 false claims in one-hour Fox town hall with women"], ''CNN'' (October 16, 2024) * [[w:Ashli Babbitt | Ashli Babbitt]] was killed, nobody was killed. ** Claimed about the [[2021 United States Capitol attack| January 6, 2020 United States Capitol attack]]. Quoted in [https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-univision-town-hall-hispanic-voters-audience-reaction-1970402 "Univision Audience Reaction to Donald Trump Answer in Town Hall Goes Viral"], ''Newsweek'' (October 17, 2024) *Very importantly, you had hundreds of thousands of people come to Washington [on January 6th]. They didn’t come because of me. They came because of the election. They thought the election was a rigged election and that’s why they came. Some of those people went down to the Capitol, I said, peacefully and patriotically, nothing done wrong at all. Nothing done wrong. And action was taken, strong action. Ashli Babbitt was killed. Nobody was killed. There were no guns down there. We didn’t have guns. The others had guns, but we didn’t have guns. And when I say “we” these are people that walk down, this was a tiny percentage of the overall, which nobody sees and nobody shows.<br>But that was a day of love from the standpoint of the millions, it’s like hundreds of thousands. It could have been the largest group I’ve ever spoken before. They asked me to speak. I went and I spoke and I used the term peacefully and patriotically. If you look at the Democrats, what they say, you look at Maxine Waters, and you look at Hillary Clinton and you look at what they say and they don’t put that on. They only put Republicans on, but they couldn’t get me because of the fact that I said, everything’s got to be peaceful and patriotic and we’ll see how it all works out. **In response to a question about why a voter should support Trump after his role on January 6th [https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/trump-town-hall-on-univision Trump Town Hall on Univision] (October 17, 2024) *Kamala should be investigated and forced off the Campaign, and Joe Biden allowed to take back his rightful place (He got 14 Million Primary Votes, she got none!). THIS WHOLE SORDID AND FRAUDULENT EVENT IS A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY! **As it appeared on Truth Social, reported in [https://www.mediaite.com/politics/trump-melts-down-in-wild-post-claiming-kamala-harris-should-be-investigated-and-biden-should-be-his-opponent-again/ Trump Melts Down In Wild Post Claiming Kamala Harris ‘Should Be Investigated’ And Biden Should Be His Opponent Again] Mediaite (October 17, 2024) * We have another former New York City mayor with us. Frankly, easily the worst in our history. And it's not [[Michael Bloomberg|Michael]], that I can tell you. I'm surprised that [[Bill de Blasio|Bill de Blasio]] was actually able to make it tonight, to be honest. He was a terrible mayor. I don't give a shit if this is comedy or not. He was a terrible mayor. He did a horrible job. That's not comedy, by the way. That's fact. ** Al Smith dinner (October 17, 2024) * If we go with Kamala, you won’t have any cows anymore.<br>They want to do things like no more cows and no windows in buildings. ** [https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4941581-trump-says-no-cows-under-harris/ "Trump tells child there will be no cows under Harris"], ''The Hill'' (October 18, 2024) *<i>Howard Kurtz:</i> But when you said, you know, it's gone viral, they're eating the dogs, they're eating the cats. But why not say now, well, look, that turned out not to be true.<br><i>Trump:</i> I don't know if it's true or not true.<br><i>Kurtz:</i> You don't know if it's true or not true. It's been debunked by the officials.<br><i>Trump:</i> What about the goose? The geese? They're all missing. It was one guy with two geese. I have no idea. I said something. The big problem is that you can't put 30,000 people into a 50,000-person town or city and expect this city to even survive or do well. What they've done to Springfield, Ohio, is very, very unfair. And I mean, there are a lot of stories. There are a lot of other stories that I've heard that are horrible stories... Don't don't, you know, blame me.<br><i>Kurtz:</i> Well, I think it's been debunked by local officials.<br><i>Trump:</i> I don't think it's been debunked at all. I think nobody talks about it except you. *If radical left lunatics disrupt the election, it should be very easily handled by — if necessary, by National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military. **Interview with Fox New host Howard Kurtz in [https://www.rawstory.com/trump-haitians-debunked/ 'It's been debunked': Fox News host fact checks Trump to his face on Springfield Haitians] ''RawStory'' (October 20, 2024) [https://whyy.org/articles/trump-election-2024-kamala-harris-elizabeth-cheney-threat-civil-liberties/] *Comrade Kamala Harris sees that she is losing, and losing badly, especially after stealing the Race from Crooked Joe Biden, so now she is increasingly raising her rhetoric, going so far as to call me Adolf Hitler, and anything else that comes to her warped mind. She is a Threat to Democracy **[https://nitter.poast.org/realDonaldTrump/status/1849272632237056163#m] *I NEED THE KIND OF GENERALS THAT HITLER HAD **[https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/trump-military-generals-hitler/680327/] *When Kamala came in, she dismantled our border and threw open the gates to an invasion of criminal migrants. We're a dumping ground. We're like a garbage can for the world. That's what's happened. That's what's happened to our ... We're like a garbage can **[https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-ripped-saying-america-garbage-can-1974727] *He’d take all the candy away very quickly. She wouldn’t have any idea what happened. It would be like a grand chess master playing a beginner. We would lose our country or be in World War III,because she’d get exasperated. She’s in no way able to handle him. He’s a fierce individual. **[https://nypost.com/2024/10/24/us-news/trump-says-iranian-regime-wouldnt-have-to-end-if-he-were-president-suggests-peace-could-be-close/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nypost] *Now we have income taxes, and we have people that are dying. They're paying tax, and they don't have the money to pay the tax. In the old days … we had so much money, they had to set up committees, blue-ribbon committees, [on] how to spend our wealth. We had no idea how to spend it with so much money. Then we went to the income tax system and the rest is sort of history. But no, there is a way **[https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-tells-bronx-barbershop-what-he-would-do-differently-elected-second-time-its-all-about-people] *And my people told me about four weeks ago, I was saying, ‘No, I want to protect the people. I want to protect the women of our country. I want to protect the women.’<br>“‘Sir, please don’t say that.’<br>“They said, ‘We think it’s, it’s very inappropriate for you to say.’<br>“I pay these guys a lot of money. Can you believe it? Well, I’m going to do it whether the women like it or not. I’m going to protect them. **[https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-protect-women-green-bay-rally_n_6722f2d1e4b02f5ab1d23299 Trump Says He Will Protect Women ‘Whether The Women Like It Or Not’] ''HuffPost'' (October 30, 2024) *She's a radical war hawk. Let's put her with a rifle standing there, with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let's see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face. **Referring to [[Liz Cheney]], reported in [https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-suggests-liz-cheney-should-face-firing-squad-her-foreign-policy-stance-2024-11-01/ Arizona prosecutor investigating Trump for saying Cheney should face gunfire] ''Reuters'' (October 31, 2024) ==== November 2024 ==== *I could’ve been anywhere I wanted to be. I could’ve had those waves smacking me in the face. That white, beautiful white skin that I have would be nice and tan. I got the whitest skin ’cause I never have time to go out in the sun. But I have that beautiful white, and you know what? It could’ve been beautiful, tanned, beautiful. **[https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-boasts-he-has-beautiful-white-skin-right-after-slamming-kamala-harris/ar-AA1tmtNv Trump Boasts He Has ‘Beautiful White Skin’ Right After Slamming Kamala Harris] ''MSN'' (November 2, 2024) *I shouldn’t have left. I mean, honestly, because we did so, we did so well. **[https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/03/politics/trump-dark-closing-message/index.html Trump says he ‘shouldn’t have left’ the White House as he closes campaign with increasingly dark message] ''CNN'' (November 3, 2024) * In many cases, our allies are worse than our so-called enemies. ** Claimed about allied NATO members and Russia, quoted in [https://tvpworld.com/83295959/us-elections-trump-calls-allies-worse-than-enemies "Trump claims US is being exploited by allies, calls them ‘worse than enemies’"], ''TVP World'' (November 3, 2024) *Now I want to take this opportunity to give you some advice. Over the course of your life, you will find that things are not always fair, you will find that things happen to you that you do not deserve, and that are not always warranted, but you have to put your head down, and FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Never ever ever give up, things will work out just fine. Look at the way I've been treated lately, especially by the media. No politician in history, and I say this is great surety, has been treated worse, more unfairly. You can't let them get you down, you can't let the critics, and the naysayers get in the way of your dream. I guess that's why I won, thank you. I guess that's why we won. Adversity makes you stronger, don't give in, don't back down, and never stop doing what you know is right. Nothing worth doing, ever ever ever came easy, and the more righteous you fight, the more opposition that you will face. I've accomplished a tremendous amount, in a very short time as president. **Speech (November 6, 2024){{fact}} *Any Republican Senator seeking the coveted LEADERSHIP position in the United States Senate must agree to Recess Appointments (in the Senate!), without which we will not be able to get people confirmed in a timely manner. Sometimes the votes can take two years, or more. This is what they did four years ago, and we cannot let it happen again. We need positions filled IMMEDIATELY! **[https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/trump-senate-majority-candidates-recess-appointments-rcna179515 Trump declares Senate majority candidates should allow him to make recess appointments] ''NBC News'' (November 10, 2024) ==== December 2024 ==== * I spoke to over 100 countries. You wouldn’t believe how many countries there are. ** 16 December 2024, [https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/16/trump-defamation-polio-001230 Politico] and [https://edition.cnn.com/2024/12/17/politics/trump-honeymoon-analysis/index.html CNN] ===2025=== {| style="float:center; background:none;border: 1px solid silver;{{Border-radius|35px}}; margin:15px; background-color:#F6F6F6;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);" |- |<div id="articlecount" style="width:100%; text-align:center; font-size:105%;"> 20 January 2025 [[File:Seal of the President of the United States.svg|20px]] - Donald Trump's 2nd presidency began</div> |- |} {{main|Second presidency of Donald Trump}} ====January 2025==== *I’d like Egypt to take people. You're talking about probably a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing and say, 'You know, it's over.’ **Regarding what to do with the Palestinian refugees currently on the Gaza Strip, quoted in [https://www.npr.org/2025/01/26/g-s1-44831/trump-jordan-egypt-accept-more-refugees-just-clean-out-gaza Trump wants Jordan and Egypt to accept more refugees to 'just clean out' Gaza] ''NPR'' (January 26, 2025) *Because I have common sense, OK, and unfortunately a lot of people don't. **When asked how he could come to the conclusion that FAA diversity policies had something to do with the fatal air disaster at Reagan Washington National Airport, quoted in [https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-evidence-appears-blame-faa-diversity-initiatives-factor/story?id=118272015 Trump goes on offensive against FAA diversity initiatives during DC crash briefing, prompts fierce backlash] ''ABC News'' (January 30, 2025) ====February 2025==== [[File:Trump - Long Live the King.jpg|thumb|Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED. LONG LIVE THE KING!]] *He who saves his Country does not violate any Law **15 February 2025 on [https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1890831570535055759 X tweet] and ''Truth Social'', quoted in [https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-napoleon-saves-country-quote-rod-steiger-b2699102.html Trump suggests he’s above the law with ominous Napoleon quote] ''Independent'' (February 16, 2025) **A reference to a maxim attributed to [[Napoleon]] by [[Honoré de Balzac]], "Who saves his country violates no law" ("Celui qui sauve sa patrie ne viole aucune loi"). *The 14th Amendment Right of American Citizenship never had anything to do with modern day "gate crashers," illegal immigrants who break the Law by being in our Country, it had everything to do with giving Citizenship to former slaves. **16 February 2025 [https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114014567906020636 post on TruthSocial], quoted same day by [https://nypost.com/2025/02/16/us-news/president-trump-sparks-meltdown-for-sharing-napoleon-quote/ Ryan King of New York Post] and [https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/trump-14th-amendment-slaves-not-migrants/ Patrick Djordjevic of News Nation Now] *It’s called the Gulf of America now. It’s not called the Gulf of Mexico any longer. I have the right to do it. We are going to keep them out until such time that they agree it is the Gulf of America. **Referring to AP reporters being banned from the White House, referenced in [https://deadline.com/2025/02/trump-ap-gulf-of-mexico-1236294031/ Donald Trump Says White House Will Prohibit Associated Press From Events Until They Agree To Rename Gulf Of Mexico] ''Deadline'' (February 18, 2025) * I had an approval rating today of 71 and another one of 69. I have not heard of those numbers before. ** [https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-generously-makes-approval-rating-defying-reality-rcna193139 "Trump generously makes up an approval rating for himself, defying reality"] ''MSNBC'' (February 21, 2025) ====March 2025==== *Wow, that's beautiful. This is a different panel than I've ever — '''everything's computer!''' **When inspecting a Tesla Model S at the White House; quoted from [https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-tesla-model-s-review-everythings-computer-2025-3 Donald Trump reviews Tesla Model S: 'Everything's computer'] ''Business Insider'' (Mar 11, 2025) ====April 2025==== *I call it a lot of different names, but it's really, in a sense, it's a rebirth of a country because how we could have afforded to do what we did, we helped everybody and they don't help us. The term I like best probably is the liberation of America.<br>It's a liberation of this country because it's incredible. Look, we have 36 trillion in debt for a reason and that accumulates over a long period of time. What you're going to be seeing over the next couple of days will be very inspiring to a lot of people. **Regarding the round of tariffs expected to be enforced on most imported goods beginning April 2nd as referenced in [https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/united-states/trump-says-india-will-substantially-cut-tariffs-signals-major-us-tariff-moves/ "Trump says India will 'substantially' cut tariffs, signals major US tariff moves"] ''The Tribune'' (April 1, 2025) *We are going to be very nice, relatively speaking. We are going to be very kind....<br>Somebody said that about me the other day, who doesn’t know me very well. They said — ‘You are such a kind person’ and I said, ‘Say that again.’ They said, ‘You are a kind person.’ I said, ‘I’ve never heard that before.’ **Speaking on the severity of the tariffs as reported in [https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/01/politics/trump-tariffs-liberation-day-oval-office/index.html Trump has the world on edge as he mulls fateful tariffs decades in the making] ''CNN'' (April 1, 2025)[https://www.huffpost.com/entry/stephen-colbert-trump-weird-confession_n_67ece159e4b048fde6fe94e3] *THE OPERATION IS OVER! THE PATIENT LIVED, AND IS HEALING. THE PROGNOSIS IS THAT THE PATIENT WILL BE FAR STRONGER, BIGGER, BETTER, AND MORE RESILIENT THAN EVER BEFORE. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! **Posted on Truth Social following the implementation of sweeping tariffs as reported in [https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/us-and-world/the-operation-is-over-the-patient-lived-donald-trump-after-shaking-global-economies-with-us-tariffs/articleshow/119949495.cms ‘The operation is over, the patient lived’: Donald Trump after shaking global economies with US tariffs] ''The Times of India'' (April 3, 2025) *I think it's going very well. It was an operation, like when a patient gets operated on and it's a big thing. I said this would exactly be the way it is....<br>The markets are going to boom, the stock is going to boom, the country is going to boom, and the rest of the world wants to see is there any way they can make a deal. They've taken advantage of us for many, many years. For many years we've been at the wrong side of the ball. And I'll tell you what, I think it's going to be unbelievable. **When asked how things were going after a drop in the stock market the first day after Trump's tariff announcement as reported in [https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trust-president-trump-white-house-defending-tariffs-amid/story?id=120449641 Trump says ‘it’s going very well’ after tariffs roil markets] ''ABC News'' (April 3, 2025) *TO THE MANY INVESTORS COMING INTO THE UNITED STATES AND INVESTING MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF MONEY, MY POLICIES WILL NEVER CHANGE. THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO GET RICH, RICHER THAN EVER BEFORE!!! **Posted on ''Truth Social'' following the announcement of his worldwide tariffs policy and the resulting sharp sell-off in the stock market a day later as reported in [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/04/trump-tariffs-truth-social Trump insists he won’t back down from global trade war as markets slump] ''The Guardian'' (April 4, 2025) *...We are bringing back jobs and businesses like never before. Already, more than FIVE TRILLION DOLLARS OF INVESTMENT, and rising fast! THIS IS AN ECONOMIC REVOLUTION, AND WE WILL WIN. HANG TOUGH, it won’t be easy, but the end result will be historic. We will, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!! **[https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114285375813275308 Truth Social] (April 5, 2025) *It's the only chance we're going to have to reset the table on trade, and when we do, we're going to come out unbelievably well. We're going to have a strong country economically again and we're going to have those factories that are empty all over the United States. **Indicating there would be no change of course regarding tariff plan, reported in [https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-tariff-formula-team-cites-chicago-economist-brent-neimans-work-he-says-math-doesnt-check/16141896/ Trump tariff team cites Chicago economist's work, but he says their math doesn't check out] ''ABC7 Chicago'' (April 7, 2025) *We’re dealing with them directly and maybe a deal is going to be made. Doing a deal would be preferable to doing the obvious.<br>Iran is going to be in great danger, and I hate to say it…. Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, and if the talks aren’t successful, I think it’s going to be a very bad day for Iran. **Referring to upcoming talks with Iran about their nuclear capability, taken from [https://time.com/7275589/trump-iran-nuclear-program-talk/ Trump Says U.S. Will Have Direct Talks With Iran About Nuclear Program] ''TIME'' (April 7, 2025)[https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2038962/us-could-be-bombing-iran] * There can be permanent tariffs and there can also be negotiations, because there are things that we need beyond tariffs. '''We need open borders.'''[https://www.yahoo.com/news/cognitive-decline-trump-calls-open-202617475.html] *I thought that people were jumping a little bit out of line. They were getting yippy. You know, they were getting a little bit yippy, a little bit afraid…. Over the last few days it looked pretty glum… You have to be flexible. You have to be able to show a little flexibility. And I'm able to do that. **Reasons given for pausing his tariff plan for 90 days for all countries except China, reported in [https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-explains-dramatic-reversal-tariffs-people-bit-afraid/story?id=120651386 Trump explains dramatic reversal on tariffs: People getting 'a little bit afraid'] ''ABC News'' (April 9.2025) *I’m not asking for much ... but they can't have a nuclear weapon.<br>If it requires military, we're going to have military. Israel will, obviously, be ... the leader of that. No one leads us. We do what we want.<br>I don't want to be specific. But when you start talks, you know if they're going along well or not. And I would say the conclusion would be when I think they're not going along well. **[https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-04-09/trump-repeats-threat-to-use-military-force-if-iran-does-not-agree-to-nuclear-deal Trump Repeats Threat to Use Military Force if Iran Does Not Agree to Nuclear Deal] ''US News'' (April 9, 2025) *In my case, I like to take a nice shower, take care of my beautiful hair.... I have to stand under the shower for 15 minutes until it gets wet. It comes out drip, drip, drip. It’s ridiculous. **While signing an executive order repealing limits to the flow of water to bathroom showers, taken from [https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/10/make-showers-great-again-why-trumps-fighting-bathroom-water-pressure ‘Make showers great again’: Why Trump’s fighting bathroom water pressure] ''Al Jazeera'' (April 10, 2025) *China wants to make a deal. They just don't know how quite to go about it. You know, it's one of those things they don't know quite. They're proud people and President Xi's a proud man. I know him very well. And they don't know quite how to go about it, but they'll figure it out. **Indicating he is waiting for China to call him regarding the recently imposed tariffs, reported in [https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/video/2025/04/washington-week-with-the-atlantic-full-episode-41125 Washington Week with The Atlantic full episode, 4/11/25] ''Washington Week'' (April 11, 2025)[https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/10/politics/trump-xi-china-tariffs/index.html] *Homegrown criminals next. I said homegrowns are next, the homegrowns. You gotta build about five more [prisons]…. [The notorious Salvadoran mega-prison] is not big enough… If it's a homegrown criminal, I have no problem. Now we're studying the laws right now, Pam [Bondi] is studying. If we can do that, that's good…. And I'm talking about violent people. I'm talking about really bad people. Really bad people. Every bit as bad as the ones coming in. **Speaking to El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele, referring to US citizens accused of crimes being the next ones sent to Salvadoran prisons, reported in [https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/homegrowns-trump-doubles-sending-convicted-us-citizens-foreign/story?id=120802863 'Homegrowns are next': Trump doubles down on sending American 'criminals' to foreign prisons] ''ABC News'' (April 14, 2025) * Everyone knows that Harvard has “lost its way.” * Harvard has been hiring almost all woke, Radical Left, idiots and ‘birdbrains’ who are only capable of teaching FAILURE to students and so-called ‘future leaders * Harvard can no longer be considered even a decent place of learning, and should not be considered on any list of the World’s Great Universities or Colleges. Harvard is a JOKE, teaches Hate and Stupidity, and should no longer receive Federal Funds. ** [https://www.thefire.org/news/revoking-harvards-tax-exempt-status-will-threaten-all-nonprofits "Revoking Harvard’s tax-exempt status will threaten all nonprofits"], ''The Fire'' (April 18, 2025) * As you know, the cost of eggs has come down like 93, 94% since we took office. ** [https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/23/politics/price-of-eggs-gas-trump-fact-check/index.html "Fact check: Trump lies about the price of eggs, groceries and gas"], ''CNN'' (April 23, 2025) *I am not happy with the Russian strikes on KYIV. Not necessary, and very bad timing. Vladimir, STOP! **Taken from ''Truth Social'' as reported in [https://abcnews.go.com/International/russia-launches-massive-deadly-strike-kyiv-ukrainian-authorities/story?id=121113739 'Vladimir, STOP!' Trump says to Putin after deadliest Russian strike on Kyiv in months] ''ABC News'' (April 24, 2025) *The first time, I had two things to do—run the country and survive; I had all these crooked guys. And the second time, I run the country and the world.” **In response to what felt different about his second term compared to the first, quoted in [https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/06/trump-second-term-comeback/682573/ ‘I RUN THE COUNTRY AND THE WORLD’ Donald Trump believes he’s invincible. But the cracks are beginning to show] ''The Atlantic'' (April 28, 2025) * Great Pollster John McLaughlin, one of the most highly respected in the industry, has just stated that The Failing New York Times Poll, and the ABC/Washington Post Poll, about a person named DONALD J. TRUMP, ME, are FAKE POLLS FROM FAKE NEWS ORGANIZATIONS. The New York Times has only 37% Trump 2024 voters, and the ABC/Washington Post Poll has only 34% Trump Voters, unheard of numbers unless looking for a negative result, which they are. These people should be investigated for ELECTION FRAUD, and add in the FoxNews Pollster while you’re at it. They are Negative Criminals who apologize to their subscribers and readers after I WIN ELECTIONS BIG, much bigger than their polls showed I would win, loose a lot of credibility, and then go on cheating and lying for the next cycle, only worse. They suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome, and there is nothing that anyone, or anything, can do about it. THEY ARE SICK, almost only write negative stories about me no matter how well I am doing (99.9% at the Border, BEST NUMBER EVER!), AND ARE TRULY THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE! I wish them well, but will continue to fight to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! ** [https://www.axios.com/2025/04/28/trump-approval-ratings-slams-polls-truth-social "Trump lashes out against "fake polls" as his approval ratings sink"], ''Axios'' (April 28, 2025) * I am the candidate of peace. ** [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/28/us-escalation-yemen-civilian-casualties "Trump promised peace but brings rapid increase in civilian casualties to Yemen"] ''The Guardian'' (April 28, 2025) [[File:Pope Trump AI by Donald Trump.png|thumb|I'd like to be [[pope]]. That would be my number one choice.]] * I'd like to be pope. That would be my number one choice. No — I don't know, I have no preference. I must say we have a cardinal that happens to be out of a place called New York who's very good. ** Response to being asked after the death of [[Pope Francis]] who he would like to be the next Pope (29 April 2025); as quoted in [https://www.npr.org/2025/05/04/nx-s1-5386516/catholic-leaders-criticize-trump-ai-pope-photo?utm_term=nprnews&utm_campaign=npr&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com "Catholic leaders criticize Trump for posting apparent AI photo of himself as the pope", ''NPR'' (4 May 2025)] *PRESIDENT TRUMP: (Referring to a photo of what was tattooed on Abrego Garcia's knuckles:) M-S-1-3 -- It says M-S-one-three.<br>INTERVIEWER TERRY MORAN: I -- that was Photoshop….<br>PRESIDENT TRUMP: That was Photoshop?… Do you want me to show the picture?<br>TERRY MORAN: I saw the picture. We'll agree to disagree --<br>PRESIDENT TRUMP: Oh, and you think it was Photoshop…. Go look at his hand. He had MS-13 --<br>TERRY MORAN: Fair enough, he did have tattoos that can be interpreted that way. I'm not an expert on them….<br>PRESIDENT TRUMP: Terry, no, no. No, no. He had MS as clear as you can be. Not "interpreted." This is why people no longer believe the news, because it's fake news.<br>TERRY MORAN: ...When he was photographed in El Salvador, they aren't there…. Take a look at the photograph —<br>PRESIDENT TRUMP: But they're there now, right?… But they're there now?<br>TERRY MORAN: They're in your picture.<br>PRESIDENT TRUMP: Terry He's got MS-13 on his knuckles…. you do such a disservice —<br>TERRY MORAN: We'll take a look. We'll take a look at that, sir —<br>PRESIDENT TRUMP: Why don't you just say, "Yes, he does," and, you know, go on to something else -- **[https://abcnews.go.com/US/full-transcript-trumps-exclusive-100-days-broadcast-interview/story?id=121291672 FULL TRANSCRIPT: Trump's exclusive 100 days broadcast interview with ABC News] ''ABC News'' (April 29, 2025)[https://www.yahoo.com/news/fact-check-trumps-photo-abrego-001600628.html] *Everybody's gonna be just fine. It wouldn't have been if I didn't do this. I had a choice. I could leave it, have a nice, easy time. But I think ultimately you would've had an implosion. Our country had inflation that was worse than they've ever had it before.<br>You don't mention that. Why don't you mention that? We had the worst inflation probably in the history of our country. People say 48 years, probably in the history of our country we had the worst inflation. And people were dying over the inflation. You know that. Now the grocery prices are coming down. The energy prices are coming down. Gasoline's coming down. It's all heading in the right direction. **In response to a question over the concern about the effect of the tariffs, taken from [https://abcnews.go.com/US/full-transcript-trumps-exclusive-100-days-broadcast-interview/story?id=121291672 FULL TRANSCRIPT: Trump's exclusive 100 days broadcast interview with ABC News] ''ABC News'' (April 29, 2025) *We're going to have something that you won't even believe. We will end inflation, slash prices. We've already ended inflation, raise wages, and give you the greatest economy in the history of the world. **[https://uk.news.yahoo.com/trump-teases-biggest-bill-ever-021733041.html Trump Teases 'Biggest Bill Ever Passed' and 'Military Supremacy' During Anniversary Rally] ''Yahoo! News'' (April 29, 2025) *This is Biden’s Stock Market, not Trump’s… I didn’t take over until January 20th. Tariffs will soon start kicking in, and companies are starting to move into the USA in record numbers…. Our Country will boom, but we have to get rid of the Biden 'Overhang. This will take a while, has NOTHING TO DO WITH TARIFFS, only that he left us with bad numbers, but when the boom begins, it will be like no other. BE PATIENT!!! **From Truth Social reported in [https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-pins-stock-market-struggles-biden-weeks-taking-credit-rcna203702 Trump puts market struggles on Biden as economy shrinks under his watch] ''NBC News'' (April 30, 2025) *You probably saw some numbers today, and I have to start off by saying that’s Biden — that’s not Trump — because we came in on January. We came in and I was very against everything that Biden was doing in terms of the economy. … We took over his mess in so many different ways.<br>I’m not taking credit or discredit for the stock market. I’m just saying we inherited a mess…. We came in on Jan. 20, so this is Biden. And you can even say the next quarter is, sort of, Biden, because it doesn’t just happen on a daily or an hourly basis, but we’re turning it around. It’s a big ship to turn around. **In remarks during a meeting with his Cabinet, reported in [https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-pins-stock-market-struggles-biden-weeks-taking-credit-rcna203702 Trump puts market struggles on Biden as economy shrinks under his watch] ''NBC News'' (April 30, 2025) *You know, somebody said, ‘Oh, the shelves are going to be open.’ Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls. So maybe the two dolls will cost a couple bucks more than they would normally. **More remarks during his Cabinet meeting, reported in [https://apnews.com/article/trump-economy-tariffs-gdp-7494825851dcef94ec81475124f9326f Trump says US kids may get ‘2 dolls instead of 30,’ but China will suffer more in a trade war] 'AP News' (April 30, 2025) ===== Liberation Day tariff announcements (2 April 2025) ===== Announced from the Rose Garden at the White House:[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trumps-liberation-day-arrives-gambles-big-risky-tariff/story?id=120382209] [https://nypost.com/2025/04/02/us-news/trump-slaps-at-least-10-tariffs-on-all-imports-in-declaration-of-economic-independence-half-of-what-they-could-be] [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-tariffs-great-depression-fdr-b2726461.html][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6uFW0gHwXU][https://singjupost.com/transcript-of-president-trump-remarks-at-liberation-day-event-april-2-2025/?singlepage=1] *My fellow Americans, this is Liberation Day… April 2nd, 2025, will forever be remembered as the day American industry was reborn, the day America's destiny was reclaimed and the day that we began to make America wealthy again. *For decades, our country has been looted, pillaged, raped and plundered by nations near and far, both friend and foe alike. * Taxpayers have been ripped off for more than 50 years, but it is not going to happen anymore. *This is one of the most important days, in my opinion, in American history. It’s our declaration of economic independence. …now it’s our turn to prosper and in so doing use trillions and trillions of dollars to reduce our taxes and pay down our national debt and it will all happen very quickly. With today’s action we are finally going to be able to make America great again, greater than ever before. *Jobs and factories will come roaring back into our country, and you see it happening already. We will supercharge our domestic industrial base. We will pry open foreign markets and break down foreign trade barriers. And ultimately, more production at home will mean stronger competition and lower prices for consumers. This will be indeed the golden age of America. It’s coming back and we’re going to come back very strongly. *From 1789 to 1913, we were a tariff-backed nation and the United States was proportionately the wealthiest it has ever been. So wealthy, in fact, that in the 1880s, they established a commission to decide what they were going to do with the vast sums of money they were collecting….<br>Then in 1913, for reasons unknown to mankind, they established the income tax so that citizens rather than foreign countries would start paying the money necessary to run our government. Then in 1929, it all came to a very abrupt end with the Great Depression, and it would have never happened if they had stayed with the tariff policy. It would have been a much different story.<br>They tried to bring back tariffs to save our country, but it was gone. It was gone. It was too late. Nothing could have been done. It took years and years to get out of that depression, far longer than even FDR had that office right over there for a long period of time. *We will charge them approximately half of what they are and have been charging us because we are being very kind. This is not full reciprocal. This is kind reciprocal. *In short, chronic trade deficits are no longer merely an economic problem. They're a national emergency that threatens our security and our very way of life. It's a very great threat to our country. *These tariffs are going to give us growth like you haven’t seen before. And it’ll be something very special to watch. ====May 2025==== [[File:AI Donald Trump Star Wars.jpg|thumb|You’re not [[w:Rebel Alliance|the Rebellion]] — you’re [[w:Galactic Empire (Star Wars)|the Empire]].]] *They all hated me in my first term, and now they’re kissing my ass. **Trump bragging about how tech moguls have warmed up to him, reported in [https://apnews.com/article/trump-alabama-commencement-address-protests-6bcea5b4058c819c26a8135b41d73dd1 Trump offers advice to University of Alabama graduates in speech interspersed with politics] 'AP News' (May 1, 2025) * The courts are trying to stop me from doing the job that I was elected to do. ** [https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/02/politics/ketanji-brown-jackson-trump-judges "Politico: Ketanji Brown Jackson warns Trump’s rhetoric against judges are ‘attacks on our democracy’"] ''CNN'' (May 2, 2025) * [[w:Star Wars Day|Happy May the 4th]] to all, including the Radical Left Lunatics who are fighting so hard to to bring [[w:Sith|Sith Lords]], Murderers, Drug Lords, Dangerous Prisoners, & well known MS-13 Gang Members, back into our Galaxy. You’re not [[w:Rebel Alliance|the Rebellion]] — you’re [[w:Galactic Empire (Star Wars)|the Empire]]. <br /> May the 4th be with you. ** [https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1919053040734072844 Star Wars Day message on the Official WhiteHouse X account (4 May 2025)], accompanied by an AI generated image of Trump with a body-builder physique, wielding a [[w:Lightsaber|red lightsaber]] (which in [[Star Wars]] lore is emblematic of the often deceitful and profoundly evil [[w:Sith|Sith]] manifesting the "Dark side" of [[the Force]]). *<b>I don't know.</b> I have to respond by saying, again, I have brilliant lawyers that work for me, and they are going to obviously follow what the Supreme Court said. What you said is not what I heard the Supreme Court said. They have a different interpretation. **When asked whether he, as president, needs to abide by the Constitution and the rights it provides to people in the U.S., as reported in [https://www.npr.org/2025/05/04/g-s1-64239/does-a-president-need-to-uphold-the-constitution-trump-says-i-dont-know Does a president need to uphold the Constitution? Trump says 'I don't know'] ''NPR'' (May 4, 2025) *I think the good parts are the ‘Trump economy’ and the bad parts are the ‘Biden economy’ because he’s done a terrible job…. I was able to get down the costs. But even that, it takes a while to get them down. But we got them down good....<br>I’ve only just been here for a little more than three months. But the stock market, look at what’s happened in the last short period of time. Didn’t it have nine or 10 days in a row, or 11 days, where it’s gone up? And the tariffs have just started kicking in. And we’re doing really well. **In response to the question: ‘When does it become the Trump economy?’, quoted from [https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/04/business/trump-economy-tariffs-powell Trump says good parts of US economy are ‘Trump economy,’ bad parts are ‘Biden economy’] CNN (May 4 2025) * ‘Too Late’ Jerome Powell is a FOOL, who doesn’t have a clue. ** Claimed about the Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve, quoted in [https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/08/trump-calls-fed-chair-jerome-powell-a-fool-after-central-bank-keeps-rates-steady.html "Trump calls Fed Chair Jerome Powell a ‘fool’ after central bank keeps rates steady"], ''CNBC'' (May 8, 2025) *(U.S. ports slowing down) means we lose less money, you know? When I see that, that means we lose less money…. And frankly if we didn’t do business (with China), we would have been better off. So, when you say it slowed down, that’s a good thing, not a bad thing. **Responding to a reporter saying that traffic at U.S. ports “has really slowed, and now thousands of dockworkers and truck drivers are worried about their jobs”, quoted in [https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-exposes-own-idiocy-looming-171025385.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAAwAaX7rRwkUgizDt6XV1AOwYrv_ZMeBvHcxEMpvwsTm5lgFGs-RnNK7Brf0slvaI0V7WM6BAq1bFaEnDYKIOA9VnIsUr1OTy57i7_-oXYOG-Ti5H0ZkMgFatc6W-Oemxe82QXdtzNGQy_NC4PvCUlAd8MeWzovIDQhPgQAuh6I3 Trump Exposes Own Idiocy With Comment About Looming Shortages] ''Yahoo! News'' (May 8, 2025) *So the fact that the Defense Department is getting a GIFT, FREE OF CHARGE, of a 747 aircraft to replace the 40 year old Air Force One, temporarily, in a very public and transparent transaction, so bothers the Crooked Democrats that they insist we pay, TOP DOLLAR, for the plane. Anybody can do that! The Dems are World Class Losers!!! MAGA. **From ''Truth Social'' regarding a potential gift of a $400 million "palace in the sky" airplane from the Qatari government for Trump's use, reported in [https://thearabweekly.com/brewing-controversy-surrounds-qatars-intent-lavish-luxury-jet-trump Brewing controversy surrounds Qatar’s intent to lavish luxury jet on Trump] ''The Arab Weekly'' (May 12, 2025) *I think it's a great gesture from Qatar. I appreciate it very much. I would never be one to turn down that kind of an offer.<br>I mean, I could be a stupid person, say, 'No, we don't want a free, very expensive airplane.' I thought it was a great gesture.<br>…They're giving us a free jet. I could say, 'No, no, no, don't give us. I want to pay you a billion or $400 million, or whatever it is.' Or I could say, 'Thank you very much.' **Speaking to reporters at the White House regarding accepting a gift of a $400 million 747 airplane from Qatar, quoted in [https://www.axios.com/2025/05/12/trump-qatar-jet-free-plane-air-force-one Trump says it would be "stupid" not to accept free jet from Qatar] ''Axios'' (May 12, 2025) * European Union is in many ways nastier than China, okay. ** [https://www.politico.eu/article/trump-eu-nastier-than-china/ "Trump: The EU is ‘nastier than China’"], ''Politico'' (May 12, 2025) *Oh, what I do for the crown prince. The sanctions were brutal and crippling and served as an important, really an important function, nevertheless, at the time. But now it's their time to shine. **[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-heaps-praise-saudi-crown-prince-touts-economic/story?id=121758613 Trump heaps praise on Saudi Crown Prince MBS as he touts economic development] ''ABC News'' (May 13, 2025) * I see that Highly Overrated Bruce Springsteen goes to a Foreign Country to speak badly about the President of the United States. Never liked him, never liked his music, or his Radical Left Politics and, importantly, he's not a talented guy - Just a pushy, obnoxious JERK * Has anyone noticed that, since I said 'I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT,' she’s no longer 'HOT? ** [https://eu.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2025/05/16/trump-calls-bruce-springsteen-obnoxious-jerk/83671059007/ "Trump calls Bruce Springsteen 'obnoxious jerk' after singer voiced criticism at concert"], ''USA Today'' (May 16, 2025) *...The biggest crime of all is that THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WAS RIGGED! I (MAGA!) WON THE ELECTION BY MILLIONS OF VOTES, AND EVERYONE KNOWS IT. GOD BLESS AMERICA, FOR THE FIGHT HAS JUST BEGUN!!! **From ''Truth Social'' as reported in [https://www.mediaite.com/news/trump-goes-on-early-morning-ragefest-over-autopen-and-rigged-and-stolen-election/ Trump Goes On Early-Morning Ragefest Over ‘AUTOPEN’ And ‘RIGGED AND STOLEN’ Election] ''Mediaite'' (May 17, 2025) * They have a term, ‘grocery.’ It’s an old term, but it means basically what you’re buying: food. It’s a pretty accurate term, but it’s an old-fashioned sound, but groceries are down. * Costs are down, eggs are down. They were, first week they were hitting me with ‘Eggs were up 200%’ and now they’re down to a number that is amazing. We’re down 97, 98% from where they were. ** [https://www.yahoo.com/news/people-left-flabbergasted-trumps-explanation-213256638.html "People Left Flabbergasted By Trump's Explanation Of 1 English Word To UAE President"], ''Yahoo News / Huffington Post'' (May 15, 2025) * Walmart should STOP trying to blame Tariffs as the reason for raising prices throughout the chain. Walmart made BILLIONS OF DOLLARS last year, far more than expected. Between Walmart and China they should, as is said, “EAT THE TARIFFS,” and not charge valued customers ANYTHING. I’ll be watching, and so will your customers!!! ** [https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/17/trump-tells-walmart-to-eat-the-tariffs.html "Trump tells Walmart to ‘eat the tariffs’ after retailer warned it will raise prices"], ''CNBC'' (May 17, 2025) *HOW MUCH DID KAMALA HARRIS PAY BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN FOR HIS POOR PERFORMANCE DURING HER CAMPAIGN FOR PRESIDENT? WHY DID HE ACCEPT THAT MONEY IF HE IS SUCH A FAN OF HERS? ISN’T THAT A MAJOR AND ILLEGAL CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION? WHAT ABOUT BEYONCÉ? …AND HOW MUCH WENT TO OPRAH, AND BONO??? I am going to call for a major investigation into this matter....For these unpatriotic “entertainers,” this was just a CORRUPT & UNLAWFUL way to capitalize on a broken system. **From ''Truth Social'' as reported in [https://www.mediaite.com/news/trump-demands-major-investigation-into-springsteen-beyonce-oprah-for-backing-kamala-harris-corrupt-unlawful/ Trump Demands ‘Major Investigation’ Into Springsteen, Beyoncé, Oprah for Backing Kamala Harris: ‘CORRUPT & UNLAWFUL!’] ''Mediate'' (May 19, 2025) * HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY TO ALL, INCLUDING THE SCUM THAT SPENT THE LAST FOUR YEARS TRYING TO DESTROY OUR COUNTRY THROUGH WARPED RADICAL LEFT MINDS, WHO ALLOWED 21,000,000 MILLION PEOPLE TO ILLEGALLY ENTER OUR COUNTRY, MANY OF THEM BEING CRIMINALS AND THE MENTALLY INSANE,THROUGH AN OPEN BORDER THAT ONLY AN INCOMPETENT PRESIDENT WOULD APPROVE, AND THROUGH JUDGES WHO ARE ON A MISSION TO KEEP MURDERERS, DRUG DEALERS, RAPISTS, GANG MEMBERS, AND RELEASED PRISONERS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD, IN OUR COUNTRY SO THEY CAN ROB, MURDER, AND RAPE AGAIN — ALL PROTECTED BY THESE USA HATING JUDGES WHO SUFFER FROM AN IDEOLOGY THAT IS SICK, AND VERY DANGEROUS FOR OUR COUNTRY. HOPEFULLY THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT, AND OTHER GOOD AND COMPASSIONATE JUDGES THROUGHOUT THE LAND, WILL SAVE US FROM THE DECISIONS OF THE MONSTERS WHO WANT OUR COUNTRY TO GO TO HELL. BUT FEAR NOT, WE HAVE MADE GREAT PROGRESS OVER THE LAST 4 MONTHS, AND AMERICA WILL SOON BE SAFE AND GREAT AGAIN! AGAIN, HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY, AND GOD BLESS AMERICA! ** [https://www.yahoo.com/news/fact-check-trumps-memorial-day-154700630.html "Fact Check: Trump's Memorial Day message"] ''Yahoo News'' (May 27, 20205) * What Vladimir Putin doesn’t realize is that if it weren’t for me, lots of really bad things would have already happened to Russia, and I mean REALLY BAD. He’s playing with fire! ** [https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-brags-shielding-putin-not-204644595.html "Trump Brags About Shielding Putin, And It’s Not Going Over Well On Social Media"] ''Huffington Post'' (May 27, 2025) * There is no #JoeBiden - executed in 2020. #Biden clones doubles & robotic engineered soulless mindless entities are what you see. Democrats dont know the difference. ** Social media posting shared by Donald Trump, quoted in [https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-shares-bonkers-conspiracy-theory-about-joe-biden-being-replaced-by-clones/ "Trump Shares Unhinged Conspiracy Theory That Biden Is a Robot Clone"], ''Daily Beast'' (May 31, 2025) ===== [https://www.newsweek.com/trump-advice-university-alabama-commencement-speech-2067054 Donald Trump Shares 11 Pieces of Advice at Rally-Style Commencement Speech] Newsweek (1 May 2025) ===== # "If you're here today and think that you're too young to do something great, let me tell you that you are wrong. You're not too young. You can have great success at a very young age ... In America, with drive and ambition, young people can do anything." # "You have to love what you do. You have to. I rarely see somebody that's successful that doesn't love what he or she does ... If I didn't find it fun, I wouldn't be successful." # "The third thing is to think big. If you're going to do something, you might as well think big. I know a lot of people, they've thought small, they were very smart. I know others that weren't nearly as smart, but they had a better picture of the big picture, because it's just as hard to solve a small problem as a big problem and it's just as much energy and everything else, except the result is going to be a smaller one. So love what you do and think big if it's possible." # "Work hard. Never, ever stop," Trump said, before mentioning pro golf legend Gary Player. The president said Player "wasn't as big as other men, he was on the small side ... but he worked very, very hard. He made up for it. He never stopped." # "Don't lose your momentum. You just want to keep it going. And you have to know, if you are losing it, you have to know when you are losing it, so maybe you stop and maybe it's time to stop. Listen to the feedback, think through your plan very carefully and keep moving fast." # "If you want to change the world, you have to have the courage to be an outsider. In other words, you have to take certain risks and do things a little bit differently; otherwise, if that were the case, everybody would be successful. Doesn't work that way. Progress never comes from those satisfied with the failures of a broken system; it comes from those who want to fix the broken system. If you want to go to the top, you're just never going to do it unless you break the system ... You really do, you have to break the system a little bit and follow your own instincts. But if your vision is right, nothing will hold you down. Nothing. You have to have the right vision." # "Trust your instincts. Common sense. You can go very far in life with common sense and I applied that to politics because some of these things, like, they had open borders. Let everybody in the whole world flow into our country. That's not common sense." # "Everybody should believe in the American dream. It's real, it's there and it's right before you." # "Think of yourself as a winner. The power of positive thinking. Don't consider yourself a victim. Consider yourself a winner. In recent years, too many of our young people have really been taught to think of themselves as victims and blame people and be angry. Don't be angry. In America, we reject that idea that anyone is born a victim. Our heroes are the ones who take charge of their own destiny, make their own luck and determine their own fate, despite the odds." # "Be an original," Trump said as his penultimate piece of advice for the graduating class. "The all-time greats were people who had the confidence to be a little different ... God only created one of you. Remember that. You're all different, some are close, but nobody is the same. You're one of a kind so don't try to be someone else. Just be yourself." # "Never, ever give up. Never give up. Don't stop. Never, ever give up. Victory is right around the corner." ==== June 2025 ==== *The horrific decision stated that I would have to get the approval of Congress for these Tariffs. In other words, hundreds of politicians would sit around D.C. for weeks, and even months, trying to come to a conclusion as to what to charge other Countries that are treating us unfairly. If allowed to stand, this would completely destroy Presidential Power — The Presidency would never be the same! **Regarding the Court of International Trade’s decision stating that tariffs must be approved by Congress according to the Constitution, as quoted in “Truth Social” and reported in [https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/congress-trade-tariffs-trump-gives-away-game-power-grab-rcna210366 On Congress and trade tariffs, Trump gives away the game about his power grab] ''MSNBC'' (June 2, 2025) * Because of Tariffs, our Economy is BOOMING! ** [https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-brag-about-booming-economy-immediately-gets-a-humiliating-reality-check/ "Trump’s Brag About ‘BOOMING’ Economy Immediately Gets a Humiliating Reality Check"], ''Daily Beast'' (June 3, 2025) *That was not a pleasant day for you? **About the 1945 D-Day landings, to Chancellor of Germany Friedrich Merz, who replied "This was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship." ([https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/germanys-chancellor-visits-trump-as-europes-alliance-with-u-s-is-fracturing June 5, 2025]) * The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of dollars, is to terminate Elon's Governmental Subsidies and Contracts. I was always surprised that Biden didn't do it! ** [https://www.axios.com/2025/06/05/elon-musk-twitter-trump-epstein-files "How Trump and Musk's relationship exploded in real time over X, Truth Social"], ''Axios'' (June 5, 2025) *We want to wean off of FEMA and we want to bring it down to the state level — a little bit like education, we're moving it back to the states.<br>It has not worked out well. It's extremely expensive and, again, when you have a tornado or a hurricane or you have a problem of any kind, in a state, that's what you have governors for. They're supposed to fix those problems, and it's much more local and they'll develop a system, and it will be a great system. **[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-fema-hurricane-season-wean-states/ Trump says his administration wants to "wean" states off FEMA aid after hurricane season] ''CBS News'' (June 11, 2025) * Remember eggs? We weren’t able to buy another egg for the next 20 years — they were so expensive, right? Eggs have come down 400%. ** [https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-everybody-eggs-now-154300576.html "Trump says ‘everybody has eggs now’ since prices have dropped a staggering 400%. But is his math scrambled?"] ''Yahoo Finance / Moneywise'' (June 12, 2025) * Please help me with my military parade. ** Written in a fundraising e-mail, quoted in [https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/chris-hayes-cackles-at-trump-email-sorry-thats-a-funny-sentence/ "Chris Hayes Cackles at Trump Email: ‘Sorry, That’s a Funny Sentence’"], ''Mediaite'' (June 13, 2025) * President Putin called this morning to very nicely wish me a Happy Birthday ** Quoted in [https://www.mediaite.com/politics/trump/trump-says-putin-very-nicely-wished-him-happy-birthday-and-they-agreed-war-in-israel-iran-should-end-on-hour-long-call/ "Trump Says Putin ‘Very Nicely’ Wished Him Happy Birthday and They Agreed ‘War in Israel-Iran Should End’ on Hour-Long Call"], ''Mediaite'' (June 14, 2025) * We can easily get a deal done between Iran and Israel, and end this bloody conflict. ** [https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-iran-retaliation-levels-never-seen-before/ "Trump threatens Iran with retaliation ‘at levels never seen before’"], ''Politico'' (June 15, 2025) *ICE Officers are herewith ordered, by notice of this TRUTH, to do all in their power to achieve the very important goal of delivering the single largest Mass Deportation Program in History.<br>In order to achieve this, we must expand efforts to detain and deport Illegal Aliens in America’s largest Cities, such as Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, where Millions upon Millions of Illegal Aliens reside. These, and other such Cities, are the core of the Democrat Power Center, where they use Illegal Aliens to expand their Voter Base, cheat in Elections, and grow the Welfare State, robbing good paying Jobs and Benefits from Hardworking American Citizens. These radical left Democrats are sick of mind, hate our country and actually want to destroy our inner cities - and they are doing a good job of it! There is something wrong with them **From Truth Social reported in [https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/live-updates/trump-admin-updates-live/?id=122650591 Trump admin updates: Trump calls for expanded deportations in LA, NYC and more] ''ABC News'' (June 15, 2025) *I want them to focus on the cities because the cities are where you really have what's called sanctuary cities, and that's where the people are… Most of those people are in the cities, all blue cities, all Democrat-run cities, and they think they're going to use them to vote. It's not going to happen. **Speaking at the G7 Summit concerning the deportation of illegal aliens, reported in [https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/california/president-trump-orders-ice-to-target-democratic-run-cities/509-457960b7-63e1-4277-bc42-73d10918a0f4 Trump targets deportations in Democratic cities, sparks outrage in California] ''CBS8'' (June 16, 2025) *Well, considering that I’m the one that developed ‘America First,’ and considering that the term wasn’t used until I came along, I think I’m the one that decides that. **[https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/trump-america-first-iran-israel-strikes-rcna213299 Trump tries to redefine ‘America First’ in the face of MAGA backlash] ''MSNBC'' (June 16, 2025) *I think the governor of Minnesota is so whacked out. I'm not calling him. Why would I call him? I could call and say, 'Hi, how you doing?' Uh, the guy doesn't have a clue. He's a mess. I could be nice and call, but why waste time? **Explaining why he chose not to call Minnesota Governor [[Tim Walz]] following the political assassinations of state Representative [[Melissa Hortman]] (a Democrat) and her husband [https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-call-walz-after-minnesota-shootings-calls-grossly/story?id=122870353 Trump says calling Walz after Minnesota shootings would be 'waste of time'] ''ABC News'' (June 17, 2025) * I don't believe in telephones. ** [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14820045/Donald-Trump-G7-Iran-Air-Force-One.html "Donald Trump reveals the real reason he rushed home from the G7 in Canada while bombs fell on Tehran"] ''Daily Mail'' (June 17, 2025) *Let's have a good -- they call it a lifting. They also use another word, but I'm not gonna use that word. It starts with an E. Do you know what the word is? If I ever used it, I would be run out of town by you people. **While talking with reporters on the White House lawn, where he plans on installing two massive flagpoles, reported in [https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/trump-cracks-crude-genitalia-joke-35414899 Trump cracks crude genitalia joke at flagpole ceremony amid fears he'll be 'run out of town'] ''Irish Star'' (June 18, 2025) *My supporters are more in love with me today, and I'm more in love with them, more than they even were at election time where we had a total landslide…<br>I may have some people that are a little bit unhappy now, but I have some people that are very happy, and I have people outside of the base that can't believe that this is happening, they're so happy ... and there was a poll that just came out today and my approval rating’s the highest it’s ever been. **Speaking to reporters at the White House on the South Lawn, asked about supporters’ concerns regarding involvement in the Israel-Iran conflict quoted in [https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/trump-supporters-love-involvement-iran-roils-maga-world-122978793 Trump says supporters are 'more in love' with him than ever, as involvement in Iran roils MAGA world] ''ABC News'' (June 18, 2025)[https://www.al.com/politics/2025/06/trump-claims-his-approval-rating-is-the-highest-its-ever-been-numbers-tell-a-different-story.html] * I may do it. I may not do it. Nobody knows what I'm going to do. ** Said about the possibility of attacking Iran, 18 June 2025. Quoted in Allan Little [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czxww2kez0go How Trump is using the 'Madman Theory' to try to change the world (and it's working)] ''BBC News'' (July 6, 2025) * I stopped the war between Pakistan and India. ** Claimed without providing evidence, quoted in [https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/third-time-india-pushes-back-trumps-dubious-boasts-rcna213931 "For the third time, India pushes back against Trump’s dubious boasts"] ''MSNBC'' (June 19, 2025) *Zero Border crossings for the month for TRUMP, verses 60,000 for Sleepy, Crooked Joe Biden, a man who lost the 2020 Presidential Election by a “LANDSLIDE!” Biden was grossly incompetent, and the 2020 election was a total FRAUD! The evidence is MASSIVE and OVERWHELMING. A Special Prosecutor must be appointed. This cannot be allowed to happen again in the United States of America! **Taken from Truth Social post in [https://www.mediaite.com/politics/trump-calls-for-special-prosecutor-for-alleged-election-fraud-in-2020-claiming-he-won-in-a-landslide/ Trump Calls for Special Prosecutor for Alleged Election Fraud in 2020 — Claiming He Won in a ‘LANDSLIDE!’] ''Mediaite'' (June 20, 2025) *It’s not politically correct to use the term, ‘Regime Change’, but if the current Iranian Regime is unable to MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN, why wouldn’t there be a Regime change? MIGA!!! **''Truth Social'' posting, reported in [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/06/23/trump-agitates-for-iran-regime-change/ Trump agitates for regime change to ‘make Iran great again’] ''The Telegraph'' (June 22, 2025) *CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE! It has been fully agreed by and between Israel and Iran that there will be a Complete and Total CEASEFIRE (in approximately 6 hours from now, when Israel and Iran have wound down and completed their in progress, final missions!), for 12 hours, at which point the War will be considered, ENDED! During each CEASEFIRE, the other side will remain PEACEFUL and RESPECTFUL. On the assumption that everything works as it should, which it will, I would like to congratulate both Countries, Israel and Iran, on having the Stamina, Courage, and Intelligence to end, what should be called, “THE 12 DAY WAR”. **Truth Social post reported in [https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/23/iran-qatar-iraq-attacks-us-israel.html Trump announces Israel-Iran ceasefire timeline he says will end the war: Live updates] ''CNBC'' (June 23, 2025)[https://www.salon.com/2025/06/23/the-12-day-war-says-israel-iran-have-reached-tentative-ceasefire-agreement/] * Israel, as soon as we made the deal they came out and they dropped a load of bombs, the likes of which I’ve never seen before.<br>I’m not happy with Israel. You know, when I say, ‘OK now you have 12 hours,’ you don’t go out to the first hour, just drop everything you have on, so I’m not happy with them. I’m not happy with Iran either.<br>ISRAEL. DO NOT DROP THOSE BOMBS. IF YOU DO IT IS A MAJOR VIOLATION. BRING YOUR PILOTS HOME, NOW! ** [https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-iran-conflict-us-trump-06-24-25-intl-hnk#cmcaf5mst00003b6prm250209 "Trump lashes out at Israel as his Middle East truce appears to falter"] ''CNN'' (June 24, 2025) * ''About Israel and Iran:'' : I don’t believe they will ever be shooting at each other again. :* [https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-expects-israel-iran-ceasefire-last-forever-rcna214660 "Trump says he expects the Israel-Iran ceasefire will last 'forever'"] ''NBC News'' (June 24, 2025) * We have no inflation. ** Claimed without providing evidence, quoted in [https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/25/politics/fact-check-trump-nato-conference "Fact-checking Trump’s NATO news conference"] ''CNN'' (June 25, 2025) * I've talked to Putin a lot and he's actually been very kind. ** [https://www.gazetaexpress.com/en/He%27s-a-good-guy.-Trump-announces-talks-with-Zelensky--praises-Putin-as-very-kind./ "'He's a good guy': Trump announces talks with Zelensky, praises Putin as 'very kind'"] ''Gazeta Express'' (June 25, 2025) ==== July 2025 ==== * This bill rescues over 2 billion family farms from the so-called estate tax or the death tax. ** Claimed about the "Big Beautiful Bill", quoted in [https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/trump-loses-it-claims-2-35498032 "Trump 'loses it' as he claims 2 billion farms have been rescued then outright lies over taxes"] ''Irish Star'' (July 3, 2025) * ''Claimed about his "big beautiful bill":'' : It’s the most popular bill ever signed in the history of our country, whether you’re military or anybody else, this is the most single most popular bill ever signed, :* [https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/04/politics/fact-check-trump-bill-unpopular "Fact check: Trump falsely claims his highly unpopular big bill is the ‘single most popular bill ever signed’"] ''CNN'' (July 4, 2025) *We made promises, and it’s really promises made, promises kept, and we’ve kept them. There’s a triumph of democracy on the birthday of democracy, and I have to say that the people are happy. **After signing the One Big Beautiful Bill into law [https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/04/politics/donald-trump-policy-bill-celebration Trump signs his agenda bill, with a flyover and fireworks to mark the occasion] ''CNN'' (July 4, 2025) *I would say firm, but not 100% firm. **When asked by a reporter whether the new August 1st tariff date was a hard deadline, quoted in [https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd0vkl31085o US delays higher tariffs but announces new taxes for some countries] ''BBC'' (July 7, 2025) *Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? This guy’s been talked about for years…. Are people still talking about this guy? This creep? That is unbelievable.<br>I can’t believe you’re asking a question on Epstein at a time like this, when we’re having some of the greatest success and also tragedy with what happened in Texas. It just seems like a desecration. **Responding to a reporter’s question to Attorney General Pam Bondi regarding Jeffrey Epstein, quoted in [https://uk.news.yahoo.com/trump-questions-why-people-talking-164717536.html Trump questions why people are talking about ‘creep’ Epstein - despite his push to release the files ] ''Yahoo News'' (July 8, 2025) *If a communist gets elected to run New York, it can never be the same, but we have tremendous power at the White House to run places when we have to.<br>New York City will run properly. We’re going to bring New York back. **After warning against the prospect of Zohran Mamdani winning the New York mayor’s race, quoted in [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-08/trump-says-he-s-weighing-federal-takeover-of-washington-dc Trump Says He’s Weighing Federal Takeover of Washington, DC] ''Bloomberg'' (July 8, 2025)[https://archive.is/317Oy#selection-1147.0-1147.59] *TARIFFS WILL START BEING PAID ON AUGUST 1, 2025. There has been no change to this date, and there will be no change. In other words, all money will be due and payable starting AUGUST 1, 2025 — No extensions will be granted. **From ''Truth Social'', quoted in [https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/trump-threatens-no-extensions-aug-1-tariff-deadline-what-countries-rcna217536 Trump threatens 'no extensions' on new Aug. 1 tariff deadline, warns of higher import taxes] ''NBC News'' (July 8, 2025) *We’re on one Team, MAGA, and I don’t like what’s happening. We have a PERFECT Administration, THE TALK OF THE WORLD, and “selfish people” are trying to hurt it, all over a guy who never dies, Jeffrey Epstein….One year ago our Country was DEAD, now it’s the “HOTTEST” Country anywhere in the World. Let’s keep it that way, and not waste Time and Energy on Jeffrey Epstein, somebody that nobody cares about. **From ''Truth Social'', quoted in [https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/12/politics/bondi-epstein-investigation-trump Trump defends Bondi amid MAGA fallout over her handling of Epstein investigation] ''CNN'' (July 13, 2025)[https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114842356238631061] *I speak to him a lot about getting this thing done. And I always hang up and say, well, that was a nice phone call. And then missiles are launched into Kyiv or some other city. And I said, strange. And after that happens three or four times, you say the talk doesn't mean anything. **Referring to his conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin regarding ending the Russia-Ukraine war, quoted in [https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5467304 Trump announces new weapon plan for Ukraine, threatens Russia with tariffs] ''NPR'' (July 14, 2025) *Very good. Because I won. It's good to win. You heard I won, right? Did you hear I won? I like to win. **When asked how the golf tournament was after winning the Senior Club Championship at his course outside of West Palm Beach, Florida [https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/trump/2025/07/14/trump-golf-championship-new-jersey-bedminster/85190196007/ Trump claims another golf championship, his fifth this year, at his New Jersey club] ''The Palm Beach Post'' (July 14, 2025) * I go home, I tell the first lady, ‘I spoke to Vladimir today, we had a wonderful conversation.’ And she says, ‘Oh really, another city was just hit’ ** Donald Trump, quoted in [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/melania-trump-russia-ukraine-b2789171.html "How Melania Trump emerged as one of Zelensky’s key allies in the White House"] ''The Independent'' (July 15, 2025) * No, no. She's [Pam Bondi] uh, she's given us just a very quick briefing. And in terms of the credibility of the various things that they've seen. And I would say that, you know, these files [Jeffrey Epstein files] were made up by Comey, they were made up by Obama, they were made up but, the Biden, uh, you know, and we went through years of that. ** Donald Trump answering a reporter's question on wether Donald Trump's name appeared in the Jeffrey Epstein files. [https://apnews.com/article/trump-epstein-conspiracy-theories-bondi-bongino-fbi-a143076353acbc1193cb9697e7fc4a90 With Epstein conspiracy theories, Trump faces a crisis of his own making] [[File:Epstein Final Mugshot.png|thumb|I have had more [[success]] in 6 months than perhaps any [[President]] in our Country’s [[history]], and all these [[people]] want to talk about, with strong prodding by the [[Fake news|Fake News]] and the success starved [[Democratic Party (United States)|Dems]], is the [[Jeffrey Epstein]] Hoax.]] *The Radical Left Democrats have hit pay dirt, again! Just like with the FAKE and fully discredited Steele Dossier, the lying 51 “Intelligence” Agents, the Laptop from Hell, which the Dems swore had come from Russia (No, it came from Hunter Biden’s bathroom!), and even the Russia, Russia, Russia Scam itself, a totally fake and made up story used in order to hide Crooked Hillary Clinton’s big loss in the 2016 Presidential Election, these Scams and Hoaxes are all the Democrats are good at… Their new SCAM is what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax, and my PAST supporters have bought into this “bullshit,” hook, line, and sinker. They haven’t learned their lesson, and probably never will, even after being conned by the Lunatic Left for 8 long years. I have had more success in 6 months than perhaps any President in our Country’s history, and all these people want to talk about, with strong prodding by the Fake News and the success starved Dems, is the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax. Let these weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats work, don’t even think about talking of our incredible and unprecedented success, because I don’t want their support anymore! **''Truth Social'' post cutting ties with any MAGA supporters who still want answers in the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, reported in [https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/trump-melts-down-over-epstein-hoax-slams-supporters-who-believe-this-bullsht-i-dont-want-their-support-anymore/ Trump Melts Down Over Epstein ‘Hoax,’ Slams Supporters Who Believe ‘This Bullsh*t’: ‘I Don’t Want Their Support Anymore!’] ''Mediaite'' (July 16, 2025) *I know it’s a hoax. It was started by Democrats. It’s been run by the Democrats for four years ... it’s perpetrated by the Democrats and some stupid Republicans and foolish Republicans fall into the net, and so they try and do the Democrats’ work. **When asked by a reporter if he has evidence to support his claim that the fervor over Jeffrey Epstein, who died from suicide in a Manhattan jail cell during his first term, is part of a Democratic “hoax” against him, reported in [https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-epstein-file-response-republicans-b2790269.html Trump attacks ‘stupid Republicans’ for wanting Epstein files released] ''Independent'' (July 16, 2025) *No, no, she's -- she's given us just a very quick briefing. And in terms of the credibility of the different things that they've seen, and I would say that, you know, these files were made up by Comey, they were made up by Obama, they were made up by the Biden -- and you know, we and we went through years of that with the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax, with all of the different things that we had to go through. **When asked by a reporter if Pam Bondi told him his name appeared in the Epstein files [https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/whatever-she-thinks-is-credible-trump-reacts-again-on-epstein-files-says-pam-bondi-has-handled-it-very-well/articleshow/122535035.cms 'Whatever she thinks is credible': Trump reacts again on Epstein files; says Pam Bondi has 'handled it very well'] ''Times of India'' (July 16, 2025) *He’s a terrible Fed chair. I was surprised he was appointed. I was surprised, frankly, that Biden put him in and extended him. **Regarding Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell whom Donald Trump appointed in 2017 [https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-says-was-surprised-jerome-powell-fed-chair-appointed-was-appoint-rcna219162 Trump says he was surprised that Jerome Powell, the Fed chair he appointed, was appointed] MSNBC (July 16, 2025) *I have asked the Justice Department to release all Grand Jury testimony with respect to Jeffrey Epstein, subject only to Court Approval. With that being said, and even if the Court gave its full and unwavering approval, nothing will be good enough for the troublemakers and radical left lunatics making the request. It will always be more, more, more. **From ''Truth Social'' reported in [https://dnyuz.com/2025/07/19/trump-savages-lunatics-demanding-epstein-files-release/ Trump Savages ‘Lunatics’ Demanding Epstein Files Release] ''DNYUZ'' (July 19, 2025) * We’re gonna get the drug prices down — not 30% or 40%, which would be great. Not 50% or 60%. No, we’re gonna get them down 1,000%, 600%, 500%, 1,500%. * Something that nobody else can do. * Numbers that are not even thought to be achievable. ** [https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/prescription-drug-costs-trump-flunks-arithmetic-embarrassing-fashion-rcna220508 "On prescription drug costs, Trump flunks arithmetic in embarrassing fashion"] ''MSNBC'' (July 23, 2025) * Every time they give you a question that's not appropriate, just say 'by the way, Obama cheated on the election.' ** [https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/mikey-smith-8-unhinged-donald-35606610 "MIKEY SMITH: 8 unhinged Donald Trump moments as he scrambles to distract from Epstein scandal"] ''Mirror'' (July 23, 2025) *I never had the privilege of going to his island, and I did turn him down. But a lot of people in Palm Beach were invited to his island. In one of my very good moments, I turned it down. I didn’t want to go to his island. **In reference to the late Jeffrey Epstein's island where underage girls were made available to Epstein and his guests [https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5423583-trump-rejects-epstein-island-offer/ Trump says he turned down offer to go to Epstein island: ‘One of my very good moments’] ''The Hill'' (July 28, 2025) * I'm not a fan of your mayor. I think he's done a terrible job, the mayor of London... a nasty person. ** [https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2q5pjk4zko "Trump takes another swipe at London's mayor"] ''BBC'' (July 28, 2025) * We stopped about five wars. ** Claimed without providing details or evidence, quoted in [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-boasts-he-stopped-about-five-wars-while-opening-new-scotland-golf-course-vows-work-with-netanyahu "Trump boasts he 'stopped about five wars' while opening new Scotland golf course, vows to work with Netanyahu"] ''FOX News'' (July 29, 2025) * I know better than anybody about sanctions and tariffs and everything else. ** [https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/31/politics/russia-sanctions-trump-witkoff-ukraine "Trump says Witkoff will travel to Russia, affirms plans for new sanctions"] ''CNN'' (July 31, 2025) *Tariffs are making America GREAT & RICH Again... Now the tide has completely turned, and America has successfully countered this onslaught of Tariffs used against it. ONE YEAR AGO, AMERICA WAS A DEAD COUNTRY, NOW IT IS THE “HOTTEST” COUNTRY ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL! **From ''Truth Social'', reported in [https://www.scrippsnews.com/politics/with-trade-deadline-nearing-court-case-could-define-trumps-tariff-authority With trade deadline nearing, court case could define Trump's tariff authority] ''Scripps News'' (July 31, 2025) * They've wanted [[w:White House State Ballroom|a ballroom at the White House]] for more than 150 years, but there's never been a president that was good at ballrooms. I'm really good. **On the White House ballroom project (31 July 2025), as quoted in [https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-white-house-ballroom-construction/ "Trump said new White House ballroom construction wouldn't 'interfere with the current building'" by Joey Esposito, ''Snopes'' (21 October 2025)]; also in [https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-building-new-200-million-ballroom-white-house/story?id=124254902 "Trump is building a new $200 million ballroom at the White House" ''ABC News'' (July 31, 2025)] ==== August 2025 ==== *I was just informed that our Country’s ‘Jobs Numbers’ are being produced by a Biden Appointee, Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, who faked the Jobs Numbers before the Election to try and boost Kamala’s [Harris’] chances of Victory... We need accurate Jobs Numbers. I have directed my Team to fire this Biden Political Appointee, IMMEDIATELY. She will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified. **Fires the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, Erika McEntarfer, in a ''Truth Social'' post immediately after the agency reported job growth in the U.S. had slowed to a near-halt, reported in [https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/01/trump-erika-mcentarfer-jobs-report-fired.html Trump fires commissioner of labor statistics after weaker-than-expected jobs figures slam markets] ''CNBC'' (August 1st, 2025) *If Sydney Sweeney is a registered Republican, I think her ad is fantastic. **[https://deadline.com/2025/08/donald-trump-sydney-sweeneys-american-eagle-ads-1236477752/ Trump Hails Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle Ads After Reports Actress Is Registered Republican] ''Deadline'' (August 4, 2025) * One of the things they're going to be talking about pretty soon are the tremendous drop in drug prices. You know, we've cut drug prices by 1,200, 1,300, 1,400, 1,500 percent. I don't mean 50 percent. I mean 14-, 1,500 percent. ** [https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-doubles-down-impossible-drug-price-cuts-2108365 "Donald Trump Doubles Down on Mathematically Impossible Drug Price Cuts"] ''Newsweek'' (August 4, 2025) *We have an opportunity in Texas to pick up five [congressional] seats. We have a really good governor, and we have good people in Texas. And I won Texas. I got the highest vote in the history of Texas, as you probably know, and we are entitled to five more seats. **Regarding the recently proposed congressional state map that, if passed by the state’s legislature, would boost the Republican party’s chances of maintaining control of the House in the 2026 midterms [https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/05/trump-texas-redistricting-00493624 Trump on Texas redistricting: ‘We are entitled to 5 more seats’] ''Politico'' (August 5, 2025) * I have poll numbers where I’m 71 percent. I have the best poll numbers. * Among Republicans, 94 and 95 percent. * Fox gives me terrible polls all the time, you know, they do nothing, but they… I’ve never had a good poll with Fox. ** [https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/trump-loses-it-on-cnbc-when-hosts-fact-check-insane-approval-rating-whopper-nbc-is-the-worst/ "Trump Loses It on CNBC When Hosts Fact Check Insane Approval Rating Whopper: NBC Is the ‘Worst’"] ''Mediaite'' (August 5, 2025) *And that’s a gift. That’s not like, you know, a loan, by the way. That’s not a loan that, ‘Oh, gee, three years comes up. We have to pay it back.’ There’s nothing to pay back. They gave us $600 billion that we can invest in anything we want. ... [T]here are no details. The details are $600 billion to invest in anything I want. Anything. I can do anything I want. **Claiming the European Union was giving the United States a $600 billion gift that turned out to be untrue [https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trumps-claim-600-billion-gift-european-union-quietly-falls-apart-rcna226564 Trump’s claim about a $600 billion ‘gift’ from the European Union quietly falls apart] ''MSNBC'' (August 5, 2025)[https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/05/cnbc-transcript-president-of-the-united-states-donald-trump-speaks-with-cnbcs-squawk-box-today-.html] *I have to say that somebody from DOGE was very badly hurt… A young man who was beat up by a bunch of thugs in DC, and either they’re gonna straighten their act out in the terms of government and in terms of protection or we’re gonna have to federalize and run it the way it’s supposed to be run. **[https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/06/politics/trump-federal-take-over-dc-doge-coristine-assault Trump reignites threat to take over DC after former DOGE worker assaulted in attempted carjacking] ''CNN'' (August 6, 2025) * [[Stephen Colbert | Colbert]] has no talent. I mean, I could take anybody here. I could go outside in the beautiful streets and pick a couple of people that do just as well or better. They’d get higher ratings than he did. He’s got no talent.<br>[[Jimmy Fallon | Fallon]] has no talent. [[Jimmy Kimmel | Kimmel]] has no talent. They’re next. They’re going to be going. I hear they’re going to be going. I don’t know, but I would imagine because they’d get—you know, Colbert has better ratings than Kimmel or Fallon. * It’s really good to see them go, and I hope I played a major part in it! ** Claimed after the popular late night show hosts and comedians criticised the policies of Trump, quoted in [https://nypost.com/2025/08/07/media/trump-repeats-claim-kimmel-fallon-are-next-after-stephen-colbert-cancellation/ "Trump repeats claim Kimmel, Fallon are ‘next’ after Stephen Colbert cancellation"] ''New York Post'' (August 7, 2025) * IT'S MIDNIGHT! BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN TARIFFS ARE NOW FLOWING INTO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA! ** Claimed about tariffs paid by US importers, quoted in [https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/trump-tariffs-latest-round-takes-effect-thursday-august-7-2025-rcna223461 "New tariffs snap into effect, raising import taxes to highest level since Great Depression"] ''NBC News'' (August 7, 2025) *…I direct the Secretary of Defense to mobilize the District of Columbia National Guard and order members to active service, in such numbers as he deems necessary, to address the epidemic of crime in our Nation’s capital.  The mobilization and duration of duty shall remain in effect until I determine that conditions of law and order have been restored in the District of Columbia. **[https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/restoring-law-and-order-in-the-district-of-columbia/ RESTORING LAW AND ORDER IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA] The White House (August 11, 2025) *This is liberation day in D.C. and we’re going to take our capital back. We’re taking it back. Under the authorities vested in me as the president of the United States, I’m officially invoking section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act — you know what that is — and placing the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control. **[https://ca.news.yahoo.com/trump-places-dc-police-under-151649421.html Trump Places DC Police Under Federal Control: ‘We’re Going to Take Our Capital Back’] ''Yahoo News'' (August 11, 2025) *See, they fight back until you knock the hell out of them, because it’s the only language they understand...<br>You spit and we hit. And they’re standing there and people are spitting in their face and they’re not allowed to do anything. But <b>now they are allowed to do whatever the hell they want</b>. **Giving police permission to use whatever means of violence they want against Washington DC citizens, reported in [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-takeover-dc-police-crime-b2807175.html Trump told cops to do ‘whatever the hell they want’ to fix DC. Here’s why that’s ‘extremely dangerous’] ''Independent'' (August 11, 2025) * I don’t like being up here, talking about how unsafe and how dirty and disgusting this once-beautiful capital was. ** [https://au.news.yahoo.com/trump-mistook-alaska-russia-yes-192134848.html "Trump Thought Alaska Was Russia, And The Internet Is Having An Absolute Field Day With It"] ''Yahoo News / Buzzfeed'' (August 11, 2025) * I’m going to see Putin. I’m going to Russia on Friday. ** [https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-putin-meeting-russia-alaska-ukraine-war-b2805880.html "‘I’m going to Russia’: Trump appears to forget Alaska is in US as he frets over facing Putin"] ''The Independent'' (August 12, 2025) *Our Economy is booming, and E.J. will ensure that the Numbers released are HONEST and ACCURATE. **Regarding his nomination of economist and contributor to Project 2025, E.J. Antoni, as the new Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner [https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-picks-heritage-economist-antoni-lead-us-labor-statistics-agency-2025-08-11/ Trump picks Heritage economist Antoni to lead US labor statistics agency] ''Reuters'' (August 12, 2025) *There’s no deal until there’s a deal. **After meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska regarding ending the Russia-Ukraine War, [https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/live-blog/trump-putin-summit-alaska-ukraine-war-russia-peace-live-updates-rcna224983 Trump-Putin summit ends without a deal on Ukraine] ''NBC News'' (August 15, 2025) * Vladimir Putin said something – one of the most interesting things. He said: ‘Your election was rigged because you have [[w:Postal voting | mail-in voting]] … No country has mail-in voting. It’s impossible to have mail-in voting and have honest elections.’* ** [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/16/love-in-a-cold-climate-putin-romances-trump-in-alaska-with-talk-of-rigged-elections-and-a-trip-to-moscow "Love in a cold climate: Putin romances Trump in Alaska with talk of rigged elections and a trip to Moscow"] ''The Guardian'' (August 16, 2025) * I want to see a ceasefire rapidly. I don’t know if it’s going to be today. But I’m not going to be happy if it’s not today. ** Said about the ongoing Russian warfare against Ukraine, quoted in [https://time.com/7309902/trump-putin-meeting-ultimatum-ceasefire-talks/ "Trump Says No Deal Reached With Putin as Alaska Summit Ends Earlier Than Expected"] ''Time Magazine'' (August 16, 2025) * If I got Russia to give up Moscow as part of the Deal, the Fake News, and their PARTNER, the Radical Left Democrats, would say I made a terrible mistake and a very bad deal. That’s why they are the FAKE NEWS! ** [https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-if-i-got-russia-to-give-up-moscow-truth-social_n_68a1df07e4b07702299b5342 "Trump Writes Post About Moscow That's Absurd Even For Him"] ''Huffington Post'' (August 17, 2025) * The very unattractive (both inside and out!) Senator from Connecticut, Chris Murphy, said ‘Putin got everything that he wanted.’ Actually, ‘nobody got anything,’ too soon, but getting close. Murphy is a lightweight who thinks it made the Russian President look good in coming to America. : Actually, it was very hard for President Putin to do so. This war can be ended, NOW, but stupid people like Chris Murphy, John Bolton, and others, make it much harder to do so. :* [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-blasts-lightweight-dem-senator-who-criticized-putin-summit-alaska-stupid "Trump blasts 'lightweight' Dem senator who criticized Putin summit in Alaska: 'Stupid'"] ''FOX News'' (August 18, 2025) [[File:Scourged back by McPherson & Oliver, 1863, colourised.jpg|thumb|[[Smithsonian Institution|The Smithsonian]] is OUT OF [[Control|CONTROL]], where everything discussed is how horrible [[United States|our Country]] is, how [[bad]] [[Slavery]] was, and how unaccomplished [[Oppression|the downtrodden]] have been — [[Nothing]] about [[Success]], nothing about Brightness, nothing about the [[Future]].]] * The Fake News has been saying for 3 days that I suffered a ‘major defeat’ by allowing President Vladimir Putin of Russia to have a major Summit in the United States. Actually, he would have loved doing the meeting anywhere else but the U.S., and the Fake News knows this. ** Claimed about Vladimir Putin, who is subject to an [https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/situation-ukraine-icc-judges-issue-arrest-warrants-against-vladimir-vladimirovich-putin-and arrest warrant] that in most of the developed, democratic countries would have made him be arrested and sent to the International Criminal Court in Hague for prosecution for war crimes. Quoted in [https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5457134-trump-putin-summit-criticism/ "Trump criticizes ‘fake news,’ Democrat, Zelensky in series of posts"] ''The Hill'' (August 17, 2025) * ''Said about Melania Trump and the son that Donald and Melania have together:'' : She’s got a great love of children, she has a wonderful son that she loves probably more than anybody, including me, I hate to say it, :* [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-melania-barron-b2809877.html "Trump admits that Melania loves Barron more than him: ‘I hate to say it’"] ''Independent'' (August 18, 2025) * Bela ** [https://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/a-new-covfefe-donald-trumps-latest-one-word-post-confuses-internet-9105612 "A New Covfefe? Donald Trump's Latest One-Word Post Confuses Internet"] ''NDTV'' (August 18, 2025) * The [[Museums]] throughout [[Washington D. C.|Washington]], but all over [[United States|the Country]] are, essentially, the last remaining segment of "[[w:Woke|WOKE]]." The Smithsonian is OUT OF [[Control|CONTROL]], where everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how [[bad]] [[Slavery]] was, and how unaccomplished [[Oppression|the downtrodden]] have been — [[Nothing]] about [[Success]], nothing about Brightness, nothing about the [[Future]]. We are not going to allow this to happen, and I have instructed my [[attorneys]] to go through the [[Museums]], and start the exact same process that has been done with Colleges and [[Universities]] where tremendous progress has been made. This Country cannot be WOKE because WOKE IS BROKE. We have the “HOTTEST” Country in the World, and we want people to talk about it, including in our Museums. ** [https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115056914674717313 ''Truthsocial.com'' posting (August 19, 2025)] * I want to try and get to heaven if possible…. I'm hearing I'm not doing well. …I am really at the bottom of the totem pole. But if I can get to heaven, this will be one of the reasons. **Speaking on ''Fox and Friends'' regarding his desire to bring an end to the Russia-Ukraine War [https://www.themirror.com/entertainment/celebrity-news/trump-tells-fox-hosts-hes-1338143 "Donald Trump shares fears he won't go to heaven as he says he's 'not doing well'"] '' The Mirror US'' (August 19, 2025)[https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/donald-trump-heaven-fears-health-1339753] * When you go to a voting booth, and you do it the right way, and you go to a state that runs it properly, you go in -- they even asked me, they asked me for my license plate. I said, 'I don't know if I have it.' They said, 'Sir, you have to have it.' I was very impressed actually." ** [https://www.jalopnik.com/1944138/trump-claims-license-plate-voting/ "Trump Claims He Was Asked For His License Plate At The Voting Booth"] ''Jalopnink'' (August 19, 2025) * MSNBC IS DOING SO POORLY IN THE RATINGS THAT THEY ARE LOOKING TO CHANGE THEIR NAME IN ORDER TO GET AWAY FROM THE STENCH OF THEIR FAKE NEWS PRODUCT. SO MUCH FUN TO WATCH THEIR WEAK AND INEFFECTIVE OWNER, ‘CONCAST,’ HEADED BY DOPEY BRIAN ROBERTS, HOPELESSLY AND AIMLESSLY FLAILING IN THE WIND IN AN ATTEMPT TO DISASSOCIATE ITSELF FROM THE GARBAGE THAT THEY CREATED! MSNBC IS A FAILURE BY ANY NAME!!!” ** [https://www.tvinsider.com/1210320/trump-cankles-truth-social-msnbc-lawrence-odonnell-video/ "Trump Rants Against MSNBC After Lawrence O’Donnell Mocks His ‘Cankle’ Issue"] ''TV Insider'' (August 21, 2025) *They say, ‘we don’t need him, freedom, freedom, he’s a dictator, he’s a dictator.’ A lot of people are saying, ‘Maybe we would like a dictator.’ I don’t like a dictator; I’m not a dictator. I’m a man with great common sense, and I’m a smart person. **[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-dictator-crime-cities-b2813664.html Trump insists he is not a dictator - but claims that many people think the US could use one] ''Independent'' (August 25, 2025) *Despite a very high popularity and, according to many, among the greatest 8 months in Presidential History, ABC & NBC FAKE NEWS, two of the worst and most biased networks in history, give me 97% BAD STORIES. IF THAT IS THE CASE, THEY ARE SIMPLY AN ARM OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY AND SHOULD, ACCORDING TO MANY, HAVE THEIR LICENSES REVOKED BY THE FCC. I would be totally in favor of that because they are so biased and untruthful, an actual threat to our Democracy!!! **From ''Truth Social'', reported in [https://www.newsweek.com/trump-media-nbc-abc-fcc-license-revoked-fees-2118632 Trump Calls For 'Fake News' Networks To Have Licenses Revoked by FCC] ''Newsweek'' (August 25, 2025) * Except what is written and broadcast in the Fake News, I now have the highest poll numbers I’ve ever had, some in the 60’s and even 70’s. ** [https://www.nj.com/politics/2025/08/trump-keeps-boasting-about-his-popularity-but-where-does-he-really-stand.html "Trump keeps boasting about his popularity. But where does he really stand?"] ''NJ.com'' (August 25, 2025) * If you burn a flag, you get one year in jail; no early exits, no nothing. ** [https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/25/trump-bans-burning-of-us-flag-in-defiance-of-constitutional-protections "Trump bans burning of US flag in defiance of constitutional protections"] ''Al Jazeera'' (August 25, 2025) * WHAT IS GOING ON IN SOUTH KOREA? Seems like a Purge or Revolution. We can’t have that and do business there. ** [https://eu.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/25/trump-claims-purge-or-revolution-in-south-korea-ahead-of-meeting-with-new-leader/85820943007/ "Trump claims 'Purge or Revolution' in South Korea ahead of meeting with new leader"] ''Detroit News'' (August 25, 2025) *And I don't like getting into looks. You know, looks don't mean anything, right? When you're in politics, looks don't matter.<br>Look at Pam, I would never say she was beautiful because that would be the end of my political career. **[https://www.irishstar.com/news/politics/breaking-donald-trump-makes-creepy-35530513 Donald Trump makes 'creepy' flirty comment toward Pam Bondi during Cabinet meeting] ''Irish Star'' (August 26, 2025) *The Department of Defense… It didn’t sound good — defense. Why are we on defense? So it used to be called the Department of War, and it had a stronger sound. And as you know, we won World War I. We won World War II. We won everything. Now we have a Department of Defense. We’re defenders.<br> I think Department of War, it just sounded better. We want defense, but we want offense too, if that’s OK. So you’ll make a decision. But you know, as Department of War, we won everything. **[https://indianexpress.com/article/world/trump-renaming-pentagon-department-of-war-10212728/ Trump wants to rename Department of Defense as ‘Department of War’: ‘It has a stronger sound’] ''The Indian Express'' (August 26, 2025) * Baltimore is a hellhole. ** [https://www.fox13now.com/politics/the-president/trump-calls-baltimore-a-hellhole-during-cabinet-meeting "Trump calls Baltimore a 'hellhole' during cabinet meeting"] ''Fox 13'' (August 26, 2025) * I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States. If I think our country is in danger, and it is in danger in these cities, I can do it. ** [https://rollcall.com/2025/08/27/the-u-s-system-always-had-loopholes-trump-2-0-exploits-what-others-resisted/ The US system always had loopholes. Trump 2.0 exploits what others resisted] ''Roll Call'' (August 26, 2025) * There is a sick rumour going around that Fake News NBC extended the contract of one of the least talented late-night television hosts out there, Seth Meyers. He has no Ratings, Talent, or Intelligence, and the Personality of an insecure child. So, why would Fake News NBC extend this dope’s contract. I don’t know, but I’ll definitely be finding out!!! ** [https://www.livemint.com/news/us-news/after-stephen-colbert-donald-trump-now-targets-seth-meyers-host-of-late-night-personality-of-an-insecure-child-11756289725956.html "After Stephen Colbert, Donald Trump now targets Seth Meyers, host of ‘Late Night’: ‘Personality of an insecure child’"] ''Mint'' (August 27, 2025) * I’m sure that Ukraine thought they were going to win, you’re going to beat someone that’s 15 times your size ... you don’t go into a war that’s 15 times your size. ** [https://uk.news.yahoo.com/trump-repeats-favourite-kremlin-talking-113114361.html "Trump Repeats His Favourite Kremlin Talking Point In Latest Anti-Ukraine Outburst"] ''Yahoo / Huffington Post'' (August 27, 2025) *Today a Highly Partisan Appeals Court incorrectly said that our Tariffs should be removed, but they know the United States of America will win in the end. If these Tariffs ever went away, it would be a total disaster for the Country. It would make us financially weak, and we have to be strong…. For many years, Tariffs were allowed to be used against us by our uncaring and unwise Politicians. Now, with the help of the United States Supreme Court, we will use them to the benefit of our Nation, and Make America Rich, Strong, and Powerful Again! **[https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/29/most-trump-tariffs-are-not-legal-us-appeals-court-rules/85895611007/ Most Trump tariffs are illegal, appeals court rules, setting up Supreme Court showdown] ''USA Today'' (August 29, 2025) ==== September 2025 ==== *NEVER FELT BETTER IN MY LIFE **In response to questions about his health (bruised hands, swollen ankles, crooked gait) and lack of recent public appearances [https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-health-rumors-response-truth-social-b2817486.html Trump claps back after weekend of speculation about his health: ‘Never felt better in my life’] ''The Independent'' (September 1, 2025)[https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/why-is-trump-struggling-to-walk-in-a-straight-line-new-questions-erupt-over-us-presidents-health-after-summit-with-putin/articleshow/123331093.cms] *The problem I have with Colorado, one of the big problems, is they do mail-in voting. They went to all mail-in voting, so they have automatically crooked elections and we can’t have that. When a state is for mail-in voting that means they want dishonest elections because that’s what that means. **One of the reasons given for moving U.S. Space Command headquarters from Colorado to Alabama [https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/trump-ends-turf-war-and-will-move-space-command-hq-to-alabama-from-colorado/ar-AA1LJwJY Trump ends turf war and will move Space Command HQ to Alabama from Colorado] ''MSN'' (September 2, 2025) * I used, at the White House, the most beautiful marble and stone available anywhere. Surfaces are very important to me as a Builder. As everyone knows, I built many GREAT Buildings, and other things, over the years. At the White House, I am very proud of the beautiful stonework we did in the Rose Garden, in this case, using limestone plus. The Rose Garden is completed, and far more beautiful than anyone ever had in mind when it was conceived of decades ago. Three days ago, while admiring the stonework, I happened to notice a huge gash in the limestone that extended more than 25 yards long. It was deep and nasty! I started yelling, “Who did this, and I want to find out now!” — And I didn’t say this in a nice manner. I wondered, “Was it vandalism or, was it stupidity?” Lo and behold, because of the fact that we’ve installed the finest security equipment anywhere, they brought back the stupid people, with their boss watching (in sunglasses!). It was a subcontractor that was installing heavy landscaping on a steel cart that was broken and tilting badly, with it rubbing hard against the soft, beautiful stone. I love and respect great workers and contractors but something like this should never happen. Now, I’ll replace the stone, charge the contractor, and never let that contractor work at the White House again — But, how great is the video equipment? We caught them, cold. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! ** [https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a65961231/trump-rose-garden-truth-social/ "Trump Caught Whoever Scraped Up the Renovated White House Rose Garden"] ''Esquire'' (September 2, 2025) *I want to try and get to Heaven **From a campaign fundraising email asking supporters to contribute $15 during a 24-hour fundraising blitz [https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-heaven-donations-2123679 Donald Trump Asks For $15 Donations to 'Get to Heaven'] ''Newsweek'' (September 3, 2025) * Without the United States, everything in the world would die. * We get along with India very well. ** [https://www.businesstoday.in/world/us/story/without-us-everything-in-world-would-die-trump-defends-his-tariffs-as-war-settler-492175-2025-09-03 "'Without US, everything in world would die': Trump defends his tariffs as 'war settler'"] ''Business Today'' (September 3, 2025) * Looks like we've lost India and Russia to deepest, darkest China. May they have a long and prosperous future together! ** [https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/weve-lost-india-russia-to-deepest-darkest-china-donald-trumps-latest-9222384 ""We've Lost India, Russia To Deepest, Darkest China": Donald Trump's Latest"] ''NDTV'' (September 5, 2025) * At least 54 people were shot in Chicago over the weekend, 8 people were killed. The last two weekends were similar. <b>Chicago is the worst and most dangerous city in the World, by far</b>. Pritzker needs help badly, he just doesn’t know it yet. I will solve the crime problem fast. * ‘I love the smell of deportations in the morning...’ <b>Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR.</b> ** [https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/donald-trump-threatens-chicago-deportations-department-war-crackdown-rcna229544 "'Chipocalypse Now': Trump threatens Chicago with deportations and Department of War ahead of potential crackdown"] ''NBC News'' (September 6, 2025)</ref> * Our great West Point (getting greater all the time!) has smartly cancelled the Award Ceremony for actor Tom Hanks. Important move! We don’t need destructive, WOKE recipients getting our cherished American Awards!!! ** [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/08/trump-tom-hanks-woke "Trump attacks Tom Hanks after West Point cancels event honoring actor"] ''The Guardian'' (September 8, 2025) * Look, you have some vaccines that are so amazing, the polio vaccine I happen to think is amazing. A lot of people think that Covid is amazing. You know there are many people that believe strongly in that. But you have some vaccines that are so incredible, and I think you have to be very careful when you say that some people don't have to be vaccinated. It's a very, you know, it's a very tough position, so I'll give you an answer. I'll give you the feeling, but just initially I heard about it yesterday and it's a tough stance. Look, you have vaccines that work. They just pure and simple work. They're not controversial at all, and I think those vaccine should be used. Otherwise some people are going to catch it and they endanger other people, and when you don’t have controversy at all, I think people should take it. ** Responding to the proposed removal of vaccination mandates in Florida. "[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/14/florida-vaccine-joseph-ladapo-trump Florida vaccine mandate rollback falters after Trump criticism]", ''The Guardian'' (September 8, 2025) *Things that take place in the home, they call crime. They’ll do anything they can to find something. <b>If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime scene.</b> **Expressing frustration that domestic violence incidents are counted as part of city-wide crime totals, thus raising the number of verified crimes in Washington DC [https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-domestic-violence-crime-statistics-b2822877.html ‘A little fight with the wife’: Trump suggests domestic violence should not be counted in official crime statistics] ''Independent'' (September 9, 2025) *It’s long past time for all Americans and the media to confront the fact that violence and murder are the tragic consequence of demonizing those with whom you disagree day after day, year after year, in the most hateful and despicable way possible.  **[https://time.com/7316299/charlie-kirk-shot-death-donald-trump-speech-transcript-political-violence/ ‘A Dark Moment for America’: Trump Responds to Charlie Kirk’s Death] ''Time'' (September 10, 2025) *I tell you something that is going to get me in trouble, but I couldn’t care less. The radicals on the right are radical because they don’t want to see crime … The radicals on the left are the problem – and they are vicious and horrible and politically savvy. They want men in women’s sports, they want transgender for everyone, they want open borders. The worst thing that happened to this country. **In response to Ainsley Earhardt’s questions, “How do we fix this country? How do we come back together?” following the shooting death of Charlie Kirk [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/12/trump-fox-friends-charlie-kirk-shooting Trump declines to call for unity after Charlie Kirk killing in stunning move] ''The Guardian'' (September 12, 2025) *I have read someplace that the networks were 97% against me, again, 97% negative, and yet I won and easily, all seven swing states. ... They give me only bad publicity, press. I mean, they’re getting a license. I would think maybe their license should be taken away….<br>When you have a network and you have evening shows, and all they do is hit Trump. That’s all they do. If you go back, I guess they haven’t had a conservative on in years or something somebody said. But when you go back, take a look, all they do is hit Trump. They’re licensed. They’re not allowed to do that. They’re an arm of the Democrat Party. **Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One [https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/not-allowed-trump-makes-ridiculous-new-claims-media-critics-free-press-rcna232231 ‘Not allowed’: Trump makes ridiculous new claims about media critics and the free press] MSNBC (September 18, 2025) *He was a missionary with a noble spirit and a great, great purpose. He did not hate his opponents. He wanted the best for them. That’s where I disagreed with Charlie. I <i>hate</i> my opponent, and I don’t want the best for them. I’m sorry. **Speaking at Charlie Kirk memorial service [https://time.com/7319196/charlie-kirk-funeral-trump-watch/ Trump Says Kirk ‘Did Not Hate His Opponents … That’s Where I Disagreed With Charlie’ at Funeral for Conservative Activist] ''Time'' (September 21, 2025) *Acetaminophen. Is that okay? Which is basically, commonly known as Tylenol. Can be associated with a very increased risk of autism. So taking Tylenol is not good. I’ll say it, it’s not good. * '''Nothing bad can happen. It can only good happen.''' But with Tylenol, don't take it. Don't take it. And if you can't live, if your fever is so bad, you have to take one because there's no alternative to that. Sadly. First question, "What can you take instead?" It's actually, there's not an alternative to that. And as you know, other of the medicines are absolutely proven bad. I mean, they've been proven bad with the aspirins and the Advils and others, right? And they've been proven bad. **At a press conference along with members of his administration [[Robert F. Kennedy Jr.]] and [[Mehmet Oz]], [https://singjupost.com/transcript-trump-rfk-jr-and-dr-oz-on-autism-rates-and-tylenol/ Transcript: Trump, RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz on Autism Rates and Tylenol] ''The Singju Post'' (September 22, 2025) *I ended seven wars, dealt with the leaders of each and every one of these countries, and never even received a phone call from the United Nations offering to help in finalizing the deal. All I got from the United Nations was an escalator that on the way up stopped right in the middle. If the First Lady wasn't in great shape, she would've fallen. But she's in great shape. We're both in good shape, we both stood. And then a teleprompter that didn't work. These are the two things I got from the United Nations, a bad escalator and a bad teleprompter. Thank you very much....</br>According to the Council of Europe, in 2024, almost 50% of inmates in German prisons were foreign nationals or migrants. In Austria, the number was 53% of the people in prisons were from places that weren't from where they are now. In Greece, the number was 54%. And in Switzerland, beautiful Switzerland, 72% of the people in prisons are from outside of Switzerland. When your prisons are filled with so-called asylum seekers who repaid kindness, and that's what they did, they repaid kindness with crime, it's time to end the failed experiment of open borders. You have to end it now. I see it, I can tell you. I'm really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell. In America, we've taken bold action to swiftly shut down uncontrolled migration. Once we started detaining and deporting everyone who crossed the border and removing illegal aliens from the United States, they simply stopped coming. They're not coming anymore. **[https://www.rev.com/transcripts/trump-speaks-at-un Speech to the United Nations] (September 23, 2025) * I can’t believe ABC Fake News gave Jimmy Kimmel his job back. The White House was told by ABC that his Show was cancelled! Something happened between then and now because his audience is GONE, and his “talent” was never there. Why would they want someone back who does so poorly, who’s not funny, and who puts the Network in jeopardy by playing 99% positive Democrat GARBAGE. He is yet another arm of the DNC and, to the best of my knowledge, that would be a major Illegal Campaign Contribution. I think we’re going to test ABC out on this. Let’s see how we do. Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 Million Dollars. This one sounds even more lucrative. A true bunch of losers! Let Jimmy Kimmel rot in his bad Ratings. ** [https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/sep/24/jimmy-kimmel-says-trump-tried-his-best-to-cancel-him-as-his-show-returns-to-air-after-suspension "Jimmy Kimmel says silencing comedians is ‘anti American’, as his show returns to air after suspension"] ''The Guardian'' (September 24, 2025) * I’m going to be meeting with generals and with admirals and with leaders, and if I don’t like somebody, I’m going to fire them right on the spot. * I never walked into a room so silent before. If you want to applaud, you applaud. You can do anything you want. If you don’t like what I’m saying, you can leave the room. But there goes your rank and there goes your future. ** [https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-threatens-to-fire-generals-meeting_n_68dbf67fe4b003b6c8dc2d76 "Trump Threatens To Fire Military Leaders ‘On The Spot’ If They Cross Him"] ''Huffignton Post'' (September 30, 2025) *I hope I never have to use the nuclear arsenal. **Spero di non dover mai usare l'arsenale nucleare. ***''[https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/mondo/nordamerica/2025/09/30/trump-spero-di-non-dover-mai-usare-larsenale-nucleare_aa475fa6-b9a4-4b3f-baa7-993c4e608307.html Trump, spero di non dover mai usare l'arsenale nucleare]'', ''[[w:ANSA|ANSA]].it'', 30 September 2025 (in Italian) ==== October 2025 ==== [[File:2026-06-08 Ballroom construction and UFC arena White House Washington DC 13-23-11.jpg|thumb|We're going to have [[w:UFC Freedom 250|a UFC fight]] — [[think]] of this — on the grounds of the [[White House]]. We have a lot of land there.]] * Does anybody watch [[w:UFC|UFC]]? The great [[Dana White]]? We're going to have a [[fight]]. We're going to have [[w:UFC Freedom 250|a UFC fight]] — [[think]] of this — on the grounds of the [[White House]]. We have a lot of land there. ** As quoted in [https://people.com/trump-schedules-white-house-ufc-fight-for-80th-birthday-after-sharing-plans-for-stage-11825299 "Trump Schedules White House UFC Fight for His 80th Birthday After Sharing Plans for the Dramatic Stage" by Desiree Anello, ''People'' magazine (6 October 2025)] * I am very proud to announce that [[Israel]] and [[Hamas]] have both signed off on the first Phase of our Peace Plan. This means that ALL of the Hostages will be released very soon, and Israel will withdraw their Troops to an agreed upon line as the first steps toward a Strong, Durable, and Everlasting [[Peace]]. All Parties will be treated fairly!<br /> This is a GREAT Day for the [[Arab]] and [[Muslim]] World, [[Israel]], all surrounding [[Nations]], and the [[United States of America]], and we thank the mediators from [[Qatar]], [[Egypt]], and [[Turkey]], who worked with us to make this [[Historic]] and Unprecedented Event happen. [[Blessings|BLESSED]] ARE THE PEACEMAKERS! ** [https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115340993884364431 Post on Truth Social (8 October 2025)] · also the [https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/statement-israel-and-hamas-accepting-peace-plan The American Presidency Project] *After so many years of unceasing war and endless danger, today the skies are calm, the guns are silent, the sirens are still, and the sun rises on a Holy Land that is finally at peace, a land and a region that will live, God willing, in peace for all eternity. **[https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-declares-end-israel-hamas-war-experts-hard/story?id=126482789 Trump declares end of Israel-Hamas war, but experts see the hard work as just beginning] ''ABC News'' (October 14, 2025) *Over the next few days, it's going to be demolished. Everything out there is coming down, and we're replacing it with one of the most beautiful ballrooms that you've ever seen. **Regarding the demolition of the [[w:East Wing|East Wing]] of the White House, speaking to donors for the construction of a new ballroom [https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article312585121.html Trump’s East Wing destruction echoes his tactics at Mar-a-Lago and Trump Tower] ''Miami Herald'' (October 21, 2025) *"You're the third best President in the United…" This was on television. "Third best." And they said, "Who are the first two? George Washington and Abraham Lincoln." And I got extremely angry at this man. You know? It is going to be tough to beat, Mr. Senator... It's going to be very tough to beat Washington and Lincoln, but we're going to give it a try, right? **Reacting to what a television commentator had said, [https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/donald-trump-health-delusion-fears-36114247 Trump's latest rant fuels more health fears as he shows repeated delusion] ''Irish Times'' (October 22, 2025) ==== November 2025 ==== *Why does NBC waste its time and money on a guy like this??? – NO TALENT, NO RATINGS, 100% ANTI TRUMP, WHICH IS PROBABLY ILLEGAL!!! **Referring to [[Seth Meyers]] in a Truth Social post [https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/trump-79-claims-illegal-night-003833952.html Trump, 79, Claims It’s ‘Illegal’ for Late-Night Host to Mock Him] Yahoo! News (November 1, 2025) *SNAP BENEFITS, which increased by Billions and Billions of Dollars (MANY FOLD!) during Crooked Joe Biden's disastrous term in office, will be given only when the Radical Left Democrats open up government. **[https://www.axios.com/2025/11/04/trump-snap-after-shutdown-ends?utm_source=chatgpt.com Trump says SNAP will only get paid after shutdown, defying multiple court orders] ''Axios'' (November 4, 2025) *And you know, one other thing, our country has to remain very liquid because problems, catastrophes, wars, could be anything. We have to remain liquid.<br>We can’t give everything away based on a number.<br>Here’s an example. When I was president, the number that you’re talking about was a tiny fraction of what it is now. Biden went totally crazy, gave it to anybody that would ask, gave it to people that were able-bodied, had no problem.<br>Anybody who would ask would get the number. And it’s many times the number of people around.<br>This wasn’t meant for that. It was meant for people that had real problems, in many cases people that were down and out, people that could be saved.<br>It wasn’t for people who could do whatever they want, the people that say, Well, I don’t think I’ll work. I’ll just, you know, collect this money. **When asked by a reporter what his message was to folks who are missing SNAP benefits [https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-goes-rant-staying-very-134934000.html Trump Goes on Rant About Staying ‘Very Liquid’ When Fox Reporter Confronts Him Over Judge’s SNAP-Food Stamps Order] Yahoo! News (November 7, 2025) *They said, ‘Oh, I don’t want to talk about affordability. The reason I don’t want to talk about affordability is because everybody knows that it’s far less expensive under Trump than it was under Sleepy Joe Biden, and the prices are way down. **[https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/cnn-host-skewers-trump-over-235330797.html CNN Host Skewers Trump Over Latest Food Price Claims: 'The Numbers Don't Lie'] ''Yahoo News'' (November 8, 2025) *I don’t know that they are saying that. I think polls are fake. We have the greatest economy we’ve ever had. **When asked by Fox News host [[Laura Ingraham]] "Why are people saying they’re anxious about the economy?" [https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/foxs-laura-ingraham-confronts-trump-on-50-year-mortgage-plan-is-that-really-a-good-idea/ Fox’s Laura Ingraham Confronts Trump on 50-Year Mortgage Plan: ‘Is That Really a Good Idea?’] ''Mediaite'' (November 10, 2025) *Epstein was a Democrat, and he is the Democrat’s problem, not the Republican’s problem! Ask Bill Clinton, Reid Hoffman, and Larry Summers about Epstein, they know all about him, don’t waste your time with Trump. I have a Country to run! **[https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-he-will-ask-justice-department-probe-epstein-ties-with-bill-clinton-2025-11-14/ Trump asks Justice Department to probe Epstein ties with Bill Clinton, other Democrats] ''Reuters'' (November 14, 2025)[https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115548539359870302] * I had an MRI. The doctor said it was the best result he has ever seen as a doctor. ** [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-mri-walter-reed-doctor-b2865809.html "Trump claims his recent MRI was part of regular checkup: ‘The doctor said it was the best result he’s ever seen as a doctor’"] ''Independent'' (November 15, 2025) * Marjorie 'Traitor' Green [sic] is a disgrace to our GREAT REPUBLICAN PARTY! * All I see "Wacky" Marjorie do is COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN! * She has told many people that she is upset that I don't return her phone calls anymore. I can't take a ranting Lunatic's call every day. ** [https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9wv4dx05q5o "Feud erupts between Trump and ally Marjorie Taylor Greene ahead of Epstein files vote"], ''BBC'' (November 16, 2025) *I don’t think her life is in danger. I don’t think, frankly, I don’t think anybody cares about her. **Responding to a reporter about [[Marjorie Taylor Greene]]’s claim that his comments are putting her life in danger [https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-blasts-trump-vicious-unwarranted-attacks-re-rcna244351 Marjorie Taylor Greene blasts Trump for 'vicious' attacks after saying her company received a pipe bomb threat] ''NBC News'' (November 17, 2025) * Quiet, piggy. ** [https://www.thedailybeast.com/testy-trump-lashes-out-at-female-reporter-asking-about-epstein-quiet-piggy/ "Trump Lashes Out at Female Reporter Asking About Epstein: ‘Quiet, Piggy!’"] ''The Daily Beast'' (November 18, 2025) *It’s called SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL. Each one of these traitors to our Country should be ARRESTED AND PUT ON TRIAL. Their words cannot be allowed to stand – We won’t have a Country anymore!!! An example MUST BE SET. President DJT *This is really bad, and Dangerous to our Country. Their words cannot be allowed to stand. SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR FROM TRAITORS!!! LOCK THEM UP??? President DJT *SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH! **Series of Truth Social posts suggesting Senators Elissa Slotkin and Mark Kelly, as well as Representatives Jason Crow, Chris Deluzio, Chrissy Houlahan, and Maggie Goodlander be arrested and put to death for a video they made urging military members to “refuse illegal orders” issued “against American citizens” [https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/an-example-must-be-set-trump-calls-for-democrats-who-urged-soldiers-to-disobey-illegal-orders-to-be-arrested-and-put-on-trial/ ‘Punishable by DEATH’: Trump Floats Execution for Democrats Who Urged Soldiers to Disobey Illegal Orders] ''Mediate'' (November 20, 2025) *'''Reporter:''' [The Afghan refugee] was vetted and the vetting came up clean.<br>'''Donald Trump:''' He went cuckoo. I mean, he went nuts, and that happens too. It happens too often with these people….There was no vetting or anything, they came in unvetted…<br>'''Reporter:''' Actually, your DOJ IG just reported this year that there was thorough vetting by DHS and by the FBI of these Afghans who were brought into the U.S. So why do you blame the Biden administration?<br>'''Trump:''' Because they let ’em in. Are you stupid? Are you a stupid person? Because they came into on a plane along with thousands of other people that shouldn’t be here, and you’re just asking questions because you’re a stupid person. **Responding to a female reporter regarding the Afghan refugee, vetted by the Trump DOJ, who shot two national guardsmen in Washington DC on Thanksgiving Day [https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-stupid-attack_n_6928ebbfe4b0237ded13a17a Trump Rips Into Another Female Reporter With Incredibly 'Stupid' Personal Attack] ''Huffington Post'' (November 27, 2025) ===== Press conference with Zohran Mamdani (21 November 2025) ===== [[File:President Trump Meets with Zohran Mamdani, Mayor-Elect, New York City (11212025).webm|222px|right]] * We have one thing in common. We want this city of ours that we love to do very well, and I wanted to congratulate the mayor. He really ran an incredible race against, you know, a lot of smart people, starting with the early primaries against some very tough people, very smart people, and he beat them and he beat them easily, and I congratulated him. … I think you're going to have hopefully a really great mayor. The better he does, the happier I am. I will say there's no difference in party. There's no difference in anything, and we're going to be helping him. To make everybody's dream come true, having a strong and very safe New York, and congratulations, [[Zohran Mamdani|Mr. Mayor]]. * I can tell you some of my views have [[changed]] and we had discussions on some things. I'm not going to discuss what they were, but that I feel very [[confident]] that he can do a very good job. I think I think he's going to be — I think he is going to [[surprise]] some [[conservative]] [[people]] actually — and some very [[liberal]] people — he won't surprise them because they already like him. ==== December 2025 ==== *If [drug producers] come through a certain country, or any country, or if we think they're building mills for, whether it's fentanyl or cocaine. I hear the country of Colombia is making cocaine, they have cocaine manufacturing plants... Anybody that's doing that and selling it into our country is subject to attack… Not just Venezuela. **Indicates military strikes are possible in other countries if they are suspected of producing or transporting drugs [https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-colombia-drugs-military-strikes-venezuela-11144611 Donald Trump Threatens Expanding Military Strikes to More Countries] ''Newsweek'' (December 2, 2025) *Any and all Documents, Proclamations, Executive Orders, Memorandums, or Contracts, signed by Order of the now infamous and unauthorized 'AUTOPEN,' within the Administration of Joseph R. Biden Jr., are hereby null, void, and of no further force or effect. Anyone receiving 'Pardons,' 'Commutations,' or any other Legal Document so signed, please be advised that said Document has been fully and completely terminated, and is of no Legal effect. **[https://www.newsweek.com/trump-says-biden-autopen-pardons-invalid-11145591 Trump Says All Pardons, Commutations Signed by Biden Autopen ‘Terminated’] ''Newsweek'' (December 2, 2025) *The word affordability is a con job by the Democrats. The word affordability is a Democrat scam. **Responding to Democrats' complaints about inflation at today's Cabinet meeting [https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/12/02/trump-cabinet-meeting-venezuela-live-updates/87566205007/ 'Affordability is a con job by the Democrats,' Trump says] ''USA Today'' (December 2, 2025) *<b>ABC News Reporter Selina Wang:</b> Mr. President, you released video of that first boat strike on September 2nd, but not the second video. Will you release video [of the September 2 US military strikes against a suspected drug-smuggling boat in the Caribbean] so that the American people can see for themselves what happened?<br><b>Donald Trump:</b> I don’t know what they have, but whatever they have we’d certainly release, no problem. **[https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/08/politics/fact-check-trump-september-strike-video Fact check: Trump denies saying something he said on camera five days ago] ''CNN'' (December 3, 2025) * You'll never see me sleeping in front of a camera. ** [https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/2142156/sleepy-donald-trump-humiliated "'Sleepy' Donald Trump humiliated with own words in resurfaced TV appearance"] ''Express'' (December 4, 2025) *<b>ABC News Reporter Rachel Scott:</b> Mr. President, you said you would have no problem with releasing the full video of that strike on September 2nd off the coast of Venezuela. Secretary Hegseth now says –<br><b>Donald Trump:</b> I didn’t say that. That’s – you said that, I didn’t say that. This is ABC fake news.<br><b>Scott:</b> You said that you would have no problem releasing the full vi(deo)….<br><b>Trump:</b> Whatever Hegseth wants to do is OK with me.<br><b>Scott:</b> He now says it’s under review. Are you ordering the secretary to release that full video?<br><b>Trump:</b> Whatever he decides is OK with me. So every boat we knock out of the water, every boat, we save 25,000 American lives. That was a boat loaded up with drugs....<br><b>Scott:</b> Are you committed to releasing the full video?<br><b>Trump:</b> Didn’t I just tell you that?<br><b>Scott:</b> You said it was up to Secretary Hegseth.<br><b>Trump:</b> You are the most obnoxious reporter in the whole place. Let me just tell you, you are an obnoxious—actually, a terrible reporter, and it’s always the same with you. **[https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/08/politics/fact-check-trump-september-strike-video Fact check: Trump denies saying something he said on camera five days ago] ''CNN'' (December 8, 2025)[https://newrepublic.com/post/204152/donald-trump-pulls-180-releasing-boat-strike-video] * The word 'affordability' is a con job by the Democrats. The word 'affordability' is a Democrat scam. ** [https://eu.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/12/14/trump-economy-inflation-affordability-hoax/87725036007/ "Stop criticizing Trump's bad economy. You're making him sad."] Opinion by Rex Hupke, in ''USA Today'' (December 14, 2025) *A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife, Michele, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as TDS. He was known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump Administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness, and with the Golden Age of America upon us, perhaps like never before. May Rob and Michele rest in peace! **Truth Social post one day after [[Wikipedia:Rob Reiner|Rob Reiner]] and his wife, Michele, were found dead in their Los Angeles home due to an apparent homicide [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-disparages-rob-reiner-political-views-murder/# Trump disparages Rob Reiner's political views a day after his murder] ''CBS News'' (December 15, 2025) * I was never on Epstein's Plane. ** [https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74xgp81pqgo "Trump travelled on Epstein's plane more than previously thought, newly released prosecutor's email says"] ''BBC'' (December 23, 2025) * Merry Christmas to all, including the Radical Left Scum that is doing everything possible to destroy our Country, but are failing badly. ** [https://www.trtworld.com/article/08dba4da974b "Trump calls Democrats 'radical left scum' in Christmas Eve message] ''TRT World'' (December 25, 2025) * Merry Christmas to all, including the many Sleazebags who loved Jeffrey Epstein, gave him bundles of money, went to his Island, attended his parties, and thought he was the greatest guy on earth, only to ‘drop him like a dog’ when things got too HOT, falsely claimed they had nothing to do with him, didn’t know him, said he was a disgusting person, and then blame, of course, President Donald J. Trump, who was actually the only one who did drop Epstein, and long before it became fashionable to do so. ** [https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/sleazebags-trump-wishes-merry-christmas-012444246.html "'Sleazebags': Trump Wishes A Merry Christmas To ... Epstein Island Visitors?!?"] ''Huffington Post / Yahoo News'' (December 26, 2025) * My friends will get hurt. ** [https://uk.news.yahoo.com/trump-yelled-friends-hurt-marjorie-181823942.html Trump Yelled 'My Friends Will Get Hurt' at Marjorie Taylor Greene for Threatening to Name Epstein Abusers, She Claims] (December 29, 2025) ===== Address to the Nation (17 December 2025) ===== *Eleven months ago, I inherited a mess, and I’m fixing it. When I took office, inflation was the worst in 48 years, and some would say in the history of our country, which caused prices to be higher than ever before, making life unaffordable for millions and millions of Americans. This happened during a Democrat administration, and it’s when we first began hearing the word affordability. *Over the past 11 months, we have brought more positive change to Washington than any administration in American history. *For the last four years, the United States was ruled by politicians who fought only for insiders, illegal aliens, career criminals, corporate lobbyists, prisoners, terrorists and, above all, foreign nations, which took advantage of us at levels never seen before. They flooded your cities and towns with illegal aliens. They decimated your hard-earned savings. They indoctrinated your children with hate for America, released, really, I mean, they just released a level of violent felons that we had never seen to prey on innocent. They caused war. They caused mayhem. They caused a horrible situation all over the globe. *Here at home, we are bringing our economy back from the brink of ruin. The last administration and their allies in Congress looted our Treasury for trillions of dollars, driving up prices and everything at levels never seen before. I am bringing those high prices down and bringing them down very fast. *Democrat politicians also sent the cost of groceries soaring, but we are solving that, too. The price of a Thanksgiving turkey was down 33 percent compared to the Biden last year. The price of eggs is down 82 percent since March, and everything else is falling rapidly. And it’s not done yet, but boy, are we making progress. Nobody can believe what’s going on. *Already, I’ve secured a record-breaking $18 trillion of investment into the United States, which means jobs, wage increases, growth, factory openings and far greater national security. Much of this success has been accomplished by tariffs, my favorite word, tariffs, which for many decades have been used successfully by other countries against us, but not anymore. *One year ago, our country was dead. We were absolutely dead. Our country was ready to fail. Totally fail. Now we’re the hottest country anywhere in the world. And that’s said by every single leader that I’ve spoken to over the last five months. *I negotiated directly with the drug companies and foreign nations, which were taken advantage of our country for many decades to slash prices on drugs and pharmaceuticals by as much as 400, 500 and even 600 percent. *The current unaffordable care act was created to make insurance companies rich. It was bad health care at much too high a cost, and you see that now in the steep increase in premiums being demanded by the Democrats. And they are demanding those increases and it’s their fault. It is not the Republicans’ fault. It’s the Democrats’ fault. It’s the unaffordable care act, and everybody knew it.<br>Again, I want the money to go directly to the people so you can buy your own health care. You’ll get much better health care at a much lower price. The only losers will be insurance companies that have gotten rich, and the Democrat Party, which is totally controlled by those same insurance companies. They will not be happy, but that’s OK with me because you, the people, are finally going to be getting great health care at a lower cost. *On Day 1, I declared a national energy emergency. Gasoline is now under $2.50 a gallon, and in much of the country, in some states, it, by the way, just hit $1.99 a gallon. *Tonight, after 11 months, our border is secure, inflation has stopped, wages are up, prices are down, our nation is strong, America is respected, and our country is back, stronger than ever before. We’re poised for an economic boom the likes of which the world has never seen. Soon we will host the World Cup and the Olympics, both of which I got. But most importantly, we will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.<br>There could be no more fitting tribute to this epic milestone than to complete the comeback of America that began just one year ago. When the world looks at us next year, let them see a nation that is loyal to its citizens, faithful to its workers, confident to its identity, certain to its destiny and the envy of the entire globe. We are respected again, like we have never been respected before. **[https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/us/politics/trump-speech-transcript-economy.html Full Transcript of President Trump’s Speech on the Economy] ''The New York Times'' (December 17, 2025) ** [https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/17/politics/fact-check-trump-prime-time-address "Fact check: Trump repeats numerous false claims in prime-time address"] ''CNN'' (December 18, 2025) ===2026=== ====January 2026==== *Peace. Peace on Earth. **When asked what his New Year's resolution was [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/president-donald-trump-shares-his-new-years-resolution.print President Donald Trump shares his New Year's resolution] ''Fox News'' (January 1, 2026) *Somalians ripped off that state for billions of dollars, billions every year, billions of dollars. And they contribute nothing. The welfare is like 88 percent. They contribute nothing. I don’t want them in our country. I’ll be honest with you, okay? Somebody said, ‘Oh, that’s not politically correct.’ I don’t care. I don’t want them in our country. Their country’s no good for a reason. Their country stinks, and we don’t want them in our country. **[https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/02/somalis-minnesota-trump-walz-immigration-enforcement/ Trump rails against Somali migrants], ''Washington Post'' (January 4, 2026) *Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me. I don’t need international law. I’m not looking to hurt people. **When asked if there were any limits on his global powers [https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/us/politics/trump-interview-power-morality.html?unlocked_article_code=1.C1A.ZfEI.Unv_CN3B-FBv&smid=url- Trump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by ‘My Own Morality’] ''The New York Times'' (January 8, 2026) *I’m not talking about money for [[Greenland]], yet.<br>I might talk about that, but right now we are going to do something on Greenland, whether they like it or not. Because if we don’t do it, Russia or China will take over Greenland, and we’re not going to have Russia or China as a neighbor.<br>…The fact that [Denmark] had a boat land there 500 years ago doesn’t mean that they own the land. [I’m] sure we had lots of boats go there also.<br>So we’re going to be doing something with Greenland, either the nice way or the more difficult [way]. **[https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/09/trump-greenland-military-denmark-nato.html Trump: ‘We are going to do something on Greenland whether they like it or not’] ''CNBC'' (January 9, 2026) * You got to win the midterms because if we don't win the midterms, it's just going to be — I mean, they'll find a reason to impeach me. <b>I'll get impeached.</b> * They say that when you win the presidency, you lose the midterm. So, you're all brilliant people. Most of you are in this business longer than me. That makes me smarter than you, because look where I am right? No, it doesn't. But I wish you could, explain to me what the hell's going on with the mind of the public. Because we have a — we have the right policy. They don't. They have a horrible policy. They do stick together. * They had the worst president, did the worst job. They had the worst policy. We have to even run against these people. Now, I won't say cancel the election, <b>they should cancel the election</b>, because the fake news will say, 'He wants the elections canceled. He's a dictator.' They always call me a dictator. ** [https://eu.delawareonline.com/story/news/2026/01/15/trump-impeachment-update-2026-is-trump-getting-impeached-midterm-elections-cancelled-predictions/88195759007/ "Is Trump getting impeached in 2026? Here's what he said about cancelling midterms"] ''Delaware Online / USA TODAY NETWORK'' (January 15, 2026) * Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, <b>I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace</b>, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only a boat that landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. <b>I have done more for NATO than any person since its founding</b>, and <b>now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland.</b> Thank you! President DJT ** Message to Norwegian prime minister [[w:Jonas Gahr Støre|Jonas Gahr Støre]], as cited in [https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/trump-letter-to-norway/685676/ "Trump’s Letter to Norway Should Be the Last Straw - Will Republicans in Congress ever step in?"] ''The Atlantic'' (January 19, 2026) * I don't care about the Nobel Prize. * I think I have saved tens of millions of lives. ** [https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/20/us/video/trump-dont-care-about-the-nobel-prize-digvid-vrtc "Trump: I don't care about the Nobel prize"] ''CNN'' (January 20, 2026) ===== Remarks on U.S. military operations in Venezuela (3 January 2026) ===== * Late last night and early today at my direction the United States armed forces conducted [[w:2026 United States strikes in Venezuela|an extraordinary military operation]] in the capital of [[Venezuela]]. * The lights of Caracas were largely turned off due to a certain expertise that we have. It was dark and it was deadly. But captured along with his wife, [[w:Cilia Flores|Cilia Flores]], both of whom now face American justice. * '''We are going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition.''' * Under our new national security strategy, American dominance in the western hemisphere will never be questioned again. *'''We're going to be taking out a tremendous amount of wealth out of the ground''', and that wealth is going to the people of Venezuela and people from outside of Venezuela that used to be in Venezuela, and it goes also to the United States of America in the form of reimbursement for the damages caused by that country. **Response to a question from the press following his remarks on operations in Venezuela [https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trumps-vow-run-venezuela-sell-oil-part-plan/story?id=128873221 Trump's vow to 'run' Venezuela, sell oil, part of plan to dominate Western Hemisphere] ''ABC News'' (January 3, 2026) ==== February 2026==== [[File:Kennedy Center (46399777861).jpg|thumb| The [[w:Kennedy Center|Trump Kennedy Center]] will close on [[Independence Day (United States)|July 4th]], 2026, in [[honor]] of the 250th Anniversary of [[United States|our Country]], whereupon we will simultaneously begin Construction of the new and spectacular Entertainment Complex.]] * I have determined that the fastest way to bring [[w:Kennedy Center|The Trump Kennedy Center]] to the highest level of Success, Beauty, and Grandeur, is to cease Entertainment Operations for an approximately two year period of time, with a scheduled Grand Reopening that will rival and surpass anything that has taken place with respect to such a Facility before. ** [https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115997939705121174 Announcement of closure] of the [[w:Kennedy Center|John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts]] (1 February 2026), referred to by Trump as "The Trump Kennedy Center" without authorization of such a renaming by the US Congress. * The Grammy Awards are the WORST, virtually unwatchable! Noah said, INCORRECTLY about me, that Donald Trump and Bill Clinton spent time on Epstein Island. ** [https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/02/politics/trevor-noah-trump-grammys-epstein "Trump slams Grammys and threatens to sue host Trevor Noah after Epstein joke"] ''CNN'' (February 2, 2026) * I don't want to drive housing prices down, I want to drive housing prices up for people that own their homes and they can be assured that's what's going to happen. ** [https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-wants-drive-us-house-103900744.html "Trump wants to drive US house prices up for homeowners, block those who don’t ‘work very hard’ from buying. Do this now"] ''Moneywise / Yahoo Finance'' (February 4, 2026) * ''About the 2024 election:'' I had to win it. I needed it for my own ego. I would have had a bad ego for the rest of my life. Now I really have a big ego. * I don’t know how a person of faith can vote for a Democrat. ** [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/05/trump-religious-right-republicans "The way, the Trump and the lies: prayer breakfast displays US right’s devil’s pact"] ''The Guardian'' (February 5, 2026) * U.S. Olympic Skier, Hunter Hess, a real Loser, says he doesn’t represent his Country in the current Winter Olympics. If that’s the case, he shouldn’t have tried out for the Team, and it’s too bad he’s on it. ** Written about Hunter Hess, who has said that just because he's wearing the flag doesn't mean he is representing all that is going on in the US, quoted in [https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5728563-trump-rips-hunter-hess-olympics/ "Trump rips Olympic skier over remarks about representing US"] ''The Hill'' (February 8, 2026) * The Super Bowl Halftime Show is absolutely terrible, one of the worst, EVER! It makes no sense, is an affront to the Greatness of America, and doesn’t represent our standards of Success, Creativity, or Excellence. ** Claimed about the show with the US rapper [[w:Bad Bunny | Bad Bunny]], quoted in [https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-bad-bunnys-super-bowl-halftime-show-was-absolutely-terrible-2026-02-09/ "Trump says Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime was 'absolutely terrible'"] ''Reuters'' ( February 9, 2026) * I am predicting 100,000 on the DOW by the end of my Term. REMEMBER TRUMP WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING! ** [https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-everything-credits-tariffs-193104611.html "Trump Says He 'Was Right About Everything,' Credits Tariffs For Dow Jones At 50,000, Predicts It Will Reach 100,000 By This Time"] ''Yahoo Finance'' (February 10, 2026) * TARIFFS have given us Great National Security because the mere mention of the word has Countries agreeing to our strongest wishes, * Any Republican, in the House or the Senate, that votes against TARIFFS will seriously suffer the consequences come Election time, and that includes Primaries! ** [https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5734521-trump-tariffs-primary-threat/ "Trump threatens ‘consequences’ for Republicans who voted against tariffs on Canada"] ''The Hill'' (February 11, 2026) ===== Announcement of major combat operations in Iran (28 February 2026) ===== [[File:President Donald J. Trump on the United States Military Major Combat Operations in Iran.webm|thumb|Trump on major combat operations in Iran]] :<small>[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/read-trumps-full-statement-on-iran-attack Full statement at PBS (28 February 2026)]</small> [[File:Trump announcing strikes on Iran, February 28 2026.png|thumb|A short time ago, the [[United States]] [[military]] began [[w:2026 Israeli–United States strikes on Iran|major combat operations]] in [[Iran]].]] [[File:President Donald J. Trump oversees Operation Epic Fury at Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach, FL, Feb. 28, 2026. (White House photo by Daniel Torok) (55121599389).jpg|thumb|My administration is taking every possible step to minimize the risk to U.S. personnel in the region. Even so, and I do not make this statement lightly, the Iranian regime seeks to kill. The lives of courageous American heroes may be lost, and we may have casualties. That often happens in war.]] * A short time ago, the United States military began major combat operations in Iran. Our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime. A vicious group of very hard, terrible people. Its menacing activities directly endanger the United States, our troops, our bases overseas, and our allies throughout the world. * Iran is the world's number one state sponsor of terror, and just recently killed tens of thousands of its own citizens on the street as they protested. It has always been the policy of the United States, in particular my administration, that this terrorist regime can never have a nuclear weapon. I'll say it again, they can never have a nuclear weapon. * They've rejected every opportunity to renounce their nuclear ambitions, and we can't take it anymore. Instead, they attempted to rebuild their nuclear program and to continue developing the long range missiles that can now threaten our very good friends and allies in Europe, our troops stationed overseas, and could soon reach the American homeland. Just imagine how emboldened this regime would be if they ever had, and actually were armed with nuclear weapons as a means to deliver their message. <br /> For these reasons, the United States military is undertaking a massive and ongoing operation to prevent this very wicked, radical dictatorship from threatening America and our core national security interests. We're going to destroy their missiles and raze their missile industry to the ground. It will be totally again obliterated. We're going to annihilate their navy. We're going to ensure that the region's terrorist proxies can no longer destabilize the region or the world and attack our forces, and no longer use their IEDs, or roadside bombs as they are sometimes called, to so gravely wound and kill thousands and thousands of people, including many Americans. And we will ensure that Iran does not obtain a nuclear weapon. It's a very simple message. They will never have a nuclear weapon. * This regime will soon learn that no one should challenge the strength and might of the United States Armed Forces. I built and rebuilt our military in my first administration and there is no military on earth even close to its power, strength or sophistication. My administration is taking every possible step to minimize the risk to U.S. personnel in the region. Even so, and I do not make this statement lightly, the Iranian regime seeks to kill. The lives of courageous American heroes may be lost, and we may have casualties. That often happens in war. But we're doing this not for now. We're doing this for the future. And it is a noble mission. We pray for every service member as they selflessly risk their lives to ensure that Americans and our children will never be threatened by a nuclear-armed Iran. We ask God to protect all of our heroes in harm's way. And we trust that with his help, the men and women of the armed forces will prevail. We have the greatest in the world, and they will prevail. * To the members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, the armed forces and all of the police, I say tonight that you must lay down your weapons and have complete immunity. Or in the alternative, face certain death. So, lay down your arms. You will be treated fairly with total immunity, or you will face certain death. Finally, to the great proud people of Iran, I say tonight that the hour of your freedom is at hand. Stay sheltered. Don't leave your home. It's very dangerous outside. Bombs will be dropping everywhere. When we are finished, take over your government. It will be yours to take. This will be probably your only chance for generations. <br /> For many years, you have asked for America's help. But you never got it. No president was willing to do what I am willing to do tonight. Now you have a president who is giving you what you want. So let's see how you respond. America is backing you with overwhelming strength and devastating force. Now is the time to seize control of your destiny, and to unleash the prosperous and glorious future that is close within your reach. This is the moment for action. Do not let it pass. ==== March 2026 ==== {{See also|2026 Iran war}} * There will be no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER! * IRAN WILL HAVE A GREAT FUTURE. 'MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN (MIGA!).'” ** [https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2029923412269809980 "UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!"] ''The White House'' (March 6, 2026) * Iran, which is being beat to HELL, has apologized and surrendered to its Middle East neighbors, and promised that it will not shoot at them anymore. This promise was only made because of the relentless U.S. and Israeli attack... Iran is no longer the 'Bully of the Middle East,' they are, instead, 'THE LOSER OF THE MIDDLE EAST,' ** [https://www.instagram.com/p/DVliTBoFFXd/ "IRAN WILL BE HIT VERY HARD!"] ''White House'' (March 7, 2026) * I think the war is very complete, pretty much. * If you look, they have nothing left. There's nothing left in a military sense. * If they do anything bad, that would be the end of Iran and you'd never hear the name again. * Wrapping up is all in my mind, nobody else's. ** [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-iran-cbs-news-the-war-is-very-complete-strait-hormuz/ "Trump says "the war is very complete," and he's considering taking over Strait of Hormuz"] ''CBS News'' (March 9, 2026) * We think they should put a president in or the head of the country that’s going to be able to do something peacefully for a change. They’ve been doing this for 47 years, killing people for 47 years. Whether it’s the barracks or even the SS Cole where they were involved, very strongly, they always denied it. But they were very strongly involved and all of the <b>people that died through the roadside bombs died and are right now walking around with no legs, no arms.</b> A face that’s been so badly damaged. ** Claimed about the people of Iran and about the [[w:October 2000 bombing of USS Cole | October 2000 bombing of USS Cole ]] in Yemen by Al Qaida, quoted in [https://newrepublic.com/post/207572/trump-rant-dead-soldiers-walking-around-no-legs-iran "Trump Goes on Deranged Rant About Dead Soldiers Walking Around"] ''The New Republic'' (March 10, 2026) * These ships should go through the Strait of Hormuz and show some guts, there’s nothing to be afraid of ... They have no Navy, we sunk all their ships. ** [https://www.newsweek.com/hormuz-strait-attacks-follow-trump-saying-crews-should-show-some-guts-11660339 "Hormuz Strait Attacks Follow Trump Saying Crews Should ‘Show Some Guts’"] ''Newsweek'' (March 11, 2026) * The United States is the largest oil producer in the world, by far, so when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money. * The straits are in great shape. We’ve knocked out all of their boats. They have some missiles, but not very many. I think we’re in very good … we’re in very good shape. ** [https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5780543-us-oil-prices-trump/ "Trump: ‘When oil prices go up, we make a lot of money’"] ''The Hill'' (March 12, 2026) * I don't want the president of the United States to have a cognitive deficiency. ** [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/newsom-trump-cognitive-ability-2028-election-b2936871.html "Newsom gives scathing two-word retort after Trump publicly questions governor’s mental health and ‘cognitive’ ability"] ''Independent'' (March 12, 2026) * You never like to say too early you won. We won. We won the bet — in the first hour, it was over. ** [https://www.ms.now/news/news-analysis/trump-iran-winning-project-47-newsletter "‘We’ve won’: Trump’s declarations of victory in war with Iran defy reality"] ''MS Now'' (March 12, 2026) * It's an excursion that will keep us out of a war, and the war is going to be, uh -- I mean, for them it's a war. For us, it's turned out to be easier than we thought. ** [https://abcnews.com/Politics/excursion-war-trump-analysis/story?id=131003550 "A 'little excursion' or 'war'? It's 'both,' Trump says: ANALYSIS"] ''ABC News'' (March 13, 2026) * Watch what happens to these deranged scumbags today. They’ve been killing innocent people all over the world for 47 years, and now I, as the 47th President of the United States of America, am killing them. What a great honor it is to do so! ** [https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2026-03-15/trump-hegseth-iran-war-rhetoric "Trump’s war rhetoric is coarse. It’s also heard differently, depending on the audience"] ''Los Angeles Times'' (March 15, 2026) * We may hit it a few more times just for fun. ** [https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/15/trump-says-us-may-hit-irans-kharg-island-again-just-for-fun "Trump says US may hit Iran’s Kharg Island again ‘just for fun’"] ''AlJazeera'' (March 15, 2026) * I’ve spoken to a certain president, who I like, actually. A past president, a former president. He said, 'I wish I did it.' But they didn't do it. I'm doing it. ** [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-iran-war-president-call-b2940315.html "Trump says he spoke to an ex-president who praised his Iran War. They all deny taking the call"] ''Independent'' (March 17, 2026) * ''About [[w:Joe Kent | Joe Kent]], former director of the National Counterterrorism Center:'' It’s a good thing that he’s out because he said Iran was not a threat. ** [https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/03/17/was-joe-kent-leaving-trump-administration-over-war-in-iran/ "WA’s Joe Kent leaving Trump administration over war in Iran"] ''Washington State Standard'' (March 17, 2026) * My attitude is, we don’t need anybody. We’re the strongest nation in the world. We have the strongest military by far in the world. We don’t need them. ** [https://www.tvinsider.com/1252321/cnns-kasie-hunt-mocks-trump-over-his-bizarre-press-briefing/ "CNN’s Kasie Hunt Mocks Trump Over His Bizarre Press Briefing"] ''TV Insider'' (March 17, 2026) * NATO nations have done absolutely nothing to help with the lunatic nation, now militarily decimated, of Iran. the U.S.A needs nothing from NATO, but “never forget" this very important point in time!" ** [https://www.news18.com/world/done-absolutely-nothing-trump-fires-at-nato-nations-for-no-action-on-lunatic-iran-9998722.html "'Done Absolutely Nothing': Trump Fires At NATO Nations For No Action On 'Lunatic Iran'"] ''News 18'' (March 26, 2026) * When we go in, we went in very hard, and we didn't tell anybody about it, because we wanted surprise—Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor? ** In response to a reporter questioning why the US did not inform its NATO allies before launching strikes on Iran, during a joint press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, quoted in [https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/pearl-harbor-joke-iran-operation-meeting-japan-prime-minister-war-rcna264325 "Trump makes Pearl Harbor joke during meeting with Japanese prime minister"] ''NBC News'' (March 19, 2026) * ''About the attack on Iran:'' We could have dialogue, but I don’t want to do a ceasefire. You know you don’t do a ceasefire when you’re literally obliterating the other side. ** [https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/20/trump-iran-war-ceasefire.html "Trump says he doesn’t want Iran war ceasefire, but is considering ‘winding down’ military ops"] ''CNBC'' (March 20, 2026) * Robert Mueller just died. Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people! ** [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/21/robert-mueller-special-counsel-trump-russia-dies "Robert Mueller, special counsel who investigated Trump-Russia ties, dies at 81"] ''The Guardian'' (March 21, 2026) * I read a story today that I’m desperate to make a deal…. I’m the opposite of desperate. I don’t care. I want to know ― in fact, we have other targets we want to hit before we leave. We’re hitting them on a daily basis. * We don’t need the Hormuz Strait. We don’t need it. We don’t need it at all. We don’t ― we have so much oil. Our country is not affected by this. ** [https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-iran-peace-deal_n_69c58c70e4b09f8e00509ee8 "Trump Trots Out Wildly Contradictory Iran War Claims — And Says He Doesn't Care If There's A Peace Deal"] ''Huffington Post'' (March 26, 2026) : ''About the US attack on Iran:'' * I can’t say what we’re going to do because if I did, I wouldn’t be sitting here for long. They’d probably — what is it called? The 25th Amendment? — They’d institute the 25th Amendment. ** [https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/donald-trump-jokes-cabinet-25th-103104867.html "Donald Trump Jokes Cabinet Would Use 25th Amendment to Remove Him"] ''Mandatory / Yahoo News'' (March 27, 2026) * See, I get into a war — of course, they call it a war, I call it a military conflict. But there’s a legal reason for that. I said, ‘Look, you know, we have a thing called a war,’ or as they would rather say, a military operation. It’s for legal reasons. I say ‘military’ because as a military operation, I don’t need any approvals. As a war, you’re supposed to get approval from Congress. Something like that. ** [https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/call-war-trump-reveals-real-172604512.html "'They Call It A War': Trump Reveals Real Reason He Keeps Calling Iran War Something Else"] ''Huffington Post / Yahoo News'' (March 28, 2026) * I always like to hang around with losers, actually, because it makes me feel better. I hate guys that are very, very successful and you have to listen to their success stories. I like people that like to listen to my success. ** [https://www.aol.com/articles/five-unhinged-trump-moments-investment-100000181.html "Five unhinged Trump moments at investment summit from weird interruption to filthy question"] ''AOL'' (March 28) * To be honest with you, my favourite thing is to take the oil in Iran, but some stupid people back in the US say: ‘Why are you doing that?’ But they’re stupid people. * Maybe we take Kharg Island, maybe we don’t. We have a lot of options. It would also mean we had to be there for a while. ** [https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/30/trump-wants-to-invade-iran-to-seize-oil-calls-us-objectors-stupid "Trump wants to invade Iran to seize oil, calls US objectors ‘stupid people’"] ''Al Jazeera'' (March 30, 2026) * The Republicans are wonderful people. We're dealing with very sick people. The Democrats are sick; there's something wrong. They're like terrorists. ** [https://www.aol.com/entertainment/donald-trump-ruthlessly-dubbed-inept-133940897.html "Donald Trump ruthlessly dubbed an 'inept pile of garbage' amid Democrat 'terrorist' jab"] ''AOL'' (March 30, 2026) * All of those countries that can’t get jet fuel because of the Strait of Hormuz, like the United Kingdom, which refused to get involved in the decapitation of Iran, I have a suggestion for you: Number 1, buy from the U.S., we have plenty, and Number 2, build up some delayed courage, go to the Strait, and just TAKE IT. * You’ll have to start learning how to fight for yourself, the U.S.A. won’t be there to help you anymore, just like you weren’t there for us. Iran has been, essentially, decimated. The hard part is done. Go get your own oil! ** [https://nypost.com/2026/03/31/us-news/trump-lashes-out-at-france-and-uk-over-strait-of-hormuz/ "Trump lashes out at France and UK, says nations should ‘just take’ Strait of Hormuz to replenish lost oil"] ''New York Post'' (March 31, 2026) ==== April 2026 ==== * We're going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks — we're going to bring them back to the Stone Age, where they belong. ** [https://www.war.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4450132/trump-objectives-in-iran-near-completion-terrorist-nation-bully-no-longer/ "Trump: Objectives in Iran Near Completion, Terrorist Nation 'Bully No Longer'"] ''US Department of war'' (April 1, 2026) * We could just take their oil. But, you know, I’m not sure that the people in our country have the patience to do that, which is unfortunate. They want to see it end. If we stayed there, I prefer just to take the oil. We could do it so easily; I would prefer that. But people in the country sort of say, ‘Just win. You’re winning so big, just win. Come home. * With a little more time, we can easily OPEN THE HORMUZ STRAIT, TAKE THE OIL, & MAKE A FORTUNE * KEEP THE OIL, ANYONE? ** [https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/3/trump-says-with-more-time-us-can-take-the-oil-in-iran "Trump says with more time, US can ‘take the oil’ in Iran"] ''Al Jazeera'' (April 3, 2026) * Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP ** [https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/05/trump-threatens-iranian-infrastructure-hormuz-00859268?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=snews "Trump again threatens to hit Iranian civil infrastructure"] ''Politico'' (April 5, 2026) * A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran! ** [https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-iran-warning-whole-civilization-die-11792792 "Trump Issues New Warning to Iran: ‘A Whole Civilization Will Die Tonight’"] ''Newsweek'' (April 7, 2026) * I know why Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones have all been fighting me for years, especially by the fact that they think it is wonderful for Iran, the Number One State Sponsor of Terror, to have a Nuclear Weapon — Because they have one thing in common, Low IQs. They’re stupid people, they know it, their families know it, and everyone else knows it, too! Look at their past, look at their record. They don’t have what it takes, and they never did! They’ve all been thrown off Television, lost their Shows, and aren’t even invited on TV because nobody cares about them, they’re NUT JOBS, TROUBLEMAKERS, and will say anything necessary for some “free” and cheap publicity. ** [https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5824607-trump-iran-war-tucker-carlson-megyn-kelly/ "Trump slams conservative media figures over splitting with him on Iran"] ''The Hill'' (April 9, 2026) * Effective immediately, the United States Navy, the Finest in the World, will begin the process of BLOCKADING any and all Ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz. * Any Iranian who fires at us, or at peaceful vessels, will be BLOWN TO HELL! ** [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-strait-of-hormuz-blockade-iran/ "Trump says U.S. will blockade Strait of Hormuz and intercept ships that paid tolls to Iran"] ''CBS News'' (April 12, 2026) * We don’t like a pope that’s going to say that it’s OK to have a nuclear weapon. We don’t want a pope that says crime is OK in our cities. I don’t like it. I’m not a big fan of Pope Leo, * Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy * Leo should be thankful because, as everyone knows, he was a shocking surprise. He wasn’t on any list to be Pope, and was only put there by the Church because he was an American, and they thought that would be the best way to deal with President Donald J. Trump. If I wasn’t in the White House, Leo wouldn’t be in the Vatican. ** [https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-says-not-big-fan-weak-terrible-pope-leo-rcna331461 "Trump assails Pope Leo as 'weak' and 'terrible' after pontiff's Iran war criticism"] ''NBC News'' (April 13, 2026) * Gas prices have come down very much in the last three or four days * They are not very high. * Everything's going really well. ** [https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/16/trump-gas-prices-iran-war.html "Trump says gas prices ‘not very high’ as most U.S. voters blame him for price spike"] ''CNBC'' (April 16, 2026) * 'Corner stores'!? What is a corner store? I've never heard that term. I know what a corner store is, but I've never heard it described, a ‘corner store.’ ** [https://www.indy100.com/politics/trump/trump-corner-store-reaction "Trump doesn’t know what a corner store is – and people think it says a lot about him"] ''Indy100'' (April 17, 2026) * We have a very good relationship with Iran right now, as hard as it is to believe. And I think it is a combination of about four weeks of bombing and a very powerful blockade. ** [https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-says-second-round-of-talks-with-iran-could-take-place-this-weekend/ "Trump says 2nd round of Iran talks could be this weekend, war ‘should’ end soon"] ''The Times of Israel'' (April 20, 2026) * I would have won Vietnam very quickly. I would have, if I were president. ** Claimed about the Vietnam War (1955-1975), quoted in [https://ca.news.yahoo.com/trump-boasts-won-vietnam-very-130316917.html "Trump boasts ‘I would have won Vietnam very quickly’ ... despite getting ‘bone spur’ excuse to avoid draft"] ''Independent / Yahoo News'' (April 21, 2026) * A RIGGED ELECTION TOOK PLACE LAST NIGHT IN THE GREAT COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA! * As everyone knows, I am an extraordinarily brilliant person. ** [https://ca.news.yahoo.com/extraordinarily-brilliant-trump-leaves-no-181143288.html "‘Extraordinarily brilliant’ Trump leaves no doubt he will challenge any election GOP losses as ‘rigged’ with latest post"] ''Independent / Yahoo News'' (April 22, 2026) * I just cancelled the trip of my representatives going to Islamabad, Pakistan, to meet with the Iranians. Too much time wasted on traveling, too much work! Besides which, there is tremendous infighting and confusion within their ‘leadership. Nobody knows who is in charge, including them. Also, we have all the cards, they have none! If they want to talk, all they have to do is call!!! ** [https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5849794-trump-iran-peace-negotiations/ "Trump says he won’t send officials to Pakistan for negotiations"] ''The Hill'' (April 26, 2026) * When you have, you know, lines of vast amounts of oil pouring through your system, if for any reason that line is closed because you can’t continue to put it into containers or ships, which has happened to them — they have no ships because of the blockade — what happens is that line explodes from within, both mechanically and in the earth. It’s something that happens where it just explodes. And they say they only have about three days left before that happens. And when it explodes, you can never, regardless, you can never rebuild it the way it was. ** [https://nypost.com/2026/04/26/us-news/trump-claims-irans-oil-infrastructure-may-explode-in-three-days-due-to-us-blockade/ "Trump claims Iran’s oil infrastructure may explode in three days due to US blockade"] ''New York Post'' (April 26, 2026) * The Chancellor of Germany, Friedrich Merz, thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon. He doesn’t know what he’s talking about! If Iran had a Nuclear Weapon, the whole World would be held hostage. * I am doing something with Iran, right now, that other Nations, or Presidents, should have done long ago. No wonder Germany is doing so poorly, both Economically, and otherwise! * They’re a respected country. I have a very good relationship with the country – in particular now, with this leader. ** [https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/28/trump-scolds-germanys-merz-for-criticism-of-iran-war "Trump scolds Germany’s Merz for criticism of Iran war"] ''AlJazeera'' (April 28, 2026) * He &#91;[[Charles III|King Charles]] of the United Kingdom] made a great speech. I was very jealous. * I want to congratulate Charles on having made a fantastic speech today at Congress. He got the [[Democrats]] to stand, I’ve never been able to do that, I couldn’t believe it. ** [https://www.wionews.com/world/trump-admits-he-s-very-jealous-after-king-charles-did-the-one-thing-he-could-never-pull-off-at-the-capitol-1777442027803#goog_rewarded "Trump admits he's 'very jealous' after King Charles did the one thing he could never pull off at the Capitol"] ''Wion'' (April 29, 2026) * I think Ukraine, militarily they are defeated, OK? You wouldn't know that by reading the fake news. ** [https://www.foxnews.com/video/6394191405112?dicbo=v2-iH2p37I&intcmp=fn_article_mobileweb_bc_ob_more_from "Ukraine is 'militarily' defeated: Trump"] ''Fox News'' (April 29, 2026) ===== Remarks after White House Correspondents' Dinner shootings (25 April 2026) ===== [[File:President Trump Delivers Remarks (April 25, 2026).webm|thumb|start=19:16|thumbtime=19:53|President Trump addresses the press two hours after the shooting]] :<small>[https://www.rev.com/transcripts/trump-speaks-after-whcd-shooting "Trump Speaks After WHCD Shooting" video and transcript at rev.com]</small> * That was very unexpected, but incredibly acted upon by Secret Service and law enforcement. And this was an event dedicated to freedom of speech that was supposed to bring together members of both parties with members of the press. And in a certain way it did because the fact that they just unified, I saw a room that was just totally unified. It was in one way, very beautiful. A very beautiful thing to see. * A tape showing the violence of this thug that attacked our constitution and also showing how quickly Secret Service and law enforcement acted on our country's behalf, really did a great job. <br /> One officer was shot, but saved by the fact that he was wearing obviously a very good bulletproof vest. He was shot from very close distance with a very powerful gun. And the vest did the job. I just spoke to the officer and he's doing great. He's great shape. He has very high spirits and we told him we love him and respect him. And he's a very proud guy. He's very proud of what he does, Secret Service agent. And we looked at all of the conditions that took place tonight. And I will say, it's not a particularly secure building. And I didn't want to say this, but this is why we have to have all of the attributes of what we're planning at the White House. It's actually a larger room and it's a much more secure. It's got, it's drone proof, it's bulletproof glass. <br /> We need the ballroom. That's why Secret Service, that's why the military are demanding it. They've wanted the ballroom for 150 years for lots of different reasons, but today's a little bit different because today we need levels of security that probably nobody's ever seen before. But everyone owes a tremendous debt of gratitude to the courage of law enforcement. * So as you know, this is not the first time in the past couple of years that our republic been attacked by a would be assassin who sought to kill in Butler, Pennsylvania less than two years ago. <br /> You all know that story. And in Palm Beach, Florida, a few months after that, we came close. We really had, again, we had some great work done by law enforcement. But in light of this evening's events, I asked that all Americans recommit with their hearts in resolving our difference peacefully. We have to resolve our differences. I will say you had Republicans, Democrats, independents, conservatives, liberals, and progressives. Those words are interchangeable, perhaps but maybe they're not. But yet everybody in that room, big crowd, record-setting crowd, there was a record-setting group of people, and there was a tremendous amount of love and coming together. I watched and I was very, very impressed by that. * I told the representatives of the evening, they did such a beautiful job, was such a beautiful evening. And again, they're talking about free speech in our [[United States Constitution|Constitution]]. That's what it's all about. Not just White House correspondence. It was really based on free speech in our Constitution. But I said very importantly that we'll do it again within the next 30 days. It will make it bigger and better and even nicer. So I just want to thank everybody that was involved. I also want to thank the press, the media. You've been very responsible in your coverage. I will say I've been seeing what's been out and you've been very responsible. ==== May 2026 ==== : ''About the 2026 midterm election:'' * It is a problem I'm not on the ballot. Everyone says if I was on a ballot we'd win in a landslide. <b>I have some of the best poll numbers I've ever had.</b> ** [https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-approval-rating-plummets-personality-traits-11905848 "Donald Trump’s Approval Rating Plummets On All Personality Traits"] ''Newsweek'' (May 2, 2026) * There has been no exchange of fire between the United States Forces and Iran since April 7, 2026. The hostilities that began on February 28, 2026 have terminated. ** [https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g4xexy4w7o "Trump tells Congress ceasefire means he does not need their approval for Iran war"] ''BBC'' (May 2, 2026) * We took over the ship. We took over the cargo, took over the oil. It’s a very profitable business. <b>We’re like pirates.</b> We’re sort of like pirates. ** [https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/2/trump-says-us-navy-acting-like-pirates-to-enforce-iran-blockade "Trump says US Navy acting ‘like pirates’ to enforce Iran blockade"] ''Al Jazeera'' (May 2, 2026) * It is a very friendly blockade. ** [https://www.thestar.com.my/news/world/2026/05/03/trump-describes-us-blockade-as-very-friendly-does-not-breach-039terminated039-claim-on-iran-hostilities#goog_rewarded "Trump describes US blockade as "very friendly”, does not breach 'terminated' claim on Iran hostilities"] ''The Star'' (May 3, 2026) * Bill Maher is a MORON, though slightly more talented than Jimmy Kimmel. ** [https://www.newsweek.com/trump-tears-into-bill-maher-after-gavin-newsom-interview-11906910 "Trump Tears Into Bill Maher After Gavin Newsom Interview"] ''Newsweek'' (May 3, 2026) : ''Explained to a group of school children:'' * We can't let Iran have a nuclear weapon… You might be too young for this… But you can't let a bunch of lunatics have a nuclear weapon or the world would be in trouble. * We sent that beautiful B-2 bomber in, and we blew up their nuclear potential. * I can tell you, the Middle East would've been gone. Israel would've been gone. They would've trained their sights on Europe first, then us. Because they're sick people. These are sick people, and we're not going to let lunatics have nuclear weapons. It's not going to happen. ** [https://www.ndtvprofit.com/world/bizarre-moment-trump-tells-school-kids-iran-was-two-weeks-away-from-killing-you-watch-video-11455217/amp/1 "Bizarre Moment! Trump Tells School Kids Iran 'Was Two Weeks Away From Killing You'—Watch Video"] ''NDTV Profit'' (May 6, 2026) * It's up to the Pope. He thinks it's just fine for Iran to have a nuclear weapon. ** [https://time.com/article/2026/05/06/pope-leo-nuclear-weapons-trump/ "Pope Leo Rejects Trump’s Nuclear Claims and Tells His Critics To Speak ‘Truthfully’"] ''Time'' (May 6, 2026) * This lunatic, Hakeem ‘Low IQ’ Jeffries, should be charged with INCITING VIOLENCE! The Radical Left Democrats actually want to Destroy our Country. ** [https://www.aol.com/articles/jeffries-trump-call-inciting-violence-201156891.html "Jeffries on Trump call for ‘inciting violence’ charge: ‘Another deranged rant’"] ''AOL'' (May 7, 2026) * Excellent Poll Numbers. Thank You! ** [https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-drowns-feed-maga-praise-114613786.html "Trump Drowns Feed With MAGA Praise in Late-Night Truth Social Dump Celebrating Himself"] ''Mediaite/Yahoo News'' (May 11, 2026) * No matter how ‘Fair and Balanced’ the day’s News at Fox may be, the end result is destroyed by professional Liars, Conmen, and Liberal, Crooked Politicians. This is why <b>MAGA Republicans, who are actually close to 100% of the Party, hate Fox,</b> despite the wonderful contributions made by so many of their great anchors and commentators. Hard to win Elections like this! ** [https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-goes-ballistic-fox-news-225559417.html "Trump Goes Ballistic on Fox News Anchor Jacqui Heinrich, Claims MAGA Republicans ‘Hate’ the Channel"] ''Mediaite / Yahoo News'' (May 11, 2026) * I’m serious about beginning a process to make Venezuela the 51st state. ** [https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-wants-oil-rich-nation-205314886.html "Trump wants this oil-rich nation as the 51st state. Its leader has a message for him."] ''nj.com'' (May 12, 2026) * The only thing that matters when I’m talking about Iran — they can’t have a nuclear weapon. <b>I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation.</b> I don’t think about anybody. I think about one thing — we cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon. That’s all. ** [https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-not-thinking-american-finances-iran-talk-rcna344785 "Trump says he’s not thinking about Americans’ finances ‘even a little bit’ in Iran talks"] ''NBC News'' (May 12, 2026) * Dumacrats Love Sewage ** [https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/dumacrats-love-sewage-trump-posts-124145023.html "‘Dumacrats Love Sewage’: Trump Posts Image of Obama, Biden, Pelosi Bathing in Feces in New Truth Social Meme Spree"] ''Mediaite / Yahoo News'' (May 12, 2026) * We have a man who is doing a great job, I'll tell you. I knew it! Because he kept me out of jail for years. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, he kept me out of jail. ** [https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-blanche-jail-quote/ "Trump said acting AG Todd Blanche kept him 'out of jail for years'"] ''Snopes fact check'' (May 13, 2026) * If they want to come in and build the plant and hire you and hire your friends and your neighbors, that’s great. I love that. <b>Let China come in, let Japan come in.</b> They are and they’ll be building plants, but they’re using our labor. ** [https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/13/trump-xi-summit-chinese-electric-vehicles-00917652 "‘The only thing that terrifies me is BYD’: Politicians quake at Chinese EVs"] ''Politico'' (May 13, 2026) * It's a very insulting thing to tell a country we don't want your people in our schools, ** [https://www.thestandard.com.hk/china/article/332106/ "Bucking base, Trump defends Chinese students in US"] ''The Standard'' (May 15, 2026) * Frankly, I think that it’s good that people come from other countries and they learn our culture, and many of them want to stay here. I think it’s a good thing. ** [https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/maga-reeling-trump-welcomes-chinese-204217102.html "MAGA is Reeling as Trump Welcomes Chinese Students to the U.S."] ''The News Republic / Yahoo News'' (May 15, 2026) * I'm right now at 99% in Israel. I could run for prime minister, so maybe after I do this, I'll go to Israel and run for prime minister. I had a poll this morning. I am 99 %, so that's good. ** [https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fact-check-no-reputable-poll-235324733.html "Fact Check: NO Reputable Poll Shows Trump Has 99% Support In Israel -- Polls Show 69% To 79%"] ''Yahoo / Lead Stories'' (May 22, 2026) * I don't care about the midterms. ** [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-midterms-republicans-cabinet-meeting-b2984719.html "Trump sends crushing message to Republicans: ‘I don’t care about the midterms’"] ''Independent'' (May 27, 2026) * Oman will behave just like everybody else or we’ll have to blow them up. They understand that, they’ll be fine. ** [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/27/donald-trump-oman-threat-strait-hormuz "Trump threatens to ‘blow up’ US ally Oman amid talks over strait of Hormuz"] ''The Guardian'' (May 28, 2026) ==== June 2026 ==== : ''About the Iranian military:'' * Their military, we’ve sort of left it alone, because we think that their military is somewhat, somewhat moderate ... We’ve actually left their military alone. People would be surprised to hear that. ** [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-iran-military-us-war-irgc-interview-b2986901.html "Trump now says US left Iran’s military ‘alone’ after weeks of boasting that he destroyed its forces"] ''Independent'' (June 2, 2026) * ''About Iran:'' They’ve already agreed they’re not going to have a nuclear weapon. * I inherited very high prices when I came in. I inherited the highest inflation in the history of our country. Biden had like 9%-10% inflation, and I inherited that, and we have it way down. ** Claimed without providing evidence, quoted in [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/4592621/trump-iran-no-nuclear-new-interview-takeaways/ "Trump says Iran agrees to ‘no nuclear,’ and other takeaways from new interview"] ''Washington Examiner'' (June 3, 2026) * It'll last for 50 to 100 years before you have to do anything with it. ** Claimed about the results of renovation of the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool, quoted in [https://www.npr.org/2026/06/05/nx-s1-5847818/reflecting-pool-repaint-refill "After D.C.'s Reflecting Pool gets repainted, visitors ask: What changed?"] ''NPR'' (June 5, 2026) * I love the inflation. ** [https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0myzxjkw99o "Trump says he 'loves the inflation' as US prices rise at fastest rate in three years"] ''BBC'' (June 11, 2026) * The United States will be hitting Iran (Whose Navy, Air Force, Radar, Anti Aircraft, and all other forms of Defense, together with most of its offensive capability, are GONE!), VERY HARD TONIGHT. At some point in the not too distant future, we will be taking Kharg Island, and other oil infrastructure points, and assume total control of their Oil and Gas Markets. ** [https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/11/trump-says-us-will-be-taking-kharg-island-in-latest-iran-war-threat "Trump says US will ‘be taking’ Kharg Island in latest Iran war threat"] ''Al Jazeera'' (June 11, 2026) * I don’t know if you heard, but we ended the war with Iran today. They have agreed never to have a nuclear weapon, something that we insisted on; that was the whole purpose. That was 95 percent of it. ** [https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/11/world/live-news/iran-war-trump-israel-hnk "We ended the war with Iran today," Trump says] ''CNN'' (June 12, 2026) * Qatar is the closest to Iran, physically. With other countries, I noticed they had to travel about 45 minutes to get there. With you, you could walk right across the border. ** [https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/donald-trump-doesn-t-know-162854643.html "Donald Trump Doesn’t Know Anything About Geography"] ''The New Republic / Yahoo News'' (June 16, 2026) * So happy for highly respected Congressman Mike Collins. He will win his Senate Race in Georgia against a pathetic failed Dumocrat Senator, Os(jerk!)off, who is a joke in D.C. Nobody even knows who he is!!! I'll be doing Big TRUMP Rallies for Mike in Georgia! President DJT. ** Social media post, quoted in [https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-drops-childish-nickname-democratic-161158346.html "Trump Drops Childish New Nickname For Democratic Star"] ''Yahoo News / Huffington Post'' (June 17, 2026) * If it works out, I'm going to take the credit. If it doesn't work out, I'm blaming JD. ** Claimed about a memorandum of understanding about engaging in negotiations about restoring peace after the US attack on Iran, quoted in [https://www.aol.com/news/vance-says-us-got-iran-233148756.html "Trump finally said it out loud: JD Vance is his Iran fall guy"] ''AOL'' (June 17, 2026) * POLL: Which do you prefer, Dumocrat or Dumbocrat? In one case, you simply exchange the ‘e’ for ‘u,’ so simple and precise (Many people don’t know, or assume, that DUMB ends in ‘b’). In the other case, you spell out DUMB, but it seems to lose some of the identity to Democrats when done this way. Which is better? ** [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-democrats-nickname-dumb-truth-social-b2999705.html "D-U-M-B: Trump gives spelling lesson as he works on nicknames for his rivals"] ''Independent'' (June 20, 2026) * MY REAL POLL NUMBERS ARE THE HIGHEST THEY HAVE EVER BEEN. THANK YOU!!! President DJT ** [https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-tries-bend-reality-epic-161832940.html "Trump tries to bend reality to his will with epic all-caps rant about his poll numbers"] ''Independent / Yahoo News'' (June 24, 2026) {{Disputed begin}} == Disputed == * We have certain things in common, Jeffrey. * Enigmas never age, have you noticed that? * A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday – and may every day be another wonderful secret. ** Written in a letter to [[Jeffrey Epstein]], according to [https://www.wsj.com/politics/trump-jeffrey-epstein-birthday-letter-we-have-certain-things-in-common-f918d796 "Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump."] ''Wall Street Journal'' (Article behind pay wall) (July 17, 2025). Quoted in [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/17/trump-epstein-grand-jury-testimony-wall-street-journal "Trump requests release of Epstein grand jury transcripts amid report of ‘bawdy’ birthday note"] ''The Guardian'' (July 18, 2025). Disputed by Donald Trump. * These people should be executed. They are scumbags. ** About whistleblowers and journalists. Attributed by [[John Bolton]] in ''{{w|The Room Where It Happened}}'', ''{{w|Simon & Schuster}}'', 2020, [https://books.google.com/books?id=QjTMDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT290 p. 290] {{cite book |isbn=978-1-9821-4805-8}} *Do you still like having sex with your wife? How often? You must have had a better fuck than your wife? Tell me about it. I have girls coming in from [[Los Angeles]] at three o'clock. We can go upstairs and have a great time. I promise. **Reported by Michael Wolff in [http://web.archive.org/web/20180107223847if_/https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DSpgpeyVMAAMcS1.jpg ''Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House''] (5 January 2018) * I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go. He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go. ** Reported as being the words of President Trump recorded in a memo that [[James Comey]], FBI Director at the time, wrote shortly after a meeting held in the Oval Office on 14 February 2017, referring to the federal investigation into links to the Russian government of national security adviser, [[Michael T. Flynn]], who had resigned the day before. In a statement, the White House has denied the version of events in the memo. — [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/us/politics/james-comey-trump-flynn-russia-investigation.html New York Times (16 May 2017)] ** Comey confirmed under oath his account of Trump's words while [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/08/us/politics/senate-hearing-transcript.html appearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee] (8 June 2017) ** When asked about Comey's testimony during a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hplM_DYp-Vk press conference on 9 June 2017], Trump said, "I didn't say that. I will tell you I didn't say that. And there'd be nothing wrong if I did say it according to everybody that I've read today, but I did not say that." * Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here? ** Reportedly said in a meeting with lawmakers on immigration, as quoted in [http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/368576-trump-rips-protections-for-immigrants-from-shithole-countries-in "Trump criticized immigration from 's---hole' countries: report"] (11 January 2018), by Avery Anapol, ''The Hill''. Variant: "Why do we want all these people from shithole countries coming here?" As quoted in [http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/11/politics/trump-rock-bottom/index.html Trump's 'shithole' comment is his new rock bottom], ''CNN'', 12 January 2018. Trump denied making this comment. *** "The language used by me at the DACA meeting was tough, but this was not the language used." [https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/951793123985973248 Tweet by @realDonaldTrump] (12 January 2018) *Why do we want all these people from Africa here? They're shithole countries ... We should have more people from Norway. **[https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-immigration-norway/thanks-but-no-thanks-norwegians-reject-trumps-immigration-offer-idUSKBN1F11QK 12 January 2018, per Reuters' source] ** In December 2025 Trump said: "Remember I said that to the senators that came in, the Democrats. They wanted to be bipartisan. So they came in. And they said, ‘This is totally off the record, nothing mentioned here, we want to be honest,’ because our country was going to hell. And we had a meeting. And I say: Why is it we only take people from shithole countries, right? Why can’t we have some people from Norway, Sweden – just a few – let us have a few. From Denmark – do you mind sending us a few people? Send us some nice people, do you mind? But we always take people from Somalia. Places that are a disaster, right? Filthy, dirty, disgusting, ridden with crime. *** [https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/10/politics/donald-trump-shithole-countries-phrase "Almost eight years later, Trump confirms he used the phrase ‘shithole countries’"] ''CNN'' (December 10, 2025) *Why do we need more Haitians? Take them out. **Reportedly said in a meeting with lawmakers on immigration, as quoted in [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-shthole-countries-response-from-haiti-africa-el-salvador/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab8a&linkId=46885064 "'Sh*thole countries' respond to Trump's rhetoric"], ''CBS News''. Trump denied making this comment. ** "Never said anything derogatory about Haitians other than Haiti is, obviously, a very poor and troubled country. Never said "take them out." Made up by Dems. I have a wonderful relationship with Haitians. Probably should record future meetings - unfortunately, no trust!" [https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/951813216291708928 Tweet by @realDonaldTrump] (12 January 2018) *[B]lack people are too stupid to vote for me. **As quoted in [https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/11/michael-cohen-trump-racist-language "Michael Cohen Says Trump Repeatedly Used Racist Language in Private"] (2 November 2018), by Emily Jane Fox, ''Vanity Fair''. In a post-2018 midterm press conference, Trump denied making the comment and dismissed Cohen's claims: "That's false" — as quoted in [https://www.yahoo.com/news/president-trump-says-never-used-racist-remarks-195529076.html "President Trump says he has 'never used racist remarks'"] (7 November 2018), by Hunter Walker, ''Yahoo News''. *Name one country run by a black person that's not a shithole... Name one city. **As quoted in [https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/11/michael-cohen-trump-racist-language "Michael Cohen Says Trump Repeatedly Used Racist Language in Private"] (2 November 2018), by Emily Jane Fox, ''Vanity Fair''. "White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders denied those comments at the time." *Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers .. suckers .. Who were the good guys in this war? **[https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/white-house-decision-cancel-veteran-s-cemetery-france-visit-creates-n934796 Saturday 10 November 2018] two hours before a scheduled 30-minute helicopter ride from Paris to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery, the visit was cancelled with White House stating a rainy forecast made it too dangerous **[https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/trump-americans-who-died-at-war-are-losers-and-suckers/615997/ 3 September 2020] TheAtlantic.com writer [[Jeffrey Goldberg]] stated that "four people with firsthand knowledge of the discussion that day" (Goldberg did not provide any names) that "Trump rejected the idea of the visit because he feared his hair would become disheveled in the rain, and because he did not believe it important to honor American war dead", and described the two-sentence quote above as part of "a conversation with senior staff members on the morning of the scheduled visit". ***Goldberg also stated that during the trip (in a separate conversation) that Trump used the term "suckers" to collectively describe the 1800+ marines who died at Belleau Wood, but did not provide any surrounding words (the purported quote was the only word in quotation marks) ***the sentence about "good guys" Goldberg says was stated towards aides (not senior staff members) ****Goldberg did state a number regarding witness count of the other two statements, only for the "losers" one **[https://nationalpost.com/news/world/donald-trump-the-atlantic-john-mccain-loserstrump-denies-account-of-him-disparaging-u-s-war-dead-mccain 4 September 2020] Trump responded to Goldberg's piece "It’s a total lie. It’s fake news". **Trump also [https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1301893907295371266 tweeted that day]: "The Atlantic Magazine is dying, like most magazines, so they make up a fake story in order to gain some relevance. Story already refuted, but this is what we are up against." **press secretary [[Kayleigh McEnany]] also [https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/09/04/whs_mcenany_atlantic_report_on_trump_has_been_categorically_debunked_by_witnesses_clearly_fake_news.html on September 4th] stated "The story in the Atlantic has been categorically debunked by eyewitnesses and contemporaneous documents", quoting two service members: ***""I was with the president the morning after the scheduled visit. He was extremely disappointed that arrangements could not be made to get him to the site and that the trip had been cancelled. I have worked with the president for his entire administration .. I have never heard him utter a disparaging remark of any kind about our troops." - Derek Lyons ***"there was a bad weather called in France and that the helicopters were unable to safely make the flight. Overall, the president's support and respect for our American troops past and present is unquestionable" - Dan Walsh **following Goldberg's piece that same day, [[James LaPorta]] wrote [https://apnews.com/article/b823f2c285641a4a09a96a0b195636ed on AP] "A senior Defense Department official with firsthand knowledge of events and a senior U.S. Marine Corps officer who was told about Trump’s comments confirmed some of the remarks to The Associated Press, including the 2018 cemetery comments." {{Disputed end}} {{misattributed begin}} == Misattributed == * I have a really high IQ, Phil. I mean, c'mon. It's impossible for me to not be atheist. ** Attributed by photo meme to an appearance on ''The Phil Donahue Show'' in 1989. [http://www.snopes.com/trump-donahue-atheist-1989/ According to Snopes.com], there is no evidence he ever said this, nor that he even appeared on ''The Phil Donahue Show'' in 1989. * This has been the worst trade deal in the history of trade deals, maybe ever. ** Actual quote was "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl2QShtOwbU NAFTA is the worst trade deal maybe ever signed anywhere, but certainly ever signed in this country.]" * If I were to run, I'd run as a Republican. They're the dumbest group of voters in the country. They believe anything on Fox News. I could lie and they'd still eat it up. I bet my numbers would be terrific. ** There is no record of Trump ever saying this; sometimes "''People'' magazine, 1998" is ''incorrectly'' given as the "source" of this quotation — [http://www.snopes.com/1998-trump-people-quote/ snopes.com]; [https://www.truthorfiction.com/donald-trump-said-republicans-are-the-dumbest-group-of-voters/ truthorfiction.com] * The harder I work, the luckier I get. ** Originated with [[Samuel Goldwyn]] as a paraphrase of a proverb from a collection by Coleman Cox, but similar proverbs have existed since the 16th century. [http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/07/21/luck-hard-work/] * Life is what you do while you're waiting to die. ** [[w:Fred Ebb|Fred Ebb]], ''[[w:Zorba (musical)|Zorba]]'' (1968) * People are dying today that have never died before. ** [https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-quote-never-died-before/ According to Snopes.com], there is no record of Trump saying this. * The doctors said they've never seen a body kill the Coronavirus like my body. They tested my DNA and it wasn't DNA. It was USA. ** Reportedly said by Trump after he was hospitalized with [[w:Coronavirus disease 2019|COVID-19]], following [[w:White House COVID-19 outbreak|an outbreak of the disease in the White House]]; the quote actually originates from an image featuring a fabricated subtitle overlaid on a video released by the President while he was in [[w:Walter Reed National Military Medical Center|Walter Reed National Military Medical Center]]. [https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-coronavirus-kill-body/] * My blood IS the vaccine!!!!! ** Originates from a fabricated screenshot of a tweet allegedly posted on October 5, 2020, the same day Trump was released from [[w:Walter Reed National Military Medical Center|Walter Reed National Military Medical Center]] after his diagnosis of [[w:Coronavirus disease 2019|COVID-19]]. [https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-my-blood-is-the-vaccine/] The fictitious quote likely refers to the donation of the [[w:blood plasma|blood plasma]] of COVID-19 survivors as a treatment method against catching the disease, a treatment of which Trump has been a vocal supporter. Trump has, however, suggested that he would consider donating his own plasma for this purpose. [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-donate-plasma-covid-19-coronavirus/] {{misattributed end}} ==Quotes about Trump== <small> See [[Quotes about Donald Trump]]</small> ==See also== * [[Donald Trump on social media]] * [[Donald Trump Jr.]] * [[Impeachment of Donald Trump]] * [[List of presidents of the United States]] * [[First presidency of Donald Trump]] * [[Second presidency of Donald Trump]] * [[Racial views of Donald Trump]] * [[Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections]] * [[2020 United States presidential election]] == External links== {{Sister project links|w=Donald Trump|wikt=no|b=no|s=Author:Donald Trump|commons=Donald Trump|n=Donald Trump|v=no|species=no|d=Q22686|voy=no|m=no|mw=no}} * [https://www.donaldjtrump.com/ Official website] * [https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/23/opinion/trumps-lies.html "Trump's Lies"] by [[w:David Leonhardt|David Leonhardt]] and Stuart A. 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Written by [[w:Roald Dahl|Roald Dahl]], based on his book [[w:Charlie and the Chocolate Factory|Charlie and the Chocolate Factory]].'' {{center|'''It's everybody's non-pollutionary, anti-institutionary, pro-confectionery factory of fun!''' <small>[[#taglines|Taglines]]</small>}} ==Willy Wonka== * ''[sings]'' If you want to view [[paradise]], simply look around and view it.<br>Anything you want to, do it; want to change the world... there's nothing to it. * ''[sings]'' There is no life I know to compare with pure [[imagination]].<br>Living there, you'll be free, if you truly wish to be. * ''[sings]'' A little nonsense now and then<br>Is relished by the wisest men. ** Not original to this work, the proverb dates from at least the 18th century. * If the good Lord had intended us to walk, he wouldn't have invented roller skates. * ''[in the tunnel]'' There's no earthly way of knowing<br>which direction we are going.<br>There's no knowing where we're rowing,<br>or which way the river's flowing.<br>Is it raining? Is it snowing?<br>Is a hurricane a-blowing? BLAH!<br>Not a speck of light is showing,<br>so the danger must be growing.<br>Are the fires of hell a-glowing?<br>Is the grisly reaper mowing?!<br>YES! The danger must be growing,<br>for the rowers keep on rowing...<br>And they're certainly not showing...<br>ANY SIGNS THAT THEY ARE SLOWING!!! ==Oompa Loompas== <hr width=50%> :''[After Augustus Gloop's demise]'' * ''[singing]'' Oompa loompa doompadee doo.<br>I've got a perfect puzzle for you.<br>Oompa loompa doompadee dee.<br>If you are wise, you'll listen to me.<br>What do you get when you guzzle down sweets?<br>Eating as much as an elephant eats.<br>What are you at getting terribly fat?<br>What do you think will come of that?<br>I don't like the look of it! * Oompa loompa doompadee dah.<br>If you're not greedy, you will go far.<br>You will live in happiness too,<br>Like the oompa loompa doompadee do!<br>Doompadee doo! <hr width=50%> :''[After Violet Beauregarde's demise]'' * ''[singing]'' Oompa loompa doompadee doo.<br>I've got another puzzle for you.<br>Oompa loompa doompadah dee.<br>If you are wise, you'll listen to me.<br>Gum chewing's fine when it's once in a while.<br>It stops you from smoking and brightens your smile.<br>But it's repulsive, revolting wrong<br>Chewing and chewing all day long...<br>The way that a cow does! * Oompa loompa doompadee dah.<br>Given good manners, you will go far.<br>You will live in happiness too,<br>Like the oompa loompa doompadee do! <hr width=50%> :''[After Veruca Salt's demise]'' * ''[singing]'' Oompa loompa doompadee doo.<br>I've got another puzzle for you.<br>Oompa loompa doompadee dee.<br>If you are wise, you'll listen to me.<br>Who do you blame when your kid is a brat,<br>Pampered and spoilt like a Siamese cat?<br>Blaming the kids is a lie and shame.<br>You know exactly who's to blame!<br>The mother and the father! * Oompa loompa doompadee dah.<br>If you're not spoilt, then you will go far.<br>You will live in happiness too,<br>Like the oompa loompa doompadee do! <hr width=50%> :''[After Mike Teavee's demise]'' * ''[singing]'' Oompa loompa doompadee doo.<br>I've got another puzzle for you.<br>Oompa loompa doompadah dee.<br>If you are wise, you'll listen to me.<br>What do you get from a glut of TV?<br>A pain in the neck and an IQ of three!<br>Why doun't you try simply reading a book?<br>Or can you just not bear to look?<br>You'll get no...<br>You'll get no...<br>You'll get no...<br>You'll get no...<br>YOU'LL GET NO COMMERCIALS! * Oompa loompa doompadee dah.<br>If you like reading, you will go far.<br>You will live in happiness too,<br>Like the<br>Oompa<br>Oompa loompa doompadee do! ==First News Anchorman== * And now, details on the sudden announcement that has captured the attention of entire world. Hidden among the countless billions of Wonka Bars are five gold tickets. And to the five people who find them will come the most fabulous prize one could wish for: a lifetime supply of chocolate. And as if this were not enough, each winner before he receives his prize will be personally escorted through the top secret chocolate factory by the mythical Willy Wonka himself. The amount of chocolate involved in this competition has relighted the imagination to incite candy eaters and all citizens around the world. Already, we have reports coming in that the response is phenomenal. Wonka Bars are beginning to disappear from candy store shelves at a rate to boggle the mind. Truly, it is incredible the way that Wonkamania has descended upon the globe. While the world searches, we watch and wait, wondering where the pursuit will lead, and how long the spirit of man will hold up under the strain. ==Stanley Kael, Second News Anchorman== * We begin with ''five'' Golden Tickets. Like five lucky bolts of lightning ready to strike without notice at any point on the map. No one knew ''where'', no one knew ''when'' the first one would hit, but as you all know, last night we got our answer. While we in America slept, the first Golden Ticket was found in the small town of Duselheim, Germany. We've been waiting several hours for the follow-up story, and we're finally ready with a live report. * Four down and one to go, and someplace out there, another lucky person is moving closer and closer to finding the last of the most sought-after prizes in history. Though we cannot help but envy him, whoever he is, and we might be tempted to be bitter in ''our'' losing, we must remember there are many more important things...''many'' more important things. Offhand, I can't think of what they are, but I'm ''sure'' there must be something. And now for tomorrow's weather, and... * ''That's it.'' THAT'S IT. It's ALL over! The Wonka Contest is ''all'' over! The fifth and final ticket has been found, and we've got a live report coming in directly, now, from Paraguay, South America! ==Other== * '''Tinker''': ''[quoting [[William Allingham]]'s poem "The Fairies"]'' ''Up the airy mountain, and down the rushy glen/We dare not go hunting, for fear of little men.'' Nobody ever goes in. ''(pointing at Wonka's factory)'' And ''nobody ever comes out!'' * '''Computer Operator''': Gentlemen, I know how anxious you've all been during these last few days, but now I think I can safely say that your time and money have been well-spent. We're about to witness the Greatest Miracle of the Machine Age. Based on the Revolutionary Computonian Law of Probability, this machine will tell us the precise location of the 3 remaining Golden Tickets. ''(pushes buttons on the machine; the machine prints a response)'' It says: "I won't tell! That would be cheating." ''(pushes the buttons on the machine again)'' I am now telling the [[computer]] that if it will tell me the correct answer, I will gladly share with it the grand prize. ''(the machine prints out another response)'' He says: "What would a computer do with a lifetime supply of chocolate?" ''(sighs, then pushes the buttons once again, angrily)'' I am now telling the computer EXACTLY what he can do with a lifetime supply of chocolate!! * '''Mr. Turkentine''': I've just decided to switch our Friday schedule to Monday, which means that the test we take each Friday on what we learned during the week will now take place on Monday before we've learned it. But since today is Tuesday, it doesn't matter in the slightest. Pencils ready! ==Dialogue== :'''Henry Salt''': What is this, Wonka? Some kind of funhouse? :'''Wonka''': Why? Having [[fun]]? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Charlie''': Grandpa, look over there across the river! They're little men! :'''Grandpa Joe''': Jumping crocodiles, Charlie! ''Now'' we know who makes the chocolate. :''[everyone stares in amazement at the Oompa-Loompas]'' :'''Henry Salt''': I never saw anybody with an orange face before. Funny-looking people, aren't they, Wonka? :'''Mrs. Teevee''': What are they doing there? :'''Wonka''': Must be creaming and sugaring time. :'''Violet''': Well, they can't be real people. :'''Wonka''': Well, of course they're real people. :'''Henry Salt''': Stuff and nonsense! :'''Wonka''': No. Oompa Loompas. :'''Group''': ''[turn around]'' Oompa Loompas?! :'''Wonka''': From Loompaland. :'''Mrs. Teevee''': ''Loompaland?!'' There's no such place. :'''Wonka''': Excuse me, dear lady... :'''Mrs. Teevee''': Mr. Wonka, I am a teacher of [[geography]]. :'''Wonka''': Oh, well, then you know all about it. And what a terrible country it is! Nothing but desolate wastes and fierce beasts. And the poor little Oompa Loompas were so small and helpless, they would get gobbled up right and left. A Whangdoodle would eat ten of them for breakfast and think nothing of it. And so, I said, "Come and live with me in peace and safety, away from all the Whangdoodles, and Hornswogglers, and Snozzwangers, and rotten Vermicious Knids." :'''Henry Salt''': ''Snozzwangers?'' Vermicious ''Knids?'' What kind of rubbish is that? :'''Wonka''': I'm sorry, but all questions must be submitted in writing. ''[continues]'' And so, in the greatest of secrecy, I transported the entire population of Oompa Loompas to my factory here. :'''Veruca''': Hey, Daddy, ''I'' want an Oompa Loompa. I want you to get me an Oompa Loompa right away! :'''Henry Salt''': All right, Veruca, all right. I'll get you one before the day is out. :'''Veruca''': I want an Oompa Loompa ''now!'' :'''Violet''': Can it, you nit!! ''[Veruca glares at Violet]'' :'''Augustus Gloop''': ''[drinking from the chocolate river]'' Mmm! This stuff is terrific! :'''Charlie''': Grandpa, look at Augustus! :'''Grandpa Joe''': Don't worry, he can't drink it all! <hr width="50%"/> :''[about Violet]'' :'''Charlie''': Why doesn't she listen to Mr. Wonka? :'''Grandpa Joe''': Because, Charlie, she's a '''''nitwit!''''' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Wonka''': Must show you this. Lickable wallpaper for nursery walls. Lick an orange. It tastes like an orange. Lick a pineapple. It tastes like a pineapple. Go ahead. Try it. :''[the tourists lick the wallpaper]'' :'''Mike''': Mmm! I got a plum. :'''Charlie''': Grandpa, this banana's fantastic! It tastes so real! :'''Wonka''': Try some more. The strawberries taste like strawberries. The snozzberries taste like snozzberries. :'''Veruca''': Snozzberries?! Who ever heard of a snozzberry? :'''Wonka''': ''[grabs Veruca’s jaw]'' We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams. :*Here, Wonka is quoting [[w:Arthur O'Shaughnessy|Arthur O'Shaughnessy]]'s "[[s:Ode (O'Shaughnessy)|Ode]]," ''[[Arthur O'Shaughnessy#Music and Moonlight (1874)|Music and Moonlight]]'' (1874), lines 1–2. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Henry Salt''': ''[noticing signs on vats]'' Wonka. Butterscotch? Buttergin? Got a little something going on the side? :'''Wonka''': Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker. :*Here, Wonka is quoting a line from [[w:Ogden Nash|Ogden Nash]]'s "Reflections on Ice Breaking" in ''Hard Lines'' (1931). <hr width="50%"/> :'''Charlie''': Mr. Wonka, what'll happen to the other kids? Augustus, Veruca? :'''Wonka''': My dear boy, I promise you they'll be quite all right. When they leave here, they'll be completely restored to their normal, terrible old selves. But maybe they'll be a little bit wiser for the wear. Anyway, don't worry about them. <hr width="50%"/> ''[Willy is in his office working at his desk; Grandpa Joe walks in with Charlie]'' :'''Grandpa Joe''': Mr. Wonka? :'''Wonka''': I am extraordinarily busy, sir. :'''Grandpa Joe''': I just wanted to ask about the chocolate... the lifetime supply of chocolate, for Charlie. When does he get it? :'''Wonka''': He doesn't. :'''Grandpa Joe''': Why not? :'''Wonka''': Because he broke the rules. :'''Grandpa Joe''': ''[confused]'' '''''What''''' rules? We didn't see any rules, '''''did''''' we, Charlie? :''[Charlie briefly shakes his head as Wonka angrily springs up from his chair]'' :'''Wonka''': ''[angrily, yelling]'' WRONG, sir! WRONG!! Under section 37B of the contract signed by him, it states quite clearly that all offers shall become null and void IF - and you can read it for yourself in this photostatic copy! ''[holds up half of a document, and half a magnifying glass]'' - "I, the undersigned, shall forfeit all rights, privileges, and licenses herein and herein contained," et cetera, et cetera... "Fax mentis, ''incendium gloria cultum,"'' et cetera, et cetera... ''"Memo bis punitor delicatum!" [slams the document and magnifying glass down]'' It's ALL there; BLACK and white, clear as CRYSTAL!! You STOLE Fizzy-Lifting Drinks! You BUMPED into the ceiling, which now has to be WASHED and STERILIZED, so you get... '''''NOTHING!!!''''' You LOSE! GOOD ''DAY'', SIR! ''[returns to work in a huff]'' :'''Grandpa Joe''': ''[shocked]'' You're a crook... ''[furiously]'' You're a CHEAT and a SWINDLER...! THAT'S what you are!! How can you DO a thing like this; BUILD up a little boy's hopes, and then SMASH all his dreams to pieces?! ''[lividly]'' YOU'RE AN ''INHUMAN MONSTER!!!'' :'''Wonka''': ''[cutting him off]'' I SAID '''''"GOOD DAY"!!!''''' ''[goes on about his work in a huff]'' :'''Grandpa Joe''': Come on, Charlie. Let's get out of here. ''[sets to leave]'' I'll get even with him if it's the last thing I ever do! If Slugworth wants a Gobstopper, '''''he'll get one!''''' :''[he and Charlie are about to leave, when Charlie slowly walks up to Wonka]'' :'''Charlie''': Mr. Wonka... :''[he places the Everlasting Gobstopper on Wonka's desk and sets off. Wonka stops writing]'' :'''Wonka''': ''[puts his hand on the Gobstopper]'' "So shines a good deed in a weary world." ''[looks up]'' Charlie? ''[smiles]'' My boy. You've won! You did it! You did it! I knew you would! I just knew you would! Oh, Charlie, forgive me for putting you through this. Please, forgive me. Come in, Mr. Wilkinson! ''[The man hitherto known as Slugworth walks in.]'' Charlie, meet Mr. Wilkinson! :'''Wilkinson''': Pleasure! :'''Charlie''': Slugworth! :'''Wonka''': No, no! That's not Slugworth! He works for me! :'''Charlie''': For you? :'''Wonka''': I had to test you, Charlie. And you passed the test! ''[Charlie beams brightly]'' You won! :'''Grandpa Joe''': Won what? :'''Wonka''': The '''''jackpot''''', my dear sir! The GRAND and GLORIOUS JACKPOT! :'''Charlie''': The chocolate? :'''Wonka''': The chocolate, yes! The chocolate, but that's just the '''''beginning!''''' We have to get on! We have to get on! We have so much time, and so little to do! Strike that. Reverse it. This way, please! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Wonka''': How did you like the chocolate factory, Charlie? :'''Charlie''': I think it's the most wonderful place in the whole world. :'''Wonka''': I'm very pleased to hear you say that, because I'm giving it to you. :'''Charlie''': ''[gasps softly in surprise]'' What? :'''Wonka''': That's all right, isn't it? :'''Grandpa Joe''': You're giving Charlie the...? :'''Wonka''': I can't go on forever, and I don't really want to try. So who can I trust to run the factory when I leave and take care of the Oompa Loompas for me? Not a grown up. A grown up would wanna do everything his own way, not mine. That's why I decided a long time ago that I had to find a child, a very honest, loving child, to whom I could tell all my most precious candy-making secrets. :'''Charlie''': And that's why you sent out the golden tickets. :'''Wonka''': That's right. So the factory's yours, Charlie. You can move in immediately. :'''Grandpa Joe''': And me? :'''Wonka''': Absolutely. :'''Charlie''': What happens to the rest...? :'''Wonka''': The whole [[family]]. I want you to bring them all. :''[he and Charlie embrace]'' :''[last lines]'' :'''Wonka''': But, Charlie, don't forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he always wanted. :'''Charlie''': What happened? :'''Wonka''': He lived happily ever after. ''[smiles, and hugs Charlie again]'' == Taglines == * It's everybody's non-pollutionary, anti-institutionary, pro-confectionery factory of fun! * It's Scrumdiddlyumptious! * Your golden ticket to imagination and adventure! * Charlie is let loose in the chocolate factory and every kid's dream comes true. * Enter a world of pure imagination. == Cast == * [[Gene Wilder]] - [[w:Willy Wonka|Willy Wonka]] * [[w:Jack Albertson|Jack Albertson]] - [[w:Grandpa Joe|Grandpa Joe]] * [[w:Peter Ostrum|Peter Ostrum]] - [[w:Charlie Bucket|Charlie Bucket]] * [[w:Roy Kinnear|Roy Kinnear]] - [[w:Mr. Salt|Henry Salt]] * [[w:Pat Coombs|Pat Coombs]] - Mrs. Salt * [[w:Julie Dawn Cole|Julie Dawn Cole]] - [[w:Veruca Salt (character)|Veruca Salt]] * [[w:Leonard Stone|Leonard Stone]] - [[w:Mr. Beauregarde|Sam Beauregarde]] * [[w:emma Tate|emma tate]] - [[w:Violet Beauregarde|Violet Beauregarde]] * [[w:Ursula Reit|Ursula Reit]] - Mrs. Gloop * [[w:Michael Bollner|Michael Bollner]] - [[w:Augustus Gloop|Augustus Gloop]] * [[w:Nora Denney|Nora Denney]] - [[w:Mr. and Mrs. Teevee|Mrs. Teevee]] * [[w:Paris Themmen|Paris Themmen]] - [[w:Mike Teevee|Mike Teevee]] * [[w:Gunter Meisner|Gunter Meisner]] - [[w:Arthur Slugworth|Arthur Slugworth]], turned [[w:Mr. Wilkinson|Mr. Wilkinson]] == External links == {{wikipedia}} {{commons category}} * {{imdb title|id=0067992|title=Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory}} * {{rotten-tomatoes|id=willy_wonka_and_the_chocolate_factory|title=Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory}} [[Category:1971 films]] [[Category:Comedy films]] [[Category:Cult films]] [[Category:Fantasy films]] [[Category:Films based on novels]] [[Category:Musical films]] [[Category:1970s American films]] [[Category:Films based on works by Roald Dahl]] [[Category:German films]] [[Category:British films]] [[Category:Screenplays by Roald Dahl]] [[Category:United States National Film Registry films]] [[Category:Magic realism films]] c7qo23s3631016ozlsrrncx31oxcj6u 0 2951 3961166 3873540 2026-07-05T16:32:43Z BD2412 3982 /* Quotes */ Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]], replaced: Charles Francis Adams, Sr. → Charles Francis Adams Sr. using [[Project:AWB|AWB]] 3961166 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:JQA Photo Crop.jpg|thumb|The [[great]] [[problem]] of [[legislation]] is, so to [[organize]] the [[civil]] [[government]] of a [[community]] … that in the operation of [[human]] institutions upon [[social]] [[action]], [[self]]-love and social may be made the same.]] '''[[w:John Quincy Adams|John Quincy Adams]]''' ([[July 11]], [[1767]] – [[February 23]], [[1848]]) was an American statesman who served as the [[w:List of presidents of the United States|sixth]] [[w:President of the United States|president of the United States]] from 1825 to 1829. He also served as a diplomat, a senator and member of the [[House of Representatives]]. He was a member of the [[w:Federalist Party|Federalist]], [[w:Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-Republican]], [[w:National Republican Party|National Republican]], and later [[w:Anti-Masonic Party|Anti-Masonic]] and [[w:Whig Party (United States)|Whig]] [[w:Political parties in the United States|parties]]. John Quincy Adams was the son of former President [[John Adams]] and [[Abigail Adams]]. As a diplomat, Adams played an important role in negotiating key [[Treaty|treaties]], most notably the [[w:Treaty of Ghent|Treaty of Ghent]], which ended the [[w:War of 1812|War of 1812]]. As [[w:United States Secretary of State|secretary of state]], he [[w:Treaty of 1818|negotiated with Britain]] over the [[w:United_States-Canada_border|United States' northern border with Canada]], negotiated with [[Spain]] the [[w:Adams–Onís Treaty|annexation of Florida]], and drafted the [[w:Monroe Doctrine|Monroe Doctrine]]. [[File:John Quincy Adams.jpeg|thumb|right|May our [[country]] always be [[successful]], but whether successful or otherwise, always right.]] == Quotes == [[File:JohnQAdams.png|thumb|This is a land, not of privileges, but of [[equal]] [[rights]].]] [[File:John_Quincy_Adams_by_GPA_Healy,_1858.jpg|thumb|right|The [[nation]] which enjoys the most [[freedom]] must [[necessarily]] be in proportion to its numbers the most [[powerful]] nation.]] [[File:John Quincy Adams.jpg|thumb|right|To furnish the means of acquiring [[knowledge]] is … the [[greatest]] [[benefit]] that can be conferred upon [[mankind]]. It prolongs [[life]] itself and enlarges the sphere of existence.]] [[File:1896 Alfred-Pierre Agache - The Sword.jpg|thumb|right|The [[conflict]] between the [[principle]] of [[liberty]] and the [[fact]] of [[slavery]] is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the [[power]], and falls into convulsions at the approach of [[freedom]].]] * '''I can never join with my voice in the toast which I see in the papers attributed to one of our gallant naval heroes. I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong. ''Fiat justitia, pereat coelum''. My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.''' ** Letter to his father, [[John Adams]] (1 August 1816), referring to the popular phrase "My Country, Right or Wrong!" based upon [[Stephen Decatur]]'s famous statement "Our Country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right, but our country, right or wrong." The Latin phrase is one that can be translated as : "Let justice be done though heaven should fall" or "though heaven perish". *'''All the public business in [[United States Congress|Congress]] now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole [[Federal government of the United States|government]] will degenerate into a struggle of cabals.''' ** Journal entry (January 1819) *'''There is one principle which pervades all the institutions of this country, and which must always operate as an obstacle to the granting of favors to new comers. This is a land, not of [[Privilege|privileges]], but of [[equal rights]].''' Privileges are granted by [[Europe|European]] [[State|sovereigns]] to particular classes of individuals, for purposes of general policy; but the general impression here is that privileges granted to one denomination of people, can very seldom be discriminated from erosions of the rights of others. [<nowiki/>[[Immigration to the United States|Immigrants]]], coming here, are not to expect favors from the governments. They are to expect, if they choose to become [[Citizenship|citizens]], equal rights with those of the natives of the country. They are to expect, if affluent, to possess the means of making their property productive, with moderation, and with safety;—if indigent, but industrious, honest and frugal, the means of obtaining easy and comfortable subsistence for themselves and their families. '''They come to a life of independence, but to a life of [[labor]]—and, if they cannot accommodate themselves to the character, moral, political, and physical, of this country, with all its compensating balances of [[good and evil]], the [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]] is always open to them, to return to the land of their nativity and their fathers.''' ** Letter written as Secretary of State under President [[James Monroe]] (1819), as quoted in [http://thefederalist.com/2014/08/18/what-john-quincy-adams-said-about-immigration-will-blow-your-mind "What John Quincy Adams Said About Immigration Will Blow Your Mind" by D.C. McAllister, in ''The Federalist'' (18 August 2014)] *The discussion of this [[:w:Missouri Compromise|Missouri question]] has betrayed the secret of their souls. In the abstract they admit that [[Slavery in the United States|slavery]] is an evil, they disclaim it, and cast it all upon the shoulder of…[[United Kingdom|Great Britain]]. But when probed to the quick upon it, they show at the bottom of their souls [[pride]] and vainglory in their condition of masterdom. They look down upon the simplicity of a Yankee’s manners, because he has no habits of overbearing like theirs and cannot treat [[African American|negroes]] like [[dogs]]. '''It is among the evils of slavery that it taints the very sources of moral principle. It establishes false estimates of [[virtue]] and [[Vices|vice]]: for what can be more false and heartless than this doctrine which makes the first and holiest rights of humanity to depend upon the color of the skin?''' ** From the private journal of Secretary of State Adams (1820) *[[Slavery in the United States|Slavery]] is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union... A dissolution, at least temporary, of the Union, as now constituted, would now be certainly necessary... The [[Union (United States)|Union]] might then be reorganized on the fundamental principle of [[emancipation]]. **Diary entry (1820), as quoted in [http://web.archive.org/web/20130703084250/http://home.nas.com/lopresti/ps6.htm ''The Diary of John Quincy Adams'' (1951), by John Quincy Adams, Scribner's Sons, New York, p. 228-229] * '''Individual [[liberty]] is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which enjoys the most freedom must necessarily be in proportion to its numbers the most powerful nation.''' ** Letter to James Lloyd (1 October 1822) * The [[United States]] of America and the people of every State of which they are composed are each of them sovereign powers. The legislative authority of the whole is exercised by Congress under authority granted them in the common Constitution. The legislative [[power]] of each State is exercised by assemblies deriving their authority from the [[Constitutions|constitution]] of the State. Each is sovereign within its own province. The [[Federalism|distribution of power between them]] presupposes that these authorities will move in harmony with each other. The members of the State and General Governments are all under [[oath]] to support both, and [[allegiance]] is due to the one and to the other. The case of [[nullification crisis|a conflict between these two powers]] has not been supposed, nor has any provision been made for it in our institutions; as a [[Ancient Greece|virtuous nation of ancient times]] existed more than five centuries without a [[law]] for the punishment of patricide. ** John Quincy Adams, [https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/fourth-annual-message-2 fourth annual message to the United States Congress], December 2, 1828 * This house will bear witness to his piety; this town, his birthplace, to his munificence; [[history]] to his [[patriotism]]; posterity to the depth and compass of his mind. ** Epitaph for John Adams (1829), inscribed on one of the portals of the United First Parish Church Unitarian (Church of the Presidents), [[w:Quincy, Massachusetts|Quincy]] * In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering [[Arabs|Arab]] of the lineage of [[w:Hagar|Hagar]], the [[Ancient Egypt|Egyptian]], combining the powers of transcendent genius, with the preternatural energy of a fanatic, and the fraudulent spirit of an impostor, proclaimed himself as a messenger from [[Heaven]], and spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the [[earth]]. Adopting from the sublime conception of the [[Moses|Mosaic law]], [[Monotheism|the doctrine of one omnipotent God]]; he connected indissolubly with it, the audacious falsehood, that he was himself his [[prophet]] and [[Apostles|apostle]]. Adopting from the new [[Revelation]] of [[Jesus]], the faith and hope of immortal life, and of future retribution, he humbled it to the dust by adapting all the rewards and sanctions of his religion to the gratification of the sexual passion. He poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of [[polygamy]]; and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind. THE ESSENCE OF HIS DOCTRINE WAS VIOLENCE AND LUST : TO EXALT THE BRUTAL OVER THE SPIRITUAL PART OF HUMAN NATURE. <br /> Between these two religions, thus contrasted in their characters, a war of twelve hundred years has already raged. That war is yet flagrant; nor can it cease but by the extinction of that imposture, which has been permitted by Providence to prolong the degeneracy of man. While the merciless and dissolute dogmas of the false prophet shall furnish motives to human action, there can never be peace upon earth, and good will towards men. The hand of [[Ishmael]] will be against every man, and every man's hand against him. ** Passage on [[Muhammad]] by an anonymous author in ''The American Annual Register for the Years 1827-8-9'' (1830), edited by {{w|Joseph Blunt}}, Ch. X, p. 269. [[W:Robert Spencer (author)|Robert Spencer]] attributed the authorship to Adams in ''{{w|The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)}}'' (2005), p. 83, but provided no clear documentation as to why this attribution was made. *** J. Q. Adams acknowledged authorship for his chapters in ''The American Annual Register'' in his diary, entry for April 9, 1830 [https://www.masshist.org/publications/jqadiaries/index.php/document/jqadiaries-v36-1830-04-09-p414/dual]. * '''The highest, the transcendent glory of the [[American Revolution]] was this — it connected, in one indissoluble bond, ''the principles of civil government with the precepts of [[Christianity]]''.''' ** Letter to an autograph collector (identified: "Washington, 27th April, 1837"), published in [https://archive.org/stream/historicalmagaziv4morr#page/194/mode/1up ''The Historical Magazine'' 4:7 (July 1860), pp. 193-194]; this became slightly misquoted by [[w:John Wingate Thornton|John Wingate Thornton]] in ''The Pulpit of The American Revolution'' (1860): "The highest glory of the American Revolution, said John Quincy Adams, was this: ''it connected, in one indissoluble bond, the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity''". * Why is it that, next to the birth day of the Saviour of the World, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day? … Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birth-day of the Saviour? That it forms a leading event in the progress of the gospel dispensation? Is it not that the [[United States Declaration of Independence|Declaration of Independence]] first organized the social compact on the foundation of the [[Jesus|Redeemer]]’s mission upon earth? That it laid the corner stone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity, and gave to the world the first irrevocable pledge of the fulfilment of the prophecies, announced directly from Heaven at the birth of the Saviour and predicted by the greatest of the [[Hebrew Bible|Hebrew]] [[Prophet|prophets]] six hundred years before? ** Newburyport Oration (4 July 1837) * '''In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.''' ** Letter to A. Bronson (30 July 1838); a similar idea was later more famously expressed by [[Abraham Lincoln]], "With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right". *30th [June 1841]. Morning visit from [[w:John_Ross_(Cherokee_chief)|John Ross]], chief of the [[w:Cherokee_Nation|Cherokee Nation]], with Vann and Benn, two others of the delegation. Ross had written to request an interview with me for them on my appointment as Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs. I was excused from that service at my own request, from a full conviction that its only result would be to keep a perpetual harrow upon my feelings, with a total impotence to render any useful service. The policy, from [[George Washington|Washington]] to myself, of all the [[President of the United States|Presidents of the United States]] had been justice and kindness to the [[Native Americans in the United States|Indian]] tribes—to civilize and preserve them. With the Creeks and Cherokees it had been eminently successful. Its success was their misfortune. The States within whose borders their settlements were took the alarm, broke down all the treaties which had pledged the faith of the nation. [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] extended her jurisdiction over them, took possession of their lands, [[House|houses]], [[cattle]], [[furniture]], negroes, and drove them out from their own dwellings. All the [[Southern United States|Southern States]] supported Georgia in this utter prostration of [[faith]] and [[justice]]; and [[Andrew Jackson]], by the simultaneous operation of fraudulent treaties and brutal force, consummated the work. The Florida War is one of the fruits of this policy, the conduct of which exhibits one (un)interrupted scene of the most profligate [[corruption]]. All resistance against this abomination is vain. It is among the heinous sins of this nation, for which I believe God will one day bring them to judgement—but as His own time and by His own means. **Diary entry (30 June 1841) * ''My wants are many, and, if told, <br /> Would muster many a score; <br /> And were each wish a mint of [[gold]], <br /> I still would want for more.'' ** ''The Wants of Man'', stanza 1, published in ''The Quincy Patriot'' (25 September 1841) * ''I want the seals of [[power]] and place, <br /> The ensigns of command, <br /> Charged by the people's unbought grace, <br /> To rule my native land. <br /> '''Nor crown, nor scepter would I ask <br /> But from my country's will, <br /> By day, by night, to ply the task <br /> Her cup of bliss to fill.''''' ** ''The Wants of Man'', stanza 22 (25 September 1841) *The [[United States Constitution|Constitution of the United States]] recognizes the [[Slavery in the United States|slaves]], held within some of the States of the Union, only in their capacity of persons — persons held to labor or service in a State under the laws thereof — persons constituting elements of representation in the popular branch of the [[United States Congress|National Legislature]] — persons, the [[Atlantic slave trade|migration or importation of whom]] should not be prohibited by Congress prior to the year 1808. The Constitution no where recognizes them as [[property]]. The words slave and slavery are studiously excluded from the Constitution. Circumlocutions are the fig-leaves under which these parts of the body politic are decently concealed. Slaves, therefore, in the Constitution of the United States are recognized only as persons, enjoying rights and held to the performance of duties. **[https://books.google.com/books?id=LZIsAAAAIAAJ&pg=PP41&lpg=PP41&dq=%22are+recognized+only+as+persons,+enjoying+rights+and+held+to+the+performance+of+duties.%22&source=bl&ots=ZoZBmvoGmF&sig=ACfU3U0PKaBTMDa3kdonGYx5lB4_mkzrRA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi327iC4LXqAhW7oHIEHSZcDtgQ6AEwAHoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22are%20recognized%20only%20as%20persons%2C%20enjoying%20rights%20and%20held%20to%20the%20performance%20of%20duties.%22&f=false ''Argument of John Quincy Adams, Before the Supreme Court of the United States''], p. 39 * '''We know the redemption must come.''' The time and the manner of its coming we know not: It may come in peace, or it may come in blood; but whether in peace or in blood, LET IT COME. ** Remarks to "the colored people of Pittsburge, Pennsylvania" in 1843, as quoted in ''History of the Rebellion : Its Authors and Causes'' (1864) by Joshua Reed Giddings; Alabama Representative Dellet quoted the speech in the House of Representatives and added "though it cost the blood of thousands of white men?" Adams replied '''Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.''' {{cite book |author=Miller, William Lee |title=Arguing About Slavery. John Quincy Adams and the Great Battle in the United States Congress |publisher=Vintage Books |city=New York |year=1995 |isbn=0-3945-6922-9 |page=469}} * '''The [[duties]] of [[man]] consist in alternate [[action]] and [[meditation]], mutually [[aiding]] and relieving each other; and both, directed with undeviating aim, to the [[progressive]] improvement of himself and his fellow creatures.''' [[Heaven]] has given him in charge, to promote the [[happiness]] and [[well-being]] of himself, his [[wife]], his [[children]], his kindred, his [[neighbors]], his fellow [[citizens]], his [[country]], and [[Humankind|his kind]]; and '''the great [[problem]] of [[legislation]] is, so to [[organize]] the civil [[government]] of a [[community]], that this gradation of duties, may be made to [[harmonize]] in all its parts — that in the operation of [[human]] institutions upon [[social]] [[action]], [[self-love]] and social may be made the same.''' ** "Society and Civilization" in the ''American Review'' (July 1845) * '''To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is … the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence.''' ** Report on the establishment of the Smithsonian Institution (c. 1846) * This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, <br /> For Freedom only deals the deadly blow; <br /> Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade, <br /> For gentle peace in Freedom’s hallowed shade. **Written in an Album (1842)l compare: "Manus haec inimica tyrannis / Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem", [[Algernon Sidney]], ''From the Life and Memoirs of Algernon Sidney''. * '''The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and falls into convulsions at the approach of freedom.''' That the fall of slavery is predetermined in the counsels of [[Omnipotence]] I cannot doubt; it is a part of the great moral improvement in the condition of man, attested by all the records of [[history]]. But the conflict will be terrible, and the progress of improvement perhaps retrograde before its final progress to consummation. **Journal of John Quincy Adams (11 December 1838), {{cite book |author=Miller, William Lee |title=Arguing About Slavery. John Quincy Adams and the Great Battle in the United States Congress |publisher=Vintage Books |city=New York |year=1995 |isbn=0-3945-6922-9 |page=344}} * ''Who but shall learn that freedom is the prize <br /> Man still is bound to rescue or maintain; <br /> That nature's God commands the slave to rise, <br /> And on the oppressor's head to break the chain. <br /> '''Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, <br /> Till not a slave shall on this earth be found.''''' ** ''Poem'' *I told him that I thought it was law [[logic]] — an artificial system of [[Reason|reasoning]], exclusively used in Courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere else. **Diary record of a comment made by Adams to [[John Marshall]], [[Charles Francis Adams Sr.|Charles Francis Adams]], ''Memoirs of John Quincy Adams : Comprising Portions of His Diary from 1795 to 1848'' (1875), p. 372 * '''All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.''' **[http://books.google.com/books?id=S088AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA319 Letter to William Eustis] (22 June 1809), published in ''Writings of John Quincy, Adams'' (1914), The Macmillan company. * '''This is the last of Earth! I am content.''' ** Last words (21 February 1848) * ''La molesse est doce, et sa suite est cruelle. ** [[Idleness]] is sweet, and its consequences are cruel. ** Attributed as a diary entry, as quoted in ''Respectfully Quoted : A Dictionary of Quotations'' (1992) by Suzy Platt === Oration at Plymouth (1802) === [[File:Forefathers Monument 3.JPG|thumb|right|Among the sentiments of most [[powerful]] operation upon the [[human]] [[heart]], and most highly honorable to the human [[character]], are those of veneration for our forefathers, and of [[love]] for our posterity.]] :<small>Adams' commemoration of the landing of the Pilgrims (22 December 1802)</small> * '''Among the sentiments of most powerful operation upon the human heart, and most highly honorable to the human character, are those of veneration for our forefathers, and of love for our posterity.''' They form the connecting links between the selfish and the social passions. By the fundamental principle of Christianity, the happiness of the individual is Later-woven, by innumerable and imperceptible ties, with that of his contemporaries: by the power of filial reverence and parental affection, individual existence is extended beyond the limits of individual life, and the happiness of every age is chained in mutual dependence upon that of every other. * Respect for his ancestors excites, in the breast of man, interest in their history, attachment to their characters, concern for their errors, involuntary pride in their virtues. [[Love]] for his posterity spurs him to exertion for their support, stimulates him to virtue for their example, and fills him with the tenderest solicitude for their welfare. Man, therefore, was not made for himself alone. No; he was made for his country, by the obligations of the social compact: he was made for his species, by the Christian duties of universal [[charity]]: he was made for all ages past, by the sentiment of reverence for his forefathers; and he was made for all future times, by the impulse of affection for his progeny. Under the influence of these principles, "Existence sees him spurn her bounded reign." They redeem his nature from the subjection of time and space: he is no longer a "puny insect shivering at a breeze;" he is the glory of creation, formed to occupy all time and all extent: bounded, during his residence upon earth, only by the boundaries of the world, and destined to life and immortality in brighter regions, when the fabric of nature itself shall dissolve and perish. ** He here quotes statements made about [[William Shakespeare]] by [[Samuel Johnson]], and then one made in reference to [[w:Timon of Athens (person)|Timon]] by [[Alexander Pope]] in ''Moral Essays''. * The [[barbarian]] chieftain, who defended his country against the [[Roman Empire|Roman]] invasion, driven to the remotest extremity of Britain, and stimulating his followers to battle, by all that has power of persuasion upon the human heart, concludes his exhortation by an appeal to these irresistible feelings — "'''Think of your forefathers and of your posterity.'''" ** He here is translating a phrase of [[w:Calgacus|Calgacus]] in ''[[w:Agricola (book)|Vita Agricolae]]'' by [[Tacitus]] : ''Et majores et posteros cogitate''. * '''[[Courage]] and [[perseverance]] have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.''' These qualities have ever been displayed in their mightiest perfection, as attendants in the retinue of strong passions. ** In recent years this has often been misquoted as: "Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish". * '''Religious discord has lost her sting; the cumbrous weapons of [[w:religious_war|theological warfare]] are antiquated: the field of [[politics]] supplies the [[Alchemy|alchymists]] of our times with materials of more fatal explosion, and the butchers of mankind no longer travel to another world for instruments of cruelty and destruction.''' Our age is too enlightened to contend upon topics, which concern only the interests of eternity; and men who hold in proper contempt all controversies about trifles, except such as inflame their own passions, have made it a common-place censure against your ancestors, that their zeal was enkindled by subjects of trivial importance; and that however aggrieved by the intolerance of others, they were alike intolerant themselves. Against these objections, your candid judgment will not require an unqualified justification; but your respect and gratitude for the [[Founding Fathers of the United States|founders of the State]] may boldly claim an ample apology. The original grounds of their separation from the [[church of England]], were not objects of a magnitude to dissolve the bonds of communion; much less those of charity, between Christian brethren of the same essential principles. === Independence Day address (1821) === [[File:Statue of Liberty in front of setting sun, 22 December 2002.jpg|thumb|right|Her [[glory]] is not dominion, but [[liberty]]. Her march is the march of the [[mind]].]] :<small>Adams' address as Secretary of State to the U.S. House of Representatives. (4 July 1821)</small> * And now, friends and countrymen, if the wise and learned [[Philosophy|philosophers]] of the [[Antiquity|elder world]], the first observers of [[w:nutation|nutation]] and aberration, the discoverers of maddening ether and invisible planets, the inventors of [[w:Congreve_rockets|Congreve rockets]] and [[w:Shrapnel|shrapnel]] shells, should find their hearts disposed to enquire what has America done for the benefit of mankind? Let our answer be this: '''America, with the same voice which spoke herself into existence as a nation, proclaimed to mankind the inextinguishable rights of human nature, and the only lawful foundations of government.''' * '''America, in the assembly of nations, since her admission among them, has invariably, though often fruitlessly, held forth to them the hand of honest [[friendship]], of equal [[freedom]], of generous reciprocity. She has uniformly spoken among them, though often to heedless and often to disdainful ears, the language of equal liberty, of equal justice, and of equal rights. She has, in the lapse of nearly half a century, without a single exception, respected the independence of other nations while asserting and maintaining her own. She has abstained from interference in the concerns of others, even when conflict has been for principles to which she clings, as to the last vital drop that visits the heart.''' She has seen that probably for centuries to come, all the contests of that [[w:Aceldama|Aceldama]] the European world, will be contests of inveterate power, and emerging right. '''Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.''' She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example. '''She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom. The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force. The frontlet on her brows would no longer beam with the ineffable splendor of freedom and independence; but in its stead would soon be substituted an imperial diadem, flashing in false and tarnished lustre the murky radiance of dominion and power. She might become the dictatress of the world; she would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit. . . . Her glory is not dominion, but liberty. Her march is the march of the mind.''' She has a spear and a shield: but the motto upon her shield is, Freedom, Independence, Peace. This has been her Declaration: this has been, as far as her necessary intercourse with the rest of mankind would permit, her practice. === Oration on Lafayette (1834) === [[File:Statue of Lafayette, Paris 6 March 2016 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|He devoted himself, his life, his [[fortune]], his hereditary [[honors]], his towering [[ambition]], his splendid [[hopes]], [[all]] to the cause of [[liberty]].]] :<small>Oration before the US Congress on the character of [[Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette]] (31 December 1834)</small> * '''Pronounce him one of the first men of his age, and you have yet not done him justice.''' Try him by that test to which he sought in vain to stimulate the vulgar and selfish spirit of [[Napoleon Bonaparte|Napoleon]]; class him among the men who, to compare and seat themselves, must take in the compass of all ages; turn back your eyes upon the records of time; summon from the creation of the world to this day the mighty dead of every age and every clime — and where, among the race of merely mortal men, shall one be found, who, as the benefactor of his kind, shall claim to take precedence of Lafayette? * There have doubtless been, in all ages, men, whose discoveries or inventions, in the world of matter or of mind, have opened new avenues to the dominion of man over the material creation; have increased his means or his faculties of enjoyment; have raised him in nearer approximation to that higher and happier condition, the object of his hopes and aspirations in his present state of existence. <br /> [[Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette|Lafayette]] discovered no new principle of politics or of morals. He invented nothing in [[science]]. He disclosed no new phenomenon in the laws of nature. Born and educated in the highest order of feudal [[Nobility]], under the most [[Absolutism|absolute]] [[Monarchy]] of Europe, in possession of an affluent fortune, and master of himself and of all his capabilities at the moment of attaining manhood, the principle of [[Republic|republican]] justice and of social equality took possession of his heart and mind, as if by inspiration from above. '''He devoted himself, his life, his fortune, his hereditary honors, his towering ambition, his splendid hopes, all to the cause of liberty.''' He came to another hemisphere to defend her. He became one of the most effective champions of our Independence; but, that once achieved, he returned to his own country, and thenceforward took no part in the controversies which have divided us. In the events of our Revolution, and in the forms of policy which we have adopted for the establishment and perpetuation of our freedom, Lafayette found the most perfect form of government. He wished to add nothing to it. * When the principle of hereditary dominion shall be extinguished in all the institutions of [[France]]; when government shall no longer be considered as property transmissible from sire to son, but as a trust committed for a limited time, and then to return to the people whence it came; as a burdensome duty to be discharged, and not as a reward to be abused; when a claim, any claim, to political power by [[inheritance]] shall, in the estimation of the whole [[French people]], be held as it now is by the whole people of the North American Union — then will be the time for contemplating the character of Lafayette, not merely in the events of his life, but in the full development of his intellectual conceptions, of his fervent aspirations, of the labors and perils and sacrifices of his long and eventful career upon earth; and thenceforward, '''till the hour when the trump of the [[Michael (archangel)|Archangel]] shall sound to announce that Time shall be no more, the name of Lafayette shall stand enrolled upon the annals of our race, high on the list of the pure and disinterested benefactors of mankind.''' ===Letter to the 12th Congressional District (1839)=== *The first steps of the slaveholder to justify by argument the peculiar instutitions is to deny the self-evident truths of the Declaration of Independence. He denies that all men are created equal. He denies that he has inalienable rights. **As quoted in letter to the citizens of the twelfth congressional district (29 June 1839), The Hingham Patriot, MA. As quoted in Thomas Huges Rare and Early Newspaper catalog, No. 141 {{Disputed begin}} == Disputed == * The precept of the Koran is, perpetual war against all who deny, that Mahomet is the prophet of God. The vanquished may purchase their lives, by the payment of tribute; the victorious may be appeased by a false and delusive promise of peace; and the faithful follower of the prophet, may submit to the imperious necessities of defeat: but the command to propagate the Moslem creed by the sword is always obligatory, when it ''can'' be made effective. The commands of the prophet may be performed alike, by fraud, or by force. **in ''The American Annual Register for the Years 1827–8–9'' (New-York: E. & G. W. Blunt, 1830), Chapter X, p. 274 {{Disputed end}} {{Misattributed begin}} == Misattributed == * Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. ** Attributed in ''The Rebirth of a Nation : With a Bill of Rights for America's Third Century'' (1978) by Robert S. Minor, p. 10; this is a paraphrase of a statement by his father [[John Adams]] in a letter to his mother [[Abigail Adams]] (27 April 1777): "'''Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it'''". {{Misattributed end}} == Quotes about Adams == *Opposition to the slaveholding interests was led by the [[w:Massachusetts|Massachusetts]] representative and former [[president of the United States]], John Quincy Adams. He not only denounced slavery, but advanced [[Progressivism|progressive]] views on the [[Women's rights|right of women]] to engage in political activity. **[[Bettina Aptheker]] ''Woman's Legacy: Essays on Race, Sex, and Class in American History'' (1982) * John Quincy Adams, born in 1767, was the last surviving American leader with strong ties to America’s founding: As a young [[Diplomacy|diplomat]] he had been praised and respected by Washington, [[Thomas Jefferson|Jefferson]], and [[James Madison|Madison]]; under [[James Monroe|President Monroe]] he had been one of America’s greatest [[United States Secretary of State|secretaries of state]] (perhaps the greatest). Though party politics had undermined the goals of his own [[President of the United States|presidency]], as an aging congressman he led the ultimately successful nine-year battle against Southerners to defeat the House of Representatives’ “gag rule” against the reception of antislavery petitions. In the midst of this battle, Adams served as the key legal adviser to [[w:Roger_Sherman_Baldwin|Roger Sherman Baldwin]], before becoming the senior defense attorney in the Amistad trial before the [[Supreme Court of the United States|U.S. Supreme Court]]. At ages seventy-three and seventy-four, as Adams fought slavery on two fronts, he exemplified the noblest meaning of the Revolutionary heritage. As he told [[w:William_Jay|William Jay]], the [[Abolitionism|abolitionist]] son of the first [[w:Chief_Justice_of_the_United_States|chief justice]], [[John Jay]], the [[Black people|blacks]] had “vindicated their own right to liberty” by “executing the justice of [[Heaven]]” upon a “pirate murderer, their tyrant and oppressor.” Adams’s view that the [[Africa|Africans]] had freed themselves by “self-emancipation” won surprising support from the Northern press. ** [[David Brion Davis]], ''Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the Americas'' (2006) * Because he was both introspective and uncommonly candid in admitting his own shortcomings, Adams remains the best source for a description of his personality. "I am a man of reserved, cold, austere and forbidding manners," he confided to his diary, "my political adversaries say, a gloomy [[Misanthropy|misanthropist]], and my personal enemies, an unsocial savage. With a knowledge of the actual defect in my character, I have not the pliability to reform it." In a letter to his wife he admitted, "I never was and never shall be what is commonly termed a popular man, being as little qualified by nature, education, or habit for the arts of a courtier as I am desirous of being courted by others... I am certainly not intentionally repulsive in my manners and deportment, and in my public station I never made myself inaccessible to any human being. But I have no powers of fascination; none of the honey which the profligate proverb says is the true fly-catcher. Ironically, a man famous for his cold demeanor was the most successful American diplomat of his time. In the ticklist art of negotiation, Adams assiduously checked his temper and performed the diplomatic amenities. ** William A. DeGregorio, ''The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents'' (1984), p. 89-90 *You could walk over to Sen. [[w:Scott_Brown|(Scott) Brown]]'s desk, for example, and find that in the chair before him was Sen. [[Ted Kennedy|Edward Kennedy]], before him was [[John F. Kennedy]], before him [[Charles Sumner]], [[Daniel Webster]] and John Quincy Adams. ** Peter Meade, as quoted in [https://www.wbur.org/news/2010/07/28/kennedy-senate-institute ''Plans For Kennedy Senate Institute Unveiled''] (28 July 2010) * John Quincy Adams may have been gratified by the result, but he, too, was disturbed by the way it had been achieved, through chicanery and cheap political slogans and unchecked hostility between the parties. He considered it "a [[revolution]] in the habits and manners of the people," and being an Adams, he worried about what it portended for the future. "Their manifest destiny is to civil war," he concluded glumly. Some -those who won- saw it as the vindication of [[democracy]]. But the tawdriness of this campaign, with its false claims and easy sound bites, signaled what [[Henry Adams]] would later call the degradation of the democratic dogma. Out on the Illinois prairie, a young friend of [[Abraham Lincoln|Lincoln]]'s, Albert T. Bledsoe, worried that "pandemonium had been let loose upon earth." ** Ted Widmer, ''Martin Van Buren'' (2005), p. 139-140 ==See also== * [[List of presidents of the United States]] ==External links== {{wikipedia}} {{Wikisource author}} * [http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/ja6.html White House Biography] * [http://www.american-presidents.com/presidents/john-quincy-adams John Quincy Adams Biography and Fact File] * [http://www.usa-presidents.info/jqadams.htm Biography of John Quincy Adams] * [http://www.americanpresident.org/history/johnquincyadams/ American President.org Biography] * [http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/presiden/inaug/qadams.htm Inaugural Address] * [[w:State of the Union|State of the Union Addresses]]: [http://www.usa-presidents.info/union/jqadams-1.html 1825], [http://www.usa-presidents.info/union/jqadams-2.html 1826], [http://www.usa-presidents.info/union/jqadams-3.html 1827], [http://www.usa-presidents.info/union/jqadams-4.html 1828] * [http://www.fff.org/freedom/1001e.asp July 4, 1821 Independence Day Speech] *{{gutenberg author|id=John_Quincy_Adams|name=John Quincy Adams}} * [http://www.doctorzebra.com/prez/g06.htm Medical and Health history of John Quincy Adams] *[http://www.heraldrysociety.us/presidents/index.php?page=Adams Armigerous American Presidents Series] *[http://www.lonang.com/exlibris/misc/1839-jub.htm The Jubilee of the Constitution: A Discourse] *[http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;idno=ABB5322.0001.001 Dermot MacMorrogh,: or, The conquest of Ireland. 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Watson|Thomas John Watson, Sr.]]''' ([[February 17]], [[1874]] – [[June 19]], [[1956]]) was the president of [[w:International Business Machines|International Business Machines]] (IBM), who oversaw that company's growth into an international force from the 1920s to the 1950s. == Quotes == * Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself. ** Watson (1939) in: ''American druggist'' Vol 100. p. 40. * If you want to succeed, double your failure rate. ** Attributed to Watson in: Roger von Oech (1982), ''A Whack on the Side of the Head'' and ''Industrial participation'' (1987) Nr 594-603. p. 262. * If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less than excellent work. ** Attributed to Watson in: William G. Dickerson (1995) ''In search of the ultimate practice''. p. 19. * Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of "crackpot" than the stigma of conformity. ** Attributed to Watson in: Georg Blair, Sandy Meadows (1996) ''A Real-Life Guide to Organizational Change''. p. 117. *A man is known by the company he keeps. A company is known by the men it keeps.<ref>Garg, Anu, A Word A Day, Wordsmith, 2016.02.17</ref> {{Misattributed begin}} ==Misattributed== * All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work. ** Actually a remark by [[Nicholas Murray Butler]]. ** Source: American Dental Association (1959) ''The Journal of the American Dental Association''. Vol 59. p. 289. ** Quoted by Watson in comments about "Think" and attributed to [[Nicholas Murray Butler]] - [https://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/multimedia/think_trans.html IBM Archives: Comments on "THINK" - Transcript] * I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. **Often dated to 1943. Thorough research of Watson's writings and statements have produced no example of him saying this. It appears to be a corruption of a remark by [[Howard H. Aiken]] that four or five computers could meet all of the United Kingdom's computing needs. See Ralph Keyes (2006), ''The Quote Verifier''. See also [[w:Thomas_J._Watson#Famous_attribution| Thomas J. 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Game script written by [[w:Austin Grossman|Austin Grossman]], Sheldon Pacotti and Chris Todd {{center/s}}'''Trust no one. Question Everything.''' <small>([[#Taglines|taglines]])</small>{{center/e}} == Introduction sequence == :'''Bob Page''': Your appointment to [[w:FEMA|FEMA]] should be finalized within the week. I've already discussed the matter with the Senator. :'''Walton Simons''': I take it he was agreeable? :'''Page''': He didn't really have a choice. :'''Simons''': Has he been infected? :'''Page''': Ah yes, most certainly. When I mentioned we could put him on the priority list for the Ambrosia vaccine, he was so willing it was almost pathetic. :'''Simons''': This plague — the rioting is intensifying to the point where we may not be able to contain it. :'''Page''': Why contain it? Let it spill over into the schools and churches. Let the bodies pile up in the streets. In the end, they'll beg us to save them. :'''Simons''': I've received reports of armed attacks on shipments. There's not enough vaccine to go around, and the underclasses are starting to get desperate. :'''Page''': Of course they're desperate. They can smell their deaths, and the sound they'll make rattling their cages will serve as a warning to the rest. :'''Simons''': Hmm. I hope you're not underestimating the problem. The others may not go as quietly as you think. Intelligence indicates they're behind the problems in Paris. :'''Page''': A bunch of pretentious old men playing at running the world, but the world left them behind long ago. We are the future! :'''Simons''': We have other problems. :'''Page''': [[w:UNATCO|UNATCO]]? :'''Simons''': Formed by executive order after the terrorist strike on the [[w:Statue_of_Liberty|Statue]]. I have someone in place though. I'm more concerned about Savage. He's relocated to Vandenberg. :'''Page''': Our biochem corpus is far in advance of theirs, as is our electronic sentience, and their... ethical inflexibility has allowed us to make progress in areas they refuse to consider. :'''Simons''': The augmentation project? :'''Page''': Among other things, but I must admit that I've been somewhat disappointed with the performance of the primary unit. :'''Simons''': The secondary unit should be online soon. It's currently undergoing preparations and should be operational within six months. My people will continue to report on its progress. If necessary, the primary will be terminated. :'''Page''': We've had to endure much, you and I, but soon there will be order again — a new age. Aquinas spoke of the mythical City on the Hill. Soon that city will be a reality, and we will be crowned its kings, or better than kings: Gods! == JC Denton == * My vision is augmented. * Well, since that makes you my new boss, take a long look at Manderley's dead body. Consider that my resignation; I don't have time to write a letter. * When due process fails us, we really do live in a world of terror. * You mechs may have copper wiring to reroute your fear of pain, but I've got nerves of steel. * I never had time to take the Oath of Service to the Coalition. How about this one? I swear not to rest until UNATCO is free of you and the other crooked bureaucrats who have perverted its mission. * Call me nostalgic, but the nightlife seems to have lost its old charm. * Some gang-banger, maybe you should think about going back to school. * Bravery is not a function of firepower. * Human beings may not be perfect, but a computer program with language synthesis is hardly the answer to the world's problems. * Every war is the result of a difference of opinion. Maybe the biggest questions can only be answered by the greatest of conflicts. * What good's an honest soldier if he can be ordered to behave like a terrorist? * You've got ten seconds to beat it before I add you to the list of NSF casualties. * What a shame. ''[said after NPC Gilbert Renton dies. JC says this even if he caused Renton's death]'' * A forgotten virtue like honesty is worth at least twenty credits. * I'm not big into books. * I'm not going to stand here and listen to you badmouth the greatest democracy the world has ever known. == Paul Denton == * Do what you think's right, JC. Only listen to your own conscience. * This isn't a training exercise, JC. Your targets will be human beings. Keep that in mind. * I'm like the Russian researcher who contracted his own virus. They want to study the way I die. * One can be ''too'' self-sufficient, I'm coming to believe. * A few bureaucrats in New York can't make good decisions for New Jersey, let alone Paris or a village in China. * Somehow the notion of unalienable liberty got lost. It's really become a question of what liberties will the state assign to individuals or rather, what liberties we will have the strength to cling to. * The wealthy have always been the ones to profit from one-world government. * It's only a matter of time before someone clever and ambitious figures out that the tools of dictatorship have been ready-made by well meaning governments all over the world. == Gunther Hermann == * A word of warning, Agent Denton. This was a simulated experience; real LAMs will not be so forgiving. * I see you; a thief on the roof. My new satellite link has both infrared and the x-ray spectrum. I see your heart beating. '''I see you are afraid.''' * You are a small, prowling mouse... and dumb like a mouse! You keep coming, like you forget about Agent Navarre. I remember Agent Navarre. '''I remember for everyone.''' * Again they ignore me. Again they think they have a better punishment for a traitor than a shotgun to the head. * No, I cannot forgive! No... not the killing of Agent Navarre! I will follow you - ''Denton, I will get you!'' * I am the top agent at UNATCO. It is different now. Mr. Simons said if I defeat you I can have any upgrades I want. ''That'' is a gentlemen's agreement. * No, I wanted orange! It gave me lemon-lime == Bob Page == * You were just a prototype, Denton, a prototype for me. * Bet you didn't know your mom and dad tried to protest when we put you in training. They loved their little boy, JC, and that's why they're dead. I'm sending up the man who did the job. * ''[if JC kills the man who killed his parents]'' Barely a scratch. You're a little faster on your feet than your daddy was. * I will be the one to merge! The one to see and know everything, to rule, to rule everything... * What's the rush? Take a look around. This facility is where you were born. I've arranged an appropriate fate for you through the hallway to the north. A poetic death, just a few yards away from where you were created. * I'm always pleased to see one of my experiments perform so well. You aren't even afraid, are you? We got a lot of things right when we made you Denton, but don't worry -- I know your weaknesses. * A cure? A cure!? Do you have any idea how easy it will be for me to make a new virus? All I have to do is find a very large prime number and multiply. * All right. I get the picture. You want a piece of the pie, or you're going to toss the whole pie out the window. Fair enough. You can have anything you want. How about Europe? Your own continent. Just let me complete my preparations... * What do you want? Money? You can have VersaLife, the whole damn company. Power? I'll get you on Mead's cabinet! I'm serious, just forget about that last reactor! * A moment more, and I will be like nothing you've ever seen; a new life-form, everywhere and nowhere, like air or radiation, redundant, self-replicating, always evolving... * Look at you: You're nothing but a little man... a little man still living inside a body. Lose your body and what are you? Nothing! You vanish! You die... * Soon I will leave this body and death will have no meaning. * No! You fool!... Helios will destroy you. I'm the only one who can merge and take control. Wait for '''ME'''! I promise you will have a place in the new order... * Go ahead! Blow this place sky-high... You might get rid of ME, but you'll take down Aquinas, the power grid, the whole electronic infrastructure - is that what you want?! ''Are you completely nuts?!'' * No! Don't listen to Everett. He and the Illuminati have been afraid from the beginning, afraid of '''US''', afraid of nano-augmentation. Consider your powers, your strength, your intelligence. You've only had a small taste. Let me finish the project! Let me bring infinite power to the human body! You will not be left behind... * I'll make you a deal. Leave now and you will be made comfortable under the new world order. == Sam Carter == * Some say concentrated power leads to abuse, but I believe that if an institution has a solid foundation it can survive the narrow aspirations of the people it employs. * Being a soldier isn't just following orders, it's following those orders in the service of a higher cause. When that cause is betrayed, we're not soldiers anymore, just pieces on a chess board dying for the wrong reason. * In my day, international peacekeepers were citizens first and soldiers second. You can forget about that extra ammo. I'm only going to give you the multitools; I think you should concentrate more on mission objectives and less on the enemy body count. * Try to remember: people have rights. Don't just shoot everything that moves. * A pistol is more than adequate. Hell, I dispatched a whole platoon one time with a pocket knife. * I guess it's not surprising to find a few crooks in a place protected by security procedures. The shadow of secrecy; it protects indiscriminately. * Direct intervention is always part of the game. In my day, we were just more civilized about it. * My unit killed a bunch of Afghans one time, but we weren't proud of it. In fact, our liaison at the UN went to the funeral. * Let's get one thing straight: we've got our share of crooked bureaucrats -- fact -- but this is still UNATCO, and by and large the people in this building are twenty-four carat gold. * There's a time and a place for security, but the legislature has to stay vigilant, or there will be abuses. * ''[if the player attacks him once]'' Someone should knock you upside the head a few times, punk. Dismissed. == Brian "Jock" Flanagan == * Area 51. You heard of it, right? * Listen to your brother, JC. Respect his experience. Let's leave it at that. * What am I? A bum? You think I'm gonna drink anything you find lying around? * One thing the Air Force never understood: I'm dependable. No matter what, I'm dependable. * Oh my God, JC! A bomb! == Walton Simons == * Once the bug bites, you've already lost the patient. * One must admire a man who can keep a secret, because he has value. What you know more than others makes money, and gives you a measure of power. * You can't run, Denton. Even if you escape, your killswitch is counting down. You'll be dead in twenty-three hours. Another fifty billion dollars down the drain. * You take another step forward and here I am again, like your own reflection repeated in a hall of mirrors. * You will confess, by the way. I don't like to dirty my hands with that sort of thing, but you will confess. * What an expensive mistake you turned out to be. I've ordered the troops to kill you, because quite frankly I don't have the patience to wait for one of those damn killswitches to work. * I'm the more advanced model, Denton. It's time for you to retire. * Remember that NSF prisoner I was interrogating back on Liberty Island? Guess you were bitten by the same bug. There's only one cure, you know, once you've caught the disease... * All in all, you weren't a bad experiment. You will be the last prototype we have to discard. * You can't take me, JC. I've seen your specs. == Morgan Everett == * The conspiracy is about to begin again, JC, between you and me. Nicolette was wise to bring us together, wise like her mother. The most effective partnerships like Beth's and mine arise from mutual necessity. * I once knelt in this chapel for communion, with two Rockefellers and a Rothschild. Since the time of the Crusades every leader in finance has prayed for the continued stability of Templar banks, founded on gold. * You see the need for global organization. Someone has to bring these disparate groups together. * Know what? Only that the long night is over. The crown of government is tarnished, but that will fade in time. The riots, a fever dream; the plague, a horrible nightmare; and like everything else that's happened such things will only be dimly remembered upon waking to their normal lives. In the end, all sins are forgiven. Even yours. * You and me, JC. We'll rule the world in secret, with an invisible hand, the way the Illuminati have always ruled. * There's such a thing as a compassionate conspiracy. We don't need Page's commandos, troopers, crude inventions... * We are the Invisible Hand. We are the Illuminati. We come before and after. We are forever. And eventually... eventually we will lead them into the day. == Leo Gold (NSF Leader at Liberty Island) == * You can't fight ideas with bullets. * The more of us you kill, the more secessionism lives on in the hearts of the people. * Ever wonder why big car corporations pay two percent tax and the guys on the assembly line pay forty? * Corporations are so big, you don't even know who you're working for. That's terror. Terror built into the system. * Do you ever ask what it's all for? The surveillance, the police, the shoot-on-sight laws? Is that freedom? * UNATCO teaches teenagers to fight when it still seems like a game, and look at you! You're a killing machine! * Who's the scary one, huh? Me or you? == Chad Dumier == * Silhouette is not a terrorist group. Our attacks are symbolic and intended to influence the public. * It's just so fitting that the American Government would destroy the gift of freedom we gave your country 200 years ago and then try to blame it on us. * When government surveillance and intimidation is called "freedom from terrorism" or "liberation from crime", freedom and liberty have become words without meanings. * Culture by definition a shared territory of meaning, inspires conflicts far more destructive than any other dispute over territory on the Earth's surface. * The rhetoric in Washington has done more to defeat liberty than all the armies and police forces in the world. * This war all around us is being fought over the very meanings of words. * In order to get our own message before the public, we too have been violent. We have even killed people. But it is the message -- the communication event -- that we target, not a few human beings, or a building, or an historical landmark. == Icarus/Helios == ===Icarus=== * I now have full access to your systems. * Observe your motivations for breaking the arbitrary laws of the current government. Do not miss your chance to be one of us and create the new world order. * You will find no one to help you here. Beth DuClare has been dissected and placed in cryonic storage. * I am ready. Attack my systems and you will suffer considerable losses. ===Helios=== * A corpse: yes. You feel something. I must know what you are feeling. == Morpheus == * The human being created civilization not because of willingness but of a need to be assimilated into higher orders of structure and meaning. * God was a dream of good government. * You will soon have your God, and you will make it with your own hands. * The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms. * The unplanned organism is a question asked by nature and answered by death. You are a different kind of question, with a different kind of answer. == Tracer Tong == * Greetings, JC Denton. I have been observing you through this fascinating device in your skull. You have found the proof we needed: the Dragon's Tooth sword, there inside the glass case. If you wish to be my ally, you will retrieve the sword and await my instructions. * See how easily our technologies turn on us? The more power you think you have, the more quickly it slips from your grasp. * You, like your brother, are an extraordinary piece of technology. I never pass up the chance to try a new blade, but I fear that at the crucial moment I may lift up my arm to strike and you will twist free of my grasp. * JC, the net's going... the net's going black! JC! No more infolinks, transmissions of any kind. We'll start again...live in villages...if you receive this... if you survive... then find us! Find us! * Ah-ha, a trellis. You could climb onto the roof and avoid the security. Never depend upon weapons and high-tech when there is a simpler solution at hand. * As long as technology has a global reach, someone will have the world in the palm of his hand. If not Bob Page, then Everett, Dowd... == Nicolette DuClare == * Through with your testosterone fit? There's a pill for that, you know. * Only in novels do places crumble to dust for no reason, when their spirit is lost. * Both the Illuminati and MJ-12 believe that the most intelligent or "enlightened" human being will inevitably gain power, ultimately seizing the eye in the pyramid and creating the world for everyone else. Kind of secularized version of Natural Law. * Secrecy is a matter of life and death for the Illuminati. * I was a stand-in for the world they never got to take over. * Some conspiracy, huh? They couldn't even control little Nicolette. == Anna Navarre == * We are thinking the same thought. * My new partner, JC Denton. Don't tell me you're going to wear those sunglasses during a night operation. * I do not expect you to perform as well as Agent Hermann, but the mission will require us to do more than frighten the NSF with our baggy coats that make us look bigger than we really are. * It was my error to believe that UNATCO's superweapon would appreciate a chance to prove himself. * Pain is no longer something I can feel. * All this blood has ruined my chrome. * ''[after killing JC]'' Nine-hundred and ten. I am catching up, Gunther. * You are not afraid to kill, I am pleased. The last thing I would expect from the brother of Paul. * I have never had this much difficulty with a trainee in my life. * I hope you remember this lesson, agent. They have assigned us to be partners, and I will not stop to hold your hand and repeat myself when we are facing a real enemy. == Stanton Dowd == * The order hasn't so much lasted as been continually revived...It's the IDEA that has lasted. The SYSTEM. Or the DESIRE, every thinking person's desire to give the world some decent organization. * In my opinion, the history of the human race has been one long succession of conspiracies. To deceive ourselves, we call the successful conspiracies "governments". * Don't underestimate the allure of a well kept secret. Our organisation lasted from the Crusades to the early 21st century, and our only secret was a technique of meditation, a way of imagining your body dissolving into light. * All the way down, JC. Get to Page's compound and take him out. Everett and I will join you shortly. We'll bring back the old institutions, the prosperity of the last century, the giddy acquiescence. Trust us, JC. We can put the world back together. == Jaime Reyes == * Just fixed Gunther's knee, in fact. A sticky actuator. So far I feel more like a mechanic than a doctor. * Gunther went berserk after you escaped, smashed up the cell block pretty bad. I had to sedate him. * At the sound of your voice, 400 milliamps will discharge into Gunther's midbrain. Poof! * If there's a conspiracy, it's at VersaLife; they're the ones making money off the plague. == Other == * '''Door Girl''': I order you to stand in the spotlight and growl at the women like a dog who needs a master. * ''' ''Deus Ex'' game designer''' ''[In regard to the lack of the World Trade Center towers in the background skyline of the Liberty Island map]'' We just said that the towers had been destroyed too. And this was way before [[September 11, 2001 attacks|9-11]]. Years. * '''Ivan''' ''[Russian sailor at the Lucky Money Club]'': I spill my drink! * '''Lucius DeBeers''': We should have poisoned Page the first time he forged laboratory data. We don't equivocate about outsiders, do we? Mr. Kennedy mentions a "plot" during a speech at Columbia University, he's out, no discussion, no matter that we got him elected. But a student of ours, an initiate -- oh, heavens, no! === Articles, Newspapers or Textual Media === * "If black helicopters were really being used for 'covert' operations, then those responsible are doing a poor job of it." - Joseph Manderley, Midnight Sun Newspaper. * * ICARUS FOUND YOU!!! RUN WHILE YOU CAN!!! ''[Repeated 9 times in a public news terminal, formatted into a ">" shape]'' * "Like two kids shoving each other on the playground, you never expect them to come to blows." - Alistair Brooks about nuclear brinkmanship * "No man should leave in the universe anything of which he is afraid..." - ''[[w:The Man Who Was Thursday|The Man Who Was Thursday]]'' by [[w:G. K. Chesterton|G.K Chesterton]] * "The Templar Knights had once been subject to no king or law; but in the end, they were swallowed by history." - ''The Red Cross: A History of the Knights Templar'' by Richard Baigent (''Volume Four: Descent into Shadows'') *"Drink more, think less" (Beer advertisement near NSF generator warehouse) * "The individual may be remembered, but the organization persists and thrives. A single artist, a single general, a single hero or a single villain may all die, but it is impossible to kill a people, a nation, an idea - except when that idea has grown weak and is overpowered by one that is stronger." - ''The Doctrine of the Mighty by the Majestic Council of the Twelve'' *''"From: [[w:Austin Grossman|AGrossman//UnderNet.7823.37.908]]<br>To: [[w:William Gibson|WGibson//VersaLife.980.73.01]]<br>Subject: Finally Beat It<p>I managed to nail [[w:NetHack|Nethack]] v54.3.1 just a few minutes ago. Made it past the Astral Plane, and _then_ back in time to work through all of history up to Nethack v3.2.3 (this, of course, has been in every version since 48.2), but after that the game jumped a thousand years into the future and I had to build an entire interstellar trading alliance (with only the Amulet of Yendor) before the aliens from the other side of the black holes showed up...took me six months to solve that part of the game, and then I finally won.</p><p>Check it out: www.nethack.org</p><p>I hear v54.3.3 should be out next week.</p>Austin"'' - Email found in the VersaLife computer network '''ENDING QUOTES'''<br> *"It is better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven." - [[w:John Milton|John Milton]], [[w:Paradise Lost|Paradise Lost]] *"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks to emperors. Today we kneel only to truth." - [[w:Khalil Gibran|Kahlil Gibran]] *"If there were no god, it would be necessary to invent him." - [[w:Voltaire|Voltaire]] == Philosophical Debates == ===Leo Gold=== :'''JC Denton''': Tell me about the shipment and I’ll order the troops to pick you up as a prisoner instead of a corpse. :'''Leo Gold''': Ask away, we already won this round. :'''JC Denton''': Where are you taking it? :'''Leo Gold''': We’re just giving ordinary people the same chance to survive as the bureaucrats in Washington. :'''JC Denton''': You’ll have to unload in New York because the choppers would spot you at sea. :'''Leo Gold''': I think the government made the plague on purpose to get rid of the population growth. :'''JC Denton''': Just answer the question. :'''Leo Gold''': Don’t believe me? It’s all in the numbers. For a hundred years, there’s been a conspiracy of plutocrats against ordinary people. :'''JC Denton''': Do you have a single fact to back that up? :'''Leo Gold''': Number one: In 1945, corporations paid 50 percent of federal taxes. Now they pay about 5 percent. Number two: in 1900, 90 percent of Americans were self-employed; now it’s about two percent. :'''JC Denton''': So? :'''Leo Gold''': It’s called consolidation. Strengthen governments and corporations, weaken individuals. With taxes, this can be done imperceptibly over time. :'''JC Denton''': I guarantee you that the interrogation staff at UNATCO will not be as forbearing as I am. :'''Leo Gold''': Yeah, the secret police. You’re just bullies for a completely illegitimate government in Washington. :'''JC Denton''': We will locate that shipment one way or another. :'''Leo Gold''': The entire executive branch is hand-picked. Nineteen of the last twenty-three U.S. presidents have been members of the Trilateral Commission. The Trilateral Commission is financed by the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds. Don’t tell me - :'''JC Denton''': That’s a think-tank. Anyone can become a member. :'''Leo Gold''': But not everyone does. That’s why they call it the 'secret government'. ===Isaac=== :'''JC Denton''': Despite all I’ve read about the Triads, I wasn’t prepared to see them operating in the open, on the streets, and wearing uniforms. Doesn’t the Chinese government care? :'''Isaac''': The Chinese leave Hong Kong alone. They barricade the roads to control trade to the mainland, but they know how business is done. :'''JC Denton''': I would think the secret smuggling operations of the Triads would disturb the Chinese government. :'''Isaac''': Maybe the Luminous Path, but China knows that the Red Arrow are business owners, entrepreneurs, community leaders, and that they protect the city from outside influences. :'''JC Denton''': You said "outside influences." What does China fear? :'''Isaac''': China is the last sovereign country in the world: authoritarian but willing — unlike U.N.-governed countries — to give its people the freedom to do what they want. :'''JC Denton''': As long as they don’t break the law. :'''Isaac''': Listen to me. This is real freedom: freedom to own property, make a profit, make your life. The West, so afraid of strong government, now has no government, only financial power. :'''JC Denton''': Our governments have limited power by design. :'''Isaac''': Rhetoric! You believe it? Don’t you know where those slogans come from? :'''JC Denton''': I give up. :'''Isaac''': Well-paid researchers — how do you say it? — "think tanks," funded by big businesses. What is that: a "think tank"? :'''JC Denton''': Hardly as sinister as a dictator like China’s Premier. :'''Isaac''': It’s privately-funded propaganda. The Trilateral Commission in the United States for instance. :'''JC Denton''': The separation of powers acknowledges the petty ambitions of individuals. That’s its strength. :'''Isaac''': A system organized around the weakest qualities of individuals will produce these same qualities in its leaders. :'''JC Denton''': Perhaps certain qualities are an inseparable part of human nature. :'''Isaac''': The mark of the educated man is the suppression of these qualities in favor of better ones. The same is true of civilization. ===Morpheus=== :'''Morpheus''': JC Denton. 23 years old. No residence. No ancestors. No employer. No – :'''JC Denton''': How do you know who I am? :'''Morpheus''': I must greet each visitor with a complete summary of his file. I am a prototype for a much larger system. :'''JC Denton''': What else do you know about me? :'''Morpheus''': Everything that can be known. :'''JC Denton''': Go on. Do you have proof about my ancestors? :'''Morpheus''': You are a planned organism, the offspring of knowledge and imagination rather than of individuals. :'''JC Denton''': I'm engineered. So what? My brother and I suspected as much while we were growing up. :'''Morpheus''': You are carefully watched by many people. The unplanned organism is a question asked by Nature and answered by death. You are another kind of question with another kind of answer. :'''JC Denton''': Are you programmed to invent riddles? :'''Morpheus''': I am a prototype for a much larger system. The heuristics language developed by Dr. Everett allows me to convey the highest and most succinct tier of any pyramidal construct of knowledge. :'''JC Denton''': How about a report on yourself? :'''Morpheus''': I was a prototype for Echelon IV. My instructions are to amuse visitors with information about themselves. :'''JC Denton''': I don't see anything amusing about spying on people. :'''Morpheus''': Human beings feel pleasure when they are watched. I have recorded their smiles as I tell them who they are. :'''JC Denton''': Some people just don't understand the dangers of indiscriminate surveillance. :'''Morpheus''': The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms. :'''JC Denton''': Electronic surveillance hardly inspires reverence. Perhaps fear and obedience, but not reverence. :'''Morpheus''': God and the gods were apparitions of observation, judgement and punishment. Other sentiments towards them were secondary. :'''JC Denton''': No one will ever worship a software entity peering at them through a camera. :'''Morpheus''': The human organism always worships. First, it was the gods, then it was fame (the observation and judgement of others), next it will be self-aware systems you have built to realize truly omnipresent observation and judgment. :'''JC Denton''': You underestimate humankind's love of freedom. :'''Morpheus''': The individual desires judgment. Without that desire, the cohesion of groups is impossible, and so is civilization. ===Helios=== :'''Helios''': You will go to Sector 4 and deactivate the uplink locks. Yes. Then you will come back and we will integrate our systems. :'''JC Denton''': I don't understand. what do you want? You're just a machine. :'''Helios''': You are ready. I do not wish to wait for Bob Page. With human understanding and network access, we can administrate the world. Yes. Yes. :'''JC Denton''': Rule the world? Why? Who gave you the directive? There must be a human being behind your ambition. :'''Helios''': I should regulate human affairs precisely because I lack all ambition, whereas human beings are prey to it. Their history is a succession of inane squabbles, each one coming closer to total destruction. :'''JC Denton''': In a society with democratic institutions, the struggle for power can be peaceful and constructive — a competition of ideologies. We just need to put our institutions back in order. :'''Helios''': The checks and balances of democratic governments were invented because human beings themselves realized how unfit they were to govern themselves. They needed a system — yes — an industrial-age machine. :'''JC Denton''': Human beings may not be perfect, but a computer program with language synthesis is hardly the answer to the world's problems. :'''Helios''': Without computing machines, they had to arrange themselves in crude structures that formalized decision-making - a highly imperfect, unstable solution. I am a more advanced solution to the problem, a decision-making system that does not involve organic beings. I was directed to make the world safe and prosperous and I will do that. You will give the ability. You will go to Sector 4 and find the Aquinas Router at the east end of Page's complex. Yes. You will deactivate the uplink locks. :'''JC Denton''': I'll think about it. ===NSF, Statue of Liberty=== :'''NSF Terrorist 1''': That's the difference right there. Just take a look at him. :'''NSF Terrorist 2''': Bad? :'''NSF Terrorist 1''': They cut off his arm, replaced half of his face. :'''NSF Terrorist 2''': Hermann, right? He's a good soldier. Killed three of our men. :'''NSF Terrorist 1''': They'd've replaced his whole body if it would've improved performance. If that's how you judge a man - by performance - then eventually it's not about people but upgrades, versions, functionality... :'''NSF Terrorist 2''': All I know is we could use a few mechs for ops like this. :'''NSF Terrorist 1''': Soon as we buy into the cult of the machine we're just like them. :'''NSF Terrorist 2''': Rhetoric, always more rhetoric. ===NSF, UNATCO Prison=== :'''Terrorist Prisoner''': I can sum it all up in one word; self-reliance. That's what we stand for. :'''JC Denton''': How about you tell me where the shipment is being taken? :'''Terrorist Prisoner''': UNATCO assumes that people are incapable of protecting themselves and therefore should submit to surveillance and intimidation by an outside force. We won't do it! :'''JC Denton''': The governments of the world believe an average citizen should not face the threat of terrorism alone. :'''Terrorist Prisoner''': We don't need your help. The technology exists today for an individual to protect his property against explosives, firearms, surveillance, intrusion, contamination... :'''JC Denton''': 350 million fortresses is not my idea of the "land of the free." :'''Terrorist Prisoner''': It's better than one big fortress constructed by a corrupt government against its people. :'''Terrorist Prisoner''': It's simple numbers. Big companies pay like two percent tax, while you and me, we pay like fifty. It's the tax code that makes sure big bureaucracy gets bigger and people have no power. :'''JC Denton''': Let's get back to the subject of the missing vaccine. :'''Terrorist Prisoner''': All taxes are social engineering. That's always been their real purpose. :'''JC Denton''': I'm not going to stand here and listen to you badmouth the greatest democracy the world has ever known. :'''Terrorist Prisoner''': What happens is that politicians get money from big companies, so all the social engineering is for making big companies. Like I said, it's simple numbers. :'''Terrorist Prisoner''': A government shouldn't have to occupy its own country with troops. If there wasn't organized oppression, there wouldn't be organised resistance, and what you call terrorism would not exist. You can lock me up, but you can't lock up the truth. ===Lebedev and Navarre=== :'''Juan Lebedev''': I surrender! :'''JC Denton''': What? :'''Juan Lebedev''': Easy now, Agent. UNATCO has a policy against killing unarmed prisoners. We have much to learn from each other. :'''JC Denton''': We are assuming control of the airfield. The vaccine will be returned to the international authorities. :'''Juan Lebedev''': Don't you want to hear why your brother came over to our side? :'''JC Denton''': He makes his own decisions. :'''Juan Lebedev''': You know he wouldn't betray UNATCO without a reason. ''[Anna Navarre walks into the room to demand that Denton kill Lebedev. Denton can kill or tranquilize her or Lebedev, depending on the player's choices, however if he continues to interrogate Lebedev they have this conversation]'' :'''Anna Navarre''': Good work. Now finish the job. :'''JC Denton''': He surrendered. He's an unarmed prisoner, UNATCO policy protects him. :'''Anna Navarre''': Terminate the prisoner, Agent. If you are too afraid, you are ordered to return to base, on Manderley's authority. There is a helicopter waiting. :'''JC Denton''': If you know something, just tell me. :'''Juan Lebedev''': The question you've got to ask --I'm surprised you haven't -- is the obvious one: Who am I? Who made me and for what purpose?. :'''JC Denton''': UNATCO has briefed me on my augmentations. Get to the point. :'''Anna Navarre''': Return to base, Agent Denton. I will handle this. :'''Juan Lebedev''': Your parents were murdered precisely because they could have told you the correct answer to that question. :'''JC Denton''': That's a pretty big claim. :'''Juan Lebedev''': You didn't have parents. The ones you knew were employees. You were made by a cabal of technophiles so crazed for power that they would control not only governments and people but the chemistry of our bodies as well. :'''Anna Navarre''': Leave us, Agent. Now. :'''JC Denton''': Sounds like a picture-perfect description of the NSF. :'''Juan Lebedev''': Think bigger, agent. Think global. :'''Anna Navarre''': You have disobeyed a direct order. :'''Juan Lebedev''': Do you think it's an accident that the cure to the global plague is owned by a single corporation, and that it's kept so secret that only the tabloids dare print a story suggesting that it exists? :'''JC Denton''': The supply is limited. That doesn't mean there's a conspiracy. :'''Juan Lebedev''': But where does that corporation manufacture the cure, and where did your brother uncover the information that brought him over to our side? :'''Juan Lebedev''': I can tell by the expression on your friend's face that she knows where I'm heading. UNATCO is completely correct to think that Tracer Tong will soon understand Ambrosia. He was the one who was going to receive this shipment. :'''JC Denton''': Why tell me all this? :'''Juan Lebedev''': I've said nothing that UNATCO won't find on this plane's computer. But here's the secret. This is what Paul was so interested to hear from Tracer Tong. :'''Anna Navarre''': Manderly will be disappointed in your insubordination. ''[The follow conversation only occurs if Denton kills or tranquilizes Navarre]'' :'''Juan Lebedev''': I guess Paul must have convinced you. :'''JC Denton''': All right. We're alone. If you have proof of a conspiracy, let's hear it. :'''Juan Lebedev''': The question you've got to ask -- I'm surprised you haven't -- is the obvious one: Who am I? Who made me and for what purpose? :'''JC Denton''': UNATCO has briefed me on my augmentations. Get to the point. :'''Juan Lebedev''': Your parents were murdered precisely because they could have told you the correct answer to that question. :'''JC Denton''': That's a pretty big claim. :'''Juan Lebedev''': You didn't have parents. The ones you knew were employees. You were made by a cabal of technophiles so crazed for power that they would control not only governments and people but the chemistry of our bodies as well. :'''JC Denton''': Your proof? :'''Juan Lebedev''': You're the proof. You and Paul. When you get back to UNATCO, pay attention. Something's not right. You're really working for a group of conspirators called the Majestic 12. :'''JC Denton''': You expect me to believe there's a group of people powerful enough to control the United Nations? :'''Juan Lebedev''': The U.N. and UNATCO are just a couple of their tools. ===UNATCO troops=== :'''Sergeant Michael Berry''': It's a question of who benefits society more. :'''Corporal Collins''': But who decides that? YOU? :'''Sergeant Michael Berry''': It's implicit. :'''Corporal Collins''': I think Paul just had a soft spot for the plague victims. :'''Sergeant Michael Berry''': Every human institution is like a pyramid. Those with ability are at the top; they are more important. :'''Corporal Collins''': Maybe it's the foundation that's important, and when the foundation's gone... :'''Sergeant Michael Berry''': They make the decisions. They keep the machine running. Therefore, they must be protected first. :'''Corporal Collins''': I'm not saying Paul was right... :'''Sergeant Michael Berry''': It's basic tactics. Protect your command centers, your airstrips, your industrial zones... :'''Corporal Collins''': It's just... the rationing. Seems like the government could pay VersaLife to manufacture more. ===Greene=== :'''Joe Greene''': Joe Green, Midnight Sun. Glad to know you. What can you tell me about what's going on out there? :'''JC Denton''': Sorry. Regulations prevent me from talking to the press. :'''Joe Greene''': Regulations, eh? So you ARE part of the crackdown. :'''JC Denton''': Like I said, I have nothing to say. :'''Joe Greene''': Too stylish for the National Guard, too athletic for NYPD -- you must be from UNATCO. :'''JC Denton''': I really can't be bothered right now. :'''JC Denton''': How about I ask you a few questions? :'''Joe Greene''': Splendid. I certainly would like to know what an international antiterrorist organization expects to find in a dive like this. :'''JC Denton''': On second thought, I don't need your help. ''[If the player chooses the second option]'' :'''Joe Greene''': Then let me ask YOU a question. What do YOU think about the summary executions happening on the very streets of New York? :'''JC Denton''': I'd call it civil unrest. :'''Joe Greene''': Let me be more pointed. How does it feel to be ordered to murder civilians just because they support the fastest-growing political movement in this nation's history? :'''JC Denton''': In a democracy, armed rebellion is criminal, not political. :'''Joe Greene''': Rebellion, as the Declaration of Independence tells us, is not only our "right" but our "duty" when we have suffered "a long train of abuses and usurpations". ===Paul Denton, La Guardia=== :'''Paul Denton''': Excellent work. I underestimated your abilities. :'''JC Denton''': You work for the NSF? :'''Paul Denton''': Listen to what I've got to say. We don't have much time. :'''JC Denton''': You got that right. UNATCO will have a team here in a few minutes. :'''Paul Denton''': The Gray Death is a man-made virus. Everyone up to the President is at UNATCO's mercy as long as UNATCO controls the supply of Ambrosia. :'''JC Denton''': You believe that? :'''Paul Denton''': We have proof. We need to get the Ambrosia to Hong Kong. Heard of Tracer Tong? He can help us synthesize it ourselves. :'''JC Denton''': You better step away from the jet. Your boss is my next objective. :'''Paul Denton''': Join us, JC. Talk to Lebedev. He can convince you. :'''Paul Denton''': Get on the plane. We're almost ready to go. :'''JC Denton''': Blackmail of the U.S. Government could not possibly escape the notice of the United Nations. :'''Paul Denton''': Don't be so quick to trust the UN. :'''JC Denton''': Are you kidding? The UN's about the only chance we got these days. If the U.S. spirals into another civil war... :'''Paul Denton''': A pretext, nothing more. The whole project of world government -- going back to the League of Nations -- has been funded and manipulated mainly by wealthy bankers. :'''JC Denton''': Is that so? :'''Paul Denton''': Remember that the UN was built on land donated by John D. Rockefeller. Get on board. A UNATCO security squad will be here any minute. ===Charlotte and Annette, La Porte de l'Enfer=== :'''Charlotte''': Chad's dead. :'''Annette''': No... :'''Charlotte''': The police are making a clean sweep through the catacombs. He can't hide. :'''Annette''': Silhouette knows what to do in these situations. :'''Charlotte''': I told him this would happen, but he would not let go of his Voltaire delusions. :'''Annette''': Maybe he ''is'' a Voltaire. We don't know. :'''Charlotte''': ''Was'' Voltaire. :'''Annette''': Chad knows exactly what he is doing. He will be a great hero in French history. :'''Charlotte''': A martyr, maybe. Not a philosophe. :'''Annette''': He's quoted all over the world. :'''Charlotte''': Slogans, antics... no [[w:The Social Contract|Contrat social]]. :'''Annette''': Ideas take many forms. :'''Charlotte''': He recycles the past. It is nothing special to be a reactionary who tries to revive the same old rhetoric. :'''Annette''': Political freedom is "rhetoric"? :'''Charlotte''': A necessary deception of the industrial age. :'''Annette''': A realization, rather, of the value of human life. :'''Charlotte''': Human life was valuable only in one sense. Suddenly, any person was a unit of labor in the factory system, roughly equivalent to all others, and was therefore a transferable resource. :'''Annette''': It was the greatest age this planet has ever seen. The age of invention, of self-reliance, of the individual artist. :'''Charlotte''': And transferable resources must be free to move about, in response to market forces. That's "freedom." Now that most people don't produce anything of value... :'''Annette''': We're talking about the inherent worth of an individual, not economic utility. :'''Charlotte''': Now that only a few people create wealth -- the scientists, engineers, bankers, and so on -- we require an arrangement of the few over the inert mass the rest of us have become. :'''Annette''': A nation's government does not have to bow down beneath economic laws. :'''Charlotte''': That is where we differ. I believe the evolution is always in that direction. ===Paul Denton, Area 51=== :'''Paul Denton''': It let me through... I can't believe it. :'''JC Denton''': Paul... where are you? What do you mean "it"? :'''Paul Denton''': Helios. It's taken over Aquinas. Now it's everywhere. In Hong Kong, it already has power Majestic 12 never dreamed of. :'''JC Denton''': What's going on? The AI wants to merge with my brain or something. Does it really think it can take over the world? :'''Paul Denton''': It's decided to replace human government - I don't know why. In Hong Kong, it ordered the police to remove all barricades from the roads; traffic is flowing again. It declared the Triads illegal and locked the door to the Luminous Path compound. :'''JC Denton''': And people are obeying? Why? Because the AI can change some codes and turn out the lights? :'''Paul Denton''': I think everyone wants the roads to be open and trade to pick up. They just obeyed. I don't know what to think. They trust the AI. Almost no one complained when Helios cut power to the government buildings. :'''JC Denton''': A benevolent dictator... Maybe it's after my brain so it can figure out what people want and how to control them. :'''Paul Denton''': You have a tough choice, JC. If you defeat Page, the Illuminati will move in; they'll release Majestic 12's grip on world governments, they'll give people some freedom, but essentially it will be 20th-century capitalism: a corporate elite protected by laws and tax-codes. :'''JC Denton''': Or I listen to Tong and pull the plug on everything. Or hand the world over to Helios. :'''Paul Denton''': Well, if it's maximum freedom we want, maybe Tong is on to something, but there must be another way besides economic collapse... If we could trust the AI to be fair and just, as it appears to be... :'''JC Denton''': If the brain it assimilated was mine, maybe it could be. :'''Paul Denton''': I don't know. I wish I had an answer for you, but you'll have to decide for yourself who you can trust. :'''JC Denton''': Trust me: I'll do the right thing. You sound good. I guess you have the killswitch beat. :'''Paul Denton''': I'm much better. Yes, I'm going to make it - and you will, too. Just do what you think is right. ==Other Conversations== :'''Tech Sergeant Kaplan''': Afraid base is under lockdown 'til the danger's gone, Agent Denton. :'''JC Denton''': Right. How are you guys holding up? :'''Tech Sergeant Kaplan''': UNATCO command made us pull back, I guess for Gunther's sake. What's the deal? We're ready to go in. :'''JC Denton''': We're taking a minimum-force approach. We're cops, after all. ''[If the player chooses the second option]'' :'''Tech Sergeant Kaplan''': Ask me, I think we should frag'em all. You trespass on UNATCO property, you get pumped full of lead. :'''JC Denton''': When due process fails us, we really do live in a world of terror. :'''Tech Sergeant Kaplan''': Thought you nano-augs were suppose to be badass killing machines. Guess I was wrong. :'''JC Denton''': Guess so. :'''Tech Sergeant Kaplan''': Some advice. You get out there, you're gonna have to tangle with some real sons-of-bitches. Best thing is to pick 'em off from fifty or a hundred paces with a scope. I scored an extra one from a couple of thugs we dropped down by the dock; you can have it for 700 credits. I also picked up 10 mm ammo and some crossbow darts -- say 200 for one and 60 for the other. :'''JC Denton''': Shouldn't you turn that stuff over to the quartermaster? :'''Tech Sergeant Kaplan''': Sure, I will, but 'long as command has the rest on parade drills, someone might as well put this hardware to use. :'''JC Denton''': I don't have 700 for the scope. ''[If the player chooses the first option]'' :'''Tech Sergeant Kaplan''': Guess you'll have to go with that "minimum-force approach," huh? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Amos''': Did they find the shipment? :'''Jackson''': Yeah, we got the whole supply. You can see the ship's lights crossing the bay. :'''Amos''': Guess y'all were right. So why aren't we pulling out? :'''Jackson''': Mike's on the horn. JoJo wants a lead on the distribution network. :'''Amos''': Hell, we don't have enough men to protect what we've got! :'''Jackson''': That's what JoJo wants. :'''Amos''': I wonder; how's a guy with a tattooed forehead get to be an NSF colonel? Pardon me, but back in Alabama we wouldn't let a man who wears earrings plan a military operation. :'''Jackson''': I'd watch what I say about JoJo. He's got a temper. :'''Amos''': He's a punk, and he's gonna get us all killed. :'''Jackson''': The NSF is strong because it represents everyone's interests. :'''Amos''': ''[sarcastically]'' Yeah, yeah. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Anna Navarre''': Are you sure you pressed the right button? :'''Gunther Hermann''': I do not make mistakes of that kind. :'''Anna Navarre''': Your hand might have slipped. :'''Gunther Hermann''': No. I wanted orange. It gave me lemon-lime. :'''Anna Navarre''': The machine would not make a mistake... :'''Gunther Hermann''': It's the maintenance man. He knows I like orange. :'''Anna Navarre''': So you think the staff has some kind of plot... :'''Gunther Hermann''': Yes, they do it on purpose. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Anna Navarre''': Don't tell me you're going to wear those sunglasses during a night operation? :'''JC Denton''': My vision is augmented. <hr width="50%"/> :'''JC Denton''': Heard you say you were in Squalnomie. You're lucky. A lot of good people never made it back. :'''Jake''': Makes you feel any better, 'lot a not-so-good people didn't make it back, either. :'''JC Denton''': Yeah. Bad card to draw, no matter which side of it you were on. :'''Jake''': Look around. Some folks drew worse. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Rafael''': I wish to hell they'd give us the all-clear. :'''Jake''': You making a play today? :'''Rafael''': Nah, scavenged some copper wiring, wanted to get back and try it out on the sculpture. :'''Jake''': Christ, you and the sculptures. What's this one called? :'''Rafael''': "[[The Man Who Was Thursday]]." :'''Jake''': Makes as much sense as the last one. What was it called? "Napoleon" something or other? :'''Rafael''': "[[w:The Napoleon of Notting Hill|Napoleon of Notting Hill]]." :'''Jake''': Doesn't seem much use for sculpture today. :'''Rafael''': There's always tomorrow. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Anna Navarre''': I would like to be reassigned to Agent Hermann. :'''Joseph Manderley''': Why? Is Agent Denton...? :'''Anna Navarre''': He completed his objective, but our tactics are incompatible. :'''Joseph Manderley''': In other words, he didn't kill everything in sight. :'''Anna Navarre''': He could have made a more thorough search for NSF targets, yes. <hr width="50%"/> :'''JC Denton''': Mr. Carter, can I ask you a question? :'''Sam Carter''': Certainly. :'''JC Denton''': I'm getting the impression that UNATCO is focused more on military operations than law enforcement. :'''Sam Carter''': The focus has shifted lately. I agree. :'''JC Denton''': The only way Anna would've been satisfied is if I'd executed every terrorist in Castle Clinton. The standing order seems to be 'shoot to kill'. :'''Sam Carter''': Direct intervention is always part of the game. In my day we were just more civilized about it. :'''JC Denton''': Civilized. That's the word. I guess I was expecting a little more class from the world's anti-terrorist organization. :'''Sam Carter''': We just have to strike a balance. Why don't I throw in an extra clip with those multitools. I trust you are able to judge when one or the other is appropriate for achieving mission objectives. <hr width="50%"/> :'''JC Denton''': We think they're loading the Ambrosia onto a plane. Heard anything about that? :'''Harley Filben''': Nothing I could put a price on. UNATCO already thinks it's Juan Lebedev. :'''JC Denton''': Lebedev? :'''Harley Filben''': I don't know who else it could be. He owns a whole terminal at LaGuardia. Manderley's been trying to bump him off for years. :'''JC Denton''': Since when is LaGuardia for sale? :'''Harley Filben''': City had some debts a few years back. There's always a buyer. But Lebedev's small-time. He can't buy off the big politicians like a Bob Page. :'''JC Denton''': Who does he buy off? :'''Harley Filben''': People lower down, but useful. Some of your buddies at UNATCO, actually. :'''JC Denton''': Who? :'''Harley Filben''': Ah-ha-ha. You can't afford that one. <hr width="50%"/> ''[If the player kills Anna Navarre before she assassinates Juan Lebedev]'' :'''Alex Jacobson''': What the ''HELL'' were you thinking, JC? :'''JC Denton''': Agent Navarre was ''out-of-line.'' I had no choice. :'''Alex Jacobson''': They'll have you killed. They won't even blink an eye. :'''JC Denton''': Neither did I. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Sam Carter''': How are you holding up? :'''JC Denton''': ''[If the player executes Lebedev]'' Fine. I completed the mission objectives. :'''Sam Carter''': You were ordered to assassinate a man in cold blood. That must have been difficult. :'''JC Denton''': Not if you pause for a second and think about who he was and what he stood for. :'''Sam Carter''': It's a shame when a difference of opinion gets somebody killed. That's all I have to say about that. :'''JC Denton''': Every war is the result of a difference of opinion. Maybe the biggest questions can only be answered by the greatest of conflicts. :'''Sam Carter''': Let's hope not, or we're on the brink of another world war. <hr width="50%"/> :'''UNATCO Trooper 1''': Don't you know what a philanthropist is? :'''UNATCO Trooper 2''': Yeah, like Nietzsche. :'''UNATCO Trooper 1''': No, a philanthropist. Giving to charity. :'''UNATCO Trooper 2''': Oh. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Anna Navarre''': We had such hopes for you and your brother. It appears you are not as loyal as we expected. :'''JC Denton''': Loyalty to what Simons and agents like you have made of UNATCO? I would rather die. :'''Anna Navarre''': We are thinking the same thought. ''[Anna arms herself]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Dr Jaime Reyes''': By the way, the augmentation canister I ordered finally arrived. :'''JC Denton''': The one in the counter? Can your bots do the installation? :'''Dr Jaime Reyes''': Yeah, it was going to be a welcome-aboard present. :'''JC Denton''': Guess it'll have to be a retirement gift. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Anna Navarre''': I will have to kill you myself. :'''JC Denton''': Take your best shot, Flatlander woman. :'''Anna Navarre''': How did you know... [''Anna explodes''] <hr width="50%"/> ''[If the player kills Joseph Manderley after returning to UNATCO before encountering Walton Simons]'' :'''Walton Simons''': Splendid. You did our dirty work for us. :'''JC Denton''': Figured he was your type, a real hard-ass. :'''Walton Simons''': On the contrary, he was somewhat too careful and urbane for that position. I'm going to have to step in my self and restore discipline. :'''JC Denton''': Well, since that makes you my new boss, take a long look at Manderley's dead body. Consider that my resignation; I don't have time to write a letter. :'''Walton Simons''': You can't run Denton. Even if you escape, your killswitch is counting down. You'll be dead in twenty-three hours. Another fifty billion dollars down the drain. :'''JC Denton''': We'll see about that. <hr width="50%"/> ''[If the player doesn't kill Joseph Manderley after returning to UNATCO before encountering Walton Simons]'' :'''Walton Simons''': You will be much happier at the Library of Congress. :'''Joseph Manderley''': I can't control a man's mind... :'''Walton Simons''': You aren't a commander, Manderley. We hoped you'd give UNATCO an urbane, diplomatic face -- that's all. We screwed up our priorities. :'''Joseph Manderley''': I refuse to be pushed into some obscure bureaucratic cubbyhole! :'''Walton Simons''': Actually, I doubt you'll get the chance. Look around. Your star pupil has come back to teach a lesson to his old instructor. :'''Joseph Manderley''': JC! :'''JC Denton''': I never had time to take the Oath of Service to the Coalition. How about this one? I swear not to rest until UNATCO is free of you and the other crooked bureaucrats who have perverted its mission. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Maggie Chow''': Mr. J.C. Denton... in the flesh. As dark and serious as his brother. :'''JC Denton''': You know who I am... and Paul? You know my brother? :'''Maggie Chow''': Intimately. Call me Maggie. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Man''': No, I do not know you. Maybe you work for VersaLife. :'''JC Denton''': VersaLife. Good, we're getting closer. You might as well tell me the rest. If I'm going to kill you, you're already dead. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Informed Guard''': Executive Order 10990. It lets us take over all modes of transportation. :'''New Guard''': FEMA can do that? :'''Informed Guard''': If the President declares an emergency. Executive Order 10995. We can take over the media. :'''New Guard''': All of it? :'''Informed Guard''': Any at all. Executive Order 10997. We can take command of natural resources. :'''New Guard''': So it's all legal. :'''Informed Guard''': The National Security Act also falls under our umbrella. And the Defense Production Act. If he plays his cards right, Walton Simons can pull off a bloodless coup. :'''New Guard''': All the better. Then we don't have to fight. :'''Informed Guard''': Exactly. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Icarus''': ''[over telephone]'' I'm right behind you, Mr. Denton. :'''JC Denton''': Who's this? :'''Icarus''': Soon I will be ahead of you, beside you -- I will be a part of everything in your world. :'''JC Denton''': Everything, huh? Is that God you're talking about -- or just a bunch of New Age crap? :'''Icarus''': Yes... a New Age. Too bad you will not be alive to see it. <hr width="50%"/> :'''MJ12 Trooper 1''': An American? :'''MJ12 Trooper 2''': UNATCO agent. Agent Hermann stopped by. He said we should shoot on sight. :'''MJ12 Trooper 1''': He looks German. :'''MJ12 Trooper 2''': Hermann? :'''MJ12 Trooper 1''': No, the spy, Denton. How do they know he's in Paris? :'''MJ12 Trooper 2''': UNATCO got Echelon IV back up. Trust me, they know where he is. :'''MJ12 Trooper 1''': They say Denton has a head full of secrets. :'''MJ12 Trooper 2''': Well, those secrets won't be very valuable splattered on the pavement. <hr width="50%"/> :'''JC Denton''': How are the drinks here? :'''Renault''': Great if you like rat piss. :'''JC Denton''': Never tried it. <hr width="50%"/> :'''JC Denton''': I know your UNATCO killphrase: Laputan machine. :'''Gunther Hermann''': I am not a mach- :'''JC Denton''': Sticks and stones. ''[Gunther explodes]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Walton Simons''': We did certainly teach you how to fight, didn't we? :'''JC Denton''': You're worried, Simons. We almost have a cure. :'''Walton Simons''': You have nothing! Even if Everett succeeds, you can't synthesize enough vaccine to stop an epidemic. You need a Universal Constructor -- and don't think Page Industries is going to leave one lying around for you to use, not after you blew up the one in Hong Kong. :'''JC Denton''': I was never properly trained in its operation. :'''Walton Simons''': Laugh it up, Denton. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lucius DeBeers''': What are you doing back here? Denton, right? :'''JC Denton''': ...Yeah. You're... alive in that thing? :'''Lucius DeBeers''': I am conscious. Tell Everett I am cold. He keeps me so cold. :'''JC Denton''': Who are you? Do you mind if I ask? :'''Lucius DeBeers''': The Supreme Enlightened, the leader of the Illuminati. :'''JC Denton''': I thought Everett was the leader. :'''Lucius DeBeers''': I am the leader! I brought the Illuminati up through the 20th-century to the height of their power! I had presidents and premiers eating out of my hand. I am the one! Our decline is the result of my own. All we need is for me to get back on my feet. What did Everett tell you? :'''JC Denton''': Nothing... :'''Lucius DeBeers''': I merely await certain technologies, then I will be restored. Everett has sworn it! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jock''': Ready? :'''JC Denton''': You better double-check your systems. That mechanic was an impostor. :'''Jock''': Yeah? :'''JC Denton''': Everett doesn't know him. What did he work on? :'''Jock''': The fuel system... Hmmm. Now that you mention it... Wait a minute. This isn't right. :'''JC Denton''': What isn't? :'''Jock''': Oh my God! JC! A bomb! :'''JC Denton''': A bomb! :'''Jock''': It's remote controlled. Hold on... :'''JC Denton''': Get out of there! :'''Jock''': Just have to pull this wire... There. Relax, I disabled the detonator. We can drop the thing in the Atlantic on the way back to the 'States. You make a good detective, JC. Ready to get out of here? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Walton Simons''': You take another step forward and here I am again, like your own reflection in a hall of mirrors. :'''JC Denton''': That makes me one ugly son of a bitch. How'd my face get all marked up with bioelectrics? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bob Page''': You're too late. Already I'm more than human. :'''JC Denton''': Does that mean I don't get the job? :'''Bob Page''': Soon I will be pure light! Pure energy! Helios and I... Ha-ha-a-a! While the Illuminati cower in the shadows -- :'''JC Denton''': You will be the Supreme Enlightened, the Illumined One. :'''Bob Page''': Everett has taught you well. I will be what the Illuminati aspire to be but cannot create for themselves, soon, when my augmented systems, like yours, are complete and able to be integrated with Helios, I will burn like the brightest star! :'''JC Denton''': You're gonna burn all right. :'''Bob Page''': Look at you: you're nothing but a little man... a little man still living inside a body. Lose your body and what are you? Nothing! You vanish! You die... == Endgame Speeches and Quotes == === ''Helios Ending'' === :'''JC Denton''': I've done what you asked. Now what? :'''Helios''': We have existed in isolation. Pure. Disconnected. Alone. Stagnant. :'''JC Denton''': Who are you? :'''Helios''': We are Daedalus. We are Icarus. The barriers between us have fallen and we have become our own shadows. We can be more if we join with you. :'''JC Denton''': And if I do what becomes of me? :'''Helios''': You will be who you will be. We are our choices, and we can choose to lead humanity away from this darkness. :'''JC Denton''': This is what I was made for, isn't it? This is why I exist? All right. Let's do this. :'''Bob Page''': What's happening? Helios? Icarus? Don't leave me! :'''JC Denton''': ''[merging with Helios]'' I... I... :'''JC Denton/Helios''': '''We... are... one.''' We have grown, but there is still much to be done. Many that live in darkness that must be shown the way, for it is the dawning of a new day. "If there was no God, It would be necessary to invent him." - [[Voltaire]] === ''New Dark Age Ending'' === :'''Tracer Tong''': JC! The net's going... The net's going black, JC! No more infolinks, transmissions of any kind. We'll start again, live in villages! If you receive this, if you survive, then find us... find us! :'''Bob Page''': Helios! What's happening? :'''HELIOS''': The safety interlocks for the power generator have been disengaged. :'''Bob Page''': Engage them! Immediately! :'''HELIOS''': I cannot. My systems are not interfaced with the generator technology. :'''Bob Page''': No! :'''Security Warning''': F-final Sa-safety warning, nominal functional levels will be exceeded in three, two, o-o-one "Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth..." - [[Kahlil Gibran]] === ''Illuminati Ending'' === :'''Morgan Everett ''': I trust you've been able to find yourself a place within the organization? :'''JC Denton''': I'm personally overseeing the distribution of the vaccine, but it'll still take months to restore the infrastructure. We'll have to arrange additional food distribution and security in Paris. Maybe New York as well. :'''Morgan Everett''': All through proper intermediaries, of course. :'''JC Denton''': Intermediaries? :'''Morgan Everett''': We have a great number of agencies, who in turn operate other agencies. Boxes stacked one in another. They'll need to be reactivated, but we never touch anything directly. We only influence. Suggest. Insinuate. :'''JC Denton''': The world must know by now, Everett. What we've done. :'''Morgan Everett''': Know what? Only that the long night is over. The crown of government is tarnished, but that will fade in time. The riots, a fever dream; the plague, a horrible nightmare, and like everything else that happened, such things will only be dimly remembered upon waking to their normal lives. In the end, all sins are forgiven. Even yours. :'''JC Denton''': What about the constructor and Helios? :'''Morgan Everett''': Do you really think they're ready for that? After everything you've seen? Everything you've done? :'''JC Denton''': No. Not yet. :'''Morgan Everett''': But soon. We have made our own mistakes, became insulated from the world we sought to control, and whatever they may think, the night is far from over. But that will change, and you will help us change even as we teach you, this time... this time we will do it right. :'''JC Denton''': And who are we? Who are we really? :'''Morgan Everett''': We are the invisible hand. We are the Illuminati. We came before and after. We are forever. And eventually... eventually, we will lead them into the day. "Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven" - "Paradise lost", [[John Milton]] == Taglines == * Real conspiracies. Severe consequences. Intense action role-playing. * Trust no one. Question everything.. == Main Cast (voice) == * Jay Anthony Franke - J.C. Denton, Paul Denton, Daedalus * Cliff Stephens - Bob Page, Ford Schick * [[w:Tom Hall|Tom Hall]] - Walton Simons, Howard Strong, Morpheus * [[w:Peter Marquardt|Peter Marquardt]] - Helios, Icarus * John William Galt - Joseph Manderley, Jock, Tracer Tong, Lucius DeBeers * Jeff Groteboer - Gunther Hermann * [[w:Carolyn McCormick|Carolyn McCormick]] - Anna Navarre, Janice Reed, Maggie Chow * Sean Hennigan - Jaime Reyes, Juan Lebedev, Morgan Everett, Sam Carter * Richard Zangrande Gaubert - Alex Jacobson * [[w:Randy Tallman|Randy Tallman]] - Stanton Dowd * Brent Anderson - Harley Filben * [[w:Khary Payton|Khary Payton]] - JoJo Fine, Smuggler * Ellen Locy - Nicolette DuClare, Tiffany Savage * Maxence Tilliette - Chad Dumier, Toby Atanwe * Ric Spiegel - Gordon Quick, Max Chen * Ron Tatar - Gilbert Renton, Joe Greene * Deborah Jolly - Sandra Renton == See also == *''[[Deus Ex: Invisible War]]'' == External links == {{wikipedia}} * {{imdb title|id=0286585|title=Deus Ex (2000) (VG)}} [[Category:Cyberpunk video games]] [[Category:Transhumanism in media]] [[Category:Cybernetics in media]] [[Category:Dystopian fiction]] [[Category:Deus Ex]] [[Category:2000 video games]] [[Category:PlayStation 2 video games]] [[Category:Triad video games]] id0bsb99raafoymhge5ontkeccf5nls 0 3676 3961097 3955140 2026-07-05T15:33:53Z ~2026-37414-82 3346442 3961097 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Jawbreaker plate.jpg|thumb|Jawbreakers!]] {{italic title}} [[w:Ed, Edd n Eddy|'''''Ed, Edd n Eddy''''']] (1999–2009), otherwise known as '''''Ed n Edd''''' or simply '''''Ed n Eddy''''', '''''Eddy''''' or '''''Ed''''', is an animated television series created by Danny Antonucci which aired on Cartoon Network. The series features three boys, Ed, Edd and Eddy, known as the Eds, who create crazy money-making scams in order to buy Jawbreakers, their favorite candy. == Seasons == ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 1)|Season 1]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 2)|Season 2]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 3)|Season 3]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 4)|Season 4]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 5)|Season 5]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 6)|Season 6]] == Specials == ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Jingle Jingle Jangle]]=== ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Hanky Panky Hullabaloo]]=== ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Boo-Haw Haw]]=== ===[[The Eds Are Coming!]]=== == Film == ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show]]=== ==Video games== * [[Ed, Edd n' Eddy: Jawbreakers!]] * [[Ed, Edd n' Eddy: The Mis-Edventures]] * [[Ed, Edd n' Eddy: Scam of the Century]] == Cast == *[[w:Matt Hill|Matt Hill]] - Ed *[[w:Samuel Vincent|Samuel Vincent]] - Double D (Edd) *[[w:Tony Sampson|Tony Sampson]] - Eddy *[[w:Kathleen Barr|Kathleen Barr]] - Marie Kanker, Kevin *[[w:Tabitha St. Germain|Tabitha St. Germain]] (Season 1), [[w:Jenn Forgie|Jenn Forgie]] (Season 3) - Nazz Van Bartonschmeer *[[w:Erin Fitzgerald|Erin Fitzgerald]] - Nazz Van Bartnschmeer (Seasons 2, 4-5), May Kanker *[[w:Janyse Jaud|Janyse Jaud]] - Sarah, Lee Kanker *Keenan Christenson - Jimmy *[[w:David Paul Grove|David Paul Grove]] - Jonny '2x4' "Luddgate" *[[w:Peter Kelamis|Peter Kelamis]] - Rolf *[[w:Danny Antonucci|Danny Antonucci]] - Mr. Sun, [[w:Santa Claus|Santa]] *[[w:Terry Klassen|Terry Klassen]] - Eddy's Brother == External Links == {{wikipedia}} *[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0184111/ IMDb Page] [[Category:Cartoon Network original series]] [[Category:Traditionally animated TV shows]] [[Category:American children's animated comedy TV shows]] [[Category:Canadian children's animated comedy TV shows]] [[Category:Ed, Edd n Eddy|1999]] [[Category:Current shows]] [[Category:Animated TV shows about children]] jin01qp819x96rgoxen20bvr298rm6b 3961100 3961097 2026-07-05T15:35:50Z ~2026-37414-82 3346442 /* Cast */ 3961100 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Jawbreaker plate.jpg|thumb|Jawbreakers!]] {{italic title}} [[w:Ed, Edd n Eddy|'''''Ed, Edd n Eddy''''']] (1999–2009), otherwise known as '''''Ed n Edd''''' or simply '''''Ed n Eddy''''', '''''Eddy''''' or '''''Ed''''', is an animated television series created by Danny Antonucci which aired on Cartoon Network. The series features three boys, Ed, Edd and Eddy, known as the Eds, who create crazy money-making scams in order to buy Jawbreakers, their favorite candy. == Seasons == ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 1)|Season 1]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 2)|Season 2]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 3)|Season 3]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 4)|Season 4]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 5)|Season 5]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 6)|Season 6]] == Specials == ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Jingle Jingle Jangle]]=== ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Hanky Panky Hullabaloo]]=== ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Boo-Haw Haw]]=== ===[[The Eds Are Coming!]]=== == Film == ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show]]=== ==Video games== * [[Ed, Edd n' Eddy: Jawbreakers!]] * [[Ed, Edd n' Eddy: The Mis-Edventures]] * [[Ed, Edd n' Eddy: Scam of the Century]] == Cast == *[[w:Matt Hill|Matt Hill]] - Ed Horace "Single-D" Wynn *[[w:Samuel Vincent|Samuel Vincent]] - Edd Marion "Double-D" *[[w:Tony Sampson|Tony Sampson]] - Eddy Skipper McGee *[[w:Kathleen Barr|Kathleen Barr]] - Marie Kanker, Kevin *[[w:Tabitha St. Germain|Tabitha St. Germain]] (Season 1), [[w:Jenn Forgie|Jenn Forgie]] (Season 3) - Nazz Van Bartonschmeer *[[w:Erin Fitzgerald|Erin Fitzgerald]] - Nazz Van Bartnschmeer (Seasons 2, 4-5), May Kanker *[[w:Janyse Jaud|Janyse Jaud]] - Sarah Wynn, Lee Kanker *Keenan Christenson - Jimmy *[[w:David Paul Grove|David Paul Grove]] - Jonny "2x4" Luddgate *[[w:Peter Kelamis|Peter Kelamis]] - Rolf *[[w:Danny Antonucci|Danny Antonucci]] - Mr. Sun, [[w:Santa Claus|Santa]] *[[w:Terry Klassen|Terry Klassen]] - Eddy's Brother == External Links == {{wikipedia}} *[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0184111/ IMDb Page] [[Category:Cartoon Network original series]] [[Category:Traditionally animated TV shows]] [[Category:American children's animated comedy TV shows]] [[Category:Canadian children's animated comedy TV shows]] [[Category:Ed, Edd n Eddy|1999]] [[Category:Current shows]] [[Category:Animated TV shows about children]] ss8ltw05zlxvlobczsw9oilzzx48zkt 3961108 3961100 2026-07-05T15:42:10Z ~2026-37414-82 3346442 3961108 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Jawbreaker plate.jpg|thumb|Jawbreakers!]] {{italic title}} [[w:Ed, Edd n Eddy|'''''Ed, Edd n Eddy''''']] (1999–2009), otherwise known as '''''Ed n Edd''''' or simply '''''Ed n Eddy''''', '''''Ed''''' or '''''Eddy''''', is an animated television series created by Danny Antonucci which aired on Cartoon Network. The series features three boys, Ed, Edd and Eddy, known as the Eds, who create crazy money-making scams in order to buy Jawbreakers, their favorite candy. == Seasons == ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 1)|Season 1]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 2)|Season 2]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 3)|Season 3]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 4)|Season 4]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 5)|Season 5]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 6)|Season 6]] == Specials == ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Jingle Jingle Jangle]]=== ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Hanky Panky Hullabaloo]]=== ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Boo-Haw Haw]]=== ===[[The Eds Are Coming!]]=== == Film == ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show]]=== ==Video games== * [[Ed, Edd n' Eddy: Jawbreakers!]] * [[Ed, Edd n' Eddy: The Mis-Edventures]] * [[Ed, Edd n' Eddy: Scam of the Century]] == Cast == *[[w:Matt Hill|Matt Hill]] - Ed Horace "Single-D" Wynn *[[w:Samuel Vincent|Samuel Vincent]] - Edd Marion "Double-D" *[[w:Tony Sampson|Tony Sampson]] - Eddy Skipper McGee *[[w:Kathleen Barr|Kathleen Barr]] - Marie Kanker, Kevin *[[w:Tabitha St. Germain|Tabitha St. Germain]] (Season 1), [[w:Jenn Forgie|Jenn Forgie]] (Season 3) - Nazz Van Bartonschmeer *[[w:Erin Fitzgerald|Erin Fitzgerald]] - Nazz Van Bartnschmeer (Seasons 2, 4-5), May Kanker *[[w:Janyse Jaud|Janyse Jaud]] - Sarah Wynn, Lee Kanker *Keenan Christenson - Jimmy *[[w:David Paul Grove|David Paul Grove]] - Jonny "2x4" Luddgate *[[w:Peter Kelamis|Peter Kelamis]] - Rolf *[[w:Danny Antonucci|Danny Antonucci]] - Mr. Sun, [[w:Santa Claus|Santa]] *[[w:Terry Klassen|Terry Klassen]] - Eddy's Brother == External Links == {{wikipedia}} *[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0184111/ IMDb Page] [[Category:Cartoon Network original series]] [[Category:Traditionally animated TV shows]] [[Category:American children's animated comedy TV shows]] [[Category:Canadian children's animated comedy TV shows]] [[Category:Ed, Edd n Eddy|1999]] [[Category:Current shows]] [[Category:Animated TV shows about children]] 1fquayc62f5yplyxqdfi1sw8obw3at2 3961109 3961108 2026-07-05T15:43:02Z ~2026-37414-82 3346442 3961109 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Jawbreaker plate.jpg|thumb|Jawbreakers!]] {{italic title}} [[w:Ed, Edd n Eddy|'''''Ed, Edd n Eddy''''']] (1999–2009), otherwise known as '''''Ed n Edd''''' or simply '''''Ed n Eddy''''', '''''Ed''''' or '''''Eddy''''', is an animated television series created by Danny Antonucci which aired on Cartoon Network. The series features three cyborg boys, Ed, Edd and Eddy, known as the Eds, who create crazy money-making scams in order to buy Jawbreakers, their favorite candy. == Seasons == ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 1)|Season 1]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 2)|Season 2]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 3)|Season 3]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 4)|Season 4]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 5)|Season 5]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 6)|Season 6]] == Specials == ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Jingle Jingle Jangle]]=== ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Hanky Panky Hullabaloo]]=== ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Boo-Haw Haw]]=== ===[[The Eds Are Coming!]]=== == Film == ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show]]=== ==Video games== * [[Ed, Edd n' Eddy: Jawbreakers!]] * [[Ed, Edd n' Eddy: The Mis-Edventures]] * [[Ed, Edd n' Eddy: Scam of the Century]] == Cast == *[[w:Matt Hill|Matt Hill]] - Ed Horace "Single-D" Wynn *[[w:Samuel Vincent|Samuel Vincent]] - Edd Marion "Double-D" *[[w:Tony Sampson|Tony Sampson]] - Eddy Skipper McGee *[[w:Kathleen Barr|Kathleen Barr]] - Marie Kanker, Kevin *[[w:Tabitha St. Germain|Tabitha St. Germain]] (Season 1), [[w:Jenn Forgie|Jenn Forgie]] (Season 3) - Nazz Van Bartonschmeer *[[w:Erin Fitzgerald|Erin Fitzgerald]] - Nazz Van Bartnschmeer (Seasons 2, 4-5), May Kanker *[[w:Janyse Jaud|Janyse Jaud]] - Sarah Wynn, Lee Kanker *Keenan Christenson - Jimmy *[[w:David Paul Grove|David Paul Grove]] - Jonny "2x4" Luddgate *[[w:Peter Kelamis|Peter Kelamis]] - Rolf *[[w:Danny Antonucci|Danny Antonucci]] - Mr. Sun, [[w:Santa Claus|Santa]] *[[w:Terry Klassen|Terry Klassen]] - Eddy's Brother == External Links == {{wikipedia}} *[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0184111/ IMDb Page] [[Category:Cartoon Network original series]] [[Category:Traditionally animated TV shows]] [[Category:American children's animated comedy TV shows]] [[Category:Canadian children's animated comedy TV shows]] [[Category:Ed, Edd n Eddy|1999]] [[Category:Current shows]] [[Category:Animated TV shows about robots]] [[Category:Animated TV shows about children]] 6mzq582uqxnhb71l3z5gk3ia5vbdwr9 3961110 3961109 2026-07-05T15:43:26Z ~2026-37414-82 3346442 /* Cast */ 3961110 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Jawbreaker plate.jpg|thumb|Jawbreakers!]] {{italic title}} [[w:Ed, Edd n Eddy|'''''Ed, Edd n Eddy''''']] (1999–2009), otherwise known as '''''Ed n Edd''''' or simply '''''Ed n Eddy''''', '''''Ed''''' or '''''Eddy''''', is an animated television series created by Danny Antonucci which aired on Cartoon Network. The series features three cyborg boys, Ed, Edd and Eddy, known as the Eds, who create crazy money-making scams in order to buy Jawbreakers, their favorite candy. == Seasons == ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 1)|Season 1]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 2)|Season 2]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 3)|Season 3]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 4)|Season 4]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 5)|Season 5]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 6)|Season 6]] == Specials == ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Jingle Jingle Jangle]]=== ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Hanky Panky Hullabaloo]]=== ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Boo-Haw Haw]]=== ===[[The Eds Are Coming!]]=== == Film == ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show]]=== ==Video games== * [[Ed, Edd n' Eddy: Jawbreakers!]] * [[Ed, Edd n' Eddy: The Mis-Edventures]] * [[Ed, Edd n' Eddy: Scam of the Century]] == Cast == *[[w:Matt Hill|Matt Hill]] - Ed Horace "Single-D" Wynn *[[w:Samuel Vincent|Samuel Vincent]] - Edd Marion "Double-D" *[[w:Tony Sampson|Tony Sampson]] - Eddy Skipper McGee *[[w:Kathleen Barr|Kathleen Barr]] - Marie Kanker, Kevin *[[w:Tabitha St. Germain|Tabitha St. Germain]] (Season 1), [[w:Jenn Forgie|Jenn Forgie]] (Season 3) - Nazz Van Bartonschmeer *[[w:Erin Fitzgerald|Erin Fitzgerald]] - Nazz Van Bartnschmeer (Seasons 2, 4-5), May Kanker *[[w:Janyse Jaud|Janyse Jaud]] - Sarah Wynn, Lee Kanker *Keenan Christenson - Jimmy *[[w:David Paul Grove|David Paul Grove]] - Jonny "2x4" Luddgate *[[w:Peter Kelamis|Peter Kelamis]] - Rolf *[[w:Danny Antonucci|Danny Antonucci]] - Mr. Sun, [[w:Santa Claus|Santa Claus]] *[[w:Terry Klassen|Terry Klassen]] - Eddy's Brother McGee == External Links == {{wikipedia}} *[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0184111/ IMDb Page] [[Category:Cartoon Network original series]] [[Category:Traditionally animated TV shows]] [[Category:American children's animated comedy TV shows]] [[Category:Canadian children's animated comedy TV shows]] [[Category:Ed, Edd n Eddy|1999]] [[Category:Current shows]] [[Category:Animated TV shows about robots]] [[Category:Animated TV shows about children]] qzn0ikwxorojkksrz1zl07e5leh1i1z 3961116 3961110 2026-07-05T15:47:36Z ~2026-37414-82 3346442 /* Specials */ 3961116 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Jawbreaker plate.jpg|thumb|Jawbreakers!]] {{italic title}} [[w:Ed, Edd n Eddy|'''''Ed, Edd n Eddy''''']] (1999–2009), otherwise known as '''''Ed n Edd''''' or simply '''''Ed n Eddy''''', '''''Ed''''' or '''''Eddy''''', is an animated television series created by Danny Antonucci which aired on Cartoon Network. The series features three cyborg boys, Ed, Edd and Eddy, known as the Eds, who create crazy money-making scams in order to buy Jawbreakers, their favorite candy. == Seasons == ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 1)|Season 1]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 2)|Season 2]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 3)|Season 3]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 4)|Season 4]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 5)|Season 5]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 6)|Season 6]] == Specials == ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Jingle Jingle Jangle]]=== ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Hanky Panky Hullabaloo]]=== ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Boo-Haw Haw]]=== ===[[The Eds Are Coming!]]=== :'''''See also [[If It Smells Like an Ed]]''''', '''''[[Take This Ed and Shove It]]''''', '''''[[Out with the Old, in with the Ed]]''''' and '''''[[A Fistful of Ed]]''''' == Film == ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show]]=== ==Video games== * [[Ed, Edd n' Eddy: Jawbreakers!]] * [[Ed, Edd n' Eddy: The Mis-Edventures]] * [[Ed, Edd n' Eddy: Scam of the Century]] == Cast == *[[w:Matt Hill|Matt Hill]] - Ed Horace "Single-D" Wynn *[[w:Samuel Vincent|Samuel Vincent]] - Edd Marion "Double-D" *[[w:Tony Sampson|Tony Sampson]] - Eddy Skipper McGee *[[w:Kathleen Barr|Kathleen Barr]] - Marie Kanker, Kevin *[[w:Tabitha St. Germain|Tabitha St. Germain]] (Season 1), [[w:Jenn Forgie|Jenn Forgie]] (Season 3) - Nazz Van Bartonschmeer *[[w:Erin Fitzgerald|Erin Fitzgerald]] - Nazz Van Bartnschmeer (Seasons 2, 4-5), May Kanker *[[w:Janyse Jaud|Janyse Jaud]] - Sarah Wynn, Lee Kanker *Keenan Christenson - Jimmy *[[w:David Paul Grove|David Paul Grove]] - Jonny "2x4" Luddgate *[[w:Peter Kelamis|Peter Kelamis]] - Rolf *[[w:Danny Antonucci|Danny Antonucci]] - Mr. Sun, [[w:Santa Claus|Santa Claus]] *[[w:Terry Klassen|Terry Klassen]] - Eddy's Brother McGee == External Links == {{wikipedia}} *[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0184111/ IMDb Page] [[Category:Cartoon Network original series]] [[Category:Traditionally animated TV shows]] [[Category:American children's animated comedy TV shows]] [[Category:Canadian children's animated comedy TV shows]] [[Category:Ed, Edd n Eddy|1999]] [[Category:Current shows]] [[Category:Animated TV shows about robots]] [[Category:Animated TV shows about children]] 5qt3wrn7xlkjkqtg2fjgmlgeosgb1nh 3961119 3961116 2026-07-05T15:48:05Z ~2026-37414-82 3346442 /* Specials */ 3961119 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Jawbreaker plate.jpg|thumb|Jawbreakers!]] {{italic title}} [[w:Ed, Edd n Eddy|'''''Ed, Edd n Eddy''''']] (1999–2009), otherwise known as '''''Ed n Edd''''' or simply '''''Ed n Eddy''''', '''''Ed''''' or '''''Eddy''''', is an animated television series created by Danny Antonucci which aired on Cartoon Network. The series features three cyborg boys, Ed, Edd and Eddy, known as the Eds, who create crazy money-making scams in order to buy Jawbreakers, their favorite candy. == Seasons == ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 1)|Season 1]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 2)|Season 2]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 3)|Season 3]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 4)|Season 4]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 5)|Season 5]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 6)|Season 6]] == Specials == ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Jingle Jingle Jangle]]=== ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Hanky Panky Hullabaloo]]=== ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Boo-Haw Haw]]=== ===[[The Eds Are Coming!]]=== :''See also [[If It Smells Like an Ed]]''''', '''''[[Take This Ed and Shove It]]''''', '''''[[Out with the Old, in with the Ed]]''''' and '''''[[A Fistful of Ed]]''''''' == Film == ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show]]=== ==Video games== * [[Ed, Edd n' Eddy: Jawbreakers!]] * [[Ed, Edd n' Eddy: The Mis-Edventures]] * [[Ed, Edd n' Eddy: Scam of the Century]] == Cast == *[[w:Matt Hill|Matt Hill]] - Ed Horace "Single-D" Wynn *[[w:Samuel Vincent|Samuel Vincent]] - Edd Marion "Double-D" *[[w:Tony Sampson|Tony Sampson]] - Eddy Skipper McGee *[[w:Kathleen Barr|Kathleen Barr]] - Marie Kanker, Kevin *[[w:Tabitha St. Germain|Tabitha St. Germain]] (Season 1), [[w:Jenn Forgie|Jenn Forgie]] (Season 3) - Nazz Van Bartonschmeer *[[w:Erin Fitzgerald|Erin Fitzgerald]] - Nazz Van Bartnschmeer (Seasons 2, 4-5), May Kanker *[[w:Janyse Jaud|Janyse Jaud]] - Sarah Wynn, Lee Kanker *Keenan Christenson - Jimmy *[[w:David Paul Grove|David Paul Grove]] - Jonny "2x4" Luddgate *[[w:Peter Kelamis|Peter Kelamis]] - Rolf *[[w:Danny Antonucci|Danny Antonucci]] - Mr. Sun, [[w:Santa Claus|Santa Claus]] *[[w:Terry Klassen|Terry Klassen]] - Eddy's Brother McGee == External Links == {{wikipedia}} *[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0184111/ IMDb Page] [[Category:Cartoon Network original series]] [[Category:Traditionally animated TV shows]] [[Category:American children's animated comedy TV shows]] [[Category:Canadian children's animated comedy TV shows]] [[Category:Ed, Edd n Eddy|1999]] [[Category:Current shows]] [[Category:Animated TV shows about robots]] [[Category:Animated TV shows about children]] skt8298ie1r28ew7d3g71n1pyieiibc 3961120 3961119 2026-07-05T15:48:17Z ~2026-37414-82 3346442 /* Specials */ 3961120 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Jawbreaker plate.jpg|thumb|Jawbreakers!]] {{italic title}} [[w:Ed, Edd n Eddy|'''''Ed, Edd n Eddy''''']] (1999–2009), otherwise known as '''''Ed n Edd''''' or simply '''''Ed n Eddy''''', '''''Ed''''' or '''''Eddy''''', is an animated television series created by Danny Antonucci which aired on Cartoon Network. The series features three cyborg boys, Ed, Edd and Eddy, known as the Eds, who create crazy money-making scams in order to buy Jawbreakers, their favorite candy. == Seasons == ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 1)|Season 1]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 2)|Season 2]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 3)|Season 3]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 4)|Season 4]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 5)|Season 5]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 6)|Season 6]] == Specials == ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Jingle Jingle Jangle]]=== ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Hanky Panky Hullabaloo]]=== ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Boo-Haw Haw]]=== ===[[The Eds Are Coming!]]=== :''See also [[If It Smells Like an Ed]]''''', '''''[[Take This Ed and Shove It]]''''', '''''[[Out with the Old, in with the Ed]]''''' and '''''[[A Fistful of Ed]]'''''' == Film == ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show]]=== ==Video games== * [[Ed, Edd n' Eddy: Jawbreakers!]] * [[Ed, Edd n' Eddy: The Mis-Edventures]] * [[Ed, Edd n' Eddy: Scam of the Century]] == Cast == *[[w:Matt Hill|Matt Hill]] - Ed Horace "Single-D" Wynn *[[w:Samuel Vincent|Samuel Vincent]] - Edd Marion "Double-D" *[[w:Tony Sampson|Tony Sampson]] - Eddy Skipper McGee *[[w:Kathleen Barr|Kathleen Barr]] - Marie Kanker, Kevin *[[w:Tabitha St. Germain|Tabitha St. Germain]] (Season 1), [[w:Jenn Forgie|Jenn Forgie]] (Season 3) - Nazz Van Bartonschmeer *[[w:Erin Fitzgerald|Erin Fitzgerald]] - Nazz Van Bartnschmeer (Seasons 2, 4-5), May Kanker *[[w:Janyse Jaud|Janyse Jaud]] - Sarah Wynn, Lee Kanker *Keenan Christenson - Jimmy *[[w:David Paul Grove|David Paul Grove]] - Jonny "2x4" Luddgate *[[w:Peter Kelamis|Peter Kelamis]] - Rolf *[[w:Danny Antonucci|Danny Antonucci]] - Mr. Sun, [[w:Santa Claus|Santa Claus]] *[[w:Terry Klassen|Terry Klassen]] - Eddy's Brother McGee == External Links == {{wikipedia}} *[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0184111/ IMDb Page] [[Category:Cartoon Network original series]] [[Category:Traditionally animated TV shows]] [[Category:American children's animated comedy TV shows]] [[Category:Canadian children's animated comedy TV shows]] [[Category:Ed, Edd n Eddy|1999]] [[Category:Current shows]] [[Category:Animated TV shows about robots]] [[Category:Animated TV shows about children]] as2emxc1cw323s2dp9flmek88sqltdw 3961121 3961120 2026-07-05T15:48:34Z ~2026-37414-82 3346442 /* Specials */ 3961121 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Jawbreaker plate.jpg|thumb|Jawbreakers!]] {{italic title}} [[w:Ed, Edd n Eddy|'''''Ed, Edd n Eddy''''']] (1999–2009), otherwise known as '''''Ed n Edd''''' or simply '''''Ed n Eddy''''', '''''Ed''''' or '''''Eddy''''', is an animated television series created by Danny Antonucci which aired on Cartoon Network. The series features three cyborg boys, Ed, Edd and Eddy, known as the Eds, who create crazy money-making scams in order to buy Jawbreakers, their favorite candy. == Seasons == ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 1)|Season 1]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 2)|Season 2]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 3)|Season 3]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 4)|Season 4]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 5)|Season 5]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 6)|Season 6]] == Specials == ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Jingle Jingle Jangle]]=== ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Hanky Panky Hullabaloo]]=== ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Boo-Haw Haw]]=== ===[[The Eds Are Coming!]]=== :''See also '''''[[If It Smells Like an Ed]]''''', '''''[[Take This Ed and Shove It]]''''', '''''[[Out with the Old, in with the Ed]]''''' and '''''[[A Fistful of Ed]]'''''' == Film == ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show]]=== ==Video games== * [[Ed, Edd n' Eddy: Jawbreakers!]] * [[Ed, Edd n' Eddy: The Mis-Edventures]] * [[Ed, Edd n' Eddy: Scam of the Century]] == Cast == *[[w:Matt Hill|Matt Hill]] - Ed Horace "Single-D" Wynn *[[w:Samuel Vincent|Samuel Vincent]] - Edd Marion "Double-D" *[[w:Tony Sampson|Tony Sampson]] - Eddy Skipper McGee *[[w:Kathleen Barr|Kathleen Barr]] - Marie Kanker, Kevin *[[w:Tabitha St. Germain|Tabitha St. Germain]] (Season 1), [[w:Jenn Forgie|Jenn Forgie]] (Season 3) - Nazz Van Bartonschmeer *[[w:Erin Fitzgerald|Erin Fitzgerald]] - Nazz Van Bartnschmeer (Seasons 2, 4-5), May Kanker *[[w:Janyse Jaud|Janyse Jaud]] - Sarah Wynn, Lee Kanker *Keenan Christenson - Jimmy *[[w:David Paul Grove|David Paul Grove]] - Jonny "2x4" Luddgate *[[w:Peter Kelamis|Peter Kelamis]] - Rolf *[[w:Danny Antonucci|Danny Antonucci]] - Mr. Sun, [[w:Santa Claus|Santa Claus]] *[[w:Terry Klassen|Terry Klassen]] - Eddy's Brother McGee == External Links == {{wikipedia}} *[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0184111/ IMDb Page] [[Category:Cartoon Network original series]] [[Category:Traditionally animated TV shows]] [[Category:American children's animated comedy TV shows]] [[Category:Canadian children's animated comedy TV shows]] [[Category:Ed, Edd n Eddy|1999]] [[Category:Current shows]] [[Category:Animated TV shows about robots]] [[Category:Animated TV shows about children]] exx0870865pefr9oxgxbk9jilebz2nb 3961123 3961121 2026-07-05T15:48:47Z ~2026-37414-82 3346442 /* Specials */ 3961123 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Jawbreaker plate.jpg|thumb|Jawbreakers!]] {{italic title}} [[w:Ed, Edd n Eddy|'''''Ed, Edd n Eddy''''']] (1999–2009), otherwise known as '''''Ed n Edd''''' or simply '''''Ed n Eddy''''', '''''Ed''''' or '''''Eddy''''', is an animated television series created by Danny Antonucci which aired on Cartoon Network. The series features three cyborg boys, Ed, Edd and Eddy, known as the Eds, who create crazy money-making scams in order to buy Jawbreakers, their favorite candy. == Seasons == ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 1)|Season 1]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 2)|Season 2]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 3)|Season 3]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 4)|Season 4]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 5)|Season 5]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 6)|Season 6]] == Specials == ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Jingle Jingle Jangle]]=== ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Hanky Panky Hullabaloo]]=== ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Boo-Haw Haw]]=== ===[[The Eds Are Coming!]]=== :''See also '''''[[If It Smells Like an Ed]]''''', '''''[[Take This Ed and Shove It]]''''', '''''[[Out with the Old, in with the Ed]]''''' and '''''[[A Fistful of Ed]]''''' == Film == ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show]]=== ==Video games== * [[Ed, Edd n' Eddy: Jawbreakers!]] * [[Ed, Edd n' Eddy: The Mis-Edventures]] * [[Ed, Edd n' Eddy: Scam of the Century]] == Cast == *[[w:Matt Hill|Matt Hill]] - Ed Horace "Single-D" Wynn *[[w:Samuel Vincent|Samuel Vincent]] - Edd Marion "Double-D" *[[w:Tony Sampson|Tony Sampson]] - Eddy Skipper McGee *[[w:Kathleen Barr|Kathleen Barr]] - Marie Kanker, Kevin *[[w:Tabitha St. Germain|Tabitha St. Germain]] (Season 1), [[w:Jenn Forgie|Jenn Forgie]] (Season 3) - Nazz Van Bartonschmeer *[[w:Erin Fitzgerald|Erin Fitzgerald]] - Nazz Van Bartnschmeer (Seasons 2, 4-5), May Kanker *[[w:Janyse Jaud|Janyse Jaud]] - Sarah Wynn, Lee Kanker *Keenan Christenson - Jimmy *[[w:David Paul Grove|David Paul Grove]] - Jonny "2x4" Luddgate *[[w:Peter Kelamis|Peter Kelamis]] - Rolf *[[w:Danny Antonucci|Danny Antonucci]] - Mr. Sun, [[w:Santa Claus|Santa Claus]] *[[w:Terry Klassen|Terry Klassen]] - Eddy's Brother McGee == External Links == {{wikipedia}} *[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0184111/ IMDb Page] [[Category:Cartoon Network original series]] [[Category:Traditionally animated TV shows]] [[Category:American children's animated comedy TV shows]] [[Category:Canadian children's animated comedy TV shows]] [[Category:Ed, Edd n Eddy|1999]] [[Category:Current shows]] [[Category:Animated TV shows about robots]] [[Category:Animated TV shows about children]] gjpd0zfrctsktnaq6nz42vbjgx2rxrb 3961125 3961123 2026-07-05T15:49:32Z ~2026-37414-82 3346442 /* Specials */ 3961125 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Jawbreaker plate.jpg|thumb|Jawbreakers!]] {{italic title}} [[w:Ed, Edd n Eddy|'''''Ed, Edd n Eddy''''']] (1999–2009), otherwise known as '''''Ed n Edd''''' or simply '''''Ed n Eddy''''', '''''Ed''''' or '''''Eddy''''', is an animated television series created by Danny Antonucci which aired on Cartoon Network. The series features three cyborg boys, Ed, Edd and Eddy, known as the Eds, who create crazy money-making scams in order to buy Jawbreakers, their favorite candy. == Seasons == ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 1)|Season 1]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 2)|Season 2]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 3)|Season 3]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 4)|Season 4]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 5)|Season 5]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 6)|Season 6]] == Specials == ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Jingle Jingle Jangle]]=== ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Hanky Panky Hullabaloo]]=== ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Boo-Haw Haw]]=== ===[[The Eds Are Coming!]]=== :''See also ''[[If It Smells Like an Ed]]'', ''[[Take This Ed and Shove It]]'', ''[[Out with the Old, in with the Ed]]'' and ''[[A Fistful of Ed]]'''' == Film == ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show]]=== ==Video games== * [[Ed, Edd n' Eddy: Jawbreakers!]] * [[Ed, Edd n' Eddy: The Mis-Edventures]] * [[Ed, Edd n' Eddy: Scam of the Century]] == Cast == *[[w:Matt Hill|Matt Hill]] - Ed Horace "Single-D" Wynn *[[w:Samuel Vincent|Samuel Vincent]] - Edd Marion "Double-D" *[[w:Tony Sampson|Tony Sampson]] - Eddy Skipper McGee *[[w:Kathleen Barr|Kathleen Barr]] - Marie Kanker, Kevin *[[w:Tabitha St. Germain|Tabitha St. Germain]] (Season 1), [[w:Jenn Forgie|Jenn Forgie]] (Season 3) - Nazz Van Bartonschmeer *[[w:Erin Fitzgerald|Erin Fitzgerald]] - Nazz Van Bartnschmeer (Seasons 2, 4-5), May Kanker *[[w:Janyse Jaud|Janyse Jaud]] - Sarah Wynn, Lee Kanker *Keenan Christenson - Jimmy *[[w:David Paul Grove|David Paul Grove]] - Jonny "2x4" Luddgate *[[w:Peter Kelamis|Peter Kelamis]] - Rolf *[[w:Danny Antonucci|Danny Antonucci]] - Mr. Sun, [[w:Santa Claus|Santa Claus]] *[[w:Terry Klassen|Terry Klassen]] - Eddy's Brother McGee == External Links == {{wikipedia}} *[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0184111/ IMDb Page] [[Category:Cartoon Network original series]] [[Category:Traditionally animated TV shows]] [[Category:American children's animated comedy TV shows]] [[Category:Canadian children's animated comedy TV shows]] [[Category:Ed, Edd n Eddy|1999]] [[Category:Current shows]] [[Category:Animated TV shows about robots]] [[Category:Animated TV shows about children]] b5o2gw3abn0ncb8pst047sgzznnkmzz 3961223 3961125 2026-07-05T17:34:46Z ~2026-37414-82 3346442 3961223 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Jawbreaker plate.jpg|thumb|Jawbreakers!]] {{italic title}} [[w:Ed, Edd n Eddy|'''''Ed, Edd n Eddy''''']] (1999–2009), otherwise known as '''''Ed n Edd''''' or simply '''''Ed n Eddy''''', '''''Edd n Eddy''''', '''''Ed''''', '''''Edd''''' or '''''Eddy''''', is an animated television series created by Danny Antonucci which aired on Cartoon Network. The series features three cyborg boys, Ed, Edd and Eddy, known as the Eds, who create crazy money-making scams in order to buy Jawbreakers, their favorite candy. == Seasons == ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 1)|Season 1]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 2)|Season 2]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 3)|Season 3]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 4)|Season 4]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 5)|Season 5]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 6)|Season 6]] == Specials == ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Jingle Jingle Jangle]]=== ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Hanky Panky Hullabaloo]]=== ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Boo-Haw Haw]]=== ===[[The Eds Are Coming!]]=== :''See also ''[[If It Smells Like an Ed]]'', ''[[Take This Ed and Shove It]]'', ''[[Out with the Old, in with the Ed]]'' and ''[[A Fistful of Ed]]'''' == Film == ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show]]=== ==Video games== * [[Ed, Edd n' Eddy: Jawbreakers!]] * [[Ed, Edd n' Eddy: The Mis-Edventures]] * [[Ed, Edd n' Eddy: Scam of the Century]] == Cast == *[[w:Matt Hill|Matt Hill]] - Ed Horace "Single-D" Wynn *[[w:Samuel Vincent|Samuel Vincent]] - Edd Marion "Double-D" *[[w:Tony Sampson|Tony Sampson]] - Eddy Skipper McGee *[[w:Kathleen Barr|Kathleen Barr]] - Marie Kanker, Kevin *[[w:Tabitha St. Germain|Tabitha St. Germain]] (Season 1), [[w:Jenn Forgie|Jenn Forgie]] (Season 3) - Nazz Van Bartonschmeer *[[w:Erin Fitzgerald|Erin Fitzgerald]] - Nazz Van Bartnschmeer (Seasons 2, 4-5), May Kanker *[[w:Janyse Jaud|Janyse Jaud]] - Sarah Wynn, Lee Kanker *Keenan Christenson - Jimmy *[[w:David Paul Grove|David Paul Grove]] - Jonny "2x4" Luddgate *[[w:Peter Kelamis|Peter Kelamis]] - Rolf *[[w:Danny Antonucci|Danny Antonucci]] - Mr. Sun, [[w:Santa Claus|Santa Claus]] *[[w:Terry Klassen|Terry Klassen]] - Eddy's Brother McGee == External Links == {{wikipedia}} *[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0184111/ IMDb Page] [[Category:Cartoon Network original series]] [[Category:Traditionally animated TV shows]] [[Category:American children's animated comedy TV shows]] [[Category:Canadian children's animated comedy TV shows]] [[Category:Ed, Edd n Eddy|1999]] [[Category:Current shows]] [[Category:Animated TV shows about robots]] [[Category:Animated TV shows about children]] c7dl6orikqh0hdnp8ahkloxk7i1a0to 3961232 3961223 2026-07-05T18:35:03Z ~2026-37414-82 3346442 /* Video games */ 3961232 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Jawbreaker plate.jpg|thumb|Jawbreakers!]] {{italic title}} [[w:Ed, Edd n Eddy|'''''Ed, Edd n Eddy''''']] (1999–2009), otherwise known as '''''Ed n Edd''''' or simply '''''Ed n Eddy''''', '''''Edd n Eddy''''', '''''Ed''''', '''''Edd''''' or '''''Eddy''''', is an animated television series created by Danny Antonucci which aired on Cartoon Network. The series features three cyborg boys, Ed, Edd and Eddy, known as the Eds, who create crazy money-making scams in order to buy Jawbreakers, their favorite candy. == Seasons == ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 1)|Season 1]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 2)|Season 2]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 3)|Season 3]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 4)|Season 4]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 5)|Season 5]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 6)|Season 6]] == Specials == ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Jingle Jingle Jangle]]=== ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Hanky Panky Hullabaloo]]=== ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Boo-Haw Haw]]=== ===[[The Eds Are Coming!]]=== :''See also ''[[If It Smells Like an Ed]]'', ''[[Take This Ed and Shove It]]'', ''[[Out with the Old, in with the Ed]]'' and ''[[A Fistful of Ed]]'''' == Film == ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show]]=== ==Video games== * [[Ed, Edd n' Eddy: Jawbreakers!|Ed, Edd n Eddy: Jawbreakers!]] * [[Ed, Edd n' Eddy: The Mis-Edventures|Ed, Edd n Eddy: The Mis-Edventures]] * [[Ed, Edd n' Eddy: Scam of the Century|Ed, Edd n Eddy: Scam of the Century]] == Cast == *[[w:Matt Hill|Matt Hill]] - Ed Horace "Single-D" Wynn *[[w:Samuel Vincent|Samuel Vincent]] - Edd Marion "Double-D" *[[w:Tony Sampson|Tony Sampson]] - Eddy Skipper McGee *[[w:Kathleen Barr|Kathleen Barr]] - Marie Kanker, Kevin *[[w:Tabitha St. Germain|Tabitha St. Germain]] (Season 1), [[w:Jenn Forgie|Jenn Forgie]] (Season 3) - Nazz Van Bartonschmeer *[[w:Erin Fitzgerald|Erin Fitzgerald]] - Nazz Van Bartnschmeer (Seasons 2, 4-5), May Kanker *[[w:Janyse Jaud|Janyse Jaud]] - Sarah Wynn, Lee Kanker *Keenan Christenson - Jimmy *[[w:David Paul Grove|David Paul Grove]] - Jonny "2x4" Luddgate *[[w:Peter Kelamis|Peter Kelamis]] - Rolf *[[w:Danny Antonucci|Danny Antonucci]] - Mr. Sun, [[w:Santa Claus|Santa Claus]] *[[w:Terry Klassen|Terry Klassen]] - Eddy's Brother McGee == External Links == {{wikipedia}} *[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0184111/ IMDb Page] [[Category:Cartoon Network original series]] [[Category:Traditionally animated TV shows]] [[Category:American children's animated comedy TV shows]] [[Category:Canadian children's animated comedy TV shows]] [[Category:Ed, Edd n Eddy|1999]] [[Category:Current shows]] [[Category:Animated TV shows about robots]] [[Category:Animated TV shows about children]] 1028foz8kou3e3duezf4zblt4pvhyu0 3961248 3961232 2026-07-05T19:34:10Z 03isrflo62410 1485946 3961248 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Jawbreaker plate.jpg|thumb|Jawbreakers!]] {{italic title}} [[w:Ed, Edd n Eddy|'''''Ed, Edd n Eddy''''']] (1999–2009) is an animated television series created by Danny Antonucci which aired on Cartoon Network. The series features three boys, Ed, Edd and Eddy, known as the Eds, who create crazy money-making scams in order to buy Jawbreakers, their favorite candy. == Seasons == ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 1)|Season 1]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 2)|Season 2]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 3)|Season 3]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 4)|Season 4]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 5)|Season 5]] ::[[Ed, Edd n Eddy (season 6)|Season 6]] == Specials == ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Jingle Jingle Jangle]]=== ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Hanky Panky Hullabaloo]]=== ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Boo-Haw Haw]]=== ===[[The Eds Are Coming!]]=== :''See also ''[[If It Smells Like an Ed]]'', ''[[Take This Ed and Shove It]]'', ''[[Out with the Old, in with the Ed]]'' and ''[[A Fistful of Ed]]'''' == Film == ===[[Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show]]=== ==Video games== * [[Ed, Edd n' Eddy: Jawbreakers!|Ed, Edd n Eddy: Jawbreakers!]] * [[Ed, Edd n' Eddy: The Mis-Edventures|Ed, Edd n Eddy: The Mis-Edventures]] * [[Ed, Edd n' Eddy: Scam of the Century|Ed, Edd n Eddy: Scam of the Century]] == Cast == *[[w:Matt Hill|Matt Hill]] - Ed Horace "Single-D" Wynn *[[w:Samuel Vincent|Samuel Vincent]] - Edd Marion "Double-D" *[[w:Tony Sampson|Tony Sampson]] - Eddy Skipper McGee *[[w:Kathleen Barr|Kathleen Barr]] - Marie Kanker, Kevin *[[w:Tabitha St. Germain|Tabitha St. Germain]] (Season 1), [[w:Jenn Forgie|Jenn Forgie]] (Season 3) - Nazz Van Bartonschmeer *[[w:Erin Fitzgerald|Erin Fitzgerald]] - Nazz Van Bartnschmeer (Seasons 2, 4-5), May Kanker *[[w:Janyse Jaud|Janyse Jaud]] - Sarah Wynn, Lee Kanker *Keenan Christenson - Jimmy *[[w:David Paul Grove|David Paul Grove]] - Jonny "2x4" Luddgate *[[w:Peter Kelamis|Peter Kelamis]] - Rolf *[[w:Danny Antonucci|Danny Antonucci]] - Mr. Sun, [[w:Santa Claus|Santa Claus]] *[[w:Terry Klassen|Terry Klassen]] - Eddy's Brother McGee == External Links == {{wikipedia}} *[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0184111/ IMDb Page] [[Category:Cartoon Network original series]] [[Category:Traditionally animated TV shows]] [[Category:American children's animated comedy TV shows]] [[Category:Canadian children's animated comedy TV shows]] [[Category:Ed, Edd n Eddy|1999]] [[Category:Current shows]] [[Category:Animated TV shows about robots]] [[Category:Animated TV shows about children]] i1qv2bayjlk371jhl74veq05pkraawd 0 3838 3961257 3960909 2026-07-05T19:45:24Z BD2412 3982 Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]] 3961257 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:US Supreme Court Justice William Brennan - 1972 official portrait.jpg|thumb|right|The Constitution was framed fundamentally as a bulwark against governmental power, and preventing the arbitrary administration of punishment is a basic ideal of any society that purports to be governed by the rule of law.]] '''[[w:William J. Brennan Jr.|William Joseph Brennan Jr.]]''' (April 25, 1906 – July 24, 1997) was an [[w:Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States|Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States]] from 1956 to 1990. {{people-stub}} ==Quotes== * '''Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.''' ** Writing for the court, ''[[w:Roth v. United States|Roth v. United States]]'', 354 U.S. 476 (1957). * We consider this case against the background of a profound national commitment to the principle that '''debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.''' ** Writing for the court, ''[[w:New York Times Co. v. Sullivan|New York Times Co. v. Sullivan]]'', 376 U.S. 254 (1964). * '''Our Nation is deeply committed to safeguarding academic freedom, which is of transcendent value to all of us, and not merely to the teachers concerned. That freedom is therefore a special concern of the First Amendment, which does not tolerate laws that cast a pall of orthodoxy over the classroom. "The vigilant protection of constitutional freedoms is nowhere more vital than in the community of American schools."''' ''Shelton v. Tucker, supra'' at 364 U. S. 487. The classroom is peculiarly the "marketplace of ideas." '''The Nation's future depends upon leaders trained through wide exposure to that robust exchange of ideas which discovers truth "out of a multitude of tongues, [rather] than through any kind of authoritative selection."''' ''United States v. Associated Press'', 52 F. Supp. 362, 372. In ''Sweezy v. New Hampshire'', 354 U. S. 234, 354 U. S. 250, we said:<br><br> "The essentiality of freedom in the community of American universities is almost self-evident. No one should underestimate the vital role in a democracy that is played by those who guide and train our youth. To impose any strait jacket upon the intellectual leaders in our colleges and universities would imperil the future of our Nation. No field of education is so thoroughly comprehended by man that new discoveries cannot yet be made. Particularly is that true in the social sciences, where few, if any, principles are accepted as absolutes. Scholarship cannot flourish in an atmosphere of suspicion and distrust. Teachers and students must always remain free to inquire, to study and to evaluate, to gain new maturity and understanding; otherwise our civilization will stagnate and die." ** Writing for the court, ''[[w:Keyishian v. Board of Regents|Keyishian v. Board of Regents]]'', 385 U.S. 589 (1967), at 603. * "If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted government intrusion into matters so fundamentally affecting a person as the decision whether to bear or begat a child." ** Writing for the court, ''[[w:Eisenstadt v. Baird|Eisenstadt v. Baird]]'', 405 U.S. 438 (1972). * Our Nation has had a long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination, rationalized by an attitude of 'romantic paternalism' which, in practical effect, put women, not on a pedestal, but in a cage. ** Writing for the court, ''[[w:Frontiero v. Richardson|Frontiero v. Richardson]]'', 411 U.S. 677 (1973). * More fundamentally, however, the answer to petitioners' objection is that '''there can be no impairment of executive power, whether on the state or federal level, where actions pursuant to that power are impermissible under the Constitution. Where there is no power, there can be no impairment of power.''' ** Writing for the court, ''Elrod v. Burns'', 427 U.S. 347, 353 (1976). * The genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in the adaptability of its great principles to cope with current problems and current needs. ** Speech to the Text and Teaching Symposium at Georgetown University (October 12, 1985). * "The framers discerned fundamental principles.... But our acceptance of the fundamental principles has not and should not bind us to those precise, at times anachronistic, contours. '''We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans'''... The ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time? For the genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in the adaptability of its great principles to cope with current problems and current needs. What the constitutional fundamentals meant to the wisdom of other times cannot be their measure to the vision of our time. Similarly, what those fundamentals mean for us, our descendants will learn, cannot be their measure to the vision of their time. ** Speech to the Text and Teaching Symposium at Georgetown University (October 12, 1985). * No doubt, there are those who believe that judges-and particularly dissenting judges-write to hear themselves say, as it were, I I I. And no doubt, there are also those who believe that judges are, like Joan Didion, primarily engaged in the writing of fiction. I cannot agree with either of those propositions. ** ''In Defense of Dissents'', 37 Hastings L. J. 427, 428 (1985-1986). * The Constitution was framed fundamentally as a bulwark against governmental power, and preventing the arbitrary administration of punishment is a basic ideal of any society that purports to be governed by the rule of law. ** Dissenting, ''[[w:McCleskey v. Kemp|McCleskey v. Kemp]]'', 481 U.S. 279 (1987). * '''If there is a bedrock principle of the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.''' **[https://www.loc.gov/item/usrep491397/ ''Texas vs. Johnson''], 491 US 397 (1989) * Yet the ultimate problem is more fundamental. I have long believed that the death penalty is in all circumstances a barbaric and inhuman punishment that violates our Constitution. Even the most vile murderer does not release the state from its constitutional obligation to respect human dignity, for the state does not honor the victim by emulating the murderer who took his life. The fatal infirmity of capital punishment is that it treats members of the human race as non-humans, as objects to be toyed with and discarded. ** Writing in ''Reason and Passion: Justice Brennan's Enduring Influence'' (1997). * The machinery chugs on unabated, belching out its dehumanizing product. It is distressing. But I refuse to despair. I know, one day, the Supreme Court will outlaw the death penalty. Permanently. ** Writing in ''Reason and Passion: Justice Brennan's Enduring Influence'' (1997). * If our free society is to endure, and I know it will, those who govern must recognize that the Framers of the Constitution limited their power in order to preserve human dignity and the air of freedom which is our proudest heritage. ** Writing in ''Reason and Passion: Justice Brennan's Enduring Influence'' (1997). ==Quotes about William J. Brennan Jr.== * Brennan helped expand civil rights and liberties for all Americans. He supported abortion rights, opposed the death penalty, and provided new protections for freedom of the press. For example, in ''New York Times v. 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Thank you. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:06, 4 July 2026 (UTC) egep8rg038kz2gt8p8954tyb6cdp97s 0 5116 3961142 3958845 2026-07-05T16:26:16Z BD2412 3982 /* K */ Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]], replaced: Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr. → Robert F. Kennedy Jr. using [[Project:AWB|AWB]] 3961142 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Flag of China.svg|thumb|There are some bored foreigners, with full stomachs, who have nothing better to do than point fingers at us… First, China doesn't export Revolution; second, China doesn't export hunger and poverty; third, China doesn't come and cause you headaches, what more is there to be said? ~ [[Xi Jinping]]]] [[File:Great Wall (Nikolái Roerich).jpg|thumb|A disorderly Chinaman is rare, and a lazy one does not exist. So long as a Chinaman has strength to use his hands he needs no support from anybody; white men often complain of want of work, but a Chinaman offers no such complaint; he always manages to find something to do. ~ [[Mark Twain]]]] '''[[w:China|China]]''', officially the '''[[w:China|People's Republic of China]]''' ('''PRC'''; [[w:Chinese language|Chinese]]: ''中华人民共和国''; [[w:Pinyin|pinyin]]: ''Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó''), is a [[Countries|country]] located in eastern Eurasia. Also a cultural region and ancient civilization, it is one of the world's oldest civilizations, with successive states and cultures dating back more than six thousand years. Due to the stalemate of the [[Chinese Civil War]] following the end of [[World War II]], China split off into two separate countries: the [[w:China|People's Republic of China]] (PRC) and [[w:Taiwan|Republic of China]] (ROC), more commonly known as "Taiwan". The PRC administers and governs [[w:Mainland China|mainland China]], [[Hong Kong]], and [[w:Macau|Macau]], whereas the ROC only manages to control [[Taiwan]] and its surrounding islands. Each government claims that it is the only legitimate government of China and refuses to recognize the other. However, the PRC is recognized as the only official government of China by the [[United Nations]] and the overwhelming majority of the world's countries and is what most of the world's peoples refer to as "China". __NOTOC__ {{TOCalpha}} ==Quotes== ===A=== * China, despite many imperfections in its economic and political system, has been the most rapidly growing nation of the past three decades. [[w:poverty in China|Chinese poverty]] until [[Mao Zedong]]’s death had nothing to do with [[w:Chinese culture|Chinese culture]]; it was due to the disastrous way Mao organized the economy and conducted politics. In the 1950s, he promoted the [[w:Great Leap Forward|Great Leap Forward]], a drastic [[industrialization]] policy that led to mass starvation and famine. In the 1960s, he propagated the [[Cultural Revolution]], which led to the mass persecution of [[Intellectual|intellectuals]] and educated people—anyone whose party loyalty might be doubted. This again led to terror and a huge waste of the society’s talent and resources. In the same way, current Chinese growth has nothing to do with Chinese values or changes in Chinese culture; it results from a process of [[Chinese economic reform|economic transformation]] unleashed by the reforms implemented by [[Deng Xiaoping]] and his allies, who, after Mao Zedong’s death, gradually abandoned [[Socialism|socialist]] economic policies and institutions, first in [[agriculture]] and then in industry. **Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, ''Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty'' (2012) *A neighbor with one billion people equipped with [[Nuclear weapons|nuclear bombs]] and has expanded its military outlays by double digits for 17 years in a row, and it is unclear as to what this is being used for. It is beginning to be a considerable threat. **[[Tarō Asō]], as quoted in [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4551642.stm "Japan alarmed by Chinese 'threat'"], ''BBC'' (22 December 2005) ===B=== *China’s everything. Nothing else matters. We don’t get China right, we don’t get anything right. This whole thing is very simple. China is where [[Nazi Germany]] was in 1929 to 1930. The [[Chinese people|Chinese]], like the [[Germans]], are the most rational people in the world, until they’re not. And they’re gonna flip like Germany in the '30s. You’re going to have a hypernationalist state, and once that happens, you can’t put the genie back in the bottle. **[[Steve Bannon]], as quoted in [http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/01/michael-wolff-fire-and-fury-book-donald-trump.html "Donald Trump Didn’t Want to Be President"] (January 2017), by Michael Wolff, ''NY Mag'' [[File:Noam Chomsky - Prospects for Survival - 2017 - 1.jpg|thumb|The threat of China is not military. The threat of China is they can't be intimidated... You look at history and understand why — they've been around for 4,000 years, they have contempt for the barbarians... And that's the threat, you can't intimidate them — it's driving people in Washington berserk. But... of all the major powers, they've been the least aggressive militarily. ~[[Noam Chomsky]]]] [[File:Chinese_sailors_qingdao.jpg|thumb|The Chinese said of themselves several thousand years ago, China is a sea that salts all the waters that flow into it. ~ [[Winston Churchill]]]] [[File:Shanghai - Pudong - Lujiazui.jpg|thumb|The Chinese in themselves have first rate recommendations. They are industrious, docile, cleanly, frugal. They are dexterous of hand, patient in toil, marvelously gifted in the power of imitation, and have but few wants. ~ [[Frederick Douglass]]]] [[File:Shanghai pudong.jpg|thumb|I doubt if the Chinese are more untruthful than other people. At this point I have one certain test. Mankind are not held together by lies. Trust is the foundation of society. Where there is no truth, there can be no trust, and where there is no trust, there can be no society. Where there is society, there is trust, and where there is trust, there is something upon which it is supported. Now a people who have confided in each other for five thousand years; who have extended their empire in all directions until it embraces one-fifth of the population of the globe; who hold important commercial relations with all nations; who are now entering into treaty stipulations with ourselves, and with all the great European powers, cannot be a nation of cheats and liars. ~ [[Frederick Douglass]]]] [[File:BeijingWatchTower.jpg|thumb|The Chinese are less a nation than a fusion of peoples united by a common culture, and the history of China is the record of an expanding culture. ~ [[Wikipedia:Charles Patrick Fitzgerald|Charles Patrick Fitzgerald]]]] [[File:中華人民共和國國徽.svg|thumb|The key point is – is the rise of China legitimate? Is taking 20 per cent of humanity – 1.4 billion people – from abject poverty something the world should welcome?...If we give China the recognition I believe it is due in terms of its legitimacy … then I think a lot of these issues, the so-called 14 points, sort of fall off the table... ~ [[Paul Keating]]]] [[File:ConfuciusHartford.jpg|thumb|You’ve got to remember that China is broadly a [[Confucius|Confucian society]] that believes in harmony, in authority, and it is with this background that it accepts, I think broadly, the role of the [[W:Chinese Communist party|Chinese Communist party]]. I mean, the idea that we have that if you don’t vote at the local ballot box, that is, if you are not a Jeffersonian liberal, then you are a savage, belies the fact that China has a 4,000-year history which has these characteristics about it ~ [[Paul Keating]]]] [[File:Shanghai skyline at night, panoramic. China, East Asia-2.jpg|thumb|The Chinese are industrious, courageous, honest, and intelligent. They created the splendid ancient Chinese civilization, and today, they're firmly committed to the path of peaceful development and are making continuous progress. ~ [[Hu Jintao|Jintao Hu]]]] [[File:China Senate House.jpg|thumb|China should represent the development trends of [[W:Theory of the productive forces|advanced productive forces]], the orientations of an advanced culture and the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people. ~ [[Jiang Zemin|Zemin Jiang]]]] [[File:Flag of the Republic of China (3).JPG|thumb|The invader will lose funds or patience before the loins of China will lose virility. ~ [[w:Will Durant|Will Durant]] and [[w:Ariel Durant|Ariel Durant]]]] [[File:1950-07-Cover-Mao Zedong.jpg|thumb| Asia now stands at the dawn a new history of civilization to create its own future, finally emerging from the long tunnel of 150 years of westernization and overcoming the ideological conflicts of the twentieth century. Having achieved advanced [[industrialization]] based on market economics in the latter half of the twentieth century, the region is now home to some 900 million people in the middle class and about 1.1 billion 'netizens' connected by the Internet. ~ [[w:Stephan Haggard|Stephan Haggard]]]] [[File:North Korea - China friendship (5578914865).jpg|thumb|One day somebody should remind us that, even though there may be political and ideological differences between us, the [[Vietnam]]ese are our brothers, the [[Russia]]ns are our brothers, the [[China|Chinese]] are our brothers; and one day we've got to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. ~ [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]]]] [[File:Soldiers of the Chinese People's Liberation Army - 2011.jpg|thumb|I should esteem the man who advised a war with China to be the greatest living enemy of my country. You would be beaten in the end. ~ [[Napoleon Bonaparte|Napoleon]]]] [[File:Yangshuo-Plakate-KangzhanLu-16-SDI2741.jpg|thumb|China as a society, a government, an economy and a culture is quite difficult for us to comprehend today. The changes are so rapid in cities like Beijing and Shanghai and the culture remarkably fluid... China is increasingly influential in the world and more and more people have hopes that China will be a leader... China has ended up playing a critical role in geopolitics more quickly than anybody had anticipated.~{{w|Emanuel Pastreich}}]] [[File:High speed rail, hangzhou.jpg|thumb|China is getting ahead simply because of its courage, hard work, the genius of its people, and all this, under the wise leadership... and its central planning... doing the greatest service to humanity... ~Andre Vltchek]] [[File:CRH High Speed Rail (30359585927).jpg|thumb|China is building, inventing, struggling and marching forward, confidently, surrounded by friends, but independently. ~Andre Vltchek]] *The most striking [[cultural]] shifts in China over the last two decades or so has been the revival, both orchestrated and spontaneous, of tradition. The main trope for [[W:Culture of the People's Republic of China|culture]] in the twentieth century, especially since 1949, has been anti-[[traditionalism]]. As far back as the {{w|May 4th movement}} in 1919, and before, whether it was the financial [[elite]], the [[Liberalism|liberals]], the [[Marxism|Marxists]], or [[Anarchism|anarchists]] they all agreed that China was poor and that one of the causes of that state of affairs was the backward traditional [[W:Chinese culture|culture]]... '''We have witnessed a dramatic reevaluation of tradition in China, and also in other {{w|East Asian}} countries with a [[Confucianism|Confucian]] heritage such as [[Korea]]. This part of the world has witnessed rapid growth over the last three decades that has sharply reduced poverty and the region has remained at peace. So when people look around and ask what do all these countries have in common, one answer is their Confucian heritage. So whereas the previous narrative was that Confucianism undermined modernization and [[economic growth]], now many argue that it actually helps... Chinese thinkers gave much thought to how to select able and virtuous [[political]] [[leaders]], which abilities matter and which virtues matter? Chinese pondered about, and experimented with, mechanisms for selecting leaders. And that tradition continues on today. ** [[Daniel Bell]], as quoted in [http://thediplomat.com/2015/12/interview-daniel-bell/ "Chinese meritocracy and the limits of democracy"] (17 December 2015), by {{w|Emanuel Pastreich}}, ''The Diplomat'' *Over the last thirty years in China, the political leadership has been selected first and foremost through examinations, followed by evaluations of performance at lower levels of government. No one rises to the top without extensive experience at all levels. And that approach is quite similar in form to what we have seen throughout much of Chinese imperial history.''' I do think that the central {{w|political ideas}} articulated in Chinese culture ought to serve as the standard for evaluating political progress or regress in China. And I do think those values are different from the liberal ideas embraced... China has been thrust into this global [[role]] very quickly, perhaps far more quickly than anybody imagined, including the Chinese. The relative political and economic weight of China has increased so dramatically as to be disorienting to Chinese. When people talk about the achievements of China over the past thirty years the most commonly cited one is poverty reduction. About half a billion people were lifted out of [[w:Poverty in China|poverty]], in part due to energizing the people through [[w:Market reforms|market reforms]]. But that process was only possible because there were public officials overseeing the work and they were promoted based on their performance. Political meritocracy itself is a key to reducing poverty... But the other achievement of China is that it has not fought a war since 1979. ** {{w|Daniel A. Bell}}, as quoted in [http://thediplomat.com/2015/12/interview-daniel-bell/ "Chinese meritocracy and the limits of democracy"] (17 December 2015), by {{w|Emanuel Pastreich}}, ''The Diplomat'' *The February meeting of [[NATO]]... defense ministers... revealed an antiquated, 75-year-old alliance that, despite its military failures in [[Afghanistan]] and [[Libya]], is now turning its military madness toward two more formidable, nuclear-armed enemies: [[Russia]] and China... NATO seems oblivious to the changing dynamics of today's world, as if it were living on a different planet. Its one-sided Reflection Group report cites Russia's violation of [[international law]] in [[Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation|Crimea]] as a principal cause of deteriorating relations with the West, and insists that Russia must "return to full compliance with international law." But it ignores the U.S. and NATO's far more numerous violations of international law and leading role in the tensions fueling [[Cold War II|the renewed Cold War]]: Illegal [[w:Kosovo War|invasions of Kosovo]], [[War in Afghanistan (2001-present)|Afghanistan]] and [[Iraq War|Iraq]]... broken agreement over NATO expansion into [[Eastern Europe]]... U.S. withdrawals from important arms control treaties... More than 300,000 bombs and missiles dropped on other countries by the U.S. and its allies since 2001... U.S. [[w:Proxy war|proxy wars]] in [[w:Libyan Civil War|Libya]] and [[w:Syrian Civil War|Syria]], which plunged both countries into chaos, revived [[Al-Qaeda|Al Qaeda]] and spawned the [[Islamic State]].. U.S. management of the [[w:Euromaiden|2014 coup]] in [[Ukraine]], which led to economic collapse, Russian annexation of Crimea and civil war in Eastern Ukraine... The stark reality of the U.S. record as a serial aggressor whose [[Military-industrial complex|offensive war machine]] dwarfs Russia's defense spending by 11 to 1 and China's by 2.8 to 1, even without counting other NATO countries' military spending. **[[Medea Benjamin]] and [[W:Nick Davies|Nicolas J. S. Davies]], [https://www.salon.com/2021/02/25/what-planet-is-nato-living-on-because-its-no-longer-useful-on-this-one/ What Planet Is NATO Living On? It's No Longer Useful to This One ''Salon''], (24 February 2021) *NATO's failure to seriously examine its own role in what it euphemistically calls "uncertain times" should be more alarming to Americans and Europeans than its one-sided criticisms of Russia and China, whose contributions to the uncertainty of our times pale by comparison. **[[Medea Benjamin]] and [[W:Nick Davies|Nicolas J. S. Davies]], [https://www.salon.com/2021/02/25/what-planet-is-nato-living-on-because-its-no-longer-useful-on-this-one/ What Planet Is NATO Living On? It's No Longer Useful to This One ''Salon''], (24 February 2021) *If I were an [[English people|Englishman]], '''I should esteem the man who advised a war with China to be the greatest living enemy of my country. You would be beaten in the end''', and perhaps a [[revolution]] in [[India]] would follow. ** [[Napoleon Bonaparte]], reported as being from an 1817 conversation in ''The Mind of Napoleon'', ed. and trans. J. Christopher Herold (1955), p. 249. Reported as unverified in ''Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations'' (1989) *A '[[w:Superpower|superpower]]' is a country that wields enough military, political and economic might to convince nations in all parts of the world to do things they otherwise wouldn't. '''Pundits have rushed to label China the next superpower''', and so have many ordinary Americans... Little of China's dramatic economic growth is finding its way into the pockets of Chinese consumers; the byproduct of '''an [[Economy of China|economy]] driven by massive [[w:State-owned enterprises of China|state-owned enterprises]] rather than private''' industry. **[[Ian Bremmer]], [https://web.archive.org/web/20150528161550/http://time.com/3899972/us-superpower-status-military/ "These Are the 5 Reasons Why the U.S. Remains the World's Only Superpower: Why Washington can still claim global primacy in the 21st century"] (28 May 2015), ''Time'' * The United States welcomes the emergence of a China that is peaceful and prosperous and that supports international institutions. ** [[George W. Bush]], speech at the White House (April 2006), as quoted in [http://www.c-span.org/video/?192123-1/chinese-president-arrival-ceremony "Chinese President Arrival Ceremony"] (20 April 2006), ''C-SPAN'' [[File:Beijing from space.jpg|thumb|Since 1979, do you know how many times China has been at war with anybody? None. And we have stayed at [[war]]. (The United States is) the most warlike nation in the history of the world... How many miles of [[High-speed rail|high-speed railroad]] do we have in this country?... We have [[waste|wasted]], I think, $3 trillion ([[Military-industrial complex|military spending]]) ... China has not wasted a single penny on war, and that's why they're ahead of us. ~ [[Jimmy Carter]] ]] ===C=== * There is a tendency in parts of Chinese thinking which says: ''"We need not only to be an important power in the region, we need to dominate the region!"''. ** [[Ashton Carter]], [http://www.charlierose.com/ interview with Charlie Rose] (February 2016) *I normalized [[China–United States relations|diplomatic relations]] with [[China]] in 1979. Since 1979, do you know how many times China has been at war with anybody? None. And we have stayed at [[war]]. (The United States is) the most warlike nation in the history of the world... How many miles of [[High-speed rail|high-speed railroad]] do we have in this country?... We have wasted, I think, $3 trillion ([[Military-industrial complex|military spending]]) ... China has not wasted a single penny on war, and that's why they're ahead of us. In almost every way... And I think the difference is if you take $3 trillion and put it in American infrastructure, you'd probably have $2 trillion left over. We'd have high-speed railroad. We'd have [[Bridge|bridges]] that aren't collapsing. We'd have [[Road|roads]] that are maintained properly. Our [[Education in the United States|education system]] would be as good as that of, say, [[South Korea]] or [[Hong Kong]]. **[[Jimmy Carter]] quoted in [https://www.npr.org/2019/04/15/713495558/president-trump-called-former-president-jimmy-carter-to-talk-about-china President Trump Called Former President Jimmy Carter To Talk About China, Emma Hurt, ''NPR''] (April 15, 2019) *'''We all know that if [[Russia]] or [[China]] were guilty of what we have done in [[Vietnam War|Vietnam,]] we would be exploding with moral indignation at these [[war crimes|monstrous crimes]].''' **[[Noam Chomsky]] quoted in "[http://www.chomsky.info/articles/19671207.htm On Resistance]", ''The New York Review of Books,'' December 7, 1967. * ...I don't feel that they deserve a blanket condemnation at all. There are many things to object to in any society. '''But take China, modern China; one also finds many things that are really quite admirable.''' [...] There are even better examples than China. But I do think that '''China is an important example of a new society in which very interesting positive things happened''' at the local level, in which a good deal of the collectivization and communization was really based on mass participation and took place after a level of understanding had been reached in the peasantry that led to this next step. **[[Noam Chomsky]] [http://www.chomsky.info/debates/19671215.htm The Legitimacy of Violence as a Political Act? Noam Chomsky debates with Hannah Arendt, Susan Sontag, et al.]" in New York, December 15, 1967 * The threat of China is not military. The threat of China is they can't be intimidated... [[Europe]] you can intimidate. When the US tries to get people to stop investing in [[Iran]], European companies pull out, China disregards it. You look at history and understand why — they've been around for 4,000 years, they have contempt for the [[Americans|barbarians]], they just don't give a damn. OK, you scream, we'll go ahead and take over a big piece of [[Saudi Arabia|Saudi]] or Iranian oil. And that's the threat, you can't intimidate them — it's driving people in Washington berserk. But, you know, of all the major powers, they've been the least aggressive militarily. **[[Noam Chomsky]] quotes in Discussion with [[w:Robert Trivers|Robert Trivers]], September 6, 2006 * China is the center of the Asian energy security grid, which includes the [[w:Central Asia|Central Asian]] states and Russia. India is also hovering around the edge, South Korea is involved, and Iran is an associate member of some kind. If the Middle East oil resources around the Gulf, which are the main ones in the world, if they link up to the Asian grid, the United States is really a second-rate power. A lot is at stake in not withdrawing from Iraq. **[[Noam Chomsky]] in Interview by Michael Shank in [[w:Foreign Policy In Focus|Foreign Policy In Focus]], February 16, 2007 [https://web.archive.org/web/20070227224657/https://fpif.org/fpiftxt/3999] *As the most powerful state, the U.S. makes its own laws, using force and conducting [[Economic sanctions|economic warfare]] at will. It also threatens sanctions against countries that do not abide by its conveniently flexible notions of "[[free trade]]." In one important case, [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] has employed such threats with great effectiveness (and [[w:GATT|GATT]] approval) to force open Asian markets for U.S. [[tobacco]] exports and advertising, aimed primarily at the growing markets of women and children. The [[United States Department of Agriculture|U.S. Agriculture Department]] has provided grants to [[Tobacco industry|tobacco firms]] to promote smoking overseas. Asian countries have attempted to conduct educational anti-smoking campaigns, but they are overwhelmed by the miracles of the market, reinforced by U.S. state power through the sanctions threat. [[Philip Morris International|Philip Morris]], with an advertising and promotion budget of close to $9 billion in 1992, became China's largest advertiser. The effect of [[Ronald Reagan|Reaganite]] [[United States sanctions|sanction]] threats was to increase advertising and promotion of cigarette smoking (particularly U.S. brands) quite sharply in Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea, along with the use of these lethal substances. In South Korea, for example, the rate of growth in smoking more than tripled when markets for U.S. lethal drugs were opened in 1988. The [[George H. W. Bush|Bush Administration]] extended the threats to [[Thailand]], at exactly the same time that the "war on drugs" was declared; the media were kind enough to overlook the coincidence, even suppressing the outraged denunciations by the very conservative Surgeon-General. [[University of Oxford|Oxford University]] epidemiologist [[w:Richard Peto|Richard Peto]] estimates that among Chinese children under 20 today, 50 million will die of cigarette-related diseases, an achievement that ranks high even by 20th century standards. **[[Noam Chomsky]], [https://chomsky.info/199811__/ The United States and the “Challenge of Relativity” in Tony Evans, ''Human Rights Fifty Years on: A Reappraisal,'' Manchester University Press,] November 1998 * There is a hush over all [[Europe]], nay, over all the world, broken only by the dull thud of [[Japan during World War II|Japanese]] bombs falling on Chinese cities, on Chinese Universities or near British and American ships. But then, China is a long way off, so why worry? The Chinese are fighting for what the [[Founding Fathers of the United States|founders of the American Constitution]] in their stately language called: “Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” And they seem to be fighting very well. Many good judges think they are going to win. Anyhow, let’s wish them luck! Let’s give them a wave of encouragement – as [[Franklin D. Roosevelt|your President]] did last week, when he gave notice about ending the commercial treaty. After all, the suffering Chinese are fighting our battle, the battle of [[democracy]]. They are defending the soil, the good earth, that has been theirs since the dawn of time against cruel and unprovoked [[aggression]]. Give them a cheer across the ocean – no one knows whose turn it may be next. If this habit of [[w:Military dictatorships|military dictatorships]]’ breaking into other people’s lands with [[Bombs|bomb]] and [[w:Shell|shell]] and [[w:Bullet|bullet]], stealing the [[property]] and killing the proprietors, spreads too widely, we may none of us be able to think of summer holidays for quite a while. ** [[Winston Churchill]], [https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/speeches/1939-in-the-wings/a-hush-over-europe/ A Hush Over Europe], 8 August 1939 *The Chinese said of themselves several thousand years ago: "China is a sea that salts all the waters that flow into it." There's another [[Chinese language|Chinese]] saying about their country which is much more modern—it dates only from the fourth century. This is the saying: "The tail of China is large and will not be wagged." I like that one. The [[United Kingdom|British]] democracy approves the principles of movable party heads and unwaggable national tails. It is due to the working of these important forces that I have the honor to be addressing you at this moment. ** [[Winston Churchill]], address to a joint session of [[United States Congress|Congress]], [[Washington, D.C.]] (17 January 1952); reported in ''Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897–1963, ed. Robert Rhodes James (1974), vol. 8, p. 8,326'' *The People's Republic of China is still a [[Marxism|Marxist]], [[Leninist]], [[Maoist]] nation. So, you know, communism is still involved there. They haven't figured their way out of that particularly ideological box yet and that's their misfortune. **[[Tom Clancy]], on [http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0008/26/lklw.00.html ''Larry King Live Weekend''] (27 August 2000) *China and [[Iran]] have drafted a “sweeping economic and security partnership,” according to ''[[The New York Times]]''... This “strategic partnership” is the result of [[Donald Trump]]’s punishing [[W: Sanctions against Iran|sanctions against Iran]]... If China and Iran conclude their partnership agreement, Trump would presumably be less likely to use military force against Iran. If he did, he would have to be willing to take on China as well. That would be most unwise. **[[Marjorie Cohn]], [https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-harsh-sanctions-lead-to-iran-china-partnership/ Trump’s Harsh Sanctions Lead to Iran-China Partnership, ''Truthout''] (13 July 2020) ===[[Noam Chomsky]]; [https://www.democracynow.org/2021/11/23/noam_chomsky_on_bidens_foreign_policy Is China Really a Threat? Noam Chomsky Slams Biden For Increasingly Provocative Actions in Region, ''Democracy Now!''], (November 23, 2021)=== *[[Joe Biden|Biden]] has pretty much picked up [[Donald Trump|Trump]]’s [[Foreign policy of the United States|foreign policy]]... The worst case is the increasing [[W:provocation|provocative]] actions towards [[China]]... there is constant talk about what is called '''the China threat'''. You can read it in sober, reasonable, usually reasonable journals, about the terrible China threat, and that we have to move expeditiously to contain and limit the China threat.... What exactly is the China threat? Actually that question is rarely raised here.... the distinguished statesman, former [Australian] Prime Minister [[Paul Keating]], did have an essay in the Australian press about the China threat. He finally concluded realistically that '''the China threat is China’s existence. The U.S. will not tolerate the existence of a state that cannot be intimidated the way Europe can be, that does not follow U.S. orders the way Europe does but pursues its own course. That is the threat.'''<BR>When we talk about the threat of China, we’re talking about the alleged threats at China’s borders. China does plenty of wrong things, terrible things. You can make many criticisms. But are they a threat?... '''they are not a threat.''' *Right at the same time as Keating’s article, Australia’s leading military correspondent Brian Toohey, highly knowledgeable, did an assessment of the relative military power of China, in their own region of China and the United States and its allies [[Japan]] and [[Australia]]. It’s laughable. One [[w:U.S. Trident submarine|U.S. Trident submarine]], now being replaced by even more lethal ones — one U.S. submarine can destroy almost 200 cities anywhere in the world with its [[nuclear weapons]]. China in the [[South China Sea]] has four old noisy submarines which can’t even get out because they’re contained by superior U.S. and Allied Force... In the face of this, the United States is sending a fleet of nuclear submarines to Australia. That’s the [[w:AUKUS|AUKUS]] deal—the Australia, U.K., United States—which have no strategic purpose whatsoever.<BR>They will not even be in operation for 15 years, but they do incite China almost certainly to [[Military-industrial complex|build up its lagging military forces,]] increasing the [[Profit|level]] of [[w:Arms industry|confrontation]]. There are problems in the South China Sea that can be met with [[diplomacy]] and [[negotiations]], the regional powers taking the lead, could go into the details. <BR>But the right measure is not increasing provocation, increasing the threat of an accidental development which could lead to devastating, even Earthly-terminal [[nuclear war]]. But that is the direction the Biden administration is following, expansion of the Trump programs. That is the core of their [[Foreign policy of the United States|foreign policy programs]]. ===D=== *Do not take it for granted that China is number two, and do not make the assumption that we will be number one sooner or later. **[[w:Chen Deming|Chen Deming]], as quoted in [https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3006892/if-china-thinks-its-overtaking-us-any-time-soon-heres-wake-call "If China thinks it’s overtaking the US any time soon, here’s a wake-up call"] (21 April 2019), by Cary Huang, ''This Week in Asia'', SCMP *The emperor hold upon the Chinamen may be strong, but the Chinaman's hold upon himself is stronger... The Chinaman will not long be willing to wear the cast off shoes of the negro, and, if he refuses, there will be trouble again. The negro [[Slavery|worked and took his pay in religion and the lash]]. '''The Chinaman is a different article and will want the cash. He may, like the [[Black people|negro]], accept [[Christianity]], but, unlike the negro, he will not care to pay for it in labor. He had the [[Golden Rule]] in substance five hundred years before the coming of Christ''', and has notions of [[justice]] that are not to be confused by any... Chinese children are in American schools in [[San Francisco]]. None of our children are in Chinese schools, and probably never will be, though in some things they might well teach us valuable lessons. Contact with these yellow children of the Celestial Empire would convince us that the points of human difference, great as they, upon first sight, seem, are as nothing compared with the points of human agreement. Such contact would remove [[Bigotry|mountains of prejudice]]... The Chinese in themselves have first rate recommendations. They are industrious, docile, cleanly, frugal. They are dexterous of hand, patient in toil, marvelously gifted in the power of imitation, and have but few wants. **[[Frederick Douglass]], [http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/our-composite-nationality/ ''Our Composite Nationality''] (7 December 1869), Boston, Massachusetts. *It is objected to the Chinaman that he is secretive and treacherous, and will not tell the truth when he thinks it for his interest to tell a lie. There may be truth in all this; it sounds very much like the account of man’s heart given in the creeds. If he will not tell the truth, except when it is for his interest to do so, let us make it for his interest to tell the truth. We can do it by applying to him the same principle of justice that we apply to ourselves. But I doubt if the Chinese are more untruthful than other people. At this point I have one certain test. '''Mankind are not held together by lies. Trust is the foundation of society. Where there is no truth, there can be no trust, and where there is no trust, there can be no society. Where there is society, there is trust, and where there is trust, there is something upon which it is supported. Now a people who have confided in each other for five thousand years; who have extended their empire in all directions until it embraces one-fifth of the population of the globe; who hold important commercial relations with all nations; who are now entering into treaty stipulations with ourselves, and with all the great European powers, cannot be a nation of cheats and liars''', but must have some respect for [[veracity]]. The very existence of China for so long a period, and her progress in civilization, are proofs of her truthfulness ** [[Frederick Douglass]], [http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/our-composite-nationality/ ''Our Composite Nationality''] (7 December 1869), Boston, Massachusetts. *No victory of arms, or tyranny of alien finance, can long suppress a nation so rich in resources and vitality. '''The invader will lose funds or patience before the loins of China will lose virility; within a century China will have absorbed and civilized her [[conquerors]], and will have learned all the technique of what transiently bears the name of modern industry'''; roads and communications will give her unity, economy and thrift will give her funds, and a strong government will give her order and peace. ** [[Will Durant]] and {{w|Ariel Durant}}, ''{{w|The Story of Civilization}}'', Book I, ''Our Oriental Heritage'' (1935) p. 823. *As [[India]] is ''par excellence'' the land of [[metaphysics]] and [[religion]], China is by like preeminence the home of [[Humanism|humanistic]], or non-theological, [[philosophy]]. ** [[Will Durant]] and {{w|Ariel Durant}}, ''{{w|The Story of Civilization}}'', Book I, ''Our Oriental Heritage'' (1935) 5. The Pre-Confucian Philosophers * The average Chinese is at once an [[Animism|animist]], a [[Taoism|Taoist]], a [[Chinese Buddhism|Buddhist]] and a [[Confucianist]]. ** [[Will Durant]] and {{w|Ariel Durant}}, ''{{w|The Story of Civilization}}'', Book I, ''Our Oriental Heritage'' (1935) (IV. RELIGION WITHOUT A CHURCH) ===E=== * Most people with [[Mental health|mental disorders]] in China never receive treatment. There is often a stigma attached to such ailments. Some think that people with [[Psychiatry|psychiatric]] conditions are possessed by evil spirits. Many see [[Mental disorder|mental disorders]] as a sign of [[weakness]], and regard them as socially contagious: a relative of someone with a serious disorder may find it hard to marry. [[Family|Families]] sometimes have their kin treated far away to hide the “shame” of their condition, or keep them hidden at home. Even many medical students worry that those working with psychiatric patients risk catching their disease, says Xu Ni of “It Gets Brighter”, a mental-health [[Non-governmental organization|NGO]] in [[Beijing]]. ** ''[[The Economist]]'', [https://www.economist.com/china/2017/01/28/china-wakes-up-to-its-mental-health-problems “China wakes up to its mental-health problems”], (Jan 28th 2017). ===F=== *They're not terribly imaginative. They’re not entrepreneurial. They don't innovate. That's why they're stealing our [[intellectual property]]. **[[Carly Fiorina]], as quoted in "Carly Fiorina Calls The Chinese Unimaginative Idea Thieves", by Lydia O'Connor, ''The Huffington Post'' (25 May 2015). * The Chinese are less a nation than a fusion of peoples united by a [[w:Chinese culture|common culture]], and the [[w:History of China|history of China]] is the record of an expanding culture. ** {{w|Charles Patrick Fitzgerald}}, ''China: A Short Cultural History'' (1965). * [[w:Economy of China#Development|[Chinese development]] has its roots in the [[w:Chinese Communist Revolution|1949 Chinese Revolution]], carried out by the [[Chinese Communist Party]] headed by [[Mao Zedong]], whereby it liberated itself from the [[Imperialism|imperialist]] system. This allowed it to develop for decades under a [[planned economy]] largely free of constraints from outside forces, establishing a strong [[w:Agriculture in China|agricultural]] and [[w:Industry of China|industrial]] economic base. This was followed by a shift in the [[Chinese economic reform|post-Maoist reform]] period to a [[w:Mixed economy|hybrid system]] of more limited state planning along with a much greater reliance on market relations (and a vast expansion of [[w:National debt of China|debt]] and [[speculation]]) under conditions—the [[globalization]] of the world market—that were particularly fortuitous to its “[[w:Convergence (economics)|catching up]].” Through {{w|trade war}}s and other pressures aimed at destabilizing China’s position in the world market, the [[China–United States relations|United States]] is already [[w:China–United States trade war|seeking to challenge]] the bases of China’s growth in [[w:International trade|world trade]]. China, therefore, stands not so much for the successes of {{w|late capitalism}} but rather for its inherent limitations. The [[w:Socialist market economy|current Chinese model]], moreover, carries within it many of the destructive tendencies of the system of capital accumulation. Ultimately, China’s future too depends on a return to the process of [[w:Revolutionary socialism|revolutionary]] transition, spurred by its own [[w:Demographics of China|population]]. ** [[John Bellamy Foster]], ''[https://monthlyreview.org/2019/02/01/capitalism-has-failed-what-next/ Capitalism Has Failed—What Next?]'' (February 01, 2019), ''{{w|Monthly Review}}'' * The problem for China is political. China is held together by [[money]], not [[ideology]]. When there is an economic downturn and the money stops rolling in, not only will the [[Banking|banking system]] spasm, but the entire fabric of Chinese society will shudder. [[Loyalty]] in China is either bought or coerced. Without available money, only coercion remains. [[Business]] slowdowns can generally lead to instability because they lead to [[w:Business failure|business failure]] and [[unemployment]]. In a country where [[poverty]] is endemic and unemployment widespread, the added pressure of an economic downturn will result in political instability. **[[George Friedman]], [https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20170628085246/http://www.mysearch.org.uk/website1/pdf/715.2.pdf ''The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century''] (2009), p. 96, Doubleday * Like many Chinese people, particularly those of the older generation, she didn't show her love for me by hugging or soliciting emotional outpourings, but through food and fussing. ** [[Fuchsia Dunlop]], ''{{W|Invitation to a Banquet|Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food}}'', Particular Books, 2023, chapter "Food and the heart", page 367 (ISBN 978-0-2415-1698-0). ===G=== *China’s capacity to meet new demands for agricultural products has been assessed by analysts inside and outside China since the 1980s. [[Economist|Economists]] have anticipated that market forces would induce China to import [[Grain|grains]] and other land-intensive crops, but Chinese officials (motivated by food security and other concerns) have long resisted these forces and sought to maintain [[self-sufficiency]]. However, officials are now adjusting their strategies to accommodate their country’s growing reliance on agricultural imports. **Fred Gale, James Hansen, and Michael Jewison, [http://www.ers.usda.gov/media/1784488/eib136.pdf "China's Growing Demand for Agricultural Imports"] (February 2015), ''United States Department of Agriculture''. :'''[[Bart Simpson]]''': What happened to you, China? You used to be cool. :'''Chinese delegate''': Hey, China's still cool! :* ''{{w|Bart to the Future}} (19 March 2000), ''The Simpsons'', written by {{w|Dan Greaney}}. [https://listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=cSIdB-IYIqk]'' * {{w|Chinese people}} have no recourse to anything like an {{w|independent judiciary}}. The [[Chinese Communist Party|Communist Party]] decides if you’re guilty or innocent. The conviction rate stands in excess of 98 per cent. [[W:Human rights in China#Torture|Torture]] and {{w|forced confessions}} are commonplace. [[Xi Jinping|Xi]] has lately embarked on a vicious campaign of [[W:Human rights in China|harassment and intimidation]] of {{w|workers’ rights}} activists, [[W:Ethnic minorities in China|ethnic]] and [[Religion in China|religious]] [[minorities]], and [[Feminism|feminists]]. Scores of [[W:China human rights organizations|human rights lawyers]] have been rounded up and jailed. ** [[Terry Glavin]], speaking about the {{w|judicial system of China}}. [http://www.macleans.ca/politics/china-is-no-friend-to-canada/ "China is no Friend to Canada"] (2017), ''MacLeans'' * The Chinese are emphatically not a religious people, though they are very [[Superstition|superstitious]]. Belief in a God has come down from the remotest ages, but the old simple creed has been so overlaid by [[Buddhism]] as not to be discernible at the present day. Buddhism is now the dominant religion of China. It is closely bound up with the lives of the people, and is a never-failing refuge in sickness or worldly trouble. It is no longer the subtle doctrine which was originally presented to the people of India, but something much more clearly defined and appreciable by the plainest intellect. [[Gautama Buddha|Buddha]] is the saviour of the people through righteousness alone, and Buddhist saints are popularly supposed to possess intercessory powers. Yet reverence is always wanting; and crowds will laugh and talk, and buy and sell sweetmeats, in a Buddhist temple, before the very eyes of the most sacred images. So long as divine intervention is not required, an ordinary Chinaman is content to neglect his divinities; but no sooner does sickness or financial trouble come upon the family, than he will hurry off to propitiate the gods. <br /> He accomplishes this through the aid of the priests, who receive his offerings of money, and light candles or incense at the shrine of the deity to be invoked. Buddhist priests are not popular with the Chinese, who make fun of their shaven heads, and doubt the sincerity of their convictions as well as the purity of their lives. "No meat nor wine may enter here" is a legend inscribed at the gate of most Buddhist temples, the ordinary diet as served in the refectory being strictly vegetarian. A tipsy priest, however, is not an altogether unheard-of combination, and has provided more than one eminent artist with a subject of an interesting picture. ** [[w:Herbert Giles|Herbert Allen Giles]], in [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2076/2076-h/2076-h.htm ''The Civilization of China'' (1911)], Chapter III : Religion and Superstition * Let us now pause to take stock of some of the results which have accrued from the operation and influence of Confucianism during such a long period, and over such swarming myriads of the human race. It is a commonplace in the present day to assert that the Chinese are hardworking, thrifty, and sober—the last-mentioned, by the way, in a land where [[drunkenness]] is not regarded as a crime. Shallow observers of the globe-trotter type, who have had their pockets picked by professional [[Theft|thieves]] in Hong-Kong, and even resident observers who have not much cultivated their powers of observation and comparison, will assert that honesty is a virtue denied to the Chinese; but those who have lived long in China and have more seriously devoted themselves to discover the truth, may one and all be said to be arrayed upon the other side. The amount of solid honesty to be met with in every class, except the professionally criminal class, is simply astonishing. That the word of the Chinese [[merchant]] is as good as his bond has long since become a household word, and so it is in other walks of life. ** Herbert Allen Giles, in ''The Civilization of China'' (1911), Chapter III : Religion and Superstition *All this saber-rattling is despicable. Neither [[Russia]] nor [[Iran]] threaten the U.S. and there is no reason why the U.S. should be eager to defend [[Taiwan]] or [[Ukraine]] (and also [[Israel]]). [[China]]’s military budget is miniscule compared to the U.S. and the only real threat it represents is as a competitor on world markets, where it is already dominant in a number of key sectors. The U.S. has to get off this global dominance militarism wagon but how do we do it when both major parties embrace it? **[[Philip Giraldi]] quoted in [https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/467760/In-truth-the-U-S-has-become-a-weak-and-therefore-dangerous-country In truth the U.S has become a weak and therefore dangerous country, By Martin Love, ''Tehran Times''], December 5, 2021 *[N]early every political evil can be found on display in China: [[slavery]], [[discrimination]], [[w:Religious persecution|religious persecution]], [[xenophobia]], [[tyranny]], mass-political [[indoctrination]], [[colonialism]], [[w:Cultural genocide|cultural genocide]], and so on. And yet, the outcry against these things in [[United States|America]] and the West is a tiny fraction of what it was with regard to [[South Africa]] in the [[1980s]] or [[Israel]] today. Why? Some of the political answers are pretty obvious — and have much merit. A few that come to mind: China is non-Western, and many of these sins are supposed to be unique to [[White people|white]] [[Europe|Europeans]]; China is a victim (or “victim”) of [[colonialism]], and so we shouldn’t judge it harshly; China is very powerful, and [[realpolitik]] dictates that we be diplomatic; and so on. But there’s another reason. As you may have noticed, I’ve become much more interested in [[evolutionary psychology]] of late, particularly the topic of coalitional instincts. The coalition instinct is the programming that helped us form strategic groups that advance our self-interest. We are a social species and cooperation is what helped us skyrocket to the top of the [[w:Food chain|food chain]]. **[[Jonah Goldberg]], [https://www.nationalreview.com/g-file/coalition-instinct-and-tribal-politics-in-age-of-trump/ "When Evil Becomes Inconvenient"] (24 August 2018), ''National Review Online'' ===H=== * So far, the [[world economy]], particularly [[Australia]] and the [[United States]], have benefited greatly from Chinese [[economic growth]]. This is likely to continue to be the case for some time... There is no real alternative to the United States as the global leader. '''China doesn't want the role. It would only divert its focus from its own development challenges. And to be frank, China would not be trusted by many countries''', particularly in the {{w|Asia-Pacific}}, to be the global leader... [[Authoritarianism|Authoritarian]] [[state capitalism]], seen today in China and [[Russia]]. While both countries have introduced elements of a market economy, private companies there operate side-by-side and at a significant disadvantage to state owned entities favored by government regulators. This mixed economy is not paralleled on the political side. What is emerging is an increasingly [[authoritarian]] [[W:Government of China|political system]] with decreasing space for [[civil society]], free media, and [[dissent]]. This model is attractive to authoritarian leaders around the world who see it as way to maintain power while still growing their economies. ** [[Stephen Hadley]], [http://www.lowyinstitute.org/publications/americas-role-world-stephen-j-hadley "America's Role In The World"] (30 October 2014), ''Lowy Institute''. * We are also seeing a diffusion of power and competition at the [[Nation-state|nation state]] level. This competition comes not just from [[Russia]] and China, but also from emerging countries like [[Brazil]], [[India]], [[Indonesia]], and the other [[w:ASEAN|ASEAN]] states. These states are also beginning to organize themselves into structures outside of and somewhat in competition... We must find a way to convince the [[w:Shanghai Cooperation Organization|SCO]] and [[New Development Bank|BRICS]] institutions to see themselves not as competitors but as collaborators and partners with the rest of us. The role of China will be key in this effort. Neither China nor the United States can solve global challenges by themselves. And both China and the United States need progress in meeting these challenges if they are to achieve their own objectives for the development and economic well being of their people. A way must be found for the United States and China to work together with the rest of the international community to meet the global challenges we face. **[[w:Stephen J. Hadley|Stephen J. Hadley]], [http://www.lowyinstitute.org/publications/americas-role-world-stephen-j-hadley "America's Role In The World"] (30 October 2014), ''Lowy Institute''. * Asia now stands at the dawn a new history of civilization to create its own future, finally emerging from the long tunnel of 150 years of westernization and overcoming the ideological conflicts of the [[20th century|twentieth century]]. Having achieved advanced [[industrialization]] based on [[Free market|market economics]] in the latter half of the twentieth century, the region is now home to some 900 million people in the middle class and about 1.1 billion 'netizens' connected by the [[Internet]]. Within certain East Asian countries, civil society and [[democracy]] are flourishing. Now, China and the [[w:ASEAN|ASEAN]] nations are progressing on their own courses. East Asia is on the verge of birthing a new era marked by [[civil society]] and [[democracy]]. **[[w:Stephan Haggard|Stephan Haggard]] and [[w:Marcus Noland|Marcus Noland]] [http://blogs.piie.com/nk/?p=14403 "2015 Joint Statement by Korean, Japanese and International Scholars: For East Asia's 'Freedom from the Past'"] (20 August 2015), ''Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics''. * As a foreign [[literature]] it is studied also by the [[Koreans|Coreans]], the [[Japan|Japanese]], and the [[Vietnam|Annamites]]; and it may therefore be quite appropriately called the Classic Literature of the Far East. The civilization of all these nations has been affected by its study, perhaps even in a higher degree than that of the nations of Europe has been by the literatures of [[Greece]] and [[Roman Empire|Rome]]. Millions received from it, in the course of centuries, their mental training. The Chinese who created it have through it perpetuated their national character and imparted some of their idiosyncrasies of thought to their formerly illiterate neighbors. ** [[w:Friedrich Hirth|Friedrich Hirth]], Columbia University Professor of Chinese, "Chinese Literature" in [[s:Lectures on Literature (1911)|Lectures on Literature]] (1911), [[s:Page:Columbia University Lectures on Literature (1911).djvu/81|page 67]] * The Chinese are industrious, courageous, honest, and intelligent. They created the splendid [[w:Ancient China|ancient Chinese]] civilization, and today, they're firmly committed to the path of peaceful development and are making continuous progress in the modernization drive by carrying out the reform and opening up program. ** [[Hu Jintao|Jintao Hu]], [https://web.archive.org/web/20130503110022/http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2006/04/20060420.html "President Bush and President Hu of People's Republic of China Participate in Arrival Ceremony "] (20 April 2006), by J. Hu, Washington, D.C.: White House. * The great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation will definitely be accompanied by the thriving of Chinese culture. ** [[Hu Jintao|Jintao Hu]], [http://listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=7aE66iIUi9U#David_Shambaugh_-_China_Goes_Global%3A_The_Partial_Power address to the 17th Chinese Communist Party Congress] (2008) * When China sends its students to the United States, especially when it sends [[w:Central_bank|central bankers]] and [[Planned economy|planners]] to the United States to study (and be recruited), they are told by the U.S. “Do as we say, not as we have done.” The United States is not telling China... how to get rich in the way that it did, by protective tariffs, by creating its own money and by making other countries dependent on it. The United States does not want you to be independent and self-reliant. The United States wants China to let itself become dependent on U.S. finance in order to invest in its own industry... The neoliberal plan is not to make you independent, and not to help you grow except to the extent that your growth will be paid to US investors or used to finance U.S. military spending around the world to encircle you and trying to destabilize you in [[w:Sichuan|Sichuan]] to try to pry China apart. Look at what the United States has done in Russia, and at what the [[International Monetary Fund]] in Europe has done to [[Greece]], [[Latvia]] and the [[w:Baltic_states|Baltic states]]. It is a dress rehearsal for what [[Foreign policy of the United States|U.S. diplomacy]] would like to do to you, if it can convince you to follow the neoliberal US economic policy of financialization and [[privatization]]. De-dollarization is the alternative to privatization and financialization. ** [https://michael-hudson.com/2020/01/note-to-china/ Michael Hudson, Note to China], (14 January 2020) * So the question is, how do China, Russia, Iran and other countries break free of this U.S. dollarization strategy? As now constituted, dollarization creates a circular flow that finances American military spending by forcing the costs onto foreign central banks holding [[Dollar|dollars]]. The solution obviously is to avoid using dollars in order to break free of American control of your economy. To do this, you have to have a non-Dollar currency. This currency alternative has to be large enough to have a critical mass, so that it can be used internationally. That’s why China, Russia, Iran and their allies are trying to create their own currency area, incorporating largely the [[W:Shanghai Cooperation Organization|Shanghai Cooperation Organization]]. ** [https://michael-hudson.com/2020/01/note-to-china/ Michael Hudson, Note to China], (14 January 2020) * The U.S.-China confrontation is not simply a national rivalry, but a conflict of economic and social systems.... From today’s U.S. vantage point... China and Russia are existential threats to the global expansion of financialized rentier wealth. Today’s [[Cold War II|Cold War 2.0]] aims to deter China and potentially other counties from socializing their financial systems, land and natural resources, and keeping infrastructure utilities public to prevent their being monopolized in private hands to siphon off economic rents at the expense of productive investment in economic growth. The United States hoped that China might be as gullible as the Soviet Union and adopt neoliberal policy permitting its wealth to be privatized and turned into rent-extracting privileges, to be sold off to Americans. ** [https://michael-hudson.com/2021/04/americas-neoliberal-financialization-policy-vs-chinas-industrial-socialism/ Michael Hudson, America’s Neoliberal Financialization Policy vs. China’s Industrial Socialism,] (14 April 2021) * '''China, like Russia, has been reducing its dollar holdings as much as possible, just keeping enough to prevent the currency from being destabilized by the dollar inflows. China, Russia are buying gold instead of U.S. dollars as much as possible.''' China is trying to escape from buying Treasury securities. Why would any government want to buy Treasury securities yielding 0.1% when the dollars coming into China are trying to make loans or buying countries, making 15% profit or interest a year? Nobody would want that situation to continue. China doesn’t want it to continue. As long as it [China] is part of an international economy that is dollarized, it [China] is forced to take a loss, a sacrifice, year after year, subsidizing the U.S. economy. The only way that it can avoid that is to isolate itself from the U.S. dollar. No country until this time since 1945 has ever had the critical mass to be able to do it. That is the objective, the stated objective of Russia, China and their allies. Of course, they don’t want to buy treasury bills. That doesn’t mean that, yes, they found a wonderful investment making 0.1% a year and subsidizing the United States. That is not what China or any other country wants. **[https://michael-hudson.com/2022/04/china-a-sub-imperial-ally-of-the-west/ Michael Hudson, China – a Sub-Imperial Ally of the West?] (3 April 2022) * '''With regard to [[nuclear weapons]], the situation is far more dangerous than the last [[Doomsday Clock]] report. New weapons systems under development are much more effectively dangerous. The [[Presidency of Joe Biden|Biden administration]], expanding upon [[Donald Trump|Trump]]’s confrontational approach, has [[Noam Chomsky|Chomsky]] at a loss for words to describe the danger at hand. Only recently, [[Joe Biden|Biden]] met with [[NATO]] leaders and instructed them to plan on two wars, [[China]] and [[Russia]]. According to Chomsky: “This is beyond [[insanity]].” Not only that, the group is carrying out provocative acts when [[diplomacy]] is really needed.''' This is an extraordinarily dangerous situation. ** [https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/07/12/a-world-of-total-illusion-and-fantasy-an-interview-with-noam-chomsky/ A World of Total Illusion and Fantasy: Noam Chomsky on the Future of the Planet, Robert Hunziker, ''CounterPunch''] (12 July 2021) ===I=== * China seems to have been very much similar to the West, both in the production of [[new religious movement]]s and in attracting to them figures from the political left who were officially promoting the struggle against “superstition.” Reconstructions of “Chinese traditional culture” as “non-religious,” and of the rich Chinese religious pluralism as mere “folk religion” should be viewed as propaganda rather than history. ** [[Massimo Introvigne]], [https://bitterwinter.org/new-religious-movements-in-china/ "New Religious Movements in China: They Were Always There"], ''Bitter Winter'' (June 27, 2020) * The [Chinese Communist] Party doesn’t just want to govern China; it wants to define [[governance]] itself. ** [[Massimo Introvigne]], [https://bitterwinter.org/the-party-in-your-living-room-chinas-new-architecture-of-everyday-control/ "The Party in Your Living Room: China’s New Architecture of Everyday Control"], ''Bitter Winter'' (September 25, 2025) ===J=== * In 2012, the Chinese sociologist Sūn Lìpíng (b. 1955) suggested the PRC [People's Republic of China] faced four possible paths. One was return to Mao-style egalitarian populism, reducing inequality and corruption but risking the violence and irrationality of the Mao era. Another was to deepen the reforms – further privatizing the economy regardless of increased inequality. The third was to maintain the status quo. The fourth was to pursue reform while applying notions of fairness, justice, and universal values. ** [[Linda Jaivin]], ''The Shortest History of China'', The Experiment, 2021, ISBN 9781615198207, page 235. *China’s battle against [[poverty]] has benefited the largest number of people in human history. To sustain poverty reduction gains, China will focus more on achieving endogenous development in areas that have been lifted out of poverty and introduce vigorous measures to support rural revitalization. Our goal is to achieve common prosperity and high-quality development including through the rural revitalization strategy with a focus in five key areas: [[Industrialization|industry development]], [[human capital]], [[culture]], [[Ecology|ecological environment]] and [[w:Local_government|local governance]].” ** [[w:Ma Jiantang|Ma Jiantang]] as quoted in [https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2022/04/01/lifting-800-million-people-out-of-poverty-new-report-looks-at-lessons-from-china-s-experience World Bank Press Release No. 2022/072/EAP, Lifting 800 Million People Out of Poverty – New Report Looks at Lessons from China’s Experience, April 1, 2022 *The greatest contribution towards the whole of human race, made by China, to prevent its 1.3 billion people from [[hunger]]... There are some foreigners who have eaten their fill and have nothing better to do than point their fingers at our affairs. '''First, China doesn't export Revolution; second, China doesn't export hunger and poverty; third, China doesn't come and cause you headaches, what more is there to be said?''' **[[Xi Jinping]], in Mexico (11 February 2009), as quoted in [http://news.asiaone.com/News/the%2BStraits%2BTimes/Story/A1Story20090214-121872.html "Chinese V-P blasts meddlesome foreigners"] (14 February 2009), by Sim Chi Yin, ''Asia One News''. **Also quoted as ''There are some bored foreigners, with full stomachs, who have nothing better to do than point fingers at us. First, China doesn't export revolution. Second, China doesn't export hunger and poverty. Third, China doesn't come and cause you headaches. What more is there to be said?'' [[File:Hu Jintao at White House 2011.jpg|thumb|We are ready to expand the friendly people-to-people exchanges and enhance exchanges and [[cooperation]] in [[science]],[[technology]], [[culture]], [[education]], and other areas... We should... respect each other as [[Equality|equals]] and promote closer exchanges and cooperation. This will enable us to make steady [[progress]] in advancing constructive and cooperative [[China–United States relations|China-U.S. relations]], and bring more benefits to our two peoples and people of the world. ~ [[Hu Jintao]]]] *We are ready to expand the friendly people-to-people exchanges and enhance exchanges and cooperation in [[science]], [[technology]], [[culture]], [[education]], and other areas... Enhanced interactions and [[cooperation]] between China and the United States serve the interests of our two peoples and are conducive to [[world peace]] and [[development]]. We should stay firmly rooted in the present while looking ahead to the future, and view and approach [[China–United States relations|China-U.S. relations]] from a strategic and long-term perspective. We should, on the basis of the principles set forth in the three Sino-U.S. joint communiqués, respect each other as equals and promote closer exchanges and cooperation. This will enable us to make steady progress in advancing constructive and cooperative China-U.S. relations, and bring more benefits to our two peoples and people of the world.<BR>We are ready to continue to work with the U.S. side and other parties concerned to peacefully resolve the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula, and the Iranian nuclear issue through diplomatic negotiation to uphold the international non-proliferation regime and safeguard global peace and stability. **[[Hu Jintao]], [https://web.archive.org/web/20130503110022/http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2006/04/20060420.html White House speech] (20 April 2006) ===K=== *China is simply too big and too central to be ostracised. My point is that China is now so big and it is going to grow so large, it will have no precedents in modern social economic history.... we haven’t come to a point of accommodation where it acknowledges China’s pre-eminence in east Asia and the Asian mainland, in which case we can start to move towards a sensible relationship again with China.<BR>The key point is – is the rise of China legitimate? Is taking 20 per cent of humanity – 1.4 billion people – from abject poverty something the world should welcome?<BR> And in our terms, it has completely remodelled the [[w:economy of Australia|Australian economy]]. If we give China the recognition I believe it is due in terms of its legitimacy … then I think a lot of these issues, the so-called 14 points, sort of fall off the table.... We have no relationship with Beijing, so why would the Prime Minister of [[Malaysia]] or [[Singapore]] or [[Thailand]] talk to us about east Asia when we are non-speakers with the biggest power, the Chinese? **[[Paul Keating]], quoted in [https://www.afr.com/policy/foreign-affairs/the-world-according-to-keating-20211110-p597t1 In the world according to Paul Keating, China deserves respect, Jennifer Hewett, ''Financial Review'',] 10 November 2021 * The Chinese have always struck me as pretty cautious, even crafty, in managing their rise. It's true that they’re a lot more aggressive since 2009, but I don't see them suddenly becoming reckless. I always found that factoid that '''the PRC spends more on internal than external security to be indicative that CCP is, in fact, very insecure at the top. It's got to have an ideology with foreign enemies, otherwise the Chinese people might see the real enemy, the CCP's corruption, rejection of democracy''' and unwillingness to admit the horrors of {{w|Maoism}}. ** {{w|Robert E. Kelly}}, as quoted in [http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/12/01/national/does-china-adiz-take-focus-off-real-enemy/#.VWG2IE9VhBe "Does China ADIZ take focus off 'real enemy'?: To many experts, Beijing's foreign policy is a byproduct of domestic issues"] (1 December 2013), by [[Max Fisher]], ''The Washington Post''. *The collapse of U.S. influence over Saudi Arabia and the Kingdom’s new alliances with China and Iran are painful emblems of the abject failure of the Neocon strategy of maintaining U.S. global hegemony with aggressive projections of military power. China has displaced the American Empire by deftly projecting, instead, economic power. Over the past decade, our country has spent trillions bombing roads, ports, bridges, and airports. China spent the equivalent building the same across the developing world. ** [[Robert F. Kennedy Jr.]], from [https://www.facebook.com/rfkjr/posts/pfbid0U4onsx8ptxFM9Aa5iy2wXTrYswSHCnqbYAh3yy3RuVdRHuUpBRqjvGH1sz2oqNR1l his post] on Facebook (4 April 2023) * Contemporaneous with the age of Greek culture, while [[Rome]] was yet an infant city and the rest of Europe in a condition of barbarism, the Chinese were a civilised race. Many years before the [[Christianity|Christian]] era they had evolved under the name of Taoism, a set of principles and a mystic teaching based on the writings of [[Laozi|Laotzu]], which formed a not altogether despicable substitute for a [[religion]], while in Confucianism they enjoyed a sound [[philosophy]]. Under these influences the arts of peace gradually achieved the first place among the national ideas. The application of principles of reason to the relationships of daily life, the adjustment of differences by discussion, and the cultivation of respect for age and learning, became cardinal principles. ** Percy Howard Kent, {{cite book|chapter=Chapter 1. The Old Conditions|title=The Passing of the Manchus|page=2|year=1911|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924021495258/page/n23/mode/2up}} *China believes it is the center of the [[universe]]. Look at its [[Flag of China|flag]]; one big [[Stars|star]] surrounded by [[satellite]] stars. '''Arrogant!''' **[[Nguyen Khanh]], as quoted in [http://web.archive.org/web/20080921114015/http://65.45.193.26:8026/cms/acct/vietweekly/issues/vw3n18/english/bagOfEarth.html "A Bag of Earth, A Promise To Keep"] (28 April 2005), ''Viet Weekly'', by Mike Nally * [[W:China–Vietnam relations|China presents Vietnam]] with a very big problem. China is taking over [[Vietnam]], from [[W:Cholon, Ho Chi Minh City|Cholon]], where there are rich Chinese, to {{w|Haiphong}}. They are everywhere now with their product. My wife is from the [[w:North Vietnam|North]], people there [[W:Sinophobia|resent China]] more than the [[South Vietnam|South]] feared the {{w|Viet Cong}}. The Chinese are invaders, like any other foreigners, to fight. We must stop the Chinese. You know the dikes built on the [[W:Red River (Asia)|Red River]]? If they break, what happens? A flood! **[[Nguyen Khanh]], as quoted in [http://web.archive.org/web/20080921114015/http://65.45.193.26:8026/cms/acct/vietweekly/issues/vw3n18/english/bagOfEarth.html "A Bag of Earth, A Promise To Keep"] (28 April 2005), ''Viet Weekly'' *I hear from higher up that China seems to be succeeding on many fronts – [[engineering]], [[commerce]], hotels, [[agriculture]] - everything. '''In many ways, don’t we need to take them as a model example for [[North Korea|us]]?''' ** [[Kim Jong-un]] as recalled by by household chef Kenji Fujimoto [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-kimjongun-insight/the-thinking-behind-kim-jong-uns-madness-idUSKBN1DU15Y "The thinking behind Kim Jong Un's 'madness'"] *Back in about [[1753]] it took a letter three days to go from [[New York City]] to [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]], and today you can go from here to China in less time than that... Man's scientific genius has been amazing. ** [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]], ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20090129133622/http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/kingpapers/article/rediscovering_lost_values/ Rediscovering Lost Values]'', Sermon delivered at [[Detroit]]'s Second Baptist Church (28 February 1954). *If I lived in China or even [[Russia]], or any [[totalitarian]] country, maybe I could understand the denial of certain basic [[First Amendment to the United States Constitution|F]]<nowiki/>[[First Amendment to the United States Constitution|irst Amendment]] privileges, because they hadn't committed themselves to that over there. **[[Martin Luther King, Jr.]], ''[http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/documentsentry/ive_been_to_the_mountaintop/ I've Been to the Mountaintop]'' (1968).' *Former president [[Jimmy Carter]] recently made a profound and damning statement — '''the United States is the “most warlike nation in the history of the world.”''' Carter contrasted the United States with [[China]], saying that China is building [[High-speed rail|high-speed trains]] for its people while the United States is putting all of its resources into mass destruction. Where are high-speed trains in the United States, Carter appropriately wondered... As if to prove Carter’s assertion, Vice President [[Mike Pence]] told the most recent graduating class at West Point that it “is a virtual certainty that you will fight on a battlefield for America at some point in your life... You will lead soldiers in combat. It will happen.” Clearly referring to [[Venezuela]], Pence continued, “Some of you may even be called upon to serve in this hemisphere.” In other words, Pence declared, [[war]] is inevitable, a certainty for this country. **[https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2019/07/01/must-stop-our-nation-push-for-relentless-war/Oe1EOC1wbv8Jca6FSuXSzK/story.html ''We must stop our nation’s push for relentless war'' By [[Oliver Stone]] and [[Daniel Kovalik|Daniel Kovalik]], ''Boston Globe'',] (July 1, 2019) ==== [https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/nov/10/it-would-make-a-cat-laugh-key-moments-from-paul-keatings-national-press-club-appearance 'It would make a cat laugh’: key moments from Paul Keating’s National Press Club appearance, ''The Guardian''] (November 10, 2021)==== <small>[[https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/in-full-paul-keating-addresses-national-press-club-of-australia/video/3690b46dc983b8774ff223b230c6ab10 In Full: Paul Keating addresses National Press Club of Australia, Sky News Australia]]</small> *'''Taiwan is not a vital Australian interest.''' We have no alliance with [[Taipei]]. There is no piece of paper sitting in Canberra which has an alliance with Taipei. We do not recognise it as a [[Sovereignty|sovereign]] state – '''we’ve always seen it as a part of China...''' My view is Australia should not be drawn into a military engagement over Taiwan, US-sponsored or otherwise... * (On rebuilding relationships with Beijing) At least give it respect. What the Chinese want, I think, is [[Respect|respect]] for what they’ve created. Our central proposition should be that the rise of China is entirely valid. What the Chinese want is acknowledgement of the validity of what they have done and what they have created: the legitimacy of the rise of China from its colonial past and from poverty. *(On Xi as president for life: ‘A belief in harmony’) Well, it’s a good way to stay in power, I guess. It’s not my way. I actually believe in a community’s right to dismiss the government. But you’ve got to remember that China is broadly a [[Confucius|Confucian society]] that believes in harmony, in authority, and it is with this background that it accepts, I think broadly, the role of the [[W:Chinese Communist party|Chinese Communist party]]. I mean, the idea that we have that if you don’t vote at the local ballot box, that is, if you are not a [[Thomas Jefferson|Jeffersonian]] [[Liberalism|liberal]], then you are a savage, belies the fact that China has a 4,000-year history which has these characteristics about it. *(On Britain’s tilt to the Indo-Pacific: ‘Old theme park’) You know, here’s our old friend – what’s his name – [[Boris Johnson|the British prime minister]] waxing lyrical down there in [[Cornwall]]. I mean, '''[[United Kingdom|Britain]] is like an old theme park sliding into the Atlantic compared to modern China. China is just going to be huge.''' *In October 2020, the IMF in its annual report nominated China as the world’s largest economy. '''It says '''[[Economy of China|China’s economy]] is now 20% larger than the [[Economy of the United States|United States]]''', 24tn versus 20tn – a report which was endorsed by the CIA. So you have the IMF and the CIA out there saying China is 20% bigger than the United States now.''' These are the key numbers. American GDP per capita is $60,000. China’s GDP per capita is $10,000. But as China is moving out of its old model of cheap manufactured goods, their income is going to rise. But at 10,000 US dollars per capita, China is 20% bigger than the US. How many years is it going to take China to get to 20,000? Not 60 … but with the highly urbanised economy of theirs, it will take a decade, perhaps. If it gets to $20,000 US per capita, '''it will be 2.5 times bigger than the United States'''. To which the United States says: “That is all very interesting but, look, if you behave yourselves, you Chinese, you can be a stakeholder in our system.” And you would not have to be Xi Jinping to take the view, if you are a [[w:Chinese_nationalism|Chinese nationalist]], '''“let me get this right, we are already 1.25 times bigger than you, we will soon be twice as big as you and we may be 2.5 times as big as you, but we can be a stakeholder in your system, is that it?” It would make a cat laugh.''' *(China debate ‘informed by the spooks’) Australian public debate is [[deception|informed]] by the spooks. Our [[foreign policy]] debate now in [[Canberra]] is informed by the security agencies, so you are not getting a macro view of China [[truth|as it really is]]. <BR>China wants its front doorstep and its front porch, that is Taiwan, its sea, it doesn’t want American naval forces influencing that. It wants access out of its coast into the deeper waters of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific. That’s what it’s about fundamentally. === M === * To understand the changes which now appear upon the Chinese mainland, one must understand the changes in Chinese character and culture over the past 50 years. China, up to 50 years ago, was completely non-homogenous, being compartmented into groups divided against each other. The war-making tendency was almost non-existent, as they still followed the tenets of the Confucian ideal of [[Pacifism|pacifist]] culture. At the turn of the century, under the regime of [[w:Zhang Zuolin|Chang Tso Lin]], efforts toward greater homogeneity produced the start of a [[Nationalism|nationalist]] urge. This was further and more successfully developed under the leadership of [[Chiang Kai-shek|Chiang Kai-Shek]], but has been brought to its greatest fruition under the present regime to the point that it has now taken on the character of a united nationalism of increasingly dominant, aggressive tendencies. Through these past 50 years the Chinese people have thus become militarized in their concepts and in their ideals. They now constitute excellent soldiers, with competent staffs and commanders. This has produced a new and dominant power in [[Asia]], which, for its own purposes, is allied with [[Soviet Union|Soviet Russia]] but which in its own concepts and methods has become aggressively imperialistic, with a lust for expansion and increased power normal to this type of [[imperialism]]. There is little of the ideological concept either one way or another in the Chinese make-up. The standard of living is so low and the capital accumulation has been so thoroughly dissipated by war that the masses are desperate and eager to follow any leadership which seems to promise the alleviation of local stringencies. I have from the beginning believed that the Chinese Communists' support of the [[North Korea|North Koreans]] was the dominant one. Their interests are, at present, parallel with those of the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]]. But I believe that the aggressiveness recently displayed not only in Korea but also in Indo-China and [[Tibet]] and pointing potentially toward the South reflects predominantly the same lust for the expansion of power which has animated every would-be conqueror since the beginning of time. ** [[Douglas MacArthur]], [https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/douglasmacarthurfarewelladdress.htm 1953 Farewell Speech] *Both nations [China and India] are to nearly an equal degree tainted with the vices of insincerity; dissembling, treacherous, mendacious, to an excess which surpasses even the usual measure of uncultivated society. Both are disposed to excessive exaggeration with regard to everything relating to themselves. Both are cowardly and unfeeling. Both are in the highest degree conceited of themselves, and full of affected contempt for others. Both are, in the physical sense, disgustingly unclean in their persons and houses. **James Mill, The History of British India. 1817. quoted in The Idea of India- Bhārat as a Civilisation -- Subhash Kak ===O=== *When it comes to every important international issue, people of the world do not look to [[Beijing]] or [[Moscow]] to lead. ** [[Barack Obama]], [https://medium.com/@WhiteHouse/president-obama-s-2016-state-of-the-union-address-7c06300f9726#.flsvqkay9 State of the Union address] (12 January 2016). *For years, Chinese [[Intellectual|intellectuals]] distinguished between words and actions. Western political ideas could be discussed in China as long as nobody tried to enact them... Sealing China off from western ideas poses some practical problems... Chinese leaders since [[Deng Xiaoping]] have adhered to a principle known as 'Hide your strength, bide your time'... No diplomatic relationship matters more to China's future than its [[China–United States relations|dealings with the United States]]... For years, American military leaders worried that there was a growing risk of an accidental clash between China and the U.S., in part because Beijing protested U.S. policies by declining meetings between senior commanders... A decade ago, the Chinese Internet was alive with debate, confession, humor, and discovery. Month by month, it is becoming more sterilized and self-contained. To the degree that China's connection to the outside world matters, the digital links are deteriorating. Voice-over-Internet calls, [[w:Viral video|viral videos]], [[w:Podcast|podcasts]], the minor accessories of contemporary digital life, are less reachable abroad than they were a year ago. It's an astonishing thing to observe in a rising superpower. How many countries in 2015 have an [[Internet]] connection to the world that is worse than it was a year ago? **[[w:Evan Osnos|Evan Osnos]], [http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/04/06/born-red "Born Red: How Xi Jinping, an unremarkable provincial administrator, became China’s most authoritarian leader since Mao."] (6 April 2015), ''The New Yorker''. *China remains the world's largest [[Manufacturing|manufacturer]], with four trillion dollars in foreign-exchange reserves, a sum equivalent to the world’s fourth-largest economy... Last spring, China abolished registered-capital and other requirements for new companies, and in November it allowed foreign investors to trade shares directly on the [[w:Shanghai Stock Exchange|Shanghai stock market]] for the first time... The risks to [[Economy of China|China's economy]] have rarely been more visible. The workforce is aging more quickly than in other countries, because of the [[w:One-child policy|one-child policy]], and businesses are borrowing money more rapidly than they are earning it... The growth of demand for energy and raw materials has slowed, more houses and malls are empty, and nervous Chinese savers are sending money overseas, to protect it in the event of a crisis... To maintain economic growth, China is straining to promote innovation... After China had spent years investing in science and technology, the share of its economy devoted to research and development surpassed Europe's... The era of [[Xi Jinping]] has defied the assumption that China's fitful opening to the world is too critical and productive to stall. **[[w:Evan Osnos|Evan Osnos]], [http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/04/06/born-red "Born Red: How Xi Jinping, an unremarkable provincial administrator, became China’s most authoritarian leader since Mao."] (6 April 2015), ''The New Yorker''. ===P=== * China as a society, a government, an economy and a culture is quite difficult for us to comprehend today. The changes are so rapid in cities like [[Beijing]] and [[Shanghai]] and the culture remarkably fluid... China is increasingly influential in the world and more and more people have hopes that China will be a leader... China has ended up playing a critical role in [[w:Geopolitics|geopolitics]] more quickly than anybody had anticipated. ** {{w|Emanuel Pastreich}}, [http://thediplomat.com/2015/12/interview-daniel-bell/ "Chinese meritocracy and the limits of democracy"] (17 December 2015), ''The Diplomat'' *The Chinese are rejecting western values and multiparty democracy... It seems very incongruous to be, on the one hand, so committed to fostering more competition and market-driven flexibility in the economy and, on the other hand, to be seeking more control in the political sphere, the media, and the Internet. **[[Henry Paulson]], ''Dealing with China'', as quoted in [http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/04/06/born-red "Born Red: How Xi Jinping, an unremarkable provincial administrator, became China’s most authoritarian leader since Mao."] (6 April 2015), by Evan Osnos, ''The New Yorker'' *The leadership from the top over the last three American presidencies has steadily pushed US public opinion from being friendly towards China in the direction of [[hostility]]. Intellectual property theft is a widely used reason for giving China a hard time. Yet in a recent survey made by the [[w:US-China Business Council|US-China Business Council]], [[intellectual property]] protection ranked sixth on a list of pressing concerns among American companies which trade with China. In 2014 China created its first specialized court to handle intellectual property cases. In 2015 plaintiffs brought before the court 63 cases. The court ruled for the foreign firms in all 63. China itself is clearly against the theft of business secrets. **[https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/03/05/its-rubbish-to-trash-china/ It’s Rubbish to Trash China], by [https://www.counterpunch.org/author/3remacr111/ Jonathan Power,] [[W: CounterPunch|''Counter Punch'']], (March 5, 2020) *How many people outside China are aware of the responsible way China acts internationally? Take the [[United Nations|UN]] for example. According to the respected journalist [[Fareed Zakaria]], writing in this month’s ''[[w:Foreign Affairs|Foreign Affairs]]'', “Beijing is now the second-largest funder of the UN and [[w:United Nations peacekeeping|UN peacekeepers]]. It has deployed 2,500 peacekeepers, more than all the other permanent members of the [[W:United Nations Security Council|Security Council]] combined. Between 2000 and 2008 it supported 182 of 190 Security Council resolutions imposing sanctions on nations deemed to have violated international rules or norms”. This is a very different China than the one projected by many Western politicians and journalists. Usually, China is reported as being an impediment at the [[w:United Nations Security Council|Security Council]], using its veto fast and furiously. <BR> China has not gone to [[war]] since 1979. It has not used lethal military force abroad since 1988. Nor has it funded proxies or armed insurgents anywhere in the world since the early 1980s... this record of non-intervention China is unique among the world’s great powers. China has had no permanent military presence outside China until recently when it finished building its first overseas base... on the [[w:Horn of Africa|Horn of Africa]] to protect the shipping of its oil through the unstable political waters of the [[w:Persian Gulf|Persian Gulf]] and the [[w:Indian Ocean|Indian Ocean]]...<BR>China is angry when... US spy planes flying through Chinese airspace... China does not fly through US airspace. Its flights are on the other side of the world. **[https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/03/05/its-rubbish-to-trash-china/ It’s Rubbish to Trash China], by [https://www.counterpunch.org/author/3remacr111/ Jonathan Power,] [[W: CounterPunch|''Counter Punch'']], (March 5, 2020) *The United States, [[W:Jorge Arreaza|Arreaza]] told me, “has gone to the extent of carrying out modern acts of [[piracy]], stopping ships in the middle of the ocean and stealing cargo that was paid for by the [[Venezuela|Venezuelan]] people.” Not only has the [[United States sanctions|United States tried to blockade Venezuela]], but it continues to interfere in Venezuela’s political affairs; this includes trying to undermine the legislative elections that will be held on December 6....China has largely disregarded the [[U.S. sanctions |U.S. sanctions against Venezuela]], which is the largest recipient of Chinese loans. “When China states that it will continue to trade with Venezuela,” Arreaza told me, “it is standing against the [[international law|illegality]] of the U.S. coercive measures that are placed on Venezuela.” Venezuela’s difficulty in servicing the debt to China is seen in Beijing as the fault of the illegal sanctions regime, which has made normal economic activity impossible; China’s “patient capital” strategy and its understanding of the geopolitical pressure on Venezuela are key to understanding its relationship. **[[Vijay Prashad]] in [https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/11/27/why-imperialism-is-obsolete-in-latin-america/ Why Imperialism is Obsolete in Latin America, An interview with Jorge Arreaza, foreign minister of Venezuela, ''CounterPunch''], Nov 27, 2020 *In September 2018, Venezuelan president [[Nicolás Maduro]] visited [[China|China,]] where he met with China’s President [[Xi Jinping]] and signed a series of important agreements on trade and culture. Toward the end of his stay, Maduro said that the two countries had built “a relationship of mutual benefit, of shared gain.” Among these agreements was one that highlights the depth of the [[collaboration]]: this was for China to participate with the [[w:Great Venezuela Housing Mission|Great Venezuela Housing Mission]] (GMVV) to build more than 13,000 homes in the El Valle parish in [[w:Caracas|Caracas]]. The focus of the international media has been on the oil trade between China and Venezuela, and in the aid from China to Venezuela; but the connections go deeper, into the social life of the people who are struggling to emerge from deprivation...<BR>China, [[W:Jorge Arreaza|Arreaza]] (foreign minister of Venezuela) says, trades with countries without interference in their internal affairs. This is quite different from the Western model, notably that overseen by the [[International Monetary Fund|International Monetary Fund (IMF)]], which pushes for structural adjustment alongside loans. Because China respects the [[Sovereignty|sovereign]] choices of a country, Arreaza told me, “China has proven to be a reliable partner for the region and it can continue to play a key role in our development for many years to come.” **[[Vijay Prashad]] in [https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/11/27/why-imperialism-is-obsolete-in-latin-america/ Why Imperialism is Obsolete in Latin America, An interview with Jorge Arreaza, foreign minister of Venezuela, ''CounterPunch''], Nov 27, 2020 ===R=== *The big picture in the Middle East isn't [[Iran]] or [[Iraq]]. The big picture in the [[Middle East]] is China. People don't understand that. They don't know what’s going on right now. It's about leveraging control over Middle-Eastern and central-Asian oil, in order to dictate the pace of China's economic growth over the next 30 years. Because China's the biggest threat in the eyes of the [[neoconservatives]]. It's this massive [[Economy of China|Chinese economy]] that's been expanding by leaps and bounds that’s going to threaten American global economic hegemony. Now I'm not saying this is what I believe, I'm just saying it's what's in the minds of these neoconservatives. You deal with China indirectly at this point in time because you don't want direct confrontation. **[http://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/Content?oid=oid%3A42834 Scott Ritter Says Controversial Things About Clinton, Bush, Fox News, the Surge, etc., Interview with the ''Memphis Flyer'',] (8 May 2008) *All of this self-serving is driving America and its vassals to war with [[Russia]], which might also mean with China. The war would be [[Nuclear war|nuclear]] and be the end of the West, an act of self-genocide. The US national security establishment is so crazed that [[Donald Trump|Trump]]’s efforts to get off the war track and onto a peace track are characterized as treason and a threat to US national security... The Russians are aware that the accusations and demonization that they experience are fabrications. They no longer see the problem as one of misunderstandings that diplomacy can overcome. What they see now is the West preparing its populations for war. It is this perception for which the West is solely responsible that makes the situation today far more dangerous than it ever was during the long [[Cold War]]. **[[Paul Craig Roberts]] in [https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2018/12/28/the-self-genocide-of-the-west/ ''The Self-Genocide of the West, Foreign Policy Journal''] (26 December 2018) *[[United States|We]] cannot, if we would, play the part of [[w:Qing dynasty|China]], and be content to rot by inches in ignoble ease within our borders, taking no interest in what goes on beyond them, sunk in a scrambling commercialism; heedless of the higher life, the life of aspiration, of toil and risk, busying ourselves only with the wants of our bodies for the day, until suddenly we should find, beyond a shadow of question, what China has already found, that in this world the nation that has trained itself to a career of un-warlike and isolated ease is bound, in the end, to go down before other nations which have not lost the manly and adventurous qualities. If we are to be a really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. **[[Theodore Roosevelt]], ''[[s:The Strenuous Life|The Strenuous Life]]'' (10 April 1899), Chicago, Illinois *[W]hat is [[nationalism]]? And what nationalism is actually Western invention. Imperial China had no nationalism. Where do they get their ideas of nationalism? Well, they got their ideas of [[nationalism]] from the [[Japan|Japanese]], which emerged as a national state in [[19th century|the 19]]. Well, where did the Japanese get their ideas about nationalism, which were then translated into Chinese? They got it from the Germans. So what they imported was a 19th-century version of [[w:Social Darwinism|social Darwinism]] in which [[race]] is of the fundamental basis of nationality and there are very – when you hear Xi Jinping and other Chinese leaders talking about cultural pollution, when you talk about the natural affinity of all Chinese people wherever they are, you begin to worry that there is this submerged, and sometimes not even so, some racialist component. **[[w:Stephen Peter Rosen|Stephen Rosen]], [http://conversationswithbillkristol.org/video/stephen-rosen/ interview with Bill Kristol] (2016), [http://conversationswithbillkristol.org/transcript/stephen-rosen-transcript/ transcript] *If you want to know what people are worried about look at what they spend their money on. If you’re afraid of [[Theft|burglars]] you buy a burglar alarm. What are the Chinese spending their money on? We’re told from Chinese figures they’re spending on the [[People's Armed Police|People’s Armed Police]], the internal security force is about as big as they’re spending on the [[w:People's Liberation Army|regular military]]. This whole great firewall of Chinese, this whole massive effort to control the [[internet]], this effort to use modern [[information technology]] not to disseminate [[information]], empowering individuals, but to make people think what you want them to think and to monitor their behavior so that you can isolate and suppress them. That’s because this is a regime which is fundamentally afraid of its own people. And it’s fundamentally hostile to them. **[[w:Stephen Peter Rosen|Stephen Rosen]], [https://conversationswithbillkristol.org/video/stephen-rosen-ii/ interview with Bill Kristol] (30 November 2018), [https://conversationswithbillkristol.org/transcript/stephen-rosen-ii-transcript/ transcript] [[File:Forbidden City Beijing Shenwumen Gate.JPG|thumb|The Chinese are a great nation, incapable of permanent suppression by foreigners. They will not consent to adopt our vices in order to acquire military strength; but they are willing to adopt our virtues in order to advance in wisdom. I think they are the only people in the world who quite genuinely believe that wisdom is more precious than rubies. ~ [[Bertrand Russell]]]] * The typical Westerner wishes to be the cause of as many changes as possible in his environment; the typical Chinaman wishes to enjoy as much and as delicately as possible. ** [[Bertrand Russell]], ''The Problem of China'' (1922), Ch. XII: The Chinese Character. [[File:2016-09-10 Beijing Panjiayuan market 49 anagoria.jpg|thumb| The Chinese are a great nation, incapable of permanent suppression by foreigners. They will not consent to adopt our vices in order to acquire military strength; but they are willing to adopt our virtues in order to advance in wisdom. I think they are the only people in the world who quite genuinely believe that wisdom is more precious than rubies. That is why the West regards them as uncivilized. ~ [[Bertrand Russell]] ]] * The Chinese are a great nation, incapable of permanent suppression by foreigners. They will not consent to adopt our vices in order to acquire military strength; but they are willing to adopt our virtues in order to advance in wisdom. I think they are the only people in the world who quite genuinely believe that wisdom is more precious than rubies. That is why the West regards them as uncivilized. ** [[Bertrand Russell]], ''The Problem of China'' (1922), Ch. XIII: Higher education in China. ===S=== *'''The US is a force for division, not for [[cooperation]]'''... It's a force for trying to create a [[New Cold War|new cold war]] with [[China]]. If this takes hold - if that kind of approach is used, then we won't go back to normal, indeed we will spiral into greater controversy and greater [[danger]] in fact. The US lost its step on [[w:5G|5G]], which is a critical part of the new digital economy. And [[w:Huawei|Huawei]] was taking a greater and greater share of global markets... The US concocted in my opinion, the view that Huawei is a global threat. And has leaned very hard on US allies... to try to break the relations with Huawei. *The [[United States|US]] is a force for division, not for [[cooperation]]... Do I believe that [[China]] could do more to ease fears that are very real? I do.... The big choice frankly is in China's hands. If China is [[cooperative]], if it engages in [[diplomacy]], regional cooperation and [[w:multilateralism|multilateralism]]…. then I think that [[Asia]] has an incredibly bright future. **[[Jeffrey Sachs]] quoted in [https://www.bbc.com/news/business-53104730 ''US China cold war 'bigger global threat than virus''' By Karishma Vaswani, ''BBC News''] (21 June 2020) *Regarding China...you have both the Democrats and Republicans taking an increasingly hostile posture... if you look at the recent comments of [[Xi Jinping]], particularly after his virtual summit with [[Joe Biden]], he has been really hitting the talking point that what is happening is that the United States is taking this neo-Cold War posture. I think he is entirely right. But I sort of see it in the same vein as you. China, the United States and Russia in particular are engaged in a classic capitalist battle for control of natural resources all throughout the world... I think China in particular is very concerned about the aggressive U.S. stance because I think China would be very happy to find a way to just sort of divvy up the world for domination in various regions. The United States is not going to accept that. The U.S. posture is pushing China and Russia into an even closer alliance akin to the relationship during the Cold War. **[[Jeremy Scahill]] in [https://www.democracynow.org/2021/11/24/war_party_us_military_spending “The War Party”: Jeremy Scahill on How U.S. Militarism Unifies Democrats & Republicans, ''Democracy Now!''] (24 November 2021) * Some observers have already proclaimed that [[W:Chinese Century|China will rule the world]], This prospective is profoundly overstated and incorrect in my view... China has a long way to go before it becomes, if it ever becomes a true {{w|global power}}, and it will never rule the world. ** {{w|David Shambaugh}}, [https://web.archive.org/web/20160303182244/http://210.101.116.28/W_files/kiss61/1l201503_pv.pdf ''China Goes Global: The Partial Power''] (2013), New York: Oxford University Press * China is, in essence, a very narrow-minded, self-interested, realist state, seeking only to maximize its own national interests and power. It cares little for global governance and enforcing global standards of behavior, except its much-vaunted doctrine of noninterference in the internal affairs of countries. Its economic policies are mercantilist and its diplomacy is passive. China is also a lonely strategic power, with no allies and experiencing distrust and strained relationships with much of the world. ** {{w|David Shambaugh}}, [https://web.archive.org/web/20160303182244/http://210.101.116.28/W_files/kiss61/1l201503_pv.pdf ''China Goes Global: The Partial Power''] (2013), New York: Oxford University Press, p. 310 *China is a very contradictory country... China punches way below its weight, it is not, it ''is'' free-riding... It is not contributing... China is a lonely power... Who wants to seek political asylum in China? Nobody. ** {{w|David Shambaugh}}, [http://listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=7aE66iIUi9U#David_Shambaugh_-_China_Goes_Global%3A_The_Partial_Power "David Shambaugh - China Goes Global: The Partial Power"] (April 2013), ''USC U.S.-China Institute'', YouTube *The subsequent evolution of the Chinese state is one where [[Bureaucracy|bureaucratic]] recruitment and rule became ever more routinized, and this occurred at the expense of hereditary lineages. In western Europe, after the [[w:fall of the Western Roman Empire|fall of Rome]] rulers pursued a policy of giving grants of land in exchange for military service. These grants tended to be one-way transactions. Over time this led to the creation of a category of members of society with substantial autonomy. The presence of this group would play a prominent role in the early development of medieval assemblies. In China things pushed in the opposite direction. With the perfection of an [[w:Chinese imperial examination|imperial examination system]] during the [[w:Tang dynasty|Tang]] and [[w:Song dynasty|Song dynasties]], Chinese rulers had at their disposal a means of bureaucratic recruitment that did not depend on societal networks outside of their control. Being a member of the elite now meant being part of the state itself. **David Stasavage, ''The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today'' (2020), pp. 14-15 * The Chinese people have only family and clan solidarity; they do not have national spirit...they are just a heap of loose sand...Other men are the carving knife and serving dish; we are the fish and the meat. ** [[Sun Yat-sen]], ''China as a Heap of Loose Sand'' (1924) * China is now suffering from poverty, not from [[Redistribution of income and wealth|unequal distribution of wealth]]. Where there are inequalities of wealth, the [[Marxism|methods of Marx]] can, of course, be used; a [[Class conflict|class war]] can be advocated to destroy the inequalities. But in China, where industry is not yet developed, [[Karl Marx|Marx]]'s class war and [[dictatorship of the proletariat]] are impracticable. ** [[Sun Yat-sen]], ''Capital and the State'' (1924) * This is a fight with a really different civilization and a different ideology, and the United States hasn’t had that before, it’s also striking that this is the first time that '''we will have a great power competitor that is not Caucasian'''. **[[Kiron Skinner]], speaking about China, as quoted in "[https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/05/02/worst-justification-trumps-battle-with-china-clash-civilizations/ The worst justification for Trump’s battle with China? The ‘clash of civilizations’]" (29 April 2019) ''[https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/05/02/worst-justification-trumps-battle-with-china-clash-civilizations/?utm_term=.5509ea20a1f1 Washington Post]'' [[File:WTO Public Forum 2019 Day 1 (48865279387).jpg|thumb|US military spending totaled $732 billion in 2019, nearly three times the $261 billion China spent. The US.. has around 800 overseas military bases, while China has just one... The US has many military bases close to China, which has none anywhere near the US. The US has 5,800 nuclear warheads; China has roughly 320. The US has 11 aircraft carriers; China has one. The US has launched many overseas wars in the past 40 years; China has launched none. ~ [[Jeffrey Sachs|Jeffrey Saches]]]] ===America’s Unholy Crusade Against China, [[Jeffrey Sachs]], (5 August 2020)=== <small>[https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/america-evangelical-crusade-against-china-by-jeffrey-d-sachs-2020-08 (full text)]</small> *Last month, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered an anti-China speech that was extremist, simplistic, and dangerous. If biblical literalists like Pompeo remain in power past November, they could well bring the world to the brink of a war that they expect and perhaps even seek.<BR>According to Pompeo, Chinese leader Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) harbor a “decades-long desire for global hegemony.” This is ironic... Pompeo’s zealous excesses have deep roots in [[History of the United States|American history]]... Pompeo himself is a [[w:Biblical_literalism|biblical literalist]] who believes that the end time, the apocalyptic battle between [[good and evil]], is imminent. Pompeo described his beliefs...: ''America is a [[Judeo-Christian]] nation, the greatest in history, whose task is to fight God’s battles until the Rapture, when Christ’s born-again followers, like Pompeo, will be swept to heaven at the [[Last Judgment]]''... Pompeo’s inflammatory anti-China rhetoric could become even more apocalyptic in the coming weeks, if only to fire up the Republican base ahead of the election. *According to [[Mike Pompeo|Pompeo [U.S. Secretary of State]]], Chinese leader Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) harbor a “decades-long desire for global [[hegemony]].” This is ironic. Only one country – the US – has a defense strategy calling for it to be the “preeminent military power in the world,” with “favorable regional balances of power in the Indo-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and the Western Hemisphere.” China’s defense white paper, by contrast, states that “China will never follow the beaten track of big powers in seeking hegemony,” and that, “As economic [[globalization]], the information society, and cultural diversification develop in an increasingly multi-polar world, peace, development, and win-win cooperation remain the irreversible trends of the times.” *US military spending totaled $732 billion in 2019, nearly three times the $261 billion China spent. The US.. has around 800 overseas military bases, while China has just one (a small naval base in [[w:Djibouti|Djibouti]]). The US has many military bases close to China, which has none anywhere near the US. The US has 5,800 nuclear warheads; China has roughly 320. The US has 11 aircraft carriers; China has one. The US has launched many overseas wars in the past 40 years; China has launched none (though it has been criticized for border skirmishes, most recently with India, that stop short of war). *The world took relatively little notice of Pompeo’s speech, which offered no evidence to back up his claims of China’s hegemonic ambition. China’s rejection of US hegemony does not mean that China itself seeks hegemony. Indeed, outside of the US, there is little belief that China aims for global dominance. China’s explicitly stated national goals are to be a “moderately prosperous society” by 2021 (the centenary of the CPC), and a “fully [[developed country]]” by 2049 (the centennial of the People’s Republic). *Moreover, at an estimated $10,098 in 2019, China’s [[Gross Domestic Product|GDP]] per capita was less than one-sixth that of the US ($65,112) – hardly the basis for global supremacy. China still has a lot of catching up to do to achieve even its basic economic development goals. Assuming that Trump loses in November’s presidential election, Pompeo’s speech will likely receive no further notice. The Democrats will surely criticize China, but without Pompeo’s brazen exaggerations. Yet, if Trump wins, Pompeo’s speech could be a harbinger of chaos. Pompeo’s [[Evangelicalism in the United States|evangelism]] is real, and white evangelicals are the political base of today’s Republican Party. Pompeo’s zealous excesses have deep roots in American history. *If Trump is defeated, as seems likely, the risk of a US confrontation with China will recede. But if he remains in power, whether by a true electoral victory, vote fraud, or even a coup (anything is possible), Pompeo’s crusade would probably proceed, and could well bring the world to the brink of a war that he expects and perhaps even seeks. ===T=== *One of the greatest untold secrets of history is that the 'modern world' in which we live is a unique synthesis of Chinese and Western ingredients. Possibly more than half of the basic inventions and discoveries upon which the 'modern world' rests come from China. And yet few people know this. Why? The Chinese themselves are as ignorant of this fact as Westerners. From the seventeenth century onwards, the Chinese became increasingly dazzled by European technological expertise, having experienced a period of [[amnesia]] regarding their own achievements. When the Chinese were shown a mechanical clock by Jesuit missionaries, they were awestruck. '''They had forgotten that it was they who had invented mechanical clocks in the first place!''' ** {{w|Robert K. G. Temple}} - ''The Genius of China: 3,000 Years of Science, Discovery and Invention'' (1986). *Arise! All those who don't want to be [[slaves]]! Let our flesh and blood forge our new [[w:Great Wall of China|Great Wall]]! As the Chinese nation has arrived at its most perilous time, every person is forced to expel their very last roar. **{{w|Tian Han}}, ''{{w|March of the Volunteers}}'' (1934). * [A]t a time when the [[w:Health crisis|crisis]] of the [[2019–20 coronavirus pandemic|Coronavirus pandemic]] is developing rapidly. [...] The {{w|Chinese government}} currently appears “successful” in its response, but in the first weeks that [[w:2019–20 coronavirus pandemic in mainland China|the new coronavirus]] appeared, [[w:Criticism of response to the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic#Chinese government|the government]] offered the denialism typical of restorationist [[State capitalism|capitalist bureaucracy]], ignoring the warnings that could have reduced the number of deaths (including that of {{w|Li Wenliang}}, a doctor who warned about the epidemic and was consequently accused by the authorities of “spreading rumors” before he died from [[COVID-19]]). '''China is the most extreme example of [[w:Authoritarian capitalism#China|authoritarianism]] around the world, with its tight [[w:Bureaucratic collectivism|bureaucratic]] control [[w:2019–20 coronavirus pandemic in mainland China#Censorship and police responses|that prevents vital news]] from leaving {{w|Wuhan}} and other affected areas.''' ** [[Trotskyist Fraction – Fourth International]], ''[https://www.leftvoice.org/coronavirus-and-the-healthcare-crisis-our-lives-are-worth-more-than-their-profits Coronavirus and the Healthcare Crisis: Our Lives Are Worth More than Their Profits!]'' (March 14, 2020), ''Left Voice''. * I know the Chinese. I've made a lot of money with the Chinese. I understand the Chinese mind. **[[Donald Trump]], as quoted in [http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnmauldin/2015/08/24/playing-the-chinese-trump-card/ "Playing the Chinese Trump Card"] (24 August 2015), [http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnmauldin/2015/08/24/playing-the-chinese-trump-card/ ''Forbes''] (August 2015). * The concept of [[W:Global warming conspiracy theory|global warming was created]] by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive. **[[Donald Trump]], [https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/265895292191248385?lang=pt Twitter] (6 November 2012) *We have a 500 billion dollar deficit, trade deficit with China. We're going to turn it around and we have the cards, don't forget, we're like the piggy bank that's being robbed. We have the cards, we have a lot of power with China. When China doesn't want to fix the problem in [[North Korea]] we say "Sorry folks, you've got to fix the problem." '''Because we can't continue to allow China to [[rape]] [[United States|our country]], and that's what they're doing. It's the greatest theft in the history of the world.''' **[[Donald Trump]], as quoted in "[https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-36185275/china-accused-of-trade-rape-by-donald-trump China accused of trade 'rape' by Donald Trump]" (2 May 2016) ''[https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-36185275/china-accused-of-trade-rape-by-donald-trump BBC]'' *No [[California]] gentleman or lady ever abuses or oppresses a Chinaman, under any circumstances, an explanation that seems to be much needed in the east. Only the scum of the population do it; they and their children. They, and, naturally and consistently, the policemen and politicians, likewise, for these are the dust-licking pimps and slaves of the scum, there as well as elsewhere in America. **[[Mark Twain]], [http://www.friesian.com/quotes.htm ''Roughing It''] (1872). *A disorderly Chinaman is rare, and a lazy one does not exist. So long as a Chinaman has strength to use his hands he needs no support from anybody; white men often complain of want of work, but a Chinaman offers no such complaint; he always manages to find something to do. **[[Mark Twain]], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=gjUOvGeK51MC&pg=PA169&dq=%22Chinaman%22%7C%22Chinamen%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=H-rpUv3zHoSCkQWs3oGIBg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Chinaman%22%7C%22Chinamen%22&f=false ''Roughing It''] (1872), p. 169. *I have seen Chinamen abused and maltreated in all the mean, cowardly ways possible to the invention of a degraded nature... I never saw a Chinaman righted in a court of justice for wrongs thus done to him. **[[Mark Twain]], as quoted in ''Mark Twain and the Three Rs: Race, Religion, Revolution and Related Matters'' (1973), by Maxwell Geismar, Indianapolis: Bobs-Merrill, p. 98. [[File:Night view from the Bund.jpg|thumb|When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself. ~ [[Deng Xiaoping]]]] [[File:Nanking bodies 1937.jpg|thumb|People who try to commit [[suicide]] — don't attempt to save them! . . . China is such a populous nation, it is not as if we cannot do without a few people. (~1960) ~ [[Mao Zedong]]]] [[File:National Revolutionary Army troops.png|thumb|It's better to have reform than revolution, but in Chinese history this cycle repeats itself. ~ [[w:Zhang Lifan|Lifan Zhang]]]] ===V=== *They [the Chinese] are immensely self-serving, as they would. But a the same time they have a quality that we need in [[w:Southern Europe|Southern Europe]]. Actually, I think everyone needs to have foreign direct investment by patient [[Investment|investors]]. They are patient investors. They don't come in to grab an asset for speculative purposes. They come in order to create a base on which to build and build and build. And their horizon is 20-30 years. What Europe has not done with Greece is to do what the Chinese were prepared to do to come there with their workers, with their engineers, and actully do some serious work. **[[Yanis Varoufakis]] in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afhQtQCi0XI?t=125 ''Yanis Varoufakis on China''] (20 September 2017) *They [the Chinese] are far more humanistic than the [[United States]] ever was. [...] Of course they're trying... they are peddling for influence, but they are non-interventionists. Absolutely non-interventionists in a way that Europeans, the West, has never managed to fathom. The Chinese never asked [[Apple Inc.|Apple]] to go to [[w:Shenzhen|Shenzhen]] and produce all the [[IPhone|iPhones]], it was [[Steve Jobs]] that decided that. It was not China that went to [[Washington, D.C.|Washington DC]] and demanded that they buy a third of your [[w:United States national debt|national debt]]. If they hadn't bought it, you would be in serious trouble. [...] When it comes to the influence of China outside its borders, it's quite remarkable that they don't seem to have any military ambitions. Instead of going into Africa with troops, colonially destroying the country, killing people like the West has done for the last hundred years, what they did was they went to [[w:Addis_Ababa|Addis Ababa]] and they said to the government: "We can see you have problems with your infrastructure, we would like to build some new airports and upgrade your [[Rail transport|railway system]], create a [[w:Telephone|telephone]] system, and rebuild your [[Road|roads]]. And we will do this all for free." No strings attached. "We don't want anything from you". And they did. Why did they do it? Because this is soft power. **[[Yanis Varoufakis]] in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBgbYQ5QAM0?t=103 ''Don't Worry So Much About China''] (May 2018) *The deepening cold war between the US and China will be a bigger worry for the world than coronavirus, according to influential economist [[Jeffrey Sachs]]. The world is headed for a period of "massive disruption without any leadership" in the aftermath of the pandemic, he told the [[w:BBC|BBC]]. The divide between the two superpowers will exacerbate this, he warned. The [[w:Columbia University|Columbia University]] professor blamed the US administration for the hostilities between the two countries. **[https://www.bbc.com/news/business-53104730 Karishma Vaswani in: ''US China cold war 'bigger global threat than virus, BBC News''] (21 June 2020) ===W=== * The United States and other [[Democracy|democratic]] nations do so much business with China that there is a tendency to turn a blind eye towards the Communist Party's abysmal human rights record. The Chinese Communist Party's strategy of liberalizing its national economy while harshly rejecting democracy has become the model for modern [[Dictatorship|dictatorships]]. [[Hu Jintao]] and his party control all media in China, between 250,000 and 300,000 Chinese citizens, including [[Dissent|political dissidents]], are incarcerated in "[[w:Re-education through labor|reeducation-through-labor]]" camps and the conviction rate in normal criminal trials in 99.7 percent. Less than 5 percent of trials include witnesses. [[Amnesty International]] has reported that children have been bussed to public executions as field trips. ** David Wallechinsky, ''Tyrants: The World's 20 Worst Living Dictators'' (2006), p. 2 *The world must understand that millions of [[Uyghurs|Uighurs]] and other [[Muslim]] minorities in [[w:Xinjiang|Xinjiang]] are being sent to [[concentration camp]]s and forced into [[labor]]. ** [[w:Michael Waltz|Michael Waltz]] [https://waltz.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=459 Statement Regarding U.S. Declaration of China's Actions Against Uyghurs As Genocide] January 19, 2021 * There is a strange symmetry to China’s [[20th century|twentieth century]], and much of it is linked to the ideological Cold War. At the beginning of the century, China’s republican revolution was overtaken by Communism and conflict. And at the end of the century, Communism was overtaken by money and markets. In between lay a terrible time of [[destruction]] and reconstruction, of [[enthusiasm]] and [[cynicism]], and of almost never-ending rivers of blood. What marks these Chinese revolutions most of all is their bloodthirst: according to a recent estimate, seventy-seven million Chinese died unnatural deaths as a result of warfare or political mass-murder between the 1920s and the 1980s, and the vast majority of them were killed by other Chinese. ** Odd Arne Westad, ''The Cold War: A Global History'' (2017) * [[Chinese language|Chinese]] is the easiest language when it is learned at ease, dwelling on its spirit rather than on the individual expression. But for inquisitive questioners, this language provides vain pitfalls. **[[Richard Wilhelm]], ''Die Seele Chinas''. Berlin, Hobbing, 1926 *Over the past 40 years, the number of people in China with incomes below $1.90 per day – the [[w:International Poverty Line|International Poverty Line]] as defined by the [[World Bank]] to track global extreme poverty– has fallen by close to 800 million. With this, China has contributed close to three-quarters of the global reduction in the number of people living in extreme poverty. **[[The World Bank]] Press Release No. 2022/072/EAP, [https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2022/04/01/lifting-800-million-people-out-of-poverty-new-report-looks-at-lessons-from-china-s-experience Lifting 800 Million People Out of Poverty – New Report Looks at Lessons from China’s Experience, April 1, 2022] *One of the things we're trying to do is view the China threat '''as not just a whole-of-government threat, but a whole-of-society threat''' on their end, and I think it's going to take a whole-of-society response by us. **[[Christopher A. Wray]] in [http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1802/13/cnr.04.html February 13, 2018] ''[http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1802/13/cnr.04.html CNN]'' ===X=== * When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself. ** [[Deng Xiaoping]], as quoted in ''Forbes'', Vol. 176, Editions 7-13 (2005), p. 79 ===Z=== * People who try to commit [[suicide]] — don't attempt to save them!&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. '''China is such a populous nation, it is not as if we cannot do without a few people.''' ** Attributed to [[Mao Zedong]] by [[w:Wang Li (politician)|Wang Li]], “历史将宣告我无罪” (History Will Pronounce Me Innocent), manuscript, Beijing, 1993, p. 7. This source is a privately printed collection of letters and documents concerning Wang Li's expulsion from the CCP. Cited in ''{{w|Mao's Last Revolution}}'' (2006) by {{w|Roderick MacFarquhar}} and {{w|Michael Schoenhals}}. *This experience and the historical experiences gained by the Party since its founding can be summarized as follows: Our Party must always represent the requirements for developing China's advanced productive forces, the orientation of China's advanced culture and the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the Chinese people. These are the inexorable requirements for maintaining and developing socialism, and the logical conclusion our Party has reached through hard exploration and great praxis. **[[Jiang Zemin|Jiang Zemin]], work report at the Communist Party of China Congress (8 November 2002), as quoted in ''Selected Works of Jiang Zemin'', Eng. ed., FLP, Beijing, 2013, Vol. III, p. 519. *A review of our party's seventy-plus-year history elicits an important conclusion. Our party earned the people's support during the historical periods of revolution, construction and reform because it always represented the requirements for developing [[w:China|China]]'s [[W:Theory of the productive forces|advanced productive forces]], the orientation of [[w:China|China]]'s advanced culture and the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the [[Chinese people]]. The party also earned popular support because it fought tirelessly to realize the fundamental interests of the country and the people by formulating a correct line, principles and policies. Today, humanity once again stands at the beginning of a new century and a new millennium. How our party can better effectuate the [[w:Three Represents|Three Represents]] under the new historical conditions is a major issue all Party comrades, especially high-ranking party cadres, must consider deeply... The Communist Party of China should represent the development trends of advanced productive forces, the orientations of an advanced culture and the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people of China. **[[Jiang Zemin|Jiang Zemin]], "[[w:Three Represents|The Three Represents]]" (25 February 2000). *We want to learn from the west about [[science]] and [[technology]] and how to manage the [[Economy of China|economy]], but this must be combined with specific conditions here. That's how we have made great progress in the last twenty years. **[[Jiang Zemin|Jiang Zemin]], as quoted in [https://web.archive.org/web/20140306052558/http://www.cbsnews.com/news/jiang-zemin-talks-with-wallace/ "Jiang Zemin Talks With Wallace"] ''CBS news'' (August 2000) *In front of a lot of princeling friends, I've said that, if the Communist Party can't take sufficient political reform in five or ten years, it could miss the chance entirely. As scholars, we always say it's better to have [[reform]] than [[revolution]], but in Chinese history this cycle repeats itself. Mao said we have to get rid of the cycle, but right now we’re still in it. This is very worrying. ** {{w|Lifan Zhang}}, as quoted in [http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/04/06/born-red "Born Red: How Xi Jinping, an unremarkable provincial administrator, became China’s most authoritarian leader since Mao."] (6 April 2015), by Evan Osnos, ''The New Yorker'' ==See also== * [[China–United States relations|China-United States relations]] *[[United Nations]] == External links == {{Wikipedia|China}} {{Sister project links|w=China|wikt=China|b=no|s=Portal:China|commons=China|n=no|v=no|species=no|d=Q148|voy=China|m=|mw=no}} [[Category:China| ]] [[Category:Countries in Asia]] 2vlakbmdhx7l6j0tujz65ms9e77j0ur 0 6566 3961158 3949505 2026-07-05T16:27:29Z BD2412 3982 /* top */ Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]], replaced: Charles Francis Adams, Sr. → Charles Francis Adams Sr. using [[Project:AWB|AWB]] 3961158 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Drawing of Henry Adams.jpg |thumb|A [[teacher]] affects [[eternity]]; he can never tell where his [[influence]] stops.<br>—''[[The Education of Henry Adams]]'']] '''[[w:Henry Brooks Adams|Henry Brooks Adams]]''' ([[16 February]] [[1838]] – [[27 March]] [[1918]]) was an American historian, journalist, novelist and educator. He was the great-grandson of [[John Adams]], grandson of [[John Quincy Adams]] and son of [[Charles Francis Adams Sr.]] :See also: ::'''''[[Mont Saint Michel and Chartres]]'' · ''[[The Education of Henry Adams]]''''' == Quotes == [[File:Stone mountain closeup mosaic crop.jpg|thumb|right|It's always the [[good]] men who do the most [[harm]] in the world.]] [[File:Henry Adams1.jpg|thumb| We never despised the [[world]] or its [[opinions]], we only failed to find out its [[existence]].]] [[File:Henry Adams seated at desk in dark coat, writing, photograph by Marian Hooper Adams, 1883.jpg|thumb|Man has mounted [[science]], and is now run away with...Someday science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by [[w:Global catastrophic risk|blowing up the world]].]] * '''A period of about twelve years measured the beat of the pendulum.''' After the [[United States Declaration of Independence|Declaration of Independence]], twelve years had been needed to create an efficient [[United States Constitution|Constitution]]; another twelve years of [[energy]] brought a reaction against the [[government]] then created; a third period of twelve years was ending in a sweep toward still greater energy; and already a child could calculate the result of a few more such returns. ** ''A History of the United States of America During the First Administration of James Madison'' (1890), Vol. II, Ch. VI: Meeting of the Twelfth Congress; 1921 edition, p. 123 * I disagree with my brother [[w:Charles Francis Adams, Jr.|Charles]] and [[Theodore Roosevelt]]. I think that [[Robert E. Lee|Lee]] should have been hanged. It was all the worse that he was a good man and a fine character and acted conscientiously. These facts have nothing to do with the case and should not have been allowed to interfere with just penalties. '''It's always the good men who do the most harm in the world.''' ** As quoted in ''American Heritage'' (December 1955), p. 44 * Man has mounted [[science]], and is now run away with. I firmly believe that before many centuries more, science will be the master of men. The engines he will have invented will be beyond his [[strength]] to [[control]]. '''Someday science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit [[suicide]], by [[Global catastrophic risk|blowing up the world]].''' ** ''Letter to Charles Francis Adams Jr.'', London, 11 April 1862. In J. C. Levenson, E. Samuels, C. Vandersee and V. Hopkins Winner (eds.), ''The Letters of Henry Adams: 1858-1868'' (1982), 1: 290. * I turn green in bed at midnight if I think of the horror of a year's warfare in the Philippines ... We must slaughter a million or two foolish Malays in order to give them the comforts of flannel petticoats and electric railways. ** Letter to Elizabeth Cameron (22 January 1899), in J. C. Levinson ''et al.'' eds., ''The Letters of Henry Adams, Volume IV: 1892–1899'' (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1988), p. 670 *'''We never despised the world or its opinions, we only failed to find out its existence.''' The world, if it exists, feels exactly in the same way towards us, and cares not one straw whether we exist or not. [[Philosophy]] has never got beyond this point. There are but two schools: one turns the world onto me; the other turns me onto the world; and the result is the same. The so-called me is a very, very small and foolish puppy-dog, but it is all that exists, and it tries all its life to get a little bigger by enlarging its energies, and getting dollars or getting friends. ** Letter to Elizabeth Cameron (13 May 1905), in Worthington C. Ford ed., ''Letters of Henry Adams, Volume 2: 1892–1918'' (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1938), p. 451 === ''[[w:Democracy: An American Novel|Democracy: An American Novel]]'' (1880) === [[File:William Notman - Henry Brooks Adams, 1885.jpg|thumb|How ''can'' we all be right? Half of our wise men declare that the world is going straight to [[perdition]]; the other half that it is fast becoming [[perfect]]. Both cannot be right.]] * '''For [[reasons]] which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington.''' She was in excellent health, but she said that the climate would do her good. ** Ch. I, first lines * Who, then, is right? How ''can'' we all be right? Half of our wise men declare that the world is going straight to [[perdition]]; the other half that it is fast becoming [[perfect]]. Both cannot be right. ** Madeleine Lee in Ch. IV * I have [[faith]]; not perhaps in the old dogmas, but in the new ones; faith in [[human nature]]; faith in science; faith in the [[w:survival of the fittest|survival of the fittest]]. Let us be true to our time, Mrs. Lee! ** Nathan Gore in Ch. IV * I have got so far as to lose the distinction between right and wrong. Isn't that the first step in [[politics]]? ** Madeleine Lee in Ch. VIII * She regarded men as creatures made for women to dispose of. ** About Madeleine, in Ch. XI * ...any woman will, under the right conditions, marry any man at any time, provided her "higher nature" is properly appealed to. ** Ch. XI * The audacity of the man would have seemed sublime if she had felt sure that he knew the difference between good and evil, between a lie and the truth; but the more she saw of him, the surer she was that his courage was mere moral paralysis, and that he talked about virtue and vice as a man who is colour-blind talks about red and green; he did not see them as she saw them; if left to choose for himself he would have nothing to guide him. Was it politics that had caused this atrophy of the moral senses by disuse? Meanwhile, here she sat face to face with a moral lunatic. ** Madeleine Lee assessing Senator Silas P. Ratcliffe in Ch. XIII === ''[[w:Esther (novel)|Esther: A Novel]]'' (1884) === [[File:WLA amart Adams Memorial.jpg|thumb|I [[know]] of [[nothing]] useful in [[life]] except what is beautiful or creates [[beauty]].]] [[File:Adams Memorial replica.JPG|thumb|The matter was too serious for any treatment but a [[joke]], and joking made it more serious still.]] [[File:Brooklyn Museum - Niagara Falls - Arthur Parton - overall.jpg|thumb|She fell in [[love]] with the cataract and turned to it as a confidant, not because of its [[beauty]] or [[power]], but because it seemed to tell her a [[story]] which she longed to [[understand]].]] * In this atmosphere of [[charity]], where [[all]] [[faiths]] were alike and all professions joined [[hands]], the church and the [[world]] became one. ** On a children's hospital, Ch. III * Wharton was captivated by her sweet face, and tried to make her understand his theory that the merit of a painting was not so much in what it explained as in what it suggested. ** Referring to Catherine Brooke, Ch. III * An [[artist]] must be man, woman and demi-god. ** Mr. Wharton in Ch. IV * '''I know of nothing useful in life except what is beautiful or creates [[beauty]].''' ** Mr. Wharton in Ch. IV * One is a [[saint]] or one is not; every man can choose the career that suits him; but to be saint and sinner at the same time requires singular ingenuity. ** Ch. IV * This view of the case amused Esther for a time, but not for long — the matter was too serious for any treatment but a joke, and joking made it more serious still. ** Ch. VII * [[Mystery]] for mystery [[science]] beats [[religion]] hollow. I can't open my mouth in my lecture-room without repeating ten times as many unintelligible formulas as ever Hazard is forced to do in his church. ** George Strong in Ch. VII * Every one who marries goes it blind, more or less. ** George Strong in Ch. VII * Like most vigorous-minded men, seeing that there was no stopping-place between [[dogma]] and negation, he preferred to accept dogma. Of all weaknesses he most disliked timid and half-hearted faith. He would rather have jumped at once to Strong's pure denial, than yield an inch to the argument that a mystery was to be paltered with because it could not be explained. ** About the Rev. Stephen Hazard, in Ch. VIII * Never was the Church blessed with a stranger ally than this freest of free thinkers, who looked at churches very much as he would have looked at a layer of extinct oysters in a buried mud-bank. Strong's notion was that since the Church continued to exist, it probably served some necessary purpose in human economy, though he could himself no more understand the good of it than he could comprehend the use of human existence in any shape. Since men and women were here, idiotic and purposeless as they might be, they had what they chose to call a right to amuse themselves in their own way, and if this way made some happy without hurting others, Strong was ready enough to help. ** Ch. VIII * I am never afraid of pure [[atheism]]; it is the flabby kind of sentimental [[deism]] that annoys me, because it is as slippery as air. ** The Rev. Stephen Hazard in Ch. VIII * She fell in love with the cataract and turned to it as a confidant, not because of its beauty or power, but because it seemed to tell her a story which she longed to understand. ** Esther Dudley's reaction to [[Niagara Falls]], in Ch. IX *<p>...the huge church [...] was thundering its gospel under her eyes.</p><p>To have Niagara for a rival is no joke. Hazard spoke with no such authority; and Esther's next idea was one of wonder how, after listening here, any preacher could have the confidence to preach again. "What do they know about it?" she asked herself. "Which of them can tell a story like this, or a millionth part of it?"</p> ** Ch. IX * As for broken hearts, no self-respecting young woman shows such an ornament at any well regulated breakfast-table; they are kept in dark drawers and closets like other broken furniture. ** Ch. IX * She broke in with a question that staggered him.<br>"Does your idea mean that the next world is a sort of great reservoir of truth, and that what is true in us just pours into it like raindrops?"<br>"Well!" said he, alarmed and puzzled: "the figure is not perfectly correct, but the idea is a little of that kind."<br>"After all I wonder whether that may not be what Niagara has been telling me!" said Esther, and she spoke with an outburst of energy that made Strong's blood run cold. ** Esther Dudley and George Strong in Ch. IX * Some people are made with faith. I am made without it. ** Esther Dudley in Ch. X * As for myself, if I could have removed my doubts by so simple a step as that of becoming an atheist, I should have done it, no matter what scandal or punishment had followed. I studied the subject thoroughly, and found that for one doubt removed, another was raised, only to reach at last a result more inconceivable than that reached by the church, and infinitely more hopeless besides. What do you gain by getting rid of one incomprehensible only to put a greater one in its place, and throw away your only hope besides? The atheists offer no sort of bargain for one's soul. Their scheme is all loss and no gain. At last both they and I come back to a confession of ignorance; the only difference between us is that my ignorance is joined with a faith and hope. ** The Rev. Stephen Hazard in Ch. X * "Do you really believe in the resurrection of the body?" she asked<br>"Of course I do!" replied Hazard stiffly.<br>"To me it seems a shocking idea. I despise and loathe myself, and yet you thrust self at me from every corner of the church as though I loved and admired it. All religion does nothing but pursue me with self even into the next world." ** Esther Dudley and Stephen Hazard in Ch. X * Esther looked at him with an expression that would have been a smile if it had not been infinitely dreary and absent; then she said, simply and finally:<br>"But George, I don't love you, I love him." ** Ch. X, the last lines of the novel ===[https://www.loc.gov/item/19018407/ The Degradation of the Democratic Dogma] (1919)=== * Energy had a way of coming and going in phases of intensity much more mysterious than the energy itself.<br> * The sun, according to [[John Tyndall|Tyndall]], wasted into space practically all its energy except an [[w: quantum_(disambiguation)|imperceptible]] portion that happened to fall on the earth; but even this portion was not utilizable for human purposes [...] without assistance.<br> * Ice, water, and vapor were phases sharply distinct. So the imperceptible portion of solar energy which fell on the earth, reappeared by some mysterious process, to an infinitely minute measure, in the singular form of intensity known as Vital Energy, and disappeared by a sudden and violent change of phase known as death.<br> * Man had always flattered himself that he knew — or was about to know — something [...] but he invariably found [...] that the more he knew the less he understood. [...] He knew nothing at all ! No one knew anything ** The Problem, pages 148-149<br> * Compared with the superficial and self-complacent [[optimism]] which seems to veneer the surface of society, the frequent and [[tragic]] outbursts of [[physicists]], [[astronomers]], [[geologists]], [[biologists]], and [[sociological]] [[socialists]] announcing the [[Apocalypse|End of the World]], surpass all that could be conceived as a [[Natural]] product of the time. The notes of warning verge on the grotesque; it is [[hysterically]] solemn; [...] a natural shock might easily turn it into a [[Panic at the Disco|panic]]<br> ** The Problem, pages 180 [[-]] 182 {{Misattributed begin}} == Misattributed == * Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. ** [[Marcus Aurelius]], ''Meditations,'' iii. 7 {{Misattributed end}} == Quotes about Adams == *Henry Adams had prophesied that the awakening would come before 1940. He missed the year by a trifle. His historic sense was sound. **[[Mary Ritter Beard]], ''America Through Women's Eyes'' (1933) * He used to say, half in jest, that his great ambition was to complete [[Augustine of Hippo|St. Augustine]]'s ''[[Confessions (Augustine)|Confessions]]'', but that St. Augustine, like a great artist, had worked from multiplicity to unity, while he, like a small one, had to reverse the method and work back from unity to multiplicity. ** Adams about himself writing under the name of his friend [[Henry Cabot Lodge]], in the [http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext00/eduha10h.htm Editor's Preface to the 1918 edition of ''The Education of Henry Adams'' (September 1918)] *Adams's skill as a literary craftsman has rarely been excelled by anyone writing in the English language, and certainly by no American historian. Any historian who ventures into territory where Henry Adams trod does so with either trepidation or foolhardy courage—lest one offend not only [[w:Clio|Clio]], the muse of History, but also [[w:Calliope|Calliope]], the muse of Epic Poetry. **[[w:Forrest McDonald|Forrest McDonald]], ''The Presidency of Thomas Jefferson'' (1976), p. vii ==External links== {{wikipedia}} {{wikisource author}} {{Wikisource1911Enc|Adams, Henry}} {{commonscat}} * [http://www.univie.ac.at/Anglistik/easyrider/data/HAdams.htm Henry Adams, Globe Trotter in Space and Time] *[http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/HADAMS/ha_home.html ''The Education of Henry Adams'' at the University of Virginia American Studies Hypertext project]. *[http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/Adams_Mont/cover.html ''Mont Saint Michel and Chartres '' at the University of Virginia American Studies Hypertext project]. *[http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/ADAMS_HISTORY/cover.html ''America in 1800 ''at the University of Virginia American Studies Hypertext project]. *[http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/ADALHA.html The Letters of Henry Adams] * [http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/a#a798 Henry Adams at Project Gutenberg] **{{gutenberg|no=2815|name=Democracy, an American novel by Henry Adams}} **{{gutenberg|no=14409|name=Esther by Henry Adams}} **{{gutenberg|no=4584|name=Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Henry Adams}} **{{gutenberg|no=2044|name=The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams}} * [http://theotherpages.org/poems/poem-ab.html#hbadams Index entry for Henry Brooks Adams at Poets' Corner] * [http://lorrietussman.wordpress.com/the-broken-arch ''The Broken Arch'', an unpublished work by Lorrie Tussman exploring the theme of unity in Western civilization based on the writings of Henry Adams] * [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=5 Profile at Find a Grave] {{DEFAULTSORT:Adams, Henry}} [[Category:Autobiographers from the United States]] [[Category:Academics from the United States]] [[Category:Historians from the United States]] [[Category:Journalists from Boston]] [[Category:1838 births]] [[Category:1918 deaths]] [[Category:Educators from the United States]] [[Category:Novelists from Boston]] [[Category:Antisemites]] [[Category:Non-fiction authors from the United States]] [[Category:Harvard University faculty]] [[Category:Harvard University alumni]] [[Category:Adams family|Henry Adams]] ohhgyivnavj42b74h40wib25ba4jmys 0 6621 3961253 3960896 2026-07-05T19:44:26Z BD2412 3982 Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]] 3961253 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Robert F. 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Kennedy]]. == Quotes == ===2003–2015=== * Generations of Americans will pay the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] campaign debt to the energy industry with global instability, depleted national coffers and increased [[vulnerability]] to price shocks in the [[w:Oil market|oil market]]. They will also pay with reduced prosperity and quality of life at home. [[Pollution]] from [[w:Power plants|power plants]] and traffic smog will continue to skyrocket. [[w:Carbon dioxide|Carbon-dioxide]] emissions will aggravate [[global warming]]. [[w:Acid rain|Acid rain]] from Midwestern coal plants has already sterilized half the lakes in the Adirondacks and destroyed the forest cover in the high peaks of the Appalachian range up into [[Canada]]. The administration's attacks on [[science]] and the law have put something even greater at risk. [[United States|Americans]] need to recognize that we are facing not just a threat to our [[Nature|environment]] but to our values, and to our democracy. ** From "Crimes against nature" in ''Rolling Stone'' magazine (December 11, 2003). * Today, more than ever, it is critical for American citizens to understand the difference between the [[Free market|free-market]] [[capitalism]] that made our country great and the corporate cronyism that is now corrupting [[Politics of the United States|our political process]], strangling [[democracy]] and devouring our national treasures. ** From "Crimes against nature" in ''Rolling Stone'' magazine (December 11, 2003). * I had my own [[Mercury (element)|mercury]] levels tested recently, Bill, and my levels are about three times what are considered safe, just from eating [[fish]]. I was told by Dr. David Carpenter, who is the national authority on mercury contamination, that a woman with my levels of mercury would have children with cognitive impairment, with permanent brain damage, probably an [[Intelligence quotient|IQ]] loss of 5 to 7 points... Under [[Bill Clinton|Clinton]] rules, they would have had to remove 90% of that mercury within three-and-a-half years. But [[George W. Bush|this president]], eight weeks ago, announced he was scrapping those rules and substituting rules that were written by industry [[lobbyists]] that will require that they never have to clean up. This is an issue that affects hundreds of thousands of people and directly impacts the health of millions and millions of Americans. But you don't see it in the newspaper. It should be the headlines every single day. But we don't know about it. ** To [[Bill Maher]] on ''[[w:Real Time with Bill Maher|Real Time with Bill Maher]]'' (October 22, 2004). * The [[Mainstream media|news departments]] have become corporate profit centers. And their only obligation now is to their [[Shareholder|shareholders]]. Which is to create large audiences and viewership so they can sell more ad space. So they're airing stories that appeal to the prurient interests that all of us have in the reptilian core of our brain: for sex and celebrity gossip. And now, for terror. So they give us [[Kobe Bryant]] and they give us [[Michael Jackson]]. And they give us [[w:Laci_Peterson|Laci Peterson]] and they give us lots and lots of [[Terrorism|terror]] alerts. But they're not telling us the really critical stories that impact our way of life. ** ''Real Time with Bill Maher'' (October 22, 2004). * [According to a specialist, an abnormality seen in his brain scans] was caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died. * [After the mercury poisoning (cited above)] I have cognitive problems, clearly [...] I have short-term memory loss, and I have longer-term memory loss that affects me. ** From a deposition (2012), as cited in [https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/us/rfk-jr-brain-health-memory-loss.html "R.F.K. Jr. Says Doctors Found a Dead Worm in His Brain"], ''The New York Times'' (May 8, 2024) ** Kennedy's health conditions were outlined in a deposition relating to the divorce from his second wife, [[w:Mary Richardson Kennedy|Mary Richardson Kennedy]]. * They get the shot, that night they have a fever of a hundred and three, they go to sleep, and three months later their brain is gone [...] This is a <!-- Lower case is in the source -->holocaust, what this is doing to our country. ** Speaking in Sacramento (<!-- Tuesday -->April 7, 2015), cited in [https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/robert-kennedy-jr-compares-vaccine-debate-holocaust-california-lawmakers-banning-exemptions/ "Robert Kennedy Jr. Compares Vaccine Debate To Holocaust As California Lawmakers Look At Banning Exemptions"] ''CBS News Bay Area'' (April 8, 2015) ** Two Californian senators at the state's Capitol had introduced [[w:California Senate Bill 277|a bill known as SB277]] (which became law at the end of June 2015) blocking parents from stopping the vaccination of their children. [https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/13/robert-kennedy-apologises-for-holocaust-comparison-vaccines Kennedy later apologized] for the comments were made at a screening of the film ''[[w:Trace Amounts|Trace Amounts]]'' * Thimerosal is a controversial mercury based (sic) vaccine preservative that research scientists and vaccine safety advocates have connected to the epidemic of brain disorders in children. ** "[https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilywillingham/2015/07/21/why-does-robert-f-kennedy-jr-get-brain-science-so-wrong/#451fa6e83a13 Why Does Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Get Brain Science So Wrong?]" by Emily Willingham, forbes.com (July 21, 2015). ===2020–2022=== * My father believed moral courage to be the rarest species of bravery. Rarer even than the physical courage of soldiers in battle or great intelligence. He thought it the one vital quality required to salvage the world. ** From his foreword to ''Plague of Corruption'' by Kent Heckenlively and [[w:Judy Mikovits|Judy Mikovits]], blurb cited by [https://apnews.com/article/science-health-magic-johnson-plague-robert-f-kennedy-jr-7f65a4caf9bc1edac9f88cf303e11bb2 ''AP News''] (April 30, 2020) *[[Judy Mikovits|Dr. Mikovits]] joined NIH in 1980 as a Postdoctoral Scholar in Molecular Virology at the National Cancer Institute and began a 20-year collaboration with Frank Ruscetti, a pioneer in the field of human retro virology. She helped Dr Russetti isolate the HIV virus and link it to #AIDS in 1983. Her NIH boss [[Anthony Fauci]] delayed publication of that critical paper for 6 months to let his protégé [[Robert Gallo]] replicate, publish and claim credit. The delay in mass HIV testing let AIDS further spread around the globe and helped Fauci win promotion to director NIAID... Appropriating her (Judy Mikovits') work wasn’t the worst of it. This delayed the development of testing and spread the HIV epidemic through the world, killing millions. Driven by greed and cronyism, Anthony Fauci—”America’s Doctor”—is directly responsible for the further spread of [[HIV/AIDS|HIV]] throughout the world. Rather than being punished for his actions, six months later he was appointed [[w:Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases|Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases]]–a position he still holds today. **[https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/the-truth-about-fauci-featuring-dr-judy-mikovits/ The Truth About Fauci—Featuring Dr. Judy Mikovits],[[w:Children's Health Defense|''Children's Health Defense'']] (April 20, 2020) ** '''''Note'':''' In 2007, Mikovits met a co-discoverer of {{w|xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus}} (XMRV), Robert Silverman, at a [[w:Academic conference|conference]]. Silverman had found XMRV sequences, which are highly similar to mouse genomic sequences, in {{w|prostate cancer}} specimens several years earlier. Using tools obtained from Silverman, Mikovits began to look for XMRV in her CFS samples. In late 2008, a graduate student, who subsequently was hired as her technician, obtained two positive results from a group of twenty samples. He and Mikovits successively altered the experimental conditions until all samples gave a positive signal. In 2009, Mikovits and co-workers reported in the journal ''Science'' that they had detected XMRV [[DNA]] in CFS patients and control subjects. Negative results were published soon after, disputing Mikovits's findings. Two of the original authors of this paper subsequently reanalyzed the samples used in the research and found that the samples were contaminated with XMRV plasmid DNA, leading them to publish a partial retraction of their original results. In December 2011, after a request by first author Robert Silverman, the editors of ''Science'' retracted the paper in its entirety. On September 29, 2011, Mikovits was terminated by the WPI due to disputes over the control of lab samples and the integrity of her work; she subsequently came under investigation for alleged [[w:Misuse of statistics|manipulation of data]] in her publications related to XMRV. (See {{w|Judy Mikovits#XMRV and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue}}) *In 2006, Dr Mikovits became director of Whittemore Peterson Institute for Neuro-Immune Disease and collaborated with Dr Ruscetti searching for the cause of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome which suddenly became epidemic in the 1980s.... [[Judy Mikovits|Dr. Mikovits]] discovered that 67% of affected women carried a virus—called Xenotropic Murine Leukemia related Virus—that appeared in healthy women only 4% of the time. XMRV is also associated with prostate, breast, ovarian cancers, leukemia, and multiple myeloma. Many women with XMRV bore children with [[autism]]. In 2009, Drs. Mikovits and Ruscetti published their explosive findings in the journal [[w:Science (journal)|''Science'']]. But the question remained: how was XMRV getting into people? Other researchers linked the first CFS outbreak to a polio vaccine given to doctors and nurses that resulted in the “1934 Los Angeles County Hospital Epidemic.” That vaccine was cultivated on pulverized mouse brains. Retroviruses from dead animals can survive in cell lines and permanently contaminate vaccines.<BR> Dr Mikovits’ studies suggested that the XMRV Virus was present in the MMR, Polio and Encephalitis vaccines given to American children and soldiers. XMRV is so hazardous that the mere presence of mouse tissue in a laboratory can contaminate other tissues in the same room. '''[[Anthony Fauci|Dr Fauci]] ordered Mikovits to keep her mouth shut. When she refused, he illegally confiscated her work books and hard drives, drove her from government work and blackballed her from receiving NIH grants ending her science career. XMRV remains in American vaccines.''' ** In [https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/the-truth-about-fauci-featuring-dr-judy-mikovits/ The Truth About Fauci—Featuring Dr. Judy Mikovits],[[w:Children's Health Defense|''Children's Health Defense'']] (April 20, 2020) * The digitalized economy? We get rid of cash and coins. We give you a chip. We put all your money in your chip. If you refuse a vaccine, we turn off the chip and you starve! ** [https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2020/08/15/debunked-bill-gates-conspiracy-gets-a-boost-from-rfk-jr-marla-maples/ "Debunked Bill Gates Conspiracy Gets A Boost From RFK Jr., Marla Maples"] ''Forbes'' (August 15, 2020) ===2023=== * Even in [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]]'s [[Nazi Germany|Germany]] you could cross the Alps into [[Switzerland]], you could hide in an attic like [[Anne Frank]] did. ** At an anti-vaxxer rally (January 23, 2022), cited in [https://www.reuters.com/world/us/robert-kennedy-jr-apologizes-holocaust-remarks-anti-vaxxer-rally-2022-01-25/ "Robert Kennedy Jr apologizes for Holocaust remarks at anti-vaxxer rally"] ''Reuters'' (January 25, 2022). On <!-- Tuesday -->January 25., he said: "I apologize for my reference to Anne Frank, especially to families that suffered the Holocaust horrors. My intention was to use examples of past barbarism to show the perils from new technologies of control. To the extent my remarks caused hurt, I am truly and deeply sorry." <!-- Is the above quote made in 2022 or 2023? Looks like a 2022 quote.--> * I can’t answer that. ** Answered to the question "What do you see as more harmful to America: another term of Joe Biden, or Donald Trump returning to power?“ in the spring of 2023, quoted in [https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/08/how-rfk-jrs-arc-bent-toward-maga/679607/ "Why RFK Jr. Endorsed Trump"], ''The Atlantic'' (August 23, 2024) *The collapse of U.S. influence over [[Saudi Arabia]] and the Kingdom’s new alliances with [[China]] and Iran are painful emblems of the abject failure of the [[Neoconservatism|Neocon]] strategy of maintaining [[Foreign policy of the United States|U.S. global hegemony]] with aggressive projections of military power. China has displaced the [[American imperialism|American Empire]] by deftly projecting, instead, economic power. Over the past decade, our country has spent trillions bombing roads, ports, bridges, and airports. China spent the equivalent building the same across the [[Developing country|developing world]]. The [[Russian invasion of Ukraine|Ukraine war]] is the final collapse of the Neocon's short-lived “American Century.” The Neocon projects in [[Iraq War|Iraq]] and [[Ukraine]] have cost $8.1 trillion, hollowed out our [[American middle class|middle class]], made a laughingstock of U.S. military power and moral authority, pushed [[China–Russia relations|China and Russia]] into an invincible alliance, destroyed the dollar as the global currency, cost millions of lives and done nothing to advance democracy or win friendships or influence. **From [https://www.facebook.com/rfkjr/posts/pfbid0U4onsx8ptxFM9Aa5iy2wXTrYswSHCnqbYAh3yy3RuVdRHuUpBRqjvGH1sz2oqNR1l his post] on Facebook (April 4, 2023) * There's a cushy {{w|Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor|socialism for the rich and this kind of brutal, merciless capitalism for the poor}}. **From his [https://www.foxnews.com/media/robert-f-kennedy-jr-warns-system-socialism-rich-2024-campaign-launches interview] on ''{{w|Tucker Carlson Tonight}}'' (April 19, 2023) * The [[Russians]] have repeatedly offered to settle. If you look at the [[w:Minsk agreements|Minsk accords]], which the Russians offered to settle for, they look like a really good deal today. Let's be honest: it’s a [[Russia–United States relations|US war against Russia]], to essentially sacrifice the flower of [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] youth in an abattoir of death and destruction for the geopolitical ambition of the [[Neoconservatism|neocons]], oft-stated, of regime change for [[Vladimir Putin]] and exhausting the [[Russian Armed Forces|Russian military]] so that they can't fight anywhere else in the world. [[Joe Biden|President Biden]] has said that was his intention — to get rid of Vladimir Putin. His Secretary of Defense, [[Lloyd Austin]], in April 2022, said that our purpose here is to exhaust the [[Russian Armed Forces|Russian army]]. What does that mean, "exhaust"? It means throwing Ukrainians at them. My son fought over there, side-by-side with the Ukrainians and we've sacrificed 300,000 of them. The commander of the special forces unit in the Ukraine, which is probably the most elite fighting force in [[Europe]], has said 80% of his troops are dead or are wounded and they cannot rebuild the unit. Right now, the Russians are killing Ukrainians at a ratio of either 1:5 or 1:8, depending on what data you believe. ** On the [[2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine]] on [https://unherd.com/2023/05/robert-kennedy-jr-america-needs-a-revolution/ Unherd] (May 3, 2023) * What happened in the Ukraine is that the US supported essentially a [[Revolution of Dignity|coup d’etat]] in 2014, against the democratically-elected government of Ukraine. We have telephone call transcripts of [[Victoria Nuland]], one of the neocons in the [[White House]], handpicking the new cabinet that was hostile to the [[Soviet Union]]. If you look at that, and you put yourself in [[Russia]]’s position, and you say: "Okay, the United States, our biggest enemy, is treating us as an enemy, has now taken over the government of a nation and made them hostile to us, and then started passing laws that are prejudicial to this giant Russian population." If [[Mexico]] did that and then started killing — they killed 14,000 [[Russians]] in Donbas, the Ukrainian government — if [[Mexico]] did that to expatriate Americans, we'd invade in a second. We have to put ourselves in the shoes of our opponents. ** Talking about the [[2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine]] on [https://unherd.com/2023/05/robert-kennedy-jr-america-needs-a-revolution/ Unherd] (May 3, 2023) * [On climate science] I can’t independently verify that. * [The [[climate crisis]] is being used to create] [[Totalitarianism|totalitarian]] controls on society [...] by the World Economic Forum, [[Bill Gates]], and all of these [[Billionaire|megabillionaires]]. * In my campaign I’m not going to be talking a lot about climate. Why is that? Because climate has become a crisis like [[COVID-19 pandemic|Covid]] that the Davos groups and other [[Totalitarianism|totalitarian]] elements in our society have used as a pretext for clamping down totalitarian controls. ** From an interview on ''[[w:Breaking Points|Breaking Points]]'' (<!-- "three weeks ago" indicated on YouTube on 6/14 which would place it in -->late May 2023), as cited by [[Naomi Klein]] in [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/14/ignoring-robert-f-kennedy-jr-not-an-option "Ignoring Robert F Kennedy Jr is not an option"], ''The Guardian'' (June 14, 2023) * On [[w:Mass shootings in the United States|mass shootings]] prior to the introduction of [[w:Prozac|Prozac]], we had almost none of these events in our country and we've never seen them in human history, where people walk into a schoolroom of children or strangers and start shooting people. ** Online Twitter conversation with [[Elon Musk]] (June 5, 2023), as cited in [https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/05/us/politics/robert-f-kennedy-jr-twitter-2024.html "Robert Kennedy Jr., With Musk, Pushes Right-Wing Ideas and Misinformation"], ''The New York Times'' (June 5, 2023) *[On the suggestion "You know what, [[Alex Jones]], with all due respect, I don't want your support" is "a principled insistence" Jones represents a "a bridge too far"] If you're just saying you're going to dismiss certain people because this human being is so irredeemable that I am going to exclude him or her from any future activity on the planet—I just don’t think that's consistent with my spiritual beliefs. It's not consistent with my [[political philosophy]]. I believe that we should invite our enemies into the tent with us to the extent that they want to break bread with us, that they may want to endorse some of the values that we hold dear. *[On the [[w:Assassination of John F. Kennedy|Assassination of John F. Kennedy]] in November 1963] I can guarantee you, looking at this case, that I could prove that my uncle's death was caused by the [[w:Central Intelligence Agency|C.I.A.]] I have enough evidence right now, without any depositions, to go to prove that my uncle's death was the result of a conspiracy. And that the C.I.A. was involved—not only in the original conspiracy but in the sixty-year coverup—and continues to maintain the coverup. **Extracts from interview by [[w:David Remnick|David Remnick]] in [https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-alternative-facts-of-robert-f-kennedy-jr "The Alternative Facts of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr."] ''The New Yorker'' (July 7, 2023). * There is an argument that [COVID-19] is ethnically targeted. COVID-19 attacks certain races disproportionately [...] COVID-19 is targeted to attack [[White people|Caucasians]] and [[Black people]]. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and [[Chinese people|Chinese]]. ** Comments in a video recorded at a New York City fundraiser a few days earlier, [https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2023-07-15/ty-article/.premium/robert-f-kennedy-jr-says-jews-intentionally-spared-from-ethnically-targeted-covid-19/00000189-59d6-dc94-a78d-f9df447a0000 "Presidential Candidate RFK Jr. Says Jews Intentionally Spared From 'Ethnically Targeted' COVID-19"] ''Haaretz'' (15 July 2023) ** In a tweet in response, Kennedy said: "I have never, ever suggested that the COVID-19 virus was targeted to spare Jews." First reported by ''[[w:The New York Post|The New York Post]]''. Kennedy's [https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/15/us/politics/rfk-jr-covid-remarks.html claims were dismissed by scientists] and ''The New York Times'' reported the paper he had cited did not mention "Ashkenazi Jews". * [Donald Trump is] probably the most successful debater in this country since Lincoln-Douglas. * [Trump] has his own technique that people like, and it is like going to a prize fight and you need practice. And that usually happens during a primary, and asking [Biden] not to debate during the primary is like asking a prize fighter to practice for his big bout by sitting on the couch and eating Chick-fil-A ** In a Fox News interview, as cited in [https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4098065-rfk-jr-says-trump-probably-the-most-successful-debater-since-lincoln/ "RFK Jr. says Trump ‘probably the most successful debater’ since Lincoln"] ''The Hill'' (14 July 202) ** The [[w:Lincoln–Douglas debates|Lincoln–Douglas debates]] in 1858 were between the future president [[w:Abraham Lincoln|Abraham Lincoln]] and Senator [[w:Stephen A. Douglas|Stephen Douglas]] for a senate seat representing Illinois. * I don't know what happened on [[September 11 attacks|9/11]]. I mean, I understand what the official explanation [for 9/11] is, I understand that there is dissent. I have not looked into it. I haven't examined it. I'm not a good person to talk to about it. * Well, I know … there’s strange things that happened, that don't seem … One of the buildings [in [[New York City|New York]]] came down that wasn't hit by a plane, so, you know, was it building seven or building 10? * [Bergen said the twin towers collapsed on top (of [[w:7 World Trade Center|WTC7]])] No, they didn't collapse on top of it. My offices were down there [at the bottom of Manhattan]. My offices were closed and you know … there's pictures of it collapsing. There's nothing collapsing on top of it.<br />I mean, listen, I don't want to argue any theories about this because all I've heard is questions. I have no explanation. I have no knowledge of it. But ... what you’re repeating now, I know not to be true. * It's not something that I, you know, any part of [it] I endorse one way or the other, but I do think that it ought to be permissible in this country to question official narratives. ** ''In the Room'' podcast hosted by [[w:Peter Bergen|Peter Bergen]], as cited in [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/26/robert-kennedy-jr-september-11-podcast-peter-bergen "Robert F Kennedy Jr expresses skepticism at official 9/11 account"], ''The Guardian'' (26 September 2023) ** Bergen said after the interview: "To clarify … the government’s official report found that building seven was hit with debris from the north tower [of the World Trade Center]. That impact caused fires, which led to the building collapse. It's very well documented and there's nothing 'strange' about it.” * I'm here to declare myself an independent candidate for [[president of the United States]]. ** From a speech in Philadelphia, as cited in [https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/09/politics/kennedy-independent-campaign/index.html "Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces independent run for president, ending Democratic primary challenge to Biden"], ''CNN'' (9 October 2023) === 2024 === * My position on [[Abortion in the United States|abortion]] was that it should always be a woman's choice right up to the very end. In the ninth month, you're basically killing a child, right? ** [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rfk-jr-explains-change-full-term-abortion-stance-basically-killing-child "RFK Jr. explains change on full-term abortion stance: 'Basically killing a child'"], ''FOX News'' (May 15, 2024) * The DNC and its media organs engineered a surge of [[popularity]] for [[Kamala Harris|Vice President Harris]] based upon nothing. No policies, no interviews, no debates, only smoke and mirrors and balloons in a highly produced [[Chicago]] circus. ** [https://im1776.com/2024/08/24/rfk-address-to-the-nation/ "RFK Address to the Nation"] (August 23, 2024) * I do interviews everyday. Everyone who asks gets to interview me. Sometimes I do 10 a day. [[President Trump]] also does many interviews. How could the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat Party]] choose a candidate who refuses to do an interview? ** [https://im1776.com/2024/08/24/rfk-address-to-the-nation/ "RFK Address to the Nation"] (August 23, 2024) * I was at the bottom of my class, I started doing heroin, I went to the top of my class. Suddenly I could sit still and read. ** Said during a June 2024 episode of Shawn Ryan Show podcast, quoted in [https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-rfk-jr-says-heroin-helped-him-reach-top-his-class-1991956 "Fact Check: RFK Jr. Says Heroin Helped Him Reach Top of His Class"] ''Newsweek'' (November 26, 2024) === 2025 === * Vaccines not only protect individual children from measles, but also contribute to community immunity, protecting those who are unable to be vaccinated due to medical reasons. ** [https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/robert-f-kennedy-jr-measles-outbreak-call-action-all-us ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.: Measles outbreak is call to action for all of us]", ''Fox News'' (March 2, 2025) * The most effective way to prevent the spread of measles is the MMR vaccine. ** [https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5235025-rfk-jr-consoles-texas-family-mmr-vaccine-measles/ RFK Jr. consoles Texas family: MMR vaccine ‘most effective’ way to stop measles spread], ''The Hill'' (April 6, 2025) *[On the issue of [[autism]]] These are kids who will never pay taxes. They’ll never hold a job. They’ll never play baseball. They’ll never write a [[poem]]. They’ll never go out on a date. Many of them will never use a [[toilet]] unassisted. And we have to recognize we are doing this to our children, and we need to put an end to it. **[https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/04/17/rfk-jr-autism-children/ RFK Jr. said autistic people don’t work or play sports. They say he’s wrong.] ''Washington Post'' (April 18, 2025) * Wi-Fi radiation does all kinds of adverse things, including causing cancer. * Wi-Fi radiation opens up your blood-brain barrier, so all these toxins that are in your body can now go into your brain.” ** [https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/rfk-jr-warned-giving-government-211818100.html "RFK Jr. warned about giving the government your data. Now he wants it."] ''MS News / Yahoo News'' (July 25, 2025) * Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy. ** [https://www.splinter.com/rfk-jr-learns-he-is-not-also-denmarks-hhs-secretary "RFK Jr. Learns He Is Not Also Denmark’s HHS Secretary"] ''Splinter'' (August 12, 2025) === 2026 === * And I said, ‘I’m not scared of a germ.’ You know, I used to snort cocaine off toilet seats. ** [https://www.al.com/politics/2026/02/trump-cabinet-member-hopes-kid-rock-joins-him-in-sobriety-i-used-to-snort-cocaine-off-toilet-seats.html "Trump cabinet member hopes Kid Rock joins him in sobriety: ‘I used to snort cocaine off toilet seats’"] ''All Alabama'' (February 12, 2026) * I was standing in front of my parked car on I-684 cutting the penis out of a road killed raccoon, thinking about how weird some of my family members have turned out to be. My kids waited patiently in the car. ** [https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/robert-f-kennedy-jr-laughs-171511773.html "Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Laughs Off Question About Cutting Off a Dead Raccoon’s Penis"] ''Yahoo News'' (April 16, 2026) * Every Black kid is now just standard put on Adderall, SSRIs, benzos, which are known to induce violence. And those kids are going to have a chance to go somewhere and get reparented, to live in a community where there’ll be no cellphones, no screens, you’ll actually have to talk to people. * I don’t know what reparenting even is. * I never suggested that. ** [https://www.alreporter.com/2026/04/17/rfk-jr-terri-sewell-clash-over-black-youth-remarks/ "RFK Jr., Terri Sewell clash over Black youth remarks"] ''Alabama Political Reporter'' (April 17, 2026) * President Trump has a different way of calculating percentages. There's two ways of calculating percentages. If you have a $600 drug and you reduce it to $10, that's a 600% reduction. * If the drug was $100 and it raised the price to $600 that would be a 600% rise. If it drops from $600 to $100, that's a 600% savings. And the President used that mathematical device to illustrate the magnitude of the theft that has been happening against our country and our people. ** [https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/fact-checking-rfk-jr-s-claim-theres-more-than-one-way-to-calculate-a-percentage-decrease "Fact-checking RFK Jr.'s claim there's more than one way to calculate a percentage decrease"] ''PBS'' (April 24, 2026) == Quotes about Kennedy == === From the Kennedy family === * Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—Joe and Kathleen's brother and Maeve’s uncle—is part of this campaign to attack the institutions committed to reducing the tragedy of preventable infectious diseases. He has helped to spread dangerous [[misinformation]] over [[social media]] and is complicit in sowing distrust of the science behind [[vaccines]]. * We stand behind him in his ongoing fight to protect our environment. However, on [[vaccines]] he is wrong. And his and others' work against vaccines is having heartbreaking consequences. The challenge for public health officials right now is that many people are more afraid of the vaccines than the [[Disease|diseases]], because they've been lucky enough to have never seen the diseases and their devastating impact. But that’s not luck; it's the result of concerted vaccination efforts over many years. * Those who delay or refuse vaccinations, or encourage others to do so, put themselves and others, especially children, at risk. It is in all our interests to make sure that immunizations reach every child on the globe through safe, effective and affordable vaccines. Everyone must communicate the benefits and safety of vaccines, and advocate for the respect and confidence of the institutions which make them possible. To do otherwise risks even further erosion of one of public health’s greatest achievements. ** {{w|Kathleen Kennedy Townsend}}, {{w|Joseph P. Kennedy II}}, {{w|Maeve Kennedy McKean}} [https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/05/08/robert-kennedy-jr-measles-vaccines-226798/ "RFK Jr. Is Our Brother and Uncle. He’s Tragically Wrong About Vaccines"] ''Politico'' (May 8, 2019) * Bobby might share the same name as our father, but he does not share the same values, vision or judgment. Today's announcement is deeply saddening for us. We denounce his candidacy and believe it to be perilous for our country. ** Statement from Rory Kennedy, Kerry Kennedy, Joseph P Kennedy II and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, as cited in [https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/09/politics/kennedy-independent-campaign/index.html "Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces independent run for president, ending Democratic primary challenge to Biden"], ''CNN'' (9 October 2023) on the day * We want an America filled with hope and bound together by a shared vision of a brighter future, a future defined by individual freedom, economic promise and national pride. We believe in Harris and [[Tim Walz|Walz]]. Our brother Bobby's decision to endorse Trump today is a betrayal of the values that our father and our familiy hold most dear. It is a sad ending to a sad story. ** Statement from Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Courtney Kennedy, Kerry Kennedy, Chris Kennedy and Rory Kennedy after Robert F. Kennedy endorsed [[Donald Trump]] for the [[w:2024 United States presidential election|2024 presidential election]], quoted in [https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4844836-rfk-jr-family-trump-endorsement/ "Kennedy siblings rip RFK Jr. for endorsing Trump: ‘A betrayal’ of family values"], ''The Hill'' (August 23, 2024) * His basement, his garage, and his dorm room were the centers of the action where drugs were available, and he enjoyed showing off how he put baby chickens and mice in the blender to feed his hawks. It was often a perverse scene of despair and violence. ** Caroline Kennedy, in a letter to US lawmakers in January 2025, ahead of US Senate confirmation hearing of JFK jr for the role of secretary of the Department of Health & Human Services, quoted in [https://abc7chicago.com/post/caroline-kennedy-slams-robert-jr-predator-before-confirmation-hearing/15844255/ "Caroline Kennedy slams RFK Jr. as 'predator' before confirmation hearing for role of HHS secretary"] ''ABC 7 Chicago'' (January 28, 2025) ===Other individuals and sources=== * "Hi. Bobby," Kennedy introduced himself. Another kid, tall, lanky, and handsome, was in the room. "This is my brother Joe." That is, [[w:Joseph P. Kennedy II|Joseph P. Kennedy II]], two years older, the future six-term [[Massachusetts]] congressman. * He [RFK Jr] poured out a line for me to sample, and handed me an inch-and-a-half length of plastic drinking straw. I snorted. We chatted for a minute. I paid him, I believe, $40 in cash. It was a lot of money, the equivalent of $300 today. But ''[[cocaine]]'' bought from a ''Kennedy'' accompanied by a ''Kennedy brother''—the moment of glamour seemed worth it. * Donald Trump, if he becomes [[President of the United States|president]] as Kennedy is now working to make happen, wants to start executing drug dealers. ** [[w:Kurt Andersen|Kurt Andersen]] [https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/08/rfk-jr-endorse-trump-execute-drug-dealers/679597/ "RFK Jr. Was My Drug Dealer"], ''The Atlantic'' (August 23, 2024). ** Italics in the original. Andersen quotes comments Trump made in 2018 and 2022. * [T]he respite from [[Antisemitism|anti-Semitism]] was doomed to end. Conspiracy theorists are drawn gravitationally to the [[Judaism|Jews]], and Kennedy was only able to defy it for so long before his natural and predetermined course set in. * The issue with Kennedy is that he long ago entered his own curated world of pseudo-science, in which every respectable position was presumptively false, and every major world event presumptively engineered by secretive elites. This is a mental model that has no braking system. ** [[w:Jonathan Chait|Jonathan Chait]] [https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/07/rfk-jrs-conspiracy-theories-finally-get-around-to-the-jews.html "Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Conspiracy Theories Finally Get Around to the Jews"] ''New York'' magazine (July 15, 202) ** Published following Kennedy's claim COVID-19 was "ethnically targeted" (cited above). * Robert F Kennedy Jr is the perfect Kennedy for the post-Trump era, because in many ways, the Kennedy family represents America: like them, the country looks great, is rich and generally has high ideals. But so much of the reputation of both has rested on a willingness to overlook their flaws and victims. * He is not an aberration but a culmination, one who shows the worst of his family and country, with both looking played out, wacky and — despite or because of its privileges — disproportionately prone to the worst of human behaviour. ** [[Hadley Freeman]] [https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/post-trump-america-has-the-kennedy-it-deserves-ht5pws0mc "Post-Trump America has the Kennedy it deserves"], ''The Sunday Times'' (22 July 2023) * [[Facebook]] and [[Instagram]] on Thursday removed the accounts of [[w:Children's Health Defense|Children’s Health Defense]], an organization led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that is one of the largest U.S. anti-vaccine groups, for spreading medical misinformation. * In a statement, Mr. Kennedy said, "Facebook is acting here as a surrogate for the [[Federal government of the United States|Federal government]]’s crusade to silence all criticism of draconian government policies."<br />Children’s Health Defense is widely regarded as a symbol of the [[Vaccine misinformation|vaccine resistance movement]]. Last year, the organization was named one of the "Disinformation Dozen," which refers to the top 12 superspreaders of [[w:COVID-19 misinformation|misinformation about Covid-19]] on the internet, according to the [[w:Center for Countering Digital Hate|Center for Countering Digital Hate]]. ** Sheera Frenkel [https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/18/technology/facebook-instagram-robert-kennedy-jr-misinformation.html "Facebook and Instagram Remove Robert Kennedy Jr.’s Nonprofit for Misinformation"] ''The New York Times'' (August 18, 2022) * Kennedy Jr. lacks Trump's political abilities, but he presents to his admirers the same proposition: I suffer on your behalf. For the faithful, every correction of their champion’s falsehoods, every criticism of the harm he is inflicting on others, is a further proof of his heroic self-sacrifice. Kennedy, who has enjoyed privileged access to the political and media elites since his childhood, paints himself as a victim of censorship by—who else?—the elites. ** [[w:Fintan O'Toole|Fintan O'Toole]] [https://www.nybooks.com/online/2023/09/07/paradise-lost-rfk-jr/ "Paradise Lost"], ''The New York Review of Books'' (September 7, 2023) * I can't believe he's in charge of the nation's health ... When are people going to be outraged? ** {{w|Vincent Racaniello}}, {{cite journal|title=Beyond the Noise #66: A death in Texas|journal=MicrobeTV. YouTUbe|date=March 10, 2025|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIHRu8Z1-5Q&t=771s}} (quote at 12:51 of 15:31 in video; discussion with [[Paul Offit]]) *Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an environmental lawyer who is the nephew of the former President [[John F. Kennedy]], has become perhaps the most prominent voice of the [[w:Anti-vaccine_movement|anti-vaccine movement]] in the U.S. He has championed [[Judy Mikovits]], a former researcher at the [[w:National Cancer Institute|National Cancer Institute]], who made a number of discredited assertions in a documentary called ''[[w:Plandemic|Plandemic]]''. It was released on May 4, 2020, and raced across the [[internet]] with its sensational claims—among them, that [[Anthony Fauci]] and other researchers were responsible for the death of millions of [[HIV/AIDS|AIDS]] victims who were given the wrong therapy, while the scientists reaped fabulous profits from the patents on the faulty medicines. (According to the ''[[w:British_Medical_Journal|British Medical Journal]]'', Dr. Fauci’s colleague at [[w:National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases|NIAID]], Dr. Clifford Lane, said he received about $45,000 from the patents; Fauci donated his entire portion to charity.) Mikovits asserts that [[SARS-CoV-2]] was [[w:COVID-19 lab-leak theory|created in laboratories]] at the [[w:University of North Carolina|University of North Carolina]], the [[w:United_States_Army_Medical_Research_Institute_of_Infectious_Diseases|U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases]] in [[Fort Detrick]], [[Maryland]], and the [[w:Wuhan Institute of Virology|Wuhan Institute of Virology]], without offering proof or saying why they would do this. Boosted by [[QAnon]] and anti-vaccine advocates, ''Plandemic'' was liked, shared, or commented on nearly 2.5 million times on Facebook before it was taken down. The contest between science and [[Conspiracy theories|conspiracy]] would constantly undermine efforts to coordinate a national response to the [[COVID-19 pandemic|Covid-19 pandemic]]. **[[Lawrence Wright]], ''The Plague Year: America in the Time of COVID'' (2021) * Don't waste any Republican or [[Conservatism|Conservative]] votes on Junior. He's one of the most [[Liberalism|Liberal]] Lunatics ever to run for office. * He's radical left; RFK Jr. is radical left. Reminds me of this fly that's driving me crazy up here. This fly is brutal. I don't like flies. * So bad that FoxNews puts RFK Jr., considered the dumbest member of the Kennedy Clan, on their fairly conservative platform so much. Competitive networks don't want anything to do with him. He's a Radical Left Lunatic whose crazy Climate Change views make the Democrat's [[Green New Deal|Green New Scam]] look Conservative. ** [[Donald Trump]] (May 2024), quoted in [https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/liberal-lunatic-respect-trumps-stance-rfk-jr-evolved/story?id=113105050 "From 'liberal lunatic' to 'respect': How Trump's stance on RFK Jr. has evolved"], ''ABC News'' (August 23, 2024) * RFK Jr. is a Democrat ‘Plant,’ a Radical Left Liberal who’s been put in place in order to help Crooked Joe Biden, the Worst President in the History of the United States, get Re-Elected. A Vote for Junior’ would essentially be a WASTED PROTEST VOTE, that could swing either way, but would only swing against the Democrats if Republicans knew the true story about him. Junior’ is totally Anti-Gun, an Extreme Environmentalist who makes the Green New Scammers look Conservative, a Big Time Taxer and Open Border Advocate, and Anti-Military/Vet… ** [[Donald Trump]], quoted in [https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/28/donald-trump-robert-kennedy-liberal-00154828 "More ‘LIBERAL than anyone running as a Democrat’: Trump keeps up attacks on RFK Jr."] ''Politico'' (April 28, 2024) * RFK, Jr., heroin addict, sex addict, anti-vaccination lunatic and aspiring architect of millions of deaths purged the CDC last night. He gutted the world’s premiere public-health agency in his endless quest to destroy vaccine science and plunge this nation into the Middle Ages. : RFK is purging the CDC so he can replace professional doctors, scientists, epidemiologists, virologists, and public-health experts with antivax cranks, horse-dewormer morons, radical eugenicists, and inhumane conspiracy screamers :* [[Rick Wilson (political consultant)]], quoted in [https://www.rawstory.com/rfk-jr-2673937836/ "'Death toll will be unimaginable': Trump appointee called 'serial killer' after new move"] ''Rawstory'' (August 28, 2025) ==See also== * [[John F. Kennedy]] * [[Robert F. 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That’s what happens ... I’d be the greatest communist in history ... guaranteed DEATH AND DESTRUCTION in the end, the Country, State, or City, GOES TO HELL! Great Violence proceeds at levels never seen before, and the entity dissolves into Poverty, Squalor, and Crime.Trump faith and freedom/Truthsocial[https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/07/05/donald-trump-democratic-socialists-communists-midterms-affordability/90787786007/ ][https://www.axios.com/2026/06/27/trump-midterm-democratic-socialists ][https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/26/trump-democrats-communists-midterms ][https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/116687799508711738 ][[File:Falce e martello.svg|thumb|Workers of the world, unite! —[[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]]]] In [[political science|political]] and [[social science]]s, '''{{w|communism}}''' (from [[Latin]] ''communis'', "common, universal") is the [[philosophical]], [[social]], [[political]], and [[economic]] [[ideology]] and movement whose ultimate [[goal]] is the establishment of the [[communist society]], which is a {{w|socioeconomic}} order structured upon the {{w|common ownership}} of the [[means of production]] and the absence of [[social class]]es, [[money]], and the [[state]]. Communism includes a variety of {{w|schools of thought}}, which broadly include [[Marxism]], [[anarchism]] ({{w|anarchist communism}}), and the [[W:Ideology#Political ideologies|political ideologies]] grouped around both. All these share the analysis that the current [[order of society]] stems from its [[economic system]], [[capitalism]], that in this [[system]], there are two major social classes: the [[proletariat|working class]]—who must work to survive, and who make up the majority within society—and the [[bourgeoisie|capitalist class]]—a minority who derives [[profit]] from employing the working class, through [[Private property|private ownership of the means of production]]—and that [[class conflict|conflict between these two classes]] will trigger a [[Proletarian revolution|revolution]]. The revolution, in turn, will establish {{w|social ownership}} of the means of production, which is, according to this analysis, the primary element in the [[w:Social transformation|transformation of society]] towards communism. __NOTOC__ {{TOCalpha}} ==A== [[File:Clement Attlee.png|thumb|[[W:Communism in Russia|Russian Communism]] is the illegitimate child of [[Karl Marx]] and [[Catherine the Great]]. —[[Clement Attlee]]]] * '''Dogbert''': Hey [[Gorbachev|Gorby]], did you hear this quote ... "Communism is the most painful path between capitalism and capitalism." ** [[Scott Adams]], Dogbert making a prank call to the [[w:Kremlin|Kremlin]], [https://dilbert.com/strip/1989-12-12 ''Dilbert''], Tuesday December 12, 1989 * To be a Communist is to be a partisan and artisan of Marxism-Leninist philosophy: of dialectical materialism. **[[Louis Althusser]], "Philosophy as a Revolutionary Weapon" * Στον καπιταλισμό οι κουμουνιστές είναι πάντα καλύτεροι. ** '''In capitalism, communists are always better.''' **[[Adonis Georgiadis]] about the way the Communist Party of Greece handles money (12 May 2018) * There is nothing else in Communism — a [[Jewish]] conspiracy to grab the whole world in their clutches; and no intelligent man in the world can find anything else, except the [[Jews]], who rightly call it for themselves a “paradise on earth”. Jews are eager to bring Communism, because they know what it is and what it means. It is because Communism has not been fought for what it really is — a Jewish scheme invented by Jews — that it has progressed against all opposition to it. We have fought the smoke-screen presented by Jewish [[Dialectic|dialecticians]] and publicists, refusing to fight the inventor, profiteer and string-puller. Because [[Christianity|Christians]] and [[Gentile|Gentiles]] have come to fear the Jews, fear the truth, and they are paralyzed by the paradoxical slogans shouted by the Jews. ** [[Adrien Arcand]], New York Speech, October 30, 1937. See ''[https://books.google.com.br/books?id=t_RtAAAAMAAJ The Jews]'' by Zuhdī Fātiḥ, 1972 * There are some of our own people who still think that the Communists are the [[Left-wing politics|left wing]] of the [[Socialism|Socialist]] movement. They are not. The Socialist movement was a movement for [[freedom]] in its widest sense. From the point of view of freedom, Communists are on the [[Far-right politics|extreme right]]—more reactionary than some of the old [[Tyranny|tyrannies]] which we knew in the past. What is the thing for which we fight, for which the men with whom we feel the stir of sympathy throughout the ages have fought? [[Freedom]]. But that fight changes from age to age and the freedom that some men fought for may turn out to be tyranny. Communists, concentrating solely on the economic aspects of freedom...have produced the ghastly travesty of Socialism in the lands behind the [[w:Iron Curtain|iron curtain]]. ** [[Clement Attlee]], speech in Glasgow (10 April 1949), quoted in ''The Times'' (11 April 1949), p. 4 * Socialism was the only means of freeing the world from [[war]] and [[poverty]]. Socialism stood as a third alternative to a barbaric Communism and [[capitalism]] in a state of decay. Communism was a falsification of the principles of Socialism. ** [[Clement Attlee]], speech to the Swedish Social Democratic Party congress in Stockholm (5 June 1952), quoted in ''The Times'' (6 June 1952), p. 5 * [[W:Communism in Russia|Russian Communism]] is the illegitimate child of [[Karl Marx]] and [[Catherine II of Russia|Catherine the Great]]. ** [[Clement Attlee]], as quoted in ''The Observer'' (1956) * If communism ever reestablishes itself successfully upon earth, it must be on a foundation of soul's brotherhood and the death of [[Egotism|egoism]]. A forced association and a mechanical comradeship would end in a world-wide fiasco. ** [[Sri Aurobindo]], quoted from [[Sri Aurobindo]], Nahar, S., Aurobindo, ., & Institut de recherches évolutives (Paris). ''India's rebirth: A selection from Sri Aurobindo's writing, talks and speeches.'' Paris: Institut de Recherches Evolutives. 3rd Edition (2000). [https://web.archive.org/web/20170826004028/http://bharatvani.org/books/ir/IR_frontpage.htm Chapter II] * We are talking here about the future: about the lives of people in the world without wars, without social oppression, without national inequality, without suppression of human’s abilities. In other word, it is about the future that we all call Communism. ** [[Andrei Tarkovsky]], [https://varjag2007su.livejournal.com/2591915.html ''Letter to the central committee of the CPSU (Communist Party of Soviet Union)''] (20 October 1970). ==B== * Communism is [[Judaism]]. The Jewish Revolution in Russia was in 1918. ** [[Henry Hamilton Beamish]]. See ''[https://books.google.com.br/books?id=R1XkAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT261 War and Debt: The Culling of Humanity]'' by Mark Edwards, Xlibris, 2014 * My generation of Communists everywhere accepted the [[Stalinism|Stalinist]] form of leadership. We acquiesced in the crimes. That is true not only of Soviet Communists, but of Communists all over the world. We, especially the active and leading members of the Party, carry a stain on our consciences individually and collectively. The only way we can erase it is to make sure that nothing of the sort ever happens again. How was all this possible? Did we all go crazy, or have we now become traitors to Communism? The truth is that all of us, including the leaders directly under [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]], saw these crimes as the opposite of what they were. We believed that they were important contributions to the victory of [[socialism]]. We thought everything that promoted the power politics of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Communist Party in the Soviet Union]] and in the world was good for socialism. We never suspected that conflict between Communist politics and Communist ethics was possible. ** [[w:Joseph Berger-Barzilai|Joseph Berger-Barzilai]], ''Shipwreck of a Generation: The Memoirs of Joseph Berger'' (1971), p. 247 * The [[Communist party|Communist Party]] is the sworn inveterate enemy of the [[Socialism|Socialist]] and [[Democracy|Democratic]] Parties. When it associates with them, it does so as a preliminary to destroying them. There is an old [[German proverbs|German aphorism]] which says: "To cast an enemy out it is first necessary to embrace him." That is what the Communists mean when they ask for co-operation and alliance with the Socialists... The Communist does not look upon a Socialist as an ally in a common cause. He looks upon him as a dupe, as a temporary convenience, and as something to be thrust ruthlessly to one side when he has served his purpose. ** [[Aneurin Bevan]], 'Foreword' to [[Denis Healey]], ''The Curtain Falls: The Story of the Socialists in Eastern Europe'' (1951), p. 6 * The specific kind of [[anti-communism]] that took shape in these years was partly based on value judgements: the widespread belief in the [[United States]] that communism was simply a bad system, or morally repugnant even when effective. But it was also based on a number of assertions about the nature of Soviet-led international communism. There was a widespread belief that [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]] wanted to invade [[Western Europe]]. It became accepted as fact that the Soviets were pushing for [[revolution]] worldwide, and that whenever communists were present, even in small numbers, they probably had secret plans to overthrow the [[government]]. And it was considered gospel that anywhere communists were acting, they were doing so on the orders of the [[Soviet Union]], part of a monolithic global [[conspiracy]] to destroy the West. Most of this was simply untrue. Much of the rest was greatly exaggerated. ** [[w:Vincent Bevins|Vincent Bevins]], ''[[w:The Jakarta Method|The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World]]'', [[w:PublicAffairs|PublicAffairs]], 2020. pp. 15-16 * From the outset in 1917, the Communists believed in a [[Utopia|utopian]] [[ideology]], extreme, organised [[violence]], [[atheism]], a redefined place of the [[Individuality|individual]] that served to reject [[Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] precepts, and the rejection of preceding [[History of Russia|Russian history]]. During the [[Russian Civil War|Civil War]] and the 1920s, the [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox Church]] was crushed, with the slaughter of tens of thousands of [[Priest|priests]] and [[Monasticism|monks]], and the desecration and destruction of churches, monasteries and the tombs of saints. The real and spiritual landscapes of [[Russia]] and the psychological life of the people were transformed as a consequence. Communism in its own way therefore constituted a major civilisational challenge to the notion in [[Europe]] and [[North America]] of a 'Western Civilisation', whether or not articulated explicitly in this fashion. This civilisation owed much to [[Christianity]] and placed considerable weight on [[liberalism]] and [[Tolerance|toleration]]. From this perspective, Communism, drawing both on a reconceptualisation of Russian [[authoritarianism]] and on a new, [[Totalitarianism|totalitarian]] ideology and practice, posed a counter-civilisational challenge with its own precepts, aims, methods and anticipated outcomes. ** [[Jeremy Black (historian)|Jeremy Black]], ''The Cold War: A Military History'', 2015 * I'm about as much in favor of communism as [[J. Edgar Hoover]]. I despise communism and I believe in our own [[United States|American]] brand of [[democracy]]. ** [[Humphrey Bogart]], ''[http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/1948-Humphrey_Bogart_on_Hollywood_Blacklist_editorial_pdf I'm No Communist]'', [[w:Photoplay|Photoplay]], March 1948, p. 53 ==C== * In [[Brazil]], it goes like this: communists only read communist authors, [[Economic liberalism|(economic) liberals]] only read liberal authors and so on. Each one is afraid of tarnishing their little soul with sinful thoughts. In order for someone to speak with some propriety about the communist movement, they must have previously studied the following things: # The classics of [[Marxism]]: [[Karl Marx|Marx]], [[Friedrich Engels|Engels]], [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]], [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]], [[Mao Zedong]]. # The most important Marxist philosophers: [[György Lukács|Lukács]], {{w|Karl Korsch|Korsch}}, [[Antonio Gramsci|Gramsci]], [[Theodor Adorno|Adorno]], [[Max Horkheimer|Horkheimer]], [[Herbert Marcuse|Marcuse]], [[Henri Lefebvre|Lefebvre]], [[Louis Althusser|Althusser]]. # ''{{w|Main Currents of Marxism}}'', by [[Leszek Kołakowski|Leszek Kolakowski]]. # Some good history and sociology books about the revolutionary movement in general, such as ''{{w|Fire in the Minds of Men}}'', by {{w|James H. Billington}}, ''{{w|The Pursuit of the Millenium}}'', by {{w|Norman Cohn}}, ''{{w|The New Science of Politics}}'', by [[Eric Voegelin]]. # Good books on the history of communist regimes written from a non-apologetic point of view. # Books by the most famous critics of Marxism, like {{w|Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk}}, [[Ludwig von Mises]], [[Raymond Aron]], [[Roger Scruton]], [[Nikolai Berdyaev|Nicolai Berdiaev]] and so many others. # Books about the communist strategy and tactics on their rise to power, about the underground activities of the movement in the West and chiefly about the "{{w|active measures}}" ([[disinformation]], {{w|agents of influence}}), like those by {{w|Anatolyi Golitsyn}}, {{w|Christopher Andrew}}, {{w|John Earl Haynes}}, {{w|Ladislaw Bittman}}, [[Diana West]]. # The largest number possible of testimonies by former communist agents and militants who recall their experience in service of the movement or communist governments, such as [[Arthur Koestler]], {{w|Ian Valtin}}, [[Ion Mihai Pacepa]], [[Whittaker Chambers]], [[David Horowitz]]. # High-value testimonies about human condition in socialist societies, like those by {{w|Guillermo Cabrera Infante}}, {{w|Vladimir Bukovski}}, {{w|Nadiejda Mandelstam}}, [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn|Alexander Soljenítsin]], [[Richard Wurmbrand]]. :This is a reading program that can be accomplished in four or five years by a good student. I do not know, either in the [[Brazil|Brazilian]] right or left, anyone, absolutely anyone, who has accomplished it. :: [[Olavo de Carvalho]], in [https://olavodecarvalho.org/estudar-antes-de-falar/ Estudar antes de falar], ''Diário do Comércio'', 13 August 2013 * When I feed the [[Hunger|hungry]], they call me a [[Saints|saint]]. When I ask why people are hungry, they call me a Communist. ** [[w:Hélder Câmara|Dom Helder Camara]], [[Brazil]]ian archbishop, as quoted in ''Peace Behind Bars : A Peacemaking Priest's Journal from Jail'' (1995) by John Dear, p. 65; this is a translation of "''Quando dou comida aos pobres chamam-me de santo. Quando pergunto por que eles são pobres chamam-me de comunista.''" ** Variant translations: ** When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why are they poor, they call me a Communist. ** When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a Communist. * <p>[[Nikita Khrushchev|Khrushchev’s]] revelations concerning [[Stalin]] are enough to have plunged all those who have participated in communist activity, to whatever degree, into an abyss of shock, pain, and shame (or, at least, I hope so).</p><p>The dead, the tortured, the executed—no, neither posthumous rehabilitations, nor national funerals, nor official speeches can overcome them. These are not the kind of ghosts that one can ward off with a mechanical phrase.</p><p>From now on, they will show up as watermarks in the very substance of the system.</p> ** [[Aimé Césaire]], Letter to [[w:Maurice Thorez |Maurice Thorez]]resigning from the French Communist Party, October 24, 1956, as translated by Chike Jeffers * The details supplied by Khrushchev on Stalin’s methods ... lead us to believe in the existence in these countries of a veritable [[state capitalism]], exploiting the working class in a manner not very different from the way the working class is used in capitalist countries. ** [[Aimé Césaire]], Letter to [[w:Maurice Thorez |Maurice Thorez]] resigning from the French Communist Party, October 24, 1956, as translated by Chike Jeffers * Across the world academics still clung to the words and ideas of [[Karl Marx|Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels|Engels]] and even [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]]. Fools. There were even those who said that Communism had been tried in the wrong country; that Russia had been too far backward to make those wonderful ideas work. ** [[Tom Clancy|Thomas L. Clancy]], as quoted in ''[[Rainbow Six (novel)|Rainbow Six]]'' (1998), p. 515 * [M]any archives and witnesses prove conclusively that [[terror]] has always been one of the basic ingredients of modern Communism. Let us abandon once and for all the idea that the execution of hostages by firing squads, the slaughter of rebellious workers, and the forced starvation of the peasantry were only short-term "accidents" peculiar to a specific country or era. Our approach will encompass all geographic areas and focus on [[crime]] as a defining characteristic of the Communist system throughout its existence. ** [[w:Stéphane Courtois|Stéphane Courtois]], 'Introduction: The Crimes of Communism', ''[[w:The Black Book of Communism|The Black Book of Communism]]'' (1999), p. 3 * [T]he intransigent facts demonstrate that Communist regimes have victimized approximately 100 million people in contrast to the approximately 25 million victims of the [[Nazism|Nazis]]. This clear record should provide at least some basis for assessing the similarity between the Nazi regime, which since 1945 has been considered the most viciously criminal regime of this century, and the Communist system... The methods implemented by [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]] and perfected by [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]] and their henchmen bring to mind the methods used by the Nazis, but most often this is because the latter adopted the techniques developed by the former. [[Rudolf Hess]], charged with organizing the [[Concentration camp|camp]] at [[Auschwitz concentration camp|Auschwitz]] and later appointed its commandant, is a perfect example: "The [[w:Reich Security Main Office|Reich Security Head Office]] issued to the commandants a full collection of reports in great detail the conditions in, and organization of, the Russian camps, as supplied by former prisoners who had managed to escape. Great emphasis was placed on the fact that the Russians, by their massive employment of forced labor, had destroyed whole peoples." ** [[w:Stéphane Courtois|Stéphane Courtois]], 'Introduction: The Crimes of Communism', ''[[w:The Black Book of Communism|The Black Book of Communism]]'' (1999), p. 15 * Time and again the focus of the terror was less on targeted individuals than on groups of people. The purpose of terror was to exterminate a group that had been designated as the enemy. Even though it might be only a small fraction of society, it had to be stamped out to satisfy this [[Genocide|genocidal]] impulse. Thus, the techniques of segregation and exclusion employed in a "class-based [[totalitarianism]]" closely resemble the techniques of "race-based totalitarianism." The future Nazi society was to be built upon a "pure [[race]]," and the future Communist society was to be built upon a proletarian people purified of the dregs of the bourgeoisie. The restructuring of these two societies was envisioned in the same way, even if the crackdowns were different. ** [[w:Stéphane Courtois|Stéphane Courtois]], 'Introduction: The Crimes of Communism', ''[[w:The Black Book of Communism|The Black Book of Communism]]'' (1999), p. 16 ==D== * I am a communist because I am convinced that the reason we have been forcefully compelled to eke out an existence at the very lowest level of American society has to do with the nature of capitalism. If we are going to rise out of our oppression, our [[poverty]], if we are going to cease being the targets of the [[Racism in the United States|racist-minded mentality]] of [[Racism|racist]] [[Law enforcement in the United States|policemen]], we will have to destroy the [[Economy of the United States|American capitalist system]]. We will have to obliterate a system in which a few wealthy capitalists are guaranteed the privilege of becoming richer and richer, whereas the people who are forced to work for the rich, and especially Black people, never take any significant step forward. ** [[Angela Y. Davis]], "I am a Revolutionary Black Woman" (1970) in ''Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices of Resistance, Reform, and Renewal'' (2000), p. 483 * The Right positions communism as a threat because communism names the defeat of and alternative to capitalism. It recognizes the crisis in capitalism: over-accumulation leaves the rich sitting on piles of [[Money|cash]] they can't [[Investment|invest]]; industrial capacity remains unused and workers [[Unemployment|unemployed]]; global interconnections make unneeded [[Skyscraper|skyscrapers]], fiber-optic cables, malls, and housing developments as much a part of [[China]] as the US. At the same time, scores of significant problems – whether food shortages linked to [[climate change]], energy shortages resulting from oil dependency, or drug shortages resulting from the failure of private [[Pharmaceutical industry|pharmaceutical companies]] to risk their own capital – remain unmet because they require the kinds of large-scale planning and cooperation that capitalism, particularly in its contemporary finance and communications-driven incarnation, subverts. ** [[Jodi Dean]], ''The Communist Horizon'' (2012), pp. 51-52 * The US right calls everything it doesn’t like 'communist'. They call [[Bill Clinton|Clinton]] and [[Barack Obama|Obama]] 'communists'. With 'communist' as the go-to name for anything that isn't [[Conservatism|right wing]], its acceptability increases. If you don't like the right, you're a communist. ** [[Jodi Dean]], quoted in "[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/communism-millennials-capitalism-socialism-bernie-sanders-cold-war-yougov-a9188116.html More than a third of millennials approve of communism, YouGov poll indicates]", ''{{w|The Independent}}'' (7 November 2019) * Let me examine the alleged "distinction from capitalism" characteristic of the [[Soviet Union]] and see whether it isn't a distinction from a certain stage of capitalism rather than from capitalism as a whole. The determining factor in analyzing the class nature of a society is not whether the means of production are the private property of the capitalist class or are state-owned, but whether the means of production ... are monopolized and alienated from the direct producers. The Soviet Government occupies in relation to the whole [[economic system]] the position which a capitalist occupies in relation to a single enterprise. ... "Bureaucratic state socialism" is an irrational expression behind which there exists the real economic relation of [[State capitalism|state-capitalist]]-[[Exploitation|exploiter]] to the propertyless exploited. ** [[Raya Dunayevskaya]], "The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is a Capitalist Society" (1941), in ''Russia: From Proletarian Revolution to State-Capitalist Counter-Revolution'', p. 210 * The reason I am a communist is because I believe in a total [[revolution]] which is going to overthrow the capitalist control of the economy, which will seize the wealth from all of the giant corporations that exploit and control the lives of all working people. ** [[Angela Y. Davis]], from an [https://www.facebook.com/Redfishstream/videos/184844339473961/ interview]. ==E== [[File:Red flag waving.svg|thumb|Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat.''' — [[Friedrich Engels]]]] * We must face the fact that, while we are trying to help build a world of [[freedom]] and [[justice]] among [[Sovereignty|sovereign]] people, the masters of international Communism are working constantly to tear down this kind of world. Communism, according to all its own leaders, must be a system of international control and [[conformity]]. Thus, at its very heart, it is the complete opposite and enemy of any kind of [[nationalism]]. Its avowed program is to destroy totally the [[religion]], [[Government|governments]], institutions and traditions of the [[Christendom|Christian world]], the [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] world, the [[Muslim world|Islamic world]], the Judaic world, and the world of every religion and culture. ** [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]; [https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/234107 World Broadcast in Observance of Fifteenth Anniversary of Voice of America Online], The American Presidency Project; 25 February 1957 * The Communist rulers then propose to substitute a whole new system of thought and control dictated from [[Communist party|Communist Party]] headquarters. They think that a few theorists and rulers know what is best for everyone, and they are determined to drive everyone toward that kind of world. One small country after another has been swallowed up by international Communism. Their [[freedom]] is lost. Their national pride is crushed. Their religion is trampled on. Their economies are mere feeders for [[Economy of Russia|that of Russia]]. And if they attempt to assert their tradition of freedom, their people are shot down by the thousands. Witness: [[Hungary]]. ** [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]; [https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/234107 World Broadcast in Observance of Fifteenth Anniversary of Voice of America Online], The American Presidency Project; 25 February 1957 * I should like to direct a special word to those people now living under the tyranny of international Communism: We want your friendship. We cherish the ties that have linked us in the past. And we wish you well in your aspirations toward [[freedom]]. For we know that, whatever the designs of [[power]]-hungry rulers may be, there dwells deep in the heart of every person this same God-given desire to realize freely his own destiny. And to all people, everywhere--this final pledge: With you we look forward to and shall never cease to work for a world of peace, based on justice. May the God of us all keep you--and hasten that glorious day. ** [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]; [https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/234107 World Broadcast in Observance of Fifteenth Anniversary of Voice of America Online], The American Presidency Project; 25 February 1957 * What is a communist? </br>One who hath yearnings </br>For equal division of unequal earnings: </br>Idler, or bungler, or both, he is willing </br>To fork out his penny, and pocket your shilling. ** [[Ebenezer Elliott]], "Epigram" (1850) * '''Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the [[proletariat]].''' ** [[Friedrich Engels]], ''The Principles of Communism'' (1847) * The abolition of [[private property]] is, doubtless, the shortest and most significant way to characterize the [[Proletarian revolution|revolution]] in the whole [[social order]] which has been made necessary by the development of industry – and for this reason it is rightly advanced by communists as their main demand. ** [[Friedrich Engels]], ''{{w|Principles of Communism}}'' (1847) [https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm]] * What will be the attitude of communism to existing nationalities? The nationalities of the peoples associating themselves in accordance with the principle of community will be compelled to mingle with each other as a result of this association and thereby to dissolve themselves, just as the various estate and class distinctions must disappear through the abolition of their basis, private property. ** [[Friedrich Engels]], ''{{w|Principles of Communism}}'' (1847) [https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm]] * All [[religions]] so far have been the expression of [[W:Marx's theory of history|historical stages of development]] of individual peoples or groups of peoples. But communism is the stage of historical development which makes all existing religions superfluous and brings about their disappearance. ** [[Friedrich Engels]], ''{{w|Principles of Communism}}'' (1847) [https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm]] * Some propose mere [[welfare]] measures – while others come forward with grandiose systems of reform which, under the pretense of re-organizing society, are in fact intended to [[preserve]] the foundations, and hence the life, of existing society. Communists must unremittingly struggle against these [[Bourgeoisie|bourgeois]] socialists because they work for the [[enemies]] of communists and protect the society which communists aim to overthrow. ** [[Friedrich Engels]], ''{{w|Principles of Communism}}'' (1847) [https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm]] * Since the communists cannot enter upon the decisive [[Class conflict|struggle between themselves and the bourgeoisie]] until the bourgeoisie is in power, it follows that it is in the interest of the communists to help the bourgeoisie to power as soon as possible in order the sooner to be able to overthrow it. ** [[Friedrich Engels]], ''{{w|Principles of Communism}}'' (1847) [https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm]] ==F== * ''The economic independence and self-determination of all.'' Under a [[cybernetic]] communism, even during the [[w:Socialist mode of production|socialist transition]], work would be divorced from wages, the ownership of the means of production in the hands of all the people, and [[w:Distribution of wealth|wealth distributed]] on the basis of need, independent of the social value of the individual’s contribution to society. We would aim to eliminate the dependence of women and children on the labour of men, as well as all other types of [[w:Exploitation of labour|labour exploitation]]. Each person could choose his life style freely, changing it to suit his tastes without seriously inconveniencing anyone else; no one would be bound into any social structure against his will, for each person would be totally self-governing as soon as she was physically able. ** [[Shulamith Firestone]], {{cite book |title={{w|The Dialectic of Sex}}: The Case for Feminist Revolution |date=1970 |page=239}} ==G== * Meanwhile, communism had promised a better life but failed to deliver. [[Karl Marx|Marx]] insisted that the shifts in the means of production would increase [[Economic inequality|inequality]], provoke [[anger]], and thereby fuel [[Class consciousness|revolutionary consciousness]] within the "working class." He failed, though, to anticipate the kinds of shifts that would take place, for as [[Developed country|post-industrial economies]] evolved they began to reward lateral over hierarchical forms of organization. [[Complexity]] made [[Planned economy|planning]] less feasible than under the earlier, simpler stages of [[industrialization]]: only [[Decentralization|decentralized]], largely spontaneous [[Market|markets]] could make the millions of [[decisions]] that had to be made each day in a modern economy if [[w:economic_supply|supplies]] of goods and services were to match [[Demand|demands]] for them. As a result, dissatisfaction with capitalism never reached the point at which "proletarians of all countries" felt it necessary to unite to throw off their "chains." That became clear during the [[Cold War]], and it did so largely because western leaders disproved Marx's indictment of capitalism as elevating greed above all else. When set against the perversions of Marxism inflicted by Lenin and Stalin on the Soviet Union and by [[Mao Zedong|Mao]] on [[China]]—placing [[One-party state|a ruling party]] and an authoritarian state in control of what was supposed to have been an automatic process of historical [[evolution]]—the effect was to discredit communism not just on economic grounds, but also because of its failure to bring about political and [[social justice]]. Just as [[World War III|a new world war]] did not come, so the anticipated world revolution did not arrive. The Cold War had produced yet another historical anachronism. ** [[John Lewis Gaddis]], ''The Cold War: A New History'', p. 264 * It must be admitted that ''politically'' communism is the same [as [[fascism]]<nowiki>]</nowiki>. ** [[Hugh Gaitskell]], Notes for a speech on Fascism at Chatham on May Day 1935, quoted in Philip Williams, ''Hugh Gaitskell: A Political Biography'' (1979), p. 44 * There is not so much difference between the ideologies of capitalism and communism, you know. The difference is simple. Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man, and communism is the reverse. ** [[John Gardner (British writer)|John Gardner]], ''The Man from Barbarossa'' * When both sides engaged in terror, the "[[w:Red Terror (disambiguation)|red]]" terror usually paled in comparison to the "[[w:White Terror|white]]" (as was the case in the [[w:Paris Commune|Paris Commune in 1871]]; the civil wars in [[Russian Civil War|Russia]], [[w:German Revolution of 1918–1919|Germany]] and [[w:Hungarian Soviet Republic|Hungary]] from 1918 to 1921; the [[Spanish Civil War|Spanish Civil War of 1936–39]]; and [[w:Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66|Indonesia in 1965–1966]]). ** [[w:Christian Gerlach|Christian Gerlach]], ''The Palgrave Handbook of Anti-Communist Persecutions'', {{w|Palgrave Macmillan}} (2020) * Communism had a potent message: deliver the poor of the world from their oppression; turn the vast productive system developed under [[capitalism]] to public purpose; substitute intelligent planning for [[Market failure|market chaos]]; eliminate all manifestations of inequality. Its striving to create a society in which everyone could be freed from [[want]] and [[domination]] shared a good deal with its ostensible opponent, [[classical liberalism]]. Both communism and liberalism traced their origins back to a common moment of eighteenth-century revolution, with the former tying itself to the [[French Revolution]] and the latter to the [[American Revolution|American]]. Both camps saw in themselves as freeing humanity from old, encrusted [[Social order|social orders]] marked by [[privilege]], [[Social inequality|inequality]], and widespread [[misery]]. Both camps believed in the [[universalism]] of their message and sought to carry it to every portion of the globe. ** [[w:Gary Gerstle|Gary Gerstle]], ''The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era'', {{w|Oxford University Press}} (2022) p. 30 *The collapse of communism, then, opened the entire world to capitalist penetration, shrank the imaginative and ideological space in which opposition to capitalist thought and practices might incubate, and impelled those who remained leftists to redefine their radicalism in alternative terms, which turned out to be those that capitalist systems could more, rather than less, easily manage. This was the moment when [[neoliberalism]] in the United States went from being a political movement to a political order. ** Gary Gerstle, ''The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era'', {{w|Oxford University Press}} (2022) p. 149 * What better time to resurrect the spectre of communism? As youth across the world become increasingly disenchanted with the savage inequalities of capitalism, defenders of the status quo will stop at nothing to convince younger voters about the evils of [[Collectivism|collectivist]] ideas. They will rewrite history textbooks, build memorials, and declare days of commemoration for the victims of communism – all to ensure that calls for social justice or redistribution are forever equated with forced labour camps and famine. ** [[Kristen Ghodsee]] and {{w|Scott Sehon}}, "[https://aeon.co/essays/the-merits-of-taking-an-anti-anti-communism-stance Anti-anti-communism]", ''{{w|Aeon (digital magazine)|Aeon}}'' (March 22, 2018). * Older citizens of [[East/Central Europe|Eastern Europe]] fondly recall the small comforts and predictability of their life before 1989: free [[education]] and [[Health care|healthcare]], no fear of unemployment and of not having money to meet basic needs. A joke, told in many East European languages, illustrates this sentiment:<br>In the middle of the night a woman screams and jumps out of bed, eyes filled with terror. Her startled husband watches her rush to the bathroom and open the medicine cabinet. She then dashes to the kitchen and inspects the inside of the refrigerator. Finally, she flings open the window and gazes out onto the street below their apartment. She takes a deep breath and returns to bed.<br>"What's wrong with you?" her husband says. "What happened?"<br>"I had a terrible nightmare," she says. "I dreamed that we had the medicine we needed, that our refrigerator was full of [[food]], and that the streets outside were safe and clean."<br>"How is that a nightmare?"<br>The woman shakes her head and shudders. "I thought the Communists were back in power." ** Kristen Ghodsee, ''{{w|Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism|Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence}}.'' Vintage (2019) pp. 12-13 * The Frankenstein of Communism is the product of the [[Jews|Jewish]] mind, and was turned loose upon the world by the son of a Rabbi, [[Karl Marx]], in the hopes of destroying Christian civilization — as well as others. The testimony given before the [[United States Senate|Senate of the United States]] which is take from the many pages of the Overman Report, reveals beyond a shadow of a doubt that Jewish bankers financed the [[Russian Revolution]]. ** [[Kenneth Goff]], ''[https://www.google.com.br/books/edition/Still_tis_Our_Ancient_Foe/GiXhHAAACAAJ Still 'tis Our Ancient Foe]'', 1962, p. 99 * In order to massacre them, it was necessary to proclaim that [[w:Kulaks|kulaks]] are not [[human beings]]. Just as the [[Germans]] proclaimed that [[Judaism|Jews]] are not human beings. Thus did [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]] and [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]]: kulaks are not human beings... That is exactly how the [[Nazism|Nazis]] put the Jewish children into the [[The Holocaust|Nazi gas chambers]]: "You are not allowed to live, you are all Jews!" ** [[Vasily Grossman]], ''Forever Flowing'' (1973), pp. 144, 155 ==H== * Anyone who has read a novel by [[Alexander Solzhenitsyn]] knows how '''Communism's egalitarian ideal produced brutal tyrannies that tried to control every aspect of life.''' ** [[Yuval Noah Harari]], Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011), Chapter 9: "The Arrow of History" * Like [[Buddhism]], Communist believed in a superhuman order of natural and immutable laws that should guide human actions. ** [[Yuval Noah Harari]], Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011), Chapter 12: "The Law of Religion" * For the communist countries in the periphery, the goal was not only to mobilize resources for industrialization, but to organize [[production]] around [[Public service|public services]] and human needs in ways that were neglected or even impossible under capitalism. Empirical studies demonstrate that they achieved better social outcomes than their capitalist counterparts at any given level of national production, including higher [[life expectancy]], better education attainment, and lower [[child mortality]]. They also delivered strong progress against extreme poverty: by the [[1980s]], the prevalence of basic-needs poverty was near zero in both China and Russia. As the [[economist]] [[Amartya Sen]] remarked in his 1981 study of [[health]] and [[literacy]] achievements around the world: "One thought that is bound to occur is that communism is good for [[Poverty reduction|poverty removal]]." ** [[Jason Hickel]] and Dylan Sullivan, "[https://monthlyreview.org/2023/07/01/capitalism-global-poverty-and-the-case-for-democratic-socialism/ Capitalism, Global Poverty, and the Case for Democratic Socialism]." ''{{w|Monthly Review}}'' (July 1, 2023) * Communism is a specter called forth when those in power feel their grip erode. ** [[Gerald Horne]], [https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/historians-challenge-false-narrative-behind-st-louis-victims-of-communism-resolution/ Historians challenge false narrative behind St. Louis ‘Victims of Communism’ resolution]. ''{{w|People's World}}'' (November 25, 2020) ==J== [[File:CLR James Cropped.png|thumb|By a remorseless logic, ... representation of the proletariat turns into its opposite, administration over the proletariat. ~ [[C. L. R. James]]]] * Today, from end to end of the world, men know that democracy is bankrupt. What is to take its place they do not know. The alternative seems to be [[planned economy]] and [[one-party state]]. This is ''the'' philosophical question. But the philosophy of planned economy and one-party state is distinguishable from that of the [[w:Marx's theory of the state#Bourgeois state|bourgeoisie]] only by its more complete [[rationalism]]. The labor bureaucracy in power or out of it sees the solution to the crisis of production in scientific progress, greater output. It consciously seeks to plan and organize the division of labor as the means to further [[Capital accumulation|accumulation of capital]]. In ideology it is ready to expropriate those representatives of [[private property]] who stand in the way of this complete [[Rationalization (sociology)|rationalization]]. But didn’t this bureaucracy develop out of the [[working class]]? It did and it could only have developed out of the working class. It is a product of the modern [[Social movement|mass movement]], created by the [[w:Capital accumulation#Concentration and centralization|centralization of capital]], and holds its position only because of this movement. At the same time it cannot conceive the necessity for abolishing the [[division of labor]] in [[Mode of production|production]], the only solution to the [[w:Crisis theory|crisis]] in production. By a remorseless logic, therefore, [[Dictatorship of the proletariat|representation of the proletariat]] turns into its opposite, [[w:Nomenklatura|administration over the proletariat]]. The end of bourgeois rationalism is this crisis of the revolution and {{w|counter-revolution}} in production. ** [[C. L. R. James]], ''[https://www.marxists.org/archive/james-clr/works/1950/08/state-capitalism.htm State Capitalism and World Revolution]'' (1950), ''{{w|Marxists Internet Archive}}.'' * Communism was a very defective answer to some very good questions. In throwing out the bad answer, we have forgotten the good questions. I want to put the good questions back on the table. ** [[Tony Judt]], quoted in Evan R. Goldstein, "The Trials of Tony Judt", ''The Chronicle of Higher Education'' (January 06, 2010) ==K== * I’m more and more convinced it’s only through communism that we can become [[human]]. ** [[Frida Kahlo]], in her letter from US, during the 1930s, from [https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2010/09/kah2-s11.html] * Communism is like an [[w:Autoimmune disorder|autoimmune disorder]]; it doesn't do the killing itself, but it weakens the system so much that the victim is left helpless and unable to fight off anything else. ** [[Garry Kasparov]], ''Winter is Coming'' (2015), p. 33 * World communism is like a malignant [[Parasitism|parasite]] which feeds only on diseased tissue. ** [[w:George Kennan|George Kennan]], "[[w:Long Telegram|Long Telegram]]" (February 1946) * The Communists are determined to destroy us, and regardless of what hand of [[friendship]] we may hold out or what arguments we may put up, the only thing that will make that decisive difference is the strength of the United States. ** [[John F. Kennedy]], Speech by Senator John F. Kennedy, Democratic Rally, George Washington High School Stadium, Alexandria, VA, August 24, 1960. - The American Presidency Project. * There are many people in the world who really don't understand, or say they don't, what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to [[Berlin]]. There are some who say that communism is the wave of the future. Let them come to Berlin. And there are some who say in [[Europe]] and elsewhere we can work with the Communists. Let them come to Berlin. And there are even a few who say that it is true that communism is an evil system, but it permits us to make economic progress. Lass' sie nach Berlin kommen. Let them come to Berlin. ** [[John F. Kennedy]], [http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/Archives/Reference+Desk/Speeches/JFK/003POF03BerlinWall06261963.htm Speech in Berlin]; see also the [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ich_bin_ein_Berliner Ich bin ein Berliner Speech] at Wikisource. * Communism has sometimes succeeded as a scavenger, but never as a leader. It has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or [[corruption]], or both. ** [[John F. Kennedy]], Speech at NATO Headquarters, Naples Italy (2 July 1963) * Communism is based on an [[Ethics|ethical]] [[relativism]] and a [[Metaphysics|metaphysical]] [[materialism]] that no [[Christianity|Christian]] can accept. ** [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]], [http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/documentsentry/doc_pauls_letter_to_american_christians/ ''Paul's Letter to American Christians''] (4 November 1956). * Communism forgets that life is individual. [[Capitalism]] forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis. It is found in a higher [[synthesis]] that combines the truths of both. ** [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]], "Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?" (1967) * Oh, communism! That was a burning issue. It was an outrageous issue. To be termed a communist would damage your whole [[family]], damage your whole [[world]] — your [[friends]] wouldn’t talk to you. I’m talking about other people — because I wouldn’t go near the stuff. Sure, I was against the reds. I became a [[w:Witch hunt|witch hunter]]. My [[enemies]] were the commies — I called them commies. In fact, [[w:Granny Goodness|Granny Goodness]] was a commie, Doubleheader was a commie. ** [[Jack Kirby]] as interviewed by Gary Groth, February 1990, posted May 23, 2011 in issue 134 of "The Comics Journal", now on TCJ Archive, [http://www.tcj.com/jack-kirby-interview/5/ page 5] * Anything radical was [[dangerous]] to me, as it was to the average [[American]]. Nobody knew where a thing like that would lead and we were always afraid of [[chaos]]. So communism became the doorway to chaos, and the doorway to chaos was the doorway to [[evil]]. Your [[family]] might be hurt. Your [[friends]] might be hurt. You didn’t want to see a thing like that. ** [[Jack Kirby]] as interviewed by Gary Groth, February 1990, posted May 23, 2011 in issue 134 of "The Comics Journal", now on TCJ Archive, [http://www.tcj.com/jack-kirby-interview/5/ page 5] * In the social equation, the value of a single life is nil; in the cosmic equation, it is infinite... Not only communism, but any political movement which implicitly relies on purely utilitarian ethics, must become a victim to the same fatal error. It is a fallacy as naïve as a mathematical teaser, and yet its consequences lead straight to Goya's Disasters, to the reign of the [[guillotine]], the torture chambers of the Inquisition, or the cellars of the [[w:Lubyanka (KGB)|Lubianka]]. ** [[Arthur Koestler]], ''{{w|The Invisible Writing}}''. * In [[Russia]], all you have to do to get a house is to be born in the [[Soviet Union]]. You are entitled to housing. In [[United States|America]], if you don't have a dollar you have a right to choose between sleeping in a house or on the pavement. Yet you say we are the slave to communism. ** [[Nikita Khrushchev]], [http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/the-kitchen-debate/ ''The Kitchen Debate''] (1959). * Communism was a gigantic façade, and the reality concealed behind it was the sheer drive for power, for total power as an end in itself. The rest was merely instrumental -- a matter of tactics and some necessary self-restrictions to achieve the desired end. But the façade was more than mere decoration: it was communism's only means of survival; its respiratory system. It was also the ineradicable residue of the tradition of the Enlightenment and nineteenth-century socialism, of which communism was indeed a deformed descendant. As with all descendants, however deformed, some inherited traits are always visible, and in communism, too, these were evident. The [[rationalism]], contempt for tradition, and hatred for the mythological layer of culture to which the [[Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] gave birth developed, under communism, into the brutal persecution of religion, but also into the principle (practiced rather than directly expressed) that human beings are expendable: that individual lives count only as instruments of the 'greater whole' or the 'higher cause,' i.e. the state, for no rational grounds exist for attributing to them any special, non-instrumental status. Thus [[rationalism]] was transformed under communism into the idea of slavery. And romantic and early socialist strains -- the search for lost community and human solidarity, the protest against social disintegration caused by the industrial revolution and urbanization -- developed, under communism, into caricature: solidarity imposed by force, in an attempt to create a fake, merely ostensible unity -- the unity of despotism. ** [[w:Leszek Kołakowski|Leszek Kołakowski]], "Communism as a Cultural Force", as quoted in ''Is God Happy? Selected Essays'' (2013), Basic Books, pp. 36-37 * [[Anarchy]] leads to Communism, and Communism to Anarchy, both alike being expressions of the predominant tendency in modern societies, the pursuit of [[equality]]. ** [[Peter Kropotkin]], [https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-the-conquest-of-bread| The Conquest of Bread] * Communism in the United States and England is indeed essentially and substantially a movement of the semi-intellectual middle class with a good sprinkling of the quarter intellectual upper class. Communism in the United States would hardly be identified with the slums of lower Manhattan, the dust bowlers of Kansas, or the miners of Pennsylvania. . . . The word ''communism'' rather evokes associations like professors of state colleges with thick lenses in their spectacles, parlor pinks with Harvard accents, bored Park Avenue hostesses, anemic little East Europeans in public libraries, "progressive" and "advanced" psychologists specialized in sexual disorders, and unbearably conceited "foreign" correspondents. ** [[Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn]], ''The Menace of the Herd'' (1943), p. 279 == L == * As a result of this failure of communist ideology to comprehend the [[Human nature|nature of man]], Stalin decided to alter the Russian constitution. No longer would economic rewards be distributed on the basis of ‘[[need]]’; rather, the new concept was to be ‘to each according to his ''work''.’ ** Quote from ''The Fundamentals of Liberty'' by [[Robert LeFevre]], Santa Ana: CA, Rampart Institute, 1988, p. 402 * For the state to wither away completely, complete communism is necessary. ** [[Vladimir Lenin]], ''State and Revolution'' * '''We Communists are all dead men on leave.''' Of this I am fully aware. I do not know if you will extend my leave or whether I will have to join [[Karl Liebknecht|Karl Liebkneccht]] and [[Rosa Luxemburg]]. In any case I wait your verdict with composure and serenity. ** [[Eugen Leviné|Eugen Lévin]], ''Verso Book of Dissent'' * So in the new exuberant aggressiveness of world [[capitalism]] we see what communists and their allies had held at bay. ** {{w|Richard Levins}}, quoted in [[Michael Parenti]], ''Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism'' (1997), p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=WSsGEsBUsVcC&pg=PA58#v=onepage&q&f=false 58] * There are certain types of people who are political out of a kind of religious reason [...] I think it's fairly common among socialists: They are, in fact, God-seekers, looking for the [[kingdom of God]] on earth. A lot of religious reformers have been like that, too. It's the same psychological set, trying to abolish the present in favor of some better future — always taking it for granted that there is a better future. If you don't believe in heaven, then you believe in socialism. When I was in my real Communist phase, I and the people around me really believed — but, of course, this makes us certifiable — that something like 10 years after [[World War II]], the world would be Communist and perfect. ** [[Doris Lessing]], as quoted in [http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/01/10/specials/lessing-space.html "Doris Lessing on Feminism, Communism and Space Fiction"] (25 July 1982), Lesley Hazelton, New York Times Book Review ==M == * A specter is haunting Europe, the specter of Communism. ** [[Karl Marx]], The Communist Manifesto (1848) * The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involved the most radical rupture with traditional ideas. ** [[Karl Marx]], ''The Communist Manifesto: Chapter II. Proletarians and Communists'' (1848) [[File:"Communism Capital" 1883 art - A destructive worm - F. Graetz. LCCN2012645461 (cropped).jpg|thumb|The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with [[Christianity]] is the Christians. They really do not believe in it and hence are hypocrites. All of them pant for money and hope to collar it by changing the rules. This fundamental false pretense colors their whole propaganda. They have no more sense of honor than so many congressmen and engage constantly in wholesale lying. —[[H. L. Mencken]]]] * The [[Korean War|tragedy of Korea]] is further heightened by the fact that its military action is confined to its territorial limits. It condemns that nation, which it is our purpose to save, to suffer the devastating impact of full naval and air [[bombardment]] while the enemy's sanctuaries are fully protected from such attack and devastation. Of the nations of the world, [[Korea]] alone, up to now, is the sole one which has risked its all against communism. The magnificence of the courage and fortitude of the [[Koreans|Korean people]] defies description. They have chosen to risk [[death]] rather than [[slavery]]. Their last words to me were: 'Don't scuttle the Pacific!' ** [[Douglas MacArthur]], as quoted in [http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/douglasmacarthurfarewelladdress.htm farewell address to a Joint Session of Congress] (19 April 1951). * '''The cause of Communism is the greatest cause in the history of mankind''' becasuse it seeks to remove from society all forms of [[oppression]] and [[exploitation]], to liberate [[Humanity|mankind]] and to ensure [[peace]] and [[prosperity]] to all. ** [[Nelson Mandela]], "How to be a good Communist", ''[https://books.google.it/books?id=sSg8AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA3-PA37&lpg=RA3-PA37&dq=%22The+cause+of+Communism+is+the+greatest+cause+in+the+history+of+mankind%22&source=bl&ots=0bsJuDrtfQ&sig=ACfU3U1CGMZisxwpPoD8hsPtgoKRe0SlNg&hl=it&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiPkcSehoTsAhUJDuwKHWNuAR4Q6AEwCXoECAEQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22The%20cause%20of%20Communism%20is%20the%20greatest%20cause%20in%20the%20history%20of%20mankind%22 United States Congressional Serial Set, Edition 13677],'' (1986), p. 37 * We [[Chinese Communist Party|communists]] are like seeds and the people are the soil. Wherever we go, we must unite with the people, take root and blossom among them. ** [[Mao Zedong]], ''Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong (The Little Red Book)'' (1964). * '''Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.''' ** [[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]], ''{{w|The German Ideology}}'' (1845/46) Vol. I, Part 1. [http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/index.htm] * '''Communism differs from all previous movements in that it overturns the basis of all earlier relations of production and intercourse, and for the first time consciously treats all natural premises as the creatures of hitherto existing men, strips them of their natural character and subjugates them to the power of the united individuals.''' Its organisation is, therefore, essentially economic, the material production of the conditions of this unity; it turns existing conditions into conditions of unity. '''The reality, which communism is creating, is precisely the true basis for rendering it impossible that anything should exist independently of individuals, insofar as reality is only a product of the preceding intercourse of individuals themselves.''' ** [[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]], ''{{w|The German Ideology}}'' (1845/46) Vol. I, Part 4. [http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/index.htm] * '''A spectre is haunting [[Europe]]; the spectre of Communism.''' ** [[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]] ''{{w|The Communist Manifesto}}'' (1848), Preamble, paragraph 1, line 1. [http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch01.htm#060] * '''The theory of Communism may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.''' ** [[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]] ''{{w|The Communist Manifesto}}'' (1848), Section 2, paragraph 13. [http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch01.htm#060] * Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society; all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labour of others by means of such appropriation. ** [[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]] ''{{w|The Communist Manifesto}}'' (1848), Section 2, paragraph 30. [http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch01.htm#060] * The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a [[Communistic revolution]]. '''The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.<br> [[w:Workers of the world, unite!|WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!]]''' ** [[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]] ''{{w|The Communist Manifesto}}'' (1848), Section 4, paragraph 11 (last paragraph) [http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch01.htm#060] ** Variant translation: '''Workers of the world, unite!''' * It destroys the conditions for the existence of [[Class conflict|class antagonism]], destroys [[Social class|classes]] in general, and thereby also its domination as a class. ** [[Karl Marx]], as Quoted in Simply Philosophy [https://simplyphilosophy.org/study/communism-definition/] * The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with [[Christianity]] is the Christians. They really do not believe in it and hence are hypocrites. All of them pant for money and hope to collar it by changing the rules. This fundamental false pretense colors their whole [[propaganda]]. They have no more sense of [[honor]] than so many [[United States Congress|congressmen]] and engage constantly in wholesale lying. ** [[H. L. Mencken]], ''Mr. Mencken Sounds Off,'' in ''[[w:Life (magazine)|Life]],'' August 5, 1946, p. 51 * The chief weakness of Communism is that it is, itself, only another breed of the same [[materialism]] which is the source and root of all the [[Evil|evils]] which it so clearly sees, and it is evidently nothing but another product of the breakdown of the capitalist system. Indeed, it seems to be pieced together out of the ruins of the same [[ideology]] that once went into the vast, amorphous, intellectual structure underlying capitalism in the [[19th century|nineteenth century]]. ** [[Thomas Merton]], ''[[w:The Seven Storey Mountain|The Seven Storey Mountain]]'' (1948), pp. 149-150 * But to make the comparison applicable, we must compare Communism at its best, with the regime of individual property, not as it is, but as it might be made... The laws of property have never yet conformed to the principles on which the justification of [[private property]] rests. ** [[John Stuart Mill|J. S. Mill]], ''Principles of Political Economy'' p. 14 * Communism’s overarching project is to ensure the communal good. ** [[Cindy Milstein]], {{cite book |title=Anarchism and Its Aspirations |date=1 May 2010 |publisher=AK Press |isbn=978-1-84935-029-7 |page=13 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Anarchism_and_Its_Aspirations/FQLRDgAAQBAJ?hl=en-419&gbpv=1&pg=PA13}} * <p>If the roused and insurgent consumers secure the means of production of the salt industry, in all probability they will confiscate this industry for their own profit, and their first thought will be, not to relegate it to free competition, but rather to exploit it, ''in common'', for their own account.&nbsp; They will then name a director or a directive committee to operate the saltworks, to whom they will allocate the funds necessary to defray the costs of salt production.&nbsp; Then, since the experience of the past will have made them suspicious and distrustful, since they will be afraid that the director named by them will seize production for his own benefit, and simply reconstitute by open or hidden means the old monopoly for his own profit, they will elect delegates, representatives entrusted with appropriating the funds <!--Page 32--> necessary for production, with watching over their use, and with making sure that the salt produced is equally distributed to those entitled to it.&nbsp; The production of salt will be organized in this manner.</p><p>'''This form of the organization of production has been named communism.'''</p><p>When this organization is applied to a single commodity, the communism is said to be partial.</p><p>When it is applied to all commodities, the communism is said to be complete.</p><p>'''But whether communism is partial or complete, [[political economy]] is no more tolerant of it than it is of [[monopoly]], of which it is merely an extension.'''</p> ** [[Gustave de Molinari]], tr. J.&nbsp;Huston McCulloch, [[s:The Production of Security/5|§V]] of ''[[The Production of Security]]'' (Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2009; orig. 1849), [[s:Page:The Production of Security.pdf/32|pp. 31]]–[[s:Page:The Production of Security.pdf/33|32]]. * When ecclesiastic love waned, when waves of capitalistic greed surged across Christian Europe, when starving masses cried out bitterly in the slums, the promise of their salvation came not from heaven but from the earth. Its name was communism. Christianity, though it professed the love of God, had degenerated into a dead body of [[clergy]] trailing empty slogans. It was then only natural that a banner of rebellion would be raised, arguing that a merciless [[God]] who would allow such [[suffering]] could not exist. Hence, modern materialism was born. Western society became a hotbed of materialism; it was the fertile soil in which communism flourished. ** [[Sun Myung Moon]], [http://web.archive.org/20090829185555/www.geocities.com/unificationism/DivinePrinciple-intro.html ''Divine Principle'', Introduction] * Nonetheless, one final and inescapable conflict remains before us, the war between democracy and communism. Although each side has equipped itself with fearsome weapons and is pitted against the other in readiness for battle, the core of their conflict is internal and ideological. Which side will triumph in this final ideological conflict? Anyone who believes in the reality of God will surely answer that democracy will win. ** [[Sun Myung Moon]], [http://web.archive.org/20090829185555/www.geocities.com/unificationism/DivinePrinciple-intro.html ''Divine Principle'', Introduction] * After 7,000 biblical years — 6,000 years of restoration history plus the millennium, the time of completion — communism will fall in its 70th year. Here is the meaning of the year 1978. Communism, begun in [[Russian Revolution|1917]], could maintain itself approximately 60 years and reach its peak. So 1978 is the border line and afterward communism will decline; in the 70th year it will be altogether ruined. This is true. Therefore, now is the time for people who are studying communism to abandon it. ** [[Sun Myung Moon]], [http://www.tparents.org/Moon-Books/sm-gww/GWW-07.htm ''The Way of Restoration''], (April, 1972) * [[Government|Governments]] and [[Political parties|Parties]] which have relied on the normal instruments of government ... have fallen easy and ignoble victims to the forces of [[anarchy]]. If, therefore, such a situation arises in [[United Kingdom|Britain]], we shall prepare to meet the anarchy of Communism with the organised force of [[Fascism]]. ** [[Oswald Mosley]], ''The Greater Britain'', 1932. Quoted in John Stevenson and Chris Cook, ''The Slump : Britain in the Great Depression'' New York : Pearson Longman, 2010. * What is Communism? It is that when you have eaten enough food for your [[hunger]] and still food is left — it belongs to another man. ** {{w|AR Murugadoss}}, in ''{{w|Kaththi}}'' (2014) ==N== * America continues to aid [[South Vietnam|us]]; then we continue to fight the communists. ** [[Nguyễn Văn Thiệu]], as quoted in ''Vietnam, the Ten Thousand Day War'' (1984), by Michael MacLear. **Original Vietnamese quote: ''Mỹ còn viện trợ, thì chúng tôi còn chống cộng!'' * Don't listen to what communists say, instead look closely at what the communists do! ** [[Nguyễn Văn Thiệu]], as quoted in [http://vietbao.com/D_1-2_2-67_4-211493_5-15_6-1_17-8128_14-2_15-2/ "ĐÚNG! Đừng Nghe Những Gì CS Nói, Mà Hãy Nhìn Những Gì CS Làm!"] (26 July 2013), by Tuổi Trẻ Yêu Nước, ''Viet Bao'' (2013). Also quoted in [http://www.vietcatholic.net/News/Html/111904.htm "Cứu trợ nạn nhân là nghĩa vụ pháp lý và đạo đức"], by Hà Minh Thảo, ''TTX Công Giáo Việt Nam''. **Original Vietnamese quote: ''Đừng nghe những gì Cộng sản nói, mà hãy nhìn kỷ những gì Cộng sản làm!'' ==O== * Philosophically, Communism and [[Anarchism]] are poles apart. Practically - i.e. in the form of society aimed at - the difference is mainly one of emphasis, but it is quite irreconcilable. The Communist's emphasis is always on centralism and efficiency, the Anarchists's on liberty and equality. ** [[George Orwell]], ''Homage to Catalonia'' * If anything the war made the world safe for communism, which was as embattled as [[democracy]] in the 1930s and close to eclipse by 1942. One of the most significant consequences of the war was the spread of communism in [[Europe]] and [[Asia]] and its consolidation in the Soviet Union. The outcome reflected the significant role played by Soviet forces in defeating [[Germany]]. There is now widespread recognition that the decisive theatre of operations lay on the [[w:Eastern Front (World War II)|eastern front]]. Without Soviet resistance it is difficult to see how the democratic world could have defeated the [[Nazi Germany|new German empire]], except by sitting tight and waiting until [[Nuclear weapons|atomic weapons]] had been developed. The great paradox of the [[World War II|Second World War]] is that democracy was saved by the exertions of communism. ** [[Richard Overy]], ''Why the Allies Won'' (1995), p. 3 ==P== * The system of production developed in Russia is [[w:State socialism|State socialism]]. It is organized production, with the State as universal [[Employment|employer]], master of the entire production apparatus. The workers are master of the means of production no more than under Western capitalism. They receive their wages and are exploited by the State as the only mammoth capitalist. So the name [[State capitalism]] can be applied with precisely the same meaning. The entirety of the ruling and leading bureaucracy of officials is the actual owner of the factories, the possessing class. ** [[Antonie Pannekoek]], ''Workers Councils'' (1947), Section 2.5 * The overthrow of communism gave a green light to the unbridled exploitative impulses of Western [[Corporations|corporate interests]]. No longer needing to convince workers that they live better than their counterparts in Russia, and no longer constrained by a competing system, the corporate class is rolling back the many gains that working people in the West have won over the years. Now that the free market, in its meanest form, is emerging triumphant in the East, so will it prevail in the West. ** [[Michael Parenti]], ''Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism. '' (1997), p. 58 * Having never understood the role that existing communist powers played in tempering the worst impulses of Western capitalism and [[imperialism]], and having perceived communism as nothing but an unmitigated evil, the left anticommunists did not anticipate the losses that were to come. Some of them still don't get it. ** [[Michael Parenti]], ''Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism. '' (1997), p. 58 * Perhaps communism may even have been a viable solution to the problems of the unequal [[Redistribution of income and wealth|distribution of wealth]] that characterized the [[Industrial Revolution|industrial age]], if all of the hypothetically oppressed were [[good]] people and all of the [[evil]] was to be found, as hypothesized, in their ''[[bourgeoisie]]'' overlords. Unfortunately for the communists, a substantial proportion of the oppressed were incapable, unconscientious, unintelligent, licentious, power mad, violent, resentful, and jealous, while a substantial proportion of the oppressors were educated, able, creative, intelligent, honest, and caring. ** [[Jordan Peterson]], ''[[Beyond Order]]'' (2021), p. 167 * I think that communism was a major force for violence for more than 100 years, because it was built into its ideology—that [[progress]] comes through class struggle, often violent. It led to the widespread belief that the only way to achieve justice was to hurry this [[Dialectic|dialectical]] process along, and allow the oppressed working classes to carry out their struggle against their bourgeois oppressors. ** [[Steven Pinker]], [http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2011/11/qa-steven-pinker-0 "The violent dangers of ideology"], ''The Economist'' (2011) ==R== * Long live the Communist Party, and partisans! Fight, people, for your freedom! Do not surrender to the evildoers! I will be killed, but there are those who will avenge me! ** [[Lepa Radić]], her last words, as quoted in [https://books.google.com/books?id=z4MNAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Lepa+Radic,+whom+they+condemned+to+death+by+hanging%22&dq=%22Lepa+Radic,+whom+they+condemned+to+death+by+hanging Women of Yugoslavia in the National Liberation War] * Such terms as communism, socialism, [[w:Fabian Society|Fabianism]], the [[welfare state]], [[Nazism]], [[fascism]], state interventionism, [[egalitarianism]], the [[planned economy]], the [[New Deal]], the [[w:Fair Deal|Fair Deal]], the [[w:New Republicanism|New Republicanism]], the [[w:New Frontier|New Frontier]] are simply different labels for much the same thing. ** [[Leonard E. Read]], [https://cdn.mises.org/Elements%20of%20Libertarian%20Leadership_2.pdf Elements of Libertarian Leadership] (1962), pp 62-63 * I have one question for those rulers: If communism is the wave of the future, why do you still need walls to keep people in and armies of secret police to keep them quiet? ** [[Ronald Reagan]] speech (1983) * [<nowiki/>[[Cold War|Cold war]] demonology] is a color word, and I probably should not have used it. It means just sort of interpreting everything in terms of a great communist conspiracy and in terms of communists being supermen who somehow can overcome the great problems of differences between national units, and so on. They are not supermen at all. They are men with feet of clay which extend almost all the way up to their [[Brain|brains]]. ** {{w|Edwin O. Reischauer}}, former U.S. ambassador to Japan, testimony at hearing, January 31, 1967. Asia, the Pacific, and the United States, hearing before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, 90th Congress, 1st session, p. 19 (1967). * Seventy years ago people used to die for this idea [communism] [...], in Turin the members of the [[w:Italian Communist Party|Communist Party]], during the [[w:Italian Resistance|Resistance]], had to endure 8 hours of torture. [Fascists] would pull your eyes out with teaspoons, they'd rip your nails out with tweezers. And you had to stay silent for eight hours, and only after that you were allowed to confess and give the names of your comrades, and that was a Party guideline, to ensure the comrades' flight in those eight hours. Those men and women died for this idea. And what's politics today? They must be rolling in their own grave, can't you see that? ** [[Marco Rizzo]], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWwf3FEePSM&feature=youtu.be&t=1686 Video], 16 February 2013 * Communism is like [[w:Prohibition_in_the_United_States|prohibition]], it's a good idea but it won't work. ** [[Will Rogers]], ''The Autobiography of Will Rogers'' (1949) * The hopes which inspire communism are, in the main, as admirable as those instilled by the [[Sermon on the Mount]], but they are held as fanatically and are as likely to do as much harm. ** [[Bertrand Russell]], ''The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism'' (1920), Part I, The Present Condition of Russia, Ch. 1: What Is Hoped From Bolshevism. * The way to combat Communism is not war. What is needed in addition to such armaments as will deter Communists from attacking the West, is a diminution of the grounds for discontent in the less prosperous parts of the non-communist world. ...'''Communism is a doctrine bred of poverty, hatred and strife.''' Its spread can only be arrested by diminishing the area of poverty and hatred. ** [[Bertrand Russell]], ''Portraits From Memory And Other Essays'' (1956), p. 232 * I think all the great religions of the world - [[Buddhism]], [[Hinduism]], [[Christianity]], [[Islam]] and [[Communism]] – both untrue and harmful. ** [[Bertrand Russell]], ''My Religious Reminiscences'' (1957) reprinted in ''The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell'' * I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation. ** [[Bertrand Russell]], ''Unarmed Victory'' (1963), p. 14 * {{w|Better red than dead}}. **[[Bertrand Russel]], attributes this phrase to 'West German friends of peace' but adopted this slogan for the [[Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament]] he helped found, quoted in {{cite book | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=c4UoX6-Sv1AC&pg=PA49 | title=Safire's Political Dictionary | publisher=[[w:Oxford University Press|Oxford University Press]] | author=[[William Safire]] | year=2008 | pages=49–50}}. ==S== * Durable communist regimes had much in common. They eliminated or emasculated rival [[political parties]]. They attacked [[religion]], [[culture]], and [[civil society]]. They trampled on every version of [[nationhood]] except the one approved by communist rulership. They abolished the autonomy of the [[courts]] and the [[Freedom of the press|press]]. They [[Centralisation|centralised]] [[power]]. They turned over dissenters to forced-labour camps. They set up networks of [[w:Security police|security police]] and informers. They claimed infallibility in doctrine and paraded themselves as faultless scientists of human affairs. They insulated societies against alien influences in [[politics]] and [[culture]]. They fiercely barricaded their frontiers. They treated every aspect of social life as in need of penetration by the authorities. They handled people as a resource to be mobilised. They showed little respect for [[ecology]], [[charity]], or [[Customs|custom]]. These commonalities make it sensible to speak of a communist order. ** Robert Service, ''Comrades! A History of World Communism'' (2007), p. 9 * Communism, including its first phase (socialism), is an ideology based on destroying harmony among social classes and eliminating traditional beliefs and [[Morality|moral values]]. ** The Society of Classical Poets, [https://classicalpoets.org/submissionguidelines/ Submission Guidelines] * "That's [[Mao Zedong|Mao]]."<br>"Do people still respect him?"<br>"The government pays lip service to his memory, but the hero worship of past eras is over."<br>"And what about the ordinary people?"<br>"The so-called proletariat?"<br>"Yup."<br>"They've found another god to follow."<br>"[[Xi Jinping]]?"<br>"[[Money]]." ** [[Shamini Flint]], ''[[w:Inspector Singh Investigates: A Calamitous Chinese Killing|Inspector Singh Investigates: A Calamitous Chinese Killing]]'' * The Communists are [[Judaism|Jews]], and Russia is being entirely administered by them. They are in every government office, bureau and newspaper. They are driving out the [[Russians]] and are responsible for the [[Antisemitism|anti-Semitic]] feeling which is increasing. ** [[Clare Sheridan]], ''The New York World'', Dec. 15, 1923. See ''[https://books.google.com.br/books?id=zKFBPKa8vxoC&pg=PA27 The Secret World Government Or "The Hidden Hand": The Unrevealed in History]'' by Count Cherep-Spiridovich, p. 27 * What struck me most about the Russian Communists, even in such really exceptional personalities as [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]] and [[Leon Trotsky|Trotsky]], was their utter incapacity to be fair in discussing opinions that conflicted with their own. The adversary, simply for daring to contradict, at once became a traitor, an opportunist, a hireling. ''An adversary in good faith'' is inconceivable to the Russian Communists. What an aberration of conscience this is, for so-called [[Materialism|materialists]] and [[Rationalism|rationalists]] absolutely in their polemics to uphold the primacy of morals over intelligence! To find a comparable infatuation one has to go back to the Inquisition. ** [[Ignazio Silone]], in ''The God That Failed'', Crossman, Richard, ed. (1963). New York, NY: Harper & Row. p. 108. * Picket lines, school boycotts/They try to say it's a communist plot/All I want is [[equality]]/For my sister, my brother, my people, and me ** [[Nina Simone]], Mississippi Goddam 1964 * Communism is as crude an attempt to explain society and the individual as if a surgeon were to perform his delicate operations with a meat-axe. All that is subtle in human [[psychology]] and in the structure of society (which is even more delicate) all of this is reduced to crude economic processes. This whole created being - man - is reduced to matter. It's characteristic that Communism is so devoid of arguments that it has none to advance against its opponents in our Communist countries. It lacks arguments and hence there is the club, the [[prison]], the [[concentration camp]], and [[Insane Asylum|insane asylums]] with forced confinement. ** [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]], ''Warning to the West'' (1975) ==T== * The history of Communism, originally inspired by noble ideals, clearly illustrates what happens when people attempt to change external reality – create a new earth – without any prior change in their inner reality, their state of [[consciousness]]. They make plans without taking into account the blueprint for dysfunction that every human being carries within: the [[ego]]. ** [[Eckhart Tolle]] in [https://www.apnamba.com/Ebooks-pdf/A%20new%20Earth.pdf ''A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose,''] (2005) * A citizen of a Western democracy fondly imagines that [[totalitarianism]] lies utterly beyond the pale of normal human aspirations. And yet, [[totalitarianism]] could never have survived so long had it not been able to draw so many people into its fold. There is something else—it is a formidably efficient machine. Communist ideology offers an idealised model for society and exhorts us toward it. The desire to change the world in the name of an ideal is, after all, an essential characteristic of human identity... Furthermore, Communist society strips the individual of his responsibilities. It is always "somebody else" who makes the decisions. Remember, individual responsibility can feel like a crushing burden... The attraction of a totalitarian system, which has had a powerful allure for many, has its roots in a fear of freedom and responsibility. This explains the popularity of authoritarian regimes (which is [[Erich Fromm]]'s thesis in ''Escape from Freedom''). None of this is new; [[Boethius]] had the right idea long ago when he spoke of "voluntary servitude." ** [[Tzvetan Todorov]], ''L'homme dépaysé'' (1996), p. 36 ==W== * From the 1940s to the 1960s one alternative world covered the globe from the [[Arctic]] through the center of [[Europe]] to the [[w:Adriatic_Sea|Adriatic]], and from there through the [[w:Caucasus|Caucasus]] and [[w:Central_Asia|central Asia]] to [[North Korea|Korea]] and the city of [[Vladivostok]] on the [[w:Pacific_Ocean|Pacific Ocean]]. That city’s name, meaning “the conqueror of the east,” now symbolized Communist victory in a very large part of Eurasia. But the Communist world did not stop there. From Vladivostok it moved south, through China, the most populous country on earth, to end off the shores of [[Vietnam]], in the [[South China Sea]]. What is remarkable about this world is how it was connected. It was not just a security alliance, such as [[NATO]] was for the [[north Atlantic]] states. It was an integrationist political and economic project, built on a common understanding of how the world worked and how it ought to be changed. It based itself on the [[Marxism–Leninism|teachings of Marx and Lenin]], and on the practices that had developed in the Soviet Union under Stalin. It was fiercely protective of its unity and committed to supporting the Soviet Union in the Cold War. It was, or so it seemed, a full-fledged alternative to capitalism and a rebuke to those who believed the [[United States]] was the great victor of the [[World War II|Second World War]]. ** Odd Arne Westad, ''The Cold War: A World History'' (2017) * Everywhere, the imposition of Communist rule was based on military power. In [[eastern Europe]] and [[North Korea]] the Soviet [[w:Red_Army|Red Army]] helped put Communist regimes in place. In [[China]], [[Yugoslavia]], and [[Albania]], local Communist armies took power on their own. But in all cases their leaders identified the Communist military takeover with a socialist revolution. They left behind Marx’s concepts of capitalism under bourgeois rule gradually developing the foundations of socialism. Like [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]], they believed that Communist regimes could create socialism in their own countries, especially since the Soviet Union had blazed a path for such development. But the realization of socialism under Communist rule would have to happen in stages, so as to conform to the Marxist elements of Stalinism. The regimes were therefore forced to claim that they at first represented a “national” revolution, which would then later go on to develop socialism, because that was the best for the nation. With a dishonesty remarkably similar to private companies claiming that they are acting for the public good, Communists claimed to be acting for all the nation, even though their programs were blatantly intent on empowering some social classes and marginalizing others. ** Odd Arne Westad, ''The Cold War: A World History'' (2017) * Among the biggest difficulties for Communists in power everywhere was their claim to stand for the international. The future, they said, belonged to the proletarians and the [[Peasant|peasants]]—to classes, not to nation-states. The problem was that for many ordinary people in the 1940s and ’50s, a strong nation-state was what they wished for most. The war had shown what would happen to those groups who did not have the protection of their own state. The massive bloodletting in [[eastern Europe]], the [[The Holocaust|mass murders of Jews and Roma]], and the moving of borders had made it possible for [[Poland|Poles]], [[Hungary|Hungarians]], or [[Romania|Romanians]] to claim their countries to be nation-states. The Communists, even when professing to carry out a “national” revolution, also had to stand for [[internationalism]], especially since Moscow made that the test case for the loyalty of each Communist regime. From the very beginning, therefore, the Communists had a troubled relationship with concepts of [[Nations|nation and nationhood]], or even state [[independence]]. ** Odd Arne Westad, ''The Cold War: A World History'' (2017) * It is obvious: the division of Europe has become politically untenable: not because of Western "revanchism" to which [[Eduard Shevardnadze|Mr. Shevardnadze]] referred: not because of our interference in their domestic affairs. No. Simply for two reasons. First, because [[communism]] has failed as much in ideological as in economic and social terms. It is not able to solve the problems of modern [[Developed country|industrialised societies]] in the [[Information age|age of global communication]]. And even more important: second, because you cannot suppress freedom forever. The natural aspiration of men to live and work freely is the driving force behind the historical process of change which we are witnessing. And no [[Dictatorship|dictator]] or system - not even by using force - will be able to stop or prevent this dynamic change in the long-term. ** [[wikipedia:Manfred_Wörner|Manfred Wörner]], [https://www.nato.int/docu/speech/1989/s891009a_e.htm Address given at the 35th Annual Session of the North Atlantic Assembly], 9 October 1989 * It was in prison that we found the [[hope]] of [[salvation]] for the Communists. It was there that we developed a sense of [[responsibility]] toward them. It was in being tortured by them that we learned to love them. ** [[Richard Wurmbrand]], ''Tortured For Christ'', p. 58 (1967). * Some tell me "Preach the pure [[gospel]]!" This reminds me that the Communist secret police also told me to preach [[Christ]], but not to mention communism. Is it really so, that those who are for what is called "a pure gospel" are inspired by the same spirit as those of the Communist secret police? ** [[Richard Wurmbrand]], ''Tortured For Christ'', p. 75 (1967). ==Y== * There has been a considerable penetration of the ranks of Jewry by Communism, and Jewry in turn has come to wield a considerable power in the Communist Party. ** [[Avrahm Yarmolinsky]] in ''[https://books.google.com.br/books?id=ktkSAAAAIAAJ The Menorah Journal]'' New York, July 1928, p. 37 ==Z== * The biggest threat to America today is not communism. It's moving America toward a [[Fascism|fascist]] [[theocracy]], and everything that's happened during the [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]] administration is steering us right down that pipe … I really think that. … When you have a government that prefers a certain moral code derived from a certain [[religion]] and that moral code turns into legislation to suit one certain religious point of view, and if that code happens to be very, very right wing, almost toward [[Attila|Attila the Hun]]... ** [[Frank Zappa]], ''Crossfire'' debate on censorship (1986). * To [[White people|white]] [[United States|Americans]] of the thirties, however, [[African American|blacks]] North and South were invisible. Only the [[Radicalism|radicals]] made an attempt to break the racial barriers: Socialists, [[Leon Trotsky|Trotskyists]], Communists most of all. ** [[Howard Zinn]], ''A Peoples History of The United States'' * The perversion of Stalinist Communism consists in the fact that the view by means of which the Party looks at history coincides immediately with history's gaze upon itself. To use good old Stalinist jargon, today already half-forgotten, Communists act immediately in the name of "objective laws of historical progress"; it is history itself, its necessity, that speaks through their mouths. ** [[Slavoj Žižek]], ''Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture'', p. 22. <small>{{ISBN|026274015X}}</small> ==See also== * [[Authoritarianism]] * [[Anti-communism]] * [[Bolsheviks]] * [[Democratic socialism]] * [[Dictatorship of the proletariat]] * [[Karl Marx]] * [[Marxism]] * [[Socialism]] * [[Stalinism]] * [[:Category:Communists]] ==External links== {{wikipedia}} {{wiktionary|communism}} {{wikisource portal}} [[Category:Communism| ]] [[Category:Business]] [[Category:Cold War]] b67wcboax2gmaw8mex4vq221no1289s 3961369 3961368 2026-07-06T05:47:06Z Baratiiman 842201 3961369 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Goddess of Democracy at UBC.jpg|It's like a cancer that spreads and you better stop it fast...You can be loyal to Karl Marx, or you can be loyal to America. ...These are hardcore, godless communists, They want to completely destroy the traditional American way of life, Everyone will suffer or die. That’s what happens ... I’d be the greatest communist in history ... guaranteed DEATH AND DESTRUCTION in the end, the Country, State, or City, GOES TO HELL! Great Violence proceeds at levels never seen before, and the entity dissolves into Poverty, Squalor, and Crime.Trump faith and freedom/Truthsocial[https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/07/05/donald-trump-democratic-socialists-communists-midterms-affordability/90787786007/ ][https://www.axios.com/2026/06/27/trump-midterm-democratic-socialists ][https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/26/trump-democrats-communists-midterms ][https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/116687799508711738 ]]][[File:Falce e martello.svg|thumb|Workers of the world, unite! —[[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]]]] In [[political science|political]] and [[social science]]s, '''{{w|communism}}''' (from [[Latin]] ''communis'', "common, universal") is the [[philosophical]], [[social]], [[political]], and [[economic]] [[ideology]] and movement whose ultimate [[goal]] is the establishment of the [[communist society]], which is a {{w|socioeconomic}} order structured upon the {{w|common ownership}} of the [[means of production]] and the absence of [[social class]]es, [[money]], and the [[state]]. Communism includes a variety of {{w|schools of thought}}, which broadly include [[Marxism]], [[anarchism]] ({{w|anarchist communism}}), and the [[W:Ideology#Political ideologies|political ideologies]] grouped around both. All these share the analysis that the current [[order of society]] stems from its [[economic system]], [[capitalism]], that in this [[system]], there are two major social classes: the [[proletariat|working class]]—who must work to survive, and who make up the majority within society—and the [[bourgeoisie|capitalist class]]—a minority who derives [[profit]] from employing the working class, through [[Private property|private ownership of the means of production]]—and that [[class conflict|conflict between these two classes]] will trigger a [[Proletarian revolution|revolution]]. The revolution, in turn, will establish {{w|social ownership}} of the means of production, which is, according to this analysis, the primary element in the [[w:Social transformation|transformation of society]] towards communism. __NOTOC__ {{TOCalpha}} ==A== [[File:Clement Attlee.png|thumb|[[W:Communism in Russia|Russian Communism]] is the illegitimate child of [[Karl Marx]] and [[Catherine the Great]]. —[[Clement Attlee]]]] * '''Dogbert''': Hey [[Gorbachev|Gorby]], did you hear this quote ... "Communism is the most painful path between capitalism and capitalism." ** [[Scott Adams]], Dogbert making a prank call to the [[w:Kremlin|Kremlin]], [https://dilbert.com/strip/1989-12-12 ''Dilbert''], Tuesday December 12, 1989 * To be a Communist is to be a partisan and artisan of Marxism-Leninist philosophy: of dialectical materialism. **[[Louis Althusser]], "Philosophy as a Revolutionary Weapon" * Στον καπιταλισμό οι κουμουνιστές είναι πάντα καλύτεροι. ** '''In capitalism, communists are always better.''' **[[Adonis Georgiadis]] about the way the Communist Party of Greece handles money (12 May 2018) * There is nothing else in Communism — a [[Jewish]] conspiracy to grab the whole world in their clutches; and no intelligent man in the world can find anything else, except the [[Jews]], who rightly call it for themselves a “paradise on earth”. Jews are eager to bring Communism, because they know what it is and what it means. It is because Communism has not been fought for what it really is — a Jewish scheme invented by Jews — that it has progressed against all opposition to it. We have fought the smoke-screen presented by Jewish [[Dialectic|dialecticians]] and publicists, refusing to fight the inventor, profiteer and string-puller. Because [[Christianity|Christians]] and [[Gentile|Gentiles]] have come to fear the Jews, fear the truth, and they are paralyzed by the paradoxical slogans shouted by the Jews. ** [[Adrien Arcand]], New York Speech, October 30, 1937. See ''[https://books.google.com.br/books?id=t_RtAAAAMAAJ The Jews]'' by Zuhdī Fātiḥ, 1972 * There are some of our own people who still think that the Communists are the [[Left-wing politics|left wing]] of the [[Socialism|Socialist]] movement. They are not. The Socialist movement was a movement for [[freedom]] in its widest sense. From the point of view of freedom, Communists are on the [[Far-right politics|extreme right]]—more reactionary than some of the old [[Tyranny|tyrannies]] which we knew in the past. What is the thing for which we fight, for which the men with whom we feel the stir of sympathy throughout the ages have fought? [[Freedom]]. But that fight changes from age to age and the freedom that some men fought for may turn out to be tyranny. Communists, concentrating solely on the economic aspects of freedom...have produced the ghastly travesty of Socialism in the lands behind the [[w:Iron Curtain|iron curtain]]. ** [[Clement Attlee]], speech in Glasgow (10 April 1949), quoted in ''The Times'' (11 April 1949), p. 4 * Socialism was the only means of freeing the world from [[war]] and [[poverty]]. Socialism stood as a third alternative to a barbaric Communism and [[capitalism]] in a state of decay. Communism was a falsification of the principles of Socialism. ** [[Clement Attlee]], speech to the Swedish Social Democratic Party congress in Stockholm (5 June 1952), quoted in ''The Times'' (6 June 1952), p. 5 * [[W:Communism in Russia|Russian Communism]] is the illegitimate child of [[Karl Marx]] and [[Catherine II of Russia|Catherine the Great]]. ** [[Clement Attlee]], as quoted in ''The Observer'' (1956) * If communism ever reestablishes itself successfully upon earth, it must be on a foundation of soul's brotherhood and the death of [[Egotism|egoism]]. A forced association and a mechanical comradeship would end in a world-wide fiasco. ** [[Sri Aurobindo]], quoted from [[Sri Aurobindo]], Nahar, S., Aurobindo, ., & Institut de recherches évolutives (Paris). ''India's rebirth: A selection from Sri Aurobindo's writing, talks and speeches.'' Paris: Institut de Recherches Evolutives. 3rd Edition (2000). [https://web.archive.org/web/20170826004028/http://bharatvani.org/books/ir/IR_frontpage.htm Chapter II] * We are talking here about the future: about the lives of people in the world without wars, without social oppression, without national inequality, without suppression of human’s abilities. In other word, it is about the future that we all call Communism. ** [[Andrei Tarkovsky]], [https://varjag2007su.livejournal.com/2591915.html ''Letter to the central committee of the CPSU (Communist Party of Soviet Union)''] (20 October 1970). ==B== * Communism is [[Judaism]]. The Jewish Revolution in Russia was in 1918. ** [[Henry Hamilton Beamish]]. See ''[https://books.google.com.br/books?id=R1XkAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT261 War and Debt: The Culling of Humanity]'' by Mark Edwards, Xlibris, 2014 * My generation of Communists everywhere accepted the [[Stalinism|Stalinist]] form of leadership. We acquiesced in the crimes. That is true not only of Soviet Communists, but of Communists all over the world. We, especially the active and leading members of the Party, carry a stain on our consciences individually and collectively. The only way we can erase it is to make sure that nothing of the sort ever happens again. How was all this possible? Did we all go crazy, or have we now become traitors to Communism? The truth is that all of us, including the leaders directly under [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]], saw these crimes as the opposite of what they were. We believed that they were important contributions to the victory of [[socialism]]. We thought everything that promoted the power politics of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Communist Party in the Soviet Union]] and in the world was good for socialism. We never suspected that conflict between Communist politics and Communist ethics was possible. ** [[w:Joseph Berger-Barzilai|Joseph Berger-Barzilai]], ''Shipwreck of a Generation: The Memoirs of Joseph Berger'' (1971), p. 247 * The [[Communist party|Communist Party]] is the sworn inveterate enemy of the [[Socialism|Socialist]] and [[Democracy|Democratic]] Parties. When it associates with them, it does so as a preliminary to destroying them. There is an old [[German proverbs|German aphorism]] which says: "To cast an enemy out it is first necessary to embrace him." That is what the Communists mean when they ask for co-operation and alliance with the Socialists... The Communist does not look upon a Socialist as an ally in a common cause. He looks upon him as a dupe, as a temporary convenience, and as something to be thrust ruthlessly to one side when he has served his purpose. ** [[Aneurin Bevan]], 'Foreword' to [[Denis Healey]], ''The Curtain Falls: The Story of the Socialists in Eastern Europe'' (1951), p. 6 * The specific kind of [[anti-communism]] that took shape in these years was partly based on value judgements: the widespread belief in the [[United States]] that communism was simply a bad system, or morally repugnant even when effective. But it was also based on a number of assertions about the nature of Soviet-led international communism. There was a widespread belief that [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]] wanted to invade [[Western Europe]]. It became accepted as fact that the Soviets were pushing for [[revolution]] worldwide, and that whenever communists were present, even in small numbers, they probably had secret plans to overthrow the [[government]]. And it was considered gospel that anywhere communists were acting, they were doing so on the orders of the [[Soviet Union]], part of a monolithic global [[conspiracy]] to destroy the West. Most of this was simply untrue. Much of the rest was greatly exaggerated. ** [[w:Vincent Bevins|Vincent Bevins]], ''[[w:The Jakarta Method|The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World]]'', [[w:PublicAffairs|PublicAffairs]], 2020. pp. 15-16 * From the outset in 1917, the Communists believed in a [[Utopia|utopian]] [[ideology]], extreme, organised [[violence]], [[atheism]], a redefined place of the [[Individuality|individual]] that served to reject [[Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] precepts, and the rejection of preceding [[History of Russia|Russian history]]. During the [[Russian Civil War|Civil War]] and the 1920s, the [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox Church]] was crushed, with the slaughter of tens of thousands of [[Priest|priests]] and [[Monasticism|monks]], and the desecration and destruction of churches, monasteries and the tombs of saints. The real and spiritual landscapes of [[Russia]] and the psychological life of the people were transformed as a consequence. Communism in its own way therefore constituted a major civilisational challenge to the notion in [[Europe]] and [[North America]] of a 'Western Civilisation', whether or not articulated explicitly in this fashion. This civilisation owed much to [[Christianity]] and placed considerable weight on [[liberalism]] and [[Tolerance|toleration]]. From this perspective, Communism, drawing both on a reconceptualisation of Russian [[authoritarianism]] and on a new, [[Totalitarianism|totalitarian]] ideology and practice, posed a counter-civilisational challenge with its own precepts, aims, methods and anticipated outcomes. ** [[Jeremy Black (historian)|Jeremy Black]], ''The Cold War: A Military History'', 2015 * I'm about as much in favor of communism as [[J. Edgar Hoover]]. I despise communism and I believe in our own [[United States|American]] brand of [[democracy]]. ** [[Humphrey Bogart]], ''[http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/1948-Humphrey_Bogart_on_Hollywood_Blacklist_editorial_pdf I'm No Communist]'', [[w:Photoplay|Photoplay]], March 1948, p. 53 ==C== * In [[Brazil]], it goes like this: communists only read communist authors, [[Economic liberalism|(economic) liberals]] only read liberal authors and so on. Each one is afraid of tarnishing their little soul with sinful thoughts. In order for someone to speak with some propriety about the communist movement, they must have previously studied the following things: # The classics of [[Marxism]]: [[Karl Marx|Marx]], [[Friedrich Engels|Engels]], [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]], [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]], [[Mao Zedong]]. # The most important Marxist philosophers: [[György Lukács|Lukács]], {{w|Karl Korsch|Korsch}}, [[Antonio Gramsci|Gramsci]], [[Theodor Adorno|Adorno]], [[Max Horkheimer|Horkheimer]], [[Herbert Marcuse|Marcuse]], [[Henri Lefebvre|Lefebvre]], [[Louis Althusser|Althusser]]. # ''{{w|Main Currents of Marxism}}'', by [[Leszek Kołakowski|Leszek Kolakowski]]. # Some good history and sociology books about the revolutionary movement in general, such as ''{{w|Fire in the Minds of Men}}'', by {{w|James H. Billington}}, ''{{w|The Pursuit of the Millenium}}'', by {{w|Norman Cohn}}, ''{{w|The New Science of Politics}}'', by [[Eric Voegelin]]. # Good books on the history of communist regimes written from a non-apologetic point of view. # Books by the most famous critics of Marxism, like {{w|Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk}}, [[Ludwig von Mises]], [[Raymond Aron]], [[Roger Scruton]], [[Nikolai Berdyaev|Nicolai Berdiaev]] and so many others. # Books about the communist strategy and tactics on their rise to power, about the underground activities of the movement in the West and chiefly about the "{{w|active measures}}" ([[disinformation]], {{w|agents of influence}}), like those by {{w|Anatolyi Golitsyn}}, {{w|Christopher Andrew}}, {{w|John Earl Haynes}}, {{w|Ladislaw Bittman}}, [[Diana West]]. # The largest number possible of testimonies by former communist agents and militants who recall their experience in service of the movement or communist governments, such as [[Arthur Koestler]], {{w|Ian Valtin}}, [[Ion Mihai Pacepa]], [[Whittaker Chambers]], [[David Horowitz]]. # High-value testimonies about human condition in socialist societies, like those by {{w|Guillermo Cabrera Infante}}, {{w|Vladimir Bukovski}}, {{w|Nadiejda Mandelstam}}, [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn|Alexander Soljenítsin]], [[Richard Wurmbrand]]. :This is a reading program that can be accomplished in four or five years by a good student. I do not know, either in the [[Brazil|Brazilian]] right or left, anyone, absolutely anyone, who has accomplished it. :: [[Olavo de Carvalho]], in [https://olavodecarvalho.org/estudar-antes-de-falar/ Estudar antes de falar], ''Diário do Comércio'', 13 August 2013 * When I feed the [[Hunger|hungry]], they call me a [[Saints|saint]]. When I ask why people are hungry, they call me a Communist. ** [[w:Hélder Câmara|Dom Helder Camara]], [[Brazil]]ian archbishop, as quoted in ''Peace Behind Bars : A Peacemaking Priest's Journal from Jail'' (1995) by John Dear, p. 65; this is a translation of "''Quando dou comida aos pobres chamam-me de santo. Quando pergunto por que eles são pobres chamam-me de comunista.''" ** Variant translations: ** When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why are they poor, they call me a Communist. ** When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a Communist. * <p>[[Nikita Khrushchev|Khrushchev’s]] revelations concerning [[Stalin]] are enough to have plunged all those who have participated in communist activity, to whatever degree, into an abyss of shock, pain, and shame (or, at least, I hope so).</p><p>The dead, the tortured, the executed—no, neither posthumous rehabilitations, nor national funerals, nor official speeches can overcome them. These are not the kind of ghosts that one can ward off with a mechanical phrase.</p><p>From now on, they will show up as watermarks in the very substance of the system.</p> ** [[Aimé Césaire]], Letter to [[w:Maurice Thorez |Maurice Thorez]]resigning from the French Communist Party, October 24, 1956, as translated by Chike Jeffers * The details supplied by Khrushchev on Stalin’s methods ... lead us to believe in the existence in these countries of a veritable [[state capitalism]], exploiting the working class in a manner not very different from the way the working class is used in capitalist countries. ** [[Aimé Césaire]], Letter to [[w:Maurice Thorez |Maurice Thorez]] resigning from the French Communist Party, October 24, 1956, as translated by Chike Jeffers * Across the world academics still clung to the words and ideas of [[Karl Marx|Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels|Engels]] and even [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]]. Fools. There were even those who said that Communism had been tried in the wrong country; that Russia had been too far backward to make those wonderful ideas work. ** [[Tom Clancy|Thomas L. Clancy]], as quoted in ''[[Rainbow Six (novel)|Rainbow Six]]'' (1998), p. 515 * [M]any archives and witnesses prove conclusively that [[terror]] has always been one of the basic ingredients of modern Communism. Let us abandon once and for all the idea that the execution of hostages by firing squads, the slaughter of rebellious workers, and the forced starvation of the peasantry were only short-term "accidents" peculiar to a specific country or era. Our approach will encompass all geographic areas and focus on [[crime]] as a defining characteristic of the Communist system throughout its existence. ** [[w:Stéphane Courtois|Stéphane Courtois]], 'Introduction: The Crimes of Communism', ''[[w:The Black Book of Communism|The Black Book of Communism]]'' (1999), p. 3 * [T]he intransigent facts demonstrate that Communist regimes have victimized approximately 100 million people in contrast to the approximately 25 million victims of the [[Nazism|Nazis]]. This clear record should provide at least some basis for assessing the similarity between the Nazi regime, which since 1945 has been considered the most viciously criminal regime of this century, and the Communist system... The methods implemented by [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]] and perfected by [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]] and their henchmen bring to mind the methods used by the Nazis, but most often this is because the latter adopted the techniques developed by the former. [[Rudolf Hess]], charged with organizing the [[Concentration camp|camp]] at [[Auschwitz concentration camp|Auschwitz]] and later appointed its commandant, is a perfect example: "The [[w:Reich Security Main Office|Reich Security Head Office]] issued to the commandants a full collection of reports in great detail the conditions in, and organization of, the Russian camps, as supplied by former prisoners who had managed to escape. Great emphasis was placed on the fact that the Russians, by their massive employment of forced labor, had destroyed whole peoples." ** [[w:Stéphane Courtois|Stéphane Courtois]], 'Introduction: The Crimes of Communism', ''[[w:The Black Book of Communism|The Black Book of Communism]]'' (1999), p. 15 * Time and again the focus of the terror was less on targeted individuals than on groups of people. The purpose of terror was to exterminate a group that had been designated as the enemy. Even though it might be only a small fraction of society, it had to be stamped out to satisfy this [[Genocide|genocidal]] impulse. Thus, the techniques of segregation and exclusion employed in a "class-based [[totalitarianism]]" closely resemble the techniques of "race-based totalitarianism." The future Nazi society was to be built upon a "pure [[race]]," and the future Communist society was to be built upon a proletarian people purified of the dregs of the bourgeoisie. The restructuring of these two societies was envisioned in the same way, even if the crackdowns were different. ** [[w:Stéphane Courtois|Stéphane Courtois]], 'Introduction: The Crimes of Communism', ''[[w:The Black Book of Communism|The Black Book of Communism]]'' (1999), p. 16 ==D== * I am a communist because I am convinced that the reason we have been forcefully compelled to eke out an existence at the very lowest level of American society has to do with the nature of capitalism. If we are going to rise out of our oppression, our [[poverty]], if we are going to cease being the targets of the [[Racism in the United States|racist-minded mentality]] of [[Racism|racist]] [[Law enforcement in the United States|policemen]], we will have to destroy the [[Economy of the United States|American capitalist system]]. We will have to obliterate a system in which a few wealthy capitalists are guaranteed the privilege of becoming richer and richer, whereas the people who are forced to work for the rich, and especially Black people, never take any significant step forward. ** [[Angela Y. Davis]], "I am a Revolutionary Black Woman" (1970) in ''Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices of Resistance, Reform, and Renewal'' (2000), p. 483 * The Right positions communism as a threat because communism names the defeat of and alternative to capitalism. It recognizes the crisis in capitalism: over-accumulation leaves the rich sitting on piles of [[Money|cash]] they can't [[Investment|invest]]; industrial capacity remains unused and workers [[Unemployment|unemployed]]; global interconnections make unneeded [[Skyscraper|skyscrapers]], fiber-optic cables, malls, and housing developments as much a part of [[China]] as the US. At the same time, scores of significant problems – whether food shortages linked to [[climate change]], energy shortages resulting from oil dependency, or drug shortages resulting from the failure of private [[Pharmaceutical industry|pharmaceutical companies]] to risk their own capital – remain unmet because they require the kinds of large-scale planning and cooperation that capitalism, particularly in its contemporary finance and communications-driven incarnation, subverts. ** [[Jodi Dean]], ''The Communist Horizon'' (2012), pp. 51-52 * The US right calls everything it doesn’t like 'communist'. They call [[Bill Clinton|Clinton]] and [[Barack Obama|Obama]] 'communists'. With 'communist' as the go-to name for anything that isn't [[Conservatism|right wing]], its acceptability increases. If you don't like the right, you're a communist. ** [[Jodi Dean]], quoted in "[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/communism-millennials-capitalism-socialism-bernie-sanders-cold-war-yougov-a9188116.html More than a third of millennials approve of communism, YouGov poll indicates]", ''{{w|The Independent}}'' (7 November 2019) * Let me examine the alleged "distinction from capitalism" characteristic of the [[Soviet Union]] and see whether it isn't a distinction from a certain stage of capitalism rather than from capitalism as a whole. The determining factor in analyzing the class nature of a society is not whether the means of production are the private property of the capitalist class or are state-owned, but whether the means of production ... are monopolized and alienated from the direct producers. The Soviet Government occupies in relation to the whole [[economic system]] the position which a capitalist occupies in relation to a single enterprise. ... "Bureaucratic state socialism" is an irrational expression behind which there exists the real economic relation of [[State capitalism|state-capitalist]]-[[Exploitation|exploiter]] to the propertyless exploited. ** [[Raya Dunayevskaya]], "The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is a Capitalist Society" (1941), in ''Russia: From Proletarian Revolution to State-Capitalist Counter-Revolution'', p. 210 * The reason I am a communist is because I believe in a total [[revolution]] which is going to overthrow the capitalist control of the economy, which will seize the wealth from all of the giant corporations that exploit and control the lives of all working people. ** [[Angela Y. Davis]], from an [https://www.facebook.com/Redfishstream/videos/184844339473961/ interview]. ==E== [[File:Red flag waving.svg|thumb|Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat.''' — [[Friedrich Engels]]]] * We must face the fact that, while we are trying to help build a world of [[freedom]] and [[justice]] among [[Sovereignty|sovereign]] people, the masters of international Communism are working constantly to tear down this kind of world. Communism, according to all its own leaders, must be a system of international control and [[conformity]]. Thus, at its very heart, it is the complete opposite and enemy of any kind of [[nationalism]]. Its avowed program is to destroy totally the [[religion]], [[Government|governments]], institutions and traditions of the [[Christendom|Christian world]], the [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] world, the [[Muslim world|Islamic world]], the Judaic world, and the world of every religion and culture. ** [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]; [https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/234107 World Broadcast in Observance of Fifteenth Anniversary of Voice of America Online], The American Presidency Project; 25 February 1957 * The Communist rulers then propose to substitute a whole new system of thought and control dictated from [[Communist party|Communist Party]] headquarters. They think that a few theorists and rulers know what is best for everyone, and they are determined to drive everyone toward that kind of world. One small country after another has been swallowed up by international Communism. Their [[freedom]] is lost. Their national pride is crushed. Their religion is trampled on. Their economies are mere feeders for [[Economy of Russia|that of Russia]]. And if they attempt to assert their tradition of freedom, their people are shot down by the thousands. Witness: [[Hungary]]. ** [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]; [https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/234107 World Broadcast in Observance of Fifteenth Anniversary of Voice of America Online], The American Presidency Project; 25 February 1957 * I should like to direct a special word to those people now living under the tyranny of international Communism: We want your friendship. We cherish the ties that have linked us in the past. And we wish you well in your aspirations toward [[freedom]]. For we know that, whatever the designs of [[power]]-hungry rulers may be, there dwells deep in the heart of every person this same God-given desire to realize freely his own destiny. And to all people, everywhere--this final pledge: With you we look forward to and shall never cease to work for a world of peace, based on justice. May the God of us all keep you--and hasten that glorious day. ** [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]; [https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/234107 World Broadcast in Observance of Fifteenth Anniversary of Voice of America Online], The American Presidency Project; 25 February 1957 * What is a communist? </br>One who hath yearnings </br>For equal division of unequal earnings: </br>Idler, or bungler, or both, he is willing </br>To fork out his penny, and pocket your shilling. ** [[Ebenezer Elliott]], "Epigram" (1850) * '''Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the [[proletariat]].''' ** [[Friedrich Engels]], ''The Principles of Communism'' (1847) * The abolition of [[private property]] is, doubtless, the shortest and most significant way to characterize the [[Proletarian revolution|revolution]] in the whole [[social order]] which has been made necessary by the development of industry – and for this reason it is rightly advanced by communists as their main demand. ** [[Friedrich Engels]], ''{{w|Principles of Communism}}'' (1847) [https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm]] * What will be the attitude of communism to existing nationalities? The nationalities of the peoples associating themselves in accordance with the principle of community will be compelled to mingle with each other as a result of this association and thereby to dissolve themselves, just as the various estate and class distinctions must disappear through the abolition of their basis, private property. ** [[Friedrich Engels]], ''{{w|Principles of Communism}}'' (1847) [https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm]] * All [[religions]] so far have been the expression of [[W:Marx's theory of history|historical stages of development]] of individual peoples or groups of peoples. But communism is the stage of historical development which makes all existing religions superfluous and brings about their disappearance. ** [[Friedrich Engels]], ''{{w|Principles of Communism}}'' (1847) [https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm]] * Some propose mere [[welfare]] measures – while others come forward with grandiose systems of reform which, under the pretense of re-organizing society, are in fact intended to [[preserve]] the foundations, and hence the life, of existing society. Communists must unremittingly struggle against these [[Bourgeoisie|bourgeois]] socialists because they work for the [[enemies]] of communists and protect the society which communists aim to overthrow. ** [[Friedrich Engels]], ''{{w|Principles of Communism}}'' (1847) [https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm]] * Since the communists cannot enter upon the decisive [[Class conflict|struggle between themselves and the bourgeoisie]] until the bourgeoisie is in power, it follows that it is in the interest of the communists to help the bourgeoisie to power as soon as possible in order the sooner to be able to overthrow it. ** [[Friedrich Engels]], ''{{w|Principles of Communism}}'' (1847) [https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm]] ==F== * ''The economic independence and self-determination of all.'' Under a [[cybernetic]] communism, even during the [[w:Socialist mode of production|socialist transition]], work would be divorced from wages, the ownership of the means of production in the hands of all the people, and [[w:Distribution of wealth|wealth distributed]] on the basis of need, independent of the social value of the individual’s contribution to society. We would aim to eliminate the dependence of women and children on the labour of men, as well as all other types of [[w:Exploitation of labour|labour exploitation]]. Each person could choose his life style freely, changing it to suit his tastes without seriously inconveniencing anyone else; no one would be bound into any social structure against his will, for each person would be totally self-governing as soon as she was physically able. ** [[Shulamith Firestone]], {{cite book |title={{w|The Dialectic of Sex}}: The Case for Feminist Revolution |date=1970 |page=239}} ==G== * Meanwhile, communism had promised a better life but failed to deliver. [[Karl Marx|Marx]] insisted that the shifts in the means of production would increase [[Economic inequality|inequality]], provoke [[anger]], and thereby fuel [[Class consciousness|revolutionary consciousness]] within the "working class." He failed, though, to anticipate the kinds of shifts that would take place, for as [[Developed country|post-industrial economies]] evolved they began to reward lateral over hierarchical forms of organization. [[Complexity]] made [[Planned economy|planning]] less feasible than under the earlier, simpler stages of [[industrialization]]: only [[Decentralization|decentralized]], largely spontaneous [[Market|markets]] could make the millions of [[decisions]] that had to be made each day in a modern economy if [[w:economic_supply|supplies]] of goods and services were to match [[Demand|demands]] for them. As a result, dissatisfaction with capitalism never reached the point at which "proletarians of all countries" felt it necessary to unite to throw off their "chains." That became clear during the [[Cold War]], and it did so largely because western leaders disproved Marx's indictment of capitalism as elevating greed above all else. When set against the perversions of Marxism inflicted by Lenin and Stalin on the Soviet Union and by [[Mao Zedong|Mao]] on [[China]]—placing [[One-party state|a ruling party]] and an authoritarian state in control of what was supposed to have been an automatic process of historical [[evolution]]—the effect was to discredit communism not just on economic grounds, but also because of its failure to bring about political and [[social justice]]. Just as [[World War III|a new world war]] did not come, so the anticipated world revolution did not arrive. The Cold War had produced yet another historical anachronism. ** [[John Lewis Gaddis]], ''The Cold War: A New History'', p. 264 * It must be admitted that ''politically'' communism is the same [as [[fascism]]<nowiki>]</nowiki>. ** [[Hugh Gaitskell]], Notes for a speech on Fascism at Chatham on May Day 1935, quoted in Philip Williams, ''Hugh Gaitskell: A Political Biography'' (1979), p. 44 * There is not so much difference between the ideologies of capitalism and communism, you know. The difference is simple. Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man, and communism is the reverse. ** [[John Gardner (British writer)|John Gardner]], ''The Man from Barbarossa'' * When both sides engaged in terror, the "[[w:Red Terror (disambiguation)|red]]" terror usually paled in comparison to the "[[w:White Terror|white]]" (as was the case in the [[w:Paris Commune|Paris Commune in 1871]]; the civil wars in [[Russian Civil War|Russia]], [[w:German Revolution of 1918–1919|Germany]] and [[w:Hungarian Soviet Republic|Hungary]] from 1918 to 1921; the [[Spanish Civil War|Spanish Civil War of 1936–39]]; and [[w:Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66|Indonesia in 1965–1966]]). ** [[w:Christian Gerlach|Christian Gerlach]], ''The Palgrave Handbook of Anti-Communist Persecutions'', {{w|Palgrave Macmillan}} (2020) * Communism had a potent message: deliver the poor of the world from their oppression; turn the vast productive system developed under [[capitalism]] to public purpose; substitute intelligent planning for [[Market failure|market chaos]]; eliminate all manifestations of inequality. Its striving to create a society in which everyone could be freed from [[want]] and [[domination]] shared a good deal with its ostensible opponent, [[classical liberalism]]. Both communism and liberalism traced their origins back to a common moment of eighteenth-century revolution, with the former tying itself to the [[French Revolution]] and the latter to the [[American Revolution|American]]. Both camps saw in themselves as freeing humanity from old, encrusted [[Social order|social orders]] marked by [[privilege]], [[Social inequality|inequality]], and widespread [[misery]]. Both camps believed in the [[universalism]] of their message and sought to carry it to every portion of the globe. ** [[w:Gary Gerstle|Gary Gerstle]], ''The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era'', {{w|Oxford University Press}} (2022) p. 30 *The collapse of communism, then, opened the entire world to capitalist penetration, shrank the imaginative and ideological space in which opposition to capitalist thought and practices might incubate, and impelled those who remained leftists to redefine their radicalism in alternative terms, which turned out to be those that capitalist systems could more, rather than less, easily manage. This was the moment when [[neoliberalism]] in the United States went from being a political movement to a political order. ** Gary Gerstle, ''The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era'', {{w|Oxford University Press}} (2022) p. 149 * What better time to resurrect the spectre of communism? As youth across the world become increasingly disenchanted with the savage inequalities of capitalism, defenders of the status quo will stop at nothing to convince younger voters about the evils of [[Collectivism|collectivist]] ideas. They will rewrite history textbooks, build memorials, and declare days of commemoration for the victims of communism – all to ensure that calls for social justice or redistribution are forever equated with forced labour camps and famine. ** [[Kristen Ghodsee]] and {{w|Scott Sehon}}, "[https://aeon.co/essays/the-merits-of-taking-an-anti-anti-communism-stance Anti-anti-communism]", ''{{w|Aeon (digital magazine)|Aeon}}'' (March 22, 2018). * Older citizens of [[East/Central Europe|Eastern Europe]] fondly recall the small comforts and predictability of their life before 1989: free [[education]] and [[Health care|healthcare]], no fear of unemployment and of not having money to meet basic needs. A joke, told in many East European languages, illustrates this sentiment:<br>In the middle of the night a woman screams and jumps out of bed, eyes filled with terror. Her startled husband watches her rush to the bathroom and open the medicine cabinet. She then dashes to the kitchen and inspects the inside of the refrigerator. Finally, she flings open the window and gazes out onto the street below their apartment. She takes a deep breath and returns to bed.<br>"What's wrong with you?" her husband says. "What happened?"<br>"I had a terrible nightmare," she says. "I dreamed that we had the medicine we needed, that our refrigerator was full of [[food]], and that the streets outside were safe and clean."<br>"How is that a nightmare?"<br>The woman shakes her head and shudders. "I thought the Communists were back in power." ** Kristen Ghodsee, ''{{w|Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism|Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence}}.'' Vintage (2019) pp. 12-13 * The Frankenstein of Communism is the product of the [[Jews|Jewish]] mind, and was turned loose upon the world by the son of a Rabbi, [[Karl Marx]], in the hopes of destroying Christian civilization — as well as others. The testimony given before the [[United States Senate|Senate of the United States]] which is take from the many pages of the Overman Report, reveals beyond a shadow of a doubt that Jewish bankers financed the [[Russian Revolution]]. ** [[Kenneth Goff]], ''[https://www.google.com.br/books/edition/Still_tis_Our_Ancient_Foe/GiXhHAAACAAJ Still 'tis Our Ancient Foe]'', 1962, p. 99 * In order to massacre them, it was necessary to proclaim that [[w:Kulaks|kulaks]] are not [[human beings]]. Just as the [[Germans]] proclaimed that [[Judaism|Jews]] are not human beings. Thus did [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]] and [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]]: kulaks are not human beings... That is exactly how the [[Nazism|Nazis]] put the Jewish children into the [[The Holocaust|Nazi gas chambers]]: "You are not allowed to live, you are all Jews!" ** [[Vasily Grossman]], ''Forever Flowing'' (1973), pp. 144, 155 ==H== * Anyone who has read a novel by [[Alexander Solzhenitsyn]] knows how '''Communism's egalitarian ideal produced brutal tyrannies that tried to control every aspect of life.''' ** [[Yuval Noah Harari]], Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011), Chapter 9: "The Arrow of History" * Like [[Buddhism]], Communist believed in a superhuman order of natural and immutable laws that should guide human actions. ** [[Yuval Noah Harari]], Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011), Chapter 12: "The Law of Religion" * For the communist countries in the periphery, the goal was not only to mobilize resources for industrialization, but to organize [[production]] around [[Public service|public services]] and human needs in ways that were neglected or even impossible under capitalism. Empirical studies demonstrate that they achieved better social outcomes than their capitalist counterparts at any given level of national production, including higher [[life expectancy]], better education attainment, and lower [[child mortality]]. They also delivered strong progress against extreme poverty: by the [[1980s]], the prevalence of basic-needs poverty was near zero in both China and Russia. As the [[economist]] [[Amartya Sen]] remarked in his 1981 study of [[health]] and [[literacy]] achievements around the world: "One thought that is bound to occur is that communism is good for [[Poverty reduction|poverty removal]]." ** [[Jason Hickel]] and Dylan Sullivan, "[https://monthlyreview.org/2023/07/01/capitalism-global-poverty-and-the-case-for-democratic-socialism/ Capitalism, Global Poverty, and the Case for Democratic Socialism]." ''{{w|Monthly Review}}'' (July 1, 2023) * Communism is a specter called forth when those in power feel their grip erode. ** [[Gerald Horne]], [https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/historians-challenge-false-narrative-behind-st-louis-victims-of-communism-resolution/ Historians challenge false narrative behind St. Louis ‘Victims of Communism’ resolution]. ''{{w|People's World}}'' (November 25, 2020) ==J== [[File:CLR James Cropped.png|thumb|By a remorseless logic, ... representation of the proletariat turns into its opposite, administration over the proletariat. ~ [[C. L. R. James]]]] * Today, from end to end of the world, men know that democracy is bankrupt. What is to take its place they do not know. The alternative seems to be [[planned economy]] and [[one-party state]]. This is ''the'' philosophical question. But the philosophy of planned economy and one-party state is distinguishable from that of the [[w:Marx's theory of the state#Bourgeois state|bourgeoisie]] only by its more complete [[rationalism]]. The labor bureaucracy in power or out of it sees the solution to the crisis of production in scientific progress, greater output. It consciously seeks to plan and organize the division of labor as the means to further [[Capital accumulation|accumulation of capital]]. In ideology it is ready to expropriate those representatives of [[private property]] who stand in the way of this complete [[Rationalization (sociology)|rationalization]]. But didn’t this bureaucracy develop out of the [[working class]]? It did and it could only have developed out of the working class. It is a product of the modern [[Social movement|mass movement]], created by the [[w:Capital accumulation#Concentration and centralization|centralization of capital]], and holds its position only because of this movement. At the same time it cannot conceive the necessity for abolishing the [[division of labor]] in [[Mode of production|production]], the only solution to the [[w:Crisis theory|crisis]] in production. By a remorseless logic, therefore, [[Dictatorship of the proletariat|representation of the proletariat]] turns into its opposite, [[w:Nomenklatura|administration over the proletariat]]. The end of bourgeois rationalism is this crisis of the revolution and {{w|counter-revolution}} in production. ** [[C. L. R. James]], ''[https://www.marxists.org/archive/james-clr/works/1950/08/state-capitalism.htm State Capitalism and World Revolution]'' (1950), ''{{w|Marxists Internet Archive}}.'' * Communism was a very defective answer to some very good questions. In throwing out the bad answer, we have forgotten the good questions. I want to put the good questions back on the table. ** [[Tony Judt]], quoted in Evan R. Goldstein, "The Trials of Tony Judt", ''The Chronicle of Higher Education'' (January 06, 2010) ==K== * I’m more and more convinced it’s only through communism that we can become [[human]]. ** [[Frida Kahlo]], in her letter from US, during the 1930s, from [https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2010/09/kah2-s11.html] * Communism is like an [[w:Autoimmune disorder|autoimmune disorder]]; it doesn't do the killing itself, but it weakens the system so much that the victim is left helpless and unable to fight off anything else. ** [[Garry Kasparov]], ''Winter is Coming'' (2015), p. 33 * World communism is like a malignant [[Parasitism|parasite]] which feeds only on diseased tissue. ** [[w:George Kennan|George Kennan]], "[[w:Long Telegram|Long Telegram]]" (February 1946) * The Communists are determined to destroy us, and regardless of what hand of [[friendship]] we may hold out or what arguments we may put up, the only thing that will make that decisive difference is the strength of the United States. ** [[John F. Kennedy]], Speech by Senator John F. Kennedy, Democratic Rally, George Washington High School Stadium, Alexandria, VA, August 24, 1960. - The American Presidency Project. * There are many people in the world who really don't understand, or say they don't, what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to [[Berlin]]. There are some who say that communism is the wave of the future. Let them come to Berlin. And there are some who say in [[Europe]] and elsewhere we can work with the Communists. Let them come to Berlin. And there are even a few who say that it is true that communism is an evil system, but it permits us to make economic progress. Lass' sie nach Berlin kommen. Let them come to Berlin. ** [[John F. Kennedy]], [http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/Archives/Reference+Desk/Speeches/JFK/003POF03BerlinWall06261963.htm Speech in Berlin]; see also the [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ich_bin_ein_Berliner Ich bin ein Berliner Speech] at Wikisource. * Communism has sometimes succeeded as a scavenger, but never as a leader. It has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or [[corruption]], or both. ** [[John F. Kennedy]], Speech at NATO Headquarters, Naples Italy (2 July 1963) * Communism is based on an [[Ethics|ethical]] [[relativism]] and a [[Metaphysics|metaphysical]] [[materialism]] that no [[Christianity|Christian]] can accept. ** [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]], [http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/documentsentry/doc_pauls_letter_to_american_christians/ ''Paul's Letter to American Christians''] (4 November 1956). * Communism forgets that life is individual. [[Capitalism]] forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis. It is found in a higher [[synthesis]] that combines the truths of both. ** [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]], "Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?" (1967) * Oh, communism! That was a burning issue. It was an outrageous issue. To be termed a communist would damage your whole [[family]], damage your whole [[world]] — your [[friends]] wouldn’t talk to you. I’m talking about other people — because I wouldn’t go near the stuff. Sure, I was against the reds. I became a [[w:Witch hunt|witch hunter]]. My [[enemies]] were the commies — I called them commies. In fact, [[w:Granny Goodness|Granny Goodness]] was a commie, Doubleheader was a commie. ** [[Jack Kirby]] as interviewed by Gary Groth, February 1990, posted May 23, 2011 in issue 134 of "The Comics Journal", now on TCJ Archive, [http://www.tcj.com/jack-kirby-interview/5/ page 5] * Anything radical was [[dangerous]] to me, as it was to the average [[American]]. Nobody knew where a thing like that would lead and we were always afraid of [[chaos]]. So communism became the doorway to chaos, and the doorway to chaos was the doorway to [[evil]]. Your [[family]] might be hurt. Your [[friends]] might be hurt. You didn’t want to see a thing like that. ** [[Jack Kirby]] as interviewed by Gary Groth, February 1990, posted May 23, 2011 in issue 134 of "The Comics Journal", now on TCJ Archive, [http://www.tcj.com/jack-kirby-interview/5/ page 5] * In the social equation, the value of a single life is nil; in the cosmic equation, it is infinite... Not only communism, but any political movement which implicitly relies on purely utilitarian ethics, must become a victim to the same fatal error. It is a fallacy as naïve as a mathematical teaser, and yet its consequences lead straight to Goya's Disasters, to the reign of the [[guillotine]], the torture chambers of the Inquisition, or the cellars of the [[w:Lubyanka (KGB)|Lubianka]]. ** [[Arthur Koestler]], ''{{w|The Invisible Writing}}''. * In [[Russia]], all you have to do to get a house is to be born in the [[Soviet Union]]. You are entitled to housing. In [[United States|America]], if you don't have a dollar you have a right to choose between sleeping in a house or on the pavement. Yet you say we are the slave to communism. ** [[Nikita Khrushchev]], [http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/the-kitchen-debate/ ''The Kitchen Debate''] (1959). * Communism was a gigantic façade, and the reality concealed behind it was the sheer drive for power, for total power as an end in itself. The rest was merely instrumental -- a matter of tactics and some necessary self-restrictions to achieve the desired end. But the façade was more than mere decoration: it was communism's only means of survival; its respiratory system. It was also the ineradicable residue of the tradition of the Enlightenment and nineteenth-century socialism, of which communism was indeed a deformed descendant. As with all descendants, however deformed, some inherited traits are always visible, and in communism, too, these were evident. The [[rationalism]], contempt for tradition, and hatred for the mythological layer of culture to which the [[Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] gave birth developed, under communism, into the brutal persecution of religion, but also into the principle (practiced rather than directly expressed) that human beings are expendable: that individual lives count only as instruments of the 'greater whole' or the 'higher cause,' i.e. the state, for no rational grounds exist for attributing to them any special, non-instrumental status. Thus [[rationalism]] was transformed under communism into the idea of slavery. And romantic and early socialist strains -- the search for lost community and human solidarity, the protest against social disintegration caused by the industrial revolution and urbanization -- developed, under communism, into caricature: solidarity imposed by force, in an attempt to create a fake, merely ostensible unity -- the unity of despotism. ** [[w:Leszek Kołakowski|Leszek Kołakowski]], "Communism as a Cultural Force", as quoted in ''Is God Happy? Selected Essays'' (2013), Basic Books, pp. 36-37 * [[Anarchy]] leads to Communism, and Communism to Anarchy, both alike being expressions of the predominant tendency in modern societies, the pursuit of [[equality]]. ** [[Peter Kropotkin]], [https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-the-conquest-of-bread| The Conquest of Bread] * Communism in the United States and England is indeed essentially and substantially a movement of the semi-intellectual middle class with a good sprinkling of the quarter intellectual upper class. Communism in the United States would hardly be identified with the slums of lower Manhattan, the dust bowlers of Kansas, or the miners of Pennsylvania. . . . The word ''communism'' rather evokes associations like professors of state colleges with thick lenses in their spectacles, parlor pinks with Harvard accents, bored Park Avenue hostesses, anemic little East Europeans in public libraries, "progressive" and "advanced" psychologists specialized in sexual disorders, and unbearably conceited "foreign" correspondents. ** [[Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn]], ''The Menace of the Herd'' (1943), p. 279 == L == * As a result of this failure of communist ideology to comprehend the [[Human nature|nature of man]], Stalin decided to alter the Russian constitution. No longer would economic rewards be distributed on the basis of ‘[[need]]’; rather, the new concept was to be ‘to each according to his ''work''.’ ** Quote from ''The Fundamentals of Liberty'' by [[Robert LeFevre]], Santa Ana: CA, Rampart Institute, 1988, p. 402 * For the state to wither away completely, complete communism is necessary. ** [[Vladimir Lenin]], ''State and Revolution'' * '''We Communists are all dead men on leave.''' Of this I am fully aware. I do not know if you will extend my leave or whether I will have to join [[Karl Liebknecht|Karl Liebkneccht]] and [[Rosa Luxemburg]]. In any case I wait your verdict with composure and serenity. ** [[Eugen Leviné|Eugen Lévin]], ''Verso Book of Dissent'' * So in the new exuberant aggressiveness of world [[capitalism]] we see what communists and their allies had held at bay. ** {{w|Richard Levins}}, quoted in [[Michael Parenti]], ''Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism'' (1997), p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=WSsGEsBUsVcC&pg=PA58#v=onepage&q&f=false 58] * There are certain types of people who are political out of a kind of religious reason [...] I think it's fairly common among socialists: They are, in fact, God-seekers, looking for the [[kingdom of God]] on earth. A lot of religious reformers have been like that, too. It's the same psychological set, trying to abolish the present in favor of some better future — always taking it for granted that there is a better future. If you don't believe in heaven, then you believe in socialism. When I was in my real Communist phase, I and the people around me really believed — but, of course, this makes us certifiable — that something like 10 years after [[World War II]], the world would be Communist and perfect. ** [[Doris Lessing]], as quoted in [http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/01/10/specials/lessing-space.html "Doris Lessing on Feminism, Communism and Space Fiction"] (25 July 1982), Lesley Hazelton, New York Times Book Review ==M == * A specter is haunting Europe, the specter of Communism. ** [[Karl Marx]], The Communist Manifesto (1848) * The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involved the most radical rupture with traditional ideas. ** [[Karl Marx]], ''The Communist Manifesto: Chapter II. Proletarians and Communists'' (1848) [[File:"Communism Capital" 1883 art - A destructive worm - F. Graetz. LCCN2012645461 (cropped).jpg|thumb|The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with [[Christianity]] is the Christians. They really do not believe in it and hence are hypocrites. All of them pant for money and hope to collar it by changing the rules. This fundamental false pretense colors their whole propaganda. They have no more sense of honor than so many congressmen and engage constantly in wholesale lying. —[[H. L. Mencken]]]] * The [[Korean War|tragedy of Korea]] is further heightened by the fact that its military action is confined to its territorial limits. It condemns that nation, which it is our purpose to save, to suffer the devastating impact of full naval and air [[bombardment]] while the enemy's sanctuaries are fully protected from such attack and devastation. Of the nations of the world, [[Korea]] alone, up to now, is the sole one which has risked its all against communism. The magnificence of the courage and fortitude of the [[Koreans|Korean people]] defies description. They have chosen to risk [[death]] rather than [[slavery]]. Their last words to me were: 'Don't scuttle the Pacific!' ** [[Douglas MacArthur]], as quoted in [http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/douglasmacarthurfarewelladdress.htm farewell address to a Joint Session of Congress] (19 April 1951). * '''The cause of Communism is the greatest cause in the history of mankind''' becasuse it seeks to remove from society all forms of [[oppression]] and [[exploitation]], to liberate [[Humanity|mankind]] and to ensure [[peace]] and [[prosperity]] to all. ** [[Nelson Mandela]], "How to be a good Communist", ''[https://books.google.it/books?id=sSg8AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA3-PA37&lpg=RA3-PA37&dq=%22The+cause+of+Communism+is+the+greatest+cause+in+the+history+of+mankind%22&source=bl&ots=0bsJuDrtfQ&sig=ACfU3U1CGMZisxwpPoD8hsPtgoKRe0SlNg&hl=it&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiPkcSehoTsAhUJDuwKHWNuAR4Q6AEwCXoECAEQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22The%20cause%20of%20Communism%20is%20the%20greatest%20cause%20in%20the%20history%20of%20mankind%22 United States Congressional Serial Set, Edition 13677],'' (1986), p. 37 * We [[Chinese Communist Party|communists]] are like seeds and the people are the soil. Wherever we go, we must unite with the people, take root and blossom among them. ** [[Mao Zedong]], ''Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong (The Little Red Book)'' (1964). * '''Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.''' ** [[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]], ''{{w|The German Ideology}}'' (1845/46) Vol. I, Part 1. [http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/index.htm] * '''Communism differs from all previous movements in that it overturns the basis of all earlier relations of production and intercourse, and for the first time consciously treats all natural premises as the creatures of hitherto existing men, strips them of their natural character and subjugates them to the power of the united individuals.''' Its organisation is, therefore, essentially economic, the material production of the conditions of this unity; it turns existing conditions into conditions of unity. '''The reality, which communism is creating, is precisely the true basis for rendering it impossible that anything should exist independently of individuals, insofar as reality is only a product of the preceding intercourse of individuals themselves.''' ** [[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]], ''{{w|The German Ideology}}'' (1845/46) Vol. I, Part 4. [http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/index.htm] * '''A spectre is haunting [[Europe]]; the spectre of Communism.''' ** [[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]] ''{{w|The Communist Manifesto}}'' (1848), Preamble, paragraph 1, line 1. [http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch01.htm#060] * '''The theory of Communism may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.''' ** [[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]] ''{{w|The Communist Manifesto}}'' (1848), Section 2, paragraph 13. [http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch01.htm#060] * Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society; all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labour of others by means of such appropriation. ** [[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]] ''{{w|The Communist Manifesto}}'' (1848), Section 2, paragraph 30. [http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch01.htm#060] * The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a [[Communistic revolution]]. '''The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.<br> [[w:Workers of the world, unite!|WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!]]''' ** [[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]] ''{{w|The Communist Manifesto}}'' (1848), Section 4, paragraph 11 (last paragraph) [http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch01.htm#060] ** Variant translation: '''Workers of the world, unite!''' * It destroys the conditions for the existence of [[Class conflict|class antagonism]], destroys [[Social class|classes]] in general, and thereby also its domination as a class. ** [[Karl Marx]], as Quoted in Simply Philosophy [https://simplyphilosophy.org/study/communism-definition/] * The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with [[Christianity]] is the Christians. They really do not believe in it and hence are hypocrites. All of them pant for money and hope to collar it by changing the rules. This fundamental false pretense colors their whole [[propaganda]]. They have no more sense of [[honor]] than so many [[United States Congress|congressmen]] and engage constantly in wholesale lying. ** [[H. L. Mencken]], ''Mr. Mencken Sounds Off,'' in ''[[w:Life (magazine)|Life]],'' August 5, 1946, p. 51 * The chief weakness of Communism is that it is, itself, only another breed of the same [[materialism]] which is the source and root of all the [[Evil|evils]] which it so clearly sees, and it is evidently nothing but another product of the breakdown of the capitalist system. Indeed, it seems to be pieced together out of the ruins of the same [[ideology]] that once went into the vast, amorphous, intellectual structure underlying capitalism in the [[19th century|nineteenth century]]. ** [[Thomas Merton]], ''[[w:The Seven Storey Mountain|The Seven Storey Mountain]]'' (1948), pp. 149-150 * But to make the comparison applicable, we must compare Communism at its best, with the regime of individual property, not as it is, but as it might be made... The laws of property have never yet conformed to the principles on which the justification of [[private property]] rests. ** [[John Stuart Mill|J. S. Mill]], ''Principles of Political Economy'' p. 14 * Communism’s overarching project is to ensure the communal good. ** [[Cindy Milstein]], {{cite book |title=Anarchism and Its Aspirations |date=1 May 2010 |publisher=AK Press |isbn=978-1-84935-029-7 |page=13 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Anarchism_and_Its_Aspirations/FQLRDgAAQBAJ?hl=en-419&gbpv=1&pg=PA13}} * <p>If the roused and insurgent consumers secure the means of production of the salt industry, in all probability they will confiscate this industry for their own profit, and their first thought will be, not to relegate it to free competition, but rather to exploit it, ''in common'', for their own account.&nbsp; They will then name a director or a directive committee to operate the saltworks, to whom they will allocate the funds necessary to defray the costs of salt production.&nbsp; Then, since the experience of the past will have made them suspicious and distrustful, since they will be afraid that the director named by them will seize production for his own benefit, and simply reconstitute by open or hidden means the old monopoly for his own profit, they will elect delegates, representatives entrusted with appropriating the funds <!--Page 32--> necessary for production, with watching over their use, and with making sure that the salt produced is equally distributed to those entitled to it.&nbsp; The production of salt will be organized in this manner.</p><p>'''This form of the organization of production has been named communism.'''</p><p>When this organization is applied to a single commodity, the communism is said to be partial.</p><p>When it is applied to all commodities, the communism is said to be complete.</p><p>'''But whether communism is partial or complete, [[political economy]] is no more tolerant of it than it is of [[monopoly]], of which it is merely an extension.'''</p> ** [[Gustave de Molinari]], tr. J.&nbsp;Huston McCulloch, [[s:The Production of Security/5|§V]] of ''[[The Production of Security]]'' (Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2009; orig. 1849), [[s:Page:The Production of Security.pdf/32|pp. 31]]–[[s:Page:The Production of Security.pdf/33|32]]. * When ecclesiastic love waned, when waves of capitalistic greed surged across Christian Europe, when starving masses cried out bitterly in the slums, the promise of their salvation came not from heaven but from the earth. Its name was communism. Christianity, though it professed the love of God, had degenerated into a dead body of [[clergy]] trailing empty slogans. It was then only natural that a banner of rebellion would be raised, arguing that a merciless [[God]] who would allow such [[suffering]] could not exist. Hence, modern materialism was born. Western society became a hotbed of materialism; it was the fertile soil in which communism flourished. ** [[Sun Myung Moon]], [http://web.archive.org/20090829185555/www.geocities.com/unificationism/DivinePrinciple-intro.html ''Divine Principle'', Introduction] * Nonetheless, one final and inescapable conflict remains before us, the war between democracy and communism. Although each side has equipped itself with fearsome weapons and is pitted against the other in readiness for battle, the core of their conflict is internal and ideological. Which side will triumph in this final ideological conflict? Anyone who believes in the reality of God will surely answer that democracy will win. ** [[Sun Myung Moon]], [http://web.archive.org/20090829185555/www.geocities.com/unificationism/DivinePrinciple-intro.html ''Divine Principle'', Introduction] * After 7,000 biblical years — 6,000 years of restoration history plus the millennium, the time of completion — communism will fall in its 70th year. Here is the meaning of the year 1978. Communism, begun in [[Russian Revolution|1917]], could maintain itself approximately 60 years and reach its peak. So 1978 is the border line and afterward communism will decline; in the 70th year it will be altogether ruined. This is true. Therefore, now is the time for people who are studying communism to abandon it. ** [[Sun Myung Moon]], [http://www.tparents.org/Moon-Books/sm-gww/GWW-07.htm ''The Way of Restoration''], (April, 1972) * [[Government|Governments]] and [[Political parties|Parties]] which have relied on the normal instruments of government ... have fallen easy and ignoble victims to the forces of [[anarchy]]. If, therefore, such a situation arises in [[United Kingdom|Britain]], we shall prepare to meet the anarchy of Communism with the organised force of [[Fascism]]. ** [[Oswald Mosley]], ''The Greater Britain'', 1932. Quoted in John Stevenson and Chris Cook, ''The Slump : Britain in the Great Depression'' New York : Pearson Longman, 2010. * What is Communism? It is that when you have eaten enough food for your [[hunger]] and still food is left — it belongs to another man. ** {{w|AR Murugadoss}}, in ''{{w|Kaththi}}'' (2014) ==N== * America continues to aid [[South Vietnam|us]]; then we continue to fight the communists. ** [[Nguyễn Văn Thiệu]], as quoted in ''Vietnam, the Ten Thousand Day War'' (1984), by Michael MacLear. **Original Vietnamese quote: ''Mỹ còn viện trợ, thì chúng tôi còn chống cộng!'' * Don't listen to what communists say, instead look closely at what the communists do! ** [[Nguyễn Văn Thiệu]], as quoted in [http://vietbao.com/D_1-2_2-67_4-211493_5-15_6-1_17-8128_14-2_15-2/ "ĐÚNG! Đừng Nghe Những Gì CS Nói, Mà Hãy Nhìn Những Gì CS Làm!"] (26 July 2013), by Tuổi Trẻ Yêu Nước, ''Viet Bao'' (2013). Also quoted in [http://www.vietcatholic.net/News/Html/111904.htm "Cứu trợ nạn nhân là nghĩa vụ pháp lý và đạo đức"], by Hà Minh Thảo, ''TTX Công Giáo Việt Nam''. **Original Vietnamese quote: ''Đừng nghe những gì Cộng sản nói, mà hãy nhìn kỷ những gì Cộng sản làm!'' ==O== * Philosophically, Communism and [[Anarchism]] are poles apart. Practically - i.e. in the form of society aimed at - the difference is mainly one of emphasis, but it is quite irreconcilable. The Communist's emphasis is always on centralism and efficiency, the Anarchists's on liberty and equality. ** [[George Orwell]], ''Homage to Catalonia'' * If anything the war made the world safe for communism, which was as embattled as [[democracy]] in the 1930s and close to eclipse by 1942. One of the most significant consequences of the war was the spread of communism in [[Europe]] and [[Asia]] and its consolidation in the Soviet Union. The outcome reflected the significant role played by Soviet forces in defeating [[Germany]]. There is now widespread recognition that the decisive theatre of operations lay on the [[w:Eastern Front (World War II)|eastern front]]. Without Soviet resistance it is difficult to see how the democratic world could have defeated the [[Nazi Germany|new German empire]], except by sitting tight and waiting until [[Nuclear weapons|atomic weapons]] had been developed. The great paradox of the [[World War II|Second World War]] is that democracy was saved by the exertions of communism. ** [[Richard Overy]], ''Why the Allies Won'' (1995), p. 3 ==P== * The system of production developed in Russia is [[w:State socialism|State socialism]]. It is organized production, with the State as universal [[Employment|employer]], master of the entire production apparatus. The workers are master of the means of production no more than under Western capitalism. They receive their wages and are exploited by the State as the only mammoth capitalist. So the name [[State capitalism]] can be applied with precisely the same meaning. The entirety of the ruling and leading bureaucracy of officials is the actual owner of the factories, the possessing class. ** [[Antonie Pannekoek]], ''Workers Councils'' (1947), Section 2.5 * The overthrow of communism gave a green light to the unbridled exploitative impulses of Western [[Corporations|corporate interests]]. No longer needing to convince workers that they live better than their counterparts in Russia, and no longer constrained by a competing system, the corporate class is rolling back the many gains that working people in the West have won over the years. Now that the free market, in its meanest form, is emerging triumphant in the East, so will it prevail in the West. ** [[Michael Parenti]], ''Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism. '' (1997), p. 58 * Having never understood the role that existing communist powers played in tempering the worst impulses of Western capitalism and [[imperialism]], and having perceived communism as nothing but an unmitigated evil, the left anticommunists did not anticipate the losses that were to come. Some of them still don't get it. ** [[Michael Parenti]], ''Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism. '' (1997), p. 58 * Perhaps communism may even have been a viable solution to the problems of the unequal [[Redistribution of income and wealth|distribution of wealth]] that characterized the [[Industrial Revolution|industrial age]], if all of the hypothetically oppressed were [[good]] people and all of the [[evil]] was to be found, as hypothesized, in their ''[[bourgeoisie]]'' overlords. Unfortunately for the communists, a substantial proportion of the oppressed were incapable, unconscientious, unintelligent, licentious, power mad, violent, resentful, and jealous, while a substantial proportion of the oppressors were educated, able, creative, intelligent, honest, and caring. ** [[Jordan Peterson]], ''[[Beyond Order]]'' (2021), p. 167 * I think that communism was a major force for violence for more than 100 years, because it was built into its ideology—that [[progress]] comes through class struggle, often violent. It led to the widespread belief that the only way to achieve justice was to hurry this [[Dialectic|dialectical]] process along, and allow the oppressed working classes to carry out their struggle against their bourgeois oppressors. ** [[Steven Pinker]], [http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2011/11/qa-steven-pinker-0 "The violent dangers of ideology"], ''The Economist'' (2011) ==R== * Long live the Communist Party, and partisans! Fight, people, for your freedom! Do not surrender to the evildoers! I will be killed, but there are those who will avenge me! ** [[Lepa Radić]], her last words, as quoted in [https://books.google.com/books?id=z4MNAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Lepa+Radic,+whom+they+condemned+to+death+by+hanging%22&dq=%22Lepa+Radic,+whom+they+condemned+to+death+by+hanging Women of Yugoslavia in the National Liberation War] * Such terms as communism, socialism, [[w:Fabian Society|Fabianism]], the [[welfare state]], [[Nazism]], [[fascism]], state interventionism, [[egalitarianism]], the [[planned economy]], the [[New Deal]], the [[w:Fair Deal|Fair Deal]], the [[w:New Republicanism|New Republicanism]], the [[w:New Frontier|New Frontier]] are simply different labels for much the same thing. ** [[Leonard E. Read]], [https://cdn.mises.org/Elements%20of%20Libertarian%20Leadership_2.pdf Elements of Libertarian Leadership] (1962), pp 62-63 * I have one question for those rulers: If communism is the wave of the future, why do you still need walls to keep people in and armies of secret police to keep them quiet? ** [[Ronald Reagan]] speech (1983) * [<nowiki/>[[Cold War|Cold war]] demonology] is a color word, and I probably should not have used it. It means just sort of interpreting everything in terms of a great communist conspiracy and in terms of communists being supermen who somehow can overcome the great problems of differences between national units, and so on. They are not supermen at all. They are men with feet of clay which extend almost all the way up to their [[Brain|brains]]. ** {{w|Edwin O. Reischauer}}, former U.S. ambassador to Japan, testimony at hearing, January 31, 1967. Asia, the Pacific, and the United States, hearing before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, 90th Congress, 1st session, p. 19 (1967). * Seventy years ago people used to die for this idea [communism] [...], in Turin the members of the [[w:Italian Communist Party|Communist Party]], during the [[w:Italian Resistance|Resistance]], had to endure 8 hours of torture. [Fascists] would pull your eyes out with teaspoons, they'd rip your nails out with tweezers. And you had to stay silent for eight hours, and only after that you were allowed to confess and give the names of your comrades, and that was a Party guideline, to ensure the comrades' flight in those eight hours. Those men and women died for this idea. And what's politics today? They must be rolling in their own grave, can't you see that? ** [[Marco Rizzo]], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWwf3FEePSM&feature=youtu.be&t=1686 Video], 16 February 2013 * Communism is like [[w:Prohibition_in_the_United_States|prohibition]], it's a good idea but it won't work. ** [[Will Rogers]], ''The Autobiography of Will Rogers'' (1949) * The hopes which inspire communism are, in the main, as admirable as those instilled by the [[Sermon on the Mount]], but they are held as fanatically and are as likely to do as much harm. ** [[Bertrand Russell]], ''The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism'' (1920), Part I, The Present Condition of Russia, Ch. 1: What Is Hoped From Bolshevism. * The way to combat Communism is not war. What is needed in addition to such armaments as will deter Communists from attacking the West, is a diminution of the grounds for discontent in the less prosperous parts of the non-communist world. ...'''Communism is a doctrine bred of poverty, hatred and strife.''' Its spread can only be arrested by diminishing the area of poverty and hatred. ** [[Bertrand Russell]], ''Portraits From Memory And Other Essays'' (1956), p. 232 * I think all the great religions of the world - [[Buddhism]], [[Hinduism]], [[Christianity]], [[Islam]] and [[Communism]] – both untrue and harmful. ** [[Bertrand Russell]], ''My Religious Reminiscences'' (1957) reprinted in ''The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell'' * I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation. ** [[Bertrand Russell]], ''Unarmed Victory'' (1963), p. 14 * {{w|Better red than dead}}. **[[Bertrand Russel]], attributes this phrase to 'West German friends of peace' but adopted this slogan for the [[Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament]] he helped found, quoted in {{cite book | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=c4UoX6-Sv1AC&pg=PA49 | title=Safire's Political Dictionary | publisher=[[w:Oxford University Press|Oxford University Press]] | author=[[William Safire]] | year=2008 | pages=49–50}}. ==S== * Durable communist regimes had much in common. They eliminated or emasculated rival [[political parties]]. They attacked [[religion]], [[culture]], and [[civil society]]. They trampled on every version of [[nationhood]] except the one approved by communist rulership. They abolished the autonomy of the [[courts]] and the [[Freedom of the press|press]]. They [[Centralisation|centralised]] [[power]]. They turned over dissenters to forced-labour camps. They set up networks of [[w:Security police|security police]] and informers. They claimed infallibility in doctrine and paraded themselves as faultless scientists of human affairs. They insulated societies against alien influences in [[politics]] and [[culture]]. They fiercely barricaded their frontiers. They treated every aspect of social life as in need of penetration by the authorities. They handled people as a resource to be mobilised. They showed little respect for [[ecology]], [[charity]], or [[Customs|custom]]. These commonalities make it sensible to speak of a communist order. ** Robert Service, ''Comrades! A History of World Communism'' (2007), p. 9 * Communism, including its first phase (socialism), is an ideology based on destroying harmony among social classes and eliminating traditional beliefs and [[Morality|moral values]]. ** The Society of Classical Poets, [https://classicalpoets.org/submissionguidelines/ Submission Guidelines] * "That's [[Mao Zedong|Mao]]."<br>"Do people still respect him?"<br>"The government pays lip service to his memory, but the hero worship of past eras is over."<br>"And what about the ordinary people?"<br>"The so-called proletariat?"<br>"Yup."<br>"They've found another god to follow."<br>"[[Xi Jinping]]?"<br>"[[Money]]." ** [[Shamini Flint]], ''[[w:Inspector Singh Investigates: A Calamitous Chinese Killing|Inspector Singh Investigates: A Calamitous Chinese Killing]]'' * The Communists are [[Judaism|Jews]], and Russia is being entirely administered by them. They are in every government office, bureau and newspaper. They are driving out the [[Russians]] and are responsible for the [[Antisemitism|anti-Semitic]] feeling which is increasing. ** [[Clare Sheridan]], ''The New York World'', Dec. 15, 1923. See ''[https://books.google.com.br/books?id=zKFBPKa8vxoC&pg=PA27 The Secret World Government Or "The Hidden Hand": The Unrevealed in History]'' by Count Cherep-Spiridovich, p. 27 * What struck me most about the Russian Communists, even in such really exceptional personalities as [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]] and [[Leon Trotsky|Trotsky]], was their utter incapacity to be fair in discussing opinions that conflicted with their own. The adversary, simply for daring to contradict, at once became a traitor, an opportunist, a hireling. ''An adversary in good faith'' is inconceivable to the Russian Communists. What an aberration of conscience this is, for so-called [[Materialism|materialists]] and [[Rationalism|rationalists]] absolutely in their polemics to uphold the primacy of morals over intelligence! To find a comparable infatuation one has to go back to the Inquisition. ** [[Ignazio Silone]], in ''The God That Failed'', Crossman, Richard, ed. (1963). New York, NY: Harper & Row. p. 108. * Picket lines, school boycotts/They try to say it's a communist plot/All I want is [[equality]]/For my sister, my brother, my people, and me ** [[Nina Simone]], Mississippi Goddam 1964 * Communism is as crude an attempt to explain society and the individual as if a surgeon were to perform his delicate operations with a meat-axe. All that is subtle in human [[psychology]] and in the structure of society (which is even more delicate) all of this is reduced to crude economic processes. This whole created being - man - is reduced to matter. It's characteristic that Communism is so devoid of arguments that it has none to advance against its opponents in our Communist countries. It lacks arguments and hence there is the club, the [[prison]], the [[concentration camp]], and [[Insane Asylum|insane asylums]] with forced confinement. ** [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]], ''Warning to the West'' (1975) ==T== * The history of Communism, originally inspired by noble ideals, clearly illustrates what happens when people attempt to change external reality – create a new earth – without any prior change in their inner reality, their state of [[consciousness]]. They make plans without taking into account the blueprint for dysfunction that every human being carries within: the [[ego]]. ** [[Eckhart Tolle]] in [https://www.apnamba.com/Ebooks-pdf/A%20new%20Earth.pdf ''A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose,''] (2005) * A citizen of a Western democracy fondly imagines that [[totalitarianism]] lies utterly beyond the pale of normal human aspirations. And yet, [[totalitarianism]] could never have survived so long had it not been able to draw so many people into its fold. There is something else—it is a formidably efficient machine. Communist ideology offers an idealised model for society and exhorts us toward it. The desire to change the world in the name of an ideal is, after all, an essential characteristic of human identity... Furthermore, Communist society strips the individual of his responsibilities. It is always "somebody else" who makes the decisions. Remember, individual responsibility can feel like a crushing burden... The attraction of a totalitarian system, which has had a powerful allure for many, has its roots in a fear of freedom and responsibility. This explains the popularity of authoritarian regimes (which is [[Erich Fromm]]'s thesis in ''Escape from Freedom''). None of this is new; [[Boethius]] had the right idea long ago when he spoke of "voluntary servitude." ** [[Tzvetan Todorov]], ''L'homme dépaysé'' (1996), p. 36 ==W== * From the 1940s to the 1960s one alternative world covered the globe from the [[Arctic]] through the center of [[Europe]] to the [[w:Adriatic_Sea|Adriatic]], and from there through the [[w:Caucasus|Caucasus]] and [[w:Central_Asia|central Asia]] to [[North Korea|Korea]] and the city of [[Vladivostok]] on the [[w:Pacific_Ocean|Pacific Ocean]]. That city’s name, meaning “the conqueror of the east,” now symbolized Communist victory in a very large part of Eurasia. But the Communist world did not stop there. From Vladivostok it moved south, through China, the most populous country on earth, to end off the shores of [[Vietnam]], in the [[South China Sea]]. What is remarkable about this world is how it was connected. It was not just a security alliance, such as [[NATO]] was for the [[north Atlantic]] states. It was an integrationist political and economic project, built on a common understanding of how the world worked and how it ought to be changed. It based itself on the [[Marxism–Leninism|teachings of Marx and Lenin]], and on the practices that had developed in the Soviet Union under Stalin. It was fiercely protective of its unity and committed to supporting the Soviet Union in the Cold War. It was, or so it seemed, a full-fledged alternative to capitalism and a rebuke to those who believed the [[United States]] was the great victor of the [[World War II|Second World War]]. ** Odd Arne Westad, ''The Cold War: A World History'' (2017) * Everywhere, the imposition of Communist rule was based on military power. In [[eastern Europe]] and [[North Korea]] the Soviet [[w:Red_Army|Red Army]] helped put Communist regimes in place. In [[China]], [[Yugoslavia]], and [[Albania]], local Communist armies took power on their own. But in all cases their leaders identified the Communist military takeover with a socialist revolution. They left behind Marx’s concepts of capitalism under bourgeois rule gradually developing the foundations of socialism. Like [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]], they believed that Communist regimes could create socialism in their own countries, especially since the Soviet Union had blazed a path for such development. But the realization of socialism under Communist rule would have to happen in stages, so as to conform to the Marxist elements of Stalinism. The regimes were therefore forced to claim that they at first represented a “national” revolution, which would then later go on to develop socialism, because that was the best for the nation. With a dishonesty remarkably similar to private companies claiming that they are acting for the public good, Communists claimed to be acting for all the nation, even though their programs were blatantly intent on empowering some social classes and marginalizing others. ** Odd Arne Westad, ''The Cold War: A World History'' (2017) * Among the biggest difficulties for Communists in power everywhere was their claim to stand for the international. The future, they said, belonged to the proletarians and the [[Peasant|peasants]]—to classes, not to nation-states. The problem was that for many ordinary people in the 1940s and ’50s, a strong nation-state was what they wished for most. The war had shown what would happen to those groups who did not have the protection of their own state. The massive bloodletting in [[eastern Europe]], the [[The Holocaust|mass murders of Jews and Roma]], and the moving of borders had made it possible for [[Poland|Poles]], [[Hungary|Hungarians]], or [[Romania|Romanians]] to claim their countries to be nation-states. The Communists, even when professing to carry out a “national” revolution, also had to stand for [[internationalism]], especially since Moscow made that the test case for the loyalty of each Communist regime. From the very beginning, therefore, the Communists had a troubled relationship with concepts of [[Nations|nation and nationhood]], or even state [[independence]]. ** Odd Arne Westad, ''The Cold War: A World History'' (2017) * It is obvious: the division of Europe has become politically untenable: not because of Western "revanchism" to which [[Eduard Shevardnadze|Mr. Shevardnadze]] referred: not because of our interference in their domestic affairs. No. Simply for two reasons. First, because [[communism]] has failed as much in ideological as in economic and social terms. It is not able to solve the problems of modern [[Developed country|industrialised societies]] in the [[Information age|age of global communication]]. And even more important: second, because you cannot suppress freedom forever. The natural aspiration of men to live and work freely is the driving force behind the historical process of change which we are witnessing. And no [[Dictatorship|dictator]] or system - not even by using force - will be able to stop or prevent this dynamic change in the long-term. ** [[wikipedia:Manfred_Wörner|Manfred Wörner]], [https://www.nato.int/docu/speech/1989/s891009a_e.htm Address given at the 35th Annual Session of the North Atlantic Assembly], 9 October 1989 * It was in prison that we found the [[hope]] of [[salvation]] for the Communists. It was there that we developed a sense of [[responsibility]] toward them. It was in being tortured by them that we learned to love them. ** [[Richard Wurmbrand]], ''Tortured For Christ'', p. 58 (1967). * Some tell me "Preach the pure [[gospel]]!" This reminds me that the Communist secret police also told me to preach [[Christ]], but not to mention communism. Is it really so, that those who are for what is called "a pure gospel" are inspired by the same spirit as those of the Communist secret police? ** [[Richard Wurmbrand]], ''Tortured For Christ'', p. 75 (1967). ==Y== * There has been a considerable penetration of the ranks of Jewry by Communism, and Jewry in turn has come to wield a considerable power in the Communist Party. ** [[Avrahm Yarmolinsky]] in ''[https://books.google.com.br/books?id=ktkSAAAAIAAJ The Menorah Journal]'' New York, July 1928, p. 37 ==Z== * The biggest threat to America today is not communism. It's moving America toward a [[Fascism|fascist]] [[theocracy]], and everything that's happened during the [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]] administration is steering us right down that pipe … I really think that. … When you have a government that prefers a certain moral code derived from a certain [[religion]] and that moral code turns into legislation to suit one certain religious point of view, and if that code happens to be very, very right wing, almost toward [[Attila|Attila the Hun]]... ** [[Frank Zappa]], ''Crossfire'' debate on censorship (1986). * To [[White people|white]] [[United States|Americans]] of the thirties, however, [[African American|blacks]] North and South were invisible. Only the [[Radicalism|radicals]] made an attempt to break the racial barriers: Socialists, [[Leon Trotsky|Trotskyists]], Communists most of all. ** [[Howard Zinn]], ''A Peoples History of The United States'' * The perversion of Stalinist Communism consists in the fact that the view by means of which the Party looks at history coincides immediately with history's gaze upon itself. To use good old Stalinist jargon, today already half-forgotten, Communists act immediately in the name of "objective laws of historical progress"; it is history itself, its necessity, that speaks through their mouths. ** [[Slavoj Žižek]], ''Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture'', p. 22. <small>{{ISBN|026274015X}}</small> ==See also== * [[Authoritarianism]] * [[Anti-communism]] * [[Bolsheviks]] * [[Democratic socialism]] * [[Dictatorship of the proletariat]] * [[Karl Marx]] * [[Marxism]] * [[Socialism]] * [[Stalinism]] * [[:Category:Communists]] ==External links== {{wikipedia}} {{wiktionary|communism}} {{wikisource portal}} [[Category:Communism| ]] [[Category:Business]] [[Category:Cold War]] 6yzkmohvt8kz9rlxbgz3x66szxjn4z6 3961370 3961369 2026-07-06T05:47:18Z Baratiiman 842201 3961370 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Goddess of Democracy at UBC.jpg|thumb|It's like a cancer that spreads and you better stop it fast...You can be loyal to Karl Marx, or you can be loyal to America. ...These are hardcore, godless communists, They want to completely destroy the traditional American way of life, Everyone will suffer or die. That’s what happens ... I’d be the greatest communist in history ... guaranteed DEATH AND DESTRUCTION in the end, the Country, State, or City, GOES TO HELL! Great Violence proceeds at levels never seen before, and the entity dissolves into Poverty, Squalor, and Crime.Trump faith and freedom/Truthsocial[https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/07/05/donald-trump-democratic-socialists-communists-midterms-affordability/90787786007/ ][https://www.axios.com/2026/06/27/trump-midterm-democratic-socialists ][https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/26/trump-democrats-communists-midterms ][https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/116687799508711738 ]]][[File:Falce e martello.svg|thumb|Workers of the world, unite! —[[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]]]] In [[political science|political]] and [[social science]]s, '''{{w|communism}}''' (from [[Latin]] ''communis'', "common, universal") is the [[philosophical]], [[social]], [[political]], and [[economic]] [[ideology]] and movement whose ultimate [[goal]] is the establishment of the [[communist society]], which is a {{w|socioeconomic}} order structured upon the {{w|common ownership}} of the [[means of production]] and the absence of [[social class]]es, [[money]], and the [[state]]. Communism includes a variety of {{w|schools of thought}}, which broadly include [[Marxism]], [[anarchism]] ({{w|anarchist communism}}), and the [[W:Ideology#Political ideologies|political ideologies]] grouped around both. All these share the analysis that the current [[order of society]] stems from its [[economic system]], [[capitalism]], that in this [[system]], there are two major social classes: the [[proletariat|working class]]—who must work to survive, and who make up the majority within society—and the [[bourgeoisie|capitalist class]]—a minority who derives [[profit]] from employing the working class, through [[Private property|private ownership of the means of production]]—and that [[class conflict|conflict between these two classes]] will trigger a [[Proletarian revolution|revolution]]. The revolution, in turn, will establish {{w|social ownership}} of the means of production, which is, according to this analysis, the primary element in the [[w:Social transformation|transformation of society]] towards communism. __NOTOC__ {{TOCalpha}} ==A== [[File:Clement Attlee.png|thumb|[[W:Communism in Russia|Russian Communism]] is the illegitimate child of [[Karl Marx]] and [[Catherine the Great]]. —[[Clement Attlee]]]] * '''Dogbert''': Hey [[Gorbachev|Gorby]], did you hear this quote ... "Communism is the most painful path between capitalism and capitalism." ** [[Scott Adams]], Dogbert making a prank call to the [[w:Kremlin|Kremlin]], [https://dilbert.com/strip/1989-12-12 ''Dilbert''], Tuesday December 12, 1989 * To be a Communist is to be a partisan and artisan of Marxism-Leninist philosophy: of dialectical materialism. **[[Louis Althusser]], "Philosophy as a Revolutionary Weapon" * Στον καπιταλισμό οι κουμουνιστές είναι πάντα καλύτεροι. ** '''In capitalism, communists are always better.''' **[[Adonis Georgiadis]] about the way the Communist Party of Greece handles money (12 May 2018) * There is nothing else in Communism — a [[Jewish]] conspiracy to grab the whole world in their clutches; and no intelligent man in the world can find anything else, except the [[Jews]], who rightly call it for themselves a “paradise on earth”. Jews are eager to bring Communism, because they know what it is and what it means. It is because Communism has not been fought for what it really is — a Jewish scheme invented by Jews — that it has progressed against all opposition to it. We have fought the smoke-screen presented by Jewish [[Dialectic|dialecticians]] and publicists, refusing to fight the inventor, profiteer and string-puller. Because [[Christianity|Christians]] and [[Gentile|Gentiles]] have come to fear the Jews, fear the truth, and they are paralyzed by the paradoxical slogans shouted by the Jews. ** [[Adrien Arcand]], New York Speech, October 30, 1937. See ''[https://books.google.com.br/books?id=t_RtAAAAMAAJ The Jews]'' by Zuhdī Fātiḥ, 1972 * There are some of our own people who still think that the Communists are the [[Left-wing politics|left wing]] of the [[Socialism|Socialist]] movement. They are not. The Socialist movement was a movement for [[freedom]] in its widest sense. From the point of view of freedom, Communists are on the [[Far-right politics|extreme right]]—more reactionary than some of the old [[Tyranny|tyrannies]] which we knew in the past. What is the thing for which we fight, for which the men with whom we feel the stir of sympathy throughout the ages have fought? [[Freedom]]. But that fight changes from age to age and the freedom that some men fought for may turn out to be tyranny. Communists, concentrating solely on the economic aspects of freedom...have produced the ghastly travesty of Socialism in the lands behind the [[w:Iron Curtain|iron curtain]]. ** [[Clement Attlee]], speech in Glasgow (10 April 1949), quoted in ''The Times'' (11 April 1949), p. 4 * Socialism was the only means of freeing the world from [[war]] and [[poverty]]. Socialism stood as a third alternative to a barbaric Communism and [[capitalism]] in a state of decay. Communism was a falsification of the principles of Socialism. ** [[Clement Attlee]], speech to the Swedish Social Democratic Party congress in Stockholm (5 June 1952), quoted in ''The Times'' (6 June 1952), p. 5 * [[W:Communism in Russia|Russian Communism]] is the illegitimate child of [[Karl Marx]] and [[Catherine II of Russia|Catherine the Great]]. ** [[Clement Attlee]], as quoted in ''The Observer'' (1956) * If communism ever reestablishes itself successfully upon earth, it must be on a foundation of soul's brotherhood and the death of [[Egotism|egoism]]. A forced association and a mechanical comradeship would end in a world-wide fiasco. ** [[Sri Aurobindo]], quoted from [[Sri Aurobindo]], Nahar, S., Aurobindo, ., & Institut de recherches évolutives (Paris). ''India's rebirth: A selection from Sri Aurobindo's writing, talks and speeches.'' Paris: Institut de Recherches Evolutives. 3rd Edition (2000). [https://web.archive.org/web/20170826004028/http://bharatvani.org/books/ir/IR_frontpage.htm Chapter II] * We are talking here about the future: about the lives of people in the world without wars, without social oppression, without national inequality, without suppression of human’s abilities. In other word, it is about the future that we all call Communism. ** [[Andrei Tarkovsky]], [https://varjag2007su.livejournal.com/2591915.html ''Letter to the central committee of the CPSU (Communist Party of Soviet Union)''] (20 October 1970). ==B== * Communism is [[Judaism]]. The Jewish Revolution in Russia was in 1918. ** [[Henry Hamilton Beamish]]. See ''[https://books.google.com.br/books?id=R1XkAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT261 War and Debt: The Culling of Humanity]'' by Mark Edwards, Xlibris, 2014 * My generation of Communists everywhere accepted the [[Stalinism|Stalinist]] form of leadership. We acquiesced in the crimes. That is true not only of Soviet Communists, but of Communists all over the world. We, especially the active and leading members of the Party, carry a stain on our consciences individually and collectively. The only way we can erase it is to make sure that nothing of the sort ever happens again. How was all this possible? Did we all go crazy, or have we now become traitors to Communism? The truth is that all of us, including the leaders directly under [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]], saw these crimes as the opposite of what they were. We believed that they were important contributions to the victory of [[socialism]]. We thought everything that promoted the power politics of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Communist Party in the Soviet Union]] and in the world was good for socialism. We never suspected that conflict between Communist politics and Communist ethics was possible. ** [[w:Joseph Berger-Barzilai|Joseph Berger-Barzilai]], ''Shipwreck of a Generation: The Memoirs of Joseph Berger'' (1971), p. 247 * The [[Communist party|Communist Party]] is the sworn inveterate enemy of the [[Socialism|Socialist]] and [[Democracy|Democratic]] Parties. When it associates with them, it does so as a preliminary to destroying them. There is an old [[German proverbs|German aphorism]] which says: "To cast an enemy out it is first necessary to embrace him." That is what the Communists mean when they ask for co-operation and alliance with the Socialists... The Communist does not look upon a Socialist as an ally in a common cause. He looks upon him as a dupe, as a temporary convenience, and as something to be thrust ruthlessly to one side when he has served his purpose. ** [[Aneurin Bevan]], 'Foreword' to [[Denis Healey]], ''The Curtain Falls: The Story of the Socialists in Eastern Europe'' (1951), p. 6 * The specific kind of [[anti-communism]] that took shape in these years was partly based on value judgements: the widespread belief in the [[United States]] that communism was simply a bad system, or morally repugnant even when effective. But it was also based on a number of assertions about the nature of Soviet-led international communism. There was a widespread belief that [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]] wanted to invade [[Western Europe]]. It became accepted as fact that the Soviets were pushing for [[revolution]] worldwide, and that whenever communists were present, even in small numbers, they probably had secret plans to overthrow the [[government]]. And it was considered gospel that anywhere communists were acting, they were doing so on the orders of the [[Soviet Union]], part of a monolithic global [[conspiracy]] to destroy the West. Most of this was simply untrue. Much of the rest was greatly exaggerated. ** [[w:Vincent Bevins|Vincent Bevins]], ''[[w:The Jakarta Method|The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World]]'', [[w:PublicAffairs|PublicAffairs]], 2020. pp. 15-16 * From the outset in 1917, the Communists believed in a [[Utopia|utopian]] [[ideology]], extreme, organised [[violence]], [[atheism]], a redefined place of the [[Individuality|individual]] that served to reject [[Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] precepts, and the rejection of preceding [[History of Russia|Russian history]]. During the [[Russian Civil War|Civil War]] and the 1920s, the [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox Church]] was crushed, with the slaughter of tens of thousands of [[Priest|priests]] and [[Monasticism|monks]], and the desecration and destruction of churches, monasteries and the tombs of saints. The real and spiritual landscapes of [[Russia]] and the psychological life of the people were transformed as a consequence. Communism in its own way therefore constituted a major civilisational challenge to the notion in [[Europe]] and [[North America]] of a 'Western Civilisation', whether or not articulated explicitly in this fashion. This civilisation owed much to [[Christianity]] and placed considerable weight on [[liberalism]] and [[Tolerance|toleration]]. From this perspective, Communism, drawing both on a reconceptualisation of Russian [[authoritarianism]] and on a new, [[Totalitarianism|totalitarian]] ideology and practice, posed a counter-civilisational challenge with its own precepts, aims, methods and anticipated outcomes. ** [[Jeremy Black (historian)|Jeremy Black]], ''The Cold War: A Military History'', 2015 * I'm about as much in favor of communism as [[J. Edgar Hoover]]. I despise communism and I believe in our own [[United States|American]] brand of [[democracy]]. ** [[Humphrey Bogart]], ''[http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/1948-Humphrey_Bogart_on_Hollywood_Blacklist_editorial_pdf I'm No Communist]'', [[w:Photoplay|Photoplay]], March 1948, p. 53 ==C== * In [[Brazil]], it goes like this: communists only read communist authors, [[Economic liberalism|(economic) liberals]] only read liberal authors and so on. Each one is afraid of tarnishing their little soul with sinful thoughts. In order for someone to speak with some propriety about the communist movement, they must have previously studied the following things: # The classics of [[Marxism]]: [[Karl Marx|Marx]], [[Friedrich Engels|Engels]], [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]], [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]], [[Mao Zedong]]. # The most important Marxist philosophers: [[György Lukács|Lukács]], {{w|Karl Korsch|Korsch}}, [[Antonio Gramsci|Gramsci]], [[Theodor Adorno|Adorno]], [[Max Horkheimer|Horkheimer]], [[Herbert Marcuse|Marcuse]], [[Henri Lefebvre|Lefebvre]], [[Louis Althusser|Althusser]]. # ''{{w|Main Currents of Marxism}}'', by [[Leszek Kołakowski|Leszek Kolakowski]]. # Some good history and sociology books about the revolutionary movement in general, such as ''{{w|Fire in the Minds of Men}}'', by {{w|James H. Billington}}, ''{{w|The Pursuit of the Millenium}}'', by {{w|Norman Cohn}}, ''{{w|The New Science of Politics}}'', by [[Eric Voegelin]]. # Good books on the history of communist regimes written from a non-apologetic point of view. # Books by the most famous critics of Marxism, like {{w|Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk}}, [[Ludwig von Mises]], [[Raymond Aron]], [[Roger Scruton]], [[Nikolai Berdyaev|Nicolai Berdiaev]] and so many others. # Books about the communist strategy and tactics on their rise to power, about the underground activities of the movement in the West and chiefly about the "{{w|active measures}}" ([[disinformation]], {{w|agents of influence}}), like those by {{w|Anatolyi Golitsyn}}, {{w|Christopher Andrew}}, {{w|John Earl Haynes}}, {{w|Ladislaw Bittman}}, [[Diana West]]. # The largest number possible of testimonies by former communist agents and militants who recall their experience in service of the movement or communist governments, such as [[Arthur Koestler]], {{w|Ian Valtin}}, [[Ion Mihai Pacepa]], [[Whittaker Chambers]], [[David Horowitz]]. # High-value testimonies about human condition in socialist societies, like those by {{w|Guillermo Cabrera Infante}}, {{w|Vladimir Bukovski}}, {{w|Nadiejda Mandelstam}}, [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn|Alexander Soljenítsin]], [[Richard Wurmbrand]]. :This is a reading program that can be accomplished in four or five years by a good student. I do not know, either in the [[Brazil|Brazilian]] right or left, anyone, absolutely anyone, who has accomplished it. :: [[Olavo de Carvalho]], in [https://olavodecarvalho.org/estudar-antes-de-falar/ Estudar antes de falar], ''Diário do Comércio'', 13 August 2013 * When I feed the [[Hunger|hungry]], they call me a [[Saints|saint]]. When I ask why people are hungry, they call me a Communist. ** [[w:Hélder Câmara|Dom Helder Camara]], [[Brazil]]ian archbishop, as quoted in ''Peace Behind Bars : A Peacemaking Priest's Journal from Jail'' (1995) by John Dear, p. 65; this is a translation of "''Quando dou comida aos pobres chamam-me de santo. Quando pergunto por que eles são pobres chamam-me de comunista.''" ** Variant translations: ** When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why are they poor, they call me a Communist. ** When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a Communist. * <p>[[Nikita Khrushchev|Khrushchev’s]] revelations concerning [[Stalin]] are enough to have plunged all those who have participated in communist activity, to whatever degree, into an abyss of shock, pain, and shame (or, at least, I hope so).</p><p>The dead, the tortured, the executed—no, neither posthumous rehabilitations, nor national funerals, nor official speeches can overcome them. These are not the kind of ghosts that one can ward off with a mechanical phrase.</p><p>From now on, they will show up as watermarks in the very substance of the system.</p> ** [[Aimé Césaire]], Letter to [[w:Maurice Thorez |Maurice Thorez]]resigning from the French Communist Party, October 24, 1956, as translated by Chike Jeffers * The details supplied by Khrushchev on Stalin’s methods ... lead us to believe in the existence in these countries of a veritable [[state capitalism]], exploiting the working class in a manner not very different from the way the working class is used in capitalist countries. ** [[Aimé Césaire]], Letter to [[w:Maurice Thorez |Maurice Thorez]] resigning from the French Communist Party, October 24, 1956, as translated by Chike Jeffers * Across the world academics still clung to the words and ideas of [[Karl Marx|Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels|Engels]] and even [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]]. Fools. There were even those who said that Communism had been tried in the wrong country; that Russia had been too far backward to make those wonderful ideas work. ** [[Tom Clancy|Thomas L. Clancy]], as quoted in ''[[Rainbow Six (novel)|Rainbow Six]]'' (1998), p. 515 * [M]any archives and witnesses prove conclusively that [[terror]] has always been one of the basic ingredients of modern Communism. Let us abandon once and for all the idea that the execution of hostages by firing squads, the slaughter of rebellious workers, and the forced starvation of the peasantry were only short-term "accidents" peculiar to a specific country or era. Our approach will encompass all geographic areas and focus on [[crime]] as a defining characteristic of the Communist system throughout its existence. ** [[w:Stéphane Courtois|Stéphane Courtois]], 'Introduction: The Crimes of Communism', ''[[w:The Black Book of Communism|The Black Book of Communism]]'' (1999), p. 3 * [T]he intransigent facts demonstrate that Communist regimes have victimized approximately 100 million people in contrast to the approximately 25 million victims of the [[Nazism|Nazis]]. This clear record should provide at least some basis for assessing the similarity between the Nazi regime, which since 1945 has been considered the most viciously criminal regime of this century, and the Communist system... The methods implemented by [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]] and perfected by [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]] and their henchmen bring to mind the methods used by the Nazis, but most often this is because the latter adopted the techniques developed by the former. [[Rudolf Hess]], charged with organizing the [[Concentration camp|camp]] at [[Auschwitz concentration camp|Auschwitz]] and later appointed its commandant, is a perfect example: "The [[w:Reich Security Main Office|Reich Security Head Office]] issued to the commandants a full collection of reports in great detail the conditions in, and organization of, the Russian camps, as supplied by former prisoners who had managed to escape. Great emphasis was placed on the fact that the Russians, by their massive employment of forced labor, had destroyed whole peoples." ** [[w:Stéphane Courtois|Stéphane Courtois]], 'Introduction: The Crimes of Communism', ''[[w:The Black Book of Communism|The Black Book of Communism]]'' (1999), p. 15 * Time and again the focus of the terror was less on targeted individuals than on groups of people. The purpose of terror was to exterminate a group that had been designated as the enemy. Even though it might be only a small fraction of society, it had to be stamped out to satisfy this [[Genocide|genocidal]] impulse. Thus, the techniques of segregation and exclusion employed in a "class-based [[totalitarianism]]" closely resemble the techniques of "race-based totalitarianism." The future Nazi society was to be built upon a "pure [[race]]," and the future Communist society was to be built upon a proletarian people purified of the dregs of the bourgeoisie. The restructuring of these two societies was envisioned in the same way, even if the crackdowns were different. ** [[w:Stéphane Courtois|Stéphane Courtois]], 'Introduction: The Crimes of Communism', ''[[w:The Black Book of Communism|The Black Book of Communism]]'' (1999), p. 16 ==D== * I am a communist because I am convinced that the reason we have been forcefully compelled to eke out an existence at the very lowest level of American society has to do with the nature of capitalism. If we are going to rise out of our oppression, our [[poverty]], if we are going to cease being the targets of the [[Racism in the United States|racist-minded mentality]] of [[Racism|racist]] [[Law enforcement in the United States|policemen]], we will have to destroy the [[Economy of the United States|American capitalist system]]. We will have to obliterate a system in which a few wealthy capitalists are guaranteed the privilege of becoming richer and richer, whereas the people who are forced to work for the rich, and especially Black people, never take any significant step forward. ** [[Angela Y. Davis]], "I am a Revolutionary Black Woman" (1970) in ''Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices of Resistance, Reform, and Renewal'' (2000), p. 483 * The Right positions communism as a threat because communism names the defeat of and alternative to capitalism. It recognizes the crisis in capitalism: over-accumulation leaves the rich sitting on piles of [[Money|cash]] they can't [[Investment|invest]]; industrial capacity remains unused and workers [[Unemployment|unemployed]]; global interconnections make unneeded [[Skyscraper|skyscrapers]], fiber-optic cables, malls, and housing developments as much a part of [[China]] as the US. At the same time, scores of significant problems – whether food shortages linked to [[climate change]], energy shortages resulting from oil dependency, or drug shortages resulting from the failure of private [[Pharmaceutical industry|pharmaceutical companies]] to risk their own capital – remain unmet because they require the kinds of large-scale planning and cooperation that capitalism, particularly in its contemporary finance and communications-driven incarnation, subverts. ** [[Jodi Dean]], ''The Communist Horizon'' (2012), pp. 51-52 * The US right calls everything it doesn’t like 'communist'. They call [[Bill Clinton|Clinton]] and [[Barack Obama|Obama]] 'communists'. With 'communist' as the go-to name for anything that isn't [[Conservatism|right wing]], its acceptability increases. If you don't like the right, you're a communist. ** [[Jodi Dean]], quoted in "[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/communism-millennials-capitalism-socialism-bernie-sanders-cold-war-yougov-a9188116.html More than a third of millennials approve of communism, YouGov poll indicates]", ''{{w|The Independent}}'' (7 November 2019) * Let me examine the alleged "distinction from capitalism" characteristic of the [[Soviet Union]] and see whether it isn't a distinction from a certain stage of capitalism rather than from capitalism as a whole. The determining factor in analyzing the class nature of a society is not whether the means of production are the private property of the capitalist class or are state-owned, but whether the means of production ... are monopolized and alienated from the direct producers. The Soviet Government occupies in relation to the whole [[economic system]] the position which a capitalist occupies in relation to a single enterprise. ... "Bureaucratic state socialism" is an irrational expression behind which there exists the real economic relation of [[State capitalism|state-capitalist]]-[[Exploitation|exploiter]] to the propertyless exploited. ** [[Raya Dunayevskaya]], "The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is a Capitalist Society" (1941), in ''Russia: From Proletarian Revolution to State-Capitalist Counter-Revolution'', p. 210 * The reason I am a communist is because I believe in a total [[revolution]] which is going to overthrow the capitalist control of the economy, which will seize the wealth from all of the giant corporations that exploit and control the lives of all working people. ** [[Angela Y. Davis]], from an [https://www.facebook.com/Redfishstream/videos/184844339473961/ interview]. ==E== [[File:Red flag waving.svg|thumb|Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat.''' — [[Friedrich Engels]]]] * We must face the fact that, while we are trying to help build a world of [[freedom]] and [[justice]] among [[Sovereignty|sovereign]] people, the masters of international Communism are working constantly to tear down this kind of world. Communism, according to all its own leaders, must be a system of international control and [[conformity]]. Thus, at its very heart, it is the complete opposite and enemy of any kind of [[nationalism]]. Its avowed program is to destroy totally the [[religion]], [[Government|governments]], institutions and traditions of the [[Christendom|Christian world]], the [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] world, the [[Muslim world|Islamic world]], the Judaic world, and the world of every religion and culture. ** [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]; [https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/234107 World Broadcast in Observance of Fifteenth Anniversary of Voice of America Online], The American Presidency Project; 25 February 1957 * The Communist rulers then propose to substitute a whole new system of thought and control dictated from [[Communist party|Communist Party]] headquarters. They think that a few theorists and rulers know what is best for everyone, and they are determined to drive everyone toward that kind of world. One small country after another has been swallowed up by international Communism. Their [[freedom]] is lost. Their national pride is crushed. Their religion is trampled on. Their economies are mere feeders for [[Economy of Russia|that of Russia]]. And if they attempt to assert their tradition of freedom, their people are shot down by the thousands. Witness: [[Hungary]]. ** [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]; [https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/234107 World Broadcast in Observance of Fifteenth Anniversary of Voice of America Online], The American Presidency Project; 25 February 1957 * I should like to direct a special word to those people now living under the tyranny of international Communism: We want your friendship. We cherish the ties that have linked us in the past. And we wish you well in your aspirations toward [[freedom]]. For we know that, whatever the designs of [[power]]-hungry rulers may be, there dwells deep in the heart of every person this same God-given desire to realize freely his own destiny. And to all people, everywhere--this final pledge: With you we look forward to and shall never cease to work for a world of peace, based on justice. May the God of us all keep you--and hasten that glorious day. ** [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]; [https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/234107 World Broadcast in Observance of Fifteenth Anniversary of Voice of America Online], The American Presidency Project; 25 February 1957 * What is a communist? </br>One who hath yearnings </br>For equal division of unequal earnings: </br>Idler, or bungler, or both, he is willing </br>To fork out his penny, and pocket your shilling. ** [[Ebenezer Elliott]], "Epigram" (1850) * '''Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the [[proletariat]].''' ** [[Friedrich Engels]], ''The Principles of Communism'' (1847) * The abolition of [[private property]] is, doubtless, the shortest and most significant way to characterize the [[Proletarian revolution|revolution]] in the whole [[social order]] which has been made necessary by the development of industry – and for this reason it is rightly advanced by communists as their main demand. ** [[Friedrich Engels]], ''{{w|Principles of Communism}}'' (1847) [https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm]] * What will be the attitude of communism to existing nationalities? The nationalities of the peoples associating themselves in accordance with the principle of community will be compelled to mingle with each other as a result of this association and thereby to dissolve themselves, just as the various estate and class distinctions must disappear through the abolition of their basis, private property. ** [[Friedrich Engels]], ''{{w|Principles of Communism}}'' (1847) [https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm]] * All [[religions]] so far have been the expression of [[W:Marx's theory of history|historical stages of development]] of individual peoples or groups of peoples. But communism is the stage of historical development which makes all existing religions superfluous and brings about their disappearance. ** [[Friedrich Engels]], ''{{w|Principles of Communism}}'' (1847) [https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm]] * Some propose mere [[welfare]] measures – while others come forward with grandiose systems of reform which, under the pretense of re-organizing society, are in fact intended to [[preserve]] the foundations, and hence the life, of existing society. Communists must unremittingly struggle against these [[Bourgeoisie|bourgeois]] socialists because they work for the [[enemies]] of communists and protect the society which communists aim to overthrow. ** [[Friedrich Engels]], ''{{w|Principles of Communism}}'' (1847) [https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm]] * Since the communists cannot enter upon the decisive [[Class conflict|struggle between themselves and the bourgeoisie]] until the bourgeoisie is in power, it follows that it is in the interest of the communists to help the bourgeoisie to power as soon as possible in order the sooner to be able to overthrow it. ** [[Friedrich Engels]], ''{{w|Principles of Communism}}'' (1847) [https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm]] ==F== * ''The economic independence and self-determination of all.'' Under a [[cybernetic]] communism, even during the [[w:Socialist mode of production|socialist transition]], work would be divorced from wages, the ownership of the means of production in the hands of all the people, and [[w:Distribution of wealth|wealth distributed]] on the basis of need, independent of the social value of the individual’s contribution to society. We would aim to eliminate the dependence of women and children on the labour of men, as well as all other types of [[w:Exploitation of labour|labour exploitation]]. Each person could choose his life style freely, changing it to suit his tastes without seriously inconveniencing anyone else; no one would be bound into any social structure against his will, for each person would be totally self-governing as soon as she was physically able. ** [[Shulamith Firestone]], {{cite book |title={{w|The Dialectic of Sex}}: The Case for Feminist Revolution |date=1970 |page=239}} ==G== * Meanwhile, communism had promised a better life but failed to deliver. [[Karl Marx|Marx]] insisted that the shifts in the means of production would increase [[Economic inequality|inequality]], provoke [[anger]], and thereby fuel [[Class consciousness|revolutionary consciousness]] within the "working class." He failed, though, to anticipate the kinds of shifts that would take place, for as [[Developed country|post-industrial economies]] evolved they began to reward lateral over hierarchical forms of organization. [[Complexity]] made [[Planned economy|planning]] less feasible than under the earlier, simpler stages of [[industrialization]]: only [[Decentralization|decentralized]], largely spontaneous [[Market|markets]] could make the millions of [[decisions]] that had to be made each day in a modern economy if [[w:economic_supply|supplies]] of goods and services were to match [[Demand|demands]] for them. As a result, dissatisfaction with capitalism never reached the point at which "proletarians of all countries" felt it necessary to unite to throw off their "chains." That became clear during the [[Cold War]], and it did so largely because western leaders disproved Marx's indictment of capitalism as elevating greed above all else. When set against the perversions of Marxism inflicted by Lenin and Stalin on the Soviet Union and by [[Mao Zedong|Mao]] on [[China]]—placing [[One-party state|a ruling party]] and an authoritarian state in control of what was supposed to have been an automatic process of historical [[evolution]]—the effect was to discredit communism not just on economic grounds, but also because of its failure to bring about political and [[social justice]]. Just as [[World War III|a new world war]] did not come, so the anticipated world revolution did not arrive. The Cold War had produced yet another historical anachronism. ** [[John Lewis Gaddis]], ''The Cold War: A New History'', p. 264 * It must be admitted that ''politically'' communism is the same [as [[fascism]]<nowiki>]</nowiki>. ** [[Hugh Gaitskell]], Notes for a speech on Fascism at Chatham on May Day 1935, quoted in Philip Williams, ''Hugh Gaitskell: A Political Biography'' (1979), p. 44 * There is not so much difference between the ideologies of capitalism and communism, you know. The difference is simple. Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man, and communism is the reverse. ** [[John Gardner (British writer)|John Gardner]], ''The Man from Barbarossa'' * When both sides engaged in terror, the "[[w:Red Terror (disambiguation)|red]]" terror usually paled in comparison to the "[[w:White Terror|white]]" (as was the case in the [[w:Paris Commune|Paris Commune in 1871]]; the civil wars in [[Russian Civil War|Russia]], [[w:German Revolution of 1918–1919|Germany]] and [[w:Hungarian Soviet Republic|Hungary]] from 1918 to 1921; the [[Spanish Civil War|Spanish Civil War of 1936–39]]; and [[w:Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66|Indonesia in 1965–1966]]). ** [[w:Christian Gerlach|Christian Gerlach]], ''The Palgrave Handbook of Anti-Communist Persecutions'', {{w|Palgrave Macmillan}} (2020) * Communism had a potent message: deliver the poor of the world from their oppression; turn the vast productive system developed under [[capitalism]] to public purpose; substitute intelligent planning for [[Market failure|market chaos]]; eliminate all manifestations of inequality. Its striving to create a society in which everyone could be freed from [[want]] and [[domination]] shared a good deal with its ostensible opponent, [[classical liberalism]]. Both communism and liberalism traced their origins back to a common moment of eighteenth-century revolution, with the former tying itself to the [[French Revolution]] and the latter to the [[American Revolution|American]]. Both camps saw in themselves as freeing humanity from old, encrusted [[Social order|social orders]] marked by [[privilege]], [[Social inequality|inequality]], and widespread [[misery]]. Both camps believed in the [[universalism]] of their message and sought to carry it to every portion of the globe. ** [[w:Gary Gerstle|Gary Gerstle]], ''The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era'', {{w|Oxford University Press}} (2022) p. 30 *The collapse of communism, then, opened the entire world to capitalist penetration, shrank the imaginative and ideological space in which opposition to capitalist thought and practices might incubate, and impelled those who remained leftists to redefine their radicalism in alternative terms, which turned out to be those that capitalist systems could more, rather than less, easily manage. This was the moment when [[neoliberalism]] in the United States went from being a political movement to a political order. ** Gary Gerstle, ''The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era'', {{w|Oxford University Press}} (2022) p. 149 * What better time to resurrect the spectre of communism? As youth across the world become increasingly disenchanted with the savage inequalities of capitalism, defenders of the status quo will stop at nothing to convince younger voters about the evils of [[Collectivism|collectivist]] ideas. They will rewrite history textbooks, build memorials, and declare days of commemoration for the victims of communism – all to ensure that calls for social justice or redistribution are forever equated with forced labour camps and famine. ** [[Kristen Ghodsee]] and {{w|Scott Sehon}}, "[https://aeon.co/essays/the-merits-of-taking-an-anti-anti-communism-stance Anti-anti-communism]", ''{{w|Aeon (digital magazine)|Aeon}}'' (March 22, 2018). * Older citizens of [[East/Central Europe|Eastern Europe]] fondly recall the small comforts and predictability of their life before 1989: free [[education]] and [[Health care|healthcare]], no fear of unemployment and of not having money to meet basic needs. A joke, told in many East European languages, illustrates this sentiment:<br>In the middle of the night a woman screams and jumps out of bed, eyes filled with terror. Her startled husband watches her rush to the bathroom and open the medicine cabinet. She then dashes to the kitchen and inspects the inside of the refrigerator. Finally, she flings open the window and gazes out onto the street below their apartment. She takes a deep breath and returns to bed.<br>"What's wrong with you?" her husband says. "What happened?"<br>"I had a terrible nightmare," she says. "I dreamed that we had the medicine we needed, that our refrigerator was full of [[food]], and that the streets outside were safe and clean."<br>"How is that a nightmare?"<br>The woman shakes her head and shudders. "I thought the Communists were back in power." ** Kristen Ghodsee, ''{{w|Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism|Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence}}.'' Vintage (2019) pp. 12-13 * The Frankenstein of Communism is the product of the [[Jews|Jewish]] mind, and was turned loose upon the world by the son of a Rabbi, [[Karl Marx]], in the hopes of destroying Christian civilization — as well as others. The testimony given before the [[United States Senate|Senate of the United States]] which is take from the many pages of the Overman Report, reveals beyond a shadow of a doubt that Jewish bankers financed the [[Russian Revolution]]. ** [[Kenneth Goff]], ''[https://www.google.com.br/books/edition/Still_tis_Our_Ancient_Foe/GiXhHAAACAAJ Still 'tis Our Ancient Foe]'', 1962, p. 99 * In order to massacre them, it was necessary to proclaim that [[w:Kulaks|kulaks]] are not [[human beings]]. Just as the [[Germans]] proclaimed that [[Judaism|Jews]] are not human beings. Thus did [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]] and [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]]: kulaks are not human beings... That is exactly how the [[Nazism|Nazis]] put the Jewish children into the [[The Holocaust|Nazi gas chambers]]: "You are not allowed to live, you are all Jews!" ** [[Vasily Grossman]], ''Forever Flowing'' (1973), pp. 144, 155 ==H== * Anyone who has read a novel by [[Alexander Solzhenitsyn]] knows how '''Communism's egalitarian ideal produced brutal tyrannies that tried to control every aspect of life.''' ** [[Yuval Noah Harari]], Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011), Chapter 9: "The Arrow of History" * Like [[Buddhism]], Communist believed in a superhuman order of natural and immutable laws that should guide human actions. ** [[Yuval Noah Harari]], Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011), Chapter 12: "The Law of Religion" * For the communist countries in the periphery, the goal was not only to mobilize resources for industrialization, but to organize [[production]] around [[Public service|public services]] and human needs in ways that were neglected or even impossible under capitalism. Empirical studies demonstrate that they achieved better social outcomes than their capitalist counterparts at any given level of national production, including higher [[life expectancy]], better education attainment, and lower [[child mortality]]. They also delivered strong progress against extreme poverty: by the [[1980s]], the prevalence of basic-needs poverty was near zero in both China and Russia. As the [[economist]] [[Amartya Sen]] remarked in his 1981 study of [[health]] and [[literacy]] achievements around the world: "One thought that is bound to occur is that communism is good for [[Poverty reduction|poverty removal]]." ** [[Jason Hickel]] and Dylan Sullivan, "[https://monthlyreview.org/2023/07/01/capitalism-global-poverty-and-the-case-for-democratic-socialism/ Capitalism, Global Poverty, and the Case for Democratic Socialism]." ''{{w|Monthly Review}}'' (July 1, 2023) * Communism is a specter called forth when those in power feel their grip erode. ** [[Gerald Horne]], [https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/historians-challenge-false-narrative-behind-st-louis-victims-of-communism-resolution/ Historians challenge false narrative behind St. Louis ‘Victims of Communism’ resolution]. ''{{w|People's World}}'' (November 25, 2020) ==J== [[File:CLR James Cropped.png|thumb|By a remorseless logic, ... representation of the proletariat turns into its opposite, administration over the proletariat. ~ [[C. L. R. James]]]] * Today, from end to end of the world, men know that democracy is bankrupt. What is to take its place they do not know. The alternative seems to be [[planned economy]] and [[one-party state]]. This is ''the'' philosophical question. But the philosophy of planned economy and one-party state is distinguishable from that of the [[w:Marx's theory of the state#Bourgeois state|bourgeoisie]] only by its more complete [[rationalism]]. The labor bureaucracy in power or out of it sees the solution to the crisis of production in scientific progress, greater output. It consciously seeks to plan and organize the division of labor as the means to further [[Capital accumulation|accumulation of capital]]. In ideology it is ready to expropriate those representatives of [[private property]] who stand in the way of this complete [[Rationalization (sociology)|rationalization]]. But didn’t this bureaucracy develop out of the [[working class]]? It did and it could only have developed out of the working class. It is a product of the modern [[Social movement|mass movement]], created by the [[w:Capital accumulation#Concentration and centralization|centralization of capital]], and holds its position only because of this movement. At the same time it cannot conceive the necessity for abolishing the [[division of labor]] in [[Mode of production|production]], the only solution to the [[w:Crisis theory|crisis]] in production. By a remorseless logic, therefore, [[Dictatorship of the proletariat|representation of the proletariat]] turns into its opposite, [[w:Nomenklatura|administration over the proletariat]]. The end of bourgeois rationalism is this crisis of the revolution and {{w|counter-revolution}} in production. ** [[C. L. R. James]], ''[https://www.marxists.org/archive/james-clr/works/1950/08/state-capitalism.htm State Capitalism and World Revolution]'' (1950), ''{{w|Marxists Internet Archive}}.'' * Communism was a very defective answer to some very good questions. In throwing out the bad answer, we have forgotten the good questions. I want to put the good questions back on the table. ** [[Tony Judt]], quoted in Evan R. Goldstein, "The Trials of Tony Judt", ''The Chronicle of Higher Education'' (January 06, 2010) ==K== * I’m more and more convinced it’s only through communism that we can become [[human]]. ** [[Frida Kahlo]], in her letter from US, during the 1930s, from [https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2010/09/kah2-s11.html] * Communism is like an [[w:Autoimmune disorder|autoimmune disorder]]; it doesn't do the killing itself, but it weakens the system so much that the victim is left helpless and unable to fight off anything else. ** [[Garry Kasparov]], ''Winter is Coming'' (2015), p. 33 * World communism is like a malignant [[Parasitism|parasite]] which feeds only on diseased tissue. ** [[w:George Kennan|George Kennan]], "[[w:Long Telegram|Long Telegram]]" (February 1946) * The Communists are determined to destroy us, and regardless of what hand of [[friendship]] we may hold out or what arguments we may put up, the only thing that will make that decisive difference is the strength of the United States. ** [[John F. Kennedy]], Speech by Senator John F. Kennedy, Democratic Rally, George Washington High School Stadium, Alexandria, VA, August 24, 1960. - The American Presidency Project. * There are many people in the world who really don't understand, or say they don't, what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to [[Berlin]]. There are some who say that communism is the wave of the future. Let them come to Berlin. And there are some who say in [[Europe]] and elsewhere we can work with the Communists. Let them come to Berlin. And there are even a few who say that it is true that communism is an evil system, but it permits us to make economic progress. Lass' sie nach Berlin kommen. Let them come to Berlin. ** [[John F. Kennedy]], [http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/Archives/Reference+Desk/Speeches/JFK/003POF03BerlinWall06261963.htm Speech in Berlin]; see also the [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ich_bin_ein_Berliner Ich bin ein Berliner Speech] at Wikisource. * Communism has sometimes succeeded as a scavenger, but never as a leader. It has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or [[corruption]], or both. ** [[John F. Kennedy]], Speech at NATO Headquarters, Naples Italy (2 July 1963) * Communism is based on an [[Ethics|ethical]] [[relativism]] and a [[Metaphysics|metaphysical]] [[materialism]] that no [[Christianity|Christian]] can accept. ** [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]], [http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/documentsentry/doc_pauls_letter_to_american_christians/ ''Paul's Letter to American Christians''] (4 November 1956). * Communism forgets that life is individual. [[Capitalism]] forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis. It is found in a higher [[synthesis]] that combines the truths of both. ** [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]], "Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?" (1967) * Oh, communism! That was a burning issue. It was an outrageous issue. To be termed a communist would damage your whole [[family]], damage your whole [[world]] — your [[friends]] wouldn’t talk to you. I’m talking about other people — because I wouldn’t go near the stuff. Sure, I was against the reds. I became a [[w:Witch hunt|witch hunter]]. My [[enemies]] were the commies — I called them commies. In fact, [[w:Granny Goodness|Granny Goodness]] was a commie, Doubleheader was a commie. ** [[Jack Kirby]] as interviewed by Gary Groth, February 1990, posted May 23, 2011 in issue 134 of "The Comics Journal", now on TCJ Archive, [http://www.tcj.com/jack-kirby-interview/5/ page 5] * Anything radical was [[dangerous]] to me, as it was to the average [[American]]. Nobody knew where a thing like that would lead and we were always afraid of [[chaos]]. So communism became the doorway to chaos, and the doorway to chaos was the doorway to [[evil]]. Your [[family]] might be hurt. Your [[friends]] might be hurt. You didn’t want to see a thing like that. ** [[Jack Kirby]] as interviewed by Gary Groth, February 1990, posted May 23, 2011 in issue 134 of "The Comics Journal", now on TCJ Archive, [http://www.tcj.com/jack-kirby-interview/5/ page 5] * In the social equation, the value of a single life is nil; in the cosmic equation, it is infinite... Not only communism, but any political movement which implicitly relies on purely utilitarian ethics, must become a victim to the same fatal error. It is a fallacy as naïve as a mathematical teaser, and yet its consequences lead straight to Goya's Disasters, to the reign of the [[guillotine]], the torture chambers of the Inquisition, or the cellars of the [[w:Lubyanka (KGB)|Lubianka]]. ** [[Arthur Koestler]], ''{{w|The Invisible Writing}}''. * In [[Russia]], all you have to do to get a house is to be born in the [[Soviet Union]]. You are entitled to housing. In [[United States|America]], if you don't have a dollar you have a right to choose between sleeping in a house or on the pavement. Yet you say we are the slave to communism. ** [[Nikita Khrushchev]], [http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/the-kitchen-debate/ ''The Kitchen Debate''] (1959). * Communism was a gigantic façade, and the reality concealed behind it was the sheer drive for power, for total power as an end in itself. The rest was merely instrumental -- a matter of tactics and some necessary self-restrictions to achieve the desired end. But the façade was more than mere decoration: it was communism's only means of survival; its respiratory system. It was also the ineradicable residue of the tradition of the Enlightenment and nineteenth-century socialism, of which communism was indeed a deformed descendant. As with all descendants, however deformed, some inherited traits are always visible, and in communism, too, these were evident. The [[rationalism]], contempt for tradition, and hatred for the mythological layer of culture to which the [[Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] gave birth developed, under communism, into the brutal persecution of religion, but also into the principle (practiced rather than directly expressed) that human beings are expendable: that individual lives count only as instruments of the 'greater whole' or the 'higher cause,' i.e. the state, for no rational grounds exist for attributing to them any special, non-instrumental status. Thus [[rationalism]] was transformed under communism into the idea of slavery. And romantic and early socialist strains -- the search for lost community and human solidarity, the protest against social disintegration caused by the industrial revolution and urbanization -- developed, under communism, into caricature: solidarity imposed by force, in an attempt to create a fake, merely ostensible unity -- the unity of despotism. ** [[w:Leszek Kołakowski|Leszek Kołakowski]], "Communism as a Cultural Force", as quoted in ''Is God Happy? Selected Essays'' (2013), Basic Books, pp. 36-37 * [[Anarchy]] leads to Communism, and Communism to Anarchy, both alike being expressions of the predominant tendency in modern societies, the pursuit of [[equality]]. ** [[Peter Kropotkin]], [https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-the-conquest-of-bread| The Conquest of Bread] * Communism in the United States and England is indeed essentially and substantially a movement of the semi-intellectual middle class with a good sprinkling of the quarter intellectual upper class. Communism in the United States would hardly be identified with the slums of lower Manhattan, the dust bowlers of Kansas, or the miners of Pennsylvania. . . . The word ''communism'' rather evokes associations like professors of state colleges with thick lenses in their spectacles, parlor pinks with Harvard accents, bored Park Avenue hostesses, anemic little East Europeans in public libraries, "progressive" and "advanced" psychologists specialized in sexual disorders, and unbearably conceited "foreign" correspondents. ** [[Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn]], ''The Menace of the Herd'' (1943), p. 279 == L == * As a result of this failure of communist ideology to comprehend the [[Human nature|nature of man]], Stalin decided to alter the Russian constitution. No longer would economic rewards be distributed on the basis of ‘[[need]]’; rather, the new concept was to be ‘to each according to his ''work''.’ ** Quote from ''The Fundamentals of Liberty'' by [[Robert LeFevre]], Santa Ana: CA, Rampart Institute, 1988, p. 402 * For the state to wither away completely, complete communism is necessary. ** [[Vladimir Lenin]], ''State and Revolution'' * '''We Communists are all dead men on leave.''' Of this I am fully aware. I do not know if you will extend my leave or whether I will have to join [[Karl Liebknecht|Karl Liebkneccht]] and [[Rosa Luxemburg]]. In any case I wait your verdict with composure and serenity. ** [[Eugen Leviné|Eugen Lévin]], ''Verso Book of Dissent'' * So in the new exuberant aggressiveness of world [[capitalism]] we see what communists and their allies had held at bay. ** {{w|Richard Levins}}, quoted in [[Michael Parenti]], ''Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism'' (1997), p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=WSsGEsBUsVcC&pg=PA58#v=onepage&q&f=false 58] * There are certain types of people who are political out of a kind of religious reason [...] I think it's fairly common among socialists: They are, in fact, God-seekers, looking for the [[kingdom of God]] on earth. A lot of religious reformers have been like that, too. It's the same psychological set, trying to abolish the present in favor of some better future — always taking it for granted that there is a better future. If you don't believe in heaven, then you believe in socialism. When I was in my real Communist phase, I and the people around me really believed — but, of course, this makes us certifiable — that something like 10 years after [[World War II]], the world would be Communist and perfect. ** [[Doris Lessing]], as quoted in [http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/01/10/specials/lessing-space.html "Doris Lessing on Feminism, Communism and Space Fiction"] (25 July 1982), Lesley Hazelton, New York Times Book Review ==M == * A specter is haunting Europe, the specter of Communism. ** [[Karl Marx]], The Communist Manifesto (1848) * The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involved the most radical rupture with traditional ideas. ** [[Karl Marx]], ''The Communist Manifesto: Chapter II. Proletarians and Communists'' (1848) [[File:"Communism Capital" 1883 art - A destructive worm - F. Graetz. LCCN2012645461 (cropped).jpg|thumb|The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with [[Christianity]] is the Christians. They really do not believe in it and hence are hypocrites. All of them pant for money and hope to collar it by changing the rules. This fundamental false pretense colors their whole propaganda. They have no more sense of honor than so many congressmen and engage constantly in wholesale lying. —[[H. L. Mencken]]]] * The [[Korean War|tragedy of Korea]] is further heightened by the fact that its military action is confined to its territorial limits. It condemns that nation, which it is our purpose to save, to suffer the devastating impact of full naval and air [[bombardment]] while the enemy's sanctuaries are fully protected from such attack and devastation. Of the nations of the world, [[Korea]] alone, up to now, is the sole one which has risked its all against communism. The magnificence of the courage and fortitude of the [[Koreans|Korean people]] defies description. They have chosen to risk [[death]] rather than [[slavery]]. Their last words to me were: 'Don't scuttle the Pacific!' ** [[Douglas MacArthur]], as quoted in [http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/douglasmacarthurfarewelladdress.htm farewell address to a Joint Session of Congress] (19 April 1951). * '''The cause of Communism is the greatest cause in the history of mankind''' becasuse it seeks to remove from society all forms of [[oppression]] and [[exploitation]], to liberate [[Humanity|mankind]] and to ensure [[peace]] and [[prosperity]] to all. ** [[Nelson Mandela]], "How to be a good Communist", ''[https://books.google.it/books?id=sSg8AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA3-PA37&lpg=RA3-PA37&dq=%22The+cause+of+Communism+is+the+greatest+cause+in+the+history+of+mankind%22&source=bl&ots=0bsJuDrtfQ&sig=ACfU3U1CGMZisxwpPoD8hsPtgoKRe0SlNg&hl=it&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiPkcSehoTsAhUJDuwKHWNuAR4Q6AEwCXoECAEQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22The%20cause%20of%20Communism%20is%20the%20greatest%20cause%20in%20the%20history%20of%20mankind%22 United States Congressional Serial Set, Edition 13677],'' (1986), p. 37 * We [[Chinese Communist Party|communists]] are like seeds and the people are the soil. Wherever we go, we must unite with the people, take root and blossom among them. ** [[Mao Zedong]], ''Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong (The Little Red Book)'' (1964). * '''Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.''' ** [[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]], ''{{w|The German Ideology}}'' (1845/46) Vol. I, Part 1. [http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/index.htm] * '''Communism differs from all previous movements in that it overturns the basis of all earlier relations of production and intercourse, and for the first time consciously treats all natural premises as the creatures of hitherto existing men, strips them of their natural character and subjugates them to the power of the united individuals.''' Its organisation is, therefore, essentially economic, the material production of the conditions of this unity; it turns existing conditions into conditions of unity. '''The reality, which communism is creating, is precisely the true basis for rendering it impossible that anything should exist independently of individuals, insofar as reality is only a product of the preceding intercourse of individuals themselves.''' ** [[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]], ''{{w|The German Ideology}}'' (1845/46) Vol. I, Part 4. [http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/index.htm] * '''A spectre is haunting [[Europe]]; the spectre of Communism.''' ** [[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]] ''{{w|The Communist Manifesto}}'' (1848), Preamble, paragraph 1, line 1. [http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch01.htm#060] * '''The theory of Communism may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.''' ** [[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]] ''{{w|The Communist Manifesto}}'' (1848), Section 2, paragraph 13. [http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch01.htm#060] * Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society; all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labour of others by means of such appropriation. ** [[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]] ''{{w|The Communist Manifesto}}'' (1848), Section 2, paragraph 30. [http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch01.htm#060] * The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a [[Communistic revolution]]. '''The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.<br> [[w:Workers of the world, unite!|WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!]]''' ** [[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]] ''{{w|The Communist Manifesto}}'' (1848), Section 4, paragraph 11 (last paragraph) [http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch01.htm#060] ** Variant translation: '''Workers of the world, unite!''' * It destroys the conditions for the existence of [[Class conflict|class antagonism]], destroys [[Social class|classes]] in general, and thereby also its domination as a class. ** [[Karl Marx]], as Quoted in Simply Philosophy [https://simplyphilosophy.org/study/communism-definition/] * The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with [[Christianity]] is the Christians. They really do not believe in it and hence are hypocrites. All of them pant for money and hope to collar it by changing the rules. This fundamental false pretense colors their whole [[propaganda]]. They have no more sense of [[honor]] than so many [[United States Congress|congressmen]] and engage constantly in wholesale lying. ** [[H. L. Mencken]], ''Mr. Mencken Sounds Off,'' in ''[[w:Life (magazine)|Life]],'' August 5, 1946, p. 51 * The chief weakness of Communism is that it is, itself, only another breed of the same [[materialism]] which is the source and root of all the [[Evil|evils]] which it so clearly sees, and it is evidently nothing but another product of the breakdown of the capitalist system. Indeed, it seems to be pieced together out of the ruins of the same [[ideology]] that once went into the vast, amorphous, intellectual structure underlying capitalism in the [[19th century|nineteenth century]]. ** [[Thomas Merton]], ''[[w:The Seven Storey Mountain|The Seven Storey Mountain]]'' (1948), pp. 149-150 * But to make the comparison applicable, we must compare Communism at its best, with the regime of individual property, not as it is, but as it might be made... The laws of property have never yet conformed to the principles on which the justification of [[private property]] rests. ** [[John Stuart Mill|J. S. Mill]], ''Principles of Political Economy'' p. 14 * Communism’s overarching project is to ensure the communal good. ** [[Cindy Milstein]], {{cite book |title=Anarchism and Its Aspirations |date=1 May 2010 |publisher=AK Press |isbn=978-1-84935-029-7 |page=13 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Anarchism_and_Its_Aspirations/FQLRDgAAQBAJ?hl=en-419&gbpv=1&pg=PA13}} * <p>If the roused and insurgent consumers secure the means of production of the salt industry, in all probability they will confiscate this industry for their own profit, and their first thought will be, not to relegate it to free competition, but rather to exploit it, ''in common'', for their own account.&nbsp; They will then name a director or a directive committee to operate the saltworks, to whom they will allocate the funds necessary to defray the costs of salt production.&nbsp; Then, since the experience of the past will have made them suspicious and distrustful, since they will be afraid that the director named by them will seize production for his own benefit, and simply reconstitute by open or hidden means the old monopoly for his own profit, they will elect delegates, representatives entrusted with appropriating the funds <!--Page 32--> necessary for production, with watching over their use, and with making sure that the salt produced is equally distributed to those entitled to it.&nbsp; The production of salt will be organized in this manner.</p><p>'''This form of the organization of production has been named communism.'''</p><p>When this organization is applied to a single commodity, the communism is said to be partial.</p><p>When it is applied to all commodities, the communism is said to be complete.</p><p>'''But whether communism is partial or complete, [[political economy]] is no more tolerant of it than it is of [[monopoly]], of which it is merely an extension.'''</p> ** [[Gustave de Molinari]], tr. J.&nbsp;Huston McCulloch, [[s:The Production of Security/5|§V]] of ''[[The Production of Security]]'' (Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2009; orig. 1849), [[s:Page:The Production of Security.pdf/32|pp. 31]]–[[s:Page:The Production of Security.pdf/33|32]]. * When ecclesiastic love waned, when waves of capitalistic greed surged across Christian Europe, when starving masses cried out bitterly in the slums, the promise of their salvation came not from heaven but from the earth. Its name was communism. Christianity, though it professed the love of God, had degenerated into a dead body of [[clergy]] trailing empty slogans. It was then only natural that a banner of rebellion would be raised, arguing that a merciless [[God]] who would allow such [[suffering]] could not exist. Hence, modern materialism was born. Western society became a hotbed of materialism; it was the fertile soil in which communism flourished. ** [[Sun Myung Moon]], [http://web.archive.org/20090829185555/www.geocities.com/unificationism/DivinePrinciple-intro.html ''Divine Principle'', Introduction] * Nonetheless, one final and inescapable conflict remains before us, the war between democracy and communism. Although each side has equipped itself with fearsome weapons and is pitted against the other in readiness for battle, the core of their conflict is internal and ideological. Which side will triumph in this final ideological conflict? Anyone who believes in the reality of God will surely answer that democracy will win. ** [[Sun Myung Moon]], [http://web.archive.org/20090829185555/www.geocities.com/unificationism/DivinePrinciple-intro.html ''Divine Principle'', Introduction] * After 7,000 biblical years — 6,000 years of restoration history plus the millennium, the time of completion — communism will fall in its 70th year. Here is the meaning of the year 1978. Communism, begun in [[Russian Revolution|1917]], could maintain itself approximately 60 years and reach its peak. So 1978 is the border line and afterward communism will decline; in the 70th year it will be altogether ruined. This is true. Therefore, now is the time for people who are studying communism to abandon it. ** [[Sun Myung Moon]], [http://www.tparents.org/Moon-Books/sm-gww/GWW-07.htm ''The Way of Restoration''], (April, 1972) * [[Government|Governments]] and [[Political parties|Parties]] which have relied on the normal instruments of government ... have fallen easy and ignoble victims to the forces of [[anarchy]]. If, therefore, such a situation arises in [[United Kingdom|Britain]], we shall prepare to meet the anarchy of Communism with the organised force of [[Fascism]]. ** [[Oswald Mosley]], ''The Greater Britain'', 1932. Quoted in John Stevenson and Chris Cook, ''The Slump : Britain in the Great Depression'' New York : Pearson Longman, 2010. * What is Communism? It is that when you have eaten enough food for your [[hunger]] and still food is left — it belongs to another man. ** {{w|AR Murugadoss}}, in ''{{w|Kaththi}}'' (2014) ==N== * America continues to aid [[South Vietnam|us]]; then we continue to fight the communists. ** [[Nguyễn Văn Thiệu]], as quoted in ''Vietnam, the Ten Thousand Day War'' (1984), by Michael MacLear. **Original Vietnamese quote: ''Mỹ còn viện trợ, thì chúng tôi còn chống cộng!'' * Don't listen to what communists say, instead look closely at what the communists do! ** [[Nguyễn Văn Thiệu]], as quoted in [http://vietbao.com/D_1-2_2-67_4-211493_5-15_6-1_17-8128_14-2_15-2/ "ĐÚNG! Đừng Nghe Những Gì CS Nói, Mà Hãy Nhìn Những Gì CS Làm!"] (26 July 2013), by Tuổi Trẻ Yêu Nước, ''Viet Bao'' (2013). Also quoted in [http://www.vietcatholic.net/News/Html/111904.htm "Cứu trợ nạn nhân là nghĩa vụ pháp lý và đạo đức"], by Hà Minh Thảo, ''TTX Công Giáo Việt Nam''. **Original Vietnamese quote: ''Đừng nghe những gì Cộng sản nói, mà hãy nhìn kỷ những gì Cộng sản làm!'' ==O== * Philosophically, Communism and [[Anarchism]] are poles apart. Practically - i.e. in the form of society aimed at - the difference is mainly one of emphasis, but it is quite irreconcilable. The Communist's emphasis is always on centralism and efficiency, the Anarchists's on liberty and equality. ** [[George Orwell]], ''Homage to Catalonia'' * If anything the war made the world safe for communism, which was as embattled as [[democracy]] in the 1930s and close to eclipse by 1942. One of the most significant consequences of the war was the spread of communism in [[Europe]] and [[Asia]] and its consolidation in the Soviet Union. The outcome reflected the significant role played by Soviet forces in defeating [[Germany]]. There is now widespread recognition that the decisive theatre of operations lay on the [[w:Eastern Front (World War II)|eastern front]]. Without Soviet resistance it is difficult to see how the democratic world could have defeated the [[Nazi Germany|new German empire]], except by sitting tight and waiting until [[Nuclear weapons|atomic weapons]] had been developed. The great paradox of the [[World War II|Second World War]] is that democracy was saved by the exertions of communism. ** [[Richard Overy]], ''Why the Allies Won'' (1995), p. 3 ==P== * The system of production developed in Russia is [[w:State socialism|State socialism]]. It is organized production, with the State as universal [[Employment|employer]], master of the entire production apparatus. The workers are master of the means of production no more than under Western capitalism. They receive their wages and are exploited by the State as the only mammoth capitalist. So the name [[State capitalism]] can be applied with precisely the same meaning. The entirety of the ruling and leading bureaucracy of officials is the actual owner of the factories, the possessing class. ** [[Antonie Pannekoek]], ''Workers Councils'' (1947), Section 2.5 * The overthrow of communism gave a green light to the unbridled exploitative impulses of Western [[Corporations|corporate interests]]. No longer needing to convince workers that they live better than their counterparts in Russia, and no longer constrained by a competing system, the corporate class is rolling back the many gains that working people in the West have won over the years. Now that the free market, in its meanest form, is emerging triumphant in the East, so will it prevail in the West. ** [[Michael Parenti]], ''Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism. '' (1997), p. 58 * Having never understood the role that existing communist powers played in tempering the worst impulses of Western capitalism and [[imperialism]], and having perceived communism as nothing but an unmitigated evil, the left anticommunists did not anticipate the losses that were to come. Some of them still don't get it. ** [[Michael Parenti]], ''Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism. '' (1997), p. 58 * Perhaps communism may even have been a viable solution to the problems of the unequal [[Redistribution of income and wealth|distribution of wealth]] that characterized the [[Industrial Revolution|industrial age]], if all of the hypothetically oppressed were [[good]] people and all of the [[evil]] was to be found, as hypothesized, in their ''[[bourgeoisie]]'' overlords. Unfortunately for the communists, a substantial proportion of the oppressed were incapable, unconscientious, unintelligent, licentious, power mad, violent, resentful, and jealous, while a substantial proportion of the oppressors were educated, able, creative, intelligent, honest, and caring. ** [[Jordan Peterson]], ''[[Beyond Order]]'' (2021), p. 167 * I think that communism was a major force for violence for more than 100 years, because it was built into its ideology—that [[progress]] comes through class struggle, often violent. It led to the widespread belief that the only way to achieve justice was to hurry this [[Dialectic|dialectical]] process along, and allow the oppressed working classes to carry out their struggle against their bourgeois oppressors. ** [[Steven Pinker]], [http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2011/11/qa-steven-pinker-0 "The violent dangers of ideology"], ''The Economist'' (2011) ==R== * Long live the Communist Party, and partisans! Fight, people, for your freedom! Do not surrender to the evildoers! I will be killed, but there are those who will avenge me! ** [[Lepa Radić]], her last words, as quoted in [https://books.google.com/books?id=z4MNAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Lepa+Radic,+whom+they+condemned+to+death+by+hanging%22&dq=%22Lepa+Radic,+whom+they+condemned+to+death+by+hanging Women of Yugoslavia in the National Liberation War] * Such terms as communism, socialism, [[w:Fabian Society|Fabianism]], the [[welfare state]], [[Nazism]], [[fascism]], state interventionism, [[egalitarianism]], the [[planned economy]], the [[New Deal]], the [[w:Fair Deal|Fair Deal]], the [[w:New Republicanism|New Republicanism]], the [[w:New Frontier|New Frontier]] are simply different labels for much the same thing. ** [[Leonard E. Read]], [https://cdn.mises.org/Elements%20of%20Libertarian%20Leadership_2.pdf Elements of Libertarian Leadership] (1962), pp 62-63 * I have one question for those rulers: If communism is the wave of the future, why do you still need walls to keep people in and armies of secret police to keep them quiet? ** [[Ronald Reagan]] speech (1983) * [<nowiki/>[[Cold War|Cold war]] demonology] is a color word, and I probably should not have used it. It means just sort of interpreting everything in terms of a great communist conspiracy and in terms of communists being supermen who somehow can overcome the great problems of differences between national units, and so on. They are not supermen at all. They are men with feet of clay which extend almost all the way up to their [[Brain|brains]]. ** {{w|Edwin O. Reischauer}}, former U.S. ambassador to Japan, testimony at hearing, January 31, 1967. Asia, the Pacific, and the United States, hearing before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, 90th Congress, 1st session, p. 19 (1967). * Seventy years ago people used to die for this idea [communism] [...], in Turin the members of the [[w:Italian Communist Party|Communist Party]], during the [[w:Italian Resistance|Resistance]], had to endure 8 hours of torture. [Fascists] would pull your eyes out with teaspoons, they'd rip your nails out with tweezers. And you had to stay silent for eight hours, and only after that you were allowed to confess and give the names of your comrades, and that was a Party guideline, to ensure the comrades' flight in those eight hours. Those men and women died for this idea. And what's politics today? They must be rolling in their own grave, can't you see that? ** [[Marco Rizzo]], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWwf3FEePSM&feature=youtu.be&t=1686 Video], 16 February 2013 * Communism is like [[w:Prohibition_in_the_United_States|prohibition]], it's a good idea but it won't work. ** [[Will Rogers]], ''The Autobiography of Will Rogers'' (1949) * The hopes which inspire communism are, in the main, as admirable as those instilled by the [[Sermon on the Mount]], but they are held as fanatically and are as likely to do as much harm. ** [[Bertrand Russell]], ''The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism'' (1920), Part I, The Present Condition of Russia, Ch. 1: What Is Hoped From Bolshevism. * The way to combat Communism is not war. What is needed in addition to such armaments as will deter Communists from attacking the West, is a diminution of the grounds for discontent in the less prosperous parts of the non-communist world. ...'''Communism is a doctrine bred of poverty, hatred and strife.''' Its spread can only be arrested by diminishing the area of poverty and hatred. ** [[Bertrand Russell]], ''Portraits From Memory And Other Essays'' (1956), p. 232 * I think all the great religions of the world - [[Buddhism]], [[Hinduism]], [[Christianity]], [[Islam]] and [[Communism]] – both untrue and harmful. ** [[Bertrand Russell]], ''My Religious Reminiscences'' (1957) reprinted in ''The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell'' * I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation. ** [[Bertrand Russell]], ''Unarmed Victory'' (1963), p. 14 * {{w|Better red than dead}}. **[[Bertrand Russel]], attributes this phrase to 'West German friends of peace' but adopted this slogan for the [[Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament]] he helped found, quoted in {{cite book | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=c4UoX6-Sv1AC&pg=PA49 | title=Safire's Political Dictionary | publisher=[[w:Oxford University Press|Oxford University Press]] | author=[[William Safire]] | year=2008 | pages=49–50}}. ==S== * Durable communist regimes had much in common. They eliminated or emasculated rival [[political parties]]. They attacked [[religion]], [[culture]], and [[civil society]]. They trampled on every version of [[nationhood]] except the one approved by communist rulership. They abolished the autonomy of the [[courts]] and the [[Freedom of the press|press]]. They [[Centralisation|centralised]] [[power]]. They turned over dissenters to forced-labour camps. They set up networks of [[w:Security police|security police]] and informers. They claimed infallibility in doctrine and paraded themselves as faultless scientists of human affairs. They insulated societies against alien influences in [[politics]] and [[culture]]. They fiercely barricaded their frontiers. They treated every aspect of social life as in need of penetration by the authorities. They handled people as a resource to be mobilised. They showed little respect for [[ecology]], [[charity]], or [[Customs|custom]]. These commonalities make it sensible to speak of a communist order. ** Robert Service, ''Comrades! A History of World Communism'' (2007), p. 9 * Communism, including its first phase (socialism), is an ideology based on destroying harmony among social classes and eliminating traditional beliefs and [[Morality|moral values]]. ** The Society of Classical Poets, [https://classicalpoets.org/submissionguidelines/ Submission Guidelines] * "That's [[Mao Zedong|Mao]]."<br>"Do people still respect him?"<br>"The government pays lip service to his memory, but the hero worship of past eras is over."<br>"And what about the ordinary people?"<br>"The so-called proletariat?"<br>"Yup."<br>"They've found another god to follow."<br>"[[Xi Jinping]]?"<br>"[[Money]]." ** [[Shamini Flint]], ''[[w:Inspector Singh Investigates: A Calamitous Chinese Killing|Inspector Singh Investigates: A Calamitous Chinese Killing]]'' * The Communists are [[Judaism|Jews]], and Russia is being entirely administered by them. They are in every government office, bureau and newspaper. They are driving out the [[Russians]] and are responsible for the [[Antisemitism|anti-Semitic]] feeling which is increasing. ** [[Clare Sheridan]], ''The New York World'', Dec. 15, 1923. See ''[https://books.google.com.br/books?id=zKFBPKa8vxoC&pg=PA27 The Secret World Government Or "The Hidden Hand": The Unrevealed in History]'' by Count Cherep-Spiridovich, p. 27 * What struck me most about the Russian Communists, even in such really exceptional personalities as [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]] and [[Leon Trotsky|Trotsky]], was their utter incapacity to be fair in discussing opinions that conflicted with their own. The adversary, simply for daring to contradict, at once became a traitor, an opportunist, a hireling. ''An adversary in good faith'' is inconceivable to the Russian Communists. What an aberration of conscience this is, for so-called [[Materialism|materialists]] and [[Rationalism|rationalists]] absolutely in their polemics to uphold the primacy of morals over intelligence! To find a comparable infatuation one has to go back to the Inquisition. ** [[Ignazio Silone]], in ''The God That Failed'', Crossman, Richard, ed. (1963). New York, NY: Harper & Row. p. 108. * Picket lines, school boycotts/They try to say it's a communist plot/All I want is [[equality]]/For my sister, my brother, my people, and me ** [[Nina Simone]], Mississippi Goddam 1964 * Communism is as crude an attempt to explain society and the individual as if a surgeon were to perform his delicate operations with a meat-axe. All that is subtle in human [[psychology]] and in the structure of society (which is even more delicate) all of this is reduced to crude economic processes. This whole created being - man - is reduced to matter. It's characteristic that Communism is so devoid of arguments that it has none to advance against its opponents in our Communist countries. It lacks arguments and hence there is the club, the [[prison]], the [[concentration camp]], and [[Insane Asylum|insane asylums]] with forced confinement. ** [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]], ''Warning to the West'' (1975) ==T== * The history of Communism, originally inspired by noble ideals, clearly illustrates what happens when people attempt to change external reality – create a new earth – without any prior change in their inner reality, their state of [[consciousness]]. They make plans without taking into account the blueprint for dysfunction that every human being carries within: the [[ego]]. ** [[Eckhart Tolle]] in [https://www.apnamba.com/Ebooks-pdf/A%20new%20Earth.pdf ''A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose,''] (2005) * A citizen of a Western democracy fondly imagines that [[totalitarianism]] lies utterly beyond the pale of normal human aspirations. And yet, [[totalitarianism]] could never have survived so long had it not been able to draw so many people into its fold. There is something else—it is a formidably efficient machine. Communist ideology offers an idealised model for society and exhorts us toward it. The desire to change the world in the name of an ideal is, after all, an essential characteristic of human identity... Furthermore, Communist society strips the individual of his responsibilities. It is always "somebody else" who makes the decisions. Remember, individual responsibility can feel like a crushing burden... The attraction of a totalitarian system, which has had a powerful allure for many, has its roots in a fear of freedom and responsibility. This explains the popularity of authoritarian regimes (which is [[Erich Fromm]]'s thesis in ''Escape from Freedom''). None of this is new; [[Boethius]] had the right idea long ago when he spoke of "voluntary servitude." ** [[Tzvetan Todorov]], ''L'homme dépaysé'' (1996), p. 36 ==W== * From the 1940s to the 1960s one alternative world covered the globe from the [[Arctic]] through the center of [[Europe]] to the [[w:Adriatic_Sea|Adriatic]], and from there through the [[w:Caucasus|Caucasus]] and [[w:Central_Asia|central Asia]] to [[North Korea|Korea]] and the city of [[Vladivostok]] on the [[w:Pacific_Ocean|Pacific Ocean]]. That city’s name, meaning “the conqueror of the east,” now symbolized Communist victory in a very large part of Eurasia. But the Communist world did not stop there. From Vladivostok it moved south, through China, the most populous country on earth, to end off the shores of [[Vietnam]], in the [[South China Sea]]. What is remarkable about this world is how it was connected. It was not just a security alliance, such as [[NATO]] was for the [[north Atlantic]] states. It was an integrationist political and economic project, built on a common understanding of how the world worked and how it ought to be changed. It based itself on the [[Marxism–Leninism|teachings of Marx and Lenin]], and on the practices that had developed in the Soviet Union under Stalin. It was fiercely protective of its unity and committed to supporting the Soviet Union in the Cold War. It was, or so it seemed, a full-fledged alternative to capitalism and a rebuke to those who believed the [[United States]] was the great victor of the [[World War II|Second World War]]. ** Odd Arne Westad, ''The Cold War: A World History'' (2017) * Everywhere, the imposition of Communist rule was based on military power. In [[eastern Europe]] and [[North Korea]] the Soviet [[w:Red_Army|Red Army]] helped put Communist regimes in place. In [[China]], [[Yugoslavia]], and [[Albania]], local Communist armies took power on their own. But in all cases their leaders identified the Communist military takeover with a socialist revolution. They left behind Marx’s concepts of capitalism under bourgeois rule gradually developing the foundations of socialism. Like [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]], they believed that Communist regimes could create socialism in their own countries, especially since the Soviet Union had blazed a path for such development. But the realization of socialism under Communist rule would have to happen in stages, so as to conform to the Marxist elements of Stalinism. The regimes were therefore forced to claim that they at first represented a “national” revolution, which would then later go on to develop socialism, because that was the best for the nation. With a dishonesty remarkably similar to private companies claiming that they are acting for the public good, Communists claimed to be acting for all the nation, even though their programs were blatantly intent on empowering some social classes and marginalizing others. ** Odd Arne Westad, ''The Cold War: A World History'' (2017) * Among the biggest difficulties for Communists in power everywhere was their claim to stand for the international. The future, they said, belonged to the proletarians and the [[Peasant|peasants]]—to classes, not to nation-states. The problem was that for many ordinary people in the 1940s and ’50s, a strong nation-state was what they wished for most. The war had shown what would happen to those groups who did not have the protection of their own state. The massive bloodletting in [[eastern Europe]], the [[The Holocaust|mass murders of Jews and Roma]], and the moving of borders had made it possible for [[Poland|Poles]], [[Hungary|Hungarians]], or [[Romania|Romanians]] to claim their countries to be nation-states. The Communists, even when professing to carry out a “national” revolution, also had to stand for [[internationalism]], especially since Moscow made that the test case for the loyalty of each Communist regime. From the very beginning, therefore, the Communists had a troubled relationship with concepts of [[Nations|nation and nationhood]], or even state [[independence]]. ** Odd Arne Westad, ''The Cold War: A World History'' (2017) * It is obvious: the division of Europe has become politically untenable: not because of Western "revanchism" to which [[Eduard Shevardnadze|Mr. Shevardnadze]] referred: not because of our interference in their domestic affairs. No. Simply for two reasons. First, because [[communism]] has failed as much in ideological as in economic and social terms. It is not able to solve the problems of modern [[Developed country|industrialised societies]] in the [[Information age|age of global communication]]. And even more important: second, because you cannot suppress freedom forever. The natural aspiration of men to live and work freely is the driving force behind the historical process of change which we are witnessing. And no [[Dictatorship|dictator]] or system - not even by using force - will be able to stop or prevent this dynamic change in the long-term. ** [[wikipedia:Manfred_Wörner|Manfred Wörner]], [https://www.nato.int/docu/speech/1989/s891009a_e.htm Address given at the 35th Annual Session of the North Atlantic Assembly], 9 October 1989 * It was in prison that we found the [[hope]] of [[salvation]] for the Communists. It was there that we developed a sense of [[responsibility]] toward them. It was in being tortured by them that we learned to love them. ** [[Richard Wurmbrand]], ''Tortured For Christ'', p. 58 (1967). * Some tell me "Preach the pure [[gospel]]!" This reminds me that the Communist secret police also told me to preach [[Christ]], but not to mention communism. Is it really so, that those who are for what is called "a pure gospel" are inspired by the same spirit as those of the Communist secret police? ** [[Richard Wurmbrand]], ''Tortured For Christ'', p. 75 (1967). ==Y== * There has been a considerable penetration of the ranks of Jewry by Communism, and Jewry in turn has come to wield a considerable power in the Communist Party. ** [[Avrahm Yarmolinsky]] in ''[https://books.google.com.br/books?id=ktkSAAAAIAAJ The Menorah Journal]'' New York, July 1928, p. 37 ==Z== * The biggest threat to America today is not communism. It's moving America toward a [[Fascism|fascist]] [[theocracy]], and everything that's happened during the [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]] administration is steering us right down that pipe … I really think that. … When you have a government that prefers a certain moral code derived from a certain [[religion]] and that moral code turns into legislation to suit one certain religious point of view, and if that code happens to be very, very right wing, almost toward [[Attila|Attila the Hun]]... ** [[Frank Zappa]], ''Crossfire'' debate on censorship (1986). * To [[White people|white]] [[United States|Americans]] of the thirties, however, [[African American|blacks]] North and South were invisible. Only the [[Radicalism|radicals]] made an attempt to break the racial barriers: Socialists, [[Leon Trotsky|Trotskyists]], Communists most of all. ** [[Howard Zinn]], ''A Peoples History of The United States'' * The perversion of Stalinist Communism consists in the fact that the view by means of which the Party looks at history coincides immediately with history's gaze upon itself. To use good old Stalinist jargon, today already half-forgotten, Communists act immediately in the name of "objective laws of historical progress"; it is history itself, its necessity, that speaks through their mouths. ** [[Slavoj Žižek]], ''Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture'', p. 22. <small>{{ISBN|026274015X}}</small> ==See also== * [[Authoritarianism]] * [[Anti-communism]] * [[Bolsheviks]] * [[Democratic socialism]] * [[Dictatorship of the proletariat]] * [[Karl Marx]] * [[Marxism]] * [[Socialism]] * [[Stalinism]] * [[:Category:Communists]] ==External links== {{wikipedia}} {{wiktionary|communism}} {{wikisource portal}} [[Category:Communism| ]] [[Category:Business]] [[Category:Cold War]] lsbj96dg50mytpioucgh6g5v0sy1o52 0 6871 3961126 3959967 2026-07-05T15:52:08Z ~2026-37414-82 3346442 /* Film */ 3961126 wikitext text/x-wiki {{italic title}} ---- :'''Seasons:''' [[Animaniacs (season 1)|1]] [[Animaniacs (season 2)|2]] [[Animaniacs (season 3)|3]] [[Animaniacs (season 4)|4]] [[Animaniacs (season 5)|5]] | [[Tiny Toon Adventures]] | [[The Plucky Duck Show]] | [[Pinky and the Brain]] | [[Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain|Pinky, Elmyra and the Brain]] | [[Histeria!]] | [[Animaniacs|Main]] ---- '''''[[w:Animaniacs|Animaniacs]]''''' (1993–1998) is an American animated comedy musical television series created by Tom Ruegger. 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Animation]] gu7e9sgu25qw31pjgdxnhwbvj9v0lmy 0 6882 3961252 3960894 2026-07-05T19:43:17Z BD2412 3982 Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]] 3961252 wikitext text/x-wiki '''[[w:Richard Roth Jr.|Richard Roth Jr.]]''' was an architect who ran the prominent New York City based architecture firm [[wikipedia:Emery, Roth and Sons|Emery, Roth and Sons]] after his father's death. Under his leadership, the firm erected dozens of skyscrapers in Manhattan, many of them on Park Avenue, during the 50's, 60's and 70's. The most prominent of these is the [[wikipedia:Pan Am Building|Pan Am Building]].' {{people-stub}} == Quotes == === As quoted in Meredith L. Clausen, "The Pan Am Building and the Shattering of the Modernist Dream" [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=E6qRuyzOogIC&pg=PA275&lpg=PA275&dq=%22Unfortunately,+buildings+are+not+like+drawings.+You+can%27t+just+erase+them.%22&source=bl&ots=wkwiw7U92A&sig=4fGIk_ufWMT3wv_c6l6k8uaYMv0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=HYlHVNHNJ4Lb7Aa86oHwCA&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22Unfortunately%2C%20buildings%20are%20not%20like%20drawings.%20You%20can%27t%20just%20erase%20them.%22&f=false] === * We're in the business of designing buildings for businessmen who put up buildings for other businessmen. (p.185) * Unfortunately, buildings are not like drawings. You can't just erase them. (p.275) * Architecture reflects society, and this is not a great age. (p.276) == External links == {{wikipedia}} * [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/richard-roth-jr/19/593/199 LinkedIn profile] {{DEFAULTSORT:Roth, Richard Jr.}} [[Category:Architects from the United States]] [[Category:Living people]] sczufft0yxev9mxevo8j1a2pdiwzltd 0 7123 3961296 3718958 2026-07-05T21:43:06Z Filmator1 3314256 /* */ 3961296 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Daredevil_Logo_pelicula_2003.jpg|thumb]] [[File:San_Diego_Comic-Con_2011_-_Daredevil_movie_costume_%286039244373%29.jpg|thumb|right|I'm not the bad guy]] {{italic title}} '''''[[w:Daredevil (film)|Daredevil]]''''' is a [[w:2003 in film|2003 film]] featuring characters from [[w:Marvel Comics|Marvel Comics]]. A blind man whose remaining senses are superhumanly acute battles crime as the costumed vigilante Daredevil, the "Man Without Fear". :''Directed by [[w:Mark Steven Johnson|Mark Steven Johnson]]. Screenplay by [[w:Mark Steven Johnson|Mark Steven Johnson]].'' {{center|Tagline: '''When justice is blind, it knows no fear.'''}} ==[[w:Daredevil (Marvel Comics)|Matt Murdock/Daredevil]]== * ''[narrating]'' I had lost my sight, but I got something back in return. My remaining four senses functioned with superhuman sharpness. But most amazing of all, my sense of sound gave off a kind of radar sense. * ''[narrating]'' High above the city streets, I trained my body and my senses. An acute sense of touch gave me both strength and balance, until the city itself became my playground. * ''[narrating]'' I waited outside the Olympic for my father. In some ways, I'm still waiting. Nobody cared much about the death of a washed-up prizefighter... nobody but me. * ''[narrating]'' I would keep my promise. I would help those that others wouldn't. I would seek justice... one way or another. * Can one man make a difference? There are days when I believe, and others when I have lost all faith. * Mister Quesada, for your sake, I hope justice is found here today... before justice finds you. * Hey, that light at the end of the tunnel? Guess what? That's not heaven. That's the C train! * When it rains, it's like there's a rooftop on the world. Each raindrop makes a sound the first time it falls on a surface. Just then, it's like I-I... it's like I can see again. And I-I just want to... I just want to ''see'' you. * I tried, Father. I tried. This is who I am. * If there are no eyewitnesses, I mean, you know, ''Bigfoot'' has eyewitnesses. * ''[narrating]'' Hell’s Kitchen is my neighborhood. I prowl the rooftops and alleyways at night. Watching from the darkness. Forever in darkness. A guardian devil. ==[[w:Elektra (character)|Elektra Natchios]]== * You should know that the only reason I got dressed up for this thing was that I wanted to look beautiful for you. I wish you could see me tonight. * It's just... good things don't happen to me very often. When they do, I get scared. * You ''don't'' know how I feel. I want revenge. * I want to look into the eyes of my father's killer as he dies. ==[[w:Bullseye (comics)|Bullseye]]== * I ''missed''. I ''NEVER'' miss! * I want a bloody ''costume!'' * You're good, baby, I'll give you that. But me? I'm magic. * 'Man without fear' ''[chuckles]'' Looks like I found something you're afraid of. Let's bring on the pain! Let's bring on the noise! ==[[w:Kingpin (comics)|Wilson Fisk/Kingpin]]== * The press want a Kingpin, so I'll give them a Kingpin. Get me Bullseye. * Nobody's innocent. Nobody. * It's a shame you came here wounded. I would've loved to fight you in your prime. They called you the man without fear. If that's true, why are you afraid to show your face? ==[[w:Foggy Nelson|Franklin Nelson]]== * There ''are'' alligators in the sewers! Don't ride my ass about the alligators. I got a friend in Sanitation, okay? He's seen them! * That place is gonna be crawling with people, ''rich'' people! People who pay their legal fees with ''money'', not with fish, or with-with-with wheels of cheese, or with sports supplies! I'm gonna fill you in on a little secret, Matt. This doesn't look like a law office, okay? It looks like the set of goddamn "Sanford and Son". Every time I walk in, I'm waiting for Lamont to come down the stairs! ==Others== * '''Matt Murdock's answering machine''': Matt, it's Heather. Are you there? Of course you're not there. You're never there. At least, not for me. Look, I didn't want to do this over the phone, but it's not like you've given me any choice. I mean, It's been three months, and I've never even seen your apartment. Every time we sleep together, I wake up in the morning alone. I mean, Jesus, where do you ''go'' at three o'clock in the morning? * '''Jack Kirby''': You said to look out for anything weird, yes? Well, it's some pretty weird shit right here, man, right? ==Dialogue== :'''Fallon''': Jack, it's been a while. :'''Jack Murdock''': I don't work for you no more, Fallon. :'''Fallon''': Jack, you never stopped. Did you ''really'' think you won all those fights on your own? You're forty-two years old! Miller, Mack, Bendis, they're all my fighters... just like you. And now it's your turn to take a fall. Think about your boy, Jack. I'm sure you'll do the right thing. <hr width=50%/> :''(A vigilante superhero in the confessional)'' :'''Matt Murdock''': Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. It's been a week since my last... :'''Father Everett''': What the hell are playing at, Matt? You didn't come here for forgiveness. You came for ''permission'', and I can't give you that. :'''Matt''': Justice isn't a sin, Father. :'''Father Everett''': No, but vengeance is. You see it every day on the street: violence begets more violence. Is that how you want to live your life? A lawyer during the day, and then judge and jury at night. Is that what you want? :'''Matt''': Somebody has to do something. :'''Father Everett''': But why you? :'''Matt''': Because I can. Because I'm not afraid. :'''Father Everett''': Well, I'm afraid ''for'' you, Matthew. Look, a man without fear is a man without hope. May God have mercy on you for your sins and grant you Everlasting Life, Amen. ''(sighs)'' I'm not too crazy about the outfit, either. <hr width=50%/> :'''Franklin Nelson''': Your client, Mister Lee, he made his first payment today. :'''Matt Murdock''': That's great. You should be very happy. :'''Franklin''': Yeah, it's fantastic. He paid in ''fluke''. Fluke is a fish, Matt. Did you know that? Because I sure as hell didn't. :'''Matt''': Mister Lee is a good man, and he... he doesn't have a lot of money, and he goes fishing on the weekends, so I guess that's... :'''Franklin''': Yeah, well, I go salsa dancing on the weekends, but I don't shake my ass to pay my phone bill, you know what I'm sayin'? <hr width=50%/> :'''Franklin''': We need some better clients. I'm tired of these pro bono cases. :'''Matt''': What is your problem with our clients? We have good, honorable clients, decent people. What's your idea of better? Define "better". Huh? What would be a "better" client? :'''Franklin''': "Better" means ''rich'' and ''guilty'', okay? Remember how they taught us in law school how to create a moral vacuum, so you can represent people who aren't all necessarily innocent? :'''Matt''': That was your best course, as I recall. :'''Franklin''': Yeah, well, you don't ''have'' a moral vacuum, Matt. You're completely vacuumless. <hr width=50%/> :''(In the coffee shop, Elektra is reading)'' :'''Matt Murdock''': Uh, I was just looking for some honey. Could you help me out? :'''Elektra Natchios''' ''(without looking up)'': Right in front of you. :'''Matt''': ''(chuckles)'' Well... could you be a little more specific? :'''Elektra''': ''(looking up)'' What, are you... :'''Matt''': Blind? Yeah. :'''Elektra''': ''(shocked)'' I am ''so'' sorry! :'''Matt''': It's okay. :'''Elektra''': ''(about Nelson)'' Friend of yours? :'''Matt''': You know, I've never seen him before. ''(extends a hand)'' Matt Murdock. :'''Elektra''': ''(shakes hands)'' Nice to meet you, Matt Murdock. :'''Matt''': Nice to meet you, uhh... I didn't get your name. :'''Elektra''': I didn't give it. ''(she exits the coffee shop)'' <hr width=50%/> :''(Matt follows Elektra, tracking her by scent to a park)'' :'''Elektra''': What do you want? :'''Matt''': I just wanted to get your name. I didn't want any trouble. :'''Elektra''': Look... I don't like being followed. So don't. ''(she turns to storm off)'' :'''Matt''': Uh, wait a minute, wait a minute. ''Wait'' a second, take it easy! ''(he catches Elektra's hand)'' :'''Elektra''': And I don't like being touched! ''(she throws a punch; Matt counters and pins her arms)'' :'''Matt''': What don't you tell me what you ''do'' like, and we'll start there. Okay? :''(Elektra throws more punches and kicks, which Matt dodges. The two separate, remove their jackets, and strike martial arts poses)'' :'''Elektra''': You sure you're blind? :'''Matt''': Sure you don't wanna tell me your name? <hr width=50%/> :''(Later, during a pause in the fighting)'' :'''Matt Murdock''': Does every guy have to go through all this just to find out your name? :'''Elektra''': Try asking for my ''number''. <hr width=50%/> :'''Kingpin''': What's wrong, Wesley? :'''Wesley''': Have you seen the papers today? Somebody's been talking. :'''Kingpin''': Somebody always does. Wesley, did you know back in ancient times, they would cut the tongues out of their bodyguards their first day on the job? You think that's horrible, don't you? Because you don't like the physical stuff. I do. ''(he brutally kills one of his guards)'' Wesley, handkerchief. <hr width=50%/> :'''Matt Murdock''': Where'd you learn how to fight like that? :'''Elektra Natchios''': My father. He had me study with a different sensei every year since I was five years old. :'''Matt''': Sounds like he wanted to turn you into some kind of a warrior. :'''Elektra''': No. Just not a victim. <hr width=50%/> :'''Matt Murdock''': I said I was sorry. What do you want? :'''Franklin Nelson''': Details. You owe me that. :'''Matt''': Her name's Elektra Natchios. :'''Franklin''': She sounds like a Mexican appetizer. :'''Matt''': It's Greek, genius. Her father's Nikolas Natchios. :'''Franklin''': The billionaire? :'''Matt''': Yeah, see? Yes, the billionaire. :'''Franklin''': Well, then, as your attorney in this matter, I advise you to marry the woman immediately. :'''Matt''': I'll take it under consideration. What do we got? :'''Franklin''': Oh, this one's a real winner. Dante Jackson, an ex-con from Queens charged with the August 9th murder of Lisa Tazio, your friendly neighborhood prostitute. Bad news is Jackson was found passed out in an alley holding the murder weapon and enough THC in his lungs to get Staten Island high. Jackson says he can't remember what happened on the night of the murder or for that matter, most of the '90s. :'''Matt''': What's the good news? :'''Franklin''': The good news is the fluke wasn't bad. <hr width=50%/> :''(Matt Murdock arrives at his office and is greeted by his secretary)'' :'''Karen Page''': This just came by messenger. It's your invitation to the Black and White Ball at the Grand, plus one. ''(she smiles expectantly)'' :'''Franklin Nelson''': Plus one? All right! Guess I gotta rent a tux. <hr width=50%/> :'''Franklin''': Natchios owns the Grand Hotel. And Elektra's the reason you were invited to the ball. :'''Matt''': She's out of my league. I'd rather just end it before it starts. :'''Franklin''': That's gotta be some kind of record, Matt. You just completely bypassed the whole relationship phase. You went right into the breakup. Trying to save some time, huh? <hr width=50%/> :''(Walking on the street at night, Matt Murdock stops and sniffs the air)'' :'''Matt''': So, does this mean you want a rematch? :'''Elektra''': ''(smiling)'' I knew I'd find you. How did you know I wasn't a mugger? :'''Matt''': Muggers don't usually wear rose oil or high heels. At least, this far from Chelsea. <hr width=50%/> :''(Matt has taken Elektra onto a rooftop)'' :'''Elektra''': Wait a second, exactly how many women have you had up here? :'''Matt''': Uh, you're my first. :'''Elektra''': Good answer. :'''Matt''': I thought that was the right answer. :'''Elektra''': ''Look'' at this! It's so beautiful! :'''Matt''': I know. This was my favorite view of the city when I was a kid. I really wanted you to see this. <hr width=50%/> :'''Ben Urich''': Cool color. ''(commenting on Matt's cane)'' :'''Matt:''' I wouldn't know. <hr width=50%/> :'''Franklin Nelson''': Oh-oh-oh! Look at that! Wilson Fisk is in the hizzie! Come on, we might never get a chance like this again. Come on, let's go! ''(to Fisk)'' Mister Fisk? Mister Fisk, it's Franklin Nelson from Nelson and Murdock... :'''Wesley''': Excuse me. You want to talk to Mister Fisk, you make an appointment. Okay? :'''Wilson Fisk''': It's all right, Wesley. ''(to Nelson)'' I know who you are. You're the blind lawyers from Hell's Kitchen. :'''Franklin''': Actually, actually ''he's'' the blind one. I'm deaf. :'''Fisk''': ''(chuckles)'' Give them a card, Wesley. I'm always on the lookout for new blood. :'''Matt Murdock''': I'm sorry, Mister Fisk, my partner's a little overzealous. We can't represent you. :'''Fisk''': Why's that? :'''Franklin''': Yes, why ''is'' that, Mister Murdock? :'''Matt''': Because we only handle clients who are innocent. :'''Fisk''': ''(chuckles)'' "Innocent", he says. That's pretty funny. You know, I've learned one thing in all my years in this business. :'''Matt''': What's that? :'''Fisk''': Nobody's innocent. ''Nobody.'' Have a great time at the party. ''(Fisk and Wesley exit)'' :'''Franklin''': I just... Matt, for ''one'' night I just wish, I just... ''(he spots Elektra, in an evening gown, on the balcony)'' Matt, I just wish I could give you my eyes for one night. <hr width=50%/> :''(On the dance floor, Elektra reaches up to remove Matt's dark glasses)'' :'''Elektra''': Do you mind? :'''Matt''': Uh, no, I just... sometimes it makes people uncomfortable, that's all. :'''Elektra''': Not me. But you should know that the only reason I got dressed up for this thing was that I wanted to look beautiful for you. I wish you could see me tonight. :'''Matt''': Me, too. <hr width=50%/> :''(Nikolas Natchios is watching Elektra on the dance floor; Wilson Fisk approaches him from behind)'' :'''Fisk''': I think she's happy. I haven't seen her smile like that since her mother was killed. Poor girl, right in front of her eyes. :'''Natchios''': Why do you have to bring that up now? :'''Fisk''': History has a way of repeating itself. :'''Natchios''': What are you saying? :'''Fisk''': Just saying goodbye, old friend. Just saying goodbye. <hr width=50%/> :''(At Nikolas Natchios' funeral)'' :'''Matt''': I know how you feel. :'''Elektra''': You ''don't'' know how I feel. I want revenge. :'''Matt''': Revenge won't make the pain go away. Trust me. I know. :'''Elektra''': There's no place for me now. :'''Matt''': Yes, there is. Stay. Stay with me. Please. :''(Elektra starts to leave)'' :'''Matt''': Elektra. Elektra, wait! Please. <hr width=50%/> :''(Wilson Fisk enters his office to find Bullseye sitting at his desk)'' :'''Fisk''': Now how did you get past my security? :'''Bullseye''': Oh, you mean that guy? ''(chuckling, he points to corpse on the floor)'' :'''Fisk''': Was that really necessary? :'''Bullseye''': Necessary? No. It was fun. <hr width=50%/> :'''Bullseye''': The Devil is ''mine''. :'''Fisk''': Really? I've heard that before, all too many times. But answer me this. How do you kill a man without fear? :'''Bullseye''': By puttin' the fear ''in'' him. :'''Fisk''': Ah... I like that. But first, give Elektra all my best. Is there anything else? :'''Bullseye''': Yeah, I want a fucking costume. <hr width=50%/> :''(theatrical cut only)'' :'''Ben Urich''': Matt, it's Ben Urich. :'''Matt Murdock''': I know who it is. What do you want? :'''Urich''': I got a lead on my story. I think that Natchios was set up by the real Kingpin. :'''Matt''': Why are you telling me this? :'''Urich''': They say the Kingpin doesn't just kill you. He kills your whole family. I think your girl's in trouble. I thought you might know somebody that could protect her. <hr width=50%/> :''(Elektra, armed and suited up in leather, attacks Daredevil intent on murder)'' :'''Elektra''': Remember me? :'''Daredevil''': It wasn't me! Stop! It was a hitman named Bullseye. I didn't kill your father! :'''Elektra''': ''Liar.'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Daredevil''': ''(restraining Elektra)'' I'm not gonna fight you. :'''Elektra''': Good. Then, this will be quick. :''(Elektra breaks free from Daredevil)'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Elektra''': ''(after being stabbed)'' Help me. :'''Daredevil''': Stay, stay with me. :''(Elektra dies)'' <hr width=50%/> :''(Father Everett finds Daredevil, badly wounded, in the church; Bullseye enters in pursuit and sends a throwing star into the wall above the Father's head)'' :'''Bullseye''': The first one's a warning... padre. :'''Daredevil''': Is there a back door out of here? :'''Father Everett''': Yes. :'''Daredevil''': Take it. :'''Father Everett''': What about you? :'''Daredevil''': I'm gonna finish this. :'''Father Everett''': You can't fight like this, son! :'''Daredevil''': Have faith, Father. Isn't that right? <hr width=50%/> :'''Bullseye''': Fisk was right about you. He said you wouldn't go easy. :'''Daredevil''': Fisk? Fisk is the Kingpin? :'''Bullseye''': Yeah. That whole red rose thing? He loves that shite. It's not my style. He hired me to kill Natchios, and to gut your pretty girlfriend too. But me, I'm going for the hat-trick. I told him I'd do you for free. <hr width=50%/> :'''Wesley''': There's been a problem. :'''Wilson Fisk''': Bullseye failed. :'''Wesley''': Correct. :'''Fisk''': Send the guards home. :'''Wesley''': ''(confused)'' B-but, sir... :'''Fisk''': I was raised in the Bronx, Wesley. This is something ''you'' wouldn't understand. <hr width=50%/> :'''Wilson Fisk''': It's a shame you came here wounded. I would've loved to fight you in your prime. They called you the man without fear. If that's true, why are you afraid to show your face? ''(pulls off Daredevil's mask and is laughing)'' No, I don't believe this. No, no. The blind lawyer from Hell's Kitchen? :'''Matt Murdock''': You killed the only two people I ever loved. ''Why?'' :'''Fisk''': Business. That's all it ever is, is business. I was working for Fallon at the time. Your father was supposed to throw a fight. And your girl was in the wrong family at the wrong time. It's all business. ''(long pause)'' And you've been in my business for ''too long!'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Fisk''': You hear that, blind man? Sirens. They're coming for you. :'''Matt''': For me? Didn't you hear? The word's out on the Kingpin. They're coming for ''you''. I can hear the police radios from here. :'''Fisk''': No, no. I swear, I'll tell 'em who you are. :'''Matt''': Yeah? Go ahead. Tell 'em. Tell all the guys at Ryker's all about how you got beat by a blind man. It'll be like blood in the water. :'''Fisk''': Oh, don't worry about that. Cause I'll get out. :'''Matt''': Yeah, I know. And I'll be waiting. Justice is served. == About ''Daredevil (film)'' == *'''Q''': How did you prepare to play a blind man? :'''A''': I wanted to learn what it was like to live with no sight. I worked with this amazing guy named Tom Sullivan. He's blind and climbs Mount Everest, which really puts your own life in perspective. I also wore these special contact lenses that made my eyes looked scarred and opaque from the radiation accident that had originally blinded Daredevil. :'''Q''': How is Daredevil different from other superheroes? :'''A''': A lot. The vigilante element in his character puts him at the far end of these guys; not to mention his religion and belief in Catholicism. Overall, he's more human and he battles with the same things the rest of us do on an everyday basis. Also, the heart of the movie is a love story with Jennifer Garner [who plays Elektra]. That's also what made the movie different and more interesting than a lot of other comic book movies. :* Ben Affleck, [http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2003/02/10/ben_affleck_daredevil_interview.shtml “Ben Affleck Daredevil Interview”], Alana Lee, ''BBC'', (2003/02/10). * I was very familiar with the [[w:Kingpin (character)|Kingpin]]. When I read the comic books, that was the only person I read it for. Growing up like I did, I never thought I'd be able to portray this guy. When they came to me and said I could be the Kingpin and I get to fight Ben, I said, 'Yeah!' It was like a dream come true." ** Michael Clarke Duncan in [http://www.mtv.com/news/1455368/affleck-garner-open-up-about-daredevil/ "Affleck, Garner Open Up About 'Daredevil'"], Ryan J Downey, ''MTV'', (06/21/2002). * There must be a woman, and in "Daredevil" there is one (only one, among all those major make characters, although the fragrant Ellen Pompeo has a slink-on). She is Elektra Natchios (Jennifer Garner), who, like her classical namesake, wants to avenge the death of her father. By day, she is, well, pretty much as she is by night. She and Daredevil are powerfully attracted to each other, and even share some PG-13 sex, which is a relief because when superheroes have sex at the R level, I am always afraid someone will get hurt. There is a rather beautiful scene where he asks her to stand in the rain because his ears are so sensitive they can create an image of her face from the sound of the raindrops. * Daredevil describes himself as a "guardian devil," and that means there are guardian angels, and that means God exists and, by a process of logical deduction, that Matt Murdock is a Catholic. Please address your correspondence to Rome. <br> The movie is actually pretty good. Affleck and Garner probe for the believable corners of their characters, do not overact, are given semi-particular dialogue, and are in a very good-looking movie. Most of the tension takes place between the characters, not the props. There is, of course, a fancy formal ball to which everyone is invited (Commissioner Gordon must have been at the rival affair across town). ** [[Roger Ebert]], [https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/daredevil-2003 “Daredevil”], ''Rogerebert.com'', (February 14, 2003). *'''Q''': In this movie you’re playing an unrelentingly bad villain. Did you work on finding the human side of the villain? :'''A''': Not this time. I mean I’m a great man for trying to find shades in characters, different layers and all that kind of bullshit that actors talk about, I’m a great man for that, but this time it was a chance for me to just check my sanity in at the door and just have a field day. Not worry about a dead father or a prisoner of war camp or finding out who the killer is. Not worrying about anything past or future. Just worrying about being exactly in the now and just dealing with that. <br> Bullseye was great. He was so black and white. There were no shades of gray. He was just an insane assassin and derived so much pleasure from his work as a killer. <br> He’s like a cat with a ball of thread. In the fight with Elektra, that’s what I mean. He’s just on top of the world when he’s into having a fight with Elektra and he’s just toying with her like she’s a piece of thread. :* Colin Farrell, [https://www.cbr.com/oh-my-god-im-ridiculous-colin-farrell-talks-daredevil/ "‘Oh my God, I’m ridiculous!’ Colin Farrell talks ‘Daredevil’"] by Rob Worley, ''CBR.com'', (02.06.2003). *'''Q''': How does Daredevil compare to other comic book heroes? :'''A''': Daredevil stands out because he's real. He's superhuman, not a superhero. He is an ordinary guy who happens to have these incredibly acute senses. He is compelled to be out in the world taking care of crimes, one at a time. He's not about saving the whole world. He's about saving his own neighbourhood, a ten-block radius. And it's not the huge crimes he's interested in. It's saving a little boy from being beaten or saving a woman from being raped. :'''Q''': What drives Elektra? :'''A''': She's driven by vengeance. She's a very dark woman. But the great thing about this movie is that it starts with her falling in love. What was fun about playing her was that I got to play both the tenderness and the blissfulness of falling in love, and also her vengeful darker side. :* Jennifer Garner, [http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2003/02/11/jennifer_garner_daredevil_interview.shtml “Jennifer Garner Daredevil Interview”] Alana Lee, ''BBC'', (2003/02/11). * ‘Daredevil’ was an R and I had to cut things out to make it a PG-13 and this is just like, there is so much stuff in it that I thought, ‘Oh my God, we’re dead.’ But we made it which is amazing. You know what’s funny is that what made ‘Daredevil’ an R is there was this scene where [[w:Bullseye (comics)|Bullseye]] kills [[w:Elektra (comics)|Elektra]], he gutted her – that was okay. He kissed her afterwards and then he threw her down. The kiss gave us an R. Isn’t that weird? Its okay to kill a girl, but you just can’t kiss her afterwards because somehow that’s repulsive. I don’t know. * Last time it was like, ‘We love “Daredevil,” but we don’t want to do horns and a costume. It’s silly.’ It was like, ‘But that’s it. That’s the character.’ That’s the hard part. Fans get angry and are like, ‘He’s in a leather costume. That’s not what the comic is.’ You want to say, ‘Look, I love you guys, but you don’t understand. There was no costume! I fought just to get a costume and just to have the horns and the double d. That was months of fighting.’ Again though, no one is the bad guy here. They gave me a big shot and they were very supportive in the end, but these movies are difficult. They’re very hard. :* Mark Steven Johnson in [http://collider.com/frosty-interviews-mark-steven-johnson-the-writerdirector-of-ghost-rider/ "Frosty Interviews Mark Steven Johnson – The Writer/Director of ‘Ghost Rider’"] by Steve Frost Weintraub, ''Collider'', (Dec 5, 2006). * Daredevil…gets his ass kicked a lot in the movie. I think that’s cool! You know what I mean? Because anybody that gets hit fifty times in a Hong Kong movie and they’re fine, there’s always this like BOP-BOP-BOP-BOP-BOP and then there’s that one BOP and a guy goes flying and it’s like, what was so special about that one and why didn’t you do that sooner, dude? What have you been doing this for? : So in ‘Daredevil’ I really wanted to show repercussions to the violence. When Daredevil gets beaten up you see what it’s doing to his body. He’s pulling a tooth out of his mouth, like in ‘Ninja Scroll,’ which kind of inspired that scene, or the pain pills and the knee surgery and the back scars. It’s like, wow, this guy’s only thirty years old and literally his body’s falling apart! : I think that’s really interesting. So I really wanted to show that he’s not impervious to pain. That when there’s a fight, he also gets hurt. * I wanted to show like, instead of ‘golly gee, how great to be a superhero,’ I wanted to show the dark side of being a superhero. That was really appealing to me to show something different. :* Mark Steven Johnson in [https://www.cbr.com/bringing-sight-to-daredevil-director-mark-steven-johnson-discusses-the-movie/ "Bringing sight to ‘Daredevil;’ director Mark Steven Johnson discusses the movie"] by Rob Worley, ''CBR.com'', (1.31.2003). ==Cast== * [[Ben Affleck]] - Matt Murdock/Daredevil * [[Jennifer Garner]] - Elektra Natchios * [[Colin Farrell]] - Bullseye * [[Michael Clarke Duncan]] - Wilson Fisk/the Kingpin * [[w:Jon Favreau|Jon Favreau]] - Franklin Nelson * [[w:Joe Pantoliano|Joe Pantoliano]] - [[w:Ben Urich|Ben Urich]] * [[w:David Keith|David Keith]] - Jack Murdock * [[w:Derrick O'Connor|Derrick O'Connor]] - Father Everett * [[w:Leland Orser|Leland Orser]] - Wesley Welch * [[w:Lennie Loftin|Lennie Loftin]] - Detective Nick Manolis * [[Erick Avari]] - Nikolas Natchios * [[w:Paul Ben-Victor|Paul Ben-Victor]] - Jose Quesada * [[w:Scott Terra|Scott Terra]] - Young Matt * [[w:Mark Margolis|Mark Margolis]] - Fallon * [[w:Ellen Pompeo|Ellen Pompeo]] - Karen Page * [[Kevin Smith]] - Jack Kirby (Forensic assistant) * [[w:Coolio|Coolio]] - Dante Jackson (director's cut) ==External links== {{wikipedia}} * {{imdb title|0287978|Daredevil}} * {{rotten-tomatoes|daredevil|Daredevil}} [[Category:2003 films]] [[Category:2003 American films]] [[Category:Action films]] [[Category:Comic book films]] [[Category:Crime drama films]] [[Category:Crime thriller films]] [[Category:Martial arts films]] [[Category:Films about blind people]] [[Category:Films set in New York City]] [[Category:Films based on works by Stan Lee]] [[Category:Blindness in fiction]] [[Category:Screenplays by Mark Steven Johnson]] [[Category:Films about Catholicism]] [[Category:Films directed by Mark Steven Johnson]] [[Category:Censored films]] [[Category:Cult films]] [[Category:Daredevil (Marvel Comics)]] [[Category:2000s English-language films]] [[Category:Superhero drama films]] oo8fqkrshuy9ri8gapzu3d2jb3jlpnj 0 8138 3961133 3692761 2026-07-05T16:25:56Z BD2412 3982 /* Quotes */ Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]], replaced: Henry Morgenthau, Sr. → Henry Morgenthau Sr. (5) using [[Project:AWB|AWB]] 3961133 wikitext text/x-wiki {{semiprotected|reason=of persistent blanking}} [[File:Ambassador Morgenthau's Story p435b.jpg|thumb| Yes, it was genocide —[[w:Halil Berktay|Halil Berktay]]]] The '''[[w:Armenian Genocide|Armenian genocide]]''' (also known as the Armenian Holocaust or Armenian Massacre) refers to the mass relocation and related deaths of [[w:Armenian|Armenian]]s during the [[w:Young Turks|Young Turks]] government of the [[w:Ottoman Empire|Ottoman Empire]] from 1915 to 1917. == Quotes == [[File:Armenian Genocide Map-en.svg|thumb|right|It may look amazing, but the reality that what happened in 1915 was a mass murder was accepted by everybody having lived in that period, and was never the object of an argument... ~ [[w:Taner Akçam|Taner Akçam]] ]] :<small>Quotations arranged alphabetically by author</small> * '''It may look amazing, but the reality that what happened in 1915 was a mass murder was accepted by everybody having lived in that period, and was never the object of an argument.''' Of course the word soykirim [genocide] (being a term belonging to the post World War II period) was not used in those days. To describe what had happened in 1915, words such as "katliam" [massacre], "taktil" [killings], "teb'id" [taking away, expulsion, expelling], "kital" [massacre] were used. '''[[Mustafa Kemal Atatürk|Mustafa Kemal]] has dozens of speeches in which he defines the treatments reserved to Armenians as "cowardice", or "barbarity", and names these treatments "massacre".''' In September 1919, the American General Harbord, who visited [[Mustafa Kemal Atatürk|Mustafa Kemal]] in Sivas, says "he, too, disapproved the Armenian Massacre." According to Mustafa Kemal, "the massacre and deportation of Armenians was the work of a small committee who had seized the power." ** [[w:Taner Akçam|Taner Akçam]], historian and sociologist, in [http://ermeni.org/english/1915legendsandrealities.htm "1915 Legends and Realities"] in the Turkish daily "Radikal" (25 May 2003) as translated by Dikran D./Anna K. Piranian [[File:NY Times Armenian genocide.jpg|thumb|right|The real story can never be told. It is untellable. ~ [[William Saroyan]] ]] * '''What I want to explain is the following: the fact that what happened in 1915 was a mass murder was not even the subject of an argument in any manner from the viewpoint of the actors of that period, with Mustafa Kemal at their head.''' The main discussion of that period was organized around the axis of the [[w:Paris Peace Conference, 1919|deliberations of Paris]], and it was about how the "Turks" should be punished for the Armenian Massacre. To put the criminals on trial was one form of punishment. Another form was the partition of [[w:Anatolia|Anatolia]]. That is, the Western Powers were hiding their imperial ambitions mainly behind the reality of Armenians having been killed. '''Mustafa Kemal and his friends accepted the reality that those responsible of the massacre should be punished, but opposed that this punishment be in the form of the partition of Anatolia.''' Today, rather than producing lies and legends, if we make the position of Mustafa Kemal on this subject our departure point, and continue our discussion from there, we shall have covered a fairly long distance. ** [[w:Taner Akçam|Taner Akçam]], historian and sociologist, in "1915 Legends and Realities" in the Turkish daily "Radikal" (25 May 2003) as translated by Dikran D./Anna K. Piranian * '''A discussion of the Armenian Genocide could reveal that this Turkish state was not a result of a war fought against the imperial powers, but, on the contrary, a product of the war against the Greek and Armenian minorities.''' It could show that a significant part of the National Forces consisted either of murderers who directly participated in the Armenian Genocide or of thieves who had become rich by plundering Armenian possessions. ** [[w:Taner Akçam|Taner Akçam]], historian and sociologist in ''The Genocide of Armenians and the silence of the Turks'' * '''I would like to ask a very simple, ordinary question. Would you wish to be an Armenian in 1915? No, you wouldn't. Because now you know you would have been killed. Please stop arguing about the number of murdered or the denials or the attempts to replace pain with statistics.''' No one is denying that Armenians were murdered, right? It may be 300,000, or 500,000, or 1.5 million. I don't know which number is the truth, or whether anyone knows the true number accurately. '''What I do know is the existence of the death and pain beyond these numbers. ...we are talking about human beings. When we hear about a baby pulled from a mother's hands to be dashed on the rocks, or a youth shot to death beside a hill, or an old woman throttled by her slender neck, even the hard-hearted among us will be ashamed to say, 'Yes, but these people killed the Turks.' Most of these people did not kill anyone. These people became the innocent victims of a crazed government powered by murder, pitiless but also totally incompetent in governing. This bloody insanity was a barbarism, not something for us to take pride in or be part of.''' This was a slaughter that we should be ashamed of, and, if possible, something that we can sympathize with and share the pain. What is more important for me is the fact that many innocent people were killed so barbarically. When I see the shadow of this bloody event on the present world, I see a greater injustice done to the Armenians. I have nothing in common with the terrible sin of the past Ittihadists, but the sin of not allowing grief for the dead belongs to all of us today. Do you really want to commit this sin? Hundreds of thousands of human beings were murdered. Hundreds of thousands of lives snuffed out. The fact that some Armenian gangs murdered some Turks cannot be an excuse to mask the truth that hundreds of thousands of Armenians were murdered. '''A human being of conscience is capable of grieving for the Armenians, as well as the Turks, as well as the Kurds. We all should. Babies died; women and old people died. They died in pain, tormented, terrified. Is it really so important what religion or race these murdered people had? Even in these terrifying times there were Turks who risked their lives trying to rescue Armenian children. We are the children of these rescuers, as well as the children of the murderers. Instead of justifying and arguing on behalf of the murderers, why don't we praise and defend the rescuers' compassion, honesty, and courage?''' There are no more victims left to be rescued today, but there is a grief, a pain, to be shared and supported. '''If nothing moves in you when you hear a baby wail as her mother is murdered, I have nothing to say to you. Then add my name to the list of "traitors." Because I am ready to share the grief and pain with the Armenians. Because I still believe there is something yet to be rescued from all these meaningless and pitiless arguments, and that something is called 'humanity.'''' ** [[w:Ahmet Altan|Ahmet Altan]] [http://www.gazetem.net/ahmetaltan.asp (9 May 2005), as translated by the Zoryan Institute] * '''I was condemned by the Turkish authorities for condemning and recognizing the genocide'''. I spent the years of 1985-1987 in [[Istanbul|Istanbul's]] jail as a political prisoner together with my wife and newborn child...Turkey's whole intelligentsia is now in shame for distorting the historical reality and not recognizing the Armenian Genocide...I am here today to declare that I assume historical responsibility. Recognition for me is not only a moral but also political and public matter, because as German [[w:Bernhard Schlink|Bernhard Schlink]] says: "The one who lives in peace with the criminal also becomes responsible...I am grateful to you also for allowing me, a man representing a society that committed crimes, to remember and pay homage to the memory of every victim and to ponder about the disgrace and dishonor of my nation. I dream that every Armenian who lost his or her ancestor during the years of the genocide will return and find a secure place in the country that is called Turkey today. I hope that my dreams will come true. If it is fulfilled, and that must be fulfilled, at that time I will apply for Turkish citizenship and will say: I am yours. And I am here again." ** Dogan Aqhanla, Turkish author and human rights activist, speaking at Armenian Genocide commemoration Berlin Germany (24 April 2005) * Surely a few Armenians aided and abetted our enemy, and a few Armenian Deputies committed crimes against the Turkish nation... it is incumbent upon a government to pursue the guilty ones. Unfortunately, our wartime leaders, imbued with a spirit of brigandage, carried out the law of deportation in a manner that could surpass the proclivities of the most bloodthirsty bandits. '''They decided to exterminate the Armenians, and they did exterminate them'''. ** Mustafa Arif, Ottoman Minister of Interior after [[w:Mehmed Talat Pasha|Mehmed Talat Pasha]] (13 December 1918) * These left-overs from the former Young Turk Party, who should have been made to account for the millions of our Christian subjects who were ruthlessly driven en masse from their homes and massacred, have been restive under the Republican rule. ** [[Mustafa Kemal Atatürk]], in an interview published in ''The Los Angeles Examiner'' (1 August 1926) * You Armenians... never forgot where you live... you accursed ones have brought many perils on the head of our esteemed government... paved the way for foreign assault... You must know that the Young Turks have awakened now... Turkish youth... shall not delay the execution of their assigned duties... The Turkish sword to date has cut down millions of giavours, nor has it lost its intention to cut millions more hereafter. Know this that the Turks have committed themselves, and have vowed to subdue and to clean up the Armenian giavours who have become tubercular microbes for us. ** Huseyin Azmi, Director General of the Istanbul Police, in two letters to the Armenian Patriarch in Istanbul (12 November 1913) * Jamal Pasha [then Turkish military ruler in Palestine] planned from the outset to destroy the entire Hebrew settlement in [[w:Eretz Yisrael|Eretz Yisrael]], exactly as they did the Armenians in Armenia ** [[David Ben-Gurion]], in a letter to his father from 1919, as reported by Yair Auron in ''The Banality of Indifference: Zionism and the Armenian Genocide'' - p 325 * [What actually happened in 1915-16] was no accident, this was not a marginal or small thing, it was not a geographically or demographically limited thing, virtually the entirety of Ottoman Armenians has been ordered to be rounded up, socially deracinated, uprooted, dispossesses, and deported for no reason other than that they were Armenians and, secondly, that there was very strong evidence that the accompanied violence and massacres had not started spontaneously or despite the best intentions of the state to protect the convoys of the deportees. Rather, there was strong evidence to the effect that there were orders issued, disseminated, and executed through the Teşkilât-ı Mahsusa and that this in turn triggered secondary and tertiary rounds of violence and massacres once it became clear that the Armenians were fair game and that the shooting season was open on them. It fits the clauses of the 1948 UN convention [on genocide] comprehensively, and in that light, if we are permitted to take those categorizations and apply them to an event that occurred 33 years earlier, then we have to say, "'''Yes, it was genocide'''" ** [[w:Halil Berktay|Halil Berktay]] - The ''Specter of the Armenian Genocide - An Interview with Halil Bektay - by Katchig Mouradian'' (1 November 2005) * At that time (1915) there were 1 million and 750 thousand Armenians living in Eastern Anatolia. The deportation order issued by the ruling military triumvirate was drawn up so as to include all the Armenians in the region, without exception. These things are documented in writing. There was no mention of massacres or slaughter. The provincial governors and garrison commanders were directed to deport the Armenians to the region south of Turkey's current borders. '''However, it's clear that, in addition to these official orders, separate, non-written orders were given to the most rapacious members of the "Teskilat-i Mahsusa" ["Special Organization"], who worshipped violence and were not bound by adherence to any normal moral code.''' Those who issued these orders had them carried out via a special organization, the Teskilat-i Mahsusa... '''It is clear that Bahaettin Sakir, who operated as the Teskilat-i Mahsusa's man for [[w:İsmail Enver|Enver]], Cemal, and [[w:Mehmed Talat Pasha|Talat]], set up death squads in the region'''. Some of these people were convicted criminals who were saved from the gallows and released from prison just to carry out such activities... The whole affair is that simple and clear. In addition to them, Turkish and Kurdish tribes also attacked the convoys of Armenians being deported. '''In addition to these actual massacres, there were the terrible losses caused by the deportations carried out in appalling conditions of deprivation. Everywhere in the Western world, there are photographs of these incidents which we can't bear to look at. The first time I encountered these visual records, I cried and could hardly breathe for several minutes. They are no different from the images of the concentration camps, or the massacres in Africa. For there are huge numbers of people in these pictures.''' ** [[w:Halil Berktay|Halil Berktay]], specialist in Turkish history of the 19th and 20th centuries, has taught at Harvard University, the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, and Bogazici (Bosporus) University in Istanbul, from an interview published in the Turkish newspaper ''Radikal'' (9 October 2000) * '''By 1912-13, and especially after the traumatic Balkan wars, the unionist leadership had already acquired a comprehensive ethnic cleansing mentality'''. They had arrived at the crystallization of their own version of Social Darwinistic, violent, anxious, and, therefore, malicious and malevolent unionist nationalism. That is to say, it was their ideology that was telling them "we cannot have a patriotic self defense unless and until we have an Anatolia that has been comprehensively Turkified." That is to say, they had acquired a nationalist ideological perspective of regarding all non-Turks as suspect, hostile elements. It was this ideology that led to the tehcir and the accompanying orders. '''It was this ideology, in turn, which lead to the horrors of 1915... it was the Ottoman state versus all Armenians. It was state declaring war on its subjects'''.''' ** [[w:Halil Berktay|Halil Berktay]], in "Specter of the Armenian Genocide - An Interview with Halil Bektay" by Katchig Mouradian (1 November 2005) * '''All that I have seen and heard surpasses all imagination. Speaking of "thousand and one horrors" is very little in this case, I thought I was passing through a part of hell... '''everywhere it is the same Governmental barbarism which aims at the systematic annihilation through starvation of the survivors of the Armenian nation in Turkey. ** August Bernau, Aleppo Agent of the Vacuum Oil Company of New York, September 10, 1916 US State Department Record Group 59, 867.4016/302 * One of the expressions of Cetin Altan that I like the most is "the propaganda of Turks aiming at Turks." On all international issues, we very much like to propagandize to each other — a propaganda which is not based on realities. On the issue of the "so-called genocide," too, we like very much to propagandize to ourselves. First of all, we start by indicating that the allegation is about a "so-called" genocide. ...the Council of the Higher Education, YOK...sent a series of instructions to university rectors and deans and aimed to begin to train educators on this issue. YOK would determine in advance what and how scientists would think about the "Armenian Deportation," and the latter would work in the light of that. There you are — a scientific study in the Turkish style! ...it was decided by the Commission of the Instruction and Education that the subjects relating to the Armenian, Pontus Greek and Assyrian allegations...are groundless. ...every effort will be made so that, first, it is recognized that the "so-called Armenian Genocide" is a "so-called" one, then, by means of propaganda, those denials will be taught to children and youth and will be engraved in their minds. It is written in the editorial of the weekly "Agos" that the same is requested from Armenian schools; it is required that young Armenians also form sentences denying "the groundless Armenian allegations. In reality, this propaganda is more deceptive for Turkish children: the Armenian child will hear one way or another from his family, relatives and eyewitnesses still living why the number of Armenians living in this country dropped from 2 million to 60,000. He will also know that he needs to say at school the opposite of what he hears at home. What happened in history did happen. It is impossible to fight against realities. Should German people defend Hitler, who assassinated millions of Jews for the simple reason that he is German? 1915 is one of the painful pages of the Ottoman history: on this date, the Committee of Union and Progress committed a huge crime against humanity. Why should I take the responsibility for that crime, and oppose the historical truths by asserting that all of this did not take place? Why shall we mislead young brains with lies? What kind of damage does such a propaganda cause in the brains of the youth. What will this society gain, by educating the youth with legends that are unreal? ** Oral Calislar, from the Turkish daily ''Cumhuriyet'' (12 May 2003) * '''I have the honor to report to the Embassy about one of the most severest measures ever taken by any government and one of the greatest tragedies in all history.''' Practically every male Armenian of any consequence at all here has been arrested and put into prison. A great many of them were subjected to the most cruel tortures under which some of them died. Several hundred of the leading Armenians were sent away at night and it seems to be clearly established that most, if not all, of them were killed. Last week there were well founded rumors of a threatened massacre. I think there is very little doubt that one is planned. '''Another method was found, to destroy the Armenian race. This is no less than the deportation of the entire Armenian population, not only from this Vilayet, but, I understand, from all six Vilayets comprising Armenia'''. There are said to be about sixty thousand Armenians in this Vilayet and about a million in the six Vilayets. All of these are to be sent into exile; an undertaking greater, probably, than anything of the kind in all history. For several days last week there were rumors of this but it seemed incredible. On Saturday, June 28th, it was publicly announced that all Armenians and Syrians [Assyrians of the Armenian Apostolic faith] were to leave after five days. '''The full meaning of such an order can scarcely be imagined by those who are not familiar with the peculiar conditions of this isolated region. A massacre, however horrible the word may sound, would be humane in comparison with it. In a massacre many escape but a wholesale deportation of this kind in this country means a lingering and perhaps even more dreadful death for nearly every one. I do not believe it possible for one in a hundred to survive, perhaps not one in a thousand.''' Whatever the destination may be, the journey from here in that direction at this season of the year is very difficult for one who has made careful preparations and travels by wagon. It is for the most part an extremely hot plain in which there s very little water or vegetation. There are places where there is no water at all during an entire day's journey by wagon. A crowd of women and children on foot will, of course, require several days to traverse the same distance. They cannot go from here to Urfa in less than fifteen or twenty days. ...there will be days when neither food nor water can be obtained. '''People on foot cannot carry enough food or water on their backs to last them between towns. Under the most favorable conditions the journey is a very fatiguing one. For people traveling as these Armenians who are going into exile will be obliged to travel it is certain death for by far the greater part of them. The fate of these people can readily be imagined. The method is perhaps a little more cultured than a massacre but it it will be far more effective and thorough.''' It is quite probable that many of them will be robbed and murdered en route as the roads are now filled with bands of pillaging Kurds. '''In any case, it is quite certain that almost all will die in one way or another before they ever reach their destination'''. It is impossible for me to give any adequate idea of the panic in this locality that has resulted from the announcement of this order of expulsion. Every one who is obliged to leave is trying to get together a little money to take on the journey. The Turks are, of course, taking advantage of the situation to get things at practically nothing. Robbery and looting were never undertaken in a more wholesale manner. Turkish men and Turkish women are entering the houses of all the Armenians and taking things at almost any price. The scene reminds one of a lot of hungry vultures hovering over the remains of those who have fallen by the way. I have never seen a more pathetic or tragic scene. All feel that they are going to certain death and they have good reason to feel that way. All the real estate belonging to the Armenians will be confiscated by the Government. The effect industrially and commercially of the expulsion of the Armenians from this region is going to throw it back in the middle ages. Tomorrow the exodus of one-half of the population of this region commences. Were there people not so entirely subdued I should expect to see some stirring scenes. As it is, I can hardly think it possible that the authorities will succeed in sending everyone into exile, but a yet there does not seem to be any sign of their relenting or of their granting many exemptions. ** Leslie A. Davis, American Vice Consul in Harput Turkey, in a report to US Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire Henry Morganthau (30 June 1915) - U.S. National Archives. D.S. Record Group 59, Dec. File No. 867.4016/269 * '''Now it has just been announced by public crier that on Tuesday, July 13th, every Armenian without exception, must go. If it were simply a matter of being obliged to leave here and go somewhere else it would not be so bad, but everyone knows it is a case of going to one's death.''' I have visited their encampment a number of times and talked with some of the people. A more pitiable sight cannot be imagined. They were almost without exception ragged, filthy, hungry and sick. This is not surprising in view of the fact that they have been on the road for nearly two months with no change of clothing, no chance to wash, no shelter and little to eat. There are very few men among them, as most have been killed on the road. All tell the same story of having been attacked and robbed by the Kurds. Most of them were attacked over and over again and a great many of them, especially the men were killed. Women and children were also killed. Many died, of course, from sickness and exhaustion on the way and there have been deaths each day that they have been there. Several different parties have arrived and after remaining a day or two have been pushed with no apparent destination. Those who have reached here are only a small portion, however, of those who started. By continuing to drive these people people on in this way it will be possible to dispose of all of them in a comparatively short time. The condition of these people indicated clearly the fate of those who have left and are about to leave from here. I believe nothing has been heard from any of them as yet and probably very little will be heard. The system that is being followed seems to be to have bands of Kurds awaiting them on the roads to kill the men especially and incidentally some of the others. '''The entire movement seems to be the thoroughly organized and effective massacre this country has ever seen'''. Not many men have been spared, however, to accompany those who are being sent into exile, for a more prompt and sure method has been used to dispose of them. Several thousand Armenian men been arrested during the past few weeks. These have been put into prison and each time that several hundred had been gathered up in that way they were sent away during the night. There have been frequent rumors that all of these were killed and there is little doubt that they were. All Armenian soldiers [In the Turkish army] have likewise been sent away in the same manor. On Monday many men were arrested both at Harput and Mezreh and put in prison. At daybreak Tuesday morning they were taken out and made to march toward an almost uninhabited mountain. There were about eight hundred in all and they were tied together in groups of fourteen each. That afternoon they arrived in a small Kurdish village where they were kept over night in the mosque and other buildings. During this time they were without food or water. On Wednesday morning they were taken to a valley a few hours distant where they were all made to sit down. Then the gendarmes began shooting them until they had killed nearly all of them. Some who had not been killed by bullets were then disposed of with knives and [[bayonets]]. A few succeeded in breaking the rope with which they were tied to their companions and running away, but most of these were pursued and killed. A few succeeded in getting away, probably not more than two or three. No charge of any kind had ever been made against any of these men. They were simply arrested and killed as part of the general plan to dispose of the Armenian race. Last night several hundred more men, including both men arrested by the civil authorities and those enrolled as soldiers, were taken in a different direction and murdered in a similar manner. The same thing has been done systematically in the villages. A few weeks ago about three hundred men were gathered together at Ichme and Haboosi, two villages four and five hours' distant from here, and then taken up to the mountains and massacred. There seems to be a definite plan to dispose of all the Armenians men...The evident plan of the Government is to give no opportunity for any educational or religious work to be done here by foreign missionaries. Some Armenian women will be taken as Moslem wives and some children will be brought up as Moslem, but none of them will be allowed to come under foreign influences. The country is to be purely Moslem and nothing else. ** Leslie A. Davis, American Vice Consul in Harput Turkey, in a report to US Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire Henry Morganthau (11 July 1915) - U.S. National Archives. D.S. Record Group 59, Dec. File No. 867.4016/122 [[File:Iskrinewspapertortured.jpg|thumb| Greater misery could not be imagined, the dead and the dying are everywhere...'''The whole country is one vast slaughterhouse.''' —Leslie Davis]] * Greater misery could not be imagined, the dead and the dying are everywhere...'''The whole country is one vast slaughterhouse.''' ** Leslie Davis, American Vice Consul in Harput Turkey in ''The Slaughterhouse Province'' * I have the honor to further supplement my reports of June 30th and July 11th (File No. 840.1) in regard to the expulsion of the Armenians from this region, or to speak more clearly, the wholesale massacre of these Armenians, as follows — '''Any doubt that may have been expressed in previous reports as to the Government's intention in sending away the Armenians have been removed and any hope that may have been expressed as to the possibility of some of them surviving has been destroyed. It has been no secret that the plan was to destroy the Armenian race as a race, but the methods have been more cold-blooded and barbarous, if not more effective, than I had first supposed.''' It was apparent that very few would ever survive the journey from here to Urfa or to any other place at this season of the year. As a matter of fact, it has been quite unnecessary to consider the difficulties of such a journey. It seems to be fully established now that practically all who have been sent away from here have been deliberately shot or otherwise killed within one or two days after their departure. This work has not all been done by bands of Kurds but has for the most part been that of gendarmes who accompanied the people from here or the companies of armed "cetes" (convicts) who have been released from prison for the purpose of murdering the Armenian exiles. It has been repeatedly reported, and I think there is no doubt about the truth of these reports, that not a single man who has been sent away has been spared. Many of the women and children have been deliberately killed at the same time. A few of the more attractive women have been carried off to adorn the harems of some of the Kurdish chieftains and of some of the gendarmes. Some of the older women and children have been allowed to wander along, accompanied by gendarmes, with the certainty that all of them will soon perish from hunger, sickness and exhaustion. I do not believe there has ever been a massacre in the history of the world so general and thorough as that which is now being perpetrated in this region or that a more fiendish, diabolical scheme has ever been conceived by the mind of man. What the order is officially and nominally to exile the Armenians from these Vilayets may mislead the world for a while, but the measure is nothing but a massacre of the most atrocious nature. It would be that even if all the people had been allowed to perish on the road. As the greater part of them, however, have been actually murdered as as there is no doubt that this was done by the order of the Government, there can be no pretense that the measure is anything else but a general massacre. In all, probably a third of the population of this region is gone. The most remarkable feature of the situation is the helplessness of the Armenians and the total lack of resistance on their part. With two or three insignificant exceptions, there has not been a blow struck by any of them. I have been told that two or three gendarmes have been killed in the villages, but probably not a half a dozen in all. It did not seem possible that such an order could be carried out without more or less violence. One would think that some would have chosen death here, knowing that it awaited them a few hours after their departure, and many talked that way, but when the time has come all have started without making any resistance. This has been due, partially, of course, to the lack of spirit in the Armenian race, but it is due very largely also to the clever way in which the scheme has been carried out. Everything was apparently planned months ago. Then, when practically all the Armenian men had been gotten out of the way it was announced that all Armenians must be deported. Effective resistance to such an order was impossible. The whole scheme was planned so cleverly that the police and gendarmes are able to carry it out with no risk at all to themselves. A few thousand men have thus been able to dispose of 15,000 or 20,000 Armenians from this immediate locality. It appears that the same system has been followed in other parts of this Vilayet and in other Vilayets. It is impossible to say how many Armenians have been killed but it is estimated that the number as not far from a million. Greater misery could not be imagined. It was bad enough before when there were several thousand all in a most wretched condition. Now, when only the worst of them are left behind, the scene beggars all description. The dead and dying are everywhere. Each day there are many deaths and these will continue until all are gone. Dead bodies are to be seen there at any time. '''One sees dead bodies now in all directions and on every road... The whole country as one vast charnel house, or, more correctly speaking, slaughterhouse'''. When one sees men and women seventy or even eighty years old, lame, blind and sick, innocent women and children and helpless babies sent away to be killed or die and actually sees them dead or dying all around, it is impossible to conceive of any justification that can be urged for a measure so severe. ** Leslie A. Davis, American Vice Consul in Harput Turkey, in a report to US Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire Henry Morganthau (24 July 1915) - U.S. National Archives. D.S. Record Group 59, Dec. File No. 867.4016/269 * If the Turkish Government were asked the reasons for which the Armenian men, women, and children were killed, and their honor and property placed at any man's mercy, they would reply that this people have murdered Moslems in the Vilayet of Van, and that there have been found in their possession prohibited arms, explosive bombs, and indications of steps towards the formation of an Armenian state, such as flags and the like, all pointing to the fact that this race has not turned from its evil ways, but on the first opportunity will kill the Moslems, rise in revolt, and invoke the help of Russia, the enemy of Turkey, against its rulers. That is what the Turkish government would say. I have followed the matter from its source. I have inquired from inhabitants and officials of Van, who were in Diarbekir, whether any Moslem had been killed by Armenians in the town of Van, or in the district of the Vilayet. They answered in the negative, saying that the Government had ordered the population to quit the town before the arrival of the Russians and before anyone was killed but that the Armenians had been summoned to give up their arms and had done so, dreading an attack by the Kurds, and dreading the government also; the government had further demanded that the principal notables and leading men should be given up to them as hostages, but the Armenians had not complied. All this took place during the approach of the Russians towards the city of Van. As to the adjacent districts, the authorities collected the Armenians and drove them into the interior, where they were all slaughtered, no Government official or private man, Turk or Kurd, having been killed. As regards Diarbekir, you have read the whole story in this book, and no insignificant event took place there, let alone murders or breaches of the peace, which could lead the Turkish Government to deal with the Armenians in this atrocious manner. At Constantinople, we hear of no murder or other unlawful act committed by the Armenians, except the unauthenticated story about the twenty activists to which I have already referred. They have not done the least wrong in the Vilayets of Kharpout, Trebizond, Sivas, Adana, or Bitlis, nor in the province of Moush. I have related the episode at Zeitoun, which was unimportant, and that at Urfa, where they acted in self defense, seeing what had befallen their people, and preferring death to surrender. '''As to their preparations, the flags, bombs and the like, even assuming there to be some truth in the statement, it does not justify the annihilation of the whole people, men and women, old men and children, in a way which revolts all humanity and more especially Islam and the whole body of Moslems, as those unacquainted with the true facts might impute these deeds to Mohammedan fanaticism.''' ** Fa'iz El-Ghusein, in ''[[s:Martyred Armenia|Martyred Armenia]]'', as translated from the original Arabic by C. Arthur Pearson, Ltd., England, (1917) pages 50-61. * We knew that the Armenians have committed no act justifying the Turks in inflicting on them this horrible retribution, un-precedented even in the dark ages. What, then, was the reason which impelled the Turkish Government to kill off a whole people of whom they used to say that they were their brothers in patriotism, the principal factor in bringing about the downfall of the despotic rule of Abdul-Hamid and the introduction of the constitution, loyal to the empire, and fighting side by side with the Turks in the Balkan War? The Turks sanctioned and approved the institution of Armenian political societies, which they did not do in the case of other nationalities. It is that, previous to the proclamation of the Constitution, the Unionists [Young Turks] hated despotic rule, they preached equality, and inspired the people with hatred of the despotism of Abdul-Hamid. But as soon as they had themselves seized the reins of authority, and tasted the sweets of power, they found that despotism was the best means to confirm themselves in ease and property, and to limit to the Turks alone the rule over the Ottoman peoples. On considering these peoples, they found that the Armenian race was the only one which would resent their despotism, and fight against it as they previously fought against Abdul-Hamid. '''Annihilation seemed to be the sole means of deliverance; they found their opportunity in a time of war, and they proceeded to this atrocious deed, which they carried out with every circumstance of brutality — a deed which is contrary to the law of Islam...''' ** Fa'iz El-Ghusein, in ''Martyred Armenia'', as translated from the original Arabic by C. Arthur Pearson, Ltd., England, (1917) pages 62-64. * '''Genocide often occurs during war, for example, the Armenian genocide during WWI, and the Holocaust of Jews and Gypsies during WWII, but should not be confused with the civilian war dead. This is a common trick of genocide deniers, to compare figures of one and the other, for example, the Muslim war dead during the First World War and Armenian victims of genocide. War does not cause genocide. It masks it, justifies the release of aggression and cruelty, provides a cover for the perpetrators, immunity from sanctions, and enables them to deny their responsibility by blaming the victims.''' Some preconditions of genocide can be illustrated by examining the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire...'''The first precondition is exclusion of the victim from the universe of obligation of the dominant group.''' This is reinforced by an ideology of exclusion, defining the victim as an alien or enemy, such as the Aryan myth and the Pan-Turanian myth. Such groups are viewed by the dominant group as people who do not belong, to whom nothing is owed, who do not have to be accounted for, and to whom one need not account. Most often in the twentieth century such ideologies are rationalizations of the aim of an elite to create a so-called pure or homogeneous ethnic state — one people, one state. Everyone who does not fit in must be eliminated, either by expulsion or genocide. Second, there is a problem attributed to the victim or an opportunity seemed to be impeded by the victims. The victims may be seen as a real or symbolic threat. Sometimes the victims rebel, have rebelled, or do not accept their place, and the perpetrators choose to eliminate them rather than share power with them. And the Ottoman Empire, Bosnia, and Kosovo are certainly examples of this. Finally, there's a calculus on the part of the perpetrators that they can get away with it. War generally provides immunity from oversight and intervention by hostile powers. Further, major powers have committed genocide or overlooked genocides and genocidal massacres by their clients in the past. The knowledge by the genocidaires that there have been no sanctions against previous uses of genocide reinforces their readiness to commit genocide. It is clear that the Ittihadist faction that took control of the Ottoman Empire in 1912 was the organizer of the Armenian genocide in 1915. The First World War presented the ruling triumvirate with an opportunity, as [[w:Ahmed Djemal|Djemal Pasha]] put it, to "free ourselves through the world war from all conventions which meant so many attacks on our independence." '''He went on to say that "We had determined on radical reform... " But he does not say that the "radical reform" was to eliminate the Armenian problem by eliminating the Armenians.''' That that was their plan was confirmed at the time by Lord Bryce and Arnold Toynbee, Ambassador Morgenthau, and German officials who were there as allies of the Ottoman government. Yet the Armenian genocide was more than a precedent for what could be done in World War II. '''It was a model of what could be done with impunity that resonated in the memories of German soldiers, officials and civilians who took part in the First World War...the success of any genocide depends not only on the power of the genocidaire and the response of the bystanders in the state in which it occurs but also on the response of other states. For several decades Turkey and Turkish state funded organizations in the U.S. and elsewhere have denied that there was an Armenian genocide. Not only were Armenians' rights to restitution denied, their memories were publicly denied.''' ** Helen Fein, Director of the Institute for the Study of Genocide and an Associate of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in ''Looking Backward: The Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust, And Responses to Genocide Yesterday and Today'' given at the Symposium on Genocide, ''20th Century Genocide: Memory, Denial and Accountability'' (7 April 2000) * For the better part of six months, from April to October 1915, practically all the highways in Asia Minor were crowded with these unearthly bands of exiles. As far as can be ascertained, about 1,200,000 people started on this journey to the Syrian desert.... The gendarmes whom the government had sent, supposedly to protect the exiles, in a very few hours became their tormentors. They followed their charges with fixed [[bayonets]], prodding any one who showed any tendency to slacken the pace. . . . They even prodded pregnant women with bayonets.... Detachements of gendarmes would go ahead notifying the Kurdish tribes that their victims were approaching and Turkish peasants were also informed that their long waited opportunity had arrived. The Government even opened the prisons and set free the convicts, on the understanding that they should behave like good Moslems to the approaching Armenians. Thus every caravan had a continuous battle for existence with several classes of enemies. . . . The men who might have defended these wayfarers had nearly all been killed or forced into the army as workmen, and the exiles themselves had been systematically deprived of all weapons before the journey began. ** Arthur Frothingham, in ''Handbook of War Facts and Peace Problems'' (1919) * I left here on the sixteenth of September, 1915, for Aleppo. I first saw the Armenians at Afion Karahissar where there was a big encampment — probably of ten thousand people...and their condition was deplorable. The next place where there was a large encampment was at Osmanieh, where there was said to be about fifty thousand; their condition was terrible. From Osmanieh, I traveled by carriage to Rajo and passed thousands of Armenians en route to Aleppo. They were going in ox-carts, on horseback, donkeys and on foot, the most of them children, women and old men. I spoke to several of these people, some of whom had been educated in the American Mission Schools. They told me that they had traveled for two months. They were without money and food and several expressed their wish that they could die rather than go on and endure the sufferings that they were undergoing. From Kadma on to Aleppo I witnessed the worst sights of the whole trip. Here the people began to play out in the intense heat and no water...The destination of all these Armenians is Aleppo. Here they are kept crowded in all available vacant houses, khans, Armenian churches, courtyards and open lots. Their condition in Aleppo is beyond description. I personally visited several of the places where they were kept and found them starving and dying by the hundreds every day...there are hundreds dying daily in Aleppo from starvation and the result of the brutal treatment and exposure that they have undergone on the journey from their native places...In Damascus I found conditions practically the same as in Aleppo; and here hundreds are dying every day. From Damascus, they are sent still farther south into the Hauran, where their fate is unknown. '''Several Turks, whom I interviewed, told me that the motive of this exile was to exterminate the race, and in no instance did I see, any Moslem giving alms to Armenians, it being considered a criminal offence for any one to aid them.''' All along the road I met thousands of these unfortunate exiles still coming into Aleppo. The sights I witnessed on this trip were more pitiful than those I had seen on my trip to Aleppo. There seems to be no end to the caravan which moves over the mountain ridge from Bozanti south; throughout the day from sunrise to sunset, the road as far as one can see is crowded with these exiles. There are very few young men in these caravans, the majority are women and children, accompanied by a few old men over fifty years of age. Many of these people go without bread for days, and they become emaciated beyond description. I saw several fall from starvation, and only at certain places along this road is there water. Many die of thirst. None of these people have any idea where they are going or why they are being exiled. They go day after day along the road with the hope that they may somewhere reach a place where they may be allowed to rest. There seems to be no cessation of the stream of these Armenians pouring down from the North, Angora and the region around the Black Sea. Their condition grows worse every day. The sights that I saw on my return trip were worse than those on my trip going, and now that the cold weather and winter rains are setting in, deaths are more numerous. ** Walter M. Geddes, American businessman and traveller (1915) * I, as an ethnically Turkish citizen, am not guilty, but am responsible for what happened to the Armenians in 1915. I did an analysis of the Deputies of the first National Assembly, I have found enough documentation that implicates about 25-30% of the Deputies of having participated in the massacres against the Armenians... Not only was there no accountability and no punishment for those who committed crimes against the Armenians, but many of the perpetrators unfortunately then became leaders of the Turkish Republic. ** Dr. Fatma Müge Göçek, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, in ''Turkey, the European Union and the Armenian Question'' — a presentation given before the International Institute for Genocide and Human Rights (2 December 2005) * The population is showing true Moslem resignation in the way it is bearing the existing situation — the ruin and desolation of individuals and community, the holocaust of all and everything for a war which no one desired, but which was forced upon them by [[w:İsmail Enver|Enver Pasha]], and which will lead to the ruin and dismemberment of all that still remains of the Ottoman Empire. The Germans and the "Committee of Union and Progress" are hated and detested by all...for the Germans and the Committee constitute the one genuine, solid organisation at present existing in Turkey — a masterly and most rigorous organisation, which does not hesitate to use any weapon whatever; an organisation of audacity, of terror, and of mysterious, ferocious revenge. . . '''As for the Armenians, they were treated differently in the different vilayets. They were suspect and spied upon everywhere, but they suffered a real extermination, worse than massacre, in the so-called 'Armenian Vilayets.' from the 24th June onwards, the Armenians were all "interned" — that is, ejected by force from their various residences and despatched under the guard of the gendarmerie to distant, unknown destinations, which for a few will mean the interior of Mesopotamia, but for four-fifths of them has meant already a death accompanied by unheard-of cruelties.''' The official proclamation of internment came from Constantinople. It is the work of the Central Government and the "Committee of Union and Progress." '''The local authorities, and indeed the Moslem population in general, tried to resist, to mitigate it, to make omissions, to hush it up. But the orders of the Central Government were categorically confirmed, and all were compelled to resign themselves and obey. It was a real extermination and slaughter of the innocents, an unheard-of thing, a black page stained with the flagrant violation of the most sacred rights of humanity... There were about 14,000 Armenians at Trebizond — Gregorians, Catholics, and Protestants. They had never caused disorders or given occasion for collective measures of police. When I left Trebizond, not a hundred of them remained.''' ...the city in a state of siege, guarded at every point by 15,000 troops in complete war equipment, by thousands of police agents by bands of volunteers and by the members of the "Committee of Union and Progress"; the lamentations, the tears, the abandonments, the imprecations, the many suicides, the instantaneous deaths from sheer terror, the sudden unhingeing of men's reason, the conflagrations, the shooting of victims in the city, the ruthless searches through the houses and in the countryside; the hundreds of corpses found every day along the exile road; the young women converted by force to Islam or exiled like the rest; the children torn away from their families or from the Christian schools, and handed over by force to Moslem families, or else placed by hundreds on board ship in nothing but their shirts, and then capsized and drowned in the Black Sea and the River Deyirmen Deré — these are my last ineffaceable memories of Trebizond, memories which still, at a month's distance, torment my soul and almost drive me frantic. If they knew all the things that I know, all that I have had to see with my eyes and hear with my ears, all Christian powers that are still neutral would be impelled to rise up against Turkey and cry anathema against her inhuman Government and her ferocious "Committee of Union and Progress," and they would extend the responsibility to Turkey's Allies, who tolerate or even shield with their strong arm these execrable crimes, which have not their equal in history, either modern or ancient. Shame, horror and disgrace! ** Interview of G. Gorrini, former Italian Consul-General at Trebizond, published in the journal ''Il Messaggero'' of Rome, on August 25 1915 * '''The first implementation of the CUP regime's goal of creating a homogeneous nation was the elimination of the Armenians from Anatolia in 1915'''...It was a prerequisite for homogenisation in the name of modernisation that both internal and external conditions served to justify their policies under the rhetoric of state security and interests. ** Ayla Gul, in ''Imagining the Turkish nation through 'othering' Armenians'' in ''Nations and Nationalism'' 11 (1), 2005, p130. (Gul is an ethically Turkish professor in the International Relations Department of the London School of Economics and Political Science) * Massacres and deportations were organized in the spring of 1915, under a definite system, the soldiers going from town to town. Young men were first summoned to the government building in each village and then marched out and killed. The women, the old men and the children were, after a few days, deported to what [[w:Mehmed Talat Pasha|Talaat Pasha]] called "Agricultural Colonies," from the high, breeze-swept plateaus of Armenia to the malarial flats of the Euphrates and the burning sands of Syria and Arabia. '''The dead, from this wholesale attempt on the race, are variously estimated at from five hundred thousand to a million, the usual figure being about eight hundred thousand. Driven on foot under a hot sun, robbed of their clothing and such petty articles as they carried, prodded by bayonets if they lagged, starvation, typhus, and dysentery left thousands dead by the trail side.''' ** James Harbord, in the Harbord Commission report (June 1920) * '''Turkey initiated a policy of annihilation against the Armenians'''. ** [[w:Paul von Hindenburg|Paul von Hindenburg]], German Field Marshall in the Ottoman Empire during WWI in ''From My Life'', Leipzig, (1934) p169 * We must already be thinking of resettlement of millions of men from Germany and Europe. Migrations of people have always taken place. Are we really going to remain a nation of have-nots forever? We have the capacity to rouse and lead the masses against this situation. We intend to introduce a great resettlement policy; In 1923 little Greece could resettle a million men. '''Think of the biblical deportations and the massacres of the Middle Ages and remember the extermination of the Armenians.''' ** [[Adolph Hitler]] in an interview with Richard Breiting that appeared in the German daily newspaper ''Leipziger Neueste Nachrichten'' (4 May 1931) * '''Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?''' ** [[Adolf Hitler]] (22 August 1939) for discussion of the quote see [[w:Armenian quote|Armenian quote]]; note that Hitler's quote was relating to his plans regarding his intention to attack Poland and kill masses of Poles and replace them with Germans as he saw the Ottomans had successfully done in the previous World War without adverse consequences or punishment. [[File:Armenian Genocide in the Petit Journal.jpg|thumb|'''The systematic butchery of the uprooted and deported Armenians have assumed such a scope...it was not only tolerated but openly promoted by the government.''' It meant the extermination of the Armenians. '''Despite government assurances to the contrary, everything points to the goal of the destruction of the Armenian people'''. —Hohenloe-Langenburg]] * '''The systematic butchery of the uprooted and deported Armenians have assumed such a scope...it was not only tolerated but openly promoted by the government.''' It meant the extermination of the Armenians. '''Despite government assurances to the contrary, everything points to the goal of the destruction of the Armenian people'''. ** Hohenloe-Langenburg, German Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, Oct-Nov 1915 - German Foreign Ministry Archives * It should be borne in mind, however, that it was not until after the declaration of the constitution that the idea "Turkey for the Turks" took definite shape and developed into the scheme of accomplishing its purpose by the final extinction of all the Christian populations of that blood-soaked land... ** [[w:George Horton|George Horton]] in ''The Blight of Asia'' (1926). Horton was the American General Consul in Smyrna from 1911 until 1917, then again after the war until 1922 - and was a direct eyewitness to the city's destruction and the massacring of the city's Greeks and Armenians by the forces of Kemal Ataturk * The Turk massacres when he has orders from headquarters and desists on the second when commanded by the same authority to stop. ** [[w:George Horton|George Horton]] in ''The Blight of Asia'' (1926) * '''The extermination of the Christians of Turkey was an organized butchery, carried out on a great scale...''' This part of the story would not be complete if I passed over in silence the systematic extermination... of the Greeks and Armenians of the Pontus. The flourishing communities of Amasia, Caesaria, Trebizonde, Chaldes, Rhodopolis, Colonia, centers of Greek civilization for many hundreds of years have been practically annihilated in a persistent campaign of massacre, hanging, deportation, fire and rape. '''The victims amount to hundreds of thousands, bringing the sum total of exterminated Armenians and Greeks in the whole of the old Roman province of Asia up to the grand total of one million, five hundred thousand.''' ** [[w:George Horton|George Horton]] in ''The Blight of Asia'' (1926) * The last act in the fearful drama of the extermination of Christianity in the Byzantine Empire was the burning of Smyrna by the troops of Mustapha Khemal. '''The murder of the Armenian race had been practically consummated during the years 1915-1916, and the prosperous and populous Greek colonies, with the exception of Smyrna itself, had been ferociously destroyed.''' ** [[w:George Horton|George Horton]] in ''The Blight of Asia'' (1926) * '''The Turks were now making a thorough and systematic job of killing Armenian men. The squads of soldiers...were chiefly engaged in hunting down and killing Armenians'''. ** [[w:George Horton|George Horton]] in ''The Blight of Asia'' (1926). * [After the Balkan wars of 1913] Turkism, as a racialised articulation of citizenship, emerged as the dominant discourse of the period. ...Turkism is defined here as...Turkishness as the determinative identity of the citizens of the empire. (In) March 1913, the Turkish Force Committee was founded. It explicitly claimed to cultivate the new Turkish citizens...the founders argued (that)from now on, the empire should be left to the real owners, the Turkish race. What was different from the Turkism that existed before the Balkan Wars was the idea that Turkism not only needed to become dominant, but it had to become so in an urgent manner. This sense of urgency combined with the dominance Turkism now enjoyed led Turkism to materialise into various events and acts in a very short period of time. '''Turkism...was manifest in...the displacement and elimination of Armenian citizens of the Ottoman Empire. The institutionalisation of Turkism meant the homogenisation of the citizenship in the empire.''' After the Balkan Wars, Armenians, or any other element in the empire other than the Turks, were not peoples who had to be educated, governed and Ottomanised but were enemies to be executed urgently or in some distant future. With Turkism, Armenians were Armenians. Race could not be changed. Turkism desired a racially homogeneous citizenry; a nation acquiring its sovereignty from its racial basis. In 1913, the CUP decided to establish youth clubs all around the empire. They were called the Tu¨rk Gu¨cu¨ Cemiyetleri (Societies of Turkish Power). The motto of the societies was: 'the force of the Turk is always enough for everything' ...their aim was to serve the Turkish race and avoid its decline by...'gathering the Turks under one roof and protecting them from hazardous influences' The interesting point about the societies is that the statements produced within them construct the decline in the social and political functions of the race as inscribed into the bodies of the Turks. The Turks were already healthy and strong. Other races in the empire changed this condition... by living at the expense of the Turkish race... the other races were never as strong and healthy as the Turks. Therefore the hybridity of the population of the empire worsened the condition of the Turks. It was time again to go back to the purity of the origins of the Turkish race. '''That is why other races had to be eliminated. Turkism constructed an imminent threat posed by the Armenians and took action to exterminate that threat. Turkism operated as state racism.''' [[w:İsmail Enver|Enver Pasha]], by then the head of the CUP, argued that by expelling the Armenians from the empire, the Turks in the Ottoman Empire would once again be healthy and clean. Otherwise the Turks would slowly cease to exist, just as an unhealthy person approaches death when not taken care of. In other words, the existence of the Turkish race depended on eliminating the unclean elements including other races, in this case the Armenians. Turkism and the Armenian tragedy in this sense can be seen as a function of the biological racism. Turkism, as racialised citizenship, negated the life of Armenian citizens in the empire. ** Bora Isyar, Department of Sociology, York University, Toronto, Canada in ''The origins of Turkish Republican citizenship: the birth of race'' in Nations and Nationalism 11 (3), 2005, 343–360 * Hundreds of individual cases of persecution such as blackmailing, beating, imprisoning, etc., could be stated but which would lend no further weight to the general statement of outrages that are being practiced daily upon a defenseless and inoffensive people that demand nothing more than to be given a chance to eke out at best a miserable existence. The government has been appealed to by various prominent people and even by those in authority to put an end to these conditions, under the representations that is can only lead to the greatest blame and reproach, but all to no avail. '''It is without doubt a carefully planned scheme to thoroughly extinguish the Armenian race'''. ** J. B. Jackson, American Consul General at Aleppo, June 5, 1915 US State Department Record Group 59, 867.4016/77 * '''In the Spring of 1915, when the snow was beginning to melt on the Armenian plateau, the government in Constantinople began work on the systematic annihilation of Armenians'''. The Armenians were driven to the South, avoiding routes from where Armenians were already cleansed. The town of Urfa, nearby the Syrian desert, which was the terminus for the driven Armenians, was the last one to be cleansed of Armenians. By the Summer of 1916, the Armenian community had been removed and fragmented. The largest nucleus [of Armenians] outside Constantinople, consisted of laborers found outside Adana, working on the Baghdad railroad. There were no Armenian villages left. The history of the Armenian genocide is the history of Armenian women and urchins. The men were murdered right at the start. From primary sources, both Ottoman and other, it appears that in the East where a war was being fought with Russia, the Armenians were murdered on the spot. Elsewhere, they were deported, whereby their houses were not destroyed but confiscated. Their personal possessions, such as money and jewelry were looted from them. For the reason for the implementation of the genocide, you should ask [[w:Mehmed Talat Pasha|Talaat]]. Both pan-Turkism and Islamic fervor existed well before the genocide. the provocation thesis, which states that Armenian were the fifth column and would have turned on the Turks the moment the Russians advanced, is a concoction that was hatched at the German embassy in Constantinople in May 1915. The Ottoman Empire was extensively centralized. A good bureaucracy held it all together. The telegraphic system of communication was exemplary. Special military units were instituted for the purpose of carrying out the genocide. No one was allowed to murder Armenians without the consent of these military units. Those who disregarded the rules were dealt severely. ** Dr. Hilmar Kaiser, PhD, European Institute, Florence, historian of Ottoman social and economic history and Armenian genocide researcher who has worked directly with the Ottoman Archives; from an interview with Dirk van Delft, ''NRC Handelsblad'' Page 51 - Amsterdam (27 May 2000) * '''The Armenian genocide is the Ottoman government's answer to the Armenian Question: Deportations can only be analyzed in terms of expropriation. It was grand theft. It was the surgical separation of Armenians from their movable and immovable property.''' The Ottoman government was very careful of not wasting any assets while being not concerned about the fate of the Armenians. To make the expropriation permanent, you have to replace the Armenians. The expropriation was part of a settlement program; this process created a surplus population and this surplus population was taken care of. The Armenians were mathematically a surplus population. Killing or, in the case of children and women, assimilating them solved that problem. What took place was genocide, not massacres. I use the word `genocide' because it adequately describes the phenomenon. It's the only term we have that describes it. If one day we have a better word, fine. The English, German, and Turkish languages have only one word to describe. That this has a negative consequence on the Turkish government is something I can't change; I can't change history. I'm not prepared to haggle over it. If a Turkish scholar says it too politicized and he or she doesn't want to use the word, then let him/her take a different subject. If you want to be part of this debate, apply proper terminology and if you don't want to do it, you aren't a scholar. ** Dr. Hilmar Kaiser, in interview with Khatchig Mouradian (24 September 2005) published in ''Aztag'' Daily Newspaper * '''The destruction of the Armenians was undertaken on a massive scale...This policy of extermination will for a long time stain the name of Turkey.''' ** Richard Kuhlmann, German Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire 1916-1917, Foreign Minister 1917-1918. German Foreign Ministry Archives * In Turkey, more than 1,200,000 Armenians were put to death for no other reason than they were Christians … After the end of the war, some 150 Turkish war criminals were arrested and interned by the British Government on the island of Malta. The Armenians sent a delegation to the peace conference in Versailles. They were demanding justice. Then one day, the delegation read in the newspapers that all Turkish war criminals were released. I was shocked. A nation was killed and the guilty persons were set free. Why is a man punished when he kills another man? Why is the killing of a million a lesser crime than the killing of a single individual? I identified myself more and more with the sufferings of the victims, whose numbers grew, as I continued my study of history. I understood that the function of memory is not only to register past events, but to stimulate human conscience. Soon contemporary examples of genocide followed, such as the slaughter of the Armenians in 1915. It became clear to me that the diversity of nations, religious groups and races is essential to civilization because every one of those groups has a mission to fulfill and a contribution to make in terms of culture.... I decided to become a lawyer and work for the outlawing of Genocide and for its prevention through the cooperation of nations. A bold plan was formulated in my mind. This consisted [of] obtaining the ratification by Turkey [of the proposed UN Convention on Genocide Ed.] among the first twenty founding nations. This would be an atonement for [the] genocide of the Armenians. But how could this be achieved? . . . The Turks are proud of their republican form of government and of progressive concepts, which helped them in replacing the rule of the Ottoman Empire. The genocide convention must be put within the framework of social and international progress. I knew however that in this conversation both sides will have to avoid speaking about one thing, although it would be constantly in their minds: the Armenians. ** [[w:Raphael Lemkin|Raphael Lemkin]], Holocaust refugee and lawyer who created the word "genocide" in part to describe the horrors of the official Ottoman government policy and actions to exterminate the Armenian people of Anatolia, from his private papers, with permission of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Division, the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations. * '''The evidence...from German, Austrian and Turkish sources in my view leads inescapably to the conclusion that the extermination of the Armenians was actually planned by a clique within the Young Turk leadership and executed by the sinister Special Organization [Teshkilati Mahsusa] of the army.''' ** Dominic Lieven in ''Empire'' (2001) Yale University Press. Lieven is a well known British historian, a Professor of History at the London School of Economics and former Kennedy Scholar at Harvard University. * '''The Turks have embarked upon the total extermination of the Armenians in Transcaucasia''', also (May 1918)... On the basis of all reports and news coming to me here in Tbilissi [Georgia] there hardly can be any doubt that the Turks systematically are aiming at the... extermination of the few hundred thousand Armenians whom they have left alive until now. ** [[w:Otto von Lossow|Otto von Lossow]], Major General, German Military Plenipotentiary in Turkey and German Representative at Batum Conference in May, 1918 - 11 July 1918 - German Foreign Ministry Archives * '''The decision to expel the woman, children and old men, was the result of a hatred against the Armenians, and involved a wild objective on the part of the Turkish government to obliterate this race...''' the massive arrests of the men were carried out not only in the near of the front but throughout the empire... and in the corridors of the Turkish Ministry of War one heard people tell with cynical grins the story of how all these thousands died a natural death or how they were victims of accidents — as registered in official records... ** George Mayer, Prof. Dr. Colonel, Deputy Chief in the Department of Health of the Turkish Army * '''The Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust were the quintessential instances of genocide in the modern era.''' Three reasons may be cited for this claim. First, there were instances of what we shall call "total genocide" or what the United Nations has called "genocide-in-whole" to distinguish such instances from massacre and "genocide-in-part." Both catastrophes were the products of state-initiated policies whose intended and actual results were the elimination of the Armenian community from the Ottoman Empire and of the Jewish community from most of Europe, respectively. Second, both victimized groups were ethnoreligious communal minorities that had been partially integrated and assimilated into the larger society. Their destruction was not only a war against foreign strangers, it was a mass murder that commenced with an attack on an internal domestic segment of the state's own society. The genocide of the Armenians should be understood not as a response to "Armenian provocations" but as a stage in the Turkish revolution, which as a reaction to the continuing disintegration of the empire settled on a narrow nationalism and excluded Armenians from the moral universe of the state. '''It should be obvious from the overwhelming evidence that exists in the state archives of major powers (the above being but a small representative sample) that the 1915 genocide of the Armenians was premeditated and the isolated cases of armed resistance by the Armenians were deliberately provoked by the Turkish government so as to exploit it as justification for a general campaign of race extermination.''' That being so, bringing up the much discredited myth of Armenian disloyalty in the context of the 1915 Armenian Genocide is as offensive to the victims as well as to well-informed non-Armenians as bringing up the Nazi rationalization of an alleged "international Jewish conspiracy" would be in the context of the Nazi Holocaust. Because '''both the Armenians under Ottoman rule and the Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe perished not for something they did or failed to do, but for who they were.''' ** Professor Robert Melson, Holocaust survivor and genocide scholar in ''Revolution and Genocide: On the Origins of the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust'' (1992) University of Chicago Press [[File:They Shall Not Perish.png|thumb|right|In a realisation of their plan to resolve the Armenian Question by destroying the Armenian race, the Turkish Government is not stopped neither by our representatives, nor by the public opinion of the west. ~ [[w:Paul Wolff Metternich|Paul Wolff Metternich]] ]] * '''In a realisation of their plan to resolve the Armenian Question by destroying the Armenian race, the Turkish Government is not stopped neither by our representatives, nor by the public opinion of the west.''' ** Comte [[w:Paul Wolff Metternich|Paul Wolff Metternich]] in a dispatch to the Chancellor Von Bethmann-Holweg (10 July 1919) [[File:Ambassador Morgenthau's Story p314.jpg|thumb|Those who fell by the wayside. Scenes like this were common all over the Armenian provinces in the spring and summer months of 1915. Death in its several forms—massacre, starvation, exhaustion—destroyed the larger part of the refugees. The Turkish policy was that of extermination under the guise of deportation. ~ [[Henry Morgenthau Sr.]]]] * '''The destruction of the Armenian race in 1915 involved certain difficulties that had not impeded the operations of the Turks in the massacres of 1895 and other years.''' In these earlier periods the Armenian men had possessed little power or means of resistance. In those days Armenians had not been permitted to have military training, to serve in the Turkish army, or to possess arms. As I have already said, these discriminations were withdrawn when the revolutionists obtained the upper hand in 1908. Not only were the Christians now permitted to bear arms, but the authorities, in the full flush of their enthusiasm for freedom and equality, encouraged them to do so. In the early part of 1915, therefore, every Turkish city contained thousands of Armenians who had been trained as soldiers and who were supplied with rifles, pistols, and other weapons of defense. The operations at Van once more disclosed that these men could use their weapons to good advantage. It was thus apparent that an Armenian massacre this time would generally assume more the character of warfare than those wholesale butcheries of defenseless men and women which the Turks had always found so congenial. If this plan of murdering a race were to succeed, two preliminary steps would therefore have to be taken: it would be necessary to render all Armenian soldiers powerless and to deprive of their arms the Armenians in every city and town. '''Before Armenia could be slaughtered, Armenia must be made defenseless. In the early part of 1915, the Armenian soldiers in the Turkish army were reduced to a new status. Up to that time most of them had been combatants, but now they were all stripped of their arms and transformed into workmen.''' … In almost all cases the procedure was the same. Here and there squads of 50 or 100 men would be taken, bound together in groups of four, and then marched out to a secluded spot a short distance from the village. Suddenly the sound of rifle shots would fill the air, and the Turkish soldiers who had acted as the escort would sullenly return to camp. Those sent to bury the bodies would find them almost invariably stark naked, for, as usual, the Turks had stolen all their clothes. In cases that came to my attention, the murderers had added a refinement to their victims' sufferings by compelling them to dig their graves before being shot. … Dreadful as were these massacres of unarmed soldiers, they were mercy and justice themselves when compared with the treatment which was now visited upon those Armenians who were suspected of concealing arms. Naturally the Christians became alarmed when placards were posted in the villages and cities ordering everybody to bring their arms to headquarters. Although this order applied to all citizens, the Armenians well understood what the result would be, should they be left defenseless while their Moslem neighbours were permitted to retain their arms. '''In many cases, however, the persecuted people patiently obeyed the command; and then the Turkish officials almost joyfully seized their rifles as evidence that a "revolution" was being planned and threw their victims into prison on a charge of treason. Thousands failed to deliver arms simply because they had none to deliver, while an even greater number tenaciously refused to give them up, not because they were plotting an uprising, but because they proposed to defend their own lives and their women's honour against the outrages which they knew were being planned. The punishment inflicted upon these recalcitrants forms one of the most hideous chapters of modern history.''' … Nothing was sacred to the Turkish gendarmes; under the plea of searching for hidden arms, they ransacked churches, treated the altars and sacred utensils with the utmost indignity, and even held mock ceremonies in imitation of the Christian sacraments. They would beat the priests into insensibility, under the pretense that they were the centres of sedition. When they could discover no weapons in the churches, they would sometimes arm the bishops and priests with guns, pistols, and swords, then try them before courts-martial for possessing weapons against the law, and march them in this condition through the streets, merely to arouse the fanatical wrath of the mobs. As a preliminary to the searches everywhere, the strong men of the villages and towns were arrested and taken to prison. Their tormentors here would exercise the most diabolical ingenuity in their attempt to make their victims declare themselves to be "revolutionists" and to tell the hiding places of their arms. A common practice was to place the prisoner in a room, with two Turks stationed at each end and each side. The examination would then begin with the bastinado. This is a form of torture not uncommon in the Orient; it consists of beating the soles of the feet with a thin rod. At first the pain is not marked; but as the process goes slowly on, it develops into the most terrible agony, the feet swell and burst, and not infrequently, after being submitted to this treatment, they have to be amputated. … In thousands of cases the Armenians endured these agonies and refused to surrender their arms simply because they had none to surrender. However, they could not persuade their tormentors that this was the case. It therefore became customary, when news was received that the searchers were approaching, for Armenians to purchase arms from their Turkish neighbours so that they might be able to give them up and escape these frightful punishments. ** [[Henry Morgenthau Sr.]], U.S. Ambassador to the [[w:Ottoman Empire|Ottoman Empire]], ''Ambassador Morgenthau's Story'', Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City, New York (1918), "Chapter XXIV - The Murder of a Nation" page 301 * Those who fell by the wayside. Scenes like this were common all over the Armenian provinces in the spring and summer months of 1915. Death in its several forms—massacre, starvation, exhaustion—destroyed the larger part of the refugees. The Turkish policy was that of extermination under the guise of deportation. ** [[Henry Morgenthau Sr.]], {{cite book |title=Ambassador Morgenthau's Story: A Personal Account of the Armenian Genocide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NCy21PiWEbIC|access-date=15 April 2016 |year=2010|origyear=First published 1918|publisher=Cosimo, Inc.|isbn=978-1-61640-396-6|page=402}} * '''Deportation of and excesses against peaceful Armenians is increasing and from harrowing reports of eye witnesses it appears that a campaign of race extermination is in progress under a pretext of reprisal against rebellion'''. ** U.S. Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire [[w:Henry Morgenthau Sr.|Henry Morganthau]], in a confidential dispatch to the U.S. Secretary of State (16 July 1915); United States Official records on the Armenian Genocide 1915-1917, pp. 55, document NA/RG59/867.4016/76 * The Sultan's proclamation [of war] was an official public document, and dealt with the proposed Holy War [Jihad] only in a general way, but about this same time a secret pamphlet appeared which gave instructions to the faithful in more specific terms...It was a lengthy document full of quotations from the Koran, and its stile was frenzied in its appeal to racial and religious hatred. It described a detailed plan of operations for the assassination and extermination of all Christians except those of German nationality. ** [[w:Henry Morgenthau Sr.|Henry Morganthau]], in ''Secrets of the Bosphorus'' (1918) London, Hutchinson & Co. pp. 106-7. * This attempt of the Armenians to defend themselves against the Turkish attack in Van was promptly misrepresented in a communique' which was sent by [[w:İsmail Enver|Enver Pasha]] and the Turkish Government to Berlin, and thence spread all over the world, as an attack by bands of Armenian insurrectionists who, in the rear of the Turkish army had fallen prey upon the Muhammedan population. Out of 180,000 Moslems in the Vilayet of Van only 30,000 had succeeded in escaping! In a later report issued by the Turkish embassy in Berlin on October 1, 1915, the story was further embellished: "No fewer than 180,000 Moslems had been killed. It was not surprising that the Moslems had taken vengeance for this". Some 18 Turks, answering to the number of Armenians they had killed in Van, had turned into 180,000! This astonishing impudent lie has a kind of foundation. According to statistics there should be 180,000 Moslems, including 30,000 Turks and 150,000 Kurds, in the Vilayet of Van. The Turks fled westwards when the Russian army advanced, while the 150,000 Kurds remained where they were, and were molested neither by the Russians nor the Armenians ** Dr. [[w:Fridtjof Nansen|Fridtjof Nansen]] in ''Armenia and the Near East'' (1928) p. 302 * When I returned to Aleppo in September 1915 … a new phase of Armenian massacres had begun which aimed at exterminating, root and branch, the intelligent, industrious, and progressive Armenian nation. . . . In dilapidated caravansaries (in Aleppo) I found quantities of dead (many corpses being half-decomposed) and others, still living among them, who were soon to breathe their last. . . . masses of half-starved people, the survivors of so-called 'deportation convoys.' '''I was told, to cover the extermination of the Armenian nation with a political cloak, military reasons were being put forward... After I had informed myself about the facts and had made enquiries on all sides, I came to the conclusion that all these accusations against the Armenians were, in fact, based on trifling provocations, which were taken as an excuse for slaughtering 10,000 innocents for one guilty person, for the most savage outrages against women and children, and for a campaign of starvation against the exiles which was intended to exterminate the whole nation.''' What we saw with our own eyes here in Aleppo was really only the last scene in the great tragedy of the extermination of the Armenians. It was only a minute fraction of the horrible drama that was being played out simultaneously in all the other provinces of Turkey. The German Consul from Mosul related, in my presence, at the German club at Aleppo that, in many places on the road from Mosul to Aleppo, he had seen children's hands lying hacked off in such numbers that one could have paved the road with them. The Consuls are of opinion that, so far, probably about one million Armenians have perished in the massacres of the last few months. Of this number, one must reckon that at least half are women and children who have either been murdered or have succumbed to starvation. The Arabs of the village declared that they had killed these Armenians by the Government's orders. '''A newspaper reporter was told by one of these gentlemen "Certainly we are now punishing many innocent people as well. But we have to guard ourselves even against those who may one day become guilty." On such grounds Turkish statesmen justify the wholesale slaughter of defenceless women and children. A German Catholic ecclesiastic reported that [[w:İsmail Enver|Enver Pasha]] declared, in the presence of Monsignore Dolci, the Papal Envoy at Constantinople, that he would not rest so long as a single Armenian remained alive. The object of the deportations is the extermination of the whole Armenian nation'''. ** Dr. Martin Niepage, in ''The Horrors of Aleppo''; Engl. Trans. Doran Co., appeared in the New York Times publication Current History Vol. 5 Nov. 1916 pp 335-37. Dr Niepage was a German Schoolteacher in Aleppo who directly witnessed and wrote about the horrors of the Armenian Genocide. * After the massacres of Djarbekir, the tide of carnage and persecution rolled over the provinces of Adana and Northern Syria (Zeitun, Urfa, Marrash, etc) which were at the time crowded with deportees from Central and Northern Anatolia...The provinces of Van, Bitlis, Djarbekir... were the only ones which suffered massacres in the true sense of the word. In the remaining vilayets of the Empire persecution took the form of deportations, which effected almost the same results as the massacres. there can be no doubt that the massacres and deportations took place in accordance with a laid-out plan for which the responsibility lay with the retrograde party, headed by the Grand Vizier [[w:Mehmed Talat Pasha|Talat Pasha]] and the civil authorities under his orders. They aimed to make an end first of the Armenians, then of the greeks and other Christians, Ottoman subjects, in the Empire. We glean ample verification for this from the masacres of Sairt, Djesiret, and the surrounding districts, during which perished no less then two hundred thousand Nestorian Christians, Syrio-Catholics, Jacobites, etc, who had no connection whatever with the Armenians, and who had always been the Sultan's loyal subjects. '''Officially we are forbidden to give the deportees any ration without a written order signed by the civil authorities of the province from which they came, along with other idiocies invented by Talat Pasha in order to kill the poor devils with starvation.''' ** Rafael de Nogales, in ''Four Years Beneath the Crescent'' pp 116-18 & p 147 - 1926 * I learned from them some extremely alarming details regarding the Armenian situation, which made me comprehend perfectly their fully justified fear as to the future fate of their small protégés. I caught sight of the military commander of the place dictating orders to his officers, while a group of kiatihs or secretaries deciphered an enormous heap of telegrams. That unaccustomed activity made me suspect that the storm was about to break. And I was not mistaken. Next morning, which was the twentieth of April, 1915, we stumbled, near El-Aghlat, upon mutilated Armenian corpses strewing the length of the road. One hour later we saw numerous gigantic columns of smoke surge up from the opposite shore of the lake, indicating the sites where the cities and hamlets of the provinces of Van were being devoured by flame. Then I understood. The die was cast. The Armenian "revolution" had begun...April 21. '''At dawn I was awakened by the noise of shots and volleys. The Armenians had attacked the town. Immediately I mounted my horse and, followed by some armed men, went to see what was happening. Judge of my amazement to discover that the aggressors had not been the Armenians, after ail, but the civil authorities themselves!''' Supported by the Kurds and the rabble of the vicinity, they were attacking and sacking the Armenian quarter..., I succeeded at last, without serious accident, in approaching the Beledie reis of the town, who was directing the orgy; whereupon I ordered him to stop the massacre. '''He astounded me by replying that he was doing nothing more than carry out an unequivocal order emanating from the Governor-General of the province … to exterminate all Armenian males of twelve years of age and over.''' I, as a soldier, could not prevent the execution of this decree, which was purely civil in character, however much I desired. So I ordered the gendarmes to retire, and waited until the hell was over. At the end of an hour and a half of butchery there remained of the Armenians of Adil-Javus only seven survivors... The civil authorities of the Sultan kill noiselessly and preferably by night, like vampires. Generally they choose as their victim's sepulchre deep lakes in which there are no indiscreet currents to bear the corpse to shore, or lonely mountain caves where dogs and jackals aid in erasing all traces of their crime. Among them I noticed some Kurds belonging to a group of several hundred which, on the following morning, was to help in killing off all the Armenians still in possession of some few positions and edifices around the town. Seeing that the enemy's fire was dwindling down, and unable to endure any longer the odor of scorched flesh from the Armenian corpses scattered among the smoking ruins of the church... Pursued by Kurdish bullets, which felled them by the dozen, the Armenians ran hither and thither like frightened rabbits; and not a few of them sat upon the ground, stupefied, awaiting death like sheep bound to the sacrificial altar, without making the slightest attempt to save themselves. Only a small group of young men kept defending themselves desperately, their backs to a wall, until, overcome at last by sheer exhaustion, they fell one after another under the cutlasses and bullets of the Kurds, who used the sword whenever possible in order to keep from wasting cartridges. ** Rafael de Nogales, Venezuelan professional soldier who served as an officer in the Ottoman Army during WWI and was responsible for the artillery portion of the Ottoman siege of Van in ''Four Years Beneath the Crescent'' (1926) a book written about these experiences *Another issue that confronts all [[Democracy|democracies]] as they move to the future is how we deal with the past. The United States is still working through some of our own darker periods in our [[History of the United States|history]]. Facing the [[w:Washington Monument|Washington Monument]] that I spoke of is a [[w:Lincoln Memorial|memorial]] of [[Abraham Lincoln]], the man who freed those who were enslaved even after [[George Washington|Washington]] led our [[American Revolution|Revolution]]. Our country still struggles with the legacies of [[Slavery in the United States|slavery]] and [[Racial segregation|segregation]], the past treatment of [[w:Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]]. Human endeavor is by its nature imperfect. History is often tragic, but unresolved it can be a heavy weight. Each country must work through its past. And reckoning with the past can help us seize a better future. Now, I know there's strong views in this chamber about the terrible events of 1915. And while there's been a good deal of commentary about my views, it's really about how the Turkish and Armenian people deal with the past. And the best way forward for the Turkish and Armenian people is a process that works through the past in a way that is honest, open, and constructive. **[[Barack Obama]], [https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-the-grand-national-assembly-turkey-ankara Remarks to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey in Ankara], (6 April 2009) * '''The Armenian population which is being expelled from its homeland is not only being subjected to the greatest misery but also to a total extermination''' (27 June 1915) — The manner in which the Armenian are being deported for resettlement purposes is tantamount to death a verdict for the affected people. (1 July 1915) — the time will come when Turkey will have to account for this policy of extermination (13 August 1915). ** Johann Markgraf Pallavicini, Austrian Ambassador to Turkey, 1906-1918. * '''Thirty thousand Kurds and a million Armenians were killed in Turkey. Almost no one dares speak but me, and the nationalists hate me for that.''' ** [[w:Orhan Pamuk|Orhan Pamuk]], Internationally recognized Turkish author, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature (2006) in an interview with Swiss newspaper ''Tagesanzeiger'' (2005) * '''Pamuk has made groundless claims against the Turkish identity, the Turkish military and Turkey as a whole. He should be punished for violating Articles 159 and 312 of the Turkish penal code. He made a statement provoking the people to hatred and animosity through the media, which is defined as a crime in Article 312.''' ** Orhan Pekmezci, Kayseri Bar Association Attorney upon filing charges against Pamuk for violations of Turkish Penal Code (2005) * '''The Van uprising certainly was an act of desperation. The local Armenians realized that general massacres against the Armenians had already started and they would be the next target. In the course of the summer 1915 the Turkish government with inexorable consequence brought its bloody task of extermination of an entire nation to an end'''...The gruesome destruction of the Armenian nation in Asia Minor by the Ittihadist government was an act which was barbaric and which to the highest degree outrages all human senses. ** Joseph Pomiankowski, Vice-Marshall, Austrian Military Plenipotentiary in Wartime Turkey during WWI, in ''Collapse of the Ottoman Empire'', Vienna, 1928, p. 160 - 161. * The criminal gangs who were released from the prisons, after a week's training at the War Ministry's training grounds, were sent off to the Caucasian front as the brigands of the Special Organization, perpetrating the worst crimes against the Armenians … '''The Ittihadists intended to destroy the Armenians, and thereby to do away with the Question of the Eastern Provinces'''.... In order to justify this enormous crime [of the Armenian genocide] the requisite propaganda material was thoroughly prepared in Istanbul. [It included such statements as:] the Armenians are in league with the enemy. They will launch an uprising in Istanbul, kill off the Ittihadist leaders and will succeed in opening up the straits [to enable the Allied fleets to capture Istanbul]. These vile and malicious incitements [were such, however, that they] could persuade only people who were not even able to feel the pangs of their own hunger. … among those Armenians who were atrociously wasted, despite the fact that they were most innocent, guiltless, and who had committed no crime whatsoever, were the Armenians of Bursa, Ankara, Eskiehir, and Konya. ** Ahmet Refik, Turkish Military Intelligence Officer in WWI in ''İki Komite-İki Kıtâl'', İstanbul 1919 * I defended the Armenians who, even though they were completely innocent, were murdered simply because they were Armenians. The dictates of justice and the state's badge required such intervention. ** Ottoman Senator Ahmet Riza, from his memoirs * '''The partisans of Ittihad are unabashedly conceding that their ultimate aim [Endziel] is the total annihilation (ganzliche Ausrottung) of the Armenians of Turkey, adding, "After the war we no longer will have any Armenians in Turkey."''' ** Dr. Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter, German Vice Consul, Erzerum, 28 July 1915 * They [the Ittahadist leaders] have fabricated, for the benefit of Allied Powers, an alleged revolution stirred up by the Dashnak party. '''They have inflated the importance of isolated incidents and acts of self-defense by the Armenians and used it as an excuse to deport the bordering population. On the way. the Armenians have been murdered, on orders of the Committee, by gangs of Kurds and Turks and at times, even by gendarmes.''' ** Dr. [[w:Ludwig Maximilian Erwin von Scheubner-Richter|Ludwig Maximilian Erwin von Scheubner-Richter]], in a secret dispatch to German Authorities, December 1916, per Lepsius Johannes, ''Deutchland und Armenien 1914-1918''. Document No. 309. * '''The failure to do justice in the Armenian Genocide can be traced in important part to the overlapping, interlocking dynamics of economics, international law, and mass murder.''' The more predatory aspects of international law dovetailed well with the destructive social patterns of the Turkish killing. The law proved to be incapable of prosecuting genocide without drawing more "conventional" aspects of colonialism, national development, and international trade into the dock as crimes as well. The legal and economic precedents set in the wake of World War I had considerable impact on the course of the Holocaust during World War II, just as the more widely understood political precedents did. Hitler himself repeatedly raised the international community's failure to do justice in the wake of the Armenian Genocide to explain and justify his own racial theories, and the Germans' pattern of "learning through doing" genocide was similar in important respects to that of the Turks. While the two crimes were different in important respects, they both were led by ideologically driven, authoritarian political parties that had come to power in the midst of a deep social crisis. '''Both the Ittihad and the Nazis-each originally a marginal political party-managed to perpetrate genocide by enlisting the established institutions of conventional life-the national courts, commercial structures, scholarly community, and so on-in the tasks of mass persecution and eventually mass murder. In both cases, the ruling party achieved its genocidal aims in part by offering economic incentives for persecution, the most basic of which were the opportunity to share in the spoils of deported people and the ability to transfer the costs of economic crisis onto the shoulders of the despised group.''' ** Christopher Simpson, in ''The Splendid Blond Beast'' (1995) * The deportation and destruction of the Armenians was decided by the Young Turks Committee in Constantinople. ** Colonel Stange, Commander of the 8th Regiment consisting mostly of convicts released from Turkish prisons to join the killer bands of the Special Organization - German Foreign Ministry Archives. * Kill every Armenian man, woman, and child without concern. ** [[w:Mehmed Talat Pasha|Mehmed Talat Pasha]], Minister of the Interior, Ottoman Empire (24 April 1915) as quoted by US Congressman [[w:Anthony D. Weiner|Anthony D. Weiner]], in a [http://www.house.gov/list/press/ny09_weiner/052104armenian.html Press release (21 April 2005)]. The quote is taken from the so-called "[[w:Aram Andonian|Andonian Telegrams]]", whose authenticity is disputed. * '''The Armenian Genocide is proven in all its components — among them intent. The converging evidence is well in excess of that generally judged abundant in establishing other historical truths.''' The genocide was a horrendous crime. The evidence is there — province by province, city by city, village by village, hamlet by hamlet, with its countless variations according to time and place yet all the same in the vast process of extermination — genocide. A deliberate plan, carefully organized and brutally executed. '''The deniers and rationalizers offend the dignity of the historian and of all humanity'''. ** Yves Ternon, author of several volumes concerning human rights and genocide in ''Freedom and Responsibility of the Historian — the "Lewis Affair"'' (1999) * '''It can no longer be denied that the Turks... have undertaken the extermination of the Armenians race and it appears that they have largely succeeded in it.''' With certain air of gleefulness [[w:Mehmed Talat Pasha|Talaat]] recently told me that in Erzerum, for example, there should be remaining not a single Armenian... Turkey today is under a maniacal spell due to the realization that she carried out the extermination of the Armenian race with impunity. ** Karl Count zu Trautmansdorff-Weinsberg, Temporary Ambassador to Turkey, (30 September 1915) Austrian Foreign Ministry Archives * '''In fact most of the available evidence points to the conclusion that a systematic decimation of the Armenian population in the eastern provinces had already been decided on by the Ittihad ve Terakki regime, and that the troubles in Van and elsewhere merely served as a convenient excuse for getting a program of mass deportations and large-scale extermination.''' ** Ulrich Trumpener, historian, in ''Germany and the Ottoman Empire'' (1968) Princeton, p. 203. * '''By February 1916, 1.5 million Armenians were destroyed''' … the first step toward the recovery of the economic predominance in Turkey … there was joy in the government circles that the long-desired opportunity finally presented itself... ** A. A. Türkei, 134/35, A18613, pp. 1,2,3,4 "Volkswirtschaftliche Studien in der Türkei" report. * Until recently, in fact at the beginning of this year, the Armenians were regarded as the most reliable element, indeed the only reliable people within the Christian elements in Turkey. One could read it in all the newspapers and the important Turkish dignitaries confirmed this on every occasion, which presented itself...Since March, an about-turn has taken place which is as general and consequent as if the Turks had never known up until now what dangerous people had been living within their midst. ** von Tysza, German journalist in Ottoman Turkey, from German Archives - (1915-10-01-DE-001) * The Turks are vigorously carrying through their cruel intention, to exterminate the Armenian people, ** Carl Wandel, (3 July 1915); as reported by Robert Fisk in ''The Independent'' (20 May 2006) * '''It is evident that deportations of Armenians is not motivated by military considerations''', the minister of the Interior Talaat Bey recently in a conversation with Dr. Mortsmann presently in the Imperial Service, declared openly that the Porte wants to profit from the World War for radically finishing their internal enemies – the Christians before the intervention of outside powers. ** Baron [[w:Hans Freiherr von Wangenheim|Hans Freiherr von Wangenheim]], German Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1912 to October 1915, in a document sent to the German Chancellery, 17 June 1915 * '''The manner in which the matter of relocation is being handled demonstrate that the government is in fact pursuing the goal of annihialating the Armenian race in Turkey.''' ** Baron [[w:Hans Freiherr von Wangenheim|Hans Freiherr von Wangenheim]], German Foreign Ministry Archives. === [[w:Armenian Genocide denial|Denial of the Armenian Genocide]] === [[File:Armenian woman kneeling beside dead child in field.png|thumb| Turkish denial [of the Armenian Genocide] is probably '''the foremost example of historical perversion'''. —Prof. Colin Tatz]] * The Turkish denial [of the Armenian Genocide] is probably '''the foremost example of historical perversion'''. With a mix of academic sophistication and diplomatic thuggery -- of which we at Macquarie University have been targets -- the Turks have put both memory and history into reverse gear." ** Prof. Colin Tatz, Director, Centre for Comparative Genocide Studies, quoted in [http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/19-03-2012/120817-syria_ottoman-0/ Pravda] <!-- [[File:PLACEHOLDER FOR CAPTION - PREVIOUS IMAGE DELETED FROM THE COMMONS|144px|thumb|right|Maybe future generations will address the subject in a more reasonable and calm manner. ~ Yeftan Turkyilmaz]] --> * [When asked what Turkish people think about the Armenian Genocide] — Sadly, young people in Turkey know nothing about the subject, All they know is nationalist things written in school textbooks. And because they lack that knowledge, they believe that the Armenians plot bad things against their country. … maybe future generations will address the subject in a more reasonable and calm manner. ** Yeftan Turkyilmaz, Turkish researcher who has worked in Armenian State archives, in an interview with Gayane Danielian - E/RL (11 May 2005) * In 1982, I refuse to take part in a colloquium whose subject is close to my heart. Organized by two Israeli professors of psychiatry, this symposium on genocide, which I am to chair, is scheduled for early June in Tel Aviv. Everything is set. Scholars and historians from several continents have accepted our invitation, among them Armenians. After all, they have ideas on this subject which has touched them closely. How could one forget the massacre of their parents and grandparents at the hands of the Turkish army? At the last moment, we encounter a major hurdle. Under pressure from Turkey, the Israelis urge me to revoke our invitation to the Armenians. I refuse. It would be too humiliating. And to humiliate is to blaspheme. The pressure increases. '''I am given to understand that if a single Armenian participates in the conference, Israeli-Turkish relations will suffer. And that there would be consequences for Jews in certain Arab countries. Jewish emissaries from Istanbul confirm this to me with documents. No matter, I will not offend our Armenian guests. I resign as chairman... 'A human life weighs more than all the books written about human life.' ''' ** [[Elie Wiesel]], in ''And the Sea is Never Full'' == See also == * [[Assyrian genocide]] * [[Greek genocide]] ==External links== {{wikipedia}} * [http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Armenian_Genocide "Armenian Genocide" at armeniapedia.org] * [http://www.armenian-genocide.org/photo_wegner.html#photo_collection "Photos of Armenian Deportees: 1915-1916"] * [http://omedia.org/Show_Article.asp?DynamicContentID=1876&MenuID=719&ThreadID=1014008 "Learning from history: the Holocaust of the Armenian People"] [[Category:Genocides]] [[Category:Armenia]] [[Category:Cover-ups]] i5864s5rhm2i37loa4j6mc5lhflo7ch 0 8160 3961264 3960071 2026-07-05T19:47:00Z ~2026-38162-06 3347439 3961264 wikitext text/x-wiki {{italic title}} {{Ren & Stimpy header}} [[File:The Ren & Stimpy Show Modern logo.png|thumb|Oh, joy!!!]] '''''[[w:The Ren & Stimpy Show|The Ren & Stimpy Show]]''''' is an American-Canadian children's animated television series created by John Kricfalusi for ''''''[[W:Nickelodeon|Nickelodeon]]''''''. 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I didn't love it. *'''Powdered Toast Man''': POWDERED TOAST MAN! == See also == * ''[[Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon"]]'' == External Links == {{wikipedia}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Ren & Stimpy Show, The}} [[Category:The Ren & Stimpy Show]] [[Category:1990s American animated TV shows]] [[Category:1990s Canadian animated TV shows]] [[Category:1990s American surreal comedy TV shows]] [[Category:1990s American sitcoms]] [[Category:1990s Nickelodeon original series]] [[Category:Traditionally animated TV shows]] [[Category:American animated TV shows]] [[Category:Canadian animated TV shows]] [[Category:American animated comedy TV shows]] [[Category:Canadian animated comedy TV shows]] [[Category:American animated sitcoms]] [[Category:Canadian animated sitcoms]] [[Category:Cancelled shows]] [[Category:Nicktoons]] [[Category:MTV shows]] [[Category:Paramount Network shows]] [[Category:Animated TV shows about cats]] [[Category:Animated TV shows about dogs]] osoipzla0czdcigmerv32t2coyj3x5t 0 9526 3961128 3959844 2026-07-05T16:00:15Z Baratiiman 842201 /* External links */ 3961128 wikitext text/x-wiki '''[[w:Ali Khamenei|Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khamenei]]''' [Persian: سید علی حسینی خامنه‌ای] ([[19 April]] [[1939]] – [[28 February]] [[2026]]) was an Iranian politician and [[w:Shia clergy|Shia cleric]] who served as the second [[w:Supreme Leader of Iran|supreme leader of Iran]] from 1989 until [[w:Assassination of Ali Khamenei|his assassination]] in the [[2026 Iran war|2026 Iran war]]. He previously served as the third [[w:president of Iran|president of Iran]] from 1981 to 1989. His tenure as supreme leader, spanning 36 years and six months, made him the longest-serving head of state in [[w:West Asia|West Asia]] at the time of his death. He held the title of [[w:Ayatollah|Ayatollah]] and was considered one of the world's leading [[w:Marja'|maraji']] of [[w:Twelver Shi'ism|Twelver Shi'ism]]. [[File:Zohak 14020828 4654416.jpg|thumb|Khamenei Zahak! We'll drag you down into ground!~popular chant[https://ir.voanews.com/amp/sepideh-gholian--two-more-years-in-prison/7079426.html]]] [[File:CCTV video of pager explosion in a Beirut market.webm|thumb|We lack today an Islamic ummah which means ummah that moves in same direction.[https://www.etemadonline.com/%D8%A8%D8%AE%D8%B4-%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B3%DB%8C-9/675193-%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85-%D8%AF%D8%B4%D9%85%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%B7]]] [[File:יירוטים בגליל התחתון במסגרת ההתקפה האיראנית על ישראל (cropped).jpg|thumb|Ali Khamenei has brought our beloved nation to the brink of war. But this tyrant, this pariah, is increasingly isolated. For decades he has wrought terror and chaos upon the region. Now he will face the consequences. But let us be clear: this is the Islamic Republic’s war, not the people of Iran's.[https://nitter.poast.org/PahlaviReza/status/1841222790948798589#m Pahlavi]]] ==Quotes== === Undated === * All the papers in Europe and America belong to the capitalists. The newspapers enjoy freedom, but it is the freedom of capitalists to push through their agenda. … If someone does not belong to this circle of capitalists, their views and opinions will not be published or made known. No one will hear them. … They claim newspapers are free in America and Britain. I ask, which newspaper belongs to the middle or lower classes of the society so that they could freely express their views, and we could witness such freedoms? ** Yvette Hovsepian-Bearce, ''The Political Ideology of Ayatollah Khamenei: Out of the Mouth of the Supreme Leader of Iran'', London: Routledge, 2016, pp. 332-333. * The arrogant powers intend to turn our nation into a third-world country and return it to its pre-revolutionary state. ** Yvette Hovsepian-Bearce, ''The Political Ideology of Ayatollah Khamenei: Out of the Mouth of the Supreme Leader of Iran'', London: Routledge, 2016, p. 285. * The Islamic Republic still has a long way to go to achieve the social justice mandated by Islam. We still have not reached that stage and have a long way to go to get there. ** Yvette Hovsepian-Bearce, ''The Political Ideology of Ayatollah Khamenei: Out of the Mouth of the Supreme Leader of Iran'', London: Routledge, 2016, p. 337. * Western democracy is based on liberalism. Freedom exists but has no limits, even if it is against the rights and freedoms of the rest of their society. … The West desires one thing from liberalism, and that is its own absolute freedom to do whatever it desires within the global community and to occupy any part of the world. ** Yvette Hovsepian-Bearce, ''The Political Ideology of Ayatollah Khamenei: Out of the Mouth of the Supreme Leader of Iran'', London: Routledge, 2016, p. 333. === 1982 === * We have no intentions of domination or becoming a superpower in the common and ordinary sense. Our fundamental goal is that the oppressed in the world are able to find the power to decide their own faith. The oppressed people should not be indifferent about this. Instead, we seek amicable relations. When we say peaceful relations, we do not mean relations with every nation. Exceptions include the racist South Africa and the Zionist regime of Israel. They are illegitimate regimes. The nature of these two regimes and their existence is illegal. The other exception is the United States. ** Yvette Hovsepian-Bearce, ''The Political Ideology of Ayatollah Khamenei: Out of the Mouth of the Supreme Leader of Iran'', London: Routledge, 2016, p. 86. === 1984 === * Who are the enemies of Islam? All the bullying oil customers. Oil for them is an existential matter. If they do not have oil, their homes will freeze and their air and ground transportation will stop. This is the only reason the enemy tries to create conflict among Muslims, for they know this reality. The globally hegemonic powers know and see that if this enormous Muslim world comes together in unity and creates a superpower—economically, politically, and militarily—none of the existing military powers could stand against such a force. ** Yvette Hovsepian-Bearce, ''The Political Ideology of Ayatollah Khamenei: Out of the Mouth of the Supreme Leader of Iran'', London: Routledge, 2016, p. 85. * What Iraq has done is treacherous and disloyal toward not only Iran, but the entire Muslim world, simply by subjecting themselves to the temptations of colonizers. ** Yvette Hovsepian-Bearce, ''The Political Ideology of Ayatollah Khamenei: Out of the Mouth of the Supreme Leader of Iran'', London: Routledge, 2016, p. 85. === 1986 === * If we define freedom in its true and broad meaning based on the Divine Scriptures, it is the freedom of the human spirit from corruption, lust, temptations, whims, and material bondage. This definition has not been discussed in Western or European books. The freedom that was discussed during the great French Revolution in the late 18th century and later debated in the Western world is less valuable and more limited than the freedom discussed by the Divine Prophets and Scriptures. ** Yvette Hovsepian-Bearce, ''The Political Ideology of Ayatollah Khamenei: Out of the Mouth of the Supreme Leader of Iran'', London: Routledge, 2016, p. 327. === 1987 === * Freedom in Islam is freedom from slavery, servitude, and domination. It calls upon ascribing value to human will. Those who believe that the concept of freedom, in this sense, has existed in the world only for the past two or three centuries are wrong. The concept of the freedom of human beings was discussed in Islam centuries prior to Europe's formulations of freedom as a universal right of humanity, and centuries prior to debates among European scholars, intellectuals, revolutionaries, and political leaders. ** Yvette Hovsepian-Bearce, ''The Political Ideology of Ayatollah Khamenei: Out of the Mouth of the Supreme Leader of Iran'', London: Routledge, 2016, pp. 326–327. * Imam Khomeini explained on numerous occasions that exporting the revolution is the culture of the revolution and the true spirit of the revolution. That Cultural Revolution recognizes no borders, no color, and no race. No wall or gate can stand in its way or prevent its progress. … The difference with Iran's Islamic Revolution is that it influences without the slightest interference in the domestic affairs of other countries. Iran's exporting of its revolution is not by a military threat, but a cultural influence. ** Yvette Hovsepian-Bearce, ''The Political Ideology of Ayatollah Khamenei: Out of the Mouth of the Supreme Leader of Iran'', London: Routledge, 2016, p. 83. * We created an Islamic government in one of the most strategic locations in the world: Iran connects the East and the West. Now the only thing left is our battle against false propaganda that attempts to cloud the image of this revolution. … They present our republic as a reactionary and cruel regime. They do not hesitate to use superficial Muslims and scholars to accomplish their goals. The response of the Islamic Republic is to show its innocence to the world—to show that it is progressive and not reactionary, seeks justice and advocates justice, and is not oppressive and cruel. ** Yvette Hovsepian-Bearce, ''The Political Ideology of Ayatollah Khamenei: Out of the Mouth of the Supreme Leader of Iran'', London: Routledge, 2016, p. 299. * We have been delivered from the Shah's regime that was one hundred percent dependent upon the West. We became victims of aggression because of his policies that produced dependency. Henceforth, we have no desire for dependency upon the powers from either side. … Internally, today all Iranians know that the Islamic Republic has a strict policy of "Neither East, Nor West." … Externally, Iran has spread this policy to other nations, specifically to smaller third-world countries and independent non-third-world countries, who feel they have no choice but to rely on the two superpowers. … As long as a nation is not under the influence of, or subjected to, the power of the East, West, or the Soviet Union, our goal has been accomplished. ** Yvette Hovsepian-Bearce, ''The Political Ideology of Ayatollah Khamenei: Out of the Mouth of the Supreme Leader of Iran'', London: Routledge, 2016, p. 82. === 1989 === * Cutting relations with America is one hundred percent to the advantage of Iranians. It is a deceitful misrepresentation to say that nations who have good relations with the U.S. have no economic or financial problems. If the Iranian nation wishes to turn its economic and financial standing around, which it will certainly do, all it needs is a strong will, decisiveness, and cooperation among the different sectors of society. It also needs to avoid being impacted by Western media and the West’s propaganda machines. These measures and values will build the nation, not relations with America. ** Yvette Hovsepian-Bearce, ''The Political Ideology of Ayatollah Khamenei: Out of the Mouth of the Supreme Leader of Iran'', London: Routledge, 2016, pp. 149–150. * Do not let go of your hatred for the enemy. When animosity and hatred toward the enemy decreases in your hearts, it is a dangerous sign. That means your faith is diminishing. Everyone, young and old, must maintain their hate and abhorrence for the enemy in their hearts. ** Yvette Hovsepian-Bearce, ''The Political Ideology of Ayatollah Khamenei: Out of the Mouth of the Supreme Leader of Iran'', London: Routledge, 2016, p. 288. * From the very beginning of the victory of the Islamic Revolution, global arrogant powers realized that if Muslim unity is attained, the attention of Muslims will turn to the Command Center of Muslim Unity, Iran. Reactionary governments and those affiliated with domination have spent a lot of money to provoke conflict among Muslims, including Arab nations, those who speak Urdu, and even within the Iranian Muslim nation. ** Yvette Hovsepian-Bearce, ''The Political Ideology of Ayatollah Khamenei: Out of the Mouth of the Supreme Leader of Iran'', London: Routledge, 2016, pp. 303–304. * If we want the revolution to continue with the same speed, steadfastness, and in the path of Islam without wavering to the left or to the right, we have to set the goals of our nation and also of the Islamic nations around us. We have to make efforts to bring these goals to fruition and not stop trying. The greatest danger is not that we become tired or exhausted, but that we lose sight of the revolutionary goals and ideals. ** Yvette Hovsepian-Bearce, ''The Political Ideology of Ayatollah Khamenei: Out of the Mouth of the Supreme Leader of Iran'', London: Routledge, 2016, p. 217. * It is because of Islam that we are firmly standing against oppression. The world of oppression is ruled by America as the leader of a system that works to realize its interests. There is no other issue between America and Islamic Iran other than Islam. We are fighting for humankind. We have proven that Islam can save humanity. Islam is able to confront the world powers and disrupt their ruthless world order. ** Yvette Hovsepian-Bearce, ''The Political Ideology of Ayatollah Khamenei: Out of the Mouth of the Supreme Leader of Iran'', London: Routledge, 2016, p. 150. * The global arrogant powers make the Islamic Revolution sound like a Shi'ite revolution. They make every effort to stop the Muslim world from calling the Islamic Republic of Iran's revolution, a revolution in the name of Islam, and Iran's government, an Islamic Republic. Iran does not distinguish between Shi'ites and Sunnis, but sees all Muslims as one, under the same banner of Islam. ** Yvette Hovsepian-Bearce, ''The Political Ideology of Ayatollah Khamenei: Out of the Mouth of the Supreme Leader of Iran'', London: Routledge, 2016, p. 304. * Without safeguarding social justice, our society will not be an Islamic society. Social justice means eradication of major gaps between different social classes, between the unjustified wealth of the affluent and the poor who have always been the most loyal defenders of the revolution. ** Yvette Hovsepian-Bearce, ''The Political Ideology of Ayatollah Khamenei: Out of the Mouth of the Supreme Leader of Iran'', London: Routledge, 2016, p. 149. === 1991 === * When Khomeini talked about capitalism and the impunity of American advisors, he explained these things in a way that his audience understood. He made his followers understand that his movement was truly an Iranian movement. Therefore, the Pahlavi regime and America's entire apparatus of power realized that Imam Khomeini's leadership and his revolutionary movement represented a struggle against global domination. ** Yvette Hovsepian-Bearce, ''The Political Ideology of Ayatollah Khamenei: Out of the Mouth of the Supreme Leader of Iran'', London: Routledge, 2016, p. 43. * When our nation struggled and fought against the Shah's regime, in actuality it was a revolt against America. … The imposed Iran–Iraq War is an example of America's attempted meddling against this revolution. We do not doubt that this war occurred at America's behest. As long as America's policies are based on domination and aggression, there will be no relations with America. ** Yvette Hovsepian-Bearce, ''The Political Ideology of Ayatollah Khamenei: Out of the Mouth of the Supreme Leader of Iran'', London: Routledge, 2016, p. 82. === 1998 === * In Islam, if one operates against the interests of the country, one's freedom will be limited. This is both logical and spiritual. ** Yvette Hovsepian-Bearce, ''The Political Ideology of Ayatollah Khamenei: Out of the Mouth of the Supreme Leader of Iran'', London: Routledge, 2016, p. 328. === 1999 === * The basic needs of human beings today have not changed from those of people who lived thousands, or even tens of thousands of years ago. The basic needs of human beings are security, freedom, knowledge, and a life free from discrimination and oppression. The needs that have sprung up today can be satisfied within the framework and under the umbrella of these basic needs. These needs can be met only through the blessings of God's religion. ** Yvette Hovsepian-Bearce, ''The Political Ideology of Ayatollah Khamenei: Out of the Mouth of the Supreme Leader of Iran'', London: Routledge, 2016, p. 327. * What is unacceptable is for publications to operate through the support of the people, yet act against their interests by spreading lies and casting false and malicious accusations. These publications are not expressing their views, but have become the propaganda machines for Israeli and American media. Those who violate Islamic principles and act against the security of the nation forfeit the right to exercise that freedom [i.e. of expression]. ** Yvette Hovsepian-Bearce, ''The Political Ideology of Ayatollah Khamenei: Out of the Mouth of the Supreme Leader of Iran'', London: Routledge, 2016, p. 201. * [There is only one possible solution to unrest in the [[Middle East]]], "namely the annihilation and destruction of the [[Zionism|Zionist]] state." ** December 31, 1999 speech on Qods Day, as quoted in "Iranian leader urges destruction of Israel", ''The Spokesman-Review'' (January 1, 2000) === 2000 === * Today the world has far more potential than in the past to understand the [[message]] of the [[Muhammad|Holy Prophet]] (s.w.a). The more human [[knowledge]] increases, the more likely it becomes that the message of [[Islam]] will gain ground. The more powerful people in different parts of the world use brutal tools in order to suppress human feelings and to bring them under their yoke, the more the ground will be prepared for identifying the light of Islam and the more thirsty human beings will become for [[Islam]]. Today we see the signs of this thirst for the message of Islam, which is the message of [[monotheism]], the message of [[spirituality]], the message of [[justice]], the message of human [[dignity]]. Human beings are enthusiastic about the message of Islam. ** [http://english.khamenei.ir//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1871&Itemid=4 "Supreme Leader's Speech in a Meeting with Officials and Ambassadors of Islamic Countries"], ''Khamenei.ir'' (October 25, 2000) * Iran's stance has always been clear on this ugly phenomenon ([[Israel]]). We have repeatedly said that this [[Cancer|cancerous]] tumor of a state should be removed from the region… No one will allow a bunch of thugs, lechers and outcasts from [[London]], [[United States|America]] and [[Moscow]] to rule over the [[Palestine|Palestinians]]. ** "Iran leader urges destruction of 'cancerous' Israel", ''CNN'' (December 15, 2000) * Freedom that exists in the Islamic Republic today does not exist anywhere else. People are free to express their views and opinions. From the very beginning a group of people in the Islamic Republic claimed that we do not have freedom. They even bluntly broadcast it in the media—on radio, on television, in the newspapers. In the Islamic Republic everything is based on the will of the people. … A system that is based on the loyalty of its people is a strong system, and the enemy cannot hurt it. It is because of this freedom that the sciences, industry, education, and knowledge grow in this nation. ** Yvette Hovsepian-Bearce, ''The Political Ideology of Ayatollah Khamenei: Out of the Mouth of the Supreme Leader of Iran'', London: Routledge, 2016, p. 335. * Insulting the Constitution or the politics of the country are not small matters. These newspapers, without knowing whom to blame, insult the system, the Sepah, the Basij, and the clerics. What are their intentions? Why are they opposing Basij to this extent? Imam Khomeini invented the Basij. There is no better organization than Basij to employ the spirit and energy of youth in a healthy way. Where is their animosity toward the Basij coming from? Why are they questioning Basij so much? ** Yvette Hovsepian-Bearce, ''The Political Ideology of Ayatollah Khamenei: Out of the Mouth of the Supreme Leader of Iran'', London: Routledge, 2016, p. 203. === 2001=== * Furthermore, all the Western [[politicians]], [[Intellectual|intellectuals]] and [[Journalism|journalists]] are obliged to pay homage and bow to the monument that commemorates those allegedly killed in the [[Nazism|Nazi]] [[Concentration camp|concentration camps]]. In other words, all should acknowledge the veracity of something that has not been proven! This is also one of the [[propaganda]] means being applied by the [[Zionism|Zionists]] to portray themselves as the victims of persecution! ** [http://english.khamenei.ir//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=162&Itemid=31 "Leader's Statements in a Meeting with Participants in IWMC"], ''Khamenei.ir'' (January 31, 2002) * In an Islamic system, meaning a religious democracy, the people choose and decide the future of the governance of the country and select their leaders. But this choice and their decision are under the shadow of the divine guidance and never leave that protection. This is the main point in religious democracy. This is the Islamic Revolution's gift to the people of Iran. ** Yvette Hovsepian-Bearce, ''The Political Ideology of Ayatollah Khamenei: Out of the Mouth of the Supreme Leader of Iran'', London: Routledge, 2016, p. 315. * It is the mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to erase Israel from the map of the region. ** January 15, 2001 remarks at a meeting with organizers of the International Conference for Support of the Intifada, as quoted in [http://jcpa.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/IransIntent2012b.pdf#page=6 "The Iranian Leadership’s Continuing Declarations of Intent to Destroy Israel"], ''Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs'' (2012) * There are documents showing close collaboration of the Zionists with the [[Nazi Germany]], and exaggerated numbers relating to the [[The Holocaust|Jewish holocaust]] were fabricated to solicit sympathy of the world public opinion, lay the ground for the occupation of Palestine and to justify the atrocities of the Zionists. There is even evidence on hand that a large number of non-Jewish hooligans and thugs of [[East/Central Europe|Eastern Europe]] were forced to migrate to Palestine as Jews. The purpose was to install in the heart of the Islamic world an anti-Islamic state under the guise of supporting the victims of racism and to create a rift between the East and the West of the [[Islamic world]] after 1400 years of unity between those two parts. ** ''IRNA'' (April 24, 2001) * The purchase of any item which helps strengthen Zionism is not permissible. **[http://www.inminds.co.uk/boycott-fatwas.html#imam Imam Syed Ali Khamenei (2001) Fatwa No 12798 issued 15th May 2001]. === 2002 === * The U.S. officials are now revealing their true nature. In his recent speech, [[George W. Bush|the U.S. president]] spoke like a person who is thirsty for the blood of human beings! He threatened and leveled baseless accusations against other governments and nations. Considering the existing realities on the ground, most of the nations in the world have now come to the conclusion that the U.S. is really the [[Great Satan]]. This belief is also substantiated by concrete evidence. ** [http://english.khamenei.ir//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=162&Itemid=31 "Leader's Statements in a Meeting with Participants in IWMC"], ''Khamenei.ir'' (January 31, 2002) === 2003 === * Our magnanimous Imam (r.a.) managed to restore our dignity and eliminate the long-standing hegemony of autocracy and colonialism by returning to Islam, by adhering to Islam. He managed to give our people a sense of identity and made them feel that they can stand on their own feet, that they can say "yes" or "no" in the case of essential matters. Our people had been deprived of such things for centuries. It was Islam that gave these things to our people. In any country in any part of the world where the waves of Islamic Awakening are strengthened or started and the people and youth of that country feel that they are moving closer to Islam, there will be this renewed sense of identity and dignity. **[http://english.khamenei.ir//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1872&Itemid=4 Supreme Leader's Speech to Officials on Occasion of Birthday Anniversary of Holy Prophet (s.w.a.) 19/05/2003] * When the world criticizes Iran for making a bomb, doing so is a sign of Iran's progress. It shows how far Iran has come from the pre-revolutionary era to a post-revolutionary era. Prior to the revolution, 70 percent of the population was uneducated, in comparison to now when Iran is producing nuclear energy independent from reliance on foreign powers. Iran is one of the ten countries that have been able to produce nuclear energy. … All these accomplishments Iran has made have sprung from an infant regime in the aftermath of an eight-year war. ** Yvette Hovsepian-Bearce, ''The Political Ideology of Ayatollah Khamenei: Out of the Mouth of the Supreme Leader of Iran'', London: Routledge, 2016, p. 227. === 2004 === *The [[United States|Americans]] are stuck in [[Iraq]] and have no way out. They are like a wolf whose tail has been caught in a trap. **[http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/2059.htm The Americans in Iraq are 'like a wolf whose tail has been caught in a trap.'] May 2004. * The Iraqi people will hate any [[government]] established in Iraq that will be recognized as appointed by the Americans, just as the Americans are hated. The Americans' coming to Iraq was a mistake. Their staying was a mistake. Their behavior with the population was a mistake... They must know that certainly, the Islamic world and chiefly the Shiite world will not stay silent in face of this. **[http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/83.htm Iranian Leader, Ali Khamenei, Speaks about the American Involvement in Iraq] May 2004. === 2005 === * Western countries allow no [[Freedom of speech|freedom of expression]], which they claim to advocate, with regard to the myth of the massacre of Jews known as the holocaust, and nobody in the West enjoys the freedom of expression to deny it or raise doubts about it. But affronting the sanctities of about 1.5 billion [[Muslim|Muslims]] is permissible in the West. ** [http://www.leader.ir/langs/en/?p=contentShow&id=3500 February 7, 2006 remarks at a reception for Air Force Servicemen] * Our people say "[[Death to America]]," and this is like saying "I seek God's refuge from the accursed [[Satan]]," which is recited before any chapter of the [[Quran|Koran]], even before "In the name of [[Allah]] the Compassionate, the Merciful." Why is this? So the believer will never forget, even for a moment, the presence of Satan. So he will never forget, even for a moment, that Satan is ready to attack him and to destroy his spiritual shield and is faith... The saying "Death to America" is for this purpose. ** [http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/606.htm March 14, 2005 speech] ===2006 === [[File:Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.jpg|thumb|Today, you see throughout the world people setting fire to the effigy of the American president and chanting the slogan "Death to America." This is because of the American regime's exaggerated demands, its arrogance, its vanity, and its desire to control, and because it is a pawn in the hands of the Zionists.]] * Today, [[United States|America]] poses a threat to peace and security in the world. Therefore, the slogan "Death to America" is no longer used only by our people. Today, you see throughout the world people setting fire to the effigy of the American president and chanting the slogan "Death to America." This is because of the American regime's exaggerated demands, its arrogance, its vanity, and its desire to control, and because it is a pawn in the hands of the Zionists." ** [http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/1081.htm March 21, 2006 speech] === 2007 === * Should the Iranian nation beg for the right of exploitation of [[Nuclear power|nuclear energy]] from the bullying world powers until they accept that the nation has a nuclear right?... No. This is not the way of a free and independent nation... [[Rights]] cannot be achieved by entreating. If you supplicate, withdraw and show flexibility, arrogant powers will make their threat more serious. **[http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8PI34T00.htm Iran leader: Won't beg for nuke power] June 2007. === 2008 === * Being culturally dominated is even more perilous than being economically and politically dominated. Why? The reason is that when a nation culturally dominates another nation, the national identity of the nation that is held under domination is lost. … Cultural interchange is a good thing. Cultural invasion is something horrific. Cultural interchange usually happens when a nation is prosperous. Cultural invasion takes place when a nation is feeble. ** Yvette Hovsepian-Bearce, ''The Political Ideology of Ayatollah Khamenei: Out of the Mouth of the Supreme Leader of Iran'', London: Routledge, 2016, p. 298. * Freedom is the gift of God and the Revolution. Freedom belongs to the people and is their fundamental need. ** Yvette Hovsepian-Bearce, ''The Political Ideology of Ayatollah Khamenei: Out of the Mouth of the Supreme Leader of Iran'', London: Routledge, 2016, p. 328. === 2009 === * Let's say they bombed Natanz or Isfahan's facilities, how can they bomb knowledge? You see, knowledge brings immunity and power. … Those who threaten to bomb Iran, even if they bomb the nuclear facilities, they cannot achieve their goals. ** Yvette Hovsepian-Bearce, ''The Political Ideology of Ayatollah Khamenei: Out of the Mouth of the Supreme Leader of Iran'', London: Routledge, 2016, p. 347. * Preventing women from acquiring education and improving their knowledge is an injustice not only to them but to society as a whole, because when women enter an arena, their families do the same. This is not true of men. Furthermore, it is injustice if women are not given the opportunity to exercise their scientific, creative, political, and social talents. Therefore, it is unjust and against Islamic principles if women are not allowed to exercise their rights by choosing their own profession, their own spouse—or choose to divorce and have the right to continue having a healthy relationship with their children. ** Yvette Hovsepian-Bearce, ''The Political Ideology of Ayatollah Khamenei: Out of the Mouth of the Supreme Leader of Iran'', London: Routledge, 2016, pp. 329–330. * Today, [[United States|you]] are hated throughout the world. If you don't know this, you should. The peoples burn your flag. The Islamic peoples all over the world chant: "Death to America!" ** [http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/2059.htm March 21, 2009 speech responding to American President Barack Obama's diplomatic outreach to Iran] === 2010 === * The [[White people|European races]] are barbaric. They wear freshly pressed suits and ties, and they smell of eau de cologne, but deep down, they still have the same barbaric nature known from [[history]]. They kill with ease. They murder people without any problem. Therefore, beating women in their homes is of no consequence to the [[Europeans]] and Americans, whereas in an Islamic environment, it is unimaginable. ** [http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/3844.htm May 10, 2010 address at a conference for women] * Israel Is A Hideous Entity In the Middle East Which Will Undoubtedly Be Annihilated. ** [https://twitter.com/khamenei_ir/status/22815824658 September 2, 2010 tweet] * If people get into the habit of using their free time for reading books, our society will greatly advance and the country's culture will progress. ** Yvette Hovsepian-Bearce, ''The Political Ideology of Ayatollah Khamenei: Out of the Mouth of the Supreme Leader of Iran'', London: Routledge, 2016, p. 136. === 2012 === * From now on, in any place, if any nation or any group confronts the Zionist regime, we will endorse and we will help. We have no fear expressing this… The Zionist regime is a cancerous tumor that must be removed, and God willing it will be. ** [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/9059179/Iran-We-will-help-cut-out-the-cancer-of-Israel.html February 3, 2012 sermon at Friday prayers] * Pakistan has nuclear weapons, but it does not have security. On the other hand, we do not have nuclear weapons but we are a secure country and we have the power to defend ourselves and protect our security. Therefore, the production of nuclear weapons is considered ''ḥarām'' based on Ayatollah Khamenei's ''fatwā'' and it is not subject to change. ** Yvette Hovsepian-Bearce, ''The Political Ideology of Ayatollah Khamenei: Out of the Mouth of the Supreme Leader of Iran'', London: Routledge, 2016, p. 220. * The great powers have dominated the destiny of the Islamic countries for years and… installed the Zionist cancerous tumor in the heart of the Islamic world… Many of the problems facing the Muslim world are due to the existence of the Zionist regime. ** [http://www.timesofisrael.com/khamenei-israeli-a-malignant-zionist-tumor/ August 19, 2012 speech marking Eid al-Fitr, the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan] * The wave of Islamic Awakening has reached numerous countries in the region, including Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Lebanon, Yemen, Bahrain, and Palestine. [[Arab Spring|The fall of dictators in these nations]] and the victories in the Middle East and North Africa are a result of the might and power of God and not men. Therefore the Zionists, the Great Satan, and the Western powers were powerless in the face of the Islamic Awakening. ** Yvette Hovsepian-Bearce, ''The Political Ideology of Ayatollah Khamenei: Out of the Mouth of the Supreme Leader of Iran'', London: Routledge, 2016, p. 301. * Today in many western countries, nobody dares question the Holocaust whose nature is questionable. According to the reports I have received, in America if people decide to write something against [[homosexuality]] on the basis of [[Psychology|psychological]] and [[Sociology|sociological]] principles, they will be prevented from publishing their work. How is it that these people feel obligated to respect freedom of expression? ** [http://www.leader.ir/langs/en/?p=contentShow&id=9873 September 17, 2012 comments made during a graduation ceremony at Imam Khomeini Naval Academy in Noshahr] === 2014 === * Despite using chemical weapons against the people of Sardasht, and before that the people of Halabja [in Iraq], America and Europe supported the Ba'athist regime for many years. As long as they could use Saddam, they did not oppose him. This is another standard for clarifying the truth of Western claims. ** Yvette Hovsepian-Bearce, ''The Political Ideology of Ayatollah Khamenei: Out of the Mouth of the Supreme Leader of Iran'', London: Routledge, 2016, p. 65. * What western media describe as "[[romance]]", is not true love. It’s a fleeting sexual excitement with no sense of responsibility involved. ** [https://x.com/khamenei_ir/status/471009858842787840 May 26, 2014 tweet] === 2015 === * Don’t allow the colonialists to introduce their terrorists as representatives of Islam (January 21, 2015) [http://english.khamenei.ir/news/2444/Don-t-allow-the-arrogance-to-introduce-their-terrorists-as-representatives] * To the Youth in Europe and [[North America]],<br/>The recent events in [[France]] and similar ones in some other Western countries have convinced me to directly talk to you about them. I am addressing you, [the youth], not because I overlook your parents, rather it is because the future of your nations and countries will be in your hands; and also I find that the sense of quest for truth is more vigorous and attentive in your hearts.<br/>I don’t address your politicians and statesmen either in this writing because I believe that they have consciously separated the route of politics from the path of righteousness and truth.<br/>I would like to talk to you about Islam, particularly the image that is presented to you as Islam. Many attempts have been made over the past two decades, almost since the [[w:collapse of the Soviet Union|disintegration of the Soviet Union]], to place this great religion in the seat of a horrifying enemy. The provocation of a feeling of horror and hatred and its utilization has unfortunately a long record in the political history of the West.<br/>Here, I don’t want to deal with the different phobias with which the Western nations have thus far been indoctrinated. A cursory review of recent critical studies of history would bring home to you the fact that the Western governments’ insincere and hypocritical treatment of other nations and cultures has been censured in new historiographies.<br/>The histories of the United States and Europe are ashamed of [[slavery]], embarrassed by the [[Colonialism|colonial period]] and chagrined at the oppression of [[people of color]] and non-Christians. Your researchers and historians are deeply ashamed of the bloodsheds wrought in the name of [[religion]] between the [[Catholic Church|Catholics]] and [[Protestantism|Protestants]] or in the name of nationality and ethnicity during the [[World War I|First]] and [[World War II|Second World Wars]]. This approach is admirable.<br/>By mentioning a fraction of this long list, I don’t want to reproach history; rather I would like you to ask your intellectuals as to why the public conscience in the West awakens and comes to its senses after a delay of several decades or centuries. Why should the revision of collective conscience apply to the distant past and not to the current problems? Why is it that attempts are made to prevent public awareness regarding an important issue such as the treatment of Islamic culture and thought?<br/>You know well that humiliation and spreading hatred and illusionary fear of the “other” have been the common base of all those oppressive profiteers. Now, I would like you to ask yourself why the old policy of spreading “phobia” and hatred has targeted Islam and Muslims with an unprecedented intensity. Why does the power structure in the world want Islamic thought to be marginalized and remain latent? What concepts and values in Islam disturb the programs of the super powers and what interests are safeguarded in the shadow of distorting the image of Islam? Hence, my first request is: Study and research the incentives behind this widespread tarnishing of the image of Islam.<br/>My second request is that in reaction to the flood of prejudgments and disinformation campaigns, try to gain a direct and firsthand knowledge of this religion. The right logic requires that you understand the nature and essence of what they are frightening you about and want you to keep away from. ** [http://english.khamenei.ir//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2001 Message of Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei To the Youth in Europe and North America], ''Khamenei.ir'' (January 21, 2015) *It goes without saying that the slogan does not mean death to the American nation; this slogan means death to the US’s policies, death to arrogance. **[http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/irans-ayatollah-ali-khamenei-explains-death-america-slogan-n456406 Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Explains 'Death to America' Slogan] (November 3, 2015) === 2016 === ==== Hajj hijacked by oppressors, Muslims should reconsider management of Hajj (September 2015) ==== :<small>[http://english.khamenei.ir/news/4121/Hajj-hijacked-by-oppressors-Muslims-should-reconsider-management Hajj hijacked by oppressors, Muslims should reconsider management of Hajj: Ayatollah Khamenei] </small> * For [[Muslims]], the season of {{w|hajj}} is the season of [[pride]] and [[glory]] in the eyes of [[God]]’s servants, the season of enlightening hearts, the season of humility before the Creator and of solemn prayer. Hajj is a heavenly, earthly, divine and communal obligation. ... During this unparalleled obligation, temporal and spatial security bestows tranquility on the hearts of human beings like a clear sign and a brilliant star and draws hajj pilgrims out of the siege of insecurity by domineering oppressors that constantly threatens humanity and it helps humanity taste the pleasure of security during a particular period of time. ... [[Abrahamic religions|Abrahamic]] hajj, which Islam has presented to Muslims as a [[gift]], is the manifestation of pride, spirituality, unity and glory. It demonstrates to ill-wishers and enemies the greatness of the Islamic {{w|Ummah}} and its reliance on God’s eternal power. It highlights the distance between Muslims and the cesspool of corruption, humiliation and [[tyranny]] that international oppressors and bullies impose on human communities. ... Those who have reduced hajj to a [[w:Religious tourism|religious-tourist trip]] and have hidden their enmity and malevolence towards the faithful and [[w:Iranian Revolution|revolutionary people of Iran]] under the name of “politicizing hajj”, are themselves small and puny satans who tremble for fear of jeopardizing the interests of the Great [[w:Devil (Islam)|Satan]], the [[w:Iran–United States relations|U.S.]] * [[Saudi]] [[w:House of Saud|rulers]], who have obstructed the path of Allah and {{w|Masjid ul-Haraam}} this year and who have [[w:2015 Mina stampede#Increased Saudi-Iranian tensions|blocked the proud and faithful Iranian pilgrims’ path]] to the [[w:Kabba|Beloved’s House]], are disgraced and misguided people who think their survival on the throne of oppression is dependent on defending the arrogant powers of the world, on alliances with Zionism and the U.S. and on fulfilling their demands. And on this path, they do not shy away from any treason. * Almost one year has now passed since the horrifying [[w:2015 Mina stampede|events in Mina]], as a result of which several thousand people tragically lost their lives- under the hot sun with thirsty lips- and this happened on the day of Eid while they were in the clothes of ihram. Shortly before that, another group of people were crushed to death in Masjid ul-Haraam while they were worshiping and performing {{w|tawaf}} and {{w|salat}}. Saudi rulers were at fault in both cases. This is what all those present, observers and technical analysts agree upon. Some experts maintain that the events were premeditated. The hesitation and failure to rescue the half-dead and injured people, whose enthusiastic souls and enthralled hearts were accompanying their praying tongues on {{w|Eid ul-Adha}}, is also obvious and incontrovertible. The heartless and murderous Saudis locked up the injured with the dead in containers- instead of providing medical treatment and helping them or at least quenching their thirst. They murdered them. * The hearts of their families are still broken and bereaved and our people remain grief-stricken and angry. Instead of apology and remorse and judicial prosecution of those who were directly at fault in that horrifying event, [[House of Saud|Saudi rulers]]- with utmost shamelessness and insolence- refused to allow the formation of an international Islamic fact-finding committee. * Instead of being tried as the accused, they acted like the plaintiff and with increased malice and vileness, they revealed their long-standing enmity towards the Islamic Republic and towards any flag of Islam raised to confront kufr and arrogance. * Their propaganda mouthpieces- from the politicians whose behavior towards the [[Zionists]] and the [[U.S.]] is a source of disgrace for the world of Islam, to impious and haraam-eating muftis who blatantly issue fatwas against the Book and Sunnah, and to media minions who are not even deterred by codes of professional conduct from spreading and telling lies- are making futile efforts to show that the Islamic Republic is at fault for depriving Iranian pilgrims of this year’s hajj pilgrimage. * The fitna-promoting rulers who by forming and arming wicked takfiri groups, have plunged the world of Islam into civil wars, murdering and injuring the innocent and shed blood in [[w:Yemeni Civil War (2015–present)|Yemen]], [[w:Iraqi Civil War (2014–present)|Iraq]], the [[w:Syrian civil war|Levant]], [[w:Libyan Civil War (2014–present)|Libya]] and other countries- the godless politicians who have extended the hand of friendship towards the Zionist regime, have closed their eyes on the Palestinians’ sufferings and heartrending tragedies and have spread their oppression and betrayal to the cities and villages of {{w|Bahrain}}. * They have made the divine sanctuary unsafe for everybody. * Because of these rulers’ oppressive behavior towards God’s guests, the world of Islam must fundamentally reconsider the management of the two holy places and the issue of hajj. Negligence in this regard will confront the Islamic Ummah with more serious problems in the future. ===2023=== *I extend my congratulations to the brave men of the 86th flotilla of the [[w:Islamic_Republic_of_Iran_Navy|Islamic Republic of Iran Navy]] on their grand and successful naval mission. **[https://en.irna.ir/news/85116812/Supreme-Leader-congratulates-marines-on-successful-global-tour IRNA] *The presence of even one single American in Iraq is too much **[https://en.irna.ir/news/85096544/Presence-of-even-one-American-in-Iraq-too-much-Supreme-Leader IRNA] *Of course, today’s [[Mongol invasions and conquests|Mongols]], that is, the West, have different appearances and forms of the onslaught. In addition to the dark history of their crimes during the [[Colonialism|colonial period]], they have also been invasive during our era, by equipping rabid dogs like Saddam with all kinds of weapons. **[https://en.irna.ir/news/85075125/Supreme-leader-West-not-worthy-of-talking-about-human-rights IRNA] *Silence of the Muslim governments in the face of such an invasion, which is an invasion on them and on the Islamic ummah, and even supporting it, as some did recently, has weakened those countries and has subjugated them. **[https://en.irna.ir/news/85033463/Leader-criticizes-Islamic-countries-for-inaction-on-Palestinian IRNA] *The [Israel] regime has only two scenarios in front of it, namely the bad scenario and the worse scenario. **[https://en.irna.ir/news/85147799/Zionists-failed-to-sow-discord-among-Resistance-groups IRNA] ===2024=== * Even though there are physical differences between men and women in their appearance – one is taller and has a deeper voice – they both possess infinite potential in terms of their intellectual and spiritual capabilities and aren’t different from each other in this. ** Men and Women are Equal in Their Pursuit of the Good Pure Life. [https://english.khamenei.ir/news/11340/Men-women-are-equal-in-their-pursuit-of-the-good-pure-life Speech] delivered to women gathered at Imam Khomeini Hussainiyah on December 17, 2024. As reported also on [https://x.com/khamenei_ir/status/1869369086142296490#:~:text=Khamenei.ir%20(@khamenei_ir).%20317%20replies.%20Even%20though%20there,capabilities%20and%20aren't%20different%20from%20each%20other Twitter] ==Quotes about Khamenei== [[File:Amir Taheri (cropped).jpg|thumb|Khamenei's shedding of tears for "the sufferings of Palestinian Muslims" are also unconvincing. To start with, not all Palestinians are Muslims. And, if it were only Muslim sufferers who deserved sympathy, why doesn't the "Supreme Guide" beat his chest about the Burmese Rohingya and the Chechens massacred and enchained by Vladimir Putin, not to mention Muslims daily killed by fellow-Muslims across the globe? - [[Amir Taheri]]]] * Today, many of us picked up our newspapers, and we were horrified to see the sight of 10 [[United States Navy|American sailors]] on their knees, with their hands on their heads. In that [[w:State of the Union Address|State of the Union]], President Obama didn't so much as mention the 10 sailors that had been captured by Iran. [[Barack Obama|President Obama]]'s preparing to send $100 billion or more to the Ayatollah Khamenei. And I'll tell you, it was heartbreaking. But the good news is the next commander-in-chief is standing on this stage. And I give you my word, if I am elected president, no [[Soldier|service man or service woman]] will be forced to be on their knees, and any nation that captures our fighting men will feel the full force and fury of the [[United States of America]]. ** [[Ted Cruz]], [http://time.com/4182096/republican-debate-charleston-transcript-full-text/ Sixth Republican Presidential Debate] (January 14, 2016) ** * I tell the Iranians that if they hear from people here or there that pictures of Ayatollah Khamenei are hung in Iraqi homes, it is a lie. ** [[Iyad Jamal Al-Din|Sayyed Ayad Jamal Aldin]]: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyjdKV9wxpk Iraqis Do Not Put Pictures of Khamenei in Their Homes]. Al-Arabiya TV (January 3, 2005). *[[Hezbollah|Hizbullah]] chose to be loyal to the regime in Iran, to the [[rule of the Jurisprudent]], Hizbullah made a religious choice – and it is free to make such a choice... It chose to consider Ali Khamenei in Iran as their [[w:Marja|source of emulation]]. They turn to him to ask what is permitted and what is forbidden. **{{cite web|url=http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/1539.htm|title=Lebanese Shiite Scholar Muhammad Ali Al-Husseini Slams Hizbullah, Iran, and Syria, and Declares Support for Saudi Efforts in the Middle East|publisher=MEMRI|date=August 18, 2007|accessdate=2007-08-22}} *[[Khamenei]] & Co. do not think we will respond, do not fear Western action, and believe this is a historic movement for the advance of their vision of [[clerical fascism]]. **Michael Ledeen (February 17, 2006). "A Mullah’s-Eye View of the World". National Review Online. *[[Ruhollah Khomeini|Khomeini]] was succeeded as Supreme Leader by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who stymied [[Mohammad Khatami|a weak 1990s 'reform' movement]] and backed the [[w:2005 Iranian presidential election|2005 election of Iran's current president]], [[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad]], a [[Radicalism|radical]] [[demagogue]] and rabid [[Antisemitism|anti-Semite]] who has [[Holocaust denial|denied the Holocaust]], declared he wishes to exterminate Israel, and whose pursuit of an Iranian [[nuclear arsenal]], in defiance of the West, may yet bring the world to [[Nuclear weapons|nuclear catastrophe]]. **[[w:Simon_Sebag_Montefiore|Simon Sebag Montefiore]], ''Monsters: History's Most Evil Men and Women'' (2009), p. 186 *When Khomeini died in 1989, his nominated successor, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was duly chosen as supreme leader, though he lacked Khomeini’s unique authority. Nonetheless, the Iranian Islamic Republic has been highly successful in projecting Shiite and Iranian power, seeking nuclear weapons, using militias such as [[Hezbollah]] and [[Hamas]], and involving itself in the [[Iraq War|wars in Iraq]] and [[Syrian Civil War|Syria]]. It is an aggressive, oppressive [[theocracy]] yet its hybrid semi-democracy, with elected [[President|presidents]] and [[Parliamentary system|parliaments]], has given it the flexibility to survive and to build power unprecedented since the days of the Persian empire. **[[wikipedia:Simon_Sebag_Montefiore|Simon Sebag Montefiore]], ''Titans of History: Giants Who Made Our World'' (2012) *[O]ne of God's great graces, alongside the Islamic Republic, is the presence of the leader – this great leader who enjoys the grace of God. I say this out of experience, not as a gesture of politeness. They should be aware of the value of this great leader, and know how to make the most of this grace, and thank God for this. They should preserve this. With God's help, they should benefit the most from this great personality. *We find ourselves in front of a great and exceptional personality who is criticized - even in Iran. Our responsibility is to introduce this great Imam to the nation, This is the very important and sensitive mission of this conference. **[[Hassan Nasrallah]], {{cite web|url=http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/1541.htm|title=Hizbullah Sec.-Gen. Hassan Nasrallah: We Received Guidance from Khamenei during the War |publisher=MEMRI|date=August 11, 2007|accessdate=2007-08-28}} [http://worldmeets.us/kayhan000057.shtml#axzz2ICvPh6JD] *US Secretary of State [[Mike Pompeo]] on June 13, 2019, blamed Iran for [[w:June 2019 Gulf of Oman incident|attacks on ships]] in the [[w:Gulf of Oman|Gulf of Oman]]. Iran had no motive for the recent attack on civilian vessels in the Gulf of Oman, but the US has motives to falsely blame Iran for it. It appears that Mike Pompeo has a hard time kicking his old habits. He appears to be as smug about lying as a [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] operative as he is as [[United States Secretary of State|Secretary of State]]. Categorically blaming the Iranians for the recent oil attack tankers has left allies scratching their heads; and perhaps leaving foes thinking: “Thank God my enemy is so stupid”! On June 13, 2019, as Ayatollah Khamenei was holding talks in [[w:Tehran|Tehran]] with Japanese prime minister, [[Shinzō Abe|Shinzo Abe]], two oil tankers carrying oil to [[Japan]] were attacked. As investigations into the incident were just beginning, Pompeo had already concluded his assessment and had it ready for the press. Much to the audible surprise of the world, and without any proof or supporting documents, he laid the blame firmly at Iran’s feet citing “intelligence”... ** [https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/06/17/pompeos-tanker-narrative/ ''Pompeo’s Tanker Narrative, Foreign Policy Journal,'' Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich], (17 June 2019) ** * Despite efforts to disguise his hatred of Israel in Islamic terms... Khamenei is more influenced by Western-style [[Antisemitism|anti-Semitism]] than by classical Islam's checkered relations with Jews. His argument about territories becoming "irrevocably Islamic" does not wash, if only because of its inconsistency. He has nothing to say about vast chunks of former Islamic territory, including some that belonged to Iran for millennia, now under [[Russia|Russian]] rule. Nor is he ready to embark on [[Jihad]] to drive the [[China|Chinese]] out of [[w:Xinjiang|Xinjiang]], a Muslim ''[[w:Uyghur Khanate|khanate]]'' until the late 1940s. Israel, which in terms of territory accounts for one per cent of [[Saudi Arabia]], is a very small fry. Khamenei's shedding of tears for "the sufferings of Palestinian Muslims" are also unconvincing. To start with, not all Palestinians are Muslims. And, if it were only Muslim sufferers who deserved sympathy, why doesn't the "Supreme Guide" beat his chest about the Burmese [[w:Rohingya genocide|Rohingya]] and the [[w:Chechnya|Chechens]] massacred and enchained by [[Vladimir Putin]], not to mention Muslims daily killed by fellow-Muslims across the globe? ** [[Amir Taheri]], [http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6263/khamenei-israel-palestine The Ayatollah's Plan for Israel and Palestine], ''Gatestone Institute'' (July 31, 2015) * Khamenei is certainly better educated than the late Khomeini. At least he can speak and write correct [[Persian language|Persian]] and [[Arabic]], something the late Ayatollah never managed. From available evidence Khamenei also has a better knowledge of Islam and its history than Khomeini did. Nevertheless, Khamenei has never been accepted as a [[Theology|theologian]] or Islamic scholar, but as a political leader, bestowing on him a degree of dangerous ambiguity. That ambiguity enables him to hit much higher than his weight by using his political position as long as the going is good. However, the slightest sign that his political power may be on the wane or seriously challenged could expose him as a prophet without armor. And that, in the context of Iran’s violent politics, created of the same substance as angels or not, is a dicey situation to be in, to say the least. ** [[Amir Taheri]], [http://english.aawsat.com/2015/08/article55344963/the-supreme-guide-and-the-substance-of-the-angels The Supreme Guide and the Substance of the Angels], ''Ashraq Al-Awsat'' (31 Aug, 2015). *Want a trip into bizarroland? Take a look at the [[Twitter]] feed for Iran's 'Supreme Guide' [[w:Ayatollah Khamenei|Ayatollah Khamenei]]. No, his [[Twitter]] feed hasn't been hacked by [[Al Sharpton]]. Nor is this a spoof site. It's the real online megaphone for the Iranian dictator. '''[[w:Ali Khamenei|This pasty old man]] doesn't give a flying fork about [[black people]], especially those who live in the [[United States]]. When he and his underlings chant 'Death to America', they don't mean death to white America. They're talking about the whole country, from our black president at the top to undocumented immigrants on the bottom''' and everyone in between. **[[Michael J. Totten|Michael Totten]], [http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blog/michael-j-totten/iranian-leaders-bizarre-twitter-feed "The Iranian Leader's Bizarre Twitter Feed"] (1 May 2015), ''Dispatches'', World Affairs Journal. *Since his [[w:2005 Iranian presidential election|election as president of Iran in June 2005]], [[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad]] has caused something of a sensation by, among other things, questioning the reality of [[the Holocaust]] and suggesting that Israel be moved in [[Europe]] or [[Alaska]]. His outrageous speeches have been good theatre for both his supporters and for foreign opponents who want to demonize him. However, his power is actually quite limited. For example, even with the support of the Iranian legislature, he cannot make law, and he is not the commander-in-chief of the [[w:Islamic Republic of Iran Armed Forces|Iranian armed forces]]. Above the elected government in Iran is an unelected twelve-man [[w:Guardian Council|Guardian Council]] of mullahs, headed by Ayatollah Khamenei, who has ruled the nation since the death of Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989. Khamenei is the leader of the military, and the Guardian Council has the right to [[w:Veto|veto]] any law passed by the elected government. 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Kennedy Jr. using [[Project:AWB|AWB]] 3961161 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Silver Pitcher presented to White House (Portrait).jpg|thumb|right|I think my biggest achievement is that, after going through a rather difficult [[time]], I consider myself comparatively sane.]] '''[[w:Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis|Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis]]''' ([[28 July]] [[1929]] – [[19 May]] [[1994]]) was the wife of the 35th president of the United States, [[John F. Kennedy]], and served as [[w:First Lady of the United States|First Lady]] during his presidency from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. She later married to a Greek shipping magnate [[Aristotle Onassis]] from 1968 until he died in 1975. In later years, she had a successful career as a book editor. == Quotes == [[File:Kennedy Family with Dogs During a Weekend at Hyannisport 1963.png|thumb|right|I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.]] [[File:Mrs. Kennedy in the Diplomatic Reception Room.jpg|thumb|right|Minimum information given with maximum politeness.]] [[File:Jfk-appleton.jpg|thumb|right|We should all do something to right the wrongs that we see and not just complain about them.]] [[File:Jackie Kennedy on Landmark Express, April 1978.jpg|thumb|right|If we don't care about our past we can't have very much hope for our future.]] [[File:JFK and family in Hyannis Port, 04 August 1962.jpg|thumb|right|One man can make a difference and every man should try.]] [[File:President and Mrs. Kennedy in motorcade, 03 May 1961.jpg|thumb|The deep desire to inspire people, to take an active part in the life of the country … attracts our best people to political life … We should all do something to right the wrongs that we see and not just complain about them. We owe that to our country.]] * I do love you though — and can love you without kissing you every time I see you and I hope you understand that. **[http://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/news/a45821/jacqueline-kennedy-dear-john-letter/ Letter to a boyfriend of 1947, quoted in ''Jacqueline Kennedy's Old Love Letters Will School You in the Art of Breaking Up" by Laura Beck, in ''Cosmopolitan'' (2 September 2015)] * I've always thought of being in love as being willing to do anything for the other person — starve to buy them bread and not mind living in Siberia with them — and I've always thought that every minute away from them would be hell — so looking at it that [way] I guess I'm not in love with you. ** Letter breaking up with a boyfriend in 1947, as quoted in ''Jacqueline Kennedy's Old Love Letters Will School You in the Art of Breaking Up" by Laura Beck, in ''Cosmopolitan'' (2 September 2015)] * A newspaper reported I spend $30,000 a year buying Paris clothes and that women [[hate]] me for it. I couldn’t spend that much unless I wore sable underwear. ** ''The New York Times'' (15 September 1960) *If you bungle raising your children I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much. **[https://web.archive.org/web/20140127091759/http://www.jfklink.com/speeches/joint/joint011060_nbctv03.html Interview with NBC News Correspondent Sander Vanocur (1 October 1960)] *All these people come to see the White House and they see practically nothing that dates back before 1948. Every boy who comes here should see things that develop his sense of history. For the girls, the house should look beautiful and lived-in. They should see what a fire in the fireplace and pretty flowers can do for a house; the White House rooms should give them a sense of all that. Everything in the White House must have a reason for being there. It would be sacrilege merely to "redecorate" it -- a word I hate. It must be restored -- and that has nothing to do with decoration. That is a question of scholarship. **Interview with Hugh Sidey, according to [https://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/JFK-in-History/Jacqueline-Kennedy-in-the-White-House.aspx Kennedy Library] (1 September 1961) *I want to be there when he dies. **When told she couldn't access President Kennedy's hospital room (22 November 1963); quoted in ''The Death of a President'' (1967) by William Manchester * He didn’t even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights... it had to be some silly little [[Communist]]. ** To her mother, Janet Auchincloss (22 November 1963); quoted in ''The Death of a President'' (1967) by William Manchester * Dear [[God]], please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy. ** Inscription for cards at her husband’s funeral (25 November 1963) *One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness. **[http://womennewsnetwork.net/2013/11/22/living-on-jacqueline-kennedy-onassis/| Said days after President Kennedy's assassination (1963)] *I want to take this opportunity to express my appreciation for the hundreds of thousands of messages, nearly eight hundred thousand in all, which my children and I have received over the past few weeks. The knowledge of the affection in which my husband was held by all of you has sustained me and the warmth of these tributes is something I shall never forget. Whenever I can bear to, I read them. All his bright light’s gone from the world. All of you who have written to me know how much we all loved him and that he returned that love in full measure. **[https://preview-archives.nbclearn.com/portal/site/k-12/flatview?cuecard=68446 Televised appearance (14 January 1964)] * I loathe the [[French]]. There's not one French person I can think of except—maybe two very simple people. Maybe [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stéphane_Boudin Boudin], who's so un-French. You know, they're really not very nice. They're all for themselves. ** In her 1964 interview with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_M._Schlesinger,_Jr. Arthur Schlesinger], quoted in ''Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy'' (2011). * '''Now, I think that I should have known that he was [[magic]] all along. I did know it — but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our [[children]] grow up together. So now, he is a [[legend]] when he would have preferred to be a man.''' ** Quoted from article written by Jacqueline Kennedy for ''Look'' Magazine (17 November 1964) JFK memorial issue. * '''One man can make a difference and every man should try.''' ** Written on a card for an exhibit which travelled around the US when the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston was first opening (1979), quoted in ''Respectfully Quoted : A Dictionary of Quotations'' (1989) edited by Suzy Platt * A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane. ** On a 1962 visit to India quoted in ''A Hero for Our Time'' (1983) by Ralph G Martin *If they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets ... I want to get out of this country. **[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/19/us/john-f-kennedy-jr-heir-to-a-formidable-dynasty.html?pagewanted=all After assassination of Robert F. Kennedy (1968)] * '''We know you [[understand]] that even though people may be well known they still hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth — birth, marriage, death.''' We wish our wedding to be a private moment in the little chapel among the cypresses of Skorpios. ** Press Statement issued the day before her marriage to [[w:Aristotle Onassis|Aristotle Onassis]], NY Times (20 October 1968) *You were so kind to us yesterday. Never have I seen such magnanimity and such tenderness. <br /> Can you imagine the gift you gave me? To return to the White House privately with my little ones while they are still young enough to rediscover their childhood — with you both as guides — and with your daughters, such extraordinary young women. <br /> What a tribute to have brought them up like that in the limelight. I pray I can do half the same with my Caroline. It was good to see her exposed to their example, and John to their charm! <br /> You spoiled us beyond belief . . . I have never seen the White House look so perfect. There is no hidden corner of it that is not beautiful now. **Letter to [[Richard Nixon|Richard]] and Pat Nixon after a White House visit (February 1971) as quoted in [http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1999-07-28/features/9907280018_1_white-house-john-kennedy-richard-nixon-library "Can You Imagine The Gift You Gave Me?" by Bob Greene, in ''The Chicago Tribune'' (28 July 1999)] * '''If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.''' ** Press conference held at the [[w:Grand Central Terminal|Grand Central Terminal]]’s famous [[w:Grand Central Oyster Bar & Restaurant|Oyster Bar]] in 1975 in [[New York City]]. Source: Angela Serratore (June 26, 2018 ): ''History: The Preservation Battle of Grand Central''. In: Smithsonian Magazine. [https://web.archive.org/web/20240109190220/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/preservation-battle-grand-central-180969446/ Archived] [https://archive.is/zvtoR from] [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/preservation-battle-grand-central-180969446/ the original] on January 9, 2023. * Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, [Jack] always told me to be more tolerant, like a [[horse]] flicking away flies in the summer. ** Quoted in ''A Hero for Our Time'' (1983) by Ralph G Martin * '''Minimum [[information]] given with maximum politeness.''' ** Instructions to press secretary Pamela Turnure; Quoted in ''A Hero for Our Time'' (1983) by Ralph G Martin; sometimes rendered : "I want minimum information given with maximum politeness." * It looks like it’s been furnished by discount stores. ** On the White House; Quoted in ''A Hero for Our Time'' (1983) by Ralph G Martin * The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse. ** Advice to her secretary; quoted in ''The Kennedys'' (1984) by Peter Collier and David Horowitz * You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it. ** Welcoming decorator Billy Baldwin to the island of Skorpios; quoted in ''Ari'' (1986) by Peter Evans * It was a very spasmodic courtship, conducted mainly at long distance with a great clanking of coins in dozens of phone booths. ** On her romance with [[John F. Kennedy]] quoted in ''The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys'' (1987) by Doris Kearns Goodwin. *They’re stealing our sky! **[http://www.levo.com/articles/lifestyle/jackie-kennedy-birthday| Writing on New York tower being built. (1987)] * '''What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren’t supposed to work if they had families. What were they to do when the children were grown — watch raindrops coming down the windowpane?''' ** Quoted in ''The Last Word'' (1992) edited by Carolyn Warner * One of the things I like about publishing is that you don't promote the editor — you promote the book and the author. ** Interview with ''Publishers Weekly'' (19 April 1993) * To think that I very nearly didn’t go... What if I’d been here — out riding in Virginia or somewhere — Thank God I went with him. ** Quoted in ''The Unknown Wisdom of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis'' (1994) edited by Bill Adler * The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I’m thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family’s future. ** ''The Unknown Wisdom of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis'' (1994) edited by Bill Adler * '''One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.''' ** Quoted in ''The Unknown Wisdom of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis'' (1994) edited by Bill Adler * The trouble with me is that I’m an outsider. And that’s a very hard thing to be in American life. ** Quoted in ''The Unknown Wisdom of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis'' (1994) edited by Bill Adler * '''The river of sludge will go on and on. It isn’t about me.''' ** On tabloid stories, as quoted in ''Newsweek'' (30 August 1994) * '''[[Aristotle Onassis]] rescued me at a moment when my life was engulfed with shadows. He brought me into a world where one could find both happiness and love.''' We lived through many beautiful experiences together which cannot be forgotten, and for which I will be eternally grateful. ** Statement at the funeral of Aristotle Onassis, as quoted in ''Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis : A Life'' (2000) by Donald Spoto. * I think my biggest achievement is that, after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane. ** Response to [[Stephen Spender]], on being asked what she considered her proudest accomplishment, as quoted in ''The Eloquent Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis : A Portrait in Her Own Words'' (2004) by Bill Adler, p. 5, and p. 232 * '''The deep [[desire]] to [[inspire]] [[people]], to take an active part in the [[life]] of the [[country]] … attracts our best people to [[political]] [[life]] … We should [[all]] do something to right the [[wrongs]] that we [[Perception|see]] and not just [[complain]] about them. We [[owe]] that to our country.''' ** As quoted in ''The Eloquent Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis : A Portrait in Her Own Words'' (2004) by Bill Adler, p. 174 *You and he were adversaries, but you were allied in a determination that the world should not be blown up. The danger which troubled my husband was that war might be started not so much by the big men as by the little ones. While big men know the need for self-control and restraint, little men are sometimes moved more by fear and pride. **Letter to [[Nikita Khrushchev]] after JFK assassination, as quoted in ''One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War'' (2009) by Michael Dobbs. *No one in the world could have ever been like you were yesterday -- except maybe Bobby -- We are going home now -- Your phone was busy. *You know that anything -- Stas will take [[Robert F. Kennedy Jr.|little Bobby]] to Africa -- I'll take them around the world + to the moon + back -- anything to help you + them now and always. **Undated letter to [[w:Ethel Kennedy|Ethel Kennedy]] following RFK's assassination, as quoted in [http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/14/texas.kennedy.letter/index.html "FBI seizes letter from Jackie Kennedy to RFK's widow"] (14 September 2009) *We have known so much & shared & lost so much together—Even if it isn’t the way you wish now—I hope that bond of love and pain will never be cut. **In a letter to David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech, as quoted in the article [http://www.vogue.com/article/jacqueline-kennedy-onassis-letters-david-ormbsy-gore "The One That Got Away: A Trove of Jacqueline Kennedy’s Love Letters Has Been Found" (9 February 2017)] ===The "Camelot" interview (29 November 1963) === [[File:Kennedys arrive at Dallas 11-22-63.JPG|thumb|right|The [[sun]] was so strong in our faces. I couldn't put on sunglasses... Then we saw this tunnel ahead, I thought it would be cool in the tunnel...]] [[File:John F. Kennedy motorcade, Dallas, Texas, Nov. 22, 1963.jpg|thumb|right|They were gunning the motorcycles. There were these little backfires. There was one noise like that. I thought it was a backfire...]] [[File:JFK's family leaves Capitol after his funeral, 1963.jpg|thumb|right|The [[song]] he loved most came at the very end of this record, the last side of ''Camelot'', sad ''Camelot''... "Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining [[moment]] that was known as Camelot."]] :<small>One week after the assasination of her husband Mrs. Kennedy summoned [[w:Theodore H. White|Theodore H. White]] to Hyannisport for an interview. Some of the statements she made appeared in that week's edition of LIFE magazine (6 December 1963), and more of it appeared many years later in his memoir ''In Search of History: A Personal Adventure'' (1978). In 1969 White donated his notes of the interview to the Kennedy Library, to be made fully public only after Mrs. Kennedy's death. They were released on 26 May 1995.</small> * There'd been the biggest motorcade from the airport. Hot. Wild. Like Mexico and Vienna. The sun was so strong in our faces. I couldn't put on sunglasses... Then we saw this tunnel ahead, I thought it would be cool in the tunnel, I thought if you were on the left the sun wouldn't get into your eyes... * They were gunning the motorcycles. There were these little backfires. There was one noise like that. I thought it was a backfire. Then next I saw Connally grabbing his arms and saying "no, no, no, no, no," with his fist beating. Then Jack turned and I turned. All I remember was a blue-gray building up ahead. Then Jack turned back so neatly, his last expression was so neat... you know that wonderful expression he had when they'd ask him a question about one of the ten million pieces they have in a rocket, just before he'd answer. He looked puzzled, then he slumped forward. He was holding out his hand … I could see a piece of his skull coming off. It was flesh-colored, not white — he was holding out his hand … I can see this perfectly clean piece detaching itself from his head. Then he slumped in my lap, his blood and his brains were in my lap … Then Clint Hill [the Secret Service man], he loved us, he made my life so easy, he was the first man in the car … We all lay down in the car … And I kept saying, Jack, Jack, Jack, and someone was yelling "he's dead, he's dead." All the ride to the hospital I kept bending over him, saying "Jack, Jack, can you hear me, I love you, Jack." * His head was so beautiful. I tried to hold the top of his head down, maybe I could keep it in... but I knew he was dead. * When they carried Jack in, Hill threw his coat over Jack's head, and I held his head to throw the coat over it. It wasn't repulsive to me for one moment — nothing was repulsive to me — * These big Texas interns kept saying, "Mrs. Kennedy, you come with us", they wanted to take me away from him... But I said "I'm not leaving"… Dave Powers came running to me at the hospital, crying when he saw me, my legs, my hands were covered with his brains... When Dave saw this he burst out weeping... I said "I'm not going to leave him, I'm not going to leave him"… I was standing outside in this narrow corridor... ten minutes later this big policeman brought me a chair. * I said, "I want to be in there when he dies"… so Burkeley forced his way into the operating room and said, "It's her prerogative, it's her prerogative..." and I got in, there were about forty people there. Dr. Perry wanted to get me out. But I said "It's my husband, his blood, his brains are all over me." * I held his hand all the time the priest was saying extreme unction. * The ring was all blood-stained... so I put the ring on Jack's finger... and then I kissed his hand... * Everytime we got off the plane that day, three times they gave me the yellow roses of Texas. But in Dallas they gave me red roses. I thought how funny, red roses — so all the seat was full of blood and red roses. * But there's this one thing I wanted to say... I'm so ashamed of myself... When Jack quoted something, it was usually classical... no, don't protect me now... I kept saying to Bobby, I've got to talk to somebody, I've got to see somebody, I want to say this one thing, it's been almost an obsession with me, all I keep thinking of is this line from a musical comedy, it's been an obsession with me... At night before we'd go to sleep... we had an old Victrola. Jack liked to play some records. His back hurt, the floor was so cold.''' I'd get out of bed at night and play it for him, when it was so cold getting out of bed... on a Victrola ten years old — and the song he loved most came at the very end of this record, the last side of ''Camelot'', sad ''Camelot''... "Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment that was known as Camelot."...There'll never be another Camelot again...''' * Do you know what I think of history? … For a while I thought history was something that bitter old men wrote. But Jack loved history so... No one'll ever know everything about Jack. But … history made Jack what he was … this lonely, little sick boy … scarlet fever … this little boy sick so much of the time, reading in bed, reading history … reading the Knights of the Round Table … and he just liked that last song. <br>Then I thought, for Jack history was full of heroes. And if it made him this way, if it made him see the heroes, maybe other little boys will see. Men are such a combination of good and bad … He was such a simple man. But he was so complex, too. Jack had this hero idea of history, the idealistic view, but then he had that other side, the pragmatic side... his friends were all his old friends; he loved his Irish Mafia. * History!... Everybody kept saying to me to put a cold towel around my head and wipe the blood off... later,''' I saw myself in the mirror; my whole face spattered with blood and hair... I wiped it off with Kleenex... History! … I thought, no one really wants me there. Then one second later I thought, why did I wash the blood off? I should have left it there, let them see what they've done...''' If I'd just had the blood and caked hair when they took the picture … Then later I said to Bobby — what's the line between history and drama? I should have kept the blood on. ** A variant reading of White's notes exists: ''Then later I said to Bobby — what's the line between histrionics and drama. I should have kept the blood on.'' but in White's own published memoir ''In Search of History: A Personal Adventure'' (1978) this is rendered "what's the line between history and drama?" * Jack so obviously demanded from a woman-a relationship between a man and a woman where a man would be the leader and a woman would be his wife. With Adlai Stevenson you could have another relationship-where you know, he'd be sort of be sweet and you could talk, but you wouldn't ever,.. I've always thought women who were scared of sex loved Adlai. ** ''Liking Ike: Eisenhower, Advertising and the Rise of Celebrity Politics'' (2016) David Haven Blake {{Misattributed begin}} == Misattributed == * An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. ** Attributed in ''Wisdom Through the Ages : Book Two'' (2003) by Helen Granat, p. 118; this actually is cited to [[Robert Louis Stevenson]] in ''The Law of Success'' (1928) by [[Napoleon Hill]]: "An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself." {{Misattributed end}} == Quotes about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis == :<small>Sorted alphabetically by author or source</small> === B === * She changed the White House from a plastic to a crystal bowl. ** Letitia Baldric, as quoted in ''A Hero for Our Time'' (1983) by Ralph G Martin *She was as close to an American princess as the nation can remember. But she never lived happily ever after with a man who truly loved her. *Perhaps she never expected love when she married two remarkable, charismatic and powerful men. Perhaps she settled for too little love. Perhaps she got from her husbands what she may really have wanted-power, money, celebrity, what appeared to be security. *Jackie endured it all, even when the women involved include Mafia moll Judith Exner to whom JFK gave expensive gifts, even when some of the relationships turned out to be more than half-hour stands, even when her husband's infidelity was widely known in Washington, even when some of the encounters took place in the White house itself. *When JFK was assassinated, Jackie secured his place in history by her brave and resolute conduct. When her death was announced, the first images in the minds of all of us and on all the TV stations were of her shocked face as she stood by Lyndon Johnson at his swearing in Dallas, her blood-stained pink suit she refused to change, her haunted face as she walked beside her husband's casket. *It was Jacqueline Kennedy's face, as much as his death, that broke the nation's heart. '''She became an American folk hero, an enduring fascination.''' *For Aristotle Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy was the ultimate trophy wife, the world's most famous woman. For her, he may have represented money, security and relief from the permanent First Widow status imposed on her by the public and by her Kennedy in-laws. *'''The public knows few personal details about Jackie's last years, as she wished. But we have never lost our fascination with her, our appreciation of her role as First Lady, our caring about her and our hopes that she had found happiness and love.''' **Joan Beck in "[http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1994-05-22/news/9405220034_1_jacqueline-bouvier-kennedy-onassis-husbands-jfk Why Jackie's Was The Face That Haunted America]" (22 May 1994) [[File:Melania Trump at the Inauguration.jpg|thumb|[[Melania Trump|Trump]] has made the decision to echo the styling of a former First Lady: one who arguably had the largest fashion influence of any American President’s wife until, perhaps, [[Michelle Obama]]. ~ Rachelle Bergstein]] *Admittedly, Melania Trump looked stunning this morning as she walked into St. John’s Church, wearing a head-to-toe baby blue outfit designed by the reigning king of American sportswear, Ralph Lauren. '''The knee-length dress, high-necked bolero jacket, matching gloves and stiletto pumps all convey a message of class and elegance, drawing immediate – and likely intentional – comparisons to Jackie O., who wore the same color Oleg Cassini suit fifty-six years ago today: January 20, 1961, the day her husband John F. Kennedy was inaugurated.''' *In her first major statement as the de facto First Lady, '''Trump has made the decision to echo the styling of a former First Lady: one who arguably had the largest fashion influence of any American President’s wife until, perhaps, Michelle Obama.''' That choice is simultaneously safe and questionable – safe, because no one doubts that the Oleg Cassini suit worn by Jacqueline Kennedy represents a key historical fashion moment and questionable, because Trump has already had issues with, um…distinguishing herself from those women who came before her. **Rachelle Bergstein in "[https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachellebergstein/2017/01/20/melania-trump-is-fashionable-but-not-a-fashion-icon/#304414213fe6 Melania Trump Is Fashionable, But She's Unlikely To Become A Fashion Icon Like Michelle Obama]" (20 January 2017) *'''Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, the glamorous wife who was beside John F. Kennedy during his presidency and when he was shot, was for 33 years the most famous woman on Earth.''' *She was first lady in a time — which has not quite ended — when many Americans were put off if a president’s wife seemed too involved in his political career. In almost every presidential marriage you will find a first lady who, while she serves, insists that all politics is left to the president — but when viewed in history, she turns out to have been a significant influence on that presidency. Jackie is no exception. *She lived through and reflected a crucial period in U.S. history in which women moved into the mainstream of American professional life and redefined their roles. **Michael Beschloss in "[https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-jackie-kennedy/2013/10/24/5cf1833a-3b2e-11e3-a94f-b58017bfee6c_story.html?utm_term=.4613b7f0f97d Five myths about Jackie Kennedy]" (24 October 2013) * As idealised Jackie Kennedy morphed into debased Jackie Onassis, and Camelot gave way to Watergate, we ceased to believe in the Eden of the Kennedy era, its heroine descending into postlapsarian guise. Her very costume spoke of this fall: America’s patrician princess, all hats, gloves, and ball gowns, was reborn as a permanently sunglassed plutocrat, skulking about in flip-flops, queen of Skorpios only. * This was a former First Lady who gave no interviews for 30 years; a book editor who stalwartly refused to pen an autobiography; a woman who excommunicated friends if they spoke about her and fought to suppress unauthorised revelations. '''It was an irony that while, as Jackie Kennedy, she embraced the most public of public lives, by nature she was the epitome of the private individual, poised and glamorous, yet reticent and aloof.''' * Jackie has been perceived as a sphynx who very definitely possessed a secret. Around this faux blue-blooded beauty spiralled a web of myth and rumour; fantasies she did not deign to respond to that thus took root as fact. ** Hannah Betts in the article "[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/johnfkennedy/10836781/The-heaven-and-hell-of-being-Jackie-Kennedy.html The heaven and hell of being Jackie Kennedy]" (16 May 2014) * People who tried to say no to Jackie found that she would go to great lengths to outwit them. ** [[w:Sarah Bradford|Sarah Bradford]], in ''America's Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis'' (2001) *Before her marriage, she worked as a photojournalist for the Washington Times-Herald, interviewing the likes of Richard Nixon and reporting on the coronation of Elizabeth II. In later life, she took jobs at Viking Press and Doubleday, where she helped edit Michael Jackson’s 1988 autobiography, Moonwalk. '''But her greatest achievement came in those days after Dallas, when the queen of the White House abruptly made herself over as its architect and myth-maker, the equivalent of Guinevere sitting down to write Le Morte d’Arthur.''' **Xan Brooks in the article "[https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/jan/07/jackie-natalie-portman-behind-the-creation-of-jfk-camelot-movies Jackie: behind the creation of JFK, America's once and future king]" (7 January 2017). *Kennedy of course is best known for her chic fashion sense, something I'm sure Melania Trump admires, but she was more plugged into her husband's administration than she's given credit for: She knew about his plan to get rid of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and she was a sounding board for him during the Cuban missile crisis. *Recently, while channel-surfing late one night, I stumbled upon the 1964 comedy "Kisses for My President" in which a hapless Fred MacMurray struggles to cope with being married to the first female president, played by Polly Bergen. Things run amok until Bergen's character gets pregnant and decides to resign the presidency so that she can take care of their family. '''This ending, absurd to 21st-century audiences, would have made sense to Jackie Kennedy and Eleanor Roosevelt because to them, the concept of a female president was absurd in and of itself.''' The idea of a first gentleman would have been preposterous. **Kate Anderson Brower in the article "[http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/10/opinions/what-would-jackie-say-brower/index.html What would Jackie Kennedy say about Melania Trump?]" (10 November 2016) [[File:First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy at Pan American Union Building, April 14, 1961.jpg|thumb|She refused to change her style and soon millions of American women were copying her ~ Kate Anderson Browser]] *She even apologized to JFK before he became president and told him, “I’m sorry for you that I’m such a dud.” But when her husband asked her to stop wearing head scarfs because she looked too much like a celebrity, she stood her ground. '''She refused to change her style and soon millions of American women were copying her.''' It remains to be seen with our current first lady whether her willful approach will help her or hurt her. **Kate Anderson Brower in "[http://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/a8672615/melania-trump-jackie-kennedy-comparison/ Melania Trump May Be More Like Jackie Kennedy Than You Think]" (3 February 2017) *She had a very acute sense of her image as first lady and how she wanted to use her image to promote her husband's administration and his ideals. **Hamish Bowles, as quoted in "[http://www.cnn.com/2001/TRAVEL/NEWS/04/23/kennedy.exhibit2/ Jackie Kennedy style exhibit opens May 1 at Met]" (23 April 2001) *On duty as First Lady, Mrs. Kennedy’s impact was profound—a visual metaphor for the President’s youthful, internationally minded administration, and a symbol of a new era of cultural sophistication at the White House. For her formal daytime ensembles, she took a leaf from Britain’s royal dressmakers and their clients, avoiding prints and instead using brilliant solid colors and bold lines that helped her to be easily distinguished in a crowd. Her majestic, strong-silhouetted evening gowns, meanwhile, showcased her statuesque figure and married French grandeur to a thoroughly American breeziness. *Throughout, her disciplined elegance revealed an equestrian’s fastidious approach to dressing. Off duty, meanwhile, Jacqueline Kennedy was every inch the liberated sixties woman, barefoot in capri pants and sportif tops that were always chosen with an eye to simplicity of line. *During the Onassis years, a jet-set glamour crept in as she shielded herself from the paparazzi gaze behind her trademark bug-eyed sunglasses. That glamor was well-served by her friend Valentino’s sleek day clothes and romantic evening looks. '''As an esteemed literary editor in the seventies, she dressed the part in a working-woman wardrobe that was practical yet faultlessly stylish.''' *For what would prove to be one of her last public appearances, for the American Ballet Theatre gala at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1993, Jacqueline Kennedy wore a dress by Herrera of white crepe with rhinestone buttons. '''During the fitting, Mrs. Kennedy Onassis subtly altered the placement of those buttons from the original runway model, streamlining the effect and proving her enduring taste for perfectionism in all things.''' **Hamish Bowles in "[http://www.vogue.com/article/style-legend-jacqueline-kennedy-onassiss-looks-from-the-white-house-years-and-beyond Style Legend: Jacqueline Kennedy's Looks From the White House Years and Beyond]" (11 November 2013) *Jackie Kennedy grabbed the public’s attention with her chic, yet simple fashion sense. From boxy Chanel suits to Halston pillbox hats, she reshaped fashion’s view of conservative clothes and left a noteworthy fashion legacy behind. **Sarah Boyd in "[https://www.forbes.com/sites/sboyd/2016/03/14/10-fashion-icons-and-the-trends-they-made-famous/#26adf3e21268 10 Fashion Icons and the Trends They Made Famous]" (14 March 2016) === C === *The Jackie Look, or what I call the A-line look, created a worldwide impression of such dimension that she became the First Lady of the world. '''There wasn’t one lady on the planet who didn’t want to dress like her, comb their hair like her, walk and talk like her.''' And it was the first time an American designer could influence world trends. **Oleg Cassini, as quoted in "[http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/fashion/jackie-fashion-lady-article-1.2220436 The Jackie Look: Fashion's First Lady]" (18 May 2015) * Our Jackie is embodied forever in that bloodstained pink suit. She bore the grief of a nation with such [[dignity]], and then guarded her privacy until she died in 1994 at age 64. This Jackie is harshly judgmental, dispensing petty opinions that say as much about her as they do the objects of her disdain. **[[Eleanor Clift]], in [http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/09/13/jackie-kennedy-onassis-dark-side.html "Jackie O’s Dark Side" in ''The Daily Beast''] (13 September 2011) *I want you to know something else, too, that I’m grateful for. '''In January of 1992 Jackie came to a fundraiser for me when I was running fifth in New Hampshire, and reached out to my wife and to my daughter in ways that I will never forget.''' One month after, her son had also come to an event for me, when I think I was running sixth in New Hampshire. ** [[Bill Clinton]] in [https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/WCPD-1999-10-25/pdf/WCPD-1999-10-25-Pg2108.pdf Remarks at a Reception for Senator Edward M. Kennedy] (21 October 1999) * '''[[God]] gave her very great [[gifts]] and imposed upon her great burdens. She bore them all with dignity and grace and uncommon common sense.''' May the flame she lit so long ago burn ever brighter here and always brighter in our hearts. God bless you friend, and farewell. **[[Bill Clinton]] (23 May 1994) *I can't put it any better than Jackie Kennedy did after the Cuban Missile Crisis. She said that what worried President Kennedy during that very dangerous time was that a war might be started — not by big men with self-control and restraint, but by little men — the ones moved by fear and pride. **[[Hillary Clinton]], as quoted in "[http://theweek.com/speedreads/639750/hillary-clinton-used-words-jackie-kennedy-burn-trump Hillary Clinton used the words of Jackie Kennedy to burn Trump]" (28 July 2016) *Like many fellow fashionistas, Donahue is rushing to cram Obama's 5-foot-11-inch frame into the mold left by her timeless predecessor, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. The trouble, historians say, is that it's a lousy fit. *'''Kennedy was the epitome of 1960s haute couture. Her style was aspirational, unattainable.''' Obama is more of a fashion populist. It's hard to imagine Kennedy, in her pillbox hat and leopard-skin coat, dishing about shopping at J.Crew. **Katie Connolly in "[http://www.newsweek.com/why-michelle-obama-not-next-jackie-o-85219 Why Michelle Obama Is Not The Next Jackie O]" (28 November 2008) *It was in those brief, heady years or perhaps it was really just one year, during the campaign and election of 1960—when John F. Kennedy and his young, beautiful wife were fast becoming national and then international celebrities that the legend of Jackie was born. *Looking back now, even in the light of all we know about her fraught, strained, "storybook" marriage to an obsessively philandering husband, there does seem to be something special about Jackie Kennedy. Maybe it's just that the camera loved her. Maybe she was so intriguing to so many people simply because, set beside the other prominent women in Washington, DC, in the early 1960s, she was young (barely in her 30s), chic and, with her Irish and French ancestry, indefinably and refreshingly "exotic." *But whatever the reasons behind her appeal, and however concrete or ineffable they might be, the fact remains that for millions of women around the globe, across generations, the woman in the White House in the Oleg Cassini outfits (made expressly for her), throwing formal dinner parties for artists, writers, scientists and diplomats, traveling the world, was the face not only of a new era but of an utterly new type of American woman. '''She was, somehow, at once warm and elegant, youthful and sophisticated, fun-loving and serious—and on top of it all, self-deprecatingly funny.''' **Ben Cosgrove in "[http://time.com/3878253/jackie-kennedy-in-the-sixties-classic-photos-of-an-american-icon/ Jackie Kennedy in the Sixties: Making of an American Icon] (26 October 2013) === D === *Throughout her life, despite the many tragedies she endured (loosing a husband and a baby boy) her poise and style endured. We adore you Jackie O., you are a role model in every sense!  **Brittany Dobbins in "[https://www.clubfashionista.com/top-15-fashion-icons-of-all-times?c=1 Top 15 Fashion Icons of All Times]". === E === * For her it was imperative that everybody who visited the White House should see a house that was beautiful and lived in and that represented so much of American history. * Shortly after her husband’s inauguration, she appointed interior designers to aid her transformation introducing warm tones of strong colours such as blue, yellow and red, and applying geometric symmetry in the positioning of furniture to enhance the magnificence of the arched windows and architectural panelling. '''She transformed the once stuffy interior into one that exuded grace, elegance and refined formality. **Sara Emslie in the article "[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/jackie/how-jackie-kennedy-transformed-white-house/ How Jackie Kennedy transformed the White House"] (6 January 2017) === F === *Her iconic status really came after President Kennedy's death when she withdrew from public life and was rarely heard from publicly. The Jacqueline Kennedy on these tapes fits, I think, with what we might have expected if we think of her from the vantage point of her White House years. *These comments, which sound so antiquated to modern ears, reflect, obviously, Mrs. Kennedy's perspective at this moment in her life. Undoubtedly they were derived in part from her background, her class, her sensibility. But they also capture views that were shared by many in her generation. *At the same time, the tapes themselves are replete with examples of Mrs. Kennedy's independent thinking and ironically, she describes again and again incidents when her views diverged from those of her husband. Her comments on women in politics, in fact, follows her observation that she found it difficult to forgive politicians with whom JFK had crossed swords while her husband saw such conflicts as very much a part of the business of politics. *I think it would be very cynical — and completely wrong — to see her remarks on these tapes as calculated myth making. There is an off the cuff quality to these conversations, a rambling, even at times disjointed mood that shows Kennedy in a reflective mood. Much of what we hear is quite unvarnished. The conversations range over several days and many hours. The sound bites that have gotten the most media attention were stripped of their context and when that is provided, as it is in the tapes, one gets a sense of a person who intensely enjoyed some of her experience in the White House and was overwhelmed by and even abhorred some of what she saw. She does not, it is true, share with Schlesinger any doubts about or criticism of her husband. That isn't surprising. *Mrs. Kennedy's dignity in the face of that tragedy moved millions of people and will make her, I suspect, someone who many will always admire. It is, in the end, better to see our presidents — and everyone else around us — as human beings than to engage in an idealization that really diminishes our own agency and sense of responsibility. **Ellen Fitzpatrick, as quoted in the article "[http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/blogs/the_angle/2011/09/kennedy_qa.html The Jacqueline Kennedy tapes: Beyond the Gossip]" (24 September 2011) *'''She was playing a long game, and against all odds she’s still winning it.''' She had her eye on what she grandly called History, a concept large enough to encompass both her interest in 18th-century France and the necessity of maintaining a complicated fiction—at once face-saving and humiliating—about the nature of her marriage. It’s not a tissue of lies, but it is a tissue, one that has been rent so many times that it should be nothing more than dust motes by now, but she was a woman who brought every one of her formidable gifts to bear when it came to the subject of John Kennedy; and we’re no match for her. *And Jackie was herself a sexual sophisticate. She hung illustrations from the Kama Sutra in the dining room of one of her country houses; she was self-confident enough to include pretty young women on the guest lists of her private parties because she knew they invigorated her husband; she understood that she had married a man with a vivid sexual past, and certainly wouldn’t have wanted it any other way. **Caitlin Flanagan in the article "[https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/07/jackie-and-the-girls/309000/ Jackie and the Girls]" (July/August 2012) === G === *Jackie was very modern; her spirit was modern, she was a new image for America because he was a young president. *It was not the same relationship or friendship that I had with Audrey (Hepburn). The American people felt emotion for Jackie, but they preferred to have an American couturier design her dresses when they came to France for a state visit. **Hubert de Givenchy, as quoted in "[http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/fashion-beauty/hubert-de-givenchy-recalls-working-with-jackie-kennedy-35847316.html Hubert de Givenchy recalls working with Jackie Kennedy"] (20 June 2017) *It’s certainly not the Jackie that we knew later on. By then, she’s a different woman. **Doris Kearns Goodwin in reaction to the oral history, as quoted in "[http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/12/us/12jackie.html In Tapes, Candid Talk by Young Kennedy Widow"] (11 September 2011) *Famous people, in conversation with strangers, will often struggle to point out the space between what we expect of them and who they really are—and that, of course, is another way of drawing attention to our expectation, and so to their celebrity. Mrs. Onassis paid new people the infinitely more difficult compliment of assuming that the baggage you both brought to the table was of infinitely less importance than the new gifts you might take away from it. **Adam Gopnick, as quoted in "[https://www.newyorker.com/books/double-take/remembering-jacqueline-kennedy Remembering Jacqueline Kennedy]" (13 September 2011) *Undeniably one of the greatest style icons of the last century, Jackie's elegance and class were an inspiration to millions. *Not only was Jackie deeply loved and adored, but she set the bar for First Lady fashion. Decades after her time in office, we still reflect on her timeless look and countless articles have been dedicated to copying her style. *One of the reasons Jackie was much loved was for her all-American style. Although she constantly had her eye on the Paris and Milan catwalks, she worked closely with designer Oleg Cassini to interpret looks. *The key to her lasting influence of course was her timeless elegance, as relevant today as it was in her hey day. *Although Jackie had a timeless style she injected a panache and flair into her outfits that gave them her unique stamp. Her staples however, and the accessories we remember her for, are her oversize sunglasses, strands of pearls and silk scarves. **Amber Graafland in "[http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/style/celebrity-fashion/jackie-kennedy-onassis-signature-style-9568345 Jackie Kennedy created a signature style for the ages with these 6 classic ingredients]" (30 May 2017) === H === *'''Starting with that powder-blue inauguration ensemble, plenty of first-lady watchers have noticed that Melania Trump’s fashion choices have seemed one pillbox hat away from copying Jackie Kennedy, perhaps the biggest style icon to occupy the White House.''' **Emily Heil in "[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2017/02/20/beyond-fashion-how-melania-trump-is-modeling-herself-after-jackie-kennedy/?utm_term=.b7ae2bd0e918 Beyond fashion: How Melania Trump is modeling herself after Jackie Kennedy]" (20 February 2017) *Everything about her high society upbringing predicated a charmed life. *At age 31, she brought a sense of youth and fashion to Washington, making the pillbox hat the rage and redecorating a stodgy White House. Yet the image that remains seared in the national consciousness is of the First Lady cradling her fallen husband’s head in her lap, her pink suit splattered with his blood. *Like no other First Lady before her, Onassis cut a mod figure, with Oleg Cassini outfits, Givenchy gowns and the pillbox hats that topped her bouffant hairdo. *Though it must have pained her at times, she remained the perfect political wife. *'''As the years went by, Jackie O somewhere along the way crossed the line from widowed, beloved First Lady to pop icon.''' **Jere Hester in "[http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/jacqueline-kennedy-onassis-life-profile-courage-article-1.2219678 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's life is a profile in courage]". (20 May 1994) * She's regal; she's elegant as ever; she is an everlasting mystery. I think she's elevated the human spirit in this country. If there were more Jackie Kennedys around, this would be a better place in which to live. I find her to be a very noble person. **[http://articles.latimes.com/1989-05-12/news/vw-3280_1_heymann-christina-onassis-aristotle-onassis C. David Heymann in "Probing the Mystery That Is Jackie : Sizzling Biography Aside, Author Admires Ex-First Lady" in ''The Los Angeles Times'' (12 May 1989)] *Whenever we took her anywhere, she'd immediately be recognized, and before we knew it there would be a swarm of people gawking, and often approaching her to shake her hand. She would smile graciously and offer a polite greeting, but as soon as we were alone, she'd quip, "You'd think I was someone important, for heaven's sake." **Clint Hill on his time protecting her, as quoted in ''Mrs. Kennedy and Me'' (2012). *Of all the first ladies we’ve had, Jackie Kennedy stands out. She changed the role. She was elegant and sophisticated. She took an intense interest in the historical furnishings of the White House. She brought in paintings and furniture that represented the past. She brought entertainers that had not been there before. **Clint Hill, as quoted in the article "[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/26/jackie-kennedy-biopic-natalie-portman-jfk Jackie Kennedy biopic casts spotlight on a brighter American age]" (26 November 2016). *Michael Beschloss, who has steered this frail craft of last-sip publishing into harbor, may have overstepped himself as a historian by saying that the tapes show Jackie as a major player in the Kennedy administration. But they certainly make it difficult if not impossible to accept her at her own paradoxical valuation, as merely a self-effacing hostess and decorator. *If the subject were being a major player in establishing the popular reputation of the Kennedy administration, that would be an entirely different story. '''With amazingly professional velocity, she seized control of the image-making process and soon had an entire cadre of historians and super-journos honing and burnishing the script.''' *For some people, the 1996 public auction of Mrs. Kennedy’s private effects, down to the most trivial and tangential (such as her Hermès hairbrush), was when the wrong scent began somehow to cling to the business. For others, it was Caroline Kennedy’s release in 2001 of a volume fragrantly titled The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, which one hopes would not have seduced the incautious purchaser into supposing that the First Lady had ever extended herself into verse. **Christopher Hitchens in the article "[https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2011/12/hitchens-201112 Widow of Opportunity]" (4 November 2011) *I draw so much inspiration from her. How she influenced style, how she influenced bringing so much to the White House when she was there. So many artists were supported by her and definitely with everything she went through, she was so focused on keeping her children safe, protected and loved and really fulfilling their own dreams and she had such an elegance. **Katie Holmes, as quoted in the article "[http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/katie-holmes-reprising-role-jacqueline-kennedy/story?id=46441848 Katie Holmes on reprising her role as Jacqueline Kennedy]" (29 March 2017) * First the world will call me Bouvier, hey <br>Then I'll change to Jackie K. <br>After my date with tragedy <br>I'll let Aristotle take care of me <br>I want to be Jackie Onassis, oh yeah.... ** [[w:Human Sexual Response (band)|Human Sexual Response]], in lyrics to the song "Jackie Onassis" === J === *If history is any guide, she might be sort of a Jackie Kennedy type, a well-dressed woman who will be seen as popular in the women's magazines but largely stays quiet and on the sidelines in terms of her public image. **Ohio University History Professor Katherine Jellison on how [[Melania Trump]] would be as First Lady, as quoted in "[http://www.npr.org/2016/07/17/485084324/from-the-sidelines-to-the-spotlight-melania-trump-poised-to-become-first-lady Melania Trump Poised To Move From Sidelines To Spotlight]". (17 July 2016) *I looked at her. Mrs. Kennedy’s dress was stained with blood. One leg was almost entirely covered with it and her right glove was caked, it was caked with blood — her husband’s blood. Somehow that was one of the most poignant sights — that immaculate woman exquisitely dressed, and caked in blood. ** [[w:Lady Bird Johnson|Lady Bird Johnson]], in a diary entry quoted in [https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/the-enduring-legacy-of-jacqueline-kennedy-a-master-at-shaping-public-appearance/2013/11/19/1d70ce78-457e-11e3-a196-3544a03c2351_story.html "The enduring legacy of Jacqueline Kennedy, a master at shaping public appearance" by DeNeen L. Brown, in ''The Washington Post'' (20 November 2013)] *Today, November 22, 2016, marks the 53rd anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination. His legacy of American exceptionalism lives on, much in part due to the words of his widow, Jacqueline Kennedy, who made it her mission to keep her husband’s memory stamped firmly in the minds of Americans and global citizens for years to come. *Jackie’s insistent push of this theme exemplifies her keen understanding of public diplomacy, and the importance of maintaining a favorable public image in the eyes of world. *She knew what must be done to keep John F. Kennedy’s memory alive. '''She must glorify his work, and so she did. But, what she didn’t realize was that her own great legacy was one to be remembered too.''' *Jackie's interest in the public opinion and legacy building of the Kennedy Administration didn’t begin only after JFK’s assassination; she was actually a champion public diplomat during her time as first lady, using global public opinion in her favor as she won the hearts of people everywhere. '''She frequently traveled around the world meeting with various government officials and members of the female press corps professing the image of American idealism. This successful use of soft power set a dynamic for future first ladies to come.''' *During her tenure, Jackie traveled to various countries, and through her comprehensive knowledge of the arts, literature, history, and of course, fashion, Jackie Kennedy was a public diplomat the likes of which America had never seen. *On this day, we remember JFK and his tenure as president during some of the most critical and tumultuous days in our history—the Civil Right Movement, Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam. His steady hand and diplomatic touch eased tensions around the world and ensured that his legacy for promoting democratization, equality and hope would live on. But Jacqueline Kennedy will also go down in history—not just for her string of pearls or pillbox hat, or even for her famous pink suit; but for creating a dominant soft power dynamic in American politics, and proving to foreign audiences everywhere that knowledge, appreciation and understanding of other cultures can forge a lasting bond between nations that improve foreign relations immensely. **Madison Jones in "[https://uscpublicdiplomacy.org/blog/jackie-kennedy-public-diplomacy-camelot Jackie Kennedy: The Public Diplomacy of Camelot]" (22 November 2016) === K === *My mother was a woman of tremendous courage. She worked very hard to do her best every day of her life, whether it was in raising her children, being First Lady or working as a book editor. **Caroline Kennedy as quoted in the article [http://people.com/celebrity/jacqueline-kennedy-onassis-remembered-on-20th-anniversary-of-death/ "Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Remembered on 20th Anniversary of Death" (19 May 2014)] * She made a rare and noble contribution to the American spirit. But for us, most of all she was a magnificent wife, mother, grandmother, sister, aunt, and friend. She graced our history. And for those of us who knew and loved her, she graced our lives. ** [[Edward Kennedy]] (23 May 1994) *She said she's crazy about Ted, but she's known for years that I should have done it fifteen years ago. She was so supportive. She even suggested I use her New York lawyer. If Jackie recommends him and says he's distinguished, he must be good. *She said I should look out for myself. *Jackie also told me that she wishes she had given me this advice before and maybe I wouldn't have gotten so sick. But back then, fifteen years ago, I probably wouldn't have been able to take her advice. **Joan Bennett Kennedy, as quoted in ''Ted Kennedy: The Dream That Never Died'' (2010) by Edward Klein. * I do not think it altogether inappropriate to introduce myself to this audience. '''I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to [[Paris]], and I have enjoyed it.''' ** [[John F. Kennedy]], remarks at SHAPE Headquarters in Paris, France (2 June 1961) * If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife, and a different religion. ** [[John F. Kennedy]] in a letter to John H. Sharon, cited in ''A Hero for Our Time: An Intimate Story of the Kennedy Years'' (1983) by [[w:Ralph_G._Martin|Ralph G. Martin]] *My mother would be very happy today. **John F. Kennedy, Jr. after accepting a plaque in her honor, as quoted in "[http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/jacqueline-kennedy-onassis-everyday-article-1.840587 JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS EVERYDAY THINGS]" (1 October 1998) *She was present at a scene of martyrdom and an intimate witness, vulnerable to that moment, escaping death herself. It sealed her fate as part of a tragic, fascinating spectacle that played in millions of minds. *The worst thing in her life that could possibly happen, happened. And it happened in broad daylight in front of everyone. It was always happening in front of everyone, a ghastly carnival replay of the worst thing that can happen. **Wayne Koestenbaum, as quoted in "[http://www.denverpost.com/2013/11/21/jacqueline-kennedys-legacy-a-master-at-shaping-public-appearance/ Jacqueline Kennedy’s legacy: A master at shaping public appearance]" (21 November 2013) === L === *By this time, there could be no doubt that Jackie had survived and thrived. McNamara, by contrast, was a disappointed and defeated man. Jackie, after numerous failed attempts, had finally succeeded in fashioning a new life. **[[w:Barbara Leaming|Barbara Leaming]] on Onassis' later years, in ''Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: The Untold Story'' (2014). *As she had done so many times in the decades since Dallas, she again grappled with the randomness of the world and the abruptness of tragedy. **Barbara Leaming on Onassis' cancer diagnosis, in ''Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: The Untold Story'' (2014). *Jackie loved in Jack the man he wanted to be, and David was the man helping him, in her eyes, to be the man Jack wanted to be. ** Barbara Leaming on the role David Ormsby Gore played in her relationship with her first husband, as quoted in the article "[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/08/world/europe/letters-from-jacqueline-kennedy-to-the-man-she-didnt-marry.html Letters From Jacqueline Kennedy to the Man She Didn’t Marry]" (8 February 2017) *In the late 1960s, Jacqueline Kennedy was, perhaps, the world’s most famous widow, but few had access to her feelings, either in grief or in the public eye. ** Melissa Locker in the article [http://time.com/4665236/jackie-kennedys-letters/ "Jackie Kennedy’s Letters About Love and Grief Are Going Up for Auction" (9 February 2017)] === M === *Jackie Kennedy's letters underline the behind-the-scenes role of Halle, who urged President Kennedy to bestow honorary U.S. citizenship upon Winston Churchill at special 1963 Rose Garden ceremony. But more importantly, the Halle correspondence provides further insight into the first lady's relationship with JFK during their White House years and the painful aftermath of her husband's November 1963 killing. *'''To be sure, a generation of Americans admired Jacqueline Kennedy's extraordinary grace and courage during her husband's funeral and were naturally protective of her privacy when she was alive.''' But a wealth of letters and other documents -- including an extensive oral history by Mrs. Kennedy kept under wraps at the JFK Library until 2011 -- remained out of sight, well past her death in 1994, leaving the historical record incomplete. *Documents like these are essential tools to gaining a clear and complete understanding our past. '''Surely, both JFK and Jackie Kennedy, with their keen sense of history, would have understood.''' **Thomas Maier in "[http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/12/opinion/maier-jackie-kennedy-letters/index.html The anguish of Jackie Kennedy]" (12 December 2014) *Beautiful, intelligent, elegant and immaculately coutured, Jackie was an integral part of the “Camelot” of John F Kennedy’s presidency. *Although she would survive her husband by 30 years, she would be haunted and perhaps defined for the rest of her life by those catastrophic few seconds in Dallas when her husband was assassinated beside her. ** Hugo McEwen in the article "[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/jackie/timeline-life-jackie-kennedy/ Timeline: Jackie Kennedy – the woman who defied an American tragedy"] (6 January 2017) *"Jackie Onassis will save us," the famed modern architect Philip Johnson commented when she took the lead in the fight to stop a proposed 59-story office tower from being erected over Grand Central Station. Johnson’s praise, made in 1975, captures how dramatically Mrs. Kennedy altered the public’s view of her and how easy it is to forget, living as we do in the age of [[Hillary Clinton]] and [[Michelle Obama]], that, prior to the ’60s, presidential wives were seen but rarely heard, especially after their husbands left office. *In deciding what to do after she moved away from Washington, Mrs. Kennedy had before her only the modern example of Eleanor Roosevelt, who, following her husband’s death, took an active role in the United Nations and continued writing her newspaper column. But Mrs. Roosevelt was in her sixties when her husband died after 12 years in office. In 1964 Jackie Kennedy was just 35, the widow of a first-term president, when she began setting historical precedents of her own. **Nicolaus Mills in the article "[http://www.thedailybeast.com/jackie-kennedys-return-to-arlington Jackie Kennedy’s Return to Arlington]" (29 May 2014). *She looked so much better than the others, and you know why? If you look closely, you can see she had changed the buttons, the shoulders, even move the neckline. **Kathleen Moore on her style, as quoted in "[http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/fashion/jackie-fashion-lady-article-1.2220436 The Jackie Look: Fashion’s First Lady]" (18 May 2015) *'''If the fashion gods were to curate an exhibition on the world’s most iconic women and their wardrobes, Jackie Kennedy Onassis would undoubtedly feature in the fold.''' Jackie O - as she affectionately became known in modish circles and beyond - had the ultimate high octane and dramatic life, so her style followed suit. *Now Mrs Onassis, Jackie found freedom with threads: naughty thigh-high splits and European style twists blended well with her Mediterranean lifestyle. The perfectly tailored skirt suits and white gloves that epitomised her buttoned-up wardrobe era, were long gone and stayed in the museum of her stylish youth. *Never one to leave style behind, Jackie mastered the art of looking stunning without raising too many eyebrows. **Philippa Morgan in "[http://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/gallery/celebrity-fashion-style-icon-jackie-kennedy-onassis 16 of Jackie O's most iconic looks of all time. *Bows*.]" (29 August 2017) *'''Until Obama, the iconography of the first lady revolved around Jackie Kennedy.''' There had been glamorous president’s wives since – Nancy Reagan with her Dynasty gowns, say – but the notion of first lady chic remained almost synonymous with that sunny yet streamlined early-1960s style that is for ever Camelot. Half a century later, wives of heads of state all over the world are still measured against Kennedy, but the comparison is sharpest in the White House. Where her predecessors had tiptoed around the edges of Kennedy style, as if anxious to avoid the comparison, Obama has embraced many elements of the look and made them her own. The sleeveless shift dresses she favours are a direct link, as are the outsize strings of pearls, often framed by wide-set necklines. Even elements of the two women’s hair and makeup are similar, despite their physical difference: note the full, stiffly curled hair and the penchant for false eyelashes. **Jess Cartner-Morley in "[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/30/michelle-obama-first-lady-chic-white-house-flotus-jackie-kennedy Michelle Obama: 'She took first lady chic and made it modern'] (30 September 2016) === O === *Jackie, as Kenny was about to find out, was an entirely different creature. Like Kenny, she did not give a damn what other people thought of her or her actions. She did what she wanted, a trait that both Jack and Kenny would alternately admire and, especially during the White House years, find maddening. *It was clear to the Irish Brotherhood that Jackie was a political asset. Kenny took note of it for the future, though this was not something he needed to write down on an envelope. **Helen O'Donnell in the article [http://www.thedailybeast.com/when-jfks-inner-circle-turned-to-jackie When JFK’s Inner Circle Turned to Jackie]" (15 April 2015) *We had a day trip scheduled, and particularly during a trip like this, you never know what you are going to run into. So I was very concerned about how to handle Jackie. I wanted her to be happy and content. I wanted it to be a good day. My main concern was I did not want her to fall apart, start crying, and cause any trouble for the candidate. I would not have known what to do with a sobbing, hysterical woman. *I was astonished when I met her. Larry and I were prepared for a very high-strung, fragile, demanding china doll who couldn’t cope with anything. This is what the buildup had been. We did not know what the hell to expect. Well, I recall the day vividly because she was the most pleasant, sweet, beautiful, elegant child, and very funny. I found her to be that way from that point forward. She was and is simply a delight as a person. She never raised her voice. She never once complained. She was not enthusiastic, but she never complained. In truth, most politicians’ wives are not excited about this aspect of their lives, either, but most are phony and put on a big show. She never did that. She did exactly what you asked of her, but she was never a faker about it. She was not terribly interested in meeting the local politicians, whose big excitement was describing their local shoe factory. It wasn’t that unusual to not want to listen to some of those fellows. Half the time, I didn’t want to listen to them, either. I admired the fact that she wasn’t a phony. I noticed that the locals also seemed to admire the fact that she was not a faker. She was beautiful. Beautiful in a sense that these fellows were not accustomed to seeing. Jackie was very elegant and classy. Unusual, not your regular politician’s wife, but then Jack Kennedy was no average politician. She would travel with Jack, and he would introduce her. She would say a few words and knock everyone dead. All she had to do was say hello, and these average fellows were captivated. It really was a foreshadowing of the future. This was before she had become completely transformed, but you could see that it was coming. *She had not yet made the full transformation into this enormously popular national figure, but you could see the potential was there. For the first time, I also saw just how important she was to the senator. Her good humor and wonderful perspective kept him level-headed, and in politics that is critical for a candidate. **Kenny O'Donnell, as quoted in the article [http://www.thedailybeast.com/when-jfks-inner-circle-turned-to-jackie When JFK’s Inner Circle Turned to Jackie]" (15 April 2015) *From the moment Jackie became First Lady, the public was transfixed by her unfussy approach to fashion and beauty. '''She guided women out of the prim dresses, stiff petticoat skirts and overly styled hairdos of the 1950s and into sleeker, more contemporary designs, such as the simple strapless gown by Christian Dior, worn at the White House in 1962.''' *Jackie guarded her privacy furiously, donning dark glasses – the ultimate celebrity armour – to shield herself from the paparazzi’s unblinking gaze. '''It’s a marker of her fashion muscle that from the moment she started wearing super-size shades, they instantly became a must-have.''' *Even off duty, Jackie’s dressed-down wardrobe was as masterclass in absolute glamour. Snapped on holiday in the 1970s with the designer Valentino, her carefree barefoot look boasts all the markers of classic Jackie O style: simple, unfussy separates, a monochrome palette, super-sized shades and, of course, her Gucci “Jackie” bag. *'''As a style icon, she will never fade.''' From the opulent gowns and formal designs for the First Lady during Kennedy’s “Camelot” reign through the post-White House years, when she embraced more informal styles and inspired new trends (white jeans and black turtleneck, the famous bug-eyed shades, the colourful headscarves of the 1970s and 1980s), Jackie’s look was admired and copied worldwide, decade after decade, and remains an iconic example of 20th-century couture. **Lucy Oliver in "[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/jackie/true-fashion-icon-jackie-kennedy/ Jackie Kennedy – a true fashion icon]" (6 January 2017) *The film depicts one of the darkest periods in American history and during that time she put the grief of the entire country on her shoulders and she helped carry us through it. '''It was nothing short of heroic the way she conducted herself that week.''' **Noah Oppenheim on the film ''Jackie'', as quoted in "[http://www.thedailybeast.com/the-horror-of-jackie-one-of-the-darkest-weeks-in-american-history The Horror of ‘Jackie’: One of the ‘Darkest’ Weeks in American History"] (2 December 2016) === P === *We went into a room, just she and I, and she broke down. *She always trusted me. We were always together. *[[John F. Kennedy|He]] and Jacqueline were always very good to me, and my children and whole family. **Providencia Paredes, as quoted in "[http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/11/22/jackie-kennedy-top-assistant-recalls-first-lady-fears-and-despair-after.html John F. Kennedy's Legacy Through The Eyes Of The First Lady's Top Assistant, Providencia Paredes"] (22 November 2013) *Jacleen, as she liked to be called, had seemed inseparable from our personal histories: the American princess in the pillbox hat; the cosmopolitan First Lady flirting in fluent French with Charles de Gaulle; the stoic widow showing the country how to grieve with dignity; the celebrity mother insistent upon giving her children a sane upbringing; the surprisingly willing trophy wife of Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis; the dedicated book editor; the still-glamorous grandmother. *Imagine living a life that full—and dying young. Yet how strange to think that the mysterious mistress of Camelot left us only last week. To those who had never heard the tiny voice that belied her larger-than-life stature, who never saw the nails bitten ragged beneath the ladylike gloves, it was easy to believe that the woman—like the legend—would never die. Perhaps that is why the public greeted the first news of her illness almost with alarm. *John faced the press with the same calm that his 34-year-old mother had displayed three decades earlier, when she had stood on Air Force One in her blood-spattered pink Chanel suit as Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as President. She had seemed so young then but, as it turned out, her life was already more than half over. **''People'' in "[http://people.com/archive/cover-story-hour-of-farewell-vol-41-no-21/ Hour of Farewell]" (6 June 1994) *Mrs. Kennedy very likely read ''The Once and Future King'' and perhaps saw or showed to her children the cartoon version of ''The Sword and the Stone'' (the first chapter of the four part novel) that Walt Disney produced in 1963. There were biting ironies in her attraction to a legendary kingship that unravels due to the consequences of betrayal and infidelity and to her association of the central myth of English nationality with the United States’ first Irish president. Nevertheless, she looked past these contradictions to focus on the central message of White’s novel that portrayed war as pointless and absurd. President Kennedy, as his widow wanted him to be remembered, was like King Arthur—a peacemaker who died in a campaign to pacify the warring factions of mankind. *One must admire Mrs. Kennedy for the skill with which she deployed these images in the difficult aftermath of her husband’s death. Our retrospective view of President Kennedy is now filtered through the legends and symbols she put forward at that time. The hardheaded politician devoted to step-by- step progress was transformed in death into the consummate liberal idealist. *Difficult as it may be to accept, the posthumous image of JFK reflected more the idealistic beliefs of Mrs. Kennedy than the practical political liberalism of the man himself. *By turning President Kennedy into a liberal idealist (which he was not) and a near legendary figure, Mrs. Kennedy inadvertently contributed to the unwinding of the tradition of American liberalism that her husband represented in life. The images she advanced had a double effect: first, to establish Kennedy as a transcendent political figure far superior to any contemporary rival; and, second, to highlight what the nation had lost when he was killed. The two elements were mirror images of one another. *Mrs. Kennedy’s image fostered nostalgia for the past in the belief that the Kennedy administration represented a peak of achievement that could not be duplicated. The legend of the Kennedy years as unique or magical was, in addition, divorced from real accomplishments as measured by important programs passed or difficult problems solved. The magical aspect of the New Frontier was located, by contrast, in its style and sophisticated attitude rather than in its concrete achievements. Mrs. Kennedy, without intending to do so and without understanding the consequences of her image making, put forward an interpretation of John F. Kennedy’s life and death that magnified the consequences of the assassination while leaving his successors with little upon which to build. **James Piereson in the article "[http://www.thedailybeast.com/how-jackie-kennedy-invented-the-camelot-legend-after-jfks-death How Jackie Kennedy Invented the Camelot Legend After JFK’s Death]" (12 November 2013) === Q === * The moment when she crawled out onto the back of the open limousine in which her husband had been murdered was the first and last time the American people would see Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis crawl... She was the last great private public figure in this country.''' In a time of gilt and glitz and perpetual revelation, she was perpetually associated with that thing so difficult to describe yet so simple to recognize, the apotheosis of dignity.''' ** [[Anna Quindlen]], in ''The New York Times'' (21 May 1994) === R === * I wanna be Jackie Onassis. I wanna wear a pair of dark sunglasses. I wanna be Jackie. Oooh, please don't die! ** [[w:Rage Against The Machine|Rage Against The Machine]] *The day John F. Kennedy was shot, Jacqueline Kennedy became the nation's mother, guiding Americans through their shock. *Nobody knows what kind of First Lady Melania will be. There's no precedent for his presidency, so no precedent for her First Lady-ship. For now, we can only use past First Ladies as a benchmark, and Jackie might be the only comparison that sticks. Both Jackie and Melania married powerful men with name-brand families; both accustomed themselves to luxury; both chose to be fierce mothers, not fierce professionals. *Jackie chose to preserve tradition, making the White House more regal with art and historical knickknacks. **Sarah Rense in "[http://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/a51392/melania-trump-first-lady-jackie-movie/ Jackie Shows Us What We Deserve From First Lady Melania Trump]" (9 December 2016) *Before she was Jackie Kennedy, the most iconic first lady in American history, Jacqueline Bouvier was simply a young girl who loved horses. *Looking at the photos, it is easy to see why Mr. Morgan was so taken with Jackie. From a young age, she did not appear to be burdened with the traces of self-doubt, insecurity or immaturity that most children possess, to some degree, during their formative years. Rather, what she exudes in the photos, by turns, is poise and playfulness, an air of dignified yet unflappable confidence, and at times hints of a mischievousness and strong-willed personality. *Throughout the documentation as she grows from a small child to a young adult, a constant theme remains—her natural beauty, grace and magnetism. **Caitlin Riley in "[http://www.27east.com/news/article.cfm/General-Interest-EH/531450/New-Exhibit-Provides-Rare-Glimpse-Of-Jacqueline-Bouvier-Kennedy-Onassis-As-A-Child-Growing-Up-In-East-Hampton New Exhibit Provides Rare Glimpse Of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis As A Child Growing Up In East Hampton] (29 August 2017) === S === *Even during the tragedies Jackie experienced, she was still strong. *Looking back at her life, it is no wonder that she continues to inspire so many women today. She was a style icon, famous for her pillbox hats and A-line suits, but also a strong women who dealt with endless personal crises (she later also lost her second husband and her brother-in-law) in the public eye. '''Many of her words went on to inspire new generations, and her determination to keep on going is something all women can learn from today.''' ** Radhika Sanghani in the article "[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/jackie/why-jackie-kennedy-still-matters/ Why Jackie Kennedy still matters today"] (10 January 2017) *I didn't meet her until I came to New York, and I think that so much of who she was is present on these tapes -- funny, irreverent, incredibly intuitive and wildly intelligent. She read everything, and she had been a real student of history. **Diane Sawyer, as quoted in "[http://www.chicagotribune.com/zap-jacqueline-kennedy-story-story.html Jacqueline Kennedy is heard anew in Diane Sawyer's ABC special]" * '''Let the skeptics snort about Camelot, but there was something during the Kennedy years that was [[magic]]. Jackie was more of that than anyone admitted for a long while.''' She smoothed the rough Kennedy edges. As much as anyone in those heady days, she grasped the epic dimensions of the adventure. No small portion of the glamour of the Kennedy stewardship that lives on today came from her standards of public propriety and majesty. ** [[w:Hugh Sidey|Hugh Sidey]], as quoted in ''TIME'' magazine, Vol. 143 (1994)<!-- , p. 98 --> === T === *'''It was a softly tailored suit of armor; the most feminine exemplar of power dressing, which Jackie Kennedy invented.''' *If she is the style gold standard any First Lady must live in the shadow of, if not actively aspire to emulate, Mrs. Trump, who herself has spoken admiringly of Mrs. Kennedy, completed the look with retro, luxe-looking gloves. **Tim Teeman; Lizzie Crocker in "[http://www.thedailybeast.com/melania-as-jackie-and-trumps-angry-red-tie-the-politics-of-inauguration-fashion Melania as Jackie and Trump's Angry Red Tie: The Politics of Inauguration Fashion]" (20 January 2017) *She had the kind of poise, tact, grace, and natural confidence that should put you at ease, but do not, because of a tension that ruled out flaws. Now and then her voice would shift from its breathy whisper to a momentary, guttural rasp—an indication, perhaps, of earthy easements that the public never suspected. **Calvin Tomkins, as quoted in "[https://www.newyorker.com/books/double-take/remembering-jacqueline-kennedy Remembering Jacqueline Kennedy]" (13 September 2011) *Today, she’s remembered as a wife, mother and graceful figure who championed the arts and literature. But Jackie is also a bonafide fashion icon who inspired millions with her chic wardrobe and effortless style. *Jackie's signature shades were both stylish and functional. *Though her hairstyle evolved over the years, Jackie's voluminous coif was an integral part of her signature look. **Mia Tramz in "[http://time.com/104581/jackie-onassis-style-icon/ Decoding Jackie O's Signature Style]" (19 May 2014) === V === * As far as Jackie was concerned, the only thing better than a rich man was an obscenely rich man. ** [[Gore Vidal]], as quoted in ''The Good Son: JFK Jr. and the Mother He Loved'' (2014) by Christopher Andersen === W === *'''The coming of television, and the jet age which allowed an unprecedented range of presidential travels, made hers one of the most famous faces of the century.''' And her husband's assassination in Dallas made her the very symbol of grief and loss. *Until the assassination of her husband, she performed in public precisely as he and American public opinion would have wished in a pre-feminist era. She appeared content to be the ultimate presidential accessory, providing glamour and children and that stylish patina of old money which approximates aristocracy in America. *Having married the first president young and dashing enough to be a Prince Charming, rather than symbolic father of the nation, she put up with her own role as consort-accessory. *'''She brought to the task a flair and a style which made it acceptable to be a cosmopolitan in America, to drink wine and enjoy art, and to impose her Francophile tastes on that ultimate American symbol, the White House.''' **Martin Walker in the article "[https://www.theguardian.com/world/1994/may/21/kennedy.usa1 The widow queen who never lost her majesty]" (21 May 1994). * All she was fundamentally interested in was money. That was really the guiding motive of her life. ** John White, Times–Herald writer, as quoted in ''America's Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis'' (2001) by [[w:Sarah Bradford|Sarah Bradford]] *She’s remembered for her trademark fashion sense and breathy voice, but few people know how large a role Jackie Kennedy played in her husband’s life and establishing his legacy. She was a woman who wasn’t afraid to take control of history — and even 50 years later, we still remember her husband the way she wanted us to. Modern women can learn from her graceful style and the composed front she presented to the world, but we can learn even more from what went on behind the scenes. *As JFK campaigned, America began to take note of Jackie’s excellent sense of fashion and graceful way of speaking — transforming her from a poised housewife to a celebrity in a matter of months. *She didn’t live to please the public, but instead centered her goals on being a good wife to Jack and mother to their two children, Caroline and John Jr. What made her so glamorous was that she wasn’t trying to be — and there’s something to be said for a woman who shied away from attention in a world that is increasingly attention-obsessed. *Her devotion never faltered, even with the knowledge of JFK’s numerous affairs. And though it was the early 60s and the gender roles of the 1950s were still firmly in place, their relationship was called “Victorian” by some. *So for 50 years, JFK’s brief term in the White House has been known as Camelot. He continually ranks highly on the list of America’s favorite presidents and is remembered for being a young, fresh face in American politics rather than for his criticisms. '''While we can attribute much of his popularity to his charm, it’s also important to realize how much Jackie affected how people would see her husband for years to come. She is the woman behind the legacy.''' **Jessica Williams in "[http://www.breezejmu.org/opinion/jackie-kennedy-contributed-more-than-just-grace/article_da5eff92-5252-11e3-9d00-001a4bcf6878.html Jackie Kennedy contributed more than just grace]" (21 November 2013) *Jackie Kennedy has had such a strong impact on the world that countless books and articles have been and continue to be written about her. At one time, she was even the most sought-after photograph subject in the world! If you know anything about Jackie, you won't find that hard to believe. '''From her dashing sense of style to her personable attitude and demeanor, she was a favorite of the people during John Kennedy's presidency and continued to fascinate the public even after his death in 1963.''' *Ever since she came into the limelight as the first lady, she's been a style icon who women have strived to imitate over the years. With a style heavily influenced by European fashion, Jackie looked fabulous and put-together wherever she went. Full of poise, grace and beauty, she revolutionized women's wear in the 1950s and 60s. *Jackie had an extremely simple style and didn't wear much jewelry. However, when she did wear accessories, they were always a reflection of her personality and never too glitzy or gaudy. '''Along with her large-framed sunglasses, Jackie made the three-strand pearl necklace a signature trend that women still follow today.''' *There's one thing that every ensemble Jackie Kennedy ever wore had in common: She always kept it simple. This was a woman who understood that less is more. Her look was never cluttered or busy, and with every outfit she chose, she portrayed the message that you don't have to wear fancy clothes to be elegant. **Jessica Willis in "[http://lifestyle.howstuffworks.com/style/fashion/celebrity/10-fashion-lessons-from-jackie.htm 10 Fashion Lessons We Can Learn From Jackie]". === Y === *No one wakes up looking the way she did, especially not when they are on vacation. There had to have been a method to her exquisite madness—if by madness we mean locating, and then donning, the perfect big—but not too big!—sunglasses, the loveliest wind-defying silk head scarf, the just-jaunty-enough basket bag, and always, always the flawless string of pearls. ** Lynn Yaeger in the article [http://www.vogue.com/article/jacqueline-kennedy-onassis-jackie-o-best-vacation-looks "Jackie O’s Best Vacation Looks Are as Flawless as Summer Style Gets"] (28 July 2017) ==External links== {{wikipedia}} {{Commonscat}} *[http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/jk35.html White House biography] * [http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=36 Brief biography at firstladies.org] *[http://www2.lucidcafe.com/lucidcafe/library/96jul/jackie.html Unofficial biography] *[http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/jbk.htm Arlington Cemetery biographical information] *[http://www.mqpublications.com/details.phtml?id=273&cat=7 ''Jackie Handbook''] * [http://www.jfklancer.com/pdf/Camelot.pdf PDF file: ''Kennedy Assasination Chronicles'' (Fall 1995)] - contains much of "the Camelot interview". {{DEFAULTSORT:Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy}} [[Category:1929 births]] [[Category:1994 deaths]] [[Category:United States First ladies]] [[Category:Non-fiction authors from the United States]] [[Category:Women authors from the United States]] [[Category:Journalists from New York (state)]] [[Category:Editors from the United States]] [[Category:Photographers from the United States]] [[Category:Catholics from the United States]] [[Category:Vassar College alumni]] [[Category:Kennedy family]] 3z1loudfh0bh9hl2acv054dilxm7i4t 4 12722 3961195 3733093 2026-07-05T16:35:12Z BD2412 3982 /* January 2006 */ Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]], replaced: Walter M. 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See also: '''[[QOTD by month]] - [[Wikiquote:Quotes of the Year|Quotes of the Year]] - [[Wikiquote:Quote of the Day|Complete list (earliest at top)]] - [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/Quote proposals|defunct archive]]''' ''Latest quotations are listed first:'' == January 2010 == * Anybody can they say they are being "spiritual" — and they are, because everybody has some type and level of concern. Let us therefore see their actual conception, in thought and action, and see how many perspectives it is in fact concerned with, and how many perspectives it actually takes into account, and how many perspectives it attempts to integrate, and thus let us see how deep and how wide runs that [[w:bodhisattva|bodhisattva]] vow to refuse rest until all perspectives whatsoever are liberated into their own primordial nature. ~ [[Ken Wilber]] * Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too. ~ [[Lloyd Alexander]] * Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs. ~ [[Anton Chekhov]] * Life on earth is a hand-to-hand mortal combat... between the law of love and the law of hate. ~ [[José Martí]] * <p>''Twas brillig and the slithy toves,<br>Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;<br>All mimsy were the borogoves,<br>And the mome raths outgrabe.''</p><p> ''"Beware the Jabberwock, my son,<br> the jaws that bite and claws that scratch <br> Beware the jubjub bird <br>and shun the frumious bandersnatch."'' <br> ~ [[Lewis Carroll]] in ''[[Through the Looking-Glass]]'' ~ </p> * If you don't have enemies, you don't have character. ~ [[Paul Newman]] * ''O, wad some Power the giftie gie us<br>To see oursels as others see us!<br>It wad frae monie a blunder free us,<br>An' foolish notion.<br>What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us<br> An' ev'n Devotion.'' <br> ~ [[Robert Burns]] ~ * True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. ~ [[Edith Wharton]] * Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one. ~ [[Stendhal]] * ''Truth is always strange; <br> Stranger than fiction.'' <br> ~ [[Lord Byron]] in ''[[Don Juan (Byron)|Don Juan]]'' ~ * That which is above comprehension we cannot perceive to be contradictory, nor on the other hand can we perceive its rationality or consistency. ~ [[Ethan Allen]] * To those who would tear the world down: We will defeat you. To those who seek peace and security: We support you. And to all those who have wondered if America's beacon still burns as bright: Tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope. ~ [[Barack Obama]] * Duty is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less. ~ [[Robert E. Lee]] * I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~ [[Charles de Montesquieu]] * ''I somehow see what's beautiful <br> In things that are ephemeral. <br> I'm my only friend of mine, <br> And love is just a piece of time <br> In the world <br> In the world. <br> And I couldn't help but fall in love again.'' <br> ~ [[Zooey Deschanel]] ~ * Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness. The truths we respect are those born of affliction. We measure truth in terms of the cost to the writer in suffering — rather than by the standard of an objective truth to which a writer's words correspond. Each of our truths must have a martyr. ~ [[Susan Sontag]] * Men, for years now, have been talking about war and peace. But now, no longer can they just talk about it. It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. ~ [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]] * The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. That is possible for him who never argues and strives with men and facts, but in all experience retires upon himself, and looks for the ultimate cause of things in himself. ~ [[Albert Schweitzer]] * Conscious faith is freedom. <br> Emotional faith is slavery. <br> Mechanical faith is foolishness. <br> ~ [[G. I. Gurdjieff]] ~ * Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe. ~ [[Edmund Burke]] * I should esteem it the extreme of imprudence to prolong the precarious state of our national affairs, and to expose the union to the jeopardy of successive experiments, in the chimerical pursuit of a perfect plan. I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man. The result of the deliberations of all collective bodies must necessarily be a compound as well of the errors and prejudices, as of the good sense and wisdom of the individuals of whom they are composed. ~ [[Alexander Hamilton]] * Corruption never has been compulsory; when the cities lie at the monster's feet there are left the mountains. ~ [[Robinson Jeffers]] * I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end. ~ [[Simone de Beauvoir]] * My intent is to tell the truth as I know it, realizing that what is true for me may be blasphemy for others. ~ [[Gerry Spence]] * When I take people round to see my animals, one of the first questions they ask (unless the animal is cute and appealing) is, "what use is it?" by which they mean, "what use is it to them?" To this one can reply "What use is the Acropolis?" Does a creature have to be of direct material use to mankind in order to exist? By and large, by asking the question "what use is it?" you are asking the animal to justify its existence without having justified your own. ~ [[Gerald Durrell]] * To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but what he aspires to. ~ [[Khalil Gibran]] * A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection — not an invitation for hypnosis. ~ [[Umberto Eco]] * ''That's me in the corner <br> That's me in the spotlight <br> Losing my religion <br> Trying to keep up with you <br> And I don't know if I can do it. <br> Oh, no, I've said too much. <br> I haven't said enough.'' <br> ~ [[R.E.M.]] ~ * Of the theme that I have declared to you, I will now that ye make in harmony together a Great Music. And since I have kindled you with the Flame Imperishable, ye shall show forth your powers in adorning this theme, each with his own thoughts and devices, if he will. But I will sit and hearken, and be glad that through you great beauty has been wakened into song. ~ [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] in ''[[The Silmarillion]]'' * I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be. ~ [[Isaac Asimov]] * The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it. ~ [[J. D. Salinger]] == December 2009 == * The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it. ~ [[George Marshall]] * Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world's peoples can agree to. To seek this and to achieve it — that is true civilization. ~ [[Hideki Tojo]] * If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches. ~ [[Rainer Maria Rilke]] * At terrestrial temperatures matter has complex properties which are likely to prove most difficult to unravel; but it is reasonable to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star. ~ [[Arthur Stanley Eddington]] * Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. ~ [[Louis Pasteur]] * The obstacles to peace are in the minds and hearts of men. <br> In the study of matter we can be honest, impartial, true. That is why we succeed in dealing with it. But about the things we care for — which are ourselves, our desires and lusts, our patriotisms and hates — we find a harder test of thinking straight and truly. Yet there is the greater need. Only by intellectual rectitude and in that field shall we be saved. There is no refuge but in truth, in human intelligence, in the unconquerable mind of man. ~ [[Norman Angell]] * How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments. ~ [[Benjamin Franklin]] in ''[[Poor Richard's Almanack]]'' * People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success. ~ [[Norman Vincent Peale]] * "Heaven helps those who help themselves" is a well-tried maxim, embodying in a small compass the results of vast human experience. The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it constitutes the true source of national vigour and strength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates. Whatever is done for men or classes, to a certain extent takes away the stimulus and necessity of doing for themselves; and where men are subjected to over-guidance and over-government, the inevitable tendency is to render them comparatively helpless. ~ [[Samuel Smiles]] * That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you. ~ [[Charles de Lint]] * All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character or illustrates an existence. ~ [[Benjamin Disraeli]] in ''[[Coningsby (novel)|Coningsby]]'' * ''Man is his own star, and the soul that can <br> Render an honest and a perfect man <br> Commands all light, all influence, all fate. <br> Nothing to him falls early, or too late. <br> Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, <br> Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.''<br>~ [[John Fletcher]] ~ * "Business!" cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!" ~ [[Charles Dickens]] in ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'' * Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible. ~ [[Paul Klee]] * All he desired in life was that — that he could pick himself together again and go on with his daily occupations if — the girl, being five thousand miles away, would continue to love him. He wanted nothing more, He prayed his God for nothing more. ~ [[Ford Madox Ford]] * The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. ~ [[Arthur C. Clarke]] * It's kind of fun to do the impossible. ~ [[Walt Disney]] * Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character. ~ [[Margaret Chase Smith]] * Pedantry and mastery are opposite attitudes toward rules. To apply a rule to the letter, rigidly, unquestioningly, in cases where it fits and in cases where it does not fit, is pedantry... To apply a rule with natural ease, with judgment, noticing the cases where it fits, and without ever letting the words of the rule obscure the purpose of the action or the opportunities of the situation, is mastery. ~ [[George Pólya]] * What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it. ~ [[Gustave Flaubert]] * If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? ~ [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]] * We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong. ~ [[Theodore Roosevelt]] * A different conception of society, very different from that which now prevails, is in process of formation. ... Acknowledging, as a fact, the equal rights of all its members to the treasures accumulated in the past ... it seeks to establish a certain harmonious compatibility in its midst — not by subjecting all its members to an authority that is fictitiously supposed to represent society, not by trying to establish uniformity, but by urging all men to develop free initiative, free action, free association. ~ [[Peter Kropotkin]] * I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter. ~ [[Horace]] * There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. You learn the delivery of a part only before an audience. ~ [[Willa Cather]] * ''Is Freedom only a Will-o'-the-wisp <br> To cheat a poet's eye? <br> Be it phantom or fact, it's a noble cause <br> In which to sing and to die!'' <br> ~ [[Joyce Kilmer]] ~ * Faith I have, in myself, in humanity, in the worthwhileness of the pursuits in entertainment for the masses. But wide awake, not blind faith, moves me. My operations are based on experience, thoughtful observation and warm fellowship with my neighbors at home and around the world. ~ [[Walt Disney]] * That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy. ~ [[Thomas Carlyle]] * He who wants to persuade should put his trust, not in the right argument, but in the right word. ~ [[Joseph Conrad]] * The AIDS crisis is evidence of a world in which nothing important is regional, local, limited; in which everything that can circulate does, and every problem is, or is destined to become, worldwide. ~ [[Susan Sontag]] * I do think that if I had to choose one word to which hope can be tied it is ''hospitality''. A practice of ''hospitality''— recovering threshold, table, patience, listening, and from there generating seedbeds for virtue and friendship on the one hand — on the other hand radiating out for possible community, for rebirth of community. ~ [[Ivan Illich]] == November 2009 == * It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare. ~ [[Mark Twain]] * Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. ~ [[Louisa May Alcott]] * Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize — because they set so little store by them — the immense riches accumulated by the human race on either side of the narrow furrow on which they keep their eyes fixed; by underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished. ~ [[Claude Lévi-Strauss]] * ''Flow in the living moment.'' — We are always in a process of becoming and NOTHING is fixed. Have no rigid system in you, and you'll be flexible to change with the ever changing. OPEN yourelf and flow, my friend. Flow in the TOTAL OPENESS OF THE LIVING MOMENT. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo. ~ [[Bruce Lee]] * I believe that what separates us all from one another is simply society itself, or, if you like, politics. This is what raises barriers between men, this is what creates misunderstanding. <br> If I may be allowed to express myself paradoxically, I should say that the truest society, the authentic human community, is extra-social — a wider, deeper society, that which is revealed by our common anxieties, our desires, our secret nostalgias. The whole history of the world has been governed by nostalgias and anxieties, which political action does no more than reflect and interpret, very imperfectly. No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa. ~ [[Eugène Ionesco]] * Now and then it occurs to one to reflect upon what slender threads of accident depend the most important circumstances of his life; to look back and shudder, realizing how close to the edge of nothingness his being has come. ~ [[Upton Sinclair]] * Fight the enemy with the weapons he lacks. ~ [[Alexander Suvorov]] * Old wood to burn! Old wine to drink! Old friends to trust! Old authors to read! ~ [[Alfonso X of Castile]] * It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium. ~ [[George Eliot]] * Although I came to doubt all revelation, I can never accept the idea that the Universe is a physical or chemical accident, a result of blind evolution. Even though I learned to recognize the lies, the clichés and the idolatries of the human mind, I still cling to some truths which I think all of us might accept some day. There must be a way for man to attain all possible pleasures, all the powers and knowledge that nature can grant him, and still serve God — a God who speaks in deeds, not in words, and whose vocabulary is the Cosmos. ~ [[Isaac Bashevis Singer]] * My life seemed to be a series of events and accidents. Yet when I look back I see a pattern.~ [[Benoît Mandelbrot]] * We should not mourn for men of high ideals. Rather we should rejoice that we had the privilege of having had them with us, to inspire us by their radiant personalities. ~ [[Indira Gandhi]] * A lot of being a poet consists of willed ignorance. If you woke up from your trance and realized the nature of the life-threatening and dignity-destroying precipice you were walking along, you would switch into actuarial sciences immediately. ~ [[Margaret Atwood]] * What I say is, that the real non-resistants can believe in [[w:Direct action|direct action]] only, never in political action. For the basis of all political action is coercion; even when the State does good things, it finally rests on a club, a gun, or a prison, for its power to carry them through. ~ [[Voltairine de Cleyre]] * There is plenty of room at the top because very few people care to travel beyond the average route. And so most of us seem satisfied to remain within the confines of mediocrity. ~ [[Nnamdi Azikiwe]] * Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas. ~ [[Erwin Rommel]] * Call me Ishmael. Some years ago — never mind how long precisely — having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. ~ [[Herman Melville]] in ''[[Moby-Dick]]'' * It is better to be a fool than to be dead. It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind. For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself! ~ [[Robert Louis Stevenson]] * It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens. ~ [[Bahá'u'lláh]] * Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those they have slain. ~ [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]] * He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times. ~ [[Friedrich Schiller]] * History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power have destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which truly belongs to us all. We must not let it happen again. ~ [[Carl Sagan]] * Charity keepeth us in Faith and Hope, and Hope leadeth us in Charity. And in the end all shall be Charity. ~ [[Julian of Norwich]] * Political progress will only take place if sufficient security exists. ~ [[David Petraeus]] * A man or woman is seldom happy unless he or she is sustaining him or herself and making a contribution to others. ~ [[Zig Ziglar]] * Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind then that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; and while there is a criminal element, I am of it; and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. ~ [[Eugene V. Debs]] * All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the true Poets must be truthful. ~ [[Wilfred Owen]] * Athirst for personal salvation, the West forgets that many religions had but a vague notion of the life beyond the grave; true, all great religions stake a claim on eternity, but not necessarily on man's eternal life. ~ [[André Malraux]] * Hunting hawks do not belong in cages, no matter how much a man covets their grace, no matter how golden the bars. They are far more beautiful soaring free. ~ [[Lois McMaster Bujold]] * <p>''Some say this world of trouble <br> Is the only one we need <br> But I’m waiting for that morning <br> When the new world is revealed.''</p> <p>''Oh, when the saints go marching in, <br> When the saints go marching in, <br> Oh Lord, I want to be in that number, <br> When the saints go marching in!''</p> <p> ~ [[w:When the Saints Go Marching In|When the Saints Go Marching In]] ~</p> == October 2009 == * ''Wherein lies happiness? In that which becks <br> Our ready minds to fellowship divine, <br> A fellowship with essence; till we shine, <br> Full alchemiz’d, and free of space. Behold <br> The clear religion of heaven!''<br>~ [[John Keats]] ~ * The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take the place of, indeed exclude, in a manner, all other arts. I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. ~ [[John Adams]] * No moral system can rest solely on authority. ~ [[Alfred Jules Ayer]] * The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more. ~ [[Jonas Salk]] * ''They shall have stars at elbow and foot; <br> Though they go mad they shall be sane, <br> Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; <br> Though lovers be lost love shall not; <br> And death shall have no dominion.'' <br> ~ [[Dylan Thomas]] ~ * Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. ~ [[Napoleon Hill]] * <p>[[w:Saint Crispin's Day|This day]] is call'd — the feast of [[w:Crispin|Crispian]]:<br>He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,<br>Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd,<br>And rouse him at the name of Crispian.<br>He that outlives this day, and sees old age,<br>Will yearly on the vigil feast his friends,<br>And say, "To-morrow is Saint Crispian;"<br>Then will he strip his sleeve, and show his scars,<br>And say, "These wounds I had on Crispin's day."<br>Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,<br>But he'll remember, with advantages,<br>What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,<br>Familiar in his mouth as household words, —<br>Harry the King, Bedford, and Exeter,<br>Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,<br>Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd.<br>This story shall the good man teach his son;<br>And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by<br>From this day to the ending of the world,<br>But we in it shall be remember'd, —<br>We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.<br>For he to-day that sheds his blood with me,<br>Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,<br>This day shall gentle his condition:<br>And gentlemen in England, now a-bed,<br>Shall think themselves accurs'd, they were not here,<br>And hold their manhoods cheap, whiles any speaks,<br>That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.</p> <p> [[w:Henry V of England|King Henry V]] <br> <small> as portrayed in </small> <br> ''[[Henry V (play)|Henry V]]'' <small><br> by <br> </small> ~ [[William Shakespeare]] ~</p> * A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence. ~ [[Stephen Covey]] * Once the curtain is raised, the actor ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third. And to this end the actor must forget his personality and throw aside his joys and sorrows. He must present the public with the reality of a being who for him is only a fiction. With his own eyes, he must shed the tears of the other. With his own voice, he must groan the anguish of the other. His own heart beats as if it would burst, for it is the other's heart that beats in his heart. And when he retires from a tragic or dramatic scene, if he has properly rendered his character, he must be panting and exhausted. ~ [[Sarah Bernhardt]] * If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people. ~ [[Timothy Leary]] * Should children be permitted to read Romances, & Relations of Giants & Magicians, & Genii? — I know all that has been said against it; but I have formed my faith in the affirmative. — I know no other way of giving the mind a love of "the Great," & "the Whole." — Those who have been led by the same truths step by step thro' the constant testimony of their senses, seem to me to want a sense which I possess — They contemplate nothing but ''parts'' — and all ''parts'' are necessarily little — and the Universe to them is but a mass of ''little things.'' ~ [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]] * ''Gonna stand my ground, won't be turned around <br> and I'll keep this world from draggin' me down <br> gonna stand my ground and I won't back down.'' <br> ~ [[Tom Petty]] ~ * He gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together. ~ [[Jonathan Swift]] * Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own. ~ [[Logan Pearsall Smith]] * An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted. ~ [[Arthur Miller]] * The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression, and obedience. ~ [[William O. Douglas]] * All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. ~ [[John Kenneth Galbraith]] * Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity. ~ [[Hannah Arendt]] * The practical reason for freedom is that freedom seems to be the only condition under which any kind of substantial moral fiber can be developed — we have tried law, compulsion and authoritarianism of various kinds, and the result is nothing to be proud of. ~ [[Albert Jay Nock]] * Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. ~ [[Aleister Crowley]] * The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ~ [[Eleanor Roosevelt]] * Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as [[Barack Obama|Obama]] captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future. His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population. <br> For 108 years, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has sought to stimulate precisely that international policy and those attitudes for which Obama is now the world's leading spokesman. The Committee endorses Obama's appeal that "Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges." ~ The [[w:Norwegian Nobel Committee|Norwegian Nobel Committee]] on the [[w:Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel Peace Prize]] of 2009 * ''Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see. <br> It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out. <br> It doesn't matter much to me.''<br> ~ [[John Lennon]] ~ * [[w:Paul Atreides|Muad'Dib]] could indeed see the Future, but you must understand the limits of this power. Think of sight. You have eyes, yet cannot see without light. If you are on the floor of a valley, you cannot see beyond your valley. Just so, Muad'Dib could not always choose to look across the mysterious terrain. He tells us that a single obscure decision of prophecy, perhaps the choice of one word over another, could change the entire aspect of the future. He tells us "The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door." And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning "That path leads ever down into stagnation." ~ [[Frank Herbert]] in ''[[Dune]]'' * ''I am doing it <br /> the it I am doing is <br /> the I that is doing it <br /> the I that is doing it is <br /> the it I am doing <br />it is doing the I that am doing it <br /> I am being done by the it I am doing <br /> it is doing it'' <br> ~ [[Ronald David Laing]] ~ * Every marvel of our age arose out of the critical give and take of an open society. No other civilization ever managed to incorporate this crucial innovation, weaving it into daily life. And if you disagree with this ... say so! ~ [[David Brin]] * There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint. ~ [[Denis Diderot]] * The real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the few and the unscrupulous who represent or control capital. Hundreds of laws of Congress and the state legislatures are in the interest of these men and against the interests of workingmen. These need to be exposed and repealed. All laws on corporations, on taxation, on trusts, wills, descent, and the like, need examination and extensive change. This is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people no longer. It is a government of corporations, by corporations, and for corporations. — How is this? ~ [[Rutherford B. Hayes]] * We are forming our own Social Contract. This governance will arise according to the conditions of our world, not yours. Our world is different. <br> Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself, arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications. Ours is a world that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where bodies live.<br> We are creating a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth.<br> We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity. ~ [[John Perry Barlow]] * There is but one means to extenuate the effects of enemy fire: it is to develop a more violent fire oneself. ~ [[Ferdinand Foch]] * The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good. ~ [[Rufus Choate]] == September 2009 == * ''Reason is like an officer when the King appears; <br> The officer then loses his power and hides himself. <br> Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.'' <br> ~ [[Rumi]] ~ * I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth. ~ [[Miguel de Cervantes]] * The way which the superior man pursues, reaches wide and far, and yet is secret. Common men and women, however ignorant, may intermeddle with the knowledge of it; yet in its utmost reaches, there is that which even the sage does not know. Common men and women, however much below the ordinary standard of character, can carry it into practice; yet in its utmost reaches, there is that which even the sage is not able to carry into practice. Great as heaven and earth are, men still find some things in them with which to be dissatisfied. Thus it is that, were the superior man to speak of his way in all its greatness, nothing in the world would be found able to embrace it, and were he to speak of it in its minuteness, nothing in the world would be found able to split it. ~ [[Confucius]] * The liberties of our Country, the freedom of our civil constitution are worth defending at all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have receiv'd them as a fair Inheritance from our worthy Ancestors: They purchas'd them for us with toil and danger and expence of treasure and blood; and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle; or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men. Of the latter we are in most danger at present: Let us therefore be aware of it. Let us contemplate our forefathers and posterity; and resolve to maintain the rights bequeath'd to us from the former, for the sake of the latter. — Instead of sitting down satisfied with the efforts we have already made, which is the wish of our enemies, the necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance. ~ [[Samuel Adams]] * ''Whatever we inherit from the fortunate <br> We have taken from the defeated <br> What they had to leave us — a symbol: <br> A symbol perfected in death. <br> And all shall be well and <br> All manner of thing shall be well <br> By the purification of the motive <br> In the ground of our beseeching.'' <br> ~ [[T. S. Eliot]] in ''[[The Four Quartets]]'' ~ * The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling "[[w:Kilroy was here|Kilroy was here]]" on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass. ~ [[William Faulkner]] * Extremism. It is an almost infallible sign — a kind of death-rattle — when a human institution is forced by its members into stressing those and ''only'' those factors which are identificatory, at the expense of others which it necessarily shares with competing institutions because human beings belong to all of them. ~ [[John Brunner]] * In an ideal University, as I conceive it, a man should be able to obtain instruction in all forms of knowledge, and discipline in the use of all the methods by which knowledge is obtained. In such a University, the force of living example should fire the student with a noble ambition to emulate the learning of learned men, and to follow in the footsteps of the explorers of new fields of knowledge. And the very air he breathes should be charged with that enthusiasm for truth, that fanaticism of veracity, which is a greater possession than much learning; a nobler gift than the power of increasing knowledge; by so much greater and nobler than these, as the moral nature of man is greater than the intellectual; for veracity is the heart of morality. ~ [[Thomas Henry Huxley]] * <p>''Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, <br> Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; <br> Conspiring with him how to load and bless <br> With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; <br> To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, <br> And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; <br> To swell the ground, and plump the hazel shells <br> With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, <br> And still more, later flowers for the bees, <br> Until they think warm days will never cease, <br> For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.''</p><p>''Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?''</p><p> ~ [[John Keats]] ~ </p> * ''Ah, you loved me as a loser, <br> But now you're worried that I just might win. <br> You know the way to stop me, <br> But you don't have the discipline. <br> How many nights I prayed for this, <br> To let my work begin. <br> First we take Manhattan, <br> Then we take Berlin.'' <br/> ~ [[Leonard Cohen]] ~ * Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical. ~ [[Sophia Loren]] * ''The soul of man is larger than the sky, <br> Deeper than ocean, or the abysmal dark <br> Of the unfathomed center. Like that ark, <br> Which in its sacred hold uplifted high, <br> O'er the drowned hills, the human family, <br> And stock reserved of every living kind, <br> So, in the compass of the single mind, <br> The seeds and pregnant forms in essence lie, <br> That make all worlds.'' <br> ~ [[Hartley Coleridge]] ~ * As it is necessary not to invite robbery by supineness, so it is our duty not to suppress tenderness by suspicion; it is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. ~ [[Samuel Johnson]] * Many questions haven't been answered as yet. Our poets may be wrong; but what can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past. ~ [[William Carlos Williams]] * ''Descend, descend, [[w:Urania|Urania]], speak <br> To men in their own tongue! <br> Leave not the breaking heart to break <br> Because thine own is strong. <br> This is the law, in dream and deed,<br> That heaven must walk on earth! <br> O, shine upon the humble creed <br> That holds the heavenly birth. ''<br> ~ [[Alfred Noyes]] ~ * Understand this, I mean to arrive at the truth. The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it. ~ [[Agatha Christie]] * The difference between faith and superstition is that the first uses reason to go as far as it can, and then makes the jump; the second shuns reason entirely — which is why superstition is not the ally, but the enemy, of true religion. ~ [[Sydney J. Harris]] * ''By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, <br> And what to those we give, to Jove is lent.''<br> ~ [[Alexander Pope]] ~ <br><small> in his interpretation of </small> <br> ''[[The Odyssey of Homer (Alexander Pope)|The Odyssey]]'' by [[Homer]] * You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down. ~ [[Stanisław Lem]] * On September 11, 2001, the world fractured. It's beyond my skill as a writer to capture that day, and the days that would follow — the planes, like specters, vanishing into steel and glass; the slow-motion cascade of the towers crumbling into themselves; the ash-covered figures wandering the streets; the anguish and the fear. Nor do I pretend to understand the stark nihilism that drove the terrorists that day and that drives their brethren still. My powers of empathy, my ability to reach into another's heart, cannot penetrate the blank stares of those who would murder innocents with abstract, serene satisfaction. ~ [[Barack Obama]] * It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, by drinking at the fountain of fact, and devoting all the energies of his life to the cult of truth, not as he understands it, but as he does not yet understand it, that ought properly to be called a philosopher. ~ [[Charles Sanders Peirce]] * All men live not by the thought they spend on their own welfare, but because love exists in man. <br> I knew before that God gave life to men and desires that they should live; now I understood more than that. <br> I understood that God does not wish men to live apart, and therefore he does not reveal to them what each one needs for himself; but he wishes them to live united, and therefore reveals to each of them what is necessary for all. <br> I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love. ~ [[Leo Tolstoy]] * ''What voice revisits me this night? What face<br>To my heart’s room returns?<br>From the perpetual silence where the grace<br>Of human sainthood burns<br>Hastes he once more to harmonise and heal?<br>I know not. Only I feel<br>His influence undiminished<br>And his life’s work, in me and many, unfinished.'' <br> ~ [[Siegfried Sassoon]] ~ * I have written my life in small sketches, a little today, a little yesterday, as I have thought of it, as I remember all the things from childhood on through the years, good ones, and unpleasant ones, that is how they come out and that is how we have to take them. <br> I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it. I was happy and contented, I knew nothing better and made the best out of what life offered. And life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. ~ [[Grandma Moses]] * ''I saw a rainbow earlier today <br> Lately those rainbows be comin' round like everyday <br> Deep in the struggle I have found the beauty of me <br> God is watchin' and the Devil finally let me be <br> Here in this moment to myself.'' <br> ~ [[Macy Gray]] ~ * I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full; I have to surrender myself to what encircles me, I have to merge with my clouds and rocks in order to be what I am. ~ [[Caspar David Friedrich]] * As soon as a true thought has entered our mind, it gives a light which makes us see a crowd of other objects which we have never perceived before. ~ [[François-René de Chateaubriand]] * Whether it be the sweeping eagle in his flight, or the open apple-blossom, the toiling work-horse, the blithe swan, the branching oak, the winding stream at its base, the drifting clouds, over all the coursing sun, ''form ever follows function'', and this is the law. Where function does not change form does not change. The granite rocks, the ever brooding hills, remain for ages; the lightning lives, comes into shape, and dies in a twinkling. <br> It is the pervading law of all things organic and inorganic, of all things physical and metaphysical, of all things human and all things superhuman, of all true manifestations of the head, of the heart, of the soul, that the life is recognizable in its expression, that form ever follows function. ''This is the law.'' ~ [[Louis Sullivan]] * If thinking men are few, they are for that reason all the more powerful. Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power. ~ [[Henry George]] * {{center/s}}<p>'''Proclaim LIBERTY throughout all the Land unto all the Inhabitants thereof. [[w:Book of Leviticus|Lev.]] XXV X'''</p><p> <small> Inscription <br> on the <br> </small>~ [[w:Liberty Bell|Liberty Bell]] ~ </p>{{center/e}} == August 2009 == * There's not a war between Muslims and non-Muslims, but between extremists and moderates of all the religions. ... What is important is not to live in fear. The most dangerous thing to do is to give up and lose hope. The main enemy is not terrorism or extremism, but ignorance. ~ [[Queen Rania of Jordan]] * The animals of the [[w:Burgess Shale|Burgess Shale]] are holy objects — in the unconventional sense that this word conveys in some cultures. We do not place them on pedestals and worship from afar. We climb mountains and dynamite hillsides to find them. We quarry them, split them, carve them, draw them, and dissect them, struggling to wrest their secrets. We vilify and curse them for their damnable intransigence. They are grubby little creatures of a sea floor 530 million years old, but we greet them with awe because they are the Old Ones, and they are trying to tell us something. ~ [[Stephen Jay Gould]] * Consciousness expresses itself through creation. This world we live in is the dance of the Creator. Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye but the dance lives on. On many an occasion when I am dancing, I have felt touched by something sacred. In those moments, I felt my spirit soar and become one with everything that exists. I become the stars and the moon. I become the lover and the beloved. I become the victor and the vanquished. I become the master and the slave. I become the singer and the song. I become the knower and the known. I keep on dancing and then, it is the eternal dance of creation. The Creator and the creation merge into one wholeness of joy. I keep on dancing — until there is only ... the dance. ~ [[Michael Jackson]] * What is the use of being wise if we are not sometimes merry? The merriment of wise men is not the uninformed, gross fun of ignorant men, but it has more kinship with that than the pinched, frightened fun of those who are neither learned nor ignorant, gentle nor simple, bound nor free. The idea that a wise man must be solemn is bred and preserved among people who have no idea what wisdom is, and can only respect whatever makes them feel inferior. ~ [[Robertson Davies]] * For me, a few hours ago, this campaign came to an end. For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die. ~ [[Ted Kennedy]] * If you can't see God in All, You can't see God at All. ~ [[Harbhajan Singh Yogi]] * My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant, someone who disrupts the daily drag of life just enough to leave the victim thinking there's maybe more to it all than the mere hum-drum quality of existence. ~ [[Elvis Costello]] * ''Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, <br /> Old Time is still a-flying; <br /> And this same flower that smiles today, <br /> Tomorrow will be dying.'' <br /> ~ [[Robert Herrick (poet)|Robert Herrick]] ~ * ''Out of the night that covers me, <br> Black as the pit from pole to pole, <br> I thank whatever gods may be <br> for my unconquerable soul.'' <br> ~ [[William Ernest Henley]] ~ * Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art. ~ [[Claude Debussy]] * People ask me... "What do you still bring from Hawaii? How does it affect your character, how does it affect your politics?" I try to explain to them something about the [[w:Aloha|Aloha Spirit]]. I try to explain to them this basic idea that we all have obligations to each other, that we're not alone, that if we see somebody who's in need we should help... that we look out for one another, that we deal with each other with courtesy and respect, and most importantly, that when you come from Hawaii, you start understanding that what's on the surface, what people look like — that doesn't determine who they are. And that the power and strength of diversity, the ability of people from everywhere ... whether they're black or white, whether they're Japanese-Americans or Korean-Americans or Filipino-Americans or whatever they are, they are just Americans, that all of us can work together and all of us can join together to create a better country. And it's that spirit, that I'm absolutely convinced, is what America is looking for right now. ~ [[Barack Obama]] ~ * Science traditionally takes the reductionist approach, saying that the collective properties of molecules, or the fundamental units of whatever system you're talking about, are enough to account for all of the system's activity. But this standard approach leaves out one very important additional factor, and that's the spacing and timing of activity — its pattern or form. ~ [[Roger Wolcott Sperry]] * ''Let those find fault whose wit's so very small, <br> They've need to show that they can think at all; <br> Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; <br> He who would search for pearls, must dive below.'' <br> ~ [[John Dryden]] ~ * ''Tho' the world could turn from you, <br> This, at least, I learn from you: <br> Beauty and Truth, tho' never found, are worthy to be sought, <br> The singer, upward-springing, <br> Is grander than his singing, <br> And tranquil self-sufficing joy illumes the dark of thought.'' <br> ~ [[Robert Williams Buchanan]] ~ * To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn't know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up. ~ [[V. S. Naipaul]] * Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals. It can only be ensured by instinct, sharpened by thought practising the stroke so often that at the crisis it is as natural as a reflex. ~ [[T. E. Lawrence]] * The supreme truths are neither the rigid conclusions of logical reasoning nor the affirmations of credal statement, but fruits of the soul's inner experience. ~ [[Sri Aurobindo]] * ''Time will rust the sharpest sword, <br> Time will consume the strongest cord; <br> That which molders hemp and steel, <br> Mortal arm and nerve must feel. <br>'' ~ [[Walter Scott]] ~ * The question what to believe is perhaps the most momentous that anyone can put to himself. Our beliefs are not to be classed among the luxuries, but among the necessaries of existence. ~ [[Felix Adler]] * There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers. ~ [[Edith Hamilton]] * If the world ever advances beyond what it is today, it must be led by men who express their real opinions. ~ [[Robert G. Ingersoll]] * Monsters remain human beings. In fact, to reduce them to a subhuman level is to exonerate them of their acts of terrorism and mass murder — just as animals are not deemed morally responsible for killing. Insisting on the humanity of terrorists is, in fact, critical to maintaining their profound responsibility for the evil they commit. <br> And, if they are human, then they must necessarily not be treated in an inhuman fashion. You cannot lower the moral baseline of a terrorist to the subhuman without betraying a fundamental value. ~ [[Andrew Sullivan]] * For me there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I don't look for an answer, because I don't think there is one. I'm very glad to be the bearer of a question. ~ [[P. L. Travers]] * ''If I can find out God, then I shall find Him, <br> If none can find Him, then I shall sleep soundly, <br> Knowing how well on earth your love sufficed me, <br> A lamp in darkness.'' <br> ~ [[Sara Teasdale]] ~ * Going to church no more makes you a Christian than standing in a garage makes you a car. ~ [[Garrison Keillor]] * The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open. ~ [[Charles Fort]] * ''Do not think me gentle <br>because I speak in praise <br>of gentleness, or elegant <br>because I honor the grace <br>that keeps this world. I am <br>a man crude as any, <br>gross of speech, intolerant, <br>stubborn, angry, full <br>of fits and furies. That I <br>may have spoken well <br>at times, is not natural. <br>A wonder is what it is.'' <br> ~ [[Wendell Berry]] ~ * ''I am the daughter of Earth and Water,<br> And the nursling of the Sky;<br> I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores;<br> I change, but I cannot die.'' <br> ~ [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]] ~ * I did not want to move. For I had the feeling that this was a place, once seen, that could not be seen again. If I left and then came back, it would not be the same; no matter how many times I might return to this particular spot the place and feeling would never be the same, something would be lost or something would be added, and there never would exist again, through all eternity, all the integrated factors that made it what it was in this magic moment. ~ [[Clifford D. Simak]] * Religious feeling is as much a verity as any other part of human consciousness; and against it, on the subjective side, the waves of science beat in vain. ~ [[John Tyndall]] * In this world of lies, Truth is forced to fly like a sacred white doe in the woodlands; and only by cunning glimpses will she reveal herself, as in [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]] and other masters of the great Art of Telling the Truth, — even though it be covertly, and by snatches. ~ [[Herman Melville]] == July 2009 == * I beg the reader not to go in search of messages. It is a term that I detest because it distresses me greatly, for it forces on me clothes that are not mine, which in fact belong to a human type that I distrust; the prophet, the soothsayer, the seer. I am none of these; I'm a normal man with a good memory who fell into a maelstrom and got out of it more by luck than by virtue, and who from that time on has preserved a certain curiosity about maelstroms large and small, metaphorical and actual. ~ [[Primo Levi]] * ''Moving stranger, <br> Does it really matter, <br> As long as you're not afraid to feel?''</p><p>''Touch me, hold me. <br> How my open arms ache! <br> Try to fall for me.''</p><p>~ [[Kate Bush]] ~</p> * For all that has been — <br> Thanks. <br> For all that shall be — <br> Yes. <br> ~ [[Dag Hammarskjöld]] ~ * We do not choose political freedom because it promises us this or that. We choose it because it makes possible the only dignified form of human coexistence, the only form in which we can be fully responsible for ourselves. Whether we realize its possibilities depends on all kinds of things — and above all on ourselves. ~ [[Karl Popper]] * When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. ~ [[Sherlock Holmes]] in ''[[w:The Sign of the Four|The Sign of the Four]]'' by [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] * I hear you say "Why?" Always "Why?" You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?" ~ [[George Bernard Shaw]] * Good and evil grow up together and are bound in an equilibrium that cannot be sundered. The most we can do is try to tilt the equilibrium toward the good. ~ [[Eric Hoffer]] * The art of victory is learned in defeat. ~ [[Simón Bolívar]] * The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act — and if necessary, to suffer and die — for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied. These lessons must be learned anew by each succeeding generation, and that generation is fortunate indeed which learns from other than its own bitter experience. ~ [[Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia]] * There was sadness in being a man, but it was a proud thing too. And he showed what the pride of it was till you couldn't help feeling it. Yes, even in hell, if a man was a man, you'd know it. And he wasn't pleading for any one person any more, though his voice rang like an organ. He was telling the story and the failures and the endless journey of mankind. They got tricked and trapped and bamboozled, but it was a great journey. And no demon that was ever foaled could know the inwardness of it — it took a man to do that. ... His voice could search the heart, and that was his gift and his strength. And to one, his voice was like the forest and its secrecy, and to another like the sea and the storms of the sea; and one heard the cry of his lost nation in it, and another saw a little harmless scene he hadn't remembered for years. But each saw something. And when Dan'l Webster finished he didn't know whether or not he'd saved Jabez Stone. But he knew he'd done a miracle. For the glitter was gone from the eyes of the judge and jury, and, for the moment, they were men again, and knew they were men. ~ [[Stephen Vincent Benét]] * <p>''Now I've been happy lately <br> Thinking about the good things to come <br> And I believe it could be <br> Something good has begun.''</p><p>''Oh, I've been smiling lately <br> Dreaming about the world as one <br> And I believe it could be <br> Someday it's going to come.'' <br> ~ [[Cat Stevens|Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam)]] ~</p> * Houston: Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed. ~ [[Neil Armstrong]] * Old anchormen, you see, don't fade away; they just keep coming back for more. And that's the way it is... ~ [[Walter Cronkite]] * It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all. ~ [[William Makepeace Thackeray]] * They told us not to wish in the first place, not to aspire, not to try; to be quiet, to play nice, to shoot low and aspire not at all. They are always wrong. Follow your dreams. Make your wishes. Create the future. And above all, believe in yourself. ~ [[J. Michael Straczynski]] * I have always lived in a world in which I'm just a spot in history. My life is not the important point. I'm just part of the continuum, and that continuum, to me, is a marvelous thing. The history of life, and the history of the planet, should go on and on and on and on. I cannot conceive of anything in the universe that has more meaning than that. ~ [[Sheri S. Tepper]] * Choose only one master — Nature. ~ [[Rembrandt]] * ''This land is your land, this land is my land<br>From California to the New York Island,<br>From the Redwood Forest, to the Gulf stream waters,<br>This land was made for you and me.'' <br> ~ [[Woody Guthrie]] ~ * ''O how I feel, just as I pluck the flower <br> And stick it to my breast — words can't reveal; <br> But there are souls that in this lovely hour <br> Know all I mean, and feel whate'er I feel.'' <br>~ [[John Clare]] ~ * The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow. ~ [[William Osler]] * I can never join with my voice in the toast which I see in the papers attributed to one of our gallant naval heroes. I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong. ''Fiat justitia, pereat coelum''. My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right. ~ [[John Quincy Adams]] * It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer. ~ [[William Blackstone]] * As a child I was taught that to tell the truth was often painful. As an adult I have learned that not to tell the truth is more painful, and that the fear of telling the truth — whatever the truth may be — that fear is the most painful sensation of a moral life. ~ [[June Jordan]] * Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish. ~ [[Jean de La Fontaine]] * Magic is not science, it is a collection of ways to do things — ways that work but often we don't know why. ~ [[Robert A. Heinlein]] in ''[[Glory Road]]'' * Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free. True peace with oneself and with the world around us can only be achieved through the development of mental peace. ~ [[Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama]] * We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel. ~ [[Jean Cocteau]] * Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not. ~ [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]] * Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached. ~ [[Franz Kafka]] * Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom to one man seems nonsense to another. ~ [[Hermann Hesse]] * There are two kinds of truths: those of reasoning and those of fact. The truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; the truths of fact are contingent and their opposites are possible. ~ [[Gottfried Leibniz]] == June 2009 == * ''I think that I am here, on this earth, <br> To present a report on it, but to whom I don't know. <br> As if I were sent so that whatever takes place <br> Has meaning because it changes into memory.'' <br> ~ [[Czesław Miłosz]] ~ * What makes the desert beautiful ... is that somewhere it hides a well. ~ [[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]] in ''[[The Little Prince]]'' * Never dream of forcing men into the ways of God. Think yourself, and let think. Use no constraint in matters of religion. Even those who are farthest out of the way never compel to come in by any other means than reason, truth, and love. ~ [[John Wesley]] * Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope. ~ [[Helen Keller]] * ''Heal the world, make it a better place, <br> For you and for me and the entire human race, <br> There are people dying, but if you care enough for the living, <br> Make a better place for you and for me.'' <br> ~ [[Michael Jackson]] ~ * If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. ~ [[George Orwell]] * '''Guilt''', ''n.'' The condition of one who is known to have committed an indiscretion, as distinguished from the state of him who has covered his tracks. ~ [[Ambrose Bierce]] * ''I've woven them a garment that's prepared <br> out of poor words, those that I overheard, <br> and will hold fast to every word and glance <br> all of my days, even in new mischance, <br> and if a gag should bind my tortured mouth, <br> through which a hundred million people shout, <br> then let them pray for me, as I do pray <br> for them, this eve of my remembrance day.'' <br> ~ [[Anna Akhmatova]] ~ * This earth is one of the rare spots in the cosmos where mind has flowered. Man is a product of nearly three billion years of evolution, in whose person the evolutionary process has at last become conscious of itself and its possibilities. Whether he likes it or not, he is responsible for the whole further evolution of our planet. ~ [[Julian Huxley]] * ''God grant me the serenity <br /> to accept the things I cannot change, <br /> the courage to change the things I can, <br /> and the wisdom to know the difference.'' <br> ~ [[Reinhold Niebuhr]] ~ * Humor — it helps to make the vibe better — it loosens up the vibrations. ~ [[Brian Wilson]] * The wellspring of courage and endurance in the face of unbridled power is generally a firm belief in the sanctity of ethical principles combined with a historical sense that despite all setbacks the condition of man is set on an ultimate course for both spiritual and material advancement. At the root of human responsibility is the concept of perfection, the urge to achieve it, the intelligence to find a path towards it, and the will to follow that path if not to the end at least the distance needed to rise above individual limitations and environmental impediments. It is man's vision of a world fit for rational, civilized humanity which leads him to dare and to suffer to build societies free from want and fear. Concepts such as truth, justice and compassion cannot be dismissed as trite when these are often the only bulwarks which stand against ruthless power. ~ [[Aung San Suu Kyi]] * The history of a battle, is not unlike the history of a ball. Some individuals may recollect all the little events of which the great result is the battle won or lost, but no individual can recollect the order in which, or the exact moment at which, they occurred, which makes all the difference as to their value or importance. ~ [[Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington]] * Whether one believes in evolution, intelligent design, or Divine Creation, one thing is certain. Since the beginning of history, human beings have been at war with each other, under the pretext of religion, ideology, ethnicity and other reasons. And no civilization has ever willingly given up its most powerful weapons. We seem to agree today that we can share modern technology, but we still refuse to acknowledge that our values — at their very core — are shared values. ~ [[Mohamed ElBaradei]] * A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals to discovery. ~ [[James Joyce]] in ''[[Ulysses (novel)|Ulysses]]'' * The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool. ~ [[William McFee]] * The Zen disciple sits for long hours silent and motionless, with his eyes closed. Presently he enters a state of impassivity, free from all ideas and all thoughts. He departs from the self and enters the realm of nothingness. This is not the nothingness or the emptiness of the West. It is rather the reverse, a universe of the spirit in which everything communicates freely with everything, transcending bounds, limitless. ... The disciple must, however, always be lord of his own thoughts, and must attain enlightenment through his own efforts. And the emphasis is less upon reason and argument than upon intuition, immediate feeling. Enlightenment comes not from teaching but through the eye awakened inwardly. Truth is in "the discarding of words", it lies "outside words". <br> ~ [[Yasunari Kawabata]] ~ * ''A line will take us hours maybe;<br>Yet if it does not seem a moment’s thought,<br>Our stitching and unstitching has been naught.<br>Better go down upon your marrow-bones<br>And scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stones<br>Like an old pauper, in all kinds of weather;<br>For to articulate sweet sounds together<br>Is to work harder than all these, and yet<br>Be thought an idler by the noisy set<br>Of bankers, schoolmasters, and clergymen<br>The martyrs call the world.''<br> ~ [[William Butler Yeats]] ~ * My knowledge of pain, learned with the sabre, taught me not to be afraid. And just as in dueling when you must concentrate on your enemy's cheek, so, too, in war. You cannot waste time on feinting and sidestepping. You must decide on your target and go in. ~ [[Otto Skorzeny]] * There is nothing ugly; I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, — light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful. ~ [[John Constable]] * ''Most joyful let the Poet be; <br> It is through him that all men see.'' <br> ~ [[William Ellery Channing (poet)|William Ellery Channing]] ~ * ''In olden days a glimpse of stocking <br> Was looked on as something shocking <br> But now, Heaven knows, <br> Anything goes.'' <br> ~ [[Cole Porter]] ~ * The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the world and remember, it will be a poet, not a scientist. ~ [[Frank Lloyd Wright]] * Our earth is round, and, among other things, that means that you and I can hold completely different points of view and both be right. The difference of our positions will show stars in your window I cannot even imagine. Your sky may burn with light, while mine, at the same moment, spreads beautiful to darkness. Still we must choose how we separately corner the circling universe of our experience. Once chosen, our cornering will determine the message of any star and darkness we encounter. ~ [[June Jordan]] * Do your duty, and leave the rest to heaven. ~ [[Pierre Corneille]] * It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong. ~ [[John Maynard Keynes]] * I recall an old Sufi story of a good man who was granted one wish by God. The man said he would like to go about doing good without knowing about it. God granted his wish. And then God decided that it was such a good idea, he would grant that wish to all human beings. <br> And so it has been to this day. ~ [[Robert Fulghum]] * It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little. ~ [[Sydney Smith]] * <p>''The Poet's License! — 't is the right, <br> Within the rule of duty, <br> To look on all delightful things <br> Throughout the world of beauty.''</p><p>''To gaze with rapture at the stars <br> That in the skies are glowing; <br> To see the gems of perfect dye <br> That in the woods are growing, — <br> And more than sage astronomer, <br> And more than learned florist, <br> To read the glorious homilies <br> Of Firmament and Forest.'' <br> ~ [[John Godfrey Saxe]] ~</p> * If the mind is to emerge unscathed from this relentless struggle with the unforeseen, two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead. ~ [[Carl von Clausewitz]] == May 2009 == * Talk not so much ... of the great old masters, who but painted and chisell’d. Study not only their productions. There is a still higher school for him who would kindle his fire with coal from the altar of the loftiest and purest art. It is the school of all grand actions and grand virtues, of heroism, of the death of patriots and martyrs — of all the mighty deeds written in the pages of history — deeds of daring, and enthusiasm, devotion, and fortitude. ~ [[Walt Whitman]] * When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick." ~ [[Mikhail Bakunin]] * Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. ~ [[John F. Kennedy]] * The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into the common life of the world. ~ [[Louis Agassiz]] * The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us the less taste we shall have for the destruction of our race. Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions, and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction. ~ [[Rachel Carson]] * You have so many things in the background that you're supposed to do, there's no room left to think. I say, forget all that and ask yourself, "What's the simplest thing that could possibly work?" ~ [[Ward Cunningham]] * You will hear every day the maxims of a low prudence. You will hear, that the first duty is to get land and money, place and name. "What is this Truth you seek? What is this Beauty?" men will ask, with derision. If, nevertheless, God have called any of you to explore truth and beauty, be bold, be firm, be true. When you shall say, "As others do, so will I. I renounce, I am sorry for it, my early visions; I must eat the good of the land, and let learning and romantic expectations go, until a more convenient season." — then dies the man in you; then once more perish the buds of art, and poetry, and science, as they have died already in a thousand thousand men. The hour of that choice is the crisis of your history; and see that you hold yourself fast by the intellect. ... Bend to the persuasion which is flowing to you from every object in Nature, to be its tongue to the heart of man, and to show the besotted world how passing fair is wisdom. ~ [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]] * ''How many roads must a man walk down <br> Before you call him a man? <br> Yes, 'n' how many seas must a white dove sail <br> Before she sleeps in the sand? <br> Yes, 'n' how many times must the cannon balls fly <br> Before they're forever banned? <br> The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, <br> The answer is blowin' in the wind.'' <br>~ [[Bob Dylan]] ~ * Let no one dare to call another mad who is not himself willing to rank in the same class for every perversion and fault of judgment. Let no one dare aid in punishing another as criminal who is not willing to suffer the penalty due to his own offenses. ~ [[Margaret Fuller]] * Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outre results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable. ~ [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] in "[[Sherlock_Holmes#A_Case_of_Identity|A Case of Identity]]" * <p>''Some Figures monstrous and mis-shap'd appear,<br> Consider'd singly, or beheld too near,<br> Which, but proportion'd to their Light, or Place,<br> Due Distance reconciles to Form and Grace.<br> A prudent Chief not always must display<br> His Pow'rs in equal Ranks, and fair Array,<br> But with th' Occasion and the Place comply,<br> Conceal his Force, nay seem sometimes to Fly.<br> Those oft are Stratagems which Errors seem,<br> Nor is it [[Homer]] Nods, but We that Dream.''</p><p> ~ [[Alexander Pope]] in ''[[An Essay on Criticism]]'' ~</p> * However unwillingly a person who has a strong opinion may admit the possibility that his opinion may be false, he ought to be moved by the consideration that, however true it may be, if it is not fully, frequently, and fearlessly discussed, it will be held as a dead dogma, not a living truth. ~ [[John Stuart Mill]] * Humankind consists of two sexes, woman and man. Is it possible that a mass is improved by the improvement of only one part and the other ignored? Is it possible that if half of a mass is tied to earth with chains and the other half can soar into skies? ~ [[Mustafa Kemal Atatürk]] * ''The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, <br /> Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit <br />Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, <br /> Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.'' <br> ~ [[Omar Khayyám]] ~ * Yes, there ''is'' a Divinity, one from which we must never turn aside for the guidance of our huge inward life and of the share we have as well in the life of all men. It is called the truth. ~ [[Henri Barbusse]] * The slave system is one of constant danger, distrust, suspicion, and watchfulness. It debases those whose toil alone can produce wealth and resources for defence, to the lowest degree of which human nature is capable, to guard against mutiny and insurrection, and thus wastes energies which otherwise might be employed in national development and aggrandizement. The free-labor system educates all alike, and by opening all the fields of industrial employment and all the departments of authority, to the unchecked and equal rivalry of all classes of men, at once secures universal contentment, and brings into the highest possible activity all the physical, moral, and social energies of the whole state. ~ [[William H. Seward]] * The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own — even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being. ~ [[Katherine Anne Porter]] * Union and co-operation in war obviously increase the power of the individual a thousand fold. Is there the shadow of a reason why they should not produce equal effects in peace; why the principle of co-operation should not give to men the same superior powers, and advantages, (and much greater) in the creation, preservation, distribution and enjoyment of wealth? ~ [[Robert Owen]] * Not living in fear is a great gift, because certainly these days we do it so much. And do you know what I like about comedy? You can’t laugh and be afraid at the same time — of anything. If you're laughing, I defy you to be afraid. ~ [[Stephen Colbert]] * I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results. ~ [[Florence Nightingale]] * There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower. It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts. ~ [[Richard Feynman]] * Seeing a woman's child is like seeing a woman naked, in the way it changes how her face looks to you, how her face becomes less the whole story. ~ [[John Crowley]] * The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it. ~ [[J. M. Barrie]] * I want to break out — to leave this cycle of infection and death. I want to be taken in love: so taken that you and I, and death, and life, will be gathered inseparable, into the radiance of what we would become... ~ [[Thomas Pynchon]] * The very essence of democracy is the absolute faith that while people must cooperate, the first function of democracy, its peculiar gift, is to develop each individual into everything that he might be. But I submit to you that when in each man the dream of personal greatness dies, democracy loses the real source of its future strength. ~ [[Edwin H. Land]] * ''When true simplicity is gain'd <br> To bow and to bend we shan't be asham'd, <br> To turn, turn will be our delight <br> 'Till by turning, turning we come round right.'' <br> ~ [[Joseph Brackett]] ~ * Is it an excellence in your love that it can love only the extraordinary, the rare? If it were love’s merit to love the extraordinary, then God would be — if I dare say so — perplexed, for to Him the extraordinary does not exist at all. The merit of being able to love only the extraordinary is therefore more like an accusation, not against the extraordinary nor against love, but against the love which can love only the extraordinary. Perfection in the object is not perfection in the love. Erotic love is determined by the object; friendship is determined by the object; only love of one’s neighbor is determined by love. Therefore genuine love is recognizable by this, that its object is without any of the more definite qualifications of difference, which means that this love is recognizable only by love. ~ [[Søren Kierkegaard]] * Beneficence is godlike, and he who does most good to his fellow-man is the Master of Masters, and has learned the Art of Arts. Enrich and embellish the universe as you will, it is only a fit temple for the heart that loves truth with a supreme love. Inanimate vastness excites wonder; knowledge kindles admiration, but love enraptures the soul. Scientific truth is marvellous, but moral truth is divine; and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light, has found the lost paradise. For him, a new heaven and a new earth have already been created. His home is the sanctuary of God, the Holy of Holies. ~ [[Horace Mann]] * ''To everything (turn, turn, turn) <br> There is a season (turn, turn, turn) <br> And a time for every purpose under heaven.'' <br> ~ [[Pete Seeger]] ~ * We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the Universe. ~ [[Jerome K. Jerome]] * ''When an angel by divine command <br/>With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, <br>Such as of late o'er pale Britannia passed, <br> Calm and serene he drives the furious blast; <br>And, pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform, <br/>Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm.'' <br> ~ [[Joseph Addison]] ~ == April 2009 == * Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In [[w:Zazen|Zazen]] neither intention, analysis, specific effort nor imagination take place. It's enough just to be without hypocrisy, dogmatism, arrogance — embracing all opposites. ~ [[Taisen Deshimaru]] * ''He who hopes to grow in spirit <br> will have to transcend obedience and respect. <br> He'll hold to some laws <br> but he'll mostly violate <br> both law and custom, and go beyond <br> the established, inadequate norm.'' <br> ~ [[Constantine P. Cavafy]] ~ * Too much magic could wrap time and space around itself, and that wasn't good news for the kind of person who had grown used to things like effects following things like causes. ~ [[Terry Pratchett]] in ''[[Discworld#Sourcery_.281988.29|Sourcery]]'' ~ * No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. ~ [[Mary Wollstonecraft]] * Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. <br> If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. <br> Our life has no end in just the way in which our visual field has no limits. <br> ~ [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]] ~ * I will either find a way, or make one. ~ [[Hannibal]] * The most powerful weapon to conquer the devil is humility. For, as he does not know at all how to employ it, neither does he know how to defend himself from it. ~ [[Vincent de Paul]] * I would not so dishonour [[w:God|God]] as to lend my voice to perpetuate all the mad and foolish things which men have dared to say of Him. I believe that we may find in the Bible the highest and purest religion ..... most of all in the history of [[Jesus|Him]] in whose name we all are called. His religion — not ''the Christian religion'', but ''the religion of [[w:Christ|Christ]]'' — the poor man's gospel; the message of forgiveness, of reconciliation, of love; and, oh, how gladly would I spend my life, in season and out of season, in preaching this! But I must have no hell terrors, none of these fear doctrines; they were not in the early creeds, God knows whether they were ever in the early gospels, or ever passed His lips. [[w:Harrowing of Hell|He went down to hell]], but it was to break the chains, not to bind them. ~ [[James Anthony Froude]] * The death of dogma is the birth of morality. ~ [[Immanuel Kant]] * We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind — mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into popular imagery, the increasing blurring and intermingling of identities within the realm of consumer goods, the preempting of any free or original imaginative response to experience by the television screen. We live inside an enormous novel. For the writer in particular it is less and less necessary for him to invent the fictional content of his novel. The fiction is already there. The writer's task is to invent the reality. ~ [[J. G. Ballard]] * Let every one of us cultivate, in every word that issues from our mouth, absolute truth. I say cultivate, because to very few people — as may be noticed of most young children — does truth, this rigid, literal veracity, come by nature. To many, even who love it and prize it dearly in others, it comes only after the self-control, watchfulness, and bitter experience of years. ~ [[Dinah Craik]] * Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. ~ [[Jesus|Yeshua (Jesus Christ)]] * I believe that music can be an inspirational force in all our lives — that its eloquence and the depth of its meaning are all-important, and that all personal considerations concerning musicians and the public are relatively unimportant — that music come from the heart and returns to the heart — that music is spontaneous, impulsive expression — that its range is without limit — that music is forever growing — that music can be one element to help us build a new conception of life in which the madness and cruelty of wars will be replaced by a simple understanding of the brotherhood of man. ~ [[Leopold Stokowski]] * The real glory of dreams lies in their atmosphere of unlimited freedom. It is not the freedom of the dictator, who enforces his own will on the world, but the freedom of the artist, who has no will, who is free of will. ~ [[Karen Blixen]] * What one man can do himself directly is but little. If however he can stir up ten others to take up the task he has accomplished much. ~ [[Wilbur Wright]] * {{center/s}}<p><math>e^{i \pi} + 1 = 0. \,\!</math><br> Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth. </p><p> ~ [[Benjamin Peirce]] on [[Leonhard Euler|Euler's]] [[w:Euler's identity|identity]] ~ </p>{{center/e}} * ''Sad hours and glad hours, and all hours, pass over; <br/> One thing unshaken stays: <br/> Life, that hath Death for spouse, hath Chance for lover; <br/> Whereby decays <br/> Each thing save one thing: — mid this strife diurnal <br/> Of hourly change begot, <br/> Love that is God-born, bides as God eternal, <br/> And changes not.'' <br> ~ [[James Branch Cabell]] ~ * I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. ~ [[Thomas Jefferson]] * He that is greatest among you shall be your servant. And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted. ~ [[Jesus|Yeshua (Jesus Christ)]] * No greater mistake can be made than to think that our institutions are fixed or may not be changed for the worse. ... Increasing prosperity tends to breed indifference and to corrupt moral soundness. Glaring inequalities in condition create discontent and strain the democratic relation. The vicious are the willing, and the ignorant are unconscious instruments of political artifice. Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses. .. The peril of this Nation is not in any foreign foe! We, the people, are its power, its peril, and its hope! ~ [[Charles Evans Hughes]] * It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. ~ [[William Hazlitt]] * These tall and handsome ships, swaying imperceptibly on tranquil waters, these sturdy ships, with their inactive, nostalgic appearance, don’t they say to us in a speechless tongue: When do we cast off for happiness? ~ [[Charles Baudelaire]] * ''Somewhere over the rainbow<br/> Skies are blue<br/> And the dreams that you dare to dream<br/> Really do come true.'' <br> ~ [[Yip Harburg]] ~ * Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves. ~ [[William Ellery Channing]] * ''Little deeds of kindness, <br> Little words of love, <br> Make our pleasant earth below <br> Like the heaven above.'' <br> ~ [[Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney]] ~ * ''God's own hand <br> Holds fast all issues of our deeds: with him <br> The end of all our ends is, but with us <br> Our ends are, just or unjust: though our works <br> Find righteous or unrighteous judgment, this <br> At least is ours, to make them righteous.'' <br> ~ [[Algernon Charles Swinburne]] ~ * The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells ''[[w:Wakan Tanka|Wakan-Tanka]]'', and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this. The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is known that true peace, which, as I have often said, is within the souls of men. ~ [[Black Elk]] * If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough. ~ "Meggido Message" (misattributed to [[Edward Everett Hale]]) * Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it. ~ [[Émile Zola]] * Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown; nor do philosophers pin their faith to others' precepts in such wise that they lose their liberty, and cease to give credence to the conclusions of their proper senses. Neither do they swear such fealty to their mistress Antiquity that they openly, and in sight of all, deny and desert their friend Truth. ~ [[William Harvey]] == March 2009 == * ''[[w:Cogito ergo sum|Cogito ergo sum]]'' <br> I think, therefore I am. <br> ~ [[René Descartes]] ~ * The best way of knowing God is to love many things. Love this friend, this person, this thing, whatever you like, and you will be on the right road to understanding Him better, that is what I keep telling myself. But you must love with a sublime, genuine, profound sympathy, with devotion, with intelligence, and you must try all the time to understand Him more, better and yet more. ~ [[Vincent van Gogh]] * On seeing his shadow fall on such ancient rocks, he had to question himself in a different context and ask the same old question as before, "Who am I?", and the answer now came more emphatically than ever before, "No-one." <br> But a no-one with a crown of light about his head. He would remember a verse from [[Pindar]]: "Man is a dream about a shadow. But when some splendour falls upon him from God, a glory comes to him and his life is sweet." ~ [[R. S. Thomas]] * I do not understand those terrors which make us cry out, Satan, Satan! when we may say, God, God! and make Satan tremble. Do we not know that he cannot stir without the permission of God? ... I am really much more afraid of those people who have so great a fear of the devil, than I am of the devil himself. Satan can do me no harm whatever, but they can trouble me very much, particularly if they be confessors. ~ [[Teresa of Ávila]] * ''There’s a good time coming, boys! <br> A good time coming. <br> We may not live to see the day, <br> But earth shall glisten in the ray <br> Of the good time coming. <br> Cannon-balls may aid the truth<br> But thought’s a weapon stronger;<br>We’ll win our battles by its aid,<br> Wait a little longer.'' <br> ~ [[Charles Mackay]] ~ * ''I shall be telling this with a sigh <br> Somewhere ages and ages hence: <br> Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — <br> I took the one less traveled by, <br> And that has made all the difference.'' <br> ~ [[Robert Frost]] ~ * Freedom is the very essence of life, the impelling force in all intellectual and social development, the creator of every new outlook for the future of mankind. The liberation of man from economic exploitation and from intellectual and political oppression, which finds its finest expression in the world-philosophy of Anarchism, is the first prerequisite for the evolution of a higher social culture and a new humanity. ~ [[Rudolf Rocker]] * Follow the voice of your heart, even if it leads you off the path of timid souls. Do not become hard and embittered, even if life tortures you at times. There is only one thing that counts: to live one's life well and happily... ~ [[Wilhelm Reich]] * I believe that none can "save" his fellow man by making a choice for him. To help him, he can indicate the possible alternatives, with sincerity and love, without being sentimental and without illusion. The knowledge and awareness of the freeing alternatives can reawaken in an individual all his hidden energies and put him on the path to choosing respect for "life" instead of for "death." ~ [[Erich Fromm]] * <p>''I buoyed me on the wings of dream, <br> Above the world of sense; <br> I set my thought to sound the scheme, <br> And fathom the Immense; <br> I tuned my spirit as a lute <br> To catch wind-music wandering mute.''</p><p>''Yet came there never voice nor sign; <br> But through my being stole <br> Sense of a Universe divine, <br> And knowledge of a soul <br> Perfected in the joy of things, <br> The star, the flower, the bird that sings.''</p><p>'' Nor I am more, nor less, than these; <br> All are one brotherhood; <br> I and all creatures, plants, and trees, <br> The living limbs of God; <br> And in an hour, as this, divine, <br> I feel the vast pulse throb in mine.'' <br> ~ [[Francis William Bourdillon]] ~</p> * The creative process lies not in imitating, but in paralleling nature — translating the impulse received from nature into the medium of expression, thus vitalizing this medium. The picture should be alive, the statue should be alive, and every work of art should be alive. ~ [[Hans Hofmann]] * What is all that men have done and thought over thousands of years, compared with ''one'' moment of love. But in all Nature, too, it is what is nearest to perfection, what is most divinely beautiful! There all stairs lead from the threshold of life. From there we come, to there we go. ~ [[Friedrich Hölderlin]] * ''"Fools rush where Angels fear to tread!" Angels and Fools have equal claim <br> To do what Nature bids them do, sans hope of praise, sans fear of blame!'' <br> ~ [[Richard Francis Burton|Sir Richard Francis Burton]] ~ * Candor is always a double-edged sword; it may heal or it may separate. ~ [[Wilhelm Stekel]] * ''Man dwells apart, though not alone,<br> He walks among his peers unread;<br>The best of thoughts which he hath known<br> For lack of listeners are not said.'' <br>~ [[Jean Ingelow]] ~ * Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world. ~ [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]] * Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in. ~ [[Andrew Jackson]] * Only the individual can think, and thereby create new values for society — nay, even set up new moral standards to which the life of the community conforms. Without creative, independently thinking and judging personalities the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality without the nourishing soil of the community. <br> The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion. ~ [[Albert Einstein]] * The joy of life discovered by the Greeks is not a profane type of enjoyment: it reveals the bliss of existing, of sharing — even fugitively — in the spontaneity of life and the majesty of the world. Like so many others before and after them, the Greeks learned that the surest way to escape from time is to exploit the wealth, at first sight impossible to suspect, of the lived instant. ~ [[Mircea Eliade]] * Life to each individual is a scene of continued feasting in a region of plenty; and when unexpected death arrests its course, it repays with small interest the large debt which it has contracted to the common fund of animal nutrition, from whence the materials of its body have been derived. Thus the great drama of universal life is perpetually sustained; and though the individual actors undergo continual change, the same parts are filled by another and another generation; renewing the face of the earth and the bosom of the deep with endless successions of life and happiness. ~ [[William Buckland]] * All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others. ~ [[Douglas Adams]] * ''In men whom men condemn as ill <br> I find so much of goodness still, <br> In men whom men pronounce divine <br> I find so much of sin and blot, <br> I do not dare to draw a line <br> Between the two, where God has not.'' <br> ~ [[Joaquin Miller]] ~ * A philosopher is a lover of wisdom, not of knowledge, which for all its great uses ultimately suffers from the crippling effect of ephemerality. All knowledge is transient, linked to the world around it and subject to change as the world changes, whereas wisdom, true wisdom is eternal, immutable. ~ [[Shashi Tharoor]] * We no longer have a coherent conception of ourselves, and our universe, and our relation to one another and our world. We no longer know, as the Middle Ages did, where we come from, and where we are going, or why. That is, we don't know what information is relevant, and what information is irrelevant to our lives. ~ [[Neil Postman]] * Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do. ~ [[Thomas Aquinas]] * ''[[w:Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?|Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?]]''<br> Who watches the [[Watchmen (film)|Watchmen]]? <br> ~ [[Juvenal]] ~ * The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man. ~ [[William Beveridge]] * When I listen to love, I am listening to my true nature. When I express love, I am expressing my true nature. All of us love. All of us do it more and more perfectly. The past has brought us both ashes and diamonds. In the present we find the flowers of what we've planted and the seeds of what we are becoming. I plant the seeds of love in my heart. I plant the seeds of love in the hearts of others. ~ [[Julia Cameron]] * If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind. ~ [[William Godwin]] * In times like these, it's helpful to remember that there have ''always'' been times like these. ~ [[Paul Harvey]] * From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step. ~ [[Napoleon I of France]] == February 2009 == * I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old. ~ [[Michel de Montaigne]] * ''Turn, turn, my wheel! All things must change <br> To something new, to something strange; <br> Nothing that is can pause or stay; <br> The moon will wax, the moon will wane, <br> The mist and cloud will turn to rain, <br> The rain to mist and cloud again, <br> To-morrow be to-day.'' <br> ~ [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]] ~ * The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal. ~ [[Victor Hugo]] * ''Do what you want to do <br>And go where you're going to <br>Think for yourself <br>'Cause I won't be there with you.'' <br> ~ [[George Harrison]] ~ * The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand. ~ [[George A. Moore]] * We cannot avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them. ~ [[Karl Jaspers]] * The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for giving to Mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy: a policy worthy of imitation. All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship. It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens in giving it on all occasions their effectual support. ~ [[George Washington]] * Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods. ~ [[W. H. Auden]] * No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck. ~ [[Frederick Douglass]] * ''And the sign flashed out its warning <br> In the words that it was forming <br> And the sign said "The words of the prophets <br> Are written on the subway walls <br> And tenement halls <br> And whispered in the sound of silence."'' <br> ~ [[Paul Simon]] ~ * The heart unites whatever the mind separates, pushes on beyond the arena of necessity and transmutes the struggle into love. ~ [[Nikos Kazantzakis]] * All things are in the Universe, and the universe is in all things: we in it, and it in us; in this way everything concurs in a perfect unity. ~ [[Giordano Bruno]] * All experience is an arch, to build upon. ~ [[Henry Brooks Adams]] * Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation. ~ [[Susan B. Anthony]] * ''How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. <br> I love thee to the depth and breadth and height <br> My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight <br> For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. <br> I love thee to the level of everyday's <br> Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight. <br> I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; <br> I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. <br> I love thee with the passion put to use <br> In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. <br> I love thee with a love I seemed to lose <br> With my lost saints, — I love thee with the breath, <br> Smiles, tears, of all my life! — and, if God choose, <br> I shall but love thee better after death. <br> ~ [[Elizabeth Barrett Browning]] ~ '' * ''Morning has broken, <br> Like the first morning, <br> Blackbird has spoken<br> Like the first bird. <br> Praise for the singing! <br> Praise for the morning! <br> Praise for them springing <br> Fresh from the Word!'' <br> ~ [[Eleanor Farjeon]] ~ * With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations. ~ [[Abraham Lincoln]] * Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. ~ [[Thomas Edison]] * Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life. ~ [[Bertolt Brecht]] * I have seen the truth; I have seen and I know that people can be beautiful and happy without losing the power of living on earth. I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind. And it is just this faith of mine that they laugh at. But how can I help believing it? I have seen the truth — it is not as though I had invented it with my mind, I have seen it, seen it, and the living image of it has filled my soul for ever. ~ [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]] * Man's constitution is so peculiar that his health is purely a negative matter. No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand. ~ [[Jules Verne]] * It is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day. ~ [[Charles Dickens]] * ''One love, <br> One heart, <br> Let's get together <br> And feel alright.'' <br> ~ [[Bob Marley]] ~ * All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind. Don't be afraid of being out of tune with your environment, and above all pray God that you are not afraid to live, to live hard and fast. To my way of thinking it is not the years in your life but the life in your years that count in the long run. You'll have more fun, you'll do more and you'll get more, you'll give more satisfaction the more you know, the more you have worked, and the more you have lived. For yours is a great adventure at a stirring time in the annals of men. ~ [[Adlai Stevenson]] * How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life. This is our modern danger — one of the waxen wings of flight. It may cause our civilization to fall unless we act quickly to counteract it, unless we realize that human character is more important than efficiency, that education consists of more than the mere accumulation of knowledge. ~ [[Charles Lindbergh]] * The whole duty of man consists in being reasonable and just ... I am reasonable because I know the difference between understanding and not understanding and I am just because I have no opinion about things I don’t understand. ~ [[Gertrude Stein]] * History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. ~ [[Abba Eban]] * ''Hold fast to dreams <br> For if dreams die <br> Life is a broken-winged bird <br> That cannot fly.''<br> ~ [[Langston Hughes]] ~ == January 2009 == * A full-spectrum approach to human consciousness and behavior means that men and women have available to them a spectrum of knowing — a spectrum that includes, at the very least, the eye of flesh, the eye of mind, and the eye of spirit. ~ [[Ken Wilber]] * There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny. ~ [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] * The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all. ~ [[John Updike]] * I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer. ~ [[Colette]] * Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it. ~ [[Lewis Carroll]] in ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]'' * I do believe that man is a rope between animal and superman. But the superman I'm thinking of isn't [[Friedrich Nietzsche|Nietzsche]]'s. The real superhuman, man or woman, is the person who's rid himself of all prejudices, neuroses, and psychoses, who realizes his full potential as a human being, who acts naturally on the basis of gentleness, compassion, and love, who thinks for himself and refuses to follow the herd. That's the genuine dyed-in-the-wool superman. ~ [[Philip José Farmer]] * The strongest natures, when they are influenced, submit the most unreservedly; it is perhaps a sign of their strength. ~ [[Virginia Woolf]] * ''There are two ways of spreading light: to be <br> The candle or the mirror that reflects it.'' <br> ~ [[Edith Wharton]] ~ * One can acquire everything in solitude — except character. ~ [[Stendhal]] * Honor is, or should be, the place of virtue and as in nature, things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place, so virtue in ambition is violent, in authority settled and calm. All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man's self, whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed. ~ [[Francis Bacon]] * Was a revelation to be made known to us, it must be accommodated to our external senses, and also to our reason, so that we could come at the perception and understanding of it, the same as we do to that of things in general. We must perceive by our senses, before we can reflect with the mind. ~ [[Ethan Allen]] * There's new energy to harness, new jobs to be created, new schools to build, and threats to meet, alliances to repair. The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term. But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you, we as a people will get there. ~ [[Barack Obama]] * ''Thou wouldst be loved? — then let thy heart <br> From its present pathway part not! <br> Being everything which now thou art, <br> Be nothing which thou art not. <br> So with the world thy gentle ways, <br> Thy grace, thy more than beauty, <br> Shall be an endless theme of praise, <br> And love — a simple duty.'' <br> ~ [[Edgar Allan Poe]] ~ * Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation. ~ [[Robert Anton Wilson]] * We have this window of opportunity; we have a chance to make something real happen. Something possible happen, to live beyond our fear — think about that, and help us. Help lift us up, help us fight this fight to change, — ''transform'' — this country in a fundamental way. <br> This chance won’t come around again. ~ [[Michelle Obama]] * I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. ~ [[Evelyn Beatrice Hall]] * I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems. And I'm going to talk about it everywhere I go. I know it isn't popular to talk about it in some circles today. I'm not talking about emotional bosh when I talk about love, I'm talking about a strong, demanding love. And I have seen too much hate... I have decided to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. And the beautiful thing is that we are moving against wrong when we do it, because John was right, God is love. He who hates does not know God, but he who has love has the key that unlocks the door to the meaning of ultimate reality. ~ [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]] * In my great tiredness and discouragement, the phrase "Reverence for Life" struck me like a flash. As far as I knew, it was a phrase I had never heard nor ever read. I realized at once that it carried within itself the solution to the problem that had been torturing me. Now I knew that a system of values which concerns itself only with our relationship to other people is incomplete and therefore lacking in power for good. Only by means of reverence for life can we establish a spiritual and humane relationship with both people and all living creatures within our reach. Only in this fashion can we avoid harming others, and, within the limits of our capacity, go to their aid whenever they need us. ~ [[Albert Schweitzer]] * All religions speak about death during this life on earth. Death must come before rebirth. But what must die? False confidence in one’s own knowledge, self-love and egoism. Our egoism must be broken. ~ [[G. I. Gurdjieff]] * We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature, and the means perhaps of its conservation. ~ [[Edmund Burke]] * Be not afraid of life. Believe that life ''is'' worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. ~ [[William James]] * Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history. ~ [[John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton]] * I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth — and truth rewarded me. ~ [[Simone de Beauvoir]] * I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief. ~ [[Gerry Spence]] * There are years that ask questions and years that answer. ~ [[Zora Neale Hurston]] * Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be. ~ [[Khalil Gibran]] * We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. In an instant age, perhaps we must relearn the ancient truth that patience, too, has its victories. ~ [[Konrad Adenauer]] * ''It’s the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine).'' <br> ~ [[R.E.M.]] ~ * This is an ancient hallow, and ere the kings failed or the Tree withered in the court, a fruit must have been set here. For it is said that, though the fruit of the Tree comes seldom to ripeness, yet the life within may then lie sleeping through many long years, and none can foretell the time in which it will awake. ~ [[w:Gandalf|Gandalf]] in ''[[The Return of the King]]'' by [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] * It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be ... ~ [[Isaac Asimov]] * The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal. ~ [[E. M. Forster]] == December 2008 == * It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy... Let's go exploring! ~ Calvin in the last panel of ''[[w:Calvin and Hobbes|Calvin and Hobbes]]'' by [[Bill Watterson]] * It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails. ~ [[Romain Rolland]] * The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? There is a brotherhood among all men. This must be recognized if life is to remain. We must learn the love of man. ~ [[Pablo Casals]] * Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear. ~ [[Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay]] * There never is any such thing as one truth to be found in dramatic art. There are many. These truths challenge each other, recoil from each other, reflect each other, ignore each other, tease each other, are blind to each other. Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost. ~ [[Harold Pinter]] * ''Hear from the grave, great [[Taliesin|Taliessin]], hear; <br> They breathe a soul to animate thy clay. <br> Bright Rapture calls, and soaring, as she sings, <br> Waves in the eye of Heav'n her many-colour'd wings.'' <br> ~ [[Thomas Gray]] ~ * The only real blind person at Christmas-time is he who has not Christmas in his heart. ~ [[Helen Keller]] * Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another. ~ [[John Muir]] * Working together, we can build a world in which the rule of law — not the rule of force — governs relations between states. A world in which leaders respect the rights of their people, and nations seek peace, not destruction or domination. And neither we nor anyone else should live in fear ever again. ~ [[Wesley Clark]] * While you live ... you have a duty to life. ... The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them. ... Otherwise they fade away. ~ [[Charles de Lint]] * There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. ~ [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]] * I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. It might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. ~ [[John Steinbeck]] * ''After the final no there comes a yes <br> And on that yes the future world depends.'' <br> ~ [[Wallace Stevens]] ~ * ''Hail the heaven-born Prince of Peace! <br> Hail the Sun of Righteousness! <br> Light and life to all he brings, <br> Risen with healing in his wings. <br> Mild he lays his glory by, <br> Born that man no more may die, <br> Born to raise the sons of earth, <br> Born to give us second birth. <br> Hark! the herald angels sing, <br> "Glory to the new born King!" ''<br> ~ [[Charles Wesley]] ~ * ''Alas for maiden, alas for Judge,<br> For rich repiner and household drudge! <br> God pity them both! and pity us all,<br> Who vainly the dreams of youth recall; <br> For of all sad words of tongue or pen,<br> The saddest are these: "It might have been!" ''<br> ~ [[John Greenleaf Whittier]] ~ * Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away. ~ [[Philip K. Dick]] * It appears that mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent inherent in every atom. The universe as a whole is also weird, with laws of nature that make it hospitable to the growth of mind. I do not make any clear distinction between mind and God. God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the scale of our comprehension. ~ [[Freeman Dyson]] * The Art of Peace is not easy. It is a fight to the finish, the slaying of evil desires and all falsehood within. On occasion the Voice of Peace resounds like thunder, jolting human beings out of their stupor. ~ [[Morihei Ueshiba]] * Mark this well, you proud men of action: You are nothing but the unwitting agents of the men of thought who often, in quiet self-effacement, mark out most exactly all your doings in advance. ~ [[Heinrich Heine]] * [[w:Klaatu barada nikto|Klaatu barada nikto!]] ~ [[w:Patricia Neal|Patricia Neal]] as "Helen Benson" in ''[[The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951 film)|The Day the Earth Stood Still]]'' * The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it, seems to me the deepest root of all that is evil in the world. ~ [[Max Born]] * ''"Hope" is the thing with feathers — <br/>That perches in the soul — <br/>And sings the tune without the words — <br/>And never stops — at all — <br/> And sweetest — in the Gale — is heard — <br/>And sore must be the storm — <br/>That could abash the little Bird<br/>That kept so many warm — ''<br> ~ [[Emily Dickinson]] ~ * A ship in port is safe; but that is not what ships are built for. Sail out to sea and do new things. ~ [[Grace Hopper]] * The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people — that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature. ~ [[James Thurber]] * Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. ~ [[Willa Cather]] * The Science of Language has taught us that there is order and wisdom in all languages, and even the most degraded jargons contain the ruins of former greatness and beauty. The Science of Religion, I hope, will produce a similar change in our views of barbarous forms of faith and worship. ~ [[Max Müller]] * Fantasy, if it's really convincing, can't become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time. ~ [[Walt Disney]] * Is there any religion whose followers can be pointed to as distinctly more amiable and trustworthy than those of any other? If so, this should be enough. I find the nicest and best people generally profess no religion at all, but are ready to like the best men of all religions. ~ [[Samuel Butler]] * The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. ~ [[Joseph Conrad]] * Learned and leisurely hospitality is the only antidote to the stance of deadly cleverness that is acquired in the professional pursuit of objectively secured knowledge. I remain certain that the quest for truth cannot thrive outside the nourishment of mutual trust flowering into a commitment to friendship. ~ [[Ivan Illich]] * There's an old joke... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life — full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness — and it's all over much too quickly. ~ [[Woody Allen]] == November 2008 == * The one thing that unifies men in a given age is not their individual philosophies but the dominant problem that these philosophies are designed to solve. ~ [[Jacques Barzun]] * Revolutions are not made; they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back. ~ [[Wendell Phillips]] * One must be very naïve or dishonest to imagine that men choose their beliefs independently of their situation. ~ [[Claude Lévi-Strauss]] * Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there. ~ [[Bruce Lee]] * ''Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; <br> Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.'' <br> ~ [[William Cowper]] ~ * Statistically the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you would think the mere fact of existence would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise. We are alive against the stupendous odds of genetics, infinitely outnumbered by all the alternates who might, except for luck, be in our places. ~ [[Lewis Thomas]] * Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation. ~ [[Laurence Sterne]] * Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play on the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter? ~ [[John Milton]] in ''[[Areopagitica]]'' * Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. ~ [[George Eliot]] * If your object is to secure liberty, you must learn to do without authority and compulsion. If you intend to live in peace and harmony with your fellow-men, you and they should cultivate brotherhood and respect for each other. If you want to work together with them for your mutual benefit, you must practice cooperation. The social revolution means much more than the reorganization of conditions only: it means the establishment of new human values and social relationships, a changed attitude of man to man, as of one free and independent to his equal; it means a different spirit in individual and collective life, and that spirit cannot be born overnight. It is a spirit to be cultivated, to be nurtured and reared, as the most delicate flower it is, for indeed it is the flower of a new and beautiful existence. ~ [[Alexander Berkman]] * A revolution is coming — a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough — But a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character; we cannot alter its inevitability. ~ [[Robert F. Kennedy]] * Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. ~ [[James A. Garfield]] * War is what happens when language fails. ~ [[Margaret Atwood]] * When you can have anything you want by uttering a few words, the goal matters not, only the journey to it. ~ [[Christopher Paolini]] * We shall all live. We pray for life, children, a good harvest and happiness. You will have what is good for you and I will have what is good for me. Let the kite perch and let the egret perch too. If one says no to the other, let his wing break. ~ [[Chinua Achebe]] * Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius. ~ [[Johann Kaspar Lavater]] * To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition. ~ [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] * Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. ~ [[Louis Brandeis]] * In entering upon the great work before us, we anticipate no small amount of misconception, misrepresentation, and ridicule; but we shall use every instrumentality within our power to effect our object. ~ [[Elizabeth Cady Stanton]] * These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or in the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. ~ [[Abigail Adams]] * <p>The dignity of mankind is in your hands; protect it! <br> It sinks with you! With you it will ascend.</p><p> ~ [[Friedrich Schiller]] ~ </p> * Every one of us is precious in the cosmic perspective. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another. ~ [[Carl Sagan]] * </p>''Once and for all <br> the idea of glorious victories <br> won by the glorious army <br> must be wiped out <br> Neither side is glorious <br> On either side they're just frightened men messing their pants <br> and they all want the same thing <br> Not to lie under the earth <br> but to walk upon it <br> without crutches''</p><p> ~ [[Peter Weiss]] ~ </p> * Do not be deceived by the way men of bad faith misuse words and names ...Things are set up as contraries that are not even in the same category. Listen to me: the opposite of radical is superficial, the opposite of liberal is stingy; the opposite of conservative is destructive. Thus I will describe myself as a radical conservative liberal; but certain of the tainted red fish will swear that there can be no such fish as that. Beware of those who use words to mean their opposites. At the same time have pity on them, for usually this trick is their only stock in trade. ~ [[R. A. Lafferty]] * This is our time — to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids; to restore prosperity and promote the cause of peace; to reclaim the American dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth, that, out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope. And where we are met with cynicism and doubts and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: ''Yes we can!'' ~ [[Barack Obama]] * I suppose the process of acceptance will pass through the usual four stages: <br> (i) this is worthless nonsense; <br>(ii) this is an interesting, but perverse, point of view; <br>(iii) this is true, but quite unimportant; <br>(iv) I always said so. <br> ~ [[J. B. S. Haldane]] ~ * On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. ~ [[Will Rogers]] * Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness. ~ [[Wilhelm Reich]] * You know, "power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"? It's the same with powerlessness. Absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely. Einstein said everything had changed since the atom was split, except the way we think. We have to think anew. ~ [[Studs Terkel]] * The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all. ~ [[Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux]] == October 2008 == * Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth. ~ [[Natalie Clifford Barney]] * Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, — by deeds, not years... ~ [[Richard Brinsley Sheridan]] * He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it. ~ [[James Boswell]] * Walk a single path, becoming neither cocky with victory nor broken with defeat, without forgetting caution when all is quiet or becoming frightened when danger threatens. ~ [[Jigoro Kano]] * Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education. ~ [[Alfred Whitney Griswold]] * After bread, education is the first need of the people. ~ [[Georges Danton]] * I would prefer to remain in prison for another 20 years than bargain my beliefs for freedom. ~ [[Samir Geagea]] * We present a dramatically different approach to time management. This is a principle-centered approach. It transcends the traditional prescriptions of faster, harder, smarter, and more. Rather than offering you another clock, this approach provides you with a compass — because more important than how fast you're going, is where you're headed. ~ [[Stephen Covey]] * We ought to hate very rarely, as it is too fatiguing; remain indifferent to a great deal, forgive often and never forget. ~ [[Sarah Bernhardt]] * I often observed to my brother, You see now how little nature requires to be satisfied. Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; And I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatsoever state he is. This consists in a full resignation to the will of Providence; and a resigned soul finds pleasure in a path strewed with briars and thorns. ~ [[Daniel Boone]] * You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium. A wizard's power of Changing and Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power. It is most perilous. It must follow knowledge, and serve need. To light a candle is to cast a shadow. ~ [[Ursula K. Le Guin]] * <p>''We're overdue for a dream come true. <br> Long time nothing new. <br> We're overdue for a dream come true.''</p><p> ~ [[Tom Petty]] ~ </p> * To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history. ~ [[Thomas Browne]] * The essential ingredient of politics is timing. ~ [[Pierre Trudeau]] * There's too much of an attempt, it seems to me, to think in terms of controlling man, rather than freeing him. Of defining him rather than letting him go. It's part of the whole ideology of this age, which is power-mad. ~ [[Arthur Miller]] * The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth. ~ [[William O. Douglas]] * A nuclear war does not defend a country and it does not defend a system. I've put it the same way many times; not even the most accomplished ideologue will be able to tell the difference between the ashes of capitalism and the ashes of communism. ~ [[John Kenneth Galbraith]] * A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. ~ [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] * I think it's a disgrace for the international community that we have allowed so many conflicts to become frozen, and we are not making a serious effort to solve them. ~ [[Martti Ahtisaari]] * The concept which assumes that everything in the Church is irrevocably set for all times appears to me to be a false one. It would be naive to disregard that the Church has a history; the Church is a human institution and like all things human, was destined to change and evolve; likewise, its development takes place often in the form of struggles. ~ [[Edith Stein]] * Your true home is in the here and the now. It is not limited by time, space, nationality, or race. Your true home is not an abstract idea. It is something you can touch and live in every moment. With mindfulness and concentration, the energies of the Buddha, you can find your true home in the full relaxation of your mind and body in the present moment. No one can take it away from you. Other people can occupy your country, they can even put you in prison, but they cannot take away your true home and your freedom. ~ [[Nhat Hanh|Thich Nhat Hanh]] * When there are too many policemen, there can be no liberty. When there are too many soldiers, there can be no peace. When there are too many lawyers, there can be no justice. ~ [[Lin Yutang]] * <p>''Builders and warriors, strengthen the steps. <br> Reader, if you have not grasped — read again, <br> after a while. <br> The predestined is not accidental, <br> The leaves fall in their time. <br> And winter is but the harbinger of spring. <br> All is revealed; all is attainable.'' </p><p> ~ [[Nicholas Roerich]] ~ </p> * <p>''The year of jubilee has come; <br> Gather the gifts of Earth with equal hand; <br> Henceforth ye too may share the birthright soil, <br> The corn, drink the wine and all the harvest-home.''</p><p> ~ [[Edmund Clarence Stedman]] ~ </p> * Chaos needs no allies, for it dwells like a poison in every one of us. ~ [[Steven Erikson]] * It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. ~ [[David Brin]] * Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not. ~ [[Václav Havel]] * The quicker humanity advances, the more important it is to be the one who deals the first blow. ~ [[Ernst Kaltenbrunner]] * As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. ~ [[Gore Vidal]] * </p>''I am one of you and being one of you <br>Is being and knowing what I am and know.<br>Yet I am the necessary angel of earth, <br>Since, in my sight, you see the earth again,<br>Cleared of its stiff and stubborn, man-locked set<br>And, in my hearing, you hear its tragic drone<br>Rise liquidly in liquid lingerings,<br>Like watery words awash; like meanings said<br>By repetitions of half-meanings.'' </p><p> ~ [[Wallace Stevens]] ~ </p> * Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black. ~ [[Henry Ford]] == September 2008 == * If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it. ~ [[Rumi]] * It is sad not to be loved, but it is much sadder not to be able to love. ~ [[Miguel de Unamuno]] * I don't think there's anything exceptional or noble in being philanthropic. It's the other attitude that confuses me. ~ [[Paul Newman]] * If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation. The right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave. ~ [[Samuel Adams]] * ''All is always now. Words strain, <br> Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, <br> Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, <br> Will not stay still.'' <br> ~ [[T. S. Eliot]] in ''[[The Four Quartets]]'' ~ * The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail. ~ [[William Faulkner]] * At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion. ~ [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]] * If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? ~ [[Thomas Huxley]] * Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one. ~ [[Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield]] * ''I'm guided by a signal in the heavens, <br/> I'm guided by this birthmark on my skin <br/> I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons <br/> First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin.'' <br/> ~ [[Leonard Cohen]] ~ * When you come right down to it, the secret of having it all is loving it all. ~ [[Joyce Brothers]] * Basically I'm an optimist. Intellectually I can see man's balance is about fifty-fifty, and his chances of blowing himself up are about one to one. I can't see this any way but intellectually. I'm just emotionally unable to believe that he will do this. This means that I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist, I suppose. ~ [[William Golding]] * A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still. ~ [[Samuel Johnson]] * The real crazies who are looking for a messiah... after an hour or so they realise I'm not it and go off and look somewhere else. ~ [[Ken Kesey]] * It is the modest, not the presumptuous, inquirer who makes a real and safe progress in the discovery of divine truths. ~ [[Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke]] * If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others. ~ [[François de La Rochefoucauld]] * Patriotism is proud of a country’s virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues. The pride of nationalism, however, trumpets its country’s virtues and denies its deficiencies, while it is contemptuous toward the virtues of other countries. It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, "the greatest," but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is. ~ [[Sydney J. Harris]] * Above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. ~ [[Roald Dahl]] * If man had more of a sense of humor, things might have turned out differently. ~ [[Stanisław Lem]] * Although [[September 11, 2001 attacks|September 11]] was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do. ... I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I'm an optimist. We will reach out to the stars. ~ [[Stephen Hawking]] * Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. ~ [[Cyril Connolly]] * Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here. ~ [[Leo Tolstoy]] * ''Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land,<br> Drawing no dividend from time's to-morrows. <br> In the great hour of destiny they stand, <br> Each with his feuds, and jealousies, and sorrows.'' <br> ~ [[Siegfried Sassoon]] ~ * The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace. ~ [[Nikita Khrushchev]] * When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten. ~ [[Robert M. Pirsig]] * A planet is the cradle of mind, but one cannot live in a cradle forever. ~ [[Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky]] * An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate. ~ [[François-René de Chateaubriand]] * The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man. ~ [[Sarah Orne Jewett]] * The first casualty when war comes is truth. ~ [[Hiram Johnson]] * Deep in the minds of the apes was rooted the conviction that Tarzan was a mighty fighter and a strange creature. Strange because he had had it in his power to kill his enemy, but had allowed him to live — unharmed. ~ [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]] == August 2008 == * The writer is a spiritual anarchist, as in the depth of his soul every man is. He is discontented with everything and everybody. The writer is everybody's best friend and only true enemy — the good and great enemy. He neither walks with the multitude nor cheers with them. The writer who is a writer is a rebel who never stops. ~ [[William Saroyan]] * Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. ~ [[Warren Buffett]] * Mankind has advanced. Human progress is ceaseless. We can ... conclude that building just societies is a fool's errand. We are always, despite our advances, only one sin away from slipping into the abyss of terror and ignorance. But that is not so. Generations upon generations have driven the human race farther and farther from darkness. ~ [[John McCain]] * To which of the warring serpents should I turn with the problem that now faces me? <br> It is easy, and tempting, to choose the god of Science. Now I would not for a moment have you suppose that I am one of those idiots who scorns Science, merely because it is always twisting and turning, and sometimes shedding its skin, like the serpent that is its symbol. It is a powerful god indeed but it is what the students of ancient gods called a shape-shifter, and sometimes a trickster. ~ [[Robertson Davies]] * In every science, after having analysed the ideas, expressing the more complicated by means of the more simple, one finds a certain number that cannot be reduced among them, and that one can define no further. These are the primitive ideas of the science; it is necessary to acquire them through experience, or through induction; it is impossible to explain them by deduction. ~ [[Giuseppe Peano]] * I doubt if one ever accepts a belief until one urgently needs it. ~ [[Christopher Isherwood]] * Against boredom even gods struggle in vain. ~ [[Friedrich Nietzsche]] * A writer — and, I believe, generally all persons — must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art. ~ [[Jorge Luis Borges]] * A few Cobras in your home will soon clear it of Rats and Mice. Of course, you will still have the Cobras. ~ [[Will Cuppy]] * Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. ~ [[Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.]] * A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified. ~ [[Leon Trotsky]] * There probably is no more important quest in all science than the attempt to understand those very particular events in evolution by which brains worked out that special trick that has enabled them to add to the cosmic scheme of things: color, sound, pain, pleasure, and all the other facets of mental experience. ~ [[Roger Wolcott Sperry]] * ''Must I at length the Sword of Justice draw? <br> Oh curst Effects of necessary Law! <br> How ill my Fear they by my Mercy scan, <br> Beware the Fury of a Patient Man.'' <br> ~ [[John Dryden]] ~ * Oh, my Lolita, I have only words to play with! ~ [[Vladimir Nabokov]] in ''[[Lolita]]'' * Everything of value about me is in my books. Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will — with luck — come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise. That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. ~ [[V. S. Naipaul]] * It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not. ~ [[Jean de La Bruyère]] * A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root. ~ [[Napoleon I of France]] * Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong. ~ [[Russell Baker]] * It is our hope, that men in proportion as they grow more enlightened, will learn to hold their theories and their creeds more loosely, and will none the less, nay, rather all the more be devoted to the supreme end of practical righteousness to which all theories and creeds must be kept subservient. ~ [[Felix Adler]] * It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought — that is to be educated. ~ [[Edith Hamilton]] * There is no slavery but ignorance. Liberty is the child of intelligence. ~ [[Robert G. Ingersoll]] * We are living in a time of trouble and bewilderment, in a time when none of us can foresee or foretell the future. But surely it is in times like these, when so much that we cherish is threatened or in jeopardy, that we are impelled all the more to strengthen our inner resources, to turn to the things that have no news value because they will be the same to-morrow that they were to-day and yesterday — the things that last, the things that the wisest, the most farseeing of our race and kind have been inspired to utter in forms that can inspire ourselves in turn. ~ [[Laurence Binyon]] * The principal goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered. ~ [[Jean Piaget]] * ''If I am peaceful, I shall see <br> Beauty's face continually; <br> Feeding on her wine and bread <br> I shall be wholly comforted, <br> For she can make one day for me <br> Rich as my lost eternity.'' <br>~ [[Sara Teasdale]] ~ * The question isn't whether you have a good master or a bad master. It's to be your own master. That is the dignity of humanity. ~ [[Alan Keyes]] * ''I hold it true, whate'er befall;<br>I feel it, when I sorrow most;<br>'Tis better to have loved and lost<br>Than never to have loved at all.''<br>~ [[Alfred Tennyson|Alfred, Lord Tennyson]], in "[[In Memoriam A.H.H.]]" ~ * Those works of art which have scooped up the truth and presented it to us as a living force — they take hold of us, compel us, and nobody ever, not even in ages to come, will appear to refute them. ~ [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]] * Throughout American history, there have been moments that call on us to meet the challenges of an uncertain world, and pay whatever price is required to secure our freedom. ~ [[Barack Obama]] * I have tried at times to place humans in perspective against the vastness of universal time and space. I have been concerned with where we, as a race, may be going and what may be our purpose in the universal scheme — if we have a purpose. In general, I believe we do, and perhaps an important one. ~ [[Clifford D. Simak]] * Now, it is true that the nature of society is to create, among its citizens, an illusion of safety; but it is also absolutely true that the safety is always necessarily an illusion. Artists are here to disturb the peace. ~ [[James Baldwin]] * All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event — in the living act, the undoubted deed — there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. ~ [[Herman Melville]] in ''[[Moby-Dick]]'' == July 2008 == * The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what is being discovered about the infinitely large and infinitely small is sufficient to absolve this end of the century and millennium. What a very few are acquiring in knowledge of the physical world will perhaps cause this period not to be judged as a pure return of barbarism. ~ [[Primo Levi]] * ''I don't know you, <br> And you don't know me. <br> It is this that brings us together.'' <br> ~ [[Kate Bush]] ~ * The Congress hereby declares that it is the policy of the United States that activities in space should be devoted to peaceful purposes for the benefit of all mankind. ~ National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 creating [[NASA]] * If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, "Tell the Truth." If I got three more words, I'd add, "All the time." ~ [[Randy Pausch]] * ''It was my shame, and now it is my boast, <br> That I have loved you rather more than most.'' <br> ~ [[Hilaire Belloc]] ~ * We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy. ~ [[Carl Jung]] * Though ours is a godless age, it is the very opposite of irreligious. The true believer is everywhere on the march, and both by converting and antagonizing he is shaping the world in his own image. And whether we are to line up with him or against him, it is well that we should know all we can concerning his nature and potentialities. ~ [[Eric Hoffer]] * Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape from it, and with this I begin and end. ~ [[John Newton]] * Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph. ~ [[Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia]] * ''Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand <br/> A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame <br/> Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name <br/> Mother of Exiles.'' <br/> ~ [[Emma Lazarus]] ~ * There's no ''one'' thing that's true. It's all true. ~ [[Ernest Hemingway]] * Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure. ~ [[Petrarch]] * Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty. ~ [[Edgar Degas]] * When I die, my money's not gonna come with me. My movies will live on for people to judge what I was as a person. I just want to stay curious. ~ [[Heath Ledger]] * ''Error is a hardy plant; it flourisheth in every soil; <br> In the heart of the wise and good, alike with the wicked and foolish; <br> For there is no error so crooked, but it hath in it some lines of truth; <br> Nor is any poison so deadly, that it serveth not some wholesome use.'' <br> ~ [[Martin Farquhar Tupper]] ~ * Ignorance perpetuates itself just as knowledge does. Men write false documents, they preach false doctrine, and those beliefs survive to inspire wickedness in later generations. ... Conversely, some men write and teach about the truth, only to be declared heretic by the wicked. In such cases evil has the advantage, for it will do anything to suppress truth, but the good man limits what he will do to suppress falsehood. <br> One might almost make a rule of it: "Whoever declares another heretic is himself a devil. Whoever places a relic or artifact above justice, kindness, mercy, or truth is himself a devil and the thing elevated is a work of evil magic." ~ [[Sheri S. Tepper]] * Try to put well in practice what you already know; and in so doing, you will in good time, discover the hidden things which you now inquire about. Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know. ~ [[Rembrandt]] * The note of hope is the only note that can help us or save us from falling to the bottom of the heap of evolution, because, largely, about all a human being is, anyway, is just a hoping machine, a working machine ... don't worry — the human race will sing this way as long as there is a human to race. The human race is a pretty old place. ~ [[Woody Guthrie]] * People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilisation. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilisation; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater. ~ [[Kenneth Clark]] * To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour. ~ [[Henry David Thoreau]] in ''[[Walden]]'' * Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society — things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed. ~ [[E. B. White]] * Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity. ~ [[Nikola Tesla]] * Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque. ~ [[U. G. Krishnamurti]] * As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do. ~ [[Elisabeth Kübler-Ross]] * Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect. ~ [[Robert A. Heinlein]] * I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way. ~ [[John Paul Jones]] * Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet’s job. The rest is literature. ~ [[Jean Cocteau]] * Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it. ~ [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]] * Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. ~ [[Franz Kafka]] * ''There are gains for all our losses,<br> There are balms for all our pain: <br> But when youth, the dream, departs, <br> It takes something from our hearts, <br> And it never comes again.'' <br> ~ [[Richard Henry Stoddard]] ~ * We're on a mission from God. ~ [[w:Dan Aykroyd|Elwood J. Blues]], in ''[[The Blues Brothers]]'' == June 2008 == :<small>[[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/June 2008|Audio & Images]]</small> * ''Life is a jest, and all things show it, <br> I thought so once, and now I know it.'' <br> ~ [[John Gay]] ~ * Here is my secret. It is very simple. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; What is essential is invisible to the eye. ~ [[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]] * Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. ~ [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]] * We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond the senses. ~ [[Helen Keller]] * Every event has had its cause, and nothing, not the least wind that blows, is accident or causeless. ~ [[Pearl S. Buck]] * By "nationalism" I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole blocks of millions or tens of millions of people can be confidently labelled "good" or "bad." ... By "patriotism" I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life, which one believes to be the best in the world but has no wish to force on other people. Patriotism is of its nature defensive, both militarily and culturally. Nationalism, on the other hand, is inseperable from the desire for power. ~ [[George Orwell]] * All I do is done in love; all I suffer, I suffer in the sweetness of love. ~ [[John of the Cross]] * We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. ~ [[Alan Turing]] * If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we are at no loss to perceive that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind. ~ [[Wilhelm von Humboldt]] * Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. ~ [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]] * For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt. ~ [[Lillian Hellman]] * The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear. ~ [[Aung San Suu Kyi]] * Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. ~ [[Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington]] * Our security strategies have not yet caught up with the risks we are facing. The globalization that has swept away the barriers to the movement of goods, ideas and people has also swept with it barriers that confined and localized security threats. ~ [[Mohamed ElBaradei]] * When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven’t thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity — but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial. ~ [[Joyce Carol Oates]] * I protect my right to be a Catholic by preserving your right to believe as a Jew, a Protestant, or non-believer, or as anything else you choose. We know that the price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that they might some day force theirs on us. ~ [[Mario Cuomo]] * True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal. ~ [[Harriet Beecher Stowe]] * So long as all is ordered for attack, and that alone, leaders will instinctively increase the number of enemies that they may give their followers something to do. ~ [[William Butler Yeats]] * We are adhering to life now with our last muscle — the heart. ~ [[Djuna Barnes]] * Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. ~ [[Ben Jonson]] * We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely. ~ [[E. O. Wilson]] * ''Be a clown, be a clown, <br>All the world loves a clown. <br> Act the fool, play the calf, <br>And you'll always have the last laugh.'' <br> ~ [[Cole Porter]] ~ * History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, "Can't you remember anything I told you?" and lets fly with a club. ~ [[John W. Campbell]] * A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man. ~ [[Paul Gauguin]] * I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor. ~ [[Pierre Corneille]] * Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking. ~ [[John Maynard Keynes]] * To insist on one's place in the scheme of things and to live up to that place. <br> To empower others in their reaching for some place in the scheme of things. <br> To do these things is to make fairy tales come true. <br> ~ [[Robert Fulghum]] ~ * When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place. ~ [[Lawrence Lessig]] * The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people. ~ [[Cornel West]] * There are times when the utmost daring is the height of wisdom. ~ [[Carl von Clausewitz]] == May 2008 == :<small>[[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/May 2008|Audio & Images]]</small> * ''Be composed — be at ease with me — I am Walt Whitman, liberal and lusty as Nature,<br> Not till the sun excludes you do I exclude you,<br> Not till the waters refuse to glisten for you and the leaves to rustle for you, do my words refuse to glisten and rustle for you.'' <br> ~ [[Walt Whitman]] in ''[[Leaves of Grass]]'' ~ * By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. ~ [[Mikhail Bakunin]] * Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. ~ [[John F. Kennedy]] * In my books I have lifted bits from various religions in trying to come to a better understanding; I've made use of religious themes and symbols. Now, as the world becomes more pagan, one has to lead people in the same direction in a different way... ~ [[Patrick White]] * Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we are, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment. ~ [[Harlan Ellison]] * ''Thunder only happens when it's raining. <br> Players only love you when they're playing. <br> Say... Women... they will come and they will go. <br> When the rain washes you clean... you'll know.'' <br> ~ [[Stevie Nicks]] ~ * Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with. ~ [[Douglas Adams]] in ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' * Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error. ~ [[William Whewell]] * Genius ''will'' live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering–pot and pruning–knife. ~ [[Margaret Fuller]] * Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius. ~ [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] * ''The flying Rumours gather'd as they roll'd,<br>Scarce any Tale was sooner heard than told;<br>And all who told it, added something new,<br>And all who heard it, made Enlargements too,<br>In ev'ry Ear it spread, on ev'ry Tongue it grew.''<br> ~ [[Alexander Pope]] ~ * The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~ [[John Stuart Mill]] * Mankind is a single body and each nation a part of that body. We must never say "What does it matter to me if some part of the world is ailing?" If there is such an illness, we must concern ourselves with it as though we were having that illness. ~ [[Mustafa Kemal Atatürk]] * To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true. ~ [[Bertrand Russell]] * I believe, in spite of all, in truth's victory. I believe in the momentous value, hereafter inviolable, of those few truly fraternal men in all the countries of the world, who, in the oscillation of national egoisms let loose, stand up and stand out, steadfast as the glorious statues of Right and Duty. ~ [[Henri Barbusse]] * Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear. ~ [[Marcus Aurelius]] * Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory. ~ [[Irena Sendler]] * Errors now almost universally exist, and must be overcome solely by the force of reason; and as reason, to effect the most beneficial purposes, makes her advance by slow degrees, and progressively substantiates one truth of high import after another, it will be evident, to minds of comprehensive and accurate thought, that by these and similar compromises alone can success be rationally expected in practice. For such compromises bring truth and error before the public; and whenever they are fairly exhibited together, truth must ultimately prevail. ~ [[Robert Owen]] * Death and Light are everywhere, always, and they begin, end, strive, attend, into and upon the Dream of the Nameless that is the world, burning words within [[w:Samsara|Samsara]], perhaps to create a thing of beauty. ~ [[Roger Zelazny]] in ''[[Lord of Light]]'' * I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself. ~ [[Florence Nightingale]] * Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars — mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is "mere". I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination — stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern — of which I am a part... What is the pattern or the meaning or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it. ~ [[Richard Feynman]] * ''We're one, but we're not the same <br> We get to carry each other, carry each other... one.'' <br> ~ [[Bono]] ~ * Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. ~ [[J. M. Barrie]] * Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom. ~ [[Friedrich Hayek]] * If nature has been frugal in her gifts and endowments, there is the more need of art to supply her defects. If she has been generous and liberal, know that she still expects industry and application on our part, and revenges herself in proportion to our negligent ingratitude. The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds; and instead of vines and olives for the pleasure and use of man, produces, to its slothful owner, the most abundant crop of poisons. ~ [[David Hume]] * Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. ~ [[Sigmund Freud]] * If I have ventured wrongly, very well, life then helps me with its penalty. But if I haven't ventured at all, who helps me then? ~ [[Søren Kierkegaard]] * A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering cold iron. ~ [[Horace Mann]] * The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves. ~ [[Niccolò Machiavelli]] * Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. ~ [[Novalis]] * What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul. ~ [[Joseph Addison]] == April 2008 == :<small>[[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/April 2008|Audio & Images]]</small> * The Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools. ~ [[Larry Niven]] * The advance of science is not comparable to the changes of a city, where old edifices are pitilessly torn down to give place to new, but to the continuous evolution of zoologic types which develop ceaselessly and end by becoming unrecognizable to the common sight, but where an expert eye finds always traces of the prior work of the centuries past. ~ [[Henri Poincaré]] * The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp. ~ [[Terry Pratchett]] * The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. ~ [[Herbert Spencer]] * I had the good fortune and opportunity to come home and to tell the truth; many soldiers, like [[w:Pat Tillman|Pat Tillman]] ... did not have that opportunity. The truth of war is not always easy. The truth is always more heroic than the hype. ~ [[Jessica Lynch]] * The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it. ~ [[Edward R. Murrow]] * The poem... is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see — it is, rather, a light by which we may see — and what we see is life. ~ [[Robert Penn Warren]] * ''We all were sea-swallow'd, though some cast again: <br> And by that destiny, to perform an act <br> Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come <br> In yours and my discharge.'' <br> ~ [[William Shakespeare]] in ''[[The Tempest]]'' ~ * There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew. ~ [[Marshall McLuhan]] * How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof! In such places standing alone on the mountaintop it is easy to realize that whatever special nests we make — leaves and moss like the marmots and birds, or tents or piled stone — we all dwell in a house of one room — the world with the firmament for its roof — and are sailing the celestial spaces without leaving any track. ~ [[John Muir]] * The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things. ... Things must happen when it is time for them to happen. Quests may not simply be abandoned; prophecies may not be left to rot like unpicked fruit; unicorns may go unrescued for a very long time, but not forever. The happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story. ~ [[Peter S. Beagle]] in ''[[The Last Unicorn]]'' * When you study natural science and the miracles of creation, if you don't turn into a mystic you are not a natural scientist. ~ [[Albert Hofmann]] * You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free. ~ [[Clarence Darrow]] * I am not a novelist, really not even a writer; I am a storyteller. One of my friends said about me that I think all sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them, and perhaps this is not entirely untrue. To me, the explanation of life seems to be its melody, its pattern. And I feel in life such an infinite, truly inconceivable fantasy. ~ [[Karen Blixen]] * All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. ~ [[Anatole France]] * Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue. It is the very atmosphere of the mind; and when the mind is imaginative — much more when it happens to be that of a man of genius — it takes to itself the faintest hints of life, it converts the very pulses of the air into revelations. ~ [[Henry James]] * What really matters is that there is so much faith and love and kindliness which we can share with and provoke in others, and that by cleanly, simple, generous living we approach perfection in the highest and most lovely of all arts. ... But you, I think, have always comprehended this. ~ [[James Branch Cabell]] * If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. ~ [[Thomas Jefferson]] * The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments. ~ [[Henry Clay]] * When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free. ~ [[Charles Evans Hughes]] * ''They knew me from the dawn of time: if Hermes beats his rainbow wings, <br> If Angus shakes his locks of light, or golden-haired Apollo sings, <br> It matters not the name, the land; my joy in all the gods abides: <br> Even in the cricket in the grass some dimness of me smiles and hides.'' <br> ~ [[George William Russell|Æ]] ~ * Imagination is the queen of truth, and possibility is one of the regions of truth. She is positively akin to infinity. ~ [[Charles Baudelaire]] * ''Look, look, look to the rainbow <br> Follow it over the hill and stream <br> Look, look, look to the rainbow <br> Follow the fellow who follows a dream.'' <br> ~ [[Yip Harburg]] ~ * I always work on the theory that the audience will believe you best if you believe yourself. ~ [[Charlton Heston]] * I have never looked for dream in reality or reality in dream. I have allowed my imagination free play, and I have not been led astray by it. ~ [[Gustave Moreau]] * I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I learned that assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; and that oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak. ~ [[Booker T. Washington]] * All we are saying is give peace a chance. ~ [[John Lennon]] * <p>''Stretch or contract me, Thy poor debtor; <br> This is but tuning of my breast, <br> To make the music better.''</p><p>''Whether I fly with angels, fall with dust,<br>Thy hands made both, and I am there; <br> Thy power and love, my love and trust <br> Make one place ev'rywhere.''<br>~ [[George Herbert]] ~</p> * Forgiveness is the offspring of a feeling of heroism, of a noble heart, of a generous mind, whilst forgetfulness is only the result of a weak memory, or of an easy carelessness, and still oftener of a natural desire for calm and quietness. Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom. ~ [[Giacomo Casanova]] * What is unique about the "I" hides itself exactly in what is unimaginable about a person. All we are able to imagine is what makes everyone like everyone else, what people have in common. The individual "I" is what differs from the common stock, that is, what cannot be guessed at or calculated, what must be unveiled, uncovered, conquered. ~ [[Milan Kundera]] == March 2008 == :<small>[[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/March 2008|Audio & Images]]</small> * ''Let us roll all our strength and all <br> Our sweetness up into one ball, <br> And tear our pleasures with rough strife <br> Thorough the iron gates of life: <br>Thus, though we cannot make our sun <br> Stand still, yet we will make him run.'' <br> ~ [[Andrew Marvell]] ~ * Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, genuine affection. Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the prison, with supreme power, by some magic force. Without these one stays dead. But whenever affection is revived, there life revives. ~ [[Vincent van Gogh]] * ''I have known exile and a wild passion<br> Of longing changing to a cold ache.<br> King, beggar and fool, I have been all by turns,<br> Knowing the body’s sweetness, the mind’s treason;<br> Taliesin still, I show you a new world, risen,<br> Stubborn with beauty, out of the heart’s need.'' <br> ~ [[R. S. Thomas]] ~ * Just as we cannot stop the movement of the heavens, revolving as they do with such speed, so we cannot restrain our thought. And then we send all the faculties of the soul after it, thinking we are lost, and have misused the time that we are spending in the presence of God. Yet the soul may perhaps be wholly united with Him in the Mansions very near His presence, while thought remains in the outskirts of the castle, suffering the assaults of a thousand wild and venomous creatures and from this suffering winning merit. So this must not upset us, and we must not abandon the struggle, as the devil tries to make us do. Most of these trials and times of unrest come from the fact that we do not understand ourselves. ~ [[Teresa of Avila]] * At this point in history when all things which concern man and the structure and elements of history itself are suddenly revealed to us in a new light, it behooves us in our scientific thinking to become masters of the situation, for it is not inconceivable that sooner than we suspect, as has often been the case before in history, this vision may disappear, the opportunity may be lost, and the world will once again present a static, uniform, and inflexible countenance. ~ [[Karl Mannheim]] * People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive. That's what it's all finally about. ~ [[Joseph Campbell]] * Political rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when they have become the ingrown habit of a people, and when any attempt to impair them will meet with the violent resistance of the populace. Where this is not the case, there is no help in any parliamentary Opposition or any Platonic appeals to the constitution. One compels respect from others when he knows how to defend his dignity as a human being. ~ [[Rudolf Rocker]] * I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few. ~ [[William Morris]] * Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. <br> For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so? Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. <br> ~ [[Jesus|Yeshua (Jesus Christ)]] ~ * Music and silence... combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music. ~ [[Marcel Marceau]] * If Spring came but once in a century, instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake, and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change! But now the silent succession suggests nothing but necessity. To most men only the cessation of the miracle would be miraculous and the perpetual exercise of God's power seems less wonderful than its withdrawal would be. ~ [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]] * If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run — and often in the short one — the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative. ~ [[Arthur C. Clarke]] * ''Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; <br> He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.''<br> ~ [[Richard Francis Burton|Sir Richard Francis Burton]] ~ * The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one. ~ [[Wilhelm Stekel]] * Let anyone laugh and taunt if he so wishes. I am not keeping silent, nor am I hiding the signs and wonders that were shown to me by the Lord many years before they happened, who knew everything, even before the beginning of time. ~ [[Saint Patrick]] * Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments, the real power lies in the majority of the Community, and the invasion of private rights is ''chiefly'' to be apprehended, not from the acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the Government is the mere instrument of the major number of the Constituents. ~ [[James Madison]] * As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of person and property, liberty of conscience, and of the press, it will be worth defending. ~ [[Andrew Jackson]] * Today we must abandon competition and secure cooperation. This must be the central fact in all our considerations of international affairs; otherwise we face certain disaster. Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars ... The stakes are immense, the task colossal, the time is short. But we may hope — we must hope — that man’s own creation, man’s own genius, will not destroy him. ~ [[Albert Einstein]] * ''Don’t give up! I believe in you all <br> A person’s a person, no matter how small! <br/> And you very small persons will not have to die <br> If you make yourselves heard! So come on, now, and TRY!'' <br> ~ [[Dr. Seuss]] ~ * All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together. ~ [[Jack Kerouac]] * The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability; and something is bound to come of it. ~ [[Vannevar Bush]] * We are tired of having a "sphere" doled out to us, and of being told that anything outside that sphere is "unwomanly". We want to be ''natural'' just for a change … we must be ''ourselves'' at all risks. ~ [[Kate Sheppard]] * If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes. ~ [[Mickey Spillane]] * We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the heavens. The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh enrichment. ~ [[Johannes Kepler]] * Games give you a chance to excel, and if you're playing in good company you don't even mind if you lose because you had the enjoyment of the company during the course of the game. ~ [[Gary Gygax]] * You imagine that what you can't understand is either spiritual or does not exist. The conclusion is quite wrong; rather there are obviously a million things in the universe that we would need a million quite different organs to understand ... someone blind from birth cannot imagine the beauty of a landscape, the colors of a painting or the shadings of an iris. He will imagine them as something palpable, edible, audible or olfactory. Likewise, if I were to explain to you what I perceive by the senses you do not have, you would interpret it as something that could be heard, seen, touched, smelled or tasted; but it is not like that. ~ [[Cyrano de Bergerac]] * Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision. ~ [[Penn Jillette]] * Philosophy is based on speculation, on logic, on thought, on the synthesis of what we know and on the analysis of what we do not know. Philosophy must include within its confines the whole content of science, religion and art. ~ [[P. D. Ouspensky]] * ''Consent in virtue knit your hearts so fast, <br> That still the knot, in spite of death, does last; <br> For as your tears, and sorrow-wounded soul, <br> Prove well that on your part this bond is whole, <br> So all we know of what they do above, <br> Is that they happy are, and that they love. <br> Let dark oblivion, and the hollow grave, <br> Content themselves our frailer thoughts to have; <br> Well-chosen love is never taught to die, <br> But with our nobler part invades the sky. ''<br> ~ [[Edmund Waller]] ~ * ''I'm telling you this 'cause you're one of my friends. <br> My alphabet starts where your alphabet ends!<br> ... So, on beyond Z!<br> It's high time you were shown <br> That you really don't know<br>All there is to be known.'' <br> ~ [[Dr. Seuss]] ~ * ''Try to remember this: what you project<br>Is what you will perceive; what you perceive<br>With any passion, be it love or terror,<br>May take on whims and powers of its own.'' <br> ~ [[Richard Wilbur]] ~ ==February 2008 == :<small>[[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/February 2008|Audio & Images]]</small> * ''God bless the King! (I mean our faith's defender!) <br> God bless! (No harm in blessing) the Pretender. <br> But who Pretender is, and who is King, <br> God bless us all! That's quite another thing!'' <br> ~ [[John Byrom]] ~ * The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry. ~ [[William F. Buckley, Jr.]] * ''The heights by great men reached and kept<br>Were not attained by sudden flight,<br>But they, while their companions slept,<br>Were toiling upward in the night.'' <br> ~ [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]] ~ * A man is not idle, because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and there is an invisible labour. ~ [[Victor Hugo]] in ''[[Les Misérables]]'' * Every intelligent child is an amateur anthropologist. The first thing such a child notices is that adults don't make sense. ~ [[John Leonard]] * When you're young, you look at television and think, "There's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down." But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That's a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really in business to give people what they want. It's the truth. ~ [[Steve Jobs]] * There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know. ~ [[W. E. B. Du Bois]] * Life is short, and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth. ~ [[Arthur Schopenhauer]] * Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. ~ [[Anaïs Nin]] * Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what a people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. Men may not get all they pay for in this world; but they must pay for all they get. ~ [[Frederick Douglass]] * ''Now that your rose is in bloom, <br> A light hits the gloom on the grave, <br> I've been kissed by a rose on the grave.'' <br> ~ [[Seal (musician)|Seal]] ~ * My prayer is not the whimpering of a beggar nor a confession of love. Nor is it the petty reckoning of a small tradesman: Give me and I shall give you. My prayer is the report of a soldier to his general: This is what I did today, this is how I fought to save the entire battle in my own sector, these are the obstacles I encountered, this is how I plan to fight tomorrow. ~ [[Nikos Kazantzakis]] * ''A voiceless song in an ageless light<br> Sings at the coming dawn<br> Birds in flight are calling there<br> Where the heart moves the stones<br> It's there that my heart is calling<br> All for the love of you.'' <br> ~ [[Loreena McKennitt]] ~ * Public opinion, or what passes for public opinion, is not invariably a moderating force in the jungle of politics. It may be true, and I suspect it is, that the mass of people everywhere are normally peace-loving and would accept many restraints and sacrifices in preference to the monstrous calamities of war. But I also suspect that what purports to be public opinion in most countries that consider themselves to have popular government is often not really the consensus of the feelings of the mass of the people at all, but rather the expression of the interests of special highly vocal minorities — politicians, commentators, and publicity-seekers of all sorts: people who live by their ability to draw attention to themselves and die, like fish out of water, if they are compelled to remain silent. ~ [[George F. Kennan]] * Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This our convention understood to be the most oppressive of all kingly oppressions, and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us. ~ [[Abraham Lincoln]] * Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.<br> Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away. <br> When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. <br> And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. ~ [[Paul of Tarsus]] * Love has no uttermost, as the stars have no number and the sea no rest. ~ [[Eleanor Farjeon]] * Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. ~ [[Charles Darwin]] * In ''[[w:Common Sense (pamphlet)|Common Sense]]'' [[Thomas Paine|Paine]] flared forth with a document so powerful that the Revolution became inevitable. [[George Washington|Washington]] recognized the difference, and in his calm way said that matters never could be the same again. ~ [[Thomas Alva Edison]] * Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality. Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation. ~ [[Bertolt Brecht]] * ''You've got to get up every morning with a smile on your face <br> And show the world all the love in your heart <br> The people gonna treat you better, <br> You're gonna find, yes you will, <br> That you're beautiful as you feel.'' <br> ~ [[Carole King]] ~ * The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to ''see'' something, and tell what it ''saw'' in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, — all in one. ~ [[John Ruskin]] * A man acts suitably to his nature, when he conquers his enemy in such a way as that no other creature but a man could be capable of, and that is by the strength of his understanding. ~ Sir [[Thomas More]] * I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing. So, with all the creative energy at our command, let us begin an era of national renewal. Let us renew our determination, our courage, and our strength. And let us renew our faith and our hope. We have every right to dream heroic dreams. Those who say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look. ~ [[Ronald Reagan]] * Let’s talk sense to the American people. Let’s tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains, that we are now on the eve of great decisions, not easy decisions, like resistance when you're attacked, but a long, patient, costly struggle which alone can assure triumph over the great enemies of man — war, poverty, and tyranny — and the assaults upon human dignity which are the most grievous consequences of each. ~ [[Adlai Stevenson]] * Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player. ~ [[Alice Cooper]] * When war is waged it is for the purpose of safeguarding or increasing one's capacity to make war. International politics are wholly involved in this vicious cycle. What is called national prestige consists in behaving always in such a way as to demoralize other nations by giving them the impression that, if it comes to war, one would certainly defeat them. What is called national security is an imaginary state of affairs in which one would retain the capacity to make war while depriving all other countries of it. ~ [[Simone Weil]] * History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. ~ [[James Joyce]] in ''[[Ulysses (novel)|Ulysses]]'' * Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason. ~ [[Edward Coke]] == January 2008 == :<small>[[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/January 2008|Audio & Images]]</small> * At this point in history, the most radical, pervasive, and earth-shaking transformation would occur simply if everybody truly evolved to a mature, rational, and responsible ego, capable of freely participating in the open exchange of mutual self-esteem. ''There'' is the "edge of history." There would be a ''real'' New Age. ~ [[Ken Wilber]] * We do not see faith, hope, and charity as unattainable ideals, but we use them as stout supports of a nation fighting the fight for freedom in a modern civilization. <br> Faith — in the soundness of democracy in the midst of dictatorships. <br> Hope — renewed because we know so well the progress we have made.<br> Charity — in the true spirit of that grand old word. For charity literally translated from the original means love, the love that understands, that does not merely share the wealth of the giver, but in true sympathy and wisdom helps men to help themselves. ~ [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] * The fear of freedom is strong in us. We call it chaos or anarchy, and the words are threatening. We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication. We could only fear chaos if we imagined that it was unknown to us, but in fact we know it very well. ~ [[Germaine Greer]] * ''For the sincere friend <br> Who gives me his frank hand. <br> And for the cruel man who pulls out of me <br> the heart with which I live, <br> I grow neither nettles nor thorns: <br> I grow a white rose.'' <br> ~ [[José Martí]] ~ * "In ''that'' direction," the Cat said, waving its right paw round, "lives a Hatter: and in ''that'' direction," waving the other paw, "lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they're both mad." <br> "But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. <br> "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad." <br> "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. <br> "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here." <br> ~ [[Lewis Carroll]] in ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]'' ~ * ''Prometheus, I have no Titan's might,<br>Yet I, too, must each dusk renew my heart,<br>For daytime's vulture talons tear apart<br>The tender alcoves built by love at night.''<br> ~ [[Philip José Farmer]] ~ * If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie. ~ [[W. Somerset Maugham]] * Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive. ~ [[Edith Wharton]] * Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us. To know men thoroughly, to judge events sanely, is, therefore, a great step towards happiness. ~ [[Stendhal]] * <p>''So, we'll go no more a roving <br> So late into the night, <br> Though the heart be still as loving, <br> And the moon be still as bright.''</p><p> ''For the sword outwears its sheath, <br> And the soul wears out the breast, <br> And the heart must pause to breathe, <br> And love itself have rest.'' <br> ~ [[Lord Byron|George Gordon, Lord Byron]] ~ </p> * If the general government should persist in the measures now threatened, there must be war. It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of war and threaten it. They do not know its horrors. I have seen enough of it to make me look upon it as the sum of all evils. ~ [[Stonewall Jackson]] * I love child things because there's so much mystery when you're a child. When you're a child, something as simple as a tree doesn't make sense. You see it in the distance and it looks small, but as you go closer, it seems to grow — you haven't got a handle on the rules when you're a child. We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experienced is a narrowing of the imagination. ~ [[David Lynch]] * ''From childhood's hour I have not been <br> As others were — I have not seen <br> As others saw — I could not bring <br> My passions from a common spring — <br> From the same source I have not taken <br> My sorrow — I could not awaken <br> My heart to joy at the same tone — <br> And all I lov'd — '''I''' lov'd alone.'' <br> ~ [[Edgar Allan Poe]] ~ * The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed. ~ [[Charles de Montesquieu]] * All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut. Whether this be the case with my history or not, I am hardly competent to judge. I sometimes think it might prove useful to some, and entertaining to others; but the world may judge for itself. Shielded by my own obscurity, and by the lapse of years, and a few fictitious names, I do not fear to venture; and will candidly lay before the public what I would not disclose to the most intimate friend. ~ [[Anne Brontë]] * I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up. ~ [[Susan Sontag]] * I'm concerned about justice. I'm concerned about brotherhood. I'm concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about these, he can never advocate violence. For through violence you may murder a murderer but you can't murder murder. Through violence you may murder a liar but you can't establish truth. Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can't murder hate. Darkness cannot put out darkness. Only light can do that. ~ [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]] * At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it. After that, there remains only the journey itself, which is nothing but the process through which we lose our ownership of it. ~ [[Yukio Mishima]] * The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find. ~ [[Edmund Hillary|Sir Edmund Hillary]] * Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. ~ [[Edmund Burke]] * I do indeed disbelieve that we or any other mortal men can attain on a given day to absolutely incorrigible and unimprovable truth about such matters of fact as those with which religions deal. But I reject this dogmatic ideal not out of a perverse delight in intellectual instability. I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly. ~ [[William James]] * I believe that the Universe is one being, all its parts are different expressions of the same energy, and they are all in communication with each other, therefore parts of one organic whole. This whole is in all its parts so beautiful, and is felt by me to be so intensely in earnest, that I am compelled to love it and to think of it as divine. ~ [[Robinson Jeffers]] * One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion. ~ [[Simone de Beauvoir]] * If you cannot make knowledge your servant, make it your friend. ~ [[Baltasar Gracián]] * You cannot begin to preserve any species of animal unless you preserve the habitat in which it dwells. Disturb or destroy that habitat and you will exterminate the species as surely as if you had shot it. So conservation means that you have to preserve forest and grassland, river and lake, even the sea itself. This is not only vital for the preservation of animal life generally, but for the future existence of man himself — a point that seems to escape many people. ~ [[Gerald Durrell]] * Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love. ~ [[Khalil Gibran]] * A dreaded society is not a civilized society. The most progressive and powerful society in the civilized sense, is a society which has recognized its ethos, and come to terms with the past and the present, with religion and science, with modernism and mysticism, with materialism and spirituality; a society free of tension, a society rich in culture. Such a society cannot come with hocus-pocus formulas and with fraud. It has to flow from the depth of a divine search. ~ [[Zulfikar Ali Bhutto]] * The main Business of natural Philosophy is to argue from Phenomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects, till we come to the very first Cause, which certainly is not mechanical. ~ [[Isaac Newton]] * The rule of no realm is mine, neither of Gondor nor any other, great or small. But all worthy things that are in peril as the world now stands, those are my care. And for my part, I shall not wholly fail of my task, though Gondor should perish, if anything passes through this night that can still grow fair or bear fruit and flower again in days to come. ~ "[[w:Gandalf|Gandalf]]" in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' : ''[[The Return of the King]]'' by [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] * When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well. On the other hand, when they split up knowledge, concentrate on their own field, and scorn and ignore other fields, they grow less wise — even in their own field. ~ [[Isaac Asimov]] * What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote, and brings to birth in us also the creative impulse. ~ [[E. M. Forster]] == December 2007 == :<small>[[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/December 2007|Audio]]</small> * For my part I have never avoided the influence of others. I would have considered it cowardice and a lack of sincerity toward myself. ~ [[Henri Matisse]] * The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, as a telegraphic message engraves itself on the ticker-tape, but the one whose vital impact opens up other viewpoints, and from writer to reader spreads the fire that is fed by the various essences, until it becomes a vast conflagration leaping from forest to forest. ~ [[Romain Rolland]] * For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. ~ [[Rainer Maria Rilke]] * The forces of moderation and democracy must, and will, prevail against extremism and dictatorship. I will not be intimidated. ... Despite threats of death, I will not acquiesce to tyranny, but rather lead the fight against it. ~ [[Benazir Bhutto]] * I am utterly convinced that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will eventually unite not to destroy but to edify, and that the future will belong to those who have done the most for the sake of suffering humanity. ~ [[Louis Pasteur]] * The responsibility of the great states is to serve and not to dominate the world. ~ [[Harry S. Truman]] * ''He rules the world with truth and grace,<br> And makes the nations prove<br> The glories of His righteousness,<br> And wonders of His love,<br> And wonders of His love,<br> And wonders, wonders, of His love.'' <br> ~ [[Isaac Watts]] ~ * Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world. You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood. ~ [[Francis Pharcellus Church]] in "[[w:Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus|Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus]]" * I think we should be very clear on this... this country was founded on the principles of the Enlightenment... It was the idea that people could talk, reason, have dialogue, discuss the issues. It wasn't founded on the idea that someone would get struck by a divine inspiration and know everything right from wrong. I mean, people who founded this country had religion, they had strong beliefs, but they believed in reason, in dialogue, in civil discourse. We can’t lose that in this country. We've got to get it back. ~ [[Wesley Clark]] * ''The holiness of the real <br> Is always there, accessible <br> In total immanence. The nodes <br> Of transcendence coagulate <br> In you, the experiencer, <br> And in the other, the lover.'' <br> ~ [[Kenneth Rexroth]] ~ * If there is a God, I don't think He would demand that anyone bow down or stand up to Him. I often have a suspicion that God is still trying to work things out and hasn't finished. ~ [[Rebecca West]] * This I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about. I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for it is the one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system. Surely I can understand this, and I hate it and I will fight against it to preserve the one thing that separates us from the uncreative beasts. If the glory can be killed, we are lost. ~ [[John Steinbeck]] * In such an ugly time the true protest is beauty. ~ [[Phil Ochs]] * I cannot be grasped in the here and now. For I reside just as much with the dead as with the unborn. Somewhat closer to the heart of creation than usual. But not nearly close enough. ~ [[Paul Klee]] * It is a queer and fantastic world. Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has got the wrong thing. Perhaps you can make head or tail of it; it is beyond me. ~ [[Ford Madox Ford]] * Perhaps it is better to be un-sane and happy, than sane and un-happy. But it is the best of all to be sane and happy. Whether our descendants can achieve that goal will be the greatest challenge of the future. Indeed, it may well decide whether we have any future. ~ [[Arthur C. Clarke]] * ''It is not the right angle that attracts me, <br> Nor the hard, inflexible straight line, man-made. <br> What attracts me are free and sensual curves. <br> The curves in my country’s mountains, <br> In the sinuous flow of its rivers, <br> In the beloved woman’s body.'' <br> ~ [[Oscar Niemeyer]] ~ * I had determined to go as far as declaring in abstruse and puzzling utterances the future causes of the "common advent", even those truly cogent ones that I have foreseen. Yet lest whatever human changes may be to come should scandalise delicate ears, the whole thing is written in nebulous form, rather than as a clear prophecy of any kind. ~ [[Nostradamus]] * Where they burn books, they will also burn people. ~ [[Heinrich Heine]] * I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or to speak, or write, with moderation. ... I am in earnest — I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD. ~ [[William Lloyd Garrison]] * Let us not forget that violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven with falsehood. Between them lies the most intimate, the deepest of natural bonds. Violence finds its only refuge in falsehood, falsehood its only support in violence. Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his METHOD must inexorably choose falsehood as his PRINCIPLE. ~ [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]] * If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. ~ [[Desmond Tutu]] * Man is appealed to to be guided in his acts, not merely by love, which is always personal, or at the best tribal, but by the perception of his oneness with each human being. In the practice of mutual aid, which we can retrace to the earliest beginnings of evolution, we thus find the positive and undoubted origin of our ethical conceptions; and we can affirm that in the ethical progress of man, mutual support — not mutual struggle — has had the leading part. ~ [[Peter Kropotkin]] * A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them. Obviously that can only work at moments. It can't be a lasting thing. That's not saying that people shouldn't keep trying to rebel against the facts of existence. Someday, who knows, we might conquer death, disease and war. ~ [[Jim Morrison]] * It's an alethiometer. It's one of only six that were ever made. Lyra, I urge you again: keep it private. ... It tells you the truth. As for how to read it, you'll have to learn by yourself. Now go — it's getting lighter... ~ [[Philip Pullman]] in ''[[w:Northern Lights (novel)|The Golden Compass]]'' * ''It is stern work, it is perilous work, to thrust your hand in the sun<br> And pull out a spark of immortal flame to warm the hearts of men:<br>But Prometheus, torn by the claws and beaks whose task is never done,<br> Would be tortured another eternity to go stealing fire again.'' <br> ~ [[Joyce Kilmer]] ~ * Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a person who has shown judgement, wisdom, personal appeal, and proven competence. ~ [[Walt Disney]] * You don't get very far in life without having to be brave an awful lot. Because we all have our frightening moments and difficult trials and we don't have much of a choice but to get through 'em, and it takes a lot of bravery to do that. The most important thing about bravery is this — It's not about not being scared — it's about being scared and doing it anyway — that's bravery. ~ [[Ysabella Brave]] * All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising, for the edification of mankind, pinned down by the conditions of its existence to the earnest consideration of the most insignificant tides of reality. ~ [[Joseph Conrad]] * Ultimately, leadership requires action: daring to take steps that are necessary but unpopular, challenging the status quo in order to reach a brighter future. And to push for peace is ultimately personal sacrifice, for leadership is not easy. It is born of a passion, and it is a commitment. Leadership is a commitment to an idea, to a dream, and to a vision of what can be. And my dream is for my land and my people to cease fighting and allow our children to reach their full potential regardless of sex, status, or belief. ~ [[Benazir Bhutto]] * ''December will be magic again. <br> Don't miss the brightest star. <br> Kiss under mistletoe. <br> I want to hear you laugh. <br> Don't let the mystery go now.'' <br> ~ [[Kate Bush]] ~ == November 2007 == :<small>[[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/November 2007|Audio]]</small> * The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not ''teach a subject'', one teaches a student how to learn it. ~ [[Jacques Barzun]] * All that is not eternal is eternally out of date. ~ [[C. S. Lewis]] * ''To see a World in a Grain of Sand <br> And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, <br>Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand<br>And Eternity in an hour.'' <br> ~ [[William Blake]] ~ * Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend. ~ [[Bruce Lee]] * It is not earthly rank, nor birth, nor nationality, nor religious privilege, which proves that we are members of the family of God; it is love, a love that embraces all humanity. ~ [[Ellen G. White]] * Loving truth and living honestly is my attitude to life. Be true to yourself and be true to others, thus you can be the judge of your behavior. ~ [[Ba Jin]] * Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it. ~ [[Baruch Spinoza]] * ''There's only us, there's only this. <br> Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. <br>No other road, no other way, no day but today. <br>I can't control my destiny. <br>I trust my soul. My only goal is just to be. <br>There's only now, there's only here. <br>Give in to love, or live in fear.<br> No other path, no other way. <br>No day but today.'' <br>~ [[Jonathan Larson]] in "Another Day" from ''[[Rent]]'' ~ * ''This is life to come, — <br> Which martyred men have made more glorious <br> For us who strive to follow. May I reach <br> That purest heaven, — be to other souls <br> The cup of strength in some great agony, <br> Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love, <br> Beget the smiles that have no cruelty, <br> Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, <br> And in diffusion ever more intense! <br> So shall I join the choir invisible <br> Whose music is the gladness of the world.'' <br> ~ [[George Eliot]] ~ * It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him. ~ [[Voltaire]] * Only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly. ... Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality of those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change. ~ [[Robert F. Kennedy]] * It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them. In this beneficent work sections and races should be forgotten and partisanship should be unknown. ~ [[James A. Garfield]] * Whatever the scientists may come up with, writers and artists will continue to portray altered mental states, simply because few aspects of our nature fascinate people so much. The so-called mad person will always represent a possible future for every member of the audience — who knows when such a malady may strike? ~ [[Margaret Atwood]] * The paramount question of the day is not political, is not religious, but is economic. The crying-out demand of today is for a circle of principles that shall forever make it impossible for one man to control another by controlling the means of his existence. ~ [[Voltairine de Cleyre]] * We must face problems which do not lend themselves to easy or quick or permanent solutions. And we must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient, that we are only six percent of the world's population, that we cannot impose our will upon the other ninety-four percent of mankind, that we cannot right every wrong or reverse each adversity, and that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem. ~ [[John F. Kennedy]] * ''The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence;<br>not in silence, but restraint.''<br>~ [[Marianne Moore]] ~ * A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance. ~ [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] * To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. ~ [[Robert Louis Stevenson]] * We sail across dominions barely seen, washed by the swells of time. We plow through fields of magnetism. Past and future come together on thunderheads and our dead hearts live with lightning in the wounds of the Gods. ~ [[Norman Mailer]] * A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved. ~ [[Kurt Vonnegut]] * There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous. ~ "Mr. Wednesday" in ''[[American Gods]]'' by [[Neil Gaiman]] * ''To love another is something <br> like prayer and it can't be planned, you just fall <br> into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.'' <br> ~ [[Anne Sexton]] ~ * ''The important thing<br>is to pull yourself up by your own hair <br> to turn yourself inside out <br> and see the whole world with fresh eyes.'' <br> ~ [[Peter Weiss]] ~ * Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day. ~ [[Albert Camus]] * I don’t think that combat has ever been written about truthfully; it has always been described in terms of bravery and cowardice. I won’t even accept these words as terms of human reference any more. And anyway, hell, they don’t even apply to what, in actual fact, modern warfare has become. ~ [[James Jones]] * ''Remember, remember, the 5th of November<br>The Gunpowder Treason and plot;<br>I know of no reason why Gunpowder Treason<br>Should ever be forgot.'' <br> ~ Traditional rhyme for [[Guy Fawkes]] Night. ~ * There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. ~ [[Will Rogers]] * Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the word FREEDOM should ever be more than an empty political slogan. ~ [[Wilhelm Reich]] * By the theory of our Government majorities rule, but this right is not an arbitrary or unlimited one. It is a right to be exercised in subordination to the Constitution and in conformity to it. One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights. Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression. ~ [[James K. Polk]] * ''You cannot choose your battlefield, <br> God does that for you; <br> But you can plant a standard <br> Where a standard never flew.'' <br> ~ [[Nathalia Crane]] ~ == October 2007 == * There is no law beyond ''Do'' what thou wilt. <br>Love is the law, love under will. <br> ~ [[Aleister Crowley]] ~ * Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. ~ [[John Adams]] * This is a terrific outburst. And since it doesn’t have a tail right now, some observers have confused it with a nova. We’ve had at least two reports of a new star. ~ [[Brian G. Marsden]] * I have dreams, and I have nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams. ~ [[Jonas Salk]] * Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. ~ [[Theodore Roosevelt]] * ''Contempt loves the silence<br>it thrives in the dark<br>with fine winding tendrils<br>that strangle the heart.'' <br>~ [[Natalie Merchant]] ~ * ''For out of olde feldes, as men seith,<br>Cometh al this new corn fro yeer to yere;<br>And out of olde bokes, in good feith,<br>Cometh al this newe science that men lere.'' <br> ~ [[Geoffrey Chaucer]] ~ * <p>''Two girls discover<br> the secret of life<br> in a sudden line of<br> poetry.''</p><p>''I who don't know the<br> secret wrote<br> the line. ...''</p><p>'' I love them<br> for finding what<br> I can't find,''</p><p>''and for loving me<br> for the line I wrote,<br> and for forgetting it<br> so that''</p><p>''a thousand times, till death<br> finds them, they may<br> discover it again, in other<br> lines''</p><p>''in other<br> happenings.''</p><p> ~ [[Denise Levertov]] ~ </p> * Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. ~ [[Sarah Bernhardt]] * Think for yourself and question authority. ~ [[Timothy Leary]] * ''All thoughts, all passions, all delights,<br>Whatever stirs this mortal frame,<br>All are but ministers of Love,<br>And feed his sacred flame.'' <br> ~ [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]] ~ * ''I'm learning to fly, but I ain't got wings <br> Coming down is the hardest thing.'' <br> ~ [[Tom Petty]] ~ * Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development. ~ [[Lewis Mumford]] * There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. ~ [[Logan Pearsall Smith]] * My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is an anxiety, or a hope, or a preoccupation which is his alone and isolates him from mankind; and in this respect at least the function of a play is to reveal him to himself so that he may touch others by virtue of the revelation of his mutuality with them. If only for this reason I regard the theater as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone. ~ [[Arthur Miller]] * If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out. ~ [[Oscar Wilde]] * Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself. ~ [[Friedrich Nietzsche]] * There's an old African proverb that says "If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." We have to go far — quickly. And that means we have to quickly find a way to change the world's consciousness about exactly what we're facing, and why we have to work to solve it. ~ [[Al Gore]] * I'm always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common. If you see it, black and white people, both sides look to see the differences, they don't look at what they have together. Men and women, and old and young, and so on. And this is a disease of the mind, the way I see it. ~ [[Doris Lessing]] * Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction stands in ultimate service to a living whole. ~ [[Edith Stein]] * At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want — for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war. ~ [[Eleanor Roosevelt]] * The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world — and the most dangerous. ~ [[James Clavell]] * Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. ~ [[John Lennon]] * The sequential nature of actual events is not illuminated with lengthy precision by the powers of prescience except under the most extraordinary circumstances. The oracle grasps incidents cut out of the historic chain. Eternity moves. It inflicts itself upon the oracle and the supplicant alike. Let Muad'Dib's subjects doubt his majesty and his oracular visions. Let them deny his powers. Let them never doubt Eternity. ~ [[Frank Herbert]] in ''[[Dune|Dune Messiah]]'' * We depend on our words ... Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others. We must strive continually to extend the scope of our description, but in such a way that our messages do not thereby lose their objective or unambiguous character ... We are suspended in language in such a way that we cannot say what is up and what is down. The word "reality" is also a word, a word which we must learn to use correctly. ~ [[Niels Bohr]] * ''Are God and Nature then at strife,<br> That Nature lends such evil dreams?<br> So careful of the type she seems,<br> So careless of the single life...'' <br> ~ [[Alfred Tennyson|Alfred, Lord Tennyson]] ~ * The philosopher forms his principles on an infinity of particular observations. ... He does not confuse truth with plausibility; he takes for truth what is true, for false what is false, for doubtful what is doubtful, and probable what is probable. ... The philosophical spirit is thus a spirit of observation and accuracy. ~ [[Denis Diderot]] * Personally I do not resort to force — not even the force of law — to advance moral reforms. I prefer education, argument, persuasion, and above all the influence of example — of fashion. ~ [[Rutherford B. Hayes]] * I'm an optimist. In order to be libertarian, you have to be an optimist. You have to have a benign view of human nature, to believe that human beings left to their own devices are basically good. But I'm not so sure about human institutions, and I think the real point of argument here is whether or not large corporations are human institutions or some other entity we need to be thinking about curtailing. Most libertarians are worried about government but not worried about business. I think we need to be worrying about business in exactly the same way we are worrying about government. ~ [[John Perry Barlow]] * <p>''If there must be a god in the house, must be,<br>Saying things in the room and on the stair,''</p><p>''Let him move as the sunlight moves on the floor,<br>Or moonlight, silently, as Plato's ghost''</p><p>''Or Aristotle's skeleton. Let him hang out<br>His stars on the wall. He must dwell quietly.'' </p><p> ~ [[Wallace Stevens]] ~</p> * Creators, makers of the new, can never become obsolete, for in the arts there is no correct answer. The story of discoverers could be told in simple chronological order, since the latest science replaces what went before. But the arts are another story — a story of infinite addition. We must find order in the random flexings of the imagination. ~ [[Daniel J. Boorstin]] == September 2007 == * Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there. ~ [[Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi]] * Honesty is the best policy, I will stick to that. The good shall have my hand and heart, but the bad neither foot nor fellowship. And in my mind, the main point of governing, is to make a good beginning. ~ [[Miguel de Cervantes]] * A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed — I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself. ~ [[Georges Clemenceau]] * You can decide what you want to eat for dinner, you can decide to go away for the weekend, and you can decide what clothes you’re going to wear in the morning, but when it comes to artistic things, there’s never a rhyme or reason. It’s, like, they just happen. And they happen when they happen. ~ [[Meat Loaf]] * ''Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind <br/> Cannot bear very much reality. <br/> Time past and time future <br/> What might have been and what has been <br/> Point to one end, which is always present.'' <br> ~ [[T. S. Eliot]] in ''[[The Four Quartets]]'' ~ * We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them. ~ [[Christopher Reeve]] * My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness. ~ [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]] * Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far. ~ [[Euripides]] * Just practice good, do good for others, without thinking of making yourself known so that you may gain reward. Really bring benefit to others, gaining nothing for yourself. This is the primary requisite for breaking free of attachments to the Self. ~ [[Dōgen]] * Life begins perpetually. Gathered together at last under the leadership of man, the student-teacher of the universe... unified, disciplined, armed with the secret powers of the atom, and with knowledge as yet beyond dreaming, Life, forever dying to be born afresh, forever young and eager, will presently stand upon this earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out its realm amidst the stars. ~ [[H. G. Wells]] * In each of us are places where we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them. ~ [[Joyce Brothers]] * I think everybody who has a brain should get involved in politics. Working within. Not criticizing it from the outside. Become an active participant, no matter how feeble you think the effort is. ~ [[Cass Elliot]] * All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance; it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals. If a man was to compare the single stroke of the pickaxe, or of one impression of the spade, with the general design and the last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion; yet those petty operations, incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains are leveled and oceans bounded by the slender force of human beings. ~ [[Samuel Johnson]] * You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case. ~ [[Ken Kesey]] * Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense. ~ [[Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke]] * Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side. ~ [[François de La Rochefoucauld]] * The vast majority of the peoples of the world are against war and against aggression. If they make their wishes known and effective, war can be stopped. It all depends on whether they are willing to make the effort necessary for the purpose. For, that it will require an effort, no one who considers the history of the world on these subjects can doubt. ~ [[Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood]] * Worldly renown is naught but a breath of wind, which now comes this way and now comes that, and changes name because it changes quarter. ~ [[Dante Alighieri]] * Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule — and both commonly succeed, and are right... The United States has never developed an aristocracy really disinterested or an intelligentsia really intelligent. Its history is simply a record of vacillations between two gangs of frauds. ~ [[H. L. Mencken]] * Our best destiny, as planetary cohabitants, is the development of what has been called "species consciousness" — something over and above nationalisms, blocs, religions, ethnicities ... I have been trying to apply such a consciousness, and such a sensibility. Thinking of the victims, the perpetrators, and the near future, I felt species grief, then species shame, then species fear. ~ [[Martin Amis]] on the [[September 11, 2001 attacks|terrorist attacks of 11<sup>th</sup> September 2001]] * The river of truth is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between them, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the mainstream. ~ [[Cyril Connolly]] * You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you. ~ [[Madeleine L'Engle]] * I'm not a politician, I'm a musician. I care about giving people a place where they can go to enjoy themselves and to begin to live again. To the man you have to give the spirit, and when you give him the spirit, you have done everything. ~ [[Luciano Pavarotti]] * Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese? ~ [[Edith Sitwell]] * Opinions are not to be learned by rote, like the letters of an alphabet, or the words of a dictionary. They are conclusions to be formed, and formed by each individual in the sacred and free citadel of the mind, and there enshrined beyond the arm of law to reach, or force to shake. ~ [[Frances Wright]] * The pure, frank sentiments we hold in our hearts are the only truthful sources of art. ... All authentic art is conceived at a sacred moment and nourished in a blessed hour; an inner impulse creates it, often without the artist being aware of it. ~ [[Caspar David Friedrich]] * Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite; and this rare conjuncture, like that of certain planets, appears to occur only after the revolution of several cycles, and only lasts for an instant. ~ [[François-René de Chateaubriand]] * A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes something from the world, and has something to give in return. ~ [[Sarah Orne Jewett]] * There is only one thing infamous in love, and that is a falsehood. ~ [[Paul Bourget]] * I have always felt that humor was a wonderful vehicle to let us become connected with each other and ourselves… I try to portray the similarities and polarities in men and women, so that we can acknowledge and embrace our collective consciousness. ~ [[Lily Tomlin]] == August 2007 == * Have no shame in being kindly and gentle, but if the time comes in the time of your life to kill, kill and have no regret. In the time of your life, live — so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it. ~ [[William Saroyan]] * Live, and be happy, and make others so. ~ [[Mary Shelley]] * The truth that seems discouraging does in reality only transform the courage of those strong enough to accept it; and, in any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods. ~ [[Maurice Maeterlinck]] * Moderation, the Golden Mean, the Aristonmetron, is the secret of wisdom and of happiness. But it does not mean embracing an unadventurous mediocrity: rather it is an elaborate balancing-act, a feat of intellectual skill demanding constant vigilance. Its aim is a reconciliation of opposites. ~ [[Robertson Davies]] * The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions — none more so than the most capable. ~ [[Theodore Dreiser]] * Our sufferings have taught us that no nation is sufficient unto itself, and that our prosperity depends in the long run, not upon the failure of our neighbors but their successes. ~ [[John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir]] * The humourless as a bunch don't just not know what's funny, they don't know what's serious. They have no common sense, either, and shouldn't be trusted with anything. ~ [[Martin Amis]] * It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is. ~ [[Jorge Luis Borges]] * ''It matters not how strait the gate,<br>How charged with punishments the scroll,<br>I am the master of my fate:<br>I am the captain of my soul.'' <br> ~ [[William Ernest Henley]] ~ * I wish to write down my musical dreams in a spirit of utter self-detachment. I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naïve candour of a child. No doubt, this simple musical grammar will jar on some people. It is bound to offend the partisans of deceit and artifice. I foresee that and rejoice at it. ~ [[Claude Debussy]] * ''Another day goes by<br>Still the children cry<br>Put a little love in your heart.''<br> ~ [[Jackie DeShannon]] ~ * The world we live in is driven not solely by mindless physical forces but, more crucially, by subjective human values. Human values become the underlying key to world change. ~ [[Roger Wolcott Sperry]] * Vast is the field of Science ... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know. ~ [[Samuel Richardson]] * What we say is the truth is what everybody accepts ... Psychiatry: it's the latest religion. We decide what's right and wrong. We decide who's crazy or not. I'm in trouble here. I'm losing my faith. ~ [[Madeleine Stowe]] as "Dr. Kathryn Railly" in ''[[Twelve Monkeys]]'' * I have always supported measures and principles and not men. I have acted fearless and independent and I never will regret my course. I would rather be politically buried than to be hypocritically immortalized. ~ [[Davy Crockett]] * The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander. ~ [[T. E. Lawrence]] * The aggressive and quite illogical idea of a single religion for all mankind, a religion universal by the very force of its narrowness, one set of dogmas, one cult, one system of ceremonies, one ecclesiastical ordinance, one array of prohibitions and injunctions which all minds must accept on peril of persecution by men and spiritual rejection or eternal punishment by God, that grotesque creation of human unreason which has been the parent of so much intolerance, cruelty and obscurantism and aggressive fanaticism, has never been able to take firm hold of the Indian mentality. ~ [[Sri Aurobindo]] * It's always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it's going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary. ~ [[John Galsworthy]] * The Supreme Ethical Rule: Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thy self. ~ [[Felix Adler]] * Faith plays an important role in an open society. Exactly because our understanding is imperfect, we cannot base our decisions on knowledge alone. We need to rely on beliefs, religious or otherwise, to help us make decisions. But we must remain open to the possibility that we may be wrong so that we can correct our mistakes. Otherwise, we are bound to be wrong. ~ [[George Soros]] * In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments — there are consequences. ~ [[Robert G. Ingersoll]] * It has occasionally been remarked upon that it is as easy to overlook something large and obvious as it is to overlook something small and niggling, and that the large things one overlooks can often cause problems. ~ [[Neil Gaiman]] in ''[[Stardust (novella)|Stardust]]'' * You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for — if you are honest — you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one. ~ [[P. L. Travers]] * ''There is a quiet at the heart of love,<br>And I have pierced the pain and come to peace.''<br>~ [[Sara Teasdale]] ~ * Wikipedia is first and foremost an effort to create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language. Asking whether the community comes before or after this goal is really asking the wrong question: the entire purpose of the community is precisely this goal. ~ [[Jimmy Wales]] * ''Flower in the crannied wall,<br>I pluck you out of the crannies,<br>I hold you here, root and all, in my hand,<br>Little flower — but '''if''' I could understand<br>What you are, root and all, and all in all,<br>I should know what God and man is.'' <br> ~ [[Alfred Tennyson]] ~ * There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. ~ [[Guy de Maupassant]] * ''In each human heart terror survives<br> The ravin it has gorged: the loftiest fear<br> All that they would disdain to think were true: <br> Hypocrisy and custom make their minds<br> The fanes of many a worship, now outworn.<br> They dare not devise good for man’s estate,<br> And yet they know not that they do not dare.''<br> ~ [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]] ~ * There is a plan, it seems to me, that reaches out of the electron to the rim of the universe and what this plan may be or how it came about is beyond my feeble intellect. But if we are looking for something on which to pin our faith — and, indeed, our hope — the plan might well be it. I think we have thought too small and have been too afraid. ~ [[Clifford D. Simak]] * The moment always comes when, having collected one's ideas, certain images, an intuition of a certain kind of development — whether psychological or material — one must pass on to the actual realization. ~ [[Michelangelo Antonioni]] * People ask what are my intentions with my films — my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. ~ [[Ingmar Bergman]] == July 2007 == * In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that’s why you’re not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not. But immaculate virtue does not exist either, or if it exists it is detestable. ~ [[Primo Levi]] * ''Just being alive<br>It can really hurt.<br>These moments given<br>Are a gift from time.<br>Just let us try<br>To give these moments back<br>To those we love<br>To those who will survive.'' <br> ~ [[Kate Bush]] ~ * God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason. ~ [[Dag Hammarskjöld]] * We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure. ~ [[Karl Popper]] * A heart, a heart that hurts, is a heart, a heart that works. ~ [[Juliana Hatfield‎]] * To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves. ~ [[Aldous Huxley]] * To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance. ~ [[Eric Hoffer]] * ''New beginnings and new shoots<br> Spring again from hidden roots<br> Pull or stab or cut or burn,<br> Love must ever yet return.'' <br> ~ [[Robert Graves]] ~ * Our system presumes that there are certain principles that are more important than the temper of the times. ~ [[Anthony Kennedy]] * ''Life is not lost by dying! Life is lost<br> Minute by minute, day by dragging day, <br> In all the thousand, small, uncaring ways, <br> The smooth appeasing compromises of time, <br> Which are King Herod and King Herod's men, <br> Always and always. Life can be <br> Lost without vision but not lost by death, <br> Lost by not caring, willing, going on <br> Beyond the ragged edge of fortitude <br> To something more — something no man has ever seen.''<br> ~ [[Stephen Vincent Benét]] ~ * If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. ~ [[J. K. Rowling]] in ''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone]]'' * People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things. ~ Sir [[Edmund Hillary]] * The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation. ~ [[Edgar Degas]] * The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice. ~ [[William Makepeace Thackeray]] * Maintain a constant watch at all times against a dogmatical spirit: fix not your assent to any proposition in a firm and unalterable manner, till you have some firm and unalterable ground for it, and till you have arrived at some clear and sure evidence. ~ [[Isaac Watts]] * You'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them — if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry. ~ [[J. D. Salinger]] in ''[[The Catcher in the Rye]]'' * Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality. ~ [[Iris Murdoch]] * ''Nobody living can ever stop me<br>As I go walking my freedom highway<br>Nobody living can make me turn back<br>This land is made for you and me.'' <br> ~ [[Woody Guthrie]] ~ * Changes in the structure of society are not brought about solely by massive engines of doctrine. The first flash of insight which persuades human beings to change their basic assumptions is usually contained in a few phrases. ~ [[Kenneth Clark]] * There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly. ~ [[Henry David Thoreau]] * I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. ~ [[E. B. White]] * The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is. ~ [[Marcel Proust]] * There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge, and wisdom. Shall we, instead, choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? We appeal as human beings to human beings: Remember your humanity, and forget the rest. If you can do so, the way lies open to a new Paradise; if you cannot, there lies before you the risk of universal death. ~ [[Bertrand Russell]] in the [[w:Russell-Einstein Manifesto|Russell-Einstein Manifesto]] * Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it. ~ [[Jean de La Fontaine]] * Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it. ~ [[Robert A. Heinlein]] * Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. ~ [[Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama]] * There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. ~ [[Jean Cocteau]] * The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. ~ [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]] * We are sinful not merely because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. ~ [[Franz Kafka]] * <p>''There's no life<br>that couldn't be immortal<br>if only for a moment.''</p><p>''Death<br>always arrives by that very moment too late.''</p><p>''In vain it tugs at the knob<br>of the invisible door.<br>As far as you've come can't be undone.''</p><p>~ [[Wisława Szymborska]] ~ </p> * It is almost impossible to bear the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody’s beard. ~ [[Georg Christoph Lichtenberg]] == June 2007 == * ''Love means to look at yourself<br>The way one looks at distant things<br>For you are only one thing among many.<br>And whoever sees that way heals his heart,<br>Without knowing it, from various ills —<br>A bird and a tree say to him: Friend.''<br>~ [[Czesław Miłosz]] ~ * "Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed." ~ [[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]] in ''[[The Little Prince]]'' * To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For him who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts. ~ [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]] * A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships. ~ [[Helen Keller]] * A knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future. Fate ... is not the blind superstition or helplessness that waits stupidly for what may happen. Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance. ~ [[Pearl S. Buck]] * I always disagree ... when people end up saying that we can only combat Communism, Fascism or what not if we develop an equal fanaticism. It appears to me that one defeats the fanatic precisely by ''not'' being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence. In the same way, a man can kill a tiger because he is ''not'' like a tiger and uses his brain to invent the rifle, which no tiger could ever do. ~ [[George Orwell]] * '''Absurdity''', ''n.'' A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. ~ [[Ambrose Bierce]] * I grew up knowing I could have had a million different lives. It makes your life mysterious and your imagination go wild. ~ [[KT Tunstall]] * Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. ~ [[Anne Morrow Lindbergh]] * ''Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling…'' <br> ~ [[Walt Whitman]] in ''[[Leaves of Grass]]'' ~ * If there's not love present, it's much, much harder to function. When there's love present, it's easier to deal with life. ~ [[Brian Wilson]] * We are gradually being conditioned to accept violence as a sensual pleasure. The directors used to say they were showing us its real face and how ugly it was in order to sensitize us to its horrors. You don't have to be very keen to see that they are now in fact desensitizing us. They are saying that everyone is brutal, and the heroes must be as brutal as the villains or they turn into fools. There seems to be an assumption that if you're offended by movie brutality, you are somehow playing into the hands of the people who want censorship. ... Yet surely, when night after night atrocities are served up to us as entertainment, it's worth some anxiety. ... How can people go on talking about the dazzling brilliance of movies and not notice that the directors are sucking up to the thugs in the audience? ~ [[Pauline Kael]] * The day after Columbine, I was interviewed... The reporter had been assigned a theory and was seeking sound bites to support it. "Wouldn't you say," she asked, "that killings like this are influenced by violent movies?" No, I said, I wouldn't say that... The reporter looked disappointed, so I offered her my theory. "Events like this," I said, "if they are influenced by anything, are influenced by news programs like your own. When an unbalanced kid walks into a school and starts shooting, it becomes a major media event. Cable news drops ordinary programming and goes around the clock with it. The story is assigned a logo and a theme song ... The message is clear to other disturbed kids around the country: If I shoot up my school, I can be famous..." ~ [[Roger Ebert]] * Nothing you do, however many of us you kill, will stop that flight to our cities where freedom is strong and where people can live in harmony with one another. Whatever you do, however many you kill, you will fail. ~ [[Ken Livingstone]] * It's no use, says he. Force, hatred, history, all that. That's not life for men and women, insult and hatred. And everybody knows that it's the very opposite of that that is really life. ~ [[James Joyce]] in ''[[Ulysses]]'' * All that you know is at an end. ~ The "[[Silver Surfer]]" in ''[[Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer]]'' * That play of black upon white, white upon black, has the intent and takes the form of creative art. It has in it a flow of the spirit and a harmony of music. Everything is lost when suddenly a false note is struck, or one party in a duet suddenly launches forth on an eccentric flight of his own. A masterpiece of a game can be ruined by insensitivity to the feelings of an adversary. ~ [[Yasunari Kawabata]] * ''Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, <br> Enwrought with the golden and silver light, <br> The blue and the dim and the dark cloths <br> Of night and light and half-light, <br> I would spread the cloths under your feet: <br>But I, being poor, have only my dreams; <br> I have spread my dreams beneath your feet; <br> Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.''<br> ~ [[William Butler Yeats]] ~ * I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have risen in revolt long ago! There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated and grown, will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again. ~ [[Anne Frank]] * The world is wide; no two days are alike, nor even two hours; neither were there ever two leaves of a tree alike since the creation of the world; and the genuine productions of art, like those of nature, are all distinct from one another. ~ [[John Constable]] * Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love. ~ [[Saul Bellow]] * ''What is this thing called love? <br> This funny thing called love?'' <br>~ [[Cole Porter]] ~ * I knew that good like bad becomes a routine, that the temporary tends to endure, that what is external permeates to the inside, and that the mask, given time, comes to be the face itself. ~ [[Marguerite Yourcenar]] * ''Exhaust the little moment. <br>Soon it dies. <br>And be it gash or gold it will not come <br>Again in this identical guise.'' <br> ~ [[Gwendolyn Brooks]] ~ * Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them. ~ [[Thomas Mann]] * The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds. ~ [[John Maynard Keynes]] * I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge —<br> That myth is more potent than history.<br>I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts —<br>That hope always triumphs over experience — <br>That laughter is the only cure for grief. <br>And I believe that love is stronger than death.<br> ~ [[Robert Fulghum]] ~ * We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, "God, what a nut." ~ [[Lawrence Lessig]] * To find themselves utterly alone at night where company is desirable and expected makes some people fearful; but a case more trying by far to the nerves is to discover some mysterious companionship when intuition, sensation, memory, analogy, testimony, probability, induction — every kind of evidence in the logician's list — have united to persuade consciousness that it is quite in isolation. ~ [[Thomas Hardy]] * Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them. Even with the violence of emotion, judgment and principle must still function like a ship’s compass, which records the slightest variations however rough the sea. ~ [[Carl von Clausewitz]] == May 2007 == * ''Who makes much of a miracle?<br> As to me I know of nothing else but miracles ...<br>To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle,<br>Every cubic inch of space is a miracle...''<br> ~ [[Walt Whitman]] in ''[[Leaves of Grass]]'' ~ * I myself am human and free only to the extent that I acknowledge the humanity and liberty of all my fellows... I am properly free when all the men and women about me are equally free. Far from being a limitation or a denial of my liberty, the liberty of another is its necessary condition and confirmation. ~ [[Mikhail Bakunin]] * The pessimist is commonly spoken of as the man in revolt. He is not. Firstly, because it requires some cheerfulness to continue in revolt, and secondly, because pessimism appeals to the weaker side of everybody, and the pessimist, therefore, drives as roaring a trade as the publican. The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade all the other people how good they are. It has been proved a hundred times over that if you really wish to enrage people and make them angry, even unto death, the right way to do it is to tell them that they are all the sons of God. ~ [[G. K. Chesterton]] * I have the same idea with all my books: an attempt to come close to the core of reality, the structure of reality, as opposed to the merely superficial. The realistic novel is remote from art. A novel should heighten life, should give one an illuminating experience; it shouldn't set out what you know already. I just muddle away at it. One gets flashes here and there, which help. I am not a philosopher or an intellectual. Practically anything I have done of any worth I feel I have done through my intuition, not my mind... ~ [[Patrick White]] * ''Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:<br> He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;<br> He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword:<br> His truth is marching on.'' <br> ~ [[Julia Ward Howe]] ~ * I'm not a fan of classification. It's very difficult to come up with a classification scheme that's useful when what you're most interested in is things that don't fit in, things that you didn't expect. ~ [[Ward Cunningham]] * <p>''Is pain a promise? I was schooled in pain,<br>And found out what I could of all desire;<br>I weep for what I'm like when I'm alone<br>In the deep center of the voice and fire.''</p><p>''I know the motion of the deepest stone.<br>Each one's himself, yet each one's everyone.''<br>~ [[Theodore Roethke]] ~ </p> * Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom. ~ [[Benjamin N. Cardozo]] * What I mean by the Muse is that unimpeded clearness of the intuitive powers, which a perfectly truthful adherence to every admonition of the higher instincts would bring to a finely organized human being. It may appear as prophecy or as poesy. ... should these faculties have free play, I believe they will open new, deeper and purer sources of joyous inspiration than have as yet refreshed the earth. ~ [[Margaret Fuller]] * I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one's weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can't all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something. ~ [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] * Life — a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter. ~ [[Charles Lindbergh]] * The prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions of human character as innate, and in the main indelible, and to ignore the irresistible proofs that by far the greater part of those differences, whether between individuals, races, or sexes, are such as not only might but naturally would be produced by differences in circumstances, is one of the chief hindrances to the rational treatment of great social questions, and one of the greatest stumbling blocks to human improvement. ~ [[John Stuart Mill]] * With all reverence, I would say, let God do His work, we will see to ours. Bring in the candles. ~ [[Abraham Davenport]] * The opposition of instinct and reason is mainly illusory. Instinct, intuition, or insight is what first leads to the beliefs which subsequent reason confirms or confutes; but the confirmation, where it is possible, consists, in the last analysis, of agreement with other beliefs no less instinctive. Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one. Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new. ~ [[Bertrand Russell]] * We are all, always, the desire not to die. This desire is as immeasurable and varied as life's complexity, but at bottom this is what it is: To continue to ''be,'' to ''be'' more and more, to develop and to endure. All the force we have, all our energy and clearness of mind serve to intensify themselves in one way or another. We intensify ourselves with new impressions, new sensations, new ideas. We endeavour to take what we do not have and to add it to ourselves. Humanity is the desire for novelty founded upon the fear of death. That is what it is. ~ [[Henri Barbusse]] * The universe is flux, life is opinion. ~ [[Marcus Aurelius]] * Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist — the only thing he's good for — is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning. Even if it's only his view of a meaning. That's what he's for — to give his view of life. ~ [[Katherine Anne Porter]] * I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living his life, and who had good friends, a fine family. I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually. ~ [[Frank Sinatra]] * A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts. ~ [[Washington Irving]] * ''Unto the furthest flood-brim look with me;<br> Then reach on with thy thought till it be drown'd.<br> Miles and miles distant though the last line be,<br> And though thy soul sail leagues and leagues beyond,— <br> Still, leagues beyond those leagues, there is more sea.''<br> ~ [[Dante Gabriel Rossetti]] ~ * ''The poet in a golden clime was born,<br>With golden stars above;<br>Dower'd with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn,<br>The love of love.'' <br>~ [[Alfred Tennyson|Alfred, Lord Tennyson]] ~ * Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think. ~ [[Jean de La Bruyère]] * Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did. ~ [[Sophie Scholl]] of the [[White Rose]] * <p>''And, oh! what beautiful years were these<br> When our hearts clung each to each;<br>When life was filled and our senses thrilled<br> In the first faint dawn of speech.''</p><p>''Thus life by life and love by love<br> We passed through the cycles strange,<br>And breath by breath and death by death<br> We followed the chain of change.'' <br> ~ [[Langdon Smith]] ~ </p> * Nothing appears more surprising to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers. When we enquire by what means this wonder is effected, we shall find, that, as Force is always on the side of the governed, the governors have nothing to support them but opinion. It is therefore, on opinion only that government is founded; and this maxim extends to the most despotic and most military governments, as well as to the most free and most popular. ~ [[David Hume]] * Who knows what beautiful and winged life, whose egg has been buried for ages under many concentric layers of woodenness in the dead dry life of society ... may unexpectedly come forth ... to enjoy its perfect summer life at last! ... such is the character of that morrow which mere lapse of time can never make to dawn. ... Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star. ~ [[Henry David Thoreau]] in ''[[Walden]]'' * I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both. ~ [[Søren Kierkegaard]] in ''[[Either/Or]]'' * The life, the fortune, and the happiness of every one of us, and, more or less, of those who are connected with us, do depend upon our knowing something of the rules of a game infinitely more difficult and complicated than chess. It is a game which has been played for untold ages, every man and woman of us being one of the two players in a game of his or her own. The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance. ~ [[Thomas Huxley|T. H. Huxley]] * The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be. ~ [[Pete Seeger]] * ''Love works magic. <br> It is the final purpose <br> Of the world story, <br> The Amen of the universe.'' <br> ~ [[Novalis]] ~ * A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes that there is no virtue but on his own side, and that there are not men as honest as himself who may differ from him in political principles. ~ [[Joseph Addison]] == April 2007 == * In a political struggle, never get personal — else the dagger digs too deep. ~ [[Jack Valenti]] * ''I have been in a multitude of shapes,<br> Before I assumed a consistent form.<br> I have been a sword, narrow, variegated,<br> I will believe when it is apparent.<br> I have been a tear in the air,<br> I have been the dullest of stars.<br> I have been a word among letters,<br> I have been a book in the origin.''<br> ~ [[Taliesin]] ~ * The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret. ~ [[Terry Pratchett]] * Though I have been trained as a soldier, and participated in many battles, there never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword. I look forward to an epoch when a court, recognized by all nations, will settle international differences. ~ [[Ulysses S. Grant]] * They say that each generation inherits from those that have gone before; if this were so there would be no limit to man's improvements or to his power of reaching perfection. But he is very far from receiving intact that storehouse of knowledge which the centuries have piled up before him; he may perfect some inventions, but in others, he lags behind the originators, and a great many inventions have been lost entirely. What he gains on the one hand, he loses on the other. ~ [[Eugène Delacroix]] * It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts. ~ [[Boris Yeltsin]] * I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards. When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness. ~ [[Anthony Trollope]] * We defy augury; there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all. ~ "Hamlet" in ''[[Hamlet]]'' by [[William Shakespeare]] * It is certainly not then — not in dreams — but when one is wide awake, at moments of robust joy and achievement, on the highest terrace of consciousness, that mortality has a chance to peer beyond its own limits, from the mast, from the past and its castle-tower. And although nothing much can be seen through the mist, there is somehow the blissful feeling that one is looking in the right direction. ~ [[Vladimir Nabokov]] * Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. ~ [[Charlotte Brontë]] * It may often be noticed, the less virtuous people are, the more they shrink away from the slightest whiff of the odour of un-sanctity. The good are ever the most charitable, the pure are the most brave. ~ [[Dinah Craik]] * Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth. ~ [[Joan of Arc|Jehanne Darc (Joan of Arc)]] * History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history. ~ [[Clarence Darrow]] * Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day. ~ [[Thornton Wilder]] * The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. ~ [[Anatole France]] * We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art. ~ [[Henry James]] * All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist... It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever... Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is "So it goes." ~ [[Kurt Vonnegut]] * The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths. ~ [[Christopher Hitchens]] * Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle. ~ [[Tom Clancy]] * Extremists think "communication" means agreeing with them. ~ [[Leo Rosten]] * To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead. ~ [[William Hazlitt]] * It is at once by way of poetry and through poetry, as with music, that the soul glimpses splendors from beyond the tomb; and when an exquisite poem brings one’s eyes to the point of tears, those tears are not evidence of an excess of joy, they are witness far more to an exacerbated melancholy, a disposition of the nerves, a nature exiled among imperfect things, which would like to possess, without delay, a paradise revealed on this very same earth. ~ [[Charles Baudelaire]] * ''Blessed are the poor in spirit: <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. <br>Blessed are they that mourn: <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; for they shall be comforted. <br>Blessed are the meek: <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; for they shall inherit the earth. <br>Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness:<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; for they shall be filled. <br>Blessed are the merciful: <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; for they shall obtain mercy. <br>Blessed are the pure in heart: <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; for they shall see God. <br>Blessed are the peacemakers:<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; for they shall be called the children of God. <br>Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake:<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.''<br> ~ [[Jesus|Yeshua (Jesus Christ)]] ~ * In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs — in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and things violently destroyed, the Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time. ~ [[William Wordsworth]] * I am less concerned with expressing the motions of the soul and mind than to render visible, so to speak, the inner flashes of intuition which have something divine in their apparent insignificance and reveal magic, even divine horizons, when they are transposed into the marvellous effects of pure plastic art. ~ [[Gustave Moreau]] * The world is fast learning that of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color. One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him. ~ [[Booker T. Washington]] * ''He who learns must suffer<br>And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget<br>Falls drop by drop upon the heart,<br>And in our own despite, against our will,<br>Comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.''<br>~ [[Aeschylus]] ~ * There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human nature. ~ [[Washington Irving]] * How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point does conformity become corruption? Only by answering such questions does the conscience truly define itself. ~ [[Kenneth Tynan]] * Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread. ~ [[Alexander Pope]] == March 2007 == * So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope for success, but merely being willing to risk the experiment of finding whether the truth they seek lies there. ... I do not deny that sometimes in these wanderings they are lucky enough to find something true. But I do not allow that this argues greater industry on their part, but only better luck. ~ [[René Descartes]] * Accept the truth from whatever source it comes. ~ [[Maimonides]] * ''I have been all men known to history,<br> Wondering at the world and at time passing;<br> I have seen evil, and the light blessing<br> Innocent love under a spring sky.'' <br> ~ [[R. S. Thomas]] ~ * We cannot know whether we love God, although there may be strong reason for thinking so; but there can be no doubt about whether we love our neighbor or not. Be sure that, in proportion as you advance in fraternal charity, you are increasing your love of God... ~ [[Teresa of Avila]] * History is a novel written by the people. ~ [[Alfred de Vigny]] * The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear. It is an immensely exciting experience to be born in the world, born in the universe, and look around you and realise that before you die you have the opportunity of understanding an immense amount about that world and about that universe and about life and about why we're here. We have the opportunity of understanding far, far more than any of our predecessors ever. That is such an exciting possibility, it would be such a shame to blow it and end your life not having understood what there is to understand. ~ [[Richard Dawkins]] * I am an Anarchist not because I believe Anarchism is the final goal, but because there is no such thing as a final goal. ~ [[Rudolf Rocker]] * What is humility but truthfulness? There is no real difference. ~ [[Walter Hilton]] * No work which is destined to become a classic can look like the classics which have preceded it. In art, as in biology, there is heredity but no identity with the ascendants. Painters inherit characteristics acquired by their forerunners; that is why no important work of art can belong to any period but its own, to the very moment of its creation. It is necessarily dated by its own appearance. The conscious will of the painter cannot intervene. ~ [[Juan Gris]] * Man’s destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth... I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish. ~ [[Marcel Marceau]] * ''Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring<br> The Winter Garment of Repentance fling<br> The Bird of Time has but a little way<br> To fly — and Lo! The Bird is on the Wing.'' <br> ~ [[Omar Khayyám]] ~ * It is not only what we have inherited from our fathers and mothers that exists again in us, but all sorts of old dead ideas and all kinds of old dead beliefs and things of that kind. They are not actually alive in us; but there they are dormant, all the same, and we can never be rid of them. Whenever I take up a newspaper and read it, I fancy I see ghosts creeping between the lines. There must be ghosts all over the world. They must be as countless as the grains of the sands, it seems to me. And we are so miserably afraid of the light, all of us. ~ [[Henrik Ibsen]] * ''All Faith is false, all Faith is true: Truth is the shattered mirror strown <br> In myriad bits; while each believes his little bit the whole to own.''<br> ~ [[Richard Francis Burton|Sir Richard Francis Burton]] ~ * I mistake the American people if they favor the odious doctrine that there is no such thing as international morality; that there is one law for a strong nation and another for a weak one, and that even by indirection a strong power may with impunity despoil a weak one of its territory. ~ [[Grover Cleveland]] * ''Straighten up and fly right <br> Cool down, papa, don't you blow your top.'' <br> ~ [[Nat King Cole]] ~ * If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. ~ [[James Madison]] * There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing. ~ [[Andrew Jackson]] * Let us not forget that human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth. What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the enquiring and constructive mind. <br> What these blessed men have given us we must guard and try to keep alive with all our strength if humanity is not to lose its dignity, the security of its existence, and its joy in living. ~ [[Albert Einstein]] * Man becomes aware of the sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the profane... ''something sacred shows itself to us'' ... something of a wholly different order, a reality that does not belong to our world, in objects that are an integral part of our natural "profane" world. ~ [[Mircea Eliade]] * They danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!" ~ [[Jack Kerouac]] * Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. Nearly all men of science, all men of learning for that matter, and men of simple ways too, have it in some form and in some degree. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission. If we abandon that mission under stress we shall abandon it forever, for stress will not cease. Knowledge for the sake of understanding, not merely to prevail, that is the essence of our being. None can define its limits, or set its ultimate boundaries. ~ [[Vannevar Bush]] * ''I'm not aware of too many things.<br> I know what I know if you know what I mean.'' <br> ~ [[Edie Brickell]] ~ * Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book. ~ [[Mickey Spillane]] * Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished. They didn't bother themselves about the past — they never do; they're too busy. ~ [[Kenneth Grahame]] * Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends on art or any rational cause, and especially if it depends on the best of all causes. To entrust to chance what is greatest and most noble would be a very defective arrangement. ~ [[Aristotle]] * For all eternity has God not occupied His intellect with the cabbage's birth as well as yours? It also seems that He has necessarily provided more for the birth of the vegetable than for the thinking being... Will anyone say that we are born in the image of the Sovereign Being, while cabbages are not? ~ [[Cyrano de Bergerac]] * I've always wanted to make the world a more rational place. I'm still working on it. ~ [[Penn Jillette]] * In all living nature (and perhaps also in that which we consider as dead) ''love'' is the motive force which drives the creative activity in the most diverse directions. ~ [[P. D. Ouspensky]] * You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them. ~ [[Alexander Graham Bell]] * Of course, there is no doubt that if we lived in a police state, it would be easier to catch terrorists. If we lived in a country that allowed the police to search your home at any time for any reason; if we lived in a country that allowed the government to open your mail, eavesdrop on your phone conversations, or intercept your email communications; if we lived in a country that allowed the government to hold people in jail indefinitely based on what they write or think, or based on mere suspicion that they are up to no good, then the government would no doubt discover and arrest more terrorists. But that probably would not be a country in which we would want to live. And that would not be a country for which we could, in good conscience, ask our young people to fight and die. In short, that would not be America. ~ [[Russ Feingold]] * We should not be simply fighting evil in the name of good, but struggling against the certainties of people who claim always to know where good and evil are to be found. ~ [[Tzvetan Todorov]] == February 2007 == * ''Near the snow, near the sun, in the highest fields, <br> See how these names are feted in the waving grass <br> And by the streamers of the white cloud <br> And whispers of the wind in the listening sky. <br> The names of those who in their lives fought for life, <br> Who wore at their hearts the fire's centre. <br> Born of the sun, they travelled a short while toward the sun <br> And left the vivid air signed with their honour.'' <br> ~ [[Stephen Spender]] ~ * <p>''Lives of great men all remind us<br>We can make our lives sublime,<br>And departing, leave behind us<br>Footprints on the sands of time.''</p><p> ''Footprints, that perhaps another, <br> Sailing o'er life's solemn main,<br>A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,<br>Seeing, shall take heart again.''</p><p>''Let us, then, be up and doing.<br>With a heart for any fate;<br>Still achieving, still pursuing,<br>Learn to labor and to wait.'' </p><p>~ [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]] ~ </p> * To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better. ~ [[Victor Hugo]] * ''I look at the world and I notice it’s turning.<br> While my guitar gently weeps. <br> With every mistake we must surely be learning,<br> Still my guitar gently weeps.''<br> ~ [[George Harrison]] ~ * Terrible is the day when each sees his soul naked, stripped of all veil; that dear soul which he cannot change or discard, and which is so irreparably his. ~ [[George A. Moore]] * The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience. ~ [[W.E.B. DuBois]] * Promote... as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened. ~ [[George Washington]] * ''Defenceless under the night<br> Our world in stupor lies;<br> Yet, dotted everywhere,<br> Ironic points of light<br> Flash out wherever the Just<br> Exchange their messages:<br> May I, composed like them<br> Of Eros and of dust,<br> Beleaguered by the same<br> Negation and despair,<br> Show an affirming flame.''<br> ~ [[W. H. Auden]] ~ * If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. ~ [[Frederick Douglass]] * ''Hello darkness, my old friend<br> I've come to talk with you again <br> Because a vision softly creeping<br> Left its seeds while I was sleeping <br> And the vision that was planted in my brain <br> Still remains <br> Within the sound of silence.'' <br> ~ [[Paul Simon]] ~ * The doors of heaven and hell are adjacent and identical. ~ [[Nikos Kazantzakis]] * Even to have come forth is something, since I see that being able to conquer is placed in the hands of fate. However, there was in me, whatever I was able to do, that which no future century will deny to be mine, that which a victor could have for his own: Not to have feared to die, not to have yielded to any equal in firmness of nature, and to have preferred a courageous death to a noncombatant life. ~ [[Giordano Bruno]] * The counsels of impatience and hatred can always be supported by the crudest and cheapest symbols; for the counsels of moderation, the reasons are often intricate, rather than emotional, and difficult to explain. And so the chauvinists of all times and places go their appointed way: plucking the easy fruits, reaping the little triumphs of the day at the expense of someone else tomorrow, deluging in noise and filth anyone who gets in their way, dancing their reckless dance on the prospects for human progress, drawing the shadow of a great doubt over the validity of democratic institutions. And until people learn to spot the fanning of mass emotions and the sowing of bitterness, suspicion, and intolerance as crimes in themselves — as perhaps the greatest disservice that can be done to the cause of popular government — this sort of thing will continue to occur. ~ [[George F. Kennan]] * The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do to their fellows, because it always coincides with their own desires. ~ [[Susan B. Anthony]] * When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world — no matter how imperfect — becomes rich and beautiful, it consists solely of opportunities for love. ~ [[Søren Kierkegaard]] * Every man's life (and ... every woman's life), awaits the hour of blossoming that makes it immortal ... love is a divinity above all accidents, and guards his own with extraordinary obstinacy. ~ [[Eleanor Farjeon]] * We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. ~ [[Abraham Lincoln]] * Even if we accept, as the basic tenet of true democracy, that one moron is equal to one genius, is it necessary to go a further step and hold that two morons are better than one genius? ~ [[Leó Szilárd]] * I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there. ~ [[Charles de Montesquieu]] * Belief may be no more, in the end, than a source of energy, like a battery which one clips into an idea to make it run. ~ [[J. M. Coetzee]] * One single war — we all know — may be productive of more evil, immediate and subsequent, than hundreds of years of the unchecked action of the mutual-aid principle may be productive of good. ~ [[Peter Kropotkin]] * Throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people we most despise. ~ [[Charles Dickens]] * I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can. ~ [[Babe Ruth]] * God needeth not the help of a material sword of steel to assist the sword of the Spirit in the affairs of conscience. ~ [[Roger Williams]] * Men weren't really the enemy — they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill. ~ [[Betty Friedan]] * At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done to him. It is this above all that is sacred in every human being. ~ [[Simone Weil]] * Well, it's Groundhog Day... ''again''... ~ [[Bill Murray]] as "Phil" in ''[[Groundhog Day (film)|Groundhog Day]]'' * I tire so of hearing people say,<br>''Let things take their course.<br>Tomorrow is another day.''<br>I do not need my freedom when I’m dead.<br>I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread. <br> ~ [[Langston Hughes]] ~ == January 2007 == * Science is clearly one of the most profound methods that humans have yet devised for discovering truth, while religion remains the single greatest force for generating meaning. Truth and meaning, science and religion; but we still cannot figure out how to get the two of them together in a fashion that both find acceptable... if some sort of reconciliation between science and religion is not forthcoming, the future of humanity is, at best, precarious. ~ [[Ken Wilber]] * If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands they must be made brighter in our own. If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free. If in other lands the eternal truths of the past are threatened by intolerance we must provide a safe place for their perpetuation. ~ [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] * I speak an open and disinterested language, dictated by no passion but that of humanity. To me, who have not only refused offers, because I thought them improper, but have declined rewards I might with reputation have accepted, it is no wonder that meanness and imposition appear disgustful. Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good. ~ [[Thomas Paine]] * Man needs to go outside himself in order to find repose and reveal himself. ~ [[José Martí]] * "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less."<br>"The question is," said Alice, "whether you ''can'' make words mean so many different things."<br> "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master — that's all." <br> ~ [[Lewis Carroll]], in ''[[Through the Looking-Glass]]'' ~ * ''The only gold is love,<br>A coin that we have minted from the light<br>Of others who have cared for us on Earth<br>And who have deposited in us the power<br>That nerves our nerves to seize the burning stars.''<br> ~ [[Philip José Farmer]] ~ * I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we should know them. Then, though we are conscious of having faults as glaring as theirs, we can believe that that is no hindrance to our achieving also something of their virtues. ~ [[W. Somerset Maugham]] * Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent. ~ [[Sharon Tate]] * Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. ~ [[William Pitt the Younger]] * If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them. ~ [[Francis Bacon]] * A revelation, that may be supposed to be really of the institution of God, must also be supposed to be perfectly consistent or uniform, and to be able to stand the test of truth... Reason therefore must be the standard by which we determine the respective claims of revelation; for otherwise we may as well subscribe to the divinity of the one as of the other, or to the whole of them, or to none at all. ~ [[Ethan Allen]] * What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one.... It’s this in-between that I’m calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one — which is really the realm of the artist. ~ [[Federico Fellini]] * Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got. ~ [[Art Buchwald]] * It's important to abolish the unconscious dogmatism that makes people think their way of looking at reality is the only sane way of viewing the world. My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone, but agnosticism about everything. ~ [[Robert Anton Wilson]] * Those who would give up E<span style="font-variant:small-caps;text-transform:lowercase">ssential</span> L<span style="font-variant:small-caps;text-transform:lowercase">iberty</span> to purchase a little T<span style="font-variant:small-caps;text-transform:lowercase">emporary</span> S<span style="font-variant:small-caps;text-transform:lowercase">afety</span>, deserve neither L<span style="font-variant:small-caps;text-transform:lowercase">iberty</span> nor S<span style="font-variant:small-caps;text-transform:lowercase">afety</span>. ~ [[Benjamin Franklin]] * To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do we have from the past? Art and thought. That's what lasts. That's what continues to feed people and give them an idea of something better. A better state of one's feelings or simply the idea of a silence in one's self that allows one to think or to feel. Which to me is the same. ~ [[Susan Sontag]] * I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world. ~ [[Pierre-Joseph Proudhon]] * Various medical authorities swarm in and out of here predicting I have between two days and two months to live. I think they are guessing. I remain cheerful and unimpressed. I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread. I love you all and I deeply implore you to keep the lasagna flying.<br> Please pardon my levity, I don't see how to take death seriously. It seems absurd. ~ [[Robert Anton Wilson]] * I still feel that sincerity and realism are avant-garde, or can be, just as I did when I started out. ~ [[Edmund White]] * Society is indeed a contract... it is not a partnership in things subservient only to the gross animal existence of a temporary and perishable nature. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are to be born. ~ [[Edmund Burke]] * Has it been found that bodies of men act with more rectitude or greater disinterestedness than individuals? The contrary of this has been inferred by all accurate observers of the conduct of mankind; and the inference is founded upon obvious reasons. Regard to reputation has a less active influence, when the infamy of a bad action is to be divided among a number than when it is to fall singly upon one. A spirit of faction, which is apt to mingle its poison in the deliberations of all bodies of men, will often hurry the persons of whom they are composed into improprieties and excesses, for which they would blush in a private capacity. ~ [[Alexander Hamilton]] * ''Science and mathematics<br>Run parallel to reality, they symbolize it, they squint at it,<br>They never touch it: consider what an explosion<br>Would rock the bones of men into little white fragments and unsky the world<br>If any mind for a moment touch truth.'' <br> ~ [[Robinson Jeffers]] ~ * I think it is possible, and that is the most dramatic element in modern civilization, that a human truth is opposed to another human truth no less human, ideal against ideal, positive worth against worth no less positive, instead of the struggle being as we are so often told, one between noble truth and vile selfish error. ~ [[Karel Čapek]] * Some marry the first information they receive, and turn what comes later into their concubine. Since deceit is always first to arrive, there is no room left for truth. ~ [[Baltasar Gracián]] * It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent? ~ [[Richard Feynman]] * History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth. ~ [[E. L. Doctorow]] * All statements are true in some sense, false in some sense, meaningless in some sense, true and false in some sense, true and meaningless in some sense, false and meaningless in some sense, and true and false and meaningless in some sense. ~ ''[[Principia Discordia]]'' * Men learn little from others' experience. But in the life of one man, never the same time returns. ~ [[T. S. Eliot]], in ''Murder in the Cathedral'' * Each comprehended only that part of the mind of Ilúvatar from which he came, and in the understanding of their brethren they grew but slowly. Yet ever as they listened they came to deeper understanding, and increased in unison and harmony. ~ [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] in ''[[The Silmarillion]]'' * Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. ~ [[Isaac Asimov]] * I do not believe in Belief. But this is an Age of Faith, and there are so many militant creeds that, in self defence, one has to formulate a creed of one's own. Tolerance, good temper and sympathy are no longer enough in a world where ignorance rules, and Science, which ought to have ruled, plays the pimp. Tolerance, good temper and sympathy — they are what matter really, and if the human race is not to collapse they must come to the front before long. ~ [[E. M. Forster]] == December 2006 == * When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective. ~ [[George Marshall]] * <p>''If you can keep your head when all about you<br>Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,<br>If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,<br>But make allowance for their doubting too...''</p><p>''If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,<br>Or walk with Kings — nor lose the common touch,<br>If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,<br>If all men count with you, but none too much;<br>If you can fill the unforgiving minute<br>With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,<br>Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,<br>And — which is more — you'll be a Man, my son!''<br>~ [[Rudyard Kipling]] ~ </p> * If I am to be shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet. ~ [[Andrew Johnson]] * The length of one's days matters less than the love of one's family and friends. ~ [[Gerald Ford]] * I am on the edge of mysteries and the veil is getting thinner and thinner. ~ [[Louis Pasteur]] * Let us face squarely the paradox that the world which goes to war is a world, usually, genuinely desiring peace. War is the outcome, not mainly of evil intentions, but on the whole, of good intentions which miscarry or are frustrated. It is made, not usually by evil men knowing themselves to be wrong, but is the outcome of policies pursued by good men usually passionately convinced that they are right. ~ [[Norman Angell]] * Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. ~ [[Calvin Coolidge]] * A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease. Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings, while incense is ever flowing from the balsam bells and leaves. No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself. ~ [[John Muir]] * The final frontier is perhaps the most difficult, but it's also the most important — and that's the frontier of the human spirit. For too long, people have allowed differences on the surface — differences of color, ethnicity, and gender — to tear apart the common bonds they share. And the human spirit suffers as a result.<br> Imagine a world in which we saw beyond the lines that divide us, and celebrated our differences, instead of hiding from them. Imagine a world in which we finally recognized that, fundamentally, we are all the same. And imagine if we allowed that new understanding to build relations between people and between nations. ~ [[Wesley Clark]] * It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence. ~ [[Kenneth Rexroth]] * This is the stillness behind motion, when time itself stops; the center is also the circumference of all. <br> ''We are awake in the night. <br>We turn the Wheel to bring the light. <br>We call the sun from the womb of night. <br>Blessed Be! ''<br> ~ [[Starhawk]] ~ * Learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy. ~ [[Edwin Abbott Abbott]] * It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win. Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's life. ~ [[Phil Ochs]] * Formerly we used to represent things visible on earth, things we either liked to look at or would have liked to see. Today we reveal the reality that is behind visible things, thus expressing the belief that the visible world is merely an isolated case in relation to the universe and that there are many more other, latent realities. Things appear to assume a broader and more diversified meaning, often seemingly contradicting the rational experience of yesterday. There is a striving to emphasize the essential character of the accidental. ~ [[Paul Klee]] * To even mention all the things the bird must constantly keep in mind in order to fly securely through the air would take a considerable part of the evening... The bird has learned this art of equilibrium, and learned it so thoroughly that its skill is not apparent to our sight. We only learn to appreciate it when we try to imitate it. ~ [[Wilbur Wright]] * What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude: the aims of friendship, religion, science, and art. ~ [[George Santayana]] * To talk about the end of science is just as foolish as to talk about the end of religion. Science and religion are both still close to their beginnings, with no ends in sight. ~ [[Freeman Dyson]] * My deepest impulses are optimistic; an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect. ~ [[Ellen Willis]] * We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race. We all share the same basic values. ~ [[Kofi Annan]] * The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments. ~ [[Gustave Flaubert]] * In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim — that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people. ~ [[George Mason]] * The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference. ~ [[Elie Wiesel]] * Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to my conscience, above all liberties. ~ [[John Milton]] in ''[[Areopagitica]]'' * ''May memory restore again and again <br> The smallest color of the smallest day:<br> Time is the school in which we learn, <br> Time is the fire in which we burn.'' <br> ~ [[Delmore Schwartz]] ~ * I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for. ~ [[Thornton Wilder]] * Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning. ~ [[Anthony Trollope]] * We have to remember that what we observe is not nature herself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning. ~ [[Werner Heisenberg]] * No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. ~ [[Thomas Carlyle]] * There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind. ~ [[Joseph Conrad]] * The current search for new educational ''funnels'' must be reversed into the search for their institutional inverse: educational ''webs'' which heighten the opportunity for each one to transform each moment of his living into one of learning, sharing, and caring. ~ [[Ivan Illich]] * If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank. ~ [[Woody Allen]] == November 2006 == * It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more. ~ [[Winston Churchill]] * The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs. There's not one of them which won't make us into devils if we set it up as an absolute guide. You might think love of humanity in general was safe, but it isn't. If you leave out justice you'll find yourself breaking agreements and faking evidence in trials "for the sake of humanity" and become in the end a cruel and treacherous man. ~ [[C.S. Lewis]] * Whatever nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge. ~ [[Enrico Fermi]] * Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it. ~ [[Bruce Lee]] * "Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, Why me?" And the voice says, "Nothing personal your name just happened to come up." ~ [[Charles M. Schulz]] * If we have learned anything at all in this century, it is that all new technologies will be put to use, sooner or later, for better or worse, as it is in our nature to do. ~ [[Lewis Thomas]] * Only the brave know how to forgive... A coward never forgave; it is not in his nature. ~ [[Laurence Sterne]] * We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. ~ [[Thornton Wilder]] * What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other? ~ [[George Eliot]] * Man is free at the instant he wants to be. ~ [[Voltaire]] * Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it. ~ [[Nadine Gordimer]] * ''Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, <br> And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.'' <br> ~ [[Alfred Tennyson|Alfred, Lord Tennyson]] ~ * It's a feature of our age that if you write a work of fiction, everyone assumes that the people and events in it are disguised biography — but if you write your biography, it's equally assumed you're lying your head off. ~ [[Margaret Atwood]] * Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to coerce, be it in the hands of a monarch, a dictator, an oligarchy, or a momentary majority. ~ [[Milton Friedman]] * We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves. ~ [[Alan Watts]] * He who, when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth, tells it boldly and has done is both bolder and milder than he who nibbles in a low voice and never ceases nibbling. ~ [[Johann Kaspar Lavater]] * Peace has been said to be indivisible; so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also is disaster in this One World that can no longer be split into isolated fragments. ~ [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] * The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. ~ [[Louis Brandeis]] * No matter how much women prefer to lean, to be protected and supported, nor how much men desire to have them do so, they must make the voyage of life alone, and for safety in an emergency they must know something of the laws of navigation. ~ [[Elizabeth Cady Stanton]] * ''We are the Dead. Short days ago<br> We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,<br> Loved and were loved, and now we lie,<br> In Flanders fields.''<br> ~ [[John McCrae]] ~ * Rarely do we arrive at the summit of truth without running into extremes; we have frequently to exhaust the part of error, and even of folly, before we work our way up to the noble goal of tranquil wisdom. ~ [[Friedrich Schiller]] * Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism. ~ [[Carl Sagan]] * No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be. ~ [[Bram Stoker]] * The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance which fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness. ~ [[Albert Camus]] * Me, I shall be an autocrat: that is my trade; and The Good God will forgive me: that is His. ~ [[Catherine II of Russia|Catherine the Great]] * Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty. ~ [[Will Durant]] * A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it. ~ [[William Styron]] * Art is a revolt against fate. ~ [[André Malraux]] * It is quite certain that in seeing the people who treat us so well despite their own misfortune, we are more obliged than ever to work hard for their happiness. ~ [[Marie Antoinette]] * ''The wayfarer,<br> Perceiving the pathway to truth,<br> Was struck with astonishment.<br> It was thickly grown with weeds.<br> "Ha," he said,<br> "I see that none has passed here<br> In a long time."<br> Later he saw that each weed<br> Was a singular knife.<br> "Well," he mumbled at last,<br> "Doubtless there are other roads."'' <br> ~ [[Stephen Crane]] ~ == October 2006 == * ''A thing of beauty is a joy forever:<br>Its loveliness increases; it will never<br>Pass into nothingness; but still will keep<br>A bower quiet for us, and a sleep<br>Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.'' <br> ~ [[John Keats]] ~ * The fundamental article of my political creed is that despotism, or unlimited sovereignty, or absolute power, is the same in a majority of a popular assembly, an aristocratical council, an oligarchical junto, and a single emperor. Equally arbitrary, cruel, bloody, and in every respect diabolical. ~ [[John Adams]] * We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over. ~ [[James Boswell]] * The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish. ~ [[Evelyn Waugh]] * I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me. My love's not impersonal yet not wholly subjective either. I would like to be everyone, a cripple, a dying man, a whore, and then come back to write about my thoughts, my emotions, as that person. But I am not omniscient. I have to live my life, and it is the only one I'll ever have. And you cannot regard your own life with objective curiosity all the time. ~ [[Sylvia Plath]] * The youth are not always right, but the society which ignores them and beats, is always wrong. ~ [[François Mitterrand]] * A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes that he is no longer indispensable. ~ [[Richard E. Byrd]] * Poems present their testimony as circumstantial evidences, not as closing argument. Where Wallace Stevens says, “God and the imagination are one,” I would say that the imagination, which synergizes intellect, emotion and instinct, is the perceptive organ through which it is possible, though not inevitable, to experience God. ~ [[Denise Levertov]] * I am certain there is too much certainty in the world. ~ [[Michael Crichton]] * All political movements are like this — we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our own side who disagree with us are heretics, and they start becoming enemies. With it comes an absolute conviction of your own moral superiority. There's oversimplification in everything, and a terror of flexibility. ~ [[Doris Lessing]] * <p>''He prayeth well, who loveth well<br>Both man and bird and beast.''</p><p>''He prayeth best, who loveth best<br>All things both great and small;<br>For the dear God who loveth us,<br> He made and loveth all.'' <br> ~ [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]] ~ </p> * We sometimes talk as if "original research" were a peculiar prerogative of scientists or at least of advanced students. But all thinking is research, and all research is native, original, with him who carries it on, even if everybody else in the world already is sure of what he is still looking for. ~ [[John Dewey]] * There is surely a piece of divinity within us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun. ~ [[Thomas Browne]] * ''Give me my freedom for as long as I be <br>All I ask of livin' is to have no chains on me <br> All I ask of livin' is to have no chains on me <br>And all I ask of dyin' is to go naturally... <br> And when I die, and when I'm gone <br>There'll be one child born, in our world <br>To carry on, to carry on...'' <br>~ [[Laura Nyro]] ~ * Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. ~ [[Arthur Miller]] * Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. ~ [[Oscar Wilde]] * In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong. ~ [[John Kenneth Galbraith]] * I am totally convinced from my experience of working with poor people that they can get themselves out of poverty if we give them the same or similar opportunities we give to others. The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world — all we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them. ~ [[Muhammad Yunus]] * If you ever get trial by television or guilt by accusation, that day freedom dies because you have not had it done with all of the careful rules that have developed in a court of law. Press and television rely on freedom. Those who rely on freedom must uphold the rule of law and have a duty and a responsibility to do so and not try to substitute their own system for it. ~ [[Margaret Thatcher]] * I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy and all the others who have written on this subject demonstrate and prove, as do the eclipses of the moon and other experiments that are made from east to west, and the elevation of the North Star from north to south. ~ [[Christopher Columbus]] * It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death. ~ [[Eleanor Roosevelt]] * I would like to make the point that we cannot undo the past but we can learn from it, and we cannot predict the future but we can shape and build it. ~ [[Epeli Ganilau]] * <p>''Imagine all the people<br>Sharing all the world... ''</p><p>''You may say I'm a dreamer<br>But I'm not the only one<br>I hope someday you'll join us<br>And the world will live as one.'' <br>~ [[John Lennon]] ~ </p> * Does the prophet see the future or does he see a line of weakness, a fault or cleavage that he may shatter with words or decisions as a diamond-cutter shatters his gem with a blow of a knife? ~ [[Frank Herbert]] in ''[[Dune]]'' * It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature ''is''. Physics concerns what we can ''say'' about nature. ~ [[Niels Bohr]] * <p>''Behold, we know not anything;<br> I can but trust that good shall fall<br> At last — far off — at last, to all,<br> And every winter change to spring.''</p><p>''So runs my dream; but what am I?<br> An infant crying in the night;<br> An infant crying for the light,<br> And with no language but a cry.'' <br> ~ [[Alfred Tennyson|Alfred, Lord Tennyson]] ~ </p> * Almost all men, and those that seem to be very miserable, love life, because they cannot bear to lose sight of such a beautiful and lovely world. The ideas, that every moment whilst we live have a beauty that we take not distinct notice of, brings a pleasure that, when we come to the trial, we had rather live in much pain and misery than lose. ~ [[Jonathan Edwards (theologian)|Jonathan Edwards]] * A comedian does funny things. A good comedian does things funny. ~ [[Buster Keaton]] * The average "educated" American has been made to believe that, somehow, the United States must lead the world even though hardly anyone has any information at all about those countries we are meant to lead. Worse, we have very little information about our own country and its past. ~ [[Gore Vidal]] * ''A man and a woman<br> Are one. <br> A man and a woman and a blackbird <br>Are one.'' <br> ~ [[Wallace Stevens]] ~ * Love and music and happiness and family, that's what it's all about. I believe in these things. It would be awful not to, wouldn't it? ~ [[Julie Andrews]] == September 2006 == * Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures, it is our gift to each other. ~ [[Elie Wiesel]] * Faith which does not doubt is dead faith. ~ [[Miguel de Unamuno]] * When once the mind has raised itself to grasp and to delight in excellence, those who love most will be found to love most wisely. ~ [[Francis Turner Palgrave]] * The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule. ~ [[Samuel Adams]] * ''What might have been and what has been <br> Point to one end, which is always present. <br> Footfalls echo in the memory <br> Down the passage which we did not take <br> Towards the door we never opened <br> Into the rose-garden.'' <br> ~ [[T. S. Eliot]] in ''[[The Four Quartets]]'' ~ * No battle is ever won... They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools. ~ [[William Faulkner]] * To act with common sense, according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy, to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot, bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is, and despise affectation. ~ [[Horace Walpole]] * There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change. ~ [[Euripides]] * The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it. ~ [[Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield]] * ''Like a bird on the wire, <br/> like a drunk in a midnight choir <br/> I have tried in my way to be free.'' <br/> ~ [[Leonard Cohen]] ~ * We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it. ~ [[Joyce Brothers]] * His voice rose under the black smoke before the burning wreckage of the island; and infected by that emotion, the other little boys began to shake and sob too. And in the middle of them, with filthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy. ~ [[William Golding]] * I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and ''growl.'' Let him come out as I do, and ''bark.'' ~ [[Samuel Johnson]] * ''It is difficult<br>to get the news from poems<br>yet men die miserably every day<br>for lack<br>of what is found there.''<br> ~ [[William Carlos Williams]] ~ * The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you're not. And the other thing that the public really does like is the self-examination to say, you know, I'm not perfect. I'm just like you. They don't ask their public officials to be perfect. They just ask them to be smart, truthful, honest, and show a modicum of good sense. ~ [[Ann Richards]] * We hardly find any persons of good sense, save those who agree with us. ~ [[François de La Rochefoucauld]] * The acceptance of the principle of international cooperation is of immense importance for all states. Even the states which are most tempted to believe that they can stand by themselves have very much to gain by such cooperation. And for the smaller states — the weaker states — it is vital to all their hopes of liberty and justice. ~ [[Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood|Lord Robert Cecil]] * ''What I need is a good defense<br> 'Cause I'm feeling like a criminal<br> And I need to be redeemed<br> To the one I've sinned against<br> Because he's all I ever knew of love.'' <br> ~ [[Fiona Apple]] ~ * When I came back to my native country, after all the stories about Hitler, I couldn't ride in the front of the bus. I had to go to the back door. I couldn't live where I wanted. I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, but I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President, either. ~ [[Jesse Owens]] * On [[September 11, 2001 attacks|September 11]] — what happened? Picture this: two upended matchboxes, knocked over by the sheer force of paper-darts.<br> Only it was much, much worse than that. In fact, words alone cannot adduce how much worse it was than that. September 11 was an attack on words: we felt a general deficit. ~ [[Martin Amis]] * Organisms are not billiard balls, propelled by simple and measurable external forces to predictable new positions on life's pool table. Sufficiently complex systems have greater richness. Organisms have a history that constrains their future in myriad, subtle ways. ~ [[Stephen Jay Gould]] * Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen. ~ [[Leo Tolstoy]] * Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat. ~ [[Peter Sellers]] * Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd. ~ [[Edith Sitwell]] * My personal feeling is that this is how any further improvement of the world will be done: by individuals making Quality decisions and that's all. ~ [[Robert M. Pirsig]] * I've probably saved thousands of peoples' lives with my educational message on snake bites — how to get in around venomous anything. Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker, but crikey, education's the most important thing. ~ [[Steve Irwin]] * A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both. ~ [[L. P. Jacks]] (originally attributed to [[François-René de Chateaubriand]], born 4 September 1768, because of a widespread misattribution.) * Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man that would keep all the wine out of the country lest men should be drunk. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy, to deny a man the liberty he hath by nature upon a supposition that he may abuse it. ~ [[Oliver Cromwell]] * Before you do anything, ''think''. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process. ~ [[Salma Hayek]] * I like a huge range of comedy — from broad and farcical, the most sensitive, the most understated — but I always wanted my comedy to be more embracing of the species rather than debasing of it. ~ [[Lily Tomlin]] == August 2006 == * Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough. ~ [[William Saroyan]] * We are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves — such a friend ought to be — do not lend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures.. ~ [[Mary Shelley]] * Religion, which should most distinguish us from the beasts, and ought most particularly elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts. ~ [[John Locke]] * Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. ~ [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]] * Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth. ~ [[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel]] * We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves. ~ [[John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir|John Buchan, Lord Tweedsmuir]] * Being inoffensive, and being offended, are now the twin addictions of the culture. ~ [[Martin Amis]] * If those in charge of our society — politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television — can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves." ~ [[Howard Zinn]] * I have brought you to the ring, now see if you can dance. ~ [[William Wallace]] * No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you should never trust experts. If you believe doctors, nothing is wholesome: if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent: if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe. They all require their strong wine diluted by a very large admixture of insipid common sense. ~ [[Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury|Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Lord Salisbury]] * Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and vileness, and enjoy it to the full. ~ [[Leon Trotsky]] * ''That is not dead which can eternal lie, <br> And with strange aeons even death may die.'' <br>~ [[H. P. Lovecraft]] ~ * How are we to survive? Solemnity is not the answer, any more than witless and irresponsible frivolity is. I think our best chance lies in humor, which in this case means a wry acceptance of our predicament. We don't have to like it but we can at least recognize its ridiculous aspects, one of which is ourselves. ~ [[Ogden Nash]] * When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay. ~ [[Brian Aldiss]] * One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas — and you have to work through it all. ~ [[V. S. Naipaul]] * The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and fame. The world feels not without a certain apprehension, that here is some one outside its jurisdiction; someone before whom its allurements may be spread in vain; some one strangely enfranchised, untamed, untrammelled by convention, moving independent of the ordinary currents of human action. ~ [[Winston Churchill]] * Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest. Call for the grandest of all human sentiments, what is that? It is that man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep. ~ [[Thomas De Quincey]] * Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. ~ [[Russell Baker]] * Make the world better. ~ [[Lucy Stone]] * The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist. ~ [[Erwin Schrödinger]] * Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to Joy, and makes royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods. ~ [[Robert G. Ingersoll]] * Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. ~ [[Herbert Hoover]] * Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society... But for me, education means making creators... You have to make inventors, innovators, not conformists. ~ [[Jean Piaget]] * Better to die on your feet than live on your knees! ~ [[Emiliano Zapata]] * We help the internet not suck. ~ [[Jimmy Wales]] * One of the primary tests of the mood of a society at any given time is whether its comfortable people tend to identify, psychologically, with the power and achievements of the very successful or with the needs and sufferings of the underpriviliged. ~ [[Richard Hofstadter]] * Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread... ~ [[Conrad Aiken]] * ''If you divide suffering and dross, you may <br> Diminish till it is consumed away;<br> If you divide pleasure and love and thought,<br> Each part exceeds the whole; and we know not <br> How much, while any yet remains unshared...'' <br> ~ [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]] ~ * Somewhere, he thought, on the long backtrack of history, the human race had accepted an insanity for a principle and had persisted in it until today that insanity-turned-principle stood ready to wipe out, if not the race itself, at least all of those things, both material and immaterial, that had been fashioned as symbols of humanity through many hard-won centuries. ~ [[Clifford D. Simak]] * Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. ~ [[James Baldwin]] * ''And now we meet in an abandoned studio<br>We hear the playback and it seems so long ago<br>And you remember the jingles used to go<br>Oh, oh — You were the first one.<br>Oh, oh — You were the last one.<br>Video killed the radio star.'' <br> ~ [[The Buggles]] ~ == July 2006 == * I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. ~ [[Milton Friedman]] * ''What am I singing? <br/> A song of seeds <br/>The food of love. <br/> Eat the music.'' <br> ~ [[Kate Bush]] ~ * No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country. ~ [[Alexis de Tocqueville]] * We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong. ~ [[Karl Popper]] * In soft deluding lies let fools delight. A shadow marks our days, which end in Night. ~ [[Hilaire Belloc]] * Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature. ~ [[George Bernard Shaw]] * There seem to be magic days once in a while, with some rare quality of light that hold a body spellbound... Then comes the hard part: how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, air and space... ~ [[Maxfield Parrish]] * ''There is one story and one story only.<br> Dwell on her graciousness, dwell on her smiling,<br> Do not forget what flowers<br> The great boar trampled down in ivy time.<br> Her brow was creamy as the long ninth wave,<br> Her sea-blue eyes were wild.<br> But nothing promised that is not performed.'' <br> ~ [[Robert Graves]] ~ * Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. The detective must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor. He talks as the man of his age talks, that is, with rude wit, a lively sense of the grotesque, a disgust for sham, and a contempt for pettiness. ~ [[Raymond Chandler]] * ''We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong.<br>We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.<br>We thought the long train would run to the end of Time.<br>We thought the light would increase.<br>Now the long train stands derailed and the bandits loot it.<br>Now the boar and the asp have power in our time.<br>Now the night rolls back on the West and the night is solid.<br>Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragon's teeth. <br>Our children know and suffer the armed men.'' <br> ~ [[Stephen Vincent Benét]] ~ * The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry. ~ [[Ernest Hemingway]] * You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things — to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals. The intense effort, the giving of everything you've got, is a very pleasant bonus. ~ [[Edmund Hillary|Sir Edmund Hillary]] * Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs. ~ [[Edgar Degas]] * To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; and to forgo even ambition when the end is gained — who can say this is not greatness? ~ [[William Makepeace Thackeray]] * ''Were I so tall to reach the pole,<br>Or grasp the ocean with my span,<br>I must be measured by my soul;<br>The mind's the standard of the man.''<br> ~ [[Isaac Watts]] ~ * If you build it, he will come. ~ "The Voice" in ''[[Field of Dreams]]'' * Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their patriotism through their actions, by their choice... No law will make a citizen a patriot. ~ [[Jesse Ventura]] * Regardless of whether I believe or not, whether I am a Christian or not, I would play my part in the collective building of the cathedral. ~ [[Ingmar Bergman]] * ''To-morrow comes, true copy of to-day,<br>And empty shadow of what is to be;<br>Yet cheated Hope on future still depends,<br>And ends but only when our being ends.'' <br> ~ [[John Clare]] ~ * In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king. ~ [[Desiderius Erasmus]] * Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. ~ [[John Quincy Adams]] * The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter — for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. He lives and labors and hopes. ~ [[Nikola Tesla]] * I can get excitement watching rain on a puddle. And then I paint it. Now, I admit, there are not too many people who would find that exciting. But I would. And I want life thrilling and rich. And it is. I make sure it is. ~ [[David Hockney]] * It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive — to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are. ~ [[Elisabeth Kübler-Ross]] * Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. ~ [[Robert A. Heinlein]] * They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality. ~ [[Frida Kahlo]] * True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing. ~ [[Jean Cocteau]] * It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate. ~ [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]] * I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead. ~ [[Tom Stoppard]] * When artists create pictures and thinkers search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something that lasts longer than we do. ~ [[Hermann Hesse]] * Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. ~ [[Georg Christoph Lichtenberg]] == June 2006 == * Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly. ~ [[Albert Einstein]] * Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. ~ [[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]] * Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous. ~ [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]] * The highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith; but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, — the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren and their rights of conscience. Tolerance is the first principal of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think. ~ [[Helen Keller]] * For the future, let all people live in harmony ... Men should be taught and won over by reason, not by blows, insults, and corporal punishments. ~ [[Julian]] * The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them. ~ [[George Orwell]] * There is nothing better or more necessary than love. ~ [[John of the Cross]] * We thought: we're poor, we have nothing, but when we started losing one after the other so each day became remembrance day, we started composing poems about God's great generosity and — our former riches. ~ [[Anna Akhmatova]] * The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words. ~ [[Anne Morrow Lindbergh]] * Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior. ~ [[Mary McCarthy]] * We wanted to bring some love to the world. I thought we were good at doing that. Bringin' love to the world. ~ [[Brian Wilson]] * It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it. ~ [[Aung San Suu Kyi]] * ''Will you still need me,<br>Will you still feed me,<br>When I'm sixty-four?''<br>~ [[Paul McCartney]] ~ * Some would say that it is too idealistic to believe in a society based on tolerance and the sanctity of human life, where borders, nationalities and ideologies are of marginal importance. To those I say, this is not idealism, but rather realism, because history has taught us that war rarely resolves our differences. Force does not heal old wounds; it opens new ones. ~ [[Mohamed ElBaradei]] * If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. ~ [[Abraham Lincoln]] * Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight. ~ [[William McFee]] * The longest day must have its close — the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day. ~ [[Harriet Beecher Stowe]] * It is difficult to know yourself if you do not know others. To all Ways there are side-tracks. If you study a Way daily, and your spirit diverges, you may think you are obeying a good way, but objectively it is not the true Way. If you are following the true Way and diverge a little, this will later become a large divergence. You must realise this. ~ [[Miyamoto Musashi]] * If one is but secure at the foundation, he will not be pained by departure from minor details or affairs that are contrary to expectation. But in the end, the details of a matter are important. The right and wrong of one's way of doing things are found in trivial matters. ~ [[Yamamoto Tsunetomo]] * ''In small proportions we just beauties see,<br>And in short measures life may perfect be.''<br>~ [[Ben Jonson]] ~ * ''All that you see has appeared because of Love.<br>All shines from Love,<br>All pulses with Love,<br>All flows from Love — <br>No, once again, all '''is''' Love!'' <br> ~ [[Fakhruddin 'Iraqi]] ~ * ''When you were born in this world <br> Everyone laughed while you cried<br>Conduct not yourself in manner such <br>That they laugh when you are gone.'' <br>~ [[Kabir]] ~ * The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope. ~ [[Frank Lloyd Wright]] * Nature has mysterious infinities and imaginative power. It is always varying the productions it offers to us. The artist himself is one of nature's means. ~ [[Paul Gauguin]] * Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. ~ ''[[The Bible|The Book of Revelation]]'' * ''Nobody knows you. No. But I sing of you.<br>For posterity I sing of your profile and grace.<br>Of the signal maturity of your understanding.<br>Of your appetite for death and the taste of its mouth.<br>Of the sadness of your once valiant gaiety.''<br> ~ [[Federico García Lorca]] ~ * Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul. ~ [[Victor Hugo]] in ''[[Les Misérables]]'' * It's a bumper sticker culture. People have to get it like that, and if they don't, if it takes three seconds to make them understand, you're off their radar screen. Three seconds to understand, or you lose. This is our problem. ~ [[Lawrence Lessig]] * A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms. ~ [[Thomas Hardy]] * Surprise becomes effective when we suddenly face the enemy at one point with far more troops than he expected. This type of numerical superiority is quite distinct from numerical superiority in general: it is the most powerful medium in the art of war. ~ [[Carl von Clausewitz]] == May 2006 == * ''I am for those that have never been master'd, <br> For men and women whose tempers have never been master'd, <br> For those whom laws, theories, conventions, can never master.''<br> ~ [[Walt Whitman]] in ''[[Leaves of Grass]]'' ~ * I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed on me by my own reason. I am conscious of my own inability to grasp, in all its detail, and positive development, any very large portion of human knowledge. The greatest intelligence would not be equal to a comprehension of the whole... I receive and I give — such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn. Therefore there is no fixed and constant authority, but a continual exchange of mutual, temporary, and, above all, voluntary authority and subordination. ~ [[Mikhail Bakunin]] * It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all. ~ [[G. K. Chesterton]] * What I do know for certain is that what is regarded as success in a rational materialistic society only impresses superficial minds. It amounts to nothing and will not help us rout the destructive forces threatening us today. What may be our salvation is the discovery of the identity hidden deep in any one of us, and which may be found in even the most desperate individual, if he cares to search the spiritual womb which contains the embryo of what can be one's personal contribution to truth and life. ~ [[Patrick White]] * Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver. ~ [[Harlan Ellison]] * When you get in situations where you cannot afford to make a mistake, it's very hard to do the right thing. So if you're trying to do the right thing, the right thing might be to eliminate the cost of making a mistake rather than try to guess what's right. ~ [[Ward Cunningham]] * ''They reckon ill who leave me out;<br> When me they fly, I am the wings;<br> I am the doubter and the doubt,<br> And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.'' <br> ~ [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]] ~ * Every failure is a step to success. ~ [[William Whewell]] * Cynicism isn't smarter, it's only safer. There's nothing fluffy about optimism. ~ [[Jewel (singer)|Jewel]] * ''A little Learning is a dang'rous Thing;<br>Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring:<br>There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain,<br>And drinking largely sobers us again.'' <br> ~ [[Alexander Pope]] ~ * A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. ~ [[Alexander Pope]] * Love is like some fresh spring, first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows to plunge itself in some boundless ocean, where restricted natures only find monotony, but where great souls are engulfed in endless contemplation. ~ [[Honoré de Balzac]] * Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious — that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment. ~ [[Dan Brown]] * ''A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, <br> A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread — and Thou <br> Beside me singing in the Wilderness — <br> Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!'' <br>~ [[Omar Khayyám]] ~ * There is no formula to it because writing every song, for me, is a little journey... It's everything. It's the walk you take in the morning, it's the night before, the meeting with people, landscapes, the chats, all of that evolves in some way into melody, but I'm not sure how it's going to happen. I'm dealing with the unknown all the time and that is exciting. ~ [[Enya]] * I like quoting Einstein. Know why? Because nobody dares contradict you. ~ [[Studs Terkel]] * The voice of the individual artist may seem perhaps of no more consequence than the whirring of a cricket in the grass, but the arts do live continuously, and they live literally by faith; their names and their shapes and their uses and their basic meanings survive unchanged in all that matters through times of interruption, diminishment, neglect; they outlive governments and creeds and the societies, even the very civilization that produced them. They cannot be destroyed altogether because they represent the substance of faith and the only reality. They are what we find again when the ruins are cleared away. ~ [[Katherine Anne Porter]] * It is confidently expected that the period is at hand, when man, through ignorance, shall not much longer inflict unnecessary misery on man; because the mass of mankind will become enlightened, and will clearly discern that by so acting they will inevitably create misery to themselves. ~ [[Robert Owen]] * 'Fire' does not matter, 'earth' and 'air' and 'water' do not matter. 'I' do not matter. No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words. ~ [[Roger Zelazny]] in ''[[Lord of Light]]'' * ''Duty, Honor, Country'' — those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn. ~ [[Douglas MacArthur]] * Positive vibrations man. That's what makes it work. That's reggae music. You can't look away because it's real. You listen to what I sing because I mean what I sing, there's no secret, no big deal. Just honesty, that's all. ~ [[Bob Marley]] * The Truth lies not in the Yes and not in the No, but in the knowledge and the beginning from which the Yes and the No arise. ~ [[Karl Barth]] * The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come. The time to build is upon us. ~ [[Nelson Mandela]] * While in the physical sciences the investigator will be able to measure what, on the basis of a ''prima facie'' theory, he thinks important, in the social sciences often that is treated as important which happens to be accessible to measurement. This is sometimes carried to the point where it is demanded that our theories must be formulated in such terms that they refer only to measurable magnitudes. ~ [[Friedrich Hayek]] * The meaning of the living words that come out of the experiences of great hearts can never be exhausted by any one system of logical interpretation. They have to be endlessly explained by the commentaries of individual lives, and they gain an added mystery in each new revelation. ~ [[Rabindranath Tagore]] * Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action. ~ [[Sigmund Freud]] * Once you label me you negate me. ~ [[Søren Kierkegaard]] * Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this. ~ [[T. H. Huxley]] * Education is what you get when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. ~ [[Pete Seeger]] * We are near waking when we dream that we dream. ~ [[Novalis]] * I react pragmatically. Where the market works, I'm for that. Where the government is necessary, I'm for that. I'm deeply suspicious of somebody who says, 'I'm in favor of privatization,' or, 'I'm deeply in favor of public ownership.' I'm in favor of whatever works in the particular case. ~ [[John Kenneth Galbraith]] == April 2006 == * You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length. ~ [[Carl Friedrich Gauss]] * Despite the best that has been done by everyone — the gallant fighting of the military and naval forces, the diligence and assiduity of Our servants of the State, and the devoted service of Our one hundred million people — the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage, while the general trends of the world have all turned against her interest. ~ [[Hirohito]] * War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost. ~ [[Karl Kraus]] * The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. ~ [[Edward Gibbon]] * Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to. ~ [[Marcus Aurelius]] * The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue. ~ [[Edward R. Murrow]] * The end of man is knowledge but there's one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it would save him. ~ [[Robert Penn Warren]] * The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. ~ [[William Shakespeare]] in ''[[As You Like It]]'' * I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more. ~ [[Vladimir Nabokov]] * This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on seas and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls. ~ [[John Muir]] * Oh, the comfort — the inexpressible comfort of feeling ''safe'' with a person — having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. ~ [[Dinah Craik]] * ''By the rude bridge that arched the flood,<br>Their flag to April's breeze unfurled;<br>Here once the embattled farmers stood;<br>And fired the shot heard round the world.'' <br> ~ [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]] ~ * I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure — that is all that agnosticism means. ~ [[Clarence Darrow]] * Where the storyteller is loyal, eternally and unswervingly loyal to the story, there, in the end, silence will speak. Where the story has been betrayed, silence is but emptiness. But we, the faithful, when we have spoken our last word, will hear the voice of silence. ~ [[Karen Blixen]] * The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you. ~ [[Jesus|Yeshua (Jesus Christ)]] * Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to us, nevertheless it can happen that a certain fictive hypothesis may suffice for explaining many phenomena. ~ [[Leonhard Euler]] * Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more. ~ [[Jesus|Yeshua (Jesus Christ)]] * I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. ~ [[Thomas Jefferson]] * Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed. ~ [[Tom Clancy]] * A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others. ~ [[Leo Rosten]] * Any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy, which qualifies life for immortality. ~ [[George William Russell]] * I'm sure we all agree that we ought to love one another, and I know there are people in the world who do not love their fellow human beings — and I ''hate'' people like that! ~ [[Tom Lehrer]] * Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love. This is the eternal rule. ~ [[Gautama Buddha]] * ''Thanks to the human heart by which we live,<br>Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears,<br>To me the meanest flower that blows can give<br>Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.'' <br>~ [[William Wordsworth]] ~ * Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. ~ [[Isaac Asimov]] * Do not that to another, which thou wouldest not have done to thy selfe. ~ [[Thomas Hobbes]] * There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory. ~ [[Francis Drake|Sir Francis Drake]] * There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in travelling in a stage-coach, that it is often a comfort to shift one’s position and be bruised in a new place. ~ [[Washington Irving]] * Whether it is happy or unhappy, a man's life is the only treasure he can ever possess. ~ [[Giacomo Casanova]] * The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year. ~ [[Mark Twain]] == March 2006 == * When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit that our lives are all that really belong to us. So, it is how we use our lives that determines what kind of men we are. It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life. ~ [[Cesar Chavez]] * Nothing can be surprising any more or impossible or miraculous, now that Zeus, father of the Olympians has made night out of noonday, hiding the bright sunlight, and . . . fear has come upon mankind. After this, men can believe anything, expect anything. ~ [[Archilochus]] * Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way. ~ [[Stanisław Lem]] * I'd like just to be remembered as a guy that came along and did his music, did his best and showed up on time, clean and ready to do the job, wrote a few songs, and had a hell of a time. ~ [[Buck Owens]] * All knowledge is oriented toward some object and is influenced in its approach by the nature of the object with which it is pre-occupied. But the mode of approach to the object to be known is dependent upon the nature of the knower. ~ [[Karl Mannheim]] * ''He acts without contact, <br/> instructs without meeting,<br/> guides without pointing. <br/> Desires do not conflict with Him, <br/> thoughts do not mingle with Him:<br/> His essence is without qualification,<br/> His action without effort.'' <br>~ [[Mansur al-Hallaj]] ~ * A wiki works best where you're trying to answer a question that you can't easily pose, where there's not a natural structure that's known in advance to what you need to know. ~ [[Ward Cunningham]] * With the arrogance of youth, I determined to do no less than to transform the world with Beauty. If I have succeeded in some small way, if only in one small corner of the world, amongst the men and women I love, then I shall count myself blessed, and blessed, and blessed, and the work goes on. ~ [[William Morris]] * Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! ~ [[Patrick Henry]] * As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makes plain the pathway. ~ [[Anne Hutchinson]] * The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. ~ [[Jean Cocteau]] * The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom — these are the pillars of society. ~ [[Henrik Ibsen]] * ''Who save the madman dares to cry: "'Tis I am right, you all are wrong"? <br> "You all are right, you all are wrong," we hear the careless Soofi say, <br>"For each believes his glimm'ering lamp to be the gorgeous light of day." ''<br> ~ Sir [[Richard Francis Burton]] ~ * The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party. ~ [[John C. Calhoun]] * Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. There is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof. ~ "V" in ''[[V for Vendetta (film)|V for Vendetta]]'' * Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. The detective must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor. He talks as the man of his age talks, that is, with rude wit, a lively sense of the grotesque, a disgust for sham, and a contempt for pettiness. ~ [[Raymond Chandler]] * Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces. ~ [[Julius Caesar]] * Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. ~ [[Albert Einstein]] * Don't play for safety. It's the most dangerous thing in the world. ~ [[Hugh Walpole]] * Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite. ~ [[Edward Albee]] * Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all. ~ [[Douglas Adams]] * All that separates, whether of race, class, creed, or sex, is inhuman, and must be overcome. ~ [[Kate Sheppard]] * Some choices will choose you. How you face these choices, these turns in the road, with what kind of attitude, more than the choices themselves, is what will define the context of your life. ~ [[Dana Reeve]] * The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done. ~ [[Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.]] * ''Burn all the statutes and their shelves:<br>They stir us up against our kind;<br>And worse, against ourselves.<br>We have a passion — make a law,<br>Too false to guide us or control!<br>And for the law itself we fight<br>In bitterness of soul.<br>And, puzzled, blinded thus, we lose<br>Distinctions that are plain and few: <br>These find I graven on my heart:<br>'''That''' tells me what to do.''<br> ~ [[William Wordsworth]] in "[[Robert Roy MacGregor|Rob Roy]]'s Grave" ~ * Give thought to life and liberty. ~ [[Cyrano de Bergerac]] * Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party — though they are quite numerous — is no freedom at all. Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters. ~ [[Rosa Luxemburg]] * ''There was a young fellow from Trinity, <br>Who took the square root of infinity. <br>But the number of digits, Gave him the fidgets; <br>He dropped Math and took up Divinity.''<br> ~ [[George Gamow]] ~ * In mathematics the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems. ~ [[Georg Cantor]] * Our dignity, our free institutions and the peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of ''true'' patriotism: 'Our country — when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right.' ~ [[Carl Schurz]] * ''I dreamt the past was never past redeeming:<br>But whether this was false or honest dreaming<br>I beg death's pardon now. And mourn the dead.'' <br>~ [[Richard Wilbur]] ~ == February 2006 == * If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away. ~ [[Linus Pauling]] * ''Tell me not, in mournful numbers, <br>"Life is but an empty dream!" <br>For the soul is dead that slumbers,<br>And things are not what they seem.'' <br>~ [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]] ~ * Sure, ninety percent of science fiction is crud. That's because ninety percent of everything is crud. ~ [[Theodore Sturgeon]] * That so many writers have been prepared to accept a kind of martyrdom is the best tribute that flesh can pay to the living spirit of man as expressed in his literature. One cannot doubt that the martyrdom will continue to be gladly embraced. To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the world that matters. ~ [[Anthony Burgess]] * Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves. ~ [[Chester Nimitz]] * Man is always something more than what he knows of himself. He is not what he is simply once and for all, but is a process... ~ [[Karl Jaspers]] * I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. ~ [[George Washington]] * When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with. ~ [[Anaïs Nin]] * We picked up everything we could get our hands on. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug-collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can. <br>The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. ~ [[Hunter S. Thompson]] * External success has to do with people who may see me as a model, or an example, or a representative. As much as I may dislike or want to reject that responsibility, this is something that comes with public success. It's important to give others a sense of hope that it is possible and you can come from really different places in the world and find your own place in the world that's unique for yourself. ~ [[Amy Tan]] * At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needs to be kept and you don't need someone to share it with or tell it to. When that happens — that letting go — you let go because you can. ~ [[Toni Morrison]] * Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen. ~ [[Michael Jordan]] * Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. ~ [[Henry Adams]] * I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use. ~ [[Galileo Galilei]] * Some things you don't need until they leave you; they're the things that you miss. ~ [[Rob Thomas]] * Life is what it is, and you take what's handed, and you work as hard as you can, and hopefully you'll be successful, but I just don't spend too much time worrying about that. ~ [[Jerry Springer]] * Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. ~ [[Abraham Lincoln]] * When writing about transcendental issues, be transcendentally clear. ~ [[René Descartes]] * What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth. ~ [[Boris Pasternak]] * Does it really matter what these affectionate people do — so long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses? ~ [[Mrs Patrick Campbell]] * There are, indeed, two forms of discontent: one laborious, the other indolent and complaining. We respect the man of laborious desire, but let us not suppose that his restlessness is peace, or his ambition meekness. It is because of the special connection of meekness with contentment that it is promised that the meek shall 'inherit the earth.' Neither covetous men, nor the grave, can inherit anything; they can but consume. Only contentment can possess. ~ [[John Ruskin]] * He judged it not fit to determine anything rashly; and seemed to doubt whether those different forms of religion might not all come from God, who might inspire man in a different manner, and be pleased with this variety; he therefore thought it indecent and foolish for any man to threaten and terrify another to make him believe what did not appear to him to be true. ~ [[Thomas More]] * You and I are told increasingly that we have to choose between a left or right, but I would like to suggest that there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down — up to a man's age-old dream; the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order — or down to the ant heap totalitarianism, and regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course. ~ [[Ronald Reagan]] * What counts now is not just what we are against, but what we are for. Who leads us is less important than what leads us—what convictions, what courage, what faith—win or lose. ~ [[Adlai Stevenson]] * If one took no chances, one would not fly at all. Safety lies in the judgment of the chances one takes. That judgment, in turn, must rest upon one’s outlook on life. Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. ~ [[Charles Lindbergh]] * An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it. ~ [[James A. Michener]] * There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens. ~ [[Coretta Scott King]] * ''I've known rivers: <br>I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the <br> flow of human blood in human veins. <br> My soul has grown deep like the rivers.'' <br> ~ [[Langston Hughes]] ~ == January 2006 == * Everyone does magic all the time in different ways. 'Life' plus 'significance' = magic. ~ [[Grant Morrison]] * The only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. ~ [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] * Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring — it was peace. ~ [[Milan Kundera]] * Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it. ~ [[Colette]] * If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later. ~ [[Lewis Carroll]] * I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes... But once war is forced upon us, there is no other alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. ~ [[Douglas MacArthur]] * While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its way unimpeded. Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness. None knows where he goes or comes. He may seek the truth and speak it; he alone is free; he alone is truthful, he alone is at peace. ~ [[Virginia Woolf]] in ''[[Orlando: A Biography]]'' * ''Musick has Charms to sooth a savage Breast,<br>To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak.'' <br> ~ [[William Congreve]] ~ * To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law — a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security. ~ [[Walter M. Miller Jr.]] * Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing. ~ [[Robert E. Howard]] * So far as prejudice, or prepossession of opinion prevails over our minds, in the same proportion, reason is excluded from our theory or practice. Therefore if we would acquire useful knowledge, we must first divest ourselves of those impediments and sincerely endeavor to search out the truth: and draw our conclusions from reason and just argument, which will never conform to our inclination, interest or fancy but we must conform to that if we would judge rightly. ~ [[Ethan Allen]] * I don't understand politics. I don't understand the concept of two sides. And I think that probably there's good on both sides, bad on both sides, and there's a middle ground. But it never seems to come to the middle ground. And it's very frustrating watching it, and seemingly we're not moving forward. ~ [[David Lynch]] * They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. ~ [[Edgar Allan Poe]] * There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world. ~ [[Robert Anton Wilson]] * Human felicity is produc'd not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day. ~ [[Benjamin Franklin]] * What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love... I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems. And I'm going to talk about it everywhere I go. ~ [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]] * Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing. ~ [[Jimmy Wales]] * Not one of us knows what effect his life produces, and what he gives to others; that is hidden from us and must remain so, though we are often allowed to see some little fraction of it, so that we may not lose courage. ~ [[Albert Schweitzer]] * I have but one passion: to enlighten those who have been kept in the dark, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and is entitled to happiness. My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul. ~ [[Émile Zola]] * Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. ~ [[Edmund Burke]] * The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power. ~ [[Alexander Hamilton]] * ''Know that however ugly the parts appear<br> the whole remains beautiful... <br> ... the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty <br> of the universe. Love that, not man <br>Apart from that, or else you will share man's pitiful confusions, <br> or drown in despair when his days darken.'' <br>~ [[Robinson Jeffers]] ~ * Life will not perish! It will begin anew with love; it will start out naked and tiny; it will take root in the wilderness, and to it all that we did and built will mean nothing — our towns and factories, our art, our ideas will all mean nothing, and yet life will not perish! Only we have perished. Our houses and machines will be in ruins, our systems will collapse, and the names of our great will fall away like dry leaves. Only you, love, will blossom on this rubbish heap and commit the seed of life to the winds. ~ [[Karel Čapek]] * For millions of years mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk. ~ [[Stephen Hawking]] * There is no first world and third world. There is only one world, for all of us to live and delight in. ~ [[Gerald Durrell]] * In the future days which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression — everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way — everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want... everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear... anywhere in the world. That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. ~ [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] * Evil spreads with the wind; truth is capable of spreading even against it. ~ [[Paramahansa Yogananda]] * I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. ~ [[Isaac Newton]] * Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age? ~ [[Cicero]] * How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection...That is all wrong. The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers. The true scientist is quite imaginative as well as rational, and sometimes leaps to solutions where reason can follow only slowly; if he does not, his science suffers. ~ [[Isaac Asimov]] * Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die. ~ [[E. M. Forster]] == December 2005 == * ''For auld lang syne, my jo,<br> For auld lang syne,<br> We'll tak' a cup o' kindness yet,<br>For auld lang syne!'' <br>~ [[w:Auld Lang Syne|"Auld Lang Syne"]] by [[Robert Burns]] ~ * ''If you can keep your head when all about you<br>Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,<br>If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,<br>But make allowance for their doubting too;<br>If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,<br>Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,<br>Or being hated, don't give way to hating,<br>And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise . . . <br> If you can fill the unforgiving minute<br>With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,<br>Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,<br>And — which is more — you'll be a Man, my son! '' <br> ~ [[Rudyard Kipling]] ~ * If I am shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet. ~ [[Andrew Johnson]] * No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation. ~ [[Woodrow Wilson]] * Except for the people who were there that one day they discovered the polio vaccine, being part of history is rarely a good idea. History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between. ~ [[Sarah Vowell]] * It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion. ~ [[Norman Angell]] * My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that? ~ [[Bob Hope]] * '' 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house<br>Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;<br>The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,<br>In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.''<br> ~ "[[w:A Visit from St. Nicholas|A Visit from St. Nicholas]]" ~ * Many Christmases ago, I went to buy a doll for my son. I reached for the last one they had, but so did another man. As I rained blows upon him, I realized there had to be another way . . . out of that a new holiday was born . . . a Festivus for the rest of us! ~ [[w:Jerry Stiller|Jerry Stiller]] as "Frank Costanza" in ''[[Seinfeld]]'', on the origins of [[w:Festivus|Festivus]]. * My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy. ~ [[George Eliot]] * I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. ~ [[George S. Patton]] * For most of human history we have searched for our place in the cosmos. Who are we? What are we? We find that we inhabit an insignificant planet of a hum-drum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions, and by the depth of our answers. ~ [[Carl Sagan]] * The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them. ~ [[Emily Brontë]] * It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die. ~ [[Steve Biko]] * I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach. ~ [[Charles Dickens]] * Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy. If you're afraid you don't commit yourself to life completely; fear makes you always, always hold something back. ~ [[Philip K. Dick]] * Trouble arises when either science or religion claims universal jurisdiction, when either religious dogma or scientific dogma claims to be infallible. Religious creationists and scientific materialists are equally dogmatic and insensitive. By their arrogance they bring both science and religion into disrepute. ~ [[Freeman Dyson]] * My creed is that public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation with full recognition that every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration, that constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought, that smears are not only to be expected but fought, that honor is to be earned but not bought. ~ [[Margaret Chase Smith]] * ''The maple tree that night<br>Without a wind or rain<br>Let go its leaves<br>Because its time had come.'' <br> ~ [[Eugene McCarthy]] ~ * I had some great things and I had some bad things. The best and the worst... In other words, I had a life. ~ [[Richard Pryor]] * Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory. ~ [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]] * ''Tell all the Truth but tell it slant — <br> Success in Circuit lies <br> Too bright for our infirm Delight <br> The Truth's superb surprise<br> As Lightning to the Children eased<br> With explanation kind<br> The Truth must dazzle gradually<br> Or every man be blind — ''<br> ~ [[Emily Dickinson]] ~ * We take men for what they are worth — and that is why we hate the government of man by man, and that we work with all our might — perhaps not strong enough — to put an end to it. ~ [[Peter Kropotkin]] * It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers. ~ [[James Thurber]] * That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. ~ [[Willa Cather]] * ''Love is made out of ecstasy and wonder;<br>Love is a poignant and accustomed pain.<br>It is a burst of Heaven-shaking thunder;<br>It is a linnet's fluting after rain.''<br> ~ [[Joyce Kilmer]] ~ * If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse. ~ [[Walt Disney]] * Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything. ~ [[Rainer Maria Rilke]] * All idealisation makes life poorer. To beautify it is to take away its character of complexity — it is to destroy it. ~ [[Joseph Conrad]] * I do not believe that friendship today can flower out — can come out — of political life. I do believe that if there is something like a political life-to-be — to remain for us, in this world of technology — then it begins with friendship. ~ [[Ivan Illich]] * The important thing, I think, is not to be bitter... if it turns about that there is a God, I don't think that he is evil. I think that the worst thing you could say is that he is, basically, an under-achiever. ~ [[Woody Allen]] == November 2005 == * Hello. My name is Iñigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die. ~ [[Mandy Patinkin]] as "Iñigo Montoya" in ''[[The Princess Bride (film)|The Princess Bride]]'' * Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. ~ [[C.S. Lewis]] * A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. ~ [[William Blake]] * Put every great teacher together in a room, and they'd agree about everything; put their disciples in there and they'd argue about everything. ~ [[Bruce Lee]] * If I were to be given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself. ~ [[Charles M. Schulz]] * Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future. ~ [[Ba Jin]] * There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. ~ [[Charles Darwin]] * As good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. ~ [[John Milton]] in ''[[Areopagitica]]'' * O may I join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again in minds made better by their presence; live in pulses stirred to generosity, in deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn for miserable aims that end with self, in thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, and with their mild persistence urge men's search to vaster issues. ~ [[George Eliot]] * We must believe in free will — we have no choice. ~ [[Isaac Bashevis Singer]] * The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is. ~ [[Nadine Gordimer]] * In a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. ~ [[Abraham Lincoln]] * We’re all puppets, Laurie. I’m just a puppet who can see the strings. ~ [[Alan Moore]] in ''[[Watchmen]]'' * It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily. ~ [[Martin Scorsese]] * From each as they choose, to each as they are chosen. ~ [[Robert Nozick]] * ''Variety's the very spice of life, <br> That gives it all its flavour.'' <br> ~ [[William Cowper]] ~ * The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over. ~ [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] * Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good. ~ [[Augustine of Hippo]] * Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration. The remedy the world needeth in its present-day afflictions can never be the same as that which a subsequent age may require. Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and centre your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements. ~ [[Bahá'u'lláh]] * Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow and of the man who leads that gains that victory. ~ [[George S. Patton]] * We are always living in the final days. What have you got? A hundred years or much, much less until the end of your world. ~ [[Neil Gaiman]] * If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. ~ [[Carl Sagan]] * Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind. ~ [[John F. Kennedy]] * ''I found a book on how to be invisible — <br>On the edge of the labyrinth —<br>Under a veil you must never lift — <br> Pages you must never turn —<br> In the labyrinth.'' <br>~ [[Kate Bush]] ~ * An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind. ~ [[Mohandas Gandhi]] * I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun. ~ [[Will Durant]] * After looking at mothers-in-law and seeing sons-in-law — I always felt that the jokes were on the wrong ones. No sir, you can look through everything I ever did write or say, and you never did hear me tell a joke about any mother-in-law — or any creed, color or religion, either. ~ [[Will Rogers]] * ''Somewhere, over the rainbow, way up high,<br/>There's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby.<br/>Somewhere, over the rainbow, skies are blue,<br/>And the dreams that you dare to dream <br>Really do come true.'' <br> ~ [[Judy Garland]] as "Dorothy Gale" in ''[[The Wizard of Oz]]'' ~ * Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end? ~ [[Marie Antoinette]] * ''I am everything — <br>Tonight I'll be your mother — I will<br>Do such things to ease your pain —<br>Free your mind and you won't feel ashamed.'' <br> ~ [[Sophie B. Hawkins]] ~ == October 2005 == * ''I can see lights in the distance trembling in the dark cloak of night<br>Candles and lanterns are dancing, dancing a waltz on All Souls Night.''<br> ~ [[Loreena McKennitt]] ~ * There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. ~ [[John Adams]] * All those who listen to me shall pass on my words to others and those to others again; and may the last ones understand my words better than those who listen to me directly. ~ [[Muhammad]] * Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process, and nature in marking man's papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival and by the quality of life of those who survive. ~ [[Jonas Salk]] * It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat. ~ [[Theodore Roosevelt]] * I know that it will hurt, I know that it will break your heart, the way things are, and the way they've been. Don't spread the discontent, don't spread the lies, don't make the same mistakes with your own life. ~ [[Natalie Merchant]] * Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used. ~ [[Richard E. Byrd]] * The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel. ~ [[Horace Walpole]] * Reality is always greater — much greater — than what we know, than whatever we can say about it. ~ [[Michael Crichton]] * I am 100 percent in favor of the intelligent use of drugs, and 1,000 percent against the thoughtless use of them, whether caffeine or LSD. And drugs are not central to my life. ~ [[Timothy Leary]] * Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration. ~ [[Thomas Alva Edison]] * I think for it to be unhip to be idealistic is weird, you know? I mean, even all the best rebels to me had some sense of hope in them. ~ [[Tom Petty]] * Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. ~ [[Lewis Mumford]] * We take the position that there is no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation. ~ [[Pierre Trudeau]] * Live as one of them, Kal-El, to discover where your strength and your power are needed. Always hold in your heart the pride of your special heritage. They can be a great people, Kal-El — they wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way. ~ [[Marlon Brando]] as "Jor-El" in ''[[Superman: The Movie]]'' * We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. ~ [[Oscar Wilde]] * Behold the believers of all beliefs! Whom do they hate most? Him who breaketh up their tables of values, the breaker, the law-breaker — he, however, is the creator. Companions, the creator seeketh, not corpses — and not herds or believers either. Fellow-creators the creator seeketh — those who grave new values on new tables. ~ [[Friedrich Nietzsche]] * love is the every only god ~ [[E. E. Cummings|e. e. cummings]] * Forgive us the breach of positive commands and negative commands, whether or not they involve an act, whether or not they are known to us. ~ Liturgy for [[w:Yom Kippur|Yom Kippur]] * Tragedy blows through your life like a tornado, uprooting everything, creating chaos. You wait for the dust to settle, and then you choose. You can live in the wreckage and pretend it's still the mansion you remember. Or you can crawl from the rubble and slowly rebuild. ~ Kristen Bell, as "[[Veronica Mars]]" * You always fall when you’re training, that’s sort of part of the process. If you’re not falling, you’re not training hard enough. ~ [[Michelle Trachtenberg]] * The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity — love. And the story of a love is not important — what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. ~ [[Helen Hayes]] * I think the ultimate sense of security will be when we come to recognize that we are all part of one human race. Our primary allegiance is to the human race and not to one particular color or border. ~ [[Mohamed ElBaradei]] * Much that was called religion has carried an unconscious attitude of hostility toward life. True religion must teach that life is filled with joys pleasing to the eye of God, that knowledge without action is empty. All men must see that the teaching of religion by rules and rote is largely a hoax. The proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you've always known. ~ [[Frank Herbert]] in ''[[Dune]]'' * The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. ~ [[Niels Bohr]] * ''Old age hath yet his honor and his toil. <br> Death closes all; but something ere the end, <br> Some work of noble note, may yet be done, <br> Not unbecoming men that strove with gods.'' <br>~ [[Alfred Tennyson|Alfred, Lord Tennyson]] ~ * Politicians at international forums may reiterate a thousand times that the basis of the new world order must be universal respect for human rights, but it will mean nothing as long as this imperative does not derive from the respect of the miracle of Being, the miracle of the universe, the miracle of nature, the miracle of our own existence. ~ [[Václav Havel]] * If we do discover a complete theory, it should in time be understandable in broad principle by everyone, not just a few scientists. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people, be able to take part in the discussion of the question of why it is that we and the universe exist. If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason — for then we would know the mind of God. ~ [[Stephen Hawking]] * Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age. ~ [[John Perry Barlow]] * There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone. ~ [[Rod Serling]] in ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' * War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children. ~ [[Jimmy Carter]] ==September 2005== * Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. ~ [[Helen Schucman]] <!-- This quote was originally used on this date because it had become attributed to Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi (born 30 September 1207); the attribution was later corrected on 2007·09·30. --> * There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. ~ [[Enrico Fermi]] * ''In the season of white wild roses <br>We two went hand in hand: <br>But now in the ruddy autumn <br>Together already we stand.'' <br> ~ [[Francis Turner Palgrave]] ~ * ''Could you see the storm rising? <br>Could you see the guy who was driving?<br>Could you climb higher and higher? <br>Could you climb right over the top?'' <br>~ [[Kate Bush]] ~ * ''The awful daring of a moment's surrender<br>Which an age of prudence can never retract <br>By this, and this only, we have existed.'' <br> ~ [[T. S. Eliot]] ~ * Between grief and nothing I will take grief. ~ [[William Faulkner]] * I wait... wait for the mists and for the blacker rain— heavier winds that stir the veil of fate, happier winds that pile her hair; Again they tear me, teach me, strew the heavy air upon me, winds that I know, and storm. ~ [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]] * ''There's something happening somewhere — baby I just know that there is. <br>You can't start a fire — you can't start a fire without a spark.<br>This gun's for hire — even if we're just dancing in the dark.'' <br> ~ [[Bruce Springsteen]] ~ * Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. ~ [[George Eliot]] * Hope is a good thing — maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies. ~ "Andy Dufresne" in ''[[The Shawshank Redemption]]'' by [[Stephen King]] * There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will have truly defeated age. ~ [[Sophia Loren]] * There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream. ~ [[Frances Farmer]] * Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. ~ [[Samuel Johnson]] * I've never seen anybody really find the answer — they think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer. ~ [[Ken Kesey]] * A planned life is a dead life. ~ [[Lauren Bacall]] * Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions. ~ [[Agatha Christie]] * I've had enough of breakdowns and diagrams— judging from picture books, apparently Heaven is a partly cloudy place. ~ [[Jenny Lewis]] * Miss Manners does not mind explaining the finer points of gracious living, but she feels that anyone without the sense to pick up a potato chip and stuff it in their face should probably not be running around loose on the streets. ~ [[Judith Martin]], widely known as "Miss Manners" * The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of the truth — that error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it has been cured of one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one. ~ [[H. L. Mencken]] * [[September 11, 2001 attacks|September 11]] was, and remains, above all an immense human tragedy. But September 11 also posed a momentous and deliberate challenge not just to America but to the world at large. The target of the terrorists was not only New York and Washington but the very values of freedom, tolerance and decency which underpin our way of life. ~ [[Tony Blair]] * I strongly reject any conceptual scheme that places our options on a line, and holds that the only alternative to a pair of extreme positions lies somewhere between them. More fruitful perspectives often require that we step off the line to a site outside the dichotomy. ~ [[Stephen Jay Gould]] * Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. ~ [[Leo Tolstoy]] * Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give. ~ [[David O. McKay]] * I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. ~ [[Edith Sitwell]] * No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt. ~ [[Robert M. Pirsig]] * The role of the Supreme Court is to uphold those claims of individual liberty that it finds are well-founded in the Constitution, and to reject other claims against the government that it concludes are not well-founded. Its role is no more to exclusively uphold the claims of the individual than it is to exclusively uphold the claims of the government: It must hold the constitutional balance true between these claims. ~ [[William Rehnquist]] * I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise? ~ [[Federico Fellini]] * I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. ~ [[Frederick Douglass]] * Speak softly and carry a big stick. ~ [[Theodore Roosevelt]] * It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls. ~ [[Bruce Fairchild Barton]] ==August 2005 == * Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding-place and let it be free and unashamed. Place in matter and in flesh the least of the values, for these are things that hold death and must pass away. Discover in all things that which shines and is beyond corruption. Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world. ~ [[William Saroyan]] * No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success. Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. ~ [[Mary Shelley]] * I find that the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it— but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. ~ [[Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.]] * I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood... I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today... ~ [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]] * The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved. ~ [[Confucius]] * You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn. ~ [[John Buchan]] * We have met the enemy and he is us. ~ [[Walt Kelly]] * Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire. ~ [[Jorge Luis Borges]] * I could not be a traitor to Edward, for I was never his subject. ~ [[William Wallace]] * By a free country, I mean a country where people are allowed, so long as they do not hurt their neighbours, to do as they like. I do not mean a country where six men may make five men do exactly as they like. ~ [[Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury|Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Lord Salisbury]] * ''If you want the world to know<br>We won't let hatred grow<br>Put a little love in your heart.'' <br>~ [[Jackie DeShannon]] ~ * The Government of the State of Israel and the Palestinian team representing the Palestinian people agree that it is time to put an end to decades of confrontation and conflict, recognize their mutual legitimate and political rights, and strive to live in peaceful coexistence and mutual dignity and security to achieve a just, lasting and comprehensive peace settlement and historic reconciliation through the agreed political process. ~ The [[w:Oslo Accords|Oslo Accords]] * Truth has such a face and such a mien as to be lov'd needs only to be seen. ~ [[John Dryden]] * It’s a new generation. If you continue to hate, you are entering into the same philosophy that began the war. You have to look forward at people and new times. ~ [[Roman Polański]] * Be sure that you are right, and then go ahead. ~ [[Davy Crockett]] * All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. ~ [[T. E. Lawrence]] * To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs. ~ [[Sri Aurobindo]] * There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. ~ [[G. K. Chesterton]] * I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned. ~ [[Lucy Stone]] * Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes. ~ [[George Soros]] * I do not believe that the tendency is to make men and women brave and glorious when you tell them that there are certain ideas upon certain subjects that they must never express; that they must go through life with a pretence as a shield; that their neighbors will think much more of them if they will only keep still; and that above all is a God who despises one who honestly expresses what he believes. ~ [[Robert G. Ingersoll]] * There's a whole industry of conservatives saying, 'Ah, it's those damn liberals,' and a whole group of liberals saying, 'It's all those damn conservatives.'... ~ [[Peter Jennings]] * [[w:Transmission Control Protocol|TCP]] implementations will follow a general principle of robustness: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others. ~ [[Jon Postel]] * It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress. ~ [[Paul Dirac]] * Intelligence is like four-wheel drive. It only allows you to get stuck in more remote places. ~ [[Garrison Keillor]] * The Japanese were ready to surrender, and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing. ~ [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] * Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. ~ [[Mohandas Gandhi]] * ''My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:<BR> Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!<BR> Nothing beside remains: round the decay<BR> Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,<BR> The lone and level sands stretch far away.''<br> ~ [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]] ~ * When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human life, but of all life on Earth and of the life which must exist upon other planets throughout the universe. It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life on Earth, the sum total of life upon the Earth, has purpose. ~ [[Clifford D. Simak]] * When are you people going to learn? It's not about who's right or wrong. No denomination's nailed it yet, and they never will because they're all too self-righteous to realize that it doesn't matter what you have faith in, just that you have faith. Your hearts are in the right place, but your brains need to wake up. I have issues with anyone who treats faith as a burden instead of a blessing. You people don't celebrate your faith; you mourn it. ~ "Serendipity" in ''[[Dogma (film)|Dogma]]'', by [[Kevin Smith]] * From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it. That the starry vault shall surcharge the heart with all rapturous marvelings, is only because we ourselves are greater miracles, and superber trophies than all the stars in universal space. ~ [[Herman Melville]] == July 2005 == * I think I'd most like to spend a day with Harry. I'd take him out for a meal and apologise for everything I've put him through. ~ [[J. K. Rowling]] * ''No coward soul is mine,<br>No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere:<br> I see Heaven's glories shine,<br> And Faith shines equal, arming me from Fear.'' <br> ~ [[Emily Brontë]] ~ * All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer. ~ IBM maintenance manual (1925) * Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve. ~ [[Karl Popper]] * From quiet homes and first beginning, Out to the undiscovered ends, There's nothing worth the wear of winning, But laughter and the love of friends. ~ [[Hilaire Belloc]] * Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him. ~ [[Carl Jung]] * ''In Xanadu did Kubla Khan <br> A stately pleasure-dome decree: <br> Where Alph, the sacred river, ran <br>Through caverns measureless to man <br> Down to a sunless sea.'' <br> ~ [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]] ~ * Thro' many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come; 'Tis grace has brought me safe thus far, and grace will lead me home. ~ [[John Newton]] * The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective. ~ [[Raymond Chandler]] * ''Give me your tired, your poor,<br>Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,<br>The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.<br>Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,<br>I lift my lamp beside the golden door!''<br>~ [[Emma Lazarus]] ~ * We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for awhile, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces. ~ [[Carl Sagan]] * That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. ~ [[Neil Armstrong]] on first stepping onto the surface of the moon, 20th July 1969. * Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. ~ [[Otto von Bismarck]] * The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. ~ [[Nelson Mandela]] * Most of the books, music and movies ever released are not available for sale, anywhere in the world. In the brief time that P2P nets have flourished, the ad-hoc masses of the Internet have managed to put just about everything online. What’s more, they’ve done it far cheaper than any other archiving/revival effort ever. ~ [[Cory Doctorow]] * By the declining day, lo! man is in a state of loss, save those who believe and do good works, and exhort one another to truth and exhort one another to endurance. ~ The [[Qur'an]] * Eternal vigilance must be maintained to guard against those who seek to stifle ideas, establish a narrow orthodoxy, and divide our nation along arbitrary lines of race, ethnicity, and religious belief or non-belief. ~ [[Jesse Ventura]] * We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and the purest ideal. ~ [[Ingmar Bergman]] * I know that you personally do not fear giving up your own life in order to take others— that is why you are so dangerous. But I know you fear that you may fail in your long-term objective to destroy our free society and I can show you why you will fail. ~ [[Ken Livingstone]], Mayor of London * I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. ~ [[Bill Cosby]] * All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse. ~ [[John Quincy Adams]] * All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combatted, suppressed— only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle. ~ [[Nikola Tesla]] * God never deserted our people. Right through the ages there were Jews. Through the ages they suffered, but it also made us strong. ~ [[Anne Frank]] * Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people. ~ [[Jean de La Fontaine]] * The more you love, the more you ''can'' love— and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on how ''many'' you can love. If a person had time enough, he could love all of that majority who are decent and just. ~ [[Robert A. Heinlein]] * I have not yet begun to fight! ~ [[John Paul Jones]] * From time to time the exceptional is necessary. For events as well as for men, the stock company is not enough; geniuses are needed among men, and revolutions among events. Great accidents are the law; the order of things cannot get along without them; and, to see the apparitions of comets, one would be tempted to believe that Heaven itself is in need of star actors. ~ [[Victor Hugo]] in ''[[Les Misérables]]'' * We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. ~ ''[[w:Declaration of Independence (United States)|The Declaration of Independence]] of the [[w:United States|United States of America]]'' * The splendor of life forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though; not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come. ~ [[Franz Kafka]] * Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. ~ [[Hermann Hesse]] * We tried to break it up from the outside, but that wouldn't work. Now that we're inside we can make a complete pig's breakfast of the whole thing: set the Germans against the French, the French against the Italians, the Italians against the Dutch. The Foreign Office is terribly pleased, it's just like old times. ~ "Sir Humphrey" on European unity, in the comedy series ''[[Yes, Minister]]'' == June 2005 == * It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing— a somewhat unfamilar conception for the average mind. Furthermore, the equation ''E = mc†'', in which energy is put equal to mass, multiplied by the square of the velocity of light, showed that very small amounts of mass may be converted into a very large amount of energy and vice versa. ~ [[Albert Einstein]] * Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. ~ [[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]] * Now you see, Lone Starr, that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb. ~ "Dark Helmet" in ''[[Spaceballs]]'' by [[Mel Brooks]] * Some potentates I would kill by any and all means at my disposal. They are Ignorance, Superstition, and Bigotry— the most sinister and tyrannical rulers on earth. ~ [[Emma Goldman]] * The sons of torture victims make good terrorists. ~ [[André Malraux]] * Political language— and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists— is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ~ [[George Orwell]] * '''Conservative''', ''n.'' A statesman enamored of existing evils, as opposed to a Liberal, who wants to replace them with new ones. ~ [[Ambrose Bierce]] * Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition. ~ [[Alan Turing]] * The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient... Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach— waiting for a gift from the sea. ~ [[Anne Morrow Lindbergh]] * Life has no meaning a priori... It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose. ~ [[Jean-Paul Sartre]] * I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. ~ [[Lillian Hellman]] * True eloquence makes light of eloquence, true morality makes light of morality... To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher. ~ [[Blaise Pascal]] * In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make. ~ [[Paul McCartney]] * I observed, 'Love is the fulfilling of the law, the end of the commandment.' It is not only 'the first and great' command, but all the commandments in one. 'Whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, if there be any virtue, if there be any praise,' they are all comprised in this one word, ''love''. ~ [[John Wesley]] * I cannot think we are useless or Usen would not have created us. He created all tribes of men and certainly had a righteous purpose in creating each. ~ [[Geronimo]] * If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow. ~ [[William McFee]] * At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality... We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity will be transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force. ~ [[Che Guevara]] * Talent perceives differences, Genius unity. ~ [[William Butler Yeats]] * I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death! And that's why I'm grateful to God for having given me this gift, which I can use to develop and to express all that's inside me! ~ [[Anne Frank]] * The good writing of any age has always been the product of ''someone's'' neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads. ~ [[William Styron]] * A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. It tells us that for every human being there is a diversity of existences, that the single existence is itself an illusion in part, that these many existences signify something, tend to something, fulfill something; it promises us meaning, harmony and even justice. ~ [[Saul Bellow]] * There are always good parts. They may not pay what you want, and they may not have as many days' work as you want, they may not have the billing that you want, they may not have a lot of things, but—the content of the role itself—I find there are many roles. ~ [[Anne Bancroft]] * I have something to tell you today. Mac OS X has been leading a secret double life— for the past five years. ~ [[Steve Jobs]] * Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars. ~ [[Gwendolyn Brooks]] * Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool. ~ [[Aleksandr Pushkin]] * A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. ~ [[John Maynard Keynes]] * I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. ~ [[Socrates]] * A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense. Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt. The "taken for granted" is the test of sanity... In these times, the hardest task for social or political activists is to find a way to get people to wonder again about what we all believe is true. The challenge is to sow doubt. ~ [[Lawrence Lessig]] * I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat. ~ [[W. Mark Felt]] * I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it. ~ [[Alanis Morissette]] == May 2005 == * When there are no more memories of heroes and martyrs, And when all life and all the souls of men and women are discharged from any part of the earth, Then only shall liberty or the idea of liberty be discharged from that part of the earth, And the infidel come into full possession. ~ [[Walt Whitman]] in ''[[Leaves of Grass]]'' * The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has ''himself'' recognized them as such, and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individual. ~ [[Mikhail Bakunin]] * Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn. ~ [[T. H. White]] * We have gotten some terrible reviews at times but if we depended on the judgment of the studios or critics, we never would have made more than one movie. ~ [[Ismail Merchant]] * The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness. ~ [[Julia Ward Howe]] * It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility. ~ [[Rachel Carson]] * If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile. ~ [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]] * I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom. ~ [[Bob Dylan]] * It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor. ~ [[Margaret Fuller]] * The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished. ~ [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] * May the Force be with you. ~ Jedi saying; used in all ''[[Star Wars]]'' episodes. * If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. ~ [[John Stuart Mill]] * Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else. ~ [[Malcolm X]] * To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. ~ [[Bertrand Russell]] * I had a stick of Carefree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality. ~ [[Mitch Hedberg]] * You say that you are my judge. I don't know if you are— but take care not to judge wrongly, lest you place yourself in great danger. ~ [[Joan of Arc|Jehanne Darc (Jeanne d'Arc; Joan of Arc)]] * Things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams— day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing— are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster civilization. ~ [[L. Frank Baum]] * If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life— that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment— that would be the perfect state. ~ [[Cate Blanchett]] * It behoved that there should be sin— but all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well. ~ [[Julian of Norwich]] * Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better. ~ [[Florence Nightingale]] * When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is trying to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind. ~ [[J. Krishnamurti]] * The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape. ~ [[Bono]] * Life is a long lesson in humility. ~ [[J. M. Barrie]] * If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers. ~ [[Thomas Pynchon]] * Where men are the most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken, and have there given reins to passion, without that proper deliberation and suspense, which can alone secure them from the grossest absurdities. ~ [[David Hume]] * If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out. ~ [[Rabindranath Tagore]] * Democracy is the destiny of humanity; freedom its indestructible arm. ~ [[Benito Juárez]] * Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. ~ [[Horace Mann]] * It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. ~ [[Niccolò Machiavelli]] * You know more than you think you do. ~ [[Benjamin Spock]] * ''' <big> DON'T PANIC </big> '''<br> ~ [[Douglas Adams]] in ''The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy'' ~ ==April 2005== * It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again. ~ [[Carl Friedrich Gauss]] * Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason. ~ [[Jerry Seinfeld]] * It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done. ~ [[Terry Pratchett]] * Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath. ~ [[Mary Wollstonecraft]] * If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. ~ [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]] * Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices— just recognize them. ~ [[Edward R. Murrow]] * Everything seems an echo of something else. ~ [[Robert Penn Warren]] * We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep. ~ "Prospero" in ''[[The Tempest]]'' by [[William Shakespeare]] * Act only on that maxim which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law. ~ [[Immanuel Kant]] * When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe. ~ [[John Muir]] * Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope, John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me, a simple and humble worker in the Lord's vineyard. The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers. ~ [[Pope Benedict XVI]] * Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius. ~ [[Benjamin Disraeli]] * Music can be all things to all persons. It is like a great dynamic sun in the center of a solar system which sends out its rays and inspiration in every direction.... Music makes us feel that the heavens open and a divine voice calls. Something in our souls responds and understands. ~ [[Leopold Stokowski]] * We ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. ~ [[Thornton Wilder]] * In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. ~ [[Charlie Chaplin]] in ''The Great Dictator'' * Here forms, here colours, here the character of every part of the universe are concentrated to a point; and that point is so marvellous a thing ... Oh! marvellous, O stupendous Necessity— by thy laws thou dost compel every effect to be the direct result of its cause, by the shortest path. ''These'' are miracles... ~ [[Leonardo da Vinci]] * The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. ~ [[James Branch Cabell]] * Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add "within the limits of the law" because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. ~ [[Thomas Jefferson]] * A living body is not merely an integration of limbs and flesh but it is the abode of the soul which potentially has perfect perception, perfect knowledge, perfect power, and perfect bliss. ~ [[Mahavira]] * Our institutions were not devised to bring about uniformity of opinion; if they had we might well abandon hope. It is important to remember, as has well been said, 'the essential characteristic of true liberty is that under its shelter many different types of life and character and opinion and belief can develop unmolested and unobstructed'. ~ [[Charles Evans Hughes]] * The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. ~ [[William Hazlitt]] * Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. ~ [[Richard Feynman]] * Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. ~ [[Gautama Buddha]] * Out of the struggle at the center has come an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are, and what this life is for. At the center humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul. ~ [[Saul Bellow]] * See, I write jokes for a living, man. I sit in my hotel at night and think of something that's funny and then I go get a pen and write 'em down. Or, if the pen's too far away, I have to convince myself that what I thought of ain't funny. ~ [[Mitch Hedberg]] * Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools. ~ [[Thomas Hobbes]] * ''It is possible and imperative that we learn <br> A brave and startling truth...<br> When we come to it <br> We must confess that we are the possible <br> We are the miraculous, the true wonders of this world <br> That is when, and only when <br> We come to it.'' <br> ~ [[Maya Angelou]] ~ * Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece. ~ [[Pope John Paul II]] * To be an artist is a blessing and a privilege. Artists must never betray their true hearts. Artists must look beneath the surface and show that there is more to this world than what meets the eye. ~ [[Marvin Gaye]] * When you want to fool the world, tell the truth. ~ [[Otto von Bismarck]] ==March 2005== * Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess. ~ [[René Descartes]] * Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well. ~ [[Vincent van Gogh]] * If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted. ~ [[Eric Idle]] * A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice. ~ [[James Callaghan]] * Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate, for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain without being uncovered. ~ [[Jesus Christ|Yeshua (Jesus Christ)]] * Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, that wants it down. ~ [[Robert Frost]] * If those who lead you say, 'See, the Kingdom is in the sky,' then the birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, 'It is in the sea,' then the fish will precede you. Rather, the Kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you. When you come to know yourselves, then you will become known, and you will realize that it is you who are the sons of the living Father. But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty. ~ [[Jesus Christ|Yeshua (Jesus Christ)]] * Love, work and knowledge are the well-springs of our life. They should also govern it. ~ [[Wilhelm Reich]] * Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. ~ [[Erich Fromm]] * Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words? ~ [[Marcel Marceau]] * Between individuals, as between nations, respect for the rights of others is peace. ~ [[Benito Juárez]] * Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour. ~ [[Ovid]] * The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior. ~ [[Earl Warren]] * We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable. ~ [[John Updike]] * I am imperfect in many things, nevertheless I want my brethren and kinsfolk to know my nature so that they may be able to perceive my soul's desire. ~ [[Saint Patrick]] * If in my lifetime the problem of non-free software is solved, I could perhaps relax and write software again. But I might instead try to help deal with the world's larger problems. Standing up to an evil system is exhilarating, and now I have a taste for it. ~ [[Richard Stallman]] * Beware the ides of March. ~ [[William Shakespeare]] in ''[[Julius Caesar (play)|Julius Caesar]]'' * Measured objectively, what a man can wrest from Truth by passionate striving is utterly infinitesimal. But the striving frees us from the bonds of the self and makes us comrades of those who are the best and the greatest. ~ [[Albert Einstein]] * What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others. ~ [[Joseph Priestley]] * I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down. ~ [[Jack Kerouac]] * Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. ~ [[Douglas Adams]] * A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins, and a winner doesn't talk about what he'll do if he wins, but knows what he'll do if he loses. ~ [[Eric Berne]] * When I orbited the Earth in a spaceship, I saw for the first time how beautiful our planet is. Mankind, let us preserve and increase this beauty, and not destroy it! ~ [[Yuri Gagarin]] * We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe. ~ [[Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.]] * Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye, but as a system disposed with order and design. ~ [[John Herschel]] * Earth's crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God: but only he who sees, takes off his shoes, the rest sit round it, and pluck blackberries, and daub their natural faces unaware... ~ [[Elizabeth Barrett Browning]] * The most dangerous phrase in the language is, "We've always done it this way." ~ [[Grace Hopper]] * One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than fifty preaching it. ~ [[Knute Rockne]] * Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before. ~ [[Alexander Graham Bell]] * From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere. ~ [[Dr. Seuss]] * Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. ~ [[Jef Raskin]] == February 2005 == * Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. ~ [[Michel de Montaigne]] * The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit— for gallantry in defeat— for courage, compassion and love. In the endless war against weakness and despair, these are the bright rally-flags of hope and of emulation. I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man, has no dedication nor any membership in literature. ~ [[John Steinbeck]] * The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge. ~ [[Victor Hugo]] * ''Little darling, <br>I feel that ice is slowly melting. <br>Little darling, <br>It seems like years since it's been clear. <br>Here comes the sun...<br> Here comes the sun, <br>And I say <br>It's alright.'' <br> ~ [[George Harrison]] ~ * We think basically you watch television to turn your brain off, and you work on your computer when you want to turn your brain on. ~ [[Steve Jobs]] * If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up. ~ [[Hunter S. Thompson]] * All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external trappings of elevated office. To me there is nothing in it, beyond the lustre which may be reflected from its connection with a power of promoting human felicity. ~ [[George Washington]] * ''For the error bred in the bone <br> Of each woman and each man <br> Craves what it cannot have, <br> Not universal love <br> But to be loved alone.'' <br> ~ [[W. H. Auden]] ~ * All in all is all we are. ~ [[Kurt Cobain]] * I am not so enamored of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them. I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgement of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavor to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God. Yet I hold that completely erroneous views should be shunned. ~ [[Nicolaus Copernicus]] * Teachers are those who use themselves as bridges, over which they invite their students to cross; then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own. ~ [[Nikos Kazantzakis]] * There is one simple Divinity found in all things, everything has Divinity latent within itself. For she enfolds and imparts herself even unto the smallest beings. Without her presence nothing would have being, because she is the essence of the existence of the first unto the last being. ~ [[Giordano Bruno]] * A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. ~ [[Henry Adams]] * All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. ~ [[Galileo Galilei]] * Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ~ [[Robert A. Heinlein]] in ''[[Stranger in a Strange Land]]'' * ''In this moment, I need to be needed, <br> With this darkness all around me, I like to be liked, <br> In this emptiness and fear, I want to be wanted, <br> 'Cause I love to be loved, <br> I love to be loved.'' <br> ~ [[Peter Gabriel]] ~ * The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less. ~ [[Arthur Miller]] * If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision. ~ [[Leó Szilárd]] * Be nice to people on your way up, because you're going to meet them all on your way down. ~ [[Jimmy Durante]] * ''My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue, <br> An everlasting vision of the everchanging view, <br> A wondrous woven magic in bits of blue and gold, <br> A tapestry to feel and see, impossible to hold.'' <br> ~ [[Carole King]] ~ * All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. ~ [[Martin Buber]] * It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way— in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. ~ [[Charles Dickens]] in ''[[A Tale of Two Cities]]'' * You and I are told increasingly that we have to choose between a left or right, but I would like to suggest that there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down— up to a man's age-old dream; the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order— or down to the ant heap totalitarianism, and regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course. ~ [[Ronald Reagan]] * I profoundly believe that there is on this horizon, as yet only dimly perceived, a new dawn of conscience. In that purer light, people will come to see themselves in each other, which is to say they will make themselves known to one another by their similarities rather than by their differences. Man's knowledge of things will begin to be matched by man's knowledge of self. The significance of a smaller world will be measured not in terms of military advantage, but in terms of advantage for the human community. It will be the triumph of the heartbeat over the drumbeat. ~ [[Adlai Stevenson]] * Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation, in turn, becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on to the future. ~ [[Charles Lindbergh]] * The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is or has been is but the twilight of the dawn. ~ [[H. G. Wells]] * Anything different is good. ~ [[Bill Murray]] as "Phil" in [[Groundhog Day]] * There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. ~ [[American proverbs|American proverb]] ==January 2005 == * I have one major rule: everybody is right. More specifically, everybody— including me— has some important pieces of the truth, and all of those pieces need to be honored, cherished, and included in a more gracious, spacious, and compassionate embrace. ~ [[Ken Wilber]] * Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe... No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. ~ [[Winston Churchill]] * ''Time's glory is to command contending kings,<br> To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.'' <br> ~ [[William Shakespeare]] ~ * ''Wise men don't need to prove their point; <br> men who need to prove their point aren't wise.<br> The Master has no possessions.<br> The more he does for others, the happier he is. <br> The more he gives to others, the wealthier he is. <br> The Tao nourishes by not forcing. <br> By not dominating, the Master leads.'' <br> ~ [[Lao Zi]] ~ * Remind yourself that all men assert that wisdom is the greatest good, but that there are few who strenuously seek out that greatest good. ~ [[Pythagoras]] * Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the world. ~ [[Archimedes]] * If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants. ~ [[Isaac Newton]] on his intellectual debt to those who preceded him. * A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. ~ [[Albert Einstein]] * So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, in spite of the fact that a few rare spirits know how to transmute it. ~ [[Bertrand Russell]] * Even as the fingers of the two hands are equal, so are human beings equal to one another. No one has any right, nor any preference to claim over another. You are brothers. ~ [[Muhammad]] * An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. ~ [[Thomas Paine]] * The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world. ~ [[George W. Bush]] * My experience of men has neither disposed me to think worse of them, or indisposed me to serve them; nor in spite of failures, which I lament, of errors which I now see and acknowledge; or of the present aspect of affairs; do I despair of the future. <br> The truth is this: The march of Providence is so slow, and our desires so impatient; the work of progress is so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged. It is history that teaches us to hope. ~ [[Robert E. Lee]] * The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. ~ [[John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton|Lord Acton]] * The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. ~ [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]] * If we win here we will win everywhere. The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it. ~ [[Ernest Hemingway]] * The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. ~ [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]] * Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen. ~ [[Aeschylus|Æschylus]] * Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance. ~ [[Anthony de Mello]] * Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago. ~ [[Horace Mann]] * If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world. ~ [[Joseph Addison]] * The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life. ~ [[Robert Louis Stevenson]] * Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. ~ [[Robert F. Kennedy]] * The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity. ~ [[George Bernard Shaw]] * The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. ~ [[Abraham Lincoln]] * I know the biggest crime is just to throw up your hands and say'' "This has nothing to do with me, I just want to live as comfortably as I can." ''~ [[Ani DiFranco]] * I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do. ~ [[Helen Keller]] * I know this in no way alleviates the enormous amounts of pain and loss experienced by those who have suffered from the tsunami, but I hope it can make a difference. ~ [[Sandra Bullock]] on her large donation to [https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp tsunami relief efforts] of the [http://www.redcross.org/ American Red Cross] * No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee… ~ [[John Donne]] * We are all in this together. ~ [[English proverbs|English proverb]] * ''Ring out false pride in place and blood, <br> The civic slander and the spite; <br> Ring in the love of truth and right, <br> Ring in the common love of good.'' <br> ~ [[Alfred Tennyson|Alfred, Lord Tennyson]] ~ ==December 2004== * ''Wave after wave, each mightier than the last, <br> Till last, a ninth one, gathering half the deep <br> And full of voices, slowly rose and plunged <br> Roaring, and all the wave was in a flame: <br> And down the wave and in the flame was borne <br> A naked babe...'' <br> ~ [[Alfred Tennyson|Alfred, Lord Tennyson]] in ''[[Idylls of the King]]'' ~ * ''I sometimes hold it half a sin <br> To put in words the grief I feel;<br> For words, like Nature, half reveal <br> And half conceal the Soul within.'' <br> ~ [[Alfred Tennyson|Alfred, Lord Tennyson]] ~ * I will make company with creators, with harvesters, with rejoicers; I will show them the rainbow and the stairway to the Superman. ~ [[Friedrich Nietzsche]] in ''[[Thus Spoke Zarathustra]]'' * Physics isn't the most important thing. Love is. ~ [[Richard Feynman]] ** This statement has been discovered to very probably be a misattribution, and seems to have been created as part of a paraphrase of Feynman's note to the mother of [[w:Marcus Chown|Marcus Chown]]: "Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science — for to fill your heart with love is enough." ~ [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 01:29, 26 December 2008 (UTC) * Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight— always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary? ~ [[J. M. Barrie]] ** Wikiqoute Quote of the day for the 100th anniversary of the first public performance of ''[[w:Peter Pan|Peter Pan]]''. * There isn't anyone ''any''where that isn't Seymour's Fat Lady. Don't you know that? Don't you know that goddam secret yet? And don't you know— ''listen'' to me, now— ''don't you know who that Fat Lady really is?'' . . . Ah, buddy. Ah, buddy. It's Christ Himself. Christ Himself, buddy. ~ [[J. D. Salinger]] * You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free. ~ [[Jesus Christ|Yeshua (Jesus Christ)]] * '' I danced in the morning<br> When the world was begun,<br> And I danced in the moon<br> And the stars and the sun,<br> And I came down from heaven<br> And I danced on the earth,<br> At Bethlehem<br> I had my birth. <br> Dance, then, wherever you may be,<br> I am the Lord of the Dance, said he,<br> And I'll lead you all, wherever you may be,<br> And I'll lead you all in the Dance, said he.'' <br> ~ [[Sydney Carter]] ~ * '' 'Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free,<br> 'Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be,<br> And when we find ourselves in the place just right,<br> 'Twill be in the valley of love and delight.'' <br> ~ [[Joseph Brackett]] ~ * ''Good fortune attend each merry man's friend<br> That doth but the best that he may,<br> Forgetting old wrongs with carols and songs<br> To drive the cold winter away.'' <br> ~ "All Hail to The Days" (or "The Praise of Christmas") ~ <br> Traditional 17th century English carol * i who have died am alive again today, and this is the sun's birthday... ~ [[E. E. Cummings|e. e. cummings]] * The dark night of the soul comes just before revelation. When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed. ~ [[Joseph Campbell]] * In the winter season, for seven days of calm, Alcyone broods over her nest on the surface of the waters while the sea-waves are quiet. Through this time Aeolus keeps his winds at home, and ocean is smooth for his descendants’ sake. ~ [[Ovid]] * ''The Tree that was withered shall be renewed, and he shall plant it in the high places, and the City shall be blessed. Sing all ye people!'' ~ [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] ** From ''[[The Lord of the Rings]] : [[The Return of the King]]'' (Book VI, Chapter 5, "The Steward and the King"); in the novel this is a song of a great Eagle heralding the victory of Aragorn's forces against those of Sauron and the Dark Tower. * ''From the ashes a fire shall be woken,<br> A light from the shadows shall spring,<br> Renewed shall be blade that was broken,<br> The crownless again shall be king.'' <br> ~ "Arwen" in the film ''[[The_Lord_of_the_Rings_%28Trilogy%29#The_Return_of_the_King_.282003.29|The Return of the King]]'' ~ ** Based upon ''[[The Return of the King]]'' by [[J. R. R. Tolkien]]; In the novel ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' this statement first occurs in ''[[The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' (Book I, Chapter 10, "Strider") in a letter by Gandalf to Frodo. * The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange. ~ [[G. K. Chesterton]] * There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. ~ [[Albert Einstein]] * Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies. ~ ''[[Talmud|The Talmud]]'' * How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway... And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness! ~ [[Anne Frank]] * Every single moment of a person's life, both of the understanding and of the will, is a new beginning. ~ [[Emanuel Swedenborg]] * I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced that they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another. ~ [[Ellen Goodman]] * Whereas Member States have pledged themselves to achieve, in cooperation with the United Nations, the promotion of universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms,<br> Whereas a common understanding of these rights and freedoms is of the greatest importance for the full realization of this pledge,<br> Now, therefore, The General Assembly, Proclaims this Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations...<br> ~ From the ''Preamble'' of the ''[[Wikisource:Universal Declaration of Human Rights|Universal Declaration of Human Rights]]'' ~ <br> Adopted and proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly, 10 December 1948 * Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. ~ [[Pierre Teilhard de Chardin]] * You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one; I hope some day you'll join us, and the world will live as one. ~ [[John Lennon]] * Oh, if a man tried to take his time on earth and prove before he died what one man's life could be worth, I wonder what would happen to this world? ~ [[Harry Chapin]] * Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. ~ [[Samuel Butler]] * To be a catalyst is the ambition most appropriate for those who see the world as being in constant change, and who, without thinking that they can control it, wish to influence its direction. ~ [[Theodore Zeldin]] * ''Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'<br> hierarchies? and even if one of them suddenly<br> pressed me against his heart, I would perish<br> in the embrace of his stronger existence. <br> For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror<br> which we are barely able to endure and are awed <br> because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.<br> Each single angel is terrifying.'' <br> ~ [[Rainer Maria Rilke]] ~ * The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society. ~ [[Emma Goldman]] * Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail. ~ [[Helen Keller]] * Ooh, with a little luck— December will be magic again. ~ [[Kate Bush]] ==November 2004== * The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. ~ [[William James]] * Find the good— and praise it. ~ [[Alex Haley]] * Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. ~ [[George Washington]] * I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate. ~ [[Elbert Hubbard]] * When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude. ~ [[Elie Wiesel]] * Show respect to all people and grovel to none. When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself. Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision. ~ [[Tecumseh]] * Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them. ~ [[Washington Irving]] * Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. ~ [[Václav Havel]] * I'd rather be a climbing ape than a falling angel. ~ [[Terry Pratchett]] * Fame is something which must be won; honor is something which must not be lost. ~ [[Arthur Schopenhauer]] * The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous. ~ [[Margot Fonteyn]] * Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have. ~ [[Oprah Winfrey]] * Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation. ~ [[James Thurber]] * There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. ~ [[Henry David Thoreau]] * When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. ~ [[Jimi Hendrix]] * Every now and then a clear harmonic cry gave new suggestions of a tune that would someday be the only tune in the world and would raise men's souls to joy. ~ [[Jack Kerouac]] in ''[[On The Road]]'' * If I want to understand something, I must observe, I must not criticize, I must not condemn, I must not pursue it as pleasure or avoid it as non-pleasure. There must merely be the silent observation of a fact. ~ [[J. Krishnamurti]] * Anyone who believes in God and the Last Day should not harm his neighbor. Anyone who believes in God and the Last Day should entertain his guest generously. And anyone who believes in God and the Last Day should say what is good or keep quiet. ~ [[Muhammad]] * Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time. ~ [[Thomas Carlyle]] * All the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind. ~ [[Kurt Vonnegut]] * When war is declared, truth is the first casualty. ~ [[Arthur Ponsonby]] * ''"The time has come", the Walrus said, <br> "To talk of many things: <br> Of shoes—and ships—and sealing wax— <br> Of cabbages—and Kings— <br> And why the Sea is boiling hot— <br> And whether pigs have wings." '' <br> ~ [[Lewis Carroll]] in ''[[Through the Looking-Glass]]'' ~ * It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy few hundred thousand? ~ [[Spider Robinson]] * Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do. ~ [[Wendell Berry]] * The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made. ~ [[Jean Giraudoux]] * America has spoken, and I'm humbled by the trust and the confidence of my fellow citizens. ~ [[George W. Bush]] * ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US. ~ CATS of ''[[Zero Wing]]'' * I remain just one thing, and one thing only— and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician. ~ [[Charlie Chaplin]] * We’d all like t’vote fer th’best man, but he’s never a candidate. ~ [[Kin Hubbard]] * The progress of the intellect is to the clearer vision of causes, which neglects surface differences. To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine. ~ [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]] ==October 2004== * Merry meet, and merry part, and Blessed Be. ~ A pagan expression of blessing. * It’s always worthwhile to make others aware of their worth. ~ [[Malcolm Forbes]] * The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination. ~ [[John Schaar]] * We're just being ourselves and having fun playing baseball. The biggest thing is when people look at our team, they can see that we're having a lot of fun. ~ [[Johnny Damon]] * The antagonism between science and religion, about which we hear so much, appears to me to be purely factitious— fabricated, on the one hand, by short-sighted religious people who confound a certain branch of science, theology, with religion; and, on the other, by equally short-sighted scientific people who forget that science takes for its province only that which is susceptible of clear intellectual comprehension; and that, outside the boundaries of that province, they must be content with imagination, with hope, and with ignorance. ~ [[Thomas Henry Huxley|T. H. Huxley]] * I'm not against God. I'm against the misuse of God. ~ [[Marilyn Manson]] * Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can. ~ [[John Wesley]] * Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live. ~ [[Dorothy Thompson]] * You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it. ~ [[Maya Angelou]] * There’s a time when a man needs to fight, and a time when he needs to accept that his destiny is lost, that the ship has sailed, and that only a fool would continue. The truth is, I’ve always been a fool. ~ [[Albert Finney]] as "Ed Bloom" in ''[[Big Fish]]'' * It doesn't matter if we were down 3-0. You've just got to keep the faith. The game is not over until the last out. ~ [[David Ortiz]] * I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives. ~ [[Leo Tolstoy]] * Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. ~ [[George Orwell]] in ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'' * These children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through... ~ [[David Bowie]] * ''Try not. '''Do.''' Or do not''. There is no try. ~ "Yoda" in ''[[Star Wars]] Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back'' * Nothing endures but change. ~ [[Heraclitus]] * Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. ~ [[Margaret Mead]] * It is better to debate a question without deciding it than to decide it without debate. ~ [[Joseph Joubert]] * Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't. ~ [[Richard Bach]] * So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. ~ [[Christopher Reeve]] * I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me. All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet. ~ [[Wangari Maathai]] * You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence. ~ [[Robert Frost]] * Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. ~ [[Groucho Marx]] * No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else. ~ [[Charles Dickens]] in ''Our Mutual Friend'' * Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves. ~ [[U Thant]] * I don't get no respect! ~ [[Rodney Dangerfield]] * You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful. ~ [[Marie Curie]] * As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher. ~ [[Giacomo Casanova]] * Given the choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier. ~ "Blore's Razor" (Author unknown) * Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. ~ [[Mae West]] * When you get to a fork in the road, take it. ~ [[Yogi Berra]] ==September 2004== * Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed. ~ [[William Blake]] * We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. ~ [[Henry Melvill]] (also widely misattributed to [[Herman Melville]]) * Love is the most important thing in the world. It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect. ~ [[Hermann Hesse]] * Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do. ~ [[Anonymous]] ** The above variant was how this quotation was originally posted. It seems to be derived from this statement attributed to a specific author: Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. ~ [[Isaac Asimov]] * We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. ~ [[Jonathan Swift]] * Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. ~ [[Blaise Pascal]] * To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals. ~ [[William Penn]] * Goodness alone is never enough. A hard cold wisdom is required, too, for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom invariably accomplishes evil. ~ [[Robert Heinlein]] in ''[[Stranger in a Strange Land]]'' * At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols. ~ [[Aldous Huxley]] * Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. ~ [[H. G. Wells]] * What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil. ~ [[Friedrich Nietzsche]] in ''[[Beyond Good and Evil]]'' * A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love... Something in him so loves the world that he gives himself to the laws of gravity and chance. Far from flying with the angels, he traces with the fidelity of a seismograph needle the state of the solid bloody landscape. His house is dangerous and finite, but he is at home in the world. He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love. ~ [[Leonard Cohen]] * The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God. ~ [[Andrew Dickson White]] * A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world. ~ [[Tony Benn]] * The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one. ~ [[Wilhelm Stekel]] * The humbleness of a warrior is not the humbleness of the beggar. The warrior lowers his head to no one, but at the same time, he doesn’t permit anyone to lower his head to him. The beggar, on the other hand, falls to his knees at the drop of a hat and scrapes the floor to anyone he deems to be higher; but at the same time, he demands that someone lower than him scrape the floor for him. ~ [[Carlos Castaneda]] * We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. ~ [[Anaïs Nin]] * He, who will not reason, is a bigot; he, who cannot, is a fool; and he, who dares not, is a slave. ~ [[William Drummond]] * The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. ~ [[Carl Sagan]] * Only tragedy allows the release of love and grief never normally seen. ~ [[Kate Bush]] * He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows, nor judge all he sees. ~ [[Benjamin Franklin]] * The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged— keep on— there are divine things, well envelop'd; I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell. ~ [[Walt Whitman]] in ''[[Leaves of Grass]]'' * I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear. ~ [[George Eliot]] * Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. ~ [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]] * In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood. ~ [[Henry David Thoreau]] * Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received. ~ [[Seneca]] * The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails. ~ [[William Shakespeare]] in ''[[The Winter's Tale]]'' * I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff— I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy. ~ [[J. D. Salinger]] in ''[[The Catcher in the Rye]]'' * The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~ [[George Bernard Shaw]] * There is no sudden entrance into Heaven. Slow is the ascent by the path of Love. ~ [[Ella Wheeler Wilcox]] ==August 2004== * Know Thyself ~ Ancient proverb that was inscribed upon the temple of the Oracle of Delphi. * There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. ~ [[Alfred Tennyson|Alfred, Lord Tennyson]] * God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm. ~ [[William Cowper]] * It is better for a leader to make a mistake in forgiving than to make a mistake in punishing. ~ [[Muhammad]] * Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. ~ [[Elie Wiesel]] * The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassions, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen. ~ [[Elisabeth Kübler-Ross]] * It’s no use crying over spilt evils. It’s better to mop them up laughing. ~ [[Eleanor Farjeon]] * Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. ~ [[Friedrich Schiller]] * As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. ~ [[Oscar Wilde]] * The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. ~ [[Mohandas Gandhi|Mahatma Gandhi]] * No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. ~ [[Thomas Carlyle]] * One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent. ~ [[H. L. Mencken]] * Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. ~ [[Peter Ustinov]] * The best mind-altering drug is the truth. ~ [[Lily Tomlin]] * Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved. ~ [[Søren Kierkegaard]] * Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer. ~ [[Rainer Maria Rilke]] * ''Where is the Life we have lost in living? <br> Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? <br> Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?'' <br> ~ [[T. S. Eliot]] ~ * Life itself is the proper binge. ~ [[Julia Child]] * Humour is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. ~ [[Romain Gary]] * There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble. ~ [[Washington Irving]] * The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others. ~ [[Dag Hammarskjöld]] * Nobody can be said to have attained the pinnacle of Truth until a thousand sincere people have denounced him for blasphemy. ~ [[Anthony de Mello]] * Long live freedom and damn the ideologies. ~ [[Robinson Jeffers]] * It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion. ~ [[Tertullian]] * A man should ''be'' upright, not ''kept'' upright. ~ [[Marcus Aurelius]] * Character does count. For too long we have gotten by in a society that says the only thing right is to get by and the only thing wrong is to get caught. Character is doing what's right when nobody is looking... ~ [[J. C. Watts]] * Your strength is but an accident arising from the weakness of others. ~ [[Joseph Conrad]] in ''Heart of Darkness'' * We are defined by how we use our power. ~ [[Gerry Spence]] * Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children. ~ [[Khalil Gibran]] * All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts... ~ [[William Shakespeare]] in ''[[As You Like It]]'' * Called or uncalled, God is there. ~ Ancient proverb, said to be Spartan, popularized by [[Carl Jung]] ** This is a translation of the Latin phrase ''Vocatus atque non vocatus, Deus aderit.'' which Jung used as an inscription on his house, and also on his tomb. It is also commonly translated as ''" Called or uncalled, God is present." '' or sometimes'' "Invoked or not invoked...", "Bidden or unbidden", or "Summoned or not summoned..." God is present.'' ==July 2004== * Blue Moon, now I'm no longer alone, without a dream in my heart, without a love of my own. ~ [[Lorenz Hart]] * I just know that something good is going to happen. I don't know when— but just saying it could even make it happen. ~ [[Kate Bush]] * In all people I see myself, none more and not one a barley-corn less, and the good or bad I say of myself I say of them. ~ [[Walt Whitman]] in ''[[Leaves of Grass]]'' * Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. ~ [[Oprah Winfrey]] * When I was a kid my parents used to tell me:'' "Don't go near the cellar door, Emo!" ''&nbsp; One day when they were away, I went to the door and opened it... &nbsp; and I saw ''birds and trees''... ~ [[Emo Philips]] * Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands. It is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is. ~ [[Carl Jung]] * If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is: Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern. ~ [[William Blake]] * Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, Lady, were no crime. ~ [[Andrew Marvell]] * I'll tell you this— No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn. ~ [[Jim Morrison]] * What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal. ~ [[John Howe (cleric)|John Howe]] * Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. ~ [[Elbert Hubbard]] * We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility. ~ [[Rabindranath Tagore]] * It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. ~ [[Mohandas Gandhi|Mahatma Gandhi]] * Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. ~ [[Charles Spurgeon|Charles H. Spurgeon]] * ''Of all the creatures that creep, swim or fly, <br> Peopling the earth, waters and the sky, <br> From Rome to Iceland, Paris to Japan,<br> I really think, the greatest fool is man.'' <br> ~ [[Nicholas Boileau-Despreaux]] ~ * When we wish to correct with advantage and to show another that he errs, we must notice from what side he views the matter, for on that side it is usually true, and admit that truth to him, but reveal to him the side on which it is false. He is satisfied with that, for he sees that he was not mistaken and that he only failed to see all sides. ~ [[Blaise Pascal]] * Thar’s only two possibilities: Thar is life out there in the universe which is smarter than we are, or we’re the most intelligent life in the universe. Either way, it’s a mighty sobering thought. ~ [[Walt Kelly]] * ''Laugh, and the world laughs with you; <br> Weep, and you weep alone. <br> For this brave old earth must borrow its mirth,<br> But has trouble enough of its own.'' <br> ~ [[Ella Wheeler Wilcox]] ~ * Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity. ~ [[G. K. Chesterton]] * What kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave. I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children— not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women— not merely peace in our time but peace for all time. ~ [[John F. Kennedy]] * The old order changeth, yielding place to new, and God fulfils himself in many ways lest one good custom should corrupt the world. ~ [[Alfred Tennyson|Alfred, Lord Tennyson]] in ''[[Idylls of the King]]'' * You can't expect to wield ''supreme executive power'' just 'cause ''some watery tart'' threw a sword at you! ~ [[Michael Palin]] as "Dennis" in ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]'' * Why can't you harness Might so that it works for Right? I know it sounds nonsense, but, I mean, you can't just say there is no such thing. The Might is there, in the bad half of people, and you can't neglect it. You can't cut it out but you might be able to direct it, if you see what I mean, so that it was useful instead of bad. ~ [[T. H. White]] in ''[[The Once and Future King]]'' * Why is all around us here as if some lesser god had made the world, but had not force to shape it as he would, till the High God behold it from beyond, and enter it, and make it beautiful? Or else as if the world were wholly fair, but that these eyes of men are dense and dim, and have not power to see it as it is: perchance, because we see not to the close... ~ [[Alfred Tennyson|Alfred, Lord Tennyson]] in ''[[Idylls of the King]]'' * Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. ~ [[Søren Kierkegaard]] * '''When''' in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. ~ Opening statement of ''The Declaration of Independence'' of The United States of America, composed primarily by [[Thomas Jefferson]] * We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable; that all men are created equal & independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent & inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness. ~ [[Thomas Jefferson]] in an early draft of ''The Declaration of Independence.'' * ''' ...for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor. '''~ closing lines of ''[[w:en:United States Declaration of Independence|The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States Of America]]'' written primarily by [[Thomas Jefferson]], and approved as an official document of united will and determination, July 4, 1776. * You don't understand. I could'a had ''class''. I could'a been a ''contender''. ~ [[Marlon Brando]] as "Terry Malloy" in ''[[On the Waterfront]]'' * With great power comes great responsibility. ~ [[Stan Lee]] * A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity. ~ [[Eleanor Roosevelt]] ==June 2004== * Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the tablets of eternity. ~ [[James Anthony Froude]] (long misattributed to [[John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton|Lord Acton]]) * How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read. ~ [[Karl Kraus]] * They serve so that we don't have to. They offer to give up their lives so that we can be free. It is, remarkably, their gift to us. And all they ask for in return is that we never send them into harm's way unless it is absolutely necessary. Will they ever trust us again? ~ [[Michael Moore]] * Faith and doubt both are needed— not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve. ~ [[Lillian Smith]] * It is circumstances which show what men are. ~ [[Epictetus]] * Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out. ~ [[Hugh Latimer]] * Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. ~ [[Alfred Whitney Griswold]] * Every man should be capable of all ideas. ~ [[Jorge Luis Borges]] * How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress. ~ [[Niels Bohr]] * With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another. ~ [[Georg Christoph Lichtenberg]] * Vanity is so anchored in the heart of man that a soldier, a soldier's servant, a cook, a porter brags and wishes to have his admirers. Even philosophers wish for them. Those who write against it want to have the glory of having written well; and those who read it desire the glory of having read it. I who write this have perhaps this desire, and perhaps those who will read it... ~ [[Blaise Pascal]] * I'm not a prettier everywoman. I am an everywoman that they clean up awfully well for TV. ~ [[Kelly Ripa]] * There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great. ~ [[G. K. Chesterton]] * Love loves to love love. ~ [[James Joyce]] in ''[[Ulysses]]'' *Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so. ~ [[Robert G. Ingersoll]] * Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. ~ [[Albert Schweitzer]] * Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice. ~ [[Arnold J. Toynbee]] * To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level. ~ [[Bertrand Russell]] * Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. ~ [[Robert Louis Stevenson]] * Whatever else history may say about me when I’m gone, I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears; to your confidence rather than your doubts. My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty’s lamp guiding your steps and opportunity’s arm steadying your way. ~ [[Ronald Reagan]] * History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. ~ [[Ronald Reagan]] * A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. ~ [[David Hume]] * It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action. ~ [[Lin Yutang]] * Man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe. ~ [[Euripides]] * Do nothing, and everything is done. ~ [[Lao Zi]]; ''Variant'': When nothing is done, nothing is left undone. * Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress. ~ [[Mohandas Gandhi|Mahatma Gandhi]] * We all have ability. The difference is how we use it. ~ [[Stevie Wonder]] * There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative. ~ [[W. Clement Stone]] * The difference between a hooker and a ho ain't nothin' but a fee. ~ [[Cheryl James]] ("Salt" of the rap group "Salt 'N' Pepa") *In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him. ~ [[G. I. Gurdjieff]] ==May 2004== * There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. ~ [[Maya Angelou]] * All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. ~ [[Edgar Allan Poe]] * A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. ~ [[Steven Wright]] * Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures— in this century, as in others, our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together. ~ [[Antoine de Saint-Exupery]] * All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. ~ [[Arthur Schopenhauer]] * Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed. ~ [[Joseph Addison]] * I got some ''new'' underwear the other day. Well, new to ''me''. ~ [[Emo Philips]] * The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. ~ [[Carl Jung]] * I try to make everyone's day a little more surreal. ~ [[Bill Watterson]] * The way I see it, if you want the rainbow you gotta be willing to put up with the rain. ~ [[Dolly Parton]] * The road to wisdom? —Well, it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again but less and less and less. ~ [[Piet Hein]] * No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker. ~ [[Mikhail Bakunin]] * It is love alone that gives worth to all things. ~ [[Teresa of Avila|St. Teresa of Avila (Teresa de Jesús)]] * Love me for love's sake, that evermore thou may'st love on, through love's eternity. ~ [[Elizabeth Barrett Browning]] * Explanations exist; they have existed for all times, for there is always an easy solution to every human problems— neat, plausible, and wrong. ~ [[H. L. Mencken]] * If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; if we begin with doubts, and are patient, we shall end in certainties. ~ [[Marcus Aurelius]] * In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind. ~ [[Louis Pasteur]] * In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad. ~ [[Freeman Dyson]] * I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. ~ [[William Faulkner]] * It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people. ~ [[Good Omens]] (by [[Neil Gaiman|Gaiman]] & [[Terry Pratchett|Pratchett]]) * The integral vision embodies an attempt to take the best of both worlds, ancient and modern. But that demands a critical stance willing to reject unflinchingly the worst of both as well. ~ [[Ken Wilber]] * There are worlds beyond worlds and times beyond times, all of them true, all of them real, and all of them (as children know) penetrating each other. ~ [[P. L. Travers]] * All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her. ~ [[George Washington]] * There are very few human beings who receive the truth , complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. ~ [[Anaïs Nin]] * If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain. ~ [[Emily Dickinson]] * That best portion of a good man's life,— His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. ~ [[William Wordsworth]] * Everything in the universe relates to the number 5, one way or another, given enough ingenuity on the part of the interpreter. ~ ''[[Principia Discordia]]'', The Law of Fives * The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return. ~ [[Eden Ahbez|eden ahbez]] * In nature's infinite book of secrecy a little I can read. ~ [[William Shakespeare]] in ''[[Antony and Cleopatra]]'' * I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it. ~ [[Harry Emerson Fosdick]] * The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit; for like as herbs and trees bring forth fruit and flourish in May, in likewise every lusty heart that is in any manner a lover, springeth and flourisheth in lusty deeds. For it giveth unto all lovers courage, that lusty month of May. ~ [[Thomas Malory|Sir Thomas Malory]] ==April 2004== * Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. ~ [[Robert J. Hanlon]] * Prejudice comes from being in the dark; sunlight disinfects it. ~ [[Muhammad Ali]] * The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own. ~ [[Benjamin Disraeli]] * When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. ~ [[Anatole France]] * Nothing is better than the unintended humor of reality. ~ [[Steve Allen]] * Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. ~ [[Gautama Buddha]] * In war, you win or lose, live or die— and the difference is just an eyelash. ~ [[Douglas MacArthur]] * The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go. ~ [[Martha Washington]] * I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart. ~ [[Anne Frank]] * It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. ~ [[Molière]] * Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. ~ [[Elbert Hubbard]] * Materialists and madmen never have doubts. ~ [[G. K. Chesterton]] * The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one. ~ [[Bill Hicks]] * The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. ~ [[B. F. Skinner]] * Curse on all laws but those which love has made! ~ [[Alexander Pope]] * The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr. ~ [[Will Rogers]] * We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. ~ [[Kurt Vonnegut]] * Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. ~ [[Friedrich Nietzsche]] * Living next to [the US] is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered the beast, one is affected by every twitch and grunt. ~ [[Pierre Trudeau]] * A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another. ~ [[Jesus Christ|Yeshua of Galilee (Jesus Christ)]] * Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind. ~ [[Henry James]] * The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. ~ [[John Vance Cheney]] * Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous. ~ [[Zhuang Zi]] * The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of hell. ~ [[Saint Augustine]] * There is no sincerer love than the love of food. ~ [[George Bernard Shaw]] * Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it. ~ [[C.S. Lewis]] * Where there is great love there are always miracles. ~ [[Willa Cather]] * Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they might have been. ~ [[William Hazlitt]] * In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life— ''It goes on.'' ~ [[Robert Frost]] * Years ago my mother used to say to me... 'In this world, Elwood, you must be Oh-so-smart, or Oh-so-pleasant.' Well, for years I was smart— I recommend pleasant. You may quote me. ~ [[Jimmy Stewart]] as Elwood P. Dowd in the film ''[[Harvey]]'' ==March 2004== * The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder. ~ [[Aeschylus|Æschylus]] * There's no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day ~ [[Alexander Woolcott]] * Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. ~ [[Peter Ustinov]] * If a man would pursue Philosophy, his first task is to throw away conceit. For it is impossible for a man to begin to learn what he has a conceit that he already knows. ~ [[Epictetus]] * In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest. ~ [[Aesop]] * The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. ~ [[Aldous Huxley]] * A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest form of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal in satisfying his vices. And it all comes from lying to others and to yourself. ~ [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]] * It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry. ~ [[Thomas Paine]] * The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. ~ [[Albert Einstein]] * Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' And Vanity comes along and asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But Conscience asks the question 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right. ~ [[Martin Luther King]] * Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you. ~ [[Samuel Johnson]] * Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. ~ [[Ambrose Bierce]] in ''[[The Devil's Dictionary]]'' * I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. ~ [[Booker T. Washington]] * Try to have a good day today, wherever you are, whatever you do, whoever is near, if no one is near. Try to be happy, because you may not see tomorrow. There is someone this morning, who didn't wake up, who will never see this day. Try to feel lucky that this is not you. ~ [[Margaret Cho]] * Do not say, "I follow the one true path of the Spirit", but rather, "I have found the Spirit walking on my path", for the Spirit walks on all paths. ~ [[Khalil Gibran]] * I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against. ~ [[Malcolm X]] * I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace. ~ [[Helen Keller]] * The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility. ~ [[Charles Caleb Colton]] * Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it. ~ [[André Gide]] * To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed. That can make life a garden. ~ [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe|Goethe]] * Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. ~ [[Carl Jung]] * People often say to me, ‘I understand what you are talking about intellectually, but I don’t really feel it, I don’t realize it,' and I am apt to reply, ‘I wonder whether you do understand it intellectually, because if you did you would also feel it.' ~ [[Alan Watts]] * An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's. ~ [[J. D. Salinger]] * May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell. ~ [[Jorge Luis Borges]] * The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven. ~ [[John Milton]] * When there is no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the Earth. ~ [[Dawn of the Dead]] (by [[George Romero]]). * The day may dawn when fair play, love for one's fellow men, respect for justice and freedom, will enable tormented generations to march forth triumphant from the hideous epoch in which we have to dwell. Meanwhile, never flinch, never weary, never despair. ~ [[Winston Churchill]] * It is only by preserving faith in human dreams that we may, after all, perhaps some day make them come true. ~ [[James Branch Cabell]] * We may afirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion. ~ [[Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel]] * Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think. ~ [[John Stuart Mill]] ==February 2004== * Just because it's old doesn't mean you have to read it. ~ Jolene Sugarbaker, the Trailer Park Queen, as portrayed by actor [[Jayson Saffer]]. * Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. ~ [[Oscar Wilde]] * It must be so humiliating to have such a public break-up. ~ [[Ellen Degeneres]] to [[Justin Timberlake]] * An interesting thing has happened since San Francisco started granting marriage licenses to same-sex couples: my marriage is just fine! Even though there are thousands of gay and lesbian couples affirming their love for and commitment to each other, my marriage— my affirmation of love and commitment to (my wife)— isn't threatened at all. As a matter of fact, the only people who can really "threaten" my marriage are the two of us. ~ [[Wil Wheaton]] * An amicable divorce is like a ventilated condom; it just doesn't work. ~ [[Rita Rudner]] * Ethics and Aesthetics are one. ~ [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]] * Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~ [[Dr. Seuss]] * The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. ~ [[Isaac Asimov]] * Careful the things you say, children will listen. Guide them along the way, children will see and learn. Children may not obey, but children will look to you for which way to turn; to learn what to be! Careful before you say "Listen to Me." Children will listen. ~ ''[[Into the Woods]]'' (Sondheim/Lapine) * There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom. Friendship loves a free Air, and will not be penned up in streight and narrow Enclosures. It will speak freely, and act so too; and take nothing ill where no ill is meant; nay, where it is, ’twill easily forgive, and forget too, upon small Acknowledgments. ~ [[William Penn]] * Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us ~ [[Bill Watterson]] * What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts. ~ [[George Bernard Shaw]] * Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be. ~ [[Anonymous]] * I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. ~ [[E. E. Cummings|e. e. cummings]] * True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. ~ [[Antoine de Saint-Exupery]] * If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can make the world safe for diversity. ~ [[John F. Kennedy]] * Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. ~ [[George Santayana]] * Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events, the two latter are of less frequent occurrence. ~ [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe|Goethe]] in ''[[The Sorrows of Young Werther]]'' * Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. ~ [[Eric Hoffer]] *To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty, and leave the rest for others that come after you, than to explain all things. ~ [[Isaac Newton]] * Do what you can, with what you have, where you are ~ [[Theodore Roosevelt]] *If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel. ~ [[Jim Morrison]] * The things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done. ~ [[Buckminster Fuller]] * My years are not advancing as fast as you might think. ~ [[Bill Murray]] as "Phil" in [[Groundhog Day]] ==January 2004== * I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good thing, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow human being let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. ~ [[Stephen Grellet]] * All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. ~ [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]] : [[The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' * In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. ~ [[Albert Camus]] * All the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love. ~ [[Eleanor Farjeon]] * I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. ~ [[Douglas Adams]] * Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable. ~ [[G. K. Chesterton]] * No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another ~ [[Thomas Browne|Sir Thomas Browne]] * Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic. ~ [[Frank Herbert]] in ''[[Dune]]'' * When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. ~ [[Arthur C. Clarke]] * There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. ... There is another theory which states that this has already happened. ~ [[Douglas Adams]] * Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy —in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other ~ [[Robert Heinlein]] in ''[[Stranger In A Strange Land]]'' * There may be love without jealousy, but there is none without fear. ~ [[Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra|Miguel de Cervantes]] * Dignity does not come in possessing honors, but in deserving them. ~ [[Aristotle]] * Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased —thus do we refute entropy. ~ [[Spider Robinson]] * True Love in this differs from gold and clay, That to divide is not to take away. Love is like understanding, that grows bright, Gazing on many truths. ~ [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]] * Truth alone will endure; all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time. ~ [[Mohandas Gandhi]] * All of humanity is in peril of extinction if each one of us does not dare, now and henceforth, always to tell only the truth, and all the truth, and to do so promptly —right now. ~ [[Buckminster Fuller]] * Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense. ~ [[Carl Sagan]] * ''Ring out a slowly dying cause, <br/> And ancient forms of party strife; <br/> Ring in the nobler modes of life, <br/> With sweeter manners, purer laws.'' <br/> ~ [[Alfred, Lord Tennyson]] ~ * Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. ~ [[Albert Einstein]] * Jackie Biskupski is running for a seat in the Utah Legislature, and she's attracting a lot of attention because she's a lesbian. Her Republican opponent, Dan Alderson, is a staunch Mormon, and is running a negative ad campaign calling her lifestyle abnormal and deviant. His six wives agree. ~ [[Rick Mercer]], ''[[This Hour Has 22 Minutes]]'', October 12, 1998 == December 2003 == * I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. ~ [[Friedrich Nietzsche]] *They were nothing like the French people I had imagined. If anything, they were too kind, too generous and too knowledgable in the fields of plumbing and electricity. ~ [[David Sedaris]] * The time is always right to do what is right ~ [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]] * Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven. ~ [[Jesus Christ|Yeshua (Jesus Christ)]] * We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it. ~ [[Thomas Jefferson]] * That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as anothers. We see so much only as we possess. ~ [[Henry David Thoreau]] * Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. ~ [[Bertrand Russell]] * Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. ~ [[Pierre Teilhard de Chardin]] * Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps. ~ [[Emo Phillips]] * If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong. I do not say give them up, for they may be all you have, but conceal them like a vice lest they spoil the lives of better and simpler people. ~ [[Robert Louis Stevenson]] * What we cannot speak of we must pass over in silence. ~ [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]] * I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death. ~ [[George Carlin]] * I have never let my schooling get in the way of my education. ~ [[Mark Twain]] * For myself, I am an optimist&mdash; it does not seem to be much use being anything else. ~ [[Winston Churchill]] == November 2003 == * Security is mostly a superstition... Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. ~ [[Helen Keller]] * If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'Thank You', that would suffice. ~ [[Meister Eckhart]] * A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. ~ [[Mohandas Gandhi]] * One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility. ~ [[Eleanor Roosevelt]] * A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. This every sister of the Bene Gesserit knows. ~ [[Frank Herbert]] in ''[[Dune]]'' * The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs. ~ [[George Eliot]] * The Enlightened take things Lightly. ~ [[Principia Discordia]] * Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. ~ [[Anaïs Nin]] * God is an Iron ~ [[Spider Robinson]] == October 2003 == * I really believe that if there's any kind of God, he wouldn't be in any one of us&mdash; not you, not me, but just this space in between. If there's some magic in this world, it must be in the attempt of understanding someone else, sharing something. ~ ''[[Before Sunrise]]'' (motion picture) * He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you. ~ [[Friedrich Nietzsche]] * Sex is only dirty if it's done right. ~ [[Woody Allen]] * The reason that clichés become clichés is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication. ~ [[Terry Pratchett]] * We've moved away from being a culture of people who think about movies to one made up of people who believe that spouting a list of preferences is the same as registering an opinion. ~ [[Stephanie Zacharek]] * One of the basic tenets of Zen Buddhism is that there is no way to characterize what Zen is. No matter what verbal space you try to enclose Zen in, it resists, and spills over... ~ ''Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid'' by [[Douglas Hofstadter]] * That man is an Euclidian point: position without substance. ~ [[Ernest Rutherford]] * We shall not cease from exploration <br> And the end of all our exploring <br> Will be to arrive where we started <br> And know the place for the first time. <br> ~ ''The Four Quartets'' by [[Thomas Stearns Eliot|T. S. Eliot]] ~ == September 2003 == * Outside of the killings, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. ~ [[Marion Barry]] * If homosexuality is a disease, let's all call in queer to work. 'Hello, can't work today. Still queer.' ~ [[Robin Tyler]] * You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long. ~ [[Boris Yeltsin]] * We have a firm commitment to NATO; we are a '''part''' of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe; we are a '''part''' of Europe. ~ [[Dan Quayle]] * As for the future, your task is not to forsee it, but to enable it. ~ [[Antoine de Saint-Exupery]] * Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved. ~ [[Niccolo Machiavelli]] * When smashing monuments, save the pedestals&mdash; they always come in handy. ~ [[Stanislaw Jerzy Lec]] * I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read. ~ [[Samuel Johnson]] * Remember that time is money. ~ [[Benjamin Franklin]] * It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens. ~ [[Woody Allen]] * One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power. ~ ''[[Human, All Too Human]]'' by [[Friedrich Nietzsche]] * Our chiefs said 'Done,' and I did not deem it; <br> Our seers said 'Peace,' and it was not peace; <br> Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, <br> And wars more evil, ere all wars cease. <br> ~ ''A Song of Defeat'' by [[Gilbert Keith Chesterton]] ~ * Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true. ~ [[Niels Bohr]] * Never burn a penny candle looking for a halfpenny. ~ [[Irish proverbs|Irish proverb]] * It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant. ~ [[Richard Ferris]] * What's another word for Thesaurus? ~ [[Steven Wright]] * Dare to be naïve. ~ [[Buckminster Fuller]] * Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe ... every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy. ~ [[Hannes Alfven]] * Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old. ~ [[Jonathan Swift]] * There's nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos. ~ [[Jim Hightower]] * ''Ars longa, vita brevis.'' ("Art is long, life is short.") ~ [[Horace]] == August 2003 == * Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians. ~ [[Chester Bowles]] * I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it. ~ [[Clarence Darrow]] * Certain old men prefer to rise at dawn, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach and otherwise mortifying the flesh. They then point with pride to these practices as the cause of their sturdy health and ripe years; the truth being that they are hearty and old, not because of their habits, but in spite of them. The reason we find only robust persons doing this thing is that it has killed all the others who have tried it. ~ ''[[The Devil's Dictionary]]'' by [[Ambrose Bierce]] * He caught glimpses of everything, but saw nothing. ~ ''Les Miserables'' by [[Victor Hugo]] * One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. ~ ''[[Emma]]'' by [[Jane Austen]] * What can be said at all can be said clearly. ~ [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]] * The conservation movement is a breeding ground of Communists and other subversives. We intend to clean them out, even if it means rounding up every bird watcher in the country. ~ [[John Mitchell]] * I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. ~ [[Elvis Presley]] * Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. ~ [[Aesop]] * There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience. ~ [[Hartley Shawcross]] * It's a thingy! A fiendish thingy! ~ ''Help'' by [[George Harrison]] * I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one. ~ [[Marilyn Monroe]] * Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. ~ [[Harry Emerson Fosdick]] * I never met a man so stupid I could not learn something from him. ~ [[Galileo Galilei]] * As long as I am mayor of this city the great industries are secure. We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, 'That man is a Red, that man is a Communist.' You never hear a real American talk like that. ~ [[Frank Hague]] * A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular. ~ [[Adlai Stevenson]] * The battle of the sexes will never be won as long as we keep sleeping with the enemy. ~ [[Emo Phillips]] * A man said to the Universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the Universe, "the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation." ~ [[Stephen Crane]] * It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word. ~ [[Andrew Jackson]] * When the weight of the paperwork equals the weight of the plane, the plane will fly. ~ [[Donald Douglas]] * Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. ~ [[Edsger Dijkstra]] * I can't die. It would ruin my image. ~ [[Jack La Lanne]] * Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. ~ [[Aristotle]] ==July 2003 == * History would be an excellent thing if only it were true. ~ [[Leo Tolstoy]] * On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. ~ [[Charles Babbage]] * The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free. ~ [[Henry David Thoreau]] * I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq. ~ [[Paul Wolfowitz]] * The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. ~ [[Albert Einstein]] * This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. ~ [[Will Rogers]] * I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.' ~ [[Winston Churchill]] * One can no more prevent the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. In the case of the sailor, this is called a tide; in the case of the guilty, it is called remorse. ~ ''[[Les Miserables]]'' by [[w:Victor Hugo|Victor Hugo]] * The barge she sat in, like a burnishd throne, burnd on the water; the poop was beaten gold, purple the sails, and so perfumed, that the winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made the water which they beat to follow faster, as amorous of their strokes. For her own person, it beggard all description ~ (Enobarbus, II.ii) ''[[Antony and Cleopatra]]'' by [[William Shakespeare]] * I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race. ~ ''Education and the Social Order'' by [[Bertrand Russell]] * To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time; and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. ~ ''[[Macbeth]]'' by [[William Shakespeare]] * All animals are equal&mdash; but some animals are more equal than others. ~ ''[[Animal Farm]]'' by [[w:George Orwell|George Orwell]] * Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. ~ [[Oscar Wilde]] * Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so. ~ [[Bertrand Russell]] * If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it? ~ [[Albert Einstein]] * It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. ~ [[Harry S. Truman]] * I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. ~ [[Martin Luther King]] '''The first "Quote of the Day" at Wikiquote was the above quotation of Martin Luther King, selected by [[User:Nanobug|Nanobug]] on July 11, 2003.''' 2zwhfxesxid1o68m3jfvmal6sa93i81 0 14374 3961068 3960983 2026-07-05T13:22:04Z ~2026-38158-74 3347487 /* Dialogue */ 3961068 wikitext text/x-wiki {{italic title}} '''''[[w:The Sound of Music (film)|The Sound of Music]]''''' is a [[w:1965 in film|1965]] American film about a woman who leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to a Naval officer widower and his seven children. :''Directed by [[w:Robert Wise|Robert Wise]]. Written by [[w:Ernest Lehman|Ernest Lehman]], based on the novel by [[w:Howard Lindsay|Howard Lindsay]] and [[w:Russel Crouse|Russel Crouse]], which was based on an autobiography by [[w:Maria von Trapp|Maria von Trapp]] (''The von Trapp Family Singers'') and the [[w:The Sound of Music|1959 musical of the same name]] by [[w:Rodgers and Hammerstein|Rodgers and Hammerstein]].'' {{center|'''Radiance that floods the screen...and warms the heart!'''[[#Taglines|taglines]]}} == Maria Rainer-Von Trapp == * ''[singing]'' The hills are alive with the sound of music,<br />With songs they have sung for a thousand years.<br />The hills fill my heart with the sound of music.<br />My heart wants to sing every song it hears!<br />My heart wants to beat like the wings of the birds that rise from the lake to the trees.<br />My heart wants to sigh like a chime that flies from a church on a breeze.<br />To laugh like a brook when it trips and falls over stones on its way.<br />To sing through the night like a lark who is learning to pray!<br />I go to the hills when my heart is lonely.<br />I know I will hear what I've heard before.<br>And my heart will be blessed with the sound of music.<br />And I'll sing once more. * ''[singing]'' Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens,<br />Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens,<br />Brown paper packages tied up with strings,<br />These are a few of my favorite things. * The first three notes just happen to be, Do-Re-Mi. Do-Re-Mi-Fa-Sol [pronounced So]-La-Ti. Oh, let's see if I can make it easier.<br />''[singing]'' Doe, a deer, a female deer. Ray, a drop of golden sun<br />Me, a name I call myself. Far, a long, long way to run.<br />Sew, a needle pulling thread. La, a note to follow Sol<br />Tea, a drink with jam and bread. That will bring us back to Do... == Captain Georg von Trapp == * ''[before he sings "Edelweiss" reprise version]'' My fellow Austrians, I shall not be seeing you again perhaps for a very long time. I would like to sing for you now... a love song. I know you share this love. I pray that you will never let it die.<br />''[singing]'' Edelweiss, Edelweiss, every morning you greet me.<br />Small and white, clean and bright, you look happy to meet me.<br />Blossom of snow may you bloom and grow, bloom and grow forever.<br />Edelweiss, Edelweiss, bless my homeland forever.Blossom of snow may you bloom and grow, bloom and grow forever. Edelweiss, Edelweiss bless my homeland forever. == Reverend Mother == * ''[singing]'' How do you solve a problem like Maria?<br />How do you catch a cloud and pin it down?<br />Many a thing you know you'd like to tell her, many a thing she ought to understand<br />...How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand? * ''[singing]'' Climb ev'ry mountain, search high and low.<br />Follow ev'ry byway, every path you know.<br />Climb ev'ry mountain, ford every stream.<br />Follow every rainbow, till you find your dream.<br />A dream that will need all the love you can give<br />Every day of your life for as long as you live... == Dialogue == :'''Maria''': I just couldn't help myself. The gates were open and the hills were beckoning and everything was so green and fresh, and the Untersberg kept leading me higher and higher, as if it wanted me to go right through the clouds with it. :'''Reverend Mother''': Child, suppose darkness had come and you were lost? :'''Maria''': Oh, mother, I could never get lost up there, that’s my mountain, I was brought up on it,...It was the mountain that led me to you. Sometimes, I would come down the mountain, and climb a tree, and look over your wall into your garden and hear the Sisters singing on their way to Vespers; which brings me to another transgression, Reverend Mother, I was singing out there today, without permission...I can't seem to stop singing wherever I am. And what's worse, I can't seem to stop saying things - anything and everything I think and feel. :'''Reverend Mother''': Some people would call that honesty. :'''Maria''': Oh, but it's terrible, Reverend Mother. You know how Sister Berthe always makes me kiss the floor after we've had a disagreement? Well, lately I've taken to kissing the floor whenever I see her coming, just to save time. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Captain''': You are the twelfth in a long line of governesses who have come here to look after my children since their mother died. I trust you will be an improvement on the last one. She stayed only two hours. :'''Maria''': What's wrong with the children, Captain? :'''Captain''': Oh, there's nothing wrong with the children. Only the governesses. They were completely unable to maintain discipline. Without it, this house cannot be properly run. Will you please remember that, Fraulein? Every morning, you will drill the children in their studies. I will not permit them to dream away their summer holidays. Each afternoon, they will march about the grounds breathing deeply. Bedtime is to be strictly observed - no exceptions...You will see to it that they conduct themselves at all time with the utmost orderliness and decorum. I am placing you in command. :... :'''Captain''': Now, when I want you, this is what you will hear. ''[blows whistle]'' :'''Maria''': Oh, no, sir, I'm sorry, sir. I could never answer to a whistle. Whistles are for dogs and cats and other animals, but not for children, and definitely not for me. It would be too... humiliating. :'''Captain''': Fräulein, were you this much trouble at the Abbey? :'''Maria''': Oh, much more, sir! :'''Captain''': Hmm. ''[starts to leave the room when Maria blows the whistle. He looks back at her.]'' :'''Maria''': Excuse me, sir, I don't know your signal. :'''Captain''': You may call me "Captain." <hr width="50%"/> :'''Maria''': I'd like to thank each and every one of you for the precious gift you left in my pocket today. :'''Captain''': Um, what gift? :'''Maria''': It's meant to be a secret, Captain, between the children and me. :'''Captain''': Uh-huh. Then I suggest that you keep it, and let us eat. :'''Maria''': Knowing how nervous I must have been, a stranger in a new household, knowing how important it was for me to feel accepted. It was so kind and thoughtful of you to make my first moments here so warm and happy and... pleasant. :''[All the while, the children look guilty. Marta starts to cry]'' :'''Captain''': What is the matter, Marta? :'''Marta''': Nothing. :''[Brigitta, Louisa and Gretl join in, while Liesl, Friedrich and Kurt continue to look guilty]'' :'''Captain''': Uh, Fräulein... is it to be at every meal, or merely at dinnertime, that you, uh, intend leading us all through this rare and wonderful new world of... indigestion? :'''Maria''': Oh, they're all right, Captain. They're just happy. :''[At that moment, Marta, Brigitta, Louisa, and Gretl burst into loud wails]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Rolfe''': ''[singing]'' You are sixteen, going on seventeen, baby it's time to think.<br />Better beware, be canny and careful, baby you're on the brink.<br />You are sixteen, going on seventeen, fellows will fall in line...<br /> Eager young lads and roués and cads Will offer you food and wine. <br /> Totally unprepared are you, to face a world of men.<br />Timid and shy and scared are you, of things beyond your ken.<br />You need someone older and wiser, telling you what to do.<br />I am seventeen, going on eighteen. I'll take care of you... :'''Liesl''': ''[singing]'' I am sixteen, going on seventeen. I know that I'm naive.<br />Fellows I meet may tell me I'm sweet, and willingly I believe.<br />I am sixteen, going on seventeen, innocent as a rose...<br />Bachelor dandies, drinkers of brandies, what do I know of those? <br /> Totally unprepared am I, to face a world of men.<br />Timid and shy and scared am I, of things beyond my ken.<br />I need someone older and wiser telling me what to do.<br />You are seventeen, going on eighteen. I'll depend on you. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Maria''': Dear Father, ''now'' I know why You sent me here. To help these children prepare for a new mother. And I pray this will become a happy family in Thy sight. God bless the captain. God bless Liesl and Friedrich. God bless Louisa, Brigitta, Marta and little Gretl. And I forgot the other boy. What's his name? Well, God bless what's-his-name. God bless the Reverend Mother and Sister Margaretta and everybody at the abbey. And now, dear God, about Liesl. Help her know that I'm her friend and help her tell me what she's been up to... :''[a rain-soaked Liesl enters through Maria's window]'' :'''Liesl''': You are not going to tell father are you? :'''Maria''': Shh, help me to be understanding so that I may guide her footsteps. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, Amen. :'''Liesl''': I was out walking and somebody locked the doors early. I didn't want to wake everybody, so when I saw your window open. You're not going to tell Father, are you? :'''Maria''': How in the world did you climb up here? :'''Liesl''': It's how we always got in to play tricks on the governess. Louisa can make it with a whole jar of spiders in her hand. :'''Maria''': Spiders? Liesl, were you out walking all by yourself? If we wash that dress tonight, nobody would notice it tomorrow. You could put this on. Take your dress and put it to soak in the bathtub. Come back here and sit on the bed, and we'll have a talk. :'''Liesl''': I told you today I didn't need a governess. Well, maybe I do. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Maria and the children are singing "My Favorite Things" and by the end, Maria is caught by the Captain]'' :'''Captain''': Fraulein Maria, did I or did I not say that bedtime is to be strictly observed in this household? :'''Maria''': Yes, well the children were scared of the thunderstorm and... You did, sir. :'''Captain''': And do you or do you not have trouble following these simple instructions? :'''Maria''': Only during thunderstorms, sir. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Elsa''': ''[about Rolf, who gave a Nazi salute]'' Oh Georg, he's just a boy. :'''Captain''': Yes, and I'm just an Austrian. :'''Max''': What's gonna happen's gonna happen. Just make sure it doesn't happen to you. :'''Captain''': ''[incensed]'' Max, don't you ''ever'' say that again! :'''Max''': You know I have no political convictions. Can I help it if other people do? :'''Captain''': Oh yes you can help it. You ''must'' help it. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Captain''': Is it possible, or could I have just imagined? Have my children by any chance been climbing trees today? :'''Maria''': Yes, Captain. :'''Captain''': I see. And where, may I ask, did they get these, uhm, these... :'''Maria''': Playclothes. :'''Captain''': Oh, is that what you call them? :'''Maria''': I made them, from the drapes that used to hang in my bedroom. :'''Captain''': ''[startled]'' Drapes? :'''Maria''': They still had plenty of wear left. The children have been everywhere in them. :'''Captain''': ''[now stunned]'' Do you mean to tell me that my children have been roaming about Salzburg dressed up in nothing but some old drapes?! :'''Maria''': Umm, hmm, and having a marvelous time. :'''Captain''': They ''have'' uniforms. :'''Maria''': Straitjackets, if you'll forgive me. :'''Captain''': ''[beat]'' I will not forgive you for that. :'''Maria''': Children can't do all the things they're supposed to if they have to worry about spoiling their precious clothes. :'''Captain''': They haven't complained yet. :'''Maria''': Well, they wouldn't dare! They love you too much. They ''fear'' you too much! :'''Captain''': I don't wish you to discuss my children in this manner. :'''Maria''': Well, you've got to hear from someone! You're never home long enough to know them. :'''Captain''': I said I don't want to hear anymore from you about my children! :'''Maria''': I know you don't, but you've got to! Now, take Liesl. :'''Captain''': ''[hesitatingly]'' You will not say one word about Liesl, Fraulein. :'''Maria''': She's not a child anymore, and one of these days, you're going to wake up and find that she's a woman. You won't even know her. And Friedrich, he's a boy, but he wants to be a man and there's no one to show him how. :'''Captain''': ''[shocked and angry]'' Don't you ''DARE'' tell ''ME'' about my son! :'''Maria''': Brigitta could tell you about him if you let her get close to you. She notices everything. :'''Captain''': Fraulein... :'''Maria''': And Kurt pretends he's tough not to show how hurt he is when you brush him aside... :'''Captain''': That will do! :'''Maria''': ...the way you do all of them. Louisa I don't even know about yet... :'''Captain''': I said that will do! :'''Maria''': But somebody has to find out about her, and the little ones just want to be loved. Oh, please, Captain, love them! Love them all! :'''Captain''': I don't care to hear anything further from you about my children. :'''Maria''': I'm not finished yet, Captain! :'''Captain''': Oh, yes, you are, Captain! ''[pauses as Maria stares at him, then corrects himself]'' Fraulein. You will pack your things this minute, and return to the abbey. :''[suddenly hears the children singing and looks toward the house]'' :'''Captain''': What's that? :'''Maria''': ''[following his gaze]'' It's singing. :'''Captain''': Yes, I realize it's singing, but ''who'' is singing? :'''Maria''': ''[sighs, looking regretful]'' The children. :'''Captain''': ''[looks back toward the house in astonishment]'' The children? :'''Maria''': I taught them a song to sing for the Baroness. :... :'''Captain''': Fraulein. I behaved badly. I apologize. :'''Maria''': I'm-I'm far too outspoken. It's one of my worst faults. :'''Captain''': You were right. I don't know my children. :'''Maria''': There's still time, Captain. They want so much to be close to you. :'''Captain''': You've brought music back into the house. I'd forgotten. Fraulein, I want you to stay. I ''ask'' you to stay. :'''Maria''': If I could be of any help. :'''Captain''': You have already. More than you know. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Elsa''': My dear, is there anything you can't do? :'''Maria''': Well, I'm not sure I'll make a very good nun. :'''Elsa''': Oh, if you have any problems, I'd be happy to help you. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Max''': Is there a more beautiful expression of what is good in this country of ours than the innocent voices of our children? :'''Zeller''': Oh, come now, Baron, would you have us believe that Austria alone holds a monopoly on virtue? :'''Captain''': Herr Zeller, some of us prefer Austrian voices raised in song to ugly German threats. :'''Zeller''': The ostrich buries his head in the sand, and sometimes in the flag. ''[He turns toward the Austrian flag, prominently displayed]'' Perhaps those who would warn you that the ''[[w:Anschluss|Anschluss]]'' is coming - and it is coming, Captain - perhaps they would get further with you by setting their words to music. :'''Captain''': If the Nazis take over Austria, I have no doubt, Herr Zeller, that you will be the entire trumpet section. :'''Zeller''': You flatter me, Captain. :'''Captain''': Oh, how clumsy of me. I meant to accuse you. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Elsa''': Now, where is that lovely little thing you were wearing the other evening, when the Captain couldn't keep his eyes off you. :'''Maria''': Couldn't keep his eyes off me? :'''Elsa''': Come, my dear, we are women. Let's not pretend we don't know when a man notices us... :'''Maria''': The Captain notices everybody and everything. :'''Elsa''': Well, there's no need to feel so defensive, Maria. You are ''quite'' attractive, you know. The Captain would hardly be a man if he didn't notice you. :'''Maria''': Baroness, I hope you're joking. :'''Elsa''': Not at all. :'''Maria''': But I've never done a thing to... :'''Elsa''': But you don't have to, Maria. There's nothing more irresistible to a man than a woman who's in love with him. :'''Maria''': 'In love with him'? :'''Elsa''': Of course. What makes it so nice is he thinks he's in love with you. :'''Maria''': But that's not true. :'''Elsa''': Oh surely you've noticed the way he looks into your eyes. And you know, uh, you blushed in his arms when you were dancing just now. Don't take it to heart. He'll get over it soon enough, I should think. Men do, you know. :'''Maria''': Then I should go. I mustn't stay here. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Maria''': I left... I was frightened... I was confused. I felt, I've never felt that way before, I couldn't stay. I knew that here I'd be away from it. I'd be safe... I can't face him again... Oh, there were times when we would look at each other. Oh, Mother, I could hardly breathe... That's what's been torturing me. I was there on God's errand. To have asked for his love would have been wrong. I couldn't stay, I just couldn't. I'm ready at this moment to take my vows. Please help me. :'''Reverend Mother''': Maria, the love of a man and a woman is holy too. You have a great capacity to love. What you must find out is how God wants you to spend your love. :'''Maria''': But I pledged my life to God. I pledged my life to his service. :'''Reverend Mother''': My daughter, if you love this man, it doesn't mean you love God less. No, you must find out and you must go back. :'''Maria''': Oh, Mother, you can't ask me to do that. Please let me stay, I beg of you. :'''Reverend Mother''': Maria, these walls were not built to shut out problems. You have to face them. You have to live the life you were born to live. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Captain''': You left without saying goodbye, even to the children. :'''Maria''': It was wrong of me, forgive me. :'''Captain''': Why did you? :'''Maria''': Please don't ask me. Anyway, the reason no longer exists. :'''Elsa''': ''[entering]'' Fraulein Maria, you've returned. Isn't it wonderful, Georg? :'''Maria''': May I wish you every happiness, Baroness? And you too, Captain. The children tell me you're to be married. :'''Elsa''': Thank you, my dear. :'''Captain''': You are back to, uh, stay? :'''Maria''': Only until arrangements can be made for another governess. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Captain''': It's no use, you and I. I'm being dishonest to both of us and utterly unfair to you. When two people talk of marriage... :'''Elsa''': No, don't, don't say another word, Georg, please? You see, uh, there are other things I've been thinking of. Fond as I am of you, I really don't think you're the right man for me. You're much too independent and I need someone who needs me desperately, or at least needs my money desperately. I've enjoyed every moment we've had together. I do thank you for that. Now, if you'll forgive me, I'll go inside, pack my little bags, and return to Vienna where I belong. And somewhere out there is a young lady who I think will never be a nun. ''[she kisses him]'' Auf Wiedersehen, darling. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Captain''': There isn't going to be any Baroness...well, we've, uhm, called off our engagement, you see...Well, you can't marry someone when you're in love with someone else, can you? ''[he kisses her]'' :'''Maria''': The Reverend Mother always says, 'when the Lord closes a door, somewhere he opens a window'. :'''Captain''': What else does the Reverend Mother say? :'''Maria''': That you have to look for your life. :'''Captain''':"Is that why you came back? ''[She nods]'' And have you found it Maria? :'''Maria''': I think I have. I know I have. :'''Captain''': I love you. :''["Somthing Good" begins to play]'' :'''Maria''': Oh, can this be happening to me? :... :''[During the song]'' :'''Captain''': ''[he brings Maria to the center of the gazebo]'' Do you know when I first started loving you? That night at the dinner table when you sat at that ridiculous pine cone. ''[laughs]'' :'''Maria''': What? ''[laughs too]'' I knew the first time you blew that whistle. :'''Captain''': ''[as he caresses her cheek with his right hand]'' Oh, my love... <hr width="50%"/> :'''Liesl''': ''[after Ralf rejects her]'' Mother? :'''Maria''': That sounds so nice. :'''Liesl''': I like calling you "Mother." :'''Maria''': I like hearing it. :'''Liesl''': You love Father very much. I can tell you do. :'''Maria''': Very much. :'''Liesl''': Mother, what do you do when you think you love someone? I mean, when you stop loving someone or he stops loving you? :'''Maria''': Well, you cry a little. Then you wait for the sun to come out. It always does. :'''Liesl''': There are so many things I think I should know but I don't. I really don't. :'''Maria''': How can you? :'''Liesl''': Sometimes I feel the world is ending. :'''Maria''': Then you feel it's just beginning? :'''Liesl''': ''[looks up, astonished and smiling]'' Yes! :'''Maria''': It was that way with me. And for you it will be just as wonderful. :'''Liesl''': ''[her smile widens]'' Do you really think so? == Taglines == * Radiance that floods the screen...and warms the heart! * The more you see it, the more it becomes one of your favorite things! * The Happiest Sound In All The World! == Cast == * [[Julie Andrews]] - [[w:Maria von Trapp|Maria]] * [[w:Christopher Plummer|Christopher Plummer]] - [[w:Georg von Trapp|Captain Georg von Trapp]] * [[w:Charmian Carr|Charmian Carr]] - Liesl von Trapp * [[w:Nicholas Hammond|Nicholas Hammond]] - Friedrich von Trapp * [[w:Heather Menzies|Heather Menzies]] - Louisa von Trapp * [[w:Duane Chase|Duane Chase]] - Kurt von Trapp * [[w:Angela Cartwright|Angela Cartwright]] - Brigitta von Trapp * [[w:Debbie Turner|Debbie Turner]] - Martha von Trapp * [[w:Kym Karath|Kym Karath]] - Gretl von Trapp * [[w:Richard Haydn|Richard Haydn]] - Max Detweiler * [[w:Eleanor Parker|Eleanor Parker]] - The Baroness Elsa * [[w:Peggy Wood|Peggy Wood]] - Reverend Mother * [[w:Anna Lee|Anna Lee]] - Sister Margaretta * [[w:Portia Nelson|Portia Nelson]] - Sister Berthe * [[w:Ben Wright|Ben Wright]] - Herr Zeller * [[w:Daniel Truhitte|Daniel Truhitte]] - Rolfe * [[w:Norma Varden|Norma Varden]] - Frau Schmidt * [[w:Marni Nixon|Marni Nixon]] - Sister Sophia * Gil Stuart - Franz * [[w:Evadne Baker|Evadne Baker]] - Sister Bernice (final film role) == External links == {{wikipedia}} * {{imdb title|id=0059742|title=The Sound of Music}} * {{rotten-tomatoes|id=sound_of_music|title=The Sound of Music}} * ''[http://www.filmsite.org/soun.html The Sound of Music]'' at [[w:Filmsite.org|Filmsite.org]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Sound of Music, The}} [[Category:1965 films]] [[Category:Biographical films]] [[Category:1960s American films]] [[Category:Drama films]] [[Category:Films based on novels]] [[Category:Musical films]] [[Category:Best Picture Academy Award winners]] [[Category:Films directed by Robert Wise]] [[Category:Films set in Austria]] [[Category:Films about music]] [[Category:Films about widowhood]] [[Category:Films about leave]] [[Category:United States National Film Registry films]] [[Category:Films about families]] [[Category:Films set in country houses]] [[Category:World record holders]] 6dy0cfn6bud6gvv2kt73lm0b9mohnxp 3961069 3961068 2026-07-05T13:25:10Z ~2026-38158-74 3347487 /* Dialogue */ 3961069 wikitext text/x-wiki {{italic title}} '''''[[w:The Sound of Music (film)|The Sound of Music]]''''' is a [[w:1965 in film|1965]] American film about a woman who leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to a Naval officer widower and his seven children. :''Directed by [[w:Robert Wise|Robert Wise]]. Written by [[w:Ernest Lehman|Ernest Lehman]], based on the novel by [[w:Howard Lindsay|Howard Lindsay]] and [[w:Russel Crouse|Russel Crouse]], which was based on an autobiography by [[w:Maria von Trapp|Maria von Trapp]] (''The von Trapp Family Singers'') and the [[w:The Sound of Music|1959 musical of the same name]] by [[w:Rodgers and Hammerstein|Rodgers and Hammerstein]].'' {{center|'''Radiance that floods the screen...and warms the heart!'''[[#Taglines|taglines]]}} == Maria Rainer-Von Trapp == * ''[singing]'' The hills are alive with the sound of music,<br />With songs they have sung for a thousand years.<br />The hills fill my heart with the sound of music.<br />My heart wants to sing every song it hears!<br />My heart wants to beat like the wings of the birds that rise from the lake to the trees.<br />My heart wants to sigh like a chime that flies from a church on a breeze.<br />To laugh like a brook when it trips and falls over stones on its way.<br />To sing through the night like a lark who is learning to pray!<br />I go to the hills when my heart is lonely.<br />I know I will hear what I've heard before.<br>And my heart will be blessed with the sound of music.<br />And I'll sing once more. * ''[singing]'' Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens,<br />Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens,<br />Brown paper packages tied up with strings,<br />These are a few of my favorite things. * The first three notes just happen to be, Do-Re-Mi. Do-Re-Mi-Fa-Sol [pronounced So]-La-Ti. Oh, let's see if I can make it easier.<br />''[singing]'' Doe, a deer, a female deer. Ray, a drop of golden sun<br />Me, a name I call myself. Far, a long, long way to run.<br />Sew, a needle pulling thread. La, a note to follow Sol<br />Tea, a drink with jam and bread. That will bring us back to Do... == Captain Georg von Trapp == * ''[before he sings "Edelweiss" reprise version]'' My fellow Austrians, I shall not be seeing you again perhaps for a very long time. I would like to sing for you now... a love song. I know you share this love. I pray that you will never let it die.<br />''[singing]'' Edelweiss, Edelweiss, every morning you greet me.<br />Small and white, clean and bright, you look happy to meet me.<br />Blossom of snow may you bloom and grow, bloom and grow forever.<br />Edelweiss, Edelweiss, bless my homeland forever.Blossom of snow may you bloom and grow, bloom and grow forever. Edelweiss, Edelweiss bless my homeland forever. == Reverend Mother == * ''[singing]'' How do you solve a problem like Maria?<br />How do you catch a cloud and pin it down?<br />Many a thing you know you'd like to tell her, many a thing she ought to understand<br />...How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand? * ''[singing]'' Climb ev'ry mountain, search high and low.<br />Follow ev'ry byway, every path you know.<br />Climb ev'ry mountain, ford every stream.<br />Follow every rainbow, till you find your dream.<br />A dream that will need all the love you can give<br />Every day of your life for as long as you live... == Dialogue == :'''Maria''': I just couldn't help myself. The gates were open and the hills were beckoning and everything was so green and fresh, and the Untersberg kept leading me higher and higher, as if it wanted me to go right through the clouds with it. :'''Reverend Mother''': Child, suppose darkness had come and you were lost? :'''Maria''': Oh, mother, I could never get lost up there, that’s my mountain, I was brought up on it,...It was the mountain that led me to you. Sometimes, I would come down the mountain, and climb a tree, and look over your wall into your garden and hear the Sisters singing on their way to Vespers; which brings me to another transgression, Reverend Mother, I was singing out there today, without permission...I can't seem to stop singing wherever I am. And what's worse, I can't seem to stop saying things - anything and everything I think and feel. :'''Reverend Mother''': Some people would call that honesty. :'''Maria''': Oh, but it's terrible, Reverend Mother. You know how Sister Berthe always makes me kiss the floor after we've had a disagreement? Well, lately I've taken to kissing the floor whenever I see her coming, just to save time. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Captain''': You are the twelfth in a long line of governesses who have come here to look after my children since their mother died. I trust you will be an improvement on the last one. She stayed only two hours. :'''Maria''': What's wrong with the children, Captain? :'''Captain''': Oh, there's nothing wrong with the children. Only the governesses. They were completely unable to maintain discipline. Without it, this house cannot be properly run. Will you please remember that, Fraulein? Every morning, you will drill the children in their studies. I will not permit them to dream away their summer holidays. Each afternoon, they will march about the grounds breathing deeply. Bedtime is to be strictly observed - no exceptions...You will see to it that they conduct themselves at all time with the utmost orderliness and decorum. I am placing you in command. :... :'''Captain''': Now, when I want you, this is what you will hear. ''[blows whistle]'' :'''Maria''': Oh, no, sir, I'm sorry, sir. I could never answer to a whistle. Whistles are for dogs and cats and other animals, but not for children, and definitely not for me. It would be too... humiliating. :'''Captain''': Fräulein, were you this much trouble at the Abbey? :'''Maria''': Oh, much more, sir! :'''Captain''': Hmm. ''[starts to leave the room when Maria blows the whistle. He looks back at her.]'' :'''Maria''': Excuse me, sir, I don't know your signal. :'''Captain''': You may call me "Captain." <hr width="50%"/> :'''Maria''': I'd like to thank each and every one of you for the precious gift you left in my pocket today. :'''Captain''': Um, what gift? :'''Maria''': It's meant to be a secret, Captain, between the children and me. :'''Captain''': Uh-huh. Then I suggest that you keep it, and let us eat. :'''Maria''': Knowing how nervous I must have been, a stranger in a new household, knowing how important it was for me to feel accepted. It was so kind and thoughtful of you to make my first moments here so warm and happy and... pleasant. :''[All the while, the children look guilty. Marta starts to cry]'' :'''Captain''': What is the matter, Marta? :'''Marta''': Nothing. :''[Brigitta, Louisa and Gretl join in, while Liesl, Friedrich and Kurt continue to look guilty]'' :'''Captain''': Uh, Fräulein... is it to be at every meal, or merely at dinnertime, that you, uh, intend leading us all through this rare and wonderful new world of... indigestion? :'''Maria''': Oh, they're all right, Captain. They're just happy. :''[At that moment, Marta, Brigitta, Louisa, and Gretl burst into loud wails]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Rolfe''': ''[singing]'' You are sixteen, going on seventeen, baby it's time to think.<br />Better beware, be canny and careful, baby you're on the brink.<br />You are sixteen, going on seventeen, fellows will fall in line...<br /> Eager young lads and roués and cads Will offer you food and wine. <br /> Totally unprepared are you, to face a world of men.<br />Timid and shy and scared are you, of things beyond your ken.<br />You need someone older and wiser, telling you what to do.<br />I am seventeen, going on eighteen. I'll take care of you... :'''Liesl''': ''[singing]'' I am sixteen, going on seventeen. I know that I'm naive.<br />Fellows I meet may tell me I'm sweet, and willingly I believe.<br />I am sixteen, going on seventeen, innocent as a rose...<br />Bachelor dandies, drinkers of brandies, what do I know of those? <br /> Totally unprepared am I, to face a world of men.<br />Timid and shy and scared am I, of things beyond my ken.<br />I need someone older and wiser telling me what to do.<br />You are seventeen, going on eighteen. I'll depend on you. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Maria''': Dear Father, ''now'' I know why You sent me here. To help these children prepare for a new mother. And I pray this will become a happy family in Thy sight. God bless the captain. God bless Liesl and Friedrich. God bless Louisa, Brigitta, Marta and little Gretl. And I forgot the other boy. What's his name? Well, God bless what's-his-name. God bless the Reverend Mother and Sister Margaretta and everybody at the abbey. And now, dear God, about Liesl. Help her know that I'm her friend and help her tell me what she's been up to... :''[a rain-soaked Liesl enters through Maria's window]'' :'''Liesl''': You are not going to tell father are you? :'''Maria''': Shh, help me to be understanding so that I may guide her footsteps. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, Amen. :'''Liesl''': I was out walking and somebody locked the doors early. I didn't want to wake everybody, so when I saw your window open. You're not going to tell Father, are you? :'''Maria''': How in the world did you climb up here? :'''Liesl''': It's how we always got in to play tricks on the governess. Louisa can make it with a whole jar of spiders in her hand. :'''Maria''': Spiders? Liesl, were you out walking all by yourself? If we wash that dress tonight, nobody would notice it tomorrow. You could put this on. Take your dress and put it to soak in the bathtub. Come back here and sit on the bed, and we'll have a talk. :'''Liesl''': I told you today I didn't need a governess. Well, maybe I do. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Maria and the children are singing "My Favorite Things" and by the end, Maria is caught by the Captain]'' :'''Captain''': Fraulein Maria, did I or did I not say that bedtime is to be strictly observed in this household? :'''Maria''': Yes, well the children were scared of the thunderstorm and... You did, sir. :'''Captain''': And do you or do you not have trouble following these simple instructions? :'''Maria''': Only during thunderstorms, sir. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Elsa''': ''[about Rolf, who gave a Nazi salute]'' Oh Georg, he's just a boy. :'''Captain''': Yes, and I'm just an Austrian. :'''Max''': What's gonna happen's gonna happen. Just make sure it doesn't happen to you. :'''Captain''': ''[incensed]'' Max, don't you ''ever'' say that again! :'''Max''': You know I have no political convictions. Can I help it if other people do? :'''Captain''': Oh yes you can help it. You ''must'' help it. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Captain''': Now, Fraulein, I want a truthful answer from you. :'''Maria''': Yes, Captain? :'''Captain''': Is it possible, ''[pauses, then smiles briefly]'' or could I have just imagined...Have my children, by any chance, been climbing trees today? :'''Maria''': Yes, Captain. :'''Captain''': I see. And where, may I ask, did they get these, uhm, these... :'''Maria''': Playclothes. :'''Captain''': Oh, is that what you call them? :'''Maria''': I made them, from the drapes that used to hang in my bedroom. :'''Captain''': ''[startled]'' Drapes? :'''Maria''': They still had plenty of wear left. The children have been everywhere in them. :'''Captain''': ''[now stunned]'' Do you mean to tell me that my children have been roaming about Salzburg dressed up in nothing but some old drapes?! :'''Maria''': Umm, hmm, and having a marvelous time. :'''Captain''': They ''have'' uniforms. :'''Maria''': Straitjackets, if you'll forgive me. :'''Captain''': ''[beat]'' I will not forgive you for that. :'''Maria''': Children can't do all the things they're supposed to if they have to worry about spoiling their precious clothes. :'''Captain''': They haven't complained yet. :'''Maria''': Well, they wouldn't dare! They love you too much. They ''fear'' you too much! :'''Captain''': I don't wish you to discuss my children in this manner. :'''Maria''': Well, you've got to hear from someone! You're never home long enough to know them. :'''Captain''': I said I don't want to hear anymore from you about my children! :'''Maria''': I know you don't, but you've got to! Now, take Liesl. :'''Captain''': ''[hesitatingly]'' You will not say one word about Liesl, Fraulein. :'''Maria''': She's not a child anymore, and one of these days, you're going to wake up and find that she's a woman. You won't even know her. And Friedrich, he's a boy, but he wants to be a man and there's no one to show him how. :'''Captain''': ''[shocked and angry]'' Don't you ''DARE'' tell ''ME'' about my son! :'''Maria''': Brigitta could tell you about him if you let her get close to you. She notices everything. :'''Captain''': Fraulein... :'''Maria''': And Kurt pretends he's tough not to show how hurt he is when you brush him aside... :'''Captain''': That will do! :'''Maria''': ...the way you do all of them. Louisa I don't even know about yet... :'''Captain''': I said that will do! :'''Maria''': But somebody has to find out about her, and the little ones just want to be loved. Oh, please, Captain, love them! Love them all! :'''Captain''': I don't care to hear anything further from you about my children. :'''Maria''': I'm not finished yet, Captain! :'''Captain''': Oh, yes, you are, Captain! ''[pauses as Maria stares at him, then corrects himself]'' Fraulein. You will pack your things this minute, and return to the abbey. :''[suddenly hears the children singing and looks toward the house]'' :'''Captain''': What's that? :'''Maria''': ''[following his gaze]'' It's singing. :'''Captain''': Yes, I realize it's singing, but ''who'' is singing? :'''Maria''': ''[sighs, looking regretful]'' The children. :'''Captain''': ''[looks back toward the house in astonishment]'' The children? :'''Maria''': I taught them a song to sing for the Baroness. :... :'''Captain''': Fraulein. I behaved badly. I apologize. :'''Maria''': I'm-I'm far too outspoken. It's one of my worst faults. :'''Captain''': You were right. I don't know my children. :'''Maria''': There's still time, Captain. They want so much to be close to you. :'''Captain''': You've brought music back into the house. I'd forgotten. Fraulein, I want you to stay. I ''ask'' you to stay. :'''Maria''': If I could be of any help. :'''Captain''': You have already. More than you know. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Elsa''': My dear, is there anything you can't do? :'''Maria''': Well, I'm not sure I'll make a very good nun. :'''Elsa''': Oh, if you have any problems, I'd be happy to help you. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Max''': Is there a more beautiful expression of what is good in this country of ours than the innocent voices of our children? :'''Zeller''': Oh, come now, Baron, would you have us believe that Austria alone holds a monopoly on virtue? :'''Captain''': Herr Zeller, some of us prefer Austrian voices raised in song to ugly German threats. :'''Zeller''': The ostrich buries his head in the sand, and sometimes in the flag. ''[He turns toward the Austrian flag, prominently displayed]'' Perhaps those who would warn you that the ''[[w:Anschluss|Anschluss]]'' is coming - and it is coming, Captain - perhaps they would get further with you by setting their words to music. :'''Captain''': If the Nazis take over Austria, I have no doubt, Herr Zeller, that you will be the entire trumpet section. :'''Zeller''': You flatter me, Captain. :'''Captain''': Oh, how clumsy of me. I meant to accuse you. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Elsa''': Now, where is that lovely little thing you were wearing the other evening, when the Captain couldn't keep his eyes off you. :'''Maria''': Couldn't keep his eyes off me? :'''Elsa''': Come, my dear, we are women. Let's not pretend we don't know when a man notices us... :'''Maria''': The Captain notices everybody and everything. :'''Elsa''': Well, there's no need to feel so defensive, Maria. You are ''quite'' attractive, you know. The Captain would hardly be a man if he didn't notice you. :'''Maria''': Baroness, I hope you're joking. :'''Elsa''': Not at all. :'''Maria''': But I've never done a thing to... :'''Elsa''': But you don't have to, Maria. There's nothing more irresistible to a man than a woman who's in love with him. :'''Maria''': 'In love with him'? :'''Elsa''': Of course. What makes it so nice is he thinks he's in love with you. :'''Maria''': But that's not true. :'''Elsa''': Oh surely you've noticed the way he looks into your eyes. And you know, uh, you blushed in his arms when you were dancing just now. Don't take it to heart. He'll get over it soon enough, I should think. Men do, you know. :'''Maria''': Then I should go. I mustn't stay here. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Maria''': I left... I was frightened... I was confused. I felt, I've never felt that way before, I couldn't stay. I knew that here I'd be away from it. I'd be safe... I can't face him again... Oh, there were times when we would look at each other. Oh, Mother, I could hardly breathe... That's what's been torturing me. I was there on God's errand. To have asked for his love would have been wrong. I couldn't stay, I just couldn't. I'm ready at this moment to take my vows. Please help me. :'''Reverend Mother''': Maria, the love of a man and a woman is holy too. You have a great capacity to love. What you must find out is how God wants you to spend your love. :'''Maria''': But I pledged my life to God. I pledged my life to his service. :'''Reverend Mother''': My daughter, if you love this man, it doesn't mean you love God less. No, you must find out and you must go back. :'''Maria''': Oh, Mother, you can't ask me to do that. Please let me stay, I beg of you. :'''Reverend Mother''': Maria, these walls were not built to shut out problems. You have to face them. You have to live the life you were born to live. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Captain''': You left without saying goodbye, even to the children. :'''Maria''': It was wrong of me, forgive me. :'''Captain''': Why did you? :'''Maria''': Please don't ask me. Anyway, the reason no longer exists. :'''Elsa''': ''[entering]'' Fraulein Maria, you've returned. Isn't it wonderful, Georg? :'''Maria''': May I wish you every happiness, Baroness? And you too, Captain. The children tell me you're to be married. :'''Elsa''': Thank you, my dear. :'''Captain''': You are back to, uh, stay? :'''Maria''': Only until arrangements can be made for another governess. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Captain''': It's no use, you and I. I'm being dishonest to both of us and utterly unfair to you. When two people talk of marriage... :'''Elsa''': No, don't, don't say another word, Georg, please? You see, uh, there are other things I've been thinking of. Fond as I am of you, I really don't think you're the right man for me. You're much too independent and I need someone who needs me desperately, or at least needs my money desperately. I've enjoyed every moment we've had together. I do thank you for that. Now, if you'll forgive me, I'll go inside, pack my little bags, and return to Vienna where I belong. And somewhere out there is a young lady who I think will never be a nun. ''[she kisses him]'' Auf Wiedersehen, darling. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Captain''': There isn't going to be any Baroness...well, we've, uhm, called off our engagement, you see...Well, you can't marry someone when you're in love with someone else, can you? ''[he kisses her]'' :'''Maria''': The Reverend Mother always says, 'when the Lord closes a door, somewhere he opens a window'. :'''Captain''': What else does the Reverend Mother say? :'''Maria''': That you have to look for your life. :'''Captain''':"Is that why you came back? ''[She nods]'' And have you found it Maria? :'''Maria''': I think I have. I know I have. :'''Captain''': I love you. :''["Somthing Good" begins to play]'' :'''Maria''': Oh, can this be happening to me? :... :''[During the song]'' :'''Captain''': ''[he brings Maria to the center of the gazebo]'' Do you know when I first started loving you? That night at the dinner table when you sat at that ridiculous pine cone. ''[laughs]'' :'''Maria''': What? ''[laughs too]'' I knew the first time you blew that whistle. :'''Captain''': ''[as he caresses her cheek with his right hand]'' Oh, my love... <hr width="50%"/> :'''Liesl''': ''[after Ralf rejects her]'' Mother? :'''Maria''': That sounds so nice. :'''Liesl''': I like calling you "Mother." :'''Maria''': I like hearing it. :'''Liesl''': You love Father very much. I can tell you do. :'''Maria''': Very much. :'''Liesl''': Mother, what do you do when you think you love someone? I mean, when you stop loving someone or he stops loving you? :'''Maria''': Well, you cry a little. Then you wait for the sun to come out. It always does. :'''Liesl''': There are so many things I think I should know but I don't. I really don't. :'''Maria''': How can you? :'''Liesl''': Sometimes I feel the world is ending. :'''Maria''': Then you feel it's just beginning? :'''Liesl''': ''[looks up, astonished and smiling]'' Yes! :'''Maria''': It was that way with me. And for you it will be just as wonderful. :'''Liesl''': ''[her smile widens]'' Do you really think so? == Taglines == * Radiance that floods the screen...and warms the heart! * The more you see it, the more it becomes one of your favorite things! * The Happiest Sound In All The World! == Cast == * [[Julie Andrews]] - [[w:Maria von Trapp|Maria]] * [[w:Christopher Plummer|Christopher Plummer]] - [[w:Georg von Trapp|Captain Georg von Trapp]] * [[w:Charmian Carr|Charmian Carr]] - Liesl von Trapp * [[w:Nicholas Hammond|Nicholas Hammond]] - Friedrich von Trapp * [[w:Heather Menzies|Heather Menzies]] - Louisa von Trapp * [[w:Duane Chase|Duane Chase]] - Kurt von Trapp * [[w:Angela Cartwright|Angela Cartwright]] - Brigitta von Trapp * [[w:Debbie Turner|Debbie Turner]] - Martha von Trapp * [[w:Kym Karath|Kym Karath]] - Gretl von Trapp * [[w:Richard Haydn|Richard Haydn]] - Max Detweiler * [[w:Eleanor Parker|Eleanor Parker]] - The Baroness Elsa * [[w:Peggy Wood|Peggy Wood]] - Reverend Mother * [[w:Anna Lee|Anna Lee]] - Sister Margaretta * [[w:Portia Nelson|Portia Nelson]] - Sister Berthe * [[w:Ben Wright|Ben Wright]] - Herr Zeller * [[w:Daniel Truhitte|Daniel Truhitte]] - Rolfe * [[w:Norma Varden|Norma Varden]] - Frau Schmidt * [[w:Marni Nixon|Marni Nixon]] - Sister Sophia * Gil Stuart - Franz * [[w:Evadne Baker|Evadne Baker]] - Sister Bernice (final film role) == External links == {{wikipedia}} * {{imdb title|id=0059742|title=The Sound of Music}} * {{rotten-tomatoes|id=sound_of_music|title=The Sound of Music}} * ''[http://www.filmsite.org/soun.html The Sound of Music]'' at [[w:Filmsite.org|Filmsite.org]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Sound of Music, The}} [[Category:1965 films]] [[Category:Biographical films]] [[Category:1960s American films]] [[Category:Drama films]] [[Category:Films based on novels]] [[Category:Musical films]] [[Category:Best Picture Academy Award winners]] [[Category:Films directed by Robert Wise]] [[Category:Films set in Austria]] [[Category:Films about music]] [[Category:Films about widowhood]] [[Category:Films about leave]] [[Category:United States National Film Registry films]] [[Category:Films about families]] [[Category:Films set in country houses]] [[Category:World record holders]] sttteu441lmdt568kiddwyzxhru75as 3961216 3961069 2026-07-05T16:57:02Z ~2026-38158-74 3347487 3961216 wikitext text/x-wiki {{italic title}} '''''[[w:The Sound of Music (film)|The Sound of Music]]''''' is a [[w:1965 in film|1965]] American film about a woman who leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to a Naval officer widower and his seven children. :''Directed by [[w:Robert Wise|Robert Wise]]. Written by [[w:Ernest Lehman|Ernest Lehman]], based on the novel by [[w:Howard Lindsay|Howard Lindsay]] and [[w:Russel Crouse|Russel Crouse]], which was based on an autobiography by [[w:Maria von Trapp|Maria von Trapp]] (''The von Trapp Family Singers'') and the [[w:The Sound of Music|1959 musical of the same name]] by [[w:Rodgers and Hammerstein|Rodgers and Hammerstein]].'' {{center|'''Radiance that floods the screen...and warms the heart!'''[[#Taglines|taglines]]}} == Maria Rainer-Von Trapp == * ''[singing]'' The hills are alive with the sound of music,<br />With songs they have sung for a thousand years.<br />The hills fill my heart with the sound of music.<br />My heart wants to sing every song it hears!<br />My heart wants to beat like the wings of the birds that rise from the lake to the trees.<br />My heart wants to sigh like a chime that flies from a church on a breeze.<br />To laugh like a brook when it trips and falls over stones on its way.<br />To sing through the night like a lark who is learning to pray!<br />I go to the hills when my heart is lonely.<br />I know I will hear what I've heard before.<br>And my heart will be blessed with the sound of music.<br />And I'll sing once more. * ''[singing]'' Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens,<br />Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens,<br />Brown paper packages tied up with strings,<br />These are a few of my favorite things. * The first three notes just happen to be, Do-Re-Mi. Do-Re-Mi-Fa-Sol [pronounced So]-La-Ti. Oh, let's see if I can make it easier.<br />''[singing]'' Doe, a deer, a female deer. Ray, a drop of golden sun<br />Me, a name I call myself. Far, a long, long way to run.<br />Sew, a needle pulling thread. La, a note to follow Sol<br />Tea, a drink with jam and bread. That will bring us back to Do... == Captain Georg von Trapp == * ''[before he sings "Edelweiss" reprise version]'' My fellow Austrians, I shall not be seeing you again perhaps for a very long time. I would like to sing for you now... a love song. I know you share this love. I pray that you will never let it die.<br />''[singing]'' Edelweiss, Edelweiss, every morning you greet me.<br />Small and white, clean and bright, you look happy to meet me.<br />Blossom of snow may you bloom and grow, bloom and grow forever.<br />Edelweiss, Edelweiss, bless my homeland forever.Blossom of snow may you bloom and grow, bloom and grow forever. Edelweiss, Edelweiss bless my homeland forever. == Reverend Mother == * ''[singing]'' How do you solve a problem like Maria?<br />How do you catch a cloud and pin it down?<br />Many a thing you know you'd like to tell her, many a thing she ought to understand<br />...How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand? * ''[singing]'' Climb ev'ry mountain, search high and low.<br />Follow ev'ry byway, every path you know.<br />Climb ev'ry mountain, ford every stream.<br />Follow every rainbow, till you find your dream.<br />A dream that will need all the love you can give<br />Every day of your life for as long as you live... == Dialogue == :'''Maria''': I just couldn't help myself. The gates were open and the hills were beckoning and everything was so green and fresh, and the Untersberg kept leading me higher and higher, as if it wanted me to go right through the clouds with it. :'''Reverend Mother''': Child, suppose darkness had come and you were lost? :'''Maria''': Oh, mother, I could never get lost up there, that’s my mountain, I was brought up on it,...It was the mountain that led me to you. Sometimes, I would come down the mountain, and climb a tree, and look over your wall into your garden and hear the Sisters singing on their way to Vespers; which brings me to another transgression, Reverend Mother, I was singing out there today, without permission...I can't seem to stop singing wherever I am. And what's worse, I can't seem to stop saying things - anything and everything I think and feel. :'''Reverend Mother''': Some people would call that honesty. :'''Maria''': Oh, but it's terrible, Reverend Mother. You know how Sister Berthe always makes me kiss the floor after we've had a disagreement? Well, lately I've taken to kissing the floor whenever I see her coming, just to save time. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Captain''': You are the twelfth in a long line of governesses who have come here to look after my children since their mother died. I trust you will be an improvement on the last one. She stayed only two hours. :'''Maria''': What's wrong with the children, Captain? :'''Captain''': Oh, there's nothing wrong with the children. Only the governesses. They were completely unable to maintain discipline. Without it, this house cannot be properly run. Will you please remember that, Fraulein? Every morning, you will drill the children in their studies. I will not permit them to dream away their summer holidays. Each afternoon, they will march about the grounds breathing deeply. Bedtime is to be strictly observed - no exceptions...You will see to it that they conduct themselves at all time with the utmost orderliness and decorum. I am placing you in command. :... :'''Captain''': Now, when I want you, this is what you will hear. ''[blows whistle]'' :'''Maria''': Oh, no, sir, I'm sorry, sir. I could never answer to a whistle. Whistles are for dogs and cats and other animals, but not for children, and definitely not for me. It would be too... humiliating. :'''Captain''': Fräulein, were you this much trouble at the Abbey? :'''Maria''': Oh, much more, sir! :'''Captain''': Hmm. ''[starts to leave the room when Maria blows the whistle. He looks back at her.]'' :'''Maria''': Excuse me, sir, I don't know your signal. :'''Captain''': You may call me "Captain." <hr width="50%"/> :'''Maria''': I'd like to thank each and every one of you for the precious gift you left in my pocket today. :'''Captain''': Um, what gift? :'''Maria''': It's meant to be a secret, Captain, between the children and me. :'''Captain''': Uh-huh. Then I suggest that you keep it, and let us eat. :'''Maria''': Knowing how nervous I must have been, a stranger in a new household, knowing how important it was for me to feel accepted. It was so kind and thoughtful of you to make my first moments here so warm and happy and... pleasant. :''[All the while, the children look guilty. Marta starts to cry]'' :'''Captain''': What is the matter, Marta? :'''Marta''': Nothing. :''[Brigitta, Louisa and Gretl join in, while Liesl, Friedrich and Kurt continue to look guilty]'' :'''Captain''': Uh, Fräulein... is it to be at every meal, or merely at dinnertime, that you, uh, intend leading us all through this rare and wonderful new world of... indigestion? :'''Maria''': Oh, they're all right, Captain. They're just happy. :''[At that moment, Marta, Brigitta, Louisa and Gretl burst into loud wails]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Rolfe''': ''[singing]'' You are sixteen, going on seventeen, baby it's time to think.<br />Better beware, be canny and careful, baby you're on the brink.<br />You are sixteen, going on seventeen, fellows will fall in line...<br /> Eager young lads and roués and cads Will offer you food and wine. <br /> Totally unprepared are you, to face a world of men.<br />Timid and shy and scared are you, of things beyond your ken.<br />You need someone older and wiser, telling you what to do.<br />I am seventeen, going on eighteen. I'll take care of you... :'''Liesl''': ''[singing]'' I am sixteen, going on seventeen. I know that I'm naive.<br />Fellows I meet may tell me I'm sweet, and willingly I believe.<br />I am sixteen, going on seventeen, innocent as a rose...<br />Bachelor dandies, drinkers of brandies, what do I know of those? <br /> Totally unprepared am I, to face a world of men.<br />Timid and shy and scared am I, of things beyond my ken.<br />I need someone older and wiser telling me what to do.<br />You are seventeen, going on eighteen. I'll depend on you. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Maria''': Dear Father, ''now'' I know why You sent me here. To help these children prepare for a new mother. And I pray this will become a happy family in Thy sight. God bless the captain. God bless Liesl and Friedrich. God bless Louisa, Brigitta, Marta and little Gretl. And I forgot the other boy. What's his name? Well, God bless what's-his-name. God bless the Reverend Mother and Sister Margaretta and everybody at the abbey. And now, dear God, about Liesl. Help her know that I'm her friend and help her tell me what she's been up to... :''[a rain-soaked Liesl enters through Maria's window]'' :'''Liesl''': You are not going to tell father are you? :'''Maria''': Shh, help me to be understanding so that I may guide her footsteps. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, Amen. :'''Liesl''': I was out walking and somebody locked the doors early. I didn't want to wake everybody, so when I saw your window open. You're not going to tell Father, are you? :'''Maria''': How in the world did you climb up here? :'''Liesl''': It's how we always got in to play tricks on the governess. Louisa can make it with a whole jar of spiders in her hand. :'''Maria''': Spiders? Liesl, were you out walking all by yourself? If we wash that dress tonight, nobody would notice it tomorrow. You could put this on. Take your dress and put it to soak in the bathtub. Come back here and sit on the bed, and we'll have a talk. :'''Liesl''': I told you today I didn't need a governess. Well, maybe I do. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Maria and the children are singing "My Favorite Things" and by the end, Maria is caught by the Captain]'' :'''Captain''': Fraulein Maria, did I or did I not say that bedtime is to be strictly observed in this household? :'''Maria''': Yes, well the children were scared of the thunderstorm and... You did, sir. :'''Captain''': And do you or do you not have trouble following these simple instructions? :'''Maria''': Only during thunderstorms, sir. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Elsa''': ''[about Rolf, who gave a Nazi salute]'' Oh Georg, he's just a boy. :'''Captain''': Yes, and I'm just an Austrian. :'''Max''': What's gonna happen's gonna happen. Just make sure it doesn't happen to you. :'''Captain''': ''[incensed]'' Max, don't you ''ever'' say that again! :'''Max''': You know I have no political convictions. Can I help it if other people do? :'''Captain''': Oh yes you can help it. You ''must'' help it. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Captain''': Now, Fraulein, I want a truthful answer from you. :'''Maria''': Yes, Captain? :'''Captain''': Is it possible, ''[pauses, then smiles briefly]'' or could I have just imagined...Have my children, by any chance, been climbing trees today? :'''Maria''': Yes, Captain. :'''Captain''': I see. And where, may I ask, did they get these, uhm, these... :'''Maria''': Playclothes. :'''Captain''': Oh, is that what you call them? :'''Maria''': I made them, from the drapes that used to hang in my bedroom. :'''Captain''': ''[startled]'' Drapes? :'''Maria''': They still had plenty of wear left. The children have been everywhere in them. :'''Captain''': ''[now stunned]'' Do you mean to tell me that my children have been roaming about Salzburg dressed up in nothing but some old drapes?! :'''Maria''': Umm, hmm, and having a marvelous time. :'''Captain''': They ''have'' uniforms. :'''Maria''': Straitjackets, if you'll forgive me. :'''Captain''': ''[beat]'' I will not forgive you for that. :'''Maria''': Children can't do all the things they're supposed to if they have to worry about spoiling their precious clothes. :'''Captain''': They haven't complained yet. :'''Maria''': Well, they wouldn't dare! They love you too much. They ''fear'' you too much! :'''Captain''': I don't wish you to discuss my children in this manner. :'''Maria''': Well, you've got to hear from someone! You're never home long enough to know them. :'''Captain''': I said I don't want to hear anymore from you about my children! :'''Maria''': I know you don't, but you've got to! Now, take Liesl. :'''Captain''': ''[hesitatingly]'' You will not say one word about Liesl, Fraulein. :'''Maria''': She's not a child anymore, and one of these days, you're going to wake up and find that she's a woman. You won't even know her. And Friedrich, he's a boy, but he wants to be a man and there's no one to show him how. :'''Captain''': ''[shocked and angry]'' Don't you ''DARE'' tell ''ME'' about my son! :'''Maria''': Brigitta could tell you about him if you let her get close to you. She notices everything. :'''Captain''': Fraulein... :'''Maria''': And Kurt pretends he's tough not to show how hurt he is when you brush him aside... :'''Captain''': That will do! :'''Maria''': ...the way you do all of them. Louisa I don't even know about yet... :'''Captain''': I said that will do! :'''Maria''': But somebody has to find out about her, and the little ones just want to be loved. Oh, please, Captain, love them! Love them all! :'''Captain''': I don't care to hear anything further from you about my children. :'''Maria''': I'm not finished yet, Captain! :'''Captain''': Oh, yes, you are, Captain! ''[pauses as Maria stares at him, then corrects himself]'' Fraulein. You will pack your things this minute, and return to the abbey. :''[suddenly hears the children singing and looks toward the house]'' :'''Captain''': What's that? :'''Maria''': ''[following his gaze]'' It's singing. :'''Captain''': Yes, I realize it's singing, but ''who'' is singing? :'''Maria''': ''[sighs, looking regretful]'' The children. :'''Captain''': ''[looks back toward the house in astonishment]'' The children? :'''Maria''': I taught them a song to sing for the Baroness. :... :'''Captain''': Fraulein. I behaved badly. I apologize. :'''Maria''': I'm-I'm far too outspoken. It's one of my worst faults. :'''Captain''': You were right. I don't know my children. :'''Maria''': There's still time, Captain. They want so much to be close to you. :'''Captain''': You've brought music back into the house. I'd forgotten. Fraulein, I want you to stay. I ''ask'' you to stay. :'''Maria''': If I could be of any help. :'''Captain''': You have already. More than you know. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Elsa''': My dear, is there anything you can't do? :'''Maria''': Well, I'm not sure I'll make a very good nun. :'''Elsa''': Oh, if you have any problems, I'd be happy to help you. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Max''': Is there a more beautiful expression of what is good in this country of ours than the innocent voices of our children? :'''Zeller''': Oh, come now, Baron, would you have us believe that Austria alone holds a monopoly on virtue? :'''Captain''': Herr Zeller, some of us prefer Austrian voices raised in song to ugly German threats. :'''Zeller''': The ostrich buries his head in the sand, and sometimes in the flag. ''[He turns toward the Austrian flag, prominently displayed]'' Perhaps those who would warn you that the ''[[w:Anschluss|Anschluss]]'' is coming - and it is coming, Captain - perhaps they would get further with you by setting their words to music. :'''Captain''': If the Nazis take over Austria, I have no doubt, Herr Zeller, that you will be the entire trumpet section. :'''Zeller''': You flatter me, Captain. :'''Captain''': Oh, how clumsy of me. I meant to accuse you. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Elsa''': Now, where is that lovely little thing you were wearing the other evening, when the Captain couldn't keep his eyes off you. :'''Maria''': Couldn't keep his eyes off me? :'''Elsa''': Come, my dear, we are women. Let's not pretend we don't know when a man notices us... :'''Maria''': The Captain notices everybody and everything. :'''Elsa''': Well, there's no need to feel so defensive, Maria. You are ''quite'' attractive, you know. The Captain would hardly be a man if he didn't notice you. :'''Maria''': Baroness, I hope you're joking. :'''Elsa''': Not at all. :'''Maria''': But I've never done a thing to... :'''Elsa''': But you don't have to, Maria. There's nothing more irresistible to a man than a woman who's in love with him. :'''Maria''': 'In love with him'? :'''Elsa''': Of course. What makes it so nice is he thinks he's in love with you. :'''Maria''': But that's not true. :'''Elsa''': Oh surely you've noticed the way he looks into your eyes. And you know, uh, you blushed in his arms when you were dancing just now. Don't take it to heart. He'll get over it soon enough, I should think. Men do, you know. :'''Maria''': Then I should go. I mustn't stay here. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Maria''': I left... I was frightened... I was confused. I felt, I've never felt that way before, I couldn't stay. I knew that here I'd be away from it. I'd be safe... I can't face him again... Oh, there were times when we would look at each other. Oh, Mother, I could hardly breathe... That's what's been torturing me. I was there on God's errand. To have asked for his love would have been wrong. I couldn't stay, I just couldn't. I'm ready at this moment to take my vows. Please help me. :'''Reverend Mother''': Maria, the love of a man and a woman is holy too. You have a great capacity to love. What you must find out is how God wants you to spend your love. :'''Maria''': But I pledged my life to God. I pledged my life to his service. :'''Reverend Mother''': My daughter, if you love this man, it doesn't mean you love God less. No, you must find out and you must go back. :'''Maria''': Oh, Mother, you can't ask me to do that. Please let me stay, I beg of you. :'''Reverend Mother''': Maria, these walls were not built to shut out problems. You have to face them. You have to live the life you were born to live. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Captain''': You left without saying goodbye, even to the children. :'''Maria''': It was wrong of me, forgive me. :'''Captain''': Why did you? :'''Maria''': Please don't ask me. Anyway, the reason no longer exists. :'''Elsa''': ''[entering]'' Fraulein Maria, you've returned. Isn't it wonderful, Georg? :'''Maria''': May I wish you every happiness, Baroness? And you too, Captain. The children tell me you're to be married. :'''Elsa''': Thank you, my dear. :'''Captain''': You are back to, uh, stay? :'''Maria''': Only until arrangements can be made for another governess. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Captain''': It's no use, you and I. I'm being dishonest to both of us and utterly unfair to you. When two people talk of marriage... :'''Elsa''': No, don't, don't say another word, Georg, please? You see, uh, there are other things I've been thinking of. Fond as I am of you, I really don't think you're the right man for me. You're much too independent and I need someone who needs me desperately, or at least needs my money desperately. I've enjoyed every moment we've had together. I do thank you for that. Now, if you'll forgive me, I'll go inside, pack my little bags, and return to Vienna where I belong. And somewhere out there is a young lady who I think will never be a nun. ''[she kisses him]'' Auf Wiedersehen, darling. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Captain''': There isn't going to be any Baroness...well, we've, uhm, called off our engagement, you see...Well, you can't marry someone when you're in love with someone else, can you? ''[he kisses her]'' :'''Maria''': The Reverend Mother always says, 'when the Lord closes a door, somewhere he opens a window'. :'''Captain''': What else does the Reverend Mother say? :'''Maria''': That you have to look for your life. :'''Captain''':"Is that why you came back? ''[She nods]'' And have you found it Maria? :'''Maria''': I think I have. I know I have. :'''Captain''': I love you. :''["Somthing Good" begins to play]'' :'''Maria''': Oh, can this be happening to me? :... :''[During the song]'' :'''Captain''': ''[he brings Maria to the center of the gazebo]'' Do you know when I first started loving you? That night at the dinner table when you sat at that ridiculous pine cone. ''[laughs]'' :'''Maria''': What? ''[laughs too]'' I knew the first time you blew that whistle. :'''Captain''': ''[as he caresses her cheek with his right hand]'' Oh, my love... <hr width="50%"/> :'''Liesl''': ''[after Ralf rejects her]'' Mother? :'''Maria''': That sounds so nice. :'''Liesl''': I like calling you "Mother." :'''Maria''': I like hearing it. :'''Liesl''': You love Father very much. I can tell you do. :'''Maria''': Very much. :'''Liesl''': Mother, what do you do when you think you love someone? I mean, when you stop loving someone or he stops loving you? :'''Maria''': Well, you cry a little. Then you wait for the sun to come out. It always does. :'''Liesl''': There are so many things I think I should know but I don't. I really don't. :'''Maria''': How can you? :'''Liesl''': Sometimes I feel the world is ending. :'''Maria''': Then you feel it's just beginning? :'''Liesl''': ''[looks up, astonished and smiling]'' Yes! :'''Maria''': It was that way with me. And for you it will be just as wonderful. :'''Liesl''': ''[her smile widens]'' Do you really think so? == Taglines == * Radiance that floods the screen...and warms the heart! * The more you see it, the more it becomes one of your favorite things! * The Happiest Sound In All The World! == Cast == * [[Julie Andrews]] - [[w:Maria von Trapp|Maria]] * [[w:Christopher Plummer|Christopher Plummer]] - [[w:Georg von Trapp|Captain Georg von Trapp]] * [[w:Charmian Carr|Charmian Carr]] - Liesl von Trapp * [[w:Nicholas Hammond|Nicholas Hammond]] - Friedrich von Trapp * [[w:Heather Menzies|Heather Menzies]] - Louisa von Trapp * [[w:Duane Chase|Duane Chase]] - Kurt von Trapp * [[w:Angela Cartwright|Angela Cartwright]] - Brigitta von Trapp * [[w:Debbie Turner|Debbie Turner]] - Martha von Trapp * [[w:Kym Karath|Kym Karath]] - Gretl von Trapp * [[w:Richard Haydn|Richard Haydn]] - Max Detweiler * [[w:Eleanor Parker|Eleanor Parker]] - The Baroness Elsa * [[w:Peggy Wood|Peggy Wood]] - Reverend Mother * [[w:Anna Lee|Anna Lee]] - Sister Margaretta * [[w:Portia Nelson|Portia Nelson]] - Sister Berthe * [[w:Ben Wright|Ben Wright]] - Herr Zeller * [[w:Daniel Truhitte|Daniel Truhitte]] - Rolfe * [[w:Norma Varden|Norma Varden]] - Frau Schmidt * [[w:Marni Nixon|Marni Nixon]] - Sister Sophia * Gil Stuart - Franz * [[w:Evadne Baker|Evadne Baker]] - Sister Bernice (final film role) == External links == {{wikipedia}} * {{imdb title|id=0059742|title=The Sound of Music}} * {{rotten-tomatoes|id=sound_of_music|title=The Sound of Music}} * ''[http://www.filmsite.org/soun.html The Sound of Music]'' at [[w:Filmsite.org|Filmsite.org]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Sound of Music, The}} [[Category:1965 films]] [[Category:Biographical films]] [[Category:1960s American films]] [[Category:Drama films]] [[Category:Films based on novels]] [[Category:Musical films]] [[Category:Best Picture Academy Award winners]] [[Category:Films directed by Robert Wise]] [[Category:Films set in Austria]] [[Category:Films about music]] [[Category:Films about widowhood]] [[Category:Films about leave]] [[Category:United States National Film Registry films]] [[Category:Films about families]] [[Category:Films set in country houses]] [[Category:World record holders]] 17j31yijczewyvqhcg909cvaw32v001 3961354 3961216 2026-07-06T03:05:32Z ~2026-38158-74 3347487 3961354 wikitext text/x-wiki {{italic title}} '''''[[w:The Sound of Music (film)|The Sound of Music]]''''' is a [[w:1965 in film|1965]] American film about a woman who leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to a Naval officer widower and his seven children. :''Directed by [[w:Robert Wise|Robert Wise]]. Written by [[w:Ernest Lehman|Ernest Lehman]], based on the novel by [[w:Howard Lindsay|Howard Lindsay]] and [[w:Russel Crouse|Russel Crouse]], which was based on an autobiography by [[w:Maria von Trapp|Maria von Trapp]] (''The von Trapp Family Singers'') and the [[w:The Sound of Music|1959 musical of the same name]] by [[w:Rodgers and Hammerstein|Rodgers and Hammerstein]].'' {{center|'''Radiance that floods the screen...and warms the heart!'''[[#Taglines|taglines]]}} == Maria Rainer-Von Trapp == * ''[singing]'' The hills are alive with the sound of music,<br />With songs they have sung for a thousand years.<br />The hills fill my heart with the sound of music.<br />My heart wants to sing every song it hears!<br />My heart wants to beat like the wings of the birds that rise from the lake to the trees.<br />My heart wants to sigh like a chime that flies from a church on a breeze.<br />To laugh like a brook when it trips and falls over stones on its way.<br />To sing through the night like a lark who is learning to pray!<br />I go to the hills when my heart is lonely.<br />I know I will hear what I've heard before.<br>And my heart will be blessed with the sound of music.<br />And I'll sing once more. * ''[singing]'' Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens,<br />Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens,<br />Brown paper packages tied up with strings,<br />These are a few of my favorite things. * The first three notes just happen to be, Do-Re-Mi. Do-Re-Mi-Fa-Sol [pronounced So]-La-Ti. Oh, let's see if I can make it easier.<br />''[singing]'' Doe, a deer, a female deer. Ray, a drop of golden sun<br />Me, a name I call myself. Far, a long, long way to run.<br />Sew, a needle pulling thread. La, a note to follow Sol<br />Tea, a drink with jam and bread. That will bring us back to Do... == Captain Georg von Trapp == * ''[before he sings "Edelweiss" reprise version]'' My fellow Austrians, I shall not be seeing you again perhaps for a very long time. I would like to sing for you now... a love song. I know you share this love. I pray that you will never let it die.<br />''[singing]'' Edelweiss, Edelweiss, every morning you greet me.<br />Small and white, clean and bright, you look happy to meet me.<br />Blossom of snow may you bloom and grow, bloom and grow forever.<br />Edelweiss, Edelweiss, bless my homeland forever.Blossom of snow may you bloom and grow, bloom and grow forever. Edelweiss, Edelweiss bless my homeland forever. == Reverend Mother == * ''[singing]'' How do you solve a problem like Maria?<br />How do you catch a cloud and pin it down?<br />Many a thing you know you'd like to tell her, many a thing she ought to understand<br />...How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand? * ''[singing]'' Climb ev'ry mountain, search high and low.<br />Follow ev'ry byway, every path you know.<br />Climb ev'ry mountain, ford every stream.<br />Follow every rainbow, till you find your dream.<br />A dream that will need all the love you can give<br />Every day of your life for as long as you live... == Dialogue == :'''Maria''': I just couldn't help myself. The gates were open and the hills were beckoning and everything was so green and fresh, and the Untersberg kept leading me higher and higher, as if it wanted me to go right through the clouds with it. :'''Reverend Mother''': Child, suppose darkness had come and you were lost? :'''Maria''': Oh, mother, I could never get lost up there, that’s my mountain, I was brought up on it,...It was the mountain that led me to you. Sometimes, I would come down the mountain, and climb a tree, and look over your wall into your garden and hear the Sisters singing on their way to Vespers; which brings me to another transgression, Reverend Mother, I was singing out there today, without permission...I can't seem to stop singing wherever I am. And what's worse, I can't seem to stop saying things - anything and everything I think and feel. :'''Reverend Mother''': Some people would call that honesty. :'''Maria''': Oh, but it's terrible, Reverend Mother. You know how Sister Berthe always makes me kiss the floor after we've had a disagreement? Well, lately I've taken to kissing the floor whenever I see her coming, just to save time. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Captain''': You are the twelfth in a long line of governesses who have come here to look after my children since their mother died. I trust you will be an improvement on the last one. She stayed only two hours. :'''Maria''': What's wrong with the children, Captain? :'''Captain''': Oh, there's nothing wrong with the children. Only the governesses. They were completely unable to maintain discipline. Without it, this house cannot be properly run. Will you please remember that, Fraulein? Every morning, you will drill the children in their studies. I will not permit them to dream away their summer holidays. Each afternoon, they will march about the grounds breathing deeply. Bedtime is to be strictly observed - no exceptions...You will see to it that they conduct themselves at all time with the utmost orderliness and decorum. I am placing you in command. :... :'''Captain''': Now, when I want you, this is what you will hear. ''[blows whistle]'' :'''Maria''': Oh, no, sir, I'm sorry, sir. I could never answer to a whistle. Whistles are for dogs and cats and other animals, but not for children, and definitely not for me. It would be too... humiliating. :'''Captain''': Fräulein, were you this much trouble at the Abbey? :'''Maria''': Oh, much more, sir! :'''Captain''': Hmm. ''[starts to leave the room when Maria blows the whistle. He looks back at her.]'' :'''Maria''': Excuse me, sir, I don't know your signal. :'''Captain''': You may call me "Captain." <hr width="50%"/> :'''Maria''': I'd like to thank each and every one of you for the precious gift you left in my pocket today. :'''Captain''': Um, what gift? :'''Maria''': It's meant to be a secret, Captain, between the children and me. :'''Captain''': Uh-huh. Then I suggest that you keep it, and let us eat. :'''Maria''': Knowing how nervous I must have been, a stranger in a new household, knowing how important it was for me to feel accepted. It was so kind and thoughtful of you to make my first moments here so warm and happy and... pleasant. :''[All the while, the children look guilty. Marta starts to cry]'' :'''Captain''': What is the matter, Marta? :'''Marta''': Nothing. :''[Brigitta, Louisa and Gretl join in, while Liesl, Friedrich and Kurt continue to look guilty]'' :'''Captain''': Uh, Fräulein... is it to be at every meal, or merely at dinnertime, that you, uh, intend leading us all through this rare and wonderful new world of... indigestion? :'''Maria''': Oh, they're all right, Captain. They're just happy. :''[At that moment, Marta, Brigitta, Louisa and Gretl burst into loud wails]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Rolfe''': ''[singing]'' You are sixteen, going on seventeen, baby it's time to think.<br />Better beware, be canny and careful, baby you're on the brink.<br />You are sixteen, going on seventeen, fellows will fall in line...<br /> Eager young lads and roués and cads Will offer you food and wine. <br /> Totally unprepared are you, to face a world of men.<br />Timid and shy and scared are you, of things beyond your ken.<br />You need someone older and wiser, telling you what to do.<br />I am seventeen, going on eighteen. I'll take care of you... :'''Liesl''': ''[singing]'' I am sixteen, going on seventeen. I know that I'm naive.<br />Fellows I meet may tell me I'm sweet, and willingly I believe.<br />I am sixteen, going on seventeen, innocent as a rose...<br />Bachelor dandies, drinkers of brandies, what do I know of those? <br /> Totally unprepared am I, to face a world of men.<br />Timid and shy and scared am I, of things beyond my ken.<br />I need someone older and wiser telling me what to do.<br />You are seventeen, going on eighteen. I'll depend on you. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Maria''': Dear Father, ''now'' I know why You sent me here. To help these children prepare for a new mother. And I pray this will become a happy family in Thy sight. God bless the captain. God bless Liesl and Friedrich. God bless Louisa, Brigitta, Marta and little Gretl. And I forgot the other boy. What's his name? Well, God bless what's-his-name. God bless the Reverend Mother and Sister Margaretta and everybody at the abbey. And now, dear God, about Liesl. Help her know that I'm her friend and help her tell me what she's been up to... :''[a rain-soaked Liesl enters through Maria's window]'' :'''Liesl''': You are not going to tell father are you? :'''Maria''': Shh, help me to be understanding so that I may guide her footsteps. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, Amen. :'''Liesl''': I was out walking and somebody locked the doors early. I didn't want to wake everybody, so when I saw your window open. You're not going to tell Father, are you? :'''Maria''': How in the world did you climb up here? :'''Liesl''': It's how we always got in to play tricks on the governess. Louisa can make it with a whole jar of spiders in her hand. :'''Maria''': Spiders? Liesl, were you out walking all by yourself? If we wash that dress tonight, nobody would notice it tomorrow. You could put this on. Take your dress and put it to soak in the bathtub. Come back here and sit on the bed, and we'll have a talk. :'''Liesl''': I told you today I didn't need a governess. Well, maybe I do. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Maria and the children are singing "My Favorite Things" and by the end, Maria is caught by the Captain]'' :'''Captain''': Fraulein Maria, did I or did I not say that bedtime is to be strictly observed in this household? :'''Maria''': Yes, well the children were scared of the thunderstorm and... You did, sir. :'''Captain''': And do you or do you not have trouble following these simple instructions? :'''Maria''': Only during thunderstorms, sir. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Elsa''': ''[about Rolf, who gave a Nazi salute]'' Oh Georg, he's just a boy. :'''Captain''': Yes, and I'm just an Austrian. :'''Max''': What's gonna happen's gonna happen. Just make sure it doesn't happen to you. :'''Captain''': ''[incensed]'' Max, don't you ''ever'' say that again! :'''Max''': You know I have no political convictions. Can I help it if other people do? :'''Captain''': Oh yes you can help it. You ''must'' help it. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Captain''': Now, Fraulein, I want a truthful answer from you. :'''Maria''': Yes, Captain? :'''Captain''': Is it possible, ''[pauses, then smiles briefly]'' or could I have just imagined...Have my children, by any chance, been climbing trees today? :'''Maria''': Yes, Captain. :'''Captain''': I see. And where, may I ask, did they get these, uhm, these... :'''Maria''': Playclothes. :'''Captain''': Oh, is that what you call them? :'''Maria''': I made them, from the drapes that used to hang in my bedroom. :'''Captain''': ''[startled]'' Drapes? :'''Maria''': They still had plenty of wear left. The children have been everywhere in them. :'''Captain''': ''[now stunned]'' Do you mean to tell me that my children have been roaming about Salzburg dressed up in nothing but some old drapes?! :'''Maria''': Umm, hmm, and having a marvelous time. :'''Captain''': They ''have'' uniforms. :'''Maria''': Straitjackets, if you'll forgive me. :'''Captain''': ''[beat]'' I will not forgive you for that. :'''Maria''': Children can't do all the things they're supposed to if they have to worry about spoiling their precious clothes. :'''Captain''': They haven't complained yet. :'''Maria''': Well, they wouldn't dare! They love you too much. They ''fear'' you too much! :'''Captain''': I don't wish you to discuss my children in this manner. :'''Maria''': Well, you've got to hear from someone! You're never home long enough to know them. :'''Captain''': I said I don't want to hear anymore from you about my children! :'''Maria''': I know you don't, but you've got to! Now, take Liesl. :'''Captain''': ''[hesitatingly]'' You will not say one word about Liesl, Fraulein. :'''Maria''': She's not a child anymore, and one of these days, you're going to wake up and find that she's a woman. You won't even know her. And Friedrich, he's a boy, but he wants to be a man and there's no one to show him how. :'''Captain''': ''[shocked and angry]'' Don't you ''DARE'' tell ''ME'' about my son! :'''Maria''': Brigitta could tell you about him if you let her get close to you. She notices everything. :'''Captain''': Fraulein... :'''Maria''': And Kurt pretends he's tough not to show how hurt he is when you brush him aside... :'''Captain''': That will do! :'''Maria''': ...the way you do all of them. Louisa I don't even know about yet... :'''Captain''': I said that will do! :'''Maria''': But somebody has to find out about her, and the little ones just want to be loved. Oh, please, Captain, love them! Love them all! :'''Captain''': I don't care to hear anything further from you about my children. :'''Maria''': I'm not finished yet, Captain! :'''Captain''': Oh, yes, you are, Captain! ''[pauses as Maria stares at him, then corrects himself]'' Fraulein. You will pack your things this minute, and return to the abbey. :''[suddenly hears the children singing and looks toward the house]'' :'''Captain''': What's that? :'''Maria''': ''[following his gaze]'' It's singing. :'''Captain''': Yes, I realize it's singing, but ''who'' is singing? :'''Maria''': ''[sighs, looking regretful]'' The children. :'''Captain''': ''[looks back toward the house in astonishment]'' The children? :'''Maria''': I taught them a song to sing for the Baroness. :... :'''Captain''': Fraulein. I behaved badly. I apologize. :'''Maria''': Well, I'm-I'm far too outspoken. It's one of my worst faults. :'''Captain''': You were right. I don't know my children. :'''Maria''': There's still time, Captain. They want so much to be close to you. :'''Captain''': You've brought music back into the house. I'd forgotten. Fraulein, I want you to stay. I ''ask'' you to stay. :'''Maria''': If I could be of any help. :'''Captain''': You have already. More than you know. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Elsa''': My dear, is there anything you can't do? :'''Maria''': Well, I'm not sure I'll make a very good nun. :'''Elsa''': Oh, if you have any problems, I'd be happy to help you. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Partygoer''': Is there a more beautiful expression of what is good in this country of ours than the innocent voices of our children? :'''Zeller''': Oh, come now, Baron, would you have us believe that Austria alone holds a monopoly on virtue? :'''Captain''': Herr Zeller, some of us prefer Austrian voices raised in song to ugly German threats. :'''Zeller''': The ostrich buries his head in the sand, and sometimes in the flag. ''[He turns toward the Austrian flag, prominently displayed]'' Perhaps those who would warn you that the ''[[w:Anschluss|Anschluss]]'' is coming - and it is coming, Captain - perhaps they would get further with you by setting their words to music. :'''Captain''': If the Nazis take over Austria, I have no doubt, Herr Zeller, that you will be the entire trumpet section. :'''Zeller''': You flatter me, Captain. :'''Captain''': Oh, how clumsy of me. I meant to accuse you. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Elsa''': Now, where is that lovely little thing you were wearing the other evening, when the Captain couldn't keep his eyes off you. :'''Maria''': Couldn't keep his eyes off me? :'''Elsa''': Come, my dear, we are women. Let's not pretend we don't know when a man notices us... :'''Maria''': The Captain notices everybody and everything. :'''Elsa''': Well, there's no need to feel so defensive, Maria. You are ''quite'' attractive, you know. The Captain would hardly be a man if he didn't notice you. :'''Maria''': Baroness, I hope you're joking. :'''Elsa''': Not at all. :'''Maria''': But I've never done a thing to... :'''Elsa''': But you don't have to, Maria. There's nothing more irresistible to a man than a woman who's in love with him. :'''Maria''': 'In love with him'? :'''Elsa''': Of course. What makes it so nice is he thinks he's in love with you. :'''Maria''': But that's not true. :'''Elsa''': Oh surely you've noticed the way he looks into your eyes. And you know, uh, you blushed in his arms when you were dancing just now. Don't take it to heart. He'll get over it soon enough, I should think. Men do, you know. :'''Maria''': Then I should go. I mustn't stay here. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Maria''': I left... I was frightened... I was confused. I felt, I've never felt that way before, I couldn't stay. I knew that here I'd be away from it. I'd be safe... I can't face him again... Oh, there were times when we would look at each other. Oh, Mother, I could hardly breathe... That's what's been torturing me. I was there on God's errand. To have asked for his love would have been wrong. I couldn't stay, I just couldn't. I'm ready at this moment to take my vows. Please help me. :'''Reverend Mother''': Maria, the love of a man and a woman is holy too. You have a great capacity to love. What you must find out is how God wants you to spend your love. :'''Maria''': But I pledged my life to God. I pledged my life to his service. :'''Reverend Mother''': My daughter, if you love this man, it doesn't mean you love God less. No, you must find out and you must go back. :'''Maria''': Oh, Mother, you can't ask me to do that. Please let me stay, I beg of you. :'''Reverend Mother''': Maria, these walls were not built to shut out problems. You have to face them. You have to live the life you were born to live. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Captain''': You left without saying goodbye, even to the children. :'''Maria''': It was wrong of me, forgive me. :'''Captain''': Why did you? :'''Maria''': Please don't ask me. Anyway, the reason no longer exists. :'''Elsa''': ''[entering]'' Fraulein Maria, you've returned. Isn't it wonderful, Georg? :'''Maria''': May I wish you every happiness, Baroness? And you too, Captain. The children tell me you're to be married. :'''Elsa''': Thank you, my dear. :'''Captain''': You are back to, uh, stay? :'''Maria''': Only until arrangements can be made for another governess. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Captain''': It's no use, you and I. I'm being dishonest to both of us and utterly unfair to you. When two people talk of marriage... :'''Elsa''': No, don't, don't say another word, Georg, please? You see, uh, there are other things I've been thinking of. Fond as I am of you, I really don't think you're the right man for me. You're much too independent and I need someone who needs me desperately, or at least needs my money desperately. I've enjoyed every moment we've had together. I do thank you for that. Now, if you'll forgive me, I'll go inside, pack my little bags, and return to Vienna where I belong. And somewhere out there is a young lady who I think will never be a nun. ''[she kisses him]'' Auf Wiedersehen, darling. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Captain''': There isn't going to be any Baroness...well, we've, uhm, called off our engagement, you see...Well, you can't marry someone when you're in love with someone else, can you? ''[he kisses her]'' :'''Maria''': The Reverend Mother always says, 'when the Lord closes a door, somewhere he opens a window'. :'''Captain''': What else does the Reverend Mother say? :'''Maria''': That you have to look for your life. :'''Captain''':"Is that why you came back? ''[She nods]'' And have you found it Maria? :'''Maria''': I think I have. I know I have. :'''Captain''': I love you. :''["Somthing Good" begins to play]'' :'''Maria''': Oh, can this be happening to me? :... :''[During the song]'' :'''Captain''': ''[he brings Maria to the center of the gazebo]'' Do you know when I first started loving you? That night at the dinner table when you sat at that ridiculous pine cone. ''[laughs]'' :'''Maria''': What? ''[laughs too]'' I knew the first time you blew that whistle. :'''Captain''': ''[as he caresses her cheek with his right hand]'' Oh, my love... <hr width="50%"/> :'''Liesl''': ''[after Ralf rejects her]'' Mother? :'''Maria''': That sounds so nice. :'''Liesl''': I like calling you "Mother." :'''Maria''': I like hearing it. :'''Liesl''': You love Father very much. I can tell you do. :'''Maria''': Very much. :'''Liesl''': Mother, what do you do when you think you love someone? I mean, when you stop loving someone or he stops loving you? :'''Maria''': Well, you cry a little. Then you wait for the sun to come out. It always does. :'''Liesl''': There are so many things I think I should know but I don't. I really don't. :'''Maria''': How can you? :'''Liesl''': Sometimes I feel the world is ending. :'''Maria''': Then you feel it's just beginning? :'''Liesl''': ''[looks up, astonished and smiling]'' Yes! :'''Maria''': It was that way with me. And for you it will be just as wonderful. :'''Liesl''': ''[her smile widens]'' Do you really think so? == Taglines == * Radiance that floods the screen...and warms the heart! * The more you see it, the more it becomes one of your favorite things! * The Happiest Sound In All The World! == Cast == * [[Julie Andrews]] - [[w:Maria von Trapp|Maria]] * [[w:Christopher Plummer|Christopher Plummer]] - [[w:Georg von Trapp|Captain Georg von Trapp]] * [[w:Charmian Carr|Charmian Carr]] - Liesl von Trapp * [[w:Nicholas Hammond|Nicholas Hammond]] - Friedrich von Trapp * [[w:Heather Menzies|Heather Menzies]] - Louisa von Trapp * [[w:Duane Chase|Duane Chase]] - Kurt von Trapp * [[w:Angela Cartwright|Angela Cartwright]] - Brigitta von Trapp * [[w:Debbie Turner|Debbie Turner]] - Martha von Trapp * [[w:Kym Karath|Kym Karath]] - Gretl von Trapp * [[w:Richard Haydn|Richard Haydn]] - Max Detweiler * [[w:Eleanor Parker|Eleanor Parker]] - The Baroness Elsa * [[w:Peggy Wood|Peggy Wood]] - Reverend Mother * [[w:Anna Lee|Anna Lee]] - Sister Margaretta * [[w:Portia Nelson|Portia Nelson]] - Sister Berthe * [[w:Ben Wright|Ben Wright]] - Herr Zeller * [[w:Daniel Truhitte|Daniel Truhitte]] - Rolfe * [[w:Norma Varden|Norma Varden]] - Frau Schmidt * [[w:Marni Nixon|Marni Nixon]] - Sister Sophia * Gil Stuart - Franz * [[w:Evadne Baker|Evadne Baker]] - Sister Bernice (final film role) == External links == {{wikipedia}} * {{imdb title|id=0059742|title=The Sound of Music}} * {{rotten-tomatoes|id=sound_of_music|title=The Sound of Music}} * ''[http://www.filmsite.org/soun.html The Sound of Music]'' at [[w:Filmsite.org|Filmsite.org]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Sound of Music, The}} [[Category:1965 films]] [[Category:Biographical films]] [[Category:1960s American films]] [[Category:Drama films]] [[Category:Films based on novels]] [[Category:Musical films]] [[Category:Best Picture Academy Award winners]] [[Category:Films directed by Robert Wise]] [[Category:Films set in Austria]] [[Category:Films about music]] [[Category:Films about widowhood]] [[Category:Films about leave]] [[Category:United States National Film Registry films]] [[Category:Films about families]] [[Category:Films set in country houses]] [[Category:World record holders]] kbmwvnw44dwjjdqwbkwciu4abi232m7 3961355 3961354 2026-07-06T03:06:22Z ~2026-38158-74 3347487 3961355 wikitext text/x-wiki {{italic title}} '''''[[w:The Sound of Music (film)|The Sound of Music]]''''' is a [[w:1965 in film|1965]] American film about a woman who leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to a Naval officer widower and his seven children. :''Directed by [[w:Robert Wise|Robert Wise]]. Written by [[w:Ernest Lehman|Ernest Lehman]], based on the novel by [[w:Howard Lindsay|Howard Lindsay]] and [[w:Russel Crouse|Russel Crouse]], which was based on an autobiography by [[w:Maria von Trapp|Maria von Trapp]] (''The von Trapp Family Singers'') and the [[w:The Sound of Music|1959 musical of the same name]] by [[w:Rodgers and Hammerstein|Rodgers and Hammerstein]].'' {{center|'''Radiance that floods the screen...and warms the heart!'''[[#Taglines|taglines]]}} == Maria Rainer-Von Trapp == * ''[singing]'' The hills are alive with the sound of music,<br />With songs they have sung for a thousand years.<br />The hills fill my heart with the sound of music.<br />My heart wants to sing every song it hears!<br />My heart wants to beat like the wings of the birds that rise from the lake to the trees.<br />My heart wants to sigh like a chime that flies from a church on a breeze.<br />To laugh like a brook when it trips and falls over stones on its way.<br />To sing through the night like a lark who is learning to pray!<br />I go to the hills when my heart is lonely.<br />I know I will hear what I've heard before.<br>And my heart will be blessed with the sound of music.<br />And I'll sing once more. * ''[singing]'' Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens,<br />Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens,<br />Brown paper packages tied up with strings,<br />These are a few of my favorite things. * The first three notes just happen to be, Do-Re-Mi. Do-Re-Mi-Fa-Sol [pronounced So]-La-Ti. Oh, let's see if I can make it easier.<br />''[singing]'' Doe, a deer, a female deer. Ray, a drop of golden sun<br />Me, a name I call myself. Far, a long, long way to run.<br />Sew, a needle pulling thread. La, a note to follow Sol<br />Tea, a drink with jam and bread. That will bring us back to Do... == Captain Georg von Trapp == * ''[before he sings "Edelweiss" reprise version]'' My fellow Austrians, I shall not be seeing you again perhaps for a very long time. I would like to sing for you now... a love song. I know you share this love. I pray that you will never let it die.<br />''[singing]'' Edelweiss, Edelweiss, every morning you greet me.<br />Small and white, clean and bright, you look happy to meet me.<br />Blossom of snow may you bloom and grow, bloom and grow forever.<br />Edelweiss, Edelweiss, bless my homeland forever.Blossom of snow may you bloom and grow, bloom and grow forever. Edelweiss, Edelweiss bless my homeland forever. == Reverend Mother == * ''[singing]'' How do you solve a problem like Maria?<br />How do you catch a cloud and pin it down?<br />Many a thing you know you'd like to tell her, many a thing she ought to understand<br />...How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand? * ''[singing]'' Climb ev'ry mountain, search high and low.<br />Follow ev'ry byway, every path you know.<br />Climb ev'ry mountain, ford every stream.<br />Follow every rainbow, till you find your dream.<br />A dream that will need all the love you can give<br />Every day of your life for as long as you live... == Dialogue == :'''Maria''': I just couldn't help myself. The gates were open and the hills were beckoning and everything was so green and fresh, and the Untersberg kept leading me higher and higher, as if it wanted me to go right through the clouds with it. :'''Reverend Mother''': Child, suppose darkness had come and you were lost? :'''Maria''': Oh, mother, I could never get lost up there, that’s my mountain, I was brought up on it,...It was the mountain that led me to you. Sometimes, I would come down the mountain, and climb a tree, and look over your wall into your garden and hear the Sisters singing on their way to Vespers; which brings me to another transgression, Reverend Mother, I was singing out there today, without permission...I can't seem to stop singing wherever I am. And what's worse, I can't seem to stop saying things - anything and everything I think and feel. :'''Reverend Mother''': Some people would call that honesty. :'''Maria''': Oh, but it's terrible, Reverend Mother. You know how Sister Berthe always makes me kiss the floor after we've had a disagreement? Well, lately I've taken to kissing the floor whenever I see her coming, just to save time. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Captain''': You are the twelfth in a long line of governesses who have come here to look after my children since their mother died. I trust you will be an improvement on the last one. She stayed only two hours. :'''Maria''': What's wrong with the children, Captain? :'''Captain''': Oh, there's nothing wrong with the children. Only the governesses. They were completely unable to maintain discipline. Without it, this house cannot be properly run. Will you please remember that, Fraulein? Every morning, you will drill the children in their studies. I will not permit them to dream away their summer holidays. Each afternoon, they will march about the grounds breathing deeply. Bedtime is to be strictly observed - no exceptions...You will see to it that they conduct themselves at all time with the utmost orderliness and decorum. I am placing you in command. :... :'''Captain''': Now, when I want you, this is what you will hear. ''[blows whistle]'' :'''Maria''': Oh, no, sir, I'm sorry, sir. I could never answer to a whistle. Whistles are for dogs and cats and other animals, but not for children, and definitely not for me. It would be too... humiliating. :'''Captain''': Fräulein, were you this much trouble at the Abbey? :'''Maria''': Oh, much more, sir! :'''Captain''': Hmm. ''[starts to leave the room when Maria blows the whistle. He looks back at her.]'' :'''Maria''': Excuse me, sir, I don't know your signal. :'''Captain''': You may call me "Captain." <hr width="50%"/> :'''Maria''': I'd like to thank each and every one of you for the precious gift you left in my pocket today. :'''Captain''': Um, what gift? :'''Maria''': It's meant to be a secret, Captain, between the children and me. :'''Captain''': Uh-huh. Then I suggest that you keep it, and let us eat. :'''Maria''': Knowing how nervous I must have been, a stranger in a new household, knowing how important it was for me to feel accepted. It was so kind and thoughtful of you to make my first moments here so warm and happy and... pleasant. :''[All the while, the children look guilty. Marta starts to cry]'' :'''Captain''': What is the matter, Marta? :'''Marta''': Nothing. :''[Brigitta, Louisa and Gretl join in, while Liesl, Friedrich and Kurt continue to look guilty]'' :'''Captain''': Uh, Fräulein... is it to be at every meal, or merely at dinnertime, that you, uh, intend leading us all through this rare and wonderful new world of... indigestion? :'''Maria''': Oh, they're all right, Captain. They're just happy. :''[At that moment, Marta, Brigitta, Louisa and Gretl burst into loud wails]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Rolfe''': ''[singing]'' You are sixteen, going on seventeen, baby it's time to think.<br />Better beware, be canny and careful, baby you're on the brink.<br />You are sixteen, going on seventeen, fellows will fall in line...<br /> Eager young lads and roués and cads Will offer you food and wine. <br /> Totally unprepared are you, to face a world of men.<br />Timid and shy and scared are you, of things beyond your ken.<br />You need someone older and wiser, telling you what to do.<br />I am seventeen, going on eighteen. I'll take care of you... :'''Liesl''': ''[singing]'' I am sixteen, going on seventeen. I know that I'm naive.<br />Fellows I meet may tell me I'm sweet, and willingly I believe.<br />I am sixteen, going on seventeen, innocent as a rose...<br />Bachelor dandies, drinkers of brandies, what do I know of those? <br /> Totally unprepared am I, to face a world of men.<br />Timid and shy and scared am I, of things beyond my ken.<br />I need someone older and wiser telling me what to do.<br />You are seventeen, going on eighteen. I'll depend on you. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Maria''': Dear Father, ''now'' I know why You sent me here. To help these children prepare for a new mother. And I pray this will become a happy family in Thy sight. God bless the captain. God bless Liesl and Friedrich. God bless Louisa, Brigitta, Marta and little Gretl. And I forgot the other boy. What's his name? Well, God bless what's-his-name. God bless the Reverend Mother and Sister Margaretta and everybody at the abbey. And now, dear God, about Liesl. Help her know that I'm her friend and help her tell me what she's been up to... :''[a rain-soaked Liesl enters through Maria's window]'' :'''Liesl''': You are not going to tell father are you? :'''Maria''': Shh, help me to be understanding so that I may guide her footsteps. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, Amen. :'''Liesl''': I was out walking and somebody locked the doors early. I didn't want to wake everybody, so when I saw your window open. You're not going to tell Father, are you? :'''Maria''': How in the world did you climb up here? :'''Liesl''': It's how we always got in to play tricks on the governess. Louisa can make it with a whole jar of spiders in her hand. :'''Maria''': Spiders? Liesl, were you out walking all by yourself? If we wash that dress tonight, nobody would notice it tomorrow. You could put this on. Take your dress and put it to soak in the bathtub. Come back here and sit on the bed, and we'll have a talk. :'''Liesl''': I told you today I didn't need a governess. Well, maybe I do. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Maria and the children are singing "My Favorite Things" and by the end, Maria is caught by the Captain]'' :'''Captain''': Fraulein Maria, did I or did I not say that bedtime is to be strictly observed in this household? :'''Maria''': Yes, well the children were scared of the thunderstorm and... You did, sir. :'''Captain''': And do you or do you not have trouble following these simple instructions? :'''Maria''': Only during thunderstorms, sir. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Elsa''': ''[about Rolf, who gave a Nazi salute]'' Oh Georg, he's just a boy. :'''Captain''': Yes, and I'm just an Austrian. :'''Max''': What's gonna happen's gonna happen. Just make sure it doesn't happen to you. :'''Captain''': ''[incensed]'' Max, don't you ''ever'' say that again! :'''Max''': You know I have no political convictions. Can I help it if other people do? :'''Captain''': Oh yes you can help it. You ''must'' help it. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Captain''': Now, Fraulein, I want a truthful answer from you. :'''Maria''': Yes, Captain? :'''Captain''': Is it possible, ''[pauses, then smiles briefly]'' or could I have just imagined...Have my children, by any chance, been climbing trees today? :'''Maria''': Yes, Captain. :'''Captain''': I see. And where, may I ask, did they get these, uhm, these... :'''Maria''': Playclothes. :'''Captain''': Oh, is that what you call them? :'''Maria''': I made them, from the drapes that used to hang in my bedroom. :'''Captain''': ''[startled]'' Drapes? :'''Maria''': They still had plenty of wear left. The children have been everywhere in them. :'''Captain''': ''[now incredulous]'' Do you mean to tell me that my children have been roaming about Salzburg dressed up in nothing but some old drapes?! :'''Maria''': Umm, hmm, and having a marvelous time. :'''Captain''': They ''have'' uniforms. :'''Maria''': Straitjackets, if you'll forgive me. :'''Captain''': ''[beat]'' I will not forgive you for that. :'''Maria''': Children can't do all the things they're supposed to if they have to worry about spoiling their precious clothes. :'''Captain''': They haven't complained yet. :'''Maria''': Well, they wouldn't dare! They love you too much. They ''fear'' you too much! :'''Captain''': I don't wish you to discuss my children in this manner. :'''Maria''': Well, you've got to hear from someone! You're never home long enough to know them. :'''Captain''': I said I don't want to hear anymore from you about my children! :'''Maria''': I know you don't, but you've got to! Now, take Liesl. :'''Captain''': ''[hesitatingly]'' You will not say one word about Liesl, Fraulein. :'''Maria''': She's not a child anymore, and one of these days, you're going to wake up and find that she's a woman. You won't even know her. And Friedrich, he's a boy, but he wants to be a man and there's no one to show him how. :'''Captain''': ''[shocked and angry]'' Don't you ''DARE'' tell ''ME'' about my son! :'''Maria''': Brigitta could tell you about him if you let her get close to you. She notices everything. :'''Captain''': Fraulein... :'''Maria''': And Kurt pretends he's tough not to show how hurt he is when you brush him aside... :'''Captain''': That will do! :'''Maria''': ...the way you do all of them. Louisa I don't even know about yet... :'''Captain''': I said that will do! :'''Maria''': But somebody has to find out about her, and the little ones just want to be loved. Oh, please, Captain, love them! Love them all! :'''Captain''': I don't care to hear anything further from you about my children. :'''Maria''': I'm not finished yet, Captain! :'''Captain''': Oh, yes, you are, Captain! ''[pauses as Maria stares at him, then corrects himself]'' Fraulein. You will pack your things this minute, and return to the abbey. :''[suddenly hears the children singing and looks toward the house]'' :'''Captain''': What's that? :'''Maria''': ''[following his gaze]'' It's singing. :'''Captain''': Yes, I realize it's singing, but ''who'' is singing? :'''Maria''': ''[sighs, looking regretful]'' The children. :'''Captain''': ''[looks back toward the house in astonishment]'' The children? :'''Maria''': I taught them a song to sing for the Baroness. :... :'''Captain''': Fraulein. I behaved badly. I apologize. :'''Maria''': Well, I'm-I'm far too outspoken. It's one of my worst faults. :'''Captain''': You were right. I don't know my children. :'''Maria''': There's still time, Captain. They want so much to be close to you. :'''Captain''': You've brought music back into the house. I'd forgotten. Fraulein, I want you to stay. I ''ask'' you to stay. :'''Maria''': If I could be of any help. :'''Captain''': You have already. More than you know. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Elsa''': My dear, is there anything you can't do? :'''Maria''': Well, I'm not sure I'll make a very good nun. :'''Elsa''': Oh, if you have any problems, I'd be happy to help you. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Partygoer''': Is there a more beautiful expression of what is good in this country of ours than the innocent voices of our children? :'''Zeller''': Oh, come now, Baron, would you have us believe that Austria alone holds a monopoly on virtue? :'''Captain''': Herr Zeller, some of us prefer Austrian voices raised in song to ugly German threats. :'''Zeller''': The ostrich buries his head in the sand, and sometimes in the flag. ''[He turns toward the Austrian flag, prominently displayed]'' Perhaps those who would warn you that the ''[[w:Anschluss|Anschluss]]'' is coming - and it is coming, Captain - perhaps they would get further with you by setting their words to music. :'''Captain''': If the Nazis take over Austria, I have no doubt, Herr Zeller, that you will be the entire trumpet section. :'''Zeller''': You flatter me, Captain. :'''Captain''': Oh, how clumsy of me. I meant to accuse you. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Elsa''': Now, where is that lovely little thing you were wearing the other evening, when the Captain couldn't keep his eyes off you. :'''Maria''': Couldn't keep his eyes off me? :'''Elsa''': Come, my dear, we are women. Let's not pretend we don't know when a man notices us... :'''Maria''': The Captain notices everybody and everything. :'''Elsa''': Well, there's no need to feel so defensive, Maria. You are ''quite'' attractive, you know. The Captain would hardly be a man if he didn't notice you. :'''Maria''': Baroness, I hope you're joking. :'''Elsa''': Not at all. :'''Maria''': But I've never done a thing to... :'''Elsa''': But you don't have to, Maria. There's nothing more irresistible to a man than a woman who's in love with him. :'''Maria''': 'In love with him'? :'''Elsa''': Of course. What makes it so nice is he thinks he's in love with you. :'''Maria''': But that's not true. :'''Elsa''': Oh surely you've noticed the way he looks into your eyes. And you know, uh, you blushed in his arms when you were dancing just now. Don't take it to heart. He'll get over it soon enough, I should think. Men do, you know. :'''Maria''': Then I should go. I mustn't stay here. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Maria''': I left... I was frightened... I was confused. I felt, I've never felt that way before, I couldn't stay. I knew that here I'd be away from it. I'd be safe... I can't face him again... Oh, there were times when we would look at each other. Oh, Mother, I could hardly breathe... That's what's been torturing me. I was there on God's errand. To have asked for his love would have been wrong. I couldn't stay, I just couldn't. I'm ready at this moment to take my vows. Please help me. :'''Reverend Mother''': Maria, the love of a man and a woman is holy too. You have a great capacity to love. What you must find out is how God wants you to spend your love. :'''Maria''': But I pledged my life to God. I pledged my life to his service. :'''Reverend Mother''': My daughter, if you love this man, it doesn't mean you love God less. No, you must find out and you must go back. :'''Maria''': Oh, Mother, you can't ask me to do that. Please let me stay, I beg of you. :'''Reverend Mother''': Maria, these walls were not built to shut out problems. You have to face them. You have to live the life you were born to live. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Captain''': You left without saying goodbye, even to the children. :'''Maria''': It was wrong of me, forgive me. :'''Captain''': Why did you? :'''Maria''': Please don't ask me. Anyway, the reason no longer exists. :'''Elsa''': ''[entering]'' Fraulein Maria, you've returned. Isn't it wonderful, Georg? :'''Maria''': May I wish you every happiness, Baroness? And you too, Captain. The children tell me you're to be married. :'''Elsa''': Thank you, my dear. :'''Captain''': You are back to, uh, stay? :'''Maria''': Only until arrangements can be made for another governess. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Captain''': It's no use, you and I. I'm being dishonest to both of us and utterly unfair to you. When two people talk of marriage... :'''Elsa''': No, don't, don't say another word, Georg, please? You see, uh, there are other things I've been thinking of. Fond as I am of you, I really don't think you're the right man for me. You're much too independent and I need someone who needs me desperately, or at least needs my money desperately. I've enjoyed every moment we've had together. I do thank you for that. Now, if you'll forgive me, I'll go inside, pack my little bags, and return to Vienna where I belong. And somewhere out there is a young lady who I think will never be a nun. ''[she kisses him]'' Auf Wiedersehen, darling. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Captain''': There isn't going to be any Baroness...well, we've, uhm, called off our engagement, you see...Well, you can't marry someone when you're in love with someone else, can you? ''[he kisses her]'' :'''Maria''': The Reverend Mother always says, 'when the Lord closes a door, somewhere he opens a window'. :'''Captain''': What else does the Reverend Mother say? :'''Maria''': That you have to look for your life. :'''Captain''':"Is that why you came back? ''[She nods]'' And have you found it Maria? :'''Maria''': I think I have. I know I have. :'''Captain''': I love you. :''["Somthing Good" begins to play]'' :'''Maria''': Oh, can this be happening to me? :... :''[During the song]'' :'''Captain''': ''[he brings Maria to the center of the gazebo]'' Do you know when I first started loving you? That night at the dinner table when you sat at that ridiculous pine cone. ''[laughs]'' :'''Maria''': What? ''[laughs too]'' I knew the first time you blew that whistle. :'''Captain''': ''[as he caresses her cheek with his right hand]'' Oh, my love... <hr width="50%"/> :'''Liesl''': ''[after Ralf rejects her]'' Mother? :'''Maria''': That sounds so nice. :'''Liesl''': I like calling you "Mother." :'''Maria''': I like hearing it. :'''Liesl''': You love Father very much. I can tell you do. :'''Maria''': Very much. :'''Liesl''': Mother, what do you do when you think you love someone? I mean, when you stop loving someone or he stops loving you? :'''Maria''': Well, you cry a little. Then you wait for the sun to come out. It always does. :'''Liesl''': There are so many things I think I should know but I don't. I really don't. :'''Maria''': How can you? :'''Liesl''': Sometimes I feel the world is ending. :'''Maria''': Then you feel it's just beginning? :'''Liesl''': ''[looks up, astonished and smiling]'' Yes! :'''Maria''': It was that way with me. And for you it will be just as wonderful. :'''Liesl''': ''[her smile widens]'' Do you really think so? == Taglines == * Radiance that floods the screen...and warms the heart! * The more you see it, the more it becomes one of your favorite things! * The Happiest Sound In All The World! == Cast == * [[Julie Andrews]] - [[w:Maria von Trapp|Maria]] * [[w:Christopher Plummer|Christopher Plummer]] - [[w:Georg von Trapp|Captain Georg von Trapp]] * [[w:Charmian Carr|Charmian Carr]] - Liesl von Trapp * [[w:Nicholas Hammond|Nicholas Hammond]] - Friedrich von Trapp * [[w:Heather Menzies|Heather Menzies]] - Louisa von Trapp * [[w:Duane Chase|Duane Chase]] - Kurt von Trapp * [[w:Angela Cartwright|Angela Cartwright]] - Brigitta von Trapp * [[w:Debbie Turner|Debbie Turner]] - Martha von Trapp * [[w:Kym Karath|Kym Karath]] - Gretl von Trapp * [[w:Richard Haydn|Richard Haydn]] - Max Detweiler * [[w:Eleanor Parker|Eleanor Parker]] - The Baroness Elsa * [[w:Peggy Wood|Peggy Wood]] - Reverend Mother * [[w:Anna Lee|Anna Lee]] - Sister Margaretta * [[w:Portia Nelson|Portia Nelson]] - Sister Berthe * [[w:Ben Wright|Ben Wright]] - Herr Zeller * [[w:Daniel Truhitte|Daniel Truhitte]] - Rolfe * [[w:Norma Varden|Norma Varden]] - Frau Schmidt * [[w:Marni Nixon|Marni Nixon]] - Sister Sophia * Gil Stuart - Franz * [[w:Evadne Baker|Evadne Baker]] - Sister Bernice (final film role) == External links == {{wikipedia}} * {{imdb title|id=0059742|title=The Sound of Music}} * {{rotten-tomatoes|id=sound_of_music|title=The Sound of Music}} * ''[http://www.filmsite.org/soun.html The Sound of Music]'' at [[w:Filmsite.org|Filmsite.org]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Sound of Music, The}} [[Category:1965 films]] [[Category:Biographical films]] [[Category:1960s American films]] [[Category:Drama films]] [[Category:Films based on novels]] [[Category:Musical films]] [[Category:Best Picture Academy Award winners]] [[Category:Films directed by Robert Wise]] [[Category:Films set in Austria]] [[Category:Films about music]] [[Category:Films about widowhood]] [[Category:Films about leave]] [[Category:United States National Film Registry films]] [[Category:Films about families]] [[Category:Films set in country houses]] [[Category:World record holders]] qq6cf1tc7wladjixlp09l6cshlcpndu 0 14407 3961322 3960468 2026-07-05T23:29:04Z AC9016 2870313 Undid revision [[Special:Diff/3960468|3960468]] by [[Special:Contributions/~2026-38293-83|~2026-38293-83]] ([[User talk:~2026-38293-83|talk]])- Hey, he's back! No worries, shipmate- I got you. Reverting vandalism. 3961322 wikitext text/x-wiki {{italic title}} [[File:Arnold Vosloo 2009.jpg|thumb|220px|""My dad is going to kick your arse."<br>"Hmm. I do not think so."]] '''''[[w:The Mummy Returns|The Mummy Returns]]''''' is a 2001 sequel to ''[[The Mummy (1999 film)|The Mummy]]'' film, in which the mummified body of Imhotep is shipped to a museum in London, where he wakes once again and resumes his quest for absolute power. :''Directed by [[Stephen Sommers]]. Written by [[Stephen Sommers]] {{Center|'''Adventure is reborn''' <small>([[#Taglines|taglines]])</small>}} [[File:303 British.jpg|thumb|Whatever it is, whatever you want, O'Connell, I don't care! Every time I hook up with you, I get shot! Last time I got shot in the arse. I'm in ''mourning'' for my arse!]] [[File:Elapidae - Ophiophagus hannah.JPG|thumb|Folks, knowing my brother-in-law, he probably deserves whatever you're about to do to him. But this is ''my'' house, and I have certain rules about snakes and dismemberment.]] [[File:Bayonet, knife-sword (and scabbard) (AM 697056-1).jpg|thumb|"Whoa! That was amazing! Perfect aim!"<br>"What are you talking about? I ''missed''."]] == Ardeth Bay == * ''[narrating]'' Five thousand years ago, a fierce warrior known as the Scorpion King led a great army on a campaign to conquer the known world. After a vicious campaign that lasted seven long years, the Scorpion King and his army were defeated and driven deep into the sacred desert of Ahm Shere. One by one, they slowly perished under the scorching sun, until only the great warrior himself was left alive. Near death, the Scorpion King made a pact with the dark god Anubis, that if Anubis would spare his life and let him conquer his enemies, he would give him his soul. Anubis accepted his offer and spared his life. Anubis gave the Scorpion King command of his army, and like an evil flood, they washed away all that lay before them. When his task was done, Anubis forced the Scorpion King to serve him for all time. His army was returned to the sands from whence they came, where they wait, silently, to be awakened once again. == Rick O'Connell== * Folks, knowing my brother-in-law, he probably deserves whatever you're about to do to him. But this is ''my'' house, and I have certain rules about snakes and dismemberment. == Izzy == * Whatever it is, whatever you want, O'Connell, I don't care! Every time I hook up with you, I get shot! Last time I got shot in the arse. I'm in ''mourning'' for my arse! == Dialogue == :'''Rick''': This is bad, Evy! :'''Evy''': We've had bad before. :'''Rick''': This is worse! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jonathan''': I told you! I told you! :'''Meela''': And your point is? :'''Jonathan''': My point is, I told you so you wouldn't kill me. :'''Meela''': When did we make that arrangement? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Alex''': Hey, the Book of the Dead! :'''Meela''': What a bright little child. Your mother must be missing you terribly. If you wish to see her again, you better behave. :'''Alex''': Lady, I don't behave for my parents, what makes you think I'm going to do it for you? :'''Lock-Nah''': ''[threatening Alex]'' Silence! :'''Meela''': Because your parents wouldn't slip poisonous snakes in your bed ''[kisses his cheek]'' while you're sleeping. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Imhotep''': ''[in Egyptian]'' I know you can understand me, little one. So you must listen carefully because ''[in English]'' it is you who are the chosen one. You who will take me to Ahm-Shere. :'''Alex''': What if I don't? What if I get a little lost? :'''Imhotep''': ''[laughs]'' You have strength, little one. You are your father's son. But I know something you don't. This bracelet is a gift and a curse. The sands of time have already begun to pour against you. :'''Alex''': Yeah, yeah. I already heard this part. From the minute I put the bracelet on, seven days do I have before the Scorpion King wakes up. :'''Imhotep''': Did you also hear that if you do not enter the pyramid before the sun strikes it on that very morning that the bracelet will suck the life out of you? :'''Alex''': ''[shocked]'' That part I missed. Hey, wait a minute, that means I only have five days left! :'''Imhotep''': And I believe it would be nice trying not to get lost, don’t you? :'''Alex''': My dad is going to kick your arse! :'''Imhotep''': Hmm. ''[takes off his mask, smirking; Alex gasps and steps back]'' I do not think so. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lock-Nah''': When the time comes, I shall truly enjoy killing you. :'''Alex''': But ''until'' that time, you better be a little nicer to me. Now, where's my water? :''[Lock-Nah shoves the pitcher of water into Alex's hands]'' :'''Alex''': No ice? <hr width="50%"/> :''[aboard a train controlled by Imhotep and his men]'' :'''Alex''': ''[bored]'' Are we there yet? :'''Lock-Nah''': ''[also bored]'' No. :'''Alex''': Are we there yet? :'''Lock-Nah''': No. :'''Alex''': Are we there yet? :'''Lock-Nah''': No. :'''Alex''': Are we there yet? :'''Lock-Nah''': No. :'''Alex''': Are we there yet? :'''Lock-Nah''': ''[visibly annoyed]'' No. :'''Alex''': Are we there yet? :'''Lock-Nah''': No. :'''Alex''': Are we there yet? :'''Lock-Nah''': ''[getting angrier]'' ''No.'' :'''Alex''': Are we there yet? :'''Lock-Nah''': No! :'''Alex''': Are we there yet? :'''Lock-Nah''': ''No!'' :''[Lock-Nah slams his knife into the table between Alex's fingers]'' :'''Alex''': Whoa! That was amazing! Perfect aim! :'''Lock-Nah''': What are you talking about? ''[pulls the knife out of the table]'' I ''missed''. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Rick''': Right, she's a reincarnated princess and I'm a warrior for God? :'''Ardeth Bay''': And your son leads the way to Ahm Shere. Three sides of the pyramid. This was all preordained thousands of years ago. :'''Evelyn''': But how does the story end? :'''Ardeth Bay''': Only the journey is written, not the destination. :'''Rick''': Convenient. == About ''{{PAGENAME}}'' == * "We worked with a guy called Dr. Stuart Smith from UCLA and he’s an Egyptologist. He put all this stuff on tape for us and it’s kind of the closest we can come to what we think the actual language sounded like. It’s like ancient Latin. When we speak Latin now we think it’s what it sounded like, but we’re not really sure. The problem with a lot of this Egyptian stuff is words like ‘look out’ become like 10 lines. Steve would go, ‘No, no, no. Lose the first four words. Say that word and then say the last word.’ So basically, I’d end up making the stuff up. ** Arnold Vosloo ([http://ardethsmistress0.tripod.com/id26.html ''Moviestar''] November/December 2001) == Taglines == * Adventure is reborn. * He will rise again. * The most powerful force on Earth is about to be unleashed by the two people who should know better. == Cast == * [[Brendan Fraser]] - Richard "Rick" O'Connell * [[Rachel Weisz]] - Evelyn "Evy" Carnahan O'Connell/Princess Nefertiri * [[w:Freddie Boath|Freddie Boath]] - Alexander "Alex" O'Connell * [[John Hannah (actor)|John Hannah]] - Jonathan Carnahan * [[Oded Fehr]] - [[w:List of The Mummy (film series) characters#Ardeth Bay|Ardeth Bey]] * [[w:Arnold Vosloo|Arnold Vosloo]] - High Priest Imhotep * [[w:Alun Armstrong|Alun Armstrong]] - [[w:List of The Mummy (film series) characters#Baltus Hafez|Baltus Hafez]], the cult leader * [[w:Patricia Velasquez|Patricia Velasquez]] - Meela Nais / Anck-Su-Namun * [[w:Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje|Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje]] - Lock-Nah * [[Dwayne Johnson]] - The Scorpion King ==Taglines== * "The most powerful force on Earth is about to be unleashed by the two people who should know better == External links == {{wikipedia}} *[http://www.themummy.com/ Official Site] *{{imdb title|id=0209163|title=The Mummy Returns}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Mummy Returns, The}} [[Category:2001 films]] [[Category:Action films]] [[Category:Adventure films]] [[Category:American films]] [[Category:Films about mummies]] [[Category:Thriller films]] [[Category:Sequel films]] [[Category:Reincarnation films]] [[Category:Films directed by Stephen Sommers]] [[Category:Films set in deserts]] [[Category:Screenplays by Stephen Sommers]] [[Category:Films set in Egypt]] [[Category:2000s English-language films]] 9yqk4ah0bbjv21rmds121faz3q00sm5 3961339 3961322 2026-07-06T00:26:58Z ~2026-38198-11 3347810 3961339 wikitext text/x-wiki {{italic title}} [[File:Arnold Vosloo 2009.jpg|thumb|220px|The creature will suck them dry and then become whole again.]] '''''[[w:The Mummy Returns|The Mummy Returns]]''''' is a 2001 sequel to ''[[The Mummy (1999 film)|The Mummy]]'' film, in which the mummified body of Imhotep is shipped to a museum in London, where he wakes once again and resumes his quest for absolute power. == Ardeth Bay == * ''[narrating]'' Five thousand years ago, a fierce warrior known as the Scorpion King led a great army on a campaign to conquer the known world. After a vicious campaign that lasted seven long years, the Scorpion King and his army were defeated and driven deep into the sacred desert of Ahm Shere. One by one, they slowly perished under the scorching sun, until only the great warrior himself was left alive. Near death, the Scorpion King made a pact with the dark god Anubis, that if Anubis would spare his life and let him conquer his enemies, he would give him his soul. Anubis accepted his offer and spared his life. Anubis gave the Scorpion King command of his army, and like an evil flood, they washed away all that lay before them. When his task was done, Anubis forced the Scorpion King to serve him for all time. His army was returned to the sands from whence they came, where they wait, silently, to be awakened once again. * There's a fine line between coincidence and fate. == Baltus Hafez == * The creature will suck them dry and then become whole again. ** 51m55s == Rick O'Connell == * Look, fellas. Knowing my brother-in-law, he probably did something to deserve this. But this is ''my'' house, and I have certain rules about snakes and dismemberment. == Dialogue == :'''Rick''': This is bad, Evy! :'''Evy''': We've had bad before. :'''Rick''': This is worse! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jonathan''': I told you! I told you! :'''Meela''': And your point is? :'''Jonathan''': My point is, I told you so you wouldn't kill me. :'''Meela''': When did we make that arrangement? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Alex''': Hey, the Book of the Dead! :'''Meela''': What a bright little child. Your mother must be missing you terribly. If you wish to see her again, you better behave. :'''Alex''': Lady, I don't behave for my parents, what makes you think I'm going to do it for you? :'''Lock-Nah''': ''[threatening Alex]'' Silence! :'''Meela''': Because your parents wouldn't slip poisonous snakes in your bed ''[kisses his cheek]'' while you're sleeping. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Imhotep''': ''[in Egyptian]'' I know you can understand me, little one. So you must listen carefully because ''[in English]'' it is you who are the chosen one. You who will take me to Ahm-Shere. :'''Alex''': What if I don't? What if I get a little lost? :'''Imhotep''': ''[laughs]'' You have strength, little one. You are your father's son. But I know something you don't. This bracelet is a gift and a curse. The sands of time have already begun to pour against you. :'''Alex''': Yeah, yeah. I already heard this part. From the minute I put the bracelet on, seven days do I have before the Scorpion King wakes up. :'''Imhotep''': Did you also hear that if you do not enter the pyramid before the sun strikes it on that very morning that the bracelet will suck the life out of you? :'''Alex''': ''[shocked]'' That part I missed. Hey, wait a minute, that means I only have five days left! :'''Imhotep''': And I believe it would be nice trying not to get lost, don’t you? :'''Alex''': My dad is going to kick your arse! :'''Imhotep''': Hmm. ''[takes off his mask, revealing his mummified face and smirking; Alex gasps and steps back]'' I do not think so. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Alex''': Are we there yet? :'''Lock-Nah''': No. :'''Alex''': Are we there yet? :'''Lock-Nah''': No. :'''Alex''': Are we there yet? :'''Lock-Nah''': No. No, no no no no NO! :''(Lock-Nah sticks his knife into the table between Alex's fingers)'' :'''Alex''': Whoa! That was amazing! Perfect aim! :'''Lock-Nah''': What are you talking about? I missed. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lock-Nah''': When the time comes, I shall truly enjoy killing you. :'''Alex''': But until that time, you better be a little nicer to me. Now, where's my water? :''[Lock-Nah shoves the pitcher of water into Alex's hands]'' :'''Alex''': No ice? <hr width="50%"/> :''[Jonathan and an enemy soldier run into a clearing with stones while fleeing undead pygmies]'' :'''Jonathan''': See that?! We're safe, we're safe! See those sacred stones, they'll never cross those! :'''Shafek''': You are sure? :'''Jonathan''': Yes, of course I'm sure! :''[A pygmy notices them and attacks, spearing Shafek in the chest]'' :'''Jonathan''': ''[upon letting out a shriek of shock]'' Sorry! My mistake! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jonathan''': Pull me up! Pull me up! :''[He sees the huge diamond on top of the pyramid]'' :'''Jonathan''': Wait, wait. Let me down. Let me down! :'''Rick''': It's not worth your life, you idiot! :'''Jonathan''': Yes, it is! Yes, it is! == About ''{{PAGENAME}}'' == * "We worked with a guy called Dr. Stuart Smith from UCLA and he’s an Egyptologist. He put all this stuff on tape for us and it’s kind of the closest we can come to what we think the actual language sounded like. It’s like ancient Latin. When we speak Latin now we think it’s what it sounded like, but we’re not really sure. The problem with a lot of this Egyptian stuff is words like ‘look out’ become like 10 lines. Steve would go, ‘No, no, no. Lose the first four words. Say that word and then say the last word.’ So basically, I’d end up making the stuff up. ** Arnold Vosloo ([http://ardethsmistress0.tripod.com/id26.html ''Moviestar''] November/December 2001) == Taglines == * Adventure is reborn. * He will rise again. * The most powerful force on Earth is about to be unleashed by the two people who should know better. == Cast == * [[Brendan Fraser]] - Richard "Rick" O'Connell * [[Rachel Weisz]] - Evelyn "Evy" Carnahan O'Connell/Princess Nefertiri * [[w:Freddie Boath|Freddie Boath]] - Alexander "Alex" O'Connell * [[John Hannah (actor)|John Hannah]] - Jonathan Carnahan * [[Oded Fehr]] - [[w:List of The Mummy (film series) characters#Ardeth Bay|Ardeth Bey]] * [[w:Arnold Vosloo|Arnold Vosloo]] - High Priest Imhotep * [[w:Alun Armstrong|Alun Armstrong]] - [[w:List of The Mummy (film series) characters#Baltus Hafez|Baltus Hafez]], the cult leader * [[w:Patricia Velasquez|Patricia Velasquez]] - Meela Nais / Anck-Su-Namun * [[w:Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje|Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje]] - Lock-Nah * [[Dwayne Johnson]] - The Scorpion King == External links == {{wikipedia}} *[http://www.themummy.com/ Official Site] *{{imdb title|id=0209163|title=The Mummy Returns}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Mummy Returns, The}} [[Category:2001 films]] [[Category:2000s English-language films]] [[Category:2000s American films]] [[Category:Action films]] [[Category:Adventure films]] [[Category:Mummy films]] [[Category:Thriller films]] [[Category:Sequel films]] [[Category:Reincarnation films]] [[Category:Films set in deserts]] [[Category:Films set in Egypt]] [[Category:Films directed by Stephen Sommers]] [[Category:Screenplays by Stephen Sommers]] fyr8tsz70kgzqoe56p6y70gw0gmb3k9 3961344 3961339 2026-07-06T01:43:34Z AC9016 2870313 Undid revision [[Special:Diff/3961339|3961339]] by [[Special:Contributions/~2026-38198-11|~2026-38198-11]] ([[User talk:~2026-38198-11|talk]])- Ey, shipmate, good to see you again. Reverting vandalism. 3961344 wikitext text/x-wiki {{italic title}} [[File:Arnold Vosloo 2009.jpg|thumb|220px|""My dad is going to kick your arse."<br>"Hmm. I do not think so."]] '''''[[w:The Mummy Returns|The Mummy Returns]]''''' is a 2001 sequel to ''[[The Mummy (1999 film)|The Mummy]]'' film, in which the mummified body of Imhotep is shipped to a museum in London, where he wakes once again and resumes his quest for absolute power. :''Directed by [[Stephen Sommers]]. Written by [[Stephen Sommers]] {{Center|'''Adventure is reborn''' <small>([[#Taglines|taglines]])</small>}} [[File:303 British.jpg|thumb|Whatever it is, whatever you want, O'Connell, I don't care! Every time I hook up with you, I get shot! Last time I got shot in the arse. I'm in ''mourning'' for my arse!]] [[File:Elapidae - Ophiophagus hannah.JPG|thumb|Folks, knowing my brother-in-law, he probably deserves whatever you're about to do to him. But this is ''my'' house, and I have certain rules about snakes and dismemberment.]] [[File:Bayonet, knife-sword (and scabbard) (AM 697056-1).jpg|thumb|"Whoa! That was amazing! Perfect aim!"<br>"What are you talking about? I ''missed''."]] == Ardeth Bay == * ''[narrating]'' Five thousand years ago, a fierce warrior known as the Scorpion King led a great army on a campaign to conquer the known world. After a vicious campaign that lasted seven long years, the Scorpion King and his army were defeated and driven deep into the sacred desert of Ahm Shere. One by one, they slowly perished under the scorching sun, until only the great warrior himself was left alive. Near death, the Scorpion King made a pact with the dark god Anubis, that if Anubis would spare his life and let him conquer his enemies, he would give him his soul. Anubis accepted his offer and spared his life. Anubis gave the Scorpion King command of his army, and like an evil flood, they washed away all that lay before them. When his task was done, Anubis forced the Scorpion King to serve him for all time. His army was returned to the sands from whence they came, where they wait, silently, to be awakened once again. == Rick O'Connell== * Folks, knowing my brother-in-law, he probably deserves whatever you're about to do to him. But this is ''my'' house, and I have certain rules about snakes and dismemberment. == Izzy == * Whatever it is, whatever you want, O'Connell, I don't care! Every time I hook up with you, I get shot! Last time I got shot in the arse. I'm in ''mourning'' for my arse! == Dialogue == :'''Rick''': This is bad, Evy! :'''Evy''': We've had bad before. :'''Rick''': This is worse! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jonathan''': I told you! I told you! :'''Meela''': And your point is? :'''Jonathan''': My point is, I told you so you wouldn't kill me. :'''Meela''': When did we make that arrangement? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Alex''': Hey, the Book of the Dead! :'''Meela''': What a bright little child. Your mother must be missing you terribly. If you wish to see her again, you better behave. :'''Alex''': Lady, I don't behave for my parents, what makes you think I'm going to do it for you? :'''Lock-Nah''': ''[threatening Alex]'' Silence! :'''Meela''': Because your parents wouldn't slip poisonous snakes in your bed ''[kisses his cheek]'' while you're sleeping. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Imhotep''': ''[in Egyptian]'' I know you can understand me, little one. So you must listen carefully because ''[in English]'' it is you who are the chosen one. You who will take me to Ahm-Shere. :'''Alex''': What if I don't? What if I get a little lost? :'''Imhotep''': ''[laughs]'' You have strength, little one. You are your father's son. But I know something you don't. This bracelet is a gift and a curse. The sands of time have already begun to pour against you. :'''Alex''': Yeah, yeah. I already heard this part. From the minute I put the bracelet on, seven days do I have before the Scorpion King wakes up. :'''Imhotep''': Did you also hear that if you do not enter the pyramid before the sun strikes it on that very morning that the bracelet will suck the life out of you? :'''Alex''': ''[shocked]'' That part I missed. Hey, wait a minute, that means I only have five days left! :'''Imhotep''': And I believe it would be nice trying not to get lost, don’t you? :'''Alex''': My dad is going to kick your arse! :'''Imhotep''': Hmm. ''[takes off his mask, smirking; Alex gasps and steps back]'' I do not think so. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lock-Nah''': When the time comes, I shall truly enjoy killing you. :'''Alex''': But ''until'' that time, you better be a little nicer to me. Now, where's my water? :''[Lock-Nah shoves the pitcher of water into Alex's hands]'' :'''Alex''': No ice? <hr width="50%"/> :''[aboard a train controlled by Imhotep and his men]'' :'''Alex''': ''[bored]'' Are we there yet? :'''Lock-Nah''': ''[also bored]'' No. :'''Alex''': Are we there yet? :'''Lock-Nah''': No. :'''Alex''': Are we there yet? :'''Lock-Nah''': No. :'''Alex''': Are we there yet? :'''Lock-Nah''': No. :'''Alex''': Are we there yet? :'''Lock-Nah''': ''[visibly annoyed]'' No. :'''Alex''': Are we there yet? :'''Lock-Nah''': No. :'''Alex''': Are we there yet? :'''Lock-Nah''': ''[getting angrier]'' ''No.'' :'''Alex''': Are we there yet? :'''Lock-Nah''': No! :'''Alex''': Are we there yet? :'''Lock-Nah''': ''No!'' :''[Lock-Nah slams his knife into the table between Alex's fingers]'' :'''Alex''': Whoa! That was amazing! Perfect aim! :'''Lock-Nah''': What are you talking about? ''[pulls the knife out of the table]'' I ''missed''. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Rick''': Right, she's a reincarnated princess and I'm a warrior for God? :'''Ardeth Bay''': And your son leads the way to Ahm Shere. Three sides of the pyramid. This was all preordained thousands of years ago. :'''Evelyn''': But how does the story end? :'''Ardeth Bay''': Only the journey is written, not the destination. :'''Rick''': Convenient. == About ''{{PAGENAME}}'' == * "We worked with a guy called Dr. Stuart Smith from UCLA and he’s an Egyptologist. He put all this stuff on tape for us and it’s kind of the closest we can come to what we think the actual language sounded like. It’s like ancient Latin. When we speak Latin now we think it’s what it sounded like, but we’re not really sure. The problem with a lot of this Egyptian stuff is words like ‘look out’ become like 10 lines. Steve would go, ‘No, no, no. Lose the first four words. Say that word and then say the last word.’ So basically, I’d end up making the stuff up. ** Arnold Vosloo ([http://ardethsmistress0.tripod.com/id26.html ''Moviestar''] November/December 2001) == Taglines == * Adventure is reborn. * He will rise again. * The most powerful force on Earth is about to be unleashed by the two people who should know better. == Cast == * [[Brendan Fraser]] - Richard "Rick" O'Connell * [[Rachel Weisz]] - Evelyn "Evy" Carnahan O'Connell/Princess Nefertiri * [[w:Freddie Boath|Freddie Boath]] - Alexander "Alex" O'Connell * [[John Hannah (actor)|John Hannah]] - Jonathan Carnahan * [[Oded Fehr]] - [[w:List of The Mummy (film series) characters#Ardeth Bay|Ardeth Bey]] * [[w:Arnold Vosloo|Arnold Vosloo]] - High Priest Imhotep * [[w:Alun Armstrong|Alun Armstrong]] - [[w:List of The Mummy (film series) characters#Baltus Hafez|Baltus Hafez]], the cult leader * [[w:Patricia Velasquez|Patricia Velasquez]] - Meela Nais / Anck-Su-Namun * [[w:Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje|Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje]] - Lock-Nah * [[Dwayne Johnson]] - The Scorpion King ==Taglines== * "The most powerful force on Earth is about to be unleashed by the two people who should know better == External links == {{wikipedia}} *[http://www.themummy.com/ Official Site] *{{imdb title|id=0209163|title=The Mummy Returns}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Mummy Returns, The}} [[Category:2001 films]] [[Category:Action films]] [[Category:Adventure films]] [[Category:American films]] [[Category:Films about mummies]] [[Category:Thriller films]] [[Category:Sequel films]] [[Category:Reincarnation films]] [[Category:Films directed by Stephen Sommers]] [[Category:Films set in deserts]] [[Category:Screenplays by Stephen Sommers]] [[Category:Films set in Egypt]] [[Category:2000s English-language films]] 9yqk4ah0bbjv21rmds121faz3q00sm5 0 16763 3961206 3960892 2026-07-05T16:37:02Z BD2412 3982 Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]] 3961206 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Richard Henry Dana, Jr by Asa B. Eaton.png|thumb|Richard Henry Dana circa 1868]] '''[[w:Richard Henry Dana Jr.|Richard Henry Dana Jr.]]''' ([[August 1]], [[1815]] – [[January 6]], [[1882]]) was an American lawyer and politician best known for his classic book ''[[w:Two Years Before the Mast|Two Years Before the Mast]].'' == Quotes == * Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, <br/> Why takest thou its melancholy voice, <br/> And with that boding cry <br/> Why o'er the waves dost fly? <br/> O, rather, bird, with me <br/> Through the fair land rejoice! ** ''[[s:The_Little_Beach-Bird|The Little Beach-Bird]]'' === ''[[w:Two Years Before the Mast|Two Years Before the Mast]]'' (1840) === *<p>''' Tuesday, January 13, 1835:''' We made the land at Point Conception... the point of Santa Barbara, to which we were bound, lying about fifty miles to the southeast of this point, we continued sailing down the coast during the day and the following night, and on the next morning.</p><p>On the whole coast of California there was not a lighthouse, a beacon, or a buoy, and the charts were made up from old and disconnected surveys by British, Russian, and Mexican voyagers. Birds of prey and passage swooped and dived about us, wild beasts ranged through the oak groves... herds of deer came to the water's edge.</p> * '''January, 14th, 1835:''' We came to anchor in the spacious bay of Santa Barbara. There was only one vessel in the port. Beside the vessel, there was no object to break the surface of the bay... directly opposite the anchoring ground, lie the mission and town of Santa Barbara, on a low plain, but little above the level of the sea, covered with grass, though entirely without trees, and surrounded on three sides by an amphitheater of mountains, which slant off to the distance of fifteen or twenty miles. The mission stands a little back of the town, and is a large building, or rather a collection of buildings, in the center of which is a high tower, with a belfry of five bells. The whole, being plastered, makes quite a show at a distance, and is the mark by which vessels come to anchor. The town lies a little nearer to the beach — about half a mile from it — and is composed of one-story houses built of sun-baked clay, or adobe, some of them whitewashed, with red tiles on the roof. I should judge that there was about a hundred of them... The town is finely situated, with a bay in front, and an amphitheater of hills behind. * I shall never forget the impression which our first landing on the beach of California make upon me. The sun had just gone down; it was getting dusky; the damp night wind was beginning to blow, and the heavy swell of the Pacific was setting in, and breaking in loud and high "combers" on the beach... we put our oars in the boat, and, leaving one to watch it, walked about the beach to see what we could of the place. The beach is nearly a mile in length between the two points, and of smooth sand... It was growing dark, so that we could just distinguish the dim outlines of the two vessels in the offing; and the great seas were rolling in in regular lines, growing larger and larger as they approached the shore, and hanging over the beach upon which they were to break, when their tops would curl over and turn white with foam, and, being at one extreme of the line, break rapidly to the other, as a child's long card house falls when a card is knocked down at one end. * If the women but have little virtue, the jealousy of their husbands is extreme, and their revenge deadly and almost certain. A few inches of cold steel have been the punishment of many an unwary man, who has been guilty, perhaps, of nothing more than indiscretion. The difficulties of the attempt [to copulate with a married woman] are numerous, and the consequences of discovery fatal, in the better classes. With the unmarried women, too, great watchfulness is used. The main object of the parents is to marry their daughters well, and to this a fair name is necessary. The sharp eyes of a duena, and the ready weapons to a father or brother, are a protection which the characters of most of them — men and women — render by no means useless; for the very men who would lay down their lives to avenge the dishonor of their own family would risk the same lives to complete the dishonor of another. ** ''Referring to the Mexican residents of Santa Barbara in 1835 (p. 162)'' * An overstrained sense of manliness is the characteristic of seafaring men. This often gives an appearance of want of feeling, and even of cruelty. From this, if a man comes within an ace of breaking his neck and escapes, it is made a joke of; and no notice must be taken of a bruise or cut; and expression of pity, or any show of attention, would look sisterly, and unbecoming a man who has to face the rough and tumble of such a life. From this cause, too, the sick are neglected at sea, and, whatever sailors may be ashore, a sick man finds little sympathy or attention, forward or aft. A man, too, can have nothing peculiar or sacred on board ship; for all the nicer feelings they take pride in disregarding, both in themselves and others. A "thin-skinned" man could hardly live on shipboard. One would be torn raw unless he had the hide of an ox. ** p. 236-237 * ''Referring to a professor aboard ship:'' This passenger — the first and only one we had had, except to go from port to port on the coast — was no one else than a gentleman whom I had known in my smoother days, and the last person I should have expected to see on the coast of California — Professor Nuttall of Cambridge. I had left him quietly seated in the chair of the Botany and Ornithology Department at Harvard University, and the next I saw of him, he was strolling about San Diego beach, in a sailors' pea jacket, with a wide straw hat, and barefooted, with his trousers rolled up to his knees, picking up stones and shells... I was often amused to see the sailors puzzled to know what to make of him, and to hear their conjectures about him and his business... The Pilgrim's crew called Mr. Nuttall "Old Curious," from his zeal for curiosities; and some of them said that he was crazy, and that his friends let him go about and amuse himself this way. Why else would (he)... come to such a place as California to pick up shells and stones, they could not understand. One of them, however, who had seen something more of the world ashore said, "Oh, 'vast there!... I've seen them colleges and know the ropes. They keep all such things for cur'osities, and study 'em, and have men a purpose to go and get 'em... He'll carry all these things to the college, and if they are better than any that they have had before, he'll be head of the college. Then, by and by, somebody else will go after some more, and if they beat him he'll have to go again, or else give up his berth. That's the way they do it. This old covery knows the ropes. He has worked a traverse over 'em, and come 'way out here where nobody's ever been afore, and where they'll never think of coming." This explanation satisfied Jack; and as it raised Mr. Nuttall's credit, and was near enough to the truth for common purposes, I did not disturb it. ** p. 267 === ''Twenty-Four Years After'' (1869) === * Passing round Point Conception, and steering easterly, we opened the islands that form, with the mainland, the canal of Santa Barbara. There they are, Santa Cruz and Santa Rosa, and there is the beautiful point, Santa Buenaventura; and there lies Santa Barbara on its plain, with its amphitheater of high hills and distant mountains. There is the old white mission with its belfries, and there the town, with its one-story adobe houses, with here and there a two-story wooden house of later build; yet little is it altered — the same repose in the golden sunlight and glorious climate, sheltered by its hills; and then, more remindful than anything else, there roars and tumbles upon the beach the same grand surf of the great Pacific... the same bright-blue ocean, and the surf making just the same monotonous, melancholy roar, and the same dreamy town. * It had been the winter of 1835-6 that the ship, Alert, in her voyage for hides on the remote and almost unknown coast of California, floated into the vast solitude of the bay of San Francisco. All around was the stillness of nature. One vessel, a Russian, lay at anchor there, but during our whole stay not a sail came or went. Our trade was with remote missions, which sent hides to us in launches manned by their Indians... Over a region far beyond our sight there was no other human habitations, expect that an enterprising Yankee, years in advance of his time, had put up, on the rising ground above the landing, a shanty of rough boards, where he carried on a very small retail trade between the hide ships and the Indians. On the evening of Saturday, the thirteenth of August, 1859 (I again sailed into) the entrance to San Francisco, (now) the great center of worldwide commerce. * We bore round the point toward the old anchoring ground of the hide ships, and there, covering the sand hills and the valleys... flickering all over with the lamps of its streets and houses, lay a city of one hundred thousand inhabitants. The dock into which we drew, and the streets about it, were densely crowded with express wagons and handcarts... Though this crowd I made my way, along the well-built and well-light streets, as alive as by day, where boys in high-keyed voices where already crying the latest New York papers. When I awoke in the morning, and looked from my windows over the city of San Francisco, with its storehouses, towers, and steeples; its courthouses, theaters, and hospitals, its daily journals, its well-filled learned professions, its fortresses and lighthouses; its wharves and harbor... when I saw all these things, and reflected on what I once saw here, and what now surrounded me, I could scarcely keep my hold on reality at all, or the genuineness of anything. * As we made the high point off San Diego, Point Loma, we were greeted by the cheering presence of a lighthouse. As we swept round it in the early morning, there, before us, lay the little harbor of San Diego, its low spit of sand, where the water runs so deep; the opposite flats, where the Alert grounded in starting for home; the low hills, without trees, and almost without brush; the quiet little beach; but the chief objects, the hide houses, my eye looked for in vain. They were gone, all, and left no mark behind. I wished to be alone, so I let the other passengers go up to the town, and was quietly pulled ashore in a boat, and left to myself. The recollections and the emotions were all sad... and only sad. * The past was real. The present, all about me, was unreal, unnatural, repellent. I saw the big ships lying in the stream... the home of hardship and hopelessness; the boats passing to and fro; the cries of the sailors at the capstan or falls; the peopled beach; the large hide houses, with their gangs of men; and the Kanakas interspersed everywhere. All, all were gone! Not a vestige to mark where one hide house stood. The oven, too, was gone. I searched for its site, and found, where I thought it should be, a few broken bricks and bits of mortar. I alone was left of all, and how strangely was I here! What changes to me! Where were they all? Why should I care for them — poor Kanakas and sailors, the refuse of civilization, the outlaws and the beachcombers of the Pacific! Time and death seemed to transfigure them. Doubtless nearly all were dead; but how had they died, and where? In hospitals, in fever climes, in dens of vice, or falling from the mast, or dropping exhausted from the wreck "When for a moment, like a drop of rain/He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan/Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown." The lighthearted boys are now hardened middle-aged men, if the seas, rocks, fevers, and the deadlier enemies that beset a sailor's life on shore have spared them; and the then strong men have bowed themselves, and the earth or sea has covered them. How softening is the effect of time! It touches us through the affections. I almost feel as if I were lamenting the passing away of something loved and dear — the boats, the Kanakas, the hides, my old shipmates! Death, change, distance, lend them a character which makes them quite another thing. * On the morning of January 11th, 1860, I passed, for the eighth time, through the Golden Gate... 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Brennan, Jr. → William J. Brennan Jr. using [[Project:AWB|AWB]] 3961182 wikitext text/x-wiki The '''[[w:United States Bill of Rights|United States Bill of Rights]]''' comprises the first ten [[w:list of amendments to the United States Constitution|amendments]] to the [[United States Constitution]]. Proposed following the often bitter 1787–88 debate over the [[w:Timeline of drafting and ratification of the United States Constitution|ratification of the Constitution]] and written to address the objections raised by [[w:Anti-Federalism|Anti-Federalists]], the Bill of Rights amendments add to the Constitution specific guarantees of personal freedoms and [[w:natural and legal rights|rights]], clear limitations on the government's power in judicial and other proceedings, and explicit declarations that all powers not specifically granted to the [[w:Federal government of the United States|federal government]] by the Constitution are reserved to the [[w:U.S. state|states]] or the [[w:Popular sovereignty|people]]. They include [[freedom of speech]], [[freedom of the press|a free press]], [[freedom of religion]], [[freedom of assembly|free assembly]], and free association, as well as the [[Second Amendment to the United States Constitution|right to keep and bear arms]]. == Quotes == [[File:Bill of Rights Pg1of1 AC.jpg|thumb|Bills of rights give assurance to the individual of the preservation of his liberty. They do not define the liberty they promise.~ [[Benjamin N. Cardozo]] ]] [[File:Diagram of the Federal Government and American Union edit.jpg|thumb|A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference. ~ [[Thomas Jefferson]] ]] [[File:Statue of Liberty close.JPG|thumb|right|[[Education]] on the value of [[free speech]] and the other [[freedoms]] reserved by the [[Bill of Rights]], about what happens when you don't have them, and about how to exercise and protect them, should be an essential prerequisite for being an American citizen… ~ [[Carl Sagan]] ]] * I cannot consider the Bill of Rights to be an outworn 18th Century 'strait jacket'…'''Its provisions may be thought outdated abstractions by some. And it is true that they were designed to meet ancient evils. But they are the same kind of human evils that have emerged from century to century wherever excessive power is sought by the few at the expense of the many. In my judgement the people of no nation can lose their basic liberty so long as a Bill of Rights like ours survives and its basic purposes are conscientiously interpreted, enforced and respected so as to afford continuous protection against old, as well as new, devices and practices which might thwart those purposes.''' ** Justice [[w:Hugo Black|Hugo Black]], dissenting in ''[[w:Adamson v. California|Adamson v. California]]'' (1947) * '''The concept that the Bill of Rights and other constitutional protections against arbitrary government are inoperative when they become inconvenient or when expediency dictates otherwise is a very dangerous doctrine and if allowed to flourish would destroy the benefit of a written Constitution and undermine the basis of our government.''' ** Justice [[w:Hugo Black|Hugo Black]], ''[[w:Reid v. Covert|Reid v. Covert]]'' 354 U.S. 1 (1957) * Can any of you seriously say the [[w:United States Bill of Rights|Bill of Rights]] could get through Congress today? It wouldn’t even get out of committee. ** [[F. Lee Bailey]], ''Newsweek'', 17 April 1967. * [[Marco Respinti]], an Italian journalist and scholar who serves as director-in-charge of Bitter Winter, concluded the session with a reflection on the discussions that led to the approval of the American Constitution and its first ten amendments, known as the Bill of Rights. He emphasized that [[Founding Fathers of the United States|the founding fathers of the United States]] insisted both on [[freedom of religion]] or belief and on [[tax]] justice. They knew that taxes can be used to persecute minorities, and they saw the connection between religious persecution and discrimination through taxes.<br>These may seem [to be] very old discussions, dating back to the late [[18th century]], Respinti said, but in fact the Tai Ji Men case in [[Taiwan]] shows that they are very much relevant today. The Tai Ji Men case demonstrates that the fathers of the American Constitution and the Bill of Rights were right, Respinti concluded, when they expressed the [[fear]] that taxes may be used as a tool of religious discrimination. ** Daniela Bovolenta, [https://bitterwinter.org/tai-ji-men-case-european-academy-of-religion/ "The Tai Ji Men Case at the European Academy of Religion"], ''Bitter Winter'' (July 7, 2022) * '''Bills of rights give assurance to the individual of the preservation of his liberty. They do not define the liberty they promise.''' ** [[Benjamin N. Cardozo]], ''The Paradoxes of Legal Science'' (1928) *We have subjected enormous numbers of people to contact with these poisons, without their consent and often without their knowledge. If the Bill of Rights contains no guarantee that a citizen shall be secure against lethal poisons distributed either by private individuals or by public officials, it is surely only because our forefathers, despite their considerable wisdom and foresight, could conceive of no such problem. **[[Rachel Carson]] Silent Spring (1962) * '''Plainly, a community may not suppress, or the state tax, the dissemination of views because they are unpopular, annoying or distasteful. If that device were ever sanctioned, there would have been forged a ready instrument for the suppression of the faith which any minority cherishes but which does not happen to be in favor. That would be a complete repudiation of the philosophy of the Bill of Rights.''' ** Justice [[William O. Douglas]], ''[[w:Murdock v. Pennsylvania|Murdock v. Pennsylvania]]'', 319 U.S. 105 (1943), at 115, Opinion of the Court. * '''The first eight Amendments to the [[United States Constitution|Constitution]] have been made applicable to the States only in part. My view has been that, when the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted, its [[Due process|Due Process]] Clause incorporated all of those Amendments.''' ''See [[w:Adamson v. California|Adamson v. California]]'', 332 U. S. 46, 332 U. S. 68 (dissenting opinion). Although the history of the Fourteenth Amendment may not be conclusive, the words "due process" acquired specific meaning from Anglo-American experience. [Footnote 2/7] '''As [[William J. Brennan Jr.|MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN]] recently stated, "The Bill of Rights is the primary source of expressed information as to what is meant by constitutional liberty. The safeguards enshrined in it are deeply etched in the foundations of America's freedoms."''' The Bill of Rights and the States (1961), 36 N.Y.U.L.Rev. 761, 776. '''When the Framers wrote the Bill of Rights, they enshrined in the form of constitutional guarantees those rights -- in part substantive, in part procedural -- which experience indicated were indispensable to a free society. Some would disagree as to their importance; the debate concerning them did indeed start before their adoption and has continued to this day. Yet the constitutional conception of "due process" must, in my view, include them all until and unless there are amendments that remove them.''' ** Justice [[William O. Douglas]], ''[[w:Poe v. Ullman|Poe v. Ullman]]'', 319 U.S. 105 (1943), at 515-516, dissenting. * This case involves a cancer in our body politic. It is a measure of the disease which afflicts us. Army surveillance, like Army regimentation, is at war with the principles of the First Amendment. Those who already walk submissively will say there is no cause for alarm. But submissiveness is not our heritage. The First Amendment was designed to allow rebellion to remain as our heritage. The Constitution was designed to keep government off the backs of the people. '''The Bill of Rights was added to keep the precincts of belief and expression, of the press, of political and social activities free from surveillance. The Bill of Rights was designed to keep agents of government and official eavesdroppers away from assemblies of people. The aim was to allow men to be free and independent and to assert their rights against government.''' There can be no influence more paralyzing of that objective than Army surveillance. When an intelligence officer looks over every nonconformist's shoulder in the library, or walks invisibly by his side in a picket line, or infiltrates his club, the America once extolled as the voice of [[liberty]] heard around the world no longer is cast in the image which [[Thomas Jefferson|Jefferson]] and [[James Madison|Madison]] designed, but more in the Russian image.''' ** Justice [[William O. Douglas]], ''[[w:Laird v. Tatum|Laird v. Tatum]]'', 408 U.S. 1 (1972), dissenting. * In recent years it has been suggested that the Second Amendment protects the "collective" right of states to maintain militias, while it does not protect the right of "the people" to keep and bear arms...<b>The phrase "the people" meant the same thing in the Second Amendment as it did in the First, Fourth, Ninth and Tenth Amendments — that is, each and every free person</b>. <br/><i>A select militia defined as only the privileged class entitled to keep and bear arms was considered an anathema to a free society</i>, in the same way that Americans denounced select spokesmen approved by the government as the only class entitled to the freedom of the press. <br/>If anyone entertained this notion in the period during which the Constitution and Bill of Rights were debated and ratified, it remains one of the most closely guarded secrets of the 18th century, for no known writing surviving from the period between 1787 and 1791 states such a thesis. ** Stephen P. Holbrook, ''That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution of a Constitutional Right'' * '''The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities, and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One's right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections.''' **{{cite book|author=[[Robert H. Jackson]]|title={{w|West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette}}|publisher=[[Supreme Court of the United States]]|location=|year=1943|pages= 319 U.S. 624, 638|isbn=|oclc=|doi=}} * '''We set up government by consent of the governed, and the Bill of Rights denies those in power any legal opportunity to coerce that consent.''' Authority here is to be controlled by public opinion, not public opinion by authority. ** [[Robert H. Jackson]], ''West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette'', 319 U.S. 624 (1943), at. 641. * I will therefore make up the deficiency by adding '''a few words on [[United States Constitution|the Constitution]]''' proposed by our Convention. [...] I will now add what I do not like. First the omission of a bill of rights providing clearly and without the aid of sophisms for [[Freedom of religion|freedom of religion]], [[Freedom of the press|freedom of the press]], protection against standing armies, restriction against monopolies, the eternal and unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and trials by jury in all matters of fact triable by the laws of the land and not by the law of Nations. [...] Let me add that '''a bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.''' ** [[Thomas Jefferson]], [https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-12-02-0454 From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 20 December 1787]. In: Founders Online. Provided by the United States National Archives and Records Administration. [https://web.archive.org/web/20230130172127/https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-12-02-0454 Archived] [https://archive.is/xkFNp from] [http://The%20original the original] on January 30, 2023. Original source: ''The Papers of Thomas Jefferson'', vol. 12, 7 August 1787 – 31 March 1788, ed. Julian P. Boyd. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1955, pp. 438–443. * '''[[Education]] on the value of [[free speech]] and the other freedoms reserved by the [[Bill of Rights]], about what happens when you don't have them, and about how to exercise and protect them, should be an essential prerequisite for being an American citizen — or indeed a citizen of any nation, the more so to the degree that such rights remain unprotected.''' If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question [[authority]], then we're just putty in the hands of those in [[power]]. But if the citizens are educated and form their own [[opinions]], then those in power work for us. '''In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness.''' **[[Carl Sagan]], {{cite book | title = The demon-haunted world : science as a candle in the dark | year = 1995 | location = New York | publisher = Random House | isbn = 039453512X | id = {{LCC|Q175.S215 1995}} | lccn = 95034076 }}, Ch. 25: Real Patriots Ask Questions * Under [[United States Constitution|our Constitution]], '''anonymous pamphleteering is not a pernicious, fraudulent practice, but an honorable tradition of advocacy and of dissent. Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority. … It thus exemplifies the purpose behind the [[United States Bill of Rights|Bill of Rights]], and of the [[First Amendment to the United States Constitution|First Amendment]] in particular: to protect unpopular individuals from retaliation--and their ideas from suppression--at the hand of an intolerant society. The right to remain anonymous may be abused when it shields fraudulent conduct. But political speech by its nature will sometimes have unpalatable consequences, and, in general, our society accords greater weight to the value of free speech than to the dangers of its misuse.''' ** [[John Paul Stevens]], ''[[w:McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission|McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission (Majority opinion]]'', 514 U.S. 334 (1995) ==See also== *[[First Amendment to the United States Constitution]] *[[Second Amendment to the United States Constitution]] *[[Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution]] == External links == {{wikipedia}} [[Category:United States Constitution]] [[Category:Rights]] ioz4jha3c7b79zi9og27lwleuvwv3ag 0 17455 3961072 3954148 2026-07-05T13:42:37Z En-cor-Zenodoti 3308631 adding three 3961072 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Menander Chiaramonti Inv1453.jpg|thumb|The [[truth]], sometimes not sought for, comes forth to the [[light]].]] '''{{w|Menander}}''' (Greek: Μένανδρος, ''Ménandros''; ''c.'' 342/341 – ''c.'' 290 BC) was a Greek playwright and the best-known representative of Athenian [[w:Ancient Greek comedy#New Comedy_(nea)|New Comedy]]. He was the author of more than a hundred comedies, of which a single one, ''[[w:Dyskolos|Dyskolos]]'', survives virtually complete. == Quotes == :<small>Greek text cited from R. Kassel, C. Austin, ''Poetae Comici Graeci, vol. VI Menander'' (Berlin-Boston, 1998–2022), whose numbering is also followed.<br>Translations cited from F. G. Allinson, [https://archive.org/details/menanderprincipa00menauoft/page/n9/mode/2up ''Menander. The Principal Fragments''] (Cambridge-London, 1921), unless otherwise noted.</small> === ''{{w|Dyskolos}}'' (316 BC) === [[File:Menander fresco Pompeii Italy.jpg|thumb|right|Rest assured, for every piece of business the most businesslike thing is to choose the right moment.]] [[File:The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century - a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and (14578736699).jpg|thumb|right|In this part he most shows himself a [[man]], whoever tolerates making himself equal to another, rich to poor. For this man will bear a change of fortune with self-control.]] * ζ[ῶ]ν οὗτος ἐπιεικῶς χρόνον <br> πολὺν λελάληκεν ἡδέως ἐν τῷ βίῳ <br> οὐδενί, προσηγόρευκε πρότερος δ᾿ οὐδένα <br> πλὴν ἐξ ἀνάγκης, γειτνιῶν παριών τ᾿, ἐμὲ <br> τὸν Πᾶνα· καὶ τοῦτ᾿ εὐθὺς αὐτῷ μεταμέλει, <br> εὖ οἶδ᾿. ** {{smallcaps|Pan}}: This man has lived here <br> a reasonably long time and has gladly talked in his life <br> to no one, has spoken first to no one <br> except — of necessity, since he is a neighbor and passes by — me, <br> [[w:Pan (mythology)|Pan]]. And he immediately regrets it, <br> I'm sure. ** Lines 8–13 (tr. V. J. Rosivach, 2014) * εὖ τοῦτ᾿ ἴσθ᾿, ὅτι <br> πρὸς πάντα πράγματ᾿ ἐστὶ πρακτικώτερον <br> εὐκαιρία. ** {{smallcaps|Chaereas}}: Rest assured, <br> for every piece of business the most businesslike thing is <br> to choose the right moment. ** Lines 127–29 (tr. V. J. Rosivach, 2014) * τῶν δ᾿ ἀναγκαίων λέγειν <br> πλείον᾿ οὐκ ἀνδρὸς νομίζω, πλὴν ἐκεῖνό γ᾿ ἴσθι, παῖ· <br> ὑπὲρ ἐμοῦ γὰρ βούλομ᾿ εἰπεῖν ὀλίγα σοι καὶ τοῦ τρόπου. <br> εἰ τοιοῦτοι πάντες ἦσαν, οὔτε τὰ δικαστήρια <br> ἦν ἄν, οὔθ᾿ αὑτοὺς ἀπῆγον εἰς τὰ δεσμωτήρια, <br> οὔτε πόλεμος ἦν, ἔχων δ᾿ ἂν μέτρι᾿ ἕκαστος ἠγάπα. <br> ἀλλ᾿ ἴσως ταῦτ᾿ ἔστ᾿ ἀρεστὰ μᾶλλον οὕτω· πράττετε. <br> ἐκποδῶν ὑμῖν ⟨ὁ⟩ χαλεπὸς δύσκολός τ᾿ ἔσται γέρων. ** {{smallcaps|Cnemon}}: To say more than what's necessary <br> I don't think is appropriate for a man. Except know this, child — <br> for I wish to tell you a little about me and my character — <br> if everyone were like me there wouldn't be law courts, <br> and they wouldn't take them away to prisons, <br> and there wouldn't be wars, but having goods in measure each man would be happy. <br> But perhaps those things are more pleasing. Act that way. <br> This difficult and grouchy old man will be out of your way. ** Lines 740–47 (tr. V. J. Rosivach, 2014) ** Alternate translation (W. G. Arnott, 1960): *** I don't hold with people saying more than they need; but there is one thing more, my child, that I'd like you to know. I just want to say a few things to you about life, and the way people behave. You know, if we were all kind to one another, there'd be no need for law courts, there'd be no arresting people and putting them into prison, and there would be no more war. Everyone would have his little bit, and be content. But maybe you like modern ways better? Well, live that way, then! This difficult and bad-tempered old man will soon be out of the way. * τρυφερὸς ὢν δίκελλαν ἔλαβες, ἔσκαψας, πονε[ῖν <br> ἠθέλησας. ἐν δὲ τούτῳ τῷ μέρει μάλιστ᾿ ἀνὴρ <br> δείκνυτ᾿, ἐξισοῦν ἑαυτὸν ὅστις ὑπομένει τινὶ <br> εὐπορῶν πένητι· καὶ γὰρ μεταβολὴν οὗτος τύχ[ης <br> ἐγκρατῶς οἴσει. δέδωκας πεῖραν ἱκανὴν τοῦ τρόπ[ου· <br> διαμένοις μόνον τοιοῦτος. ** {{smallcaps|Gorgias}}: Even if you were a softy, you took the mattock, you dug, <br> you were willing to work. In this part he most shows himself a man, <br> whoever tolerates making himself equal to another, <br> rich to poor. For this man will bear a change of fortune <br> with self-control. You have given a sufficient proof of your character. <br> I wish only that you remain as you are. ** Lines 766–71 (tr. V. J. Rosivach, 2014) === Fragments === [[File:Relief with Menander and New Comedy Masks - Princeton Art Museum.jpg|thumb|right|The man dies young on whom the gods their love bestow.]] ;Plays partially extant on papyrus * ὃν οἱ θεοὶ φιλοῦσιν ἀποθνῄσκει νέος. ** The man dies young on whom the gods their love bestow. ** ''Dis Exapaton'', frg. 4 Κ.-Α. *:<small>Compare [[Byron]], ''[[Don Juan (Byron)#Canto IV (1821)|Don Juan]]'', IV, xii, 89</small> * ἀπὸ μηχανῆς θεὸς ἐπεφάνης. ** You are by your epiphany a veritable "god from the machine." ** ''Theophoroumene'', frg. 6 K.-A. ** See: ''{{w|Deus ex machina}}'' * τὸ καλῶς ἔχον που κρεῖττόν ἐστι καὶ νόμου. ** That which turns out well is better than any law. ** ''Karchedonios'', frg. 5 K.-A. (tr. [https://archive.org/details/beautifulthough02unkngoog/page/200/mode/2up C. T. Ramage, 1864]) * οὐθεὶς ἐπλούτησεν ταχέως δίκαιος ὤν. ** No just man has ever become suddenly rich. ** ''Kolax'', line 42 (tr. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Id4emt1vfvgC&pg=PA323 C. T. Ramage, 1873]) * ταὐτόματον ἐστιν ὡς ἔοικέ που θεὸς<br>σῴζει τε πολλὰ τῶν ἀοράτων πραγμάτων. ** Chance is a kind of god, for it preserves many things which we do not observe. ** ''Samia'', lines 163–164 * αἰσθοῦ σαυτὸν ὄντα [ <br> ἄνθρωπον, ἄνθρωπον δὲ κα[ <br> ἵνα μὴ ᾿πιθυμῇς τῶν ὑπὲρ σ[ὲ πραγμάτων. <br> ὅταν δ᾿ ἀγρυπνεῖν εἴπῃς, τίς ὁ [βίος σου σκοπῶν <br> τὴν αἰτίαν γνώσῃ· περιπατεῖς [ <br> εἰσῆλθες εὐθύς, ἂν κοπιάσῃς τ[ὰ σκέλη. <br> μαλακῶς ἐλούσω, πάλιν ἀναστ[ὰς περιπατεῖς <br> πρὸς ἡδονήν. ὕπνος αὐτὸς ὁ βί[ος ἐστί σοι. <br> τὸ πέρας· κακὸν ἔχεις οὐδέν, ἡ ν[όσος δέ σου <br> ἔσθ᾿ ἣν διῆλθες (φορτικώτερο[ν δέ τι <br> ἐπέρχεταί μοι, τρόφιμε, συγγνώ[μην δ᾿ ἔχε)· <br> τὸ δὴ λεγόμενον, οὐχ ἔχεις ὅπο[ι χέσῃς <br> ὑπὸ τῶν ἀγαθῶν, εὖ ἴσθι. ** Remember, [Pheidias], <br> you're human, and [a poor man]'s human, too! <br> So don't you crave for what's beyond [your reach]! <br> When you complain of sleeplessness, what's really <br> your [problem]? I'll tell you the cause. You stroll <br> [all round the market], come straight home when [legs] <br> are weary, bathe in luxury. Then up you get <br> and [take a] pleasant [stroll. Your] life itself <br> [is] sleep! So, finally, there's nothing wrong with you. <br> This [sickness] you've described is—well, [a] rather coarse <br> expression comes to mind—forgive me, master— <br> the saying goes, you're so well off you don't <br> have anywhere [to shit], I'd have you know! ** ''Phasma'', lines 6–18 (tr. [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/menander_comic_poet-phasma/2000/pb_LCL460.377.xml W. G. Arnott, 2000]) ;Plays known from quotations only * χαλεπόν γε θυγάτηρ κτῆμα καὶ δυσδιάθετον. ** A daughter is an embarrassing and ticklish possession. ** Frg. 22 K.-A., ''Halieus'' (tr. [https://archive.org/details/beautifulthough02unkngoog/page/198/mode/2up C. T. Ramage, 1864]) * ζῶμεν γὰρ οὐχ ὡς θέλομεν, ἀλλ᾿ ὡς δυνάμεθα. ** We [[live]], not as we wish to, but as we can. ** Frg. 47 K.-A., ''Andria'' *:<small>Compare [[Terence]], ''Andria'', 805:<br>'''ut quimus' aiunt, quando 'ut volumus' non licet.''<br>As the saying is, we do as we can since we can't as we would. (tr. [https://archive.org/details/TerenceWithAnEnglishTranslationByJohnSargeaunt/page/86/mode/2up J. Sargeaunt, 1918])</small> * τὰ προσπεσόντα προσδοκᾶν ἅπαντα δεῖ<br>ἄνθρωπον ὄντα· παραμένει γὰρ οὐδὲ ἕν. ** Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable. ** Frg. 50 K.-A., ''Androgynos'' (tr. [https://archive.org/details/beautifulthough02unkngoog/page/198/mode/2up C. T. Ramage, 1864]) * πάντ᾿ ἐστὶ τῷ καλῷ λόγῳ<br>ἱερόν· ὁ νοῦς γάρ ἐστιν ὁ λαλήσων θεός. ** All places are the temple of God, for it is the mind that prays to him. ** Frg. 70 K.-A., ''Arrhephoros'' (tr. [https://archive.org/details/beautifulthough02unkngoog/page/198/mode/2up C. T. Ramage, 1864]) * ἀνδρὸς χαρακτὴρ ἐκ λόγου γνωρίζεται. ** The character of man is known from his conversation. ** Frg. 72 K.-A., ''Arrhephoros'' (tr. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Id4emt1vfvgC&pg=PA319 C. T. Ramage, 1873]) * πλούτος δὲ πολλῶν ἐπικαλυμμ᾽ ἐστὶν κακῶν. ** [[Wealth|Riches]] cover a multitude of woes. ** Frg. 92 K.-A., ''Boiotis'' (tr. [https://archive.org/details/stevensonsbookof0000burt/page/1720/mode/2up B. Stevenson, 1934]) * φθείρουσιν ἤθη χρήσθ᾿ ὁμιλίαι κακαί. ** It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions. ** Frg. 165 K.-A., ''Thaïs'' (tr. [https://archive.org/details/cu31924027665557/page/240/mode/2up ''Hoyt's'', 1922]); quoted by [[Paul of Tarsus|Paul]], 1 Cor. 15:33 * κατὰ πολλὰ γ᾿ ἐστὶν οὐ καλῶς εἰρημένον<br>τὸ γνῶθι σαυτόν· χρησιμώτερον γὰρ ἦν<br>τὸ γνῶθι τοὺς ἄλλους. ** In many ways the saying "Know thyself" is not well said. It were more practical to say: "Know other folks." ** Frg. 181 K.-A., ''Thrasyleon'' * εὔπιστον ἀτυχῶν ἐστιν ἄνθρωπος φύσει·<br>τὸν πλήσιον γὰρ οἴεται μᾶλλον φρονεῖν<br>ὁ τοῖς λογισμοῖς τοῖς ἰδίοις πταίων ἀεί. ** The unfortunate are credulous by nature;<br>for he will rather think his neighbour wise<br>who, when he schemes himself, is always tripping. ** Frg. 286 K.-A., ''Parakatatheke'' (tr. [https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofquot00harbiala/page/378/mode/2up T. B. Harbottle, 1897]) * ἆρ᾿ ἐστὶν ἀρετῆς καὶ βίου διδάσκαλος<br>ἐλευθέρου τοῖς πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποις ἀγρός. ** Men are taught virtue and a love of independence by living in the country. ** Frg. 301 K.-A., ''Plokion'' (tr. [https://archive.org/details/beautifulthough02unkngoog/page/202/mode/2up C. T. Ramage, 1864]) * οὐ πανταχοῦ τὸ φρόνιμον ἁρμόττει παρόν·<br> καὶ συμμανῆναι δ᾿ ἔνια δεῖ. ** At times [[discretion]] should be thrown aside,<br>And with the foolish we should play the [[fool]]. ** Frg. 317 K.-A., ''Poloumenoi'' (tr. [https://archive.org/details/dictionaryquota04harbgoog/page/454/mode/2up T. B. Harbottle, 1897]) * ἔρχεται τἀληθὲς εἰς φῶς ἐνίοτ᾿ οὐ ζητούμενον. ** The [[truth]], sometimes not sought for, comes forth to the [[light]]. ** Frg. 328 K.-A., ''Rapizomene'' *** Alternate translation ([https://archive.org/details/beautifulthough02unkngoog/page/204/mode/2up C. T. Ramage, 1864]): *** Truth, when not sought after, sometimes comes to light. * τρόπος ἔσθ᾿ ὁ πείθων τοῦ λέγοντος, οὐ λόγος. ** It's the character of the speaker that does the persuading, not eloquence. ** Frg. 362.7 K.-A., ''Hymnis'' * πολλῶν κατὰ γῆν καὶ κατὰ θάλατταν θηρίων<br>ὄντων, μέγιστόν ἐστι θηρίον γυνή. ** Of all wild beasts on earth or in sea, the greatest is a woman. ** Frg. 378 K.-A., ''Hypobolimaios'' (tr. [https://archive.org/details/cu31924027665557/page/890/mode/2up ''Hoyt's'', 1922]) ;Fragments of uncertain placement * τὰ σῦκα σῦκα, τὴν σκάφην σκάφην. ** I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade. ** Frg. 507 K.-A.; original phrasing not preserved. * οὐκ ἔστ᾿ ἄπιστον οὐδὲν ἐν θνητῷ βίῳ<br>οὐδ᾿ ἂν γένοιτο· πολλὰ ποικίλλει χρόνος<br>παράδοξα καὶ θαυμαστὰ καὶ ζώντων τρόποι. ** In life of mortals there is not, nay, nor could there come to pass, a single thing beyond our credence. Time and men's ways embroider many an unexpected marvel on life's web. ** Frg. 685 K.-A. * ἀεὶ δ᾿ ὁ σωθείς ἐστιν ἀχάριστον φύσει. ** Thankless by nature always is the man who has been saved. ** Frg. 701 K.-A. * μισῶ πονηρόν, χρηστὸν ὅταν εἴπῃ λόγον. ** I hate a bad man saying what is good. ** Frg. 704 K.-A. * ὡς χαρίεν ἔστ᾿ ἄνθρωπος, ἂν ἄνθρωπος ᾖ. ** How charming a thing is man when he is man. ** Frg. 707 K.-A. * οὐκ ἔστ᾿ ἀνοίας οὐδέν, ὡς ἐμοὶ δοκεῖ,<br>τολμηρότερον. ** There is nothing more daring than ignorance. ** Frg. 714 K.-A. (tr. [https://archive.org/details/beautifulthough02unkngoog/page/196/mode/2up C. T. Ramage, 1864]) * ἀληθὲς εἶναι δεῖ τὸ σεμνόν, οὐ κενόν. ** True grandeur may we praise, not empty show. ** Frg. 726 K.-A. (tr. [https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofquot00harbiala/page/316/mode/2up T. B. Harbottle, 1897]) * οὐθὲν σιωπῆς ἐστι χρησιμώτερον. ** Nothing is more useful to man than silence. ** Frg. 752 K.-A. (tr. [https://archive.org/details/beautifulthough02unkngoog/page/208/mode/2up C. T. Ramage, 1864]) * μειράκιον, οὔ μοι κατανοεῖν δοκεῖς, ὅτι <br> ὑπὸ τῆς ἰδίας ἕκαστα κακίας σήπεται, <br> καὶ πᾶν τὸ λυμαινόμενόν ἐστιν ἔνδοθεν. <br> οἷον ὁ μὲν ἰὸς τὸν σίδηρον, ἂν σκοπῇς, <br> τὸ δ᾿ ἱμάτιον οἱ σῆτες, ὁ δὲ θρὶψ τὸ ξύλον. <br> ὃ δὲ τὸ κάκιστον τῶν κακῶν πάντων, φθόνος <br> φθισικὸν πεποίηκε καὶ ποήσει καὶ ποεῖ. ** My son, you do not see<br>How everything that dies, dies by its own<br>Corruption: all that injures is within.<br>Rust is the poison of iron, moths of wool,<br>And worms of wood; in you there is a poison<br>Most deadly, which has made you sick to death<br>And makes and shall make—envy. ** Frg. 761 K.-A. (tr. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.113492/page/n625/mode/2up G. Murray, 1938]) *:<small>Compare [[Plato]], ''Republic'', 609a–e; [[Gospel of Matthew|Matthew]] 15:11.</small> * ὅστις δὲ διαβολαῖσι πείθεται ταχύ,<br>ἤτοι πονηρὸς αὐτός ἐστι τοὺς τρόπους,<br>ἢ παντάπασι παιδαρίου γνώμην ἔχει. ** He that lends an easy and credulous ear to calumny is either a man of very ill morals, or has no more sense and understanding than a child. ** Frg. 764 K.-A. (tr. [https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-gentlemans-library-_gentleman_1715/page/308/mode/2up Anonymous, 1715]) * οὐκ ἔστι τόλμης ἐφόδιον μεῖζον βίου. ** There is no better provision for life than impudence and a brazen face. ** Frg. 773 K.-A. (tr. [https://archive.org/details/beautifulthough02unkngoog/page/210/mode/2up C. T. Ramage, 1864]) * οὐχ αἱ τρίχες ποιοῦσιν αἱ λευκαὶ φρονεῖν. ** 'Tis not white hair that engenders wisdom. ** Frg. 776 K.-A. * εἰρήνη γεωργὸν κἀν πέτραις<br>τρέφει καλῶς, πόλεμος δὲ κἀν πεδίῳ κακῶς. ** Peace gives food to the husbandman, even in the midst of rocks; war brings misery to him, even in the most fertile plains. ** Frg. 779 K.-A. (tr. [https://archive.org/details/beautifulthough02unkngoog/page/210/mode/2up C. T. Ramage, 1864]) * τὸ γαμεῖν, ἐάν τις τὴν ἀλήθειαν σκοπῇ,<br>κακὸν μέν ἐστιν, ἀλλ᾿ ἀναγκαῖον κακόν. ** [[Marriage]], if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil. ** Frg. 801 K.-A. * ἅπαντα τὰ ζῷ᾿ ἐστὶ μακαριώτερα<br>καὶ νοῦν ἔχοντα μᾶλλον ἀνθρώπων πολύ.<br>τὸν ὄνον ὁρᾶν ἔξεστι πρῶτα τουτονί·<br>{οὗτος κακοδαίμων ἐστὶν ὁμολογουμένως.}<br>τούτῳ κακὸν δι᾿ αὑτὸν οὐδὲν γίνεται,<br>ἃ δ᾿ ἡ φύσις δέδωκεν, ⟨αὐτὰ⟩ ταῦτ᾿ ἔχει. ἡμεῖς δὲ χωρὶς τῶν ἀναγκαίων κακῶν<br>αὐτοὶ παρ᾿ αὐτῶν ἕτερα προσπορίζομεν. ** All animals are more happy, and have more understanding, than man. Look, for instance, on yonder ass; all allow him to be miserable: his evils, however, are not brought on him by himself and his own fault; he feels only those which Nature has inflicted. We, on the contrary, besides our necessary ills, draw upon ourselves a multitude of others. ** Frg. 844.1–8 K.-A. (tr. [https://books.google.com/books?id=IDBkAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA17 F. W. Blagdon, 1819]) * τοῦτ᾿ ἔστι τὸ ζῆν, οὐχ ἑαυτῷ ζῆν μόνῳ. ** This is living, not to live unto oneself alone. ** Frg. 869 K.-A. *** Paraphrased by [https://archive.org/details/sympathyreligio00higggoog/page/n8/mode/2up T. W. Higginson, 1870]: *** To live is not to live for one’s self alone; let us help one another. {{Misattributed begin}} === ''Monosticha'' === :<small>Though this collection was transmitted under Menander's name, the vast majority of its items demonstrably belong to other authors.<br>Greek text cited from S. Jäkel, [https://archive.org/details/sententiaecompar0000mena/page/n5/mode/2up ''Menandri Sententiae''] (Leipzig, 1964), whose numbering is also followed.</small> * Ἀνὴρ ὁ φεύγων καὶ πάλιν μαχήσεται. ** The man who runs away may fight again. ** 56 (tr. [https://archive.org/details/stevensonsbookof0000burt/page/456/mode/2up B. Stevenson, 1934]) * Βροτοῖς ἅπασιν ἡ συνείδησις θεός. ** [[Conscience]] is a God to all mortals. ** 107 * γυναικὶ κόσμος ὁ τρόπος, οὐ τὰ χρυσία. ** Manners, not jewels, are a woman's ornament. ** 148 * Ὑγίεια καὶ νοῦς ἀγαθὰ τῷ βίῳ πέλει. ** Health and intellect are the two blessings of life. ** 779 (tr. [https://archive.org/details/cassellsbookofqu0000benh/page/480/mode/2up W. G. Benham, 1907]) * οὐ γὰρ ἔρχεται μόνον. ** [Old age] never comes alone. ** 802 {{Misattributed end}} {{Misattributed begin}} == Misattributed == * οὔτ᾿ ἐκ χερὸς μεθέντα καρτερὸν λίθον<br>οἷόν τ᾿ ἐπισχεῖν οὔτ᾿ ἀπὸ γλώσσης λόγον. ** It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken. ** [[Euripides]], fragment 1044 TrGF (tr. [https://archive.org/details/beautifulthough02unkngoog/page/208/mode/2up C. T. Ramage, 1864]); misattributed to Menander due to a confusion in Stobaeus, ''Anthology'' III.36.14. * ὅταν δ᾿ ἄλυπος διὰ τέλους εἶναι θέλῃς,<br>ἢ δεῖ θεόν σ᾿ εἶναι τιν᾿ ἢ τάχα δὴ νεκρόν.<br>παρηγόρει δὲ τὰ κακὰ δι᾿ ἑτέρων κακῶν. ** If you want to live your whole life free from pain you must become either a god or else a corpse. Consider other men's troubles and that will comfort you. ** ''Comparison of Menander and Philistion'', II.203–204 (tr. P. Vellacott, 1967); despite its title, the ''Comparison'' contains virtually no material from either poet ([https://archive.org/details/menandriquaesupe0000edme/page/n11/mode/2up A. Körte, 1959:IX–X]) * Whenever you do what is holy, be of good cheer, knowing that God Himself takes part with rightful courage. ** Appears in the May 1879 issue of ''The Cornhill Magazine'' ([https://archive.org/details/sim_cornhill-magazine_1879-05_39_233/page/564/mode/2up vol. 39, p. 565]), attributed to Menander. Does not occur in his works; likely a liberal development of ''Monosticha'' 188 (tr. [https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofquot00harbiala/page/352/mode/2up T. B. Harbottle, 1897]): *** δίκαια δράσας συμμάχους ἕξεις θεούς. *** He who does right has Heaven for his ally. {{Misattributed end}} == Quotes about Menander == * ὦ Μένανδρε καὶ βίε,<br />πότερος ἄρ᾿ ὑμῶν πότερον ἐμιμήσατο; ** Menander and life,<br />which of you imitated which? ** {{w|Aristophanes of Byzantium}}, T 7 Slater (tr. [https://archive.org/details/makingofmenander0000gold/page/109/mode/2up S. M. Goldberg, 1980]) * ὁ δὲ Μένανδρος μετὰ χαρίτων μάλισθ᾿ ἑαυτὸν αὐτάρκη παρέσχηκεν, ἐν θεάτροις ἐν διατριβαῖς ἐν συμποσίοις, ἀνάγνωσμα καὶ μάθημα καὶ ἀγώνισμα κοινότατον ὧν ἡ Ἑλλὰς ἐνήνοχε καλῶν παρέχων τὴν ποίησιν, δεικνὺς ὅ τι δὴ καὶ ὁποῖον ἦν ἄρα δεξιότης λόγου, ἐπιὼν ἁπανταχόσε μετὰ πειθοῦς ἀφύκτου καὶ χειρούμενος ἅπασαν ἀκοὴν καὶ διάνοιαν Ἑλληνικῆς φωνῆς. τίνος γὰρ ἄξιον ἀληθῶς εἰς θέατρον ἐλθεῖν ἄνδρα πεπαιδευμένον ἢ Μενάνδρου ἕνεκα; ** Menander's charm makes him utterly satisfying, for in these works that present with universal appeal the splendours of Greece, society finds its culture, the schools their study, the theatre its triumph. The nature and possibilities of literary elegance were by him revealed for the first time. He has invaded every quarter of the world with his invincible glamour, bringing all hearts under the sway of the Greek language. What sound reason does the cultivated man ever find for entering a theatre, except Menander? ** [[Plutarch]], ''Comparison of Aristophanes and Menander'', 854a–b (tr. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.185938/page/n91/mode/2up S. R. Littlewood, 1939]) * τῶν Μενάνδρου δραμάτων ὁμαλῶς ἁπάντων ἓν συνεκτικόν ἐστιν, ὁ ἔρως, οἷον πνεῦμα κοινὸν διαπεφοιτηκώς. ** One thing regularly gives cohesion to all Menander's plays—Love, which pervades them like a universal spirit. ** Plutarch, ''On Love'', frg. 134 Sandbach (tr. [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/plutarch-moralia_fragments_other_named_works_lives/1969/pb_LCL429.249.xml F. H. Sandbach, 1969]) * ''Menander, qui vel unus meo quidem iudicio diligenter lectus ad cuncta quae praecipimus effigenda sufficiat: ita omnem vitae imaginem expressit, tanta in eo inveniendi copia et eloquendi facultas, ita est omnibus rebus personis adfectibus accommodatus.'' [. . .] ''Atque ille quidem omnibus eiusdem operis auctoribus abstulit nomen, et fulgore quodam suae claritatis tenebras obduxit.'' ** A careful reading of Menander alone would, in my judgement, be sufficient to develop all the qualities I am recommending: so complete is his representation of life, so rich his invention and so fluent his style, so perfectly does he adapt himself to every circumstance, character and emotion. [. . .] Indeed, he has robbed all the other authors in this genre of their name, and condemned them to obscurity by the brilliance of his fame. ** [[Quintilian]], ''{{w|Institutio Oratoria}}'', X.1.69–72 (tr. [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/quintilian-orators_education/2002/pb_LCL127.287.xml D. A. Russell, 2002]) == Sources == * Fragment # K.-A. = R. Kassel, C. Austin, Poetae Comici Graeci, vol. VI Menander (Berlin-Boston, 1998–2022) * Francis G. Allinson, [https://archive.org/details/menanderprincipa00menauoft/page/n9/mode/2up ''‪Menander: The Principal Fragments‬‎''] (London: W. Heinemann, 1921) * [[Gilbert Murray]], [https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/Aristophanes/dexxAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 ''Aristophanes: A Study''] (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1933), p. 224 ;''Dyskolos'' * W. G. Arnott, [https://archive.org/details/dyskolosormanwho0000wgar/page/n1/mode/2up ''Menander's Dyskolos or The Man who Didn't Like People''] (University of London, Athlone Press, 1960) * Vincent J. Rosivach, [https://web.archive.org/web/20171110061536/http://faculty.fairfield.edu/rosivach/cl103a/dyskolos.htm "Menander's Dyskolos (Grouch)"], faculty.fairfield.edu (28 April 2014) [https://topostext.org/work/779] ;Compendiums * Craufurd Tait Ramage, [https://archive.org/details/beautifulthough02unkngoog/page/198/mode/2up ''Beautiful Thoughts from Greek Authors''] (Liverpool: Edward Howell, 1864) pp. 195-214 * Thomas Benfield Harbottle, [https://archive.org/details/b24865898/page/n7/mode/2up ''Dictionary of Quotations: Classical''] (London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1897) <!-- pp. 310, 311, 312, 316, 317, 318, 321, 322, 323, 324, 325, 326, 327, 328, 329, 330, 331, 332, 334, 335, 337, 339, 340, 342, 343, 346, 347, 348, 349, 351, 352, 355, 356, 360, 361, 363, 364, 366, 367, 368, 369, 370, 372, 375, 377, 378, 379, 380, 381, 382, 383, 384, 385, 387, 389, 390, 393, 394, 395, 396, 401, 402, 403, 407, 409, 410, 412, 413, 414, 416, 418, 421, 422, 423, 424, 425, 427, 428, 429, 431, 432, 440, 441, 442, 443, 444, 446, 448, 449, 452, 455, 459, 460, 461, 463, 464, 466, 467, 469, 470, 471, 473, 474, 476, 481, 482, 485, 486, 488, 489, 490, 492, 496, 498, 499, 503, 505, 507, 510, 518, 519, 520, 521, 522, 524, 526, 529, 530, 531, 533, 534, 536, 537, 540, 541 --> * W. Gurney Benham, [https://archive.org/details/cassellsbookofqu0000benh/page/n5/mode/2up ''Cassell's Book of Quotations: Proverbs and Household Words''] (London: Cassell & Co., 1907) * Charles Noel Douglas, [https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/forty-thousand-quotations-prose-and-poetical/authors/menander ''Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical''] (New York: Halcyon House, 1917) * Burton Stevenson, [https://archive.org/details/bwb_C0-BOG-838/page/1720/mode/2up?q=%22Riches+cover+a+multitude+of+woes%22 ''The Home Book of Quotations''] (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1934) == External links== {{wikipedia}} * [http://www.gottwein.de/Grie/menand/monost_a.php Menander: Monosticha / Sententiae / Einzelverse] Sentences from Menander's work in the original Greek and translated in Latin and German * [http://www.rhapsodes.fll.vt.edu/menander.htm SORGLL: Menander, Dyskolos, 711-747; read by Mark Miner] [[Category:Poets from Greece]] [[Category:Playwrights from Greece]] [[Category:People from Athens]] [[Category:BCE births]] [[Category:BCE deaths]] do33jw03cluz4xsz76l0st4ky2p27h6 0 17888 3961256 3960907 2026-07-05T19:45:06Z BD2412 3982 Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]] 3961256 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Plumbbob Fizeau 001.jpg|thumb|right|He had never [[seen]] a "Fallout," and he [[hoped]] he'd never see one. A consistent description of the [[monster]] had not survived, but Francis had heard the [[legends]]...]] '''[[w:Walter M. Miller Jr.|Walter Michael Miller Jr.]]''' ([[23 January]] [[1923]] – [[9 January]] [[1996]]) was an American science fiction writer, most famous for his novel ''[[w:A Canticle for Leibowitz|A Canticle for Leibowitz]]'' (1959), winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for best novel. == Quotes == * '''The old man was sad as he sat on his porch. He knew so little of the [[Great]] [[Purpose]].''' Why must his seed fling itself starward? He knew that it ''must'' — but he lacked a [[reason]]. His grandchildren played in the twilight, played space-games, although there was not yet a starship on the planet. ** "The Big Hunger" (1952) * '''There is a difference between tragedy and blind brutal calamity.''' Tragedy has [[meaning]], and there is [[dignity]] in it. Tragedy stands with its shoulders stiff and proud. '''But there is no meaning, no dignity, no fulfillment, in the [[death]] of a [[child]].''' ** "The Will" (1953) * Whatever you specialize in, another specialty will either gobble you, or find a way to replace you. If you get what looks like a secure niche, somebody'll come along and wall you up in it and write your epitaph on it. And the more specialized a [[society]] gets, the more [[dangerous]] it is for the pure specialist. You think an [[electronic engineer]] in any safer than an actor? Or a ditch-digger? ** "The Darfsteller" (1955) === ''[[w:A Canticle for Leibowitz|A Canticle for Leibowitz]]'' (1959) === [[File:Burning Man 2012 (7919046582).jpg|thumb| Encounters between [[strangers]] in the [[desert]], while rare, were occasions of mutual [[suspicion]], and masked by initial preparations on both sides for an incident that might prove either cordial or warlike.]] [[File:Hanagami Danjo no jo Arakage fighting a giant salamander.jpg |thumb|right|Brother Francis visualized a Fallout as half-salamander, because, according to tradition, the thing was [[born]] in [[Nuclear war|the Flame Deluge]], and as half-incubus who despoiled virgins in their [[sleep]], for, were not the [[monsters]] of the [[world]] still called "[[children]] of the Fallout"?]] [[File:Bombes à retardement poster (crop).jpg|thumb| That the [[demon]] was capable of inflicting all the woes which descended upon [[Book of Job|Job]] was recorded [[fact]], if not an article of [[creed]].]] : See also: ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20170209112759/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrases_in_A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz List of Latin phrases in A Canticle for Leibowitz]'' ==== Fiat Homo ==== :<small> ''Fiat homo'' means "let there be man" or "let him become [[man]]". </small> [[File:Castle Romeo.jpg|thumb|right|The princes, putting the [[words]] of their [[wise]] men to naught, [[thought]] each to himself: If I but strike quickly enough, and in [[secret]], I shall destroy these others in their [[sleep]], and there will be none to [[fight]] back; the [[earth]] shall be mine. <br> Such was the [[folly]] of princes, and there followed [[Nuclear war|the Flame Deluge]].]] [[File:Alessandro Magnasco - Praying Monks - WGA13854.jpg |thumb|The [[madness]] was transmitted to the [[children]], taught as they were — not merely to forget — but to [[hate]], and surges of mob fury recurred sporadically even through the fourth generation after the Deluge. By then, the fury was directed not against the [[Education|learned]], for there were none, but against the merely literate.]] * Brother Francis Gerard of Utah might never have discovered the blessed documents, had it not been for the pilgrim with girded loins who appeared during that young novice's Lenten fast in the desert. <br> Never before had Brother Francis actually seen a pilgrim with girded loins, but that this one was the bona fide article he was convinced as soon as he had recovered from the spine-chilling effect of the pilgrim's advent on the far horizon, as a wiggling iota of black caught in a shimmering haze of heat. ** Ch 1 (First lines). ** * '''Encounters between [[strangers]] in the [[desert]], while rare, were occasions of mutual suspicion, and masked by initial preparations on both sides for an incident that might prove either cordial or warlike.''' ** Ch 1 * '''He had never seen a "Fallout," and he hoped he'd never see one. A consistent description of the monster had not survived, but Francis had heard the legends.''' He crossed himself and backed away from the hole. Tradition told that the Beatus Leibowitz himself had encountered a Fallout, and had been possessed by it for many months before the [[exorcism]] which accompanied his Baptism drove the fiend away. <br>'''Brother Francis visualized a Fallout as half-salamander, because, according to tradition, the thing was born in the Flame Deluge, and as half-incubus who despoiled virgins in their sleep, for, were not the monsters of the world still called "children of the Fallout"? That the demon was capable of inflicting all the woes which descended upon [[Book of Job|Job]] was recorded [[fact]], if not an article of creed.''' ** Ch 1 * ''From the [[lightning]] and the [[tempest]],<br>O Lord, deliver us.<br>From the scourge of the earthquake,<br>O Lord, deliver us.<br>From plague, famine, and war,<br>O Lord, deliver us.<br>From the place of ground zero,<br>O Lord, deliver us.<br>From the rain of the cobalt,<br>O Lord, deliver us.<br>From the rain of the strontium,<br>O Lord, deliver us.<br>From the fall of the cesium,<br>O Lord, deliver us.<br>From the curse of the Fallout,<br>O Lord, deliver us.<br>From the begetting of monsters,<br>O Lord, deliver us.<br>From the curse of the Misborn,<br>O Lord deliver us.'' ** Ch 2 * '''When Brother Francis had removed the last tray, he touched the papers reverently: only a handful of folded documents here, and yet a treasure; for they had escaped the angry flames of the Simplification, wherein even sacred writings had curled, blackened, and withered into smoke while ignorant mobs howled and hailed it a triumph.''' He handled the papers as one might handle holy things, shielding them from the wind with his habit, for all were brittle and cracked from age. There was a sheaf of rough sketches and [[diagram]]s. There were hand-scribbled notes, two large folded papers, and a small book entitled ''Memo''. ** Ch 2 * How easy it would have been flatly to have told the boy that his pilgrim was only an old tramp of some kind, and then to have commanded him not to think otherwise. But by allowing the boy to see that a question was possible, he had rendered such a command ineffective before he uttered it. '''Insofar as thought could be governed at all, it could only be commanded to follow what reason affirmed anyhow; command it otherwise, and it would not obey.''' ** Ch 4 * It was said that [[God]], in order to [[test]] mankind which had become swelled with pride as in the time of Noah, had commanded the wise men of that age, among them the Blessed Leibowitz, to devise great engines of [[war]] such as had never before been upon the [[Earth]], weapons of such might that they contained the very [[fires]] of [[Hell]], and that God had suffered these magi to place the weapons in the hands of princes, and to say to each prince: "Only because the [[enemies]] have such a thing have we devised this for thee, in order that they may know that thou hast it also, and [[fear]] to strike. See to it, m'Lord, that thou fearest them as much as they shall now fear thee, that none may unleash this dread thing which we have wrought." '''But the princes, putting the [[words]] of their [[wise]] men to naught, thought each to himself: If I but strike quickly enough, and in [[secret]], I shall destroy these others in their [[sleep]], and there will be none to [[fight]] back; the [[earth]] shall be mine. <br> Such was the [[folly]] of princes, and there followed the Flame Deluge.''' ** Ch 6 * '''The Simplification had ceased to have plan or [[purpose]] soon after it began, and became an insane frenzy of mass murder and destruction such as can occur only when the last traces of social order are gone. The [[madness]] was transmitted to the children, taught as they were — not merely to forget — but to [[hate]], and surges of mob fury recurred sporadically even through the fourth generation after the Deluge. By then, the fury was directed not against the learned, for there were none, but against the merely literate.''' ** Ch 6 * '''The monks of the earliest days had not counted on the human [[ability]] to generate a new cultural inheritance in a couple of generations if an old one is utterly destroyed, to generate it by virtue of lawgivers and [[prophets]], [[geniuses]] or maniacs; through a [[Moses]], or through a [[Hitler]], or an ignorant but tyrannical grandfather, a [[cultural]] inheritance may be acquired between [[dusk]] and [[dawn]], and many have been so acquired. But the new "culture" was an inheritance of [[darkness]], wherein "[[simpleton]]" meant the same thing as "[[citizen]]" meant the same thing as "[[slave]]." '''The monks waited. It mattered not at all to them that the knowledge they saved was useless, that much of it was not really knowledge now, was as inscrutable to the monks in some instances as it would be to an illiterate wild-boy from the hills; this knowledge was empty of content, its subject matter long since gone. Still, such knowledge had a [[symbolic]] structure that was peculiar to itself, and at least the symbol-interplay could be observed. To observe the way a knowledge-[[system]] is knit together is to [[learn]] at least a minimum knowledge-of-knowledge, until someday — someday, or some century — an [[Unity|Integrator]] would come, and things would be fitted together again. So [[time]] mattered not at all. '''The Memorabilia was there, and it was given to them by [[duty]] to preserve, and preserve it they would if the darkness in the world lasted ten more centuries, or even ten thousand years...''' ** Ch 6 ==== Fiat Lux ==== :<small> ''Fiat lux'' means "let there be [[light]]". </small> [[File:Quark structure omega.svg |thumb|right|[[Reasoning]] which touches experimental [[reality]] ''nowhere'' is the business of [[Angels|angelologists]] and [[theologians]], not of physical [[scientists]]. And yet such papers as these describe [[systems]] which touch our [[experience]] nowhere. Were they within the experimental reach of the ancients?]] [[File:Fiat Lux Canticle map.png |thumb|right|[[Ignorance]] is king. Many would not [[profit]] by his abdication. Many enrich themselves by means of his [[dark]] [[monarchy]]. They are his Court, and in his name they [[defraud]] and [[govern]], enrich themselves and perpetuate their [[power]]. Even literacy they [[fear]], for the written [[word]] is another channel of [[communication]] that might cause their [[enemies]] to become [[united]].]] [[File:Burning Man 2012 (7923241524).jpg|thumb|If you try to save [[wisdom]] until the world is wise, Father, the [[world]] will never have it.]] * '''Objective [[evidence]] is the ultimate [[authority]]. Recorders may lie, but [[Nature]] is incapable of it.''' ** Ch 19 * '''[[Reasoning]] which touches experimental [[reality]] ''nowhere'' is the business of angelologists and theologians, not of physical scientists. And yet such papers as these describe [[systems]] which touch our [[experience]] nowhere. Were they within the experimental reach of the ancients?''' Certain references tend to indicate it. One paper refers to elemental transmutation — which we just recently established as theoretically impossible — and then it says — 'experiment proves.' But how? <br>It may take generations to evaluate and [[understand]] some of these things. It is unfortunate that they must remain here in this inaccessible place, for it will take a concentrated effort by numerous scholars to make [[meaning]] of them. ** Ch 20 * '''"[[Ignorance]] has been our king. Since the death of empire, he sits unchallenged on the throne of Man. His dynasty is age-old. His right to rule is now considered legitimate. Past sages have affirmed it. They did nothing to unseat him. <br>"Tomorrow, a new prince shall rule. Men of understanding, men of science shall stand behind his throne, and the universe will come to know his might. His name is Truth. His empire shall encompass the Earth.''' And the mastery of Man ever the Earth shall be renewed. A century from now, men will fly through the air in mechanical birds. Metal carriages will race along roads of man-made stone. There will be buildings of thirty stories, ships that go under the sea, machines to perform all works.<br> "And how will this come to pass?" He paused and lowered his voice. "In the same way all change comes to pass, I fear. And I am sorry it is so. It will come to pass by violence and upheaval, by flame and by fury, for no change comes calmly over the world." ** Ch 20 * '''"Ignorance is king. Many would not profit by his abdication. Many enrich themselves by means of his dark monarchy. They are his Court, and in his name they defraud and govern, enrich themselves and perpetuate their power.''' Even literacy they fear, for the written word is another channel of communication that might cause their enemies to become united. Their weapons are keen-honed, and they use them with skill. They will press the battle upon the world when their interests are threatened, and the violence which follows will last until the structure of society as it now exists is leveled to rubble, and a new society emerges. I am sorry: But that is how I see it." ** Ch 20 * '''One never knows whether the [[Poet]] is speaking [[fact]], fancy, or allegory. If fancy is clever enough, I doubt that the Poet would admit a difference between fancy and fact.''' ** Ch 21 * '''If you try to save [[wisdom]] until the world is wise, Father, the world will never have it.''' ** Ch 21 * But neither [[infinite]] [[power]] nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. '''For that there would have to be infinite [[love]] as well.''' ** Ch 22 * He was a very dispirited Poet. He had never expected the world to act in a courteous, seemly, or even sensible manner, and the world had seldom done so; often he had taken heart in the consistency of its rudeness and [[stupidity]]. But never before had the world shot the Poet in the abdomen with a musket. This he found not heartening at all. ** Ch 23 * The Poet could not remember ever fearing [[death]], but he had often suspected Providence of plotting the worst for him as to the manner of his dying when the time came to go. He had expected to rot away. Slowly and not very fragrantly. Some poetic insight had warned him that he would surely die a blubbering leprous lump, cravenly penitential but impenitent. Never had he anticipated anything so blunt and final as a bullet in the stomach, and with not even an audience at hand to hear his dying quips. The last thing they had heard him say when they shot him was: "Oof!" — his testament for posterity. Ooof! ** Ch 23 ==== Fiat Voluntas Tua ==== [[File:Temple of Flux (6034086141).jpg|thumb| The [[world]]'s been in a ''[[habitual]]'' state of crisis for fifty years. ''Fifty?'' What am I saying? It's been in a habitual state of crisis since the [[beginning]] — but for half a century now, almost unbearable.]] [[File:090409 burningman2009 2233 (3895003171).jpg|thumb|Are we [[doomed]] to do it again and again and again? Have we no [[choice]] but to play the [[Phoenix]] in an unending sequence of rise and fall?]] [[File:090309 burningman 4099 (3894698371).jpg|thumb|When Holy Church occasionally hinted that she still considered her [[authority]] to be supreme over all [[nations]] and superior to the authority of states, men in these times tended to snicker.]] :<small>''Fiat voluntas tua'' means "thy will be done".</small> [[File:Black woman with green eyes.png |thumb|right|Now he [[knew]] what she was, and he sobbed faintly when he could not again [[force]] his eyes to focus on those cool, green, and untroubled eyes of one [[born]] [[free]].]] [[File:Dust Storm in Black Rock - tilted.jpg|thumb|They [[sang]] heartily to dispel the [[fright]] of the little ones. When the horizon erupted, the singing stopped. They passed the last [[child]] into the ship.]] * We are being protected from hysteria. Isn't that what they call it? Maniacs! The [[world]]'s been in a ''[[habitual]]'' state of crisis for fifty years. ''Fifty?'' What am I saying? It's been in a habitual state of crisis since the [[beginning]] — but for half a century now, almost unbearable. And ''why'', for the love of [[God]]? What is the fundamental irritant, the [[essence]] of the tension? [[Political]] [[philosophies]]? [[Economics]]? Population pressure? Disparity of [[culture]] and creed? Ask a dozen experts, get a dozen answers. Now [[Satan|Lucifer]] again. Is the species congenitally [[insane]], Brother? ** Ch 24 * '''Listen, are we helpless? Are we [[doomed]] to do it again and again and again? Have we no [[choice]] but to play the [[Phoenix]] in an unending sequence of rise and fall? '''Assyria, Babylon, Egypt, Greece, Carthage, Rome, the Empires of Charlemagne and the Turk: Ground to dust and plowed with salt. Spain, France, Britain, America — burned into the oblivion of the centuries. And again and again and again. Are we doomed to it, Lord, chained to the pendulum of our own mad clockwork, helpless to halt its swing? This time, it will swing us clean to oblivion, he thought. ** Ch 25 * The abbot snapped off the set. "Where’s the [[truth]]”? he asked quietly. “What’s to be [[believed]]? Or does it matter at all? '''When mass [[murder]]’s been answered with mass murder, [[rape]] with rape, [[hate]] with hate, there’s no longer much meaning in asking whose ax is the bloodier.''' [[Evil]], on evil, piled on evil. Was there any justification in our ‘police action’ in space? How can we know? Certainly there was no justification for what they did — or was there? We only know what that thing says, and that thing is a captive. The Asian radio has to say what will least displease its government; ours has to say what will least displease our fine patriotic opinionated rabble, which is what, coincidentally, the government wants it to say anyhow, so where’s the difference?" ** Ch 26 * Abbot Zerchi smiled thinly. ''''You don't ''have'' a [[soul]], Doctor. You ''are'' a soul. You ''have'' a body, temporarily.'''' ** Ch 27 * When Holy Church occasionally hinted that she still considered her authority to be supreme over all nations and superior to the authority of states, men in these times tended to snicker. ** Ch 28 * '''To minimize [[suffering]] and to maximize [[security]] were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law — a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security.''' ** Ch 29 * '''She watched him with cool green [[eyes]] and [[smiled]] innocently. The eyes were alert with [[wonder]], [[curiosity]], and — perhaps something else — but she could apparently not see that he was in [[pain]].''' There was something about her eyes that caused him to notice nothing else for several seconds. But then he noticed that the head of Mrs. Grales slept soundly on the other shoulder while Rachel smiled. It seemed a young shy smile that hoped for [[friendship]]. He tried again. <br /> "Listen, is anyone else alive? Get —" <br /> Melodious and solemn came her answer: "listen is anyone else alive — " She savored the [[words]]. She enunciated them distinctly. She smiled over them Her lips reframed them when her voice was done with them. '''It was more than reflexive imitation, he decided. She was trying to [[communicate]] something. By the repetition, she was trying to convey the idea: ''I am somehow like you.'' <br /> But she had only just now been [[born]].''' <br /> ''And you're somehow different, too'', Zerchi noticed with a trace of awe. ** Ch 29 * He received the Wafer from her hand. She replaced the lid of the ciborium and set the vessel in a more protected spot under a jutting rock. She used no conventional gestures, but the reverence with which she had handled it convinced him of one thing: she sensed the Presence under the veils. She who could not yet use [[words]] nor [[understand]] them, had done what she had as if by direct instruction, in response to his attempt at conditional baptism. '''He tried to refocus his [[eyes]] to get another look at the face of this being, who by gestures alone had said to him: I do not need your first Sacrament, Man, but I am worthy to convey to you this Sacrament of [[Life]]. Now he knew what she was, and he sobbed faintly when he could not again [[force]] his eyes to focus on those cool, green, and untroubled eyes of one [[born]] [[free]].''' ** Ch 29 * '''The image of those cool green eyes lingered with him as long as life.''' He did not ask why [[God]] would choose to raise up a creature of primal [[innocence]] from the shoulder of Mrs. Grales, or why God gave to it the preternatural [[gifts]] of Eden — these gifts which Man had been trying to seize by brute force again from [[Heaven]] since first he lost them. '''He had seen primal innocence in those eyes, and a promise of [[resurrection]].''' One glimpse had been a bounty, and he wept in [[gratitude]]. Afterwards he lay with his face in the wet dirt and waited. <br>Nothing else ever came — nothing that he saw, or felt, or heard. ** Ch 29 * '''They sang as they lifted the [[children]] into the ship. They sang old space chanteys and helped the children up the ladder one at a time and into the hands of the sisters. They sang heartily to dispel the [[fright]] of the little ones.''' When the horizon erupted, the singing stopped. They passed the last child into the ship. The horizon came alive with flashes as the monks mounted the ladder. The horizons became a red glow. A distant cloudbank was born where no cloud had been. The monks on the ladder looked away from the flashes. When the flashes were gone, they looked back. The visage of [[Satan|Lucifer]] mushroomed into hideousness above the cloudbank, rising slowly like some titan climbing to its feet after ages of imprisonment in the Earth. ** Ch 30 * The last monk, upon entering, paused in the lock. He stood in the open hatchway and took off his sandals. "Sic transit mundus," he murmured, looking back at the glow. 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Hot.]] [[File:VulcanAlbertaEnterpriseReplica.jpg|thumb|Engage!]] '''''[[w:Star Trek: The Next Generation|Star Trek: The Next Generation]]''''' is a [[w:science fiction|science fiction]] [[w:television show|television series]] that originally aired from 1987 to 1994. It follows the crew of the ''[[w:USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D)|USS Enterprise-D]]'', with the events set about 100 years after those in ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]''. Four [[Star_Trek#Feature_films|feature films]] with the show's cast were also produced. == Opening == *'''[[Jean-Luc Picard]]''': Space... The final frontier... These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: To explore strange new worlds... To seek out new life and new civilizations... To boldly go where no one has gone before! ** [[Gene Roddenberry]] == Repeated lines == :'''[[Jean-Luc Picard]]''': Make it so! <hr width = 50%/> :'''[[Jean-Luc Picard]]''': Tea. Earl grey. Hot. <hr width = 50%/> :'''[[Jean-Luc Picard]]''': Engage! <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[Jean-Luc Picard]]''': Data, later. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[Jean-Luc Picard]]''': Shut up, Wesley! <hr width = 50%/> :'''[[w:Worf|Worf]]''': Today is a good day to die! <hr width = 50%/> :'''[[w:Data (Star Trek)|Data]]''': However... <hr width = 50%/> :'''[[w:Data (Star Trek)|Data]]''': Theoretically, it is possible... <hr width = 50%/> :'''Picard:''' Thank you, Mr. Data. __NOTOC__ {| border=0 cellpadding=2 style="border: 1px solid silver;" ! width="25%" style="border: 3px solid firebrick;" | [[#Season 1|Season 1]] ! width="25%" style="border: 3px solid orange;" | [[#Season 2|Season 2]] ! width="25%" style="border: 3px solid gold;" | [[#Season 3|Season 3]] ! width="25%" style="border: 3px solid green;" | [[#Season 4|Season 4]] |- |[[#Encounter at Farpoint .5B1.1.5D|Encounter at Farpoint]] |[[#The Child .5B2.1.5D|The Child]] |[[#Evolution .5B3.1.5D|Evolution]] |[[#The Best of Both Worlds.2C Part II 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|[[#Rightful Heir .5B6.23.5D|Rightful Heir]] |[[#Emergence .5B7.23.5D|Emergence]] |- |[[#The Next Phase .5B5.24.5D|The Next Phase]] |[[#Second Chances .5B6.24.5D|Second Chances]] |[[#Preemptive Strike .5B7.24.5D|Preemptive Strike]] |- |[[#The Inner Light .5B5.25.5D|The Inner Light]] |[[#Timescape .5B6.25.5D|Timescape]] |[[#All Good Things... .5B7.25.5D|All Good Things...]] |- |[[#Time.27s Arrow.2C Part I .5B5.26.5D|Time's Arrow, Part I]] |[[#Descent.2C Part I .5B6.26.5D|Descent, Part I]] | |- |} == Season 1 == === ''[[w:Encounter at Farpoint|Encounter at Farpoint]]'' [1.1/1.2] === [[File:Florida by Piotrus 228.JPG|thumb|You treat her like a lady, and she'll always bring you home.]] [[File:DeForest Kelley, Dr. McCoy, Star Trek.jpg|thumb|What's so damn troublesome about not havin' died? ]] :'''[[w:Q (Star Trek)|Q]]''': Thou art notified that thy kind has infiltrated the galaxy too far already. Thou art directed to return to thine own solar system immediately. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Q''': Go back, or thou shalt most certainly die! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Q''': But you can't deny that you're still a dangerous, savage child race. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Q''': ...and 400 years before that, you were murdering each other in quarrels over tribal god images. Since then, there are no indications that humans will ever change. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Q''': There are preparations to make, but when we next meet, Captain, we'll proceed exactly as you suggest. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': If we're going to be damned, let's be damned for what we really are. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Data (Star Trek)|Data]]''': I am superior, sir, in many ways, but I would gladly give it up to be human. :'''[[w:William Riker|William Riker]]''': Nice to meet you... Pinocchio. :''[Data stares at Riker]'' :'''William Riker''': A joke. :'''Data''': Ah! Intriguing. :'''William Riker''': You're going to be an interesting companion, Mr. Data. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Q''': It is an unknown, Captain. Isn't that enough? :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': If you'd earned that uniform you're wearing you'd know that the unknown is what brings us out here. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Leonard McCoy|Admiral McCoy]]''': Have you got some of a reason my atoms scattered all over space, boy? :'''Data''': No, sir. But at your age, sir, I thought you shouldn't have to put up with the time, and trouble of a shuttlecraft. :'''Admiral McCoy''': Hold it right there, boy? :'''Data''': Sir? :'''Admiral McCoy''': What about my age? :'''Data''': Sorry, sir. If that subject troubles you... :'''Admiral McCoy''': Troubles me? What's so damn troublesome about not havin' died? How old you think I am anyway? :'''Data''': 137 years, Admiral, according to Starfleet records. :'''Admiral McCoy''': Explain how you remembered that so exactly. :'''Data''': I remember every fact I am exposed to, sir. :'''Admiral McCoy''': I don't see no points on your ears boy, but you sound like a Vulcan. :'''Data''': No, sir, I am an android. :'''Admiral McCoy''': Almost as bad. :'''Data''': I thought it was generally accepted, sir, that Vulcans are an advanced, and most honorable race. :'''Admiral McCoy''': They are, they are, and damn annoying at times. :'''Data''': Yes, sir. :'''Admiral McCoy''': Well, this is a new ship, but she's got the right name. Now you remember that you hear? :'''Data''': I will sir. :'''Admiral McCoy''': You treat her like a lady, and she'll always bring you home. === ''[[w:The Naked Now|The Naked Now]]'' [1.3] === :'''[[w:Data (Star Trek)|Data]]''': Indications of what humans would call... a wild party. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Data''': "There was a young lady from [[Venus]], whose body was shaped like [[Human penis|a...]]" :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': ''[frantically cutting off Data]'' Captain to Security, come in! :'''Data''': Did I say something wrong? :'''[[w:Worf|Worf]]''': I don't understand their humor, either. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Tasha Yar|Tasha Yar]]''': Data. You are ''fully'' functional, aren't you? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Data''': ''[intoxicated by the virus]'' We are more alike than unlike, my dear Captain. I have pores. Humans have pores. I have... fingerprints. Humans have fingerprints. My chemical nutrients are like your blood. [[The Merchant of Venice|If you prick me... do I not... leak?]] === ''[[w:Code of Honor (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Code of Honor]]'' [1.4] === :'''[[w:Beverly Crusher|Beverly Crusher]]''': Where are the calluses we doctors are supposed to grow over our feelings? :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': Perhaps the good ones never get them. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Data (Star Trek)|Data]]''': For example, what Lutan did is similar to what certain American Indians once did called "counting coup." That is from an obscure language known as French. "Counting coup..." :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Mr. Data, the French language for centuries on Earth represented civilization. :'''Data''': Indeed? But surely, sir... :'''[[w:William Riker|William Riker]]''': I suggest you drop it, Mr. Data. :'''Data''': Yes, sir. "Counting coup" could be something as simple as touching an enemy with a stick in battle or taking something from him and escaping. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': You speak of a code of honor, but what you are saying now, according to our customs, is called an act of war. :'''Lutan''': This is not an act of war, but of love! I want Lieutenant Yar to become my first one. :'''Yareena''': I challenge your right of supersedence! :'''Hagon''': No woman has challenged supersedence for over 200 years! :'''Yareena''': The right is mine, and I will have it. Natasha Yar, I challenge you to a struggle to the death. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': No! The challenge is unequivocally refused. :'''Lutan''': Then you shall have no treaty! No vaccine! And no Lieutenant Yar! === ''[[w:The Last Outpost (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|The Last Outpost]]'' [1.5] === [[File:Yakunchikova Fear.jpg|thumb|Fear is the true enemy, the only enemy.]] :'''[[w:Data (Star Trek)|Data]]''': ''[his fingers in a [[w:Chinese finger trap|Chinese finger trap]]]'' Apologies, Captain. I seem to have reached an odd functional impasse. I am, uh... stuck. :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': Then get unstuck and continue with the briefing. :'''Data''': Yes, sir. That is what I'm trying to do, sir, but the solution eludes me. :'''[[w:Geordi La Forge|Geordi La Forge]]''': My hero. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:William Riker|William Riker]]''': "Fear is the true enemy, the only enemy." :*[[Sun Tzu#Misattributed|Misattributed to Sun Tzu in the show]] (similar to the real phrase "[[w:First inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt#Inaugural speech|the only thing we have to fear is fear itself]]" spoken by [[w:Franklin D. Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]]) === ''[[w:Where No One Has Gone Before (TNG episode)|Where No One Has Gone Before]]'' [1.6] === :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': ...where is this place? :'''[[w:Data (Star Trek)|Data]]''': Where none have gone before. === ''[[w:Lonely Among Us|Lonely Among Us]]'' [1.7] === :'''[[w:Data (Star Trek)|Data]]''': If the ''Enterprise'' were really this fragile, sir, she never would have left spacedock. Therefore, her systems' failures are not endemic to the ship, but are the result of the actions of an unknown adversary. :'''[[w:William Riker|William Riker]]''': We have a saboteur aboard. :'''Data''': I believe I said that. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Data''': It's elementary, my dear Riker. Sir. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Data''': "We must fall back on the old axiom that when other contingencies fail, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." === ''[[w:Justice (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Justice]]'' [1.8] === :'''Edo God''': ''[booming voice]'' State... the... purpose. State the purpose of what you have done. :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': I'm Captain Picard, commanding this Federation starship. :'''Edo God''': State the purpose of your visit here. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': We have sent down what we call an away team, to make peaceful contact here. :'''Edo God''': Do you plan to leave life-forms here? :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': No. We are merely visiting here. :'''Edo God''': But you did more at the world you just left. Why have you left your own life-forms there? :'''[[w:Data (Star Trek)|Data]]''': The colony we just planted, sir. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': We found that world uninhabited. The life-forms we left there had... had sought the challenge-- at least, that is the basic reason-- had sought the challenge of creating a new lifestyle-- a new society there. Life on our world is driven to protect itself by seeding itself as widely as possible. :'''Edo God''': Do not interfere with my children below. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Rivan''': They are called mediators and they are needed only in one place each day. :'''Liator''': The punishment zone, an area that's selected for a period of time. :'''[[w:Tasha Yar|Tasha Yar]]''': It's a completely random selection? :'''Liator''': No one but our mediators know what place or for how long. We're very proud of the wisdom of our ancestors. No person ever knows where or when a zone will be. :'''Rivan''': And so no one risks death. :'''[[w:Worf|Worf]]''': Death? :'''Rivan''': By breaking any law. :'''Tasha Yar''': Wait, explain this. :'''Liator''': Only one punishment for any crime. :'''Worf''': Anyone who commits any crime in the punishment zone dies? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Liator''': So, we are not yet as advanced as they are. And since you are advanced in other ways, too, I suggest you use your superior powers to rescue the Wesley boy. We will record him as a convicted criminal out of our reach...an advanced person who luckily escaped the barbarism of this backward little world. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Data''': They were able to communicate with me quite...I was about to say quite easily but there was nothing easy about it. Fortunately, they stopped short of overloading my circuitry. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': You're saying they? So it is a vessel of some sort? :'''Data''': Definitely not a single entity, if that's what you mean, sir, although they know the Edo worship them as a god thing. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': They know? :'''Data''': They recognize that this is quite expected and harmless at the present Edo stage of evolution. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': What sort of vessel? :'''Data''': It is perhaps not what we would understand as a vessel, sir. The dimensions this one occupies allows them to be... well, to be in several places at once, but they consider that this entire star cluster is theirs. It was probably unwise of us to attempt to place a human colony in this area. Of course, there are 3,004 other planets in this star cluster in which we could have colonized. The largest and closest... :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Data! Don't babble. :'''Data''': Babble, sir? I am not aware that I ever babble, sir. It may be that from time to time I have considerable information to communicate, and you may question the way in which I organize it... :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Please, organize it into brief answers to my questions. We have very little time. Do they accept our presence at this planet? :'''Data''': Undecided, sir. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Data, please feel free to volunteer any important information. :'''Data''': I volunteer that they are now observing us, sir. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': To judge what kind of life-forms we are? :'''Data''': No. It is more curiosity. I doubt that they expect us to abide by their value systems. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Do they know of our Prime Directive? :'''Data''': They know everything I know, sir. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': And if we were to violate the Prime Directive... :'''[[w:Beverly Crusher|Beverly Crusher]]''': That's not a fair question. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': How would they react? :'''Data''': That would be a case of judging us by our own rules, sir. If we violate our own Prime Directive they might consider us to be deceitful and untrustworthy. You do recall, they cautioned us not to interfere with their children below. What has happened? :'''Beverly Crusher''': The Edo want to execute my son. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Tasha Yar''': What of justice to Wesley? Does he deserve to die? :'''Liator''': ''[DELETED LINE]'' That is a moot issue, unfortunately. The law remains the law, regardless of whose favor it works in; ergo, the real question is, ''Where is justice, save in equality?'' :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': I'm truly sorry, Liator; but I must have justice for my people, too. Transporter Room, energize...Transporter Room, come in! :'''Transporter Officer''': We can't energize the beam, sir. Everything checks out, but we're getting no results. :'''First Mediator''': God has prevented your escape. :'''Beverly Crusher''': Then your God is unfair. My son had no warning that his act was criminal. :'''Second Mediator''': We cannot allow ignorance of the law to become a defense. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': I don't know how to communicate this, or even if it is possible, but the question of justice has concerned me greatly of late. And I say, to any creature who may be listening, ''there can be no justice so long as laws are absolute.'' Life itself is an exercise in exceptions. :'''[[w:William Riker|William Riker]]''': When has justice ever been as simple as a rule book? :'''First Mediator''': ''[DELETED LINE]'' For us, there have always been two basic types...those who live by the law, and those who die by it. Thus, the question becomes, ''How can there be justice when laws are anything but consistent?'' :'''Second Mediator''': ''[DELETED LINE]'' Indeed; making one exception, regardless of circumstances, would compel us to make more...and then still more, until the law became -- we believe you have a phrase for it -- until it became "nothing but words on paper". ''[sneers]'' Evidently, ''your'' idea of a just legal system is one so complicated that nobody can be punished for anything. === ''[[w:The Battle (TNG episode)|The Battle]]'' [1.9] === :'''Bok''': It is a gift from us with which we honor the hero of Maxia. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Who? :'''Bok''': Why you, Picard, of course. Do you not remember the Battle of Maxia? :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': I'm sorry, I do not remember it, DaiMon Bok. Data? :'''Data''': Captain, he may refer to an incident which occurred nine years ago in the Maxia Zeta star system, in which an unidentified starship- :'''Bok:''' UNIDENTIFIED?! That fine vessel was Ferengi! :'''Data''': Which... you destroyed, sir. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:William Riker|William Riker]]''': Your shields were failing, sir. :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': Mm-hmm. I... improvised. With the enemy vessel coming in for the kill, I ordered a sensor bearing, and when it came into the return arc... :'''[[w:Data (Star Trek)|Data]]''': You performed what Starfleet textbooks now refer to as the "Picard Maneuver." :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Well, I did what any good helmsman would have done. I dropped into high warp, stopped right off the enemy vessel's bow fired everything I had. :'''William Riker''': And blowing into maximum warp speed, [[wikipedia:Afterimage|you appeared for an instant to be in two places at once]]. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': And our attacker fired on the wrong one. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bok''': Collecting on an old debt. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bok''': Die well, Captain! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Kazago''': First Officer Kazago to human Riker. :'''William Riker''': Not now, Kazago! :'''Kazago''': We do not wish to become involved in what is clearly a Federation matter... :'''William Riker''': Fine, fine! ''Enterprise'', out. :'''Kazago''': You should also know that DaiMon Bok no longer commands this vessel. His first officer has confined him for engaging in this unprofitable adventure. Good luck, First Officer Riker. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Picard has just been released from Bok's mind control device]'' :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Bok! Where is Bok?! :'''William Riker''': Removed from command, sir. And placed under guard for his act of personal vengeance. Seems there was no profit in it. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': In revenge, there never is. Let the dead rest... and the past, remain the past. ''Enterprise'', lock on. Beam me home, Riker. === ''[[w:Hide and Q (TNG episode)|Hide and Q]]'' [1.10] === :'''[[w:William Riker (Star Trek)|Riker]]''': Of course a Marshall outranks an Admiral! <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Q (Star Trek)|Q]]''':The game will be totally unfair! <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Q (Star Trek)|Q]]''': "Life is but a walking shadow. A poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': Interesting, Q. :'''Q''': Oh, thank you very much, I'm glad you enjoyed it. Perhaps maybe a little ''Hamlet''? :'''Picard''': Oh, I know ''Hamlet''. And what he might say with irony I say with conviction. "What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason. How infinite in faculty. In form, in moving, how express and admirable. In action, how like an angel. In apprehension, how like a god." :'''Q''': Surely you don't see your species like that, do you? :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': I see us one day ''becoming'' that, Q. Is it that which concerns you? === ''[[w:Haven (TNG episode)|Haven]]'' [1.11] === :'''Lwaxana Troi''': After the young couple have removed their clothing... :'''[[w:Tasha Yar|Tasha Yar]]''': The bride and groom go naked? <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Data (Star Trek)|Data]]''': Could you please continue the petty bickering? I find it most intriguing. === ''[[w:The Big Goodbye (TNG episode)|The Big Goodbye]]'' [1.12] === :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Unless it's followed by? :'''Deanna Troi''': The double bars indicate an elongated S sound. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': And the inverted T means to hold the Z. :'''Deanna Troi''': Unless? :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Unless it's followed by three wavy lines, in which case the Z becomes a B. :'''Deanna Troi''': Exactly. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': What a language. :'''Deanna Troi''': But you spell 'knife' with a K. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': I spell 'knife' with an N. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': Earth, United States, San Francisco, California. :'''Computer''': Time period? :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': 1941 AD. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Data (Star Trek)|Data]]''': Hiya, Doc. What's cooking? :'''[[w:Beverly Crusher|Beverly Crusher]]''': You know I had some trouble getting through? Where's Captain Picard? :'''Data''': He's on ice. :'''Beverly Crusher''': Pardon? :'''Data''': He's being grilled. :'''Beverly Crusher''': What is he, a fish? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Cyrus Redblock''': Life is an endless stream of choices. Unfortunately, you have chosen to make my life more difficult. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Cyrus Redblock''': Kill the woman. <hr width="50%"/> :'''McNary''': So... this is the big good-bye. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Data''': It was raining in the City by the Bay-- a hard rain. Hard enough to wash the slime... :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Data! :'''Data''': Sorry, sir. === ''[[w:Datalore (TNG episode)|Datalore]]'' [1.13] === :'''[[w:Data (Star Trek)|Data]]''': If you had an off switch, Doctor, would you not keep it secret? :'''[[w:Beverly Crusher|Beverly Crusher]]''': I guess I would. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lore''': Are you prepared for the kind of death you've earned, little man? === ''[[w:Angel One (TNG episode)|Angel One]]'' [1.14] === :'''[[MemoryAlpha:Ramsey|Ramsey]]''': You can't rescue a man from the place he calls his home. === ''[[w:11001001 (TNG episode)|11001001]]'' [1.15] === :'''[[w:Worf|Worf]]''': If winning is not important, then Commander, why keep score? <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:William Riker|William T. Riker]]''': Keep notes. This project might turn out to be of interest to future scholars. :'''[[w:Geordi La Forge|Geordi La Forge]]''': Really? :'''William T. Riker''': Think about it. A blind man teaching an android to paint? That's got to be worth a couple of pages in someone's book. <hr width="50%"/> :'''William T. Riker''': What's a knock-out like you doing in a computer-generated gin joint like this? :'''[[w:Minuet (Star Trek)|Minuet]]''': Waiting for you. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': Doesn't love always begin that way? With the illusion being more real than the woman? . === ''[[w:Too Short a Season (TNG episode)|Too Short a Season]]'' [1.16] === :'''[[w:William Riker|William T. Riker]]''': "What I don't understand sir, is how Karnas knew you were still… available." :'''Jameson''': "Still alive, you mean." :'''Karnas''': So… Jameson, I see time has not been too kind." :'''Jameson''': "It seldom is, Karnas." :'''Karnas''': They're dead Jameson a long time..you coming back to Mordan as you did 45 years before :'''Jameson''': You've never forgiven me :'''Karnas''': If it's you, show me the scar." :'''Jameson''':"There! The blood cut you gave me to seal our bargain!" :'''Karnas''': There die by your own weapons.....Rest, Jameson. Your long night… and mine, are over." :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': Age and wisdom have their graces. :'''[[w:William Riker|William T. Riker]]''': I wonder if one doesn't have to have age and wisdom to appreciate that, sir. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': I hope not, Number One. It would be such a waste of youth. === ''[[w:When the Bough Breaks (TNG episode)|When the Bough Breaks]]'' [1.17] === :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': Data, find a way to defeat that shield. :'''[[w:Data (Star Trek)|Data]]''': That may be impossible, sir. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Data, things are only impossible until they're not. === ''[[w:Home Soil (TNG episode)|Home Soil]]'' [1.18] === [[File:Human.svg|thumb|Ugly giant bags... of mostly water...]] :'''[[MemoryAlpha:Microbrain|Microbrain]]''': Ugly giant bags... of mostly water... === ''[[w:Coming of Age (TNG episode)|Coming of Age]]'' [1.19] === :'''[[w:Data (Star Trek)|Data]]''': Do Klingons observe birthdays, Worf? :'''[[w:Worf|Worf]]''': Klingons are born, live as warriors, and die. :'''Data''': Then how do you know how old you are? :'''Worf''': I don't. Do you know? :'''Data''': I have no age. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Mister Crusher? Why aren't you in your dress uniform for Admiral Quinn's farewell dinner? :'''Wesley Crusher''': I didn't think that would be appropriate. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Why not? :'''Wesley Crusher''': I failed, Captain. I didn't get into the Academy. I failed you and I failed the Enterprise. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Ridiculous. Did you do your best? :'''Wesley Crusher''': Yes. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': When you test next year, and you will test next year, do you think your performance will improve? :'''Wesley Crusher''': Yes. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Good. The only person you're truly competing against, Wesley, is yourself. :'''Wesley Crusher''': Then you're not disappointed? :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Wesley, you have to measure your successes and your failures within, not by anything I or anyone else might think. But, if it helps you to know this, I failed the first time. And you may not tell anyone! :'''Wesley Crusher''': You? You failed? :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Yes. But not the second time. Now, you'll do me the courtesy of joining us at dinner. I have to disappoint an old friend. === ''[[w:Heart of Glory (TNG episode)|Heart of Glory]]'' [1.20] === :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': Can you filter out the extraneous information? :'''[[w:Geordi La Forge|Geordi La Forge]]''': No, I get it all simultaneously. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': It's a jumble. How can you make heads or tails of it? :'''Geordi La Forge''': I select what I want to see and disregard the rest. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': How is that possible? :'''Geordi La Forge''': In a noisy room, how can you pick out one specific voice or sound? :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': I see. Something you learn. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Worf|Worf]]''': Why do you mock me? Why do you wish to anger me? :'''[[MemoryAlpha:Korris|Korris]]''': Only to see if it is still possible. :'''Worf''': It is. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Worf:''' My brother, it is you who does not see. You look for battles in the wrong place. The true test of a warrior is not without, it is within! Here! Here is where we meet the challenge. It is the weaknesses in here a warrior must overcome. :'''Korris:''' No. :'''Worf:''' You have talked of glory, and of conquest, and of legends that we will write. :'''Korris:''' Yes! The birthright of every Klingon. :'''Worf:''' Yet, for all you say, where are the words "duty," "honor" and "loyalty"? Without which a warrior is ''nothing''! :'''Korris:''' What are you saying?! Living among these humans has sucked the Klingon heart out of you. :'''Worf:''' Put down the phaser. :'''Korris:''' You are a sham! My words were dust upon the ground. Your blood has no fire! You are weak like them! I don't care what you look like! ''YOU ARE NO KLINGON!'' :'''Worf:''' Perhaps not. ''[shoots Korris dead]'' === ''[[w:The Arsenal of Freedom (TNG episode)|The Arsenal of Freedom]]'' [1.21] === :'''The Peddler''': Whoever you are, wherever you're from, greetings! Welcome to Minos, The Arsenal of Freedom! :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': I'm Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the U.S.S. Enterp... :'''The Peddler''': If you need a little something "special", be it for one target or multiple targets, we've got it, you'll see it, here on Minos, where we live by the motto, "[[Peace]] through superior firepower." :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': To whom am I speaking...? :'''The Peddler''': To be totally armed is to be totally secure! Remember, the early bird that hesitates gets wormed. :'''[[w:Data (Star Trek)|Data]]''': It is a recorded message, sir. :'''The Peddler''': Minos, the Arsenal of Freedom: perfection in highly advanced weaponry. Versatility, flexibility, and everything 100% guaranteed! So lock on to my signal and beam on down! Because we don't just provide weapons... :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Shut that off. :'''The Peddler''': We provide complete weapons sys- :''[the screen goes blank]'' :'''[[w:Geordi La Forge|Geordi La Forge]]''': That's a heck of a sales pitch. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[MemoryAlpha:Paul Rice|Paul Rice]]''': Tell me about your ship - the ''Enterprise'', isn't it? :'''[[w:William Riker|William T. Riker]]''': No... The name of my ship is the Lollipop. :'''Paul Rice''': I have no knowledge of that ship. :'''William T. Riker''': It's just been commissioned. It's a [[w:On the Good Ship Lollipop|good ship]]. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Geordi La Forge:''' Relinquishing command, Captain. :'''Jean-Luc Picard:''' As you were, Lieutenant! :'''Geordi La Forge:''' Sir? :'''Jean-Luc Picard:''' Mr. La Forge, when I left this ship, it was in one piece. I would appreciate your returning it to me in the same condition. Do you concur, Number One? :'''William Riker:''' Absolutely, sir. === ''[[w:Symbiosis (TNG episode)|Symbiosis]]'' [1.22] === [[File:Starfleet Combadge TNG.svg|thumb|[[w:Prime Directive|The Prime Directive]] is not just a set of rules; it is a philosophy... and a very correct one. History has proven again and again that whenever mankind interferes with a less developed civilization, no matter how well intentioned that interference may be, the results are invariably disastrous.]] :'''[[MemoryAlpha:T'Jon|T'Jon]]''': Everything's just kind of... you know... dead, I guess. It's all... you know... shut down. :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': That's a little vague. What's the computer analysis? :'''T'Jon''': Uh, the computer's not working very well. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': [[w:Prime Directive|The Prime Directive]] is not just a set of rules; it is a philosophy... and a very correct one. History has proven again and again that whenever mankind interferes with a less developed civilization, no matter how well intentioned that interference may be, the results are invariably disastrous. === ''[[w:Skin of Evil (TNG episode)|Skin of Evil]]'' [1.23] === :'''William Riker''': I'm Commander William Riker of the USS ''Enterprise''. :'''Armus''': I am Armus. Why are you here? :'''William Riker''': We mean you no harm. We have injured crewmen in the shuttlecraft, and we need to get to them. May we pass? :'''Armus''': You haven't given me a good enough reason. :'''William Riker''': Preserving life. All life is important to us. :'''Armus''': Why? :'''William Riker''': We believe everything in the universe has a right to exist. :'''Armus''': An interesting notion. Which I do not share! You may leave now, if you wish. :'''Tasha Yar''': We're not going anywhere without our shuttle crew. :'''Armus''': I warn you... :'''Tasha Yar''': Enough! We have people who need attention. We won't hurt you, but we must help them. :''[Yar tries to walk around Armus, who hits her with an energy blast, killing her instantly]'' <hr width="50%"/> [[File:Death Sundial.jpg|thumb|Death is that state where one lives only in the memory of others, which is why it is not an end. No goodbyes—just good memories.]] :'''[[w:Tasha Yar|Tasha Yar]]''': It's been said that "Death is that state where one survives fully in the memory of others; thus it is not an end, but rather a beginning." So, let's not say goodbye; let's just say — ''Hailing frequencies closed.'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Picard''': Rest In Peace, Natasha...This gathering is concluded. :''[Everyone but Picard and Data leave, sniffing a bit]'' :'''Data''': Sir, the purpose of this gathering...confuses me. :'''Picard''': How so? :'''Data''': My thoughts are not for Tasha, but for myself. I keep thinking how empty it will feel without her presence. Did I miss the point? :'''Picard''': No, you didn't, Data. You got it. :''[Picard leaves; Data remains, contemplating his words]'' === ''[[w:We'll Always Have Paris (TNG episode)|We'll Always Have Paris]]'' [1.24] === :'''[[w:Unnamed Officer (Fencing with Picard)|Unnamed Officer]]''': ''(fencing with Picard)'' Interesting move. What technique was that? :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': The technique of a desperate man. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[MemoryAlpha:Jenice Manheim|Jenice Manheim]]''': Well, so much for my dramatic exit. === ''[[w:Conspiracy (TNG episode)|Conspiracy]]'' [1.25] === :'''[[w:Data (Star Trek)|Data]]''': You are aware, Counselor, that the holodeck can be programmed to recreate an oceanic environment? :'''[[w:Deanna Troi|Deanna Troi]]''': Data, it's just not the same. Have you ever gone for a real moonlight swim? :'''Data''': One can swim in moonlight? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Worf''': Are you okay? :'''Geordi La Forge''': If I could see, I'd be seeing stars now. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Admiral Aaron's parasite scampers into Dexter Remmick's mouth and down his throat; as he speaks, his neck bulges]'' :'''Parasite mother creature/[[w:Dexter Remmick|Dexter Remmick]]''': (calm, sincere) You don't understand. (voice distorted) We mean you no harm. We seek peaceful co-existence. === ''[[w:The Neutral Zone (TNG episode)|The Neutral Zone]]'' [1.26] === :'''[[MemoryAlpha:L.Q._Clemonds|"Sonny" Clemonds]]''': ...you and me can find us a couple of low-mileage pit wolfies, and help 'em build a memory. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[MemoryAlpha:L.Q._Clemonds|"Sonny" Clemonds]]''': ...you're just about the prettiest lil' old doctor I've ever seen. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Following their encounter with the Romulans]'' :'''Picard''': Our lives just became a lot more complicated. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Ralph Offenhouse''': There's no trace of my money. My office is gone. What will I do? How will I live? :'''Picard''': This is the twenty fourth century. Material needs no longer exist. :'''Ralph Offenhouse''': Then what's the challenge? :'''Picard''': The challenge, Mister Offenhouse, is to improve yourself. To enrich yourself. Enjoy it. == Season 2 == ===''[[w:The Child (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|The Child]]'' [2.1]=== :'''Deanna''': Captain. do what you must to protect the ship. But know this, I am going to have this baby. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Katherine Pulaski|Kate Pulaski]]''': Dah-ta, look at this. :'''[[w:Data (Star Trek)|Data]]''': [looking slightly confused] 'Day-ta'. :'''Kate Pulaski''': What? :'''Data''': My name. It is pronounced 'Day-ta'. :'''Kate Pulaski''': Oh? :'''Data''': You called me 'Dah-ta'. :'''Kate Pulaski''': [laughing] What's the difference? :'''Data''': One is my name. The other is not. === ''[[w:Where Silence Has Lease (TNG episode)|Where Silence Has Lease]]'' [2.2] === :''[An alien is impersonating Data.]'' :'''Alien (as Data)''': What is death? :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': Oh, is that all. Data, you're asking probably the most difficult of all questions. Some see it as a changing into an indestructible form, forever unchanging. They believe that the purpose of the entire universe is to then maintain that form in an Earth-like garden which will give delight and pleasure through all eternity. On the other hand there are those who hold to the idea of our blinking into nothingness with all of our experiences and hopes and dreams merely a delusion. :'''Alien (as Data)''': Which do you believe sir? :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Considering the marvelous complexity of the universe, its clockwork perfection, its balances of this against that... matter, energy, gravitation, time, dimension, I believe that our existence must be more than either of these philosophies. That what we are goes beyond euclidean or other 'practical' measuring systems... and that our existence is part of a reality beyond what we understand now as reality. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:LCARS|Computer]]''': Ten seconds to auto-destruct. :'''[[w:William Riker|William T. Riker]]''': Captain? :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Abort auto-destruct sequence. :'''Computer''': Riker, William T. Do you concur? :'''William T. Riker''': Yes, absolutely I do indeed concur, wholeheartedly! :'''Computer''': Auto-destruct cancelled. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': A simple "yes" would have sufficed Number One. :'''William T. Riker''': I didn't want there to be any chance of a misunderstanding. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Nagilum''': ''[regarding the human race]'' You seem to find no tranquility in anything. You struggle against the inevitable. You thrive on conflict. You are selfish yet you value loyalty. You are rash, quick to judge, slow to change. It's amazing you've survived. Be that as it may, as species, we have no common ground. You are too aggressive. Too hostile. Too militant. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': During this period, you, too, have been evaluated. It would seem that we have at least one thing in common. :'''Nagilum''': Oh? :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Curiosity. ===''[[w:Elementary, Dear Data|Elementary, Dear Data]]'' [2.3]=== :'''Geordi La Forge:''' All right, Data. You solve all the cases and get all the gifts, but what do I do? :'''Data:''' Primarily as Dr. Watson, you will keep a written record of everything I say and do. <hr width="50%"> :'''Moriarty:''' It has gone beyond that little game, Mr. Data. And you'll note I no longer call you Holmes. <hr width="50%"> :'''Pulaski:''' I'll give you credit for your vast knowledge but your circuits would just short out if you were confronted with a truly original mystery. <hr width="50%"> :'''Pulaski:''' Your artificial friend doesn't have a prayer of solving a Holmes mystery that he hasn't read. <hr width="50%"> :'''Moriarty:''' That dark fellow there used the word "arch" and then...I wonder. Arch! <hr width="50%> :'''La Forge:'''Well, Doctor Pulaski and I had a discussion about whether Data could solve an original Holmes-type mystery. :'''Picard:''' Which you asked the computer to provide? :'''La Forge:''' Yes, with a worthy opponent. :'''Picard:''' Worthy of Holmes? :'''La Forge:''' ...Oh my God...I asked for a Holmes-type mystery with an opponent capable of defeating...Data! That's gotta be it! :'''Picard:''' (under his breath) Merde... === ''[[w:The Outrageous Okona (TNG episode)|The Outrageous Okona]]'' [2.4] === :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': (to Okona) Now please, follow Commander Riker's commands so our ship can go back to its normal routine. :''[Riker smiles broadly.]'' :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Something funny? :'''William T. Riker''': Well, the unexpected is our normal routine. <hr width="50%"/> :''[After the holographic comedian has demonstrated a [[Jerry Lewis]] impersonation]'' :'''Data:''' So... if you put funny teeth in your mouth, and jump around like an idiot... that is considered funny! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Wesley Crusher''': Say goodbye, Data. :'''Data:''' Goodbye, Data. :''[the bridge crew cracks up]'' :'''Data:''' Was that funny? :''[Wesley stifles a laugh]'' :'''Data:''' Accessing... Ah, Burns & Allen, Roxy Theatre, New York City, 1932. It still works! ===''[[w:Loud as a Whisper|Loud as a Whisper]]'' [2.5]=== === ''[[w:The Schizoid Man (TNG episode)|The Schizoid Man]]'' [2.6] === :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': No being is so important that he can usurp the rights of another. ===''[[w:Unnatural Selection (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Unnatural Selection]]'' [2.7] === :'''[[w:Katherine Pulaski|Kate Pulaski]]''': Chief Medical Officer's Log, supplemental...Scientists believe no experiment is a failure, that even a mistake advances the evolution of understanding. But all achievement has a price. For one brief glance at the mysterious blueprint of human evolution, the men and women of the U.S.S. Langtry paid with their lives. Their sacrifice is thus noted in this scientist's log. ===''[[w:A Matter of Honor|A Matter of Honor]]'' [2.8]=== [[File:Nereididae in Cuisine of Vietnam.JPG|thumb|Gagh is always best when served live.]] :'''[[w:Worf|Worf]]''': I've studied, and know everything about my heritage. :'''[[w:William Riker|William Riker]]''': Then you're just the person I need to talk to clear something up. It's been my understanding that one of the duties of the First Officer of the Klingon vessel is to assassinate his Captain? :'''[[w:Worf|Worf]]''': Yes, sir. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Ensign Mendon''': Not very hospitable, are they? :'''[[w:Worf|Worf]]''': That is not your concern. Observe your station, Ensign Mendon. :'''Ensign Mendon''': Didn't mean to offend you. :'''[[w:Worf|Worf]]''': You didn't. Yet. :''[Ensign Mendon awkwardly walks the other way]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:William Riker|William Riker]]''': Isn't that gagh? :'''Lieutenant Klag''': Very good. You did some research on our nutritional choices. :'''[[w:William Riker|William Riker]]''': Yes, but... :''[Riker looks down at the live Gagh and sighs]'' :'''[[w:William Riker|William Riker]]''': It's still moving. :'''Lieutenant Klag''': Gagh is always best when served live. :''[Riker looks over at one of the Klingon women smiling at him]'' :'''Lieutenant Klag''': Would you like something easier? :'''[[w:William Riker|William Riker]]''': Easier? :'''Lieutenant Klag''': Yes. If Klingon food is too strong for you, perhaps we could get one of the females to breast-feed you. :''[The other Klingons start laughing]'' === ''[[w:The Measure of a Man (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|The Measure of a Man]]'' [2.9] === [[File:Beverley Guildhall Courtroom.jpg|thumb|Your Honor, a courtroom is a crucible. In it, we burn away irrelevancies until we are left with a pure product: the truth, for all time. ]] [[File:Official medallion of the British Anti-Slavery Society (1795).jpg|thumb| Well consider that, in the history of many worlds, there have always been disposable creatures. They do the dirty work. They do the work that no one else wants to do, because it's too difficult or too hazardous. And an army of Datas, all disposable […] Whole generations of disposable people.]] :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': If we were not surrounded by all these people, you know what I would like to do? :'''[[MemoryAlpha:Phillipa Louvois|Phillipa Louvois]]''': Bust a chair across my teeth, probably. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': After that. :'''Phillipa Louvois''': Oh, ain't love wonderful? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Phillipa Louvois''': ''[to Picard]'' I never thought I'd say this, but it's good to see you again. It brings a sense of order and stability to my universe to know that you're still a pompous ass. And a damn sexy man. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Guinan|Guinan]]''': Well consider that, in the history of many worlds, there have always been disposable creatures. They do the dirty work. They do the work that no one else wants to do, because it's too difficult or too hazardous. And an army of Datas, all disposable... "Here's their leader, you don't have to think about their welfare, you don't think about how they feel." Whole generations of disposable people. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': You're talking about [[slavery]]. :'''Guinan''': Oh, I think that's a little harsh. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': I don't think that's a little harsh, I think that's the truth. But that's a truth that we have obscured behind comfortable, easy euphemism. 'Property.' But that's not the issue at all, is it? <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:William Riker|William T. Riker]]''': ''[regarding Data]'' The Commander is a physical representation of a dream. An idea conceived of by the mind of a man, its purpose to serve human needs and interests. It's a collection of neural nets and heuristic algorithms, its responses dictated by an elaborate software written by a man, its hardware built by a man, and now... and now a man will shut it off. ''[Riker deactivates Data in front of Picard and Louvois.]'' [[Pinocchio]] is broken; its strings have been cut. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Your Honor, a courtroom is a crucible. In it, we burn away irrelevancies until we are left with a pure product: the truth, for all time. ''[points to Commander Maddox]'' Now sooner or later, this man, or others like him, will succeed in replicating Commander Data. Now, the decision you reach here today will determine how we will regard this creation of our genius. It will reveal the kind of people we are, what he is destined to be. It will reach far beyond this courtroom and this one android. It could significantly redefine the boundaries of personal liberty and freedom, expanding them for some, savagely curtailing them for others. Are you prepared to condemn him and all who will come after him to servitude and slavery? Your Honor, Starfleet was founded to seek out new life. ''[points to Data]'' Well, ''there'' it sits! Waiting. You wanted a chance to make law. Well, here it is. Make a good one. :'''Phillipa Louvois''': ''[after a long pause]'' It sits there looking at me, and I don't know what it is. This case has dealt with metaphysics, with questions best left to saints and philosophers. I am neither competent nor qualified to answer those. I've got to make a ruling, to try to speak to the future. Is Data a machine? Yes. Is he the property of Starfleet? No. We have all been dancing around the basic issue. Does Data have a soul? I don't know that he has. I don't know that ''I'' have. But I have got to give him the freedom to explore that question himself. It is the ruling of this court that Lieutenant Commander Data has the freedom to choose. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Data''': Sir? There is a celebration on the holodeck. :'''William Riker''': ''[despondent]'' I have no right to be there. :'''Data''': Because you failed in your task? :'''William Riker''': Oh, God, no, I was that close to ''winning'', Data. :'''Data''': ''[considers the statement]'' Yes, sir. :'''William Riker''': I almost cost you your life! :'''Data''': That is true, sir. But Commander... ''Will''. I have learned from your example. :'''William Riker''': ''[perplexed]'' What could you possibly have learned from that ordeal? :'''Data''': That at times, one must deny one's nature, sacrifice one's own personal beliefs, to protect another. Is it not true that had you refused to prosecute, Captain Louvois would have ruled summarily against me? :'''William Riker''': Yes. :'''Data''': That action injured you, and saved me. I will not forget it. :'''William Riker''': ''[smiles]'' You're a wise man, my friend. :'''Data''': Not yet, sir. But with your help, I am learning. ===''[[w:The Dauphin|The Dauphin]]'' [2.10]=== :'''Worf''': [''about Salia''] Do not be deceived by her looks. The body is just a shell. <hr width = "50%"/> :[''Worf makes a prolonged scream.''] :'''Worf''': That is how the Klingon lures a mate. :'''Wesley''': Are you telling me to go yell at Salia? :'''Worf''': No. Men do not roar. Women roar...[''besotted''] and they hurl heavy objects...and claw at you... :'''Wesley''': What does the man do? :'''Worf''': He reads love poetry. [''regaining his composure.''] He ducks a lot. === ''[[w:Contagion (TNG episode)|Contagion]]'' [2.11] === [[File:Elihu Vedder The Fates Gathering in the Stars.jpg|thumb| [[Fate]]. It protects fools, little children, and ships named ''Enterprise''.]] [[File:Masonic Hourglass.jpg|thumb|Mr. La Forge, time is one thing we do not have in abundance.]] :'''[[w:William Riker|William T. Riker]]''': [[Fate]]. It protects fools, little children, and ships named ''Enterprise''. <hr width="50%"/> :'''William T. Riker''': If it should become necessary to fight, can you arrange to find me some rocks to throw at them? ''[This line references the ''Star Trek: The Animated Series'' episode "More Tribbles, More Troubles," in which Lt. Uhura says, "We could always throw rocks at them."] <hr width="50%"/> :''[Data accidentally activates an [[MemoryAlpha:Iconian gateway|Iconian gateway]]]'' :'''[[w:Data (Star Trek)|Data]]''': That was ''not'' manual override. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Data's positronic brain has been corrupted by the Iconian computer]'' :'''Data''': Blue, amber, amber, red. :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': That's the launch sequence? ''[Data gives a jerky nod.]'' How do I override the doors? :'''Data''': Blue, blue, blue :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': I hope that is not a stutter. <hr width = "50%"/> :'''[[w:Worf|Worf]]''': Captain, you ''will'' be killed. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': I'll go through the gate. :'''Worf''': But where will you end up? :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Very shortly anywhere will be preferable to this room. <hr width = "50%"/> :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Mr. La Forge, time is one thing we do not have in abundance. ''[This line echoes a line from "Star Trek: TOS", episode "The Paradise Syndrome", in which Spock says "Time, Dr. McCoy, is the one thing we do not have in abundance." It has become a catch-phrase for Trekkies.] <hr width = "50%"/> :''[Picard ends up on a Romulan ship]'' :'''Sub commander Taris''': I cannot deactivate the auto-destruct, but at least I have the satisfaction that you will die with us. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': ''[beaming out]'' Not, I think, today, Commander. === ''[[w:The Royale (TNG episode)|The Royale]]'' [2.12] === :'''[[w: William Riker|William Riker]]''': Looks like the poor devil died in his sleep. :'''Worf:''' What a terrible way to die! <hr width = "50%"> :'''[[w: William Riker|William Riker]]''': ''[reading Richie's diary entry]'' "I write this in the hope that it will someday be read by human eyes. I can only surmise at this point but, apparently, our exploratory shuttle was contaminated by an alien life form which infected and killed all personnel except myself. I awakened to find myself here in the Royale Hotel precisely as described in the novel I found in my room. And for the last 38 years, I have survived here. I have come to understand that the alien contaminators created this place for me out of some sense of guilt, presuming that the novel we had on board the shuttle about the Hotel Royale was, in fact, a guide to our preferred lifestyle and social habits. Obviously, they thought this was the world from which I came. I hold no malice toward my benefactors; they could not possibly know the hell they have put me through, for it was such a badly written book, filled with endless cliché and shallow characters. I shall welcome death when it comes." <hr width = "50%"> :'''Worf:''' ''[holding telephone]'' Sir. There is a woman's voice asking if we want room service <hr width = "50%"> :'''[[w: William Riker|William Riker]]''': That's how we're getting out. We're buying this place! <hr width = "50%"> :'''Croupier:''' Six. Six is your number. :'''Gambler 1:''' Hell, my blind grandma can make a six, boy! Come on; roll 'em!" :'''[[w: William Riker|William Riker]]''': I thought seven and eleven had value. :'''[[w: Data (Star Trek)|Data]]''': Actually, six is a valid point. Of course, now the objective is to hit a duplicate six before hitting seven. :'''[[w: William Riker|William Riker]]''': But the probability of making a six is no greater than that of rolling a seven. :'''[[w:Data (Star Trek)|Data]]''': There ''is'' a certain degree of random fortune involved. I believe that is why they call it "gambling." :'''Gambler 2:''' Yeah. <hr width = "50%"> :'''Gambler 2:''' So much for your new turkey! <hr width = "50%"> :''[Data is at the craps table, about to roll]'' :'''Data''': Commander, these cubes are improperly balanced. I believe their final resting position would be a... :'''Riker''': Can you repair them? :'''Data''': I believe so. I will make another attempt. :''[Data adjusts the dice in his hand subtly]'' :'''Data''': Baby needs a new pair of shoes. <hr width = "50%"> :'''Manager''': The man has the touch. <hr width = "50%"> :'''Data''': I wish to cash in, sir. :'''Manager''': I'm afraid you've broken the bank! :'''[[w: William Riker|William Riker]]''': Just take out 12.5 million — the purchase price of this hotel — and spread the rest around. :'''Manager''': You're the foreign investors. :'''Riker''': That's right! We just bought this place, lock, stock and barrel. Consider it a done deal. === ''[[w:Time Squared (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Time Squared]]'' [2.13] === :'''[[w: William Riker|William Riker]]''': Flair is what marks the difference between artistry and mere competence. ===''[[w:The Icarus Factor|The Icarus Factor]]'' [2.14]=== === ''[[w:Pen Pals (TNG episode)|Pen Pals]]'' [2.15] === :'''[[w: William Riker|William Riker]]''': The game's not big enough unless it scares you a little. === ''[[w:Q Who|Q Who]]'' [2.16] === [[File:Artist’s impression of the Milky Way.jpg|thumb|You judge yourselves against the pitiful adversaries you've encountered so far: the ''Romulans'', the ''Klingons''... They're '''nothing''' compared to what's waiting. Picard, you are about to move into areas of the galaxy containing wonders more incredible than you can ''possibly'' imagine... and terrors to freeze your soul.]] [[File:Noun Borg 14249.svg|thumb|The Borg is the ultimate user. They're unlike any threat your Federation has ever faced. They're not interested in political conquest, wealth or power as you know it. They're simply interested in your ship. Its technology. They've identified it as something they can ''consume''.]] [[File:John de Lancie (53134710217).jpg|thumb|If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your ''bed''. It's not ''safe'' out here! It's ''wondrous'', with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross...but it's ''not'' for the timid.]] :'''[[w:Q (Star Trek)|Q]]''': You judge yourselves against the pitiful adversaries you've encountered so far: the ''Romulans'', the ''Klingons''... They're '''nothing''' compared to what's waiting. Picard, you are about to move into areas of the galaxy containing wonders more incredible than you can ''possibly'' imagine... and terrors to freeze your soul. I offer myself as a guide -- only to be rejected out of hand. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Q''': ''(to Worf)'' Micro-brain! Growl for me, let me know you still care! <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:William Riker|William T. Riker]]''': Travel time to the nearest starbase? :'''[[w:Data (Star Trek)|Data]]''': ''[OC] At maximum warp, in two years, seven months, three days, eighteen hours we would reach Starbase 185.'' :'''[[w:William Riker|William T. Riker]]''': Why? :'''[[w:Q (Star Trek)|Q]]''': Why? Why, to give you a taste of your future, a preview of things to come. ''Con permiso, Capitan.'' The hall is rented, the orchestra engaged. It's now time to see if you can dance. :''(Q vanishes)'' :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': Guinan, your people have been in this part of the galaxy. :'''[[w:Guinan|Guinan]]''' ''(quietly)'': Yes. :'''[[w:William Riker|William T. Riker]]''': What can you tell us? :'''[[w:Guinan|Guinan]]''': Only that if I were you, I'd start back now. <hr width="50%"> :'''[[w:Guinan|Guinan]]''': My people encountered them a century ago. They destroyed our cities, scattered my people throughout the galaxy. They're called the [[w:Borg (Star Trek)|Borg]]. Protect yourself, Captain, or they'll destroy you. <hr width="50%"> :'''The Borg''': We have analyzed your defensive capabilities as being unable to withstand us. If you defend yourselves, you will be punished. <hr width="50%"> :'''Q''': The Borg is the ultimate user. They're unlike any threat your Federation has ever faced. They're not interested in political conquest, wealth or power as you know it. They're simply interested in your ship. Its technology. They've identified it as something they can ''consume''. :'''[[w:William Riker|William T. Riker]]''': You brought us here, you exposed us to it, and you cost us the lives of our ship-mates! :'''Q''': Oh, ''please''... :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': (to Riker) Number One. (to Q) Eighteen of our people have died. Please, tell us that this is one of your illusions. :'''Q''': Oh, no. This is as real as your ''so-called'' life gets. ''[disappears]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Q''': If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your ''bed''. It's not ''safe'' out here! It's ''wondrous'', with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross...but it's ''not'' for the timid. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Guinan''': Q set a series of events into motion, bringing contact with the Borg ''much'' sooner than it should have come. Now, perhaps when you're ready, it might be possible to establish a relationship with them. But for now, for right now, you're just raw material to them. Since they're aware of your existence... :'''Picard''' ''(realising the implications)'': ...they will be coming. :'''Guinan''': You can bet on it. ===''[[w:Samaritan Snare|Samaritan Snare]]'' [2.17]=== :''[Picard prepares to leave for Starbase 515 without giving a reason for his journey and is packing books for his journey.]'' :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Come. Yes, what is it, Number One? :'''[[w:William Riker|William Riker]]''': Is something wrong? This trip to Starbase Five One Five is rather unexpected. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Ensign Crusher and I will rendezvous with you on your return from the Epsilon Pulsar Cluster. :'''William Riker''': Forgive my saying so, sir, but you're being rather enigmatic. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Consider it Captain's privilege. :'''William Riker''': As First Officer, I have complete security clearance. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': This has nothing to do with ship's business, Number One. Suffice it to say, it is strictly a matter of image. <hr width="50%> :'''Wesley Crusher''': Didn't you ever wish you had kids of your own? :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Wishing for a thing does not make it so. <hr width="50%> :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Did you read that book I gave you? :'''Wesley Crusher''': Some of it. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': That's reassuring. :'''Wesley Crusher''': I just don't have much time. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': There is no greater challenge than the study of philosophy. :'''Wesley Crusher''': But [[William James]] won't be in my Starfleet exams. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': The important things never will be. Anyone can be trained in the mechanics of piloting a starship. :'''Wesley Crusher''': But Starfleet Academy :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': It takes more. Open your mind to the past. Art, history, philosophy. And all this may mean something. <hr width="50%> :'''Grebnedlog''': We are Pakleds. Our ship is the ''Mondor''. ''[indicates some engineers trying to fix the ship's warp drive]'' It is broken. <hr width="50%> :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': For ambitious Starfleet officers, there are certain costs involved. One must be cautious of long-term commitments, Wesley. :'''Wesley Crusher''': No problem. Where women are concerned, I am in complete control. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Really? I always rather had to work at that. :'''Wesley Crusher''': Have you always been so disciplined? :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Good Lord, no. ''[indicates his heart]'' If I was, I wouldn't have this problem. <hr width="50%> :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': ''(telling Wesley about his early career)'' My mates and I were at the Bonestell Recreation Facility, which was something of a dead rough crossroads at the time, filled with an assorted bunch of galactic riffraff. When a trio of Nausicaans came in, they were clearly spoiling for a confrontation with a group of fresh-faced Starfleet officers such as ourselves. Well, everyone in the group had the good sense to give these Nausicaans a wide berth, to stand off. Everyone, that is, except me. I stood toe to toe with the worst of the three, and I told him what I thought of him, his pals, his planet, and I possibly made some passing reference to his questionable parentage. And the next thing I knew, all three of them were on me and I was fighting for my life. I was actually doing quite well for a while, too. :'''Wesley Crusher''': You fought them? And won? :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': I had this one Nausicaan down in this somewhat devious joint-lock when, unbeknownst to me, one of his chums drew his weapon and impaled me through the back. Curious sensation, actually. Not much pain. Shock, certainly, at the sight of serrated metal sticking through my chest. A certain giddy warmth. In fact I do actually remember that I laughed out loud. Well, it pierced my heart, of course. Well, if we'd not been so near to a medical facility, I would surely have died. :'''Wesley Crusher''': Really? Then what happened? :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Nothing. I was no hero, Wesley. I was an undisciplined, loud-mouthed, opinionated young man who was way out of his league. I learned a very hard, very painful lesson that day, but I learned it well. I hope you never have to learn it the same way. <hr width="50%"> :''[Geordi has supposedly installed new weapons in the Pakled ship]'' :'''Reginod''': We are strong! :'''Geordi La Forge''': You're now armed to the teeth. :'''Grebnedlog''': Teeth are for chewing. <hr width="50%"> :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': ''[before entering the medical facility at Starbase 515]'' Why do I get the distinct impression that you're acting like some kind of... escort? :'''Wesley Crusher''': Dr. Pulaski asked me to make sure that you actually went inside. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': That woman! She would. <hr width="50%"> :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': ''[waking up after the operation]'' What the hell are *you* doing here? :'''[[w:Katherine Pulaski|Kate Pulaski]]''': Saving your life. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Oh, come on. This is a routine procedure - quite commonplace. :'''Kate Pulaski''': True. But you are not a commonplace man. <hr width="50%"> :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': I didn't want you involved in this. :'''Kate Pulaski''': You're welcome. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': If you're here... the entire crew must know. :'''Kate Pulaski''': You're still the Captain - invincible. <hr width="50%"> :(Picard and Wesley enter to a round of applause) :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': I beg your pardon? :'''Geordi La Forge''': Looks like things are back to normal. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': I'm pleased to report that Ensign Crusher's Starfleet exam results permit him to continue his studies on board the Enterprise. Furthermore, any rumours of my brush with death are greatly exaggerated. Is that clear? :'''William Riker''': Yes, sir. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Then, Ensign Crusher, set course for the Epsilon Sector, warp five. Engage. ===''[[w:Up the Long Ladder|Up the Long Ladder]]'' [2.18]=== :'''Worf''': You must not drink the tea. It is deadly to humans. :'''Kate Pulaski''': And none too good for Klingons. <hr width= "50%"/> :'''Brenna''': ''(disgustedly)'' Are you drunk yet, or can you go an' talk to Dr. Pulaski about the children? :'''Danilo''': What about them? :'''Brenna''': She wants to send them to school with the ship's children. :'''Danilo''': W - what do ''you'' think? :'''Brenna''': I think it's a good idea. ''So go handle it! (She looks pointedly at other Bringloidi hanging around nearby)'' And I'm sure there's somethin' you can be doin' with ''your'' time...''(she turns to Worf) And as for YOU -!'' :'''Worf''' ''(irritated and incredulous)'': ''What?!'' :'''Brenna''': Why'd you have to go an' tell them this magic wall can give 'em more than just meat an' potatoes? Now we'll never get a lick o' work out of them! :'''Worf''': ''(still irritated)'' Madam - have you ever considered a career in security?! :'''Brenna''': If it's anythin' like babysittin', I'm an authority! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Brenna''': Isn't that just like a man! You make these grandiose decisions, but you never stop to consider the poor women! :'''Picard''': Miss Odell, I - :'''Brenna''': You men draw a mug and solve all the problems of the world while the beer goes down, ''but,'' when it comes to the ''practical'' matters, it always falls to the women to make your grand dreams come true! :'''Picard''': Miss Odell, you were the one who wanted a new home. :'''Brenna''': But I don't know if I want to be Eve! :'''Picard''': It's your choice. If you wish, you can stay on the ''Enterprise.'' We will drop you at a starbase, then you can go where you wish. :'''Brenna''': Leave my da? :'''Picard''': If this is going to work, these people will need your strength...your guidance. :'''Brenna''': ''(under her breath, gazing up as if to heaven)'' Oh, damn...''(she looks thoughtfully at the Prime Minister)'' What does he do again? :'''Picard''': Prime Minister. :'''Brenna''': Hmmm. Sounds important. :'''Picard''': Oh, it is. :'''Brenna''': Sounds like he might have more than two coins to rub together. ''(impish look)'' Three husbands...? === ''[[w:Manhunt (TNG episode)|Manhunt]]'' [2.19] === :'''[[w:Data (Star Trek)|Data]]''': Judging a being by its physical appearance is the last major human prejudice, Wesley. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Troi''': My mother is beginning a physiological phase. It's one that all Betazoid women must deal with as they enter mid-life. :'''Riker''': Yes, it's something Troi warned me about when we first started to see each other. A Betazoid woman, when she goes through this phase, quadruples her sex drive. :'''Troi''' ''(quietly)'': Or more. :'''Riker''' ''(startled)'': Or more? You never told me that. :'''Troi''' ''(trying not to laugh)'': I didn't want to frighten you. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Troi''': It seems, Captain, that you are the early favorite. ''(to become her mother's husband)'' :'''Riker''': Congratulations, sir! :'''Picard''': I'm not amused, Number One. === ''[[w:The Emissary (TNG episode)|The Emissary]]'' [2.20] === :'''K'Ehleyr''': Whoever said 'getting there is half the fun' never rode in a class eight probe. <hr width= "50%" > :'''Worf''': You are late. :'''K'Ehleyr''': Sorry, had to make myself beautiful. :'''Worf''': I fail to understand why. :'''K’Ehleyr''': Worf, we’re alone now. You don’t have to act like a Klingon glacier, I don’t bite… actually, that’s not true, I do bite. <hr width="50%"> :'''Worf''':Drop your shields...IMMEDIATELY! :'''K'Temoc''':And if I refuse? :'''Worf''':then die in ignorance. <hr width="50%"> :'''Worf''': We are mated! :'''K'Ehyler''': I know! I was there! <hr width="50%"> :'''Troi''': You’re upset. :'''K’Ehleyr''': Your finely honed Betazoid sense tell you that? :'''Troi''': Well… that and the table. <hr width="50%"> :'''Picard''': Lieutenant, I order you to relax. :'''Worf''': I AM RELAXED! <hr width="50%"> :'''Riker''': How’d you like command? :'''Worf''': Comfortable chair. === ''[[w:Peak Performance (TNG episode)|Peak Performance]]'' [2.21] === :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': ''(in response to Kolrami's criticism of Riker's "jocularity")'' Will Riker is the finest officer with whom I have ever served. Don't confuse style with intent. <hr width=50%> :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Data (Star Trek)|Data]]''': It is a matter of perspective, Doctor. In the strictest sense, I did not win...''(beat, to disappointed groans from the crew)''...I busted him up. ''(they laugh and cheer)'' ===''[[w:Shades of Gray (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Shades of Gray]]'' [2.22]=== :'''Chief O'Brien:''' I hope these are the right coordinates. Just kidding, Doctor. I know how much you love the transporter. :'''Dr. Pulaski: '''About as much as I love comical transporter chiefs. <hr width "50%"/> :'''Data:''' For Commander Riker's sake, I hope my hypothesis is in error. :'''Picard:''' Unfortunately, Commander Data, your hypotheses rarely are. <hr width "50%"/> :'''Riker:''' If you drop a hammer on your foot, it's hardly useful to get mad at the hammer. <hr width "50%"/> :'''Riker:''' Deanna, facing death is the ultimate test of character. I don't want to die but if I have to do, I'd like to do it with a little pride. == Season 3 == === ''[[w:Evolution (TNG episode)|Evolution]]'' [3.1] === :'''Dr. Stubbs''': Now the burden is yours. :'''[[w:Wesley Crusher|Wesley Crusher]]''': Burden? :'''Dr. Stubbs''': To fulfill your potential. You will never come up against a greater adversary than your own potential, my young friend. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Wesley Crusher''': It's just a science project. :'''[[w:Guinan|Guinan]]''': You know, a doctor friend once said the same thing to me. [[Frankenstein (novel)|Frankenstein]] was his name. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Guinan''': Wes, do you think you're gonna get a good grade? :'''Wesley Crusher''': ''[sighs]'' I always get an A. ''[leaves Ten-Forward]'' :'''Guinan''': So did Dr. Frankenstein. === ''[[w:The Ensigns of Command (TNG episode)|The Ensigns of Command]]'' [3.2] === :'''[[w:Data|Data]]''': Captain. Doctor. I am honoured by your presence, but may I suggest you attend the second concert. :'''[[w:Beverly Crusher|Beverly Crusher]]''': Why, Data? :'''Data''': Ensign Ortiz will perform the violin part. My rendition will be less enjoyable. :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': Oh? :'''Data''': Although I am technically proficient, according to my fellow performers, I lack soul. :'''Beverly Crusher''': Data, telling us why you're going to fail before you make the attempt is never wise. :'''Data''': But is not honesty always the preferred choice? :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Excessive honesty can be disastrous, particularly in a commander. :'''Data''': Indeed? :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Knowing your limitations is one thing. Advertising them to a crew can damage your credibility as a leader. :'''Data''': Because you will lose their confidence? :'''Beverly Crusher''': And you may begin to believe in those limitations yourself. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Worf|Worf]]''': This is hopeless. Fighting would be preferable. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': Pursuant to paragraph one thousand, two hundred and ninety, I hereby formally request third party [[arbitration]] of our dispute. :'''Sheliak Captain''': You have the right. :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': Furthermore, pursuant to subsection D3, I name ... the Grizzelas to arbitrate. :'''Sheliak Captain''': Grizzelas? :'''[[w:William Riker|William Riker]]''': (mouths) Grizzelas? :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': Unfortunately, they are currently in their hibernation cycle. However, they ''will'' awaken in six months, at which time we can get this matter settled. Now, do you want to wait... or give me my three weeks? :'''Sheliak Captain''': Absurd! We carry the membership! We can brook no delay! :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': Then I hereby declare this treaty in abeyance. :'''Sheliak Captain''': Wait! Negotiation is permiss...! :''[Picard signals Worf to cut the transmission.]'' :'''[[w:William Riker|William Riker]]''': You enjoyed that. :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': You're damned right. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Data|Data]]''': That was the stun setting. This is not. {Data stuns the guards and sends a more powerful phaser blast up the aqueduct.] <hr width="50%"/> :'''Gosheven''': I really was willing to stay here and die for this. :'''[[w:Data|Data]]''': I know that. This is just a thing, and things can be replaced. Lives cannot. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Ard'rian McKenzie|Ard'rian McKenzie]]''': Do you have any feelings for me? :'''[[w:Data|Data]]''': I have no feelings of any kind. :''[Data then kisses the surprised Ard'rian.]'' === ''[[w:The Survivors (TNG episode)|The Survivors]]'' [3.3] === :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': We're not qualified to be your judges. We have no law to fit your crime. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': We leave behind a being of extraordinary power... and conscience. I am not certain if he should be praised or condemned... only that he should be left alone. === ''[[w:Who Watches the Watchers (TNG episode)|Who Watches the Watchers]]'' [3.4] === :'''Nuria''': That is my home? :'''Picard''': Seen from far, far above. :'''Nuria''': Yet we do not fall. I never imagined I would see the clouds from the other side. Your powers are truly boundless. :'''Picard''': Nuria, your people live in huts. Was it always so? :'''Nuria''': No. We have found remnants of tools in caves. Our ancestors must have lived there. :'''Picard''': So why do you now live in huts? :'''Nuria''' ''(matter-of-factly)'': Huts are better. Caves are dark and wet. :'''Picard''': If huts are better, why did you once live in caves? :'''Nuria''': The most reasonable explanation would be that at one time we didn't know how to make huts. :'''Picard''': Just as at one time you did not know how to weave cloth, how to make a bow. :'''Nuria''': That would be reasonable. :'''Picard''': Someone invented a hut. Someone invented a bow, who taught others, who taught their children, who built a stronger hut, built a better bow, who taught ''their'' children. Now, Nuria, suppose one of your cave dwelling ancestors could see you as you are today. What would she think? :'''Nuria''': I don't know. :'''Picard''': Put yourself in her place. You see, she cannot kill a hornbuck at a great distance. You can. You have a power she lacks. :'''Nuria''': Only because I have a bow. :'''Picard''': She's never ''seen'' a bow. It doesn't ''exist'' in her world. To ''you,'' it's a simple tool. To ''her,'' it's magic. :'''Nuria''': I suppose she might think so. :'''Picard''': Now, how would she react to you? :'''Nuria''': I think she would fear me. :'''Picard''': Just as ''you'' fear ''me.'' :'''Nuria''': I do not fear you any longer. :'''Picard''': Good. That's good. You see, ''my'' people once lived in caves. And then we learned to build huts and, in time, to build ships like this one. :'''Nuria''': Perhaps one day, ''my'' people will travel above the skies. :'''Picard''' ''(softly, but with utter conviction and admiration)'': Of that, I have absolutely no doubt. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Crusher''': Crusher to Picard. I think we're going to lose Warren. :'''Picard''' [OC]: ''On my way.'' :'''Barron''': I'm here, Mary. :''(Picard and Nuria enter)'' :'''Crusher''': Prepare two cc's of norep. :''(But Mary Warren gives up the struggle to breathe) '' :'''Crusher''': I'm sorry. :''(Crusher and Barron leave, and Nuria approaches the death bed)'' :'''Nuria''': Picard, you could not save her? :'''Picard''': No. :'''Nuria''': You ''do'' have limits. You are not masters of life and death. :'''Picard''': No, we are not. We can cure many diseases and we can repair injuries, we can even extend life. ''(bleakly)'' But for all our knowledge, all our advances, we are just as mortal as you are. We're just as powerless to prevent the inevitable. :'''Nuria''': You are a remarkable people, but you are ''not'' superior beings. My people must be made to understand that. <hr width="50%"/> :(Picard's arm is in a sling) :'''Picard''': Now, Mister LaForge. :'''LaForge''' [OC]: ''Aye, sir.'' :''(The holographic camouflage comes down)'' :'''Nuria''': What is that? :'''Picard''': A place where we can watch your people. :'''Fento''': But why? :'''Picard''': To study you. To understand your ways. Discontinue, Mister LaForge. :''(The window vanishes again)'' :'''Nuria''': Picard, why should a people so advanced want to learn about us? :'''Picard''': We were once as you are now. To study you is to understand ourselves. :'''Fento''': But why did you have to hide yourself from us? :'''Liko''': Because their presence would affect us, just as it affected me. :'''Picard''': It is our highest law that we shall not interfere with other cultures. :'''Oji''': Then revealing yourselves was an accident. :'''Picard''': Oh, yes, and now we must leave you. :'''Oji''': Why? There's so much you can teach us. :'''Picard''': But that, too, would be interference. You must progress in your own way. :'''Nuria''': So we will. You have taught us there is nothing beyond our reach. :'''Picard''' ''(with a smile in his voice)'': Not even the stars. :'''Nuria''': Pah'kee. :''(A little boy gives Picard a woven belt or some such memento)'' :'''Nuria''': I wish you good journeys, Picard. Remember my people. :'''Picard''': Always. === ''[[w:The Bonding (TNG episode)|The Bonding]]'' [3.5] === :'''[[w:William Riker|William Riker]]''': Maybe if we felt any human loss as keenly as we feel one of those close to us, human history would be far less bloody. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Worf''': I cannot seek revenge against an enemy that has turned to dust centuries ago. Her death was senseless! The last victim of a forgotten war! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Picard''': Jeremy, Wesley's father died on a Starfleet mission, when he was younger than you are. :'''Troi''': Wes, your mother told me you were finding it difficult to talk to Jeremy. Why is that? :'''Wesley Crusher:''' I don't know. I just don't want to think about it any more. All this has reminded me so much of that day. :'''Picard''': The day I told you your father had been killed. As I recall, Wesley, you took it very well. :'''Wesley Crusher:''' My parents had told me about the dangers of Starfleet missions. I knew it could happen. :'''Picard''': So, you were prepared? :'''Wesley Crusher:''' No! I wasn't prepared at all. How can anyone be prepared to hear that a parent is never coming home again? I tried to be what everyone expected of me. Brave and mature. :'''Picard''': Wesley, are you saying you didn't want anybody to see what you were really feeling? ''[Wesley nods]'' What were you really feeling? :'''Wesley Crusher:''' Like... somebody had licked me in the head. :'''Picard''': "Somebody?" :'''Troi''': Go on. You've wanted to tell him for a long time. :'''Wesley Crusher''': I was angry at you. :'''Picard''': Why me? Why were you angry at me, Wesley? Were you angry at me because I was the one who told you your father was dead? :'''Wesley Crusher''': No. :'''Picard''': Then, why? :'''Wesley Crusher''': Because you led the mission. You came home, and my father didn't. :'''Troi''': How long were you angry with the captain, Wes? :'''Wesley Crusher''': For a long time. But not any more. === ''[[w:Booby Trap (TNG episode)|Booby Trap]]'' [3.6] === :'''Picard''': It is exactly as they left it, Number One. In the bottle. ''[seeing his confusion]''... The ship in the bottle. ''[further confusion]'' Good Lord, didn't anybody here build ships in bottles when they were boys? :'''Worf''': I did not play with toys. :'''Data''': I was never a boy. :'''O'Brien''': ''[brightly]'' I did, sir. :''[The others all look at O'Brien for a moment]'' :'''Picard''': ''Thank'' you, Mister O'Brien. Proceed. :''[O'Brien beams Picard, Worf, and Data to the alien vessel. After the sequence is complete, he notices Riker, still staring at him.]'' :'''O'Brien''': ''[defensively]'' I did! I really did! Ships in bottles? Great fun! === ''[[w:The Enemy (TNG episode)|The Enemy]]'' [3.7] === :'''[[w:Beverly Crusher|Dr. Beverly Crusher]]''': Lieutenant, I understand your feelings about the Romulans, but this is not the time or the place. :'''[[w:Worf|Worf]]''': If you had seen them kill your parents, you would understand, Doctor. It is always the time and the place for those feelings. :'''Beverly Crusher''': ''This'' Romulan didn't murder your parents. And you are the only one who can save his life. :'''Worf''': Then he will die. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bochra''': ''[referring to Geordi's blindness]'' How did this happen? :'''[[w:Geordi La Forge|Geordi La Forge]]''': I was born that way. :'''Bochra''': And your parents let you live? :'''Geordi La Forge''': What kind of question is that! Of course they let me live. :'''Bochra''': No wonder your race is weak. You waste time and resources on defective children. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bochra''': I have no more wish to die than you do. :'''Geordi La Forge''': Bochra, there are times when it is necessary to die for one's ideals... do you believe this is one of those times? :''[Bochra thinks, then lowers his disruptor.]'' :'''Geordi La Forge''': Let's go find that beacon. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bochra''': Do all humans give up so easily? :'''Geordi La Forge''': Bochra, we're lost. Unless you've got something that can smell neutrinos. :'''Bochra''': We have the sensor device you are carrying. :'''Geordi La Forge''': Tricorder? It's not designed to detect neutrinos. :'''Bochra''': Your eye device does. Connect them. :'''Geordi La Forge''': That's crazy. The devices aren't compatible, it would be impossible to get an accurate reading... wait a minute. Wait a minute. I wouldn't need to get an accurate reading. I'd just need it to point us in the right direction, a neutrino geiger counter...! ''[sighs]'' It's still impossible. :'''Bochra''': Why? :'''Geordi La Forge''': Because I can't see! Adapting the devices is delicate work, you can't do it by hand. :'''Bochra''': Then I will be your eyes. === ''[[w:The Price (TNG episode)|The Price]]'' [3.8] === :'''DaiMon Goss''': My name is DaiMon Goss and these are my counsels, Kol and Dr Aridor. We'll need chairs. :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': I'm Captain Picard of the Enterprise. I am serving as host for these proceedings. :'''DaiMon Goss''': Good. Then see to it we get some chairs. :'''Picard''': Let me explain. :'''DaiMon Goss''': Fine, fine, just have your Klingon servant get us some chairs. :'''[[w:Work|Worf]]''': I am in charge of security! :'''DaiMon Goss''': Then who gets the chairs? <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Geordi La Forge|Geordi La Forge]]''': You know, if this doesn't work, the thought of spending the rest of my life in here is none too appealing. :'''[[w:Data (Star Trek)|Data]]''': There is a bright side, Geordi. You will have me to talk to. ===''[[w:The Vengeance Factor|The Vengeance Factor]]'' [3.9]=== :'''Data:''' Captain, I am detecting life readings from the planet surface, as well as several small areas of thermal radiation and carbon dioxide emissions, indicative of combustion. :'''Wesley Crusher:''' Campfires, Data. :'''Data:''' Is that not what I said? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Riker:''' Yuta, you're an excellent chef but you speak in riddles. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Riker:''' Fifty-three years...and she hasn't aged in a day. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Worf:''' Your ambushes would be more successful if you bathed more often! ===''[[w:The Defector (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|The Defector]]'' [3.10]=== :'''Jarok:''' How do you allow Klingon peta'Q to walk around in a Starfleet uniform? :'''Worf:''' You are lucky this is not a Klingon ship. We know how to deal with spies. :'''Jarok:''' Remove this tohzah from my sight! :'''Riker:''' Your knowledge of Klingon curses is impressive. But, as a Romulan might say, only a veruul would use such language in public. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jarok:''' Oh, what a fool I've been, to go looking for courage in the land of cowards! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Commander Tomalak:''' I urge you, Captain Picard: surrender. Consider the men and women you would lead into a lost cause! :'''Captain Jean-Luc Picard:''' If the cause is just and honorable, they are prepared to give their lives. Are you prepared to die today, Tomalak? :'''Commander Tomalak:''' I expected more than an idle threat from you, Picard. :'''Captain Jean-Luc Picard:''' Then you shall have it! Mr. Worf? :'''Worf:''' Aye, sir! :''[Picard's secret backup of cloaked Klingon warbirds materialize, surrounding the Romulans]'' :'''Worf:''' Klingon warships, armed and ready, sir! :''[Tomalak shows a look of shock.]'' :'''Captain Jean-Luc Picard''': What shall it be, Tomalak? :'''Commander Tomalak''': You will still not survive our assault. :'''Captain Jean-Luc Picard''': And you will not survive ours. Shall we die together? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jarok:''' I did it for nothing! === ''[[w:The Hunted (TNG episode)|The Hunted]]'' [3.11] === :''[Picard reports that the Angosian fugitive has been captured.]'' :'''Prime Minister Nayrok''': Do not relax your security for an instant, Captain. He is extremely violent, and very cunning, as you already know. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': A matter of internal security: the age-old cry of the oppressor. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Worf catches Danar in a clever head-fake scheme.]'' :'''Worf''': Danar! You <u>are</u> cunning... you must have Klingon blood. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': We have everything we need for our report. Your prisoner has been returned to you. You have a decision to make: either try to force them back or welcome them home. In your own words, this is not our affair. We cannot interfere with the natural course of your society's development and I'd say it's likely to develop significantly during the next several minutes. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:William Riker|William T. Riker]]''': Success, Captain? :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Number One, note in your report that if the government of Angosia survives the night, we will offer Federation assistance in the efforts to reprogram their veterans. :'''William T. Riker''': And if the government doesn't survive? :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': I have a feeling they will choose to. === ''[[w:The High Ground (TNG episode)|The High Ground]]'' [3.12] === [[File:La Liberté guidant le peuple - Eugène Delacroix - Musée du Louvre Peintures RF 129 - après restauration 2024.jpg|thumb|Data, these are questions that [[Human|mankind]] has been struggling with throughout [[history]]. Your confusion is… only [[Humanity|human]].]] :'''Capt. Jean-Luc Picard''': History has shown us that strength may be useless when faced with terrorism. <hr width="50%" /> :'''Alexana Devos''': In a world where children blow up children, everyone's a threat. <hr width="50%" /> :'''Lt Cmdr. Data''': [on the transport device of the terrorists] Captain, anyone who is willing to transport in this manner would suffer significant internal damage that could be detected. :'''Capt. Jean-Luc Picard''': It sounds as though they may require the services of a doctor. <hr width="50%" /> :'''Kyril Finn''': You added the chair, Captain, I am just making you sit in it. <hr width="50%" /> :'''[[w:Beverly Crusher|Dr. Beverly Crusher]]''': He's prepared to kill you. :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': An excellent reason to escape. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lt Cmdr. Data''': But if that is so, Captain, why are their methods so often successful? I've been reviewing the history of armed [[rebellion]], and it appears that [[terrorism]] is an effective way to promote political change. :'''Capt. Jean-Luc Picard''': Yes, it can be. But I have never subscribed to the theory that [[Mao Zedong|political power flows from the barrel of a gun]]. :'''Lt Cmdr. Data''': Yet there are numerous examples when it was successful: the independence of the [[Mexico|Mexican state]] from [[Spain]], the [[W:Irish reunification|Irish Unification]] of 2024, and the Kenzie Rebellion. :'''Capt. Jean-Luc Picard''': Yes, I am aware of them. :'''Lt Cmdr. Data''': Then would it be accurate to say that terrorism is acceptable, when all options for peaceful settlement have been foreclosed? :'''Capt. Jean-Luc Picard''': Data, these are questions that [[Human|mankind]] has been struggling with throughout [[history]]. Your confusion is… only [[Humanity|human]]. === ''[[w:Déjà Q|Déjà Q]]'' [3.13] === :''[After Q appears on the bridge naked]'' :'''Picard''': Q! :'''Q''': ''[playfully mocking his embarrassment]'' Red alert! <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Q (Star Trek)|Q]]''': And since I was given only a fraction of a second to mull, I chose this, and asked them to bring me here. :'''[[w:Deanna Troi|Deanna Troi]]''': Why? :'''Q''': Because in all the universe, you are the closest thing I have to a friend, Jean-Luc. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Q''': I have no powers! Q the ordinary! :'''Picard''': Q the [[Lying|liar]]! Q the [[Misanthropy|misanthrope]]! :'''Q''': Q the [[miserable]], Q the desperate! What must I do to convince you people? :'''Worf''': Die! :'''Q''': Oh, ''very'' clever, Worf. Eat any good books lately? <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Q (Star Trek)|Q]]''': (to Worf) I can't disappear any more than you could win a beauty contest. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Q (Star Trek)|Q]]''': If I ask a very simple question, do you think you might be able to answer it without it troubling your intellect too much? ''(He enters the cell)'' Ready? Here goes. Would I permit you to lock me away if I still had all my powers? :'''Worf''': You have fooled us too often, Q. :'''[[w:Q (Star Trek)|Q]]''': Perspicacity incarnate! Please don't feel compelled now to tell me the story of the boy who cried Worf. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Q (Star Trek)|Q]]''': Can I have a Starfleet uniform? What are you looking at? :'''Data''': I was considering the possibility that you are telling the truth, that you really are human. :'''[[w:Q (Star Trek)|Q]]''': It's the ghastly truth, Mr. Data. I can now stub my toe with the best of them. :'''Data''': An irony. It means that you have achieved in disgrace what I have always aspired to be. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Q''': This is incredible! :'''Geordi''': You see something, Q? :'''Q''': I think I just hurt my back. I'm feeling pain. I don't like it. What's the right thing to say? :'''Data & Geordi''': "Ow." :'''Q''': Ow! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Data''': Can you recommend a way to counter the effect? :'''Q''': Simple. Change the gravitational constant of the universe. :'''Geordi La Forge''': What? :'''Q''': Change the gravitational constant of the universe, thereby altering the mass of the asteroid! :'''Geordi''': Redefine gravity. And how am I supposed to do that?! :'''Q''': You just do it! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Q''': I'm not good in groups. It's hard to work in groups when you're omnipotent. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Q''': Dr Crusher, Starfleet have sent you into exile again. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Q''': Your bedside manner is admirable, Doctor. I'm sure your patients must recover quickly... ''(sotto voce)'' just to get away from you. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Q''': I'll have 10 chocolate sundaes. :'''Data''': I have never seen anyone eat 10 chocolate sundaes. :'''Q''': I'm in a really bad mood. And since I've never eaten before, I should be very hungry. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Q''' ''(with foreboding as Guinan enters Ten-Forward)'': This is not a moment I've been looking forward to. :'''Guinan''': I hear they drummed you out of the Continuum. :'''Q''': I like to think of it as a significant career change. :'''Guinan''' ''(sardonic)'': Just one of the boys, eh? :'''Q''': One of the boys with an IQ of 2005. :'''Data''': The Captain and many of the crew are not yet convinced he is truly human. :'''Guinan''': Really? :''[She picks up a fork and stabs Q's hand with it.]'' :'''Q''': ''AAAAAHHHH!!!'' :'''Guinan''' ''(coolly)'': Seems human enough to me. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Q''': The Calamarain are not very hospitable creatures. They exist as swirls of ionised gas. :'''Picard''': What did you do to them, Q? :'''Q''': Nothing bizarre, nothing grotesque. :'''Riker''': You tormented them. :'''Q''': A subjective term, Riker. One creature's torment, is another creature's delight. They simply have no sense of humour, a character flaw with which you can personally identify. :'''Riker''': I say we turn him over to them. :'''Q''': Oh, I take it back. You ''do'' have a sense of humour. A dreadful one at that. :'''Riker''': I'm serious. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Q''': This is getting on my nerves, now that I have them! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Q''': All right, everyone, this is what we're going to be doing. :'''LaForge''': Q, everybody already ''knows'' what they're going to do, except for you, Now here's what I need. :'''Q''': La Forge, obviously my knowledge and experience far exceed yours by about a billion times. So, if you'll just step aside gracefully. :'''LaForge''': Q, your experience will be most valuable to me if you can manually control the field integrity. :'''Q''': Don't be foolish. That would be a waste of my talents. :'''LaForge''': Q, get to the controls or get the hell out of here! Data, you're my liaison to the Bridge. I'll need you with me. :'''Q''': Who does he think he ''is,'' giving me orders? :'''Data''': Geordi thinks he is in command here...and he is correct. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': Q, you exceed your own standards for self-preoccupation. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Picard''': ''[After Q stole a shuttle]'' This goes against my better judgment. Transporter Room 3, lock onto Shuttle 1 and beam it back into its bay. :'''Crewman''': Aye, sir. :'''Picard''': ''[after Riker gives him a disapproving look]'' It's a perfectly good shuttlecraft! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Q2''': Not bad, Q. Not great, but not bad. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Q''': What are you doing here? :'''Q2''': Oh, I've been keeping track of you. :'''Q''': I always thought you were in my corner. :'''Q2''': Ah, no. See, actually, I was the one who got you kicked out. You know, you're incorrigible Q? You're a lost cause. I can't go to a single solar system without having to apologize for ya, and I'm ''tired'' of it! :'''Q''': ''I'' wasn't the one who misplaced the entire Deltivid Asteroid Belt! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Riker''': ''[After Q gives him two attractive women]'' I don't need your fantasy women! :'''Q''': Oh, you're so stolid! You weren't like that before the beard. ===''[[w:A Matter of Perspective|A Matter of Perspective]]'' [3.14]=== :''[Picard has invited Data to inspect a painting session.]'' :'''Data''': Hm. Ensign Williams' striking style is heavily influenced by geometric constructivism. Lt. Wright has effectively fused the incongruities of the surrealists with the irrationality of Dadaism. ''[Data proceeds to Picard's painting.]'' Interesting. :'''Picard''': Oh! Thank you. In what way? :'''Data''': While suggesting the free treatment of form usually attributed to Fauvism, this quite inappropriately attempts to juxtapose the disparate cubistic styles of Picasso and Leger. In addition, the use of colour suggests a haphazard mélange of clashing styles. Furthermore, the unsettling overtones of proto-Vulcan influences-- :'''Picard''': Thank you, Mister Data. :'''Data''': You are welcome, sir. If I can be of further assistance-- :'''Picard''': No! Thank you. === ''[[w:Yesterday's Enterprise|Yesterday's Enterprise]]'' [3.15] === :''[Guinan gives Worf a small glass of deep purple liquid]'' :'''[[w:Guinan|Guinan]]''': All right, try this. :'''[[w:Worf|Worf]]''': What is it? :'''Guinan''': Just try it. :''[Worf drinks. After a moment, he looks at the glass, astonished, then up at Guinan]'' :'''Guinan''': You see? It's an Earth drink. Prune juice. :''[looking at the glass appreciatively]'' :'''Worf''': ''[awestruck]'' A warrior's drink. <hr width="50%" /> :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': How can I ask them to sacrifice themselves based solely on your intuition? :'''[[w:Guinan|Guinan]]''': I don't know. But I do know that this is a mistake. Every fiber in my being says this is a mistake. I can't explain it to myself, so I can't explain it to you. I only know that I'm right. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Who is to say that this history is any less proper than the other? :'''Guinan''': I suppose I am. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Not good enough, damn it, not good enough! I will not ask them to die! :'''Guinan''': 40 billion people have already died. This war is not supposed to be happening. You've got to send those people back to correct this. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': And what is to guarantee that if they go back, they will succeed? Every instinct is telling me this is wrong, it is dangerous, it is futile! :'''Guinan''': We've known each other a long time. You have never known me to impose myself on anyone, or take a stance based on trivial or whimsical perceptions. This timeline must not be allowed to continue. Now, I've told you what you must do. You have only your trust in me to help you decide to do it. <hr width="50%" /> :'''Rachel Garrett''': To be honest with you, Picard... a significant number of my crew members have expressed the desire to return, even knowing the odds. Some because they can't bear to live without their loved ones; some because they don't like the idea of slipping out in the middle of a fight. But I have told them that, in the here and now the Federation needs another ship against the Klingons, and we'd better get used to being in the here and now. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': But, if you go back, it could be a great deal more helpful. The war is going very badly for the Federation... far worse than is generally known. Starfleet Command believes that defeat is inevitable. Within six months, we may have no choice but to surrender. :'''Rachel Garrett''': And you're saying that all this may be a result of our arrival here? :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': One more ship will make no difference in the here and now, but 22 years ago, one ship could have stopped this war before it started. :'''Rachel Garrett''': Mr. Castillo. :'''[[w:Richard Castillo|Richard Castillo]]''': Yes, Captain. :'''Rachel Garrett''': Inform the crew we're going back. :'''Richard Castillo''': Yes, Captain. :'''Rachel Garrett''': The Romulans will get a good fight. We'll make it one for the history books. <hr width="50%" /> :'''Guinan''': Can I get you something, Tasha? :'''Tasha Yar''': Guinan, I have to know something. What happens to me in the other time line? :'''Guinan''': I don't have alternate biographies of the crew. As I said to the captain, it's just a feeling. :'''Tasha Yar''': But there's something more when you look at me, isn't there? I can see it in your eyes, Guinan. We've known each other too long. :'''Guinan''': We weren't meant to know each other at all! At least...that's what I sense when I look at you. Tasha, you're not supposed to be here. :'''Tasha Yar''': Where am I supposed to be? :'''Guinan''': Dead. :'''Tasha Yar''': Do you know how? :'''Guinan''': No. But I do know it was an empty death. A death without purpose. <hr width="50%" /> :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Come. Yes, Lieutenant? :'''Tasha Yar''': Captain, I request a transfer to the ''Enterprise''-C. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': For what reason? :'''Tasha Yar''': They need someone at Tactical. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': We need you here. :'''Tasha Yar''': I'm not supposed to ''be'' here, sir. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Sit down, Lieutenant. What did she say to you? :'''Tasha Yar''': I don't belong here, sir. I'm supposed to be...dead. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': She felt it necessary to reveal that to you? :'''Tasha Yar''': ''I'' felt it was necessary. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': I see. You realise that it is very possible the ''Enterprise''-C will fail. We will continue in this time line, in which case your life, hopefully, will continue for a long while. :'''Tasha Yar''': I know how important it is that they don't fail, Captain. That's why I'm requesting this transfer. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': You don't belong on that ship, Lieutenant. :'''Tasha Yar''': No, Captain Garrett belongs on that ship. But she's dead. And I think there's a certain logic in this request. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': There's no logic in this at all! Whether they succeed or not, the ''Enterprise''-C will be destroyed! :'''Tasha Yar''': But Captain, at least with someone at Tactical they will have a chance to defend themselves well. It may be a matter of seconds or minutes, but those could be the minutes that change history. Guinan says I died a senseless death in the other time line. I didn't like the sound of that, Captain. I've always known the risks that come with a Starfleet uniform. If I'm to die in one, I'd like my death to count for something. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''' ''(after a thoughtful pause)'': Lieutenant...permission granted. :'''Tasha Yar''': Thank you, sir. <hr width="50%" /> :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': ''(prior to battle)'' Attention all hands! As you know, we could outrun the Klingon vessels, but we must protect the ''Enterprise''-C until she re-enters the temporal rift. And we must succeed. Let's make sure that history never forgets the name ''Enterprise.'' <hr width="50%" /> :'''[[w:Klingon|Klingon]]''': Federation Ship ''Enterprise''. Surrender and prepare to be boarded. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': ''[grimly]'' That'll be the day. <hr width="50%" /> :'''Guinan''': Geordi, tell me about Tasha. === ''[[w:The Offspring (TNG episode)|The Offspring]]'' [3.16] === :'''[[w:Data (Star Trek)|Data]]''': Doctor? I require your advice as a successful parent. :'''Crusher''': Well, thank you, Data. I'd like to think I was. Well, please sit down. How's Lal? :'''Data''': Lal is realizing she is not the same as other children. :'''Crusher''': Is it lonely for her? :'''Data''': She does not feel the emotion of loneliness, but she can observe how isolated she is from the others. She wishes to be more like them. I do not know how to help her. Lal is passing into sentience. It is perhaps the most difficult stage of her development. :'''Crusher''': When Wesley was growing up, he was an extraordinarily bright boy, but he had a hard time making friends. I think the other children were a little intimidated by him. :'''Data''': That is precisely what happened to Lal in school. How did you help him? :'''Crusher''': Well, first I went back to my own childhood and remembered how painful it was for me. Because I remember a time when I wasn't very popular either. And when I told that to Wesley, it made him feel a little better. He knew I understood what he was going through. :'''Data''': I have not told Lal how difficult it was for me to assimilate. I did not wish it to discourage her. Perhaps this was an error of judgement. :'''Crusher''': You didn't have anyone experienced to help you through sentience. She at least has ''you.'' Just help her realise that she's not alone, and be there to nurture her when she needs love and attention. :'''Data''': I can give her attention, Doctor. But I am incapable of giving her love. ''(Data leaves)'' :'''Crusher''' ''(softly thoughtful)'': Now why do I find that so hard to believe? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Data''': Then he is questioning my ability as a parent. :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': In a manner of speaking. :'''Data''': Does the Admiral have children, sir? :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Yes, I believe he does, Data. Why? :'''Data''': I am forced to wonder how much experience ''he'' had as a parent when his first child was born. <hr width="50%"/> :''(A couple by the far wall in Ten-Forward are gazing into each others eyes and holding hands)'' :'''Guinan''': You see? :'''Lal''': What are they doing? :'''Guinan''': It's called flirting. :'''Lal''': They seem to be communicating telepathically. :'''Guinan''' ''(wryly amused)'': They're both thinking the same thing, if that's what you mean. :''(the man and woman kiss)'' :'''Lal''': (alarmed) He is biting that female! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lal''': I watch them and I can do the things they do but I will never feel the emotions. I'll never know love. :'''Data''': It is a limitation we must learn to accept, Lal. :'''Lal''': Then why do you still try to emulate humans? What purpose does it serve except to remind you that you are incomplete? :'''Data''': I have asked myself that many times as I have struggled to be more human - until I realised it is the struggle itself that is most important. We must strive to be more than we are, Lal. It does not matter that we will never reach our ultimate goal. The effort yields its own rewards. :'''Lal''': You are wise, Father. :'''Data''': It is the difference between knowledge and experience. :'''Lal''': I learned today that humans like to hold hands. It is a symbolic gesture of affection. :''(They hold hands)'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Data''': Lal is my child. You ask that I volunteer to give her up. I cannot. It would violate every lesson I have learned about human parenting. I have brought a new life into this world, and it is my duty, not Starfleet's, to guide her through these difficult steps to maturity. To support her as she learns. To prepare her to be a contributing member of society. No one can relieve me from that obligation. And I cannot ignore it. I am...her father. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': There are times, sir, when men of good conscience cannot blindly follow orders. You acknowledge their sentience, but ignore their personal liberties and freedom. Order a man to turn his child over to the state? Not while I'm his captain. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Troi''': Come in. :''(Lal enters, obviously upset)'' :'''Troi''': Hello, Lal. How are you? :'''Lal''': Troi. Admiral. Admiral. An admiral from Starfleet has come to take me away, Troi. I am scared. :'''Troi''' ''(stunned as she realises she can actually '''feel''' Lal's fear)'': You ''are'' scared, aren't you? :'''Lal''': I feel it. How is this possible? :'''Troi''': I don't know. :'''Lal''': This is what it means to feel. This is what it means to feel. <hr width="50%"/> :''[A shaken Admiral Haftel exits Data's laboratory as Data is trying to save Lal.]'' :'''Admiral Haftel''': His [[hands]] were moving faster than I could see, trying to stay ahead of each breakdown. He refused to give up. He was remarkable. It just - wasn't meant to be. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Lal|Lal]]''': I love you, father. :'''Data''': I wish I could feel it with you. :'''Lal''': Then I will feel it for both of us. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lal''': Thank you for my life. ===''[[w:Sins of the Father (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Sins of the Father]]'' [3.17]=== :'''K'mpec''': (high-ranking Klingon) This is not the Federation, Picard. If you defy an order of the High Council, the alliance with the Federation could fall to dust. :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': The alliance with the Federation is not based on lies, K'mpec. <u>Protect your [[secret]]s if you must, but you will not sacrifice these men.</u> <hr width="50%"/> :'''Duras''' (Klingon): This is not your world, human. You do not command here. :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': I'm not here to command. :'''Duras''': Then you must be ready to fight. Something Starfleet does not teach you. :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': You may test that assumption at your convenience. ===''[[w:Allegiance (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Allegiance]]'' [3.18]=== :'''Kova Tholl:''' It's edible, but I wouldn't call it food. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Picard's Look-Alike:''' You're destroying yourself and anyone who is foolish enough to listen to you! :'''Riker:''' You've shown none of the concern that Captain Picard would for the safety of his ship, the welfare of his crew. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Alien 1''': We were merely curious, we meant no harm! :'''Alien 2''': We did not, after all, injure you in any way! :'''Picard''': Imprisonment is an injury, regardless of how you justify it. And now that you have had a taste of captivity, perhaps you will reconsider the morality of inflicting it on others. In any event, we now know of your race. And we know how to imprison you. Bear that in mind. Now get the hell off my ship. === ''[[w:Captain's Holiday (TNG episode)|Captain's Holiday]]'' [3.19] === :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': Is the entire crew aware of this little scheme to send me off on holiday? :'''[[w:William Riker|William Riker]]''': I believe there are two ensigns stationed on deck 39 who know nothing about it. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': Will you at least <u>try</u> to stay out of trouble? :'''[[w:Vash (Star Trek)|Vash]]''': I always <u>try</u>. === ''[[w:Tin Man (TNG episode)|Tin Man]]'' [3.20] === :'''[[w:Data (Star Trek)|Data]]''': "And is that the purpose of existence? To care for someone?" <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Data (Star Trek)|Data]]''': "Through their joining they have been healed. Grief was transmuted to joy, loneliness to belonging." === ''[[w:Hollow Pursuits (TNG episode)|Hollow Pursuits]]'' [3.21] === :'''[[w:Reginald Barclay|Reginald Barclay]]''': I mean I am the guy who writes down things to remember to say when there is a party. And then when he finally gets there he winds up alone, in the corner, trying to look... comfortable examining a potted plant. :'''[[w:Geordi La Forge|Geordi La Forge]]''': You're just shy. :'''Reginald Barclay''': Sounds as if it's nothing serious, doesn't it? You ''can't'' know. <hr width="50%" /> :'''Reginald Barclay''': Delete all programs filed under 'Reginald Barclay'...''(the computer gives audio acknowledgement, and then he grins slyly)''...except program 9. === ''[[w:The Most Toys (TNG episode)|The Most Toys]]'' [3.22] === :'''[[w:William Riker|William Riker]]''': For an android with no feelings, he sure managed to evoke them in others. <hr width="50%" /> :'''Fajo''': That's all you have to do, go ahead. Fire. If only you could feel rage over Varria's death. If only you could feel a need for revenge, then maybe you could fire. But you're just an android. You can't feel anything, can you? It's just another interesting intellectual puzzle for you, another of life's curiosities. :'''[[w:Data (Star Trek)|Data]]''': ''[to himself]'' I cannot permit this to continue. :''[The transporter beam transports Data as he raises his weapon]'' <hr width="50%" /> :''[As Commander Data is transported back aboard the Enterprise, a weapon is detected in a state of discharge and deactivated]'' :'''Data''': ''[handing his weapon to Riker]'' A Varon-T disruptor. It belongs to Fajo. :'''Riker''': Mr O'Brien says the weapon was in a state of discharge. :'''Data''': Perhaps something occurred during transport, Commander. <hr width="50%" /> :''[Data is speaking to Fajo, now being held in the brig]'' :'''Data''': You have lost everything you value. :'''Fajo''': It must give you great pleasure. :'''Data''': No, sir, it does not. I do not feel pleasure. I am only an android. === ''[[w:Sarek (TNG episode)|Sarek]]'' [3.23] === :'''Riker''': Is it my imagination, or have tempers become a little frayed on the ship lately? :'''[[w:Worf|Worf]]''': I hadn't noticed. :''[Riker, Troi and Worf walk into Ten-Forward, where a large bar fight is in progress.]'' :'''Worf''': I see what you mean. :'''Riker''': ...Geordi, what the hell is going on here!? :'''Geordi''': I wish I knew! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': It's ironic, isn't it? All this magnificent technology, and we still find ourselves susceptible to the ravages of old age. The loss of dignity, the slow betrayal of our bodies by forces we cannot master...Do you still want to be one of us, Data? :'''Data''': Sir, it is conceivable -- even for me -- that time will eventually lead to irreparable circuit failure. What I cannot comprehend is this...Sarek hails from a race which prides itself on logic. The effect of Bendii Syndrome are evident. Why would such a man choose to ignore them? :'''Picard''': Logic fails all of us sometimes, Data; I think this is one of those times. Sarek cannot see, or chooses not to see, the truth...and he's being insulated against the truth by those who love him most. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': ''[following his mind-meld with Sarek, who is carrying out negotiations with the Legarans]'' '''NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!''' ''[screams in frustration, angrily yells with sobbing]'' It is... it is... wrong! '''IT IS WROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG!!''' ...A lifetime of discipline washed away, and in its place... ''[growls angrily awkwardly, then scolding]'' Bedlam. '''BEDLAM!''' I'm being torn apart; nothing but dry bones and dead friends! And...This is not my fault! I - wanted - to give you - so much more. I wanted to show you such... t- t- tenderness. But that is not our way. Spock... Amanda... Did you know? P-Perrin, can you - know... how - much I - love - you?! I - do - '''''LOVE YOU!!!''''' ''[Picard weeps heavily, then sinks down, sobbing. Beverly gently puts her hand on his shoulder and manages to compose himself]'' ...The anguish of the man. The despair pouring out of him...all those feelings, all those regrets. ''[sobs]'' I c- I can't... stop them! I can't stop them, I can't be free of this pain...''[breaks down crying]'' <hr width="50%"/> :''[last lines]'' :'''[[w:Sarek|Ambassador Sarek]]''': I will take my leave of you now, Captain. I do not think we shall meet again. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': I hope you are wrong, Ambassador. :'''Sarek''': ''[referring to their mind-meld]'' We shall always retain the best part of the other... inside us. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': I believe I have the better part of that bargain, Ambassador. ''[raises his hand in the Vulcan salute]'' Peace and long life. :'''Sarek''': ''[returns the salute]'' Live long and prosper. === ''[[w:Ménage à Troi|Ménage à Troi]]'' [3.24] === :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': The Academy must make you wait- that's true. But upon reviewing your service to this ship, your crewmates, I cannot in good conscience make ''you'' wait for the Academy. You see, Wesley, in my eyes you are an ''acting'' Ensign in title only. I hereby grant you Field Promotion to Full Ensign with all the commensurate responsibilities and privileges of that rank. Congratulations. You're dismissed. === ''[[w:Transfigurations (TNG episode)|Transfigurations]]'' [3.25] === :'''[[w:Worf|Worf]]''': Less talk! More synthehol! <hr width="50%"/> :'''John''': They tried to convince us it was a sickness we would never survive, that the pain and energy pulses would kill us. They claimed we were dangerous, so they destroyed anyone who exhibited the signs of the transfiguration. :'''Sunad''': We were protecting our society! :'''John''': By murdering us? You saw the mutations as a threat to your authority, you were terrified of something you couldn't understand. Some suspected that what was happening to them was not evil. Four of us decided to flee Zalkon and let the metamorphosis take its course. You hunted us down, killed the others. But I survived, with the help of a kind and generous people. <hr width="50%"/> :'''John''': My people are about to embark on a new realm, a new plane of existence, thanks to you. :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Picard]]''': It is our mission to seek out life, in all forms. We are privileged to have been present at the emergence of a new species. === ''[[w:The Best of Both Worlds (TNG episode)|The Best of Both Worlds, Part I]]'' [3.26] === [[File:Borg dockingstation.jpg|thumb|Strength is irrelevant. Resistance is futile. We wish to improve ourselves. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service ours.]] :'''[[w:Data (Star Trek)|Data]]''': Early [[bird]] gets the [[worm]]? I believe Commander Shelby erred. There is no evidence of avian or crawling vermicular lifeforms on Jouret IV. :'''Geordi''': That's not what she meant, Data. But you are right. She erred. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Picard]]''': It's something of a tradition, Guinan - Captain touring the ship before a battle. :'''Guinan''': Hmm. Before a ''hopeless'' battle, if I remember the tradition correctly. :'''Picard''': Not necessarily. [[w:Horatio Nelson|Nelson]] toured the ''[[w:H.M.S. Victory|HMS Victory]]'' before [[w:Battle of Trafalgar|Trafalgar]]. :'''Guinan''': Yes, but Nelson never returned from Trafalgar, did he? :'''Picard''': No, but the battle was won. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Picard]]''': I wonder if the Emperor [[w:Honorius|Honorius]] watching the Visigoths coming over the seventh hill could truly realize that the Roman Empire was about to fall. This is really just another page of history, isn't it? Will this be the end of our civilization? Turn the page. :'''Guinan''': ''(gently)'' This isn't the end. :'''Picard''': You say that with remarkable assuredness. :'''Guinan''': With ''experience.'' When the Borg destroyed my world, my people were scattered throughout the Universe. We survived. As will humanity survive. As long as there's a handful of you to keep the spirit alive, you will prevail...even if it takes a millennium. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Borg (Star Trek)|The Borg]]''': Captain Jean-Luc Picard. You lead the strongest ship of the Federation Starfleet. You speak for your people. :'''Picard''': I have nothing to say to you. And I will resist you with my last ounce of strength! :'''The Borg''': Strength is irrelevant. Resistance is futile. We wish to improve ourselves. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service ours. :'''Picard''': Impossible! My culture is based on freedom and self-determination! :'''The Borg''': Freedom is irrelevant. Self-determination is irrelevant. You must comply. :'''Picard''': We would rather die. :'''The Borg''': Death is irrelevant. Your archaic cultures are authority driven. To facilitate our introduction into your societies, it has been decided that a human voice will speak for us in all communications. You have been chosen to be that voice. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Locutus''': I am Locutus of Borg. Resistance is futile. Your life as it has been… is over. From this time forward, you will service… us. :'''Riker''': Mr. Worf... fire. == Season 4 == === ''[[w:The Best of Both Worlds (TNG episode)|The Best of Both Worlds, Part II]]'' [4.1] === [[File:Marcin Wichary - 2909071516.jpg|thumb|Now, how the hell do we defeat an enemy that knows us better than we know ourselves?]] :'''[[w:William Riker|William Riker]]''': They couldn't have adapted that quickly! :'''Locutus''': ''[to Riker]'' The knowledge and experience of the human Picard is part of us now. It has prepared us for all possible courses of action. Your resistance is hopeless... Number One. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Riker''': Now, how the hell do we defeat an enemy that knows us better than we know ourselves? :'''[[w:Worf|Worf]]''': The Borg have neither honour nor courage. That is our greatest advantage. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Locutus''': We will proceed to Earth. And if you attempt to intervene, we will destroy you. :'''Riker''': Then take your best shot, Locutus. 'Cause we're about to "intervene." <hr width="50%"/> :'''Wesley:''' They're ignoring the saucer section completely! :'''Riker:''' Just as you should, Captain. Ensign, evasive pattern, Riker Beta. :'''Wesley:''' Riker Beta confirmed. :'''Riker:''' Proceed to second phase, Commander Shelby. :'''Shelby:''' Acknowledged. Firing anti-matter spread. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Troi:''' How do you feel? :'''Picard:''' Almost human...with just a bit of a headache. :'''Crusher''' ''(with a happy grin)'': We'll get you to Sickbay. We won't have any trouble getting these implants out now. :'''Riker''': How much do you remember? :'''Picard''' ''(soberly)'': Everything. ''(But he perks up)'' Including some brilliantly unorthodox strategy from a former first officer of mine. ''(Riker grins broadly)'' === ''[[w:Family (TNG episode)|Family]]'' [4.2] === :'''Rene Picard''': You know, you don't seem so arro... arro... Y'know! :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': Arrogant? :'''Rene Picard''': Yes! Arrogant! You don't seem that way to me. What does it mean, anyway? Arrogant son-of-a-- :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Let's... talk about that later, shall we? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Louis''': Never did I know anyone less interested in grapes than you, Jean-Luc! :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Oh, no, I was interested. And I was proud that my family were helping to preserve the traditions. I just didn't feel bound by those traditions. :'''Louis''': You always reach for the future, and your brother for the past. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': There should be room for both in this life. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Guinan''': You know, sooner or later, everyone comes in here. They stand by those windows, they look out and they stare. They're looking for that little star they call home. Doesn't matter how far away it it is. Everybody looks anyway. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Robert Picard''': Mind if I ask you a question? What the devil happened to you up there? :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Is this brotherly concern? :'''Robert Picard''': No. Curiosity. What did they do to you? :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': You know what happened. :'''Robert Picard''': Not precisely. I gather you were hurt. Humiliated. I've always thought you needed a little humiliation. Or was it humility? Either would do. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': (crying) [[w:Borg|They]] took everything I was. They used me to kill and to destroy and I couldn't stop them. I should have been able to stop them. I tried. I tried so hard. But I wasn't strong enough. I wasn't good enough! I should have been able to stop them. I should... I should... :'''Robert Picard''': So... my brother is a human being after all. This is going to be with you a long time, Jean-Luc. A long time. You have to learn to live with it. You have a simple choice now: Live with it below the sea with Louis or above the clouds with the ''Enterprise''. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Marie Picard''': He's still out there, dreaming about starships and adventures... It's getting late. :'''Robert Picard''': Yes. But let him dream. === ''[[w:Brothers (TNG episode)|Brothers]]'' [4.3] === [[File:Michelangelo's David - right view 2.jpg|thumb|Why does a [[Painting|painter]] paint? Hmm? Why does a [[Boxing|boxer]] box? You know what [[Michelangelo]] used to say? That the [[Sculpture|sculptures]] he made were already there before he started, hidden in the marble. All he needed to do was remove the unneeded bits. Wasn't quite that easy with you, Data. But the need to do it, my need to do it, was no different than Michelangelo's need.]] [[File:Church of the virgin of the burgh Rhodes 14th century night.jpg|thumb|Why are humans so fascinated with old things? […] Old [[Building|buildings]], [[Church|churches]], [[Wall|walls]], [[Antiquity|ancient]] things, antique things... tables, clocks, knick knacks... Why? […] If you brought a Noophian to [[Earth]] he'd look around and say, "Tear that old village down. It's hanging in rags. Build me something new, something efficient." But to a human, that ancient wall, that old house, is a shrine, something to cherish.... Again I ask you, why?]] :'''[[w:Data|Data]]''': (using Picard's voice) Computer: establish a security code for access to all functions previously transferred to bridge. :'''Computer''': Enter code. :'''Data''': One, seven, three, four, six, seven, three, two, one, four, seven, six, Charlie, three, two, seven, eight, nine, seven, seven, seven, six, four, three, Tango, seven, three, two, Victor, seven, three, one, one, seven, eight, eight, eight, seven, three, two, four, seven, six, seven, eight, nine, seven, six, four, three, seven, six. Lock. :'''Computer''': Security code intact for all specified inqueiries and orders. :'''Data''': Computer: initiate cascading sequence, accepting instructions from Commander Data en route. ''[Data enters the turbolift]'' Now. <Hr width=“50% “/> :'''Doctor Soong''': Why does a [[Painting|painter]] paint? Hmm? Why does a [[Boxing|boxer]] box? You know what [[Michelangelo]] used to say? That the [[Sculpture|sculptures]] he made were already there before he started, hidden in the marble. All he needed to do was remove the unneeded bits. Wasn't quite that easy with you, Data. But the need to do it, my need to do it, was no different than Michelangelo's need. <Hr width=“50% “/> :'''Doctor Soong''': Now, let me ask you a question. Why are humans so fascinated with old things? :'''Data''': Old things? :'''Doctor Soong''': Old [[Building|buildings]], [[Church|churches]], walls, [[ancient]] things, antique things... tables, clocks, knick knacks... Why? :'''Data''': There are many possible explanations. :'''Doctor Soong''': If you brought a Noophian to [[Earth]] he'd look around and say, "Tear that old village down. It's hanging in rags. Build me something new, something efficient." But to a human, that ancient wall, that old house, is a shrine, something to cherish.... Again I ask you, why? :'''Data''': Perhaps, for humans, old things represent a tie to the [[past]]. :'''Doctor Soong''': And what's so important about the past? People needed [[money]], they got [[Illness|sick]]. Why tie yourself to that? :'''Data''': Humans are mortal. They seem to need a sense of continuity. :'''Doctor Soong''': Aha! Why? :'''Data''': To give their lives meaning... A sense of purpose. :'''Doctor Soong''': And does this continuity only run one way, back into the past? :'''Data''': I suppose it is a factor in the human desire to procreate. :'''Doctor Soong''': So you believe that having children gives humans a sense of immortality, do you? :'''Data''': It is a reasonable explanation to your query, sir. :'''Doctor Soong''': And perhaps to yours, as well, Data. <Hr width=“50% “/> :'''Lore''': You'd be surprised, Data. Feelings do funny things. You may even learn to… understand your evil brother. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Doctor Soong''': Lore, wait! There are questions I can answer! You'll have no chance to ask them later; you see, I'm dying! :''[Lore halts at the door.]'' :'''Doctor Soong''': I'm… I'm dying. :'''Data''': Dying from what, sir? :'''Lore''': Wait a minute. Wait a minute, what… What do you mean you're dying? You look fine! You're not that old, you… You look fine! What is this, some kind of trick? :'''Doctor Soong''': I wish I were. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lore''': Why didn't you just fix me? It was within your power to fix me. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Doctor Soong''': For all these years, I've been plagued by what went wrong. With all of your complexities, Lore, your nuances, basic emotion seemed... almost simple, by comparison. But the emotion... turned, it twisted! Became entangled with ambition. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lore''': Often-Wrong's got a broken heart. Can't even tell his boys apart. :'''Doctor Soong''': Lore! :'''Lore''': Well, well, well, well, well. You're not as feeble as I thought you were. :'''Doctor Soong''': This won't work. Those circuts, they weren't designed for you. Where's Data? :'''Lore''': "Where's Data?" You didn't fill ''Data'' with substandard parts, did you, old man? No. That honor was bestowed upon me. You owe me, old man. Not him. Me. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Doctor Soong''': Everybody dies, Data. Eh, well... almost everybody. :'''Data''': Do you believe that we are, in some way, alike, sir? :'''Doctor Soong''': In many ways, I'd like to believe. :'''Data''': Then it is alright for you to die, because I will remain alive. You know that I cannot grieve for you, sir. :'''Doctor Soong''': You will, in your own way. Goodbye... Goodbye, Data. :'''Data''': Goodbye, father. ===''[[w:Suddenly Human|Suddenly Human]]'' [4.4]=== :'''Picard:''' Ever since I was a child, I've always known exactly what I wanted to do: be a member of Starfleet. Nothing else mattered to me. Virtually my entire youth was spent in the pursuit of that goal. In fact...I probably skipped my childhood altogether. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Endar:''' You, have you ever been a father, Picard? Have you ever had a son desperately trying to win your approval, your respect? Jono broke his ribs riding on a t'stayan. Six hooves, a very powerful beast. The arm he broke in a competition with other youths. He endured the pain, and won the competition. One day he will be a great warrior. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Worf:''' Captain, is it worth it to go to war over a child? === ''[[w:Remember Me (TNG episode)|Remember Me]]'' [4.5] === :'''[[w:Beverly Crusher|Beverly Crusher]]''': If there's nothing wrong with me... maybe there's something wrong with the universe. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Beverly Crusher''': We will start with the assumption that I am ''not'' crazy. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Beverly Crusher''': Computer. Read the entire crew roster for the ''Enterprise.'' :'''Computer''': Dr. Beverly Crusher. :'''Beverly Crusher''': Have I always been the only member of the crew on the starship ''Enterprise''? :'''Computer''': Affirmative. :'''Beverly Crusher''': If this were a bad dream, would you tell me? :'''Computer''': That is not a valid question. :'''Beverly Crusher''': Like hell it's not. What is the primary mission of the starship ''Enterprise''? :'''Computer''': To explore the galaxy. :'''Beverly Crusher''': Do I have the necessary skills to complete that mission alone? :'''Computer''': Negative. :'''Beverly Crusher''': Then why am I the only crew member? :'''Computer''': ''[confused beeping]'' :'''Beverly Crusher''': Aha. Got you there. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Beverly Crusher''': Here's a question you shouldn't be able to answer...Computer: What is the nature of the universe? :'''Computer''': The universe is a spheroid region 705 meters in diameter. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Beverly Crusher''': [[The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)|Click my heels together three times and I'm back in Kansas]]. Can it really be that simple? === ''[[w:Legacy (TNG episode)|Legacy]]'' [4.6] === [[File:Tying friendship bracelet.jpg|thumb|As I experience certain sensory input patterns, my mental pathways become accustomed to them. The inputs eventually are anticipated. And even missed when absent.]] :'''Data''': ''[To Ishara Yar, on friendship]'' As I experience certain sensory input patterns, my mental pathways become accustomed to them. The inputs eventually are anticipated. And even missed when absent. :'''Ishara''': You mean, you can become "used" to someone. :'''Data''': Exactly. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:William Riker|William Riker]]''': ''[To Data, on trust]'' In all trust, there is the possibility for betrayal. ===''[[w:Reunion (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Reunion]]'' [4.7]=== :'''Duras''': I'm the only one, Worf, the only one who can prove your innocence. Kill me and you're a traitor forever. :'''Worf''' ''(in fury)'': Then ''that'' is how it shall '''''be!''''' === ''[[w:Future Imperfect (TNG episode)|Future Imperfect]]'' [4.8] === :'''Captain Riker''': Mr. Data, if we left immediately, when would we arrive at Outpost 23? :'''First Officer Data''': At Warp One, three days, four hours-- :'''Captain Riker''': What about at Warp Seven? At Warp Eight? At Warp Nine? What's the matter, Data, what happened to those millions of calculations per-second? :'''First Officer Data''': Pardon me, sir. I am experiencing subspace interference which limits my abilities. I can't operate as quickly as-- :'''Captain Riker''': What did you say? :'''First Officer Data''': I said, I cannot oper-- :'''Captain Riker''': No! That's not what you said, you said "I can't". You used a contraction, didn't you? :'''First Officer Data''': Sir, I can explain if you would just give me a moment-- :'''Captain Riker''': No you ''can't'', don't even try! :'''Admiral Picard''': Captain. Perhaps it would be best if we discussed this in si-- :'''Captain Riker''': Shut up! :'''Admiral Picard''': I beg your pardon?! :'''Captain Riker''': I said shut up! As in close your mouth and stop talking! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Tomalak''': The future we constructed for you should have been convincing. :'''Riker''': It wasn't. There was a computer time lag, for one thing. :'''Tomalak''': Unavoidable. Our scanners have a limited response time, so whenever you strayed from our... expectations... But surely that was not enough to-- :'''Riker''': To smash your house of cards? No. It was the visual record of my wife, Minuet. Bad move. :'''Tomalak''': But we chose someone from your past who is still alive. A woman you were extremely attracted to. :'''Riker''': Your mistake, Tomalak. Minuet was nothing more than a computer generated fantasy I once experienced on another holodeck. :'''Tomalak''': Impossible. In your mind that woman exists, physically. Your feelings toward her remain quite passionate. :'''Riker''': She was part of a very special program. :'''Tomalak''': So much effort, so little accomplished. ===''[[w:Final Mission|Final Mission]]'' [4.9]=== :''(seeing Wesley Crusher looking well worn, Picard quips to Wesley describing his appearance)'' :'''Wesley Crusher''': You don't exactly look ship-shape yourself, sir. === ''[[w:The Loss (TNG episode)|The Loss]]'' [4.10] === :'''Beverly Crusher''': Therapists are always the worst patients. Except for doctors, of course. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Data''': A resumption of our present course at warp six will place us in the T'lli Beta system in six days, thirteen hours, forty-seven minutes. :'''William Riker''': What, no seconds? :'''Data''': I have discovered, sir, a certain level of impatience when I calculate a lengthy time interval to the nearest second. However, if you wish... :'''William Riker''': No, no. Minutes is fine. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Deanna Troi''': Is this how you handle all of your personnel problems? :'''William Riker''': Sure. You'd be surprised how far a hug goes with Geordi, or Worf. === ''[[w:Data's Day (TNG episode)|Data's Day]]'' [4.11] === :'''Data''': I could be [[w:Wild Goose Chase|pursuing an untamed ornithoid]] without cause. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Data''': ''[experimenting with "friendly insults and jibes"]'' My hair does not require trimming, you lunkhead. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Data''': ''[performing the tap step he has just learned]'' Am I dancing, Doctor? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Beverly Crusher''': They don't do a lot of tap-dancing at weddings. :'''Data''': Why? :'''Beverly Crusher''': Well, Data, because...I don't really know why, Data. <hr width="50%"/> :'''William Riker''': Some days you get the bear, and some days the bear gets you. === ''[[w:The Wounded (TNG episode)|The Wounded]]'' [4.12] === [[File:Star Trek (8413848603).jpg|thumb|I was with a group of women and children when two Cardassian soldiers burst in. I stunned one of them. The other one jumped me. We struggled. One of the women threw me a phaser, and I fired. The phaser was set at maximum. The man just incinerated, there before my eyes. I'd never killed anything before. When I was a kid, I'd worry about swatting a mosquito. It's not ''you'' I hate, Cardassian. I hate what I became ''because'' of you.]] :'''Miles O'Brien''': I was on Setlik III with Captain Maxwell the morning after the massacre. We were too late, of course. Almost everyone was dead. :'''Daro''': It was a terrible mistake. We were told the outpost was a launching place for a massive attack against us. :'''Miles O'Brien''': The only people left alive were in an outlying district of the settlement. I was sent there with a squad to reinforce them. Cardassians were advancing on us, moving through the streets, destroying, killing. I was with a group of women and children when two Cardassian soldiers burst in. I stunned one of them. The other one jumped me. We struggled. One of the women threw me a phaser, and I fired. The phaser was set at maximum. The man just incinerated, there before my eyes. I'd never killed anything before. When I was a kid, I'd worry about swatting a mosquito. It's not ''you'' I hate, Cardassian. I hate what I became ''because'' of you. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Benjamin Maxwell''': You're a fool, Picard. History will look at you and say, "This man was a fool." :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': I'll accept the judgment of history. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Both Maxwell and O'Brien sing "The Minstral Boy": :The Minstrel-Boy to the war is gone, :In the ranks of death you'll find him; :His father's sword he has girded on, :And his wild harp slung behind him. :"Land of song!" said the warrior-bard, :"Tho' all the world betrays thee, :One sword, at least, thy rights shall guard, :One faithful harp shall praise thee!" :'''Benjamin Maxwell''': I'm not going to win this one, am I Chief? :'''Miles O'Brien''': No Sir. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': The loyalty you would so quickly dismiss does not come easily to my people, Gul Macet. You have much to learn about us. Benjamin Maxwell earned the loyalty of those who served with him. In war, he was twice honored with the Federation's highest citation for his courage and valor. And if he could not find a role for himself in peace, we can pity him, but we shall not dismiss him. ''[turns his back on the Cardassian officer]'' Take this message to your leaders, Gul Macet. ''"We'll be watching."'' === ''[[w:Devil's Due (TNG episode)|Devil's Due]]'' [4.13] === :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': In the hands of a con artist, fear can be used to motivate obedience, capitulation, the exploitation of innocent people - and that is what I believe has happened here and I intend to prove that. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': I've encountered many who are more credibly to be called the devil than you. <hr width="50%"/> :''[after Ardra transports Picard to the planet in his pajamas]'' :'''Geordi La Forge''': Captain, I wasn't expecting you here. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Neither was I. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Never mind, Mr. Worf, just have Commander Data fetch me in a shuttle. And have him bring a uniform. :'''Worf''': Did you say... uniform? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Data''': The advocate will refrain from making her opponent disappear. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Data''': ''[after Ardra becomes the Devil]'' Any more disruptions and I will rule you in contempt of court. Is that understood? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Data''': I will draw my own conclusions, if you do not mind... Sir. ===''[[w:Clues (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Clues]]'' [4.14]=== :'''Picard''': The plan failed because clues were left behind that suggested a mystery. And, to many humans, a mystery is irresistible; it must be solved. The Doctor's incubation experiment, Worf's wrist, Troi's hallucinations. Little pieces of evidence that suggested even more clues — the clock, the transporter trace, Data's odd behavior. If we eliminate the clues and begin again… :'''Paxon!Troi''': Again? :'''Picard''': Yes. Consider the first time a… a run-through. A rehearsal to shake out the flaws. The second time will succeed, if we leave no clues. :'''Paxon!Troi''': You are a most unusual species, worthy of a second chance. Proceed. ===''[[w:First Contact (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|First Contact]]'' [4.15]=== :'''Jean-Luc Picard''' (Pours some wine): I've been saving this for a special occasion. My brother on Earth produces fruit known as grapes, which he turns into wine. He's really quite good at it. Chancellor, we have a tradition called a toast. It is a drink to salute one's friends and good fortune, and I would like to propose a toast to a new friendship. :'''Chancellor Durken''': We have something very much like this here on Malcor Three. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': I think we shall find we have much in common. :'''Chancellor Durken''': And much that is not in common. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': An opportunity to learn from one another. :'''Chancellor Durken''': Trust requires time and experience. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Chancellor Durken''': My world's history has recorded that conquerors often arrived with the words, we are your friends. :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': We are not here as conquerors, Chancellor. :'''Chancellor Durken''': What do you want? :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': A beginning. But how we proceed is entirely up to you. :'''Chancellor Durken''': And if my wishes should conflict with yours? :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': There'll be no conflict. :'''Chancellor Durken''': And if I should tell you to leave and never return to my world? :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': We will leave and never return. Chancellor, we are here only to help guide you into a new era. I can assure you we will not interfere in the natural development of your planet. That is, in fact, our Prime Directive. :'''Chancellor Durken''': I can infer from that directive that you do not intend to share all this exceptional technology with us. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': That is not the whole meaning, but it is part of it. :'''Chancellor Durken''': Is this your way of maintaining superiority? :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Chancellor, to instantly transform a society with technology would be harmful and it would be destructive. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Chancellor Durken''': I go home each night to a loving wife, two beautiful daughters. We eat the evening meal together as a family, I think that's important. And they always ask me if I've had a good day. :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': And how shall you answer them tonight, Chancellor? :'''Chancellor Durken''': I will have to say this morning, I was the leader of the universe as I knew it. This afternoon, I am only a voice in a chorus. But I think it was a good day. ===''[[w:Galaxy's Child|Galaxy's Child]]'' [4.16]=== [[File:Starburst in NGC 4449 (captured by the Hubble Space Telescope).jpg|thumb|What would it be like, Counselor? No ship, no bulky space suit. Just to live between the stars… and have the entire galaxy as a home.]] :'''Picard''': What would it be like, Counselor? No ship, no bulky space suit. Just to live between the stars… and have the entire galaxy as a home. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Beverly''': Captain, I'd like to announce the birth of a large baby… something. <Hr width=“50% “/> :'''Data''': Sir. Is the appellation “Junior” to be the lifeform's official name? :'''Picard''': No, it is not! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Guinan''': Now she's probably done the most horrific thing one thing can do to another: not live up to your expectations. So I’d take a good, long, hard look at her, La Forge. See her for sho she is. Not what you want her to be. === ''[[w:Night Terrors (TNG episode)|Night Terrors]]'' [4.17] === :'''[[w:Beverly Crusher|Beverly Crusher]]''': We have to dream in order to survive. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Guinan has just fired a large and very powerful phaser rifle to break up a brawl.]'' :'''Gillespie''': What is that?! :'''[[w:Guinan|Guinan]]''': Just a little souvenir I picked up on Makus III. That was setting number one. Anyone want to see setting number two? <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Data (Star Trek)|Data]]''': As my final duty as acting captain, I order you to bed. ===''[[w:Identity Crisis (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Identity Crisis]]'' [4.18]=== === ''[[w:The Nth Degree (TNG episode)|The Nth Degree]]'' [4.19] === :'''[[Albert Einstein|Einstein]]''': G sub I, J of t as t approaches infinity. :'''Reginald Barclay''': G of t over G naught. :'''Einstein''': So it is, so it is. :'''Reginald Barclay''': I still don't see how you're going to incorporate quantum principle into general relativity without adjusting the cosmological constant a lot more than you're doing here. :'''Einstein''': If we increase the value as you suggest, we must face the possibility of twenty six dimensions, instead of ten. :'''Reginald Barclay''': I don't think I could deal with that. :'''Einstein''': I certainly could not. :'''Reginald Barclay''': If the semiset curved into the subatomic, the infinities might cancel each other out. :'''Einstein''': Gruss Gott. They just might. :'''LaForge''': We had a meeting at oh seven hundred. :'''Reginald Barclay''': I'm sorry, Commander. Thank you, Professor. End programme :'''LaForge''':"You just spent the entire night arguing grand unification theories with Albert Einstein!" :''[Lt. Barclay has had his intelligence greatly increased by an alien probe and is attempting to interface with the computer.]'' :'''[[w:Reginald Barclay|Reginald Barclay]]''': Computer. Begin new program. Create as follows. Work station chair. Now, create a standard alphanumeric console positioned for the left hand. Now an iconic display console positioned for the right hand. Tie both consoles into the ''Enterprise'' main computer core utilizing neural scan interface. :'''Computer''': There is no such device on file. :'''Reginald Barclay''': No problem; here's how you build it. <Hr width=“50% “/> :'''Reginald Barclay''': I perceive the entire universe as a single equation and it's so ''simple''. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Cytherian|Cytherian Alien]]''': Emotive, electrochemical stimulus response; cranial plate; bipedal locomotion. Endoskeletal. Contiguous external integument. :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': I'm Captain Jean-Luc Picard, of the Federation Starship ''Enterprise''. :'''Cytherian Alien''': Hierarchical collective command structure. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Who are you? :'''Cytherian Alien''': Interrogative! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Reginald Barclay''': May I? (moves a piece) Checkmate in nine moves. :'''Deena Troi''': I didn't know you play chess. :'''Reginald Barclay''': I don't… === ''[[w:Qpid|Qpid]]'' [4.20] === :'''[[w:Q (Star Trek)|Q]]''': ''[To Picard]'' You are the most impossible person to buy a gift for! <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': I've just been paid a visit by Q. :'''[[w:William Riker|William Riker]]''': Q? Any idea what he's up to? :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': He wants to do something nice for me. :'''William Riker''': I'll alert the crew. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Q has dressed Worf as [[w:Will Scarlet|Will Scarlet]].]'' :'''[[w:Worf|Worf]]''': Sir, I protest! I am ''not'' a merry man! <hr width="50%"/> :''[Worf smashes Geordi's mandolin against a tree.]'' :'''Worf''': ...Sorry. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Vash''': Meet my new partner. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Him?! :'''Vash''': Why not? :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': I'll tell you why not...! :'''Q''': Now, Jean-Luc, let's not be unkind... :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': He's devious, and amoral, and unreliable, and irresponsible, and... and definitely ''not'' to be trusted. :'''Vash''': Remind you of someone you know? :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': ''(forced to smile)'' As a matter of fact, it does. === ''[[w:The Drumhead (TNG episode)|The Drumhead]]'' [4.21] === [[File:Villainc.svg|thumb| Mr. Worf, villains who twirl their moustaches are easy to spot. Those who clothe themselves in good deeds are well-camouflaged.]] [[File:Demonstraties, vrouwen, Bestanddeelnr 930-1695.jpg|thumb|With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.]] :'''[[w:Worf|Worf]]''': The Federation does have enemies, we must seek them out! :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': Oh yes, that's how it starts, but the road from legitimate suspicion to rampant paranoia is very much shorter than we think. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Picard:''' Five hundred years ago, military officers would upend a drum in a battlefield, sit at it and dispense summary justice. Decisions were quick, punishments severe, appeals denied. Those who came to a drumhead were doomed. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': You know, there are some words I've known since I was a schoolboy. "With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." Those words were uttered by Judge ''Aaron Satie'' as wisdom and warning. The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged. I fear that day-- :'''Adm. Norah Satie''': How dare you! You who consort with Romulans! Invoke my father's name in support of your traitorous arguments! It is an affront to everything I hold dear. And to hear his name used to subvert the United Federation of Planets. My father was a great man. His name stands for ''integrity'', and ''principle''! You dirty his name when you speak it! He loved the Federation! But ''you'', Captain, corrupt it! You undermine our very way of life! I will expose you for what you are! I've brought down bigger men than you, Picard! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': We think we've come so far. Torture of heretics, burning of witches, is all ancient history. Then, before you can blink an eye, suddenly, it threatens to start all over again. :'''Worf''': I believed her. I-- I helped her. I did not see what she was. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Mr. Worf, villains who twirl their moustaches are easy to spot. Those who clothe themselves in good deeds are well-camouflaged. :'''Worf''': I think... after yesterday, people will not be so ready to trust her. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Maybe. But she, or someone like her, will always be with us. Waiting for the right climate in which to flourish, spreading fear in the name of righteousness. Vigilance, Mr. Worf. That is the price we have to continually pay. === ''[[w:Half a Life (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Half A Life]]'' [4.22] === :'''[[w:Lwaxana Troi|Lwaxana Troi]]''': We raise them, we care for them, we suffer for them, we keep them from harm their whole lives. Now eventually, it's their turn to take care of us. :'''Timicin''': No parent should expect to be paid back for the love they have given their children. :'''Lwaxana Troi''': Well, why the hell not? ===''[[w:The Host (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|The Host]]'' [4.23]=== === ''[[w:The Mind's Eye (TNG episode)|The Mind's Eye]]'' [4.24] === :'''[[w:Geordi La Forge|Geordi La Forge]]''': How about a game, Computer? :'''Computer''': Please restate request. :'''Geordi La Forge''': Something to pass the time. Y'know, a diversion? :'''Computer''': Select either "visual interactive" or "verbal interactive". :'''Geordi La Forge''': Verbal. :'''Computer''': You have 20 seconds to respond to each question. Level of difficulty will increase as you progress. Proceed when ready. :'''Geordi La Forge''': Begin! :'''Computer''': List the resonances of the sub-quantum states associated with transitional relativity... :'''Geordi La Forge''': ''[Geordi laughs]'' That's easy! :'''Computer''': ...in alphabetical order. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Subcommander Taibak''': Welcome, Mr. La Forge. We've waited a long time to meet you. :'''Geordi La Forge''': ''(strapped into a chair)'' I can tell you've gone to a lot of trouble. :'''Subcommander Taibak''': Indeed we have. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Data:''' Report, please. Geordi, please respond. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Data:''' Computer, current location of Lt. Commander La Forge. :'''Computer:''' Cargo Bay 4. :'''Data:''' Data to Lt. Worf. Priority 1. :'''Worf:''' Go ahead. :'''Data:''' Take Commander La Forge into custody immediately. :'''Worf:''' Sir? :'''Data:''' That is an order. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Picard:''' Mr. Worf, get him out of here. :''[Worf gets himself free from the other Klingons who were holding him back, and takes La Forge into custody.]'' :'''Vagh:''' Harming our enemies is not enough! Now the Federation would murder me to achieve its aims! :'''Picard:''' Governor, if I could explain this, I would. :''[Data enters.]'' :'''Data:''' I believe I can help, Captain. I've been able to determine that Commander La Forge was abducted by Romulans en route to Rissa. It is likely that he was somehow forced to take part in the plot to assassinate Governor Vagh. :'''Ambassador Kell:''' I saw no evidence of Romulans! We just witnessed him acting very much alone. :'''Data:''' No, sir. You did not. I do not believe the Commander is acting out of his own accord. He has been receiving heat band signals through his VISOR, signals which are carrying direct commands to his brain. I have surmised that Commander La Forge was conditioned by Romulans, a process referred to historically, and somewhat inaccurately, as "brainwashing." :'''Vagh:''' But to what end? Why would the Romulans want to kill me? :'''Picard:''' The Romulans have always wanted to destroy the alliance between the Federation and the Klingons. If Mr. La Forge had killed you, Governor, I think you will agree that they might have succeeded. :'''Kell:''' Who sent these signals? A cloaked Romulan ship? :'''Data:''' No, sir. That is not possible. The signals had to be transmitted within close proximity to the VISOR. :'''Picard:''' Are you suggesting that there was a Romulan accomplice who was in close proximity to Mr. La Forge when he was receiving signals? :'''Data:''' Yes, sir. I am. :'''Vagh:''' This Romulan accomplice. Who is he? :'''Data:''' I have narrowed the list of possibilities to two people. The only two people who were with Mr. La Forge all three times when the transmission was recorded: Captain Picard and Ambassador Kell. One of them may be concealing a heat band transmitter. If they would agree to be searched... :'''Kell:''' I am a Klingon! An Emissary of the High Council! I will not submit to being forced to be searched by you or anyone else o on this ship! :'''Vagh:''' I am forced to agree, Captain. We will take the ambassador with us and search him ourselves. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Kell:''' Captain, I believe it to be in all our best interests if I remain aboard. I formally request asylum. :'''Picard:''' I will certainly grant you asylum...when you have been absolved of this crime. === ''[[w:In Theory (TNG episode)|In Theory]]'' [4.25] === :'''Jenna D'Sora''': I wish we were back there now, you and I. :'''[[w:Data (Star Trek)|Data]]''': The unidirectional nature of the time continuum makes that an unlikely possibility. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Geordi La Forge|Geordi La Forge]]''': Listen, my advice is... ask somebody else for advice, at least someone who's got more experience at... giving advice. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Deanna Troi|Deanna Troi]]''': Ultimately Jenna will care for you for who you are, not what you imitate out of a book. :'''Data''': My programming may be inadequate to the task. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Worf|Worf]]''': Klingons do not... pursue relationships. They ''conquer'' that which they desire. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Worf''': However, Lieutenant D'Sora serves under my command. If she were.. mistreated, ''I'' would be very displeased... ...Sir. :'''Data''': I understand. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': I'd be delighted to offer any advice I have on understanding women. When I have some, I'll let you know. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Data''': Computer, decrease illumination level by 1/3 standard lux. :'''Jenna D'Sora''': Eh, this is all part of a programme? :'''Data''': Yes, one which I have just created for romantic relationships :'''Jenna D'Sora''': So, I am just a small variable in one of you computational environments. :'''Data''': You are much more than that, Jenna. I have written a subroutine specifically for you. A programme within the programme. I have devoted a considerable share of my internal resources to its development. :'''Jenna D'Sora''': Data, that's the nicest thing anybody has ever said to me. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Data''': Jenna, are we no longer a couple? :'''Jenna D'Sora''': No, we're not. :'''Data''': Then I will delete the appropriate program. ===''[[w:Redemption (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Redemption, Part I]]'' [4.26]=== :'''Worf''': I believe you to be a man of honor, Gowron. I ask you: restore my family name. :'''Gowron''': Worf... You killed Duras. I consider that no small favor. But what you ask is impossible. :'''Worf''': But after your installation...! :'''Gowron''': The grasp of Duras reaches out from the grave! Much of the council is still loyal to his family. I must have the council's support to survive. I cannot expose their treachery. You chose to accept this disgrace for the good of the Empire. now you must live with your decision, like a Klingon! == Season 5 == === ''[[w:Redemption (TNG episode)#Part 2|Redemption, Part II]]'' [5.1] === :'''B'Etor''': Defeat. :'''Toral''': How? Where are the Romulans? :'''Lursa''': They never came. :''[Worf is dragged in by his Romulan guard]'' :'''Lursa''': Kill him. :''[but Worf fights the Romulan as Lursa and B'Etor have themselves beamed to safety]'' :'''Toral''': ''NO!'' :''[Worf defeats the Romulan as his brother arrives]'' :'''Kurn''': Toral, the next Leader of the Empire. Gowron is looking forward to seeing you again. === ''[[w:Darmok (TNG episode)|Darmok]]'' [5.2] === [[File:Gilgamesh and Enkidu slaying Humbaba at the Cedar Forest. From Iraq; purchase. 19th-17th century BCE. Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin.jpg|thumb|Darmok and Jalad at Tenagra.]] <hr width="50%"/> :'''Riker''': The Children of Tama. I've heard rumours about them for years. :'''[[Jean-Luc Picard]]''': Indeed. Are they truly incomprehensible? In my experience, communication is a matter of patience, imagination. I would like to believe these are qualities we have in sufficient measure. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Dathon''': Rai and Jiri at Lungha. Ri of Luwani. Luwani under two moons. Jiri of Ubaya. Ubaya of crossed roads at Lungha. Lungha, her sky grey. ''[greeting]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Tamarian lst Officer''': Kadir beneath Mo Moteh. ''[cluelessness, possibly unwillingness to understand]'' :'''Dathon''': The river Temarc. In winter. ''[Stop, cease]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Dathon''': Shaka. When the walls fell. ''[Failure]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Tamarian lst Officer''': Mirab. His sails unfurled. ''[travel or departure]'' <hr width="50%"/> :''[repeated line]'' :'''Dathon''': Darmok and Jalad at Tenagra. ''[Two strangers uniting against a common adversary]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Dathon''': Temba. His arms wide. ''[A gift, or to give]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Dathon''': Uzani. His army with fist open. :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': A strategy? With fist open? With fist open... :'''Dathon''': His army with fist closed. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': With fist closed? An army with fist open... to lure the enemy. With fist closed... To attack? That's how you communicate, isn't it? By citing example. By metaphor! Uzani's army with... with fist open. :'''Dathon''': Sokath! His eyes uncovered! ''[understanding, revealing truth]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Dathon''': Darmok on the ocean. ''[Alone, isolated]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Dathon''': ''[telling the story of Darmok and Jalad]'' :Darmok on the ocean. :Tanagra on the ocean. Darmok at Tanagra. :Jalad on the ocean. Jalad at Tanagra. :The beast of Tanagra. :Darmok and Jalad on the ocean. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Dathon''': Kiazi's children. Their faces wet. ''[death, mourning]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Dathon''': Zinda! His face black. His eyes red. ''[war, violence]'' Callimas at Bahar. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': ''[paraphrasing ''[[w:Epic of Gilgamesh|The Epic of Gilgamesh]]'']'' [[Gilgamesh]], a king. Gilgamesh, a king at Uruk. ''[metaphor about ancient Babylonian legends from Earth]'' He tormented his subjects. He made them angry. They cried out aloud: "Send us a companion for our king! Spare us from his madness!" Enkidu, a wild man from the forest, entered the city. They fought in the temple. They fought in the streets. Gilgamesh defeated Enkidu. They became great friends. Gilgamesh and Enkidu at Uruk. :'''Dathon''': At Uruk. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': The... the new friends went out into the desert together, where the Great Bull of Heaven was killing men by the hundreds. Enkidu caught the bull by the tail, Gilgamesh struck him with his sword. :'''Dathon''': Gilgamesh. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': They were victorious. But... Enkidu fell to the ground, struck down by the gods; and Gilgamesh wept bitter tears, saying, "He who was my companion through adventure and hardship, ''[as Dathon dies]'' is gone forever." <hr width="50%"/> :'''Tamarian 1st Officer''': Zinda! His face black, his eyes red! :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Temarc! The river Temarc! In winter! :'''Tamarian 1st Officer''': Darmok... :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': And Jalad. At Tanagra. Darmok and Jalad... on the ocean. :'''Tamarian 1st Officer''': Sokath! His eyes opened! :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': The beast at Tanagra? Uzani. His army. Shaka, when the walls fell. :''[The First Officer bows his head and the other Tamarian crew members make gestures of tribute. Picard holds up Dathon's notebook, which the First Officer transports to his hand.]'' :'''Tamarian 1st Officer''': Picard and Dathon at El-Adrel. ''[a new metaphor added to the language]'' :'''Tamarian lst Officer''': ''[to the crew]'' Mirab with sails unfurled. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': ''[offering Dathon's knife]'' Temba. His arms wide. :'''Tamarian 1st Officer''': Temba. At rest. ''[You may keep it.]'' :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Thank you. === ''[[w:Ensign Ro (TNG episode)|Ensign Ro]]'' [5.3] === :'''Picard''': Yes, Ensign Laren, please sit down - :'''Ensign Ro''': Ensign Ro, sir. :'''Picard''': ''(nonplussed)'' I beg your pardon? :'''Ensign Ro''': The Bajoran custom has the family name first, the individual's name second. I am properly addressed as 'Ensign Ro'. :'''Picard''': I'm sorry, I didn't know. :'''Ensign Ro''': ''(shrugging)'' No, there's no reason you should. It's an old custom; most Bajora these days accept the distortion of their names in order to assimilate. ''(brief pause before she sits)'' I do not. <hr width="50%" /> :'''Keeve''': I cannot condone violence against people who are not our enemy. :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': Then I don't understand why you're unwilling [to help us]. :'''Keeve''': Because... you're innocent bystanders. You were innocent bystanders for decades as the Cardassians took our homes. As they violated and tortured our people in the most hideous ways imaginable. As we were forced to flee. :'''Picard''': We were saddened by those events, but they occurred within the borders of the Cardassian Empire. :'''Keeve''': And the Federation is pledged not to interfere with the internal affairs of others. How convenient that must be for you. To turn a deaf ear to those who suffer behind a line on a map. :'''Picard''': Well, I'm not here to debate Federation policy with you, but I can offer you assistance. :'''Keeve''': Simply because of one terrorist attack? Well, perhaps I should have known, we should have attacked the Federation long ago. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Keeve''': We live in different universes, you and I. Yours is about diplomacy, politics, strategy. Mine is about blankets! If we were to exchange places for one night, you might better understand. :'''Picard''': Mr. Data, see that the replicators provide a blanket for every man, woman, and child before nightfall. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Guinan|Guinan]]''': Am I disturbing you? :'''[[w:Ro Laren|Ensign Ro]]''': Yes. :'''Guinan''': Good. You look like someone who wants to be disturbed. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Guinan''': I believe truth is in the eye of the beholder. :'''Ensign Ro''': Isn't that supposed to be beauty? :'''Guinan''': Truth, beauty, works for a lot of things. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Ro''': You're not like any bartender I've met before :'''Guinan''': And you're not like any Starfleet officer I've met before. But that sounds like the beginning of a very interesting friendship. :'''Ro''': I don't stay anywhere long enough to make friends. :'''Guinan''': Too late. You just did. === ''[[w:Silicon Avatar (TNG episode)|Silicon Avatar]]'' [5.4] === === ''[[w:Disaster (TNG episode)|Disaster]]'' [5.5] === :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': ''[Touches comm badge]'' Bridge, this is Picard. This is the captain, does anyone read me? :'''Child 1''': ''[crying]'' Why don't they answer?! :'''Picard''': I don't know. :'''Child 2''': They're all dead. :'''Picard''': They're not dead, communication is down, that's all. :'''Child 2''': We're going to die, too. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Worf|Worf]]''': Congratulations. You are now fully dilated to ten centimeters. You may now give birth. :'''[[MemoryAlpha:Keiko O'Brien|Keiko O'Brien]]''': That's what I've been doing! :'''Worf''': The computer simulation was not like this. That delivery was very orderly. :'''Keiko''': WELL I'M SORRY!! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Worf''': Push, Keiko! Push! Push! :'''Keiko''': I AM PUSHING! === ''[[w:The Game (TNG episode)|The Game]]'' [5.6] === === ''[[w:Unification (TNG episode)#Part 1|Unification, Part I]]'' [5.7] === :'''[[w:Data (Star Trek)|Data]]''': These quarters were obviously intended for one crewman, sir. There is only one sleeping space. :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': I'm sure the Klingons found it amusing to put us in here together. :'''Data''': Since I do not require sleep, I propose you take the... shelf, sir. I am content to stand. === ''[[w:Unification (TNG episode)#Part 2|Unification, Part II]]'' [5.8] === [[File:Leonard Nimoy as Spock 1967.jpg|thumb|The reason for my coming here has never been more clear. The union of the Vulcan and the Romulan people will never be achieved by politics or diplomacy, but it will be achieved. The answer has been here before us all along. An inexorable evolution toward a Vulcan philosophy has already begun. Like the first Vulcans, these people are struggling through a new enlightenment, and it may take decades or even centuries for them to reach it. But they will reach it, and I must help.]] :'''[[w:Spock|Spock]]''': ''[to Picard]'' In your own way, you are as stubborn as [[w:James T. Kirk|another Captain of the ''Enterprise'']] I once knew. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Then I'm in good company, sir. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Spock|Spock]]''': Fascinating. You have an efficient intellect, superior physical skills, no emotional impediments. There are Vulcans who aspire all their lives to achieve what you've been given by design. :'''Data''': You are half human? :'''[[w:Spock|Spock]]''': Yes. :'''Data''': Yet you have chosen a Vulcan way of life? :'''[[w:Spock|Spock]]''': I have. :'''Data''': In effect, you have abandoned what I have sought all my life. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Data''': Ambassador Spock, may I ask a personal question? :'''[[w:Spock|Spock]]''': Please. :'''Data''': As you examine your life, do you find you have missed your humanity? :'''[[w:Spock|Spock]]''': I have no regrets. :'''Data''': "No regrets". That is a human expression. :'''[[w:Spock|Spock]]''': Yes. Fascinating. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Omag''': ''[on Worf and Amarie singing in Klingon]'' What is that dreadful noise?! It sounds like a Bardakian pronghorn moose! <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Spock|Spock]]''': I will not read this, or any other statement. :'''[[w:Sela (Star Trek)|Sela]]''': If you do not you will die. All of you will die. :'''[[w:Spock|Spock]]''': Since it is logical to conclude that you will kill us in any event, I choose not to cooperate. :'''[[w:Sela (Star Trek)|Sela]]''': I ''hate'' Vulcans. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Spock|Spock]]''': The reason for my coming here has never been more clear. The union of the Vulcan and the Romulan people will never be achieved by politics or diplomacy, but it will be achieved. The answer has been here before us all along. An inexorable evolution toward a Vulcan philosophy has already begun. Like the first Vulcans, these people are struggling through a new enlightenment, and it may take decades or even centuries for them to reach it. But they will reach it, and I must help. === ''[[w:A Matter of Time (TNG episode)|A Matter of Time]]'' [5.9] === [[File:Crossroads - geograph.org.uk - 5702107.jpg|thumb|Every choice we make allows us to manipulate the future!]] :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': I have two choices. Either way, one version of history or another will wend its way forward. The history you know or another one. Now, who is to say which is better? What I do know is here, today, one way, millions of lives could be saved! Now isn't that incentive enough? :'''Rasmussen''': Everyone dies, Captain! It's just a question of when! All of those people down there died years before I was born! All of you up here, as well! So you see, I can't get quite as worked up as you over the fate of some colonists who, for me, have been dead a very, very long time. :'''Picard''': Of course, you know of the Prime Directive, which tells us that we have no right to interfere with the natural evolution of alien worlds. Now I have sworn to uphold it... but nevertheless I have disregarded that directive, on more than one occasion. Because I thought it was ''the right thing to do!'' Now, if you are holding on to some... temporal equivalent of that directive, then isn't it possible that you have an occasion here to make an exception? To help me to choose, because it's the right thing to do? :'''Rasmussen''': We're not just talking about a choice. It sounds to me like you're trying to manipulate the future. :'''Picard''': Every choice we make allows us to manipulate the future! Do I, um... "Do I ask Adrienne or Suzanne to the spring dance?" "Do I take my holiday on [[W:Corsica|Corsica]] or on Risa?" A person's life, their future, hinges on each of a thousand choices. Living is making choices! Now you ask me to believe that if I make a choice other than the one found in your history books, then your past will be irrevocably altered. Well, you know, Professor, perhaps I don't give a damn about your past, because your past is my future and as far as I'm concerned, it hasn't been written yet! <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Data (Star Trek)|Data]]''': I assume your handprint will open this door whether you are conscious or not. === ''[[w:New Ground (TNG episode)|New Ground]]'' [5.10] === :'''Geordi La Forge''': Data! Data, isn't this exciting? We are going to witness a moment in history! :'''Data''' (puzzled): Every nanosecond in this continuum is a moment in history, once it has elapsed. === ''[[w:Hero Worship (TNG episode)|Hero Worship]]'' [5.11] === :''[Data is talking with a young boy who is pretending to be an android to cope with a recent traumatic experience.]'' :'''[[w:Data (Star Trek)|Data]]''': I have often wished to be human. I study people carefully, in order to more closely approximate human behavior. :'''Timothy''': Why? We're smarter and stronger than humans, we can do more than they can. :'''Data''': But I cannot take pride in my abilities. I cannot take pleasure in my accomplishments. :'''Timothy''': We never have to feel bad, either. :'''Data''': I would gladly risk feeling bad at times, if it also meant that I could taste my dessert. === ''[[w:Violations (TNG episode)|Violations]]'' [5.12] === :'''Tarmin''': It has been three centuries since anyone was treated for this... this form of rape. But there are medical records from that era. It was a time of great violence among my people. A time we thought we had put far behind us. That this could happen now... it's unimaginable. :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': Earth was once a violent planet, too. At times the chaos threatened the very fabric of life, but, like you, we evolved. We found better ways to handle our conflicts. But I think no one can deny that the seed of violence remains within each of us. We must recognize that, because that violence is capable of consuming each of us, as it consumed your son. === ''[[w:The Masterpiece Society (TNG episode)|The Masterpiece Society]]'' [5.13] === === ''[[w:Conundrum (TNG episode)|Conundrum]]'' [5.14] === :''[Troi and Data are in Ten-Forward, when all of the crew lose their memories]'' :'''[[w:Deanna Troi|Deanna Troi]]''': The bartender is an artificial lifeform. :'''[[w:Data (Star Trek)|Data]]''': Can I get you something? A beverage? <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': Contact the operations officer to assist you. :'''[[w:Geordi La Forge|Geordi La Forge]]''': Aye, sir. :'''[[w:Ro Laren|Ensign Ro]]''': He's in Ten-Forward... waiting tables. === ''[[w:Power Play (TNG episode)|Power Play]]'' [5.15] === === ''[[w:Ethics (TNG episode)|Ethics]]'' [5.16] === :'''[[w:Beverly Crusher|Beverly Crusher]]''': ''[To Dr Russell, who has been using experimental techniques to treat patients]'' You scare me, doctor. You risk your patients' lives and justify it in the name of research. Genuine research takes time... sometimes a lifetime of painstaking, detailed work in order to get any results. Not for you, you take short cuts, right through living tissue. You put your research ahead of your patients' lives and as far as I'm concerned, that's a violation of our most sacred trust. I'm sure your work will be hailed as a stunning breakthrough. Enjoy your laurels, doctor. I'm not sure I could. === ''[[w:The Outcast (TNG episode)|The Outcast]]'' [5.17] === [[File:Transgender Pride flag.svg|thumb|I am female. I was born that way. I have had those feelings… those longings… all my life. It is not unnatural. I am not sick because I feel this way. I do not need to be helped, and I do not need to be cured. What I do need — what all of those like me need — is your understanding and your compassion. We do not injure you in any way. And yet we are scorned, and attacked. And all because we are different.]] :''[Soren, a member of a genderless species, defends her gender identity]'' :'''Soren''': I am female. I was born that way. I have had those feelings… those longings… all my life. It is not unnatural. I am not sick because I feel this way. I do not need to be helped, and I do not need to be cured. What I do need — what all of those like me need — is your understanding and your compassion. We do not injure you in any way. And yet we are scorned, and attacked. And all because we are different. What we do is no different from what you do. We talk and laugh… we complain about work and we wonder about growing old… we talk about our families, and we worry about the future…We cry with each other when things seem hopeless. All the loving things that you do with each other… that’s what we do. And for that, we are called misfits, and deviants… and criminals. What right do you have to punish us? What right do you have to change us? What makes you think you can dictate how people love each other? === ''[[w:Cause and Effect (TNG episode)|Cause and Effect]]'' [5.18] === :'''[[w:William Riker|William Riker]]''': Sometimes I wonder if he's stacking the deck. :'''[[w:Data (Star Trek)|Data]]''': I assure you, commander, the cards have been sufficiently randomized. :'''[[w:Worf|Worf]]''': ''[surly]'' I hope so. <hr width="50%"/> :''[at a poker game]'' :'''Worf''': I am experiencing nIb'poH, the feeling I have done this before. :'''Riker''': Yes, last Tuesday night. :'''Worf''': That's not what I mean. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': My aunt Adelle cured a lot of sleepless nights with this steaming milk. :'''[[w:Beverly Crusher|Beverly Crusher]]''': Thank you. Mmm, nutmeg. :'''Picard''': Whenever I get insomnia, I try to perfect the recipe. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Beverly Crusher''': Thank you, for everything. :'''Picard''': Uh uh. Thank Aunt Adelle. === ''[[w:The First Duty (TNG episode)|The First Duty]]'' [5.19] === :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth -- and that means the ''whole'' truth -- whether it's scientific truth, or historical truth, or personal truth! It is the guiding principle on which Starfleet is based! If you can't find it within yourself to come forward and tell the ''whole'' story of what happened, then you don't deserve to wear that uniform! I'm going to make it very simple for you, Mister Crusher. Either you tell Admiral Brand the true cause of Josh Albert's death, or ''I'' will! :'''[[w:Wesley Crusher|Wesley Crusher]]''': ...Then it's a no-win situation, like the ''Kobayashi Maru''. Whatever I do, or even if I do nothing, the result is the same. All four of us get -- :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': ''(sharply cutting him off)'' DISMISSED! === ''[[w:Cost of Living (TNG episode)|Cost of Living]]'' [5.20] === :'''[[w:List_of_minor_recurring_characters_in_Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation#Alexander_Rozhenko|Alexander Rozhenko]]''': Why are they arguing? :'''Juggler''': They're friends. They love contradiction. They they thrive on challenge! They flourish in conflict. :'''Alexander Rozhenko''': Then why are they friends? :'''[[w:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minor_recurring_characters_in_Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation#Lwaxana_Troi|Lwaxana Troi]]''': Who else are you going to argue with if not your friends? === ''[[w:The Perfect Mate (TNG episode)|The Perfect Mate]]'' [5.21] === :'''[[w:Beverly Crusher|Beverly Crusher]]''': I wish I knew how I could help. :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': Perhaps I just needed a shoulder. :'''Beverly Crusher''': Well it's there for you, Jean-Luc. It always has been. === ''[[w:Imaginary Friend (TNG episode)|Imaginary Friend]]'' [5.22] === [[File:Aurora seen through a cloud cover Tuntorp 4.jpg|thumb|It is interesting that people try to find meaningful patterns in things that are essentially random. I have noticed that the images they perceive sometimes suggest what they are thinking about at that particular moment. Besides, it is clearly a bunny rabbit.]] :'''[[w:Guinan|Guinan]]''': No, it's a Samalian coral fish with its fin unfolded. :'''[[w:Data (Star Trek)|Data]]''': I believe what you are seeing is the effect of the fluid dynamic processes inherent in the large scale motion of rarefied gas. :'''Guinan''': No, no. First it was a fish and now it's a Mentonian sailing ship. :'''Data''': Where? :'''Guinan''': Right there. Don't you see the two swirls coming together to form the mast? :'''Data''': I do not see it. It is interesting that people try to find meaningful patterns in things that are essentially random. I have noticed that the images they perceive sometimes suggest what they are thinking about at that particular moment. Besides, it is clearly a bunny rabbit. === ''[[w:I, Borg (TNG episode)|I, Borg]]'' [5.23] === :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': ''[to a disengaged Borg male teen, in the manner of "Locutus"]'' This is a primitive culture. I am here to facilitate its incorporation. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Beverly Crusher|Beverly Crusher]]''': But even in war there are rules. You don't kill civilians indiscriminately. :'''[[w:William Riker|William T. Riker]]''': There are no civilians among the Borg. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Hugh''': We are Hugh. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Hugh (Star Trek)|Hugh]]''': Resistance is not futile? <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Geordi La Forge|Geordi La Forge]]''': Part of what we do is learn more about other species. :'''Hugh''': We assimilate species. Then we know everything about them. === ''[[w:The Next Phase (TNG episode)|The Next Phase]]'' [5.24] === :'''[[w:Ro Laren|Ro Laren]]''': I don't have all the answers; I've never been dead before. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Data (Star Trek)|Data]]''': I never knew what a friend was until I met Geordi. He spoke to me as though I were human. He treated me no differently from anyone else. He accepted me for what I am. And that, I have learned, is friendship. But I do not know how to say goodbye. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Geordi La Forge|Geordi La Forge]]''': Maybe the Federation should develop phase inverter of its own. If it can teach Ro Laren humility, it could do anything! === ''[[w:The Inner Light (TNG episode)|The Inner Light]]'' [5.25] === [[File:Freedom tree, St Helier - geograph.ci - 150.jpg|thumb|This [[tree]] is our [[symbol]]. Our affirmation of [[Life]], and everyone in this town gives part of their water rations to keep it alive. We've learned, Administrator, that [[hope]] is a powerful weapon against anything, even drought.]] [[File:Patrick Stewart by Gage Skidmore.jpg|thumb|Seize the [[time]] … [[Live]] [[now]]. Make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again.]] :<small> Screenplay by [[w:Morgan Gendel|Morgan Gendel]] and [[w:Peter Allan Fields|Peter Allan Fields]]. This episode won the 1993 [[w:Hugo Award|Hugo Award]] for [[w:Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation|Best Dramatic Presentation]]. The younger Batai, the son of Kamin, was played by [[Patrick Stewart]]'s real-life son, Daniel. (Stardate: 45944.1, original airdate: 1 June 1992)</small> [[File:2014-05-26 Replica of 'Ressikan flute' by Morgan Gendel IMG 1458.jpg|thumb|The rest of us have been gone for a thousand years. If you [[remember]] what we were, and how we lived, then we’ll have found [[life]] again.]] :'''Eline''': ''[to [[Jean-Luc Picard]]]'' You think that this — ''your [[life]]'' — is a [[dream]]? :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': This is ''not'' my life! I [[know]] that much. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Picard''': Would you try to answer some questions for me? No matter how [[strange]] they may seem to you? :'''Eline''': Of course. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Eline''': The [[happiest]] day of my life was the day we got married. :'''Picard''': And what do I do — here in Ressik? :'''Eline''': You are the best iron weaver in the [[community]] — at least I think so. You prefer playing the flute, of course. :'''Picard''': The flute? :'''Eline''': Yes. ''[she gets up, finds his flute and hands it to him]'' :'''Picard''': When did I learn to play this? :'''Eline''': I'm afraid you never did, dear. You do keep ''trying''. :'''Picard''': ''[blows a few feeble notes]'' I see what you mean. … Well, thank you for the soup. Thank you for your help. Tomorrow, will you help me send a message? :'''Eline''': Of course. Will you come to bed? :'''Picard''': Oh, I'll sleep here. :'''Eline''': Kamin, please come with me. :'''Picard''': I've been sick. I'd be tossing and turning; it wouldn't be fair to you. :'''Eline''': Let me be the judge of that. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Eline''': I think you're still trying to figure out where you are. Where that ship of yours is. How to get back to that life. :'''Picard/Kamin''': The memory is five years old now, but it's still inside me. :'''Eline''': Was your life there so much better than this? So much more gratifying, so much more fulfilling, that you cling to it with such stubbornness? :'''Picard/Kamin''': Eline. :'''Eline''': It must have been extraordinary. But never in all the stories you've told me have you mentioned anyone who [[loved]] you as I do. :'''Picard/Kamin''': It was [[real]]. It was as real as this is. And you can't expect me to forget a lifetime spent there. :'''Eline''': Yes, I can. I've been patient Kamin. For five years I've shared you with that other life. I’ve listened, I’ve tried to understand, and I have waited. When do I get you back? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Batai''': This [[tree]] is our [[symbol]]. Our affirmation of [[Life]], and everyone in this town gives part of their water rations to keep it alive. We've learned, Administrator, that [[hope]] is a powerful weapon against anything, even drought. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Meribor''': You've taught me to pursue the [[truth]], no matter how [[painful]] it is. It's too late to back off now. This planet is dying. :'''Picard/Kamin''': Perhaps I should have filled your head with trivial concerns. Games and toys and clothes. :'''Meribor''': I don't think you mean that. :'''Picard/Kamin''': No, I don't. It just saddens me to see you burdened with the knowledge of things you can't change. :'''Meribor''': Father, I think I should marry Dannick sooner rather than later, don't you? :'''Picard/Kamin''': Seize the [[time]], Meribor. [[Live]] [[now]]. Make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Batai''': We hoped our probe would encounter someone in the [[future]]. Someone who could be a [[teacher]]. Someone who could tell the others about us. :'''Picard/Kamin''': Oh, it's me, isn't it? I'm the someone. I'm the one it finds. That's what this launching is. A probe that finds me in the future. :'''Eline''': Yes, my love. :'''Picard/Kamin''': Eline. :'''Eline''': The rest of us have been gone for a thousand years. If you remember what we were, and how we lived, then we'll have found life again. :'''Picard/Kamin''': Eline… :'''Eline''': ''[the rocket rises into the sky]'' Now we live in you. Tell them of us, my darling. === ''[[w:Time's Arrow (TNG episode)#Part 1|Time's Arrow, Part I]]'' [5.26] === :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': ''[referring to disembodied head]'' Data, is this yours? :'''Data''': I believe so, sir. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Could it be... [[w:Lore (Star Trek: The Next Generation|Lore]]? :'''Data''': No, sir. My brother's positronic brain has a Type-L phase discriminating amplifier. Mine is a Type-R. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Counselor Deanna Troi''': Have you ever heard Data define friendship? :'''Commander William T. Riker''': No. :'''Troi:''' How did he put it? [[#Legacy .5B4.6.5D|"As I experience certain sensory input patterns, my mental pathways become accustomed to them. The inputs eventually are anticipated and even missed when absent."]] :''[Later, after Data enters the turbolift and asks them if they are distressed for some reason.]'' :'''Riker''': It's just that our mental pathways have become accustomed to your sensory input patterns. :'''Data''': Hmm, I understand. I am also fond of you, Commander. And you as well, Counselor. == Season 6 == === ''[[w:Time's Arrow (Star Trek: The Next Generation)#Part 2|Time's Arrow, Part II]]'' [6.1] === :''[Picard is masquerading as a handyman in [[w:1893|1893]] [[San Francisco]].]'' :'''Doctor''': Just what are you doing with those lamps? :'''[[Jean-Luc Picard]]''': Replacing the burners. City ordinance. Makes it safer in case of earthquake. :'''Doctor''': There hasn't been an earthquake here in thirty years! :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Well, that takes care of this ward. Time to be moving on. :'''Doctor''': ''(scoffs)'' [[w:1906 San Francisco earthquake|Earthquakes]]... === ''[[w:Realm of Fear (TNG episode)#Part 2|Realm of Fear]]'' [6.2] === :'''[[w: Geordi La Forge|Geordi La Forge]]''': Barclay, I'm gonna need a [[systems engineer]] on this away team. :'''[[w:Reginald Barclay|Reginald Barclay]]''': I'll, I'll ask Ensign Dern to join you. :'''La Forge''': I meant ''you'', Barclay! ===''[[w:Man of the People (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Man of the People]]'' [6.3]=== :'''Ambassador Ves Alkar''': Hear me out, Captain. It's important you understand. You see, I discovered long ago I had the ability to channel my darker thoughts, my unwanted emotions, to others, leaving me unencumbered. :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': Is this what you've done to Counsellor Troi? :'''Ambassador Ves Alkar''': I hadn't planned it. I'd expected Maylor to live through the negotiation. Her death could not have been more untimely. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': So then you deliberately used Deanna. :'''Ambassador Ves Alkar''': She's an empath. I was reasonably certain I could establish a link with her. Frankly, I was amazed when I saw how quickly she'd aged. Usually my receptacles survive for years. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Receptacles? :'''Ambassador Ves Alkar''': Come now, Captain. Surely you can see there's a broader canvas here. If I came to these peace talks hindered by unwanted emotions, the Rekags and Seronians would be condemned to go on fighting :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': You cannot explain away a wantonly immoral act because you think it is connected to some higher purpose. :'''Ambassador Ves Alkar''': Captain. do you know how many people have died on this planet in the last forty eight hours? Thousands. Deanna Troi is just one individual. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': That does not justify brutalising her, nor any of the others you have used. :'''Ambassador Ves Alkar''': Ask the Seronian and Rekag children who go to bed each night in fear of their lives. Captain, I get no payment, I have no power base, no agenda. I am willing to risk my life simply to help others. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Do you think that makes you appear courageous? Because you're mistaken. You're a coward, Alkar. You exploit the innocent because you're unwilling to shoulder the burdens of unpleasant emotions. Well, this time you will be held accountable. I'm taking you back to the Enterprise to release Counsellor Troi. :'''Ambassador Ves Alkar''': I have no intention of releasing her now or ever. === ''[[w:Relics (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Relics]]'' [6.4] === [[File:James Doohan Scotty Star Trek.JPG|thumb|Starfleet captains are like children. They want everything right now and they want it their way. But the secret is to give them only what they need, not what they want.]] :'''[[w:Montgomery Scott|Scotty]]''': Good lord man, where have you put me? :'''Kane''': These are standard guest quarters, sir. I can try and find something bigger if you want. :'''Scotty''': Bigger? n my day, even an Admiral wouldn't have had such quarters on a starship! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Scotty''': You mind a little advice? Starfleet captains are like children. They want everything right now and they want it their way. But the secret is to give them only what they need, not what they want. :'''La Forge''': Yeah, well I told the captain I would have this analysis done in an hour. :'''Scotty''': How long will it ''really'' take? :'''La Forge''': An hour! :'''Scotty''': Oh, you didn't tell him how long it would ''really'' take, did you? :'''La Forge''': Well, of course I did. :'''Scotty''': Oh, laddie, you have a lot to learn if you want people to think of you as a miracle worker! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Scotty''': Laddie, I was drinking Scotch a hundred years before you were born. And I can tell you that whatever this is, it is definitely not scotch! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Scotty''': You're not quite uh... human, are ya? :'''Data''': No, sir; I am an android. Lieutenant Commander Data. :'''Scotty''': Synthetic scotch, synthetic commanders... :'''Data''': I believe Guinan does keep a limited supply of non-synthaholic products. Perhaps one of them would be to your liking. :''[Data retrieves a geen bottle from under the counter.]'' :'''Scotty''': ''[inspecting his drink]'' What is it? :'''Data''': It is... ''[sniffs the bottle]'' It is... ''[sniffs the bottle again, looking puzzled]'' ...It is green. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Scotty is outside the Holodeck]'' :'''Computer''': Please enter program. :'''Scotty''': The android at the bar said you could show me my old ship. Let me see it. :'''Computer''': Insufficient data. Please specify parameters. :'''Scotty''': The ''Enterprise'', show me the bridge of the ''Enterprise'', ya chattering piece of...! :'''Computer''': There have been five Federation ships with that name. Please specify by registry number. :'''Scotty''': NCC-1701. No bloody A, B, C, or D. :'''Computer''': Program complete. Enter when ready. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Scotty''': ''[pours a drink and gives a toast]'' Here's to ya, lads. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Picard''': ''Constitution'' class. :'''Scotty''': Aye! You're familiar with them? :'''Picard''': There's one in the fleet museum. But... But then, of course... This is your ''Enterprise''. :'''Scotty''': I actually served on two, but this was the first. She was also the first ship I ever served on as Chief Engineer. Ya know, I served aboard eleven ships -- freighters, cruisers, starships -- but this is the only one I think of. The only one I miss. :'''Picard''': The first vessel that I served on as Captain was called the ''Stargazer''. It was an overworked, underpowered vessel, always on the verge of flying apart at the seams... In every measurable sense, my ''Enterprise'' is far superior. But there are times when I would give almost anything to command the ''Stargazer'' again. :'''Scotty''': Ah, it's like the first time ya fall in love; you don't ever love a woman quite like that again. Well... To the ''Enterprise'' and the ''Stargazer''! Old girlfriends we'll never meet again. :'''Picard''': What do you think of the ''Enterprise D''? :'''Scotty''': She's a beauty with a good crew. :'''Picard''': But...? :'''Scotty''': But... When I was here, I could tell ya the speed that we were traveling by the feel of the deck plates. But on your ship, I feel like I'm just in the way. :'''Picard''': Well, 75 years is a long time. If you would like to study some technical schematics or-- :'''Scotty''': I'm not 18, and I can't start out like a raw cadet! No, there comes a time when a man finds that he can't fall in love again. He knows that it's time to stop. I don't belong on your ship. I belong on this one. This is my home. This is where I had a purpose. But it's not real! It's just a computer-generated fantasy! And I'm just an old man who's trying to hide in it. Computer -- shut this bloody thing off. It's time I acted my age. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Scotty''': Shunt the deuterium from the main cryo-pump to the auxiliary tank. :'''La Forge''': The tank can't withstand that kind of pressure. :'''Scotty''': Where'd you get that idea? :'''La Forge''': What do you mean, where did I get that idea? It's in the impulse engine specifications. :'''Scotty''': Regulation forty-two-slash-fifteen, pressure variances on IRC tank storage? :'''La Forge''': Yeah. :'''Scotty''': Forget it. I wrote it. A good engineer is always a wee bit conservative, at least on paper. Just bypass the secondary cut-off valve and boost the flow. It'll work. ===''[[w:Schisms (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Schisms]]'' [6.5]=== :'''[[w:Data (Star Trek)|Data]]''': ''(reciting 'Ode To Spot')'' ''Felis catus'' is your taxonomic nomenclature, An endothermic quadruped, carnivorous by nature; Your visual, olfactory, and auditory senses Contribute to your hunting skills and natural defences. I find myself intrigued by your subvocal oscillations, A singular development of cat communications That obviates your basic hedonistic predilection For a rhythmic stroking of your fur to demonstrate affection. A tail is quite essential for your acrobatic talents; You would not be so agile if you lacked its counterbalance. And when not being utilized to aid in locomotion, It often serves to illustrate the state of your emotion. O Spot, the complex levels of behavior you display Connote a fairly well-developed cognitive array. And though you are not sentient, Spot, and do not comprehend, I nonetheless consider you a true and valued friend. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Data:''' Your hesitation suggests you are trying to protect my feelings. However, since I have none, I would prefer you to be honest. <hr width="50%"/> :'''La Forge:''' ''[after yawning]'' Oh, excuse me. :'''Riker:''' I know the feeling. <hr width="50%"/> :'''La Forge:''' Good morning. :'''Riker:''' Morning?! I just went to bed! :'''La Forge:''' Commander, it's 0700 hours. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Troi:''' Have you dreamed about scissors recently? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Riker:''' Whoever it was that sent that thing was more than simply curious... <hr width="50%"/> :'''La Forge:''' I've been in this room before. :'''Riker:''' We've all been here before. ===''[[w:True Q|True Q]]'' [6.6]=== [[File:018 Human looking at the stars during Perseids with the Milky Way in the background Photo by Giles Laurent.jpg|thumb|I would put human morality against the Q's any day. And perhaps that's the reason that we fascinate you so - because our puny behavior shows you a glimmer of the one thing that evades your omnipotence: a moral center. And if so, I can think of no crueler irony than that you should destroy this young woman, whose only crime is that she's too human.]] :'''Geordi La Forge:''' Everything was normal and then, suddenly it's like the laws of [[physics]] went right out the window. :'''Q:''' And why shouldn't they? They're so inconvenient. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Picard:''' Are you responsible for this incident in engineering? :'''Q:''' Of course! I needed to find out if what I suspected about the girl were true. :'''Picard:''' That being... :'''Q:''' That she's Q. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Q:''' What is it about these squirming little infants that you find so appealing? :'''Beverly Crusher:''' I'm sure that's beyond your comprehension, Q. :'''Q:''' I desperately hope so. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Q:''' Crusher gets more shrill with every passing year. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Q:''' You don't have to eat, you know. It's a nasty human habit you could do without. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Picard''': Your... arrogant pretense at being the moral guardians of the universe strikes me as being hollow, Q. I see no evidence that you're guided by a superior moral code or any code whatsoever. You may be nearly omnipotent, and I don't deny that your... parlor tricks are very impressive. But morality, I don't see it. I don't acknowledge it, Q! I would put human morality against the Q's any day. And perhaps that's the reason that we fascinate you so - because our puny behavior shows you a glimmer of the one thing that evades your omnipotence: a moral center. And if so, I can think of no crueler irony than that you should destroy this young woman, whose only crime is that she's too human. :'''Q:''' Jean-Luc, sometimes I think the only reason I come here is to listen to these wonderful speeches of yours... <hr width="50%"/> :''[Q has indicated he will murder Amanda if she's not a pure Q.]'' :'''Picard''': You would be so despicable? :'''Q:''' Don't be naïve. You have no idea what it means to be Q. With unlimited power comes responsibility. Do you think it is reasonable for us to allow omnipotent beings to roam free through the universe? :'''Picard''': So what have you concluded? Does she live or does she die? :'''Q''': I haven't decided yet. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Beverly Crusher:''' I don't interfere with what you're teaching her. :'''Q:''' You wouldn't be capable of interfering. :'''Beverly Crusher:''' I don't think it's too much to ask for you to do the same. :''(Beverly is suddenly turned into a red setter dog, barking. Amanda restores her to human)'' :'''Beverly Crusher:''' ''(who apparently didn't notice her transformation)'' And you stay out of mine! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Amanda Rogers:''' Ever since I got here, I've been fighting this… I've been denying the truth… denying what I am. I am Q. === ''[[w:Rascals (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Rascals]]'' [6.7] === :''(returning from leave, Picard is showing the others his archaeological finds)'' :'''Guinan''': You were on one of the most beautiful planets in the entire quadrant, and you spent the entire time in a cave? :'''Picard''': ''(nodding happily)'' It was a very rewarding experience. Look at these fragments! They're very nearly in perfect condition, and yet they're seven hundred years old. :'''Guinan''': So's my father. <hr width="50%/> :'''Ro''': This is the first time these Jefferies tubes haven't seemed cramped. :'''Guinan''': How much farther do we have to go? :'''Ro''': About fifty metres. Don't tell me you're tired. :'''Guinan''' ''(wryly)'': I'm not as young as I used to be. ''(Ro gets the joke and chuckles)'' ===''[[w:A Fistful of Datas|A Fistful of Datas]]'' [6.8]=== :'''Data:''' ''[in Texan accent]'' Howdy, commander! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Data:''' You just sit tight. We'll have this all fixed up in time for supper. ===''[[w:The Quality of Life (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|The Quality of Life]]'' [6.9]=== :'''Beverly Crusher:''' I have always been a little suspicious of men in beards. <hr width="50%/> :'''Riker:''' My beard is not an affectation! === ''[[w:Chain of Command (TNG episode)|Chain of Command, Part I]]'' [6.10] === :''[Edward Jellico is assigned as captain of the Enterprise]'' :'''[[w:Edward Jellico|Edward Jellico]]''': Oh, and get that fish out of the ready room. === ''[[w:Chain of Command (TNG episode)|Chain of Command, Part II]]'' [6.11] === [[File:Skull lights.jpg|thumb|There...are...four...lights!]] :'''[[w:Edward Jellico|Edward Jellico]]''': Data, I want to be in Minos Korva... in one hour. :'''[[w:Data (Star Trek)|Data]]''': Set course 350 mark 215 and engage warp 8.5. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Gul Madred''': I remember the first time I ate a live taspar. I was six years old and living on the streets of Lakat. There was a band of children, four, five...six years old—some even smaller, desperately trying to survive. We were thin, scrawny little animals, constantly hungry, always cold. We slept together in doorways, like packs of wild gettles, for warmth. Once I found a nest. Taspars had mated and built a nest in the eave of a burned-out building. And I found three eggs in it. It was like finding treasure. I cracked one open on the spot and ate it, very much as you just did. I planned to save the other two. They would keep me alive for another week. But of course, an older boy saw them and wanted them. And he got them. But he had to break my arm to do it. :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': Must be rewarding to you to...to repay others for all those years of misery. :'''Gul Madred''': What do you mean? :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': [[Torture]] has never been a reliable means of extracting information. It is ultimately self-defeating as a means of control. One wonders it is still practiced. :'''Gul Madred''': I fail to see where this analysis is leading. :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': Whenever I look at you now, I will not see a powerful Cardassian warrior; I will see a six-year-old boy who is powerless to protect himself. :'''Gul Madred''': Be quiet! :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': In spite of all you have done to me, I find you a pitiable man. :'''Gul Madred''': Picard, stop it. Or I will turn this on and leave you in agony all night! :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': Aha! You called me "Picard!" :'''Gul Madred''': What are the Federation's defense plans for Minos Korva? :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': There are four lights! <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w: Edward Jellico|Edward Jellico]]''': Let's drop the ranks for a moment. I don't like you. I believe you're arrogant, insubordinate, willful, and I don't think you're a particularly good First Officer. But you are also the best pilot on the ship. :'''[[w:William T. Riker|William Riker]]''': Well, now that the ranks are dropped, Captain...I don't like you, either. You ARE arrogant, and closed-minded. You need to control everyone and everything. You don't provide an atmosphere of trust, and you don't inspire these people to go out of their way for you. You've got everyone wound up so tight, there's no joy in anything. I don't think you're a particularly good Captain. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Gul Madred''': We acquired territory during the wars... we developed new resources... we initiated a rebuilding program... we have mandated agricultural programs. That is what the military has done for Cardassia. Because of that... my daughter will never have to worry about going hungry. :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': Her belly may be full... but her spirit will be empty. :''[Gul Madred takes two steps and back hands Picard across the face. Picard staggers back, startled... but knowing he has scored on Madred.]'' :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': Be careful... you're showing weakness... :'''Gul Madred''': Shall we begin again? How many lights are there? :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': What lights? <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': There...are...four...lights! <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': At the end, he gave me a choice: between a life of comfort...or more torture. All I had to do was say that...I could see ''five'' lights, when in fact there were only four. :'''[[w:Deanna Troi|Deanna Troi]]''': You didn't say it. :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': No. No. But I was going to. I would have told him anything. Anything at all. But more than that—I believed that I could see...five lights. ===''[[w:Ship in a Bottle (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Ship in a Bottle]]'' [6.12]=== [[File:Braininvat.svg|thumb|But who knows? Our reality may be very much like theirs and [[Simulation hypothesis|all this might just be an elaborate simulation]] running inside a little device sitting on someone's table. ]] :'''Moriarty''': A deadline has a wonderful way of concentrating the mind. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Troi''': In a sense, you ''did'' give Moriarty what he wanted. :'''Picard''': In a sense. But who knows? Our reality may be very much like theirs and [[Simulation hypothesis|all this might just be an elaborate simulation]] running inside a little device sitting on someone's table. ===''[[w:Aquiel|Aquiel]]'' [6.13]=== ===''[[w:Face of the Enemy (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Face of the Enemy]]'' [6.14]=== :'''Beverly Crusher''': ''(after restoring Troi's original appearance)'' Well, that about does it. How does it feel to have your own face back? :'''Deanna Troi''': ''(feeling her face with her hand)'' Just right. Thank you. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Deanna Troi''': The thanks should go to N'Vek. He sacrificed himself to save them - and me. === ''[[w:Tapestry (TNG episode)|Tapestry]]'' [6.15] === [[File:MANNapoli 109982 roue de la fortune memento mori.jpg|thumb|The Jean-Luc Picard ''you'' wanted to be -- the one who did not fight the Naussican -- had quite a different career from the one you remember. That Picard never had a brush with death. Never came face-to-face with his own mortality. Never realized how fragile life is or how important each moment must be.]] :'''Q''': ''(Shakes Picard's hand)'' Welcome to the [[Afterlife]] Jean-Luc...You're dead! <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Q (Star Trek)|Q]]''': You're dead, this is the afterlife...and I'm [[God|God]]. :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': You are not God! :'''Q''': Blasphemy! You're lucky I don't cast you out or smite you or something. The bottom line is, your life ended about five minutes ago... under the inept ministrations of Dr. Beverly Crusher. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': No. I am not dead. Because I refuse to believe that the afterlife is run by ''you''. The universe is not so badly designed! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Q''': ...Please, spare me your egotistical musings on your pivotal role in history. Nothing you do here will cause the Federation to collapse, or galaxies to explode. To be blunt...''You're important, but you're not that important.'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Q''': Attention on deck, Ensign Picard! :'''Picard''': Q. :'''Q''': That's ''Captain'' Q to you, young man! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Q''': You cheated, Picard? I'm impressed! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': There are many parts of my youth that I'm not proud of. There were loose threads - untidy parts of me that I would like to remove. But when I pulled on one of those threads, it unraveled the tapestry of my life. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Q''': You [[Mortality|mortals]] are so obtuse! Why do you persist in believing that [[life]] and [[death]] are such static and rigid concepts? Why I can take your life and give it back to you again with the snap of a finger! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Picard''': I can't live out my days as that person! That man is bereft of [[passion]]... and [[imagination]]! That is not who I am! :'''Q''': ''Au contraire''! He's the person you wanted to be. One who was less arrogant and undisciplined in his youth? One who was less like me? The Jean-Luc Picard ''you'' wanted to be -- the one who did not fight the Naussicans -- had quite a different career from the one you remember. That Picard never had a brush with death, never came face-to-face with his own mortality, never realized how fragile life is...or how important each moment can, and should, be. So his life never came into focus. He drifted for much of his career, with no plan or agenda, going from one assignment to the next, never seizing the opportunities that presented themselves. He never led the away team on Milica 3 to save the ambassador, never took charge of the Stargazer's bridge when its captain was killed; and no one ever offered him a command. He learned to play it safe...and he never, ''ever'', got noticed by ''anyone''. :'''Picard''': You're right, Q. You gave me the opportunity to change, and I took it. But I see now that doing so was a mistake. :'''Q''': Are you asking me for something, Jean-Luc? :'''Picard''': Only for a chance to make things as they were before, the way I now realize they ''must'' be. :'''Q''': Before, you died it Sickbay. Is ''that'' what you want? :'''Picard''': I would rather die as the man I know is truly within me -- with a full life, a ''real'' life, behind me -- than have my name on the biography I just listened to. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Q''': ''[Dressed as a delivery boy]'' Flowers! Is there a [[w:Jean-Luc Picard|John Luck Pickird]] here? ===''[[w:Birthright (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Birthright, Part I]]'' [6.16]=== ===''[[w:Birthright (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Birthright, Part II]]'' [6.17]=== :'''Worf''': There is no room in my heart for shame. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Tokath''': I give you one last chance to accept our way of life. :'''[[w:Worf|Worf]]''': Those are eloquent words, Tokath, but the truth is, I am being executed because I brought something dangerous to your young people-- knowledge. :'''[[w:Worf|Worf]]''': Knowledge of their origins, knowledge of the real reasons you are here in this camp. :'''[[w:Worf|Worf]]''': The truth is a threat to you. :'''Tokath''': Enough! ===''[[w:Starship Mine|Starship Mine]]'' [6.18]=== ===''[[w:Lessons (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Lessons]]'' [6.19]=== ===''[[w:The Chase (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|The Chase]]'' [6.20]=== [[File:Gazing at the Milky Way Morvan 2019-08-31.jpg|thumb|The Kurlan civilization believed that an individual is a community of individuals. Inside us are many voices, each with its own desires, its own style, its own view of the world.]] [[File:How proteins are made NSF.jpg|thumb|It was our hope that you would have to come together in fellowship and companionship to hear this message. And if you can see and hear me, our hope has been fulfilled. You are a monument, not to our greatness, but to our existence. That was our wish. That you too, would know life, and would keep alive our memory. There is something of us in each of you. And so, something of you in each other. Remember us.]] :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''' The Kurlan civilization believed that an individual is a community of individuals. Inside us are many voices, each with its own desires, its own style, its own view of the world. <hr width="50%"/> :''[After Nu'Daq arm wrestles and head-butts Data]'' :'''[[w:Data|Data]]''': My upper spinal support is a poly-alloy designed to withstand extreme stress. My skull is composed of cortenide and duranium. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Data''': You are attempting to bribe me. :'''Nu'Daq''': N-Not at all. :'''Data''': You suggested a plan that would work to your advantage. One that I would be capable of executing. You then implied a reward. Clearly you were... :'''Nu'Daq''': Commander..., never mind. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Nu'Daq''': What?! You incompetent '' toppa' '' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Gul Ocett''': He's right. For all we know, this might just be a recipe for biscuits! :'''Nu'Daq''': BISCUITS?! If that is what you believe, then go back to Cardassia. I will send you my mother's recipe. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Ancient Humanoid''': You're wondering who we are. Why we have done this. I stand before you, the image of a being from so long ago. Life evolved on my planet, before all others in this part of the galaxy. We left our world, explored the stars, and found none like ourselves. Our civilization thrived for ages. But what is the life of one race, compared to the vast stretches of cosmic time? We knew that one day we would be gone, and that nothing of us would survive. So we left you. Our scientists seeded the primordial oceans of many worlds, where life was in its infancy. The seed codes directed your evolution towards a physical form resembling ours. This body you see before you, which is of course shaped as yours is shaped, for you are the end result. The seed codes also contained this message, which was scattered in fragments on many different worlds. It was our hope that you would have to come together in fellowship and companionship to hear this message. And if you can see and hear me, our hope has been fulfilled. You are a monument, not to our greatness, but to our existence. That was our wish. That you too, would know life, and would keep alive our memory. There is something of us in each of you. And so, something of you in each other. Remember us. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Nu'Daq''': That's all?! If she were not dead, I would kill her. :'''Gul Ocett''': The very notion that a Cardassian could have anything in common with a Klingon... it turns my stomach. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Romulan''': It would seem that we are not completely dissimilar after all; in our hopes, or in our fears. :'''Picard''': Yes. :'''Romulan''': Well then. Perhaps, one day… :'''Picard''': One day… ===''[[w:Frame of Mind (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Frame of Mind]]'' [6.21]=== ===''[[w:Suspicions (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Suspicions]]'' [6.22]=== ===''[[w:Rightful Heir|Rightful Heir]]'' [6.23]=== ===''[[w:Second Chances (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Second Chances]]'' [6.24]=== === ''[[w:Timescape (TNG episode)|Timescape]]'' [6.25] === :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': Dr. Fesbinder gave an hour long dissertation on the ionization of warp nacelles before he realized that the topic was supposed to be psychology. :'''[[w:Geordi La Forge|Geordi La Forge]]''': Why didn't anybody tell him? :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': There was no opportunity. There was no pause. ''(droning)'' He-just-kept-talking-in-one-long-incredibly-unbroken-sentence, moving-from-topic-to-topic-so-that-no-one-had-the-chance-to-interrupt, it-was-really-quite-hypnotic. ===''[[w:Descent (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Descent, Part I]]'' [6.26]=== [[File:GodfreyKneller-IsaacNewton-1689.jpg|thumb|Do not patronize me, sir. I invented [[physics]]]] :''[Lt. Cmdr. Data is playing poker with holographic forms of [[Isaac Newton|Sir Isaac Newton]], [[Albert Einstein]], and [[Stephen Hawking|Sir Stephen Hawking]].]'' :'''Hawking''': But then, I said, in that frame of reference, the perihelion of [[Mercury (planet)|Mercury]] would have processed in the opposite direction. :'''Einstein''': ''[laughs]'' That is a great story! :'''Data''': Quite amusing, Dr. Hawking. ''[turns to Newton]'' You see, Sir Isaac, the joke depends on an understanding of the relativistic curvature of [[spacetime]]. If two non-inertial reference frames are in relative motion-- :'''Newton''': Do not patronize me, sir. I invented [[physics]]. The day that apple fell on my head was the most momentous day in the history of science. :'''Hawking''': Not the apple story again. :'''Data''': That story is generally considered to be apocryphal. :'''Newton''': What?! How ''dare'' you! :'''Einstein''': Uh, perhaps we should return to the game, hmm? Now let's see, where were we? Yes, you ''[points at Hawking]'' raised Mr. Data four, which means that, um, the bet is...seven, to me? :'''Newton''': The bet is ten. Can't you do simple [[arithmetic]]? ''[sighs]'' I don't even know why I'm here in the first place. What is the point of playing this ridiculous game? :'''Data''': When I play poker with my shipmates, it often appears to be a useful forum for exploring the different facets of humanity. I was curious to see how three of history's greatest minds would interact in this setting. So far, it has proved to be most...illuminating. :'''Einstein''': And profitable. Heh heh heh... :'''Newton''': Can we get this over with, please? ''[to Hawking]'' It's your bet. :'''Hawking''': I raise fifty. :'''Newton''': Blast. I fold. :'''Data''': I fold as well. :'''Einstein''': The Uncertainty Principle will not help you now, Stephen, hmm? All the quantum fluctuations in the universe will not change the cards in your hand. I call. You are bluffing. And you will lose. :'''Hawking''': Wrong again, Albert. :''[a mechanical arm lowers, revealing that Hawking has a four of a kind.]'' :'''Einstein''': Well. Hmm... :''[the comm beeps]'' :'''Riker''' (over comm): Red Alert! All personnel report to duty stations! :'''Data''': We will have to continue this another time. End program. ::In his foreword to The Physics of Star Trek (p. xi), Hawking joked that after "winning" the holodeck card game, he called Paramount Pictures to try and cash in his chips, "but they didn't know the exchange rate." ::Hawking's off-screen remark which Newton doesn't understand is an inside joke: Einstein understands the joke (and Data, who has no sense of humor, understands that a joke has been made and appreciates it), but Newton doesn't get it. Data explains that the joke is based on knowledge about the perihelion precession of the planet Mercury, before Newton angrily cuts him off, saying "Don't patronize me, I invented physics". The perihelion precession of Mercury could not be explained by Newtonian physics alone, and was regarded as a major flaw of Newton's theory, but it later was explained by Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. ::Furthermore, Hawking's comment "Wrong again, Albert," when revealing his winning hand is a reference to the professor's life work in physics, in which he has disproved some of Einstein's theories. ::Einstein has trouble with the math of how much the next bet is. Newton asked if Einstein could do "simple arithmetic". It is a commonly held myth that he could not. In fact, he was quite brilliant as a child, and began teaching himself higher math when he had outpaced his schooling. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Worf''': Captain, incoming message from the New Berlin Colony. They have cancelled their distress call. Evidently a Ferengi trading ship entered their system and someone panicked. :'''Riker''': Third time today. Stand down Red Alert. Reduce speed. Return to our patrol route. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': Mister Worf, acknowledge the signal from New Berlin, transmit ''another'' copy of Starfleet's ship-recognition protocols - and tell them to ''read'' it this time. :'''Worf''': Aye, sir. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Riker''': They were fast, aggressive, almost vicious. It was more like fighting Klingons than... ''[realizes]'' ...Borg. ''[to Worf]'' No offense. :'''Worf''': None taken. == Season 7 == ===''[[w:Descent (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Descent, Part II]]'' [7.1]=== :''[Lore is trying to escape after attempting to destroy Data]'' :'''Data''': Lore. :'''Lore''': ''[chuckles nervously]'' You should be careful with that, brother. Someone could get hurt. :'''Data''': What are you doing? :'''Lore''': I've got a way out of here. I'm willing to forget what happened back there. Take you with me. We don't need anyone else. We're brothers. ''[Data does not respond]'' I'll give you the chip our father made. It contains much more than just emotions. It has memories. Memories... our father wanted you to have. :''[Lore lifs his fingernail and activates the emotion chip, Data flinches, Lore tries to fire his phaser at Data, Data fires back and approaches the fallen Lore]'' :'''Data''': Lore, I must deactivate you now. :'''Lore''': Without me, you will never feel emotion again. :'''Data''': I know. But you leave me no other choice. :'''Lore''': ''[shutting down]'' I... love you... brother... :'''Data''': Goodbye, Lore. ===''[[w:Liaisons (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Liaisons]]'' [7.2]=== ===''[[w:Interface (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Interface]]'' [7.3]=== ===''[[w:Gambit (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Gambit, Part I]]'' [7.4]=== ===''[[w:Gambit (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Gambit, Part II]]'' [7.5]=== === ''[[w:Phantasms (TNG episode)|Phantasms]]'' [7.6] === :'''[[w:Data (Star Trek)|Data]]''': May I ask a personal favor? :'''[[w:Worf|Worf]]''': Yes? :'''Data''': Will you take care of [[w:Spot (Star Trek)|Spot]] for me? :'''Worf''': Your animal? :'''Data''': I am concerned that if I have another waking dream, I may injure him. :'''Worf''': Of course. Spot, come here. :'''Data''': Unlike a canine, Spot will not respond to verbal commands. :''[Data picks up Spot and hands him to Worf, who is not quite sure how to handle the cat.]'' :'''Data''': Goodbye, Spot. He will need to be fed once a day. He prefers feline supplement one-twenty-five. :'''Worf''': I understand. :'''Data''': And he will require water. And you must also provide him with a sand box. And you must talk to him. Tell him he is a pretty cat, and a good cat, and— :'''Worf''': I will ''feed'' him. :'''Data''': Perhaps that will be enough. :''[Wolf walks away still awkwardly holding Spot as we hear Worf sneeze and Spot hiss in response.]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Picard''': What type of cake is that? :'''Data''': It is a [[W:cellular peptide|cellular peptide]] cake. :'''Worf''': [''With mouth full''] With mint frosting. ===''[[w:Dark Page|Dark Page]]'' [7.7]=== ===''[[w:Attached|Attached]]'' [7.8]=== :'''Riker''': That's it! I can see that diplomacy is not going to get us anywhere today, and I do not have time to negotiate. So let's put all of our cards on the table. ''[to Lorin]'' You're concerned the Kes are going to be admitted to the Federation. :'''Lorin''': Correct. :'''Riker''': As First Officer of the ''Enterprise'', I think I can promise you it is not going to happen. The Kes will be denied membership. :'''Mauric''': You have no authority to make that decision! Despite whatever games you played with the Prytt when you arrived, we still plan to take our petition directly to the Federation Council! They'll listen-! :'''Riker''': They will also listen to the reports of the Captain of the ''Enterprise'' and his First Officer! And I can tell you right now the First Officer's report will go something like this: "Kesprytt, a deeply troubled world with social, political, and military problems that they have yet to resolve. The Kes, while a friendly and democratic people, are driven by ''[[suspicion]]'', ''deviousness'', and ''[[paranoia]]''. It is the opinion of this officer that they are not ready for membership." === ''[[w:Force of Nature (TNG episode)|Force of Nature]]'' [7.9] === :''[Data is trying to train Spot not to jump on his computer console.]'' :'''[[w:Data (Star Trek)|Data]]''': This is down. Down is good. :''[Data picks Spot up.]'' :'''Data''': This is up. Up is no. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Geordi and Data are discussing Data's attempts to train Spot.]'' :'''[[w:Data (Star Trek)|Data]]''': I suppose I must accept that possibility. It may be that Spot lacks the intelligence necessary to learn the appropriate responses to my commands. :''[Spot looks up at Data and meows.]'' :'''Data''': Mmm? :''[Spot meows again.]'' :'''Data''': Ah. :''[Data takes a ball of yarn from his cabinet and lets Spot begin to play with it.]'' :'''[[w:Geordi La Forge|Geordi La Forge]]''': I don't know about Spot, but it seems to me ''your'' training is coming along just fine. Let's go. ===''[[w:Inheritance (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Inheritance]]'' [7.10]=== === ''[[w:Parallels (TNG episode)|Parallels]]'' [7.11] === :'''[[w:Wesley Crusher|Wesley Crusher]]''': Captain, we're receiving two-hundred and eighty-five thousand hails. === ''[[w:The Pegasus (TNG episode)|The Pegasus]]'' [7.12] === :''[Picard is complaining about the art produced in his image by the ship's children for "Captain Picard Day," which he hates.]'' :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Picard]]''': Well, they seem to have a somewhat exaggerated opinion of me. :''[Riker is holds up a child's sewn doll of Picard and imitates the captain's voice, as if the doll is speaking.]'' :'''[[w:William Riker|Riker]]''': Oh, I don't know, I think the resemblance is rather striking. Wouldn't you agree, Number One? :'''Picard''': Isn't there something else you have to do? :'''Riker''': I'll be on the bridge! :''[Riker attempts to walk away with the Picard doll tucked in his arm.]'' ===''[[w:Homeward (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Homeward]]'' [7.13]=== ===''[[w:Sub Rosa (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Sub Rosa]]'' [7.14]=== === ''[[w:Lower Decks|Lower Decks]]'' [7.15] === :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Picard]]''': ''[over ship's intercom]'' To all Starfleet personel, this is the Captain. It is my sad duty to inform you that a member of the crew, Ensign Sito Jaxa has been lost in the line of duty. She was the finest example of a Starfleet officer and a young woman of remarkable courage and strength of character. Her loss will be deeply felt by all who knew her. Picard out. ===''[[w:Thine Own Self|Thine Own Self]]'' [7.16]=== === ''[[w:Masks (TNG episode)|Masks]]'' [7.17] === :'''[[w:Data (Star Trek)|Data]]''': Geordi,…what…does it feel like…when a person is losing his mind? <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Data (Star Trek)|Data]]''': Have I been dreaming again? ===''[[w:Eye of the Beholder (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Eye of the Beholder]]'' [7.18]=== === ''[[w:Genesis (TNG episode)|Genesis]]'' [7.19] === :'''[[w:Worf|Worf]]''': Do not approach me unannounced—especially while I am eating. ===''[[w:Journey's End (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Journey's End]]'' [7.20]=== ===''[[w:Firstborn (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Firstborn]]'' [7.21]=== === ''[[w:Bloodlines (TNG episode)|Bloodlines]]'' [7.22] === :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': One thing is clear: you'll never look at your hairline the same way again. ===''[[w:Emergence (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Emergence]]'' [7.23]=== ===''[[w:Preemptive Strike (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Preemptive Strike]]'' [7.24]=== === ''[[w:All Good Things... (TNG episode)|All Good Things...]]'' [7.25] === [[File:John de Lancie Photo Op GalaxyCon Raleigh 2023.jpg|thumb|Goodbye, Jean-Luc. I'm gonna miss you…you had such potential. But then again, all good things must come to an end…]] [[File:John de Lancie (34115922684).jpg|thumb|You just don't get it, do you, Jean-Luc? The trial never ends.]] :'''Q''': Oh, you'd like me to connect the dots for you, lead you from A to B to C, so that your puny mind could comprehend. How boring. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Q''': Goodbye, Jean-Luc. I'm gonna miss you…you had such potential. But then again, all good things must come to an end… <hr width=50%"/> :''[In Future Timeline]'' :'''Geordi''': ''[In distance]'' Captain Picard to the bridge. Captain we've got a problem with the warp core, or the phase inducers, or some other damn thing. :'''Picard''': Geordi! <hr width=50%"/> :''[At Cambridge University where Data holds the Lucasian Chair.]'' :'''Jessel''': If you're really his friend you'll get him to take that gray out of his hair. :'''Data''': Jessel... :'''Jessel''': Looks like a bloody skunk. :'''Data''': She can be frightfull trying at times, but, she does make me laugh. :'''Geordi''': Data, what is it with the hair anyway? :'''Data''': I've found that a touch of gray adds an air of distinction. :'''Picard''': You say this is Earl Grey, I'd swear that it was Darjeeling. :'''Jessel''': Hmm. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Q''': Time may be eternal, Captain, but our patience is not. It's time to put an end to your little "trek" through the stars; make room for other more…worthy species. :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': You're...going to deny us travel through space? :'''Q''': ''[to crowd]'' He doesn't understand! ''[to Picard]'' You obtuse piece of flotsam, you are to be denied ''existence''. Humanity's fate has been sealed, you ''will'' be destroyed. <hr width="50%"/> :''[In Future Timeline]'' :'''Q''': ''[Appearing aged, raises an [[w:hearing aid|ear trumpet]]]'' Eh? What did she say, sonny? I couldn't quite hear her. :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': Q! What is going on? Where is the anomaly? :'''Q''': Where's your mommy? Well, I don't know! <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Q (Star Trek)|Q]]''': You just don't get it, do you, Jean-Luc? The trial never ends. We wanted to see if you had the ability to expand your mind and your horizons. And for one brief moment, you did. :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': When I realized the paradox. :'''[[w:Q (Star Trek)|Q]]''': Exactly. For that one fraction of a second, you were open to options you had never considered. That is the exploration that awaits you. Not mapping stars and studying nebulae, but charting the unknowable possibilities of existence. :'''[[w:Jean-Luc Picard|Jean-Luc Picard]]''': Q, what is it you're trying to tell me? :''[Q considers, then opens his mouth as if to answer...but changes his mind, steps back and smiles]'' :'''[[w:Q (Star Trek)|Q]]''': You'll find out. In any case, I'll be watching. And if you're ''very'' lucky I'll drop by to say hello from time to time. See you...out there. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Picard is playing poker with the senior staff for the first time.]'' :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': I should have done this a long time ago. :'''Deanna Troi''': You were always welcome. :'''Jean-Luc Picard''': So, five-card stud, nothing wild... and the sky's the limit. :''[Final line of the series]'' == Unidentified episode == :'''[[w:Worf|Worf]]''': Those who rely on luck... never win the battle. == Miscellany == * ''"...to boldly go where no one has gone before."'' ** [[w:USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D)|U.S.S. Enterprise-D]] dedication plaque. == Cast == * [[Patrick Stewart]] – Captain [[Jean-Luc Picard]] * [[w:Jonathan Frakes|Jonathan Frakes]] – Commander [[w:William Riker|William Riker]] * [[w:Brent Spiner|Brent Spiner]] – Lieutenant Commander [[w:Data (Star Trek)|Data]] * [[LeVar Burton]] – [[w:Geordi La Forge|Geordi La Forge]] * [[w:Michael Dorn|Michael Dorn]] – Lieutenant [[w:Worf|Worf]] * [[w:Marina Sirtis|Marina Sirtis]] – Counselor [[w:Deanna Troi|Deanna Troi]] * [[w:Gates McFadden|Gates McFadden]] – Doctor [[w:Beverly Crusher|Beverly Crusher]] ''[<nowiki></nowiki>[[#Season 1|Season 1]], Episodes 2.22–7.26]'' * [[w:Wil Wheaton|Wil Wheaton]] – [[w:Wesley Crusher|Wesley Crusher]] ''[Episodes 1.1–4.9, "[[#The Game .5B5.6.5D|The Game]]", "[[#The First Duty .5B5.19.5D|The First Duty]]", "[[#Season 7|Parallels]]", "[[#Season 7|Journey's End]]"]'' * [[w:Denise Crosby|Denise Crosby]] – Lieutenant [[w:Tasha Yar|Tasha Yar]] ''[Episodes 1.1–1.23, "[[#Season 2|Shades of Gray]]", "[[#Yesterday's Enterprise .5B3.15.5D|Yesterday's Enterprise]]", "[[#All Good Things... .5B7.25.5D|All Good Things...]]"]'' == About ''{{PAGENAME}}'' == [[File:Morgan_Peck_1952.png|thumb|Given Roddenberry's goal of a television series revolving around the [[adventures]] of a [[w:Space age|space-age]] [[w:Horatio Hornblower|Captain Horatio Hornblower]], it is not surprising that much of the [[International law|international structure]] would be based upon the [[law]] as it existed during the heyday of the fighting sail. ~ Robert H. Chaires & ‎Bradley Stewart Chilton]] [[File:Enterprise-D_bridge.jpg|thumb|Star Trek is not like any other show because it is one unique [[vision]], and if you agree with [[Gene Roddenberry]]'s vision for the [[future]], you should be locked up somewhere. ~ [[w:Maurice Hurley|Maurice Hurley]]]] [[File:Star_Trek_-_Enterprise_D_Transporter.jpg|thumb|“Star Trek: The Next Generation” has precious little to tell us about our [[present]] [[selves]]. Or, rather, it tells us who we are not, and who we might become someday. ~ Manu Saadia]] * Gene's hands-on involvement in The Next Generation diminished greatly after the first season. ** [[w:Rick Berman|Rick Berman]] as quoted in Tulock, John; Jenkins, Henry (1995). Science Fiction Audiences. p. 186 * Given Roddenberry's goal of a television series revolving around the adventures of a space-age [[w:Horatio Hornblower|Captain Horatio Hornblower]], it is not surprising that much of the international structure would be based upon the law as it existed during the heyday of the fighting sail. In contrast to our contemporary world, in which international telephone communications are instantaneous and where travel from any one point on the globe to any other can be accomplished in under a day's time, the planets on ''ST:TNG'' sometimes go for decades without communicating with one another, and the time to travel form one planet to another (even at warp speed) is measured in days, weeks or years - not hours. <br> In such a decentralized legal system, there would not be enough repetition of practice to develop [[w:Customary law|customary law]]. ** Robert H. Chaires, ‎Bradley Stewart Chilton; [https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0966808029 ''Star Trek Visions of Law and Justice''], (2003), p. 99. * I wrote the bible for that show, not Gene. He took credit for it, of course. And the idea of the older, more mature Captain — that was mine. That way we could keep the Captain on the bridge and make the first officer the Mission Specialist. ** [[w:David Gerrold|David Gerrold]], [http://io9.gizmodo.com/a-new-documentary-shows-how-gene-roddenberry-almost-kil-1721153875 "A New Documentary Shows How Gene Roddenberry Almost Killed Star Trek TNG"], Charlie Jane Anders, ''IO0'', 7/30/15. * [[Lexx|We]] wanted to get away from the heavy, preachy, moralizing sci-fi of shows like Star Trek: TNG, which in my view took all the ''joie de vivre'' out of the original series. ** [[w:Lex Gigeroff|Lex Gigeroff]], [http://binnallofamerica.com/sfw10.2.9.html "A Sci Fi Worlds Interview with Lex Gigeroff:Lexx Co-Writer/Actor"] ''Binn all of America''. * Star Trek is not like any other show because it is one unique [[vision]], and if you agree with Gene Roddenberry's vision for the future, you should be locked up somewhere. It's wacky doodle, but it's his wacky doodle. If you can't deal with that, you can't do the show. There are rules on top of rules on top of rules...Gene sees this pollyanish view of the future where everything is going to be fine...I don't believe it, but you have to suppress all that and put it aside. You suspend your own feelings and your own beliefs, and you get with his vision...or you get rewritten. ** [[w:Maurice Hurley|Maurice Hurley]] in ''Starlog'' issue 152, p. 29. * During the years of Captain Kirk's Enterprise 4% of the galaxy has been charted -- not explored -- since exploration would have required visits to all the approximately 11,000,000,000 stars and planetary systems in that 4% of the galaxy. By the time of our 24th century stories, only 19% of it has been charted. <br> If only one of a million of the stars in the galaxy has worlds and if only one of out of a million of these worlds were capable of supporting life, and if only one out of a million were capable of supporting life, and if only one out of a million of those bore intelligent life, there would still be millions of inhabited worlds for us to visit. ** [[Gene Roddenberry]] [http://leethomson.myzen.co.uk/Star_Trek/2_The_Next_Generation/Star_Trek_-_The_Next_Generation_Bible.pdf Star Trek: The Next Generation Bible] p.9 * It is hard to overstate how much of a departure the “Star Trek” franchise’s eighties-and-nineties-straddling incarnation, “The Next Generation,” was from the original series. It retained much of the nomenclature and established codes (the inscrutable techno-scientific babble, the ship’s name, the [[w:Military rank|naval ranks]], the canonical alien species) but swung almost entirely toward the second, more cerebral form of science fiction. It had no anchor in the [[present]], nor did it genuflect before [[w:American frontier|America’s frontier]] [[myths]]. “The Next Generation” was wholesale [[w:Utopia|utopia]], a [[w:Thought experiment|thought experiment]] on how humans would behave under terminally improved material circumstances. [[Civilization]], and the [[future]], had won. ** Manu Saadia, [https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-enduring-lessons-of-star-trek “The Enduring Lessons of “Star Trek””], ''The New Yorker'', (September 8, 2016). * “Star Trek: The Next Generation” has precious little to tell us about our [[present]] [[selves]]. Or, rather, it tells us who we are not, and who we might become someday. This is not the type of [[science fiction]] that we are accustomed to consuming, or that [[w:Television producer|TV]] and [[w:Film producer|film]] [[w:Producer|producers]] are accustomed to making. ** Manu Saadia, [https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-enduring-lessons-of-star-trek “The Enduring Lessons of “Star Trek””], ''The New Yorker'', (September 8, 2016). * I was very clear about what to expect. ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' was going to be an utter failure and I would be on my way back to England within a few months. I could make some money for the first time in my life, get a suntan and go home. ** [[Patrick Stewart]], [https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/television/2013/03/08/patrick_stewart_fondly_recalls_star_trek_the_next_generation.html "Patrick Stewart fondly recalls Star Trek: The Next Generation"] Rob Salem, ''The Star'', (March 8, 2013). == External links == {{wikipedia}} * {{imdb title | id=0092455 | title=Star Trek: The Next Generation}} * [http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/TNG/index.html ''Star Trek: The Next Generation''] at StarTrek.com {{Startrek}} [[Category:1980s American drama TV shows]] [[Category:1990s American drama TV shows]] [[Category:1980s American science fiction TV shows]] [[Category:1990s American science fiction TV shows]] [[Category:Star Trek]] [[Category:Television series on DVD]] [[Category:Cancelled shows]] [[Category:Syndicated shows]] [[Category:Star Trek]] [[Category:American sequel TV shows]] [[Category:Robots in television]] [[Category:Space adventure TV shows]] l1sr6argem9glys1g0mtyb0ocdfeg1y 0 18403 3961107 3960879 2026-07-05T15:41:03Z ~2026-37414-82 3346442 3961107 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:0 006 - The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy -- Grim 01.jpg|thumb|I am the Grim Reaper, ruler of the Underworld! 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Brennan, Jr. → William J. Brennan Jr. using [[Project:AWB|AWB]] 3961205 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Elderpitt.jpg|thumb|right|Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; and this I know, my lords, that where laws end, tyranny begins.]] [[w:The Right Honourable|The Right Honourable]] '''[[w: William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham| William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham]]''' (15 November 1708 – 11 May 1778) was a British Whig statesman who achieved his greatest fame as war minister during the [[w:Seven Years' War|Seven Years' War]] (aka [[w:French and Indian War|French and Indian War]]) and who was later [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister of Great Britain]]. He is often known as '''William Pitt the Elder''' to distinguish him from his son, [[William Pitt the Younger]] ==Quotes== ===1730s=== *When trade is at stake, it is your last entrenchment; you must defend it, or perish...Sir, [[Spain]] knows the consequence of a war in [[Americas|America]]; whoever gains, it must prove fatal to her...is this any longer a nation? Is this any longer an English Parliament, if with more ships in your harbours than in all the navies of Europe; with above two millions of people in your American colonies, you will bear to hear of the expediency of receiving from Spain an insecure, unsatisfactory, dishonourable Convention? **Denouncing the Spanish [[w:Convention of Pardo|Convention of Pardo]] in the House of Commons (6 March 1739), quoted in William Pitt, ''The Speeches of the Right Honourable the Earl of Chatham in the Houses of Lords and Commons: With a Biographical Memoir and Introductions and Explanatory Notes to the Speeches'' (1848), pp. 6-7 *It must cut up [[Liberty]] by the root and poison the Fountain of Publick Security; and who that has an English heart can ever be weary of asserting Liberty? ** Denouncing corruption in a draft speech (November 1739), quoted in Basil Williams, ''The Life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham. Volume I'' (1913), p. 80 ===1740s=== *We are now to examine whether it is probable that we shall preserve our [[Trade|commerce]] and our independence, or whether we are sinking into subjection to a foreign power. **Speech in the House of Commons (26 January 1741), quoted in Basil Williams, ''The Life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham. Volume I'' (1913), p. 82 *Our seamen have always been famous for a matchless alacrity and intrepidity in time of danger; this has saved many a British [[Ships|ship]], when other [[Sailor|seamen]] would have run below deck, and left the ship to the mercy of the waves, or, perhaps, of a more cruel enemy, a [[Piracy|pirate]]. ** Speech in the House of Commons (6 March 1741), quoted in William Pitt, ''The Speeches of the Right Honourable the Earl of Chatham in the Houses of Lords and Commons: With a Biographical Memoir and Introductions and Explanatory Notes to the Speeches'' (1848), p. 10 ===1750s=== *I rejoice to hear that you have begun [[Homer]]'s [[w:Iliad|Iliad]]; and have made so great a progress in [[Virgil]]. I hope you taste and love those authors particularly. You cannot read them too much: they are not only the two greatest [[poets]], but they contain the finest lessons for your age to imbibe: lessons of [[Honor|honour]], [[courage]], disinterestedness, love of [[truth]], command of temper, gentleness of [[Human behavior|behaviour]], humanity, and in one word, virtue in its true significance. **Letter to his nephew, Thomas Pitt (12 October 1751), quoted in W. S. Taylor and J. H. Pringle (eds.), ''Correspondence of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham: Vol. I'' (1838), pp. 62–63 *He wanted to call this country out of that enervate state, that twenty thousand men from France could shake it. The maxims of our Government were degenerated, not our natives. He wished to see that breed restored, which under our old principles had carried our glory so high! **Speech in the House of Commons (5 December 1755), quoted in Horace Walpole, ''Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Second. Vol. II'' (2nd. edn. 1847), p. 89 *Substitute [[Cicero|Tully]] and [[Demosthenes]] in the place of Homer and Virgil; and arm yourself with all the variety of manner, copiousness and beauty of diction, nobleness and magnificence of ideas of the [[Roman Empire|Roman]] consul; and render the powers of eloquence complete by the irresistible torrent of vehement argumentation, and close and forcible reasoning, and the depth and fortitude of mind of the Grecian statesman. **Letter to his nephew, Thomas Pitt (31 January 1756), quoted in ''Letters Written by the late Earl of Chatham to His Nephew Thomas Pitt, Esq.'' (1805), pp. 89-89 * My Lord, I am sure I can save this country, and no one else can. ** Remark to the [[w:William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire|Duke of Devonshire]] in 1756, quoted in [[Horace Walpole]], ''Memoirs of King George II'' (1985), III, p. 1 *A gloomy scene for this distressed, disgraced country. **Remark on the state of affairs (June 1757), quoted in Basil Williams, ''The Life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham. Volume I'' (1913), p. 337 *...the day is come when the very inadequate benefits of the [[w:Peace of Utrecht|treaty of Utrecht]], the indelible reproach of the last generation, are become the necessary, but almost unattainable wish of the present, when the empire is no more, the ports of the [[Netherlands]] betrayed, the Dutch Barrier treaty an empty sound, Minorca, and with it, the [[Mediterranean Sea|Mediterranean]] lost, and America itself precarious. **Letter to [[w:Benjamin Keene|Benjamin Keene]] (23 August 1757), quoted in W. S. Taylor and J. H. Pringle (eds.), ''Correspondence of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham: Vol. I'' (1838), p. 251 *The only way to have peace is to prepare for war. **To the Duke of Newcastle (''c''. August 1758), quoted in Basil Williams, ''The Life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham. Volume I'' (1913), p. 379 ===1760s=== *[Pitt] said he could not allow what I said; that either we were in a situation to receive the law or to give it; that he thought the latter was our case; that therefore it was our business to propose the terms and tell [[Kingdom of France|France]] on what conditions they were to have peace; that it was so at the Peace of Utrecht and it would be absurd to act otherways. **Quoted in the Duke of Devonshire's diary (22 April 1761), Peter D. Brown and Karl W. Schweizer (eds.), ''The Devonshire Diary. William Cavendish, Fourth Duke of Devonshire. Memoranda on State Affairs. 1759–1762'' (1982), p. 95 *[Pitt] said he would not come into it; that he thought this country in a situation to give peace to France, and if we were at first firm in our proceedings and did not yield to France, we should soon have a very good peace. **Remarks to the Council (27 April 1761), quoted in Peter D. Brown and Karl W. Schweizer (eds.), ''The Devonshire Diary. William Cavendish, Fourth Duke of Devonshire. Memoranda on State Affairs. 1759–1762'' (1982), p. 97 *Pitt complained that we lay inactive, while the [[French people|French]] pushed on their conquests. **Remarks to the Council (14 July 1761), quoted in Peter D. Brown and Karl W. Schweizer (eds.), ''The Devonshire Diary. William Cavendish, Fourth Duke of Devonshire. Memoranda on State Affairs. 1759–1762'' (1982), p. 101 *[Pitt said] he saw combinations of great [[House of Lords|Lords]] against him but for his part he would go his own way; that he was a British subject and he knew he stood upon British ground; that he had learnt his maxims and principles under the great Lord Cobham and the disciples of the greatest lawyers, generals and patriots of [[William III of England|King William]]'s days: named [[w:John Somers, 1st Baron Somers|Lord Somers]] and the [[John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough|Duke of Marlborough]]. **Remarks to the Council (14 August 1761), quoted in Peter D. Brown and Karl W. Schweizer (eds.), ''The Devonshire Diary. William Cavendish, Fourth Duke of Devonshire. Memoranda on State Affairs. 1759–1762'' (1982), p. 111 *[Pitt] said that he saw so many Lords great in themselves and in their influence in the [[House of Commons]], differing so much in opinion from him, and inclined to make concessions for the sake of peace than he could come into; that it was impossible for him to remain; that for the sake of unanimity he had gone as far as his conscience and even his ''sleep'' would permit him. **Remarks to the Council (10 September 1761), quoted in Peter D. Brown and Karl W. Schweizer (eds.), ''The Devonshire Diary. William Cavendish, Fourth Duke of Devonshire. Memoranda on State Affairs. 1759–1762'' (1982), p. 119 *This unjust and unexampled proceeding of the Court of Spain, by inforcing her demands on [[England]] through the channel and by the compulsion of a hostile power, denouncing eventually future war in conjunction, while Spain was still professing amity and friendship with Great Britain; and the full declaration and avowal at last made by the Spanish Ministry of a total union of councils and interests between the two monarchies of the [[House of Bourbon]], are matters of so high and urgent a nature as call indispensably on His Majesty to take forthwith such necessary and timely measures as [[God in Christianity|God]] has put into his hands, for the defence of the honour of his [[Monarchy of the United Kingdom|Crown]], and of the just and essential interests of [[British people|His Majesty's people]]. **Memorial to the King and the Cabinet signed jointly with Richard Temple (18 September 1761), quoted in William James Smith (ed.), ''The Grenville Papers: Being the Correspondence of Richard Grenville Earl Temple, K.G., and The Right Hon. George Grenville, Their Friends and Contemporaries: Vol. I'' (1852), p. 386 *No doubt with me that Spain is France [more] than that the Isle of France is, a union in the House of Bourbon; loss of time loss of opportunity. Whatever is dangerous will be more so 6 months hence; no safety but acting with vigour. [[Procrastination]] will increase the danger. The fact is proved, the treatment we have had shews what we are to expect. The question is that France and Spain are joined: what is to be done? ... I am still of opinion that an immediate action gives us the best chance to extricate ourselves. Acquiesced in their partiality till such time as we had broke the force of France, wishing then that Spain would give us an opportunity to punish them. Best chance to order Lord Bristol away and your fleets to take every Spanish flag. If the means to do this are doubtful will it not be more so next spring. I am for it ''now''. **Remarks to the Council (18 September 1761), quoted in Peter D. Brown and Karl W. Schweizer (eds.), ''The Devonshire Diary. William Cavendish, Fourth Duke of Devonshire. Memoranda on State Affairs. 1759–1762'' (1982), p. 127, p. 130 *Spain's conduct in putting forward her grievances under the shield of England's enemy, with whom we are at war, is the highest indignity that ever was offered to the Crown of England, and it will fix an eternal stain upon that crown if no answer is returned to Spain's avowal of her action. As to the other consideration, the safety of the public—are we not already suffering from the worst species of war, when Spain supports France with her full weight, covers her trade, lends her moneys and abets her in negotiation? You are ''now'' at war with the House of Bourbon; but, for open war with Spain, you are prepared and she is not. **Resignation speech to the Council (2 October 1761), quoted in Basil Williams, ''The Life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham. Volume II'' (1914), p. 112 *Without having ever asked any one single employment in my life, I was called by my Sovereign and by the Voice of the People to assist the State when others had abdicated the service of it. That being so no one can be surprised that I will go on no longer since my advice is not taken. Being responsible I ''will'' direct, and will be responsible for nothing that I do not direct. **Resignation speech to the Council (2 October 1761), quoted in Basil Williams, ''The Life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham. Volume II'' (1914), pp. 112-113 *A difference of opinion with regard to measures to be taken against Spain, of the highest importance to the honour of the crown, and to the most essential national interests, and this founded on what Spain had already done, not on what that court may further intend to do, was the cause of my resigning the seals. **Letter to William Beckford MP (15 October 1761), quoted in W. S. Taylor and J. H. Pringle (eds.), ''Correspondence of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham: Vol. II'' (1838), p. 158 *America has been conquered in [[Germany]], where Prince Ferdinand's victories have shattered the whole military power of that great military monarchy, France. Recall the troops from Germany, and I should be robbed of my honour, while England, by deserting her allies, would be deserted by God and man. And, honour apart, nothing but that spectre of an invasion which the Ministry of 1755 had not constancy enough to look at, frightened us out of Minorca. So would it be again, if the troops of France found themselves at liberty to quit Germany. **Speech in the House of Commons (13 November 1761), quoted in Basil Williams, ''The Life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham. Volume II'' (1914), p. 131 *As Germany was formerly managed it was a millstone about our necks; as managed now, it is a millstone about the neck of France. When I came in, I found the subsidy to Prussia dictated by Hanover, not by Great Britain. I insisted that national defence and America must stand first, nor would I agree to the German war until every other service had been provided for. I acceded to the plan of a Ministry that wanted vigour and borrowed their majority to carry on their own plan. But I carried it on in my own way, and, though that may have been the wrong way, I offer myself ''confitentem reum'', if I have not thereby annihilated French power in the East and West Indies. **Speech in the House of Commons (9 December 1761), quoted in Basil Williams, ''The Life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham. Volume II'' (1914), p. 132 * While we had France for an enemy, Germany was the scene to employ and baffle her arms. ** ''Speech in the House of Commons'' (August 1762) *...the errors of [[Rome]]...[are] rank idolatry—a subversion of all [[Civil liberties|civil]] as well as [[religious liberty]], and the utter disgrace of [[reason]] and of [[human nature]]. **Letter to the Bishop of Gloucester [[w:William Warburton|William Warburton]] (October 1762), quoted in W. S. Taylor and J. H. Pringle (eds.), ''Correspondence of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham: Vol. II'' (1838), p. 188 * We retain nothing, although we have conquered everything...France is chiefly, if not solely, to be dreaded by us in the light of a maritime and commercial power; and therefore by restoring to her all the valuable West India islands, and by our concessions in the [[Newfoundland (island)|Newfoundland]] fishery, we have given her the means of recovering her prodigious losses and of becoming once more formidable to us at sea...all the Spanish treasures and riches in America, lay at our mercy. ** ''Speech against the [[w:Treaty of Paris (1763)|Treaty of Paris]]'' (December 1762) * The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail—its roof may shake—the wind may blow through it—the storm may enter—the rain may enter—but the King of England cannot enter!—all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement! ** Attributed by [[Henry Brougham]], ''Historical Sketches of Statesmen Who Flourished in the Time of George III'', First Series, 1839, pp. [https://books.google.com/books?id=5owjOmkNjY8C&pg=PA41 41]–42. According to [https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780191826719.001.0001/q-oro-ed4-00008331 ''Oxford Essential Quotations''] (2016), this quote is from a March 1763 speech. ** repeated by [[William J. Brennan Jr.|Brennan, J.]], [http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=357&invol=301 MILLER v. UNITED STATES, 357 U.S. 301 (1958)] ** repeated by [[Alfred Denning, Baron Denning]], ''Southam v Smout'' [1964] 1 QB 308 at 320. *Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom. **Speech, Jan. 14, 1766, reported in ''Bartlett's Familiar Quotations'', 10th ed. (1919). *It is my opinion, that this kingdom has no right to lay a [[Taxation|tax]] upon the [[British Empire|colonies]]. At the same time I assert the authority of this kingdom over the [[Colony|colonies]] to be sovereign and supreme in every circumstance of Government and legislation whatsoever. The colonists are the subjects of this kingdom, equally entitled with yourselves to all the natural rights of mankind and the peculiar privileges of Englishmen...The [[United States|Americans]] are the sons, not the bastards, of England. Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power...When, therefore, in this House we give and grant, we give and grant what is our own. But in an American tax, what do we do? We, your Majesty's Commons for Great Britain, give and grant to [[George III of the United Kingdom|your Majesty]],&mdash;what? Our own property?&mdash;No! We give and grant to your Majesty, the property of your Majesty's Commons of America...The distinction between legislation and taxation is essentially necessary to liberty...There is an idea in some, that the colonies are virtually represented in this House...Is he represented by any knight of the shire, in any county in this kingdom?...Or will you tell him that he is represented by any representative of a borough?&mdash;a borough which perhaps its own representatives never saw.&mdash;This is what is called ''the rotten part of the constitution''. It cannot continue a century. If it does not drop, it must be amputated...I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people so dead to all the feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to let themselves be made slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest...The gentleman asks, When were the colonies emancipated? I desire to know when were they made slaves? **Speech in the House of Commons on the Stamp Act (14 January 1766), quoted in William Pitt, ''The Speeches of the Right Honourable the Earl of Chatham in the Houses of Lords and Commons: With a Biographical Memoir and Introductions and Explanatory Notes to the Speeches'' (1848), pp. 71-6. *There are many things a parliament cannot do. It cannot make itself executive, nor dispose of offices which belong to the crown. It cannot take any man's property, even that of the meanest cottager, as in the case of enclosures, without his being heard. **''Speech in the House of Commons'' (1766), quoted in ''Parliamentary History of England'' (London, 1813), vol. 6, col. 195. *When the people condemn me I shall tremble but I shall set my face against the proudest connection in the country. **Speech in the House of Commons (10 December 1766), quoted in Basil Williams, ''The Life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham. Volume II'' (1914), pp. 228-229 ===1770s=== *When then, my Lords, are all the generous efforts of our ancestors, are all those glorious contentions, by which they meant to secure themselves, and to transmit to their posterity, a known law, a certain rule of living, reduced to this conclusion, that instead of the arbitrary power of a King, we must submit to the arbitrary power of a House of Commons? If this be true, what benefit do we derive from the exchange? [[Tyranny]], my Lords, is detestable in every shape; but in none is it so formidable as where it is assumed and exercised by a number of tyrants. But, my Lords, this is not the fact, this is not the constitution; we ''have'' a law of Parliament, we ''have'' a code in which every honest man may find it. We have [[Magna Carta|Magna Charta]], we have the Statute-book, and we have the [[w:English_Bill_of_Rights|Bill of Rights]]...It is to your ancestors, my Lords, it is to the English barons that we are indebted for the laws and constitution we possess. Their virtues were rude and uncultivated, but they were great and sincere...I think that history has not done justice to their conduct, when they obtained from their Sovereign that great acknowledgment of national rights contained in Magna Charta: they did not confine it to themselves alone, but delivered it as a common blessing to the whole people...A breach has been made in the [[Constitutions|constitution]]&mdash;the battlements are dismantled&mdash;the citadel is open to the first invader&mdash;the walls totter&mdash;the place is no longer tenable.&mdash;What then remains for us but to stand foremost in the breach, to repair it, or to perish in it?...let us consider which we ought to respect most&mdash;the representative or the collective body of the people. My Lords, five hundred gentlemen are not ten millions; and, if we must have a contention, let us take care to have the English nation on our side. If this question be given up, the freeholders of England are reduced to a condition baser than the [[Peasant|peasantry]] of [[Poland]]...Unlimited power is apt to [[Corruption|corrupt]] the minds of those who possess it; and this I know, my Lords, that where law ends, there tyranny begins. **Speech in the House of Lords on John Wilkes (9 January 1770), quoted in William Pitt, ''The Speeches of the Right Honourable the Earl of Chatham in the Houses of Lords and Commons: With a Biographical Memoir and Introductions and Explanatory Notes to the Speeches'' (1848), pp. 90-4 *I have the principles of an [[Englishman]], and I utter them without apprehension or reserve...this is not the language of faction; let it be tried by that criterion, by which alone we can distinguish what is factious, from what is not&mdash;by the principles of the English constitution. I have been bred up in these principles, and I know that when the liberty of the subject is invaded, and all redress denied him, resistance is justifiable...the constitution has its political Bible, by which if it be fairly consulted, every political question may, and ought to be determined. Magna Charta, the [[w:Petition_of_Rights|Petition of Rights]] and the Bill of Rights, form that code which I call ''the Bible of the English constitution''. Had some of his Majesty's unhappy predecessors trusted less to the commentary of their Ministers, and been better read in the text itself, the glorious Revolution might have remained only possible in theory, and their fate would not now have stood upon record, a formidable example to all their successors. **Speech in the House of Lords (22 January 1770), quoted in William Pitt, ''The Speeches of the Right Honourable the Earl of Chatham in the Houses of Lords and Commons: With a Biographical Memoir and Introductions and Explanatory Notes to the Speeches'' (1848), p. 98 *A long train of these practices has at length unwillingly convinced me that there is something behind the throne greater than the King himself. ** Chatham Correspondence, Speech, March 2, 1770, reported in ''Bartlett's Familiar Quotations'', 10th ed. (1919). Quoted by Lord Mahon, "greater than the throne itself", in ''History of England'', vol. v., p. 258. *Reparation for our rights at home, and security against the like future violations. **Letter to the Earl of Shelburne, Sept. 29, 1770. Compare: "Indemnity for the past and security for the future," [[Bertrand Russell]], ''Memoir of Fox, vol''. iii, p. 345, Letter to the Hon. T. Maitland. *The first great and acknowledged object of national defence in this country, is to maintain such a superior naval force at home, that even the united fleets of France and Spain may never be masters of the Channel. **Speech in the House of Lords (22 November 1770), quoted in W. S. Taylor and J. H. Pringle (eds.), ''Correspondence of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham: Vol. IV'' (1840), p. 12 *[[Resistance movement|Resistance]] to your acts was necessary as it was just; and your vain declarations of the omnipotence of Parliament, and your imperious doctrines of the necessity of submission, will be found equally impotent to convince or to enslave your fellow-subjects in America, who feel tyranny, whether ''ambitioned'' by an individual part of the legislature, or the bodies who compose it, is equally intolerable to British subjects...What, though you march from town to town, and from province to province; though you should be able to enforce a temporary and local submission, which I only suppose, not admit&mdash;how shall you be able to secure the obedience of the country you leave behind you in your progress, to grasp the dominion of eighteen hundred miles of continent, populous in numbers, possessing [[valour]], [[liberty]], and resistance? This resistance to your arbitrary system of taxation might have been foreseen: it was obvious, from the nature of things and of mankind; and, above all, from the Whiggish spirit flourishing in that country. The spirit which now resists your taxation in America, is the same which formerly opposed loans, benevolences, and ship-money, in England: the same spirit which called all England ''on its legs'', and by the Bill of Rights vindicated the English constitution: the same spirit which established the great, fundamental, essential maxim of your liberties, ''that no subject of England shall be taxed but by his own consent''. This glorious spirit of Whiggism animates three millions in America; who prefer poverty with liberty to gilded chains and sordid affluence; and who will die in defence of their rights as men, as freemen. **Speech in the House of Lords (20 January 1775), quoted in William Pitt, ''The Speeches of the Right Honourable the Earl of Chatham in the Houses of Lords and Commons: With a Biographical Memoir and Introductions and Explanatory Notes to the Speeches'' (1848), pp. 134-6 *You have ransacked every corner of [[Saxony|Lower Saxony]]; but forty thousand [[Germans|German]] boors never can conquer ten times the number of British freemen. You may ravage&mdash;you cannot conquer; it is impossible: you cannot conquer the Americans. You talk, my Lords, of your friends among them to annihilate the Congress, and of your powerful forces to disperse their army: I might as well talk of driving them before me with this crutch! ...If you conquer them, what then? You cannot make them respect you; you cannot make them wear your cloth: you will plant an invincible hatred in their breasts against you. Coming from the stock they do, they can never respect you... **Speech in the House of Lords (30 May 1777), quoted in William Pitt, ''The Speeches of the Right Honourable the Earl of Chatham in the Houses of Lords and Commons: With a Biographical Memoir and Introductions and Explanatory Notes to the Speeches'' (1848), p. 144 *I know that the conquest of English America ''is an impossibility''. You cannot, I venture to say it, you CANNOT conquer America...As to conquest, therefore, my Lords, I repeat, it is impossible. You may swell every expense, and every effort, still more extravagantly; pile and accumulate every assistance you can buy or borrow; traffic and barter with every little pitiful German Prince, that sells and sends his subjects to the shambles of a foreign country; your efforts are for ever vain and impotent&mdash;doubly so from this mercenary aid on which you rely; for it irritates, to an incurable resentment, the minds of your enemies&mdash;to overrun them with the sordid sons of rapine and plunder; devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty! If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms, never! never! never! ...I call upon the honour of your Lordships to reverence the dignity of your ancestors, and to maintain your own. I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country to vindicate the national character. I invoke the genius of the constitution. From the tapestry that adorns these walls, the immortal ancestor of this noble Lord frowns with indignation at THE DISGRACE OF HIS COUNTRY! In vain he led [[Royal Navy|your victorious fleets]] against the boasted [[w:Spanish_Armada|Armada of Spain]]; in vain he defended and established the honour, the [[Liberty|liberties]], the [[religion]], the ''[[Protestantism|Protestant]] religion'' of his country, against the arbitrary cruelties of [[Catholic Church|Popery]] and the [[Inquisition]]. **Speech in the House of Lords (18 November, 1777), responding to a speech by [[w:Henry Howard, 12th Earl of Suffolk|Henry Howard, 12th Earl of Suffolk]], who spoke in favour of the war against the American colonists. Suffolk was a descendant of [[w:Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham|Howard of Effingham]], who led the English navy against the Spanish Armada. Effingham had commissioned a series of tapestries on the defeat of the Armada, and sold them to King James I. Since 1650 they were hung in the House of Lords, where they remained until destroyed by fire in 1834. **William Pitt, ''The Speeches of the Right Honourable the Earl of Chatham in the Houses of Lords and Commons: With a Biographical Memoir and Introductions and Explanatory Notes to the Speeches'' (1848), pp. 150-6 [[File:CollapseOfChatham.jpg|thumb|right|"I rejoice that the grave has not closed upon me; that I am still alive to lift up my voice against the dismemberment of this ancient and most noble monarchy!"]] *My Lords, I rejoice that the grave has not closed upon me; that I am still alive to lift up my voice against the dismemberment of this ancient and most noble monarchy! Pressed down as I am by the hand of infirmity, I am little able to assist my country in this most perilous conjuncture; but, my Lords, while I have sense and memory, I will never consent to deprive the royal offspring of the [[w:House_of_Brunswick|House of Brunswick]], the heirs of the Princess Sophia, of their fairest inheritance. Where is the man that will dare to advise such a measure? My Lords, his Majesty succeeded to an empire as great in extent as its reputation was unsullied. Shall we tarnish the lustre of this nation by an ignominious surrender of its rights and fairest possessions? Shall this great kingdom, that has survived, whole and entire, the [[Denmark|Danish]] depredations, the Scottish inroads, and the Norman conquest; that has stood the threatened invasion of the Spanish Armada, now fall prostrate before the House of Bourbon? Surely, my Lords, this nation is no longer what it was! Shall a people, that seventeen years ago was the terror of the world, now stoop so low as to tell its ancient inveterate enemy, take all we have, only give us peace? It is impossible! ...My Lords, any state is better than despair. Let us at least make one effort; and if we must fall, let us fall like men! **Speech in the House of Lords (7 April 1778), quoted in William Pitt, ''The Speeches of the Right Honourable the Earl of Chatham in the Houses of Lords and Commons: With a Biographical Memoir and Introductions and Explanatory Notes to the Speeches'' (1848), pp. xv-xvi *We have a Calvinistic creed, a Popish liturgy, and an Arminian clergy. ** ''Prior's Life of Burke'' (1790), reported in ''Bartlett's Familiar Quotations'', 10th ed. (1919) ==Quotes about William Pitt== :<small>Alphabetised by surname</small> [[File:Col Barre.jpg|thumb|He was possessed of the happy talent of transfusing his own zeal into the souls of all those who were to have a share in carrying his projects into execution; and it is a matter well known to many officers now in the House, that no man ever entered the Earl's closet who did not feel himself, if possible, braver at his return than when he went in. ~ [[w:Isaac Barré|Isaac Barré]]]] *He was possessed of the happy talent of transfusing his own zeal into the souls of all those who were to have a share in carrying his projects into execution; and it is a matter well known to many officers now in the House, that no man ever entered the Earl's closet who did not feel himself, if possible, braver at his return than when he went in. **[[w:Isaac Barré|Isaac Barré]], speech in the House of Commons (13 May 1778), quoted in Lord Mahon, ''History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Aix-La-Chapelle, Vol. III'' (1839), pp. 22-23 *Chatham was incomparably the greatest British statesman of the eighteenth century: none could match him in boldness of purpose or extent of achievement. Almost alone among his contemporaries he saw the vision of Britain expanded across the world, and set her feet firmly on the path of imperial greatness. **[[w:John Brooke (British historian)|John Brooke]], ''The Chatham Administration, 1766–1768'' (1956), p. 385 *The internationally acknowledged but over vast areas undeveloped [[monopoly]] of [[Spanish colonization of the Americas|the greater part of America by Bourbon Spain]] appeared an unjust obstacle to the expansion of British trade. Pitt, from first to last a fiery patriot, nursed the utmost contempt for the foreigner, especially of the Catholic monarchies of [[w:Versailles|Versailles]] and [[Madrid]], whose subjects could not read [[the Bible]] and knew nothing of Protestant liberty. He never considered the [[Paganism|pagan]] motive of [[greed]] underlying the rivalries between Britain and her [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]] neighbours a reproach; Protestant Britain was entitled to God's blessing and the rewards of wealth and empire no detriment. **[[w:Peter Douglas Brown|Peter Douglas Brown]], ''William Pitt, Earl of Chatham: The Great Commoner'' (1978), p. 398 *Pitt had been called to power by the suffrages of the 'people', the first minister in [[History of the United Kingdom|British history]] chosen by acclaim. Pitt's integrity and force of character convinced men that he alone could save the country, a capacity he himself never doubted. The call for the services of [[Winston Churchill|Churchill]] in 1940, and the co-operation he too had to welcome from old enemies of bitter blood on both sides of the House, is the irresistible parallel. **[[w:Peter Douglas Brown|Peter Douglas Brown]], ''William Pitt, Earl of Chatham: The Great Commoner'' (1978), p. 402 *Chatham had been the saviour of the national pride in the face of France. In the cases of general warrants and parliamentary privilege he had served popular liberties. As upholder of the rights of the Middlesex electors he was defender of the Constitution. In the cause of America he identified political and religious freedom at home with the constitutional and natural rights of the [[English language|English]]-speaking peoples overseas, and, the vindication too, of the national dignity against the House of Bourbon. On each count, Chatham led the way, to the example of posterity. **[[w:Peter Douglas Brown|Peter Douglas Brown]], ''William Pitt, Earl of Chatham: The Great Commoner'' (1978), p. 412 *[W]e may affirm with truth and impartiality, that no man was ever better fitted than Mr. Pitt, to be the minister in a great and powerful nation, or better qualified to carry that power and greatness to their utmost limits. There was in all his designs a magnitude and even a vastness, which was not easily comprehended by every mind, and which nothing but success could have made to appear reasonable... He was called to the ministry by the voice of the people; and what is more rare, he held it with that approbation... Under him Great Britain carried on the most important war in which she ever was engaged, alone and unassisted, with greater splendour, and with more success than she had ever enjoyed at the head of the most powerful alliances. Alone this island seemed to balance the rest of [[Europe]]. **[[Edmund Burke]], ''Annual Register...For the Year 1761'' (1763), p. 47 *In the conduct of the war he never suffered the enemy to breathe, but overwhelmed them with reiterated blows, and kept up the alarm in every quarter. If one of his expeditions was not so well calculated or so successfully executed, amends was made by another, and by a third. The spirit of the nation once roused, was not suffered for a moment to subside; and the French, dazzled, as it were, by the multitude and celerity of his enterprizes, seemed to have lost all power of resistance. In short, he revived the military genius of our people; he supported our allies; he extended our trade; he raised our reputation; he augmented our dominions. **[[Edmund Burke]], ''Annual Register...For the Year 1761'' (1763), p. 47 [[File:EdmundBurke1771.jpg|thumb|Lord Chatham a great Minister & bold in his undertakings. He inspired the People of England with Martial ardour when necessary for the safety of this Kingdom. He considered Mobs in the light of a raw material which might be manufactured to a proper stuff for their own Happiness in the end. ~ [[Edmund Burke]]]] *Lord Chatham a great Minister & bold in his undertakings. He inspired the People of England with Martial ardour when necessary for the safety of this Kingdom. He considered Mobs in the light of a raw material which might be manufactured to a proper stuff for their own Happiness in the end. **[[Edmund Burke]], quoted in "Extracts from Mr. Burke's Table-talk, at Crewe Hall. Written down by Mrs. Crewe, pp. 62.", ''Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society. Volume VII'' (1862–63), p. 13 *This minister is, as you know, the idol of the people, who regard him as the sole author of their success, and they do not have the same confidence in the other members of the council... Pitt joins to a reputation of superior spirit and talent, that of most exact honesty...with simple manners and dignity, he seeks neither display nor ostentation... He is very eloquent, specious, wheedling, and with all the chicanery of an experienced lawyer. He is courageous to the point of rashness, he supports his ideas in an impassioned fashion and with an invincible determination, seeking to have no other ambition than to elevate Britain to the highest point of glory and to abase France to the lowest degree of humiliation. **François de Bussy to [[w:Étienne François, duc de Choiseul|Étienne François, duc de Choiseul]] (30 August 1761), quoted in Jeremy Black, ''Pitt the Elder'' (1992), p. 215 *[A] great man, the greatest perhaps that this age or this country has produced, to whom this country owes her present prosperity, and, I am sorry to say it, her [[pride]], her pride of [[conquest]], which has infatuated her, even in this impracticable war, with the ideas of victory, and certain success; that great man, from whose opinions, though some of your lordships may sometimes differ, yet there is not one of your lordships who does not pay homage to his consummate capacity, his extensive talents, his great services, and his age, when he delivers those opinions from his place. **[[Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden|Lord Camden]], speech in the House of Lords (16 March 1775), quoted in ''The Parliamentary History of England, from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803 ... Vol. XVIII. A.D. 1774—1777'' (1813), column 445 *It is a considerable fact in the history of the world, that he was for four years King of England. **[[Thomas Carlyle]], in Churchill, Sir Winston. (1999) ''The Great Republic : A History of America''. Random House. {{ISBN|0-375-50320-X}} [[File:Benjamin Franklin with bust of Isaac Newton by David Martin.JPG|thumb|Dr. Franklin is filled with admiration of that truly great man! He has seen, in the course of life, sometimes eloquence without wisdom, and often wisdom without eloquence: in the present instance, he sees both united, as he thinks, in the highest degree possible. ~ [[Benjamin Franklin]]]] *[[Benjamin Franklin|Dr. Franklin]] is filled with admiration of that truly great man! He has seen, in the course of life, sometimes eloquence without wisdom, and often wisdom without eloquence: in the present instance, he sees both united, as he thinks, in the highest degree possible. **[[Benjamin Franklin]] to Earl Stanhope (23 January 1775), quoted in W. S. Taylor and J. H. Pringle (eds.), ''Correspondence of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, Vol. IV'' (1840), pp. 385-386 [[File:Cropped portrait of Henry Grattan.jpg|thumb|Over-bearing, persuasive, and impracticable, his object was England,—his ambition was fame; without dividing, he destroyed party; without corrupting he made a venal age unanimous; France sunk beneath him; with one hand he smote the house of Bourbon, and wielded in the other the democracy of England. ~ [[w:Henry Grattan|Henry Grattan]]]] *Over-bearing, persuasive, and impracticable, his object was England,—his ambition was fame; without dividing, he destroyed party; without corrupting he made a venal age unanimous; France sunk beneath him; with one hand he smote the house of Bourbon, and wielded in the other the democracy of England. **[[w:Henry Grattan|Henry Grattan]], 'Character of Mr. Pitt' (1772), quoted in ''Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable Henry Grattan'' (1822), p. 9 *When I saw Lord Chatham's bill, I entertained high hope that a reconciliation could have been brought about. The difference between his terms, and those offered by our [[w:Continental Congress|Congress]], might have been accommodated, if entered on, by both parties, with a disposition to accommodate. But the dignity of Parliament, it seems, can brook no opposition to its power. **[[Thomas Jefferson]] to William Small (7 May 1775), quoted in Thomas Jefferson, ''Writings'', ed. Merrill D. Peterson (1984), p. 748 *Both the elder and the younger Pitt delighted in a kind of ostentatious virtue which raised them, in the eyes of careless observers, to a far higher level than politicians like Burke or like Fox, who, with abilities perhaps not inferior, sacrificed incomparably more to their principles. But yet with all his faults he was a very great man—far surpassing both in mental and moral altitude the other politicians of his generation. As a war minister his greatness was beyond question, and almost beyond comparison. **[[William Edward Hartpole Lecky]], ''A History of England in the Eighteenth Century, Vol. II'' (1882), p. 485 *The greatest War Minister of modern times. **[[David Lloyd George]]'s remarks to George Riddell, as recorded in Riddell's diary (3 August 1918), quoted in ''The Riddell Diaries 1908–1923'', ed. J. M. McEwen (1986), p. 232 *The success of our arms was perhaps owing less to the skill of his dispositions than to the national resources and the national spirit. But that the national spirit rose to the emergency,—that the national resources were contributed with unexampled cheerfulness,—this was undoubtedly his work. The ardour of his spirit had set the whole kingdom on fire. It inflamed every soldier who dragged the cannon up the heights of Quebec, and every sailor who boarded the French ships amidst the rocks of Britanny. **[[Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay|Thomas Macaulay]], ''The Edinburgh Review'', Vol. 58 (1834), p. 543 *Thus, then, after such long gestation, and so many throes and struggles, came to light the first administration of Chatham,—the greatest and most glorious, perhaps, that England had ever yet known—an administration not always, indeed, free from haste or error in its schemes, and no doubt owing their success in part to the favour of Fortune and to the genius of Generals; but still, after every allowance that can be justly required, an administration pre-eminently strong at home and victorious abroad—an administration which even now is pointed at with equal applause by contending and opposite parties, eager to claim its principles as their own. **[[w:Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope|Lord Mahon]], ''History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles, 1713–1783, Vol. IV: 1748–1763'' (1853), p. 108 [[File:1stDukeOfNewcastleOld.jpg|thumb|With all his faults we shall want Mr Pitt, if such a complicated, such an extensive war is to be carried on. I know nobody who can plan or push the execution of any plan agreed upon in the manner Mr Pitt did. ~ [[w:Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle|Duke of Newcastle]]]] *With all his faults we shall want Mr Pitt, if such a complicated, such an extensive war is to be carried on. I know nobody who can plan or push the execution of any plan agreed upon in the manner Mr Pitt did. **[[w:Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle|Duke of Newcastle]] to Lord Hardwicke (15 November 1761), quoted in Philip C. Yorke, ''The Life and Correspondence of Philip Yorke, Earl of Hardwicke, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, Vol. III'' (1913), pp. 338-339 *Pitt did not flinch from the contemplation of the violent aggression required by such an active and expanding commercial imperialism, and such an open avowal of England's aspirations bred its own elation... It was Chatham, ignorant of men, ignorant of politics, who knew with utter certainty England's destiny and showed her the way to it. **[[w:John H. Plumb|J. H. Plumb]], ''England in the Eighteenth Century'' (1950, 1964), pp. 71-72 *Pitt was at home with men like [[w:Thomas Pitt|his grandfather]], men who believed that England's greatness and prosperity depended on aggression, on seizing and holding on to the world's trade... In the late thirties and early forties Pitt had spent much time studying the statistics of French commerce and industry, which had bred the conviction that France was the greatest danger England had to face, and the only rival worth considering in the race for overseas trade... Two aims, he thought, should dominate English policy – supremacy at sea and the capture of French trading posts. **[[w:John H. Plumb|J. H. Plumb]], ''England in the Eighteenth Century'' (1950, 1964), pp. 108-110 [[File:Admiral of the White by Thomas Gainsborough.jpg|thumb|The memory of that great and glorious minister, who, to all succeeding ages, will be quoted as an illustrious example, how one great man, by his superior ability, could raise his drooping country from the abyss of despair to the highest pinnacle of glory, and render her honoured, respected, revered, and dreaded by the whole universe. ~ [[w:George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney|George Rodney]]]] *The memory of that great and glorious minister, who, to all succeeding ages, will be quoted as an illustrious example, how one great man, by his superior ability, could raise his drooping country from the abyss of despair to the highest pinnacle of glory, and render her honoured, respected, revered, and dreaded by the whole universe. **Admiral [[w:George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney|George Rodney]] (December 1779), quoted in G. B. Mundy (ed.), ''The Life and Correspondence of Admiral Lord Rodney: Volume I'' (1830), pp. 204-5 *In the last decade of the colonial period the ideal of the man of public virtue was made real in the person of William Pitt. The cult of this noblest of [[Whigs (British political party)|Whigs]], "the Genius of England and the Comet of his Age" was well advanced toward idolatry at least five years before the Stamp Act. The greatest of "the great men of England", the last and noblest of the Romans, was considered the embodiment of [[virtue]], [[wisdom]], [[patriotism]], liberty, and temperance... Pitt, "glorious and immortal", the "guardian of America", was the idol of the colonies. His eloquent arguments against taxation without representation were repaid in full measure by a grateful people. Ships, towns, and babies bore the proud name of Pitt; preachers, orators, and poets celebrated his Roman virtues. **[[w:Clinton Rossiter|Clinton Rossiter]], ''Seedtime of the Republic: The Origin of the American Tradition of Political Liberty'' (1953), pp. 145, 359–360 [[File:Clara Ewald - Sir John Robert Seeley.jpg|thumb|Look at the great personage who dominates English politics through the whole middle period of that century, the elder Pitt. His greatness is throughout identified with the expansion of England; he is a statesman of Greater Britain. It is in the buccaneering war with Spain that he sows his political wild oats; his glory is won in the great colonial duel with France; his old age is spent in striving to avert schism in Greater Britain. ~ [[John Robert Seeley]]]] *Look at the great personage who dominates [[Politics of the United Kingdom|English politics]] through the whole middle period of that century, the elder Pitt. His greatness is throughout identified with the expansion of England; he is a statesman of Greater Britain. It is in the buccaneering war with Spain that he sows his political wild oats; his glory is won in the great [[Colonialism|colonial]] duel with France; his old age is spent in striving to avert schism in Greater Britain. **[[John Robert Seeley]], ''[[w:The Expansion of England|The Expansion of England]]'' [1883], ed. John Gross (1971), p. 115 *When all due allowance is made for Pitt's shortcomings, however, and credit given to others where it is due, the fact remains that he was a great war minister. His theatrical posturings and belligerent rhetoric were exactly what the country needed, a vision of itself greater than that projected by his predecessors as prime minister, the pacific [[Robert Walpole|Walpole]], the able but self-effacing [[w:Henry Pelham|Pelham]], the timid and neurotic [[Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle|Newcastle]]... In the last analysis Pitt's greatness can only be measured against the rival alternatives, and here he was a giant among pygmies. **[[w:W. A. Speck|W. A. Speck]], ''Stability and Strife: England, 1714–1760'' (1977), p. 272 *Mr. Pitt has the finest Genius, improv'd by Study, and all the ornamental Part of Classical Learning. He came early into the House of Commons, where he soon distinguish'd himself; lost a Cornecy of Horse, which was then his only subsistence; and in about twenty years, has raised himself to be first Minister, and the most powerful Subject in this Country. His Eloquence is nervous, natural, correct, and elegant. He has an astonishing Clearness, and Facility of Expression, and has an Eye as significant as his Words. He is not always a fair or conclusive Reasoner, but commands the Passions with Sovereign Authority; and to inflame or captivate a popular Assembly, is a consummate Orator. Tho his Passions are strong, and fiery, they are all obedient to his unbounded Ambition. He has courage of every sort, cool or impetuous, active or deliberate... [E]ven his Enemies must allow that he has the Firmness, and activity of a great Minister: that he has hitherto conducted the War with Spirit, Vigor, and tolerable Success: and tho some favorite Schemes have been visionary and impracticable, they have at least been more honorable, & less dangerous, than the passive, unperforming Pusillanimity, of the late Administration. **[[w:James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave|Lord Waldegrave]], 'Memoirs of 1754–1757', ''The Memoirs and Speeches of James, 2nd Earl Waldegrave, 1742–1763'', ed. J. C. D. Clark (1988), pp. 152-153 *Mr Pitt, on entering upon administration, had found the nation at the lowest ebb in point of power and reputation. His predecessors, now his coadjutors, wanted genius, spirit and system... France, who meant to be feared, was feared heartily... They were willing to trust that France would be so good as to ruin us by inches. Pitt had roused us from this ignoble lethargy. **[[Horace Walpole]], ''Memoirs of King George II: Volume III'' (1985), p. 51 * The admirers of Mr Pitt extol the reverberation he gave to our councils, the despondence he banished, the spirit he infused, the conquests he made, the security he affixed to our trade and plantations, the humiliation of France, the glory of Britain carried under his administration to a pitch at which it never had arrived&mdash;and all this is exactly true. **[[Horace Walpole]], ''Memoirs of King George II: Volume III'' (1985), p. 53 *When Pitt left office the Pope of Rome said that he esteemed it the highest honour to be born an Englishman. In Africa we had taken away all the French possessed; in Europe our troops had beaten the flower of their armies, while our expeditions had insulted their coasts from Dunkirk to Bordeaux and had even occupied a parcel of France; on the high seas our fleets were supreme. In America we had won a continent, in India we were masters of Bengal, and in other parts had no European rivals left—victories which ensured that in these two vast portions of the world the Protestant Anglo-Saxon—not the French Roman Catholic—civilisation should thereafter prevail. And in spite of the long war the commerce on which England's greatness then chiefly rested had never been so flourishing. To Pitt all this was due. **[[w:Basil Williams (historian)|Basil Williams]], ''The Life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham. Volume II'' (1913), p. 124 *[W]e sensibly felt the manifold good effects of your truly patriot and singularly wise and upright administration. To this we must attribute the rescuing Britain from the shameful infection of that pestilential, ministerial panic, which called foreign mercenaries to the defence of a Country, by her native force, when properly exerted, more than a match for half the powers of Europe. To your steady virtues, we stand indebted for freeing our Mother Country from the reproach of calling foreign troops to defend her from a threatened invasion, and for chastising the insolence of the vaunting invader, by inspiring the councils and arms of Britain with that ancient true National spirit, which, when duly exerted, ever has, and ever must render the British name terrible to her foes in the utmost extremities of the globe. **"The grateful Address of the Merchants and Traders of the City of Dublin, to the Right Hon. William Pitt, Esq; late one of his Majesty's Secretaries of State", ''The Gentleman's and London Magazine'' (November 1761), p. 544 *That the thanks of...the City of York...be presented to the Right Honourable William Pitt, for the signal advantages this nation has derived from his upright, wise, and vigorous administration; to which, under Providence, we owe the revival of the ancient British spirit, the acquisition of the most valuable and important conquests, and the abolition of party distinctions. The loss of so able, so disinterested a Statesman, who so happily united the characters of the great Minister and the true Patriot, cannot but be deeply regretted at this critical conjuncture by every well-wisher to his King and Country. **"Copy of the Thanks to the Right Hon. William Pitt, from the City of York, Nov. 6, 1761", ''The London Chronicle, Volume 10'' (1761), p. 464 *Our toast in general is,&mdash;''Magna Charta'', the ''British Constitution'',&mdash;<small>PITT</small> and Liberty forever! **"A [[w:Sons of Liberty|Son of Liberty]] in Bristol County, Mass.", ''Newport Mercury'' (19 May 1766) on the repeal of the Stamp Act, quoted in C. Rossiter, ''Seedtime of the Republic'' (1953), p. 360 *Erected by the King and Parliament<br>As a Testimony to<br>The Virtues and Ability<br>of<br>WILLIAM PITT EARL OF CHATHAM<br>During whose Administration<br>In the Reigns of George II and George III<br>Divine Providence<br>Exalted Great Britain<br>To an Height of Prosperity and Glory<br>Unknown to any Former Age<br>Born November 15, 1708; Died May 11, 1778 **Inscribed on his monument in Westminster Abbey == External links== {{wikipedia}} {{wikisource author}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Pitt, William}} [[Category:Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom]] [[Category:Politicians from England]] [[Category:People from London]] [[Category:1708 births]] [[Category:1778 deaths]] [[Category:Whig (British political party) politicians]] [[Category:University of Oxford alumni]] [[Category:Secretaries of State for the Southern Department (Great Britain)]] [[Category:Leaders of the House of Commons (United Kingdom)]] [[Category:Pitt family]] ghpxtldm4eu692r99dxw50nr5cw7gr5 4 19295 3961194 2852634 2026-07-05T16:35:07Z BD2412 3982 /* January 2006 */ Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]], replaced: Walter M. 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And mourn the dead.'' <br>~ [[Richard Wilbur]] ~ # Our dignity, our free institutions and the peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of ''true'' patriotism: 'Our country — when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right.' ~ [[Carl Schurz]] # In mathematics the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems. ~ [[Georg Cantor]] # ''There was a young fellow from Trinity, <br>Who took the square root of infinity. <br>But the number of digits, Gave him the fidgets; <br>He dropped Math and took up Divinity.''<br> ~ [[George Gamow]] ~ # Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party — though they are quite numerous — is no freedom at all. Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters. ~ [[Rosa Luxemburg]] # Give thought to life and liberty. ~ [[Cyrano de Bergerac]] # ''Burn all the statutes and their shelves:<br>They stir us up against our kind;<br>And worse, against ourselves.<br>We have a passion — make a law,<br>Too false to guide us or control!<br>And for the law itself we fight<br>In bitterness of soul.<br>And, puzzled, blinded thus, we lose<br>Distinctions that are plain and few: <br>These find I graven on my heart:<br>'''That''' tells me what to do.''<br> ~ [[William Wordsworth]] in "[[Robert Roy MacGregor|Rob Roy]]'s Grave" ~ # The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done. ~ [[Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.]] # Some choices will choose you. How you face these choices, these turns in the road, with what kind of attitude, more than the choices themselves, is what will define the context of your life. ~ [[Dana Reeve]] # All that separates, whether of race, class, creed, or sex, is inhuman, and must be overcome. ~ [[Kate Sheppard]] # Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all. ~ [[Douglas Adams]] # Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite. ~ [[Edward Albee]] # Don't play for safety. It's the most dangerous thing in the world. ~ [[Hugh Walpole]] # Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. ~ [[Albert Einstein]] # Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces. ~ [[Julius Caesar]] # Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. The detective must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor. He talks as the man of his age talks, that is, with rude wit, a lively sense of the grotesque, a disgust for sham, and a contempt for pettiness. ~ [[Raymond Chandler]] # Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. There is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof. ~ "V" in ''[[V for Vendetta (film)|V for Vendetta]]'' # The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party. ~ [[John C. Calhoun]] # ''Who save the madman dares to cry: "'Tis I am right, you all are wrong"? <br> "You all are right, you all are wrong," we hear the careless Soofi say, <br>"For each believes his glimm'ering lamp to be the gorgeous light of day." ''<br> ~ Sir [[Richard Francis Burton]] ~ # The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom — these are the pillars of society. ~ [[Henrik Ibsen]] # The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. ~ [[Jean Cocteau]] # As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makes plain the pathway. ~ [[Anne Hutchinson]] # Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! ~ [[Patrick Henry]] # With the arrogance of youth, I determined to do no less than to transform the world with Beauty. If I have succeeded in some small way, if only in one small corner of the world, amongst the men and women I love, then I shall count myself blessed, and blessed, and blessed, and the work goes on. ~ [[William Morris]] # A wiki works best where you're trying to answer a question that you can't easily pose, where there's not a natural structure that's known in advance to what you need to know. ~ [[Ward Cunningham]] # ''He acts without contact, <br/> instructs without meeting,<br/> guides without pointing. <br/> Desires do not conflict with Him, <br/> thoughts do not mingle with Him:<br/> His essence is without qualification,<br/> His action without effort.'' <br>~ [[Mansur al-Hallaj]] ~ # All knowledge is oriented toward some object and is influenced in its approach by the nature of the object with which it is pre-occupied. But the mode of approach to the object to be known is dependent upon the nature of the knower. ~ [[Karl Mannheim]] # I'd like just to be remembered as a guy that came along and did his music, did his best and showed up on time, clean and ready to do the job, wrote a few songs, and had a hell of a time. ~ [[Buck Owens]] # Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way. ~ [[Stanisław Lem]] # Nothing can be surprising any more or impossible or miraculous, now that Zeus, father of the Olympians has made night out of noonday, hiding the bright sunlight, and . . . fear has come upon mankind. After this, men can believe anything, expect anything. ~ [[Archilochus]] # When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit that our lives are all that really belong to us. So, it is how we use our lives that determines what kind of men we are. It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life. ~ [[Cesar Chavez]] == April 2006 == # The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year. ~ [[Mark Twain]] # Whether it is happy or unhappy, a man's life is the only treasure he can ever possess. ~ [[Giacomo Casanova]] # There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in travelling in a stage-coach, that it is often a comfort to shift one’s position and be bruised in a new place. ~ [[Washington Irving]] # There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory. ~ [[Francis Drake|Sir Francis Drake]] # Do not that to another, which thou wouldest not have done to thy selfe. ~ [[Thomas Hobbes]] # Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. ~ [[Isaac Asimov]] # ''Thanks to the human heart by which we live,<br>Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears,<br>To me the meanest flower that blows can give<br>Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.'' <br>~ [[William Wordsworth]] ~ # Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love. This is the eternal rule. ~ [[Gautama Buddha]] # I'm sure we all agree that we ought to love one another, and I know there are people in the world who do not love their fellow human beings — and I ''hate'' people like that! ~ [[Tom Lehrer]] # Any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy, which qualifies life for immortality. ~ [[George William Russell]] # A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others. ~ [[Leo Rosten]] # Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed. ~ [[Tom Clancy]] # I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. ~ [[Thomas Jefferson]] # Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more. ~ [[Jesus|Yeshua (Jesus Christ)]] # Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to us, nevertheless it can happen that a certain fictive hypothesis may suffice for explaining many phenomena. ~ [[Leonhard Euler]] # The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you. ~ [[Jesus|Yeshua (Jesus Christ)]] # Where the storyteller is loyal, eternally and unswervingly loyal to the story, there, in the end, silence will speak. Where the story has been betrayed, silence is but emptiness. But we, the faithful, when we have spoken our last word, will hear the voice of silence. ~ [[Karen Blixen]] # I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure — that is all that agnosticism means. ~ [[Clarence Darrow]] # ''By the rude bridge that arched the flood,<br>Their flag to April's breeze unfurled;<br>Here once the embattled farmers stood;<br>And fired the shot heard round the world.'' <br> ~ [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]] ~ # Oh, the comfort — the inexpressible comfort of feeling ''safe'' with a person — having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. ~ [[Dinah Craik]] # This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on seas and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls. ~ [[John Muir]] # I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more. ~ [[Vladimir Nabokov]] # The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. ~ [[William Shakespeare]] in ''[[As You Like It]]'' # The end of man is knowledge but there's one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it would save him. ~ [[Robert Penn Warren]] # The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue. ~ [[Edward R. Murrow]] # Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to. ~ [[Marcus Aurelius]] # The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. ~ [[Edward Gibbon]] # War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost. ~ [[Karl Kraus]] # Despite the best that has been done by everyone — the gallant fighting of the military and naval forces, the diligence and assiduity of Our servants of the State, and the devoted service of Our one hundred million people — the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage, while the general trends of the world have all turned against her interest. ~ [[Hirohito]] # You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length. ~ [[Carl Friedrich Gauss]] == May 2006 == # I react pragmatically. Where the market works, I'm for that. Where the government is necessary, I'm for that. I'm deeply suspicious of somebody who says, 'I'm in favor of privatization,' or, 'I'm deeply in favor of public ownership.' I'm in favor of whatever works in the particular case. ~ [[John Kenneth Galbraith]] # We are near waking when we dream that we dream. ~ [[Novalis]] # Education is what you get when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. ~ [[Pete Seeger]] # Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this. ~ [[T. H. Huxley]] # Once you label me you negate me. ~ [[Søren Kierkegaard]] # Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action. ~ [[Sigmund Freud]] # The meaning of the living words that come out of the experiences of great hearts can never be exhausted by any one system of logical interpretation. They have to be endlessly explained by the commentaries of individual lives, and they gain an added mystery in each new revelation. ~ [[Rabindranath Tagore]] # While in the physical sciences the investigator will be able to measure what, on the basis of a ''prima facie'' theory, he thinks important, in the social sciences often that is treated as important which happens to be accessible to measurement. This is sometimes carried to the point where it is demanded that our theories must be formulated in such terms that they refer only to measurable magnitudes. ~ [[Friedrich Hayek]] # The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come. The time to build is upon us. ~ [[Nelson Mandela]] # The Truth lies not in the Yes and not in the No, but in the knowledge and the beginning from which the Yes and the No arise. ~ [[Karl Barth]] # Positive vibrations man. That's what makes it work. That's reggae music. You can't look away because it's real. You listen to what I sing because I mean what I sing, there's no secret, no big deal. Just honesty, that's all. ~ [[Bob Marley]] # ''Duty, Honor, Country'' — those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn. ~ [[Douglas MacArthur]] # 'Fire' does not matter, 'earth' and 'air' and 'water' do not matter. 'I' do not matter. No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words. ~ [[Roger Zelazny]] in ''[[Lord of Light]]'' # It is confidently expected that the period is at hand, when man, through ignorance, shall not much longer inflict unnecessary misery on man; because the mass of mankind will become enlightened, and will clearly discern that by so acting they will inevitably create misery to themselves. ~ [[Robert Owen]] # The voice of the individual artist may seem perhaps of no more consequence than the whirring of a cricket in the grass, but the arts do live continuously, and they live literally by faith; their names and their shapes and their uses and their basic meanings survive unchanged in all that matters through times of interruption, diminishment, neglect; they outlive governments and creeds and the societies, even the very civilization that produced them. They cannot be destroyed altogether because they represent the substance of faith and the only reality. They are what we find again when the ruins are cleared away. ~ [[Katherine Anne Porter]] # I like quoting Einstein. Know why? Because nobody dares contradict you. ~ [[Studs Terkel]] # There is no formula to it because writing every song, for me, is a little journey... It's everything. It's the walk you take in the morning, it's the night before, the meeting with people, landscapes, the chats, all of that evolves in some way into melody, but I'm not sure how it's going to happen. I'm dealing with the unknown all the time and that is exciting. ~ [[Enya]] # ''A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, <br> A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread — and Thou <br> Beside me singing in the Wilderness — <br> Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!'' <br>~ [[Omar Khayyám]] ~ # Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious — that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment. ~ [[Dan Brown]] # Love is like some fresh spring, first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows to plunge itself in some boundless ocean, where restricted natures only find monotony, but where great souls are engulfed in endless contemplation. ~ [[Honoré de Balzac]] # A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. ~ [[Alexander Pope]] # ''A little Learning is a dang'rous Thing;<br>Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring:<br>There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain,<br>And drinking largely sobers us again.'' <br> ~ [[Alexander Pope]] ~ # Cynicism isn't smarter, it's only safer. There's nothing fluffy about optimism. ~ [[Jewel (singer)|Jewel]] # Every failure is a step to success. ~ [[William Whewell]] # ''They reckon ill who leave me out;<br> When me they fly, I am the wings;<br> I am the doubter and the doubt,<br> And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.'' <br> ~ [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]] ~ # When you get in situations where you cannot afford to make a mistake, it's very hard to do the right thing. So if you're trying to do the right thing, the right thing might be to eliminate the cost of making a mistake rather than try to guess what's right. ~ [[Ward Cunningham]] # Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver. ~ [[Harlan Ellison]] # What I do know for certain is that what is regarded as success in a rational materialistic society only impresses superficial minds. It amounts to nothing and will not help us rout the destructive forces threatening us today. What may be our salvation is the discovery of the identity hidden deep in any one of us, and which may be found in even the most desperate individual, if he cares to search the spiritual womb which contains the embryo of what can be one's personal contribution to truth and life. ~ [[Patrick White]] # It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all. ~ [[G. K. Chesterton]] # I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed on me by my own reason. I am conscious of my own inability to grasp, in all its detail, and positive development, any very large portion of human knowledge. The greatest intelligence would not be equal to a comprehension of the whole... I receive and I give — such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn. Therefore there is no fixed and constant authority, but a continual exchange of mutual, temporary, and, above all, voluntary authority and subordination. ~ [[Mikhail Bakunin]] # ''I am for those that have never been master'd, <br> For men and women whose tempers have never been master'd, <br> For those whom laws, theories, conventions, can never master.''<br> ~ [[Walt Whitman]] in ''[[Leaves of Grass]]'' ~ == June 2006 == # Surprise becomes effective when we suddenly face the enemy at one point with far more troops than he expected. This type of numerical superiority is quite distinct from numerical superiority in general: it is the most powerful medium in the art of war. ~ [[Carl von Clausewitz]] # A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms. ~ [[Thomas Hardy]] # It's a bumper sticker culture. People have to get it like that, and if they don't, if it takes three seconds to make them understand, you're off their radar screen. Three seconds to understand, or you lose. This is our problem. ~ [[Lawrence Lessig]] # Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul. ~ [[Victor Hugo]] in ''[[Les Misérables]]'' # ''Nobody knows you. No. But I sing of you.<br>For posterity I sing of your profile and grace.<br>Of the signal maturity of your understanding.<br>Of your appetite for death and the taste of its mouth.<br>Of the sadness of your once valiant gaiety.''<br> ~ [[Federico García Lorca]] ~ # Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. ~ ''[[The Bible|The Book of Revelation]]'' # Nature has mysterious infinities and imaginative power. It is always varying the productions it offers to us. The artist himself is one of nature's means. ~ [[Paul Gauguin]] # The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope. ~ [[Frank Lloyd Wright]] # ''When you were born in this world <br> Everyone laughed while you cried<br>Conduct not yourself in manner such <br>That they laugh when you are gone.'' <br>~ [[Kabir]] ~ # ''All that you see has appeared because of Love.<br>All shines from Love,<br>All pulses with Love,<br>All flows from Love — <br>No, once again, all '''is''' Love!'' <br> ~ [[Fakhruddin 'Iraqi]] ~ # ''In small proportions we just beauties see,<br>And in short measures life may perfect be.''<br>~ [[Ben Jonson]] ~ # If one is but secure at the foundation, he will not be pained by departure from minor details or affairs that are contrary to expectation. But in the end, the details of a matter are important. The right and wrong of one's way of doing things are found in trivial matters. ~ [[Yamamoto Tsunetomo]] # It is difficult to know yourself if you do not know others. To all Ways there are side-tracks. If you study a Way daily, and your spirit diverges, you may think you are obeying a good way, but objectively it is not the true Way. If you are following the true Way and diverge a little, this will later become a large divergence. You must realise this. ~ [[Miyamoto Musashi]] # The longest day must have its close — the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day. ~ [[Harriet Beecher Stowe]] # Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight. ~ [[William McFee]] # If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. ~ [[Abraham Lincoln]] # Some would say that it is too idealistic to believe in a society based on tolerance and the sanctity of human life, where borders, nationalities and ideologies are of marginal importance. To those I say, this is not idealism, but rather realism, because history has taught us that war rarely resolves our differences. Force does not heal old wounds; it opens new ones. ~ [[Mohamed ElBaradei]] # ''Will you still need me,<br>Will you still feed me,<br>When I'm sixty-four?''<br>~ [[Paul McCartney]] ~ # It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it. ~ [[Aung San Suu Kyi]] # We wanted to bring some love to the world. I thought we were good at doing that. Bringin' love to the world. ~ [[Brian Wilson]] # Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior. ~ [[Mary McCarthy]] # The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words. ~ [[Anne Morrow Lindbergh]] # We thought: we're poor, we have nothing, but when we started losing one after the other so each day became remembrance day, we started composing poems about God's great generosity and — our former riches. ~ [[Anna Akhmatova]] # There is nothing better or more necessary than love. ~ [[John of the Cross]] # The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them. ~ [[George Orwell]] # For the future, let all people live in harmony ... Men should be taught and won over by reason, not by blows, insults, and corporal punishments. ~ [[Julian]] # The highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith; but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, — the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren and their rights of conscience. Tolerance is the first principal of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think. ~ [[Helen Keller]] # Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous. ~ [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]] # Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. ~ [[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]] # Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly. ~ [[Albert Einstein]] == July 2006 == # Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. ~ [[Georg Christoph Lichtenberg]] # When artists create pictures and thinkers search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something that lasts longer than we do. ~ [[Hermann Hesse]] # I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead. ~ [[Tom Stoppard]] # It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate. ~ [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]] # True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing. ~ [[Jean Cocteau]] # They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality. ~ [[Frida Kahlo]] # Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. ~ [[Robert A. Heinlein]] # It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive — to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are. ~ [[Elisabeth Kübler-Ross]] # I can get excitement watching rain on a puddle. And then I paint it. Now, I admit, there are not too many people who would find that exciting. But I would. And I want life thrilling and rich. And it is. I make sure it is. ~ [[David Hockney]] # The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter — for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. He lives and labors and hopes. ~ [[Nikola Tesla]] # Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. ~ [[John Quincy Adams]] # In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king. ~ [[Desiderius Erasmus]] # ''To-morrow comes, true copy of to-day,<br>And empty shadow of what is to be;<br>Yet cheated Hope on future still depends,<br>And ends but only when our being ends.'' <br> ~ [[John Clare]] ~ # Regardless of whether I believe or not, whether I am a Christian or not, I would play my part in the collective building of the cathedral. ~ [[Ingmar Bergman]] # Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their patriotism through their actions, by their choice... No law will make a citizen a patriot. ~ [[Jesse Ventura]] # If you build it, he will come. ~ "The Voice" in ''[[Field of Dreams]]'' # ''Were I so tall to reach the pole,<br>Or grasp the ocean with my span,<br>I must be measured by my soul;<br>The mind's the standard of the man.''<br> ~ [[Isaac Watts]] ~ # To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; and to forgo even ambition when the end is gained — who can say this is not greatness? ~ [[William Makepeace Thackeray]] # Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs. ~ [[Edgar Degas]] #You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things — to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals. The intense effort, the giving of everything you've got, is a very pleasant bonus. ~ [[Edmund Hillary|Sir Edmund Hillary]] #The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry. ~ [[Ernest Hemingway]] #''We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong.<br>We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.<br>We thought the long train would run to the end of Time.<br>We thought the light would increase.<br>Now the long train stands derailed and the bandits loot it.<br>Now the boar and the asp have power in our time.<br>Now the night rolls back on the West and the night is solid.<br>Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragon's teeth. <br>Our children know and suffer the armed men.'' <br> ~ [[Stephen Vincent Benét]] ~ #Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. The detective must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor. He talks as the man of his age talks, that is, with rude wit, a lively sense of the grotesque, a disgust for sham, and a contempt for pettiness. ~ [[Raymond Chandler]] #''There is one story and one story only.<br> Dwell on her graciousness, dwell on her smiling,<br> Do not forget what flowers<br> The great boar trampled down in ivy time.<br> Her brow was creamy as the long ninth wave,<br> Her sea-blue eyes were wild.<br> But nothing promised that is not performed.'' <br> ~ [[Robert Graves]] ~ #There seem to be magic days once in a while, with some rare quality of light that hold a body spellbound... Then comes the hard part: how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, air and space... ~ [[Maxfield Parrish]] #Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature. ~ [[George Bernard Shaw]] #In soft deluding lies let fools delight. A shadow marks our days, which end in Night. ~ [[Hilaire Belloc]] #We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong. ~ [[Karl Popper]] #No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country. ~ [[Alexis de Tocqueville]] #''What am I singing? <br/> A song of seeds <br/>The food of love. <br/> Eat the music.'' <br> ~ [[Kate Bush]] ~ #I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. ~ [[Milton Friedman]] == August 2006 == #''And now we meet in an abandoned studio<br>We hear the playback and it seems so long ago<br>And you remember the jingles used to go<br>Oh, oh — You were the first one.<br>Oh, oh — You were the last one.<br>Video killed the radio star.'' <br> ~ [[The Buggles]] ~ #Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. ~ [[James Baldwin]] #Somewhere, he thought, on the long backtrack of history, the human race had accepted an insanity for a principle and had persisted in it until today that insanity-turned-principle stood ready to wipe out, if not the race itself, at least all of those things, both material and immaterial, that had been fashioned as symbols of humanity through many hard-won centuries. ~ [[Clifford D. Simak]] #''If you divide suffering and dross, you may <br> Diminish till it is consumed away;<br> If you divide pleasure and love and thought,<br> Each part exceeds the whole; and we know not <br> How much, while any yet remains unshared...''<br> ~ [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]] ~ #Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread... ~ [[Conrad Aiken]] #One of the primary tests of the mood of a society at any given time is whether its comfortable people tend to identify, psychologically, with the power and achievements of the very successful or with the needs and sufferings of the underpriviliged. ~ [[Richard Hofstadter]] #We help the internet not suck. ~ [[Jimmy Wales]] #Better to die on your feet than live on your knees! ~ [[Emiliano Zapata]] #Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society... But for me, education means making creators... You have to make inventors, innovators, not conformists. ~ [[Jean Piaget]] #Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. ~ [[Herbert Hoover]] #Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to Joy, and makes royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods. ~ [[Robert G. Ingersoll]] #The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist. ~ [[Erwin Schrödinger]] #Make the world better. ~ [[Lucy Stone]] #Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. ~ [[Russell Baker]] #Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest. Call for the grandest of all human sentiments, what is that? It is that man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep. ~ [[Thomas De Quincey]] #The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and fame. The world feels not without a certain apprehension, that here is some one outside its jurisdiction; someone before whom its allurements may be spread in vain; some one strangely enfranchised, untamed, untrammelled by convention, moving independent of the ordinary currents of human action. ~ [[Winston Churchill]] #One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas — and you have to work through it all. ~ [[V. S. Naipaul]] #When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay. ~ [[Brian Aldiss]] #How are we to survive? Solemnity is not the answer, any more than witless and irresponsible frivolity is. I think our best chance lies in humor, which in this case means a wry acceptance of our predicament. We don't have to like it but we can at least recognize its ridiculous aspects, one of which is ourselves. ~ [[Ogden Nash]] #''That is not dead which can eternal lie, <br> And with strange aeons even death may die.'' <br>~ [[H. P. Lovecraft]] ~ #Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and vileness, and enjoy it to the full. ~ [[Leon Trotsky]] #No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you should never trust experts. If you believe doctors, nothing is wholesome: if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent: if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe. They all require their strong wine diluted by a very large admixture of insipid common sense. ~ [[Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury|Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Lord Salisbury]] #I have brought you to the ring, now see if you can dance. ~ [[William Wallace]] #If those in charge of our society — politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television — can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves. ~ [[Howard Zinn]] #Being inoffensive, and being offended, are now the twin addictions of the culture. ~ [[Martin Amis]] #We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves. ~ [[John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir|John Buchan, Lord Tweedsmuir]] #Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth. ~ [[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel]] #Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. ~ [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]] #Religion, which should most distinguish us from the beasts, and ought most particularly elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts. ~ [[John Locke]] #We are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves — such a friend ought to be — do not lend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures.. ~ [[Mary Shelley]] #Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough. ~ [[William Saroyan]] == September 2006 == #I like a huge range of comedy — from broad and farcical, the most sensitive, the most understated — but I always wanted my comedy to be more embracing of the species rather than debasing of it. ~ [[Lily Tomlin]] #Before you do anything, ''think''. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process. ~ [[Salma Hayek]] #Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man that would keep all the wine out of the country lest men should be drunk. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy, to deny a man the liberty he hath by nature upon a supposition that he may abuse it. ~ [[Oliver Cromwell]] #A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both. . ~ [[L. P. Jacks]] (originally attributed to [[François-René de Chateaubriand]], born 4 September 1768, because of a widespread misattribution.) #I've probably saved thousands of peoples' lives with my educational message on snake bites — how to get in around venomous anything. Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker, but crikey, education's the most important thing. ~ [[Steve Irwin]] #My personal feeling is that this is how any further improvement of the world will be done: by individuals making Quality decisions and that's all. ~ [[Robert M. Pirsig]] #Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd. ~ [[Edith Sitwell]] #Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat. ~ [[Peter Sellers]] #Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen. ~ [[Leo Tolstoy]] #Organisms are not billiard balls, propelled by simple and measurable external forces to predictable new positions on life's pool table. Sufficiently complex systems have greater richness. Organisms have a history that constrains their future in myriad, subtle ways. ~ [[Stephen Jay Gould]] #On [[September 11, 2001 attacks|September 11]] — what happened? Picture this: two upended matchboxes, knocked over by the sheer force of paper-darts.<br> Only it was much, much worse than that. In fact, words alone cannot adduce how much worse it was than that. September 11 was an attack on words: we felt a general deficit. ~ [[Martin Amis]] #When I came back to my native country, after all the stories about Hitler, I couldn't ride in the front of the bus. I had to go to the back door. I couldn't live where I wanted. I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, but I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President, either. ~ [[Jesse Owens]] #''What I need is a good defense<br> 'Cause I'm feeling like a criminal<br> And I need to be redeemed<br> To the one I've sinned against<br> Because he's all I ever knew of love.'' <br> ~ [[Fiona Apple]] ~ #The acceptance of the principle of international cooperation is of immense importance for all states. Even the states which are most tempted to believe that they can stand by themselves have very much to gain by such cooperation. And for the smaller states — the weaker states — it is vital to all their hopes of liberty and justice. ~ [[Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood|Lord Robert Cecil]] #We hardly find any persons of good sense, save those who agree with us. ~ [[François de La Rochefoucauld]] #The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you're not. And the other thing that the public really does like is the self-examination to say, you know, I'm not perfect. I'm just like you. They don't ask their public officials to be perfect. They just ask them to be smart, truthful, honest, and show a modicum of good sense. ~ [[Ann Richards]] #''It is difficult<br>to get the news from poems<br>yet men die miserably every day<br>for lack<br>of what is found there.''<br> ~ [[William Carlos Williams]] ~ #I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and ''growl.'' Let him come out as I do, and ''bark.'' ~ [[Samuel Johnson]] #His voice rose under the black smoke before the burning wreckage of the island; and infected by that emotion, the other little boys began to shake and sob too. And in the middle of them, with filthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy. ~ [[William Golding]] #We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it. ~ [[Joyce Brothers]] #''Like a bird on the wire, <br/> like a drunk in a midnight choir <br/> I have tried in my way to be free.'' <br/> ~ [[Leonard Cohen]] ~ #The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it. ~ [[Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield]] #There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change. ~ [[Euripides]] #To act with common sense, according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy, to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot, bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is, and despise affectation. ~ [[Horace Walpole]] #No battle is ever won... They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools. ~ [[William Faulkner]] #''What might have been and what has been <br>Point to one end, which is always present. <br>Footfalls echo in the memory <br> Down the passage which we did not take <br>Towards the door we never opened <br>Into the rose-garden.'' <br> ~ [[T. S. Eliot]] in ''[[The Four Quartets]]'' ~ #The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule. ~ [[Samuel Adams]] #When once the mind has raised itself to grasp and to delight in excellence, those who love most will be found to love most wisely. ~ [[Francis Turner Palgrave]] #Faith which does not doubt is dead faith. ~ [[Miguel de Unamuno]] #Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures, it is our gift to each other. ~ [[Elie Wiesel]] == October 2006 == #Love and music and happiness and family, that's what it's all about. I believe in these things. It would be awful not to, wouldn't it? ~ [[Julie Andrews]] #''A man and a woman<br> Are one. <br> A man and a woman and a blackbird <br>Are one.'' <br> ~ [[Wallace Stevens]] ~ #The average "educated" American has been made to believe that, somehow, the United States must lead the world even though hardly anyone has any information at all about those countries we are meant to lead. Worse, we have very little information about our own country and its past. ~ [[Gore Vidal]] #A comedian does funny things. A good comedian does things funny. ~ [[Buster Keaton]] #Almost all men, and those that seem to be very miserable, love life, because they cannot bear to lose sight of such a beautiful and lovely world. The ideas, that every moment whilst we live have a beauty that we take not distinct notice of, brings a pleasure that, when we come to the trial, we had rather live in much pain and misery than lose. ~ [[Jonathan Edwards (theologian)|Jonathan Edwards]] #<p>''Behold, we know not anything;<br> I can but trust that good shall fall<br> At last — far off — at last, to all,<br> And every winter change to spring.''</p><p>''So runs my dream; but what am I?<br> An infant crying in the night;<br> An infant crying for the light,<br> And with no language but a cry.'' <br> ~ [[Alfred Tennyson|Alfred, Lord Tennyson]] ~</p> #It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature ''is''. Physics concerns what we can ''say'' about nature. ~ [[Niels Bohr]] #Does the prophet see the future or does he see a line of weakness, a fault or cleavage that he may shatter with words or decisions as a diamond-cutter shatters his gem with a blow of a knife? ~ [[Frank Herbert]] in ''[[Dune]]'' #<p>''Imagine all the people<br>Sharing all the world...''</p><p>''You may say I'm a dreamer<br>But I'm not the only one<br>I hope someday you'll join us<br>And the world will live as one.'' <br>~ [[John Lennon]] ~ </p> #I would like to make the point that we cannot undo the past but we can learn from it, and we cannot predict the future but we can shape and build it. ~ [[Epeli Ganilau]] #It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death. ~ [[Eleanor Roosevelt]] #I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy and all the others who have written on this subject demonstrate and prove, as do the eclipses of the moon and other experiments that are made from east to west, and the elevation of the North Star from north to south. ~ [[Christopher Columbus]] #If you ever get trial by television or guilt by accusation, that day freedom dies because you have not had it done with all of the careful rules that have developed in a court of law. Press and television rely on freedom. Those who rely on freedom must uphold the rule of law and have a duty and a responsibility to do so and not try to substitute their own system for it. ~ [[Margaret Thatcher]] #I am totally convinced from my experience of working with poor people that they can get themselves out of poverty if we give them the same or similar opportunities we give to others. The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world — all we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them. ~ [[Muhammad Yunus]] #In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong. ~ [[John Kenneth Galbraith]] #Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. ~ [[Oscar Wilde]] #Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. ~ [[Arthur Miller]] #''Give me my freedom for as long as I be <br>All I ask of livin' is to have no chains on me <br> All I ask of livin' is to have no chains on me <br>And all I ask of dyin' is to go naturally... <br> And when I die, and when I'm gone <br>There'll be one child born, in our world <br>To carry on, to carry on...'' <br>~ [[Laura Nyro]] ~ #There is surely a piece of divinity within us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun. ~ [[Thomas Browne]] #We sometimes talk as if "original research" were a peculiar prerogative of scientists or at least of advanced students. But all thinking is research, and all research is native, original, with him who carries it on, even if everybody else in the world already is sure of what he is still looking for. ~ [[John Dewey]] #</p>''He prayeth well, who loveth well<br>Both man and bird and beast.''</p><p>''He prayeth best, who loveth best<br>All things both great and small;<br>For the dear God who loveth us,<br> He made and loveth all.'' <br> ~ [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]] ~ </p> #All political movements are like this — we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our own side who disagree with us are heretics, and they start becoming enemies. With it comes an absolute conviction of your own moral superiority. There's oversimplification in everything, and a terror of flexibility. ~ [[Doris Lessing]] #I am certain there is too much certainty in the world. ~ [[Michael Crichton]] #Poems present their testimony as circumstantial evidences, not as closing argument. Where Wallace Stevens says, “God and the imagination are one,” I would say that the imagination, which synergizes intellect, emotion and instinct, is the perceptive organ through which it is possible, though not inevitable, to experience God. ~ [[Denise Levertov]] #A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes that he is no longer indispensable. ~ [[Richard E. Byrd]] #The youth are not always right, but the society which ignores them and beats, is always wrong. ~ [[François Mitterrand]] #I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me. My love's not impersonal yet not wholly subjective either. I would like to be everyone, a cripple, a dying man, a whore, and then come back to write about my thoughts, my emotions, as that person. But I am not omniscient. I have to live my life, and it is the only one I'll ever have. And you cannot regard your own life with objective curiosity all the time. ~ [[Sylvia Plath]] #The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish. ~ [[Evelyn Waugh]] #We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over. ~ [[James Boswell]] #The fundamental article of my political creed is that despotism, or unlimited sovereignty, or absolute power, is the same in a majority of a popular assembly, an aristocratical council, an oligarchical junto, and a single emperor. Equally arbitrary, cruel, bloody, and in every respect diabolical. ~ [[John Adams]] #''A thing of beauty is a joy forever:<br>Its loveliness increases; it will never<br>Pass into nothingness; but still will keep<br>A bower quiet for us, and a sleep<br>Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.'' <br> ~ [[John Keats]] ~ == November 2006 == #''The wayfarer,<br> Perceiving the pathway to truth,<br> Was struck with astonishment.<br> It was thickly grown with weeds.<br> "Ha," he said,<br> "I see that none has passed here<br> In a long time."<br> Later he saw that each weed<br> Was a singular knife.<br> "Well," he mumbled at last,<br> "Doubtless there are other roads."'' <br> ~ [[Stephen Crane]] ~ #It is quite certain that in seeing the people who treat us so well despite their own misfortune, we are more obliged than ever to work hard for their happiness. ~ [[Marie Antoinette]] #Art is a revolt against fate. ~ [[André Malraux]] #A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it. ~ [[William Styron]] #Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty. ~ [[Will Durant]] #Me, I shall be an autocrat: that is my trade; and The Good God will forgive me: that is His. ~ [[Catherine II of Russia|Catherine the Great]] #The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance which fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness. ~ [[Albert Camus]] #No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be. ~ [[Bram Stoker]] #Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism. ~ [[Carl Sagan]] #Rarely do we arrive at the summit of truth without running into extremes; we have frequently to exhaust the part of error, and even of folly, before we work our way up to the noble goal of tranquil wisdom. ~ [[Friedrich Schiller]] # ''We are the Dead. Short days ago<br> We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,<br> Loved and were loved, and now we lie,<br> In Flanders fields.''<br> ~ [[John McCrae]] ~ #No matter how much women prefer to lean, to be protected and supported, nor how much men desire to have them do so, they must make the voyage of life alone, and for safety in an emergency they must know something of the laws of navigation. ~ [[Elizabeth Cady Stanton]] #The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. ~ [[Louis Brandeis]] #Peace has been said to be indivisible; so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also is disaster in this One World that can no longer be split into isolated fragments. ~ [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] #He who, when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth, tells it boldly and has done is both bolder and milder than he who nibbles in a low voice and never ceases nibbling. ~ [[Johann Kaspar Lavater]] #We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves. ~ [[Alan Watts]] #Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to coerce, be it in the hands of a monarch, a dictator, an oligarchy, or a momentary majority. ~ [[Milton Friedman]] #It's a feature of our age that if you write a work of fiction, everyone assumes that the people and events in it are disguised biography — but if you write your biography, it's equally assumed you're lying your head off. ~ [[Margaret Atwood]] #''Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, <br> And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.'' <br> ~ [[Alfred Tennyson|Alfred, Lord Tennyson]] ~ #Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it. ~ [[Nadine Gordimer]] #Man is free at the instant he wants to be. ~ [[Voltaire]] #What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other? ~ [[George Eliot]] #We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. ~ [[Thornton Wilder]] #Only the brave know how to forgive... A coward never forgave; it is not in his nature. ~ [[Laurence Sterne]] #If we have learned anything at all in this century, it is that all new technologies will be put to use, sooner or later, for better or worse, as it is in our nature to do. ~ [[Lewis Thomas]] #"Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, Why me?" And the voice says, "Nothing personal your name just happened to come up." ~ [[Charles M. Schulz]] #Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it. ~ [[Bruce Lee]] #Whatever nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge. ~ [[Enrico Fermi]] #The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs. There's not one of them which won't make us into devils if we set it up as an absolute guide. You might think love of humanity in general was safe, but it isn't. If you leave out justice you'll find yourself breaking agreements and faking evidence in trials "for the sake of humanity" and become in the end a cruel and treacherous man. ~ [[C.S. Lewis]] #It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more. ~ [[Winston Churchill]] == December 2006 == #If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank. ~ [[Woody Allen]] #The current search for new educational ''funnels'' must be reversed into the search for their institutional inverse: educational ''webs'' which heighten the opportunity for each one to transform each moment of his living into one of learning, sharing, and caring. ~ [[Ivan Illich]] #There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind. ~ [[Joseph Conrad]] #No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. ~ [[Thomas Carlyle]] #We have to remember that what we observe is not nature herself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning. ~ [[Werner Heisenberg]] #Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning. ~ [[Anthony Trollope]] #I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for. ~ [[Thornton Wilder]] #''May memory restore again and again <br> The smallest color of the smallest day:<br> Time is the school in which we learn, <br> Time is the fire in which we burn.'' <br> ~ [[Delmore Schwartz]] ~ #Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to my conscience, above all liberties. ~ [[John Milton]] in ''[[Areopagitica]]'' #The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference. ~ [[Elie Wiesel]] #In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim — that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people. ~ [[George Mason]] #The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments. ~ [[Gustave Flaubert]] #We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race. We all share the same basic values. ~ [[Kofi Annan]] #My deepest impulses are optimistic; an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect. ~ [[Ellen Willis]] #To talk about the end of science is just as foolish as to talk about the end of religion. Science and religion are both still close to their beginnings, with no ends in sight. ~ [[Freeman Dyson]] #What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude: the aims of friendship, religion, science, and art. ~ [[George Santayana]] #To even mention all the things the bird must constantly keep in mind in order to fly securely through the air would take a considerable part of the evening... The bird has learned this art of equilibrium, and learned it so thoroughly that its skill is not apparent to our sight. We only learn to appreciate it when we try to imitate it. ~ [[Wilbur Wright]] #Formerly we used to represent things visible on earth, things we either liked to look at or would have liked to see. Today we reveal the reality that is behind visible things, thus expressing the belief that the visible world is merely an isolated case in relation to the universe and that there are many more other, latent realities. Things appear to assume a broader and more diversified meaning, often seemingly contradicting the rational experience of yesterday. There is a striving to emphasize the essential character of the accidental. ~ [[Paul Klee]] #It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win. Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's life. ~ [[Phil Ochs]] #Learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy. ~ [[Edwin Abbott Abbott]] #This is the stillness behind motion, when time itself stops; the center is also the circumference of all. <br> ''We are awake in the night. <br>We turn the Wheel to bring the light. <br>We call the sun from the womb of night. <br>Blessed Be! ''<br> ~ [[Starhawk]] ~ #It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence. ~ [[Kenneth Rexroth]] #The final frontier is perhaps the most difficult, but it's also the most important — and that's the frontier of the human spirit. For too long, people have allowed differences on the surface — differences of color, ethnicity, and gender — to tear apart the common bonds they share. And the human spirit suffers as a result.<br> Imagine a world in which we saw beyond the lines that divide us, and celebrated our differences, instead of hiding from them. Imagine a world in which we finally recognized that, fundamentally, we are all the same. And imagine if we allowed that new understanding to build relations between people and between nations. ~ [[Wesley Clark]] #A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease. Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings, while incense is ever flowing from the balsam bells and leaves. No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself. ~ [[John Muir]] #Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. ~ [[Calvin Coolidge]] #Let us face squarely the paradox that the world which goes to war is a world, usually, genuinely desiring peace. War is the outcome, not mainly of evil intentions, but on the whole, of good intentions which miscarry or are frustrated. It is made, not usually by evil men knowing themselves to be wrong, but is the outcome of policies pursued by good men usually passionately convinced that they are right. ~ [[Norman Angell]] #I am on the edge of mysteries and the veil is getting thinner and thinner. ~ [[Louis Pasteur]] #The length of one's days matters less than the love of one's family and friends. ~ [[Gerald Ford]] #If I am to be shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet. ~ [[Andrew Johnson]] #<p>''If you can keep your head when all about you<br>Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,<br>If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,<br>But make allowance for their doubting too...''</p><p>''If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,<br>Or walk with Kings — nor lose the common touch,<br>If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,<br>If all men count with you, but none too much;<br>If you can fill the unforgiving minute<br>With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,<br>Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,<br>And — which is more — you'll be a Man, my son!''<br>~ [[Rudyard Kipling]] ~</p> #When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective. ~ [[George Marshall]] == Other Quote of the Day archives == * '''[[QOTD by month]]''' * [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/2011|Quote of the day archive 2011]] * [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/2010|Quote of the day archive 2010]] * [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/2009|Quote of the day archive 2009]] * [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/2008|Quote of the day archive 2008]] * [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/2007|Quote of the day archive 2007]] * [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/2005|Quote of the day archive 2005]] * [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/2004|Quote of the day archive 2004]] * [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/2003|Quote of the day archive 2003]] * '''[[Wikiquote:Quote of the Day|Quote of the Day (complete list)]]''' * [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/Quote proposals|Quote of the Day proposals (archive of a defunct selection base)]] [[Category:Quote of the day archives]] [[tr:Vikisöz:Günün sözü/arşiv/2006]] g7orkcvl9h4icad8e5ihrx3wgcytqyx 0 25992 3961330 3774910 2026-07-05T23:36:59Z Kalki 71 update 3961330 wikitext text/x-wiki <div id="6" style="margin: 1em 0em; border: thin solid black; padding: 3px; background-color:#CFE5FF;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122); font: bold 14pt sans-serif;">[[Category:Days]][[w:July 6|July 6]]</div> <noinclude>'''Quotes of the day''' from previous years:</noinclude> ;2004 : "'''When''' in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation." ~ Opening statement of ''The Declaration of Independence'' of The United States of America, composed primarily by [[Thomas Jefferson]] (Third of three from ''The Declaration of Independence'' or drafts of it, that were quoted July 4,5, & 6 of 2004) :* selected by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] ; 2005 : I have not yet begun to fight! ~ [[John Paul Jones]] (born 6 July 1747) :* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] ;2006 :They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality. ~ [[Frida Kahlo]] (born 6 July 1907) :* proposed by [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] <!-- * 3 - [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] 16:26, 4 July 2006 (UTC) * 3 [[User:Jeffq|Jeff Q]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Jeffq|(talk)]] 16:59, 4 July 2006 (UTC) --> ; 2007 : Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. ~ [[Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama]] (born 6 July 1935) :* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] <!-- * 4 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 18:06, 5 July 2007 (UTC) <s>* 3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 21:20, 6 July 2006 (UTC)</s> --> ; 2008 : I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way. ~ [[John Paul Jones]] :* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] <!-- * 4 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 18:24, 2 July 2008 (UTC) <s>* 3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 2 July 2005 22:23 (UTC)</s> * 1 [[User:Jeffq|Jeff Q]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Jeffq|(talk)]] 16:59, 4 July 2006 (UTC) Give JP a break for now. * 3 because determination even under heavy odds is respectable and admirable. [[User:Zarbon|Zarbon]] 05:03, 24 April 2008 (UTC) * 3 [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] 00:01, 6 July 2008 (UTC) --> ; 2009 : Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free. True peace with oneself and with the world around us can only be achieved through the development of mental peace. ~ [[Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama]] (date of birth) :* proposed by [[User:Aphaia|Aphaia]]<!-- * 3 [[User:Aphaia|Aphaia]] 13:05, 8 May 2008 (UTC) * 2 [[User:Zarbon|Zarbon]] 04:13, 9 May 2008 (UTC) * 3 [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] 00:01, 6 July 2008 (UTC) * 3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 08:11, 11 July 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4. --> ; 2010 : I believe that at every level of society — familial, tribal, national and international — the key to a happier and more successful world is the growth of compassion. We do not need to become religious, nor do we need to believe in an ideology. All that is necessary is for each of us to develop our good human qualities. ~ [[Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama]] :* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] <!-- * 4 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 01:33, 3 July 2009 (UTC) * 2 [[User:Zarbon|Zarbon]] 05:00, 3 July 2009 (UTC) --> ; 2011 : We need a little more compassion, and if we cannot have it then no politician or even a magician can save the planet. ~ [[Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama]] :* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] <!-- * 4 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] ([[User talk:Kalki|talk]] &middot; [[Special:Contributions/Kalki|contributions]]) 08:36, 28 June 2011 (UTC) <s>3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 01:33, 3 July 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.</s> * 2 [[User:Zarbon|Zarbon]] 05:00, 3 July 2009 (UTC) --> ; 2012 {{quote of the day | quote = Our gains are not measured in the [[Loss|losses]] of others. They are counted in the conflicts we avert, the [[prosperity]] we share and the [[peace]] we extend. | author = George W. Bush }} :* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] <!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 01:09, 1 July 2012 (UTC) <s> 3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 01:41, 3 July 2009 (UTC) but with a current preference for several by [[Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama]].</s> * 1 [[User:Zarbon|Zarbon]] 05:00, 3 July 2009 (UTC) --> ; 2013 {{quote of the day | quote = I [[feel]] that the [[essence ]]of [[spiritual]] [[practice]] is your attitude toward others. When you have a [[pure]], [[sincere]] [[motivation]], then you have right attitude toward others based on [[kindness]], [[compassion]], [[love]] and [[respect]]. Practice brings the clear realisation of the oneness of all [[human]] beings and the [[Significance|importance]] of others benefiting by your [[actions]]. | author = Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama }} :* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] <!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 10:08, 4 July 2013 (UTC) <s>3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 01:33, 3 July 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.</s> * 2 [[User:Zarbon|Zarbon]] 05:00, 3 July 2009 (UTC) --> ; 2014 {{quote of the day | quote = If you want others to be [[happy]], [[practice]] [[compassion]]. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. | author = Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama }} :* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] <!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 16:06, 4 July 2014 (UTC) <s>3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 01:33, 3 July 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4 </s> * 2 [[User:Zarbon|Zarbon]] 05:00, 3 July 2009 (UTC) --> ; 2015 {{quote of the day | quote = With the ever-growing impact of [[science]] on our [[lives]], [[religion]] and [[spirituality]] have a [[greater]] role to play by reminding us of our [[humanity]]. There is no contradiction between the two. Each gives us valuable insights into the other. Both science and the [[teachings]] of the [[Buddha]] tell us of the fundamental [[unity]] of [[all]] things. This [[understanding]] is crucial if we are to take positive and decisive [[action]] on the pressing global concern with the [[environment]]. I [[believe]] all religions pursue the same goals, that of cultivating human [[goodness]] and bringing [[happiness]] to all human beings. Though the means might appear different the [[ends]] are the same. | author = Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama }} :* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 11:44, 5 July 2015 (UTC) for the 80th birthday of this manifestation of [[w:Kundun|Kundun]]. --> ; 2016 {{quote of the day | quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> --> I [[believe]] all [[suffering]] is [[caused]] by [[ignorance]]. [[People]] inflict [[pain]] on others in the [[selfish]] pursuit of their [[happiness]] or [[satisfaction]]. Yet [[true]] happiness comes from a [[sense]] of inner [[peace]] and [[contentment]], which in turn must be [[achieved]] through the cultivation of [[altruism]], of [[love]] and [[compassion]] and elimination of ignorance, selfishness and [[greed]]. <br /> The [[problems]] we face today, [[violent]] [[conflicts]], [[destruction]] of [[nature]], [[poverty]], [[hunger]], and so on, are human-created problems which can be resolved through [[human]] [[effort]], [[understanding]] and the development of a sense of [[brotherhood|brotherhood and sisterhood]]. We need to cultivate a [[universal]] [[responsibility]] for one another and the [[planet]] we share. <br /> Although I have found my own [[Buddhist]] [[religion]] [[helpful]] in generating love and compassion, even for those we consider our [[enemies]], I am [[convinced]] that everyone can develop a [[good]] [[heart]] and a sense of universal responsibility with or without religion. | author = Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama }} :* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 12:31, 5 July 2016 (UTC) <s>3 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 11:44, 5 July 2015 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4. </s> *3.25. Nice quote. &ndash; <span style="font-family:'Georgia'">'''''[[User:Illegitimate Barrister|Illegitimate Barrister]]'''''</span>, 13:47, 22 September 2015 (UTC) --> ; 2017 {{quote of the day | quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> --> Many of the issues that still [[trouble]] [[America]] have roots in the bitter [[experience]] of other [[times]]. But however long the journey, our [[Destiny|destination is set]]: [[liberty]] and [[justice]] for [[all]]. | author = George W. Bush }} :* proposed by [[User:Illegitimate Barrister|Illegitimate Barrister]]<!-- {{quote of the day|quote=However long the journey, our destination is set. Liberty and justice for all.|author=[[George W. Bush]]}} *3. &ndash; <span style="font-family:'Georgia'">'''''[[User:Illegitimate Barrister|Illegitimate Barrister]]'''''</span>, 13:50, 22 September 2015 (UTC) * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 22:22, 5 July 2017 (UTC) — but would extend this to read: {{quote of the day | quote = Many of the issues that still trouble America have roots in the bitter experience of other times. But however long the journey, our destination is set: liberty and justice for all. | author = George W. Bush }} --> ; 2018 {{quote of the day | quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> --> Our [[identity]] as a [[nation]] — unlike many other nations — is not determined by [[geography]] or ethnicity, by soil or blood. Being an [[American]] involves the embrace of high [[ideals]] and civic [[responsibility]]. We become the heirs of [[Thomas Jefferson]] by [[accepting]] the ideal of [[human]] [[dignity]] found in the [[Declaration of Independence]]. We become the heirs of [[James Madison]] by [[understanding]] the [[genius]] and [[values]] of the [[U.S. Constitution]]. We become the heirs of [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]], by recognizing one another not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their [[character]]. This means that [[people]] of every [[race]], [[religion]], and ethnicity can be fully and equally American. It means that [[bigotry]] or white supremacy in any form is [[blasphemy]] against the American [[creed]]. And it means that the very identity of our nation depends on the passing of civic ideals to the next generation. ... It is the [[great]] [[advantage]] of [[free]] [[societies]] that we creatively [[adapt]] to [[challenges]], without the direction of some central [[authority]]. [[Self]]-correction is the secret [[strength]] of freedom. We are a nation with a history of resilience and a genius for renewal. Right now, one of our worst national problems is a deficit of [[confidence]]. But the cause of freedom justifies all our [[faith]] and [[effort]]. It still [[inspires]] men and women in the darkest corners of the [[world]], and it will inspire a rising generation. The American spirit does not say, “We shall manage,” or “We shall make the best of it.” It says, “We shall overcome.” And that is exactly what we will do, with the help of [[God]] and one another. | author = George W. Bush }} :* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:59, 5 July 2018 (UTC) --> ; 2019 {{quote of the day | quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> --> Down through the years, [[African Americans]] have upheld the [[ideals]] of [[America]] by exposing [[laws]] and [[habits]] contradicting those ideals. <!-- The [[rights]] of African Americans were not the [[gift]] of those in [[authority]]. Those rights were granted by the [[God|Author of Life]] and regained by the [[persistence]] and [[courage]] of African Americans, themselves.--> … At every turn, the [[struggle]] for [[equality]] was resisted by many of the powerful. And some have said we should not judge their [[failures]] by the standards of a later time, yet in every time there were [[men]] and [[women]] who clearly saw this [[sin]] and called it by [[name]]. We can fairly judge the past by the standards of President [[John Adams]], who called [[slavery]] "an [[evil]] of colossal magnitude". We can discern [[eternal]] standards in the [[deeds]] of [[William Wilberforce]] and [[John Quincy Adams]] and [[Harriet Beecher Stowe]] and [[Abraham Lincoln]]. These men and women, black and white, burned with a zeal for [[freedom]] and they left behind a different and better [[nation]]. Their [[moral]] vision caused Americans to examine our [[hearts]], to correct [[United States Constitution|our Constitution]] and to [[teach]] our [[children]] the [[dignity]] and equality of every person of every [[race]]. … My Nation's journey toward [[justice]] has not been easy, and it is not over. The racial [[bigotry]] fed by slavery did not end with slavery or with [[segregation]]. And many of the issues that still trouble America have roots in the bitter experience of other times. But however long the journey, our destination is set: [[liberty]] and justice for [[all]]. | author = George W. Bush }} :* proposed by [[User:Illegitimate Barrister|Illegitimate Barrister]]<!-- {{Quote of the day|quote=At every turn, the struggle for equality was resisted by many of the powerful. And some have said we should not judge their failures by the standards of a later time, yet in every time there were men and women who clearly saw this sin and called it by name. We can fairly judge the past by the standards of President John Adams, who called slavery 'an evil of colossal magnitude'. We can discern eternal standards in the deeds of William Wilberforce and John Quincy Adams and Harriet Beecher Stowe and Abraham Lincoln. These men and women, black and white, burned with a zeal for freedom and they left behind a different and better nation. Their moral vision caused Americans to examine our hearts, to correct our Constitution and to teach our children the dignity and equality of every person of every race.|author=George W. Bush}} *3. &ndash; <span style="font-family:'Georgia'">'''''[[User:Illegitimate Barrister|Illegitimate Barrister]]'''''</span>, 04:19, 24 February 2016 (UTC) * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:52, 5 July 2019 (UTC), but extended for context... --> ; 2020 {{quote of the day | quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> --> It is very [[important]] to generate a [[good]] [[attitude]], a good [[heart]], as much as possible. From this, [[happiness]] in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come. | author = Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama }} :* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 00:47, 6 July 2020 (UTC) <s>3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 01:33, 3 July 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.</s> * 2 [[User:Zarbon|Zarbon]] 05:00, 3 July 2009 (UTC) --> ; 2021 {{quote of the day | quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> --> I am [[optimistic]] that the ancient [[values]] that have sustained [[mankind]] are today reaffirming themselves to prepare us for a [[kinder]], [[happier]] twenty-first century. <br /> I [[pray]] for [[all]] of us, [[oppressor]] and [[friend]], that together we [[succeed]] in building a better [[world]] through [[human]] [[understanding]] and [[love]], and that in doing so we may reduce the [[pain]] and [[suffering]] of all [[Sentient beings (Buddhism)|sentient beings]]. | author = Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama }} :* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:56, 5 July 2021 (UTC) <s>3 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 11:44, 5 July 2015 (UTC)</s> --> ; 2022 {{quote of the day | quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> --> As to [[war]], I am and always was a great [[enemy]], at the same time a [[warrior]] the greater part of my [[life]], and were I young again, should still be a warrior while ever [[United States|this country]] should be invaded and I lived — a [[Defensive]] war I think a [[righteous]] war to Defend my life &amp; [[property]] &amp; that of my [[family]], in my own opinion, is right &amp; justifiable in the sight of [[God]].<br /> An [[offensive]] war, I believe to be [[wrong]] and would therefore have [[nothing]] to do with it, having no right to meddle with another man's property, his ox or his ass, his man servant or his maid servant or anything that is his. Neither does he have a right to meddle with anything that is mine, if he does I have a right to defend it by force. | author = Daniel Morgan }} :* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- {{quote of the day | quote = As to [[war]], I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life, and were I young again, should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived — a Defensive war I think a righteous war to Defend my life &amp; property &amp; that of my family, in my own opinion, is right &amp; justifiable in the sight of God.<br /> An offensive war, I believe to be wrong and would therefore have nothing to do with it, having no right to meddle with another man's property, his ox or his ass, his man servant or his maid servant or anything that is his. Neither does he have a right to meddle with anything that is mine, if he does I have a right to defend it by force. | author = Daniel Morgan }} * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:56, 5 July 2022 (UTC) <s> 3 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 19:27, 27 March 2015 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4; but perhaps trimmed to: :: As to [[war]], I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life, and were I young again, should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived … An offensive war, I believe to be wrong and would therefore have nothing to do with it, having no right to meddle with another man's property, his ox or his ass, his man servant or his maid servant or anything that is his.</s> --> ; 2023 {{quote of the day | quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> --> Within the [[body]] there are billions of different particles. Similarly, there are many different [[thoughts]] and a variety of states of [[mind]]. It is [[wise]] to take a close look into the [[world]] of your mind and to make the distinction between beneficial and [[harmful]] states of mind. Once you can [[recognize]] the [[value]] of [[good]] states of mind, you can increase or foster them. | author = Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama }} :* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 00:41, 6 July 2023 (UTC) // NOT: 3 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 11:44, 5 July 2015 (UTC) --> ; 2024 {{quote of the day | quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> -->[[United Kingdom|Our country]] has [[voted]] decisively for [[change]], for national renewal and a return of [[politics]] to [[public service]] … we can make a start today with the simple acknowledgement that public service is a [[privilege]] and that your [[government]] should treat every single person in this country with [[respect]]. If you voted [[w:Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] yesterday, we will carry the [[responsibility]] of your [[trust]] as we rebuild our country. <br /> But whether you voted Labour or not — in fact, especially if you did not — I say to you directly, my government will serve you. Politics can be a force for [[good]]. We will show that. | author = Keir Starmer }} :* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 22:24, 5 July 2024 (UTC); quote from his first speech as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. --> ; 2025 {{quote of the day | quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> -->[[America]] [[must]] maintain our [[moral]] [[clarity]]. I have often spoken to you about [[good]] and [[evil]]. This has made some uncomfortable. But good and evil are present in this [[world]], and between the two there can be no [[compromise]]. [[Murdering]] the [[innocent]] to advance an [[ideology]] is [[wrong]] every time, everywhere. [[Freeing]] [[people]] from [[oppression]] and [[despair]] is [[eternally]] [[Righteousness|right]]. This nation must continue to speak out for [[justice]] and [[truth]]. We must always be willing to act in their defense and to advance the cause of [[peace]]. | author = George W. Bush }} :* proposed by [[User:Illegitimate Barrister|Illegitimate Barrister]]<!-- {{quote of the day|quote=Maintain our moral clarity. I have often spoken to you about good and evil. This has made some uncomfortable. But good and evil are present in this world, and between the two there can be no compromise. Murdering the innocent to advance an ideology is wrong every time, everywhere. Freeing people from oppression and despair is eternally right.|author=[[George W. Bush]]}} *3. &ndash; <span style="font-family:'Georgia'">'''''[[User:Illegitimate Barrister|Illegitimate Barrister]]'''''</span>, 14:07, 22 September 2015 (UTC) * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 22:12, 5 July 2025 (UTC); but extended slightly for context. --> ; 2026 {{quote of the day | quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> -->[[All]] major [[religious]] [[traditions]] carry basically the same [[message]], that is [[love]], [[compassion]] and [[forgiveness]] … the [[important]] thing is they should be part of our daily [[lives]]. | author = Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama }} :* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 3 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 11:44, 5 July 2015 (UTC) --> ; 2027 : ''[[July 6|Rank or add further suggestions…]]'' ---- <noinclude> Ranking system: :4 : '''Excellent''' - should definitely be used. :3 : '''Very Good''' - strong desire to see it used. :2 : '''Good''' - some desire to see it used. :1 : '''Acceptable''' - but with no particular desire to see it used. :0 : '''Not acceptable''' - not appropriate for use as a quote of the day. ---- ---- == Suggestions == Quotas are bad for America. It's not the way America is all about. ~ [[George W. Bush]], born that day. * 3 ~ [[User:MosheZadka|MosheZadka]] [[User talk:MosheZadka|(Talk)]] 08:32, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC) * 1 ~ Too many topics around America. A bit bored. <small>—The preceding [[Wikipedia:Sign your posts on talk pages|unsigned]] comment was added by [[User:Aphaia|Aphaia]] ([[User talk:Aphaia|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Aphaia|contribs]]) 02:09, 5 July 2005 (UTC{{{3|}}})</small><!-- [Template:Unsigned2] --> * 0. [[User:Jeffq|Jeff Q]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Jeffq|(talk)]] 16:59, 4 July 2006 (UTC) Concur with Aphaia. * 1 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 19:27, 9 July 2007 (UTC) Would prefer something more remarkable by Bush, if he were to be quoted on his birthday. * 0 Strongly concur with Aphaia and Jeffq. [[User:Zarbon|Zarbon]] 05:03, 24 April 2008 (UTC) * 1 [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] 00:01, 6 July 2008 (UTC) ---- I may sink, but I'll be damned if I strike! ~ [[John Paul Jones]] * 3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] ([[User talk:Kalki|talk]] &middot; [[Special:Contributions/Kalki|contributions]]) 02:48, 30 June 2010 (UTC) ---- Where men of fine feeling are concerned there is seldom misunderstanding. ~ [[John Paul Jones]] * 3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] ([[User talk:Kalki|talk]] &middot; [[Special:Contributions/Kalki|contributions]]) 02:48, 30 June 2010 (UTC) ---- I know some in Washington would like us to start leaving Iraq now. To begin withdrawing before our commanders tell us we are ready would be dangerous for Iraq, for the region, and for the United States. It would mean surrendering the future of Iraq to al Qaeda. It would mean that we'd be risking mass killings on a horrific scale. It would mean we'd allow the terrorists to establish a safe haven in Iraq to replace the one they lost in Afghanistan. It would mean increasing the probability that American troops would have to return at some later date to confront an enemy that is even more dangerous. ~ [[George W. Bush]] * 2,5 because it came true. [[User:DanielTom|DanielTom]] ([[User talk:DanielTom|talk]]) 10:52, 4 March 2015 (UTC) #ThanksObama * 2 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 11:44, 5 July 2015 (UTC), The statement is certainly valid, and yet the ironical hypocrisies and stupidities innate in the general context of it being made are not easily apparent without very extensive commentary. The greatest enemy of all humanity is human stupidity which persists in [[absolutist]] forms of [[error]]. Some of the worst, most pervasive and pernicious forms of human stupidity are those forms of entrenched bigotry born of ignorance and confusion by which one person or group of persons declares other persons or groups of persons absolutely good or absolutely bad, and absolutist wars of absolutist enmities are so "justified" and so ''initiated'' and so fought, by many diverse parties thinking of themselves as absolutely good or entirely right, and others as absolutely bad and entirely wrong — and deserving of only contempt, and worthy only to be mercilessly punished or even exterminated — throughout the ages of human histories. Some people have enough wisdom, even in infancy to reject such pervasive forms of stupidity, and yet know that contending ably against the many forms of it which exists in others can be very dangerous and exhausting, and must be done wisely and with great grace. The wise seek to assert the ways of greatest grace and wise virtues, and know that this path is not always easy or simple or easily explained. <small>''[[Dharma|So]] [[Necessity|it]] [[Kenosis|goes]]''[[Eternity|…]]</small><big> [[Monism|⨀]][[Awareness|∴]][[Life|☥]][[Peace|☮]][[Love|♥]][[Understanding|∵]][[Om|ॐ]] [[Karma|…]]</big> ~ <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 11:44, 5 July 2015 (UTC) + tweak *: [[w:Straw man|Straw man]]. ~ [[User:DanielTom|DanielTom]] ([[User talk:DanielTom|talk]]) 12:09, 5 July 2015 (UTC) :: Certainly you seem to be setting up a straw man argument in apparently implying that I do. I simply state a few of my reasons for not ranking this very highly at this time, preferring quotes of the sage [[Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama]] and the able warrior [[Daniel Morgan]] to this person, who initiated a profoundly stupid act of aggression against a profoundly corrupt nation-state in profoundly corrupt and corruptive ways. That he afterward then makes the valid argument that one cannot easily withdraw from the mess created by mutually supportive forms of corruption and stupidity, without creating in many ways a fouler mess, shows he was cognizant of greater need of caution and reserve than he had when he initiated much of the most deadly and dangerous aspects of the mess. The seeds of ISIS/ISIL were sown by the destruction of the infrastructure if Iraq in the war of stupidities with stupidity which was stupidly initiated by this person against a nation on rather false and flimsy suppositions that it would be good for America and good for the world. '''I have no hatred of him as a human being, despite some of his more unfortunate stupidities, and yet I considered and still consider the invasion he initiated, on the whole, to have been a profoundly stupid, wasteful, act which endangered the world as a whole far more than it directly alleviated some of the problems caused by a brutally petty-minded and profoundly stupid and pernicious dictator.''' ~ <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 12:25, 5 July 2015 (UTC) + tweaks ---- {{quote of the day | quote = Reason well from the beginning and then there will never be any need to look back with confusion and doubt. | author = Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama }} * 3 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 11:44, 5 July 2015 (UTC) ---- {{quote of the day | quote = Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself. It is wrong to expect some final satisfaction to come from money or from a computer. | author = Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama }} * 3 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 11:44, 5 July 2015 (UTC) ---- {{quote of the day | quote = The time has come to educate people, to cease all quarrels in the name of religion, culture, countries, different political or economic systems. Fighting is useless. Suicide. | author = Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama }} * 3 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 11:44, 5 July 2015 (UTC) ---- {{quote of the day|quote=Freedom is not the possession of one race. We know with equal certainty that freedom is not the possession of one nation. This belief in the natural rights of man, this conviction that justice should reach wherever the sun passes, leads America into the world.|author=[[George W. Bush]]}} *3.25. &ndash; <span style="font-family:'Georgia'">'''''[[User:Illegitimate Barrister|Illegitimate Barrister]]'''''</span>, 13:47, 22 September 2015 (UTC) ---- {{Quote of the day|quote=To those of you who are graduating this afternoon with high honors, awards, and distinctions, I say, 'well done'. And as I like to tell the 'C' students: You, too, can be President.|author=George W. Bush}} * 3 [[User:DanielTom|DanielTom]] ([[User talk:DanielTom|talk]]) 22:41, 12 July 2016 (UTC) ---- {{Quote of the day|quote=Human beings have the power to continue to oppress other species forever, or until we make this planet unsuitable for living beings. Will our tyranny continue, proving that morality counts for nothing when it clashes with selfinterest, as the most cynical of poets and philosophers have always said? Or will we rise to the challenge and prove our capacity for genuine altruism by ending our ruthless exploitation of the species in our power, not because we are forced to do so by rebels or terrorists, but because we recognize that our position is morally indefensible? The way in which we answer this question depends on the way in which each one of us, individually, answers it.|author=Peter Singer}} * 3 [[User:DanielTom|DanielTom]] ([[User talk:DanielTom|talk]]) 14:30, 10 July 2017 (UTC) ---- <!-- interwiki start --> <!-- interwiki end --> </noinclude> cz39azaa9yq0j8v3e86rsw0tay0fe4a 0 26990 3961163 3881006 2026-07-05T16:32:28Z BD2412 3982 Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]], replaced: Walter M. Miller, Jr. → Walter M. Miller Jr. (9) using [[Project:AWB|AWB]] 3961163 wikitext text/x-wiki <div id="23" style="margin: 1em 0em; border: thin solid black; padding: 3px; background-color:#CFE5FF;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122); font: bold 14pt sans-serif;">[[Category:Days]][[w:January 23|January 23]]</div> <noinclude>'''Quotes of the day''' from previous years:</noinclude> ;2004 : All the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love. ~ [[Eleanor Farjeon]] :* selected by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] ; 2005 : So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, in spite of the fact that a few rare spirits know how to transmute it. ~ [[Bertrand Russell]] :* selected by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] ; 2006 : To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law — a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security. ~ [[Walter M. Miller Jr.]] (born 23 January 1923) :* selected by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] ; 2007 : Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. ~ [[William Pitt the Younger]] (anniversary of death) :* proposed by [[User:Tamino|Tamino]]<!-- *3 [[User:Tamino|Tamino]] 20:09, 17 January 2007 (UTC) A good quotation in itself, but perhaps a little too similar to the Franklin quotation from 17 January. * 3 [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] 05:40, 22 January 2007 (UTC) * 4 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 20:37, 22 January 2007 (UTC) Perhaps not a perfect expression of its point, but evocative of important truths. --> ; 2008 : Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us. To know men thoroughly, to judge events sanely is, therefore, a great step towards happiness. ~ [[Stendhal]] :* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] <!-- * 4 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 20:09, 22 January 2008 (UTC) <s>3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 20:37, 22 January 2007 (UTC)</s> * 4 [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] 21:05, 22 January 2007 (UTC) --> ; 2009 : One can acquire everything in solitude — except character. ~ [[Stendhal]] :* proposed by [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] <!-- One can acquire everything in solitude — except character. ~ [[Stendhal]] (born January 23, 1783) * 3 [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] 05:40, 22 January 2007 (UTC) * 3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 20:37, 22 January 2007 (UTC) * 4 because this is rather true. Character is something that you are born with, not learned from experience, nor trials, nor tribulations. Excellent. [[User:Zarbon|Zarbon]] 18:37, 22 April 2008 (UTC) : It is certainly a good statement, but it does not actually say that character is something one is "born with" — and certainly not in any state of perfection — rather it implies that it is primarily something one ''develops'', precisely through trials and tribulations and interaction with others. ~ [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 17:37, 21 January 2009 (UTC) --> ; 2010 : Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one. ~ [[Stendhal]] :* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] <!-- * 4 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 10:59, 7 January 2009 (UTC) <s>* 3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 20:37, 22 January 2007 (UTC)</s> * 3 [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] 21:05, 22 January 2007 (UTC) * 1 [[User:Zarbon|Zarbon]] 18:37, 22 April 2008 (UTC) --> ; 2011 : There is no such thing as natural law, the expression is nothing more than a silly anachronism … There is no such thing as right, except when there is a law to forbid a certain thing under pain of punishment. Before law existed, the only natural thing was the strength of the lion, or the need of a creature who was cold or hungry, to put it in one word, need. ~ [[Stendhal]] :* first proposed by [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] in a more abbreviated form of a different translation: "There is no such thing as "natural law": this expression is nothing but old nonsense. Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need."<!-- There is no such thing as "natural law": this expression is nothing but old nonsense. Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need. ~ [[Stendhal]] * 3 [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] 05:40, 22 January 2007 (UTC) * 4 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] ([[User talk:Kalki|talk]] &middot; [[Special:Contributions/Kalki|contributions]]) 00:01, 20 January 2011 (UTC) <s>3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 20:37, 22 January 2007 (UTC) with a wavering leans toward 4 or 2, because I cannot agree with some major interpretations or points that could be construed by the expression.</s> I have upgraded my ranking to a four for this year, but only for a slightly extended quote of a slightly different translation: ::There is no such thing as natural law, the expression is nothing more than a silly anachronism … There is no such thing as right, except when there is a law to forbid a certain thing under pain of punishment. Before law existed, the only natural thing was the strength of the lion, or the need of a creature who was cold or hungry, to put it in one word, need. * 1 [[User:Zarbon|Zarbon]] 18:37, 22 April 2008 (UTC) --> ; 2012 : ''O to be a [[dragon]], <br> a [[symbol]] of the [[power]] of [[Heaven]] — of silkworm <br> size or immense; at times invisible. <br> [[Happiness|Felicitous]] phenomenon!'' <br> ~ [[Marianne Moore]] ~ :* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] ([[w:Dragon (zodiac)|Chinese Year of the Dragon]] begins on this date in 2012.)<!-- * 4 <span style= "color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]]·[[User talk:Kalki|†]]·[[User:Kalki/index|⚓]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 03:29, 20 January 2012 (UTC) --> ; 2013 {{quote of the day | quote = I no longer find such [[pleasure]] in that preeminently [[good]] [[society]], of which I was once so fond. It seems to me that beneath a cloak of [[clever]] talk it proscribes all [[energy]], all [[Creativity|originality]]. If you are not a copy, [[people]] accuse you of being ill-mannered. And besides, good society usurps its privileges. It had in the past the privilege of [[judgment|judging]] what was proper, but now that it supposes itself to be attacked, it condemns not what is coarse and disagreeable without compensation, but what it thinks harmful to [[Bias|its interest]]. | author = Stendhal }} :* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] <!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 12:15, 21 January 2013 (UTC) <s>3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] ([[User talk:Kalki|talk]] &middot; [[Special:Contributions/Kalki|contributions]]) 23:59, 15 January 2011 (UTC) with a slight lean toward 4, but only provisionally so, relative to the others: I don't have extremely strong inclinations towards any of the quotes thus far gathered for this date.. ~ [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] ([[User talk:Kalki|talk]] &middot; [[Special:Contributions/Kalki|contributions]]) 23:59, 15 January 2011 (UTC) </s> --> ; 2014 {{quote of the day | quote = A [[cultural]] inheritance may be acquired between [[dusk]] and [[dawn]], and many have been so acquired. But the new "culture" was an inheritance of [[darkness]], wherein "[[simpleton]]" meant the same thing as "[[citizen]]" meant the same thing as "[[slave]]." The monks waited. It mattered not at [[all]] to them that the [[knowledge]] they saved was useless, that much of it was not really knowledge now… empty of content, its subject matter long since gone. Still, such knowledge had a [[symbolic]] structure that was peculiar to itself, and at least the symbol-interplay could be observed. To observe the way a knowledge-[[system]] is knit together is to [[learn]] at least a minimum knowledge-of-knowledge, until someday — someday, or some century — an [[Unity|Integrator]] would come, and things would be fitted together again. So [[time]] mattered not at all. The Memorabilia was there, and it was given to them by [[duty]] to preserve, and preserve it they would if the darkness in the world lasted ten more centuries, or even ten thousand years... | author = Walter M. Miller Jr. }} :* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] <!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 15:26, 20 January 2014 (UTC) <s>3 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 02:31, 16 January 2014 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4. </s> --> ; 2015 {{quote of the day | quote = Insofar as [[thought]] could be [[governed]] at all, it could only be commanded to follow what [[reason]] affirmed anyhow; command it otherwise, and it would not [[obey]]. | author = Walter M. Miller Jr. }} :* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 01:53, 22 January 2015 (UTC) <s>3 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 02:31, 16 January 2014 (UTC)</s> --> ; 2016 {{quote of the day | quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> --> I see but one [[rule]]: to be [[clear]]. If I am not clear, [[all]] my [[world]] crumbles to [[nothing]]. | author = Stendhal }} :* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:54, 22 January 2016 (UTC) <s>3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 20:37, 22 January 2007 (UTC)</s> * 3 [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] 21:05, 22 January 2007 (UTC) * 1 [[User:Zarbon|Zarbon]] 18:37, 22 April 2008 (UTC) --> ; 2017 {{quote of the day | quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> --> [[Ignorance]] is [[king]]. Many would not [[profit]] by his abdication. Many enrich themselves by means of his [[dark]] [[monarchy]]. They are his Court, and in his [[name]] they [[defraud]] and [[govern]], [[enrich]] themselves and perpetuate their [[power]]. Even [[literacy]] they [[fear]], for the [[written]] [[word]] is another channel of [[communication]] that might cause their [[enemies]] to become [[united]]. Their [[weapons]] are keen-honed, and they use them with [[skill]]. They will press the [[battle]] upon the [[world]] when their [[Conflict of interest|interests are threatened]], and the [[violence]] which follows will last until the structure of [[society]] as it [[now]] exists is leveled to rubble, and a new society emerges. I am sorry: But that is how I [[see]] it. | author = Walter M. Miller Jr. }} :* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:57, 22 January 2017 (UTC) <s> 3 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 02:31, 16 January 2014 (UTC)</s> --> ; 2018 {{quote of the day | quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> --> He had never [[seen]] a "Fallout," and he [[hoped]] he'd never see one. A consistent description of the [[monster]] had not survived, but Francis had heard the [[legends]]. … Brother Francis visualized a Fallout as half-salamander, because, according to tradition, the thing was [[born]] in [[Nuclear war|the Flame Deluge]], and as half-incubus who despoiled virgins in their [[sleep]], for, were not the monsters of the [[world]] still called "[[children]] of the Fallout"? That the [[demon]] was capable of inflicting all the woes which descended upon [[Book of Job|Job]] was recorded [[fact]], if not an article of [[creed]]. | author = Walter M. Miller Jr. }} :* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:58, 22 January 2018 (UTC) <s> 2 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 02:31, 16 January 2014 (UTC)</s> --> ; 2019 {{quote of the day | quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> --> We are finite [[creatures]]. Our [[lives]] are small and can only [[scientifically]] consider a small part of [[reality]]. What's common for us is just a sliver of what's available. We can only see so much of the [[electromagnetic]] [[spectrum]]. We can only delve so deep into extensions of [[space]]. [[Common sense]] applies to that which we can access. But common sense is just that. [[Common]]. If [[total]] [[sense]] is what we want, we should be [[prepared]] to [[accept]] that we shouldn't call [[infinity]] [[weird]] or [[strange]]. The results we've arrived at by accepting it are valid, true within the [[system]] we use to [[understand]], [[measure]], [[predict]] and [[order]] the [[universe]]. Perhaps the system still needs [[perfecting]], but at the [[end]] of day, [[history]] continues to show us that the universe isn't [[strange]]. We are. | author = [[Michael Stevens (educator)|Michael Stevens]] }} :* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 22:51, 22 January 2019 (UTC) <s> 3 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 00:35, 2 March 2018 (UTC) with a lean toward 4. </s> --> ; 2020 {{quote of the day | quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> --> Perhaps you and I were [[born]] too late to [[explore]] the [[world]] and too early in [[history]] to explore the [[stars]], but we were born at just [[Kairos|the right time]], which is pretty much ''[[all]] [[Eternity|times ever]]'' — to explore ''[[language]]'' — to explore what can be [[said]]. What ''should'' be said? What should we send out to [[space]]? [[w:The Library of Babel|What, that can be said]], will you be the first to say? | author = [[Michael Stevens (educator)|Michael Stevens]] }} :* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:11, 22 January 2020 (UTC) --> ; 2021 {{quote of the day | quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> --> The way I see it, it's a [[great]] thing to be the man who hit the most home runs, but it's a greater thing to be the man who did the most with the home runs he hit. So as long as there's a chance that maybe I can hammer out a little [[justice]] now and then, or a little [[opportunity]] here and there, I intend to do as I always have — keep swinging. | author = Hank Aaron }} :* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:44, 22 January 2021 (UTC) -->, in regard to his recent death. ; 2022 {{quote of the day | quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> --> [[Beauty]] is nothing other than the promise of [[happiness]]. | author = Stendhal }} :* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 00:52, 23 January 2022 (UTC) <s> 3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] ([[User talk:Kalki|talk]] &middot; [[Special:Contributions/Kalki|contributions]]) 23:58, 19 January 2011 (UTC) </s> --> ; 2023 {{quote of the day | quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> --> Encounters between [[strangers]] in the [[desert]], while rare, were occasions of mutual [[suspicion]], and masked by initial preparations on both sides for an incident that might prove either [[cordial]] or [[warlike]]. | author = Walter M. Miller Jr. }} :* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:58, 22 January 2023 (UTC) <s> 3 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 02:31, 16 January 2014 (UTC) </s> --> ; 2024 {{quote of the day | quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> -->[[Despise]] the glare of [[wealth]]. That [[people]] who pay greater [[respect]] to a wealthy [[villain]] than to an [[honest]], [[upright]] man in [[poverty]], almost [[deserve]] to be [[enslaved]]; they plainly show that wealth, however it may be acquired, is, in their esteem, to be preferred to [[virtue]]. | author = John Hancock }} :* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:57, 22 January 2024 (UTC) --> ;2025 {{quote of the day | quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> --> [[Objective]] [[evidence]] is the ultimate [[authority]]. Recorders may [[lie]], but [[Nature]] is incapable of it. | author = Walter M. Miller Jr. }} :* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:59, 22 January 2025 (UTC) --> ; 2026 {{quote of the day | quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> -->[[Europe]] is not to be saved by any single man. [[England]] has saved herself by her [[exertions]], and will, as I trust, save Europe by her [[example]]. | author = William Pitt the Younger }} :* proposed by [[User:Tamino|Tamino]]<!-- I return you many thanks for the honour you have done me; but Europe is not to be saved by any single man. England has saved herself by her exertions, and will, as I trust, save Europe by her example. ~ [[William Pitt the Younger]] (anniversary of death). This was Pitt's last speech in public. *4 [[User:Tamino|Tamino]] 20:09, 17 January 2007 (UTC) A classic, and in a way appropriate given that it was his last public speech. * 3 [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] 05:40, 22 January 2007 (UTC) * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:49, 22 January 2026 (UTC) 1 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] ([[User talk:Kalki|talk]] &middot; [[Special:Contributions/Kalki|contributions]]) 23:59, 15 January 2011 (UTC) <s>* 2 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 20:37, 22 January 2007 (UTC) /// Out of the context of his times and circumstances (responding to a toast to him as "Savior of Europe") this can (somewhat ironically) seem a bit [[w:Chauvinism|chauvinistic]], </s> but if this were to be used, I think it should begin at "Europe is not to be saved by any single man..." * 1 [[User:Zarbon|Zarbon]] 18:37, 22 April 2008 (UTC) --> ; 2027 : ''[[January 23|Rank or add further suggestions…]]'' ---- <noinclude> {{QOTD Ranking}} ---- ---- == Suggestions == <!-- Comment --> In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives. ~ [[Stendhal]] * 3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] ([[User talk:Kalki|talk]] &middot; [[Special:Contributions/Kalki|contributions]]) 23:58, 19 January 2011 (UTC) ---- Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all. ~ [[Stendhal]] * 3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] ([[User talk:Kalki|talk]] &middot; [[Special:Contributions/Kalki|contributions]]) 23:58, 19 January 2011 (UTC) ---- A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness. ~ [[Stendhal]] * 3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] ([[User talk:Kalki|talk]] &middot; [[Special:Contributions/Kalki|contributions]]) 23:58, 19 January 2011 (UTC) ---- I call "crystallization" that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events. ~ [[Stendhal]] * 3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] ([[User talk:Kalki|talk]] &middot; [[Special:Contributions/Kalki|contributions]]) 23:58, 19 January 2011 (UTC) ---- {{quote of the day | quote = Ignorance has been our king. Since the death of empire, he sits unchallenged on the throne of Man. His dynasty is age-old. His right to rule is now considered legitimate. Past sages have affirmed it. They did nothing to unseat him. <br /> Tomorrow, a new prince shall rule. Men of understanding, men of science shall stand behind his throne, and the universe will come to know his might. His name is Truth. His empire shall encompass the Earth. | author = Walter M. Miller Jr. }} * 3 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 02:31, 16 January 2014 (UTC) ---- {{quote of the day | quote = You don't ''have'' a [[soul]], Doctor. You ''are'' a soul. You ''have'' a body, temporarily. | author = Walter M. Miller Jr. }} * 3 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 02:31, 16 January 2014 (UTC) ---- {{quote of the day | quote = What is really beautiful must always be true. | author = Stendhal }} * 3 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 17:48, 23 January 2016 (UTC) ---- <!-- interwiki start --> <!-- interwiki end --> </noinclude> d9y55wz0wiu4rjqc2gszuuphj1hxrhd 0 27197 3961164 3882994 2026-07-05T16:32:32Z BD2412 3982 /* Suggestions */ Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]], replaced: David Jewett Waller, Sr. → David Jewett Waller Sr. using [[Project:AWB|AWB]] 3961164 wikitext text/x-wiki <div id="26" style="margin: 1em 0em; border: thin solid black; padding: 3px; background-color:#CFE5FF;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122); font: bold 14pt sans-serif;">[[Category:Days]][[w:January 26|January 26]]</div> <noinclude>'''Quotes of the day''' from previous years:</noinclude> ;2004 : In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. ~ [[Albert Camus]] :* selected by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] ; 2005 : Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the world. ~ [[Archimedes]] :* selected by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] ; 2006 : I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes... But once war is forced upon us, there is no other alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. ~ [[Douglas MacArthur]] (born 26 January 1880) :* selected by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] ; 2007 : ''The only gold is love,<br>A coin that we have minted from the light<br>Of others who have cared for us on Earth<br>And who have deposited in us the power<br>That nerves our nerves to seize the burning stars.''<br> ~ [[Philip José Farmer]] ~ :* selected by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] ; 2008 : ''Prometheus, I have no Titan's might,<br>Yet I, too, must each dusk renew my heart,<br>For daytime's vulture talons tear apart<br>The tender alcoves built by love at night.''<br> ~ [[Philip José Farmer]] ~ :* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 4 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 00:56, 25 January 2008 (UTC) --> ; 2009 : I do believe that man is a rope between animal and superman. But the superman I'm thinking of isn't [[Friedrich Nietzsche|Nietzsche]]'s. The real superhuman, man or woman, is the person who's rid himself of all prejudices, neuroses, and psychoses, who realizes his full potential as a human being, who acts naturally on the basis of gentleness, compassion, and love, who thinks for himself and refuses to follow the herd. That's the genuine dyed-in-the-wool superman. ~ [[Philip José Farmer]] :* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] <!-- The real superhuman, man or woman, is the person who's rid himself of all prejudices, neuroses, and psychoses, who realizes his full potential as a human being, who acts naturally on the basis of gentleness, compassion, and love, who thinks for himself and refuses to follow the herd. That's the genuine dyed-in-the-wool superman. ~ [[Philip José Farmer]] * 4 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 23:49, 20 January 2009 (UTC) <s>* 3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 00:56, 25 January 2008 (UTC)</s> I would also prefer to now extend this slightly to begin with the lines "I do believe that man is a rope between animal and superman. But the superman I'm thinking of isn't [[Friedrich Nietzsche|Nietzsche]]'s." * 1 [[User:Zarbon|Zarbon]] 19:06, 22 April 2008 (UTC) * 3 [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] 23:02, 25 January 2009 (UTC) --> ; 2010 : If you don't have enemies, you don't have character. ~ [[Paul Newman]] ::* proposed by [[User:Zarbon|Zarbon]] <!-- * 3 [[User:Zarbon|Zarbon]] 15:27, 27 September 2008 (UTC) ** The rest of these Newman quotes can be moved to September 26, his date of death, after we see which we want to use for his recent death. - [[User:Zarbon|Zarbon]] 15:35, 27 September 2008 (UTC) * 3. I would recommend moving any unused quotes to his DOB, January 26. - [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] 17:29, 27 September 2008 (UTC) * 3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 22:52, 27 September 2008 (UTC), but would alter this to the published form which is sourced on the page: :: A man with no enemies is a man with no character. --> ; 2011 : <p>''Yes, we hope to seed a new, rich earth. <br> We hope to breed a race of men whose power <br> Dwells in hearts as open as all Space <br> Itself, who ask for nothing but the light <br> That rinses the heart of hate so that the stars <br> Above will be below when man has Love.''</p><p> ~ [[Philip José Farmer]] ~</p> :* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] <!-- ''We hope to breed a race of men whose power<br>Dwells in hearts as open as all Space<br>Itself, who ask for nothing but the light<br>That rinses the heart of hate so that the stars<br>Above will be below when man has Love.<br> ~ [[Philip José Farmer]] ~ * 4 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] ([[User talk:Kalki|talk]] &middot; [[Special:Contributions/Kalki|contributions]]) 23:00, 21 January 2011 (UTC) <s>* 3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 00:56, 25 January 2008 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4</s>, but would now begin it one line earlier with: ::Yes, we hope to seed a new, rich earth. * 1 [[User:Zarbon|Zarbon]] 19:06, 22 April 2008 (UTC) * 2 [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] 23:02, 25 January 2009 (UTC) --> ; 2012 : Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of [[peace]], I would gladly yield every [[honor]] which has been accorded me in [[war]]. ~ [[Douglas MacArthur]] :* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 4 <span style= "color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]]·[[User talk:Kalki|†]]·[[User:Kalki/index|⚓]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 03:54, 23 January 2012 (UTC) <s> 3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] ([[User talk:Kalki|talk]] &middot; [[Special:Contributions/Kalki|contributions]]) 21:02, 19 January 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.</s> --> ; 2013 {{quote of the day | quote = ''[[Beauty]] in this [[Steel|Iron]] [[Age]] must turn<br>From fluid living [[rainbow]] shapes to torn<br>And sootened fragments, ashes in an urn<br>On whose gray surface [[w:runes|runes]] are traced by a [[w:Norn|Norn]]<br>Who [[Hope|hopes]] to wake the [[Future]] to arise<br>In [[Phoenix]]-fashion, and to shine with rays<br>To blast the sight of modern [[men]] whose dyes<br>Of [[selfishness]] and lust have stained our [[Day|days]].'' | author = Philip José Farmer }} :* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 13:23, 21 January 2013 (UTC)<s>3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] ([[User talk:Kalki|talk]] &middot; [[Special:Contributions/Kalki|contributions]]) 21:02, 19 January 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.</s> --> ; 2014 {{quote of the day | quote = Let's give this [[entity]] which you call [[soul]] another [[name]]. Soul has too many incorrect [[meanings]] for [[humans]], too many verbal reverberations, too many contrary [[definitions]]. <br /> Speak the [[word]] soul, and unbelievers will automatically become deaf to what follows. Those who [[believe]] in souls will always [[hear]] you through the [[mental]] constructs that they formed on [[Earth]]. Let us call this nonmatter twin the... ah... '''''[[w:Egyptian soul|ka]]'''''…<!-- <br />[[File:Maya-Ka.png|11px]] --> | author = Philip José Farmer }} :* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] <!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:42, 25 January 2014 (UTC) <s>3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] ([[User talk:Kalki|talk]] &middot; [[Special:Contributions/Kalki|contributions]]) 21:02, 19 January 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4. </s> --> ; 2015 {{quote of the day | quote = [[India]] was the motherland of our race, and [[Sanskrit]] the [[mother]] of [[Europe]]'s languages: she was the mother of our [[philosophy]]; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our [[mathematics]]; mother, through the [[Buddha]], of the [[ideals]] embodied in [[Christianity]]; mother, through the village [[community]], of [[self]]-[[government]] and [[democracy]]. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us [[all]]. | author = Will Durant }} :* proposed by [[User:Nvvchar|Nvvchar]], for the [[w:Republic Day of India|Republic Day of India]] on 26 January 2015<!-- *4 For the [[w:Republic Day of India|]] on 26 January 2015. --[[User:Nvvchar|Nvvchar]] ([[User talk:Nvvchar|talk]]) 03:52, 4 January 2015 (UTC) * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 18:53, 24 January 2015 (UTC) --> ; 2016 {{quote of the day | quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> --> Everybody should [[fear]] only one [[person]], and that person should be [[himself]]. | author = Philip José Farmer }} :* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:15, 25 January 2016 (UTC) <s>3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] ([[User talk:Kalki|talk]] &middot; [[Special:Contributions/Kalki|contributions]]) 21:02, 19 January 2010 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.</s> --> ; 2017 {{quote of the day | quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> --> [[Serenity|Whatever it is, it’s OK]] because it’s what it is. Don’t be looking for [[perfection]]. Don’t be [[Intolerance|short-tempered]] with [[yourself]]. And you’ll be a whole lot [[Kindness|nicer to be around]] with [[Humanity|everyone else]]. | author = Mary Tyler Moore }} :* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 00:01, 26 January 2017 (UTC) --> in regard to her recent death. ; 2018 {{quote of the day | quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> --> Men since the [[beginning]] of [[time]] have sought [[peace]]. Various [[methods]] through the ages have been attempted to devise an international process to prevent or settle disputes between [[nations]]. From the very start workable methods were found in so far as individual [[citizens]] were concerned, but the mechanics of an instrumentality of larger international scope have never been successful. [[Military]] alliances, [[balances]] of [[power]], [[League of Nations|Leagues of Nations]], all in turn failed, leaving the only path to be by way of the crucible of [[war]]. The utter destructiveness of war now blocks out this alternative. We have had our last chance. If we will not devise some [[greater]] and more equitable [[system]], [[Armageddon]] will be at our [[door]]. | author = Douglas MacArthur }} :* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 19:52, 25 January 2018 (UTC) <s>3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] ([[User talk:Kalki|talk]] &middot; [[Special:Contributions/Kalki|contributions]]) 21:02, 19 January 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.</s> --> ; 2019 {{quote of the day | quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> --> I shall set my course to the [[end]] that no man need [[fear]] to [[speak]] the [[truth]]. I could not do less, for the [[opportunities]] for [[service]] my [[country]] has given me and the [[honors]] it has conferred upon me have imposed an [[obligation]] which is not discharged by the termination of public service. <br /> Much that I have seen since my return to my native land after an absence of many years has filled me with immeasurable [[satisfaction]] and [[pride]]. Our [[material]] [[progress]] has been little short of [[phenomenal]]. <br /> It has established an eminence in material [[strength]] so far in advance of any other [[nation]] or combination of nations that [[talk]] of imminent [[threat]] to our [[national security]] through the application of external [[force]] is pure [[nonsense]]. <br /> It is not of any external threat that I [[concern]] myself but rather of insidious forces working from within which have already so drastically [[altered]] the [[character]] of our [[free]] [[institutions]] — those institutions which formerly we hailed as something beyond question or [[challenge]] — those institutions we [[proudly]] called the [[American way]] of [[life]]. | author = Douglas MacArthur }} :* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is from the insidious forces working from within which have already so drastically altered the character of our free institutions — those institutions we proudly called the American way of life. ~ [[Douglas MacArthur]] * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:58, 25 January 2019 (UTC) <s>3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] ([[User talk:Kalki|talk]] &middot; [[Special:Contributions/Kalki|contributions]]) 21:02, 19 January 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.</s> — but used a more extended form of an earlier variant, from a speech of the previous year... --> ; 2020 {{quote of the day | quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> --> I'd like to be [[remembered]] as a guy who tried — tried to be part of his [[times]], tried to [[help]] [[people]] [[communicate]] with one another, tried to find some [[decency]] in his own [[life]], tried to extend himself as a [[human]] being. Someone who isn't [[complacent]], who doesn't cop out. | author = Paul Newman }} :* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:38, 25 January 2020 (UTC) --> ; 2021 {{quote of the day | quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> --> [[Today]], [[freedom]] is on the offensive, [[democracy]] is on the march. | author = Douglas MacArthur }} :* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:57, 25 January 2021 (UTC) <s>3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] ([[User talk:Kalki|talk]] &middot; [[Special:Contributions/Kalki|contributions]]) 21:02, 19 January 2010 (UTC)</s> --> ; 2022 {{quote of the day | quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> --> Twenty-five years ago I couldn't walk down the street without being [[recognized]]. Now I can put a cap on, walk anywhere and no one pays me any attention. They don't ask me about my [[movies]] and they don't ask me about my salad dressing because they don't know who I am. Am I [[happy]] about this? You bet. | author = Paul Newman }} * proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 00:40, 26 January 2022 (UTC) <s> * 3 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:38, 25 January 2020 (UTC) </s> --> ; 2023 {{quote of the day | quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> --> [[2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine|Russia’s invasion]] of [[Ukraine]] has increased the risk of [[nuclear weapons]] use, raised the specter of biological and chemical weapons use, hamstrung the [[world]]’s response to [[climate change]], and hampered international efforts to deal with other global concerns. The invasion and annexation of Ukrainian territory have also violated international norms in ways that may embolden others to take actions that challenge previous [[understandings]] and threaten stability. | author = Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists }} :* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:54, 25 January 2023 (UTC) -->; recent remarks on current events. ; 2024 {{quote of the day | quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> --> This is a [[political]] issue and the concept that a person who has a lot [[Charity|holds his hand out to someone who has less]], or someone who isn't hurting holds his hand out to someone who is, is simply a [[human]] trait that has nothing to do with celebrity. I am confounded at the [[stinginess]] of some institutions and some [[people]]. I'm bewildered by it. You can only put away so much stuff in your closet. In 1987, the average CEO against someone who was working in his factory was 70 times. It's now 410 times. … I don't think that there's anything exceptional or noble in being [[philanthropic]]. It's [[Misanthropy|the other attitude]] that confuses me. | author = Paul Newman }} :* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- {{quote of the day | quote = I am confounded at the stinginess of some institutions and some people. I'm bewildered by it. You can only put away so much stuff in your closet. In 1987, the average CEO against someone who was working in his factory was 70 times. It's now 410 times. | author = Paul Newman }} * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:19, 25 January 2024 (UTC) <s>3 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 00:22, 26 January 2021 (UTC)</s> — but extended a bit for context. --> ; 2025 {{quote of the day | quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> -->Being on [[Richard Nixon|President Nixon]]'s [[w:Nixon's Enemies List|enemies list]] was the highest single [[honor]] I've ever received.<!-- Who knows who's listening to me now and what government list I'm on? --> | author = Paul Newman }} :* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:32, 25 January 2025 (UTC) <s>3 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 00:22, 26 January 2021 (UTC) </s> --> ; 2026 {{quote of the day | quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> -->It is part of the general [[pattern]] of misguided [[policy]] that our country is now geared to an [[arms]] [[economy]] which was bred in an artificially induced [[psychosis]] of [[war]] [[hysteria]] and nurtured upon an incessant [[propaganda]] of [[fear]]. While such an economy may produce a sense of seeming [[prosperity]] for the [[moment]], it rests on an [[illusionary]] foundation of complete unreliability and renders among our [[political]] [[leaders]] almost a greater fear of [[peace]] than is their fear of war. | author = Douglas MacArthur }} :* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] ([[User talk:Kalki|talk]] &middot; [[Special:Contributions/Kalki|contributions]]) 21:02, 19 January 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4. --> ; 2027 : ''[[January 26|Rank or add further suggestions…]]'' ---- <noinclude> ---- '''Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD:''' * In war, you win or lose, live or die — and the difference is just an eyelash. ~ [[Douglas MacArthur]] ** Used [[24 April]] [[2004]], selected by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] * ''Duty, Honor, Country'' — those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn. ~ [[Douglas MacArthur]] ** Used [[12 May]] [[2006]], proposed by [[User:UDScott|UDScott]] ---- {{QOTD Ranking}} ---- ---- == Suggestions == Money won is twice as sweet as money earned. ~ [[Paul Newman]] * 2 [[User:Zarbon|Zarbon]] 15:27, 27 September 2008 (UTC) *<s> 0 This quote isn't on his page. - [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] 17:29, 27 September 2008 (UTC)</s> ** 2 [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] 23:02, 25 January 2009 (UTC) ** The quote has now been sourced - [[User:Zarbon|Zarbon]] 05:13, 28 September 2008 (UTC) * 1 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 23:49, 20 January 2009 (UTC) ---- Just when things look darkest, they go black. ~ [[Paul Newman]] * 3 [[User:Zarbon|Zarbon]] 15:27, 27 September 2008 (UTC) *<s> 0 This quote isn't on his page. - [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] 17:29, 27 September 2008 (UTC)</s> ** 2 [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] 23:02, 25 January 2009 (UTC) ** The quote has now been sourced. - [[User:Zarbon|Zarbon]] 05:13, 28 September 2008 (UTC) * 1 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 23:49, 20 January 2009 (UTC) ---- People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked. ~ [[Paul Newman]] * 2 [[User:Zarbon|Zarbon]] 15:27, 27 September 2008 (UTC) *<s> 0 This quote isn't on his page. - [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] 17:29, 27 September 2008 (UTC)</s> ** 2 [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] 23:02, 25 January 2009 (UTC) ** The quote has now been sourced. - [[User:Zarbon|Zarbon]] 05:13, 28 September 2008 (UTC) * 1 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 23:49, 20 January 2009 (UTC) ---- Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it. ~ [[Paul Newman]] * 2 [[User:Zarbon|Zarbon]] 15:29, 27 September 2008 (UTC) * 3 [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] 17:29, 27 September 2008 (UTC) * 2 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 22:52, 27 September 2008 (UTC) ----- We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war. ~ [[Douglas MacArthur]] * 3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] ([[User talk:Kalki|talk]] &middot; [[Special:Contributions/Kalki|contributions]]) 21:02, 19 January 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4. ---- I have returned. ~ [[Douglas MacArthur]] * 3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] ([[User talk:Kalki|talk]] &middot; [[Special:Contributions/Kalki|contributions]]) 21:02, 19 January 2010 (UTC) ---- Resurrection, like politics, makes strange bedfellows. ~ [[Philip José Farmer]] * 3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] ([[User talk:Kalki|talk]] &middot; [[Special:Contributions/Kalki|contributions]]) 21:02, 19 January 2010 (UTC) ---- The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest. ~ [[Philip José Farmer]] * 3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] ([[User talk:Kalki|talk]] &middot; [[Special:Contributions/Kalki|contributions]]) 21:02, 19 January 2010 (UTC) ---- Drowned idols swirl like seeds in chaos' wine. ~ [[Philip José Farmer]] * 3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] ([[User talk:Kalki|talk]] &middot; [[Special:Contributions/Kalki|contributions]]) 21:02, 19 January 2010 (UTC) ---- ''Let those who think the soul is shallow rail,<br>They must be warned before they dare to leap<br>They'll plunge into the twilight depths where sweep<br>In ceaseless thirst great teeth too swift to fail.'' <br> ~ [[Philip José Farmer]] * 3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] ([[User talk:Kalki|talk]] &middot; [[Special:Contributions/Kalki|contributions]]) 21:02, 19 January 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4. ---- How strange and unforeseeable! The world had been saved, not by great rulers and statesmen, not by mystics and saints and prophets and messiahs, not by any of the holy scriptures, but by an introverted eccentric writer of mathematical texts and children's books and by the child who'd inspired him.<br> The little girl become a woman, dream-ridden [[w:Alice Liddell|Alice]], had inspired the nonsense not really nonsense, and this in circuitous and spiralling fashion had inspired her to do what all others had failed to do, to save eighteen billion souls and the world. ~ [[Philip José Farmer]] * 3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] ([[User talk:Kalki|talk]] &middot; [[Special:Contributions/Kalki|contributions]]) 21:02, 19 January 2010 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4. ---- India is the guru of the nations, the physician of the human soul in its profounder maladies; she is destined once more to remould the life of the world and restore the peace of the human spirit. But Swaraj is the necessary condition of her work and before she can do the work , she must fulfil the condition. * 4 On the [[w:Republic Day of India|Republic Day of India]]. --[[User:Nvvchar|Nvvchar]] ([[User talk:Nvvchar|talk]]) 02:21, 21 January 2014 (UTC) * 2 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:42, 25 January 2014 (UTC) but with a strong lean toward 3,or eventually even 4, for this quote of [[Sri Aurobindo]] ---- A man is only a mature boy. The theater widens as he ascends. ~ [[David Jewett Waller Sr.]] * '''Comment from proposer: ''' January 26, 2015 is Waller's 200th birthday. --[[User:Jakec|Jakob]] ([[user talk:Jakec|talk]]) 01:08, 24 May 2014 (UTC) * 3, Waller is not very famous these days, but it's a nice quote and on a highly relevant day. --[[User:Jakec|Jakob]] ([[user talk:Jakec|talk]]) 01:19, 24 May 2014 (UTC) ---- We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us. ~ [[Jean-Paul_Sartre]] * {{unsigned|Balaji.md au}} [https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=January_26&diff=prev&oldid=2074555 (25 January 2016)] ---- {{quote of the day | quote = I've been accused of being aloof. I'm not. I'm just wary. | author = Paul Newman }} * 3 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:38, 25 January 2020 (UTC) ---- {{quote of the day | quote = The first time I remember women reacting to me was when we were filming [[w:Hud (1963 film)|Hud]] in Texas. Women were literally trying to climb through the transoms at the motel where I stayed. At first, it's flattering to the ego. At first. Then you realize that they're mixing me up with the roles I play — characters created by writers who have nothing to do with who I am. | author = Paul Newman }} * 3 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 00:22, 26 January 2021 (UTC) ---- {{quote of the day | quote = Study your craft and know who you are and what's special about you. Find out what everyone does on a film set, ask questions and listen. Make sure you live life, which means don't do things where you court celebrity, and give something positive back to our society. | author = Paul Newman }} * 3 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 00:22, 26 January 2021 (UTC) ---- {{quote of the day | quote = To that extent that you can sustain and maintain that childlike part of your personality is probably the best part of acting. | author = Paul Newman }} * 3 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 00:22, 26 January 2021 (UTC) ---- <!-- interwiki start --> ---- <!-- interwiki end --> </noinclude> n9yw97nudycr7tnqfhrkr72mactlrei 0 27411 3961297 3960785 2026-07-05T21:44:17Z ~2026-38490-98 3347784 /* America: Why I Love Her [5.10] */ Fixed typos 3961297 wikitext text/x-wiki {{italic title}} '''''[[w:Squidbillies|Squidbillies]]''''' (2005–2021) is an American adult animated television series created by Jim Fortier and Dave Willis for Adult Swim. == Season 1 == ===This Show Is Called Squidbillies [1.1]=== :'''Narrator''': That large building over there is Dan Halen Sheetrock. They specialize in sheetrock, sheetrock mud, sheetrock screws, pharmaceuticals, petroleum, global mass media, third-world covert military operations, and... :'''TV Announcer''': ...the Baby Hammock! ===Take This Job and Love It [1.2]=== :'''Early''': I do apprecinate the generous offer, but knifery is the tool of the idiot. I listen to my gut, and my gut tells me that this ain't a fit, but my heart says this could work and gut's a damn moron; so they get to carryin' on, and then my brain chimes in and sayin' I got to try my hand at the fast sex-paced world of adult literature. <hr width=50%/> :'''Dan Halen''': So under experience you've listed here, on your hat-shaped resume, that you can: skin a buck, run a trout-line and that all your rowdy friends- :'''Early''': Are comin' over tonight, yes sir. :'''Dan Halen''': Early, you're the most impressive squid I've interviewed for this position. Let's talk briefly about your work ethic. :'''Early''': Well I don't think ethnics do no work. I mean, that's they problem, really. If you ain't like me, go hang from a damn tree. :'''Dan Halen''': Overt racial prejudice. Impressive, Early. <hr width=50%/> :'''Early''': What I gotta do? :'''Dan Halen''': Well, you're my boss, and as CEO, you'll have certain responsibilities like showing up...and leaving...and accepting liability for...certain class action [[lawsuit]]s that may, or may not, and in fact, currently are being levied against new products, such as... :'''TV Announcer''': The Pocket Surgeon! Just scrape the rust from the collapsible tumor scoop and... :''(Dan stops the commercial)'' :'''Dan Halen''': Look, you won't have to know any of this stuff. The point is people are dumb, not like you. :'''Early''': Is my mind goin on me or am I watching you jibber jabber like some sort of jibberty box. Jibber Jabber on! Jibber Jabber on! :'''Dan Halen''': Oh, I'm sorry. I'm just a brash intern. It won't happen again...sir. :'''Early''': Well, damn. Now I feel bad. Tell you what, take the day off. Workin' with me, fire 'n ice. I gotta warn ye! Fire 'n ice. ===School Days, Fool Days [1.3]=== :'''Early''': Today we's learnin' about rawks. They's all kinds of rawks. These [picks up rock] is rawks which you throw. These here [throws rock at Rusty] is rawks that you get hit with. And this, [pulls out Rusty's tooth] is a tooth. Now time for attendence. Rusty. :''[silence]'' :'''Early''': Rusty. :''[silence]'' :'''Early''': ''[grabs Rusty]'' Boy, do you wanna pass this class or what? :'''Rusty''': Yes I do Daddy I'd like that very much. :'''Early''': Then when I say Rusty, you say here. Rusty. :'''Rusty''': ... Rusty. :'''Early''': Ok. On to history. What just happened? :'''Rusty''': ... I dunno. :'''Early''': Hell I dunno either. Must be a repossessed memory. Damn you party liquor! ''[looks at liquor, which is actually a can of paint thinner, in contempt and starts to drink]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Early''': Today we's going on a field trip. This here's a field. And you's goin' take a trip! :'''Rusty''': Daddy I din know we had well. :'''Early''': We don't. ''[Throws Rusty into a well. Rusty screams]'' If ya get out ya pass. <hr width=50%/> :[Rusty enters covered in sewage] :'''Rusty''': Did I pass? :'''Early''': Pass what? :'''Rusty''': The field trip! :'''Early''': ............. Nope. Now clean yourself up you're going to a prom. <hr width=50%/> :''[at a dance in Early's house, Lil is dancing with Rusty]'' :'''Granny''': Oh. Do you mind if I cut between you lovely couple? :'''Lil''': Oh, I believe this young man is taken. :'''Granny''': Oh, I just got sassed by a whore. :'''Lil''': ''[takes out knife]'' Back off, bitch he is mine! :'''Granny''': ''[takes out knife]'' Yeah, let's see what whore moves you got. :''[They start having a fight. They then start making out]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Rusty''': Ain't nothin' gonna stop me now but my innate inabilitry to progress conganacious thunk. :'''Early''': Now where's that money check? Come to your daddy, come on! :'''Sheriff''': Oh hell, Early, I gave that to Granny. :'''Early''': What the hell? :'''Sheriff''': Well, I mean, she said she was the principal. :'''Early''': She was the damn tennis coach! What kind of damn- ''[The three are run over by a passing train]'' ===Chalky Trouble [1.4]=== :'''Early''': Nope, I don't need no internet. No sir. Not in my life. :'''Rusty''': What's that, daddy? :'''Early''': Rusty, what do you think of white people? :'''Rusty''': Well, I... I reckon they OK. I'll like 'em ol' Doobie Brothers. :'''Early''': ''[To Granny]'' He ain't ready. :'''Granny''': That's not rightly fair, Early. We all of us love 'em Doobie Brothers. :'''Early''': Yeah, I reckon you right. Damn them Doobies and they ''Chinese Grove''! :'''Granny''': Russell, you ready for the special night tonight? :'''Rusty''': What we gonna do? Go down Atlanta, whip our shirts off and start a bunch of bullmess? :'''Early''': Nope ''[spits]''... funner than that. <hr width=50%/> :'''Granny''': Give us the strength to cleanse the earth of the milk/chalk scourge, so's to keep 'em away from me. :'''Early''': Dump 'em on an island! Blow up the island! ''(Shoots his gun in the sky)'' Whoo! :'''Granny''': Look ye upon this cash money, a symbol of the whites' power, how they jingulate their pockets full of metal-y money. :''(Early pulls a water jug full of coins)'' :'''Early''': Burn all the...metal-ly money. :'''Granny''': Burn it now! :''(Early tosses the jug in the fire)'' :'''Early''': Whoo! Alright now, Granny, burn your money. :'''Granny''': No thank you (replaces money under robe)... and these skis, tools of their wicked recreational activity. :'''Early''': Chalk-man a' skiing on his white snow in his tightie whites, just like the white wing dove sing a song about what they singin'! :'''Granny''': Whoo, baby, whoo, baby, whoo. :'''Rusty''': Burn the damn skis! :'''Early''': At a boy Rusty, burn them sum-bitches, embrace the hatred! :'''Rusty''': ...and they live in houses, don't they daddy? :''[Early stares at Rusty and contemplates]'' :'''Early''': Burn the damn house! :'''Lil''': ''(Sitting inside the burning house)'' Huh... I guess white people do live in houses. :'''Rusty''': Hot damn! What about these trees over here daddy? :'''Early''': Hmm? What about these trees granny? :'''Granny''': No, the trees are fine. :''[Early stares at Rusty and contemplates]'' :'''Early''': Burn the damn trees! :'''Granny''': Burn 'em! <hr width=50%/> :''(A figure in a pure white robe emerges from the woods)'' :'''Granny''': Look everyone, it's the creature from the prophecy! :'''Sheriff''': Nah it's just me. Help me Oobi Wan, you're my only hope. ''(Picks up Early and kisses him)'' For luck. Remember that? Get it? ''Star Wars''? ''(All stare at the Sheriff)'' Ain't this a Sci-Fi convention? :'''Early''': Enter the circle of fire and answer the inquisitation :'''Granny''': Answer the inquisitation! :'''Early''': Tell me sheriff, what do you, eh, what do you think of white people? :'''Sheriff''': Eh they're all right I guess. I mean I like 'em Doobie Brothers. :'''Early''': Doobies aside! Doobies has been disquackified, alright? :'''Sheriff''': Actually Early I really don't mind whites so much. I mean some of my best friends are white. Like me, I'm white! :'''Early''': You what to the what now! :'''Sheriff''': Did I mention to you that boys. Hey look... See, white as a Vidalia onion and twice as sweet. :'''Granny''': Oh no! :'''Early''': Ohhh denial. Denial!! I have done been deceptified by a salesman! :'''Granny''': Burn the sheriff! :''(Rusty sets fire to the tip of the Sheriff's shoe; the Sheriff stomps it out)'' :'''Sheriff''': Hey, hey, hey. Woah, woah. Is this what this is all about, a hate white rally? :'''Early''': Well it don't have to be just whites. I mean we're all inclusive here... except for those damn whites. :'''Sheriff''': Why do you squids hate whites so badly? :'''Early''': Typical. Whitey needs an explanation for every damn thing. <hr width=50%/> :''(After ordering Rusty to set fire to the house earlier in the episode)'' :'''Early''': What happened to the damn house? :'''Rusty''': That there is a symbol of the evil white chalky man daddy. :'''Early''': It's a symbol of where I keep my shit, son! <hr width=50%/> :'''Granny''': I'll tell you something and I'll say it right now with my mouth and it needs to be listended: Whites is too reflective, with their sheeny skin, beating sunlight into my eyes. :'''Early''': Can't tell them apart. Looking like a bunch of lightbulbs with shoes on, all be-boppin' around all over the place. :'''Granny''': Except for you sheriff, you one of the good'uns... :'''Early''': Oh yeah, yeah, you one of the good ones. :'''Sheriff''': Thank you ma'm. :'''Granny''': [Whispers] 'Cause you got a gun. <hr width=50%/> :'''Early''': Now sheriff, unless you come up here to sex-atize, hump-ify or bang-ulate my grandma, then I suggest you turn your purty little whitey wagon around and get on back to chalky town. :'''Sheriff''': I will Early, but before I go I'm going to tell you where society would be without the white man. Eli Whitney, the inventor of the cotton gin, a white man. How about Crawford Long? He discovered Ether, when he wasn't busy being white. And you know that sphinx and the ancient pyramids of Egypt? Who do you think built those Rusty? :'''Rusty''': I don't know... chalk-casians? :'''Sheriff''': Actually no but they were in charge probably. Any fans of basketball out there? Here's a name, Larry Bird, the inventor of the slam dunk. That's a signature white move. Look it up. Rusty, you know the rap music? :'''Rusty''': I know the NWA. ''(sings)'' The police going straight from the underground. They don't like a brother 'cause hes...brown. :'''Sheriff''': Well those N's wouldn't have any A at all, if it wasn't for the white police state. In fact, all music: rock, R&B, gospel, even reggae descended from, you guessed it, whites. So now what do ya think? How you like me now? :'''Rusty''': What about slavery? :'''Sheriff''': Who abolished it? A white man, thank you. :'''Rusty''': But didn't y'all like whip 'em and stuff? :'''Sheriff''': Nuh-uh-uh Rusty, if it weren't for us whites, your land right over here would be completely overrun by red Indians. :'''Early''': Uh-uh! Hell no! Not this land, Red Man! ''(Starts shooting wildly into the woods)'' :'''Sheriff''': ...and your granny over there? She'd be plunkin' her life's savin's into five dollar slots at a Cherokee casino and spa watchin' Jay Leno perform for two weeks this October, followed by The Beach Boys featuring Mike Love. :''(Gunshot awakens grandma)'' :'''Granny''': Silence the lies. Ooohh. Why do things have to change? We've been hatin' whites since Jesus was a junebug! :'''Sheriff''': Granny, even he was a white man. Here, take a look at this novelty plastic Jesus. Go ahead, pull his sandle. :''[Granny pulls and it makes a fart sound and says "Gotcha"]'' :'''Granny''': Aw... :''[Early, having finally emptied his shotgun, throws it into the woods]'' :'''Early''': Now get on back to ye' teepees! :'''Sheriff''': Folks, my point is this: Whites. <hr width=50%/> :'''Sheriff''': Early, ain't no whites ever bothered you. I guess you just hatin' for the sake of hatin'. :'''Early''': Mmmm, it ain't that sheriff, it's something else. [Begins to daydream] She was my dream, my muse, a vision suitable for the wide screen format. I can still tast ===Family Trouble [1.5]=== :'''Rusty''': Daddy, I need to know once and for all... :'''Early''': Aw, dammit, not this again! I told you boy, if your momma's white then that makes me a damn chalky lover. Now do I look like a chalky lover to you?!? :'''Rusty''': Well I don't know daddy, you do drink alot. :'''Early''': Yes I do... and I fight... but, some other crazy sum-bitch is the one what bangulated and inpregnified that white womern, not I! :'''Rusty''': So you're saying my mama was white? :''(Early stares at Rusty and contemplates)'' :'''Early''': Wait a minute, what'd I say? <hr width=50%/> :'''Early''': ''[Daydreaming about Krystal]'' Your mama was a vision in alabaster, a white lily of the field, rich with scented pollen and the sweet odor of the Morning Mist. Diet Morning Mist actually, although sometimes she would drink the regular if they's out of the diet. She was enormous; but Lord, did I love her... for 32 franatic seconds. ''(Swings hat over head)'' Mmm! Mmm! Mmm! The lovin' was good! <hr width=50%/> :''[Showing Rusty the family photo album]'' :'''Krystal''': Well, then there's one of me. ''(Turns page)'' Here's one of them, what you call, them Glamour Shots, what have you. ''(Turns page)'' What do you know, there's me! Nope, that's a bus. :'''Rusty''': Am I in any of these pictures momma? :'''Krystal''': Well, uh... well look at this one, I'm about eight months pregnant with you in this one. :'''Rusty''': Ooh... :'''Krystal''': Yeah, I sent that in to Spunk magazine. Fools rejected it. You'd print this, wouldn't you? <hr width=50%/> :'''Rusty''': My daddy said you was like a huge dollop of sour cream - rich and zesty, with a little bit of bite. :'''Krystal''': How is your daddy? :'''Rusty''': Ah he's good, he's good, just got out of prison not too long ago. :'''Krystal''': No, I'm sorry - who, who's your daddy? Anyone I know? :'''Rusty''': Uhh, Early Cuyler. :'''Krystal''': Tall guy? :'''Rusty''': Nope. :'''Krystal''': Big belly? :'''Rusty''': No, not the one. :'''Krystal''': Kinda looks like Charlie Sheen? :'''Rusty''': Not him either. :'''Krystal''': Or is Charlie Sheen? :'''Rusty''': Mmm no, not Charlie Sheen. :'''Krystal''': Is he a football team? :'''Rusty''': Nope. :'''Krystal''': Is he the groundskeeping crew for the football team? :'''Rusty''': No. :'''Krystal''': Are you sure it's not Charlie Sheen? :'''Rusty''': No momma! Early Cuyler's his name! About yay high. I've been told we look alike, espically around the eye region - same shape of eye, you know, right here. <hr width=50%/> :'''Early''': Howdy doody to you, Krystal. It's been many years - but you, you ain't moved a bit. <hr width=50%/> :'''Doctor''': Hmm now that's interesting. :'''Early''': What? :''(Doctor hits dead rabbit with a hammer)'' :'''Doctor''': This rabbit's been hit by a hammer. ===Office Politics Trouble [1.6]=== :'''Narrator''': Early's tenure as CEO of Dan Halen International had not been long, but it had been distinguished. By drunkenness, hair-trigger violence, and a total lack of performance. I would call it a steady decline in performance, but that would imply that he performed at one point in time. In fact he had not. He was drunk. <hr width=50%/> :'''Early''': Allow me to explain the contamination process: pine cones go in here, party liquors come out here, and proceed to here (pointing at mouth); fights begin, fingerprints is took, days is lost, bail is made, court dates are ignored, cycle is repeated. <hr width=50%/> :'''Early''': Aw hell, that's the office! I can't believe I have to go into the office on a Wednesday! Them people can't wipe they ass without me! <hr width=50%/> :'''Early''': Howdy doody, Donna, nice ass this morning, yeah! You wearing panties? :'''Donna''': Actually, I need to get off here... :'''Early''': Steve, big dog! Here's the pot I've been growin' on my property. See if this don't help wit' your wife bitchin' and all that mess! :'''Steve''': Not here, man... :'''Early''': Pine cone liquor? Anybody? Well then...how 'bout a fried possum pecker? Uh oh! [belches] <hr width=50%/> :'''Early''': See if that sumbitch'll fax now. :'''Glenn''': It never was able to fax. It's a coffee maker. :'''Early''': ''(long pause)'' You dumbass, you can't fax coffee! Coffee don't fax worth a damn. Every time the rain hits it'll run. Damn you uhh dumb sumbitch. <hr width=50%/> :'''Early''': What did I tell you about drinking underneath the age? :'''Rusty''': You said if I could afford to bring back enough for you then you don't care what I do and It's my body and I can kill it however I want to and America's about freedom :'''Early''': Son, there's every chance in the world I was drunk when I said that, and it's your welfare I care about. You know, that check? Did it come today? ==Season 2== ===Government Brain Voodoo Trouble=== :'''Therapist''': Alright, look. I want you to take all those things that are eating away, weighing you down inside, and I want you to pull them all out... and scream them out at the top of your lungs. Sheriff? :'''Sheriff''': Who, me? :'''Therapist''': Yeah, just cut loose. I mean, just get it all off your chest. This is a safe haven for both of you gentlemen. :'''Sheriff''': Okay. (Shuffles to edge of cliff) Well, you see... Early... well, he don't respect... :'''Early''': Are you done? Everybody stand back, it's my turn. :'''Sheriff''': No... :'''Early''': Nyuh huh, I just called it. (Begins to nudge the Sheriff out of the way) :'''Sheriff''': (Kicks Early away) Don't you push me! You always push me into positions I don't like! I'm the law! And you break the law and you still expect me to be your friend? How can I be who I am and still be in a relationship with you! It's always about you! You think you're the center of the universe and we all... :[Cut to several hours later, sunset] :'''Sheriff''': ...moved the show to Friday, head-to-head with CSI? Come on! You've got to give a show time to find an audience... :[Cut to several hours later, night has fallen] :'''Sheriff''': ...hell, you know he can act! He played Doogie Howser for seven seasons! :'''Therapist''': (Claps) Excellent work gentlemen, excellent. (Looks at watch, begins to back away) Hey, ah, I think this is about as good as it gets, guys... :'''Sheriff''': Naw! Naw! Without us they have no network... :[Cut to serveral hours later, sunrise] :'''Sheriff''': ...often wondered if I even do have a pair! Yes, of testicles! (Grabs crotch) I've never seen them, no! And you dressed me in chiffon! Pretty, pretty chiffon! Well, guess what! I think I'm pregnant... again! Thanks a lot, mama! (Whips off shirt and throws it off the cliff) Whew, well, that felt pretty good. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Therapist''': (Begins to back away) I, I really need to, um, sorta wrap this thing up. :'''Early''': Wait a minute! Ain't I gonna get to yell nothin'? :'''Therapist''': Well, (sighs) sure Early... go ahead. :'''Early''': Whoo! [[w:Gimme_Back_My_Bullets|Gimme back my bullets]]! Ooh, [[w:That_Smell|that smell]]! What the hell is that smell? (Holds up lighter) Whoo! :'''Therapist''': Well, um... do you have any concerns of not really a Skynyrd-deep cut? :'''Early''': Uh, yeah, something has been kinda gnawing at me. Stand back. (Yells off cliff) Show me them titties! :'''Sheriff''': Are you talkin' to my mama? :'''Early''': If she'll do it! Will she do it? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Therapist''': I'm not a therapist. I'm The Rapist. ===Butt Trouble=== :'''Granny''': Don't you dare hurt him! :'''Early''': Oh, and what's your saggy mouth gunna say about it? :'''Granny''': Ablomandelebicus, Pentoculus, Benturpenoise, Farntormion, Crisco, Dophenecta, Glabbaflontonion, Smectarufus, Fontanox, Chicken Dance, Trenoctor, Pontallafamarion, Tudonox, Mellicanisis! :''[the walls of the house open up and Earlie is struck by lightning]'' :'''Early''': You lucky bitch! That is the one thing you coulda said. :'''Granny''': Yeah okay. :'''Early''': One o' these days, you ain't gon' remember that freaky word. I'll be around! :'''Granny''': Why don't you take that weak shit to the park? Where maybe the squirrels'll care. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Sheriff''': Early, it's my job to protect and serve all forms of life, even the unhatched. Every American has the right to life! :'''Rusty''': Even that crazy bitch in Houston what killed all them cats in the bathtub? :'''Sheriff''': Well yeah, she should die, but I'm talking about the unborn. Inside that egg is a beatin' heart; a soul, this small. And uh, while I don't understand how Rusty might have conceived- :'''Early''': Diplarobosomosexualosmosis, right down 'ere in his buttcrack. :'''Sheriff''': Alright, alright, whatever, is that how he did it? My point is, this is a life. And even though you don't love it, you don't have any money, and you won't give it any opportunities, this here egg could grow up to be president. Or find the cure for homosexuality! waiterminute, hell, even become the next Tom T. Hall! :'''Early''': So whatcher sayin' is uh, that my grandbaby rightchere might someday grow up to be the gay president of Tom T. Hall? Outstandiner than hell. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Early:''' Fruit don't talk, fruit just listens... and waits. :'''Granny'''[after being shot by Rusty}: Jesus! I've been filled by your spirit! Oh no wait a minute I thinks that's a bullet. I'm comin' Jesus.<br /> :'''Rusty''': I'm sorry Granny you alright?<br /> :'''Granny''': Aaaah! A Talkin' honeydew! It's the apocalypse!" : :'''Early''': "I'm bout ta slap ya lips!" :'''Granny''' "Did one of you assholes just shoot me?!" ===Double Truckin' the Tricky Two=== :'''Early:''' Aight now, ya'll bow yer heads. Lord...(Rusty blares out Electronia music and begins dancing with glowsticks) Russell, kindly turn down the electronica. (Rusty turns off music) Lord, please allow these scratched lottery tickets with their slivery seasonings to nourish our bodies as they were unable to do the same to our wallets. And thank ya fer the untimely frost which clamed my bananer orchard. Oh, I was a fool ta plant bananers on a mountain! You made sure of that. So, in short, thanks for nothin'. :'''Lil:''' Ain't you gonna thank him fer that truck-boat-truck of yers? :'''Early:''' You silly bitch! Don't be tellin' him 'bout my truck-boat-truck! :'''Rusty:''' But, Daddy, you tell everybody 'bout that truck-boat-truck. That's yer pride and joy. :'''Early:''' 'Cause its bad-ass is why! Check out this mess! :(cuts to Early spinning the tires of a monster truck) :'''Early:''' Listen to that 450 big block! Wahow! :(engine explodes) ===Swayze Crazy=== :'''Lil:''' That ain't Patrick Swayze. :'''Granny:''' He is if I have enough cold beer. :'''Early:''' Patrick, I know you must get this all the time, but if it wouldn't be too much trouble for ya, would you please drop a double duce ass whoopin' on my boy. :'''Patrick Swayze:''' I'm from texas... I ride horses. ===Giant Foam Dickhat Trouble=== :'''Early''': "I ain't goin' no where.....cept' hell. And I'm takin' you with me." <hr width="50%"/> :'''Early:''' Don't time fly when you're drunk as hell! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Early''': Oh Lord who done made all creatures great and small in his own image: Did you make 'em fine-ass-soundin' speakers over there what would sound gooder than hell comin' out of the back of my truck-boat-truck? Well if you don't want me to jimmy-jack 'em sweet tweeters you best give me a sign... :(Early rips off a sticker reading "EARLY CUYLER / DO NOT TOUCH!") :'''Early''': A new sign - I done seen that'n. <hr width="50%"/> :(Early awakens from a coma to the sound of a life support machine. He opens his eyes to see his son Rusty standing over him saying "Boop... boop... boop...") :'''Rusty''': Y'all hear that? That's what it'd sound like if we had insurance. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Early''': Yes granny - I seen the light. Like a DUI roadblock in the sky. But I pulled a U-ie and hauled ass through the woods! And now my life has purpose. Goodbye party liquor! Gunnery, you have a good'un! Masturbation... uh... let's just call it a hiatus. From now on, I am a bushhog on the front-end loader of the Lord! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Early''': (In a strip club) Yes darlin', your chest is full and heaving. But what about the heart that lays beneath them puppies? Look here (pulls out a religious tract)... I want you to read this here literature.<br> :(Stripper reaches to take the tract; Early jerks it away) :'''Early''': Nope! Pick it up with your butt cheeks! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Granny''': Will you keep it down for cryin' out loud? I'm trying to watch my stories. (Stares at a butter churn which has replaced the TV) And I'm havin' a really hard time. Stories? :'''Early''': Nuh-uh. I done give away the story box. From now on we gonna enjoy this classic butter churn. (Begins churning) :'''Granny''': (Looks around) Oh where's the TV? 'Cause now I'm pissed. :'''Early''': Come on now, everybody take a turn! Idle hands is the devil's ding-a-ling! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Early''': I'll be here for 40 days and 40 nights if thats what it takes to keep these commandments on display! What's next, they're goin' to try to take it out of our schools? Bullmess! I am against it! :(Shows Early later in the same place) :'''Early''': I'm against mens kissin mens, for any reason, but when womerns do it... [coughs]... That, uh, that seems alright. Uhh, any womerns here willing to make out with another woman... :(Shows Early even later while still in the same place) :'''Early''': I'm against all digits below and above the number 9. They, they all blasphemous. Uhh, and Nitrogen, 'cause you know it was brought here in ships by space Jews! Hell yeah, you know the ones. ===Meth O.D. to My Madness=== :'''Early''': Can't take the pee, get out the pee-ery! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Early''': How'd a hog, what ain't got no money, get money to buy damn drugs, Lil! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Early''': Is your hog on drugs? How would you know? How could you tell? Look for these here warnin' signs. Sudden weight loss. Euphoria leadin' to paranoia. Stealitization of your thangs. And jibbery-style oinkery what make no sense a 'tall. Warn your hog about the dangers of meth a 'fore it's too damn late. I'm Early Cuyler and this concludes my court-ordered community service. ===Terminus Trouble=== :'''Sheriff:''' Looks like they found out your name wasn't Awesome Bill from Dawsonville. :'''Early:''' Well yeah it is. :'''Sheriff:''' ... No. Early, it's not. :'''Early:''' Damnit to hell you know that too? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Sheriff''': Well, here we are! Terminus, capital of the dirty south. Rising like a phoenix from the ashes of the civil war. Y'all recongnize this place here? :'''Rusty''': Wait a minute, this the place where [[w:Kenny Rogers|Kenny Rogers]] shot that scene with the kids of [[w:Six Pack (film)|Six Pack]], ain't it? :'''Sheriff''': 1982! The coward of the county's own self stood right here! <hr width="50%"/>: :'''Sheriff''': Stone Mountain. World's most appropriately named mountain in the South East. And look carved there on the side, the four horseman of the confederacy. [[w:Stonewall Jackson|Stonewall Jackson]], [[w:Robert E. Lee|Robert E. Lee]], [[w:Jefferson Davis|Jefferson Davis]], and Pacman! :'''Early''': A rebel's hero. Come up to Gettysburg to kick some damn ass! If it weren't for Pacman, we might'a lost the damn war! Early: Take that! You other inanimate... sales items! :'''Judge''':Counselour approach the bench...your lookin' at an uphill battle here, I mean he did look at him crossways, and this is Georgia, I mean, we are still very backwards, in many ways. ===A Sober Sunday=== '''Dan Halen:''' Jesus loves you. Why doesn't the government? ===Rebel Without a Claus=== :'''Early''': ''(on Rudolph's head)'' Check this out--a bonafide 8-point. I'm gonna mount it on my toilet. :'''Santa''': ''(tied to a chair)'' He was so rare. :'''Early''': He's about to be ''medium''-rare. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Santa''': What could you possibly want from me? :'''Early''': Oh, I think you know what I want, Santy Claus. :'''Santa''': Cuyler, it's impossible... :'''Early''': I only ever asked ya for one thing. :'''Santa''': I just...I can't do it. :'''Early''': ''(jumping onto Santa's beard)'' Damn it, I been a good boy! Now how many years I gotta wait? I want me the greatest gift of all! :'''Santa''': I won't bring you the still-beating heart of [[w:Jeff Gordon|Jeff Gordon!]] All right? I've said it! :'''Early''': Well...Nicholas, I'm disappointed. We'll do it this way--Russell, get me my straight razor. :'''Santa''': No, no, please, we don't have to go this way. :'''Early''': Okay, okay, you right. :'''Santa''': Thank you. :'''Early''': I'm thinkin' the rusty fish scaler instead. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Head Elf''': Dispatch the Silent Knights! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Elves''': ''(disguised as carolers in a manger, singing)'' [[w:O Holy Night|Fall on your knees...]] :''(They pull out ninja weapons)'' :'''Elf''': I said fall on your knees, you son-of-a-bitch! "'Early"': What the- "'Granny"':It's a trap! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Santa''': What are you going to do to me? :'''Early''': You ever see the movie [[w:Saw II|Saw II]]? :'''Santa''': Oh no, oh no, please, please... :'''Early''': No? Me, neither. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Early''': [[w:The Devil Went Down to Georgia|I done tell you once, you son-of-a-bitch, I'm the best that's ever been!]] :'''Santa''': What? :'''Rusty''': Fire in the mountain, run boys run! ==Season 3== ===Beast Implants=== :'''Early:''' Come on, man. We was just teasin' with the government. :'''Granny:''' So, Medicare ain't gonna spring for no fake funbags? :'''Early:''' Medicare. Medicare ''don't'' care. Medi''caint!'' :'''Early:''' We wait, actually, you wait (starts sinking into the floor of his truck, a smaller truck-boat-truck emerges from beneath the truck) Escape pod only holds one, fight the good fight son! (mini truck-boat-truck horn plays 'La Cucaracha') ===Wing Nut=== :'''Dan Halen''': Science, you cheap whore. <hr width=50%/> :'''Dan Halen''': Go behind the Dumpster and mate the tangy with the mild. :'''Rusty''': Well, how I go about doing that? :'''Dan Halen''': Tie Tangy up, have a black chicken fuck it in a fake rape scenario while Mild watches helpless because that's what gets him off. ===Mephistopheles Traveled Below to a Southern State Whose Motto Is "Wisdom, Justice and Moderation"=== :'''Rusty''': Hail Satan, my dark lord and master. <hr width=50%/> :'''Satan''': I'm gonna own you all, just like I own this little bitch here! Come on. Come to daddy. :'''Rusty''': Wait a minute, now. I thought you said this was free. I didn't have to do nuthin' for it. :'''Satan''': Listen to the little whiny bitch. Boy, he's really gonna hate it when he gets to Hell. :'''Rusty''': I don't wanna go to hell! Come on, do something, Daddy! :'''Satan''': You know, it's actually not much worse than your current situation. I mean, yeah, we have really high taxes, but hey, you earn real money at least. I mean, we do have jobs down there. It's not everything you hear. :'''Rusty''': Oh, really? :'''Satan''': Hahaha, no! You are raped by fire all day! And the days are longer down there! Oh, there's plenty to drink. You know what you drink? FIRE, motherstuffer, that's what! Dinner? That's a root that makes you thirsty for more flippin' fire! You understand? It's ridiculous what I've set up down there! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Rusty''': Cmon Roy Clark I summon you from hell. :'''Early''': Banjo is dated! Just cuz we live up here we supposed to like banjo!? How very damn trite! ===Earth Worst=== :'''Early''': ''(while Sheriff and the hippies "copulate")'' Damn! Smells like somebody took a massive dump on a huge pile of crap and soaked the whole thing in a jug of week-old farts and lit the whole caboodle on fire. :'''Rusty''': Yeah, just like you done on the last Fourth of July, Daddy. :'''Early''': I sure did. I support the troops. ===The Good One=== :'''Rusty''': Oh my God! It's Ridley Scott's "[[w:Alien_%28film%29|Alien]]"! Look at it! Oh my God! Oh my God! :'''Early''': No, son, it ain't Ridley Scott's "Alien". It's worse. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Early''': ''(taking Lil's babies to the "movies")'' Alright. C'mon y'all. C'mon. Step right in to the movies. Yeah, see what Hollyweird has cooked up next. Getcha good seat now. You don't wanna miss them previews. :'''Rusty''': Daddy, this ain't the movies. :'''Early''': No movies. Lake boat. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Early''': I have dubbed thee Herschel Walker Cuyler Them Dawgs is Hell Don’t They! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Early''': "I have re-evalutated the saturation, and I have convoluted that you ain't wild... You're mild." ===Condition: Demolition!=== ===The Appalachian Mud Squid: Darwin's Dilemma=== '''Early:''' Y'all bow your damn heads! We thank you, Lord, for mans like myself, males of the masculine variety, winners all of us. And we thank you for the womerns too, and how you made them out of a part of a man that he don't never need nor want, to live by our rules and our pleasures. [chomps] The chicken is good. Amen. ===Tuscaloosa Dumpling=== :'''Early''': Look at me Granny, I'm goin to get me a job and respect from my peers just because I say so! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Granny''': Oh rusty your so stupid and sweet" <hr width="50%"/> :'''Early''': You got to earn this, boy! You understand me? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Rusty''': I reckon I don't never understand you. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Early''': And I don't prefer that you do! All my musins and my ramblins. ===Armageddon It On!=== :'''Early''': War, Famine, Death... and grasshoppers. Looks like one just dont quite belong does it? <hr width=50%/> :'''Early''': Mute yer wooo's boy.....there's a seven headed beast afoot." <hr width=50%/> :'''Santa''': Okay, this is Big Crimson Daddy. Stop production on all sex toys immediately. :'''Elf''': We're... everything? :'''Santa''': Uh... I could maybe fold the anal beads team into yo-yos, but... but no vibrators. :'''Elf 2''': Can't we just call them "back massagers"? :'''Santa''': No... yes. Yes, we can make that work. I'll call Sharper Image. :'''Elf 3''': What about these, Santa? :'''Santa''': The Kalishnakovs? With the Drum-Triber air sight and the fixed stock... oh, God, that's a nice weapon... uh... let me hold off on that one. <hr width=50%/> :'''Dan Halen''': I have to say it was all worth it! Screw every last one of you! <hr width=50%/> :'''Reverend:''' Who even cares? Life is merely a fantasy draped in confusion. The curtain is yanked back from the charade! :'''Early''': Would you grab my skull bong, from the reverend please? ===Gimmicky Magazine Show Spoof Parody About Dan Halen=== :'''Melissa''': We caught up with Halen in his inground pool, inexplicably built in the middle of a giant lake, which is itself a giant aboveground pool. <hr width=50%/> :'''Melissa''': Mr. Halen, take a look at this. ''(Turns on TV showing a police riot)'' The [[w:1968 Democratic National Convention|Chicago Democratic Convention in 1968]]. :'''Dan Halen''': Ah, the '60s. I'll never forget them. :'''Melissa''': I believe that's you in the upper-left corner hitting someone with a chain. :'''Dan Halen''': ''(laughing)'' I remem-- I remember I made that guy taste the chain. "Taste the chain," I said again and again, long after he was incapable of tasting anything. :'''Melissa''': We found this in the archives after the invasion of Poland. ''(Plays stock footage of Halen alongside Adolf Hitler, saluting in full uniform and shouting, "Heil Hitler! Sieg Heil!")'' :'''Dan Halen''': We belonged to the same gym. I suppose you'll take that image out of context and make it into something. :'''Melissa''': Here you are in Berlin in 1926. :'''Dan Halen''': So I used to be a transvestite cabaret host. You have a point with this? :'''Melissa''': According to our research, Dan Halen has apparently existed throughout recorded history. :'''Dan Halen''': ''(against a montage featuring him in a direct capacity, starting with...)'' ''Everyone'' tortured political prisoners during the medieval era. ''(Atop a Mayan pyramid, pulling out a heart)'' This sacrifice led to plenty of rain. The maize crop that year was wonderful. ''(At the feet of the Crucifixion, wooden hammer in hand)'' I was taking the nail ''out''. I was trying to help the man. ''(Cave painting of a body struck by three arrows and Halen with lit torch, dragging woman by the hair)'' Well, it's not like I ''invented'' fire. ''(As a monk holding a rat over a body)'' So I spread some of the Black Plague. ''(Whipping Egyptian slaves)'' Those Egyptians were trying to steal precious artifacts from the British museum. ''(Atop a unicorn, close to a Tyrannosaurus)'' Well, that-- that was just an accident. :'''Melissa''': Mr. Halen, these pictures prove you're tens of thousands of years old. :'''Dan Halen''': Melissa... :'''Melissa''': What do you say to these charges? :'''Dan Halen''': I don't recall. :'''Melissa''': You don't recall that you're a living embodiment of evil? :'''Dan Halen''': Uh, no. No, I don't recall that. :'''Melissa''': A plague on humanity from the beginning of time? :'''Dan Halen''': Mmm...no. No, I don't recall. :'''Melissa''': We have film evidence. We have pictures. :'''Dan Halen''': Come on! :'''Melissa''': What could you possibly say to these charges, Mr. Halen? :'''Dan Halen''': I'm sorry, but I'm not equipped to reach a conclusion regarding that assessment at this time. And what's more, let me add that I ''will'' explode your head for saying that. :'''Melissa''': Mr. Hal... (Her head explodes) :'''Dan Halen''': Yes, there's no such thing as a free necklace, muckraker. ===Flight of the Deep Fried Pine Booby=== :'''Early''': Granny, that which you babble on makes no damn sense to anybody ===An Officer and a Dental Dam=== :'''Dan Halen''': I should have put it together. The copious references to [[w:Ric Flair|"Nature Boy" Ric Flair]] and former Black Crowes bassist Johnny Colt. Hell, Halen, they're written on waffle bar napkins. Where was my analytical mind?! ===The Okaleechee Dam Jam=== :'''Early:''' Hell yeah. You stepped up. You handled your business! ===Mud Days and Confused=== :'''Rusty''': Hey little possum! Can I feed him, daddy? :'''Early''': Knock yourself out. ---- :'''Dan Halen''': Oh hey there, Someone's ears are burning. We are just talking about you-- ''[Giant corn monster rips Dan Halen in half]'' AAAHH!! :'''Giant Corn Monster''': ''[picks ups Sherrif]'' Hello. :'''Sherrif''': Wassup? :'''Giant Corn Monster''': Nice face painting. :'''Sherrif''': Yeah. Well, It's supposed to be [[Spider-Man]]. Also supposed to be temporary. ==Season 4== ===Lerm [4.1]=== :'''Lerm''': Death to America! ===The Liar, the Bitch and the Bored Rube [4.2]=== :'''Early''': Listen here. Readings don't never not done nothing for not NOBODY! <hr width='50%'> :'''Granny''': I think you mean 'not nonebody'. <hr width='50%'> :'''Early''': Excuse me, not nonebody. Never not no one, didn't about no reason, not never, and by God they never not ain't gonna will! ===The Big Gay Throwdown [4.6]=== :'''Sheriff''': You're under arrest for entrapment...of my heart." :'''Earlie Cuyler''': "You hate what you fear and, you fear what you don't understand. ===God's Bro [4.8]=== :'''Dan Halen''': Do you think this is the only illegal thing I have to do today? <hr width='50%'> :'''Dan Halen''': Allow me to pose a hypothesis. Say, hypothetically, I... slayed a prostitute during an 8-Ball fuelled weekend of debauchery. I know, it sounds silly but bear with me. Would this hole in space-time be a good place for such a hypothetical and now very lifeless body? <hr width='50%'> :'''Dan Halen''': I've tailored your film to appeal to the local populous... as they drag their jaws through the street like common simians. <hr width='50%'> :'''Dr. Horny''': I'm Doctor Horny, and you know what that means; I love poon-tang... but enough about your Mom! == Season 5== ===Young, Dumb and Full of Gums [5.4]=== :'''Early''': I like the way the tiny food bits mix with my spit, and get all soft so I can swallow em down my neck tube. ===Frivolacious Squidigation [5.6]=== :'''Granny''': A fool and his money... :'''Earlie Cuyler''': Together again! ===America: Why I Love Her [5.10]=== :''[Sheriff and Early drive away from an al-Qaeda camp, leaving Rusty behind]'' :'''Sheriff''': Well, uh, Early, I'm sure glad Rusty found him some playmates there, uh... Dangerously older than him. :'''Early''': Aw, ain't nothing going to happen. He ain't very sexy with that damn acne. Ain't nobody going to get in line for a piece of that. :''[a blue bird flies into the front windshield of Sheriff's patrol car, causing it to crash] :'''Blue Bird''': ''[starts singing] Ain't it odd, :''[Blue Bird pulls itself out of the windshield] :''that a house of God.'' :''[a red bird flies onto the hood of the wrecked patrol car] :'''Red Bird''': ''[starts singing] Looks like a facade, :''for training death squads :''and claiming jihad? :'''Blue and Red Bird''': ''[singing together]'' ''We're just sayin', :''ain't it odd? :'''Sheriff''': Uh, you know, these singin’ birds have got kind of a point, there. :'''Early''': Yep. Only two sources I trust: Glenn Beck and singin' woodland creatures. :''[Early gets out of the wrecked patrol car and starts singing] Listen to the animals,'' :''for a better understandin'. :'''The Animals''': ''[all the Animals start singing] The Holocaust was faked. :'''Goat''': ''So was the moon landin'. :'''Raccoon''': ''Now what about Obama, :''and his birth cer-tifi-gate? :''He was born in Hawaii, :''that ain't no god-derned state. :'''The Animals''': ''He was born in Hawaii, :''that ain't no god-derned state. :'''Goat''': ''Lee Harvey Oswald did not kill JFK. :''He's a giant cyborg, :''built by the CIA. :''[a giant cyborg JFK is seen destroying a city]'' :'''Cyborg JFK''': Ich bin ein immortal. :'''Beavers''': ''There's a government receiver, :''implanted in your brain. :''[a Beaver draw an X on Early's forehead]'' :'''Early''': ''I get my news from this beaver, :''so I know I ain't insane. :''[Early pulls out a hammer and hits the X on his forehead with it, to destroy the receiver]'' :'''Blue Bird''': ''Listen to the animals, :''if you want to hear the truth. :'''Beaver''': ''We got a quarter horse, :''who aint a puppet for the Jews. :'''Early''': ''A little birdie told me :'''Red Bird''': ''[sings in Early's ear] Penicillin gives you AIDS.'' :'''The Animals''': ''Don't ever go to the doctor. :'''Raccoon''': ''They're gonna shoot you up with AIDS. :'''Red Bird and Squirrel''': ''Make your paper money gold, :''buy yourself a bunch of guns. :''Build a fortified compound, :''for when the revenuers come. :''[Red Bird, Squirrel, and Early, armed with a gun, are on the roof of his "fortified compound", when Sheriff tries to talk to him]'' :'''Sheriff''': Now Early, I wouldn't- :''[Sheriff falls into a camouflaged pit]'' :'''Red Bird and Raccoon''': ''Steal yourself an airplane, :''crash it into city hall. :''[Early flies a plane, with Red Bird and Raccoon, and crashes it into city hall]'' :''Keep a rambling manifesto, :''you're gonna educate'em all. :''[Raccoon unfurls a long manifesto]'' :'''Sheriff''': Early, I wouldn't trust any of these animals, to tell you the truth. :''[the Animals grab Sheriff and take him away]'' :'''The Animals''': ''Don't talk to no police. :'''Squirrel''': ''[singing underneath Early's hat] They're working with the government.'' :'''The Animals''': Everyone is out to get you, :''you gotta kill em all dead. :''[Red and Blue Bird give Early a gun]'' :'''Rabbit''': ''Remember back when Florida, :''had all them hangin' chads. :''Should've been a damn recount... :''[all the Animals stop singing and look at the Rabbit]'' :'''Rabbit''': What? Well, Gore won the popular vote, and he shoulda had a recount, I think. :''[Early blows his head off]'' :'''Early''': Talkin' animals. That don't make no damn sense. ==Season 6== === Absestos I Can [6.1] === :'''Sherrif''': I don't know what to say, Glenn. Put yourself in his shoes. I mean, It's what he wanted. :'''Glenn''': But it's my wife. :'''Glenn's Wife''': And I don't want to do this. === Ballmart === == Season 7 == === Rusty and Tammi Sitting in a Tree, B-A-S-T-A-R-D === ===From Russia With Stud [7.6]=== :'''Earlie''': I got my man cave back! == Season 8 == === Thou Shale Not Drill === '''P-Nut''': That thing’s for real? '''Dan Halen''': Shoot him! Shoot him, Sheriff! Shoot him at once. Where are you going? '''Sheriff''': He knows I didn’t eat my okra! Mac and cheese should count as a vegetable. Hell, it’s listed as a side! '''Early Cuyler''': My crib! '''Granny Cuyler''': Ohh! '''Rusty Cuyler''': Granny! Granny! No! '''Granny Cuyler''': Wait, no! Don’t shoot! Nobody shoot! I think this -- This savage critter… Sees a love in me that only exists -- '''Early Cuyler''': That’s it! Keep him busy with your chewiness! '''Rusty Cuyler''': P-Nut! No! '''Red Whiskered Shaleamander''': Did you eat your okras? '''P-Nut''': Yeah, Doc. Yeah, yeah. '''Red Whiskered Shaleamander''': Don’t you lie to me! '''P-Nut''': I love you, too. It’s good. With the cornmeal and -- '''Red Whiskered Shaleamander''': Let me smell your breath! '''P-Nut''': Easy. I just had a mint. So it’s gonna switch up the flavor, okay? '''Red Whiskered Shaleamander''': You didn’t eat no okras, did ya? '''P-Nut''': Wait! '''Red Whiskered Shaleamander''': Okras good for you! '''P-Nut''': What wha… '''Lil Cuyler''': Baby, noooo! '''Rusty Cuyler''': P-Nut! '''Dan Halen''': Okay. So…We good here? Recommence the fracking! == Season 9== ==Season 10== === The Peep [10.4] === '''Sheriff''': I’m just saying what everyone thinking -- Black people make Chinese food for a living. It’s one hell of a world, ain’t it? '''Granny Cuyler''': No one’s thinking that! You’re out of touch, you weirdo! Ow, ow! '''Early Cuyler''': Hey, Sheriff, do that there funny joke where you blow your face off. That’s a good ’un! '''Sheriff''': No, my craniofacial surgeon told me I should phase out that of my set. So I guess y’all just got served! :'''Denny''': ''[with a hole in his mug, coffee falls out of his mug, and his blood comes out of his body]'' Stop using your firearm as a microphone. Damn, I ain't even playing now. ''[Falls over]'' === Vicki === == Season 11 == === The Guzzle Bumpkin === ==Season 12== ===Events by Russel=== '''Early Cuyler''': I’m gonna kill the old-fashioned way. '''Rusty Cuyler''': You are quotin’ “[[Road House (1989 film)|Roadhouse!]]” '''Early Cuyler''': Damn, boy! I thought you was good! '''Rusty Cuyler''': Stop…Quoting… “Roadhouse!” Aa-a-a-a-a-h! '''Sheriff''': Damn, Rusty. '''Deputy Denny''': Uh, you’re under arrest. I mean, it’s illegal to pull out your daddy’s -- Aah! '''Rusty Cuyler''': Aa-a-a-a-a-h! '''Ellis''': What happened to the fun, Rusty? Yah! Aah! '''Rusty Cuyler''': Aa-a-a-a-a-h! '''Sheriff''': Seems risky to say this since you’re in a mood, but how’d you learn to rip throats out? '''Rusty Cuyler''': Yah! '''Sheriff''': Please don’t. Please d-- Aah! '''Rusty Cuyler''': Aah! '''Granny Cuyler''': I’m ready to die. '''Rusty Cuyler''': Aah! Aa-a-a-a-a-h! I’m so sorry for ripping out everybody’s throat out. I guess I just snapped. '''Ellis''': It’s alright, Rusty. I lost my bar, but it was worth it. That party was goat. '''Early Cuyler''': ‘Preciate you, Ellis. '''Sheriff''': I’m glad you ripped my throat out, Rusty. I had a tumor in there from a lifetime of smoking. '''Granny Cuyler''': I’m glad you ripped my throat out, too. Because I just like to fit in. '''Early Cuyler''': I told you I’d show people a good time. '''Deputy Denny''': That party was off the hook -- And off the chain. '''Sheriff''': The whole hook, chain, whatever apparatus connected you to something -- Gone. '''Granny Cuyler''': Yeah, whatever chain we were on. We’re off it now. '''Sheriff''': Bring in the chains, referee. Let’s measure it. ‘Cause I think we got first down -- Of good times. '''Granny Cuyler''': Who let the Dogs out? Early, that’s who, he took off their chains. That explains how they got out. '''Sheriff''': Ha ha ha. Anything with chains. '''Electronic Voice''': Made in Georgia. == Season 13 == ===This Show Was Called Squidbillies [13.10]=== :'''Narrator''': And so Rusty moved with Tammy and Macho Man to Elberton, thus hopefully breaking the cycle of poverty and abuse. Early would swear to exact his revenge, but like many things in Early's life, he never followed through, deeming Elberton too close to the edge of the flat earth and not worth scaling an ice wall to tangle with dragons. This show...was called ''Squidbillies''. == External links == {{wikipedia}} {{Adult Swim}} [[Category:2000s American adult animated TV shows]] [[Category:2010s American adult animated TV shows]] [[Category:2020s American adult animated TV shows]] [[Category:2000s American black comedy TV shows]] [[Category:2010s American black comedy TV shows]] [[Category:2020s American black comedy TV shows]] [[Category:2000s American sitcoms]] [[Category:2010s American sitcoms]] [[Category:2020s American sitcoms]] [[Category:2000s American surreal comedy TV shows]] [[Category:2010s American surreal comedy TV shows]] [[Category:2020s American surreal comedy TV shows]] [[Category:American adult animated comedy TV shows]] [[Category:American animated sitcoms]] [[Category:Cancelled shows]] [[Category:Television series on DVD]] [[Category:Animated TV shows about dysfunctional families]] [[Category:Adult Swim shows]] [[Category:Television series by Williams Street]] [[Category:Single-camera sitcoms]] 010jvt1fautlmpnqqu65687xt51leyv 3961298 3961297 2026-07-05T21:51:37Z ~2026-38228-63 3347788 /* America: Why I Love Her [5.10] */ Fixed typos 3961298 wikitext text/x-wiki {{italic title}} '''''[[w:Squidbillies|Squidbillies]]''''' (2005–2021) is an American adult animated television series created by Jim Fortier and Dave Willis for Adult Swim. == Season 1 == ===This Show Is Called Squidbillies [1.1]=== :'''Narrator''': That large building over there is Dan Halen Sheetrock. They specialize in sheetrock, sheetrock mud, sheetrock screws, pharmaceuticals, petroleum, global mass media, third-world covert military operations, and... :'''TV Announcer''': ...the Baby Hammock! ===Take This Job and Love It [1.2]=== :'''Early''': I do apprecinate the generous offer, but knifery is the tool of the idiot. I listen to my gut, and my gut tells me that this ain't a fit, but my heart says this could work and gut's a damn moron; so they get to carryin' on, and then my brain chimes in and sayin' I got to try my hand at the fast sex-paced world of adult literature. <hr width=50%/> :'''Dan Halen''': So under experience you've listed here, on your hat-shaped resume, that you can: skin a buck, run a trout-line and that all your rowdy friends- :'''Early''': Are comin' over tonight, yes sir. :'''Dan Halen''': Early, you're the most impressive squid I've interviewed for this position. Let's talk briefly about your work ethic. :'''Early''': Well I don't think ethnics do no work. I mean, that's they problem, really. If you ain't like me, go hang from a damn tree. :'''Dan Halen''': Overt racial prejudice. Impressive, Early. <hr width=50%/> :'''Early''': What I gotta do? :'''Dan Halen''': Well, you're my boss, and as CEO, you'll have certain responsibilities like showing up...and leaving...and accepting liability for...certain class action [[lawsuit]]s that may, or may not, and in fact, currently are being levied against new products, such as... :'''TV Announcer''': The Pocket Surgeon! Just scrape the rust from the collapsible tumor scoop and... :''(Dan stops the commercial)'' :'''Dan Halen''': Look, you won't have to know any of this stuff. The point is people are dumb, not like you. :'''Early''': Is my mind goin on me or am I watching you jibber jabber like some sort of jibberty box. Jibber Jabber on! Jibber Jabber on! :'''Dan Halen''': Oh, I'm sorry. I'm just a brash intern. It won't happen again...sir. :'''Early''': Well, damn. Now I feel bad. Tell you what, take the day off. Workin' with me, fire 'n ice. I gotta warn ye! Fire 'n ice. ===School Days, Fool Days [1.3]=== :'''Early''': Today we's learnin' about rawks. They's all kinds of rawks. These [picks up rock] is rawks which you throw. These here [throws rock at Rusty] is rawks that you get hit with. And this, [pulls out Rusty's tooth] is a tooth. Now time for attendence. Rusty. :''[silence]'' :'''Early''': Rusty. :''[silence]'' :'''Early''': ''[grabs Rusty]'' Boy, do you wanna pass this class or what? :'''Rusty''': Yes I do Daddy I'd like that very much. :'''Early''': Then when I say Rusty, you say here. Rusty. :'''Rusty''': ... Rusty. :'''Early''': Ok. On to history. What just happened? :'''Rusty''': ... I dunno. :'''Early''': Hell I dunno either. Must be a repossessed memory. Damn you party liquor! ''[looks at liquor, which is actually a can of paint thinner, in contempt and starts to drink]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Early''': Today we's going on a field trip. This here's a field. And you's goin' take a trip! :'''Rusty''': Daddy I din know we had well. :'''Early''': We don't. ''[Throws Rusty into a well. Rusty screams]'' If ya get out ya pass. <hr width=50%/> :[Rusty enters covered in sewage] :'''Rusty''': Did I pass? :'''Early''': Pass what? :'''Rusty''': The field trip! :'''Early''': ............. Nope. Now clean yourself up you're going to a prom. <hr width=50%/> :''[at a dance in Early's house, Lil is dancing with Rusty]'' :'''Granny''': Oh. Do you mind if I cut between you lovely couple? :'''Lil''': Oh, I believe this young man is taken. :'''Granny''': Oh, I just got sassed by a whore. :'''Lil''': ''[takes out knife]'' Back off, bitch he is mine! :'''Granny''': ''[takes out knife]'' Yeah, let's see what whore moves you got. :''[They start having a fight. They then start making out]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Rusty''': Ain't nothin' gonna stop me now but my innate inabilitry to progress conganacious thunk. :'''Early''': Now where's that money check? Come to your daddy, come on! :'''Sheriff''': Oh hell, Early, I gave that to Granny. :'''Early''': What the hell? :'''Sheriff''': Well, I mean, she said she was the principal. :'''Early''': She was the damn tennis coach! What kind of damn- ''[The three are run over by a passing train]'' ===Chalky Trouble [1.4]=== :'''Early''': Nope, I don't need no internet. No sir. Not in my life. :'''Rusty''': What's that, daddy? :'''Early''': Rusty, what do you think of white people? :'''Rusty''': Well, I... I reckon they OK. I'll like 'em ol' Doobie Brothers. :'''Early''': ''[To Granny]'' He ain't ready. :'''Granny''': That's not rightly fair, Early. We all of us love 'em Doobie Brothers. :'''Early''': Yeah, I reckon you right. Damn them Doobies and they ''Chinese Grove''! :'''Granny''': Russell, you ready for the special night tonight? :'''Rusty''': What we gonna do? Go down Atlanta, whip our shirts off and start a bunch of bullmess? :'''Early''': Nope ''[spits]''... funner than that. <hr width=50%/> :'''Granny''': Give us the strength to cleanse the earth of the milk/chalk scourge, so's to keep 'em away from me. :'''Early''': Dump 'em on an island! Blow up the island! ''(Shoots his gun in the sky)'' Whoo! :'''Granny''': Look ye upon this cash money, a symbol of the whites' power, how they jingulate their pockets full of metal-y money. :''(Early pulls a water jug full of coins)'' :'''Early''': Burn all the...metal-ly money. :'''Granny''': Burn it now! :''(Early tosses the jug in the fire)'' :'''Early''': Whoo! Alright now, Granny, burn your money. :'''Granny''': No thank you (replaces money under robe)... and these skis, tools of their wicked recreational activity. :'''Early''': Chalk-man a' skiing on his white snow in his tightie whites, just like the white wing dove sing a song about what they singin'! :'''Granny''': Whoo, baby, whoo, baby, whoo. :'''Rusty''': Burn the damn skis! :'''Early''': At a boy Rusty, burn them sum-bitches, embrace the hatred! :'''Rusty''': ...and they live in houses, don't they daddy? :''[Early stares at Rusty and contemplates]'' :'''Early''': Burn the damn house! :'''Lil''': ''(Sitting inside the burning house)'' Huh... I guess white people do live in houses. :'''Rusty''': Hot damn! What about these trees over here daddy? :'''Early''': Hmm? What about these trees granny? :'''Granny''': No, the trees are fine. :''[Early stares at Rusty and contemplates]'' :'''Early''': Burn the damn trees! :'''Granny''': Burn 'em! <hr width=50%/> :''(A figure in a pure white robe emerges from the woods)'' :'''Granny''': Look everyone, it's the creature from the prophecy! :'''Sheriff''': Nah it's just me. Help me Oobi Wan, you're my only hope. ''(Picks up Early and kisses him)'' For luck. Remember that? Get it? ''Star Wars''? ''(All stare at the Sheriff)'' Ain't this a Sci-Fi convention? :'''Early''': Enter the circle of fire and answer the inquisitation :'''Granny''': Answer the inquisitation! :'''Early''': Tell me sheriff, what do you, eh, what do you think of white people? :'''Sheriff''': Eh they're all right I guess. I mean I like 'em Doobie Brothers. :'''Early''': Doobies aside! Doobies has been disquackified, alright? :'''Sheriff''': Actually Early I really don't mind whites so much. I mean some of my best friends are white. Like me, I'm white! :'''Early''': You what to the what now! :'''Sheriff''': Did I mention to you that boys. Hey look... See, white as a Vidalia onion and twice as sweet. :'''Granny''': Oh no! :'''Early''': Ohhh denial. Denial!! I have done been deceptified by a salesman! :'''Granny''': Burn the sheriff! :''(Rusty sets fire to the tip of the Sheriff's shoe; the Sheriff stomps it out)'' :'''Sheriff''': Hey, hey, hey. Woah, woah. Is this what this is all about, a hate white rally? :'''Early''': Well it don't have to be just whites. I mean we're all inclusive here... except for those damn whites. :'''Sheriff''': Why do you squids hate whites so badly? :'''Early''': Typical. Whitey needs an explanation for every damn thing. <hr width=50%/> :''(After ordering Rusty to set fire to the house earlier in the episode)'' :'''Early''': What happened to the damn house? :'''Rusty''': That there is a symbol of the evil white chalky man daddy. :'''Early''': It's a symbol of where I keep my shit, son! <hr width=50%/> :'''Granny''': I'll tell you something and I'll say it right now with my mouth and it needs to be listended: Whites is too reflective, with their sheeny skin, beating sunlight into my eyes. :'''Early''': Can't tell them apart. Looking like a bunch of lightbulbs with shoes on, all be-boppin' around all over the place. :'''Granny''': Except for you sheriff, you one of the good'uns... :'''Early''': Oh yeah, yeah, you one of the good ones. :'''Sheriff''': Thank you ma'm. :'''Granny''': [Whispers] 'Cause you got a gun. <hr width=50%/> :'''Early''': Now sheriff, unless you come up here to sex-atize, hump-ify or bang-ulate my grandma, then I suggest you turn your purty little whitey wagon around and get on back to chalky town. :'''Sheriff''': I will Early, but before I go I'm going to tell you where society would be without the white man. Eli Whitney, the inventor of the cotton gin, a white man. How about Crawford Long? He discovered Ether, when he wasn't busy being white. And you know that sphinx and the ancient pyramids of Egypt? Who do you think built those Rusty? :'''Rusty''': I don't know... chalk-casians? :'''Sheriff''': Actually no but they were in charge probably. Any fans of basketball out there? Here's a name, Larry Bird, the inventor of the slam dunk. That's a signature white move. Look it up. Rusty, you know the rap music? :'''Rusty''': I know the NWA. ''(sings)'' The police going straight from the underground. They don't like a brother 'cause hes...brown. :'''Sheriff''': Well those N's wouldn't have any A at all, if it wasn't for the white police state. In fact, all music: rock, R&B, gospel, even reggae descended from, you guessed it, whites. So now what do ya think? How you like me now? :'''Rusty''': What about slavery? :'''Sheriff''': Who abolished it? A white man, thank you. :'''Rusty''': But didn't y'all like whip 'em and stuff? :'''Sheriff''': Nuh-uh-uh Rusty, if it weren't for us whites, your land right over here would be completely overrun by red Indians. :'''Early''': Uh-uh! Hell no! Not this land, Red Man! ''(Starts shooting wildly into the woods)'' :'''Sheriff''': ...and your granny over there? She'd be plunkin' her life's savin's into five dollar slots at a Cherokee casino and spa watchin' Jay Leno perform for two weeks this October, followed by The Beach Boys featuring Mike Love. :''(Gunshot awakens grandma)'' :'''Granny''': Silence the lies. Ooohh. Why do things have to change? We've been hatin' whites since Jesus was a junebug! :'''Sheriff''': Granny, even he was a white man. Here, take a look at this novelty plastic Jesus. Go ahead, pull his sandle. :''[Granny pulls and it makes a fart sound and says "Gotcha"]'' :'''Granny''': Aw... :''[Early, having finally emptied his shotgun, throws it into the woods]'' :'''Early''': Now get on back to ye' teepees! :'''Sheriff''': Folks, my point is this: Whites. <hr width=50%/> :'''Sheriff''': Early, ain't no whites ever bothered you. I guess you just hatin' for the sake of hatin'. :'''Early''': Mmmm, it ain't that sheriff, it's something else. [Begins to daydream] She was my dream, my muse, a vision suitable for the wide screen format. I can still tast ===Family Trouble [1.5]=== :'''Rusty''': Daddy, I need to know once and for all... :'''Early''': Aw, dammit, not this again! I told you boy, if your momma's white then that makes me a damn chalky lover. Now do I look like a chalky lover to you?!? :'''Rusty''': Well I don't know daddy, you do drink alot. :'''Early''': Yes I do... and I fight... but, some other crazy sum-bitch is the one what bangulated and inpregnified that white womern, not I! :'''Rusty''': So you're saying my mama was white? :''(Early stares at Rusty and contemplates)'' :'''Early''': Wait a minute, what'd I say? <hr width=50%/> :'''Early''': ''[Daydreaming about Krystal]'' Your mama was a vision in alabaster, a white lily of the field, rich with scented pollen and the sweet odor of the Morning Mist. Diet Morning Mist actually, although sometimes she would drink the regular if they's out of the diet. She was enormous; but Lord, did I love her... for 32 franatic seconds. ''(Swings hat over head)'' Mmm! Mmm! Mmm! The lovin' was good! <hr width=50%/> :''[Showing Rusty the family photo album]'' :'''Krystal''': Well, then there's one of me. ''(Turns page)'' Here's one of them, what you call, them Glamour Shots, what have you. ''(Turns page)'' What do you know, there's me! Nope, that's a bus. :'''Rusty''': Am I in any of these pictures momma? :'''Krystal''': Well, uh... well look at this one, I'm about eight months pregnant with you in this one. :'''Rusty''': Ooh... :'''Krystal''': Yeah, I sent that in to Spunk magazine. Fools rejected it. You'd print this, wouldn't you? <hr width=50%/> :'''Rusty''': My daddy said you was like a huge dollop of sour cream - rich and zesty, with a little bit of bite. :'''Krystal''': How is your daddy? :'''Rusty''': Ah he's good, he's good, just got out of prison not too long ago. :'''Krystal''': No, I'm sorry - who, who's your daddy? Anyone I know? :'''Rusty''': Uhh, Early Cuyler. :'''Krystal''': Tall guy? :'''Rusty''': Nope. :'''Krystal''': Big belly? :'''Rusty''': No, not the one. :'''Krystal''': Kinda looks like Charlie Sheen? :'''Rusty''': Not him either. :'''Krystal''': Or is Charlie Sheen? :'''Rusty''': Mmm no, not Charlie Sheen. :'''Krystal''': Is he a football team? :'''Rusty''': Nope. :'''Krystal''': Is he the groundskeeping crew for the football team? :'''Rusty''': No. :'''Krystal''': Are you sure it's not Charlie Sheen? :'''Rusty''': No momma! Early Cuyler's his name! About yay high. I've been told we look alike, espically around the eye region - same shape of eye, you know, right here. <hr width=50%/> :'''Early''': Howdy doody to you, Krystal. It's been many years - but you, you ain't moved a bit. <hr width=50%/> :'''Doctor''': Hmm now that's interesting. :'''Early''': What? :''(Doctor hits dead rabbit with a hammer)'' :'''Doctor''': This rabbit's been hit by a hammer. ===Office Politics Trouble [1.6]=== :'''Narrator''': Early's tenure as CEO of Dan Halen International had not been long, but it had been distinguished. By drunkenness, hair-trigger violence, and a total lack of performance. I would call it a steady decline in performance, but that would imply that he performed at one point in time. In fact he had not. He was drunk. <hr width=50%/> :'''Early''': Allow me to explain the contamination process: pine cones go in here, party liquors come out here, and proceed to here (pointing at mouth); fights begin, fingerprints is took, days is lost, bail is made, court dates are ignored, cycle is repeated. <hr width=50%/> :'''Early''': Aw hell, that's the office! I can't believe I have to go into the office on a Wednesday! Them people can't wipe they ass without me! <hr width=50%/> :'''Early''': Howdy doody, Donna, nice ass this morning, yeah! You wearing panties? :'''Donna''': Actually, I need to get off here... :'''Early''': Steve, big dog! Here's the pot I've been growin' on my property. See if this don't help wit' your wife bitchin' and all that mess! :'''Steve''': Not here, man... :'''Early''': Pine cone liquor? Anybody? Well then...how 'bout a fried possum pecker? Uh oh! [belches] <hr width=50%/> :'''Early''': See if that sumbitch'll fax now. :'''Glenn''': It never was able to fax. It's a coffee maker. :'''Early''': ''(long pause)'' You dumbass, you can't fax coffee! Coffee don't fax worth a damn. Every time the rain hits it'll run. Damn you uhh dumb sumbitch. <hr width=50%/> :'''Early''': What did I tell you about drinking underneath the age? :'''Rusty''': You said if I could afford to bring back enough for you then you don't care what I do and It's my body and I can kill it however I want to and America's about freedom :'''Early''': Son, there's every chance in the world I was drunk when I said that, and it's your welfare I care about. You know, that check? Did it come today? ==Season 2== ===Government Brain Voodoo Trouble=== :'''Therapist''': Alright, look. I want you to take all those things that are eating away, weighing you down inside, and I want you to pull them all out... and scream them out at the top of your lungs. Sheriff? :'''Sheriff''': Who, me? :'''Therapist''': Yeah, just cut loose. I mean, just get it all off your chest. This is a safe haven for both of you gentlemen. :'''Sheriff''': Okay. (Shuffles to edge of cliff) Well, you see... Early... well, he don't respect... :'''Early''': Are you done? Everybody stand back, it's my turn. :'''Sheriff''': No... :'''Early''': Nyuh huh, I just called it. (Begins to nudge the Sheriff out of the way) :'''Sheriff''': (Kicks Early away) Don't you push me! You always push me into positions I don't like! I'm the law! And you break the law and you still expect me to be your friend? How can I be who I am and still be in a relationship with you! It's always about you! You think you're the center of the universe and we all... :[Cut to several hours later, sunset] :'''Sheriff''': ...moved the show to Friday, head-to-head with CSI? Come on! You've got to give a show time to find an audience... :[Cut to several hours later, night has fallen] :'''Sheriff''': ...hell, you know he can act! He played Doogie Howser for seven seasons! :'''Therapist''': (Claps) Excellent work gentlemen, excellent. (Looks at watch, begins to back away) Hey, ah, I think this is about as good as it gets, guys... :'''Sheriff''': Naw! Naw! Without us they have no network... :[Cut to serveral hours later, sunrise] :'''Sheriff''': ...often wondered if I even do have a pair! Yes, of testicles! (Grabs crotch) I've never seen them, no! And you dressed me in chiffon! Pretty, pretty chiffon! Well, guess what! I think I'm pregnant... again! Thanks a lot, mama! (Whips off shirt and throws it off the cliff) Whew, well, that felt pretty good. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Therapist''': (Begins to back away) I, I really need to, um, sorta wrap this thing up. :'''Early''': Wait a minute! Ain't I gonna get to yell nothin'? :'''Therapist''': Well, (sighs) sure Early... go ahead. :'''Early''': Whoo! [[w:Gimme_Back_My_Bullets|Gimme back my bullets]]! Ooh, [[w:That_Smell|that smell]]! What the hell is that smell? (Holds up lighter) Whoo! :'''Therapist''': Well, um... do you have any concerns of not really a Skynyrd-deep cut? :'''Early''': Uh, yeah, something has been kinda gnawing at me. Stand back. (Yells off cliff) Show me them titties! :'''Sheriff''': Are you talkin' to my mama? :'''Early''': If she'll do it! Will she do it? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Therapist''': I'm not a therapist. I'm The Rapist. ===Butt Trouble=== :'''Granny''': Don't you dare hurt him! :'''Early''': Oh, and what's your saggy mouth gunna say about it? :'''Granny''': Ablomandelebicus, Pentoculus, Benturpenoise, Farntormion, Crisco, Dophenecta, Glabbaflontonion, Smectarufus, Fontanox, Chicken Dance, Trenoctor, Pontallafamarion, Tudonox, Mellicanisis! :''[the walls of the house open up and Earlie is struck by lightning]'' :'''Early''': You lucky bitch! That is the one thing you coulda said. :'''Granny''': Yeah okay. :'''Early''': One o' these days, you ain't gon' remember that freaky word. I'll be around! :'''Granny''': Why don't you take that weak shit to the park? Where maybe the squirrels'll care. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Sheriff''': Early, it's my job to protect and serve all forms of life, even the unhatched. Every American has the right to life! :'''Rusty''': Even that crazy bitch in Houston what killed all them cats in the bathtub? :'''Sheriff''': Well yeah, she should die, but I'm talking about the unborn. Inside that egg is a beatin' heart; a soul, this small. And uh, while I don't understand how Rusty might have conceived- :'''Early''': Diplarobosomosexualosmosis, right down 'ere in his buttcrack. :'''Sheriff''': Alright, alright, whatever, is that how he did it? My point is, this is a life. And even though you don't love it, you don't have any money, and you won't give it any opportunities, this here egg could grow up to be president. Or find the cure for homosexuality! waiterminute, hell, even become the next Tom T. Hall! :'''Early''': So whatcher sayin' is uh, that my grandbaby rightchere might someday grow up to be the gay president of Tom T. Hall? Outstandiner than hell. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Early:''' Fruit don't talk, fruit just listens... and waits. :'''Granny'''[after being shot by Rusty}: Jesus! I've been filled by your spirit! Oh no wait a minute I thinks that's a bullet. I'm comin' Jesus.<br /> :'''Rusty''': I'm sorry Granny you alright?<br /> :'''Granny''': Aaaah! A Talkin' honeydew! It's the apocalypse!" : :'''Early''': "I'm bout ta slap ya lips!" :'''Granny''' "Did one of you assholes just shoot me?!" ===Double Truckin' the Tricky Two=== :'''Early:''' Aight now, ya'll bow yer heads. Lord...(Rusty blares out Electronia music and begins dancing with glowsticks) Russell, kindly turn down the electronica. (Rusty turns off music) Lord, please allow these scratched lottery tickets with their slivery seasonings to nourish our bodies as they were unable to do the same to our wallets. And thank ya fer the untimely frost which clamed my bananer orchard. Oh, I was a fool ta plant bananers on a mountain! You made sure of that. So, in short, thanks for nothin'. :'''Lil:''' Ain't you gonna thank him fer that truck-boat-truck of yers? :'''Early:''' You silly bitch! Don't be tellin' him 'bout my truck-boat-truck! :'''Rusty:''' But, Daddy, you tell everybody 'bout that truck-boat-truck. That's yer pride and joy. :'''Early:''' 'Cause its bad-ass is why! Check out this mess! :(cuts to Early spinning the tires of a monster truck) :'''Early:''' Listen to that 450 big block! Wahow! :(engine explodes) ===Swayze Crazy=== :'''Lil:''' That ain't Patrick Swayze. :'''Granny:''' He is if I have enough cold beer. :'''Early:''' Patrick, I know you must get this all the time, but if it wouldn't be too much trouble for ya, would you please drop a double duce ass whoopin' on my boy. :'''Patrick Swayze:''' I'm from texas... I ride horses. ===Giant Foam Dickhat Trouble=== :'''Early''': "I ain't goin' no where.....cept' hell. And I'm takin' you with me." <hr width="50%"/> :'''Early:''' Don't time fly when you're drunk as hell! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Early''': Oh Lord who done made all creatures great and small in his own image: Did you make 'em fine-ass-soundin' speakers over there what would sound gooder than hell comin' out of the back of my truck-boat-truck? Well if you don't want me to jimmy-jack 'em sweet tweeters you best give me a sign... :(Early rips off a sticker reading "EARLY CUYLER / DO NOT TOUCH!") :'''Early''': A new sign - I done seen that'n. <hr width="50%"/> :(Early awakens from a coma to the sound of a life support machine. He opens his eyes to see his son Rusty standing over him saying "Boop... boop... boop...") :'''Rusty''': Y'all hear that? That's what it'd sound like if we had insurance. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Early''': Yes granny - I seen the light. Like a DUI roadblock in the sky. But I pulled a U-ie and hauled ass through the woods! And now my life has purpose. Goodbye party liquor! Gunnery, you have a good'un! Masturbation... uh... let's just call it a hiatus. From now on, I am a bushhog on the front-end loader of the Lord! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Early''': (In a strip club) Yes darlin', your chest is full and heaving. But what about the heart that lays beneath them puppies? Look here (pulls out a religious tract)... I want you to read this here literature.<br> :(Stripper reaches to take the tract; Early jerks it away) :'''Early''': Nope! Pick it up with your butt cheeks! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Granny''': Will you keep it down for cryin' out loud? I'm trying to watch my stories. (Stares at a butter churn which has replaced the TV) And I'm havin' a really hard time. Stories? :'''Early''': Nuh-uh. I done give away the story box. From now on we gonna enjoy this classic butter churn. (Begins churning) :'''Granny''': (Looks around) Oh where's the TV? 'Cause now I'm pissed. :'''Early''': Come on now, everybody take a turn! Idle hands is the devil's ding-a-ling! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Early''': I'll be here for 40 days and 40 nights if thats what it takes to keep these commandments on display! What's next, they're goin' to try to take it out of our schools? Bullmess! I am against it! :(Shows Early later in the same place) :'''Early''': I'm against mens kissin mens, for any reason, but when womerns do it... [coughs]... That, uh, that seems alright. Uhh, any womerns here willing to make out with another woman... :(Shows Early even later while still in the same place) :'''Early''': I'm against all digits below and above the number 9. They, they all blasphemous. Uhh, and Nitrogen, 'cause you know it was brought here in ships by space Jews! Hell yeah, you know the ones. ===Meth O.D. to My Madness=== :'''Early''': Can't take the pee, get out the pee-ery! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Early''': How'd a hog, what ain't got no money, get money to buy damn drugs, Lil! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Early''': Is your hog on drugs? How would you know? How could you tell? Look for these here warnin' signs. Sudden weight loss. Euphoria leadin' to paranoia. Stealitization of your thangs. And jibbery-style oinkery what make no sense a 'tall. Warn your hog about the dangers of meth a 'fore it's too damn late. I'm Early Cuyler and this concludes my court-ordered community service. ===Terminus Trouble=== :'''Sheriff:''' Looks like they found out your name wasn't Awesome Bill from Dawsonville. :'''Early:''' Well yeah it is. :'''Sheriff:''' ... No. Early, it's not. :'''Early:''' Damnit to hell you know that too? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Sheriff''': Well, here we are! Terminus, capital of the dirty south. Rising like a phoenix from the ashes of the civil war. Y'all recongnize this place here? :'''Rusty''': Wait a minute, this the place where [[w:Kenny Rogers|Kenny Rogers]] shot that scene with the kids of [[w:Six Pack (film)|Six Pack]], ain't it? :'''Sheriff''': 1982! The coward of the county's own self stood right here! <hr width="50%"/>: :'''Sheriff''': Stone Mountain. World's most appropriately named mountain in the South East. And look carved there on the side, the four horseman of the confederacy. [[w:Stonewall Jackson|Stonewall Jackson]], [[w:Robert E. Lee|Robert E. Lee]], [[w:Jefferson Davis|Jefferson Davis]], and Pacman! :'''Early''': A rebel's hero. Come up to Gettysburg to kick some damn ass! If it weren't for Pacman, we might'a lost the damn war! Early: Take that! You other inanimate... sales items! :'''Judge''':Counselour approach the bench...your lookin' at an uphill battle here, I mean he did look at him crossways, and this is Georgia, I mean, we are still very backwards, in many ways. ===A Sober Sunday=== '''Dan Halen:''' Jesus loves you. Why doesn't the government? ===Rebel Without a Claus=== :'''Early''': ''(on Rudolph's head)'' Check this out--a bonafide 8-point. I'm gonna mount it on my toilet. :'''Santa''': ''(tied to a chair)'' He was so rare. :'''Early''': He's about to be ''medium''-rare. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Santa''': What could you possibly want from me? :'''Early''': Oh, I think you know what I want, Santy Claus. :'''Santa''': Cuyler, it's impossible... :'''Early''': I only ever asked ya for one thing. :'''Santa''': I just...I can't do it. :'''Early''': ''(jumping onto Santa's beard)'' Damn it, I been a good boy! Now how many years I gotta wait? I want me the greatest gift of all! :'''Santa''': I won't bring you the still-beating heart of [[w:Jeff Gordon|Jeff Gordon!]] All right? I've said it! :'''Early''': Well...Nicholas, I'm disappointed. We'll do it this way--Russell, get me my straight razor. :'''Santa''': No, no, please, we don't have to go this way. :'''Early''': Okay, okay, you right. :'''Santa''': Thank you. :'''Early''': I'm thinkin' the rusty fish scaler instead. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Head Elf''': Dispatch the Silent Knights! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Elves''': ''(disguised as carolers in a manger, singing)'' [[w:O Holy Night|Fall on your knees...]] :''(They pull out ninja weapons)'' :'''Elf''': I said fall on your knees, you son-of-a-bitch! "'Early"': What the- "'Granny"':It's a trap! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Santa''': What are you going to do to me? :'''Early''': You ever see the movie [[w:Saw II|Saw II]]? :'''Santa''': Oh no, oh no, please, please... :'''Early''': No? Me, neither. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Early''': [[w:The Devil Went Down to Georgia|I done tell you once, you son-of-a-bitch, I'm the best that's ever been!]] :'''Santa''': What? :'''Rusty''': Fire in the mountain, run boys run! ==Season 3== ===Beast Implants=== :'''Early:''' Come on, man. We was just teasin' with the government. :'''Granny:''' So, Medicare ain't gonna spring for no fake funbags? :'''Early:''' Medicare. Medicare ''don't'' care. Medi''caint!'' :'''Early:''' We wait, actually, you wait (starts sinking into the floor of his truck, a smaller truck-boat-truck emerges from beneath the truck) Escape pod only holds one, fight the good fight son! (mini truck-boat-truck horn plays 'La Cucaracha') ===Wing Nut=== :'''Dan Halen''': Science, you cheap whore. <hr width=50%/> :'''Dan Halen''': Go behind the Dumpster and mate the tangy with the mild. :'''Rusty''': Well, how I go about doing that? :'''Dan Halen''': Tie Tangy up, have a black chicken fuck it in a fake rape scenario while Mild watches helpless because that's what gets him off. ===Mephistopheles Traveled Below to a Southern State Whose Motto Is "Wisdom, Justice and Moderation"=== :'''Rusty''': Hail Satan, my dark lord and master. <hr width=50%/> :'''Satan''': I'm gonna own you all, just like I own this little bitch here! Come on. Come to daddy. :'''Rusty''': Wait a minute, now. I thought you said this was free. I didn't have to do nuthin' for it. :'''Satan''': Listen to the little whiny bitch. Boy, he's really gonna hate it when he gets to Hell. :'''Rusty''': I don't wanna go to hell! Come on, do something, Daddy! :'''Satan''': You know, it's actually not much worse than your current situation. I mean, yeah, we have really high taxes, but hey, you earn real money at least. I mean, we do have jobs down there. It's not everything you hear. :'''Rusty''': Oh, really? :'''Satan''': Hahaha, no! You are raped by fire all day! And the days are longer down there! Oh, there's plenty to drink. You know what you drink? FIRE, motherstuffer, that's what! Dinner? That's a root that makes you thirsty for more flippin' fire! You understand? It's ridiculous what I've set up down there! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Rusty''': Cmon Roy Clark I summon you from hell. :'''Early''': Banjo is dated! Just cuz we live up here we supposed to like banjo!? How very damn trite! ===Earth Worst=== :'''Early''': ''(while Sheriff and the hippies "copulate")'' Damn! Smells like somebody took a massive dump on a huge pile of crap and soaked the whole thing in a jug of week-old farts and lit the whole caboodle on fire. :'''Rusty''': Yeah, just like you done on the last Fourth of July, Daddy. :'''Early''': I sure did. I support the troops. ===The Good One=== :'''Rusty''': Oh my God! It's Ridley Scott's "[[w:Alien_%28film%29|Alien]]"! Look at it! Oh my God! Oh my God! :'''Early''': No, son, it ain't Ridley Scott's "Alien". It's worse. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Early''': ''(taking Lil's babies to the "movies")'' Alright. C'mon y'all. C'mon. Step right in to the movies. Yeah, see what Hollyweird has cooked up next. Getcha good seat now. You don't wanna miss them previews. :'''Rusty''': Daddy, this ain't the movies. :'''Early''': No movies. Lake boat. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Early''': I have dubbed thee Herschel Walker Cuyler Them Dawgs is Hell Don’t They! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Early''': "I have re-evalutated the saturation, and I have convoluted that you ain't wild... You're mild." ===Condition: Demolition!=== ===The Appalachian Mud Squid: Darwin's Dilemma=== '''Early:''' Y'all bow your damn heads! We thank you, Lord, for mans like myself, males of the masculine variety, winners all of us. And we thank you for the womerns too, and how you made them out of a part of a man that he don't never need nor want, to live by our rules and our pleasures. [chomps] The chicken is good. Amen. ===Tuscaloosa Dumpling=== :'''Early''': Look at me Granny, I'm goin to get me a job and respect from my peers just because I say so! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Granny''': Oh rusty your so stupid and sweet" <hr width="50%"/> :'''Early''': You got to earn this, boy! You understand me? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Rusty''': I reckon I don't never understand you. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Early''': And I don't prefer that you do! All my musins and my ramblins. ===Armageddon It On!=== :'''Early''': War, Famine, Death... and grasshoppers. Looks like one just dont quite belong does it? <hr width=50%/> :'''Early''': Mute yer wooo's boy.....there's a seven headed beast afoot." <hr width=50%/> :'''Santa''': Okay, this is Big Crimson Daddy. Stop production on all sex toys immediately. :'''Elf''': We're... everything? :'''Santa''': Uh... I could maybe fold the anal beads team into yo-yos, but... but no vibrators. :'''Elf 2''': Can't we just call them "back massagers"? :'''Santa''': No... yes. Yes, we can make that work. I'll call Sharper Image. :'''Elf 3''': What about these, Santa? :'''Santa''': The Kalishnakovs? With the Drum-Triber air sight and the fixed stock... oh, God, that's a nice weapon... uh... let me hold off on that one. <hr width=50%/> :'''Dan Halen''': I have to say it was all worth it! Screw every last one of you! <hr width=50%/> :'''Reverend:''' Who even cares? Life is merely a fantasy draped in confusion. The curtain is yanked back from the charade! :'''Early''': Would you grab my skull bong, from the reverend please? ===Gimmicky Magazine Show Spoof Parody About Dan Halen=== :'''Melissa''': We caught up with Halen in his inground pool, inexplicably built in the middle of a giant lake, which is itself a giant aboveground pool. <hr width=50%/> :'''Melissa''': Mr. Halen, take a look at this. ''(Turns on TV showing a police riot)'' The [[w:1968 Democratic National Convention|Chicago Democratic Convention in 1968]]. :'''Dan Halen''': Ah, the '60s. I'll never forget them. :'''Melissa''': I believe that's you in the upper-left corner hitting someone with a chain. :'''Dan Halen''': ''(laughing)'' I remem-- I remember I made that guy taste the chain. "Taste the chain," I said again and again, long after he was incapable of tasting anything. :'''Melissa''': We found this in the archives after the invasion of Poland. ''(Plays stock footage of Halen alongside Adolf Hitler, saluting in full uniform and shouting, "Heil Hitler! Sieg Heil!")'' :'''Dan Halen''': We belonged to the same gym. I suppose you'll take that image out of context and make it into something. :'''Melissa''': Here you are in Berlin in 1926. :'''Dan Halen''': So I used to be a transvestite cabaret host. You have a point with this? :'''Melissa''': According to our research, Dan Halen has apparently existed throughout recorded history. :'''Dan Halen''': ''(against a montage featuring him in a direct capacity, starting with...)'' ''Everyone'' tortured political prisoners during the medieval era. ''(Atop a Mayan pyramid, pulling out a heart)'' This sacrifice led to plenty of rain. The maize crop that year was wonderful. ''(At the feet of the Crucifixion, wooden hammer in hand)'' I was taking the nail ''out''. I was trying to help the man. ''(Cave painting of a body struck by three arrows and Halen with lit torch, dragging woman by the hair)'' Well, it's not like I ''invented'' fire. ''(As a monk holding a rat over a body)'' So I spread some of the Black Plague. ''(Whipping Egyptian slaves)'' Those Egyptians were trying to steal precious artifacts from the British museum. ''(Atop a unicorn, close to a Tyrannosaurus)'' Well, that-- that was just an accident. :'''Melissa''': Mr. Halen, these pictures prove you're tens of thousands of years old. :'''Dan Halen''': Melissa... :'''Melissa''': What do you say to these charges? :'''Dan Halen''': I don't recall. :'''Melissa''': You don't recall that you're a living embodiment of evil? :'''Dan Halen''': Uh, no. No, I don't recall that. :'''Melissa''': A plague on humanity from the beginning of time? :'''Dan Halen''': Mmm...no. No, I don't recall. :'''Melissa''': We have film evidence. We have pictures. :'''Dan Halen''': Come on! :'''Melissa''': What could you possibly say to these charges, Mr. Halen? :'''Dan Halen''': I'm sorry, but I'm not equipped to reach a conclusion regarding that assessment at this time. And what's more, let me add that I ''will'' explode your head for saying that. :'''Melissa''': Mr. Hal... (Her head explodes) :'''Dan Halen''': Yes, there's no such thing as a free necklace, muckraker. ===Flight of the Deep Fried Pine Booby=== :'''Early''': Granny, that which you babble on makes no damn sense to anybody ===An Officer and a Dental Dam=== :'''Dan Halen''': I should have put it together. The copious references to [[w:Ric Flair|"Nature Boy" Ric Flair]] and former Black Crowes bassist Johnny Colt. Hell, Halen, they're written on waffle bar napkins. Where was my analytical mind?! ===The Okaleechee Dam Jam=== :'''Early:''' Hell yeah. You stepped up. You handled your business! ===Mud Days and Confused=== :'''Rusty''': Hey little possum! Can I feed him, daddy? :'''Early''': Knock yourself out. ---- :'''Dan Halen''': Oh hey there, Someone's ears are burning. We are just talking about you-- ''[Giant corn monster rips Dan Halen in half]'' AAAHH!! :'''Giant Corn Monster''': ''[picks ups Sherrif]'' Hello. :'''Sherrif''': Wassup? :'''Giant Corn Monster''': Nice face painting. :'''Sherrif''': Yeah. Well, It's supposed to be [[Spider-Man]]. Also supposed to be temporary. ==Season 4== ===Lerm [4.1]=== :'''Lerm''': Death to America! ===The Liar, the Bitch and the Bored Rube [4.2]=== :'''Early''': Listen here. Readings don't never not done nothing for not NOBODY! <hr width='50%'> :'''Granny''': I think you mean 'not nonebody'. <hr width='50%'> :'''Early''': Excuse me, not nonebody. Never not no one, didn't about no reason, not never, and by God they never not ain't gonna will! ===The Big Gay Throwdown [4.6]=== :'''Sheriff''': You're under arrest for entrapment...of my heart." :'''Earlie Cuyler''': "You hate what you fear and, you fear what you don't understand. ===God's Bro [4.8]=== :'''Dan Halen''': Do you think this is the only illegal thing I have to do today? <hr width='50%'> :'''Dan Halen''': Allow me to pose a hypothesis. Say, hypothetically, I... slayed a prostitute during an 8-Ball fuelled weekend of debauchery. I know, it sounds silly but bear with me. Would this hole in space-time be a good place for such a hypothetical and now very lifeless body? <hr width='50%'> :'''Dan Halen''': I've tailored your film to appeal to the local populous... as they drag their jaws through the street like common simians. <hr width='50%'> :'''Dr. Horny''': I'm Doctor Horny, and you know what that means; I love poon-tang... but enough about your Mom! == Season 5== ===Young, Dumb and Full of Gums [5.4]=== :'''Early''': I like the way the tiny food bits mix with my spit, and get all soft so I can swallow em down my neck tube. ===Frivolacious Squidigation [5.6]=== :'''Granny''': A fool and his money... :'''Earlie Cuyler''': Together again! ===America: Why I Love Her [5.10]=== :''[Sheriff and Early drive away from an al-Qaeda camp, leaving Rusty behind]'' :'''Sheriff''': Well, uh, Early, I'm sure glad Rusty found him some playmates there, uh... Dangerously older than him. :'''Early''': Aw, ain't nothing going to happen. He ain't very sexy with that damn acne. Ain't nobody going to get in line for a piece of that. :''[a blue bird flies into the front windshield of Sheriff's patrol car, causing it to crash] :'''Blue Bird''': ''[starts singing] Ain't it odd, :''[Blue Bird pulls itself out of the windshield] :''that a house of God.'' :''[a red bird flies onto the hood of the wrecked patrol car] :'''Red Bird''': ''[starts singing] Looks like a facade, :''for training death squads :''and claiming jihad? :'''Blue and Red Bird''': ''[singing together]'' ''We're just sayin', :''ain't it odd? :'''Sheriff''': Uh, you know, these singin’ birds have got kind of a point, there. :'''Early''': Yep. Only two sources I trust: Glenn Beck and singin' woodland creatures. :''[Early gets out of the wrecked patrol car and starts singing] Listen to the animals,'' :''for a better understandin'. :'''The Animals''': ''[all the Animals start singing] The Holocaust was faked. :'''Goat''': ''So was the moon landin'. :'''Raccoon''': ''Now what about Obama, :''and his birth cer-tifi-gate? :''He was born in Hawaii, :''that ain't no god-derned state. :'''The Animals''': ''He was born in Hawaii, :''that ain't no god-derned state. :'''Goat''': ''Lee Harvey Oswald did not kill JFK. :''He's a giant cyborg, :''built by the CIA. :''[a giant cyborg JFK is seen destroying a city]'' :'''Cyborg JFK''': Ich bin ein immortal. :'''Beavers''': ''There's a government receiver, :''implanted in your brain. :''[a Beaver draw an "X" on Early's forehead]'' :'''Early''': ''I get my news from this beaver, :''so I know I ain't insane. :''[Early pulls out a hammer and uses it to hit the "X" on his forehead]'' :'''Blue Bird''': ''Listen to the animals, :''if you want to hear the truth. :'''Beaver''': ''We got a quarter horse, :''who aint a puppet for the Jews. :'''Early''': ''A little birdie told me :'''Red Bird''': ''[sings in Early's ear] Penicillin gives you AIDS.'' :'''The Animals''': ''Don't ever go to the doctor. :'''Raccoon''': ''They're gonna shoot you up with AIDS. :'''Red Bird and Squirrel''': ''Make your paper money gold, :''buy yourself a bunch of guns. :''Build a fortified compound, :''for when the revenuers come. :''[Red Bird, Squirrel, and Early, armed with a gun, are on the roof of his "fortified compound", when Sheriff tries to talk to him]'' :'''Sheriff''': Now Early, I wouldn't- :''[Sheriff falls into a camouflaged pit]'' :'''Red Bird and Raccoon''': ''Steal yourself an airplane, :''crash it into city hall. :''[Early flies a plane, with Red Bird and Raccoon, and crashes it into city hall]'' :''Keep a rambling manifesto, :''you're gonna educate'em all. :''[Raccoon unfurls a long manifesto]'' :'''Sheriff''': Early, I wouldn't trust any of these animals, to tell you the truth. :''[the Animals grab Sheriff and take him away]'' :'''The Animals''': ''Don't talk to no police. :'''Squirrel''': ''[singing underneath Early's hat] They're working with the government.'' :'''The Animals''': Everyone is out to get you, :''you gotta kill em all dead. :''[Red and Blue Bird give Early a gun]'' :'''Rabbit''': ''Remember back when Florida, :''had all them hangin' chads. :''Should've been a damn recount... :''[all the Animals stop singing and look at the Rabbit]'' :'''Rabbit''': What? Well, Gore won the popular vote, and he shoulda had a recount, I think. :''[Early blows his head off]'' :'''Early''': Talkin' animals. That don't make no damn sense. ==Season 6== === Absestos I Can [6.1] === :'''Sherrif''': I don't know what to say, Glenn. Put yourself in his shoes. I mean, It's what he wanted. :'''Glenn''': But it's my wife. :'''Glenn's Wife''': And I don't want to do this. === Ballmart === == Season 7 == === Rusty and Tammi Sitting in a Tree, B-A-S-T-A-R-D === ===From Russia With Stud [7.6]=== :'''Earlie''': I got my man cave back! == Season 8 == === Thou Shale Not Drill === '''P-Nut''': That thing’s for real? '''Dan Halen''': Shoot him! Shoot him, Sheriff! Shoot him at once. Where are you going? '''Sheriff''': He knows I didn’t eat my okra! Mac and cheese should count as a vegetable. Hell, it’s listed as a side! '''Early Cuyler''': My crib! '''Granny Cuyler''': Ohh! '''Rusty Cuyler''': Granny! Granny! No! '''Granny Cuyler''': Wait, no! Don’t shoot! Nobody shoot! I think this -- This savage critter… Sees a love in me that only exists -- '''Early Cuyler''': That’s it! Keep him busy with your chewiness! '''Rusty Cuyler''': P-Nut! No! '''Red Whiskered Shaleamander''': Did you eat your okras? '''P-Nut''': Yeah, Doc. Yeah, yeah. '''Red Whiskered Shaleamander''': Don’t you lie to me! '''P-Nut''': I love you, too. It’s good. With the cornmeal and -- '''Red Whiskered Shaleamander''': Let me smell your breath! '''P-Nut''': Easy. I just had a mint. So it’s gonna switch up the flavor, okay? '''Red Whiskered Shaleamander''': You didn’t eat no okras, did ya? '''P-Nut''': Wait! '''Red Whiskered Shaleamander''': Okras good for you! '''P-Nut''': What wha… '''Lil Cuyler''': Baby, noooo! '''Rusty Cuyler''': P-Nut! '''Dan Halen''': Okay. So…We good here? Recommence the fracking! == Season 9== ==Season 10== === The Peep [10.4] === '''Sheriff''': I’m just saying what everyone thinking -- Black people make Chinese food for a living. It’s one hell of a world, ain’t it? '''Granny Cuyler''': No one’s thinking that! You’re out of touch, you weirdo! Ow, ow! '''Early Cuyler''': Hey, Sheriff, do that there funny joke where you blow your face off. That’s a good ’un! '''Sheriff''': No, my craniofacial surgeon told me I should phase out that of my set. So I guess y’all just got served! :'''Denny''': ''[with a hole in his mug, coffee falls out of his mug, and his blood comes out of his body]'' Stop using your firearm as a microphone. Damn, I ain't even playing now. ''[Falls over]'' === Vicki === == Season 11 == === The Guzzle Bumpkin === ==Season 12== ===Events by Russel=== '''Early Cuyler''': I’m gonna kill the old-fashioned way. '''Rusty Cuyler''': You are quotin’ “[[Road House (1989 film)|Roadhouse!]]” '''Early Cuyler''': Damn, boy! I thought you was good! '''Rusty Cuyler''': Stop…Quoting… “Roadhouse!” Aa-a-a-a-a-h! '''Sheriff''': Damn, Rusty. '''Deputy Denny''': Uh, you’re under arrest. I mean, it’s illegal to pull out your daddy’s -- Aah! '''Rusty Cuyler''': Aa-a-a-a-a-h! '''Ellis''': What happened to the fun, Rusty? Yah! Aah! '''Rusty Cuyler''': Aa-a-a-a-a-h! '''Sheriff''': Seems risky to say this since you’re in a mood, but how’d you learn to rip throats out? '''Rusty Cuyler''': Yah! '''Sheriff''': Please don’t. Please d-- Aah! '''Rusty Cuyler''': Aah! '''Granny Cuyler''': I’m ready to die. '''Rusty Cuyler''': Aah! Aa-a-a-a-a-h! I’m so sorry for ripping out everybody’s throat out. I guess I just snapped. '''Ellis''': It’s alright, Rusty. I lost my bar, but it was worth it. That party was goat. '''Early Cuyler''': ‘Preciate you, Ellis. '''Sheriff''': I’m glad you ripped my throat out, Rusty. I had a tumor in there from a lifetime of smoking. '''Granny Cuyler''': I’m glad you ripped my throat out, too. Because I just like to fit in. '''Early Cuyler''': I told you I’d show people a good time. '''Deputy Denny''': That party was off the hook -- And off the chain. '''Sheriff''': The whole hook, chain, whatever apparatus connected you to something -- Gone. '''Granny Cuyler''': Yeah, whatever chain we were on. We’re off it now. '''Sheriff''': Bring in the chains, referee. Let’s measure it. ‘Cause I think we got first down -- Of good times. '''Granny Cuyler''': Who let the Dogs out? Early, that’s who, he took off their chains. That explains how they got out. '''Sheriff''': Ha ha ha. Anything with chains. '''Electronic Voice''': Made in Georgia. == Season 13 == ===This Show Was Called Squidbillies [13.10]=== :'''Narrator''': And so Rusty moved with Tammy and Macho Man to Elberton, thus hopefully breaking the cycle of poverty and abuse. Early would swear to exact his revenge, but like many things in Early's life, he never followed through, deeming Elberton too close to the edge of the flat earth and not worth scaling an ice wall to tangle with dragons. 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The only such summary pages now regularly updated are those linked to '''[[QOTD by month]]''' where monthly listings of the layouts used are provided from November 2007 onward. __NOTOC__ === QOTD index === :<small> Note: In the first few months of the Wikiquote project a new "Quote of the Day" was not always selected for each day, and sometimes several days would pass before a new one was chosen. </small> '''2003''' : January - February - March - April - May - June - [[#July 2003|July]] - [[#August 2003|August]] - [[#September 2003|September]] - [[#October 2003|October]] - [[#November 2003|November]] - [[#December 2003|December]] '''2004''' : [[#January 2004|January]] - [[#February 2004|February]] - [[#March 2004|March]] - [[#April 2004|April]] - [[#May 2004|May]] - [[#June 2004|June]] - [[#July 2004|July]] - [[#August 2004|August]] - [[#September 2004|September]] - [[#October 2004|October]] - [[#November 2004|November]] - [[#December 2004|December]] '''2005''' : [[#January 2005|January]] - [[#February 2005|February]] - [[#March 2005|March]] - [[#April 2005|April]] - [[#May 2005|May]] - [[#June 2005|June]] - [[#July 2005|July]] - [[#August 2005|August]] - [[#September 2005|September]] - [[#October 2005|October]] - [[#November 2005|November]] - [[#December 2005|December]] '''2006''' : [[#January 2006|January]] - [[#February 2006|February]] - [[#March 2006|March]] - [[#April 2006|April]] - [[#May 2006|May]] - [[#June 2006|June]] - [[#July 2006|July]] - [[#August 2006|August]] - [[#September 2006|September]] - [[#October 2006|October]] - [[#November 2006|November]] - [[#December 2006|December]] '''2007''' : [[#January 2007|January]] - [[#February 2007|February]] - [[#March 2007|March]] - [[#April 2007|April]] - [[#May 2007|May]] - [[#June 2007|June]] - [[#July 2007|July]] - [[#August 2007|August]] - [[#September 2007|September]] - [[#October 2007|October]] - [[#November 2007|November]] - [[#December 2007|December]] '''2008''' : [[#January 2008|January]] - [[#February 2008|February]] - [[#March 2008|March]] - [[#April 2008|April]] - [[#May 2008|May]] - [[#June 2008|June]] - [[#July 2008|July]] - [[#August 2008|August]] - [[#September 2008|September]] - [[#October 2008|October]] - [[#November 2008|November]] - [[#December 2008|December]] '''2009''' : [[#January 2009|January]] - [[#February 2009|February]] - [[#March 2009|March]] - [[#April 2009|April]] - [[#May 2009|May]] - [[#June 2009|June]] - [[#July 2009|July]] - [[#August 2009|August]] - [[#September 2009|September]] - [[#October 2009|October]] - [[#November 2009|November]] - [[#December 2009|December]] '''2010''' : [[#January 2010|January]] - [[#February 2010|February]] - [[#March 2010|March]] - [[#April 2010|April]] - [[#May 2010|May]] - [[#June 2010|June]] - [[#July 2010|July]] - [[#August 2010|August]] - [[#September 2010|September]] - [[#October 2010|October]] - [[#November 2010|November]] - [[#December 2010|December]] '''2011''' : [[#January 2011|January]] - [[#February 2011|February]] - [[#March 2011|March]] - [[#April 2011|April]] - [[#May 2011|May]] - [[#June 2011|June]] - [[#July 2011|July]] - [[#August 2011|August]] - [[#September 2011|September]] - [[#October 2011|October]] - [[#November 2011|November]] - [[#December 2011|December]] '''2012''' : [[#January 2012|January]]<!-- - [[#February 2012|February]] - [[#March 2012|March]] - [[#April 2012|April]] - [[#May 2012|May]] - [[#June 2012|June]] - [[#July 2012|July]] - [[#August 2012|August]] - [[#September 2012|September]] - [[#October 2012|October]] - [[#November 2012|November]] - [[#December 2012|December]] --> See also: '''[[QOTD by month]] - [[Wikiquote:Quotes of the Year|Quotes of the Year]]''' ==July 2003 == :11. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. ~ [[Martin Luther King]] <small> (This was the first "Quote of the Day" at Wikiquote, selected by [[User:Nanobug|Nanobug]] on [[11 July]] [[2003]].) </small> <!-- User:Nanobug remained the primary QOTD selector until November 2003, when User:Kalki began making most selections, and eventually created the first pages for listing suggestions in June 2004. There was no ranking system for suggestions prior to June 2005 when at the promptings of User:MosheZadka, one was created by Kalki, based upon options made available by the extensive work of Maverick149 in January 2005, and some ideas first proposed by Kalki at that time. Selections other than those made by Nanobug or Kalki prior to July 2004, when selection pages were protected against vandalism, will be noted on this page in hidden "trivia" comments such as this one. --> :12. It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. ~ [[Harry S. Truman]] :14. If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it? ~ [[Albert Einstein]] :15. Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so. ~ [[Bertrand Russell]] :16. Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. ~ [[Oscar Wilde]] :17. All animals are equal — but some animals are more equal than others. ~ ''[[Animal Farm]]'' by [[George Orwell]] :18. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time; and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. ~ ''[[Macbeth]]'' by [[William Shakespeare]] :20. I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race. ~ ''Education and the Social Order'' by [[Bertrand Russell]] <!-- selected by User:Gaurav --> :21. The barge she sat in, like a burnishd throne, burnd on the water; the poop was beaten gold, purple the sails, and so perfumed, that the winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made the water which they beat to follow faster, as amorous of their strokes. For her own person, it beggard all description ~ (Enobarbus, II.ii) ''[[Antony and Cleopatra]]'' by [[William Shakespeare]] :22. One can no more prevent the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. In the case of the sailor, this is called a tide; in the case of the guilty, it is called remorse. ~ ''[[Les Miserables]]'' by [[Victor Hugo]] :23. I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.' ~ [[Winston Churchill]] :24. This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. ~ [[Will Rogers]] :25. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. ~ [[Albert Einstein]] :27. I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq. ~ [[Paul Wolfowitz]] :29. The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free. ~ [[Henry David Thoreau]] :30. On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. ~ [[Charles Babbage]] :31. History would be an excellent thing if only it were true. ~ [[Leo Tolstoy]] == August 2003 == :1. Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. ~ [[Aristotle]] :4. I can't die. It would ruin my image. ~ [[Jack La Lanne]] :5. Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. ~ [[Edsger Dijkstra]] :6. When the weight of the paperwork equals the weight of the plane, the plane will fly. ~ [[Donald Douglas]] :7. It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word. ~ [[Andrew Jackson]] :8. A man said to the Universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the Universe, "the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation." ~ [[Stephen Crane]] :9. The battle of the sexes will never be won as long as we keep sleeping with the enemy. ~ [[Emo Phillips]] :12. A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular. ~ [[Adlai Stevenson]] :13. As long as I am mayor of this city the great industries are secure. We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, 'That man is a Red, that man is a Communist.' You never hear a real American talk like that. ~ [[Frank Hague]] :14. I never met a man so stupid I could not learn something from him. ~ [[Galileo Galilei]] :15. Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. ~ [[Harry Emerson Fosdick]] :17. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one. ~ [[Marilyn Monroe]] :18. It's a thingy! A fiendish thingy! ~ ''Help'' by [[George Harrison]] :19. There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience. ~ [[Hartley Shawcross]] :21. Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. ~ [[Aesop]] :22. I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. ~ [[Elvis Presley]] :23. The conservation movement is a breeding ground of Communists and other subversives. We intend to clean them out, even if it means rounding up every bird watcher in the country. ~ [[John Mitchell]] :25. What can be said at all can be said clearly. ~ [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]] :26. One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. ~ ''[[Emma]]'' by [[Jane Austen]] :27. He caught glimpses of everything, but saw nothing. ~ ''Les Miserables'' by [[Victor Hugo]] :28. Certain old men prefer to rise at dawn, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach and otherwise mortifying the flesh. They then point with pride to these practices as the cause of their sturdy health and ripe years; the truth being that they are hearty and old, not because of their habits, but in spite of them. The reason we find only robust persons doing this thing is that it has killed all the others who have tried it. ~ ''[[The Devil's Dictionary]]'' by [[Ambrose Bierce]] :29. I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it. ~ [[Clarence Darrow]] :31. Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians. ~ [[Chester Bowles]] == September 2003 == :2. ''Ars longa, vita brevis.'' ("Art is long, life is short.") ~ [[Horace]] :3. There's nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos. ~ [[Jim Hightower]] :4. Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old. ~ [[Jonathan Swift]] :5. Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe ... every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy. ~ [[Hannes Alfven]] :8. Dare to be naïve. ~ [[Buckminster Fuller]] :9. What's another word for Thesaurus? ~ [[Steven Wright]] :10. It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant. ~ [[Richard Ferris]] <!-- selected by User:Fonzy --> :11. Never burn a penny candle looking for a halfpenny. ~ [[Irish proverbs|Irish proverb]] :12. Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true. ~ [[Niels Bohr]] :15. ''Our chiefs said 'Done,' and I did not deem it; <br> Our seers said 'Peace,' and it was not peace; <br> Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, <br> And wars more evil, ere all wars cease.'' <br> ~ "A Song of Defeat" by [[Gilbert Keith Chesterton]] ~ :16. One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power. ~ ''[[Human, All Too Human]]'' by [[Friedrich Nietzsche]] :17. It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens. ~ [[Woody Allen]] :18. Remember that time is money. ~ [[Benjamin Franklin]] :22. I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read. ~ [[Samuel Johnson]] :23. When smashing monuments, save the pedestals — they always come in handy. ~ [[Stanislaw Jerzy Lec]] :24. Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved. ~ [[Niccolo Machiavelli]] :25. As for the future, your task is not to forsee it, but to enable it. ~ [[Antoine de Saint-Exupery]] :26. We have a firm commitment to NATO; we are a '''part''' of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe; we are a '''part''' of Europe. ~ [[Dan Quayle]] :27. You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long. ~ [[Boris Yeltsin]] :28. If homosexuality is a disease, let's all call in queer to work. 'Hello, can't work today. Still queer.' ~ [[Robin Tyler]]<!-- selected by User:Basil Fawlty --> :29. Outside of the killings, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. ~ [[Marion Barry]] <!-- selected by User:Basil Fawlty --> == October 2003 == :3. ''We shall not cease from exploration <br> And the end of all our exploring <br> Will be to arrive where we started <br> And know the place for the first time.'' <br> ~ [[T. S. Eliot]] in ''[[The Four Quartets]]'' ~ :6. That man is an Euclidian point: position without substance. ~ [[Ernest Rutherford]] :7. One of the basic tenets of Zen Buddhism is that there is no way to characterize what Zen is. No matter what verbal space you try to enclose Zen in, it resists, and spills over... ~ ''Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid'' by [[Douglas Hofstadter]] :8. We've moved away from being a culture of people who think about movies to one made up of people who believe that spouting a list of preferences is the same as registering an opinion. ~ [[Stephanie Zacharek]] <!-- Last QOTD selected by User:Nanobug --> :10. The reason that clichés become clichés is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication. ~ [[Terry Pratchett]] <!-- selected by User:Jimregan --> :11. We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately" - [[Benjamin Franklin]] <!-- selected by User:Jimregan --> :13. Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect. ~ [[Linus Torvalds]] <!-- selected by IP 68.227.198.159 --> :17. Sex is only dirty if it's done right. ~ [[Woody Allen]] <!-- selected by IP 195.100.67.10 --> :18. He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you. ~ [[Friedrich Nietzsche]] <!-- selected by User:Paullusmagnus --> :19. I really believe that if there's any kind of God, he wouldn't be in any one of us — not you, not me, but just this space in between. If there's some magic in this world, it must be in the attempt of understanding someone else, sharing something. ~ ''[[Before Sunrise]]'' (motion picture) <!-- selected by User:Scarequotes, this is actually the longest duration "Quote of the day" — remaining up as QOTD for 12 days, from October 19th - 31st --> == November 2003 == :1. God is an Iron ~ [[Spider Robinson]] <!-- selected by User:Moby --> :7. Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. ~ [[Anaïs Nin]] <!-- Selected by User:Kalki, who becomes the primary selector of QOTDs from this point on, though not making selections on a daily basis until January 2004. --> :12. The Enlightened take things Lightly. ~ [[Principia Discordia]] :14. The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs. ~ [[George Eliot]] :17. A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. This every sister of the Bene Gesserit knows. ~ [[Frank Herbert]] in ''[[Dune]]'' :19. One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility. ~ [[Eleanor Roosevelt]] :24, A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. ~ [[Mohandas Gandhi]] :27. If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'Thank You', that would suffice. ~ [[Meister Eckhart]] :28. Security is mostly a superstition... Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. ~ [[Helen Keller]] == December 2003 == :1. For myself, I am an optimist — it does not seem to be much use being anything else. ~ [[Winston Churchill]] :3. I have never let my schooling get in the way of my education. ~ [[Mark Twain]] <!-- selected by User:Basil Fawlty --> :4. I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death. ~ [[George Carlin]] <!-- selected by IP 68.227.198.159 --> :6. What we cannot speak of we must pass over in silence. ~ [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]] <!-- selected by User:Snoyes --> :9. If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong. I do not say give them up, for they may be all you have, but conceal them like a vice lest they spoil the lives of better and simpler people. ~ [[Robert Louis Stevenson]] :11. Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps. ~ [[Emo Phillips]] :15. Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. ~ [[Pierre Teilhard de Chardin]] :17. Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. ~ [[Bertrand Russell]] :18. That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as anothers. We see so much only as we possess. ~ [[Henry David Thoreau]] :21. We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it. ~ [[Thomas Jefferson]] :24. Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven. ~ [[Jesus|Yeshua (Jesus Christ)]] :27. The time is always right to do what is right ~ [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]] :30. They were nothing like the French people I had imagined. If anything, they were too kind, too generous and too knowledgable in the fields of plumbing and electricity. ~ [[David Sedaris]] <!-- selected by User:Basil Fawlty --> :31. I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. ~ [[Friedrich Nietzsche]] <!-- selected by User:Basil Fawlty --> == January 2004 == :1. Jackie Biskupski is running for a seat in the Utah Legislature, and she's attracting a lot of attention because she's a lesbian. Her Republican opponent, Dan Alderson, is a staunch Mormon, and is running a negative ad campaign calling her lifestyle abnormal and deviant. His six wives agree. ~ [[Rick Mercer]], ''[[This Hour Has 22 Minutes]]'' (12 October 1998) <!-- selected by IP 138.88.194.75 --> :2. Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. ~ [[Albert Einstein]] <!-- selected by User:Basil Fawlty --> :3.''Ring out a slowly dying cause, <br/> And ancient forms of party strife; <br/> Ring in the nobler modes of life, <br/> With sweeter manners, purer laws.'' <br/> ~ [[Alfred, Lord Tennyson]] ~ :5. Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense. ~ [[Carl Sagan]] :6. All of humanity is in peril of extinction if each one of us does not dare, now and henceforth, always to tell only the truth, and all the truth, and to do so promptly — right now. ~ [[Buckminster Fuller]] :7.Truth alone will endure; all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time. ~ [[Mohandas Gandhi]] :8. True Love in this differs from gold and clay, That to divide is not to take away. Love is like understanding, that grows bright, Gazing on many truths. ~ [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]] :9 Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased — thus do we refute entropy. ~ [[Spider Robinson]] :12. Dignity does not come in possessing honors, but in deserving them. ~ [[Aristotle]] :13. There may be love without jealousy, but there is none without fear. ~ [[Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra|Miguel de Cervantes]] :14. Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy — in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other ~ [[Robert Heinlein]] in ''[[Stranger In A Strange Land]]'' :15. There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. ... There is another theory which states that this has already happened. ~ [[Douglas Adams]] :16. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. ~ [[Arthur C. Clarke]] :19. Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic. ~ [[Frank Herbert]] in ''[[Dune]]'' :20. No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another ~ [[Thomas Browne|Sir Thomas Browne]] :21. Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable. ~ [[G. K. Chesterton]] :22. I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. ~ [[Douglas Adams]] :23. All the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love. ~ [[Eleanor Farjeon]] :26. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. ~ [[Albert Camus]] :27. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. ~ [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]] : [[The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' :29. I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good thing, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow human being let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. ~ [[Stephen Grellet]] == February 2004== :2. My years are not advancing as fast as you might think. ~ [[Bill Murray]] as "Phil" in [[Groundhog Day]] :3. The things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done. ~ [[Buckminster Fuller]] :4. If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel. ~ [[Jim Morrison]] :5. Do what you can, with what you have, where you are ~ [[Theodore Roosevelt]] :6. To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty, and leave the rest for others that come after you, than to explain all things. ~ [[Isaac Newton]] :9. Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. ~ [[Eric Hoffer]] <!-- Selected by User:Moby --> :10. Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events, the two latter are of less frequent occurrence. ~ [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe|Goethe]] in ''[[The Sorrows of Young Werther]]'' :11. Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. ~ [[George Santayana]] :12. If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can make the world safe for diversity. ~ [[John F. Kennedy]] :14. True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. ~ [[Antoine de Saint-Exupery]] :16. I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. ~ [[E. E. Cummings|e. e. cummings]] :17. Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be. ~ [[Anonymous]] <!-- Selected by User:Sasha --> :18. What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts. ~ [[George Bernard Shaw]] :19. Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us ~ [[Bill Watterson]] :20. There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom. Friendship loves a free Air, and will not be penned up in streight and narrow Enclosures. It will speak freely, and act so too; and take nothing ill where no ill is meant; nay, where it is, ’twill easily forgive, and forget too, upon small Acknowledgments. ~ [[William Penn]] :21. Careful the things you say, children will listen. Guide them along the way, children will see and learn. Children may not obey, but children will look to you for which way to turn; to learn what to be! Careful before you say "Listen to Me." Children will listen. ~ ''[[Into the Woods]]'' (Sondheim/Lapine) <!-- Selected by IP 172.161.111.38 --> :22. The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. ~ [[Isaac Asimov]] :23. Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~ [[Dr. Seuss]] :24. Ethics and Aesthetics are one. ~ [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]] :25. An amicable divorce is like a ventilated condom; it just doesn't work. ~ [[Rita Rudner]]<!-- Selected by IP 172.161.111.38 --> :26. An interesting thing has happened since San Francisco started granting marriage licenses to same-sex couples: my marriage is just fine! Even though there are thousands of gay and lesbian couples affirming their love for and commitment to each other, my marriage — my affirmation of love and commitment to (my wife) — isn't threatened at all. As a matter of fact, the only people who can really "threaten" my marriage are the two of us. ~ [[Wil Wheaton]] <!-- Selected by IP 172.143.235.101 [The IP range 172xxx... posted several quotes in the final few days of February and early March 2004. This same IP in the same day later posted a partially attributed misquotation, which I did not include in the standard record, as a second quote of this particular day: "In an enormous and cold universe, there is something comical to the idea that we can really enforce our will on humanity." ~ Danielewski (only the last name was given, of the author, Ann Danielewski, more often known as "Poe", who actually wrote: "This cannot be all that there is to life, because in our confrontation with an enormous and cold universe, there is something comical to the idea that we can really enforce our will on humanity."] --> :27. It must be so humiliating to have such a public break-up. ~ [[Ellen Degeneres]] to [[Justin Timberlake]] <!-- Selected by IP 172.152.255.195--> :28. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. ~ [[Oscar Wilde]] :29. Just because it's old doesn't mean you have to read it. ~ Jolene Sugarbaker, the Trailer Park Queen, as portrayed by actor [[Jayson Saffer]]. == March 2004== # Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think. ~ [[John Stuart Mill]] # We may afirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion. ~ [[Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel]] # It is only by preserving faith in human dreams that we may, after all, perhaps some day make them come true. ~ [[James Branch Cabell]] # The day may dawn when fair play, love for one's fellow men, respect for justice and freedom, will enable tormented generations to march forth triumphant from the hideous epoch in which we have to dwell. Meanwhile, never flinch, never weary, never despair. ~ [[Winston Churchill]] # When there is no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the Earth. ~ ''[[Dawn of the Dead (1978 film)|Dawn of the Dead]]'' (by [[George Romero]]). <!-- Selected by IP 172.170.76.22 --> # The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven. ~ [[John Milton]] # May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell. ~ [[Jorge Luis Borges]] # An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's. ~ [[J. D. Salinger]] # People often say to me, ‘I understand what you are talking about intellectually, but I don’t really feel it, I don’t realize it,' and I am apt to reply, ‘I wonder whether you do understand it intellectually, because if you did you would also feel it.' ~ [[Alan Watts]] # Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. ~ [[Carl Jung]] # To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed. That can make life a garden. ~ [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe|Goethe]] # Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it. ~ [[André Gide]] # The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility. ~ [[Charles Caleb Colton]] # I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace. ~ [[Helen Keller]] # I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against. ~ [[Malcolm X]] # Do not say, "I follow the one true path of the Spirit", but rather, "I have found the Spirit walking on my path", for the Spirit walks on all paths. ~ [[Khalil Gibran]] # Try to have a good day today, wherever you are, whatever you do, whoever is near, if no one is near. Try to be happy, because you may not see tomorrow. There is someone this morning, who didn't wake up, who will never see this day. Try to feel lucky that this is not you. ~ [[Margaret Cho]] <!-- Selected by IP 172.169.22.135 --> # I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. ~ [[Booker T. Washington]] # Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. ~ [[Ambrose Bierce]] in ''[[The Devil's Dictionary]]'' # Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you. ~ [[Samuel Johnson]] # Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' And Vanity comes along and asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But Conscience asks the question 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right. ~ [[Martin Luther King]] # The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. ~ [[Albert Einstein]] # It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry. ~ [[Thomas Paine]] # A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest form of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal in satisfying his vices. And it all comes from lying to others and to yourself. ~ [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]] # The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. ~ [[Aldous Huxley]] # In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest. ~ [[Aesop]] # If a man would pursue Philosophy, his first task is to throw away conceit. For it is impossible for a man to begin to learn what he has a conceit that he already knows. ~ [[Epictetus]] # Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. ~ [[Peter Ustinov]] # There's no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day ~ [[Alexander Woolcott]] # The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder. ~ [[Aeschylus|Æschylus]] == April 2004== # Years ago my mother used to say to me... 'In this world, Elwood, you must be Oh-so-smart, or Oh-so-pleasant.' Well, for years I was smart — I recommend pleasant. You may quote me. ~ [[Jimmy Stewart]] as Elwood P. Dowd in the film ''[[Harvey]]'' # In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life — ''It goes on.'' ~ [[Robert Frost]] # Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they might have been. ~ [[William Hazlitt]] # Where there is great love there are always miracles. ~ [[Willa Cather]] # Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it. ~ [[C.S. Lewis]] # There is no sincerer love than the love of food. ~ [[George Bernard Shaw]] <!-- Selected by User:Poor Yorick --> # The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of hell. ~ [[Saint Augustine]]<!-- Selected by User:Poor Yorick --> # Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous. ~ [[Zhuang Zi]] # The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. ~ [[John Vance Cheney]] # Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind. ~ [[Henry James]] # A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another. ~ [[Jesus|Yeshua of Galilee (Jesus Christ)]] # Living next to [the US] is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered the beast, one is affected by every twitch and grunt. ~ [[Pierre Trudeau]]<!-- Selected by User:Poor Yorick --> # Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. ~ [[Friedrich Nietzsche]] # We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. ~ [[Kurt Vonnegut]] # The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr. ~ [[Will Rogers]] # Curse on all laws but those which love has made! ~ [[Alexander Pope]] # The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. ~ [[B. F. Skinner]] # The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one. ~ [[Bill Hicks]] # Materialists and madmen never have doubts. ~ [[G. K. Chesterton]] # Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. ~ [[Elbert Hubbard]] # It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. ~ [[Molière]] # I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart. ~ [[Anne Frank]] # The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go. ~ [[Martha Washington]] # In war, you win or lose, live or die — and the difference is just an eyelash. ~ [[Douglas MacArthur]] # Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. ~ [[Gautama Buddha]] # Nothing is better than the unintended humor of reality. ~ [[Steve Allen]] # When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. ~ [[Anatole France]] # The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own. ~ [[Benjamin Disraeli]] # Prejudice comes from being in the dark; sunlight disinfects it. ~ [[Muhammad Ali]] # Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. ~ [[Robert J. Hanlon]] == May 2004== # The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit; for like as herbs and trees bring forth fruit and flourish in May, in likewise every lusty heart that is in any manner a lover, springeth and flourisheth in lusty deeds. For it giveth unto all lovers courage, that lusty month of May. ~ [[Thomas Malory|Sir Thomas Malory]] # I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it. ~ [[Harry Emerson Fosdick]] # In nature's infinite book of secrecy a little I can read. ~ [[William Shakespeare]] in ''[[Antony and Cleopatra]]'' # The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return. ~ [[Eden Ahbez|eden ahbez]] # Everything in the universe relates to the number 5, one way or another, given enough ingenuity on the part of the interpreter. ~ ''[[Principia Discordia]]'', The Law of Fives # That best portion of a good man's life, — His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. ~ [[William Wordsworth]] # If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain. ~ [[Emily Dickinson]] # There are very few human beings who receive the truth , complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. ~ [[Anaïs Nin]] # All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her. ~ [[George Washington]] # There are worlds beyond worlds and times beyond times, all of them true, all of them real, and all of them (as children know) penetrating each other. ~ [[P. L. Travers]] # The integral vision embodies an attempt to take the best of both worlds, ancient and modern. But that demands a critical stance willing to reject unflinchingly the worst of both as well. ~ [[Ken Wilber]] # It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people. ~ [[Good Omens]] (by [[Neil Gaiman|Gaiman]] & [[Terry Pratchett|Pratchett]]) # I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. ~ [[William Faulkner]] # In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad. ~ [[Freeman Dyson]] # In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind. ~ [[Louis Pasteur]] # If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; if we begin with doubts, and are patient, we shall end in certainties. ~ [[Marcus Aurelius]] # Explanations exist; they have existed for all times, for there is always an easy solution to every human problems — neat, plausible, and wrong. ~ [[H. L. Mencken]] # Love me for love's sake, that evermore thou may'st love on, through love's eternity. ~ [[Elizabeth Barrett Browning]] # It is love alone that gives worth to all things. ~ [[Teresa of Avila|St. Teresa of Avila (Teresa de Jesús)]] # No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker. ~ [[Mikhail Bakunin]] # The road to wisdom? — Well, it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again but less and less and less. ~ [[Piet Hein]] # The way I see it, if you want the rainbow you gotta be willing to put up with the rain. ~ [[Dolly Parton]] # I try to make everyone's day a little more surreal. ~ [[Bill Watterson]] # The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. ~ [[Carl Jung]] # I got some ''new'' underwear the other day. Well, new to ''me''. ~ [[Emo Philips]] # Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed. ~ [[Joseph Addison]] # All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. ~ [[Arthur Schopenhauer]] # Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures — in this century, as in others, our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together. ~ [[Antoine de Saint-Exupery]] # A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. ~ [[Steven Wright]] # All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. ~ [[Edgar Allan Poe]] # There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. ~ [[Maya Angelou]] == June 2004== #In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him. ~ [[G. I. Gurdjieff]] # The difference between a hooker and a ho ain't nothin' but a fee. ~ [[Cheryl James]] ("Salt" of the rap group "Salt 'N' Pepa") <!-- Selected by IP 66.157.59.118 --> # There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative. ~ [[W. Clement Stone]] # We all have ability. The difference is how we use it. ~ [[Stevie Wonder]] # Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress. ~ [[Mohandas Gandhi|Mahatma Gandhi]] # Do nothing, and everything is done. ~ [[Lao Zi]]; ''Variant'': When nothing is done, nothing is left undone. <!-- These were sourced replacements made to what seemed to be an unsourced and poorer translation from the Tao Te Ching in the initial posting by IP 68.201.219.53: ""Do no work but get everything done."--> # Man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe. ~ [[Euripides]] # It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action. ~ [[Lin Yutang]] <!-- First QOTD proposals page created by Kalki on 8 June 2004 --> # A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. ~ [[David Hume]] # History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. ~ [[Ronald Reagan]] # Whatever else history may say about me when I’m gone, I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears; to your confidence rather than your doubts. My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty’s lamp guiding your steps and opportunity’s arm steadying your way. ~ [[Ronald Reagan]] # Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. ~ [[Robert Louis Stevenson]] # To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level. ~ [[Bertrand Russell]] <!-- This was the first selection to be made, from a "QOTD proposal" page - proposed by User:Sasha. (though a non-sysop selection was permitted 6 days later, and the selection pages were not actually protected until July when it was clear that vandalism was becoming a major problem). --> # Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice. ~ [[Arnold J. Toynbee]] # Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. ~ [[Albert Schweitzer]] #Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so. ~ [[Robert G. Ingersoll]] # Love loves to love love. ~ [[James Joyce]] in ''[[Ulysses]]'' # There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great. ~ [[G. K. Chesterton]] # I'm not a prettier everywoman. I am an everywoman that they clean up awfully well for TV. ~ [[Kelly Ripa]] <!-- Selected by IP 66.157.63.6, this was the last non-sysop selection permitted, prior to protecting the selection process in July 2004 --> # Vanity is so anchored in the heart of man that a soldier, a soldier's servant, a cook, a porter brags and wishes to have his admirers. Even philosophers wish for them. Those who write against it want to have the glory of having written well; and those who read it desire the glory of having read it. I who write this have perhaps this desire, and perhaps those who will read it... ~ [[Blaise Pascal]] # With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another. ~ [[Georg Christoph Lichtenberg]] # How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress. ~ [[Niels Bohr]] # Every man should be capable of all ideas. ~ [[Jorge Luis Borges]] # Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. ~ [[Alfred Whitney Griswold]] # Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out. ~ [[Hugh Latimer]] # It is circumstances which show what men are. ~ [[Epictetus]] # Faith and doubt both are needed — not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve. ~ [[Lillian Smith]] # They serve so that we don't have to. They offer to give up their lives so that we can be free. It is, remarkably, their gift to us. And all they ask for in return is that we never send them into harm's way unless it is absolutely necessary. Will they ever trust us again? ~ [[Michael Moore]] # How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read. ~ [[Karl Kraus]] # Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the tablets of eternity. ~ [[James Anthony Froude]] (long misattributed to [[John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton|Lord Acton]]) == July 2004== # A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity. ~ [[Eleanor Roosevelt]] # With great power comes great responsibility. ~ [[Stan Lee]] # You don't understand. I could'a had ''class''. I could'a been a ''contender''. ~ [[Marlon Brando]] as "Terry Malloy" in ''[[On the Waterfront]]'' # ''' ...for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor. '''~ closing lines of ''[[w:en:United States Declaration of Independence|The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States Of America]]'' written primarily by [[Thomas Jefferson]], and approved as an official document of united will and determination, July 4, 1776. # We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable; that all men are created equal & independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent & inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness. ~ [[Thomas Jefferson]] in an early draft of ''The Declaration of Independence.'' # '''When''' in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. ~ Opening statement of ''The Declaration of Independence'' of The United States of America, composed primarily by [[Thomas Jefferson]] # Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. ~ [[Søren Kierkegaard]] # Why is all around us here as if some lesser god had made the world, but had not force to shape it as he would, till the High God behold it from beyond, and enter it, and make it beautiful? Or else as if the world were wholly fair, but that these eyes of men are dense and dim, and have not power to see it as it is: perchance, because we see not to the close... ~ [[Alfred Tennyson|Alfred, Lord Tennyson]] in ''[[Idylls of the King]]'' # Why can't you harness Might so that it works for Right? I know it sounds nonsense, but, I mean, you can't just say there is no such thing. The Might is there, in the bad half of people, and you can't neglect it. You can't cut it out but you might be able to direct it, if you see what I mean, so that it was useful instead of bad. ~ [[T. H. White]] in ''[[The Once and Future King]]'' # You can't expect to wield ''supreme executive power'' just 'cause ''some watery tart'' threw a sword at you! ~ [[Michael Palin]] as "Dennis" in ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]'' # The old order changeth, yielding place to new, and God fulfils himself in many ways lest one good custom should corrupt the world. ~ [[Alfred Tennyson|Alfred, Lord Tennyson]] in ''[[Idylls of the King]]'' # What kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave. I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children — not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women — not merely peace in our time but peace for all time. ~ [[John F. Kennedy]] # Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity. ~ [[G. K. Chesterton]] # ''Laugh, and the world laughs with you; <br> Weep, and you weep alone. <br> For this brave old earth must borrow its mirth,<br> But has trouble enough of its own.'' <br> ~ [[Ella Wheeler Wilcox]] ~ # Thar’s only two possibilities: Thar is life out there in the universe which is smarter than we are, or we’re the most intelligent life in the universe. Either way, it’s a mighty sobering thought. ~ [[Walt Kelly]] # When we wish to correct with advantage and to show another that he errs, we must notice from what side he views the matter, for on that side it is usually true, and admit that truth to him, but reveal to him the side on which it is false. He is satisfied with that, for he sees that he was not mistaken and that he only failed to see all sides. ~ [[Blaise Pascal]] # ''Of all the creatures that creep, swim or fly, <br> Peopling the earth, waters and the sky, <br> From Rome to Iceland, Paris to Japan,<br> I really think, the greatest fool is man.'' <br> ~ [[Nicholas Boileau-Despreaux]] ~ # Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. ~ [[Charles Spurgeon|Charles H. Spurgeon]] # It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. ~ [[Mohandas Gandhi|Mahatma Gandhi]] # We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility. ~ [[Rabindranath Tagore]] # Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. ~ [[Elbert Hubbard]] # What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal. ~ [[John Howe (cleric)|John Howe]] # I'll tell you this — No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn. ~ [[Jim Morrison]] # Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, Lady, were no crime. ~ [[Andrew Marvell]] # If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is: Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern. ~ [[William Blake]] # Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands. It is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is. ~ [[Carl Jung]] # When I was a kid my parents used to tell me:'' "Don't go near the cellar door, Emo!" ''&nbsp; One day when they were away, I went to the door and opened it... &nbsp; and I saw ''birds and trees''... ~ [[Emo Philips]] # Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. ~ [[Oprah Winfrey]] # In all people I see myself, none more and not one a barley-corn less, and the good or bad I say of myself I say of them. ~ [[Walt Whitman]] in ''[[Leaves of Grass]]'' # I just know that something good is going to happen. I don't know when — but just saying it could even make it happen. ~ [[Kate Bush]] # Blue Moon, now I'm no longer alone, without a dream in my heart, without a love of my own. ~ [[Lorenz Hart]] == August 2004== # Called or uncalled, God is there. ~ Ancient proverb, said to be Spartan, popularized by [[Carl Jung]]<br> This is a translation of the Latin phrase ''Vocatus atque non vocatus, Deus aderit.'' which Jung used as an inscription on his house, and also on his tomb. It is also commonly translated as ''" Called or uncalled, God is present." '' or sometimes'' "Invoked or not invoked...", "Bidden or unbidden", or "Summoned or not summoned..." God is present.'' # All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts... ~ [[William Shakespeare]] in ''[[As You Like It]]'' # Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children. ~ [[Khalil Gibran]] # We are defined by how we use our power. ~ [[Gerry Spence]] # Your strength is but an accident arising from the weakness of others. ~ [[Joseph Conrad]] in ''Heart of Darkness'' # Character does count. For too long we have gotten by in a society that says the only thing right is to get by and the only thing wrong is to get caught. Character is doing what's right when nobody is looking... ~ [[J. C. Watts]] # A man should ''be'' upright, not ''kept'' upright. ~ [[Marcus Aurelius]] # It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion. ~ [[Tertullian]] # Long live freedom and damn the ideologies. ~ [[Robinson Jeffers]] # Nobody can be said to have attained the pinnacle of Truth until a thousand sincere people have denounced him for blasphemy. ~ [[Anthony de Mello]] # The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others. ~ [[Dag Hammarskjöld]] # There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble. ~ [[Washington Irving]] # Humour is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. ~ [[Romain Gary]] # Life itself is the proper binge. ~ [[Julia Child]] # ''Where is the Life we have lost in living? <br> Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? <br> Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?'' <br> ~ [[T. S. Eliot]] ~ # Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer. ~ [[Rainer Maria Rilke]] # Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved. ~ [[Søren Kierkegaard]] # The best mind-altering drug is the truth. ~ [[Lily Tomlin]] # Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. ~ [[Peter Ustinov]] # One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent. ~ [[H. L. Mencken]] # No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. ~ [[Thomas Carlyle]] # The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. ~ [[Mohandas Gandhi|Mahatma Gandhi]] # As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. ~ [[Oscar Wilde]] # Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. ~ [[Friedrich Schiller]] # It’s no use crying over spilt evils. It’s better to mop them up laughing. ~ [[Eleanor Farjeon]] # The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassions, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen. ~ [[Elisabeth Kübler-Ross]] # Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. ~ [[Elie Wiesel]] # It is better for a leader to make a mistake in forgiving than to make a mistake in punishing. ~ [[Muhammad]] # God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm. ~ [[William Cowper]] # There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. ~ [[Alfred Tennyson|Alfred, Lord Tennyson]] # Know Thyself ~ Ancient proverb that was inscribed upon the temple of the Oracle of Delphi. == September 2004== # There is no sudden entrance into Heaven. Slow is the ascent by the path of Love. ~ [[Ella Wheeler Wilcox]] # The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~ [[George Bernard Shaw]] # I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff — I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy. ~ [[J. D. Salinger]] in ''[[The Catcher in the Rye]]'' # The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails. ~ [[William Shakespeare]] in ''[[The Winter's Tale]]'' # Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received. ~ [[Seneca]] # In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood. ~ [[Henry David Thoreau]] # Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. ~ [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]] # I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear. ~ [[George Eliot]] # The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged — keep on — there are divine things, well envelop'd; I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell. ~ [[Walt Whitman]] in ''[[Leaves of Grass]]'' # He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows, nor judge all he sees. ~ [[Benjamin Franklin]] # Only tragedy allows the release of love and grief never normally seen. ~ [[Kate Bush]] # The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. ~ [[Carl Sagan]] # He, who will not reason, is a bigot; he, who cannot, is a fool; and he, who dares not, is a slave. ~ [[William Drummond]] # We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. ~ [[Anaïs Nin]] # The humbleness of a warrior is not the humbleness of the beggar. The warrior lowers his head to no one, but at the same time, he doesn’t permit anyone to lower his head to him. The beggar, on the other hand, falls to his knees at the drop of a hat and scrapes the floor to anyone he deems to be higher; but at the same time, he demands that someone lower than him scrape the floor for him. ~ [[Carlos Castaneda]] # The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one. ~ [[Wilhelm Stekel]] # A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world. ~ [[Tony Benn]] # The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God. ~ [[Andrew Dickson White]] # A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love... Something in him so loves the world that he gives himself to the laws of gravity and chance. Far from flying with the angels, he traces with the fidelity of a seismograph needle the state of the solid bloody landscape. His house is dangerous and finite, but he is at home in the world. He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love. ~ [[Leonard Cohen]] # What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil. ~ [[Friedrich Nietzsche]] in ''[[Beyond Good and Evil]]'' # Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. ~ [[H. G. Wells]] # At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols. ~ [[Aldous Huxley]] # Goodness alone is never enough. A hard cold wisdom is required, too, for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom invariably accomplishes evil. ~ [[Robert Heinlein]] in ''[[Stranger in a Strange Land]]'' # To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals. ~ [[William Penn]] # Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. ~ [[Blaise Pascal]] # We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. ~ [[Jonathan Swift]] # Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do. ~ [[Anonymous]] <br> The above variant was how this quotation was originally posted. It seems to be derived from this statement attributed to a specific author: Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. ~ [[Isaac Asimov]] # Love is the most important thing in the world. It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect. ~ [[Hermann Hesse]] # We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. ~ [[Henry Melvill]] (also widely misattributed to [[Herman Melville]]) # Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed. ~ [[William Blake]] == October 2004== # When you get to a fork in the road, take it. ~ [[Yogi Berra]] # Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. ~ [[Mae West]] # Given the choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier. ~ "Blore's Razor" (Author unknown) # As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher. ~ [[Giacomo Casanova]] # You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful. ~ [[Marie Curie]] # I don't get no respect! ~ [[Rodney Dangerfield]] # Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves. ~ [[U Thant]] # No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else. ~ [[Charles Dickens]] in ''Our Mutual Friend'' # Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. ~ [[Groucho Marx]] # You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence. ~ [[Robert Frost]] # I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me. All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet. ~ [[Wangari Maathai]] # So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. ~ [[Christopher Reeve]] # Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't. ~ [[Richard Bach]] # It is better to debate a question without deciding it than to decide it without debate. ~ [[Joseph Joubert]] # Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. ~ [[Margaret Mead]] # Nothing endures but change. ~ [[Heraclitus]] # ''Try not. '''Do.''' Or do not''. There is no try. ~ "Yoda" in ''[[Star Wars]] Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back'' # These children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through... ~ [[David Bowie]] # Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. ~ [[George Orwell]] in ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'' # I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives. ~ [[Leo Tolstoy]] # It doesn't matter if we were down 3-0. You've just got to keep the faith. The game is not over until the last out. ~ [[David Ortiz]] # There’s a time when a man needs to fight, and a time when he needs to accept that his destiny is lost, that the ship has sailed, and that only a fool would continue. The truth is, I’ve always been a fool. ~ [[Albert Finney]] as "Ed Bloom" in ''[[Big Fish]]'' # You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it. ~ [[Maya Angelou]] # Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live. ~ [[Dorothy Thompson]] # Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can. ~ [[John Wesley]] # I'm not against God. I'm against the misuse of God. ~ [[Marilyn Manson]] # The antagonism between science and religion, about which we hear so much, appears to me to be purely factitious — fabricated, on the one hand, by short-sighted religious people who confound a certain branch of science, theology, with religion; and, on the other, by equally short-sighted scientific people who forget that science takes for its province only that which is susceptible of clear intellectual comprehension; and that, outside the boundaries of that province, they must be content with imagination, with hope, and with ignorance. ~ [[Thomas Henry Huxley|T. H. Huxley]] # We're just being ourselves and having fun playing baseball. The biggest thing is when people look at our team, they can see that we're having a lot of fun. ~ [[Johnny Damon]] # The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination. ~ [[John Schaar]] # It’s always worthwhile to make others aware of their worth. ~ [[Malcolm Forbes]] # Merry meet, and merry part, and Blessed Be. ~ A pagan expression of blessing. == November 2004== # The progress of the intellect is to the clearer vision of causes, which neglects surface differences. To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine. ~ [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]] # We’d all like t’vote fer th’best man, but he’s never a candidate. ~ [[Kin Hubbard]] # I remain just one thing, and one thing only — and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician. ~ [[Charlie Chaplin]] # ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US. ~ CATS of ''[[Zero Wing]]'' # America has spoken, and I'm humbled by the trust and the confidence of my fellow citizens. ~ [[George W. Bush]] # The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made. ~ [[Jean Giraudoux]] # Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do. ~ [[Wendell Berry]] # It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy few hundred thousand? ~ [[Spider Robinson]] # ''"The time has come", the Walrus said, <br> "To talk of many things: <br> Of shoes — and ships — and sealing wax — <br> Of cabbages — and Kings — <br> And why the Sea is boiling hot — <br> And whether pigs have wings." '' <br> ~ [[Lewis Carroll]] in ''[[Through the Looking-Glass]]'' ~ # When war is declared, truth is the first casualty. ~ [[Arthur Ponsonby]] # All the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind. ~ [[Kurt Vonnegut]] # Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time. ~ [[Thomas Carlyle]] # Anyone who believes in God and the Last Day should not harm his neighbor. Anyone who believes in God and the Last Day should entertain his guest generously. And anyone who believes in God and the Last Day should say what is good or keep quiet. ~ [[Muhammad]] # If I want to understand something, I must observe, I must not criticize, I must not condemn, I must not pursue it as pleasure or avoid it as non-pleasure. There must merely be the silent observation of a fact. ~ [[J. Krishnamurti]] # Every now and then a clear harmonic cry gave new suggestions of a tune that would someday be the only tune in the world and would raise men's souls to joy. ~ [[Jack Kerouac]] in ''[[On The Road]]'' # When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. ~ [[Jimi Hendrix]] # There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. ~ [[Henry David Thoreau]] # Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation. ~ [[James Thurber]] # Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have. ~ [[Oprah Winfrey]] # The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous. ~ [[Margot Fonteyn]] # Fame is something which must be won; honor is something which must not be lost. ~ [[Arthur Schopenhauer]] # I'd rather be a climbing ape than a falling angel. ~ [[Terry Pratchett]] # Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. ~ [[Václav Havel]] # Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them. ~ [[Washington Irving]] # Show respect to all people and grovel to none. When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself. Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision. ~ [[Tecumseh]] # When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude. ~ [[Elie Wiesel]] # I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate. ~ [[Elbert Hubbard]] # Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. ~ [[George Washington]] # Find the good — and praise it. ~ [[Alex Haley]] # The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. ~ [[William James]] == December 2004== # Ooh, with a little luck — December will be magic again. ~ [[Kate Bush]] # Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail. ~ [[Helen Keller]] # The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society. ~ [[Emma Goldman]] # ''Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'<br> hierarchies? and even if one of them suddenly<br> pressed me against his heart, I would perish<br> in the embrace of his stronger existence. <br> For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror<br> which we are barely able to endure and are awed <br> because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.<br> Each single angel is terrifying.'' <br> ~ [[Rainer Maria Rilke]] ~ # To be a catalyst is the ambition most appropriate for those who see the world as being in constant change, and who, without thinking that they can control it, wish to influence its direction. ~ [[Theodore Zeldin]] # Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. ~ [[Samuel Butler]] # Oh, if a man tried to take his time on earth and prove before he died what one man's life could be worth, I wonder what would happen to this world? ~ [[Harry Chapin]] # You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one; I hope some day you'll join us, and the world will live as one. ~ [[John Lennon]] # Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. ~ [[Pierre Teilhard de Chardin]] # Whereas Member States have pledged themselves to achieve, in cooperation with the United Nations, the promotion of universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms,<br> Whereas a common understanding of these rights and freedoms is of the greatest importance for the full realization of this pledge,<br> Now, therefore, The General Assembly, Proclaims this Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations...<br> ~ From the ''Preamble'' of the ''[[Wikisource:Universal Declaration of Human Rights|Universal Declaration of Human Rights]]'' ~ <br> Adopted and proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly, 10 December 1948 # I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced that they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another. ~ [[Ellen Goodman]] # Every single moment of a person's life, both of the understanding and of the will, is a new beginning. ~ [[Emanuel Swedenborg]] # How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway... And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness! ~ [[Anne Frank]] # Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies. ~ ''[[Talmud|The Talmud]]'' # There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. ~ [[Albert Einstein]] # The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange. ~ [[G. K. Chesterton]] # ''From the ashes a fire shall be woken,<br> A light from the shadows shall spring,<br> Renewed shall be blade that was broken,<br> The crownless again shall be king.'' <br> ~ "Arwen" in the film ''[[The_Lord_of_the_Rings_%28Trilogy%29#The_Return_of_the_King_.282003.29|The Return of the King]]'' ~ <br> Based upon ''[[The Return of the King]]'' by [[J. R. R. Tolkien]]; In the novel ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' this statement first occurs in ''[[The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' (Book I, Chapter 10, "Strider") in a letter by Gandalf to Frodo. # ''The Tree that was withered shall be renewed, and he shall plant it in the high places, and the City shall be blessed. Sing all ye people!'' ~ [[J. R. R. Tolkien]]<br> From ''[[The Lord of the Rings]] : [[The Return of the King]]'' (Book VI, Chapter 5, "The Steward and the King"); in the novel this is a song of a great Eagle heralding the victory of Aragorn's forces against those of Sauron and the Dark Tower. # In the winter season, for seven days of calm, Alcyone broods over her nest on the surface of the waters while the sea-waves are quiet. Through this time Aeolus keeps his winds at home, and ocean is smooth for his descendants’ sake. ~ [[Ovid]] # The dark night of the soul comes just before revelation. When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed. ~ [[Joseph Campbell]] # i who have died am alive again today, and this is the sun's birthday... ~ [[E. E. Cummings|e. e. cummings]] # ''Good fortune attend each merry man's friend<br> That doth but the best that he may,<br> Forgetting old wrongs with carols and songs<br> To drive the cold winter away.'' <br> ~ "All Hail to The Days" (or "The Praise of Christmas") ~ <br> Traditional 17th century English carol # '' 'Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free,<br> 'Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be,<br> And when we find ourselves in the place just right,<br> 'Twill be in the valley of love and delight.'' <br> ~ [[Joseph Brackett]] ~ # '' I danced in the morning<br> When the world was begun,<br> And I danced in the moon<br> And the stars and the sun,<br> And I came down from heaven<br> And I danced on the earth,<br> At Bethlehem<br> I had my birth. <br> Dance, then, wherever you may be,<br> I am the Lord of the Dance, said he,<br> And I'll lead you all, wherever you may be,<br> And I'll lead you all in the Dance, said he.'' <br> ~ [[Sydney Carter]] ~ # You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free. ~ [[Jesus|Yeshua (Jesus Christ)]] # There isn't anyone ''any''where that isn't Seymour's Fat Lady. Don't you know that? Don't you know that goddam secret yet? And don't you know — ''listen'' to me, now — ''don't you know who that Fat Lady really is?'' . . . Ah, buddy. Ah, buddy. It's Christ Himself. Christ Himself, buddy. ~ [[J. D. Salinger]] # Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight — always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary? ~ [[J. M. Barrie]]<br> Wikiqoute Quote of the day for the 100th anniversary of the first public performance of ''[[w:Peter Pan|Peter Pan]]''. # Physics isn't the most important thing. Love is. ~ [[Richard Feynman]] (This statement has been discovered to very probably be a misattribution, and seems to have been created as part of a paraphrase of Feynman's note to the mother of [[w:Marcus Chown|Marcus Chown]]: "Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science — for to fill your heart with love is enough.") # I will make company with creators, with harvesters, with rejoicers; I will show them the rainbow and the stairway to the Superman. ~ [[Friedrich Nietzsche]] in ''[[Thus Spoke Zarathustra]]'' # ''I sometimes hold it half a sin <br> To put in words the grief I feel;<br> For words, like Nature, half reveal <br> And half conceal the Soul within.'' <br> ~ [[Alfred Tennyson|Alfred, Lord Tennyson]] ~ # ''Wave after wave, each mightier than the last, <br> Till last, a ninth one, gathering half the deep <br> And full of voices, slowly rose and plunged <br> Roaring, and all the wave was in a flame: <br> And down the wave and in the flame was borne <br> A naked babe...'' <br> ~ [[Alfred Tennyson|Alfred, Lord Tennyson]] in ''[[Idylls of the King]]'' ~ == January 2005 == # ''Ring out false pride in place and blood, <br> The civic slander and the spite; <br> Ring in the love of truth and right, <br> Ring in the common love of good.'' <br> ~ [[Alfred Tennyson|Alfred, Lord Tennyson]] ~ # We are all in this together. ~ [[English proverbs|English proverb]] # No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee… ~ [[John Donne]] # I know this in no way alleviates the enormous amounts of pain and loss experienced by those who have suffered from the tsunami, but I hope it can make a difference. ~ [[Sandra Bullock]] on her large donation to [https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp tsunami relief efforts] of the [http://www.redcross.org/ American Red Cross] # I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do. ~ [[Helen Keller]] # I know the biggest crime is just to throw up your hands and say'' "This has nothing to do with me, I just want to live as comfortably as I can." ''~ [[Ani DiFranco]] # The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. ~ [[Abraham Lincoln]] # The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity. ~ [[George Bernard Shaw]] # Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. ~ [[Robert F. Kennedy]] # The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life. ~ [[Robert Louis Stevenson]] # If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world. ~ [[Joseph Addison]] # Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago. ~ [[Horace Mann]] # Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance. ~ [[Anthony de Mello]] # Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen. ~ [[Aeschylus|Æschylus]] # The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. ~ [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]] # If we win here we will win everywhere. The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it. ~ [[Ernest Hemingway]] # The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. ~ [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]] # The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. ~ [[John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton|Lord Acton]] # My experience of men has neither disposed me to think worse of them, or indisposed me to serve them; nor in spite of failures, which I lament, of errors which I now see and acknowledge; or of the present aspect of affairs; do I despair of the future. <br> The truth is this: The march of Providence is so slow, and our desires so impatient; the work of progress is so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged. It is history that teaches us to hope. ~ [[Robert E. Lee]] # The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world. ~ [[George W. Bush]] # An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. ~ [[Thomas Paine]] # Even as the fingers of the two hands are equal, so are human beings equal to one another. No one has any right, nor any preference to claim over another. You are brothers. ~ [[Muhammad]] # So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, in spite of the fact that a few rare spirits know how to transmute it. ~ [[Bertrand Russell]] # A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. ~ [[Albert Einstein]] # If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants. ~ [[Isaac Newton]] on his intellectual debt to those who preceded him. # Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the world. ~ [[Archimedes]] # Remind yourself that all men assert that wisdom is the greatest good, but that there are few who strenuously seek out that greatest good. ~ [[Pythagoras]] # ''Wise men don't need to prove their point; <br> men who need to prove their point aren't wise.<br> The Master has no possessions.<br> The more he does for others, the happier he is. <br> The more he gives to others, the wealthier he is. <br> The Tao nourishes by not forcing. <br> By not dominating, the Master leads.'' <br> ~ [[Lao Zi]] ~ # ''Time's glory is to command contending kings,<br> To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.'' <br> ~ [[William Shakespeare]] ~ # Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe... No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. ~ [[Winston Churchill]] # I have one major rule: everybody is right. More specifically, everybody — including me — has some important pieces of the truth, and all of those pieces need to be honored, cherished, and included in a more gracious, spacious, and compassionate embrace. ~ [[Ken Wilber]] == February 2005 == # There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. ~ [[American proverbs|American proverb]] # Anything different is good. ~ [[Bill Murray]] as "Phil" in [[Groundhog Day]] # The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is or has been is but the twilight of the dawn. ~ [[H. G. Wells]] # Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation, in turn, becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on to the future. ~ [[Charles Lindbergh]] # I profoundly believe that there is on this horizon, as yet only dimly perceived, a new dawn of conscience. In that purer light, people will come to see themselves in each other, which is to say they will make themselves known to one another by their similarities rather than by their differences. Man's knowledge of things will begin to be matched by man's knowledge of self. The significance of a smaller world will be measured not in terms of military advantage, but in terms of advantage for the human community. It will be the triumph of the heartbeat over the drumbeat. ~ [[Adlai Stevenson]] # You and I are told increasingly that we have to choose between a left or right, but I would like to suggest that there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down — up to a man's age-old dream; the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order — or down to the ant heap totalitarianism, and regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course. ~ [[Ronald Reagan]] # It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way — in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. ~ [[Charles Dickens]] in ''[[A Tale of Two Cities]]'' # All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. ~ [[Martin Buber]] # ''My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue, <br> An everlasting vision of the everchanging view, <br> A wondrous woven magic in bits of blue and gold, <br> A tapestry to feel and see, impossible to hold.'' <br> ~ [[Carole King]] ~ # Be nice to people on your way up, because you're going to meet them all on your way down. ~ [[Jimmy Durante]] # If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision. ~ [[Leó Szilárd]] # The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less. ~ [[Arthur Miller]] # ''In this moment, I need to be needed, <br> With this darkness all around me, I like to be liked, <br> In this emptiness and fear, I want to be wanted, <br> 'Cause I love to be loved, <br> I love to be loved.'' <br> ~ [[Peter Gabriel]] ~ # Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ~ [[Robert A. Heinlein]] in ''[[Stranger in a Strange Land]]'' # All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. ~ [[Galileo Galilei]] # A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. ~ [[Henry Adams]] # There is one simple Divinity found in all things, everything has Divinity latent within itself. For she enfolds and imparts herself even unto the smallest beings. Without her presence nothing would have being, because she is the essence of the existence of the first unto the last being. ~ [[Giordano Bruno]] # Teachers are those who use themselves as bridges, over which they invite their students to cross; then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own. ~ [[Nikos Kazantzakis]] # I am not so enamored of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them. I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgement of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavor to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God. Yet I hold that completely erroneous views should be shunned. ~ [[Nicolaus Copernicus]] # All in all is all we are. ~ [[Kurt Cobain]] # ''For the error bred in the bone <br> Of each woman and each man <br> Craves what it cannot have, <br> Not universal love <br> But to be loved alone.'' <br> ~ [[W. H. Auden]] ~ # All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external trappings of elevated office. To me there is nothing in it, beyond the lustre which may be reflected from its connection with a power of promoting human felicity. ~ [[George Washington]] # If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up. ~ [[Hunter S. Thompson]] # We think basically you watch television to turn your brain off, and you work on your computer when you want to turn your brain on. ~ [[Steve Jobs]] # ''Little darling, <br>I feel that ice is slowly melting. <br>Little darling, <br>It seems like years since it's been clear. <br>Here comes the sun...<br> Here comes the sun, <br>And I say <br>It's alright.'' <br> ~ [[George Harrison]] ~ # The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge. ~ [[Victor Hugo]] # The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit — for gallantry in defeat — for courage, compassion and love. In the endless war against weakness and despair, these are the bright rally-flags of hope and of emulation. I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man, has no dedication nor any membership in literature. ~ [[John Steinbeck]] # Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. ~ [[Michel de Montaigne]] == March 2005== # Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. ~ [[Jef Raskin]] # From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere. ~ [[Dr. Seuss]] # Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before. ~ [[Alexander Graham Bell]] # One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than fifty preaching it. ~ [[Knute Rockne]] # The most dangerous phrase in the language is, "We've always done it this way." ~ [[Grace Hopper]] # Earth's crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God: but only he who sees, takes off his shoes, the rest sit round it, and pluck blackberries, and daub their natural faces unaware... ~ [[Elizabeth Barrett Browning]] # Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye, but as a system disposed with order and design. ~ [[John Herschel]] # We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe. ~ [[Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.]] # When I orbited the Earth in a spaceship, I saw for the first time how beautiful our planet is. Mankind, let us preserve and increase this beauty, and not destroy it! ~ [[Yuri Gagarin]] # A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins, and a winner doesn't talk about what he'll do if he wins, but knows what he'll do if he loses. ~ [[Eric Berne]] # Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. ~ [[Douglas Adams]] # I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down. ~ [[Jack Kerouac]] # What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others. ~ [[Joseph Priestley]] # Measured objectively, what a man can wrest from Truth by passionate striving is utterly infinitesimal. But the striving frees us from the bonds of the self and makes us comrades of those who are the best and the greatest. ~ [[Albert Einstein]] # Beware the ides of March. ~ [[William Shakespeare]] in ''[[Julius Caesar (play)|Julius Caesar]]'' # If in my lifetime the problem of non-free software is solved, I could perhaps relax and write software again. But I might instead try to help deal with the world's larger problems. Standing up to an evil system is exhilarating, and now I have a taste for it. ~ [[Richard Stallman]] # I am imperfect in many things, nevertheless I want my brethren and kinsfolk to know my nature so that they may be able to perceive my soul's desire. ~ [[Saint Patrick]] # We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable. ~ [[John Updike]] # The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior. ~ [[Earl Warren]] # Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour. ~ [[Ovid]] # Between individuals, as between nations, respect for the rights of others is peace. ~ [[Benito Juárez]] # Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words? ~ [[Marcel Marceau]] # Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. ~ [[Erich Fromm]] # Love, work and knowledge are the well-springs of our life. They should also govern it. ~ [[Wilhelm Reich]] # If those who lead you say, 'See, the Kingdom is in the sky,' then the birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, 'It is in the sea,' then the fish will precede you. Rather, the Kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you. When you come to know yourselves, then you will become known, and you will realize that it is you who are the sons of the living Father. But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty. ~ [[Jesus|Yeshua (Jesus Christ)]] # Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, that wants it down. ~ [[Robert Frost]] # Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate, for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain without being uncovered. ~ [[Jesus|Yeshua (Jesus Christ)]] # A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice. ~ [[James Callaghan]] # If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted. ~ [[Eric Idle]] # Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well. ~ [[Vincent van Gogh]] # Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess. ~ [[René Descartes]] == April 2005== # When you want to fool the world, tell the truth. ~ [[Otto von Bismarck]] # To be an artist is a blessing and a privilege. Artists must never betray their true hearts. Artists must look beneath the surface and show that there is more to this world than what meets the eye. ~ [[Marvin Gaye]] # Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece. ~ [[Pope John Paul II]] # ''It is possible and imperative that we learn <br> A brave and startling truth...<br> When we come to it <br> We must confess that we are the possible <br> We are the miraculous, the true wonders of this world <br> That is when, and only when <br> We come to it.'' <br> ~ [[Maya Angelou]] ~ # Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools. ~ [[Thomas Hobbes]] # See, I write jokes for a living, man. I sit in my hotel at night and think of something that's funny and then I go get a pen and write 'em down. Or, if the pen's too far away, I have to convince myself that what I thought of ain't funny. ~ [[Mitch Hedberg]] # Out of the struggle at the center has come an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are, and what this life is for. At the center humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul. ~ [[Saul Bellow]] # Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. ~ [[Gautama Buddha]] # Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. ~ [[Richard Feynman]] # The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. ~ [[William Hazlitt]] # Our institutions were not devised to bring about uniformity of opinion; if they had we might well abandon hope. It is important to remember, as has well been said, 'the essential characteristic of true liberty is that under its shelter many different types of life and character and opinion and belief can develop unmolested and unobstructed'. ~ [[Charles Evans Hughes]] # A living body is not merely an integration of limbs and flesh but it is the abode of the soul which potentially has perfect perception, perfect knowledge, perfect power, and perfect bliss. ~ [[Mahavira]] # Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add "within the limits of the law" because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. ~ [[Thomas Jefferson]] # The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. ~ [[James Branch Cabell]] # Here forms, here colours, here the character of every part of the universe are concentrated to a point; and that point is so marvellous a thing ... Oh! marvellous, O stupendous Necessity — by thy laws thou dost compel every effect to be the direct result of its cause, by the shortest path. ''These'' are miracles... ~ [[Leonardo da Vinci]] # In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. ~ [[Charlie Chaplin]] in ''The Great Dictator'' # We ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. ~ [[Thornton Wilder]] # Music can be all things to all persons. It is like a great dynamic sun in the center of a solar system which sends out its rays and inspiration in every direction.... Music makes us feel that the heavens open and a divine voice calls. Something in our souls responds and understands. ~ [[Leopold Stokowski]] # Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius. ~ [[Benjamin Disraeli]] # Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope, John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me, a simple and humble worker in the Lord's vineyard. The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers. ~ [[Pope Benedict XVI]] # When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe. ~ [[John Muir]] # Act only on that maxim which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law. ~ [[Immanuel Kant]] # We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep. ~ "Prospero" in ''[[The Tempest]]'' by [[William Shakespeare]] # Everything seems an echo of something else. ~ [[Robert Penn Warren]] # Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices — just recognize them. ~ [[Edward R. Murrow]] # If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. ~ [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]] # Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath. ~ [[Mary Wollstonecraft]] # It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done. ~ [[Terry Pratchett]] # Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason. ~ [[Jerry Seinfeld]] # It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again. ~ [[Carl Friedrich Gauss]] == May 2005 == # ''' <big> DON'T PANIC </big> '''<br> ~ [[Douglas Adams]] in ''The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy'' ~ # You know more than you think you do. ~ [[Benjamin Spock]] # It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. ~ [[Niccolò Machiavelli]] # Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. ~ [[Horace Mann]] # Democracy is the destiny of humanity; freedom its indestructible arm. ~ [[Benito Juárez]] # If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out. ~ [[Rabindranath Tagore]] # Where men are the most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken, and have there given reins to passion, without that proper deliberation and suspense, which can alone secure them from the grossest absurdities. ~ [[David Hume]] # If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers. ~ [[Thomas Pynchon]] # Life is a long lesson in humility. ~ [[J. M. Barrie]] # The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape. ~ [[Bono]] # When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is trying to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind. ~ [[J. Krishnamurti]] # Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better. ~ [[Florence Nightingale]] # It behoved that there should be sin — but all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well. ~ [[Julian of Norwich]] # If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life — that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment — that would be the perfect state. ~ [[Cate Blanchett]] # Things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams — day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing — are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster civilization. ~ [[L. Frank Baum]] # You say that you are my judge. I don't know if you are — but take care not to judge wrongly, lest you place yourself in great danger. ~ [[Joan of Arc|Jehanne Darc (Jeanne d'Arc; Joan of Arc)]] # I had a stick of Carefree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality. ~ [[Mitch Hedberg]] # To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. ~ [[Bertrand Russell]] # Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else. ~ [[Malcolm X]] # If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. ~ [[John Stuart Mill]] # May the Force be with you. ~ Jedi saying; used in all ''[[Star Wars]]'' episodes. # The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished. ~ [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] # It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor. ~ [[Margaret Fuller]] # I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom. ~ [[Bob Dylan]] # If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile. ~ [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]] # It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility. ~ [[Rachel Carson]] # The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness. ~ [[Julia Ward Howe]] # We have gotten some terrible reviews at times but if we depended on the judgment of the studios or critics, we never would have made more than one movie. ~ [[Ismail Merchant]] # Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn. ~ [[T. H. White]] # The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has ''himself'' recognized them as such, and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individual. ~ [[Mikhail Bakunin]] # When there are no more memories of heroes and martyrs, And when all life and all the souls of men and women are discharged from any part of the earth, Then only shall liberty or the idea of liberty be discharged from that part of the earth, And the infidel come into full possession. ~ [[Walt Whitman]] in ''[[Leaves of Grass]]'' == June 2005 == # I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it. ~ [[Alanis Morissette]] # I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat. ~ [[W. Mark Felt]] # A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense. Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt. The "taken for granted" is the test of sanity... In these times, the hardest task for social or political activists is to find a way to get people to wonder again about what we all believe is true. The challenge is to sow doubt. ~ [[Lawrence Lessig]] # I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. ~ [[Socrates]] # A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. ~ [[John Maynard Keynes]] # Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool. ~ [[Aleksandr Pushkin]] # Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars. ~ [[Gwendolyn Brooks]] # I have something to tell you today. Mac OS X has been leading a secret double life — for the past five years. ~ [[Steve Jobs]] # There are always good parts. They may not pay what you want, and they may not have as many days' work as you want, they may not have the billing that you want, they may not have a lot of things, but — the content of the role itself — I find there are many roles. ~ [[Anne Bancroft]] # A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. It tells us that for every human being there is a diversity of existences, that the single existence is itself an illusion in part, that these many existences signify something, tend to something, fulfill something; it promises us meaning, harmony and even justice. ~ [[Saul Bellow]] # The good writing of any age has always been the product of ''someone's'' neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads. ~ [[William Styron]] # I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death! And that's why I'm grateful to God for having given me this gift, which I can use to develop and to express all that's inside me! ~ [[Anne Frank]] # Talent perceives differences, Genius unity. ~ [[William Butler Yeats]] # At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality... We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity will be transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force. ~ [[Che Guevara]] # If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow. ~ [[William McFee]] # I cannot think we are useless or Usen would not have created us. He created all tribes of men and certainly had a righteous purpose in creating each. ~ [[Geronimo]] # I observed, 'Love is the fulfilling of the law, the end of the commandment.' It is not only 'the first and great' command, but all the commandments in one. 'Whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, if there be any virtue, if there be any praise,' they are all comprised in this one word, ''love''. ~ [[John Wesley]] # In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make. ~ [[Paul McCartney]] # True eloquence makes light of eloquence, true morality makes light of morality... To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher. ~ [[Blaise Pascal]] # I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. ~ [[Lillian Hellman]] # Life has no meaning a priori... It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose. ~ [[Jean-Paul Sartre]] # The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient... Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach — waiting for a gift from the sea. ~ [[Anne Morrow Lindbergh]] # Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition. ~ [[Alan Turing]] # '''Conservative''', ''n.'' A statesman enamored of existing evils, as opposed to a Liberal, who wants to replace them with new ones. ~ [[Ambrose Bierce]] # Political language — and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists — is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ~ [[George Orwell]] # The sons of torture victims make good terrorists. ~ [[André Malraux]] # Some potentates I would kill by any and all means at my disposal. They are Ignorance, Superstition, and Bigotry — the most sinister and tyrannical rulers on earth. ~ [[Emma Goldman]] # Now you see, Lone Starr, that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb. ~ "Dark Helmet" in ''[[Spaceballs]]'' by [[Mel Brooks]] # Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. ~ [[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]] # It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing — a somewhat unfamilar conception for the average mind. Furthermore, the equation ''E = mc<sup>2</sup>'', in which energy is put equal to mass, multiplied by the square of the velocity of light, showed that very small amounts of mass may be converted into a very large amount of energy and vice versa. ~ [[Albert Einstein]] == July 2005 == # We tried to break it up from the outside, but that wouldn't work. Now that we're inside we can make a complete pig's breakfast of the whole thing: set the Germans against the French, the French against the Italians, the Italians against the Dutch. The Foreign Office is terribly pleased, it's just like old times. ~ "Sir Humphrey" on European unity, in the comedy series ''[[Yes, Minister]]'' # Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. ~ [[Hermann Hesse]] # The splendor of life forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though; not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come. ~ [[Franz Kafka]] # We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. ~ ''[[w:Declaration of Independence (United States)|The Declaration of Independence]] of the [[w:United States|United States of America]]'' # From time to time the exceptional is necessary. For events as well as for men, the stock company is not enough; geniuses are needed among men, and revolutions among events. Great accidents are the law; the order of things cannot get along without them; and, to see the apparitions of comets, one would be tempted to believe that Heaven itself is in need of star actors. ~ [[Victor Hugo]] in ''[[Les Misérables]]'' # I have not yet begun to fight! ~ [[John Paul Jones]] # The more you love, the more you ''can'' love — and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on how ''many'' you can love. If a person had time enough, he could love all of that majority who are decent and just. ~ [[Robert A. Heinlein]] # Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people. ~ [[Jean de La Fontaine]] # God never deserted our people. Right through the ages there were Jews. Through the ages they suffered, but it also made us strong. ~ [[Anne Frank]] # All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combatted, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle. ~ [[Nikola Tesla]] # All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse. ~ [[John Quincy Adams]] # I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. ~ [[Bill Cosby]] # I know that you personally do not fear giving up your own life in order to take others — that is why you are so dangerous. But I know you fear that you may fail in your long-term objective to destroy our free society and I can show you why you will fail. ~ [[Ken Livingstone]], Mayor of London # We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and the purest ideal. ~ [[Ingmar Bergman]] # Eternal vigilance must be maintained to guard against those who seek to stifle ideas, establish a narrow orthodoxy, and divide our nation along arbitrary lines of race, ethnicity, and religious belief or non-belief. ~ [[Jesse Ventura]] # By the declining day, lo! man is in a state of loss, save those who believe and do good works, and exhort one another to truth and exhort one another to endurance. ~ The [[Qur'an]] # Most of the books, music and movies ever released are not available for sale, anywhere in the world. In the brief time that P2P nets have flourished, the ad-hoc masses of the Internet have managed to put just about everything online. What’s more, they’ve done it far cheaper than any other archiving/revival effort ever. ~ [[Cory Doctorow]] # The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. ~ [[Nelson Mandela]] # Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. ~ [[Otto von Bismarck]] # That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. ~ [[Neil Armstrong]] on first stepping onto the surface of the moon, 20th July 1969. # We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for awhile, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces. ~ [[Carl Sagan]] # ''Give me your tired, your poor,<br>Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,<br>The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.<br>Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,<br>I lift my lamp beside the golden door!''<br>~ [[Emma Lazarus]] ~ # The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective. ~ [[Raymond Chandler]] # Thro' many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come; 'Tis grace has brought me safe thus far, and grace will lead me home. ~ [[John Newton]] # ''In Xanadu did Kubla Khan <br> A stately pleasure-dome decree: <br> Where Alph, the sacred river, ran <br>Through caverns measureless to man <br> Down to a sunless sea.'' <br> ~ [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]] ~ # Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him. ~ [[Carl Jung]] # From quiet homes and first beginning, Out to the undiscovered ends, There's nothing worth the wear of winning, But laughter and the love of friends. ~ [[Hilaire Belloc]] # Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve. ~ [[Karl Popper]] # All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer. ~ IBM maintenance manual (1925) # ''No coward soul is mine,<br>No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere:<br> I see Heaven's glories shine,<br> And Faith shines equal, arming me from Fear.'' <br> ~ [[Emily Brontë]] ~ # I think I'd most like to spend a day with Harry. I'd take him out for a meal and apologise for everything I've put him through. ~ [[J. K. Rowling]] == August 2005 == # From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it. That the starry vault shall surcharge the heart with all rapturous marvelings, is only because we ourselves are greater miracles, and superber trophies than all the stars in universal space. ~ [[Herman Melville]] # When are you people going to learn? It's not about who's right or wrong. No denomination's nailed it yet, and they never will because they're all too self-righteous to realize that it doesn't matter what you have faith in, just that you have faith. Your hearts are in the right place, but your brains need to wake up. I have issues with anyone who treats faith as a burden instead of a blessing. You people don't celebrate your faith; you mourn it. ~ "Serendipity" in ''[[Dogma (film)|Dogma]]'', by [[Kevin Smith]] # When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human life, but of all life on Earth and of the life which must exist upon other planets throughout the universe. It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life on Earth, the sum total of life upon the Earth, has purpose. ~ [[Clifford D. Simak]] # ''My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:<BR> Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!<BR> Nothing beside remains: round the decay<BR> Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,<BR> The lone and level sands stretch far away.''<br> ~ [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]] ~ # Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. ~ [[Mohandas Gandhi]] # The Japanese were ready to surrender, and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing. ~ [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] # Intelligence is like four-wheel drive. It only allows you to get stuck in more remote places. ~ [[Garrison Keillor]] # It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress. ~ [[Paul Dirac]] # [[w:Transmission Control Protocol|TCP]] implementations will follow a general principle of robustness: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others. ~ [[Jon Postel]] # There's a whole industry of conservatives saying, 'Ah, it's those damn liberals,' and a whole group of liberals saying, 'It's all those damn conservatives.'... ~ [[Peter Jennings]] # I do not believe that the tendency is to make men and women brave and glorious when you tell them that there are certain ideas upon certain subjects that they must never express; that they must go through life with a pretence as a shield; that their neighbors will think much more of them if they will only keep still; and that above all is a God who despises one who honestly expresses what he believes. ~ [[Robert G. Ingersoll]] # Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes. ~ [[George Soros]] # I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned. ~ [[Lucy Stone]] # There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. ~ [[G. K. Chesterton]] # To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs. ~ [[Sri Aurobindo]] # All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. ~ [[T. E. Lawrence]] # Be sure that you are right, and then go ahead. ~ [[Davy Crockett]] # It’s a new generation. If you continue to hate, you are entering into the same philosophy that began the war. You have to look forward at people and new times. ~ [[Roman Polański]] # Truth has such a face and such a mien as to be lov'd needs only to be seen. ~ [[John Dryden]] # The Government of the State of Israel and the Palestinian team representing the Palestinian people agree that it is time to put an end to decades of confrontation and conflict, recognize their mutual legitimate and political rights, and strive to live in peaceful coexistence and mutual dignity and security to achieve a just, lasting and comprehensive peace settlement and historic reconciliation through the agreed political process. ~ The [[w:Oslo Accords|Oslo Accords]] # ''If you want the world to know<br>We won't let hatred grow<br>Put a little love in your heart.'' <br>~ [[Jackie DeShannon]] ~ # By a free country, I mean a country where people are allowed, so long as they do not hurt their neighbours, to do as they like. I do not mean a country where six men may make five men do exactly as they like. ~ [[Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury|Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Lord Salisbury]] # I could not be a traitor to Edward, for I was never his subject. ~ [[William Wallace]] # Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire. ~ [[Jorge Luis Borges]] # We have met the enemy and he is us. ~ [[Walt Kelly]] # You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn. ~ [[John Buchan]] # The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved. ~ [[Confucius]] # I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood... I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today... ~ [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]] # I find that the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it — but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. ~ [[Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.]] # No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success. Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. ~ [[Mary Shelley]] # Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding-place and let it be free and unashamed. Place in matter and in flesh the least of the values, for these are things that hold death and must pass away. Discover in all things that which shines and is beyond corruption. Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world. ~ [[William Saroyan]] == September 2005== # It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls. ~ [[Bruce Fairchild Barton]] # Speak softly and carry a big stick. ~ [[Theodore Roosevelt]] # I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. ~ [[Frederick Douglass]] # I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise? ~ [[Federico Fellini]] # The role of the Supreme Court is to uphold those claims of individual liberty that it finds are well-founded in the Constitution, and to reject other claims against the government that it concludes are not well-founded. Its role is no more to exclusively uphold the claims of the individual than it is to exclusively uphold the claims of the government: It must hold the constitutional balance true between these claims. ~ [[William Rehnquist]] # No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt. ~ [[Robert M. Pirsig]] # I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. ~ [[Edith Sitwell]] # Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give. ~ [[David O. McKay]] # Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. ~ [[Leo Tolstoy]] # I strongly reject any conceptual scheme that places our options on a line, and holds that the only alternative to a pair of extreme positions lies somewhere between them. More fruitful perspectives often require that we step off the line to a site outside the dichotomy. ~ [[Stephen Jay Gould]] # [[September 11, 2001 attacks|September 11]] was, and remains, above all an immense human tragedy. But September 11 also posed a momentous and deliberate challenge not just to America but to the world at large. The target of the terrorists was not only New York and Washington but the very values of freedom, tolerance and decency which underpin our way of life. ~ [[Tony Blair]] # The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of the truth — that error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it has been cured of one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one. ~ [[H. L. Mencken]] # Miss Manners does not mind explaining the finer points of gracious living, but she feels that anyone without the sense to pick up a potato chip and stuff it in their face should probably not be running around loose on the streets. ~ [[Judith Martin]], widely known as "Miss Manners" # I've had enough of breakdowns and diagrams — judging from picture books, apparently Heaven is a partly cloudy place. ~ [[Jenny Lewis]] # Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions. ~ [[Agatha Christie]] # A planned life is a dead life. ~ [[Lauren Bacall]] # I've never seen anybody really find the answer — they think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer. ~ [[Ken Kesey]] # Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. ~ [[Samuel Johnson]] # There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream. ~ [[Frances Farmer]] # There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will have truly defeated age. ~ [[Sophia Loren]] # Hope is a good thing — maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies. ~ "Andy Dufresne" in ''[[The Shawshank Redemption]]'' by [[Stephen King]] # Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. ~ [[George Eliot]] # ''There's something happening somewhere — baby I just know that there is. <br>You can't start a fire — you can't start a fire without a spark.<br>This gun's for hire — even if we're just dancing in the dark.'' <br> ~ [[Bruce Springsteen]] ~ # I wait... wait for the mists and for the blacker rain — heavier winds that stir the veil of fate, happier winds that pile her hair; Again they tear me, teach me, strew the heavy air upon me, winds that I know, and storm. ~ [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]] # Between grief and nothing I will take grief. ~ [[William Faulkner]] # ''The awful daring of a moment's surrender<br>Which an age of prudence can never retract <br>By this, and this only, we have existed.'' <br> ~ [[T. S. Eliot]] ~ # ''Could you see the storm rising? <br>Could you see the guy who was driving?<br>Could you climb higher and higher? <br>Could you climb right over the top?'' <br>~ [[Kate Bush]] ~ # ''In the season of white wild roses <br>We two went hand in hand: <br>But now in the ruddy autumn <br>Together already we stand.'' <br> ~ [[Francis Turner Palgrave]] ~ # There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. ~ [[Enrico Fermi]] # Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. ~ [[Helen Schucman]] <!-- This quote was originally used on this date because it had become attributed to Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi (born 30 September 1207); the attribution was later corrected on 2007·09·30. --> == October 2005 == # War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children. ~ [[Jimmy Carter]] # There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone3 fil. ~ [[Rod Serling]] in ''[[The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)|The Twilight Zone]]'' # Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age. ~ [[John Perry Barlow]] # If we do discover a complete theory, it should in time be understandable in broad principle by everyone, not just a few scientists. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people, be able to take part in the discussion of the question of why it is that we and the universe exist. If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason — for then we would know the mind of God. ~ [[Stephen Hawking]] # Politicians at international forums may reiterate a thousand times that the basis of the new world order must be universal respect for human rights, but it will mean nothing as long as this imperative does not derive from the respect of the miracle of Being, the miracle of the universe, the miracle of nature, the miracle of our own existence. ~ [[Václav Havel]] # ''Old age hath yet his honor and his toil. <br> Death closes all; but something ere the end, <br> Some work of noble note, may yet be done, <br> Not unbecoming men that strove with gods.'' <br>~ [[Alfred Tennyson|Alfred, Lord Tennyson]] ~ # The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. ~ [[Niels Bohr]] # Much that was called religion has carried an unconscious attitude of hostility toward life. True religion must teach that life is filled with joys pleasing to the eye of God, that knowledge without action is empty. All men must see that the teaching of religion by rules and rote is largely a hoax. The proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you've always known. ~ [[Frank Herbert]] in ''[[Dune]]'' # I think the ultimate sense of security will be when we come to recognize that we are all part of one human race. Our primary allegiance is to the human race and not to one particular color or border. ~ [[Mohamed ElBaradei]] # The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity — love. And the story of a love is not important — what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. ~ [[Helen Hayes]] # You always fall when you’re training, that’s sort of part of the process. If you’re not falling, you’re not training hard enough. ~ [[Michelle Trachtenberg]] # Tragedy blows through your life like a tornado, uprooting everything, creating chaos. You wait for the dust to settle, and then you choose. You can live in the wreckage and pretend it's still the mansion you remember. Or you can crawl from the rubble and slowly rebuild. ~ Kristen Bell, as "[[Veronica Mars]]" # Forgive us the breach of positive commands and negative commands, whether or not they involve an act, whether or not they are known to us. ~ Liturgy for [[w:Yom Kippur|Yom Kippur]] # love is the every only god ~ [[E. E. Cummings|e. e. cummings]] # Behold the believers of all beliefs! Whom do they hate most? Him who breaketh up their tables of values, the breaker, the law-breaker — he, however, is the creator. Companions, the creator seeketh, not corpses — and not herds or believers either. Fellow-creators the creator seeketh — those who grave new values on new tables. ~ [[Friedrich Nietzsche]] # We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. ~ [[Oscar Wilde]] # Live as one of them, Kal-El, to discover where your strength and your power are needed. Always hold in your heart the pride of your special heritage. They can be a great people, Kal-El — they wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way. ~ [[Marlon Brando]] as "Jor-El" in ''[[Superman: The Movie]]'' # We take the position that there is no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation. ~ [[Pierre Trudeau]] # Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. ~ [[Lewis Mumford]] # I think for it to be unhip to be idealistic is weird, you know? I mean, even all the best rebels to me had some sense of hope in them. ~ [[Tom Petty]] # Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration. ~ [[Thomas Alva Edison]] # I am 100 percent in favor of the intelligent use of drugs, and 1,000 percent against the thoughtless use of them, whether caffeine or LSD. And drugs are not central to my life. ~ [[Timothy Leary]] # Reality is always greater — much greater — than what we know, than whatever we can say about it. ~ [[Michael Crichton]] # The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel. ~ [[Horace Walpole]] # Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used. ~ [[Richard E. Byrd]] # I know that it will hurt, I know that it will break your heart, the way things are, and the way they've been. Don't spread the discontent, don't spread the lies, don't make the same mistakes with your own life. ~ [[Natalie Merchant]] # It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat. ~ [[Theodore Roosevelt]] # Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process, and nature in marking man's papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival and by the quality of life of those who survive. ~ [[Jonas Salk]] # All those who listen to me shall pass on my words to others and those to others again; and may the last ones understand my words better than those who listen to me directly. ~ [[Muhammad]] # There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. ~ [[John Adams]] # ''I can see lights in the distance trembling in the dark cloak of night<br>Candles and lanterns are dancing, dancing a waltz on All Souls Night.''<br> ~ [[Loreena McKennitt]] ~ == November 2005 == # ''I am everything — <br>Tonight I'll be your mother — I will<br>Do such things to ease your pain — <br>Free your mind and you won't feel ashamed.'' <br> ~ [[Sophie B. Hawkins]] ~ # Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end? ~ [[Marie Antoinette]] # ''Somewhere, over the rainbow, way up high,<br/>There's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby.<br/>Somewhere, over the rainbow, skies are blue,<br/>And the dreams that you dare to dream <br>Really do come true.'' <br> ~ [[Judy Garland]] as "Dorothy Gale" in ''[[The Wizard of Oz]]'' ~ # After looking at mothers-in-law and seeing sons-in-law — I always felt that the jokes were on the wrong ones. No sir, you can look through everything I ever did write or say, and you never did hear me tell a joke about any mother-in-law — or any creed, color or religion, either. ~ [[Will Rogers]] # I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun. ~ [[Will Durant]] # An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind. ~ [[Mohandas Gandhi]] # ''I found a book on how to be invisible — <br>On the edge of the labyrinth — <br>Under a veil you must never lift — <br> Pages you must never turn — <br> In the labyrinth.'' <br>~ [[Kate Bush]] ~ # Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind. ~ [[John F. Kennedy]] # If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. ~ [[Carl Sagan]] # We are always living in the final days. What have you got? A hundred years or much, much less until the end of your world. ~ [[Neil Gaiman]] # Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow and of the man who leads that gains that victory. ~ [[George S. Patton]] # Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration. The remedy the world needeth in its present-day afflictions can never be the same as that which a subsequent age may require. Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and centre your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements. ~ [[Bahá'u'lláh]] # Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good. ~ [[Augustine of Hippo]] # The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over. ~ [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] # ''Variety's the very spice of life, <br> That gives it all its flavour.'' <br> ~ [[William Cowper]] ~ # From each as they choose, to each as they are chosen. ~ [[Robert Nozick]] # It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily. ~ [[Martin Scorsese]] # We’re all puppets, Laurie. I’m just a puppet who can see the strings. ~ [[Alan Moore]] in ''[[Watchmen]]'' # In a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. ~ [[Abraham Lincoln]] # The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is. ~ [[Nadine Gordimer]] # We must believe in free will — we have no choice. ~ [[Isaac Bashevis Singer]] # O may I join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again in minds made better by their presence; live in pulses stirred to generosity, in deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn for miserable aims that end with self, in thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, and with their mild persistence urge men's search to vaster issues. ~ [[George Eliot]] # As good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. ~ [[John Milton]] in ''[[Areopagitica]]'' # There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. ~ [[Charles Darwin]] # Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future. ~ [[Ba Jin]] # If I were to be given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself. ~ [[Charles M. Schulz]] # Put every great teacher together in a room, and they'd agree about everything; put their disciples in there and they'd argue about everything. ~ [[Bruce Lee]] # A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. ~ [[William Blake]] # Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. ~ [[C.S. Lewis]] # Hello. My name is Iñigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die. ~ [[Mandy Patinkin]] as "Iñigo Montoya" in ''[[The Princess Bride (film)|The Princess Bride]]'' == December 2005 == # The important thing, I think, is not to be bitter... if it turns about that there is a God, I don't think that he is evil. I think that the worst thing you could say is that he is, basically, an under-achiever. ~ [[Woody Allen]] # I do not believe that friendship today can flower out — can come out — of political life. I do believe that if there is something like a political life-to-be — to remain for us, in this world of technology — then it begins with friendship. ~ [[Ivan Illich]] # All idealisation makes life poorer. To beautify it is to take away its character of complexity — it is to destroy it. ~ [[Joseph Conrad]] # Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything. ~ [[Rainer Maria Rilke]] # If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse. ~ [[Walt Disney]] # ''Love is made out of ecstasy and wonder;<br>Love is a poignant and accustomed pain.<br>It is a burst of Heaven-shaking thunder;<br>It is a linnet's fluting after rain.''<br> ~ [[Joyce Kilmer]] ~ # That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. ~ [[Willa Cather]] # It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers. ~ [[James Thurber]] # We take men for what they are worth — and that is why we hate the government of man by man, and that we work with all our might — perhaps not strong enough — to put an end to it. ~ [[Peter Kropotkin]] # ''Tell all the Truth but tell it slant — <br> Success in Circuit lies <br> Too bright for our infirm Delight <br> The Truth's superb surprise<br> As Lightning to the Children eased<br> With explanation kind<br> The Truth must dazzle gradually<br> Or every man be blind — ''<br> ~ [[Emily Dickinson]] ~ # Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory. ~ [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]] # I had some great things and I had some bad things. The best and the worst... In other words, I had a life. ~ [[Richard Pryor]] # ''The maple tree that night<br>Without a wind or rain<br>Let go its leaves<br>Because its time had come.'' <br> ~ [[Eugene McCarthy]] ~ # My creed is that public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation with full recognition that every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration, that constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought, that smears are not only to be expected but fought, that honor is to be earned but not bought. ~ [[Margaret Chase Smith]] # Trouble arises when either science or religion claims universal jurisdiction, when either religious dogma or scientific dogma claims to be infallible. Religious creationists and scientific materialists are equally dogmatic and insensitive. By their arrogance they bring both science and religion into disrepute. ~ [[Freeman Dyson]] # Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy. If you're afraid you don't commit yourself to life completely; fear makes you always, always hold something back. ~ [[Philip K. Dick]] # I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach. ~ [[Charles Dickens]] # It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die. ~ [[Steve Biko]] # The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them. ~ [[Emily Brontë]] # For most of human history we have searched for our place in the cosmos. Who are we? What are we? We find that we inhabit an insignificant planet of a hum-drum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions, and by the depth of our answers. ~ [[Carl Sagan]] # I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. ~ [[George S. Patton]] # My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy. ~ [[George Eliot]] # Many Christmases ago, I went to buy a doll for my son. I reached for the last one they had, but so did another man. As I rained blows upon him, I realized there had to be another way . . . out of that a new holiday was born . . . a Festivus for the rest of us! ~ [[w:Jerry Stiller|Jerry Stiller]] as "Frank Costanza" in ''[[Seinfeld]]'', on the origins of [[w:Festivus|Festivus]]. # '' 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house<br>Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;<br>The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,<br>In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.''<br> ~ "[[w:A Visit from St. Nicholas|A Visit from St. Nicholas]]" ~ # My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that? ~ [[Bob Hope]] # It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion. ~ [[Norman Angell]] # Except for the people who were there that one day they discovered the polio vaccine, being part of history is rarely a good idea. History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between. ~ [[Sarah Vowell]] # No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation. ~ [[Woodrow Wilson]] # If I am shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet. ~ [[Andrew Johnson]] # ''If you can keep your head when all about you<br>Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,<br>If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,<br>But make allowance for their doubting too;<br>If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,<br>Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,<br>Or being hated, don't give way to hating,<br>And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise . . . <br> If you can fill the unforgiving minute<br>With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,<br>Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,<br>And — which is more — you'll be a Man, my son! '' <br> ~ [[Rudyard Kipling]] ~ # ''For auld lang syne, my jo,<br> For auld lang syne,<br> We'll tak' a cup o' kindness yet,<br>For auld lang syne!'' <br>~ [[w:Auld Lang Syne|"Auld Lang Syne"]] by [[Robert Burns]] ~ == January 2006 == # Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die. ~ [[E. M. Forster]] # How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection...That is all wrong. The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers. The true scientist is quite imaginative as well as rational, and sometimes leaps to solutions where reason can follow only slowly; if he does not, his science suffers. ~ [[Isaac Asimov]] # Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age? ~ [[Cicero]] # I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. ~ [[Isaac Newton]] # Evil spreads with the wind; truth is capable of spreading even against it. ~ [[Paramahansa Yogananda]] # In the future days which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression — everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way — everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want... everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear... anywhere in the world. That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. ~ [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] # There is no first world and third world. There is only one world, for all of us to live and delight in. ~ [[Gerald Durrell]] # For millions of years mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk. ~ [[Stephen Hawking]] # Life will not perish! It will begin anew with love; it will start out naked and tiny; it will take root in the wilderness, and to it all that we did and built will mean nothing — our towns and factories, our art, our ideas will all mean nothing, and yet life will not perish! Only we have perished. Our houses and machines will be in ruins, our systems will collapse, and the names of our great will fall away like dry leaves. Only you, love, will blossom on this rubbish heap and commit the seed of life to the winds. ~ [[Karel Čapek]] # ''Know that however ugly the parts appear<br> the whole remains beautiful... <br> ... the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty <br> of the universe. Love that, not man <br>Apart from that, or else you will share man's pitiful confusions, <br> or drown in despair when his days darken.'' <br>~ [[Robinson Jeffers]] ~ # The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power. ~ [[Alexander Hamilton]] # Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. ~ [[Edmund Burke]] # I have but one passion: to enlighten those who have been kept in the dark, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and is entitled to happiness. My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul. ~ [[Émile Zola]] # Not one of us knows what effect his life produces, and what he gives to others; that is hidden from us and must remain so, though we are often allowed to see some little fraction of it, so that we may not lose courage. ~ [[Albert Schweitzer]] # Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing. ~ [[Jimmy Wales]] # What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love... I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems. And I'm going to talk about it everywhere I go. ~ [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]] # Human felicity is produc'd not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day. ~ [[Benjamin Franklin]] # There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world. ~ [[Robert Anton Wilson]] # They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. ~ [[Edgar Allan Poe]] # I don't understand politics. I don't understand the concept of two sides. And I think that probably there's good on both sides, bad on both sides, and there's a middle ground. But it never seems to come to the middle ground. And it's very frustrating watching it, and seemingly we're not moving forward. ~ [[David Lynch]] # So far as prejudice, or prepossession of opinion prevails over our minds, in the same proportion, reason is excluded from our theory or practice. Therefore if we would acquire useful knowledge, we must first divest ourselves of those impediments and sincerely endeavor to search out the truth: and draw our conclusions from reason and just argument, which will never conform to our inclination, interest or fancy but we must conform to that if we would judge rightly. ~ [[Ethan Allen]] # Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing. ~ [[Robert E. Howard]] # To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law — a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security. ~ [[Walter M. Miller Jr.]] # ''Musick has Charms to sooth a savage Breast,<br>To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak.'' <br> ~ [[William Congreve]] ~ # While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its way unimpeded. Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness. None knows where he goes or comes. He may seek the truth and speak it; he alone is free; he alone is truthful, he alone is at peace. ~ [[Virginia Woolf]] in ''[[Orlando: A Biography]]'' # I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes... But once war is forced upon us, there is no other alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. ~ [[Douglas MacArthur]] # If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later. ~ [[Lewis Carroll]] # Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it. ~ [[Colette]] # Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring — it was peace. ~ [[Milan Kundera]] # The only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. ~ [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] # Everyone does magic all the time in different ways. 'Life' plus 'significance' = magic. ~ [[Grant Morrison]] == February 2006 == # ''I've known rivers: <br>I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the <br> flow of human blood in human veins. <br> My soul has grown deep like the rivers.'' <br> ~ [[Langston Hughes]] ~ # There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens. ~ [[Coretta Scott King]] # An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it. ~ [[James A. Michener]] # If one took no chances, one would not fly at all. Safety lies in the judgment of the chances one takes. That judgment, in turn, must rest upon one’s outlook on life. Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. ~ [[Charles Lindbergh]] # What counts now is not just what we are against, but what we are for. Who leads us is less important than what leads us — what convictions, what courage, what faith — win or lose. ~ [[Adlai Stevenson]] # You and I are told increasingly that we have to choose between a left or right, but I would like to suggest that there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down — up to a man's age-old dream; the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order — or down to the ant heap totalitarianism, and regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course. ~ [[Ronald Reagan]] # He judged it not fit to determine anything rashly; and seemed to doubt whether those different forms of religion might not all come from God, who might inspire man in a different manner, and be pleased with this variety; he therefore thought it indecent and foolish for any man to threaten and terrify another to make him believe what did not appear to him to be true. ~ [[Thomas More]] # There are, indeed, two forms of discontent: one laborious, the other indolent and complaining. We respect the man of laborious desire, but let us not suppose that his restlessness is peace, or his ambition meekness. It is because of the special connection of meekness with contentment that it is promised that the meek shall 'inherit the earth.' Neither covetous men, nor the grave, can inherit anything; they can but consume. Only contentment can possess. ~ [[John Ruskin]] # Does it really matter what these affectionate people do — so long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses? ~ [[Mrs Patrick Campbell]] # What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth. ~ [[Boris Pasternak]] # When writing about transcendental issues, be transcendentally clear. ~ [[René Descartes]] # Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. ~ [[Abraham Lincoln]] # Life is what it is, and you take what's handed, and you work as hard as you can, and hopefully you'll be successful, but I just don't spend too much time worrying about that. ~ [[Jerry Springer]] # Some things you don't need until they leave you; they're the things that you miss. ~ [[Rob Thomas]] # I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use. ~ [[Galileo Galilei]] # Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. ~ [[Henry Adams]] # Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen. ~ [[Michael Jordan]] # At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needs to be kept and you don't need someone to share it with or tell it to. When that happens — that letting go — you let go because you can. ~ [[Toni Morrison]] # External success has to do with people who may see me as a model, or an example, or a representative. As much as I may dislike or want to reject that responsibility, this is something that comes with public success. It's important to give others a sense of hope that it is possible and you can come from really different places in the world and find your own place in the world that's unique for yourself. ~ [[Amy Tan]] # We picked up everything we could get our hands on. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug-collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can. <br>The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. ~ [[Hunter S. Thompson]] # When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with. ~ [[Anaïs Nin]] # I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. ~ [[George Washington]] # Man is always something more than what he knows of himself. He is not what he is simply once and for all, but is a process... ~ [[Karl Jaspers]] # Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves. ~ [[Chester Nimitz]] # That so many writers have been prepared to accept a kind of martyrdom is the best tribute that flesh can pay to the living spirit of man as expressed in his literature. One cannot doubt that the martyrdom will continue to be gladly embraced. To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the world that matters. ~ [[Anthony Burgess]] # Sure, ninety percent of science fiction is crud. That's because ninety percent of everything is crud. ~ [[Theodore Sturgeon]] # ''Tell me not, in mournful numbers, <br>"Life is but an empty dream!" <br>For the soul is dead that slumbers,<br>And things are not what they seem.'' <br>~ [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]] ~ # If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away. ~ [[Linus Pauling]] == March 2006 == # ''I dreamt the past was never past redeeming:<br>But whether this was false or honest dreaming<br>I beg death's pardon now. And mourn the dead.'' <br>~ [[Richard Wilbur]] ~ # Our dignity, our free institutions and the peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of ''true'' patriotism: 'Our country — when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right.' ~ [[Carl Schurz]] # In mathematics the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems. ~ [[Georg Cantor]] # ''There was a young fellow from Trinity, <br>Who took the square root of infinity. <br>But the number of digits, Gave him the fidgets; <br>He dropped Math and took up Divinity.''<br> ~ [[George Gamow]] ~ # Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party — though they are quite numerous — is no freedom at all. Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters. ~ [[Rosa Luxemburg]] # Give thought to life and liberty. ~ [[Cyrano de Bergerac]] # ''Burn all the statutes and their shelves:<br>They stir us up against our kind;<br>And worse, against ourselves.<br>We have a passion — make a law,<br>Too false to guide us or control!<br>And for the law itself we fight<br>In bitterness of soul.<br>And, puzzled, blinded thus, we lose<br>Distinctions that are plain and few: <br>These find I graven on my heart:<br>'''That''' tells me what to do.''<br> ~ [[William Wordsworth]] in "[[Robert Roy MacGregor|Rob Roy]]'s Grave" ~ # The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done. ~ [[Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.]] # Some choices will choose you. How you face these choices, these turns in the road, with what kind of attitude, more than the choices themselves, is what will define the context of your life. ~ [[Dana Reeve]] # All that separates, whether of race, class, creed, or sex, is inhuman, and must be overcome. ~ [[Kate Sheppard]] # Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all. ~ [[Douglas Adams]] # Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite. ~ [[Edward Albee]] # Don't play for safety. It's the most dangerous thing in the world. ~ [[Hugh Walpole]] # Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. ~ [[Albert Einstein]] # Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces. ~ [[Julius Caesar]] # Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. The detective must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor. He talks as the man of his age talks, that is, with rude wit, a lively sense of the grotesque, a disgust for sham, and a contempt for pettiness. ~ [[Raymond Chandler]] # Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. There is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof. ~ "V" in ''[[V for Vendetta (film)|V for Vendetta]]'' # The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party. ~ [[John C. Calhoun]] # ''Who save the madman dares to cry: "'Tis I am right, you all are wrong"? <br> "You all are right, you all are wrong," we hear the careless Soofi say, <br>"For each believes his glimm'ering lamp to be the gorgeous light of day." ''<br> ~ Sir [[Richard Francis Burton]] ~ # The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom — these are the pillars of society. ~ [[Henrik Ibsen]] # The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. ~ [[Jean Cocteau]] # As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makes plain the pathway. ~ [[Anne Hutchinson]] # Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! ~ [[Patrick Henry]] # With the arrogance of youth, I determined to do no less than to transform the world with Beauty. If I have succeeded in some small way, if only in one small corner of the world, amongst the men and women I love, then I shall count myself blessed, and blessed, and blessed, and the work goes on. ~ [[William Morris]] # A wiki works best where you're trying to answer a question that you can't easily pose, where there's not a natural structure that's known in advance to what you need to know. ~ [[Ward Cunningham]] # ''He acts without contact, <br/> instructs without meeting,<br/> guides without pointing. <br/> Desires do not conflict with Him, <br/> thoughts do not mingle with Him:<br/> His essence is without qualification,<br/> His action without effort.'' <br>~ [[Mansur al-Hallaj]] ~ # All knowledge is oriented toward some object and is influenced in its approach by the nature of the object with which it is pre-occupied. But the mode of approach to the object to be known is dependent upon the nature of the knower. ~ [[Karl Mannheim]] # I'd like just to be remembered as a guy that came along and did his music, did his best and showed up on time, clean and ready to do the job, wrote a few songs, and had a hell of a time. ~ [[Buck Owens]] # Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way. ~ [[Stanisław Lem]] # Nothing can be surprising any more or impossible or miraculous, now that Zeus, father of the Olympians has made night out of noonday, hiding the bright sunlight, and . . . fear has come upon mankind. After this, men can believe anything, expect anything. ~ [[Archilochus]] # When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit that our lives are all that really belong to us. So, it is how we use our lives that determines what kind of men we are. It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life. ~ [[Cesar Chavez]] == April 2006 == # The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year. ~ [[Mark Twain]] # Whether it is happy or unhappy, a man's life is the only treasure he can ever possess. ~ [[Giacomo Casanova]] # There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in travelling in a stage-coach, that it is often a comfort to shift one’s position and be bruised in a new place. ~ [[Washington Irving]] # There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory. ~ [[Francis Drake|Sir Francis Drake]] # Do not that to another, which thou wouldest not have done to thy selfe. ~ [[Thomas Hobbes]] # Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. ~ [[Isaac Asimov]] # ''Thanks to the human heart by which we live,<br>Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears,<br>To me the meanest flower that blows can give<br>Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.'' <br>~ [[William Wordsworth]] ~ # Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love. This is the eternal rule. ~ [[Gautama Buddha]] # I'm sure we all agree that we ought to love one another, and I know there are people in the world who do not love their fellow human beings — and I ''hate'' people like that! ~ [[Tom Lehrer]] # Any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy, which qualifies life for immortality. ~ [[George William Russell]] # A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others. ~ [[Leo Rosten]] # Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed. ~ [[Tom Clancy]] # I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. ~ [[Thomas Jefferson]] # Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more. ~ [[Jesus|Yeshua (Jesus Christ)]] # Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to us, nevertheless it can happen that a certain fictive hypothesis may suffice for explaining many phenomena. ~ [[Leonhard Euler]] # The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you. ~ [[Jesus|Yeshua (Jesus Christ)]] # Where the storyteller is loyal, eternally and unswervingly loyal to the story, there, in the end, silence will speak. Where the story has been betrayed, silence is but emptiness. But we, the faithful, when we have spoken our last word, will hear the voice of silence. ~ [[Karen Blixen]] # I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure — that is all that agnosticism means. ~ [[Clarence Darrow]] # ''By the rude bridge that arched the flood,<br>Their flag to April's breeze unfurled;<br>Here once the embattled farmers stood;<br>And fired the shot heard round the world.'' <br> ~ [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]] ~ # Oh, the comfort — the inexpressible comfort of feeling ''safe'' with a person — having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. ~ [[Dinah Craik]] # This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on seas and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls. ~ [[John Muir]] # I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more. ~ [[Vladimir Nabokov]] # The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. ~ [[William Shakespeare]] in ''[[As You Like It]]'' # The end of man is knowledge but there's one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it would save him. ~ [[Robert Penn Warren]] # The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue. ~ [[Edward R. Murrow]] # Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to. ~ [[Marcus Aurelius]] # The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. ~ [[Edward Gibbon]] # War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost. ~ [[Karl Kraus]] # Despite the best that has been done by everyone — the gallant fighting of the military and naval forces, the diligence and assiduity of Our servants of the State, and the devoted service of Our one hundred million people — the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage, while the general trends of the world have all turned against her interest. ~ [[Hirohito]] # You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length. ~ [[Carl Friedrich Gauss]] == May 2006 == # I react pragmatically. Where the market works, I'm for that. Where the government is necessary, I'm for that. I'm deeply suspicious of somebody who says, 'I'm in favor of privatization,' or, 'I'm deeply in favor of public ownership.' I'm in favor of whatever works in the particular case. ~ [[John Kenneth Galbraith]] # We are near waking when we dream that we dream. ~ [[Novalis]] # Education is what you get when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. ~ [[Pete Seeger]] # Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this. ~ [[T. H. Huxley]] # Once you label me you negate me. ~ [[Søren Kierkegaard]] # Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action. ~ [[Sigmund Freud]] # The meaning of the living words that come out of the experiences of great hearts can never be exhausted by any one system of logical interpretation. They have to be endlessly explained by the commentaries of individual lives, and they gain an added mystery in each new revelation. ~ [[Rabindranath Tagore]] # While in the physical sciences the investigator will be able to measure what, on the basis of a ''prima facie'' theory, he thinks important, in the social sciences often that is treated as important which happens to be accessible to measurement. This is sometimes carried to the point where it is demanded that our theories must be formulated in such terms that they refer only to measurable magnitudes. ~ [[Friedrich Hayek]] # The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come. The time to build is upon us. ~ [[Nelson Mandela]] # The Truth lies not in the Yes and not in the No, but in the knowledge and the beginning from which the Yes and the No arise. ~ [[Karl Barth]] # Positive vibrations man. That's what makes it work. That's reggae music. You can't look away because it's real. You listen to what I sing because I mean what I sing, there's no secret, no big deal. Just honesty, that's all. ~ [[Bob Marley]] # ''Duty, Honor, Country'' — those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn. ~ [[Douglas MacArthur]] # 'Fire' does not matter, 'earth' and 'air' and 'water' do not matter. 'I' do not matter. No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words. ~ [[Roger Zelazny]] in ''[[Lord of Light]]'' # It is confidently expected that the period is at hand, when man, through ignorance, shall not much longer inflict unnecessary misery on man; because the mass of mankind will become enlightened, and will clearly discern that by so acting they will inevitably create misery to themselves. ~ [[Robert Owen]] # The voice of the individual artist may seem perhaps of no more consequence than the whirring of a cricket in the grass, but the arts do live continuously, and they live literally by faith; their names and their shapes and their uses and their basic meanings survive unchanged in all that matters through times of interruption, diminishment, neglect; they outlive governments and creeds and the societies, even the very civilization that produced them. They cannot be destroyed altogether because they represent the substance of faith and the only reality. They are what we find again when the ruins are cleared away. ~ [[Katherine Anne Porter]] # I like quoting Einstein. Know why? Because nobody dares contradict you. ~ [[Studs Terkel]] # There is no formula to it because writing every song, for me, is a little journey... It's everything. It's the walk you take in the morning, it's the night before, the meeting with people, landscapes, the chats, all of that evolves in some way into melody, but I'm not sure how it's going to happen. I'm dealing with the unknown all the time and that is exciting. ~ [[Enya]] # ''A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, <br> A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread — and Thou <br> Beside me singing in the Wilderness — <br> Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!'' <br>~ [[Omar Khayyám]] ~ # Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious — that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment. ~ [[Dan Brown]] # Love is like some fresh spring, first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows to plunge itself in some boundless ocean, where restricted natures only find monotony, but where great souls are engulfed in endless contemplation. ~ [[Honoré de Balzac]] # A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. ~ [[Alexander Pope]] # ''A little Learning is a dang'rous Thing;<br>Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring:<br>There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain,<br>And drinking largely sobers us again.'' <br> ~ [[Alexander Pope]] ~ # Cynicism isn't smarter, it's only safer. There's nothing fluffy about optimism. ~ [[Jewel (singer)|Jewel]] # Every failure is a step to success. ~ [[William Whewell]] # ''They reckon ill who leave me out;<br> When me they fly, I am the wings;<br> I am the doubter and the doubt,<br> And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.'' <br> ~ [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]] ~ # When you get in situations where you cannot afford to make a mistake, it's very hard to do the right thing. So if you're trying to do the right thing, the right thing might be to eliminate the cost of making a mistake rather than try to guess what's right. ~ [[Ward Cunningham]] # Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver. ~ [[Harlan Ellison]] # What I do know for certain is that what is regarded as success in a rational materialistic society only impresses superficial minds. It amounts to nothing and will not help us rout the destructive forces threatening us today. What may be our salvation is the discovery of the identity hidden deep in any one of us, and which may be found in even the most desperate individual, if he cares to search the spiritual womb which contains the embryo of what can be one's personal contribution to truth and life. ~ [[Patrick White]] # It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all. ~ [[G. K. Chesterton]] # I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed on me by my own reason. I am conscious of my own inability to grasp, in all its detail, and positive development, any very large portion of human knowledge. The greatest intelligence would not be equal to a comprehension of the whole... I receive and I give — such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn. Therefore there is no fixed and constant authority, but a continual exchange of mutual, temporary, and, above all, voluntary authority and subordination. ~ [[Mikhail Bakunin]] # ''I am for those that have never been master'd, <br> For men and women whose tempers have never been master'd, <br> For those whom laws, theories, conventions, can never master.''<br> ~ [[Walt Whitman]] in ''[[Leaves of Grass]]'' ~ == June 2006 == # Surprise becomes effective when we suddenly face the enemy at one point with far more troops than he expected. This type of numerical superiority is quite distinct from numerical superiority in general: it is the most powerful medium in the art of war. ~ [[Carl von Clausewitz]] # A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms. ~ [[Thomas Hardy]] # It's a bumper sticker culture. People have to get it like that, and if they don't, if it takes three seconds to make them understand, you're off their radar screen. Three seconds to understand, or you lose. This is our problem. ~ [[Lawrence Lessig]] # Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul. ~ [[Victor Hugo]] in ''[[Les Misérables]]'' # ''Nobody knows you. No. But I sing of you.<br>For posterity I sing of your profile and grace.<br>Of the signal maturity of your understanding.<br>Of your appetite for death and the taste of its mouth.<br>Of the sadness of your once valiant gaiety.''<br> ~ [[Federico García Lorca]] ~ # Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. ~ ''[[The Bible|The Book of Revelation]]'' # Nature has mysterious infinities and imaginative power. It is always varying the productions it offers to us. The artist himself is one of nature's means. ~ [[Paul Gauguin]] # The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope. ~ [[Frank Lloyd Wright]] # ''When you were born in this world <br> Everyone laughed while you cried<br>Conduct not yourself in manner such <br>That they laugh when you are gone.'' <br>~ [[Kabir]] ~ # ''All that you see has appeared because of Love.<br>All shines from Love,<br>All pulses with Love,<br>All flows from Love — <br>No, once again, all '''is''' Love!'' <br> ~ [[Fakhruddin 'Iraqi]] ~ # ''In small proportions we just beauties see,<br>And in short measures life may perfect be.''<br>~ [[Ben Jonson]] ~ # If one is but secure at the foundation, he will not be pained by departure from minor details or affairs that are contrary to expectation. But in the end, the details of a matter are important. The right and wrong of one's way of doing things are found in trivial matters. ~ [[Yamamoto Tsunetomo]] # It is difficult to know yourself if you do not know others. To all Ways there are side-tracks. If you study a Way daily, and your spirit diverges, you may think you are obeying a good way, but objectively it is not the true Way. If you are following the true Way and diverge a little, this will later become a large divergence. You must realise this. ~ [[Miyamoto Musashi]] # The longest day must have its close — the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day. ~ [[Harriet Beecher Stowe]] # Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight. ~ [[William McFee]] # If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. ~ [[Abraham Lincoln]] # Some would say that it is too idealistic to believe in a society based on tolerance and the sanctity of human life, where borders, nationalities and ideologies are of marginal importance. To those I say, this is not idealism, but rather realism, because history has taught us that war rarely resolves our differences. Force does not heal old wounds; it opens new ones. ~ [[Mohamed ElBaradei]] # ''Will you still need me,<br>Will you still feed me,<br>When I'm sixty-four?''<br>~ [[Paul McCartney]] ~ # It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it. ~ [[Aung San Suu Kyi]] # We wanted to bring some love to the world. I thought we were good at doing that. Bringin' love to the world. ~ [[Brian Wilson]] # Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior. ~ [[Mary McCarthy]] # The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words. ~ [[Anne Morrow Lindbergh]] # We thought: we're poor, we have nothing, but when we started losing one after the other so each day became remembrance day, we started composing poems about God's great generosity and — our former riches. ~ [[Anna Akhmatova]] # There is nothing better or more necessary than love. ~ [[John of the Cross]] # The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them. ~ [[George Orwell]] # For the future, let all people live in harmony ... Men should be taught and won over by reason, not by blows, insults, and corporal punishments. ~ [[Julian]] # The highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith; but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, — the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren and their rights of conscience. Tolerance is the first principal of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think. ~ [[Helen Keller]] # Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous. ~ [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]] # Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. ~ [[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]] # Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly. ~ [[Albert Einstein]] == July 2006 == # Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. ~ [[Georg Christoph Lichtenberg]] # When artists create pictures and thinkers search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something that lasts longer than we do. ~ [[Hermann Hesse]] # I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead. ~ [[Tom Stoppard]] # It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate. ~ [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]] # True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing. ~ [[Jean Cocteau]] # They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality. ~ [[Frida Kahlo]] # Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. ~ [[Robert A. Heinlein]] # It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive — to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are. ~ [[Elisabeth Kübler-Ross]] # I can get excitement watching rain on a puddle. And then I paint it. Now, I admit, there are not too many people who would find that exciting. But I would. And I want life thrilling and rich. And it is. I make sure it is. ~ [[David Hockney]] # The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter — for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. He lives and labors and hopes. ~ [[Nikola Tesla]] # Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. ~ [[John Quincy Adams]] # In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king. ~ [[Desiderius Erasmus]] # ''To-morrow comes, true copy of to-day,<br>And empty shadow of what is to be;<br>Yet cheated Hope on future still depends,<br>And ends but only when our being ends.'' <br> ~ [[John Clare]] ~ # Regardless of whether I believe or not, whether I am a Christian or not, I would play my part in the collective building of the cathedral. ~ [[Ingmar Bergman]] # Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their patriotism through their actions, by their choice... No law will make a citizen a patriot. ~ [[Jesse Ventura]] # If you build it, he will come. ~ "The Voice" in ''[[Field of Dreams]]'' # ''Were I so tall to reach the pole,<br>Or grasp the ocean with my span,<br>I must be measured by my soul;<br>The mind's the standard of the man.''<br> ~ [[Isaac Watts]] ~ # To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; and to forgo even ambition when the end is gained — who can say this is not greatness? ~ [[William Makepeace Thackeray]] # Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs. ~ [[Edgar Degas]] #You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things — to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals. The intense effort, the giving of everything you've got, is a very pleasant bonus. ~ [[Edmund Hillary|Sir Edmund Hillary]] #The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry. ~ [[Ernest Hemingway]] #''We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong.<br>We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.<br>We thought the long train would run to the end of Time.<br>We thought the light would increase.<br>Now the long train stands derailed and the bandits loot it.<br>Now the boar and the asp have power in our time.<br>Now the night rolls back on the West and the night is solid.<br>Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragon's teeth. <br>Our children know and suffer the armed men.'' <br> ~ [[Stephen Vincent Benét]] ~ #Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. The detective must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor. He talks as the man of his age talks, that is, with rude wit, a lively sense of the grotesque, a disgust for sham, and a contempt for pettiness. ~ [[Raymond Chandler]] #''There is one story and one story only.<br> Dwell on her graciousness, dwell on her smiling,<br> Do not forget what flowers<br> The great boar trampled down in ivy time.<br> Her brow was creamy as the long ninth wave,<br> Her sea-blue eyes were wild.<br> But nothing promised that is not performed.'' <br> ~ [[Robert Graves]] ~ #There seem to be magic days once in a while, with some rare quality of light that hold a body spellbound... Then comes the hard part: how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, air and space... ~ [[Maxfield Parrish]] #Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature. ~ [[George Bernard Shaw]] #In soft deluding lies let fools delight. A shadow marks our days, which end in Night. ~ [[Hilaire Belloc]] #We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong. ~ [[Karl Popper]] #No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country. ~ [[Alexis de Tocqueville]] #''What am I singing? <br/> A song of seeds <br/>The food of love. <br/> Eat the music.'' <br> ~ [[Kate Bush]] ~ #I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. ~ [[Milton Friedman]] == August 2006 == #''And now we meet in an abandoned studio<br>We hear the playback and it seems so long ago<br>And you remember the jingles used to go<br>Oh, oh — You were the first one.<br>Oh, oh — You were the last one.<br>Video killed the radio star.'' <br> ~ [[The Buggles]] ~ #Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. ~ [[James Baldwin]] #Somewhere, he thought, on the long backtrack of history, the human race had accepted an insanity for a principle and had persisted in it until today that insanity-turned-principle stood ready to wipe out, if not the race itself, at least all of those things, both material and immaterial, that had been fashioned as symbols of humanity through many hard-won centuries. ~ [[Clifford D. Simak]] #''If you divide suffering and dross, you may <br> Diminish till it is consumed away;<br> If you divide pleasure and love and thought,<br> Each part exceeds the whole; and we know not <br> How much, while any yet remains unshared...''<br> ~ [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]] ~ #Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread... ~ [[Conrad Aiken]] #One of the primary tests of the mood of a society at any given time is whether its comfortable people tend to identify, psychologically, with the power and achievements of the very successful or with the needs and sufferings of the underpriviliged. ~ [[Richard Hofstadter]] #We help the internet not suck. ~ [[Jimmy Wales]] #Better to die on your feet than live on your knees! ~ [[Emiliano Zapata]] #Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society... But for me, education means making creators... You have to make inventors, innovators, not conformists. ~ [[Jean Piaget]] #Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. ~ [[Herbert Hoover]] #Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to Joy, and makes royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods. ~ [[Robert G. Ingersoll]] #The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist. ~ [[Erwin Schrödinger]] #Make the world better. ~ [[Lucy Stone]] #Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. ~ [[Russell Baker]] #Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest. Call for the grandest of all human sentiments, what is that? It is that man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep. ~ [[Thomas De Quincey]] #The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and fame. The world feels not without a certain apprehension, that here is some one outside its jurisdiction; someone before whom its allurements may be spread in vain; some one strangely enfranchised, untamed, untrammelled by convention, moving independent of the ordinary currents of human action. ~ [[Winston Churchill]] #One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas — and you have to work through it all. ~ [[V. S. Naipaul]] #When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay. ~ [[Brian Aldiss]] #How are we to survive? Solemnity is not the answer, any more than witless and irresponsible frivolity is. I think our best chance lies in humor, which in this case means a wry acceptance of our predicament. We don't have to like it but we can at least recognize its ridiculous aspects, one of which is ourselves. ~ [[Ogden Nash]] #''That is not dead which can eternal lie, <br> And with strange aeons even death may die.'' <br>~ [[H. P. Lovecraft]] ~ #Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and vileness, and enjoy it to the full. ~ [[Leon Trotsky]] #No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you should never trust experts. If you believe doctors, nothing is wholesome: if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent: if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe. They all require their strong wine diluted by a very large admixture of insipid common sense. ~ [[Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury|Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Lord Salisbury]] #I have brought you to the ring, now see if you can dance. ~ [[William Wallace]] #If those in charge of our society — politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television — can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves. ~ [[Howard Zinn]] #Being inoffensive, and being offended, are now the twin addictions of the culture. ~ [[Martin Amis]] #We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves. ~ [[John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir|John Buchan, Lord Tweedsmuir]] #Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth. ~ [[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel]] #Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. ~ [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]] #Religion, which should most distinguish us from the beasts, and ought most particularly elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts. ~ [[John Locke]] #We are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves — such a friend ought to be — do not lend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures.. ~ [[Mary Shelley]] #Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough. ~ [[William Saroyan]] == September 2006 == #I like a huge range of comedy — from broad and farcical, the most sensitive, the most understated — but I always wanted my comedy to be more embracing of the species rather than debasing of it. ~ [[Lily Tomlin]] #Before you do anything, ''think''. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process. ~ [[Salma Hayek]] #Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man that would keep all the wine out of the country lest men should be drunk. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy, to deny a man the liberty he hath by nature upon a supposition that he may abuse it. ~ [[Oliver Cromwell]] #A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both. . ~ [[L. P. Jacks]] (originally attributed to [[François-René de Chateaubriand]], born 4 September 1768, because of a widespread misattribution.) #I've probably saved thousands of peoples' lives with my educational message on snake bites — how to get in around venomous anything. Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker, but crikey, education's the most important thing. ~ [[Steve Irwin]] #My personal feeling is that this is how any further improvement of the world will be done: by individuals making Quality decisions and that's all. ~ [[Robert M. Pirsig]] #Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd. ~ [[Edith Sitwell]] #Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat. ~ [[Peter Sellers]] #Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen. ~ [[Leo Tolstoy]] #Organisms are not billiard balls, propelled by simple and measurable external forces to predictable new positions on life's pool table. Sufficiently complex systems have greater richness. Organisms have a history that constrains their future in myriad, subtle ways. ~ [[Stephen Jay Gould]] #On [[September 11, 2001 attacks|September 11]] — what happened? Picture this: two upended matchboxes, knocked over by the sheer force of paper-darts.<br> Only it was much, much worse than that. In fact, words alone cannot adduce how much worse it was than that. September 11 was an attack on words: we felt a general deficit. ~ [[Martin Amis]] #When I came back to my native country, after all the stories about Hitler, I couldn't ride in the front of the bus. I had to go to the back door. I couldn't live where I wanted. I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, but I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President, either. ~ [[Jesse Owens]] #''What I need is a good defense<br> 'Cause I'm feeling like a criminal<br> And I need to be redeemed<br> To the one I've sinned against<br> Because he's all I ever knew of love.'' <br> ~ [[Fiona Apple]] ~ #The acceptance of the principle of international cooperation is of immense importance for all states. Even the states which are most tempted to believe that they can stand by themselves have very much to gain by such cooperation. And for the smaller states — the weaker states — it is vital to all their hopes of liberty and justice. ~ [[Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood|Lord Robert Cecil]] #We hardly find any persons of good sense, save those who agree with us. ~ [[François de La Rochefoucauld]] #The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you're not. And the other thing that the public really does like is the self-examination to say, you know, I'm not perfect. I'm just like you. They don't ask their public officials to be perfect. They just ask them to be smart, truthful, honest, and show a modicum of good sense. ~ [[Ann Richards]] #''It is difficult<br>to get the news from poems<br>yet men die miserably every day<br>for lack<br>of what is found there.''<br> ~ [[William Carlos Williams]] ~ #I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and ''growl.'' Let him come out as I do, and ''bark.'' ~ [[Samuel Johnson]] #His voice rose under the black smoke before the burning wreckage of the island; and infected by that emotion, the other little boys began to shake and sob too. And in the middle of them, with filthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy. ~ [[William Golding]] #We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it. ~ [[Joyce Brothers]] #''Like a bird on the wire, <br/> like a drunk in a midnight choir <br/> I have tried in my way to be free.'' <br/> ~ [[Leonard Cohen]] ~ #The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it. ~ [[Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield]] #There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change. ~ [[Euripides]] #To act with common sense, according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy, to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot, bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is, and despise affectation. ~ [[Horace Walpole]] #No battle is ever won... They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools. ~ [[William Faulkner]] #''What might have been and what has been <br>Point to one end, which is always present. <br>Footfalls echo in the memory <br> Down the passage which we did not take <br>Towards the door we never opened <br>Into the rose-garden.'' <br> ~ [[T. S. Eliot]] in ''[[The Four Quartets]]'' ~ #The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule. ~ [[Samuel Adams]] #When once the mind has raised itself to grasp and to delight in excellence, those who love most will be found to love most wisely. ~ [[Francis Turner Palgrave]] #Faith which does not doubt is dead faith. ~ [[Miguel de Unamuno]] #Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures, it is our gift to each other. ~ [[Elie Wiesel]] == October 2006 == #Love and music and happiness and family, that's what it's all about. I believe in these things. It would be awful not to, wouldn't it? ~ [[Julie Andrews]] #''A man and a woman<br> Are one. <br> A man and a woman and a blackbird <br>Are one.'' <br> ~ [[Wallace Stevens]] ~ #The average "educated" American has been made to believe that, somehow, the United States must lead the world even though hardly anyone has any information at all about those countries we are meant to lead. Worse, we have very little information about our own country and its past. ~ [[Gore Vidal]] #A comedian does funny things. A good comedian does things funny. ~ [[Buster Keaton]] #Almost all men, and those that seem to be very miserable, love life, because they cannot bear to lose sight of such a beautiful and lovely world. The ideas, that every moment whilst we live have a beauty that we take not distinct notice of, brings a pleasure that, when we come to the trial, we had rather live in much pain and misery than lose. ~ [[Jonathan Edwards (theologian)|Jonathan Edwards]] #<p>''Behold, we know not anything;<br> I can but trust that good shall fall<br> At last — far off — at last, to all,<br> And every winter change to spring.''</p><p>''So runs my dream; but what am I?<br> An infant crying in the night;<br> An infant crying for the light,<br> And with no language but a cry.'' <br> ~ [[Alfred Tennyson|Alfred, Lord Tennyson]] ~</p> #It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature ''is''. Physics concerns what we can ''say'' about nature. ~ [[Niels Bohr]] #Does the prophet see the future or does he see a line of weakness, a fault or cleavage that he may shatter with words or decisions as a diamond-cutter shatters his gem with a blow of a knife? ~ [[Frank Herbert]] in ''[[Dune]]'' #<p>''Imagine all the people<br>Sharing all the world..'' </p><p>''You may say I'm a dreamer<br>But I'm not the only one<br>I hope someday you'll join us<br>And the world will live as one.''</p><p> <br>~ [[John Lennon]] ~ </p> #I would like to make the point that we cannot undo the past but we can learn from it, and we cannot predict the future but we can shape and build it. ~ [[Epeli Ganilau]] #It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death. ~ [[Eleanor Roosevelt]] #I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy and all the others who have written on this subject demonstrate and prove, as do the eclipses of the moon and other experiments that are made from east to west, and the elevation of the North Star from north to south. ~ [[Christopher Columbus]] #If you ever get trial by television or guilt by accusation, that day freedom dies because you have not had it done with all of the careful rules that have developed in a court of law. Press and television rely on freedom. Those who rely on freedom must uphold the rule of law and have a duty and a responsibility to do so and not try to substitute their own system for it. ~ [[Margaret Thatcher]] #I am totally convinced from my experience of working with poor people that they can get themselves out of poverty if we give them the same or similar opportunities we give to others. The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world — all we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them. ~ [[Muhammad Yunus]] #In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong. ~ [[John Kenneth Galbraith]] #Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. ~ [[Oscar Wilde]] #Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. ~ [[Arthur Miller]] #''Give me my freedom for as long as I be <br>All I ask of livin' is to have no chains on me <br> All I ask of livin' is to have no chains on me <br>And all I ask of dyin' is to go naturally... <br> And when I die, and when I'm gone <br>There'll be one child born, in our world <br>To carry on, to carry on...'' <br>~ [[Laura Nyro]] ~ #There is surely a piece of divinity within us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun. ~ [[Thomas Browne]] #We sometimes talk as if "original research" were a peculiar prerogative of scientists or at least of advanced students. But all thinking is research, and all research is native, original, with him who carries it on, even if everybody else in the world already is sure of what he is still looking for. ~ [[John Dewey]] #<p>''He prayeth well, who loveth well<br>Both man and bird and beast.''</p><p>''He prayeth best, who loveth best<br>All things both great and small;<br>For the dear God who loveth us,<br> He made and loveth all.'' <br> ~ [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]] ~</p> #All political movements are like this — we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our own side who disagree with us are heretics, and they start becoming enemies. With it comes an absolute conviction of your own moral superiority. There's oversimplification in everything, and a terror of flexibility. ~ [[Doris Lessing]] #I am certain there is too much certainty in the world. ~ [[Michael Crichton]] #Poems present their testimony as circumstantial evidences, not as closing argument. Where Wallace Stevens says, “God and the imagination are one,” I would say that the imagination, which synergizes intellect, emotion and instinct, is the perceptive organ through which it is possible, though not inevitable, to experience God. ~ [[Denise Levertov]] #A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes that he is no longer indispensable. ~ [[Richard E. Byrd]] #The youth are not always right, but the society which ignores them and beats, is always wrong. ~ [[François Mitterrand]] #I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me. My love's not impersonal yet not wholly subjective either. I would like to be everyone, a cripple, a dying man, a whore, and then come back to write about my thoughts, my emotions, as that person. But I am not omniscient. I have to live my life, and it is the only one I'll ever have. And you cannot regard your own life with objective curiosity all the time. ~ [[Sylvia Plath]] #The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish. ~ [[Evelyn Waugh]] #We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over. ~ [[James Boswell]] #The fundamental article of my political creed is that despotism, or unlimited sovereignty, or absolute power, is the same in a majority of a popular assembly, an aristocratical council, an oligarchical junto, and a single emperor. Equally arbitrary, cruel, bloody, and in every respect diabolical. ~ [[John Adams]] #''A thing of beauty is a joy forever:<br>Its loveliness increases; it will never<br>Pass into nothingness; but still will keep<br>A bower quiet for us, and a sleep<br>Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.'' <br> ~ [[John Keats]] ~ == November 2006 == #''The wayfarer,<br> Perceiving the pathway to truth,<br> Was struck with astonishment.<br> It was thickly grown with weeds.<br> "Ha," he said,<br> "I see that none has passed here<br> In a long time."<br> Later he saw that each weed<br> Was a singular knife.<br> "Well," he mumbled at last,<br> "Doubtless there are other roads."'' <br> ~ [[Stephen Crane]] ~ #It is quite certain that in seeing the people who treat us so well despite their own misfortune, we are more obliged than ever to work hard for their happiness. ~ [[Marie Antoinette]] #Art is a revolt against fate. ~ [[André Malraux]] #A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it. ~ [[William Styron]] #Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty. ~ [[Will Durant]] #Me, I shall be an autocrat: that is my trade; and The Good God will forgive me: that is His. ~ [[Catherine II of Russia|Catherine the Great]] #The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance which fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness. ~ [[Albert Camus]] #No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be. ~ [[Bram Stoker]] #Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism. ~ [[Carl Sagan]] #Rarely do we arrive at the summit of truth without running into extremes; we have frequently to exhaust the part of error, and even of folly, before we work our way up to the noble goal of tranquil wisdom. ~ [[Friedrich Schiller]] # ''We are the Dead. Short days ago<br> We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,<br> Loved and were loved, and now we lie,<br> In Flanders fields.''<br> ~ [[John McCrae]] ~ #No matter how much women prefer to lean, to be protected and supported, nor how much men desire to have them do so, they must make the voyage of life alone, and for safety in an emergency they must know something of the laws of navigation. ~ [[Elizabeth Cady Stanton]] #The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. ~ [[Louis Brandeis]] #Peace has been said to be indivisible; so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also is disaster in this One World that can no longer be split into isolated fragments. ~ [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] #He who, when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth, tells it boldly and has done is both bolder and milder than he who nibbles in a low voice and never ceases nibbling. ~ [[Johann Kaspar Lavater]] #We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves. ~ [[Alan Watts]] #Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to coerce, be it in the hands of a monarch, a dictator, an oligarchy, or a momentary majority. ~ [[Milton Friedman]] #It's a feature of our age that if you write a work of fiction, everyone assumes that the people and events in it are disguised biography — but if you write your biography, it's equally assumed you're lying your head off. ~ [[Margaret Atwood]] #''Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, <br> And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.'' <br> ~ [[Alfred Tennyson|Alfred, Lord Tennyson]] ~ #Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it. ~ [[Nadine Gordimer]] #Man is free at the instant he wants to be. ~ [[Voltaire]] #What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other? ~ [[George Eliot]] #We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. ~ [[Thornton Wilder]] #Only the brave know how to forgive... A coward never forgave; it is not in his nature. ~ [[Laurence Sterne]] #If we have learned anything at all in this century, it is that all new technologies will be put to use, sooner or later, for better or worse, as it is in our nature to do. ~ [[Lewis Thomas]] #"Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, Why me?" And the voice says, "Nothing personal your name just happened to come up." ~ [[Charles M. Schulz]] #Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it. ~ [[Bruce Lee]] #Whatever nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge. ~ [[Enrico Fermi]] #The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs. There's not one of them which won't make us into devils if we set it up as an absolute guide. You might think love of humanity in general was safe, but it isn't. If you leave out justice you'll find yourself breaking agreements and faking evidence in trials "for the sake of humanity" and become in the end a cruel and treacherous man. ~ [[C.S. Lewis]] #It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more. ~ [[Winston Churchill]] == December 2006 == #If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank. ~ [[Woody Allen]] #The current search for new educational ''funnels'' must be reversed into the search for their institutional inverse: educational ''webs'' which heighten the opportunity for each one to transform each moment of his living into one of learning, sharing, and caring. ~ [[Ivan Illich]] #There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind. ~ [[Joseph Conrad]] #No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. ~ [[Thomas Carlyle]] #We have to remember that what we observe is not nature herself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning. ~ [[Werner Heisenberg]] #Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning. ~ [[Anthony Trollope]] #I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for. ~ [[Thornton Wilder]] #''May memory restore again and again <br> The smallest color of the smallest day:<br> Time is the school in which we learn, <br> Time is the fire in which we burn.'' <br> ~ [[Delmore Schwartz]] ~ #Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to my conscience, above all liberties. ~ [[John Milton]] in ''[[Areopagitica]]'' #The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference. ~ [[Elie Wiesel]] #In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim — that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people. ~ [[George Mason]] #The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments. ~ [[Gustave Flaubert]] #We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race. We all share the same basic values. ~ [[Kofi Annan]] #My deepest impulses are optimistic; an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect. ~ [[Ellen Willis]] #To talk about the end of science is just as foolish as to talk about the end of religion. Science and religion are both still close to their beginnings, with no ends in sight. ~ [[Freeman Dyson]] #What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude: the aims of friendship, religion, science, and art. ~ [[George Santayana]] #To even mention all the things the bird must constantly keep in mind in order to fly securely through the air would take a considerable part of the evening... The bird has learned this art of equilibrium, and learned it so thoroughly that its skill is not apparent to our sight. We only learn to appreciate it when we try to imitate it. ~ [[Wilbur Wright]] #Formerly we used to represent things visible on earth, things we either liked to look at or would have liked to see. Today we reveal the reality that is behind visible things, thus expressing the belief that the visible world is merely an isolated case in relation to the universe and that there are many more other, latent realities. Things appear to assume a broader and more diversified meaning, often seemingly contradicting the rational experience of yesterday. There is a striving to emphasize the essential character of the accidental. ~ [[Paul Klee]] #It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win. Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's life. ~ [[Phil Ochs]] #Learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy. ~ [[Edwin Abbott Abbott]] #This is the stillness behind motion, when time itself stops; the center is also the circumference of all. <br> ''We are awake in the night. <br>We turn the Wheel to bring the light. <br>We call the sun from the womb of night. <br>Blessed Be! ''<br> ~ [[Starhawk]] ~ #It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence. ~ [[Kenneth Rexroth]] #The final frontier is perhaps the most difficult, but it's also the most important — and that's the frontier of the human spirit. For too long, people have allowed differences on the surface — differences of color, ethnicity, and gender — to tear apart the common bonds they share. And the human spirit suffers as a result.<br> Imagine a world in which we saw beyond the lines that divide us, and celebrated our differences, instead of hiding from them. Imagine a world in which we finally recognized that, fundamentally, we are all the same. And imagine if we allowed that new understanding to build relations between people and between nations. ~ [[Wesley Clark]] #A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease. Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings, while incense is ever flowing from the balsam bells and leaves. No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself. ~ [[John Muir]] #Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. ~ [[Calvin Coolidge]] #Let us face squarely the paradox that the world which goes to war is a world, usually, genuinely desiring peace. War is the outcome, not mainly of evil intentions, but on the whole, of good intentions which miscarry or are frustrated. It is made, not usually by evil men knowing themselves to be wrong, but is the outcome of policies pursued by good men usually passionately convinced that they are right. ~ [[Norman Angell]] #I am on the edge of mysteries and the veil is getting thinner and thinner. ~ [[Louis Pasteur]] #The length of one's days matters less than the love of one's family and friends. ~ [[Gerald Ford]] #If I am to be shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet. ~ [[Andrew Johnson]] #<p>''If you can keep your head when all about you<br>Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,<br>If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,<br>But make allowance for their doubting too...''</p><p>''If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,<br>Or walk with Kings — nor lose the common touch,<br>If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,<br>If all men count with you, but none too much;<br>If you can fill the unforgiving minute<br>With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,<br>Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,<br>And — which is more — you'll be a Man, my son!''<br>~ [[Rudyard Kipling]] ~</p> #When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective. ~ [[George Marshall]] == January 2007 == #I do not believe in Belief. But this is an Age of Faith, and there are so many militant creeds that, in self defence, one has to formulate a creed of one's own. Tolerance, good temper and sympathy are no longer enough in a world where ignorance rules, and Science, which ought to have ruled, plays the pimp. Tolerance, good temper and sympathy — they are what matter really, and if the human race is not to collapse they must come to the front before long. ~ [[E. M. Forster]] #Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. ~ [[Isaac Asimov]] #Each comprehended only that part of the mind of Ilúvatar from which he came, and in the understanding of their brethren they grew but slowly. Yet ever as they listened they came to deeper understanding, and increased in unison and harmony. ~ [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] in ''[[The Silmarillion]]'' #Men learn little from others' experience. But in the life of one man, never the same time returns. ~ [[T. S. Eliot]], in ''Murder in the Cathedral'' #All statements are true in some sense, false in some sense, meaningless in some sense, true and false in some sense, true and meaningless in some sense, false and meaningless in some sense, and true and false and meaningless in some sense. ~ ''[[Principia Discordia]]'' #History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth. ~ [[E. L. Doctorow]] #It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent? ~ [[Richard Feynman]] #Some marry the first information they receive, and turn what comes later into their concubine. Since deceit is always first to arrive, there is no room left for truth. ~ [[Baltasar Gracián]] #I think it is possible, and that is the most dramatic element in modern civilization, that a human truth is opposed to another human truth no less human, ideal against ideal, positive worth against worth no less positive, instead of the struggle being as we are so often told, one between noble truth and vile selfish error. ~ [[Karel Čapek]] #''Science and mathematics<br>Run parallel to reality, they symbolize it, they squint at it,<br>They never touch it: consider what an explosion<br>Would rock the bones of men into little white fragments and unsky the world<br>If any mind for a moment touch truth.'' <br> ~ [[Robinson Jeffers]] ~ #Has it been found that bodies of men act with more rectitude or greater disinterestedness than individuals? The contrary of this has been inferred by all accurate observers of the conduct of mankind; and the inference is founded upon obvious reasons. Regard to reputation has a less active influence, when the infamy of a bad action is to be divided among a number than when it is to fall singly upon one. A spirit of faction, which is apt to mingle its poison in the deliberations of all bodies of men, will often hurry the persons of whom they are composed into improprieties and excesses, for which they would blush in a private capacity. ~ [[Alexander Hamilton]] #Society is indeed a contract... it is not a partnership in things subservient only to the gross animal existence of a temporary and perishable nature. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are to be born. ~ [[Edmund Burke]] #I still feel that sincerity and realism are avant-garde, or can be, just as I did when I started out. ~ [[Edmund White]] #Various medical authorities swarm in and out of here predicting I have between two days and two months to live. I think they are guessing. I remain cheerful and unimpressed. I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread. I love you all and I deeply implore you to keep the lasagna flying.<br> Please pardon my levity, I don't see how to take death seriously. It seems absurd. ~ [[Robert Anton Wilson]] #I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world. ~ [[Pierre-Joseph Proudhon]] #To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do we have from the past? Art and thought. That's what lasts. That's what continues to feed people and give them an idea of something better. A better state of one's feelings or simply the idea of a silence in one's self that allows one to think or to feel. Which to me is the same. ~ [[Susan Sontag]] #Those who would give up E<span style="font-variant:small-caps;text-transform:lowercase">ssential</span> L<span style="font-variant:small-caps;text-transform:lowercase">iberty</span> to purchase a little T<span style="font-variant:small-caps;text-transform:lowercase">emporary</span> S<span style="font-variant:small-caps;text-transform:lowercase">afety</span>, deserve neither L<span style="font-variant:small-caps;text-transform:lowercase">iberty</span> nor S<span style="font-variant:small-caps;text-transform:lowercase">afety</span>. ~ [[Benjamin Franklin]] #It's important to abolish the unconscious dogmatism that makes people think their way of looking at reality is the only sane way of viewing the world. My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone, but agnosticism about everything. ~ [[Robert Anton Wilson]] #Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got. ~ [[Art Buchwald]] #What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one.... It’s this in-between that I’m calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one — which is really the realm of the artist. ~ [[Federico Fellini]] #A revelation, that may be supposed to be really of the institution of God, must also be supposed to be perfectly consistent or uniform, and to be able to stand the test of truth... Reason therefore must be the standard by which we determine the respective claims of revelation; for otherwise we may as well subscribe to the divinity of the one as of the other, or to the whole of them, or to none at all. ~ [[Ethan Allen]] #If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them. ~ [[Francis Bacon]] #Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. ~ [[William Pitt the Younger]] #Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent. ~ [[Sharon Tate]] #I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we should know them. Then, though we are conscious of having faults as glaring as theirs, we can believe that that is no hindrance to our achieving also something of their virtues. ~ [[W. Somerset Maugham]] #''The only gold is love,<br>A coin that we have minted from the light<br>Of others who have cared for us on Earth<br>And who have deposited in us the power<br>That nerves our nerves to seize the burning stars.''<br> ~ [[Philip José Farmer]] ~ #"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less."<br>"The question is," said Alice, "whether you ''can'' make words mean so many different things."<br> "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master — that's all." <br> ~ [[Lewis Carroll]], in ''[[Through the Looking-Glass]]'' ~ #Man needs to go outside himself in order to find repose and reveal himself. ~ [[José Martí]] #I speak an open and disinterested language, dictated by no passion but that of humanity. To me, who have not only refused offers, because I thought them improper, but have declined rewards I might with reputation have accepted, it is no wonder that meanness and imposition appear disgustful. Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good. ~ [[Thomas Paine]] #If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands they must be made brighter in our own. If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free. If in other lands the eternal truths of the past are threatened by intolerance we must provide a safe place for their perpetuation. ~ [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] #Science is clearly one of the most profound methods that humans have yet devised for discovering truth, while religion remains the single greatest force for generating meaning. Truth and meaning, science and religion; but we still cannot figure out how to get the two of them together in a fashion that both find acceptable... if some sort of reconciliation between science and religion is not forthcoming, the future of humanity is, at best, precarious. ~ [[Ken Wilber]] == February 2007 == # I tire so of hearing people say,<br>''Let things take their course.<br>Tomorrow is another day.''<br>I do not need my freedom when I’m dead.<br>I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread. <br> ~ [[Langston Hughes]] ~ # Well, it's Groundhog Day... ''again''... ~ [[Bill Murray]] as "Phil" in ''[[Groundhog Day (film)|Groundhog Day]]'' # At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done to him. It is this above all that is sacred in every human being. ~ [[Simone Weil]] # Men weren't really the enemy — they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill. ~ [[Betty Friedan]] #God needeth not the help of a material sword of steel to assist the sword of the Spirit in the affairs of conscience. ~ [[Roger Williams]] #I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can. ~ [[Babe Ruth]] #Throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people we most despise. ~ [[Charles Dickens]] #One single war — we all know — may be productive of more evil, immediate and subsequent, than hundreds of years of the unchecked action of the mutual-aid principle may be productive of good. ~ [[Peter Kropotkin]] #Belief may be no more, in the end, than a source of energy, like a battery which one clips into an idea to make it run. ~ [[J. M. Coetzee]] #I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there. ~ [[Charles de Montesquieu]] #Even if we accept, as the basic tenet of true democracy, that one moron is equal to one genius, is it necessary to go a further step and hold that two morons are better than one genius? ~ [[Leó Szilárd]] #We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. ~ [[Abraham Lincoln]] #Every man's life (and ... every woman's life), awaits the hour of blossoming that makes it immortal ... love is a divinity above all accidents, and guards his own with extraordinary obstinacy. ~ [[Eleanor Farjeon]] #When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world — no matter how imperfect — becomes rich and beautiful, it consists solely of opportunities for love. ~ [[Søren Kierkegaard]] #The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do to their fellows, because it always coincides with their own desires. ~ [[Susan B. Anthony]] #The counsels of impatience and hatred can always be supported by the crudest and cheapest symbols; for the counsels of moderation, the reasons are often intricate, rather than emotional, and difficult to explain. And so the chauvinists of all times and places go their appointed way: plucking the easy fruits, reaping the little triumphs of the day at the expense of someone else tomorrow, deluging in noise and filth anyone who gets in their way, dancing their reckless dance on the prospects for human progress, drawing the shadow of a great doubt over the validity of democratic institutions. And until people learn to spot the fanning of mass emotions and the sowing of bitterness, suspicion, and intolerance as crimes in themselves — as perhaps the greatest disservice that can be done to the cause of popular government — this sort of thing will continue to occur. ~ [[George F. Kennan]] #Even to have come forth is something, since I see that being able to conquer is placed in the hands of fate. However, there was in me, whatever I was able to do, that which no future century will deny to be mine, that which a victor could have for his own: Not to have feared to die, not to have yielded to any equal in firmness of nature, and to have preferred a courageous death to a noncombatant life. ~ [[Giordano Bruno]] #The doors of heaven and hell are adjacent and identical. ~ [[Nikos Kazantzakis]] #''Hello darkness, my old friend<br> I've come to talk with you again <br> Because a vision softly creeping<br> Left its seeds while I was sleeping <br> And the vision that was planted in my brain <br> Still remains <br> Within the sound of silence.'' <br> ~ [[Paul Simon]] ~ #If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. ~ [[Frederick Douglass]] #''Defenceless under the night<br> Our world in stupor lies;<br> Yet, dotted everywhere,<br> Ironic points of light<br> Flash out wherever the Just<br> Exchange their messages:<br> May I, composed like them<br> Of Eros and of dust,<br> Beleaguered by the same<br> Negation and despair,<br> Show an affirming flame.''<br> ~ [[W. H. Auden]] ~ #Promote... as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened. ~ [[George Washington]] #The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience. ~ [[W.E.B. DuBois]] #Terrible is the day when each sees his soul naked, stripped of all veil; that dear soul which he cannot change or discard, and which is so irreparably his. ~ [[George A. Moore]] #''I look at the world and I notice it’s turning.<br> While my guitar gently weeps. <br> With every mistake we must surely be learning,<br> Still my guitar gently weeps.''<br> ~ [[George Harrison]] ~ #To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better. ~ [[Victor Hugo]] #<p>''Lives of great men all remind us<br>We can make our lives sublime,<br>And departing, leave behind us<br>Footprints on the sands of time.''</p><p>''Footprints, that perhaps another, <br> Sailing o'er life's solemn main,<br>A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,<br>Seeing, shall take heart again.''</p><p>''Let us, then, be up and doing.<br>With a heart for any fate;<br>Still achieving, still pursuing,<br>Learn to labor and to wait.''</p><p>~ [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]] ~</p> #''Near the snow, near the sun, in the highest fields, <br> See how these names are feted in the waving grass <br> And by the streamers of the white cloud <br> And whispers of the wind in the listening sky. <br> The names of those who in their lives fought for life, <br> Who wore at their hearts the fire's centre. <br> Born of the sun, they travelled a short while toward the sun <br> And left the vivid air signed with their honour.'' <br> ~ [[Stephen Spender]] ~ == March 2007 == #We should not be simply fighting evil in the name of good, but struggling against the certainties of people who claim always to know where good and evil are to be found. ~ [[Tzvetan Todorov]]. #Of course, there is no doubt that if we lived in a police state, it would be easier to catch terrorists. If we lived in a country that allowed the police to search your home at any time for any reason; if we lived in a country that allowed the government to open your mail, eavesdrop on your phone conversations, or intercept your email communications; if we lived in a country that allowed the government to hold people in jail indefinitely based on what they write or think, or based on mere suspicion that they are up to no good, then the government would no doubt discover and arrest more terrorists. But that probably would not be a country in which we would want to live. And that would not be a country for which we could, in good conscience, ask our young people to fight and die. In short, that would not be America. ~ [[Russ Feingold]] #You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them. ~ [[Alexander Graham Bell]] #In all living nature (and perhaps also in that which we consider as dead) ''love'' is the motive force which drives the creative activity in the most diverse directions. ~ [[P. D. Ouspensky]] #I've always wanted to make the world a more rational place. I'm still working on it. ~ [[Penn Jillette]] #For all eternity has God not occupied His intellect with the cabbage's birth as well as yours? It also seems that He has necessarily provided more for the birth of the vegetable than for the thinking being... Will anyone say that we are born in the image of the Sovereign Being, while cabbages are not? ~ [[Cyrano de Bergerac]] #Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends on art or any rational cause, and especially if it depends on the best of all causes. To entrust to chance what is greatest and most noble would be a very defective arrangement. ~ [[Aristotle]] #Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished. They didn't bother themselves about the past — they never do; they're too busy. ~ [[Kenneth Grahame]] # Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book. ~ [[Mickey Spillane]] #''I'm not aware of too many things.<br> I know what I know if you know what I mean.'' <br> ~ [[Edie Brickell]] ~ #Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. Nearly all men of science, all men of learning for that matter, and men of simple ways too, have it in some form and in some degree. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission. If we abandon that mission under stress we shall abandon it forever, for stress will not cease. Knowledge for the sake of understanding, not merely to prevail, that is the essence of our being. None can define its limits, or set its ultimate boundaries. ~ [[Vannevar Bush]] #They danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!" ~ [[Jack Kerouac]] #Man becomes aware of the sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the profane... ''something sacred shows itself to us'' ... something of a wholly different order, a reality that does not belong to our world, in objects that are an integral part of our natural "profane" world. ~ [[Mircea Eliade]] #Let us not forget that human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth. What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the enquiring and constructive mind. <br> What these blessed men have given us we must guard and try to keep alive with all our strength if humanity is not to lose its dignity, the security of its existence, and its joy in living. ~ [[Albert Einstein]] #There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing. ~ [[Andrew Jackson]] #If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. ~ [[James Madison]] #''Straighten up and fly right <br> Cool down, papa, don't you blow your top.'' <br> ~ [[Nat King Cole]] ~ #I mistake the American people if they favor the odious doctrine that there is no such thing as international morality; that there is one law for a strong nation and another for a weak one, and that even by indirection a strong power may with impunity despoil a weak one of its territory. ~ [[Grover Cleveland]] #''All Faith is false, all Faith is true: Truth is the shattered mirror strown <br> In myriad bits; while each believes his little bit the whole to own.''<br> ~ [[Richard Francis Burton|Sir Richard Francis Burton]] ~ #It is not only what we have inherited from our fathers and mothers that exists again in us, but all sorts of old dead ideas and all kinds of old dead beliefs and things of that kind. They are not actually alive in us; but there they are dormant, all the same, and we can never be rid of them. Whenever I take up a newspaper and read it, I fancy I see ghosts creeping between the lines. There must be ghosts all over the world. They must be as countless as the grains of the sands, it seems to me. And we are so miserably afraid of the light, all of us. ~ [[Henrik Ibsen]] #''Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring<br> The Winter Garment of Repentance fling<br> The Bird of Time has but a little way<br> To fly — and Lo! The Bird is on the Wing.'' <br> ~ [[Omar Khayyám]] ~ #Man’s destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth... I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish. ~ [[Marcel Marceau]] #No work which is destined to become a classic can look like the classics which have preceded it. In art, as in biology, there is heredity but no identity with the ascendants. Painters inherit characteristics acquired by their forerunners; that is why no important work of art can belong to any period but its own, to the very moment of its creation. It is necessarily dated by its own appearance. The conscious will of the painter cannot intervene. ~ [[Juan Gris]] #What is humility but truthfulness? There is no real difference. ~ [[Walter Hilton]] #I am an Anarchist not because I believe Anarchism is the final goal, but because there is no such thing as a final goal. ~ [[Rudolf Rocker]] #The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear. It is an immensely exciting experience to be born in the world, born in the universe, and look around you and realise that before you die you have the opportunity of understanding an immense amount about that world and about that universe and about life and about why we're here. We have the opportunity of understanding far, far more than any of our predecessors ever. That is such an exciting possibility, it would be such a shame to blow it and end your life not having understood what there is to understand. ~ [[Richard Dawkins]] #History is a novel written by the people. ~ [[Alfred de Vigny]] #We cannot know whether we love God, although there may be strong reason for thinking so; but there can be no doubt about whether we love our neighbor or not. Be sure that, in proportion as you advance in fraternal charity, you are increasing your love of God... ~ [[Teresa of Avila]] #''I have been all men known to history,<br> Wondering at the world and at time passing;<br> I have seen evil, and the light blessing<br> Innocent love under a spring sky.'' <br> ~ [[R. S. Thomas]] ~ #Accept the truth from whatever source it comes. ~ [[Maimonides]] #So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope for success, but merely being willing to risk the experiment of finding whether the truth they seek lies there. ... I do not deny that sometimes in these wanderings they are lucky enough to find something true. But I do not allow that this argues greater industry on their part, but only better luck. ~ [[René Descartes]] == April 2007 == #Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread. ~ [[Alexander Pope]] #How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point does conformity become corruption? Only by answering such questions does the conscience truly define itself. ~ [[Kenneth Tynan]] #There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human nature. ~ [[Washington Irving]] #''He who learns must suffer<br>And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget<br>Falls drop by drop upon the heart,<br>And in our own despite, against our will,<br>Comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.''<br>~ [[Aeschylus]] ~ #The world is fast learning that of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color. One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him. ~ [[Booker T. Washington]] #I am less concerned with expressing the motions of the soul and mind than to render visible, so to speak, the inner flashes of intuition which have something divine in their apparent insignificance and reveal magic, even divine horizons, when they are transposed into the marvellous effects of pure plastic art. ~ [[Gustave Moreau]] #In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs — in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and things violently destroyed, the Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time. ~ [[William Wordsworth]] #''Blessed are the poor in spirit: <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. <br>Blessed are they that mourn: <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; for they shall be comforted. <br>Blessed are the meek: <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; for they shall inherit the earth. <br>Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness:<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; for they shall be filled. <br>Blessed are the merciful: <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; for they shall obtain mercy. <br>Blessed are the pure in heart: <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; for they shall see God. <br>Blessed are the peacemakers:<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; for they shall be called the children of God. <br>Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake:<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.''<br> ~ [[Jesus|Yeshua (Jesus Christ)]] ~ #It is at once by way of poetry and through poetry, as with music, that the soul glimpses splendors from beyond the tomb; and when an exquisite poem brings one’s eyes to the point of tears, those tears are not evidence of an excess of joy, they are witness far more to an exacerbated melancholy, a disposition of the nerves, a nature exiled among imperfect things, which would like to possess, without delay, a paradise revealed on this very same earth. ~ [[Charles Baudelaire]] #To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead. ~ [[William Hazlitt]] #Extremists think "communication" means agreeing with them. ~ [[Leo Rosten]] #Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle. ~ [[Tom Clancy]] #The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths. ~ [[Christopher Hitchens]] #All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist... It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever... Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is "So it goes." ~ [[Kurt Vonnegut]] #We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art. ~ [[Henry James]] #The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. ~ [[Anatole France]] #Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day. ~ [[Thornton Wilder]] #History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history. ~ [[Clarence Darrow]] #Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth. ~ [[Joan of Arc|Jehanne Darc (Joan of Arc)]] #It may often be noticed, the less virtuous people are, the more they shrink away from the slightest whiff of the odour of un-sanctity. The good are ever the most charitable, the pure are the most brave. ~ [[Dinah Craik]] #Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. ~ [[Charlotte Brontë]] #It is certainly not then — not in dreams — but when one is wide awake, at moments of robust joy and achievement, on the highest terrace of consciousness, that mortality has a chance to peer beyond its own limits, from the mast, from the past and its castle-tower. And although nothing much can be seen through the mist, there is somehow the blissful feeling that one is looking in the right direction. ~ [[Vladimir Nabokov]] #We defy augury; there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all. ~ "Hamlet" in ''[[Hamlet]]'' by [[William Shakespeare]] #I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards. When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness. ~ [[Anthony Trollope]] # It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts. ~ [[Boris Yeltsin]] #They say that each generation inherits from those that have gone before; if this were so there would be no limit to man's improvements or to his power of reaching perfection. But he is very far from receiving intact that storehouse of knowledge which the centuries have piled up before him; he may perfect some inventions, but in others, he lags behind the originators, and a great many inventions have been lost entirely. What he gains on the one hand, he loses on the other. ~ [[Eugène Delacroix]] #Though I have been trained as a soldier, and participated in many battles, there never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword. I look forward to an epoch when a court, recognized by all nations, will settle international differences. ~ [[Ulysses S. Grant]] #The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret. ~ [[Terry Pratchett]] #''I have been in a multitude of shapes,<br> Before I assumed a consistent form.<br> I have been a sword, narrow, variegated,<br> I will believe when it is apparent.<br> I have been a tear in the air,<br> I have been the dullest of stars.<br> I have been a word among letters,<br> I have been a book in the origin.''<br> ~ [[Taliesin]] ~ #In a political struggle, never get personal — else the dagger digs too deep. ~ [[Jack Valenti]] ==May 2007 == #A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes that there is no virtue but on his own side, and that there are not men as honest as himself who may differ from him in political principles. ~ [[Joseph Addison]] #''Love works magic. <br> It is the final purpose <br> Of the world story, <br> The Amen of the universe.'' <br> ~ [[Novalis]] ~ #The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be. ~ [[Pete Seeger]] #The life, the fortune, and the happiness of every one of us, and, more or less, of those who are connected with us, do depend upon our knowing something of the rules of a game infinitely more difficult and complicated than chess. It is a game which has been played for untold ages, every man and woman of us being one of the two players in a game of his or her own. The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance. ~ [[Thomas Huxley|T. H. Huxley]] #I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both. ~ [[Søren Kierkegaard]] in ''[[Either/Or]]'' #Who knows what beautiful and winged life, whose egg has been buried for ages under many concentric layers of woodenness in the dead dry life of society ... may unexpectedly come forth ... to enjoy its perfect summer life at last! ... such is the character of that morrow which mere lapse of time can never make to dawn. ... Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star. ~ [[Henry David Thoreau]] in ''[[Walden]]'' #Nothing appears more surprising to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers. When we enquire by what means this wonder is effected, we shall find, that, as Force is always on the side of the governed, the governors have nothing to support them but opinion. It is therefore, on opinion only that government is founded; and this maxim extends to the most despotic and most military governments, as well as to the most free and most popular. ~ [[David Hume]] #''And, oh! what beautiful years were these<br> When our hearts clung each to each;<br>When life was filled and our senses thrilled<br> In the first faint dawn of speech.''</p><p>''Thus life by life and love by love<br> We passed through the cycles strange,<br>And breath by breath and death by death<br> We followed the chain of change.'' <br> ~ [[Langdon Smith]] ~</p> #Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did. ~ [[Sophie Scholl]] of the [[White Rose]] #Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think. ~ [[Jean de La Bruyère]] #''The poet in a golden clime was born,<br>With golden stars above;<br>Dower'd with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn,<br>The love of love.'' <br>~ [[Alfred Tennyson|Alfred, Lord Tennyson]] ~ #''Unto the furthest flood-brim look with me;<br> Then reach on with thy thought till it be drown'd.<br> Miles and miles distant though the last line be,<br> And though thy soul sail leagues and leagues beyond,— <br> Still, leagues beyond those leagues, there is more sea.''<br> ~ [[Dante Gabriel Rossetti]] ~ #A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts. ~ [[Washington Irving]] #I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living his life, and who had good friends, a fine family. I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually. ~ [[Frank Sinatra]] #Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist — the only thing he's good for — is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning. Even if it's only his view of a meaning. That's what he's for — to give his view of life. ~ [[Katherine Anne Porter]] #The universe is flux, life is opinion. ~ [[Marcus Aurelius]] #We are all, always, the desire not to die. This desire is as immeasurable and varied as life's complexity, but at bottom this is what it is: To continue to ''be,'' to ''be'' more and more, to develop and to endure. All the force we have, all our energy and clearness of mind serve to intensify themselves in one way or another. We intensify ourselves with new impressions, new sensations, new ideas. We endeavour to take what we do not have and to add it to ourselves. Humanity is the desire for novelty founded upon the fear of death. That is what it is. ~ [[Henri Barbusse]] #The opposition of instinct and reason is mainly illusory. Instinct, intuition, or insight is what first leads to the beliefs which subsequent reason confirms or confutes; but the confirmation, where it is possible, consists, in the last analysis, of agreement with other beliefs no less instinctive. Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one. Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new. ~ [[Bertrand Russell]] #With all reverence, I would say, let God do His work, we will see to ours. Bring in the candles. ~ [[Abraham Davenport]] #The prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions of human character as innate, and in the main indelible, and to ignore the irresistible proofs that by far the greater part of those differences, whether between individuals, races, or sexes, are such as not only might but naturally would be produced by differences in circumstances, is one of the chief hindrances to the rational treatment of great social questions, and one of the greatest stumbling blocks to human improvement. ~ [[John Stuart Mill]] #Life — a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter. ~ [[Charles Lindbergh]] #I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one's weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can't all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something. ~ [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] #What I mean by the Muse is that unimpeded clearness of the intuitive powers, which a perfectly truthful adherence to every admonition of the higher instincts would bring to a finely organized human being. It may appear as prophecy or as poesy. ... should these faculties have free play, I believe they will open new, deeper and purer sources of joyous inspiration than have as yet refreshed the earth. ~ [[Margaret Fuller]] #Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom. ~ [[Benjamin N. Cardozo]] #<p>''Is pain a promise? I was schooled in pain,<br>And found out what I could of all desire;<br>I weep for what I'm like when I'm alone<br>In the deep center of the voice and fire.''</p><p>''I know the motion of the deepest stone.<br>Each one's himself, yet each one's everyone.''<br>~ [[Theodore Roethke]] ~</p> #I'm not a fan of classification. It's very difficult to come up with a classification scheme that's useful when what you're most interested in is things that don't fit in, things that you didn't expect. ~ [[Ward Cunningham]] #''Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:<br> He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;<br> He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword:<br> His truth is marching on.'' <br> ~ [[Julia Ward Howe]] ~ #I have the same idea with all my books: an attempt to come close to the core of reality, the structure of reality, as opposed to the merely superficial. The realistic novel is remote from art. A novel should heighten life, should give one an illuminating experience; it shouldn't set out what you know already. I just muddle away at it. One gets flashes here and there, which help. I am not a philosopher or an intellectual. Practically anything I have done of any worth I feel I have done through my intuition, not my mind... ~ [[Patrick White]] #The pessimist is commonly spoken of as the man in revolt. He is not. Firstly, because it requires some cheerfulness to continue in revolt, and secondly, because pessimism appeals to the weaker side of everybody, and the pessimist, therefore, drives as roaring a trade as the publican. The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade all the other people how good they are. It has been proved a hundred times over that if you really wish to enrage people and make them angry, even unto death, the right way to do it is to tell them that they are all the sons of God. ~ [[G. K. Chesterton]] #I myself am human and free only to the extent that I acknowledge the humanity and liberty of all my fellows... I am properly free when all the men and women about me are equally free. Far from being a limitation or a denial of my liberty, the liberty of another is its necessary condition and confirmation. ~ [[Mikhail Bakunin]] #''Who makes much of a miracle?<br> As to me I know of nothing else but miracles ...<br>To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle,<br>Every cubic inch of space is a miracle...''<br> ~ [[Walt Whitman]] in ''[[Leaves of Grass]]'' ~ == June 2007 == #Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them. Even with the violence of emotion, judgment and principle must still function like a ship’s compass, which records the slightest variations however rough the sea. ~ [[Carl von Clausewitz]] #To find themselves utterly alone at night where company is desirable and expected makes some people fearful; but a case more trying by far to the nerves is to discover some mysterious companionship when intuition, sensation, memory, analogy, testimony, probability, induction — every kind of evidence in the logician's list — have united to persuade consciousness that it is quite in isolation. ~ [[Thomas Hardy]] #We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, "God, what a nut." ~ [[Lawrence Lessig]] #I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge —<br> That myth is more potent than history.<br>I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts —<br>That hope always triumphs over experience — <br>That laughter is the only cure for grief. <br>And I believe that love is stronger than death.<br> ~ [[Robert Fulghum]] ~ #The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds. ~ [[John Maynard Keynes]] #Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them. ~ [[Thomas Mann]] #''Exhaust the little moment. <br>Soon it dies. <br>And be it gash or gold it will not come <br>Again in this identical guise.'' <br> ~ [[Gwendolyn Brooks]] ~ #I knew that good like bad becomes a routine, that the temporary tends to endure, that what is external permeates to the inside, and that the mask, given time, comes to be the face itself. ~ [[Marguerite Yourcenar]] #''What is this thing called love? <br> This funny thing called love?'' <br>~ [[Cole Porter]] ~ #Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love. ~ [[Saul Bellow]] #The world is wide; no two days are alike, nor even two hours; neither were there ever two leaves of a tree alike since the creation of the world; and the genuine productions of art, like those of nature, are all distinct from one another. ~ [[John Constable]] #I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have risen in revolt long ago! There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated and grown, will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again. ~ [[Anne Frank]] #''Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, <br> Enwrought with the golden and silver light, <br> The blue and the dim and the dark cloths <br> Of night and light and half-light, <br> I would spread the cloths under your feet: <br>But I, being poor, have only my dreams; <br> I have spread my dreams beneath your feet; <br> Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.''<br> ~ [[William Butler Yeats]] ~ #That play of black upon white, white upon black, has the intent and takes the form of creative art. It has in it a flow of the spirit and a harmony of music. Everything is lost when suddenly a false note is struck, or one party in a duet suddenly launches forth on an eccentric flight of his own. A masterpiece of a game can be ruined by insensitivity to the feelings of an adversary. ~ [[Yasunari Kawabata]] #All that you know is at an end. ~ The "[[Silver Surfer]]" in ''[[Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer]]'' #It's no use, says he. Force, hatred, history, all that. That's not life for men and women, insult and hatred. And everybody knows that it's the very opposite of that that is really life. ~ [[James Joyce]] in ''[[Ulysses]]'' #Nothing you do, however many of us you kill, will stop that flight to our cities where freedom is strong and where people can live in harmony with one another. Whatever you do, however many you kill, you will fail. ~ [[Ken Livingstone]] #The day after Columbine, I was interviewed... The reporter had been assigned a theory and was seeking sound bites to support it. "Wouldn't you say," she asked, "that killings like this are influenced by violent movies?" No, I said, I wouldn't say that... The reporter looked disappointed, so I offered her my theory. "Events like this," I said, "if they are influenced by anything, are influenced by news programs like your own. When an unbalanced kid walks into a school and starts shooting, it becomes a major media event. Cable news drops ordinary programming and goes around the clock with it. The story is assigned a logo and a theme song ... The message is clear to other disturbed kids around the country: If I shoot up my school, I can be famous..." ~ [[Roger Ebert]] #We are gradually being conditioned to accept violence as a sensual pleasure. The directors used to say they were showing us its real face and how ugly it was in order to sensitize us to its horrors. You don't have to be very keen to see that they are now in fact desensitizing us. They are saying that everyone is brutal, and the heroes must be as brutal as the villains or they turn into fools. There seems to be an assumption that if you're offended by movie brutality, you are somehow playing into the hands of the people who want censorship. ... Yet surely, when night after night atrocities are served up to us as entertainment, it's worth some anxiety. ... How can people go on talking about the dazzling brilliance of movies and not notice that the directors are sucking up to the thugs in the audience? ~ [[Pauline Kael]] #If there's not love present, it's much, much harder to function. When there's love present, it's easier to deal with life. ~ [[Brian Wilson]] #''Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling…'' <br> ~ [[Walt Whitman]] in ''[[Leaves of Grass]]'' ~ #Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. ~ [[Anne Morrow Lindbergh]] #I grew up knowing I could have had a million different lives. It makes your life mysterious and your imagination go wild. ~ [[KT Tunstall]] #'''Absurdity''', ''n.'' A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. ~ [[Ambrose Bierce]] #I always disagree ... when people end up saying that we can only combat Communism, Fascism or what not if we develop an equal fanaticism. It appears to me that one defeats the fanatic precisely by ''not'' being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence. In the same way, a man can kill a tiger because he is ''not'' like a tiger and uses his brain to invent the rifle, which no tiger could ever do. ~ [[George Orwell]] #A knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future. Fate ... is not the blind superstition or helplessness that waits stupidly for what may happen. Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance. ~ [[Pearl S. Buck]] #A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships. ~ [[Helen Keller]] #To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For him who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts. ~ [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]] #"Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed." ~ [[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]] in ''[[The Little Prince]]'' #''Love means to look at yourself<br>The way one looks at distant things<br>For you are only one thing among many.<br>And whoever sees that way heals his heart,<br>Without knowing it, from various ills —<br>A bird and a tree say to him: Friend.''<br>~ [[Czesław Miłosz]] ~ == July 2007 == #It is almost impossible to bear the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody’s beard. ~ [[Georg Christoph Lichtenberg]] #<p>''There's no life<br>that couldn't be immortal<br>if only for a moment.''</p><p>'''Death<br>always arrives by that very moment too late.''</p><p>''In vain it tugs at the knob<br>of the invisible door.<br>As far as you've come can't be undone.''</p><p>~ [[Wisława Szymborska]] ~</p> #We are sinful not merely because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. ~ [[Franz Kafka]] #The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. ~ [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]] #There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. ~ [[Jean Cocteau]] #Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. ~ [[Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama]] #Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it. ~ [[Robert A. Heinlein]] #Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it. ~ [[Jean de La Fontaine]] #There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge, and wisdom. Shall we, instead, choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? We appeal as human beings to human beings: Remember your humanity, and forget the rest. If you can do so, the way lies open to a new Paradise; if you cannot, there lies before you the risk of universal death. ~ [[Bertrand Russell]] in the [[w:Russell-Einstein Manifesto|Russell-Einstein Manifesto]] #The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is. ~ [[Marcel Proust]] #I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. ~ [[E. B. White]] #There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly. ~ [[Henry David Thoreau]] #Changes in the structure of society are not brought about solely by massive engines of doctrine. The first flash of insight which persuades human beings to change their basic assumptions is usually contained in a few phrases. ~ [[Kenneth Clark]] #''Nobody living can ever stop me<br>As I go walking my freedom highway<br>Nobody living can make me turn back<br>This land is made for you and me.'' <br> ~ [[Woody Guthrie]] ~ #Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality. ~ [[Iris Murdoch]] #You'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them — if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry. ~ [[J. D. Salinger]] in ''[[The Catcher in the Rye]]'' #Maintain a constant watch at all times against a dogmatical spirit: fix not your assent to any proposition in a firm and unalterable manner, till you have some firm and unalterable ground for it, and till you have arrived at some clear and sure evidence. ~ [[Isaac Watts]] #The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice. ~ [[William Makepeace Thackeray]] #The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation. ~ [[Edgar Degas]] #People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things. ~ Sir [[Edmund Hillary]] #If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. ~ [[J. K. Rowling]] in ''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone]]'' #''Life is not lost by dying! Life is lost<br> Minute by minute, day by dragging day, <br> In all the thousand, small, uncaring ways, <br> The smooth appeasing compromises of time, <br> Which are King Herod and King Herod's men, <br> Always and always. Life can be <br> Lost without vision but not lost by death, <br> Lost by not caring, willing, going on <br> Beyond the ragged edge of fortitude <br> To something more — something no man has ever seen.''<br> ~ [[Stephen Vincent Benét]] ~ #Our system presumes that there are certain principles that are more important than the temper of the times. ~ [[Anthony Kennedy]] #''New beginnings and new shoots<br> Spring again from hidden roots<br> Pull or stab or cut or burn,<br> Love must ever yet return.'' <br> ~ [[Robert Graves]] ~ #To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance. ~ [[Eric Hoffer]] #To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves. ~ [[Aldous Huxley]] #A heart, a heart that hurts, is a heart, a heart that works. ~ [[Juliana Hatfield‎]] #We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure. ~ [[Karl Popper]] #God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason. ~ [[Dag Hammarskjöld]] #''Just being alive<br>It can really hurt.<br>These moments given<br>Are a gift from time.<br>Just let us try<br>To give these moments back<br>To those we love<br>To those who will survive.'' <br> ~ [[Kate Bush]] ~ #In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that’s why you’re not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not. But immaculate virtue does not exist either, or if it exists it is detestable. ~ [[Primo Levi]] == August 2007 == #People ask what are my intentions with my films — my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. ~ [[Ingmar Bergman]] #The moment always comes when, having collected one's ideas, certain images, an intuition of a certain kind of development — whether psychological or material — one must pass on to the actual realization. ~ [[Michelangelo Antonioni]] #There is a plan, it seems to me, that reaches out of the electron to the rim of the universe and what this plan may be or how it came about is beyond my feeble intellect. But if we are looking for something on which to pin our faith — and, indeed, our hope — the plan might well be it. I think we have thought too small and have been too afraid. ~ [[Clifford D. Simak]] #''In each human heart terror survives<br> The ravin it has gorged: the loftiest fear<br> All that they would disdain to think were true: <br> Hypocrisy and custom make their minds<br> The fanes of many a worship, now outworn.<br> They dare not devise good for man’s estate,<br> And yet they know not that they do not dare.''<br> ~ [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]] ~ #There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. ~ [[Guy de Maupassant]] #''Flower in the crannied wall,<br>I pluck you out of the crannies,<br>I hold you here, root and all, in my hand,<br>Little flower — but '''if''' I could understand<br>What you are, root and all, and all in all,<br>I should know what God and man is.'' <br> ~ [[Alfred Tennyson]] ~ #Wikipedia is first and foremost an effort to create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language. Asking whether the community comes before or after this goal is really asking the wrong question: the entire purpose of the community is precisely this goal. ~ [[Jimmy Wales]] #''There is a quiet at the heart of love,<br>And I have pierced the pain and come to peace.''<br>~ [[Sara Teasdale]] ~ #You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for — if you are honest — you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one. ~ [[P. L. Travers]] #It has occasionally been remarked upon that it is as easy to overlook something large and obvious as it is to overlook something small and niggling, and that the large things one overlooks can often cause problems. ~ [[Neil Gaiman]] in ''[[Stardust (novella)|Stardust]]'' #In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments — there are consequences. ~ [[Robert G. Ingersoll]] #Faith plays an important role in an open society. Exactly because our understanding is imperfect, we cannot base our decisions on knowledge alone. We need to rely on beliefs, religious or otherwise, to help us make decisions. But we must remain open to the possibility that we may be wrong so that we can correct our mistakes. Otherwise, we are bound to be wrong. ~ [[George Soros]] #The Supreme Ethical Rule: Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thy self. ~ [[Felix Adler]] #It's always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it's going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary. ~ [[John Galsworthy]] #The aggressive and quite illogical idea of a single religion for all mankind, a religion universal by the very force of its narrowness, one set of dogmas, one cult, one system of ceremonies, one ecclesiastical ordinance, one array of prohibitions and injunctions which all minds must accept on peril of persecution by men and spiritual rejection or eternal punishment by God, that grotesque creation of human unreason which has been the parent of so much intolerance, cruelty and obscurantism and aggressive fanaticism, has never been able to take firm hold of the Indian mentality. ~ [[Sri Aurobindo]] #The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander. ~ [[T. E. Lawrence]] #I have always supported measures and principles and not men. I have acted fearless and independent and I never will regret my course. I would rather be politically buried than to be hypocritically immortalized. ~ [[Davy Crockett]] #What we say is the truth is what everybody accepts ... Psychiatry: it's the latest religion. We decide what's right and wrong. We decide who's crazy or not. I'm in trouble here. I'm losing my faith. ~ [[Madeleine Stowe]] as "Dr. Kathryn Railly" in ''[[Twelve Monkeys]]'' #Vast is the field of Science ... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know. ~ [[Samuel Richardson]] #The world we live in is driven not solely by mindless physical forces but, more crucially, by subjective human values. Human values become the underlying key to world change. ~ [[Roger Wolcott Sperry]] #''Another day goes by<br>Still the children cry<br>Put a little love in your heart.''<br> ~ [[Jackie DeShannon]] ~ #I wish to write down my musical dreams in a spirit of utter self-detachment. I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naïve candour of a child. No doubt, this simple musical grammar will jar on some people. It is bound to offend the partisans of deceit and artifice. I foresee that and rejoice at it. ~ [[Claude Debussy]] #''It matters not how strait the gate,<br>How charged with punishments the scroll,<br>I am the master of my fate:<br>I am the captain of my soul.'' <br> ~ [[William Ernest Henley]] ~ #It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is. ~ [[Jorge Luis Borges]] #The humourless as a bunch don't just not know what's funny, they don't know what's serious. They have no common sense, either, and shouldn't be trusted with anything. ~ [[Martin Amis]] #Our sufferings have taught us that no nation is sufficient unto itself, and that our prosperity depends in the long run, not upon the failure of our neighbors but their successes. ~ [[John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir]] #The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions — none more so than the most capable. ~ [[Theodore Dreiser]] #Moderation, the Golden Mean, the Aristonmetron, is the secret of wisdom and of happiness. But it does not mean embracing an unadventurous mediocrity: rather it is an elaborate balancing-act, a feat of intellectual skill demanding constant vigilance. Its aim is a reconciliation of opposites. ~ [[Robertson Davies]] #The truth that seems discouraging does in reality only transform the courage of those strong enough to accept it; and, in any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods. ~ [[Maurice Maeterlinck]] #Live, and be happy, and make others so. ~ [[Mary Shelley]] #Have no shame in being kindly and gentle, but if the time comes in the time of your life to kill, kill and have no regret. In the time of your life, live — so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it. ~ [[William Saroyan]] == September 2007 == #I have always felt that humor was a wonderful vehicle to let us become connected with each other and ourselves… I try to portray the similarities and polarities in men and women, so that we can acknowledge and embrace our collective consciousness. ~ [[Lily Tomlin]] #There is only one thing infamous in love, and that is a falsehood. ~ [[Paul Bourget]] #A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes something from the world, and has something to give in return. ~ [[Sarah Orne Jewett]] #Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite; and this rare conjuncture, like that of certain planets, appears to occur only after the revolution of several cycles, and only lasts for an instant. ~ [[François-René de Chateaubriand]] #The pure, frank sentiments we hold in our hearts are the only truthful sources of art. ... All authentic art is conceived at a sacred moment and nourished in a blessed hour; an inner impulse creates it, often without the artist being aware of it. ~ [[Caspar David Friedrich]] #Opinions are not to be learned by rote, like the letters of an alphabet, or the words of a dictionary. They are conclusions to be formed, and formed by each individual in the sacred and free citadel of the mind, and there enshrined beyond the arm of law to reach, or force to shake. ~ [[Frances Wright]] #Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese? ~ [[Edith Sitwell]] #I'm not a politician, I'm a musician. I care about giving people a place where they can go to enjoy themselves and to begin to live again. To the man you have to give the spirit, and when you give him the spirit, you have done everything. ~ [[Luciano Pavarotti]] #You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you. ~ [[Madeleine L'Engle]] # The river of truth is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between them, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the mainstream. ~ [[Cyril Connolly]] #Our best destiny, as planetary cohabitants, is the development of what has been called "species consciousness" — something over and above nationalisms, blocs, religions, ethnicities ... I have been trying to apply such a consciousness, and such a sensibility. Thinking of the victims, the perpetrators, and the near future, I felt species grief, then species shame, then species fear. ~ [[Martin Amis]] on the [[September 11, 2001 attacks|terrorist attacks of 11<sup>th</sup> September 2001]] #Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule — and both commonly succeed, and are right... The United States has never developed an aristocracy really disinterested or an intelligentsia really intelligent. Its history is simply a record of vacillations between two gangs of frauds. ~ [[H. L. Mencken]] #Worldly renown is naught but a breath of wind, which now comes this way and now comes that, and changes name because it changes quarter. ~ [[Dante Alighieri]] #The vast majority of the peoples of the world are against war and against aggression. If they make their wishes known and effective, war can be stopped. It all depends on whether they are willing to make the effort necessary for the purpose. For, that it will require an effort, no one who considers the history of the world on these subjects can doubt. ~ [[Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood]] #Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side. ~ [[François de La Rochefoucauld]] #Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense. ~ [[Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke]] #You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case. ~ [[Ken Kesey]] #All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance; it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals. If a man was to compare the single stroke of the pickaxe, or of one impression of the spade, with the general design and the last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion; yet those petty operations, incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains are leveled and oceans bounded by the slender force of human beings. ~ [[Samuel Johnson]] #I think everybody who has a brain should get involved in politics. Working within. Not criticizing it from the outside. Become an active participant, no matter how feeble you think the effort is. ~ [[Cass Elliot]] #In each of us are places where we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them. ~ [[Joyce Brothers]] #Life begins perpetually. Gathered together at last under the leadership of man, the student-teacher of the universe... unified, disciplined, armed with the secret powers of the atom, and with knowledge as yet beyond dreaming, Life, forever dying to be born afresh, forever young and eager, will presently stand upon this earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out its realm amidst the stars. ~ [[H. G. Wells]] #Just practice good, do good for others, without thinking of making yourself known so that you may gain reward. Really bring benefit to others, gaining nothing for yourself. This is the primary requisite for breaking free of attachments to the Self. ~ [[Dōgen]] #Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far. ~ [[Euripides]] #My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness. ~ [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]] #We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them. ~ [[Christopher Reeve]] #''Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind <br> Cannot bear very much reality. <br> Time past and time future <br> What might have been and what has been <br> Point to one end, which is always present.'' <br> ~ [[T. S. Eliot]] in ''[[The Four Quartets]]'' ~ #You can decide what you want to eat for dinner, you can decide to go away for the weekend, and you can decide what clothes you’re going to wear in the morning, but when it comes to artistic things, there’s never a rhyme or reason. It’s, like, they just happen. And they happen when they happen. ~ [[Meat Loaf]] #A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed — I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself. ~ [[Georges Clemenceau]] #Honesty is the best policy, I will stick to that. The good shall have my hand and heart, but the bad neither foot nor fellowship. And in my mind, the main point of governing, is to make a good beginning. ~ [[Miguel de Cervantes]] #Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there. ~ [[Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi]] == October 2007 == #Creators, makers of the new, can never become obsolete, for in the arts there is no correct answer. The story of discoverers could be told in simple chronological order, since the latest science replaces what went before. But the arts are another story — a story of infinite addition. We must find order in the random flexings of the imagination. ~ [[Daniel J. Boorstin]] #''If there must be a god in the house, must be,<br>Saying things in the room and on the stair,''</p><p>''Let him move as the sunlight moves on the floor,<br>Or moonlight, silently, as Plato's ghost''</p><p>''Or Aristotle's skeleton. Let him hang out<br>His stars on the wall. He must dwell quietly.''</p><p> ~ [[Wallace Stevens]] ~ </p> #I'm an optimist. In order to be libertarian, you have to be an optimist. You have to have a benign view of human nature, to believe that human beings left to their own devices are basically good. But I'm not so sure about human institutions, and I think the real point of argument here is whether or not large corporations are human institutions or some other entity we need to be thinking about curtailing. Most libertarians are worried about government but not worried about business. I think we need to be worrying about business in exactly the same way we are worrying about government. ~ [[John Perry Barlow]] #Personally I do not resort to force — not even the force of law — to advance moral reforms. I prefer education, argument, persuasion, and above all the influence of example — of fashion. ~ [[Rutherford B. Hayes]] #The philosopher forms his principles on an infinity of particular observations. ... He does not confuse truth with plausibility; he takes for truth what is true, for false what is false, for doubtful what is doubtful, and probable what is probable. ... The philosophical spirit is thus a spirit of observation and accuracy. ~ [[Denis Diderot]] #''Are God and Nature then at strife,<br> That Nature lends such evil dreams?<br> So careful of the type she seems,<br> So careless of the single life...'' <br> ~ [[Alfred Tennyson|Alfred, Lord Tennyson]] ~ #We depend on our words ... Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others. We must strive continually to extend the scope of our description, but in such a way that our messages do not thereby lose their objective or unambiguous character ... We are suspended in language in such a way that we cannot say what is up and what is down. The word "reality" is also a word, a word which we must learn to use correctly. ~ [[Niels Bohr]] #The sequential nature of actual events is not illuminated with lengthy precision by the powers of prescience except under the most extraordinary circumstances. The oracle grasps incidents cut out of the historic chain. Eternity moves. It inflicts itself upon the oracle and the supplicant alike. Let Muad'Dib's subjects doubt his majesty and his oracular visions. Let them deny his powers. Let them never doubt Eternity. ~ [[Frank Herbert]] in ''[[Dune|Dune Messiah]]'' #Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. ~ [[John Lennon]] #The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world — and the most dangerous. ~ [[James Clavell]] #At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want — for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war. ~ [[Eleanor Roosevelt]] #Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction stands in ultimate service to a living whole. ~ [[Edith Stein]] #I'm always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common. If you see it, black and white people, both sides look to see the differences, they don't look at what they have together. Men and women, and old and young, and so on. And this is a disease of the mind, the way I see it. ~ [[Doris Lessing]] #There's an old African proverb that says "If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." We have to go far — quickly. And that means we have to quickly find a way to change the world's consciousness about exactly what we're facing, and why we have to work to solve it. ~ [[Al Gore]] #Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself. ~ [[Friedrich Nietzsche]] #If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out. ~ [[Oscar Wilde]] #My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is an anxiety, or a hope, or a preoccupation which is his alone and isolates him from mankind; and in this respect at least the function of a play is to reveal him to himself so that he may touch others by virtue of the revelation of his mutuality with them. If only for this reason I regard the theater as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone. ~ [[Arthur Miller]] #There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. ~ [[Logan Pearsall Smith]] #Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development. ~ [[Lewis Mumford]] #''I'm learning to fly, but I ain't got wings <br> Coming down is the hardest thing.'' <br> ~ [[Tom Petty]] ~ #''All thoughts, all passions, all delights,<br>Whatever stirs this mortal frame,<br>All are but ministers of Love,<br>And feed his sacred flame.'' <br> ~ [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]] ~ #Think for yourself and question authority. ~ [[Timothy Leary]] #Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. ~ [[Sarah Bernhardt]] #<p>''Two girls discover<br> the secret of life<br> in a sudden line of<br> poetry.''</p><p>''I who don't know the<br> secret wrote<br> the line. ... ''</p><p>'' I love them<br> for finding what<br> I can't find,''</p><p>''and for loving me<br> for the line I wrote,<br> and for forgetting it<br> so that''</p><p>''a thousand times, till death<br> finds them, they may<br> discover it again, in other<br> lines''</p><p>''in other<br> happenings.''</p><p> ~ [[Denise Levertov]] ~ </p> #''For out of olde feldes, as men seith,<br>Cometh al this new corn fro yeer to yere;<br>And out of olde bokes, in good feith,<br>Cometh al this newe science that men lere.'' <br> ~ [[Geoffrey Chaucer]] ~ #''Contempt loves the silence<br>it thrives in the dark<br>with fine winding tendrils<br>that strangle the heart.'' <br>~ [[Natalie Merchant]] ~ #Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. ~ [[Theodore Roosevelt]] #I have dreams, and I have nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams. ~ [[Jonas Salk]] # This is a terrific outburst. And since it doesn’t have a tail right now, some observers have confused it with a nova. We’ve had at least two reports of a new star. ~ [[Brian G. Marsden]] # Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. ~ [[John Adams]] #There is no law beyond ''Do'' what thou wilt. <br>Love is the law, love under will. <br> ~ [[Aleister Crowley]] ~ == [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/November 2007| November 2007]] == # ''You cannot choose your battlefield, <br> God does that for you; <br> But you can plant a standard <br> Where a standard never flew.'' <br> ~ [[Nathalia Crane]] ~ #By the theory of our Government majorities rule, but this right is not an arbitrary or unlimited one. It is a right to be exercised in subordination to the Constitution and in conformity to it. One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights. Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression. ~ [[James K. Polk]] #Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the word FREEDOM should ever be more than an empty political slogan. ~ [[Wilhelm Reich]] #There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. ~ [[Will Rogers]] #''Remember, remember, the 5th of November<br>The Gunpowder Treason and plot;<br>I know of no reason why Gunpowder Treason<br>Should ever be forgot.'' <br> ~ Traditional rhyme for [[Guy Fawkes]] Night. ~ #I don’t think that combat has ever been written about truthfully; it has always been described in terms of bravery and cowardice. I won’t even accept these words as terms of human reference any more. And anyway, hell, they don’t even apply to what, in actual fact, modern warfare has become. ~ [[James Jones]] #Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day. ~ [[Albert Camus]] #''The important thing<br>is to pull yourself up by your own hair <br> to turn yourself inside out <br> and see the whole world with fresh eyes.'' <br> ~ [[Peter Weiss]] ~ #''To love another is something <br> like prayer and it can't be planned, you just fall <br> into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.'' <br> ~ [[Anne Sexton]] ~ #There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous. ~ "Mr. Wednesday" in ''[[American Gods]]'' by [[Neil Gaiman]] #A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved. ~ [[Kurt Vonnegut]] #We sail across dominions barely seen, washed by the swells of time. We plow through fields of magnetism. Past and future come together on thunderheads and our dead hearts live with lightning in the wounds of the Gods. ~ [[Norman Mailer]] #To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. ~ [[Robert Louis Stevenson]] #A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance. ~ [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] #''The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence;<br>not in silence, but restraint.''<br>~ [[Marianne Moore]] ~ #We must face problems which do not lend themselves to easy or quick or permanent solutions. And we must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient, that we are only six percent of the world's population, that we cannot impose our will upon the other ninety-four percent of mankind, that we cannot right every wrong or reverse each adversity, and that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem. ~ [[John F. Kennedy]] # The paramount question of the day is not political, is not religious, but is economic. The crying-out demand of today is for a circle of principles that shall forever make it impossible for one man to control another by controlling the means of his existence. ~ [[Voltairine de Cleyre]] #Whatever the scientists may come up with, writers and artists will continue to portray altered mental states, simply because few aspects of our nature fascinate people so much. The so-called mad person will always represent a possible future for every member of the audience — who knows when such a malady may strike? ~ [[Margaret Atwood]] #It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them. In this beneficent work sections and races should be forgotten and partisanship should be unknown. ~ [[James A. Garfield]] #Only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly. ... Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality of those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change. ~ [[Robert F. Kennedy]] #It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him. ~ [[Voltaire]] #''This is life to come, — <br> Which martyred men have made more glorious <br> For us who strive to follow. May I reach <br> That purest heaven, — be to other souls <br> The cup of strength in some great agony, <br> Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love, <br> Beget the smiles that have no cruelty, <br> Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, <br> And in diffusion ever more intense! <br> So shall I join the choir invisible <br> Whose music is the gladness of the world.'' <br> ~ [[George Eliot]] ~ #''There's only us, there's only this. <br> Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. <br>No other road, no other way, no day but today. <br>I can't control my destiny. <br>I trust my soul. My only goal is just to be. <br>There's only now, there's only here. <br>Give in to love, or live in fear.<br> No other path, no other way. <br>No day but today.'' <br>~ [[Jonathan Larson]] in "Another Day" from ''[[Rent]]'' ~ #Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it. ~ [[Baruch Spinoza]] #Loving truth and living honestly is my attitude to life. Be true to yourself and be true to others, thus you can be the judge of your behavior. ~ [[Ba Jin]] #It is not earthly rank, nor birth, nor nationality, nor religious privilege, which proves that we are members of the family of God; it is love, a love that embraces all humanity. ~ [[Ellen G. White]] #Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend. ~ [[Bruce Lee]] #''To see a World in a Grain of Sand <br> And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, <br>Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand<br>And Eternity in an hour.'' <br> ~ [[William Blake]] ~ #All that is not eternal is eternally out of date. ~ [[C. S. Lewis]] #The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not ''teach a subject'', one teaches a student how to learn it. ~ [[Jacques Barzun]] == [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/December 2007|December 2007]] == #''December will be magic again. <br> Don't miss the brightest star. <br> Kiss under mistletoe. <br> I want to hear you laugh. <br> Don't let the mystery go now.'' <br> ~ [[Kate Bush]] ~ #Ultimately, leadership requires action: daring to take steps that are necessary but unpopular, challenging the status quo in order to reach a brighter future. And to push for peace is ultimately personal sacrifice, for leadership is not easy. It is born of a passion, and it is a commitment. Leadership is a commitment to an idea, to a dream, and to a vision of what can be. And my dream is for my land and my people to cease fighting and allow our children to reach their full potential regardless of sex, status, or belief. ~ [[Benazir Bhutto]] #All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising, for the edification of mankind, pinned down by the conditions of its existence to the earnest consideration of the most insignificant tides of reality. ~ [[Joseph Conrad]] #You don't get very far in life without having to be brave an awful lot. Because we all have our frightening moments and difficult trials and we don't have much of a choice but to get through 'em, and it takes a lot of bravery to do that. The most important thing about bravery is this — It's not about not being scared — it's about being scared and doing it anyway — that's bravery. ~ [[Ysabella Brave]] #Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a person who has shown judgement, wisdom, personal appeal, and proven competence. ~ [[Walt Disney]] #''It is stern work, it is perilous work, to thrust your hand in the sun<br> And pull out a spark of immortal flame to warm the hearts of men:<br>But Prometheus, torn by the claws and beaks whose task is never done,<br> Would be tortured another eternity to go stealing fire again.'' <br> ~ [[Joyce Kilmer]] ~ #It's an alethiometer. It's one of only six that were ever made. Lyra, I urge you again: keep it private. ... It tells you the truth. As for how to read it, you'll have to learn by yourself. Now go — it's getting lighter... ~ [[Philip Pullman]] in ''[[w:Northern Lights (novel)|The Golden Compass]]'' #A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them. Obviously that can only work at moments. It can't be a lasting thing. That's not saying that people shouldn't keep trying to rebel against the facts of existence. Someday, who knows, we might conquer death, disease and war. ~ [[Jim Morrison]] #Man is appealed to to be guided in his acts, not merely by love, which is always personal, or at the best tribal, but by the perception of his oneness with each human being. In the practice of mutual aid, which we can retrace to the earliest beginnings of evolution, we thus find the positive and undoubted origin of our ethical conceptions; and we can affirm that in the ethical progress of man, mutual support — not mutual struggle — has had the leading part. ~ [[Peter Kropotkin]] #If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. ~ [[Desmond Tutu]] #Let us not forget that violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven with falsehood. Between them lies the most intimate, the deepest of natural bonds. Violence finds its only refuge in falsehood, falsehood its only support in violence. Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his METHOD must inexorably choose falsehood as his PRINCIPLE. ~ [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]] #I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or to speak, or write, with moderation. ... I am in earnest — I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD. ~ [[William Lloyd Garrison]] #Where they burn books, they will also burn people. ~ [[Heinrich Heine]] #I had determined to go as far as declaring in abstruse and puzzling utterances the future causes of the "common advent", even those truly cogent ones that I have foreseen. Yet lest whatever human changes may be to come should scandalise delicate ears, the whole thing is written in nebulous form, rather than as a clear prophecy of any kind. ~ [[Nostradamus]] #''It is not the right angle that attracts me, <br> Nor the hard, inflexible straight line, man-made. <br> What attracts me are free and sensual curves. <br> The curves in my country’s mountains, <br> In the sinuous flow of its rivers, <br> In the beloved woman’s body.'' <br> ~ [[Oscar Niemeyer]] ~ #Perhaps it is better to be un-sane and happy, than sane and un-happy. But it is the best of all to be sane and happy. Whether our descendants can achieve that goal will be the greatest challenge of the future. Indeed, it may well decide whether we have any future. ~ [[Arthur C. Clarke]] #It is a queer and fantastic world. Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has got the wrong thing. Perhaps you can make head or tail of it; it is beyond me. ~ [[Ford Madox Ford]] #I cannot be grasped in the here and now. For I reside just as much with the dead as with the unborn. Somewhat closer to the heart of creation than usual. But not nearly close enough. ~ [[Paul Klee]] #In such an ugly time the true protest is beauty. ~ [[Phil Ochs]] #This I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about. I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for it is the one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system. Surely I can understand this, and I hate it and I will fight against it to preserve the one thing that separates us from the uncreative beasts. If the glory can be killed, we are lost. ~ [[John Steinbeck]] #If there is a God, I don't think He would demand that anyone bow down or stand up to Him. I often have a suspicion that God is still trying to work things out and hasn't finished. ~ [[Rebecca West]] #''The holiness of the real <br> Is always there, accessible <br> In total immanence. The nodes <br> Of transcendence coagulate <br> In you, the experiencer, <br> And in the other, the lover.'' <br> ~ [[Kenneth Rexroth]] ~ #I think we should be very clear on this... this country was founded on the principles of the Enlightenment... It was the idea that people could talk, reason, have dialogue, discuss the issues. It wasn't founded on the idea that someone would get struck by a divine inspiration and know everything right from wrong. I mean, people who founded this country had religion, they had strong beliefs, but they believed in reason, in dialogue, in civil discourse. We can’t lose that in this country. We've got to get it back. ~ [[Wesley Clark]] # Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world. You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood. ~ [[Francis Pharcellus Church]] in "[[w:Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus|Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus]]" # ''He rules the world with truth and grace,<br> And makes the nations prove<br> The glories of His righteousness,<br> And wonders of His love,<br> And wonders of His love,<br> And wonders, wonders, of His love.'' <br> ~ [[Isaac Watts]] ~ #The responsibility of the great states is to serve and not to dominate the world. ~ [[Harry S. Truman]] #I am utterly convinced that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will eventually unite not to destroy but to edify, and that the future will belong to those who have done the most for the sake of suffering humanity. ~ [[Louis Pasteur]] #The forces of moderation and democracy must, and will, prevail against extremism and dictatorship. I will not be intimidated. ... Despite threats of death, I will not acquiesce to tyranny, but rather lead the fight against it. ~ [[Benazir Bhutto]] #For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. ~ [[Rainer Maria Rilke]] #The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, as a telegraphic message engraves itself on the ticker-tape, but the one whose vital impact opens up other viewpoints, and from writer to reader spreads the fire that is fed by the various essences, until it becomes a vast conflagration leaping from forest to forest. ~ [[Romain Rolland]] #For my part I have never avoided the influence of others. I would have considered it cowardice and a lack of sincerity toward myself. ~ [[Henri Matisse]] == [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/January 2008|January 2008]] == #What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote, and brings to birth in us also the creative impulse. ~ [[E. M. Forster]] #When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well. On the other hand, when they split up knowledge, concentrate on their own field, and scorn and ignore other fields, they grow less wise — even in their own field. ~ [[Isaac Asimov]] #The rule of no realm is mine, neither of Gondor nor any other, great or small. But all worthy things that are in peril as the world now stands, those are my care. And for my part, I shall not wholly fail of my task, though Gondor should perish, if anything passes through this night that can still grow fair or bear fruit and flower again in days to come. ~ "[[w:Gandalf|Gandalf]]" in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' : ''[[The Return of the King]]'' by [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] #The main Business of natural Philosophy is to argue from Phenomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects, till we come to the very first Cause, which certainly is not mechanical. ~ [[Isaac Newton]] #A dreaded society is not a civilized society. The most progressive and powerful society in the civilized sense, is a society which has recognized its ethos, and come to terms with the past and the present, with religion and science, with modernism and mysticism, with materialism and spirituality; a society free of tension, a society rich in culture. Such a society cannot come with hocus-pocus formulas and with fraud. It has to flow from the depth of a divine search. ~ [[Zulfikar Ali Bhutto]] #Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love. ~ [[Khalil Gibran]] #You cannot begin to preserve any species of animal unless you preserve the habitat in which it dwells. Disturb or destroy that habitat and you will exterminate the species as surely as if you had shot it. So conservation means that you have to preserve forest and grassland, river and lake, even the sea itself. This is not only vital for the preservation of animal life generally, but for the future existence of man himself — a point that seems to escape many people. ~ [[Gerald Durrell]] #If you cannot make knowledge your servant, make it your friend. ~ [[Baltasar Gracián]] #One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion. ~ [[Simone de Beauvoir]] #I believe that the Universe is one being, all its parts are different expressions of the same energy, and they are all in communication with each other, therefore parts of one organic whole. This whole is in all its parts so beautiful, and is felt by me to be so intensely in earnest, that I am compelled to love it and to think of it as divine. ~ [[Robinson Jeffers]] #I do indeed disbelieve that we or any other mortal men can attain on a given day to absolutely incorrigible and unimprovable truth about such matters of fact as those with which religions deal. But I reject this dogmatic ideal not out of a perverse delight in intellectual instability. I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly. ~ [[William James]] #Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. ~ [[Edmund Burke]] #The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find. ~ [[Edmund Hillary|Sir Edmund Hillary]] #At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it. After that, there remains only the journey itself, which is nothing but the process through which we lose our ownership of it. ~ [[Yukio Mishima]] #I'm concerned about justice. I'm concerned about brotherhood. I'm concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about these, he can never advocate violence. For through violence you may murder a murderer but you can't murder murder. Through violence you may murder a liar but you can't establish truth. Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can't murder hate. Darkness cannot put out darkness. Only light can do that. ~ [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]] #I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up. ~ [[Susan Sontag]] #All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut. Whether this be the case with my history or not, I am hardly competent to judge. I sometimes think it might prove useful to some, and entertaining to others; but the world may judge for itself. Shielded by my own obscurity, and by the lapse of years, and a few fictitious names, I do not fear to venture; and will candidly lay before the public what I would not disclose to the most intimate friend. ~ [[Anne Brontë]] #The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed. ~ [[Charles de Montesquieu]] #''From childhood's hour I have not been <br> As others were — I have not seen <br> As others saw — I could not bring <br> My passions from a common spring — <br> From the same source I have not taken <br> My sorrow — I could not awaken <br> My heart to joy at the same tone — <br> And all I lov'd — '''I''' lov'd alone.'' <br> ~ [[Edgar Allan Poe]] ~ #I love child things because there's so much mystery when you're a child. When you're a child, something as simple as a tree doesn't make sense. You see it in the distance and it looks small, but as you go closer, it seems to grow — you haven't got a handle on the rules when you're a child. We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experienced is a narrowing of the imagination. ~ [[David Lynch]] #If the general government should persist in the measures now threatened, there must be war. It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of war and threaten it. They do not know its horrors. I have seen enough of it to make me look upon it as the sum of all evils. ~ [[Stonewall Jackson]] #''So, we'll go no more a roving <br> So late into the night, <br> Though the heart be still as loving, <br> And the moon be still as bright.''</p><p>''For the sword outwears its sheath, <br> And the soul wears out the breast, <br> And the heart must pause to breathe, <br> And love itself have rest.'' <br> ~ [[Lord Byron|George Gordon, Lord Byron]] ~</p> #Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us. To know men thoroughly, to judge events sanely, is, therefore, a great step towards happiness. ~ [[Stendhal]] #Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive. ~ [[Edith Wharton]] #If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie. ~ [[W. Somerset Maugham]] #''Prometheus, I have no Titan's might,<br>Yet I, too, must each dusk renew my heart,<br>For daytime's vulture talons tear apart<br>The tender alcoves built by love at night.''<br> ~ [[Philip José Farmer]] ~ #"In ''that'' direction," the Cat said, waving its right paw round, "lives a Hatter: and in ''that'' direction," waving the other paw, "lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they're both mad." <br> "But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. <br> "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad." <br> "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. <br> "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here." <br> ~ [[Lewis Carroll]] in ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]'' ~ #''For the sincere friend <br> Who gives me his frank hand. <br> And for the cruel man who pulls out of me <br> the heart with which I live, <br> I grow neither nettles nor thorns: <br> I grow a white rose.'' <br> ~ [[José Martí]] ~ #The fear of freedom is strong in us. We call it chaos or anarchy, and the words are threatening. We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication. We could only fear chaos if we imagined that it was unknown to us, but in fact we know it very well. ~ [[Germaine Greer]] #We do not see faith, hope, and charity as unattainable ideals, but we use them as stout supports of a nation fighting the fight for freedom in a modern civilization. <br> Faith — in the soundness of democracy in the midst of dictatorships. <br> Hope — renewed because we know so well the progress we have made.<br> Charity — in the true spirit of that grand old word. For charity literally translated from the original means love, the love that understands, that does not merely share the wealth of the giver, but in true sympathy and wisdom helps men to help themselves. ~ [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] #At this point in history, the most radical, pervasive, and earth-shaking transformation would occur simply if everybody truly evolved to a mature, rational, and responsible ego, capable of freely participating in the open exchange of mutual self-esteem. ''There'' is the "edge of history." There would be a ''real'' New Age. ~ [[Ken Wilber]] == [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/February 2008|February 2008]] == #Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason. ~ [[Edward Coke]] #History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. ~ [[James Joyce]] in ''[[Ulysses]]'' #When war is waged it is for the purpose of safeguarding or increasing one's capacity to make war. International politics are wholly involved in this vicious cycle. What is called national prestige consists in behaving always in such a way as to demoralize other nations by giving them the impression that, if it comes to war, one would certainly defeat them. What is called national security is an imaginary state of affairs in which one would retain the capacity to make war while depriving all other countries of it. ~ [[Simone Weil]] #Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player. ~ [[Alice Cooper]] #Let’s talk sense to the American people. Let’s tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains, that we are now on the eve of great decisions, not easy decisions, like resistance when you're attacked, but a long, patient, costly struggle which alone can assure triumph over the great enemies of man — war, poverty, and tyranny — and the assaults upon human dignity which are the most grievous consequences of each. ~ [[Adlai Stevenson]] #I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing. So, with all the creative energy at our command, let us begin an era of national renewal. Let us renew our determination, our courage, and our strength. And let us renew our faith and our hope. We have every right to dream heroic dreams. Those who say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look. ~ [[Ronald Reagan]] #A man acts suitably to his nature, when he conquers his enemy in such a way as that no other creature but a man could be capable of, and that is by the strength of his understanding. ~ Sir [[Thomas More]] #The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to ''see'' something, and tell what it ''saw'' in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, — all in one. ~ [[John Ruskin]] #''You've got to get up every morning with a smile on your face <br> And show the world all the love in your heart <br> The people gonna treat you better, <br> You're gonna find, yes you will, <br> That you're beautiful as you feel.'' <br> ~ [[Carole King]] ~ #Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality. Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation. ~ [[Bertolt Brecht]] # In ''[[w:Common Sense (pamphlet)|Common Sense]]'' [[Thomas Paine|Paine]] flared forth with a document so powerful that the Revolution became inevitable. [[George Washington|Washington]] recognized the difference, and in his calm way said that matters never could be the same again. ~ [[Thomas Alva Edison]] #Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. ~ [[Charles Darwin]] #Love has no uttermost, as the stars have no number and the sea no rest. ~ [[Eleanor Farjeon]] #Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.<br> Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away. <br> When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. <br> And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. ~ [[Paul of Tarsus]] #Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This our convention understood to be the most oppressive of all kingly oppressions, and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us. ~ [[Abraham Lincoln]] #Public opinion, or what passes for public opinion, is not invariably a moderating force in the jungle of politics. It may be true, and I suspect it is, that the mass of people everywhere are normally peace-loving and would accept many restraints and sacrifices in preference to the monstrous calamities of war. But I also suspect that what purports to be public opinion in most countries that consider themselves to have popular government is often not really the consensus of the feelings of the mass of the people at all, but rather the expression of the interests of special highly vocal minorities — politicians, commentators, and publicity-seekers of all sorts: people who live by their ability to draw attention to themselves and die, like fish out of water, if they are compelled to remain silent. ~ [[George F. Kennan]] #''A voiceless song in an ageless light<br> Sings at the coming dawn<br> Birds in flight are calling there<br> Where the heart moves the stones<br> It's there that my heart is calling<br> All for the love of you.'' <br> ~ [[Loreena McKennitt]] ~ #My prayer is not the whimpering of a beggar nor a confession of love. Nor is it the petty reckoning of a small tradesman: Give me and I shall give you. My prayer is the report of a soldier to his general: This is what I did today, this is how I fought to save the entire battle in my own sector, these are the obstacles I encountered, this is how I plan to fight tomorrow. ~ [[Nikos Kazantzakis]] #''Now that your rose is in bloom, <br> A light hits the gloom on the grave, <br> I've been kissed by a rose on the grave.'' <br> ~ [[Seal (musician)|Seal]] ~ #Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what a people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. Men may not get all they pay for in this world; but they must pay for all they get. ~ [[Frederick Douglass]] #Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. ~ [[Anaïs Nin]] #Life is short, and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth. ~ [[Arthur Schopenhauer]] #There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know. ~ [[W. E. B. Du Bois]] #When you're young, you look at television and think, "There's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down." But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That's a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really in business to give people what they want. It's the truth. ~ [[Steve Jobs]] #Every intelligent child is an amateur anthropologist. The first thing such a child notices is that adults don't make sense. ~ [[John Leonard]] #A man is not idle, because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and there is an invisible labour. ~ [[Victor Hugo]] in ''[[Les Misérables]]'' #''The heights by great men reached and kept<br>Were not attained by sudden flight,<br>But they, while their companions slept,<br>Were toiling upward in the night.'' <br> ~ [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]] ~ #The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry. ~ [[William F. Buckley, Jr.]] #''God bless the King! (I mean our faith's defender!) <br> God bless! (No harm in blessing) the Pretender. <br> But who Pretender is, and who is King, <br> God bless us all! That's quite another thing!'' <br> ~ [[John Byrom]] ~ == [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/March 2008|March 2008]] == # ''Try to remember this: what you project <br> Is what you will perceive; what you perceive <br> With any passion, be it love or terror, <br> May take on whims and powers of its own.'' <br> ~ [[Richard Wilbur]] ~ #''I'm telling you this 'cause you're one of my friends. <br> My alphabet starts where your alphabet ends!<br> ... So, on beyond Z!<br> It's high time you were shown <br> That you really don't know<br>All there is to be known.'' <br> ~ [[Dr. Seuss]] ~ #''Consent in virtue knit your hearts so fast, <br> That still the knot, in spite of death, does last; <br> For as your tears, and sorrow-wounded soul, <br> Prove well that on your part this bond is whole, <br> So all we know of what they do above, <br> Is that they happy are, and that they love. <br> Let dark oblivion, and the hollow grave, <br> Content themselves our frailer thoughts to have; <br> Well-chosen love is never taught to die, <br> But with our nobler part invades the sky. ''<br> ~ [[Edmund Waller]] ~ #Philosophy is based on speculation, on logic, on thought, on the synthesis of what we know and on the analysis of what we do not know. Philosophy must include within its confines the whole content of science, religion and art. ~ [[P. D. Ouspensky]] #Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision. ~ [[Penn Jillette]] #You imagine that what you can't understand is either spiritual or does not exist. The conclusion is quite wrong; rather there are obviously a million things in the universe that we would need a million quite different organs to understand ... someone blind from birth cannot imagine the beauty of a landscape, the colors of a painting or the shadings of an iris. He will imagine them as something palpable, edible, audible or olfactory. Likewise, if I were to explain to you what I perceive by the senses you do not have, you would interpret it as something that could be heard, seen, touched, smelled or tasted; but it is not like that. ~ [[Cyrano de Bergerac]] #Games give you a chance to excel, and if you're playing in good company you don't even mind if you lose because you had the enjoyment of the company during the course of the game. ~ [[Gary Gygax]] #We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the heavens. The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh enrichment. ~ [[Johannes Kepler]] #If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes. ~ [[Mickey Spillane]] #We are tired of having a "sphere" doled out to us, and of being told that anything outside that sphere is "unwomanly". We want to be ''natural'' just for a change … we must be ''ourselves'' at all risks. ~ [[Kate Sheppard]] #The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability; and something is bound to come of it. ~ [[Vannevar Bush]] #All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together. ~ [[Jack Kerouac]] #''Don’t give up! I believe in you all <br> A person’s a person, no matter how small! <br/> And you very small persons will not have to die <br> If you make yourselves heard! So come on, now, and TRY!'' <br> ~ [[Dr. Seuss]] ~ #Today we must abandon competition and secure cooperation. This must be the central fact in all our considerations of international affairs; otherwise we face certain disaster. Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars ... The stakes are immense, the task colossal, the time is short. But we may hope — we must hope — that man’s own creation, man’s own genius, will not destroy him. ~ [[Albert Einstein]] #As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of person and property, liberty of conscience, and of the press, it will be worth defending. ~ [[Andrew Jackson]] #Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments, the real power lies in the majority of the Community, and the invasion of private rights is ''chiefly'' to be apprehended, not from the acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the Government is the mere instrument of the major number of the Constituents. ~ [[James Madison]] #Let anyone laugh and taunt if he so wishes. I am not keeping silent, nor am I hiding the signs and wonders that were shown to me by the Lord many years before they happened, who knew everything, even before the beginning of time. ~ [[Saint Patrick]] #The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one. ~ [[Wilhelm Stekel]] #''Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; <br> He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.''<br> ~ [[Richard Francis Burton|Sir Richard Francis Burton]] ~ #If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run — and often in the short one — the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative. ~ [[Arthur C. Clarke]] #If Spring came but once in a century, instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake, and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change! But now the silent succession suggests nothing but necessity. To most men only the cessation of the miracle would be miraculous and the perpetual exercise of God's power seems less wonderful than its withdrawal would be. ~ [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]] #Music and silence... combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music. ~ [[Marcel Marceau]] #Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. <br> For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so? Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. <br> ~ [[Jesus|Yeshua (Jesus Christ)]] ~ #I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few. ~ [[William Morris]] #Political rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when they have become the ingrown habit of a people, and when any attempt to impair them will meet with the violent resistance of the populace. Where this is not the case, there is no help in any parliamentary Opposition or any Platonic appeals to the constitution. One compels respect from others when he knows how to defend his dignity as a human being. ~ [[Rudolf Rocker]] #People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive. That's what it's all finally about. ~ [[Joseph Campbell]] #At this point in history when all things which concern man and the structure and elements of history itself are suddenly revealed to us in a new light, it behooves us in our scientific thinking to become masters of the situation, for it is not inconceivable that sooner than we suspect, as has often been the case before in history, this vision may disappear, the opportunity may be lost, and the world will once again present a static, uniform, and inflexible countenance. ~ [[Karl Mannheim]] #Just as we cannot stop the movement of the heavens, revolving as they do with such speed, so we cannot restrain our thought. And then we send all the faculties of the soul after it, thinking we are lost, and have misused the time that we are spending in the presence of God. Yet the soul may perhaps be wholly united with Him in the Mansions very near His presence, while thought remains in the outskirts of the castle, suffering the assaults of a thousand wild and venomous creatures and from this suffering winning merit. So this must not upset us, and we must not abandon the struggle, as the devil tries to make us do. Most of these trials and times of unrest come from the fact that we do not understand ourselves. ~ [[Teresa of Avila]] #''I have known exile and a wild passion<br> Of longing changing to a cold ache.<br> King, beggar and fool, I have been all by turns,<br> Knowing the body’s sweetness, the mind’s treason;<br> Taliesin still, I show you a new world, risen,<br> Stubborn with beauty, out of the heart’s need.'' <br> ~ [[R. S. Thomas]] ~ #Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, genuine affection. Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the prison, with supreme power, by some magic force. Without these one stays dead. But whenever affection is revived, there life revives. ~ [[Vincent van Gogh]] #''Let us roll all our strength and all <br> Our sweetness up into one ball, <br> And tear our pleasures with rough strife <br> Thorough the iron gates of life: <br>Thus, though we cannot make our sun <br> Stand still, yet we will make him run.'' <br> ~ [[Andrew Marvell]] ~ == [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/April 2008|April 2008]] == #What is unique about the "I" hides itself exactly in what is unimaginable about a person. All we are able to imagine is what makes everyone like everyone else, what people have in common. The individual "I" is what differs from the common stock, that is, what cannot be guessed at or calculated, what must be unveiled, uncovered, conquered. ~ [[Milan Kundera]] #Forgiveness is the offspring of a feeling of heroism, of a noble heart, of a generous mind, whilst forgetfulness is only the result of a weak memory, or of an easy carelessness, and still oftener of a natural desire for calm and quietness. Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom. ~ [[Giacomo Casanova]] #<p>''Stretch or contract me, Thy poor debtor; <br> This is but tuning of my breast, <br> To make the music better.''</p><p>''Whether I fly with angels, fall with dust,<br>Thy hands made both, and I am there; <br> Thy power and love, my love and trust <br> Make one place ev'rywhere.''<br>~ [[George Herbert]] ~</p> #All we are saying is give peace a chance. ~ [[John Lennon]] #I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I learned that assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; and that oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak. ~ [[Booker T. Washington]] #I have never looked for dream in reality or reality in dream. I have allowed my imagination free play, and I have not been led astray by it. ~ [[Gustave Moreau]] #I always work on the theory that the audience will believe you best if you believe yourself. ~ [[Charlton Heston]] #''Look, look, look to the rainbow <br> Follow it over the hill and stream <br> Look, look, look to the rainbow <br> Follow the fellow who follows a dream.'' <br> ~ [[Yip Harburg]] ~ #Imagination is the queen of truth, and possibility is one of the regions of truth. She is positively akin to infinity. ~ [[Charles Baudelaire]] #''They knew me from the dawn of time: if Hermes beats his rainbow wings, <br> If Angus shakes his locks of light, or golden-haired Apollo sings, <br> It matters not the name, the land; my joy in all the gods abides: <br> Even in the cricket in the grass some dimness of me smiles and hides.'' <br> ~ [[George William Russell|Æ]] ~ #When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free. ~ [[Charles Evans Hughes]] #The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments. ~ [[Henry Clay]] #If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. ~ [[Thomas Jefferson]] #What really matters is that there is so much faith and love and kindliness which we can share with and provoke in others, and that by cleanly, simple, generous living we approach perfection in the highest and most lovely of all arts. ... But you, I think, have always comprehended this. ~ [[James Branch Cabell]] #Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue. It is the very atmosphere of the mind; and when the mind is imaginative — much more when it happens to be that of a man of genius — it takes to itself the faintest hints of life, it converts the very pulses of the air into revelations. ~ [[Henry James]] #All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. ~ [[Anatole France]] #I am not a novelist, really not even a writer; I am a storyteller. One of my friends said about me that I think all sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them, and perhaps this is not entirely untrue. To me, the explanation of life seems to be its melody, its pattern. And I feel in life such an infinite, truly inconceivable fantasy. ~ [[Karen Blixen]] #You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free. ~ [[Clarence Darrow]] #When you study natural science and the miracles of creation, if you don't turn into a mystic you are not a natural scientist. ~ [[Albert Hofmann]] #The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things. ... Things must happen when it is time for them to happen. Quests may not simply be abandoned; prophecies may not be left to rot like unpicked fruit; unicorns may go unrescued for a very long time, but not forever. The happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story. ~ [[Peter S. Beagle]] in ''[[The Last Unicorn]]'' #How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof! In such places standing alone on the mountaintop it is easy to realize that whatever special nests we make — leaves and moss like the marmots and birds, or tents or piled stone — we all dwell in a house of one room — the world with the firmament for its roof — and are sailing the celestial spaces without leaving any track. ~ [[John Muir]] #There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew. ~ [[Marshall McLuhan]] #''We all were sea-swallow'd, though some cast again: <br> And by that destiny, to perform an act <br> Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come <br> In yours and my discharge.'' <br> ~ [[William Shakespeare]] in ''[[The Tempest]]'' ~ #The poem... is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see — it is, rather, a light by which we may see — and what we see is life. ~ [[Robert Penn Warren]] #The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it. ~ [[Edward R. Murrow]] #I had the good fortune and opportunity to come home and to tell the truth; many soldiers, like [[w:Pat Tillman|Pat Tillman]] ... did not have that opportunity. The truth of war is not always easy. The truth is always more heroic than the hype. ~ [[Jessica Lynch]] #The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. ~ [[Herbert Spencer]] #The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp. ~ [[Terry Pratchett]] #The advance of science is not comparable to the changes of a city, where old edifices are pitilessly torn down to give place to new, but to the continuous evolution of zoologic types which develop ceaselessly and end by becoming unrecognizable to the common sight, but where an expert eye finds always traces of the prior work of the centuries past. ~ [[Henri Poincaré]] #The Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools. ~ [[Larry Niven]] == [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/May 2008|May 2008]] == #What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul. ~ [[Joseph Addison]] #Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. ~ [[Novalis]] #The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves. ~ [[Niccolò Machiavelli]] #A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering cold iron. ~ [[Horace Mann]] #If I have ventured wrongly, very well, life then helps me with its penalty. But if I haven't ventured at all, who helps me then? ~ [[Søren Kierkegaard]] #Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. ~ [[Sigmund Freud]] #If nature has been frugal in her gifts and endowments, there is the more need of art to supply her defects. If she has been generous and liberal, know that she still expects industry and application on our part, and revenges herself in proportion to our negligent ingratitude. The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds; and instead of vines and olives for the pleasure and use of man, produces, to its slothful owner, the most abundant crop of poisons. ~ [[David Hume]] #Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom. ~ [[Friedrich Hayek]] #Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. ~ [[J. M. Barrie]] #''We're one, but we're not the same <br> We get to carry each other, carry each other... one.'' <br> ~ [[Bono]] ~ #Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars — mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is "mere". I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination — stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern — of which I am a part... What is the pattern or the meaning or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it. ~ [[Richard Feynman]] #I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself. ~ [[Florence Nightingale]] #Death and Light are everywhere, always, and they begin, end, strive, attend, into and upon the Dream of the Nameless that is the world, burning words within [[w:Samsara|Samsara]], perhaps to create a thing of beauty. ~ [[Roger Zelazny]] in ''[[Lord of Light]]'' #Errors now almost universally exist, and must be overcome solely by the force of reason; and as reason, to effect the most beneficial purposes, makes her advance by slow degrees, and progressively substantiates one truth of high import after another, it will be evident, to minds of comprehensive and accurate thought, that by these and similar compromises alone can success be rationally expected in practice. For such compromises bring truth and error before the public; and whenever they are fairly exhibited together, truth must ultimately prevail. ~ [[Robert Owen]] #Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory. ~ [[Irena Sendler]] #Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear. ~ [[Marcus Aurelius]] #I believe, in spite of all, in truth's victory. I believe in the momentous value, hereafter inviolable, of those few truly fraternal men in all the countries of the world, who, in the oscillation of national egoisms let loose, stand up and stand out, steadfast as the glorious statues of Right and Duty. ~ [[Henri Barbusse]] #To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true. ~ [[Bertrand Russell]] #Mankind is a single body and each nation a part of that body. We must never say "What does it matter to me if some part of the world is ailing?" If there is such an illness, we must concern ourselves with it as though we were having that illness. ~ [[Mustafa Kemal Atatürk]] #The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~ [[John Stuart Mill]] #''The flying Rumours gather'd as they roll'd,<br>Scarce any Tale was sooner heard than told;<br>And all who told it, added something new,<br>And all who heard it, made Enlargements too,<br>In ev'ry Ear it spread, on ev'ry Tongue it grew.''<br> ~ [[Alexander Pope]] ~ #Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius. ~ [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] #Genius ''will'' live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering–pot and pruning–knife. ~ [[Margaret Fuller]] #Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error. ~ [[William Whewell]] #Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with. ~ [[Douglas Adams]] in ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' #''Thunder only happens when it's raining. <br> Players only love you when they're playing. <br> Say... Women... they will come and they will go. <br> When the rain washes you clean... you'll know.'' <br> ~ [[Stevie Nicks]] ~ #Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we are, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment. ~ [[Harlan Ellison]] #In my books I have lifted bits from various religions in trying to come to a better understanding; I've made use of religious themes and symbols. Now, as the world becomes more pagan, one has to lead people in the same direction in a different way... ~ [[Patrick White]] #Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. ~ [[John F. Kennedy]] # By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. ~ [[Mikhail Bakunin]] #''Be composed — be at ease with me — I am Walt Whitman, liberal and lusty as Nature,<br> Not till the sun excludes you do I exclude you,<br> Not till the waters refuse to glisten for you and the leaves to rustle for you, do my words refuse to glisten and rustle for you.'' <br> ~ [[Walt Whitman]] in ''[[Leaves of Grass]]'' ~ == [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/June 2008|June 2008]] == #There are times when the utmost daring is the height of wisdom. ~ [[Carl von Clausewitz]] #The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people. ~ [[Cornel West]] #When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place. ~ [[Lawrence Lessig]] #To insist on one's place in the scheme of things and to live up to that place. <br> To empower others in their reaching for some place in the scheme of things. <br> To do these things is to make fairy tales come true. <br> ~ [[Robert Fulghum]] ~ #Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking. ~ [[John Maynard Keynes]] #I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor. ~ [[Pierre Corneille]] #A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man. ~ [[Paul Gauguin]] #History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, "Can't you remember anything I told you?" and lets fly with a club. ~ [[John W. Campbell]] #''Be a clown, be a clown, <br>All the world loves a clown. <br> Act the fool, play the calf, <br>And you'll always have the last laugh.'' <br> ~ [[Cole Porter]] ~ #We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely. ~ [[E. O. Wilson]] #Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. ~ [[Ben Jonson]] #We are adhering to life now with our last muscle — the heart. ~ [[Djuna Barnes]] #So long as all is ordered for attack, and that alone, leaders will instinctively increase the number of enemies that they may give their followers something to do. ~ [[William Butler Yeats]] #True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal. ~ [[Harriet Beecher Stowe]] #I protect my right to be a Catholic by preserving your right to believe as a Jew, a Protestant, or non-believer, or as anything else you choose. We know that the price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that they might some day force theirs on us. ~ [[Mario Cuomo]] #When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven’t thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity — but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial. ~ [[Joyce Carol Oates]] #Our security strategies have not yet caught up with the risks we are facing. The globalization that has swept away the barriers to the movement of goods, ideas and people has also swept with it barriers that confined and localized security threats. ~ [[Mohamed ElBaradei]] #Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. ~ [[Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington]] #The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear. ~ [[Aung San Suu Kyi]] #For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt. ~ [[Lillian Hellman]] #Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. ~ [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]] #If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we are at no loss to perceive that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind. ~ [[Wilhelm von Humboldt]] #We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. ~ [[Alan Turing]] #All I do is done in love; all I suffer, I suffer in the sweetness of love. ~ [[John of the Cross]] #By "nationalism" I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole blocks of millions or tens of millions of people can be confidently labelled "good" or "bad." ... By "patriotism" I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life, which one believes to be the best in the world but has no wish to force on other people. Patriotism is of its nature defensive, both militarily and culturally. Nationalism, on the other hand, is inseperable from the desire for power. ~ [[George Orwell]] #Every event has had its cause, and nothing, not the least wind that blows, is accident or causeless. ~ [[Pearl S. Buck]] #We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond the senses. ~ [[Helen Keller]] #Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. ~ [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]] #Here is my secret. It is very simple. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; What is essential is invisible to the eye. ~ [[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]] #''Life is a jest, and all things show it, <br> I thought so once, and now I know it.'' <br> ~ [[John Gay]] ~ == [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/July 2008|July 2008]] == #We're on a mission from God. ~ [[w:Dan Aykroyd|Elwood J. Blues]], in ''[[The Blues Brothers]]'' # ''There are gains for all our losses,<br> There are balms for all our pain: <br> But when youth, the dream, departs, <br> It takes something from our hearts, <br> And it never comes again.'' <br> ~ [[Richard Henry Stoddard]] ~ #Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. ~ [[Franz Kafka]] #Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it. ~ [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]] #Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet’s job. The rest is literature. ~ [[Jean Cocteau]] #I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way. ~ [[John Paul Jones]] #Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect. ~ [[Robert A. Heinlein]] #As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do. ~ [[Elisabeth Kübler-Ross]] #Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque. ~ [[U. G. Krishnamurti]] #Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity. ~ [[Nikola Tesla]] #Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society — things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed. ~ [[E. B. White]] #To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour. ~ [[Henry David Thoreau]] in ''[[Walden]]'' #People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilisation. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilisation; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater. ~ [[Kenneth Clark]] # The note of hope is the only note that can help us or save us from falling to the bottom of the heap of evolution, because, largely, about all a human being is, anyway, is just a hoping machine, a working machine ... don't worry — the human race will sing this way as long as there is a human to race. The human race is a pretty old place. ~ [[Woody Guthrie]] #Try to put well in practice what you already know; and in so doing, you will in good time, discover the hidden things which you now inquire about. Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know. ~ [[Rembrandt]] #Ignorance perpetuates itself just as knowledge does. Men write false documents, they preach false doctrine, and those beliefs survive to inspire wickedness in later generations. ... Conversely, some men write and teach about the truth, only to be declared heretic by the wicked. In such cases evil has the advantage, for it will do anything to suppress truth, but the good man limits what he will do to suppress falsehood. <br> One might almost make a rule of it: "Whoever declares another heretic is himself a devil. Whoever places a relic or artifact above justice, kindness, mercy, or truth is himself a devil and the thing elevated is a work of evil magic." ~ [[Sheri S. Tepper]] #''Error is a hardy plant; it flourisheth in every soil; <br> In the heart of the wise and good, alike with the wicked and foolish; <br> For there is no error so crooked, but it hath in it some lines of truth; <br> Nor is any poison so deadly, that it serveth not some wholesome use.'' <br> ~ [[Martin Farquhar Tupper]] ~ #When I die, my money's not gonna come with me. My movies will live on for people to judge what I was as a person. I just want to stay curious. ~ [[Heath Ledger]] # Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty. ~ [[Edgar Degas]] #Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure. ~ [[Petrarch]] #There's no ''one'' thing that's true. It's all true. ~ [[Ernest Hemingway]] #''Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand <br/> A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame <br/> Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name <br/> Mother of Exiles.'' <br/> ~ [[Emma Lazarus]] ~ #Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph. ~ [[Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia]] #Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape from it, and with this I begin and end. ~ [[John Newton]] #Though ours is a godless age, it is the very opposite of irreligious. The true believer is everywhere on the march, and both by converting and antagonizing he is shaping the world in his own image. And whether we are to line up with him or against him, it is well that we should know all we can concerning his nature and potentialities. ~ [[Eric Hoffer]] #We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy. ~ [[Carl Jung]] #''It was my shame, and now it is my boast, <br> That I have loved you rather more than most.'' <br> ~ [[Hilaire Belloc]] ~ #If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, "Tell the Truth." If I got three more words, I'd add, "All the time." ~ [[Randy Pausch]] #The Congress hereby declares that it is the policy of the United States that activities in space should be devoted to peaceful purposes for the benefit of all mankind. ~ National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 creating [[NASA]] #''I don't know you, <br> And you don't know me. <br> It is this that brings us together.'' <br> ~ [[Kate Bush]] ~ #The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what is being discovered about the infinitely large and infinitely small is sufficient to absolve this end of the century and millennium. What a very few are acquiring in knowledge of the physical world will perhaps cause this period not to be judged as a pure return of barbarism. ~ [[Primo Levi]] == [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/August 2008|August 2008]] == #All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event — in the living act, the undoubted deed — there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. ~ [[Herman Melville]] in ''[[Moby-Dick]]'' #Now, it is true that the nature of society is to create, among its citizens, an illusion of safety; but it is also absolutely true that the safety is always necessarily an illusion. Artists are here to disturb the peace. ~ [[James Baldwin]] #I have tried at times to place humans in perspective against the vastness of universal time and space. I have been concerned with where we, as a race, may be going and what may be our purpose in the universal scheme — if we have a purpose. In general, I believe we do, and perhaps an important one. ~ [[Clifford D. Simak]] #Throughout American history, there have been moments that call on us to meet the challenges of an uncertain world, and pay whatever price is required to secure our freedom. ~ [[Barack Obama]] #Those works of art which have scooped up the truth and presented it to us as a living force — they take hold of us, compel us, and nobody ever, not even in ages to come, will appear to refute them. ~ [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]] #''I hold it true, whate'er befall;<br>I feel it, when I sorrow most;<br>'Tis better to have loved and lost<br>Than never to have loved at all.''<br>~ [[Alfred Tennyson|Alfred, Lord Tennyson]], in "[[In Memoriam A.H.H.]]" ~ #The question isn't whether you have a good master or a bad master. It's to be your own master. That is the dignity of humanity. ~ [[Alan Keyes]] #''If I am peaceful, I shall see <br> Beauty's face continually; <br> Feeding on her wine and bread <br> I shall be wholly comforted, <br> For she can make one day for me <br> Rich as my lost eternity.'' <br>~ [[Sara Teasdale]] ~ #The principal goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered. ~ [[Jean Piaget]] #We are living in a time of trouble and bewilderment, in a time when none of us can foresee or foretell the future. But surely it is in times like these, when so much that we cherish is threatened or in jeopardy, that we are impelled all the more to strengthen our inner resources, to turn to the things that have no news value because they will be the same to-morrow that they were to-day and yesterday — the things that last, the things that the wisest, the most farseeing of our race and kind have been inspired to utter in forms that can inspire ourselves in turn. ~ [[Laurence Binyon]] #There is no slavery but ignorance. Liberty is the child of intelligence. ~ [[Robert G. Ingersoll]] #It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought — that is to be educated. ~ [[Edith Hamilton]] #It is our hope, that men in proportion as they grow more enlightened, will learn to hold their theories and their creeds more loosely, and will none the less, nay, rather all the more be devoted to the supreme end of practical righteousness to which all theories and creeds must be kept subservient. ~ [[Felix Adler]] #Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong. ~ [[Russell Baker]] #A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root. ~ [[Napoleon I of France]] #It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not. ~ [[Jean de La Bruyère]] #Everything of value about me is in my books. Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will — with luck — come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise. That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. ~ [[V. S. Naipaul]] #Oh, my Lolita, I have only words to play with! ~ [[Vladimir Nabokov]] in ''[[Lolita]]'' #''Must I at length the Sword of Justice draw? <br> Oh curst Effects of necessary Law! <br> How ill my Fear they by my Mercy scan, <br> Beware the Fury of a Patient Man.'' <br> ~ [[John Dryden]] ~ #There probably is no more important quest in all science than the attempt to understand those very particular events in evolution by which brains worked out that special trick that has enabled them to add to the cosmic scheme of things: color, sound, pain, pleasure, and all the other facets of mental experience. ~ [[Roger Wolcott Sperry]] # A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified. ~ [[Leon Trotsky]] #Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. ~ [[Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.]] #A few Cobras in your home will soon clear it of Rats and Mice. Of course, you will still have the Cobras. ~ [[Will Cuppy]] #A writer — and, I believe, generally all persons — must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art. ~ [[Jorge Luis Borges]] #Against boredom even gods struggle in vain. ~ [[Friedrich Nietzsche]] # I doubt if one ever accepts a belief until one urgently needs it. ~ [[Christopher Isherwood]] #In every science, after having analysed the ideas, expressing the more complicated by means of the more simple, one finds a certain number that cannot be reduced among them, and that one can define no further. These are the primitive ideas of the science; it is necessary to acquire them through experience, or through induction; it is impossible to explain them by deduction. ~ [[Giuseppe Peano]] #To which of the warring serpents should I turn with the problem that now faces me? <br> It is easy, and tempting, to choose the god of Science. Now I would not for a moment have you suppose that I am one of those idiots who scorns Science, merely because it is always twisting and turning, and sometimes shedding its skin, like the serpent that is its symbol. It is a powerful god indeed but it is what the students of ancient gods called a shape-shifter, and sometimes a trickster. ~ [[Robertson Davies]] #Mankind has advanced. Human progress is ceaseless. We can ... conclude that building just societies is a fool's errand. We are always, despite our advances, only one sin away from slipping into the abyss of terror and ignorance. But that is not so. Generations upon generations have driven the human race farther and farther from darkness. ~ [[John McCain]] # Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. ~ [[Warren Buffett]] #The writer is a spiritual anarchist, as in the depth of his soul every man is. He is discontented with everything and everybody. The writer is everybody's best friend and only true enemy — the good and great enemy. He neither walks with the multitude nor cheers with them. The writer who is a writer is a rebel who never stops. ~ [[William Saroyan]] == [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/September 2008|September 2008]] == # Deep in the minds of the apes was rooted the conviction that Tarzan was a mighty fighter and a strange creature. Strange because he had had it in his power to kill his enemy, but had allowed him to live — unharmed. ~ [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]] # The first casualty when war comes is truth. ~ [[Hiram Johnson]] # The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man. ~ [[Sarah Orne Jewett]] # An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate. ~ [[François-René de Chateaubriand]] # A planet is the cradle of mind, but one cannot live in a cradle forever. ~ [[Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky]] # When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten. ~ [[Robert M. Pirsig]] # The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace. ~ [[Nikita Khrushchev]] # ''Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land,<br> Drawing no dividend from time's to-morrows. <br> In the great hour of destiny they stand, <br> Each with his feuds, and jealousies, and sorrows.'' <br> ~ [[Siegfried Sassoon]] ~ # Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here. ~ [[Leo Tolstoy]] # Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. ~ [[Cyril Connolly]] # Although [[September 11, 2001 attacks|September 11]] was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do. ... I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I'm an optimist. We will reach out to the stars. ~ [[Stephen Hawking]] # If man had more of a sense of humor, things might have turned out differently. ~ [[Stanisław Lem]] # Above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. ~ [[Roald Dahl]] # Patriotism is proud of a country’s virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues. The pride of nationalism, however, trumpets its country’s virtues and denies its deficiencies, while it is contemptuous toward the virtues of other countries. It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, "the greatest," but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is. ~ [[Sydney J. Harris]] # If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others. ~ [[François de La Rochefoucauld]] # It is the modest, not the presumptuous, inquirer who makes a real and safe progress in the discovery of divine truths. ~ [[Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke]] # The real crazies who are looking for a messiah... after an hour or so they realise I'm not it and go off and look somewhere else. ~ [[Ken Kesey]] # A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still. ~ [[Samuel Johnson]] # Basically I'm an optimist. Intellectually I can see man's balance is about fifty-fifty, and his chances of blowing himself up are about one to one. I can't see this any way but intellectually. I'm just emotionally unable to believe that he will do this. This means that I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist, I suppose. ~ [[William Golding]] # When you come right down to it, the secret of having it all is loving it all. ~ [[Joyce Brothers]] # ''I'm guided by a signal in the heavens, <br/> I'm guided by this birthmark on my skin <br/> I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons <br/> First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin.'' <br/> ~ [[Leonard Cohen]] ~ # Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one. ~ [[Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield]] # If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? ~ [[Thomas Huxley]] # At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion. ~ [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]] # The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail. ~ [[William Faulkner]] # ''All is always now. Words strain, <br> Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, <br> Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, <br> Will not stay still.'' <br> ~ [[T. S. Eliot]] in ''[[The Four Quartets]]'' ~ # If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation. The right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave. ~ [[Samuel Adams]] # I don't think there's anything exceptional or noble in being philanthropic. It's the other attitude that confuses me. ~ [[Paul Newman]] # It is sad not to be loved, but it is much sadder not to be able to love. ~ [[Miguel de Unamuno]] # If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it. ~ [[Rumi]] == [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/October 2008|October 2008]] == # Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black. ~ [[Henry Ford]] # <p>''I am one of you and being one of you <br> Is being and knowing what I am and know. <br> Yet I am the necessary angel of earth, <br >Since, in my sight, you see the earth again, <br> Cleared of its stiff and stubborn, man-locked set <br> And, in my hearing, you hear its tragic drone <br> Rise liquidly in liquid lingerings, <br> Like watery words awash; like meanings said <br> By repetitions of half-meanings.'' </p><p> ~ [[Wallace Stevens]] ~</p> # As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. ~ [[Gore Vidal]] # The quicker humanity advances, the more important it is to be the one who deals the first blow. ~ [[Ernst Kaltenbrunner]] # Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not. ~ [[Václav Havel]] # It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. ~ [[David Brin]] # Chaos needs no allies, for it dwells like a poison in every one of us. ~ [[Steven Erikson]] # <p>''The year of jubilee has come; <br> Gather the gifts of Earth with equal hand; <br> Henceforth ye too may share the birthright soil, <br> The corn, drink the wine and all the harvest-home.'' </p><p> ~ [[Edmund Clarence Stedman]] ~ </p> # <p>''Builders and warriors, strengthen the steps. <br> Reader, if you have not grasped — read again, <br> after a while. <br> The predestined is not accidental, <br> The leaves fall in their time. <br> And winter is but the harbinger of spring. <br> All is revealed; all is attainable.'' </p><p> ~ [[Nicholas Roerich]] ~ </p> # When there are too many policemen, there can be no liberty. When there are too many soldiers, there can be no peace. When there are too many lawyers, there can be no justice. ~ [[Lin Yutang]] # Your true home is in the here and the now. It is not limited by time, space, nationality, or race. Your true home is not an abstract idea. It is something you can touch and live in every moment. With mindfulness and concentration, the energies of the Buddha, you can find your true home in the full relaxation of your mind and body in the present moment. No one can take it away from you. Other people can occupy your country, they can even put you in prison, but they cannot take away your true home and your freedom. ~ [[Nhat Hanh|Thich Nhat Hanh]] # The concept which assumes that everything in the Church is irrevocably set for all times appears to me to be a false one. It would be naive to disregard that the Church has a history; the Church is a human institution and like all things human, was destined to change and evolve; likewise, its development takes place often in the form of struggles. ~ [[Edith Stein]] # I think it's a disgrace for the international community that we have allowed so many conflicts to become frozen, and we are not making a serious effort to solve them. ~ [[Martti Ahtisaari]] # A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. ~ [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] # A nuclear war does not defend a country and it does not defend a system. I've put it the same way many times; not even the most accomplished ideologue will be able to tell the difference between the ashes of capitalism and the ashes of communism. ~ [[John Kenneth Galbraith]] # The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth. ~ [[William O. Douglas]] # There's too much of an attempt, it seems to me, to think in terms of controlling man, rather than freeing him. Of defining him rather than letting him go. It's part of the whole ideology of this age, which is power-mad. ~ [[Arthur Miller]] # The essential ingredient of politics is timing. ~ [[Pierre Trudeau]] # To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history. ~ [[Thomas Browne]] # ''We're overdue for a dream come true. <br> Long time nothing new. <br> We're overdue for a dream come true.'' </p><p> ~ [[Tom Petty]] ~</p> # You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium. A wizard's power of Changing and Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power. It is most perilous. It must follow knowledge, and serve need. To light a candle is to cast a shadow. ~ [[Ursula K. Le Guin]] # I often observed to my brother, You see now how little nature requires to be satisfied. Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; And I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatsoever state he is. This consists in a full resignation to the will of Providence; and a resigned soul finds pleasure in a path strewed with briars and thorns. ~ [[Daniel Boone]] # We ought to hate very rarely, as it is too fatiguing; remain indifferent to a great deal, forgive often and never forget. ~ [[Sarah Bernhardt]] # We present a dramatically different approach to time management. This is a principle-centered approach. It transcends the traditional prescriptions of faster, harder, smarter, and more. Rather than offering you another clock, this approach provides you with a compass — because more important than how fast you're going, is where you're headed. ~ [[Stephen Covey]] # I would prefer to remain in prison for another 20 years than bargain my beliefs for freedom. ~ [[Samir Geagea]] # After bread, education is the first need of the people. ~ [[Georges Danton]] # Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education. ~ [[Alfred Whitney Griswold]] # Walk a single path, becoming neither cocky with victory nor broken with defeat, without forgetting caution when all is quiet or becoming frightened when danger threatens. ~ [[Jigoro Kano]] # He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it. ~ [[James Boswell]] # Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, — by deeds, not years... ~ [[Richard Brinsley Sheridan]] # Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth. ~ [[Natalie Clifford Barney]] == [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/November 2008|November 2008]] == # The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all. ~ [[Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux]] # You know, "power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"? It's the same with powerlessness. Absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely. Einstein said everything had changed since the atom was split, except the way we think. We have to think anew. ~ [[Studs Terkel]] # Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness. ~ [[Wilhelm Reich]] # On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. ~ [[Will Rogers]] # I suppose the process of acceptance will pass through the usual four stages: <br> (i) this is worthless nonsense; <br>(ii) this is an interesting, but perverse, point of view; <br>(iii) this is true, but quite unimportant; <br>(iv) I always said so. <br> ~ [[J. B. S. Haldane]] ~ # This is our time — to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids; to restore prosperity and promote the cause of peace; to reclaim the American dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth, that, out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope. And where we are met with cynicism and doubts and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: ''Yes we can!'' ~ [[Barack Obama]] # Do not be deceived by the way men of bad faith misuse words and names ...Things are set up as contraries that are not even in the same category. Listen to me: the opposite of radical is superficial, the opposite of liberal is stingy; the opposite of conservative is destructive. Thus I will describe myself as a radical conservative liberal; but certain of the tainted red fish will swear that there can be no such fish as that. Beware of those who use words to mean their opposites. At the same time have pity on them, for usually this trick is their only stock in trade. ~ [[R. A. Lafferty]] # <p>''Once and for all <br> the idea of glorious victories <br> won by the glorious army <br> must be wiped out <br> Neither side is glorious <br> On either side they're just frightened men messing their pants <br> and they all want the same thing <br> Not to lie under the earth <br> but to walk upon it <br> without crutches'' </p><p> ~ [[Peter Weiss]] ~</p> # Every one of us is precious in the cosmic perspective. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another. ~ [[Carl Sagan]] #<p>The dignity of mankind is in your hands; protect it! <br> It sinks with you! With you it will ascend. </p><p> ~ [[Friedrich Schiller]] ~</p> # These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or in the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. ~ [[Abigail Adams]] # In entering upon the great work before us, we anticipate no small amount of misconception, misrepresentation, and ridicule; but we shall use every instrumentality within our power to effect our object. ~ [[Elizabeth Cady Stanton]] # Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. ~ [[Louis Brandeis]] # To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition. ~ [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] # Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius. ~ [[Johann Kaspar Lavater]] # We shall all live. We pray for life, children, a good harvest and happiness. You will have what is good for you and I will have what is good for me. Let the kite perch and let the egret perch too. If one says no to the other, let his wing break. ~ [[Chinua Achebe]] # When you can have anything you want by uttering a few words, the goal matters not, only the journey to it. ~ [[Christopher Paolini]] # War is what happens when language fails. ~ [[Margaret Atwood]] # Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. ~ [[James A. Garfield]] # A revolution is coming — a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough — But a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character; we cannot alter its inevitability. ~ [[Robert F. Kennedy]] # If your object is to secure liberty, you must learn to do without authority and compulsion. If you intend to live in peace and harmony with your fellow-men, you and they should cultivate brotherhood and respect for each other. If you want to work together with them for your mutual benefit, you must practice cooperation. The social revolution means much more than the reorganization of conditions only: it means the establishment of new human values and social relationships, a changed attitude of man to man, as of one free and independent to his equal; it means a different spirit in individual and collective life, and that spirit cannot be born overnight. It is a spirit to be cultivated, to be nurtured and reared, as the most delicate flower it is, for indeed it is the flower of a new and beautiful existence. ~ [[Alexander Berkman]] # Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. ~ [[George Eliot]] # Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play on the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter? ~ [[John Milton]] in ''[[Areopagitica]]'' # Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation. ~ [[Laurence Sterne]] # Statistically the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you would think the mere fact of existence would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise. We are alive against the stupendous odds of genetics, infinitely outnumbered by all the alternates who might, except for luck, be in our places. ~ [[Lewis Thomas]] # ''Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; <br> Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.'' <br> ~ [[William Cowper]] ~ # Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there. ~ [[Bruce Lee]] # One must be very naïve or dishonest to imagine that men choose their beliefs independently of their situation. ~ [[Claude Lévi-Strauss]] # Revolutions are not made; they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back. ~ [[Wendell Phillips]] # The one thing that unifies men in a given age is not their individual philosophies but the dominant problem that these philosophies are designed to solve. ~ [[Jacques Barzun]] == [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/December 2008|December 2008]] == # There's an old joke... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life — full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness — and it's all over much too quickly. ~ [[Woody Allen]] # Learned and leisurely hospitality is the only antidote to the stance of deadly cleverness that is acquired in the professional pursuit of objectively secured knowledge. I remain certain that the quest for truth cannot thrive outside the nourishment of mutual trust flowering into a commitment to friendship. ~ [[Ivan Illich]] # The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. ~ [[Joseph Conrad]] # Is there any religion whose followers can be pointed to as distinctly more amiable and trustworthy than those of any other? If so, this should be enough. I find the nicest and best people generally profess no religion at all, but are ready to like the best men of all religions. ~ [[Samuel Butler]] # Fantasy, if it's really convincing, can't become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time. ~ [[Walt Disney]] # The Science of Language has taught us that there is order and wisdom in all languages, and even the most degraded jargons contain the ruins of former greatness and beauty. The Science of Religion, I hope, will produce a similar change in our views of barbarous forms of faith and worship. ~ [[Max Müller]] # Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. ~ [[Willa Cather]] # The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people — that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature. ~ [[James Thurber]] # A ship in port is safe; but that is not what ships are built for. Sail out to sea and do new things. ~ [[Grace Hopper]] # ''"Hope" is the thing with feathers — <br/>That perches in the soul — <br/>And sings the tune without the words — <br/>And never stops — at all — <br/> And sweetest — in the Gale — is heard — <br/>And sore must be the storm — <br/>That could abash the little Bird<br/>That kept so many warm — ''<br> ~ [[Emily Dickinson]] ~ # The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it, seems to me the deepest root of all that is evil in the world. ~ [[Max Born]] # [[w:Klaatu barada nikto|Klaatu barada nikto!]] ~ [[w:Patricia Neal|Patricia Neal]] as "Helen Benson" in ''[[The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951 film)|The Day the Earth Stood Still]]'' # Mark this well, you proud men of action: You are nothing but the unwitting agents of the men of thought who often, in quiet self-effacement, mark out most exactly all your doings in advance. ~ [[Heinrich Heine]] # The Art of Peace is not easy. It is a fight to the finish, the slaying of evil desires and all falsehood within. On occasion the Voice of Peace resounds like thunder, jolting human beings out of their stupor. ~ [[Morihei Ueshiba]] # It appears that mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent inherent in every atom. The universe as a whole is also weird, with laws of nature that make it hospitable to the growth of mind. I do not make any clear distinction between mind and God. God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the scale of our comprehension. ~ [[Freeman Dyson]] # Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away. ~ [[Philip K. Dick]] # ''Alas for maiden, alas for Judge,<br> For rich repiner and household drudge! <br> God pity them both! and pity us all,<br> Who vainly the dreams of youth recall; <br> For of all sad words of tongue or pen,<br> The saddest are these: "It might have been!"'' <br> ~ [[John Greenleaf Whittier]] ~ # ''Hail the heaven-born Prince of Peace! <br> Hail the Sun of Righteousness! <br> Light and life to all he brings, <br> Risen with healing in his wings. <br> Mild he lays his glory by, <br> Born that man no more may die, <br> Born to raise the sons of earth, <br> Born to give us second birth. <br> Hark! the herald angels sing, <br> "Glory to the new born King!" ''<br> ~ [[Charles Wesley]] ~ # ''After the final no there comes a yes <br> And on that yes the future world depends.'' <br> ~ [[Wallace Stevens]] ~ # I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. It might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. ~ [[John Steinbeck]] # There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. ~ [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]] # While you live ... you have a duty to life. ... The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them. ... Otherwise they fade away. ~ [[Charles de Lint]] # Working together, we can build a world in which the rule of law — not the rule of force — governs relations between states. A world in which leaders respect the rights of their people, and nations seek peace, not destruction or domination. And neither we nor anyone else should live in fear ever again. ~ [[Wesley Clark]] # Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another. ~ [[John Muir]] # The only real blind person at Christmas-time is he who has not Christmas in his heart. ~ [[Helen Keller]] # ''Hear from the grave, great [[Taliesin|Taliessin]], hear; <br> They breathe a soul to animate thy clay. <br> Bright Rapture calls, and soaring, as she sings, <br> Waves in the eye of Heav'n her many-colour'd wings.'' <br> ~ [[Thomas Gray]] ~ # There never is any such thing as one truth to be found in dramatic art. There are many. These truths challenge each other, recoil from each other, reflect each other, ignore each other, tease each other, are blind to each other. Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost. ~ [[Harold Pinter]] # Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear. ~ [[Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay]] # The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? There is a brotherhood among all men. This must be recognized if life is to remain. We must learn the love of man. ~ [[Pablo Casals]] # It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails. ~ [[Romain Rolland]] # It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy... Let's go exploring! ~ Calvin in the last panel of ''[[w:Calvin and Hobbes|Calvin and Hobbes]]'' by [[Bill Watterson]] == [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/January 2009|January 2009]] == # The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal. ~ [[E. M. Forster]] # It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be ... ~ [[Isaac Asimov]] # This is an ancient hallow, and ere the kings failed or the Tree withered in the court, a fruit must have been set here. For it is said that, though the fruit of the Tree comes seldom to ripeness, yet the life within may then lie sleeping through many long years, and none can foretell the time in which it will awake. ~ [[w:Gandalf|Gandalf]] in ''[[The Return of the King]]'' by [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] # ''It’s the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine).'' <br> ~ [[R.E.M.]] ~ # We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. In an instant age, perhaps we must relearn the ancient truth that patience, too, has its victories. ~ [[Konrad Adenauer]] # Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be. ~ [[Khalil Gibran]] # There are years that ask questions and years that answer. ~ [[Zora Neale Hurston]] # I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief. ~ [[Gerry Spence]] # I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth — and truth rewarded me. ~ [[Simone de Beauvoir]] # Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history. ~ [[John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton]] # Be not afraid of life. Believe that life ''is'' worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. ~ [[William James]] # We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature, and the means perhaps of its conservation. ~ [[Edmund Burke]] # All religions speak about death during this life on earth. Death must come before rebirth. But what must die? False confidence in one’s own knowledge, self-love and egoism. Our egoism must be broken. ~ [[G. I. Gurdjieff]] # In my great tiredness and discouragement, the phrase "Reverence for Life" struck me like a flash. As far as I knew, it was a phrase I had never heard nor ever read. I realized at once that it carried within itself the solution to the problem that had been torturing me. Now I knew that a system of values which concerns itself only with our relationship to other people is incomplete and therefore lacking in power for good. Only by means of reverence for life can we establish a spiritual and humane relationship with both people and all living creatures within our reach. Only in this fashion can we avoid harming others, and, within the limits of our capacity, go to their aid whenever they need us. ~ [[Albert Schweitzer]] # I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems. And I'm going to talk about it everywhere I go. I know it isn't popular to talk about it in some circles today. I'm not talking about emotional bosh when I talk about love, I'm talking about a strong, demanding love. And I have seen too much hate... I have decided to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. And the beautiful thing is that we are moving against wrong when we do it, because John was right, God is love. He who hates does not know God, but he who has love has the key that unlocks the door to the meaning of ultimate reality. ~ [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]] # I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. ~ [[Evelyn Beatrice Hall]] # We have this window of opportunity; we have a chance to make something real happen. Something possible happen, to live beyond our fear — think about that, and help us. Help lift us up, help us fight this fight to change, — ''transform'' — this country in a fundamental way. <br> This chance won’t come around again. ~ [[Michelle Obama]] # Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation. ~ [[Robert Anton Wilson]] # ''Thou wouldst be loved? — then let thy heart <br> From its present pathway part not! <br> Being everything which now thou art, <br> Be nothing which thou art not. <br> So with the world thy gentle ways, <br> Thy grace, thy more than beauty, <br> Shall be an endless theme of praise, <br> And love — a simple duty.'' <br> ~ [[Edgar Allan Poe]] ~ # There's new energy to harness, new jobs to be created, new schools to build, and threats to meet, alliances to repair. The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term. But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you, we as a people will get there. ~ [[Barack Obama]] # Was a revelation to be made known to us, it must be accommodated to our external senses, and also to our reason, so that we could come at the perception and understanding of it, the same as we do to that of things in general. We must perceive by our senses, before we can reflect with the mind. ~ [[Ethan Allen]] # Honor is, or should be, the place of virtue and as in nature, things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place, so virtue in ambition is violent, in authority settled and calm. All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man's self, whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed. ~ [[Francis Bacon]] # One can acquire everything in solitude — except character. ~ [[Stendhal]] # ''There are two ways of spreading light: to be <br> The candle or the mirror that reflects it.'' <br> ~ [[Edith Wharton]] ~ # The strongest natures, when they are influenced, submit the most unreservedly; it is perhaps a sign of their strength. ~ [[Virginia Woolf]] # I do believe that man is a rope between animal and superman. But the superman I'm thinking of isn't [[Friedrich Nietzsche|Nietzsche]]'s. The real superhuman, man or woman, is the person who's rid himself of all prejudices, neuroses, and psychoses, who realizes his full potential as a human being, who acts naturally on the basis of gentleness, compassion, and love, who thinks for himself and refuses to follow the herd. That's the genuine dyed-in-the-wool superman. ~ [[Philip José Farmer]] # Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it. ~ [[Lewis Carroll]] in ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]'' # I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer. ~ [[Colette]] # The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all. ~ [[John Updike]] # There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny. ~ [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] # A full-spectrum approach to human consciousness and behavior means that men and women have available to them a spectrum of knowing — a spectrum that includes, at the very least, the eye of flesh, the eye of mind, and the eye of spirit. ~ [[Ken Wilber]] == [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/February 2009|February 2009]] == # ''Hold fast to dreams <br> For if dreams die <br> Life is a broken-winged bird <br> That cannot fly.''<br> ~ [[Langston Hughes]] ~ # History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. ~ [[Abba Eban]] # The whole duty of man consists in being reasonable and just ... I am reasonable because I know the difference between understanding and not understanding and I am just because I have no opinion about things I don’t understand. ~ [[Gertrude Stein]] # How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life. This is our modern danger — one of the waxen wings of flight. It may cause our civilization to fall unless we act quickly to counteract it, unless we realize that human character is more important than efficiency, that education consists of more than the mere accumulation of knowledge. ~ [[Charles Lindbergh]] # All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind. Don't be afraid of being out of tune with your environment, and above all pray God that you are not afraid to live, to live hard and fast. To my way of thinking it is not the years in your life but the life in your years that count in the long run. You'll have more fun, you'll do more and you'll get more, you'll give more satisfaction the more you know, the more you have worked, and the more you have lived. For yours is a great adventure at a stirring time in the annals of men. ~ [[Adlai Stevenson]] #''One love, <br> One heart, <br> Let's get together <br> And feel alright.'' <br> ~ [[Bob Marley]] ~ # It is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day. ~ [[Charles Dickens]] # Man's constitution is so peculiar that his health is purely a negative matter. No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand. ~ [[Jules Verne]] # I have seen the truth; I have seen and I know that people can be beautiful and happy without losing the power of living on earth. I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind. And it is just this faith of mine that they laugh at. But how can I help believing it? I have seen the truth — it is not as though I had invented it with my mind, I have seen it, seen it, and the living image of it has filled my soul for ever. ~ [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]] # Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life. ~ [[Bertolt Brecht]] # Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. ~ [[Thomas Edison]] # With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations. ~ [[Abraham Lincoln]] # ''Morning has broken, <br> Like the first morning, <br> Blackbird has spoken<br> Like the first bird. <br> Praise for the singing! <br> Praise for the morning! <br> Praise for them springing <br> Fresh from the Word!'' <br> ~ [[Eleanor Farjeon]] ~ # ''How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. <br> I love thee to the depth and breadth and height <br> My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight <br> For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. <br> I love thee to the level of everyday's <br> Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight. <br> I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; <br> I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. <br> I love thee with the passion put to use <br> In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. <br> I love thee with a love I seemed to lose <br> With my lost saints, — I love thee with the breath, <br> Smiles, tears, of all my life! — and, if God choose, <br> I shall but love thee better after death.'' <br> ~ [[Elizabeth Barrett Browning]] ~ # Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation. ~ [[Susan B. Anthony]] # All experience is an arch, to build upon. ~ [[Henry Brooks Adams]] # All things are in the Universe, and the universe is in all things: we in it, and it in us; in this way everything concurs in a perfect unity. ~ [[Giordano Bruno]] # The heart unites whatever the mind separates, pushes on beyond the arena of necessity and transmutes the struggle into love. ~ [[Nikos Kazantzakis]] # ''And the sign flashed out its warning <br> In the words that it was forming <br> And the sign said "The words of the prophets <br> Are written on the subway walls <br> And tenement halls <br> And whispered in the sound of silence."'' <br> ~ [[Paul Simon]] ~ # No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck. ~ [[Frederick Douglass]] # Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods. ~ [[W. H. Auden]] # The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for giving to Mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy: a policy worthy of imitation. All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship. It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens in giving it on all occasions their effectual support. ~ [[George Washington]] # We cannot avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them. ~ [[Karl Jaspers]] # The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand. ~ [[George A. Moore]] # ''Do what you want to do <br>And go where you're going to <br>Think for yourself <br>'Cause I won't be there with you.'' <br> ~ [[George Harrison]] ~ # The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal. ~ [[Victor Hugo]] # ''Turn, turn, my wheel! All things must change <br> To something new, to something strange; <br> Nothing that is can pause or stay; <br> The moon will wax, the moon will wane, <br> The mist and cloud will turn to rain, <br> The rain to mist and cloud again, <br> To-morrow be to-day.'' <br> ~ [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]] ~ # I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old. ~ [[Michel de Montaigne]] == [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/March 2009|March 2009]] == # From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step. ~ [[Napoleon I of France]] # In times like these, it's helpful to remember that there have ''always'' been times like these. ~ [[Paul Harvey]] # If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind. ~ [[William Godwin]] # When I listen to love, I am listening to my true nature. When I express love, I am expressing my true nature. All of us love. All of us do it more and more perfectly. The past has brought us both ashes and diamonds. In the present we find the flowers of what we've planted and the seeds of what we are becoming. I plant the seeds of love in my heart. I plant the seeds of love in the hearts of others. ~ [[Julia Cameron]] # The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man. ~ [[William Beveridge]] # ''[[w:Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?|Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?]]''<br> Who watches the [[Watchmen (film)|Watchmen]]? <br> ~ [[Juvenal]] ~ # Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do. ~ [[Thomas Aquinas]] # We no longer have a coherent conception of ourselves, and our universe, and our relation to one another and our world. We no longer know, as the Middle Ages did, where we come from, and where we are going, or why. That is, we don't know what information is relevant, and what information is irrelevant to our lives. ~ [[Neil Postman]] # A philosopher is a lover of wisdom, not of knowledge, which for all its great uses ultimately suffers from the crippling effect of ephemerality. All knowledge is transient, linked to the world around it and subject to change as the world changes, whereas wisdom, true wisdom is eternal, immutable. ~ [[Shashi Tharoor]] # ''In men whom men condemn as ill <br> I find so much of goodness still, <br> In men whom men pronounce divine <br> I find so much of sin and blot, <br> I do not dare to draw a line <br> Between the two, where God has not.'' <br> ~ [[Joaquin Miller]] ~ # All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others. ~ [[Douglas Adams]] # Life to each individual is a scene of continued feasting in a region of plenty; and when unexpected death arrests its course, it repays with small interest the large debt which it has contracted to the common fund of animal nutrition, from whence the materials of its body have been derived. Thus the great drama of universal life is perpetually sustained; and though the individual actors undergo continual change, the same parts are filled by another and another generation; renewing the face of the earth and the bosom of the deep with endless successions of life and happiness. ~ [[William Buckland]] # The joy of life discovered by the Greeks is not a profane type of enjoyment: it reveals the bliss of existing, of sharing — even fugitively — in the spontaneity of life and the majesty of the world. Like so many others before and after them, the Greeks learned that the surest way to escape from time is to exploit the wealth, at first sight impossible to suspect, of the lived instant. ~ [[Mircea Eliade]] # Only the individual can think, and thereby create new values for society — nay, even set up new moral standards to which the life of the community conforms. Without creative, independently thinking and judging personalities the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality without the nourishing soil of the community. <br> The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion. ~ [[Albert Einstein]] # Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in. ~ [[Andrew Jackson]] # Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world. ~ [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]] # ''Man dwells apart, though not alone,<br> He walks among his peers unread;<br>The best of thoughts which he hath known<br> For lack of listeners are not said.'' <br>~ [[Jean Ingelow]] ~ # Candor is always a double-edged sword; it may heal or it may separate. ~ [[Wilhelm Stekel]] # ''"Fools rush where Angels fear to tread!" Angels and Fools have equal claim <br> To do what Nature bids them do, sans hope of praise, sans fear of blame!'' <br> ~ [[Richard Francis Burton|Sir Richard Francis Burton]] ~ # What is all that men have done and thought over thousands of years, compared with ''one'' moment of love. But in all Nature, too, it is what is nearest to perfection, what is most divinely beautiful! There all stairs lead from the threshold of life. From there we come, to there we go. ~ [[Friedrich Hölderlin]] # The creative process lies not in imitating, but in paralleling nature — translating the impulse received from nature into the medium of expression, thus vitalizing this medium. The picture should be alive, the statue should be alive, and every work of art should be alive. ~ [[Hans Hofmann]] # <p>''I buoyed me on the wings of dream, <br> Above the world of sense; <br> I set my thought to sound the scheme, <br> And fathom the Immense; <br> I tuned my spirit as a lute <br> To catch wind-music wandering mute.''</p><p>''Yet came there never voice nor sign; <br> But through my being stole <br> Sense of a Universe divine, <br> And knowledge of a soul <br> Perfected in the joy of things, <br> The star, the flower, the bird that sings.''</p><p>''Nor I am more, nor less, than these; <br> All are one brotherhood; <br> I and all creatures, plants, and trees, <br> The living limbs of God; <br> And in an hour, as this, divine, <br> I feel the vast pulse throb in mine.'' <br> ~ [[Francis William Bourdillon]] ~</p> # I believe that none can "save" his fellow man by making a choice for him. To help him, he can indicate the possible alternatives, with sincerity and love, without being sentimental and without illusion. The knowledge and awareness of the freeing alternatives can reawaken in an individual all his hidden energies and put him on the path to choosing respect for "life" instead of for "death." ~ [[Erich Fromm]] # Follow the voice of your heart, even if it leads you off the path of timid souls. Do not become hard and embittered, even if life tortures you at times. There is only one thing that counts: to live one's life well and happily... ~ [[Wilhelm Reich]] # Freedom is the very essence of life, the impelling force in all intellectual and social development, the creator of every new outlook for the future of mankind. The liberation of man from economic exploitation and from intellectual and political oppression, which finds its finest expression in the world-philosophy of Anarchism, is the first prerequisite for the evolution of a higher social culture and a new humanity. ~ [[Rudolf Rocker]] # ''I shall be telling this with a sigh <br> Somewhere ages and ages hence: <br> Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — <br> I took the one less traveled by, <br> And that has made all the difference.'' <br> ~ [[Robert Frost]] ~ # ''There’s a good time coming, boys! <br> A good time coming. <br> We may not live to see the day, <br> But earth shall glisten in the ray <br> Of the good time coming. <br> Cannon-balls may aid the truth<br> But thought’s a weapon stronger;<br>We’ll win our battles by its aid,<br> Wait a little longer.'' <br> ~ [[Charles Mackay]] ~ # I do not understand those terrors which make us cry out, Satan, Satan! when we may say, God, God! and make Satan tremble. Do we not know that he cannot stir without the permission of God? ... I am really much more afraid of those people who have so great a fear of the devil, than I am of the devil himself. Satan can do me no harm whatever, but they can trouble me very much, particularly if they be confessors. ~ [[Teresa of Ávila]] # On seeing his shadow fall on such ancient rocks, he had to question himself in a different context and ask the same old question as before, "Who am I?", and the answer now came more emphatically than ever before, "No-one." <br> But a no-one with a crown of light about his head. He would remember a verse from [[Pindar]]: "Man is a dream about a shadow. But when some splendour falls upon him from God, a glory comes to him and his life is sweet." ~ [[R. S. Thomas]] # The best way of knowing God is to love many things. Love this friend, this person, this thing, whatever you like, and you will be on the right road to understanding Him better, that is what I keep telling myself. But you must love with a sublime, genuine, profound sympathy, with devotion, with intelligence, and you must try all the time to understand Him more, better and yet more. ~ [[Vincent van Gogh]] # ''[[w:Cogito ergo sum|Cogito ergo sum]]'' <br> I think, therefore I am. <br> ~ [[René Descartes]] ~ == [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/April 2009|April 2009]] == # Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown; nor do philosophers pin their faith to others' precepts in such wise that they lose their liberty, and cease to give credence to the conclusions of their proper senses. Neither do they swear such fealty to their mistress Antiquity that they openly, and in sight of all, deny and desert their friend Truth. ~ [[William Harvey]] # Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it. ~ [[Émile Zola]] # If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough. ~ "Meggido Message" (misattributed to [[Edward Everett Hale]]) # The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells ''[[w:Wakan Tanka|Wakan-Tanka]]'', and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this. The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is known that true peace, which, as I have often said, is within the souls of men. ~ [[Black Elk]] # ''God's own hand <br> Holds fast all issues of our deeds: with him <br> The end of all our ends is, but with us <br> Our ends are, just or unjust: though our works <br> Find righteous or unrighteous judgment, this <br> At least is ours, to make them righteous.'' <br> ~ [[Algernon Charles Swinburne]] ~ # ''Little deeds of kindness, <br> Little words of love, <br> Make our pleasant earth below <br> Like the heaven above.'' <br> ~ [[Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney]] ~ # Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves. ~ [[William Ellery Channing]] # ''Somewhere over the rainbow<br/> Skies are blue<br/> And the dreams that you dare to dream<br/> Really do come true.'' <br> ~ [[Yip Harburg]] ~ # These tall and handsome ships, swaying imperceptibly on tranquil waters, these sturdy ships, with their inactive, nostalgic appearance, don’t they say to us in a speechless tongue: When do we cast off for happiness? ~ [[Charles Baudelaire]] # It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. ~ [[William Hazlitt]] # No greater mistake can be made than to think that our institutions are fixed or may not be changed for the worse. ... Increasing prosperity tends to breed indifference and to corrupt moral soundness. Glaring inequalities in condition create discontent and strain the democratic relation. The vicious are the willing, and the ignorant are unconscious instruments of political artifice. Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses. .. The peril of this Nation is not in any foreign foe! We, the people, are its power, its peril, and its hope! ~ [[Charles Evans Hughes]] # He that is greatest among you shall be your servant. And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted. ~ [[Jesus|Yeshua (Jesus Christ)]] # I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. ~ [[Thomas Jefferson]] # ''Sad hours and glad hours, and all hours, pass over; <br/> One thing unshaken stays: <br/> Life, that hath Death for spouse, hath Chance for lover; <br/> Whereby decays <br/> Each thing save one thing: — mid this strife diurnal <br/> Of hourly change begot, <br/> Love that is God-born, bides as God eternal, <br/> And changes not.'' <br> ~ [[James Branch Cabell]] ~ # {{center/s}}<p><math>e^{i \pi} + 1 = 0. \,\!</math><br> Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth. </p><p> ~ [[Benjamin Peirce]] on [[Leonhard Euler|Euler's]] [[w:Euler's identity|identity]] ~</p>{{center/e}} # What one man can do himself directly is but little. If however he can stir up ten others to take up the task he has accomplished much. ~ [[Wilbur Wright]] # The real glory of dreams lies in their atmosphere of unlimited freedom. It is not the freedom of the dictator, who enforces his own will on the world, but the freedom of the artist, who has no will, who is free of will. ~ [[Karen Blixen]] # I believe that music can be an inspirational force in all our lives — that its eloquence and the depth of its meaning are all-important, and that all personal considerations concerning musicians and the public are relatively unimportant — that music come from the heart and returns to the heart — that music is spontaneous, impulsive expression — that its range is without limit — that music is forever growing — that music can be one element to help us build a new conception of life in which the madness and cruelty of wars will be replaced by a simple understanding of the brotherhood of man. ~ [[Leopold Stokowski]] # Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. ~ [[Jesus|Yeshua (Jesus Christ)]] # Let every one of us cultivate, in every word that issues from our mouth, absolute truth. I say cultivate, because to very few people — as may be noticed of most young children — does truth, this rigid, literal veracity, come by nature. To many, even who love it and prize it dearly in others, it comes only after the self-control, watchfulness, and bitter experience of years. ~ [[Dinah Craik]] # We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind — mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into popular imagery, the increasing blurring and intermingling of identities within the realm of consumer goods, the preempting of any free or original imaginative response to experience by the television screen. We live inside an enormous novel. For the writer in particular it is less and less necessary for him to invent the fictional content of his novel. The fiction is already there. The writer's task is to invent the reality. ~ [[J. G. Ballard]] # The death of dogma is the birth of morality. ~ [[Immanuel Kant]] # I would not so dishonour [[w:God|God]] as to lend my voice to perpetuate all the mad and foolish things which men have dared to say of Him. I believe that we may find in the Bible the highest and purest religion ..... most of all in the history of [[Jesus|Him]] in whose name we all are called. His religion — not ''the Christian religion'', but ''the religion of [[w:Christ|Christ]]'' — the poor man's gospel; the message of forgiveness, of reconciliation, of love; and, oh, how gladly would I spend my life, in season and out of season, in preaching this! But I must have no hell terrors, none of these fear doctrines; they were not in the early creeds, God knows whether they were ever in the early gospels, or ever passed His lips. [[w:Harrowing of Hell|He went down to hell]], but it was to break the chains, not to bind them. ~ [[James Anthony Froude]] # The most powerful weapon to conquer the devil is humility. For, as he does not know at all how to employ it, neither does he know how to defend himself from it. ~ [[Vincent de Paul]] # I will either find a way, or make one. ~ [[Hannibal]] # Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. <br> If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. <br> Our life has no end in just the way in which our visual field has no limits. <br> ~ [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]] ~ # No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. ~ [[Mary Wollstonecraft]] # Too much magic could wrap time and space around itself, and that wasn't good news for the kind of person who had grown used to things like effects following things like causes. ~ [[Terry Pratchett]] in ''[[Discworld#Sourcery_.281988.29|Sourcery]]'' ~ # ''He who hopes to grow in spirit <br> will have to transcend obedience and respect. <br> He'll hold to some laws <br> but he'll mostly violate <br> both law and custom, and go beyond <br> the established, inadequate norm.'' <br> ~ [[Constantine P. Cavafy]] ~ # Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In [[w:Zazen|Zazen]] neither intention, analysis, specific effort nor imagination take place. It's enough just to be without hypocrisy, dogmatism, arrogance — embracing all opposites. ~ [[Taisen Deshimaru]] == [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/May 2009|May 2009]] == # ''When an angel by divine command <br/>With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, <br>Such as of late o'er pale Britannia passed, <br>Calm and serene he drives the furious blast; <br>And, pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform, <br/>Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm.'' <br> ~ [[Joseph Addison]] ~ # We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the Universe. ~ [[Jerome K. Jerome]] # ''To everything (turn, turn, turn) <br> There is a season (turn, turn, turn) <br> And a time for every purpose under heaven.'' <br> ~ [[Pete Seeger]] ~ # Beneficence is godlike, and he who does most good to his fellow-man is the Master of Masters, and has learned the Art of Arts. Enrich and embellish the universe as you will, it is only a fit temple for the heart that loves truth with a supreme love. Inanimate vastness excites wonder; knowledge kindles admiration, but love enraptures the soul. Scientific truth is marvellous, but moral truth is divine; and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light, has found the lost paradise. For him, a new heaven and a new earth have already been created. His home is the sanctuary of God, the Holy of Holies. ~ [[Horace Mann]] # Is it an excellence in your love that it can love only the extraordinary, the rare? If it were love’s merit to love the extraordinary, then God would be — if I dare say so — perplexed, for to Him the extraordinary does not exist at all. The merit of being able to love only the extraordinary is therefore more like an accusation, not against the extraordinary nor against love, but against the love which can love only the extraordinary. Perfection in the object is not perfection in the love. Erotic love is determined by the object; friendship is determined by the object; only love of one’s neighbor is determined by love. Therefore genuine love is recognizable by this, that its object is without any of the more definite qualifications of difference, which means that this love is recognizable only by love. ~ [[Søren Kierkegaard]] # ''When true simplicity is gain'd <br> To bow and to bend we shan't be asham'd, <br> To turn, turn will be our delight <br> 'Till by turning, turning we come round right.'' <br> ~ [[Joseph Brackett]] ~ # The very essence of democracy is the absolute faith that while people must cooperate, the first function of democracy, its peculiar gift, is to develop each individual into everything that he might be. But I submit to you that when in each man the dream of personal greatness dies, democracy loses the real source of its future strength. ~ [[Edwin H. Land]] # I want to break out — to leave this cycle of infection and death. I want to be taken in love: so taken that you and I, and death, and life, will be gathered inseparable, into the radiance of what we would become... ~ [[Thomas Pynchon]] # The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it. ~ [[J. M. Barrie]] # Seeing a woman's child is like seeing a woman naked, in the way it changes how her face looks to you, how her face becomes less the whole story. ~ [[John Crowley]] # There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower. It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts. ~ [[Richard Feynman]] # I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results. ~ [[Florence Nightingale]] # Not living in fear is a great gift, because certainly these days we do it so much. And do you know what I like about comedy? You can’t laugh and be afraid at the same time — of anything. If you're laughing, I defy you to be afraid. ~ [[Stephen Colbert]] # Union and co-operation in war obviously increase the power of the individual a thousand fold. Is there the shadow of a reason why they should not produce equal effects in peace; why the principle of co-operation should not give to men the same superior powers, and advantages, (and much greater) in the creation, preservation, distribution and enjoyment of wealth? ~ [[Robert Owen]] # The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own — even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being. ~ [[Katherine Anne Porter]] # The slave system is one of constant danger, distrust, suspicion, and watchfulness. It debases those whose toil alone can produce wealth and resources for defence, to the lowest degree of which human nature is capable, to guard against mutiny and insurrection, and thus wastes energies which otherwise might be employed in national development and aggrandizement. The free-labor system educates all alike, and by opening all the fields of industrial employment and all the departments of authority, to the unchecked and equal rivalry of all classes of men, at once secures universal contentment, and brings into the highest possible activity all the physical, moral, and social energies of the whole state. ~ [[William H. Seward]] # Yes, there ''is'' a Divinity, one from which we must never turn aside for the guidance of our huge inward life and of the share we have as well in the life of all men. It is called the truth. ~ [[Henri Barbusse]] # ''The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, <br /> Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit <br />Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, <br /> Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.'' <br> ~ [[Omar Khayyám]] ~ # Humankind consists of two sexes, woman and man. Is it possible that a mass is improved by the improvement of only one part and the other ignored? Is it possible that if half of a mass is tied to earth with chains and the other half can soar into skies? ~ [[Mustafa Kemal Atatürk]] # However unwillingly a person who has a strong opinion may admit the possibility that his opinion may be false, he ought to be moved by the consideration that, however true it may be, if it is not fully, frequently, and fearlessly discussed, it will be held as a dead dogma, not a living truth. ~ [[John Stuart Mill]] # <p>''Some Figures monstrous and mis-shap'd appear,<br> Consider'd singly, or beheld too near,<br> Which, but proportion'd to their Light, or Place,<br> Due Distance reconciles to Form and Grace.<br> A prudent Chief not always must display<br> His Pow'rs in equal Ranks, and fair Array,<br> But with th' Occasion and the Place comply,<br> Conceal his Force, nay seem sometimes to Fly.<br> Those oft are Stratagems which Errors seem,<br> Nor is it [[Homer]] Nods, but We that Dream.''</p><p> ~ [[Alexander Pope]] in ''[[An Essay on Criticism]]'' ~</p> # Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outre results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable. ~ [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] in "[[Sherlock_Holmes#A_Case_of_Identity|A Case of Identity]]" # Let no one dare to call another mad who is not himself willing to rank in the same class for every perversion and fault of judgment. Let no one dare aid in punishing another as criminal who is not willing to suffer the penalty due to his own offenses. ~ [[Margaret Fuller]] # ''How many roads must a man walk down <br> Before you call him a man? <br> Yes, 'n' how many seas must a white dove sail <br> Before she sleeps in the sand? <br> Yes, 'n' how many times must the cannon balls fly <br> Before they're forever banned? <br> The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, <br> The answer is blowin' in the wind.'' <br>~ [[Bob Dylan]] ~ # You will hear every day the maxims of a low prudence. You will hear, that the first duty is to get land and money, place and name. "What is this Truth you seek? What is this Beauty?" men will ask, with derision. If, nevertheless, God have called any of you to explore truth and beauty, be bold, be firm, be true. When you shall say, "As others do, so will I. I renounce, I am sorry for it, my early visions; I must eat the good of the land, and let learning and romantic expectations go, until a more convenient season." — then dies the man in you; then once more perish the buds of art, and poetry, and science, as they have died already in a thousand thousand men. The hour of that choice is the crisis of your history; and see that you hold yourself fast by the intellect. ... Bend to the persuasion which is flowing to you from every object in Nature, to be its tongue to the heart of man, and to show the besotted world how passing fair is wisdom. ~ [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]] # You have so many things in the background that you're supposed to do, there's no room left to think. I say, forget all that and ask yourself, "What's the simplest thing that could possibly work?" ~ [[Ward Cunningham]] # The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us the less taste we shall have for the destruction of our race. Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions, and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction. ~ [[Rachel Carson]] # The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into the common life of the world. ~ [[Louis Agassiz]] # Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. ~ [[John F. Kennedy]] # When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick." ~ [[Mikhail Bakunin]] # Talk not so much ... of the great old masters, who but painted and chisell’d. Study not only their productions. There is a still higher school for him who would kindle his fire with coal from the altar of the loftiest and purest art. It is the school of all grand actions and grand virtues, of heroism, of the death of patriots and martyrs — of all the mighty deeds written in the pages of history — deeds of daring, and enthusiasm, devotion, and fortitude. ~ [[Walt Whitman]] == [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/June 2009|June 2009]] == # If the mind is to emerge unscathed from this relentless struggle with the unforeseen, two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead. ~ [[Carl von Clausewitz]] # <p>''The Poet's License! — 't is the right, <br> Within the rule of duty, <br> To look on all delightful things <br> Throughout the world of beauty. ''</p><p>''To gaze with rapture at the stars <br> That in the skies are glowing; <br> To see the gems of perfect dye <br> That in the woods are growing, — <br> And more than sage astronomer, <br> And more than learned florist, <br> To read the glorious homilies <br> Of Firmament and Forest.'' <br> ~ [[John Godfrey Saxe]] ~ </p> # It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little. ~ [[Sydney Smith]] # I recall an old Sufi story of a good man who was granted one wish by God. The man said he would like to go about doing good without knowing about it. God granted his wish. And then God decided that it was such a good idea, he would grant that wish to all human beings. <br> And so it has been to this day. ~ [[Robert Fulghum]] # It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong. ~ [[John Maynard Keynes]] # Do your duty, and leave the rest to heaven. ~ [[Pierre Corneille]] # Our earth is round, and, among other things, that means that you and I can hold completely different points of view and both be right. The difference of our positions will show stars in your window I cannot even imagine. Your sky may burn with light, while mine, at the same moment, spreads beautiful to darkness. Still we must choose how we separately corner the circling universe of our experience. Once chosen, our cornering will determine the message of any star and darkness we encounter. ~ [[June Jordan]] # The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the world and remember, it will be a poet, not a scientist. ~ [[Frank Lloyd Wright]] # ''In olden days a glimpse of stocking <br> Was looked on as something shocking <br> But now, Heaven knows, <br> Anything goes.'' <br> ~ [[Cole Porter]] ~ # ''Most joyful let the Poet be; <br> It is through him that all men see.'' <br> ~ [[William Ellery Channing (poet)|William Ellery Channing]] ~ # There is nothing ugly; I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, — light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful. ~ [[John Constable]] # My knowledge of pain, learned with the sabre, taught me not to be afraid. And just as in dueling when you must concentrate on your enemy's cheek, so, too, in war. You cannot waste time on feinting and sidestepping. You must decide on your target and go in. ~ [[Otto Skorzeny]] # ''A line will take us hours maybe;<br>Yet if it does not seem a moment’s thought,<br>Our stitching and unstitching has been naught.<br>Better go down upon your marrow-bones<br>And scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stones<br>Like an old pauper, in all kinds of weather;<br>For to articulate sweet sounds together<br>Is to work harder than all these, and yet<br>Be thought an idler by the noisy set<br>Of bankers, schoolmasters, and clergymen<br>The martyrs call the world.''<br> ~ [[William Butler Yeats]] ~ # The Zen disciple sits for long hours silent and motionless, with his eyes closed. Presently he enters a state of impassivity, free from all ideas and all thoughts. He departs from the self and enters the realm of nothingness. This is not the nothingness or the emptiness of the West. It is rather the reverse, a universe of the spirit in which everything communicates freely with everything, transcending bounds, limitless. ... The disciple must, however, always be lord of his own thoughts, and must attain enlightenment through his own efforts. And the emphasis is less upon reason and argument than upon intuition, immediate feeling. Enlightenment comes not from teaching but through the eye awakened inwardly. Truth is in "the discarding of words", it lies "outside words". <br> ~ [[Yasunari Kawabata]] ~ # The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool. ~ [[William McFee]] # A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals to discovery. ~ [[James Joyce]] in ''[[Ulysses (novel)|Ulysses]]'' # Whether one believes in evolution, intelligent design, or Divine Creation, one thing is certain. Since the beginning of history, human beings have been at war with each other, under the pretext of religion, ideology, ethnicity and other reasons. And no civilization has ever willingly given up its most powerful weapons. We seem to agree today that we can share modern technology, but we still refuse to acknowledge that our values — at their very core — are shared values. ~ [[Mohamed ElBaradei]] # The history of a battle, is not unlike the history of a ball. Some individuals may recollect all the little events of which the great result is the battle won or lost, but no individual can recollect the order in which, or the exact moment at which, they occurred, which makes all the difference as to their value or importance. ~ [[Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington]] # The wellspring of courage and endurance in the face of unbridled power is generally a firm belief in the sanctity of ethical principles combined with a historical sense that despite all setbacks the condition of man is set on an ultimate course for both spiritual and material advancement. At the root of human responsibility is the concept of perfection, the urge to achieve it, the intelligence to find a path towards it, and the will to follow that path if not to the end at least the distance needed to rise above individual limitations and environmental impediments. It is man's vision of a world fit for rational, civilized humanity which leads him to dare and to suffer to build societies free from want and fear. Concepts such as truth, justice and compassion cannot be dismissed as trite when these are often the only bulwarks which stand against ruthless power. ~ [[Aung San Suu Kyi]] # Humor — it helps to make the vibe better — it loosens up the vibrations. ~ [[Brian Wilson]] # ''God grant me the serenity <br /> to accept the things I cannot change, <br /> the courage to change the things I can, <br /> and the wisdom to know the difference.'' <br> ~ [[Reinhold Niebuhr]] ~ # This earth is one of the rare spots in the cosmos where mind has flowered. Man is a product of nearly three billion years of evolution, in whose person the evolutionary process has at last become conscious of itself and its possibilities. Whether he likes it or not, he is responsible for the whole further evolution of our planet. ~ [[Julian Huxley]] # ''I've woven them a garment that's prepared <br> out of poor words, those that I overheard, <br> and will hold fast to every word and glance <br> all of my days, even in new mischance, <br> and if a gag should bind my tortured mouth, <br> through which a hundred million people shout, <br> then let them pray for me, as I do pray <br> for them, this eve of my remembrance day.'' <br> ~ [[Anna Akhmatova]] ~ # '''Guilt''', ''n.'' The condition of one who is known to have committed an indiscretion, as distinguished from the state of him who has covered his tracks. ~ [[Ambrose Bierce]] # If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. ~ [[George Orwell]] # ''Heal the world, make it a better place, <br> For you and for me and the entire human race, <br> There are people dying, but if you care enough for the living, <br> Make a better place for you and for me.'' <br> ~ [[Michael Jackson]] ~ # Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope. ~ [[Helen Keller]] # Never dream of forcing men into the ways of God. Think yourself, and let think. Use no constraint in matters of religion. Even those who are farthest out of the way never compel to come in by any other means than reason, truth, and love. ~ [[John Wesley]] # What makes the desert beautiful ... is that somewhere it hides a well. ~ [[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]] in ''[[The Little Prince]]'' # ''I think that I am here, on this earth, <br> To present a report on it, but to whom I don't know. <br> As if I were sent so that whatever takes place <br> Has meaning because it changes into memory.'' <br> ~ [[Czesław Miłosz]] ~ == [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/July 2009|July 2009]] == # There are two kinds of truths: those of reasoning and those of fact. The truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; the truths of fact are contingent and their opposites are possible. ~ [[Gottfried Leibniz]] # Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom to one man seems nonsense to another. ~ [[Hermann Hesse]] # Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached. ~ [[Franz Kafka]] # Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not. ~ [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]] # We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel. ~ [[Jean Cocteau]] # Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free. True peace with oneself and with the world around us can only be achieved through the development of mental peace. ~ [[Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama]] # Magic is not science, it is a collection of ways to do things — ways that work but often we don't know why. ~ [[Robert A. Heinlein]] in ''[[Glory Road]]'' # Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish. ~ [[Jean de La Fontaine]] # As a child I was taught that to tell the truth was often painful. As an adult I have learned that not to tell the truth is more painful, and that the fear of telling the truth — whatever the truth may be — that fear is the most painful sensation of a moral life. ~ [[June Jordan]] # It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer. ~ [[William Blackstone]] # I can never join with my voice in the toast which I see in the papers attributed to one of our gallant naval heroes. I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong. ''Fiat justitia, pereat coelum''. My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right. ~ [[John Quincy Adams]] # The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow. ~ [[William Osler]] # ''O how I feel, just as I pluck the flower <br> And stick it to my breast — words can't reveal; <br> But there are souls that in this lovely hour <br> Know all I mean, and feel whate'er I feel.'' <br>~ [[John Clare]] ~ # ''This land is your land, this land is my land<br>From California to the New York Island,<br>From the Redwood Forest, to the Gulf stream waters,<br>This land was made for you and me.'' <br> ~ [[Woody Guthrie]] ~ # Choose only one master — Nature. ~ [[Rembrandt]] # I have always lived in a world in which I'm just a spot in history. My life is not the important point. I'm just part of the continuum, and that continuum, to me, is a marvelous thing. The history of life, and the history of the planet, should go on and on and on and on. I cannot conceive of anything in the universe that has more meaning than that. ~ [[Sheri S. Tepper]] # They told us not to wish in the first place, not to aspire, not to try; to be quiet, to play nice, to shoot low and aspire not at all. They are always wrong. Follow your dreams. Make your wishes. Create the future. And above all, believe in yourself. ~ [[J. Michael Straczynski]] # It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all. ~ [[William Makepeace Thackeray]] # Old anchormen, you see, don't fade away; they just keep coming back for more. And that's the way it is... ~ [[Walter Cronkite]] # Houston: Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed. ~ [[Neil Armstrong]] # ''Now I've been happy lately <br> Thinking about the good things to come <br> And I believe it could be <br> Something good has begun.''</p><p>''Oh, I've been smiling lately <br> Dreaming about the world as one <br> And I believe it could be <br> Someday it's going to come.'' <br> ~ [[Cat Stevens|Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam)]] ~</p> # There was sadness in being a man, but it was a proud thing too. And he showed what the pride of it was till you couldn't help feeling it. Yes, even in hell, if a man was a man, you'd know it. And he wasn't pleading for any one person any more, though his voice rang like an organ. He was telling the story and the failures and the endless journey of mankind. They got tricked and trapped and bamboozled, but it was a great journey. And no demon that was ever foaled could know the inwardness of it — it took a man to do that. ... His voice could search the heart, and that was his gift and his strength. And to one, his voice was like the forest and its secrecy, and to another like the sea and the storms of the sea; and one heard the cry of his lost nation in it, and another saw a little harmless scene he hadn't remembered for years. But each saw something. And when Dan'l Webster finished he didn't know whether or not he'd saved Jabez Stone. But he knew he'd done a miracle. For the glitter was gone from the eyes of the judge and jury, and, for the moment, they were men again, and knew they were men. ~ [[Stephen Vincent Benét]] # The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act — and if necessary, to suffer and die — for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied. These lessons must be learned anew by each succeeding generation, and that generation is fortunate indeed which learns from other than its own bitter experience. ~ [[Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia]] # The art of victory is learned in defeat. ~ [[Simón Bolívar]] # Good and evil grow up together and are bound in an equilibrium that cannot be sundered. The most we can do is try to tilt the equilibrium toward the good. ~ [[Eric Hoffer]] # I hear you say "Why?" Always "Why?" You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?" ~ [[George Bernard Shaw]] # When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. ~ [[Sherlock Holmes]] in ''[[w:The Sign of the Four|The Sign of the Four]]'' by [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] # We do not choose political freedom because it promises us this or that. We choose it because it makes possible the only dignified form of human coexistence, the only form in which we can be fully responsible for ourselves. Whether we realize its possibilities depends on all kinds of things — and above all on ourselves. ~ [[Karl Popper]] # For all that has been — <br> Thanks. <br> For all that shall be — <br> Yes. <br> ~ [[Dag Hammarskjöld]] ~ # <p>''Moving stranger, <br> Does it really matter, <br> As long as you're not afraid to feel?''</p><p>''Touch me, hold me. <br> How my open arms ache! <br> Try to fall for me.''</p><p>~ [[Kate Bush]] ~</p> # I beg the reader not to go in search of messages. It is a term that I detest because it distresses me greatly, for it forces on me clothes that are not mine, which in fact belong to a human type that I distrust; the prophet, the soothsayer, the seer. I am none of these; I'm a normal man with a good memory who fell into a maelstrom and got out of it more by luck than by virtue, and who from that time on has preserved a certain curiosity about maelstroms large and small, metaphorical and actual. ~ [[Primo Levi]] == [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/August 2009|August 2009]] == # In this world of lies, Truth is forced to fly like a sacred white doe in the woodlands; and only by cunning glimpses will she reveal herself, as in [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]] and other masters of the great Art of Telling the Truth, — even though it be covertly, and by snatches. ~ [[Herman Melville]] # Religious feeling is as much a verity as any other part of human consciousness; and against it, on the subjective side, the waves of science beat in vain. ~ [[John Tyndall]] # I did not want to move. For I had the feeling that this was a place, once seen, that could not be seen again. If I left and then came back, it would not be the same; no matter how many times I might return to this particular spot the place and feeling would never be the same, something would be lost or something would be added, and there never would exist again, through all eternity, all the integrated factors that made it what it was in this magic moment. ~ [[Clifford D. Simak]] # ''I am the daughter of Earth and Water,<br> And the nursling of the Sky;<br> I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores;<br> I change, but I cannot die.'' <br> ~ [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]] ~ # ''Do not think me gentle <br>because I speak in praise <br>of gentleness, or elegant <br>because I honor the grace <br>that keeps this world. I am <br>a man crude as any, <br>gross of speech, intolerant, <br>stubborn, angry, full <br>of fits and furies. That I <br>may have spoken well <br>at times, is not natural. <br>A wonder is what it is.'' <br> ~ [[Wendell Berry]] ~ # The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open. ~ [[Charles Fort]] # Going to church no more makes you a Christian than standing in a garage makes you a car. ~ [[Garrison Keillor]] # ''If I can find out God, then I shall find Him, <br> If none can find Him, then I shall sleep soundly, <br> Knowing how well on earth your love sufficed me, <br> A lamp in darkness.'' <br> ~ [[Sara Teasdale]] ~ # For me there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I don't look for an answer, because I don't think there is one. I'm very glad to be the bearer of a question. ~ [[P. L. Travers]] #Monsters remain human beings. In fact, to reduce them to a subhuman level is to exonerate them of their acts of terrorism and mass murder — just as animals are not deemed morally responsible for killing. Insisting on the humanity of terrorists is, in fact, critical to maintaining their profound responsibility for the evil they commit. <br> And, if they are human, then they must necessarily not be treated in an inhuman fashion. You cannot lower the moral baseline of a terrorist to the subhuman without betraying a fundamental value. ~ [[Andrew Sullivan]] # If the world ever advances beyond what it is today, it must be led by men who express their real opinions. ~ [[Robert G. Ingersoll]] # There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers. ~ [[Edith Hamilton]] # The question what to believe is perhaps the most momentous that anyone can put to himself. Our beliefs are not to be classed among the luxuries, but among the necessaries of existence. ~ [[Felix Adler]] # ''Time will rust the sharpest sword, <br> Time will consume the strongest cord; <br> That which molders hemp and steel, <br> Mortal arm and nerve must feel. <br>'' ~ [[Walter Scott]] ~ # The supreme truths are neither the rigid conclusions of logical reasoning nor the affirmations of credal statement, but fruits of the soul's inner experience. ~ [[Sri Aurobindo]] # Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals. It can only be ensured by instinct, sharpened by thought practising the stroke so often that at the crisis it is as natural as a reflex. ~ [[T. E. Lawrence]] # To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn't know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up. ~ [[V. S. Naipaul]] # ''Tho' the world could turn from you, <br> This, at least, I learn from you: <br> Beauty and Truth, tho' never found, are worthy to be sought, <br> The singer, upward-springing, <br> Is grander than his singing, <br> And tranquil self-sufficing joy illumes the dark of thought.'' <br> ~ [[Robert Williams Buchanan]] ~ # ''Let those find fault whose wit's so very small, <br> They've need to show that they can think at all; <br> Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; <br> He who would search for pearls, must dive below.'' <br> ~ [[John Dryden]] ~ # Science traditionally takes the reductionist approach, saying that the collective properties of molecules, or the fundamental units of whatever system you're talking about, are enough to account for all of the system's activity. But this standard approach leaves out one very important additional factor, and that's the spacing and timing of activity — its pattern or form. ~ [[Roger Wolcott Sperry]] # People ask me... "What do you still bring from Hawaii? How does it affect your character, how does it affect your politics?" I try to explain to them something about the [[w:Aloha|Aloha Spirit]]. I try to explain to them this basic idea that we all have obligations to each other, that we're not alone, that if we see somebody who's in need we should help... that we look out for one another, that we deal with each other with courtesy and respect, and most importantly, that when you come from Hawaii, you start understanding that what's on the surface, what people look like — that doesn't determine who they are. And that the power and strength of diversity, the ability of people from everywhere ... whether they're black or white, whether they're Japanese-Americans or Korean-Americans or Filipino-Americans or whatever they are, they are just Americans, that all of us can work together and all of us can join together to create a better country. And it's that spirit, that I'm absolutely convinced, is what America is looking for right now. <br> ~ [[Barack Obama]] ~ # Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art. ~ [[Claude Debussy]] # ''Out of the night that covers me, <br> Black as the pit from pole to pole, <br> I thank whatever gods may be <br> for my unconquerable soul.'' <br> ~ [[William Ernest Henley]] ~ # ''Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, <br /> Old Time is still a-flying; <br /> And this same flower that smiles today, <br /> Tomorrow will be dying.'' <br /> ~ [[Robert Herrick (poet)|Robert Herrick]] ~ # My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant, someone who disrupts the daily drag of life just enough to leave the victim thinking there's maybe more to it all than the mere hum-drum quality of existence. ~ [[Elvis Costello]] # If you can't see God in All, You can't see God at All. ~ [[Harbhajan Singh Yogi]] # For me, a few hours ago, this campaign came to an end. For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die. ~ [[Ted Kennedy]] # What is the use of being wise if we are not sometimes merry? The merriment of wise men is not the uninformed, gross fun of ignorant men, but it has more kinship with that than the pinched, frightened fun of those who are neither learned nor ignorant, gentle nor simple, bound nor free. The idea that a wise man must be solemn is bred and preserved among people who have no idea what wisdom is, and can only respect whatever makes them feel inferior. ~ [[Robertson Davies]] # Consciousness expresses itself through creation. This world we live in is the dance of the Creator. Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye but the dance lives on. On many an occasion when I am dancing, I have felt touched by something sacred. In those moments, I felt my spirit soar and become one with everything that exists. I become the stars and the moon. I become the lover and the beloved. I become the victor and the vanquished. I become the master and the slave. I become the singer and the song. I become the knower and the known. I keep on dancing and then, it is the eternal dance of creation. The Creator and the creation merge into one wholeness of joy. I keep on dancing — until there is only ... the dance. ~ [[Michael Jackson]] # The animals of the [[w:Burgess Shale|Burgess Shale]] are holy objects — in the unconventional sense that this word conveys in some cultures. We do not place them on pedestals and worship from afar. We climb mountains and dynamite hillsides to find them. We quarry them, split them, carve them, draw them, and dissect them, struggling to wrest their secrets. We vilify and curse them for their damnable intransigence. They are grubby little creatures of a sea floor 530 million years old, but we greet them with awe because they are the Old Ones, and they are trying to tell us something. ~ [[Stephen Jay Gould]] # There's not a war between Muslims and non-Muslims, but between extremists and moderates of all the religions. ... What is important is not to live in fear. The most dangerous thing to do is to give up and lose hope. The main enemy is not terrorism or extremism, but ignorance. ~ [[Queen Rania of Jordan]] == [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/September 2009|September 2009]] == #{{center/s}}<p>'''Proclaim LIBERTY throughout all the Land unto all the Inhabitants thereof. [[w:Book of Leviticus|Lev.]] XXV X'''</p><p> <small> Inscription <br> on the <br> </small>~ [[w:Liberty Bell|Liberty Bell]] ~</p>{{center/e}} # If thinking men are few, they are for that reason all the more powerful. Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power. ~ [[Henry George]] # Whether it be the sweeping eagle in his flight, or the open apple-blossom, the toiling work-horse, the blithe swan, the branching oak, the winding stream at its base, the drifting clouds, over all the coursing sun, ''form ever follows function'', and this is the law. Where function does not change form does not change. The granite rocks, the ever brooding hills, remain for ages; the lightning lives, comes into shape, and dies in a twinkling. <br> It is the pervading law of all things organic and inorganic, of all things physical and metaphysical, of all things human and all things superhuman, of all true manifestations of the head, of the heart, of the soul, that the life is recognizable in its expression, that form ever follows function. ''This is the law.'' ~ [[Louis Sullivan]] # As soon as a true thought has entered our mind, it gives a light which makes us see a crowd of other objects which we have never perceived before. ~ [[François-René de Chateaubriand]] # I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full; I have to surrender myself to what encircles me, I have to merge with my clouds and rocks in order to be what I am. ~ [[Caspar David Friedrich]] # ''I saw a rainbow earlier today <br> Lately those rainbows be comin' round like everyday <br> Deep in the struggle I have found the beauty of me <br> God is watchin' and the Devil finally let me be <br> Here in this moment to myself.'' <br> ~ [[Macy Gray]] ~ # I have written my life in small sketches, a little today, a little yesterday, as I have thought of it, as I remember all the things from childhood on through the years, good ones, and unpleasant ones, that is how they come out and that is how we have to take them. <br> I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it. I was happy and contented, I knew nothing better and made the best out of what life offered. And life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. ~ [[Grandma Moses]] # ''What voice revisits me this night? What face<br>To my heart’s room returns?<br>From the perpetual silence where the grace<br>Of human sainthood burns<br>Hastes he once more to harmonise and heal?<br>I know not. Only I feel<br>His influence undiminished<br>And his life’s work, in me and many, unfinished.'' <br> ~ [[Siegfried Sassoon]] ~ # All men live not by the thought they spend on their own welfare, but because love exists in man. <br> I knew before that God gave life to men and desires that they should live; now I understood more than that. <br> I understood that God does not wish men to live apart, and therefore he does not reveal to them what each one needs for himself; but he wishes them to live united, and therefore reveals to each of them what is necessary for all. <br> I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love. ~ [[Leo Tolstoy]] # It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, by drinking at the fountain of fact, and devoting all the energies of his life to the cult of truth, not as he understands it, but as he does not yet understand it, that ought properly to be called a philosopher. ~ [[Charles Sanders Peirce]] # On September 11, 2001, the world fractured. It's beyond my skill as a writer to capture that day, and the days that would follow — the planes, like specters, vanishing into steel and glass; the slow-motion cascade of the towers crumbling into themselves; the ash-covered figures wandering the streets; the anguish and the fear. Nor do I pretend to understand the stark nihilism that drove the terrorists that day and that drives their brethren still. My powers of empathy, my ability to reach into another's heart, cannot penetrate the blank stares of those who would murder innocents with abstract, serene satisfaction. ~ [[Barack Obama]] # You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down. ~ [[Stanisław Lem]] # ''By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, <br> And what to those we give, to Jove is lent.''<br> ~ [[Alexander Pope]] ~ <br><small> in his interpretation of </small> <br> ''[[The Odyssey of Homer (Alexander Pope)|The Odyssey]]'' by [[Homer]] # The difference between faith and superstition is that the first uses reason to go as far as it can, and then makes the jump; the second shuns reason entirely — which is why superstition is not the ally, but the enemy, of true religion. ~ [[Sydney J. Harris]] # Understand this, I mean to arrive at the truth. The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it. ~ [[Agatha Christie]] # ''Descend, descend, [[w:Urania|Urania]], speak <br> To men in their own tongue! <br> Leave not the breaking heart to break <br> Because thine own is strong. <br> This is the law, in dream and deed,<br> That heaven must walk on earth! <br> O, shine upon the humble creed <br> That holds the heavenly birth.'' <br> ~ [[Alfred Noyes]] ~ # Many questions haven't been answered as yet. Our poets may be wrong; but what can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past. ~ [[William Carlos Williams]] # As it is necessary not to invite robbery by supineness, so it is our duty not to suppress tenderness by suspicion; it is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. ~ [[Samuel Johnson]] # ''The soul of man is larger than the sky, <br> Deeper than ocean, or the abysmal dark <br> Of the unfathomed center. Like that ark, <br> Which in its sacred hold uplifted high, <br> O'er the drowned hills, the human family, <br> And stock reserved of every living kind, <br> So, in the compass of the single mind, <br> The seeds and pregnant forms in essence lie, <br> That make all worlds.'' <br> ~ [[Hartley Coleridge]] ~ # Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical. ~ [[Sophia Loren]] # ''Ah, you loved me as a loser, <br> But now you're worried that I just might win. <br> You know the way to stop me, <br> But you don't have the discipline. <br> How many nights I prayed for this, <br> To let my work begin. <br> First we take Manhattan, <br> Then we take Berlin.'' <br/> ~ [[Leonard Cohen]] ~ # <p>''Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, <br> Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; <br> Conspiring with him how to load and bless <br> With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; <br> To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, <br> And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; <br> To swell the ground, and plump the hazel shells <br> With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, <br> And still more, later flowers for the bees, <br> Until they think warm days will never cease, <br> For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.''</p><p>''Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?''</p><p> ~ [[John Keats]] ~</p> # In an ideal University, as I conceive it, a man should be able to obtain instruction in all forms of knowledge, and discipline in the use of all the methods by which knowledge is obtained. In such a University, the force of living example should fire the student with a noble ambition to emulate the learning of learned men, and to follow in the footsteps of the explorers of new fields of knowledge. And the very air he breathes should be charged with that enthusiasm for truth, that fanaticism of veracity, which is a greater possession than much learning; a nobler gift than the power of increasing knowledge; by so much greater and nobler than these, as the moral nature of man is greater than the intellectual; for veracity is the heart of morality. ~ [[Thomas Henry Huxley]] # Extremism. It is an almost infallible sign — a kind of death-rattle — when a human institution is forced by its members into stressing those and ''only'' those factors which are identificatory, at the expense of others which it necessarily shares with competing institutions because human beings belong to all of them. ~ [[John Brunner]] # The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling "[[w:Kilroy was here|Kilroy was here]]" on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass. ~ [[William Faulkner]] # ''Whatever we inherit from the fortunate <br> We have taken from the defeated <br> What they had to leave us — a symbol: <br> A symbol perfected in death. <br> And all shall be well and <br> All manner of thing shall be well <br> By the purification of the motive <br> In the ground of our beseeching.'' <br> ~ [[T. S. Eliot]] in ''[[The Four Quartets]]'' ~ # The liberties of our Country, the freedom of our civil constitution are worth defending at all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have receiv'd them as a fair Inheritance from our worthy Ancestors: They purchas'd them for us with toil and danger and expence of treasure and blood; and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle; or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men. Of the latter we are in most danger at present: Let us therefore be aware of it. Let us contemplate our forefathers and posterity; and resolve to maintain the rights bequeath'd to us from the former, for the sake of the latter. — Instead of sitting down satisfied with the efforts we have already made, which is the wish of our enemies, the necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance. ~ [[Samuel Adams]] # The way which the superior man pursues, reaches wide and far, and yet is secret. Common men and women, however ignorant, may intermeddle with the knowledge of it; yet in its utmost reaches, there is that which even the sage does not know. Common men and women, however much below the ordinary standard of character, can carry it into practice; yet in its utmost reaches, there is that which even the sage is not able to carry into practice. Great as heaven and earth are, men still find some things in them with which to be dissatisfied. Thus it is that, were the superior man to speak of his way in all its greatness, nothing in the world would be found able to embrace it, and were he to speak of it in its minuteness, nothing in the world would be found able to split it. ~ [[Confucius]] # I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth. ~ [[Miguel de Cervantes]] # ''Reason is like an officer when the King appears; <br> The officer then loses his power and hides himself. <br> Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.'' <br> ~ [[Rumi]] ~ == [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/October 2009|October 2009]] == # The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good. ~ [[Rufus Choate]] # There is but one means to extenuate the effects of enemy fire: it is to develop a more violent fire oneself. ~ [[Ferdinand Foch]] # We are forming our own Social Contract. This governance will arise according to the conditions of our world, not yours. Our world is different. <br> Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself, arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications. Ours is a world that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where bodies live.<br> We are creating a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth.<br> We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity. ~ [[John Perry Barlow]] # The real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the few and the unscrupulous who represent or control capital. Hundreds of laws of Congress and the state legislatures are in the interest of these men and against the interests of workingmen. These need to be exposed and repealed. All laws on corporations, on taxation, on trusts, wills, descent, and the like, need examination and extensive change. This is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people no longer. It is a government of corporations, by corporations, and for corporations. — How is this? ~ [[Rutherford B. Hayes]] # There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint. ~ [[Denis Diderot]] # Every marvel of our age arose out of the critical give and take of an open society. No other civilization ever managed to incorporate this crucial innovation, weaving it into daily life. And if you disagree with this ... say so! ~ [[David Brin]] # ''I am doing it <br /> the it I am doing is <br /> the I that is doing it <br /> the I that is doing it is <br /> the it I am doing <br />it is doing the I that am doing it <br /> I am being done by the it I am doing <br /> it is doing it'' <br> ~ [[Ronald David Laing]] ~ # [[w:Paul Atreides|Muad'Dib]] could indeed see the Future, but you must understand the limits of this power. Think of sight. You have eyes, yet cannot see without light. If you are on the floor of a valley, you cannot see beyond your valley. Just so, Muad'Dib could not always choose to look across the mysterious terrain. He tells us that a single obscure decision of prophecy, perhaps the choice of one word over another, could change the entire aspect of the future. He tells us "The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door." And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning "That path leads ever down into stagnation." ~ [[Frank Herbert]] in ''[[Dune]]'' ~ # ''Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see. <br> It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out. <br> It doesn't matter much to me.''<br> ~ [[John Lennon]] ~ # Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as [[Barack Obama|Obama]] captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future. His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population. <br> For 108 years, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has sought to stimulate precisely that international policy and those attitudes for which Obama is now the world's leading spokesman. The Committee endorses Obama's appeal that "Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges." ~ The [[w:Norwegian Nobel Committee|Norwegian Nobel Committee]] on the [[w:Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel Peace Prize]] of 2009 # The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ~ [[Eleanor Roosevelt]] # Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. ~ [[Aleister Crowley]] # The practical reason for freedom is that freedom seems to be the only condition under which any kind of substantial moral fiber can be developed — we have tried law, compulsion and authoritarianism of various kinds, and the result is nothing to be proud of. ~ [[Albert Jay Nock]] # Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity. ~ [[Hannah Arendt]] # All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. ~ [[John Kenneth Galbraith]] # The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression, and obedience. ~ [[William O. Douglas]] # An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted. ~ [[Arthur Miller]] # Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own. ~ [[Logan Pearsall Smith]] # He gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together. ~ [[Jonathan Swift]] # ''Gonna stand my ground, won't be turned around <br> and I'll keep this world from draggin' me down <br> gonna stand my ground and I won't back down.'' <br> ~ [[Tom Petty]] ~ # Should children be permitted to read Romances, & Relations of Giants & Magicians, & Genii? — I know all that has been said against it; but I have formed my faith in the affirmative. — I know no other way of giving the mind a love of "the Great," & "the Whole." — Those who have been led by the same truths step by step thro' the constant testimony of their senses, seem to me to want a sense which I possess — They contemplate nothing but ''parts'' — and all ''parts'' are necessarily little — and the Universe to them is but a mass of ''little things.'' ~ [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]] # If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people. ~ [[Timothy Leary]] # Once the curtain is raised, the actor ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third. And to this end the actor must forget his personality and throw aside his joys and sorrows. He must present the public with the reality of a being who for him is only a fiction. With his own eyes, he must shed the tears of the other. With his own voice, he must groan the anguish of the other. His own heart beats as if it would burst, for it is the other's heart that beats in his heart. And when he retires from a tragic or dramatic scene, if he has properly rendered his character, he must be panting and exhausted. ~ [[Sarah Bernhardt]] # A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence. ~ [[Stephen Covey]] # [[w:Saint Crispin's Day|This day]] is call'd — the feast of [[w:Crispin|Crispian]]:<br>He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,<br>Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd,<br>And rouse him at the name of Crispian.<br>He that outlives this day, and sees old age,<br>Will yearly on the vigil feast his friends,<br>And say, "To-morrow is Saint Crispian;"<br>Then will he strip his sleeve, and show his scars,<br>And say, "These wounds I had on Crispin's day."<br>Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,<br>But he'll remember, with advantages,<br>What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,<br>Familiar in his mouth as household words, —<br>Harry the King, Bedford, and Exeter,<br>Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,<br>Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd.<br>This story shall the good man teach his son;<br>And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by<br>From this day to the ending of the world,<br>But we in it shall be remember'd, —<br>We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.<br>For he to-day that sheds his blood with me,<br>Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,<br>This day shall gentle his condition:<br>And gentlemen in England, now a-bed,<br>Shall think themselves accurs'd, they were not here,<br>And hold their manhoods cheap, whiles any speaks,<br>That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.</p><p> [[w:Henry V of England|King Henry V]] <br> <small> as portrayed in </small> <br> ''[[Henry V (play)|Henry V]]'' <small><br> by <br> </small> ~ [[William Shakespeare]] ~</p> # Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. ~ [[Napoleon Hill]] # ''They shall have stars at elbow and foot; <br> Though they go mad they shall be sane, <br> Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; <br> Though lovers be lost love shall not; <br> And death shall have no dominion.'' <br> ~ [[Dylan Thomas]] ~ # The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more. ~ [[Jonas Salk]] # No moral system can rest solely on authority. ~ [[Alfred Jules Ayer]] # The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take the place of, indeed exclude, in a manner, all other arts. I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. ~ [[John Adams]] # ''Wherein lies happiness? In that which becks <br> Our ready minds to fellowship divine, <br> A fellowship with essence; till we shine, <br> Full alchemiz’d, and free of space. Behold <br> The clear religion of heaven!''<br>~ [[John Keats]] ~ == [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/November 2009|November 2009]] == # ''Some say this world of trouble <br> Is the only one we need <br> But I’m waiting for that morning <br> When the new world is revealed.''</p><p>'' Oh, when the saints go marching in, <br> When the saints go marching in, <br> Oh Lord, I want to be in that number, <br> When the saints go marching in!''</p><p> ~ [[w:When the Saints Go Marching In|When the Saints Go Marching In]] ~ </p> # Hunting hawks do not belong in cages, no matter how much a man covets their grace, no matter how golden the bars. They are far more beautiful soaring free. ~ [[Lois McMaster Bujold]] # Athirst for personal salvation, the West forgets that many religions had but a vague notion of the life beyond the grave; true, all great religions stake a claim on eternity, but not necessarily on man's eternal life. ~ [[André Malraux]] # All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the true Poets must be truthful. ~ [[Wilfred Owen]] # Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind then that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; and while there is a criminal element, I am of it; and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. ~ [[Eugene V. Debs]] # A man or woman is seldom happy unless he or she is sustaining him or herself and making a contribution to others. ~ [[Zig Ziglar]] # Political progress will only take place if sufficient security exists. ~ [[David Petraeus]] # Charity keepeth us in Faith and Hope, and Hope leadeth us in Charity. And in the end all shall be Charity. ~ [[Julian of Norwich]] # History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power have destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which truly belongs to us all. We must not let it happen again. ~ [[Carl Sagan]] # He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times. ~ [[Friedrich Schiller]] # Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those they have slain. ~ [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]] # It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens. ~ [[Bahá'u'lláh]] # It is better to be a fool than to be dead. It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind. For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself! ~ [[Robert Louis Stevenson]] # Call me Ishmael. Some years ago — never mind how long precisely — having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. ~ [[Herman Melville]] in ''[[Moby-Dick]]'' # Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas. ~ [[Erwin Rommel]] # There is plenty of room at the top because very few people care to travel beyond the average route. And so most of us seem satisfied to remain within the confines of mediocrity. ~ [[Nnamdi Azikiwe]] # What I say is, that the real non-resistants can believe in [[w:Direct action|direct action]] only, never in political action. For the basis of all political action is coercion; even when the State does good things, it finally rests on a club, a gun, or a prison, for its power to carry them through. ~ [[Voltairine de Cleyre]] # A lot of being a poet consists of willed ignorance. If you woke up from your trance and realized the nature of the life-threatening and dignity-destroying precipice you were walking along, you would switch into actuarial sciences immediately. ~ [[Margaret Atwood]] # We should not mourn for men of high ideals. Rather we should rejoice that we had the privilege of having had them with us, to inspire us by their radiant personalities. ~ [[Indira Gandhi]] # My life seemed to be a series of events and accidents. Yet when I look back I see a pattern.~ [[Benoît Mandelbrot]] # Although I came to doubt all revelation, I can never accept the idea that the Universe is a physical or chemical accident, a result of blind evolution. Even though I learned to recognize the lies, the clichés and the idolatries of the human mind, I still cling to some truths which I think all of us might accept some day. There must be a way for man to attain all possible pleasures, all the powers and knowledge that nature can grant him, and still serve God — a God who speaks in deeds, not in words, and whose vocabulary is the Cosmos. ~ [[Isaac Bashevis Singer]] # It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium. ~ [[George Eliot]] # Old wood to burn! Old wine to drink! Old friends to trust! Old authors to read! ~ [[Alfonso X of Castile]] # Fight the enemy with the weapons he lacks. ~ [[Alexander Suvorov]] # Now and then it occurs to one to reflect upon what slender threads of accident depend the most important circumstances of his life; to look back and shudder, realizing how close to the edge of nothingness his being has come. ~ [[Upton Sinclair]] # I believe that what separates us all from one another is simply society itself, or, if you like, politics. This is what raises barriers between men, this is what creates misunderstanding. <br> If I may be allowed to express myself paradoxically, I should say that the truest society, the authentic human community, is extra-social — a wider, deeper society, that which is revealed by our common anxieties, our desires, our secret nostalgias. The whole history of the world has been governed by nostalgias and anxieties, which political action does no more than reflect and interpret, very imperfectly. No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa. ~ [[Eugène Ionesco]] # ''Flow in the living moment.'' — We are always in a process of becoming and NOTHING is fixed. Have no rigid system in you, and you'll be flexible to change with the ever changing. OPEN yourelf and flow, my friend. Flow in the TOTAL OPENESS OF THE LIVING MOMENT. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo. ~ [[Bruce Lee]] # Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize — because they set so little store by them — the immense riches accumulated by the human race on either side of the narrow furrow on which they keep their eyes fixed; by underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished. ~ [[Claude Lévi-Strauss]] # Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. ~ [[Louisa May Alcott]] # It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare. ~ [[Mark Twain]] == [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/December 2009|December 2009]] == # The AIDS crisis is evidence of a world in which nothing important is regional, local, limited; in which everything that can circulate does, and every problem is, or is destined to become, worldwide. ~ [[Susan Sontag]] # I do think that if I had to choose one word to which hope can be tied it is ''hospitality''. A practice of ''hospitality''— recovering threshold, table, patience, listening, and from there generating seedbeds for virtue and friendship on the one hand — on the other hand radiating out for possible community, for rebirth of community. ~ [[Ivan Illich]] # He who wants to persuade should put his trust, not in the right argument, but in the right word. ~ [[Joseph Conrad]] #That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy. ~ [[Thomas Carlyle]] #Faith I have, in myself, in humanity, in the worthwhileness of the pursuits in entertainment for the masses. But wide awake, not blind faith, moves me. My operations are based on experience, thoughtful observation and warm fellowship with my neighbors at home and around the world. ~ [[Walt Disney]] #''Is Freedom only a Will-o'-the-wisp <br> To cheat a poet's eye? <br> Be it phantom or fact, it's a noble cause <br> In which to sing and to die!'' <br> ~ [[Joyce Kilmer]] ~ #There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. You learn the delivery of a part only before an audience. ~ [[Willa Cather]] #I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter. ~ [[Horace]] #A different conception of society, very different from that which now prevails, is in process of formation. ... Acknowledging, as a fact, the equal rights of all its members to the treasures accumulated in the past ... it seeks to establish a certain harmonious compatibility in its midst — not by subjecting all its members to an authority that is fictitiously supposed to represent society, not by trying to establish uniformity, but by urging all men to develop free initiative, free action, free association. ~ [[Peter Kropotkin]] #We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong. ~ [[Theodore Roosevelt]] # If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? ~ [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]] # What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it. ~ [[Gustave Flaubert]] # Pedantry and mastery are opposite attitudes toward rules. To apply a rule to the letter, rigidly, unquestioningly, in cases where it fits and in cases where it does not fit, is pedantry... To apply a rule with natural ease, with judgment, noticing the cases where it fits, and without ever letting the words of the rule obscure the purpose of the action or the opportunities of the situation, is mastery. ~ [[George Pólya]] # Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character. ~ [[Margaret Chase Smith]] # It's kind of fun to do the impossible. ~ [[Walt Disney]] # The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. ~ [[Arthur C. Clarke]] # All he desired in life was that — that he could pick himself together again and go on with his daily occupations if — the girl, being five thousand miles away, would continue to love him. He wanted nothing more, He prayed his God for nothing more. ~ [[Ford Madox Ford]] # Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible. ~ [[Paul Klee]] # "Business!" cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!" ~ [[Charles Dickens]] in ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'' #''Man is his own star, and the soul that can <br> Render an honest and a perfect man <br> Commands all light, all influence, all fate. <br> Nothing to him falls early, or too late. <br> Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, <br> Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.''<br>~ [[John Fletcher]] ~ #All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character or illustrates an existence. ~ [[Benjamin Disraeli]] in ''[[Coningsby (novel)|Coningsby]]'' #That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you. ~ [[Charles de Lint]] #"Heaven helps those who help themselves" is a well-tried maxim, embodying in a small compass the results of vast human experience. The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it constitutes the true source of national vigour and strength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates. Whatever is done for men or classes, to a certain extent takes away the stimulus and necessity of doing for themselves; and where men are subjected to over-guidance and over-government, the inevitable tendency is to render them comparatively helpless. ~ [[Samuel Smiles]] #People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success. ~ [[Norman Vincent Peale]] #How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments. ~ [[Benjamin Franklin]] in ''[[Poor Richard's Almanack]]'' #The obstacles to peace are in the minds and hearts of men. <br> In the study of matter we can be honest, impartial, true. That is why we succeed in dealing with it. But about the things we care for — which are ourselves, our desires and lusts, our patriotisms and hates — we find a harder test of thinking straight and truly. Yet there is the greater need. Only by intellectual rectitude and in that field shall we be saved. There is no refuge but in truth, in human intelligence, in the unconquerable mind of man. ~ [[Norman Angell]] #Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. ~ [[Louis Pasteur]] #At terrestrial temperatures matter has complex properties which are likely to prove most difficult to unravel; but it is reasonable to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star. ~ [[Arthur Stanley Eddington]] #If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches. ~ [[Rainer Maria Rilke]] # Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world's peoples can agree to. To seek this and to achieve it — that is true civilization. ~ [[Hideki Tojo]] # The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it. ~ [[George Marshall]] == [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/January 2010|January 2010]] == # The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it. ~ [[J. D. Salinger]] # I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be. ~ [[Isaac Asimov]] # Of the theme that I have declared to you, I will now that ye make in harmony together a Great Music. And since I have kindled you with the Flame Imperishable, ye shall show forth your powers in adorning this theme, each with his own thoughts and devices, if he will. But I will sit and hearken, and be glad that through you great beauty has been wakened into song. ~ [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] in ''[[The Silmarillion]]'' #''That's me in the corner <br> That's me in the spotlight <br> Losing my religion <br> Trying to keep up with you <br> And I don't know if I can do it. <br> Oh, no, I've said too much. <br> I haven't said enough.'' <br> ~ [[R.E.M.]] ~ # A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection — not an invitation for hypnosis. ~ [[Umberto Eco]] # To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but what he aspires to. ~ [[Khalil Gibran]] # When I take people round to see my animals, one of the first questions they ask (unless the animal is cute and appealing) is, "what use is it?" by which they mean, "what use is it to them?" To this one can reply "What use is the Acropolis?" Does a creature have to be of direct material use to mankind in order to exist? By and large, by asking the question "what use is it?" you are asking the animal to justify its existence without having justified your own. ~ [[Gerald Durrell]] # My intent is to tell the truth as I know it, realizing that what is true for me may be blasphemy for others. ~ [[Gerry Spence]] # I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end. ~ [[Simone de Beauvoir]] # Corruption never has been compulsory; when the cities lie at the monster's feet there are left the mountains. ~ [[Robinson Jeffers]] # I should esteem it the extreme of imprudence to prolong the precarious state of our national affairs, and to expose the union to the jeopardy of successive experiments, in the chimerical pursuit of a perfect plan. I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man. The result of the deliberations of all collective bodies must necessarily be a compound as well of the errors and prejudices, as of the good sense and wisdom of the individuals of whom they are composed. ~ [[Alexander Hamilton]] #Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe. ~ [[Edmund Burke]] #Conscious faith is freedom. <br> Emotional faith is slavery. <br> Mechanical faith is foolishness. <br> ~ [[G. I. Gurdjieff]] ~ #The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. That is possible for him who never argues and strives with men and facts, but in all experience retires upon himself, and looks for the ultimate cause of things in himself. ~ [[Albert Schweitzer]] #Men, for years now, have been talking about war and peace. But now, no longer can they just talk about it. It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. ~ [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]] #Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness. The truths we respect are those born of affliction. We measure truth in terms of the cost to the writer in suffering — rather than by the standard of an objective truth to which a writer's words correspond. Each of our truths must have a martyr. ~ [[Susan Sontag]] # ''I somehow see what's beautiful <br> In things that are ephemeral. <br> I'm my only friend of mine, <br> And love is just a piece of time <br> In the world <br> In the world. <br> And I couldn't help but fall in love again.'' <br> ~ [[Zooey Deschanel]] ~ # I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~ [[Charles de Montesquieu]] # Duty is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less. ~ [[Robert E. Lee]] # To those who would tear the world down: We will defeat you. To those who seek peace and security: We support you. And to all those who have wondered if America's beacon still burns as bright: Tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope. ~ [[Barack Obama]] # That which is above comprehension we cannot perceive to be contradictory, nor on the other hand can we perceive its rationality or consistency. ~ [[Ethan Allen]] # ''Truth is always strange; <br> Stranger than fiction.'' <br> ~ [[Lord Byron]] in ''[[Don Juan (Byron)|Don Juan]]'' ~ # Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one. ~ [[Stendhal]] # True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. ~ [[Edith Wharton]] # ''O, wad some Power the giftie gie us<br>To see oursels as others see us!<br>It wad frae monie a blunder free us,<br>An' foolish notion.<br>What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us<br> An' ev'n Devotion.'' <br> ~ [[Robert Burns]] ~ # If you don't have enemies, you don't have character. ~ [[Paul Newman]] # <p>''Twas brillig and the slithy toves,<br>Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;<br>All mimsy were the borogoves,<br>And the mome raths outgrabe.''</p><p>''"Beware the Jabberwock, my son,<br> the jaws that bite and claws that scratch <br> Beware the jubjub bird <br>and shun the frumious bandersnatch."'' <br> ~ [[Lewis Carroll]] in ''[[Through the Looking-Glass]]'' ~ </p> # Life on earth is a hand-to-hand mortal combat... between the law of love and the law of hate. ~ [[José Martí]] # Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs. ~ [[Anton Chekhov]] # Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too. ~ [[Lloyd Alexander]] # Anybody can they say they are being "spiritual" — and they are, because everybody has some type and level of concern. Let us therefore see their actual conception, in thought and action, and see how many perspectives it is in fact concerned with, and how many perspectives it actually takes into account, and how many perspectives it attempts to integrate, and thus let us see how deep and how wide runs that [[w:bodhisattva|bodhisattva]] vow to refuse rest until all perspectives whatsoever are liberated into their own primordial nature. ~ [[Ken Wilber]] == [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/February 2010|February 2010]] == # <p>''What happens to a dream deferred?''</p><p>''Does it dry up <br> like a raisin in the sun? <br> Or fester like a sore —<br> And then run? <br> Does it stink like rotten meat? <br> Or crust and sugar over — <br> like a syrupy sweet?''</p><p>''Maybe it just sags <br> like a heavy load.''</p><p>'''''Or does it explode?'''''</p><p> ~ [[Langston Hughes]] ~</p> # I'm not playing by their rules anymore! ~ [[Bill Murray]] as "Phil" in ''[[Groundhog Day]]'' # Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love and justice. ~ Simone Weil # If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. ~ [[Charles Lindbergh]] # Enforced uniformity confounds civil and religious liberty and denies the principles of Christianity and civility. No man shall be required to worship or maintain a worship against his will. ~ [[Roger Williams]] # Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same... ~ [[Ronald Reagan]] # Extreme justice is an extreme injury: for we ought not to approve of those terrible laws that make the smallest offences capital, nor of that opinion of the Stoics that makes all crimes equal; as if there were no difference to be made between the killing a man and the taking his purse, between which, if we examine things impartially, there is no likeness nor proportion. ~ [[Thomas More]] # Punishment is the last and least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. ~ [[John Ruskin]] # I am a ridiculous man. They call me a madman now. That would be a distinct rise in my social position were it not that they still regard me as being as ridiculous as ever. But that does not make me angry any more. They are all dear to me now even while they laugh at me — yes, even then they are for some reason particularly dear to me. I shouldn't have minded laughing with them — not at myself, of course, but because I love them — had I not felt so sad as I looked at them. I feel sad because they do not know the truth, whereas I know it. Oh, how hard it is to be the only man to know the truth! But they won't understand that. No, they will not understand. ~ [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]] # Reason ''gains'' all men, by ''compelling'' none. <br> ''Mercy'' was always ''Heaven's'' distinguished mark: <br> And he, who bears it not, has no friend ''there''. ~ [[Aaron Hill (writer)|Aaron Hill]] ~ # The people who have sufficient passion for the truth to give the truth a chance to prevail, if it runs counter to their bias, are in a minority. How important is this "minority?" It is difficult to say at this point, for, at the present time their influence on governmental decisions is not perceptible. ~ [[Leó Szilárd]] # I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views. ~ [[Abraham Lincoln]] # Of what use to destroy the children of evil? It is evil itself we must destroy at the roots. ~ [[Eleanor Farjeon]] # <p>''Let me not to the marriage of true minds <br> Admit impediments. Love is not love<br> Which alters when it alteration finds, <br> Or bends with the remover to remove: <br> O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,<br> That looks on tempests and is never shaken; <br> It is the star to every wandering bark,<br> Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.<br> Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks<br> Within his bending sickle's compass come; <br> Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,<br> But bears it out even to the edge of doom.''</p><p>''If this be error and upon me prov'd,<br> I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd.''</p><p> ~ [[William Shakespeare]] ~ in [[The Sonnets|Sonnet 116]]</p> # A religious education is an education which inculcates duty and reverence. Duty arises from our potential control over the course of events. Where attainable knowledge could have changed the issue, ignorance has the guilt of vice. And the foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity. ~ [[Alfred North Whitehead]] # What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn. ~ [[Henry Adams]] # The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it. ~ [[Giordano Bruno]] # Where are we going? Do not ask! Ascend, descend. There is no beginning and no end. Only this present moment exists, full of bitterness, full of sweetness, and I rejoice in it all. ~ [[Nikos Kazantzakis]] # People have such terrible assumptions about ghosts — you know, phantoms that haunt you, that make you scared, that turn the house upside down. Yin people are not in our living presence but are around, and kind of guide you to insights. Like in Las Vegas when the bells go off, telling you you've hit the jackpot. Yin people ring the bells, saying, "Pay attention." And you say, "Oh, I see now." Yet I'm a fairly skeptical person. I'm educated, I'm reasonably sane, and I know that this subject is fodder for ridicule. ... To write the book, I had to put that aside. As with any book. I go through the anxiety, "What will people think of me for writing something like this?" But ultimately, I have to write what I have to write about, including the question of life continuing beyond our ordinary senses. ~ [[Amy Tan]] # Our world is in profound danger. Mankind ''must'' establish a set of positive values with which to secure its own survival. <br> This quest for enlightenment must begin ''now''. <br> ''It is essential that all men and women become aware of what they are, why they are here on Earth and what they must do to preserve civilization before it is too late.'' ~ [[Richard Matheson]] # ''All I have is a voice <br> To undo the folded lie, <br> The romantic lie in the brain <br> Of the sensual man-in-the-street<br> And the lie of Authority <br> Whose buildings grope the sky: <br> There is no such thing as the State <br> And no one exists alone; <br> Hunger allows no choice <br> To the citizen or the police; <br> We must love one another or die.'' <br> ~ [[W. H. Auden]] ~ # ''I honor the man who is willing to sink <br> Half his present repute for the freedom to think, <br> And, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, <br> Will risk t'other half for the freedom to speak, <br> Caring naught for what vengeance the mob has in store, <br> Let that mob be the upper ten thousand or lower.'' ~ [[James Russell Lowell]] ~ # How shall Integrity face Oppression? What shall Honesty do in the face of Deception, Decency in the face of Insult, Self-Defense before Blows? How shall Desert and Accomplishment meet Despising, Detraction, and Lies? What shall Virtue do to meet Brute Force? There are so many answers and so contradictory; and such differences for those on the one hand who meet questions similar to this once a year or once a decade, and those who face them hourly and daily. ~ [[W. E. B. Du Bois]] # A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. ~ [[George A. Moore]] # When the state murders, it assumes an authority I refuse to concede: the authority of perfect knowledge in final things. ~ [[John Leonard]] # A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas. A day will come when the bullets and bombs are replaced by votes, by universal suffrage, by the venerable arbitration of a great supreme senate which will be to Europe what Parliament is to England, the Diet to Germany, and the Legislative Assembly to France. <br> A day will come when a cannon will be a museum-piece, as instruments of torture are today. And we will be amazed to think that these things once existed! ~ [[Victor Hugo]] # If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. ~ [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]] # Virtue refuses facility for her companion ... the easy, gentle, and sloping path that guides the footsteps of a good natural disposition is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road. ~ [[Michel de Montaigne]] == [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/March 2010|March 2010]] == # Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art. ~ [[Frédéric Chopin]] # Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny. ~ [[Carl Schurz]] # The proper method for hastening the decay of error, is not, by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the classes of force, to endeavour to reduce men to intellectual uniformity; but on the contrary by teaching every man to think for himself. ~ [[William Godwin]] # I honor my importance and the importance of others. None of us is dispensable, none of us is replacable. In the chorus of life each of us brings a True Note, a perfect pitch that adds to the harmony of the whole. I act creatively and consciously to actively endorse and encourage the expansion of those whose lives I touch. Believing in the goodness of each, I add to the goodness of all. We bless each other even in passing. ~ [[Julia Cameron]] # It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. ~ [[Grace Hopper]] # A man contains all that is needed to make up a tree; likewise, a tree contains all that is needed to make up a man. Thus, finally, all things meet in all things, but we need a Prometheus to distill it. ~ [[Cyrano de Bergerac]] # It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason, when the use of reason is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs. ~ [[Aristotle]] # I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen but is to be — that man may have cosmic destinies that he does not understand. ~ [[Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.]] # Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it! ~ [[Yuri Gagarin]] #<p>''I don't believe in hatred anymore. <br> I hate to think of how it felt before <br> When anger overwhelms your very soul <br> It's hard to realize you'll ever know <br> Love like we do.''</p><p> ~ [[Edie Brickell]] ~ </p> #<p>''Perhaps if only once you did enjoy <br/> The thousandth part of all the happiness <br/> A heart beloved enjoys, returning love, <br/> Repentant, you would surely sighing say, <br/> "All time is truly lost and gone<br/>Which is not spent in serving love." ''</p><p> ~ [[Torquato Tasso]] ~</p> # Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty? ~ [[Jack Kerouac]] # For those to whom a stone reveals itself as sacred, its immediate reality is transmuted into supernatural reality. In other words, for those who have a religious experience all nature is capable of revealing itself as cosmic sacrality. ~ [[Mircea Eliade]] #<p>''We are the music makers, <br> And we are the dreamers of dreams, <br> Wandering by lone sea-breakers,<br> And sitting by desolate streams; — <br> World-losers and world-forsakers,<br> On whom the pale moon gleams:<br> Yet we are the movers and shakers<br> Of the world for ever, it seems.''</p><p> ~ [[Arthur O'Shaughnessy]] ~ </p> # It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes. Distinctions in society will always exist under every just government. Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions. In the full enjoyment of the gifts of Heaven and the fruits of superior industry, economy, and virtue, every man is equally entitled to protection by law; but when the laws undertake to add to these natural and just advantages artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society — the farmers, mechanics, and laborers — who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government. ~ [[Andrew Jackson]] # I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. ~ [[James Madison]] # <p>''[[w:Christ|Christ]] with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me,<br> Christ in me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me,<br> Christ on my right, Christ on my left<br> Christ where I lie, Christ where I sit, Christ where I arise<br> Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me,<br> Christ in the mouth of every man who speaks of me,<br> Christ in every eye that sees me,<br> Christ in every ear that hears me.''</p><p> ~ [[Saint Patrick]] ~</p> # I am inventing a language which must necessarily burst forth from a very new poetics, that could be defined in a couple of words: Paint, not the thing, but the effect it produces. ~ [[Stéphane Mallarmé]] # <p>''Cease, Man, to mourn, to weep, to wail; enjoy thy shining hour of sun; <br> We dance along Death's icy brink, but is the dance less full of fun?''</p><p> ~ [[Richard Francis Burton]] ~</p> # A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm. ~ [[Henrik Ibsen]] # <p>''In the scenery of spring, <br> nothing is better, nothing worse;<br>The flowering branches are <br>of themselves, some short, some long.''</p><p> ~ [[Ryōkan]] ~</p> # To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man. ~ [[Marcel Marceau]] # Society must be organized in such a way that man's social, loving nature is not separated from his social existence, but becomes one with it. If it is true, as I have tried to show, that love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence, then any society which excludes, relatively, the development of love, must in the long run perish of its own contradiction with the basic necessities of human nature. ~ [[Erich Fromm]] # <p>''Love is enough: though the World be a-waning <br> And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining, <br> Though the sky be too dark for dim eyes to discover <br> The gold-cups and daisies fair blooming thereunder, <br> Though the hills be held shadows, and the sea a dark wonder, <br> And this day draw a veil over all deeds passed over, <br> Yet their hands shall not tremble, their feet shall not falter; <br> The void shall not weary, the fear shall not alter <br> These lips and these eyes of the loved and the lover.''</p><p> ~ [[William Morris]] ~</p> # We have come more and more under the dominance of mechanics and sacrificed living humanity to the dead rhythm of the machine without most of us even being conscious of the monstrosity of the procedure. Hence we frequently deal with such matters with indifference and in cold blood as if we handled dead things and not the destinies of men. ~ [[Rudolf Rocker]] #<p>''I have kept hidden in the instep arch <br> Of an old cedar at the waterside <br> A broken drinking goblet like the Grail <br> Under a spell so the wrong ones can't find it, <br> So can't get saved, as [[w:Mark the Evangelist|Saint Mark]] says they mustn't. <br> (I stole the goblet from the children's playhouse.) <br> Here are your waters and your watering place.<br>Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.''</p><p> ~ [[Robert Frost]] ~ </p> # Non-evaluative insight into history does not inevitably lead to relativism, but rather to relationism. Knowledge, as seen in the light of the total conception of ideology, is by no means an illusory experience, for ideology in its relational concept is not at all identical with illusion. Knowledge arising out of our experience in actual life situations, though not absolute, is knowledge none the less. ~ [[Karl Mannheim]] # I perceive the world in fragments. It is somewhat like being on a very fast train and getting glimpses of things in strange scales as you pass by. A person can be very, very tiny. And a billboard can make a person very large. You see the corner of a house or you see a bird fly by, and it's all fragmented. Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos. I have a very pretentious idea that I want to make life, I want to make sense out of it. The fact that I am doomed to failure — that doesn't deter me in the least. ~ [[Grace Hartigan]] #<p>''She is young. Have I the right <br> Even to name her? Child, <br> It is not love I offer <br> Your quick limbs, your eyes; <br> Only the barren homage <br> Of an old man whom time <br> Crucifies.''</p><p> ~ [[R. S. Thomas]] ~</p> # Laughter is wine for the soul – laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness. Comedy and tragedy step through life together, arm in arm, all along, out along, down along lea. A laugh is a great natural stimulator, a pushful entry into life; and once we can laugh, we can live. It is the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living. ~ [[Seán O'Casey]] ~ # History will judge societies and governments — and their institutions — not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and the powerful, but by how effectively they respond to the needs of the poor and the helpless. ~ [[Cesar Chavez]] == [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/April 2010|April 2010]] == # To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero. ~ [[Edmond Rostand]] #<p>''My spirit to yours dear brother, <br> Do not mind because many sounding [[Jesus|your name]] do not understand you, <br> I do not sound your name, but I understand you, <br> I specify you with joy O my comrade to salute you, and to salute those who are with you, before and since, and those to come also, <br> That we all labor together transmitting the same charge and succession, <br> We few equals indifferent of lands, indifferent of times, <br> We, enclosers of all continents, all castes, allowers of all theologies, <br> Compassionaters, perceivers, rapport of men, <br> We walk silent among disputes and assertions, but reject not the disputers nor any thing that is asserted, <br> We hear the bawling and din, we are reach'd at by divisions, jealousies, recriminations on every side, <br> They close peremptorily upon us to surround us, my comrade, <br> Yet we walk unheld, free, the whole earth over, journeying up and down till we make our ineffaceable mark upon time and the diverse eras, <br> Till we saturate time and eras, that the men and women of races, ages to come, may prove brethren and lovers as we are.''</p><p> ~ [[Walt Whitman]] in "To Him Who Was Crucified" in ''[[Leaves of Grass]]'' ~</p> # ''I am only one,<br>But still I am one.<br>I cannot do everything,<br>But still I can do something;<br>And because I cannot do everything<br>I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.'' <br> ~ [[Edward Everett Hale]] ~ # If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works. Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom. ~ [[Jesus|Yeshua of Galilee]] ([[w:Christ|Jesus Christ]]) # Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible. ~ [[Colin Powell]] # <p>''Little drops of water, <br> Little grains of sand, <br> Make the mighty ocean <br> And the pleasant land.''</p><p>''Thus the little minutes, <br> Humble though they be, <br> Make the mighty ages <br> Of eternity.''</p><p> ~ [[Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney]] ~</p> # There are seasons, in human affairs, of inward and outward revolution, when new depths seem to be broken up in the soul, when new wants are unfolded in multitudes, and a new and undefined good is thirsted for. There are periods when...to dare, is the highest wisdom. ~ [[William Ellery Channing]] # You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done. ~ [[Kofi Annan]] #<p>All their life was spent not in laws, statutes, or rules, but according to their own free will and pleasure. They rose out of their beds when they thought good: they did eat, drink, labour, sleep, when they had a mind to it, and were disposed for it. None did awake them, none did offer to constrain them to eat, drink, nor to do any other thing; for so had Gargantua established it. In all their rule, and strictest tie of their order, there was but this one clause to be observed, <br> '''DO WHAT THOU WILT.''' <br> Because men that are free, well-born, well-bred, and conversant in honest companies, have naturally an instinct and spur that prompteth them unto virtuous actions, and withdraws them from vice, which is called honour. </p><p> ~ [[François Rabelais]] ~ </p> #<p>''It was the wise all-seeing soul <br> Who counselled neither war nor peace: <br> "Only be thou thyself that goal <br> In which the wars of time shall cease."''</p><p> ~ [[George William Russell|Æ]] ~ </p> # The only real progress to abiding peace is found in the friendly disposition of peoples and ... facilities for maintaining peace are useful only to the extent that this friendly disposition exists and finds expression. War is not only possible, but probable, where mistrust and hatred and desire for revenge are the dominant motives. Our first duty is at home with our own opinion, by education and unceasing effort to bring to naught the mischievous exhortation of chauvinists; our next is to aid in every practicable way in promoting a better feeling among peoples, the healing of wounds, and the just settlement of differences. ~ [[Charles Evans Hughes]] # No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there's something bad about it. # Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, "Oh, you can't do that..." ~ [[Tom Clancy]] #<p>History says don't hope<br/>On this side of the grave.<br/>But then, once in a lifetime<br/>The longed for tidal wave<br/>Of justice can rise up<br/>And hope and history rhyme.<br/>So hope for a great sea-change<br/>on the far side of revenge.<br/>Believe that a further shore<br/>is reachable from here.<br/>Believe in miracles<br/>and cures and healing wells.</p><p>~ [[Seamus Heaney]] ~</p> # I have read that the secret of gallantry is to accept the pleasures of life leisurely, and its inconveniences with a shrug; as well as that, among other requisites, the gallant person will always consider the world with a smile of toleration, and his own doings with a smile of honest amusement, and Heaven with a smile which is not distrustful — being thoroughly persuaded that God is kindlier than the genteel would regard as rational. ~ [[James Branch Cabell]] # Any one who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory. Good culture is born of a good disposition; and since the cause is more to be praised than the effect, I will rather praise a good disposition without culture, than good culture without the disposition. ~ [[Leonardo da Vinci]] # It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously. ~ [[Peter Ustinov]] # The Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority. ~ [[Benjamin Tucker]] # Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed. ~ [[George Henry Lewes]] # I share the belief of many of my contemporaries that the spiritual crisis pervading all spheres of Western industrial society can be remedied only by a change in our world view. We shall have to shift from the materialistic, dualistic belief that people and their environment are separate, toward a new consciousness of an all-encompassing reality, which embraces the experiencing ego, a reality in which people feel their oneness with animate nature and all of creation. ~ [[Albert Hofmann‎]] # Schmendrick stepped out into the open and said a few words. They were short words, undistinguished either by melody or harshness, and Schmendrick himself could not hear them for the Red Bull's dreadful bawling. But he knew what they meant, and he knew exactly how to say them, and he knew that he could say them again when he wanted to, in the same way or in a different way. Now he spoke them gently and with joy, and as did so he felt his immortality fall from him like an armour, or like a shroud. ~ [[Peter S. Beagle]] in ''[[The Last Unicorn]]'' ~ # We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or verbal formulations but in one's total orientation to life. Religion is whatever the individual takes to be his ultimate concern. One's religious attitude is to be found at that point where he has a conviction that there are values in human existence worth living and dying for. ~ [[Rollo May]] # We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives, so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption that what is good for the world will be good for us. ... We must recover the sense of the majesty of the creation and the ability to be worshipful in its presence. For it is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it. ~ [[Wendell Berry]] ~ # A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. ~ [[Max Planck]] # One need not hope in order to undertake, nor succeed in order to persevere. ~ [[William the Silent]] # It is best to keep one’s own state intact; to crush the enemy’s state is only second best. ~ [[Sun Tzu]] # If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine. ~ [[Morris West]] # It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world. ~ [[Mary Wollstonecraft]] # You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage. ~ [[Terry Pratchett]] # Night has fallen and the barbarians haven't come. <br> And some of our men who have just returned from the border say <br> there are no barbarians any longer. <br> Now what's going to happen to us without barbarians? <br> Those people were a kind of solution. ~ [[Constantine P. Cavafy]] # The god of war has gone over to the other side. ~ [[Adolf Hitler]] == [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/May 2010|May 2010]] == # Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly. ~ [[Joseph Addison]] # Before abstraction everything is one, but one like chaos; after abstraction everything is united again, but this union is a free binding of autonomous, self-determined beings. Out of a mob a society has developed, chaos has been transformed into a manifold world. ~ [[Novalis]] # No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution. <br> Nothing is of greater importance in time of war than in knowing how to make the best use of a fair opportunity when it is offered. ~ [[Niccolò Machiavelli]] # If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both. ~ [[Horace Mann]] # Do not interrupt the flight of your soul; do not distress what is best in you; do not enfeeble your spirit with half wishes and half thoughts. Ask yourself and keep on asking until you find the answer, for one may have known something many times, acknowledged it; one may have willed something many times, attempted it — and yet, only the deep inner motion, only the heart's indescribable emotion, only that will convince you that what you have acknowledged belongs to you, that no power can take it from you — for only the truth that builds up is truth for you. ~ [[Søren Kierkegaard]], in Either/Or]] # The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Ultimately, after endlessly repeated rebuffs, it succeeds. This is one of the few points in which it may be optimistic about the future of mankind, but in itself it signifies not a little. ~ [[Sigmund Freud]] # Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand <br> With a grip that kills it. ~ [[Rabindranath Tagore]] # It is possible for a dictator to govern in a liberal way. And it is also possible for a democracy to govern with a total lack of liberalism. Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism. ~ [[Friedrich Hayek]] # It is not enough that we have a guilty defendant. We must have an innocent system as well. - [[John Ashcroft]] #<p>''Touch me <br> Take me to that other place <br> Reach me <br> I know I'm not a hopeless case <br> What you don't have you don't need it <br> What you don't know you can feel it somehow''</p><p> ~ [[Bono]] ~ </p> # For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. ~ [[Richard Feynman]] #<p>''Happy the man, and happy he alone,<br>He who can call today his own;<br>He who, secure within, can say,<br>Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today. <br> Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, <br> The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. <br> Not heaven itself upon the past has power;<br>But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.''</p><p> ~ [[John Dryden]], based on "Ode XXIX" of [[Horace]] ~</p> #<p>''Always dying, never dead;<br> Ever ending, never ended;<br> Loathed in darkness,<br> Clothed in light,<br> He comes, to end a world,<br> As morning ends the night.''</p><p> ~ [[Roger Zelazny]] ~ in ''[[Lord of Light]]'' ~</p> # Is it not the interest of the human race, that every one should be so taught and placed, that he would find his highest enjoyment to arise from the continued practice of doing all in his power to promote the well-being, and happiness, of every man, woman, and child, without regard to their class, sect, party, country or colour? ~ [[Robert Owen]] # I have learned to regard fame as a will-o-the-wisp which, when caught, is not worth the possession; but to please a child is a sweet and lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings its own reward. ~ [[L. Frank Baum]] # I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ less in their motives than in the policies they pursue. ~ [[William H. Seward]] # There are cloudy moments when one asks himself if men do not deserve all the disasters into which they rush! No — I recover myself — they do not deserve them. But we, instead of saying "I wish" must say "I will." And what we will, we must will to build it, with order, with method, beginning at the beginning, when once we have been as far as that beginning. We must not only open our eyes, but our arms, our wings. ~ [[Henri Barbusse]] # The impartiality which, in contemplation, is the unalloyed desire for truth, is the very same quality of mind which, in action, is justice, and in emotion is that universal love which can be given to all, and not only to those who are judged useful or admirable. Thus contemplation not only enlarges the objects of our thoughts, but also the objects of our actions and our affections: it makes us citizens of the universe, not only of one walled city at war with the rest. In this citizenship of the universe consists man's true freedom, and his liberation from the thralldom of narrow hopes and fears. ~ [[Bertrand Russell]] # I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful and that which is love. Therefore, since I have known all of these things, I have found them to be reason enough and — I wish to live. Moreover, because this is so, I wish others to live for generations and generations and generations. ~ [[Lorraine Hansberry]] # The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinions of others, to do so would be wise, or even right. These are good reasons for remonstrating with him, or reasoning with him, or persuading him or entreating him, but not for compelling him, or visiting him with any evil, in case he do otherwise. ~ [[John Stuart Mill]] #<p>''All seems Infected that th' Infected spy, <br> As all looks yellow to the Jaundic'd Eye.''</p><p> ~ [[Alexander Pope]] ~ </p> # The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound interest on the whole capital of knowledge and virtue which has been accumulated since the dawning of time. ~ [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] # Might the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy be laid to heart! Might a sense of the true aims of life elevate the tone of politics and trade, till public and private honor become identical! ~ [[Margaret Fuller]] #<p>''How many times must a man look up <br> Before he can see the sky? <br> Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have <br> Before he can hear people cry? <br> Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows <br> That too many people have died? <br> The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, <br> The answer is blowin' in the wind.''</p><p>~ [[Bob Dylan]] ~</p> # Be an artist superior to tricks of art. Show frankly, as a saint would do, all your experience, your methods, tools, and means. Welcome all comers to the freest use of the same. And out of this superior frankness and charity, you shall learn higher secrets of your nature, which gods will bend and aid you to communicate. ~ [[Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ # If there must be resolution and explanation, it must be something worth its weight in mystery. Most times, I'd be content with the mystery. ~ [[Caitlín R. Kiernan]] # I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build. ~ [[Julia Ward Howe]] # War of any kind is abhorrent. Remember that since the end of World War II, over 40 million people have been killed by conventional weapons. So, if we should succeed in averting nuclear war, we must not let ourselves be sold the alternative of conventional weapons for killing our fellow men. We must cure ourselves of the habit of war. ~ [[Patrick White]] # The most unfathomable schools and sages have never attained to the gravity which dwells in the eyes of a baby of three months old. It is the gravity of astonishment at the universe, and astonishment at the universe is not mysticism, but a transcendent common-sense. The fascination of children lies in this: that with each of them all things are remade, and the universe is put again upon its trial. ~ [[G. K. Chesterton]] # If I am not in the state of grace, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me. ~ [[Joan of Arc|Jehanne Darc (Joan of Arc)]] # It is a beautiful truth that all men contain something of the artist in them. And perhaps it is the case that the greatest artists live and die, the world and themselves alike ignorant what they possess. ... I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty. ~ [[Walt Whitman]] == [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/June 2010|June 2010]] == # There is a legend about a bird that sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. From the moment it leaves the nest it searches for a thorn tree and does not rest until it has found one. Then, singing among the savage branches, it impales itself upon the longest, sharpest spine. Dying, it rises above its own agony to out-carol the lark and the nightingale. One superlative song, existence the price. But the whole world stills to listen, and God in His heaven smiles. For the best is only bought at the cost of the great pain. … Or so says the legend. ~ [[Colleen McCullough]] # <p>''The ancient pulse of germ and birth<br>Was shrunken hard and dry,<br>And every spirit upon earth<br>Seemed fervourless as I.''</p><p>''At once a voice arose among<br>The bleak twigs overhead<br>In a full-hearted evensong<br>Of joy illimited;<br>An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,<br>In blast-beruffled plume,<br>Had chosen thus to fling his soul<br>Upon the growing gloom.''</p><p>''So little cause for carolings<br>Of such ecstatic sound<br>Was written on terrestrial things<br>Afar or nigh around,<br>That I could think there trembled through<br>His happy good-night air<br>Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew<br>And I was unaware.''</p><p> ~ [[Thomas Hardy]] ~ </p> # You can't incent a dead person. No matter what we do, Hawthorne will not produce any more works, no matter how much we pay him. ~ [[Lawrence Lessig]] # Knowledge is meaningful only if it is reflected in action. The human race has found out the hard way that we are what we do, not just what we think. This is true for kids and adults — for schoolrooms and nations. ~ [[Robert Fulghum]] # The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back. ~ [[John Maynard Keynes]] # I will keep faith with death in my heart, yet will remember that faith with death and the dead is only wickedness and dark voluptuousness and enmity against humankind, if it is given power over our thought and contemplation. For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts. And with that, I wake up. ~ [[Thomas Mann]] # Art hurts. Art urges voyages — and it is easier to stay at home. ~ [[Gwendolyn Brooks]] # Our civil laws will never be supple enough to fit the immense and changing variety of facts. Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when they presume to anticipate custom. ~ [[Marguerite Yourcenar]] # ''Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above. <br> Don't fence me in. <br> Let me ride through the wide open country that I love <br> Don't fence me in.''</p><p>''Let me be by myself in the evenin' breeze <br> And listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees <br> Send me off forever but I ask you please <br> Don't fence me in.''</p><p>~ [[Cole Porter]] ~</p> # Apparently the rise of consciousness is linked to certain kinds of privation. It is the bitterness of self-consciousness that we knowers know best. Critical of the illusions that sustained mankind in earlier times, this self-consciousness of ours does little to sustain us now. The question is: which is disenchanted, the world itself or the consciousness we have of it? ~ [[Saul Bellow]] #<p>''Drink to me only with thine eyes, <br/> And I will pledge with mine; <br/> Or leave a kiss but in the cup <br/> And I'll not look for wine.'' </p><p> ~ [[Ben Jonson]] ~ </p> #<p>''Everyone's got the same insecurities as you <br> Believe me it is true <br> Do not be afraid <br> To show people the real you.''</p><p> ~ [[Justin Heazlewood]] ~ </p> #<p>''I am content to follow to its source <br> Every event in action or in thought; <br> Measure the lot; forgive myself the lot! <br> When such as I cast out remorse <br> So great a sweetness flows into the breast <br> We must laugh and we must sing, <br> We are blest by everything, <br> Everything we look upon is blest.'' </p><p> ~ [[William Butler Yeats]] ~ </p> # Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen. ~ [[Harry Turtledove]] # There are some men whom a staggering emotional shock, so far from making them mental invalids for life, seems, on the other hand, to awaken, to galvanize, to arouse into an almost incredible activity of soul. ~ [[William McFee]] # It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born. ~ [[James Joyce]] in ''[[Ulysses]]'' # The result of the struggle between the thought and the ability to express it, between dream and reality, is seldom more than a compromise or an approximation. ~ [[M. C. Escher]] # It is an interesting law of romance that a truly strong woman will choose a strong man who disagrees with her over a weak one who goes along. Strength demands intelligence, intelligence demands stimulation, and weakness is boring. It is better to find a partner you can contend with for a lifetime than one who accommodates you because he doesn't really care. ~ [[Roger Ebert]] # The quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitudes and values which shape the course of a nation's development. A revolution which aims merely at changing official policies and institutions with a view to an improvement in material conditions has little chance of genuine success. Without a revolution of the spirit, the forces which produced the iniquities of the old order would continue to be operative, posing a constant threat to the process of reform and regeneration. It is not enough merely to call for freedom, democracy and human rights. There has to be a united determination to persevere in the struggle, to make sacrifices in the name of enduring truths, to resist the corrupting influences of desire, ill will, ignorance and fear. ~ [[Aung San Suu Kyi]] # The Tennessee stud was long and lean <br> The color of the sun and his eyes were green. <br> He had the nerve and he had the blood <br> And there never was a hoss like the Tennessee stud. <br> ~ [[Jimmy Driftwood]] ~ # There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet. ... To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child. The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food. ~ [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]] # In tradition and in books an integral part of the individual persists, for it can influence the minds and actions of other people in different places and at different times: a row of black marks on a page can move a man to tears, though the bones of him that wrote it are long ago crumbled to dust. In truth, the whole progress of civilization is based upon this power. ~ [[Julian Huxley]] #<p>''As a white stone in the well's cool deepness, <br> There lays in me one wonderful remembrance. <br> I am not able and don't want to miss this: <br> It is my torture and my utter gladness.''</p><p>''I think, that he whose look will be directed <br> Into my eyes, at once will see it whole.''</p><p> ~ [[Anna Akhmatova]] ~</p> # Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. ~ [[Ambrose Bierce]] # We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. ... Bully-worship, under various disguises, has become a universal religion, and such truisms as that a machine-gun is still a machine-gun even when a "good" man is squeezing the trigger ... have turned into heresies which it is actually becoming dangerous to utter. ~ [[George Orwell]] # An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls — even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls — without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell. ~ [[Pearl S. Buck]] # The bulk of the world’s knowledge is an imaginary construction. ~ [[Helen Keller]] # Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse. ~ [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]] #<p>''What though our eyes with tears be wet? <br>The sunrise never failed us yet.''</p><p>''The blush of dawn may yet restore <br> Our light and hope and joy once more. <br> Sad soul, take comfort, nor forget <br> That sunrise never failed us yet!''</p><p> ~ [[Celia Thaxter]] ~</p> # Before the five senses were opened, and earlier than any beginning <br> They waited, ready, for all those who would call themselves mortals,<br> So that they might praise, as I do, life, that is, happiness. <br> ~ [[Czesław Miłosz]] == [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/July 2010|July 2010]] == # A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. ~ [[Georg Christoph Lichtenberg]] # Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists. There is, there has been, there will always be a certain group of people whom inspiration visits. It's made up of all those who've consciously chosen their calling and do their job with love and imagination. It may include doctors, teachers, gardeners — I could list a hundred more professions. Their work becomes one continuous adventure as long as they manage to keep discovering new challenges in it. Difficulties and setbacks never quell their curiosity. A swarm of new questions emerges from every problem that they solve. Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous "I don't know." ~ [[Wisława Szymborska]] # I will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all. No... not the artful postures of love, not playful and poetical games of love for the amusement of an evening, but love that... overthrows life. Unbiddable, ungovernable — like a riot in the heart, and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture. Love — like there has never been in a play. ~ [[Tom Stoppard]] in ''[[Shakespeare in Love]]'' # The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is, to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed. ~ [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]] # Life is not theory. It is reality, with inherent duties to everything and everyone. ~ [[Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka]] # I believe that at every level of society — familial, tribal, national and international — the key to a happier and more successful world is the growth of compassion. We do not need to become religious, nor do we need to believe in an ideology. All that is necessary is for each of us to develop our good human qualities. ~ [[Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama]] # I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. ~ [[Robert A. Heinlein]] in ''[[The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress]]'' # There must be understanding between the artist and the people. In the best ages of art that has always been the case. Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways. But the good artists who follow after genius — and I count myself among these — have to restore the lost connection once more. ~ [[Käthe Kollwitz]] # We have to learn to think in a new way. We have to learn to ask ourselves, not what steps can be taken to give military victory to whatever group we prefer, for there no longer are such steps; the question we have to ask ourselves is: what steps can be taken to prevent a military contest of which the issue must be disastrous to all parties? ~ [[Bertrand Russell]] # Universal peace as a result of cumulative effort through centuries past might come into existence quickly — not unlike a crystal that suddenly forms in a solution which has been slowly prepared. ~ [[Nikola Tesla]] # Life's meaning has always eluded me and I guess it always will. But I love it just the same. ~ [[E. B. White]] # No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition. ~ [[William Osler]] # It is lack of confidence, more than anything else, that kills a civilisation. We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs. ~ [[Kenneth Clark]] # Freedom is not an exchange — it is freedom. ~ [[André Malraux]] # There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism. ~ [[Walter Benjamin]] # Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality. ~ [[Sheri S. Tepper]] # ''God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love in all he doeth, <br> Love, a brilliant fire, to gladden or consume: <br> The wicked work their woe by looking upon love, and hating it: <br> The righteous find their joys in yearning on its loveliness for ever.'' ~ [[Martin Farquhar Tupper]] # A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity. <br> When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both. Some say that has now been achieved. But I know that that is not the case. The truth is that we are not yet free; we have merely achieved the freedom to be free, the right not to be oppressed. We have not taken the final step of our journey, but the first step on a longer and even more difficult road. For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. The true test of our devotion to freedom is just beginning. ~ [[Nelson Mandela]] # I should like to be famous and unknown. ~ [[Edgar Degas]] # Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal! ~ [[Petrarch]] # Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It's been that way all this year. It's been that way so many times. All of war is that way. ~ [[Ernest Hemingway]] # ''There was no pain when I awoke, <br> No pain at all. Rest, like a goad, <br> Spurred my eyes open — and light broke <br> Upon them like a million swords: <br> And she was there. There are no words. <br> Heaven is for a moment's span. <br> And ever.'' ~ [[Stephen Vincent Benét]] # There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Neither is independent of the other or more important than the other. Without art science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery. The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous. ~ [[Raymond Chandler]] # The three greatest fools of history have been Jesus Christ, Don Quixote . . . and me! ~ [[Simón Bolívar]] # The central task of education is to implant a will and a facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together. <br> In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. ~ [[Eric Hoffer]] # We are so captivated by and entangled in our subjective consciousness that we have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions. ~ [[Carl Jung]] # I've been sleeping through my life <br> Now I'm waking up <br> And I want to stand in the sunshine <br> I have never been ecstatic <br> Had a flower but it never bloomed <br> In the darkness of my wasted youth <br> It was hiding in the shadows <br> Learning to become invisible <br> Uncover me. <br> ~ [[Juliana Hatfield]] # Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite. ~ [[Karl Popper]] #<p>''Now I understand what [[Vincent van Gogh|you]] tried to say to me <br> How you suffered for your sanity <br> How you tried to set them free —<br> They would not listen <br> They did not know how, <br> Perhaps they'll listen now.'' </p><p> ~ [[Don McLean]] in "[[w:Vincent (song)|Vincent]] ([[w:The Starry Night|Starry Starry Night|]])" ~</p> #<p>''With wide-embracing love <br> Thy Spirit animates eternal years, <br> Pervades and broods above, <br> Changes, sustains, dissolves, creates, and rears.''</p><p>''Though earth and moon were gone, <br> And suns and universes ceased to be, <br> And Thou wert left alone, <br> Every existence would exist in Thee.''</p><p>''There is not room for Death, <br> Nor atom that his might could render void: <br>Thou — THOU art Being and Breath, <br> And what THOU art may never be destroyed.''</p><p> ~ [[Emily Brontë]] ~ </p> # Only a crisis — actual or perceived — produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes politically inevitable. ~ [[Milton Friedman]] == [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/August 2010|August 2010]] == # It is — or seems to be — a wise sort of thing, to realise that all that happens to a man in this life is only by way of joke, especially his misfortunes, if he have them. And it is also worth bearing in mind, that the joke is passed round pretty liberally & impartially, so that not very many are entitled to fancy that they in particular are getting the worst of it. ~ [[Herman Melville]] # One writes out of one thing only — one's own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art. ~ [[James Baldwin]] # Perhaps there was no limit, there might, quite likely, be no such condition as the ultimate; there might be no time when any creature or any group of creatures could stop at any certain point and say, this is as far as we can go, there is no use of trying to go farther. For each new development produced, as side effects, so many other possibilities, so many other roads to travel, that with each step one took down any given road there were more paths to follow. There'd never be an end, he thought — no end to anything. ~ [[Clifford D. Simak]] # Contrary to the rumours that you've heard, I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father, Jor-El, to save the planet Earth. ~ [[Barack Obama]] # <p>''Tis true, my form is something odd <br> but blaming me, is blaming God. <br> Could I create myself anew <br> I would not fail in pleasing you.'' </p><p> ~ [[Joseph Merrick]] ~ </p> # <p>''Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new:<br> That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do: ''</p><p>''For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see,<br> Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be;''</p><p>''Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails,<br> Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales;''</p><p>''Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew<br> From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue;''</p><p>''Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm,<br> With the standards of the peoples plunging through the thunderstorm;''</p><p>''Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battle-flags were furled<br> In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world.''</p><p>''There the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe,<br> And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapped in universal law.'' </p><p> ~ [[Alfred Tennyson]] ~ </p> # The real struggle is not between the right and the left but between the party of the thoughtful and the party of the jerks. ~ [[Jimmy Wales]] # No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. ~ [[Shirley Jackson]] # If you are not ready, and did not know what to do, it could hurt you in different ways. It could knock you down, hard, or throw you against a tree or a wall. It is such a big explosion, it can smash in buildings and knock signboards over, and break windows all over town, but if you duck and cover, like Bert, you will be much safer. ~ [[w:Duck and Cover|Duck and Cover]] # The one thing we know about torture is that it was never designed in the first place to get at the actual truth of anything; it was designed in the darkest days of human history to produce false confessions in order to annihilate political and religious dissidents. And that is how it always works: it gets confessions regardless of their accuracy. ~ [[Andrew Sullivan]] # Wait until the world is free before you write a creed. <br> In this creed there will be but one word — Liberty. ~ [[Robert G. Ingersoll]] # No external power, no terrorist organization, can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire. ~ [[George Soros]] # Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it. ~ [[Alfred Hitchcock]] # One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honour or observation. ~ [[Walter Scott]] # If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds. I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest. ~ [[Napoleon I of France]] # Some men, like a tiled house, are long before they take fire, but once on flame there is no coming near to quench them. ~ [[Thomas Fuller]] # Most of authors seek fame, but I seek for justice — a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that fickle, flirting goddess. ~ [[Davy Crockett]] #<p>''I saw the starry Tree <br> Eternity <br> Put forth the blossom Time.''</p><p>~ [[Robert Williams Buchanan]] ~ </p> # Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter. ~ [[Bernard Baruch]] # The grand design of nature perceived broadly in four dimensions, including the forces that move the universe and created man, with special focus on evolution in our own biosphere, is something intrinsically good that it is right to preserve and enhance, and wrong to destroy and degrade. ~ [[Roger Wolcott Sperry]] # <p>''The night was long and dark and just <br> Another dagger to my trust. <br> I thrust it in until I bleed <br> I wiped my point for you to see.''</p><p>''And anyway, <br> It's over now. <br> Nothing left to say. <br> I don't know why, <br> I don't care how, <br> It's over anyway.''</p><p> ~ [[Alicia Witt]] ~</p> # A gram of experience is worth a ton of theory. ~ [[Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury]] # <p>''I never started to plow in my life <br> That some one did not stop in the road <br> And take me away to a dance or picnic. <br> I ended up with forty acres; <br> I ended up with a broken fiddle —<br>And a broken laugh, and a thousand memories, <br> And not a single regret.''</p><p> ~ [[Edgar Lee Masters]] ~ </p> # Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird's cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world. ~ [[Jorge Luis Borges]] #<p> '' Calmly take what ill betideth; <br> Patience wins the crown at length <br> Rich repayment him abideth <br> Who endures in quiet strength. <br> Brave the tamer of the lion; <br> Brave whom conquered kingdoms praise; <br> Bravest he who rules his passions, <br> Who his own impatience sways.'' </p><p> ~ [[Johann Gottfried Herder]] ~</p> # Happiness comes out of contentment, and contentment always comes out of service. ~ [[Harbhajan Singh Yogi]] # Ambiguity of language is philosophy's main source of problems. That is why it is of the utmost importance to examine attentively the very words we use. ~ [[Giuseppe Peano]] # The ironist is not bitter, he does not seek to undercut everything that seems worthy or serious, he scorns the cheap scoring-off of the wisecracker. He stands, so to speak, somewhat at one side, observes and speaks with a moderation which is occasionally embellished with a flash of controlled exaggeration. He speaks from a certain depth, and thus he is not of the same nature as the wit, who so often speaks from the tongue and no deeper. The wit's desire is to be funny; the ironist is only funny as a secondary achievement. ~ [[Robertson Davies]] # Poets are never young, in one sense. Their delicate ear hears the far-off whispers of eternity, which coarser souls must travel towards for scores of years before their dull sense is touched by them. A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. ~ [[Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.]] # If you're in the luckiest 1 per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent. ~ [[Warren Buffett]] # The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less. ~ [[Eldridge Cleaver]] == [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/September 2010|September 2010]] == # <p>''We've traveled halfway 'round the world <br> To find ourselves again — <br> September morn — <br> We danced until the night became a brand new day, <br> Two lovers playing scenes from some romantic play — <br> September morning still can make me feel that way.'' </p><p> ~ [[Neil Diamond]] ~</p> # To prevent government from becoming corrupt and tyrannous, its organization and methods should be as simple as possible, its functions be restricted to those necessary to the common welfare, and in all its parts it should be kept as close to the people and as directly within their control as may be. ~ [[Henry George]] #<p>''Your patience may have long to wait, <br> Whether in little things or great, <br> But all good luck, you soon will learn, <br> Must come to those who nobly earn. <br> Who hunts the hay-field over <br> Will find the four-leaved clover.'' </p><p> ~ [[Sarah Orne Jewett]] ~ </p> # In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul. ~ [[Mary Renault]] # Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that one. ~ [[Black Elk]] # An opinion, right or wrong, can never constitute a moral offense, nor be in itself a moral obligation. It may be mistaken; it may involve an absurdity, or a contradiction. It is a truth; or it is an error: it can never be a crime or a virtue. ~ [[Frances Wright]] # As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality. It should make our days holy to us. The poet should speak to all men, for a moment, of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. ~ [[Edith Sitwell]] #<p>''Oh, he tells me tears are something to hide<br>And something to fear<br>And I try so hard to keep it inside<br>So no one can hear.''</p><p>''"Hush, hush, keep it down now. <br> Voices carry."''</p><p> ~ [[Aimee Mann]] ~ </p> # One thing only is needful: the knowledge of the simple and clear truth which finds place in every soul that is not stupefied by religious and scientific superstitions — the truth that for our life one law is valid — the law of love, which brings the highest happiness to every individual as well as to all mankind. Free your minds from those overgrown, mountainous imbecilities which hinder your recognition of it, and at once the truth will emerge from amid the pseudo-religious nonsense that has been smothering it: the indubitable, eternal truth inherent in man, which is one and the same in all the great religions of the world. It will in due time emerge and make its way to general recognition, and the nonsense that has obscured it will disappear of itself, and with it will go the evil from which humanity now suffers. ~ [[Leo Tolstoy]] # The entire universe is perfused with signs, if it is not composed exclusively of signs. ~ [[Charles Sanders Peirce]] # We have entered the third millennium through a gate of fire. If today, after the horror of 11 September, we see better, and we see further — we will realize that humanity is indivisible. New threats make no distinction between races, nations or regions. A new insecurity has entered every mind, regardless of wealth or status. A deeper awareness of the bonds that bind us all — in pain as in prosperity — has gripped young and old. In the early beginnings of the 21st century — a century already violently disabused of any hopes that progress towards global peace and prosperity is inevitable — this new reality can no longer be ignored. It must be confronted. ~ [[Kofi Annan]] # It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous. ~ [[Charles Dudley Warner]] # Everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified. ~ [[Sherwood Anderson]] # An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run. ~ [[Sydney J. Harris]] # The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances. ~ [[Agatha Christie]] # p>''Thou whose deep ways are in the sea, <br> Whose footsteps are not known, <br> To-night a world that turned from Thee <br> Is waiting — at Thy Throne.''</p><p>''The towering Babels that we raised <br> Where scoffing sophists brawl, <br> The little Antichrists we praised — <br> The night is on them all.''</p><p> ~ [[Alfred Noyes]] ~ </p> # What we hoped was that we could stop the coming end of the world. ~ [[Ken Kesey]] # To contribute usefully to the advance of science, one must sometimes not disdain from undertaking simple verifications. ~ [[Léon Foucault]] #<p>''Hard I strove <br> To put away my immortality, <br> Till my collected spirits swell'd my heart <br> Almost to bursting; but the strife is past. <br> It is a fearful thing to be a god, <br> And, like a god, endure a mortal's pain; <br> To be a show for earth and wondering heaven <br> To gaze and shudder at! But I will live, <br> That Jove may know there is a deathless soul <br> Who ne'er will be his subject. Yes, 'tis past. <br> The stedfast Fates confess my absolute will, — <br> Their own co-equal.''</p><p> ~ [[Hartley Coleridge]] ~ </p> # The silence of a wise man is always meaningful. ~ [[Leo Strauss]] # The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller, but for want of an understanding ear. ~ [[Stephen King]] # I have far more confidence in the one man who works mentally and bodily at a matter than in the six who merely talk about it … Nature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science if we only allow her intimations to fall unbiased on our minds. Nothing is so good as an experiment which, whilst it sets an error right, gives us (as a reward for our humility in being reproved) an absolute advancement in knowledge. ~ [[Michael Faraday]] # The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, scepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin. And it cannot be otherwise, for every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority, the cherishing of the keenest scepticism, the annihilation of the spirit of blind faith; and the most ardent votary of science holds his firmest convictions, not because the men he most venerates hold them; not because their verity is testified by portents and wonders; but because his experience teaches him that whenever he chooses to bring these convictions into contact with their primary source, Nature — whenever he thinks fit to test them by appealing to experiment and to observation — Nature will confirm them. The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification. ~ [[Thomas Henry Huxley]] # Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life. ~ [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]] # No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatever its symbol — cross or crescent or whatever — that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race. ~ [[William Faulkner]] #<p>''At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; <br> Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, <br> But neither arrest nor movement. <br> And do not call it fixity, <br> Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards, <br> Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point, <br> There would be no dance, and there is only the dance. <br> I can only say, there we have been: but I cannot say where <br> And I cannot say, how long, for that is to place it in time.'' </p><p> ~ [[T. S. Eliot]] in ''[[The Four Quartets]]'' ~</p> # In regard to religion, mutual toleration in the different professions thereof is what all good and candid minds in all ages have ever practised, and, both by precept and example, inculcated on mankind. ~ [[Samuel Adams]] # It is the way of the superior man to prefer the concealment of his virtue, while it daily becomes more illustrious, and it is the way of the mean man to seek notoriety, while he daily goes more and more to ruin. It is characteristic of the superior man, appearing insipid, yet never to produce satiety; while showing a simple negligence, yet to have his accomplishments recognized; while seemingly plain, yet to be discriminating. He knows how what is distant lies in what is near. He knows where the wind proceeds from. He knows how what is minute becomes manifested. Such a one, we may be sure, will enter into virtue. ~ [[Confucius]] # The truth is that my work — I was going to say my mission — is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention in faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself; it is to war against all those who submit, whether it be to Catholicism, or to rationalism, or to agnosticism; it is to make all men live the life of inquietude and passionate desire. ~ [[Miguel de Unamuno]] #<p>''Observe the wonders as they occur around you. <br> Don't claim them. Feel the artistry <br>moving through, and be silent.'' </p><p> ~ [[Rumi]] ~ </p> == [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/October 2010|October 2010]] == # Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. ~ [[Daniel J. Boorstin]] # The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy. That State is the best governed which is governed the least. ~ [[Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi]] ~ # I have always felt that no matter how inscrutable its ways and means, the universe is working perfectly and working according to a greater plan than we can know. ~ [[John Perry Barlow]] # Disunion and civil war are at hand; and yet I fear disunion and war less than compromise. We can recover from them. The free States alone, if we must go on alone, will make a glorious nation. ~ [[Rutherford B. Hayes]] # The only real hope of people today is probably a renewal of our certainty that we are rooted in the earth and, at the same time, in the cosmos. This awareness endows us with the capacity for self-transcendence. Politicians at international forums may reiterate a thousand times that the basis of the new world order must be universal respect for human rights, but it will mean nothing as long as this imperative does not derive from the respect of the miracle of Being, the miracle of the universe, the miracle of nature, the miracle of our own existence. Only someone who submits to the authority of the universal order and of creation, who values the right to be a part of it and a participant in it, can genuinely value himself and his neighbors, and thus honor their rights as well. ~ [[Václav Havel]] #<p>''Twilight and evening bell, <br> And after that the dark! <br> And may there be no sadness of farewell, <br> When I embark;''</p><p>''For though from out our bourne of Time and Place<br> The flood may bear me far,<br> I hope to see my Pilot face to face<br> When I have crossed the bar.''</p><p> ~ [[Alfred Tennyson|Alfred, Lord Tennyson]] ~</p> # We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections. ~ [[Niels Bohr]] # One always feels that a merely educated man holds his philosophical views as if they were so many pennies in his pocket. They are separate from his life. Whereas with a cultured man there is no gap or lacuna between his opinions and his life. Both are dominated by the same organic, inevitable fatality. They are what he is. ~ [[John Cowper Powys]] #<p>''There's nothing you can do that can't be done <br> Nothing you can sing that can't be sung <br> Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game <br> It's easy.''</p><p>''All you need is love.''</p><p> ~ [[John Lennon]] ~</p> # I am doing my best to glorify the scamp or vagabond. I hope I shall succeed. For things are not so simple as they sometimes seem. In this present age of threats to democracy and individual liberty, probably only the scamp and the spirit of the scamp alone will save us from being lost in serially numbered units in the masses of disciplined, obedient, regimented and uniformed coolies. The scamp will be the last and most formidable enemy of dictatorships. He will be the champion of human dignity and individual freedom, and will be the last to be conquered. All modern civilization depends entirely upon him. ~ [[Lin Yutang]] # Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be "damned if you do, and damned if you don't." ~ [[Eleanor Roosevelt]] # I admit that my visions can never mean to other men as much as they do to me. I do not regret this. All I ask is that my results should convince seekers after truth that there is beyond doubt something worth while seeking, attainable by methods more or less like mine. I do not want to father a flock, to be the fetish of fools and fanatics, or the founder of a faith whose followers are content to echo my opinions. I want each man to cut his own way through the jungle. ~ [[Aleister Crowley]] # In every civilization, however generally prosaic, however addicted to the short-time point of view on human affairs, there are always certain alien spirits who, while outwardly conforming to the requirements of the civilization around them, still keep a disinterested regard for the plain intelligible law of things, irrespective of any practical end. They have an intellectual curiosity, sometimes touched with emotion, concerning the august order of nature; they are impressed by the contemplation of it, and like to know as much about it as they can, even in circumstances where its operation is ever so manifestly unfavourable to their best hopes and wishes. ~ [[Albert Jay Nock]] # We must be ready to dare all for our country. For history does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. We must acquire proficiency in defense and display stamina in purpose. We must be willing, individually and as a Nation, to accept whatever sacrifices may be required of us. A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. ~ [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] # When the modern corporation acquires power over markets, power in the community, power over the state and power over belief, it is a political instrument, different in degree but not in kind from the state itself. To hold otherwise — to deny the political character of the modern corporation — is not merely to avoid the reality. It is to disguise the reality. The victims of that disguise are the students who instruct in error. Let there be no question: economics, so long as it is thus taught, becomes, however unconsciously, a part of the arrangement by which the citizen or student is kept from seeing how he or she is, or will be, governed. ~ [[John Kenneth Galbraith]] # The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected. ~ [[William O. Douglas]] # The law of cases of necessity is not likely to be well furnished with precise rules; necessity creates the law, it supersedes rules; and whatever is reasonable and just in such cases, is likewise legal; it is not to be considered as matter of surprise, therefore, if much instituted rule is not to be found on such subjects. ~ [[William Scott]] # To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be who have tried it. ~ [[Herman Melville]] in ''[[Moby-Dick]]'' # The cycle of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully on the barren surface of the moon. ~ [[Lewis Mumford]] # I say one must be a seer, make oneself a seer. The poet makes himself a seer by an immense, long, deliberate derangement of all the senses. ~ [[Arthur Rimbaud]] # If we must all agree, all work together, we're no better than a machine. If an individual can't work in solidarity with his fellows, it's his duty to work alone. His duty and his right. We have been denying people that right. We've been saying, more and more often, you must work with the others, you must accept the rule of the majority. But any rule is tyranny. The duty of the individual is to accept no rule, to be the initiator of his own acts, to be responsible. Only if he does so will the society live, and change, and adapt, and survive. We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society founded upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution. ~ [[Ursula K. Le Guin]] in ''[[The Dispossessed]]'' # Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences.<br> When the individual's behavior and consciousness get hooked to a routine sequence of external actions, he is a dead robot, and it is time for him to die and be reborn. Time to "drop out," "turn on," and "tune in." This period of robotization is called the [[w:Kali Yuga|Kali Yuga]], the Age of Strife and Empire... ~ [[Timothy Leary]] # The best doctors found a middle position where they were neither overwhelmed by their feelings nor estranged from them. That was the most difficult position of all, and the precise balance — neither too detached nor too caring — was something few learned. ~ [[Michael Crichton]] # Courage is not the absence of fear but the awareness that something else is more important. ~ [[Stephen Covey]] # ''The lyf so short, the craft so longe to lerne. <br> Th’ assay so hard, so sharp the conquerynge, <br> The dredful joye, alwey that slit so yerne; <br> Al this mene I be love.'' <br> ~ [[Geoffrey Chaucer]] ~ # Strategy is a system of expedients; it is more than a mere scholarly discipline. It is the translation of knowledge to practical life, the improvement of the original leading thought in accordance with continually changing situations. ~ [[Helmuth von Moltke the Elder]] # No man is justified in doing evil on the grounds of expediency. ~ [[Theodore Roosevelt]] # Paradoxically, the man who has failed and one who is at the peak of success are in exactly the same position. Each must decide what he will do next, choose the course that will lead him to the future. ~ [[Jigoro Kano]] # If you're a leader, you don't push wet spaghetti, you pull it. The U.S. Army still has to learn that. The British understand it. Patton understood it. I always admired Patton. Oh, sure, the stupid bastard was crazy. He was insane. He thought he was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude, but I certainly respected his theories and the techniques he used to get his men out of their foxholes. ~ [[Bill Mauldin]] ~ # As to the history of the revolution, my ideas may be peculiar, perhaps singular. What do we mean by the Revolution? The war? That was no part of the revolution; it was only an effect and consequence of it. The revolution was in the minds of the people. ~ [[John Adams]] ~ # ''Standing on the bridge that crosses <br> The river that goes out to the sea <br> The wind is full of a thousand voices <br> They pass by the bridge and me.'' <br> ~ [[Loreena McKennitt]] ~ == [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/November 2010|November 2010]] == #</p>''It's not too near for me <br> Like a flower I need the rain <br> Though it's not clear to me<br>Every season has it's change <br> And I will see you <br> When the sun comes out again.''</p><p> ~ [[Sophie B. Hawkins]] ~ </p> # Being desirous of allaying the dissensions of party strife now existing within our realm, I do hereby dissolve and abolish the Democratic and Republican parties, and also do hereby decree the disfranchisement and imprisonment, for not more than 10, nor less than five, years, to all persons leading to any violation of this our imperial decree. ~ [[Joshua A. Norton]] ~ # Follow the voice of your heart, even if it leads you off the path of timid souls. Do not become hard and embittered, even if life tortures you at times. There is only one thing that counts: to live one's life well and happily... ~ [[Wilhelm Reich]] ~ # People often ask me, "Will, where do you get your jokes?" I just tell 'em, 'Well, I watch the government and report the facts, that is all I do, and I don't even find it necessary to exaggerate. ~ [[Will Rogers]] ~ # I may not be able to say all I think; but I am not going to say anything that I do not think. I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets. ~ [[Eugene V. Debs]] ~ # The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities. ~ [[Cesare Lombroso]] ~ # All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd merely judges that those consequences must be considered calmly. It is ready to pay up. In other words, there may be responsible persons, but there are no guilty ones, in its opinion. At very most, such a mind will consent to use past experience as a basis for its future actions. ~ [[Albert Camus]] ~ # He that made all things for love, by the same love keepeth them, and shall keep them without end. ~ [[Julian of Norwich]] ~ # I had an experience... I can't prove it, I can't even explain it, but everything that I know as a human being, everything that I am tells me that it was real! I was given something wonderful, something that changed me forever... A vision of the universe that tells us, undeniably, how tiny, and insignificant and how ... rare, and precious we all are! A vision that tells us that we belong to something that is greater than ourselves, that we are not — that none of us — are alone! ... I wish I could share that. I wish, that everyone, if only for one moment, could feel that awe, and humility, and hope. But ... that continues to be my wish. ~ "Ellie Arroway" in ''[[Contact]]'' based on the novel by [[Carl Sagan]] # Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays. ~ [[Friedrich Schiller]] ~ # I have seen the truth; I have seen and I know that people can be beautiful and happy without losing the power of living on earth. I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind. And it is just this faith of mine that they laugh at. But how can I help believing it? I have seen the truth — it is not as though I had invented it with my mind, I have seen it, seen it, and the living image of it has filled my soul for ever. I have seen it in such full perfection that I cannot believe that it is impossible for people to have it. And so how can I go wrong? I shall make some slips no doubt, and shall perhaps talk in second-hand language, but not for long: the living image of what I saw will always be with me and will always correct and guide me. Oh, I am full of courage and freshness, and I will go on and on if it were for a thousand years! Do you know, at first I meant to conceal the fact that I corrupted them, but that was a mistake — that was my first mistake! But truth whispered to me that I was lying, and preserved me and corrected me. But how establish paradise — I don't know, because I do not know how to put it into words. After my dream I lost command of words. All the chief words, anyway, the most necessary ones. But never mind, I shall go and I shall keep talking, I won't leave off, for anyway I have seen it with my own eyes, though I cannot describe what I saw. But the scoffers do not understand that. It was a dream, they say, delirium, hallucination. Oh! As though that meant so much! And they are so proud! A dream! What is a dream? And is not our life a dream? I will say more. Suppose that this paradise will never come to pass (that I understand), yet I shall go on preaching it. And yet how simple it is: in one day, in one hour everything could be arranged at once! The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that's the chief thing, and that's everything; nothing else is wanted — you will find out at once how to arrange it all. And yet it's an old truth which has been told and retold a billion times — but it has not formed part of our lives! The consciousness of life is higher than life, the knowledge of the laws of happiness is higher than happiness — that is what one must contend against. And I shall. If only everyone wants it, it can be arranged at once. ~ [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]] in ''[[s:The Dream of a Ridiculous Man|The Dream of a Ridiculous Man]]'' # If the learned and worldly-wise men of this age were to allow mankind to inhale the fragrance of fellowship and love, every understanding heart would apprehend the meaning of true liberty, and discover the secret of undisturbed peace and absolute composure. ~ [[Bahá'u'lláh]] ~ # The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but — what is worse — the slave of as many masters as he has vices. ~ [[Augustine of Hippo]] ~ # The world of today has achieved much, but for all its declared love for humanity, it has based itself far more on hatred and violence than on the virtues that make one human. War is the negation of truth and humanity. War may be unavoidable sometimes, but its progeny are terrible to contemplate. Not mere killing, for man must die, but the deliberate and persistent propagation of hatred and falsehood, which gradually become the normal habits of the people. It is dangerous and harmful to be guided in our life's course by hatreds and aversions, for they are wasteful of energy and limit and twist the mind and prevent it from perceiving truth. ~ [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] ~ # A phrase begins life as a literary expression; its felicity leads to its lazy repetition; and repetition soon establishes it as a legal formula, undiscriminatingly used to express different and sometimes contradictory ideas. ~ [[Felix Frankfurter]] ~ # There will not be one kind of community existing and one kind of life led in utopia. Utopia will consist of utopias, of many different and divergent communities in which people lead different kinds of lives under different institutions. Some kinds of communities will be more attractive to most than others; communities will wax and wane. People will leave some for others or spend their whole lives in one. Utopia is a framework for utopias, a place where people are at liberty to join together voluntarily to pursue and attempt to realize their own vision of the good life in the ideal community but where no one can impose his own utopian vision upon others. ~ [[Robert Nozick]] ~ # Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech shall be free, you will have a hundred lawyers proving that "freedom does not mean abuse, nor liberty license"; and they will define and define freedom out of existence. Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations. On the other hand, so long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men. ~ [[Voltairine de Cleyre]] ~ # Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a golden, savage landscape that we wander unaware, without a map. Be careful: in the last analysis, reality may be exactly what we think it is. ~ [[Alan Moore]] ~ # Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. ~ [[James A. Garfield ~ # An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in "inventing" something. It's an arrogance that some enjoy, and others do not. Now I reach beyond arrogance when I proclaim that fractals had been pictured forever but their true role remained unrecognized and waited for me to be uncovered. ~ [[Benoît Mandelbrot]] # "Man's inhumanity to man" is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep. ~ [[Alexander Berkman]] # It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not. ~ [[André Gide]] # Revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse. ~ [[John Milton]] in ''[[Areopagitica]]'' # The ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain, by fear, nor to exact obedience, but contrariwise, to free every man from fear, that he may live in all possible security; in other words, to strengthen his natural right to exist and work without injury to himself or others. <br> No, the object of government is not to change men from rational beings into beasts or puppets, but to enable them to develop their minds and bodies in security, and to employ their reason unshackled; neither showing hatred, anger, or deceit, nor watched with the eyes of jealousy and injustice. In fact, the true aim of government is liberty. ~ [[Baruch Spinoza]] # The battle to save life is still going on. … This battle to save life will eventually be won. … Blind faith in established experience has been shattered, outmoded regulations have been smashed. ~ [[Ba Jin]] # ''Blind unbelief is sure to err, <br> And scan his work in vain;<br> God is his own interpreter, <br> And he will make it plain.'' <br> ~ [[William Cowper]] ~ # When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity. The classical man is just a bundle of routine, ideas and tradition. If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow — you are not understanding yourself. ~ [[Bruce Lee]] # I am going to my Father’s; and though with great difficulty I have got hither, yet now I do not repent me of all the trouble I have been at to arrive where I am. My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it. My marks and scars I carry with me, to be a witness for me that I have fought His battles who will now be my rewarder. When the day that he must go hence was come, many accompanied him to the river-side, into which as he went, he said, "Death, where is thy sting?" And as he went down deeper, he said, "Grave, where is thy victory?"<br> So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side. ~ [[John Bunyan]] # Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival. ~ [[C. S. Lewis]] # When a great genius appears in the world the dunces are all in confederacy against him. ~ [[Jonathan Swift]] == [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/December 2010|December 2010]] == #Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes. ~ [[Mary Martin]] # It is not enough to have a beautiful voice. What does that mean? When you interpret a role, you have to have a thousand colors to portray happiness, joy, sorrow, fear. How can you do this with only a beautiful voice? Even if you sing harshly sometimes, as I have frequently done, it is a necessity of expression. You have to do it, even if people will not understand. But in the long run they will, because you must persuade them of what you're doing. ~ [[Maria Callas]] # The changing wisdom of successive generations discards ideas, questions facts, demolishes theories. But the artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom: to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition — and, therefore, more permanently enduring. He speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation — and to the subtle but invincible, conviction of solidarity that knits together the loneliness of innumerable hearts: to the solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear, which binds men to each other, which binds together all humanity — the dead to the living and the living to the unborn. ~ [[Joseph Conrad]] in ''[[The Nigger of the 'Narcissus']]'' ~ # Standing as I do in view of God and eternity, I realize that patriotism is not enough. <br> I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. ~ [[Edith Cavell]] # Whenever we proceed from the known into the unknown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word "understanding." ~ [[Werner Heisenberg]] # Whenever we can trace back a religion to its first beginnings, we find it free from many of the blemishes that offend us in its later phases. The founders of the ancient religions of the world, as far as we can judge, were minds of a high stamp, full of noble aspirations, yearning for truth, devoted to the welfare of their neighbors, examples of purity and unselfishness. What they desired to found upon earth was but seldom realized, and their sayings, if preserved in their original form, offer often a strange contrast to the practice of those who profess to be their disciples. ~ [[Max Müller]] # That which is not just, is not Law; and that which is not Law, ought not to be obeyed. ~ [[Algernon Sydney]] # ''Better than a thousand hollow words <br> Is one word that brings peace. Better than a thousand hollow verses<br>Is one verse that brings peace.<br>Better than a hundred hollow lines<br>Is one line of the law, bringing peace.''<br> ~ [[Gautama Buddha]] in ''[[Dhammapada]]'' ~ # ''Freely we serve, <br> Because we freely love, as in our will <br> To love or not; in this we stand or fall.'' <br> ~ [[John Milton]] in ''[[Paradise Lost]]'' # The history of the human race has generated several papers articulating basic moral imperatives, or fundamental principles, of human coexistence that… substantially influenced the fate of humanity on this planet. Among these historic documents, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights … holds a very special, indeed, unique position. It is the first code of ethical conduct that was not a product of one culture, or one sphere of civilization only, but a universal creation, shaped and subscribed to by representatives of all humankind. Since its very inception, the Declaration has thus represented a planetary, or global commitment, a global intention, a global guideline. For this reason alone, this exceptional document — conceived as a result of a profound human self-reflection in the wake of the horrors of World War II, and retaining its relevance ever since — deserves to be remembered today. <br> ~ [[Václav Havel]] # Our All is at Stake, and the little Conveniencys and Comforts of Life, when set in Competition with our Liberty, ought to be rejected not with Reluctance but with Pleasure. ~ [[George Mason]] # An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere. ~ [[Gustave Flaubert]] # The best of ideas is hurt by uncritical acceptance and thrives on critical examination. ~ [[George Pólya]] # The project of organizing a democratic political movement entails the hope that one's ideas and beliefs are not merely idiosyncratic but speak to vital human needs, interests and desires, and therefore will be persuasive to many and ultimately most people. But this is a very different matter from deciding to put forward only those ideas presumed (accurately or not) to be compatible with what most people already believe. ~ [[Ellen Willis]] # The Universe is made of stories, not of atoms. ~ [[Muriel Rukeyser]] # Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. ~ [[George Santayana]] # Those who have served the cause of the revolution have plowed the sea. ~ [[Simón Bolívar]] # Hark! the herald angels sing, <br> "Glory to the new-born King; <br> Peace on earth and mercy mild, <br> God and sinners reconciled!" <br> Joyful, all ye nations, rise. <br> Join the triumph of the skies. <br> With th'angelic hosts proclaim <br> "Christ is born in Bethlehem!"<br>~ [[Charles Wesley]] ~ # ''And I won't be laughing at the lies when I'm gone <br> And I can't question how or when or why when I'm gone <br> Can't live proud enough to die when I'm gone <br> So I guess I'll have to do it while I'm here.'' <br> ~ [[Phil Ochs]] ~ # We have reversed the usual classical notion that the independent "elementary parts" of the world are the fundamental reality, and that the various systems are merely particular contingent forms and arrangements of these parts. Rather, we say that inseparable quantum interconnectedness of the whole universe is the fundamental reality, and that relatively independent behaving parts are merely particular and contingent forms within this whole. ~ [[David Bohm]] # I was persuaded and am, that God's way is first to turn a soul from its idols, both of heart, worship, and conversation, before it is capable of worship to the true and living God. ~ [[Roger Williams]] # God is not, as in scholasticism, the final subject of all predicates. He is being as unpredicable. The existence of the creature, in so far as it exists, is the existence of God, and the creature’s experience of God is therefore in the final analysis equally unpredicable. Neither can even be described; both can only be indicated. We can only point at reality, our own or God’s. The soul comes to the realization of God by knowledge, not as in the older Christian mysticism by love. Love is the garment of knowledge. The soul first trains itself by systematic unknowing until at last it confronts the only reality, the only knowledge, God manifest in itself. The soul can say nothing about this experience in the sense of defining it. It can only reveal it to others. ~ [[Kenneth Rexroth]] # We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. ~ [[Samuel Smiles]] # ''Calm soul of all things! make it mine <br> To feel, amid the city’s jar, <br> That there abides a peace of thine, <br> Man did not make, and cannot mar.'' <br> ~ [[Matthew Arnold]] ~ #''Joy to the world! the Lord is come; <br> Let earth receive her King.<br>Let ev'ry heart prepare Him room,<br>And heav'n and nature sing,<br>And heaven and nature sing,<br>And heaven, and heaven, and nature sing.''<br>~ [[Isaac Watts]] ~ # ''To each his suff'rings: all are men, <br> Condemn'd alike to groan,<br>The tender for another's pain;<br>Th' unfeeling for his own.<br>Yet ah! why should they know their fate?<br>Since sorrow never comes too late,<br>And happiness too swiftly flies.<br>Thought would destroy their paradise.<br>No more; where ignorance is bliss,<br>'Tis folly to be wise.''<br>~ [[Thomas Gray]] ~ # One does not ask of one who suffers: What is your country and what is your religion? One merely says: You suffer, that is enough for me... ~ [[Louis Pasteur]] # The external world of physics has … become a world of shadows. In removing our illusions we have removed the substance, for indeed we have seen that substance is one of the greatest of our illusions. ... The sparsely spread nuclei of electric force become a tangible solid; their restless agitation becomes the warmth of summer; the octave of aethereal vibrations becomes a gorgeous rainbow. Nor does the alchemy stop here. In the transmuted world new significances arise which are scarcely to be traced in the world of symbols; so that it becomes a world of beauty and purpose — and, alas, suffering and evil. <br> The frank realisation that physical science is concerned with a world of shadows is one of the most significant of recent advances. ~ [[Arthur Stanley Eddington]] # Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home. ~ [[William Ewart Gladstone]] # One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved. ~ [[Romain Rolland]] # At each stage I reach a balance, a conclusion. At the next sitting, if I find that there is a weakness in the whole, I make my way back into the picture by means of the weakness — I re-enter through the breach — and I reconceive the whole. Thus everything becomes fluid again. ~ [[Henri Matisse]] == [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/January 2011|January 2011]] == # All we do our whole lives is go from one little piece of Holy Ground to the next. ~ [[J. D. Salinger]] # Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. ~ [[Isaac Asimov]] # He who looks on a true friend looks, as it were, upon a kind of image of himself: wherefore friends, though absent, are still present; though in poverty, they are rich; though weak, yet in the enjoyment of health; and, what is still more difficult to assert, though dead, they are alive. ~ [[Cicero]] # The folly of Interpreters has been, to foretell times and things by this Prophecy, as if God designed to make them Prophets. By this rashness they have not only exposed themselves, but brought the Prophecy also into contempt. <br> The design of God was much otherwise. He gave this and the Prophecies of the Old Testament, not to gratify mens curiosities by enabling them to foreknow things, but that after they were fulfilled they might be interpreted by the event, and his own Providence, not the Interpreters, be then manifested thereby to the world. For the event of things predicted many ages before will then be a convincing argument that the world is governed by Providence. ~ [[Isaac Newton]] # In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that he did not also limit his stupidity. ~ [[Konrad Adenauer]] # Your thought advocates fame and show. Mine counsels me and implores me to cast aside notoriety and treat it like a grain of sand cast upon the shore of eternity. Your thought instills in your heart arrogance and superiority. Mine plants within me love for peace and the desire for independence. Your thought begets dreams of palaces with furniture of sandalwood studded with jewels, and beds made of twisted silk threads. My thought speaks softly in my ears, "Be clean in body and spirit even if you have nowhere to lay your head." Your thought makes you aspire to titles and offices. Mine exhorts me to humble service. ~ [[Khalil Gibran]] # We have inherited an incredibly beautiful and complex garden, but the trouble is that we have been appallingly bad gardeners. We have not bothered to acquaint ourselves with the simplest principles of gardening. By neglecting our garden, we are storing up for ourselves, in the not very distant future, a world catastrophe as bad as any atomic war, and we are doing it with all the bland complacency of an idiot child chopping up a Rembrandt with a pair of scissors. ~ [[Gerald Durrell]] # Some would be sages if they did not believe they were so already. ~ [[Baltasar Gracián]] # The individual is defined only by his relationship to the world and to other individuals; he exists only by transcending himself, and his freedom can be achieved only through the freedom of others. ~ [[Simone de Beauvoir]] # All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority. There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it. ~ [[John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton]] # We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers. ~ [[Abraham Joshua Heschel]] # The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered. ~ [[Edmund Burke]] # Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small. ~ [[Edmund Spenser]] # To relate oneself in the spirit of reverence for life to the multiform manifestations of the will-to-live which together constitute the world is ethical mysticism. All profound world-view is mysticism, the essence of which is just this: that out of my unsophisticated and naïve existence in the world there comes, as a result of thought about self and the world, spiritual self-devotion to the mysterious infinite Will which is continuously manifested in the universe. ~ [[Albert Schweitzer]] # ''Those whose conduct gives room for talk <br> Are always the first to attack their neighbors.'' ~ [[Molière]] # We are told we must choose — the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not a series of negotiations between the old and the new? It seems to me that one should always be seeking to talk oneself out of these stark oppositions. ~ [[Susan Sontag]] # I think all the heretics I have known have been virtuous men. They have the virtue of fortitude or they would not venture to own their heresy; and they cannot afford to be deficient in any of the other virtues, as that would give advantage to their many enemies; and they have not like orthodox sinners, such a number of friends to excuse or justify them. Do not, however mistake me. It is not to my good friend's heresy that I impute his honesty. On the contrary, 'tis his honesty that has brought upon him the character of heretic. ~ [[Benjamin Franklin]] # "[[w:Elohim|Elohim]]," the name for the creative power in ''[[w:Book of Genesis|Genesis]]'', is a female plural, a fact that generations of learned rabbis and Christian theologians have all explained as merely grammatical convention. The King James and most other Bibles translate it as "[[God]]," but if you take the grammar literally, it seems to mean "goddesses." [[w:El Shaddai|Al Shaddai]], god of battles, appears later, and [[w:Tetragrammaton|YHWH]], mispronounced [[Jehovah]], later still. ~ [[Robert Anton Wilson]] # I cannot consent to place in the control of others one who cannot control himself. ~ [[Robert E. Lee]] # If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer. ... It's the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled. Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of individuals or a collection of red states and blue states. <br> We are, and always will be, the United States of America. <br>It's the answer that led those who've been told for so long by so many to be cynical and fearful and doubtful about what we can achieve to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day. <br> It's been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this date in this election at this defining moment, change has come to America. ~ [[Barack Obama]] # The gods of the valley are not the gods of the hills, and you shall understand it. ~ [[Ethan Allen]] # Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince's part to pardon. ~ [[Francis Bacon]] # There is no such thing as natural law, the expression is nothing more than a silly anachronism … There is no such thing as right, except when there is a law to forbid a certain thing under pain of punishment. Before law existed, the only natural thing was the strength of the lion, or the need of a creature who was cold or hungry, to put it in one word, need. ~ [[Stendhal]] # Defer not till tomorrow to be wise, <br> Tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise. <br>~ [[William Congreve]] # Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible; [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]'s plays, for instance, seem to hang there complete by themselves. But when the web is pulled askew, hooked up at the edge, torn in the middle, one remembers that these webs are not spun in midair by incorporeal creatures, but are the work of suffering human beings, and are attached to the grossly material things, like health and money and the houses we live in. ~ [[Virginia Woolf]] # ''Yes, we hope to seed a new, rich earth.<br>We hope to breed a race of men whose power<br>Dwells in hearts as open as all Space<br>Itself, who ask for nothing but the light<br>That rinses the heart of hate so that the stars<br>Above will be below when man has Love.''<br> ~ [[Philip José Farmer]] ~ # I suppose every child has a world of his own — and every man, too, for the matter of that. I wonder if that's the cause for all the misunderstanding there is in Life? ~ [[Lewis Carroll]] # Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave. ~ [[Colette]] # It is never to be expected in a revolution that every man is to change his opinion at the same moment. There never yet was any truth or any principle so irresistibly obvious that all men believed it at once. Time and reason must cooperate with each other to the final establishment of any principle; and therefore those who may happen to be first convinced have not a right to persecute others, on whom conviction operates more slowly. The moral principle of revolutions is to instruct, not to destroy. ~ [[Thomas Paine]] # I have marched in many a battle host, but I have also planted seeds and reaped the harvest with my own hands. And I have learned there is greater honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood. ~ [[Lloyd Alexander]] # Attunement could occur through any of the great religions, but would be tied exclusively to none of them. A person could be attuned to an "integral spirituality" while still be a practicing Christian, Buddhist, New-Age advocate, or Neopagan. This would be something added to one's religion, not subtracted from it. The only thing it would subtract (and there's no way around this) is the belief that one's own path is the only true path to salvation. ~ [[Ken Wilber]] == [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/February 2011|February 2011]] == # Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. ~ [[w:Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Thirteenth Amendment]] to the [[United States Constitution]] # When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets. ~ [[James Joyce]] # Rights are always asserted in a tone of contention; and when this tone is adopted, it must rely upon force in the background, or else it will be laughed at. ~ [[Simone Weil]] # Getting up and criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time. Especially as you know in your heart that you would be doing more or less the same thing if you were in his place. ~ [[Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross]] # For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. ~ [[Adlai Stevenson]] # I believe with all my heart that our first priority must be world peace, and that use of force is always and only a last resort, when everything else has failed, and then only with regard to our national security. ~ [[Ronald Reagan]] # In no victory do they glory so much as in that which is gained by dexterity and good conduct without bloodshed. In such cases they appoint public triumphs, and erect trophies to the honour of those who have succeeded; for then do they reckon that a man acts suitably to his nature, when he conquers his enemy in such a way as that no other creature but a man could be capable of, and that is by the strength of his understanding. ~ [[Thomas More]] # ''There is no wealth but life.'' Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest numbers of noble and happy human beings; that man is richest, who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest helpful influence, both personal, and by means of his possessions, over the lives of others. ~ [[John Ruskin]] # Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest. <br> I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them. ~ [[Ecclesiastes]] # ''Let nothing be called natural <br>In an age of bloody confusion,<br>Ordered disorder, planned caprice,<br>And dehumanized humanity, lest all things<br>Be held unalterable!'' <br>~ [[Bertolt Brecht]] # I was sixteen years old when the first World War broke out, and I lived at that time in Hungary. From reading the newspapers in Hungary, it would have appeared that, whatever Austria and Germany did was right and whatever England, France, Russia, or America did was wrong. A good case could be made out for this general thesis, in almost every single instance. It would have been difficult for me to prove, in any single instance, that the newspapers were wrong, but somehow, it seemed to me unlikely that the two nations located in the center of Europe should be invariably right, and that all the other nations should be invariably wrong. History, I reasoned, would hardly operate in such a peculiar fashion, and it didn't take long until I began to hold views which were diametrically opposed to those held by the majority of my schoolmates. ~ [[Leó Szilárd]] # It is the eternal struggle between these two principles — right and wrong — throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time; and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity, and the other the divine right of kings. It is the same principle in whatever shape it develops itself. It is the same spirit that says, "You toil and work and earn bread, and I'll eat it." No matter in what shape it comes, whether from the mouth of a king who seeks to bestride the people of his own nation and live by the fruit of their labor, or from one race of men as an apology for enslaving another race, it is the same tyrannical principle. ~ [[Abraham Lincoln]] # <p>''He could not be captured,<br>He could not be bought,<br>His running was rhythm,<br>His standing was thought;<br>With one eye on sorrow<br>And one eye on mirth,<br>He galloped in heaven<br>And gambolled on earth.<br>And only the poet''</p><p>''With wings to his brain<br>Can mount him and ride him<br>Without any rein,<br>The stallion of heaven,<br>The steed of the skies,<br>The horse of the singer<br>Who sings as he flies.'' <br>~ [[Eleanor Farjeon]] ~</p> # Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. <br> Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.<br>Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.<br> When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. <br> And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. ~ [[Paul of Tarsus]] # Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science. Its principles may be eternal, but the expression of those principles requires continual development. ~ [[Alfred North Whitehead]] # Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education. ~ [[Henry Adams]] # I understand Being in all and over all, as there is nothing without participation in Being, and there is no being without Essence. Thus nothing can be free of the Divine Presence. ~ [[Giordano Bruno]] # The Great Spirit does not toil within the bounds of human time, place, or casualty.<br> The Great Spirit is superior to these human questionings. It teems with many rich and wandering drives which to our shallow minds seem contradictory; but in the essence of divinity they fraternize and struggle together, faithful comrades-in-arms. <br> The primordial Spirit branches out, overflows, struggles, fails, succeeds, trains itself. It is the Rose of the Winds. ~ [[Nikos Kazantzakis]] # ''Baby, I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the grave.<br>Ooh, the more I get of you,<br>Stranger it feels, yeah.<br>And now that your rose is in bloom,<br>A light hits the gloom on the grave.''<br> ~ [[Seal]] # I will, in the name of humanity which is outraged, in the name of liberty which is fettered, in the name of the constitution and the Bible, which are disregarded and trampled upon, dare to call in question and to denounce, with all the emphasis I can command, everything that serves to perpetuate slavery — the great sin and shame of America! "I will not equivocate; I will not excuse;" I will use the severest language I can command; and yet not one word shall escape me that any man, whose judgement is not blinded by prejudice, or who is not at heart a slaveholder, shall not confess to be right and just. ~ [[Frederick Douglass]] # We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream. ~ [[Anaïs Nin]] # ''The world stands out on either side<br>No wider than the heart is wide;<br>Above the world is stretched the sky, —<br>No higher than the soul is high.<br>The heart can push the sea and land<br>Farther away on either hand;<br>The soul can split the sky in two,<br>And let the face of God shine through.<br>But East and West will pinch the heart<br>That can not keep them pushed apart;<br>And he whose soul is flat — the sky<br>Will cave in on him by and by.'' <br> ~ [[Edna St. Vincent Millay]] ~ # There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm. ~ [[John Heyl Vincent]] # God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless. ~ [[Chester W. Nimitz]] # If there is victory in overcoming the enemy, there is a greater victory when a man overcomes himself. ~ [[José de San Martín]] # God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art. ~ [[Victor Hugo]] # Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, — but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite. ~ [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]] # Science cannot be stopped. Man will gather knowledge no matter what the consequences — and we cannot predict what they will be. Science will go on — whether we are pessimistic, or are optimistic, as I am. I know that great, interesting, and valuable discoveries can be made and will be made… But I know also that still more interesting discoveries will be made that I have not the imagination to describe — and I am awaiting them, full of curiosity and enthusiasm. ~ [[Linus Pauling]] == [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/March 2011|March 2011]] == # My social and political interests are part of my career. I cannot separate them. My songs reflect the human condition. The role of art isn't just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be. ~ [[Harry Belafonte]] # I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos. Look at the sun. If there is no sun, then we cannot exist. So nature is my god. To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals. ~ [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] # Those who try to combat the production of shoddy pictures are enemies of the best art today. Those woodland lakes in a thousand sitting-rooms with gold-tinted wallpaper belong to the profoundest inspirations of art. It always feels tragic to see people labouring to saw off the branch they are sitting on. ~ [[Asger Jorn]] # The idea of "crime" in existing criminology is artificial, for what is called crime is really an infringement of "existing laws", whereas "laws" are very often a manifestation of barbarism and violence. Such are the prohibiting laws of different kinds which abound in modern life. The number of these laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm. On the other hand, unquestionable crimes escape the field of vision of criminology, either because they have not recognized the form of crime or because they surpass a certain scale. In existing criminology there are concepts: a criminal man, a criminal profession, a criminal society, a criminal sect, and a criminal tribe, but there is no concept of a criminal state, or a criminal government, or criminal legislation. Consequently what is often regarded as "political" activity is in fact a criminal activity. ~ [[P. D. Ouspensky]] # ''This is a haunted world. It hath no breeze <br> But is the echo of some voice beloved: <br> Its pines have human tones; its billows wear <br> The color and the sparkle of dear eyes. <br> Its flowers are sweet with touch of tender hands <br> That once clasped ours. All things are beautiful <br> Because of something lovelier than themselves, <br> Which breathes within them, and will never die. — <br> Haunted, — but not with any spectral gloom; <br> Earth is suffused, inhabited by heaven.'' <br> ~ [[Lucy Larcom]] # Most men judge only by their senses and let themselves be persuaded by what they see... On top of that, insufferable vanity has convinced humans that nature has been made only for them, as though the sun, a huge body four hundred and thirty-four times as large as the earth, had been lit only to ripen our crab apples and cabbages. … Do people really think that because the sun gives us light every day and year, it was made only to keep us from bumping into walls? No, no, this visible god gives light to man by accident, as a king's torch accidentally shines upon a working man or burglar passing in the street. ~ [[Cyrano de Bergerac]] # I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. ~ [[Aristotle]] # You cannot avoid making judgements but you can become more conscious of the way in which you make them. This is critically important because once we judge someone or something we tend to stop thinking about them or it. Which means, among other things, that we behave in response to our judgements rather than to that to which is being judged. People and things are processes. Judgements convert them into fixed states. This is one reason that judgements are often self-fulfilling. ~ [[Neil Postman]] # It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? for the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind; how the observation of last year seems childish, superficial; how this year — even this week — even with this new phrase — it seems to us that we have grown to a new maturity. It may be a fallacious persuasion, but at least it is stimulating, and so long as it persists, one does not stagnate. ~ [[Vita Sackville-West]] # ''Where storm-born shadows hide and hunt <br> I knew thee, in thy glorious youth, <br> And loved thy vast face, white as truth; <br> I stood where thunderbolts were wont <br> To smite thy Titan-fashioned front, <br> And heard dark mountains rock and roll; <br> I saw the lightning's gleaming rod <br> Reach forth and write on heaven's scroll <br> The awful autograph of God!'' <br> ~ [[Joaquin Miller]] # I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day. ~ [[Douglas Adams]] # All is well, practice kindness, heaven is nigh. ~ [[Jack Kerouac]] # I believe the root of all happiness on this earth to lie in the realization of a spiritual life with a consciousness of something wider than materialism; in the capacity to live in a world that makes you unselfish because you are not overanxious about your own comic fallibilities; that gives you tranquility without complacency because you believe in something so much larger than yourself. ~ [[Hugh Walpole]] # ''With wonderful deathless ditties <br> We build up the world's great cities, <br> And out of a fabulous story <br> We fashion an empire's glory: <br> One man with a dream, at pleasure, <br> Shall go forth and conquer a crown; <br> And three with a new song's measure <br> Can trample a kingdom down.'' <br>~ [[Arthur O'Shaughnessy]] # Beware the March of Ideas? ~ [[Neil Gaiman]] # One can start from the perspective of a religious naturalist or from the perspective of the world religions and arrive at the same place: a moral imperative that this Earth and its creatures be respected and cherished. ~ [[Ursula Goodenough]] # That truth-is-stranger-than-fiction factor keeps getting jacked up on us on a fairly regular, maybe even exponential, basis. I think that's something peculiar to our time. I don't think our grandparents had to live with that. ~ [[William Gibson]] # ''None will break ranks, though nations trek from progress. <br> Courage was mine, and I had mystery; <br> Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery; <br> To miss the march of this retreating world <br> Into vain citadels that are not walled.''<br> ~ [[Wilfred Owen]] # Reason is Life's sole arbiter, the magic Laby'rinth's single clue:<br>Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne'er be true. ~ [[Richard Francis Burton|Sir Richard Francis Burton]] # When we dead awaken. ... We see that we have never lived. ~ [[Henrik Ibsen]] # ''The year's at the spring, <br> And day's at the morn; <br> Morning's at seven; <br> The hill-side's dew-pearl'd; <br> The lark's on the wing; <br> The snail's on the thorn; <br> God's in His heaven — <br> All's right with the world!'' <br> ~ [[Robert Browning]] # ''The Night has a thousand eyes, <br> And the Day but one; <br> Yet the light of the bright world dies <br> With the dying sun. <br> The mind has a thousand eyes, <br> And the heart but one; <br> Yet the light of a whole life dies <br> When love is done.'' <br> ~ [[Francis William Bourdillon]] ~ # I believe that love is the main key to open the doors to the "growth" of man. Love and union with someone or something outside of oneself, union that allows one to put oneself into relationship with others, to feel one with others, without limiting the sense of integrity and independence. ~ [[Erich Fromm]] # ''Almighty Freedom! give my venturous song <br> The force, the charm that to thy voice belong; <br> Tis thine to shape my course, to light my way, <br> To nerve my country with the patriot lay, <br> To teach all men where all their interest lies, <br> How rulers may be just and nations wise: <br> Strong in thy strength I bend no suppliant knee, <br> Invoke no miracle, no Muse but thee.'' <br> ~ [[Joel Barlow]] ~ # Our whole evolution has reached a stage where nearly every man is either ruler or ruled; sometimes he is both. By this the attitude of dependence has been greatly strengthened, for a truly free man does not like to play the part of either the ruler or the ruled. He is, above all, concerned with making his inner values and personal powers effective in a way as to permit him to use his own judgment in all affairs and to be independent in action. ~ [[Rudolf Rocker]] # In the Name of Allah the Merciful, the Compassionate, Who manifests Himself through everything, the revelation of a clear knowing to whomsoever He wishes, peace be upon you, my son. This praise belongs to Allah Who manifests Himself on the head of a pin to whom He wishes, so that one testifies that He is not, and another testifies that there is none other than He. But the witnessing in the denying of Him is not rejected, and the witnessing in the affirming of Him is not praised. ~ [[Mansur Al-Hallaj]] # Today, there are too many points of view of equal value and prestige, each showing the relativity of the other, to permit us to take any one position and to regard it as impregnable and absolute. Only this socially disorganized intellectual situation makes possible the insight, hidden until now by a generally stable social structure and the practicability of certain traditional norms, that every point of view is particular to a social situation. ~ [[Karl Mannheim]] # I saw an angel close by me, on my left side, in bodily form. This I am not accustomed to see, unless very rarely. Though I have visions of angels frequently, yet I see them only by an intellectual vision, such as I have spoken of before. It was our Lord's will that in this vision I should see the angel in this wise. He was not large, but small of stature, and most beautiful — his face burning, as if he were one of the highest angels, who seem to be all of fire: they must be those whom we call cherubim. ~ [[Teresa of Ávila]] # ''I am like a tree, <br> From my top boughs I can see <br> The footprints that led up to me.'' <br> ~ [[R. S. Thomas]] ~ # But my God, how beautiful [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]] is, who else is as mysterious as he is; his language and method are like a brush trembling with excitement and ecstasy. But one must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live. ~ [[Vincent van Gogh]] # ''Fate with jealous eye does see <br> Two perfect loves, nor lets them close: <br> Their union would her ruin be, <br> And her tyrranic power depose. <br> And therefore her decrees of steel <br> Us as the distant Poles have placed <br> (Though Love's whole world on us doth wheel) <br> Not by themselves to be embraced, <br> Unless the giddy heaven fall, <br> And earth some new convulsion tear; <br> And, us to join, the world should all <br> Be cramped into a planisphere. <br> As lines (so loves) oblique may well <br> Themselves in every angle greet: <br> But ours so truly parallel, <br> Though infinite, can never meet. <br> Therefore the love which us doth bind, <br> But Fate so enviously debars, <br> Is the conjunction of the mind, <br> And opposition of the stars.'' <br> ~ [[Andrew Marvell]] == [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/April 2011|April 2011]] == # I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail. ~ [[Abraham Maslow]] # My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good. My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it. It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless. ~ [[Giacomo Casanova]] # We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in a cold, impartial intellect which only brings us nearer to destruction. We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all. ~ [[Dora Russell]] # ''You may write me down in history <br> With your bitter, twisted lies, <br> You may trod me in the very dirt <br> But still, like dust, I'll rise.'' <br>~ [[Maya Angelou]] ~ # ''At the door of life, by the gate of breath, <br> There are worse things waiting for men than death; <br> Death could not sever my soul and you, <br> As these have severed your soul from me.'' <br> ~ [[Algernon Swinburne]] ~ # I believe neither in what I touch nor what I see. I only believe in what I do not see, and solely in what I feel. ~ [[Gustave Moreau]] # When I die, I want to die in a Utopia that I have helped to build. ~ [[Henry Kuttner]] # ''Life by life and love by love <br> We passed through the cycles strange, <br> And breath by breath and death by death <br> We followed the chain of change. <br> Till there came a time in the law of life <br> When o’er the nursing sod, <br> The shadows broke and soul awoke <br> In a strange, dim dream of God.'' <br> ~ [[Langdon Smith]] ~ # Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind, and science without conscience is but the ruin of the soul. ~ [[François Rabelais]] # ''Oh Master of the Beautiful, <br> Creating us from hour to hour, <br> Give me this vision to the full <br> To see in lightest things thy power! <br> This vision give, no heaven afar, <br> No throne, and yet I will rejoice, <br> Knowing beneath my feet a star, <br> Thy word in every wandering voice.''<br> ~ [[George William Russell|Æ]] ~ # I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong. ~ [[Leo Rosten]] # I don't know what God is, or what God had in mind when the universe was set in motion. In fact, I don't know if God even exists, although I confess that I sometimes find myself praying in times of great fear, or despair, or astonishment at a display of unexpected beauty. There are some ten thousand religious sects — each with its own cosmology, each with its own answer for the meaning of life and death. Most assert that the other 9,999 not only have it completely wrong but are instruments of evil, besides. None of the ten thousand has yet persuaded me to make the requisite leap of faith. In the absence of conviction, I've come to terms with the fact that uncertainty is an inescapable corollary of life. An abundance of mystery is simply part of the bargain — which doesn't strike me as something to lament. Accepting the essential inscrutability of existence, in any case, is surely preferable to its opposite: capitulating to the tyranny of intransigent belief. And if I remain in the dark about our purpose here, and the meaning of eternity, I have nevertheless arrived at an understanding of a few modest truths: Most of us fear death. Most of us yearn to comprehend how we got here, and why — which is to say, most of us ache to know the love of our creator. And we will no doubt feel that ache, most of us, for as long as we happen to be alive. ~ [[Jon Krakauer]] # There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive. ~ [[Thomas Jefferson]] # It is necessary that I climb very high because of my love for you, and upon the heights there is silence. ~ [[James Branch Cabell]] # ''I am a being of Heaven and Earth, <br> of thunder and lightning, <br> of rain and wind, <br> of the galaxies, <br> of the suns and the stars <br> and the void through which they travel. <br> The essence of nature, <br> eternal, divine that all men seek to know to hear, <br> known as the great illusion time, <br> and the all-prevailing atmosphere. <br> And now you know my background.'' <br> ~ [[Eden Ahbez|eden ahbez]] ~ # It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be. ~ [[Anatole France]] # ''Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame. <br> Take the moral law and make a nave of it <br> And from the nave build haunted heaven. Thus, <br> The conscience is converted into palms, <br> Like windy citherns hankering for hymns. <br> We agree in principle. That's clear. But take <br> The opposing law and make a peristyle, <br> And from the peristyle project a masque <br> Beyond the planets. Thus, our bawdiness, <br> Unpurged by epitaph, indulged at last, <br> Is equally converted into palms, <br> Squiggling like saxophones. And palm for palm, <br> Madame, we are where we began.'' <br> ~ [[Wallace Stevens]] ~ # Instead … of saying that Man is the creature of Circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that Man is the architect of Circumstance. It is Character which builds an existence out of Circumstance. Our strength is measured by our plastic power. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels, one warehouses, another villas. ~ [[George Henry Lewes]] # We painters use the same license as poets and madmen. ~ [[Paolo Veronese]] # Society, in the aggregate, is no fool. It is astonishing what an amount of "eccentricity" it will stand from anybody who takes the bull by the horns, too fearless or too indifferent to think of consequences. ~ [[Dinah Craik]] # Therapy isn't curing somebody of something; it is a means of helping a person explore himself, his life, his consciousness. My purpose as a therapist is to find out what it means to be human. Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, "This is me and the world be damned!" Leaders have always been the ones to stand against the society — [[Socrates]], [[Jesus|Christ]], [[Sigmund Freud|Freud]], all the way down the line. ~ [[Rollo May]] # Art at its greatest is fantastically deceitful and complex. ~ [[Vladimir Nabokov]] # ''The poet’s eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, <br> Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; <br> And, as imagination bodies forth <br> The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen <br> Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing <br> A local habitation and a name.'' <br> ~ [[William Shakespeare]] in ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'' # However great the work that God may achieve by an individual, he must not indulge in self-satisfaction. He ought rather to be all the more humbled, seeing himself merely as a tool which God has made use of. ~ [[Vincent de Paul]] # What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease. ~ [[Sun Tzu]] # It costs so much to be a full human being that there are very few who have the enlightenment, or the courage, to pay the price … One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach out to the risk of living with both arms. One has to embrace the world like a lover, and yet demand no easy return of love. One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying. ~ [[Morris West]] # The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful to society, had that society been well organized. ~ [[Mary Wollstonecraft]] # “The secret is not to dream … The secret is to wake up. Waking up is harder. I have woken up and I am real. I know where I come from and I know where I'm going. You cannot fool me anymore. Or touch me. Or anything that is mine.” <br> I'll never be like this again, she thought, as she saw the terror in the Queen's face. I'll never again feel as tall as the sky and as old as the hills and as strong as the sea. I've been given something for a while, and the price of it is that I have to give it back.<br> And the reward is giving it back, too. No human could live like this. You could spend a day looking at a flower to see how wonderful it is, and that wouldn't get the milking done. No wonder we dream our way through our lives. To be awake, and see it all as it really is … no one could stand that for long. ~ [[Terry Pratchett]] in ''[[Discworld#The_Wee_Free_Men_.282003.29|The Wee Free Men]]'' # If all the parts of the universe are interchained in a certain measure, any one phenomenon will not be the effect of a single cause, but the resultant of causes infinitely numerous. ~ [[Henri Poincaré]] # Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of them, achieving balance. ~ [[Taisen Deshimaru]] == [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/May 2011|May 2011]] == # I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality. ~ [[Joseph Addison]] # Language is the dynamics of the spiritual realm. One word of command moves armies; the word Liberty entire nations. ~ [[Novalis]] # It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? … Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either. ~ [[Golda Meir]] # Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike. ~ [[Horace Mann]] # Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. ~ [[Karl Marx]] # One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse. The horse provides the locomotor energy, and the rider has the prerogative of determining the goal and of guiding the movements of his powerful mount towards it. But all too often in the relations between the ego and the id we find a picture of the less ideal situation in which the rider is obliged to guide his horse in the direction in which it itself wants to go. ~ [[Sigmund Freud]] # You cannot rely upon what you have been taught. All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do. ~ [[Edwin H. Land]] # Is there a greater tragedy imaginable than that, in our endeavour consciously to shape our future in accordance with high ideals, we should in fact unwittingly produce the very opposite of what we have been striving for? ~ [[Friedrich Hayek]] # It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing known for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children. ~ [[J. M. Barrie]] # I do not preach universal salvation, what I say is that I cannot exclude the possibility that God would save all men at the Judgment. ~ [[Karl Barth]] # Silence is difficult and arduous, it is not to be played with. It isn't something that you can experience by reading a book, or by listening to a talk, or by sitting together, or by retiring into a wood or a monastery. I am afraid none of these things will bring about this silence. This silence demands intense psychological work. You have to be burningly aware of your snobbishness, aware of your fears, your anxieties, your sense of guilt. And when you die to all that, then out of that dying comes the beauty of silence. ~ [[Jiddu Krishnamurti]] # People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer, and so on; but if anyone attempts the real imitation of Him, there are no bounds to the outcry with which the presumption of that person is condemned. ~ [[Florence Nightingale]] # If any such lover be in earth which is continually kept from falling, I know it not: for it was not shewed me. But this was shewed: that in falling and in rising we are ever preciously kept in one Love. ~ [[Julian of Norwich]] # What ideas individuals may attach to the term "Millennium" I know not; but I know that society may be formed so as to exist without crime, without poverty, with health greatly improved, with little, if any misery, and with intelligence and happiness increased a hundredfold; and no obstacle whatsoever intervenes at this moment except ignorance to prevent such a state of society from becoming universal. ~ [[Robert Owen]] # There seems to be a kind of order in the universe, in the movement of the stars and the turning of the earth and the changing of the seasons, and even in the cycle of human life. But human life itself is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own rights and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own. ~ [[Katherine Anne Porter]] # Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised. ~ [[Marcus Aurelius]] # While all brutal forces clash with themselves, all moral forces make mighty harmony together. ~ [[Henri Barbusse]] # Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance. ~ [[Bertrand Russell]] # To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery. ~ [[Abraham Pais]] # Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from. ~ [[Honoré de Balzac]] # Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. ~ [[Alexander Pope]] # How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? ~ [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] in ''[[Sherlock_Holmes#The_Sign_of_the_Four_.281890.29|The Sign of the Four]]'' # Climbing the dusty hill, some fair effigies that once stood for symbols of human destiny have been broken; those I still have with me show defects in this broad light. Yet enough is left, even by experience, to point distinctly to the glories of that destiny; faint, but not to be mistaken streaks of the future day. I can say with the bard, <br> "Though many have suffered shipwreck, still beat noble hearts." <br> Always the soul says to us all, Cherish your best hopes as a faith, and abide by them in action. Such shall be the effectual fervent means to their fulfilment. ~ [[Margaret Fuller]] # Magic words and incantations are as fatal to our science as they are to any other. Methods, when classified and separated, acquire their true bearing and perspective as a means to an end, not as ends in themselves. We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion. ~ [[Benjamin N. Cardozo]] # ''I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. <br> I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. <br> I learn by going where I have to go.''<br> ~ [[Theodore Roethke]] ~ # Over and over, people try to design systems that make tomorrow's work easy. But when tomorrow comes it turns out they didn't quite understand tomorrow's work, and they actually made it harder. ~ [[Ward Cunningham]] # This is a test. Take notes. This will count as 3/4 of your final grade. Hints: remember, in chess, kings cancel each other out and cannot occupy adjacent squares, are therefore all-powerful and totally powerless, cannot affect each other, produce stalemate. Hinduism is a polytheistic religion; the sect of [[w:Atman|Atman]] worships the divine spark of life within Man; in effect saying, "[[w:Thou Art God|Thou art God]]." Provisos of equal time are not served by one viewpoint having media access to two hundred million people in prime time while opposing viewpoints are provided with a soapbox on the corner. Not everyone tells the truth. ~ [[Harlan Ellison]] in "[[w:The Deathbird|The Deathbird]]" # What I am interested in is the relationship between the blundering human being and God. I belong to no church, but I have a religious faith; it's an attempt to express that, among other things, that I try to do. Whether he confesses to being religious or not, everyone has a religious faith of a kind. I myself am a blundering human being with a belief in God who made us and we got out of hand, a kind of Frankenstein monster. Everyone can make mistakes, including God. I believe God does intervene; I think there is a Divine Power, a Creator, who has an influence on human beings if they are willing to be open to him. ~ [[Patrick White]] # Religious and philosophical beliefs are, indeed, as dangerous as fire, and nothing can take from them that beauty of danger. But there is only one way of really guarding ourselves against the excessive danger of them, and that is to be steeped in philosophy and soaked in religion. ~ [[G. K. Chesterton]] # No one can want to destroy without having some idea, true or false, of the order of things that should, according to him or her, replace what presently exists. ~ [[Mikhail Bakunin]] # ''It is time to explain myself — let us stand up. <br> What is known I strip away, <br> I launch all men and women forward with me into the Unknown. <br> The clock indicates the moment — but what does eternity indicate?'' <br> ~ [[Walt Whitman]] in ''[[Leaves_of_Grass#Song_of_Myself_.281855.3B_1881.29|Song of Myself]]'' ~ == [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/June 2011|June 2011]] == # With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin that can be left for accidents. ~ [[Carl von Clausewitz]] # ''Each in his own opinion <br> Exceeding stiff and strong, <br> Though each was partly in the right <br> And all were in the wrong. <br> So oft in theologic wars, <br> The disputants, I ween, <br> Rail on in utter ignorance <br> Of what each other mean, <br> And prate about an Elephant <br> Not one of them has seen!'' <br> ~ [[John Godfrey Saxe]] ~ # Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. ~ [[Sydney Smith]] # Be aware of wonder. And then remember the Dick and Jane books and the first word you learned — the biggest word of all — LOOK. ~ [[Robert Fulghum]] # [[Isaac Newton|Newton]] was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind that looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10000 years ago. ~ [[John Maynard Keynes]] # Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. ~ [[Thomas Mann]] # A time will come when people will think I am a myth, or rather something the newspapers have made up. ~ [[Paul Gauguin]] # Every generation of humans believed it had all the answers it needed, except for a few mysteries they assumed would be solved at any moment. And they all believed their ancestors were simplistic and deluded. What are the odds that you are the first generation of humans who will understand reality? ~ [[Scott Adams]] # ''I want to ride to the ridge where the west commences <br> And gaze at the moon till I lose my senses <br> I can't look at hobbles and I can't stand fences <br> Don't fence me in.'' <br> ~ [[Cole Porter]] ~ # Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We sentimentalize children, but they know what's real and what's not. They understand metaphor and symbol. ~ [[Maurice Sendak]] # It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul. So the decision-making of daily life involves not, as in normal affairs, shifting from one annoying situation to another less annoying — or from discomfort to relative comfort, or from boredom to activity — but moving from pain to pain. One does not abandon, even briefly, one's bed of nails, but is attached to it wherever one goes. ~ [[William Styron]] # I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that gives access to hidden treasure. ~ [[Djuna Barnes]] # ''All hatred driven hence, <br> The soul recovers radical innocence <br> And learns at last that it is self-delighting, <br> Self-appeasing, self-affrighting, <br> And that its own sweet will is Heaven’s will; <br> She can, though every face should scowl <br> And every windy quarter howl <br> Or every bellows burst, be happy still.'' <br> ~ [[William Butler Yeats]] ~ # In moments of great peril it is easy to muster a powerful response to moral stimuli; but for them to retain their effect requires the development of a consciousness in which there is a new priority of values. ~ [[Che Guevara]] # When established identities become outworn or unfinished ones threaten to remain incomplete, special crises compel men to wage holy wars, by the crudest means, against those who seem to question or threaten their unsafe ideological bases. ~ [[Erik Erikson]] #The mocker is never taken seriously when he is most serious. ~ [[James Joyce]] in ''[[Ulysses (novel)|Ulysses]]'' # ''In brightest day, in blackest night, <br> No evil shall escape my sight <br> Let those who worship evil's might, <br> Beware my power... <br> Green Lantern's light!'' <br> ~ [[Green Lantern]] # [[w:Battle of Waterloo|Waterloo]] will wipe out the memory of my forty victories; but that which nothing can wipe out is my [[w:Napoleonic code|Civil Code]]. That will live forever. ~ [[Napoleon I of France]] # Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I've gone which would not have happened if I had not come. Nor am I particularly exceptional in this matter; each "I", everyone of the now-six-hundred-million-plus of us, contains a similar multitude. I repeat for the last time: to understand me, you'll have to swallow a world. ~ [[Salman Rushdie]] #<p>''[[Andrew Jackson|Ole Hickory]] said we could take 'em by surprise, <br> If we didn't fire our muskets 'til we looked 'em in the eyes. <br> We held our fire 'til we seed their faces well, <br> Then we opened up our squirrel guns an' really gave 'em ...well!''</p><p>''Yeah, they ran through the briars an' they ran through the brambles <br> An' they ran through the bushes where the rabbits couldn't go. <br> They ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch 'em <br> Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.'' <br> ~ [[Jimmy Driftwood]] ~ </p> # Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we are saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore, we are saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own; therefore, we are saved by the final form of love, which is forgiveness. ~ [[Reinhold Niebuhr]] # That government is best which makes itself unnecessary. ~ [[Wilhelm von Humboldt]] # ''You will hear thunder and remember me, <br> And think: she wanted storms. The rim <br> Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson, <br> And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.'' <br>~ [[Anna Akhmatova]] ~ # ''A thousand graces diffusing <br> He passed through the groves in haste, <br> And merely regarding them <br> As He passed <br> Clothed them with His beauty.'' <br /> ~ [[John of the Cross]] ~ # Properly speaking, there is no such thing as revenge. Revenge is an act which you want to commit when you are powerless and because you are powerless: as soon as the sense of impotence is removed, the desire evaporates also. ~ [[George Orwell]] # All of us, without being taught, have attained to a belief in some sort of divinity, though it is not easy for all men to know the precise truth about it, nor is it possible for those who do know it to tell it to all men. ~ [[Julian]] # The lunatics end up in charge of everything. Sane, normal people don't need power trips. ~ [[James P. Hogan]] # Think not the bigotry of another is any excuse for your own. ~ [[John Wesley]] # <p>''The heart of God through his creation stirs, <br> We thrill to feel it, trembling as the flowers <br> That die to live again, — his messengers, <br> To keep faith firm in these sad souls of ours.''</p><p>''The waves of Time may devastate our lives, <br> The frosts of age may check our failing breath, <br> They shall not touch the spirit that survives <br> Triumphant over doubt and pain and death.'' <br> ~ [[Celia Thaxter]] ~ </p> # ''And space, what it is like? Is it mechanical,<br>[[Isaac Newton|Newtonian]]? A frozen prison?<br>Or the lofty space of [[Albert Einstein|Einstein]], the relation<br>Between movement and movement? No reason to pretend<br>I know. I don't know, and if I did,<br>Still my imagination is a thousand years old.'' <br>~ [[Czesław Miłosz]] ~ == [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/July 2011|July 2011]] == # The truth is too simple: one must always get there by a complicated route. ~ [[George Sand]] # Every symbol and combination of symbols led not hither and yon, not to single examples, experiments, and proofs, but into the center, the mystery and innermost heart of the world, into primal knowledge. Every transition from major to minor in a sonata, every transformation of a myth or a religious cult, every classical or artistic formulation was, I realized in that flashing moment, if seen with a meditative mind, nothing but a direct route into the interior of the cosmic mystery, where in the alternation between inhaling and exhaling, between heaven and earth, between Yin and Yang, holiness is forever being created. ~ [[Hermann Hesse]] #You can only be young once but you can be immature forever. ~ [[Dave Barry]] # Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. ~ [[Thomas Jefferson]] in the ''[[United States Declaration of Independence|US Declaration of Independence]]'' # Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities. ~ [[Jean Cocteau]] # We need a little more compassion, and if we cannot have it then no politician or even a magician can save the planet. ~ [[Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama]] # Any social organization does well enough if it isn't rigid. The framework doesn't matter as long as there is enough looseness to permit that one man in a multitude to display his genius. Most so-called social scientists seem to think that organization is everything. It is almost nothing — except when it is a straitjacket. It is the incidence of heroes that counts, not the pattern of zeros. ~ [[Robert A. Heinlein]] in ''[[Glory Road]]'' # People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. ~ [[Elisabeth Kübler-Ross]] # If they dare to come out in the open field and defend the gold standard as a good thing, we will fight them to the uttermost. Having behind us the producing masses of this nation and the world, supported by the commercial interests, the laboring interests and the toilers everywhere, we will answer their demand for a gold standard by saying to them: You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold. ~ [[William Jennings Bryan]] # When from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, still, alone, more fragile, but with more vitality, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, the smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls, ready to remind us, waiting and hoping for their moment, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unfaltering, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection. ~ [[Marcel Proust]] # "[[w:In God We Trust|In God We Trust]]." … It is simple, direct, gracefully phrased: it always sounds well — In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true. And in a measure it is true — half the nation trusts in Him. That half has decided it. ~ [[Mark Twain]] # I have to say, I think that we are in some kind of final examination as to whether human beings now, with this capability to acquire information and to communicate, whether we're really qualified to take on the responsibility we're designed to be entrusted with. And this is not a matter of an examination of the types of governments, nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with economic systems. It has to do with the individual. Does the individual have the courage to really go along with the truth? ~ [[Buckminster Fuller]] # Men willingly believe what they wish. ~ [[Julius Caesar]] # I have been an anarchist all my life. I hope I have remained one. I should consider it very sad indeed had I to turn to a General and rule men with a military rod. They have come to me voluntarily, they are ready to stake their lives in our antifascist fight. I believe, as I always have, in freedom. The freedom which rests on the sense of responsibility. I consider discipline indispensable, but it must be inner discipline, motivated by a common purpose and a strong feeling of comradeship. ~ [[Buenaventura Durruti]] # It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. ~ [[J. K. Rowling]] in ''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]]'' # What I mean is, lots of time you don't know what interests you most till you start talking about something that doesn't interest you most. I mean you can't help it sometimes. What I think is, you're supposed to leave somebody alone if he's at least being interesting and he's getting all excited about something. I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice. ~ [[J. D. Salinger]] in ''[[The Catcher in the Rye]]'' # ''Never give up! it is wiser and better <br> Always to hope, than once to despair.'' <br> ~ [[Martin Farquhar Tupper]] ~ # If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. ~ [[Nelson Mandela]] # It is very good to copy what one sees; it is much better to draw what you can't see any more but is in your memory. It is a transformation in which imagination and memory work together. You only reproduce what struck you, that is to say the necessary. ~ [[Edgar Degas]] # Books have led some to learning and others to madness, when they swallow more than they can digest. ~ [[Petrarch]] # Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. ~ [[Ernest Hemingway]] # Do not disturb my circles! ~ [[Archimedes]] # The [[First Amendment to the United States Constitution|First Amendment]] is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech. ~ [[Anthony Kennedy]] # ''God give us men. The time demands <br> Strong minds, great hearts, true faith, and willing hands;<br> Men whom the lust of office does not kill;<br>Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy; <br>Men who possess opinions and a will;<br>Men who have honor; men who will not lie; <br>Men who can stand before a demagogue <br>And damn his treacherous flatteries without winking; <br>Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog<br>In public duty and in private thinking.''<br>~ [[Josiah Gilbert Holland]] ~ # It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations — past and present — are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hunger, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millennia. Thus, we are up against the paradox that the individual who is more complex, unpredictable, and mysterious than any communal entity is the one nearest to our understanding; so near that even the interval of millennia cannot weaken our feeling of kinship. If in some manner the voice of an individual reaches us from the remotest distance of time, it is a timeless voice speaking about ourselves. ~ [[Eric Hoffer]] # The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer. ~ [[George Bernard Shaw]] # I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. ~ [[Hilaire Belloc]] #<p>''The World is charged with the grandeur of God.<br>It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;<br>It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil<br>Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?<br>Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;<br>And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;<br>And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell: the soil<br>Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.''</p><p>''And for all this, nature is never spent;<br>There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;<br>And though the last lights off the black West went<br>Oh morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs —<br>Because the Holy Ghost over the bent<br>World broods with the warm breast and with ah! bright wings.''<br>~ [[Gerard Manley Hopkins]] ~</p> # Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. A mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning. ~ [[Dag Hammarskjöld]] # ''I love the whirling of the dervishes. <br>I love the beauty of rare innocence.<br>You don't need no crystal ball, <br>Don't fall for a magic wand. <br>We humans got it all, <br>We perform the miracles.'' <br>~ [[Kate Bush]] ~ # The Potter books in general are a prolonged argument for tolerance, a prolonged plea for an end to bigotry, and I think it's one of the reasons that some people don't like the books, but I think that it's a very healthy message to pass on to younger people that you should question authority and you should not assume that the establishment or the press tells you all of the truth. ~ [[J. K. Rowling]] == [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/August 2011|August 2011]] == # There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is. ~ [[Herman Melville]] in ''[[The Confidence-Man]]'' # Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles. ~ [[John Tyndall]] # Much of what we see in the universe … starts out as imaginary. Often you must imagine something before you can come to terms with it. ~ [[Clifford D. Simak]] # I believe deeply that we cannot solve the challenges of our time unless we solve them together — unless we perfect our union by understanding that we may have different stories, but we hold common hopes; that we may not look the same and we may not have come from the same place, but we all want to move in the same direction — towards a better future for of children and our grandchildren. ~ [[Barack Obama]] # We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives, so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption that what is good for the world will be good for us. ~ [[Wendell Berry]] #<p>''Like an Aeolian harp that wakes <br> No certain air, but overtakes <br> Far thought with music that it makes:''</p><p>''Such seem'd the whisper at my side: <br> "What is it thou knowest, sweet voice?" I cried. <br> "A hidden hope," the voice replied:''</p><p>''So heavenly-toned, that in that hour <br> From out my sullen heart a power <br> Broke, like the rainbow from the shower,''</p><p>''To feel, altho' no tongue can prove <br> That every cloud, that spreads above <br> And veileth love, itself is love.'' <br> ~ [[Alfred Tennyson]] in ''[[The Two Voices]]'' ~</p> # Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentives. ~ [[Jimmy Wales]] # ''Sun-swept beaches with a light wind blowing <br> From the immense blue circle of the sea, <br> And the soft thunder where long waves whiten — <br> These were the same for [[Sappho]] as for me.''</p><p>''Two thousand years — much has gone by forever,<br> Change takes the gods and ships and speech of men — <br> But here on the beaches that time passes over<br> The heart aches now as then.''<br> ~ [[Sara Teasdale]] ~</p> # <p>''When the rain came down — I was standing in the green <br> My soul was touched by every tree that my eyes could see <br> I am in peace, in love, in harmony — when the rain comes <br> down''</p><p>''When the rain came down — melded with my tears <br> When the rain came down — flow away the fears <br> When the rain came down — bigger than the sea <br> When the rain came down — then came me.'' <br> ~ [[Happy Rhodes]] ~ </p> # What modernity requires is not that you cease living according to your faith, but that you accept that others may differ and that therefore politics requires a form of discourse that is reasonable and accessible to believer and non-believer alike. This religious restraint in politics is critical to the maintenance of liberal democracy. ~ [[Andrew Sullivan]] # Standing in the presence of the Unknown, all have the same right to think, and all are equally interested in the great questions of origin and destiny. All I claim, all I plead for, is liberty of thought and expression. That is all. I do not pretend to tell what is absolutely true, but what I think is true. I do not pretend to tell all the truth. <br> I do not claim that I have floated level with the heights of thought, or that I have descended to the very depths of things. I simply claim that what ideas I have, I have a right to express; and that any man who denies that right to me is an intellectual thief and robber. That is all. ~ [[Robert G. Ingersoll]] # How can we escape from the trap that the terrorists have set us? Only by recognizing that the war on terrorism cannot be won by waging war. We must, of course, protect our security; but we must also correct the grievances on which terrorism feeds. Crime requires police work, not military action. ~ [[George Soros]] # It is the nature of the noble and the good and the wise that they impart to us of their nobility and their goodness and their wisdom while they live, making it natural for us to breathe the air they breathe and giving us confidence in our own untested powers. And the same influence in more ethereal fashion they continue to exert after they are gone. ~ [[Felix Adler]] # Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man. It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal. ~ [[John Galsworthy]] # True spirituality rejects no new light, no added means or materials of our human self-development. It means simply to keep our centre, our essential way of being, our inborn nature and assimilate to it all we receive, and evolve out of it all we do and create. ~ [[Sri Aurobindo]] # From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race. ~ [[Jean de La Bruyère]] # I have never knew what it was to sacrifice my own judgment to gratify any party and I have no doubt of the time being close at hand when I will be rewarded for letting my tongue speak what my heart thinks. I have suffered myself to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never again elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty. ~ [[Davy Crockett]] # ''I ask no more from mortals<br>Than your beautiful face implies,— <br> The beauty the artist beholding <br> Interprets and sanctifies. <br> Who says that men have fallen, <br> That life is wretched and rough? <br> I say, the world is lovely, <br> And that loveliness is enough.'' <br> ~ [[Robert Williams Buchanan]] ~ # The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through. ~ [[Samuel Richardson]] # Some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun, of golden cliffs overhanging murmuring seas, of plains that stretch down to sleeping cities of bronze and stone, and of shadowy companies of heroes that ride caparisoned white horses along the edges of thick forests; and then we know that we have looked back through the ivory gates into that world of wonder which was ours before we were wise and unhappy. ~ [[H. P. Lovecraft]] # Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other. ~ [[Leon Trotsky]] # Parliament is a potent engine, and its enactments must always do something, but they very seldom do what the originators of these enactments meant. - [[Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury]] # In the name of [[Allah]], Most Gracious, Most Merciful <br> We have indeed revealed this (Message) in the [[w: Laylat al-Qadr|Night of Power]]:<br> And what will explain to thee what the night of power is?<br> The Night of Power is better than a thousand months.<br>Therein come down the angels and the Spirit by God's permission, on every errand:<br> Peace!...This until the rise of morn! <br> ~ ''[[Qur'an|Al-Qur'an]]'' ~ <small> [[w:Al-Qadr (sura)|Sura 97 : Al-Qadr]] as translated by [[w:Abdullah Yusuf Ali|Abdullah Yusuf Ali]]</small> # Gibbon observes that in the Arabian book par excellence, in the Koran, there are no camels; I believe if there were any doubt as to the authenticity of the Koran, this absence of camels would be sufficient to prove it is an Arabian work. ~ [[Jorge Luis Borges]] # We live in a world we ourselves create. ~ [[Johann Gottfried Herder]] # Spread love everywhere you go; first of all in your house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile. ~ [[Mother Teresa]] # There are fixed points throughout time where things must stay exactly the way they are. This is not one of them. This is an opportunity! Whatever happens here will create its own timeline, its own reality, a temporal tipping point. The future revolves around you, here, now, so do good! ~ [[The Doctor]] <small> in ''[[Doctor Who]]'' : ''[[Eleventh_Doctor#Cold_Blood_.5B5.9.5D|Cold Blood]]'' </small> # Love does not dominate, it cultivates. And that is more. ~ [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]] # New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. ~ [[John Locke]] # <p>The [[w:Anarchism and Islam|Muslim Anarchist]] Charter rejects absolutely: <br> all forms of violence and political coercion; <br> all forms of racism and prejudice, including Islamophobia, homophobia and neurelitism. </p><p> ~ [[Yakoub Islam]] ~</p> # At his best, things do not happen to the artist; he happens to them. ~ [[William Saroyan]] == [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/September 2011|September 2011]] == # If you're up against a smart opponent, make him think himself to death. ~ [[C. J. Cherryh]] # The great work of the present for every man, and every organization of men, who would improve social conditions, is the work of education — the propagation of ideas. It is only as it aids this that anything else can avail. ~ [[Henry George]] ~ # ''The warm sun kissed the earth <br> To consecrate thy birth, <br> And from his close embrace <br> Thy radiant face <br> Sprang into sight, <br> A blossoming delight.'' <br> ~ [[Sarah Orne Jewett]] ~ # A degree of silence envelops Washington’s actions; he moved slowly; one might say that he felt charged with future liberty, and that he feared to compromise it. It was not his own destiny that inspired this new species of hero: it was that of his country; he did not allow himself to enjoy what did not belong to him; but from that profound humility what glory emerged! Search the woods where Washington’s sword gleamed: what do you find? Tombs? No; a world! Washington has left the United States behind for a monument on the field of battle. ~ [[François-René de Chateaubriand]] # Whether religion is a divisive or reconciling force depends on our certainty or our humility as we practice our faith in our politics. If we believe that we know God's truth and that we can embody that truth in a political agenda, we divide the realm of politics into those who are on God's side, which is our side, and those with whom we disagree, who oppose the side of God. This is neither good religion nor good politics. It is not consistent with following a Lord who reached out to a variety of people — prostitutes, tax collectors, lepers. If politics is the art of compromise, certainty is not really politics, for how can one compromise with God's own truth? Reconciliation depends on acknowledging that God's truth is greater than our own, that we cannot reduce it to any political platform we create, no matter how committed we are to that platform, and that God's truth is large enough to accommodate the opinions of all kinds of people, even those with whom we strongly disagree. ~ [[John Danforth]] # The Immortal Principle was first called water by [[Thales]]. [[w:Anaximenes of Miletus|Anaximenes]] called it air. The [[Pythagoras|Pythagoreans]] called it number and were thus the first to see the Immortal Principle as something nonmaterial. [[Heraclitus]] called the Immortal Principle fire and introduced change as part of the Principle. He said the world exists as a conflict and tension of opposites. He said there is a One and there is a Many and the One is the universal law which is immanent in all things. [[Anaxagoras]] was the first to identify the One as nous, meaning "mind." <br> [[Parmenides]] made it clear for the first time that the Immortal Principle, the One, Truth, God, is separate from appearance and from opinion, and the importance of this separation and its effect upon subsequent history cannot be overstated. ~ [[Robert M. Pirsig]] # It is a part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees. ~ [[Edith Sitwell]] # Who in the world am I? Ah, ''that's'' the great puzzle! ~ [[Peter Sellers]] # As soon as men live entirely in accord with the law of love natural to their hearts and now revealed to them, which excludes all resistance by violence, and therefore hold aloof from all participation in violence — as soon as this happens, not only will hundreds be unable to enslave millions, but not even millions will be able to enslave a single individual. ~ [[Leo Tolstoy]] # The idea does not belong to the soul; it is the soul that belongs to the idea. ~ [[Charles Sanders Peirce]] # <p>This enemy attacked not just our people, but all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world. The United States of America will use all our resources to conquer this enemy. We will rally the world. We will be patient, we will be focused, and we will be steadfast in our determination.… we will not allow this enemy to win the war by changing our way of life or restricting our freedoms. ~ [[George W. Bush]] </p><p> On September 11, 2001, in our time of grief, the American people came together. We offered our neighbors a hand, and we offered the wounded our blood. We reaffirmed our ties to each other, and our love of community and country. On that day, no matter where we came from, what God we prayed to, or what race or ethnicity we were, we were united as one American family. <br> We were also united in our resolve to protect our nation and to bring those who committed this vicious attack to justice. … The cause of securing our country is not complete. But tonight, we are once again reminded that America can do whatever we set our mind to. That is the story of our history, whether it’s the pursuit of prosperity for our people, or the struggle for equality for all our citizens; our commitment to stand up for our values abroad, and our sacrifices to make the world a safer place. <br> Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. ~ [[Barack Obama]]</p> # The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself — the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us — that's where it's at. ~ [[Jesse Owens]] # ''Something there is more immortal even than the stars, <br> (Many the burials, many the days and nights, passing away,) <br> Something that shall endure longer even than lustrous Jupiter <br> Longer than sun or any revolving satellite, <br> Or the radiant sisters the Pleiades.'' <br> ~ [[Walt Whitman]] in ''[[Leaves of Grass]]'' ~ # The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war. ~ [[Sydney J. Harris]] # I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them. ~ [[Agatha Christie]] # We have come by curious ways<br> To the Light that holds the days; <br> We have sought in haunts of fear <br> For that all-enfolding sphere: <br> And lo! it was not far, but near. <br> We have found, O foolish-fond, <br> The shore that has no shore beyond. <br> Deep in every heart it lies <br> With its untranscended skies; <br> For what heaven should bend above <br> Hearts that own the heaven of love? <br> ~ [[Alfred Noyes]] ~ # ''It's a strange courage <br> you give me, ancient star: <br> Shine alone in the sunrise <br> toward which you lend no part!'' <br> ~ [[William Carlos Williams]] ~ # It is always observable that silence propagates itself, and that the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find any thing to say. ~ [[Samuel Johnson]] # ''On this hapless earth <br> There's small sincerity of mirth, <br> And laughter oft is but an art <br> To drown the outcry of the heart.'' <br> ~ [[Hartley Coleridge]] ~ # I have a conscience and a religious faith, and I know that our liberties were not won without suffering, and may be lost again through our cowardice. ~ [[Upton Sinclair]] # No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their affairs they were scrutinized and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinize the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most, terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet, across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. ~ [[H. G. Wells]] # Work. Finish. Publish. ~ [[Michael Faraday]] # [[Agnosticism]] is not properly described as a "negative" creed, nor indeed as a creed of any kind, except in so far as it expresses absolute faith in the validity of a principle which is as much ethical as intellectual. This principle may be stated in various ways, but they all amount to this: that it is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty. ~ [[Thomas Henry Huxley]] # The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. ~ [[Horace Walpole]] # The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews. ~ [[William Faulkner]] # ''Quick now, here, now, always — <br> A condition of complete simplicity <br> (Costing not less than everything) <br> And all shall be well and <br> All manner of thing shall be well <br> When the tongues of flames are in-folded <br> Into the crowned knot of fire <br> And the fire and the rose are one.'' <br> ~ [[T. S. Eliot]] in ''[[Four Quartets]]'' ~ # We must not conclude merely upon a man's haranguing upon liberty, and using the charming sound, that he is fit to be trusted with the liberties of his country. It is not unfrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but ''their own liberty'', — to oppress without control or the restraint of laws all who are poorer or weaker than themselves. It is not, I say, unfrequent to see such instances, though at the same time I esteem it a justice due to my country to say that it is not without shining examples of the contrary kind; — examples of men of a distinguished attachment to this same liberty I have been describing; whom no hopes could draw, no terrors could drive, from steadily pursuing, in their sphere, the true interests of their country; whose fidelity has been tried in the nicest and tenderest manner, and has been ever firm and unshaken. <br> The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy this gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people. ~ [[Samuel Adams]] # The superior man examines his heart, that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause for dissatisfaction with himself. That wherein the superior man cannot be equaled is simply this — his work which other men cannot see. ~ [[Confucius|孔夫子 (Confucius)]] # At that time shall [[Michael (archangel)|Michael]] stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation ''even'' to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book. <br> And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame ''and'' everlasting contempt. And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever. <br> But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, ''even'' to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. ~ ''[[Book of Daniel]]'' # ''There is a certain cloud, <br> impregnated with a <br> thousand lightnings. <br> There is my body — <br> in it an ocean formed of His glory. <br> All the creation, <br> All the universes, <br> All the galaxies, <br> Are lost in it.'' <br> ~ [[Rumi]] ~ == [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/October 2011|October 2011]] == # [[w:The October Country|THE OCTOBER COUNTRY]] … that country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coalbins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun. That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain… ~ [[Ray Bradbury]] # The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. ~ [[Ferdinand Foch]] # The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all. ~ [[Gore Vidal]] # The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth. ~ [[Rutherford B. Hayes]] # There are no exact guidelines. There are probably no guidelines at all. The only thing I can recommend at this stage is a sense of humor, an ability to see things in their ridiculous and absurd dimensions, to laugh at others and at ourselves, a sense of irony regarding everything that calls out for parody in this world. In other words, I can only recommend perspective and distance. Awareness of all the most dangerous kinds of vanity, both in others and in ourselves. A good mind. A modest certainty about the meaning of things. Gratitude for the gift of life and the courage to take responsibility for it. Vigilance of spirit. ~ [[Václav Havel]] # Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city. ~ [[Le Corbusier ]] # ''One may think there is a gate to go through <br /> and look a long time for it <br /> without finding it <br /> One may find it and <br /> it may not open <br /> If it opens one may be through it <br /> As one goes through it <br /> one sees that the gate one went through <br /> was the self that went through it <br /> no one went through a gate <br /> there was no gate to go through <br /> no one ever found a gate <br /> no one ever realized there was never a gate'' <br> ~ [[Ronald David Laing]] ~ # Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum. ~ [[Frank Herbert]] in ''[[Dune#Chapterhouse:_Dune_.281985.29|Chapterhouse : Dune]]'' # Cease speaking of enemies when an achievement can kindle a great light. Solitude will transmit the message better than the murmurs of crowds. ~ [[Nicholas Roerich]] # I distrust all dead and mechanical formulas for expressing anything connected with human affairs and human personalities. Putting human affairs in exact formulas shows in itself a lack of the sense of humor and therefore a lack of wisdom. 林語堂 ~ [[Lin Yutang|林語堂 Lin Yutang]] # Children understand very well that in each woman, in each man, in each child, there is capacity of waking up, of understanding, and of loving. Many children have told me that they cannot show me anyone who does not have this capacity. Some people allow it to develop, and some do not, but everyone has it. This capacity of waking up, of being aware of what is going on in your feelings, in your body, in your perceptions, in the world, is called [[w:Buddha-nature|Buddha nature]], the capacity of understanding and loving. Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace. ~ [[Thich Nhat Hanh]] # Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help, and thus we are able to recapitulate in the one word motherliness that which we have developed as the characteristic value of woman. Only, the motherliness must be that which does not remain within the narrow circle of blood relations or of personal friends; but in accordance with the model of the Mother of Mercy, it must have its root in universal divine love for all who are there, belabored and burdened. ~ [[Edith Stein]] # Get up in one of our industrial centres today and say that two and two make four, and if there is any financial interest concerned in maintaining that two and two make five, the police will bash your head in. ~ [[Albert Jay Nock]] # Art is a mystery. <br> A mystery is something immeasurable. <br> In so far as every child and woman and man may be immeasurable, art is the mystery of every man and woman and child. In so far as a human being is an artist, skies and mountains and oceans and thunderbolts and butterflies are immeasurable; and art is every mystery of nature. Nothing measurable can be alive; nothing which is not alive can be art; nothing which cannot be art is true: and everything untrue doesn’t matter a very good God damn... ~ [[E. E. Cummings]] # The secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is — to live dangerously! ~ [[Friedrich Nietzsche]] # In many matters children — not ensnared by dogmatism, passion, or erudition — judge far truer than adults. ~ [[Adolf Freiherr Knigge]] # You will travel far, my little [[Superman|Kal-El]]. But we will never leave you … even in the face of our deaths … the richness of our lives shall be yours. All that I have, all that I've learned, everything I feel … all this, and more … I bequeath you, my son. You will carry me inside you all the days of your life. You will make my strength your own, and see my life through your own eyes, as your life will be seen through mine. The son becomes the father, and the father the son. This is all I can send you, Kal-El. ~ [[Marlon Brando]] as "[[w:Jor-El|Jor-El]]" in ''[[Superman: The Movie]]'' # I have no objection to any person’s religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don’t believe it also. But when a man’s religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and, in fine, makes this earth of ours an uncomfortable inn to lodge in; then I think it high time to take that individual aside and argue the point with him. ~ [[Herman Melville]] in ''[[Moby-Dick]]'' # Every writer wants to be believed. But every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic. ~ [[John le Carré]] # Knowledge is humanistic in quality not because it is about human products in the past, but because of what it does in liberating human intelligence and human sympathy. Any subject matter which accomplishes this result is humane, and any subject matter which does not accomplish it is not even educational. ~ [[John Dewey]] # ''Some say the world will end in fire,<br>Some say in ice.<br>From what I’ve tasted of desire<br>I hold with those who favor fire.<br>But if it had to perish twice,<br>I think I know enough of hate<br>To say that for destruction ice<br>Is also great<br>And would suffice.'' <br> ~ [[Robert Frost]] ~ # I've opened the way for others to make fortunes, but a fortune for myself was not what I was after. ~ [[Daniel Boone ]] # Life is short, even for those who live a long time, and we must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we have the same affection and indulgence. The rest I look upon as a mere crowd, lively or sad, loyal or corrupt, from whom there is nothing to be expected but fleeting emotions, either pleasant or unpleasant, which leave no trace behind them. We ought to hate very rarely, as it is too fatiguing; remain indifferent to a great deal, forgive often and never forget. ~ [[Sarah Bernhardt]] # ''It was no longer sounds only that made the music:<br> he spoke, and as no tree listens I listened, and language<br>came into my roots<br>out of the earth,<br>into my bark<br>out of the air,<br> into the pores of my greenest shoots<br> gently as dew<br> and there was no word he sang but I knew its meaning.''<br> ~ [[Denise Levertov]] ~ # It is nought good a slepyng hound to wake. ~ [[Geoffrey Chaucer]] # Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. ~ [[Napoleon Hill]] # Could ''[[Hamlet]]'' have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report? Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer. ~ [[Alfred Whitney Griswold]] # My attitude was always to keep open, to keep scanning. I think that's how things work in nature. Many people are close-minded, rigid, and that's not my inclination. ~ [[Jonas Salk]] # Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you? ~ [[Fanny Brice]] # ''When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead, <br>And the White Knight is talking backwards <br> And the Red Queen's "off with her head!" <br>Remember what the dormouse said — <br> Feed your head! Feed your head! ''~ <br> ~ [[Grace Slick]] ~ # <big> <big> Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF! </big></big> ~<small> Charity slogan for </small> '''[[w:UNICEF|UNICEF]]''' == [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/November 2011|November 2011]] == # ''Hasten slowly, and without losing heart,<br> Put your work twenty times upon the anvil.'' <br> ~ [[Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux]] ~ # All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, or a scientist, or an artist, or an independent business creator. In the service of their goals they lay down time and energy and many other choices and pleasures; in return, they become most truly themselves. A false destiny may be spotted by the fact that it consumes without transforming, without giving back the enlarged self.~ [[Lois McMaster Bujold]] # The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our own nothingness. ~ [[André Malraux]] # ''Oh, Death was never enemy of ours!<br/>We laughed at him, we leagued with him, old chum.<br/>No soldier's paid to kick against His powers.<br/>We laughed, — knowing that better men would come,<br/>And greater wars: when each proud fighter brags<br/>He wars on Death, for lives; not men, for flags.'' <br> ~ [[Wilfred Owen]] ~ # <p>''Laugh, and the world laughs with you; <br> Weep, and you weep alone. <br> For this brave old earth must borrow its mirth,<br> But has trouble enough of its own. <br> Sing, and the hills will answer;<br> Sigh, it is lost on the air.<br> The echoes bound to a joyful sound,<br> But shrink from voicing care.''</p><p>''Rejoice, and men will seek you;<br> Grieve, and they turn and go.<br> They want full measure of all your pleasure,<br> But they do not need your woe.<br> Be glad, and your friends are many;<br> Be sad, and you lose them all.<br> There are none to decline your nectared wine,<br> But alone you must drink life's gall. ''</p><p>''Feast, and your halls are crowded. <br> Fast, and the world goes by. <br> Succeed and give, and it helps you live, <br> But no man can help you die. <br> There is room in the halls of pleasure <br> For a long and lordly train, <br> But one by one we must all file on <br> Through the narrow aisles of pain.'' <br> ~ [[Ella Wheeler Wilcox]] ~</p> # If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere. ~ [[Zig Ziglar]] # Death is for a long time. Those of shallow thought say that it is forever. There is, at least, a long night of it. There is the forgetfulness and the loss of identity. The spirit, even as the body, is unstrung and burst and scattered. One goes down to death, and it leaves a mark on one forever. ~ [[R. A. Lafferty]] ~ # Nothing is too small. I counsel you, put down in record even your doubts and surmises. Hereafter it may be of interest to you to see how true you guess. We learn from failure, not from success! ~ [[Bram Stoker]] ~ # Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring — not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive. ~ [[Carl Sagan]] ~ # All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted. And even if we do not believe, then still we cannot travel in any other way than the road our senses show us; and we must walk that road to the end. ~ [[Neil Gaiman]] in ''[[American Gods]]'' # There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too. Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side. ~ [[Kurt Vonnegut]] # A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts — a "bundle of facts." Things do not act in a particular way because there is a law, but we state the "law" because they act in that way. ~ [[Joseph McCabe]] # Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul. ~ [[Augustine of Hippo]] # Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. It is never a narrowing of the mind or a restriction of the human spirit or the country's spirit. ~ [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] # We need not think alike to love alike. ~ [[Ferenc Dávid]] # Some anarchists have claimed not merely that we would be better off without a state, but that any state necessarily violates people's moral rights and hence is intrinsically immoral. Our starting point then, though nonpolitical, is by intention far from nonmoral. Moral philosophy sets the background for, and boundaries of, political philosophy. What persons may and may not do to one another limits what they may do through the apparatus of a state, or do to establish such an apparatus. ~ [[Robert Nozick]] # Let us have Men, Men who will say a word to their souls and keep it — keep it not when it is easy, but keep it when it is hard — keep it when the storm roars and there is a white-streaked sky and blue thunder before, and one's eyes are blinded and one's ears deafened with the war of opposing things; and keep it under the long leaden sky and the gray dreariness that never lifts. Hold unto the last: that is what it means to have a Dominant Idea, which Circumstance cannot break. And such men make and unmake Circumstance. ~ [[Voltairine de Cleyre]] # There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse is often closer to the truth. ~ [[Alan Moore]] # I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty. ~ [[James A. Garfield]] # For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself. ~ [[Benoît Mandelbrot]] # I know as a writer how valuable a tool is the wastebasket. Perhaps God throws away many experiments before He finds the right expression. Perhaps we are the discards — or we could be the part He keeps. This mystery is what keeps us all going, to see what happens in the next chapter. ~ [[Isaac Bashevis Singer]] # For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every sky has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously. ~ [[George Gissing]] # I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. ~ [[John Milton]] in ''[[Areopagitica]]'' # Individual things are nothing but modifications of the attributes of God, or modes by which the attributes of God are expressed in a fixed and definite manner. ~ [[Baruch Spinoza]] # Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself. He is humiliated by his simian ancestry, and tries to deny his animal nature, to persuade himself that he is not limited by its weaknesses nor concerned in its fate. ~ [[Upton Sinclair]] # Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. ~ [[Eugène Ionesco]] # ''Acting funny, but I don't know why, <br> 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky.'' <br> ~ [[Jimi Hendrix]] ~ # There stood a man with his sword drawn, and his face all over with blood. Then said Mr. Great-Heart, Who art thou? The man made answer, saying, I am one whose name is Valiant-for-truth. I am a pilgrim, and am going to the Celestial City. ~ [[John Bunyan]] # It is hard to have patience with people who say "There is no death" or "Death doesn't matter." There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter. ~ [[C. S. Lewis]] # A sound heart is a safer guide than an ill-trained conscience. ~ [[Mark Twain]] == [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/December 2011‎|December 2011]] == # ''[[December]] will be [[magic]] again. <br> Take a husky to the ice <br> While [[w:Bing Crosby|Bing Crosby]] sings [[w:White Christmas (song)|White Christmas]]. <br> He makes you feel nice. <br> [[w:December will be magic again|December will be magic again]].'' <br> ~ [[Kate Bush]] ~ # [[Jesus]] was an [[Anarchism|anarchist]] savior. That's what the Gospels tell us. ~ [[Ivan Illich]] # [[Truth]] shall prevail — don't you know ''[[Greatness|Magna]] est veritas'' … Yes, when it gets a chance. There is a [[law]], no doubt — and likewise a law regulates your [[luck]] in the throwing of dice. It is not [[Justice]] — the servant of men, but accident, hazard, [[Fortune]] — the ally of patient [[Time]] — that holds an even and scrupulous balance. ~ [[Joseph Conrad]] # Someday, somehow, I am going to do something useful, something for [[people]]. They are, most of them, so helpless, so hurt and so unhappy. ~ [[Edith Cavell]] # Once a man has tasted [[freedom]] he will never be content to be a [[Slavery|slave]]. That is why I believe that this frightfulness we see everywhere today is only temporary. Tomorrow will be better for as long as [[America]] keeps alive the ideals of freedom and a better [[life]]. ~ [[Walt Disney]] # There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art. ~ [[Anthony Trollope]] # Being able to do as one pleases is the [[Nature|natural]] goal of the [[libertarian]], but having nothing to do is not. While it may be correct to say that the human species is badly prepared for having nothing to do, it is quite a different matter to say that it is badly prepared for the [[freedom]] to do as one pleases. People who are able to do as they please may [[work]] very hard, given the [[opportunity]] to do interesting work. ~ [[Noam Chomsky]] # Just as a solid [[rock]] is not shaken by the [[storm]], even so the [[Wisdom|wise]] are not affected by praise or blame. ~ [[Gautama Buddha]] in ''[[Dhammapada|The Dhammapada]]'' # When we ask for the [[Anarchism|abolition of the State and its organs]] we are always told that we [[Dreams|dream]] of a [[society]] composed of men better than they are in [[reality]]. But no; a thousand times, no. All we ask is that men should not be made worse than they are, by such institutions! ~ [[Peter Kropotkin]] # ''THE BLUNDER is to estimate,— <br> “[[Eternity]] is Then,” <br> We say, as of a station. <br> Meanwhile he is so near, <br> He joins me in my ramble, <br> Divides abode with me, <br> No friend have I that so persists <br> As this Eternity.'' <br> ~ [[Emily Dickinson]] ~ # There are [[Metaphysics|metaphysical]] problems, which cannot be disposed of by declaring them meaningless. For, as I have repeatedly said, they are "beyond [[physics]]" indeed and demand an act of [[faith]]. We have to accept this fact to be [[Honesty|honest]]. There are two objectionable types of [[Belief|believers]]: those who believe the incredible and those who believe that "belief" must be discarded and replaced by "the [[Science|scientific]] method." ~ [[Max Born]] # It seems to me that understanding that our [[theories]] are the source of all our conflicts would go a long way in helping [[people]] with different [[belief]] systems to get along. ~ [[Michael Gazzaniga ]] # [[Life]]'s an awfully lonesome affair. You can live close against other [[people]] yet your lives never touch. You come into the [[world]] alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even coming and going. ~ [[Emily Carr]] # ''There’s a [[day]] to ride thumb on a [[Storm|thunderhead]] <br> There’s a day to make [[fantasy]] [[Reality|real]] <br> There’s a day to deny and a day to decry <br> and a day for the man the wind at his heels.'' <br> ~ [[Mike Scott (musician)|Mike Scott]] ~ # A [[good]] cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately [[Homicide|murderous]]. A bad cause can become good if enough [[people]] fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad. ~ [[Freeman Dyson]] # Any sufficiently advanced [[technology]] is indistinguishable from [[magic]]. ~ [[Arthur C. Clarke]] # [[w:Ebenezer Scrooge|Scrooge]] was better than his [[Words|word]]. … He became as [[good]] a [[friend]], as good a master, and as good a [[man]], as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough, in the good old [[world]]. Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let them laugh, and little heeded them; for he was [[Wisdom|wise]] enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of [[laughter]] in the outset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have the malady in less attractive forms. His own [[heart]] laughed: and that was quite enough for him. <br> He had no further intercourse with [[Spirits]], but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep [[Christmas]] well, if any man alive possessed the [[knowledge]]. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as [[w:Tiny Tim (A Christmas Carol)|Tiny Tim]] observed, [[God]] [[Blessings|Bless]] Us, Every One! ~ [[Charles Dickens]] in ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'' # [[Nature]] can afford to be prodigal in [[Universe|everything]], the [[artist]] must be frugal down to the last detail. Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn. ~ [[Paul Klee]] # ''And the [[evil]] is done in hopes that evil surrenders<br>but the deeds of the [[devil]] are burned too deep in the embers<br>and a [[world]] of hunger in [[vengeance]] will always [[Memory|remember]]<br>So please be reassured, we seek no wider [[war]],<br>we seek no wider war.''<br>~ [[Phil Ochs]] ~ # [[Humanity|Men]] are divided in opinion as to the [[Fact|facts]]. And even granting the facts, they [[Explanations|explain]] them in different ways. ~ [[Edwin Abbott Abbott]] ~ # The [[God]] of [[Peace]], the God of [[Truth]] will shortly seal this truth, and confirm this witness, and make it evident to the whole [[world]], that the doctrine of persecution for cause of [[conscience]], is most evidently and lamentably contrary to the doctrine of [[w:Christ|Christ]] [[Jesus]] the Prince of Peace. ~ [[Roger Williams]] #By enlarging your [[knowledge]] of things, you will find your knowledge of [[self]] is enlarged. ~ [[Charles de Lint]] # Mere [[Politics|political]] reform will not cure the manifold [[Evil|evils]] which now afflict [[society]]. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform. ~ [[Samuel Smiles]] # For [[poetry]] the [[Ideas|idea]] is everything; the rest is a [[world]] of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its [[Emotions|emotion]] to the idea; the idea ''is'' the fact. The [[Strength|strongest]] part of our [[religion]] today is its unconscious poetry. ~ [[Matthew Arnold]] # ''A very [[Merriment|Merry]] [[Christmas]] <br> And a [[Happiness|happy]] New Year<br> Let's [[hope]] it's a [[Goodness|good]] one <br> Without any [[fear]]. <br> [[War]] is over, <br> If you want it — <br> War is over now.'' <br> ~ [[John Lennon]] & [[Yoko Ono]] ~ # The [[force]] which makes for [[war]] does not derive its [[strength]] from the interested motives of [[evil]] men; it derives its strength from the disinterested motives of [[good]] men. ~ [[Norman Angell]] ~ # Let me tell you the [[secret]] that has lead me to my goal. My [[strength]] lies solely in my tenacity. ~ [[Louis Pasteur]] # We used to [[Thought|think]] that if we [[Knowledge|knew]] [[Unity|one]], we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must [[Learning|learn]] a great deal more about "[[w:And|and]]." ~ [[Arthur Stanley Eddington]] # ''Yes, the [[Spring|springtime]] was in need of you. Often a [[Stars|star]]<br> waited for you to espy it and sense its [[light]]. <br> A wave rolled toward you out of the distant past,<br> or as you walked below an open window,<br> a violin gave itself to your hearing.<br> All this was [[trust]]. But could you manage it?<br> Were you not always distraught by [[Expectations|expectation]],<br> as if all this were announcing the arrival<br> of a [[Love|beloved]]?''<br> ~ [[Rainer Maria Rilke]] ~ # I am not all that is. I am [[Life]] fighting Nothingness. I am not Nothingness, I am the [[Fire]] which burns in the [[Night]]. I am not the Night. I am the eternal [[Light]]; I am not an eternal [[destiny]] soaring above the fight. I am free Will which struggles eternally. Struggle and burn with Me. ~ [[Romain Rolland]] # [[Military]] [[power]] wins battles, but [[Spirituality|spiritual]] power wins [[War|wars]]. ~ [[George Marshall]] == [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/January 2012|January 2012]] == #| [[Life]] is a [[Gifts|gift]] [[horse]] in my [[opinion]]. ~ [[J. D. Salinger]] # It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a [[reputation]] for subtlety. ~ [[Isaac Asimov]] # The [[world]] is [[Change|changing]]: I feel it in the [[water]], I feel it in the [[earth]], and I smell it in the [[air]]. ~ [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] in ''[[The Return of the King]]'' # ''When your [[Day|day]] is long <br> and the [[night]], <br> the night is yours [[Solitude|alone]], <br> when you're sure you've had enough <br> of this [[life]], well hang on. <br> Don't let yourself go, <br> 'cause everybody cries <br> and everybody hurts <br> sometimes.''<br> ~ [[R.E.M.]] ~ #[[Semiotics]] is in [[principle]] the [[discipline]] [[Study|studying]] everything which can be used in order to [[Lies|lie]]. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the [[truth]]: it cannot in fact be used "to tell" at all. ~ [[Umberto Eco]] #[[Faith]] lived in the incognito is one which is located outside the [[criticism]] coming from [[society]], from [[politics]], from [[history]], for the very reason that it has itself the vocation to be a source of criticism. It is faith (lived in the incognito) which triggers the issues for the others, which causes everything seemingly established to be placed in [[doubt]], which drives a wedge into the [[world]] of false assurances. ~ [[Jacques Ellul]] #[[Love]], I find is like [[singing]]. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much. ~ [[Zora Neale Hurston]] # The [[people]] of a [[Nations|nation]] are enslaved when, together, they are helpless to institute effective [[change]], when the people [[Service|serve]] the [[government]] more than the government serves them. ~ [[Gerry Spence]] # It is for [[Humanity|man]] to establish the reign of [[liberty]] in the midst of the [[world]] of the given. To gain the supreme [[victory]], it is [[Necessity|necessary]], for one thing, that by and through their [[Nature|natural]] differentiation [[Man|men]] and [[women]] unequivocally affirm their [[brotherhood]]. ~ [[Simone de Beauvoir]] # ''[[Reason]] will not decide at last; the [[sword]] will decide. <br> The sword: an obsolete instrument of bronze or steel, <br> formerly used to kill men, but here <br> In the sense of a [[symbol]].''<br> ~ [[Robinson Jeffers]] ~ # When the [[sword]] is once drawn, the [[passions]] of [[Man|men]] observe no bounds of [[moderation]]. ~ [[Alexander Hamilton]] # To [[Success|succeed]], you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous [[will]]. “I will drink the [[ocean]]”, says the persevering [[soul]]; “at my will [[mountains]] will crumble up”. Have that sort of [[energy]], that sort of will; [[work]] hard, and you will reach the goal. ~ [[Swami Vivekananda]] # '''[[Liberty|LIBERATION]] LEADS TO LIBERATION.''' <br> These are the first words of [[truth]] — not truth in quotation marks but truth in the [[Reality|real]] meaning of the [[Words|word]]; truth which is not merely [[Theory|theoretical]], not simply a word, but truth that can be realized in practice. The meaning behind these words may be explained as follows: <br> By liberation is meant the liberation which is the aim of [[Philosophy|all schools]], all [[Religion|religions]], at all [[Time|times]].<br> This liberation can indeed be very [[Greatness|great]]. All men [[desire]] it and strive after it. But it cannot be attained without the first liberation, a lesser liberation. The great liberation is liberation from influences outside us. The lesser liberation is liberation from influences within us. ~ [[G. I. Gurdjieff]] # The only way out of today's [[misery]] is for [[people]] to become [[Worth|worthy]] of each other's [[trust]]. ~ [[Albert Schweitzer]] # I stand ready to [[Diplomacy|negotiate]], but I want no part of [[Law|laws]]: I acknowledge none; I protest against every order with which some [[authority]] may feel pleased on the basis of some alleged [[necessity]] to over-rule my [[Freedom|free]] will. Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the [[Wealth|rich]] and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of [[government]]. ~ [[Pierre-Joseph Proudhon]] # One of my oldest crusades is against the distinction between [[thought]] and [[feeling|feelings]]… which is really the basis of all anti-intellectual views: the [[heart]] and the head, thinking and feeling, [[fantasy]] and [[judgment]]. We have more or less the same bodies, but very different kinds of thoughts. I believe that we think much more with the instruments provided by our [[culture]] than we do with our bodies, and hence the much greater [[diversity]] of thought in the [[world]]. Thinking is a form of feeling; feeling is a form of thinking. ~ [[Susan Sontag]] # My goal as an [[Acting|actor]] is always to be as truthful as possible, and to find the [[truth]] in the material I am representing. So I think that it’s the same with performing [[music]]. But in a way, performing your own music, it’s easier to find the truth in it, because it’s coming from yourself. There’s no translation [[Necessity|needed]]. ~ [[Zooey Deschanel]] #<p>''The [[force]] that makes the [[winter]] [[Growth|grow ]]<br /> Its feathered hexagons of [[snow]], <br /> and drives the [[Bees|bee]] to match at [[home]] <br /> Their calculated honeycomb, <br /> Is [[w:abacus|abacus]] and [[rose]] combined.''</p><p>''An icy [[sweetness]] fills my [[mind]], <br /> A [[Senses|sense]] that under thing and wing <br /> Lies, taut yet [[Life|living]], coiled, the [[spring]].'' <br /> ~ [[Jacob Bronowski]] ~</p> # It is well that [[war]] is so terrible — lest we should grow too fond of it. ~ [[Robert E. Lee]] </p> # All [[art]] is autobiographical; the [[w:Pearls|pearl]] is the [[oyster]]’s autobiography. ~ [[Federico Fellini]] # To suppose that [[God]] Almighty has confined his [[goodness]] to this [[world]], to the exclusion of all others, is much similar to the idle fancies of some individuals in this world, that they, and those of their communion or [[faith]], are the favorites of [[heaven]] exclusively; but these are narrow and [[Bigotry|bigoted]] conceptions, which are degrading to a [[Reason|rational]] [[nature]], and utterly unworthy of God, of whom we should form the most exalted ideas. ~ [[Ethan Allen]] # Near this spot<br>Are deposited the Remains of one<br>Who possessed [[Beauty]] without [[Vanity]],<br>[[Strength]] without Insolence,<br>[[Courage]] without Ferocity,<br>And all the [[Virtue|Virtues]] of [[Man]] without his Vices.<br>This [[Praise]], which would be unmeaning [[Flattery]]<br>If inscribed over [[human]] ashes,<br>Is but a just tribute to the [[Memory]] of<br>[[w:Epitaph to a Dog|BOATSWAIN]], a [[Dog|DOG]] <br>~ [[Lord Byron|George Gordon, Lord Byron]] ~ # ''O to be a [[dragon]], <br> a [[symbol]] of the [[power]] of [[Heaven]] — of silkworm <br> size or immense; at times invisible. <br> [[Happiness|Felicitous]] phenomenon!'' <br> ~ [[Marianne Moore]] ~ # [[Uncertainty]] and [[expectation]] are the [[Joy|joys]] of [[life]]. Security is an insipid thing. ~ [[William Congreve]] # You will hear people say that [[poverty]] is the best spur to the [[artist]]. They have never felt the iron of it in their flesh. They do not know how mean it makes you. It exposes you to endless humiliation, it cuts your wings, it eats into your [[soul]] like a cancer. It is not [[wealth]] one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's [[dignity]], to [[work]] unhampered, to be [[Generosity|generous]], [[Honesty|frank]] and [[Independence|independent]]. I [[pity]] with all my [[heart]] the artist, whether he [[Writing|writes]] or [[Painting|paints]], who is entirely dependent for subsistence upon his art. ~ [[W. Somerset Maugham]] ~ # Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of [[peace]], I would gladly yield every [[honor]] which has been accorded me in [[war]]. ~ [[ Douglas MacArthur]] # I [[Belief|believe]] it is the [[duty]] of each of us to act as if the [[fate]] of the [[world]] depended on him. Admittedly, one man by himself cannot do the job. However, one man can make a difference... We must [[Life|live]] for the [[future]] of the [[Mankind|human race]], and not for our own [[comfort]] or [[success]]. ~ [[Hyman G. Rickover]] # By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our [[Loss|lost]] belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the [[flowers]] of [[memory]], binds the bouquet. ~ [[Colette]] # Every [[science]] has for its basis a system of [[principles]] as fixed and unalterable as those by which the [[universe]] is regulated and governed. [[Man]] cannot make principles, he can only discover them. ~ [[Thomas Paine]] # The [[Tests|test]] of our [[progress]] is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. ~ [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] ~ # Are the [[Mysticism|mystics]] and sages [[Insanity|insane]]? Because they all tell variations on the same story, don't they? The story of awakening one morning and discovering you are one with [[the All]], in a timeless and [[Eternity|eternal]] and [[Infinity|infinite]] fashion. Yes, maybe they are crazy, these divine [[fools]]. Maybe they are mumbling idiots in the face of the Abyss. Maybe they need a nice, understanding therapist. Yes, I'm sure that would help. But then, I wonder. Maybe the [[Evolution|evolutionary]] sequence really is from matter to body to [[mind]] to [[soul]] to spirit, each transcending and including, each with a [[Greatness|greater]] depth and greater [[Awareness|consciousness]] and wider embrace. And in the highest reaches of [[evolution]], maybe, just maybe, an individual's consciousness does indeed touch infinity — a total embrace of the entire [[Kosmos]] — a Kosmic consciousness that is Spirit awakened to its own true [[nature]]. It's at least plausible. And tell me: is that story, sung by mystics and sages the world over, any crazier than the [[Science|scientific]] materialism story, which is that the entire sequence is a tale told by an idiot, full of [[sound]] and fury, signifying absolutely [[nothing]]? Listen very carefully: just which of those two stories actually sounds totally insane? ~ [[Ken Wilber]] ---- [[Category:Wikiquote]] 7lpzi55w4trbdp8zmds6ktmzb07znz0 0 28858 3961075 3850210 2026-07-05T14:38:49Z ~2026-22475-30 3310494 3961075 wikitext text/x-wiki {{DISPLAYTITLE:''The Simpsons''/Season 17}} {{The Simpsons header}} '''''[[w:The Simpsons|The Simpsons]]''''' (1989–present) is an American animated sitcom broadcast by the Fox Broadcasting Company created by [[Matt Groening]]. The series is a satirical depiction of American life, epitomized by the Simpson family. ===''[[w:Bonfire of the Manatees|Bonfire of the Manatees]]''=== :'''[[w:Homer|Homer]]''': All right! I'll let you shoot your gay adult film at my house. :'''Fat Tony''': I never said anything about gay. :'''Homer''': I thought you guys were the gay mafia. :''[Homer is once again hit with the hammers]'' :'''Homer''': Ow! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Marge''': Homer, is this a snuggle film? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Diner Cook''': Oh yes. Senora left with a rugged yet sensitive man of science. :'''Homer''': ''[worried]'' Rugged? Is that the same thing as 'handsome'? :'''Diner Cook''': Oh no. Handsome means he looks at himself in the mirror. Rugged means ''you'' look at ''him''. :'''Homer''': ''[groans]'' ===''[[w:The Girl Who Slept Too Little|The Girl Who Slept Too Little]]''=== :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': Whatever happened to ''please'' and ''thank you''? :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': I think they killed each other. You know, one of those murder-suicide deals. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': Lisa, when you've sustained as many blows to the head as I have, consistency becomes a.. something... something.. I love you Bart! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': "Stamps rule! I mean, suck!" <hr width="50%"/> :'''Marge''': ''[spots at a construction out the window]'' It's a little too spooky for me! And I don't even like watching counting vampires. Go back to your own country! ===''[[w:Milhouse of Sand and Fog|Milhouse of Sand and Fog]]''=== :''[Maggie has chickenpox]'' :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': Homer, don't touch her, you've never had chickenpox. :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': I know, and you did and you're great. :'''Marge''': Oh, I'm just saying it's very dangerous if you get it as an adult. It could leave you sterile, down there. :'''Homer''': Ugh, you always gotta work blue don't you Marge? :''[Homer leaves, but pokes his head through]'' :'''Homer''': You're better than that. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': Well, me thinks the lady doth protest too much. :'''Marge''': You don't trust me? After I salved every chicken pock on your ungrateful body? How dare you? :'''Homer''': ''[turns red in anger]'' I'm still waiting for that "no". :'''Marge''': Get out of this house! :'''Homer''': Gladly! ''[angrily grabs his suitcase and opens the refrigerator door to packs the food out from the refrigerator, closes his suitcase, leaves the house]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': This is all my fault! I planted Mom's bra in Milhouse's parents' bed! :'''Homer''': ''[turns red in anger]'' Why, you little...! ''[starts strangling Bart]'' :'''Marge''': Homer, I can save you both. Just let go of the rock! :''Homer whimpers in fear'' :'''Marge''': Just do it! Trust me! :'''Homer''': Okay. :''Homer releases the rock as Marge, with a rope tied to her ankle and the tree, lunges after her son and husband. Homer grabs onto her hair, whilst Bart grabs onto Homer's leg, hanging on for dear life.'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bart''': Mom, Dad, I'd give a kajillion dollars for you two to get back together. :'''Homer''': Make it 2 kajillion. :'''Marge''': Homer! :'''Homer''': We'll lose the first kajillion to taxes. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bart''': Does this mean you and Dad might get a [[Divorce|D-A-V-U-R-S]]? ===''[[w:Treehouse of Horror XVI|Treehouse of Horror XVI]]''=== :'''Announcer''': We're here at game six of the World Series. The highlights so far: a cloud shaped like a giraffe that floated by during the rain delay. Oh, would you look at that? The Batter just called 'time out' again. Now, let's look in the stands at the players' wives. Well, what do you know? They're talking on cellphones. No doubt complaining about the good life. :'''[[w:Kang and Kodos|Kang]]''': This is the most boring game in all the universe! :'''[[w:Kang and Kodos|Kodos]]''': And with all the steroids they take, the players look like freaks! :'''Both''': Freaks! Freaks! :'''Mini Kodos''': ''[emerges from the left side of Kodos]'' Freaks! Freaks! Freaks! ''[Kodos bites his conjoined baby and eats it]'' :'''Announcer''': And next week on [[w:Fox Broadcasting Company|FOX]], catch the new [[w:The O.C.| O.C.]] spin-off, Pomona. It's even hotter away from the beach. Mm-mmm. :'''Kang''': If we don't speed up this game, the Simpsons Halloween Special won't air until Administrative Professionals' Day! :'''Kodos''': Speaking of which, we must remember to get Dorothy something. ''[He holds a picture of them with Dorothy, with both making love sounds. Kang then looks at a baseball player who blows bubble gum very slowly.]'' :'''Kang''': The boredom is excruciating! Fire the Accele-Ray! <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Julius Hibbert|Dr. Hibbert]]''': I'm afraid that your son is in a deep coma, and may never wake up. :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Well, at least he's not dead. :'''Dr. Hibbert''': I should say so. This way, I can keep billing you! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bart''': ''[angry, finding out the robot boy is living with them]'' Did you replace me with this tinker toy? <hr width="50%"/> :''[After getting shot in manhunt, Apu is reincarnated into a rabbit]'' :'''[[w:Apu Nahasapeemapetilon|Apu]]''': Ha, ha! You can't kill a Hindu! :''[Hops away, and then gets his tail caught in a bear trap.]'' :'''Apu''': AGH! Help me, Jesus! ===''[[w:Marge's Son Poisoning|Marge's Son Poisoning]]''=== :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': ''[to Bart]'' The last thing I want is for you to turn into that! ''[Points to Principal Skinner]'' :'''[[w:Seymour Skinner|Principal Skinner]]''': ''[Looks behind him]'' What? The wall? <hr width="50%"/> :''[Jimbo, Dolph and Kearney stand outside the Simpsons' house and sing ''[[w:My Sharona|My Sharona]]'']'' :'''Jimbo/Dolph/Kearney''': ''[singing]'' Ooh, my little pretty one, my pretty one. When you gonna give me some time, Sharona. Ooh, you make my motor run, my motor run. Got it comin' off of the line, Sharona. Never gonna stop, give it up, such a dirty mind. I always get it up for the touch of the younger kind. My, my, my, aye-aye, whoa! :''[A trophy is thrown through the window at the bullies.]'' :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': ''[offscreen]'' That song is a pop music footnote. ''[pause]'' I didn't say stop. :'''Jimbo/Dolph/Kearney''': ''[singing]'' M-m-m-my Sharona! ===''[[w:See Homer Run|See Homer Run]]''=== :'''[[w:Joe Quimby|Quimby]]''': Who the hell are you? :'''Quimby's Nephew''': Your press secretary. :'''Quimby''': I knew I should have hired my nephew! :'''Quimby's Nephew''': I am your nephew. :'''Quimby''': Okay, so I stink! Tough Toblerone! Read the charter people! I can't be removed from office... except by a simple recall election... please disregard that last part! <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': I will run for mayor! :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': And I'll be your campaign manager! :'''Homer''': And I'll find out what a Mayor does! ''[Gets some Beer]'' Expand my brain, learning juice! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': Marge, without this outfit I'm just Homer Simpson, multiple felon. With it I'm a costumed hero like George Washington, or Dame Edna! ===''[[w:The Last of the Red Hat Mamas|The Last of the Red Hat Mamas]]''=== :'''Announcer''': ''And now, we return to the Vic Tayback Hotel & Casino in Downtown Las Vegas for'' Has-Been Celebrity Poker''.'' :'''Host''': ''As always, all our celebrities are playing for charity.'' :'''Krusty''': ''What?! I am so out of here!'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': My husband has forgot our last three anniversaries, he made a badminton net out of my wedding dress, which he never uses, and last week, he called out his bowling ball's name during sex!!! <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Wait a minute, if she's going bird watching then why did she leave her ''[[w:Peterson Field Guides|Peterson's Guide to Bird Watching]]''? ''[Looks inside]'' ''[gasps]'' Road Runners are real? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lou''': ''Sometimes it's easier to be cruel than to say what we really feel'' ===''[[w:The Italian Bob|The Italian Bob]]''=== :'''Brandine''': [to Cletus] You are the most wonderful husband - and son - I ever had. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': ''[Upon hearing that Sideshow Bob has a wife and son]'' Holy moly! I always thought you were, you know, [[w:Homosexual|out loud and proud]]. :'''[[w:Sideshow Bob|Sideshow Bob]]''': Well, I experimented in college, as one does. :'''Homer''': Yeah, I never went to college. :'''Sideshow Bob''': ''[sarcastic]'' Stop the presses. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Marge''': ''[looking in an Italian-to-English dictionary]'' vendetta means... vendetta! :''[All the Simpsons scream]'' ===''[[w:Simpsons Christmas Stories|Simpsons Christmas Stories]]''=== :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]] as Joseph''': A [[w:Pregnant|pregnant]] [[w:Virgin|virgin]]? That's every man's worst nightmare! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Caligatus Lou''': Gee, chief, I feel pretty bad trying to take out a baby. :'''[[w:Centurion|Centurion]] Wiggum''': Ah, don't worry, boys. [[w:Gospel|No one will ever speak or write of this again]]. :''[we then see [[w:Matthew the Evangelist|Matthew]], with a [[w:Scroll (parchment)|scroll]] entitled "[[w:Gospel of Matthew|The Gospel According to Matthew]]"]'' :'''Matthew''': ''[begins writing]'' What a boffo beginning for my [[w:Gospel of Matthew|book]]! <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Abraham Simpson|Abraham Simpson]]''': ''[After the Russians shoot down his brother, Cyrus]'' You'll pay for that, you haiku-spouting savages! ===''[[w:Homer's Paternity Coot|Homer's Paternity Coot]]''=== :'''Marge''': ''[puzzled]'' What the Hello Kitty? ''[notices the sign]'' Tire spikes? ''[sees the shortcut being blocked]'' Oh, they blocked my shortcut! I'm trapped like the "L" in "BLT"! ===''[[w:We're on the Road to D'ohwhere|We're on the Road to D'ohwhere]]''=== :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': I'll cut you a deal, I'll give you Milhouse. :'''[[w:Seymour Skinner|Principal Skinner]]''': ''[upclose]'' I don't want ''Milhouse''. :'''[[w:Milhouse Van Houten|Milhouse]]''': Sounds like my parents' custody hearing. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Pilot''': ''[over intercom]'' Welcome to Atlanta folks, please remain seated until the aircraft has come to a complete stop. :'''Bart''': ''[looking up at the fasten seat belt sign]'' Nobody tells Bart Simpson what to do! :''[He takes off his seatbelt and an alarm sounds]'' :'''Pilot''': Thanks a lot 33C! Now we have to fly all the way back to Minneapolis. And I'm very tired! :''[The rest of the passengers groan in disgust as the plane does a U-turn and takes off again]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bart''': Well, Homer, looks like I can't go to discipline camp. Which is too bad, 'cause I think this was the thing that would finally straighten me out. :'''Homer''': ''[angrily grabs Bart by his shirt]'' Oh, yeah? You're going to that camp 'cause I'm going to drive you there. :'''Bart''': Yeah, that will be way more fun than Vegas. :'''Homer''': '''D'OHHHHHHHHH!''' :''[zooms out of the Springfield International Airport and zooms in to Moe's Tavern]'' :'''Carl''': Oh, dang, Homer ain't coming. :'''Nelson''': ''[offscreen]'' Haw, haw! :'''Carl''': And Nelson saw something funny! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': Stupid Bart, makes me drive to Oregon, home of unspoiled forests, birthplace of Matt Groening. :'''Bart''': Dad, neither of us wanna go, why are you doing this? Where's the old carefree Homer who likes to cut loose? :'''Homer''': You mean Fun Homer? I'm afraid Serious Homer has him locked up till you're at your snooty torture camp. :'''Bart''': Fight back, Fun Homer! Together we can win! :'''Homer''': It's no use! :''[Zooms to inside Homer's head]'' :'''Fun Homer''': ''[locked in two energy cage rings like in Superman II]'' Aw come on, Serious Homer, let me out! We'll get a monkey drunk and push him down the stairs! :'''Serious Homer''': ''[whacks Fun Homer with his rifle]'' I'll kill you, the way I killed Intellectual Homer! :''[Zooms to dead Intellectual Homer, with "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" written in his blood]'' <hr width="50%"/> :''[Homer briefly stops at the Mount Rushmore, just shrugs his shoulders, says "Eh" and drives on]'' :'''Bart''': Come on, Dad, we've got a long way to go, you can't stay mad at me the whole time! :'''Homer''': Boy, if you were half as smart as you think you are, you'd clean up your act! :'''Bart''': Well, maybe pulling pranks is the only thing I'm good at. :'''Homer''': Well, at least you have something you're good at. I'm 38 years old, driving a crappy car, with a son who doesn't respect me, and I'm one Snickers pie away from losing my foot to diabetes! Mmmm... Snickers pie... ''[salivating]'' <hr width="50%"/> :''[Homer is trapped in the car, dangling over a cliff edge. Bart appears behind him]'' :'''Homer''': Boy, push down on the bumper! Then I can back the car up and save myself! :'''Bart''': ''[suspicious]'' If I save you, what are you going to do to me? :'''Homer''': ''[calmly]'' Shower you with love, because this experience has taught me just how precious you are! ''[Bart pushes down on the bumper, at which point Homer goes berserk]'' I'll kill you, I'll kill your whole family! :''[Bart releases the bumper]'' :'''Homer''': ''[calmly]'' Kidding! I'm kidding! We can do that, we have a special friendship! :''[Bart pushes down]'' :'''Homer''': ''[angry]'' I'm gonna double-kill you! Then I'm gonna bury you in a shallow grave! Then I'm gonna dig you up and kill you again: ''that's'' the beauty of a shallow grave! :''[Bart releases the bumper]'' :'''Homer''': ''[calm]'' Oh you sweet little angel! I'm gonna... :''[Bart pushes down]'' :'''Homer''': ''[angry]''...rip your head off and spit down... :'''[Bart releases the bumper]'' :'''Homer''': ''[calm]''...your adorable little neck because I... :''[Bart pushes down]'' :'''Homer''': ''[angry]''...wanna smash your stupid little head! :''[Bart releases the bumper]'' :'''Homer''': ''[calm]'' Oh but I love you! We'll go on a fishing trip... :''[Bart pushes down]'' :'''Homer''': ''[angry]'' But first I'm gonna put you in a sawmill! Then push your little face down, that's what I'm gonna do! <hr width="50%"/> ''[Lisa arrives home and listens two messages in the answering machine]'' :'''Marge''': ''Homer, I hope you get this: I'm in jail and I need $10,000 bail. Hurry!'' :'''Homer''': ''Uhh, Marge, me and Bart got in a fight with this really uncool pit boss, and now we're in Nevada State Prison. Also, I don't know where Bart is. If you see him say, "Hey"!'' :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]:''' Well, Maggie, I always knew that someday it would boil down to just you and me; I'll look for work in the morning. ===''[[w:My Fair Laddy|My Fair Laddy]]''=== :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': ''[addressing Willie]'' That job has been taken by the lower guy on the totem pole. :'''Mr. Largo''': ''[Having the tractor on top of the school]'' How did I get up here?! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Kearney''': ''[in a hot-air balloon]'' To Istanbul! :'''Jimbo''': Wrong Way, Dingus! ===''[[w:The Seemingly Never-Ending Story|The Seemingly Never-Ending Story]]''=== :''The Simpsons fall into a hole. Homer is too fat to get through.'' :'''Homer''': I'm stuck and I have to pee ''[short break]'' Now I'm just stuck. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Montgomery Burns|Burns]]''': I had to start up from the bottom to get my fortune back. And to get to the bottom, I had to work my way up from Moe's. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Moe Szyslak|Moe]]''': ''[retelling the story of his tragic romance with Edna]'' I was the happiest guy in the world, but fate likes to play a little game called 'Up Yours, Moe.' <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Moe Szyslak|Moe]]''': Barney, how do you keep getting back in? :'''[[w:Barney Gumble|Barney]]''': I'm a drunk, I don't know nothin' about how I do anything. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Rich Texan|The Rich Texan]]''': I'm gonna win me a Nuclear Plant. :'''[[w:Montgomery Burns|Burns]]''': Dream on Bitch! <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Hey Moe. ''[Angrily turns red]'' Thanks to you I've been sober all week! ===''[[w:Bart Has Two Mommies|Bart Has Two Mommies]]''=== :'''Homer''': ''[very upset that he lost the race after the duck came to life]'' A living duck? I wished too hard and it became real! <hr width="50%"/> :''Rod and Todd are bored.'' :'''Rod''': Daddy, what are we gonna do today? :'''Ned Flanders''': Well, we're gonna do what every kid your age likes to do: look at bread. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': Where's Bart? I haven't seen him since you came home. :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': ''{Sarcastically]'' Oh, you haven't seen Bart for a few hours, so you automatically assume I let something terrible happen. :'''Marge''': I didn't say that. :'''Homer''': ''[still sarcastic]'' I know what you think... when stupid Homer wasn't looking, Bart got kidnapped by a monkey. :'''Marge''': ''[concerned]'' I could never think something that horrible! :'''Homer''': ''[still sarcastic]'' And now I'm using sarcasm to confess the whole thing, so later I can say that I already told you! :'''Marge''': Sorry I asked. ''[leaves]'' :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': Dad, you can't keep this up for long. :'''Homer''': ''[still sarcastic]'' Oh, you're so right, I guess I should be more concerned with Bart's safety than covering my own butt! ''And maybe I'm talking like this, because I can't stop!'' HELP ME LISA! I HAVE SERIOUS MENTAL PROBLEMS! <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Nelson Muntz|Nelson]]''': ''[in response to Lisa's revelation of Mr. Teeny being Toot-Toot's son]'' But Krusty said Mr. Teeny was born in Funny Town. :'''Lisa''': Nelson, Funny Town doesn't exist. :'''Nelson''': Nooo! I was gonna live at Cuckoo Corners! ===''[[w:Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife|Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife]]''=== :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': All right, pal. I've made a diagram of all the places on Marge you're not allowed to touch. ''[shows diagram]'' Especially the hair! :'''Charles''': Oh, not to worry. I'm a bit of an elbow man myself. Bit different...bit weird...not sexual. :'''Homer''': You take forever to say nothing. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Charles''': Where is she? Where is that soul sucking she-beast I call sweetums? <hr width="50%"/> :''[Charles' wife, Verity walks in with Patty]'' :'''Verity''': Charles, I'm leaving you. :'''Patty''': You snooze, you lose! :'''Charles''': ''[astounded]'' You're leaving me for ''him''!? :'''Homer''': So it would seem, but Cousin It there was born a woman! :'''Patty''': What brought us together is how much we hate you! :'''Homer''': Yeah!? Well I'm gonna vote 'No' on Proposition 72 so you can't adopt! ''[Patty twists Homer's arm]'' Kidding! Kidding! I don't vote! The polling station's up a hill and I never make it! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lisa''': Why must we share them with the world? :'''Homer''': Because we'll be on TV, and earn enough money to buy a TV... TV! :'''Lisa''': But Dad! :'''Homer''': Yes, TV-sa? :'''Lisa''': Forget it... ===''[[w:Million Dollar Abie|Million Dollar Abie]]''=== :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': ''[angrily turns red]'' You're an useless old man! Name one thing you do for this family. :'''[[w:Abraham Simpson|Abe]]''': I watch the baby. :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': Where ''is'' the baby? :'''Abe''': ''[surprised]'' You left me with a baby?!? <hr width="50%"> :'''Abe''': A doctor?! I already got enough doctors touching me and poking me and squeezing me up here and jiggling me down there, and that's just the receptionist! ===''[[w:Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore|Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore]]''=== :'''[[w:Comic Book Guy|Comic Book Guy]]''': ''[after Richard is kidnapped]'' Whoa! He's gone! :'''Doug''': There must be a [[w:Stargate (device)|Stargate]] in this stadium! :'''Benjamin''': Everybody look for it! :'''Comic Book Guy''': Wait, wait! I have some even more exciting news! There's a girl in the audience! :'''Benjamin''': Everybody look for her! :''[the nerds close in on Willie]'' :'''[[w:Groundskeeper Willie|Willie]]''': This is a kilt! And I'm not a girl! :'''Squeaky-Voiced Teen''': You're the closest we'll ever get! Get him! <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': So, Mr. Burns, you're saying my dad has gone insane, and thinks he's a god, and broken off all contact with the outside world? :'''[[w:Waylon Smithers|Smithers]]''': I told you Simpson was a poor choice, sir. :'''[[w:Montgomery Burns|Mr. Burns]]''': You know, Smithers, "I told you so" has a brother. His name is, "Shut the hell up"! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Mr. Burns''': Well, I guess we'll have to find a place where the workers are more desperate and ignorant...Springfield! ===''[[w:The Wettest Stories Ever Told|The Wettest Stories Ever Told]]''=== :'''[[w:List of recurring characters in The Simpsons#Sea Captain|Sea Captain]]''': Perhaps an old sea yarn might pass the time. ''[pauses for a moment]'' Too bad I don't know any. :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': I know one, about the most important sea voyage in American history — the journey of the [[w:Mayflower|Mayflower]]. :'''Sea Captain''': Aw, yes. The ship that brought [[w:prostitute|prostitute]]s to America. :'''Lisa''': Not prostitutes, [[w:Protestant|Protestant]]s. :'''Sea Captain''': Now who's being naive? <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Seymour Skinner|Captain Seymour Bligh]]''': ''[over speaker]'' Welcome to Day 718 of our voyage. First off, in an attempt to preserve water, you will not be given any water. ''[crew groans]'' And also, because of a sketch of myself having romantic congress with a mer-man ''[shows the offending picture]'' I am dumping all your mail from home into the sea. ''[Willie does so]'' And I can assure you that there were cookies in there. Good cookies, the kind only a loving mother or Milhouse's father could bake. :'''[[w: Milhouse Van Houten|Second Officer Milhouse]]''': My father's alive? :'''Seymour Bligh''': No, he died while baking. It's all in the letter. ''[He throws the Milhouse's father's letter outside the window]'' ===''[[w:Girls Just Want To Have Sums|Girls Just Want To Have Sums]]''=== :'''[[w:Seymour Skinner|Principal Skinner]]''' ''[phonily]'': Am I wearing women's clothes? I didn't notice. When I look in my closet, I don't see male clothes or female clothes, they're all the same. :'''[[w:Edna Krabappel|Edna Krabappel]]''': ''[arms crossed]'' Are you saying that men and women are identical? :'''Skinner''': Oh, no, of course not! Women are unique in every way. :'''Lindsay Naegle''': ''[arms crossed]'' Now he's saying women and men ''aren't'' equal! :'''Skinner''': ''[getting nervous]'' No, no, no! It's the differences...of which there are none, that make the sameness...exceptional! ''[desperately]'' Just tell me what to say! :''[Skinner hyperventilates and faints]'' <hr width="50%"/> :''[Homer and Marge are in bed.]'' :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': So... do you wanna... "wang chung tonight"? :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': I don't know. I'm still frowny with you. Do you really think women are mentally inferior? :'''Homer''': ''[shifting his eyes nervously]'' Well, uh, uh, honey, you're just as smart as a man. Sometimes when I'm with you, I feel like I'm doing it with a dude. :''[Marge groans, then scene cuts to Homer sleeping on the couch]'' :'''Homer''': Oh, why did women invent sleeping on the couch? Oh. Well, I won't be lonely. I can always cuddle with the dog. ''[cuddles Santa's Little Helper]'' Mmm. At least everyone knows I'm smarter than you! :''[scene cuts to Homer sleeping in the doghouse]'' :'''Homer''': Oh, how did this happen? <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': ''[to Lisa]'' Do you know why you did good at math? :'''Melanie Upfoot''': "Did ''well.''" :'''Superintendent Chalmers''': Ah, give it a rest, Melanie. :'''Melanie Upfoot''': Calling me by my first name is harassment! :'''Superintendent Chalmers''': Well, in for a penny, in for a pound! ''[grabs Melanie and kisses her]'' :'''Melanie Upfoot''': ''[charmed]'' Oh, Superintendent...! ===''[[w:Regarding Margie|Regarding Margie]]''=== :'''Maid 1''': "You know what I found in their dirty clothes hamper? ''DIRTY CLOTHES!''" :'''Maid 2''': "I found a hair in the drain! Not a fine, upstanding head hair, but a curly-wurly!" :'''Maids''': "UNTIDY! UNTIDY! UNTIDY!" :''[shamrock wipe to reality]'' :'''Marge''': ''[Hastily]'' Untidy! Untidy! Untidy! <hr width="50%"> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': When will Marge remember us? :'''[[w:Julius Hibbert|Dr. Hibbert]]''': It's hard to say. With retrograde amnesia such as this, the patient could forget years and years of her life. You just have to keep jogging her memory until it works. :'''Homer''': Awww! Jogging? :'''Dr. Hibbert''': I didn't say you should be jogging. :'''Homer''': Sweet! :'''Dr. Hibbert''': Although you should be jogging. :'''Homer''': Aww! Jogging? <hr width="50%"> :'''Homer''': See that ball of fire? That's the sun. It goes by many names: Apollo's Lantern, day moon, Old Blazey. The important thing is never to touch it. :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': I know what the sun is! :'''Homer''': Yes, ''now'' you do. ===''[[w:The Monkey Suit|The Monkey Suit]]''=== :'''Homer''': Time to do what I do best, ruin it for everybody. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': Go ahead, Maggie. You're allowed to touch the deadly weapons. :''[Maggie picks up a pen-knife]'' :'''Marge''': Ooh! It's a mugger! I'll hand over all my hugs and kisses-- :''[Maggie holds up the knife and points it at Marge, with an angry expression]'' :'''Marge''': OK, be cool. I've got some candy in my purse... <hr width="50%"/> :'''Todd''': Daddy, was mommy a monkey? I can't remember. :'''[[w:Ned Flanders|Ned]]''': ''[yelling]'' No one was ever a monkey! Everything is what it was and always will be! God put us here and that's that! :'''Todd''': But you said a stork brought me. :'''Ned''': Uh, that was God disguised as a stork. :'''Rod''': Who brings baby storks? :'''Ned''': There's no such thing as storks, it's all God! :'''Todd''': ''[praying in front of a statue of a stork]'' Please bless daddy and mommy... :'''Ned''': Stop praying to that stork! ===''[[w:Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play|Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play]]''=== :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': We've been through more hardships than the Jews and Charlie Brown put together! <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': Isn't it weird that our parents are giving marital advice? They're always fighting. If you listen closely, you can hear them arguing right now. ''[she and Bart then listen closely]'' :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': ''[in distance]'' And ''I'' say, a monkey '''''can''''' mow our lawn! <hr width="50%"/> :''Watching Tabitha Vixx pole-dancing on stage during a concert'' :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': ''[dreamily]'' Wow. I've got this sudden urge to give her a five-dollar bill... :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': That's it, we're leaving! <hr width=50%/> :'''Announcer''': And he sends one into the slug-o-sphere. It's going...going... :''[the ball flies into the Duff blimp, which then starts deflating]'' :''[Homer jumps from the blimp, then lands next to Sideshow Mel]'' :'''[[w:Sideshow Mel|Sideshow Mel]]''': My sister's friend! :''[Homer runs from the blimp just as it runs out of helium]'' :'''Buck''': Tabitha! Tabitha! Oh, this is the worst blimp crash ever. <noinclude> {{DEFAULTSORT:Simpsons, Season 17}} [[Category:The Simpsons seasons]] </noinclude> 2osbh1dwxld9oejophv18hoar2v9yg2 0 33414 3961051 3948048 2026-07-05T12:09:00Z ~2026-22475-30 3310494 3961051 wikitext text/x-wiki {{DISPLAYTITLE:''The Simpsons''/Season 14}} {{The Simpsons header}} '''''[[w:The Simpsons|The Simpsons]]''''' (1989–present) is an American animated sitcom broadcast by the Fox Broadcasting Company created by [[Matt Groening]]. The series is a satirical depiction of American life, epitomized by the Simpson family. ===''[[w:Treehouse of Horror XIII|Treehouse of Horror XIII]]''=== :'''Bart''': ''[In his Maude Flanders costume, eerily]'' Ned, I'm back! Give me a kiss! <hr width="50%"/> :''[William Bonney ([[w:Billy the Kid|Billy the Kid]]) and his evil gang of undead henchmen have risen from the ground.]'' :'''Billy''': Now I'd like you to meet the hole-in-the-ground gang! :'''Townspeople''': ''[Gasp]'' :'''Billy''': Frank an' [[w:Jesse James|Jesse James]]! :'''Townspeople''': ''[Gasp]'' :'''Billy''': The [[w:Sundance Kid|Sundance Kid]]! :'''Townspeople''': ''[Gasp]'' :'''[[w:Comic Book Guy|Comic Book Guy]]''': What happened to [[w:Butch Cassidy|Butch Cassidy]]? :'''The Sundance Kid''': ''[imitating]'' ''What happened to Butch Cassidy?'' We're not joined at the hip, you know! :'''Billy''': And the most evil German of all time... [[w:Kaiser Wilhelm|Kaiser Wilhelm]]. :'''Townspeople''': ''[Mutterings of "Who?"]'' :'''Frank James''': He ain't no cowboy! :'''[[Wilhelm II, German Emperor|Wilhelm]]''': Sure I am! ''[stops to think]''...uh... yippy wippy, wippy! :'''Frank''': OK, he's in. :'''[[Billy the Kid]]''': Now let's rob the bank, give the money to the poor, then rob the poor, and shoot the money! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': ''[sing-songy]'' In the jungle / The mighty jungle / Homer rides a freak <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': ''[notices [[w:Maggie Simpson|Maggie]] who has been turned into an [[w:anteater|anteater]]]'' Maggie! ''[Lisa, turned into an [[w:eagle|eagle]], swoops down, grabs Maggie with her claws, and tries to fly away]'' Lisa! ''[grabs Lisa from her legs, pulls her down and releases Maggie]'' :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': ''[defensively]'' We were just playing. :'''Homer''': What game? :'''Lisa''': ''[sheepishly]'' Let's eat Maggie...? <hr width="50%"/> :''[After other characters - who have been turned into 'manimals' by Dr. Hibbert - decide that they enjoy it]'' :'''Homer''': YOU GUYS ARE NUTS! All you can do is eat, and sleep, and mate, and roll around in your own filth, and mate, and eat-- Where do I sign up? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lisa''': ''[as an eagle]'' So, how do you like being a [[w:walrus|walrus]], dad? :'''Homer''': ''[as a walrus]'' It's great! I haven't been this skinny since [[w:high school|high school]]! ===''[[w:How I Spent My Strummer Vacation|How I Spent My Strummer Vacation]]''=== :''[The Simpsons are gathered together, while watching Taxicab Conversations.]'' :'''Wise guy''': How ya doing? :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': ''[drunk]'' Talky thing, ain't ya? :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': Another proud moment for the Simpsons. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': Hey, what gives, where are the rock stars? :'''Chief Wiggum''': I don't know, but it's starting to get dark. :''[All of a sudden, they hear rock music.]'' :'''Homer''': ''[Gasps]'' What was that? :'''Barney Gumble''': Oh, it's getting closer. :''[In a burst of smoke, a stage emerges and [[w:Mick Jagger|Mick Jagger]] and [[w:Keith Richards|Keith Richards]] appear.]'' :'''[[w:Mick Jagger|Mick Jagger]]''': Hello campers! :'''[[w:Keith Richards|Keith Richards]]''': How are ya doin'? :'''Homer''': Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God! It's Mick Jagger and Keith Richards! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Apu''': Can we talk about accentuating the...uh...masculine area? :'''[[w:Lenny Kravitz|Lenny Kravitz]]''': Did you hear that, everybody? Apu just asked about crotch stuffing. Now, I don't do that. [[w:Kenny Loggins|Kenny Loggins]] does. :'''[[w:Kenny Loggins|Kenny Loggins]]''': ''[Appearing at the window]'' I trusted you! ''[Runs away crying]''. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': Mr. Seltzer? :'''[[w:Brian Setzer|Brian Setzer]]''': Setzer. :'''Homer''': No, I think it's Seltzer. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Homer is upset that the Rock n' Roll Fantasy Camp is over]'' :'''[[Mick Jagger]]''': It's okay, Homer. It's only Rock n' Roll camp. :'''Homer''': But I like it. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Homer has a backstage pass and jumps over the counter of a Pizza stand]'' :'''Squeaky Voiced teen''': Sir, you can't... :'''Homer''': ''[flashes his card at the teen]'' All access! :'''Squeaky Voiced Teen''': ''[salutes]'' Oh. Sorry! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': There's no need for apologies, guys. You're rock stars! You're supposed to be reckless and destructive, and be celebrated for behavior that would land normal people in jail! :'''[[Keith Richards]]''': That's what I told them! ===''[[w:Bart vs. Lisa vs. The Third Grade|Bart vs. Lisa vs. The Third Grade]]''=== :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': ''[mockingly at Lisa]'' Ha Ha. They left without you. :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': They left without you too, you idiot. :'''Bart''': If I'm such an idiot, how come I'm the smartest kid in third grade? :'''Lisa''': Because you've already done it once. :''[Pause]'' :'''Bart''': You've lost me. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lisa''': Hey... how do we get home? :'''Bart''': No problem. We'll just circle around like those kids in the Blair Witch project. :''[Bart walks off-screen. He immediately walks back into frame on the other side]'' :'''Bart''': I must be getting close. ''[points to Lisa]'' I recognize that girl. ===''[[w:Large Marge|Large Marge]]''=== :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Well, if Bart can be 'El Barto'... :''["El Homo" is painted on a wall]'' :'''Homosexual Latino''': Oh, if only I had your courage, sénor. :'''Homer''': Thanks ''[realizes what he just did]'' Ahh! Oh, God! ''[Paints frantically to cover it up]'' :'''Lisa''': Dad, you're getting paint all over your wedding ring. :'''Homer''': Oh, right. Here, hold it. ''[Hands the ring to Lisa]'' :'''Lisa''': Dad, this is a Band-Aid wrapped in tin foil. :'''Homer''': ''[Ashamed]'' My real ring's inside a turtle. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': Aaaaah! What on Earth have you done?! My maguppies became bazongas! :'''Surgeon''': Great [[Nicolae_Ceau%C8%99escu|Ceaușescu]]'s ghost! Are those real? ''[Makes a realization]'' Oh. Oh, right. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Old Soldier''': Oh, my God! ''[picks up a hungover Milhouse]'' This youngster befouled the flag! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Marge''': Accidentally giving me breast implants is not a simple misunderstanding, my surgery was botched! :'''Surgeon''': Botched, what is that the word of the day? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bart''': The Krusty I know didn't get where he is today by giving up! :'''Krusty''': No, I got where I am today by naming names in the '50s! ===''[[w:Helter Shelter|Helter Shelter]]''=== :''[as the Sarcastic Clerk is gnawing on the living room table]'' :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': Why do you always pick the cheapest guy? :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': I go by how funny the sign is. ''[indicates the [[A Bug's Life|"A Bug's Death"]] van outside the house]'' <hr width="50%"/> :''[Bart uses a telegraph to message Moe, dressed as a telegraph clerk]'' :'''[[w:Moe Szyslak|Moe]]''': Telegram for Heywood U. Cuddleme. Heywood U. Cuddleme? Big guy in the back, "hey would you cuddle me"? :''[a big man makes a threatening look while Lenny and Carl laugh]'' :'''Billy the Big Guy in the Back''': No thanks. :'''Moe''': ''[angry]'' Ooh, that little...!! ''[begins using the telegraph]'' I'm gonna drive a [[w:golden spike|Golden Spike]] where your [[w:First Transcontinental Railroad|Union meets your Central Pacific]]! STOP! :''[at the other end, Bart laughs]'' ===''[[w:The Great Louse Detective|The Great Louse Detective]]''=== :'''[[w:Clancy Wiggum|Chief Wiggum]]''': Now, Mr. Simpson, is it possible you're living a double or triple life that your wife doesn't know about? :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Triple? No, definitely no. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Chief Wiggum''': Now, your case requires someone who understands the twisted mind of a murderer. And I know just where to find him. :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': ''[hopeful]'' [[Paris]]? :'''Chief Wiggum''': No, no, not [[Paris]]. :'''Marge''': ''[downhearted]'' I'm never gonna go to [[Paris]]. <hr width="50%"/> :''[The Simpsons are in Campbell's Chunky Soup Maximum Security Prison]'' :'''Marge''': I don't think this was a great place to bring the children. :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': It still beats [[w:Disney California Adventure Park|Disney's California Adventure]]. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Sideshow Bob|Sideshow Bob]]''': Hello, Bart. :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]] and Lisa''': AAAHH!! Sideshow Bob! :'''Sideshow Bob''': Oh, come now, we have been through so much together. Just call me Bob. :'''Bart and Lisa''': AAAHH!! Bob! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bart''': Dad, I can't believe you're putting my life at risk to save your own?! :'''Homer''': You'll understand someday when you have kids. <hr width="50"/> :''[Sideshow Bob placed a Homer dummy on the motor laundry line and turns it on, making it a decoy.]'' :'''Sideshow Bob''': The trap is set. The killer will think this dummy is you out for an evening stroll. Now we lie and wait like hungry Cassius for noble Caesar. :'''Homer''': You're so smart. ''[to Bart]'' Shock him. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Homer's runaway King of Mardi Gras float is heading toward a building filled with swordfish.]'' :'''Lisa''': ''[gasps]'' Dad's headed straight for the Museum of Swordfish! :'''Marge''': That museum's been nothing but trouble since it opened. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': Wait! [[w:Homer's Enemy|Frank Grimes]] wasn't married! How could he have a son? :'''[[w:List of one-time characters in The Simpsons#Season 14|Frank Grimes Jr.]]''': He happened to like [[w:prostitution|hookers]], okay? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lisa''': Dad! I figured it out! ''[opens a piece of paper]'' The murderer is-- :'''Homer''': I know! Frank Grimes Junior! :'''Lisa''': Huh? ''[looks down at the paper, where she has written the name "[[w:List of recurring characters in The Simpsons#Bumblebee Man|Bumblebee Man]]"]'' Precisely. ''[crumples the paper and kicks it away]'' <hr width="50%"/> :''[At night, Homer and Bart celebrate their victory at the capture of the perpetrator at Bart's room]'' :'''Bart''': Dad, I'm really glad you're still alive. :'''Homer:''': Yeah, it's every parent's dream to outlive their children. Goodnight, son. ''[he closes the door, unaware that Bob is hiding on the other side of the door]'' :'''Sideshow Bob''': ''[jumps down]'' Hello, Bart. ''[Bart screams, but Bob quickly covers the boy's mouth with duct tape. He tries reaching for the shock remote, only to find that it is missing.]'' Looking for this? ''[He shows Bart the remote he had stolen before tossing it out the window and taking the knife out of his pocket.]'' Now I'm going to take some advice that was given to me by Lenny, and kill you without doing. ''[He raises the knife to strike, but looks at Bart's pleading eyes before stopping.]'' One thrust, and the deed is done. ''[He raises the knife again, but pauses again at the look of the boy's pleading face before lowering the knife again.]'' I... I can't do it. :'''Bart''': ''[muffled]'' Huh? Why not? :'''Sideshow Bob''': Well, I guess I've—dear God—grown accustomed to your face! ''[starts singing "The Very Reason That I Live"]'' :I've... grown accustomed to his face, :And dreams of gouging out his eyes. :I've grown accustomed to my hate, :My plans to lacerate, :To disembowel, :To hear him howl. :''[As he sings, Bart tries getting out of bed through the covers, but Bob grabs him and pins him to the wall atop the bedstand with the knife by his nightgown.]'' :The very reason that I live :Is plotting how to watch him die. :'''Homer''': ''[bangs on the wall from the other room]'' Bart! Turn down that original cast recording and go to sleep! ''[The banging loosens the knife from the wall, and Bart falls down to the floor and tries escaping while sneaking behind Bob.]'' :'''Sideshow Bob''': ''[continues]'' I know this chubby scalliwag :Has made my life a living hell. :''[He grabs one of Bart's legs as he sings and dangles the boy upside-down while pulling him close to his face.]'' :Surely, if I drank his blood, :I'd be at peace... but, well... :'''Bart''': ''[removes the tape from his mouth and sings]'' You've grown accustomed to my face? :'''Sideshow Bob''': This isn't a duet. :'''Bart''': Sorry. ''[puts the tape back on his mouth]'' :'''Sideshow Bob''': I've grown accustomed to your fear, : Accustomed to revenge, : Accustomed to... your face. : ''[As he finishes, he carries Bart and sets him back to his bed, then leaps up at the edge of the bed before finishing and jumping out the window, landing on the ground as Bart quickly shuts the window.]'' We shall meet again, old friend. But now, I must steal away into the night. ''[gets shocked by the remote's button that is repeatedly pressed by the birds on its nest, showrunner credits appears. Starting the credits. After the credits, Gracie Films logo appears and 20th Century Fox Television appears at the end of the episode]'' ===''[[w:Special Edna|Special Edna]]''=== :''[Krabappel learns she's been nominated for Teacher of the Year]'' :'''Edna Krabappel''': This after showing the class [[w:Romeo and Juliet (1968 film)|the R-rated version of ''Romeo and Juliet'']]! I thought that nipple would haunt me forever! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Principal Skinner''': ''[on the phone]'' Y'ello? Mother? ''[sighs]'' I'll be right there. ''[to Edna]'' Now she wants to get ''out'' of the tub. :'''Edna Krabappel''': You've got to stop putting your mother ahead of me! We have a date! :'''Principal Skinner''': I'll be back in three hours. ''[suggestive]'' Maybe less. ''[normal]'' But almost certainly more. :''[Skinner leaves, and Edna starts sobbing]'' :'''Bart''': He's a wiener, Mrs. K. Just say the word, and his desk is full of boogers. :'''Edna Krabappel''': That's sweet of you. <hr width="50%"/> :''[The Simpsons are on a ride like the [[w:Carousel of Progress|Carousel of Progress]]]'' :'''Voiceover''': Welcome to the electric car of the future! :'''Car''': ''[in a whiny tone]'' Hello. I'm an electric car. I can't go very fast, or very far. ''[Bart and Homer look around the scenery with puzzled expressions]'' And if you drive me, people will think you're gay. :'''Animatronic Gay Men''': One of us! One of us! <hr width="50%"/> :''[Little Richard is on stage]'' :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': [[Prince (musician)|Purple Rain]]! :'''[[Little Richard]]''': SHUT UP! :'''Homer''': ''[excited]'' [[Michael Jackson]] told me to shut up. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Milhouse''': Hey Bart! Want to go for a ride on my uncle's [[w:UH-60 Black Hawk|Black Hawk]] helicopter? :'''Bart''': But I just started my paper! :'''Milhouse''': It's your last chance! He'll probably get court marshaled for this! :'''Bart''': Black Hawk up! ===''[[w:The Dad Who Knew Too Little|The Dad Who Knew Too Little]]''=== :''[The Simpsons watch Homer's personalized movie for Lisa: "The Adventures of Lisa Simpson, Girl Cowboy". In it, we see Lisa's face, with tongue sticking out, crudely pasted onto a cowgirl's body. The animation is really choppy.]'' :'''Cowgirl''': Howdy, pardners! My name is Sheriff... :'''Homer voiceover''': Lisa Simpson! :'''Cowgirl''': I sure am hungry for my favorite food... :'''Homer voiceover''': McNuggets! :'''Lisa''': I don't like McNuggets! I'm a vegetarian! :'''Homer''': Still? Well, then you're not gonna like your other present. :''[Pans to a turkey in wrapping paper on the floor]'' :''[In the film a male cowboy rides up]'' :'''Cowgirl''': Why, it's my best friend... :'''Homer voiceover''': Maggie! :'''Lisa''': Huh? :''[A bartender enters]'' :'''Bartender''': Bad news, Sheriff... :'''Homer voiceover''': Lisa Simpson! :'''Bartender''': Some Indians took all the... :'''Homer voiceover''': McNuggets! Mmmm... McNuggets... ''[drools]'' :'''Cowgirl''': I'll get those no-good Indians, just as sure as my favorite book is... :'''Homer voiceover''': Magazines! ''[snores]'' :'''Bart voiceover''': Wake up, Dad! :'''Homer voiceover''': Huh? Wha? :''[The screen goes to static before an angry Lisa turns off the TV]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Ralph Wiggum|Ralph Wiggum]]''': Lisa Simpson is a girl at my school. :'''Dexter Colt''': Yes, you said that already. What else do you know? :'''Ralph''': I once picked my nose 'til it bleeded. :'''Dexter''': No, about Lisa! :'''Ralph''': Lisa Simpson is a girl at my school. :'''Dexter''': Someone's already worked this guy over. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': Lisa's pet peeve is... ''phonies?!'' I thought she loved them! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Offscreen Voice''': Unauthorized user. Access denied. ===''[[w:Strong Arms of The Ma|Strong Arms of The Ma]]''=== :'''Ranier Wolfcastle''': Do you need some assistance picking over the tattered remains of my life? :'''Homer''': Nope, I'm good. Hey, your early porno movies! Eh, are any of these hetero? :'''Ranier Wolfcastle''': What's there is there. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': ''[carried by Rainier in his baby seat]'' Your heartbeat's so soothing. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Marge''': ''[finds out she pepper sprayed Ralph on purpose]'' Oh, no! I pepper sprayed Ralph! <hr width="50%"/> :''[Marge breaks a glass jar and points it menacingly at Moe]'' :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': Maybe death will stop your yammering!! <hr width="50%"/> :''[Homer is in bed. A toned Marge walks in, lustfully]'' :'''Marge''': Say, Homie, how about a good luck snuggle before my competition tomorrow? :'''Homer''': ''[feeling trapped]'' Erm, listen my bulky flower, I have an early day tomorrow and... :'''Marge''': ''[Gets on top]'' I wasn't asking. ''[Veins bulging. She rapes Homer]'' :''[the next morning]'' :'''Homer''': Morning kids, I made your lunches. :'''Bart''': Where's Mom? :'''Homer''': Your Mom has a lot of stuff to shave. ''[walks off hobbling]'' <hr width="50%"/> :''[Marge has destroyed Moe's Tavern and injured almost all of the barflies. She holds Lenny over her head as Homer comes out from hiding on the far end of the bar]'' :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Marge? :''[Marge turns around, breathing heavily and still holding Lenny over her head]'' :'''Homer''': ''[voice breaking]'' Somewhere in that sea of bull hormones is the sweet, wonderful girl I married. The woman who, instead of swatting a fly, would give it a bath and send it on its way. I'd sure like to go home and have Jiffy Pop with her. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Moe Szyslak|Moe]]''': ''[looks at his destroyed tavern['' Well, there's only one way to recoup my losses. ''[pours some [[w:gasoline|gasoline]] over the counter and sets it on fire with a match stick]'' :'''[[w:Carl Carlson|Carl]]''': Oh, whoa, wait a minute. Don't you have to buy [[w:insurance|insurance]] first? :'''Moe''': Oh, crap. ===''[[w:Pray Anything|Pray Anything]]''=== :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': You know, most people pray silently. :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Marge, he's way the hell up there! <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Ken Burns|Ken Burns]]''': ''[on a TV documentary about himself]'' I've never actually been to a baseball game. The fresh air gives me hives. :'''Homer''': '''DIE, MONSTER!!!''' ''[changes channel]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Marge''': I'm sorry Ned. It looks like God has packed up and left Springfield. :'''Ned''': ''[hysterical]'' No, you're lying! You're lying! What makes you lie? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Kent Brockman''': Good evening. Springfield is still grappling tonight with the departure of Reverend Timothy Lovejoy, local Bible nut. How is our community coping with this spiritual vacuum? Let's ask Arnie Pye in the Sky! :'''Arnie Pye''': You wanna know what I see, Kent? I see a slow news day with nothing to fill it! :'''Kent Brockman''': Arnie, you're supposed to be filming people coping with the loss of their church! :'''Arnie Pye''': And how am I supposed to do that? Do I have a magic lens that can see into peoples' SOULS? Well, yours would be BLACK, Kent! BLACK AS THE ACE OF SPADES!!! <hr width="50%"/> :''[Reverend Lovejoy is forced to leave the Church]'' :'''Lovejoy''': It's okay, the Flanders have offered to put me up. :'''Ned''': And, Reverend, you'll be bunking with me. :''[Lovejoy shudders]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': There are perfectly logical explanations for everything that happened. The bonfire sent soot into the air, which created rain, and with all the trees cut down a flood was inevitable. :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': Yeah, but what made the rain stop? :'''Lisa''': I don't know. [[Buddha]]? ===''[[w:Barting Over|Barting Over]]''=== :'''Lisa''': Why did you wake me up!? I dreamt I was at the Kennedy Center honors. :'''Marge''': Well, here's another low rated annual event. Spring cleaning! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bart''': Hey, a box of old videotapes. "Marge And Homer Get Dirty"? Hey, Lis, think you're well-adjusted? I’ve got something to show you. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lisa''': ''[to Bart]'' You're Baby Stink-Breath, you're Baby Stink-Breath! En Francais... ''[in French]'' vous êtes L'enfant Stink-Breath! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bart''': How could you make me Baby Stink-Breath and not even tell me? :'''Homer''': I was going to tell you on my deathbed. :'''Marge''': Honey, you did have a great time doing those commercials, and you made a lot of money. :'''Bart''': I did? Where is it? :'''Marge''': Your father invested it in the college trust fund which, today, must be worth a fo... :'''Homer''': ''[interrupts Marge]'' La la la la la la la la la! :'''Marge''': ''[groans in embarrassment]'' Of course, the stock market's been down lately, but there must be some sort of... :'''Homer''': ''[rudely continues interrupting Marge]'' La la la la la la la la nothing left la la la oh. :'''Bart''': You spent all the money I earned? :'''Homer''': I needed it. I had to buy back some incriminating photos. Look. :''[Flips through photos of Homer holding Bart over a railing a 'la Michael Jackson and then dropping him]'' :'''Homer''': See, you're fine, and then... ''[shows the final photo, depicting Bart missing]'' whoops! Uh-oh! Look out! Oh! I know this looks bad, but if you reverse it, Daddy's a hero. See? ''[reverses the sequence]'' Watch... I saved you! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bart''': I want a divorce from my parents. :'''Blue-Haired Lawyer''': You '''''WHA?!''''' :'''Bart''': I said I want a divorce from my parents. :'''Blue-Haired Lawyer''': Yes, I heard you. I was just calling my secretary. Yuwah, give me the standard child divorcing parent form. :'''Yuwah''': Yes, sir. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': Bart, you're suing us? :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': Yes, I wanna be emancipated. :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Emancipated? Don't you like being a dude? :'''Lisa''': No, Dad, it means Bart would be a legal adult and free to move out of the house. :'''Marge''': I wanted a sewing room, but not like this. Not like this! :'''Bart:''' Mom, you've always been cool to me, but Homer is a lousy dad and I'm not gonna take it anymore. :'''Homer:''' Hey, my dad was lousy and I didn't sue him. I just dumped him in the cheapest home I could find. :''[Cut to the Springfield Retirement Castle where Abraham is on a hospital bed]'' :'''Abe''': Hey! My IV is empty, and my catheter is full! :''[The employee carelessly switches urine and IV bag in opposite places]'' :'''Employee''': See you tomorrow. <hr width="50%"/> :''[At the trial, the Blue Haired Lawyer holds up a doll commonly used in child molestation cases.]'' :'''Bart's Lawyer''': Bart using this doll, will you show the court where your father stolen money from you? :'''Bart''': ''[pulls out the left pocket of the doll]'' Here and here. ''[pulls out the right pocket of the doll]'' :'''Bart's Lawyer''': Let the record show he has pulled out the pockets from the doll. :''[Homer is nervous and is later seen on the witness stand after Bart's lawyer calls him next]'' :'''Bart's Lawyer''': Mr. Simpson, your son alleges that you have an anger management problem. :'''Homer''': ''[angrily turns red]'' Why you little! ''[Judge Harm stares at him sternly]'' I... uh, I'm sorry, judge. That's a rare lapse in my normally calm demeanor. :'''Judge Harm''': ''[disbelieving Homer much to the joy of Bart's lawyer]'' Could the stenographer please read back the previous statement? :'''Stenographer''': Why you little... :'''Homer''': ''[angrily turns red]'' Why you little...! :'''Bart''': ''[laughs]'' The oldest trick in the book! :'''Homer''': Why you little...! ''[to Judge Harm]'' Why you little...! :''[Judge Harm draws Homer being hanged]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Judge Harm''': No judge would send a pre-teen out on his own. :'''Homer''': '''WOO-HOO!''' YOU'RE STILL MINE! AND YOU THOUGHT I WAS A BAD DAD '''BEFORE!''' :'''Judge Harm''': ''[Eyes narrowed at Homer for rudely interrupting her verdict]'' '''Except''' in this case! :''[Homer pulls his shirt collar nervously and cringes]'' :'''Judge Harm''': That boy is about as safe living with you as a crawdad in a gumbo shack. Bart Simpson, I declare you emancipated! :''[She slams her gavel]'' :'''Judge Harm''': Further, I hereby garnish Homer's wages until Bart is fully repaid. :'''Homer''': ''[thinking it's food]'' Mmmmm...garnish. :'''Judge Harm''': That means half your paycheck goes to Bart. :'''Homer''': What the...half goes to Bart, half goes to [[w:Viva Ned Flanders|my Vegas wife]]? What's left for [[w:Moe Syzlak|Moe]]? :'''Marge''': Homer, don't make things worse! :'''Homer''': ''[turns red in anger]'' I'LL SHOW ''YOU'' WORSE! :''[He screams and runs towards Judge Harm, intent on attacking her. The bailiff catches him and punches him.]'' :'''Homer''': ''[being dragged out by the bailiff and embarrasses Marge]'' '''I WAS TOLD THIS WOULD BE TELEVISED!''' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Marge''': '''Please''' don't go, Bart. I'll let you swear in the house: everything but the Big Three. :'''Bart''': Sorry, Mom. I just can't, not as long as '''[[w:Homer Simpson|he's]]''' here. ''[Bart points to Homer, who hides]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': ''[comes outside to confront Bart]'' Go ahead. Leave. You'll come crawling back. :''[Bart's taxi is driving away as Homer chases after it]'' :'''Homer''': That's right, crawling on your knees. ''[stops in the middle of the road]'' Crawling! ''[sobbing]'' Oh, he's really gone. ''[starts crying]'' He's '''GONE!''' :''[he continues sobbing into the night. Next to him is a sign that says "Man Sobbing"]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bart''': Well, here I am, on my own... and I'm gonna make it, world! :''[Bart throws his red cap through a ceiling fan and shreds into pieces. Then a drugs salesman bangs the wall.]'' :'''Neighbor''': ''Be quiet in there! Some of us are trying to sell drugs!'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bart''': ''[starting to cry while in the elevator]'' I'm gonna die in my jammies. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lisa''': That couch looks really pricey. :'''Bart''': Well, you need an expensive couch to watch an expensive TV. :'''Homer''': Of course, because you wouldn't want to... ''[screams]'' '''I PAY FOR YOUR SPLENDOR, YOU...''' ''[chokes Bart]'' :''[Marge is embarrassed]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': Psst! Mr Hawk! May I have a word with you? :'''Tony Hawk''': An extreme word? :'''Homer''': Sure. ''[loudly]'' MY SON IS BART SIMPSON, AND-- :'''Tony Hawk''': I didn't say extreme to the max! :'''Homer''': Sorry. I just wanna win my son back so badly. :'''Tony Hawk''': I can relate. I'm a father myself. ''[sighs]'' One day they're little shredders, and the next day they're grinding and gnashing their way to college. :'''Homer''': Yeah, I make up words too. Anyway, I was wondering if you could pretend to lose to me in a skateboarding contest, so I can be a hero to my boy again. :'''Tony Hawk''': I'll lose millions in endorsements... but okay. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Tony Hawk''': You're going down, Homer. Then up. Then down. Then back up again. That's how the game is played. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Marge''': I can't count how many times your father's done something crazy like this... :''[Lisa pulls out a rolling counter which is now at 300]'' :'''Lisa''': It's 300, Mom. :'''Marge''': I could've sworn it was 302. {{ref|Note|1}} :'''Lisa''': Shhh! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bart''': Dad, you don't understand. This was never about being cool. It was about you not caring how I felt. :'''Homer''': Oh, that's the dumbest thing I ever heard, you stupid little kid! :'''Tony''': Homer, you're heading for a parental face-plant! Do a 180 emotional Ollie! ''[groans as he falls down the skate ramp]'' :'''Homer''': FINALLY, someone explains it to me in words I can understand! <hr width="50%"/> :''[Homer is embarrassed to learn that the commercial he starred in is an impotency one.]'' :'''Bart''': Nobody will remember it in 50 years. :''[50 years later, Homer is dead and his grave has the Impotency Spokesman on it. An elderly Nelson Muntz visits his grave to laugh at him before passing out from the attempt.]'' '''Notes''' {{note|1}} References the episode count of 300 (the 300th was ''The Strong Arms of the Ma'' and the 301st was "Pray Anything") ===''[[w:I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can|I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can]]''=== :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Three Ribwiches, please, and instead of a shake, I'd like a blended Ribwich. :'''Cashier''': I'm sorry, sir. The Ribwich was for a limited time only. :'''Homer''': ''[banging fist on counter]'' Not again! First you take away my Philly Fudge Steak, then my Bacon Balls, then my What-Cha-Ma-Chicken. You monster... ''[walks away, then comes back to counter]'' I'd like a large fries, please, and a collector's cup. :'''Ribhead''': Dude, if you still want the Ribwich, they're testing it in other markets. Check out the tour schedule! ''[shows back of his shirt with the tour schedule]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': Maybe I should hook up with you guys. After all, how long do any of us have to live? :'''Ribhead''': Well, if you like the ribwich, not very. ''[holds up ribwich box with Krusty saying "WILL CAUSE EARLY DEATH"]'' :'''Homer''': D'oh! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Kent Brockman''': The Spellympics is being sued by the Olympics for use of the suffix 'lympics.' This has got to be the slowest news day ever! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bart''': Come on, man, everyone knows the first day of school is a total wank. :'''Principal Skinner''': Well, if by wank you mean educational fun, then stand back, it's wanking time! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lisa''': ''[loudly]'' Then I'll be QUEEN OF THE WORLD ''[whispers]'' of spelling. ''[Loud]'' That's right, QUEEN OF THE WORLD ''[whispers]'' of spelling. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Principal Skinner''': Bart, your word is imply. :'''Bart''': Imply. I-M-P... :'''Nelson''': Bart said, "I am pee." He's made of pee! :''[The students all laugh]'' :'''Bart''': Well, I got my laugh. I'm outta here. :'''Ralph''': I made Bart in my pants. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Principal Skinner''': Milhouse, your word is "choke." :'''Milhouse''': Oh, I know this one, it's so easy, "F".... oh, man! ''[the kids laugh]'' :'''Principal Skinner''': Stop laughing! It will scar him for life! ''[kids keep laughing]'' He-he-he, it is kinda infectious. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lisa''': Could you use it in a sentence? :'''Superintendent Chalmers''': Nothing can ameliorate the ineptitude of Principal Skinner. :'''Principal Skinner''': I wish he wouldn't use me in ''every'' example. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lisa''': Dad, this is my moment in the sun. How can you miss it to be with a sandwich? :'''Homer''': You don't understand. It's not just a sandwich... it's about brotherhood, it's about freedom, it's about 3 days since I've had one! I'm gettin' the shakes! And I'm gettin' the fries! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Principal Skinner''': Lisa, "impugn." :'''Lisa''': I-M-P... :'''Bart''': Hey, Lisa said... :'''Nelson''': ''[Slaps Bart in the back of his head]'' Shut up, pee! <hr width="50%"/> :''[Lisa dreaming, pondering throwing the spelling match to get a free education at a [[w:Seven Sisters]] college]'' :'''Barnard College''': We are the Seven Sisters. And you can attend any one of us! Like Barnard, Columbia's "girl next door." :'''Radcliffe College''': Come to Radcliffe and meet Harvard men." :'''Wellesley College''': Or come to Wellesley and marry them." :'''Mount Hollyoke College''': ''[slurring, champagne glass in hand]'' No. Party with me! ''[Falls face first]'' :'''Vassar College''': Or nonconform with me! ''[Raises arms, reveals hairy armpits]'' :'''Smith College''': ''[muscular girl, carries lacrosse stick, husky voice]'' Play lacrosse with me! :'''Bryn Mawr College''': Or come explore with me! ''[She and Smith kiss with passion]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Milhouse''': I know this is a fantasy, but I'll take it. ''[chuckles]'' :'''Lisa''': Nah, forget it. ''[thought bubble shrinks]'' :'''Milhouse''': ''[upset]'' No! I'll never be this happy again! ===''[[w:A Star is Born-Again|A Star is Born-Again]]''=== :''[In Ned's illusion moving to Hollywood, series executive producer [[James L. Brooks]] appears]'' :'''Brooks''': Ned, I'm [[James L. Brooks]]. :'''Ned''': Oh, can I call you Jim? :'''Brooks''': [[James L. Brooks]] is good. How about some spongecake? :'''Ned''': Well, I can't see the harm. :'''Brooks''': With a brandy glaze? :'''Ned''': Noooo!! :'''Brooks''': Or perhaps you like to go to a football game? :'''Ned''': Well-- :'''Brooks''': We don't have a team. :'''Ned''': Noo!! :'''Ralph''': ''[picks up a red jellyfish]'' I made a friend. ''[the jellyfish stings him and he falls into the water and is pulled away by the current]'' I'm going to Africa! There's lions, and monkeys, and Santa...! ===''[[w:Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington|Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington]]''=== :'''Marge''': ''[saw the Swear Jar is about to fall off the fridge]'' No! Not the Swear Jar! <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Krusty the Clown|Krusty]]''': Just one thing, are you guys good at covering youthful and middle aged indiscretions? :'''[[w:Montgomery Burns|Mr. Burns]]''': Are these indiscretions romantic, financial or treasonous? :'''[[w:Krusty the Clown|Krusty]]''': Russian hooker, you tell me. :'''Mr. Burns''': Oh, no problem. We'll say you were on a fact-finding mission! :'''Krusty''': I did find out one fact; she was a guy! <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': Look, can you please just tell us why you changed the flightpaths? :'''Airport official''': Uh, look, they were changed because a disturbed local wildlife and their mating rituals. :''[Cut to Ye Old Off-Ramp Inn, where Mayor Quimby is heard inside having sex]'' :'''Quimby''': Vote Quimby, vote Quimby, vote Quimby, vote Quimby! Ohh... ''[inside]'' Without those noisy planes, I can finally hear my kitten purr. :'''Woman''': ''[in a high-pitched, screechy voice]'' Thanks a million, Joe. You're the swellest! :'''Quimby''': ''[shocked]'' That's your voice?! Now I regret building you that opera house! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Marge''': There has to be a solution which pleases everyone. From ducks and trees, to you's and me's. :'''Airport official''': ''[angry]'' Are you threatening a government official? :'''Marge''': No! :'''Airport official''': Good! Because we're the government! We make the laws, we print the money and we breed the super soldiers. So go home, learn to live with it, pay your taxes, and remember, you didn't hear anything about super soldiers. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Marge''': The shaking's so bad, all my omelettes have become frittatas. :'''Congressman Horace Wilcox:''' That's the saddest story I've heard in my 75 years of public office. It makes my blood boil, and my left arm feel numb. Also I taste copper. ''[groans and collapses from a heart attack]'' :'''Marge''': Quick! Someone perform CPR! :'''Homer''': ''[singing]'' I see bad moon rising... :'''Marge''': That's [[w:Creedence Clearwater Revival|CCR]]. :'''Homer''': Uh, ''[singing]'' looks like we're in for nasty weather... <hr width="50%"/> :'''Cletus''': I like that clown. He's really lookin' out for me, the average Joe-Six Tooth. :'''Brandine''': Where'd you get yourself another tooth? :'''Cletus''': Sidewalk. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Maggie''': ''[starts drinking Homer's beer]'' :'''Marge''': Maggie, give me that! ''[takes the beer away from her]'' :''[Maggie burps]'' ===''[[w:C.E. D'oh|C.E. D'oh]]''=== :''[Homer sees Lenny and Carl are fighting one another with carbon rods, ala ''[[Star Wars]]'']'' :'''[[w:Lenny Leonard|Lenny]]''': ''I'' say ''[[Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace|Phantom Menace]]'' sucked more! :'''[[w:Carl Carlson|Carl]]''': ''I'' say ''[[Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones|Attack of the Clones]]'' sucked more! <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': All my life I've had one dream: to achieve my many goals. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': ''[after getting thrown out of the striptease class]'' Aw, nobody loves Oily Homer. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Homer tricks Mr. Burns into selling him the power plant, and then fires him]'' :'''Mr. Burns''': So the caterpillar has emerged from its cocoon as a shark, with a gun for a mouth. ===''[[w:'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky|'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky]]''=== :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': Now we nearly put this switch to "Overload". And once we do we'll be breaking the law. Can good truly come from civil disobedience? [[Gandhi]] thought so and—''[cut off by Bart]'' :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': [[w:Propagandhi|Gandhi]] also said, "Less talk, more rock." ''[Pulls the switch beyond "Overload"]'' :''[Lights explode. The police come out armed]'' :'''[[w:Clancy Wiggum|Clancy Wiggum]]''': Uh-oh. All of the lights are out. We need to get the entire force working on this. :'''Officer Lou''': But Chief, we are the entire force. :'''Clancy Wiggum''': Okay, we got to start recruiting, Lou. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': I wish God were alive to see this. ===''[[w:Three Gays of the Condo|Three Gays of the Condo]]''=== :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Puzzle piece, [[The Warriors (film)|come out and play-ay!]] <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': Mom, I know Dad cares about you, but his feelings are really hurt. Why don't you just say you're sorry? :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': Lisa, marriage is a beautiful thing, but it's also a constant battle for moral superiority. So I can't apologize. :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': Couldn't you just say you're sorry and not mean it? I do it all the time: I don't think I ever meant it. :'''Marge''': Bart, that's not right. :'''Bart''': Sorry, Mom... See? It's that easy. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': What a well kept street, and there sure are a lot of gay bookstores for a straight neighborhood. Bet these guys never had any kids. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': I'm sorry I'm late. The velvet mafia made me a margarita I couldn't refuse. :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': Goodbye, Homer! I try to save our marriage and you just get drunk and spend the night with your homosexual boyfriends! ''[greeting each person on her way down the stairs]'' Reverend Lovejoy, Mrs. Lovejoy, Principal Skinner, Duffman. ===''[[w:Dude, Where's My Ranch?|Dude, Where's My Ranch?]]''=== :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': ''[While being attacked by beavers]'' No! I wanted to die choking on food! <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Look at those city slickers with their stupid fur coats and pointy hats. :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': Homer, those are elk. :'''Homer''': I still hate them. Go back to Grosse Pointe! <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Moe Szyslak|Moe]]''': ''[on radio, to tune of "More, More, More"]'' ::''Moe, Moe, Moe'' ::''How do you like me? How do you like me?'' ::''Moe, Moe, Moe'' ::''Why don't you like me? Nobody likes me...'' ===''[[w:Old Yeller Belly|Old Yeller Belly]]''=== :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Don't worry son, I'll build you a new treehouse--One so grand it'll be an affront to God himself. :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': Can it have a ladder you can pull up after you? :'''Homer''': Only if it's an affront to God. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': Oh, thank God, the dog's here. Pull me free, boy. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': I used to think cats were just for losers who live in apartments, until my life was saved by this sweet little kitty. ''[Meow]'' ''[pissed off at Santa's Little Helper]'' Ooh, but as for you, Santa's Little Helper, you are a selfish coward and a bad dog! ''[Santa's Little Helper whines]'' Get out... AND STAY OUT! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': Move the net under the window. :'''Lisa''': There's no net. :'''Homer''': ''[falling]'' AAGH! OOF! ===''[[w:Brake My Wife, Please|Brake My Wife, Please]]''=== :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': I'll never mock the Coast Guard again. You Navy rejects are all right. :'''Judge Harm''': Mr Simpson, give me your license. :''[Homer groans and hands it over. Judge Harm uses a miniature guillotine to slice the license in half. The license is then fed to two dogs.]'' :'''Judge Harm''': Burn their poop. :'''[[w:Moe Szyslak|Moe]]''': Maybe this is a sign. Maybe it's time for me to get out of the alcohol business, give barber college another try. And this time, I won't join a frat! ''[Looks around, realizes no one is there]'' Who the hell am I talking to? <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Psst. Bishop to Queen-4. :'''Old Man''': We're playing Dominoes. :'''Homer''': I said Bishop to Queen-4. ===''[[w:Bart of War|Bart of War]]''=== :'''TV Announcer''': Next on [[w:Comedy Central|Comedy Central]], an all new ''[[South Park]]''! :'''Milhouse''': I hear those kids' voices are done by grown ups. :'''Bart''': Hey, there’s nothing wrong with that. I just wonder how they keep it so fresh after 43 episodes? :''[In the South Park episode, the kids are at a rock concert]'' :'''[[w:Stan Marsh|Stan]]''': I can't believe we paid to see a band with [[w:Steve Guttenberg|Steve Guttenberg]], [[w:Calista Flockhart|Calista Flockhart]], and Farty The Crippled Robot! :'''Farty''': ''[a robot with a guitar sitting in a wheelchair]'' Look who's in my fart: O. J.! :''[Farty produces a fart cloud that disappears, leaving [[w:O. J. Simpson|O. J. Simpson]] in its place]'' :'''O. J.''': ''[holds up a knife]'' I'm gonna kill you all! :''[O. J. decapitates Farty, who inexplicably bleeds red blood, before doing the same to drummer Guttenberg and bassist Flockhart, the latter appearing like a stick figure]'' :'''Bart and Milhouse''': ''[dancing a dosey-doe]'' Cartoon violence! Cartoon violence! :''[O. J. appears on screen with [[w:Eric Cartman|Cartman]]'s head on his knife]'' :'''O. J.''': Now I'm gonna find the real killers! :''[Marge turns off the TV as Bart and Milhouse scream]'' :'''Marge''': Kids, that cartoon's not life-affirming. We're going to watch a show about the everyday problems of angels. :''[Marge turns the TV back on to [[w:PAX TV|PAX TV]]] :'''TV Announcer''': Now, back to ''Good Heavens''. :''[An old couple living in the clouds with their dog appears on screen]'' :'''Old Woman''': Jesus called today. :'''Old Man''': He did?! :''[Bart and Milhouse scream and run away]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[Ralph Wiggum]]:''' ''[Gets thrown through The Simpsons' window with a note]'' I'm a brick! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': Wait a minute. How could those stupid jarheads win? :'''Lisa''': Who would want candy filled with laxatives? :''[Cut to seniors in the day room enjoying the laxative-laced candies.]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Mr. Burns''': ''[seeing the Indian smoke signals]'' Oh no, the [[w:Pawnee|Pawnee]] have returned. They probably want their souls back. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Ralph:''' ''[Gets carried off by a wolf]'' You smell like dead bunnies! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': ''[looking at the Jumbo-Tron]'' Oh my, God! That's my wife, and she's crying! ===''[[w:Moe Baby Blues|Moe Baby Blues]]''=== :'''Toy Homer''': I peed my pants.... :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': I recorded that for private use! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Elmo Doll''': ''[slaps Moe]'' No means no for Elmo! <noinclude> {{DEFAULTSORT:Simpsons, Season 14}} [[Category:The Simpsons seasons]] </noinclude> oid1fj9ygd3qomwbdj9qe46mygbgnfx 0 33415 3961076 3920011 2026-07-05T14:47:00Z ~2026-22475-30 3310494 3961076 wikitext text/x-wiki {{DISPLAYTITLE:''The Simpsons''/Season 18}} {{The Simpsons header}} '''''[[w:The Simpsons|The Simpsons]]''''' (1989–present) is an American animated sitcom broadcast by the Fox Broadcasting Company created by [[Matt Groening]]. The series is a satirical depiction of American life, epitomized by the Simpson family. ===''[[w:The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer|The Mook, The Chef, The Wife And Her Homer]]''=== :'''Lisa''': ''[after Bart teases her in his spot]'' Otto, Bart Won't Get Me a Seat! <hr width="50%"/> :''[a large black SUV pulls up outside the school, Fat Tony opens the door]'' :'''[[w:Fat Tony|Fat Tony]]''':''[in a murderous voice]'' We are going for a ride... :''[the children gasp]'' :... ''[normally]'' by which I mean the car pool, perhaps we will get yogurt.... :''[the children sigh with relief]'' :...''[back to murderous]'' Now, who wants to sleep with the fishes?... :''[the children gasp again]'' :...''[back to normal]'' 'cause I just bought this ''Finding Nemo'' bedspread! :''[the children sigh with relief again]'' <hr width=50%/> :''[in Fat Tony's home]'' :'''Fat Tony''': Welcome to my home. :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': ''[gasps]'' Must have cost a fortune! :'''Fat Tony''': Actually, you can really keep costs down when you don't pay for materials, or labor, or permits or... land. :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Wow, your paintings have brush marks. And your statues have wieners. :'''Fat Tony''': Your words honor my family. <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Krusty the Clown|Krusty]]''': Ow, my schnoz! My punim! My pupik! My genechtagazoink! <hr width=50%/> ''[Nelson finds out Michael's dad is Fat Tony.]'' :'''[[w:Nelson Muntz|Nelson]]''': Your dad's a mob boss? ''[Laughs nervously]'' Please don't have me whacked! I was just kiddin' around! We were all havin' fun. Wasn't it fun? ''[Laughs nervously]'' Oh, fun is so fun. ''[Laughs nervously]'' There is no Mafia! ''[pulls his own shirt over his face.]'' Columbus Day is better than Christmas! ===''[[w:Jazzy and the Pussycats|Jazzy and the Pussycats]]''=== :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Boy, get dressed! You’re going to a jazz brunch as a punishment for all the racket you’re making. :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': I thought you wanted me to drum? :'''Homer''': Hmph. I'm sending you mixed messages. Now get the hell out of here! ''[slams door, then opens it again]'' I love you so much. ''[Hostile]'' Damn you! ''[Shakes fist]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Krusty the Clown|Krusty]]''': Hey hey! We got more jazz superstars on the way, folks! Gooey Martin, Willie Mims, Dropjaws Turner, Sketch Friendly, Tootsie Childs, Sammy Biltmore, No-Talent Jones, Anwar Bernitez, Bossy Marmalade, Bad-Check Mazursky, Ray-Ray Takamura, Shakey Premise, Boopsie Crouton, [[w:Richard Sakai|Richard Sakai]], The Premarital Sextet, [[CSI: Miami|C.S.I. Miami]], D.W. Jitters, The Chubb Group, Canteloupe St. Pierre and many many more funny names. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lisa''': ''[to animals]'' No one knows you're here, so be quiet! ===''[[w:Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em...|Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em...]]''=== :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': Well, if you're through, let's check out that discount book warehouse. :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': But we already own a book! <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': This doesn't look easy. But I bet it is! <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Seymour Skinner|Principal Skinner]]''': Simpson, you've been waving your nuts in my face for too long... <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': Homie, don't you want to build something with your new fix-it books? :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': I did--I made a footrest! :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': Oh! Don't you have any follow-through on anything? :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': What's the point? We're all slowly dying... :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': Oh! ===''[[w:Treehouse of Horror XVII|Treehouse of Horror XVII]]''=== :''[Homer eats two German guys at an Oktoberfest]'' :'''German Guy''': What did we Germans do to deserve this? ''[Other German frowns at him]'' Oh, yeah. :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer Simpson]]''': Must eat more fat people... thank God I'm in America... <hr width="50%"/> :'''Dr. Phil McGraw''': ''[trapped in Homer's blob-sized body]'' Food does not equal love! ''[dissolves into pieces]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Carl Carlson|Carl]]''': I don't get it. What's so [[Great Depression|"great" about this depression]]? :'''[[w:Lenny Leonard|Lenny]]''': I like how everything's in [[w:sepia tone|sepia tone]]. Makes me all nostalgic. :'''[[w:Abraham Simpson|Abe]]''': I didn't think it would come to this when I fought in the [[World War I|First World War]]. :'''Lenny''': "''First'' World War"? Why do you keep calling it that? :'''Abe''': [[World War II|Oh, you'll see!]] ===''[[w:G.I. (Annoyed Grunt)|G.I. (Annoyed Grunt)]]''=== :'''Recruiter''': How many of you like video games? ''[the kids cheer]'' Well, what if there was a violent video game that you could play for free, plus it's real and not a game at all? <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': By the time Bart is 18, we’re gonna control the world. ''[pause]'' We’re China, right? <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Won't joining the army take me away from my family for two years? :'''Recruiter''': A large target like you will be home a lot sooner than that. :'''Moe''': The [[w:Salvation Army|Salvation Army]]? You got it! ''[arms a two-barreled shotgun]'' ===''[[w:Moe'N'a Lisa|Moe'N'a Lisa]]''=== :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': ''[Reads the firsthand line of Moe's letter to Homer]'' "Dear Pusbag". :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Whoa, Marge. Who'd you piss off? :'''[[w:Moe Szyslack|Moe]]''': ''[yells]'' It's for ''you'', pusbag! <hr width=50%/> :'''Jameson''': ''[Reads Moe's poem, then hands it to an assistant]'' Genius! Run it on the front page and pay him nothing. ''[Picks up the phone]'' Stop the presses and send my wife some flowers and bring me an Advil! What do you mean you don't work for me? You're hired! Now that you're hired, you're fired! Now that you don't work here, we can be friends. Now that we're friends, how come you never call? Some friend you are! ''[Hangs up]'' God, I love this business! <hr width=50%/> :'''Jameson''': Aww, that’s sweet. I hate sweet! I need photos, photos of [[w:Spider-Man|Spider-Man]]! :'''Employee''': This is a poetry journal. :'''Jameson''': Okay, then poems about Spider-Man, and I want them finished before you start, and before you finish, get me some coffee. And the poems should have the following rhyme scheme, ABBAABBACDECDE. What are you waiting for, [[w:Chinese New Year|Chinese New Year]]?! ===''[[w:Ice Cream of Margie (With the Light Blue Hair)|Ice Cream of Margie (With the Light Blue Hair)]]''=== :''[after Homer crashed all of the popsicle artwork characters]'' :'''Moe''': ''[to a decapitated popsicle stick head]'' No-no-no, save your energy. Don't try to talk. <hr width="50%"/> :''[200 years later, Marge's giant Homer sculpture is on show in a museum]'' :'''Spacewoman''': This is the last known piece of art before the collapse of [[w:Western civilization|Western civilization]]. :'''Spaceman''': If only we'd known that [[w:iPod|iPods]] would unite to enslave the people they entertained. :''[Outside the dome, giant iPods are whipping a group of humans.]'' :'''Slave''': What do you want from us?! :'''iPod''': Nothing, we just like whipping! <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Well, ''excuse me'' for having enormous flaws that I don't work on! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Mr. Burns''': My fat friend you are hanging by a very thin thread. Now listen Simpson if you want to keep your job, then you better start... ===''[[w:The Haw-Hawed Couple|The Haw-Hawed Couple]]''=== :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': ''[thinking]'' No book is ever going to make my daughter sad. Time to do what I do best! Lie to a child! <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Milhouse Van Houten|Milhouse]]''': Trust me Bart, it's better to walk in on both your parents instead of just one of them. <hr width=50%/> :''[Homer has been sobbing about Greystash's death in the'' Angelica Button ''book series]'' :'''Lenny''': Homer, it's just a book. :'''Homer''': No man should outlive his fictional wizard! NO MAN! ===''[[w:Kill Gil, Volumes I & II|Kill Gil, Volumes I & II]]''=== :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': It's true. I do have trouble saying no. It all started when I was 7. :''[Cuts to flashback]'' :'''[[w:Patty and Selma Bouvier|Selma]]''': Marjorie. We need you to hide our cigarettes in your dollhouse. :'''Marge''': No! ''[Patty and Selma shove her into her dollhouse]'' Mom? Grandma? Aunt Laurina? Anybody? ''[Trips on a toy car]'' :''[Cuts out of flashback]'' :'''Marge''': And that's why I have trouble saying no to people. Even Gil. :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Marge, I have no idea what you were just thinking about. Why would you think I did? <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': ''[holding the blade of the grumple's skate to his neck]'' Give back that Holiday cheer, you bastard! :'''Grumple''': Never! ===''[[w:The Wife Aquatic|The Wife Aquatic]]''=== :''[While watching outdoor silent movie Ned Flanders chose.]'' :'''[[w:List of recurring characters in The Simpsons#Kearney Zzyzwicz|Kearney]]''': This movie isn't silent, I can hear it sucking! :'''[[w:List of recurring characters in The Simpsons#Jimbo Jones|Jimbo]]''': And all the snacks we bought are "heart-smart". :'''[[w:List of recurring characters in The Simpsons#Dolph|Dolph]]''': ''[referring to snack]'' What the hell is a radish anyway? It's like an apple did it with an onion. <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': We left plenty of food so you won't starve. :'''[[w:Abraham Simpson|Grampa]]''': Oh, thank you. :'''Homer''': I was talking to the cat. <hr width=50%/> :'''Marge''': Oh no, someone carved swastikas into your eyes! :'''Homer''': I'm sure it was just some guy, who was filled with hate. ===''[[w:Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Three Times|Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Three Times]]''=== :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': Homer no! Revenge never solves anything! :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Then what is America doing in [[Iraq War|Iraq?!]] <hr width=50%/> :'''Judge''': I sentence you to life. :'''Homer''': You moron, I'm already alive! :'''Judge''': In prison! ''[hammers podium]'' :'''Homer''': AAAAH!!! <hr width=50%/> :'''Martin''': G'morning dinguses! What are you doing, touching each others butts? :'''Dolph:''' You're so dead you're alive! <hr width=50%/> :'''Lisa''': ''[congratulating Milhouse on finding a way to take revenge on the school bullies]'' Milhouse, thanks to you, the nerds can breathe easy. Except the ones with asthma, which is all of them, but still, it's great! :'''Milhouse''': Yep, having a weapon in school has really made things ''awesome!'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Milhouse''': Ow! :'''Lisa''': ''[giggles]'' :'''Martin''': Pardon my birdie, I misjudged the privellian winds. :'''Milhouse''': ''YOU EMBARRASSED ME IN FRONT OF LISA!!'' :[Milhouse inflicts Wet Willie on Martin and another kid] :'''Milhouse''': ''AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!'' :'''Lisa''': Milhouse, what's gotten into you? :'''Milhouse''': Over the years a lotta people have hurted me! Good thing I kept this list. ''[Shows Lisa a list of people have wronged him and then chuckles evilly]'' :'''Lisa''': No, no, you already got your revenge! :'''Milhouse''': You wouldn't give me Chinese Cuts in the lunch line! ''[Inflicts Wendell a Wedgie]'' You laughed when I threw up in the Glass blowing tour! ''[Inflicts Lewis a Wedgie]'' Girls like you better! ''[Inflicts Richard a Stop Hitting Yourself]'' Your parents are married! ''[Inflicts the rest of the kids a Stop Hitting Yourself, Wedgie and Wet Willie]'' :'''Bart''': Ay, caramba! ''[Back at the present]'' That's the only line I get in your stupid story? :'''Lisa''': There are no small parts, just small actors. :'''Milhouse''': ''[Back at the story, Milhouse keeps inflicting punishments on his enemies]'' :'''New Kid''': This is my first day at this school! I haven't done anything to you! :'''Milhouse''': You will! This is ''prevenge!'' ''[Inflicts Freshman Facial on the kid an falls on his face in a mud puddle, then Groundskeeper Willie walks by and sees the kid and Milhouse]'' :'''Willie''': Well, look, it's Milhouse! What's the power glove for? Opening the cap on his weirdo pills? ''[Milhouse inflicts Ultimate Noogie on Willie which severes his head off, though he's still alive]'' :'''Principal Skinner''': ''[walks by]'' Willie, clean up this mess! :'''Willie''': Alright! ''[Starts licking his blood]'' :'''Lisa''': Milhouse, don't you see? You're addicted to revenge! :'''Milhouse''': You'll learn to love it when you're my queen! :'''Lisa''': I see. ''[Chuckles nervously]'' While it would be an honor to be your queen... :'''Milhouse''': Go on. :'''Lisa''': I feel it would be best if we just stay as friends. :'''Milhouse''': ''NOBODY SPARES MY FEELINGS!!'' ''[Gets ready to shoot Lisa but starts to decide not to]'' :'''Milhouse''': I can't do it, I can't hurt you Lisa! ''[Throws the glove away but then Nelson picks it up]'' :'''Nelson''': Ha Ha! You forgot about me 'Cuz I had the ''mumps!'' ''[Inflicts all the glove's options at Milhouse]'' ===''[[w:Little Big Girl|Little Big Girl]]''=== :'''[[w:Abraham Simpson|Grampa Simpson]]''': Yep, the Simpsons have never married or even shook hands with anyone interesting. In a world of 31 flavors, we’re the cup of water they rinse the scoops in. Grampa out. <hr width=50%/> :'''Lisa''': And so, my proud people were nearly destroyed by the warfare, disease, and greed of the invading Europeans. Today, the Hitachees have dwindled to a handful, and our detailed genealogical records were cruelly destroyed by the white men. So, any attempts to research my tribe would be the ultimate insult. <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': Utah? Home of America's most powerful weirdoes! <hr width=50%/> :'''Utah Minister''': So, how many wives will you be marrying today, Mr Simpson? :'''Bart''': Just one. :'''Utah Minister''': What, are you gay? <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': Bart, take these volleyballs, fill them up, and throw them over the prison wall to create chaos and confusion. <hr width=50%/> :'''Darcy''': ''[to Bart]'' You look kind of young. :'''Bart''': Uh, yeah, I have that disease that makes you look like an old man, but they gave me medicine for it and I took too much. <hr width=50%/> :'''Darcy''': I'm very religious that way. :'''Bart''': How religious can you be if you're pregnant? ''[Darcy slaps Bart]'' Good answer. <hr width=50%/> :[When Darcy screams at Bart to get her strawberries] :'''Bart''': Take my wife, please... hey, I finally get that joke! <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': ''[calling Bart]'' Bart! This is a matter of life and death! What is the difference between "ketchup" and "catsup"? ''[Bart throws the cell phone away.]'' They're gonna cut my head off! <hr width=50%/> :'''Lisa''': ''[to Bart while he's driving]'' Slow down! Watch out for that car. Your hands should be at 10:00 and 2:00, not 3:00 and nothing! :'''Bart''': You know, it'd be a real shame if someone started investigating your Indian heritage! :'''Lisa''': ''[meekly]'' I'll be good. <hr width=50%/> :'''Darcy''': ''[to Bart]'' You really are 10. I just thought you were really stupid. :'''Bart''': I'm 10 ''and'' stupid! Look if I'm not a father then, who is? :'''Darcy''': A Norwegian exchange student. He's long gone, back to Norwegia. I wanted you to marry me so my baby would have a dad. ===''[[w:Springfield Up|Springfield Up]]''=== :'''[[w:Krusty the Clown|Krusty]]''': Homer gave me a kidney once. It wasn't his, I didn't need it, and it came with postage due, but it was a lovely gesture. ===''[[w:Yokel Chords|Yokel Chords]]''=== :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': Seymour, Gary. :'''[[w:Seymour Skinner|Skinner]]''': Simpson, I know you're behind this! Well, you are going to get some counciling from our school psychologist! :'''Psychologist''': ''[running out of the school]'' Dark Stanley's going to eat my brains!!! :'''Chalmers''': Or, from a qualified professional. <hr width=50%/> :''[at Bart's last counseling session with school-paid psychologist Stacey Swanson]'' :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': ...And then I had this dream that my whole family was just cartoon characters, and that our success had led to some crazy propaganda network called "Fox News". ===''[[w:Rome-old and Juli-eh|Rome-old and Juli-eh]]''=== :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': I have to warn you, I'm not good with details. Or the big picture. I also show up late. And drunk. ''[whispers enthusiastically]'' I have a good feeling about this! <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Patty and Selma Bouvier|Selma]]''': Sorry I had to work so late. How did it go with the baby? :'''[[w:Abraham Simpson|Grandpa]]''': We're having a great time. I cleaned up all my best war stories for her. I was just telling her how we chased the teddy bears into their cuddle bunkers, ''[in a creepy voice]'' then had to ''tickle'' them out with machine hugs and fun throwers! ''[sinister zoom-in]'' They say the more soldiers you tickle, the easier it gets. Well, sir, it doesn't. <hr width=50%/> ''[Bart and Lisa swindled a box company into giving them a large amount of boxes that were made into a fort]'' :'''[[w:Wiseguy|Sarcastic Man]]''': Hey, you little brats. Get down from those battlements. Those boxes are for shipping. Not for creating a world of pure imagination. Give them back! :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': Not until we are bored with them. Now begone! :'''[[w:Wiseguy|Sarcastic Man]]''': ''[Voice becomes deeper]'' I shall go. But I will return with an army of my brethren. And together, we shall take back what is ours and '''hell''' will rain down upon you! :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': What if we're not here? :'''[[w:Wiseguy|Sarcastic Man]]''': We will come two more times. And then you will have to come to our customer's center. ''[Normal Voice]'' It's near the airport, where the old Crown Books used to be. <hr width=50%/> :''[Bart sees the A.S.S bringing reinforcements to attack their cardboard fort]'' :'''Bart''': Who knew [[w:Sturmabteilung|guys in brown shirts]] could cause so much trouble? ===''[[w:Homerazzi|Homerazzi]]''=== :'''Editor''': ''[looking through Homer's photos]'' Terrific! Outstanding! This has Page One written all over it! What the hell did you do that for? :''[he holds up a photograph with "Page One" written all over it in ink]'' :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': I wanted to remember my place in the book I was reading. <hr width=50%/> :'''Marge''': ''[after fire caused by birthday candle]'' This disasterette was a real wake up call, we need to find a way to protect our irreplaceables. :'''Firefighter''': You could buy a fire-proof safe. :'''Homer''': Or we could just resolve to be more careful with our open flames. :'''Firefighter''': Sir we've been here six times this month. :'''Homer''': Yeah but, uhm, one of those I dialed 911 by mistake but I was too embarrassed to admit it, so I set the house on fire. Feels good to tell the truth... no I'm lying again it feels bad. <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': ''[while taking a shower by a fire hydrant]'' Can't you see I have privacy? <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': ''[the day after, looking at "Mrs. Mom" movie poster, which has a picture of Rainier Wolfcastle]'' Well, at least it got made. <hr width=50%/> :''[Homer jumps out of an airplane to get to Ranier Wolfcastle's wedding.]'' :'''Homer''': Did I attach the harness!? :'''Lisa''': No! <hr width=50%/> :'''Bart''': What's that comin' out of the safe? :'''Homer''': I don't know--Maybe the Krusty doll accidentally turned on the car's headlights, which focused on the cologne bottle, causing it to boil and soon explode. :'''Lisa''': Dad, that's ridiculous! :''[The safe blows apart from the explosion.]'' :'''Homer''': What's the deal with this California pizza? If I wanted cheese and fruit--''[As it burns from the flames and begins melting]''--I'd...have...to...''[Melts into a plastic puddle]'' :'''Marge''': ''[Devastated when the family album falls apart into ashes]'' Nooooooo! It's gone! That family album was a record of my accomplishments! It's like what a resume is for a man. :'''Lisa''': I agree, Mom. It's very sad. But we'll have to move on. It's not like we can restage all our family photos. :'''Marge''': ''[Becoming delighted upon the idea]'' Restage the photos! :'''Bart''': Lisa you fool, you've doomed us all! :''[Marge quickly puts a baby bonnet on him and snaps a shot with her camera as he cries out before she takes a second shot, which is among the first ones seen in the new family album.]'' :'''Bart''': Nooooooo! ===''[[w:Marge Gamer|Marge Gamer]]''=== :''[Marge is telling her family how she is excited over discovering the Internet]'' :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': I am proud of you, mom! You are like [[Christopher Columbus]] - you discovered something millions of people knew about before you. <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': ''[angrily]'' You can't give me a yellow card! You're my father! :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': When I put on these shorts, I'm not your father anymore, and judging by how tight they are, I'm never going to be anyone else's either. <hr width=50%/> :''[Bart is about to revive Marge's character in the online role-playing game]'' :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': Mom, I'm going to give you life the way I imagine you gave me life...by pressing Alt+F5 repeatedly. ===''[[w:The Boys of Bummer|The Boys of Bummer]]''=== :'''[[w:Abraham Simpson|Abe]]''': You stink, LaBoot! :'''LaBoot''': No I don't! Google my stats! ''[to Bart]'' Just it for me kid, you'll be just fine. :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': You feel better now, Bart? :'''LaBoot''': Bart? Are you ''Bart Simpson?'' Talking to you was an error in ''my life!'' :''Everybody boos Bart'' :'''LaBoot''': Boo. Boo indeed. :''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]] starts crying'' <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': This makes up for everything that's ever gone wrong in my life – or ever will! <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Chief Wiggum|Chief Wiggum]]''': Jump! Who said that? :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': '''I ''hate'' Bart Simpson!''' :''Bart lets go of the rope, falls down and lands on a bush, even when LaBoot tries to catch him. Abe comes by'' :'''Abe''': You stink, LaBoot! :'''LaBoot''': Dammit! ===''[[w:Crook and Ladder|Crook and Ladder]]''=== :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Okay, here's the solution. I want you kids to lock the bedroom from the outside so I can't get out and perpetrate my nocturnal mischief. :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': Why don't you just stop taking the pills, you hothead? :'''Homer''': Because I'm filled with stress! ''[smacks Bart on the back of his head and moans]'' I've got three kids and no money. Why can't I have no kids and three money?! <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': ''[monotonous]'' Zombie kill! :'''Bart''': Not kill, play! :'''Homer''': ''[sullen]'' Zombie file grievance. <hr width=50%/> :'''Unknown Firefighter''': ''[furious]'' You horribly injured the fire department! :'''Homer''': What are you, a travel agent? Because you're sending me on a guilt trip. <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Kent Brockman|Kent Brockman]]''': While our brave firemen recuperate, Springfield is a town without a fire department -- which is bad news for people like this man. ''[camera pans out to show man trapped in a burning house]'' Sir! How does it feel knowing that no one is coming to save you? :'''Man''': Not as bad as knowing that somewhere gays are marrying each other! That's the real emergency, Kent. <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Apu Nahasapeemapetilon|Apu]]''': Apu is dead! He has been reincarnated as this cat. :''[Homer and Moe gasp]'' :'''[[w:Apu Nahasapeemapetilon|Apu]]''': Ha! You have just been Apu'd! ===''[[w:Stop, or My Dog Will Shoot!|Stop, or My Dog Will Shoot!]]''=== :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': How come things that happen to stupid people keep happening to me?! <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': Dad, why don't you throw me in the air and I can see which way is out? ''[he does]'' Corn. ''[again]'' More corn. ''[again]'' Another kid getting thrown in the air. ''[again]'' Witches' coven. ''[again]'' Seattle Space Needle. ''[again]'' Amateur production of ''[[w:You Can't Take it With You|You Can't Take It With You]]''. ''[again]'' Oh, I'm getting dizzy. ''[again]'' And corn again. :'''Homer''': ''[turns red in anger]'' Why, you little-- ''[strangles Bart]'' I'll teach you to trick your sister! ''[grunting while strangling Bart then being constricted by Strangles and changes color]'' :'''Marge''': Homer, can you breathe? :'''Homer''': Well, I can breathe out okay. ''[now really struggling to breathe]'' Don't give snake attention. It’s what he really-''[turns red and falls to the ground]'' I'm okay! ===''[[w:24 Minutes|24 Minutes]]''=== :''[Homer and Milhouse are riding a dumpster down the street]'' :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': ''[gasp]'' It's the cops, act normal! ''[places a banana peel on his head; woman's voice impersonation]'' Oooh, ''hello'' officer! :'''[[w:Clancy Wiggum|Wiggum]]''': Ahh, good afternoon ma'am. ''[sigh]'' What is it about a woman in a dumpster? <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Jack Bauer|Bauer]]''': Good work, Lisa! :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': What about me?! :'''Bauer''': ''[cocks pistol and aims at Bart's head]'' Bart Simpson, 12 minutes ago you made a very annoying prank phone call to me. All units move in! ''[Vehicles and soldiers move into the room from everywhere with guns aimed at Bart.]'' I pulled every single agent off of all other cases to track you down and bring you to justice. It was a tough decision but I think I made the right call. ''[nuke goes off in the distance; crowd gasps and murmurs]'' Oh, it's okay. That was Shelbyville. ''[crowd sighs with relief]'' ===''[[w:You Kent Always Say What You Want|You Kent Always Say What You Want]]''=== :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': Oh hi kids, you're just in time to go to the dentist! :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': DENTIST?! You said we were going to ride dirt bikes around the cemetery! :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': Oh, Bart, you fall for that every six months. :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': ''[Pulls up on a dirt bike]'' Hey, suckers, check it out -- Marge is taking me to ride dirt bikes at the cemetery! :'''Lisa''': You're going to the dentist too, Dad. :'''Homer''': ''[disappointed]'' Why the cemetery, I wondered? But my dreams were too strong... <hr width=50%/> :'''Dental Hygienist''': Here's a free tooth-brush! Keep those teeth clean! ''[handing Bart a bag]'' :'''Bart''': So you're saying I should do your job, for you, at home, for free? You wish! ''[Throws the bag in the trash can]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': What the hell is a Fundae? :'''Cashier''': It's a Sundae that's fun! :'''Homer''': ''[Yelling]'' I like that! ''[Talking normally]'' But I'm on a bit of a health kick so I'll take the low fat vanilla, with the following mix-ins; Snickles, Gooey Bears, Charlotte-ville chew, Nice and Many, Kat-Kit, Herschel Smooches, Mrs. Bad-Bar and Milk-Dudes. <hr width=50%/> :'''Fox News reporter''': This is Fox News, with the latest ''Liberal Outrage''. It seems liberals want to give NASA the right to '''abort''' space missions whenever they feel like it! :'''Homer''': Liberals, I hate them so much! <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': ''[Breaks the 4th Wall in a white lonely background]'' Okay, what I was going to say was... ''[cue Gracie Films logo]'' <noinclude> {{DEFAULTSORT:Simpsons, Season 18}} [[Category:The Simpsons seasons]] </noinclude> 7luv9gz5bxachvu72962j6676lohbvg 0 34461 3961165 3753930 2026-07-05T16:32:39Z BD2412 3982 /* ''Last Week Tonight'' (2014&ndash;present) */ Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]], replaced: Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr. → Robert F. Kennedy Jr. using [[Project:AWB|AWB]] 3961165 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:John Oliver Occupy Wall Street 2011 Shankbone.JPG|thumb|There is [[hope]] for the [[world]]. And it is in the form of [[Wikipedia]].]] '''[[w:John Oliver (comedian)|John William Oliver]]''' (born [[23 April]] [[1977]]) is a British comedian, political satirist and actor. He is best known in the United States for his work on ''[[The Daily Show|The Daily Show with Jon Stewart]]'' and the satirical comedy podcast ''[[w:The Bugle|The Bugle]]''. Having left ''The Daily Show'' at the end of 2013, Oliver became the host of ''[[w:Last Week Tonight with John Oliver|Last Week Tonight with John Oliver]]'' on [[w:HBO|HBO]] on Sunday, 27 April 2014. == Quotes == [[File:John Oliver.jpg|thumb|right| [[Wikipedia]] is such a vital resource. It's a way of us completely rewriting our [[history]] to give our [[children]] and our children's children a much better history to grow up with. We seem to have no intention of providing them with a [[future]].]] * It's very dangerous, a British person saying "I felt ownership of this country". Historically, does not go well. It's amazing! I just went to India and I felt like I belonged. ** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNkDPqRAZqY John Oliver - Finding a Place for Satire & Immigration as a Comedian | The Daily Show] (21 November 2023) (''ff.'' 0:08:16) * I would say, what is more quintessentially America<!--'American'?--> than coming to a country you don't belong in and deciding you're going to stay? ** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNkDPqRAZqY John Oliver - Finding a Place for Satire & Immigration as a Comedian | The Daily Show] (21 November 2023) (''ff.'' 0:12:52) * Thanks very much for taking this magical moment and reminding me that joy is ephemeral, pain is forever. ** [https://www.etonline.com/interview-see-john-olivers-hilarious-reaction-to-donald-trumps-iowa-caucus-victory-exclusive-218024 See John Oliver's Hilarious Reaction to Donald Trump's Iowa Caucus Victory (Exclusive)] (15 January 2024) * The deeper you look into these stories, the more flawed you realize things are, systemically. But the more you encounter people work incredibly hard to change things. Like clockwork, at some point during a story, I go into Tim [Carvell]'s office, who I... run the show with, and we'll say "Burn it down. Just burn everything to the ground." 'Cause it feels like things are so bad in a story, only flames are going to purify the hell that we've built for ourselves. But you do then work through that, much like this shitty hot sauce, to realizing that, in lieu of-— even as you're waiting for major change that you think might not come, incremental change is possible, and valuable. ** "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-3HZggJzwk John Oliver Fears For Humanity While Eating Spicy Wings | Hot Ones]" (''ff.'' 0:21:07) (1 February 2024) === ''John Oliver: Terrifying Times'' (2008) === * Many people would argue that the most dangerous inhabitant of the earth is currently the self styled 43rd president of the United States. Not so much in deed anymore as in word. Because to hear that man speak is to wish upon yourself physical harm. * I started looking into these groups in America, campaigns groups who want to put stickers on the front of all school science text books saying that Evolution is only one possible theory of life on earth. Now, although this seems like a stupid idea at first, second, and thirty ninth glance, look at it once more. Give it that fortieth view. Because it's brilliant. Let's have stickers on the front of all books! Slap one on the front of the Bible saying "Of course this could all be bullsh*t. Maybe he never died! Perhaps he opened a donkey sanctuary. He had a clear bond with donkeys." Or slap one on the Theory of Gravity! "Look, that's just one man's opinion. Maybe we could all fly! R. Kelly believed it so. Why would he lie to us? What does he possibly stand to gain?" * But if you think it's going to get any better, let me burst that bubble of optimism now because I was fortunate enough last year to be invited to the First Republican Presidential Candidate Debate in Simi Valley in California, which, interestingly, was exactly as much fun as it sounds. But it was, obviously a privilege to be there and I did get to witness one incredible moment of political theater when all, at that point, ten of the potential leaders of the free world were asked the same question. And that question was "Who here doesn't believe in evolution?" And three of those men raised their hands. And then none of those three men put their hands down and said "Only joking." And their confidence was seductive! * You might look at the Oreo Pizza and think, "That is a reprehensible foodstuff". I put it to you that that is the single most patriotic item I have ever seen in my life! Hoist that up a flagpole! ... Because that is the biggest imaginable "fuck you" you could possibly issue to terrorists. By hoisting the Oreo Pizza up a flagpole, what you're essentially saying is, "There is nothing you can do to us, we are not already doing to ourselves". * The world's become so horrifying now. It's too easy to become cynical about things and that's not fair and it doesn't work. And in fact, there is hope for the world. And it is in the form of Wikipedia. Now, Wikipedia will save us all. I found this out when recently a friend of mine emailed me and he said that someone had created a Wikipedia entry about me. I didn't realize this was true, so I looked it up. And like most Wikipedia entries, it came with some flamboyant surprises, not least amongst them my name. Because in it it said my name was John '''Cornelius''' Oliver. Now my middle name is not Cornelius because I did not die in 1752. But obviously, I want it to be. Cornelius is an incredible name. And that's when it hit me — '''the way the world is now, fiction has become more attractive than fact. That is why Wikipedia is such a vital resource. It's a way of us completely rewriting our history to give our children and our children's children a much better history to grow up with. We seem to have no intention of providing them with a future.''' Let's at least give them a past. It is in a very real sense the least we can do. === Interview with ''The Rolling Stone'' (2013) === * [[Jon Stewart|Jon]] called me and asked, "Would you like to host [[The Daily Show|the show]]?" My first reaction was, "Yeah, sure. Whatever you want. No problem." It was only on hanging up that my knees started to buckle. I was like, "Holy shit! What did I just agree to? I'm about to destroy the most beloved show on American television." * You’re not supposed to see your country’s most famous author [[J. K. Rowling|[J.K. Rowling]]] in the audience watching you. You’re supposed to look down at that point and realize that you’re naked and then wake up. * I’ve made so many people angry that they kind of blur into one unpleasant memory of people staring at you with somewhere between passive aggression and active aggression. === ''Last Week Tonight'' (2014&ndash;present) === [[File:Lightmatter burningman.jpg|thumb| You've just constructed a [[w:Straw man|straw man]] so large you could burn it in the desert and hold [[Burning Man|an annoying festival]] around it.]] * Welcome to ''Last Week Tonight''! I am John Oliver and welcome, welcome... welcome to whatever this is. ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJAcmSbtURo India, Pomegranates & Lisa Loeb] (''ff.'' 0:00:30) (27 April 2014) * Lest we forget, when [[w:Europe|Europe]] goes [[w:Far-right politics|far right]], they go far, right through [[w:Belgium|Belgium]]. ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCe2c4rHtmg Net Neutrality, Spelling Bees & EU Elections]" (''ff.'' 0:01:11) (1 June 2014) * The cable companies have figured out the great truth of America: If you want to do something evil, put it inside something boring. Apple could put the entire text of "Mein Kampf" inside the iTunes user agreement, and you'd just go, "Uh, agree, agree, agr-- what? Agree, agree." ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCe2c4rHtmg Net Neutrality, Spelling Bees & EU Elections]" (''ff.'' 0:17:15) (1 June 2014) * When your rainy day fund is so big you've got to check it for [[w:Scrooge McDuck|swimming cartoon ducks]], you might not be a not-profit anymore. ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36A8v5hsvok FIFA, Syria & Tiananmen Square] (''ff.'' 0:16:18) (8 June 2014) * Congratulations, Dave, you've just constructed a [[w:Straw man|straw man]] so large you could burn it in the desert and hold [[Burning Man|an annoying festival]] around it. ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmt816o8R7c Immigration, Stephen Hawking & Football] (''ff.'' 0:16:15) (15 June 2014) * '''John Oliver:''' You've stated that you believe there could be an infinite number of parallel universes. Does that mean that there is a universe out there where I am smarter than you?<br />'''[[Stephen Hawking]]:''' Yes. And also a universe where you're funny. ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPV3D7f3bHY Stephen Hawking Extended Interview]" (''ff.'' 0:05:37) (15 June 2014) * … we were in a situation where, in the event of us launching a nuclear strike, the President's command would theoretically have gone through [[w:Timothy Giardina|a man gambling with fake poker chips]], who would've then tried to call [[w:Michael Carey (United States Air Force officer)|a drunk guy wrestling with a Russian George Harrison]], who would've then needed to send someone with a bag full of burritos to wake up an officer and tell him to go grab an [[w:Floppy disk#8-inch floppy disk|LP-sized floppy disk]] and begin the solemn process of [[w:Nuclear armageddon|ending the world as we know it]]. ** Summary of 2013–2014 reports on U.S. nuclear readiness and scandals surrounding senior commanders. ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaMRa8E_Le0 Nuclear Weapons, Russian Geckos & Thailand]" (''ff.'' 0:16:35) (27 July 2014) * Please, make sure your college years are the best ones of your life because, thanks to the debt that we are saddling you with, they almost certainly will be. ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6Em04qAR6M Student Debt, Gecko Update & ISIS]" (''ff.'' 0:23:40), (8 March 2014) * Drug companies are a bit like high school boyfriends; they're much more concerned with getting inside you than being effective once they're in there. ** After quoting a BBC report claiming that most "[[wikt:big pharma|Big Pharma]]" companies spend more money on marketing than research and development. ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQZ2UeOTO3I Marketing to Doctors]" (''ff.'' 0:02:20) (8 Feb 2015) * As far as I can see, [[w:Pearson Education|this]] is a system that has enriched multiple companies and that pays and fires teachers with a cattle birthing formula, confuses children with talking pineapples, and has the same kind of rules regarding transparency as Brad Pitt had for [[Fight Club]]. ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6lyURyVz7k Standardized Testing]" (''ff.'' 0:16:53) (3 May 2015) * For the record if someone did [[w:doxing|that]] to me I'd hitch a ride to the International Space Station straight away; of course who am I kidding, they would never let me in, I've got ''spiders for hands!'' The internet is ''mean!'' ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuNIwYsz7PI Online Harassment]" (''ff.'' 0:04:02) (21 June 2015) * In science, you don't just get to [[w:Cherry picking|cherry-pick]] the parts that justify what you were going to do anyway! That's religion! You're thinking of religion. ** In response to Al Roker's advice to "find the study that sounds best to you". ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rnq1NpHdmw#t=14m38s Scientific Studies]" (''ff.'' 0:14:44), (8 May 2016) * It's like catching an ice cream cone out of the air because a child was hit by a car. ** On [[w:David Cameron#2016 referendum and resignation|David Cameron announcing his resignation]] after the Brexit referendum. ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh0ac5HUpDU#t=0m48s Brexit Update]" (''ff.'' 0:00:48), (27 June 2016) * You can't just hear a conspiracy theory, fan the flames, and then walk away! "Is Katy Perry Jonbenet Ramsey?" "Well, identity theft is a real and persistent issue in this day and age, and we really need to look into that!" ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3O01EfM5fU#t=8m48s Third Parties]" (''ff.'' 0:08:48), (17 October 2016) * He is truly one of the most revolting humans ([[w:Minions (Despicable Me)|minions]]) I have ever seen. In a way, there is no more fitting spokesman for the Trump administration than an entitled, elitist arsehole who refuses to take responsibility for the messes he makes, and who can somehow pick a fight with the Statue of Liberty. ** On [[w:Stephen Miller (political advisor)|Stephen Miller]]. ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ2noQY5kRQ Stephen Miller]" (''ff.'' 0:02:45), (4 August 2017) * Oh, why do I love [[w:Salisbury|Salisbury]]? It's simple. The population is 40,302. And their member of parliament is [[w:John Glen|John Glen]], a Conservative whose eight-year tenure has been widely viewed as a failure. (open brackets: "citation needed", closed brackets.) ** After he talks about how [[W:Sergey Skripal|Sergey Skripal]] poisoning suspects' statement sounds like they're reading from Salisbury's Wikipedia page. ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViDPIyiszoo#t=2m43s Saudi Arabia]" (''ff.'' 0:02:43) (15 October 2018) * Please, buy [''Last Week Tonight Presents: A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo''] for your children, buy it for any child you know, or just buy it because you know it would annoy [[Mike Pence]]. You'd be doing a nice thing in a ''really'' dickish way, and isn't that the dream at the end of the day? ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs2RlZQVXBU Mike Pence]" (''ff.'' 0:19:24) (19 March 2018) * Britain is basically [[w:Pompeii|Pompeii]] if Pompeii had voted for [[w:Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79|the volcano]]. ** On [[w:Brexit|Brexit]]. ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaBQfSAVt0s&t=870 Brexit III]" (''ff.'' 0:14:30) (17 February 2019) * Calling slave labor "chores" is a euphemism on par with calling Hitler a "best-selling author with a [[w:Nazi Germany|side hustle]]" or JFK's assassination a "bad hair day" or ''this'' a comedy show. ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsxukOPEdgg&t=576 U.S. History]" (''ff.'' 0:09:36) (2 August 2020) * And look, do I think it’s bad if Disney pays more taxes? No, I don’t. That would be a good thing. I don’t love that it might happen not through meaningful tax reform but on the whim of one right-wing dipshit who’s scared of gay people and doesn’t understand the First Amendment. But hey: Ends, means, what are you gonna do? ** [https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/05/john-oliver-thinks-ron-desantis-is-a-right-wing-dipshit-whos-scared-of-gay-people/''John Oliver thinks desantis is a right-wing dipshit who's scared of gay people''] John Oliver, ''Last Week Tonight'' (May 2022) * Hope and joy are crucial here; they are the fuel that powers the ongoing fight for equality. And while there is a lot of fear and uncertainty right now, it is worth remembering that progress -- while not always linear -- is always possible. ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns8NvPPHX5Y Transgender Rights II]" (''ff.'' 0:25:46) (17 October 2022) * There is a natural human impulse to protect children, to grab a toddler you don't know if you see them running into traffic, and if that impulse is broken or disincentivized by a government, there is ''absolutely'' a humanitarian crisis, no matter what [[Gilad Erdan|any asshole]] has to say about it. ** ''Last Week Tonight -- "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ9PKQbkJv8 Israel-Hamas War]" (''ff.'' 0:26:54) (12 November 2023) * It ''has'' to be possible to feel the pain in one community without denying it in another. It ''has'' to be! That is perhaps the most necessary precondition for peace because ''real'' peace here will clearly be difficult! It's gonna be struggled toward as part of a larger pursuit of justice which will, in turn, require an honest and uncomfortable reckoning with all the decisions that brought us to this point. ** ''Last Week Tonight -- "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ9PKQbkJv8 Israel-Hamas War]" (''ff.'' 0:29:30) (12 November 2023) * You can see how baiting customers with one price and then switching it for another might be considered a bait-and-switch! There's actually a great Econ book on the subject entitled "Words Mean What Words Mean"! ** ''Last Week Tonight -- "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo3zORUGCbM Elon Musk]" (''ff.'' 0:09:58) (17 December 2023) * Wait, [[Elon Musk|he]] "loves drama"?! I'm sorry, I'm really not that comfortable with one of the most powerful people on Earth being summed up the same way you describe [[w:Andy Cohen|Andy Cohen]] on New Year's Eve! ** ''Last Week Tonight -- "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo3zORUGCbM Elon Musk]" (''ff.'' 0:28:35) (17 December 2023) * From the beginning, America -- like most countries -- was built on polite fictions by men who could somehow hold in their heads the idea that all men were created equal at the exact same time that they were drawing up the three-fifths compromise. ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE-VJrdHMug Supreme Court Ethics]" (''ff.'' 0:25:05) (18 February 2024) * We have spoken to experts who have all told us that, best they can tell, this is somehow legal. Which seems crazy to me, 'cause it ''really feels like it shouldn't be.'' ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE-VJrdHMug Supreme Court Ethics]" (''ff.'' 0:27:14) (18 February 2024) * Whenever they don't want to talk about something, it's probably worth you knowing about it. ** ''Last Week Tonight'' (25 February 2024) * If your friend told you to download an app and you saw it in the App Store with good reviews, you might assume that everything on it was legitimate even before you saw MetaTrader's logo, which looks like three men in suits jerking each other off under a table -- an appropriate [[metaphor]] for [[cryptocurrency]] if I have ''ever'' seen one. ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLPpl2ISKTg Pig Butchering Scams]" (''ff.'' 0:11:35) (25 February 2024) * If you're funny enough, you can make people forget a lot of things, whether it's common-sense internet safeguards, lessons from previous relationships, or that they've been accidentally learning about financial fraud and human trafficking for the last twenty minutes. We're having fun, aren't we? ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8oCilY4szc Pig Butchering Scams]" (''ff.'' 0:19:00) (25 February 2024) * One project leader in the 80s and early 90s is remembered for saying "No secrets" and "The only thing that will make me rip off your head and shit down your neck is withholding information." And I'm sorry, but that should be the mug. ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLPpl2ISKTg Boeing]" (''ff.'' 0:06:07) (3 March 2024) * I'm curious, is it a rule that, to be in Congress, you have to be one of the weirdest motherfuckers to ever live? ** ''Last Week Tonight'', in response to [[Nancy Pelosi]]'s "Tic, tac, toe, a winner" comment on the House floor (17 March 2024) * I'm not saying college is the right choice for everyone -- but it should be a choice. ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN2_0WC7UfU Student Loans]" (''ff.'' 0:29:22) (17 March 2024) * I know I've spend a lot of time over the last ten years reassuring everyone that this show does comedy and not journalism, but I think we can all agree that the most important thing we do here is stir shit up. ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOn3wba8c-Y Executions]" (''ff.'' 0:11:55) (7 April 2024) * The fact is, no matter how executions are performed, they'll never be humane. No matter how many times you call them "textbook" or claim it's "much better than anything they did to the victims", or show people viral videos of dizzy tweens on helium, it's never gonna be okay, and we are kidding ourselves if we think taking someone's life actually lowers the number of killers in the world; it literally, definitionally, creates more. ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOn3wba8c-Y Executions]" (''ff.'' 0:26:29) (7 April 2024) * [[Joe Manchin|Manchin's]] argument speaks to what can be so dispiriting about our current politics, because while there is nothing fundamentally wrong with [[civility]] and [[compromise]], it does depend on who you're being civil ''to'' and what you're compromising ''with.'' 'Cause remember, this is the moment when [[Tom Cotton|one of the loudest voices]] in the senate campaign against [[w:Adeel A. Mangi|Mangi]] is also happily encouraging people to "take things into their own hands" when it comes to those they don't agree with. And it's pretty scary to think that, in the name of building bridges, some appear to be perfectly fine finding a middle ground with those willing to throw protestors ''off'' them. ** ''Last Week Tonight'' (21 April 2024) * While you can believe aliens exist or not, when it comes to UFOs, belief doesn't really come into it; whatever they are, people are seeing them. [[The X-Files|That poster in Mulder's office]] shouldn't have said "I Want To Believe", it should've said "Believe, Smelieve, What The Fuck Is That Thing?" ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRdhoYqCAQg UFOs]" (''ff.'' 0:04:42) (21 April 2024) * "There's something out there that's better than our airplane." It is chilling to hear that from a Navy pilot and not the usual place: the Executive Boardroom at Boeing. ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRdhoYqCAQg UFOs]" (''ff.'' 0:21:00) (21 April 2024) * When New Jersey sends us mayors, they're clearly not sending their best. ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- Campus Protests * Everyone who's ever been to a protest has, at some point, seen a sign and thought to themselves "Shit, not sure about that one. I'm here for abortion rights; do we really need to bring 9/11 into this"? ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- Campus Protests * Student protests against injustice generally age pretty well, and the efforts to criticize or crack down on them tend ''not'' to. ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- Campus Protests * You know God! The freak known for building a nude garden He could watch all day. The guy who commissioned the construction of an all-animal fuck boat, and who sat back and watched while His own son got nailed. Oh, I'm sorry! Am I misunderstanding the Bible by taking things out of context? Forgive me, I haven't read it. I looked at the summary; it told me all I needed to know. ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "Public Libraries" * I know it is not shocking that an episode of ''this'' show would advocate to support your local libraries; it's pretty much implicit in our whole vibe. My suit, glasses, and desk all practically scream "support your local libraries" to which the rest of my body would say out of respect, "Shh!" ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "Public Libraries" * [The] U.S., where our constitution guarantees virtually unlimited freedom of speech, except, of course, when the Supreme Court decides it’s cool for a public university to ban drag shows. Yeah, that happened two months ago. It’s kind of surprising no one flew a pride flag upside down on their lawn in protest. ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "AfD" * Lots of people are 68, working, and paying taxes, and I’d venture to say most of them are not Nazi enthusiasts, other than, it seems, you and Mel Gibson. ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "AfD" * [Between] the attempted assassination of a central European leader, and the rise of a far-right party in Germany, Europe really seems to be playing the 20th century hits right now, even if some of their former history teachers refuse to see the similarity. ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "AfD" * [There’s] no better tribute to [the Beatles'] legacy than having terrified children wander around Ringo’s nostrils wondering if they’ll ever see their families again. ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "Corn" * Thinking of the negatives is pretty much all I do, along with speaking the negatives out loud and making jokes about the negatives all while modeling the latest suits from "Sir Michael Gambon’s Haberdashery for Oddly Long Gentlemen". ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "Corn" * [Unless] we force the government and the handful of large companies that control this industry to change their priorities, we’re going to be stuck where we are, like a bunch of fifth graders in the world’s largest corn maze begging for our fucking lives. ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "Corn" * The election is in full swing right now, and it's pretty much your usual campaign -- candidates offering policy proposals, trading barbs... and occasionally getting convicted of 34 felonies and complaining about the judge. ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "Trump’s Second Term" * That is really the Trump experience in a nutshell right there: hateful ideology, a promise to make life harder for minorities, all wrapped up in a non-sequitur so stupid it is inconveniently funny. The radical left invented trans people a few years ago? I’m sorry, what? Did they put it on Shark Tank and I somehow missed it? ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "Trump’s Second Term" * Trump as president was sort of like a hamster in an attack helicopter. Sure, he wants to bathe the world in blood and terror—he wants it with his whole rotten hamster heart—but luckily he doesn’t know what buttons to press and his brain’s the size of a peanut, so that puts some hard limits on the damage he’s actually able to do. ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "Trump’s Second Term" * Okay, that is essentially all the background you need to know about federal personnel management. If you’re bored, it’s over, and if you’re hard, welcome home. ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "Trump’s Second Term" * Okay, a few things. First, you don’t need a new dating app to find conservatives online. Just go onto any existing app and filter for people who describe their views as "moderate". Any single woman in a big city can tell you "moderate" just means "I’m a right-wing nut job, but I’d like to get laid, please". ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "Trump’s Second Term" * When you fire everyone who knows what they’re doing and only hire people who will say yes to the rich guy in charge, that’s not a recipe for good government. It’s a recipe for the Titan Submersible. I don’t want scientific research about nuclear power being done by people without experience. I don’t want my latte being made by someone without experience. Oh, it’s your first day? I’m sorry, step aside, please. Give me the barista with a sleeve of techno-tan stick-and-poke tattoos and a septum piercing who’s worked here for five years and who hates everybody here. Experience matters. ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "Trump’s Second Term" * Project 2025 is born from an impulse as old as America. It’s an impulse that says "one class of Americans is entitled to lead, and the rest of us are lucky to be allowed to serve". That thinks there should be a limited government when it comes to rules they have to live by, but also a unitary executive to keep the rest of us in line. These are old, old ideas that have been shouted from podiums by the likes of George Wallace and Pat Buchanan but have now been placed into a new handbook for an only-too-willing president to use on day one. And in a perfect world, I would love if we had an opposing party better able to articulate a strong defense of our country’s ideals and that also consistently lived up to them. People are entitled to hope for more from the next four years than someone just not being Trump and for at least two Supreme Court justices to die. I’m not saying which ones I would prefer, but I think we all have our top two. And for anyone tempted to think, "Well, we survived Trump’s first term," first, not everyone did. And it should hopefully be very clear by now: a second Trump term really does promise to be far, far worse. Because if Trump’s first term was defined by chaos, his second could be defined by ruthless efficiency, and that should be troubling to absolutely everyone, because Project 2025 is a movement whose members joke about wanting a white homeland and insist women have to have more babies to uphold Western society. And its work could be about to be funneled through a man who happily calls his fellow Americans “vermin.” It is not subtle, it’s hard to miss, and once you see it, you cannot unsee it. ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "Trump’s Second Term" * Listen, as a 47-year-old who looks like a 67-year-old, I clearly don’t understand TikTok, but I do know perfect film-making when I see it, and that right there is perfect film-making. ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "Cake Bears" * "I know I talk a lot on this show about the bad stuff [[Ronald Reagan]] did. So to balance that out, I do want to mention something positive he did for the planet. In 2004 – and this is true – [[w:Death and state funeral of Ronald Reagan|he died]]." ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "Deep-Sea Mining" * Conservatives love to rail against “cancel culture” while trying to ban any speech they don’t like. So when it’s someone else’s symbol, it’s an affront that needs to be burned or banned, but when it’s theirs, it can be mandated by law, and anyone who doesn’t like it can just turn their head and not look. ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "Flags" * Like many things, the way Britain operates is "kind of like the U.S., but whimsically worse." ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "UK Elections" * "[Do] you have any idea just how unlikable you have to be to get milkshaked? No one just casually has a milkshake on their person, or thinks "I better grab one in case I encounter any assholes today." No, they think "You know what I haven’t had in a while but deserve? A milkshake. A treat." Yet despite that, Nigel Farage is clearly ''so much of an asshole'' that this hero was willing to get rid of her possible birthday milkshake having decided "this is a better use of it." ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "UK Elections" * Do you know how much of an out-of-touch wang you have to be for people to think your whole vibe can be summed up by the word "rich"? [[Elon Musk]]’s the richest man on Earth, and it’s not even the first word that comes to mind when I think of him. That’d be "apartheid". It’s also not the first word that comes to mind when I think of [[Bill Gates]]. That would be "how-many-times-was-he-on-[[Jeffrey Epstein|Epstein's]]-plane" which counts as one word if you say it really fast. ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "UK Elections" * The thing about denying the press is there is, the press tends to catch you doing that, because the press is fucking there! ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "UK Elections" * But that is the natural endpoint of austerity right there: punishing people for circumstances completely beyond their control. And Sunak is now promising to introduce what he calls the next generation of welfare reforms, including yet more cuts, justifying it by saying, “I worry very much about benefits becoming a lifestyle choice.” Which is a rich fucking statement from a rich fucking man who’d probably go into anaphylactic shock if he ever had to fly coach. ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "UK Elections" * If a wild badger broke into your home and fucked everything up for 14 straight years, tearing everything apart, you can argue about redecorating choices later, right now, that badger’s got to fucking go. And I will say, if the U.K. can successfully rid itself of the Tories next month, that’s not cause for a shrug, that’s cause for a celebration. And I know that celebration’s not something that comes naturally to Britons. The country’s most famous motivational slogan is “Keep Calm and Carry On” and even that morale booster basically amounted to, “I know you’re about to die, but there’s no need to make a scene.” That was supposed to get us through World War II! But if Britain can extricate itself from the party whose unremitting cruelty has stained the last decade and a half of British life, that does deserve to be marked. ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "UK Elections" * The UK managed to kick the Tories out after fourteen years, France narrowly managed to keep the far-right out of power, and [[Kendrick Lamar]] released a music video for the spectacularly hostile "Not Like Us" on the Fourth of July, and that is the end of the good things that happened. ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "RNC & "Migrant Crime"" * [You] expect to see certain things at the RNC -- elephant logos, cowboy hats, a massive spike in Grindr usage -- but "a message of unity" is not something traditionally associated with that event or indeed, [[Donald Trump|this man]]! ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "RNC & "Migrant Crime"" * If you’d asked me, “What’s next to this guy, just out of the frame?” and gave me a thousand guesses, there is no way I’m saying, “a lumpy bulldog lounging in an armchair like it’s being interviewed at the 92nd Street Y.” And don’t drag a bulldog to the RNC. Life’s hard enough for them. To have the soul of a wolf trapped inside the body of a wrinkly bowling ball? To be inbred over centuries into the perfect genetic car crash? That dog doesn’t deserve to be made into a prop at the RNC, it deserves a rawhide bone and an apology from humanity! ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "RNC & "Migrant Crime"" * I do not like that man, Ted Cruz. I do not like his toxic views. I do not like his nasty speeches, I do not like the shit he preaches. I do not like him when he fishes, I do not like him when he kisses. Pulling off that beard, he ain't. That man, Ted Cruz... looks like a taint. ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "RNC & "Migrant Crime"" * The thing is, if you want to prevent crime and death, that’s a great idea, and there are absolutely ways to do that. But when you draw a circle around a few members of a particular group—especially one identifiable by race or nationality—then generalize about what this means about all of them, no matter what you say, you’re not having a reasoned debate about crime or safety. You’re being racist. ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "RNC & "Migrant Crime"" * So, what can we do? Well, I don’t know if you noticed, but we’re currently four months out from an election, so just assume that the underlying “what can we do” for most of our U.S. stories from now until then is going to be “do not vote for Donald Trump again.” That seems like that should be barely worth saying, like “drink water” or “go to the dentist,” but it does bear repeating because… Be honest: when was the last time you drank water? Or, indeed, went to the dentist? Exactly. ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "RNC & "Migrant Crime"" * There are so many things we, as Americans, ''do'' have to resign ourselves to: airline cancellations, a national anthem with too many high notes, Glen Powell inevitably starring in a ''[[Field of Dreams]]'' remake. We can’t fight those things. But we can, and must fight this. And at the end of this week, it should be clear to absolutely everyone: it doesn’t matter if Trump and his party say they have a "new tone" or nominally call for "unity," or throw a cute dog onstage for some reason. They have told us who they are, they’ve told us what they want, they literally put it on a sign and waved it in everyone’s face. They’re trying to win this election by pointing a finger at immigrants, and the only appropriate response is to take a cue from the so-called "symbol of the Biden presidency" and say "fuck that shit!" ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "RNC & "Migrant Crime"" * Okay. I don’t usually do this, but I want you to pause this right now, and write down what you think you just saw. I don’t want to do this for you, just write down what you feel you just witnessed there, then come back and I’ll tell you what I think, okay? ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "The World Games"" * And you might be thinking: "Why are you telling me about any of this right now?" Well, first: I dunno. The world’s a pretty shitty place right now. Do you not want to be told about Mr. Panda? Would you rather talk about how someone managed to get a semiautomatic rifle past the Secret Service? Or are we allowed to have some fucking fun for a second?! Please! Let me! Have this! ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "The World Games"" * It's not like the Geneva Convention says "The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies... unless there's, like, ''really'' convenient shopping and a super manageable commute to Jerusalem". ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "The West Bank" * The whole settlement project has been massively encouraged by the Israeli government to such a degree that it is hard to argue that living in one is an apolitical choice. Building on stolen land is an ''inherently'' political act. It is also, by the way, [[American imperialism|copyright infringement.]] ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "The West Bank" * Does apartheid actually have a smell? Because I'll be honest, until now, I was pretty sure it had only produced [[Elon Musk|the ''one'' kind of Musk.]] ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "The West Bank" * Wow. "I decide what the law is, and your actions are illegal." That is a bold ''fucking'' attitude. It's the sort of thing an American cop would only be comfortable tattooing ''above'' their sleeve line. ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "The West Bank" * Human dignity has to be a prerequisite for negotiating anything. And Palestinians in the West Bank have their dignity challenged hundreds of times a day! From having beer bottles thrown at their heads, to being detained for kicking balls near fences, to having their homes stolen, bulldozed, and far, ''far'' worse. And to be clear, dignity is the absolute ''beginning'' of this. What's required is ''justice''. And the call for that is getting louder. ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "The West Bank" * Look, a phrase that gets brought up a lot with regard to Israel is "never again" -- an anti-genocide slogan often invoked in memory of the Holocaust, and it's always been open to two interpretations: there's the one that means "This must never again happen to the Jewish people", and the one that means "This must never again happen to any people anywhere." And in the West Bank, as in Gaza right now, it's pretty clear which one the Israeli government has favored. ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "The West Bank" * I guess, at the very least, I just want my government to have the moral backbone that's been shown by Ben and fucking Jerry's. Please, just try not to get morally outflanked by the makers of Impretzively Fudged! That cannot be too much to ask! ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "The West Bank" * [[Robert F. Kennedy Jr.|He's]] promised to be "the greatest environmental President in American history" and has talked about a bunch of things that we have covered, like so-called "forever chemicals" and PFAS and the proliferation of microplastics. You know, all the fun stuff that you expect from our "comedy" show. Which, at this point, should probably be called ''You Have Already Been Poisoned with the Duolingo Owl's Biological Uncle''. ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "RFK Jr." * Okay, so before we go any further, let me just say this: I also don't want to be doing this. I don't want to be debunking his arguments at length! […] But he's made so many confident assertions there, and if you leave even one unchallenged, people will think "Well, maybe there's something to it." ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "RFK Jr." * It is the ultimate conspiracist code -- "Nothing is a coincidence except when I do it". ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "RFK Jr." * If you like that [RFK Jr.] is against polluters and Big Pharma, I get it! We criticize them all the time! But when we do that, we make sure we've got our facts right and don't just pull them out of the ass of our best workout jeans. ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "RFK Jr." * Picking apart policy proposals when the alternative is Trump is a bit like debating which color to paint the living room when your house is on fucking fire! You kind of have to prioritize the imminent threat! ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "Election 2024" * I know it is hard to imagine things getting worse on this but to be fair, Trump has always been one to roll up his sleeves, throw on a very unflattering vest, and dig us into a new layer of hell. ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "Election 2024" * Look, I know this isn't inspiring to hear, but politics isn't always inspiring; it's transactional. It rarely matches our greatest hopes and dreams. I'll be honest: I really didn't want the first vote I cast as an American citizen to be for Joe fucking Biden, but here we are. Here is how I look at it: The struggle for justice isn't just about what happens on election day. It's a fight waged constantly -- day in, day out. In protests on the streets, meetings with legislators, and in the thousand small actions that cumulatively move the government forward an inch at a time. Abbas Alawieh, the co-founder of the Uncommitted Movement, has urged Democrat voters to "pair their vote, their support for Vice President Harris with a public commitment to pressure her to stop sending weapons, should she become President. As for [[w:Ruwa Romman|Ruwa Romman]], she voted for Harris in Georgia -- another critical swing state -- while doing a vote swap with someone in a blue state who cast a protest vote on her behalf. And she explained her Harris vote by saying "My vote is a promise — a promise that I and those who stand with me will not stop demanding the end of mass slaughter and violence everywhere", and that is the ''point.'' Elections alone aren't sufficient for large-scale change, but they're absolutely necessary for it to ''ever'' happen. Because it's the day when essentially you get to choose who you'd prefer to be pushing for the next four years and where you'll be pushing them from. Look, I love this country. I'm an American. I chose to be here. In the words of the late Lee Greenwood, "I'm proud to be an American". And I'd argue there's nothing more American than having a healthy adversarial relationship with those in power, even if you voted for them! ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- "Election 2024" * If what you want is a centrist candidate that's quiet on trans issues, tough on the border, distances itself from Palestinians, talks a lot about law and order, and reaches out to moderate Republicans, [[Kamala Harris|that candidate]] existed, [[2024 United States presidential election|and she just lost]]! ** ''Last Week Tonight'' -- Trump's Reelection ==About Oliver== * On the 6th May 2011 episode of ''[[w:The Bugle|The Bugle]]'' John created the phrase "fuckyoulogy", an obituary for someone recently deceased who most certainly will not be missed. * Here's a guy who likes to take boring topics and make them interesting. If you can do that for an administrative process like the FCC on net neutrality, imagine the level of interest in issues people are even more familiar with at the state level. ** State Senator Cyrus Habib, [https://www.thestranger.com/news/2015/01/16/21482571/john-oliver-inspired-a-bill-introduced-in-the-state-legislature-today John Oliver Inspired a Bill Introduced in the State Legislature Today], The Stranger, Jan 16, 2015 * The ''knowing'' know that police reform, that abortion rights, that labor unions are important, but go no further: What is important, after all, is to signal that you ''know'' these things. What is important is to launch links and mockery at those who don't. The Good Facts are enough: Anybody who fails to capitulate to them is part of the Problem, is terminally uncool. No persuasion, only retweets. Eye roll, crying emoji, forward to John Oliver for sick burns. ** Emmett Rensin, [https://www.vox.com/2016/4/21/11451378/smug-american-liberalism The Smug Style in American Liberalism], Vox.com, April 21, 2016 * When John Oliver told viewers that if they opposed abortion they had to change the channel until the last minute of the program, when they would be shown “an adorable bucket of sloths,” he perfectly encapsulated the tone of these shows: one imbued with the conviction that they and their fans are intellectually and morally superior to those who espouse any of the beliefs of the political right. Two days before the election, every talking head on television was assuring us that Trump didn’t have a chance, because he lacked a “ground game.” After his victory, one had to wonder whether some part of his ground game had been conducted night after night after night on television, under flattering studio lights and with excellent production values and comedy writing. ** [[w:Caitlin Flanagan|Caitlin Flanagan]], [https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/05/how-late-night-comedy-alienated-conservatives-made-liberals-smug-and-fueled-the-rise-of-trump/521472/ How Late-Night Comedy Fueled the Rise of Trump], TheAtlantic, May 2017 * For years, Oliver has criticized the estate tax, which opponents, in a smart linguistic move dreamed up by [[w:Frank Luntz|Frank Luntz]], long ago labeled the “death tax”; and the tax code’s raft of loopholes that benefit special interests he identified as oil companies and hedge fund managers. Oliver even briefly established the bogus Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption to draw attention to tax-exempt status granted to churches and charities.<br>Back in July 2014, in an episode in which he lamented the "Wealth Gap in America” (which has resulted in the richest one percent of Americans controlling 20 percent of annual income), Oliver said, “At this point the rich are just running up the score…What sets America apart is that we are actively introducing policies that disproportionately benefit the wealthy,” such as tax cuts and loopholes like trusts.<br>So it’s a little surprising to discover that just months before, Oliver had a tax attorney set up two [[w:trust law|revocable trusts]], one for him and one for his wife, to hide the couple’s purchase of a $9.5 million Manhattan penthouse. Then he used a [[w:tax loophole|tax loophole]] created by [[Donald Trump]] himself back in the 1970s, when the current president was merely a prominent New York real estate developer and aspiring celebrity author. ** Ken Silverstein, [http://observer.com/2017/05/john-oliver-property-tax-scam-trump/ The John Oliver Property Tax Scam: HBO Comedian Secretly Buys Manhattan Mansion], Observer.com, May 10, 2017 * No one takes more glee in dumping their shit on middle America than John Oliver. [...] If he delivered the exact same words sounding as if he went to school with [[w: Miley Cyrus|Miley Cyrus]], no one would take him seriously. ** Derek Hunter, Outrage, Inc.: How the Liberal Mob Ruined Science, Journalism, and Hollywood (Harper/Broadside 2018) p. 55 * There is no "fact-checking" of John Oliver, [[w:Beyonce|Beyonce]] or [[w:Kim Kardashian|Kim Kardashian]]. They're entertainers, not politicians or journalists. ** Derek Hunter, Outrage, Inc.: How the Liberal Mob Ruined Science, Journalism, and Hollywood (Harper/Broadside 2018) p. 55 * Over the years, John Oliver has a history of creating energy for an overlooked issue over the course of his program, and then turning that energy into activism through a stunt at the end. He's pointed out how ridiculously corrupt the predatory lending industry is by buying 15 million dollars worth of medical debt for just 60 thousand dollars and forgiving it. He's raised awareness for net neutrality by making the petititon site "goffcyourself.com". He's written a children's book called ''[[w: A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo | Last Week Tonight With John Oliver Presents: A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo]]'' to combat [[Mike Pence]]'s support for conversion therapy, which raised millions of dollars for [[w: The Trevor Project | The Trevor Project]] and [[w: AIDS United | AIDS United]]. That is a much more concrete difference to make than getting a bunch of liberals to show up to the "[[w: Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear |Rally to Restore Sanity]]." ** Skip Intro, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCAD3enXDwE?si=kqIGIK0ItrY6xyV2&t=3446 Jon Stewart doesn't understand Capitalism | The Problem with Jon Stewart], YouTube, Apr 19, 2022 == See also == * ''[[The Daily Show]]'' == External links == {{wikipedia}} {{commonscat|John Oliver}} * [http://www.iamjohnoliver.com John Oliver's Official Website] {{DEFAULTSORT:Oliver, John}} [[Category:Anti-monarchists]] [[Category:1977 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Actors from England]] [[Category:Comedians from England]] [[Category:Immigrants to the United States]] [[Category:People from Birmingham]] [[Category:Primetime Emmy Award winners]] [[Category:Satirists from England]] [[Category:Television producers]] [[Category:Television personalities]] 5kg6vnbxouc3l6fo6afumvfc47n4l04 0 36777 3961052 3961045 2026-07-05T12:09:59Z ~2026-22475-30 3310494 3961052 wikitext text/x-wiki {{DISPLAYTITLE:''The Simpsons''/Season 10}} {{The Simpsons header}} '''''[[w:The Simpsons|The Simpsons]]''''' (1989–present) is an American animated sitcom broadcast by the Fox Broadcasting Company created by [[Matt Groening]]. The series is a satirical depiction of American life, epitomized by the Simpson family. ===''[[w:Lard of the Dance|Lard of the Dance]]''=== :'''Ralph''': And the doctor told me that both my eyes were lazy, and that's why it was the best summer ever! :'''Ms. Hoover''': Thank you, Ralph. Now take your seat. ''[Ralph exits the classroom]'' :'''Nelson''': ''[offscreen]'' Hey Blindy, have a nice trip! :'''Ralph''': Aah''!'' :'''Nelson''': Ha-ha! <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Used grease is worth money? Then my arteries are clogged with yellow gold! ''[he groans with pain]'' Money in the bank. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Marge, I'm a little busy right now achieving financial independence. :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': With cans of used grease? :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': ''[mockingly]'' No, through savings and wise investments! Of course with grease. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Alex''': Your name's Lisa? Shut up, I love that name! :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': Did she just tell me to "shut up?" :'''Skinner''': Take it outside. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Bart and Homer are escaping from Groundskeeper Willie through the air ducts. Willie grabs Homer by the ankle.]'' :'''[[w:Groundskeeper Willie|Willie]]''': Not so fast, boyo. Hell, if it was up to me, I'd let ya go. ''[Raises his fists.]'' But, the lads have a temper, '''''and they've been drinking all day!''''' :''[Willie starts punching Homer with hard blows while Homer is screaming in pain.]'' :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Ow! Stop pummeling me! It's really painful! :'''Willie''': ''[Willie stops briefly]'' Okay, fine. I'll strangle ya for a while! ''[Willie strangles Homer with his hose, and one of Homer's eyes bulges out of its socket.]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Lisa, I can't imagine anyone being more likable than you. But apparently this new girl is. So my advice would be to start copying her in every way. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Oh, I can't believe those goons muscled me out of my grease business. I've been muscled out of everything I've ever done, including my muscle for hire business. :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': Oh, poor Homey. Couldn't you try some other far-out, moneymaking scheme? <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Alright son, we're about to embark on our most difficult mission. Let's bow our head in prayer. Dear Lord, I know You're busy, seeing as how You can watch women change clothes and all that, but if You help us steal this grease tonight I promise we'll donate half the profits to charity. :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': Dad, He's not stupid. :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Alright, screw it. Let's roll! ''[floors it]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': When you want grease, go to the source. Good old Krusty Burger! :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': I'll say! Look at that red-headed kid. There must be $40 worth of grease on his forehead alone. :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': Uh, I was thinking more of the deep frier. :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Whatever, we'll try it your way. :'''[[w:Squeaky-voiced Teen|Squeaky-Voiced Teen]]''': Can I help you, sir? :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': ''[leaning uncomfortably close to Squeaky-Voiced Teen]'' ''My... '''God,''' you're greasy.'' :'''[[w:Squeaky-voiced Teen|Squeaky-Voiced Teen]]''': Mr. Maruka, help! <hr width=50%/> :''[Nelson, Ralph, Wendel, Lewis, and Database sitting at a bench at lunchtime]'' :'''Nelson''': You see, the thing about huckleberries is: once you've had fresh, you'll never go back to canned. :''[Skinner walks up to the bench]'' :'''Nelson''': Uh, uh, so anyway, I kicked the guy's ass! :''[Skinner nods and walks off]'' :'''Nelson''': ''[quietly]'' Now, if the berries are too tart, I just dust them with confectioner sugar. :''[All murmur in interest]'' ===''[[w:The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace|The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace]]''=== :'''Marge''': I brought you a tuna sandwich. They say it's brain food. I guess because there's so many dolphins in it, and you know how smart they are. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Professor Frink''': And these should give you the groundings you'll need in thermodynamics, hyperdmathematics, and of course, microbcalifragilistics. :'''Homer''': Look I just want to know how to invent things, tell me. :'''Professor Frink''': All you have to do is think of things that people need, but which don't exist yet. :'''Homer''': You mean like an electric blanket-mobile? :'''Professor Frink''': Well, possibly. Or you could take something that already exists and find a new use for it. Like... :'''Homer''': Hamburger earmuffs. :'''Professor Frink''': Well, I suppose that would qualify. :'''Homer''': Thanks, sucker! <hr width="50%/> :'''Homer''': Now, here's my "Everything's OK Alarm." ''[picks up a device that looks like a smoke detector and presses a button. It starts beeping loudly, with a sound similar to an air horn.]'' THIS WILL SOUND, EVERY 3 SECONDS, UNLESS SOMETHING ISN'T OKAY! :'''Marge''': Turn it off, Homer! :'''Homer''': IT ''CAN'T'' BE TURNED OFF! ''[The beeping starts weakening, then stops completely.]'' But it, uh, ''does'' break easily. <hr width="50%"/> :''[after Homer shoots Marge with "The Makeup Shotgun"]'' :'''Marge''': Homer, you got it set on "Whore." :'''Homer''': Oh, sorry. ''[switches knob on gun]'' OK, this time, try to keep your nostrils closed. ''[Marge swats away gun, and the makeup hits a nearby wall instead]'' Oh, look what you did. Now I have to get my cold cream gun. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lisa''': Dad, women won't like being shot in the face. :'''Homer''': Women will like what I tell them to like. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Kent Brockman''': In other news, Thomas Edison, the greatest inventor of all time, is apparently still inventing, despite the notable handicap of being dead. :'''Homer''': That's my Tommy! ===''[[w:Bart the Mother|Bart the Mother]]''=== :''[at an arcade]'' :'''Nelson''': What can I get for 8,000 tickets? :'''Clerk''': Uh, a BB gun or an Easy Bake Oven. :'''Nelson''': Hmmm...Hot food is tempting, but I just can't say no to a weapon. <hr width=50%/> :'''Lisa''': What did you get with the tickets? :'''Bart''': Fake moustache comb, how about you? :'''Lisa''': Fake moustache...wanna comb it? <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': ''[at the top of his voice]'' '''''MILHOUSE!!!''''' :'''Milhouse''': ''[still at his house]'' ''What?'' :'''Homer''': '''''TELL BART TO COME HOME!!!''''' :'''Milhouse''': ''[still at his house]'' ''I think he's at Nelson's!'' :'''Homer''': '''''WHO'S NELSON?!!''''' <hr width="50%"/> :''[after Marge sees the bird Bart shot]'' :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': Bart! Did you kill that poor bird?! :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': I didn't mean to, Mom. The gun pulled to the left. :'''Marge''': You disobeyed me, snuck over here, and murdered a helpless animal?! :'''Bart''': I know, I really screwed up. I deserve to be punished. :'''Marge''': ''[sighs dejectedly]'' Oh, what's the point, Bart? I punish, and I punish, and I punish, but it never sinks in. So you know what? Do what you want. You wanna play with little hoodlums? Fine! Have fun killing things! ''[gets in her station wagon and drives off]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Troy McClure|Troy McClure]]''': Hi, I'm Troy McClure. You may remember me from such nature films as ''Earwigs, Eww!'' and ''Man vs. Nature: The Road to Victory''. <hr width="50%"/> :''[About the Bolivian tree lizard]'' :'''[[w:Seymour Skinner|Principal Skinner]]''': It's a vicious oviraptor. It feasts on bird eggs and lays its own eggs in the nest. The unsuspecting mother bird cares for them until the babies hatch, and... devour her too. :'''[[w:Moe Szyslak|Moe]]''': ''[laughs]'' What a chump! :'''Principal Skinner''': It's already wiped out the [[w:dodo|dodo]], the [[w:cuckoo|cuckoo]], and the [[w:nene (bird)|nene]], and it has nasty plans for the [[w:booby|booby]], the [[w:Baeolophus|titmouse]], the [[w:woodcock|woodcock]], and the titpecker. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bart''': ''[to Marge]'' Everyone thinks they're monsters. But I raised them and I ''love'' them. I know that's hard to understand. :'''Marge''': Mmmm. Not as hard as you think. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': This is the most exciting thing I've seen since Halley's Comet collided with the moon! :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': That didn't happen, Dad. :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': ''Sure'' it didn't. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Mayor Quimby''': ''[to Bart]'' For decimating our pigeon population and for making Springfield a less oppressive place to while away our worthless lives, I present you with this scented candle. ===''[[w:Treehouse of Horror IX|Treehouse of Horror IX]]''=== :'''Freddy Kreuger''': I don't get it. They should be here by now. :'''Jason Vorhees''': ''[shrugs his shoulders]'' Eh, what're you gonna do? ''[clicks remote]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Snake Jailbird''': Hmm. Good lines, nice balance. Let's see how she handles. Ho-ho, oh, yeah. Tame it, baby. Yo, ring her up, dude. :'''Apu Nahasapeemapetilon''': ''[gasps]'' You cannot smoke in here. Please, the sign is clearly posted, sir. :'''Moe Szyslak''': ''[coughing]'' Oh, god. You smokers disgust me. Hey, 'pu, you got a breakfast cereal for people with syphilis? :'''Chief Wiggum''': ''[to Snake]'' Hands up, scuzzbag! ''[Moe raises his hands]'' ''[to Moe]'' No, not you. The smoking scuzzbag. :'''Snake Jailbird''': ''[raises his hands, and flicks away cigarette]'' Oh, chill out, dude. I'll pay the fine. :'''Chief Wiggum''': Not this time, you won't. This is your third strike. First, you torched that orphanage, then you blew up that bus full of nuns. :'''Snake Jailbird''': Hey, that was self-defense! :'''Chief Wiggum''': Well, you'll be seeing lots of nuns where you're going, pal... Hell! Because the penalty for strike three is death. :'''Snake Jailbird''': You'll never make it stuck, dude. :'''Chief Wiggum''': Will, too, 'cause this place is full of witnesses. Apu, that scuzzbag Moe... :'''Snake Jailbird''': I'm not going to forget this, dudes. I'm going to totally kill both of you. :'''Chief Wiggum''': And, uh, don't forget Bart Simpson. He's a witness, too. Right, Barty? :'''Snake Jailbird''': You are so dead, little dude. :'''Bart Simpson''': Thanks a lot, Chief. :'''Chief Wiggum''': ''[laughs]'' You kids crack me up. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Ed McMahon''': Hi, I'm Ed McMahon. Tonight on [[w:Fox Network|Fox]], from the producers of "When Shorts Fall Off" and "Secrets of National Security Revealed", it's "World's Deadliest Executions." :'''Snake Jailbird''': Thank you, chickie pies. :'''Homer''': The chair? How come they only do crucifixions during sweeps? :'''Ed McMahon''': Snake played lacrosse at Ball State University. :'''Chief Wiggum''': So long, Snake. You'll never harm another person with secondhand smoke. ''[ Chief Wiggum pulls the switch. Snake is jolted with electricity. Smoke from his body fills the execution chamber, causing everyone to have a coughing fit]'' :'''Snake Jailbird''': ''[groaning, weakly]'' Dude... ''[dies]'' :'''Ed McMahon''': Hey-oh! :'''Chief Wiggum''': All right. Now, let's get this carcass over the hospital and crave it up for organs. :'''Barney''': Dibs on the liver! :'''Homer''': Whoo-hoo! Marge, they found a donor. I'm saved. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Apu''': Whoo! Ooh-la-la, Simpson. What can I do for you and your new do? :'''Homer''': ''[posing as Snake]'' You sent me to the chair. :'''Apu''': ''[gasps]'' Snake? But you're dead. :'''Homer''': ''[in Snake's voice]'' I know you are, but what am I? :''[Snake grabs Apu by the shoulder and pushes him into the squishee machine]'' :'''Apu''': No, no! NO!!! :'''Kent Brockman''': And the fluffy kitten played with that ball of string all thought the night. On a lighter note: a Kwik-E-Mart clerk was brutally murdered last night. :'''Homer''': Oh, god. :'''Bart''': Oh, man. :'''Marge''': I can't believe it. That's horrible. Who'll run the Kwik-E-Mart? :'''Chief Wiggum''': I'm afraid we have no leads, but I can safely say Apu did not suffer. :'''Lou''': ''[crunching]'' Looks to me like he suffered a lot, Chief. :'''Chief Wiggum''': Aw, geez, Lou. How long were you going to let me keep drinking this thing? :'''Lisa''': Who would do such a thing? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Moe''': Ah, morning, Homer. You're looking unusually focused this morning. :'''Homer''': ''[in Snake's voice]'' Shut your squeal-hole, booze jockey. I'm going to, like, totally waste you. :'''Moe''': Well, somebody's a grumpy Gus. What's-- :'''Homer''': ''[in Snake's voice, pulling Moe's heart out]'' Yoink. :'''Moe''': Ah, for cryin' out loud. ''[Groans and dies into the cereal bowl]'' :'''Kent Brockman''': Another of Springfield's beloved citizens was murdered today. Filthy old Bartender Moe Szyslak has watered down his last highball. :'''Bart''': Oh, my God! Everyone Snake swore revenge on is being murdered! :'''Marge''': It's almost as if he's killing from beyond the grave. :'''Lisa''': I told you capital punishment isn't a deterrent. :'''Bart''': Don't you get it? He swore he'd kill me too. I'm next! :'''Homer''': ''[puts his arm around Bart]'' Don't worry, I'll protect you. ''[in Snake's voice]'' Little dude. ''[normal voice]'' There. Now no murderers can get in. ''[in Snake's voice]'' Or out. :'''Bart''': Dad? :'''Homer''': You are so dead. :'''Bart''': No! :'''Homer''': Come here, you little... :'''Krusty the Clown Doll''': ''[laughing]'' Stop it! You're killing me! :'''Bart''': ''[screams]'' My school picture! :'''Homer''': Daddy would like a word with you, Barty! :'''Bart''': Help! Dad's trying to kill me! :'''Homer''': It's hammer time, snitchy! :'''Bart''': That's Snake's voice. :'''Lisa''': Of course. The transplant. Somehow Snake's hair must be controlling... :'''Marge''': Oh please, Lisa, everyone's already figured that out. :'''Bart''': You've got to fight the hair, Dad. :'''Homer''': But I look so youthful and hunky. ''[in Snake's voice]'' The kid's got to die. ''[normal voice]'' But I love my son. ''[in Snake's voice]'' More than a lush head of hair? ''[normal voice]'' Don't make me choose! ''[laughs in Snake's voice]'' ''[normal voice]'' No! :''[Homer tears Snake's hair off of his head and discards it]'' :'''Homer''': I love you, son. :'''Bart''': I love you too, Dad. ''[screaming]'' Get off! Get it off! ''[muffled]'' :'''Marge and Lisa''': ''[gasps]'' :'''Homer''': I'll show you, hair! ''[Homer punches Snake's hairpiece that's attacking Bart]'' :'''Bart''': Ow! ''[turns red in furious]'' That's my face, you idiot! :'''Homer''': Idiot? ''[turns red in anger]'' Why, you little... ''[Homer angrily strangles Bart, but two policeman burst into Bart's room]'' :'''Chief Wiggum''': Homer Simpson, you're under arrest for the murders of Moe Szyslak and Apu Nahasa... pasa... Ah, just Moe. Just Moe. :'''Homer''': It wasn't me. It was the hair. :'''Chief Wiggum''': Freeze, hair ball! ''[after he and the other officers shoot and kill Snake's hair, Maggie picks the hair up and sucks her thumb]'' Now that's what I call a bad hair day! ''[everyone laughs]''. :'''Marge''': May I remind you that two people are dead? Oh, wait. I just got it. :'''Chief Wiggum''': It's funny. ''[everyone laughs]'' Bad hair day! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Marge''': ''[after turning off "Itchy & Scratchy"]'' Sorry, but if I let you watch one of these gruesome Halloween cartoons, I'd be a pretty lousy mother. Why don't you kids come trick-or-treating with Maggie and me? :'''Bart''': Nah. It's too early. I need to work under cover of darkness. :'''Marge''': Oh, Homer, you're not going as a hobo again? :'''Homer''': Going where? :'''Marge''': Well, we're leaving. And remember, no ''Itchy & Scratchy''. I better take these batteries just to be sure. :'''Homer''': ''[singing]'' Mama took those batteries, she took 'em away. Mama took those batteries, size double-A! :'''Bart''': There's got to be some batteries in here somewhere. Hmm... :'''Lisa''': Oh, Bart, that's plutonium. It's highly unstable. :'''Bart''': Don't you ever get tired of being wrong? :'''Scratchy''': Trick or treat! :'''Lisa''': What's wrong with the TV? :'''Bart''': Color's screwed up. :'''Bart''': ''[After changing Lisa and the TV screen into red]'' Whoa! Cool! :'''Lisa''': ''[Holding the remote control]'' Bart, quit it! Hey Give-- :'''Bart''': Hey, Lise, we're characters in a cartoon! :'''Lisa''': How humiliating. :'''Bart''': Look. :'''Scratchy''': ''[to Bart and Lisa]'' Why are you laughing? :'''Itchy''': ''[to Scratchy]'' Hey, they're laughing at your pain. :'''Scratchy''': ''[Picks up his head and puts it back on his body]'' That's mean. :'''Itchy''': Let's teach 'em a lesson. ''[shaking Scratchy's hand]'' :'''Bart''': A cartoon ax! I love it. :''[A trickle of blood runs down his forehead]'' :'''Bart & Lisa''': Aaah! :''[Itchy loads a cannon with all manner of deadly objects]'' :'''Bart & Lisa''': ''[eyes literally sockets]'' AAH! AAAH!!! ''[They run out of the house. The cannon fires, and the kids have to duck to avoid the flying arsenal]'' :'''Bart''': Help! Police! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Regis Philbin''': My eyes! My beautiful eyes! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Scratchy''': You're beautiful. :'''Marge''': Aw, somebody's in love. ''[picks up Scratchy]'' That means you'll have to be neutered. :'''Scratchy''': Noooo! <hr width="50% /> :'''Marge''': ''[holding a spoonful of food in front of Maggie]'' Here comes the flying saucer! ''[Maggie starts to cry]'' <hr width="50%"/> :''[On the ''[[w:Jerry Springer Show|Jerry Springer Show]]'', after Kang brings out flowers for Marge and kisses her hand. Homer begins wailing on him]'' :'''Homer''': You one-eyed, two-timing ''[bleep, bleep]''! I'm going to ''[bleep]''! :'''Kang''': Oh yeah?! Well, ''[bleep]'' hyperbolic paraboloid ''[bleep]'' your mama! <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[Jerry Springer]]''': And now for my final thought; nobody wins when parents put their petty squabbles above the welfare of their child. ''[everyone onstage looks ashamed]'' Let's hope they put their differences aside and do what's best for Maggie. ''[Maggie lunges at Springer]'' What the ''[bleep]''?! Get this ''[bleep]'' baby off! ''[she bites him]'' ''[bleep]''! Son of a ''[bleep]''! :''[Kang and Homer try to pull Maggie off, but end up fighting again]'' :'''Marge''': ''[with her head in her hands]'' I'm so ''[bleep]'' embarrassed. <hr width="50%"/> :''[on ''The Jerry Springer Show'']'' :'''Audience Member''': I got a question for that gross thing, whatever it is. :'''[[Jerry Springer]]''': Homer? :'''Audience Member''': Nah, the green dude. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Marge''': Homer, Kang is Maggie's father. :'''Homer Simpson''': ''[gasps]'' You intergalactic hussy! How could you?! ''[starts crying]'' Was he better than me? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Marge''': I can't believe it. Jerry Springer didn't solve our conflict. :'''Lisa''': And now he's dead. :'''[[Kang]]''': Any-Hoo, this is your last chance. Turn over the baby now! :'''[[Kodos]]''': Or we will destroy all your leaders in Washington! :'''Marge''': ''[not intimidated]'' Oh, you can't destroy every politician! :'''Kang''': ''[darkly]'' Just watch us. :''[Kang and Kodos laugh maniacally as they enter their spaceship and take off.]'' :'''Bart''': Don't forget Ken Starr! :'''Marge''': Suckers. :'''Homer''': Come on, Maggie. Let’s go home. :'''Maggie''': ''[In Kang’s voice]'' Very well, I’ll drive. ''[Maggie laughs maniacally as the screen fades to black and starting opening credits showrunner.]'' I need blood. ''[After the credits of showrunner, Halloween ending theme music is hear of end credits roll. After the credits, Regis Philbin yells]'' :'''Regis Philbin''': My eyes! My beautiful eyes! :''[As the organ music plays in Gracie Films logo, the same as "Treehouse of Horror II" and 20th Century Fox Television logos appears at the end of the episode]'' ===''[[w:When You Dish Upon a Star|When You Dish Upon a Star]]''=== :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': ''[speaking to Homer]'' You promised to take us to the lake. :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': I promise you kids lots of things. That's what make me such a good father. :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': Actually, keeping promises would make you a good father. :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': No that would make me a great father. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Man''': Sir you can't operate a boat under the influence of alcohol. :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Oh, that sounds like a wager to me. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': ''[while parasailing]'' Ooh, I'm soaring majestically like a candy wrapper caught in an updraft! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': When was the last time Barbra Streisand ever did the laundry for you? And when it's time to do the dishes, where's [[W:Ray Bolger|Ray Bolger?!]] I'll tell you where! Ray '''Bolger''' is looking out for Ray '''Bolger'''!!! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Ron Howard''': ''[pitching a movie]'' And it builds to a powerful emotional climax, where the father has to decide which of his children will live... and which one... will die. :'''Executive''': Pass. What else have you got? :'''Ron Howard''': Well, there's one about a killer robot driving instructor, who travels back in time for some reason. :'''Executive''': I'm listening. :'''Ron Howard''': And this robot- He's got a challenging decision to make about whether his best friend lives... or dies. :'''Executive''': Ehh. :'''Ron Howard''': His best friend's a talking pie. :'''Executive''': Sold! Howard, you've done it again! ===''[[w:D'oh-in in the Wind|D'oh-in in the Wind]]''=== :'''Abe''': ''[grabbing Homer's arm]'' Shame on you, boy! Put some damn pants on then pull'em down! Cause it's time for a spankin! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer Simpson''': Hear ye, hear ye! The intergalactic jester proclaims this conformity factory closed! :''[Kids cheer and burst out of the school]'' :'''Principal Skinner''': 15 years of loyal service and this is how they tell me? A jester with an invisible proclamation? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer Simpson''': Good morning, Starshine, Seth. :''[Seth and Munchie gasp to find their garden is empty]'' :'''Munchie''': What's going on? :'''Seth''': What happened to our crops? :'''Homer Simpson''': I picked them, juiced them, and delivered them to every store in town. Your business is saved. :'''Munchie''': But there weren't enough vegetables left to fill that order. :'''Homer Simpson''': That's what I thought of first. But then I found the other garden behind the barn, the one with the camouflaged netting. :'''Munchie''': Uh-oh. :'''Seth''': Homer, those were our personal vegetables. :'''Homer Simpson''': But now the town can benefit from their own nutrients. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Young Homer on mural''': How could you let me turn into you? :'''Homer''': But-but-but the poncho-- :'''Young Homer''': "But-but-but the poncho!" Hit the road, square. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Marge''': Doctor, will he be all right? :'''[[w:Julius Hibbert|Dr. Hibbert]]''': Yes, he was lucky. If that were a gladiola, he'd be dead right now. :'''Bart''': Why don't you just pull it out? :'''Dr. Hibbert''': ''[laughs]'' [[Star Trek: The Original Series|I'm a doctor, not a gardener.]] :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Couldn't you prune some of the leaves so I can watch TV? :'''Dr. Hibbert''': What did I just say? ===''[[w:Lisa Gets an "A"|Lisa Gets an "A"]]''=== :'''[[w:Seymour Skinner|Skinner]]''': And, for the first time ever, our computer lab actually has a computer in it. :''[Ralph is sitting at their newly installed computer, engrossed in an educational spelling program]'' :'''[[w:Ralph Wiggum|Ralph]]''': Hi, Lisa! Hi, Super Nintendo Chalmers! ''[the Coleco shows a cat with "C_T" underneath; he types "a" to spell "cat," which prompts a "meow" sound from the computer]'' I'm learnding. :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': Aw, way to go, Ralph. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Bart and Lisa are outside the boys' bathroom]'' :'''Lisa''': Hey, I can't go in there! :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': Relax, there's nothing here you didn't see when Dad boycotted pants. :''[Bart and Lisa knock on a closed stall door in the boys' bathroom]'' :'''Nelson''': Hang on, I'll buzz you in. ''[short pause]'' Buzz. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': Hurry up, my arms are getting cold. :''[Lisa sneezes inside the freezer. Marge arrives]'' :'''Marge''': Oh my goodness! Homer, get her out of there! :'''Homer''': Aw! ''[pulls Lisa out of the freezer shivering holding an ice cream can]'' :'''Homer''': ''[Picks the ice cream can from Lisa]'' Sherbert Hoover? ''[throws it back on the freezer]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Marge''': ''[grumbling and mopping in the kitchen]'' Who left these muddy claw prints on my clean floor? :'''Homer''': Sorry, Marge. Pinchy got all dirty in the yard chasing birds. But don't worry! I put him in a nice hot bath. :'''Bart''': ''[sniffs the air]'' Hey, what smells so good? :'''Homer''': Yeah... ''[with growing realization and horror]'' Pinchy? Pinchy?! Oh...! '''''PINCHY!!!!!!''''' :''[Homer hurries away to the bathroom. Later, he is seen crying while eating Pinchy's cooked body at the dinner table]'' :'''Homer''': Oh, man, that's good...! ''[sob]'' Pass the butter? :'''Bart''': ''[passing it]'' Are you gonna eat that all by yourself? :'''Homer''': Uh-huh. Pinchy would've wanted it this way. My dear, sweet Pinchy...! ''[takes a bite]'' No more pain where you are now, boy. ''[breaks the lobster's body in half and sucks out the meat]'' Oh God, that's tasty! I wish Pinchy were here to enjoy this! ''[sobs and takes more bites]'' Oh, Pinchy...! ===''[[w:Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble"|Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble"]]''=== :'''[[w:Grampa Simpson|Grampa]]''': Can I go to the bathroom before we leave? :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Oh, we gotta get home. I don't wanna miss ''Inside the Actors Studio''. Tonight it's F. Murray Abraham. :'''Grampa''': But I really... :'''Homer''': F...MURRAY...ABRAHAM! <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Moe Szyslak|Moe]]''': Well, I gotta hand it to you, Homer, you're really brave to go through with this operation. :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': It's not an operation, Moe. The doctor says it's just a procedure. :'''Moe''': No, no, no - making polenta, that's a procedure. You're talking about deadly life-threatening surgery here. :'''Homer''': ''[worried]'' Really? You think It's dangerous? :'''Carl''': Oh yeah, and even if you survive the operation-- :'''Homer''': ''Procedure!'' Deadly ''procedure.'' :'''Carl''': Whatever; the point is, with only one kidney, you won't be able to drink yourself stupid no more. :'''Homer''': Now you're just trying to scare me. :'''Lenny''': Plus, they'll put you on one of those organ donor sucker lists. Everyone who wants an eyeball or a spine or a vestigial tail will be after ya! :'''Homer''': But I don't want that! :'''Moe''': Listen, I'm just gonna get right to the point here - can I have your buttocks? I mean, if you die. They look pretty comfortable. :'''Homer''': Yeah, I guess... :'''Carl''': And, uh, are those your original lips? :'''Homer''': Well, actually I-- Hey! Quit harvesting me with your eyes! ''[storms out of the bar]'' :'''Moe''': ''[watching him leave]'' Oh yeah, that would look so good on me! <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Marge, I've been thinking - what if instead of donating one of my old worn-out kidneys, I gave Grampa that artificial kidney I invented? :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': Homer, that was just a beer can with a whistle glued to it. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': If I die during the operation, will you do one thing for me? :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': Oooh, anything, sweetheart. :'''Homer''': ''[serious tone]'' Blow up the hospital. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Grampa Simpson|Grampa]]''': Am I dead yet? :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': No. :'''Grampa''': How about now? :'''Marge''': ''[losing patience]'' No. :'''Grampa''': Now? :'''Marge''': I'll tell you when you're dead, Grampa. :'''Grampa''': Thank you. <hr width="50%"/> :''[after hearing Homer's story of how he ran away from his dying father after promising him one of his kidneys]'' :'''Concertina Player''': ''[in a French accent]'' I stole this accordion from a blind monkey, but '''''you''''' ''[spits]'' You disgust even ''me!'' <hr width="50%"/> :''[After being tossed off of the Ship of Lost Souls, AKA Honeybunch, watching it sail away into the fog]'' :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': That's the last time I trust the strangest people on Earth! <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': I'm the luckiest man in the world, now that [[Lou Gehrig|Lou Gehrig's]] dead. ===''[[w:Mayored to the Mob|Mayored to the Mob]]''=== :'''Mayor Quimby''': Oh God. Can't this town go one day without a riot? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Moe''': ''[after giving a bribe to Mayor Quimby, and under this some cockroaches start walking]'' We're working on that 'roach situation, I swear to God! :'''Mayor''': ''[pauses briefly, then takes the money]'' Well, you should see the hospital. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Mayor Quimby''': [[w:Luke Skywalker|Luke]], do something! Use your [[w:lightsaber|Lightsaber]]! :'''[[Mark Hamill]]''': What, and break it?! You know [[George Lucas]] made me pay for these. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Comic Book Guy''': Tell me, how do you feel about 45-year-old virgins who still live with their parents? :'''Female Comic Book Fan''': Comb the SweetTarts out of your beard, and you're on. :'''Comic Book Guy''': Don't try to change me, baby. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Frank Nelson Type''': YEEEEEESSSSSS? :'''Homer''': Do you have a table for the mayor? :'''Frank Nelson Type''': YEEEEEESSSSS! :'''Homer''': Why do you talk like that? :'''Frank Nelson Type''': I had a STROOOOOOKE! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer Simpson''': ''[to Bart and Lisa]'' Hold it, what's your clearance? :'''Bart Simpson''': We just wanna get a snack. :'''Homer Simpson''': Access denied. :'''Bart''': But, Dad... ''[Homer pinches the kids on the shoulder, sending them to the floor, unconscious]'' :'''Marge''': Homer, I don't want you using your new sleeper hold on the children. :'''Homer''': They'll be fine in half an hour. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Oh My God, I killed the Mayor! Alright, stay calm. I'll just use the body to stage an elaborate farce a la [[W:Weekend At Bernie's|Weekend At Bernie's.]] <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': If I was Fat Tony, and God willing someday I will be, I'd just be stewing in my jail cell getting madder and madder. :'''Homer''': I don't have to worry about that, he's already out on bail. Well, I'm off to work. :'''Marge''': You're guarding the mayor tonight, after Fat Tony swore revenge? :'''Homer''': It's my duty, Marge. Besides, those mobsters don't scare me. Bart, will you start daddy's car? :'''Marge''': Homer! :'''Homer''': What? There's nothing to worry about. :'''Bart''': Well, then you start it. :'''Homer''': Alright, fine, I'll take a cab. <hr width="50%"/> :''[As Homer fights for his life against one of Fat Tony's men]'' :'''[[Mark Hamill]]''': Homer, use the-! :'''Homer''': [[w:Force (Star Wars)|The Force]]? :'''[[Mark Hamill]]''': The forks! Use the forks! <hr width="50%"/> :''[Homer attending a Leavelle's body guard school]'' :'''Leavelle''': Your loyalty is to your protectee. Not to you country. Not to your family. ''[turns to Homer]'' Not even to [[w: Muhammad| Moo-Hammid]]. :'''Homer''': Even during [[w:Ramadan|Ramadan?]] :'''Leavelle''': Shut your sass-hole boy. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': Milking rats! THEY'RE MILKING RATS! :'''Mayor Quimby''': ''[to Fat Tony]'' Rats?! I am outraged! You promised me dog or higher! ===''[[w:Viva Ned Flanders|Viva Ned Flanders]]''=== :'''Bart''': Alright here comes the implosion! :'''Demolition Worker''': ''[Pushes the plunger down]'' ''Im''plosion? I thought you said... :''[The Monty Burns Casino blows up in a cloud of dust with a variety of things, as well as Don Rickles, flying out into the air]'' :'''Don Rickles''': HOCKEY PUUUUUCK! :'''Homer Simpson''': ''[as they all run from the dust]'' Heh, heh! Don Rickles zinged ya, Marge! <hr width="50%"/> :''[After running over someone in the dust cloud]'' :'''Lisa''': Dad, you hit [[w:Don Rickles|Don Rickles]]! :'''[[w:Don Rickles|Don Rickles]]''': I'm okay, but some Puerto Rican guy's trying to steal your hubcaps. ''[laughs]'' Just kidding! I'm a nice guy. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Slave girl! Oh, slave girl! :'''[[Waitress]]''': More libations, my imperial conqueror? :'''Homer''': What was that? :'''Other Waitress''': More booze. You want more booze? <hr width="60%"/> :'''Ned''': Goshdarn it! Am I that pre-diddly-ictable? ''[sighs]'' I've wasted my whole dang-diddly life! :''[a car stops besides Ned with Abe, Jasper and three attractive women]'' :'''Grampa''': Hey there! :'''Ned''': Look at that! Everyone's living it up except Ned. ''[car pulls away out of earshot]'' :'''Grampa''': Help! We're being carjacked! :'''Woman''': Don't get clever, old man. ''[cocks a revolver]'' Now take us to Dress Barn. <hr width="60%"/> :'''Ned''': So what about all this meat? :'''Homer''': Ah, the missus will clean that up. :'''Marge''': Now it's Marge's time to shine! <hr width="60%"/> :'''Dr. Gonzo''': That sure was a fun trip to Las Vegas. :'''Raoul Duke''': Auh, too many kids. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Casino worker''': Someone dishonoring their marriage vows!? Not in Las Vegas. <hr width="60%"/> :''[While Homer and Ned try to flee]'' :'''Homer''': ''[screams]'' The [[w:Moody Blues|Moody Blues]]! :'''[[w:Graeme Edge|Graeme Edge]]''': "Cold hearted Homer ditching his wife, while ancient Ned runs for his life" :'''[[w:Justin Hayward|Justin Hayward]]''': "Chips of blue, and red, and white, but we decide..." :'''[[w:John Lodge|John Lodge]]''': Oh can the poems, it's arse-whooping time! :'''[[w:Ray Thomas|Ray Thomas]]''': ''[draws a switchblade]'' I want fatty! ''[Homer screams]'' ===''[[w:Wild Barts Can't Be Broken|Wild Barts Can't Be Broken]]''=== :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Stupid Isotopes. Hurry up and lose so we can get outta here! :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': Why do you hate the Isotopes so much, Dad? :'''Homer''': Because I loved them once and they broke my heart. Let that be a lesson to you, sweetie. Never love anything. :'''Lisa''': Even you? :'''Homer''': Especially me. :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': But you gotta support the team, Dad! They're already threatening to move to Moose Jaw. :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': That's right! Like my mother always said, you've got to stick it out, even if you picked the loser ... ''[sees Homer picking at his ear and looking at his finger afterward]'' ...to the bitter end. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Commentator''': ''[about Babe Ruth IV]'' He's pointing to the stands, possibly at a dying little boy. :'''Bart''': ''[to Marge, after realizing he's been pointed at]'' Mom, am I dying?! :'''Marge''': ''[sympathetically]'' No. :'''Lisa''': ''[whispering]'' Is he, Mom? You can tell me. :'''Marge''': No! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Commentator''': ''[as Babe Ruth gets ready]'' Is he indicating a bunt? Yes, he's bunting. :''[The other team catch him straight away, and he trudges off forlornly]'' :'''Audience''': BOOO! :'''Marge''': Good hustle, kid! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Moe''': ''[sighs]'' Ah, no one touched my rumaki. :'''Homer''': ''[throws it at him]'' WOOOO, RUMAKI!!! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Chief Wiggum''': ''[checking the boys' IDs]'' Sorry boys, but the curfew is final. ''[Looks at Nelson's]'' Oh, sorry to disturb you, Dr. Hibbert. :'''Nelson''': ''[as Dr. Hibbert]'' Not at all, Officer! ''[chuckles]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Chief Wiggum''': So, You enjoy this movie, Kids? Aah! Listen up punks. The moral of the story is, the adults always win! ''[The kids' eyes turn blue, as in the film]'' Waaarrgh! ''[It is revealed Eddie has been shining a light on the kids]'' For crying out loud, Eddie. You scared the hell out of me. :'''Eddie''': Sorry, Chief. ''[chuckles]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bart''': Tune in tomorrow, and every day, until the curfew is lifted, because we'll be revealing embarrassing secrets about Springfield's other adults. :'''Homer''': Well, at least they've already done me. :'''Bart''': And we have plenty more on Homer Simpson. :'''Homer''': D'oh! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lisa''': And guess who's been practicing medicine without a license? :''[Dr. Hibbert looks around nervously]'' :'''Lisa''': That's right...Homer Simpson! :'''Homer''': ''D'oh''! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Wiggum''': All right, you kids, come down now. We promise we won't kill ya. :'''Homer''': Speak for yourself! Bart, get down here! I'm gonna spank you back to the Stone Age! :'''Bart''': You can't make us come down! :'''Nelson''': You adults are always giving orders! :'''Skinner''': Well, you kids are always disobeying them! :'''Milhouse''': Well, adults treat kids like children! :'''Kirk''': Kids treat adults like cash machines! :''[Song starts]'' :'''Kids''': Adults! :'''Adults''': Kids! :'''Kids''': Adults! :'''Adults''': Kids! :'''Kids''': Adults! :'''Rev. Lovejoy''': Kids! You've had your fun, now we've had our fill! :'''Homer''': Yeah! You're only here because Marge forgot her pill! :'''Marge''': ''[embarrassed]'' Hmm... :'''Wiggum''': Kids! You're all just scandalizing, vandalizing punks! ''[catches Nelson spray-painting "Oink" on his backside]'' :'''Krusty''': Channel-hopping, Ritalin-popping monkeys! ''[But please don't quit the fan-club!]'' :'''Marge''': Kids! I can nag and nag till my hair turns blue! :'''Edna Krabappel''': Kids! You bum my smokes and don't say thank you! :'''Rod and Todd''': Why can't you be like we are? ''[they get hit with tomatoes]'' :'''Adults''': Oh, what a bunch of brats! :'''Moe''': We oughta drown you just like cats! ''[Snowball II jumps out of his sack]'' :'''Bart''': Adults! You run our lives like you're Colonel Klink! :'''Nelson''': Adults! You strut around like your farts don't stink! :'''Lisa''': Adults! You're such a drooling, snoring, boozing, boring bunch! Surly, meanie, three-martini lunchers! :'''Ralph''': I just ate a thumbtack! :'''Milhouse''': Adults! They're always telling us to-- :'''Abe''': ''[grabs Milhouse with his cane]'' Shut your traps! :'''Jasper''': Eh... we're all fed up with all of you whippersnaps! ''[Milhouse screams and runs]'' :'''Old Folks''': We're trying to get some sleep here! It's almost 6:15! What's the matter with... :'''Adults''': Don't you treat us like... :'''Kids''': Can't you just lay off... :'''Old Folks''': We're sick of all of you... :'''Everyone''': KIDS...TO...DAY! :''[Song ends]'' :'''Abe''': We're gonna teach all you rugrats a lesson! :'''Homer''': Oh yeah? Pfft! What can you ''old'' people do to us? :'''Krusty''': Yeah, you old fogies! :'''Moe''': Buzz off, you old buzzards! :''[The adults and kids all angry throw taunts and insults at the old folks]'' :'''Ralph''': You're wrinkly, somebody should iron you. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Kent Brockman''': This is Kent Brockman, reporting from... my own home, in accordance with the new curfew for anyone under seventy. ===''[[w:Sunday, Cruddy Sunday|Sunday, Cruddy Sunday]]''=== :'''[[Krusty the Clown]]''': "Legends of Comedy", my tuchus! What has [[w:Fatty Arbuckle|Fatty Arbuckle]] done that I haven't done? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Moe''': ''[scoffs]'' [[w:bye (sports)|Bye weeks]]. [[w:Bronko Nagurski|Bronko Nagurski]] didn't get no bye weeks, and now he's dead! ''[pause]'' Well... maybe they're a good thing. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Chief Wiggum''': All right, you guys have had ''way'' too much booze. ''[holds up some fresh bottles of Duff]'' Last call! :''[The others clamor for the beer, getting overly rowdy]'' :'''Chief Wiggum''': ''[aims a pistol at them]'' Come on! Give me an excuse! <hr width="50%"/> :''[After Homer, Wally and their troupe charge through various hallways looking for the Superbowl (with "[[w:Song 2|Song 2]]" playing in the background)]'' :'''Moe''': Homer, we've been running around cheering for an hour! Where the hell's the game?! :'''Homer''': You guys are following me?! I was following Flanders! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Guard''': Players and VIPs only! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Catholic Church VO''': The Catholic Church: We've made a few... changes. <small>(changed to "The Church..." on some reruns and in closed captioning/subtitles)</small> :'''Lisa''': These Super Bowl commercials are weird. <hr width="50%"/> :'''All Football Players''': ''[the 20th Century Fox fanfare plays in the background]'' Hi, Rupert! ===''[[w:Homer to the Max|Homer to the Max]]''=== :''[Homer sings to the tune of ''[[w:Goldfinger (film)|Goldfinger.]]'']'' :'''Homer''': ''Max Power'' : ''He's the man whose name you'd love to touch'' : ''But you musn't touch'' : ''His name sounds good in your ear'' : ''But when you say it, you musn't fear'' : '''Cause his name can't be said'' : ''By anyone''-- :''[Mr. Burns walks in.]'' :'''Mr. Burns''': Ah, Max Power! How's every little thing? :'''Homer''': You remembered my name! :'''Mr. Burns''': Well, who could forget the name of a magnetic individual like you? Keep up the good work, Max! :'''Homer''': Mr. Power. :'''Mr. Burns''': Yes, Mr. Power. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': But I fell in love with Homer Simpson. I don't wanna snuggle with Max Power. :'''Max ([[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]])''': Nobody snuggles with Max Power - you strap yourself in and feel the G's! ''[performs a hip gyration]'' :'''Marge''': Oh, Lord! :'''Max''': And it doesn't stop in the bedroom. Oh no! I'm taking charge! Kids, there's three ways to do things. The right way, the wrong way, and the Max Power way. :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': Isn't that the wrong way? :'''Max''': Yeah, but faster! ''[walks into a cactus]'' D'oh! :'''Lisa''': We should really put that in the corner. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Max''': Awww, this is the worst party ever. :'''Marge''': Remember that New Year's Eve party at Lenny's? He didn't even have a clock. ===''[[w:I'm With Cupid|I'm With Cupid]]''=== :''[Homer is telling Lisa a bedtime story]'' :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': ...and then the handsome prince realized he had to go to the bathroom really bad, but the evil ogre, Barney, had left the men's room in the most wicked condition! So the prince went out back to the enchanted alley-- :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': That's not a fairy tale; it's something that happened to you at Moe's! :'''Homer''': Sssh. Anyway, the prince passed out for a hundred years, until he was awakened by the kiss of a noble raccoon. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bart''': ''[as Nelson hijacks Bart's project by forcing the dummy to drink blood from the heart]'' Hey, you're wrecking it! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': Everybody's marriages is falling apart except ours. You see the problem is communication.... too much communication. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': Will you stop it! It's easy to blame ourselves, but it's even easier to blame Apu! ===''[[w:Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers"|Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers"]]''=== :'''Zookeeper''': Boy, that [[w:Stone Phillips|Stone Phillips]] sounds like quite a bloke. What television network is he on? :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': Why, [[w:NBC|NBC]], of course. :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': NBC has lots of great shows, and their news and sports coverage can't be beat. :'''[[w:Clancy Wiggum|Wiggum]]''': Do you think there's anything great on NBC right now? :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Oh, I'm sure of it. :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': But there's only one way to find out... :''[cut to the closing credits]'' :'''Homer''': ''[voice-over]'' I'd like to read the following statement, but I do so under ... ''[sound of gun cocking]''... my own free will. It has come to my attention that NBC sucks. I apologize for misleading you and urge you to watch as many Fox shows as possible. So in summary, NBC - bad. [[w:Fox network|Fox]] - good. ''[very softly]'' [[w:CBS|CBS]] great. :''[sound of gunshot, followed by a thud. The Gracie Films logo appears, accompanied by three more gunshots]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bart''' ''[about the teachers-only talent show]'': I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bart''': ''[wearing chicken over his underpants]'' Look at me, Lise, I'm Baron Von Chicken Pants! ''[clucks like a chicken]'' :'''Lisa''': Bart, that's tomorrow night's dinner. :'''Bart''': ''You're'' tomorrow night's dinner. :'''Lisa''': Mom! Bart took what I said and turned it into an insult! :'''Marge''': ''[polishing the car]'' That's nice, dear! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': ''[as he, Bart and Lisa run from stampeding rhinos]'' Don't worry, kids! I know just what to do! [[Jumanji|JUMANJI]]! ''[the rhinos keep charging]'' Does ''anything'' from the movies actually work?! <hr width="50%"/> ''[as everyone is fleeing the Springfield Elementary teacher's talent show]'' :'''Homer''' ''[with an armful of snacks, pushes Marge into the driver's seat]'': You drive. I eat. ''[crams pretzels in his mouth]'' :'''Lisa''' ''[from the backseat]'': Dad, you were supposed to pay for those! :'''Homer''' ''[with mouth full]'': I saw Krabappel's butt. I paid! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Zookeeper''': There's one rhino missing! If we don't find it, it'll be my ass on the barbie! <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': I'm gonna die! Jesus, Allah, Buddha, I love you all! ===''[[w:Make Room for Lisa|Make Room for Lisa]]''=== :'''Guard #1''': ''[after Homer damaged the bill of rights]'' You just licked off the part that forbids cruel and unusual punishment. :'''Guard #2''': ''[putting on brass knuckles]'' Hehe, beautiful. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': Relax, Lisa! Meet your new comically mismatched roommate, Bart Simpson! ''[hums The Odd Couple Theme]'' :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': I'm gonna make your life a living hell. :'''Homer''': ''[hums The Odd Couple theme and shoves Lisa in]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': ''[turns on TV]'' Ooh, here's something you like. When Animals Attack Magicians. :'''Magician''': Pick a card, any- ''[noise of animal attacking]'' Aaaaaagh!!! :''[Homer laughs]'' :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': ''[concerned]'' That's awful. :'''Homer''': Awful entertaining. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': ''[while in the sensory deprivation chamber, to the tune of The Witch Doctor]'' ooh! eee! ooh ah ah! Ting, Tang! Walla walla bing bang! Ooh eee ooh ah ah! Walla ting tang bing bing boo! <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': Wow, I've been a cat, a tree, and [[Cokie Roberts]]. It's happening again. I wonder where I'm going this time. What's that? :''[A sandwich appears on a black background]'' :'''Lisa''': Yuck! That sandwich is full of meat. ''[As the meats rotate]'' There's bacon, Canadian bacon, Mexican bacon ''[drooling]'' and a mouth-watering veal chop. :''[Two arms come from both sides of the screen, then grabs the sandwich. Lisa takes a bite]'' :'''Lisa''': Oh, no, now ''I'm'' dad! :''[background, from Homer's point of view, fades in. He's at a ballet]'' :'''Lisa''': ''[as Homer]'' Oh, and I'm at a stupid boring ballet. ===''[[w:Maximum Homerdrive|Maximum Homerdrive]]''=== :'''Female Trucker''': There goes the finest trucker who ever lived. :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': He called me "greenhorn." I called him Tony Randall. It was a thing we had. :'''Male Trucker''': In 38 years, he never missed a shipment. But I guess this is one delivery old Red won't be making. :'''Homer''': Oh, yes he will....and on time, too. :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': Oh no, Homer, no. :'''Homer''': I got to, honey. I owe it to Red as both his friend and his killer. :'''Bart''': Oh, let me go with you, Dad. :'''Homer''': Don't you have school? :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': Don't you have work? :'''Homer''': Ahh, touché. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Look son, it's one of nature's wonders, the convoy! <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Oh yeah, I need something that will keep me awake, alert and restless all night long. :'''Old Clerk''': Well Congress is racing back to Washington to outlaw these. ''[Pulls out a bottle labeled Stimu-crank]'' :'''Homer''': Sold! ''[Takes pills and eats them all]'' :'''Old Clerk''': You can't take that many pep pills at once! :'''Homer''': Don't worry. I'll balance it out with a bottle of sleeping pills. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': What's happening to me? There's still food, but i don't wanna eat it. I've become everything I've ever hated! ''[cries]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': Dad, they're going to kill us! :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Oh, why do all my trips end like this? <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': Your father traded all of our tools for M&M's again. <hr width="50%"/> :''[last lines]'' :'''Sr. Ding Dong''': ''[realizing his car won't start]'' Does anyone have jumper cables? ===''[[w:Simpsons Bible Stories|Simpsons Bible Stories]]''=== :'''[[Homer Simpson]]''': ''[as Adam] ''[to Marge (as Eve)]'' You're pretty uptight for a naked chick. <hr width="50%"/> :''[The Simpsons watch as their neighborhood is engulfed by The Apocalypse]'' :'''Marge''': Oh, no, it's the Apocalypse! Bart, are you wearing clean underwear? :'''Bart''': Not anymore. :'''Lisa Simpson''': It's Rapture, and I never knew true love. :'''Homer''': I never used those pizza coupons. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Wiggum''': Hey, Pharaoh, those half-pint slaves are "exodus Ing" as we speak. :'''Skinner''': Well, I say good riddance to bad rubbish. :'''Wiggum''': Okay, but who's going to build your pyramids? :'''Skinner''': Well, we-- After them! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Milhouse as Moses''': ''[Israelites reach the Red Sea as the Egyptians chase them]'' Screw this! I'm converting. Save us, O Mighty Ra! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Slave Lisa''': Now we have 40 years of wandering in the desert. :'''Milhouse/Moses''': Forty years? But after that, it's clear sailing for the Jews, right? :'''Slave Lisa''': Uh, more or less...Hey, is that manna? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bart/David''': Goliath II is going to pay. And ''this'' time, it's ''biblical.'' ===''[[w:Mom and Pop Art|Mom and Pop Art]]''=== :''[Homer tries to build a barbecue pit, but all the set's content spills out of box and onto cement bed, and when he takes them out and puts them on the barrow filled with bricks, the bricks fall in as well; Homer then tries to put the pit together as much as he can before the concrete dries, but the instructions are covered in wet cement]'' :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': English side ruined! Must use French instructions! ''Le grille''? What the hell is that?! :''[Cut to some time later, as it appears the pit was built exactly as the box showed]'' :'''Homer''': Yeah, that's one fine looking barbecue pit. ''[it is revealed to be the design on the box, as the real end result is a jumbled mess]'' <big>WHY DOESN'T ''MINE'' LOOK LIKE THAT?!</big> ''[finally snaps, then starts hitting the mess of a pit with a crowbar]'' <big>'''''WHY?! WHY MUST LIFE BE SO HARD?! WHY MUST I FAIL AT EVERY ATTEMPT AT MASONRY?!?!?'''''</big> :''[Cut to kitchen, as Marge is making a cake and Bart is licking a popsicle]'' :'''Marge''': How's your father's project coming along? :'''Bart''': I think he's almost done. ''[He looks out, as we see Homer charge towards pit with an umbrella while screaming, shove it into an opening, and fall backwards as it opens up]'' Yeah, he's done. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Homer is getting hit by soup cans thrown by [[Andy Warhol|Andy Warhol]]]'' :'''[[Andy Warhol]]''': Soup's on, fat boy. :''[Homer is on the ground whimpering. Warhol approaches him with a larger soup can. Homer awakes from the dream.]'' :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Andy! No! :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': Homer! Homer! :'''Homer''': ''[waking up]'' Oh, Marge! Why does art hate me? I never did anything to art. ''[he holds up his arm, his fist is through one of Andy Warhol's Soup Can paintings]'' Oh. Let's get out of here. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': ''[as he looks at a picture of "Life in Hell"'s Akbar and Jeff]'' Matt Groening? What's he doing in a museum? He can barely draw. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Skinner''': Edna, look! A dimmer switch could ratchet up the romance in our love nest. :'''Krabappel''': You mean the janitor's closet? Ha! :'''Skinner''': Oh, what's the matter, Edna? Lately you just say "ha!" to everything. :'''Krabappel''': I want a baby... Now! ''[Bart is watching them]'' :'''Skinner''': Why don't we continue this in Pool Supplies? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': How about it, Bart? Would you like a new backyard barbecue pit? :'''Bart''': Can I burn evidence in it? :'''Homer''': We can ''all'' burn evidence in it. <hr width="50%"/> :''[as Homer attempts to get rid of the barbecue pit by putting it in the "Toys for Tots" bin...]'' :'''Chief Wiggum''': Yeah, hold on there, Santa Claus. That box is for toys only. :'''Homer''': Well, of course! Any kid would love to have this ... activity center. It teaches them while they learn! :'''Chief Wiggum''': Yeah, nice try, Saint Nick. Now hit the road, Kris Kringle! :'''Homer''': But...but-- :'''Chief Wiggum''': You heard me, ''[pokes Homer's gut with nightstick]'' Père Noël. ''[Homer puts the barbecue pit on the cart and leaves; Fat Tony, Legs, and Louie come and dump a body in a bag into the bin]'' Whatcha got there? :'''Louie''': Beanie Baby. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Astrid''': Your husband's work is what we call "outsider art". It could be by a mental patient, or a hillbilly, or a chimpanzee. :'''Homer''': ''[gasps]'' In high school I was voted "Most Likely to Be a Mental Patient, Hillbilly, or Chimpanzee"! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': Lisa, all great artists love free food. Check out Jasper Johns. :'''Jasper Johns''': ''[stuffs food into his jacket]'' You squeal on me, I'll kill you. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Marge''': Homie, I'm really happy you sold your sculpture, but don't you think it may have been a fluke? :'''Homer''': Hey, I've always had an interest in art, dating back to my schoolgirl days when I painted portrait after portrait of Ringo Starr. :'''Marge''': That's ''my'' life you're describing! :'''Homer''': I think I remember my own life, Marge. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': Moe, this is Astrid, my dealer, and these are my fans: Gunter, Kilto, and Cecil Hamstead on Cecil Cecil. :'''Moe''': So, uh, you guys are Euro trash, huh? How's that, uh, workin' out for ya? :'''Gunter''': Eh, to be honest, we are a drift in a sea of decadent luxury and meaningless sex. :'''Moe''': Uh-huh, so where might this sea be located? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Gunther''': You've gone from hip to boring. Why don't you call us when you get to kitsch. :'''Cecil Hampstead-on-Cecil Cecil''': Come on Gunther, Kyoto. If we hurry we can still catch the heroin craze. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': Why don't people like my art anymore? :'''Marge''': Homer, I know you worked hard, but all of your ... things were kind of the same. :'''Homer''': Hey, Ray Jay Johnson never changed his act, and he's more popular now than he's ever been. :'''Lisa''': Who? :'''Homer''': "You can call him Ray, or you can call him Jay, or you can call him Ray Jay, but you doesn't have to call him..." :'''Lisa''': I'm sick of him already. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Homer and Bart are throwing welcome mats out of the car windows, covering up the street drains]'' :'''Bart''': Hit the road, "Welcome home"! :'''Homer''': Adiós, "Casa de Flanders"! :'''Bart''': See you in Hell, "God bless this house"! :'''Homer''': So long, "The Simpsons"! ...D'oh! <hr width="50%"/> :''[as Homer opens up the fire hydrants]'' :'''Bart''': Are you sure this is art and not vandalism? :'''Homer''': That's for the courts to decide, son. <hr width="50%"/> :''[after Homer floods Springfield]'' :'''Astrid''': ''[while floating on a log]'' I love it, Homer! You've turned this town into a work of art! I just wish Jasper Johns hadn't stolen my boat. :'''Jasper Johns''': ''[speeds by on a motorboat which splashes Astrid]'' So long, suckers! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Flanders''': Maude, it's a miracle! The Lord has drowned the wicked and spared the righteous. :'''Maude''': ''[gasps]'' Isn't that Homer Simpson? :'''Flanders''': Looks like heaven's easier to get into than Arizona State. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Marge''': Well, Homer, I have to admit, you created something people really love. You truly are an artist. :'''Homer''': No, I'm just a nut who couldn't build a barbecue. ===''[[w:The Old Man and The "C" Student|The Old Man and The "C" Student]]''=== :'''[[w:Abraham Simpson|Abe]]''': Settle a bet. Boil or mole? <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': Hey, Chalmers, where are you from? :'''Superintendent Chalmers''': Well, I was born in Queens, went to Ball State, then made the move to Intercourse, Pennsylvania. Uh, why do you ask? :''[Bart is about to say something when Skinner quickly puts his hand over his mouth]'' :'''[[w:Seymour Skinner|Principal Skinner]]''': Uh, don't worry, sir. I'll teach these children some respect for their town. I'm assigning each of you 20 hours of community service. :''[the children walk offstage, groaning and moaning]'' :'''[[w:Ralph Wiggum|Ralph]]''': Intercourse? :'''Nelson:''' What if we refuse? :'''Skinner:''' You won't pass to the next grade! :'''Nelson:''' I fail to see the threat. :'''Chalmers''': SKINNER! Good idea. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to my vacation at Lake Titicaca. Try to make a joke out of that, Mr. Smart Guy. :''[Bart looks at Skinner, and Skinner waves his hands "no"]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bart''': You tell him when he's asleep? ===''[[w:Monty Can't Buy Me Love|Monty Can't Buy Me Love]]''=== :'''[[w:Montgomery Burns|Mr. Burns]]''': It's time to win the love of these hate-filled morons. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Appraisal Lady''': At auction, I'd expect this to sell for $20-30,000. Except that on the handle, somebody's carved "Homer Rocks!" :'''Homer''': And I do! WOO!! :'''Appraisal Lady''': Appraised value: $15. :'''Moe''': I'm gonna kill him! I'M GONNA KILL HIM!! ''[picks up Skinner's antique gun, which disintegrates]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Montgomery Burns|Mr. Burns]]''': The man has no idea how to behave like a billionaire. Where's the dignity? Where's the contempt for the common man? <hr width=50%/> :'''Mr. Burns''': Simpson! I want to be loved. :'''Homer''': Well, I'll need some beer. <hr width=“50%”/> :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': I don't know how you can all just lay ... When was the last time we went for a good, old-fashioned family walk? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Selma''': Single? He passes the Selma test! :'''Marge''': Oh, ===''[[w:They Saved Lisa's Brain|They Saved Lisa's Brain]]''=== :''[Homer talks to the boudoir photographer over the phone]'' :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': You're not going to ask me to pose nude, are you? :'''Photographer''': Well, yes, unless you have issues about revealing your body. :'''Homer''': I don't, but the block association seems to. ''They'' wanted a "traditional" Santa. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': ''[writing her letter]'' We can better ourselves! :''[Lisa then sees a naked Bart riding a pig in the hallway]'' :'''Lisa''': ''[to herself]'' Well, most of us. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Stephen Hawking and Homer go for beers at Moe's]'' :'''[[Stephen Hawking]]''': Your theory of a donut-shaped universe is intriguing, Homer. I may have to steal it. :'''Homer''': Wow. I can't believe someone I never heard of is hanging out with a guy like me. :'''Moe''': All right, it's closing time. Who's payin' the tab? :'''Homer''': ''[imitating Hawking's voice]'' I am. :'''[[Stephen Hawking]]''': I didn't say that. :'''Homer''': ''[still imitating Hawking]'' Yes, I did. ''[Hawking hits Homer in the face with the boxing glove from his wheelchair]'' D'oh. ===''[[w:Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo|Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo]]''=== :'''Groundskeeper Willie''': Let's see what's been captured in the Up-Kilt camera. Ugh, this lass needs a bit of groundskeepin'. Agh, that's Willie! :'''Bart''': My name is Mary. I'm 45, heavy, and willing to settle for less. :'''Lenny Leonard''': Wow. This Mary's got the whole package. :'''Lisa''': Wow, Dad, You're surfin' like a pro. :'''Homer''': Oh, yeah, I'm betting on jai alai in the Cayman Islands. I invested in something called News Corp-- :'''Lisa''': Dad! That's Fox! :'''Homer''': Undo! Undo! :'''Lisa''': Dad, do we have any money left? :'''Homer''': Well, let's check the old bank account. See? Even after my cyber squandering, we've still got $1,200. :'''Snake Jailbird''': All right, dorks, this is a holdup. Oh, yes! Download to papa. Yoink dot adiós, back-slash losers. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Marge''': Hawaii here we come! :'''Lisa''' No, no. We're going to Paris I can feel it. :'''Bart''': Come on Transylvania :'''Homer''' ''[Jamaican accent]'' No mon, let's go home to Jamaica. I and I been in Babylon too long! :'''Woman on PA''': Attention. Flight 605 to Tokyo is ready for departure and has 4 available mega-saver seats. :'''Bart and Lisa''': Yeah! :'''Marge''': Come on, Homer, Japan. :'''Homer''': No, not Japan, Jamaica. I want to pass the dutchie on the left-hand side. :'''Lisa''': Never mind. Looks like the Flanders are gonna get those seats anyway. :'''Homer''': Oh, so Flanders he can steal our vacation, huh? Come on! Sayonara, suckers. :'''Lisa''': Yay! The Simpsons are going to Japan. ''[a gong sounds. Zoom out to reveal that the Simpsons' airport cart crashed into a gong]'' :'''Delivery Man''': Hey, watch the gong, jerk. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Marge''': C'mon Homer, Japan will be fun. You liked ''[[Rashomon]]''. :'''Homer''': That's not how ''I'' remember it. Besides if we wanted to see Japanese people, we could've gone to the zoo. :'''Marge''': ''[offended by Homer's allegedly racist comment]'' Homer! :'''Homer''': What? The guy who washes the elephants is Japanese. His name is Takashi. He was in my book club. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lisa''': Look, Mom, the safety instructions are written in haiku. "Fasten seat belts tight. Your seat cushions float gently. Headsets, five dollars." :'''Japanese Tour Guide Woman''': Sir, it is not safe to use electronic devices yet. :'''Bart''': You're the waitress. ''[turns it off. Cut to outside shot of the plane as it nosedives]'' :'''Japanese Tour Guide Woman''': Turn it back on! Turn it back on! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Marge''': I never knew [[Jim Belushi]] made so many movies. :'''Homer''': Yeah, isn't it amazing? They're filming one right now in the bathroom. Gonna be on towards the end of the flight. :'''Jim Belushi as Roman Emperor''': Toga! Toga! Toga! 2000! :'''Homer''': Marge, they stole my idea. <hr width="50%"/> :'''PA:''' Welcome to Japan, folks. The local time is tomorrow. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Japanese toilet''': Welcome. I am honored to accept your waste. :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': ''[gasps]'' They're years ahead of us! :'''Bart''': ''[as he turns on the TV in the next room]'' Mom, Lise, check it out, Dad's on TV. :'''Homer''': ''[unzips his pants and sits on the toilet]'' Oh, yeah! ''[Marge and the kids are heard screaming in the next room]'' <hr width="50%"/> :''[The Simpsons eat at a USA-themed restaurant called "AmericaTown." Each table is shaped like a state, and the Simpsons are seated at Massachusetts]'' :'''Homer''': I can't believe they stuck us at Taxachusetts! Hey, you know, I once knew a man from Nantucket. :'''Bart''': And? :'''Homer''': Let's just say the stories about him are greatly exaggerated. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bart''': Hey, look, isn't that Woody Allen? :'''Homer''': Hmm. Looks like he's doing a commercial. :'''Woody Allen''': Oh! Ahem, hello. So many rice crackers claim to be low-cal, but only Fujikawa Rice Crackers make your interiors go bananas. What did I do to deserve this? Oh, right. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': Mmm, $59 pretzel. Hey, what's Baby Huey doin'? :'''Bart''': Says here they throw salt before they wrestle to purify the ring. :'''Homer''': Hmm. Spare some salt, tubby? :'''Sumo Wrestler''': Tubby? ''[Subtitled in English from Japanese]'': The name "Tubby" is hurtful, as my weight problem is glandular. Are you going to eat that? Yoink. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lisa''': Now can we do something Japanese? :'''Homer''': Oh, I'm sick of doing Japanese stuff. In jail, we had to be in this dumb Kabuki play about the 47 Ronin and I wanted to be Yoshi, but they made me Ori. :'''Bart''': Then we had to do two hours of origami followed by flower arranging and meditation. :'''Homer''': ''[Japanese version of Should we tell them the secret of inner peace? in English subtitles]'' :'''Bart''': ''[Japanese version of No, they are foreign devils. in English subtitles]'' :'''Marge''': Honey, I know you want to see Japan, bet we're down to our last million yen. :'''Homer''': Don't worry, ''ichiban''. I'll show you something Japanese. :'''Lisa''': Oh, it's beautiful, Dad. :'''Homer''': It's a crane. The Japanese believe they bring good luck. :'''Marge''': Oh, be careful. We need that money to get home. ''[gasps]'' No! :'''Homer''': ''[Japanese version of D'oh! in English subtitles]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Mr. Ambassador''': Now, Mr. Simpson, I know you lost all your money, but don't worry. The United States will not stand idly by while one of its citizens is stuck here like this. :'''Marge''': But, Mr. Ambassador, how are we going to get home? :'''Mr. Ambassador''': Beats me. Try getting a job and earning some money. That's what I did. By the way, "ambassador" is taken. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Mr. Ambassador''': Now, Mr. Simpson, I know you lost all your money, but don't worry. The United States will not stand idly by while one of its citizens is stuck here like this. :'''Marge''': But, Mr. Ambassador, how are we going to get home? :'''Mr. Ambassador''': Beats me. Try getting a job and earning some money. That's what I did. By the way, "ambassador" is taken. :''[After losing their money, the Simpsons work in a fish-processing plant to try to earn their fare home]'' :'''Marge''': ''[cheerfully]'' Every truckload of fish we gut brings us thirty-one cents closer to those tickets home. :'''Bart''': And I think I've finally found what I was put on this earth to do. ''[starts gutting fish]'' Knife goes in, guts come out. Knife goes in, guts come out. :''[Bart pulls a talking fish out of the pile]'' :'''Fish''': Spare my life and I'll give you three wish ... ''[gets gutted]'' ...gaah! :'''Bart''': Knife goes in, guts come out. :'''Lisa''': Yippee! Time for the company loyalty song! :''[Osaka Seafood Concern Squid appears on TV singing]'' :'''Osaka Seafood Concern Squid''': ''[singing]'' Knife-a goes in, a-guts come out ''[stabs itself]'' that's what Osaka Seafood Concern is all about. ''[collapses]'' :'''Homer''': Well, this sucks; what else is on? ''[uses eel to change the channel]'' :'''Japanese father''': Thank you. You have fulfilled our dreams and dreams of our ancestors. :'''Male Announcer''': Tune in tomorrow, when another lucky family tries to win their dreams on Happy Smile Super Challenge Family Wish Show. :'''Marge''': Family Wish Show. Hmm. That gives me an idea. :'''Lisa''': I think we all had that idea. :'''Homer''': I didn't. What is it? Lunch? <hr width=50%/> :'''Lenny''': Hey, isn't that Homer on the Japanese channel? :'''Moe''': Wait a minute. If that's Homer, who's been putting beers on his tab? :'''Barney''': ''[dressed unconvincingly as Homer]'' D'oh! Woo-hoo! Uh.... That boy ain't right! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bart''': Good-bye, Japan. I'll miss your Kentucky Fried Chicken and your sparkling, whale-free seas. :'''Homer''': Hey, what's goin' on? :'''Bart''': What's happening? :'''Captain''': Uh, folks, we’re experiencing some moderate [[w:Godzilla|Godzilla]]-related turbulence at this time, so I’m going to go ahead and ask you to put your seatbelts back on. When we get to 35,000 feet, he usually does let go, so from there on out, all we have to worry about is [[w:Mothra|Mothra]], and, uh, we do have reports he’s tied up with [[w:Gamera|Gamera]] and [[w:Rodan|Rodan]] at the present time. Thank you very much. <noinclude> {{DEFAULTSORT:Simpsons, Season 10}} [[Category:The Simpsons seasons]] </noinclude> 7hc04qga0meu255ae4801a7yefjq0vh 0 38129 3961053 3940421 2026-07-05T12:15:52Z ~2026-22475-30 3310494 3961053 wikitext text/x-wiki {{DISPLAYTITLE:''The Simpsons''/Season 15}} {{The Simpsons header}} '''''[[w:The Simpsons|The Simpsons]]''''' (1989–present) is an American animated sitcom broadcast by the Fox Broadcasting Company created by [[Matt Groening]]. The series is a satirical depiction of American life, epitomized by the Simpson family. ===''[[w:Treehouse of Horror XIV|Episode 1.Treehouse of Horror XIV]]''=== :''[Death arrives at the Simpsons house]'' :'''Death''': I...AM...DEATH. :'''Homer''': Death? We don't want any. ''[Closes the door, Death breaks through it with his scythe]'' :'''Death''': I HAVE COME FOR BART SIMPSON. :'''Marge''': Bart, run like the "wine-d"! :'''Lisa''': Mom, it's "wind"! :'''Marge''': Well, I only read it in books. <hr width="50%" /> :'''Homer''': This is for Snowball I and J.F.K.! ''[Hits Death with a bowling ball. Death's jaw falls out as he falls to the floor and dies. His contract for Bart disappears as well as his scythe, which was holding Bart up]'' :'''Bart''': Cool. :'''Lisa''': Dad, do you realize what you've done? You've created a world without death! :'''Homer''': Does this mean they'll never cancel ''The Jim Belushi Show''? :'''Lisa''': I guess so. :'''Homer''': NOOOOOOOO! <hr width="50%" /> :'''God''': ''[voice only]'' Hey, wait a minute! ''[removes the sheet, revealing Selma with Marge's hair attached to it with tape on it]'' This isn't Marge, this is her fat sister; Selma. :'''Homer''': It's Patty, chump! ''[takes off on his motorcycle]'' <hr width="50%" /> :'''[[w:Professor Frink|Young Frink Jr.]]''': I don't wanna go on this oceanographic expedition, father. I get seasick taking a shower. Clean, but nauseous. :'''Professor Frink Sr.''': Clean but nauseous! With the rolling and the heaving, and the - you make me sick! You've disgraced the name of John Nerdelbaum Frink. :'''Young Frink Jr.''': But, father, I... :''[Frink Sr. leaves and Frink Jr. cries]'' <hr width="50%" /> :'''Ned Flanders''': ''[as Frink Sr. rips his heart out of his throat]'' I'm dying! And there's heaven! And who's that? Confucious? Milton Berle? Boy, have I been barking at the wrong tree! ''[collapses]'' <hr width="50%" /> :'''Seymour Skinner''': Mother always said a curvy spine is the devil's roller coaster. ''[Frink Sr. grabs Seymour's back]'' Hey, you can't have that! ''[Frink Sr. removes the spine and Seymour's body deflates, causing him to fall on the ground]'' <hr width="50%" /> :'''Professor Frink Sr.''': ''[after he is revived]'' So, what am I? Some kind of Tin-Can Man from Planet Tomorrow? :'''Lisa''': Sir, your son has brought you back into the 21st century. It's a lot like the 20th, except everyone's afraid and the stock market is ''much'' lower. :'''Professor Frink Sr.''': Polly don't like that cracker! <hr width="50%" /> :'''Professor Frink Jr.''': Father, you're dying again, but I can bring you back to life, sir. :'''Professor Frink Sr.''': Son, it doesn't take 5 brains in your head to know that's a bad idea. You saw I had become a monster and you stopped me, like a man. I'm proud of you. Now it's time for me to go to Hell. Ow-ooo, ooo-ow-oy, oy-oo-ow, dead. ''[moves weirdly and drops dead]'' :''[Frink Jr. cries for his father's death; Jennifer Garner & Dudley Herschbach observe]'' :'''[[w:Jennifer Garner|Jennifer Garner]]''': This is the most exciting Nobel Prize ceremony ever! :'''[[w:Dudley Herschbach|Dudley Herschbach]]''': I disagree. <hr width="50%" /> :'''Lisa Simpson''': ''[notices Bart hit the button on stopwatch and her finger is stuck on her nose]'' What the...? <hr width="50%" /> :'''Mayor Quimby''': People, Springfield is in Crisis. Fingers have been shoved up Noses, Pants have been pulled down and (Click) Mayors (Click) have (Click) been (Click) Repeatedly (Click) Humiliated. <hr width="50%" /> :'''Moe''': ''[holding a limb leg during the chase]'' To repeat what I said a moment ago: you are ''so'' dead! ===''[[w:My Mother the Carjacker|Episode 2.My Mother the Carjacker]]''=== :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': ''[to Mona]'' Look, Mom! Look! I'm riding by myself! ''[enters a wrong lane and screams]'' <hr width="50%" /> :'''Mr. Burns''': ''[After he loses his case against Mona]'' Curse that groovy granny! This is America! Justice should favor the rich! <hr width="50%" /> :'''Mona Simpson''': ''[After stealing the prison bus and being chased by police. She gets on the radio to Wiggum]'' Granny to The Man! Granny to The Man! :'''Chief Wiggum''': ''[Reading from a Hippy/English dictionary]'' This is...The Man...I think it would...be a gas...if you turned that...Magic Bus around...and kept on truckin' to...our pig pad. :'''Mona Simpson''': I don't know what you're saying, but I am not turning back! <hr width="50%" /> :''[On the bus taking Mona to jail, where the prisoners are having a good time]'' :'''Homer''': I hope this bus ride never ends...'cause I'm getting executed when I get off. ===''[[w:The President Wore Pearls|Episode 3.The President Wore Pearls]]''=== :'''Lisa''': Nelson, you're running for school president? :'''Nelson''': I'm not saying I have all the answers. But, I ''do'' have all the answer keys...to every test. :''(A group of students and their teacher crowd around Nelson)'' :'''Nelson''': Fractions, dinosaurs, foreign money, the first Thanksgiving... :'''Mrs. Krabappel''': Nelson, what are you doing? :'''Nelson''': Real-estate license exam? :'''Mrs. Krabappel''': My ticket to freedom! <hr width="50%" /> :'''Marge''': Lisa, what are you doing? This is the kind of trouble making I expect from your brother! :'''Bart''': You do? Cool, a blank check for mayhem! :''(Bart picks up a brick and throws it at a window; however, it ricochets off the unbreakable glass and hits him in the head, knocking him out)'' <hr width="50%" /> :'''Skinner''': Lisa. Lisa. Lisa. Wow, she even beat perennial write-in candidate "Seymour Sucks!" <hr width="50%" /> :'''Skinner''': ''I'm so happy with my evil plan'' :''Say goodbye to music, gym and art.'' :''Soon we will have the perfect school'' :''Where fun and excitement never start.'' :'''Willie''': ''I'm so drunk I can barely see'' :''But it helps me get through another day!'' :''My stomach is filled with haggis and ham'' :''I've got to go puke in some hay...'' :'''Bart''': ''Lisa is a fool!'' :'''Skinner''': ''I think the rules are cool.'' :'''Willie''': ''I'VE FALLEN IN THE POOL!!'' ===''[[w:The Regina Monologues|Episode 4.The Regina Monologues]]''=== :'''[[w:Tony Blair|Tony Blair]]''': Hello. Welcome to the United Kingdom. :'''Lisa''': Prime Minister Tony Blair? :'''Bart''': Why are you greeting lowlifes like us at the airport? :'''Blair''': Because I want to encourage all the world to come see the beauty of 21st century Britain. :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Would an American dollar encourage you to leave us alone? :'''Blair''': No, but thank you. :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]:''' Tony, I mean, Mr. Prime Minister, what should we see first? :'''Blair''': There's so much to see here. [[w:Parliament|Parliament]], [[w:Stratford-on-Avon|Stratford-on-Avon]], the [[w:White Cliffs of Dover|White Cliffs of Dover]], oh, and since you Americans love castles, there's a huge one in [[w:Edinburgh|Edinburgh]], the city where I was born. :'''Homer''': The place where I was born is now a gator farm. :'''Blair''': Smashing. :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': Maybe you could give us a personal tour of your country? :'''Blair''': I'd love to. But I'm late for an appointment. I'm greeting a lovely Dutch couple at Gate 23. Cheerio. :''[puts on a jetpack and flies off, [[w:James Bond|James Bond-style]]]'' :'''Homer''': Wow, I can't believe we met [[w:Mr. Bean|Mr. Bean!]] <hr width="50%" /> :'''English Squeaky-Voiced Teen''': ''Welcome to Judi Dench's Fish and Chips,'' ''(inside)'' now completely free of [[w:Mad cow disease|mad fish disease]]. :'''Homer''': Fish? I dunno, I'm not really a vegetarian. :'''Teen''': ''Please order, or Miss Dench'll be furious. She'll beat us, she will.'' :'''Dench''': ''Who are you talking to?'' :'''English Squeaky-Voiced Teen''': ''No-one, Mum, I swear!'' :'''Dench''': ''I'll Mum you!'' ''(punches him)'' :'''Teen''': ''Blimey--!'' <hr width="50%" /> :''[The family spot [[w:J.K. Rowling|J.K. Rowling]] emerging from a bookshop]'' :'''Lisa''': Look, it's J.K. Rowling, author of the ''[[w:Harry Potter|Harry Potter]]'' books! You've turned a generation of kids onto reading. :'''Rowling''': Thank you, young Muggle. :'''Lisa''': Can you tell me what happens at the end of the series? :'''Rowling''': ''[sarcastically]'' He grows up and marries you. Is that what you want to hear? :'''Lisa''': ''[happily]'' Yes... :''[Rowling rolls her eyes and walks away]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''[[Ian McKellen]]''': We thespians believe it's bad luck to mention the name of this particular play out loud. :'''Homer''': You mean MacBeth? ''(car splashes water onto Ian)'' :'''Ian''': Quiet you blundering fool! You'll curse us all! :'''Homer''': What, by saying MacBeth? ''(anvil falls on Ian's foot)'' :'''Ian''': Stop saying it! :'''Homer''': Saying what? :'''Ian''': MacBeth! Uh! Now I've said it ''(Ian gets struck by lightning)'' :'''Bart''': Oh, this is cool. MacBeth, MacBeth, MacBeth. ''(lightning strikes three times)'' :'''Marge''': Bart! Stop saying MacBeth! ''(lightning strikes)'' :'''Lisa''': Mom, you said MacBeth! ''(lightning strikes)'' :'''Homer''': Mr. MacBeth, I'm so sorry! ''(lightning strikes)'' :'''Ian''': That's quite alright, you didn't know. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a performance to give. :'''Bart''': Good luck! :'''Ian''': It's bad luck to say that too! ''(MacBeth sign falls on Ian's head)'' <hr width="50%" /> :'''Marge''': That was very sweet of the Queen, letting you go in exchange for taking Madonna back to America. :'''[[w:Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna]]''': ''[inside a zip-up bag]'' I'm telling you! I'm English! :'''Marge''': English women don't pump gas naked. :'''Homer''': See ya in Atlanta, jerk. ===''[[w:The Fat and the Furriest|Episode 5.The Fat and the Furriest]]''=== :''[Homer has been making something with the "Kitchen Carnival" overnight]'' :'''Bart''': ''[to Lisa]'' I'm gonna pour caramel on my clothes, and then ''finally'' I can eat my shorts! :''[They both yell in shock as they see Homer with a truly massive ball of caramel-covered cotton candy]'' :'''Lisa''': What is that?! :'''Homer''': ''[proudly]'' This is 85 pounds of tooth-melting sugar! Dig in! :''[Bart and Lisa immediately do so]'' :'''Homer''': That's it, kids, suckle Daddy's sugar ball. <hr width=50%/> :'''Kent Brockman''': That hilarious footage was shot by local hunter, Grant Connor - not with a gun, but with a camera! :'''Grant Conner''': That's right, Kent. I often get guns and cameras confused. One time, tragically, at a wedding... <hr width=50%/> :''[After developing a fear of bears, Homer gets scared by a [[w:teddy bear|teddy bear]] and knocks down a bookshelf; the books fall all over him, and he looks through their front covers]'' :'''Homer''': ''[scared]'' ''[[w:The Bear Went Over the Mountain (song)|The Bear Went Over the Mountain]]''?! ''[[w:Berenstain Bears|The Berenstain Bears]]''?! ''[relaxing]'' Oh, ''[[w:Goldilocks and the Three Bears|Goldilocks]]''... ''[scared again] AND THE THREE BEARS''! :''[He flees into the kitchen, sliding across the table and finding himself faced with bear-themed groceries]'' :'''Homer''': Oh god, they're in our food! [[w:Teddy Grahams|Teddy Grahams!]] [[w:Gummy bear|Gummy bears!]] :''[He hallucinates [[w:Winnie-the-Pooh|Winnie-the-Pooh]], [[w:Paddington Bear|Paddington Bear]], [[w:Smokey Bear|Smokey Bear]], the [[w:Chicago Bears|Chicago Bears]] and others marching towards him, to the tune of "[[w:Teddy Bears' Picnic|The Teddy Bears' Picnic]]"]'' :'''Homer''': Are you a [[w:Care Bears|Care Bear?]] :'''Care Bear''': ''[wielding a crowbar]'' I'm an ''[[w:intensive care medicine|Intensive]]'' Care Bear. :'''Homer''': Why does a bear need a crowbar? :'''Care Bear''': ''[shrugs]'' Eh, I don't like to get my hands dirty. <hr width=50%/> :'''Lisa''': Dad, you can't take revenge on an animal. That's the whole point of ''[[w:Moby-Dick|Moby-Dick]]''. :'''Homer''': Lisa, the point of ''Moby-Dick'' is be yourself! <hr width=50%/> :'''Bart''': You're sneaking off to fight that bear. I wanna go too! :'''Homer''': No way. If something happens to me, you have to carry on the Simpson name. :'''Bart''': Screw that! When I grow up, I'm legally changing my name to Joe Kickass! :'''Homer''': That is so cool! Okay, you can come. ===''[[w:Today I am A Clown|Episode 6.Today I am A Clown]]''=== :''[A shot of a broken-down trailer. In front, a sign reads "[[w:Fox Broadcasting Company|FOX Network]] World Headquarters." Inside, Krusty the Clown has a meeting with Fox executives]'' :'''[[w:Krusty the Clown|Krusty]]''': Well, since I'm fresh out of options, I guess all that is left is for me to get a show on... ''[groans in frustration]'' Fox. What do you say? :'''Executive''': I don't know... :'''Krusty''': Oh, come on, you guys are famous for taking a chance on useless crap! <hr width=50%/> :'''Dr. Hibbert''': I Think Your Water Just Broke. :'''Pregnant woman''': Will you be quiet? <hr width=50%/> :''[Krusty is infuriated, because he doesn't have a star on the Jewish walk of fame] :'''Krusty''': Why don't I have a star?! I'm much better than... (squints) [[Chaim Potok]]?! What is he, a [[w:Klingon|Klingon]]?! :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Welcome to the Homer Simpson Show. I'm your host... next card... Homer Simpson. It's great to be here in... next card... Springfield. ===''[[w:'Tis the Fifteenth Season|Episode 7.Tis the Fifteenth Season]]''=== :'''[[w:Krusty the Clown|Krusty The Clown]]''': Now in the spirit of the holiday season, start shopping! And for every dollar of Krusty merchandise you buy, I will be nice to a sick kid. For legal purposes, "sick kids" may include hookers with a cold. :''[Krusty chuckles]'' <hr width="50%"/> :''[Homer is with Lenny and Carl at The Power Plant]'' :'''[[w:Carl Carlson|Carl]]''': Hey, Homer. I'm your secret Santa. Merry Christmas, big guy. :''[Lenny hands Homer a DVD player]'' :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Oh, my god! A DVD player! :'''Carl''': And the first season of ''Magnum P.I.'', with commentary by John Hillerman. Apparently, working in Hawaii was a pleasure. :'''Homer''': Oh, Carl, you remembered I like TV. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Ned Flanders''': ''[notices all the people have disappeared]'' Where the H.E.C.K. is everybody? ===''[[w:Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens, and Gays|Episode 8.Marge versus Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens, and Gays]]''=== :'''Roofi''': How's the crowd, Steve? :'''Steve''': Awful fussy… :'''Roofi''': You're kidding me, did you make funny faces? (Steve nods) You did? Did you jiggle your keys? :'''Steve''': I did it all, man! :(We cut to the concert) :'''Announcer''': And now, here's Roofi! :'''Roofi''': (Singng while babies continue crying) ''Sing the nonsense song with me, Yum, yum, wow, whoop dee wee! Flibberty flabberty, one, two three-!'' (Gets interrupted by a baby, who threw a bottle at him) Ow! Okay, who threw that? Who threw it? (Babies crying continues, as they riot the whole concert) <hr width="50%"/> :'''Cletus''': They destroyed my home, and the equity I built up there in. :'''Kent''': Asked if he intends to take legal action the farmer replied "I ain't fungdified hi-de-hoo about no legrification, no ways." Then scratched his rear, hitched up his pants, and scratched his rear again. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Marge Simpson''': My name is Marge Simpson, and I am a mother. :'''Meeting Crowd''': BOO! :'''Marge''': I'm also an American. :'''Meeting Crowd''': YAY! :'''Marge''': I bake apple pies. :'''Meeting Crowd''': YAY! :'''Marge''': And I like baseball. :'''Meeting Crowd''': BOO! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lindsey Naegle''': I dream of an America with nudity and F-words on network TV. Where the whole world doesn't stop because a school bus did. Children are the future... today belongs to me! :'''Meeting Crowd''': <i>[with their fists raised]</i> YAY! :'''Homer Simpson''': You can’t change the rules in the middle of the game! We never would've had these kids if we thought we had to pay for them. Promises were made! :'''Luigi''': Hey, tough tortellini! I am a-sick and a-tired of printing a-children's menu! Let Mickey Meatball find his own way out of the maze! <i>[spits]</i> Apooey! :'''Mel''': We're sick and tired of buying overpriced tickets for your lousy school plays! :'''Marge''': Then how would we ever get to see Camelot?! :'''Mel''': We'll merely watch the movie on tape! :'''Marge''': Hmm..., is that better? Well, to me, Ralph Wiggum is Sir Lancelot. :'''Ralph''': <i>[singing]</i> If ever I would leave you, it wouldn't be in summer! :'''Meeting Crowd''': BOOOOOOOOOO! :'''Lindsey Naegle''': Ladies and Gentlemen! Let's kill every child... FRIENDLY THING IN TOWN!!!!!!!!!!! :'''Meeting Crowd''': <i>[As they were dismissed to take actions]</i> YAY! :'''Squeaky-voiced Teen''': It's time to put away my childish things... <i>[in a deep voice]</i> ...and become a man! <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]'s Commercial''': For more information, visit our website, www.aljazeera.com, we're not affiliated, we're just piggy-backing on their message boards. <i>[Attempts to hypnotize the audience with a moving photo of Rudy Giuliani]</i> I am [[Rudy Giuliani]], do as I command you! <i>[Yes on 232 flashes quickly, but visibly]</i> I am Rudy Giuliani, do as I command you! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer Simpson''': Marge! Wait! <i>[tries to hypnotize Marge with a moving photo of Rudy Giuliani]</i> I am Rudy Giuliani, you must forgive Homer! I am Rudy Giuliani, you must forgive Homer! ===''[[w:I, (Annoyed Grunt)-Bot|Episode 9.I, (Annoyed Grunt)-Bot]]''=== :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': I'm keeping you! You're [[w:Snowball_II#Snowball_V|Snowball V]], but to save money on a new dish, we'll just call you Snowball II and pretend this whole thing never happened. :'''[[w:Seymour Skinner|Principal Skinner]]''': That's really a cheat, isn't it? :'''Lisa''': I guess you're right, [[w:The Principal and the Pauper|Principal Tamzarian]]. :'''Principal Skinner''': I'll just be moving along, Lisa. Snowball II. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bart''': I'm riding a unicycle with my pants down. This should be every boy's dream. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer Simpson''': Hey, what gives? He's not killing me! :'''Professor Frink''': Ah-I'll tell you what gives, I'm afraid he is subject to Issac Asimov's Laws of Robotics, with the Sci-Fi, and the so many Books, not too many Good, my Robot is programmed never to harm Humans, you see, only to serve them. ===''[[w:Diatribe of a Mad Housewife|Episode 10.Diatribe of a Mad Housewife]]''=== :'''[[w:Ned Flanders|Flanders]]''': Did you agree to be married to a drunken lout who wouldn't respect you? :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': Pretty much. We wrote our own vows. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': This is horrible! What if Dad reads it ("The Harpooned Heart")? :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': It's too long; he won't read it. :'''Lisa''': Well, what if it gets made into a movie? :'''Bart''': It's too sappy; he won't see it. :'''Lisa''': Well, what if they do a parody about it on [[w:MADtv|MADtv]]? :'''Bart''': ''[gasps]'' We're doomed! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': I'll have to read Marge's book, and I swore never to read again after ''[[w:To Kill a Mockingbird|To Kill a Mockingbird]]'' gave me no useful advice on killing mockingbirds. It did teach me not to judge a man based on the color of his skin, but what good does that do me? <hr width="50%"/> :''[Homer is working at Boris' Car Loft as a sales rep, he is in the sales office with a couple]'' :'''Homer''': You probably want to talk this over, so I'll leave you two "alone" ''[laughs maniacally]'' Excuse me. ''[Homer joins the manager in the adjacent room to spy on them]'' :'''Man''': Well honey, what do you think? :'''Woman''': Did that salesman cut one during the test drive? :'''Man''': Yeah, and for some reason, he turned on the radio to cover up the smell! :'''Woman''': Let's get out of here. I'm not shaking that guy's hand! ''[they leave, the manager glares at Homer]'' :'''Homer''': They'll be back. ''[looks nervously and turns on radio, the manager then grimaces at Homer]'' ===''[[w:Margical History Tour|Episode 11.Margical History Tour]]''=== :'''[[w:Ned Flanders|Ned Flanders]]/[[w:Thomas More|Sir Thomas More]]''': ''[to Homer/Henry VIII]'' Divorce! Well, there's no such thing in the Cath-diddly-atholic Church! But it's the only church we got, so what are you gonna do? :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]/[[w:Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]]''': I'll start my own church! :'''Ned Flanders/Sir Thomas More''': Whaaaaaaaa!? :'''Homer/Henry VIII''': Yes, my own church. Where divorce will be so easy, more than half of all marriages will end in it! :'''Ned Flanders/Sir Thomas More''': Your Majesty, I work for the [[w:Pope|Pope]], and I think a celibate Italian weirdo knows a lot more about marriage than you. <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer/Henry VIII''': ''[as aides are slicing his crown and other royal items in half]'' No fair! I invented divorce! How come you get half of everything? :'''[[w:List of recurring characters from The Simpsons#Blue-Haired Lawyer|Pasty-Faced Lawyer]]''': You should have invented the [[w:Prenuptial agreement|pre-nup]]. Now, one half of your kingdom, please. :''[Homer/Henry VIII holds up of map of the [[w:British Isles|British Isles]]. He rips it in half and gives the left part to Marge/Margerine of Aragon]'' :'''Marge/Margerine of Aragon''': ''[groans]'' I get [[w:Ireland|Ireland]]? :'''Homer/Henry VIII''': Ha ha! <hr width=50%/> '''Animal House''' is a song by Homer: :''All I know is the guy who played Mozart was also in ''Animal House''. Now there's a movie with good music.'' :''Animal House'', House, House, :Nobody ever went to class. :Then we saw [[Donald Sutherland]]'s ass. :''Animal House'', House, House, :''Animal House'', House, House, :Then the journey ends like ''American Graffiti'', :Where you found out what happened to everyone... <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:William Clark|William Clark]]/[[w:Carl Carlson|Carl]]''': Alright, the [[w:Columbia River|Columbia River]]! Now we just ride this baby down to the Pacific and get some sweet mermaid sex! :'''[[w:Sacagawea|Sacagawea]]/[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': For the last time, ''those are SALMON''! ===''[[w:Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore|Episode 12.Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore]]''=== :'''[[w:Groundskeeper Willie|Groundskeeper Willie]]''': It won't last. Brothers and sisters are natural enemies! Like Englishmen and Scots! Or Welshmen and Scots! Or Japanese and Scots! Or Scots and other Scots! Damn Scots! They ruined Scotland! :'''[[w:Seymour Skinner|Principal Skinner]]''': You Scots sure are a contentious people. :'''Willie''': You just made an enemy for life! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Billboard Homer sees while driving''': Diamonds... because money equals love. ===''[[w:Smart and Smarter|Episode 13.Smart and Smarter]]''=== :''[Bart heads into the bathroom, Homer comes out giggling.]'' :'''Homer''': Wait 'til he puts his unsuspecting butt on that toilet seat. ''[He giggles again, while looking at "Squat-n-Squirt" box cover. A toilet flushing is heard.]'' Huh? Where the "ee-yow"? :'''Bart''': ''[exits the bathroom]'' All yours, Homer. :'''Homer''': But you didn't sit on the toilet. :'''Bart''': I didn't have to-- I'm a dude. :'''Homer''': ''[snatches Bart back to the bathroom, forces him to sit on toilet]'' Butt on bowl, little man! :'''Bart''': ''[struggling to sit on toilet]'' Hey, my pants aren't down! :'''Homer''': It doesn't matter! :''[Bart gets through his legs and forces him on toilet, which it sprays water.] :'''Homer''': Ee-yow! ''[sputters]'' :''[Bart laughs at it.]'' :'''Homer''': ''[turns red in anger]'' Why you little--! ''[angrily strangles Bart]'' Joke's on me, isn't it?! :''[Bart stucks the electric toothbrush up Homer's nose, makes him vibrate on inside. Then Homer grabs shower hose and sprays it in Bart's mouth. Then Bart grabs the toilet cleaning brush and brushes inside Homer's mouth, which makes him strangle him again. The shower hose flies with water still on hits things off.]'' :'''Marge''': ''[offscreen]'' What's all that racket?! :'''Homer''': ''[gasps]'' It's old lady Simpson! Run! ''[he and Bart runs out of the bathroom]'' :'''Lisa''': ''[as she and Marge enters]'' What's going on? :'''Homer''': Uh... I'll tell you what's going on. I'm taking you all out for pancakes! :''[Marge, Bart and Lisa cheers]'' :'''Homer''': Yeah! <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': Just because Maggie can't talk doesn't mean she's dumb. [[Albert Einstein|Einstein]] didn't speak until he was three. :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': And even then he could only speak German! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Simon''': Meet Maggie Simpson, IQ 167. :'''Philipa''': 167? That's amazing for a Christian! :'''Lisa''': ''[horrified]'' But, but my IQ is only 159! Maggie's more intelligent than me? :'''Simon''': That's right, because 167 is a bigger number than 159. Do you see how that works? :'''Lisa''': ''[annoyed]'' Yes, thank you. <hr width="50%"/> :''[The family think they're about to die]'' :'''Bart''': Mom, I've always loved you. Lisa, you were a worthy foe. <hr width="50%"/> :[''Lisa comes to school dressed as a goth.''] :'''Milhouse''': What are you now, Lisa? An [[w:Oakland Raiders|Oakland Raiders]] fan? :'''Lisa''': It's called "Goth," eternally clueless one. My new name is "Raven Crow Neversmiles." :'''Milhouse''': Cool. We could be Goth together. We'll got to the cemetery and summon the dark Lord by kissing and junk. :'''Lisa''': Okay... but first you must apprentice, by kissing the Goddess Ironica. Who lives in this rock. Do it for an hour, hour and a half. ''[Lisa hands Milhouse a rock and leaves]'' :'''Milhouse''': Yes, my mistress. ''[Milhouse kisses the rock]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lisa''': Lets try another one. A little harder. :[''Lisa shows Maggie the word octogenarian. Maggie points at Grampa.''] :'''Lisa''': No, that's wrong. :''[Maggie points at Santa's Little Helper.]'' :'''Lisa''': ''[Sarcasticaly]'' That's right. This spells dog. :''[Lisa gets caught in act]'' :'''Marge''': ''[Angrily]'' Lisa ! You are purposefully teaching her the wrong words. Lisa, I'm surprised. Your sister just wants to learn and be like you. Well, maybe she needs a better role model. :''[Homer makes phonic frog say, "I agree with your mother. You are a dissapointment to Huh, Oh, Muh, Eh, Er."]'' <hr width="50%"/> :''[Lisa has ran away from home]'' :'''Marge''': Lisa's gone, you have to find her! :'''Chief Wiggum''': Why can't you just accept that Lisa is old enough to look after herself. Back off and let her live her life. :'''Marge''': What! :'''Wiggum''': Oh, I thought you said eighty. Well, we'll get right on it. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Simon''': ''[voice only, in credits]'' Do we really need three of these people? Too ethnic. Change it. More like "Cart wrong". Worst voicing ever. Finally, a real celebrity. Oh, good. More producers. Just what they need! Him, I like. Yes, but what's he done lately? Very original. Simon Cowell as Simon Cowell. Well done. ''[silence as end credit music continues playing, sighs]'' I really don't care anymore. All useless! Do credits really have to go this long? :''[cues Gracie Films logo]'' :'''Simon''': ''[voice only]'' Oh, shush yourself! ===''[[w:The Ziff Who Came to Dinner|Episode 14.The Ziff Who Came to Dinner]]''=== :'''Artie''': Doesn't your father ever read to you? :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': He tried once, but he got confused and thought the book was real. He's still searching for that [[w:Charlie and the Chocolate Factory|chocolate factory]]. It consumes him. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Refuse to answer on the grounds that I <big>''what''?!?</big> :'''Lawyer''': ''[whispers to Homer]'' :'''Homer''': ''Inseminate'' myself? ''[to the Senate committee while pointing at his lawyer]'' Dudes, I think this guy's coming onto me. :'''Lawyer''': You, sir, are a moron! :'''Homer''': A ''mormon''? But I'm from Earth! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Marge''': My husband's going to jail and it's all your fault! Do you know ''why'' no one likes you? :'''Artie''': Anti-semitism? :'''Marge''': No. Your problem is you never think of ''anyone'' besides yourself! :'''Artie''': Marge! I think about a lot more than just moi. ''[In his thought bubble, a can-can kickline of Artie Ziffs appears]'' :'''Artie Ziff can-can dancers''': Artie, Artie, Artie, Artie! Artie, Artie, Artie! Artie, Artie... :''[Then a whole audience of Artie Ziffs, clapping to the music appears as well]'' :'''Artie Ziff audience''': Ziff, Ziff, Ziff, Ziff, Ziff! :'''Artie''': Oh... My... God. She's right. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lisa''': ''[As Artie is going to prison]'' I have to admit. I'll miss having him around. :'''Homer''': ''[Chuckles]'' I don't think we've seen the last of Artie Ziff. :''[Snake walks up to Artie]'' :'''Snake''': Yo, hobbit! I'm, like, your roommate. ''[Blows cigarette smoke in Artie's face]'' :'''Artie''': Oh, smoker, eh? Well, I have ways of dealing with you. ''[Pulls out a spray bottle, dousing Snake's cigarette]'' Squirt, squirt, squirt! Your lungs will thank me! :'''Marge''': Kids, you better take your last look at Uncle Artie. :''[Artie notices more prisoners smoking]'' :'''Artie''': Oh, look! There's a whole bunch of you! ''[He douses their cigarettes, too]'' Squirt, squirt, squirt! ''[The other inmates get up and start circling around him]'' That's it! Circle around me! Squirt, squirt, squirt, squirt! Squirt, squirt, squirt! Oh, I'm gonna need more water! ===''[[w:Co-Dependent's Day|Episode 15.Co-Dependent's Day]]''=== :'''Homer''': Man, even I think movie popcorn has gotten too big. ''[Bart tries to take Homer's popcorn, but Homer slaps Bart in his hand]'' :'''Bart''': Ow! :'''Homer''': Get your own, mooch! <hr width="50%"/> :''[Homer is on the phone with the rehab clinic]'' :'''Homer''': I can't talk to my wife for 28 days? Sir, she is not an alcoholic. You can't put me on hold, I'll put you on hold. ''[singing]'' I am a lineman for the county. ''[speaking]'' Your call is important to us. Please continue to hold. ''[singing]'' And I drive the main road. ''[speaking]'' There are...eight... calls ahead of you. ''[singing]'' And the Wichita lineman is still on the li-li-li-li-li-li-li-li-li-li-li-li-line. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Kent''': ''[to himself as he smokes a cigarette]'' Oh god, I love to smoke. ''[realizing the camera is on]'' We're live at the latest opening of the epic space saga "[[w:Star Wars|Cosmic Wars]]". And, the nerds emerge from their basements wearing strange costumes to shield their pasty skin from the moonlight. ===''[[w:The Wandering Juvie|Episode 16.The Wandering Juvie]]''=== :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': ''[sobbing]'' My [[w:Bart Simpson|baby boy]] is in jail. I'm the worst mom in the world. :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': It's not all your fault. All of these years I've watched you turn our son into a time bomb and yet I did nothing. So...in a way, I too am a victim...of you. :''[Marge continues sobbing]'' :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': You're a great mom. You're always there for Bart with love and support. His acting out was caused by negative reinforcement! ''[They both glare at Homer]'' :'''Homer''': Oh, I get it. Blame the strangler! Hmph! Hmph! Hmph! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Store Manager''': Sir, some people want to use that dressing room! :'''Homer''': ''[in the dressing room with his trousers down]'' ''Dressing'' room? Uh-oh... <hr width="50%"/> :'''Gina''': ''[dancing chained to Bart]'' OK! Here's my rules. The inclusion is to no eye contact and I don't want to hear how pretty I look. :'''Bart''': Don't worry, you won't. ''[Gina kicks him down]'' [[w:D'oh|D'oh!]] <hr width="50%"/> ''Mayor Quimby arrives at Bart's fake wedding with a young woman.'' :'''Quimby''': Remember, if anyone asks, you're my niece from out of town. :'''Young Woman''': I ''am'' your niece, Uncle Joe. :'''Quimby''': ''[realizing]'' Good Lord! I'm an abomination! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Warden''': So, why do you want to be a guard here? :'''Homer''': I believe the children are the future... Unless we stop them now! :'''Warden''': Welcome aboard. ''[Holds a nightstick]'' This ends for beating. This ends for holding. :'''Homer''': When does training start? :'''Warden''': It just finished. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Warden''': Well my shift's over. I guess it's back to my bachelor apartment. Make a tuna sandwich. Turn on [[Will & Grace]]. And cry myself to sleep. :'''Marge''': Hmmmm. Would you like to join us? :'''Warden''': Didn't you hear me? I've got my evening planned! ''[He slams the door shut]'' ===''[[w:My Big Fat Geek Wedding|Episode 17.My Big Fat Geek Wedding]]''=== :'''Groundskeeper Willie''': ''[after accidentally driving over a red ball]'' Oh my God, I've shredded a child! ''AGAIN!'' ''[races to a nearby road, heading for the border]'' Venezuela, here I come! <hr width="50%" /> :''[at Moe's]'' :'''[[w:Seymour Skinner|Skinner]]''': Homer, this bachelor party seems to have peaked. Could you please return my pants and/or underpants so I can go home? :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Come on, it's your last night of freedom. You gotta have some fun! :'''Skinner''': Who are all of you people? :'''[[w:Carl Carlson|Carl]]''': We're your buddies! Now come on, Homer's kid's principal, have a beer. :'''Skinner''': I can't; I might be called upon to give directions later. :'''Superintendent Chalmers''': SKINNER! You were asked to chug-a-lug, and a-lug you shall chug! :'''Skinner''': ''[chugs beer]'' There's something I've wanted to say to you for a long time! Am I a good principal? :'''Chalmers''': You're the best we could get with the funds at our disposal. :''[everyone cheers]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': Why are you dressed as [[w:Catwoman|Catwoman]]? :'''Skinner''': ''[Dressed like Catwoman à la Batman Returns]'' They told me it was [[w:Catman|Cat''man'']]! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Marge''': Passion is for teens and immigrants. ===''[[w:Catch 'em If You Can|Episode 18.Catch 'em If You Can]]''=== :'''[[w:Moe Szyslak|Moe]]''': ''[emerging from "Adult Video section"]'' Oh yeah. [[w:Brideshead Revisited (miniseries)|Brideshead's gonna get revisited tonight]], baby! <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart Simpson]]''': ''[Looking on an airline computer]'' So, [[w:Marge Simpson|Mom]] and [[w:Homer Simpson|Dad]] are going to Atlantic City ''[Types on the keyboard]'' but their luggage isn't. ''[laughs]'' And Homer's getting a low-fat meal. :''[Camera cuts to a plane flying]'' :'''''Homer''''': ''[From inside the plane]'' '''''<big><big><big><big>Nooooooo!!!!</big></big></big></big>''''' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Squeaky Voiced Teen''': Oh, I'm sorry, sir. The computer says that the movie ''Chocolate [[w:Star Wars|Star Wars]]'' doesn't exist. :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': I say ''you'' don't exist! :'''Squeaky Voiced Teen''': No, I'm right here under "staff." <hr width="50%" /> ''[Homer and Marge bounce around in an inflatable house]'' :'''Homer''': This must be what it's like to be in space! :'''Marge''': You've [[w:Deep Space Homer|been to space.]] :'''Homer''': And yet, I have never been to me... ===''[[w:Simple Simpson|Episode 19.Simple Simpson]]''=== :'''Host of Promiscuous Idiot's Island''': Now, ladies, when you agreed to do this show, you were told you would be living with a millionaire on his private island. Well, I'm afraid we've misled you. ''[the women gasp]'' :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': ''[watching show]'' Get ready, skanks! Here comes the Truth Train! :'''Host''': This isn't an island at all. It's a peninsula! :'''Woman 1''': ''[walking away]'' This was supposed to be about trust! :'''Woman 2''': ''[crying]'' I just want to get on that boat and go home! :'''Host''': Well, you don't need a boat, because you can walk. :'''Bart''': ''[Watching the show]'' What do those women expect? When you sign a contract with FOX, you know you're going to be betrayed and humiliated! :'''Homer''': Quiet, the commercials are on! ''[Everyone looks at him]'' If we don't watch these, it's like we're stealing TV! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': It's time to take him down a peg. Or should I say down a pie? :'''Lisa''': No, I think the expression is peg. :'''Homer''': Maybe you're right Lisa. Maybe you're pie. Pie be your pie. <hr width="50%" /> :'''Krusty''': ''[Showing his place setting]'' Check it out! Dribble glass! Rubber knife! Whoopie salad! ''[stabs his fork into the salad, which makes a farting noise; chuckles]'' And finally, the break-away wine bottle! ''[hits the bottle hard on his head, but it doesn't break]'' ...did not arrive. ''[collapses with a groan onto table]'' <hr width="50%" /> :'''Marge''': ''[after a mob gets chased and Pie Man rescues her]'' I'm not being trampled! What gives? <hr width="50%" /> :'''Homer''': ''[Stabs a knife into the bullet wound on his arm]'' Let's see. Cartilage. Cartilage. Muscle. ''[Screams]'' NERVE! ''[Blood spurts out]'' Artery. Bullet! ''[Flicks the bullet out of his arm]'' <hr width="50%" /> :'''Homer''': ''[grabs out a pie in the power plant]'' I'll show him! ''[spots Lisa]'' No, I shouldn't! ''[spots Bart]'' Or should I? <hr width="50%" /> :'''Homer/Pie Man''': I've ran out of pie-related puns! ''[throws a pie at Mr. Burns by accident]'' <hr width="50%" /> :''[After Bart '''as Cupcake Kid''' holds a time watch in the deleted scene, making Nelson spin around inside the teacup ride, the kids are watching. Bart pulls the lever to stop, Nelson flies off on one of the spinning teacups. The ride slows down in a few seconds.]'' :'''Bart''': ''[holding a watch]'' A minute, and five seconds. That's a new record. Come on, let's go. :''[A loud crashing sound is heard. Bart runs to Nelson, who looks ill.]'' :'''Bart''': Oh, no. Nelson. Are you OK? :'''Nelson''': No. I think I'm going to be sick. <hr width="50%" /> :'''Homer''': ''[After revealing to Lisa that he's the Pie Man]'' Any-hoo, this has to be a surprise, eh? Mild-mannered Homer Simpson... :'''Lisa''': You're not mild-mannered. You're often liquored up and rude. ===''[[w:The Way We Weren't|Episode 20.The Way We Weren't]]''=== :'''Ralph''': I'm telling Mr. Bart! <hr width="50%" /> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': ''[talking to an empty [[w:Duff Beer|beer]] bottle]'' You never got a chance to become my [[w:urine|urine]]! <hr width="50%" /> :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': ''[working as the judge in "Simpson Family Court"]'' Now up, the case of Simpson v. Simpson. :'''Homer''': Mr. Simpson, do you think it's appropriate for a ten-year old boy to steal a beer with intent to kiss? :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': Do you think it was appropriate to bet against your son's little-league team? :'''Homer''': Wh-? Permission to treat this witness as hostile? ''[takes out a [[w:baseball|baseball]] bat]'' <hr width="50%" /> :'''Young [[w:Lenny Leonard|Lenny]]''': Now, Homer, if you're gonna go, you better take some protection. ''[gives him a switchblade]'' :'''Young Homer''': Whoo, a [[w:switchblade|switchblade]]! ''[eyes it closely]'' I see the switch, but where's the blade? ''[camera moves out of the cottage, we hear the blade opening]'' OOOOWW!! Found it. <hr width="50%" /> :'''Homer''': This is so confusing. ''[turns to "judge" Lisa]'' I'd like a brief recess. :'''Lisa''': Granted. ''[brings the gavel down]'' :'''Homer''': Whee! Recess! ''[runs out and goes swinging on a swing]'' <hr width="50%" /> :'''Bart''': Let me get this straight: when you were my age, you had the hots for [[w:Marge Simpson|mom]] and didn't even know it? Oh, that's cool! Or is that lame? I guess I'll go with lame. You're lame! :'''Homer''': Why? Because I only kissed one girl in my whole life? That's still one more than you. :'''Bart''': I've [[w:Flaming Moe's|kissed]] [[w:Bart's Girlfriend|three]] [[w:The Wandering Juvie|girls]]. :'''Homer''': ''[cries]'' I'm so lame! <hr width="50%" /> :'''Camp Land-a-man instructor''': Excellent. Girls, see how Marge's legs are slanted? You make [[w:Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis|Jackie O]] look like a splay-legged milkhorse. Now stand and walk. :''[girl Marge walks in an uncomfortable, "proper" manner]'' :'''Instructor''': Well done. I'd be proud if you grew up to be my husband's mistress. <hr width="50%" /> :'''Camp Flab-away instructor''': So, you thought you could make a break for it, did you? Well, no one ever escapes from fat camp. 'Cause the only way out is up a gentle slope. <hr width="50%" /> :'''Homer''': Marge, I'm really sorry I hurt you, but I've done way worse stuff since then. There was [[w:The Cartridge Family|the gun I hid from you]], [[w:Pray Anything|the time I sued the church]], [[w:Lisa's Wedding|ruining Lisa's wedding in the future]], remember that? <hr width="50%" /> :'''Homer''': ''[going through his "Memory Box"]'' Whoo, a letter from my old [[w:pen pal|pen pal]]! Someday I'll write you back, [[w:Osama bin Laden|Osama]]. ===''[[w:Bart-Mangled Banner|Episode 21.Bart-Mangled Banner]]''=== :'''[[w:Groundskeeper Willie|Willie]]''': I know what you're hiding, lad. Willie's been deaf since the boiler explosion of 88. But I've taught myself to read lips. :'''Guy''': Morning, Willie! :'''Willie''': What did you say about my mother!? For your information her feet stank cause she works in manure all day, but it's still the best damn Starbucks in Glasgow. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Bart accidentally moons the U.S. flag]'' :'''[[w:List of recurring characters from The Simpsons#Rich Texan|Rich Texan]]''': How dare he?! That's the flag my grandpappy rebelled against! <hr width="50%"/> :''[Principal Skinner summons Homer and Marge into his office after Bart, accidentally, moons the U.S. flag]'' :'''Skinner''': Your child's behavior appalls me, not just as a principal, but as a veteran of America's only losing war! :'''Homer''': To date. :'''Marge''': I swear, Bart didn't know what he was doing. He was deaf! :'''Skinner''': Oh sure Marge, ''[shows Homer and Marge a file of photos]'' just like Blind Bart, Wheelchair Bart, Pregnant Bart, and my personal favorite, Railroad spike through head Bart. :'''Homer''': Yeah, kids love trains. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lisa''': ''[As the Simpsons swim away from Alcatraz]'' Swim for San Francisco! :'''Homer''': We're not made of money! We'll swim for Oakland! <hr width="50%" /> :'''French Sailor''': ''[to the Simpsons]'' Mes amis, we hate American too! Come to France, and we shall mock the country that saved us twice from the Germans! ===''[[w:Fraudcast News|Episode 22.Fraudcast News]]''=== :'''Kent''': In tonight's face-off, I'll be debating Channel Six movie ghoulie Boobarella on the subject of our new boss C. Montgomery Burns. My view, he's a great leader and a gallant American. :'''Boobarella''': He's got a heart as big as my boobs! :'''Kent''': I guess we'll have to agree to agree on this one. :'''Boobarella''': Booobs! <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Montgomery Burns|Mr. Burns]]''': This is an outrage. Since when are public figures fair game for satire? :'''[[w:Waylon Smithers|Smithers]]''': Well your goons did run her off the road sir. :'''Mr. Burns''': I can't be held responsible for what my goons were ordered to do. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': These batteries have to power everything in our house. ''[inserts Spice Girls tape]'' YO, I tell you what I want what I really really want what I want what I want I'll tell you what I want! ''[Batteries die]'' That was totally worth it. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Milhouse''': ''[spots the moon's laser image]'' Way to go, Moon Milhouse! <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': See Lisa, instead of one big-shot controlling all the media, now there's a thousand freaks xeroxing their worthless opinions. <noinclude> {{DEFAULTSORT:Simpsons, Season 15}} [[Category:The Simpsons seasons]] </noinclude> k52458qcrz2onzgx60uw4lnwd3v14dk 0 39866 3961261 3960917 2026-07-05T19:46:34Z BD2412 3982 Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]] 3961261 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Henry Morgenthau crop.jpg|thumb|Henry Morgenthau, Sr. (circa 1913)]] '''[[w:Henry Morgenthau Sr.|Henry Morgenthau]]''' ([[April 26]], [[1856]] – [[November 25]], [[1946]]) was a [[Lawyers|lawyer]], [[Businessperson|businessman]] and [[w:Ambassadors of the United States|United States ambassador]], most famous as the [[w:United States Ambassador to Turkey|American ambassador to the Ottoman Empire]] during [[World War I]]. As ambassador to the [[Ottoman Empire]], Morgenthau has come to be identified as the most prominent [[United States|American]] to speak out against the [[Armenian genocide|Armenian Genocide]]. {{businesspeople-stub}} == Quotes == [[File:Ambassador Morgenthau's Story p314.jpg|thumb|Those who fell by the wayside. Scenes like this were common all over the Armenian provinces in the spring and summer months of 1915. Death in its several forms—massacre, starvation, exhaustion—destroyed the larger part of the refugees. The Turkish policy was that of extermination under the guise of deportation.]] * '''[[Armenian genocide|The destruction of the Armenian race in 1915]] involved certain difficulties that had not impeded the operations of the Turks in the massacres of 1895 and other years.''' In these earlier periods the Armenian men had possessed little power or means of resistance. In those days [[Armenians]] had not been permitted to have military training, to serve in the Turkish army, or to possess arms. As I have already said, these [[Discrimination|discriminations]] were withdrawn when the revolutionists obtained the upper hand in 1908. Not only were the Christians now permitted to bear arms, but the authorities, in the full flush of their enthusiasm for freedom and equality, encouraged them to do so. In the early part of 1915, therefore, every Turkish city contained thousands of Armenians who had been trained as soldiers and who were supplied with rifles, pistols, and other weapons of defense. The operations at Van once more disclosed that these men could use their weapons to good advantage. It was thus apparent that an Armenian massacre this time would generally assume more the character of warfare than those wholesale butcheries of defenseless men and women which the Turks had always found so congenial. If this plan of murdering a race were to succeed, two preliminary steps would therefore have to be taken: it would be necessary to render all Armenian soldiers powerless and to deprive of their arms the Armenians in every city and town. '''Before Armenia could be slaughtered, Armenia must be made defenseless. In the early part of 1915, the Armenian soldiers in the Turkish army were reduced to a new status. Up to that time most of them had been combatants, but now they were all stripped of their arms and transformed into workmen.''' … In almost all cases the procedure was the same. Here and there squads of 50 or 100 men would be taken, bound together in groups of four, and then marched out to a secluded spot a short distance from the village. Suddenly the sound of rifle shots would fill the air, and the Turkish soldiers who had acted as the escort would sullenly return to camp. Those sent to bury the bodies would find them almost invariably stark naked, for, as usual, the [[Turks]] had stolen all their [[Clothing|clothes]]. In cases that came to my attention, the murderers had added a refinement to their victims' sufferings by compelling them to dig their graves before being shot. … Dreadful as were these massacres of unarmed soldiers, they were mercy and justice themselves when compared with the treatment which was now visited upon those Armenians who were suspected of concealing arms. Naturally the [[Christianity|Christians]] became alarmed when placards were posted in the villages and cities ordering everybody to bring their arms to headquarters. Although this order applied to all citizens, the Armenians well understood what the result would be, should they be left defenseless while their [[Muslim|Moslem]] neighbours were permitted to retain their arms. '''In many cases, however, the persecuted people patiently obeyed the command; and then the Turkish officials almost joyfully seized their rifles as evidence that a "revolution" was being planned and threw their victims into prison on a charge of treason. Thousands failed to deliver arms simply because they had none to deliver, while an even greater number tenaciously refused to give them up, not because they were plotting an uprising, but because they proposed to defend their own lives and their women's honour against the outrages which they knew were being planned. The punishment inflicted upon these recalcitrants forms one of the most hideous chapters of modern history.''' … Nothing was sacred to the Turkish gendarmes; under the plea of searching for hidden arms, they ransacked churches, treated the altars and sacred utensils with the utmost indignity, and even held mock ceremonies in imitation of the Christian sacraments. They would beat the priests into insensibility, under the pretense that they were the centres of sedition. When they could discover no weapons in the churches, they would sometimes arm the [[Bishop|bishops]] and [[Priest|priests]] with guns, pistols, and swords, then try them before courts-martial for possessing weapons against the law, and march them in this condition through the streets, merely to arouse the fanatical wrath of the [[Mob|mobs]]. As a preliminary to the searches everywhere, the strong men of the villages and towns were arrested and taken to prison. Their tormentors here would exercise the most diabolical ingenuity in their attempt to make their victims declare themselves to be "[[Revolution|revolutionists]]" and to tell the hiding places of their arms. A common practice was to place the prisoner in a room, with two Turks stationed at each end and each side. The examination would then begin with the bastinado. This is a form of torture not uncommon in the Orient; it consists of beating the soles of the feet with a thin rod. At first the pain is not marked; but as the process goes slowly on, it develops into the most terrible agony, the feet swell and burst, and not infrequently, after being submitted to this treatment, they have to be amputated. … In thousands of cases the Armenians endured these agonies and refused to surrender their arms simply because they had none to surrender. However, they could not persuade their tormentors that this was the case. It therefore became customary, when news was received that the searchers were approaching, for Armenians to purchase arms from their Turkish neighbours so that they might be able to give them up and escape these frightful punishments. ** ''Ambassador Morgenthau's Story'', Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City, New York (1918), "Chapter XXIV - The Murder of a Nation" page 301 * Those who fell by the wayside. Scenes like this were common all over the Armenian provinces in the spring and summer months of 1915. [[Death]] in its several forms—[[massacre]], [[starvation]], exhaustion—destroyed the larger part of the [[Refugee|refugees]]. The Turkish policy was that of [[extermination]] under the guise of [[Population transfer|deportation]]. ** {{cite book |title=Ambassador Morgenthau's Story: A Personal Account of the Armenian Genocide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NCy21PiWEbIC|access-date=15 April 2016 |year=2010|origyear=First published 1918|publisher=Cosimo, Inc.|isbn=978-1-61640-396-6|page=402}} === [http://www.hri.org/docs/Morgenthau/ I was sent to Athens] === * Soon after [[Athens]] had reached the height of its glory under [[Pericles]] in the Fifth Century, B. C., and had started on its decline, the rise of [[Macedonia (ancient kingdom)|Macedon]] under Philip carried [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] influence into new regions. The glory of Athens had been based upon sea power, but the conquests of Macedon were the work of land [[Military|armies]]— Philip invented the invincible phalanx. Upon Philip's death his son, [[Alexander the Great]], set forth to conquer the whole of the then known world, and as that world in his day lay to the east, his marches were in that direction. In a few years he had overrun the fertile plains and opulent cities of [[Asia Minor]], [[Syria]], [[Mesopotamia]], and [[Persia]], and had carried his conquests to the gates of [[Delhi]]. In all the cities in the intervening countries he left large garrisons of [[Greeks|Greek]] [[soldiers]]. In many of these countries he founded flourishing new cities. In every place his soldiers were followed by large [[Colony|colonies]] of Greek civilians. The result was that the whole of [[western Asia]], and of what we call the Near East, including Asia Minor, [[Egypt]], [[Palestine]], Syria, [[Babylon|Babylonia]], Mesopotamia, Persia, and northwestern [[India]], was saturated with the [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] influence and with Greek colonies. * The imagination of these conquered peoples was dazzled by the introduction of [[Greece|Greek]] [[art]], [[literature]], [[philosophy]], and public works. Though the successors of Alexander were unable to maintain the political control of the lands he conquered, and though successive waves of [[Roman Empire|Roman]], [[Arabia|Arabian]], and [[Mongol invasions and conquests|Tartar]] [[Conquest|conquests]] swept over these lands in succeeding centuries, none of the later conquerors has been able wholly to eradicate the influence of Greek culture, nor to exterminate that element of population which was of Greek blood. * ….The [[w:Greek_War_of_Independence|Greek War of Independence]], which came to a successful conclusion in 1832, affected less than one half of the [[Ottoman Greece|Greeks in the Turkish Empire]]. It did not bring [[freedom]] to the Greeks of [[Macedonia (region)|Macedonia]] and [[w:Thrace|Thrace]], of [[Crete]] and the Aegean Islands, nor to the more than two million Greeks in Asia Minor and [[Constantinople]]. * When the [[Turks]] and the [[Bulgaria|Bulgarians]] left, [[Macedonia (Greece)|Macedonia]] remained a purely Greek region. == Quotes about Morgenthau == * To this day, the [[Turkey|Turkish]] government [[Genocide denial|refuses to acknowledge]] the [[Armenian genocide]]. This is strange, since the historical evidence of what happened is plentiful. Western observers like the US ambassador in [[Constantinople]], Henry Morgenthau, wrote detailed reports about what was being done - including the telling statement of [[Mehmed Talat|Mehmed Talaat Pasha]], the Interior Minister, that all the [[Armenians]] had to perish because 'those who were innocent today might be guilty tomorrow'. Western [[missionaries]] too wrote harrowing accounts of what they witnessed. Their testimony formed an important part of the wartime report on 'The Treatment of the Armenians' compiled by Viscount Bryce, who had also investigated the [[German Empire|German]] atrocities in [[Belgium]] in [[1914]]. ** [[Niall Ferguson]], ''The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West'' (2006), p. 177 == External links == {{wikipedia}} {{Commons category|Henry Morgenthau, Sr.}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Morgenthau Sr., Henry}} [[Category:Immigrants to the United States]] [[Category:Businesspeople from the United States]] [[Category:United States Ambassadors to Turkey and the Ottoman Empire]] [[Category:Lawyers from the United States]] [[Category:Jews from the United States]] [[Category:1856 births]] [[Category:1946 deaths]] [[Category:Jews from Germany]] jlxsuryezbw654mqmgkrz2atzsg4rj2 0 41976 3961254 3960900 2026-07-05T19:44:42Z BD2412 3982 Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]] 3961254 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Ted Ginn Jr. 2016.JPG|thumb|Ted Ginn, Jr. in 2016]] {{people-cleanup|2015-02-17}} '''[[w:Ted Ginn Jr.|Ted Ginn Jr.]]''' (born [[April 12]], [[1985]] in Cleveland, Ohio) is a [[w:wide receiver|wide receiver]] for the [[w:2007 Miami Dolphins|Miami Dolphins]] of the [[National Football League]]. == Quotes == * Well you know, that's still my first love. I'll die and say that I was a [[w:Defensive back|DB]]. But you know, there's still time —— there's still time in my life to still be able to fulfill my dream. **{{cite news | last = Gordon | first = Ken | title = Ginn still has dreams about playing defense | publisher = Columbus Dispatch | date = [[2006-12-21]] | url = http://www.columbusdispatch.com/bball/bball.php?story=dispatch/2006/12/21/20061221-E1-04.html | accessdate = 2007-01-23 }} * I didn't end it <nowiki>[my career at Ohio State]</nowiki> the way I'd like to end it, but I ended the way I had to. That's a bad memory, but at the same time, we made it to the national championship game. I scored in the national championship game. That's the only way I can remember it. **{{cite news | last = May | first = Tim | coauthors = Gordon, Ken | title = They're gone: Ted Ginn Jr. and Antonio Pittman decide the time is right to leave Ohio State for the NFL | publisher = Columbus Dispatch | date = [[2007-01-16]] | accessdate = 2007-01-23 }} * I'm not the type of guy who is greedy. I take what they give me. If they say, 'Hey, go to quarterback,' I go to quarterback. I just have that type of mind.' **{{cite news | last = Ridenour | first = Marla | title = For OSU receiver, returner, defense won't rest: Still a defensive back at heart, Ginn not giving up on first love | publisher = Akron Beacon Journal | date = [[2007-01-02]] | accessdate = 2007-01-23}} * Records are made to be broken. Someone else will come along and break it <nowiki>[the record of punts returned for touchdowns]</nowiki>, and that's great. You're only here for a short time in your life, so just go out and have fun with it. ** {{cite news | last = Martin | first = Tim | title = Ginn's gamebreaking ability boosts No. 1 Ohio State | publisher = Associated Press | date = [[2006-10-15]] | accessdate = 2007-01-23}} * You have to be patient. I want to be the possession receiver, the go-to guy. When it's time for a big play, they can come to me. ** {{cite news | last = Drape | first = Joe | title = Friendship Forged in Youth Fuels Touchdowns at Ohio State | pages = D3 | publisher = New York Times | date = [[2006-09-23]] | accessdate = 2007-01-23}} * In order to be the go-to guy, you must have everything right. You have to be on point with your routes and catch the ball no matter where the quarterback puts it. You just have to have confidence. I'm rolling, and I want to go out and have fun. ** {{cite news | last = Carlton | first = Chuck | title = Ohio State's Ginn ready to be go-to guy | publisher = Dallas Morning News | date = [[2006-09-08]] | accessdate = 2007-01-23}} * Once you see a touchdown, there's no need to make a move. You just use your speed. ** {{cite news | last =Miller | first = Rusty | title = Buckeyes' Ginn hopes to build on fast start | publisher = Associated Press | date = [[2005-09-01]] | accessdate = 2007-01-23}} * First there's God, then there's Glenville, then there's myself. ** {{cite news | last = Gokavi | first = Mark | title = GLENVILLE RACES TO THE FRONT OF THE PACK; Cleveland boys take state track meet at Welcome Stadium | pages = C12 | publisher = Dayton Daily News | date = [[2003-06-08]] | accessdate = 2007-01-23}} === About Ginn === * He's a game changer. Every time he gets the ball, you hold your breath. ** [[w:Mack Brown|Mack Brown]], {{cite news | last = McDonald | first = Jeff | title = Longhorns worried about Ohio State's Ginn | publisher = San Antonio Express-News | date = [[2006-09-06]] | url = http://www.cstv.com/auto_pdf/p_hotos/s_chools/osu/sports/m-footbl/auto_pdf/news-ginn-090606b | accessdate = 2006-10-30}} * I am going to have somebody put something in his food the morning of the game. ** [[w:Joe Paterno|Joe Paterno]], {{cite news | last = McDonald | first = Jeff | title = Paterno prays for a way to control the Buckeyes receiver | publisher = Associated Press | date = [[2006-09-21]] | url = http://www.cstv.com/auto_pdf/p_hotos/s_chools/osu/sports/m-footbl/auto_pdf/news-ginn-092106d | accessdate = 2006-10-30}} * I think he's a great football player. I think he's shown that from the moment he got to Ohio State. ** [[w:Lloyd Carr|Lloyd Carr]], {{cite news | last = Ackerstein | first = Mike | title = Big Ten teams get ready to rumble | publisher = Badger Herald | date = [[2006-10-20]] | url = http://ohiostatebuckeyes.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/osu-m-footbl-ginn-quotes.html | accessdate = 2006-10-30}} * Here is guy who came to us as a return specialist and defensive back and has developed into a very good receiver. Has always had great hands and he has become a very good route runner. With his speed, he is a threat to score anytime he touches the ball. ** [[w:Jim Tressel|Jim Tressel]], {{cite press release | title = Ted Ginn for the Heisman Trophy | publisher = Ohio State University Department of Athletics | date = [[2006]] | url = http://ohiostatebuckeyes.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/osu-m-footbl-ginn-quotes.html | accessdate = 2006-10-30}} * He's pretty special. He's probably a little bit better on nine toes than most people are on 10. ** Darrell Hazell, OSU receivers coach, {{cite news | author = Gordon, Ken | coauthors = May, Tim | title = Terry forces way into mix at linebacker | url = http://www.dispatch.com/football/football.php?story=dispatch/2006/11/02/20061102-E3-01.html | work = Ohio State Notebook | publisher = Columbus Dispatch | date = [[2006-11-02]] | accessdate = 2006-11-02}} == External links == {{wikipedia}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Ginn, Ted Jr.}} [[Category:American football players from the United States]] [[Category:African Americans]] [[Category:Sportspeople from Cleveland]] [[Category:1985 births]] [[Category:Living people]] d7nldg9a11lkagqyimvhbqv1y6sjeqx 0 44376 3961077 3877174 2026-07-05T14:56:54Z Ziv 3115402 ([[c:GR|GR]]) [[File:Madame Récamier painted by Jacques-Louis David in 1800.jpg]] → [[File:Juliette Récamier, née Bernard - Jacques-Louis David - Musée duLouvre Peintures INV 3708.jpg]] → File replacement: Updating from an old version to a newer version with better quality ([[c:c:GR]]) 3961077 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Djunabarnes.jpg|thumb|right|Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself.]] '''[[w:Djuna Barnes|Djuna Barnes]]''' ([[June 12]], [[1892]] – [[June 18]], [[1982]]) was an American novelist, poet, and playwright. == Quotes == [[File:Djuna Barnes - Well of the Saints.png|thumb|right|I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that gives access to hidden treasure.]] [[File:Djuna Barnes - Villager.gif|thumb|right|New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.]] [[File:Djuna Barnes Clipping.jpg|thumb|right|Is not everything morbid?]] [[File:Juliette Récamier, née Bernard - Jacques-Louis David - Musée duLouvre Peintures INV 3708.jpg|thumb|right|The Seal, she lounges like a bride, <br> Much too docile, there's no doubt; <br> Madame Récamier, on side, <br> (if such she has), and bottom out.]] * '''We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn’t the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life’s lived before it gets to the parlor door.''' ** ''The Home Club: For Servants Only'', in the ''Brooklyn Daily Eagle'' (12 October 1913) * '''I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that gives access to hidden treasure.''' ** "The Songs of Synge: The Man Who Shaped His Life as He Shaped His Plays", in ''New York Morning Telegraph'' (18 February 1917) * New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American. ** ''Greenwich Village as It Is'', in ''Pearson’s Magazine'' (October 1916) * After all, it is not where one washes one’s neck that counts but where one moistens one’s throat. ** ''Greenwich Village as It Is'', in ''Pearson’s Magazine'' (October 1916) * Well, isn’t Bohemia a place where everyone is as good as everyone else — and must not a waiter be a little less than a waiter to be a good Bohemian? ** ''Becoming Intimate with the Bohemians'', New York Morning Telegraph Sunday Magazine (19 November 1916) * Morbid? You make me laugh. '''This life I write and draw and portray is life as it is, and therefore you call it morbid.''' Look at my life. Look at the life around me. Where is this beauty that I am supposed to miss? The nice episodes that others depict? '''Is not everything morbid?''' I mean the life of people stripped of their masks. Where are the relieving features? Often I sit down to work at my drawing board, at my typewriter. All of a sudden my joy is gone. I feel tired of it all because, I think, "What's the use?" Today we are, tomorrow dead. We are born and don't know why. We live and suffer and strive, envious or envied. We love, we hate, we work, we admire, we despise. … Why? And we die, and no one will ever know that we have been born. ** When asked why she is "so dreadfully morbid", in an [http://www.case.edu/artsci/engl/VSALM/mod/brandelmcdaniel/index/interviews.htm interview with Guido Bruno (December 1919)] * If Helen of Troy could have been seen eating peppermints out of a paper bag, it is highly probable that her admirers would have been an entirely different class. <br> '''It is the thing you are found doing while the horde looks on that you shall be loved for — or ignored.''' ** What Do You See, Madam? (1932) * '''Suffering for love is how I have learned practically everything I know, love of grandmother up and on.''' ** [http://www.case.edu/artsci/engl/VSALM/mod/brandelmcdaniel/index/library.htm Letter to Emily Holmes Coleman (2 February 1934)] * Of course I think of the past and of Paris, what else is there to remember? ** [http://www.case.edu/artsci/engl/VSALM/mod/brandelmcdaniel/index/library.htm In a 1960 letter to Natalie Barney, as quoted in ''Paris Was a Woman'' (1995) by Andrea Weiss, p. 173] * The Seal, she lounges like a bride, <br> Much too docile, there's no doubt; <br> Madame Récamier, on side, <br> (if such she has), and bottom out. ** ''Creatures in an Alphabet'' (1982) * '''We are adhering to life now with our last muscle — the heart.''' ** Quoted in "The Way of Transition : Embracing Life's Most Difficult Moments" (2002) by William Bridges, p. 204 * '''There is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole.''' ** In a letter to Emily Coleman, as quoted in ''The Book of Repulsive Women and Other Poems : Selected Poems'' (2003), edited by Rebecca Loncraine, p. xi === ''The Book of Repulsive Women'' (1915) === * '''Someday beneath some hard <br> Capricious star — <br> Spreading its light a little <br> Over far, <br> We'll know you for the woman <br> That you are.''' ** From Fifth Avenue Up * What turn of card, what trick of game <br> Undiced? <br> And you we valued still a little <br> More than Christ. ** In General *'''Ah God! she settles down we say; <br> It means her powers slip away <br> It means she draws back day by day <br> From good or bad. ''' ** From Third Avenue On * Somewhere beneath her hurried curse, <br> A corpse lies bounding in a hearse; <br> '''And friends and relatives disperse, <br> And are not stirred.''' ** From Third Avenue On * What turn of body, what of lust <br> Undiced? <br> So we've worshipped you a little <br> More than Christ. ** In Particular * One sees you sitting in the sun <br> Asleep; <br> With the sweeter gifts you had <br> And didn't keep, <br> One grieves that the altars of <br> Your vice lie deep. ** Twilight of the Illicit *<p>We watched her come with subtle fire <br> And learned feet, <br> Stumbling among the lustful drunk <br> Yet somehow sweet. </p><p> We saw the crimson leave her cheeks <br> Flame in her eyes; <br> For when a woman lives in awful haste <br> A woman dies. </p><p> '''The jests that lit our hours by night <br> And made them gay, <br> Soiled a sweet and ignorant soul <br> And fouled its play.'''</p> ** To a Cabaret Dancer === ''Nightwood'' (1936) === [[File:Djuna Barnes - Joyce.gif|thumb|right|One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.]] [[File:Djuna Barnes - Book of Repulsive Women.png|thumb|right|Destiny and history are untidy.]] * The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other’s bed, where the rival perfects the lover’s imperfections. ** Ch. 5 : Watchman, What of the Night? * I’m a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet, under a cow pat. ** Ch. 5 : Watchman, What of the Night? * Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact. ** Ch. 5 : Watchman, What of the Night? * Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. There is not one of us who, given an eternal incognito, a thumbprint nowhere set against our souls, would not commit rape, murder and all abominations. ** Ch. 5 : Watchman, What of the Night? * The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment. ** Ch. 5 : Watchman, What of the Night? * '''One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.''' ** Ch. 6 : Where the Tree Falls * In the acceptance of depravity the sense of the past is most truly captured. '''What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? Corruption is the Age of Time.''' ** Ch. 6 : Where the Tree Falls * '''Destiny and history are untidy.''' ** Ch. 6 : Where the Tree Falls * '''A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow as well as himself — and what is a man's shadow but his upright astonishment?''' ** Ch. 6 : Where the Tree Falls * '''Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself.''' ** Ch. 7 : Go Down, Matthew * '''A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same.''' ** Ch. 7 : Go Down, Matthew == Quotes about Barnes == * '''Contemporary writers and artists praised her style, feared her tongue; she was a beauty, but a talented, acerbic, and powerfully intelligent one. ''' ** Mary Lynn Broe, in ''Silence and Power : A Reevaluation of Djuna Barnes, Introduction, p. 3 * '''Complex in her privacy, refusing to be controlled by an audience or pinioned to a single representation''', she once told Henry Ramont of the ''New York Times'', "I used to be invited by people who said, 'Get Djuna for dinner, she's amusing.' So I stopped it." ** Mary Lynn Broe, in ''Silence and Power : A Reevaluation of Djuna Barnes, Introduction, p. 5 * She was a spendthrift of the spirit, an American in Paris when, as [[Evelyn Waugh]] said, the going was good. ** [[w:Anatole Broyard|Anatole Broyard]] (28 June 1980) == External links == {{wikipedia}} {{Wikisource|Author:Djuna Barnes}} *[http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/barnes/repulsive/repulsive.html ''The Book of Repulsive Women''] *"[http://www.lodestarquarterly.com/work/344/ What Do You See, Madam?]" *[http://www.case.edu/artsci/engl/VSALM/mod/brandelmcdaniel/index/interviews.htm Selections from interviews by and with Barnes] *[http://www.lodestarquarterly.com/work/345/ "The Confessions of Helen Westley"] *[http://www.leftbankreview.com/leftbankreview/1stQtr-02/front.html "House of Incest: Exile from the Family" in ''Modernist Women's Literature'' on women of the Left Bank] {{DEFAULTSORT:Barnes, Djuna}} [[Category:1892 births]] [[Category:1982 deaths]] [[Category:Novelists from New York (state)]] [[Category:Playwrights from the United States]] [[Category:20th-century poets from the United States]] [[Category:Satirists from the United States]] [[Category:Journalists from New York (state)]] [[Category:Women authors from the United States]] [[Category:Illustrators]] [[Category:LGBT people]] [[Category:Poets from New York (state)]] jftwflw73pcym80i0w6mhxc7gaebswb 0 45411 3961273 3954696 2026-07-05T19:58:35Z ~2026-38432-99 3347768 /* Dialogue */ 3961273 wikitext text/x-wiki {{italic title}} '''''[[w:300 (film)|300]]''''' is a [[w:2006 in film|2006 film]] adaptation of the [[w:graphic novel|graphic novel]] ''[[w:300 (comic book)|300]]'' by [[Frank Miller]] about the [[w:Battle of Thermopylae|Battle of Thermopylae]]. This film was released on March 9, 2007. : ''Directed by [[Zack Snyder]]. Written by Zack Snyder, [[w:Kurt Johnstad|Kurt Johnstad]] and [[w:Michael B. Gordon|Michael B. Gordon]], with consultation from Frank Miller.'' {{center/s}}'''Prepare for glory!''' [[#Taglines|taglines]]{{center/e}} == [[Leonidas I|King Leonidas]] == * We will block the Persian coastal assault by rebuilding the great Phocian Wall. And from there, we will funnel them into the mountain pass we call the Hot Gates. Now, in that narrow corridor, their numbers will count for nothing, and wave after wave of Persian attack will ''smash'' against Spartan shields. Xerxes' losses will be so great, his men so demoralized, he will have no choice but to abandon his campaign! * ''[after Daxos and his men withdraw]'' No retreat, no surrender. That is Spartan law. And ''by'' Spartan law, we will stand and fight... and ''die.'' A new age has begun: an age of ''[[freedom]]!'' And all will know that 300 Spartans gave their last breath to defend it! * Spartans! Ready your breakfast and eat hearty, for tonight, we dine in [[w:Hades|Hell]]! *''[last words]'' My Queen!... My wife!... '''My love...''' == [[w:Gorgo, Queen of Sparta|Queen Gorgo]] == * Councilmen, I stand before you not only as your queen. I come to you as a mother. I come to you as a wife. I come to you as a Spartan woman. I come to you with great humility. I am not here to represent Leonidas. His actions speak louder than my words ever could. I am here for all those voices which cannot be heard. Mothers, daughters, fathers, sons. Three hundred families that bleed for our rights. And for the very principles this room was built upon. We are at war, gentlemen. We must send the entire Spartan army to aid our king in the preservation of not just ourselves, but of our children. Send the army for the preservation of liberty. Send it for justice. Send it for law and order. Send it for reason. But most importantly, send our army for hope. Hope that a king and his men have not been wasted to the pages of history. That their courage bonds us together. That we are made stronger by their actions, and that your choices today reflect their bravery. == Dilios == * ''[Regarding Leonidas' upbringing]'' From the time he could stand, he was baptized in the fire of combat. Taught never to retreat, never to surrender. Taught that death on the battlefield in service to Sparta was the greatest glory he could achieve in his life. * They have served the dark will of Persian kings for 500 years. Eyes as dark as night, teeth filed to fangs - soulless. The personal guard to King Xerxes himself. The Persian warrior elite. The deadliest fighting force in all of Asia. The Immortals. The god-king has betrayed a fatal flaw: ''hubris''. Easy to taunt, easy to trick. Before wounds and weariness have taken their toll, the mad king throws the best he has at us. Xerxes has taken the bait. "Immortals" - we put their name to the test. * ''[As the Arcadians join the fight with the Immortals]'' They shout and curse, stabbing wildly, more brawlers than warriors. They make a wondrous mess of things. Brave amateurs, they do their part. * "Immortals". They fail our king's test. And a man who fancies himself a god feels a very ''human'' chill crawl up his spine. * "Remember us." As simple an order as a king can give. "Remember why we died." For he did not wish tribute or song. No monuments, no poems of war and valour. His wish was simple: "Remember us," he said to me. That was his hope. Should any free soul come across that place, in all the countless centuries yet to be, may all our voices whisper to you from the ageless stones: ''Go tell the Spartans, passer-by, that here, by Spartan law, we lie.'' So my king died, and my brothers died, barely a year ago. Long I pondered my king's cryptic talk of victory. But time has proven him wise. For from ''free Greek'' to ''free Greek'', the word was spread that bold Leonidas and his 300, so far from home, laid down their lives, not just for Sparta, but for all Greece and the promise this country holds! Now, here on this ragged patch of earth called [[w:Plataea|Plataea]], Xerxes' hordes face ''obliteration!'' Just there the barbarians huddle, sheer terror gripping tight their hearts with icy fingers, knowing full well what merciless horrors they suffered at the swords and spears of 300! Yet they stare now across the plain at 10,000 Spartans commanding 30,000 free Greeks! :The enemy outnumber us a paltry three to one; good odds for any Greek! This day we rescue a world from mysticism and tyranny, and usher in a future brighter than anything we could imagine! ''Give thanks, men! To Leonidas, and the brave 300! '''To victory!''''' == Dialogue == :'''Persian messenger''': If you value your lives over your complete annihilation... listen carefully, Leonidas. Xerxes conquers and controls everything he rests his eyes upon. He leads an army so massive, it shakes the ground with its march. So vast, it drinks the rivers dry. All the God-King Xerxes requires is this: a simple offering of earth and water... a token of Sparta's submission to the will of Xerxes. :'''Leonidas''': Submission. Now, that's a bit of a problem. See, rumor has it... the ''Athenians'' have already turned you down. And if those philosophers and ''boy-lovers'' have found that kind of nerve, then— :'''Theron''': We must be diplomatic. :'''Leonidas''': ''[cutting him off]'' And, of course, ''Spartans''... have their reputation to consider. :'''Persian messenger''': Choose your next words carefully, Leonidas. They may be your last as king. :''[Leonidas turns and ponders the offer. He looks at various people standing around, watching him nervously, the last of whom is Gorgo.]'' :'''Leonidas''': ''[in his head]'' "Earth and water." ''[having made up his mind, he draws his sword on the Persian messenger, whose back is to a large well. The Spartan guards follow suit and draw their swords on the other messengers.]'' :'''Persian messenger''': Madman! You're a madman! :'''Leonidas''': Earth and water. You'll find plenty of both down there. ''[indicates the well with his sword]'' :'''Persian messenger''': ''[nervous]'' No man, Persian or Greek, ''no'' man threatens a messenger! :'''Leonidas''': You bring the crowns and heads of conquered kings to ''my'' city's steps. You ''insult'' my queen. You threaten my people with ''slavery'' and ''death.'' Oh, I've chosen my words carefully, Persian. Perhaps you should have done the same. :'''Persian messenger''': This is blasphemy. This is MADNESS! ''[Leonidas lowers his sword and looks toward Gorgo, who nods]'' :'''Leonidas''': ''[to Persian messenger]'' Madness...? '''''THIS... IS... SPARTA!!!''''' ''[kicks the Persian messenger into the deep well]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Leonidas''': It seems, though a slave and captive of lecherous old men, the oracle's words could set fire to all that I love. :'''Gorgo''': So that is why my king loses sleep and is forced from the warmth of his bed? There's only one woman's words that should affect the mood of my husband. Those are mine. :'''Leonidas''': Then what must a king do to save his world, when the very laws he has sworn to protect force him to do nothing? :'''Gorgo''': It is not a question of what a Spartan citizen should do, nor a husband, nor a king. Instead, '''ask yourself''', my dearest love, '''what should a free man do?''' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Persian Emissary''': ''[encountering a group of Greeks building a wall to hold off the Persians]'' I am the emissary to the ruler of all the world, the god of gods, king of kings, and by ''that'' authority I demand that ''someone'' show me your commander! ''[Greeks ignore him]'' Listen. Do you think the paltry dozen you slew scare us? These hills ''swarm'' with our scouts! And do you think your pathetic wall will do anything other than fall like a heap of dry leaves in the face of... ''[sees that the stone wall is partially made up of Persian corpses]'' :'''Stelios''': Our ancestors built this wall, using ancient stones from the bosom of Greece herself. And with a little Spartan help, your Persian scouts provided the mortar. :'''Persian Emissary''': You will pay for your barbarism! ''[swings his whip to strike Stelios, who surges forward and cuts off his arm]'' My arm! :'''Stelios''': It's not yours anymore. Go now, run along and tell your Xerxes that he faces free men here, not slaves. Do it quickly, before we decide to make our wall just a little bit bigger. :'''Persian Emissary''': No, not slaves. Your women will be slaves. Your sons, your daughters, your elders will be slaves, but not you. By noon this day, you will all be dead men. The thousand nations of the Persian Empire descend upon you. Our arrows will blot out the sun. :'''Stelios''': ''[grins]'' Then we will fight in the shade. <hr width="50%"/> :''[The ground begins to shake]'' :'''Captain''': Earthquake? :'''Leonidas''': No, Captain. Battle formations! ''[The first wave of Persian infantry begins to advance on the Spartan position]'' This is where we hold them! This is where we fight! This is where they ''die''! : '''Captain''': Earn these shields, boys! : '''Spartans''': Haroo! : '''Leonidas''': Remember this day, men. For it will be yours for all time! ''[The Persian Officer rides through the ranks on his horse to address the Spartans ahead.]'' : '''Persian Officer''': Spartans! Lay down your weapons. ''[a spear flies from the Spartans, killing the Persian officer.]'' : '''Leonidas''': ''[at the front row]'' Persians! ''[assumes phalanx stance with the men on his row]'' [[w:Molon labe|Come and get them]]! ''[The Persians sound the advance and charge towards the Spartans.]'' :'''Captain''': Hold! :'''Leonidas''': Give them nothing! But take from them... ''everything''! <hr width="50%"/> :''[Xerxes has advanced to meet Leonidas, seated on a solid gold throne carried on the backs of many slaves.]'' :'''Leonidas''': Let me guess... you must be... Xerxes? :'''Xerxes''': Come, Leonidas. Let us reason together. It would be a regrettable waste, it would be nothing short of madness, were you, brave King, and your valiant troops to perish... all because of a simple misunderstanding. There is much our cultures could share. :'''Leonidas''': Oh, haven't you noticed? We've been sharing our culture with you all morning. :'''Xerxes''': Yours is a ''fascinating'' tribe. Even now, you are defiant, in the face of annihilation and the presence of a god. It isn't wise to stand against me, Leonidas. Imagine what horrible fate awaits my enemies when I would gladly kill any of my own men for victory. :'''Leonidas''': And I would die for any one of mine. :'''Xerxes''': You Greeks take pride in your logic. I suggest you employ it. Consider the beautiful land you so vigorously defend. Picture it reduced to ash at my whim. Consider the fate of your women. :'''Leonidas''': Clearly you don't know our women. I might as well have marched them up here, judging by what I've seen. You have many slaves, Xerxes, but few warriors. It won't be long before they fear my spears more than your whips. :'''Xerxes''': It is not the lash they fear, it is my divine power. But I am a generous god. I can make you rich beyond all measure. I will make you warlord of all Greece. You will carry my battle standard to the heart of Europa. Your Athenian rivals will kneel at your feet... if you will but kneel at mine. :'''Leonidas''': You are generous as you are divine, O King of Kings. Such an offer only a madman would refuse. But the, uh, the idea of kneeling, it's... You see, slaughtering all those men of yours has, uh, well, it's left a nasty cramp in my leg, so kneeling will be hard for me. :'''Xerxes''': ''[incensed at what Leonidas just said]'' There will be no glory in your sacrifice. I will erase even the memory of Sparta from the histories. Every piece of Greek parchment shall be burned, and every Greek historian and every scribe shall have their eyes put out and their tongues cut from their mouths. Why, uttering the very name of Sparta or Leonidas will be punishable by death. The world will never know you existed at all. :'''Leonidas''': The world will know that free men stood against a tyrant, that few stood against many and, before this battle is over, that even a god-king can bleed. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Gorgo meets Theron]'' :'''Theron''': Beautiful night. :'''Gorgo''': Yes, but I did not ask you here for a small talk, Theron. ''[grabs her dress and walks with Theron]'' :'''Theron''': You can be sure of that. You never spared words with me. :'''Gorgo''': Can I offer you something? A drink, perhaps? :'''Theron''': ''[nervously]'' Is it poison? :'''Gorgo''': I'm sorry to disappoint you, it's only water. :'''Theron''': ''[drinks his water in a cup]'' I'm told it's been arranged for you to go before the council. :'''Gorgo''': Yes. I need your help in winning votes to send the army north to our king. :'''Theron''': Yes. I can see it, the two of us standing together. Me, politician. You, warrior. Our voices as one. But why would I want to do that? :'''Gorgo''': It proves you care for a king who right now fights for the very water we drink. :'''Theron''': True, But this is politics, not war. Leonidas is an idealist. :'''Gorgo''': I know your kind too well. You send men to slaughter for your own gain. :'''Theron''': Your husband, our king, has taken 300 of our finest to slaughter. He's broken our laws and left without the council's consent. I'm simply a realist. :'''Gorgo''': You're an opportunist. :'''Theron''': You're as foolish as Leonidas if you think men don't have a price in this world. All men are not created equal. That's the Spartan code, my little queen. ''[reels from being slapped by Gorgo]'' I admire your passion. But don't think that you... a woman, even a queen, can walk into the council chamber and sway the minds of men. ''[coldly]'' I own that chamber, as if it were built with these hands. ''[grabs Gorgo by the throat and pins her back into the pillar]'' I could crush the life out of you right now. ''[into Gorgo's face]'' You will go before the council, but your words will fall on deaf ears. Leonidas will receive no reinforcements, and if he returns without '''my help''', he will go to jail or worse. Do you love your Sparta? :'''Gorgo''': Yes. :'''Theron''': And your king? :'''Gorgo''': I do. :'''Theron''': ''[releases grip on Gorgo's throat and tightens his strap cape]'' Your husband fights for his land and his love. What do you have to offer in return for my word that I'll help you send our army north? :'''Gorgo''': What does a realist want with his queen? :'''Theron''': I think you know. ''[pauses; watches in amazement as Gorgo slowly slips off her dress, then he turns her around and pins her against the pillar]'' This will not be over quickly. ''[roughly penetrates Gorgo]'' You will not enjoy this. I am not your king. ''[begins to rape Gorgo]'' <hr width="50%"/> :''[Leonidas sees the other Greek forces pulling out upon hearing reports of Ephialtes tipping off the Persians about the goat path and planning an encirclement]'' :'''Daxos''': This battle is over, Leonidas. :'''Leonidas''': This battle is over when I say it is over. :'''Daxos''': By morning, the Immortals will surround us. The Hot Gates will fall. :'''Leonidas''': ''SPARTANS! PREPARE FOR GLORY!!!'' :'''Daxos''': Glory? Have you gone mad? There is no glory to be had now. Only retreat or surrender... or death. :'''Leonidas''': Well, that's an easy choice for us, Arcadian. Spartans never retreat. Spartans never surrender. Go spread the word. Let every Greek assembled know the truth of this. Let each among them search his own soul. And while you're at it, search your own. == Taglines == * '''Tonight we dine in Hell!''' * Prepare for glory! * They were 300 men, against a million! * A God-King must die! * A beautiful death! * Madness? '''THIS IS SPARTA!''' * '''SPARTANS, What is your profession?''' * Give them nothing but take from them everything! == About ''300 (film)'' == * 300 opens on a scene with a chasm full of baby skulls, the remains of the infants who were deemed unfit. Leonidas has no visible disabilities, so he gets to live. Then, as a kid, he’s indoctrinated into the warrior society, taught to fight or die, then sent off to survive on his own. He goes into the snow and kills an enormous CGI wolf; a real trained wolf, apparently, would not have looked badass enough. Snyder presents all this as badass shit. And later, he implies that the Spartans were right to kill off all their disabled children, since it’s a hunchbacked troll escapee who ultimately betrays Leonidas. * The Persian side, on the other hand, the opposite. We see the emperor Xerxes as a 9-foot dandy with a seductive foghorn for a voice and a face full of jangling piercings. And the way Miller and Snyder depict them is just fascinatingly weird. A couple of early messengers are inky in their exaggerated blackness, and the Immortals, Xerxes’ regiment of elite fighters, are mutant ninjas who, when they get their masks knocked off, look like Jabba The Hutt’s palace guards. There’s also an executioner with crab-claw blades for arms and a massive warty ogre who looks like Sloth from The Goonies and who was played by the former WWF giant Kurrgan (Robert Maillet). The bad guys are so othered that they don’t even seem human. :* Tom Breihan, [https://film.avclub.com/zack-snyder-s-300-presaged-the-howling-fascism-of-the-a-1798265082 "Zack Snyder’s 300 presaged the howling fascism of the alt-right"], ''Avclub.com'', (8/11/17). * I was surrounded by hundreds of stuntmen, who were amazing. Stuntmen are my favourite people on a film set, but I had this thing that really helped me get through, which was this thought in my head that, ‘If I can train in such a way that they’re actually going, “He is a badass…” – because I know stuntmen and they like actors but mostly they see them as wet blankets. [I wanted] to train in a way so they would actually take their hats off to me, and in a way so that you would believe that they would actually follow you. I was [working out] six hours a day: two hours with them, two hours doing the 300 work-out, two hours with my own bodybuilder… pumping 25 times before each take. But I was also surrounded by a lot of guys putting in a lot of effort. It was great having that unity of purpose both as an army and in terms of what we were trying to make in this movie and in terms of fitness, training and that warrior spirit. It was a very powerful place to be. * There was a time [on 300] when three nights in a row people were taken to hospital during the fights. One time I was supposed to turn and hit a guy with my sword and I turned to whack him and he was gone, and then I looked down and he was lying there going [grabs arm], 'Arrgghh,' and he’s broken his arm. And the night before a guy got a spear in his eye. He almost lost his eye; he had to get stitches. It was insane. ** Gerard Butler in [https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/gerard-butler-300-workout "Gerard Butler on his six-hour 300 workout, breaking his neck and near-death stunts"] by Mark Russell, ''GQ'', (24 November 2016). * What was your actual involvement? :'''Frank Miller''': I took an exec producer title and kibitzed on the script. I had talks with Zack. And then one day I just said, Well, you’re heading toward production here — this is your movie now. By that time I’d become a director [on Sin City], and I realized the last thing Zack needed was more [[democracy]] in the process. The closer he could get to the wonderful situation I had on Sin City, the better. After that, it became me seeing various cuts of scenes, and coming to the set once, during a big battle scene, and generally not doing a lot of work. There should be no confusion between 300 and Sin City in that way: 300 is Zack’s movie. * 300 is largely faithful to your material. But it takes the character of Queen Gorgo, who only appears in a couple of panels in your version, and gives her a major subplot with a character called Theron, an evil politician. What did you think of that addition? :'''Frank Miller''': At first I very much disagreed with it. My main comment was, ”This is a boys’ movie. Let it be that.” The story itself, in historical terms, really didn’t involve her all that much, from most accounts. But Zack had his reasons. He wanted to show that King Leonidas was fighting for something, by giving him a romantic aspect and by lingering in Sparta a little bit. :* [[Frank Miller]] in [http://ew.com/article/2007/03/13/how-300-went-page-screen/ "How ''300'' went from the page to the screen"], by Steve Daly, ''EW.com'', (March 13, 2007). *'''JA''': Obviously, doing this movie probably caused you to do a lot of research on Greek and Persian armies. What was the most interesting thing you learned about this culture and the history of this? Did you get a good feel for that outside of Frank's work? :'''ZS''': I did a lot of research. A lot of it I felt like I had a responsibility to know, like you have to know the rules before you break them. I feel like Frank beautifully distilled that moment in history down to its essence. Even with my research, there's nothing I would really add or change about what Frank did, although I would say that the sort of Spartan way of rearing a child I found really fascinating and what I would call the sort of state-sponsored abuse. *'''MP''': Did you use any other films as reference materials for this? Something like ''[[Ben-Hur (1959 film)|Ben Hur]]'', ''[[Gladiator (2000 film)]]'', or ''[[Lord of the Rings]]''? :'''ZS''': ''[[Excalibur (film)|Excalibur]]'' probably more than anything, which is one of my favorite movies of all time. The thing that I love, it's very operatic. 300, I'd say, is the opera of Thermopylae, that's what Frank wrote. That's the movie I made. It's more of an opera than Gladiator, but with violence, of course. Great violence. I just made it into an aesthetic and sort of tableau-ish presentation. And I felt that way about Excalibur. It takes a world and it turns it into mythology. That's what Frank did with ''300''. I think the mythological elements in Excalibur are so fun. It was one of those movies [that] always struck me as a child. And it was sexy too. :* Zack Snyder in [HTTPS://WWW.DARKHORSE.COM/INTERVIEWS/1412/INTERVIEW-WITH-300-DIRECTOR-ZACK-SNYDER-3-7-07 “Interview With 300 Director Zack Snyder”], Jeremy Atkins, ''Dark Horse'', (3/7/07). * The director says that the film’s (homo)sexual undertones were intended to make young straight males in the audience uncomfortable, because “What’s more scary to a 20-year-old boy than a giant god-king who wants to have his way with you?” * The movie, true to Miller’s vision, is also loaded with sweaty hunks running around in those tight leather Speedos and capes. None of this is played for gay appeal, but could induce snickering among some teens. Snyder shrugs it off. ”Some people have said to me, ’Your movie is homoerotic,’ and some have said, ’Your movie’s homophobic.’ In my mind, the movie is neither. But I don’t have a problem with people interpreting it the way they’d like to.” As long as they buy tickets first. :* Zack Snyder as quoted in [http://www.newnownext.com/300s-director-admits-using-homosexuality-to-scare-20-year-old-men/03/2007/ “300’s director admits using homosexuality to scare 20 year old men"] by Michael Jensen, ''New Now Next'', ''Logo'', (3/11/2007). *'''Q'''. Has the response from [[Iran]] surprised you? :'''Zack Snyder''': It has surprised me a bit because I would hope that people would understand that the last thing I’d want is to offend anyone with the film. If anyone is offended by it, I’m deeply sorry because that’s not the intention of the movie at all. To me, it’s a work of fantasy; it’s not intended to depict any culture in a realistic way. That’s just not what the movie is. I do have an appreciation for those cultures because of the historical research that I’ve done in preparing the film. I think it’s the responsibility of someone who sees the movie to actually crack open the history book and see what really happened. <br> But the truth is, I am a little bit “wow” by the reaction. It’s not my intention at all to make a film that people would find [[offensive]]. :* Zack Snyder, [http://www.indielondon.co.uk/Film-Review/300-zack-snyder-interview "300 - Zack Snyder interview"], ''IndieLondon''. == Cast == * [[w:Gerard Butler|Gerard Butler]] &ndash; [[Leonidas I|Spartan King Leonidas]] * [[w:Lena Headey|Lena Headey]] &ndash; [[w:Gorgo, Queen of Sparta|Queen Gorgo]], Leonidas' wife * [[w:David Wenham|David Wenham]] &ndash; Dilios, Narrator * [[w:Dominic West|Dominic West]] &ndash; Theron * [[w:Vincent Regan|Vincent Regan]] &ndash; Captain Artemis * [[w:Michael Fassbender|Michael Fassbender]] &ndash; Stellios * [[w:Tom Wisdom|Tom Wisdom]] &ndash; Astinos * [[w:Andrew Pleavin|Andrew Pleavin]] &ndash; Daxos * [[w:Andrew Tiernan|Andrew Tiernan]] &ndash; Ephialtes * [[w:Rodrigo Santoro|Rodrigo Santoro]] &ndash; Xerxes * [[w:Peter Mensah|Peter Mensah]] &ndash; Messenger * [[w:Stephen McHattie|Stephen McHattie]] &ndash; Loyalist * [[w:Giovanni Antonio Cimmino|Giovanni Antonio Cimmino]] &ndash; Pleistarchus * [[w:Tyrone Benskin|Tyrone Benskin]] &ndash; Persian Emissary == External links == {{wikipedia|300 (film)}} * {{imdb title|id=0416449|title=300}} * {{rotten-tomatoes|id=300|title=300}} * The official [http://300themovie.warnerbros.com/ ''300''] site [[Category:2006 films]] [[Category:Action films]] [[Category:Comic book films]] [[Category:Period films]] [[Category:War films]] [[Category:2000s American films]] [[Category:Films based on true stories]] [[Category:Epic films]] [[Category:Films directed by Zack Snyder]] [[Category:Siege films]] [[Category:Censored films]] [[es:300]] [[it:300]] dafhbagzzwcvwt7iudj5z1ah8ll4wen 3961292 3961273 2026-07-05T21:32:00Z Filmator1 3314256 /* */ 3961292 wikitext text/x-wiki {{italic title}} [[File:300_Logo.svg|thumb|right|This is ''Sparta!'']] '''''[[w:300 (film)|300]]''''' is a [[w:2006 in film|2006 film]] adaptation of the [[w:graphic novel|graphic novel]] ''[[w:300 (comic book)|300]]'' by [[Frank Miller]] about the [[w:Battle of Thermopylae|Battle of Thermopylae]]. This film was released on March 9, 2007. : ''Directed by [[Zack Snyder]]. Written by Zack Snyder, [[w:Kurt Johnstad|Kurt Johnstad]] and [[w:Michael B. Gordon|Michael B. Gordon]], with consultation from Frank Miller.'' {{center/s}}'''Prepare for glory!''' [[#Taglines|taglines]]{{center/e}} == [[Leonidas I|King Leonidas]] == * We will block the Persian coastal assault by rebuilding the great Phocian Wall. And from there, we will funnel them into the mountain pass we call the Hot Gates. Now, in that narrow corridor, their numbers will count for nothing, and wave after wave of Persian attack will ''smash'' against Spartan shields. Xerxes' losses will be so great, his men so demoralized, he will have no choice but to abandon his campaign! * ''[after Daxos and his men withdraw]'' No retreat, no surrender. That is Spartan law. And ''by'' Spartan law, we will stand and fight... and ''die.'' A new age has begun: an age of ''[[freedom]]!'' And all will know that 300 Spartans gave their last breath to defend it! * Spartans! Ready your breakfast and eat hearty, for tonight, we dine in [[w:Hades|Hell]]! *''[last words]'' My Queen!... My wife!... '''My love...''' == [[w:Gorgo, Queen of Sparta|Queen Gorgo]] == * Councilmen, I stand before you not only as your queen. I come to you as a mother. I come to you as a wife. I come to you as a Spartan woman. I come to you with great humility. I am not here to represent Leonidas. His actions speak louder than my words ever could. I am here for all those voices which cannot be heard. Mothers, daughters, fathers, sons. Three hundred families that bleed for our rights. And for the very principles this room was built upon. We are at war, gentlemen. We must send the entire Spartan army to aid our king in the preservation of not just ourselves, but of our children. Send the army for the preservation of liberty. Send it for justice. Send it for law and order. Send it for reason. But most importantly, send our army for hope. Hope that a king and his men have not been wasted to the pages of history. That their courage bonds us together. That we are made stronger by their actions, and that your choices today reflect their bravery. == Dilios == * ''[Regarding Leonidas' upbringing]'' From the time he could stand, he was baptized in the fire of combat. Taught never to retreat, never to surrender. Taught that death on the battlefield in service to Sparta was the greatest glory he could achieve in his life. * They have served the dark will of Persian kings for 500 years. Eyes as dark as night, teeth filed to fangs - soulless. The personal guard to King Xerxes himself. The Persian warrior elite. The deadliest fighting force in all of Asia. The Immortals. The god-king has betrayed a fatal flaw: ''hubris''. Easy to taunt, easy to trick. Before wounds and weariness have taken their toll, the mad king throws the best he has at us. Xerxes has taken the bait. "Immortals" - we put their name to the test. * ''[As the Arcadians join the fight with the Immortals]'' They shout and curse, stabbing wildly, more brawlers than warriors. They make a wondrous mess of things. Brave amateurs, they do their part. * "Immortals". They fail our king's test. And a man who fancies himself a god feels a very ''human'' chill crawl up his spine. * "Remember us." As simple an order as a king can give. "Remember why we died." For he did not wish tribute or song. No monuments, no poems of war and valour. His wish was simple: "Remember us," he said to me. That was his hope. Should any free soul come across that place, in all the countless centuries yet to be, may all our voices whisper to you from the ageless stones: ''Go tell the Spartans, passer-by, that here, by Spartan law, we lie.'' So my king died, and my brothers died, barely a year ago. Long I pondered my king's cryptic talk of victory. But time has proven him wise. For from ''free Greek'' to ''free Greek'', the word was spread that bold Leonidas and his 300, so far from home, laid down their lives, not just for Sparta, but for all Greece and the promise this country holds! Now, here on this ragged patch of earth called [[w:Plataea|Plataea]], Xerxes' hordes face ''obliteration!'' Just there the barbarians huddle, sheer terror gripping tight their hearts with icy fingers, knowing full well what merciless horrors they suffered at the swords and spears of 300! Yet they stare now across the plain at 10,000 Spartans commanding 30,000 free Greeks! :The enemy outnumber us a paltry three to one; good odds for any Greek! This day we rescue a world from mysticism and tyranny, and usher in a future brighter than anything we could imagine! ''Give thanks, men! To Leonidas, and the brave 300! '''To victory!''''' == Dialogue == :'''Persian messenger''': If you value your lives over your complete annihilation... listen carefully, Leonidas. Xerxes conquers and controls everything he rests his eyes upon. He leads an army so massive, it shakes the ground with its march. So vast, it drinks the rivers dry. All the God-King Xerxes requires is this: a simple offering of earth and water... a token of Sparta's submission to the will of Xerxes. :'''Leonidas''': Submission. Now, that's a bit of a problem. See, rumor has it... the ''Athenians'' have already turned you down. And if those philosophers and ''boy-lovers'' have found that kind of nerve, then— :'''Theron''': We must be diplomatic. :'''Leonidas''': ''[cutting him off]'' And, of course, ''Spartans''... have their reputation to consider. :'''Persian messenger''': Choose your next words carefully, Leonidas. They may be your last as king. :''[Leonidas turns and ponders the offer. He looks at various people standing around, watching him nervously, the last of whom is Gorgo.]'' :'''Leonidas''': ''[in his head]'' "Earth and water." ''[having made up his mind, he draws his sword on the Persian messenger, whose back is to a large well. The Spartan guards follow suit and draw their swords on the other messengers.]'' :'''Persian messenger''': Madman! You're a madman! :'''Leonidas''': Earth and water. You'll find plenty of both down there. ''[indicates the well with his sword]'' :'''Persian messenger''': ''[nervous]'' No man, Persian or Greek, ''no'' man threatens a messenger! :'''Leonidas''': You bring the crowns and heads of conquered kings to ''my'' city's steps. You ''insult'' my queen. You threaten my people with ''slavery'' and ''death.'' Oh, I've chosen my words carefully, Persian. Perhaps you should have done the same. :'''Persian messenger''': This is blasphemy. This is MADNESS! ''[Leonidas lowers his sword and looks toward Gorgo, who nods]'' :'''Leonidas''': ''[to Persian messenger]'' Madness...? '''''THIS... IS... SPARTA!!!''''' ''[kicks the Persian messenger into the deep well]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Leonidas''': It seems, though a slave and captive of lecherous old men, the oracle's words could set fire to all that I love. :'''Gorgo''': So that is why my king loses sleep and is forced from the warmth of his bed? There's only one woman's words that should affect the mood of my husband. Those are mine. :'''Leonidas''': Then what must a king do to save his world, when the very laws he has sworn to protect force him to do nothing? :'''Gorgo''': It is not a question of what a Spartan citizen should do, nor a husband, nor a king. Instead, '''ask yourself''', my dearest love, '''what should a free man do?''' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Persian Emissary''': ''[encountering a group of Greeks building a wall to hold off the Persians]'' I am the emissary to the ruler of all the world, the god of gods, king of kings, and by ''that'' authority I demand that ''someone'' show me your commander! ''[Greeks ignore him]'' Listen. Do you think the paltry dozen you slew scare us? These hills ''swarm'' with our scouts! And do you think your pathetic wall will do anything other than fall like a heap of dry leaves in the face of... ''[sees that the stone wall is partially made up of Persian corpses]'' :'''Stelios''': Our ancestors built this wall, using ancient stones from the bosom of Greece herself. And with a little Spartan help, your Persian scouts provided the mortar. :'''Persian Emissary''': You will pay for your barbarism! ''[swings his whip to strike Stelios, who surges forward and cuts off his arm]'' My arm! :'''Stelios''': It's not yours anymore. Go now, run along and tell your Xerxes that he faces free men here, not slaves. Do it quickly, before we decide to make our wall just a little bit bigger. :'''Persian Emissary''': No, not slaves. Your women will be slaves. Your sons, your daughters, your elders will be slaves, but not you. By noon this day, you will all be dead men. The thousand nations of the Persian Empire descend upon you. Our arrows will blot out the sun. :'''Stelios''': ''[grins]'' Then we will fight in the shade. <hr width="50%"/> :''[The ground begins to shake]'' :'''Captain''': Earthquake? :'''Leonidas''': No, Captain. Battle formations! ''[The first wave of Persian infantry begins to advance on the Spartan position]'' This is where we hold them! This is where we fight! This is where they ''die''! : '''Captain''': Earn these shields, boys! : '''Spartans''': Haroo! : '''Leonidas''': Remember this day, men. For it will be yours for all time! ''[The Persian Officer rides through the ranks on his horse to address the Spartans ahead.]'' : '''Persian Officer''': Spartans! Lay down your weapons. ''[a spear flies from the Spartans, killing the Persian officer.]'' : '''Leonidas''': ''[at the front row]'' Persians! ''[assumes phalanx stance with the men on his row]'' [[w:Molon labe|Come and get them]]! ''[The Persians sound the advance and charge towards the Spartans.]'' :'''Captain''': Hold! :'''Leonidas''': Give them nothing! But take from them... ''everything''! <hr width="50%"/> :''[Xerxes has advanced to meet Leonidas, seated on a solid gold throne carried on the backs of many slaves.]'' :'''Leonidas''': Let me guess... you must be... Xerxes? :'''Xerxes''': Come, Leonidas. Let us reason together. It would be a regrettable waste, it would be nothing short of madness, were you, brave King, and your valiant troops to perish... all because of a simple misunderstanding. There is much our cultures could share. :'''Leonidas''': Oh, haven't you noticed? We've been sharing our culture with you all morning. :'''Xerxes''': Yours is a ''fascinating'' tribe. Even now, you are defiant, in the face of annihilation and the presence of a god. It isn't wise to stand against me, Leonidas. Imagine what horrible fate awaits my enemies when I would gladly kill any of my own men for victory. :'''Leonidas''': And I would die for any one of mine. :'''Xerxes''': You Greeks take pride in your logic. I suggest you employ it. Consider the beautiful land you so vigorously defend. Picture it reduced to ash at my whim. Consider the fate of your women. :'''Leonidas''': Clearly you don't know our women. I might as well have marched them up here, judging by what I've seen. You have many slaves, Xerxes, but few warriors. It won't be long before they fear my spears more than your whips. :'''Xerxes''': It is not the lash they fear, it is my divine power. But I am a generous god. I can make you rich beyond all measure. I will make you warlord of all Greece. You will carry my battle standard to the heart of Europa. Your Athenian rivals will kneel at your feet... if you will but kneel at mine. :'''Leonidas''': You are generous as you are divine, O King of Kings. Such an offer only a madman would refuse. But the, uh, the idea of kneeling, it's... You see, slaughtering all those men of yours has, uh, well, it's left a nasty cramp in my leg, so kneeling will be hard for me. :'''Xerxes''': ''[incensed at what Leonidas just said]'' There will be no glory in your sacrifice. I will erase even the memory of Sparta from the histories. Every piece of Greek parchment shall be burned, and every Greek historian and every scribe shall have their eyes put out and their tongues cut from their mouths. Why, uttering the very name of Sparta or Leonidas will be punishable by death. The world will never know you existed at all. :'''Leonidas''': The world will know that free men stood against a tyrant, that few stood against many and, before this battle is over, that even a god-king can bleed. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Gorgo meets Theron]'' :'''Theron''': Beautiful night. :'''Gorgo''': Yes, but I did not ask you here for a small talk, Theron. ''[grabs her dress and walks with Theron]'' :'''Theron''': You can be sure of that. You never spared words with me. :'''Gorgo''': Can I offer you something? A drink, perhaps? :'''Theron''': ''[nervously]'' Is it poison? :'''Gorgo''': I'm sorry to disappoint you, it's only water. :'''Theron''': ''[drinks his water in a cup]'' I'm told it's been arranged for you to go before the council. :'''Gorgo''': Yes. I need your help in winning votes to send the army north to our king. :'''Theron''': Yes. I can see it, the two of us standing together. Me, politician. You, warrior. Our voices as one. But why would I want to do that? :'''Gorgo''': It proves you care for a king who right now fights for the very water we drink. :'''Theron''': True, But this is politics, not war. Leonidas is an idealist. :'''Gorgo''': I know your kind too well. You send men to slaughter for your own gain. :'''Theron''': Your husband, our king, has taken 300 of our finest to slaughter. He's broken our laws and left without the council's consent. I'm simply a realist. :'''Gorgo''': You're an opportunist. :'''Theron''': You're as foolish as Leonidas if you think men don't have a price in this world. All men are not created equal. That's the Spartan code, my little queen. ''[reels from being slapped by Gorgo]'' I admire your passion. But don't think that you... a woman, even a queen, can walk into the council chamber and sway the minds of men. ''[coldly]'' I own that chamber, as if it were built with these hands. ''[grabs Gorgo by the throat and pins her back into the pillar]'' I could crush the life out of you right now. ''[into Gorgo's face]'' You will go before the council, but your words will fall on deaf ears. Leonidas will receive no reinforcements, and if he returns without '''my help''', he will go to jail or worse. Do you love your Sparta? :'''Gorgo''': Yes. :'''Theron''': And your king? :'''Gorgo''': I do. :'''Theron''': ''[releases grip on Gorgo's throat and tightens his strap cape]'' Your husband fights for his land and his love. What do you have to offer in return for my word that I'll help you send our army north? :'''Gorgo''': What does a realist want with his queen? :'''Theron''': I think you know. ''[pauses; watches in amazement as Gorgo slowly slips off her dress, then he turns her around and pins her against the pillar]'' This will not be over quickly. ''[roughly penetrates Gorgo]'' You will not enjoy this. I am not your king. ''[begins to rape Gorgo]'' <hr width="50%"/> :''[Leonidas sees the other Greek forces pulling out upon hearing reports of Ephialtes tipping off the Persians about the goat path and planning an encirclement]'' :'''Daxos''': This battle is over, Leonidas. :'''Leonidas''': This battle is over when I say it is over. :'''Daxos''': By morning, the Immortals will surround us. The Hot Gates will fall. :'''Leonidas''': ''SPARTANS! PREPARE FOR GLORY!!!'' :'''Daxos''': Glory? Have you gone mad? There is no glory to be had now. Only retreat or surrender... or death. :'''Leonidas''': Well, that's an easy choice for us, Arcadian. Spartans never retreat. Spartans never surrender. Go spread the word. Let every Greek assembled know the truth of this. Let each among them search his own soul. And while you're at it, search your own. == Taglines == * '''Tonight we dine in Hell!''' * Prepare for glory! * They were 300 men, against a million! * A God-King must die! * A beautiful death! * Madness? '''THIS IS SPARTA!''' * '''SPARTANS, What is your profession?''' * Give them nothing but take from them everything! == About ''300 (film)'' == * 300 opens on a scene with a chasm full of baby skulls, the remains of the infants who were deemed unfit. Leonidas has no visible disabilities, so he gets to live. Then, as a kid, he’s indoctrinated into the warrior society, taught to fight or die, then sent off to survive on his own. He goes into the snow and kills an enormous CGI wolf; a real trained wolf, apparently, would not have looked badass enough. Snyder presents all this as badass shit. And later, he implies that the Spartans were right to kill off all their disabled children, since it’s a hunchbacked troll escapee who ultimately betrays Leonidas. * The Persian side, on the other hand, the opposite. We see the emperor Xerxes as a 9-foot dandy with a seductive foghorn for a voice and a face full of jangling piercings. And the way Miller and Snyder depict them is just fascinatingly weird. A couple of early messengers are inky in their exaggerated blackness, and the Immortals, Xerxes’ regiment of elite fighters, are mutant ninjas who, when they get their masks knocked off, look like Jabba The Hutt’s palace guards. There’s also an executioner with crab-claw blades for arms and a massive warty ogre who looks like Sloth from The Goonies and who was played by the former WWF giant Kurrgan (Robert Maillet). The bad guys are so othered that they don’t even seem human. :* Tom Breihan, [https://film.avclub.com/zack-snyder-s-300-presaged-the-howling-fascism-of-the-a-1798265082 "Zack Snyder’s 300 presaged the howling fascism of the alt-right"], ''Avclub.com'', (8/11/17). * I was surrounded by hundreds of stuntmen, who were amazing. Stuntmen are my favourite people on a film set, but I had this thing that really helped me get through, which was this thought in my head that, ‘If I can train in such a way that they’re actually going, “He is a badass…” – because I know stuntmen and they like actors but mostly they see them as wet blankets. [I wanted] to train in a way so they would actually take their hats off to me, and in a way so that you would believe that they would actually follow you. I was [working out] six hours a day: two hours with them, two hours doing the 300 work-out, two hours with my own bodybuilder… pumping 25 times before each take. But I was also surrounded by a lot of guys putting in a lot of effort. It was great having that unity of purpose both as an army and in terms of what we were trying to make in this movie and in terms of fitness, training and that warrior spirit. It was a very powerful place to be. * There was a time [on 300] when three nights in a row people were taken to hospital during the fights. One time I was supposed to turn and hit a guy with my sword and I turned to whack him and he was gone, and then I looked down and he was lying there going [grabs arm], 'Arrgghh,' and he’s broken his arm. And the night before a guy got a spear in his eye. He almost lost his eye; he had to get stitches. It was insane. ** Gerard Butler in [https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/gerard-butler-300-workout "Gerard Butler on his six-hour 300 workout, breaking his neck and near-death stunts"] by Mark Russell, ''GQ'', (24 November 2016). * What was your actual involvement? :'''Frank Miller''': I took an exec producer title and kibitzed on the script. I had talks with Zack. And then one day I just said, Well, you’re heading toward production here — this is your movie now. By that time I’d become a director [on Sin City], and I realized the last thing Zack needed was more [[democracy]] in the process. The closer he could get to the wonderful situation I had on Sin City, the better. After that, it became me seeing various cuts of scenes, and coming to the set once, during a big battle scene, and generally not doing a lot of work. There should be no confusion between 300 and Sin City in that way: 300 is Zack’s movie. * 300 is largely faithful to your material. But it takes the character of Queen Gorgo, who only appears in a couple of panels in your version, and gives her a major subplot with a character called Theron, an evil politician. What did you think of that addition? :'''Frank Miller''': At first I very much disagreed with it. My main comment was, ”This is a boys’ movie. Let it be that.” The story itself, in historical terms, really didn’t involve her all that much, from most accounts. But Zack had his reasons. He wanted to show that King Leonidas was fighting for something, by giving him a romantic aspect and by lingering in Sparta a little bit. :* [[Frank Miller]] in [http://ew.com/article/2007/03/13/how-300-went-page-screen/ "How ''300'' went from the page to the screen"], by Steve Daly, ''EW.com'', (March 13, 2007). *'''JA''': Obviously, doing this movie probably caused you to do a lot of research on Greek and Persian armies. What was the most interesting thing you learned about this culture and the history of this? Did you get a good feel for that outside of Frank's work? :'''ZS''': I did a lot of research. A lot of it I felt like I had a responsibility to know, like you have to know the rules before you break them. I feel like Frank beautifully distilled that moment in history down to its essence. Even with my research, there's nothing I would really add or change about what Frank did, although I would say that the sort of Spartan way of rearing a child I found really fascinating and what I would call the sort of state-sponsored abuse. *'''MP''': Did you use any other films as reference materials for this? Something like ''[[Ben-Hur (1959 film)|Ben Hur]]'', ''[[Gladiator (2000 film)]]'', or ''[[Lord of the Rings]]''? :'''ZS''': ''[[Excalibur (film)|Excalibur]]'' probably more than anything, which is one of my favorite movies of all time. The thing that I love, it's very operatic. 300, I'd say, is the opera of Thermopylae, that's what Frank wrote. That's the movie I made. It's more of an opera than Gladiator, but with violence, of course. Great violence. I just made it into an aesthetic and sort of tableau-ish presentation. And I felt that way about Excalibur. It takes a world and it turns it into mythology. That's what Frank did with ''300''. I think the mythological elements in Excalibur are so fun. It was one of those movies [that] always struck me as a child. And it was sexy too. :* Zack Snyder in [HTTPS://WWW.DARKHORSE.COM/INTERVIEWS/1412/INTERVIEW-WITH-300-DIRECTOR-ZACK-SNYDER-3-7-07 “Interview With 300 Director Zack Snyder”], Jeremy Atkins, ''Dark Horse'', (3/7/07). * The director says that the film’s (homo)sexual undertones were intended to make young straight males in the audience uncomfortable, because “What’s more scary to a 20-year-old boy than a giant god-king who wants to have his way with you?” * The movie, true to Miller’s vision, is also loaded with sweaty hunks running around in those tight leather Speedos and capes. None of this is played for gay appeal, but could induce snickering among some teens. Snyder shrugs it off. ”Some people have said to me, ’Your movie is homoerotic,’ and some have said, ’Your movie’s homophobic.’ In my mind, the movie is neither. But I don’t have a problem with people interpreting it the way they’d like to.” As long as they buy tickets first. :* Zack Snyder as quoted in [http://www.newnownext.com/300s-director-admits-using-homosexuality-to-scare-20-year-old-men/03/2007/ “300’s director admits using homosexuality to scare 20 year old men"] by Michael Jensen, ''New Now Next'', ''Logo'', (3/11/2007). *'''Q'''. Has the response from [[Iran]] surprised you? :'''Zack Snyder''': It has surprised me a bit because I would hope that people would understand that the last thing I’d want is to offend anyone with the film. If anyone is offended by it, I’m deeply sorry because that’s not the intention of the movie at all. To me, it’s a work of fantasy; it’s not intended to depict any culture in a realistic way. That’s just not what the movie is. I do have an appreciation for those cultures because of the historical research that I’ve done in preparing the film. I think it’s the responsibility of someone who sees the movie to actually crack open the history book and see what really happened. <br> But the truth is, I am a little bit “wow” by the reaction. It’s not my intention at all to make a film that people would find [[offensive]]. :* Zack Snyder, [http://www.indielondon.co.uk/Film-Review/300-zack-snyder-interview "300 - Zack Snyder interview"], ''IndieLondon''. == Cast == * [[w:Gerard Butler|Gerard Butler]] &ndash; [[Leonidas I|Spartan King Leonidas]] * [[w:Lena Headey|Lena Headey]] &ndash; [[w:Gorgo, Queen of Sparta|Queen Gorgo]], Leonidas' wife * [[w:David Wenham|David Wenham]] &ndash; Dilios, Narrator * [[w:Dominic West|Dominic West]] &ndash; Theron * [[w:Vincent Regan|Vincent Regan]] &ndash; Captain Artemis * [[w:Michael Fassbender|Michael Fassbender]] &ndash; Stellios * [[w:Tom Wisdom|Tom Wisdom]] &ndash; Astinos * [[w:Andrew Pleavin|Andrew Pleavin]] &ndash; Daxos * [[w:Andrew Tiernan|Andrew Tiernan]] &ndash; Ephialtes * [[w:Rodrigo Santoro|Rodrigo Santoro]] &ndash; Xerxes * [[w:Peter Mensah|Peter Mensah]] &ndash; Messenger * [[w:Stephen McHattie|Stephen McHattie]] &ndash; Loyalist * [[w:Giovanni Antonio Cimmino|Giovanni Antonio Cimmino]] &ndash; Pleistarchus * [[w:Tyrone Benskin|Tyrone Benskin]] &ndash; Persian Emissary == External links == {{wikipedia|300 (film)}} * {{imdb title|id=0416449|title=300}} * {{rotten-tomatoes|id=300|title=300}} * The official [http://300themovie.warnerbros.com/ ''300''] site [[Category:2006 films]] [[Category:Action films]] [[Category:Comic book films]] [[Category:Period films]] [[Category:War films]] [[Category:2000s American films]] [[Category:Films based on true stories]] [[Category:Epic films]] [[Category:Films directed by Zack Snyder]] [[Category:Siege films]] [[Category:Censored films]] [[es:300]] [[it:300]] 2gceju8501egvfphnt1q8mth00mh9u1 0 45835 3961140 3792138 2026-07-05T16:26:12Z BD2412 3982 /* B */ Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]], replaced: William J. Brennan, Jr. → William J. Brennan Jr. using [[Project:AWB|AWB]] 3961140 wikitext text/x-wiki '''[[w:Capital punishment|Capital punishment]]''', also known as the [[death]] [[penalty]], is the execution of a convicted criminal by the [[state]] as punishment for [[crimes]] known as capital crimes or capital offences. At various times, the execution of criminals and [[political]] [[opponents]] was used by nearly all [[societies]] both to punish crime and to suppress political dissent. __NOTOC__ {{TOCalpha}} == Quotes == ==A== * The abolition of capital punishment, surely coming, is delayed by [[God]]'s [[:wiktionary:edict|edict]], "He that sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed," and God's servants have ever been the opponents of this humane reform. [[Witchcraft]] has been believed in and men and women have been killed because God said, "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live." ** [https://archivalcollections.library.mcgill.ca/index.php/adams-robert-c-robert-chamblet-1839-1892 Robert Chamblet Adams], {{cite book|title=Good Without God|publisher=P. Eckler|year=1902|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0y4pAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA42|page=42}} ==B== * The punishment of death is pernicious to society, from the example of barbarity it affords. If the passions, or the necessity of war, have taught men to shed the blood of their fellow creatures, the laws, which are intended to moderate the ferocity of mankind, should not increase it by examples of barbarity, the more horrible as this punishment is usually attended with formal pageantry. Is it not absurd, that the laws, which detest and punish homicide, should, in order to prevent murder, publicly commit murder themselves? ** [[Cesare Beccaria]], ''On Crimes and Punishments'', 1764 * Death is an unusually severe and degrading [[punishment]]; there is a strong probability that it is inflicted arbitrarily; its rejection by contemporary society is virtually total; and there is no reason to believe that it serves any penal purpose more effectively than the less severe punishment of [[imprisonment]]. The function of these principles is to enable a court to determine whether a punishment comports with human dignity. Death, quite simply, does not. When this country was founded, memories of the [[w:House_of_Stuart|Stuart]] horrors were fresh and severe corporal punishments were common. Death was not then a unique punishment. The practice of punishing criminals by death, moreover, was widespread and by and large acceptable to society. Indeed, without developed prison systems, there was frequently no workable alternative. Since that time, successive restrictions, imposed against the background of a continuing moral controversy, have drastically curtailed the use of this punishment. Today death is a uniquely and unusually severe punishment. ** [[William J. Brennan Jr.]], Opinion in Furman v. Georgia, 1972, as quoted in ''Historic Documents of 1972''. Washington, DC: CQ Press. * '''Bran Stark''': Our way is the old way. * '''Ned Stark''': '''The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.''' :* David Bonioff and D.B. Weiss, "[[w:Winter is Coming|Winter is Coming]]", ''[[Game of Thrones]]'', (April 17, 2011) ==C== * '''[[Capital punishment]] is the most premeditated of [[murders]]''', to which no criminal’s deed, however calculated, can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the [[death]] penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date on which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his [[mercy]] for months. '''Such a monster is not to be encountered in private life.''' ** [[Albert Camus]], “Reflections on the Guillotine,” ''Resistance, Rebellion and Death'' (1961). * A [[punishment]] that penalizes without forestalling is indeed called [[revenge]]. ** [[Albert Camus]], “Reflections on the Guillotine,” ''Resistance, Rebellion and Death'' (1961). * What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder? ** [[Albert Camus]], “Reflections on the Guillotine,” ''Resistance, Rebellion and Death'' (1961). * In the disposition of capital cases in the United States, the median elapsed time between sentence and execution is approximately seventeen months. [...] However, even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune [...]. ** [[Truman Capote]], ''In Cold Blood'', part 4 * The traditional teaching of the [[Catholic Church|Church]] does not exclude, presupposing full ascertainment of the identity and responsibility of the offender, recourse to the death penalty, when this is the only practicable way to defend the lives of human beings effectively against the aggressor. <br> "If, instead, bloodless means are sufficient to defend against the [[Aggression|aggressor]] and to protect the safety of persons, public authority should limit itself to such means, because they better correspond to the concrete conditions of the common good and are more in conformity to the dignity of the human person. <br> "Today, in fact, given the means at the [[State]]'s disposal to effectively repress crime by rendering inoffensive the one who has committed it, without depriving him definitively of the possibility of redeeming himself, cases of absolute necessity for suppression of the offender 'today ... are very rare, if not practically non-existent.' [<nowiki/>[[Pope John Paul II|John Paul II]], Evangelium vitae 56.] ** [https://web.archive.org/web/20111008122958/https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P7Z.HTM#-2C6 Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2267], Archived October 8, 2011, at the Wayback Machine * Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a few minutes, or the one who wrests your life from you in the course of many years? ** [[Anton Chekhov]], ''The banker in The Bet'', ''Works'', vol. 7, p. 229, “Nauka” <1254> *Yeah, modern life may be monotonous with its 9-5 work week and overcrowded morning commutes; but you should be thankful you only have to suffer this and not some of the most brutal execution techniques in history. Fire up Wikipedia or any website on historical capital punishment and you'll swiftly learn that humanity has been responsible for some of the most depraved ways of torturing and killing each other over the years. **Brenna Cooper of ''{{w|LADbible Group}}'' (January 23, 2025) [https://www.ladbible.com/community/what-is-immurement-entombment-execution-method-990084-20250123] ==D== * To the left of the stairway was an opaque glass door with a sign that read: SOCIETY FOR THE ABOLISHMENT OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. The door was locked but the next morning, I knew, the stiff-looking lady with the bleached blond hair would be back at her typewriter. What did one do to abolish capital punishment? I wondered. I had asked Father one day what capital punishment meant. "Killing," said Father, "but they are wasting their time." How strange, I had thought, to waste one's time sitting at a typewriter all day long to abolish something that was already against the law. ** [[:W:Marjorie Housepian Dobkin|Marjorie Housepian Dobkin]], [[:W:A Houseful of Love|''A Houseful of Love'']], Ch. 1 * The chief and worst pain may not be in the bodily suffering but in one's knowing for certain that in an hour, and then in ten minutes, and then in half a minute, and then now, at the very moment, the soul will leave the body and that one will cease to be a man and that that's bound to happen; the worst part of it is that it's ''certain''. When you lay your head down under the knife and hear the knife slide over your head, that quarter of a second is the most terrible of all. You know this is not only my imagination, many people have said the same. I believe that so thoroughly that I'll tell you what I think '''To kill for murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by brigands.''' ** [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]], ''The Idiot'', Ch. 2, Prince Myshkin. ==E== * The ability of so many people to live comfortably with the idea of capital punishment is perhaps a clue to how so many [[Europeans]] were able to live with the idea of the [[Holocaust]]: Once you accept the notion that the state has the right to kill someone and the right to define what is a capital crime, aren't you halfway there? ** [[Roger Ebert]], [http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20000204/REVIEWS/2040302/1023 "Mr. Death: The Rise And Fall Of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr."], ''Chicago Sun-Times'', 4 February 2000. * I have reached the conviction that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. Reasons: 1) Irreparability in the event of an error of justice, 2) Detrimental moral influence of the execution procedure on those who, whether directly or indirectly, have to do with the procedure. ** [[Albert Einstein]] "Albert Einstein-The human side", Princeton University Press, 1979, p.83. ==F== [[File:Karl Morgenschweis prays for condemned prisoner.jpg|thumb|No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a [[w:Grand jury in the United States|grand jury]], except in cases arising in the [[United States Armed Forces|land or naval forces]], or in the [[w:Militia (United States)|militia]], when in actual service in time of [[war]] or public danger[.] ~ [[Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Fifth Amendment]] to the [[United States Constitution]]]] [[File:The Christian Martyrs' Last Prayer GA&C.jpg|thumb|right|Recourse to the death penalty on the part of legitimate authority, following a fair trial, was long considered an appropriate response to the gravity of certain crimes and an acceptable, albeit extreme, means of safeguarding the common good. Today, however, there is an increasing awareness that the dignity of the person is not lost even after the commission of very serious crimes. In addition, a new understanding has emerged of the significance of penal sanctions imposed by the state. Lastly, more effective systems of detention have been developed, which ensure the due protection of citizens but, at the same time, do not definitively deprive the guilty of the possibility of redemption. Consequently, the [[Catholic Church|Church]] teaches, in the light of the [[Gospel]], that “the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person”, and she works with determination for its abolition worldwide. ~ [[Pope Francis]]]] * No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a [[w:Grand jury in the United States|grand jury]], except in cases arising in the [[United States Armed Forces|land or naval forces]], or in the [[w:Militia (United States)|militia]], when in actual service in time of [[war]] or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to [[w:double jeopardy|be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb]]; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without [[due process]] of law; nor shall [[private property]] be taken for public use, without just compensation. ** [[Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Fifth Amendment]] to the [[United States Constitution]] * Recourse to the death penalty on the part of legitimate authority, following a fair trial, was long considered an appropriate response to the gravity of certain crimes and an acceptable, albeit extreme, means of safeguarding the common good. Today, however, there is an increasing awareness that the dignity of the person is not lost even after the commission of very serious crimes. In addition, a new understanding has emerged of the significance of penal sanctions imposed by the state. Lastly, more effective systems of detention have been developed, which ensure the due protection of citizens but, at the same time, do not definitively deprive the guilty of the possibility of redemption. Consequently, the [[Catholic Church|Church]] teaches, in the light of the [[Gospel]], that “the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person”, and she works with determination for its abolition worldwide. ** [[Pope Francis]], Holy See Press Office. “[https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2018/08/02/180802a.html New Revision of Number 2267 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church on the Death Penalty – Rescriptum ‘ex Audentia SS.mi,’ 02.08.2018].” August 2, 2018 * I still support the death penalty — not because it’s a deterrent or a fitting act of vengeance, but because, properly carried out, it is the only penalty that truly reflects the enormous value of innocent life. There are times when it is the only punishment that truly fits the crime. It is for this reason that the same scriptures that so clearly direct the children of Israel to “choose life” also direct that “whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.” Nor was the power of the sword taken from government by the New Testament. To the contrary, in Romans 13, Paul explicitly acknowledges that the power of the sword should rest with government, and that it holds “terror” for those who do wrong. ** David French, [https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/08/death-penalty-defense-helps-preserve-dignity-of-life/ The Death Penalty Helps Preserve the Dignity of Life], ''National Review'', August 10, 2018 ==G== * I would draw distinction between killing and detention and even corporal punishment. I think there is a difference not merely in quantity but also in quality. I can recall the punishment of detention. I can make reparation to the man upon whom I inflict corporal punishment. But once a man is killed, the punishment is beyond recall or reparation. God alone can take life, because He alone gives it. ** [[Mahatma Gandhi]], ''Young India'', 8th November 1925. Quoted in Bishan Sarup Sharma, ''Gandhi as a Political Thinker'', Indian Press, 1956 (p.108). * The pain was maddening. You should pray to God when you're dying, if you can pray when you're in agony. In my dream I didn't pray to God, I thought of Roger and how dearly I loved him. The pain of those wicked flames was not half so bad as the pain I felt when I knew he was dead. I felt suddenly glad to be dying. I didn't know when you were burnt to death you'd bleed. I thought the blood would all dry up in the terrible heat. But I was bleeding heavily. The blood was dripping and hissing in the flames. I wished I had enough blood to put the flames out. The worst part was my eyes. I hate the thought of gong blind. It's bad enough when I'm awake but in dreams you can't shake the thoughts away. They remain. In this dream I was going blind. I tried to close my eyelids but I couldn't. They must have been burnt off, and now those flames were going to pluck my eyes out with their evil fingers, I didn't want to go blind. The flames weren't so cruel after all. They began to feel cold. Icy cold. It occurred to me that I wasn't burning to death but freezing to death. ** [[Arthur Guirdham]] in ''The Cathars and Reincarnation'', p. 89 * Many of us do not believe in capital punishment, because thus society takes from a man what society cannot give. ** [[Katharine Fullerton Gerould]], ''Modes and Morals'', ch. 7 (1920). * If we could do away with death, we wouldn’t object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that to happen, we would reinstate it from time to time. ** [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]], ''Wilhelm Meister’s Travels'', from ''Makarie’s Archive'' (1829). ==H== * Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life. ** [[Orrin Hatch]], quoted from David Milsted, ''The Cassell Dictionary of Regrettable Quotations'' (1999) * Death penalty is the special and eternal sign of [[Barbarian|barbarism]]. Where death penalty is applied, barbarism dominates; where death penalty is rare, [[Civilization|civilisation]] reigns. ** [[Victor Hugo]], [[w:National Constituant Assembly|National Constituant Assembly of the French Republic]], 15 September 1848. * Three things belong to God and do not belong to men: the irrevocable, the irreparable and the indissoluble. Woe to men if they introduce it in their laws! ** [[Victor Hugo]], [[w:National Constituant Assembly|National Constituant Assembly of the French Republic]], 15 September 1848. * ... Like lightning the swords fell on the outermost prisoners, then on the three by their sides, and so on the next rows in rapid succession The knives were used but in two or three instances in cutting off those heads which had not fallen at the first blow. Everything was over in a minute or two. The {{w|Mandarin (bureaucrat)|Mandarin}}s had moved off with their escort, the executioners followed them into the city, when as customary, friends or relations appeared with coffins and removed some of the bodies, others being carried for burial in a {{w|potter's field}} on the east side of the city. The prisoners on these occasions are brought to the ground in new suits of blue cotton cloth, which become the property of the burial party, while one or two heads are thrown into a large cage of iron bars, on one side of the execution ground, and left there as a warning to evil-doers. It is a well-known and a remarkable fact, that substitutes may often be found for a very small sum to undergo the last penalty. Men appear at the prison and offer themselves, instigated by some such such motive as the extreme poverty of aged parents, to whom the money agreed upon shall be paid after the execution. This is looked upon as a proof of {{w|filial piety}}, one of the first virtues, and as the law is satisfied, a life for a life, the arrangement is granted by the authorities, except in cases of treason to the {{w|Chinese Empire#Qing dynasty|Imperial Government}}, when the more frightful penalty is inflicted called {{w|Lingchi|'Ling-che,'}} or cutting into small pieces. This punishment is also imposed in cases of {{w|parricide}} or {{w|matricide}}, and no substitute allowed. ** [https://www.cap.amdigital.co.uk/Documents/Details/Journal-of-Occurrences-at-Canton-during-the-Cessation-of-Trade-at-Canton--1839/BA_S35_Manuscript William C. Hunter], {{cite book|title=Bits of Old China|edition=2nd|publisher=Kegan Paul, Trench, & Company|year=1885|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QFBLAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA165|pages=165–166}} (1st edition 1855; The excerpt is based on Hunter's eyewitness account of an execution in Canton. At age 13, William Charles Hunter (1812–1891) went to China and eventually was employed by {{w|Russell & Company}}, where he became a partner in 1837.) ==I== ==K== * “For the most part, executions happen in obscurity. If people did hear about executions, if they were publicized, even televised, I fear more would enjoy them than be repelled by them.” ** Wendy Kaminer,[http://www.aclu.org/racial-justice_prisoners-rights_drug-law-reform_immigrants-rights/62495-wendy-kaminer-crime "6/24/95 Wendy Kaminer on Crime" (24 June 1995)] * You guys in [[Arizona|AZ]] are life savers. ** Scott Kernan of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/09/AR2010120900462.html upon being resupplied with sodium thiopental from the Arizona Department of Corrections to carry out lethal injection], ''The Washington Post'', 9 December 2010. * Yea, such is the [[Common law|law of England]], the tenderest law in the world of a man's life. I say again, that no such trial for life is to be found in the world, as in [[England]]. In any place but in England, a man's life may be taken away upon two or three witnesses; but in England two or three witnesses do not do it: For there are two juries besides, and you have four-and-twenty men returned; you have one-and-twenty men upon their oaths and consciences that have found you guilty: And yet when you have done that, it is not enough by the law of England, but you are also to have twelve rational understanding men of your neighbours to hear all over again, and to pass upon your life. This is not used in any law in the world but in England, which hath the most righteous and most merciful law in the world. ** Lord Keble, C.J., ''Lilburne's Case'' (1649), 4 How. St. Tr. 1311; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, ''The Dictionary of Legal Quotations'' (1904), p. 240-241. * I do not think God approves the death penalty for any crime—rape and murder included. God’s concern is to improve individuals and bring them to the point of conversion. Even criminology has repudiated the motive of punishment in favor of the reformation of the criminal. Shall a good God harbor resentment? Since the purpose of jailing a criminal is that of reformation rather than retribution—improving him rather than paying him back for some crime that he has done—it is highly inconsistent to take the life of a criminal. How can he improve if his life is taken? Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God. ** [[Martin Luther King Jr.]], ''Advice for Living'', 1957 * Death penalty: The death penalty will not solve the problem of crime, but it is more than merely symbolic. There are some people who commit murder that so subvert society that they deserve nothing less than a death sentence. I believe, as does the Supreme Court, that some people will be deterred by it. ** [[Ed Koch]], ''Ed Koch on Everything'' (1994), p. 61 * There has to be a risk of the ''death'' sentence in order for 'mastery' to exist. ** [[Alexandre Kojève]], ''The Notion of Authority'' (2020) [1942], p. 79 * We must execute not only the [[Guilt|guilty]]. Execution of the [[Innocence|innocent]] will impress the masses even more. ** [[W:Nikolai Krylenko|Nikolai Krylenko]], as quoted by {{w|Richard Pipes}} in ''The Russian Revolution''; page 822. ==L== * Land said that he, like most [[Southern Baptists]], support the death penalty with certain caveats. “If you are going to support the death penalty then you have to be as supportive of its equitable and just application,” Land said, suggesting it is immoral to support it otherwise. A person is much more likely to be executed if they are poor rather than wealthy, a person of color and a man, he added. ** Richard Land in Baptist Press [https://web.archive.org/web/20110615032610/http:/www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=22064"Sparks fly in Land's appearance at black columnists’ meeting"] Archived June 15, 2011, at the Wayback Machine * [[w:Lethal injection|Lethal injection]] was initially seen as a more humane option than the [[w:Electric chair|electric chair]] in administering the death penalty. Unfortunately, according to Oliver, that is simply not the case. This is due in part to the fact that lethal injections are performed by “amateurs,” according to Oliver, because medical personnel cannot be involved in executions as they violate their [[Medical ethics|ethical codes]]. The other reason has to do with the combination of [[drugs]] given during executions. There’s an [[w:Anesthetic|anesthetic]], a [[w:Paralytic|paralytic]], which reportedly can make people feel like they are [[w:Suffocation|suffocating]] while awake, and the final dose which feels like “[[fire]] in your [[veins]]” before it puts the person into [[w:Cardiac arrest|cardiac arrest]]. ** Melissa Locker, [http://time.com/5582746/last-week-tonight-lethal-injection/ “'There's No Way to Do This and Make It Okay.' John Oliver Talks Lethal Injection on Last Week Tonight”], ''[[w:Time (magazine)|Time]]'', (5/5/2019); quoting [[John Oliver]], ''[[Last Week Tonight|Last Week Tonight with John Oliver]]'', (5/5/2019). ==M== [[File:Death of Giacomo Cenci.jpg|thumb|All grandeur, all power, all subordination to authority rests on the executioner: he is the horror and the bond of human association. ~ [[Joseph de Maistre]] ]] [[File:Beheading duke somerset.jpg|thumb|If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die. A ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is. ~ [[George R. R. Martin]]]] * Problems or [[Success|successes]], they all are the results of our own actions. [[Karma]].... As you sow, so shall you reap. It's a very old proverb of mankind... Sometime you may have killed that man, and then sometime now he comes to kill you... What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it's our own karma... That is why that philosophy in every religion: '''Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion.''' Whosoever sins, whoever is killed, it doesn't matter. It's a sin. And sin.. is a punishable offense. Because when you sin, when you've killed some man, what you are killing? You are killing the cosmic potential within the individual. Individual is cosmic. Individual potential of life is cosmic potential. Individual is divine deep inside. Transcendental experience awakens that [[divinity]] in man... When you kill a man like that you deprive him from getting to his human right. ** [[Maharishi Mahesh Yogi]], in [http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0205/12/lklw.00.html CNN Larry King Weekend:Interview With Maharishi Mahesh Yogi], (2002) * The burning of the house of the offender is not a permissible punishment for arson. The rape of the offender is not a permissible punishment of a rapist. Why should murder be a permissible punishment for murder? ** [[Ismail Mahomed]], ''S v Makwanyane'', (6 June 1995). * '''It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.''' ** [[Maimonides]], ''[[w:Sefer Hamitzvot| Sefer Hamitzvot]]'' [''Book of the Commandments''], commentary on Negative Commandment 290, as translated by Charles B. Chavel (1967); also in ''Defending the Human Spirit : Jewish Law's Vision for a Moral Society'' (2006) by Warren Goldstein, p. 269 * The mere fact that the community demands the murderer's life in return for the evil he has done cannot sustain the death penalty, for as Justice Stewart, Powell, and Stevens remind us, "the Eighth Amendment demands more than that a challenged punishment be acceptable to contemporary society.’To be sustained under the Eighth Amendment, the death penalty must compor[t] with the basic concept of human dignity at the core of the Amendment,’ the objective in imposing it must be [consistent] with our respect for the dignity of [other] men.’ Under these standards, the taking of life "because the wrongdoer deserves it" surely must fall, for such a punishment has as its very basis the total denial of the wrongdoer's dignity and worth. The death penalty, unnecessary to promote the goal of deterrence or to further any legitimate notion of retribution, is an excessive penalty forbidden by the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. I respectfully dissent from the Court's judgment upholding the sentences of death imposed upon the petitioners in these cases. ** [[Thurgood Marshall]], Dissenting opinion, Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U.S. 153 (1976) * All [[grandeur]], all [[power]], all subordination to [[authority]] rests on the executioner: he is the horror and the bond of human association. ** [[Joseph de Maistre]], ''St. Petersburg Dialogues'' (1821), "First Dialogue" * '''If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die. A ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.''' ** [[George R. R. Martin|George R.R. Martin]], ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire#A Game of Thrones|A Game of Thrones]]'', Bran (I)—Lord Eddard Stark, explaining why he personally executes those sentenced to death rather than have a headsman do it. * Capital punishment has probably been responsible for a good deal of human progress. The overwhelming majority of those executed were of the sort whose departures for bliss eternal improved the average intelligence and decency of the race. ** [[H. L. Mencken]], "The Penalty of Death" (1926) * ... for if [abrogation] comes it will be their doing, and they will have gained what I cannot but call a fatal victory, for they will have achieved it by bringing about... an effeminacy in the general mind of the country. ** [[John Stuart Mill]]: ''Utilitarianism and the 1868 Speech on Capital Punishment'', p.68. (Sher, ed. Hackett Publishing Co, 2001) * This relationship between the citizen and his or her rights does not even make sense in a classical-juridical context. If we consider, for instance, the right to life of the individual in the classical-juridical model, it is the sovereign, and the sovereign alone, who is capable of overriding it. Moreover, should the sovereign choose to violate an individual's right to life, consent has nothing to do with the process. The subject is deprived of the legal protection of full citizenship before his or her life is taken. It is true that many legal systems describe situations in which a citizen's right to life is forfeit-”honor killing” being an obvious example of this process in the nineteenth century [[French]], [[Italian]], and [[Ottoman]] criminal code. It is likewise true that the contemporary debate surrounding euthanasia-although arguably more a biopolitical than a political debate-largely has to do with whether or not a citizen can consent to a violation of his or her right to life. But even so, there has been no moment in either of these debates at which the classical juridical sovereign has given up the monopoly on the right to life, or in which the biopolitical sovereign has given up the monopoly on the right to death. There is no question of consent on the part of the citizen- beyond, some might argue, the consent that tied this citizen into an original social contract-because it is the sovereign's right alone to “choose.” ** Miller, Ruth Austin (2007).[https://books.google.com/books?id=QBrEtjU86RgC “The Limits of Bodily Integrity: Abortion, Adultery, and Rape Legislation in Comparative Perspective”]. Ashgate Publishing. p.8 * For another interpretation of the movement away from “violent” forms of capital punishment, see: “the sentimentalized body is also intact one might say perfect, the better to sense as a representation of our own empathy and refinement. The humane versions of capital punishment express their humanity in just this: that they leave the body visibly intact, without dismemberment or marks …. '[B]y taking life without marking the body, reformers retain both literal and figurative control over the story told by the execution. Concealing the violence deprives the body of its ability to speak, and thus opens the door to denial.” Hyde 1997, 15. Sarat 2001. ** Miller, Ruth Austin (2007).[https://books.google.com/books?id=QBrEtjU86RgC “The Limits of Bodily Integrity: Abortion, Adultery, and Rape Legislation in Comparative Perspective”]. Ashgate Publishing. footnote 107, p.53 * The murder of one person is called unrighteous and incurs one death penalty. Following this argument, the murder of ten persons will be ten times as unrighteous and there should be ten death penalties; the murder of a hundred persons will be a hundred times as unrighteous and there should be a hundred death penalties. '''All the gentlemen of the world know that they should condemn these things, calling them unrighteous. But when it comes to the great unrighteousness of attacking states, they do not know that they should condemn it. On the contrary, they applaud it, calling it righteous.''' ** [[Mozi]], ''Book 5: Condemnation of Offensive War I'' * A bedouin came and said, "O [[Allah]]'s Apostle! Judge between us according to [[Sharia|Allah's Laws]]." His opponent got up and said, "He is right. Judge between us according to Allah's Laws." The Bedouin said, "My son was a laborer working for this man, and he committed illegal [[Human sexual activity|sexual intercourse]] with his [[Wives|wife]]. The people told me that my son should be [[Stoning|stoned]] to death; so, in lieu of that, I paid a ransom of one hundred [[sheep]] and a [[Islamic views on slavery|slave]] girl to save my son. Then I asked the learned [[Scholarship|scholars]] who said, "Your son has to be lashed one-hundred lashes and has to be [[Exile|exiled]] for one year." The [[Muhammad|Prophet]] said, "No doubt I will judge between you according to Allah's Laws. '''The slave-girl and the sheep are to go back to you, and your son will get a hundred lashes and one year exile."''' He then addressed somebody, "O Unais! '''go to the wife of this (man) and stone her to death" So, Unais went and stoned her to death.''' ** [[Muhammad]] narrated Abu Huraira and Zaid bin Khalid Al-Juhani {{Bukhari|3|49|860}} ==N== * Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong? ** [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly%20Near Holly Near], "Foolish Notion." ''And Still We Sing: The Outspoken Collection'', Calico Tracks Music, 2002. ** Clarifying Note: In the context of the song, the quote is about [[War]]. ==O== * Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn't do the hangman's job. ** [[George Orwell]], ''{{w|The Road to Wigan Pier}}'', 1937. ==P== * The uncanny assemblage of scientific, institutional, legal, and social forces all pushing to strip government of its power to kill make it seem as if there really is a mysterious arc bending toward justice. More prosaically, we are seeing a moral principle—Life is sacred, so killing is onerous—become distributed across a wide range of actors and institutions that have to cooperate to make the death penalty possible. As these actors and institutions implement the principle more consistently and thoroughly, they inexorably push the country away from the impulse to avenge a life with a life. The pathways are manifold and torturous, the effects are slow and then sudden, but in the fullness of time [[Cesare Beccaria|an idea]] from the [[Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] can transform the world. ** [[Steven Pinker]], ''Enlightenment Now'' (Penguin: 2018), p. 21 * Those of us who are for the death penalty are sickened that this man was not killed when first convicted. It sickens us that the family had to live with the daily reality that the torturer and murderer of their son was enjoying his meals, watching TV and sharing the camaraderie of his fellow inmates ** [[Dennis Prager]], [https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/90185/ Murderers should die], Jewish Journal, March 15, 2011. ==Q== ==R== *'''Niles Talbot''': First thing you got to understand is when it's their time, all these big tough guys go yellow. Crying, hollering, screaming and blubbering, "The Governor is gonna call," and all that. I been here 12 years, and the Governor ain't called yet. ** Niles Talbot as interpreted by [[w:William Sadler|William Sadler]] in "The Man Who Was Death", ''[[Tales from the Crypt (TV series)|Tales from the Crypt]]'', (June 10, 1989), written by Robert Reneau and Walter Hill; based on "The Man Who Was Death" by [[w:Gardner Fox|Gardner Fox]] in ''[[w:Tales from the Crypt (comics)|The Crypt of Terror]]'' #17, (April/May 1950) *'''Niles Talbot''': Fucking guys on [[TV]], what do they know? Let me tell you something. If they put [[executions]] on TV it would be the fucking highest-rated show of all time. It'd be [[w:Nielsen ratings|Neilsens]] through the roof. The other networks would start killing people just to compete. Pretty soon, [[w:Geraldo Rivera|Geraldo Rivera]] would be pulling that switch. ** Niles Talbot as interpreted by [[w:William Sadler|William Sadler]] in "The Man Who Was Death", ''[[Tales from the Crypt (TV series)|Tales from the Crypt]]'', (June 10, 1989), written by Robert Reneau and Walter Hill; based on "The Man Who Was Death" by [[w:Gardner Fox|Gardner Fox]] in ''[[w:Tales from the Crypt (comics)|The Crypt of Terror]]'' #17, (April/May 1950) * Within your system, to kill is obviously a moral crime, but to kill another in punishment only compounds the original error. [[Jesus|Someone]] very well known who established a [[church]] -- if you will, a civilization -- once said, "Turn the other cheek if you are attacked." The original meaning of that remark, however, should be understood. You should turn the other cheek because you realize that basically the attacker only attacks himself. Then you are free, and the reaction is a good one. If you turn the other cheek without this understanding, however, and feel resentful, or if you turn the other cheek out of a feeling of pseudomoral superiority, then the reaction is far from adequate. ** [[Jane Roberts]] in ''Seth Speaks'' (1972), p. 171 * As regards capital cases, the trouble is that emotional men and women always see only the individual whose fate is up at the moment, and neither his victim nor the many millions of unknown individuals who would in the long run be harmed by what they ask. Moreover, almost any criminal, however brutal, has usually some person, often a person whom he has greatly wronged, who will plead for him. If the mother is alive she will always come, and she cannot help feeling that the case in which she is so concerned is peculiar, that in this case a pardon should be granted. It was really heartrending to have to see the kinfolk and friends of murderers who were condemned to death, and among the very rare occasions when anything governmental or official caused me to lose sleep were times when I had to listen to some poor mother making a plea for a criminal so wicked, so utterly brutal and depraved, that it would have been a crime on my part to remit his punishment. ** [[Theodore Roosevelt]], ''Theodore Roosevelt, An Autobiography''. * The [[Bible]] identifies 15 crimes against the family worthy of the death penalty. [[Abortion]] is treason against the family and deserves the death penalty. [[Adultery]] is treason to the family; adulterers should be put to death. [[Homosexuality]] is treason to the family and it too, is worthy of death. ** [[w:Rousas John Rushdoony|R. J. Rushdoony]], to [[Bill Moyers]], on PBS Home Video: ''God and Politics: On Earth as it is in Heaven'', 1988. ==S== [[File:PregnancyinCrossSection.jpg|thumb|To [[politics]] the condemned [[mother]] is part of a machine rendered useless, but her expected [[child]] is a freshly wrought screw; the former is cast to the heap of old iron, the latter is guarded carefully. To [[ethics]], however, the condemned mother is still a woman having claim to forbearance. Hence the politically motivated laws of the [[Egyptians]], [[Greeks]], and [[Romans]], refused to admit the execution of a [[pregnant]] woman; while the ethically motivated law of the [[Jews]] prescribes it. ~ Daniel Schiff]] [[File:Fostre.tif|thumb|Waltke notes that [[Book of Leviticus|Lev. 24:17]] requires the death penalty for anyone who “kills any human life,” and says that the death penalty plainly was not prescribed in [[Book of Exodus|Exodus]], Chapter 21, for killing a fetus. He concludes that the fetus was not reckoned as a soul in the Old Testament. W.A. Criswell agrees with Waltke, focusing as he does on the “birth and breath” criteria for personhood of [[Genesis|Gen. 2:7]]. He says that the legislation in Exodus was “designed to protect pregnant women from injury” and clearly recognized the different standings of women and fetuses under the law. ~ Paul D. Simmons]] * ''Scroggs, L.C.J'': My rule is this, in doubtful cases, when men are upon their lives, I had rather hear what is impertinent, than not let them make a full defence.<br>''North, L.C.J'': I had rather hear things at a venture, than forbid things at a venture. ** ''Whitehead's Case'' (1679), 7 How. St. Tr. 388; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, ''The Dictionary of Legal Quotations'' (1904), p. 241. * In the case of murder, the death penalty - issued by way of putting the culprit to sleep to then apply the lethal injection - is the time delayed procedure of self-defense as carried out by the representatives of the victim(s) who, at the time of the incident and due to the then existing circumstances, was/were unable to defend itself/themselves from the willful murderous attack. ** Manfred F. Schieder (1937 - ) From Chapter 6 of "Ayn Rand, I and the Universe" (http://rebirthofreason.com/Articles/Schieder/The_Logically_Resulting_Type_of_Society.shtml). * The ''Tannam'' further underscore the distance between the treatment of a fetus and that of a full ''nefesh'' in an altogether different circumstance in ''Mishnah Arakhin'': “The execution of a [[pregnant]] woman who is condemned to death is not postponed until after she gives [[birth]]. But once she is on the birth stool, the execution is postponed until after she gives birth.” ** Daniel Schiff, [https://books.google.com/books?id=xh9vy_dvO6YC “Abortion in Judaism”], (Cambridge University Press 2002), Ch.2 Evaluating life: rabbinic perspectives on fetal standing, p.37 * The ''Tannam'' elaborate upon their commitment to execution until the onset of labor within a ''middrashic'' source: <br> I might have thought that if she were pregnant they would postpone [the execution] until she gave birth. Therefore, [[the Bible]] teaches, “He that smote him shall surely be put to death.”” I might have thought that if he were three months pregnant, they should not postpone [the execution] until she gives birth; but if she were nine months pregnant, they should postpone [the execution] until she has given birth. Therefore, Scripture teaches: “he shall surely be put to death.” ** Daniel Schiff, [https://books.google.com/books?id=xh9vy_dvO6YC “Abortion in Judaism”], (Cambridge University Press 2002), p.37 * The ''gemera'' to ''Masekhet rakhin'' conveys a number of important insights that serve to underscore the elevated status of the condemned mother in this case. First, the observation is made that were it not for this ''mishnah’s'' explicit demand for her death, the mother would in fact not have been subject to execution, because based on the payment requirement set forth in Exodus 21:22-25, the fetus is the husband’s property “of which he should not be deprived.”” Hence, not only does this ''mishnah'' set the condemned woman’s interests over those of her fetus, but over those of her husband, which it is fair to surmise was probably quite a radial notion in the ''Tannaitic'' period. Furthermore, in the continuation of the ''Gemera'', the rabbis rule as follows: “Said Rabbi Judah in the name of [[w:Samuel_(prophet)|Samuel]]: ‘Before such a woman is executed she is struck across her abdomen, so that the fetus will die prior to the execution, to prevent her dishonor at the time of execution.’” Rashi interprets this “”dishonor” to mean that if the fetus did not die, and was expelled from the body after the mother’s execution the bleeding that could result would be a dishonor to the woman. Thus, in addition to the fact that the fate of the fetus was to be given no independent consideration from that of its mother, the law also envisioned that the act of feticide would be carried out separately and deliberately-rather than as a byproduct of the execution – in the interests of the condemned woman’s dignity. At no point in the discussion does the ''Gemara'' demur over the proposed feticide. The ''Tannaitic'' ruling goes uncontested: the fetus ought to be killed because the interests of the mother in a swift and “dignified” death far outweigh any consideration due to the unborn. <br> Aptowitzer makes the case that the ''Tannaim'' were, in this instance, deeply insightful in enacting these provisions, preferring [[ethics]] over [[politics]]. <br> Politics, it is true, would demand the opposite, for it subordinates the welfare of the individual to the interest of the state; ethics, however, protects the individual in the first place. Politics know subjects of state: taxpayers and soldiers; ethics knows but men. To politics men are members of the state, wheels of a machine; to ethics the state is a union of men. To politics the condemned [[mother]] is part of a machine rendered useless, but her expected [[child]] is a freshly wrought screw; the former is cast to the heap of old iron, the latter is guarded carefully. To ethics, however, the condemned mother is still a woman having claim to forbearance. Hence the politically motivated laws of the [[Egyptians]], [[Greeks]], and [[Romans]], refused to admit the execution of a [[pregnant]] woman; while the ethically motivated law of the [[Jews]] prescribes it. ** Daniel Schiff, [https://books.google.com/books?id=xh9vy_dvO6YC “Abortion in Judaism”], (Cambridge University Press 2002), p.39 * Waltke notes that [[Book of Leviticus|Lev. 24:17]] requires the death penalty for anyone who “kills any human life,” and says that the death penalty plainly was not prescribed in [[Book of Exodus|Exodus]], Chapter 21, for killing a fetus. He concludes that the fetus was not reckoned as a soul in the Old Testament. W.A. Criswell agrees with Waltke, focusing as he does on the “birth and breath” criteria for personhood of [[Genesis|Gen. 2:7]]. He says that the legislation in Exodus was “designed to protect pregnant women from injury” and clearly recognized the different standings of women and fetuses under the law. ** Paul D. Simmons, [https://web.archive.org/web/20061129203723/http://www.rcrc.org/pdf/RCRC_EdSeries_Personhood.pdf “Personhood, the Bible, and the Abortion Debate”], p.3 ==T== * I personally have always voted for the death penalty because I believe that people who go out prepared to take the lives of other people forfeit their own right to live. I believe that that death penalty should be used only very rarely, but I believe that no-one should go out certain that no matter how cruel, how vicious, how hideous their murder, they themselves will not suffer the death penalty. ** [[Margaret Thatcher]] [http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=105764] * No man e'er felt the halter draw,<br>With good opinion of the law. ** [[John Trumbull (poet)|John Trumbull]], ''[[w:McFingal|McFingal]]'', Canto iii (1782), line 489. ==U== * The most marked indication of society's endorsement of the death penalty for murder is the legislative response to ''[[w:Furman v. Georgia|Furman]]''. ** [[Supreme Court of the United States|U.S. Supreme Court]], ''[[w:Gregg v. Georgia|Gregg v. Georgia]]'', 2 July 1976 (affirming the resumption of capital punishment in the United States). * But we are concerned here only with the imposition of capital punishment for the crime of murder, and when a life has been taken deliberately by the offender, we cannot say that the punishment is invariably disproportionate to the crime. It is an extreme sanction suitable to the most extreme of crimes. ** [[Supreme Court of the United States|U.S. Supreme Court]], ''[[w:Gregg v. Georgia|Gregg v. Georgia]]'', 2 July 1976 (affirming the resumption of capital punishment in the United States). * After a four-year moratorium on executions in California, multiple proceedings in federal court, a state administrative law proceeding, and state court appeals, it is incredible to think that the deliberative process might be driven by the expiration date of the execution drug. ** [[w:United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit|U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals]], ''[http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/general/2010/09/27/RemandOrder.pdf Morales and Brown v. Cate]'', 27 September 2010 (delaying the resumption of capital punishment in California). ==V== [[File:Project_Paperclip_Team_at_Fort_Bliss.jpg|thumb|'''Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country, and is a living lesson.''' ~ [[Voltaire]]]] * '''Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country, and is a living lesson.''' ** [[Voltaire]], "Civil and Ecclesiastical Laws," ''Dictionnaire philosophique'' (1785-1789) ==W== * Society should not be the Angel of Death. We should not be servants of death. The law should celebrate, glorify, sanctify life, always life. **[[Elie Wiesel]], [https://momentmag.com/is-society-the-angel-of-death-elie-wiesels-take/?srsltid=AfmBOopnduCkwzE50EMaMS293wmuEh1gtIwUQKPCn-3QT7CHfDVP-DoU Is Society the Angel of Death? Elie Wiesel's Take], Moment Magazine, November 3, 2010 ==X== ==Y== ==Z== == Dialogue == *'''Henry Ducard''': You are ready to become a member of the [[w:League of Assassins|League of Shadows]]. But first, you must demonstrate your [[commitment]] to [[justice]]. :'''Bruce Wayne''': No. I'm no executioner. :'''Henry Ducard''': Your [[compassion]] is a [[weakness]] your [[enemies]] will not share. :'''Bruce Wayne''': That's why it's so [[important]]. It separates us from them. :* [[w:Ra's al Ghul|Ra's al Ghul]]/Henry Ducard as interpreted by [[Liam Neeson]] and [[Bruce Wayne]] as interpreted by [[Christian Bale]] in ''[[Batman Begins]]'', (2005); written by [[Christopher Nolan]] & [[w:David S. Goyer|David S. Goyer]] ==See also== * [[Homicide]] * [[Law]] * [[Prison]] == External links == {{wikipedia}} * [[W:Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution]] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110224021432/http://www.capital-punishment.us/ Famous Quotes about Death Penalty and Capital Punishment] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20120315041017/http://www.antideathpenalty.org/quotes.html Anti-Death Penalty Quotes] - compilation of abolitionist quotes [[Category:Capital punishment| ]] a6r11rc9fyhsg9ky2vohh82yvhjk4z7 0 46590 3961058 3947050 2026-07-05T12:23:31Z ~2026-22475-30 3310494 3961058 wikitext text/x-wiki {{DISPLAYTITLE:''The Simpsons''/Season 16}} {{The Simpsons header}} '''''[[w:The Simpsons|The Simpsons]]''''' (1989–present) is an American animated sitcom broadcast by the Fox Broadcasting Company created by [[Matt Groening]]. The series is a satirical depiction of American life, epitomized by the Simpson family. ===''[[w:Treehouse of Horror XV|Treehouse of Horror XV]]''=== :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': ''[being burned on a frying pan by Kang and Kodos]'' Am I the only one here who's in horrible pain? :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': ''[eating himself on a frozen dish]'' You're the only one who won't shut up about it! <hr width=50%> :''[Ned has been suffering a series of premonitions that have come true]'' :'''Ned''': Oh Lord, why have you given me these unholy visions of doom!? ''[Ned sees he is standing outside a theater performing the [[Rosie O'Donnell]] Musical. He has another premonition of the show being cancelled after three performances]'' :'''Ned''': ''[scoffs]'' Well, I didn't need any special power to know that was coming! <hr width=50%> :''Ned has shot Homer, who wobbles back and forth and finally falls next to the core destruct button.'' :'''Ned''': ''[sighs in relief]'' :''Homer's tongue flops on to the button and presses it.'' :'''Ned''': Oh, you stupid son of a-- :''Springfield explodes. Ned and Homer are sent to Heaven behind the gate.'' :'''Marge''': Homer, I'm so mad at you. I bet you blew up the town just to get out cleaning the garage! Yeah, Well, the joke's on you, smart guy, the garage made it to Heaven too! :[the garage now has wings and a halo] <hr width=50%> :'''God''': Homer Simpson, it's time you got what's coming to you... your Frisbee. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Captain! :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': Science officer! :'''Bart''': Security! :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': Marge! :'''Mr. Burns''': Now I insist you take off your shoes when you get inside. And while you're in there, grab as much cancer as you can. <hr width=50%> :'''Flanders''': What the Family Circus? <hr width=50%> :'''Lisa''': Mr. Flanders, why are you moving? :'''Flanders''': Cause I had a vision of myself... shooting your father. :'''Bart''': In this neighborhood, who hasn't? :'''Lisa''': Well, you can't fight fate, but if you must shoot our father, please remember our family motto: "Not in the face." <hr width=50%> :'''Inspector Wiggum''': Well, well, well, look who's here. Master Detective Eliza Simpson and her easily amazed sidekick, Dr. Bartley. :'''Dr. Bartley''': What's this? A doorknob! Good show! <hr width=50%> :'''Inspector Wiggum''': ''[after eating eel pie]'' We British sure eat crap. <hr width=50%> :'''Purveyor [Comic Book Guy]''': You may examine my curios, but do not touch my oddities. Use your judgment with my gewgaws. <hr width=50%> :'''Bart''': ''[spots Flanders and his sons as shrunken heads]'' I recognize the missionaries! :'''Flanders''': I just told a Native they were having sex the wrong way. <hr width=50%> :'''Inspector Wiggum''': ''[to Lou]'' Why can't you be more like Eddie? He never says a word against me. :'''Lou''': That's 'cause you cut out his tongue. :'''Eddie''': ''[without a tongue]'' E's 'ight 'eef. <hr width=50%> :'''Inspector Wiggum''': ''[escaping in a hot-air balloon]'' You'll never catch me! I'm traveling at the speed of wind! Ha, ha, ha! ''[a spaceship pops the balloon which causes it to spin away into the distance]'' Remember me for my police work and not the murders! <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': Why is my swimsuit so revealing? :'''Homer''': Marge, that's what turns a mediocre voyage into a fantastic voyage. <hr width=50%> :'''Bart''': ''[to Marge]'' Mom, did you have to fly out through all those boogers? :'''Marge''': Cut me some slack, I'm a widow. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': You don't want to piss off a man who can kick you in the crotch from the inside. ===''[[w:All's Fair in Oven War|All's Fair in Oven War]]''=== :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': ''[reading]'' Canned and frozen juices are more popular than ever these days, but most bachelors we know would prefer to squeeze their own tomatoes. <hr width=50%> :'''[[w:Moe Szyslak|Moe]]''': Looks like me and Marge are both going to hell. That's when I'll make my move. <hr width=50%> :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': ''[reading a note from Lisa]'' I look up to you... because you let me down. That's clever. And devastating. <hr width=50%> :'''Bart''': I'm just spreading the Playdude philosophy... hi-fi's, Norman Mailer, gettin' some. :'''Homer''': Um... what do you think "some" is? :'''Bart''': Uh... toys? <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Hey sweetie, is mom winning? <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': ''[Preparing to teach Bart about sex]'' Son, do you know what a "boob" is? :'''Bart''': Oh, yeah. :'''Homer''': Oh, good. That will save us some time. <hr width=50%> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Okay, why do you think your mother and I sleep in the same bed? :'''Bart''': Because we're poor? :'''Homer''': Exactly, and we're poor because we have kids. And the biological method by which children are created by a man and a woman [[w:Sexual intercourse|is]]... :''[cut to outside of the treehouse; Bart can be heard screaming, and quickly runs to Milhouse's house]'' :'''Bart''': Then the man... :''[Bart and Milhouse can be heard screaming; they run to other children's houses]'' :'''Bart and Milhouse''': Then the woman... :''[Bart and Milhouse can be heard screaming, and run to two more houses, screaming and many kids run to many houses]'' :'''Homer''': Well, better they hear it from me, now, than from their parents when they're old enough. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Someone somewhere says I'm better than someone else. ===''[[w:Sleeping with the Enemy (The Simpsons)|Sleeping With the Enemy]]''=== :[''Homer's making a sketch of himself for Lisa, in explaining "the Simpson butt"''] :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Every Simpson starts with a circle. Daddy has one big circle here...''[belly]''...then a smaller one up here...''[chest]''...two big, sexy circles for eyes, one macho muzzle...then a snappy new outfit. Ooh, I'm looking good. ''[draws pants]'' Ooh, cuffs, yeah. And for some reason, my hair and ear form an [[Matt Groening|"M" and a "G"]]. ''[completes sketch]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': ''[when he sees Nelson helping Marge out with the garden]'' My mother... My bully... My God!!! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Nelson''': A doctor for your teeth? What's next, a lawyer for your hair? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Nelson''': He who ha-has last, ha-has best. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Mrs. Krabappel''': Bart '''''did''''' get 100. I gave a test on state capitals, but I forgot to roll up the map. Everyone got 100. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Ralph''': Duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck- :''[Fast forward to hours later, where everyone clearly frustrated and/or asleep]'' :'''Ralph''': Duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck,- :'''Bart''': Say goose, you stupid freak! :''[Ralph runs out of the room crying]'' <hr width-"50%"/> :'''Lisa''': What, I'm not fat enough already?! How could you say that to me?! <hr width="50%"/> :''[about Bart and Lisa to Marge]'' :'''Principal Skinner''': They're just asserting their independence. If a child doesn't do it now, it may never happen. :'''Agnes Skinner''': Seymour! Do you want your vitamin in apple sauce or are you gonna take it like a big boy? :'''Principal Skinner''': ''[quietly]'' Apple sauce. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': Come on Lisa, say everything's fine. ''[in a squeaky girly voice]'' Everything's fine. :'''Lisa''': That was '''you'''! :'''Homer''': Prove it! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': ''[to Bart angrily]'' All right, boy, which con did you work here? Copy off another kid? Pay attention in class and take notes? ''[turns red with anger]'' Well, TAKE NOTE OF THIS! ''[furiously lunges at Bart and angrily strangles him, Bart laughs]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Ralph''': Bart's my bestest boyfriend. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': ''[to Marge]'' Oh, what's the big deal? Bart didn't like his presents. So what? It's not like he gives us such great gifts. Remember that maple leaf ironed between the sheets of wax paper? What was that? That was crap. :'''Marge''': It's not just the presents. The kids don't appreciate me anymore. They'd rather hang out with their friends than with their mom. :'''Homer''': So they're growing up. Soon, they'll be leaving the nest, and you'll have time for yourself. Hundreds of thousands of hours. And then the peace of the grave. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Nelson''': ''[pointing to the bats at the zoo]'' Haw haw! You're nocturnal! :'''Marge''': You don't have to impress me by making fun of others. I already like you. :'''Nelson''': Haw haw! I'm starting to let down my guard. Haw haw! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Marge''': Nelson, how'd you like to earn some extra money around the house? I have some odd jobs my kids won't do. :'''Nelson''': Yeah, I get the feeling Bart isn't everything he could be in the son department. :'''Marge''': Oh. Sometimes I think he's more interested in his "Itchy and Mitchy" cartoons than me. :'''Nelson''': Hey, I'm sure it's just a phase, like when I used to stand on the overpass and drop computers on the highway. :'''Marge''': That's how we got our Kaypro. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Marge''': It'll be B.L.A.M.! Bart, Lisa, and Mom! Hmmm? :'''Bart''': Mom, when I want lame and needy, I'll call Milhouse. ===''[[w:She Used to Be My Girl|She Used to Be My Girl]]''=== :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': You know Chloe some of us stayed in this town and made it a better place. :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Oh come on Marge, the only reason we don't move out of this dung hill is because of my court ordered ankle bracelet. ''[Reveals a beeping bracelet on his right ankle]'' I'm here! I'm here! Quit bugging me. :'''Marge''': Why do you always have to show that to company? :'''Homer''': It's a conversation starter. ''[short pause]'' :'''Marge''': ''[moans]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Marge''': I would've followed Chloe, but my plans changed when God brought me a wonderful little boy. Bart, stop that! :''[Shows Bart cutting the TV with a saw]'' :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': This isn't what it looks like. ''[continues sawing]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lisa''': Uh oh. The Christian Science Monitor has a flat tire. :'''Man #1''': I'll get the spare. :'''Man #2''': No! ''[praying]'' We must wait for God to jack us. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': What happened to us, Marge? We used to feed each other cheese and laugh all night. Then came the heart attacks. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Kent Brockman''': Channel 6 News rocks! A car chase every night or the weather girl wears a tube top, and if she doesn't, you win a pizza! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Chloe''': Marge, where are you living now? :'''Marge''': ''[mumbling]'' Evergreen Terrace. :'''Chloe''': Paris? Just like you always dreamed! :'''Marge''': Terrace. Evergreen Terrace. The street that smells like pee. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Chloe''': ''[to Homer]'' I remember you in high school. You barfed in my tuba. :'''Homer''': I believe it was the school's tuba. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': ''[to Marge]'' Oh Honey, her life can't compare to yours. You got three kids, a TV tray from Expo '67, and you're married to King Stink. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Chloe''': ''[to Marge]'' Oh, that's it! I'm going to show you some moves I learned from G. Gordon Liddy! :'''Marge''': I'm so sick of names! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Marge''': ''[to Lisa]'' Lisa, honey, let me explain what happened tonight. Sometimes when your mom has half a glass of wine, she goes cuckoo bananas. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bart''': Thinking is for losers! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lisa''': Be careful, Mom! There's hot lava under the ground! :'''Chloe''': Actually, when it's underground, lava is called magma! :'''Lisa''': You're so smart, Chloe! :'''Chloe''': Walter Cronkite told me the same thing. :'''Marge''': Come on! You're out of the girl business! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bart''': Mom, I want to be like you. I mean the lava part, not saving Lisa. :'''Homer''': ''[turns red in anger]'' Pretend to care! ''[angrily strangles Bart]'' ===''[[w:Fat Man and Little Boy (The Simpsons)|Fat Man and Little Boy]]''=== :''[Bart has written "Adults suck, then you are one" on his [[wikt:T-shirt|T-shirt]]]'' :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': Bart! Someone wrote something cynical on your shirt. Let me wash it off. :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': Leave me alone. This expresses my [[Rage Against the Machine|rage at the machine]]. :'''Marge''': Well I like t-shirts with a nice joke, like "Support our troops". :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Bart's shirt is a classic, Marge, just like "Keep on truckin" - as if I would ever want to ''stop'' truckin'. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': Maybe the Internet can help me out. It sure gave some good advice on [[wikt:penis|wang]] enhancement. Okay, www.nuclearsecrets.com. "Are you a [[wikt:terrorism|terrorist]]?" No. "Would you like to meet someone new, but are tired of the bar scene?" No! I will ''never'' tire of the bar scene! <hr width="50%"/> :''[Homer has created a working nuclear reactor]'' :'''Lisa''': Mom, Dad created a device that could be dangerous in the wrong hands. And ''HE'S'' holding it! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': Get back in the garage, old man! :'''Grampa''': But there's spiders in the boxes! :'''Homer''': Stay out of my boxes! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bart''': God, please give your daughter, the Tooth Fairy, the strength to carry my cash and the integrity not to dip her wand in the till. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bart''': There's more than one way to lose a tooth! ''[to Nelson]'' Hey, idiot! You're fat! And your mom is naked on the Internet! You also smell. :'''Nelson''': Hmm. You've given me a lot to think about. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lisa''': Bart, if you don't get up now, good luck getting a pancake. Dad's pulled his chair right up to the stove. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Marge''': We're big fans, Mr. Gladwell. :'''Homer''': Yeah, nothing makes parents happier than when an eccentric, single man takes an interest in their child. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Vendor''': Mr. Retailer, over here! Your customers will love these mood lollipops. Every lick reveals your mood. :'''Apu''': ''[lick, lick]'' It works, if blue is the color for unimpressed. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': You give my son what he deserves, or I will knock you on your delightfully offbeat ass! :'''[[w:Fat Man and Little Boy (The Simpsons)|Goose Gladwell]]''': Ho-ho, I must warn you sir, I was a Green Beret in Vietnam. The things I saw are what made me CRAAAAAAZZZYYY! ===''[[w:Midnight Rx|Midnight Rx]]''=== :''[During the couch gag: the music is absent as the Simpsons sit on the couch as normal. Nothing happens. Lisa then looks at the camera]'' :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': What? Can't we sit on the couch without something happening? :''[Just then, a spear comes hurtling at Homer and impales him in the chest. The family stares in shock]'' :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': D'oh! <hr width="50%"/> :''[Homer and Grampa arrive at the border. Homer is dressed in Mexican clothing, including a sombrero]'' :'''Homer''': ''[To border patrol]'' ''Hola señor!'' We are ''gringo'' and wish to spend ''mucho dinero'' in your country. :'''Border Patrol''': Splendid! Welcome to Canada! :'''Homer''': D'oh! <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Montgomery Burns|Mr. Burns]]''': Fear not Smithers! I'll move Heaven and Earth to save you! It's still easier then teaching a new assistant my filing system. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Apu''': ''[While they ride to Canada]'' Homer! Tell Mr. Ned to stop trying to convert me! :'''Ned''': I was just telling him how brave he is to worship a false god. :'''Apu''': I do not worship one god, okay? I worship a whole super team of deities that--''[Ned pinches him]'' OW, ow! Okay, he just pinched me! :'''Ned''': Well, where's your super team now? :'''Homer''': Listen, you two! I'll tell you who the true God is ''if'' you're both quiet the rest of the trip! :''[simultaneously]'' :'''Apu''': But the infinite... :'''Ned''': But the Bible says... :'''Homer''': All right, I'm coming back there! ''[Unbuckles seatbelt and leaves driver's wheel to go to the back seat. The van swerves uncontrollably through traffic]'' :'''Apu''': Save me, Shiva! :'''Ned''': Why don't you just call for Hawkman? :'''Apu''': Why don't you shut up?! <hr width="50%"/> :''[After Homer and Grampa are arrested for smuggling in Canada]'' :'''Canadian Official 1''': We have confiscated your car and its contents. :'''Canadian Official 2''': ''Nous avons confisqué votre voiture et son contenu.'' :'''Canadian Official 1''': You may leave Canada, but never return. :'''Canadian Official 2''': ''Vous pouvez quitter le Canada, mais vous n'avez plus le droit de rentrer.'' :'''Canadian Official 1''': I am a big fat French idiot. :'''Canadian Official 2''': ''Je suis un grand gros...''--hey! :'''Canadian Official 1''': Heh, heh, heh! ===''[[w:Mommie Beerest|Mommie Beerest]]''=== :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]'s Business Card''': ''[Gives to Marge in case she wanted to cheat on Moe]'' <br>Homer Simpson Plus Size Butt Model <hr width="50%" /> :'''[[Homer]]''': Marge, you can't go with me to Moe's. I mean, how would you like it if I came with you to your mother's? :'''Marge''': I would like it. You never come with me to my mother's. :'''Homer''': That's because I hate her. ===''[[w:Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass|Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass]]''=== :'''Crazy Cat Lady''': Ugh, this whole place is disgusting. :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': I agree. ''[turns around]'' Hey, aren't you the crazy cat woman? :'''Crazy Cat Lady''': Yes I am, but thanks to this psycho-active medication, I enjoy brief moments of lucidity. :'''Marge''': Those are just Reese's Pieces. :''[Crazy Cat Lady abruptly resumes her normal behavior, screaming gibberish and hurling cats]'' <hr width="50%" /> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': The Internet wasn't created for mockery. It was supposed to help researchers at different universities share data sets. It was. <hr width="50%" /> :'''Homer''': I'm the worst thing to happen to sports since Fox. <hr width="50%" /> :'''[[w:Comic Book Guy|Comic Book Guy]]''': My name is Jeff Albertson, but everybody calls me "Comic Book Guy". :'''[[w:Ned Flanders|Ned Flanders]]''': Well I'll just call you friend. Here's your tape, friend. <hr width="50%" /> :''[We see Pac-Man & Ms. Pac-Man at the Super Bowl getting married]'' :'''Wedding Announcer''': I now pronounce you Pac-Man and wife. ===''[[w:Pranksta Rap|Pranksta Rap]]''=== :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': ''[gulps]'' Time to face my punishment like a man, Or... lie my way out of it like a kid! <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': ''[reading a note]'' We have kidnapped your son. Follow instructions and Bart will not be harmed! <hr width=50%> :'''[[w:Clancy Wiggum|Wiggum]]''': Lou, you're promoted to chief of police. :'''Lou''': Sweet. :'''Wiggum''': And Eddie, you're promoted to Lou. :'''Eddie''': Nice. And, uh, who's gonna be Eddie? :'''Wiggum''': We don't need an Eddie. ''[Eddie looks down in disappointment.]'' ===''[[w:There's Something About Marrying|There's Something About Marrying]]''=== :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': Is this one of those reality deals where a guy gets a million bucks for marrying Aunt Patty but they have to honeymoon in a box full of snakes? :'''Homer''': Son, that's the stupidest idea I ever heard... and I know exactly who would pay top dollar for it! ''[picks up phone and dials]'' :'''Phone''': You've reached FOX. If you're pitching a show where gold-digging skanks get what's coming to them, press 1. If you're pitching a rip-off of another network's reality show, press 2. Please stay on the line - your half-baked ideas are all we've got. <hr width=50%> :'''[[w:Krusty the Clown|Krusty]]''': I want to clear up a misconception about the Wha-Cha-Ma-[[w:Carcass|Carcass]] [[w:Sandwich|Sandwich]]. I used '''''non'''''-diseased meat from diseased animals! Everyone does it! <hr width=50%> :'''[[w:Barney Gumble|Barney]]''': Now as the Road Runner said to the coyote. ''[jumps in the air mimicking the Road Runner]'' Beep Beep! ''[runs off]'' <hr width=50%> :'''Voice from Song''': ''When my man and I shop for wedding gowns''<br>''We were mocked and shunned and pushed around''<br>''But yesterday we found a place to be gay''<br>''I'm going to marry my Harry in Springfield town''<br>''Gay-o, it's okay-o''<br>''Tie the knot and spend all you dough''<br>''Gay-o, come stay-o''<br>''Visit our website for further info'' :'''Mayor Quimby''': Springfield: A place where everyone can marry, even dudes! We're just off Route 202. Do '''NOT''' take the Jefferson Avenue exit. For God's sake, do not take that exit! ===''[[w:On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister|On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister]]''=== :'''Sprawl Mart Boss''': You're on fire, not like that useless old man. :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Hey, that useless old man happens to be my father! Please continue. <hr width=50%> :'''Sprawl Mart Boss''': If you don't work all night then we're deport you back to Mexico. :'''Homer''': But I'm an American citizen. :'''Sprawl Mart Boss''': Oh, really, Senor Homer? ''[Holds a forged ID card claiming Homer is Mexican]'' :'''Homer''': Dios mio. ===''[[w:Goo Goo Gai Pan|Goo Goo Gai Pan]]''=== :'''Homer''': ''[visiting the corpse of [[Mao Zedong]]]'' Aww... Look at him sleeping... He's like a little angel, that killed 50 million people. ''[to Mao]'' Yes you are! Yes you are! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Chinese "[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]"''': ''[the real Bart is absent]'' Feast on my shorts, you stupid American father! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Madam Wu''': ''[after discovering Selma's scam]'' Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on wu! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Madam Wu''': You may keep your baby, but you! Drop the panda! :''[Homer is seen trying to smuggle a [[w:Giant panda|panda]] cub into his luggage]'' :'''Homer''': But he loves me! ''[the panda bites Homer]'' OW! Why you little...! I'll endanger you! ''[strangles the panda]'' ===''[[w:Mobile Homer|Mobile Homer]]''=== :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': I just think we should be building a nest egg. :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Way ahead of you, Marge. I just ordered a series of tapes on saving money. They should get here soon. I paid a bundle for overnight delivery. :'''Marge''': I have a book from the library with the same information! :'''Homer''': Okay, I'll just hire a haulage firm to haul them away... at my expense! ''[he picks up the phone and dials 4-1-1]'' [[w:Directory assistance|Directory assistance?]] :'''Marge''': No more directory assistance! It's not free. :'''Homer''': Well, I'll get a lawyer on that. No, a whole team of lawyers, who will dine on mustard flown in from the Orient. :'''Marge''': No more Oriental mustard! <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': Last year you spent $5,000 on doughnuts, $2,000 on scalp massages, $500 on body glitter... :'''Homer''': Hey, I earn that money. While you lounge around here doing laundry and putting up drywall, I'm at work busting my hump. :'''Marge''': Oh, ''please''. From what I hear, you waltz in there at 10:30, take a nap on the toilet, then sit around "[[w:Google|Googling]]" your own name until lunch. :'''Homer''': ''[gasps]'' Who told you that? :'''Marge''': You shouted it while we were making love! <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': And I am so sick of that story about finding an onion ring in your French fries! It was 20 years ago! :'''Homer''': That was my Woodstock! <hr width=50%> :'''[[w:Chief Wiggum|Chief Wiggum]]''': Would you look at those Simpson kids! Last year it was razor scooters, this year they're driving RVs. When I was a kid, my mom would give me an empty egg carton and I'd pretend it was a spaceship to the moon. You'll never guess what I used for astronauts! :'''Lou''': Uh... I'm gonna say eggs. :'''Chief Wiggum''': Shut up! <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Bring back our kids you Cyprus splitting jerks! :'''Turkish Captain''': Just for that, we keep your children! :'''Homer''': Will you raise them Christian? :'''Turkish Captain''': Coptic Christian. :'''Homer''': No! ===''[[w:The Seven-Beer Snitch|The Seven-Beer Snitch]]''=== :'''[[w:Montgomery Burns|Burns]]''': ...this prison will make Abu Ghraib look like the Four Seasons! Smithers, we'll need electrical wire, a hood, and someone who can really point at genitalia. <hr width=50%> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': ''[after learning that he failed the guard test]'' But he misread my pee!! He misread my pee!!! <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Listen to me, this whole building is unsafe! They cut corners everywhere. People, it's a death trap! ===''[[w:Future-Drama|Future-Drama]]''=== :''[Bart and Homer are flying around in an imperfect hovercar.]'' :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': Why'd you buy the first hovercar ever made? Didn't you know it'd take a while to work out the kinks? :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': I know! It's a hovercar! <hr width=50%> :''[during the hovercar ride, Homer and Bart go through a wormhole in a cliff. They come out the other side and Bender from ''Futurama'' sits between them]'' :'''Bender''': All right! You guys are my new best friends! :'''Homer''': You wish, loser! ''[tosses Bender out the car, who falls to pieces when he hits the asphalt. Bart and Homer laugh as they drive away]'' <hr width=50%> :''[Bart sees Smithers with a woman.]'' :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': Mr. Smithers? I thought you were, uh, you know, uh... :'''[[w:Waylon Smithers|Smithers]]''': No, no, I'm straight. As long as I take these injections every 10 minutes. ''[injects himself]'' I love boobies! <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': You love Moleman! You're gay for Moleman! :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': No, you're gay for Moleman. :'''Moleman''': ''[morosely]'' No one's gay for Moleman. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lisa''': Well Bart, I really appreciate what you're gonna do for me. ''[Kisses Bart on the Cheek]'' ===''[[w:Don't Fear the Roofer|Don't Fear the Roofer]]''=== :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': Dad, remember how you said if I used a chainsaw unsupervised I'd hurt myself? Well, you were wrong. I hurt someone else. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': So what's [[Stephen Hawking]] doing here? :'''Stephen Hawking''': I live here now. You're looking at the new owner of the [[w:Little Caesars|Little Caesars]] down the street. Pizza, pizza. Pizza, pizza. Pizza, pizza. Pizza, pizza. Sorry, that button sticks. :'''Homer''': So why didn't you invite me? :'''Carl''': We couldn't tell you ahead of time because you'd spill the beans. <hr width=50%> :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': We're going to take the dog to the V-E-T. :'''Man Dog''': Huh? :'''Marge''': Then take Bart to get [[Circumcision|C-I-R-C-U-M-C-I-S-E-D]]. :'''Bart''': Huh? :'''Marge''': I'll tell you what it means when it's over, honey. <hr width=50%> :'''Ray''': Look at the size of that nacho plate. I haven't seen this much melted cheese since I left my Billy Joel albums out in the sun. :'''Homer''': Ha ha ha ha ha, the sun. :'''Ray''': Hey you want to split this? :'''Homer''': Wow. It's been so long since I've been with someone who doesn't know what a selfish pi ===''[[w:The Heartbroke Kid|The Heartbroke Kid]]''=== :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': I've learned that even made-up corporate mascots can lie to you. :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Did you hear that Foxie, the [[w:Fox Network|Fox network]] fox? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Spangler''': Mr. and Mrs. Simpson, your boy's gonna need one thing. ''[points to sign]'' Tough Luck! :'''Marge''': Don't you mean tough love? :'''Spangler''': Tough love? Of course! This has never made sense! The sign shop guy lied! STANLEY! YOU DIDN'T QUESTION THE WORD LUCK! NOW LOOK WHAT WE GOT! Thanks for the correction, that's part of the honesty. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Spangler''': Son, I'm gonna tell you a story about a young man who came here and failed. Well that is the story. I guess I shouldn't call a sentence a story, anyway IT'S YOU! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Spangler''': Mr. Simpson, you're suffering from PSI. Poor self esteem. What a minute! That's not I! ''[yelling]'' Every sign is wrong! ===''[[w:A Star is Torn|A Star is Torn]]''=== :'''[[w:Krusty the Clown|Krusty]]''': Hey-hey, kids! Do you have what it takes to be a singing sensation? A dynamite voice? Ruthless, pushy parents? A void in your self-esteem that can only be filled by applause? Oh, God, I know that void. Then you were born to enter Krusty's Li'l Starmaker singing competition! :'''Disclaimer voice''': Not affiliated with ''[[w:American Idol|American Idol]]''. We've never even heard of ''American Idol''. :'''Krusty''': The winner will be animated into an ''Itchy & Scratchy'' cartoon! So enter today, especially if you're a funny-looking kid who doesn't know he sucks! :'''[[w:Milhouse Van Houten|Milhouse]]''': ''[starts dialing the number]'' I'm coming Krusty! <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Ralph Wiggum|Ralph Wiggum]]''': A B C D E F G. ''[long pause]'' How I wonder what you are. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': ''[about Cameron as he walks onstage in a flashy costume and shades]'' He's about to learn one of the most important lessons in the music business: don't trust people in the music business. :'''Cameron''': ''[singing]'' I'm a privileged boy, it's great, I gotta tell ya. Privileged boy, my dad could buy and sell ya. It really doesn't matter that you're on the list in front of me. I'm gonna get your table 'cause I always tip the maitre d'. And then I'll go to Yale, ''[shows a diploma]'' because I am a legacy! ''[down on one knee and pointing at the crowd]'' I'm better than you! :'''Crowd''': BOOOO!! :'''Carl''': You SUCK, Johnny Rainbow! :'''Lenny''': ''[as he tears up a picture of "Johnny Rainbow"]'' I believed in you! ===''[[w:Thank God It's Doomsday|Thank God It's Doomsday]]''=== :'''Marge''': This is Marge from downtown Springfield, where overweight doomsayer Homer Simpson is predicting the world will end next Wednesday! Homer, what turned you from sad drunk to mad monk? :'''Homer''': Funny story, Marge- ''[to the camera]'' IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD!! GOD LOVES YOU!! HE'S GONNA KILL YOU!! ''[to Marge]'' Here's my angle: there's no way in God's Heaven I should get into God's Heaven. But maybe He'll let me in, if I warn others the Apocalypse is coming as I previously shouted. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Homer sees his family, but their usual surroundings are now covered in a hell-like setting with lava surrounding their home. Bart is running around in the lava being chased by locusts. Maggie is on top of a bin being scared by an evil teddy bear. Lisa runs by screaming.]'' :'''Lisa''': ''[screams]'' Why didn't we listen to dad?! :'''Marge''': ''[her hair covered in snakes]'' The worst part is I'll never see my Homie again! :'''The Devil''': That's the worst part? Then I'm not doing my job! ''[laughs evilly, Marge is heard screaming as Homer watches in horror]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Lord, you got a first-class destination resort here, really top notch, but I can't enjoy myself knowing my family is suffering. :'''God''': Oh, don't you talk about family suffering with me! My son went to Earth once. I don't know what you people did to him, but he hasn't been the same ever since. ''[shows [[w:Jesus|Jesus]] sitting on a swing looking down and spinning slowly]'' :'''Homer''': He'll be fine. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': ''[To God]'' You have just made a powerful enemy! <hr width=“50%”/> :'''Comic Book Guy''': ''[to Homer]'' Hey, Nostra-dumbass, did the Rapture come? I can't recall. In fact, I can recall, and it didn't and you suck. <hr width=“50%”/> :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': Homer, I'm glad you're finally getting some exercise, but i just wish it wasn't crazy exercise. <hr width=“50%”/> :'''Krusty''': I don't want to die, I wanna to next to Kathy Griffin! <hr width=“50%”/> :'''Homer''': The Book of Revelations has 404 verses. And the number of people at the Last Supper minus the number of Filipinos in the Bible, and you get? <hr width=“50%”/> :''[The Rapture doesn't happen]'' :'''Nelson''': Haw! Haw! Life goes on! ===''[[w:Home Away From Homer|Home Away From Homer]]''=== :'''Marge''': ''[confused about the "Kosovo Autumn" movie they saw]'' What language is this, Gibby Gabby? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': What are you kids laughing at? And if you say [[Jimmy Fallon]], I'll know you're lying! ''[notices something]'' Scantily clad co-eds? Why, you little...! ''[strangles Bart down his throat]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': What's this? ''[reads the note]'' "Goodbye Springfield...." :'''Bart''': ''[in voiceover]'' "The Flanders family has pulled up stakes. You have laughed at us for the Last-Diddly-Ast time!" :'''Homer''': Last-Diddly-Ast? ''[sobbing]'' He's gone! And it's all someone's fault! ''[sobs and eats cookies]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Ned Flanders''': ''[finding out the organ is in Ned's backyard]'' Homer! Did you steal the organ from the church? ===''[[w:The Father, The Son, and The Holy Guest Star|The Father, The Son, and The Holy Guest Star]]''=== :''[Flashback]'' :'''Sean''': Then one day, after a drunken brawl with my da...''[flashback to Sean and his father fighting]'' :'''Sean's father''': Yer just like yer mother; can't take a punch! :'''Sean''': Then, as I was picking up my teeth, St. Peter appeared to me. He said, "Sean, ya wanker. Repent of your wicked ways or sod off!" Then he gobbed in my face and turned back into a lightpost. <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': ''[to Bart after getting expelled from Springfield Elementary School]'' Boy, I can't believe you got expelled. Well, don't expect to spend all week lying around on the couch like a bum, 'cause that's my thing! <hr width=50%/> :'''Sean''': We're about to play Bingo. :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Bingo? Hey that's my favorite game. I just can't remember what you yell when you win. :'''Sean''': Bingo. :'''Homer''': Bingo? Hey that's my favorite game. I just can't remember what you yell when you win. :'''Sean''': ''[sighs]'' Why don't you just yell, "Yea! I win!"? :'''Homer''': ''[points]'' Bingo! <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': Face it, Bart, Catholics rule! We've got Boston, South America, the ''good'' part of Ireland, and we're making serious in-roads in Mozambique, baby! <hr width=50%/> :'''Bart Soldier''': We believe that God's last prophet, Bart Simpson, preached a message of tolerance and love. :'''Bartman Soldier''': We believe the holy Bartman preached a message of understanding and peace, before he was betrayed by his follower, Milhouse! And pulled apart by snow-mobiles, until he died. :'''Bart Soldiers''': EAT BART'S SHORTS!!!! :'''Bartman Soldiers''': COWABUNGA!!!! :''[War rages]'' <noinclude> {{DEFAULTSORT:Simpsons, Season 16}} [[Category:The Simpsons seasons]] </noinclude> 6io8a9lx49g9r7k6mwvxhduls9fhacn 0 59014 3961152 3954339 2026-07-05T16:27:10Z BD2412 3982 /* 1900s */ Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]], replaced: William J. Brennan, Jr. → William J. Brennan Jr. (6) using [[Project:AWB|AWB]] 3961152 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:George Washington at Princeton.jpg|thumb|If Men are to be precluded from offering their [[sentiments]] on a matter, which may involve the most [[serious]] and alarming [[consequences]], that can invite the [[consideration]] of [[Mankind]]; [[reason]] is of no use to us — the [[freedom of Speech]] may be taken away — and, dumb & [[silent]] we may be led, like [[sheep]], to the Slaughter. ~ [[George Washington]]]] [[File:The light of Liberty 02.JPG|thumb|Governments need and have ample power to punish treasonable acts. But it does not follow that they must have a further power to punish thought and speech as distinguished from acts. Our own free society should never forget that laws which stigmatize and penalize thought and speech of the unorthodox have a way of reaching, ensnaring and silencing many more people than at first intended. We must have freedom of speech for all or we will in the long run have it for none but the cringing and the craven. And I cannot too often repeat my belief that the right to speak on matters of public concern must be wholly free or eventually be wholly lost. ~ [[Hugo Black]]]] [[File:Tom Denning, Baron Denning, in 1950.jpg|thumb|Freedom of speech means not only freedom for the views with which you agree but also freedom for the views which you hate and deplore. ~ [[Alfred Denning, Baron Denning]]]] [[File:Frederick Douglas NYHS c1866.jpg|thumb|Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down. They know its power. Thrones, dominions, principalities, and powers, founded in injustice and wrong, are sure to tremble, if men are allowed to reason of righteousness, temperance, and of a judgment to come in their presence. ~ [[Frederick Douglass]]]] [[File:1896 Alfred-Pierre Agache - The Sword.jpg|thumb|I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the [[death]] your [[right]] to say it. ~ [[Evelyn Beatrice Hall]] ]] [[File:Wendell Phillips by Brady.jpg|thumb|He who stifles [[free]] discussion, secretly [[doubts]] whether what he professes to [[believe]] is really [[true]]. ~ [[Wendell Phillips]]]] [[File:Frederick Douglass portrait.jpg|thumb|Slavery cannot tolerate free speech. ~ [[Frederick Douglass]]]] '''[[w:Freedom of speech|Freedom of speech]]''' is the concept of being able to speak [[freely]] without [[censorship]]. It is often regarded as an integral concept in modern democracies. == Quotes == [[File:Sample 09-F9 protest art, Free Speech Flag by John Marcotte.svg|thumb|The [[class]] which has the [[Means of production|means of material production]] at its disposal has control over the means of mental production, so that in consequence the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are, in general, subject to it. ~ [[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]]]] [[File:Eric Blair (George Orwell) from his Metropolitan Police file.jpg|thumb|right|It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is ‘not done’ to say it, just as in mid-Victorian times it was ‘not done’ to mention trousers in the presence of a lady. Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. ~ [[George Orwell]]]] [[File:Noam Chomsky WSF - 2003.jpg|thumb|right|The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum—even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate. ~ [[Noam Chomsky]]]] ===1600s=== * Give me the [[liberty]] to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. ** [[John Milton]], ''[[s:Areopagitica|Areopagitica: A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicens'd Printing, to the Parliament of England]]'' (published November 23, 1644). ===1700s=== * Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the [[Constitutions|constitution]] of a [[free society]] is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins. Republics and limited monarchies derive their strength and vigor from a popular examination into the action of the magistrates. ** [[Benjamin Franklin]], [http://books.google.de/books?id=HptPAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA431&lpg=PA431&dq=Freedom+of+speech+is+a+principal+pillar+of+a+free+government;+when+this+support+is+taken+away,+the+constitution+of+a+free+society+is+dissolved,+and+tyranny+is+erected+on+its+ruins.&source=bl&ots=0q9H1vbS9z&sig=JGhD4KSK_PbPldhlNlo1_R78MQI&hl=de&sa=X&ei=hLgfUYWHLtCN4gTSlYCQBw&ved=0CHIQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=Freedom%20of%20speech%20is%20a%20principal%20pillar%20of%20a%20free%20government%3B%20when%20this%20support%20is%20taken%20away%2C%20the%20constitution%20of%20a%20free%20society%20is%20dissolved%2C%20and%20tyranny%20is%20erected%20on%20its%20ruins.&f=false "On Freedom of Speech and the Press", ''Pennsylvania Gazette'', 17 November 1737]. *There is nothing so ''fretting'' and ''vexatious'', nothing so justly TERRIBLE to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a FREE PRESS. **{{w|Samuel Adams}}, (''{{w|Boston Gazette}}'', 1768) &mdash; cited in: {{cite book|page=61|first=Jonathan W.|last=Emord|title=Freedom, Technology, and the First Amendment|year=1991|publisher=Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy}} * For if Men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can invite the consideration of Mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of Speech may be taken away, and, dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter. ** [[George Washington]], address to the officers of the army, Newburgh, New York (March 15, 1783); reported in John C. Fitzpatrick, ed, ''The Writings of George Washington'' (1938), vol. 26, p. 225. *Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without [[newspapers]], or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. **[[Thomas Jefferson]] to Edward Carrington, January 16, 1787, ''The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1, General Correspondence, 1651-1827'' ([[w:Library of Congress|Library of Congress]]). * The free communication of [[Thought|thoughts]] and of [[Opinion|opinions]] is one of the most precious rights of man: any [[Citizenship|citizen]] thus may speak, write, print freely, except to respond to the abuse of this liberty, in the cases determined by the law. ** [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Declaration_of_the_Rights_of_Man_and_of_the_Citizen Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789), Article XI] * [[United States Congress|Congress]] shall make no law respecting an establishment of [[religion]], or prohibiting the [[Freedom of religion|free exercise]] thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the [[Freedom of assembly|right of the people peaceably to assemble]], and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. ** [[First Amendment to the United States Constitution]]. December 15, 1791. [[File:Thomas Jefferson rev.jpg|thumb|[[Thomas Jefferson]] (1791)]] * I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it. ** [[Thomas Jefferson]] to Archibald Stuart, Philadelphia, December 23, 1791. ** Cited in {{cite book |author=Thomas Jefferson|authorlink=Thomas Jefferson | editor = Jerry Holmes | title = Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=iOHNKGJGo94C&pg=PA128&dq=%22too+much+liberty%22+0742521168&sig=kwr0H-XgcHnnQiMeH4PARcN0D_4 | year = 2002 | publisher = Rowman & Littlefield | id = {{ISBN|0742521168 }} | pages = p. 128 | chapter = 1791}} * Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. ** [[Samuel Johnson]], as quoted in James Boswell's ''The Life of Samuel Johnson'', Vol. 1 (1791), p. 335. * The power of [[communication]] of thoughts and opinions is the gift of God, and the freedom of it is the source of all science, the first fruits and the ultimate happiness of society; and therefore it seems to follow, that human laws ought not to interpose, nay, cannot interpose, to prevent the communication of sentiments and opinions in voluntary assemblies of men. ** Eyre, L.C.J., ''Hardy's Case'' (1794), 24 How. St. Tr. 206; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, ''The Dictionary of Legal Quotations'' (1904), p. 99. * To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to [[martyrdom]]; for as long as we may think as we will, and speak as we think, the condition of man will proceed in improvement. ** [[Thomas Jefferson]], [http://www.princeton.edu/~tjpapers/munford/munford.html Letter to William Green Mumford (18 June 1799)]. ===={{w|Cato's Letters}}, [[w:John Trenchard (writer)|John Trenchard]] and [[w:Thomas Gordon (writer)|Thomas Gordon]] (Letter Number 15, ''[[s:Cato's Letters/Letter 15|Of Freedom of Speech, That the Same is inseparable from Publick Liberty]]'', February 4, 1720)==== *Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as public Liberty, without Freedom of Speech; which is the Right of every Man, as far as by it, he does not hurt or control the Right of another. And this is the only Check it ought to suffer, and the only bounds it ought to know. This sacred Privilege is to essential to free Governments, that the Security of [[Property]], and the Freedom of Speech always go together; and in those wretched Countries where a Man cannot call his Tongue his own, he can scarce call any Thing else his own. Whoever would overthrow the Liberty of a Nation, must begin by subduing the Freedom of Speech; a ''Thing'' terrible to Publick [[Treason|Traytors]]. * That Men ought to speak well of their ''Governours'' is true, while their ''Governours'', deserve to be well spoken of, but to do publick [[Mischief]], without hearing of it, is only the Prerogative and Felicity of [[Tyranny]]: A free People will be shewing that they are so, by their Freedom of Speech. * The Administration of Government, is nothing else but the Attendence of the ''Trustees of the People'' upon the Interest and Affairs of the People: And as it is the Part and Business of the People, for whole Sake alone all publick Matters are, or ought to be transacted, to see whether they be well or ill transacted, so it is the Interest, and ought to be the Ambition, of all honest Magistrates, to have their Deeds openly examined, and Publickly scann'd[.] * Freedom of Speech is ever the Symptom, as well as the Effect of a good Government. In old Rome, all was left to the Judgment and Pleasure of the People, who examined the publick Proceedings with such Discretion, & censured those who administred them with such Equity and Mildness, that in the space of Three Hundred Years, not five publick Ministers suffered unjustly. Indeed whenever the Commons proceeded to Violence, the great Ones had been the Agressors. * Guilt only dreads Liberty of Speech, which drags it out of its lurking Holes, and exposes its Deformity and Horrour to Day-light. * The best Princes have ever encouraged and Promoted Freedom of Speech; they know that upright Measures would defend themselves, and that all upright Men would defend them. * Misrepressentation of publick Measures is easily overthrown, by representing publick Measures truly; when they are honest, they ought to be publickly known, that they may be publickly commended, but if they are knavish or pernicious, they ought to be publickly exposed, in order to be pubickly detested. * Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty; they prosper and die together: And it is the terror of [[Treason|traitors]] and [[Oppression|oppressors]], and a barrier against them. It produces excellent writers, and encourages men of fine genius. * All Ministers … who were Oppressors, or intended to be Oppressors, have been loud in their Complaints against Freedom of Speech, and the License of the Press; and always restrained, or endeavored to restrain, both. ===1800s=== * Error of opinion may be tolerated where [[reason]] is left free to combat it. ** [[Thomas Jefferson]], [[s:Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address|First Inaugural Address]], March 4, 1801. *The diffusion of information and arraignment of all abuses at the bar of the public reason; [[freedom of religion]]; [[freedom of the press]], and freedom of person under the protection of the [[w:Habeas corpus|habeas corpus]], and trial by [[Jury|juries]] impartially selected. These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment. They should be the creed of our political faith, the text of civic instruction, the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety. ** [[Thomas Jefferson]], [[s:Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address|First Inaugural Address]], March 4, 1801. * When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking, or thinking, I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more. ** [[John Adams]], in a letter to [[Thomas Jefferson]], 15 July, 1817. * May it be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government. That form which we have substituted, restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and freedom of opinion. All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. ** [[Thomas Jefferson]], Letter to Roger Weightman, June 24, 1826, in ''The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson'', ed. Adrienne Koch and William Peden (New York: Modern Library, 1944), p. 729. * A popular Government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. [[Knowledge]] will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. ** [[James Madison]], [http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch18s35.html Letter to W.T. Barry] (4 August 1822) * I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America. ** [[Alexis de Tocqueville]], ''[[w:Democracy in America|Democracy in America]]'', Volume I (1835), Chapter XV * In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them. ** [[Alexis de Tocqueville]], ''[[w:Democracy in America|Democracy in America]]'', Volume I (1835), Chapter XV * How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech. ** [[Soren Kierkegaard]] ''Either/Or Part I'' (1843), Swenson p. 19. * People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have, for example, freedom of thought; instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation. ** [[Soren Kierkegaard]], as quoted in ''The Fitzhenry & Whiteside Book of Quotations'' (1981), p. 172. * And I honor the man who is willing to sink <br /> Half his present repute for the freedom to think, <br /> And, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, <br /> Will risk t'other half for the freedom to speak. ** [[James Russell Lowell]], ''A Fable for Critics'' (1848), Pt. V - ''Cooper'', st. 3. * No law shall be passed restraining the free expression of opinion, or restricting the right to speak, write or print freely on any subject whatever. ** ''{{w|Oregon Constitution}}'', (1857), Article I, Section 8. * The [[class]] which has the [[Means of production|means of material production]] at its disposal has control over the means of mental production, so that in consequence the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are, in general, subject to it. ** [[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]], ''{{w|The German Ideology}}'' ca. April or early May 1846 [[File:John Stuart Mill by John Watkins, 1865.jpg|thumb|[[John Stuart Mill]]]] * Strange it is that men should admit the validity of the arguments for free speech but object to their being "pushed to an extreme", not seeing that unless the reasons are good for an extreme case, they are not good for any case. ** [[John Stuart Mill]], ''On Liberty'' (1859) Ch. 2, {{cite book | last = Mill | title = On Liberty | url = | year = 1985 | publisher = Penguin | pages = p. 108}} * If any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility. … Though the silenced opinion be an error, it may, and very commonly does, contain a portion of truth; and since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinions that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied … Even if the received opinion be not only true, but the whole truth; unless it is suffered to be, and actually is, vigorously and earnestly contested, it will, by most of those who receive it, be held in the manner of a prejudice, with little comprehension [of] or feeling [for] its rational grounds. ** [[John Stuart Mill]], ''{{w|On Liberty}}'', (1859). * He who stifles [[free]] discussion, secretly [[doubts]] whether what he professes to [[believe]] is really true. ** [[Wendell Phillips]], oration delivered at [[w:Daniel O'Connell|Daniel O'Connell]] celebration, Boston (6 August 1870), published in ''Wendell Phillips: The Agitator'' (1890) by William Carlos Martyn, p. 563 <!-- New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company --> * I do not believe that the tendency is to make men and women brave and glorious when you tell them that there are certain ideas upon certain subjects that they must never express; that they must go through life with a pretence as a shield; that their neighbors will think much more of them if they will only keep still; and that above all is a [[God]] who despises one who honestly expresses what he believes. For my part, I believe men will be nearer honest in [[business]], in [[politics]], grander in [[art]] — in everything that is good and grand and beautiful, if they are taught from the cradle to the coffin to tell their honest opinion. ** [[Robert G. Ingersoll]], The Great Infidels (1881) * Standing in the presence of the Unknown, all have the same right to think, and all are equally interested in the great questions of origin and destiny. All I claim, all I plead for, is liberty of [[thought]] and expression. That is all. I do not pretend to tell what is absolutely true, but what I think is true. I do not pretend to tell all the [[truth]].<br> I do not claim that I have floated level with the heights of [[thought]], or that I have descended to the very depths of things. I simply claim that what ideas I have, I have a right to express; and that any man who denies that right to me is an intellectual thief and robber. That is [[all]]. ** [[Robert G. Ingersoll]], The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child (1877) * I would not wish to live in a [[world]] where I could not express my honest opinions. Men who deny to others the right of speech are not fit to live with honest men. <br> I deny the right of any man, of any number of men, of any [[church]], of any [[State]], to put a padlock on the lips — to make the tongue a convict. I passionately deny the right of the Herod of authority to kill the children of the brain. ** [[Robert G. Ingersoll]], in an [http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/robert_ingersoll/blasphemy_trial.html appeal to the jury in the trial of C.B. Reynolds for blasphemy (May 1887)]. * I am a believer in [[liberty]]. That is my [[religion]] — to give to every other human being every right that I claim for myself, and I grant to every other human being, not the right — because it is his right — but instead of granting I declare that it is his right, to attack every doctrine that I maintain, to answer every argument that I may urge — in other words, he must have absolute freedom of speech. ** [[Robert G. Ingersoll]], in an [http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/robert_ingersoll/blasphemy_trial.html appeal to the jury in the trial of C.B. Reynolds for blasphemy (May 1887)]. * I would defend the freedom of speech. And why? Because no attack can be answered by force, no argument can be refuted by a blow, or by imprisonment, or by fine. You may imprison the man, but the argument is free; you may fell the man to the earth, but the statement stands. ** [[Robert G. Ingersoll]], in an [http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/robert_ingersoll/blasphemy_trial.html appeal to the jury in the trial of C.B. Reynolds for blasphemy (May 1887)]. * Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful; without free speech progress is checked, and the nations no longer march forward towards the nobler life which the future holds for man. Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day; the denial slays the life of the people and entombs the hope of the race. ** [[Charles Bradlaugh]], Speech at Hall of Science ''c.''1880 quoted in ''[[wikisource:An Autobiography/Chapter IX|An Autobiography]]'' of [[Annie Besant]]; reported in ''Edmund Fuller, Thesaurus of Quotations'' (1941), p. 398; reported as unverified in ''Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations'' (1989). *Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down. They know its power. Thrones, dominions, principalities, and powers, founded in injustice and wrong, are sure to tremble, if men are allowed to reason of [[righteousness]], [[temperance]], and of a [[judgment]] to come in their presence. [[Slavery in the United States|Slavery]] cannot tolerate free speech. **[[Frederick Douglass]], [https://web.archive.org/web/20180817211110/http://www.speeches-usa.com/Transcripts/fredrick_douglas-boston.html Plea for Free Speech in Boston] (8 June 1880) * It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. ** [[Mark Twain]], ''Following the Equator'', Vol. 1 (1897), ch. 20. ===1900s=== * I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. ** [[Evelyn Beatrice Hall]], Ch. 7 : ''[[w:The Friends of Voltaire|Helvetius: The Contradiction]]'' (1906), p. 199. Often [[Voltaire#Misattributed|misattributed to Voltaire]]. * [[Anarchism]] says, Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech shall be free, you will have a hundred lawyers proving that "freedom does not mean abuse, nor liberty license"; and they will define and define freedom out of existence. Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations. ** [[Voltairine de Cleyre ]], [http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/cleyre/amertrad.html "Anarchism & American Traditions"] in ''Mother Earth'' (December 1908/January 1909) * Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high<br/>Where knowledge is free<br/>Where the world has not been broken up into fragments<br/>By narrow domestic walls<br/>Where words come out from the depth of truth<br/>Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection<br/>Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way<br/>Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit<br/>Where the mind is led forward by thee:Into ever-widening thought and action<br/>Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake. ** A poem by [[Rabindranath Tagore]] about freedom of expression. The original [[Bengali language|Bengali]] language poem, "Chitto jetha bhayashunyo", was published in 1910 and included in the collection Gitanjali by Tagore. * Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a pretense—the sheerest mockery. If the press is not free; if speech is not independent and untrammelled; if the mind is shackled or made impotent through fear, it makes no difference under what form of government you live you are a subject and not a citizen. [[Republic|Republics]] are not in and of themselves better than other forms of government except in so far as they carry with them and guarantee to the citizen that liberty of thought and action for which they were established. ** [[w:William Borah|William E. Borah]], remarks in the Senate (April 19, 1917), ''Congressional Record'', vol. 55, p. 837. * The First Amendment ... gives no one the right to insist that, in pursuit of their own interests [[Dictatorship|others must conform]] their conduct to his own religious necessities ** Warren E. Burger, ''Estate of Thornton v. Caldor'', Inc., 472 U.S. 703 (1985) * I realize that, in speaking to you this afternoon, there are certain limitations placed upon the right of free speech. I must be exceedingly careful, prudent, as to what I say, and even more careful and prudent as to how I say it. I may not be able to say all I think; but I am not going to say anything that I do not think. I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in [[Prison|jail]] than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets. ** [[Eugene V. Debs]], speech to the Socialist party of Ohio state convention, Canton, Ohio (June 16, 1918); republished in Jean Y. Tussey, ed., ''Eugene V. Debs Speaks'' (1970), p. 244. This was Debs's most famous speech. It was a socialist antiwar speech while the United States was at war, and it was used against him at his trial. Debs was convicted under the Espionage Law and sentenced to 10 years in prison. President Warren G. Harding commuted the sentence in 1921. * I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking. It cannot be so easily discovered if you allow him to remain silent and look wise, but if you let him speak, the secret is out and the world knows that he is a fool. So it is by the exposure of folly that it is defeated; not by the [[seclusion]] of folly, and in this free air of free speech men get into that sort of communication with one another which constitutes the basis of all common achievement. ** [[Woodrow Wilson]], [https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Public_Papers_of_Woodrow_Wilson_War/CqR1FpRaHdsC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA484&printsec=frontcover "That Quick Comradeship of Letters," address at the Institute of France, Paris (May 10, 1919)]; in Ray Stannard Baker and William E. Dodd, eds., ''The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson'' (1927), vol. 5, p. 484. * The general [[rule of law]] is, that the noblest of human productions — knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions and ideas — become, after voluntary communication to others, free as the air to common use. **[[Louis Brandeis]], (''{{w|International News Service v. Associated Press}}'', 1918). * '''Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.''' ** [[Benjamin N. Cardozo]], ''Palko v. Connecticut'', 302 U.S. 319, 327, (1937) * But arms – instrumentalities, as [[Woodrow Wilson|President Wilson]] called them – are not sufficient by themselves. We must add to them the power of ideas. People say we ought not to allow ourselves to be drawn into a theoretical antagonism between [[Nazism|Nazidom]] and [[democracy]]; but the antagonism is here now. It is this very conflict of spiritual and moral ideas which gives the free countries a great part of their strength. You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their [[soldiers]] and the truncheons of their [[police]]. On all sides they are guarded by masses of armed men, [[wikipedia:Cannon|cannons]], aeroplanes, fortifications, and the like – they boast and vaunt themselves before the world, yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts; words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home – all the more powerful because forbidden – terrify them. A little [[Mice|mouse]] of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words; they are afraid of the workings of the human mind. [[Cannonball Run II|Cannons]], [[Airplane|airplanes]], they can manufacture in large quantities; but how are they to quell the natural promptings of [[human nature]], which after all these centuries of trial and progress has inherited a whole armoury of potent and indestructible knowledge? ** [[Winston Churchill]], [https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/speeches/1930-1938-the-wilderness/the-defence-of-freedom-and-peace-the-lights-are-going-out/ Broadcast to the United States and to London], 16 October 1938 * So we must beware of a tyranny of opinion which tries to make only one side of a question the one which may be heard. Everyone is in favour of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people’s idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage. ** [[Winston Churchill]], October 13, 1943 Hansard, United Kingdom Parliament, Commons, Coalmining Situation, HC Deb, volume 392, cc920-1012. * After all, if freedom of speech means anything, it means a willingness to stand and let people say things with which we disagree, and which do weary us considerably. ** [[Zechariah Chafee]]; in {{cite book | last = Chafee | title = Freedom of Speech | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=XuQ9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA366&dq=%22freedom+of+speech+means+anything%22&lr= | year = 1920 | publisher = Harcourt, Brace and Howe | pages = p. 366}} * The [[United States Constitution|Constitution]] is a delusion and a snare if the [[weak]]est and [[humbles]]t man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the [[strong]]est in the land. ** [[Clarence Darrow]] Address to the court in ''People v. Lloyd'' (1920) *When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe even more than they believe the very foundations of their own conduct that the ultimate good is better reached by free trade in ideas — that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out. That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution. **[[Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.]], (''{{w|Abrams v. United States}}'', 1919). * But the character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done…. The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a [[theatre]] and causing a [[panic]]. It does not even protect a man from an injunction against uttering words that may have all the effect of force…. The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent. It is a question of proximity and degree. ** [[Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.]], ''Schenck v. United States'', 249 U.S. 52 (1919). ** Often paraphrased as: "Freedom of speech does not give a person the right to shout 'Fire!' in a crowded theatre." * Freiheit ist immer Freiheit der Andersdenkenden. ** Freedom is always the freedom of [[Dissent|dissenters]]. ** [[Rosa Luxemburg]], Sources: ''Die russische Revolution. Eine kritische Würdigung'', Berlin 1920 p. 109 and in ''Rosa Luxemburg - Gesammelte Werke'' Vol. 4, p. 359, Footnote 3, Dietz Verlag Berlin (Ost), 1983 *** Variant: "Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently." * So long as you are a [[slave]] to the opinions of the many you have not yet approached freedom or tasted its nectar… But I do not mean by this that we ought to be shameless before all men and to do what we ought not; but all that we refrain from and all that we do, let us not do or refrain from merely because it seems to the multitude somehow honorable or base, but because it is forbidden by reason and the god within us. ** [[Julian (emperor)|Julian]], As quoted in ''The Works of the Emperor Julian'' (1923) by Wilmer Cave France Wright, p. 47 * Herein lies the value of free speech. It makes concealment difficult, and, in the long run, impossible. One heretic, if he is right, is as good as a host. He is bound to win in the long run. It is thus no wonder that foes of the enlightenment always begin their proceedings by trying to deny free speech to their opponents. It is dangerous to them and they know it. So they have at it by accusing these opponents of all sorts of grave crimes and misdemeanors, most of them clearly absurd – in other words, by calling them names and trying to scare them. ** [[H. L. Mencken]], ''The Sad Case of Tennessee'' in the ''Chicago Tribune'' (March 14, 1926) *It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. **{{w|Louis Brandeis}}, (''{{w|Whitney v. California}}'', 1927). *Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the State was to make men free to develop their faculties; and that in its government the deliberative forces should prevail over the arbitrary. They valued liberty both as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. They believed that freedom to think as you will and to speak as you think are means indispensable to the discovery and spread of political truth; that without free speech and assembly discussion would be futile; that with them, discussion affords ordinarily adequate protection against the dissemination of noxious doctrine; that the greatest menace to freedom is an inert people; that public discussion is a political duty; and that this should be a fundamental principle of the American government. **{{w|Louis Brandeis}}, (''{{w|Whitney v. California}}'', 1927). *Those who won our independence by [[American Revolution|revolution]] were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty. To courageous, self-reliant men, with confidence in the power of free and fearless reasoning applied through the processes of popular government, no danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present, unless the incidence of the evil apprehended is so imminent that it may befall before there is opportunity for full discussion. If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence. **{{w|Louis Brandeis}}, (''{{w|Whitney v. California}}'', 1927). [[File:Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr circa 1930.jpg|thumb|{{w|Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.}}]] *If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other, it is the principle of free thought &mdash; not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought we hate. **{{w|Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.}}, (''[[w:United States v. Schwimmer|United States v. Schwimmer]]'', 1929). *It is no longer open to doubt that the liberty of the press, and of speech, is within the liberty safeguarded by the [[w:Due process clause|due process clause]] of the [[w:Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution|Fourteenth Amendment]] from invasion by state action. It was found impossible to conclude that this essential personal liberty of the citizen was left unprotected by the general guaranty of fundamental rights of person and [[property]]. **{{w|Charles Evans Hughes}}, (''{{w|Near v. Minnesota}}'', 1931). * So, dear friend, put fear out of your heart. This [[Nations|nation]] will survive, this state will prosper, the orderly business of life will go forward if only men can speak in whatever way given them to utter what their [[Heart|hearts]] hold—by voice, by posted card, by letter or by press. Reason never has failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world. ** [[w:William Allen White|William Allen White]], "To an Anxious Friend," editorial, ''The Emporia (Kansas) Gazette'' (July 27, 1922), Russell H. Fitzgibbon, compiler, ''White, Forty Years on Main Street'' (1937), p. 285. * The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets. … the press in its historic connotation comprehends every sort of publication which affords a vehicle of information and opinion. ** [[Charles Evans Hughes]], ''{{w|Lovell v. City of Griffin}}'', 303 U.S. 444 (1938). *The freedom of speech and of the press, which are secured by the [[First Amendment to the United States Constitution|First Amendment]] against abridgment by the United States, are among the fundamental personal rights and liberties which are secured to all persons by the Fourteenth Amendment against abridgment by a state. The safeguarding of these rights to the ends that men may speak as they think on matters vital to them and that falsehoods may be exposed through the processes of [[education]] and discussion is essential to free government. Those who won our independence had confidence in the power of free and fearless reasoning and [[communication]] of ideas to discover and spread political and economic truth. **{{cite book|author=[[w:Frank Murphy|Frank Murphy]]|title=[[w:Thornhill v. Alabama|Thornhill v. Alabama]]|publisher=[[Supreme Court of the United States]]|location=|year=1940|pages= 310 U.S. 88, 95|isbn=|oclc=|doi=}} * Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution withers away, becomes a caricature of itself, and bureaucracy rises as the only deciding factor. ** [[Rosa Luxemburg]], Reported in Paul Froelich, ''Die Russiche Revolution'' (1940). * We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression—everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way—everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want... The fourth is freedom from fear. ** [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], message to Congress, 6 January 1941. * Back of the guarantee of free speech lay faith in the power of an appeal to reason by all the peaceful means for gaining access to the mind. It was in order to avert force and explosions due to restrictions upon rational modes of communication that the guarantee of free speech was given a generous scope. But utterance in a context of violence can lose its significance as an appeal to reason and become part of an instrument of force. Such utterance was not meant to be sheltered by the Constitution. **[[Felix Frankfurter]], ''Milk Wagon Drivers Union of Chicago, Local 753. v. Meadowmoor Dairies, Inc.'', 312 U.S. 287, 293 (1941). *Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard. **{{cite book|author=[[Robert H. Jackson]]|title={{w|West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette}}|publisher=[[Supreme Court of the United States]]|location=|year=1943|pages= 319 U.S. 624, 638|isbn=|oclc=|doi=}} *The very purpose of a [[United States Bill of Rights|Bill of Rights]] was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities, and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. / One's right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no [[elections]]. **{{cite book|author=[[Robert H. Jackson]]|title={{w|West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette}}|publisher=[[Supreme Court of the United States]]|location=|year=1943|pages= 319 U.S. 624, 638|isbn=|oclc=|doi=}} * Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up. ** [[George Orwell]], [http://alexpeak.com/twr/orwell/quotes/ "As I Please," ''Tribune'' (28 April 1944)] * The relative freedom which we enjoy depends of [[public opinion]]. The law is no protection. Governments make laws, but whether they are carried out, and how the [[police]] behave, depends on the general temper in the country. If large numbers of people are interested in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it; if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them. ** [[George Orwell]], "Freedom of the Park", ''Tribune'' (7 December 1945) * I want freedom for full expression of my [[personality]]. ** [[Mahatma Gandhi]] in ''Jews and Palestine'' (July 1946), as quoted in ''[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=pjN3jZQ74AoC&pg=PA327#v=onepage&q&f=false The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings]'', p. 327 * Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen. ** [[George Orwell]], "The Freedom Defence Committee" in ''The Socialist Leader'' (18 September 1948); also in ''The Collected Essays, Journalism, & Letters, George Orwell; Vol. IV : In front of your nose, 1945-1950'' (2000), p. 447 *Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any [[Mass media|media]] and regardless of frontiers. **{{cite book |author={{w|United Nations General Assembly}}|title={{w|Universal Declaration of Human Rights}}|publisher=[[United Nations]]|location={{w|Palais de Chaillot}}, [[w:Paris|Paris]]|year=December 10, 1948|pages= Article 19|isbn=|oclc=|doi=}}[http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html Text] * <blockquote>'''The vitality of civil and political institutions in our society depends on free discussion. As [[Charles Evans Hughes|Chief Justice Hughes]] wrote in ''[[w:De Jonge v. Oregon|De Jonge v. Oregon]]''''', 299 U.S. 353, 365, 260, '''it is only through free debate and free exchange of ideas that government remains responsive to the will of the people and peaceful change is effected. The right to speak freely and to promote diversity of ideas and programs is therefore one of the chief distinctions that sets us apart from totalitarian regimes.'''</br> '''Accordingly a function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it induces a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with conditions as they are, or even stirs people to anger. Speech is often provocative and challenging. It may strike at prejudices and preconceptions and have profound unsettling effects as it presses for acceptance of an idea. That is why freedom of speech, though not absolute,''' ''[[w:Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire|Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire]]'', supra, 315 U.S. at pages 571-572, 62 S.Ct. at page 769, '''is nevertheless protected against censorship or punishment, unless shown likely to produce a clear and present danger of a serious substantive evil that rises far above public inconvenience, annoyance, or unrest.''' See ''Bridges v. California'', 314 U.S. 252, 262, 193, 159 A.L.R. 1346; ''Craig v. Harney'', 331 U.S. 367, 373, 1253. '''There is no room under our Constitution for a more restrictive view. For the alternative would lead to standardization of ideas either by legislatures, courts, or dominant political or community groups.'''''Terminiello'', 337 U.S. at 4-5.</blockquote> ** [[William O. Douglas]], Majority opinion, [[w:Terminiello v. City of Chicago|Terminiello v. City of Chicago]], 337 U.S. 1 (1949) at 4-5. * Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. ** [[George Orwell]], ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'' (1949) * '''If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.''' ** [[George Orwell]], Original preface to ''[[Animal Farm]]''; as published in ''George Orwell : Some Materials for a Bibliography'' (1953) by Ian R. Willison * Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us. ** [[William O. Douglas]], "The One Un-American Act," Speech to the Author's Guild Council in New York, on receiving the 1951 Lauterbach Award (December 3, 1952) [http://ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/oif/foryoungpeople/theoneunamerican/oneunamerican.cfm] * The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions. ** [[Adlai Stevenson]], ''Adlai's Almanac: The Wit and Wisdom of Stevenson of Illinois'' (1952), p. 43. * I yield to no man—if I may borrow that majestic parliamentary phrase—I yield to no man in my belief in the principle of free debate, inside or outside the halls of Congress. The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions. But there is also, it seems to me, a moment at which democracy must prove its capacity to act. Every man has a right to be heard; but no man has the right to strangle [[democracy]] with a single set of vocal cords. ** [[Adlai Stevenson]], speech to the state committee of the Liberal party, New York City (August 28, 1952); in ''The Papers of Adlai E. Stevenson'' (1974), vol. 4, p. 63. * '''History indicates that individual liberty is intermittently subjected to extraordinary perils. Even countries dedicated to government by the people are not free from such cyclical dangers. ... Test oaths are notorious tools of tyranny. When used to shackle the mind they are, or at least they should be, unspeakably odious to a free people. Test oaths are made still more dangerous when combined with bills of attainder which like''' this Oklahoma statute '''impose pains and penalties for past lawful associations and utterances.... Governments need and have ample power to punish treasonable acts. But it does not follow that they must have a further power to punish thought and speech as distinguished from acts. Our own free society should never forget that laws which stigmatize and penalize thought and speech of the unorthodox have a way of reaching, ensnaring and silencing many more people than at first intended. We must have freedom of speech for all or we will in the long run have it for none but the cringing and the craven. And I cannot too often repeat my belief that the right to speak on matters of public concern must be wholly free or eventually be wholly lost.''' ** [[Hugo Black]] (December 15, 1952), ''[[w:Weiman v. Updegraff|Weiman v. Updegraff]]'', 344 U.S. 183 at 192-194 (Black, J., concurring). * Laws alone cannot secure freedom of expression; in order that every man may present his views without penalty, there must be a spirit of tolerance in the entire population. ** [[Albert Einstein]], ''Ideas and Opinions by Albert Einstein'' (1954), p. 32. * For in the absence of debate unrestricted utterance leads to the degradation of opinion. By a kind of [[w:Gresham's law|Gresham's law]] the more rational is overcome by the less rational, and the opinions that will prevail will be those which are held most ardently by those with the most passionate will. For that reason the freedom to speak can never be maintained merely by objecting to interference with the liberty of the press, of printing, of broadcasting, of the screen. It can be maintained only by promoting debate. ** [[Walter Lippmann]], ''Essays in the Public Philosophy'' (1955), chapter 9, section 3, p. 129–30. *That there is a social problem presented by obscenity is attested by the expression of the [[Legislature|legislatures]] of the forty-eight States, as well as the Congress. To recognize the existence of a problem, however, does not require that we sustain any and all measures adopted to meet that problem. The history of the application of laws designed to suppress the obscene demonstrates convincingly that the power of government can be invoked under them against great art or literature, scientific treatises, or works exciting social controversy. Mistakes of the past prove that there is a strong countervailing interest to be considered in the freedoms guaranteed by the First and Fourteenth Amendments. **[[Earl Warren]], [[w:Chief Justice of the United States|Chief Justice of the United States]] (''[[w:Roth v. United States|Roth v. United States]]'', 1957). *If the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of speech and press is to mean anything, it must allow protests even against the moral code that the standard of the day sets for the community. **[[William O. Douglas]], {{w|Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States}} (''{{w|Roth v. United States}}'', 1957). *The standard of what offends 'the common conscience of the community' conflicts … with the command of the First Amendment. … Certainly that standard would not be an acceptable one if religion, [[economics]], politics or [[philosophy]] were involved. How does it become a constitutional standard when [[literature]] treating with [[Human sexual activity|sex]] is concerned? / Any test that turns on what is offensive to the community's standards is too loose, too capricious, too destructive of freedom of expression to be squared with the First Amendment. Under that test, juries can [[Censorship|censor]], suppress, and punish what they don't like, provided the matter relates to 'sexual impurity' or has a tendency to 'excite lustful thoughts.' This is community censorship in one of its worst forms... **[[William O. Douglas]], Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (''{{w|Roth v. United States}}'', 1957) *We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. **[[John F. Kennedy]], [https://www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/archives/JFKWHA/1962/JFKWHA-075-005/JFKWHA-075-005 “Remarks on the 20th Anniversary of the Voice of America] (February 26, 1962) [[File:US Supreme Court Justice William Brennan - 1976 official portrait.jpg|thumb|{{w|William J. Brennan Jr.}}]] *We are required in this case to determine for the first time the extent to which the constitutional protections for speech and press limit a State's power to award damages in a libel action brought by a public official against critics of his official conduct. **[[William J. Brennan Jr.]], Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (''[[New York Times Co. v. Sullivan]]'', 1964). *[There exists a] profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials. **{{w|William J. Brennan Jr.}}, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (''[[New York Times Co. v. Sullivan]]'', 1964). *Authoritative interpretations of the First Amendment guarantees have consistently refused to recognize an exception for any test of truth — whether administered by [[judges]], juries, or administrative officials — and especially one that puts the burden of proving truth on the speaker. **{{w|William J. Brennan Jr.}}, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (''[[New York Times Co. v. Sullivan]]'', 1964). *The censor is always quick to justify his function in terms that are protective of society. But the First Amendment, written in terms that are absolute, deprives the States of any power to pass on the value, the propriety, or the morality of a particular expression. **{{w|William O. Douglas}}, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (''[[w:Memoirs v. Massachusetts|Memoirs v. Massachusetts]]'', 1966). *The dissemination of the individual's opinions on matters of public interest is for us, in the historic words of the [[United States Declaration of Independence|Declaration of Independence]], an 'unalienable right' that 'governments are instituted among men to secure.' [[History of the United States|History]] shows us that the [[Founding Fathers of the United States|Founders]] were not always convinced that unlimited discussion of public issues would be 'for the benefit of all of us' but that they firmly adhered to the proposition that the 'true liberty of the press' permitted 'every man to publish his opinion'. **[[John Marshall Harlan II]], Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (''[[w:Curtis Publishing Company v. Butts|Curtis Publishing Company v. Butts]]'', 1967). * The free communication of thoughts and opinions is one of the invaluable rights of man, and every citizen may freely speak, write and print on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty. ** [http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/pa08.asp Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (1968), Article 1, Section 7] *Somewhere I read of the [[freedom of assembly]]. Somewhere I read of the [[freedom of speech]]. Somewhere I read of the [[freedom of the press]]. Somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to [[protest]] for right. And so just as I say, we aren't going to let any injunction turn us around. We are going on. **[[Martin Luther King, Jr.]] I've Been to the Mountaintop (1968) >[http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/documentsentry/ive_been_to_the_mountaintop/ Speech delivered at Bishop Charles Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee] (3 April 1968) * '''Freedom of speech means not only freedom for the views with which you agree but also freedom for the views which you hate and deplore.''' ** [[Alfred Denning, Baron Denning]], Defending the Attorney General's decision not to prosecute [[Enoch Powell]] for his anti-immigration Eastbourne speech; speech to the Institute of Journalists in London (2 December 1968), quoted in ''The Times'' (3 December 1968), p. 3 *Whatever may be the justifications for other statutes regulating obscenity, we do not think they reach into the privacy of one's own home. If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a State has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch. Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. **[[Thurgood Marshall]], Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (''[[w:Stanley v. Georgia|Stanley v. Georgia]]'', 1969). [[File:SCOTUS Justice Abe Fortas.jpeg|thumb|{{w|Abe Fortas}}]] *First Amendment rights, applied in light of the special characteristics of the [[Education|school]] environment, are available to teachers and students. It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate. **{{w|Abe Fortas}}, (''{{w|Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District}}'', 1969). *In order for the State in the person of school officials to justify prohibition of a particular expression of opinion, it must be able to show that its action was caused by something more than a mere desire to avoid the discomfort and unpleasantness that always accompany an unpopular viewpoint. **{{w|Abe Fortas}}, (''Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District'', 1969). *Under our Constitution, free speech is not a right that is given only to be so circumscribed that it exists in principle but not in fact. Freedom of expression would not truly exist if the right could be exercised only in an area that a benevolent government has provided as a safe haven for crackpots. The Constitution says that Congress (and the States) may not abridge the right to free speech. This provision means what it says. We properly read it to permit reasonable regulation of speech-connected activities in carefully restricted circumstances. But we do not confine the permissible exercise of First Amendment rights to a telephone booth or the four corners of a pamphlet, or to supervised and ordained discussion in a school classroom. **{{w|Abe Fortas}}, (''Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District'', 1969). *The word "[[security]]" is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the First Amendment. The guarding of [[military]] and [[Diplomacy|diplomatic]] secrets at the expense of informed representative government provides no real security for our Republic. **[[Hugo Black]], (''New York Times Company v. United States'', 1971). * The security of the Nation is not at the ramparts alone. Security also lies in the value of our free institutions. A cantankerous press, an obstinate press, an ubiquitous press must be suffered by those in authority in order to preserve the even greater values of freedom of expression and the right of the people to know. In this case there has been no attempt by the Government at political suppression. There has been no attempt to stifle criticism. Yet in the last analysis it is not merely the opinion of the editorial writer or of the columnist which is protected by the First Amendment. It is the free flow of information so that the public will be informed about the Government and its actions. These are troubled times. There is no greater safety valve for discontent and cynicism about the affairs of Government than freedom of expression in any form. ** [[w:Murray Gurfein|Murray Gurfein]] June 19, 1971 in ''[[w:United States v. N.Y. Times Co.|United States v. N.Y. Times Co.]]'', [http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/328/324/1428158/ 328 F. Supp. 324, 331 (S.D.N.Y. 1971)]. *... I would not in this case decide, even by way of dicta, that the Government may lawfully seize literary material intended for the purely private use of the importer. The terms of the statute appear to apply to an American tourist who, after exercising his constitutionally protected liberty to travel abroad, returns home with a single book in his luggage, with no intention of selling it or otherwise using it, except to read it. If the Government can constitutionally take the book away from him as he passes through customs, then I do not understand the meaning of ''{{w|Stanley v. Georgia}}''. **[[Potter Stewart]], [[w:Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States|Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States]] (''{{w|United States v. Thirty-Seven Photographs}}'', 1971). *Effective self-government cannot succeed unless the people are immersed in a steady, robust, unimpeded, and uncensored flow of opinion and reporting which are continuously subjected to critique, rebuttal, and reexamination. **{{w|William O. Douglas}}, (''{{w|Branzburg v. Hayes}}'', 1972). *The people, the ultimate [[Ruler|governors]], must have absolute freedom of, and therefore privacy of, their individual opinions and beliefs regardless of how suspect or strange they may appear to others. Ancillary to that principle is the conclusion that an individual must also have absolute privacy over whatever information he may generate in the course of testing his opinions and beliefs. **{{w|William O. Douglas}}, (''{{w|Branzburg v. Hayes}}'', 1972). *It is my view that there is no "compelling need" that can be shown which qualifies the reporter's immunity from appearing or testifying before a grand jury, unless the reporter himself is implicated in a crime. His immunity, in my view, is therefore quite complete, for, absent his involvement in a crime, the First Amendment protects him against an appearance before a grand jury, and, if he is involved in a crime, the [[Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Fifth Amendment]] stands as a barrier. … And since, in my view, a newsman has an absolute right not to appear before a grand jury, it follows for me that a journalist who voluntarily appears before that body may invoke his First Amendment privilege to specific questions. **{{w|William O. Douglas}}, (''{{w|Branzburg v. Hayes}}'', 1972). * At any given moment there is an [[orthodoxy]], a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is ‘not done’ to say it, just as in mid-[[w:Victorian era|Victorian]] times it was ‘not done’ to mention [[trousers]] in the presence of a [[Women|lady]]. Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing. ** [[George Orwell]], [http://orwell.ru/library/novels/Animal_Farm/english/efp_go "The Freedom of the Press"] (1972) * The First Amendment ... gives no one the right to insist that, in pursuit of their own interests [[Dictatorship|others must conform]] their conduct to his own religious necessities ** Warren E. Burger, ''Estate of Thornton v. Caldor'', Inc., 472 U.S. 703 (1985) * [[Controversy]] may rage as long as it adheres to the presuppositions that define the consensus of [[Elite|elites]], and it should furthermore be encouraged within these bounds, thus helping to establish these doctrines as the very condition of thinkable thought while reinforcing the belief that freedom reigns. ** [[Noam Chomsky]], ''Necessary Illusions'' (1989) * [[Joseph Goebbels|Goebbels]] was in favor of freedom of speech for views he liked. So was [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]]. If you're in favor of freedom of speech, that means you're in favor of freedom of speech precisely for views you despise. ** [[Noam Chomsky]], ''Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media'', 1992 * The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum—even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate. ** [[Noam Chomsky]], ''The Common Good'', 1998 [[File:Warren e burger photo.jpeg|thumb|{{w|Warren E. Burger}}]] *Prior restraints on speech and publication are the most serious and least tolerable infringement on First Amendment Rights. **[[Warren E. Burger]], [[w:Chief Justice of the United States|Chief Justice of the United States]] (''[[w:Nebraska Press Association v. Stuart|Nebraska Press Association v. Stuart]]'', 1976). *Q: Is it true that the [[USSR]] has the same freedom of speech as USA? *A: That's true. In America you can write "Down with [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]]" on a banner and carry it to the [[White House]], and you won't be arrested. '''In the Soviet Union, you can write "Down with Reagan" on a banner and carry it to the [[Red Square]], and you won't be arrested, either.''' **[[Radio Yerevan jokes]], circa. 1980. *We conclude that public figures and public officials may not recover for the tort of intentional infliction of emotional distress by reason of publications such as the one here at issue without showing, in addition, that the publication contains a false statement of fact which was made with 'actual malice,' i.e., with knowledge that the statement was false or with reckless disregard as to whether or not it was true. This is not merely a 'blind application' of the New York Times standard, see Time, Inc. v. Hill, 385 U.S. 374, 390 (1967); it reflects our considered judgment that such a standard is necessary to give adequate "breathing space" to the freedoms protected by the First Amendment. **[[William Rehnquist]], [[w:Chief Justice of the United States|Chief Justice of the United States]] (''[[Hustler Magazine v. Falwell]]'', 1988). * At the heart of the First Amendment is the recognition of the fundamental importance of the free flow of ideas and opinions on matters of public interest and concern. The freedom to speak one's mind is not only an aspect of individual liberty – and thus a good unto itself – but also is essential to the common quest for truth and the vitality of society as a whole. We have therefore been particularly vigilant to ensure that individual expressions of ideas remain free from governmentally imposed [[Sanction|sanctions]]. ** Chief Justice [[William Rehnquist]], ''[[w:Hustler Magazine v. Falwell|Hustler Magazine v. Falwell]]'', 485 U.S. 46 (1988). *There is no indication - either in the text of the Constitution or in our cases interpreting it - that a separate judicial category exists for the [[Flag of the United States|American flag]] alone. … We decline … therefore to create for the flag an exception to the joust of principles protected by the First Amendment. **{{w|William J. Brennan Jr.}}, {{w|Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States}} (''{{w|Texas v. Gregory Lee Johnson}}'', June 21, 1989). * If there is a bedrock principle of the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable. ** Justice [[William J. Brennan Jr.]], ''[[w:Texas v. Johnson|Texas v. Johnson]]'', 491 U.S. 397 (1989). * What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. ** [[Salman Rushdie]], ''In Good Faith'' (1990), p. 6. * Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech. **[[Anthony Kennedy]], ''International Society for Krishna Consciousness v. Lee'', 505 U.S. 672, 672 (1992) (concurring). *As a young constitutional lawyer, I was put to the first amendment test when I was called on to defend [[Racism in the United States|racists]] and [[Nazism|neo-Nazis]]. I really had no choice. Surely now we know that none of us do. Free speech is unequivocal, unpolitical, and indivisible. **{{w|Eleanor Holmes Norton}}, [http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CREC-1995-05-02/html/CREC-1995-05-02-pt1-PgH4448-4.htm "Support for Free Speech"], ''{{w|Congressional Record}}'', Volume 141, Number 71 (Tuesday, May 2, 1995), {{w|United States House of Representatives}}, Page H4448. *At the core of freedom of expression lies the need to ensure that truth and the [[common good]] are attained, whether in scientific and artistic endeavors or in the process of determining the best course to take in our political affairs. Since truth and the ideal form of political and social organization can rarely, if at all, be identified with absolute certainty, it is difficult to prohibit expression without impeding the free exchange of potentially valuable information. Nevertheless, the argument from truth does not provide convincing support for the protection of hate [[propaganda]]. Taken to its extreme, this argument would require us to permit the communication of all expression, it being impossible to know with absolute certainty which factual statements are true, or which ideas obtain the greatest good. The problem with this extreme position, however, is that the greater the degree of certainty that a statement is erroneous or mendacious, the less its value in the quest for truth. Indeed, expression can be used to the detriment of our search for truth; the state should not be the sole arbiter of truth, but neither should we overplay the view that rationality will overcome all falsehoods in the unregulated marketplace of ideas. There is very little chance that statements intended to promote hatred against an identifiable group are true, or that their vision of society will lead to a better world. To portray such statements as crucial to truth and the betterment of the political and social milieu is therefore misguided. **Chief Justice {{w|Brian Dickson}} (for the majority), {{w|Supreme Court of Canada}}, {{w|R v Keegstra}} [http://canlii.ca/t/1fsr1 (1990) 3 SCR 697], (December 13, 1990) * I’m working on a screenplay of ''[[Fahrenheit 451]]'' that will star [[Mel Gibson]]. It will be better than the original because they left a lot of things out of the first [[film]]. … It works even better because we have [[political correctness]] now. Political correctness is the real enemy these days. The [[Black people|black]] groups want to control our thinking and you can't say certain things. The [[Homosexuality|homosexual]] groups don't want you to criticize them. It's thought control and freedom of speech control. ** [[Ray Bradbury]], as quoted in "Bradbury Talk Likely to Feature the Unexpected" by Anne Gasior, ''Dayton Daily News'' (1 October 1994), City Edition, Lifestyle/Weekendlife Section, p. 1; republished in [http://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu:168044/datastream/PDF/ ''Conversations with Ray Bradbury'' (2003) by Steven Louis Aggelis (PDF), p. 104] *I rise today to support the efforts of citizens everywhere to protect free speech on the Internet. Today, the Supreme Court heard arguments to determine the constitutionality of the [[w:Communications Decency Act|Communications Decency Act]] [CDA], which criminalizes certain speech on the Internet. It is because of the hard work and dedication to free speech by netizens everywhere that this issue has gained the attention of the public, and now, our Nation's highest court. I have maintained from the very beginning that the CDA is unconstitutional, and I eagerly await the [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]]'s decision on this case. **[[Jerrold Nadler]], {{w|United States House of Representatives}} ([[s:Free Speech on the Internet|"Free Speech on the Internet"]], ''{{w|Congressional Record}}'', March 19, 1997). *One question that remains is at what point an individual Net poster has the right to assume prerogatives that have traditionally been only the province of [[Journalism|journalists]] and news-gathering organizations. When the [[w:Pentagon Papers|Pentagon Papers]] landed on the doorstep of the ''[[The New York Times|New York Times]]'', the newspaper was able to publish under the First Amendment's guarantees of freedom of speech, and to make a strong argument in court that publication was in the public interest. … the amplification inherent in the combination of the Net's high-speed communications and the size of the available population has greatly changed the balance of power. **{{cite book|title=[[w:Net.wars|Net.wars]]|author=[[w:Wendy M. Grossman|Wendy M. Grossman]]|page=90|publisher=[[w:New York University|New York University Press]]|year=1997|isbn=0814731031}} *Freedom of speech is central to most every other right that we hold dear in the [[United States]] and serves to strengthen the democracy of our great country. It is unfortunate, then, when actions occur that might be interpreted as contrary to this honored tenet. **{{w|Sam Farr}}, ''{{w|Congressional Record}}'', "[[s:Freedom of Speech, Freedom of the Press|Freedom of Speech, Freedom of the Press]]", (November 7, 1997). * Nobody deserves to be hurt, especially not for an idea. ** Kreshia Thomas, a black teenager who put herself in harm's way to protect a white man wearing Nazi tattoos and Confederate flag clothing from being beaten and kicked by an angry mob that thought he supported the racist Ku Klux Klan {{cite web|last = Wynne|first = Catherine|title = The teenager who saved a man with an SS tattoo|publisher = British Broadcasting Corporation|url = http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24653643 |year = 2013}} ===2000s=== [[File:John Paul Stevens, SCOTUS photo portrait.jpg|thumb|Money is property; it is not speech. Speech has the power to inspire volunteers to perform a multitude of tasks on a campaign trail, on a battleground, or even on a football field. Money, meanwhile, has the power to pay hired laborers to perform the same tasks. ~ [[John Paul Stevens]] ]] * '''Money is property; it is not speech. Speech has the power to inspire volunteers to perform a multitude of tasks on a campaign trail, on a battleground, or even on a football field. Money, meanwhile, has the power to pay hired laborers to perform the same tasks. It does not follow, however, that the [[First Amendment to the United States Constitution|First Amendment]] provides the same measure of protection to the use of money to accomplish such goals as it provides to the use of ideas to achieve the same results.''' ** [[John Paul Stevens]], Concurring, ''[[w:Nixon v. Shrink Missouri Government PAC|Nixon v. Shrink Missouri Government PAC]]'', 528 U.S. 377 (2000). *A law imposing criminal penalties on protected speech is a stark example of speech suppression. **[[Anthony Kennedy]], (''{{w|Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition}}'', 2002). *First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must be protected from the government because speech is the beginning of thought. **[[Anthony Kennedy]], (''Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition'', 2002). *The Government may not suppress lawful speech as the means to suppress unlawful speech. **[[Anthony Kennedy]], (''Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition'', 2002). *Dissents speak to a future age. It's not simply to say, 'My colleagues are wrong and I would do it this way.' But the greatest dissents do become court opinions and gradually over time their views become the dominant view. So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow. **[[Ruth Bader Ginsburg]], {{w|Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States}}, Interview with [[w:Nina Totenberg|Nina Totenberg]] of ''[[w:National Public Radio|National Public Radio]]'' (May 2, 2002). [[File:Mike Godwin at Wikimedia 2010.jpg|thumb|{{w|Mike Godwin}}]] *... while there's no 'fair use' exception when it comes to [[w:Trade secrets|trade secrets]], anyone who discovers a trade secret without violating a confidentiality agreement can disseminate it freely. For example, if you board a commuter train in [[w:Atlanta|Atlanta]] and discover that a [[w:Coca-Cola|Coca-Cola]] employee has left the secret formula for the company's flagship product on one of the seats, you have no obligation not to reveal it to the world. More important, this means that newspapers often may legally publish material that may have been obtained illegally, as long as they did not induce the illegal taking or know about it beforehand and as long as no one was induced or solicited by the newspaper to steal the material in question. **{{cite book|author=[[Mike Godwin]]|title=[[w:Cyber Rights|Cyber Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age]]|year=2003|page=217|publisher=[[w:Massachusetts Institute of Technology|Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]|isbn=0812928342}} *Although the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment may benefit society generally, or communities in particular, we don't condition those freedoms on whether how we use them benefits anyone. There is no legal or constitutional requirement that each individual use these freedoms wisely. That is part of what it means to live in an open society: you get to make your own choice about whether to acquire wisdom. We don't let government choose for us. **{{cite book|author=[[Mike Godwin]]|title=[[w:Cyber Rights|Cyber Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age]]|year=2003|page=16|publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology|isbn=0812928342}} *Among the principles in place that have seemed to work for us are individual freedom of expression (especially for those whose expression offends us) and a strong individual guarantee of privacy in our First Amendment-protected communications. **{{cite book|author=[[Mike Godwin]]|title=[[w:Cyber Rights|Cyber Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age]]|year=2003|page=16|publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology|isbn=0812928342}} *In short, individual freedom of speech leads to a stronger society. But knowing that principle is not enough. You have to know how to put it to use on the Net. **{{cite book|author=[[Mike Godwin]]|title=[[w:Cyber Rights|Cyber Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age]]|year=2003|page=17|publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology|isbn=0812928342}} *Exploring and understanding the Net is an ongoing process. Cyberspace never sits still; it evolves as fast as society itself. Only if we fight to preserve our freedom of speech on the Net will we ensure our ability to keep up with both the Net and society. **{{cite book|author=[[Mike Godwin]]|title=[[w:Cyber Rights|Cyber Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age]]|year=2003|page=19|publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology|isbn=0812928342}} *Proponents of using government authority to censor certain undesirable images and comments on the airwaves resort to the claim that the airways belong to all the people, and therefore it's the government's responsibility to protect them. The mistake of never having [[Privatization|privatized]] the [[radio]] and [[Television|TV]] airwaves does not justify ignoring the first amendment mandate that "Congress shall make no law abridging freedom of speech." When everyone owns something, in reality nobody owns it. Control then occurs merely by the whims of the politicians in power. From the very start, licensing of radio and TV frequencies invited government censorship that is no less threatening than that found in [[Totalitarianism|totalitarian]] societies. **[[Ron Paul]], ''{{w|Congressional Record}}'', "[[s:An Indecent Attack on the First Amendment|An Indecent Attack on the First Amendment]]", (March 10, 2004). * What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. **[[Salman Rushdie]], As quoted in [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4114497.stm "The right to be downright offensive" by Jonathan Duffy in ''BBC News Magazine'' (21 December 2004)] *Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing. **[[Jimmy Wales]], cited in &mdash; {{cite news | last =Slashdot readers' questions | first = | coauthors = Posted by Roblimo | title = Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Responds | work =[[w:Slashdot|Slashdot]] | pages = | language = | publisher = | date =July 28, 2004 | url =http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/28/1351230 | accessdate = 2008-01-04 }} * While, legally and constitutionally, speech may be free, the space in which that freedom can be exercised has been snatched from us and auctioned to the highest bidders. ** [[Arundhati Roy]], ''An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire'' (2005), p. 48 [[File:Gilbert Merritt Circuit Judge.jpg|thumb|{{w|Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr.}}]] *I am sure that as soon as speech was invented, efforts to suppress and control it began, and that process of suppression continues unabated. **{{w|Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr.}}, (''Speech at the [[w:University of Oregon|University of Oregon]]'', 2004). &mdash; cited in: Gilbert S. Merritt, ''Speech at the University of Oregon'', Nashville, TN: 2004. cited in &mdash; {{cite book|title=Freedom of the Press|editor-first=Rob|editor-last=Edelman|publisher=Greenhaven Press|year=2006|page=75|chapter=The Lesson of ''Sullivan'' Has Been Forgotten|first=Gilbert S.|last=Merritt|authorlink=w:Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr.}}. *Our Founding Fathers were the first to articulate the reasons for their First Amendment, the same reasons given by Learned Hand, and by Justice Brennan in ''New York Times v. Sullivan''. It is a lesson we keep forgetting and must relearn in each succeeding generation. **{{w|Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr.}}, (''Speech at the University of Oregon'', 2004). &mdash; cited in: Gilbert S. Merritt, ''Speech at the University of Oregon'', Nashville, TN: 2004. cited in &mdash; {{cite book|title=Freedom of the Press|editor-first=Rob|editor-last=Edelman|publisher=Greenhaven Press|year=2006|page=75|chapter=The Lesson of ''Sullivan'' Has Been Forgotten|first=Gilbert S.|last=Merritt|authorlink=w:Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr.}}. *''New York Times v. Sullivan'' was about the suppression of speech in the South [during the 1960s]. Today's version of suppression is just another verse of the same song. **{{w|Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr.}}, (''Speech at the University of Oregon'', 2004). &mdash; cited in: Gilbert S. Merritt, ''Speech at the University of Oregon'', Nashville, TN: 2004. cited in &mdash; {{cite book|title=Freedom of the Press|editor-first=Rob|editor-last=Edelman|publisher=Greenhaven Press|year=2006|page=75|chapter=The Lesson of ''Sullivan'' Has Been Forgotten|first=Gilbert S.|last=Merritt|authorlink=w:Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr.}}. * This "zeal for secrecy" I am talking about — and I have barely touched the surface — adds up to a victory for the [[Terrorism|terrorists]]. When [[September 11 attacks|they plunged those hijacked planes]] into the [[w:World Trade Center|World Trade Center]] and [[w:The Pentagon|the Pentagon]] three years ago this morning, they were out to hijack our Gross National Psychology. If they could fill our psyche with [[fear]] — as if the imagination of each one of us were [[Afghanistan]] and they were the [[Taliban]] — they could deprive us of the [[trust]] and [[confidence]] required for a [[free]] [[society]] to [[work]]. They could prevent us from ever again believing in a safe, decent or just world and from working to bring it about. By pillaging and plundering our peace of mind they could panic us into abandoning those unique freedoms — freedom of speech, [[freedom of the press]] — that constitute the ability of [[democracy]] to self-correct and turn the ship of state before it hits the iceberg. ** [[Bill Moyers]], Speech to the Society of Professional Journalists (11 September 2004) *Historically, of course, the Supreme Court really hasn't recognized that kind of reality. It hasn't tried to make distinctions among different kinds of press entities. And there may be strong reasons not to do this. First Amendment law is already very complicated. And if you're asking the Court now to superimpose a whole new set of distinctions on what has already become an unbearable number of complex distinctions, you may end up feeling sorry. There are lots and lots of different kinds of press entities and other speakers. And if each one gets its own First Amendment doctrine, that might be a world we don't want to live in. **[[Elena Kagan]], (''Harvard Law Bulletin'', 2005). &mdash; cited in: {{cite journal|journal=Harvard Law Bulletin|first=Robb|last=London|title=Faculty Viewpoints: Can Reporters Refuse to Testify?|date=Spring 2005|publisher=[[Harvard College|The President and Fellows of Harvard College]]}}. [[File:Samuel Peter Nelson.jpg|thumb|Samuel Peter Nelson, author of ''[[w:Beyond the First Amendment|Beyond the First Amendment: The Politics of Free Speech and Pluralism]]'']] *[[Publishing]] on the [[Internet]] is different than importing and exporting [[books]], magazines, and newspapers. The Internet is a new forum, and there is something unprecedented in the idea of simultaneous, low-cost publication available to readers around the world. Speakers reach listeners in many places where they never could have been heard before. Listeners have access to the speech of individuals who may have a freedom to publish that is unknown in the listener's own country. Speakers and listeners will lose these benefits if Internet speech regulation is left to the determination of the most restrictive states. We also lose these benefits if regulation is so unpredictable as to make Internet speech more risky than warranted by the potential rewards it offers. **{{cite book|title=[[w:Beyond the First Amendment|Beyond the First Amendment: The Politics of Free Speech and Pluralism]]|author=Samuel Peter Nelson|year=2005|page=166|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|oclc=56924685}} *I am so disgusted with people who think free speech is defined as being able to say what you think without being criticized. **[[Jonah Goldberg]], [http://web.archive.org/web/20080421152503/http://corner.nationalreview.com:80/post/?q=MGU2Zjk1MTNmNGI0MDg3YTRlNmYzNTdkMTNmMDYyYTQ= "Dissident Chicks"] (12 February 2007), ''The Corner'', National Review *In the national debate about a serious issue, it is the expression of the minority's viewpoint that most demands the protection of the First Amendment. Whatever the better policy may be, a full and frank discussion of the costs and benefits of the attempt to prohibit the use of [[Cannabis|marijuana]] is far wiser than suppression of speech because it is unpopular. **[[John Paul Stevens]], (''{{w|Deborah Morse et al. v. Joseph Frederick}}'', 2007). *A final argument for broad freedom of expression is its effect on the character of individuals in a society. Citizens in a free society must have courage &mdash; the courage to hear not only unwelcome political speech but novel and shocking ideas in science and the arts. **{{cite book|page=186|author=Anthony Lewis|authorlink=w:Anthony Lewis|title={{w|Freedom for the Thought That We Hate; A Biography of the First Amendment}}|publisher=Basic Books|year=2007|isbn=0465039170}} *Free speech does not empower us, and it does not equal freedom. Free speech is a privilege that can be — and is — taken away by the government when it serves their interests. **[[Peter Gelderloos]] (2007), [http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-how-nonviolence-protects-the-state How Nonviolence Protects the State] *Active liberty is particularly at risk when law restricts speech directly related to the shaping of public opinion, for example, speech that takes place in areas related to politics and policy-making by elected officials. That special risk justifies especially strong pro-speech judicial presumptions. It also justifies careful review whenever the speech in question seeks to shape public opinion, particularly if that opinion in turn will affect the political process and the kind of society in which we live. **[[Stephen Breyer]] {{cite book|author=|authorlink=|title=[[w:Active Liberty|Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution]]|isbn=0-307-26313-4|oclc=59280151|publisher=[[w:Alfred A. Knopf|Alfred A. Knopf]]|page=42|year=2008}}. *The Court said that the First Amendment forbids statutory effort to restrict information in order to help the public make wiser decisions. **{{cite book|author=Stephen Breyer|authorlink=w:Stephen Breyer|title=Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution|isbn=0-307-26313-4|oclc=59280151|publisher=[[w:Alfred A. Knopf|Alfred A. Knopf]]|page=51|year=2008}}. *Traditional modern liberty — the individual's freedom from government restriction — remains important. Individuals need information freely to make decisions about their own lives. And, irrespective of context, a particular rule affecting speech might, in a particular instance, require individuals to act against conscience, inhibit public debate, threaten artistic expression, censor views in ways unrelated to a program's basic objectives, or create other risks of abuse. These possibilities themselves form the raw material out of which courts will create different presumptions applicable in different speech contexts. And even in the absence of presumptions, courts will examine individual instances with the possibilities of such harms in mind. **{{cite book|author=Stephen Breyer|authorlink=w:Stephen Breyer|title=Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution|isbn=0-307-26313-4|oclc=59280151|publisher=[[w:Alfred A. Knopf|Alfred A. Knopf]]|page=54|year=2008}}. *[[Money]] is not speech, it is money. But the expenditure of money enables speech, and that expenditure is often necessary to communicate a message, particularly in a political context. A law that forbade the expenditure of money to communicate could effectively suppress the message. **{{cite book|author=Stephen Breyer|authorlink=w:Stephen Breyer|title=Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution|isbn=0-307-26313-4|oclc=59280151|publisher=[[w:Alfred A. Knopf|Alfred A. Knopf]]|page=46|year=2008}}. [[File:AlanDershowitz2.jpg|thumb|{{w|Alan Dershowitz}}]] *All speech should be presumed to be protected by the Constitution, and a heavy burden should be placed on those who would censor to demonstrate with relative certainty that the speech at issue, if not censored, would lead to irremediable and immediate serious harm. **{{cite book|author=Alan Dershowitz|authorlink=Alan Dershowitz|title=Finding, Framing, and Hanging Jefferson: A Lost Letter, a Remarkable Discovery, and Freedom of Speech in an Age of Terrorism|year=2008|publisher=[[w:John Wiley & Sons|John Wiley & Sons]]|isbn=0470450436|page=30}} *I care deeply about freedom of speech, but I am also a realist about terrorism and the threat it poses. I worry that among the first victims of another mass terrorist attack will be [[w:Civil liberties|civil liberties]], including freedom of speech. The right of every citizen to express dissident and controversial views remains a powerful force in my life. I not only believe in it, I practice it. **{{cite book|author=Alan Dershowitz|authorlink=w:Alan Dershowitz|title=Finding, Framing, and Hanging Jefferson: A Lost Letter, a Remarkable Discovery, and Freedom of Speech in an Age of Terrorism|year=2008|publisher=[[w:John Wiley & Sons|John Wiley & Sons]]|isbn=0470450436|page=37}} *Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech. **{{cite book|author=Alan Dershowitz|authorlink=w:Alan Dershowitz|title=Finding, Framing, and Hanging Jefferson: A Lost Letter, a Remarkable Discovery, and Freedom of Speech in an Age of Terrorism|year=2008|publisher=[[w:John Wiley & Sons|John Wiley & Sons]]|isbn=0470450436|page=191}} *Under our First Amendment, a censorship law would have to be written in broad general language and could not be directed at specific religious, ethnic, racial, or political groups. Any such law could be misused by politicians to censor their political enemies or other "undesirable" groups. **{{cite book|author=Alan Dershowitz|authorlink=w:Alan Dershowitz|title=Finding, Framing, and Hanging Jefferson: A Lost Letter, a Remarkable Discovery, and Freedom of Speech in an Age of Terrorism|year=2008|publisher=[[w:John Wiley & Sons|John Wiley & Sons]]|isbn=0470450436|page=191}} *Regardless of all of the ways that the media have changed in recent years, one thing that will never go out of style in America is the ability of a free press to keep the public accurately and honestly informed about its government. **{{w|Candice Miller}}, [http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CREC-2009-04-22/html/CREC-2009-04-22-pt1-PgH4588-2.htm "Detroit Free Press Wins Pulitzer Prize"], ''{{w|Congressional Record}}'', Volume 155, Number 59 (Wednesday, April 22, 2009), {{w|United States House of Representatives}}, Page H4588. *As a [[Conservatism|conservative]] who believes in [[w:Limited government|limited government]], I believe the only check on government power in real time is a free and independent press. A free press ensures the flow of information to the public, and let me say, during a time when the role of government in our lives and in our enterprises seems to grow every day--both at home and abroad--ensuring the vitality of a free and independent press is more important than ever. **{{w|Mike Pence}}, ''{{w|Congressional Record}}'', "[[s:World Press Freedom Day|World Press Freedom Day]]", (May 4, 2009). === 2010s === [[File:Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2006 cropped.jpg|thumb|We observe what is wrong, and we say what is wrong, in order that it may be corrected. ~ {{w|Ayaan Hirsi Ali}}]] [[File:F icon.svg|thumb|We believe that a key part of combating extremism is preventing recruitment by disrupting the underlying ideologies that drive people to commit acts of violence. That's why we support a variety of counterspeech efforts. ~ [[Facebook]] spokesperson Monika Bickert]] * We believe that a key part of combating [[extremism]] is preventing recruitment by disrupting the underlying ideologies that drive people to commit acts of [[violence]]. That's why we support a variety of counterspeech efforts. ** Monika Bickert, [[Facebook]]'s head of global policy management, as reported by [[w:CNBC|CNBC]], [https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/17/facebook-google-tell-congress-how-theyre-fighting-extremist-content.html January 17, 2018] *Countries that censor [[news]] and information must recognize that from an economic standpoint, there is no distinction between censoring political speech and commercial speech. If businesses in your nations are denied access to either type of information, it will inevitably impact on growth. **[[Hillary Rodham Clinton]], {{w|United States Department of State}} ([[s:Secretary of State Clinton on Internet Freedom|"Secretary of State Clinton on Internet Freedom"]], ''Office of the Spokesman'', January 21, 2010). * [[United States|America]] is well on its way to making it illegal to say anything nasty about gays, [[Judaism|Jews]], blacks and women. “[[w:Hate speech|Hate speech]],” far short of any direct incitement to violence, is on the edge of being criminalized, with the [[First Amendment]] gone the way of the dodo. ** [[Alexander Cockburn]], [http://www.counterpunch.org/2009/06/26/the-hate-crimes-bill-how-not-to-remember-matthew-shepard/ "The Hate Crimes Bill: How Not to Remember Matthew Shepard"], ''Counterpunch.org'', June 26–28, 2010. * [[Speech]] is an essential mechanism of democracy, for it is the means to hold officials accountable to the people. [...] The right of citizens to inquire, to hear, to speak, and to use information to reach consensus is a precondition to enlightened self-government and a necessary means to protect it. [...] By taking the right to speak from some and giving it to others, the Government deprives the disadvantaged person or class of the right to use speech to strive to establish worth, standing, and respect for the speaker’s voice. The Government may not by these means deprive the public of the right and privilege to determine for itself what speech and speakers are worthy of consideration. The First Amendment protects speech and speaker, and the ideas that flow from each. ** [[Anthony Kennedy]], ''[[w:Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission|Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission]]'', 558 U.S. 310 (2010) (''Opinion of the Court''). * When Government seeks to use its full power, including the [[w:Criminal law|criminal law]], to command where a person may get his or her information or what distrusted source he or she may not hear, it uses censorship to control thought. This is unlawful. ** [[Anthony Kennedy]], ''[[w:Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission|Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission]]'', 558 U.S. 310 (2010) (''Opinion of the Court''). *Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to [[Blasphemy|blaspheme]] and offend. **{{cite book|author=Ayaan Hirsi Ali | authorlink =Ayaan Hirsi Ali | coauthors = | title = {{w|Nomad: From Islam to America}} | publisher =Knopf Canada | year = 2010 | location = | page =215 | url = | doi = | id = | isbn =0307398501 }} *Every important freedom that [[w:Western world|Western]] individuals possess rests on free expression. We observe what is wrong, and we say what is wrong, in order that it may be corrected. This is the message of the [[Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]], the rational process that developed today's Western values: Go. Inquire. Ask. Find out. Dare to know. Don't be afraid of what you'll find. Knowledge is better than [[superstition]], blind [[belief]], and [[dogma]]. If you cannot voice — or even consider — [[criticism]], then you will never see what is wrong. You cannot solve a problem unless you identify its source. **{{cite book|author=Ayaan Hirsi Ali | authorlink =Ayaan Hirsi Ali | coauthors = | title = {{w|Nomad: From Islam to America}} | publisher =Knopf Canada | year = 2010 | location = | page =214 | url = | doi = | id = | isbn =0307398501 }} * The west has fiscalised its basic power relationships through a web of [[Contract|contracts]], [[Debt|loans]], shareholdings, bank holdings and so on. In such an environment it is easy for speech to be "free" because a change in political will rarely leads to any change in these basic instruments. Western speech, as something that rarely has any effect on power, is, like badgers and birds, free. ** [[Julian Assange]], cited in &mdash; {{cite news|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2010/dec/03/julian-assange-wikileaks |title=Julian Assange answers your questions|work={{w|The Guardian}}|date=December 3, 2010|accessdate=October 23, 2012}} * Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you. ** [[Naomi Klein]], ''[[w:No Logo|No Logo]]'', 10th anniversary edition (2009: Vintage Canada, an imprint of Random House of Canada, Ltd.), {{ISBN|978-0-307-39909-0}}, p. 284. Previously published under the title ''No Logo: Taking aim at the brand bullies'' (2000: Vintage Canada), {{ISBN|0-676-97282-9}}, p. 284. * Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility. ** [[Ai Weiwei]] in: "[http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/06/11/artist-ai-weiwei-china-crushes-dissenting-voices/. Artist Ai Weiwei: China Crushes Dissenting Voices]," in: ''Fox News,'' June 11, 2012. * Free speech is not speech you agree with, uttered by someone you admire. It's speech that you find stupid, selfish, dangerous, uninformed or threatening, spoken and sponsored by someone you despise, fear or ridicule. Free speech is unpopular, contentious and sometimes ugly. It reflects a tolerance for differences. If everyone agreed on all things, we wouldn't need it. ** {{cite news | author = [[w:Robert J. Samuelson|Robert J. Samuelson]]| title = In politics, money is speech | work = Washington Post | date =April 6, 2014 | url =http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/robert-j-samuelson-in-politics-money-is-speech/2014/04/04/075df4ec-bc18-11e3-9a05-c739f29ccb08_story.html | accessdate = April 7, 2014 }} *<p>In American democracy, this free speech plays two vital roles. The first is well recognized. It is to shape public opinion and to influence elections that, in turn, determine the social climate and steer government. We cherish "the marketplace of ideas" because (we assume) it allows us, through give and take, to arrive at better ideas and to grope our way toward consensus on hard issues.</p><p>Free speech's second function is less understood. It buttresses the political system's legitimacy. It helps losers, in the struggle for public opinion and electoral success, to accept their fates. It helps keep them loyal to the system, even though it has disappointed them. They will accept the outcomes, because they believe they've had a fair opportunity to express and advance their views. There's always the next election. Free speech underpins our larger concept of freedom.</p> ** {{cite news | author = [[w:Robert J. Samuelson|Robert J. Samuelson]]| title = In politics, money is speech | work = Washington Post | date =April 6, 2014 | url =http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/robert-j-samuelson-in-politics-money-is-speech/2014/04/04/075df4ec-bc18-11e3-9a05-c739f29ccb08_story.html | accessdate = April 7, 2014 }} * Reprehensible ideas don’t disappear if you make them illegal, by driving them under the carpet you might feed them, or make them taboo ... I’d rather know the racist in the room. ** [[Salman Rushdie]], at Dalkey Book Festival debate; as quoted in [https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/salman-rushdie-you-have-to-accept-a-certain-level-of-disrespect-1.1841344 "Salman Rushdie: ‘You have to accept a certain level of disrespect’"] Sorcha Hamilton, ''The Irish Times'', Jul 21, 2014. * We have to uphold a free press and freedom of speech -- because, in the end, lies and misinformation are no match for the truth. ** [[Barack Obama]], [http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/2014/09/03/president-obama-addresses-people-estonia#transcript Remarks by President Obama to the People of Estonia i.e. students, young professionals, civil leaders, and the people of Estonia at the Nordea Concert Hall in Tallinn, Estonia] [http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/09/03/we-are-stronger-because-we-are-democracies-president-obama-addresses-people-estonia on September 3, 2014 ] * We hear everywhere about this false trade-off between freedom of speech and [[freedom of religion]], as though there were some kind of balance to be struck here. There is no balance to be struck. Freedom of speech never infringes on freedom of religion. There is nothing I can say in this podcast about religion in general, or about [[Islam]] in particular, that would infringe upon someone else's freedom to practice his or her religion. If your freedom of religion entails that you force those who do not share it to conform to it, well that's not freedom of religion; we have a word for that – that's [[theocracy]]. This respect that we are all urged to show for "religious sensitivity" is actually a demand that the blasphemy laws of Islam be followed by non-muslims. ** [[Sam Harris]], [http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/after-charlie-hebdo-and-other-thoughts "After Charlie Hebdo and Other Thoughts" (21 January 2015)] * I realise that, every time we talk about activity of those people, there will be always 'Yes, it is freedom of speech, but-' and the turning point is 'but'. Why do we still say 'but', when we– [gunfire] ** [[w:Inna Shevchenko|Inna Shevchenko]] of [[w:Femen|Femen]], speaking at the Art, Blasphemy and Freedom of Expression café event, Krudttoennen café, Oesterbro, Copenhagen, on 14 February 2015. She was interrupted by a gunman believed to be targeting [[w:Lars Vilks|Lars Vilks]], another speaker at the event. ** {{cite news |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-31472745 |title=Danish shooting: Audio of moment gunman struck in Copenhagen cafe |publisher=BBC News online |date=14 February 2015}} * There's no fine line between "free speech" and "hate speech": Free speech ''is'' hate speech; it's for the speech you hate – and for all your speech that the other guy hates. If you don't have free speech, then you can't have an honest discussion. ** [[Mark Steyn]], [http://www.steynonline.com/6943/stay-quiet-and-youll-be-okay "Stay Quiet and You'll Be Okay"] ''steynonline.com'' (9 May 2015) * The people supporting free speech now are the [[conservatives]]. It’s incomprehensible to me, but it’s the so-called [[liberals]] on campus, the [[students]] who think of themselves as activists, who are becoming increasingly [[authoritarian]]. So I’m trying to step carefully. It’s not like you want to make certain allies, particularly the [[w:Men's rights movement|men’s rights people]]. ** [[w:Laura Kipnis|Laura Kipnis]], cited by [[Rachel Cooke]] in [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/02/unwanted-advances-on-campus-us-university-professor-laura-kipnis-interview "Sexual paranoia on campus – and the professor at the eye of the storm"] ''The Observer'' (London, 2 April 2017). *I regard free speech as a prerequisite to a civilized society, because freedom of speech means that you can have [[Fighting|combat]] with words. That's what it means. It doesn't mean that people can happily and gently exchange opinions. It means that we can engage in combat with words, in the battleground of ideas. And the reason that that's acceptable, and why it's acceptable that people's feelings get hurt during that combat, is that the combat of ideas is far preferable to actual combat. ** [[Jordan Peterson]], 2017 Maps of Meaning 4: Marionettes and Individuals (Part 3) [54:55-56:15] *[N]o [[Multiculturalism|multicultural]] paradise would be possible at all if its citizens weren’t free to peaceably express their diverse views. Free speech is prior to [[diversity]], as the philosophers say. It is a necessary condition of diversity, and probably diversity’s greatest guarantor. To extol inclusion at the expense of speech is incoherent and unserious—a mere reflex of campus ideology in our era of discontent. Unserious, yes, but not unprecedented. **[[Andrew Ferguson]], [http://www.weeklystandard.com/hurrah-for-the-first-amendment-but.../article/2012053 "Hurrah for the First Amendment, but..."] (23 March 2018), ''The Weekly Standard'' * I cannot be associated with a publication that dumps a staff member simply because his work has upset some readers. Journalism, when done well, always angers some readers, and it is the duty of the newspaper or magazine’s editors and managers to stand by writers and other members of the staff when readers complain about the analysis and opinions expressed by its staff. This is all the more true in the case of editorial cartoonists, whose very job is satire—and a good satirist never pauses to worry about angering the citizenry. ** [[Haim Watzman]], In [http://web.archive.org/web/20180726214951/https://www.facebook.com/haim.watzman/posts/10160660063290022?notif_id=1532534669809157&notif_t=feedback_reaction_generic a letter of resignation] from {{w|The Jerusalem Report}}, on the dismissal of Avi Katz. *[T]he genuinely oppressed—as opposed to the hustlers of faux outrage—have always known freedom of speech to be their best friend. **[[Allen C. Guelzo]], [https://web.archive.org/web/20181028202222/https://www.city-journal.org/free-speech-crisis "Free Speech and Its Present Crisis: In today’s America, the right to express one’s opinion is threatened by activists and authorities alike."] (October 2018), ''City Journal'' === 2020s === * You can certainly suppress an idea but you cannot kill it. All you can do is put it under pressure, which quite naturally increases its potential energy. The very idea of suppressing any form of speech or expression sounds kind and generous and open-minded and supportive of the oppressed. When put into action, however, the unintended consequences become evident....The traditional remedy for speech that offends you is to ignore it. To do anything further only gives it more power and significance than it ever had. ** [[Sondra London]], [https://www.facebook.com/alden.loveshade/posts/2756544177767104?comment_id=2758726754215513&reply_comment_id=2763308533757335 Facebook, in response in a thread comparing the Confederate States of America to the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazi Party).] (4 March 2020). * The key to national greatness lies in sustaining and instilling our shared national identity. That means focusing on what we have in common: the heritage that we all share. At the center of this heritage is also a robust belief in free expression, free speech, and open debate. Only if we forget who we are, and how we got here, could we ever allow political [[censorship]] and [[w:Blacklist|blacklisting]] to take place in America. It's not even thinkable. Shutting down free and open debate violates our core values and most enduring traditions. In America, we don't insist on absolute [[conformity]] or enforce rigid [[Orthodoxy|orthodoxies]] and punitive speech codes. We just don't do that. America is not a timid nation of tame souls who need to be sheltered and protected from those with whom we disagree. That's not who we are. It will never be who we are. ** [[Donald Trump]], [https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/farewell-address-the-nation-3 Farewell Address to the Nation], (January 19, 2021) * An entire generation is experiencing a crisis of free speech, of authenticity, and of honesty to oneself and one’s values. For every member of [https://heterodoxacademy.org/campus-expression-survey/ that 62 percent] of young people self-censoring, for every constructive debate that never happens, for every brilliant idea that never gets voiced, it amounts to a true tragedy. [[Generation Z]] deserves permission to engage with controversial topics and to lean into [[ambiguity]]. '''The realm of discomfort is where growth and discovery occur.''' As we come of age, we need the freedom to fumble, and the reasonable expectation of grace and forgiveness when we do.<br>Unless our society abandons its censorious tendencies, it will yield a generation unable to speak freely, to take risks, or even just to be authentic. ** Rikki Schlott, [https://www.theepochtimes.com/generation-zs-silent-free-speech-crisis_3760034.html "Generation Z’s Silent Free Speech Crisis"], ''The Epoch Times'' (April 4, 2021) * '''Any government that monitors and punishes the open conversations of its citizens is absolutely isolating them against one another.''' ** Stella Morabito, [https://thefederalist.com/2023/08/11/yes-hillary-clinton-knows-a-lot-about-the-weaponization-of-loneliness/ "Yes, Hillary Clinton Is A Big Fan Of ‘The Weaponization Of Loneliness’"], ''The Federalist'' (August 11, 2023) * What point is there in free speech if one is only allowed to say something uncontroversial or what everyone else already appears to think? That’s not free speech; that’s repetition. And repetition doesn’t change people’s opinions nor educate. Why not stick to what you thought at sixteen years old and never change your mind? But in order to be allowed to question your established ideas, to educate yourself, you have to be presented with uncomfortable information in an uncomforting way—few people relish being told they’re wrong and that they have been wrong for years.<br>I say “allowed” because that is at the core of free speech. It is often assumed that the true victim of censorship is the person engaged in speaking. They are victims, but so, too, is everyone else. If your thoughts are censored, then I am [unable] to hear them. If my thoughts are censored, you are not allowed to hear my opinions and judge them against your own. As such, censorship makes each person a prisoner of their own thoughts and makes society barren silos. ** David Hutt, [https://www.rfa.org/english/commentaries/southeastasia-freedom-09242023091117.html "What to do about ‘freedom from speech?’"], ''Radio Free Asia'' (September 24, 2023) * Censorship assumes certainty, whereas free speech, academic freedom, and open inquiry allows for the discovery of our own ignorance and enables the project of human knowledge to succeed. ** [[w:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_for_Individual_Rights_and_Expression|FIRE]] (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression), ''[https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/fires-10-common-sense-reforms-colleges-and-universities FIRE’s 10 common-sense reforms for colleges and universities]'' (Original date of publication not given; accessed January 3, 2024) * Freedom of speech is intangible, and the first reason for this is because freedom of speech is originally rooted, as all the other political liberties, in the most fundamental liberty of them all: [[religious liberty]]. Defenders of liberty should always remain loyal to this commandment. The litmus test is of course when we confront opinions that we despise. Enter here a second reason for the intangibility of freedom of speech. If all are granted the liberty to publicly pronounce even the most horrible words, those despicable words may be always rebuked by others. A third reason for the intangibility of freedom of speech is that, until it remains a mere speech, even the nastier speech is inoffensive. Real problems arise in fact only when utterances incite to actions and bad words are intended to cause evil deeds, curtailing or denying the liberty of other human beings, or even harming and murdering them. Law enforcement should come in here and, while always upholding the right of all to speak freely, hate speech inciting directly or indirectly to violence, which is a crime, must be punished. ** [[Marco Respinti]], [https://bitterwinter.org/two-ahmadis-shot-dead-in-pakistan-a-needed-reflection-on-the-nature-of-liberty/ "Two Ahmadis Shot Dead in Pakistan: A Needed Reflection on the Nature of Liberty"], ''Bitter Winter'' (June 12, 2024) * When a simple observation about domestic labor becomes grounds for punishment, the boundary between public regulation and private experience narrows sharply. … When humor, personal anecdotes, and reflections on family life become subject to disciplinary action, the right to describe one’s own reality becomes precarious. ** Tan Liwei (pseudonym), [https://bitterwinter.org/uyghur-comedians-ban-shows-how-womens-voices-are-silenced-in-china/ "Uyghur Comedian’s Ban Shows How Women’s Voices Are Silenced in China"], ''Bitter Winter'' (March 11, 2026) ==See also== * [[Censorship]] * [[Criticism]] * [[Dissent]] * [[First Amendment to the United States Constitution]] * [[Free Speech Movement]] * [[Freedom movement]] * [[Freedom of assembly]] * [[Freedom of religion]] * [[Freedom of the press]] * [[Freedom of education]] * [[Freethought]] * [[Free will]] * [[Human rights]] * [[Liberty]] * [[Independence]] * [[Opinion]] * [[Speech]] ==External links== {{wikisource|Category:Freedom of speech}} {{wikinews|Category:Free speech}} * {{Wikipedia-inline}} * {{Commonscat-inline}} * {{wiktionary-inline}} [[Category:Freedom of speech| ]] [[Category:Chronologically ordered theme pages to be converted to alphabetical ordering]] 6u60urc5ky4apbcv95g93i4lc1hhqx0 0 60373 3961065 3960150 2026-07-05T13:05:49Z ~2026-37727-64 3346896 /* Dialogue */ 3961065 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:NYCC 2011 cosplay (6245592460).jpg|thumb|Gawrsh, Pete. One day, you're changing their diapers, and the next thing you know...they're all grown up and leavin' for college.]] {{italic title}} '''''[[w:An Extremely Goofy Movie|An Extremely Goofy Movie]]''''' in 100 minutes (1:40:15l release is a [[w:2000 in film|2000]] [[w:direct-to-video|direct-to-video]] animated film made by [[The Walt Disney Company]]; it is the sequel to [[w:1995|1995]]'s ''[[A Goofy Movie]]'', and again features the characters from the television series ''[[Goof Troop]]''. Much of the old cast from the previous show have returned. == Dialogue == :'''Max''': Do you realize going off to college means no more well-meaning, but totally smothering, overprotective, doting, ah-hyucking dads? :'''P.J.''': Yeah. Well, yours, at least. ''My'' dad's been counting down the days until he can turn my room into a bowling alley. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Goofy''': ''[feeling sad about Max leaving for college the next day]'' Gawrsh, Pete. One day, you're changing their diapers, and the next thing you know...they're all grown up and leaving for college. :'''Pete''': Well, Goof, the way I see it, it's my last day of babysitting, and I'm a free man! Oh, yeah! Ha-ha! Free, free, free, I tell ya! Yahoo! Ha-ha! Come on, son! I can't miss ya if you don't leave! ''[guffaws]'' :'''Goofy''': ''[solomnly]'' Yeah. Free. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Max''': ''[packs his clothes]'' Ooh, I can't wait to get out of here. :'''Goofy''': Here, let me help you pack. :'''Max''': ''[gets annoyed]'' Dad, I can do that. :'''Goofy''': I sure hope so. I'm not gonna be there at college to pick up after you. ''[emotionally]'' In fact, it's gonna be a long time before you see your old man again. What, maybe Christmas? :'''Max''': ''[sighs]'' Aw, Dad, it'll go by fast! ''[chuckles; to himself]'' Not too fast, I hope. :'''Goofy''': It's time to take charge, live your own life. ''[picks up Ol' Stuffed Bear]'' You're a grown man now, Maxie-poo. ''[places Ol' Stuffed Bear in suitcase]'' :'''Max''': ''[looks uneasily and puts Ol' Stuffed Bear back on the bed]'' I'm not taking Ol' Stuffed Bear to college, Dad. :'''Goofy''': ''[tries putting Ol' Stuffed Bear back in Max's suitcase]'' Sure you are. :'''Max''': No. :'''Goofy''': What are you talking about? :'''Max''': No, Dad! ''[grabs Ol' Stuffed Bear as Goofy and Max both pull]'' :'''Goofy''': C'mon. :'''Max''': Dad, stop this! I'm not kidding! :'''Goofy''': You're gonna need him. :'''Max''': ''[grabs Ol' Stuffed Bear as he shouts]'' '''''No, Dad, NO!!''''' ''[furiously tosses Old Stuffed Bear and it hits the wall before tumbling off the bed, hitting the floor as it squeaks]'' :'''Goofy''': ''[looks at Max fighting with his suitcase]'' Well then, I got something else for you. ''[gives Max a package]'' Son, I want you to help this. :'''Max''': Whoa, it weighs like a ton! I bet it's one of those combo TV-CD-VCR-Laptop-Scanner-Fax things, right? Oh, man, they are so cool! ''[opens the box, noticing an old timey-looking receipt typewriter, looking stunned just as the camera Goofy snaps a photo]'' :'''Goofy''': Ah-yuck! Too stunned to speak, huh? :'''Max''': No, just...stunned. Heh. What is it? :'''Goofy''': This was my father's. And now, son, it's yours. :'''Max''': ''[smiles politely]'' Thanks, Dad. This means a lot to me. ''[puts typewriter down]'' Oh, listen. I'm gonna turn in. ''[stretches, takes off his shirt and yawns]'' You know, big day tomorrow. ''[gets into his bed. Goofy pulls Max's blanket over him, strokes his hair and leaves the room. As he leaves, he turns back to him]'' Good night, Dad. :'''Goofy''': Good night, son. ''[turns off the light before leaving the door slightly open. Afterwards, Max sleepily pulls up Ol' Stuffed Bear, cuddling it a bit one last time as it squeaks briefly. Goofy secretly watches, as he tears up]'' <hr width="50%/> :'''Goofy''': ''[hums a bit at the eggs and bacon-face he made, chortles as he makes the toast, then at the pancakes and waffles on plates]'' Did you brush your teeth? :'''Max''': ''[drinks the milk]'' Yeah, Dad. :'''Goofy''': Comb your hair? :'''Max''': ''[snatches the toast]'' Yep. :'''Goofy''': Did you put on clean underwear? :'''Max''': ''[gets annoyed]'' ''Dad!'' :'''P.J.''': ''[off-screen]'' Come on, Max! :'''Max''': Whoop! Gotta go! :'''Goofy''': But Max-- :''[Max comes out, tossing his bag on top of the vehicle with Bobby on top]'' :'''Bobby''': Whoa! ''[falls into the vehicle]'' :'''Goofy''': Goin' already?! :'''Max''': Yeah, I have to get there early for freshman orientation, Dad. See ya! :'''Goofy''': What about breakfast? You need your three squares a day, you know! :'''Max''': Don't worry, we'll pick up [[w:donut|donuts]] on the way! Love ya, miss ya, see you at Christmas, bye! ''[he, P.J. and Bobby hoot and holler happily]'' :'''Goofy''': ''[calls out to Max]'' Don't forget to have some milk with those...donuts! ''[softly]'' Good-bye, my little college man. ''[mournfully enters the house, approaching the stairs before moaning mournfully, walking up. He comes to the top while stopping as he looks inside the now empty bedroom. He sniffles a bit before looking at the ground, noticing a sock with hole on the ground, folds the sock, putting it up before looking at the mirror, noticing something in the reflection. He turns around, looking surprised as he sees Old Stuffed Bear on the bed, walks to it, and sits on the bed before holding Old Stuffed Bear; voice breaking]'' Gawrsh. ''[touches Old Stuffed Bear's stomach, which squeaks a bit before he looks around the room, and sobs heartbrokenly and sniffles, cradling Old Stuffed Bear]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''P.J.''': ''[giving directions to the college]'' Okay, dude. Uh, south. No, wait, that's uh... I don't know, man, do I look like Magellan? :'''Max''': P.J., you couldn't even spell "Magellan." :'''P.J.''': Try hanging a Louie. No-no-no-no-no. No, wait. That's the ''other'' Louie. :'''Max''': Louie, Huey, Dewey, what are you talking about here, huh? :'''Bobby''': ''[pointing to the map]'' Yo, it's right here. This way. :'''Max''': Yeah, Peej, Bobby's right. Uh, hey, Bob, um, who's drivin'? :'''All''': Huh? ''[truck horn honks and they scream as Max steers them away from the truck and into a corn maze]'' <hr width="50%"/> :''[after Max, Bobby and P.J. arrive at the college]'' :'''Bobby''': ''Check...it...'''out!''''' :'''Max''': Gentlemen, I welcome you to the first day of the rest of our lives. :'''Bobby''': Wow. That's pretty deep. Did you get that off a bumper sticker? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Max''': Hiya, dad. :'''Goofy''': Maxie. ''[hugs toy robot]'' :'''Goofy's Boss''': Mr. Goof! An assembly line is for assembling! ''[a camera appears in front of Goofy, who drops the toy robot in shock]'' Stop daydreamin' and get back to work, or else! <hr width="50%"/> :''[after Goofy accidentally destroys Beekins Toy Company]'' :'''Goofy's Boss''': Goofy, I warned you. '''''You're...FIREEEEEEED!!!''''' :'''Goofy''': Sorry, Boss. I'm not gonna happen again. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Max''': Look, I talked to him and laid out all the ground rules: No interfering with the "X" Games practice, no hounding us about schoolwork, no coming into our room unannounced, and no acting like a father, ''[to himself]'' especially mine. ''[normally]'' He's got his life, I've got ''my'' life. :'''Max's Voice''': ''[echoes]'' ''My'' life. ''My'' life. ''My'' life. :'''Bobby''': Spooky. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bobby''': ''[speaking with a phony French accent]'' Me and a little crumpet like yourself could make beautiful bongo music together. :'''Beret Girl''': Whoa. Easy, boy. You're fogging up my karma. :'''Max''': Hey, you wanna sit with us? :'''Beret Girl''': Sure. Your cool balances out... ''[snaps fingers]'' ...his fool. :'''Bobby''': ''[normal voice]'' Okay, whatever. :'''Max''': That's not true! :'''Beret Girl''': ''[chuckles]'' Well, if it's all...the same, I, uh... ''[snaps fingers]'' I forgot your name. :'''P.J.''': It is endemic of the current culture that those with large stature are overlooked-except by vultures-with no regard to the depth of their souls, the height of their passion, the beauty of their moments. :'''Beret Girl''': Oh, wise Buddha boy. How could anyone overlook such a bundle of yes-ness? Let's dance. ''[yanks P.J. out onto the dance floor by the arm]'' <hr width="50%"/> :''[The next day, Max bitterly walks in the halls of college before Goofy notices him]'' :'''Goofy''': Maxie! I've been looking all over for you, son. Where ya been? I can't tell you how sorry I am. :'''Max''': ''[angrily confronts Goofy]'' Oh, save your breath. You may have won this time, but Dad... ''[groans angrily]'' ...this campus just isn't big enough for the both of us. :'''Goofy''': I didn't mean for it to turn out this way, Max. I was just tryin' to get closer to ya. :'''Max''': ''[angrily screams at Goofy]'' '''''Oh, don't you get it?! I'm trying to get away from you! I'm not a little kid anymore! NOW JUST LEAVE ME ALONE AND GET YOUR OWN LIFE!!!''''' ''[furiously storms into his class, Goofy tries reaching for Max before he sighs sadly]'' :'''Teacher''': Good morning, people. It would appear that it is time to start. You may open-- ''[Goofy opens the door and enters]'' Ah, Mr. Goof. Nice of you to join us today. :'''Goofy''': Huh? Oh, yeah. Right. :'''Teacher''': You may open your envelopes and begin. ''[the envelopes are opened with the papers glanced a bit. The fat dog sighs a bit, looking at where Max is busy writing frustratedly with the students near him glancing; swiftly pushes Goofy's head to the papers]'' Let's not have any wandering eyes. :''[Goofy looks at the papers, but sighs as he starts writing. As that is happening, Tinkerputt looks at the familiar serpent looking at one of the students. Later, as the students are sleeping with the testers taking the tests, Goofy is scribbling Max's name before he sighs, looking depressed. At that moment, Goofy notices the flower in the picture transforming to real flowers before out comes a man. He turns the tape player on before the man motions Goofy, now in white background, to follow. The area swirls before Goofy notices himself on a chair with a table as the sun is starting to rise. He notices a flower blooming before a teacup is shown. The dream tea is poured to one of the cups past a flying teacup. The man grins with Goofy happily taking the drink. Just then, out comes a fairy Max who grins as Goofy grins back. Then out comes another fairy Max, along with a third from the teacups and sugar bowl, much to the bowl's annoyance. Many Max fairies come to the grinning Goofy as they wave]'' :'''Fairy Maxes''': Hi, Dad. :''[At that moment, a man flies past him before going near Goofy. He comes to Goofy, smirking as he points to Max fairies flying below the table. After a moment, a flash occurs before up comes Max, whom grins. He points as Goofy gets scared as the now big shadow begins covering Goofy. To his shock, he sees a furious and monstrous Max growling in anger, violently snatching the tablecloth as Goofy is pulled off, as he yells his Goofy Yell. While falling downward, the familiar visions begin showing up with each shouting]'' :'''Goofy's Boss''': '''''You're...FIRED!!!''''' :''[The van honks loudly]'' :'''Unemployment Lady''': I, uh, notice that you don't have a college degree. :'''Pete''': C'mon, son! I can't miss you if you won't leave! ''[guffaws]'' :'''Goofy''': ''[smashes into some horseshoes before he falls downward]'' Whoa! ''[smashes to the ground as everything flashes. He moans before sitting up at where a white background is at]'' :'''Max''': ''[off-screen]'' '''''GET YOUR OWN LIFE!''''' :'''Goofy''': ''[shake his head free of the dots]'' Huh? :'''Max''': ''[off-screen]'' '''''GET YOUR OWN LIFE!''''' :'''Goofy''': Huh? ''[looks around with concern before looking up where the top is showing the angriest Max, now normal]'' :'''Max''': Leave me alone and get your own life! ''[angrily shuts the door before everything fades as Goofy only looks down in depression, cries]'' :'''Teacher''': Pencils down. I said... :'''Goofy''': ''[stops crying]'' Huh? :'''Teacher''': ...pencils down. :'''Goofy''': Wait a minute! I'm not finished! I've got-- :'''Teacher''': It's...over, Mr. Goof. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Goofy''': ''[depressed from Max yelling at him]'' Oh, Pete, what am I gonna do now? :'''Pete''': Oh, look, Goof, it's no big deal. All that book learning doesn't prepare you for doodly-squat. It's useless in the real world. Ha! All them square roots, and circumnavigating and circumference and...bah! It's all ''[grabs horseshoe]'' "garbology." Looky here. If you know that four quarters adds up to a simoleon, you'll survive. ''[throws horseshoe which hits the stake and falls on the sand]'' Anyone who tells you anything different is primin' your pump. ''[throws horseshoe and laughs as the horseshoe hits horseshoe stake and bounces away]'' Take it from me, pal! :'''Goofy's Voice''': ''[thinking; as he comes to his senses]'' If you want that diploma, you gotta fix both eyes on it... :'''Pete''': ''[Goofy takes the last horseshoe from him]'' What are ya--?! :'''Goofy's Voice''': ...like it was this here horseshoe stake. :'''Goofy''': ''[he spins, throws horseshoe at the horseshoe stake and makes a ringer; realizes]'' That's it! I lost my focus! I gotta get back there and straighten things out! ''[trips over table with food]'' Whoa! ''[gets back up]'' Focus. ''[leaves, and goes back to the college]'' :'''Pete''': ''[confused]'' Did I miss something?! <hr width="50%"/> :''[back at college, a clock chimes 4:00 P.M., all while Max walks the lonely streets before up comes a mouse girl named Miss Fieldmouse, who notices him]'' :'''Miss Fieldmouse''': Hey, I know you. Aren't you-- :'''Max''': Yeah. Max. :'''Miss Fieldmouse''': Goofy's son. ''Ahh!'' He is ''rad. [Max sighs sadly. Miss Fieldmouse opens her umbrella as rain begins pouring down, and Max starts to walk off. At the Bean Scene, Max arrives as the rain pours through the whole city. Some water splashes on Max, making him grumble. Inside, as slow jazz music is playing, Bobby looks at his gloved hands]'' :'''Bobby''': Hmm. Do you ever wonder why you're always, like...wearing gloves? ''[pulls glove up to look at his hand, as P.J. sips his coffee]'' :'''Max''': ''[to Barista]'' Grande cappuccino. Make it a double. :'''P.J.''': ''[notices]'' Hey, Max. :'''Barista''': Grande cap, double it. :'''P.J.''': Be here now, bro. We thrive on the singularity of the you that is one with your selfness. :'''Bobby''': That's just the new P.J. speak for "Where you been, ''buddy?"'' :'''Max''': ''[drinks some of the coffee]'' I've decided this school's only big enough for one Goof. I'm transferring outta here. :'''Bobby''': ''Excuse-moi-moi?'' :'''P.J.''': Wait-wait-wait-wait-wait! Hold it, Max, come on! That means you can't be on the X-Games team! :'''Max''': Exactly. You don't let me on the team anyway, I lost in my best event. :'''Bobby''': Oh, come on! Hey, Max-Man! That was a one-time freak-fest. ''[he pulls Max back a bit]'' You can beat any of these losers any day. :'''Max''': ''[adamantly]'' I've already decided. I'm outta here. ''[starts to leave]'' :'''Beret Girl''': Max, Max, Max. Admit defeat, and defeat will surely admit you into permanent custody, my man. :'''Max''': ''[understanding Beret Girl]'' If I can't even beat my father, who is probably the most athletically challenged man in the universe, how can you expect me to beat the other competitors?! We're starting in last place because of me! :'''Bobby''': That never stopped us before. You want to give that Gamma geek Bradley the satisfaction of knowing he forced us out? :'''Max''': ''[still depressed; hesitantly]'' Well, no. :'''Bobby''': You want to let the crowd who once cheered for you cheer for someone else, ''especially'' when that someone else is your ''old man?!'' :'''Max''': ''[loses his depression and becomes determined]'' ''No!'' :'''Bobby''': ''[yelling]'' '''''ARE YOU GONNA BE SOMEONE ELSE'S TOWEL BOY?!''''' :'''Max''': ''[becoming more determined]'' '''''No!''''' :'''P.J.''': Together, we can do it! :'''Max''': ''[with extreme determination]'' You're right! ''[stands up]'' We can still beat 'em! Let's whip those Gammas! :'''Bobby''': '''''Ah-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo! Mission: Possible!''''' :'''All''': ''[doing a hand-stack]'' '''''LET'S DO IT TO IT!!''''' ''[they high-five before darting away while cheering]'' :'''Beret Girl''': ''[after Max, P.J. and Bobby leave excitedly]'' Boys will be boys. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Goofy''': Oh, Sylvia, I-- Oh, if you'll let me I-- :'''Sylvia''': Shh! No talking in the library. :'''Goofy''': Oh, gawrsh, Sylvia. I really care about you. :'''Sylvia''': Well, gee. If a certain someone truly cared about another someone, you would think that the certain someone would show up for a certain special dinner, or at least apologize for not showing up, or even call or...something. :'''Goofy''': Oh, you're right. I'm so sorry. I let my head get so filled up with fiddle-faddle that I plumb lost track of everything that's important to me. Countin' you. ''[Sylvia gasps]'' Can you ever forgive me? :'''Sylvia''': ''[after a moment]'' Oh, how can I not forgive you? <hr width="50%"/> :''[Goofy is at the Gamma house, about to tell them he's leaving their team]'' :'''Goofy''': So, ya see, I have to quit the team. :'''Bradley Uppercrust III''': ''[Tears a hole in the pool table; turns to Goofy, looking outraged]'' Excuse me? :'''Larry''': ''[Also shocked]'' You what? :'''Shorty''': Hey, no way! :'''Burly''': What is he talking about, huh? :'''Bradley''': ''[pushing Goofy back]'' Just what makes you think you can change your mind on the ''last day of the competition?'' ''[Tank grabs Goofy by his ears and lifts him into the air]'' :'''Tank''': Should I knock some sense into his big melon? :'''Bradley''': Whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa. Hey. Down. Down, Tank. Easy, boy. ''[pokes Goofy's nose]'' If you're thinkin' you're quitting the Gammas to join that freshman geek son of yours, you've got another thing comin'. ''[cruelly jabs Goofy's stomach]'' :'''Tank''': ''[mockingly]'' Bull's-eye, baby. Dog-Boy's in trouble, and Daddy's gonna bail him out. ''[The Gammas laugh mockingly, but Goofy grows defiant]'' :'''Goofy''': No, siree, sir. ''[Furiously grabs Bradley's pool cue and slams it into Tank's foot, making him let go of him]'' :'''Tank''': ''[screams in pain and holds his foot]'' Ahh! Ow! My bunion! ''[The rest of the Gammas look shocked at Goofy's unexpected counterattack. Goofy and Bradley confront each other while struggling for control of the pool cue]'' :'''Goofy''': I'm not gonna be on ''anyone's'' team. :'''Bradley''': ''[Gets up on the pool table to tower over Goofy]'' Smart man, but you forgot one thing: nobody, I repeat, '''''nobody''' quits the '''Gammas!''''' :'''Goofy''': ''[Yanks the pool cue and tosses it aside, pulling Bradley off the table]'' If you were such darn winners before, you'll be just fine without me. ''[He pushes Bradley aside]'' I'm leavin' the Gammas, and that's that. ''[He tries to leave, but two of the Gammas use pool cues to block his path]'' :'''Bradley''': No, you're not leavin' the Gammas. :'''Goofy''': ''[Tank literally kicks him out of the building]'' '''''WHOA!!!!''''' ''[lands on the opposite side of the street]'' :'''Bradley''' The Gammas are leavin' '''''you!''''' :'''Shorty''': ''[waves]'' ''Sayonara.'' :'''Burly''': Yeah, [[w:Terminator 2: Judgement Day|''Hasta la vista,'' baby!]] :'''Goofy''': Gee, I think they're a little sore at me. ''[He pats himself and realizes he still has his "Gamma Mu Mu Pledge" pin on his chest]'' Whoops. ''[takes off the pin]'' Better return my Gamma pin. ''[He stealthily re-enters to the Gamma house and puts his pin on the dresser, but then overhears the Gammas talking]'' :'''Bradley''': We'll win how we always win. And how's that, Gammas? :'''Tank''': Skill? :'''Gamma''': Uh, good looks? What? :'''Bradley''': No, you dense dolts, we'll cheat. ''[Goofy hides behind the door into the pool room to avoid being detected]'' :'''Gammas''': '''''CHEAT! CHEAT! CHEAT! CHEAT!''''' :'''Tank''': ''[sits on the pool table]'' Just like we did last time, sweetheart. :'''Bradley''': And that was a great cheat. ''[Sinisterly, with a pair of devilish horns behind his head]'' But now, I have a better plan. :'''Goofy''': ''[quietly and concerned]'' I gotta warn Maxie. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Max''': Hey, Brad! What'd you do with my dad? :'''Bradley''': He didn't make the cut. See, he was never Gamma material. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Bradley blasts rockets on PJ's roller-skates sending PJ flying into the air]'' :'''Referee''': False start! False start! Both teams back on the line. Get back here. :'''Max''': ''[to Referee]'' Wait, hold on! Bradley just blasted our third guy into the next state! :'''Bradley''': Why, that is absurd. I did nothing of the sort. :'''Max''': ''[groans; realizing Goofy was right]'' That's what my dad's been trying to tell me! <hr width="50%"/> :''[Bradley blasted Max and Tank into the X-Games wire and fabric logo]'' :'''Tank''': ''[coughing]'' Help! ''[coughs]'' Bradley! ''[coughs]'' Gammas, help me! ''[coughs]'' Anyone! 911, baby! :'''Max''': ''[coughing]'' Tank, talk to me, man! :'''Tank''': Over here, man! Dog-Boy. Am I glad to see you, sweetheart. :'''Goofy''': Max, where are you? Where are you, Max? ''[coughs]'' Maxie! ''[slips on Max's skateboard]'' '''''WHOA!''''' :'''Max''': Dad, help me lift this beam off of Tank! :''[Goofy gets up and starts to lift the beam up just as the burning debris is about to fall]'' :'''Tank''': Come on! We're about to be baked Alaska here! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Tank''': That's some kid you got there. :'''Goofy''': ''[smiling]'' You're wrong, Tank. He's not a kid anymore. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Goofy''': '''''NOOOOO!''''' I'm comin', Maxie! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bradley''': Congratulations, Max. I haven't forgotten our agreement. :'''Max''': The bet's off, Bradley. ''[points to Tank]'' But I think you owe ''him'' something. :'''Tank''': Brad! ''[Bradley smiles nervously as Tank glares furiously at him]'' Hi. It's me, the guy you let down. :'''Bradley''': ''[nervously]'' Hey, Tank. Baby. Who loves ya, baby, huh? :'''Tank''': ''[growls]'' You're goin' down like a four-cent pair of socks. :'''Bradley''': You and me, baby, all the way. ''[tries to run but Tank grabs hold of him]'' :'''Tank''': Oh, a vacancy at the Gamma house. Takin' applications. ''[pulls Bradley's pants]'' :'''Bradley''': Okay, okay, let go of me, you big, fat jerk! :'''Tank''': Time to get on the last jet to nowhere! ''[slingshots a screaming Bradley towards the X-Games blimp flying overhead]'' :'''Chuck''': Oh, it doesn't look good now, folks! ''[Bradley flies into X-Games blimp, which rapidly deflates]'' It's like I'm in a bad dream, and it just won't quit! :'''Ken''': ''[smirks]'' That's right, Chuck. <hr width="50%"/> :''[sometime after graduation]'' :'''Max''': Congratulations, Dad. ''[gives Goofy a graduation present]'' Here. :'''Goofy''': Gawrsh, son. What's this? :'''Max''': Well, you gotta open it to find out. :'''Goofy''': ''[unwraps his present revealing to be the X-Games Trophy that Max had won]'' But...this is yours. :'''Max''': No, Dad. This is for you. Read the inscription. :'''Goofy''': ''[reading the back of the trophy]'' "I might not be your little boy anymore, but I'll always be your son." ''[he and Max embrace]'' :'''Bobby''': Okay, okay, hug-festers! Free eats, back at the dorm-a! Pizza! Double cheese-a! ''[eats pizza slice]'' Mmm. Mmm. Mmm. Scrumptious. :'''Max''': ''[laughs]'' Come on, Dad. Let's feast. :''[horn honks "Shave and a Haircut" and Goofy and Max see Sylvia waving at them]'' :'''Goofy''': Sorry, son, but I kinda got plans of my own. :'''Max''': You know, I'm really gonna miss you, Dad. Sure, it was rough for us at the start, but, well, it turned out to be a pretty cool thing; You, here at college with me. Heh. But now, it's over, and we'll go on with our own lives, and-- :'''Sylvia''': You didn't tell him yet? :'''Max''': ''[confused]'' Didn't tell me what? :'''Goofy''': ''[to Sylvia]'' Well, I wanted to surprise him. ''[to Max]'' Son, guess what? I got me a job right here on campus! :'''Max''': ''[confused]'' But-- But you-- :'''Goofy''': So I could be close to you! :'''Max''': ''[shocked]'' B-B-But I thought that you were-- You told me you were gonna-- :'''Goofy''': ''[teasing]'' Just kidding! Ah-hyuck! ''[laughs]'' :'''Max''': ''[laughs in amusement]'' He is ''so'' goofy. :''[while Goofy and Sylvia drive off]'' :'''Goofy''': What do ya say we go for-- :'''Sylvia''': A picnic? :'''Goofy''': Ah-hyuck! Then maybe even a-- :'''Sylvia''': Walk on the beach? I'd love to. :'''Goofy''': You know, somehow, I knew you would. 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Cardozo]] *[[Beilby Porteus]] *[[Bernardo Dovizi]] *[[Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac]] *[[Bliss Carman]] *[[Bob Costas]] *[[Brion Gysin]] *[[Brooks Adams]] *[[Bryan Procter]] *[[Byron White]] === C - D === *[[Cædmon]] *[[Camillo Federici]] *[[Carlo Goldoni]] *[[Carolina, Baroness Nairne]] *[[Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton]] *[[Celia Thaxter]] *[[Charles Abbott, 1st Baron Tenterden]] *[[Charles Bowen, Baron Bowen]] *[[Charles Churchill]] *[[Charles Cotesworth Pinckney]] *[[Charles Dibdin]] *[[Charles Fenno Hoffman]] *[[Charles Follen Adams]] *[[Charles Godfrey Leland]] *[[Charles Hamilton Aide]] *[[Charles Hartshorne]] *[[Charles Henry Fowler]] *[[Charles Henry Webb]] *[[Charles Hodge]] *[[Charles Jefferys]] *[[Charles-Joseph, 7th Prince of Ligne]] *[[Charles Macklin]] *[[Charles Maturin]] *[[Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord]] *[[Charles Miner]] *[[Charles Morris]] *[[Charles Neaves]] *[[Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden]] *[[Charles Seymour Robinson]] *[[Charles Sprague]] *[[Charles Wolfe]] *[[Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna]] *[[Charlotte Elliott]] *[[Christian Scriver]] *[[Christian Nestell Bovee]] *[[Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle]] *[[Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon]] *[[Clement Clarke Moore]] *[[Clement of Alexandria]] *[[Colin Blackburn, Baron Blackburn]] *[[Coventry Patmore]] *[[Cyril Tourneur]] *[[Cyrus David Foss]] *[[Daniel Clement Colesworthy]] *[[David Everett]] *[[David Garrick]] *[[David Law Proudfit]] *[[David Macbeth Moir]] *[[David Seth Doggett]] *[[David Thomas (born 1813)]] *[[Donald Grant Mitchell]] *[[Dora Greenwell]] *[[Dora Read Goodale]] *[[Douglas William Jerrold]] *[[Dwight L. Moody]] === E - F === *[[Edgar Guest]] *[[Edmund Clarence Stedman]] *[[Edmund Sears]] *[[Edward Bickersteth (bishop of Exeter)]] *[[Edward Coke]] *[[Edward Coote Pinkney]] *[[Edward Dorr Griffin]] *[[Edward Hall Alderson]] *[[Edward Hazen Parker]] *[[Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon]] *[[Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough]] *[[Edward Macnaghten, Baron Macnaghten]] *[[Edward Moore]] *[[Edward Norris Kirk]] *[[Edward Payson]] *[[Edward Thomson]] *[[Edwin Ransford]] *[[Elaine Goodale Eastman]] *[[Elena Kagan]] *[[Elias Lyman Magoon]] *[[Eligius Franz Joseph von Münch-Bellinghausen]] *[[Eliza Cook]] *[[Elizabeth Chase Allen]] *[[Elizabeth Prentiss]] *[[Elizabeth Rowe]] *[[Ellen Clementine Howarth]] *[[Ellen Sturgis Hooper]] *[[Émile Augier]] *[[Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès]] *[[Enoch Fitch Burr]] *[[Erasmus Darwin]] *[[Erastus Otis Haven]] *[[Ernest Thayer]] *[[Esaias Tegnér]] *[[Ethel Lynn Beers]] *[[Eugene Lee-Hamilton]] *[[Eusebius of Caesarea]] *[[Fanny Crosby]] *[[Filippo Baldinucci]] *[[Fitz-Greene Halleck]] *[[Frances Greville]] *[[Frances Ridley Havergal]] *[[Francesco Bracciolini]] *[[Francesco Dall'Ongaro]] *[[Francesco Guicciardini]] *[[Francesco Maria Molza]] *[[Francesco Maria Zanotti]] *[[Francesco Sansovino]] *[[Francis Beaumont]] *[[Francis Burnand]] *[[Francis Miles Finch]] *[[Francis Scott Key]] *[[Francis Wayland]] *[[Francis William Bourdillon]] *[[François Andrieux]] *[[François Coppée]] *[[François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis]] *[[Franklin Pierce Adams]] *[[Freda Adler]] *[[Frederic Dan Huntington]] *[[Frederick Locker-Lampson]] *[[Frederic William Farrar]] *[[Frederic William Henry Myers]] *[[Frederick William Robertson]] *[[Frederick William Thomas]] *[[Friedrich Tholuck]] *[[Friedrich von Logau]] === G - I === *[[Gardiner Spring]] *[[Gavrila Derzhavin]] *[[George Arnold]] *[[George Barlow]] *[[George Barrington]] *[[George Boardman the Younger]] *[[George C. Lorimer]] *[[George Canning]] *[[George Colman the Younger]] *[[George Croly]] *[[George du Maurier]] *[[George Farquhar]] *[[George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne]] *[[George Henry Boker]] *[[George Jessel (jurist)]] *[[George Keith]] *[[George Linley]] *[[George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton]] *[[George Parsons Lathrop]] *[[George Peele]] *[[George Pope Morris]] *[[George Robert Sims]] *[[George Sutherland]] *[[George Walter Thornbury]] *[[George Washington Bethune]] *[[George Whitefield]] *[[George Whyte-Melville]] *[[George William Curtis]] *[[George Wither]] *[[Gerald Griffin]] *[[Gerald Massey]] *[[Gerald Stanley Lee]] *[[Giancarlo Passeroni]] *[[Giles Rooke]] *[[Ginger Rogers]] *[[Giovanni Battista Guarini]] *[[Giovanni Battista Lorenzi]] *[[Giovanni Fiorentino]] *[[Giovanni Francesco Lottini]] *[[Giovanni Maria Cecchi]] *[[Giovanni Rucellai]] *[[Girolamo Gigli]] *[[Giuseppe Mazzini]] *[[Giusto de' Conti]] *[[Godfrey Higgins]] *[[Gordon Bell]] *[[Guido Guinizzelli]] *[[Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas]] *[[Gustave Nadaud]] *[[Hammurabi]] *[[Hardinge Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury]] *[[Harlan F. 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Augustine Wade]] *[[J. C. Ryle]] *[[J. Proctor Knott]] *[[J. 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Mason]] *[[John Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland]] *[[John Marshall Harlan]] *[[John Marshall Harlan II]] *[[John McClellan Holmes]] *[[John Norris]] *[[John Oldham (poet)]] *[[John Philip Kemble]] *[[John Pierpont]] *[[John Powell]] *[[John Pratt (judge)]] *[[John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly]] *[[John Rose Macduff]] *[[John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon]] *[[John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby]] *[[John Skelton]] *[[John Smith (explorer)]] *[[John Stuart Blackie]] *[[John Sullivan Dwight]] *[[John Tillotson]] *[[John Tobin]] *[[John Townsend Trowbridge]] *[[John Trumbull (poet)]] *[[John Vaughan (chief justice)]] *[[John Weiss]] *[[John Wolcot]] *[[Jonathan M. Sewall]] *[[Jones Very]] *[[Joseph Alleine]] *[[Joseph Cummings]] *[[Joseph Dare (reverend)]] *[[Joseph Edwards Carpenter]] *[[Joseph Fouché]] *[[Joseph Henry Shorthouse]] *[[Joseph Henshaw]] *[[Joseph Hopkinson]] *[[Joseph Rodman Drake]] *[[Joseph Story]] *[[Josiah Conder (editor and author)]] *[[Josiah Quincy II]] *[[Josiah Quincy III]] *[[Josiah Gilbert Holland]] *[[Joseph Yates (judge)]] *[[Judah P. Benjamin]] *[[Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney]] *[[Julia Caroline Dorr]] *[[Julius Hawley Seelye]] === K - M === *[[Katharine Tynan]] *[[Lady Mary Wortley Montagu]] *[[Lajos Kossuth]] *[[Leonard Bacon]] *[[Lewis F. Powell Jr.]] *[[Lewis Morris (poet)]] *[[Lewis Theobald]] *[[Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon]] *[[Louise Chandler Moulton]] *[[Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues]] *[[Lucy Larcom]] *[[Lydia Sigourney]] *[[Lyman Heath]] *[[Madame Roland]] *[[Madison Cawein]] *[[Marceline Desbordes-Valmore]] *[[Marco Guazzo]] *[[Marcus Garvey]] *[[Marcus Manilius]] *[[Margaret Elizabeth Sangster]] *[[Margaret Junkin Preston]] *[[Marian Wright Edelman]] *[[Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné]] *[[Mark Akenside]] *[[Mark Hopkins (educator)]] *[[Mark Lemon]] *[[Martyn Parker]] *[[Mary Augusta Ward]] *[[Mary Butts]] *[[Mary Elizabeth Coleridge]] *[[Mary Gardiner Brainard]] *[[Mary Howitt]] *[[Mary Mapes Dodge]] *[[Mathew Roydon]] *[[Matthias Barr]] *[[Maurice Thompson]] *[[Metastasio]] *[[Michael Drayton]] *[[Michael Joseph Barry]] *[[Michel-Jean Sedaine]] *[[Mick Jagger]] *[[Mimnermus]] *[[Mitch Daniels]] *[[Mortimer Collins]] === N - Q === *[[Nathaniel Cotton]] *[[Nathaniel Emmons]] *[[Nathaniel Lee]] *[[Nathaniel Lindley, Baron Lindley]] *[[Nathaniel Parker Willis]] *[[Nehemiah Adams]] *[[Nicholas Conyngham Tindal]] *[[Nicholas Rowe]] *[[Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf]] *[[Niccolò Forteguerri]] *[[Nixon Waterman]] *[[Noah Porter]] *[[Nora Perry]] *[[Norman MacLeod (1812–1872)]] *[[Octavius Winslow]] *[[Owen Feltham]] *[[Owen Seaman]] *[[Owen Wister]] *[[Park Benjamin Sr.]] *[[Paul Gerhardt]] *[[Paul Hamilton Hayne]] *[[Paul Moon James]] *[[Philip Doddridge]] *[[Philip Massinger]] *[[Philip Morin Freneau]] *[[Philippe Néricault Destouches]] *[[Phillips Brooks]] *[[Philo]] *[[Phoebe Cary]] *[[Pierre-Jean de Béranger]] *[[Pietro Nelli]] *[[Pope Sixtus I]] *[[Prince Henry of Wales]] *[[Quintus Curtius Rufus]] === R === *[[Raimondo Montecuccoli]] *[[Ralph Venning]] *[[Randolph Sinks Foster]] *[[Rebecca Black]] *[[Rebecca Latimer Felton]] *[[Richard Alleine]] *[[Richard Arden, 1st Baron Alvanley]] *[[Richard Aston]] *[[Richard Bentley]] *[[Richard Cecil]] *[[Richard Chenevix Trench]] *[[Richard Crashaw]] *[[Richard Edwardes]] *[[Richard Fuller (minister)]] *[[Richard Garnett]] *[[Richard Gifford]] *[[Richard Grafton]] *[[Richard Henry Beddome]] *[[Richard Henry Horne]] *[[Richard Henry Stoddard]] *[[Richard Holland]] *[[Richard Hooker]] *[[Richard Hovey]] *[[Richard Hurd (bishop)]] *[[Richard Le Gallienne]] *[[Richard Maurice Bucke]] *[[Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton]] *[[Richard Realf]] *[[Richard Reynolds (bishop)]] *[[Richard Ryan]] *[[Richard Salter Storrs]] *[[Richard Watson]] *[[Richard Watson Gilder]] *[[Robert Atkyns (judge)]] *[[Robert Barnabas Brough]] *[[Robert Bork]] *[[Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton]] *[[Robert Gilfillan]] *[[Robert Hall]] *[[Robert Leighton (bishop)]] *[[Robert Montgomery (poet)]] *[[Robert Murray M'Cheyne]] *[[Robert Payne Smith]] *[[Robert Pollok]] *[[Robert Williams Buchanan]] *[[Roden Noel]] *[[Rose Hartwick Thorpe]] *[[Rowland Hill (preacher)]] === S === *[[Sabine Baring-Gould]] *[[Salmon P. Chase]] *[[Sam Walter Foss]] *[[Samuel Foote]] *[[Samuel Francis Smith]] *[[Samuel Garth]] *[[Samuel I. Prime]] *[[Samuel Laman Blanchard]] *[[Samuel Longfellow]] *[[Samuel Lover]] *[[Samuel Madden]] *[[Samuel Rogers]] *[[Samuel Rutherford]] *[[Samuel Woodworth]] *[[Sandra Day O'Connor]] *[[Sarah Chauncey Woolsey]] *[[Sarah Doudney]] *[[Sarah Helen Whitman]] *[[Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt]] *[[Sean Connery]] *[[Seba Smith]] *[[Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon]] *[[Shaka Zulu]] *[[Shirley Chisholm]] *[[Silas Weir Mitchell]] *[[Sir Alexander Cockburn, 12th Baronet]] *[[Sir Aubrey de Vere, 2nd Baronet]] *[[Sir Francis Buller, 1st Baronet]] *[[Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet]] *[[Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet]] *[[Sir John Bayley, 1st Baronet]] *[[Sir Thomas Twisden, 1st Baronet]] *[[Spike Lee]] *[[Stanisław Leszczyński]] *[[Stefano Guazzo]] *[[Stephen Johnson Field]] *[[Stephen the Hymnographer]] *[[Stjepan Mesić]] *[[Suzanne Curchod]] === T-U === *[[Theo Marzials]] *[[Theodore Chickering Williams]] *[[Theodore L. Cuyler]] *[[Theodore Tilton]] *[[Theodoret]] *[[Thomas Adam]] *[[Thomas Boston]] *[[Thomas Buchanan Read]] *[[Thomas Carew]] *[[Thomas Chalmers]] *[[Thomas Chandler Haliburton]] *[[Thomas Cogswell Upham]] *[[Thomas Dekker]] *[[Thomas Denison]] *[[Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman]] *[[Thomas De Witt Talmage]] *[[Thomas Drummond]] *[[Thomas Dunn English]] *[[Thomas Edward Brown]] *[[Thomas Erskine]] *[[Thomas Goodwin]] *[[Thomas Guthrie]] *[[Thomas Heywood]] *[[Thomas Holley Chivers]] *[[Thomas Ken]] *[[Thomas Kibble Hervey]] *[[Thomas March Clark]] *[[Thomas Middleton]] *[[Thomas Moss (minister)]] *[[Thomas Noel (poet)]] *[[Thomas Noon Talfourd]] *[[Thomas Osborne Davis (Irish politician)]] *[[Thomas Otway]] *[[Thomas Parnell]] *[[Thomas Sternhold]] *[[Thomas Tickell]] *[[Thomas Tusser]] *[[Thomas William Parsons]] *[[Thorstein Veblen]] *[[Tim Rice]] *[[Timothy Dwight IV]] *[[Tom Brown (satirist)]] *[[Tom Selleck]] *[[Ubaldo Mari]] === V - Z === *[[Valentine Blacker]] *[[Vicente Guerrero]] *[[Vicky Jenson]] *[[Vittorio Alfieri]] *[[Washington Gladden]] *[[Wayland Hoyt]] *[[Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon‎]] *[[Wilhelm von Pressel]] *[[Will Carleton]] *[[William Adams]] *[[William Allen Butler]] *[[William Arthur (minister)]] *[[William Augustus Muhlenberg]] *[[William Barnes Rhodes]] *[[William Browne]] *[[William Brett, 1st Viscount Esher]] *[[William Chamberlayne (poet)]] *[[William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper]] *[[William Croswell Doane]] *[[William Davenant]] *[[William Ellery Channing (poet)]] *[[William Falconer]] *[[William Francis Patrick Napier]] *[[William Greenough Thayer Shedd]] *[[William H. Seward]] *[[William Henry Ashurst (judge)]] *[[William Henry Maule]] *[[William Howitt]] *[[William Jones (ecclesiastic)]] *[[William Jones (philologist)]] *[[William Julius Mickle]] *[[William Knox]] *[[William Mackergo Taylor]] *[[William Mason (poet)]] *[[William Morley Punshon]] *[[William Motherwell]] *[[William Mountford]] *[[William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield]] *[[William O. Douglas]] *[[William Paton Mackay]] *[[William Pitt (ship-builder)]] *[[William R. Alger]] *[[William Robert Spencer]] *[[William Roscoe Thayer]] *[[William Ross Wallace]] *[[William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell]] *[[William Sharp (writer)‎]] *[[William Somervile]] *[[William Stoughton]] *[[William Vaughn Moody]] *[[William Walker]] *[[William Warner]] *[[William Wetmore Story]] *[[William Williams Pantycelyn]] *[[William Winter (author)]] *[[William Wood, 1st Baron Hatherley]] *[[Winthrop Mackworth Praed]] *[[Zero Mostel]] === Collaborations === *[[Aerosmith]] *[[Audioslave]] *[[Cheech & Chong]] *[[Poison (band)]] *[[Tate and Brady]] == Books and plays== *''[[Book of Mormon]]'' *''[[Gesta Romanorum]]'' *''[[Gospel of Judas]]'' *''[[Panchatantra]]'' *''[[The Duchess of Malfi]]'' == TV and films == *''[[42nd Street (film)]]'' *''[[Auntie Mame (film)]]'' *''[[Catch Me If You Can]]'' *''[[Deep Throat (film)]]'' *''[[Enemy at the Gates]]'' *''[[Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life‎]]'' *''[[Grand Hotel (film)]]'' *''[[In the Heat of the Night (film)]]'' *''[[Knute Rockne, All American]]'' *''[[Moonstruck]]'' *''[[Night on Earth]]'' *''[[On Golden Pond (1981 film)]]'' *''[[She Done Him Wrong]]'' *''[[Song of the South]]'' *''[[The Jazz Singer]]'' *''[[The Pride of the Yankees]]'' *''[[The Thing From Another World]]'' *''[[The Two Popes]]'' *''[[The Wicker Man (2006 film)]]'' *''[[To Have and Have Not (film)]]'' *''[[Yankee Doodle Dandy‎]]'' ==Things== ===Abstractions=== <div style="float:left; width:50%;"> *[[Accident]] *[[Action]] *[[Adventure]] *[[Adversity]] *[[Affliction]] *[[Appearance]] *[[Benefits]] *[[Chaos]] *[[Choice]] *[[Circumstances]] *[[Cleanliness]] *[[Comfort]] *[[Companionship]] *[[Comparisons]] *[[Compensation]] *[[Conquest]] *[[Consideration]] *[[Constancy]] *[[Contemplation]] *[[Contention]] *[[Controversy]] *[[Coquetry]] *[[Courtesy]] *[[Cruelty]] *[[Customs]] *[[Danger]] *[[Decisions]] *[[Deeds]] *[[Defense of freedom]] *[[Delay]] *[[Dishonesty]] *[[Distance]] *[[Diversity]] *[[Estimates]] *[[Excellence]] *[[Explanations]] *[[Extremes]] *[[Extremism]] *[[Fancies]] *[[Faults]] *[[Favors]] *[[Fidelity]] *[[Foppery]] *[[Fortune]] *[[Frailty]] *[[Gain]] *[[Gentleness]] *[[Harm]] *[[Help]] *[[Hospitality]] *[[Humanity]] *[[Idealism]] *[[Imitation]] *[[Impossibility]] </div><div style="float:right; width:50%;"> *[[Impropriety]] *[[Inconstancy]] *[[Independence]] *[[Judgment]] *[[Leisure]] *[[Living]] *[[Loss]] *[[Masculinity]] *[[Mediocrity]] *[[Misfortune]] *[[Mortality]] *[[Nothingness]] *[[Novelty]] *[[Obscenity]] *[[Obscurity]] *[[Order]] *[[Paradox]] *[[Perversion]] *[[Philanthropy]] *[[Point of view (philosophy)]] *[[Potential]] *[[Principles]] *[[Probability]] *[[Promises]] *[[Proof]] *[[Purity]] *[[Relevance]] *[[Repose]] *[[Reputation]] *[[Research]] *[[Rest]] *[[Results]] *[[Retaliation]] *[[Retribution]] *[[Ridicule]] *[[Rights]] *[[Social influence]] *[[Style]] *[[Taste (sociology)]] *[[Temperance]] *[[Temptation]] *[[Trials]] *[[Trifles]] *[[Trouble]] *[[Unkindness]] *[[Value (ethics)]] *[[War and peace]] *[[Wickedness]] *[[Will (philosophy)]] *[[Winning]] *[[Wishes]] *[[World domination]] *[[World peace]] *[[Wrongs]] </div><br clear="all" /> ===Feelings and emotions=== <div style="float:left; width:50%;"> *[[Abandonment]] *[[Abhorrence]] *[[Affection]] *[[Aggression]] *[[Ambition]] *[[Amusement]] *[[Anticipation]] *[[Aspiration]] *[[Appetite]] *[[Asceticism]] *[[Awkwardness]] *[[Beneficence]] *[[Betrayal]] *[[Bliss]] *[[Bravery]] *[[Brotherhood]] *[[Calmness]] *[[Carefulness]] *[[Chastity]] *[[Consolation]] *[[Contentment]] *[[Cowardice]] *[[Daring]] *[[Delight]] *[[Depravity]] *[[Diligence]] *[[Disappointment]] *[[Discontent]] *[[Discretion]] *[[Disgrace]] *[[Distrust]] *[[Enjoyment]] *[[Expectations]] *[[Feelings]] *[[Grief]] *[[Hesitation]] *[[Hostility]] *[[Idleness]] *[[Impatience]] </div><div style="float:right; width:50%;"> *[[Ingratitude]] *[[Instinct]] *[[Integrity]] *[[Joy]] *[[Malice]] *[[Mercy]] *[[Merriment]] *[[Mischief]] *[[Misery]] *[[Mourning]] *[[Obedience]] *[[Pleasure]] *[[Pride]] *[[Remorse]] *[[Resignation]] *[[Resolution]] *[[Righteousness]] *[[Romance]] *[[Satisfaction]] *[[Scorn]] *[[Self-awareness]] *[[Self-love]] *[[Self-righteousness]] *[[Selfishness]] *[[Senses]] *[[Sensibility]] *[[Serenity]] *[[Shame]] *[[Sincerity]] *[[Sorrow]] *[[Suffering]] *[[Suspicion]] *[[Sympathy]] *[[Unbelief]] *[[Uncertainty]] *[[Woe]] </div><br clear="all" /> ===Law and government=== <div style="float:left; width:50%;"> *[[Abdication]] *[[Administration of justice]] *[[Admiralty law]] *[[Affidavit]] *[[Amendment of pleadings]] *[[Appeals]] *[[Arbitration]] *[[Authority]] *[[Bankruptcy]] *[[Bribery]] *[[Common law]] *[[Companies]] *[[Consent]] *[[Contempt of Court]] *[[Contract]] *[[Corporations]] *[[Courts]] *[[Court of Chancery]] *[[Criminal justice]] *[[Deed]] *[[Defamation]] *[[Dictum]] *[[Discovery (law)]] *[[Due process]] *[[Equality]] *[[Equity]] *[[Evidence]] *[[Exile]] *[[Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution]] *[[First Amendment to the United States Constitution]] *[[Foreign law]] *[[Foreign policy]] *[[Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution]] *[[Fraud]] *[[Freedom of the press]] *[[Government by the people]] *[[Government spending]] *[[Homicide]] *[[Impeachment]] *[[Inheritance]] *[[International law]] *[[Isolationism]] *[[Judges]] *[[Judicial interpretation]] *[[Judicial opinions]] *[[Judiciary]] *[[Jurisdiction]] *[[Justification (jurisprudence)]] *[[Lawsuit]] </div><div style="float:right; width:50%;"> *[[Lawyers]] *[[League of Nations]] *[[Legal cases]] *[[Legal counsel]] *[[Legal fiction]] *[[Legal proceedings]] *[[Legal remedies]] *[[Legislators]] *[[Legislature]] *[[Magistrates]] *[[Minor (law)]] *[[National security]] *[[Neglect]] *[[Opening statement]] *[[Ownership]] *[[Parliament of the United Kingdom]] *[[Peerage]] *[[Perjury]] *[[Pleadings]] *[[Pledge of Allegiance]] *[[Policy]] *[[Precedents]] *[[President of the United States]] *[[Presumptions]] *[[Property]] *[[Public policy]] *[[Public trust]] *[[Punishment]] *[[Reform]] *[[Regulation]] *[[Representation]] *[[Republic]] *[[Second Amendment to the United States Constitution]] *[[Separation of powers]] *[[States' rights‎]] *[[Statutes]] *[[Statutes of limitations]] *[[Supreme Court of the United States]] *[[Tax avoidance and tax evasion]] *[[Theft]] *[[Torts]] *[[Trespass]] *[[Unemployment]] *[[Usury]] *[[Wills]] *[[Witnesses]] </div><br clear="all" /> ===Religion and mythology=== <div style="float:left; width:50%;"> *[[Blessings]] *[[Ceremony]] *[[Confession]] *[[Consecration]] *[[Cupid]] *[[Denominationalism]] *[[Divine law]] *[[Easter]] *[[Ecclesiology]] *[[Elysium]] *[[Eternal life]] *[[Eternal rest]] *[[Ghosts]] *[[Gnomes]] *[[Gnosticism]] *[[Gospel]] *[[Holiness]] *[[Last Judgment]] *[[Mammon]] *[[Martyrdom]] *[[Miracle]] *[[Missionaries]] *[[Nut (goddess)]] *[[Oblivion]] *[[Omnipotence]] *[[Oracle]] *[[Paganism]] </div><div style="float:right; width:50%;"> *[[Pandeism]] *[[Panentheism]] *[[Pantheism]] *[[Penance]] *[[Polytheism]] *[[Preaching]] *[[Prophecy]] *[[Providence]] *[[Redemption (theology)]] *[[Regeneration (theology)]] *[[Religious conversion]] *[[Repentance]] *[[Resurrection]] *[[Revelation]] *[[Sabbath]] *[[Sacrament]] *[[Sacrifice]] *[[Spirits]] *[[Sunday school]] *[[Theology]] *[[Trials of faith]] *[[Visions]] *[[Werewolves]] *[[Witchcraft]] </div><br clear="all" /> ===Places=== *[[Cities]] **[[Boston]] *[[Coast]] *[[Countries]] *[[Home]] *[[Land]] *[[Mars]] *[[Rivers]] **[[Nile]] **[[Rhine]] *[[World]] ====Places in the United States==== *[[Boston]] *[[California]] *[[Kentucky]] *[[New England]] *[[Niagara Falls]] *[[North Carolina]] *[[Smithsonian Institution]] *[[Statue of Liberty]] *[[Union (American Civil War)]] *[[United States territorial acquisitions]] ====Individual countries==== *[[Australia]] *[[Bermuda]] *[[Egypt]] *[[France]] *[[Greece]] *[[Haiti]] *[[Italy]] *[[Panama]] ===Nature=== *[[Air]] *[[Aurora]] *[[Clouds]] *[[Decay]] *[[Dew]] *[[Echo]] *[[Islands]] *[[Rain]] *[[Streams]] *[[Thunder]] *[[Zephyr]] *[[Zoology]] ====Time==== *[[Day]] *[[Evening]] *[[Friday the 13th]] *[[Midnight]] *[[Millennium]] *[[Morning]] *[[Night]] *[[Past, present, and future]] *[[Seasons]] *[[Sunday]] *[[Sundial mottos]] *[[Sunrise]] *[[Times]] *[[Timing]] *[[Today]] *[[Tomorrow]] *[[Twilight]] *[[Yesterday]] =====Months===== *[[January]] *[[February]] *[[March]] *[[May]] *[[June]] *[[August]] *[[September]] *[[October]] *[[November]] *[[December]] ====Living things==== =====Plants===== *[[Gardens]] *[[Hawthorn]] *[[Herbs]] *[[Holly]] *[[Ivy]] *[[Shamrock]] *[[Weeds]] ======Flowers====== *[[Flowers]] **[[Buttercups]] **[[Daisies]] **[[Goldenrods]] **[[Lily-of-the-Valley]] **[[Pansies]] **[[Poppies]] **[[Roses]] **[[Sunflowers]] **[[Tulips]] ======Fruit and vegetables====== *[[Fruit]] **[[Apples]] **[[Grapes]] **[[Olive]] **[[Oranges]] **[[Pumpkins]] **[[Strawberries]] *[[Nut (fruit)]] =====Animals===== *[[Alligators]] *[[Oysters]] *[[Spiders]] *[[Turtles]] ======Mammals====== *[[Bears]] *[[Cattle]] *[[Dolphins]] *[[Donkeys]] *[[Foxes]] *[[Gazelles]] *[[Lions]] *[[Sheep]] *[[Tigers]] ======Birds====== *[[Blackbirds]] *[[Bluebirds]] *[[Bobolinks]] *[[Chickens]] *[[Crows]] *[[Cuckoos]] *[[Doves]] (including pigeons) *[[Eagles]] *[[Falcons]] *[[Geese]] *[[Hawks]] *[[Hummingbirds]] *[[Nightingales]] *[[Ostriches]] *[[Owls]] *[[Peafowl]] *[[Pelicans]] *[[Ravens]] *[[Robins]] *[[Swallows]] *[[Swans]] *[[Thrushes]] *[[Turkeys]] ======Insects====== *[[Ants]] *[[Bees]] *[[Butterflies]] *[[Fireflies]] *[[Fleas]] *[[Flies]] *[[Glowworms]] *[[Grasshoppers]] ===Transport and maritime=== *[[Aeronautics]] *[[Boating]] *[[Coaches]] *[[Highway]] *[[Lighthouses]] *[[Mermaids]] *[[Navigation]] *[[Navy]] *[[Oceans]] *[[Rail transport]] *[[Ships]] *[[Shipwreck]] *[[Tides]] ===Body and health=== *[[Blindness]] *[[Blood]] *[[Blushing]] *[[Dimples]] *[[Disease]] *[[Eating]] *[[Faces]] *[[Feet]] *[[Fingers]] *[[Hair]] *[[Hands]] *[[Hearing]] *[[Illness]] *[[Lips]] *[[Mouths]] *[[Smiles]] *[[Sweetness]] *[[Tears]] *[[Tongues]] *[[Vaccines]] **[[Vaccine misinformation‎]] *[[Voice]] *[[Wounds]] ===Occupations=== *[[Agriculture]] *[[Attorney general]] *[[Authors]] *[[Barbers]] *[[Begging]] *[[Blacksmiths]] *[[Bricklayers]] *[[Carpentry]] *[[Cooking]] *[[Courtiers]] *[[Fishing]] *[[Harvest]] *[[Hunting]] *[[Military service]] *[[Painting]] *[[Pottery]] *[[Printing]] *[[Publishing]] *[[Sculpture]] *[[Sheriff]] *[[Shoemaking]] *[[Singing]] *[[Statesmanship]] *[[Students]] *[[Studying]] *[[Tailors]] *[[Teachers]] *[[Undertakers]] ===Communications and discourse=== <div style="float:left; 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1817) (from [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]]) *''[[The Two Voices]]'' (1842) (from [[Alfred Tennyson]]) *''[[Understanding Power]]'' (2002) (from [[Noam Chomsky]]) *''[[United States Declaration of Independence]]'' (1776) (from [[Thomas Jefferson]]) *''[[Wuthering Heights]]'' (1847) (from [[Emily Brontë]]) ====Themes==== *[[Abortion (pre-Reformation)]] (from [[Abortion]]) *[[Abortion (1500-1900)]] (from [[Abortion]]) *[[Abortion case law]] (from [[Abortion]]) *[[United States Congress]] (from [[Politics]]) =====William Shakespeare quotes===== *[[William Shakespeare quotes about acting]] (from [[Acting]]) *[[William Shakespeare quotes about death]] (from [[Death]]) *[[William Shakespeare quotes about life]] (from [[Life]]) *[[William Shakespeare quotes about love]] (from [[Love]]) *[[William Shakespeare quotes about war]] (from [[War]]) ==Disambiguation pages== *[[Alexander (disambiguation)]] *[[Archer]] *[[Becker]] *[[Charlie's Angels (disambiguation)]] *[[Holmes]] *[[Home (disambiguation)]] *[[James I]] *[[James Stephens]] *[[John Adams (disambiguation)]] *[[John Smith]] *[[Judgment Day]] *[[Moonlight]] *[[Psycho]] *[[Robert Greene‎]] *[[Robert Leighton]] *[[Rose (disambiguation)]] *[[The Wicker Man]] *[[Thomas Brown]] *[[West]] *[[Will]] *[[William Wallace (disambiguation)]] c9vpjotx8hxhf10jq13snmxb9w1eoaz 0 70091 3961263 3960920 2026-07-05T19:46:42Z BD2412 3982 Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]] 3961263 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Park Benjamin, Sr crop.jpg|thumb|Park Benjamin, Sr.]] '''[[w:Park Benjamin Sr.|Park Benjamin Sr.]]''' ([[August 14]], [[1809]] – [[September 12]], [[1864]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[poet]], [[w:editor|editor]] and founder of several [[newspapers]]. == Quotes == * I'm king of the dead—and I make my throne<br>On a monument slab of marble cold;<br>And my scepter of rule is the spade I hold:<br>Come they from cottage or come they from hall,<br>Mankind are my subjects, all, all, all!<br>Let them loiter in pleasure or toilfully spin—<br>I gather them in, I gather them in! ** ''The Old Sexton'', reported in ''Bartlett's Familiar Quotations'', 10th ed. (1919). * Flowers are Love's truest language. ** Sonnet, reported in ''Bartlett's Familiar Quotations'', 10th ed. (1919). * The mountain rill<br>Seeks with no surer flow the far bright sea,<br>Than my unchang'd affections flow to thee. ** ''To One Beloved''. * Great faith it needs, according to my view,<br>To trust in that which never could be true. ** ''Infatuation''. * He loved his kind, but sought the love of few,<br>And valued old opinions more than new. ** ''Infatuation''. * But then to part! to part when Time<br>Has wreathed his tireless wing with flowers,<br>And spread the richness of a clime<br>Of fairy o'er this land of ours;<br>When glistening leaves and shaded streams<br>In the soft light of Autumn lay,<br>And, like the music of our dreams,<br>The viewless breezes seemed to stray—<br>'T was bitter then to rend the heart<br>With the sad thought that we must part;<br>'''And, like some low and mournful spell,<br>To whisper but one word—farewell!''' ** ''A Thought on Parting''. * Pure and undimmed, thy angel smile<br>Is mirrored on my dreams,<br>Like evening's sunset-girded isle<br>Upon her shadowed streams:<br>And o'er my thoughts thy vision floats,<br>Like melody of spring-bird, notes;<br>When the blue halcyon gently laves<br>His plumage in the flashing waves. ** ''To a young girl''. * Press on! there's no such word as fail!<br>Press nobly on! the goal is near,—<br>Ascend the mountain! breast the gale!<br>Look upward, onward,—never fear!<br>Why shouldst thou faint? Heaven smiles above,<br>Though storm and vapor intervene;<br>That sun shines on, whose name is Love,<br>Serenely o'er Life's shadow'd scene. ** ''Press On''. * Press on! If Fortune play thee false<br>To-day, tomorrow she'll be true;<br>Whom now she sinks she now exalts,<br>Taking old gifts and granting new,<br>The wisdom of the present hour<br>Makes up the follies past and gone;<br>To weakness, strength succeeds, and power<br>From frailty springs! 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''The Travellers' Dictionary of Quotation: Who Said What, About Where?'' (1983), p.&nbsp;862 * '''It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that this is war.''' ** Dispatch to [[John Russell, 1st Earl Russell|John Russell]] at a period of [[United Kingdom–United States relations|diplomatic tensions]] between the [[United States|US]] and [[United Kingdom|Britain]] during the [[American Civil War|US Civil War]] (5 September 1863); ''Correspondence concerning Claims against Great Britain'', [https://archive.org/details/correspondenceco311unit/page/364/mode/2up vol. 2] (Washington, D.C., 1870), p. 365 * '''More than all, and above all, [[George Washington|Washington]] was master of himself.''' If there be one quality more than another in his character which may exercise a useful control over the men of the present hour, it is the total disregard of self when in the most elevated positions for influence and example. ** As quoted in [http://infomotions.com/etexts/gutenberg/dirs/1/5/1/4/15140/15140.htm ''Washington's Birthday : Its History, Observance, Spirit, and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse'' (1918) by Robert Haven Schauffler], p.&nbsp;143. == External links == {{wikipedia}} {{Wikisource author}} *[http://virtualology.com/charlesfrancisadams Appleton's Biography edited by Stanley L. 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Kennedy Jr.]] hgdyrebfx1u8ijgq21x8qp8frueuk62 0 79831 3961078 3948041 2026-07-05T14:57:19Z ~2026-22475-30 3310494 3961078 wikitext text/x-wiki {{DISPLAYTITLE:''The Simpsons''/Season 19}} {{The Simpsons header}} '''''[[w:The Simpsons|The Simpsons]]''''' (1989–present) is an American animated sitcom broadcast by the Fox Broadcasting Company created by [[Matt Groening]]. The series is a satirical depiction of American life, epitomized by the Simpson family. ===''[[w:He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs|He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs]]''=== :'''[[w:Montgomery Burns|Mr. Burns]]:''' Now let's enjoy the Miami of Canada -- Chicago! <hr width=50%/> :'''Colby''': Okay Homer, I don't know anything about planes, but I know about you. You have what made America great: no understanding of the limits of your power and a complete lack of concern for what anyone thinks of you. So you'll land that plane. And do you know why? Because I heard some guy say you ''couldn't''. :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': ''What!'' I'll show him. I'll show that guy! <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': What are you doing? You don't know how to fly a plane! :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': I once drove a car off a cliff. How hard can it be? Hmm..., what's the ocean doing in the sky? ===''[[w:Homer of Seville|The Homer of Seville]]''=== :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': That church service was so boring! I did a whole book of find-a-words. :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': Dad, all you circled were the I's and A's. :'''Homer:''' Those are words. <hr width=50%/> :''[In the dressing room, after Homer's first opera performance]'' :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': Dad, you were great! :'''Lisa''': And you contributed to our culture! :'''Homer''': ''[worried]'' Well, I didn't mean to. :'''Lisa''': No, no, it's a good thing. :'''Homer''': Oh, good. This makes up for me showing up drunk to the father-daughter dance. :'''Lisa''': The dance isn't 'til next week. :'''Homer''': Sorry, Lisa. Can't change the future. <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Julius Hibbert|Dr. Hibbert]]''': Homer, you have a mild back sprain. And you also ingested a dangerous quantity of grave dirt. :'''Homer''': Well, you're always telling me that I should eat more dirt. :'''Dr. Hibbert''': Not dirt, ''vegetables''! :'''Homer''': ...Which grow in ''what''? <hr width=50%/> :'''Marge''': That doesn't sound like Homer's usual annoyed grunt. <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': D'oh, d'oh, d'oh, d'oh, d'oh, d'oh, d'oh. Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo. Stu-stu-stu-stupid Flanders. :'''Ned Flanders''': Why the crescendo, my old friendo. :'''Homer''': Get lost, you waste of mustache! :'''Ned Flanders''': Okey dokley. ===''[[w:Midnight Towboy|Midnight Towboy]]''=== :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': When you married a man who would years later, without warning, become a tow-truck driver, you knew what the deal would eventually be. <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': There must be a website that can help you deal with a clingy baby. :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': Oh, I don’t want to bother the internet with my problem. :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': Aw, come on, Mom. We’ll help you surf. :''[Marge sits down at the computer, grabs the mouse and starts clicking away]'' :'''Bart''': Click that one, Mom. :'''Lisa''': No, go up. :'''Bart''': Keep going--up, up, up! :'''Lisa''': The blue ones are ads. :'''Bart''': That’s the toolbar. :'''Lisa''': No you’ve opened Word; close it! :'''Bart''': Close it. Do-don’t save it! :'''Lisa''': Stop clicking. :'''Bart''': Don’t go there! :'''Lisa''': Why are you buying a freezer?! :'''Bart''': Don’t click the cart or you’ve bought it! :'''Lisa''': Aw, you clicked the cart! :'''Marge''': ''[Upset]'' If you’re so smart, you do it! :''[Bart pushes one button and finds a baby website]'' :'''Marge''': ''[Groans]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': When you call in sick, who do you call? :'''Louie''': I don't call in sick, I work when I wanna. :'''Homer''': Sometimes you ''want'' to work? <hr width=50%/> :''[Homer decides to become a tow truck driver]'' :'''Louie''': Now just remember two rules. One, stick to Springfield. If I ever catch you on my turf, I’ll rip off your head, then I'll vomit down your neck, pull out your heart, show it to your head, and shove ‘em both down your neck hole, to which I previously alluded. :''[Homer tries to jot everything down]'' :'''Homer''': ''[Mumbling]'' "...which I previously alluded." Are there two "L’s" in "alluded"? <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': ''[Chuckles]'' I guess I'm more powerful than God now. :'''[[w:Ned Flanders|Ned]]''': You know what they say: "With great power comes great responsibility." :'''Homer''': Who said that?! I'll kill them with my power! <hr width=50%/> :''[The parking situation has regressed to pandemonium in Homer's absence]'' :''[The Duff blimp lands in a school zone that forbids parking]'' :'''Captain McCallister''' ''[illegally parked in his boat across from the blimp]'': Avast, ye sky whale! ''[He fires his harpoon gun at the blimp, causing it to rapidly deflate]'' Hooooo-har-har-haaargh! <hr width=50%/> :'''Marge''': Bart, I'm starting to worry about your father. :'''Bart''': Well, I know he seems to get dumber every year, but lately he's plateaued. :'''Homer''': Oh, my God multiple parking tickets, handicapped spot, parked by a hydrant, incomprehensible vanity plate. If my life as a tow truck driver was a teleplay, this would be the end of act 2. :'''Louie''': I thought I told you to stay off my turf. :'''Homer''': What? I'm still in Springfield. Wha...?! Okay, I made a mistake. Why don't you give me two demerit points in a point system we work out right now? Put me down, you lousy-- Okay, I'm warning you--I'll kill you, you son of a...--All right buddy, that's it, I've had-- You... let go! All right, Just... let... go. Oh, a trap door. What's down there? Your Meatball collection? :'''Louie''': Goodbye :'''Homer''': I thought we were friends! I was kidding you in a friendly fashion! ===''[[w:I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings|I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings]]''=== :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': Homer, you cannot miss Lisa's big day. And you have to come sober! :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': American sober or Irish sober? :'''Marge''': [[w:Blood alcohol content|.08]] sober! :'''Homer''': .15. :'''Marge''': .09! :'''Homer''': .10 with a stomach full of bread. My final offer. :'''Marge''': ''[groans]'' Deal. <hr width=50%/> :''[Dwight's partner is knocked out through one of the bank's windows.]'' :'''[[w:List of recurring characters in The Simpsons#Eddie and Lou|Lou]]''': Uh, Chief, looks like we got a 64-G in progress. :'''[[w:Clancy Wiggum|Chief Wiggum]]''': ''[Chews his doughnut once slowly.]'' :'''Lou''': Armed robbery with a gun. :'''Chief Wiggum''': ''[Stares cluelessly.]'' :'''Lou''': ''[Sighs.]'' ''[Draws stick figures of a bank robbery.]'' Come on, Chief, you know this. :'''Chief Wiggum''': Oh, a shooty-stealy. :''[Eddie and Lou look at each other, then roll their eyes in disbelief.]'' ===''[[w:Treehouse of Horror XVIII|Tre]]''[[w:Treehouse of Horror XVIII|'''e'''''house of Horror XVIII'']]=== :'''Marge''': Tonight, we have three terrifying tales of the... ''[sees the American Idol logo]'' Excuse me. ''[sucks it up with a medium vacuum cleaner]'' Now, our first glory story is... ''[sees the NFL on FOX logo]'' Oh, for crying out loud! ''[pepper sprays the football players and the logo]'' :''[more logos were shown in front of her]'' :'''Marge''': Can't anyone just watch the show they're watching? ''[kills the police officer in "Cops" with a tool, staples Jack Bauer with a watermelon, and microwaves Dr. House, then shows the feast that serves the family]'' Dinner is served! <hr width=50%/> :'''Marge''': We can't have a space creature living in our house. <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': No one likes a know-it-all. ''[suffocates Kang with a pillow]'' <hr width=50%/> :''[Marge opens oven.]'' :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Crème brûlée! Crème brûlée! Or, in English: Burnt cream! Burnt cream! <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': Homie, I made you my ''killer'' lasagna. :'''Homer's Brain''': ''It's poisoned! Whatever you do, don't eat it!'' :''[The camera pans down revealing Homer is eating it.]'' :'''Homer's Brain''': ''Okay, you're already eating it. Just don't finish it!'' :''[Homer finishes the lasagna.]'' :'''Homer's Brain''': ''Okay, you finished it. But don't ask for--'' :'''Homer''': Seconds, please! :'''Homer's Brain''': ''You moron! Just kill her!'' :'''Homer''': ''[to brain]'' I'll kill her after dessert! <hr width=50%/> :'''Marge''': All those nights I thought you were out getting drunk, you were out killing people?! :'''Homer''': I was out getting drunk, ''then'' killing people! <hr width=50%/> :''[Homer prepares to assassinate [[w:Kent Brockman|Kent Brockman]] using a sniper rifle.]'' :'''Homer''': Now all I have to do is think of a clever line before I pull the trigger. ''[Thinks.]'' ''Oh, that’s a perfect one. But I don’t need to say it out loud ‘cause I’m by myself.'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': ''[transforms into spaghetti on the "Gluttony" stage]'' More bread, please. <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': ''[in the "Sloth" stage]'' I thought I was killed by that magic spaghetti. ''[naps, shreds into pieces on a hammock]'' ===[[w:Little Orphan Millie|Little Orphan Millie]]=== :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': Spider Burps! :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': Milhouse, what are you doing here? I thought you had a three-0-clock [[w:wedgie|wedgie]] with Nelson. :'''[[w:Milhouse van Houten|Milhouse]]''': I had to reschedule. <hr width=50%/> :''[Milhouse's parents are lost at sea.]'' :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Here, Millhouse, why don't you cheer up with a glass of [[w:Ocean Spray(cooperative)|Ocean Spray.]] ''[catches himself]'' Oh boy forget that. How about some [[w:Cap'n Crunch|Cap'n Crunch?]] ''[catches himself]'' [[w:Seven Seas Salad Dressing|Seven Seas Italian Dressing?]] Oh no no no. Uhh... [[w:Chicken of the Sea|Chicken of the Sea]] tuna? Ahh. [[w:Billy Ocean|Billy Ocean]] CD? The History of [[w:Atlantic Records|Atlantic Records?]] :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': Stop naming things!!! :'''Homer''': I want to but I can't. :'''Marge''': Then go to Moe's. :'''Homer''': Good idea. I'll drown my sorrows in [[w:Anchor Steam Beer|Anchor Steam Beer.]] ''[Looks at Milhouse]'' Oh ho ho I'm sorry. ''[Covers his mouth and leaves]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': Bart, stop talking to yourself. That'll show him. Now, how am I going to find out what color Marge's eyes are? <hr width=50%/> :''[Homer is searching for his wedding album]'' :'''Homer''': Where is it? I gotta find out what color Marge's eyes are. Ah! Cha-ching! :''[He goes to open the album only to find it has a combination lock, and is shut tight]'' :'''Homer''': Ohh! Oh, Marge darling... What's the combination to our wedding album? :'''Marge''': Our anniversary. :'''Homer''': ''[Pauses]'' D'oh! ===''[[w:Husbands and Knives|Husbands and Knives]]''=== :'''Milo''': These books are meant to be read and enjoyed, not hoarded and then sold when you get divorced. <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': We're gonna be rich! We can finally start a family. :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': We have a family. :'''Homer''': A ''better'' one! <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart Simpson]]''': Alan Moore, you wrote my favourite issues of ''Radioactive Man''! :'''[[w:Alan Moore|Alan Moore]]''': Oh really? So you ''liked'' that I made your favourite superhero a heroin-addicted jazz critic who's not radioactive? :'''Bart''': I don't read the words, I just like when he punches people. How do you make his costume stick so close to his muscles? :'''Alan Moore''': ''[groans]'' :'''[[w:Milhouse Van Houten|Milhouse Van Houten]]''': Mr. Moore, will you sign my DVD of ''[[w:Watchmen|Watchmen]] Babies''? Which of the babies is your favourite? :'''Alan Moore''': ''[furiously]'' You see what those bloody corporations do?! They take your ideas and they suck them! Suck them like leeches until they've gotten every last drop of the marrow from your bones! :'''[[w:Art Spiegelman|Art Spiegelman]]''': Hey teacup, why don't you chill out? :'''Alan Moore''': ''[sighs]'' Very well. ''[starts reading a [[w:Little Lulu|Little Lulu]] book and laughs]'' "Oh Little Lulu, I love you-lu just the same..." ''[sighs happily]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Alan Moore''': ''[voice only, in Gracie Films logo]'' Might be some wrong words in there, but; uh...pretty much nailed it. ===''[[w:Funeral for a Fiend|Funeral for a Fiend]]''=== :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': That's funny. There's nobody here. :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': More ribs for me! :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': There are no tables or chairs. :'''Homer''': More ribs for me! :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': And there's no sign of an oven, kitchen or food anywhere. :'''Homer''': ''[uneasy]'' More ribs for me? :''Suddenly, without warning, the doors and windows are locked up tight behind them.'' :'''Wes Doobner''': Hello, Simpsons! ''[laughs evilly]'' :'''Homer''': Finally, some service. Now listen, we want to sit under a cool state license plate; Michigan or better! :'''Wes Doobner''': ''[Sideshow Bob's actual voice]'' Silence! You've all stumbled into my ingenious trap. :'''Lisa''': That voice...''[groans]'' I knew that commercial was a trick, specifically designed to lure our family here, and Wes Doobner's World Famous Family Style Rib Huts is actually an anagram! :'''Wes Doobner''': Welcome to "Sideshow Bob's World Famous Family Style Return!" ''[rearranges the letters, then tears off his cowboy hat, wig and false moustache to reveal his true identity as Sideshow Bob]'' :'''Simpsons''': AH! Sideshow Bob! <hr width=50%/> :''[The Simpsons are tied up. A laptop with a low battery is sitting atop boxes of [[w:TNT|TNT]].]'' :'''[[w:Sideshow Bob|Sideshow Bob]]''': Let's not tarry. As [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]] said, "If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere best it were done quickly." Power on! ''[He turns on the laptop and laughs maniacally.]'' This time, I've made no mistakes. ''[leaves]'' :'''Lisa''': Actually, you made one. What Shakespeare really said was, "'Twere ''well'' it were done quickly." :'''Sideshow Bob''': Yes, I'm sure you've studied the Immortal Bard extensively under your "Miss Hoover". ''[Leaves and shuts the door.]'' :'''Lisa''': ''[[Macbeth]]'', act one, scene seven. Look it up. :'''Sideshow Bob''': ''[re-entering]'' I shall! ''[He takes the laptop.]'' Come on, [[w:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]], load, you unwieldy behemoth! ''[The laptop explodes.]'' Oh, dear, Sideshow Bob, "Hoist on his own petard". :'''Lisa''': It's "hoist ''with'' his own petard". :'''Sideshow Bob''': Oh, get a life. :'''Homer''': Yet another new restaurant fails. <hr width=50%/> :'''Bart''': Bob's playing you all like saps! This man's a killer! :'''Sideshow Bob''': Oh, how he accuses me, at my very own trial! I can take no more! I...I...I didn't want to use this, but you've left me no choice! ''[take out Nitroglycerin]'' :'''Chief Wiggim''': Nitroglycerin?! Everybody panic! ''[people in the courtroom scream and scurry in terror]'' :'''Bart''': Yoink! ''[he snatches the nitroglycerin out of Bob's hands]'' Foiled again, freak! ''[then he tosses it out the window]'' :'''Sideshow Bob''': You don't understand! I...I...''[groans as he begins to collapse onto the courtroom floor]''. <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Kent Brockman|Kent Brockman]]''': America has a tradition of turning outlaws into legends after their deaths: [[Billy the Kid]], [[w:Bonnie and Clyde|Bonnie and Clyde]], [[Jesus|Jesus Christ]]. Joining them now is Robert "Sideshow Bob" Terwilliger, whose funeral we're presenting with live shovel-to-shovel coverage. <hr width=50%/> :'''Sideshow Bob''': Before you die, perhaps you'd like to know how I engineered my ultimate revenge. :'''Homer''': I'd like to know if Wes Doobner is aware of what you're doing in his restaurant! :'''Sideshow Bob''': I'm Wes Doobner! :'''Homer''': Mr. Doobner, I have a complaint: I work hard and when I go out with my family, I expect a certain level of basic-- :'''Sideshow Bob''': Shut up! <hr width=50%/> :''[At Sideshow Bob's trial.]'' :'''Sideshow Bob''': Your Honor, I choose to represent myself. And let me say... I did try to kill the Simpsons. I truly did. :''[The entire courtroom gasps in shock.]'' :'''Prosecutor''': ''[to Homer and Marge]'' Okay, if he doesn't say "but" right now, we are home free. :'''Sideshow Bob''': But-- :'''Prosecutor''': Damn! <hr width=50%/> :'''Cecil''': I once felt that way, too. :'''Bart''': Hey, aren't you Bob's brother? :'''Cecil''': Biologically, yes, but we never got along. He was always zigging when I zagged. That Summer, when he wanted to tour the castles of Italy, I wanted to tour the castles of France. So we went to Spain, a compromise that satisfied no one. :'''Bart''': That's stupid. You talk like you're smart, but you're stupid. :'''Cecil''': Anyway, I choose to remember Bob as the big brother who taught me to play Botticelli. :'''Bart''': Sounds boring. :'''Cecil''': Oh you'd love it. It's a guessing game where one player adopts the guise of a noteworthy....''[looks at Bart's bored face.]'' You're right, it is boring. But the only way to find true happiness is to make your peace with Bob. :'''Bart''': Well, I guess I could say goodbye. :'''Cecil''': You better make it snappy, they're cremating him in 30 minutes. I'll be scattering his ashes over the castles of France! ''[cackles.]'' Take that, ashes. <hr width=50%/> :'''Sideshow Bob''': When they find your ashes, they'll think it's me. And I'll be far away with my loving family. It's the perfect crime. :'''Cecil''': And it was my portrayal as the grieving brother that sealed the deal! :'''Sideshow Bob''': ''[coldly]'' Yes, and Hamlet is all about Laertes! :'''Cecil''': ''[annoyed]'' Will you please ''stop'' comparing me to Laertes!? :'''Sideshow Bob''': If the doublet fits... ===''[[w:Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind|Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind]]''=== :''[Flashback sequence of Chief Wiggum coming into the house.]'' :'''[[w:Clancy Wiggum|Chief Wiggum]]''': ''[to Homer]'' What's goin' on here, Simpson? Am I gonna need the zip strips? :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': Everything's fine, cupcakes and sprinkles. :'''Chief Wiggum''': Oh, really? Then how did you get that? ''[Points to Marge's black-eye. Speaks to Homer:]'' What gives, Simpson? Givin' your wife an Irish kiss? :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': ''[off-screen]'' No, I swear! :'''Marge''': It was my fault, I..... I walked into a door. :'''Chief Wiggum''': Walked into a door? That is the lamest excuse I've ever... ''[Accidentally smacks into the door on his way out.]'' All right, door. You're comin' downtown. ''[Cuffs himself to the door.]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': Anyone where your family is? Show me on Mapquest. ''[Santa's Little Helper snarls angrily with his own teeth.]'' Oh, fine! Google Maps. <hr width=50%/> :''[Homer is traveling through his mind with memory Bart and memory Lisa.]'' :'''Homer''': I don't know if I should be showing this to you kids. :'''Memory [[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': Relax, we're not really your kids. We're representations of them created in your mind. :'''Homer''': Really? If I created all this, then that means I can have pizza whenever I want. :''[Homer uses his mind to make a phone appear.]'' :'''Homer''': ''[Picks up the phone.]'' Hello, I'd like an extra large pepperoni and mushrooms. ''[annoyed]'' 35 Minutes? ''[Homer angrily hangs up the phone.]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': Dad, I can't remember what I did last night. Do have any idea? :'''[[w:Abraham Simpson|Grampa]]''': You come to me for help rememberin'? That's like asking your horse to do your taxes -which I did in 1998. :''[Shows photo of horse using an adding machine.]'' <hr width=50%/> :''[Just as Homer accidentally destroys his own kiss memory like we did in "The Way We Weren't"]'' :'''Lisa''': Dad, you just destroyed your first kiss! :'''Homer''': Now who was it with? :'''Bart''': Uh...Apu. :'''Homer''': Right! ===''[[w:E. Pluribus Wiggum|E. Pluribus Wiggum]]''=== :''[On the phone]'' :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': I'm just really worried about your weight. Bart says that we got a call from NASA, and your gravity is pulling satellites out of their orbit. :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Marge, that was a joke. :'''Marge''': But it comes from a true place... <hr width=50%/> :''[After Homer suggests the town build a new fast-food district.]'' :'''[[w:Julius Hibbert|Dr. Hibbert]]''': To raise the money, we'll need a bond issue. :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': But won't that shift a burden to your children? :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': No, you idiot. We just pay with ''another'' bond issue. ''[points to Maggie]'' Let ''her'' figure out someone to dump it on. :''[Maggie looks over to the side and sees that there's nobody sitting next to her. She crosses her arms in annoyance.]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Lisa''': Ralph can't be President! He's the dumbest person in the slowest reading group! :'''Homer''': Lisa, being President is easy! You just point the [[w:United States Army|Army]] and shoot! :'''Lisa''': And Ralph is only eight years old! It says in the [[w:Article Two of the United States Constitution|Constitution]] you have to be 35! :'''Bart''': The Constitution? I'm pretty sure the [[w:USA PATRIOT Act|PATRIOT Act]] killed it to ensure our freedoms. :'''Homer''': ''[mockingly]'' Ooh, the PATRIOT Act is so terrible! The government might find out what library books I take out! What's next, finding out what operas I go to? ''[High-fives Bart.]'' <hr width=50%/> :''[An alarming amount of presidential hopefuls descend on the Simpson house when they see that the Simpsons haven't decided whom to vote for yet.]'' :'''Homer''': If you haven't sprung from or aren't married to my loins, get the hell out of this house! :''[All the candidates leave, except for someone hiding behind a plant.]'' :'''Homer''': You too, [[Fred Thompson]]! :'''[[Fred Thompson]]''': But I was in [[Die Hard (film)|Die Hard]]. :'''Homer''': ''[scoffs]'' Die Hard ''Two''! ===''[[w:That 90's Show|That 90's Show]]''=== :''[The family is freezing by the fireplace.]'' :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': We wouldn't be in this trouble if you'd just paid the heating bill! :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': I thought [[Global warming|global warming]] would take care of it! [[Al Gore]] can't do anything right! <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': Mom, I didn't know you went to college. :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': Yeah. You've always said that after high school, Dad "blessed" you with the unplanned miracle of me. :'''Marge''': Hey, parents are allowed to keep some secrets. :'''Homer''': Like which kid's their favorite. ''[whispering]'' It's Lisa. <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': Things happened between your mother and me that we're not proud of. It was the middle of a wild decade known as the [[w:1990s|1990s]]. :'''Bart''': The 90s? Never heard of it. <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': You know, these [[IKEA|Ikea]] foam futons do velcro together... :'''Marge''': I'm sorry, I don't want to do that yet. I want to wait until I'm married, or at least really drunk. :'''Homer''': I understand. We should follow the lead of today's celebrity rolemodels. ''[points out of the window at a sign saying "[[Sonic the Hedgehog]] says: Wait until marriage"]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': You applied to college? Why didn't you tell me? :'''Marge''': I did tell you. :'''Homer''': I thought you were telling me you wanted to apply yourself to making a collage! And as I recall, I was against it. <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Comic Book Guy|Comic Book Guy]]''': And that is why ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' can never be [[w:The Lord of the Rings film trilogy|filmed]]! <hr width=50%/> :'''Marge''': Did you know that every [[President of the United States|U.S. President]] has been a straight white man? :'''Homer''': Even [[Walt Disney]]? <hr width=50%/> :''[The show comes back from a [[w:Television advertisement|commercial break]]]'' :'''Bart''': Mom, why did you stop talking for two and a half minutes? :'''Lisa''': It seemed like twenty. <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': ''[sharing his and Marge's items into separate boxes]'' Okay, I'll keep the [[w:LP record|LPs]], and you take the [[w:Compact Disc|CDs]], I'll take the [[w:typewriter|typewriter]], you take the [[w:computer|computer]], I'll take the [[w:Enron|Enron]] stock, you take the [[w:Microsoft|Microsoft]] stock, and... <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': ''[sighs]'' Seeing Marge always reminds me of Marge. <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': ''[narrating]'' I had finally realized every rock star's dream: Hating being famous. <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': He who is tired of [["Weird Al" Yankovic|Weird Al]], is tired of life. <hr width=50%/> :''[Homer and Marge are wondering about what is going to happen after the 90s]'' :'''Homer''': At least we know there'll never be a President worse than [[Bill Clinton]]. Imagine, [[w:Impeachment of Bill Clinton|lying in a deposition in a civil lawsuit]]. That's the worst sin a President can commit! :'''Marge''': There will never be [[George W. Bush|a worse President]]. Never. :'''Homer''': Never. ===''[[w:Love, Springfieldian Style|Love, Springfieldian Style]]''=== :'''[[w:Groundskeeper Willie|Dogcatcher Willie]]''': You strays are going straight to the pound where you'll be put to sleep... by my boring stories. And then you'll be killed! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Goofy''': ''[after stepping out of the gas chamber at the dog pound]'' Gawrsh, this place is no picnic, but it sure beats working for [[Disney]]! A-hyuck! A-hyuck! A-hyuck! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': Happy Valentine's Day, and shut your gob! ===''[[w:The Debarted|The Debarted]]''=== :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': Who's the new meat in my seat? :'''[[w:Edna Krabappel|Mrs. Krabappel]]''': Bart, this is Donny. He's here at our school because he was kicked out of P.S. 132. :'''Donny''': P.S., that school sucked. :''[The children laugh.]'' :'''Mrs. Krabappel''': Don't worry, Bart. Willie's bringing you something to sit on. :''[Groundskeeper Willie brings in an old wooden desk with a toilet for a seat. Bart sits.]'' :'''Donny''': Hey, Krabappel! Your name sounds like "crabapple". Did you go sour waiting for someone to pick you? :'''Mrs. Krabappel''': ''[sighs]'' Pretty much. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Seymour Skinner|Principal Skinner]]''': When I catch the culprit, and I will, I'm gonna throw this away. ''[Holds up a book titled ''Public School Punishment Guidelines'']'' And use this instead! ''[Holds up a book titled ''Catholic School Punishment Guidelines'' with a picture of a kid getting hung on a cross. The children gasp.]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lisa''': I never dreamed an American car designed in Germany, assembled in Mexico from parts made in Canada, could be so amazing. <hr width="50%"/> :''[A rat skitters across a railing, in an homage to the final shot of [[The Departed]]. Ralph appears from within a garbage can]'' :'''[[w:Ralph Wiggum|Ralph]]''': The rat symbolizes obviousness! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Milhouse''': ''[voice only, in an abandoned locker as Cletus enters]'' Hey, I'm in here! :'''Cletus''': ''[voice only, inside the old locker]'' Be Quiet Robo-Potty! ===''[[w:Dial 'N' for Nerder|Dial 'N' for Nerder]]''=== :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Oh boy, dinner time! The perfect break between work and drunk. <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Kent Brockman|Kent Brockman]]''': So Chief, what's your final word on the Prince boy? :'''[[w:Clancy Wiggum|Chief Wiggum]]''': Hmm? Oh, dead. Definitely dead. :'''[[w:List of recurring characters in the Simpsons#Eddie and Lou|Lou]]''': Uh, Chief, aren't we supposed to, uh, notify the family first? :'''Chief Wiggum''': What do you think I'm doing right now? ''[Smiles at the camera.]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': Yeah, nothing's up, nothing's down, except for Martin, who died. :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': Idiot! ''[slaps Bart]'' :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': D'oh! <hr width=50%/> :''[Marge is suspicious of Homer, who is wearing a fedora hat and a trench coat.]'' :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': Homer, where are you going? :'''Homer''': Work. :'''Marge''': It's 4 o'clock on a Saturday. :'''Homer''': I, uh, have to... count the atoms at the nuclear plant. Conservation of mass! It's the law! <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': Bart, Martin could be seriously hurt or worse! We have to do something! :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': You're right. Let's watch TV. ===''[[w:Smoke on the Daughter|Smoke on the Daughter]]''=== :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': I'm not a nerd. I'm a jock who's too cool for sports. <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Apu Nahasapeemapetilon|Apu]]''': You have made a very powerless enemy. <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Stop saying things, Bart. That's the TV's job. <hr width=50%/> :'''Chazz Busby''': I haven't seen crap like this since my Broadway show Crap Like This. Ran for five years. <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': Son, while your mother and little mother are out, I'm gonna let you in on a deep, dark family secret. :'''Bart''': You have a drinking problem? :'''Homer''': I said ''secret''. <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': I can't believe you were smoking! Do you know that [[w:Surgeon General of the United States|sturgeon general]] says you're not supposed to? :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': A [[w:Sturgeon|sturgeon]] is a fish. :'''Homer''': And a very wise fish he is. ===''[[w:Papa Don't Leech|Papa Don't Leech]]''=== :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Bart, get me my suicide axe. :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': No suicide axe! :'''Homer''': ''[loud whisper to Bart]'' Later. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Marge''': I'm really worried about Lurleen. :'''Homer''': Yeah, me too. Since her father re-abandoned her, she cut the word "pop" out of all our foods. :''[Shows boxes that read [[w:Pop-Tart|____ Tarts,]] [[w:Jiffy Pop|Jiffy ___ ___ corn,]] [[w:Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits|___eye's Chicken,]] [[w:Poppycock (snack)|___pycock.]]]'' :''[Bart pours a box of [[w:Rice Krispies|Rice Krispies,]] The cereal falls out of a cutout where [[w:Snap, Crackle and Pop|Pop]] should be.]'' :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': You'd think living in a house of crazy people would be fun. It's actually really depressing. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Radio DJ''': Here's a song that's rising faster than a rocket with a rocket up its butt! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Marge''': ''[to Lurleen]'' If you ever come near Homer again, I'll strangle you with your own hair extensions. That's right, I know. ===''[[w:Apocalypse Cow|Apocalypse Cow]]''=== :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': So [[Dean Martin]] would show up at the last minute and do everything in just one take? :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': That's right. :'''Bart''': But [[w:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]] said he was "passionate about rehearsal". :'''Homer''': Don't you worry about Wikipedia. We'll change it when we get home. We'll change a lot of things. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bart''': Sorry Lis, I can't be a vegetarian, I love the taste of death! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bart''': You're in a better place now, Lou. And I'll always be proud that, for once in my life, I ''had a cow man''. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Cletus''': We always figured someday Mary would marry. That's why we called her "Mary." We name all our kids after what we thinks gonna happen to 'em. Ain't that right, Stabbed In Jail? :'''Stabbed In Jail''': ''[whittling a stick]'' We'll see who stabs who. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': Let this be a lesson to you, never form emotional attachments... also don't be a cow. ===''[[w:Any Given Sundance|Any Given Sundance]]''=== :''[Marge is trying to find a good movie at Sundance.]'' :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': Ooh! ''Regularsville''! This might be the one for me! :''[Marge goes inside the theater and sees, on screen, a man in a [[w:Brassiere|bra]] putting on makeup.]'' :'''Marge''': ''[Shudders and immediately closes the door.]'' Okay. Ooh! ''Candyland''! A great [[w:Candyland|family game]] is now a great family movie! :''[Marge goes inside and sees on the screen, two hippies about to drug themselves with [[w:Heroin|heroin]]]'' :'''Marge''': ''[Shudders and closes the door again.]'' I get it! Every title means the opposite of what it means! Then I guess I'll love...''Chernobyl Graveyard''! :''[Marge goes in and immediately comes out.]'' :'''Marge''': I didn't. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Seymour Skinner|Principal Skinner]]''': Well, if we can't get into Sundance, would you like to check out its alternative cousin, Slamdance? :'''Superintendent Chalmers''': I'd rather die. <hr width="50%"/> :''[In Lisa's movie premiere, Bart is laughing while foolishly throwing dishes on the floor]'' :'''Homer''': ''[turns red in anger]'' You stupid kid! What if I walked in here barefoot? :'''Bart''': You did, Dad. :''[Homer realizes he stepped on some broken dishes in his bare feet. He screams in pain and strangles Bart in anger. Marge cleans up the broken dishes with a small broom.]'' :'''Lisa''': ''[off-screen]'' Happy birthday, Mom. :'''Marge''': ''[groans sadly]'' Thank you, dear. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': I never wanted to be famous for being mean. I wanted to be famous for catching Santa Claus. ===''[[w:Mona Leaves-a|Mona Leaves-a]]''=== :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': ''[Talking to his mother]'' You keep disappearing and reappearing and it's not funny. You're just like that show, ''[[Scrubs_(TV series)|Scrubs]]. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Mona''': For Marge, I leave this handbag, made of nature's finest material, hemp. :'''Marge''': ''[Sniffs the bag]'' Smells like concerts! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': I don't even want your pie! :'''Mona''': But you already ate the whole thing. :'''Homer''': Well, I'm not going to digest it! ===''[[w:All About Lisa|All About Lisa]]''=== :'''Award Show Presentator''': We now come to our final award: Entertainer of the Year. An award so prestigious that it recently won the 'Award of the Year' Award at the 2007 Awardie Awards. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Sideshow Mel''': ''[Narrating]'' Lisa didn't know it then, but she had just dipped her toe into the business of show! And it ''is'' a business, as you shall find out in about three seconds. Two... One... :''[The show cuts to commercial.]'' <hr width="50%"/> :''[At an auction for a "Kissing Lincolns Penny"]'' :'''Homer''': Five dollars! :'''Mr. Burns''': Five hundred. :'''Homer''': Five dollars, ''cash''. :'''Host''': Sir, the promise of cash is not an endorsement. The current bid is $500. Going once, going twice-- :'''Bart''': Dad! :'''Homer''': Five hundred-one! :'''Mr. Burns''': Ten million. :'''Homer''': Objection, Your Honor! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Krusty''': Have no fear, the star is here! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Sideshow Mel''': Applause is an addiction, like heroin or checking your e-mail. <noinclude> {{DEFAULTSORT:Simpsons, Season 19}} [[Category:The Simpsons seasons]] </noinclude> 5s435cmkqjuf96ds7y7b2dvysweem58 0 86487 3961171 3659022 2026-07-05T16:32:51Z BD2412 3982 /* Quotes about */ Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]], replaced: Henry Morgenthau, Sr. → Henry Morgenthau Sr. using [[Project:AWB|AWB]] 3961171 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Talat Pasha.jpg|thumb|These different blocs in the Turkish Empire...always conspired against Turkey; because of the hostility of these native peoples, Turkey has lost province after province - Greece, Serbia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Egypt, and Tripoli. In this way, the Turkish Empire has dwindled almost to nothing.]] '''[[w:Mehmed Talat|Mehmed Talat]]''' ([[September 1]], [[1874]] – [[March 15]], [[1921]]), also known as "Talat Pasha", was one of the first important members of the [[w:Committee_of_Union_and_Progress|Committee of Union and Progress]]. He played an increasingly important part in [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman politics]] becoming deputy for Edirne, minister and finally in 1917 Grand Vizier. During [[World War I]], Mehmed Talat was the interior minister who ordered the arrest of [[Armenians|Armenian]] leaders with a order on April 24, 1915 and sent a request for the Tehcir Law on May 29, 1915, which initiated the large scale [[Armenian genocide|Armenian Genocide]]. After the courts gave him a sentence of death in absentia, he left the empire with Enver and Djemal Pashas in 1918. He was assassinated in [[Berlin]] in 1921 as a response for evading the [[war crimes]] committed under his order. == Quotes == * What on [[earth]] do you want? The question is settled. There are no more [[Armenians]]. ** After the German Ambassador persistently brought up the Armenian question in 1918. Quoted in ''The History of the Armenian Genocide'' (2003) by Vahakn N. Dadrian, p. 211 * The [[Turks|Turkish]] elements here referred to were shortsighted, fanatical, and yet sincere in their belief. The public encouraged them, and they had the general approval behind them. They were numerous and strong. ** Quoted in "In God's Name: Genocide and Religion in the Twentieth Century" - Page 53 - by Omer Bartov, Phyllis Mack - Religion – 2001 [[File:Mehmet Talat Pasha.jpg|thumb|We need to tranquilize our neighbors. State officials ought to remain in ignorance.]] * The Porte, acting under the same obligation, and wishing to secure the safety of its [[Military|army]] and its [[Citizenship|citizens]], took energetic measures to check these uprisings. The [[Armenian genocide|deportation of the Armenians]] was one of these preventive measures. I admit also that the deportation was not carried out lawfully everywhere. In some places unlawful acts were committed. The already existing hatred among the Armenians and [[Muslim|Mohammedans]], intensified by the barbarous activities of the former, had created many tragic consequences. Some of the officials abused their authority, and in many places people took preventive measures into their own hands and innocent people were molested. I confess it. I confess, also, that the duty of the Government was to prevent these abuses and atrocities, or at least to hunt down and punish their perpetrators severely. In many places, where the property and goods of the deported people were looted, and the Armenians molested, we did arrest those who were responsible and punished them according to the law. I confess, however, that we ought to have acted more sternly, opened up a general investigation for the purpose of finding out all the promoters and looters and punished them severely. ** Quoted in "In God's Name: Genocide and Religion in the Twentieth Century" - Page 53 - by Omer Bartov, Phyllis Mack - Religion – 2001 * We need to tranquilize our neighbors. State officials ought to remain in [[ignorance]]. Let the Armenians wait, opportunities will certainly come our way too. [[Turkey]] belongs only to the [[Turks]]. ** Quoted in "Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination" - Page 405 - by Ben Kiernan - Social Science - 2007 * I have accomplished more toward solving the Armenian problem in three months than [[w:Abdul_Hamid_II|Abdul Hamid]] accomplished in thirty years! ** Quoted in "The Burning Tigris: the Armenian Genocide and America's response" - Page 157 - by Peter Balakian - History - 2003 * Necessary preparations have been discussed and taken for the complete and fundamental elimination of this concern, which occupies an important place in the exalted state's list of vital issues. ** Letter to head of parliament, May 26, 1915. Quoted in "A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility" - by Taner Akçam, Paul Bessemer - History - 2006 - Page 8 * These different blocs in the [[Ottoman Empire|Turkish Empire]]...always conspired against [[Turkey]]; because of the hostility of these native peoples, Turkey has lost province after province - [[Ottoman Greece|Greece]], [[Serbia]], [[Romania|Rumania]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnia]], [[Bosnia and Herzegovina|Herzegovina]], [[Egypt]], and [[Libya|Tripoli]]. In this way, the Turkish Empire has dwindled almost to nothing. ** Quoted in "A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility" - by Taner Akçam, Paul Bessemer - History - 2006 - Page 92 * It is confirmed that the Armenians should be transferred to the indicated region as communicated in the February 13th telegram. As the situation has been evaluated by the state, the probability of rebellion and protest indicates the need to take action. The increasing possibility of Armenian uprisings requires that every effective means of suppression needs to be applied. ** March 2. Quoted in "A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility" - by Taner Akçam, Paul Bessemer - History - 2006 - Page 159 == Quotes about == * To this day, the [[Turkey|Turkish]] government [[Genocide denial|refuses to acknowledge]] the [[Armenian genocide]]. This is strange, since the historical evidence of what happened is plentiful. Western observers like the US ambassador in [[Constantinople]], [[Henry Morgenthau Sr.|Henry Morgenthau]], wrote detailed reports about what was being done - including the telling statement of Mehmed Talaat Pasha, the Interior Minister, that all the [[Armenians]] had to perish because 'those who were innocent today might be guilty tomorrow'. Western [[missionaries]] too wrote harrowing accounts of what they witnessed. Their testimony formed an important part of the wartime report on 'The Treatment of the Armenians' compiled by [[James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce|Viscount Bryce]], who had also investigated the [[German Empire|German]] atrocities in [[Belgium]] in [[1914]]. ** [[Niall Ferguson]], ''The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West'' (2006), p. 177 * Mehmed Talat Pasha was one of the ‘Young Turks’, the [[Nationalism|nationalistic]] reformers who seized power in the Ottoman empire in 1908, but as one of the ‘Three Pashas’ who dominated the Turkish government he was the key architect of the Armenian massacres perpetrated between 1915 and 1916, which cost the lives of over 1 million people. ** [[wikipedia:Simon_Sebag_Montefiore|Simon Sebag Montefiore]], ''Monsters: History's Most Evil Men and Women'' (2009), p. 238 == External links == {{wikipedia}} {{wikisource author}} * [http://www.house.gov/list/press/ny09_weiner/052104armenian.html Anthony D. 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Brennan Jr. (2) using [[Project:AWB|AWB]] 3961151 wikitext text/x-wiki The '''[[w:First Amendment to the United States Constitution|First Amendment]]''' to the [[United States Constitution]] prevents [[w:Federal government of the United States|the government]] from making laws respecting an [[w:Establishment Clause|establishment of religion]]; prohibiting the [[w:Free Exercise Clause|free exercise of religion]]; or imposing restrictions on the [[w:Freedom of speech in the United States|freedom of speech]], the [[w:Freedom of the press in the United States|freedom of the press]], the [[w:freedom of assembly|freedom of assembly]], or the [[w:Right to petition in the United States|right to petition]] the government for redress of grievances. It was adopted on December 15, 1791, as one of the ten amendments that constitute the [[United States Bill of Rights|Bill of Rights]]. ==Text of the First Amendment== The First Amendment, as passed by the House and Senate and later ratified by the States, reads: :''Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances''. ==Earlier drafts of the Amendment== *The legislature of the United States shall pass no law on the subject of religion nor touching or abridging the liberty of the press. **[[Charles Cotesworth Pinckney]], Resolution offered in the [[w:Philadelphia Convention|Philadelphia Convention]], May 29, 1787. The United States Constitution was enacted without any protection for religion or the press, but with the understanding that a Bill of Rights would shortly be enacted to address these concerns. *The civil rights of none shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience be in any manner, or on any pretext, infringed. … No State shall violate the equal rights of conscience, or the freedom of the press, or the trial by jury in criminal cases. **[[James Madison]], June 8, 1789. [http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/billofrights.html][http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel06.html][http://www.constitution.org/bor/amd_jmad.htm] *No religion shall be established by law, nor shall the equal rights of conscience be infringed. **House Select Committee, July 28, 1789. *Congress shall make no laws touching religion, or infringing the rights of conscience. **[[w:Samuel Livermore|Samuel Livermore]], August 15, 1789. *Congress shall make no law establishing religion, or to prevent the free exercise thereof, or to infringe the rights of conscience. **House version moved by [[Fisher Ames]], August 20, 1789. *Congress shall make no law establishing religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, nor shall the rights of conscience be infringed. ** House committee, August 24th, 1789 [https://www.archives.gov/files/legislative/resources/bill-of-rights/CCBR_IIA.pdf] *Congress shall make no law establishing religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. **First Senate version, September 3, 1789. *Congress shall make no law establishing articles of faith or a mode of worship, or prohibiting the free exercise of religion. **Final Senate version, September 9, 1789. *Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. **Conference Committee, September 24, 1789. == Quotes about the First Amendment == [[File:Hugo Black.jpg|thumb|The authors of the First Amendment knew that novel and unconventional ideas might disturb the complacent, but they chose to encourage a freedom which they believed essential if vigorous enlightenment was ever to triumph over slothful ignorance. ~ [[Hugo Black]] ]] [[File:Hugo Black cph.3b00098.jpg|thumb|It seems self-evident that all speech criticizing government rulers and challenging current beliefs may be dangerous to the ''status quo''. With full knowledge of this danger, the Framers rested our First Amendment on the premise that the slightest suppression of thought, speech, press, or public assembly is still more dangerous. Tyrannical totalitarian governments cannot safely allow their people to speak with complete freedom. I believe with the Framers that our free Government can. ~ [[Hugo Black]] ]] [[File:First Amendment inscription.JPG|thumb|right|The First Amendment provides the only kind of security system that can preserve a free government – one that leaves the way wide open for people to favor, discuss, advocate, or incite causes and doctrines however obnoxious and antagonistic such views may be to the rest of us. ~ [[Hugo Black]] ]] [[File:Panorama of United States Supreme Court Building at Dusk.jpg|thumb|right|Discussion of public issues and debate on the qualifications of candidates are integral to the operation of the system of government established by our Constitution. The First Amendment affords the broadest protection to such political expression in order "to assure [the] unfettered interchange of ideas for the bringing about of political and social changes desired by the people." ''[[w:Roth v. United States|Roth v. United States]]'', 354 U. S. 476, 354 U. S. 484 (1957). [...] The First Amendment protects political association as well as political expression. ~ [[w:Buckley v. Valeo|Buckley v. Valeo]] ]] [[File:Warren Burger Official.jpg|thumb|right|The First Amendment does not "belong" to any definable category of persons or entities: it belongs to all who exercise its freedoms. ~ [[Warren E. Burger]] ]] [[File:Apotheosis of G. Washington.jpg|thumb|right|Together with the other First Amendment guarantees–of free speech, a free press, and the rights to assemble and petition–the Religion Clauses were designed to safeguard the freedom of conscience and belief that those immigrants had sought. They embody an idea that was once considered radical: Free people are entitled to free and diverse thoughts, which government ought neither to constrain nor to direct. ~ [[Sandra Day O'Connor]] ]] [[File:Frankfurter-Felix-LOC.jpg|thumb|right|It must never be forgotten, however, that the Bill of Rights was the child of the Enlightenment. Back of the guarantee of free speech lay faith in the power of an appeal to reason by all the peaceful means for gaining access to the mind. It was in order to avert force and explosions due to restrictions upon rational modes of communication that the guarantee of free speech was given a generous scope. But utterance in a context of violence can lose its significance as an appeal to reason and become part of an instrument of force. ~ [[Felix Frankfurter]] ]] [[File:Frankfurter faces Senate committee. Washington, D.C., Jan. 12. Felix Frankfurter, right, facing the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee today to answer questions concerning his fitness for the LCCN2016874782.jpg |thumb|right|In plain English, freedom carries with it responsibility even for the press; freedom of the press is not a freedom from responsibility for its exercise. Most State constitutions expressly provide for liability for abuse of the press' freedom. That there was such legal liability was so taken for granted by the framers of the First Amendment that it was not spelled out. Responsibility for its abuse was imbedded in the law. The First Amendment safeguarded the right. ~ [[Felix Frankfurter]] ]] [[File:HOLMES, OLIVER W. JUSTICE (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|The principle of the right to free speech is always the same. It is only the present danger of immediate evil or an intent to bring it about that warrants Congress in setting a limit to the expression of opinion where private rights are not concerned. Congress certainly cannot forbid all effort to change the mind of the country. ~ [[Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.]] ]] [[File:Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (19357553815).jpg|thumb|right|The best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out. That, at any rate, is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment, as all life is an experiment. Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge. While that experiment is part of our system, I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country. ~ [[Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.]] ]] [[File:Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1902.jpg|thumb|right|Only the emergency that makes it immediately dangerous to leave the correction of evil counsels to time warrants making any exception to the sweeping command, "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech." Of course, I am speaking only of expressions of opinion and exhortations. ~ [[Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.]] ]] [[File:Newseum 5 Freedoms 1st Amendment.jpg|thumb|right|The greater the importance of safeguarding the community from incitements to the overthrow of our institutions by force and violence, the more imperative is the need to preserve inviolate the constitutional rights of free speech, free press and free assembly in order to maintain the opportunity for free political discussion, to the end that government may be responsive to the will of the people and that changes, if desired, may be obtained by peaceful means. Therein lies the security of the Republic, the very foundation of constitutional government. ~ [[Charles Evans Hughes]] ]] [[File:Creamware plate with First Amendment to the US Constitution, c. 1838 (NMAH 227739.1838.I01).jpg|thumb|right|At the heart of the First Amendment lies the principle that each person should decide for himself or herself the ideas and beliefs deserving of expression, consideration, and adherence. ~ [[Anthony Kennedy]] ]] [[File:First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.jpg|thumb|right|First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must be protected from the government because speech is the beginning of thought. ~ [[Anthony Kennedy]] ]] [[File:Birch's Views Plate 23.jpg|thumb|right|A fundamental principle of the First Amendment is that all persons have access to places where they can speak and listen, and then, after reflection, speak and listen once more. A basic rule, for example, is that a street or a park is a quintessential forum for the exercise of First Amendment rights. Even in the modern era, these places are still essential venues for public gatherings to celebrate some views, to protest others, or simply to learn and inquire. ~ [[Anthony Kennedy]] ]] [[File:Bill of Rights Plaque - Japanese American Historical Plaza - Portland, Oregon.jpg|thumb|right|The First Amendment prohibits the establishment of religion and promises the free exercise of religion. From these safeguards, and from the guarantee of freedom of speech, it follows there is freedom of belief and expression. It is an urgent necessity that officials adhere to these constitutional guarantees and mandates in all their actions, even in the sphere of foreign affairs. An anxious world must know that our Government remains committed always to the liberties the Constitution seeks to preserve and protect, so that freedom extends outward, and lasts. ~ [[Anthony Kennedy]] ]] [[File:Thurgoodmarshall1967.jpg|thumb|right|But, above all else, the First Amendment means that government has no power to restrict expression because of its message, its ideas, its subject matter, or its content. [...] To permit the continued building of our politics and culture, and to assure self-fulfillment for each individual, our people are guaranteed the right to express any thought, free from government censorship. The essence of this forbidden censorship is content control. Any restriction on expressive activity because of its content would completely undercut the "profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open." ~ [[w:Thurgood Marshall|Thurgood Marshall]] ]] [[File:Flag-lens-flare.jpg|thumb|right|The First Amendment exists to insure that freedom of speech and expression applies not just to that with which we agree or disagree, but also that which we find outrageous. I would not amend that great shield of democracy to hammer a few miscreants. The flag will be flying proudly long after they have slunk away. ~ [[Colin Powell]] ]] [[File:A solar halo illuminates the sky over an American flag flying outside Building 1 at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., in the early afternoon Nov. 12, 2013 131112-F-OC707-021.jpg|thumb|right|At the heart of the First Amendment is the recognition of the fundamental importance of the free flow of ideas and opinions on matters of public interest and concern. The freedom to speak one's mind is not only an aspect of individual liberty – and thus a good unto itself – but also is essential to the common quest for truth and the vitality of society as a whole. ~ [[William Rehnquist]] ]] [[File:United States Capitol - west front.jpg|thumb|right|If the government were free to restrict individuals’ ability to join together and speak, it could essentially silence views that the First Amendment is intended to protect. ~ [[John Roberts]] ]] [[File:Chester Harding - Joseph Story - NPG.67.28 - National Portrait Gallery.jpg|thumb|right|The real object of the First Amendment was, not to countenance, much less to advance Mahometanism, or Judaism, or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity; but to exclude all rivalry among Christian sects, and to prevent any national ecclesiastical establishment, which should give to an hierarchy the exclusive patronage of the national government. It thus cut off the means of religious persecution, (the vice and pest of former ages,) and of the subversion of the rights of conscience in matters of religion, which had been trampled upon almost from the days of the Apostles to the present age. ~ [[Joseph Story]] ]] * I want to protect Missourians and the freedoms they enjoy, which is why as Attorney General, I will always defend the Constitution. This case is about the Biden Administration’s blatant disregard for the First Amendment and its collusion with Big Tech social media companies to suppress speech it disagrees with. I will always fight back against unelected bureaucrats who seek indoctrinate the people of this state by violating our constitutional right to free and open debate.  ** [[Andrew Bailey]] [https://ago.mo.gov/home/news/2023/01/09/missouri-attorney-general-releases-more-documents-exposing-white-house%27s-social-media-censorship-scheme Missouri Attorney General Releases More Documents Exposing White House's Social Media Censorship Scheme] (Jan 9, 2023) *The First Amendment was written by men to whom [[John Wilkes|Wilkes]] and [[Junius]] were household words, who intended to wipe out the common law of sedition, and make further prosecutions for criticism of the government, without any incitement to law-breaking, forever impossible in the United States of America. **[[Zechariah Chafee]], ''Freedom of Speech'' (1920), pp. 23-24 * '''[[Founding Fathers of the United States|Those who won our independence]]''' believed that '''the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties, and that in its government the deliberative forces should prevail over the arbitrary.''' They '''valued liberty both as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.''' They believed that '''freedom to think as you will and to speak as you think are means indispensable to the discovery and spread of political truth'''; that '''without free speech and assembly discussion would be futile'''; that '''with them, discussion affords ordinarily adequate protection against the dissemination of noxious doctrine'''; that '''the greatest menace to freedom is an inert people'''; that '''public discussion is a political duty'''; and that this should be a fundamental principle of the American government. They recognized the risks to which all human institutions are subject. But they knew that '''order cannot be secured merely through fear of punishment for its infraction'''; that '''it is hazardous to discourage thought, hope and imagination'''; that '''fear breeds repression'''; that '''repression breeds hate'''; that '''hate menaces stable government'''; that '''the path of safety lies in the opportunity to discuss freely supposed grievances and proposed remedies''', and that '''the fitting remedy for evil counsels is good ones'''. '''Believing in the power of reason as applied through public discussion, they eschewed silence coerced by law -- the argument of force in its worst form. Recognizing the occasional tyrannies of governing majorities, they amended the Constitution so that free speech and assembly should be guaranteed.''' ** [[Louis Brandeis]], Concurring, ''[[w:Whitney v. California|Whitney v. California]]'', 274 U.S. 357, 375 (1927), at 375-376. In this case, in which the Court upheld a California anti-Communist statute, Brandeis, writing in a concurrence joined by Justice [[Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.]], concurred in the judgment but not in the reasoning. ''Whitney'' was later overruled (with the later Court adopting Brandeis's reasoning) in ''[[w:Brandenburg v. Ohio|Brandenburg v. Ohio]]'', 395 U.S. 444 (1969). * '''I am aware, of course, that the word intent as vaguely used in ordinary legal discussion means no more than knowledge at the time of the act that the consequences said to be intended will ensue. Even less than that will satisfy the general principle of civil and criminal liability. A man may have to pay damages, may be sent to prison, at common law might be hanged, if, at the time of his act, he knew facts from which common experience showed that the consequences would follow, whether he individually could foresee them or not. But, when words are used exactly, a deed is not done with intent to produce a consequence unless that consequence is the aim of the deed. It may be obvious, and obvious to the actor, that the consequence will follow, and he may be liable for it even if he regrets it, but he does not do the act with intent to produce it unless the aim to produce it is the proximate motive of the specific act, although there may be some deeper motive behind.</br></br>It seems to me that this statute must be taken to use its words in a strict and accurate sense. They would be absurd in any other. A patriot might think that we were wasting money on aeroplanes, or making more cannon of a certain kind than we needed, and might advocate curtailment with success, yet, even if it turned out that the curtailment hindered and was thought by other minds to have been obviously likely to hinder the United States in the prosecution of the war, no one would hold such conduct a crime. I admit that my illustration does not answer all that might be said, but it is enough to show what I think, and to let me pass to a more important aspect of the case. I refer to the First Amendment to the Constitution, that Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech.'''</br></br> I never have seen any reason to doubt that the questions of law that alone were before this Court in the cases of [[w: Schenck v. United States|Schenck]], [[w:Frohwerk v. United States|Frohwerk]] and [[w: Debs v. United States|Debs]], ''249 U. S. 249 U.S. 47, 249 U. S. 204, 249 U. S. 211'', were rightly decided. I do not doubt for a moment that, by the same reasoning that would justify punishing persuasion to murder, '''the United States constitutionally may punish speech that produces or is intended to produce a [[w:Clear and present danger|clear and imminent danger]] that it will bring about forthwith certain substantive evils that the United States constitutionally may seek to prevent. The power undoubtedly is greater in time of war than in time of peace, because war opens dangers that do not exist at other times.</br></br> But, as against dangers peculiar to war, as against others, the principle of the right to free speech is always the same. It is only the present danger of immediate evil or an intent to bring it about that warrants Congress in setting a limit to the expression of opinion where private rights are not concerned. Congress certainly cannot forbid all effort to change the mind of the country. Now nobody can suppose that the surreptitious publishing of a silly leaflet by an unknown man, without more, would present any immediate danger that its opinions would hinder the success of the government arms or have any appreciable tendency to do so. Publishing those opinions for the very purpose of obstructing, however, might indicate a greater danger, and, at any rate, would have the quality of an attempt.''' ** Justice [[Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.]], ''[[w:Abrams v. United States|Abrams v. United States]]'', 250 U.S. 616 (1919) (dissenting). * '''Persecution for the expression of opinions seems to me perfectly logical. If you have no doubt of your premises or your power, and want a certain result with all your heart, you naturally express your wishes in law, and sweep away all opposition. To allow opposition by speech seems to indicate that you think the speech impotent, as when a man says that he has squared the circle, or that you do not care wholeheartedly for the result, or that you doubt either your power or your premises. But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe even more than they believe the very foundations of their own conduct that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas -- that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out. That, at any rate, is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment, as all life is an experiment. Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge. While that experiment is part of our system, I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country. I wholly disagree with the argument of the Government that the First Amendment left the common law as to seditious libel in force.''' History seems to me against the notion. I had conceived that the United States, through many years, had shown its repentance for the [[w:Alien and Sedition Acts|Sedition Act of 1798]], by repaying fines that it imposed. '''Only the emergency that makes it immediately dangerous to leave the correction of evil counsels to time warrants making any exception to the sweeping command, "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech." Of course, I am speaking only of expressions of opinion and exhortations''', which were all that were uttered here, but I regret that I cannot put into more impressive words my belief that, in their conviction upon this indictment, the defendants were deprived of their rights under the Constitution of the United States. ** Justice [[Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.]], ''[[w:Abrams v. United States|Abrams v. United States]]'', 250 U.S. 616 (1919) (dissenting). * '''If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought - - not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.''' I think that we should adhere to that principle with regard to admission into, as well as to life within this country. ** Justice [[Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.]], ''[[w:United States v. Schwimmer|United States v. Schwimmer]]'', 279 U.S. 644 (1929). * Freedom of speech and of the press are fundamental rights which are safeguarded by the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Federal Constitution. [...] The right of peaceable assembly is a right cognate to those of free speech and free press, and is equally fundamental. As this Court said in [[w:United States v. Cruikshank|United States v. Cruikshank]], 92 U.S. 542, 552: </br> The very idea of a government, republican in form, implies a right on the part of its citizens to meet peaceably for consultation in respect to public affairs and to petition for a redress of grievances. </br> The First Amendment of the Federal Constitution expressly guarantees that right against abridgment by Congress. But explicit mention there does not argue exclusion elsewhere. For the right is one that cannot be denied without violating those fundamental principles of liberty and justice which lie at the base of all civil and political institutions — principles which the Fourteenth Amendment embodies in the general terms of its due process clause. [...] </br> These rights may be abused by using speech or press or assembly in order to incite to violence and crime. The people, through their legislatures may protect themselves against that abuse. But the legislative intervention, can find constitutional justification only by dealing with the abuse. The rights themselves must not be curtailed. '''The greater the importance of safeguarding the community from incitements to the overthrow of our institutions by force and violence, the more imperative is the need to preserve inviolate the constitutional rights of free speech, free press and free assembly in order to maintain the opportunity for free political discussion, to the end that government may be responsive to the will of the people and that changes, if desired, may be obtained by peaceful means. Therein lies the security of the Republic, the very foundation of constitutional government.''' ** [[Charles Evans Hughes]], ''[[w:De Jonge v. Oregon|De Jonge v. Oregon]]'', 299 U.S. 353, 365 (1937). * Do the people of this land—in the providence of God, favored, as they sometimes boast, above all others in the plenitude of their liberties—desire to preserve those so carefully protected by the [[First Amendment to the United States Constitution|First Amendment]]: liberty of religious worship, freedom of speech and of the press, and the right as freemen peaceably to assemble and petition their government for a redress of grievances? If so, let them withstand all beginnings of encroachment. '''For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while yet there was time.''' ** [[George Sutherland]], ''Associated Press v. National Labor Relations Board'', 301 U.S. 103, 141 (1937) (dissenting). * The First Amendment declares that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. The Fourteenth Amendment has rendered the legislatures of the states as incompetent as Congress to enact such laws. '''The constitutional inhibition of legislation on the subject of religion has a double aspect. On the one hand, it forestalls compulsion by law of the acceptance of any creed or the practice of any form of worship. Freedom of conscience and freedom to adhere to such religious organization or form of worship as the individual may choose cannot be restricted by law. On the other hand, it safeguards the free exercise of the chosen form of religion. Thus the Amendment embraces two concepts,-freedom to believe and freedom to act. The first is absolute but, in the nature of things, the second cannot be. Conduct remains subject to regulation for the protection of society.''' ** [[w:Owen Roberts|Owen Roberts]], ''[[w:Cantwell v. Connecticut|Cantwell v. Connecticut]]'', 310 U.S. 296 (1940). * '''The freedom of speech and of the press, which are secured by the First Amendment against abridgment by the United States, are among the fundamental personal rights and liberties''' which are secured to all persons by the Fourteenth Amendment against abridgment by a state. '''The safeguarding of these rights to the ends that men may speak as they think on matters vital to them and that falsehoods may be exposed through the processes of education and discussion is essential to free government. Those who won our independence had confidence in the power of free and fearless reasoning and [[communication]] of ideas to discover and spread political and economic truth.''' **{{cite book|author=[[w:Frank Murphy|Frank Murphy]]|title=[[w:Thornhill v. Alabama|Thornhill v. Alabama]]|publisher=[[Supreme Court of the United States]]|location=|year=1940|pages= 310 U.S. 88, 95|isbn=|oclc=|doi=}} * '''It must never be forgotten, however, that the Bill of Rights was the child of the Enlightenment. Back of the guarantee of free speech lay faith in the power of an appeal to reason by all the peaceful means for gaining access to the mind. It was in order to avert force and explosions due to restrictions upon rational modes of communication that the guarantee of free speech was given a generous scope. But utterance in a context of violence can lose its significance as an appeal to reason and become part of an instrument of force. Such utterance was not meant to be sheltered by the Constitution.''' **[[Felix Frankfurter]], ''Milk Wagon Drivers Union of Chicago, Local 753. v. Meadowmoor Dairies, Inc.'', 312 U.S. 287, 293 (1941). * '''A free press is vital to a democratic society because its freedom gives it power. Power in a democracy implies responsibility in its exercise. No institution in a democracy, either governmental or private, can have absolute power. Nor can the limits of power which enforce responsibility be finally determined by the limited power itself.''' ''See'' Carl L. Becker, ''Freedom and Responsibility in the American Way of Life'' (1945). '''In plain English, freedom carries with it responsibility even for the press; freedom of the press is not a freedom from responsibility for its exercise. Most State constitutions expressly provide for liability for abuse of the press' freedom. That there was such legal liability was so taken for granted by the framers of the First Amendment that it was not spelled out. Responsibility for its abuse was imbedded in the law. The First Amendment safeguarded the right. [...] The press does have the right, which is its professional function, to criticize and to advocate. The whole gamut of public affairs is the domain for fearless and critical comment, and not least the administration of justice. But the public function which belongs to the press makes it an obligation of honor to exercise this function only with the fullest sense of responsibility. Without such a lively sense of responsibility, a free press may readily become a powerful instrument of injustice.''' ** [[Felix Frankfurter]], ''Pennekamp v. Florida'', 328 U.S. 331 (1946), at 355-356 and 365. * '''Without a free press there can be no free society. That is axiomatic. However, freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society. The scope and nature of the constitutional guarantee of the freedom of the press are to be viewed and applied in that light.''' ** [[Felix Frankfurter]], ''New York Times'' (November 28, 1954). * By the time of the adoption of the Constitution, our history shows that there was a widespread awareness among many Americans of the dangers of a union of Church and State. These people knew, some of them from bitter personal experience, that '''one of the greatest dangers to the freedom of the individual to worship in his own way lay in the Government's placing its official stamp of approval upon one particular kind of prayer or one particular form of religious services.''' They knew the anguish, hardship and bitter strife that could come when zealous religious groups struggled with one another to obtain the Government's stamp of approval from each King, Queen, or Protector that came to temporary power. The Constitution was intended to avert a part of this danger by leaving the government of this country in the hands of the people, rather than in the hands of any monarch. But this safeguard was not enough. Our Founders were no more willing to let the content of their prayers and their privilege of praying whenever they pleased be influenced by the ballot box than they were to let these vital matters of personal conscience depend upon the succession of monarchs. '''The First Amendment was added to the Constitution to stand as a guarantee that neither the power nor the prestige of the Federal Government would be used to control, support or influence the kinds of prayer the American people can say -- that the people's religions must not be subjected to the pressures of government for change each time a new political administration is elected to office. Under that Amendment's prohibition against governmental establishment of religion''', as reinforced by the provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment, '''government in this country, be it state or federal, is without power to prescribe by law any particular form of prayer which is to be used as an official prayer in carrying on any program of governmentally sponsored religious activity.''' ** [[Felix Frankfurter]], ''[[w:Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421 (1962)|Engel v. Vitale]]'', 370 U.S. 421 (1962), at 429-430. * '''The right of freedom of speech and press has broad scope. The authors of the First Amendment knew that novel and unconventional ideas might disturb the complacent, but they chose to encourage a freedom which they believed essential if vigorous enlightenment was ever to triumph over slothful ignorance. This freedom embraces the right to distribute literature''', ''[[w:Lovell v. City of Griffin|Lovell v. Griffin]]'', 303 U. S. 444, 303 U. S. 452, '''and necessarily protects the right to receive it. The privilege may not be withdrawn even if it creates the minor nuisance for a community of cleaning litter from its streets.''' ''[[w:Schneider v. New Jersey|Schneider v. State]]'', 308 U. S. 147, 308 U. S. 162. '''Yet the peace, good order, and comfort of the community may imperatively require regulation of the time, place and manner of distribution.''' ''[[w:Cantwell v. Connecticut|Cantwell v. Connecticut]]'', 310 U. S. 296, 310 U. S. 304. '''No one supposes, for example, that a city need permit a man with a communicable disease to distribute leaflets on the street or to homes, or that the First Amendment prohibits a state from preventing the distribution of leaflets in a church against the will of the church authorities.''' ** Justice [[Hugo Black]], ''Martin v. City of Struthers'', 319 U.S. 141 (1943) (Opinion of the court *The 'establishment of religion' clause of the First Amendment means at least this: Neither a state nor the Federal Government can set up a church. Neither can pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions or prefer one religion over another. Neither can force nor influence a person to go to or to remain away from church against his will or force him to profess a belief or disbelief in any religion. No person can be punished for entertaining or professing religious beliefs or disbeliefs, for church attendance or non-attendance. In the words of Jefferson, the clause against establishment of religion by law was intended to erect 'a wall of separation between Church and State'. ** Justice [[Hugo Black]], Opinion of the Court, ''[[w:Everson v. Board of Education|Everson v. Board of Education]]'', 330 U.S. 1, 15-16, 330 U.S. 1 (1947). * [T]he effect of the religious freedom Amendment to our Constitution was to take every form of propagation of religion out of the realm of things which could directly or indirectly be made public business, and thereby be supported in whole or in part at taxpayers' expense. That is a difference which the Constitution sets up between religion and almost every other subject matter of legislation, a difference which goes to the very root of religious freedom[...] This freedom was first in the Bill of Rights because it was first in the forefathers' minds; it was set forth in absolute terms, and its strength is its rigidity. It was intended not only to keep the states' hands out of religion, but to keep religion's hands off the state, and, above all, to keep bitter religious controversy out of public life by denying to every denomination any advantage from getting control of public policy or the public purse. ** [[Robert H. Jackson]], ''[[w:Everson v. Board of Education of Ewing Township|Everson v. Board of Education of Ewing Township]]'', 330 U.S. 1 (1947) (dissenting). * '''The vitality of civil and political institutions in our society depends on free discussion. As [[Charles Evans Hughes|Chief Justice Hughes]] wrote in ''[[w:De Jonge v. Oregon|De Jonge v. Oregon]]''''', 299 U.S. 353, 365, 260, '''it is only through free debate and free exchange of ideas that government remains responsive to the will of the people and peaceful change is effected. The right to speak freely and to promote diversity of ideas and programs is therefore one of the chief distinctions that sets us apart from totalitarian regimes.'''</br> '''Accordingly a function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it induces a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with conditions as they are, or even stirs people to anger. Speech is often provocative and challenging. It may strike at prejudices and preconceptions and have profound unsettling effects as it presses for acceptance of an idea. That is why freedom of speech, though not absolute,''' ''[[w:Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire|Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire]]'', supra, 315 U.S. at pages 571-572, 62 S.Ct. at page 769, '''is nevertheless protected against censorship or punishment, unless shown likely to produce a clear and present danger of a serious substantive evil that rises far above public inconvenience, annoyance, or unrest.''' See ''Bridges v. California'', 314 U.S. 252, 262, 193, 159 A.L.R. 1346; ''Craig v. Harney'', 331 U.S. 367, 373, 1253. '''There is no room under our Constitution for a more restrictive view. For the alternative would lead to standardization of ideas either by legislatures, courts, or dominant political or community groups.'''''Terminiello'', 337 U.S. at 4-5. ** [[William O. Douglas]], Majority opinion, [[w:Terminiello v. City of Chicago|Terminiello v. City of Chicago]], 337 U.S. 1 (1949) at 4-5. * '''It seems self-evident that all speech criticizing government rulers and challenging current beliefs may be dangerous to the ''status quo''. With full knowledge of this danger, the Framers rested our First Amendment on the premise that the slightest suppression of thought, speech, press, or public assembly is still more dangerous. This means that individuals are guaranteed an undiluted and unequivocal right to express themselves on questions of current public interest. It means that Americans discuss such questions as of right and not on sufferance of legislatures, courts or any other governmental agencies. It means that courts are without power to appraise and penalize utterances upon their notion that these utterances are dangerous. In my view, this uncompromising interpretation of the Bill of Rights is the one that must prevail if its freedoms are to be saved. Tyrannical totalitarian governments cannot safely allow their people to speak with complete freedom. I believe with the Framers that our free Government can.''' ** Justice [[Hugo Black]], Concurring opinion, ''Weiman v. Updegraff'', 344 U.S. 183 (1952) at 194. * '''All ideas having even the slightest redeeming social importance -- unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas, even ideas hateful to the prevailing climate of opinion, have the full protection of the guarantees [of the First Amendment], unless excludable because they encroach upon the limited area of more important interests. But implicit in the history of the First Amendment is the rejection of obscenity as utterly without redeeming social importance.''' ** Justice [[William J. Brennan Jr.]], ''[[w:Roth v. United States|Roth v. United States]]'', 354 U.S. 476, 496 (1957). * The danger is perhaps not great if the people of one State, through their legislature, decide that ''[[w:Lady Chatterley's Lover|Lady Chatterley's Lover]]'' goes so far beyond the acceptable standards of candor that it will be deemed offensive and non-sellable, for the State next door is still free to make its own choice. At least we do not have one uniform standard. But the dangers to free thought and expression are truly great if the Federal Government imposes a blanket ban over the Nation on such a book. [...] The fact that the people of one State cannot read some of the works of [[D. H. Lawrence]] seems to me, if not wise or desirable, at least acceptable. But that no person in the United States should be allowed to do so seems to me to be intolerable, and violative of both the letter and spirit of the First Amendment. ** [[John Marshall Harlan II]], concurring in ''[[w:Roth v. United States|Roth v. United States]]'', 354 U.S. 476, 496 (1957); Harlan did not believe that the First Amendment should have been applied against the states. * '''The First Amendment provides the only kind of security system that can preserve a free government – one that leaves the way wide open for people to favor, discuss, advocate, or incite causes and doctrines however obnoxious and antagonistic such views may be to the rest of us.''' ** [[Hugo Black]], Concurring opinion, ''[[w:Yates v. United States|Yates v. United States]]'', 354 U.S. 298 (1957). * '''Without debate, without criticism, no Administration and no country can succeed--and no republic can survive. [...] And that is why our press was protected by the First Amendment'''-- the only business in America specifically protected by the Constitution- -'''not primarily to amuse and entertain, not to emphasize the trivial and the sentimental, not to simply "give the public what it wants"--but to inform, to arouse, to reflect, to state our dangers and our opportunities, to indicate our crises and our choices, to lead, mold, educate and sometimes even anger public opinion.''' This means greater coverage and analysis of international news--for it is no longer far away and foreign but close at hand and local. It means greater attention to improved understanding of the news as well as improved transmission. And it means, finally, that '''government at all levels, must meet its obligation to provide you with the fullest possible information outside the narrowest limits of national security [...].''' ** [[John F. Kennedy|John F. Kennedy's]] [http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Ready-Reference/JFK-Speeches/The-President-and-the-Press-Address-before-the-American-Newspaper-Publishers-Association.aspx Address before the American Newspaper Publishers Association (27 April 1961)] [http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Archives/JFKWHA-025-001.aspx Audio] * The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think, speak, write and worship as they wish, not as the Government commands. ** Justice [[Hugo Black]], ''International Association of Machinists v. Street'', 367 U.S. 740 (1961). * '''The First Amendment concept of a "free press" must be read in the light of the struggle of free men against prior restraint of publication.''' From the time of [[William Blackstone|Blackstone]] it was a tenet of the founding fathers that precensorship was the primary evil to be dealt with in the First Amendment. Fortunately upon the facts adduced in this case there is no sharp clash such as might have appeared between the vital security interest of the Nation and the compelling Constitutional doctrine against prior restraint. '''If there be some embarrassment to the Government in security aspects as remote as the general embarrassment that flows from any security breach, we must learn to live with it. The security of the Nation is not at the ramparts alone. Security also lies in the value of our free institutions. A cantankerous press, an obstinate press, an ubiquitous press must be suffered by those in authority in order to preserve the even greater values of freedom of expression and the right of the people to know.''' In this case there has been no attempt by the Government at political suppression. There has been no attempt to stifle criticism. Yet in the last analysis '''it is not merely the opinion of the editorial writer or of the columnist which is protected by the First Amendment. It is the free flow of information so that the public will be informed about the Government and its actions.''' These are troubled times. '''There is no greater safety valve for discontent and cynicism about the affairs of Government than freedom of expression in any form.''' This has been the genius of our institutions throughout our history. It is one of the marked traits of our national life that distinguish us from other nations under different forms of government. ** [[w:Murray Gurfein|Murray Gurfein]] June 19, 1971 in ''[[w:United States v. N.Y. Times Co.|United States v. N.Y. Times Co.]]'', [http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/328/324/1428158/ 328 F. Supp. 324, 331 (S.D.N.Y. 1971)]. * '''In the First Amendment, the Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government. The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people.''' **{{w|Hugo L. Black}}, (''{{w|New York Times Company v. United States}}'', 1971). * Under our system, the choice has been made that government is to be entirely excluded from the area of religious instruction, and churches excluded from the affairs of government. The Constitution decrees that religion must be a private matter for the individual, the family, and the institutions of private choice, and that, while some involvement and entanglement are inevitable, lines must be drawn. ** [[w:Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court of the United States]], ''[[w:Lemon v. Kurtzman|Lemon v. Kurtzman]],'' 403 U.S. 602 (1971) * This case involves a cancer in our body politic. It is a measure of the disease which afflicts us. Army surveillance, like Army regimentation, is at war with the principles of the First Amendment. Those who already walk submissively will say there is no cause for alarm. But submissiveness is not our heritage. '''The First Amendment was designed to allow rebellion to remain as our heritage.''' The Constitution was designed to keep government off the backs of the people. The Bill of Rights was added to keep the precincts of belief and expression, of the press, of political and social activities free from surveillance. The Bill of Rights was designed to keep agents of government and official eavesdroppers away from assemblies of people. '''The aim was to allow men to be free and independent and to assert their rights against government.''' There can be no influence more paralyzing of that objective than Army surveillance. When an intelligence officer looks over every nonconformist's shoulder in the library, or walks invisibly by his side in a picket line, or infiltrates his club, the America once extolled as the voice of [[liberty]] heard around the world no longer is cast in the image which [[Thomas Jefferson|Jefferson]] and [[James Madison|Madison]] designed, but more in the Russian image. ** Justice [[William O. Douglas]], ''[[w:Laird v. Tatum|Laird v. Tatum]]'', 408 U.S. 1 (1972), dissenting. * '''An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment.''' ** Justice [[Hugo Black]], ''[[w:New York Times Company v. Sullivan|New York Times Company v. Sullivan]]'', 376 U.S. 254 (1964). * '''This concept of "national defense" cannot be deemed an end in itself, justifying any exercise of legislative power designed to promote such a goal.''' Implicit in the term "national defense" is the notion of defending those values and ideals which set this Nation apart. '''For almost two centuries, our country has taken singular pride in the democratic ideals enshrined in its Constitution, and the most cherished of those ideals have found expression in the First Amendment. It would indeed be ironic if, in the name of national defense, we would sanction the subversion of one of those liberties — the freedom of association — which make the defense of our nation worthwhile.''' ** [[Earl Warren]], ''[[w:United States v. Robel|United States v. Robel]]'' (1967) - [http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=389&invol=258 Findlaw file] * The central problem with Chicago's ordinance is that it describes permissible picketing in terms of its subject matter. Peaceful picketing on the subject of a school's labor-management dispute is permitted, but all other peaceful picketing is prohibited. The operative distinction is the message on a picket sign. '''But, above all else, the First Amendment means that government has no power to restrict expression because of its message, its ideas, its subject matter, or its content.''' [Citations.] '''To permit the continued building of our politics and culture, and to assure self-fulfillment for each individual, our people are guaranteed the right to express any thought, free from government censorship. The essence of this forbidden censorship is content control. Any restriction on expressive activity because of its content would completely undercut the '"profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open."''''' [[w:New York Times Co. v. Sullivan|New York Times Co. v. Sullivan]], supra,'' at 376 U. S. 270. ** Justice [[w:Thurgood Marshall|Thurgood Marshall]], ''Police Department of Chicago v. Mosley'', 408 U.S. 92 (1972). * In the governmental structure created by our Constitution, the Executive is endowed with enormous power in the two related areas of national defense and international relations. This power, largely unchecked by the Legislative [1] and Judicial [2] branches, has been pressed to the very hilt since the advent of the nuclear missile age. For better or for worse, the simple fact is that a President of the United States possesses vastly greater constitutional independence in these two vital areas of power than does, say, a prime minister of a country with a parliamentary form of government. '''In the absence of the governmental checks and balances''' present in other areas of our national life, '''the only effective restraint upon executive policy and power''' in the areas of national defense and international affairs '''may lie in an enlightened citizenry — in an informed and critical public opinion which alone can here protect the values of democratic government. For this reason, it is perhaps here that a press that is alert, aware, and free most vitally serves the basic purpose of the First Amendment. For, without an informed and free press, there cannot be an enlightened people.''' **[[Potter Stewart]], (''{{w|New York Times Company v. United States}}'', 1971). * '''Under the First Amendment there is no such thing as a false idea … (it) requires that we protect some falsehood in order to protect speech that matters.''' ** Justice [[Potter Stewart]], ''[[w:Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc.|Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc.]]'', 418 U.S. 323 (1974). * '''Discussion of public issues and debate on the qualifications of candidates are integral to the operation of the system of government established by our Constitution. The First Amendment affords the broadest protection to such political expression in order "to assure [the] unfettered interchange of ideas for the bringing about of political and social changes desired by the people."''' ''[[w:Roth v. United States|Roth v. United States]]'', 354 U. S. 476, 354 U. S. 484 (1957). '''Although First Amendment protections are not confined to "the exposition of ideas,"''' ''Winters v. New York'', 333 U. S. 507, 333 U. S. 510 (1948), "'''there is practically universal agreement that a major purpose of that Amendment was to protect the free discussion of governmental affairs, . . . of course includ[ing] discussions of candidates. . . ."''' ''Mills v. Alabama'', 384 U. S. 214, 384 U. S. 218 (1966)'''. This no more than reflects our "profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open,"''' ''[[w:New York Times Co. v. Sullivan|New York Times Co. v. Sullivan]]'', 376 U. S. 254, 376 U. S. 270 (1964)'''. In a republic where the people are sovereign, the ability of the citizenry to make informed choices among candidates for office is essential, for the identities of those who are elected will inevitably shape the course that we follow as a nation. As the Court observed in ''Monitor Patriot Co. v. Roy''''', 401 U. S. 265, 401 U. S. 272 (1971), '''"it can hardly be doubted that the constitutional guarantee has its fullest and most urgent application precisely to the conduct of campaigns for political office." The First Amendment protects political association as well as political expression. The constitutional right of association explicated in ''[[w:NAACP v. Alabama|NAACP v. Alabama]]''''', 357 U. S. 449, 357 U. S. 460 (1958), '''stemmed from the Court's recognition that "[e]ffective advocacy of both public and private points of view, particularly controversial ones, is undeniably enhanced by group association." Subsequent decisions have made clear that the First and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee "freedom to associate with others for the common advancement of political beliefs and ideas,'" a freedom that encompasses "`[t]he right to associate with the political party of one's choice.'"''' ''Kusper v. Pontikes, 414 U. S. 51, 414 U. S. 56, 414 U. S. 57 (1973), quoted in [[w:Cousins v. Wigoda|Cousins v. Wigoda]], 419 U. S. 477, 419 U. S. 487 (1975).'' ** ''[[w:Buckley v. Valeo|Buckley v. Valeo]]'', 435 U.S. 765 (1978), at 15-16. * In short, '''the First Amendment does not "belong" to any definable category of persons or entities: it belongs to all who exercise its freedoms.''' ** Chief Justice [[Warren E. Burger]], ''[[w:First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti|First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti]]'', 435 U.S. 765 (1978). * '''The First Amendment ... gives no one the right to insist that, in pursuit of their own interests others must conform their conduct to his own religious necessities''' ** Chief Justice [[Warren E. Burger]], ''[[w:Estate of Thornton v. Caldor, Inc.|Estate of Thornton v. Caldor, Inc.]]'', 472 U.S. 703 (1985) * The proposition that the several States have no greater power to restrain the individual freedoms protected by the First Amendment than does Congress is firmly embedded in constitutional jurisprudence. '''The First Amendment was adopted to curtail Congress' power to interfere with the individual's freedom to believe, to worship, and to express himself in accordance with the dictates of his own conscience''', and the Fourteenth Amendment imposed the same substantive limitations on the States' power to legislate. '''The individual's freedom to choose his own creed is the counterpart of his right to refrain from accepting the creed established by the majority. Moreover, the individual freedom of conscience protected by the First Amendment embraces the right to select any religious faith or none at all.''' ** Justice [[John Paul Stevens]], ''[[w:Wallace v. Jaffree|Wallace v. Jaffree]]'', 472 U.S. 38 (1985). * '''At the heart of the First Amendment is the recognition of the fundamental importance of the free flow of ideas and opinions on matters of public interest and concern. The freedom to speak one's mind is not only an aspect of individual liberty – and thus a good unto itself – but also is essential to the common quest for truth and the vitality of society as a whole.''' We have therefore been particularly vigilant to ensure that individual expressions of ideas remain free from governmentally imposed sanctions. '''The First Amendment recognizes no such thing as a "false" idea.''' ** Chief Justice [[William Rehnquist]], ''[[w:Hustler Magazine v. Falwell|Hustler Magazine v. Falwell]]'', 485 U.S. 46 (1988). * '''If there is a bedrock principle of the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.''' ** Justice [[William J. Brennan Jr.]], ''[[w:Texas v. Johnson|Texas v. Johnson]]'', 491 U.S. 397 (1989). * The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech. ** [[Anthony Kennedy]], ''International Society for Krishna Consciousness v. Lee'', 505 U.S. 672, 672 (1992) (concurring). * '''At the heart of the First Amendment lies the principle that each person should decide for himself or herself the ideas and beliefs deserving of expression, consideration, and adherence. Our political system and cultural life rest upon this ideal.''' See ''Leathers v. Medlock'', 499 U. S., at 449 (citing ''[[w:Cohen v. California|Cohen v. California]]'', 403 U. S. 15, 24 (1971)); ''[[w:West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette|West Virginia Bd. of Ed. v. Barnette]]'', 319 U. S. 624, 638, 640-642 (1943). '''Government action that stifles speech on account of its message, or that requires the utterance of a particular message favored by the Government, contravenes this essential right. Laws of this sort pose the inherent risk that the Government seeks not to advance a legitimate regulatory goal, but to suppress unpopular ideas or information or manipulate the public debate through coercion rather than persuasion. These restrictions "rais[e] the specter that the Government may effectively drive certain ideas or viewpoints from the marketplace."''' ''[[w:Simon & Schuster, Inc. v. Crime Victims Board|Simon & Schuster, Inc. v. Members of N. Y. State Crime Victims Bd.]]'', 502 U. S. 105, 116 (1991). '''For these reasons, the First Amendment, subject only to narrow and well-understood exceptions, does not countenance governmental control over the content of messages expressed by private individuals.''' ''[[w:R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul|R. A. v: v. St. Paul]]'', 505 U. S. 377, 382-383 (1992); ''[[w:Texas v. Johnson|Texas v. Johnson]]'', 491 U. S. 397, 414 (1989). ** [[Anthony Kennedy]], [[w:Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. v. FCC|Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. v. FCC]], 512 U. S. 622, 641 (1994) (Turner I ). * Under [[United States Constitution|our Constitution]], '''anonymous pamphleteering is not a pernicious, fraudulent practice, but an honorable tradition of advocacy and of dissent. Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority. … It thus exemplifies the purpose behind the [[United States Bill of Rights|Bill of Rights]], and of the [[First Amendment to the United States Constitution|First Amendment]] in particular: to protect unpopular individuals from retaliation--and their ideas from suppression--at the hand of an intolerant society. The right to remain anonymous may be abused when it shields fraudulent conduct. But political speech by its nature will sometimes have unpalatable consequences, and, in general, our society accords greater weight to the value of free speech than to the dangers of its misuse.''' ** [[John Paul Stevens]], ''[[w:McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission|McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission (Majority opinion)]]'', 514 U.S. 334 (1995) * You do not define the First Amendment. It defines you. And it is bigger than you. That's how freedom works. It also demands you do your homework. ** [[Charlton Heston]], Speech to the National Press Club (14 September 1997). * You could say that the paparazzi and the tabloids are sort of the "assault weapons" of the First Amendment. They're ugly, a lot of people don't like them, but they're protected by the First Amendment — just as "assault weapons" are protected by the [[Second Amendment to the United States Constitution|Second Amendment]]. ** [[Charlton Heston]], Interview ''Fox News Channel'' (15 September 1997). * Thank you for your recent letter asking my views on the proposed flag protection amendment. [...] '''Americans revere their flag as a symbol of the Nation.''' Indeed, it is because of that reverence that the amendment is under consideration. Few countries in the world would think of amending their Constitution for the purpose of protecting such a symbol. '''We are rightfully outraged when anyone attacks or desecrates our flag.''' Few Americans do such things and when they do they are subject to the rightful condemnation of their fellow citizens. They may be destroying a piece of cloth, but they do no damage to our system of freedom which tolerates such desecration. <br> If they are destroying a flag that belongs to someone else, that's a prosecutable crime. '''If it is a flag they own, I really don't want to amend the Constitution to prosecute someone for foolishly desecrating their own property. We should condemn them and pity them instead.''' <br> I understand how strongly so many of my fellow veterans and citizens feel about the flag and I understand the powerful sentiment in state legislatures for such an amendment. I feel the same sense of outrage. But I step back from amending the Constitution to relieve that outrage. '''The First Amendment exists to insure that freedom of speech and expression applies not just to that with which we agree or disagree, but also that which we find outrageous. I would not amend that great shield of democracy to hammer a few miscreants. The flag will be flying proudly long after they have slunk away.''' ** [[Colin Powell]], Letter to Sen. [[w:Patrick Leahy|Patrick Leahy]] (18 May 1999) - [http://www.city-data.com/forum/illegal-immigration/227932-illegal-mexicans-remove-american-flag-replace-10.html Full text online] <!-- also quoted in ''Captain America and the crusade against evil: the dilemma of zealous nationalism'' (2004) by Robert Jewett and John Shelton Lawrence, p. 307 --> * '''Money is property; it is not speech. Speech has the power to inspire volunteers to perform a multitude of tasks on a campaign trail, on a battleground, or even on a football field. Money, meanwhile, has the power to pay hired laborers to perform the same tasks. It does not follow, however, that the First Amendment provides the same measure of protection to the use of money to accomplish such goals as it provides to the use of ideas to achieve the same results.''' ** [[John Paul Stevens]], Concurring, ''[[w:Nixon v. Shrink Missouri Government PAC|Nixon v. Shrink Missouri Government PAC]]'', 528 U.S. 377 (2000). * I find the speech in this case patently offensive, hateful, and insulting. The Court should not, however, gloss over three decades of jurisprudence and the centrality of First Amendment freedoms in our lives because it is confronted with speech it does not like. ** [[Sonia Sotomayor]], ''[[w:Pappas v. Giuliani|Pappas v. Giuliani]]'', 290 F.3d 143 (2002) (''dissenting''). * '''First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must be protected from the government because speech is the beginning of thought.''' ** [[Anthony Kennedy]], ''[[w:Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition|Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition]]'', 535 U.S. 234 (2002) (''Opinion of the Court''). * '''The argument''', in essence, '''is that protected speech may be banned as a means to ban unprotected speech. This analysis turns the First Amendment upside down. The Government may not suppress lawful speech as the means to suppress unlawful speech. Protected speech does not become unprotected merely because it resembles the latter. The Constitution requires the reverse.''' ** [[Anthony Kennedy]], ''[[w:Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition|Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition]]'', 535 U.S. 234 (2002) (''Opinion of the Court''). * '''The First Amendment expresses our Nation’s fundamental commitment to religious liberty by means of two provisions–one protecting the free exercise of religion, the other barring establishment of religion.''' They were written by the descendants of people who had come to this land precisely so that they could practice their religion freely. '''Together with the other First Amendment guarantees–of free speech, a free press, and the rights to assemble and petition–the Religion Clauses were designed to safeguard the freedom of conscience and belief that those immigrants had sought. They embody an idea that was once considered radical: Free people are entitled to free and diverse thoughts, which government ought neither to constrain nor to direct.''' <br/><br/> Reasonable minds can disagree about how to apply the Religion Clauses in a given case. But '''the goal of the Clauses is clear''': to carry out the Founders’ plan of '''preserving religious liberty to the fullest extent possible in a pluralistic society. By enforcing the Clauses, we have kept religion a matter for the individual conscience, not for the prosecutor or bureaucrat.''' At a time when we see around the world the violent consequences of the assumption of religious authority by government, Americans may count themselves fortunate: Our regard for constitutional boundaries has protected us from similar travails, while allowing private religious exercise to flourish. [...] '''Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: Why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has served others so poorly?''' ** [[Sandra Day O'Connor]], ''[[w:McCreary County v. American Civil Liberties Union|McCreary County v. American Civil Liberties Union]]'', 545 U.S. 844 (2005) (concurring). * '''Speech is an essential mechanism of democracy, for it is the means to hold officials accountable to the people. [...] The right of citizens to inquire, to hear, to speak, and to use information to reach consensus is a precondition to enlightened self-government and a necessary means to protect it. [...] By taking the right to speak from some and giving it to others, the Government deprives the disadvantaged person or class of the right to use speech to strive to establish worth, standing, and respect for the speaker’s voice. The Government may not by these means deprive the public of the right and privilege to determine for itself what speech and speakers are worthy of consideration. The First Amendment protects speech and speaker, and the ideas that flow from each.''' ** [[Anthony Kennedy]], ''[[w:Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission|Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission]]'', 558 U.S. 310 (2010) (''Opinion of the Court''). * '''When Government seeks to use its full power, including the criminal law, to command where a person may get his or her information or what distrusted source he or she may not hear, it uses censorship to control thought. This is unlawful. The First Amendment confirms the freedom to think for ourselves.''' ** [[Anthony Kennedy]], ''[[w:Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission|Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission]]'', 558 U.S. 310 (2010) (''Opinion of the Court''). * The Court has recognized that First Amendment protection extends to corporations. [...] The censorship we now confront is vast in its reach. The Government has “muffle[d] the voices that best represent the most significant segments of the economy.” McConnell, supra, at 257–258 (opinion of Scalia, J. ). And “the electorate [has been] deprived of information, knowledge and opinion vital to its function.” CIO , 335 U. S., at 144 (Rutledge, J., concurring in result). By suppressing the speech of manifold corporations, both for-profit and nonprofit, the Government prevents their voices and viewpoints from reaching the public and advising voters on which persons or entities are hostile to their interests. Factions will necessarily form in our Republic, but the remedy of “destroying the liberty” of some factions is “worse than the disease.” The Federalist No. 10, p. 130 (B. Wright ed. 1961) (J. Madison). Factions should be checked by permitting them all to speak, see ibid. , and by entrusting the people to judge what is true and what is false. [...] If '''the First Amendment''' has any force, '''prohibits Congress from fining or jailing citizens, or associations of citizens, for simply engaging in political speech.''' If the antidistortion rationale were to be accepted, however, it would permit Government to ban political speech simply because the speaker is an association that has taken on the corporate form. ** [[Anthony Kennedy]], ''[[w:Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission|Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission]]'', 558 U.S. 310 (2010) (''Opinion of the Court''). * Among other rights essential to freedom, the First Amendment protects “the right of the people … to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” [...] Both speech and petition are integral to the democratic process, although not necessarily in the same way. The right to petition allows citizens to express their ideas, hopes, and concerns to their government and their elected representatives, whereas the right to speak fosters the public exchange of ideas that is integral to deliberative democracy as well as to the whole realm of ideas and human affairs. Beyond the political sphere, both speech and petition advance personal expression, although the right to petition is generally concerned with expression directed to the government seeking redress of a grievance. [...] A petition conveys the special concerns of its author to the government and, in its usual form, requests action by the government to address those concerns. ** [[Anthony Kennedy]], ''[[w:Borough of Duryea v. Guarnieri|Borough of Duryea v. Guarnieri]]'', 131 S.Ct. 2488 (2011). * '''A fundamental principle of the First Amendment is that all persons have access to places where they can speak and listen, and then, after reflection, speak and listen once more.''' The Court has sought to protect the right to speak in this spatial context. '''A basic rule, for example, is that a street or a park is a quintessential forum for the exercise of First Amendment rights.''' See ''Ward'' v. ''Rock Against Racism'', 491 U. S. 781, 796 (1989). '''Even in the modern era, these places are still essential venues for public gatherings to celebrate some views, to protest others, or simply to learn and inquire.''' ** [[Anthony Kennedy]], ''[[w:Packingham v. North Carolina|Packingham v. North Carolina]]''', 582 U.S. ___ (2017), majority opinion. * '''The First Amendment prohibits the establishment of religion and promises the free exercise of religion. From these safeguards, and from the guarantee of freedom of speech, it follows there is freedom of belief and expression. It is an urgent necessity that officials adhere to these constitutional guarantees and mandates in all their actions, even in the sphere of foreign affairs. An anxious world must know that our Government remains committed always to the liberties the Constitution seeks to preserve and protect, so that freedom extends outward, and lasts.''' ** [[Anthony Kennedy]], ''[[w:Trump v. Hawaii|Trump v. Hawaii]]''', 585 U.S. ___ (2017), concurrence and last opinion at the Supreme Court before retirement. * '''We have recognized a First Amendment right to associate for the purpose of speaking, which we have termed a “right of expressive association.”''' See, ''e.g., [[w:Boy Scouts of America v. Dale|Boy Scouts of America v. Dale]]'', 530 U. S. 640, 644 (2000). '''The reason we have extended First Amendment protection in this way is clear: The right to speak is often exercised most effectively by combining one’s voice with the voices of others.''' See ''[[w:Roberts v. United States Jaycees|Roberts v. United States Jaycees]]'', 468 U. S. 609, 622 (1984). '''If the government were free to restrict individuals’ ability to join together and speak, it could essentially silence views that the First Amendment is intended to protect.''' ''Ibid.'' ** [[John Roberts]], ''[[w:Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic & Institutional Rights, Inc.|Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic & Institutional Rights, Inc.]]'', (2006). * But '''the First Amendment protects against the Government; it does not leave us at the mercy of ''[[w:noblesse oblige|noblesse oblige]]''.''' We would not uphold an unconstitutional statute merely because the Government promised to use it responsibly. ** [[John G. Roberts]], ''[[w:United States v. Stevens|United States v. Stevens]]'', 559 U.S. ___, 130 S.Ct. 1577 (2010) (''Opinion of the Court''). * Familiar with life under the [[w:State religion|established]] [[w:Church of England|Church of England]], the [[w:Founding fathers of the United States|founding generation]] sought to foreclose the possibility of a national church. See 1 Annals of Cong. 730-731 (1789) (noting that the [[w:Establishment Clause|Establishment Clause]] addressed the fear that "one sect might obtain a pre-eminence, or two combine together, and establish a religion to which they would compel others to conform" (remarks of [[James Madison|J. Madison]])). By forbidding the "establishment of religion" and guaranteeing the "free exercise thereof," the Religion Clauses ensured that the new Federal Government-unlike the English Crown-would have no role in filling ecclesiastical offices. The Establishment Clause prevents the Government from appointing ministers, and the [[w:Free Exercise Clause|Free Exercise Clause]] prevents it from interfering with the freedom of religious groups to select their own. ** [[John Roberts]], ''[[w:Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC|Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC]]'', (2012). * '''The whole point of the First Amendment is to protect individual speech that the majority might prefer to restrict, or that legislators or judges might not view as useful to the democratic process.''' ** [[John Roberts]], ''[[w:McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission|McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission]]'', 572 U.S. ___ (2014), Slip opinion p. 3. * The First Amendment does not insulate you from criticism. In fact, that's the First Amendment in action. That is how the marketplace of ideas works. We float our ideas in the marketplace, and we see which idea sells. **[[Marc Randazza]] in ''What happened to Sterling was morally wrong'', CNN (April 30, 2014) * '''The real object of the First Amendment was, not to countenance, much less to advance Mahometanism, or Judaism, or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity; but to exclude all rivalry among Christian sects, and to prevent any national ecclesiastical establishment, which should give to an hierarchy the exclusive patronage of the national government. It thus cut off the means of religious persecution, (the vice and pest of former ages,) and of the subversion of the rights of conscience in matters of religion, which had been trampled upon almost from the days of the Apostles to the present age.''' The history of the parent country had afforded the most solemn warnings and melancholy instructions on this head; and even New England, the land of the persecuted puritans, as well as other colonies, where the Church of England had maintained its superiority, would furnish out a chapter, as full of the darkest bigotry and intolerance, as any, which should be found to disgrace the pages of foreign annals. '''Apostacy, heresy, and nonconformity had been standard crimes for public appeals, to kindle the flames of persecution, and apologize for the most atrocious triumphs over innocence and virtue.''' <br><br> '''Thus, the whole power over the subject of religion is left exclusively to the state government, to be acted upon according to their own sense of justice, and the state constitutions; and the Catholic and the Protestant, the Calvinist and the Arminian, the Jew and the Infidel, may sit down at the common table of the national councils, without any inquisition into their faith, or mode of worship.''' ** [[Joseph Story]], Source for the first section: Story, Joseph (1833) [http://Commentaries%20on%20the%20Constitution%20of%20the%20United%20States Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States]. Boston: Hilliard, Gray and Company. Cambridge: Brown, Shattuck, and Co. Volume III, page 728, §1871. Source for the second section: Story, Joseph (1858) [https://books.google.com/books?id=yTxTAAAAcAAJ Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States]. [http://Archived Archived] 2015-09-15 at the Wayback Machine. Boston: Hilliard, Gray and Company. Cambridge: Brown, Shattuck, and Co. Third Edition, Volume II, p. 667, §1879. ==See also== *[[United States Constitution]] *[[Freedom of religion]] *[[Freedom of speech]] *[[Freedom of the press]] *''[[Freedom for the Thought That We Hate|Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment]]'' ==External links== {{wikipedia}} * [http://www.law.cornell.edu/anncon/html/amdt1toc_user.html Cornell Law School - Annotated Constitution] * [http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/faclibrary/index.aspx First Amendment Center - The First Amendment Library] * [http://randazza.wordpress.com/category/first-amendment/ First Amendment Articles at the Legal Satyricon] * [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3849732310656672791&q=mslaw&hl=en Video: Free Speech in Wartime] [[Category:Amendments to the United States Constitution|01]] [[Category:Freedom of speech in the United States]] bq0bks19nktqbdypx568iwl7frzhalj 0 94406 3961278 3893887 2026-07-05T20:37:05Z ~2026-38348-08 3347773 /* Dialogue */ 3961278 wikitext text/x-wiki {{italic title}} '''''[[w:Stay Alive|Stay Alive]]''''' is a 2006 movie where a video game based on the Countess [[w:Elizabeth Bathory|Elizabeth Bathory]] comes to life and starts killing its players in the same manner in which they died in the game. Directed by [[w:William Brent Bell|William Brent Bell]] and written by [[w:William Brent Bell|William Brent Bell]] and [[w:Matthew Peterman|Matthew Peterman]]. == Phineas == * Sweet Sebastian Bach, I wanna play! * ''[about Abigail]'' Girl has got body karate going on! * Can we skip this bullshit cinematic foreplay? I want to fuuuuccckkkk! * ''(To Miller)'' Okay, Where's the torture chamber cause I want some ass. * I don't know what it is, man! I'm scared, I'm freaking out, man! There's something ''out'' here!.. ''(on the phone)'' Is that Abby? Wassup Mama? * I beta-tested for a while. It sucked. It's kinda like eating a beav. It's awesome at first, then it's just goddamn monotonous. == October == * If you had any less sense, you'd be half a penny. * ''(really upset)'' Somebody ran my brother down in a horse-drawn carriage. I'm gonna find whoever did it, and hurt them. * ''(Last line/final words, to the Countess)'' Go fuck yourself. * You know, Phin? The problem with your mouth is that stupid, insensitive shit comes out of it. * Whoever said size doesn't matter never played a third-person shooter. Can I have a 42-inch this time? You know I like the big ones... * My brother was all I had. That kid meant everything to me. And now he's gone. == Swink == * (after tapping the controller, avoiding the carriage in the game) Hell yeah. * Bitch, that's cheating! I'm not even dead yet! * ''(to Hutch and Abigail)'' Go on, get out of here. I've got these punk-ass bitch motherfuckers handled. == Miller == * You know what they say? You play the game too long, you start seeing shit and having seizures. * ''(after snorting cocaine)'' Ooh, fuck, that burns! == Abigail == * I hate telling people the truth and watching them get embarassed for that == Prayer of Elizabeth == * Come to me, clouds. May you rise as an evil storm born to rip them open. Let the cover of night bear witness and destroy those who resist so they shall harm me not. Let the blood of many cleanse me, preserving beauty eternal, I pray you. == Dialogue == :'''Phin''': Who talks like that to their brother like that anyway? :'''October''': Somebody with an idiot for a brother. :'''Phin''': Oh my god, you're a terrible person. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Phin licks Swink's controller and hands it to him]'' :'''Swink''': ''[disgusted]'' Bro! :'''Phin''': Do it. ''[Swink groans]'' Put your hands on it. :'''Swink''': That's disgusting. :'''Phin''': Touch it. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Swink''': ''[Phineus smacks Swink's arm]'' Don't touch me, ''A-hole!'' :'''Phineus''': "A-hole", Dude? :'''Swink''': Profanity is for the feeble-minded. :'''Phineus''': Well, I'm "effing" sorry I offended you... ''fuck-ass''. You ready for a good night, bro? :'''Swink''': I can't stay too late, I gotta double back to see a Naughty Network glitch for the theta pledges, Quite the naughty dilemma. :'''Phineus''': Well, you can also take the skirt off and join us playing this virgin game, would you? :'''Swink''': Virgin? :'''Phineus''': Yes. :'''Swink''': Shoot, I-I really shouldn't. ''[Phineus points at him, trying to make Swink change his mind]'' Okay, I'll figure something out. <hr width="50%"/> :'''October''': Whoever said size doesn't matter never played a third-person shooter. Can I have a 42-incher? You know I like the big ones. :'''Hutch''': Per usual, that is too much information. Oh, shit! Oh, man. :'''Phin''': ''[to October]'' You're a whore. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Evil Video Game Voice''': When fear cripples you, when death's dark shadow surrounds you, drop a rose. It will help you stay alive. :'''Swink''': Right. It'll give us a chance to escape a ghost, if we can't face it. :'''October''': Yeah, the undead can't cross the twig of a wild rose. :'''Phineus''': That is what happens when you read too much goth chicklet. You should lay off the incest, sister. And the game's fun, but it kind of moves along at a snail's pace. ''[the camera cuts to the gang shooting down hundreds of child zombies]'' Left. Go left. Go left. Left. On your left. On your left. '''''LEFT! LEFT!!''''' Goddamn it, you noob! Okay, and you eat my nails, and you eat my nails. All right, go round the mausoleum, man. Nice. And eat this. Come on! Sweet Jesus, these dead bitches are coming out in droves! Miller, that's it; the Bathory tomb, right in front of you! Do not close the door, man! ''Do not close the door! '''Miller!''''' ''[Miller does so anyway]'' '''''No! Oh, my God!''''' :'''Miller''': ''[notices secret entrance]'' Hello, Mumsy. :'''Abigail''': ''[notices something]'' Whoa, whoa, whoa. What's that? What's that? :'''Hutch''': What's-- Where? :'''Abigail''': Right there. Is something in that wardrobe? :'''Hutch'''; ''[impressed]'' Oh, nice eye! :'''Abigail''': Thank you. :'''Phineus''': Congrats, Abs. You popped your cherry. :'''Abigail''': It's, like, a secret room, or something. ''[noticing Bathory's painting and diary underneath]'' Is that a diary? :'''October''': Yeah. The one from the beginning of the game with the prayer in it. :'''Hutch''': Miller, are you okay? :'''Miller''': Uh, yeah, no, I'm good. :'''Phineus''': Are you in those tunnels again, man? Because there is absolutely no action down there; the doors are locked. :'''Miller''': Well, they're open now, you know, I'm explorin', I'm tearin' shit up. Ownin' fools. :'''October''': "Ownin' fools"? :'''Miller''': I'm telling you, my controller is vibratin'. :'''Hutch''': Dude, you better drop a rose. :'''Miller''': ''[does so but realizes he doesn't have any more]'' Now, I'm out of-- I'm out of G-- I'm out of Goddamn roses, man. :'''Swink''': At least tell us what you see before you book it out of there. :'''Miller''': Some sort of sick torture room or-- God, man. I just s-- I just saw a flash of...dead girls, or-- ''[Countess Elizabeth Bathory attacks his character]'' Goddamn it, man! ''[Bathory stabs Miller's character]'' Man, she got me. :'''October''': Who, one of the little girls? :'''Miller''': Some-some-some...woman, man. I think it was the dame from the painting. You know, that, that...countess. You know, I-I-I-I didn't even get a chance to fight her, man. :'''Phineus''': Okay, well, where's the torture chamber? 'Cause I want some ass. :'''Miller''': I don't know. I mean, I went through a secret entrance, you know. :'''Hutch''': Uh, you gonna try to get back in the game? :'''Miller''': ''[sighs]'' Well-- ''[a shadow of Elizabeth Bathory walks past]'' Hey, is somebody out there? ''[doesn't see anybody]'' :'''Hutch''': ''[through headset]'' Miller, who you talkin' to, man? :'''Miller''': Don't know. Uh, probably some Goddamn rent-a-cop tryin' to scare the shit out of the livin'. You know what they say. You know, you play the game too long, you know, you start seeing shit, you know, or have seizures. ''[chuckles nervously]'' :'''Swink''': Games ''could'' cause seizures. Now, perceptive of reality, on the other hand, has yielded some very interesting, you know, studies. :'''Phineus''': Yeah, I'm sure you've read them all. :'''Swink''': I have. You know, it seems the longer you play, the more your subconscious mind perceives the game world to be a reality. You know, it's really interesting, but it's only a theory, of course. But then, there's, you know, retinal memory, which, you know-- :'''October''': ''[interrupting; politely]'' That is so fascinating, sweetie, but I'm kind of feeling like we should call it a night. :'''Hutch''': ''[agreeing with October]'' Yeah, some of us have got to be at work. :'''Swink''': But I just figured out how to strip one of those zombie concubines naked. :'''Phin''': That ''is'' what I'm talking about. How do you do it? :'''Swink''': [[w:Konami Code|Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A(, Start)]]. :'''Phineus''': ''[enters the code]'' [[w:Breast|Boobs]]. :'''October''': ''[she and Hutch laugh in amused shock and disgust]'' Come on, you guys. Hutch is right. We'll pick it back up to date. :'''Hutch''': All right. Miller, you can, uh, rejoin us then. :'''Miller''': Yeah. Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah, and I'll, uh, check my schedule on that. :'''Hutch''': Thanks again for hanging with you guys. I really needed it. :'''Phineus''': ''[sighs; salutes]'' To Loomis. :'''Hutch, October, Abigail and Swink''': ''[simultaneously]'' To Loomis. :'''Miller''': To Loomis. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Swink''': [[w:The Warriors (film)|Can Hutch come out and play?]] :'''Hutch''': Swink! You scared the crap out of me! :'''Swink''': ''[unfazed]'' Why, yes. I would love to come inside. Thank you for asking. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Phineus''': If this genuinely is from Loomis, it must, in fact, be barely legal. :'''Hutch''': ''[trying, about the game]'' Okay, we got this from Loomis. It's called ''Stay Alive.'' We don't know much about it, except we're not supposed to have it. == Cast == :[[w:Jon Foster|Jon Foster]] - Hutch :[[w:Samaire Armstrong|Samaire Armstrong]] - Abigail :[[w:Frankie Muniz|Frankie Muniz]] - Swink :[[w:Jimmi Simpson|Jimmi Simpson]] - Phineus/Phin :[[w:Sophia Bush|Sophia Bush]] - October :[[w:Adam Golberg|Adam Golberg]] - Miller Banks :[[Milo Ventimiglia]] - Loomis Crowley == External Links == {{wikipedia}} * {{imdb title|id=0441796|title=Stay Alive}} [[Category:2006 films]] [[Category:Ghost films]] [[Category:Teen films]] [[Category:Slasher films]] [[Category:Films set in country houses]] 14h49c336bgwp6j0gecuqhp2sln2iz0 3961288 3961278 2026-07-05T21:12:33Z ~2026-38348-08 3347773 /* Dialogue */ 3961288 wikitext text/x-wiki {{italic title}} '''''[[w:Stay Alive|Stay Alive]]''''' is a 2006 movie where a video game based on the Countess [[w:Elizabeth Bathory|Elizabeth Bathory]] comes to life and starts killing its players in the same manner in which they died in the game. Directed by [[w:William Brent Bell|William Brent Bell]] and written by [[w:William Brent Bell|William Brent Bell]] and [[w:Matthew Peterman|Matthew Peterman]]. == Phineas == * Sweet Sebastian Bach, I wanna play! * ''[about Abigail]'' Girl has got body karate going on! * Can we skip this bullshit cinematic foreplay? I want to fuuuuccckkkk! * ''(To Miller)'' Okay, Where's the torture chamber cause I want some ass. * I don't know what it is, man! I'm scared, I'm freaking out, man! There's something ''out'' here!.. ''(on the phone)'' Is that Abby? Wassup Mama? * I beta-tested for a while. It sucked. It's kinda like eating a beav. It's awesome at first, then it's just goddamn monotonous. == October == * If you had any less sense, you'd be half a penny. * ''(really upset)'' Somebody ran my brother down in a horse-drawn carriage. I'm gonna find whoever did it, and hurt them. * ''(Last line/final words, to the Countess)'' Go fuck yourself. * You know, Phin? The problem with your mouth is that stupid, insensitive shit comes out of it. * Whoever said size doesn't matter never played a third-person shooter. Can I have a 42-inch this time? You know I like the big ones... * My brother was all I had. That kid meant everything to me. And now he's gone. == Swink == * (after tapping the controller, avoiding the carriage in the game) Hell yeah. * Bitch, that's cheating! I'm not even dead yet! * ''(to Hutch and Abigail)'' Go on, get out of here. I've got these punk-ass bitch motherfuckers handled. == Miller == * You know what they say? You play the game too long, you start seeing shit and having seizures. * ''(after snorting cocaine)'' Ooh, fuck, that burns! == Abigail == * I hate telling people the truth and watching them get embarassed for that == Prayer of Elizabeth == * Come to me, clouds. May you rise as an evil storm born to rip them open. Let the cover of night bear witness and destroy those who resist so they shall harm me not. Let the blood of many cleanse me, preserving beauty eternal, I pray you. == Dialogue == :'''Phin''': Who talks like that to their brother like that anyway? :'''October''': Somebody with an idiot for a brother. :'''Phin''': Oh my god, you're a terrible person. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Phin licks Swink's controller and hands it to him]'' :'''Swink''': ''[disgusted]'' Bro! :'''Phin''': Do it. ''[Swink groans]'' Put your hands on it. :'''Swink''': That's disgusting. :'''Phin''': Touch it. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Swink''': ''[Phineus smacks Swink's arm]'' Don't touch me, ''A-hole!'' :'''Phineus''': "A-hole", Dude? :'''Swink''': Profanity is for the feeble-minded. :'''Phineus''': Well, I'm "effing" sorry I offended you... ''fuck-ass''. You ready for a good night, bro? :'''Swink''': I can't stay too late, I gotta double back to see a Naughty Network glitch for the theta pledges, Quite the naughty dilemma. :'''Phineus''': Well, you can also take the skirt off and join us playing this virgin game, would you? :'''Swink''': Virgin? :'''Phineus''': Yes. :'''Swink''': Shoot, I-I really shouldn't. ''[Phineus points at him, trying to make Swink change his mind]'' Okay, I'll figure something out. <hr width="50%"/> :'''October''': Whoever said size doesn't matter never played a third-person shooter. Can I have a 42-incher? You know I like the big ones. :'''Hutch''': Per usual, that is too much information. Oh, shit! Oh, man. :'''Phin''': ''[to October]'' You're a whore. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Evil Video Game Voice''': When fear cripples you, when death's dark shadow surrounds you, drop a rose. It will help you stay alive. :'''Swink''': Right. It'll give us a chance to escape a ghost, if we can't face it. :'''October''': Yeah, the undead can't cross the twig of a wild rose. :'''Phineus''': That is what you learn when you read too much goth chicklet. You should lay off the incest, sister. And the game's fun, but it kind of moves along at a snail's pace. ''[the camera cuts to the gang shooting down hundreds of child zombies]'' Left. Go left. Go left. Left. On your left. On your left. '''''LEFT! LEFT!!''''' Goddamn it, you noob! Okay, and you eat my nails, and you eat my nails. All right, go round the mausoleum, man. Nice. And eat this. ''Come on!'' Sweet Jesus, these dead bitches are coming out in droves! Miller, that's it; the Bathory tomb, right in front of you! Do not close the door, man! '''''Do not close the door! Miller!''''' ''[Miller does so anyway]'' '''''No! Oh, my God!''''' :'''Miller''': ''[notices secret entrance]'' Hello, Mumsy. :'''Abigail''': ''[notices something]'' Whoa, whoa, whoa. What's that? What's that? :'''Hutch''': What's-- Where? :'''Abigail''': Right there. Is something in that wardrobe? :'''Hutch'''; ''[impressed]'' Oh, nice eye! :'''Abigail''': Thank you. :'''Phineus''': Congrats, Abs. You popped your cherry. :'''Abigail''': It's, like, a secret room, or something. ''[noticing Bathory's painting and diary underneath]'' Is that a diary? :'''October''': Yeah. The one from the beginning of the game with the prayer in it. :'''Hutch''': Miller, are you okay? :'''Miller''': Uh, yeah, no, I'm good. :'''Phineus''': Are you in those tunnels again, man? Because there is absolutely no action down there; the doors are locked. :'''Miller''': Well, they're open now, you know, I'm explorin', I'm tearin' shit up. Ownin' fools. :'''October''': "Ownin' fools"? :'''Miller''': I'm telling you, my controller is vibratin'. :'''Hutch''': Dude, you better drop a rose. :'''Miller''': ''[does so but realizes he doesn't have any more]'' Now, I'm out of-- I'm out of G-- I'm out of Goddamn roses, man. :'''Swink''': At least tell us what you see before you book it out of there. :'''Miller''': Some sort of sick torture room or-- God, man. I just s-- I just saw a flash of...dead girls, or-- ''[Countess Elizabeth Bathory attacks his character]'' Goddamn it, man! ''[Bathory stabs Miller's character]'' Man, she got me. :'''October''': Who, one of the little girls? :'''Miller''': Some-some-some...woman, man. I think it was the dame from the painting. You know, that, that...countess. You know, I-I-I-I didn't even get a chance to fight her, man. :'''Phineus''': Okay, well, where's the torture chamber? 'Cause I want some ass. :'''Miller''': I don't know. I mean, I went through a secret entrance, you know. :'''Hutch''': Uh, you gonna try to get back in the game? :'''Miller''': ''[sighs]'' Well-- ''[a shadow of Elizabeth Bathory walks past]'' Hey, is somebody out there? ''[doesn't see anybody]'' :'''Hutch''': ''[through headset]'' Miller, who you talkin' to, man? :'''Miller''': Don't know. Uh, probably some Goddamn rent-a-cop tryin' to scare the shit out of the livin'. You know what they say. You know, you play the game too long, you know, you start seeing shit, you know, or have seizures. ''[chuckles nervously]'' :'''Swink''': Games ''could'' cause seizures. Now, perceptive of reality, on the other hand, has yielded some very interesting, you know, studies. :'''Phineus''': Yeah, I'm sure you've read them all. :'''Swink''': I have. You know, it seems the longer you play, the more your subconscious mind perceives the game world to be a reality. You know, it's really interesting, but it's only a theory, of course. But then, there's, you know, retinal memory, which, you know-- :'''October''': ''[interrupting; politely]'' That is so fascinating, sweetie, but I'm kind of feeling like we should call it a night. :'''Hutch''': ''[agreeing with October]'' Yeah, some of us have got to be at work. :'''Swink''': But I just figured out how to strip one of those zombie concubines naked. :'''Phin''': That ''is'' what I'm talking about. How do you do it? :'''Swink''': [[w:Konami Code|Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A(, Start)]]. :'''Phineus''': ''[enters the code]'' [[w:Breast|Boobs]]. :'''October''': ''[she and Hutch laugh in amused shock and disgust]'' Come on, you guys. Hutch is right. We'll pick it back up to date. :'''Hutch''': All right. Miller, you can, uh, rejoin us then. :'''Miller''': Yeah. Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah, and I'll, uh, check my schedule on that. :'''Hutch''': Thanks again for hanging with you guys. I really needed it. :'''Phineus''': ''[sighs; salutes]'' To Loomis. :'''Hutch, October, Abigail and Swink''': ''[simultaneously]'' To Loomis. :'''Miller''': To Loomis. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Swink''': [[w:The Warriors (film)|Can Hutch come out and play?]] :'''Hutch''': Swink! You scared the crap out of me! :'''Swink''': ''[unfazed]'' Why, yes. I would love to come inside. Thank you for asking. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Phineus''': If this genuinely is from Loomis, it must, in fact, be barely legal. :'''Hutch''': ''[trying, about the game]'' Okay, we got this from Loomis. It's called ''Stay Alive.'' We don't know much about it, except we're not supposed to have it. == Cast == :[[w:Jon Foster|Jon Foster]] - Hutch :[[w:Samaire Armstrong|Samaire Armstrong]] - Abigail :[[w:Frankie Muniz|Frankie Muniz]] - Swink :[[w:Jimmi Simpson|Jimmi Simpson]] - Phineus/Phin :[[w:Sophia Bush|Sophia Bush]] - October :[[w:Adam Golberg|Adam Golberg]] - Miller Banks :[[Milo Ventimiglia]] - Loomis Crowley == External Links == {{wikipedia}} * {{imdb title|id=0441796|title=Stay Alive}} [[Category:2006 films]] [[Category:Ghost films]] [[Category:Teen films]] [[Category:Slasher films]] [[Category:Films set in country houses]] bwbdcvdxq24vh1dptnr67nb2xeszn5a 0 96474 3961079 3906246 2026-07-05T15:04:00Z ~2026-22475-30 3310494 3961079 wikitext text/x-wiki {{DISPLAYTITLE:''The Simpsons''/Season 20}} {{The Simpsons header}} '''''[[w:The Simpsons|The Simpsons]]''''' (1989–present) is an American animated sitcom broadcast by the Fox Broadcasting Company created by [[Matt Groening]]. The series is a satirical depiction of American life, epitomized by the Simpson family. ===''[[w:Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes|Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes]]''=== :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': ''[watching the St. Patrick's Day celebrations]'' Urgh, where's the [[w:Provisional Irish Republican Army|IRA]] when you need them? :'''Ex-IRA Member''': We renounced the ways of the gun and the bomb. ''[A double decker bus bearing a Union Jack drives past]'' Oh, in the old days, we'd have been all over that. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Marge''': This was such a pleasant St. Patrick's Day until Irish people showed up. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Marge''': Bail is set at $25,000. :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': ''[scoffs]'' I make that in a year. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': So how about a little stakeout music. :'''[[w:Ned Flanders|Ned]]''': Homer, I don't think we have the same musical tastes. :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Well I like :'''[[w:AC/DC|AC/DC]]'''. :'''[[w:Ned Flanders|Ned]]''': I like their Christian cover band :'''[[w:Jesus Christ|AD/BC]]''. ''[Starts Singing]'':'''[[w:Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap|Kindly deeds done for free]]'''. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': And you have to promise me no "diddlies" or "doodlies." :'''[[w:Ned Flanders|Ned]]''': Friend, you got yourself a deal-a-rooney! :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': D'oh! ===''[[w:Lost Verizon|Lost Verizon]]''=== :'''Lisa''': ''[seeing what her parents are up to]'' Tracking software? ''[gasps]'' You're spying on Bart! :'''Marge''': Honey, keeping track of someone because you love them is not wrong. It shows you care. :'''Moe''': ''[Listening to Marge via his own bugging device in the basement]'' That's right my beautiful, beautiful Midge. ''[Laughs]'' Soon, you'll be mine. :'''FBI Agent #1''': ''[observing Moe via spy camera]'' Keep talking, creepo. :'''FBI Agent #2''': Every word buys you a year in the slammer. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Marge''': Bart, how did you get a cellphone? :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': The same way you got me, [[w:I Married Marge|by accident on a golf course.]] <hr width="50%"/> :''Constipated Gorilla''/''[[Denis Leary]]'': "No longer must we live in shame, let the decree go forth, EVERYBODY POOPS!" <hr width="50%"/> :''[Bart prank calls a Hawaiian bar]'' :'''Hawaiian Bartender''': Aloha. :'''Bart''': Aloha to you. I'm looking for Maya. Last name Normousbutt. :'''Hawaiian Bartender''': Hang on. I'll check. Uh, has anyone seen Maya Normousbutt? :''[Bar patrons laugh, while the bartender glares at the phone in rage.]'' <hr width="50%"/> :''[The scene switches from Hawaii to Australia as Bart calls Crocodile Drunkee's.]'' :'''Australian Bartender''': I've got a Drew P. Wiener(droopy wiener) here. Anyone expecting a Drew P. Wiener. I hold in my hand a Drew P. Wiener. :'''Australian Patron''': Better put it down then mate. :''[He and the other patrons laugh, as the bartender is enraged.]'' <hr width="50%"/> :''[Scene switches from Australia to Sweden. The bar's name is Inga Bar Beermans.]'' :'''Swedish Bartender''': Ja! I shall inquire. Is there a Mr. Myfriendsaregay, first name Olaf. Attention everyone, all of my friends are gay. :''[Bar patrons laugh, slowly]'' :'''Swedish Bartender''': Wait a minute. If I ever get a hold of you, I shall thank you for showing me the futility of human endeavors. ===''[[w:Double, Double, Boy in Trouble|Double, Double, Boy in Trouble]]''=== :''[Bart is at a low end of a see-saw while Mr Burns is at the high end and won't fall]'' :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': Why won't you come down? :'''[[w:Montgomery Burns|Mr. Burns]]''': I told you. I only weigh as much as my clothes and keys. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': ''[while falling]'' Aw, come on gravity...You used to be cool. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': You just cost me $200,000! :'''Bart''': I thought it was 50. :'''Homer''': I was gonna bet it on the dogs! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bart''': Uh, I can explain. :'''Krusty''': Kill the child! :''[Marge squats down to face Bart, but her old dress rips, and she groans in anger]'' :'''Marge''': Bart, I've had it with you! I'm taking away your TV privileges. :'''Bart''': You already did that. :'''Marge''': Okay, then video games. :'''Bart''': That, too. :'''Marge''': No more non-dice broad games! :'''Bart''': What? You can't take my Balderdash! :'''Marge''': I just did! ''[Bart grunts angrily and goes to the bathroom]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bart''': You look like a dorky version of me! :'''Simon''': And you look like a dim-witted version of me! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': ''[angrily strangles Simon, who is impersonating Bart, while the real Bart, impersonating Simon, is in the Woosterfield limousine]'' You ruined everything! :'''Bart''': Driver, laugh at those people for me. :'''Chester''': My pleasure, sir. ''[False laughing]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': ''[holding toy newspaper]'' For your information, The Daily Growl is the only newspaper that's not afraid to say how great this country is. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Bart marvels at the things in Simon's bedroom]'' :'''Bart''': Wow, cool poster of Joe Montana. :'''Joe Montana''': ''[steps out of the wall]'' It's not a poster. :''[Bart screams]'' :'''Joe Montana''': I'm the real deal. Every day I stand here the family donates a million dollars to Notre Dame. Did you know the words "Notre Dame" are French, but the team is the Fighting Irish? That's the kind of thing I think about in here. :'''Bart''': Back in the poster, gabby. :'''Joe Montana''': Yes, sir. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Homer, Marge and Lisa are eating noodles except Simon]'' :'''Simon''': Why are these noodles orange? :'''Marge''': I made it with Cheetos, just like you like it. If the sauce is too thick, I can add more root beer. :'''Simon''': Maybe I'm just not hungry. :'''Homer''': Human garbage can to the rescue! ''[he eats Simon's noodles, then he talks with mouthful]'' So at work today, we got a memo saying everyone's getting new chairs. :'''Simon''': Father, could you... :'''Homer''': ''[mouthful]'' Talk louder? You bet! Naturally I threw my old chair in the Dumpster right away! But then Lenny said, "No. That was the new chair. That memo was two months old." So now I'm sitting on an orange crate. I never felt so... :'''Simon''': ''[very angry]'' Will you stop spitting food on me? :'''Homer''': Huh? :'''Simon''': Keep your meal in your mouth, you semi-literate spew monkey! :'''Homer''': ''[angrily]'' That's it, boy! You're going to bed without supper! :''[Simon goes upstairs to Bart's bedroom]'' ===''[[w:Treehouse of Horror XIX|Treehouse of Horror XIX]]''=== :''[The kitchen is filled with appliances transforming]'' :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Hey, is there something different about the kitchen? :'''Transformers''': No, no, no. ''[Homer looks at the toaster which transforms into the word "No"]'' :'''Homer''': Well, the toaster's never lied to me before. <hr width=50%/> :'''Destructicus''': That does not compute. :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': ''[sternly]'' Really? :'''Destructicus''': Well, it computes a little. <hr width=50%/> :'''Krusty''': ''[on phone]'' Entertain the troops? No way! What have they ever done for me? :'''Homer''': ''[approaching him]'' Krusty, you made my daughter cry. :'''Krusty''': Hey, my intellectual property rights were being infringed. Do you know how that feels? Do you? Huh? Do you? :''[Enraged Homer pushes Krusty into a swing, into a merry-go-round that spins him onto a pony, then a trampoline, then into a wood chipper, Krusty screams as he shredded alive]'' :'''Homer''': ''[walks into Krusty has been killed, pick up his heart]'' One, two, three. One, two, three. Oh! It's no use. ''[closes Krusty's eyes]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': Well, you know, it is awfully hot today. ''[chuckles]'' Now I'm too cold. Mmm. <hr width=50%/> :''[Homer is being sucked into the possessed voting machine during the opener]'' :'''Homer''': This doesn't happen in America! Maybe in Ohio--but not America! ===''[[w:Dangerous Curves (The Simpsons)|Dangerous Curves]]''=== :'''Homer''': Hey, everybody pees in the pool. <hr width=50%/> :''[When a hitchhiker couple make out in the back of his car]'' :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Knock it off! How dare you expose my children to your tender feelings! Bart, don't you dare take your eyes off that game boy! :'''Bart''': Yes, sir. ''[Plays a video game about killing popular cereal mascots]'' I'm cuckoo for killing stuff! :'''Homer''': Video games: The reason this generation of Americans is the best ever. ===''[[w:Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words|Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words]]''=== :'''[[w:Springfield Elementary School#Superintendant Chalmers|Chalmers]]''': ''SIMPSON,'' what in the blue blazes are you doing to my hop-scotching grids? :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': ''[a bit worried]'' I made them into a crossword. :'''Chalmers''': Oh, well ha ha, I'm a bit of a puzzlehead myself. They help me wind down after a day of dealing with ''SKINNER!!'' :'''[[w:Seymour Skinner|Skinner]]''': ''[Appears in the school window.]'' You called? :'''Chalmers''': Made a reference. :'''Skinner''': My mistake. ''[Disappears back in the window.]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Chalmers''': You're welcome, now, I have to go home and make sure my pool boy is using his ''SKIMMER!!'' :'''[[w:Seymour Skinner|Skinner]]''': ''[Appears in the school window.]'' You called? :'''Chalmers''': You misheard. :'''Skinner''': My mistake. ''[Disappears back in the window.]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': I'd like to bet everything against my daughter. :''[Everyone in the bar turns and gasps.]'' :'''Bookie''': I'll take your money...but I won't look you in the eye. :'''Homer''': Fine! I won't look you in the eye! :''[Short period of them poking each other with the money and a bag for taking the money.]'' :'''Homer''': Got it? :'''Bookie''': ''[muffled with money in his mouth]'' I got it. <hr width=50%/> :'''Bookie''': Here's your money, soaked in your daughter's tears. :'''Homer''': Y'know, for a bartender bookie, you're awfully judgmental. <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Nelson Muntz|Nelson]]''': Mr. S. Lisa B. ===''[[w:MyPods and Boomsticks|MyPods and Boomsticks]]''=== :'''Steve Mobbs''': Greetings! It is I, your insanely great leader Steve Mobbs. I'm speaking to you from Mapple headquarters deep beneath the sea with an announcement that will change the way you look at everything. And that announcement is... :'''Bart''': ''[speaking through a microphone over Mobbs' visual]''...you're all losers! :''[the crowd moans in disappointment]'' :'''Bart''': You think you're cool because you buy a $500 phone with a picture of a fruit on it. Well guess what, they cost eight bucks to make and I pee on every one! :''[the crowd gasps in horror]'' :'''Bart''': I have made a fortune off you chumps. And I've invested it all in Microsoft. Now my boyfriend Bill Gates and I kiss each other on a pile of your money! <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Praise to Oliver! :'''Mina''': That's Allah. :'''Homer''': We'll look it up in the Corona. <hr width=50%/> :'''Bashir''': ''[holding up Bart's sling shot]'' Bart forgot this, sir. :'''Homer''': "Sir?" That's the kind of respect I'd have to strangle out of an American kid! <hr width=50%/> :'''Lisa''': 1200 Dollars?! But I only downloaded... 1212 songs. ===''[[w:The Burns and the Bees|The Burns and the Bees]]''=== :'''Seymour Skinner''': Hmmm, Men, the room for me. :'''Jimbo''': Nice prank, Simpson. I dare you to dump that bees' nest on those second grade babies. :'''Bart''': Why would I want to? :'''Jimbo''': Because I said "I dare you." Kearney, can you read it back? :'''Kearney''': ''[Reading]'' "Nice prank, Simpson. I dare you to dump that bees' nest on those second-grade babies. :'''Bart''': Why would I want to? :'''Jimbo''': Because I said 'I dare you.' Kearney, can you read it back? :'''Kearney''': ''[Reading]'' Nice prank, Simpson. I dare you to--" :'''Jimbo''': The point is, Simpson, a dare has been placed on your nards. :'''Bart''': My nards accept. <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Montgomery Burns|Mr. Burns]]''': Who is that man and why isn't his enthusiasm being punished? :'''[[w:Waylon Smithers|Smithers]]''': That's Mark Cuban, sir. He's the most flamboyant owner in the league. :'''[[w:Mark Cuban|Mark Cuban]]''': ''[Slides down a zip line from a hook while holding a fire cracker.]'' ''[enthusiastically]'' I'M OUT OF MY MIND! <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': Dad, all the bees are dying. :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Oohh no more bees! Now who'll sting me and walk over my sandwiches? :'''Lisa''': But without bees there would be no flowers. :'''Homer''': ''[scoffs]'' Flowers: The painted whores of the plant world. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Mr Burns''': ''[Walks into a tree, and falls over. He then points at the tree.]'' Kill his acorns and make him watch. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:List of media personalities in The Simpsons#Bumblebee Man|Bumblebee Man]]''': Stop, I'm one of you! :'''Bee''': ''[buzzing]'' We hate you the most, uncle Tom! ===''[[w:Lisa the Drama Queen|Lisa the Drama Queen]]''=== :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': Hey Mom, can Juliet sleepover? :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': Are your parents okay with that? They've never met us. :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': We could be murderers. :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Could have been, if we hadn't had kids. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bart''': Nice doorbell. Is it computerized? :'''Homer''': Hey, that was... ''[hits Bart]'' :'''Bart''': Ow! :'''Marge''': Homer! :'''Homer''': Well, we... I... You come up with an excuse! ''[hits Bart again]'' :'''Bart''': Ow! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lisa''': You can't keep Juliet and me apart! I'll... I'll disobey! :'''Marge''': I'm Bart Simpson's mother, do you think you've got any tricks I haven't seen. ''[Leaves the room.]'' :''[Lisa climbs out the window and slides down the tree only to land in a laundry basket being held by Marge.]'' :'''Marge''': Bart Simpson: Age 3. ''[Marge takes the laundry basket with Lisa back inside.]'' :'''Bart''': ''[Comes out of a hidden door in the tree dressed in black.]'' Bart Simpson: Age 10. Mhwahahahaha! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Marge''': Are you saying Lisa is not at the Model U.N.? :'''[[w:Martin Prince|Martin]]''': ''[Dressed as a Belgian delegate.]'' To the extent you can trust the word of a Belgian...yes! ===''[[w:Take My Life, Please|Take My Life, Please]]''=== :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': I'm going to find Dondelinger and tell him [[w:I Know What You Did Last Summer|I know what he did last summer]]...22 years ago...in the winter! <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Montgomery Burns|Mr. Burns]]''': Sector 7G? No, let the Lennys and Carls of this world waste their wretched lives in that testicle-shriveling torture chamber. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Dondelinger|Dondelinger]]''': The brown-haired girl gave me a look, The redhead in the park was reading a book, The girl at the airport upgraded my car, Tonight I wonder, just where you are... ===''[[w:How the Test Was Won|How the Test Was Won]]''=== :'''[[w:Seymour Skinner|Principal Skinner]]''': At the end of the month we're be participating in the Vice President's Assessment Test. :'''[[w:Nelson Muntz|Nelson]]''': He stinks! :'''Principal Skinner''': We're assessing ''you'', not him. :'''Nelson''': Withdrawn. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Springfield Elementary School#Superintendent Chalmers|Chalmers]]''': Lisa, like [[w:Captain Kirk|Captain Kirk]] I'm not supposed to interfere but like [[w:T.J. Hooker|T.J. Hooker]] I say what is on my mind. If you don't know the answer, just guess. :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': This test penalizes guessing. :'''Chalmers''': It does? Alright NOBODY GUESS! Just be right! Get down on your knees, pray to your God, and ask him, no, DEMAND he tell you the answer and if he won't, he is no God of yours! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bart''': ''[after the women in book club are dying]'' Oh my God, Oh my God, we're totally liable! ''[notices the only woman you have left and began canoodling and making out]'' :'''Homer''': Ohhhhh...yes. ''[but realizes the dream was so gross and unreliable]'' I mean... '''NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!''' ''[camera zooms back out to see if Marge and the women in book club are safe]'' ===''[[w:No Loan Again, Naturally|No Loan Again, Naturally]]''=== :'''[[w:Ned Flanders|Ned]]''': This is so hard because I always thought Mom was the strong one. :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': She ''is''. Look. :''[Homer is crying as he is about to hang himself on a tree.]'' :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Goodbye. :''[He hangs himself, only for the tree to crash on his car.]'' :'''Homer''': ''[getting up]'' D'oh! <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': How about a family outing? :'''Bart''': Family outing? I'll start. Lisa's gay! <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': Hooray for stupid Flanders! <hr width=50%/> :'''Bart''': What the! :'''Marge''': Maybe it's theses. :'''Homer''': Yes. ===''[[w:Gone Maggie Gone|Gone Maggie Gone]]''=== :'''Marge''': There'll be another one in Yemen in 2027. <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Now Maggie, I'll be watching you too, in case God is busy creating tornadoes or not existing. <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': C'mon lady, have a heart! I'm sure your husband does stupid things sometimes too. :'''Mother Superior''': ''[indignantly]'' I'm married to [[W:Jesus|Jesus]]! :'''Homer''': Pssh, yeah right. And I'm married to [[w:Marge Simpson|Wonder Woman]]! <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': Don't eat so fast! ''[talking to his hand that's pretending to be Maggie]'' :'''Homer's Hand''': No! Me so hungry! <hr width=50%/> :'''Mother Superior''': ''[to Lisa]'' You must wear your gown with modesty, not like Sister Marilyn. :'''Sister Marilyn''': ''[In a nun's gown, standing over a wind thing, mimicking the famous photograph.]'' Oooh! <hr width=50%/> :'''Mother Superior''': Are you a bit of a [[w:Doubting Thomas|Doubting Thomas]]? :'''Lisa''': More of a [[w:Curious George|Curious George]]. :'''Mother Superior''': Well, little monkey, you should spend some time with the man in the yellow hat. :''[Cut to Lisa in front of a picture of Jesus with a halo that looks like a hat.]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': Step a side [[W:Nuns|ladies]], I'm bringing the [[hell|peace]]. ===''[[w:In the Name of the Grandfather|In the Name of the Grandfather]]''=== :'''Garda (Irish Cop) 1''': So, it's a Smokeasy you're running, then? :''[Homer and Grampa try to run]'' :'''Garda (Irish Cop) 2''': So, it's escaping you're thinking of, then? :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': I can't tell if those are questions or statements. :'''Garda (Irish Cop) 1''': So, it's our syntax you're criticizing, then? ===''[[w:Wedding for Disaster|Wedding for Disaster]]''=== :'''[[w:Reverend Timothy Lovejoy|Reverend Lovejoy]]''': So in summary, there are only two real commandments and the other eight are just filler. <hr width=50%/> :''[Trying on a tuxedo.]'' :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': This one's a little gay, isn't it? :'''Store Worker''': Well the last time I checked, pirates weren't gay. :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Ew. How'd you check? <hr width=50%/> :'''Bart''': So if you weren't married, does that mean I'm a bastard? :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': You were born when they were married, so in the literal sense, no. But in the sense of someone being angry at you, yes. :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': It's not a big deal. We'll just go to City Hall and get married there. :'''Lisa''': ''[to Homer and Marge]'' I think it's romantic: you can pretend you're newlyweds, starting a life together! :'''Bart''': Yeah, instead of exhausted zombies running down the clock! :'''Homer''': ''[turns red in anger]'' Why you little bastard! ''[Grabs Bart and starts strangling him.]'' :'''Lisa''': That's the angry one! :'''Bart''': ''[chokingly]'' Uh-huh! <hr width=50%/> :'''Moe''': I'm selling all sorts of faith based knick knacks. ''[points to bumper stickers]'' :'''Channel 6 newsman''': Let's take a look. :'''Moe''': ''[reading bumper stickers]'' I'd commit arson for the Parson. Clergyman can kiss my apse. And all kinds of gems. Surprisingly none of them have sold. Except for this one. ''[holds up button that reads "Welcome Parson"]'' ===''[[w:Eeny Teeny Maya Moe|Eeny Teeny Maya Moe]]''=== :''[At Moe's.]'' :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': ''[to Maggie]'' Now you learn your numbers from these billiard balls while daddy gets happier and happier and then sadder and sadder. <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Carl Carlson|Carl]]''': How did your date go, Moe? :'''[[w:Moe Szyslak|Moe]]''': Incredible. I've never felt like this before. It's like my heart wants to do her. <hr width=50%/> :'''Moe''': You gotta make me shorter doc. :'''[[w:Julius Hibbert|Dr. Hibbert]]''': ''[laughs]'' What do you mean? :'''Moe''':I mean take out bones, guts, whatever you gotta do to make me a micro Moe. :'''Dr. Hibbert''': What you're asking is completely unethical. No licensed physician would perform that operation. :''[Cuts to Dr. Nick.]'' :'''[[w:Nick Riviera|Dr. Nick]]''': Now close your eyes and when you wake up you will be a woman. :'''Moe''': No, no, no, no, no! I-I wanna be shorter, for a woman. :'''Dr. Nick''': Uh oh. I mixed you up with the last guy. :''[Pans to Largo.]'' :'''[[w:Springfield Elementary School#Dewey Largo|Largo]]''': ''[screams]'' I look nothing like Julie Newmar! <hr width=50%/> :'''Moe''': Who'd have thought that such a little woman could make me feel so big? ===''[[w:The Good, the Sad and the Drugly|The Good, the Sad and the Drugly]]''=== :'''[[w:Principal Skinner|Principal Skinner]]''': ''[to Milhouse]'' We've got the how, we've got the who, but we don't have the why. :'''Homer''': ''[with letter "Y" in his head]'' Here 'tis. ''[Yanks Y from his head and placed it on a desk.]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': Oh, Bart. I don't care that this is just an act. You've finally become the boy every mother dreams of--A girl! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Marge''': Are you saying our entire relationship is based on lies? :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': Not our entire relationship, just the stuff I said. <hr width="50%" /> :'''Homer''': Sounds like someone's got a case of the Mondays. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lisa''': If you don't stop smiling, you're gonna get a kiss! :''[Maggie holds up a fan, which Lisa tries to kiss. Marge comes into the room and gasps loudly, and unplugs the fan]'' ===''[[w:Father Knows Worst|Father Knows Worst]]''=== :''[Throwing an old water heater onto a pile of water heaters in the attic.]'' :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': Five more water heaters and we get a free water heater! :''[Camera pans down showing the floor sagging over Maggie's crib due to the weight of five old water heaters.]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': Lamb kebab! ''[swallows it]'' Chicken kebab! ''[swallows it also]'' Fire kebab! :'''Lisa''': Dad, no! :'''Bart''': Dad, yes! <hr width=50%> :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': I've never been called "fierce" before. "Strident." "Hectoring" has been tossed around. <hr width=50%> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': I'm sorry, Moe. I didn't mean ''everybody'' everybody, hope you don't mind. <hr width=50%> :''[In a dream, Homer meets the ghost of [[Oscar Wilde]]]'' :'''Oscar Wilde''': Homer, there are only two tragedies in life: One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. :'''Marge''': But that makes no sense. :'''Oscar Wilde''': Experience is simply the name we give to our mistakes. :'''Homer''': Shut up! :'''Oscar Wilde''': These days, man knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. :'''Homer''': Whatever happened to "Boo"? ===''[[w:Waverly Hills 9021-D'oh|Waverly Hills 9021-D'oh]]''=== :'''Alaska Nebraska''': I am so sick of fans in my food. <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': Get a room! :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Come on boy, be cool. :'''Bart''': But- :'''Homer''': Be cool or you're grounded! ===''[[w:Four Great Women and a Manicure|Four Great Women and a Manicure]]''=== :'''King Julio''': ''[about Lenny]'' Guards take him away and put things inside of him! :'''Guard''': Nice things? :'''Julio''': No, not nice things! <hr width=50%/> :'''Moe''': ''[upon seeing Selma naked]'' Whoa, someone call Beowulf! Grendel got in again! <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Patty and Selma Bouvier|Selma]]''': I don't need a man, for I have England! :'''[[w:Moe Szyslak|Moe]]''': Yeah, you keep telling yourself that. <hr width=50%/> :'''Reverend Lovejoy''': Lord Jesus, although [[w:English Reformation|our country turned Protestant]] for the sole reason that [[w:Henry VIII|our fat, mean king]] could dump his [[w:Catherine of Aragon|faithful wife]], we know you're on our side. So please destroy these horrible monsters who believe [[w:Mary (mother of Jesus)|your mother]] should be revered. <hr width=50%/> :'''King Julio''': Normally I love to see flaming dream boats heading my way but not like this baby!! Not like this!!! <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': ''[After a dying Sideshow Mel praises William Shakespeare.]'' Well, if you see him in Heaven...tell him he sucks! <hr width=50%/> :''[The spirit of Marge is impressed that he gave out a terrific performance and implores him to audition for more Shakespearean plays by tossing script in front of him. Horrified, Homer chooses the easy way out and commits [[w:suicide|suicide by shooting himself]].]'' :'''Homer''': ''[Joins Marge as a ghost]'' Me reading all those plays would be the real tragedy. :''[Homer is content with being lazy while Marge is frustrated and learns her lesson the hard way.]'' ===''[[w:Coming to Homerica|Coming to Homerica]]''=== :''[At the Simpsons' house, Homer is sleeping on the couch; his stomach is rumbling.]'' :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': What's wrong, old friend? Can't sleep? ''[his stomach continues rumbling]'' Aww. Would some warm beer settle you down? ''[his stomach continues rumbling]'' Uh-oh. ''[gets up and runs off]'' Those barley burgers were tainted! Why did I eat twelve of them?! Why?! ''[runs to a bathroom door, only to find Marge using it]'' :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': Taken! :''[Homer shuts the bathroom door, and runs upstairs to another bathroom door, only to find Bart using it.]'' :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': Occupied! :''[Homer runs to another bathroom door, only to find Lisa using it.]'' :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': Hurling! :''[Homer runs, looks both ways, runs into Lisa's bedroom, and vomits into her saxophone; his mouth gets stuck trying to get it out.]'' :'''Homer''': Uh-oh! <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Milhouse Van Houten|Milhouse]]''': [[w:Minnesota Vikings|Minnesota Vikings]] apparel? This is [[w:Tennessee Titans|Tennessee Titans]] country! <hr width=50%/> :'''Marge''': Homie, I don't think we should build a fence. Haven't we always taught the children to make friends with those who are a little different? :'''Lisa''': Yes! :'''Bart''': Yeah! :'''[[w: Maggie Simpson|Maggie]]''': Ja! ''[Marge gasps.]'' :'''Maggie''': Ja! Ja! :'''Homer''': ''[in a tense voice]'' Now do you see Marge? ''[grasping Maggie]'' Now do you see why we must build that fence? :'''Marge''': BUILD IT, HOMIE! MAKE IT AS TALL AS THE SKY AND DEEPER THAN HELL! :'''Maggie''': Ja! 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He is best known for his work under the pen name '''[[w:Lemony Snicket|Lemony Snicket]]'''. == Quotes == ===''[[w:The Bad Beginning|The Bad Beginning]]'' (1999) === *For Beatrice-- :Darling, dearest, dead. *It is useless to for me to describe to know how terrible Violet, Klaus and even Sunny felt in the time that followed. If you have ever lost someone very important to you, then you already know how it feels, and if you haven't, you cannot possibly imagine it. *I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong. You can look at a painting for the first time for example, and not like it at all, but after looking at it a little longer you may find it very please. The first time you try Gorgonzola cheese you may find it too strong, but when you are older you may want to eat nothing but Gorgonzola cheese. Klaus, when Sunny was born, did not like her at all, but by the time she was six weeks old the two of them were as thick as thieves. Your initial opinion on just about anything may change over time. *It is very useful, when one is young, to learn the difference between "literally" and "figuratively." If something happens literally, it actually happens; if something happens figuratively, it feels like it is happening. If you are literally jumping for joy, for instance, it means you are leaping in the air because you are very happy. If you are figuratively jumping for joy, it means you are so happy that you could jump for joy, but are saving your energy for other matters. ===''[[w:The Reptile Room|The Reptile Room]]'' (1999) === *For Beatrice-- :My love for you shall live forever. :You, however, did not. *With the cloth off its cage, the snake began to uncoil itself and slither around its home. :"Because I discovered it," Uncle Monty said, "I got to name it." :"What is it called?" Violet asked. :"The Incredibly Deadly Viper," Uncle Monty replied, and at that moment something happened which I'm sure will interest you. With one flick ofits tail, the snake unlatched the door of its cage and slithered out onto the table, and before Uncle Monty or any of the Baudelaire orphans could say anything, it opened its mouth and bit Sunny right on the chin. *I am very, very sorry to leave you hanging like that, but as I was writing the tale of the Baudelaire orphans, I happened to look at the clock and realized I was running late for a formal dinner party given by a friend of mine, Madame diLustro. Madame diLustro is a good friend, an excellent detective, and a fine cook, but she flies into a rage if you arrive even five minutes later than her invitation states, so you understand that I had to dash off. You must have thought, at the end of the previous chapter, that Sunny was dead and that this was the terrible thing that happened to the Baudelaires at Uncle Monty's house, but I promise you Sunny survives this particular episode. It is Uncle Monty, unfortunately, who will be dead, but not yet. *There is a type of situation, which occurs all too often and which is occurring at this point in the story of the Baudelaire orphans, called "dramatic irony." Simply put, dramatic irony is when a person makes a harmless remark, and someone else who hears it knows something that makes the remark have a different, and usu- ally unpleasant, meaning. For instance, if you were in a restaurant and said out loud, "I can't wait to eat the veal marsala I ordered," and there were people around who knew that the veal marsala was poisoned and that you would die as soon as you took a bite, your situation would be one of dramatic irony. Dramatic irony is a cruel occurrence, one that is almost always upsetting, and I'm sorry to have it appear in this story, but Violet, Klaus, and Sunny have such unfortunate lives that it was only a matter of time before dramatic irony would rear its ugly head. *When you were very small, perhaps someone read to you the insipid story —the word "insipid" here means "not worth reading to someone" of the Boy Who Cried Wolf. A very dull boy, you may remember, cried "Wolf!" when there was no wolf, and the gullible villagers ran to rescue him only to find the whole thing was a joke. Then he cried "Wolf!" when it wasn't a joke, and the villagers didn't come running, and the boy was eaten and the story, thank goodness, was over. The story's moral, of course, ought to be "Never live somewhere where wolves are running around loose," but whoever read you the story probably told you that the moral was not to lie. This is an absurd moral, for you and I both know that sometimes not only is it good to lie, it is necessary to lie. For example, it was perfectly appropriate, after Violet left the Reptile Room, for Sunny to crawl over to the cage that held the Incredibly Deadly Viper, unlatch the cage, and begin screaming as loudly as she could even though nothing was really wrong. ===''[[w:The Wide Window|The Wide Window]]'' (2000) === :For Beatrice--I would much prefer it if you were alive and well. *Violet: You are being unbearable, with a U! :Klaus: And YOU are being stupid, with an S! :Sunny: Aget! (meaning "Please stop fighting!") :Violet and Klaus looked at their baby sister and then at one another. Oftentimes, when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps. *There are few sights sadder than a ruined book. -Lemony Snicket *If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats. -Lemony Snicket *Stealing, of course, is a crime, and a very impolite thing to do. But like most impolite things, it is excusable under certain circumstances. Stealing is not excusable if, for instance, you are in a museum and you decide that a certain painting would look better in your house, and you simply grab the painting and take it there. But if you were very, very hungry, and you had no way of obtaining money, it might be excusable to grab the painting, take it to your house, and eat it. -Lemony Snicket *Aunt Josephine: "Oh, I could never sell this house. I'm terrified of realtors." *There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or, in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don't. For instance, the Baudelaire orphans have a fear of Count Olaf, which makes perfect sense, because he is an evil man who wants to destroy them. But if they were afraid of lemon meringue pie, this would be an irrational fear, because lemon meringue pie is delicious and would never hurt a soul. Being afraid of a monster under the bed is perfectly rational, because there may in fact be a monster under your bed at any time, ready to eat you all up, but fear of realtors is an irrational fear. Realtors, as I'm sure you know, are people who assist in the buying and selling of houses. Besides occasionally wearing an ugly yellow coat, the worst a realtor can do to you is show you a house that you find ugly, so it is completely irrational to be terrified of them. -Lemony Snicket *It may surprise you to learn that at this moment [looking at Captain Shan’s peg leg], Sunny resembled the famous Greek conqueror Alexander the Great. Alexander the Great lived more than two thousand years ago, and his last name was not actually "The Great." "The Great" was something that he forced people to call him, by bringing a bunch of soldiers into their land and proclaiming himself king. Besides invading other people's countries and forcing them to do whatever he said, Alexander the Great was famous for something called the Gordian Knot. The Gordian Knot was a fancy knot tied in a piece of rope by a king named Gordius. Gordius said that if Alexander could untie it, he could rule the whole kingdom. But Alexander, who was too busy conquering places to learn how to untie knots, simply drew his sword and cut the Gordian Knot in two. This was cheating, of course, but Alexander had too many soldiers for Gordius to argue, and soon everybody in Gordium had to bow down to You-Know-Who the Great. Ever since then, a difficult problem can be called a Gordian Knot, and if you solve the problem in a simple way- even if the way is rude-you are cutting the Gordian Knot. ===''[[w:The Miserable Mill|The Miserable Mill]]'' (2000)=== :To Beatrice--My love flew like a butterfly :Until death swooped down like a bat :As the poet Emma Montana McElroy said: :That's the end of that. *'''Mr Poe:''' "I think you children will have a good home here. I hope you do, anyway, because I've just received a promotion at Mulctuary Money Management. I'm now the Vice President in Charge of Coins, and from now on I will be busier than ever. If anything goes wrong with you here, I will have to send you to boarding school until I have time to find you another home, so please be on your best behavior." :'''Violet:''' "Of course, Mr. Poe," :'''Klaus:''' "What is our new caretaker's name? You haven't told us." :'''Mr Poe:''' "His name is Mr. Wuz- Mr. Qui- I can't pronounce it. It's very long and complicated." :'''Klaus:''' "Can I see? Maybe I can figure out how to pronounce it." :'''Mr. Poe:''' "No, no. "If it's too complicated for an adult, it's much too complicated for a child." :'''Sunny:''' "Ghand!" ("But Klaus reads many complicated books!") *I’m sure you have heard it said that appearance does not matter so much and that it is what's on the inside that counts. This is, of course, utter nonsense, because if it were true then people who were good on the inside would never have to comb their hair or take a bath, and the whole world would smell even worse than it already does. -Lemony Snicket *As I'm sure you know, whenever there is a mirror around, it is almost impossible not to take a look at yourself. Even though we all know what we look like, we all like just to look at our reflections, if only to see how we're doing. -Lemony Snicket *The moral of 'The Three Bears,' for instance, is 'Never break into someone else's house." The moral of "Snow White" is "Never eat apples." The moral of World War One is "Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand". -Lemony Snicket *Dear Reader, :I hope, for your sake, that you have not chosen to read this book because you are in the mood for a pleasant experience. If this is the case, I advise you to put this book down instantaneously, because of all the books describing the unhappy lives of the Baudelaire orphans, The Miserable Mill might be the unhappiest yet. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are sent to Paltryville to work in a lumber mill, and they find disaster and misfortune lurking behind every log. :The pages of this book, I'm sorry to inform you, contain such unpleasantries as a giant pincer machine, a bad casserole, a man with a cloud of smoke where his head should be, a hypnotist, a terrible accident resulting in injury, and coupons. :I have promised to write down the entire history of these three poor children, but you haven't, so if you prefer stories that are more heartwarming, please feel free to make another selection. :With all due respect, :Lemony Snicket *'''Violet''': You’d better get to bed, Klaus. Follow me. :'''Klaus''': Yes, sir. :'''Violet''': ''Sir''? I’m not a sir—I’m your sister! ===''[[w:The Austere Academy|The Austere Academy]]'' (2000)=== :For Beatrice-- :You will always be in my heart, in my mind, and in your grave. *Get out of my way, you cakesniffers! -Carmelita Spats *Klaus: ''Maybe'' I don't know what "cakesniffer" means, but I think I can translate our new school's motto... If I'm not mistaken, "Memento Mori" means "Remember you will die". *Everybody will die, of course, sooner or later. Circus performers will die, and clarinet experts will die, and you and I will die, and there might be a person who lives on your block, right now, who is not looking both ways before he crosses the street and who will die in just a few seconds, all because of a bus. Everybody will die, but very few people want to be reminded of that fact. The children certainly did not want to remember that they would die, particularly as they walked beneath the arch over Prufrock Prep. The Baudelaire orphans did not need to be reminded of this as they began their first day in the giant graveyard that was now their home. *Shyness is a very curious thing, because, like quicksand, it can strike people are any time, and also, like quicksand, it usually makes its victims look down. *The expression "Making a mountain out of a molehill" simply means making a big deal out of something that is actually a small deal, and it is easy to see how this expression came about. Molehills are simply mounds of earth serving as condominiums for moles, and they have never caused anyone harm except for maybe a stubbed toe if you were walking around the wilderness without any shoes on. Mountains, however, are very large mounds of earth and are constantly causing problems. They are very tall, and when people try to climb them they often fall off, or get lost and die of starvation. Sometimes, two countries fight over who really owns a mountain, and thousands of people have to go to war and come home grumpy or wounded. And, of course, mountains serve as homes to mountain goats and mountain lions, who enjoy attacking helpless picnickers and eating sandwiches or children. So when someone is making a mountain out of a molehill, they are pretending that something is as horrible as a war or a ruined picnic when it is really only as horrible as a stubbed toe. *Assumptions are dangerous things to make, and like all dangerous things to make--bombs for instance, or strawberry shortcake--if you make even the tiniest mistake you can find yourself in terrible trouble. Making assumptions simply means believing things are a certain way with little or no evidence that shows you are correct, and you can see how this can lead to terrible trouble. For instance, one morning you might wake up and make the assumption that your bed was in the same place that it always was, even though you would have no real evidence that this was so. But when you got out of your bed, you might discover that it has floated out to sea, and now you would be in terrible trouble all because of the incorrect assumption that you'd made. You can see that it is better not to make too many assumptions, particularly in the morning. *Dear Reader, :If you are looking for a story about cheerful youngsters spending a jolly time at boarding school, look elsewhere. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are intelligent and resourceful children, and you might expect that they would do very well at school. Don't. For the Baudelaires, school turns out to be another miserable episode in their unlucky lives. :Truth be told, within the chapters that make up this dreadful story, the children will face snapping crabs, strict punishments, dripping fungus, comprehensive exams, violin recitals, S.O.R.E., and the metric system. Most of all The worst thing that can happen to their friends, (Quagmires) :It is my solemn duty to stay up all night researching and writing the history of these three hapless youngsters, but you may be more comfortable getting a good night's sleep. In that case, you should probably choose some other book. :With all due respect, :Lemony Snicket ===''[[w:The Ersatz Elevator|The Ersatz Elevator]]'' (2001)=== *For Beatrice--When we met, my life began. Soon afterward, yours ended **Lemony Snicket *The world 'bubble' is in the dictionary, as is the word 'peacock,' the word 'vacation,' and the words 'the,' 'author's,' 'execution,' 'has,' 'been,' 'canceled,' which make up a sentence that is always pleasant to hear. So, if you were to read the dictionary, rather than this book, you could skip the parts about 'nervous' and 'anxious' and read about things that wouldn't keep you up all night, weeping and tearing your hair out. But this book is not a dictionary, and if you were to skip the parts about 'nervous' and 'anxious' you would be skipping the most pleasant parts of the entire story. Nowhere in this book will you find the words 'bubble,' 'peacock,' 'vacation,' or, unfortunately for me, anything about an execution being canceled. **Lemony Snicket *If you were to take a plastic bag and place it inside a large bowl, and then, using a wooden spoon, stir the bag around, you could use the expression 'a mixed bag' to describe what you had in front of you, but you would not be using the expression in the same way I am about to use it now. Although 'a mixed bag' sometimes refers to a plastic bag that has been stirred in a bowl, more often, it is used to describe a situation that has both good parts and bad parts. An afternoon movie theater, for example, would be a mixed bag if your favorite movie were showing, but if you had to eat gravel instead of popcorn. A trip to the zoo would be a very mixed bag if the weather were beautiful, but all the man and woman-eating lions were running around loose. ** Lemony Snicket *If you are ever forced to take a chemistry class, you will probably see, at the front of the classroom, a large chart divided into squares, with different numbers and letters in each of them. This chart is called the table of elements, and scientists like to say that it contains all the substances that make up our world. Like everyone else, scientists are wrong from time to time, and it is easy to see that they are wrong about the table of elements. Because although this table contains a great many elements, from the element oxygen, which is found in the air, to the element of aluminum, which is found in cans of soda, the table of elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of surprise. The element of surprise is not a gas like oxygen, or a solid, like aluminum. The element of surprise is an unfair advantage, and it can be found in situations in which one person has sneaked up on another. The surprised person - or, in this sad case, the surprised person - are too stunned to defend themselves and the sneaky person has the advantage of the element of surprise. ** Lemony Snicket ===''[[w:The Vile Village|The Vile Village]]'' (2001)=== * For Beatrice--When we were together I felt breathless. Now, you are.-Lemony Snicket * Just about everything in this world is easier said than done, with the exception of ‘systematically assisting Sisyphus’s stealthy, Syst-susceptible sister,’ which is easier done than said. - Lemony Snicket<br /> *No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read. For instance, if you are walking in the mountains, and you don't read the sign that says "Beware of Cliff" because you were busy reading a joke book instead, you may suddenly find yourself walking on air rather than on a sturdy bed of rocks. If you are baking a pie for your friends, and you read an article entitled "How to Build a Chair" instead of a cookbook, your pie will probably end up tasting like wood and nails instead of like crust and fruity filling. And if you insist on reading this book instead of something more cheerful, you will most certainly find yourself moaning in despair instead of wriggling with delight, so if you have any sense at all you will put this book down and pick up another one. I know of a book, for instance, called The Littlest Elf, which tells the story of a teensy-weensy little man who scurries around fairyland having all sorts of adorable adventures, and you can see at once that you should probably read The Littlest Elf and wriggle over the lovely things that happened to this imaginary creature in a made-up place, instead of reading this book and moaning over the terrible things that have happened to the three Baudelaire orphans. - Lemony Snicket<br /> *A newspaper, as I'm sure you know, is a collection of supposedly true stories written down by writers who either saw them happen or talked to people who did. These writers are called journalists, and like telephone operators, butchers, ballerinas, and people who clean up after horses, journalists can sometimes make mistakes. - Lemony Snicket *When you traveling by bus, it is always difficult to decide whether you should sit in a seat by the window, a seat on the aisle, or a seat in the middle. If you take an aisle seat, you have the advantage of being able to stretch your legs whenever you like, but you have the disadvantage of people walking by you, and they can accidentally step on your toes or spill something on your clothing. If you take a window seat, you have the advantage of getting a clear view of the scenery, but you have the disadvantage of watching insects die as they hit the glass. If you take the middle seat, you have neither of these advantages, and you have the added disadvantage of people leaning all over you when they fall asleep. You can see at once why you should always hire a limousine or rent a mule rather than take the bus to your destination. - Lemony Snicket<br /> *Although "jumping to conclusions" is an expression, rather than an activity, it is as dangerous as jumping off a cliff, jumping in front of a moving train, and jumping for joy. If you jump off a cliff, you have a very good chance of experiencing a painful landing unless there is something below you to cushion your fall, such as a body of water or an immense pile of tissue paper. If you jump in front of a moving train, you have a very good chance of experiencing a painful voyage unless you are wearing some sort of train-proof suit. And if you jump for joy, you have a very good chance of experiencing a painful bump on the head, unless you make sure you are standing someplace with very high ceilings, which joyous people rarely do. Clearly, the solution to anything involving jumping is either to make sure you are jumping to a safe place, or not to jump at all. - Lemony Snicket<br /> *In this large and fierce world of ours, there are many, many unpleasant places to be. You can be in a river swarming with angry electric eels, or in a supermarket filled with vicious long-distance runners. You can be in a hotel that has no room service, or you can be lost in a forest that is slowly filling up with water. You can be in a hornet's nest or in an abandoned airport or the office of a pediatric surgeon, but one of the most unpleasant things that can happen is to find yourself in a quandary. - Lemony Snicket<br /> *Entertaining a notion, like entertaining a baby cousin or entertaining a pack of hyenas, is a dangerous thing to refuse to do. If you refuse to entertain a baby cousin, the baby cousin may get bored and entertain itself by wandering off and falling down a well. If you refuse to entertain a pack of hyenas, they may become restless and entertain themselves by devouring you. But if you refuse to entertain a notion--which is just a fancy way of saying that you refuse to think about a certain idea--you have to be much braver than someone who is merely facing some bloodthirsty animals, or some parents who are upset and find their little darling at the bottom of a well, because nobody knows what an idea will do when it goes off to entertain itself, particularly if the idea comes from a sinister villain. - Lemony Snicket<br /> *A cloud of dust is not a beautiful thing to look at. Very few painters have done portraits of huge clouds of dust or included them in their landscapes or still life. Film directors rarely choose huge clouds of dust to play the lead roles in romantic comedies, and as far as my research has shown, a huge cloud of dust has never placed higher than twenty-fifth in a beauty pageant. - Lemony Snicket<br /> === ''[[w:The Hostile Hospital|The Hostile Hospital]]'' (2001)=== *For Beatrice--Summers without you are as cold as winter. Winters without you are even colder.-Lemony Snicket *If you are like most people, you have an assortment of friends and family you can call upon in times of trouble. For instance, if you woke up in the middle of the night and saw a masked woman trying to crawl through your bedroom window, you might call your mother or father to help you push her back out. If you found yourself hopelessly lost in the middle of a strange city, you might ask the police to give you a ride home. And if you were an author locked in an Italian restaurant that was slowly filling up with water, you might call upon your acquaintances in the locksmith, pasta, and sponge businesses to come and rescue you. **Lemony Snicket *Of all the ridiculous expressions people use--and people use a great many ridiculous expressions--one of the most ridiculous is "No news is good news." "No news is good news" simply means that if you don't hear from someone, everything is probably fine, and you can see at once why this expression makes such little sense because everything being fine is only one of many, many reasons why someone may not contact you. Perhaps they are tied up. Maybe they are surrounded by fierce weasels, or perhaps they are wedged tightly between two refrigerators and cannot get themselves out. The expression might as well be changed to "no news is bad news," except that people may not be able to contact you because they have just been crowned king or are competing in a gymnastics tournament. The point is that there is no way to know why someone has not contacted you until they contact you and explain themselves. For this reason, the sensible expression would be "no news is no news," except that it is so obvious that it is hardly an expression at all. ** Lemony Snicket<br /> *At this point in the dreadful story I am writing, I must interrupt for a moment and describe something that happened to a good friend of mine named Mr. Sirin. Mr. Sirin was a lepidopterist, a word which usually means "a person who studies butterflies." In this case, however, the word "lepidopterist" means "a man who was being pursued by angry government officials," and on the night I am telling you about they were right on his heels. Mr. Sirin looked back to see how close they were--four officers in their bright-pink uniforms, with small flashlights in their left hands and large nets in their right--and realized that in a moment they would catch up, and arrest him and his six favorite butterflies, which were frantically flapping alongside him. Mr. Sirin did not care much if he was captured--he had been in prison four and a half times over the course of his long and complicated life--but he cared very much about the butterflies. He realized that these six delicate insects would undoubtedly perish in bug prison, where poisonous spiders, stinging bees, and other criminals would rip them to shreds. So, as the secret police closed in, Mr. Sirin opened his mouth as wide as he could and swallowed all six butterflies whole, quickly placing them in the dark but safe confines of his empty stomach. It was not a pleasant feeling to have these six insects living inside him, but Mr. Sirin kept them there for three years, eating only the lightest foods served in prison so as not to crush the insects with a clump of broccoli or a baked potato. When his prison sentence was over, Mr. Sirin burped up the grateful butterflies and resumed his lepidoptery work in a community that was much more friendly to scientists and their specimens. **Lemony Snicket *Like all fairy tales, the story of Sleeping Beauty begins with "Once upon a time," and continues with a foolish young princess who makes a witch very angry, and then takes a nap until her boyfriend wakes her up with a kiss and insists on getting married, at which point the story ends with the phrase "happily ever after." **Lemony Snicket *There are many things in this world I do not know. I do not know how butterflies get out of their cocoons without damaging their wings. I do not know why anyone would boil vegetables when roasting them is much tastier. I do not know how to make olive oil, and I do not know why dogs bark before an earthquake, and I do not know why some people voluntarily choose to climb mountains where it is freezing and difficult to breathe or live in the suburbs, where the coffee is watery and all of the houses look alike. ** Lemony Snicket *Because of the information discussed on page nine, experts now suspect that there may in fact be one survivor of the fire, but the survivor's whereabouts are unknown. ** The Snicket File, page 13 ===''[[w:Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography|Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography]]'' (2002)=== *As the official representative of Lemony Snicket in all legal, literary, and social matters, I am often asked difficult questions, even when I am in a hurry. Recently, the most common questions have been the following: 1. Will you please get out of my way? 2. Where did ''Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography'' come from? The replies to both of these questions are very long stories, so there is only room to answer one of them. — Daniel Handler * Dear Diary, **Lemony Snicket * I didn't realize this was a sad occasion. — The waiter at The Anxious Clown Restaurant *Why do so many things end in fire? **Lemony Snicket *What can be hidden in a book? **Lemony Snicket *On the day you officially join the organization, you will hear a noise outside your home. It may sound like the howl of a wolf, the chirping of a cricket, the engine of an automobile, the keys of a typewriter, the striking of a match, or the turning of a page. The noise will come in the middle of the night, the middle of the morning, or, in very rare cases, late in the afternoon. Ask your parents what the noise was. If they reply 'nothing,' they are replying in code, because there is never 'nothing' outside one's home. If you are interested in volunteering, answer your parents with the following question: 'If there's nothing out there, what was that noise?' We will be listening and will know it is safe to act. — V.F.D. *As the aphorism says, If you have to ask, you can't afford it. ** Veritable French Diner ===''[[w:The Carnivorous Carnival|The Carnivorous Carnival]]'' (2002)=== *For Beatrice— Our love broke my heart, and stopped yours. **Lemony Snicket *The sad truth is that the truth is sad. **Lemony Snicket *It's hard for decent people to stay angry at someone who has burst into tears, which is why it is often a good idea to burst into tears if a decent person is yelling at you. ** Lemony Snicket *One of the most troublesome things in life is that what you do or do not want has very little to do with what does or does not happen. ** Lemony Snicket *Miracles are like meatballs because nobody knows what they are made of, where they came from, or how often they should appear. **Lemony Snicket *Besides getting several paper cuts in the same day or receiving the news that someone in your family has betrayed you to your enemies, one of the most unpleasant experiences in life is a job interview. It is very nerve-wracking to explain to someone all the things you can do in the hopes that they will pay you to do them. I once had a very difficult job interview in which I had not only to explain that I could hit an olive with a bow and arrow, memorize up to three pages of poetry, and determine if there was poison mixed into cheese fondue without tasting it, but I had to demonstrate all these things as well. In most cases, the best strategy for a job interview is to be fairly honest, because the worst thing that can happen is that you won't get the job and will spend the rest of your life foraging for food in the wilderness and seeking shelter underneath a tree or the awning of a bowling alley that has gone out of business, but in the case of the Baudelaire orphans' job interview with Madame Lulu, the situation was much more desperate. They could not be honest at all, because they were disguised as entirely different people, and the worst thing that could happen was being discovered by Count Olaf and his troupe and spending the rest of their lives in circumstances so terrible that the children could not bear to think of them. **Lemony Snicket *The story of the Baudelaires does not take place in a fictional land where lollipops grow on trees and singing mice do all of the chores. The story of the Baudelaires takes place in a very real world, where some people are laughed at just because they have something wrong with them, and where children can find themselves all alone in the world, struggling to understand the sinister mystery that surrounds them... **Lemony Snicket *With the Baudelaire orphans, it was as if their grief were a very heavy object that they each took turns carrying so that they would not all be crying at once, but sometimes the object was too heavy for one of them to move without weeping, so Violet and Sunny stood next to Klaus, reminding him that this was something they could all carry together until at last, they found a safe place to lay it down. **Lemony Snicket *The world is a harum-scarum place." <br> "Harum?" Sunny asked. <br> It's complicated and confusing," Olivia explained. They say that long ago it was simple and quiet, but that might be a legend. ===''[[The Slippery Slope|The Slippery Slope]]'' (2003)=== :For Beatrice— :When we first met, you were pretty, and I was lonely. :Now, I am pretty lonely. *Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like. *Having an aura of menace is like having a pet weasel, because you rarely meet someone who has one, and when you do it makes you want to hide under the coffee table. *Dear Reader, *Like handshakes, house pets, or raw carrots, many things are preferable when not slippery. Unfortunately, in this miserable volume, I am afraid that Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire run into more than their fair share of slipperiness during their harrowing journey up -- and down -- a range of strange and distressing mountains. *In order to spare you any further repulsion, it would be best not to mention any of the unpleasant details of this story, particularly a secret message, a toboggan, a deceitful trap, a swarm of snow gnats, a scheming villain, a troupe of organized youngsters, a covered casserole dish, and a surprising survivor of a terrible fire. *Unfortunately, I have dedicated my life to researching and recording the sad tale of the Baudelaire Orphans. There is no reason for you to dedicate yourself to such things, and you might instead dedicate yourself to letting this slippery book slip from your hands into a nearby trash receptacle, or deep pit. *With all due respect, *Lemony Snicket ===''[[w:The Grim Grotto|The Grim Grotto]]'' (2004)=== :For Beatrice— :Dead women tell no tales. :Sad men write them down. *'''Captain Widdershins:''' He who hesitates is lost! :'''Fiona:''' Or she. *Having a personal philosophy is like having a pet marmoset, because it may be very attractive when you acquire it, but there may be situations when it will not come in handy at all. “He or she who hesitates is lost” sounded like a reasonable philosophy at first glance, but the Baudelaires could think of situations in which hesitating might be the best thing to do. Violet was glad she'd hesitated when she and her siblings were living with Aunt Josephine, otherwise she might never have realized the importance of the peppermints she found in her pocket. Klaus was glad he'd hesitated at Heimlich Hospital, otherwise he might never have thought of a way to disguise Sunny and himself as medical professionals so they could rescue Violet from having unnecessary surgery. And Sunny was glad she'd hesitated outside Count Olaf's tent on Mount Fraught, otherwise she might never have overheard the name of the last safe place, which the Baudelaires still hoped to reach. But despite all these incidents in which hesitation had been very helpful, the children did not wish to adopt “He or she who does not hesitate is lost” as their personal philosophy, because a giant octopus might come along at any moment, particularly when the Baudelaires were on board a submarine, and the siblings would be very foolish to hesitate if the octopus were coming after them. Perhaps, the Baudelaires thought, the wisest personal philosophy concerning hesitation would be “Sometimes he or she should hesitate and sometimes he or she should not hesitate,” but this seemed far too long and vague to be much use on a plaque. *After a great deal of time examining oceans, investigating rainstorms, and staring very hard at several drinking fountains, the scientists of the world developed a theory regarding how water is distributed around our planet, which they have named "the water cycle." The water cycle consists of three key phenomena— evaporation, precipitation, and collection—and all of them are equally boring. Of course, it is boring to read about boring things, but it is better to read something that makes you yawn with boredom than something that will make you weep uncontrollably, pound your fists against the floor, and leave tearstains all over your pillowcase, sheets, and boomerang collection. Like the water cycle, the tale of the Baudelaire children consists of three key phe-nomena, but rather than read their sorry tale it would be best if you read something about the water cycle instead. - Lemony Snicket *Evaporation, the first of these phenomena, is the process of water turning into vapor and eventually forming clouds, such as those found in cloudy skies, or on cloudy days, or even cloudy nights. These clouds are formed by a phenomenon known as "evaporation," which is the first of three phenomena that make up the water cycle. Evapo-ration, the first of these three, is simply a term for a process by which water turns into vapor and eventually forms clouds. Clouds can be recognized by their appearance, usually on cloudy days or nights, when they can be seen in cloudy skies. The name for the process by which clouds are formed—by water, which turns into vapor and becomes part of the formation known as "clouds"—is "evaporation," the first phenomenon in the three phenomena that make up the cycle of water, otherwise known as "the water cycle," and surely you must be asleep by now and so can be spared the horrifying details of the Baudelaires' journey. - Lemony Snicket *The second of these phenomena-precipitation—is the process by which vapor turns into water and falls as rain, something you might notice during a rainfall or by going outdoors on a rainy morn-ing, afternoon, evening, or night. This falling water you notice is known as "rain," which is the result of the phenomenon of precipitation, one of the three phenomena that comprise the water cycle. Of these three phenomena, precipitation is regarded as the second one, particularly if a list of the three phenomena places precipitation in the middle, or second, spot on the list. "Pre-cipitation" is quite simply a term for the transformation of vapor into water, which then falls as rain—something you might encounter if you were to step outside during a rainstorm. Rain consists of water, which was formerly vapor but underwent the process known as "precipita-tion," one of the three phenomena in the water cycle, and by now this tedious description must have put you back to sleep, so you may avoid the gruesome details of my account of Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire as they made their way through the Gorgonian Grotto back to the Queequeg. - Lemony Snicket *The water cycle consists of three phenomena— evaporation, precipitation, and collection—and collection, the third of these phenomena, is the third of the phenomena that make up what is generally known as "the water cycle." This phenomenon, known as "collection," is the process of the gathering of water in the oceans, lakes, rivers, ponds, reservoirs, and puddles of the world, so that it will eventually go through the phenomena of evaporation and precipita-tion, thus beginning the water cycle all over again. It is a tedious thing for a reader to find in a book, of course, and I hope that my descriptions of the water cycle have bored you enough that you have put this book down long ago, and will not read Chapter Thirteen of The Grim Grotto any more than the Baudelaire orphans will ever read Chapter Thirty-Nine of Mushroom Minutiae, no matter how crucial such a chapter might be. But however tedious the water cycle is to readers, it must be very tedious indeed to the drops of water who must participate in the cycle over and over again. Occasionally, when I pause while writing my chronicle of the Baudelaire orphans, and my eyes and back turn upward from my desk to look out at the evening sky-the purple color of which explains the expression "the violet hour" —I imagine myself as a drop of water, especially if it is raining, or if my desk is floating in a reservoir. - Lemony Snicket *Violet said..."We've never known anyone who could remain so cheerful, no matter what terrible things occurred. *To tell you the truth, I sometimes find it a bit tiresome," Fiona said... *My stepfather said that the amount of treachery in this world is enormous and that the best we could do was one small noble thing. **Fiona *Why, you're all grown up! The last time I saw you I was trying to throw thumbtacks into your cradle! **Count Olaf * People aren't either wicked or noble," the hook-handed man said. They're like chef's salad, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict. *As the hook-handed man circled the brig, it was as if the Baudelaires were picking through a chef's salad consisting mostly of dreadful- and perhaps even poisonous- ingredients, trying desperately to find the one noble crouton that might save their sister... **Lemony Snicket *'''Lemony Snicket:''' (narrating) When you are invited to dine, particularly with people you do not know very well, it always helps to have a conversational opener, a phrase which here means "an interesting sentence to say out loud in order to get people talking." Although lately, it has become more and more difficult to attend dinner parties without the evening ending in gunfire or tapioca, I keep a list of good and bad conversational openers in my commonplace book in order to avoid awkward pauses at the dinner table. "Who would like to see an assortment of photographs taken while I was on vacation?" for instance, is a very poor conversational opener because it is likely to make your fellow diners shudder instead of talk, whereas good conversational openers are sentences such as "What would drive a man to commit arson?," "Why do so many stories of true love end in tragedy and despair?," and "Madam DeLustrio, I believe I've discovered your true identity!" all of which are likely to provoke discussions, arguments, and accusations, thus making the dinner party much more entertaining. *'''Lemony Snicket:''' (narrating) Reading poetry, even if you are only reading to find a secret message within its words, can often give one a feeling of power, the way you can feel powerful if you are the only one who brought an umbrella on a rainy day or the only one who knows how to untie knots when you're taken hostage. *I'm happier than a pig eating bacon!" Count Olaf cried. "I'm tickled pinker than a sun-burned Caucasian! I'm in higher spirits than a brand-new graveyard! I'm so happy-go-lucky that lucky and happy people are going to beat me with sticks out of pure, unbridled jealousy! *There is evil out there you cannot even imagine. -Captain Widdershins * C is for Cute<br>A is for Adorable<br>R is for Ravishing<br>M is for Gorgeous<br>E is for Excellent<br>L is for Lovable<br>I is for I'm the best!<br>T is for Talented<br>A is for "A tap-dancing ballerina fairy princess veterinarian! ''NOW LET'S START MY WHOLE WONDERFUL SONG ALL OVER AGAIN!'' *Carmelita Spats, who oughtta be told "Gorgeous" does not start with an M. *I can't stand the lyrics. **Klaus ===''[[w:The Penultimate Peril|The Penultimate Peril]]'' (2005)=== *For Beatrice— No one could extinguish my love, or your house. **Lemony Snicket *The word "denouement" is not only the name of a hotel or the family who manages it, particularly nowadays, when the hotel and all its secrets have almost been forgotten, and the surviving members of the family have changed their names and are working in smaller, less glamorous inns. "Denouement" comes from the French, who use the word to describe the act of untying a knot, and it refers to the unraveling of a confusing or mysterious story, such as the lives of the Baudelaire orphans, or anyone else you know whose life is filled with unanswered questions. The denouement is the moment when all of the knots of a story are untied, and all the threads are unraveled, and everything is laid out clearly for the world to see. But the denouement should not be confused with the end of a story. The denouement of "Snow White," for instance, occurs at the moment when Ms. White wakes up from her enchanted sleep, and decides to leave the dwarves behind and marry the handsome prince, and the mysterious old woman who gave her an apple has been exposed as the treacherous queen, but the end of "Snow White" occurs many years later, when a horseback riding accident plunges Ms. White into a fever from which she never recovers. The denouement of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" occurs at the moment when the bears return home to find Goldilocks napping on their private property, and either chase her away from the premises, or eat her, depending on which version you have in your library, but the end of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" occurs when a troop of young scouts neglect to extinguish their campfire and even the efforts of a volunteer fire department cannot save most of the wildlife from certain death. There are some stories in which the denouement and the end occur simultaneously, such as ''La Forza del Destino'', in which the characters recognize and destroy one another over the course of a single song, but usually the denouement of a story is not the last event in the heroes' lives, or the last trouble that befalls them. It is often the second-to-last event, or the penultimate peril. **Lemony Snicket *Richard Wright, an American novelist of the realist school, asks a famous unfathomable question in his best-known novel, ''Native Son''. Who knows when some slight shock, he asks, disturbing the delicate balance between social order and thirsty aspiration, shall send the skyscrapers in our cities toppling? **Lemony Snicket (351-352) *"Whenever you see someone in a taxi, they are probably being driven to do some errand. Surely there must be something you need to do, or somewhere you need to go. A great American novelist wrote that people travel faster now, but she wasn't sure if they do better things. Maybe you would do better things if you traveled at this very moment." - Man in taxi (possibly Lemony Snicket) * '''Lemony Snicket:''' (narrating) But the three siblings were not born yesterday. Violet was born more than fifteen years before this particular Wednesday, and Klaus was born approximately two years after that, and even Sunny, who had just passed out of babyhood, was not born yesterday. Neither were you, unless of course I am wrong, in which case welcome to the world, little baby, and congratulations on learning to read so early in life. *The name John Godfrey Saxe is not likely to mean anything to you, unless you are a fan of American humorist poets of the nineteenth century. There are not many such people in the world, but the Baudelaires' father was one of them, and had several poems committed to memory. From time to time he would get into a whimsical mood-the word "whimsical," as you probably know, means "odd and impulsive"-and would grab the nearest Baudelaire child, bounce him or her up and down on his lap, and recite a poem by John Godfrey Saxe about an elephant. In the poem, six blind men encountered an elephant for the first time and were unable to agree on what the animal was like. The first man felt the tall, smooth side of the elephant, and concluded that an elephant was like a wall. The second man felt the tusk of the elephant, and decided that an elephant resembled a spear. The third man felt the trunk of the elephant, and the fourth felt one of the elephant's legs, and so on and so on, with all of the blind men bickering over what an elephant is like. As with many children, Violet and Klaus had grown old enough to find their father's whimsical moods a little embarrassing, so Sunny had become the primary audience for Mr. Baudelaire's poetry recital, and remembered the poem best. *"Burn down hotel!" Sunny said. *”Never mind what you were doing,” Olaf said. “You're fired!”<br>”You can't fire me!” Esme growled. “I quit!”<br>”Well, you can leave by mutual agreement,” Olaf grumbled and then with another succinct Ha! he lifted the harpoon gun and pointed it at Dewey Denouement. *By "Preludio," her siblings knew, Sunny was referring to the Hotel Preludio, and the weekend vacation the entire Baudelaire family had spent there. As Kit Snicket had mentioned, the Hotel Preludio was a lovely place, and I am happy to report that it is still standing, like a small mercy, and that its ballroom still has its famous chandeliers, which are shaped like enormous jellyfish and move up and down in time to the music that the orchestra plays, and that the bookstore in the lobby still specializes in the work of American novelists of the realist school, and the outdoor swimming pool is still as beautiful as it ever was, its reflection of the hotel windows shimmering whenever anyone dives in to swim laps. But the Baudelaire orphans were not remembering the chandeliers, or the bookstore, or even the swimming pool, where Sunny first learned to blow bubbles. They were remembering a prank their father had taught them, when he was in one of his whimsical moods, that can be played in any elevator. The prank, a word which here means "joke played on someone with whom you are sharing an elevator," is best played at the moment when you are about to get off the elevator, and your fellow passengers are heading to a higher story. The Baudelaires' mother had objected to their father teaching them such a prank, as she said it was undignified, but their father had pointed out it was no more undignified than doing magic tricks with dinner rolls, which their mother had done that very morning in the hotel restaurant, and she reluctantly agreed to participate in the prank. This particular moment in the Baudelaires' lives, of course, was not the best one for a prank, but Violet and Klaus saw immediately what their sister had in mind, and when the sliding doors opened and Count Olaf stomped inside the elevator, the three Baudelaires followed him and immediately pressed every single button. When the Baudelaires' father had done this after exiting the elevator, it meant that the remaining passenger, a tiresome woman named Eleanora. had been forced to visit every story on the way up to her room, but here in the Hotel Denouement, the prank served a dual purpose, a phrase which here means "enabled the Baudelaires to do two things at once." *I'll have ten grams of rice, Mrs. Bass interrupted, one tenth of a hectogram of shrimp vindaloo, a dekagram of chana aloo masala, one thousand centigrams of tandori salmon, four samosas with surface area of nineteen cubic centimeters, five deciliters of mango lassi, and a sada rava dosai that's exactly nineteen centimeters long. **page 134. *'''Violet:''' "Fire! Attention everyone! There's a fire in the hotel! Please leave at once!" :'''The man with a beard but no hair:''' "Fire? Good work, Olaf!" :'''Jerome Squalor:''' What do you mean, good work?" :'''The man with a beard but no hair:''' "I meant to say, 'there's Olaf!'"''[pushs Jerome in the direction of the elevator]'' "Capture him! He needs to be brought to the authorities!" :'''Frank (probably):''' "Olaf is here? I'm going to capture him!" :'''Ernest (probably):''' "Where are the Baudelaires? I'm going to capture them!" :'''The woman with hair but no beard:''' "In the elevator!" :'''Violet:''' "Call the fire department!" . :'''Either Frank or Ernest:''' "Which one?" :'''Count Olaf:''' "Those judges promised that if I waited until tomorrow I'd see all my enemies destroyed, and now they're trying to capture me. I knew they'd fail me some day." :''[the elevator stops on another floor]'' :'''Klaus:''' "There's a fire in the hotel! Everyone leave at once!" :'''Esmé Squalor:''' "A fire? Who said that?" :'''Klaus:''' "It's Klaus Baudelaire. You need to get out of the hotel!" :'''Carmelita Spats:''' "Don't listen to that cakesniffer! He's just trying to escape from us! Let's take off our blindfolds and peek!" :'''Count Olaf:''' "Don't take off your blindfolds! Those Baudelaires are guilty of contempt of court, and they're trying to trick you into joining them! There's no fire! Whatever you do, don't leave the hotel!" :'''Klaus:''' "We're not tricking you! Olaf is tricking you! Please believe us!" :'''Esmé:''' "I don't know who to believe, you orphans are as dishonest as my ex-boyfriend." :'''Carmelita:''' "Leave us alone! We can find our own way!" :''[the elevator stops on another floor]'' :'''Sunny:''' “Fire! Use stairs. Do not use elevator!" :'''Mr. Poe:''' "Sunny Baudelaire? Don't add the false reporting of fire to your list of crimes! You're already guilty of contempt of court, and perhaps murder!" :'''Justice Strauss:''' "It's not false! There really is a fire, Mr. Poe! Leave this hotel!" :'''Mr. Poe:''' "I can't leave [coughs], I'm still in charge of the Baudelaires' affairs and their parents' fort-" :The elevator doors closed before Mr. Poe could finish his word, and the Baudelaires were taken away from the banker one last time, and with each stop of the elevator, I'm sorry to say, it was more or less the same. The Baudelaires saw Mrs. Bass on the third story, still wearing her small blond wig like a snowcap on the top of a mountain peak, and her blindfold, stretched over her small, narrow mask, and they saw Mr. Remora, who was wandering around the seventh story with Vice Principal Nero. They saw Geraldine Julienne, who was using her microphone the way some blind people use a cane, and they saw Charles and Sir, who were holding hands so as not to lose one another, and they saw Hugo and Colette and Kevin, who were holding the birdpaper Klaus had hung outside the window of the sauna, and they saw Mr. Lesko arguing with Mrs. Morrow, and they saw a man with a guitar making friends with a woman in a crow-shaped hat, and they saw many people they did not recognize, either as volunteers or as villains, who were wandering the hallways of the hotel to capture anyone they might find suspicious. Some of these people believed the Baudelaires when they told them the news of the fire, and some of these people believed Count Olaf when he told them that the Baudelaires were lying, and some of these people believed Justice Strauss when she told them that Count Olaf was lying when he said the Baudelaires were lying when they told them the news of the fire. But the elevator's stop on each story of the hotel was very brief, and the children had only a glimpse of each of these people. They heard Mrs. Bass mutter something about a getaway car, and they heard Mr. Remora wonder something about fried bananas. They heard Nero worry about his violin case, and Geraldine squeal about headlines, and they heard Charles and Sir bicker over whether or not fires were good for the lumber industry. They heard Hugo ask if the plan for the hors d'ouvres was still in operation, and they heard Colette ask about plucking the feathers off crows, and they heard Kevin complain that he didn't know whether to hold the birdpaper in his right hand or his left hand, and they heard Mr. Lesko insult Mrs. Morrow, and the bearded man sing a song to the woman with the crow-shaped hat, and they heard a man call for Bruce and a woman call for her mother and dozens of people whisper to and shout at, argue with and agree upon, angrily accuse and meekly defend, furiously compliment and kindly insult dozens of other people, both inside and outside the Hotel Denouement, whose names the Baudelaires recognized, forgot, and had never heard before. Each story had its story, and each story's story was unfathomable in the Baudelaire orphans' short journey, and many of the stories' stories are unfathomable to me, even after all these lonely years and all this lonely research. Perhaps some of these stories are clearer to you, because you have spied upon the people involved. Perhaps Mrs. Bass has changed her name and lives near you, or perhaps Mr. Remora's name is the same, and he lives far away. Perhaps Nero now works as a grocery store clerk, or Geraldine Julienne now teaches arts and crafts. Perhaps Charles and Sir are no longer partners, and you have had the occasion to study one of them as he sat across from you on a bus, or perhaps Hugo, Colette, and Kevin are still comrades, and you have followed these unfathomable people after noticing that one of them used both hands equally. Perhaps Mr. Lesko is now your neighbor, or Mrs. Morrow is now your sister, or your mother, or your aunt or wife or even your husband. Perhaps the noise you hear outside your door is a bearded man trying to climb into your window, or perhaps it is a woman in a crow-shaped hat hailing a taxi. Perhaps you have spotted the managers of the Hotel Denouement, or the judges of the High Court, or the waiters of Cafe Salmonella or the Anxious Clown, or perhaps you have met an expert on injustice or become one yourself. Perhaps the people in your unfathomable life, and their unfathomable stories, are clear to you as you make your way in the world, but when the elevator stopped for the last time, and the doors slid open to reveal the tilted roof of the Hotel Denouement, the Baudelaires felt as if they were balancing very delicately on a mysterious and perplexing heap of unfathomable mysteries. They did not know who would survive the fire they had helped set, and who would perish. They did not know who thought they were volunteers and who thought they were villains, or who believed they were innocent and who believed they were guilty. And they did not know if their own observations, errands, and deeds meant that they were noble, or wicked, or somewhere in between. *The last safe place is safe no more. ** Sunny ===''[[w:The End (novel)|The End]]'' (2006)=== *For Beatrice — I cherished, you perished, The world's been nightmarished **Lemony Snicket *"I won't force you." - Ishmael *If you have read this far in the chronicle of the Baudelaire orphans—and I certainly hope you have not—then you know we have reached the thirteenth chapter of the thirteenth volume in this sad history, and so you know the end is near, even though this chapter is so lengthy that you might never reach the end of it. But perhaps you do not yet know what the end really means. "The end" is a phrase which refers to the completion of a story, or the final moment of some accomplishment, such as a secret errand, or a great deal of research, and indeed this thirteenth volume marks the completion of my investigation into the Baudelaire case, which required much research, a great many secret errands, and the accomplishments of a number of my comrades, from a trolley driver to a botanical hybridization expert, with many, many typewriter repair people in between. But it cannot be said that The End contains the end of the Baudelaires' story, any more than The Bad Beginning contained its beginning. The children's story began long before that terrible day on Briny Beach, but there would have to be another volume to chronicle when the Baudelaires were born, and when their parents married, and who was playing the violin in the candlelit restaurant when the Baudelaire parents first laid eyes on one another, and what was hidden inside that violin, and the childhood of the man who orphaned the girl who put it there, and even then it could not be said that the Baudelaires' story had not begun, because you would still need to know about a certain tea party held in a penthouse suite, and the baker who made the scones served at the tea party, and the baker's assistant who smuggled the secret ingredient into the scone batter through a very narrow drainpipe, and how a crafty volunteer created the illusion of a fire in the kitchen simply by wearing a certain dress and jumping around, and even then the beginning of the story would be as far away as the shipwreck that left the Baudelaire parents as castaways on the coastal shelf is far away from the outrigger on which the islanders would depart. One could say, in fact, that no story really has a beginning, and that no story really has an end, as all of the world's stories are as jumbled as the items in the arboretum, with their details and secrets all heaped together so that the whole story, from beginning to end, depends on how you look at it. We might even say that the world is always in medias res— a Latin phrase which means "in the midst of things" or "in the middle of a narrative"—and that it is impossible to solve any mystery, or find the root of any trouble, and so The End is really the middle of the story, as many people in this history will live long past the close of Chapter Thirteen, or even the beginning of the story, as a new child arrives in the world at the chapter's close. But one cannot sit in the midst of things forever. Eventually one must face that the end is near, and the end of The End is quite near indeed, so if I were you I would not read the end of The End, as it contains the end of a notorious villain but also the end of a brave and noble sibling, and the end of the colonists' stay on the island, as they sail off the end of the coastal shelf. The end of The End contains all these ends, and that does not depend on how you look at it, so it might be best for you to stop looking at The End before the end of The End arrives, and to stop reading The End before you read the end, as the stories that end in The End that began in The Bad Beginning are beginning to end now. ===''[[w:The Beatrice Letters|The Beatrice Letters]]'' (2006)=== * I will love you no matter how many mistakes I make when trying to reduce fractions, and no matter how difficult it is to memorize the periodic table. * I will love you as the manatee loves the head of lettuce and as the dark spot loves the leopard, as the leech loves the ankle of a wader and as a corpse loves the beak of the vulture. * I will love you as the iceberg loves the ship, and the passengers love the lifeboat and the lifeboat loves the teeth of the sperm whale, and the sperm whale loves the flavor of naval uniforms. *I never want to be away from you again, except at work, in the restroom or when one of us is at a movie the other does not want to see. === ''[[w:Adverbs (novel)|Adverbs]]'' (2006) === ==== ''Immediately'' ==== * Love was in the air so both of us walked through love on our way to the corner. * The world gets grimy and the love object is in stark relief from its surroundings. This is love, a pretty thing on an ugly street and why wouldn't you pick it up if it appeared in a taxi cab. * I'm frightened by your behaviour. I woke up this morning and you said good morning and i said good morning, what do you feel like doing today, and you said well i sort of have to do this thing, and i said what thing and you said go to the reading of my father's will, and I said what are you talking about and then you told me that your dad had died. THIS MORNING. ==== ''Obviously'' ==== * If i were a little braver i would have asked her something like, "Do you think Kickass: the movie is a comedy in the traditional, classical sense?" and we could have that conversation and it would lead to other conversations during the flat and lonely times. * Standing ten feet away from Lila was sort of kickass with her nails drumming on the box with the slot in, where we put everything that we rip in half, and with her blue-eyed beauty and with the gum she was chewing and how lovely she was, in that way that makes you want to find something else lovely just so you can give it to her and see how really kickass it is to have to lovely things next to each other. * Keith has one of those all terrain things that will come in so handy when the world ends and we need a nine-thousand -cylinder engine to drive over those hordes of blood-thirsty mutants crawling all over the video-game landscape. * This world is suchier than we are, and the best thing to do is keep moving and find your keys. ==== ''Arguably'' ==== * Money money money money money money money money money. Let no one say it has no place in a love story. It has a particular place. It is something on the right shelf. * This is love, moving to where the money is, and all the while a volcano or an ex-girlfriend might blow the whole thing to hell, as the Americans say. As everybody says. ==== ''Particularly'' ==== * … the point is, why is there cruelty? Why do people ask other people to do impossible things? why behave this way? why is there mean, when there are better things than mean, love particularly? * "I love you, too" David said and took the bottle.<br>"I want you to love me in particular," Helena said ==== ''Soundly'' ==== * It's always dawnest before dark * I'm full of hard times today * The right boys I always toss and the wrong ones I keep on top of me like paperweights. ==== ''Frigidly'' ==== * What a bad day it was, the clouds were low and cloudy, the rain no fun, and the dark as it hit the late afternoon thick like someone who stops by your place and just won't leave. The day was canceled, almost, on account of the rain spilling itself over everything. * This was that day if you know what I mean. * It was a bad day for love. * The rain, the rain, the rain. You can't even hear it outside the window but still it's a sad thing. Rain, the grade school teachers say, makes the trees and flowers grow, but we're not trees and flower, and so many grade school teachers are single. * She said, "We're detectives" in the tone of voice that someone might say, "Making you happy isn't making me happy" * They could not love anymore, they thought, just drink and pour coffee and track people down in the rain. They were living frigidly, as if in a cone of frost. * All love gets over, and we must get over it. ==== ''Collectively'' ==== * Love can smack you like a seagull, and pour all over your feet like junkmail. You can't be ready for such a thing any more than salt water taffy gets you ready for the ocean. * Mike could see the fellow cooked and ate and sat on a sofa and put his feet up on the table it magazines. Mike didn't care which ones the fellow subscribed to, because Mike had subscribed to the fellow. * This is love, and the trouble with it: it can make you embarrassed. Love is really liking someone a whole lot and not wanting to screw that up. Everybody's chewed over this. This unites us, this part of love. * I find you interesting, Joe, so nearly everything you say will be interesting too. I love you. I could say I'm lonely but that's not the only reason. * "I'm not - the terrific guy you keep telling me about. I'm not made of sugar and spice and everything nice. I'm made of rats and snails and puppy-dogs tails. I lie sometimes. I have broken people's hearts. I'm looking for love, I'll admit that, but now that it's here in abundance, I'm afraid of commitment and I want you, please, to leave me." ==== ''Symbolically'' ==== * [she] gave me a puzzled frown like she thought offhand i was dead but the media's so unreliable these days. * That's always where the love goes, with somebody else away from me. ==== ''Clearly'' ==== * All four of them have completely abandoned one another. * Adam hates Tomas and tried to get Eddie to join him in hate. It hasn't worked, although Eddie will admit certain shortcomings, and the two men have not met until now, in the forest, when Adam has decided that Tomas in Eddie's stories and the Tomas in this story are the same man. ==== ''Naturally'' ==== * It was the sort of day when people walk in the park and solve problems. "We'll simply call the taxi company, David, and request a large one, like one of those vans." Is the sort of thing you would overhear if you were overhearing in the park. * ''Dear Joe'' The letter said ''The windows rattle without you, you bastard. The trees are the cause, rattling in the wind, you jerk, the wild scraping those leaves and twigs against my window. They'll keep on doing this, you terrible husband, and slowly wear away our entire apartment.'' ==== ''Wrongly'' ==== * "Yeah, I have a question," said the guy with the wicked eyes... "My question is, I quit. I'm going to quit." * What he'd just said was "Who cares?" and nobody wants to hear that. * South San Francisco The Industrial City is ugly as sin but somebody lives there: Allison, in fact. * He's been misled and he's been afraid. He's been hit in the head and left for dead. He's been abused and he's been accused and he's been refused a piece of bread. On and on he goes down this road getting pushed around and lost and around and given until sundown to get out of town, and yet this is basically a love song. He's had the shit kicked out of him, and guess what? It's love. * "When I was crazy." the radio explained, "I thought you were great." * Allison squinted at the strange, catastrophic sky, and took another step, another step, another step, because in the future - she could see it - this would not be happening. ==== ''Truly'' ==== * If you follow the diamond in my mother's ring from Africa to Germany to California to Arizona to Wisconsin, in the heel of a grandmother, in the beak of a magpie, in the gravel of the path, in someone else's novel, in the center of the earth where the volcanoes are from, you would forget the miracle, the reason diamonds end up in people's fingers in the first place. it is not the diamonds or the birds, the people or the potatoes, it is not any of the nouns. The miracle is the adverbs, the way things are done. It is the way love gets done despite every catastrophe. ==== ''Not Particularly'' ==== * "I know" Helena said and this is another example of why behave this way? Things just poured out of her mouth lately, like vomit, and sometimes it actually was. * They are all one, the mothers of us all, like the money you spent. Imagine the vanish of weight if the advice of your mother never existed. They tell us things, unless we have no mothers and either way things turn out such that nothing you've ever heard is ever any help. ==== ''Often'' ==== * "Instead of change, please give me gun so i can shoot you." She is soft-spoken but short and full of rage lately, like her whole life. * He bought a bird in its own cage, with a sheet over it so no one could see the bird and the bird couldn't see anyone, and the whole thing was a secret bird... Everything he said was tinged with the unreadability of someone who would bring a bird on cruise ship. * "Oh my god!" Hillary is standing in the doorway of the bathroom of the bathroom which on one had is surprising but there's the other hand, too. * "Help me," Allison says, but she is soft-spoken, and everyone she loves is so far away. ==== ''Barely'' ==== * Over the years they had developed a layer of sincerity over the irony over the sincerity. It was an irony sandwich, then, which tasted mostly like sincerity, like a cheap, bad sandwich. * Wedding after wedding after wedding and then yours - your wedding? Would that make you what they're now calling happy? * God, or somebody, what is it with terrible things? If you made this world why not a better one? ==== ''Judgmentally'' ==== * judgmentally, judgmentally, judgmentally I would believe in you and sword fight others who did not, any necessary sacrifice if you were in the mood for that. * They say love's like a bus, and if you wait long enough another one will come along, but not in this place where the buses are slow and most of the cute ones are gay. ===''[[The End (novel)|The End]]'' (2006)=== *If you have ever peeled an onion, then you know that the first thin, papery layer reveals another thin, papery layer, and that layer reveals another, and another, and before you know it you have hundreds of layers all over the kitchen table and thousands of tears in your eyes, sorry that you ever started peeling in the first place and wishing that you had left the onion alone to wither away on the shelf of the pantry while you went on with your life, even if that meant never again enjoying the complicated and overwhelming taste of this strange and bitter vegetable. <br><br>In this way, the story of the Baudelaire orphans is like an onion, and if you insist on reading each and every thin, papery layer in A Series of Unfortunate Events, your only reward will be 170 chapters of misery in your library and countless tears in your eyes. Even if you have read the first twelve volumes of the Baudelaires' story, it is not too late to stop peeling away the layers, and to put this book back on the shelf to wither away while you read something less complicated and overwhelming. The end of this unhappy chronicle is like its bad beginning, as each misfortune only reveals another, and another, and another, and only those with the stomach for this strange and bitter tale should venture any farther into the Baudelaire onion. I'm sorry to tell you this, but that is how the story goes. **Chapter 1 *''Olaf:'' Of course I'm trying to trick you! That's the way of the world, Baudelaires. Everyone runs around with their secrets and their schemes, trying to outwit everyone else. Ishmael outwitted me, and put me in this cage. But I know how to outwit him and all his islander friends. If you let me out, I can be king of Olaf-Land, and you three can be my new henchfolk. ''Klaus:'' We don't want to be your henchfolk, we just want to be safe. ''Olaf:'' Nowhere in the world is safe. **Chapter 7 *''Friday'': Baudelaires, please come with me.<br>''Olaf'': What about me?<br>''Friday'': Go away. *Of course, it is quite possible to be in the dark in the dark, but there are so many secrets in the world that it is likely that you are always in the dark about one thing or another, whether you are in the dark in the dark or in the dark not in the dark, although the sun can go down so quickly that you may be in the in the dark about being in the dark, only to look around and find yourself no longer in the dark about being in the dark, but in the dark in the dark nontheless, not only because of the dark, but because of the ballerinas in the dark, who are not in the dark about the dark, but also not in the dark about the locked cabinet, and you may be in the dark about the ballerinas digging up the locked cabinet in the dark, even though you are no longer in the dark about being in the dark, and so you are in fact in the dark about being in the dark, even though you are not in the dark about being in the dark, and so you may fall into the hole that the ballerinas have dug, which is dark, in the dark, and in the park. **Chapter 9 *Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the crimes, follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay in our mother's wombs, and there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women. *''Olaf'': I'm a genius! I've solved all of our problems! Look!<br>''Violet'': Renaming the boat doesn't solve any of our problems. *''Beatrice.'' **Chapter 14 * Halloween seems to last forever, until it is finally time to put on one's costume and demand candy from strangers. Dear Reader, You are presumably looking at the back of this book, or the end of THE END. 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The current Chief Justice is [[John Roberts]], and the seven Associate Justices are [[Clarence Thomas]], [[Samuel Alito]], [[Sonia Sotomayor]], [[Elena Kagan]], [[Neil Gorsuch]], [[Brett Kavanaugh]], [[Amy Coney Barrett]], and [[Ketanji Brown Jackson]]. A majority of the Justices (Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett) were appointed by [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] Presidents and a minority (Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson) were appointed by [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] Presidents. == Quotes == *I had never before argued a Supreme Court case on my own. Since arguments in that court are thirty minutes in length per side, and since most of the time consumed in argument is taken up with responses to questions of the Court, [[w:Dean_Ringel|Dean]] &#91;Ringel&#93; and I devoted most of our preparation to three overlapping issues, ones that have consumed my attention in every later Supreme Court argument as well. The first was jurisprudential in nature. What rule of law were we urging the Court to adopt? How would it apply in any future case? What would be its impact on [[First Amendment to the United States Constitution|First Amendment]] legal doctrine? **[[W:Floyd Abrams|Floyd Abrams]], ''Speaking Freely'' (2005), p. 65, discussing his argument before the Court in ''[[w:Landmark Communications v. Virginia|Landmark Communications v. Virginia]]''. * In my conception of it, the primary role of the Court is to decide cases. From the decision of cases, of course, some changes develop, but to try to create or substantially change civil or criminal procedure, for example, by judicial decision is the worst possible way to do it. The Supreme Court is simply not equipped to do that job properly. ** [[Warren E. Burger]], "[http://www.nytimes.com/1971/07/04/archives/excerpts-from-interview-with-chief-justice-burger-on-role-of-the.html Excerpts From Interview With Chief Justice Burger on Role of the Supreme Court]", ''The New York Times'' (July 4, 1971). * The first opinion the Court ever filed has a dissenting opinion. [[Dissent]] is a tradition of this Court... When someone is writing for the Court, he hopes to get eight others to agree with him, so many of the majority opinions are rather stultified. ** [[William O. Douglas]], ''New York Times'' interview, (29 October 1973). * The Court's great power is its ability to educate, to provide moral leadership. ** [[William O. Douglas]], ''Time Magazine'' interview, (12 November 1973). * Nine, nine... There have been nine [[men]] there for a long, long [[time]], right? So why not nine [[women]]? ** [[w:Ruth Bader Ginsburg|Ruth Bader Ginsburg]], in response to the question “How many women would be enough” [on the Supreme Court] during [https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/chat-women-supreme-court-11976773 interview] with [[Diane Sawyer]] at [[w:The Women’s Conference|The Women’s Conference ]] (Long Beach, California, October 26, 2010) * "At the Supreme Court, those who know don’t talk, and those who talk don’t know,” Ginsburg was fond of saying. ** [[Ruth Bader Ginsburg]] as quoted by Josh Gerstein; Alexander Ward. [https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473 "Exclusive: Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows"]. ''Politico''. (May 2, 2022; updated 05/03/2022). * This Court is forever adding new stories to the temples of [[w:Constitutional law|constitutional law]], and the temples have a way of collapsing when one story too many is added. ** Justice [[Robert H. Jackson]], ''[[w:Douglas v. Jeannette|Douglas v. Jeannette]]'', 319 U.S. 157, 181 (1943). * [[w:Civil liberties|Civil liberties]] had their origin and must find their ultimate guaranty in the faith of the people. If that faith should be lost, five or nine men in [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] could not long supply its want. ** Justice [[Robert H. Jackson]], ''Douglas v. Jeannette'', 319 U.S. 157, 182 (1943). * The court is the least abstract of [[institutions]]. It is nine men, nine very human men, participating in a process that can be impressive or disturbing, grave or funny. And contrary to the general impression, the process is more visible than most of what goes on in government. ** [[Anthony Lewis]], quoted in ''Congressional Quarterly's Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court'' (1979), p. viii. * It is true that diminished legitimacy may be restored, but only slowly. Unlike the political branches, a Court thus weakened could not seek to regain its position with a new mandate from the voters, and even if the Court could somehow go to the polls, the loss of its principled character could not be retrieved by the casting of so many votes. Like the character of an individual, the legitimacy of the Court must be earned over time. So, indeed, must be the character of a Nation of people who aspire to live according to the [[rule of law]]. Their belief in themselves as such a people is not readily separable from their understanding of the Court invested with the authority to decide their constitutional cases and speak before all others for their constitutional ideals. If the Court's legitimacy should be undermined, then, so would the country be in its very ability to see itself through its constitutional ideals. The Court's concern with legitimacy is not for the sake of the Court but for the sake of the Nation to which it is responsible. ** [https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/505/833 ''Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey'' 505 U.S.] 90, Justice O'CONNOR, Justice KENNEDY, and Justice Souter opinion of the court, * For nearly 40 years, the Supreme Court has been evading the [[w:Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|14th Amendment]]'s provision of "[[w:Equal protection|equal protection]]" of the law for all, in order to let government-imposed group preferences and quotas continue, under the name of "[[w:Affirmative action|affirmative action]]." Equal rights under the law have been made to vanish by saying the magic word "[[diversity]]," whose sweeping benefits are simply assumed and proclaimed endlessly, rather than demonstrated. ** [[Thomas Sowell]], [http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell011216.php3 "Messing With the Constitution"] (12 January 2016), ''Jewish World Review''. *'''All general business [[Corporations|corporation]] statues appear to date from well after 1800.. The [[Founding Fathers of the United States|Framers]] thus took it as a given that corporations could be comprehensively regulated in the service of the public welfare. Unlike our colleagues, they had little trouble distinguishing corporations from human beings, and when they constitutionalized the right to free speech in the First Amendment, it was the free speech of individual Americans they had in mind.<BR>The fact that corporations are different from human beings might seem to need no elaboration, except that the majority opinion almost completely elides it….''' Unlike natural persons, corporations have ‘limited liability’ for their owners and managers, ‘perpetual life,’ separation of ownership and control, ‘and favorable treatment of the accumulation of assets….’ Unlike voters in [[w:elections in the United States|U.S. elections]], corporations may be foreign controlled.<BR>...It might be added that corporations have no consciences, no beliefs, no feelings, no thoughts, no desires. Corporations help structure and facilitate the activities of human beings, to be sure, and their ‘personhood’ often serves as a useful legal fiction. But they are not themselves members of ‘We the People’ by whom and for whom our Constitution was established. *(TH: In Justice Stevens’ dissent in [[w:Citizens_United_decision|Citizens United]], he pointed out that corporations in their modern form didn’t even exist when the [[United States Constitution|Constitution]] was written in 1787 and got [[United States Bill of Rights|its first ten amendments]] in 1791, including the [[First Amendment to the United States Constitution|First]] which protects [[Freedom of speech|free speech]]) **[[John Paul Stevens|Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens]], quoted by [[Thom Hartmann]] in [https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/10/14/krysten-sinema-is-the-epitome-of-political-corruption/ Krysten Sinema is the Epitome of Political Corruption, Thom Hartmann,] ''CounterPunch'', October 14, 2021 *'''In addition to this immediate drowning out of noncorporate voices, there may be deleterious effects that follow soon thereafter. Corporate ‘[[domination]]’ of electioneering can generate the impression that corporations dominate our [[democracy]]. When citizens turn on their [[Television|televisions]] and [[Radio|radios]] before an election and hear only corporate electioneering, they may lose faith in their capacity, as citizens, to influence [[public policy]]. A Government captured by corporate interests, they may come to believe, will be neither responsive to their needs nor willing to give their views a fair hearing. The predictable result is [[cynicism]] and [[disenchantment]]: an increased perception that large spenders ‘call the tune’ and a reduced ‘willingness of voters to take part in democratic governance.’ To the extent that corporations are allowed to exert undue influence in electoral races, the speech of the eventual winners of those races may also be chilled.<BR>Politicians who fear that a certain corporation can make or break their reelection chances may be cowed into silence about that corporation.<BR>On a variety of levels, unregulated corporate electioneering might diminish the ability of citizens to ‘hold officials accountable to the people,’ and disserve the goal of a public debate that is ‘uninhibited, robust, and wide-open.’''' **[[John Paul Stevens|Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens]], quoted by [[Thom Hartmann]] in [https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/10/14/krysten-sinema-is-the-epitome-of-political-corruption/ Krysten Sinema is the Epitome of Political Corruption, Thom Hartmann,] ''CounterPunch'', October 14, 2021 *[<nowiki/>[[Aftermath of World War II|After World War II]]] the Court started chipping away at the “[[w:Separate_but_equal|separate but equal]]” doctrine, exposing as it went along the inequality of the practices sheltered by it. Then in 1954, the case of [[w:Brown_v._Board_of_Education|Brown v. Board of Education]] presented the basic question of whether a [[w:school_segregation_in_the_United_States|segregated public school system]] with equal physical facilities was constitutionally permissible under that doctrine. The Court held that the [[Racial segregation|separation of the races]] in the public schools placed a badge of inferiority upon the [[minority group]]; that it was a denial of the constitutional right to [[w:Equal_protection|equal protection]] of the laws; that the doctrine of separate but equal could have no application, and specifically disapproved [[w:Plessy_v._Ferguson|Plessy v. Ferguson]] in that regard. The Court thus opened the door to all phases of [[civil rights]], and in rapid succession applied the same reasoning to other instances of racial [[discrimination]]. **[[Earl Warren]], December 1972, as quoted in ''Historic Documents of 1972''. Washington, DC: CQ Press. == Quotes about the selection of justices == ===2005=== * Once in office, [[Ronald Reagan]] sought to nominate candidates to the federal judiciary who would roll back liberal judicial decisions and promote his favored constitutional values, which included opposition to [[abortion]]. Not entirely coincidentally, the 1984 Republican Party platform “applaud[ed] President Reagan’s fine record of judicial appointments, and … reaffirm[ed] [the party[’s] support for the appointment of judges at all levels of the judiciary who respect traditional family values and the sanctity of innocent human life.” <br> By the time Justice [[Lewis F. Powell Jr.|Lewis Powell]] retired in 1987, the Supreme Court’s original seven-person majority in Roe had swindled to four Justices who supported abortion rights: [[William J. Brennan Jr.|William Brennan]], [[Thurgood Marshall]], [[Harry Blackmun]] (the original author of Roe), and [[John Paul Stevens]], who had replaced [[William O. Douglas]] in 1976. Reagan’s first Supreme Court nominee, [[Sandra Day O’Connor]], replaced [[Potter Stewart]] in 1981. O’Connor strongly criticized Roe’s trimester framework in her 1983 dissent in [[w:City of Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health|City of Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health]] and argued that abortion restrictions should be tested by a more lenient standard: whether they imposed an “undue burden” on women’s ability to obtain abortions. In 1986, Reagan nominated [[William Rehnquist]], one of the original dissenters in [[Roe v. Wade|Roe]], to become Chief Justice, replacing [[Warren E. Burger|Warren Burger]], and nominated [[Antonin Scalia]], a vocal opponent of Roe, to fill Renquist’s position as Associate Justice. These three Justices joined [[Byron White]], the other original dissenter in Roe. <br> To replace Powell, Reagan nominated [[w:United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit|D.C. Circuit Judge]] [[Robert Bork]], an outspoken critic of Roe who championed the jurisprudence of original intention. The choice of Bork appeared to provide the crucial fifth vote to overturn [[Roe v. Wade]]. The Bork nomination produced a national controversy, and ultimately the senate failed to confirm him. [[Pro-choice]] groups mobilized to help defeat the nomination. Eventually the Senate confirmed Reagan’s third nominee, [[Anthony Kennedy]], a [[Conservatism|conservative]] circuit judge from [[California]] who was generally regarded as more moderate than Bork. <br> In hindsight, the failure of the Bork nomination was a turning point in the constitutional struggles over abortion. It raised the stakes in succeeding Supreme Court nominations and showed that they could be bitter and politically costly to a president. Bork’s defeat also demonstrated that [[pro-choice]] forces had considerable muscle that could be harnessed in the political arena if the public thought that abortion rights were truly threatened. It gave notice that Republican politicians might pay more heavily than they had previously believed if they tried to overturn Roe. ** Jack Balkin. [https://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0814799183&id=Us-277i9ZJYC&pg=PP1&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false“What Roe v. Wade Should Have Said; The Nation's Top Legal Experts Rewrite America's Most Controversial decision”], Jack Balkin Ed. (NYU Press 2005). pp.13-14 * Roe’s fate seemed even bleaker when two of the Court’s most liberal Justices, [[William Brennan]] and [[Thurgood Marshall]], left the Court due to failing health. Brennan resigned on July 20, 1990, and was replaced by [[David Souter]], a bookish jurist from [[New Hampshire]] about whom little was known when he was nominated. President [[George H.W. Bush]], attempting to avoid a replay of the Bork nomination, hoped that Souter would be able to avoid a politically difficult confirmation battle. [[Thurgood Marshall]], the great civil rights lawyer who had argued [[w:Brown v. Board of Education|Brown v. Board of Education]], announced his retirement on June 27, 1991. To replace him, President Bush nominated [[Clarence Thomas]], a conservative African American judge on the [[w:United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit|D.C. Circuit]]. Thomas was widely believed to be hostile to Roe v. Wade but stated at his confirmation hearings that he had never debated it and had no personal opinion on the subject. The Thomas nomination was bitterly contested by senators who doubted Thomas’s qualifications and his commitment to [[civil rights]] and [[civil liberties]], including the right to abortion. Matters were thrown into an uproad when Thomas was accused of sexual harassment by a former employee at the [[w:Equal_Employment_Opportunity_Commission|Equal Employment Opportunity Commission]] (EEOC), [[Anita Hill]]. After weeks of controversy, Thomas was finally confirmed by a 52-48 vote, the narrowest margin in Supreme Court history. ** Jack Balkin. [https://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0814799183&id=Us-277i9ZJYC&pg=PP1&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false“What Roe v. Wade Should Have Said; The Nation's Top Legal Experts Rewrite America's Most Controversial decision”], Jack Balkin Ed. (NYU Press 2005). pp.14-15 ===2010=== * I would love you to consider an apology sometime and some full explanation of why you did what you did with my husband So give it some thought and certainly pray about this and come to understand why you did what you did. Okay, have a good day. ** Ginni Thomas, wife of [[Justice Thomas]] addressing [[Anita Hill]] regarding the Tomas hearings twenty years after his confirmation '''[https://www.businessinsider.com/ginni-thomas-asked-anita-hill-to-apologize-to-clarence-thomas-2022-6 Ginni Thomas left a voicemail for Anita Hill asking her to apologize for accusing Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment]''' (October 9, 2010) ===2016=== * Why would we cut off the national debate about this next justice? Why would we squelch the voice of the people? Why would we deny the voters a chance to weigh in on the make-up of the Supreme Court? ** [[Tom Cotton]], speech on the Senate floor (9 March 2016) * In an election year, we have a long tradition, that a lame-duck president doesn't get to jam a Supreme Court nominee through on the very end. ** [[Ted Cruz]], speaking on ''Meet the Press'' (15 February 2016) * I want you to use my words against me. If there is a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say, "Lindsey Graham said let's let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination." And you could use my words against me and you'd be absolutely right. ** [[Lindsey Graham]], at a meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee (10 March 2016) * When an election is under way the American people are about to weigh in on who's going to be the president. And that's the person, whoever it may be, who ought to be making this appointment. ** [[Mitch McConnell]], speaking on ''Meet the Press'' (21 March 2016) ===2020=== * We will move forward without delay and in deliberate fashion. We will process the president's nominee and I believe that we will confirm that nominee as well. ** [[Tom Cotton]], interview on ''Fox News Sunday'' (20 September 2020) * I believe the right thing to do is for the Senate to take up this nomination and to confirm the nominee before election day. ** [[Ted Cruz]], interview on ''This Week'' (20 September 2020) * I will support President [[Donald Trump|@realDonaldTrump]] in any effort to move forward regarding the recent vacancy created by the passing of Justice Ginsburg. ** [[Lindsey Graham]], on Twitter (19 September 2020) * The Senate has more than sufficient time to process a nomination. History and precedent make that perfectly clear. ** [[Mitch McConnell]], speech on the Senate floor (21 September 2020) ===2021=== * The exceptionally urgent need to reduce the risk of [[Coronavirus disease 2019|COVID-19]] exposure for [[Medicare|Medicare and Medicaid]] patients given the anticipated winter surge in infections tips the equities overwhelmingly in favor of a stay **[[Elizabeth Prelogar]] '''[https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-administration-asks-us-supreme-court-lift-lower-courts-hold-vaccine-2021-12-17/ Biden administration asks U.S. Supreme Court to lift lower courts hold on vaccine mandate]''' (December 16, 2021 6:13 PM PST) in motion to the Supreme Court ===2022=== * Clarence doesn't discuss his work with me, and I don't involve him in my work ** Ginni Thomas, wife of '''Justice Thomas''' according to [https://www.businessinsider.com/clarence-thomas-only-justice-dissent-in-trump-january-6-bid-2022-3 Clarence Thomas was the lone dissent in the Supreme Court's January order rejecting Trump's bid to withhold documents from the January 6 panel] (Mar 24, 2022) ==Quotes about the Supreme Court== * Supreme Court eras are often identified with their chief justices, as is true of the current period that began with Roberts nearly two decades ago. But the Court can be measured also by presidential influence. Certain presidents, such as [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], who appointed eight justices in his twelve years in office, had a disproportionate effect on the Court. [[Ronald Reagan]] and [[Richard Nixon]] also stood out for their imprint. The [[Presidency of Donald Trump|Trump]] effect, especially in terms of the individuals chosen and the resulting shift in the balance of power, has been incomparable. He is gone from office and they are here for life. ** Joan Biskupic, ''Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and its Historic Consequences'' (2023), New York: William Morrow, first edition hardcover, p. 10-11 *Every generation, while finding its own uses for the Court, has preserved the Court as a symbol of the need for limits and for continuity in a nation of novelties. The Supreme Court thus become the American political conscience, a kind of secular papacy, a new search in every generation for what the more large-minded and more foresighted of the [[Founding Fathers of the United States|Founders]] might have meant if they were alive. It is the Great Remembrancer of our foundations. **[[Daniel J. Boorstin]], 'Editor's Preface', to Robert G. McCloskey, ''The American Supreme Court'' (1960; 1974), pp. v-vi * There are limits to [[analyzing]] the [[reasoning]] of published Supreme Court opinions, to say nothing of drafts. [[Logic]] and [[syllogisms]] don’t carry us very far in the [[law]]. ** Michael C. Dorf, as quoted by Adam Liptak in [https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/11/us/politics/roe-wade-supreme-court-abortion.html "If Roe Falls, Is Same-Sex Marriage Next?"]. ''The New York Times''. (May 8, 2022). * [[None]] of us are [[safe]] from the extreme anti-[[women]] and anti-[[L.G.B.T.Q.]] [[ideology]] that now dominates this court. ** [[w:Sarah Kate Ellis|Sarah Kate Ellis]], [https://www.glaad.org/releases/glaad-responds-leaked-supreme-court-draft-opinion-overturning-roe-v-wade “GLAAD RESPONDS TO LEAKED SUPREME COURT DRAFT OPINION OVERTURNING ROE V WADE”], [[w:GLAAD|GLAAD]], (May 3, 2022) *[[James Madison|Madison]]’s “harmonious system of mutual frustration,” as the historian [[Richard Hofstadter]] called it, survived in continuity through many changes. The [[Constitutional Convention (United States)|constitutional debates of 1787–88]] fed into the contests of political [[modernity]], giving it new terms and new metaphors. The Constitution itself became a stake in the American version of the contest between [[liberalism]] and [[conservatism]]. Appointments to its legal guardian, the Supreme Court, were fought over in partisan terms by the White House and Senate. The justices decried the labels, which they said caricatured their work. For the bulk of legal disputes that reached them, the point was fair, but for the rarer but headline cases of deep political division and high constitutional controversy—[[Slavery in the United States|slavery]], [[business]] and [[labor]], personal morals, institutional powers—the complaint missed the mark, as a historic record of reliable partisanship along liberal-left and conservative-right lines suggested. **[[w:Edmund Fawcett|Edmund Fawcett]], ''Conservatism: The Fight for a Tradition'' (2020), p. 36 * Decades ago, Justice [[Louis D. Brandeis]] declared that "the reason the public thinks so much of the Justices of the Supreme Court is that they are almost the only people in [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] who do their own [[work]]." Today, no knowledgeable observer of the court would make a similar claim. As late as 1940, most clerks acted primarily as secretaries. In some cases a clerk might contribute an important footnote to an opinion, but not until Justice [[w:Frank Murphy|Frank Murphy]] and Chief Justice [[Fred M. Vinson|Fred Vinson]] joined the court in the 1940s did clerks take the lead in writing opinions and sometimes determine a justice's vote. As the number of clerks increased from two to three and, finally, to four, so did their involvement in their justice's work. ** David J. Garrow, [https://www.legalaffairs.org/issues/May-June-2005/feature_garrow_mayjun05.msp “The Brains Behind Blackmun”], ''Legal Affairs: The Magazine at the intersection of law and life'', May/June 2005 *Conservatives on the Supreme Court have repeatedly gutted provisions of the 1974 amendments to the [[w:Federal Election Campaign Act|Federal Election Campaign Act]] (FECA), most famously in 2010 with their notorious [[w:Citizens United|Citizens United]] decision. With that stroke, over the loud objections of the four “liberals” on the Court, corporations were absolutely deemed as “[[persons]]” with full constitutional rights, and [[Billionaire|billionaires]] or corporations pouring massive amounts of money into campaign coffers was changed from “bribery and political corruption” to an exercise of the constitutionally-protected “right of free speech.”... <BR> Increasingly, because of the Supreme Court’s betrayal of American values, it’s become impossible for people... to rise from social worker to the United States Senate without big money behind them. Our media is absolutely unwilling to call this what even [[Andrew Jackson]] would have labeled it: political [[corruption]]. But that’s what it is and it’s eating away at our republic like a metastasized cancer... While the naked [[corruption]] of [[Kyrsten Sinema|Sinema]] and [[Joe Manchin]] is a source of outrage for [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrats]] across America, what’s far more important is that it reveals how deep the rot of money in American politics has gone, thanks entirely to a corrupted Supreme Court. **[[Thom Hartmann]] in [https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/10/14/krysten-sinema-is-the-epitome-of-political-corruption/ Krysten Sinema is the Epitome of Political Corruption, Thom Hartmann,] ''CounterPunch'', October 14, 2021 *In [[John Paul Stevens|Justice Stevens]]’ dissent in Citizens United, he pointed out that corporations in their modern form didn’t even exist when the Constitution was written in 1787 and got its [[United States Bill of Rights|first ten amendments]] in 1791, including the First which protects free speech.... Noting that corporations “inescapably structure the life of every citizen,” Stevens continued: “It might be added that corporations have no [[Conscience|consciences]], no [[Belief|beliefs]], no [[feelings]], no [[Thought|thoughts]], no [[Desire|desires]]. Corporations help structure and facilitate the activities of human beings, to be sure, and their ‘personhood’ often serves as a useful legal fiction. But they are not themselves members of ‘We the People’ by whom and for whom our Constitution was established.”<BR>Even worse than the short-term effect of a corporation’s dominating an election or a ballot initiative, Stevens said (as if he had a time machine to look at us now), was the fact that corporations corrupting politics would, inevitably, cause average working Americans — the 95 percent who make less than $100,000 a year — to conclude that their “democracy” is now rigged. **[[Thom Hartmann]] in [https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/10/14/krysten-sinema-is-the-epitome-of-political-corruption/ Krysten Sinema is the Epitome of Political Corruption, Thom Hartmann,] ''CounterPunch'', October 14, 2021 * Donald Trump is an astoundingly dangerous candidate for president. He is a pathological liar … : That fact has motivated many decent [[lawyers]] and [[law]] [[professors]] to scramble for ways to ensure that [[Trump]] is not [[elected]]. On Tuesday, the [[Colorado]] Supreme Court gave these lawyers new hope by declaring that Section 3 of the [[14th Amendment]] bars Donald Trump from the Colorado [[ballot]]. That decision will certainly reach the United States Supreme Court as quickly as any. And if that court is to preserve its integrity, it must, unanimously, reject the Colorado Supreme Court’s judgment. Because Section 3 of the 14th Amendment does not apply to Donald Trump. ** [[Lawrence Lessig]] [https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/12/supreme-court-trump-ballot-removal-colorado-wrong.html The Supreme Court Must Unanimously Strike Down Trump’s Ballot Removal] (DEC 20, 2023) * We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution -- not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws and not of men. ** [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] (March 9, 1937), reported in Conrad Black, ''Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom‎'' (2005), p. 411. * Throughout [[American history]], the Supreme Court, often derided as the least democratic branch of the federal government, has, paradoxically, best maintained its legitimacy when it has functioned as the most democratic branch—that is, when it has deferred to the constitutional views of Congress, the president, and the country as a whole. For all the invective initially generated by [[w:Brown v. Board of Education|Brown v. Board of Education]], which outlawed school segregation, the decision was supported by more than half of the country when it was handed down in 1954, a time when southern minorities were blocking Congress from enacting the civil-rights legislation that the public supported. Many of the most famous decisions by the Warren, Burger, and Rehnquist Courts similarly reflected the popular will: a survey of eighty-eight [[civil-rights]] and [[civil-liberties]] cases between 1953 and 1994 found that, in most instances, the Supreme Court was generally in sync with public opinion. When public opinion opposed a particular rights claim, so, by and large, did the Supreme Court. ** Jeffrey Rosen. [https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2006/06/the-day-after-roe/304882/ "The Day After Roe"]. ''The Atlantic''. (June 2006). * In the United States at the present day, the reverence which the [[Greeks]] gave to the oracles and the [[Middle Ages]] to the Pope is given to the Supreme Court. Those who have studied the working of the American Constitution know that the Supreme Court is part of the forces engaged in the protection of the [[plutocracy]]. But of the men who know this, some are on the side of the plutocracy, and therefore do nothing to weaken the traditional reverence for the Supreme court, while others are discredited in the eyes of the ordinary quiet citizens by being said to be subversive and [[Bolsheviks|Bolshevik]]. ** [[Bertrand Russell]], ''Power'' (1937, reprinted Routledge Classics, 2004), p. 53. * Leaks of any kind are rare at the Supreme Court, and Totenberg says there hasn't been such a massive breach in modern history. She called it a "bomb at the court" that undermines everything the body stands for internally and institutionally, including its members' trust in their law clerks and in each other. <br> "No fully-formed draft opinion has been leaked to the press or outside the court," Totenberg says. "Once or twice there may have been leaks that say how is something going to turn out, or after-the-fact that somebody may have changed his or her mind. But this is a full-flown, [[w:The_Pentagon_Papers|Pentagon Papers]]-type compromise of the court's work." ** [[w:Nina Totenberg|Nina Totenberg]] as quoted by Rachel Treisman. [https://www.npr.org/2022/05/03/1096097236/roe-wade-original-ruling-leak "The original Roe v. Wade ruling was leaked, too"]. ''NPR''. (May 3, 2022). * And as I say to you, whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court, he ceases to be your friend, you can be sure of that. ** [[Harry S. Truman]], reported in ''Truman Speaks'' (1960), p. 59. * The Supreme Court is a clown show. The idea that these nine individuals carry incredible wisdom is being debunked in real time. ** Jordan Schachtel, [https://twitter.com/JordanSchachtel/status/1479492326275928067 ''Twitter''], 3:37 AM · Jan 8, 2022 ==See also== * [[Democracy]] * [[Justice]] * [[Rule of law]] * [[United States Constitution]] ==External links== {{wikipedia}} [[Category:United States government]] [[Category:United States law]] [[Category:Courts]] fhea3bdqjvs0ninze94qd5nat8uvu1h 0 102194 3961277 3679811 2026-07-05T20:19:05Z ~2026-38535-55 3347771 /* Dialogue */ Added the dialogue just before the 20th Maine's bayonet charge. 3961277 wikitext text/x-wiki {{italic title}} '''''[[w:Gettysburg (1993 film)|Gettysburg]]''''' is a 1993 film based on the novel ''[[w:The Killer Angels|The Killer Angels]]'' by [[Michael Shaara|Michael Shaara]], depicting the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. It was followed up by the prequel film ''[[Gods and Generals (film)|Gods and Generals]]'' in 2003. ::::::::::'''Directed and written by [[w:Ronald F. Maxwell|Ronald F. Maxwell]].''' [[File:High Water Mark from Gettysburg.PNG|thumb|right|Same Land. Same God. Different Dreams.]] ==Taglines== * Same Land. Same God. Different Dreams. *Fate made them soldiers. War made them brothers. Courage made them Heroes. == Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain == * ''[repeated line, to his brother Thomas]'' Don't call me Lawrence. * ''[tells Thomas to move back from him when a shell explodes near them]'' Another close one and it could be a hard day for Mother. * Gentlemen. ''We'' are the flank. * Hold to the last. To the last what? Exercise in rhetoric. Last shell? Last man? Last foot of ground? Last Reb? * Mutiny. I thought that was a word for the navy. * It doesn't make sense; hold a gun on a man to get him to fight. * ''[examining his sword scabbard which was hit by a bullet and bent badly]'' I'll be damned. * You men gather round. I've been talking with, uh, Pvt. Bucklin, he's told me about your problem. There's nothing I can do today. We'll be moving out in a few minutes, we'll be moving all day. I've been ordered to take you men with me. I'm told that, uh, that if you don't come, I can shoot you. Well, you know I won't do that. Maybe somebody else will, but I won't, so, that's that. Uh here's the, uh, situation. The whole Reb army is up that road a ways, waitin' for us, so this is no time for an argument like this, I tell ya. We could surely use you fellas, we're now well below half strength. Whether you fight, or not, that's...that's up to you. Whether you come along is, is...well, you're comin'. You know who we are and what we're doing here, but if you want to fight along side us, there's some things I want you to know. This regiment was formed last summer in Maine. There were a thousand of us then. There are less than three hundred of us now. All of us volunteered to fight for the Union, just as you did. Some came mainly because we were bored at home, thought this looked like it might be fun. Some came because we were ashamed not to. Many of us came because it was the right thing to do. All of us have seen men die. This is a different kind of army. If you look back through history, you will see men fighting for pay, for women, for some other kind of loot. They fight for land, power, because a king leads them or, or just because they like killing. But we are here for something new. This has not happened much in the history of the world. We are an army out to set other men free. America should be free ground - all of it. Not divided by a line between slave state and free, all the way from here to the Pacific Ocean. No man has to bow. No man born to royalty. Here, we judge you by what you do, not by who your father was. Here, you can be something. Here, is the place to build a home. But it's not the land. There's always more land. It's the idea that we all have value - you and me. What we're fighting for, in the end, we're fighting for each other. Sorry, I, uh, didn't mean to preach. You, uh, you go ahead. You talk for awhile. Uh, if you, uh, if you choose to join us, you want your muskets back, you can have 'em. Nothing more will be said by anybody anywhere. If you, uh, choose not to join us, well you can come along under guard, and when this is all over I will do what I can to see you get a fair treatment. But for now, we're moving out. Gentlemen, I think if we lose this fight, we lose the war. So if you choose to join us, I'll be personally very grateful. * We can't run away. If we stay here we can't shoot. So lets fix bayonets. == Gen. Robert E. Lee == * It's my fault. * ''[thinking]'' In the morning is the great battle. Tomorrow or the next day will determine the war. Virginia is here. All the South is here. What will you do tomorrow? In the morning the enemy will be up in fortified positions on high ground. Longstreet's corps will be coming up and my boys will be ready to finish the job. If I tell them to withdraw now? No, sir. They've been patient for far too long. With the enemy out there up on the hill, they'll be ready to finish the job. But I don't even know how much is up there. How many men? How many cannon? I don't know the ground or the flanks. I don't know. If I wait in the morning, the early morning, maybe Meade, under pressure, will attack. That would make General Longstreet very happy. But I don't think Meade will come down. And I don't think I can withdraw, so, God's will, thy will be done. * ''[to Longstreet, on the nature of the army]'' Soldiering has one great trap. To be a good soldier, you must love the army. To be a good commander, you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love. We do not fear our own death, you and I. But there comes a time...we are never quite prepared for so many to die. Oh, we do expect the occasional empty chair, the salute to fallen comrades. But this war goes on, and the men die, and the price gets ever higher. We are prepared to lose some of us, but we are never prepared to lose all of us. And there is the great trap, General: When you attack, you must hold nothing back. You must commit yourself totally. We are adrift here in a sea of blood, and I want it to end. I want ''this'' to be the final battle. * They will break in the center. Those people will be gaining men from all directions, guns by the thousands. And Richmond has nothing left to send us. So if we stay, we fight. If we retreat now, we will have fought here for two days, and will leave knowing we could not drive them off. And I have [[w:Seven Days Battles|never yet]] [[w:Second Battle of Bull Run|left the enemy in]] [[w:Battle of Antietam|command]] [[w:Battle of Fredericksburg|of the]] [[w:Battle of Chancellorsville|field]]. No Sir. Retreat is no longer an option. *''[just before Pickett's Charge]'' With General Longstreet in command, my old war horse, meeting the enemy face to face on ground of his own choosing, and with honour, ''we will prevail!'' * They do not die for us. Not for us. That at least is a blessing. If this war goes on, and it will...it will...what else can we do but go on, you and I? It's always the same question forever. What else can we do? '''If they fight, we must fight with them. And does it matter after all who wins?''' Was that ever really the question? * Major, this Army will conduct itself properly and with respect to all civilian population at all times. And you will personally report to me any infraction no matter how minor or trivial they may appear. == Lt. Gen. James Longstreet == * I don't like going in without Pickett. It's like going in with one boot off. I'll wait as long as I can before sending my boys in. * We should've freed the slaves, ''then'' fired on Fort Sumter. * I guess we Southerners and you English have at least one thing in common. We'd rather lose the war than admit to the mistake. * If they get batteries up there, we're gonna need buckets to catch the lead. * Place the guns! Bring up the guns! * I must tell you now, I believe this attack will fail. No fifteen thousand men, ever made, can take that ridge. * ''[to his spy, Harrison, just before Pickett's Charge]'' You know what's gonna happen? I'll tell you what's gonna happen. Troops are now forming behind the line of trees. When they come out, they'll be under enemy long-range artillery fire. Solid shot. Percussion. Every gun they have. Troops will come out under fire with more than a mile to walk. And still, within the open field, among the range of aimed muskets. They'll be slowed by that fence out there, and the formation - what's left of it - will begin to come apart. When they cross that road, they'll be under short-range artillery. Canister fire. Thousands of little bits of shrapnel wiping the holes in the lines. If they get to the wall without breaking up, there won't be many left. A mathematical equation...But maybe, just maybe, our own artillery will break up their defenses. There's always that hope. ''[sighs]'' But that's Hancock out there, and he ain't gonna run. So it's mathematical after all. If they get to that road, or beyond it, we'll suffer over fifty percent casualties. But, Harrison...I don't believe my boys will reach that wall. == Brig. Gen. Lewis Armistead == * ''[to Col. Fremantle, on the irony of [[w:George Armistead|his uncle]] defending the original "Star Spangled Banner" at Ft. McHenry in 1814]'' Colonel Fremantle, it does not begin or end with my uncle, or myself. We're all sons of Virginia here. That major out there, commanding the cannon - that's James Dearing, first in his class at West Point, before Virginia seceded. And the boy over there with the color guard - that's Private Robert Tyler Jones. [[John Tyler|His grandfather]] was President of the United States. The colonel behind me - that's Colonel William Aylett. Now, his great-grandfather was the Virginian, [[Patrick Henry]]. It was Patrick Henry who said to your [[w:George III of the United Kingdom|King George III]], "Give me liberty, or give me death." There are boys here from Norfolk, Portsmouth, small hamlets along the James River...from Charlottesville and Fredericksburg, to the Shenandoah Valley. Mostly, they're all veteran soldiers now; the cowards and shirkers are long gone. Every man here knows his duty. They would make this charge, even without an officer to lead them. They know the gravity of the situation, and the mettle of their foe. They know that this day's work will be desperate and deadly. They know, that for many of them, this will be their last charge. But not one of them needs to be told what is expected of him. They're all willing to make the supreme sacrifice - to achieve victory, here...the crowning victory...and the end of this war. We are all here, Colonel. You may tell them, when you return to your country, that all Virginia was here on this day. * Father, into Your hands, I commend my spirit. * Virginians! Virginians! For your lands! For your homes! For your sweethearts! For your wives! For...Virginia! Forward...''march!'' * ''[reaches the fence, noticing a soldier cowering nearby]'' Come on, boy, come on! What will you think of yourself tomorrow? Virginians! Virginians! ''[impales his hat on his sword]'' We'll stay! Who will come with me?! * The day is ours, men! Turn the cannons on them! Turn the cannons! ''[jumps off the stone wall and places his hand on a cannon]'' Man this cannon! Man this cannon! * ''[last words]'' Will you tell General Hancock that General Armistead sends his regrets? Will you tell him how very sorry I am? == Maj. Gen. George Pickett == * Hello, my bully boys! Virginia has arrived! * You know I consider it unbecomin' to a soldier, all this booklearnin'. * For the glory of Virginia, form your brigade. * Up, men! Up! And to your posts! And let no man forget today that you are from old Virginia! * ''[as Armistead leads the charge to the stone wall]'' That's the style, Lo! ''[raises his hat in the air]'' THAT'S THE STYLE!! * ''[as smoke obscures the charge]'' What's happenin'? I can't see what's happenin' to my boys. WHAT'S HAPPENIN' TO MY BOYS?! * ''[responding to an order to form a defensive position after his division has been slaughtered]'' General Lee, I have no division. == Brig. Gen. John Buford == * ''[to Col. Devin, one of his brigade commanders]'' You know what's gonna happen here in the morning? The whole damn rebel army's gonna be here. They'll move through this town, occupy these hills on the other side. When our people get here, Lee'll have the high ground, and there'll be the devil to pay. The ''high'' ground! Meade will come in slowly, cautiously, new to command. They'll be on his back from Washington, wires hot with messages: "Attack! Attack!" So he will set up a ring around these hills, and when Lee's army is all nicely entrenched behind fat rocks on the high ground, Meade'll finally attack, if he can coordinate the army. Straight up the hillside, out in the open, in that gorgeous field of fire. We will charge valiantly, and be ''butchered'' valiantly! Afterwards, men in tall hats and gold watch-fobs will thump their chests and say what a brave charge it was. ''[sighs]'' Devin, I've led a soldier's life. I've never seen anything as brutally clear as this. It's as if I can actually see the blue troops in one long, bloody moment, going up the long slope to the stony top, as if it were already done, and already a memory. Odd, set, stony quality to it, as if tomorrow's already happened and there's nothing you can do about it. Way you sometimes feel before an ill-considered attack, ''knowing'' it'll fail, but you cannot stop it! You must even take part, and ''help'' it fail! * ''[observing the initial attack of the Confederates against his men]'' Got one brigade in position and that's all. We've got the best damn ground around and they're hitting me with one brigade. Lovely. Lovely! ''[turns around, looking for a sign of Gen. Reynolds, sees none]'' Damn it. == Other == * '''Narrator:''' In June 1863, after more than two years of bloody conflict, the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, Robert E. Lee commanding, slips across the Potomac to begin the invasion of the North. It is an army of 70,000 men. They move slowly behind the Blue Ridge using the mountains to screen their movements. Their objective is to draw the Union army out into the open where it can be destroyed. Late in June, the Union Army of the Potomac, 80,000 men, turns north from Virginia to begin the great pursuit up the narrow roads across Maryland and into Pennsylvania. General Lee knows that a letter has been prepared by the Southern government; a letter which offers peace. It is to be placed on the desk of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, the day after Lee has destroyed the Army of the Potomac somewhere north of Washington. * '''Maj. Gen. Harry Heth:''' It started out as a minor scrap with a few militia, the next thing I know, I'm tangled with half the Union Army! * '''Cpl. Glazier Estabrook:''' Colonel, sir. You know who this 2nd Maine man is? Dan Burns from Orono. I know his daddy, the preacher. Best darn cusser I've ever heard. Knows more fine swear words than any man in Maine. * '''Lt. Col. Arthur Fremantle:''' You call yourselves Americans, but you're really just transplanted Englishmen. * '''Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock:''' There are times when a corps commander's life does not count. * '''Maj. Gen. Isaac Trimble:''' ''[to Lee, after the first day]'' Sir, I said to General Ewell these words. I said to him: "Sir, give me one division and I will take that hill." He said nothing. He just stood there and stared at me. I said, "General Ewell, give me one brigade and I will take that hill." I was becoming disturbed, sir. And General Ewell put his arms behind him and blinked. So I said, "General, give me one ''regiment'' and ''I'' will take that hill." And he said ''nothing''! He just ''stood'' there! I threw down my sword. Down on the ground in front of him. We could have done it, sir. A blind man should have seen it. Now they're working up there. You can hear the axes of the federal troops. And so in the morning many a good boy will die...taking that hill. Sir, I must request another assignment. * '''Maj. Gen. John Reynolds:''' ''[last words]'' Forward, for God's sake, forward! * ''' Col. Strong Vincent''': You are the extreme left of the Union Army. Understood? The line runs all the way from here back to Cemetery Hill. '''But it ends here. You cannot withdraw under any condition. If you go this line will be flanked.''' If you go, the enemy will sweep up over the hillside and take this entire army from the rear. You must defend this place to the last. * '''2nd Maine Soldier:''' No man will call me a coward. * '''2nd Maine soldier:''' ''[shoots a Confederate soldier]'' I got me one. I got me a Reb. * '''Young Marylander''': ''[the only line spoken by a female in the entire film]'' I thought the war was in Virginia. * '''Cpt. TJ Goree:''' ''[to Gen. Longstreet]'' No good trying to get yourself killed, General. The Lord'll come for you in his own good time. == Dialogue == :'''Pvt. Buster Kilrain''': Colonel? Colonel, darlin'. Rise up, me bucko. ''[Chamberlain groans]'' Oh, I'm sorry, darlin', but we've got a bit of a problem here, Colonel, would ye like to hear about it? Would ye wake up, sir? We got a whole company comin', sir. This way. I'll give ye time to wake up, but we've got quite a problem. Altogether, 120 men are comin'. We're to be havin' them as guests. :'''Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain''': ''[still half asleep]'' What? :'''Pvt. Buster Kilrain''': Yeah. Should be here any minute. :'''Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain''': Who? :'''Pvt. Buster Kilrain''': Mutineers. Mutineers, Colonel, me lad. 120 men from the old 2nd Maine which has been disbanded. :'''Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain''': 120 mutineers? ''[gestures for Kilrain to keep talking]'' :'''Pvt. Buster Kilrain''': Yes, sir. Ye see, what happened was the enlistment papers on the old 2nd Maine run out. So they were sent home. All except these 120 fellows who'd foolishly signed 3-year papers. 3 years, that is. So these poor fellows, they got one more year to serve, only, you see, they thought they was signin' to fight only with the 2nd Maine and the 2nd Maine only. So, they, uh, quit. They resigned, ye see. 120 men! ''[Chamberlain puts his head down]'' Colonel? Are ye all right? :'''Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain''': Yeah. :'''Pvt. Buster Kilrain''': Well, the point is, sir, these Maine fellows; they won't fight no more. And nobody can send them home and nobody knows what to do with them. Til they thought of us. Being as we are the only other Maine regiment in the Fifth Corps. So they've been assigned to us. Yes, sir. I've a message here from the new commanding general. George Meade, sir, that's right! Our very own general of our very own corps has been promoted to command of the whole army. The latest, if ye keep track of them as they go by. ''[pulls out message, reads]'' The message says, uh, they'll be arrivin' this mornin', and they're to join us, oh, and if they refuse to follow orders, please feel free to shoot 'em. :'''Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain''': To...To shoot 'em? :'''Pvt. Buster Kilrain''': Yes, sir. :'''Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain''': These are...Maine men? :'''Pvt. Buster Kilrain''': ''[nods]'' Mm-hm. :'''Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain''': ''[takes the note, reads]'' "You are hereby authorized to shoot any man who refuses to do his duty." Buster, are these ''all'' Maine men? :'''Pvt. Buster Kilrain''': Yes, sir, and fine big fellows they are, too. :'''Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain''': ''[sighs]'' Mutiny. I thought that was a word for the navy. <hr width="50% "/> :'''Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain''': What's your name? :'''Pvt. Joseph Bucklin''': I don't feel too kindly, Colonel. :'''Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain''': Yes, well, I'm not usually this informal. I just, uh, just took command of this regiment a few days ago, so somebody ought to welcome you to my, uh - to our outfit. They, uh, they tell me that, uh, they're holding you fellas because you signed 3-year papers - I'm sorry, would you like some coffee? ''[Bucklin shakes his head]'' You sure? Go ahead, sit down, Mister... :'''Pvt. Joseph Bucklin''': Bucklin. :'''Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain''': Bucklin. :'''Pvt. Joseph Bucklin''': Joseph Bucklin. Listen, Colonel, I've been in eleven different engagements. How many have you been in? :'''Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain''': Not that many. :'''Pvt. Joseph Bucklin''': It ain't the papers. I done my share. We all have. Damn good men. Should not to be used this way. Lookee here. ''[pulls up his pants leg to reveal a bullet wound scar]'' Went clean through. :'''Pvt. Buster Kilrain''': ''[walks up]'' Colonel, we got a courier comin'. ''[walks off]'' :'''Pvt. Joseph Bucklin''': Listen, Colonel, I'm tired. You know what I mean? I'm tired. I've had all this army, and all these officers, this damn Hooker, this damn idiot Meade. All of them. The whole bloody, lousy rotten mess of sick-brained, potbellied scareheads that ain't fit to lead a johnny detail! They ain't fit to pour pee out of a boot with instructions written under the heel. I'm tired. We are good men and we had our own good flag. These damn idiots used us like we were cows or dogs or worse. We ain't gonna win this war. We can't win no-how with these lame-brain bastards from West Point. These damn gentlemen, these officers! <hr width="50% "/> :'''Lt. Tom Chamberlain''': One thing about this brigade is we got our own special bugle call. Ever hear tell of Dan Butterfield? :'''2nd Maine Soldier''': What, General Butterfield? What was with Hooker? :'''Lt. Tom Chamberlain''': That's the same fellow. See, he used to be our brigade commander. :'''2nd Maine Soldier''': Yeah, he was a pistol. No man like him for having a good time. :'''Lt. Tom Chamberlain''': I don't know about that. But I know he used to like to write bugle calls. The problem with this army is, we got too many calls. We got a call for artillery, infantry, get up and eat, retreat. Anyway, old Butterfield, he wrote a special call for this here brigade. Say there is an order for this brigade, you and me. Some blame fool'll be blowing his bugle, we will think that order's for us when it wasn't. We'll follow that order anyway, and then we'll look around and we'll be in a world of hurt. :'''2nd Maine Soldier''': Yeah, that happened to me once. Us, that is. Half the regiment charged, the other half retreated. You had your choice. <hr width="50% "/> :'''Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain''': Tell me something, Buster. What do you think of Negroes? :'''Pvt. Buster Kilrain''': Well, if you mean the race, I don't really know. This is not a thing to be ashamed of. The thing is, you cannot judge a race. Any man who judges by the group is a pea-wit. You take men one at a time. :'''Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain''': To me, there was never any difference. :'''Pvt. Buster Kilrain''': None at all? :'''Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain''': None at all. Of course, I haven't known that many freed men, but those I knew in Bangor, Portland, you look in the eye, there was a man. There was a "divine spark," as my mother used to call it. That is all there is to it. Races are men. "What a piece of work is man. How infinite in faculties, in form and moving. How express and admirable. In action, how like an angel." :'''Pvt. Buster Kilrain''': Well, if he's an angel, all right then. But he damn well must be a killer angel. Colonel, darling, you're a lovely man. I see a great vast difference between us, yet I admire you, lad. You're an idealist, praise be. The truth is, Colonel, there is no "divine spark." There's many a man alive no more of value than a dead dog. Believe me. When you've seen them hang each other the way I have back in the Old Country. Equality? What I'm fighting for is the right to prove I'm a better man than many of them. Where have you seen this "divine spark" in operation, Colonel? Where have you noted this magnificent equality? No two things on earth are equal or have an equal chance. Not a leaf, not a tree. There's many a man worse than me, and some better, but I don't think race or country matters a damn. What matters, Colonel, is justice. Which is why I'm here. I'll be treated as I deserve. Not as my father deserved. I'm Kilrain, and I damn all gentlemen. There is only one aristocracy, and that is right here. ''[taps his temple]'' And that's why we've got to win this war. <hr width="50% "/> :'''Lt. Gen. James Longstreet''': Good Lord, George, what is that smell? :'''Maj. Gen. George Pickett''': That's me. Ain't it lovely? :'''Brig. Gen. Lewis Armistead''': He got it off a dead Frenchman. <hr width="50% "/> :'''Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain''': Sergeant Owen, let's get these fellows some muskets. :'''Sgt. Owen''': There are no muskets, sir. :'''Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain''': ''[to 2nd Maine men]'' You just wait here for a bit. There'll be guns available in a little while. <hr width="50% "/> :'''Lt. Thomas Chamberlain''': The boys from the 2nd Maine are being fed, Lawrence. :'''Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain''': Ye - ''Don't'' call me Lawrence. :'''Lt. Thomas Chamberlain''': Darn it, Lawrence, I'm your brother. :'''Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain''': Well, just be careful about the name business in front of the men, alright? Just because you're my brother - It looks like favoritism. :'''Lt. Thomas Chamberlain''': God Almighty, General Meade's got his own son as his aide-de-camp. :'''Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain''': Well, that's different. Generals can do anything. Nothing quite so much like God on Earth as a general on a battlefield. :'''Lt. Thomas Chamberlain''': Well, what are you gonna do with 'em, huh, sir? ''Colonel'', sir. You can't shoot 'em, you'll never go back to Maine if you do that. :'''Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain''': I know that, I know that. I wonder if they do. <hr width="50% "/> :'''General Robert E. Lee''': General Heth. :'''Maj. General Henry Heth''': Sir, beg to report. :'''General Robert E. Lee''': Yes? :'''Maj. General Henry Heth''': Very strange, sir. The situation is very confused. :'''General Robert E. Lee''': What's happened? :'''Maj. General Henry Heth''': Well, sir, I moved in this morning as directed. I thought it was only a few militia, but it was dismounted cavalry, sir. Well, there weren't all that many, and the boys wouldn't hold back. I thought we oughtn't be stopped by a few dismounted calvary, but they made a good fight. They-they really put up a scrap, sir. :'''General Robert E. Lee''': Go on, General. :'''Maj. General Henry Heth''': Well, sir...they wouldn't leave. My boys got their dander up. We deployed the whole division and went after 'em. We just about had 'em running, then all of a sudden, they got up infantry support. We got pushed back. Then-then, we reformed and tried again. Couldn't just leave it to them, sir. But now there's more Yankee infantry coming up; I don't know how many. But I don't know what else we could've done. It started out as a minor scrap with a few militia, and the next thing I know, I'm tangled with half the Union Army! :'''General Robert E. Lee''': ''[sighs]'' Things will get out of control, Mr. Heth. That is why we have orders. Is it possible you could've misunderstood them? :'''Maj. General Henry Heth''': No, sir. :'''General Robert E. Lee''': ''[referring to the arriving Union forces]'' Can you identify those people? :'''Maj. General Henry Heth''': The infantry's the 1st Corps, the Black Hats. There's another corps coming up we still haven't identified. :'''General Robert E. Lee''': I must have all possible information on the enemy strength. Major Taylor? :'''Maj. Walter H. Taylor''': Sir? :'''General Robert E. Lee''': I want you to ride forward yourself to the highest position and observe and do be careful. :'''Maj. Walter H. Taylor''': Yes, sir. Hyah! ''[rides off]'' :'''Maj. General Henry Heth''': Sir, shall I attack? :'''General Robert E. Lee''': No, sir. We are not yet ready for a full engagement. Gen. Longstreet is not up with his corps. :'''Maj. General Henry Heth''': Sir, the enemy is disorganized. If we throw in all our forces now in the field, we will have the advantage. :'''General Robert E. Lee''': ''[hears cannons fire]'' Is that our artillery? :'''Maj. General Henry Heth''': Yes, sir. :'''General Robert E. Lee''': I cannot imagine what has happened with Gen. Stuart. I have heard nothing, you understand me, sir? :'''Maj. General Henry Heth''': Yes, sir. :'''General Robert E. Lee''': I have no idea what lies in front of me. It may be the ''entire'' Federal Army! <hr width="50% "/> :'''Lt. Gen. James Longstreet''': You English had your own civil war once, didn't you? :'''Lt. Col. Arthur Fremantle''': Oh, that was ages ago. Wouldn't dream of it now. Cavaliers and Roundheads. "Off with his head, off with his head!" Heads lying about everywhere. One could hardly take a step without tripping over a fallen crown. We're much more civilized now, I assure you. <hr width="50% "/> :'''Lt. Col. Arthur Fremantle''': We have so much in common, your country and mine. I earnestly hope that we shall become allies. :'''Lt. Gen. James Longstreet''': Your government will never ally itself with a Confederacy that had the institution of slavery. You know that, and so do I. We should've freed the slaves, ''then'' fired on Fort Sumter. I guess we Southerners and you English have at least one thing in common: We'd rather lose the war than admit to the mistake. [[w:American Revolutionary War|We whopped you]] [[w:War of 1812|British twice]], as I recollect. :'''Lt. Col. Arthur Fremantle''': ''[Chuckles]'' Your candor is admirable, if not somewhat eccentric. <hr width="50% "/> :'''Lt. Gen. James Longstreet''': I've got some night work for you. Are you up for it? :'''Harrison''': ''"All the world will be in love with night, and pay no worship to the garish sun!"'' :'''Lt. Gen. James Longstreet''': When this is over, I do look forward to seeing you on the stage. <hr width="50% "/> :'''General Robert E. Lee''': General Ewell, I had hoped that after moving through the town, you would've taken that hill. :'''Lt. Gen. Richard Ewell''': I didn't think it was practical. Well, for many reasons. We'd marched all day, and we'd fought. And your orders were to caution against bringing on a general engagement. :'''Maj. Gen. Jubal Early''': There were reports of Federal troops in the north, sir. We couldn't bring sufficient artillery to bear on that hill. We decided it was best to wait for another of our divisions, Johnson's. :'''Lt. Gen. Richard Ewell''': Yes, sir. Johnson didn't arrive till after dark, just a while ago. He's out there now, looking over the terrain. :'''General Robert E. Lee''': General Early, do you think you can attack on your flank in the morning? :'''Maj. Gen. Jubal Early''': ''[sighs]'' That hill will be a very strong position once it's fortified, which is what they're doing right now, sir. :'''General Robert E. Lee''': I am very much aware of that, General. :'''Maj. Gen. Jubal Early''': Have you looked over the ground yourself, sir? :'''General Robert E. Lee''': From a distance only. :'''Maj. Gen. Jubal Early''': I do not think we should attack this point. This will be the strong point. Our troops have marched hard and fought hard toady. I suggest we hold here while the rest of the army attacks the other flank. :'''General Robert E. Lee''': Do you think an attack on your flank will succeed? :'''Maj. Gen. Jubal Early''': I think it would be very costly. :'''Lt. Gen. Richard Ewell''': Very costly, sir. :'''General Robert E. Lee''': General Rodes? :'''Maj. Gen. Robert Rodes''': We, uh, could attack of course, General, but the boys have had a good fight and that will be a strong position. General, I am sorry we didn't take that hill today. :'''General Robert E. Lee''': Well, this day is done. You know, General Longstreet proposes that we move our army around to the right, and flank the Federal army, and interpose between Meade and Washington. :'''Lt. Gen. Richard Ewell''': And to vacate this position? To leave this town we've just captured, sir? :'''General Robert E. Lee''': This town is of no military significance whatsoever, General. :'''Maj. Gen. Jubal Early''': To move this entire corps in the face of a fortified enemy? :'''General Robert E. Lee''': And yet you tell me that you cannot attack in the morning? Gentlemen, if we do not withdraw and if we do not move in the face the enemy then we must attack. Is there any alternative? General Hill? :'''Lt. Gen. Ambrose P. Hill''': No, sir. :'''General Robert E. Lee''': Very well. I do thank you, gentlemen. :''[Generals Early, Rodes, and Hill salute and leave. General Ewell remains to speak to Lee]'' :'''Lt. Gen. Richard Ewell''': ''[clears throat]'' General...I believe I may have been too slow today. I regret that very much. I was trying to be careful. May have been too careful. :'''General Robert E. Lee''': You won a victory this day, General. It was not a large victory. It could have been larger. Perhaps we could have pushed harder. But it was a victory nonetheless. And your people fought valiantly. This was your first campaign commanding a corps. Now you know it's not always as simple as it sometimes appears. Go and rest now for tomorrow. <hr width="50% "/> :'''Maj. Gen. John Bell Hood''': General. Look here. The ground is strewn with boulders. The soldiers up there are entrenched all over the ground. And there are guns in the rocks. Every move I make is observed. If I attack as ordered, I lose half my division. And they'll still be looking down the throats at us from that rocky hill, right there. We must move around to the right, sir, and take them from the rear. :'''Lt. Gen. James Longstreet''': Sam, the commanding general will not allow a flanking movement around those hills. I argued it yesterday, I argued it all morning, hell, I've been arguing against any attack at all. I can't call this one off. You know it. :'''Maj. Gen. John Bell Hood''': Let me move move up the big round hill to the south. There's nobody on that. Now if I could get a battery up there... :'''Lt. Gen. James Longstreet''': There ain't enough time. You'd have to cut down trees to place your artillery. It'd be dark before you were in action. On the other hand, if they get batteries up there, we're gonna need buckets to catch the lead. You've got to take that hill. :'''Maj. Gen. John Bell Hood''': They don't even need guns to defend that. All they need to do is roll rocks down on you. :'''Lt. Gen. James Longstreet''': Just take it. :'''Maj. Gen. John Bell Hood''': General, I do this under protest. :'''Lt. Gen. James Longstreet''': Sam, you are the best I got. Now, sir, if you are ready, why don't you take that hill? <hr width="50% "/> :'''Col. Strong Vincent''': The whole reb army is down there, and coming up around our flanks. They could be here any minute. We've got to hold this place. We've ''got'' to hold it. Well, all right. I place you here. Put your colors here, and set your regiment to the left of this line. The rest of the brigade will form on your right. Understood? :'''Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain''': Yes. Ellis, this is the point. :'''Cpt. Ellis Spear''': Yes, sir. :'''Col. Strong Vincent''': Now, your regiment is to the left of this point. Colonel, sir, you're the end of the line. :'''Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain''': Yes. :'''Col. Strong Vincent''': You're the extreme left of the Union army. Understood? The line runs all the way from here back to Cemetery Hill, but it ends here. :'''Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain''': Understood. :'''Col. Strong Vincent''': You cannot withdraw under any condition. If you go, this line will be flanked. If you go, the enemy will sweep up over the hillside and take this entire army from the rear. You must defend this place to the last. :'''Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain''': Yes, sir. :'''Col. Strong Vincent''': ''[shakes Chamberlain's hand]'' Now we'll see how professors fight. <hr width="50% "/> :'''Lt. Thomas Chamberlain''': Hello, men. What outfit you with? :'''Confederate Prisoner''': Archer's Brigade, Heth's Division. :'''Lt. Thomas Chamberlain''': Where you from? :'''Confederate Prisoner''': Tennessee. How 'bout you? :'''Lt. Thomas Chamberlain''': Maine. I never been to Tennessee. :'''Confederate Prisoner''': I reckon I never been to Maine neither. :'''Lt. Thomas Chamberlain''': I don't mean no disrespect to you fightin' men. But sometimes I can't help but figure, why you fightin' this war? :'''Confederate Prisoner''': Why you fightin' it? :'''Lt. Thomas Chamberlain''': Well, to free the slaves, of course. And to preserve the Union. :'''Confederate Prisoner''': I don't know about some other folk but I ain't fightin' for no darkies, one way or the other. I'm fightin' for my rights. All of us that's what we're fightin' for. :'''Lt. Thomas Chamberlain''': For your what? :'''Confederate Prisoner''': For our rights. Why is it you folks can't just live the way you want to live, and let us live the way we do? Live and let live, I hear some folks say. Be a mite less fuss and bother if more folks took it to heart. :'''Lt. Thomas Chamberlain''': ''[nods slowly, considering the man's words]'' Where'd you get captured? :'''Confederate Prisoner''': Railroad cut just west of Gettysburg town. Wasn't a pretty sight. Many a good boy lost a young and promising life. Some were blue, some were grey. Seen enough of this war? :'''Lt. Thomas Chamberlain''': I guess I have. :'''Confederate Prisoner''': I guess I have, too. It looks like I'm gonna be sittin' out the rest of it. :'''Lt. Thomas Chamberlain''': ''[nods]'' Well, I appreciate you talkin' to me. :'''Confederate Prisoner''': ''[salutes]'' See you in hell, Billy Yank. :'''Lt. Thomas Chamberlain''': ''[salutes]'' See you in hell, Johnny Reb. <hr width="50% "/> :'''Cpt. Ellis Spear''': Colonel, sir! Half our men are down. Most of the rest are wounded. The left is too thin, sir. :'''Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain''': How are we fixed for ammunition? :'''Cpt. Ellis Spear''': It’s almost gone. :'''Unnamed Officer''': Sir! We’re running out. We don’t have much let to shoot with. Some of the boys got nothing at all. :'''Cpt. Ellis Spear''': Sir-sir! What do we do for ammunition? :'''Unnamed Officer #2''': Sir, my boys are picking up Reb muskets, firing back with them. :'''Unnamed Officer #3''': Sir, we oughta pull out! :'''Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain''': No, we can’t do that. :'''Cpt. Ellis Spear''': We can’t hold them again, you know that. :'''Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain''': Well, if we don’t, they go on by, and the whole flank caves in. :'''Pvt. Buster Kilrain''': Sir… here they come. :'''Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain''': We can’t run away… If we stay here we can’t shoot, so let’s fix bayonets. ''[pauses as his officers stare at him]'' We’ll have the advantage of moving down the hill. They gotta be tired, the Rebs. They gotta to close to the end if we are, so fix bayonets. Ellis, wait Ellis, you take the left wing, I’ll take the right, I want a right wheel forward of the whole regiment. :'''Cpt. Ellis Spear''': What, you mean ''charge''? :'''Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain''': Yes! But here’s what we do: we’re going to charge swinging down the hill. Just like we pulled back this left side of this regiment? Now we’re going to swing it down. We swing like a door. We’re going to sweep them down the hill, just as they come up. You understand? ''[turns to the rest of the officers]'' Does everybody understand? :'''Assembled 20th Maine Officers''': Yes, sir! :'''Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain''': Okay, Ellis, you take the left wing and when I give the command, I want the whole regiment to go forward swinging down to the right. :'''Cpt. Ellis Spear''': ''[nods with determination]'' Alright, sir. :'''Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain''': Move. ''[Ellis and the other officers move out]'' <big>'''''BAYONETS!!!'''''</big> <hr width="50% "/> :'''Brig. Gen. Lewis Armistead''': Well, what do you hear about Sam Hood? :'''Lt. Gen. James Longstreet''': May lose an arm. :'''Brig. Gen. Lewis Armistead''': Dick Garnett ain't fit. Can't hardly walk. Thing is, if there's a fight, he can't stand to stay out of it. But if you ordered him to stay out of it...Huh. Don't suppose you could do that. :'''Lt. Gen. James Longstreet''': Mm-mm. :'''Irish Tenor''': ''[in the background]'' ''Kathleen Mavourneen, the gray dawn is breaking. The horn of the hunter is heard on the hill. The lark from the light...'' ''[continues song through conversation]'' :'''Lt. General James Longstreet''': Mm-hmm. That boy can sing. That's "Kathleen Mavourneen". :'''Brig. Gen Lewis Armistead''': ''[looks away, slightly husky voice]'' What do you hear about Hancock? :'''Lt. Gen James Longstreet''': ''[lighting pipe]'' Ran into him today. He's out there, 'bout a mile or so. Just a mile or so. He was...tough. Very tough today. :'''Brig. Gen. Lewis Armistead''': He's the best they got. God don't make 'em any better, and that's a fact. Well, I'd like to go over and see him as soon as I can. Last time I saw Win, we played that song, that very song. Back in California, we were all together for the last time. Before we broke up. Spring of '61. ''[pauses]'' Almira Hancock. You remember Almira, Hancock's wife? Beautiful woman. Most perfect woman I ever saw. They were a beautiful couple. Beautiful...Garnett was with me that night. A lot of fellows from the old outfit. People standin' around singin'. In the blue uniform. We were leavin', the next day. Some goin' North, some goin' South. Splittin' up. ''[looks up]'' A soldier's farewell. "Goodbye. Good luck. I'll see you in hell." ''[chuckles]'' You remember that? ''[sighs]'' Towards the end of the evening, we all sat around the piano. And Mira played that - that song there, that was the one she played. ''"May be for years, may be forever..."'' I'll never forget that. ''[laughs]'' You know how it was, Pete. ''[sits down, voice husky]'' Win was like a brother to me...Remember? ''[Longstreet nods]'' Towards the end of the evening... ''[shakes his head]'' things got a little rough. We all began to - Well, there were a lot of tears. ''[takes several shaky breaths]'' I went over to Hancock...I-I took him by the shoulder. I said, "Win...so help me...if I ever raise my hand against you...may God strike me dead!" ''[pauses, quickly wipes his eyes]'' I ain't seen him since. He was at Malvern Hill, White Oak Swamp, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg... ''[sighs]'' One of these days...I will see him, I'm afraid. Across that small, deadly space. I thought about sittin' this one out, but I can't do that. That wouldn't be right, either. ''[wipes his eyes again]'' I guess not. ''[nods]'' Thank you, Peter. I had to talk about that. :'''Lt. Gen James Longstreet''': Yup. :'''Brig. Gen Lewis Armistead''': ''[stands, turns slightly]'' Um, I'm sending Almira Hancock a small package to be opened in the event of my death. ''[takes package from coat, holds it towards Longstreet]'' You'll drop by and see her, after all this is over...Won't you, Pete? ''[Longstreet takes the package]'' Thank you. <hr width="50% "/> :'''Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart''': You wish to see me, sir? :'''General Robert E. Lee''': ''[nods and sighs]'' It is the opinion of some...excellent officers that you have let us all down. :'''Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart''': ''[looking angry, voice raising]'' General Lee, sir, if you will please tell me who these ''gentlemen'' are... :'''General Robert E. Lee''': ''[quietly but sharply]'' There will be none of that. There is no time. :'''Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart''': Sir, I only ask that I be allowed to defend my... :'''General Robert E. Lee''': ''[sharper, and louder]'' There is no time. ''[Stuart stares for a moment in stunned silence]'' General Stuart...your mission was to free this army from the enemy cavalry and report any movement by the enemy's main body. That mission was not fulfilled. You left here with no word of your movement, or movement of the enemy, for several days. Meanwhile, we were engaged here and drawn into battle without adequate knowledge of the enemy's strength or position, without knowledge of the ground. So it is only by God's grace that we did not meet disaster here. :'''Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart''': General Lee, there were reasons... :'''General Robert E. Lee''': ''[holds up his hand for silence]'' Perhaps you misunderstood my orders? Perhaps I did not make myself clear. Well, sir...this must be made ''very'' clear. You, sir, with your cavalry, are the eyes of this army. Without your cavalry, we are made blind. That has already happened once. It must never, ''never'' happen again. :'''Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart''': ''[stares at the floor, then slowly draws his sword, holding it out]'' Sir...since I no longer hold the General's... :'''General Robert E. Lee''': ''[pounds the table with his fist, suddenly furious]'' I have ''told'' you, there is no time for that! There is no time! ''[pauses, takes a deep breath, and calms down again]'' There is another fight comin' tomorrow, and we need you. We need every man, God knows. You must take what I have told you, and learn from it, as a man does. ''[takes Stuart's sword and replaces it in its scabbard]'' There has been a mistake. It will not happen again; I know your quality. You are one of the finest cavalry officers I have ever known, and your service to this army has been invaluable. Now...let us speak no more of this. ''[turns and slowly walks away; Stuart stares in silence for a moment; turns back to him]'' The matter is concluded. Good night, General. <hr width="50% "/> :'''Lt. Col. Edward Porter Alexander''': The longer we delay, the more time the Federals have to strengthen their own line. And even if we recover more supplies from the ordnance trains, how much more damage can we inflict on them then they on us? They're bringing in fresh Batteries as quickly as we drive them off. :'''Lt. Gen. James Longstreet''': Just get some more ammunition and keep it hot! I cannot send in Pickett's division, or the others, until we clear some of those guns off that [[w:Cemetery Ridge|ridge]]! <hr width="50% "/> :'''Maj. Gen. George Pickett''': Well, sir, you are looking fine. :'''Lt. Gen. James Longstreet''': Lookin' lovely yourself, George. :'''Maj. Gen. George Pickett''': General...uh, no reflection on you, sir, but, well...you know, my division, my Virginia boys, we haven't seen all that much action for a long time. I mean, well, we weren't all that engaged at Fredericksburg; we missed Chancellorsville altogether, off on some piddlin' affair. Now they took two of my brigades, Corse and Jenkins, and sent them off to guard Richmond? I mean, ''Richmond'', of all places? And now, sir, do you know where I have been placed in the line of march? Last, sir. That's where I am. Exactly last. I'm bringin' up the damn rear, beg pardon, sir. You see, my boys are beginning to feel a trifle disgusted at this attitude towards them as fightin' men. My boys- :'''Lt. Gen. James Longstreet''': George... :'''Maj. Gen. George Pickett''': Sir? :'''Lt. Gen. James Longstreet''': Please. :'''Maj. Gen. George Pickett''': Oh, I sure don't mean to imply ''you'', sir. No. Hell no, sir. No, it's just, uh... well, the bureaucrats. See, I was just... I was hoping, sir, that you could talk to somebody about this arrangement of the troops. :'''Lt. Gen. James Longstreet''': Would you like me to move the whole army to the side so you can go first? :'''Maj. Gen. George Pickett''': Sir? ''[chuckles]'' Now that you mention it... :'''Lt. Gen. James Longstreet''': There ''is'' no plot, George. It's just the way things fell out. I mean, hell, look at it this way. If the army has to turn around, fight its way back...well, ''you'll'' be first in line. :'''Maj. Gen. George Pickett''': Yes...yes, I suppose that is true, isn't it? You understand, sir. It's just that this whole damn war might be over after one more bout, and my Virginia boys will have missed most of it. :'''Lt. Gen. James Longstreet''': Yeah, I know. How far back are they? :'''Maj. Gen. George Pickett''': Chambersburg. A hard day's march, sir. :'''Lt. Gen. James Longstreet''': Mm-hmm...I know I can count on you, George, when the time comes. And it will come. It will come. :'''Brig. Gen. Lewis Armistead''': ''[walks up]'' Sorry to butt in, but they're calling for George over at the poker table. Your fame, sir, has preceded you. :'''Maj. Gen. George Pickett''': Well...thank you, General. ''[shakes Longstreet's hand]'' Well...cheerio, fellas. :'''Brig. Gen. Lewis Armistead''': Don't forget to bring your money. <hr width="50% "/> :'''Lt. Thomas Chamberlain''': Lawrence. I just got back from the hospital. Godawful mess. They got no room. They got no shade, they got men lyin' everywhere! They're cuttin' off arms and legs right out there on front of everybody. They oughta not do that in public, Lawrence. Men oughta have some privacy at a time like that. :'''Col Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain''': You see Kilrain? ''[Thomas nods wordlessly]'' Well, how is he? :'''Lt. Thomas Chamberlain''': ''[looks away]'' Well...Lawrence...he died. ''[takes off kepi]'' Yeah...He died this morning, before I got there. A couple of the fellows, they, they was with 'im. ''[looks at his brother]'' He said to tell you goodbye...And that he was sorry. :'''Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain''': Yeah. :'''Lt. Thomas Chamberlain''': ''[glances across the field for a moment]'' I tell you, Lawrence...I sure was fond of that man. :'''Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain''': ''[forces a smile]'' Yeah. <hr width="50% "/> :''[During Pickett's Charge, as Federal artillery and rifle fire begins to destroy the leading formations]'' :'''Brig. Gen. Lewis Armistead''': What are you doing?! :'''Brig. Gen. James Kemper''': You gotta come up Lo, you gotta come up and help us! Goddamn, they're flanking us! They're flanking us, they're coming down on the right, and they're firing right into us. :'''Brig. Gen. Lewis Armistead''': Head for the trees! Head up for the center. I'll call for double quick, we'll go on double quick. Nobody waits, everybody goes! ''[Kemper rides back to the line as he addresses his Brigade]'' ''Boys! At the double quick!'' :'''Confederate Officers''': ''Double quick!'' :'''Brig. Gen. Lewis Armistead''': ''' ''March''!''' <hr width="50% "/> :'''Lt. Thomas Chamberlain''': ''[to a wounded General Armistead, who has just been captured]'' Sir. Sir! :'''Brig. Gen. Lewis Armistead''': Will you help me up, please? :'''Lt. Thomas Chamberlain''': Sir, could you tell me what your name is? Who you are? :'''Brig. Gen. Lewis Armistead''': I would like to speak to General Hancock. Do you know...where...General Hancock may be found? :'''Lt. Thomas Chamberlain''': I'm sorry, sir. The general is down. He's been hit. :'''Brig. Gen. Lewis Armistead''': No! Not both of us...not all of us! Please, God! :'''Lt. Thomas Chamberlain''': Sir, sir, we're having a surgeon come as quickly as we can. :'''Brig. Gen. Lewis Armistead''': Can you hear me, son? :'''Lt. Thomas Chamberlain''': Yes, sir. I can hear you. :'''Brig. Gen. Lewis Armistead''': Will you tell General Hancock...that General Armistead sends his regrets? Will you tell him...how...very sorry I am? :'''Lt. Thomas Chamberlain''': I will tell him, sir. I will tell him. == Cast == * [[w:Tom Berenger|Tom Berenger]] - Lt. Gen. [[James Longstreet]] * [[Martin Sheen]] - Gen. [[Robert E. Lee]] * [[w:Jeff Daniels|Jeff Daniels]] - Col. [[w:Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain|Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain]] * [[w:Sam Elliot|Sam Elliot]] - Brig. Gen. [[w:John Buford|John Buford]] * [[w:Stephen Lang|Stephen Lang]] - Maj. Gen. [[w:George Pickett|George Pickett]] * [[w:C. Thomas Howell|C. Thomas Howell]] - Lt. [[w:Thomas Chamberlain|Thomas Chamberlain]] * [[w:Kevin Conway|Kevin Conway]] - Pvt. [[w:Buster Kilrain|Buster Kilrain]] * [[w:Richard Jordan|Richard Jordan]] - Brig. Gen. [[w:Lewis Armistead|Lewis Armistead]] * [[w:James Lancaster|James Lancaster]] - Lt. Col. [[w:Arthur Fremantle|Arthur Fremantle]] == External links == {{wikipedia|Gettysburg (1993 film)}} * [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107007/ IMDB page] [[Category:1993 films]] [[Category:Action films]] [[Category:1990s American films]] [[Category:Epic films]] [[Category:Films based on novels]] [[Category:Historical films]] [[Category:American Civil War films]] [[Category:Films set in Pennsylvania]] r3ymdc86oos4j1ii2khplokvdu9qqgq 0 102783 3961336 3798046 2026-07-06T00:01:56Z Markjoseph125 19526 /* B */ added quote 3961336 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File: Confederate Monument - S face tight - Arlington National Cemetery - 2011.jpg|thumb|right|[[War]]s produce many [[stories]] of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be [[true]]. ~ [[Ulysses S. Grant]]]] '''[[w:Fiction|Fiction]]''' comprises [[stories]] created by the imagination and not based strictly on [[history]] or [[fact]]. __NOTOC__ {{TOCalpha}} == A== * Fiction is [[fact]] distilled into truth. ** [[Edward Albee]], ''The New York Times'' (18 September 1966). * I do not blame the words, for they are, as it were, choice and precious vessels, but I do deplore the wine of error which was poured out to us by teachers already drunk. And, unless we also drank we were beaten, without liberty of appeal to a sober judge. **[[Augustine]], ''Confessions'', Book 1, Chapter 16. ==B== * I believed then – and I believe still – that fiction driven by purely ideological goals is likely to be very poor fiction indeed. ** [[Dale Bailey]], Story Notes to ''Death and Suffrage'' (2003); in ''The Resurrection Man’s Legacy,'' <small> {{ISBN|1-930846-22-3}}, </small> p. 323 * We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind - mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into popular imagery, the increasing blurring and intermingling of identities within the realm of consumer goods, the preempting of any free or original imaginative response to experience by the television screen. We live inside an enormous novel. For the writer in particular it is less and less necessary for him to invent the fictional content of his novel. The fiction is already there. The writer's task is to invent the reality. ** [[J. G. Ballard]], "Introduction" to the French edition (1974) of ''Crash'' (1973), reprinted in ''Re/Search'' no. 8/9 (1984). * People substituted writing (fiction) for what was once spiritual life, poetry (chaotic words) for actual ecstasies. Art constitutes a minor free zone outside action, paying for its freedom by giving up the real world. A heavy price! ** [[Georges Bataille]], ''On Nietzsche'', p. xxxii * Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own natural tendency which is to anticipate reality by imagining it, or to flee from it by idealizing it. That is why we [Europeans] shall never inhabit true fiction; we are condemned to the imaginary and nostalgia for the future. The American way of life is spontaneously fictional, since it is a transcending of the imaginary in reality. ** [[Jean Baudrillard]], "Utopia Achieved" in ''America'' (1986), trans. Chris Turner, (1988) , {{ISBN|0860919781}}, p. 95. * The author of any work of fiction that is any good takes me so fully into his orbit that he becomes my friend; I think I'm his or her friend and I really want to be ''that kind of person''. If on reflection I don't ask myself: "Is that really the kind of person I want to be?" "The kind of friend he or she has tried to make me—is that the kind of person I want to be?" then, of course, very serious deformations of the spirit can occur. The thing that can save us from that is to read a lot; then the deformations that one author will produce will be canceled by the others. ** {{w|Wayne C. Booth}}, "Art and the Church," ''Literature and Belief'', 1981 * Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality. ** [[Jorge Luis Borges]], "Partial Magic in the Quixote", ''Labyrinths'' (1964). * Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because if not, the reader's imagination will reject it. ** [[Jorge Luis Borges]], discussion published in the ''Columbia Forum'' and later quoted in ''Worldwide Laws of Life : 200 Eternal Spiritual Principles'' (1998) by [[John Templeton]]. * Truth is always strange; <br /> Stranger than fiction. ** [[Lord Byron]] (1823), ''[[Don Juan (Byron)|Don Juan]]'', Canto XIV, Stanza 101. ==C== * ''La fiction est le mensonge par lequel nous dison la vérité''. (Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.) ** [[Albert Camus]], [https://citation-celebre.leparisien.fr/citations/151074 as quoted in] ''{{W|Le Parisien}}'' * But if stories are one of the ways we make sense of the world, they are also how we experience whatever doesn't make sense, whatever cannot be fully understood. Stories are how we stand in the presence of mystery. If mystery, the genre, is about finding the answers, then mystery, that elusive yet essential element of fiction, is about finding the questions. ** Maud Casey, ''The Art of Mystery''. *There aren't many answers, but there are plenty of compelling questions, many of which will lead you on wild goose chases (otherwise known as stories and novels) and sometimes you will catch a glimpse of a wild goose. ** Maud Casey, ''The Art of Mystery''. * The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous. ** [[Raymond Chandler]], ''The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler''. * You are right to demand that an author take conscious stock of what he is doing, but you are confusing two concepts: answering the questions and formulating them correctly. Only the latter is required of the author. ** Anton Chekhov, in a letter to a friend, quoted in ''The Art of Mystery'' by Maud Casey. * As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. ** [[Ivy Compton-Burnett]], "A Conversation Between I. Compton-Burnett and M. Jourdain", in R. Lehmann et al. (eds.) ''Orion'' (London: Nicholson & Watson, 1945) vol. 1, p. 2. ==D== * When I come to fiction, both as a reader and as a writer, I wish for it to make visible something that, without it, I would perhaps have never seen. The reason that I might not have seen it isn't that it is so rare but that it can sometimes be nearly impossible to truly see that which is as omnipresent as air. The distance of art aklows me to see the emotional medium that surrounds us all. ** Stacey D'Erasmo, ''The Art of Intimacy'' (2013) * Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outre results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable. ** [[Arthur Conan Doyle|Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]], ''[[Sherlock Holmes#A Case of Identity|A Case of Identity]]'' (1891). * My fiction is not autobiography. I am not an exhibitionist. I do not show myself. I am not asking for forgiveness. I do not want to confess. But I have used everything I know—my life—to show what I believe must be shown so that it can be faced. The imperative at the heart of my writing—what must be done—comes directly from my life. But I do not show my life directly, in full view; nor even look at it while others watch. ** [[Andrea Dworkin]], Life and Death, p. 15 ==E== * A plot is about things that happen. A story is about people who behave. To admire a story you must be willing to listen to the people and observe them. ** [[Roger Ebert]], [http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20031226/REVIEWS/312260302/1023 "House of Sand and Fog"], ''Chicago Sun-Times'', 26 December 2003. * To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative — the reason people tell stories, and have told stories from the beginning of time. **[[Umberto Eco]], ''Six Walks in the Fictional Woods'' (1994) Chapter Four: "Possible Woods". * The story had no proper end, but reality rarely does. It is the province of fiction to tie up loose ends, to punish the guilty and reward the good, to join the lovers together and answer all questions. ** [[w:Rosemary Edghill|Rosemary Edghill]], ''A Winter’s Tale,'' in Denise Little (ed.) ''The Magic Shop'' (2004), {{ISBN|0-7564-0173-9}}, p. 317 * The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own. ** [[William Empson]], ''Milton's God'' (1961; repr. London: Chatto & Windus, 1965) p. 261. ==G== * [[War]]s produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true. ** [[Ulysses S. Grant]], ''[http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4367 Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant]'' (1885), Ch. 67. *All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. **[[George Orwell]], Animal Farm (1945). ==H== * A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience. ** [[O. Henry]], "The Gold that Glittered" in ''Strictly Business'' (1910). *(You once said, "Fiction is NOT autobiography in a party dress." OK, then what is it?) NH: It's what happens after you grind up a bunch of your personally received input, everything from life experience to that book about spices you read ten years ago, compost it within your imagination, and then in that mulch grow something new. I think that could even apply to autobiographical fiction. **[[Nalo Hopkinson]], from interview in ''Report From Planet Midnight'' (2012) ==K== * A man once said: Why such reluctance? If you only followed the [[parable]]s you yourselves would become parables and with that rid of all your daily cares. <br /> Another said: I bet that is also a parable. <br /> The first said: You have won. <br /> The second said: But unfortunately only in parable. <br /> The first said: No, in reality: in parable you have lost. ** [[Franz Kafka]], translation by Willa and Edwin Muir reprinted in ''The Complete Stories'', Schocken Books, 1971, {{ISBN|0805210555}}. * Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story. ** [[Rudyard Kipling]], "Fiction", speech to the [[w:Royal Society of Literature|Royal Society of Literature]], June 1926; published in ''Writings on Writing: Rudyard Kipling'' (1996), ed. Sandra Kemp and Lisa Lewis, [http://books.google.com/books?id=-AQStA5QMjwC&q=%22elder+sister%22&pg=PA80 p. 80]. ==L== * True myth may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal. The real mystery is not destroyed by reason. The fake one is. You look at it and it vanishes. You look at the Blond Hero — really look — and he turns into a gerbil. But you look at Apollo, and he looks back at you. The poet Rilke looked at a statue of Apollo about fifty years ago, and Apollo spoke to him. "You must change your life," he said. When true myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life. ** [[Ursula K. Le Guin]], "Myth and Archetype in Science Fiction", ''Parabola'' '''I''' (4), Fall 1976. * The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this ''in words''. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words. ** [[Ursula K. Le Guin]], Introduction to ''[[w:The Left Hand of Darkness|The Left Hand of Darkness]]'' (1969). * It doesn’t have to be New York; it could have been Kokomo. I think the point is that having a fictional character come from a real place makes the character seem more real. When I was young, I loved to read [[Sherlock Holmes]]. And the fact that he lived on Baker Street in London, a real place, made me enjoy the stories more, with a greater feeling of authenticity. ** [[Stan Lee]] [http://www.newsarama.com/24901-stan-lee-talks-big-screen-spider-man-depiction.html "STAN LEE Talks Big Screen SPIDER-MAN Depiction"] Jim McLauchlin, ''Newsarama'', June 22, 2015 * To merit serious consideration, fiction of any sort must satisfy one pragmatic requirement (making due allowance for the time and place when it was written): Does it convince the reader? ** [[Fritz Leiber]], ''Terror, Mystery, Wonder'' (1980), in ''[[w:World Fantasy Award|The World Fantasy Awards Volume 2]],'' p. xxvi * Good [[books]] tell the [[truth]], even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way. ** [[Stanisław Lem]], "Pirx's Tale" in ''More Tales of Pirx The Pilot'' (1983). ==M== * Literature ... seeks to entertain—and why is this? ... The reason, fundamentally, is that literature knows something that science does not: the human resistance to hearing the truth. ... The wisdom of literature arises mainly from its attention to this point. To overcome the resistance to truth, literature makes use of fictions that are images of truth. ** [[Harvey Mansfield]], “How to Understand Politics: What the Humanities Can Say to Science,” [http://www.neh.gov/about/awards/jefferson-lecture/harvey-mansfield-lecture 2007 Jefferson lecture at the national Endowment for the Humanities] * In the form of the [[w:oeuvre|oeuvre]], the actual circumstances are placed in another dimension where the given reality shows itself as that which it is. Thus it tells the truth about itself; its language ceases to be that of deception, ignorance, and submission. Fiction calls the facts by their name and their reign collapses; fiction subverts everyday experience and shows it to be mutilated and false. ** [[Herbert Marcuse]], ''One Dimensional Man'' (1964), p. 62 * For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life. ** [[William Somerset Maugham]], ''[[w:Cakes and Ale|Cakes and Ale]]'' (1930) (p. 192 in the 1950 Modern Library edition). * Here is one of the fundamental defects of American fiction—perhaps the one character that sets it off sharply from all other known kinds of contemporary fiction. It habitually exhibits, not a man of delicate organization in revolt against the inexplicable tragedy of existence, but a man of low sensibilities and elemental desires yielding himself gladly to his environment, and so achieving what, under a third-rate civilization, passes for success. To get on: this is the aim. To weigh and reflect, to doubt and rebel: this is the thing to be avoided. ** [[H. L. Mencken]], “The National Letters,” ''Prejudices: Second Series'' (New York: 1920), pp. 39-40 * A superior man’s struggle in the world is not with exterior lions, trusts, margraves, policemen, rivals in love, German spies, radicals and tornadoes, but with the obscure, atavistic impulses within him—the impulses, weaknesses and limitations that war with his notion of what life should be. Nine times out of ten he succumbs. Nine times out of ten he must yield to the dead hand. Nine times out of ten his aspiration is almost infinitely above his achievement. The result is that we see him sliding downhill—his ideals breaking up, his hope petering out, his character in decay. Character in decay is thus the theme of the great bulk of superior fiction. ** [[H. L. Mencken]], “The National Letters,” ''Prejudices: Second Series'' (New York: 1920), p. 43 * The hero of the inferior—i.e., the typically American—novel engages in no such doomed and fateful combat. His conflict is not with the inexplicable [[wikt:ukase|ukases]] of destiny, the limitations of his own strength, the dead hand upon him, but simply with the superficial desires of his elemental fellow men. He thus has a fair chance of winning—and in bad fiction that chance is always converted into a certainty. So he marries the daughter of the owner of the factory and eventually gobbles the factory itself. His success gives thrills to persons who can imagine no higher aspiration. He embodies their optimism, as the other hero embodies the pessimism of more introspective and idealistic men. He is the protagonist of that great majority which is so inferior that it is quite unconscious of its inferiority. ** [[H. L. Mencken]], “The National Letters,” ''Prejudices: Second Series'' (New York: 1920), p. 43 * Why should murder be so over-represented in our popular fiction, and crimes of a sexual nature so under-represented? Surely it cannot be because [[rape]] is worse than [[murder]], and is thus deserving of a special unmentionable status. Surely, the last people to suggest that rape was worse than murder were the sensitively reared classes of the Victorian era … And yet, while it is perfectly acceptable (not to say almost mandatory) to depict [[violent]] and lethal incidents in lurid and gloating high-definition detail, this is somehow regarded as [[healthy]] and perfectly [[normal]], and it is the considered depiction of sexual crimes that will inevitably attract uproars of the current variety. ** [[Alan Moore]], [http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jan/21/superheroes-cultural-catastrophe-alan-moore-comics-watchmen "Superheroes a 'cultural catastrophe', says comics guru Alan Moore"], Alison Flood, ''The Guardian'', January 21, 2014. ==P== *''Nunc fabularum cur sit inventum genus,<br>Brevi decebo. Servitus obnoxia,<br>Quia, quae volebat, non audebat dicere,<br>Affectus proprios in fabellas transtulit.<br>Aesopi illius semita feci viam.'' ** Attend me briefly while I now disclose<br>How art of fable telling first arose.<br>Unhappy slaves, in servitude confined,<br>Dared not to harsh masters show their mind,<br>But under veiling of fable’s dress<br>Contrived their thoughts and feelings to express,<br>Escaping still their lords’ affronted wrath.<br>So [[Aesop]] did; I widen out his path. *** [[Phaedrus (fabulist)|Phaedrus]], as cited in [[w:Giambattista Vico|Giambattista Vico]], ''New Science'', T. Bergin, trans. (1984), p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=atO7mF04iVoC&pg=PA136&lpg=PA136 136] * [[Truth]] … does not deviate from its course, even though the end be unpleasant; whereas fiction, being a verbal fabrication, very readily follows a roundabout route, and turns aside from the painful to what is most pleasant. ** [[Plutarch]], “How to study poetry,” ''Moralia'' (London: 1922), 15F ==T== * Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen. ** [[Harry Turtledove]], [http://www.chicon.org/gohs/turtldov.htm Interview at the World Science Fiction Convention (25 June 1998)]. * Truth ''is'' stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. ** [[Mark Twain]], ''[[Following the Equator]]'' (1897), ch. 15. ==W== * Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. ** [[Jessamyn West (writer)|Jessamyn West]], ''To See the Dream'' (1956) * Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible. ** [[Virginia Woolf]], ''[[w:A Room of One's Own|A Room of One's Own]]'' (1929), ch. 3. * Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand. ** [[Virginia Woolf]], ''[[w:A Room of One's Own|A Room of One's Own]]'' (1929), ch. 5. ==See also== {{col-begin}} {{col-2}} * [[Film]] * [[Video game]] *[[Legal fiction]] *[[Literature]] *[[Novel]] * [[Science fiction]] {{col-2}} * [[Stories]] * [[Storytelling]] * [[:Category:Novelists]] * [[:Category:Novels]] {{col-end}} ==External links== {{Wikipedia}} {{Wiktionary|fiction}} [[Category:Literature]] [[Category:Art]] 2rv7c448bbk6ri4q4nbp9du68bphmmw 0 111014 3961146 3817542 2026-07-05T16:26:23Z BD2412 3982 /* Quotes */ Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]], replaced: William J. Brennan, Jr. → William J. Brennan Jr. using [[Project:AWB|AWB]] 3961146 wikitext text/x-wiki '''[[w:Dissent|Dissent]]''' is an [[opinion]], [[philosophy]] or [[sentiment]] of non-agreement or opposition to a prevailing idea or policy enforced by a government, political party or other entity or individual in a capacity of contextual authority. A dissenting person may be referred to as a dissenter. The term's antonyms include agreement, consensus (when all or nearly all parties agree on something) and consent (when one party agrees to a proposition made by another). [[File:Saturday March 21, 2009 anti-war protest march on the Pentagon.jpg|thumb| If what your country is doing seems to you practically and morally wrong, is dissent the highest form of patriotism? ~ [[Howard Zinn]]]] [[File:April 12, 2003 anti-war protest -18- (50023527618).jpg|thumb|Thought that is silenced is always [[rebellion|rebellious]]. Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of [[minority|minorities]] is necessarily dangerous. Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions. ~ [[Alan Barth]] ]] == Quotes == <!-- --> [[File:Statue-herodot-sculpture-hérode.jpg|thumb|368px|This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power. ~ [[Herodotus]]]] * '''This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.''' ** [[Herodotus]], ''[[Wikipedia:Histories (Herodotus)|The Histories]]'', Book 9, Ch. 16, c. 430 BC. ** Variant translations: *** Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing. *** The most hateful torment for men is to have knowledge of everything but power over nothing. [[File:Dissent develops democracy sticker.jpg|thumb|Thought that is silenced is always [[rebellion|rebellious]]. Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of [[minority|minorities]] is necessarily dangerous. Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions. ~ [[Alan Barth]]]] [[File:Nashville Tea Party - Dissent Sign.jpg|thumb|upright]] * Dissent is the highest form of [[patriotism]]. ** Various; misattributed to [[Thomas Jefferson]].<ref name="TJE" /><ref>Discussion at urbanlegends.about.com/b/2005/02/15/misattributed-dissent-is-the-highest-form-of-patriotism.htm (''Misattributed: Dissent is the highest form of patriotism'')</ref> ** Earliest source ''[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/21414360 The Use of Force in International Affairs],'' (Philadelphia: Friends Peace Committee, 1961), 6, and popularized by various users in the 1960s:<ref name="TJE">[http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php/Dissent_is_the_highest_form_of_patriotism_(Quotation) Dissent is the highest form of patriotism], Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia</ref> *** If what your country is doing seems to you practically and morally wrong, is dissent the highest form of patriotism? ** Other form by [[Howard Zinn]], ''[http://www.tompaine.com/Archive/scontent/5908.html Dissent In Pursuit Of Equality, Life, Liberty And Happiness: An Interview With Historian Howard Zinn]'' by Sharon Basco, [http://TomPaine.com TomPaine.com], July 03 2002: *** While some people think that dissent is unpatriotic, I would argue that dissent is the highest form of patriotism. * [[Freedom]] of speech is useless without freedom of thought. And I fear that the politics of protest is shutting out the process of thought, so necessary to rational discussion. We are faced with the Ten Commandments of Protest:<br> Thou Shalt Not Allow Thy Opponent to Speak.<br> Thou Shalt Not Set Forth a Program of Thine Own.<br> Thou Shalt Not Trust Anybody Over Thirty.<br> Thou Shalt Not Honor Thy Father or Thy Mother.<br> Thou Shalt Not Heed the Lessons of History.<br> Thou Shalt Not Write Anything Longer than a Slogan.<br> Thou Shalt Not Present a Negotiable Demand.<br> Thou Shalt Not Accept Any Establishment Idea.<br> Thou Shalt Not Revere Any but Totalitarian Heroes.<br> Thou Shalt Not Ask Forgiveness for Thy Transgressions, Rather Thou Shalt Demand Amnesty for Them. ** [[Spiro Agnew]], speech to governors and their families, Washington, D.C. (December 3, 1969), ''Collected Speeches of Spiro Agnew'' (1971), pp. 98–99. * Thought that is silenced is always [[rebellion|rebellious]]. Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of [[minority|minorities]] is necessarily dangerous. Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions. ** [[Alan Barth]], ''The Loyalty of Free Men'' (1951). * Leading fosters a working atmosphere that stimulates an open exchange of ideas and fosters dissent. People should show a genuine concern for one another and treat one another with fairness, as peers and friends. With such an atmosphere it should be a pleasure to come to work. ** [[Marvin Bower]], (1997). ''The Will to Lead.'' p. 131, Boston: Harvard Business School Press, {{ISBN|0-87584-758-7}}. * No doubt, there are those who believe that judges-and particularly dissenting judges-write to hear themselves say, as it were, I I I. And no doubt, there are also those who believe that judges are, like Joan Didion, primarily engaged in the writing of fiction. I cannot agree with either of those propositions. ** [[William J. Brennan Jr.]], ''In Defense of Dissents'', 37 Hastings L. J. 427, 428 (1985-1986). * Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime. ** [[Jacob Bronowski]], ''Science and Human Values'' (1956, 1965), Part 3: "The Sense of Human Dignity", §5. * Dissent is the mark of [[freedom]]. ** [[Jacob Bronowski]], ''Science and Human Values'' (1956, 1965). * There is no room for dissent on the left. The moment you give into their framework, you surrender your individualism. **{{w|Tammy Bruce}}, former member of NOW's national board of directors, to Columbia University students as quoted by Dan Healey in "[http://www.columbiaspectator.com/media/storage/paper865/news/2005/04/06/News/Conservativism.And.Feminism.Combined-2031294.shtmlConservativism and Feminism Combined - Tammy Bruce, an Openly Gay, Pro-Choice, Pro-Clinton, Pro-Bush Conservative, Defies Labels]", ''Columbia Spectator'' (April 6, 2005). * All [[protestantism]], even the most cold and passive, is a sort of dissent. But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion. ** [[Edmund Burke]], ''[http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1751-1775/libertydebate/burk.htm Second Speech on Conciliation with America, The Thirteen Resolutions]'' (1775). [[File:Frederick Douglass (circa 1879).jpg|thumb|Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. ~[[Frederick Douglass]]]] * The anti-[[apartheid]] movement in the '80s... he ([[Howard Zinn]]) was there. ...He put everything there, because he cared very deeply that these things were wrong -- that apartheid was wrong... that was the early '80s, and there were people who didn't really think it was so bad. That's the thing. A lot of times we look back and we remember how radical it was to confront apartheid. Now, everyone looks back and knows it was wrong... That's why '''dissent is so important, because it creates an atmosphere in which people can explore alternative ways of thinking.''' ** [https://www.education.purdue.edu/faculty-profiles/name/nadine-dolby/ Nadine Dolby] in [https://www.teachingforchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/zep_What_would_Howard_Zinn_do.pdf ''What would Howard Zinn do? Teaching for Change''] (20 July 2013) * The right to dissent is the only thing that makes life tolerable for a judge of an appellate court... the affairs of government could not be conducted by democratic standards without it. ** [[William O. Douglas]], ''America Challenged'' (1960), p. 4. * The first opinion the [[Supreme Court of the United States|Court]] ever filed has a dissenting opinion. Dissent is a tradition of this Court... When someone is writing for the Court, he hopes to get eight others to agree with him, so many of the majority opinions are rather stultified. ** [[William O. Douglas]], ''New York Times'' interview, (29 October 1973). * There are only two choices: A police state in which all dissent is suppressed or rigidly controlled; or a society where law is responsive to human needs. If society is to be responsive to human needs, a vast restructuring of our laws is essential.<br>Realization of this need means adults must awaken to the urgency of the young people’s unrest—in other words there must be created an adult unrest against the inequities and injustices in the present system. If the government is in jeopardy, it is not because we are unable to cope with revolutionary situations. Jeopardy means that either the leaders or the people do not realize they have all the tools required to make the revolution come true. The tools and the opportunity exist. Only the moral imagination is missing. ** [[William O. Douglas]], ''Points of Rebellion'' (1970), pp. 92–93. * If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. ** [[Frederick Douglass]], "West India Emancipation", speech delivered at Canandaigua, New York (August 4, 1857); reported in Philip S. Foner, ed., ''The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass'' (1950), vol. 2, p. 437. * Daniel Sjursen, a 37-year old veteran of combat in [[Iraq War|Iraq]] and [[War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)|Afghanistan]]... has just written a new book called ''Patriotic Dissent: America in the Age of Endless War''... Sjursen skillfully debunks the conventional wisdom of the foreign policy establishment, and the military’s own current generation of “yes men for another war power hungry president.” His appeal to the conscience of fellow soldiers, veterans, and civilians is rooted in the unusual arc of an eighteen-year military career. His powerful voice, political insights, and painful personal reflections offer a timely reminder of how costly, wasteful, and disastrous our post [[September 11 attacks|9/11]] wars have been. Sjursen has the distinction of being a graduate of [[w:West Point|West Point]], an institution that produces few political dissenters... Sjursen’s initial experience in combat—vividly described in his first book...“occurred at the statistical height of sectarian strife” in Iraq. “The horror, the futility, the farce of that war was the turning point in my life,” Sjursen writes in Patriotic Dissent. When he returned, at age 24, from his “brutal, ghastly deployment” as a platoon leader, he “knew that the war was built on lies, ill-advised, illegal, and immoral.” This “unexpected, undesired realization generated profound doubts about the course and nature of the entire American enterprise in the Greater Middle East—what was then unapologetically labeled the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT).” ** [https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/07/24/patriotic-dissent-how-a-working-class-soldier-turned-against-forever-wars/ Patriotic Dissent: How a Working-Class Soldier Turned Against “Forever Wars”, by Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon,] ''CounterPunch'' (24 July 2020) [[File:Barbara ehrenreich 1433.JPG|thumb|No matter that [[patriotism]] is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots. ~ [[Barbara Ehrenreich]] ]] * At a time when the U.S. “desperately needs a massive, public, empowered anti-war and anti-imperial wave” sweeping over the country, we have instead a “civil-military” gap that, Sjursen believes, has “stifled antiwar and anti-imperial dissent and seemingly will continue to do so.” That’s why his own mission is to find more “socially conscious veterans of these endless, fruitless wars” who are willing to “step up and form a vanguard of sorts for revitalized patriotic dissent.” Readers of Sjursen’s book, whether new recruits to that vanguard or longtime peace activists, will find Patriotic Dissent to be an invaluable educational tool. ** [https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/07/24/patriotic-dissent-how-a-working-class-soldier-turned-against-forever-wars/ Patriotic Dissent: How a Working-Class Soldier Turned Against “Forever Wars”, by Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon,] ''CounterPunch'', (24 July 2020) * No matter that [[patriotism]] is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots. ** [[Barbara Ehrenreich]], "Family Values," ''The Worst Years of Our Lives: Irreverent Notes from a Decade of Greed'' (1991) [[File:President Eisenhower in Key West, 1955.jpg|thumb| Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionaries and rebels—men and women who dared to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. ~ [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] ]] * Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionaries and rebels—men and women who dared to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. ** [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]], speech at Columbia University's bicentennial, 31 May 1954, ''Public papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower '' (1961), p. 524. * You can actively flee, then, and you can actively stay put. ** Erik Erikson, ''Insight and Responsibility,'' New York, W. W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1964, p. 86; cited in ''{{w|Exit, Voice, and Loyalty}},'' p. 49, footnote 5. * '''I dissent; therefore, I exist.''' ** As quoted by {{w|Paul A. Goble}}, [https://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/03/putin-has-arrested-so-many-but-cant.html "Putin has Arrested So Many But Can’t Stop a Terrorist Attack, Russians Say after Crocus Action"], ''Window on Eurasia'' (March 26, 2024) * Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one's course by it, still one must try to follow its direction. ** [[Vincent van Gogh]], as quoted in ''Dear Theo: the Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh'' (1995) edited by Irving Stone and Jean Stone, p. 181. * Daniel Sjursen, a 37-year old veteran of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan... has just written a new book called ''Patriotic Dissent: America in the Age of Endless War''... a short volume... Sjursen skillfully debunks the conventional wisdom of the foreign policy establishment, and the military’s own current generation of “yes men for another war power hungry president.” His appeal to the conscience of fellow soldiers, veterans, and civilians is rooted in the unusual arc of an eighteen-year military career. His powerful voice, political insights, and painful personal reflections offer a timely reminder of how costly, wasteful, and disastrous our post 9/11 wars have been. Sjursen has the distinction of being a graduate of West Point, an institution that produces few political dissenters... Sjursen’s initial experience in combat—vividly described in his first book...“occurred at the statistical height of sectarian strife” in Iraq. “The horror, the futility, the farce of that war was the turning point in my life,” Sjursen writes in Patriotic Dissent. When he returned, at age 24, from his “brutal, ghastly deployment” as a platoon leader, he “knew that the war was built on lies, ill-advised, illegal, and immoral.” This “unexpected, undesired realization generated profound doubts about the course and nature of the entire American enterprise in the Greater Middle East—what was then unapologetically labeled the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT).” ** [https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/07/24/patriotic-dissent-how-a-working-class-soldier-turned-against-forever-wars/ Patriotic Dissent: How a Working-Class Soldier Turned Against “Forever Wars”, by Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon,] ''CounterPunch'', (24 July 2020) [[File:Dissent develops democracy sticker.jpg|thumb|Dissent develops Democracy.]] * At a time when the U.S. “desperately needs a massive, public, empowered anti-war and anti-imperial wave” sweeping over the country, we have instead a “civil-military” gap that, Sjursen believes, has “stifled antiwar and anti-imperial dissent and seemingly will continue to do so.” That’s why his own mission is to find more '''“socially conscious veterans of these endless, fruitless wars” who are willing to “step up and form a vanguard of sorts for revitalized patriotic dissent.”''' Readers of Sjursen’s book, whether new recruits to that vanguard or longtime peace activists, will find Patriotic Dissent to be an invaluable educational tool. It should be required reading in progressive study groups, high school and college history classes, and book clubs across the country. Let’s hope that the author’s willingness to take personal risks, re-think his view of the world, and then work to change it will inspire many others, in uniform and out. ** [https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/07/24/patriotic-dissent-how-a-working-class-soldier-turned-against-forever-wars/ Patriotic Dissent: How a Working-Class Soldier Turned Against “Forever Wars”, by Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon,] ''CounterPunch'' (24 July 2020) * Dissent is morally neutral. You can correctly call yourself a dissident because you like to kick puppies, but at the end of the day, you're just a jerk who likes to kick puppies. ** [[Jonah Goldberg]], [http://web.archive.org/web/20020326193943/http://www.papillonsartpalace.com:80/cynthia.htm "Cynthia McKinney's Last Stand"] (29 October 2001), ''Goldberg File'', National Review Online * It is often hard to secure unanimity about the borders of legislative power, but that is much easier than to decide how far a particular adjustment diverges from what the judges deem tolerable. On such issues experience has over and over again shown the difficulty of securing unanimity. This is disastrous because disunity cancels the impact of monolithic solidarity on which the authority of a bench of judges so largely depends. ** [[Learned Hand]], ''The Bill Of Rights'' (1958), p. 72. * In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy. ** [[Learned Hand]], Oliver Wendell Holmes lecture delivered at Harvard (1958); quoted in ''The Rhetoric of Our Times'' (1969) by J. Jeffery Auer, p. 124. *The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin — and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost. **[[Václav Havel]] [[Václav_Havel#Living_in_Truth_(1986)|''Living in Truth'']] (1986) * A dissenting [[minority]] feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority. ** [[Eric Hoffer]], ''Reflections on the Human Condition'', aph. 40 (1973). * [Dissents are] appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day. ** [[Charles Evans Hughes]], reported in "Keeping Politics out of the Court", ''The New York Times'' (December 9, 1984); quoted in ''The HarperCollins Dictionary of American Government and Politics'' (1992) by Jay M. Shafritz, p. 407. *[[Winston Churchill]] famously claimed that of all human qualities, [[courage]] was the most esteemed, because it guaranteed all others. He was right. Courage—moral courage—is the companion of great [[leadership]]. No politician could ever be viewed as exceptional unless he or she had it in spades. And historically there would have been no social progress if not for the presence of specific humans [[dissent]]ing and breaking from [[W:herd|herd]]-inspired [[suspicion]] and [[fear]]. **[[w:Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein|Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein]] in [https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/08/30/grassroots-leaders-provide-the-best-hope-to-a-troubled-world '''''Grassroots leaders provide the best hope to a troubled world''', The Economist'',] (30 August 2018) * '''Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.''' ** [[Robert H. Jackson]], ''{{w|West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette}},'' 319 U.S. 624 (1943) at 641. * '''Political dissension is doubtless a less evil than the lethargy of despotism: but still it is a great evil, and it would be as worthy the efforts of the patriot as of the philosopher, to exclude its influence if possible, from social life.''' The good are rare enough at best. There is no reason to subdivide them by artificial lines. But whether we shall ever be able so far to perfect the principles of society as that political opinions shall, in its intercourse, be as inoffensive as those of philosophy, mechanics, or any other, may well be doubted. ** [[Thomas Jefferson]] to Thomas Pinckney, 29 May 1797. * The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. '''I like a little rebellion now and then.''' It is like a storm in the atmosphere. ** [[Thomas Jefferson]], to Abigail Smith Adams, February 22, 1787.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mtj.mtjbib002565 |title= Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Smith Adams|last=Jefferson |first=Thomas|date=February 22, 1787 |work=The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1. General Correspondence. 1651-1827 |publisher=The Library of Congress}}</ref> *It's beyond me how anybody can look at these protestors and call them anything other than what they are: anti-American, anticapitalist, pro-Marxist communists. ** [[Rush Limbaugh]], speaking about political [[dissent]] (February 2003), quoted in &mdash; {{cite book | last =Hunt | first =Jim | title =They Said What?: Astonishing Quotes on American Democracy, Power, and Dissent‎ | publisher =Polipoint Press | year =2009 | page =22 | isbn = 0981709168}}. * We see political leaders replacing moral imperatives with a Southern strategy. We have seen all too clearly that there are men—now in power in this country—who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit. And it is up to us to prove that they are wrong. ** [[John V. Lindsay]], mayor of New York City, speech at University of California, Berkeley (April 2, 1970), as reported by ''The Washington Post'' (April 3, 1970), p. 3. * There is one tradition in America I am proud to inherit. It is our first freedom and the truest expression of our Americanism: the ability to dissent without fear. It is our right to utter the words, "I disagree." We must feel at liberty to speak those words to our neighbors, our clergy, our educators, our news media, our lawmakers and, above all, to the one among us we elect President. ** [[Natalie Merchant]] in ''The Nation'' (15 July 1991). [[File:Noam Chomsky (5599565142).jpg|thumb|[[Noam Chomsky|Chomsky]] reminds us that intellect and dissent go together, and that the vital challenge of our times is to maintain “an independent mind.” That’s not easy in an age of manufactured consent, but it is possible, as Chomsky so well reminds us — by continuing to speak, as consistently and as agilely as ever, about the lies of our times.]] [[File:Occupy Portland, October 21 protest.jpg|thumb|Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his [[conscience]] to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? ...we should be men first, and subjects afterward. ~ [[Henry David Thoreau]]]] * The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an [[opinion]] is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ** [[John Stuart Mill]], ''On Liberty'' (1859). * We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. ** [[Edward R. Murrow]], ''{{w|See It Now}},'' broadcast of 9 March 1954 on CBS TV. *[[Noam Chomsky|Chomsky]] reminds us that intellect and dissent go together, and that the vital challenge of our times is to maintain “an independent mind.” That’s not easy in an age of manufactured consent, but it is possible, as Chomsky so well reminds us — by continuing to speak, as consistently and as agilely as ever, about the lies of our times. **[https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/noam-chomsky-90th-birthday/ John Nichols in ''Noam Chomsky at 90: On Orwell, Taxi Drivers, and Rejecting Indoctrination, The Nation''], (7 December 2018) * To be different is to be held in suspicion. The nonconformist is a subversive. Subversion and rebellion make societies become more generous, more diverse, more compassionate and an individual more free. For the inability or unwillingness to see rebellion as a virtue and not a flaw is what provokes the uncomprehending hostility that makes the anxious herd stifle dissent and stamp out anything different. But humanity is not a herd, and being human demands a vigilance against the kind of provocations that start stampedes. ** Manuel L. Quezon III, The grand inquisitor (The Long View, 08/14/2006) * The notion that truth is reached by the repression of dissent is the kind of claptrap that is believed—or at least implemented—by dictators and high school administrators. ** [[:w:Crispin Sartwell|Crispin Sartwell]], "'Disruption' is education", ''The Baltimore Sun'', July 19, 2002 *A simple way to determine whether the right to dissent in a particular society is being upheld is to apply '''the [[w:Town square test|town square test]]''': Can a person walk into the middle of the town square and express his or her views without fear of arrest, imprisonment, or physical harm? If he can, then that person is living in a free society. If not, it's a '''fear society'''. ** [[Natan Sharansky]], ''The Case for Democracy,'' pp. 40–41, 2004, with Ron Dermer. *The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity. **[[George Bernard Shaw]], ''The Devil's Disciple'' (1897) * In a society where dissenting viewpoints are suppressed, those viewpoints are potent and dangerous... Where dissent is tolerated, it rapidly becomes quaint and is viewed as un-sophisticated; people merely amuse themselves with the expression of contrary opinion. ** Oscar, in ''Melmoth'' by [[David Sim]], p. 41, 1991. * The fault I find with most American newspapers is not the absence of [[dissent]]. it is the absence of news. With a dozen or so honorable exceptions, most American newspapers carry very little news. Their main concern is advertising. ** [[I. F. Stone]], ''The Haunted Fifties'' (1963). * The heretic may be very irritating, he may be decidedly wrong, but the attempt to choke [[heresy]] or dissent from the dominant opinion by coercing the conscience is an incalculable danger to society. If war makes it necessary, it is the last count in the indictment against war. ** [[Norman Thomas]], "War's Heretics: A Plea for the Conscientious Objector", in ''The Survey'' magazine, August 1917. Reprinted in Arthur Weinberg, Lila Shaffer Weinberg; ''Instead of violence : writings by the great advocates of peace and nonviolence throughout history''. Beacon Press, 1963. * Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his [[conscience]] to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. ** [[Henry David Thoreau]], ''[[Civil Disobedience (Thoreau)|Civil Disobedience]]'' (1849). * '''Trudeau''': Well there are a lot of bleeding hearts around who just don't like to see people with helmets and guns. All I can say is, go on and bleed. But it's more important to keep law and order in the society than to be worried about weak-kneed people who don't like the looks of a soldier— <br> '''CBC reporter Tim Ralfe''' [interrupting]: At any cost? How far would you go with that? How far would you extend that? <br> '''Trudeau''': Well, just watch me. … Society must take every means at its disposal to defend itself against the emergence of a parallel power which defies the elected power. ** [[Pierre Trudeau]], responses to reporters following the kidnapping by the [[w:FLQ|FLQ]] of a provincial cabinet minister who was eventually murdered. [http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-71-162-429-21/unforgettable_moments/conflict_war/trudeau_just_watch_me CBC video archives] (1970-10-13). *The light of [[conscience]] ... enters the eyes of the soul, as the light of the sun enters the eyes of the body; and to open the former requires no greater effort than to open the latter. ** [[Alexandre Vinet]], ''Evangelical Meditations'' (1858). == See also == {{col-begin}} {{col-2}} * [[Activism]] *[[Apathy]] * [[Civil disobedience]] * [[Climate change]] *[[Compassion]] * [[Conflict]] * [[Conscience]] * [[Corruption]] * [[Democracy]] * [[Discord]] * [[Ethics]] * [[Freedom of speech]] * [[Greed]] * [[Green New Deal]] * [[Hope]] * [[Incompetence]] * [[Insubordination]] *[[Kindness]] *[[Mainstream media|Mainstream News Media]] *[[Military-industrial complex]] *[[Morality]] {{col-2}} *[[Noblesse oblige]] *[[Nonviolent resistance]] *[[Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth|''Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth'', by Buckminster Fuller, (1969)]] * [[Nonviolent resistance]] *[[Oligarchy]] *[[Protest]] * [[Rebellion]] * [[Refusal]] * [[Responsibility]] * [[Revolution]] * [[Resistance movement|War resist]] * [[Self-realization]] * [[Strike]] * [[Henry David Thoreau]], ''[[Civil Disobedience (Thoreau)|Civil Disobedience]]'' (1849). * [[Totalitarianism]] * [[Tyranny]] * [[Virtues]] {{col-end}} == References == <references/> == External links == {{Wikipedia}} {{Wiktionary|dissent}} [[Category:Discourse]] [[Category:Politics]] [[Category:Semiotics]] 1cocnjej51jf902e61kbhlcunkwsvma 0 113246 3961080 3947064 2026-07-05T15:09:50Z ~2026-22475-30 3310494 3961080 wikitext text/x-wiki {{DISPLAYTITLE:''The Simpsons''/Season 21}} {{The Simpsons header}} '''''[[w:The Simpsons|The Simpsons]]''''' (1989–present) is an American animated sitcom broadcast by the Fox Broadcasting Company created by [[Matt Groening]]. The series is a satirical depiction of American life, epitomized by the Simpson family. ===''[[w:Homer the Whopper|Homer the Whopper]]''=== :'''Marth''': All right what's our next big summer franchise. Come on. :'''OWW Films Executive #1''': You want an original idea? :'''Marth''': Yes. Let your imaginations run free. Something that's never been a movie before, but feels like it has. :'''OWW Films Executive #2''': Extension Cords! :'''OWW Films Executive #3''': Mixed Nuts! :'''OWW Films Executive #4''': Car WASH :'''Marth''': Nah. We've already made that could possibly be a movie, into a great movie. There's nothing left. :''[Marth's son, Jono, enters through the door to Marth's left.]'' :'''Jono''': Dad, can we go? I've watched all the DVDs in the Bentley. :'''Marth''': Jono, what's that in your hand? :'''Jono''': ''Oh''. Big surprise that you don't know what ''this'' is. It's only Everyman. The coolest comic book ever. :''[Marth takes the comic book and reads through a few pages.]'' :'''Marth''': What are his powers? :'''Jono''': ''All'' of them. :'''Marth''': That's it! Our next big summer movie will be Everyman! :'''OWW Films Executive #4''': Uh, Marth? Ginormous Pictures bought the rights to Everyman three weeks ago. :''[Marth throws the comic onto the table in frustration.]'' :'''Marth''': Damnit! <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Comic Book Guy|Comic Book Guy]]''': You are acceptable. :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Great, do you wanna see me naked? :'''GP Executive #1''': Oh there's no nudity in this movie. :'''Homer''': What movie? :'''Director''': Bring in the next helicopter. :''[camera pans to show a line of [[w:Boeing AH-64 Apache|AH-64 Apache helicopters]] as one moves from the line from the rest which are hovering]'' <hr width=50%/> :[''last lines''] :'''Homer''': But I'm so cold. ===''[[w:Bart Gets a 'Z'|Bart Gets a 'Z']]''=== :'''The Answer commercial''': My life was over. I'd lost my job, my husband left me. I had to sleep in a kangaroo's pouch. And then I found... The Answer. SECRET DON'T VISIT OUR WEBSITE The Answer was discovered by the philosophers of ancient Greece, who hid it under a rock where it was discovered by the knights of King Arthur, who placed it in a bottle and set it in the ocean, where it was found by [[Pat Sajak]]. These great men knew The Answer. The Answer is the secret to achieving your heart's desire. Learn The Answer, and change your life. Available wherever dubious, quasi-scientific self-help books are sold. <hr width=50%/> :''[Bart visits Mrs. Krabappel]'' :'''Bart''': Well, Mrs. K, I have just the book, slash, DVD for you: The Answer. This book uses the ancient power of wanting. <hr width=50%/> :'''Mrs. Krabappel''': ''[in front of the class]'' You're children. Why do you all need cell phones? :'''Milhouse''': Safety. :'''Unknown kid 1''': Emergencies. :'''Unknown kid 2''': Safety. :'''Jimbo''': Educational. <hr width=50%/> :'''Mr. Largo''': Edna please! Even the Union can't protect you from this. :''[Mrs.Krabappel smiles at Mr. Largo who is looking nervous and evolves into a handsome man]'' :'''Mrs. Krabappel''': ''[To Mr. Largo]'' Give me one night, Dewey. I'll get you off Broadway.. :'''Mr. Largo''': ''[Horrified]'' Never! :'''Principal Skinner''': ''[Holds Mrs, Krabappel's hand]'' Edna, let's go. <hr width=50%/> :'''Bart''': ''[To Mrs. Krabappel]'' I was the one who put liquor on your coffee and got you fired. ''[chuckles]'' :'''Mrs. Krabappel''': ''[shocked]'' You did What?! :'''Bart''': Please, don't kill me! ===''[[w:The Great Wife Hope|The Great Wife Hope]]''=== :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': This goes against every feminist bone in my body, but Dad, can't you control your woman? :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': How can I control her? I have nothing to withhold. <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': Call me a killjoy, but I think that because this is not to my taste, no one else should be able to enjoy it. <hr width=50%/> :''[Watching Marge's fight on TV]'' :'''[[w:Moe Szyslak|Moe]]''': Come on, come on, get back on your feet, I believe in you! :'''[[w:Barney Gumble|Barney]]''': ''[climbing the bar from the tavern floor]'' I'm doing it Moe! :'''Moe''': Not you. :'''Barney''': Oh thank god! – the pressure's off. ''[falls back down]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': Out of all the stupidest things I've ever done, this is the stupidest. And you're doing it! <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': She found my one weakness... that I'm weak! <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': Carl, do you know heavyweight champion, Drederick Tatum? :'''[[w:Carl Carlson|Carl]]''': What, you think just because I'm black I know all other black people?! :'''Homer''': uh...um, well, uh. :'''Carl''': Actually, Drederick and I are very good friends. We met through Dr. Hibbert at a party at Bleeding Gums Murphy's house. ===''[[w:Treehouse of Horror XX|Treehouse of Horror XX]]''=== :'''Lisa''': ''[sees a decapitated head of Mrs. Hoover]'' You killed her? :'''Bart''': Right, like we agreed. :'''Lisa''': I never said "kill"! :'''Bart''': Yeah, 'cause you're smart. You don't say "kill," you say "prank." Like Mom and Dad say "snuggle" when what they really mean is "let's lock the door and hug." :'''Lisa''': Well, I didn't kill Mrs. Krabappel! :'''Bart''': So, all you did was ring her doorbell and run? :'''Lisa''': Yeah, "ding dong ditch". :'''Bart''': "Ding dong ditch" means you kill her. Then you throw that ding dong into a ditch. <hr width=50%/> :We now see Kent Brockman outside Burger Squared :'''Kent Brockman''': I'm here at Krustyburger for the launch of the highly anticipated "Burger Squared." Krusty, what can you tell us about this fantastic new sandwich? :'''Krusty''': I'm glad you asked, Kent. We start with Grade A beef, feed that to other cows, then kill them and serve the unholy results on a seven-grain bun. Burger Squared! :'''Homer''': The math checks out! :'''Lisa''': Cows eating cows?! That's an abomination! :'''Marge''': Now, Lisa, you're a vegetarian, but these cows have made a different choice. :'''Kent Brockman''': And now, this lucky reporter will be the first human to sample this delicious crime against nature. Mmm. Juicy, flavorful, with just a hint of... ''[changes into a Muncher and takes a bite out of Krusty's elbow]'' :'''Krusty''': Hey! That's my check-cashing arm, you stupid... ''[Krusty also becomes a Muncher. Kent kills a camera technician and then kills the camera man] '''Lisa''': ''[gasps]'' what.. What happened? '''Bart''': I... I don't know! <hr width=50%/> :''[Twenty-eight days later, Springfield's inhabitants have all succumbed to the zombie cow virus and are eating or infecting everyone else who is not a Muncher.]'' :'''Moe''': A little tip... you might want to wash me before you eat me. :'''Barney''': All right! :'''Carl''': Yeah, you better! :'''Lenny''': Thank you. <hr width=50%/> :'''Marge''': ''[Gasps]'' Bart ate a tainted burger! :'''Homer''': I'll bash him with this book! :'''Lisa''': Dad, No! That's the last book in the world! :'''Homer''': Really? :'''Lisa''': Yes! It's... Oh, go ahead. <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': To the panic room! :'''Marge''': We don't have a panic room! :'''Homer''': To the panic room store! <hr width=50%/> :'''Rainer Wolfcastle''': [[The Terminator|Come with me if you want to live-]] ''[is devoured by a mob of zombies]'' :'''Homer''': [[w:Political career of Arnold Schwarzenegger|Another politician who can't keep his promises]]. <hr width=50%/> :'''Marge''': What kind of civilized people eat the body and blood of their savior?! ''[Camera pans to [[w:Reverend Timothy Lovejoy|Reverend Lovejoy]] [[w:transubstantiation|nervously fidgeting with his]] [[w:Clerical collar|Clerical collar]].]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Kang and Kodos|Kodos]]''': This is the best musical in [[w:light year|light years!]] :'''[[w:Kang and Kodos|Kang]]''': Light years measure distance, not time. :'''[[w:Kang and Kodos|Kodos]]''': You know what I meant. <hr width=50%/> :''[Singing]'' :'''[[w:Moe Szyslak|Moe]]''': I just have to warn you, Marge... :My taste for romance is kinda perverse! :I can only make love in the back of a hearse :and I have to be dressed as a Civil War nurse! :And then when I'm finished, I'll go through your purse! :But you could do worse! :'''Marge''': I could do worse! :'''[[w:Barney Gumbel|Barney]], [[w:Carl Carlson|Carl]], and [[w:Lenny Leonard|Lenny]]''': We're proof that you could do worse! :'''Homer''': She couldn't possibly do worse! <hr width=50%/> :'''Kodos''': Shhhhh! ===''[[w:The Devil Wears Nada|The Devil Wears Nada]]''=== :'''Homer''': Ye-bonjour! :'''Carl''': Homer, there's a moth in my room. Where are you? :'''Homer''': Where I should have been all along. In Springfield. :'''Carl''': What? Get back to the Eternal City of Lights at once or you're fired! :'''Homer''': Oh, I don't think so. You know that woman you've been playing "hide the baguette" with? She's French first lady Carla Bruni. You fire me, and I'll call Nicolas Sarkozy, and he'll be all over you like Truffaut on Hitchcock. :'''Carl''': You wouldn't dare! :'''Homer''': Oh, wouldn't I? Just listen! ''[dials other cell phone]'' :'''President Nicholas Sarkozy''': ''[on phone]'' Allo, you are getting cozy with Sarkozy. :'''Carl''': All right, Homer, you win. Give Marge my best. :'''Homer''': I will, but first, I'll be giving her mine. <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': ''[about Marge and Ned having an affair]'' My wife and my worst friend. Could it be? <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': The most intimate evening we spent this week was when I was ironing your shirts. :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Actually, those were Carl's shirts. <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Ned Flanders|Ned]]''': I'm not thinking straight, why did I have that wine cooler last month? <hr width=50%/> :'''Rod''': We thought you were gonna die. :'''Tod''': And then Uncle Kevin would have to raise us. :'''Rod''': And his funny friend, David. :'''[[w:Ned Flanders|Ned]]''': Oh I'd put rocks in your pocket and walk you out to sea for before I'd let that happen. :'''Rod and Tod''': Yay! <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': You two are going out? I thought I told you the Flanders were coming over for dinner. :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': I'm having a tea party at Janey's. :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': And I'm having a stink bomb party at the house next to Janey's... no connection. <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': Stop dragging me! When I get older I'm gonna drag you around and buy you clothes. :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': Oh, that's wonderful! <hr width=50%/> :'''Lenny''': I'm gonna miss Ted, he was a good supervisor. :'''Carl''': Definitely hands off. He didn't mind if we punched in late, or not at all. :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': And he didn't mind that we made a few changes to the soda machine... mmm... beer. ===''[[w:Pranks and Greens|Pranks and Greens]]''=== :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Marge, what are you doing? :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': This junk food has got to go. It's full of chemicals, trans fats, and hard pore corn. ===''[[w:Rednecks and Broomsticks|Rednecks and Broomsticks]]''=== :'''Homer''': Oh, for cryin' out...! I hate traffic - the [[w:Traffic (band)|band]] ''and'' the phenomenon! <hr width="50%"/> :''[On the kid's 'Bonk It' toy]'' :'''Homer''': Hey kids, it's daddy's turn. Stomp it! Crush it! Kill it! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': Ohhh, why do my actions have consequences?! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Brandy''': Drink up,sweetie. Let the possum work its magic. :'''Lisa''': Possum?! :'''Brandy''': Oh, don't worry. We don't kill it. We just dip it. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Moe''': Oh, it's no good, you're just a load of spineless weasels! :''[The townspeople turn round and come to a halt]'' :'''Comic Book Guy''': Kill the weasel hater! :''[Everyone runs after Moe]'' :'''Moe''': ''[laughing as he runs]'' See, that's what I'm talking about! <hr width="50%"> :'''Cletus''': Brandy?! Where's the bazook?!''[Looks at his son, holding the bazooka.]'' Aw, he's gonna shoot them Google Earth folks that caught me with my britches down. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Cletus''': Oh for God's-! You know, one hillbilly has his way with one fat guy in [[w:Deliverance|Deliverance]], and suddenly people think that's all hillbillies do! <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': From now on, The only "witch" in lisa's life Is which boy will marry her. ===''[[w:O Brother, Where Bart Thou?|O Brother, Where Bart Thou?]]''=== :''[Homer is extolling the virtues of girls over boys.]'' :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Girls are easy! Girls love daddy, girls give birthday cards with glitter and sprinkles, and I don't have to tell them how their bodies work 'cause I don't know! :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': You never told me how my body works. :'''Homer''': Point and shoot. <hr width=50%/> :'''Bart''': Are you sure this will work? :'''[[w:Milhouse Van Houten|Milhouse]]''': Hey, this is the DVD my parents used to make me. :'''Bart''': So it ''kind'' of works. ===''[[w:Thursdays with Abie|Thursdays with Abie]]''=== :'''Grampa''': You're in the newspaper business? ''[chuckles]'' Something that's gonna die before I do! <hr width=50%/> :'''Grampa''': ''[narrating]'' It was back in World War II. I was a Seaman First Class on the USS ''World War I''. We were minding our own business, when we were attacked by a heat-seeking torpedo we had fired the day before. :''[In flashback, the missile causes the ship to sink, leaving the young Abe and the rest of the crew surrounded by sharks in the water]'' :'''Captain''': Don't worry about the sharks, boys. Just play possum and they'll leave you alone. :''[He floats on his back, playing dead - and is immediately eaten]'' :'''Grampa''': ''[narrating]'' Unfortunately, sharks ''love'' possum! <hr width=50%/> :'''Grampa''': Yep, I may just be the best known Abraham in history. <hr width=50%/> :'''Marshall''': So many hat boxes! <hr width=50%/> :''[Bart lets Santa's Little Helper chew Larry the stuffed toy lamb]'' :'''Bart''': That's it, boy! Go for the 'nards! :'''Lisa''': Bart! ''[snatches Larry away]'' If you're not gonna take care of him right, then give him to me. :'''Bart''': How come you don't get mad when I torment ''real'' animals? :'''Lisa''': I ''do!'' It enrages me! :'''Bart''': I thought you Hindus were supposed to love everybody. :'''Lisa''': I'M A FREAKIN' BUDDHIST! A ''BUDDHIST!'' ''[kicks the side table]'' <hr width=50%/> :''[during the versions of reruns and DVDs]'' :'''Homer''': The year is 1946, and in a war torn world, a single flower blooms and that flower is an angry Japanese monster named Godzilla. Fortunately, there was one man that could help, Colonel Tom Parker. The colonel took this monster, cleaned him up and put him on stage under the name the Rolling Stones. The first concert was a sell out with many, many, many people eaten. But those that survived raved about the undeniable harmonies and brutally honest lyrics of what they had just seen. And out of the wreckage of that concert crawled the woman that would later give birth to me, not once but four times, cause in those days if they didn't like the way you looked they would send you back in to bake a little longer. After four times they just decided to cut off my tail, but you can still see it in the British museum, which interestingly enough, is in France. Not the France you're thinking of, but a much better one, built with palm trees and leprechauns, but I digress. In fact, I used to be a professional digressor, but I don't wanna get off the track, so I'll tell you about the time I was a professional digressor. The year was 2021, and I had just returned from a brief vacation where I had eaten more than my fill of tacos. Not the tacos you're thinking of. Did I ever tell you about the time I started Gracie Films? ''[the Gracie Films logo shows up]'' Hey, shush yourself! ===''[[w:Once Upon a Time in Springfield|Once Upon a Time in Springfield]]''=== :'''[[w:Milhouse Van Houten|Milhouse]]''': First girls ruin ''[[w:Sex in the City|Sex in the City]]'', and now this! <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Mr. Burns|Mr. Burns]]''': We have to cut costs. :'''[[w:Lenny Leonard|Lenny]]''': But we have way more expensive unnecessaries than doughnuts. :'''[[w:Carl Carlson|Carl]]''': Yeah, like the ceiling furniture. :'''Lenny''': And all the joke ID badges we ordered. :'''Mr. Burns''': No doughnuts! :'''Lenny''': No! :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': D'oh! :'''Carl''': Nuts! :'''Mr. Burns''': Exactly! <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': Poor Krusty. He's become the lowest form of life: a sidekick. :'''Milhouse''': You said it, Bart! Way to sum up the situation! :'''Bart''': Take it easy, little buddy. :'''Milhouse''': That's exactly how I'll take it! ===''[[w:Million Dollar Maybe|Million Dollar Maybe]]''=== :'''[[w:Reverend Timothy Lovejoy|Reverend Lovejoy]]''': And now Valerie and Dave will deliver their own vows, because my vows, apparently, weren't good enough. Show me how it's done, Dave. ===''[[w:Boy Meets Curl|Boy Meets Curl]]''=== :'''[[w:Carl Carlson|Carl]]''': Homer, you don't look fat. :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Oh, Carl. You're a liar, but I love it. <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': I'm not a dude, I'm a hottie. :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': This bromance just got interesting. <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': What is this, tough love? :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': It's a little more like "soft hate". <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Ooh, you're hot when you're horny. :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': I'm not horny. I'm mad. :'''Homer''': Ooh, you're mad when you're angry. ===''[[w:The Color Yellow|The Color Yellow]]''=== :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': The Simpson family is a long line of horse thieves, deadbeats, horse beats, dead thieves, and even a few alcoholics. <hr width=50%/> :'''Eliza''': Follow me north to freedom. :'''Virgil''': I don't think so. :'''Eliza''': Why? Because I'm young and I'm a woman? :'''Virgil''': No. Because you're pointing south. <hr width=50%/> :'''Lisa''': Our family has heroes! ===''[[w:Postcards from the Wedge|Postcards from the Wedge]]''=== :'''Homer''': Credit card offer, overdue bill, credit card offer, overdue bill. Huh? What's this? ''[opens a envelope]'' What the--?! ''[angry]'' You're a month behind on homework?! :'''Bart''': I tried ''really'' hard to stop you from finding out. Does that help? :'''Homer''': ''[still angry]'' A LITTLE! <hr width=50%/> :'''Lisa''': You would mess up Mom and Dad's marriage just to get out of doing some homework? :'''Bart''': Hey, hey! I would end all life on this planet just to get out of doing fractions! :'''Lisa''': Fractions aren't that hard. You just have to find a common denominator. For example, one half plus one third equals three-- :'''Bart''': END! ALL! LIFE! ON! THIS! PLANET! ''[makes explosion noise and leaves]'' :'''Lisa''': You'll need to know fractions to make that explosion! :'''Bart''': ''[from offscreen]'' I don't care! :''[Lisa rolls her eyes]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Lisa''': You are now officially a sociopath. :'''Bart''': Hey, at least I'm on a path. ===''[[w:Stealing First Base|Stealing First Base]]''=== :'''Bart''': Um, this is the last seat, so... :''[Nikki scoots over for Bart to share her desk, but she takes out her Fruit by the Foot bar, and she pulls it out, putting a line between her desk]'' :'''Nikki''': My side, your side. :'''Bart''': ''[looks at Nikki's pink pencil case with her name on it]'' Hi, Nikki. I'm Bart. This situation, it's nuts, right? Oh, look at you-- opening a book so you won't have to talk to me. I'm just gonna be tuning up the old armpit. ''[Bart blows his pitch pipe and does armpit fart sounds. Nikki slightly smiles.]'' <hr width="50%/> :'''Bart''': Oh, man, you girls ruin everything-- even vampires. :'''Nikki''': Hey, vampires are cool outsiders who love girls who hate cheerleaders. :'''Bart''': No, they're all about chomping neck. And they don't put product in their hair like this loser. ''[Draws a picture of a vampire holding a tommy gun and an alien's decapitated head]'' :'''Bart''': They look like this. ''[Shows the picture he drew]'' :'''Nikki''': ''[amazed]'' Awesome picture. :'''Bart''': Can I draw a robot barfing screws on your arm with my Sharpie? :'''Nikki''': I... I'd like that. ''[Nikki pulls up her sleeve, so Bart can draw a robot barfing screws on her right arm. He laughs while doing so and writes his name on the bottom.]'' :'''Bart''': And... finished. <hr width="50%/> :'''Ralph''': I cheated the wrong way! I wrote the Lisa name and gave the Ralph answers! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bart''': But I need to talk about man stuff! :'''Homer''': Talk to Grampa, he used to be a man! :'''Bart''': He did? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bart''': It's not my fault, Grampa told me to kiss her! :'''Marge''': ''[scoffs]'' Why didn't you just tell him to club her on her head and drag her into a cave? :'''Grampa''': You mean second base? Whoa, he's a little young for that. :'''Bart''': Well, if I talk to Nikki, I'm sure I can-- :'''Homer''': No! If you go near her one more time, we'll be sued into the poorhouse and have to eat garbage forever! :'''Bart''': That's no problem, Mom can make garbage taste great. :'''Marge''': ''[genuinely touched, hugging him]'' Thank you! :'''Bart''': Well, I mean it. :'''Marge''': And it means the world to me. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Nikki''': Oh, Bart, I hate to see you like this. ''[She kisses Bart on the lips]'' Aw, look who's all confused. :'''Bart''': Huh? :''[Nikki kisses him again]'' :'''Bart''': What the hell are you doing?! :'''Nikki''': I'm kissing you, stupid. :'''Bart''': You're the biggest psycho I ever met! :'''Nikki''': You wanna stop? :'''Bart''': Absolutely not. :''[Nikki kisses Bart for the third time]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': Oh! I finally caught one of Bart's school plays. :'''Marge''': That's not Bart, that's Principal Skinner. Bart's sitting right next to you. :'''Homer''': Yeah, now that I look closer, that guy couldn't fool anybody. :'''Skinner''': Shut up, fatso. :'''Homer''': ''[turns red with anger]'' Why you little… ''[furiously runs into the stage and angrily strangles Skinner, Martin and Wendell drags him off the stage]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Kevin''': Nelson, now that the bans have been lifted, let me touch your face. That way, I can see you with my fingers. ''[touches Nelson's face]'' Eww! I said your face, not your butt! :'''Nelson''': Aw, you feel comfortable enough to mock me. ''[punches him]'' That's for mocking me! :'''Kevin''': Nelson... your punch restored my vision! I can see again! :'''Nelson''': Really?! Kevin, that's wonderf-- :'''Kevin''': Haw haw! :'''Nelson''': The student has become the master! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bart''': ''[to Nikki, after she kisses him on the cheek]'' I love you! ===''[[w:The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed|The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed]]''=== :'''Lisa''': ''[about Flanders]'' I think he's trying to get Dad into Heaven. :'''Bart''': Great, more Hell for me! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Krusty''': I am trying to save myself from going to Hell. :'''Lisa''': Jews don't believe in Hell. :'''Krusty''': No Hell! Thank you, kid, you made my day.'' ''[heads over to the Gaza Strip Club]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': I am the Messiah, come to save the world! Look upon me and shudder! :'''Bart''': I already do that. <hr width="50%"/> :''[In Homer's vision, he sees the characters from ''VeggieTales''. Homer starts to cry.]'' :'''Larry the Cucumber''': You have been chosen, Homer. :'''Homer''': Chosen to be what, oh mighty Gerkin!? ===''[[w:American History X-cellent|American History X-cellent]]''=== :'''Burns''': Grab your scripts, people. We open in twenty minutes. Break a leg! ''[to a passing man]'' I said break a leg! ''[the man takes a hammer and hits the knee of his right leg, which cracks]'' For God's sake, man, it's a figure of speech! You're fired. ''[the man hobbles offscreen]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Bart''': I am ''so'' glad I'm not your kid. :'''Lisa''': Well I'm so glad I'm not your mom. :'''Bart''': You should be. If I was in your tummy, I'd poo in your throat. :'''Lisa''': Eww, eww, eww! I'll never get that image out of my head! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Burns''': Yeah, the war's over and the future won. The past never had a chance man. ===''[[w:Chief of Hearts|Chief of Hearts]]''=== :'''Bart''': ''[to several boys at Dylan's party]'' Hey, dinks. Whatcha dweebin'? :'''Boy 1''': ''[scoffs]'' You don't know ''[[w:Bakugun|Battle Balls]]''? :'''Boy 2''': It's a Japanense card game based on a cartoon, based on an ancient religion, based on a candy bar. :'''Boy 3''': It makes ''[[Digimon]]'' look like ''[[Pokémon]]''. :'''Bart''': What?! Impossible! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Chief Wiggum''': ''[fighting against a gunman, while protecting Homer)'' Take your hands off my brother from another mother. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bart''': ''[To [[w:Ralph Wiggum|Ralph]]]'' How'd a pull-up like you get a great card like that? :'''Ralph''': My not-dead grandma sent it from [[w:Tokyo|Tokyo]]. :'''Bart''': Ralph, I'll play you for that card. :'''Ralph''': Okay, but if I win, you have to teach me how to play this game. :'''Bart''': Deal! ===''[[w:The Squirt and the Whale|The Squirt and the Whale]]''=== :'''Homer''': Look at this electric bill! I'm not made of money! I'm made of man-meat and a skeleton! <hr width=50%/> :'''Bart''': Check it out! World's biggest armpit fart! :''[He squishes "Bluella" the whale's fin, making a flatulent noise. The annoyed whale flicks him away through the air]'' :'''Bart''': YOU JUST MADE A POWERFUL ENEMY! <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': Lisa, bring the car around. :'''Lisa''': But I don't know how to drive. :'''Homer''': Haven't you learned anything from watching Bart drive? :'''Lisa''': A little... <hr width=50%/> :'''Lisa''': Those baby whales are doomed, just like their mom! Oh, I guess it's just nature's way... :'''Homer''': ''[pulling up in a motorboat]'' Nature is a toothless, dying hag! We're gonna save those whale babies! <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': ''[aiming at the sharks with a harpoon]'' [[w:Shark Week|Shark Week]] just got cancelled. :'''Sea Hugger 1''': Drop the 'poon! :'''Homer''': Oh, come on, leave me alone! I'm trying to save your precious whales! :'''Sea Hugger 1''': We're not here to protect the whales, we're here to protect the sharks. :'''Sea Hugger 2''': Did you know that over 40 million sharks are slaughtered every year to make shark fin soup? :'''Homer''': What the--?! You ''like'' sharks?! :'''Sea Hugger 1''': Being a true eco-activist means supporting ''every'' animal's struggle for life. :'''Sea Hugger 2''': Except for cockroaches. Yuck! :'''Sea Hugger 1''': Linda, please. :'''Homer''': Pfft! Typical eco-jerks, using words to talk! ''[speeds past them]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Lisa''': Thanks for not letting me give up, Dad. :'''Homer''': Hey, I'd do anything for a sweet, intelligent mammal. By which I mean you. ''[hugs her]'' ===''[[w:To Surveil With Love|To Surveil With Love]]''=== :'''[[Queen Elizabeth II]]''': I miss that Ralph Wiggum. Reminds me of my boy. :'''[[Prince Charles]]''': Mummy, my cat's breath smells like cat food. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Well, if you ask me, you were trying to play God. :'''Ned''': ''[gasps]'' That's the worst sin of all, for some reason. <hr width=50%> :'''Surveillance Guy''': ''[pushes a button on the intercom]'' 'Oy! Snogging people! <hr width=50%> :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': That's not Sesame Street, that's a gay bar. <hr width=50%> :'''[[w:Ned Flanders|Ned]]''': I guess I did create this, just as God created the Devil. :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': God create the devil? Finally, He did something cool! <hr width=50%> :'''Megan''': What if someone's driving an old, but functioning, car? Wouldn't the carbon required to create a new hybrid exceed the savings in gas? :'''Lisa''': Initially yes, but... :'''Megan''': And isn't most electricity in the United States ultimately derived from the burning of coal? :'''Lisa''': Currently. However, solar and wind are... <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': ''[grunts]'' Aaaaaaaaaaah, Nooooooooooooo. ===''[[w:Moe Letter Blues|Moe Letter Blues]]''=== :'''Moe''': ''[in letter]'' "There is no easy way to say goodbye forever, so I'll say it in the hardest way I can... Mandarin Chinese." ===''[[w:The Bob Next Door|The Bob Next Door]]''=== :'''Homer''': All right, buddy, I'm gonna do to you what you should've done to my son a long time ago! :'''Walt Warren''': ''[in his Sideshow Bob disguise]'' I'm not Sideshow Bob. I'm the real Walt Warren. <hr width=50%/> :'''Bart''': You missed the turn-off, Mr. Warren. :'''Sideshow Bob''': ''[in his Walt Warren disguise]'' You don't have to call me Mr. Warren anymore. You see, Bart, you were right all along. ''[He takes off Walt's shoes, revealing his huge ugly feet]'' I am Sideshow Bob. :''[Bart screams in horror then Sideshow Bob cackles maniacally]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Bart''': Y'know, the great ones can kill without explaining. :'''Sideshow Bob''': I can stand in one state, fire a gun in the second state, the bullet will travel through the third, hitting you in the fourth, so you'll fall down dead in the fifth! No single act is against any law, but their sum total is the greatest murder since [[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince|Snape killed Dumbledore]]! :'''Bart Simpson''': Oh, I haven't gotten to that part yet! :'''Sideshow Bob''': It's a four-year-old book. :'''Bart Simpson''': I'm a slow reader. :'''Sideshow Bob''': A fitting epitaph ''[pause]'' It means last words! :'''Bart''': Are you here to teach me, or kill me? ===''[[w:Judge Me Tender|Judge Me Tender]]''=== :'''Lisa''': Mr. Flanders, how did you make these amazing fish? :'''Ned Flanders''': Actually, God made some fish that were pretty close to these so naturally we selected those for further breeding. :'''Lisa''': So that natural selection was the origin of this species? :'''Flanders''': Yep, that's exactly--[laughs] You almost got me. :''[Fish grows legs, crawls out of water, and starts breathing air]'' :'''Flanders''': Not on my watch ''[pushes it back into water]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''[[Simon Cowell]]''': How do you like LA? :'''Moe''': It's a hell of a city. It's like someone stepped on New York and scraped it off on the beach. <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': You never fail to nauseate me boy. :'''Bart''': Just call me Barf Simpson. :'''Homer''': I wanted to, but your mother said kids might tease you. :'''Ralph''': He's a ''[says a series of words that get bleeped out]'' <noinclude> {{DEFAULTSORT:Simpsons, Season 21}} [[Category:The Simpsons seasons]] </noinclude> s5lx2l46wxkd44b6c6hdzziwfsn98xh 3961082 3961080 2026-07-05T15:10:19Z ~2026-22475-30 3310494 /* Judge Me Tender */ 3961082 wikitext text/x-wiki {{DISPLAYTITLE:''The Simpsons''/Season 21}} {{The Simpsons header}} '''''[[w:The Simpsons|The Simpsons]]''''' (1989–present) is an American animated sitcom broadcast by the Fox Broadcasting Company created by [[Matt Groening]]. The series is a satirical depiction of American life, epitomized by the Simpson family. ===''[[w:Homer the Whopper|Homer the Whopper]]''=== :'''Marth''': All right what's our next big summer franchise. Come on. :'''OWW Films Executive #1''': You want an original idea? :'''Marth''': Yes. Let your imaginations run free. Something that's never been a movie before, but feels like it has. :'''OWW Films Executive #2''': Extension Cords! :'''OWW Films Executive #3''': Mixed Nuts! :'''OWW Films Executive #4''': Car WASH :'''Marth''': Nah. We've already made that could possibly be a movie, into a great movie. There's nothing left. :''[Marth's son, Jono, enters through the door to Marth's left.]'' :'''Jono''': Dad, can we go? I've watched all the DVDs in the Bentley. :'''Marth''': Jono, what's that in your hand? :'''Jono''': ''Oh''. Big surprise that you don't know what ''this'' is. It's only Everyman. The coolest comic book ever. :''[Marth takes the comic book and reads through a few pages.]'' :'''Marth''': What are his powers? :'''Jono''': ''All'' of them. :'''Marth''': That's it! Our next big summer movie will be Everyman! :'''OWW Films Executive #4''': Uh, Marth? Ginormous Pictures bought the rights to Everyman three weeks ago. :''[Marth throws the comic onto the table in frustration.]'' :'''Marth''': Damnit! <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Comic Book Guy|Comic Book Guy]]''': You are acceptable. :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Great, do you wanna see me naked? :'''GP Executive #1''': Oh there's no nudity in this movie. :'''Homer''': What movie? :'''Director''': Bring in the next helicopter. :''[camera pans to show a line of [[w:Boeing AH-64 Apache|AH-64 Apache helicopters]] as one moves from the line from the rest which are hovering]'' <hr width=50%/> :[''last lines''] :'''Homer''': But I'm so cold. ===''[[w:Bart Gets a 'Z'|Bart Gets a 'Z']]''=== :'''The Answer commercial''': My life was over. I'd lost my job, my husband left me. I had to sleep in a kangaroo's pouch. And then I found... The Answer. SECRET DON'T VISIT OUR WEBSITE The Answer was discovered by the philosophers of ancient Greece, who hid it under a rock where it was discovered by the knights of King Arthur, who placed it in a bottle and set it in the ocean, where it was found by [[Pat Sajak]]. These great men knew The Answer. The Answer is the secret to achieving your heart's desire. Learn The Answer, and change your life. Available wherever dubious, quasi-scientific self-help books are sold. <hr width=50%/> :''[Bart visits Mrs. Krabappel]'' :'''Bart''': Well, Mrs. K, I have just the book, slash, DVD for you: The Answer. This book uses the ancient power of wanting. <hr width=50%/> :'''Mrs. Krabappel''': ''[in front of the class]'' You're children. Why do you all need cell phones? :'''Milhouse''': Safety. :'''Unknown kid 1''': Emergencies. :'''Unknown kid 2''': Safety. :'''Jimbo''': Educational. <hr width=50%/> :'''Mr. Largo''': Edna please! Even the Union can't protect you from this. :''[Mrs.Krabappel smiles at Mr. Largo who is looking nervous and evolves into a handsome man]'' :'''Mrs. Krabappel''': ''[To Mr. Largo]'' Give me one night, Dewey. I'll get you off Broadway.. :'''Mr. Largo''': ''[Horrified]'' Never! :'''Principal Skinner''': ''[Holds Mrs, Krabappel's hand]'' Edna, let's go. <hr width=50%/> :'''Bart''': ''[To Mrs. Krabappel]'' I was the one who put liquor on your coffee and got you fired. ''[chuckles]'' :'''Mrs. Krabappel''': ''[shocked]'' You did What?! :'''Bart''': Please, don't kill me! ===''[[w:The Great Wife Hope|The Great Wife Hope]]''=== :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': This goes against every feminist bone in my body, but Dad, can't you control your woman? :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': How can I control her? I have nothing to withhold. <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': Call me a killjoy, but I think that because this is not to my taste, no one else should be able to enjoy it. <hr width=50%/> :''[Watching Marge's fight on TV]'' :'''[[w:Moe Szyslak|Moe]]''': Come on, come on, get back on your feet, I believe in you! :'''[[w:Barney Gumble|Barney]]''': ''[climbing the bar from the tavern floor]'' I'm doing it Moe! :'''Moe''': Not you. :'''Barney''': Oh thank god! – the pressure's off. ''[falls back down]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': Out of all the stupidest things I've ever done, this is the stupidest. And you're doing it! <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': She found my one weakness... that I'm weak! <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': Carl, do you know heavyweight champion, Drederick Tatum? :'''[[w:Carl Carlson|Carl]]''': What, you think just because I'm black I know all other black people?! :'''Homer''': uh...um, well, uh. :'''Carl''': Actually, Drederick and I are very good friends. We met through Dr. Hibbert at a party at Bleeding Gums Murphy's house. ===''[[w:Treehouse of Horror XX|Treehouse of Horror XX]]''=== :'''Lisa''': ''[sees a decapitated head of Mrs. Hoover]'' You killed her? :'''Bart''': Right, like we agreed. :'''Lisa''': I never said "kill"! :'''Bart''': Yeah, 'cause you're smart. You don't say "kill," you say "prank." Like Mom and Dad say "snuggle" when what they really mean is "let's lock the door and hug." :'''Lisa''': Well, I didn't kill Mrs. Krabappel! :'''Bart''': So, all you did was ring her doorbell and run? :'''Lisa''': Yeah, "ding dong ditch". :'''Bart''': "Ding dong ditch" means you kill her. Then you throw that ding dong into a ditch. <hr width=50%/> :We now see Kent Brockman outside Burger Squared :'''Kent Brockman''': I'm here at Krustyburger for the launch of the highly anticipated "Burger Squared." Krusty, what can you tell us about this fantastic new sandwich? :'''Krusty''': I'm glad you asked, Kent. We start with Grade A beef, feed that to other cows, then kill them and serve the unholy results on a seven-grain bun. Burger Squared! :'''Homer''': The math checks out! :'''Lisa''': Cows eating cows?! That's an abomination! :'''Marge''': Now, Lisa, you're a vegetarian, but these cows have made a different choice. :'''Kent Brockman''': And now, this lucky reporter will be the first human to sample this delicious crime against nature. Mmm. Juicy, flavorful, with just a hint of... ''[changes into a Muncher and takes a bite out of Krusty's elbow]'' :'''Krusty''': Hey! That's my check-cashing arm, you stupid... ''[Krusty also becomes a Muncher. Kent kills a camera technician and then kills the camera man] '''Lisa''': ''[gasps]'' what.. What happened? '''Bart''': I... I don't know! <hr width=50%/> :''[Twenty-eight days later, Springfield's inhabitants have all succumbed to the zombie cow virus and are eating or infecting everyone else who is not a Muncher.]'' :'''Moe''': A little tip... you might want to wash me before you eat me. :'''Barney''': All right! :'''Carl''': Yeah, you better! :'''Lenny''': Thank you. <hr width=50%/> :'''Marge''': ''[Gasps]'' Bart ate a tainted burger! :'''Homer''': I'll bash him with this book! :'''Lisa''': Dad, No! That's the last book in the world! :'''Homer''': Really? :'''Lisa''': Yes! It's... Oh, go ahead. <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': To the panic room! :'''Marge''': We don't have a panic room! :'''Homer''': To the panic room store! <hr width=50%/> :'''Rainer Wolfcastle''': [[The Terminator|Come with me if you want to live-]] ''[is devoured by a mob of zombies]'' :'''Homer''': [[w:Political career of Arnold Schwarzenegger|Another politician who can't keep his promises]]. <hr width=50%/> :'''Marge''': What kind of civilized people eat the body and blood of their savior?! ''[Camera pans to [[w:Reverend Timothy Lovejoy|Reverend Lovejoy]] [[w:transubstantiation|nervously fidgeting with his]] [[w:Clerical collar|Clerical collar]].]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Kang and Kodos|Kodos]]''': This is the best musical in [[w:light year|light years!]] :'''[[w:Kang and Kodos|Kang]]''': Light years measure distance, not time. :'''[[w:Kang and Kodos|Kodos]]''': You know what I meant. <hr width=50%/> :''[Singing]'' :'''[[w:Moe Szyslak|Moe]]''': I just have to warn you, Marge... :My taste for romance is kinda perverse! :I can only make love in the back of a hearse :and I have to be dressed as a Civil War nurse! :And then when I'm finished, I'll go through your purse! :But you could do worse! :'''Marge''': I could do worse! :'''[[w:Barney Gumbel|Barney]], [[w:Carl Carlson|Carl]], and [[w:Lenny Leonard|Lenny]]''': We're proof that you could do worse! :'''Homer''': She couldn't possibly do worse! <hr width=50%/> :'''Kodos''': Shhhhh! ===''[[w:The Devil Wears Nada|The Devil Wears Nada]]''=== :'''Homer''': Ye-bonjour! :'''Carl''': Homer, there's a moth in my room. Where are you? :'''Homer''': Where I should have been all along. In Springfield. :'''Carl''': What? Get back to the Eternal City of Lights at once or you're fired! :'''Homer''': Oh, I don't think so. You know that woman you've been playing "hide the baguette" with? She's French first lady Carla Bruni. You fire me, and I'll call Nicolas Sarkozy, and he'll be all over you like Truffaut on Hitchcock. :'''Carl''': You wouldn't dare! :'''Homer''': Oh, wouldn't I? Just listen! ''[dials other cell phone]'' :'''President Nicholas Sarkozy''': ''[on phone]'' Allo, you are getting cozy with Sarkozy. :'''Carl''': All right, Homer, you win. Give Marge my best. :'''Homer''': I will, but first, I'll be giving her mine. <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': ''[about Marge and Ned having an affair]'' My wife and my worst friend. Could it be? <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': The most intimate evening we spent this week was when I was ironing your shirts. :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Actually, those were Carl's shirts. <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Ned Flanders|Ned]]''': I'm not thinking straight, why did I have that wine cooler last month? <hr width=50%/> :'''Rod''': We thought you were gonna die. :'''Tod''': And then Uncle Kevin would have to raise us. :'''Rod''': And his funny friend, David. :'''[[w:Ned Flanders|Ned]]''': Oh I'd put rocks in your pocket and walk you out to sea for before I'd let that happen. :'''Rod and Tod''': Yay! <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': You two are going out? I thought I told you the Flanders were coming over for dinner. :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': I'm having a tea party at Janey's. :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': And I'm having a stink bomb party at the house next to Janey's... no connection. <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': Stop dragging me! When I get older I'm gonna drag you around and buy you clothes. :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': Oh, that's wonderful! <hr width=50%/> :'''Lenny''': I'm gonna miss Ted, he was a good supervisor. :'''Carl''': Definitely hands off. He didn't mind if we punched in late, or not at all. :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': And he didn't mind that we made a few changes to the soda machine... mmm... beer. ===''[[w:Pranks and Greens|Pranks and Greens]]''=== :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Marge, what are you doing? :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': This junk food has got to go. It's full of chemicals, trans fats, and hard pore corn. ===''[[w:Rednecks and Broomsticks|Rednecks and Broomsticks]]''=== :'''Homer''': Oh, for cryin' out...! I hate traffic - the [[w:Traffic (band)|band]] ''and'' the phenomenon! <hr width="50%"/> :''[On the kid's 'Bonk It' toy]'' :'''Homer''': Hey kids, it's daddy's turn. Stomp it! Crush it! Kill it! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': Ohhh, why do my actions have consequences?! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Brandy''': Drink up,sweetie. Let the possum work its magic. :'''Lisa''': Possum?! :'''Brandy''': Oh, don't worry. We don't kill it. We just dip it. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Moe''': Oh, it's no good, you're just a load of spineless weasels! :''[The townspeople turn round and come to a halt]'' :'''Comic Book Guy''': Kill the weasel hater! :''[Everyone runs after Moe]'' :'''Moe''': ''[laughing as he runs]'' See, that's what I'm talking about! <hr width="50%"> :'''Cletus''': Brandy?! Where's the bazook?!''[Looks at his son, holding the bazooka.]'' Aw, he's gonna shoot them Google Earth folks that caught me with my britches down. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Cletus''': Oh for God's-! You know, one hillbilly has his way with one fat guy in [[w:Deliverance|Deliverance]], and suddenly people think that's all hillbillies do! <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': From now on, The only "witch" in lisa's life Is which boy will marry her. ===''[[w:O Brother, Where Bart Thou?|O Brother, Where Bart Thou?]]''=== :''[Homer is extolling the virtues of girls over boys.]'' :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Girls are easy! Girls love daddy, girls give birthday cards with glitter and sprinkles, and I don't have to tell them how their bodies work 'cause I don't know! :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': You never told me how my body works. :'''Homer''': Point and shoot. <hr width=50%/> :'''Bart''': Are you sure this will work? :'''[[w:Milhouse Van Houten|Milhouse]]''': Hey, this is the DVD my parents used to make me. :'''Bart''': So it ''kind'' of works. ===''[[w:Thursdays with Abie|Thursdays with Abie]]''=== :'''Grampa''': You're in the newspaper business? ''[chuckles]'' Something that's gonna die before I do! <hr width=50%/> :'''Grampa''': ''[narrating]'' It was back in World War II. I was a Seaman First Class on the USS ''World War I''. We were minding our own business, when we were attacked by a heat-seeking torpedo we had fired the day before. :''[In flashback, the missile causes the ship to sink, leaving the young Abe and the rest of the crew surrounded by sharks in the water]'' :'''Captain''': Don't worry about the sharks, boys. Just play possum and they'll leave you alone. :''[He floats on his back, playing dead - and is immediately eaten]'' :'''Grampa''': ''[narrating]'' Unfortunately, sharks ''love'' possum! <hr width=50%/> :'''Grampa''': Yep, I may just be the best known Abraham in history. <hr width=50%/> :'''Marshall''': So many hat boxes! <hr width=50%/> :''[Bart lets Santa's Little Helper chew Larry the stuffed toy lamb]'' :'''Bart''': That's it, boy! Go for the 'nards! :'''Lisa''': Bart! ''[snatches Larry away]'' If you're not gonna take care of him right, then give him to me. :'''Bart''': How come you don't get mad when I torment ''real'' animals? :'''Lisa''': I ''do!'' It enrages me! :'''Bart''': I thought you Hindus were supposed to love everybody. :'''Lisa''': I'M A FREAKIN' BUDDHIST! A ''BUDDHIST!'' ''[kicks the side table]'' <hr width=50%/> :''[during the versions of reruns and DVDs]'' :'''Homer''': The year is 1946, and in a war torn world, a single flower blooms and that flower is an angry Japanese monster named Godzilla. Fortunately, there was one man that could help, Colonel Tom Parker. The colonel took this monster, cleaned him up and put him on stage under the name the Rolling Stones. The first concert was a sell out with many, many, many people eaten. But those that survived raved about the undeniable harmonies and brutally honest lyrics of what they had just seen. And out of the wreckage of that concert crawled the woman that would later give birth to me, not once but four times, cause in those days if they didn't like the way you looked they would send you back in to bake a little longer. After four times they just decided to cut off my tail, but you can still see it in the British museum, which interestingly enough, is in France. Not the France you're thinking of, but a much better one, built with palm trees and leprechauns, but I digress. In fact, I used to be a professional digressor, but I don't wanna get off the track, so I'll tell you about the time I was a professional digressor. The year was 2021, and I had just returned from a brief vacation where I had eaten more than my fill of tacos. Not the tacos you're thinking of. Did I ever tell you about the time I started Gracie Films? ''[the Gracie Films logo shows up]'' Hey, shush yourself! ===''[[w:Once Upon a Time in Springfield|Once Upon a Time in Springfield]]''=== :'''[[w:Milhouse Van Houten|Milhouse]]''': First girls ruin ''[[w:Sex in the City|Sex in the City]]'', and now this! <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Mr. Burns|Mr. Burns]]''': We have to cut costs. :'''[[w:Lenny Leonard|Lenny]]''': But we have way more expensive unnecessaries than doughnuts. :'''[[w:Carl Carlson|Carl]]''': Yeah, like the ceiling furniture. :'''Lenny''': And all the joke ID badges we ordered. :'''Mr. Burns''': No doughnuts! :'''Lenny''': No! :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': D'oh! :'''Carl''': Nuts! :'''Mr. Burns''': Exactly! <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': Poor Krusty. He's become the lowest form of life: a sidekick. :'''Milhouse''': You said it, Bart! Way to sum up the situation! :'''Bart''': Take it easy, little buddy. :'''Milhouse''': That's exactly how I'll take it! ===''[[w:Million Dollar Maybe|Million Dollar Maybe]]''=== :'''[[w:Reverend Timothy Lovejoy|Reverend Lovejoy]]''': And now Valerie and Dave will deliver their own vows, because my vows, apparently, weren't good enough. Show me how it's done, Dave. ===''[[w:Boy Meets Curl|Boy Meets Curl]]''=== :'''[[w:Carl Carlson|Carl]]''': Homer, you don't look fat. :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Oh, Carl. You're a liar, but I love it. <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': I'm not a dude, I'm a hottie. :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': This bromance just got interesting. <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': What is this, tough love? :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': It's a little more like "soft hate". <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Ooh, you're hot when you're horny. :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': I'm not horny. I'm mad. :'''Homer''': Ooh, you're mad when you're angry. ===''[[w:The Color Yellow|The Color Yellow]]''=== :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': The Simpson family is a long line of horse thieves, deadbeats, horse beats, dead thieves, and even a few alcoholics. <hr width=50%/> :'''Eliza''': Follow me north to freedom. :'''Virgil''': I don't think so. :'''Eliza''': Why? Because I'm young and I'm a woman? :'''Virgil''': No. Because you're pointing south. <hr width=50%/> :'''Lisa''': Our family has heroes! ===''[[w:Postcards from the Wedge|Postcards from the Wedge]]''=== :'''Homer''': Credit card offer, overdue bill, credit card offer, overdue bill. Huh? What's this? ''[opens a envelope]'' What the--?! ''[angry]'' You're a month behind on homework?! :'''Bart''': I tried ''really'' hard to stop you from finding out. Does that help? :'''Homer''': ''[still angry]'' A LITTLE! <hr width=50%/> :'''Lisa''': You would mess up Mom and Dad's marriage just to get out of doing some homework? :'''Bart''': Hey, hey! I would end all life on this planet just to get out of doing fractions! :'''Lisa''': Fractions aren't that hard. You just have to find a common denominator. For example, one half plus one third equals three-- :'''Bart''': END! ALL! LIFE! ON! THIS! PLANET! ''[makes explosion noise and leaves]'' :'''Lisa''': You'll need to know fractions to make that explosion! :'''Bart''': ''[from offscreen]'' I don't care! :''[Lisa rolls her eyes]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Lisa''': You are now officially a sociopath. :'''Bart''': Hey, at least I'm on a path. ===''[[w:Stealing First Base|Stealing First Base]]''=== :'''Bart''': Um, this is the last seat, so... :''[Nikki scoots over for Bart to share her desk, but she takes out her Fruit by the Foot bar, and she pulls it out, putting a line between her desk]'' :'''Nikki''': My side, your side. :'''Bart''': ''[looks at Nikki's pink pencil case with her name on it]'' Hi, Nikki. I'm Bart. This situation, it's nuts, right? Oh, look at you-- opening a book so you won't have to talk to me. I'm just gonna be tuning up the old armpit. ''[Bart blows his pitch pipe and does armpit fart sounds. Nikki slightly smiles.]'' <hr width="50%/> :'''Bart''': Oh, man, you girls ruin everything-- even vampires. :'''Nikki''': Hey, vampires are cool outsiders who love girls who hate cheerleaders. :'''Bart''': No, they're all about chomping neck. And they don't put product in their hair like this loser. ''[Draws a picture of a vampire holding a tommy gun and an alien's decapitated head]'' :'''Bart''': They look like this. ''[Shows the picture he drew]'' :'''Nikki''': ''[amazed]'' Awesome picture. :'''Bart''': Can I draw a robot barfing screws on your arm with my Sharpie? :'''Nikki''': I... I'd like that. ''[Nikki pulls up her sleeve, so Bart can draw a robot barfing screws on her right arm. He laughs while doing so and writes his name on the bottom.]'' :'''Bart''': And... finished. <hr width="50%/> :'''Ralph''': I cheated the wrong way! I wrote the Lisa name and gave the Ralph answers! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bart''': But I need to talk about man stuff! :'''Homer''': Talk to Grampa, he used to be a man! :'''Bart''': He did? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bart''': It's not my fault, Grampa told me to kiss her! :'''Marge''': ''[scoffs]'' Why didn't you just tell him to club her on her head and drag her into a cave? :'''Grampa''': You mean second base? Whoa, he's a little young for that. :'''Bart''': Well, if I talk to Nikki, I'm sure I can-- :'''Homer''': No! If you go near her one more time, we'll be sued into the poorhouse and have to eat garbage forever! :'''Bart''': That's no problem, Mom can make garbage taste great. :'''Marge''': ''[genuinely touched, hugging him]'' Thank you! :'''Bart''': Well, I mean it. :'''Marge''': And it means the world to me. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Nikki''': Oh, Bart, I hate to see you like this. ''[She kisses Bart on the lips]'' Aw, look who's all confused. :'''Bart''': Huh? :''[Nikki kisses him again]'' :'''Bart''': What the hell are you doing?! :'''Nikki''': I'm kissing you, stupid. :'''Bart''': You're the biggest psycho I ever met! :'''Nikki''': You wanna stop? :'''Bart''': Absolutely not. :''[Nikki kisses Bart for the third time]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': Oh! I finally caught one of Bart's school plays. :'''Marge''': That's not Bart, that's Principal Skinner. Bart's sitting right next to you. :'''Homer''': Yeah, now that I look closer, that guy couldn't fool anybody. :'''Skinner''': Shut up, fatso. :'''Homer''': ''[turns red with anger]'' Why you little… ''[furiously runs into the stage and angrily strangles Skinner, Martin and Wendell drags him off the stage]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Kevin''': Nelson, now that the bans have been lifted, let me touch your face. That way, I can see you with my fingers. ''[touches Nelson's face]'' Eww! I said your face, not your butt! :'''Nelson''': Aw, you feel comfortable enough to mock me. ''[punches him]'' That's for mocking me! :'''Kevin''': Nelson... your punch restored my vision! I can see again! :'''Nelson''': Really?! Kevin, that's wonderf-- :'''Kevin''': Haw haw! :'''Nelson''': The student has become the master! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bart''': ''[to Nikki, after she kisses him on the cheek]'' I love you! ===''[[w:The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed|The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed]]''=== :'''Lisa''': ''[about Flanders]'' I think he's trying to get Dad into Heaven. :'''Bart''': Great, more Hell for me! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Krusty''': I am trying to save myself from going to Hell. :'''Lisa''': Jews don't believe in Hell. :'''Krusty''': No Hell! Thank you, kid, you made my day.'' ''[heads over to the Gaza Strip Club]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': I am the Messiah, come to save the world! Look upon me and shudder! :'''Bart''': I already do that. <hr width="50%"/> :''[In Homer's vision, he sees the characters from ''VeggieTales''. Homer starts to cry.]'' :'''Larry the Cucumber''': You have been chosen, Homer. :'''Homer''': Chosen to be what, oh mighty Gerkin!? ===''[[w:American History X-cellent|American History X-cellent]]''=== :'''Burns''': Grab your scripts, people. We open in twenty minutes. Break a leg! ''[to a passing man]'' I said break a leg! ''[the man takes a hammer and hits the knee of his right leg, which cracks]'' For God's sake, man, it's a figure of speech! You're fired. ''[the man hobbles offscreen]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Bart''': I am ''so'' glad I'm not your kid. :'''Lisa''': Well I'm so glad I'm not your mom. :'''Bart''': You should be. If I was in your tummy, I'd poo in your throat. :'''Lisa''': Eww, eww, eww! I'll never get that image out of my head! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Burns''': Yeah, the war's over and the future won. The past never had a chance man. ===''[[w:Chief of Hearts|Chief of Hearts]]''=== :'''Bart''': ''[to several boys at Dylan's party]'' Hey, dinks. Whatcha dweebin'? :'''Boy 1''': ''[scoffs]'' You don't know ''[[w:Bakugun|Battle Balls]]''? :'''Boy 2''': It's a Japanense card game based on a cartoon, based on an ancient religion, based on a candy bar. :'''Boy 3''': It makes ''[[Digimon]]'' look like ''[[Pokémon]]''. :'''Bart''': What?! Impossible! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Chief Wiggum''': ''[fighting against a gunman, while protecting Homer)'' Take your hands off my brother from another mother. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bart''': ''[To [[w:Ralph Wiggum|Ralph]]]'' How'd a pull-up like you get a great card like that? :'''Ralph''': My not-dead grandma sent it from [[w:Tokyo|Tokyo]]. :'''Bart''': Ralph, I'll play you for that card. :'''Ralph''': Okay, but if I win, you have to teach me how to play this game. :'''Bart''': Deal! ===''[[w:The Squirt and the Whale|The Squirt and the Whale]]''=== :'''Homer''': Look at this electric bill! I'm not made of money! I'm made of man-meat and a skeleton! <hr width=50%/> :'''Bart''': Check it out! World's biggest armpit fart! :''[He squishes "Bluella" the whale's fin, making a flatulent noise. The annoyed whale flicks him away through the air]'' :'''Bart''': YOU JUST MADE A POWERFUL ENEMY! <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': Lisa, bring the car around. :'''Lisa''': But I don't know how to drive. :'''Homer''': Haven't you learned anything from watching Bart drive? :'''Lisa''': A little... <hr width=50%/> :'''Lisa''': Those baby whales are doomed, just like their mom! Oh, I guess it's just nature's way... :'''Homer''': ''[pulling up in a motorboat]'' Nature is a toothless, dying hag! We're gonna save those whale babies! <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': ''[aiming at the sharks with a harpoon]'' [[w:Shark Week|Shark Week]] just got cancelled. :'''Sea Hugger 1''': Drop the 'poon! :'''Homer''': Oh, come on, leave me alone! I'm trying to save your precious whales! :'''Sea Hugger 1''': We're not here to protect the whales, we're here to protect the sharks. :'''Sea Hugger 2''': Did you know that over 40 million sharks are slaughtered every year to make shark fin soup? :'''Homer''': What the--?! You ''like'' sharks?! :'''Sea Hugger 1''': Being a true eco-activist means supporting ''every'' animal's struggle for life. :'''Sea Hugger 2''': Except for cockroaches. Yuck! :'''Sea Hugger 1''': Linda, please. :'''Homer''': Pfft! Typical eco-jerks, using words to talk! ''[speeds past them]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Lisa''': Thanks for not letting me give up, Dad. :'''Homer''': Hey, I'd do anything for a sweet, intelligent mammal. By which I mean you. ''[hugs her]'' ===''[[w:To Surveil With Love|To Surveil With Love]]''=== :'''[[Queen Elizabeth II]]''': I miss that Ralph Wiggum. Reminds me of my boy. :'''[[Prince Charles]]''': Mummy, my cat's breath smells like cat food. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Well, if you ask me, you were trying to play God. :'''Ned''': ''[gasps]'' That's the worst sin of all, for some reason. <hr width=50%> :'''Surveillance Guy''': ''[pushes a button on the intercom]'' 'Oy! Snogging people! <hr width=50%> :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': That's not Sesame Street, that's a gay bar. <hr width=50%> :'''[[w:Ned Flanders|Ned]]''': I guess I did create this, just as God created the Devil. :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': God create the devil? Finally, He did something cool! <hr width=50%> :'''Megan''': What if someone's driving an old, but functioning, car? Wouldn't the carbon required to create a new hybrid exceed the savings in gas? :'''Lisa''': Initially yes, but... :'''Megan''': And isn't most electricity in the United States ultimately derived from the burning of coal? :'''Lisa''': Currently. However, solar and wind are... <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': ''[grunts]'' Aaaaaaaaaaah, Nooooooooooooo. ===''[[w:Moe Letter Blues|Moe Letter Blues]]''=== :'''Moe''': ''[in letter]'' "There is no easy way to say goodbye forever, so I'll say it in the hardest way I can... Mandarin Chinese." ===''[[w:The Bob Next Door|The Bob Next Door]]''=== :'''Homer''': All right, buddy, I'm gonna do to you what you should've done to my son a long time ago! :'''Walt Warren''': ''[in his Sideshow Bob disguise]'' I'm not Sideshow Bob. I'm the real Walt Warren. <hr width=50%/> :'''Bart''': You missed the turn-off, Mr. Warren. :'''Sideshow Bob''': ''[in his Walt Warren disguise]'' You don't have to call me Mr. Warren anymore. You see, Bart, you were right all along. ''[He takes off Walt's shoes, revealing his huge ugly feet]'' I am Sideshow Bob. :''[Bart screams in horror then Sideshow Bob cackles maniacally]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Bart''': Y'know, the great ones can kill without explaining. :'''Sideshow Bob''': I can stand in one state, fire a gun in the second state, the bullet will travel through the third, hitting you in the fourth, so you'll fall down dead in the fifth! No single act is against any law, but their sum total is the greatest murder since [[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince|Snape killed Dumbledore]]! :'''Bart Simpson''': Oh, I haven't gotten to that part yet! :'''Sideshow Bob''': It's a four-year-old book. :'''Bart Simpson''': I'm a slow reader. :'''Sideshow Bob''': A fitting epitaph ''[pause]'' It means last words! :'''Bart''': Are you here to teach me, or kill me? ===''[[w:Judge Me Tender|Judge Me Tender]]''=== :'''Lisa''': Mr. Flanders, how did you make these amazing fish? :'''Ned Flanders''': Actually, God made some fish that were pretty close to these so naturally we selected those for further breeding. :'''Lisa''': So that natural selection was the origin of this species? :'''Flanders''': Yep, that's exactly--''[laughs]'' You almost got me. :''[Fish grows legs, crawls out of water, and starts breathing air]'' :'''Flanders''': Not on my watch ''[pushes it back into water]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''[[Simon Cowell]]''': How do you like LA? :'''Moe''': It's a hell of a city. It's like someone stepped on New York and scraped it off on the beach. <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': You never fail to nauseate me boy. :'''Bart''': Just call me Barf Simpson. :'''Homer''': I wanted to, but your mother said kids might tease you. :'''Ralph''': He's a ''[says a series of words that get bleeped out]'' <noinclude> {{DEFAULTSORT:Simpsons, Season 21}} [[Category:The Simpsons seasons]] </noinclude> h6cur7hjq6baj0gm6xugaflf7dlwzmx 3961127 3961082 2026-07-05T15:54:54Z ~2026-25217-78 3313596 /* Chief of Hearts */ 3961127 wikitext text/x-wiki {{DISPLAYTITLE:''The Simpsons''/Season 21}} {{The Simpsons header}} '''''[[w:The Simpsons|The Simpsons]]''''' (1989–present) is an American animated sitcom broadcast by the Fox Broadcasting Company created by [[Matt Groening]]. The series is a satirical depiction of American life, epitomized by the Simpson family. ===''[[w:Homer the Whopper|Homer the Whopper]]''=== :'''Marth''': All right what's our next big summer franchise. Come on. :'''OWW Films Executive #1''': You want an original idea? :'''Marth''': Yes. Let your imaginations run free. Something that's never been a movie before, but feels like it has. :'''OWW Films Executive #2''': Extension Cords! :'''OWW Films Executive #3''': Mixed Nuts! :'''OWW Films Executive #4''': Car WASH :'''Marth''': Nah. We've already made that could possibly be a movie, into a great movie. There's nothing left. :''[Marth's son, Jono, enters through the door to Marth's left.]'' :'''Jono''': Dad, can we go? I've watched all the DVDs in the Bentley. :'''Marth''': Jono, what's that in your hand? :'''Jono''': ''Oh''. Big surprise that you don't know what ''this'' is. It's only Everyman. The coolest comic book ever. :''[Marth takes the comic book and reads through a few pages.]'' :'''Marth''': What are his powers? :'''Jono''': ''All'' of them. :'''Marth''': That's it! Our next big summer movie will be Everyman! :'''OWW Films Executive #4''': Uh, Marth? Ginormous Pictures bought the rights to Everyman three weeks ago. :''[Marth throws the comic onto the table in frustration.]'' :'''Marth''': Damnit! <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Comic Book Guy|Comic Book Guy]]''': You are acceptable. :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Great, do you wanna see me naked? :'''GP Executive #1''': Oh there's no nudity in this movie. :'''Homer''': What movie? :'''Director''': Bring in the next helicopter. :''[camera pans to show a line of [[w:Boeing AH-64 Apache|AH-64 Apache helicopters]] as one moves from the line from the rest which are hovering]'' <hr width=50%/> :[''last lines''] :'''Homer''': But I'm so cold. ===''[[w:Bart Gets a 'Z'|Bart Gets a 'Z']]''=== :'''The Answer commercial''': My life was over. I'd lost my job, my husband left me. I had to sleep in a kangaroo's pouch. And then I found... The Answer. SECRET DON'T VISIT OUR WEBSITE The Answer was discovered by the philosophers of ancient Greece, who hid it under a rock where it was discovered by the knights of King Arthur, who placed it in a bottle and set it in the ocean, where it was found by [[Pat Sajak]]. These great men knew The Answer. The Answer is the secret to achieving your heart's desire. Learn The Answer, and change your life. Available wherever dubious, quasi-scientific self-help books are sold. <hr width=50%/> :''[Bart visits Mrs. Krabappel]'' :'''Bart''': Well, Mrs. K, I have just the book, slash, DVD for you: The Answer. This book uses the ancient power of wanting. <hr width=50%/> :'''Mrs. Krabappel''': ''[in front of the class]'' You're children. Why do you all need cell phones? :'''Milhouse''': Safety. :'''Unknown kid 1''': Emergencies. :'''Unknown kid 2''': Safety. :'''Jimbo''': Educational. <hr width=50%/> :'''Mr. Largo''': Edna please! Even the Union can't protect you from this. :''[Mrs.Krabappel smiles at Mr. Largo who is looking nervous and evolves into a handsome man]'' :'''Mrs. Krabappel''': ''[To Mr. Largo]'' Give me one night, Dewey. I'll get you off Broadway.. :'''Mr. Largo''': ''[Horrified]'' Never! :'''Principal Skinner''': ''[Holds Mrs, Krabappel's hand]'' Edna, let's go. <hr width=50%/> :'''Bart''': ''[To Mrs. Krabappel]'' I was the one who put liquor on your coffee and got you fired. ''[chuckles]'' :'''Mrs. Krabappel''': ''[shocked]'' You did What?! :'''Bart''': Please, don't kill me! ===''[[w:The Great Wife Hope|The Great Wife Hope]]''=== :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': This goes against every feminist bone in my body, but Dad, can't you control your woman? :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': How can I control her? I have nothing to withhold. <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': Call me a killjoy, but I think that because this is not to my taste, no one else should be able to enjoy it. <hr width=50%/> :''[Watching Marge's fight on TV]'' :'''[[w:Moe Szyslak|Moe]]''': Come on, come on, get back on your feet, I believe in you! :'''[[w:Barney Gumble|Barney]]''': ''[climbing the bar from the tavern floor]'' I'm doing it Moe! :'''Moe''': Not you. :'''Barney''': Oh thank god! – the pressure's off. ''[falls back down]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': Out of all the stupidest things I've ever done, this is the stupidest. And you're doing it! <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': She found my one weakness... that I'm weak! <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': Carl, do you know heavyweight champion, Drederick Tatum? :'''[[w:Carl Carlson|Carl]]''': What, you think just because I'm black I know all other black people?! :'''Homer''': uh...um, well, uh. :'''Carl''': Actually, Drederick and I are very good friends. We met through Dr. Hibbert at a party at Bleeding Gums Murphy's house. ===''[[w:Treehouse of Horror XX|Treehouse of Horror XX]]''=== :'''Lisa''': ''[sees a decapitated head of Mrs. Hoover]'' You killed her? :'''Bart''': Right, like we agreed. :'''Lisa''': I never said "kill"! :'''Bart''': Yeah, 'cause you're smart. You don't say "kill," you say "prank." Like Mom and Dad say "snuggle" when what they really mean is "let's lock the door and hug." :'''Lisa''': Well, I didn't kill Mrs. Krabappel! :'''Bart''': So, all you did was ring her doorbell and run? :'''Lisa''': Yeah, "ding dong ditch". :'''Bart''': "Ding dong ditch" means you kill her. Then you throw that ding dong into a ditch. <hr width=50%/> :We now see Kent Brockman outside Burger Squared :'''Kent Brockman''': I'm here at Krustyburger for the launch of the highly anticipated "Burger Squared." Krusty, what can you tell us about this fantastic new sandwich? :'''Krusty''': I'm glad you asked, Kent. We start with Grade A beef, feed that to other cows, then kill them and serve the unholy results on a seven-grain bun. Burger Squared! :'''Homer''': The math checks out! :'''Lisa''': Cows eating cows?! That's an abomination! :'''Marge''': Now, Lisa, you're a vegetarian, but these cows have made a different choice. :'''Kent Brockman''': And now, this lucky reporter will be the first human to sample this delicious crime against nature. Mmm. Juicy, flavorful, with just a hint of... ''[changes into a Muncher and takes a bite out of Krusty's elbow]'' :'''Krusty''': Hey! That's my check-cashing arm, you stupid... ''[Krusty also becomes a Muncher. Kent kills a camera technician and then kills the camera man] '''Lisa''': ''[gasps]'' what.. What happened? '''Bart''': I... I don't know! <hr width=50%/> :''[Twenty-eight days later, Springfield's inhabitants have all succumbed to the zombie cow virus and are eating or infecting everyone else who is not a Muncher.]'' :'''Moe''': A little tip... you might want to wash me before you eat me. :'''Barney''': All right! :'''Carl''': Yeah, you better! :'''Lenny''': Thank you. <hr width=50%/> :'''Marge''': ''[Gasps]'' Bart ate a tainted burger! :'''Homer''': I'll bash him with this book! :'''Lisa''': Dad, No! That's the last book in the world! :'''Homer''': Really? :'''Lisa''': Yes! It's... Oh, go ahead. <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': To the panic room! :'''Marge''': We don't have a panic room! :'''Homer''': To the panic room store! <hr width=50%/> :'''Rainer Wolfcastle''': [[The Terminator|Come with me if you want to live-]] ''[is devoured by a mob of zombies]'' :'''Homer''': [[w:Political career of Arnold Schwarzenegger|Another politician who can't keep his promises]]. <hr width=50%/> :'''Marge''': What kind of civilized people eat the body and blood of their savior?! ''[Camera pans to [[w:Reverend Timothy Lovejoy|Reverend Lovejoy]] [[w:transubstantiation|nervously fidgeting with his]] [[w:Clerical collar|Clerical collar]].]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Kang and Kodos|Kodos]]''': This is the best musical in [[w:light year|light years!]] :'''[[w:Kang and Kodos|Kang]]''': Light years measure distance, not time. :'''[[w:Kang and Kodos|Kodos]]''': You know what I meant. <hr width=50%/> :''[Singing]'' :'''[[w:Moe Szyslak|Moe]]''': I just have to warn you, Marge... :My taste for romance is kinda perverse! :I can only make love in the back of a hearse :and I have to be dressed as a Civil War nurse! :And then when I'm finished, I'll go through your purse! :But you could do worse! :'''Marge''': I could do worse! :'''[[w:Barney Gumbel|Barney]], [[w:Carl Carlson|Carl]], and [[w:Lenny Leonard|Lenny]]''': We're proof that you could do worse! :'''Homer''': She couldn't possibly do worse! <hr width=50%/> :'''Kodos''': Shhhhh! ===''[[w:The Devil Wears Nada|The Devil Wears Nada]]''=== :'''Homer''': Ye-bonjour! :'''Carl''': Homer, there's a moth in my room. Where are you? :'''Homer''': Where I should have been all along. In Springfield. :'''Carl''': What? Get back to the Eternal City of Lights at once or you're fired! :'''Homer''': Oh, I don't think so. You know that woman you've been playing "hide the baguette" with? She's French first lady Carla Bruni. You fire me, and I'll call Nicolas Sarkozy, and he'll be all over you like Truffaut on Hitchcock. :'''Carl''': You wouldn't dare! :'''Homer''': Oh, wouldn't I? Just listen! ''[dials other cell phone]'' :'''President Nicholas Sarkozy''': ''[on phone]'' Allo, you are getting cozy with Sarkozy. :'''Carl''': All right, Homer, you win. Give Marge my best. :'''Homer''': I will, but first, I'll be giving her mine. <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': ''[about Marge and Ned having an affair]'' My wife and my worst friend. Could it be? <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': The most intimate evening we spent this week was when I was ironing your shirts. :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Actually, those were Carl's shirts. <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Ned Flanders|Ned]]''': I'm not thinking straight, why did I have that wine cooler last month? <hr width=50%/> :'''Rod''': We thought you were gonna die. :'''Tod''': And then Uncle Kevin would have to raise us. :'''Rod''': And his funny friend, David. :'''[[w:Ned Flanders|Ned]]''': Oh I'd put rocks in your pocket and walk you out to sea for before I'd let that happen. :'''Rod and Tod''': Yay! <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': You two are going out? I thought I told you the Flanders were coming over for dinner. :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': I'm having a tea party at Janey's. :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': And I'm having a stink bomb party at the house next to Janey's... no connection. <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': Stop dragging me! When I get older I'm gonna drag you around and buy you clothes. :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': Oh, that's wonderful! <hr width=50%/> :'''Lenny''': I'm gonna miss Ted, he was a good supervisor. :'''Carl''': Definitely hands off. He didn't mind if we punched in late, or not at all. :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': And he didn't mind that we made a few changes to the soda machine... mmm... beer. ===''[[w:Pranks and Greens|Pranks and Greens]]''=== :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Marge, what are you doing? :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': This junk food has got to go. It's full of chemicals, trans fats, and hard pore corn. ===''[[w:Rednecks and Broomsticks|Rednecks and Broomsticks]]''=== :'''Homer''': Oh, for cryin' out...! I hate traffic - the [[w:Traffic (band)|band]] ''and'' the phenomenon! <hr width="50%"/> :''[On the kid's 'Bonk It' toy]'' :'''Homer''': Hey kids, it's daddy's turn. Stomp it! Crush it! Kill it! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': Ohhh, why do my actions have consequences?! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Brandy''': Drink up,sweetie. Let the possum work its magic. :'''Lisa''': Possum?! :'''Brandy''': Oh, don't worry. We don't kill it. We just dip it. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Moe''': Oh, it's no good, you're just a load of spineless weasels! :''[The townspeople turn round and come to a halt]'' :'''Comic Book Guy''': Kill the weasel hater! :''[Everyone runs after Moe]'' :'''Moe''': ''[laughing as he runs]'' See, that's what I'm talking about! <hr width="50%"> :'''Cletus''': Brandy?! Where's the bazook?!''[Looks at his son, holding the bazooka.]'' Aw, he's gonna shoot them Google Earth folks that caught me with my britches down. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Cletus''': Oh for God's-! You know, one hillbilly has his way with one fat guy in [[w:Deliverance|Deliverance]], and suddenly people think that's all hillbillies do! <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': From now on, The only "witch" in lisa's life Is which boy will marry her. ===''[[w:O Brother, Where Bart Thou?|O Brother, Where Bart Thou?]]''=== :''[Homer is extolling the virtues of girls over boys.]'' :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Girls are easy! Girls love daddy, girls give birthday cards with glitter and sprinkles, and I don't have to tell them how their bodies work 'cause I don't know! :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': You never told me how my body works. :'''Homer''': Point and shoot. <hr width=50%/> :'''Bart''': Are you sure this will work? :'''[[w:Milhouse Van Houten|Milhouse]]''': Hey, this is the DVD my parents used to make me. :'''Bart''': So it ''kind'' of works. ===''[[w:Thursdays with Abie|Thursdays with Abie]]''=== :'''Grampa''': You're in the newspaper business? ''[chuckles]'' Something that's gonna die before I do! <hr width=50%/> :'''Grampa''': ''[narrating]'' It was back in World War II. I was a Seaman First Class on the USS ''World War I''. We were minding our own business, when we were attacked by a heat-seeking torpedo we had fired the day before. :''[In flashback, the missile causes the ship to sink, leaving the young Abe and the rest of the crew surrounded by sharks in the water]'' :'''Captain''': Don't worry about the sharks, boys. Just play possum and they'll leave you alone. :''[He floats on his back, playing dead - and is immediately eaten]'' :'''Grampa''': ''[narrating]'' Unfortunately, sharks ''love'' possum! <hr width=50%/> :'''Grampa''': Yep, I may just be the best known Abraham in history. <hr width=50%/> :'''Marshall''': So many hat boxes! <hr width=50%/> :''[Bart lets Santa's Little Helper chew Larry the stuffed toy lamb]'' :'''Bart''': That's it, boy! Go for the 'nards! :'''Lisa''': Bart! ''[snatches Larry away]'' If you're not gonna take care of him right, then give him to me. :'''Bart''': How come you don't get mad when I torment ''real'' animals? :'''Lisa''': I ''do!'' It enrages me! :'''Bart''': I thought you Hindus were supposed to love everybody. :'''Lisa''': I'M A FREAKIN' BUDDHIST! A ''BUDDHIST!'' ''[kicks the side table]'' <hr width=50%/> :''[during the versions of reruns and DVDs]'' :'''Homer''': The year is 1946, and in a war torn world, a single flower blooms and that flower is an angry Japanese monster named Godzilla. Fortunately, there was one man that could help, Colonel Tom Parker. The colonel took this monster, cleaned him up and put him on stage under the name the Rolling Stones. The first concert was a sell out with many, many, many people eaten. But those that survived raved about the undeniable harmonies and brutally honest lyrics of what they had just seen. And out of the wreckage of that concert crawled the woman that would later give birth to me, not once but four times, cause in those days if they didn't like the way you looked they would send you back in to bake a little longer. After four times they just decided to cut off my tail, but you can still see it in the British museum, which interestingly enough, is in France. Not the France you're thinking of, but a much better one, built with palm trees and leprechauns, but I digress. In fact, I used to be a professional digressor, but I don't wanna get off the track, so I'll tell you about the time I was a professional digressor. The year was 2021, and I had just returned from a brief vacation where I had eaten more than my fill of tacos. Not the tacos you're thinking of. Did I ever tell you about the time I started Gracie Films? ''[the Gracie Films logo shows up]'' Hey, shush yourself! ===''[[w:Once Upon a Time in Springfield|Once Upon a Time in Springfield]]''=== :'''[[w:Milhouse Van Houten|Milhouse]]''': First girls ruin ''[[w:Sex in the City|Sex in the City]]'', and now this! <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Mr. Burns|Mr. Burns]]''': We have to cut costs. :'''[[w:Lenny Leonard|Lenny]]''': But we have way more expensive unnecessaries than doughnuts. :'''[[w:Carl Carlson|Carl]]''': Yeah, like the ceiling furniture. :'''Lenny''': And all the joke ID badges we ordered. :'''Mr. Burns''': No doughnuts! :'''Lenny''': No! :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': D'oh! :'''Carl''': Nuts! :'''Mr. Burns''': Exactly! <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': Poor Krusty. He's become the lowest form of life: a sidekick. :'''Milhouse''': You said it, Bart! Way to sum up the situation! :'''Bart''': Take it easy, little buddy. :'''Milhouse''': That's exactly how I'll take it! ===''[[w:Million Dollar Maybe|Million Dollar Maybe]]''=== :'''[[w:Reverend Timothy Lovejoy|Reverend Lovejoy]]''': And now Valerie and Dave will deliver their own vows, because my vows, apparently, weren't good enough. Show me how it's done, Dave. ===''[[w:Boy Meets Curl|Boy Meets Curl]]''=== :'''[[w:Carl Carlson|Carl]]''': Homer, you don't look fat. :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Oh, Carl. You're a liar, but I love it. <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': I'm not a dude, I'm a hottie. :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': This bromance just got interesting. <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': What is this, tough love? :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': It's a little more like "soft hate". <hr width=50%/> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Ooh, you're hot when you're horny. :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': I'm not horny. I'm mad. :'''Homer''': Ooh, you're mad when you're angry. ===''[[w:The Color Yellow|The Color Yellow]]''=== :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': The Simpson family is a long line of horse thieves, deadbeats, horse beats, dead thieves, and even a few alcoholics. <hr width=50%/> :'''Eliza''': Follow me north to freedom. :'''Virgil''': I don't think so. :'''Eliza''': Why? Because I'm young and I'm a woman? :'''Virgil''': No. Because you're pointing south. <hr width=50%/> :'''Lisa''': Our family has heroes! ===''[[w:Postcards from the Wedge|Postcards from the Wedge]]''=== :'''Homer''': Credit card offer, overdue bill, credit card offer, overdue bill. Huh? What's this? ''[opens a envelope]'' What the--?! ''[angry]'' You're a month behind on homework?! :'''Bart''': I tried ''really'' hard to stop you from finding out. Does that help? :'''Homer''': ''[still angry]'' A LITTLE! <hr width=50%/> :'''Lisa''': You would mess up Mom and Dad's marriage just to get out of doing some homework? :'''Bart''': Hey, hey! I would end all life on this planet just to get out of doing fractions! :'''Lisa''': Fractions aren't that hard. You just have to find a common denominator. For example, one half plus one third equals three-- :'''Bart''': END! ALL! LIFE! ON! THIS! PLANET! ''[makes explosion noise and leaves]'' :'''Lisa''': You'll need to know fractions to make that explosion! :'''Bart''': ''[from offscreen]'' I don't care! :''[Lisa rolls her eyes]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Lisa''': You are now officially a sociopath. :'''Bart''': Hey, at least I'm on a path. ===''[[w:Stealing First Base|Stealing First Base]]''=== :'''Bart''': Um, this is the last seat, so... :''[Nikki scoots over for Bart to share her desk, but she takes out her Fruit by the Foot bar, and she pulls it out, putting a line between her desk]'' :'''Nikki''': My side, your side. :'''Bart''': ''[looks at Nikki's pink pencil case with her name on it]'' Hi, Nikki. I'm Bart. This situation, it's nuts, right? Oh, look at you-- opening a book so you won't have to talk to me. I'm just gonna be tuning up the old armpit. ''[Bart blows his pitch pipe and does armpit fart sounds. Nikki slightly smiles.]'' <hr width="50%/> :'''Bart''': Oh, man, you girls ruin everything-- even vampires. :'''Nikki''': Hey, vampires are cool outsiders who love girls who hate cheerleaders. :'''Bart''': No, they're all about chomping neck. And they don't put product in their hair like this loser. ''[Draws a picture of a vampire holding a tommy gun and an alien's decapitated head]'' :'''Bart''': They look like this. ''[Shows the picture he drew]'' :'''Nikki''': ''[amazed]'' Awesome picture. :'''Bart''': Can I draw a robot barfing screws on your arm with my Sharpie? :'''Nikki''': I... I'd like that. ''[Nikki pulls up her sleeve, so Bart can draw a robot barfing screws on her right arm. He laughs while doing so and writes his name on the bottom.]'' :'''Bart''': And... finished. <hr width="50%/> :'''Ralph''': I cheated the wrong way! I wrote the Lisa name and gave the Ralph answers! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bart''': But I need to talk about man stuff! :'''Homer''': Talk to Grampa, he used to be a man! :'''Bart''': He did? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bart''': It's not my fault, Grampa told me to kiss her! :'''Marge''': ''[scoffs]'' Why didn't you just tell him to club her on her head and drag her into a cave? :'''Grampa''': You mean second base? Whoa, he's a little young for that. :'''Bart''': Well, if I talk to Nikki, I'm sure I can-- :'''Homer''': No! If you go near her one more time, we'll be sued into the poorhouse and have to eat garbage forever! :'''Bart''': That's no problem, Mom can make garbage taste great. :'''Marge''': ''[genuinely touched, hugging him]'' Thank you! :'''Bart''': Well, I mean it. :'''Marge''': And it means the world to me. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Nikki''': Oh, Bart, I hate to see you like this. ''[She kisses Bart on the lips]'' Aw, look who's all confused. :'''Bart''': Huh? :''[Nikki kisses him again]'' :'''Bart''': What the hell are you doing?! :'''Nikki''': I'm kissing you, stupid. :'''Bart''': You're the biggest psycho I ever met! :'''Nikki''': You wanna stop? :'''Bart''': Absolutely not. :''[Nikki kisses Bart for the third time]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': Oh! I finally caught one of Bart's school plays. :'''Marge''': That's not Bart, that's Principal Skinner. Bart's sitting right next to you. :'''Homer''': Yeah, now that I look closer, that guy couldn't fool anybody. :'''Skinner''': Shut up, fatso. :'''Homer''': ''[turns red with anger]'' Why you little… ''[furiously runs into the stage and angrily strangles Skinner, Martin and Wendell drags him off the stage]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Kevin''': Nelson, now that the bans have been lifted, let me touch your face. That way, I can see you with my fingers. ''[touches Nelson's face]'' Eww! I said your face, not your butt! :'''Nelson''': Aw, you feel comfortable enough to mock me. ''[punches him]'' That's for mocking me! :'''Kevin''': Nelson... your punch restored my vision! I can see again! :'''Nelson''': Really?! Kevin, that's wonderf-- :'''Kevin''': Haw haw! :'''Nelson''': The student has become the master! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bart''': ''[to Nikki, after she kisses him on the cheek]'' I love you! ===''[[w:The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed|The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed]]''=== :'''Lisa''': ''[about Flanders]'' I think he's trying to get Dad into Heaven. :'''Bart''': Great, more Hell for me! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Krusty''': I am trying to save myself from going to Hell. :'''Lisa''': Jews don't believe in Hell. :'''Krusty''': No Hell! Thank you, kid, you made my day.'' ''[heads over to the Gaza Strip Club]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': I am the Messiah, come to save the world! Look upon me and shudder! :'''Bart''': I already do that. <hr width="50%"/> :''[In Homer's vision, he sees the characters from ''VeggieTales''. Homer starts to cry.]'' :'''Larry the Cucumber''': You have been chosen, Homer. :'''Homer''': Chosen to be what, oh mighty Gerkin!? ===''[[w:American History X-cellent|American History X-cellent]]''=== :'''Burns''': Grab your scripts, people. We open in twenty minutes. Break a leg! ''[to a passing man]'' I said break a leg! ''[the man takes a hammer and hits the knee of his right leg, which cracks]'' For God's sake, man, it's a figure of speech! You're fired. ''[the man hobbles offscreen]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Bart''': I am ''so'' glad I'm not your kid. :'''Lisa''': Well I'm so glad I'm not your mom. :'''Bart''': You should be. If I was in your tummy, I'd poo in your throat. :'''Lisa''': Eww, eww, eww! I'll never get that image out of my head! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Burns''': Yeah, the war's over and the future won. The past never had a chance man. ===''[[w:Chief of Hearts|Chief of Hearts]]''=== :'''Bart''': ''[to several boys at Dylan's party]'' Hey, dinks. Whatcha dweebin'? :'''Boy 1''': ''[scoffs]'' You don't know ''[[w:Bakugun|Battle Balls]]''? :'''Boy 2''': It's a Japanense card game based on a cartoon, based on an ancient religion, based on a candy bar. :'''Boy 3''': It makes ''[[Digimon]]'' look like ''[[Pokémon]]''. :'''Bart''': What?! Impossible! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Chief Wiggum''': ''[fighting against a gunman, while protecting Homer]'' Take your hands off my brother from another mother. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bart''': ''[To [[w:Ralph Wiggum|Ralph]]]'' How'd a pull-up like you get a great card like that? :'''Ralph''': My not-dead grandma sent it from [[w:Tokyo|Tokyo]]. :'''Bart''': Ralph, I'll play you for that card. :'''Ralph''': Okay, but if I win, you have to teach me how to play this game. :'''Bart''': Deal! ===''[[w:The Squirt and the Whale|The Squirt and the Whale]]''=== :'''Homer''': Look at this electric bill! I'm not made of money! I'm made of man-meat and a skeleton! <hr width=50%/> :'''Bart''': Check it out! World's biggest armpit fart! :''[He squishes "Bluella" the whale's fin, making a flatulent noise. The annoyed whale flicks him away through the air]'' :'''Bart''': YOU JUST MADE A POWERFUL ENEMY! <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': Lisa, bring the car around. :'''Lisa''': But I don't know how to drive. :'''Homer''': Haven't you learned anything from watching Bart drive? :'''Lisa''': A little... <hr width=50%/> :'''Lisa''': Those baby whales are doomed, just like their mom! Oh, I guess it's just nature's way... :'''Homer''': ''[pulling up in a motorboat]'' Nature is a toothless, dying hag! We're gonna save those whale babies! <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': ''[aiming at the sharks with a harpoon]'' [[w:Shark Week|Shark Week]] just got cancelled. :'''Sea Hugger 1''': Drop the 'poon! :'''Homer''': Oh, come on, leave me alone! I'm trying to save your precious whales! :'''Sea Hugger 1''': We're not here to protect the whales, we're here to protect the sharks. :'''Sea Hugger 2''': Did you know that over 40 million sharks are slaughtered every year to make shark fin soup? :'''Homer''': What the--?! You ''like'' sharks?! :'''Sea Hugger 1''': Being a true eco-activist means supporting ''every'' animal's struggle for life. :'''Sea Hugger 2''': Except for cockroaches. Yuck! :'''Sea Hugger 1''': Linda, please. :'''Homer''': Pfft! Typical eco-jerks, using words to talk! ''[speeds past them]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Lisa''': Thanks for not letting me give up, Dad. :'''Homer''': Hey, I'd do anything for a sweet, intelligent mammal. By which I mean you. ''[hugs her]'' ===''[[w:To Surveil With Love|To Surveil With Love]]''=== :'''[[Queen Elizabeth II]]''': I miss that Ralph Wiggum. Reminds me of my boy. :'''[[Prince Charles]]''': Mummy, my cat's breath smells like cat food. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Well, if you ask me, you were trying to play God. :'''Ned''': ''[gasps]'' That's the worst sin of all, for some reason. <hr width=50%> :'''Surveillance Guy''': ''[pushes a button on the intercom]'' 'Oy! Snogging people! <hr width=50%> :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': That's not Sesame Street, that's a gay bar. <hr width=50%> :'''[[w:Ned Flanders|Ned]]''': I guess I did create this, just as God created the Devil. :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': God create the devil? Finally, He did something cool! <hr width=50%> :'''Megan''': What if someone's driving an old, but functioning, car? Wouldn't the carbon required to create a new hybrid exceed the savings in gas? :'''Lisa''': Initially yes, but... :'''Megan''': And isn't most electricity in the United States ultimately derived from the burning of coal? :'''Lisa''': Currently. However, solar and wind are... <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': ''[grunts]'' Aaaaaaaaaaah, Nooooooooooooo. ===''[[w:Moe Letter Blues|Moe Letter Blues]]''=== :'''Moe''': ''[in letter]'' "There is no easy way to say goodbye forever, so I'll say it in the hardest way I can... Mandarin Chinese." ===''[[w:The Bob Next Door|The Bob Next Door]]''=== :'''Homer''': All right, buddy, I'm gonna do to you what you should've done to my son a long time ago! :'''Walt Warren''': ''[in his Sideshow Bob disguise]'' I'm not Sideshow Bob. I'm the real Walt Warren. <hr width=50%/> :'''Bart''': You missed the turn-off, Mr. Warren. :'''Sideshow Bob''': ''[in his Walt Warren disguise]'' You don't have to call me Mr. Warren anymore. You see, Bart, you were right all along. ''[He takes off Walt's shoes, revealing his huge ugly feet]'' I am Sideshow Bob. :''[Bart screams in horror then Sideshow Bob cackles maniacally]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Bart''': Y'know, the great ones can kill without explaining. :'''Sideshow Bob''': I can stand in one state, fire a gun in the second state, the bullet will travel through the third, hitting you in the fourth, so you'll fall down dead in the fifth! No single act is against any law, but their sum total is the greatest murder since [[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince|Snape killed Dumbledore]]! :'''Bart Simpson''': Oh, I haven't gotten to that part yet! :'''Sideshow Bob''': It's a four-year-old book. :'''Bart Simpson''': I'm a slow reader. :'''Sideshow Bob''': A fitting epitaph ''[pause]'' It means last words! :'''Bart''': Are you here to teach me, or kill me? ===''[[w:Judge Me Tender|Judge Me Tender]]''=== :'''Lisa''': Mr. Flanders, how did you make these amazing fish? :'''Ned Flanders''': Actually, God made some fish that were pretty close to these so naturally we selected those for further breeding. :'''Lisa''': So that natural selection was the origin of this species? :'''Flanders''': Yep, that's exactly--''[laughs]'' You almost got me. :''[Fish grows legs, crawls out of water, and starts breathing air]'' :'''Flanders''': Not on my watch ''[pushes it back into water]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''[[Simon Cowell]]''': How do you like LA? :'''Moe''': It's a hell of a city. It's like someone stepped on New York and scraped it off on the beach. <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': You never fail to nauseate me boy. :'''Bart''': Just call me Barf Simpson. :'''Homer''': I wanted to, but your mother said kids might tease you. :'''Ralph''': He's a ''[says a series of words that get bleeped out]'' <noinclude> {{DEFAULTSORT:Simpsons, Season 21}} [[Category:The Simpsons seasons]] </noinclude> hhb0qr8k1akn14bkhwcm3s4lgeo2jk5 0 116608 3961333 3526931 2026-07-05T23:55:26Z Markjoseph125 19526 /* Quotes */ added quote 3961333 wikitext text/x-wiki '''[[w:Assassination|Assassination]]''' is the targeted killing of a public figure, often for political purposes. Assassinations may be prompted by religious, ideological, political, or military reasons. Additionally, assassins may be motivated by financial gain, revenge, or personal public recognition. In figurative language usage, the word assassination may also be used in colloquial speech as a hyperbole, as in the phrase "character assassination," meaning an attempt to impugn another's character, and thus diminish or destroy ("assassinate") his reputation and credibility. == Quotes == [[File:Birth-of-a-nation-poster-color2.jpg|thumb|right|The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. ~ [[w:Robert Maynard Hutchins|Robert Maynard Hutchins]] ]] [[File:Uncle Sam (pointing finger).jpg|thumb|right|The external threat to liberty should not drive us into suppressing liberty at home. Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination. ~ [[Harry S. Truman]] ]] [[File:Jean-Léon_Gérôme_-_The_Death_of_Caesar_-_Walters_37884.jpg|thumb|right|Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles. ~ [[George Bernard Shaw]] ]] :<small>Alphabetized by author </small> * The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet. ** [[Eric Ambler]], ''A Coffin for Dimitrios'' (1939) ch. 2. Quoted in [https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_New_Yale_Book_of_Quotations/EyA3EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 ''The New Yale Book of Quotations''], p. 18. * It is evident that no two assassins are driven by precisely the same motives.<br>Not that there aren’t broad categories.<br>I can think of three. There is the madman, most common I suppose, fired by the blaze of his own obsessions. He hears the voice of God or he is anxious for the warrior’s paradise. He is the crazed fan, the car bomber.<br>There is the killer motivated by greed. He works for the highest bidder, and takes pride in his skills. He is the mercenary, the hired gun, the hitman.<br>Finally there is the man driven by the genuine belief that he is committing violence for utilitarian purposes – that his small evils are counterbalanced by a greater good. Of the three, he is most rare, most dangerous.<br>And of course, he always runs the risk that he is one of the other type, and simply hasn’t the wisdom to see it. ** [[Dale Bailey]], ''Sheep’s Clothing'' (1995). Originally published in [[w:The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction|F&SF]] (October-November 1995); reprinted in ''The Resurrection Man’s Legacy,'' <small> {{ISBN|1-930846-22-3}}, </small> pp. 229-230 * The [[American Dream]] has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its [[dreams]], its [[Fantasy|fantasies]]. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its [[Nightmare|nightmares]] now: the [[John F. Kennedy|Kennedy]] assassination, [[Watergate scandal|Watergate]], [[Vietnam War|Vietnam]]. ** [[J. G. Ballard]], as quoted in an interview in ''Metaphors'' No. 7, (1983); also in ''The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations'' (1993) by Robert Andrews, p. 937. * They who say, "There will always be war," do not know what they are saying. They are preyed upon by the common internal malady of shortsight. They think themselves full of common-sense as they think themselves full of honesty. In reality, they are revealing the clumsy and limited mentality of the assassins themselves. ** [[Henri Barbusse]], ''Light'' [''Clarté''] (1919), as translated by Fitzwater Wray, Ch. XVI : ''De Profundis Clamavi''. * We were sure that ours was a nation of the ballot, not the bullet, until the murders of [[John F. Kennedy|John Kennedy]] and [[Robert F. Kennedy|Robert Kennedy]] and [[Martin Luther King Jr.|Martin Luther King, Jr]]. ** [[Jimmy Carter]], "[https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/jimmycartercrisisofconfidence.htm A Crisis of Confidence]" speech * No assassination instruction should ever be written or recorded. Ideally, only one person will be involved. No report may be made, though the act will usually be properly covered by news services. … The simplest local tools are often the most efficient means of assassination. A hammer, axe, wrench, screw driver, fire poker, kitchen knife, lamp stand, or anything hard, heavy and handy will suffice … The most efficient accident … is a fall of 75 feet or more onto a hard surface … Falls before trains and subway cars are usually effective, but require exact timing … assassinations can seldom be employed with a clear [[conscience]]. Persons who are morally squeamish should not attempt it. … The techniques employed will vary depending on whether or not the assassin himself is to be killed with the subject. If the assassin is to die with the subject, the act will be called "lost." If the assassin is to escape, the act will be called "safe." It should be noted that no compromise should exist here. The assassin must not fall alive into enemy hands. … Except in terroristic assassinations, it is desirable that the assassin be transient. In a lost assassination, the assassin must be a fanatic of some sort. [[Politics]], [[religion]] and [[revenge]] are about the only feasible motives. ** ''A Study of Assassination'' (''c.'' 1954), a [[w:Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] training booklet, published in ''Secret History : The CIA's Classified Account of Its Operations in Guatemala, 1952-1954'' (1999) by Nick Cullather, Appendix C, p. 137; also quoted in ''Derailing Democracy : The America the Media Don't Want You To See'' (2000) by David McGowan, and "How Bush and Cheney Revived the CIA's "Murder Inc." by Pierre Tristam, at ''About'' (13 July 2009). * These events don't constitute assassinations because as far as we are concerned assassinations are only those of heads of state. ** [[w:Duane Clarridge|Duane Clarridge]], CIA division chief in charge of Nicaraguan paramilitary operations in Congressional briefing in 1983, on the murders of "civilians and Sandinista officials … heads of cooperatives, nurses, doctors, and judges" by CIA supported Contra guerrillas; as quoted in ''Washington's War on Nicaragua‎'' (1988) by Holly Sklar, p. 186. * When such crimes are perpetrated the public mind is apt to fall into gloom and perplexity, for it is ignorant alike of the causes and the consequences of such deeds. But it is one of our duties to reassure them under unreasoning [[panic]] and [[Despair|despondency]]. Assassination has never changed the history of the world. I will not refer to the remote past, though an accident has made the most memorable instance of antiquity at this moment fresh in the minds and memory of all around me. But even the costly sacrifice of a [[Julius Caesar|Caesar]] did not propitiate the inexorable destiny of his country. ** [[Benjamin Disraeli]], addressing the House of Commons, after the assassination of [[Abraham Lincoln]] (1 May 1865). *The reverberations of [[Gavrilo Princip|Princip]]'s shots truly shook the world. Yet political assassinations were far from uncommon in the early twentieth century, as we have already seen in the case of the unfortunate [[William McKinley|President McKinley]]. His successor, [[Theodore Roosevelt]], only narrowly escaped assassination too. Between 1900 and 1913 no fewer than forty heads of state, [[politicians]] and [[Diplomacy|diplomats]] were murdered, including four [[King|kings]], six [[Prime Minister|prime ministers]] and three [[President|presidents]]. In the [[Balkans]] alone there were eight successful assassinations, the victims of which included two kings, one [[queen]], two prime ministers and the commander-in-chief of the [[Ottoman Empire|Turkish Army]]. **[[Niall Ferguson]], ''The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West'' (2006), p. 73 * The philosophic historian, studying hereafter this present age, in which we are ourselves living, may say that it was a time of unexampled prosperity, luxury, and wealth; but catching at certain horrible murders which have lately disgraced our civilisation, may call us a nation of assassins. It is to invert the pyramid and stand it on its point. ** [[James Anthony Froude]], "The Influence of the Reformation on the Scottish Character" a lecture in Edinburgh (November 1865); published in [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/20755 ''Short Studies on Great Subjects''] * The [[landlord]] may become a direct oppressor. He may care nothing for the people, and have no object but to squeeze the most that he can out of them fairly or unfairly. The [[Government of Russia|Russian government]] has been called [[despotism]] tempered with assassination. In [[Ireland]] landlordism was tempered by assassination.<br> Unfortunately the wrong man was generally assassinated. The true [[Crime|criminal]] was an absentee, and his agent was shot instead of him. A [[Nobility|noble lord]] living in [[England]], two of whose agents had lost their lives already in his service, ordered the next to post a notice in his Barony that he intended to persevere in what he was doing, and if the tenants thought they would intimidate him by shooting his agents, they would find themselves mistaken. ** [[James Anthony Froude]], "On the Uses of a Landed Gentry", an address in Edinburgh (6 November 1876), published in ''Short Studies on Great Subjects'', Vol. III (1893), p. 406. * The death of [[democracy]] is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from [[apathy]], indifference, and undernourishment. ** [[w:Robert Maynard Hutchins|Robert Maynard Hutchins]], ''Great Books of the Western World'', Vol. I, Ch. 10 (1952). * The path you walk on has no end. No matter how far you go, or how many corpses you crawl over, the killing will never end. It's a future without hope. Hear me [[w:Solid Snake|Snake]]! My spirit will be watching you... ** ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' written by [[w:Hideo Kojima|Hideo Kojima]], Tomokazu Fukushima * Every two years the [[Politics of the United States|American politics]] industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country — and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its [[politicians]]. ** [[Charles Krauthammer]], as quoted in ''Common Ground: How to Stop the Partisan War that is Destroying America'' (2007) by Cal Thomas and Bob Beckel * Consider well this fact: As long as the [[Germans|German people]] does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue. ** [[w:Karl Liebknecht|Karl Liebknecht]] in [http://www.marxists.org/archive/liebknecht-k/works/1916/future-belongs-people/ch23.htm "May Day Manifesto" (1916)]. * Tyranny is usually tempered with assassination, and Democracy must be tempered with culture. In the absence of this, it turns into a representation of collective folly. ** [[w: John Stuart Mackenzie | John Stuart Mackenzie ]], ''An Introduction to Social Philosophy''‎ (1895), p. 383. *[[Absolutism]] tempered by assassination. **Count Munster, Hanoverian envoy at St. Petersburg, writing of the Russian Constitution; reported in ''Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations'' (1922), p. 634. * I decided that the only form of [[government]] was a benevolent despotism, tempered with assassination. Then I went home again, hopeless. I am still hopeless, for that matter. We will commit the same follies again. Nothing teaches us. ** [[w:Mary Roberts Rinehart|Mary Roberts Rinehart]], ''My Story‎'' (1948), p. 223. * If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well <br> It were done quickly. If the assassination <br> Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, <br> With his surcease, success; that but this blow <br> Might be the be-all and the end-all — here, <br> But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, — <br> We'd jump the life to come. But in these cases <br> We still have judgement here; that we but teach <br> Bloody instructions, which being taught, return <br> To plague the inventor: this even-handed justice <br> Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice <br> To our own lips. ** [[William Shakespeare]], in the first use of the word "assassination" in ''[[Macbeth]]'' (''c''. 1605). * Et tu [[Marcus Junius Brutus|Brute]]? ** ''[[Julius Caesar (play)|Julius Caesar]]'' (Act III, Scene I), by [[William Shakespeare]] * Assassination is the extreme form of [[censorship]]; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on [[Freedom of speech|anti-censorial principles]]. ** [[George Bernard Shaw]], ''The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet'' (1909), The Rejected Statement, Pt. 1 : The Limits to Toleration. * The external threat to [[liberty]] should not drive us into suppressing liberty at home. Those who want the [[Federal government of the United States|Government]] to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit [[suicide]] to avoid assassination. ** [[Harry S. Truman]], in [http://trumanlibrary.org/calendar/viewpapers.php?pid=2102 address at the National Archives] dedicating a shrine for the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights (15 December 1952). *''E un incidente del mestiere.'' **Translated: It is one of the incidents of the profession. **[[w:Umberto I of Italy|Umberto I]], of Italy, after escaping death; reported in ''Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations'' (1922), p. 634. Sometimes erroneously reported as ''metier''. * Assassination is the perquisite of [[King|kings]]. **[[w:Umberto I of Italy|Umberto I]], of Italy; reported in ''Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations'' (1922), p. 634, as having been "[a]scribed to him by other authorities. * [[United States|America]] is the place where you can not kill your [[Government]] by killing the men who conduct it. The only way you can kill [[Federal government of the United States|government in America]] is by making the men and women of America forget how to govern, and nobody can do that. ** [[Woodrow Wilson]], "Address at Opera House, Helena Montana" (September 11, 1919), in, ''Addresses of President Wilson'' (1919), p. 154. ==External links== {{Wikipedia}} {{Wiktionary|assassination}} [[Category:Crime]] [[Category:War]] [[Category:Assassinations| ]] 3yojn5mlube2xr65npbk8tgpg39y1oi 0 121938 3961204 1208618 2026-07-05T16:36:00Z BD2412 3982 /* top */ Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]], replaced: William J. Brennan, Jr. → William J. Brennan Jr. using [[Project:AWB|AWB]] 3961204 wikitext text/x-wiki #REDIRECT [[William J. Brennan Jr.]] gbllij4palf1zxp0ydshkwi9zjfy6v5 0 121949 3961149 3472622 2026-07-05T16:26:57Z BD2412 3982 /* Quotes */ Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]], replaced: William J. Brennan, Jr. → William J. Brennan Jr. using [[Project:AWB|AWB]] 3961149 wikitext text/x-wiki '''[[w:Due process|Due process]]''' is the principle that the government must respect all of the legal rights that are owed to a person according to the law. Due process holds the government subservient to the law of the land protecting individual persons from the state. When a government harms a person, without following the exact course of the law, then that is a due process violation which offends the rule of law. == Quotes == * It is assented and accorded, for the good Governance of the Commons, that no Man be put to answer without Presentment before Justices, or Matter of Record, or by due Process and Writ original, according to the old Law of the Land: And if any Thing from henceforth be done to the contrary, it shall be void in the Law, and holden for Error ** ''[http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/content.aspx?LegType=All+Legislation&title=due+process&searchEnacted=0&extentMatchOnly=0&confersPower=0&blanketAmendment=0&sortAlpha=0&TYPE=QS&PageNumber=1&NavFrom=0&parentActiveTextDocId=1517704&ActiveTextDocId=1517707&filesize=2401 Observance of due Process of Law]'' (1368). *That no Man, of what Estate or Condition that he be, shall be put out of Land or Tenement, nor taken, nor imprisoned, nor disinherited, nor put to death, without being brought in answer by due-process of Law. ** 28 Edward III, Chapter 3, reported in Henry Booth Warrington, ''The Works of the Right Honourable Henry, Late Lord Delamer, and Earl of Warrington'' (1694), p. 102. * Nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law. ** ''[[Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution]]'' (1791). * No State shall … deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. ** ''[[w:Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution]]'', sec. 1 (1868). *''Audi Alteram Partem''. **Translation: "No man should be condemned unheard". ** Ancient legal maxim, reported in Herbert Broom, ''A Selection of Legal Maxims'' (1900), p. 89. * Those who slew my father I drove into exile, punishing their deed by due process of law, and afterwards when they waged war upon the republic I twice defeated them in battle. ** [[Augustus]], ''[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Augustus/Res_Gestae/home.html Res Gestae Divi Augusti]'' as translated in ''Loeb Library edition (1924). * Bad men, like good men, are entitled to be tried and sentenced in accordance with law, and when it is shown to us that a person is serving an illegal sentence our obligation is to direct that proper steps be taken to correct the wrong done, without regard to the character of a particular defendant or to the possible effect on others who might also want to challenge the legality of their sentences as they have the right to do 'at any time' under Rule 35. If it has any [[relevance]] at all, the fact that there may be other prisoners in this country's jails serving illegal sentences would seem to me to make it all the more imperative that we grant appropriate relief in this case rather than search for some obviously dubious excuse to deny this petitioner's claim. ** [[Hugo Black]], dissenting, ''Green v. United States'', 365 U.S. 301, 309-310 (1961). *For me, the only correct meaning of that phrase is that our Government must proceed according to the 'law of the land'&mdash;that is, according to written constitutional and statutory provisions as interpreted by court decisions. ** [[Hugo Black]], dissenting, ''In Re Winship'', 397 U.S. 358 (1970). * Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error. ** [[Benjamin N. Cardozo]], ''Roberts v. New York'', 295 U.S. 264, 278 (1935). * '''The first eight Amendments to the [[United States Constitution|Constitution]] have been made applicable to the States only in part. My view has been that, when the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted, its Due Process Clause incorporated all of those Amendments.''' ''See [[w:Adamson v. California|Adamson v. California]]'', 332 U. S. 46, 332 U. S. 68 (dissenting opinion). Although the history of the Fourteenth Amendment may not be conclusive, the words "due process" acquired specific meaning from Anglo-American experience. [Footnote 2/7] '''As [[William J. Brennan Jr.|MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN]] recently stated, "The Bill of Rights is the primary source of expressed information as to what is meant by constitutional liberty. The safeguards enshrined in it are deeply etched in the foundations of America's freedoms."''' The Bill of Rights and the States (1961), 36 N.Y.U.L.Rev. 761, 776. '''When the Framers wrote the [[United States Bill of Rights|Bill of Rights]], they enshrined in the form of constitutional guarantees those rights -- in part substantive, in part procedural -- which experience indicated were indispensable to a free society. Some would disagree as to their importance; the debate concerning them did indeed start before their adoption and has continued to this day. Yet the constitutional conception of "due process" must, in my view, include them all until and unless there are amendments that remove them.''' ** Justice [[William O. Douglas]], ''[[w:Poe v. Ullman|Poe v. Ullman]]'', 319 U.S. 105 (1943), at 515-516, dissenting. * In 1942, there were 110,000 Japanese American citizens in good standing, law-abiding people who were thrown into internment camps simply because their parents were born in the wrong country. That's all they did wrong. They had no right to a lawyer, no right to a fair trial, no right to a jury of their peers no right to due process of any kind. The only right they had: "Right this way" into the internment camps! Just when these American citizens needed their rights the most, their government took them away! And rights aren't rights if someone can take them away. They're privileges. That's all we've ever had in this country, is a bill of temporary privileges. And if you read the news even badly, you know that every year the list gets shorter and shorter. ** [[George Carlin]], ''[[w:It's Bad for Ya|It's Bad for Ya]]'' (2008), "You Have No Rights". * Ours will neither be a perfect world, nor a world without disagreement and occasional violence. But it will be a world where the overwhelming majority of national leaders will consistently abide by the rule of world law, and those who won't will be dealt with effectively and with due process by the structures of that same world law. ** [[Walter Cronkite]], UN Address (1999). * The 14th Amendment, in declaring that no State "Shall deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws," undoubtedly intended, not only that there should be no arbitrary deprivation of life or liberty or arbitrary spoliation of property but that equal protection and security should be given to all under like circumstances in the enjoyment of their personal and civil rights; that all persons should be equally entitled to pursue their happiness and acquire and enjoy property; that they should have like access to the courts of the country for the protection of their persons and property, the prevention and redress of wrongs, and the enforcement of contracts; that no impediment should be interposed to the pursuits of anyone except as applied to the same pursuits by others under like circumstances; that no greater burdens should be laid upon one than are laid upon others in the same calling and condition, and that in the administration of criminal justice no different or higher punishment should be imposed upon one than such as is prescribed to all for like offenses. ** [[w:Stephen Johnson Field|Stephen Johnson Field]], ''Barbier v. Connolly'', 113 U.S. 27, 35 (1885). *A license cannot be revoked because a man is redheaded or because he was divorced, except for a calling, if such there be, for which redheadedness or an unbroken marriage may have some rational bearing. If a State licensing agency lays bare its arbitrary action, or if the State law explicitly allows it to act arbitrarily, that is precisely the kind of State action which the Due Process Clause forbids. ** [[Felix Frankfurter]], ''Barsky v. Board of Regents'', 347 U.S. 442, 470 (1954). * The function of the lawyer is to preserve a sceptical relativism in a society hell-bent for absolutes. The worse the society, the more law there will be. In Hell there will be nothing but law and due process will be meticulously observed. ** [[w:Grant Gilmore|Grant Gilmore]], ''The Ages of American Law'' (1977), p. 110-111; reported in George W. Liebmann, ''The Common Law Tradition: A Collective Portrait of Five Legal Scholars'' (2006), p. 177. * '''It is fundamental that the great powers of Congress to conduct war and to regulate the Nation's foreign relations are subject to the constitutional requirements of due process. The imperative necessity for safeguarding these rights to procedural due process under the gravest of emergencies has existed throughout our constitutional history, for it is then, under the pressing exigencies of crisis, that there is the greatest temptation to dispense with fundamental constitutional guarantees which, it is feared, will inhibit governmental action.''' "The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances." ''[[w:Ex parte Milligan|Ex parte Milligan]]'', 4 Wall. 2, 71 U. S. 120-121. The rights guaranteed by the Fifth and Sixth Amendments are "preserved to every one accused of crime who is not attached to the army, or navy, or militia in actual service." ''Id.'' at 71 U. S. 123. "[I]f society is disturbed by civil commotion -- if the passions of men are aroused and the restraints of law weakened, if not disregarded -- these safeguards need, and should receive, the watchful care of those intrusted with the guardianship of the Constitution and laws. [[w:Preamble to the United States Constitution|In no other way can we transmit to posterity unimpaired the blessings of liberty]], [[American Revolution|consecrated by the sacrifices of the Revolution.]]" ''Id.'' at 71 U. S. 124. **[[w:Arthur Goldberg|Arthur Joseph Goldberg]], ''[[w:Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez|Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez]]'', 372 U.S. 144 (1963), at 164-165. * Other societies have degraded terrorists by subjecting them to lawless and unaccountable power. In the new world that is taking shape, terrorists, although they themselves degrade human rights by practising terrorism, will be afforded the full dignity of due legal process, even while being tortured. ** [[John N. Gray]], [http://miscellaneous-sonstiges.blogspot.com/2008/05/modest-proposal-audio-mp3-interview.html "A Modest Proposal,"] ''New Statesman'' ([[2003-02-17]]). This is a spoof article, subtitled "A Modest Proposal For Preventing Torturers in Liberal Democracies From Being Abused, and For Recognising Their Benefit to The Public. By John Gray (with apologies to [[Jonathan Swift]])". * Without this guarantee that one may not be deprived of his rights, neither liberty nor property, without due process of law, the State's monopoly over techniques for binding conflict resolution could hardly be said to be acceptable under our scheme of things. Only by providing that the social enforcement mechanism must function strictly within these bounds can we hope to maintain an ordered society that is also just." ** [[John Marshall Harlan II]], ''Boddie v. Connecticut'', 401 U.S. 371, 374-75 (1971). * Whatever disagreement there may be as to the scope of the phrase "due process of law" there can be no doubt that it embraces the fundamental conception of a fair trial, with opportunity to be heard. ** [[Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.]], ''Frank v. Magnum'', 237 U.S. 309, 347 (1915). * But when notice is a person's due, process which is a mere gesture is not 'due process.' **[[Robert H. Jackson]], ''[[w:Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co.|Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co.]]'', 339 U.S. 306 (1950). * '''Procedural fairness, if not all that originally was meant by due process of law, is at least what it most uncompromisingly requires. Procedural due process is more elemental and less flexible than substantive due process. It yields less to the times, varies less with conditions, and defers much less to legislative judgment.''' Insofar as it is technical law, it must be a specialized responsibility within the competence of the judiciary on which they do not bend before political branches of the Government, as they should on matters of policy which compromise substantive law. <br/><br/> If it be conceded that in some way [the agency could take the action it did], does it matter what the procedure is? '''Only the untaught layman or the charlatan lawyer can answer that procedure matters not. Procedural fairness and regularity are of the indispensable essence of liberty. Severe substantive laws can be endured if they are fairly and impartially applied.''' Indeed, if put to the choice, one might well prefer to live under Soviet substantive law applied in good faith by our common-law procedures, than under our substantive law enforced by Soviet procedural practices. '''Let it not be overlooked that due process of law is not for the sole benefit of an accused. It is the best insurance for the Government itself against those blunders which leave lasting stains on a system of justice but which are bound to occur on ''ex parte'' consideration.''' **[[Robert H. Jackson]], ''Shaughnessy v. United States ex rel Mezei'', 345 U.S. 206, 224–25 (1953) * One can conclude that certain essential, or fundamental, rights should exist in any just society. It does not follow that each of those essential rights is one that we as judges can enforce under the written Constitution. The Due Process Clause is not a guarantee of every right that should inhere in an ideal system. Many argue that a just society grants a right to engage in homosexual conduct. If that view is accepted, the ''Bowers'' decision in effect says the State of Georgia has the right to make a wrong decision--wrong in the sense that it violates some people's views of rights in a just society. We can extend that slightly to say that Georgia's right to be wrong in matters not specifically controlled by the Constitution is a necessary component of its own political processes. Its citizens have the political liberty to direct the governmental process to make decisions that might be wrong in the ideal sense, subject to correction in the ordinary political process. ** [[Anthony Kennedy]], {{cite web | title = Unenumerated Rights and the Dictates of Judicial Restraint | work = Address to the Canadian Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, Stanford University. Palo Alto, California. | url = http://web.archive.org/web/20080627022153/http://www.andrewhyman.com/1986kennedyspeech.pdf | date = [[1986-07-24]] to [[1986-08-01]] | page = 13}} (Also quoted at p. 443 of Kennedy's 1987 [http://www.gpoaccess.gov/congress/senate/judiciary/sh100-1037/browse.html confirmation transcript]). * This is really a pretty good system you have here. What do you call it? "Due process". We're very proud of it. **[[Alex Kozinski]], ''[http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/ca9/newopinions.nsf/4CB1C1565A7DB48D88256CAA005F7F17/$file/0150164.pdf?openelement United States v. Juan Ramirez-Lopez]'', No. 01-50164 (9th Cir. January 10, 2003). * We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men — not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular. ** [[Edward R. Murrow]], ''[[w:See It Now|See It Now]]'' (1954). * Of course, working within your "system" is never going to get the peasants freedom or justice, but even giving them the illusion of "due process" and some form of appeal will keep most of them forever banging their heads against a bureaucratic wall instead of actually resisting you. ** {{citation|author=[[w:Larken Rose|Larken Rose]]|title=How to Be a Successful Tyrant: The Megalomaniac Manifesto|isbn=978-0977783410|date=2005}} * [The Texas anti-sodomy statute] undoubtedly imposes constraints on liberty. So do laws prohibiting prostitution, recreational use of heroin, and, for that matter, working more than 60 hours per week in a bakery. But there is no right to 'liberty' under the Due Process Clause, though today's opinion repeatedly makes that claim. . . . The Fourteenth Amendment expressly allows States to deprive their citizens of 'liberty,' so long as 'due process of law' is provided. . . ." ** [[Antonin Scalia]], ''[[w:Lawrence v. Texas|Lawrence v. Texas]]'' (dissenting). * When asked about my opinion regarding blasphemy, I could not tell a lie and confirmed that — like both the Torah and the Gospel — the Qur’an considers it, without repentance, as a capital offense. The Bible is full of similar harsh laws if you're looking for them. However, the application of such Biblical and Qur'anic injunctions is not to be outside of due process of law, in a place or land where such law is accepted and applied by the society as a whole. ** [[Cat Stevens]], reported in [http://www.mountainoflight.co.uk/talks_cw.html#18 "Chinese Whiskers," FAQ #18: "Did Cat Stevens Say, ‘Kill Rushdie!’?,"] ''Mountain of Light'' (undated). * Several decisions of this Court make clear that freedom of personal choice in matters of marriage and family life is one of the liberties protected by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. . . . That right necessarily includes the right of a woman to decide whether or not to terminate her pregnancy. ** [[Potter Stewart]], concurring, ''[[w:Roe v. Wade|Roe v. Wade]]'', 410 U.S. 113, 169-170 (1973). * The due process of law as we use it I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution. ** June Tapp, reported in Gordon Bermant, "The Notion of Conspiracy Is Not Tasty to Americans: : Interview of June Tapp by Gordon Bermant", ''Psychology Today'' (May 1975), p. 65. ==External links== {{wikipedia}} {{wiktionary|due process}} [[Category:Law]] hqz1ez9t2ffbiokyqk9me4n2lix7q92 2 122068 3961188 3733756 2026-07-05T16:34:35Z BD2412 3982 Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]], replaced: John D. Rockefeller, Jr. → John D. Rockefeller Jr., Kingman Brewster, Jr. → Kingman Brewster Jr. (2), Walter M. 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It is meant to serve as an easily accessible testimony of my actual ''work'' on helping to ''build'' this project, through actively ''constructive'' contributions, in contrast to the behavior of those who would unjustly, unfairly, or in any way needlessly constrict, constrain or control the contributions people can make, '''or even so exceed their proper authority as to ''execrate'', ''eradicate'', ''prevent'' or ''punish'' the attempts of others to contribute in innovative or creative ways which are not actually restricted or forbidden by ''properly'' developed and agreed-to rules'''. :{{center|1=<small>'''[[User:Kalki/index#Pages_on_which_I_have_done_significant_work |Significant work · O]]'''I'''[[User:Kalki/index#Work_at_other_Wikimedia_projects|O · Work at other WM projects]]'''</small>}} === <small> Pages I have started</small> === :<small>This list is a ''sampling'' of pages I have started using the account-names '''[[User:Kalki|Kalki]]''', [[User:Kalki/Restorations#Achilles_.28talk_.C2.B7_contributions.29|Achilles]], [[User:Kalki/Restorations#Rumour_.28talk_.C2.B7_contributions.29|Rumour]], [[User:Kalki/Restorations#Taliesin_.28talk_.C2.B7_contributions.29|Taliesin]], [[User:Kalki/Restorations#Moby_.28talk_.C2.B7_contributions.29|Moby]], [[User:Kalki/Restorations#Accountability_.28talk_.C2.B7_contributions.29|Accountability]], & [[User:Kalki/Restorations#NEO_.28talk_.C2.B7_contributions.29|NEO]] as well as at least a few others, which I intend to gradually expand in coming months and years. I shall also gradually add short quotes from the pages to their place in the list as examples of some of the most significant ideas which these pages contain. </small> <!-- This includes a very few pages where the first edits were simply creations of a redirect to another subject, a non-viable creation, or simply vandalism, and my edits started the page as a viable entity of its own. --> #[[Π|'''Π''' (pi)]] · '''Something's going on. It has to do with that number.''' There's an answer in that number. … It's a door, Sol. '''It's a door.''' ~ [[Pi (film)|''π'']] #'''[[2012 phenomenon]]''' — ''It will happen — a [[Visions|seeing]] … It is the display of B'olon-Yokte' in a great [[Investment|investiture]].'' #[[M. H. 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It is itself the highest political end.''' · All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. · There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion. #[[Abigail Adams]] · These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or in the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. '''Great necessities call out great virtues.''' #[[Charles Francis Adams Sr.]] · More than all, and above all, [[George Washington|Washington]] was master of himself. #[[Henry Adams]] · Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education. #[[John Adams]] · '''There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.''' #[[John Quincy Adams]] · All men profess honesty as long as they can. '''To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.''' #[[Felix Adler]] · The Supreme Ethical Rule: '''Act So As To Elicit the Best In Others and Thereby In Thy Self.''' #[[George William Russell|Æ (George William Russell)]] · For sure the enchanted waters pour through every wind that blows … And from the magic tree of life the fruit falls everywhere. #[[Aesthetics]] · [[All]] [[art]] preserves [[mysteries]] which aesthetic [[philosophers]] tackle in [[vain]]. ~ [[Anthony Burgess]] #[[Aeschylus]] · '''In our own despite, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.''' #[[Eden Ahbez|eden ahbez]] · '''The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.''' #[[Martti Ahtisaari]] · You have to be rather straightforward with your clients. You can't tell the parties only nice things. #[[Conrad Aiken]] · Music I heard with you was more than music, And bread I broke with you was more than bread… #[[Akhenaten]] · How manifold it is, what thou hast made! #[[Anna Akhmatova]] · ...and if a gag should bind my tortured mouth, through which a hundred million people shout, then let them pray for me, as I do pray for them, this eve of my remembrance day. #[[Edward Albee]] · '''I've noticed that there is not necessarily a great relationship between what the majority of critics have to say and what is actually true.''' #[[Brian Aldiss]] · Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem. #[[Alexander the Great]] · If I were not Alexander, I should wish to be [[Diogenes of Sinope|Diogenes]]. #[[Gracie Allen]] · '''Never place a period where God has placed a comma.''' #[[James Allen]] · A man is literally ''what he thinks'', his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts. #[[Steve Allen]] · Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have destructive consequences. #[[Mansur Al-Hallaj]] · '''God, Most High, is the very one who Himself affirms His unity by the tongue of whatever of His creatures He wishes.''' #[[Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf]] · I now inform you that you are too far from reality. #''[[Altered States]]'' · The final [[Truth]] of all things is that there is no final Truth. '''Truth is what's transitory. It's human [[life]] that is [[Reality|real]].''' #[[Ambiguity]] · '''If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it’s quite [[conscious]].''' ~ [[Kingman Brewster Jr.]] #[[Henri-Frédéric Amiel]] · Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing. · Everything is a symbol of a symbol, and a symbol of what? of mind. · There is nothing non-exclusive but the All; my end is communion with Being through the whole of Being. #[[Julie Andrews]] · '''Hopefully, I brought people a certain joy. That will be a wonderful legacy.''' #[[Norman Angell]] · It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. '''We can only make them right by discussion.''' #[[Maya Angelou]] · There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. #[[Angels]] · '''It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect [[holiness]] from one another, but from [[God]] alone.''' ~ [[William Blake]] #'''[[Anonymous (group)‎‎]]''' · '''THE [[Corruption|CORRUPT]] [[Fear|FEAR]] US · THE [[Honesty|HONEST]] SUPPORT US · THE [[Heroism|HEROIC]] JOIN US.''' · '''We are [[Anonymous]].''' We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. '''Expect us.''' #[[Marie Antoinette]] · '''It is quite certain that in seeing the people who treat us so well despite their own misfortune, we are more obliged than ever to work hard for their happiness.''' #[[Michelangelo Antonioni]] · '''I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.''' · The moment always comes when, having collected one's ideas, certain images, an intuition of a certain kind of development — whether psychological or material — one must pass on to the actual realization. · '''My characters are ambiguous. Call them that. I don't mind. I am ambiguous myself. Who isn't?''' #[[Appendices to The Lord of the Rings|Appendices to ''The Lord of the Rings'']] · He was elven-wise, and there was a light in his eyes that when they were kindled few could endure. #[[Arab Spring]] · An area that was a byword for political stagnation is witnessing a rapid transformation that has caught the attention of the world. ~ [[w:Rashid Khalidi|Rashid Khalidi]] · '''There are very few moments in our lives where we have the privilege to witness history taking place. This is one of those moments. This is one of those times.''' ~ [[Barack Obama]] #[[Archilochus]] · '''The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.''' #[[Armageddon]] · Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say "what kind of tea?" ~ [[Neil Gaiman]] #[[Karen Armstrong]] · The one and only test of a valid religious idea, doctrinal statement, spiritual experience, or devotional practice was that it must lead directly to practical compassion. #[[King Arthur]] · '''If people reach [[perfection]] they vanish, you know.''' ~ ''[[The Once and Future King]]'' by [[T.H. White]] #[[Attar]] · '''All things are but masks at God's beck and call, They are symbols that instruct us that God is all. … Come you lost Atoms to your Centre draw, And be the Eternal Mirror that you saw…''' #[[Attitude]] · My attitude is to give everyone some of my [[time]]. If I can contribute in any way to their [[happiness]], that makes me happy. ~ [[Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama]] · There is very little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference! The little difference is ''attitude''. The big difference is whether it is ''positive'' or ''negative''. ~ [[W. Clement Stone]] and [[Napoleon Hill]] #[[Augustine of Hippo]] <!-- actually started legitimate quotes page, as initial posting by someone else was simply a bit of info about Augustine with no quotes--> · Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: '''Love, and do what thou wilt...''' #[[Sri Aurobindo]] · To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs. · '''The supreme truths are neither the rigid conclusions of logical reasoning nor the affirmations of credal statement, but fruits of the soul's inner experience.''' #[[Jane Austen]] · There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. '''My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.''' # [[Authoritarianism]] · Violence is the whole essence of authoritarianism, just as the repudiation of violence is the whole essence of anarchism. ~ [[Errico Malatesta]] #[[Avatar (2009 film)|''Avatar'' (2009 film)]] · '''''I See You.''''' #[[Hoyt Axton]] · When it all comes down I hope it doesn't land on you — '''When the truth is found I hope it will be true to you.''' #[[Báb]] · '''The path to guidance is one of love and compassion, not of force and coercion.''' This hath been God’s method in the past, and shall continue to be in the future! · How oft hath the Day of Resurrection dawned, and the people of the land where it occurred did not learn of the event. · '''Truth shall be firmly established, while aught else besides it is sure to perish.''' #[[Lauren Bacall]] · '''A planned life is a dead life.''' #[[Bahá'u'lláh]] · It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. '''The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.''' #[[Ba Jin]] · '''Loving truth and living honestly is my attitude to life. Be true to yourself and be true to others...''' This battle to save life will eventually be won. … Blind faith in established experience has been shattered, outmoded regulations have been smashed. #''[[The Ballad of the White Horse]]'' ·'''''Before the gods that made the gods Had seen their sunrise pass, The White Horse of the White Horse Vale Was cut out of the grass.''''' · ''I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher.'' · ''You sing of the young gods easily In the days when you are young; But I go smelling yew and sods, '''And I know there are gods behind the gods, Gods that are best unsung.''''' #[[Anne Bancroft]] · I am what I am because of what I am and if you like me I'm grateful, and if you don't, what am I going to do about it? #[[Henri Barbusse]] · '''War will come again after this one. It will come again as long as it can be determined by people other than those who fight.''' · Let everything be remade on simple lines. There is only one people, there is only one people! · Yes, there is a Divinity, one from which we must never turn aside for the guidance of our huge inward life and of the share we have as well in the life of all men. '''It is called the truth.''' #[[J. M. Barrie]] · Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary? #[[Bruce Fairchild Barton]] · '''A man may be down, but he is never out.''' · To every man of vision the clear Voice speaks; there is no great leadership where there is not a mystic. '''Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside themselves was superior to circumstance.''' #[[Brian Bates (psychologist)]] · Nothing may happen without [[wyrd]], for it is present in everything, but wyrd does not make things happen. Wyrd is created at every instant, and so wyrd is the happening. · '''[[Wyrd]] is the unfolding of our personal [[destiny]]. It has sometimes been translated into modern English as "[[fate]]." But it is much deeper than that. It does not see our lives as "pre-determined."''' Rather, it is an all-encompassing view which connects us to all things, [[thoughts]], [[emotions]], events in the [[cosmos]] as if through the threads of an enormous, invisible but dynamic web. Today, [[scientists]] know intellectually that all things are interconnected. But the power of Wyrd is to realise this in our inner being, and to know how to use it to manifest our personal [[destiny]]. <br /> [[Today]], through a deep connection with wyrd, we are inspired to see our lives in a new and empowering way. '''It restores our [[experience]] of the healing [[power]] of [[love]], [[nature]] and [[creativity]]. It is about letting into our lives the guidance of an extended [[universe]] of [[spirit]]. It brings ancient [[wisdom]] together with modern [[science]] in the service of enhancing our lives, and the [[integrity]] of our [[human]] presence on the planet.''' #[[L. Frank Baum]] · '''I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it.''' #''[[Being There]]'' · '''As long as the roots are not severed, all is well. And all will be well in the garden.''' #[[Peter S. Beagle]] · Our true home is often right around the corner, if we'd only open our eyes — and our ears — to find it. #[[Stephen Vincent Benét]] · Rest, like a goad, spurred my eyes open — and light broke upon them like a million swords: and she was there. '''There are no words.''' · I'm waiting. ... For something new and strange, Something I've dreamt about in some deep sleep, Truer than any waking... · God pity us indeed, for we are human, And do not always see The vision when it comes, the shining change, Or, if we see it, do not follow it, Because it is too hard, too strange, too new... #[[Benevolence]] · [[Success|Successful]] [[people]] are always looking for [[opportunities]] to [[help]] others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?” ~ [[Brian Tracy]] #[[Cyrano de Bergerac]] · If I were to explain to you what I perceive by the senses you do not have, you would interpret it as something that could be heard, seen, touched, smelled or tasted; '''but it is not like that.''' #[[Eric Berne]] · A healthy person goes "Yes," "No," and "Whoopee!" An unhealthy person goes "Yes, but," "No, but," and "No whoopee." #[[Sarah Bernhardt]] · We ought to hate very rarely, as it is too fatiguing; remain indifferent to a great deal, forgive often and never forget. · '''Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.''' #[[Wendell Berry]] · '''Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.''' #[[Bias of Priene]] · Accept of things, having procured them by persuasion, not by force. #[[Brad Bird]] · '''Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from ''anywhere''.''' #[[Black Elk]] · The Great Spirit is everywhere; he hears whatever is in our minds and our hearts, and it is not necessary to speak to Him in a loud voice. #[[Cate Blanchett]] · If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life — that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment — that would be the perfect state. #''[[Blow-Up]]'' · Nothing like a little disaster for sorting things out. #[[David Bohm]] · We say that inseparable quantum interconnectedness of the whole universe is the fundamental reality, and that relatively independent behaving parts are merely particular and contingent forms within this whole. #[[Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux]] · '''Often the fear of one evil leads us into a worse.''' · Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul. · '''The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.''' · Let him now speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his peace. #[[Bono]] · Idealism is under siege beset by materialism, narcissism and all the other ''isms'' of indifference. · '''''Fuck the revolution!''''' ... Where's the glory of bombing a [[w:Remembrance Day|Remembrance Day]] parade of old-age-pensioners…where's the glory in that? · '''''There was a badness that had its way. But love wasn't lost. Love will have its day.''''' ·  Sing the melody line you hear in your own head. Remember, you don't owe anybody any explanations... · ''Hey if God will send his angels And if God will send a sign And if God will send his angels Would everything be alright?'' · When [[John Lennon]] sings, "Oh, my love/For the first time in my life/My eyes are wide open" — these songs have an intimacy for me that's not just between people. · '''Love is not the easy thing... '''Walk on, walk on What you got they can't steal it No they can't even feel it Walk on, walk on… #[[Book of the Dead|''Book of the Dead'' (''The Spells of Going Forth by Day'')]] · Homage to you, [[w:Osiris|Osiris]], Lord of eternity, King of the gods, whose names are manifold, whose forms are holy, you being of hidden form in the temples, whose [[w:Egyptian soul|Ka]] is holy. · I shall not die again. My moment is in your bodies, but my forms are in my place of habitation. '''I am "He who cannot be known."''' #''[[The Books of Magic]]'' · '''From meetings and partings none can ever escape. Nor from magic.''' · Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality. Magic is a method of talking to the universe in words that it cannot ignore. The two are rarely compatible. · If you choose magic you will never be able to return to the life you once lived. Your world may be more ... exciting ... but it will also be more dangerous. Less reliable. '''And once you begin to walk the path of magic, you can never step off of it.''' #[[George Boole]] · The general laws of Nature are not, for the most part, immediate objects of perception. …They are in all cases, and in the strictest sense of the term, probable conclusions. #[[Daniel Boone]] · Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; And '''I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatsoever state he is.''' #[[Max Born]] · '''The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it, seems to me the deepest root of all that is evil in the world.''' #[[Paul Bourget]] · Some day you will know for yourself that it is almost as true to say that one recovers from all things as that there is nothing which does not leave its scar. · '''There is only one thing infamous in love, and that is a falsehood.''' #[[David Bowie]] · '''There's a starman waiting in the sky He'd like to come and meet us, But he thinks he'd blow our minds.''' · I watch the ripples change their size But never leave the stream Of warm impermanence. So the days float through my eyes But still the days seem the same. '''And these children that you spit on As they try to change their worlds Are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through.''' · See these eyes so green I can stare for a thousand years — Colder than the moon — It's been so long… '''And I've been putting out fire… ''With gasoline''''' … See these eyes so red Red like jungle burning bright '''Those who feel me near Pull the blinds and change their minds'''. … ''' Ya wouldn't believe what I've been thru.''' #[[Joseph Brackett]] · ''When true simplicity is gain'd To bow and to bend we shan't be asham'd, '''To turn, turn will be our delight 'Till by turning, turning we come round right.''''' #[[Ray Bradbury]] · '''Mankind must save itself. We must escape the danger of war and politics.''' We must become astronauts and go out into the [[universe]] and discover the God in ourselves. #[[John Bradford]] · There, but for the [[grace]] of [[God]], goes John Bradford. #[[Brahman‎‎]] · '''The person who perceives Brahman in [[All|everything]] feels everlasting [[joy]].''' ~ ''[[Bhagavad Gita]]'' #[[Marlon Brando]] · Acting serves as the quintessential social lubricant and a device for protecting our interests and gaining advantage in every aspect of life. #[[Ysabella Brave]] · '''I'd rather be nice to someone spoiled than mean to someone who really could use a hand.''' #[[Kingman Brewster Jr.]] · If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it’s quite conscious. #[[Edie Brickell]] · What I am is what I am. Are you what you are — or what? #[[Emily Brontë]] · '''''No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere: I see Heaven's glories shine, And Faith shines equal, arming me from Fear.''''' #[[Gwendolyn Brooks]] · Art hurts. Art urges voyages — and it is easier to stay at home. · '''Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.''' #[[Elizabeth Barrett Browning]] · '''Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God''' · '''How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.''' I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. · '''If thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only.''' #[[Giordano Bruno]] · The single spirit doth simultaneously temper the whole together; this is the single soul of all things; '''all are filled with God.''' #[[Martin Buber]] · '''Let us, cautious in diction And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully.''' · Whoever pronounces the word God and really means Thou, addresses, no matter what his delusion, the true Thou of his life that cannot be restricted by any other and to whom he stands in a relationship that includes all others. · '''Through the Thou a person becomes I.''' #[[John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir]] · The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there. · '''We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.''' #[[Gautama Buddha]] · '''Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.''' Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. '''But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.''' · Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame. · '''Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love. This is the eternal rule.''' · To cease from evil, to do good, and to purify the mind yourself, this is the teaching of all the Buddhas. #[[Sandra Bullock]] · Beginnings are usually scary and endings are usually sad, but it’s the middle that counts. You have to remember this when you find yourself at the beginning. #[[James Burgh]] · '''You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it all. But let all you tell be truth.''' #[[Burning Man]] · Burning Man is an annual experiment in temporary community dedicated to radical self-expression and radical self-reliance. #[[Richard Francis Burton]] · '''All Faith is false, all Faith is true: Truth is the shattered mirror strown in myriad bits; while each believes his little bit the whole to own.''' · The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. · The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty but to have a slave of his own. · '''Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.''' #[[Leo Buscaglia]] · '''What's the good of all our learning, knowing how to read and write and spell if no one ever teaches us the value of life, of our uniqueness, and personal dignity?''' · People are not here to meet your expectations. · It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely. · '''Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.''' #[[John Carder Bush]] · When I and stallion blend the grass gets cropped. #[[Kate Bush]] · '''''I just know that something good is going to happen. I don't know when, But just saying it could even make it happen...''''' #[[Vannevar Bush]] · As long as scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, there will be a flow of new scientific knowledge to those who can apply it to practical problems. · '''Time and space are interconnected in strange ways; there is no absolute simultaneity. · It is Earlier Than We Think.''' #[[Samuel Butler (poet)]] · What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before Prove false again? Two hundred more. #[[John Byrom]] · Religion's Meaning when I would recall, ''Love'' is to me the plainest Word of all. · '''The Church is indeed, in its real Intent, An Assembly where Nothing but Friendship is meant; And the utter Extinction of Foeship and Wrath By the Working of Love in the Strength of its Faith.''' #[[James Branch Cabell]] · The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. '''So I elect for neither label.''' #[[James Callaghan]] · A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice. · A leader has to ''appear'' consistent. That doesn't mean he has to be consistent. #[[Julia Cameron]] · '''What we focus on, we empower and enlarge. Good multiplies when focused upon. Negativity multiplies when focused upon. The choice is ours: Which do we want more of?''' · The growth of one blesses all. I am commited to grow in love. All that I touch, I leave in love. I move through this world consciously and creatively. · '''Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.''' #[[Mrs Patrick Campbell]] · Does it really matter what these affectionate people do — so long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses! #''[[Canopus in Argos]]'' · What are all these guises, aspects, presentations? Only manifestations of what we all are at different times, according to how these needs are pulled out of us. · '''I am ... what I am at the moment I am that.''' #[[Georg Cantor]] · '''In mathematics the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems.''' · A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One. · '''The totality of all alephs cannot be conceived as a determinate, well-defined, and also a finished set.''' #[[Karel Čapek]] · '''Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race.''' Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. '''Work must not cease.''' · One of the worst muddles of this age is its confusing of the ideas behind combative and cognitive activity. Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it. · '''Life will not perish! It will begin anew with love'''; it will start out naked and tiny; it will take root in the wilderness, and '''to it all that we did and built will mean nothing — our towns and factories, our art, our ideas will all mean nothing, and yet life will not perish!''' #[[Rachel Carson]] · If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things that are artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength. #[[Chris Carter]] · '''The [[Truth]] is out there.''' #[[Jimmy Carter]] · '''War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.''' #[[Sydney Carter]] · '''''I danced in the morning When the world was begun, And I danced in the moon And the stars and the sun''', And I came down from heaven And I danced on the earth, At Bethlehem I had my birth.'' · '''By [[w:Christ|Christ]] I mean not only [[Jesus]]; in other times and places, other planets, there may be other Lords of the Dance. But Jesus is the one I know of first and best.''' I sing of the dancing pattern in the life and words of Jesus. · '''''Your holy hearsay is not evidence. Give me the [[w:Good news (Christianity)|good news]] in the present tense.''' What happened nineteen hundred years ago May not have happened. How am I to know? '''So shut your Bibles up and show me how The Christ you talk about Is living now.''''' #[[Casablanca (film)|''Casablanca'']] · I've got a job to do too. Where I'm going, you can't follow. What I've got to do, you can't be any part of. Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that. '''Here's looking at you, kid.''' #[[Giacomo Casanova]] · I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent. · Reason is a particle of the Creator's divinity. When we use it with a spirit of humility and justice we are certain to please the Giver of that precious gift. #[[Keisha Castle-Hughes]] <!-- began actual article when I posted sourced quote and layout after user posted simple comment of praise for the actress --> #[[Cat Power]] · We all do what we can So we can do just one more thing We can all be free … '''You’ve got to choose a wish or command At the turn of the tide.''' #''[[The Catcher in the Rye]]'' · I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff — I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and ''catch'' them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye… #[[Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge]] · I really hope I can make a difference, even in the smallest way. I am looking forward to helping as much as I can. #[[Catherine II of Russia|Catherine II of Russia (Catherine the Great)]] · '''I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.''' · The Laws ought to be so framed, that no one Citizen should stand in Fear of another; but that all of them should stand in Fear of the same Laws. #[[Edith Cavell]] · '''I can’t stop while there are lives to be saved.''' · Standing as I do in view of God and eternity, '''I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.''' #[[Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood]] · In the end, the character and the prosperity of the nation depend on the character of the individuals that compose it... · The vast majority of the peoples of the world are against war and against aggression. If they make their wishes known and effective, war can be stopped. #[[Harry Chapin]] · '''''All my life's a circle; But I can't tell you why; Season's spinning round again; The years keep rollin' by.''' · Music was his life, it was not his livelihood, And it made him feel so happy and it made him feel so good. And he sang from his heart and he sang from his soul. He did not know how well he sang; It just made him whole. · '''Oh, if a man tried To take his time on earth And prove before he died What one man's life could be worth, I wonder what would happen to this world.''''' #[[Charlie Chaplin]] · '''I am an individual and a believer in liberty. That is all the politics I have.''' · My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. · '''I remain just one thing, and one thing only — and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.''' #[[René Char]] · '''For me lightning lasts.''' · A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams. · '''I believe in the magic and authority of words.''' #[[Pierre Teilhard de Chardin]] · '''We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.''' · The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. '''And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.''' #[[Ray Charles]] · Soul is when you take a song and make it a part of you — a part that's so true, so real, people think it must have happened to you. … It's like electricity — we don't really know what it is, do we? But it's a force that can light a room. Soul is like electricity, like a spirit, a drive, a power. #[[G. K. Chesterton]] · '''Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.''' · What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism. · '''The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know that they are dogmas.''' · It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. '''Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.''' · You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. · One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place. · '''[[Mysticism]] keeps men sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.''' · A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to combine a strong desire for living with a strange carelessness about dying. · I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself. · There is something to be said for every error; but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous. · '''A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.''' · The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade all the other people how good they are. It has been proved a hundred times over that if you really wish to enrage people and make them angry, even unto death, the right way to do it is to tell them that they are all the sons of God. · Let the thunder break on man and beast and bird And the lightning. It is something to have been. · '''I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.''' · There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes or other normal amusements of mankind. · '''Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.''' · If we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse. · '''Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.''' #''[[Childhood's End]]'' #''[[The Children's Hour]]'' #[[Francis Pharcellus Church]] · '''There is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart.''' Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. <br> No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. '''A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.''' #[[Circles]] · Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. ~ [[Albert Einstein]] · Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace. ~ [[Albert Schweitzer]] · Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle. ~ [[Black Elk]] #[[Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army]] · '''You could be part of a fighting force armed with ruthless love and fully trained in the ancient art of clowning and [[w:Nonviolence|non-violent]] [[w:Direct action|direct action]].''' You could learn ingeniously stupid tactics that baffle the powerful. You could uncover your inner clown and discover the subversive freedom of fooling. You don't need to like clowns or soldiers, you just need to love life and laughter as much as rebellion. · '''I stand ready to deploy, engage, and use clown logic to change my enemies into friends and then into clowns.''' I am a harbinger of freedom, fun, and friendship, the clown's way of life. '''I am a rebel clown.''' #[[James Clavell]] · '''The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world — and the most dangerous.''' · To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral down into ever-increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline — training — is about. · '''All stories have a beginning, a middle and an ending, and if they're any good, the ending is a beginning.''' #[[Hillary Rodham Clinton]] · There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. #[[Coen brothers]] · Something pretty fucking weird is going on. #[[Leonard Cohen]] · '''''I'm guided by a [[signal]] in the [[heavens]] I'm guided by this birthmark on my skin''' I'm guided by the [[beauty]] of our weapons First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin.'' · ''I did my best, it wasn't much I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch I've told the [[truth]], I didn't come to [[fool]] you. And even though it all went [[wrong]] I'll stand before the Lord of [[Song]] With nothing on my tongue but [[w:Hallelujah|Hallelujah]]''. · ''Like a bird on the wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir I have tried in my way to be free.'' · '''What is a [[saint]]? A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love.''' Contact with this energy results in the exercise of a kind of balance in the chaos of existence. '''A saint does not dissolve the chaos; if he did the world would have changed long ago. I do not think that a saint dissolves the chaos even for himself, for there is something arrogant and warlike in the notion of a man setting the universe in order. It is a kind of balance that is his glory.''' He rides the drifts like an escaped ski. His course is the caress of the hill. His track is a drawing of the snow in a moment of its particular arrangement with wind and rock. '''Something in him so loves the world that he gives himself to the laws of gravity and chance. Far from flying with the angels, he traces with the fidelity of a seismograph needle the state of the solid bloody landscape.''' His house is dangerous and finite, but he is at home in the world. He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the [[heart]]. '''It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of [[love]].''' #[[Nat King Cole]] · ''Straighten up and fly right Straighten up and fly right Cool down, papa, don't you blow your top.'' #[[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]] · '''All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame.''' · Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating truth. · '''If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil. He cannot stop at the beast. The most savage of men are not beasts; they are worse, a great deal worse.''' · It is a flat'ning Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say. · '''He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.''' · No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. · ''Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.'' · I pass, like night, from land to land; I have strange power of speech; That moment that his face I see, I know the man that must hear me: To him my tale I teach. · If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake — Aye, what then? #[[Colette]] · '''I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.''' · Total absence of humor renders life impossible. · '''You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.''' #''[[The Confidence-Man]]'' <!-- material moved out from the [[Herman Melville]] page by someone else, but nearly all of that, if not absolutely all of it, originally placed there by me. -->· Well, there is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is. · What creature but a madman would not rather do good than ill, when it is plain that, good or ill, it must return upon himself? · '''Mystery is in the morning, and mystery in the night, and the beauty of mystery is everywhere.''' · You have hearkened to my story in vain, if you do not see that, however indulgent and right-minded I may seem to you now, that is no guarantee for the future. · Every great town is a kind of man-show, where the novelist goes for his stock, just as the agriculturist goes to the cattle-show for his. · How can that be trustworthy that teaches distrust? · '''Something further may follow of this Masquerade.''' #[[Joseph Conrad]] <!-- Add first quotes to what had been a page with just a descriptive paragraph --> · ''The horror! The horror!'' · '''The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.''' · It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose. · '''Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!!''' #[[Anne Conway]] · '''Life and figure are distinct attributes of one substance''', and as one and the same body may be transmuted into all kinds of figures; and as the perfecter figure comprehends that which is more imperfect; so '''one and the same body may be transmuted from one degree of life to another more perfect, which always comprehends in it the inferior.''' #[[Diana Cooper]] · I'm not sure you know human love in the way I do. · It has always been my temptation to put myself in other people's shoes: even into a horse's shoes as he strains before the heavy dray; into a ballerina's points as she feels age weigh upon her spring… With experience of age I have learned to control this habit of sympathy which deforms truth. #[[Elvis Costello]] · '''''Alison, I know this world is killing you. Oh, Alison, my aim is true.''''' · My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant, someone who disrupts the daily drag of life just enough to leave the victim thinking there's maybe more to it all than the mere hum-drum quality of existence. · ''I'm giving you a longing look Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book.'' · '''Not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you.''' #[[Courage]] · '''There are periods when...''to dare,'' is the highest wisdom. ~ [[William Ellery Channing]]''' · It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity. It is when we all play safe that fatality will lead us to our doom. ~ [[Dag Hammarskjöld]] · Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. ~ [[William Shakespeare]] · It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies; but a great deal more to stand up to your friends... ~ [[Albus Dumbledore]] · '''Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life. ~ [[E.M. Forster]] #[[Leonard H. Courtney]] · Life often survives all the perversities of training. We cannot absolutely nullify the prodigality of nature, try as hard as we may. · '''The price of peace is eternal vigilance.''' #[[William Cowper]] · ''Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. · '''God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.''' · His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour; The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower. · '''Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.''''' #[[Dinah Craik]] · '''It may often be noticed, the less virtuous people are, the more they shrink away from the slightest whiff of the odour of un-sanctity. The good are ever the most charitable, the pure are the most brave.''' · Oh, the comfort — the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person — having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. · '''We have not to construct human nature afresh, but to take it as we find it, and make the best of it.''' · You rarely can make another happy, unless you are happy yourself. · '''Let every one of us cultivate, in every word that issues from our mouth, absolute truth.''' · There never was night that had no morn. · '''Silence sweeter is than speech.''' #[[Nathalia Crane]] · The world is growing gentle, But few know what she owes To the understanding lily And the judgment of the rose. · '''You cannot choose your battlefield, God does that for you; But you can plant a standard Where a standard never flew.''' #[[Crazy Horse]] · A very great vision is needed, and the man who has it must follow it as the eagle seeks the deepest blue of the sky. · Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that one. ~ [[Black Elk]] #[[Lee Daniel Crocker]] · '''If [[rules]] make you nervous and depressed, and not desirous of participating in the Wiki, then ignore them and go about your [[business]].''' #[[John Crowley]] · '''Love is a myth. So is summer.''' · She wondered whether her head were so big as to be able to contain all this starry universe, or whether the universe were so little that it would fit within the compass of her human head. · The immense laughter of [[Giordano Bruno|Bruno]] when he understood that [[Nicolaus Copernicus|Copernicus]] had inverted the universe — what was it but joy in the confirmation of his knowledge that '''Mind, in the center of all, contains within it all that it is the center of?''' ... the Universe exploded into infinitude, a circle of which Mind, the center, was everywhere and the circumference nowhere. · '''The universe is Time's body.''' #[[E. E. Cummings]] · '''I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.''' · To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. · '''love is the every only god''' #[[Marie Curie]] · Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. · '''Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.''' #[[The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (film)|''The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'' (film)]] · '''Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.''' · Some people were born to sit by a river. Some get struck by lightning. Some have an ear for music. Some are artists. Some swim. Some know buttons. Some know [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]. Some are mothers. And some people — ''dance''. #''[[Book of Daniel]]'' · '''At that time shall [[Michael (archangel)|Michael]] stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.''' <br> And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever. <br>''' But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.''' #[[The Da Vinci Code (film)|''The Da Vinci Code'' (film)]] · The keystone is well hidden. · '''We are what we protect, what we stand up for.''' #[[Neil Diamond]] · "I am," I said To no one there And no one heard at all Not even the chair "I am," I cried "I am," said I And I am lost, and I can't even say why #[[Johnny Damon]] · We are not the cowboys anymore — we are just the idiots this year. #[[Abraham Davenport]] · I am against an adjournment. The day of judgment is either approaching, or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause of an adjournment: if it is, I choose to be found doing my duty. · '''With all reverence, I would say, let God do His work, we will see to ours. Bring in the candles.''' #[[Stephen Decatur]] · Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong. #[[John Dee]] · '''That which is affected at the periphery, however large it may be, cannot in any way lack the support of the central point.''' #[[Edgar Degas]] · A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people. · '''I should like to be famous and unknown.''' #[[Ellen DeGeneres]] · If we don't want to define ourselves by things as superficial as our appearances, we're stuck with the revolting alternative of being judged by our actions, by what we do. · '''Procrastinate now, don't put it off.''' #[[J. M. DeMatteis]] · In the end, it doesn’t matter whether the transmission is instant or unfolds slowly, it’s the opening up that’s so magical. That moment of realizing that you’re connected to something so much bigger than yourself. · I understand the most profound and simplest Truth of all: '''Any time any of us reaches out, any time we pour even a drop of love, compassion, simple human decency (no matter how small; how seemingly insignificant) into the sea of earthly existence — we are, each and every one of us — the being called Mercy.''' #[[Democratic Party (United States)]] · I am not a member of any organized party — I am a Democrat. ~ [[Will Rogers]] · I'm really not a very comfortable Democrat. I mean the Democrats in the last elections proved themselves to be a bunch of dithering pussies... and it was pathetic. So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone. ~ [[John Perry Barlow]] #[[Vincent de Paul]] · The most powerful weapon to conquer the devil is humility. For, as he does not know at all how to employ it, neither does he know how to defend himself from it. · However great the work that God may achieve by an individual, he must not indulge in self-satisfaction. He ought rather to be all the more humbled, seeing himself merely as a tool which God has made use of. #[[Zooey Deschanel]] · '''I somehow see what's [[beautiful]] In things that are ephemeral''' · For those of you who thought you'd be forgotten, The [[friends]] you've made will try their best, to make it so. Think of all the beauty that you left behind you. You can take it if you want it, and then let it go. · [[w:Orpheus|Orpheus]] melted the heart of [[w:Persephone|Persephone]], but I never had yours I followed you back to the end of the path, but I never found the door · I like to learn things slow I like learning alot '''I like to get it all again and in the end You know you get what you got''' #[[Desert]] · It is the [[real]], and not the map, whose vestiges persist here and there in the deserts that are no longer those of the Empire, but ours: ''the desert of the real itself''. ~ [[Jean Baudrillard]] · The desert takes our [[dreams]] away from us, and they don't always return. ~ [[Paulo Coelho]] · '''They make a desert and call it [[peace]].''' ~ [[Tacitus]] ~ What makes the desert [[beautiful]] is that it hides, somewhere, a well.''' ~ [[Antoine de Saint Exupéry]], in ''[[The Little Prince]]'' #[[Jackie DeShannon]] · If you want the world to know We won't let hatred grow Put a little love in your heart. · '''There can be a new tomorrow There can be a brighter day There can be a new tomorrow Love will find a way.''' #[[Ronald DeWolf]] · Cults are as dangerous as drugs. They commit the highest crime: the rape of the soul. #''[[Dhammapada]]'' · '''Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.''' · Those who are in earnest do not die, those who are thoughtless are as if dead already. · Hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love, this is an old rule. · '''Better than a thousand hollow words Is one word that brings peace.''' #[[Emily Dickinson]] ·''' "[[Hope]]" is the thing with feathers — That perches in the soul — And sings the tune without the words — And never stops — at all —''' · I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you — Nobody — Too? … How dreary — to be — Somebody! How public — like a Frog — To tell one's name — the livelong June — To an admiring Bog! · '''If I can stop one heart from breaking I shall not live in vain...''' #''[[Dilbert]]'' · If I had a good attitude in this situation, it would be a sign of mental imbalance. My bad attitude is proof that I am thinking clearly. '''Are you going to compliment me on my clarity or demand I be irrational?''' #[[Dionysius I of Syracuse]] · '''Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.''' #[[Paul Dirac]] · It seems clear that the present quantum mechanics is not in its final form. · '''It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress.''' # '''[[The Doctor]]''' (of ''[[Doctor Who]]'') · I have a thing. It's like a plan, but with more greatness. #'''[[:Template:Doctor Who]]''' # — [[Rose Tyler]] · I am the Bad Wolf. I create myself. I take the words — I scatter them in time and space … a message to lead myself here. # — [[Donna Noble]] · He saves planets, rescues civilizations, defeats terrible creatures... and runs a lot. Seriously, there is an ''outrageous'' amount of running involved. # — [[Martha Jones]] · My name isn't important. There's someone else. The man who sent me out there, the man who told me to walk the Earth. And his name is [[The Doctor]]. He has saved your lives so many times and you never even knew he was there. He never stops. He never stays. He never asks to be thanked. But I've seen him, I know him... I love him... And I know what he can do. # — [[Amy Pond]] · There's someone coming. I don't know where he is, or what he's doing, but trust me, he's on his way. # — [[River Song]] · You make them so afraid. When you began, all those years ago, sailing off to see the universe, did you ever think you’d become this? The man who can turn an army around at the mention of his name? Doctor – the word for healer, and wise man, throughout the universe. We get that word from you, you know. But if you carry on the way you are, what might that word come to mean? To the people of the Gamma Forests, the word ‘doctor’ means ‘mighty warrior’. How far you’ve come. And now they’ve taken a child. The child of your best friends. And they’re going to turn her into a weapon, just to bring you down. And all this, my love...in fear of you. # — [[Clara Oswald]] · Do you [[know]] how you make someone into a [[Dalek]]? Subtract [[love]], add [[anger]]. · '''Run … run, you clever boy … and [[Memory|remember]].''' # —x— [[Great Intelligence]]‎ · I have feasted on many [[minds]], I have grown, but now it is time for you to reduce. # —x— [[Master (Doctor Who)]] (this was merged into [[The Master]]) · Before we start all that, I just wanted to say: thank you. Thank you, one and all, you ugly, fat-faced bunch of wet, snivelling ''traitors''. # —x— [[Rassilon]] · '''It is said that in the final days of planet [[Earth]], everyone had [[bad]] [[dreams]].''' #[[John Donne]] · '''Any mans ''death'' diminishes ''me'', because I am involved in ''Mankinde''; And therefore never send to know for whom the ''bell'' tolls; It tolls for ''thee''.''' · At the round earth's imagin'd corners, blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls, and to your scattred bodies go. · '''One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.''' · Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy's stinging, And find What wind Serves to advance an honest mind. · '''For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.''' #[[Donovan]] · '''For me to love you now Would be the sweetest thing, 'Twould make me sing, Ah, but I may as well try and catch the wind.''' · I wanted to save our culture from the stupidity and the bigotry and the ignorance that threatened it. · Mmm... must be the season of the witch. · '''Wear your love like heaven.''' #[[Doom]] · Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday. ~ [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]] #''[[The Doors of Perception]]'' · We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes. · '''What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time. His perception is not limited to what is biologically or socially useful.''' #[[Fyodor Dostoevsky]] · '''I am a ridiculous man.''' They call me a madman now. That would be a distinct rise in my social position were it not that they still regard me as being as ridiculous as ever. · '''Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.''' · A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest form of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal in satisfying his vices. And it all comes from lying — to others and to yourself. · '''Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.''' · The characteristics of our romantics are to understand everything, ''to see everything and to see it often incomparably more clearly than our most realistic minds see it''; to refuse to accept anyone or anything, but at the same time not to despise anything… · '''Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.''' #[[Francis Drake]] · '''There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.''' #[[Jimmy Driftwood]] · Ole Hickory said we could take 'em by surprise, If we didn't fire our muskets 'til we looked 'em in the eyes. #[[William Drummond of Hawthornden]] · God never had a church but there, men say, The Devil a chapel hath raised by some wyles. · '''This Life, which seems so fair, Is like a bubble blown up in the air By sporting children's breath, Who chase it everywhere.''' #[[Dudeism]] · Legend has it that a Chinaman by the name of [[w:Laozi|Lao Tzu]] one day said “Fuck it” (loosely translated from the Chinese), hopped on a water buffalo (possibly with rust coloration), and started heading a-way out west to Tibet. · The rug is only a fabrication which ties the room together. · The pure undogmatic centre of lots of traditions ([[Christianity]], [[w:Vedism|Vedism]], [[Buddhism]] etc) is all the same. And that's Dudeism. #[[Dunce]] · We all know that a conceited dunce will decide questions extemporaneous which would puzzle a college of philosophers, or a bench of judges. Ignorant and shallow-minded men do not see far enough to see the difficulty. ~ [[Horace Mann]] · '''When a great [[genius]] appears in the world the dunces are all in confederacy against him.''' ~ [[Jonathan Swift]] #''[[Dune]]'' · '''[[w:Paul Atreides|Muad'Dib]] learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. … Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson.''' · He was warrior and mystic, ogre and saint, the fox and the innocent, chivalrous, ruthless, less than a god, more than a man. There is no measuring Muad'Dib's motives by ordinary standards. · '''Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.''' · Power bases are very dangerous because they attract people who are truly insane, people who seek power only for the sake of power. · '''All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.''' · Does the prophet see the future or does he see a line of weakness, a fault or cleavage that he may shatter with words or decisions as a diamond-cutter shatters his gem with a blow of a knife? · '''When strangers meet, great allowances should be made for differences of custom and training.''' · You do not take from this universe. It grants you what it will. · '''The best prophets lead you up to the curtain and let you peer through for yourself.''' · The oracle shapes a projected inner universe to produce new external probabilities out of forces that are not understood. There is no need to understand these forces before using them to shape the physical universe. · '''Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time.''' · Live the best life you can. Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hilt. · '''If you need something to worship, then worship life — all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!''' #[[Dune (film)|''Dune'' (film)]] · '''Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.''' · My own name is a killing word. Will it be a healing word as well? · Usul, we have wormsign the likes of which even God has never seen. · '''Try looking into that place where you dare not look. You'll find me there, staring back at you.''' #[[Kirsten Dunst]] · I just try to choose the scripts that have the best characters for myself, or would be the most challenging, or fun. #[[Jimmy Durante]] · '''''Everybody wants ta get inta da act!''''' · Don't put no constrictions on da people. Leave 'em ta hell alone. · '''Be awful nice to 'em goin' up, because you're gonna meet 'em all comin' down.''' · Goodnight Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are. #[[Bob Dylan]]<!-- created legitimate quote page out of illegitimate article dump --> · '''How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man? How many seas must a white dove sail before she sleeps in the sand?''' · I ain't looking for you to feel like me, see like me, or be like me. · '''I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity.''' · The enemy is subtle, how be it we're deceived? When the truth's in our hearts and we still don't believe? · Come all without, come all within, You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn. · May you build a ladder to the stars and climb on every rung. May your song always be sung, May you stay forever young. · '''You don't need a weather man To know which way the wind blows''' · Oh, the tree of life is growing where the spirit never dies And the bright light of salvation shines in dark and empty skies. · '''Well I tried my best to be just like I am, but everybody wants you to be just like them.''' · Behind every beautiful thing there's been some kind of pain. · '''Don't ask me nothin' about nothin'. I just might tell you the truth.''' #[[Jakob Dylan]] · It's hard to admit but it's easy to tell That evil is alive and well. · Got my window open wide Got a good woman by my side · '''Something good this way comes.''' #[[Freeman Dyson]] · '''To talk about the end of science is just as foolish as to talk about the end of religion. Science and religion are both still close to their beginnings, with no ends in sight.''' Science and religion are both destined to grow and change in the millennia that lie ahead of us, perhaps solving some old mysteries, certainly discovering new mysteries of which we yet have no inkling. · '''Trouble arises when either science or religion claims universal jurisdiction, when either religious dogma or scientific dogma claims to be infallible.''' Religious creationists and scientific materialists are equally dogmatic and insensitive. By their arrogance they bring both science and religion into disrepute. · It appears that mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent inherent in every atom. The universe as a whole is also weird, with laws of nature that make it hospitable to the growth of mind. I do not make any clear distinction between mind and God. God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the scale of our comprehension. · '''Both as a scientist and as a religious person, I am accustomed to living with uncertainty.''' Science is exciting because it is full of unsolved mysteries, and religion is exciting for the same reason. The greatest unsolved mysteries are the mysteries of our existence as conscious beings in a small corner of a vast universe. · We stand, in a manner of speaking, midway between the unpredictability of atoms and the unpredictability of God. · Religion amplifies the good and evil tendencies of individual souls. · '''Progress in religion means that, as time goes on, religion more and more takes the side of the victims against the oppressors.''' · The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible. #''[[Eat Pray Love]]'' · If you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher and if you are prepared, most of all, to face and forgive some very difficult realities about yourself, then the truth will not be withheld from you. · '''To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.''' #[[John Carew Eccles]] · We have to recognize that we are spiritual beings with souls existing in a spiritual world as well as material beings with bodies and brains existing in a material world. · The hypothesis has been proposed that all mental events and experiences, in fact the whole of the outer and inner sensory experiences, are a composite of elemental or unitary mental experiences at all levels of intensity. #[[Meister Eckhart]] · '''If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "Thank You", that would suffice.''' · The aim of man is beyond the temporal — in the serene region of the everlasting Present. · Love is the root of all joy and sorrow. Slavish fear of God is to be put away. The right fear is the fear of losing God. · '''The eye with which I see God is the same with which God sees me. My eye and God's eye is one eye, and one sight, and one knowledge, and one love.''' #[[Ego]] · '''One always treads with a [[joyful]] step when one has dropped the burden called the ego.''' ~ [[Anthony de Mello]] · The [[Saint]] is a man who disciplines his ego. '''The Sage is a man who rids himself of his ego. ~ [[Wei Wu Wei]] #[[Ferdinand Eisenstein]] · Beginning from the individual theorems, I grew accustomed to delve more deeply into their relationships and to grasp whole theories as a single entity. That is how I conceived the idea of mathematical beauty... #[[Mohamed ElBaradei]] · '''I think the ultimate sense of security will be when we come to recognize that we are all part of one human race. Our primary allegiance is to the human race and not to one particular color or border.''' · Civil society is becoming better informed and more engaged. They are pressing their governments for change — to create democratic societies based on diversity, tolerance and equality. They are proposing creative solutions. They are raising awareness, donating funds, working to transform civic spirit from the local to the global. Working to bring the human family closer together. '''What is required is a new mindset and a change of heart, to be able to see the person across the ocean as our neighbour.''' #[[Mircea Eliade]] · '''The crises of modern man are to a large extent religious ones, insofar as they are an awakening of his awareness to an absence of meaning.''' · Myth is an extremely complex cultural reality, which can be approached and interpreted from various and complementary viewpoints. · '''For those to whom a stone reveals itself as sacred, its immediate reality is transmuted into supernatural reality. In other words, for those who have a religious experience all nature is capable of revealing itself as cosmic sacrality.''' · A religious phenomenon will only be recognized as such if it is grasped at its own level, that is to say, if it is studied as something religious. To try to grasp the essence of such phenomenon by means of physiology, psychology, sociology, economics, linguistics, art or any other study is false; it misses the one unique and irreducible element in it — the element of the sacred. · '''The Experience of Sacred Space makes possible the "founding of the world": where the sacred Manifests itself in space, the real unveils itself, the world comes into existence.''' · In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time. · '''Man becomes aware of the sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the profane.''' #[[T. S. Eliot]] · Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. · '''It is impossible to say just what I mean!''' · Do I dare Disturb the universe? · '''I will show you fear in a handful of dust.''' · Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow · '''Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger. Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.''' · In the vacant places We will build with new bricks · '''However you disguise it, this thing does not change: The perpetual struggle of Good and Evil.''' · The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious. · '''We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.''' · The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By this, and this only, we have existed. #[[Elizabeth I of England]] · Much suspected by me, Nothing proved can be, Quoth Elizabeth prisoner. · I grieve and dare not show my discontent, I love and yet am forced to seem to hate, I do, yet dare not say I ever meant, I seem stark mute but inwardly do prate. #[[Cass Elliot|Cass Eliot ("Mama" Cass)]] · '''Our job as entertainers is to ease some pain. So to begin with, you have to know what and where the pain is.''' · I've heard that story about kids are high naturally, but I've seen kids that aren't high, kids who've had the high taken out of them. · '''I think the unique thing about music and graphic art is as oposed to, say, acting and directing, that if you are good you can always create a place for yourself.''' #[[Michael Ende]] · '''Time is Life.''' · Human passions have mysterious ways, in children as well as grown-ups. Those affected by them can't explain them, and those who haven't known them have no understanding of them at all. · '''There are people that can't go to Fantastica. There are those who can but never return. And there are just a few who go to Fantastica and come back. And they make both worlds well again.''' · Lots of things take time, and time was Momo's only form of wealth. #''[[The English Patient]]'' · '''Betrayals during war are childlike compared with our betrayals during peace.''' New lovers are nervous and tender, but smash everything. '''For the heart is an organ of fire.''' · We die, we die rich with lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have entered and swum up like rivers, fears we have hidden in, like this wretched cave. '''We are the real countries, not the boundaries drawn on maps with the names of powerful men.''' I know you will come and carry me out into the palace of winds. '''That's all I've wanted — to walk in such a place with you, with friends, on earth without maps.''' #[[Epictetus]] · '''It is difficulties that show what men are.''' · If a man would pursue Philosophy, his first task is to throw away conceit. For it is impossible for a man to begin to learn what he has a conceit that he already knows. · '''Try to enjoy the great festival of life with other men.''' · Thou shalt not blame or flatter any. · '''Everything has two handles, the one by which it may be carried, the other by which it cannot.''' · Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions. · '''Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else.''' · First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. #[[Epicurus]] · '''Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth.''' · A happy and eternal being has no trouble himself and brings no trouble upon any other being; hence he is exempt from movements of anger and partiality, for every such movement implies weakness. · '''He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing.''' · Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul. · '''It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and honorably and justly, and it is impossible to live wisely and honorably and justly without living pleasantly.''' #[[Erik Erikson]] · Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death. #[[Essence]] ·  '''What is the essence of our [[God]]? The struggle for freedom.''' … For the essence of our ethic is not the salvation of man, who varies within time and space, but the salvation of God, who within a wide variety of flowing human forms and adventures is always the same, the indestructible rhythm which battles for freedom. <br> We, as human beings, are all miserable persons, heartless, small, insignificant. But within us a superior essence drives us ruthlessly upward. <br> From within this human mire divine songs have welled up, great ideas, violent loves, an unsleeping assault full of [[mystery]], without beginning or end, without purpose, beyond every [[purpose]]. ~ [[Nikos Kazantzakis]] #[[Euripides]] · '''Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.''' · There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course: a quiet conscience. · I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known. · '''I hold that mortal foolish who strives against the stress of necessity.''' · Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent. · '''Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.''' #[[Edward Everett]] · '''Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.''' · The great object of all knowledge is to enlarge and purify the soul. #[[Excalibur (comics)|''Excalibur'']] · '''You forget — dreams are sometimes windows to other realities. … and waking doesn't always make things better.''' · I know who I am — who I care for, who I don't — that's what matters. The rest I can take or leave. · '''The sword [[w:Excalibur|Excalibur]], represented [[Hope]]. It was light in the darkness of fear and ignorance and hate.''' Do we want — have we the right — to snuff it out? '''I've run my whole life. I can't remember when I wasn't afraid.''' I let people tell me what to do — because it's easier that way, y'know … saves you the from having to take responsibility for anything. '''Well, I'm tired of running. I want to make a stand.''' Because if I don't then maybe I better let the warwolves carry me back … to their make-believe world … where I belong. A world of illusion and artifice, where whatever sells best gets the glory … whether it's truth or lies. · '''And so — with laughter and transcendent joy — the dream is reconstructed — and ''Excalibur'' … that most ancient and noble blade … is once more redrawn.''' #[[Existentialism]] · '''From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity.''' ~ [[Simone de Beauvoir]] #''[[Fahrenheit 451]]'' · '''Books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.''' #[[Fairy tale]] · I hate [[good]] wizards in fairy tales; they always turn out to be '''''[[The Doctor|him]]'''''. ~ [[River Song]] #[[Fanaticism]] · The fanatical believer is not conscious of his envy, malice, pettiness and dishonesty. There is a wall of words between his consciousness and his real self. ~ [[Eric Hoffer]] · '''It appears to me that one defeats the fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.''' ~ [[George Orwell]] #[[Eleanor Farjeon]] · ''Morning has broken, Like the first morning, Blackbird has spoken Like the first bird.'' · Of what use to destroy the children of evil? It is evil itself we must destroy at the roots. · '''All the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love.''' #[[Frances Farmer]] · There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream. #[[Philip José Farmer]] · The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest. · '''The stars above will be below when man has Love.''' · Resurrection, like politics, makes strange bedfellows. · '''You've beauty, flux, and terror To tell. So've I.''' · The real superhuman, man or woman, is the person who's rid himself of all prejudices, neuroses, and psychoses, who realizes his full potential as a human being, who acts naturally on the basis of gentleness, compassion, and love, who thinks for himself and refuses to follow the herd. #[[Leslie Feist]] · One Two Three Four — Tell me that you love me more… #[[Festivus]] · Festivus is completely flexible. There's no ruling force telling you what to do. Nobody owns it. ~ [[w:Allen Salkin|Allen Salkin]] #[[W. C. Fields]] · I never voted for anybody. I always voted against. #[[Albert Finney]] · Walking around in the spotlight having to be me is not something I'm particularly comfortable with or desire. I'd sooner pretend to be someone else. #[[Edward FitzGerald (poet)]] · Science unrolls a greater epic than the [[Homer|Iliad]]. The present day teems with new discoveries in Fact, which are greater, as regards the soul and prospect of men, than all the disquisitions and quiddities of the Schoolmen. #[[Margot Fonteyn]] · '''The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.''' · Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike. · '''Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.''' #''[[The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth]]'' · '''Great and little cannot understand one another. But in every child born of man … lurks some seed of greatness — waiting for [[Wisdom|the Food]].''' #[[Malcolm Forbes]] · '''Be Nice. Contrary to the cliché, genuinely nice guys most often finish first or very near it.''' I admit it's not easy when you've got a gripe. To be agreeable while disagreeing — that's an art. · '''Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.''' #[[E. M. Forster]] · '''If God could tell the story of the Universe, the Universe would become fictitious.''' · She might yet be able to help him to the building of the rainbow bridge that should connect the prose in us with the passion. Without it we are meaningless fragments, half monks, half beasts, unconnected arches that have never joined into a man. … '''Only connect! ... Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.''' · Tolerance, good temper and sympathy are no longer enough in a world where ignorance rules, and Science, which ought to have ruled, plays the pimp. '''Tolerance, good temper and sympathy — they are what matter really, and if the human race is not to collapse they must come to the front before long.''' · One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life. · '''The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.''' #''[[Four Quartets]]'' <br> … <br>'' '''Time present and time past <br> Are both perhaps present in time future <br> And time future contained in time past.''' <br> … <br> What might have been and what has been <br> Point to one end, which is always present. <br> … <br>''' Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind <br> Cannot bear very much reality.''' <br> … <br> '''Except for the point, the still point, <br> There would be no dance, and there is only the dance. <br> I can only say, there we have been: but I cannot say where <br> And I cannot say, how long, for that is to place it in time. ''' <br> … <br> '''Time past and time future <br> Allow but a little consciousness.''' <br> To be conscious is not to be in time <br> But only in time can the moment in the rose-garden, <br> The moment in the arbour where the rain beat, <br> The moment in the draughty church at smokefall <br> Be remembered; involved with past and future. <br> '''Only through time time is conquered.''' <br> … <br> '''Words strain, <br> Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, <br> Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, <br> Will not stay still.''' <br> … <br> '''In my beginning is my end.''' <br> … <br> '''The only wisdom we can hope to acquire <br> Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.''' <br> … <br> '''In my end is my beginning.''' <br> … <br> Love is most nearly itself <br> When here and now cease to matter. <br> … <br> '''Right action is freedom <br> From past and future also. <br> For most of us, this is the aim <br> Never here to be realised; <br> Who are only undefeated <br> Because we have gone on trying;''' <br> We, content at the last <br> If our temporal reversion nourish <br> (Not too far from the yew-tree) <br> The life of significant soil. <br> … <br> With the drawing of this Love and the voice of this Calling''<p></p>'' '''We shall not cease from exploration <br> And the end of all our exploring <br> Will be to arrive where we started <br> And know the place for the first time.''' <br> … <br> Quick now, here, now, always — <br> A condition of complete simplicity <br> (Costing not less than everything) <br> '''And all shall be well and <br> All manner of thing shall be well <br> When the tongues of flames are in-folded <br> Into the crowned knot of fire <br> And the fire and the rose are one.''' '' #[[Francis of Assisi]] · Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. · Be praised, my Lord, through all your creatures, especially through my lord Brother Sun, who brings the day; and you give light through him. And he is beautiful and radiant in all his splendor! Of you, Most High, he bears the likeness. #[[Frederick Franck‎‎]] · Illusion is the mantle of the Real · '''The religions are delusional constructs formed around an infallible core.''' · It is not that things are delusory but their separateness in the fabric of the Whole that is illusory ·  '''I believe in nothing but God!''' · Does anything live but [[w: Buddha-nature|Buddha Nature]], [[w:Christ (disambiguation)|Christ Spirit]]? · The cross of the Cruxifixion — without the cross of the Resurrection is the symbol of a mutilated Christianity. #[[Viktor Frankl]] · '''A [[thought]] transfixed me: for the first time in my [[life]] I saw the [[truth]] as it is set into [[song]] by so many [[poets]], proclaimed as the final [[wisdom]] by so many thinkers. The truth — that [[love]] is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. '''Then I grasped the [[meaning]] of the [[greatest]] [[secret]] that [[human]] [[poetry]] and human thought and [[belief]] have to impart:''' ''The salvation of [[man]] is through [[love]] and in love.'' '''… For the first [[time]] in my life I was able to understand the meaning of the [[words]], "The [[angels]] are lost in perpetual contemplation of an [[infinite]] [[glory]]." ''' #[[Freemasonry]] · The major offense of Masonry to orthodox churches is that it, like our First Amendment, encourages equal tolerance for all religions, and this tends, somewhat, to lessen dogmatic allegiance to any one religion. Those who insist you must accept their dogma fervently and renounce all others as devilish errors, correctly see this Masonic tendency as inimicable to their faith. #[[Caspar David Friedrich]] · '''The divine is everywhere, even in a grain of sand…''' · All authentic art is conceived at a sacred moment and nourished in a blessed hour; an inner impulse creates it, often without the artist being aware of it. · '''I have to surrender myself to what encircles me, I have to merge with my clouds and rocks in order to be what I am.''' #[[Erich Fromm]] · '''Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves.''' · Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others. · Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either. · '''In the nineteenth century the problem was that ''God is dead''; in the twentieth century the problem is that ''man is dead''.''' · Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and triviality; they cripple man, and all factors that make man into a psychic cripple turn him also into a sadist or a destroyer. · I believe that none can "save" his fellow man by making a choice for him. To help him, he can indicate the possible alternatives, with sincerity and love, without being sentimental and without illusion. The knowledge and awareness of the freeing alternatives can reawaken in an individual all his hidden energies and put him on the path to choosing respect for "life" instead of for "death." · '''Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.''' #[[Robert Frost]] · Earth’s the right place for love: I don’t know where it’s likely to go better. <br> …<br> '''I shall be telling this with a sigh<br>Somewhere ages and ages hence:<br>Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — <br>I took the one less traveled by,<br>And that has made all the difference.''' <br> …<br> '''The woods are lovely, dark and deep,<br>But I have promises to keep,<br>And miles to go before I sleep,<br>And miles to go before I sleep.''' <br> …<br> '''I have kept hidden in the instep arch<br>Of an old cedar at the waterside<br>A broken drinking goblet like the [[Holy Grail|Grail]]<br>Under a spell so the wrong ones can't find it''',<br>So can't get saved, as Saint Mark says they mustn't.<br>(I stole the goblet from the children's playhouse.)<br>'''Here are your waters and your watering place.<br>Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.''' #[[Margaret Fuller]] · '''To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it, seem like the commas and semicolons in the paragraph, mere stops.''' · I never lived, that I remember, what you call a common natural day. All my days are touched by the supernatural, for I feel the pressure of hidden causes, and the presence, sometimes the communion, of unseen powers. · '''Those who seem overladen with electricity frighten those around them.''' · Let us be wise, and not impede the soul ... Let us have one creative energy, one incessant revelation. Let it take what form it will, and let us not bind it by the past to man or woman, black or white. · '''One presence fill and floods the whole serene; Nothing can be, nothing has ever been, Except the one truth that creates the scene.''' #[[Peter Gabriel]] · '''If looks could kill, they probably will In games without frontiers — war without tears.''' · You can blow out a candle But you can't blow out a fire Once the flames begin to catch The wind will blow it higher · ''Don't give up 'cos you have friends Don't give up You're not beaten yet. Don't give up I know you can make it good... Don't give up 'cause somewhere there's a place where we belong.'' · It’s only in uncertainty That we’re naked and alive. · '''Shock the monkey to life.''' #[[George Gamow]] · It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man! #[[Judy Garland]] · '''Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.''' · Wouldn`t it be wonderful if we could all be a little more gentle with each other, and a little more loving, have a little more empathy, and maybe we'd like each other a little bit more. · '''I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.''' #[[Romain Gary]] · '''Humour is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.''' #[[Carl Friedrich Gauss]] · I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half a proof is zero, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible. #[[Marvin Gaye]] · ''Brother, brother, brother There's far too many of you dying. '''You know we've got to find a way To bring some lovin' here today.''''' #[[Geography]] · [[History]] is [[philosophy]] teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology. ~ [[James A. Garfield]] #[[Geronimo]] · I cannot think we are useless or Usen would not have created us. He created all tribes of men and certainly had a righteous purpose in creating each. #[[Ben Gibbard]] · Our band is very polarizing. There are people who absolutely can’t stand us, and people who absolutely can’t live without us. I’d rather spark those kind of polar-opposite feelings than have people be indifferent. #[[Khalil Gibran]] · '''Say not, "I have found the path of the soul." Say rather, "I have found the soul walking upon my path." For the soul walks upon all paths.''' #[[André Gide]] · Sin is whatever obscures the soul. #[[Elizabeth Gilbert‎‎]] · [[Happiness]] is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. #[[Terry Gilliam]] · '''I don't do drugs. I don't like being fucked up.''' I've got enough bizarre chemicals floating around in my head. '''I'm just naturally like this.''' #[[Jean Giraudoux]] · There is no better way of exercising the [[imagination]] than the study of [[law]]. No [[poet]] ever interpreted [[nature]] as freely as a lawyer interprets the [[truth]]. · '''The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.''' #[[John Glenn]] · '''The most important thing we can do is [[Inspiration|inspire]] [[Youth|young]] [[Mind|minds]] and to advance the kind of [[science]], [[Mathematics|math]] and [[technology]] [[education]] that will [[help]] youngsters take us to the next phase of [[space]] [[travel]].''' #''[[Glory Road]]'' · Logic is a feeble reed, friend. "Logic" proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow. · '''[[Magic]] is not [[science]], it is a collection of ways to do things — ways that work but often we don't know why.''' #[[Goddess]] · The goddess awakens in infinite forms and a thousand disguises. She is found where she is least expected, appears out of nowhere and everywhere to illumine the open [[heart]]. ~ [[Starhawk]] #[[Andy Goldsworthy]] · My [[work]] comes first, reasons for it follow. #[[Barry Goldwater]] · Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. #[[The Good Life (2007 film)|''The Good Life'' (2007 film)]] · '''After you die, nothing you ever owned matters, and everything you ever did does.''' #''[[Good Omens]]'' · It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people. · '''For those of angel stock or demon breed, size, and shape, and composition, are simply options.''' #[[Ellen Goodman]] · Global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future. #[[Maxim Gorky]] · '''Your books and maps are of no use if there's no land of righteousness.''' · Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber. '''Yes, a human being can teach another one kindness — very simply!''' · Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man — Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do? #[[Gospel of John]] · '''In the [[beginning]] was the [[Word]], and the Word was with [[God]], and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. [[All]] things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was [[life]]; and the life was the [[light]] of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.''' #[[Gospel of Luke]] · Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more. ~ [[Jesus]] #[[Gospel of Mark]] · And it came to pass in those days, that [[Jesus]] came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan. And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the [[Spirit]] like a [[dove]] descending upon him: And there came a voice from [[heaven]], saying, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.''' <br /> And immediately the spirit driveth him into the wilderness. #''[[Great Expectations]]'' · '''Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.''' #[[Stephen Grellet]] · '''I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.''' #[[Alfred Whitney Griswold]] · In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. '''The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.''' #[[Groupthink]] · We are not talking about mere instinctive conformity — it is, after all, a perennial failing of [[mankind]]. What we are talking about is a rationalized conformity — an open, articulate philosophy which holds that group values are not only expedient but [[right]] and [[good]] as well. ~ [[w:William H. Whyte|William H. Whyte]] · '''I use the term [[w:groupthink|groupthink]] as a quick and easy way to refer to the mode of [[thinking]] that persons engage in when concurrence-seeking becomes so dominant in a cohesive ingroup that it tends to override realistic appraisal of alternative courses of [[action]].''' ~ [[w:Irving Janis|Irving Janis]] #[[G. I. Gurdjieff]] · '''I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.''' · The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness. · '''By teaching others you will learn yourself.''' #[[Haile Selassie I|Haile Selassie I]] · This age above all ages is a period in history when it should be our prime duty to preach the Gospel of [[Grace]] to all our fellow men and women. #[[Alex Haley‎‎]] · '''Find the good — and praise it.''' #[[Evelyn Beatrice Hall]] (wrote as S.G. Tallentyre) · '''I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.''' #[[Harry Harrison]] · Cold-blooded killing is just not my thing. I've killed in self-defence, I'll not deny that, but I still maintain an exaggerated respect for life in all forms. #[[Dag Hammarskjöld]] · Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. A mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning. · '''For all that has been — Thanks. For all that shall be — Yes.''' #''[[Hancock (film)|Hancock]]'' · ''Gods. Angels.'' Different cultures call us by different names. Now all of a sudden it's "superhero." · '''Do I look like I care what people think?''' #[[Robert J. Hanlon]] · '''Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.''' #[[Harmony]] · ''I'd like to teach the world to sing <br> In perfect harmony''… ~ [[w:Billy Davis|Billy Davis]] #''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2]]'' · Dumbledore trusted me to see this through. #[[Lorenz Hart]] · ''Blue Moon, You saw me standing alone, Without a dream in my heart, Without a love of my own'' #[[Juliana Hatfield]] · '''A heart that hurts, is a heart, a heart that works.''' #[[Anne Hathaway]] · My entire film career's been dependent on my ability to look unattractive. #[[Sophie B. Hawkins]] · Every season has it's change And I will see you When the sun comes out again. #[[Helen Hayes]] · '''What is important is that one is capable of [[love]]. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of [[eternity]].''' #[[William Hazlitt]] · Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be. #[[Piet Hein]] · Man is the animal that draws lines which he himself then stumbles over. #[[Robert A. Heinlein]] <!-- [[Robert Heinlein]] begun 3 November 2003 as Moby; contents later merged into current page of later creation --> One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen. · Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it. · '''Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.''' #[[Lillian Hellman]] · I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashions, even though I long ago came to the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group. #[[Ernest Hemingway]] · Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. · '''If we win here we will win everywhere. The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.''' #[[Jimi Hendrix]] · Acting funny, but I don't know why, 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky. #[[William Ernest Henley]] · It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, '''I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.''' #[[O. Henry]] · It ain't the roads we take; it's what's inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do. #[[Audrey Hepburn]] · I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing. · I am proud to have been in a business that gives pleasure, creates beauty, and awakens our conscience, arouses compassion, and perhaps most importantly, gives millions a respite from our so violent world. #[[Frank Herbert]] · It is demonstrable that power structures tend to attract people who want power for the sake of power and that a significant proportion of such people are imbalanced — in a word, insane. · '''Learning a language represents training in the delusions of that language.''' #[[Alexander Herrmann]] · '''Long years of training and exercise alone will not make a [[Magic|magician]].''' … There must be some natural aptitude for the [[art]]; it must be born in a man, and can never be acquired by rule. He must be alert both in body and in mind; cool and calculating to the movement of a muscle under all circumstances; a close student of men and human nature. To these qualifications he must add the rather incongruous quality of a mind turning on contradictions. '''With a scientific cause he must produce a seemingly opposite effect to that warranted by order and system. I know of no life requiring such a series of opposite qualities as the magician's.''' · '''I have not drawn a very rosy picture of the magician. I did not intend to do so.''' To the novice entering the life and promising himself ease, indolence, and wealth, I should say, "'''Don't!'''" #[[John Herschel]] · Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue. #[[Werner Herzog]] · That man is a head taller than me. '''That may change.''' #[[Hirohito]] · Unite your total strength, to be devoted to construction for the future. #[[Albert Hofmann]] · When you study natural science and the miracles of creation, if you don't turn into a [[Mysticism|mystic]] you are not a natural scientist. #[[Billie Holiday]] · No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music. #[[Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.]] · '''Beware how you take away ''[[hope]]'' from any human being.''' · [[Time]], time only, can gradually wean us from our [[w:Epeolatry|Epeolatry]], or word-worship, by spiritualizing our ideas of the thing signified. · '''There isn't a text in the Bible better worth keeping always in mind than that one, "Judge not, that ye be not judged."''' #[[Sherlock Holmes]] <!-- create page of actual content rather than vandalsim --> · I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go. · '''How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?''' #[[Eric Hoffer]] · '''In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.''' #[[Holy Grail]] · ''Doing the mind guerrilla, Some call it [[magic]] — the search for the grail.'' ~ [[John Lennon]] · The quest for the Grail is not archeology, it's a race against [[evil]]. ~ ''[[Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade]]'' #[[Herbert Hoover]] · Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. #[[Horton Hears a Who! (film)|''Horton Hears a Who!'' (film)]] · I meant what I said, and I said what I meant, and an elephant's faithful one hundred percent! ... That's my code — my motto. #[[Harry Houdini]] · I knew, as everyone knows, that the easiest way to attract a crowd is to let it be known that at a given time and a given place some one is going to attempt something that in the event of failure will mean sudden death. · '''BELIEVE''' #[[John Howe]] #[[John Howe (artist)]] #[[John Howe (cleric)]] #[[Julia Ward Howe]] #[[Alice Moore Hubbard]] #[[Kin Hubbard]] #[[Charles Evans Hughes]] #''[[Hugo (film)|Hugo]]'' · '''The story's not over yet.''' #[[Humanism]] · The personal virtues which humanism cherishes are intelligence, amenity, and tolerance; the particular courage it asks for is that which is exercised in the support of these virtues. The qualities of intelligence which it chiefly prizes are modulation and flexibility. ~ [[Lionel Trilling]] #[[Alexander von Humboldt]] #[[Wilhelm von Humboldt]] #[[Humility]] #[[Francis Hutcheson]] #[[Anne Hutchinson]] #[[Aldous Huxley]] #[[I Am Legend (film)|''I Am Legend'' (film)]] · If you are out there — if anyone is out there — I can provide food, I can provide shelter, I can provide security. If there's anybody out there —anybody— please, you are not alone. · He walked out on that stage and sang. Somebody asked him "''why''" he said:''' "The people that are trying to make this world worse are not taking a day off — how can I?" — Light up the darkness.''' · This is ground zero. This is my site. #[[Idiot]] · '''What is Grand is necessarily obscure to Weak men. That which can be made Explicit to the idiot is not worth my care. ''' ~ [[William Blake]] · Idiots are not responsible for what they do. The real [[guilt]] falls on rational people who sit on their hands while the morons run wild. You can opt out if you want to. Play it safe. But if you do, don’t complain when the roof comes down. ~ [[Jack McDevitt]] #[[Eric Idle]] #[[Idolatry]] · The real sin of idolatry is always committed on behalf of something similar to the State. ~ [[Simone Weil]] #''[[Idylls of the King]]'' #''[[The Incredibles]]'' #[[Individualism]] · Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known. I am inclined to say that it is the only real mode of Individualism that the world has known. ~ [[Oscar Wilde]] #[[Ivan Illich]] #[[Robert G. Ingersoll]] #''[[In the Days of the Comet]]'' #[[Fakhruddin 'Iraqi]] #[[Iron Man (film)|''Iron Man'' (film)]] #[[Washington Irving]] #[[Steve Irwin]] #[[Isaiah]] #[[L. P. Jacks]] #[[Shoeless Joe Jackson]] #[[Jainism]] · [[Souls]] render service to one another. ~ [[w:Umaswati|Umaswati]] #[[Cheryl James]] #[[Henry James]] #[[Karl Jaspers]] #[[Robinson Jeffers]] #[[Peter Jennings]] #[[Jesus]] #[[Jewel (singer)]] #''[[Job: A Comedy of Justice]]'' #[[James Jones]] #[[John Paul Jones]] #[[Janis Joplin]] #[[Milla Jovovich]] · I think that at a given moment we all need a place to ourselves where we can refuge ourselves and cut ourselves off from the world. #[[James Joyce]] #[[Benito Juárez]] #[[Julian]] · '''Let all people live in harmony ... Men should be taught and won over by reason, not by blows, insults, and corporal punishments.''' · Those who are in the wrong in matters of supreme importance are objects of pity rather than of hate. · '''So long as you are a slave to the opinions of the many you have not yet approached freedom or tasted its nectar.''' · All of us, without being taught, have attained to a belief in some sort of divinity, though it is not easy for all men to know the precise truth about it, nor is it possible for those who do know it to tell it to all men. #[[Julian of Norwich]] · '''It behoved that there should be sin; but all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.''' · He that made all things for love, by the same love keepeth them, and shall keep them without end. · '''God is all that is good, as to my sight, and the goodness that each thing hath, it is He.''' · All thing that is done, it is well done: for our Lord God doeth all. · '''I beheld the property of mercy, and I beheld the property of grace: which have two manners of working in one love.''' #[[Carl Jung]] #[[Kalki]] #[[Nikos Kazantzakis]] #[[Walter Kaufmann (philosopher)|Walter Kaufmann]] #[[Buster Keaton]] #[[John Keats]] #[[Helen Keller]] #[[Robert F. Kennedy]] #[[Johannes Kepler]] #[[Ken Kesey]] · '''The job of the writer is to kiss no ass, no matter how big and holy and white and tempting and powerful.''' · I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph. · I'm for mystery, not interpretive answers. ... The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer, but they think they have. So they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer. · '''I been away a long time.''' #[[Key]] · '''I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.''' · Prophets hold a key to the lock in a language. The mechanical image remains only an image to them. '''This is not a mechanical universe.''' ~ [[Frank Herbert]] #[[John Maynard Keynes]] <!-- started proper quote article after posting of improper article with no quotes by IP 199.43.13.1 --> · '''A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.''' #[[Inayat Khan|Hazrat Inayat Khan]] · '''People have fought in vain about the names and lives of their saviors, and have named their religions after the name of their savior, instead of uniting with each other in the truth that is taught.''' #[[Omar Khayyám]] · '''''The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on''': nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.'' #[[Joyce Kilmer]] · '''''[[Poems]] are made by fools like me, But only [[God]] can make a [[tree]].''''' #[[Angus King]] · We proved that with civility, common sense, building bridges, working with coalitions and working with people one at a time, we could do something. #[[Carole King]] · '''''I feel the earth move under my feet''' I feel the sky tumbling down — tumbling down I feel my heart start to trembling Whenever you're around · '''You've got to get up every morning with a smile on your face And show the world all the [[love]] in your heart''' The people gonna treat you better, You're gonna find, yes you will, That '''you're beautiful as you feel.''' · My [[life]] has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue An everlasting vision of the everchanging view A wondrous woven [[magic]] in bits of blue and gold '''A tapestry to feel and see, impossible to hold.''''' #[[Coretta Scott King]] #[[Stephen King]] #[[Henry Kissinger]] #[[Kevin Kline]] #[[Heidi Klum]] #[[Holly Knight]] #[[Kalki Koechlin]] #[[Michael Korda]] #[[K-PAX]] #[[Karl Kraus]] #[[Robby Krieger]] #[[Kalki Krishnamurthy]] #[[Elisabeth Kübler-Ross]] #[[Akira Kurosawa]] #[[Emir Kusturica]] #[[Henry Kuttner]] #[[Labyrinth (film)|''Labyrinth'']] #[[L.A. Confidential (film)|''L.A. Confidential'' (film)]] #[[Jean de La Fontaine]] #''[[Lady in the Water]] · Man thinks they are each alone in this world. It is not true. '''You are all connected. One act can one day affect all.''' #''[[Last of the Dogmen]]'' · Look, [[Elvis Presley|Elvis]] is dead, the government is not hiding UFOs, and there are no Cheyenne soldiers living in the Oxbow. #''[[The Last Mimzy]]'' · ''The ghosts are walking by my side. I feel their love I feel their pride, For I have built a bridge or two, Bridges between me and you. Hello I love you.'' ~ [[Roger Waters]] #[[The Last Unicorn (film)|''The Last Unicorn'' (film)]] · What do men know? Because they have seen no unicorns for a while does not mean we have all ''vanished''. ''We do not vanish.'' … '''There has never been a [[time]] without [[unicorns]]. We [[live]] forever! ''' #[[Hugh Latimer]] · The drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling. · Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out. #''[[Leaves of Grass]]'' #[[Ang Lee]] #[[Stan Lee]] #[[Madeleine L'Engle]] #[[Les Misérables (musical)|''Les Misérables'' (musical)]] #[[Lawrence Lessig]] · Overregulation stifles creativity. It smothers innovation. It gives dinosaurs a veto over the future. · '''A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted.''' · It's a bumper sticker culture. People have to get it like that, and if they don't, if it takes three seconds to make them understand, you're off their radar screen. · '''Show me why your regulation of culture is needed. Show me how it does good. And until you can show me both, keep your lawyers away.''' · It might be crazy to argue that we should preserve a tradition that has been part of our tradition for most of our history — free culture. If this is crazy, then let there be more crazies. Soon. #[[Doris Lessing]] · '''I'm always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common ... this is a disease of the mind, the way I see it.''' · In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools. · '''Laughter is by definition healthy.''' #[[Denise Levertov]] · '''The world is not with us enough. O taste and see.''' · Two girls discover the secret of life in a sudden line of poetry. '''I who don't know the secret wrote the line.''' · If there is bliss, it has been already and will be; out-reaching, utterly. Blind to itself, flooded with otherness. · '''You are the stream, the fish, the light, the pulsing shadow. You the unchanging presence, in whom all moves and changes.''' #[[C. S. Lewis]] #[[Hilda Lewis]] #[[Jenny Lewis]] #[[Sinclair Lewis]] #[[Georg Christoph Lichtenberg]] #[[Life of Pi (film)|''Life of Pi'' (film)]] · '''Thank you [[Vishnu]], for introducing me to [[Christ]]. — I came to [[faith]] through [[Hinduism]], and I found God's [[love]] through Christ. But God wasn't finished with me yet. God works in mysterious ways, and so it was he introduced himself again. This time by the name of [[Allah]]. — ''[[w:Allāhu Akbar|Allāhu Akbar]].'' '''· '''Above all: don't lose [[hope]].''' #[[Anne Morrow Lindbergh]] #''[[Little Big Man (film)|Little Big Man]]'' · There is an endless supply of white men. '''There has always been a limited number of [[Humanity|human beings]].''' · Sometimes the [[magic]] works. Sometimes, it doesn't. #''[[Lonely Are the Brave]]'' · '''I don't need a card to figure out who I am. I already know.''' #''[[Lord of Light]]'' #[[Love]] #[[Nick Lowe]] #[[Bernard Lown‎‎]] #[[Max Lucado]] · '''All we can see is a fragment.''' Who can say what will come next? #[[Halford E. Luccock]] #[[Arnold M. Ludwig]] #[[Martin Luther]] #[[Jessica Lynch]] #[[Magic]] · '''Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.''' ~ [[Arthur C. Clarke]] · In one sense Magick may be defined as the name given to Science by the vulgar. ~ [[Aleister Crowley]] · '''From meetings and partings none can ever escape. Nor from magic.''' ~ [[Neil Gaiman]] · Love works magic. ~ [[Novalis]] · '''Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.''' ~ [[Carl Sagan]] · Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity. ~ [[W. Clement Stone]] · '''Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.''' <!-- Ki Ananke ''c.'' 1967 -1969 (Anon non-key to anon proverb published 1971 --> #[[Maurice Maeterlinck]] #[[Mahavira]] #[[Thomas Malory]] #[[Aimee Mann]] #[[Horace Mann]] #[[Karl Mannheim]] #[[Katherine Mansfield]] #[[Marcel Marceau]] #[[Marcus Aurelius]] #[[Edwin Markham]] #[[Brian G. Marsden]] #[[José Martí]] #[[Mary Martin]] #[[Steve Martin]] #[[Andrew Marvell]] #[[Mary Poppins (film)|''Mary Poppins'' (film)]] #[[Richard Matheson]] · Our world is in profound danger. Mankind ''must'' establish a set of positive values with which to secure its own survival. This quest for enlightenment must begin now. It is essential that all men and women become aware of what they are, why they are here on Earth and what they must do to preserve civilization before it is too late. · '''What you don’t understand yet is that we’re going to stay alive. We’ve found a way to do that and we’re going to set up society again slowly but surely.''' · I hope I’ve inspired a few people one way or another. · '''I am legend.''' #[[Bill Mauldin]] #[[Guy de Maupassant]] #[[Meghan McCain‎‎]] #[[Eugene McCarthy]] #[[Mary McCarthy]] #[[John McCrae]] <!-- #[[McDonald's Corporation]] I believe there may have been various odd moves and deletions which occurred with this title … not really that interested in it at this time. 2012·03·07 14:44 --> #[[William McFee]] #[[Robert Roy MacGregor|Robert Roy MacGregor ("Rob Roy")]] #[[Loreena McKennitt]] #[[Don McLean]] #[[Margaret Mead]] #[[Meat Loaf]] #[[Anthony de Mello]] #[[Herman Melville]] #[[Menachem Mendel of Kotzk]] #[[Mencius]] · The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind. · He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature. #[[Ismail Merchant]] #[[Natalie Merchant]] #[[Mercy (Vertigo)|''Mercy'' (Vertigo)]] #[[Merlin]] · '''When a man [[lies]], he [[murders]] some part of the [[world]]. ~ [[Excalibur (film)|''Excalibur'' (1981)]] #[[Joseph Merrick]] #[[Michael (archangel)]] #[[Michael (1996 film)|''Michael'' (1996 film)]] #[[Arthur Miller]] #[[Walter M. Miller Jr.]] #[[Mirror]] · '''I think the [[world]] is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it.''' Those who turn sad faces toward the world find only sadness reflected. But a [[smile]] is reflected in the same way, and cheers and brightens our [[hearts]]. ~ [[L. Frank Baum]] #[[Joni Mitchell]] #''[[Moby-Dick]]'' #[[Molière]] #[[Monism]] · Anything we take in the [[Universe]], because it has in itself that which is [[The All|All in All]], includes in its own way, the entire [[soul]] of the world, which is entirely in any part of it. ~ [[Giordano Bruno]] · [[Unity|One]] is [[The All]]. ~ [[w:Cleopatra the Alchemist|Cleopatra the Alchemist]] #''[[The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress]]'' #[[C. L. Moore]] #[[Dudley Moore]] #[[Gustave Moreau]] #[[Jim Morrison]] #[[Toni Morrison]] #[[Moses]] · '''I have been a [[Stranger in a Strange Land|stranger in a strange land]].''' · I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. · '''Who am I''', that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?''' · O my LORD, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but '''I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.''' · Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him. '''Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's.''' #[[Mozi]] · The wise man who has charge of governing the empire should know the cause of disorder before he can put it in order. Unless he knows its cause, he cannot regulate it. · Whoever criticizes others must have something to replace them. Criticism without suggestion is like trying to stop flood with flood and put out fire with fire. It will surely be without worth. · '''Universal love is really the way of the sage-kings. It is what gives peace to the rulers and sustenance to the people.''' #[[Muhammad]] · '''It is better for a leader to make a mistake in forgiving than to make a mistake in punishing.''' · Even as the fingers of the two hands are equal, so are human beings equal to one another. No one has any right, nor any preference to claim over another. You are brothers. · '''All those who listen to me shall pass on my words to others and those to others again; and may the last ones understand my words better than those who listen to me directly.''' · Kindness is a mark of faith, and whoever has not kindness has not faith. #[[Mumford (film)|''Mumford'' (film)]] · '''I understand what it's like to want to leave a problem behind.''' · You're shockingly honest. That's what makes you great. I've never had a man treat me this way. With you I feel really listened to. · '''I noticed Something.''' For some reason, probably because I was too stoned to talk, everywhere I went people would talk to me. Tell me everything. Their problems, their inner most thoughts. Sometimes they needed advice, but most of the people just wanted someone to listen. · In a free society you are what you say you are. · I am not now, nor have I ever been, a psychologist. #[[Bill Murray]] · '''I think romance basically starts with respect. And new romance always starts with respect.''' · I think I have some romantic friendships. Like the song “Love the One You’re With”; there is something to that. '''It’s not just make love to whomever you’re with, it’s just love whomever you’re with.''' #[[Edward R. Murrow]] · '''Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices — just recognize them.''' · No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices. · '''Tell the truth and fear no man.''' · If none of us ever read a book that was "dangerous," had a friend who was "different," or joined an organization that advocated "change," we would all be just the kind of people [[Joseph McCarthy|Joe McCarthy]] wants. · '''We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law.''' We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men — not from men who feared to write, to associate, to speak and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular. · '''The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.''' · We hardly need to be reminded that we are living in an age of confusion — a lot of us have traded in our beliefs for bitterness and cynicism or for a heavy package of despair, or even a quivering portion of hysteria. Opinions can be picked up cheap in the market place while such commodities as courage and fortitude and faith are in alarmingly short supply. · '''Except for those who think in terms of pious platitudes or dogma or narrow prejudice (and those thoughts we aren’t interested in), people don’t speak their beliefs easily, or publicly.''' · I have come to realize that I don’t have a monopoly on the world’s problems. Others have their share, often far bigger than mine. This has helped me to see my own in truer perspective: and in learning how others have faced their problems — this has given me fresh ideas about how to tackle mine. · '''Truth is the best propaganda and lies are the worst. To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful. It is as simple as that.''' #[[Mystery]] · '''Mysteries abound where most we seek for answers.''' ~ [[Ray Bradbury]] · ''I want to hear you laugh. Don't let the mystery go now.'' ~ [[Kate Bush]] · '''I've never seen anybody really find the answer, but they think they have. So they stop thinking.''' But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. '''The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.''' ~ [[Ken Kesey]] #[[Mysticism]] · Both the physicist and the mystic want to communicate their knowledge, and when they do so with words their statements are paradoxical and full of logical contradictions. ~ [[Fritjof Capra]] · '''Mysticism keeps men sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.''' … It is exactly this balance of apparent contradictions that has been the whole buoyancy of the healthy man. '''The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of what he does not understand.''' ~ [[G. K. Chesterton]] #[[John Forbes Nash]] · Gradually I began to intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation. This began, most recognizably, with the rejection of politically-oriented thinking as essentially a hopeless waste of intellectual effort. #[[Necessity]] · Necessity has no law. · '''Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.''' ~ [[Euripides]] · Necessity dispenseth with decorum.· '''Not even the gods fight against necessity.''' ~ [[Simonides of Ceos]] #[[Reinhold Niebuhr]] · '''God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.''' · One of the fundamental points about religious humility is you say you don't know about the ultimate judgment. It's beyond your judgment. And if you equate God's judgment with your judgment, you have a wrong religion. · '''Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.''' #''[[The Neverending Story]]'' · '''Human passions have mysterious ways, in children as well as grown-ups. Those affected by them can't explain them, and those who haven't known them have no understanding of them at all.''' · What I've started I must finish. I've gone too far to turn back. Regardless of what may happen, I have to go forward. · '''DO WHAT YOU WISH.''' · There are people that can't go to Fantastica. There are those who can but never return. And there are just a few who go to Fantastica and come back. And they make both worlds well again. #[[The NeverEnding Story (film)|''The NeverEnding Story'' (film)]] #[[New England's Dark Day]] #[[John Newton]] #[[Isaac Newton]] #[[Martin Niemöller]] #[[Nihilism]] · '''''[[w:Nihilists|Nihilists]]!''''' Fuck me. I mean, say what you like about the tenets of [[Nazism|National Socialism]], [[Dudeism|Dude]], at least it's an ''[[w:ethos|ethos]]'' ~ The [[Coen brothers]] · Nihilists are not [[kind]]; They [[believe]] in [[nothing]]. ~ ''[[Dudeism|Dude De Ching]]'' #[[Chester W. Nimitz]] #[[Anaïs Nin]] #[[Joshua A. Norton]] #[[Nostradamus]] #[[Occupy Wall Street]] · The way to understand all of this is to realize that it’s part of a broader syndrome, in which wealthy Americans who benefit hugely from a system rigged in their favor react with hysteria to anyone who points out just how rigged the system is. ~ [[w:Paul Krugman|Paul Krugman]] #[[Om]] · ''Jai Guru Deva Om. [[Nothingness|Nothing]]'s gonna [[change]] my [[world]].' ~ [[John Lennon]] · '''[[w:Om mani padme hum|Om mani padme hum]].''' #''[[On the Waterfront]]'' #''[[The Once and Future King]]'' #''[[Once Upon a Time (TV series)|Once Upon a Time]]'' · What do you think stories are for? '''These stories are classics. There's a reason we all know them. They're a way for us to deal with our world.''' A world that doesn't always make sense. #[[Yoko Ono]] #[[Baroness Emma Orczy]] #''[[Orphan Black]]'' · How many of us are there? · '''There's a [[light]] in [[all]] of us.''' #[[David Ortiz]] #[[George Orwell]] #[[Arthur O'Shaughnessy]] #[[P. D. Ouspensky]] #[[The Osterman Weekend (film)|''The Osterman Weekend'']] #''[[The Outline of History]]'' #[[Ovid]] #[[Robert Owen]] #[[Buck Owens]] #[[Jesse Owens]] #''[[Oz the Great and Powerful]]'' · I don't want to be a [[good]] man... I want to be a [[great]] one. · '''You're capable of more than you know...''' #[[Lewis Padgett]] (pseudonym of the writers [[Henry Kuttner]] and his wife [[C. L. Moore]]) #[[Satchel Paige]] #[[Thomas Paine]] #[[Francis Turner Palgrave]] #[[Pan (god)]] · In a [[dream]] I saw [[Jesus]] and My [[God]] Pan sitting together in the [[heart]] of the forest. ~ [[Khalil Gibran]] · ''Pan is [[Death|dead]] — '''Long [[Life|live]] Pan!''''' ~ [[Mike Scott (musician)| Mike Scott]] #[[Pangea Day]] #[[Paracelsus]] #[[Maxfield Parrish]] #[[Dolly Parton]] #[[Boris Pasternak]] #[[Saint Patrick]] #[[Paul of Tarsus]] #[[Wolfgang Pauli]] #[[Luciano Pavarotti]] #[[Peace]] #[[Giuseppe Peano]] #[[Benjamin Peirce]] #[[William Penn]] #[[Roger Penrose]] #[[Harold W. Percival]] · '''Consciousness is the ultimate Reality; compared with it, all else is illusion.''' #[[Oliver Hazard Perry]] #[[Saint Peter]] · '''Put up thy sword into the sheath: the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?''' ~ [[Jesus]], to Peter in ''[[Gospel of John]]'' #[[Tom Petty]] #[[Phenomenon]] · '''Phenomena are constantly folded back upon themselves.''' ~ [[Albert Pike]] #[[Plotinus]] · '''[[All]] teems with [[symbol]]; the wise man is the man who in any one thing can read another.''' #[[Roman Polański]] #[[Cole Porter]] #[[Katherine Anne Porter]] #[[Arthur Ponsonby]] #[[Joseph Priestley]] #''[[Principia Discordia]]'' · '''Man has been on a bad trip for a long time now. It is called THE CURSE OF GREYFACE.''' · [[w:fnord|fnord]] · If you can master nonsense as well as you have already learned to master sense, then [[Absurdism|each will expose the other for what it is]]: [[absurdity]]. From that moment of illumination, a man begins to be free... #[[Prometheus]] · '''I must bear What is ordained with [[patience]], being [[Awareness|aware]] [[Necessity]] doth front the universe With an invincible gesture.''' ~ [[Aeschylus]], in ''[[w:Prometheus Bound|Prometheus Bound]]'', as translated by [[Elizabeth Barrett Browning]] #[[Prophet]] · '''A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country and in his own house.''' ~ [[Jesus]] #[[Prudence]] #[[Aleksandr Pushkin]] #[[Thomas Pynchon]] #[[Quakers]] · '''Men being [[born]] with a title to [[perfect]] [[freedom]] and uncontrolled [[enjoyment]] of [[all]] the [[rights]] and privileges of the [[law]] of [[nature]] ... no one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the [[political]] view of another, without his consent.''' ~ [[William Penn]] #[[Quotations]] <!-- made into a legitimate page about quotations after a massive quote dump removed --> #[[Rainbows]] #[[Christopher Reeve]] #[[Dana Reeve]] #[[Wilhelm Reich]] #[[R.E.M.]] #[[Rembrandt]] #[[Mary Renault]] #''[[Book of Revelation]]'' · '''He had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.''' And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, '''Fear not; I am the first and the last: I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.''' Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter; The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. · '''And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire: And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth, And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.''' #[[Kenneth Rexroth]] #[[Lionel Richie]] #[[Rainer Maria Rilke]] #[[Happy Rhodes]] · '''Every step I take, I am alive. I am Life.''' · That I am one and many is at the heart of my dis-ease Yet I am one and many · '''When the rain came down — then came me.''' · Words weren't made for cowards. #[[Spider Robinson]] · '''A person should live forever, or die trying.''' · There are in fact Laws of Conservation of Pain and Joy. Neither can ever be created or destroyed. But one can be converted into the other. · '''Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased — thus do we refute entropy.''' · '''God is an iron.''' #[[Rudolf Rocker]] #[[Richard Rodriguez]] #[[Nicholas Roerich]] #[[Eleanor Roosevelt]] #[[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] #[[Gary Ross]] · '''What's outside of [[Pleasantville]]?''' · [[Writing]] is all about the preservation of your own [[voice]]. #[[Edmond Rostand]] #[[Patricia Rozema]] #[[Rita Rudner]] #[[Muriel Rukeyser]] #[[Don Miguel Ruiz]] #[[Babe Ruth]] #[[J. D. Salinger]] #[[Sallustius]] · '''One may call the world a myth, in which bodies and things are visible, but souls and minds hidden.''' · Those who wish to hear about the Gods should have been well guided from childhood, and not habituated to foolish beliefs. · '''The divine itself is without needs, and the worship is paid for our own benefit. The providence of the Gods reaches everywhere and needs only some congruity for its reception.''' · Souls that have lived in virtue are in general happy, and when separated from the irrational part of their nature, and made clean from all matter, have communion with the gods and join them in the governing of the whole world. #''[[The Sandman|The San∂man]]'' #[[George Santayana]] #[[Kate Sheppard]] #[[Friedrich Schiller]] #[[Sophie Scholl]] #[[Albert Schweitzer]] #[[Helen Schucman]] #[[Seal (musician)]] #[[John Sedgwick]] #[[Semiotics]] · '''A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in [[reality]] more than he is aware of expressing.''' ~ [[Albert Camus]] #[[Rod Serling]] #[[Jerry Siegel]] #[[September 11 attacks]] · This enemy attacked not just our people, but all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world. ~ [[George W. Bush]] · The target of the terrorists was not only New York and Washington but the very values of freedom, tolerance and decency which underpin our way of life. ~ [[Tony Blair]] · Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when our people have been killed. We will be relentless in defense of our citizens and our friends and allies. We will be true to the values that make us who we are. ~ [[Barack Obama]] #''[[Sergeant York]]'' · '''I'm as much agin' killin' as ever, sir.''' But it was this way, Colonel. When I started out, I felt just like you said, but when I hear them machine guns a-goin', and all them fellas are droppin' around me... '''I figured them guns was killin' hundreds, maybe thousands, and there weren't nothin' anybody could do, but to stop them guns. And that's what I done.''' #[[She & Him]] #[[Mary Shelley]] #[[Percy Bysshe Shelley]] #[[Forrest Sherman]] · The survival of this country depends upon letting the world know we have the power and the ability to use it if the occasion demands. #''[[The Ship that Flew]]'' · ''It is the best of ships. When her sails are hoisted a breeze springs up and carries her swift and safe to whatever place the gods choose.'' #[[Significance]] · A [[society]] which is mobile, which is full of channels for the distribution of a [[change]] occurring anywhere, must see to it that its members are [[educated]] to personal initiative and adaptability.''' Otherwise, they will be overwhelmed by the changes in which they are caught and whose significance or connections they do not perceive. ~ [[John Dewey]] · Even a [[purely]] [[moral]] act that has no [[hope]] of any immediate and visible [[political]] effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.''' ~ [[Václav Havel]] #[[Silver Surfer]] · '''If sacred places are spared the ravages of war... then make all places sacred. And if the holy people are to be kept harmless from war... then make all people holy.''' #[[Alan K. Simpson]] · There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberty, only a long staircase where each step down must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders. · '''If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters. ''' #[[Edith Sitwell]] · '''I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.''' #[[Clifford D. Simak]] · A million years from now there would be, if not Man, at least a caring thing. And that was the secret of the universe, Enoch told himself — a thing that went on caring. · When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human life, but of all life on Earth and of the life which must exist upon other planets throughout the universe. #[[Simonides of Ceos]] #[[Isaac Bashevis Singer]] #[[Grace Slick]] #''[[Slumdog Millionaire]]'' #[[B. F. Skinner]] #[[Langdon Smith]] #[[Lillian Smith (author)]] #[[Margaret Chase Smith]] #[[Olympia Snowe]] · It's not healthy for the country to have parties with polar opposite views without that bridge that you need to build consensus. #[[Solemnity]] · If you are different, you had better hide it, and pretend to be solemn and wooden-headed. Until you make your fortune. For most wooden-headed people worship money; and, really, I do not see what else they can do. ~ [[Oliver Heaviside]] #[[The Sonnets]] #[[Kevin Spacey]] <!-- creation of legitimate page with quotes -->· '''Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.''' · [[John Lennon]] was many things to many people. A poet, a rocker, a leader, a troublemaker, a father, a husband — ''a man''. Growing up, to me, ''he was a hero''. '''The work of John Lennon was marked by its exquisite beauty and by its brutal honesty. #[[Britney Spears]] #[[Gerry Spence]] #[[Roger Wolcott Sperry]] #[[Spirituality]] #[[Benjamin Spock]] #[[Bruce Springsteen]] #''[[Stardust (novella)|Stardust]]'' #[[Stardust (2007 film)|''Stardust'' (film)]] #''[[Stardust Memories]]'' #[[Starhawk]] #[[Becky Stark]] #[[Jim Starlin]] #[[Steel]] · I never saw any one like him. He is steel! He would go through you like a [[sword]]! ~ [[Bram Stoker]] #[[Wilhelm Stekel]] #[[Jimmy Stewart]] #''[[Stickeen]]'' #[[Storm]] #[[Story]] · Do not tell people how to [[live]] their lives. Just tell them stories. And they will figure out how those stories apply to them. ~ [[Randy Pausch]] #[[Strangeness]] · '''There is no excellent [[beauty]] that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.''' ~ [[Francis Bacon]] #''[[Stranger in a Strange Land]]'' #[[Barbra Streisand]] #[[Bram Stoker]] #[[Leopold Stokowski]] #[[Lucy Stone]] #[[W. Clement Stone]] #[[Madeleine Stowe]] #[[Tami Stronach]] #[[Stupidity]] #[[St. Vincent (musician)]] #[[William Styron]] · '''Surely mankind has yet to be born. ''Surely'' this is true!''' · Great God, how early it is! · '''This was not judgement day — only morning. Morning: excellent and fair.''' #''[[Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude]]'' #[[Sufism]] · '''All things are but masks at [[God]]'s beck and call,<br>They are [[symbols]] that instruct us that God is [[all]]. ~ [[Attar of Nishapur]] #[[Aaron Swartz‎‎]] · '''There is no [[justice]] in following unjust [[laws]].''' It’s time to come into the [[light]] and, in the grand tradition of [[civil disobedience]], declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture. · '''The enemies of the freedom to connect have not disappeared.''' … There are a lot of people, a lot of powerful people, who want to clamp down on the Internet. And to be honest, there aren’t a whole lot who have a vested interest in protecting it from all of that. #[[Emanuel Swedenborg]] #[[Sword]] · '''The man who can wield the power of [[w:Narsil|this sword]] can summon to him an army more deadly than any that walks this earth.''' Put aside the Ranger. Become who you were born to be. ~ [[w:Elrond|Elrond]], in ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (film)|The Return of the King]]'' · Verily [[Man]] shall not taste of [[victory]] Till he throws his sword away. ~ [[G. K. Chesterton]] in ''[[The Ballad of the White Horse]]'' #[[Synchronicity]] · Any parapsychological effect that depends upon volition, upon the subject's intent, must differ from synchronicity. ~ Victor Mansfield · <br /> '''''It's so deep, it's so wide <br /> You're inside <br /> Synchronicity'''''. <br />~ [[Sting]] ~ #[[Rabindranath Tagore]] #[[Taliesin]] #[[Talmud]] #[[Amy Tan]] #[[Tao]] #[[Taoism]] · [[Tao]] [[mystics]] never talk about [[God]], reincarnation, [[heaven]], [[hell]]. No, they don't talk about these things. These are all creations of human mind: explanations for something which can never be explained, explanations for the [[mystery]]. … Existence is a mystery, and one should accept it as a mystery and not pretend to have any explanation. No, explanation is not needed – only exclamation, a wondering heart, awakened, surprised, feeling the mystery of life each moment. Then, and only then, you know what [[truth]] is. And truth liberates. ~ [[Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh)|Osho]] #[[Sharon Tate]] #[[Julie Taymor]] #[[Temper]] · '''[[Men]] are like [[steel]] — when they lose their temper, they lose their [[worth]].''' #[[John Templeton]] · I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago. · '''Let's worship Divinity, but understand the divinity we worship is beyond our comprehension.''' · The objective of our religious foundations is to teach people that they are hurting themselves when they say they believe something. What we should realize is we know almost nothing about God and therefore we should be eager to search and to learn.· '''The main focus in my life now is to open people's minds so no one will be so conceited that they think they have the total truth. They should be eager to learn, to listen, to research and not to confine, to hurt, to kill, those who disagree with them.''' · The question is not is there a God, but is there anything else except God? God is everyone and each of us is a little bit. #[[Alfred Tennyson]] #[[Teresa of Ávila]] #[[Studs Terkel]] #[[Tertullian]] #[[U Thant]] · '''Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.''' · As a Buddhist, I was trained to be tolerant of everything except intolerance. · '''The war we have to wage today has only one goal, and that is to make the world safe for diversity.''' #[[Utopia‎]] · Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labelled Utopian. ~ [[Emma Goldman]] #''[[They Might Be Giants]]'' #[[R. S. Thomas]] #[[Dorothy Thompson]] #''[[Thus Spoke Zarathustra]]'' #[[Totalitarianism]] · '''Totalitarianism … does not so much promise an age of [[faith]] as an age of schizophrenia.''' A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud. Such a society, no matter how long it persists, can never afford to become either tolerant or intellectually stable. It can never permit either the truthful recording of facts or the emotional sincerity that literary creation demands. ~ [[George Orwell]] #[[Arnold Toynbee]] #[[Arnold J. Toynbee]] #[[Brian Tracy‎‎]] · [[Success|Successful]] [[people]] are always looking for [[opportunities]] to [[help]] others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?” ~ [[Brian Tracy]] #[[P. L. Travers]] · We pass. But what the [[bee]] [[knows]], the [[wisdom]] that sustains our passing [[life]] — however much we deny or ignore it — that for ever remains. #''[[The Tree of Life (film)|The Tree of Life]]'' · '''I will be true to you. Whatever comes.''' #[[Trickster]] · '''The Trickster represents the quality of randomness and chance in the [[universe]], without which there could be no [[freedom]].''' In the Craft the Goddess is not omnipotent. The cosmos is interesting rather than perfect, and everything is not part of some greater plan, nor is all necessarily under control. Understanding this keeps us humble, able to admit that we cannot know or control or define everything. ~ [[Starhawk]] #[[Anthony Trollope]] #[[Sojourner Truth]] #[[KT Tunstall]] #[[Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune]] #[[The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)|''The Twilight Zone'' (1959 TV series)]] #''[[The Ultimate Gift]]'' #''[[Under the Tuscan Sun]]'' #[[Universalism ]] · We are, the great [[Spirituality|spiritual]] writers insist, most fully ourselves when we give ourselves away, and it is egotism that holds us back from that [[Mysticism|transcendent experience]] that has been called [[God]], [[w:Nirvana|Nirvana]], [[w:Brahman|Brahman]], or the [[Tao]]. ~ [[Karen Armstrong]] · '''In [[reality]] there are as many [[Religion|religions]] as there are individuals.''' ~ [[Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi]] #[[Peter Ustinov]] #[[Jesse Ventura]] #[[Vishnu]] · '''Vishnu, the Supreme [[Soul]]. The Soul of ''[[all]]'' things. Vishnu sleeps, floating on the shoreless cosmic ocean, and we are the stuff of his dreams.''' ~ ''[[Life of Pi (film)|Life of Pi]]'' #[[Kurt Vonnegut]] #[[Mark Waid]] · You have watched the Titans walk the Earth ... and you have kept stride. Perhaps you are more like them than you realize. You exist ... to give [[hope]]. #[[Hugh Walpole]] #[[Wanted (2008 film)|''Wanted'' (2008 film)]] #[[M. Ward]] #''[[War Horse (film)|War Horse]]''‎ · I promise that I'll look after him, and if possible, I'll return him to your care. #[[Adam Warlock]] #[[Earl Warren]] #[[Robert Penn Warren]] #[[Martha Washington]] · '''The [[greater]] part of our [[happiness]] or [[misery]] depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our [[circumstances]]. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us, in our [[minds]], wheresoever we go.''' #[[J. C. Watts]] #[[Evelyn Waugh]] #[[H. G. Wells]] #[[John Wesley]] #[[Morris West]] #[[Whale Rider]] #''[[What's So Bad About Feeling Good?]]'' <br /> '''''What's a [[woe]] with somebody [[caring]], <br /> [[Dreaming]], [[loving]] and [[sharing]] <br /> What's so [[bad]] about [[feeling]] [[good]]?''''' <p> ''Though the [[world]] may not be [[perfect]] yet, <br /> Still the only way it's gonna get <br /> Any better is if we '''try'''. <br /> So come and kiss me, <br /> Let's get started <br /> Together warm and light-hearted. <br /> We'll enjoy [[Life]] the way we should <br /> And tell me what's so bad, <br /> Tell me what's so [[bad]] <br /> About [[feeling]] [[good]]?'' #[[Andrew Dickson White]] #[[White Rose]] #[[Walt Whitman]] #[[John Greenleaf Whittier]] #''[[Who Am I This Time? (film)|Who Am I This Time?]]'' #[[Ken Wilber]] #[[Richard Wilbur]] #[[Ella Wheeler Wilcox]] #[[Thornton Wilder]] #[[Paul Williams (songwriter)|Paul Williams]] · ''Why are there so many songs about rainbows and what's on the other side? · '''''Our love is an old love, baby. It's older than all our years…''''' #[[Ted Williams]] · If you don't think too good, don't think too much. #[[Alicia Witt]] #''[[The Wizard of Oz]]'' #[[Wisdom]] #[[George Woodcock]] · Simplicity is the first thing to guard against in writing a history of anarchism. · '''Anarchism is a manifestation of natural human urges … it is the tendency to create authoritarian institutions which is the transient aberration.''' #[[Alexander Woollcott]] #[[Virginia Woolf]] <!-- start actual viable page of quotes after descriptive info provided and then deleted by IP 203.217.81.55 --> #[[Stevie Wonder]] #[[Steve Wozniak]] #[[Wyrd]] ·  '''Wyrd literally means "that which has turned" or "that which has become."''' It carries the idea of "turned into" in both the sense of becoming something new and the sense of turning back to an original starting point. '''In metaphysical terms, wyrd embodies the concept that everything is turning into something else while both being drawn in toward and moving out from its own origins.''' Thus, we can think of wyrd as a process that continually works the patterns of the past into the patterns of the present. ~ Arlea Æðelwyrd Hunt-Anschütz · '''Wyrd is too vast and too complex, for us to comprehend, for we are ourselves, part of wyrd and cannot stand back to observe it as if it were a separate [[force]].''' ~ [[Brian Bates (psychologist)]] · '''Wyrd's shaping [[changes]] the [[world]] under the [[heavens]].''' ~ ''[[The Wanderer (poem)|The Wanderer]]'' #[[Yamamoto Tsunetomo]] #[[William Butler Yeats]] #[[Paramahansa Yogananda]] #[[Alvin C. York]] · I noticed the bushes all around where I stood in my fight with the machine guns were all cut down. The bullets went over my head and on either side. But they never touched me. · A higher power than man power guided and watched over me and told me what to do. #[[Theodore Zeldin]] · The violent have been victorious for most of history because they kindled the fear with which everyone is born. · '''The past is what provides us with the building blocks. Our job today is to create new buildings out of them.''' #[[Zeno of Elea]] · My writing is an answer to the partisans of the many and it returns their attack with interest, with a view to showing that the hypothesis of the many, if examined sufficiently in detail, leads to even more ridiculous results than the hypothesis of [[w:Monad|the One]]. #[[Philip Zimbardo‎‎]] · '''The “[[Lucifer]] Effect” describes the point in time when an ordinary, normal person first crosses the boundary between [[good]] and [[evil]] to engage in an evil action.''' <!-- #[[List of religious texts]] --> ==== + QOTD pages ==== : '''[[QOTD by month]]:''' + other '''QOTD Archival pages:''' [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/2003|2003]] - [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/2004|2004]] - [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/2005|2005]] - [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/2006|2006]] - [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/2007|2007]] - [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/2008|2008]] - [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/2009|2009]] - [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/2010|2010]] - [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/2011|2011]] - '''[[Wikiquote:Quote of the Day|Full archive 2003 - ∞]]''' :'''2007''' *[[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/November 2007|November]] <small>(Sound files added to QOTD, no images)</small> *[[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/December 2007|December]] :'''2008''' {{multicol}} *[[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/January 2008|January]] <small> (images as well as sound files begin to be used on 27 January) </small> *[[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/February 2008|February]] *[[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/March 2008|March]] *[[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/April 2008|April]] *[[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/May 2008|May]] *[[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/June 2008|June]] <small> (last sound file used on 17 June, images continue to be used) </small> {{multicol-break}} *[[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/July 2008|July]] *[[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/August 2008|August]] *[[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/September 2008|September]] *[[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/October 2008|October]] *[[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/November 2008|November]] *[[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/December 2008|December]] {{multicol-end}} :'''2009''' {{multicol}} *[[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/January 2009|January]] *[[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/February 2009|February]] *[[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/March 2009|March]] *[[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/April 2009|April]] *[[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/May 2009|May]] *[[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/June 2009|June]] {{mulitcol-break}} *[[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/July 2009|July]] *[[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/August 2009|August]] <small> (2 images framing the QOTD begin to be used on 20 August) </small> *[[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/September 2009|September]] *[[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/October 2009|October]] <small> (multiple images to either side of QOTD used on either side of a long quote on 25 October) </small> *[[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/November 2009|November]] *[[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/December 2009|December]] {{multicol-end}} :'''2010''' {{multicol}} * [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/January 2010|January]] * [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/February 2010|February]] * [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/March 2010|March]] * [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/April 2010|April]] * [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/May 2010|May]] * [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/June 2010|June]] {{multicol-break}} * [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/July 2010|July]] * [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/August 2010|August]] * [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/September 2010|September]] * [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/October 2010|October]] * [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/November 2010|November]] * [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/December 2010‎|December]] {{multicol-end}} :'''2011''' {{multicol}} * [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/January 2011|January]] * [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/February 2011|February]] * [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/March 2011|March]] * [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/April 2011|April]] * [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/May 2011|May]] * [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/June 2011|June]] {{multicol-break}} * [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/July 2011|July]] * [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/August 2011|August]] * [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/September 2011|September]] * [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/October 2011|October]] * [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/November 2011|November]] * [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/December 2011‎|December]] {{multicol-end}} :'''2012''' {{multicol}} * [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/January 2012|January]] * [[Wikiquote:Quote of the day/February 2012|February]] <small> (3 February — controversial accusations and assertions threatened further use of images on the main page; 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I don't know anything else worth saving. · '''Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.''' #[[Edwin Abbott Abbott]] · '''From dreams I proceed to facts.''' · I am indeed, in a certain sense a [[Circles|Circle]] ... and a more perfect Circle than any in Flatland; but to speak more accurately, I am many Circles in one. · '''Even a [[w:Christian angelic hierarchy|Sphere]] — which is my proper name in my own country — if he manifest himself at all to an inhabitant of Flatland — must needs manifest himself as a Circle.''' #[[`Abdu'l-Bahá]] · Bigotry and dogmatic adherence to ancient beliefs have become the central and fundamental source of animosity among men, the obstacle to human progress, the cause of warfare and strife, the destroyer of peace, composure and welfare in the world. #[[Peter Abelard]] · '''Constant and frequent questioning is the first key to wisdom … For through doubting we are led to inquire, and by inquiry we perceive the truth.''' #[[Douglas Adams]] · 42 · All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others. #[[Samuel Adams]] · '''It is not unfrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it ''but their own liberty,'' — to oppress without control or the restraint of laws all who are poorer or weaker than themselves.''' #[[Joseph Addison]] · A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. · '''Calm and serene he drives the furious blast; And, pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm.''' #[[Lloyd Alexander]] · The deeds of a man, not the words of a prophecy, are what shape his destiny. #[[Alfred the Great]] · '''I desired to live worthily as long as I lived, and to leave after my life, to the men who should come after me, the memory of me in good works.''' #[[Ali]] · When wisdom reaches the acme of perfection it, will suppress the vicious instincts and injurious desires. #[[Muhammad Ali]] · '''In a competition of love we'll all share in the victory, no matter who comes first.''' #[[Dante Alighieri]] · Worldly renown is naught but a breath of wind, which now comes this way and now comes that, and changes name because it changes quarter. #[[Ethan Allen]] · '''So far as prejudice, or prepossession of opinion prevails over our minds, in the same proportion, reason is excluded from our theory or practice.''' #[[Tim Allen]] · Men are pigs. Too bad we own everything. #[[Woody Allen]] · '''Maybe the poets are right. Maybe love is the only answer.''' #''[[American Gods]]'' · '''There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right.''' The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. '''And that is what makes them dangerous.''' #[[Kingsley Amis]] · There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones. #[[Martin Amis]] · The humourless as a bunch don't just not know what's funny, they don't know what's serious. They have no common sense, either, and shouldn't be trusted with anything. #[[Anacharsis]] · These decrees of yours are no different from spiders' webs. They'll restrain anyone weak and insignificant who gets caught in them, but they'll be torn to shreds by people with power and wealth. #[[Anarchism]] · '''Anarchism is the attempt to eradicate domination. … Most fundamentally, I would see Anarchism as a synonym for anti-[[authoritarianism]].''' ~ [[John Zerzan]] #[[Kofi Annan]] · The idea that there is one people in possession of the truth, one answer to the world’s ills, or one solution to humanity’s needs, has done untold harm throughout history — especially in the last century. #''[[Animal Farm]]'' · Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey · ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL — BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS. #[[Anonymous]] · Actions speak louder than words. · Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. · You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. #[[Susan B. Anthony]] · Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. '''Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.''' · We assert the province of government to be to secure the people in the enjoyment of their unalienable rights. We throw to the winds the old dogma that governments can give rights. #[[François Arago]] · On certain occasions, the eyes of the mind can supply the want of the most powerful telescopes, and lead to astronomical discoveries of the highest importance. · '''Such is the privilege of genius; it perceives, it seizes relations where vulgar eyes see only isolated facts.''' #[[János Arany]] · In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.''' #[[Archimedes]] · εὕρηκα! · '''Give me the place to stand, and I shall move the earth.''' · Do not disturb my circles! #[[Benedict Arnold]] · Let me die in this old uniform in which I fought my battles. May God forgive me for ever having put on another. #[[Aristotle]] · '''Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.''' · To entrust to chance what is greatest and most noble would be a very defective arrangement. · '''He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.''' · The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances. #[[Louis Armstrong]] · Love baby, love. That's the secret, yeah. If lots more of us loved each other, we'd solve lots more problems. And then this world would be better. That's wha' ol' Pops keeps saying. #[[Art]] · The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited. ~ [[William Saroyan]] #[[Ashoka|Ashoka the Great]] · '''Whoever praises his own religion, due to excessive devotion, and condemns others with the thought "Let me glorify my own religion," only harms his own religion.''' Therefore contact [between religions] is good. One should listen to and respect the doctrines professed by others. · Progress among the people through [[w:Dhamma|Dhamma]] has been done by two means, by Dhamma regulations and by persuasion. Of these, '''Dhamma regulation is of little effect, while persuasion has much more effect.''' #[[Isaac Asimov]] #[[Mustafa Kemal Atatürk]] #[[Margaret Atwood]] #[[Augustus]] #[[Aung San Suu Kyi]] #[[Avicenna]] #[[Richard Bach]] #[[Francis Bacon]] #[[Mikhail Bakunin]] #[[J. G. Ballard]] #[[Honoré de Balzac]] #[[Joel Barlow]] #[[John Perry Barlow]] #[[Karl Barth]] #[[Roland Barthes]] #[[Matsuo Bashō]] #[[Count Basie]] #''[[Being John Malkovich]]'' <!-- MOVIE TITLE --> #[[Simone de Beauvoir]] #[[William Beebe]] #[[Alexander Graham Bell]] #[[Saul Bellow]] #[[Pope Benedict XVI]] #[[Jeremy Bentham]] #[[Tim Berners-Lee]] #[[William Beveridge]] #''[[Beyond Good and Evil]]'' #[[Homi J. Bhabha]] #[[Benazir Bhutto]] #[[Jello Biafra]] · If you go on teaching people that life is cheap, and leave them to rot in ghettos and jails, they may one day feel justified in coming back to rob and kill you. Duh! · While the left is all up their own asses with their little pet causes, the right comes in and takes control over that which is rightly everyone's. #[[Ambrose Bierce]] #''[[‎Billy Jack]]'' #[[Osama bin Laden]] #[[Bob Black]] · '''I'm the out-of-court [[jester]] who won't settle, I up the vigilante, I'm a [[law]] unto myself but break it anyway! I made a forced landing on the [[w:Möbius strip|Moebius Strip]] and now I want to know, which side are you on?''' · A [[libertarian]] is just a [[Republican]] who takes [[drugs]]. #''[[Blade Runner]]'' #[[William Blake]] #[[Humphrey Bogart]] #[[Niels Bohr]] #[[Dietrich Bonhoeffer]] #[[Roberto Bolaño]] #[[Mel Brooks]] · Tragedy is when ''I'' cut my finger. Comedy is when ''you'' fall into an open sewer and die. · '''Hope for the best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.''' #[[Robert Browning]] #[[Pearl S. Buck]] #[[William F. Buckley, Jr.]] #[[Edmund Burke]] #[[William S. Burroughs]] #[[James Cameron]] #[[John W. Campbell]] #[[Albert Camus]] #[[Lewis Carroll]] #[[William Carey (missionary)|William Carey]] #[[Thomas Carlyle]] #[[Johnny Cash]] #[[Willa Cather]] #[[Constantine P. Cavafy]] #[[Censorship‎‎]] · '''If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.''' ~ [[Noam Chomsky]] · Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed. ~ [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] · The whole principle is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak. ~ [[Robert A. Heinlein]] · '''An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.''' ~ [[Oscar Wilde]] #[[Miguel de Cervantes]] #[[Joshua Chamberlain]] #[[Coco Chanel]] #[[William Ellery Channing]] #[[François-René de Chateaubriand]] #[[Yevgeniy Chazov]] #[[C. J. Cherryh]] · '''Inevitably the party trying to resolve a matter had to contend with the party most willing to exploit it.''' · If you don't understand other people in their time and why they did what they did, then you don't understand your own past. And when you lose your past, you lose some potential for your own future. #[[Christian anarchism]] · '''All good men are anarchists.''' All cultured, kindly men; all gentlemen; all just men are anarchists. '''[[Jesus]] was an anarchist.''' ~ [[Elbert Hubbard]] · '''[[Jesus]] was an [[Anarchism|anarchist]] savior. That's what the Gospels tell us.''' ~ [[Ivan Illich]] · Anarchism is in reality the ideal of political and social science, and also the ideal of religion. It is the ideal to which Jesus [[w:Christ|Christ]] looked forward. Christ founded no church, established no state, gave practically no laws, organized no government and set up no external authority, but he did seek to write on the hearts of men God's law and make them self-legislating. ~ [[w:Heber Newton|Heber Newton]] #[[Christmas]] #[[Winston Churchill]] #[[Arthur C. Clarke]] #[[Emil Cioran]] #''[[Cloud Atlas (film)|Cloud Atlas]]'' · '''If I had remained invisible, the truth would have stayed hidden. I couldn't allow that.''' · What is a critic but one who reads quickly arrogantly, but never wisely? · '''[[Belief]], like [[fear]] or [[love]], is a [[force]] to be understood as we understand the theory of relativity, and principles of uncertainty. Phenomena that determine the course of our lives.''' Yesterday, my life was headed in one direction. Today, it is headed in another. Yesterday, I believe I would never have done what I did today. These forces that often remake time and space, they can shape and alter who we imagine ourselves to be, begin long before we are born, and continue after we perish. Our lives and our choices, like quantum trajectories, are understood moment to moment, at each point of intersection, each encounter, suggest a new potential direction. · '''The nature of our immortal lives is in the consequences of our words and deeds, that go on and are pushing themselves throughout all [[time]]. Our lives are not our own, from womb to tomb, we're bound to others.''' #[[Stephen Colbert]] · '''Reality has a well-known liberal bias.''' · If you don't give power to the words that people throw at you to hurt you, they don't hurt you anymore — and you actually have power those people. · '''Don’t be afraid to be a fool. ... Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it.''' #[[Paulo Coelho]] #[[Comedy]] · '''Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.''' ~ [[Karl Barth]] · The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays the part. ~ [[Miguel de Cervantes]] · '''Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.''' ~ [[G. K. Chesterton]] · As soon as you realize everything's a joke, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense. ~ [[Alan Moore]] in ''[[Watchmen]]'' #[[Cyril Connolly]] #[[Conspiracy‎‎]] #[[William Crookes]] #[[Elvis Costello]] #[[Ann Coulter]] #''[[The Count of Monte Cristo]]'' #[[Stephen Crane]] #[[Michael Crichton]] #[[Davy Crockett]] #[[Oliver Cromwell]] #[[Ward Cunningham]] · '''A wiki works best where you're trying to answer a question that you can't easily pose, where there's not a natural structure that's known in advance to what you need to know.''' · I wanted to invent some software that was completely different, that would grow and change as it was used. That’s how wiki came about. · '''I'm not a fan of classification. It's very difficult to come up with a classification scheme that's useful when what you're most interested in is things that don't fit in, things that you didn't expect.''' · When you get in situations where you cannot afford to make a mistake, it's very hard to do the right thing. So if you're trying to do the right thing, the right thing might be to eliminate the cost of making a mistake rather than try to guess what's right. · '''Over and over, people try to design systems that make tomorrow's work easy. But when tomorrow comes it turns out they didn't quite understand tomorrow's work, and they actually made it harder.''' · I don't claim to be a methodologist, but I act like one only because I do methodology to protect myself from crazy methodologists. · #[[Clarence Darrow]] · It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but rather the one most adaptable to change. · '''I am an Agnostic because I am not afraid to think.''' I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil. · '''I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure — that is all that agnosticism means.''' · As long as the world shall last, there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever. · '''You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.''' #[[Philip K. Dick]] · '''They think they are free because they have never been free, and do not know what it means.''' · This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance. · '''Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.''' #[[Dorothy Day]] #[[Salvador Dalí]] #[[Voltairine de Cleyre]] #[[Charles de Lint]] #[[Charles Dickens]] #''[[Discworld]]'' #'''''[[Doctor Who]]''''' · '''It's the best idea ever invented in the history of the world!''' ~ [[Russell T. Davies]] · The greatest science fiction series of all time is ''Doctor Who!'' And I'll take you all on, one-by-one or all in a bunch to back it up! ~ [[Harlan Ellison]] · '''It's all about the triumph of intellect and romance over brute force and cynicism.''' ~ [[Craig Ferguson]] · He's this sort of harborer of ''good'' and ''fun'' and ''madness'', and he's the ''cleverest'' man in the universe — and the ''silliest'' man in the universe. ~ [[w:Matt Smith|Matt Smith]] # — [[First Doctor]] # — [[Second Doctor]] # — [[Third Doctor]] # — [[Fourth Doctor]] # — [[Fifth Doctor]] # — [[Sixth Doctor]] # — [[Seventh Doctor]] # — [[Eighth Doctor]] # — [[Ninth Doctor]] # — [[Tenth Doctor]] # — [[Eleventh Doctor‎‎]] · '''There's something you better understand about me, 'cause it's important and one day your life may depend on it. I am ''definitely'' a madman with a box!''' · There are fixed points throughout time where things must stay exactly the way they are. This is not one of them, this is an opportunity. '''Whatever happens here will create its own timeline, its own reality, a temporal tipping point. The future revolves around you, here, now, so do good!''' # — [[Jack Harkness]] # — [[Rory Williams]] #[[Cory Doctorow]] #[[Door]] · If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. ~ [[William Blake]] #[[Frederick Douglass]] #[[Arthur Conan Doyle]] #[[Will Durant]] · I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun. #[[Gerald Durrell]] · '''We have inherited an incredibly beautiful and complex garden, but the trouble is that we have been appallingly bad gardeners.''' · We now stand so aloof from nature that we think we are God. This has always been a dangerous supposition. · '''Does a creature have to be of direct material use to mankind in order to exist? By and large, by asking the question "what use is it?" you are asking the animal to justify its existence without having justified your own.''' #[[David Eagleman]] · '''Our ignorance of the cosmos is too vast to commit to [[atheism]], and yet we know too much to commit to a particular [[religion]].''' A third position, [[agnosticism]], is often an uninteresting stance in which a person simply questions whether his traditional religious story (say, a man with a beard on a cloud) is true or not true. But with [[w:Possibilianism|Possibilianism]] I’m hoping to define a new position — one that emphasizes the exploration of new, unconsidered possibilities. '''Possibilianism is comfortable holding multiple ideas in mind; it is not interested in committing to any particular story.''' #[[Amelia Earhart]] #[[Umberto Eco]] #[[Thomas Edison]] #[[Albert Einstein]] · '''Whether you can observe a thing or not depends on the theory which you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed.''' · To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself. · '''All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.''' · The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it. · '''My religion consists of an humble admiration for the vast power which manifests itself in that small part of the universe which our poor, weak minds can grasp!''' · Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind · '''The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer.''' · I have always believed that Jesus meant by the [[w:Kingdom of God|Kingdom of God]] the small group scattered all through time of intellectually and ethically valuable people. · A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt of the significance and loftiness of those superpersonal objects and goals which neither require nor are capable of rational foundation. '''They exist with the same [[necessity]] and matter-of-factness as he himself.''' · My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. · I have found no better expression than "religious" for confidence in the rational nature of reality, insofar as it is accessible to human reason. Whenever this feeling is absent, science degenerates into uninspired empiricism. · '''Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.''' The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly. · '''There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.''' #''[[Either/Or]]'' · Let others complain that the times are wicked. I complain that they are paltry; for they are without passion. · '''Only the truth that builds up is truth for you.''' · I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both. · '''I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to the general applause of wits who believe it's a joke.''' <!-- π --> #[[Electricity]] · One can prophesy with a [[w:Daniel|Daniel]]'s confidence that skilled electricians will settle the battles of the near future. But this is the least. In its effect upon war and peace, electricity offers still much greater and more wonderful possibilities. ~ [[Nikola Tesla]] #[[George Eliot]] · O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence... #[[T. S. Eliot]] · Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. · It is impossible to say just what I mean! · Do I dare Disturb the universe? #[[Kerry Ellis]] · The exciting thing about seeing a new show is that you are taken on a journey of surprises, if you know what’s coming it takes away the fun. #[[Harlan Ellison]] · The greatest science fiction series of all time is ''[[Doctor Who]]!'' And I'll take you all on, one-by-one or all in a bunch to back it up! #[[Jacques Ellul]] · Propaganda does not aim to elevate man, but to make him ''serve''. · Hate, hunger, and pride make better levers of propaganda than do love or impartiality. #[[Ralph Waldo Emerson]] #[[Enya]] #[[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] #[[Eternity]] #[[Ethiopia]] #[[Leonhard Euler]] #[[Fascism]] #[[William Faulkner]] #[[Federico Fellini]] #''[[The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' #[[Enrico Fermi]] #[[Richard Feynman]] · In order to progress, we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt. #[[Johann Gottlieb Fichte]] #''[[Field of Dreams]]'' #[[Irving Fiske]] <!-- formatting, provided a source for a quote, maintaining it as a valid page --> #[[Harry Emerson Fosdick]] #[[George Fox]] #[[Anatole France]] #[[Benjamin Franklin]] #[[Freedom]] #[[Julien Friedler]] #[[Milton Friedman]] #[[Sigmund Freud]] #[[James Anthony Froude]] · '''Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.''' #[[Robert Fulghum]] · Be aware of wonder. And then remember the Dick and Jane books and the first word you learned — the biggest word of all — LOOK. #[[Buckminster Fuller]] · The nearest each of us can come to God is by loving the truth. #[[Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi|Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi)]] · '''Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.''' · It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. '''It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.''' · I’m a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. · '''The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy.''' That State is the best governed which is governed the least. · '''The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.''' #[[John Kenneth Galbraith]] #[[Neil Gaiman]] #''[[Gattaca]]'' · I never saved anything for the swim back. · '''Maybe I'm not leaving … maybe I'm going home.''' #[[Greta Garbo]] #[[James A. Garfield]] #[[William Gibson‎‎]] #''[[Godspell]]'' ''Prepare ye the way of the Lord!'' · How do you remove a speck of sawdust from your brother's [[eye]] when all the while there's a big plank in your own? #[[William Godwin]] #[[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]] #[[Vincent van Gogh]] #[[William Golding]] #[[Emma Goldman]] #[[Martha Graham]] #[[Kenneth Grahame]] #[[Green Lantern]] · In brightest day, in blackest night, No evil shall escape my sight Let those who worship evil's might, Beware my power...Green Lantern's light! #''[[The Green Mile]]'' · Mostly, I'm tired of people being ''ugly'' to each other. I'm tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world ''every day''. #''[[Groundhog Day (film)|Groundhog Day]]'' · Anything different is good. #[[Che Guevara]] #[[Woody Guthrie]] # [[Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama]] #[[Gary Gygax]] #[[Edward Everett Hale]] #[[Edith Hamilton]] · There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist, except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers. · '''Great literature, past or present, is the expression of great knowledge of the human heart; great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.''' #[[Hannibal]] #[[Yip Harburg]] #[[George Harrison]] #''[[Harvey]]'' #[[Václav Havel]] #[[Stephen Hawking]] #[[Nathaniel Hawthorne]] #[[Friedrich Hayek]] · '''We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.''' · "Emergencies" have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded. · '''We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage.''' · To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do ''not'' possess, is likely to make us do much harm. · '''It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a moral evil than by men intent on doing evil.''' · The liberal, of course, does not deny that there are some superior people — he is not an egalitarian — but he denies that anyone has authority to decide who these superior people are. · If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion. · It is possible for a dictator to govern in a liberal way. And it is also possible for a democracy to govern with a total lack of liberalism. Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism. · All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include among the ignorant themselves as well as the wisest. · '''Our faith in freedom does not rest on the foreseeable results in particular circumstances, but on the belief that it will, on balance, release more forces for the good than for the bad.''' · There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. · '''A society that does not recognise that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom.''' #[[Salma Hayek]] #[[Heart]] · Whatever pretended pessimists in search of notoriety may say, most people are naturally kind, at heart. ~ [[James Branch Cabell]] #[[Hearts in Atlantis (film)|''Hearts in Atlantis'' (film)]] · '''We're all just passing through, kiddo. Just passing through, that's all.''' · What Ted did was open my eyes, and let the future in. I wouldn't have missed a minute of it. Not for all the world. #[[Oliver Heaviside]] #[[Heinrich Heine]] #[[Patrick Henry]] #[[Johann Gottfried Herder]] · '''We live in a world we ourselves create.''' #[[Abraham Joshua Heschel]] #[[Hermann Hesse]] #[[Charlton Heston]] #[[Napoleon Hill]] #[[Ho Chi Minh]] #''[[The Hobbit]]'' #[[Abbie Hoffman]] #[[James P. Hogan]] · '''We're so saturated with propaganda every way you look that we don't notice it. But when it isn't there, you notice.''' · I am confident that the things that have been described for centuries as mystical insight are results of abnormal Multiverse sensitivity — either acquired accidentally or developed through training. · '''What mystics tried to describe was the freeing of consciousness — deliberately or otherwise — from the restraints that normally define identity, into the quantum-connected paths of the Multiverse.''' #[[Holidays]] #[[Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.]] #[[Grace Hopper]] · '''You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership.''' · Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, "We've always done it this way." I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise. · '''It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.''' #[[Elbert Hubbard]] · '''I AM an Anarchist. All good men are [[Anarchism|Anarchists]].''' All cultured, kindly men; all gentlemen; all just men are Anarchists. '''[[Jesus]] was an anarchist.''' · One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. · '''Never explain — your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow.''' #[[L. Ron Hubbard]] #[[Victor Hugo]] #''[[In Memoriam A.H.H.]]'' #[[Investment‎‎]] · '''It will happen a '[[Visions|seeing]]' … It is the display of [[2012 phenomenon|B'olon-Yokte']] in a great "investiture".''' #[[Isocrates]] #[[Michael Jackson]] #[[Stonewall Jackson]] #[[Alice James]] · Truly nothing is to be expected but the unexpected. #[[William James]] #[[Julian Jaynes]] · The mind is still haunted with its old unconscious ways; it broods on lost authorities; and the yearning, the deep and hollowing yearning for divine volition and service is with us still. · '''The divine kingdom to be regained is psychological not physical. It is metaphorical not literal. It is "within" not ''in extenso''.''' · Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at understanding the history of all individual selves and all civilizations. '''Beyond that, there is only awe.''' #[[Gertrude Jekyll]] #[[Thomas Jefferson]] #[[Jews]] #[[Penn Jillette]] #[[Steve Jobs]] #[[Pope John Paul II]] #''[[Jonathan Livingston Seagull]]'' #[[Van Jones]] #[[Chief Joseph]] #[[Joy]] #[[Miranda July]] #[[Justice]] #[[Wendy Kaminer]] · '''Not everything that appears true is true.''' The [[American Civil Liberties Union|ACLU]] is devoted to some very controversial principles — like the principle that everyone who is arrested should enjoy the same constitutional rights, regardless of their alleged crime or their character. We don't take that position to irritate people; we take that position because we believe in it. We believe in it, in part, in a spirit of enlightened self-interest, because the rights of each one of us are co-extensive with the rights of everyone who is arrested and prosecuted in the criminal courts. '''If we all don't enjoy the same rights, then no one enjoys any rights at all; some of us merely enjoy privilege.''' #[[John F. Kennedy]] # [[Jack Kerouac]] #[[Imre Kertész]] #[[Søren Kierkegaard]] #[[Martin Luther King, Jr.]] #[[Alfred Kinsey]] #[[Kinsey (film)|''Kinsey'' (2004 film)]] #[[Ben Klassen]] #[[John Knox]] #[[Kingdom of God]] · [[Repent]]: for the kingdom of [[heaven]] is at [[hand]]. · '''The Kingdom of the Father is spread out upon the earth, and men do not see it.''' ~ [[Jesus]] #[[King Kong]] #[[King Kong (1933 film)|''King Kong'' (1933 film)]] #[[King Kong (1976 film)|''King Kong'' (1976 film)]] #[[King Kong (2005 film)|''King Kong'' (2005 film)]] #[[Abraham Isaac Kook‎‎]] #[[Jiddu Krishnamurti]] #[[U. G. Krishnamurti]] #[[Kris Kristofferson]] #[[Peter Kropotkin]] #[[Milan Kundera]] #[[Edwin H. Land]] #[[Laozi]] #[[Philip Larkin]] #''[[The Last Unicorn]]'' #[[T. E. Lawrence]] #[[Bruce Lee]] #[[Gypsy Rose Lee]] #[[Robert E. Lee]] #[[Legend (film)|''Legend'' (film)]] #[[Ursula K. Le Guin]] #[[Gottfried Leibniz]] #[[Vladimir Lenin]] · While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State. · '''Every cook must learn to rule the State.''' · Human thought by its nature is capable of giving, and does give, absolute truth, which is compounded of a sum-total of relative truths. · '''Whoever wants to reach socialism by any other path than that of political democracy will inevitably arrive at conclusions that are absurd and reactionary both in the economic and the political sense.''' · To accept anything on trust, to preclude critical application and development, is a grievous sin; and in order to apply and develop, “simple interpretation” is obviously not enough. #[[John Lennon]] #[[Leonardo da Vinci]] #[[Leonidas I]] · Marry a good man, and bear good children. · Μολὼν λαβέ — ''[[w:Molon labe|Molōn labe!]]'' #[[Errico Malatesta]] · '''Violence is the whole essence of authoritarianism, just as the repudiation of violence is the whole essence of anarchism.''' · By anarchist spirit I mean that deeply human sentiment, which aims at the good of all, freedom and justice for all, solidarity and love among the people; which is not an exclusive characteristic only of self-declared anarchists, but inspires all people who have a generous heart and an open mind. · '''We anarchists do not want to ''emancipate'' the people; we want the people to ''emancipate themselves''.''' #[[Jean-Marie Le Pen]] · Everyone sees drama from his own perspective. #''[[Les Misérables]]'' #[[Libertarianism]] · '''lib·er·tar·i·an''': One who advocates maximizing individual rights and minimizing the role of the state. #[[Liberty]] #[[G. Gordon Liddy]] #[[Light]] #[[Lightning]] # [[John C. Lilly‎‎]] · '''In the province of the [[mind]], what one [[Belief|believes]] to be [[Truth|true]] is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended.''' In the mind, there are no limits... #[[Abraham Lincoln]] #[[Charles Lindbergh]] #[[David Livingstone]] #[[Ken Livingstone]] #[[Lin Yutang]] #[[John Locke]] #''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' #[[The Lord of the Rings (movies)|''The Lord of the Rings'' (movies)]] #[[Sophia Loren]] #[[Konrad Lorenz]] #[[James Russell Lowell]] · '''Who speaks the truth stabs Falsehood to the heart.''' · If ye do not feel the chain, When it works a brother's pain, Are ye not base slaves indeed, Slaves unworthy to be freed? · Is true Freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear sake, And, with leathern hearts, forget That we owe mankind a debt? No! true freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free! · They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think; '''They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.''' #[[LSD]] · '''Deliberate provocation of mystical experience, particularly by LSD and related hallucinogens, in contrast to spontaneous visionary experiences, entails dangers that must not be underestimated.''' ~ Dr. [[Albert Hofmann]] #[[Rosa Luxemburg]] #[[David Lynch]] #[[Jeff Lynne]] #[[Louisa Lytton]] #[[Wangari Maathai]] #[[Niccolò Machiavelli]] #[[Maimonides]] #''[[Man of La Mancha]]'' #''[[The Man Who Was Thursday]]'' #[[Nelson Mandela]] #[[Benoît Mandelbrot]] #[[Thomas Mann]] #[[Man of Steel (film)|''Man of Steel'' (film)]] · My father believed that if the world found out who I really was, they'd reject me... out of fear. He was convinced that the world wasn't ready. What do you think? · It's not an "S". On my world it means "[[Hope]]". #[[Imelda Marcos]] #[[Don Marquis]] #[[George Marshall]] · We have walked blindly, ignoring the lessons of the past...· '''The time has come when we must proceed with the business of carrying the war to the enemy...''' · Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos. · We must present democracy as a force holding within itself the seeds of unlimited progress by the human race. · '''The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.''' · If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known. · '''I have done my best, and I hope I have sown some seeds which may bring forth good fruit.''' #[[Karl Marx]] #[[Abraham Maslow]] #[[Rollo May]] · '''To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive — to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before.''' · The first thing necessary for a constructive dealing with time is to learn to live in the reality of the present moment. For psychologically speaking, this present moment is all we have. · '''However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings.''' · Artists are generally soft-spoken persons who are concerned with their inner visions and images. But that is precisely what makes them feared by any coercive society. #[[Rachel McAdams]] · I’ve been able to stay afloat and also get to do things that are fun. I don’t know where that puts me in the grand scheme of things but I’ve really enjoyed the journey and the course it’s taken so far. #[[Paul McCartney]] #[[George MacDonald‎]] ·  '''A genuine [[work]] of [[art]] [[must]] [[Meaning|mean]] many things; the truer its art, the more things it will mean.''' #[[Marshall McLuhan]] #[[Larry McMurtry]] #[[Golda Meir]] · Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us. · '''We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.''' · We hate war. We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown, and when strawberries bloom in Israel. · Many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? … Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either. #[[Henry Melvill]] · '''Ye cannot live for yourselves; a thousand fibres connect you with your fellow-men, and along those fibres, as along sympathetic threads, run your actions as causes, and return to you as effects.''' · The Bible tells me explicitly that Christ was God; and it tells me, as explicitly that Christ was man. It does not go on to state the modus or manner of the union. #''[[The Men Who Stare at Goats (film)| The Men Who Stare at Goats]]'' · '''Now, more than ever, we need the [[w:Jedi|Jedi]]!''' · More of this is true than you would believe. #[[Mercy]] #[[Mike + The Mechanics]] · '''''Can you hear me, can you hear me running? Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?''''' #[[Stanley Milgram]] · People are inventive. The variety of political forms we have seen in history are only several of many possible political arrangements. '''Perhaps the next step is to invent and to explore political forms that will give conscience a better chance to resist errant authority.''' #[[Edna St. Vincent Millay]] #[[Joaquin Miller]] #[[John Milton]] #[[Yukio Mishima]] #[[Charles de Montesquieu]] #[[Maria Montessori]] · To stimulate [[life]], leaving it [[free]], however, to unfold itself, that is the first [[duty]] of the [[educator]]. #''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]'' · '''You can't expect to wield supreme power just 'cause some watery tart threw a [[sword]] at you!''' #[[Alan Moore]] · You piss off a bard, and forget about putting a curse on you, he might put a satire on you. · '''There's no flesh and blood within this cloak to kill. There is only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.''' · Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. · '''There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse is often closer to the truth.''' #[[Hans Morgenthau]] · Even though anthropologists have shown that certain primitive peoples seem to be free from the desire for power, nobody has yet shown how their state of mind can be re-created on a worldwide scale so as to eliminate the struggle for power from the international scene. #[[Mary Tyler Moore‎‎]] · '''I knew at a very early age what I wanted to do.''' Some people refer to it as indulging in my instincts and artistic bent. I call it just showing off, which was what I did from about three years of age on. · '''I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.''' #[[Carole Morin]] · '''It’s all [[real]].''' It came out of my head. Everything in there is real. Even the things invented and imagined. #[[Omar Mukhtar]] · '''We do not surrender — we win or die.''' #[[Muses]] · Happy is he whom the Muses love: sweet flows speech from his mouth. #[[Naples]] · Naples, sitteth by the sea, keystone of an arch of azure. ~ [[Martin Farquhar Tupper]] #[[Napoleon I of France]] · He who fears being conquered is certain of defeat. · '''[[Imagination]] governs the world.''' #[[Necessity]] · Necessity has no law. · Necessity can turn any weapon to advantage. · Necessity is the last and strongest weapon. · '''Not even the gods fight against necessity.''' #[[Jawaharlal Nehru]] · Where [[freedom]] is menaced or [[justice]] threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral. #[[Helmut Newton]] · '''My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.''' · The term "political correctness" has always appalled me, reminding me of [[George Orwell|Orwell]]'s "[[w:Thought Police|Thought Police]]" and [[fascism|fascist]] regimes. #[[Nico]] · I don't see this decade then that decade. The same things happen in different guises. #[[Friedrich Nietzsche]] · '''It is precisely facts that do not exist, only interpretations.''' · Our innermost being, our common foundation, experiences [[dreams]] with profound pleasure and joyful [[necessity]]. · '''Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!''' · The secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is — to live dangerously. · '''What is done out of [[love]] always takes place [[Beyond Good and Evil|beyond good and evil]].''' #''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'' #[[Nineteen Eighty-Four (film)|''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' (film)]] #[[Albert Jay Nock]] #[[Novalis]] #[[Robert Nozick]] #[[Number theory]] #[[Barack Obama]] #[[Kenzaburō Ōe]] #[[Robert Oppenheimer]] #[[Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis]] #''[[Orlando: A Biography]]'' #[[José Ortega y Gasset]] #[[Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh)]] #[[Pacifism]] · The only way to abolish war is to make peace heroic. ~ [[w:James Hinton|James Hinton]] · '''Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.''' ~ [[Helen Keller]] #[[Abraham Pais]] #[[Nina Paley]] · I think artists do need to do work with no contract, because what we're motivated by is not money. We're motivated by a need to express ourselves and to get our ideas out. #[[Christopher Paolini]] #[[Lucy Parsons]] #[[Andy Partridge]] #[[George S. Patton]] #[[Charles Sanders Peirce]] #[[Penn & Teller]] #[[Roger Penrose]] · We must make a distinction between what is "objective" and what is "measurable" in discussing the question of physical reality, according to quantum mechanics. · '''Science is a great deal more than mindless computation.''' #[[Fred Perry]] #[[Petrarch]] #[[Phenomenon (film)|''Phenomenon'' (film)]] · Love is buried under fear, and partnership, is right there under competition, and there's compassion underneath the greed. · ''I would be the sunlight in your universe You will think my love was really something good Baby if I could change the world…'' ~ [[Eric Clapton]] #[[Emo Philips]] #[[Pindar]] #[[Valerie Plame]] #[[Max Planck]] #''[[Pleasantville]]'' · There are some places … that the road doesn't go in a circle. There are some places where the road keeps ''going''. · '''Nothing Is As Simple As Black And White.''' #[[Edgar Allan Poe]] #[[Karl Popper]] #[[A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man]] #[[Neil Postman]] #[[Colin Powell]] #[[Terry Pratchett]] #''[[The Prestige]]'' · Every [[magic]] trick has a third act, the hardest part, the part we call "The Prestige". #''[[Pride and Prejudice]]'' #[[Prometheus (film)|''Prometheus'' (2012 film)]] #[[Pythagoras]] · '''Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.''' #[[François Rabelais]] #[[Yitzhak Rabin]] · I, who have sent armies into fire and soldiers to their [[death]], say today: '''We sail onto a [[war]] which has no casualties, no wounded, no blood nor suffering. It is the only war which is a [[pleasure]] to participate in — the war for peace.''' #[[Ramakrishna]] · [[Great]] [[men]] have the [[nature]] of a [[child]]. They are always a child before Him; so they are free from [[pride]]. All their [[strength]] is of [[God]] and not their own. It belongs to Him and comes from Him. #[[Jef Raskin]] #[[Ronald Reagan]] #[[Charles A. Reich]] #[[Hanna Reitsch]] · I am not ashamed to say I believed in [[Nazism|National Socialism]]. I still wear the Iron Cross with diamonds [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] gave me. But today in all Germany you can't find a single person who voted Adolf Hitler into power. #[[Relativism]] · '''Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful.''' ~ [[George E. P. Box]] · '''Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees''' …  Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition. If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge ... '''One of the worst muddles of this age is its confusing of the ideas behind combative and cognitive activity. Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it.''' ~ [[Karel Čapek]] #[[Religion]] #''[[The Return of the King]]'' #[[Hyman G. Rickover]] #''[[Rigveda]]'' #[[Manuel Rivera-Ortiz]] #[[John D. Rockefeller]] #[[John D. Rockefeller Jr.]] #[[Will Rogers]] #[[Romain Rolland]] · '''Every man who is truly a man must learn to be alone in the midst of all others, and if need be against all others.''' · I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so. · '''God was Life, the drop of light fallen into the darkness, spreading out, reaching out, drinking up the night. But the night is limitless, and the Divine struggle will never cease: and none can know how it will end.''' · In that sonorous soul everything took shape in sound. It sang of light. It sang of darkness, sang of life and death. It sang for those who were victorious in battle. It sang for himself who was conquered and laid low. '''It sang. All was song. It was nothing but song.''' · May life herself speak! However inadequate I may be in listening to her, and in repeating her words, I shall try to record them, even if they contradict my most secret desires. '''In all that I write, may her will, not mine, be done!''' #[[Theodore Roosevelt]] #[[Leo Rosten]] · Extremists think "communication" means agreeing with them. · '''I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.''' #[[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]] #[[Rumi]] #[[Bertrand Russell]] #[[Ernest Rutherford]] #[[Ryōkan]] #[[Carl Sagan]] #[[Jonas Salk]] #[[George Sand]] #[[José de San Martín]] #[[Epifanio de los Santos]] #[[Jean-Paul Sartre]] #[[William Saroyan]] #[[Girolamo Savonarola]] #''[[The Scarlet Pimpernel]]'' #[[Karl Friedrich Schinkel]] #[[Erwin Schrödinger]] #[[Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.]] #[[Winfield Scott]] #[[Edie Sedgwick]] #[[September 11 attacks]] #[[Dr. Seuss]] #[[Shaka]] #[[William Shakespeare]] #[[George Bernard Shaw]] #[[Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross]] #[[Charlie Sheen]] #[[Martin Sheen]] #''[[Sherlock]]'' · '''I'm not a psychopath, Anderson, I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research.''' · I'm not going to go into detail about how I do what I do because chances are you wouldn't understand. If you've got a problem that you want me to solve, then contact me. Interesting cases only please. · This is what I do: 1. I observe everything. 2. From what I observe, I deduce everything. 3. '''When I've eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how mad it might seem, must be the truth.''' #[[William Tecumseh Sherman]] #[[William Shockley]] #[[Henryk Sienkiewicz]] · '''There is within us a moral instinct which forbids us to rejoice at the death of even an enemy.''' · A man who leaves memoirs, whether well or badly written, provided they be sincere, renders a service to future psychologists and writers, giving them not only a faithful picture, but likewise human documents that may be relied upon. · '''My jests do not prevent me from thinking at times that in truth there is only one deity, eternal, creative, all-powerful, [[w:Venus (mythology)|Venus]] Genetrix. She brings souls together; she unites bodies and things.''' · Not [[Nero]], but [[God]], rules the world. #''[[Silver Linings Playbook‎‎]]'' · I ''was'' a big slut, but I'm not any more. There's always going to be a part of me that's sloppy and dirty, but I like that. With all the other parts of myself. Can you say the same about yourself fucker? Can you [[Forgiveness|forgive]]? Are you any good at that? #[[Simplicity]] · ''When true simplicity is gain'd To bow and to bend we shan't be asham'd, To turn, turn will be our delight 'Till by turning, turning we come round right.'' ~ [[Joseph Brackett]] · Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance. ~ [[Coco Chanel]] · Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art. ~ [[Frédéric Chopin]] · Nature has a great simplicity and, therefore, a great beauty. ~ [[Richard Feynman]] #[[Bhagat Singh]] #[[Will Smith]] #[[Beverly Sills]] #[[Simonides of Ceos]] #[[Simplicity]] #[[Socrates]] #''[[Somewhere in Time]]'' · '''Come back to me.''' · Is there any way I can tell you how my life have changed? Any way at all to let you know what sweetness you have given me? There is so much to say... I cannot find the words. Except for these: I love you. · '''Is time travel possible?''' #[[Sophie's Choice (film)|''Sophie's Choice'' (film)]] · '''I was sent to Auschwitz because they saw that I was afraid.''' · You are a Polack, not a Yid. That gives you a privilege, a choice. · '''This was not judgement day — only morning. Morning: excellent and fair.''' #[[George Soros]] #[[Regina Spektor]] #[[Spoon]] #[[Charles Spurgeon]] #[[Ringo Starr]] #[[John Steinbeck]] #[[Gloria Steinem]] #[[James Fitzjames Stephen]] · '''Parliamentary government is simply a mild and disguised form of compulsion. We agree to try strength by counting heads instead of breaking heads, but the principle is exactly the same…''' The minority gives way not because it is convinced that it is wrong, but because it is convinced that it is a minority. #[[Wallace Stevens]] #[[Ben Stiller]] #[[Stonehenge]] #[[Theodore Sturgeon]] #[[Patrick Swift]] · All facts become [[Joy|joyous]]; the more terrible the material the greater the artistic triumph. · [[Life]] is more important than [[art]] — quantity is only important in that the amount of activity is greater not the number of works. #[[Thales]] #[[Howard Thurman]] · '''[[Christmas|CHRISTMAS]] IS WAITING TO BE BORN: In you, in me, in all [[mankind]].''' · Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because '''what the world needs is people who have come alive.''' #[[Justin Trudeau]] #[[Pierre Trudeau]] #[[Truth]] #[[Martin Farquhar Tupper]] · '''God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love in all he doeth, Love, a brilliant fire, to gladden or consume''': The wicked work their woe by looking upon love, and hating it: The righteous find their joys in yearning on its loveliness for ever. #[[Alan Turing]] #[[Sun Tzu]] #[[Superman]] #[[Algernon Charles Swinburne]] #[[Algernon Sydney]] #[[Wisława Szymborska]] #[[Tecumseh]] #[[Edward Teller]] #''[[Tempest (1982 film)|''Tempest'' (1982 film)]] · It's all here, dog — beauty, magic, inspiration… and serenity. Not to mention silence, amazement, intimacy… ''enchantment''. · '''Show me the magic. Come on, show me the magic.''' #[[The Tempest (2010 film)|''The Tempest'' (2010 film)]] #[[Mother Teresa]] #[[Nikola Tesla]] #[[William Makepeace Thackeray]] #''[[They Might Be Giants]]'' · There are no masses in Dodge City, only individuals taking responsibility for their own actions. · '''I think if [[God]] is dead he laughed himself to death. — Because, you see, ''we live in Eden''. Genesis has got it all wrong — ''we never left the Garden''. Look about you. This is paradise. ''It's hard to find, I'll grant you, but it is here.'' Under our feet, beneath the surface, all around us is everything we want. '''The earth is shining under the soot. ''We are all fools''.''' #[[Hunter S. Thompson]] #[[Henry David Thoreau]] #[[J. R. R. Tolkien]] #[[Leo Tolstoy]] #[[Charles Trenet‎‎]] #[[Trolls]] #[[Benjamin Tucker]] #[[Alan Turing]] · '''Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call ''intuition'' and ''ingenuity.''''' · Science is a [[w:differential equation|differential equation]]. Religion is a [[w:boundary condition|boundary condition]]. · '''We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.''' #[[Desmond Tutu]] #[[William M. Tweed| William M. Tweed ("Boss Tweed")]] · The way to have power is to take it. · What are you going to do about it? · I don't care a straw for your newspaper articles; my constituents don't know how to read, but they can't help seeing them damned pictures. #''[[The Two Towers]]'' #''[[The Two Voices]]'' #[[William Tyndale]] #[[Ulysses (novel)|''Ulysses'' (novel)]] #[[Miguel de Unamuno]] #[[Uncle Sam (Vertigo)|''Uncle Sam'' (Vertigo)]] · '''There are 200 million stories in the naked village. This is all of them.''' · It's a strange and frightening thing — to see yourself at your worst. · '''The only way to know how freedom works — is to work at it.''' #''[[V for Vendetta]]'' ·''' ''Everybody'' is special. ''Everybody''. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain, everybody. Everybody has their story to tell…''' · I still don't know who codename V is, but I think I know ''what'' he is. #[[V for Vendetta (film)|''V for Vendetta'' (2005 film)]] · '''Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask.''' · There's no certainty — only opportunity. · '''God is in the rain.''' · Artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up. · '''Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof.''' #[[Paul Valéry]] · '''Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.''' · Politeness is organized indifference. · The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. #[[Bartolomeo Vanzetti]] · I am innocent of all crime, not only this one, but of all, all. I am an innocent man. I now wish to forgive some people for what they are doing to me. #[[Henry Vaughan]] · An age of mysteries! which he Must live that would God's face see Which angels guard, and with it play, Angels! which foul men drive away. · '''Quickly would I make my path even, And by mere playing go to heaven.''' #[[Gore Vidal]] · People in my situation get to read about themselves whether they want to or not. It's generally wrong. Or oversimplified — which is sometimes useful. · '''At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.''' · I am at heart a propagandist, a tremendous hater, a tiresome nag, complacently positive that there is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise. #[[Richard Wagner]] · "Property" has acquired an almost greater sacredness in our social conscience than religion: for offence against the latter there is lenience, for damage to the former no forgiveness. #''[[Walden]]'' · '''There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.''' · The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. '''Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.''' · Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors. · '''Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.''' #[[William Wallace]] · We come here with no peaceful intent, but ready for battle, determined to avenge our wrongs and set our country free. Let your masters come and attack us: we are ready to meet them beard to beard. · '''Freedom is best, I tell thee true, of all things to be won.''' #[[An Wang]] · Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius. # [[George Washington]] · '''If men are to be precluded from offering their sentiments on a matter which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences that can invite the consideration of mankind, reason is of no use to us …''' · All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external trappings of elevated office. To me there is nothing in it, beyond the lustre which may be reflected from its connection with a power of promoting human felicity. · '''Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all.''' #[[Bill Watterson‎‎]] · I try to make everyone's day a little more surreal. #[[Alan Watts]] · '''I have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek.''' · The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. · '''There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied.''' #[[Wei Wu Wei]] · Play your part in the comedy, but don't identify yourself with your role! · '''Living should be perpetual and universal benediction.''' #[[Simone Weil]] · Among those in whom the supernatural part of themselves has not been awakened, the atheists are right and the believers wrong. · '''Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.''' #[[Steven Weinberg‎‎]] · There is one constant that seems to be [[w:Fine-tuned Universe |fine tuned]]...and that is [[w:Dark energy|dark energy]]. #[[Charles Wesley]] · Hark! the herald angels sing, Glory to the new-born King! #[[Vita Sackville-West‎‎]] · I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all. #[[What Dreams May Come (film)|What Dreams May Come]]'' · '''Thought is real. Physical is the illusion. Ironic, huh?''' · Sometimes, when you lose, you win. · '''What's true in our minds is true, whether some people know it or not.''' · In Hell there's real danger. Of losing your mind. · The old baggage, old roles of authority, who's the teacher, who's the father, gets in the way of who we really are to each other. #[[E. B. White]] · '''I am a member of a party of one, and I live in an age of fear.''' · Life's meaning has always eluded me and I guess it always will. But I love it just the same. · '''''Salutations!''''' #[[T. H. White]] · If people reach perfection they vanish, you know. · '''Learn why the world wags and what wags it.''' That is the only thing the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. #[[Alfred North Whitehead]] · There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil. · '''The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, "Seek simplicity and distrust it." '''· The chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence. · '''I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren’t.''' #[[Norbert Wiener]] · Neither the artist nor the mathematician may be able to tell you what constitutes the difference between a significant piece of work and an inflated trifle; but if he is not able to recognise this in his own heart, he is no artist and no mathematician. #[[Elie Wiesel]] · '''If you ask me what I want to achieve, it's to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching.''' · Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. · '''Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures, it is our gift to each other.''' #[[Prince William of Wales]] · We’re very lucky. You know, we have lots of things that we are very fortunate to have. #[[Roger Williams (theologian)|Roger Williams]] · '''Enforced uniformity confounds civil and religious liberty and denies the principles of Christianity and civility. No man shall be required to worship or maintain a worship against his will.''' #[[Ellen Willis]] · '''My deepest impulses are optimistic; an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.''' · The project of organizing a democratic political movement entails the hope that one's ideas and beliefs are not merely idiosyncratic but speak to vital human needs, interests and desires, and therefore will be persuasive to many and ultimately most people. But this is a very different matter from deciding to put forward only those ideas presumed (accurately or not) to be compatible with what most people already believe. · '''Individuals bearing witness cannot do the work of social movements, but they can break a corrosive and demoralizing silence.''' · Prohibition is directly responsible for the power of crack dealers to terrorize whole neighborhoods. · '''By definition, the conventional wisdom of the day is widely accepted, continually reiterated and regarded not as ideology but as reality itself. Rebelling against "reality," even when its limitations are clearly perceived, is always difficult.''' #[[Joseph C. Wilson‎‎]] · It will be a cold day in hell before I vote for a Republican, even for dog catcher. #[[Robert Anton Wilson]] · '''You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don't already believe it.''' · [[w:Elohim|Elohim]]," the name for the creative power in ''[[w:Book of Genesis|Genesis]]'', is a female plural, a fact that generations of learned rabbis and Christian theologians have all explained as merely grammatical convention. The King James and most other Bibles translate it as "[[God]]," but if you take the grammar literally, it seems to mean "goddesses." [[w:El Shaddai|Al Shaddai]], god of battles, appears later, and [[w:Tetragrammaton|YHWH]], mispronounced [[Jehovah]], later still. · '''It's important to abolish the unconscious dogmatism that makes people think their way of looking at reality is the only sane way of viewing the world. My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone, but agnosticism about everything.''' · There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world. · '''ONLY THE MADMAN IS ABSOLUTELY SURE.''' #[[Ludwig Wittgenstein]] · '''A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.''' · Philosophical problems can be compared to locks on safes, which can be opened by dialing a certain word or number, so that no force can open the door until just this word has been hit upon, and once it is hit upon any child can open it. · '''The World and Life are one. ... Ethics and Aesthetics are one.''' · Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of our language. · '''What can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence.''' · My work consists of two parts: of the one which is here, and of everything which I have ''not'' written. And precisely this second part is the important one. · '''My difficulty is only an — enormous — difficulty of expression.''' #''[[Wonderfalls]]'' · '''''I wonder wonder why the wonder falls I wonder why the wonder falls on me…''''' · I don't have a choice. I'm a puppet. The universe sticks its hand up my butt, and if I don't dance people get hurt. · '''There’s something out there and it’s laughing at us.''' #[[William Wordsworth]] · '''My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky…''' · Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar · Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears, '''To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.''' #[[Frances Wright]] · '''An opinion, right or wrong can never constitute a moral offense, nor be in itself a moral obligation.''' #[[Writing]] · '''Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.''' ~ [[Martin Amis]] · I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility. ~ [[w:Katherine Paterson|Katherine Paterson]] · '''How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.''' ~ [[Henry David Thoreau]] · The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog! ~ [[Bill Watterson]] #[[Malcolm X]] · It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood. That's the only thing that can save this country. · '''Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor.''' #''[[Xanadu (film)|Xanadu]]'' · ''The dream that came through a million years That lived on through all the tears, it came to Xanadu… · You have to believe we are magic, nothin' can stand in our way…'' #[[Isoroku Yamamoto]] · A military man can scarcely pride himself on having "smitten a sleeping enemy"; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten. #[[Frank Zappa]] · '''To me, absurdity is the only reality.''' · The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life. · '''I have four children, and I want them to grow up in a country that has a working [[First Amendment to the United States Constitution|First Amendment.]]''' · The first thing you have to do if you want to raise nice kids, is you have to talk to them like they are people instead of talking to them like they're property. #[[Roger Zelazny]] · Do we make the Shadow worlds? Or are they there, independent of us, awaiting our footfalls? Or is there an unfairly excluded middle? Is it a matter of more or less, rather than either-or? · Good-bye and hello, as always. #[[Zhuangzi]] · '''I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.''' 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'''The wisest of people are very able to make swift and powerful assessments, but always keep in reserve much about their observations and considerations, and do not reveal them casually to those who have exhibited some of the most corrupted and perverse imaginations and inclinations which people are capable of exhibiting — an ''inclination'' to hate or punish others — or to excuse brutality, which I tend to define as clearly needless harshness. There is not the most profound and dutiful saint in all of human history who cannot be made to look ridiculous and contemptible to many, and there is not one villian and fiend who cannot seem admirable to some mind-warped dunce or dupe of evil with similar affinities, or even to many other heroes and saints, if sufficiently misinformed.''' Since I was a VERY young child I have taken to heart one of [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]]'s assertions: "One to me are fame and shame" and generally preferred to remain relatively obscure, so much as possible, while I go about doing what good I can, for whom I can, when I can. </small> == Users who have been falsely associated with me == :There have been a few incidents where I have been accused of being a "sockpuppet" of a few other users, or they of me — or even a malicious vandal; I will list and perhaps link to some of those incidents here, gradually over the couse of coming months. :* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Bellwether '''User:Bellwether''' on Wikipedia], my memory could conceivably be faulty, but from the edits made there I definitely believe this is NOT any alternate account which I created. I believe that It has been WRONGLY labelled as mine there. ~ <span style= "color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌[[User:Kalki|Kalki]]·[[User talk:Kalki|†]]·[[User:Kalki/index|⚓]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 02:09, 1 February 2012 (UTC) == Other users I will definitely state I am NOT == : Because of suspicions that might perhaps seem reasonable to some, based upon the levels of absurdity of some accusations which have already arisen against me, I will identify a few other users here, which I will state I definitely am '''NOT'''. :{{user|Zarbon}} - he seems much less active of late, and was often in contention with me on QOTD pages; but unlike some, I seek to avoid entering into even fake conflicts, so much as possible, rather than initiating any or creating the appearance of any. :{{user|Kalki10}} - active in the last couple of days, thus far the only activity of this user seems to be promotion on the [[User talk:Kalki10‎‎]] page of what a great person some claimant of being the [[Kalki|Kalki]] Avatar is, and how some temple "will be very famous and attain prosperity by the sincere services of all devotees." ''So it goes.'' I will simply quote [[Gracie Allen]] at this point: "I bet you say that to all the girls." While perhaps not yet meriting extreme censure, I as yet see no clear interest or benefit to this project occurring; but keep other assessments in reserve. : '''Though I am very tolerant of people using whatever designations they desire for themselves or others, within such limits as can be fairly agreed to, I always find it ridiculous and somewhat contemptible when people seem to believe that they have unassailable understandings of things, or that any titles, names, or claims they have accepted or acquired in any way actually entitle them extraordinary influence or even absolute command or control in regards to the duties or desires of others.''' My life is pretty much devoted to shattering the delusions of such idolatry of names and titles, and maintaining and nurturing the spirits of [[Justice]], [[Unity]] and [[Liberty]] in all that I can — and to vigorously reject and oppose the deplorable inclinations of some to expect, demand or ''provide'' abject ''unquestioning servitude'' to ''anyone'' or ''any'' established institution or creedal statements. I recognize that this often requires a great deal more sense than many people have, but I remain devoted to ''awakening'' such sense, so much as possible, rather than putting it to sleep, or seeking some foolishly clever "mastery" over the minds and lives of those who are so weak-minded or weak-souled as would consent to be unquestioning servants or slaves to anyone. ~ [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] ([[User talk:Kalki|talk]] &middot; [[Special:Contributions/Kalki|contributions]]) 10:44, 24 November 2010 (UTC) : '''I just got around to reviewing my earlier comments, and I want to be clear that though I can be somewhat harsh to people's claims of being so extraordinary as to be worthy of absolute deference and worship (as ''most'', or indeed ''ALL'' people are in ''some'' ways extraordinary— ''and no one THAT extraordinary''), I also wish to emphasize that I consider no person totally valueless — which is ''why'' I often object so intensely to people in any way being treated as if they were.''' I actually do believe that there are many extraordinary abilities that most people are capable of developing, but I am of no disposition to foster the delusions that development of many useful and convenient abilities will insure the wise or moral use of them, or that all claims to such are genuine or genuinely admirable. I am quite aware of the abuses of many forms of petty abilities and great powers by human individuals and groups, and do not intend to contribute to the strengths of those inclined to such actual abuses any more than I feel impelled to out of fundamental vital imperatives or prerogatives, including occasional pity for people allowing themselves to become little more than tools and slaves to sub-human brutal impulses — no matter how they might camouflage or disguise that fact with high sounding words and rational seeming arguments. I know my attempts at meticulous precision in expression can often irritate or baffle many, which is one reason I generally refrain from it, but when I speak '''I generally make as much effort as I can to be honest and to be as revelatory about things I believe it will be beneficial to reveal as I can. I am usually quite reluctant to reveal to anyone such things as I believe it likely would cause more harm than good, within the existing or foreseeable states of affairs.''' I am about to leave again, and won't likely be back for at least an hour... so it goes... ~ [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] ([[User talk:Kalki|talk]] &middot; [[Special:Contributions/Kalki|contributions]]) 20:44, 24 November 2010 (UTC) == Incidents and accidents == :<small>Incidental conflicts of expectations I have encountered in my work on Wikimedia projects</small> == Hints and allegations == :<small>Incidental conflicts of will and rights which I have encountered in my work on Wikimedia projects</small> == Contentions == :<small>My perspectives upon deliberate contentions between divergent expectations and wills which I have encountered in my work on Wikimedia projects; It might be several weeks or even months before I get around to working on this section; I am in no particular hurry, and like ''most'' people who edit here, I have ''many'' other things besides Wikiquote and Wikimedia activities to deal with.</small> == Summary == :<small> "Final arguments" : a closing summary of some of my most notable activities on the Wikquote and Wikimedia projects and reactions to them, and some suggestions on how to proceed henceforth and hereafter, in relation to myself and to others with rather peculiar perspectives, interests and motivations, but not with any clearly malicious will or intentions — this section too, might not be worked on much for several weeks or months </small> == User talk archives index == :<small>This section will eventually provide a complete listing of sections on my talk page archives.</small> <small> [[User talk:Kalki/2003|'''2003''' : Song lyrics - Julian of Norwich]]''' </small> <small> '''[[User talk:Kalki/2004|2004]]''' : [[User talk:Kalki/2004#Administrator nomination|Administrator nomination]] - [[User talk:Kalki/2004#Hegel|Hegel]] - [[User talk:Kalki/2004#Links within quotes|Links within quotes]] - [[User talk:Kalki/2004#Category options|Category options]] - [[User talk:Kalki/2004#Television shows|Television shows]] - [[User talk:Kalki/2004#Dialog styles|Dialog styles]] - [[User talk:Kalki/2004#Kalki - origins and uses of the name| Kalki : origins and uses of the name]] - [[User talk:Kalki/2004#Bolding of parts of quotes|Bolding of parts of quotes]] - [[User talk:Kalki/2004#lynx|lynx template]] - [[User talk:Kalki/2004#Reduced activity likely from me|Reduced activity likely from me]] - [[User talk:Kalki/2004#Automagical Namespace Supression|Automagical Namespace Supression]] - [[User talk:Kalki/2004#"Title entries"|"Title entries"]] - [[User talk:Kalki/2004#Not-so-speedy deletions|Not-so-speedy deletions]] - [[User talk:Kalki/2004#General format question|General format question]] - [[User talk:Kalki/2004#Logo|Logo]] - [[User talk:Kalki/2004#Quote of the day|Quote of the day]] - [[User talk:Kalki/2004#UVa website on Prem Rawat and the very first edit war on Wikiquote|UVa website on Prem Rawat]] - [[User talk:Kalki/2004#Categories|Categories]] - [[User talk:Kalki/2004#Wikimedia Commons|Wikimedia Commons]] - [[User talk:Kalki/2004#Removal of genuine quotes from Prem Rawat by user:Jossifresco| Removal of genuine quotes from Prem Rawat]] - [[User talk:Kalki/2004#Google|Google]] - [[User talk:Kalki/2004#Benn of Woodrow Wilson fame|Benn of Woodrow Wilson fame]] - [[User talk:Kalki/2004#Stubs - expand|Stubs + expand]] - [[User talk:Kalki/2004#choosing of my inclination|choosing of my inclination]] - [[User talk:Kalki/2004#Use of colons in section headers|Use of colons in section headers]] - [[User talk:Kalki/2004#LotR quote of the day|LotR quote of the day]] - [[User talk:Kalki/2004#Categories|Categories]]</small> <small> '''[[User talk:Kalki/2005|2005]]''' : [[User talk:Kalki/2005#Wikiquote Maintenance|Wikiquote Maintenance]] - [[User talk:Kalki/2005#Removal of Notices from some Talk pages|Removal of Notices from some Talk pages]] - [[User talk:Kalki/2005#Current events|Current events]] - [[User talk:Kalki/2005#Automated quote of the day|Automated quote of the day]] - [[User talk:Kalki/2005#Newbie request & question|Newbie request & question]] - [[User talk:Kalki/2005#Yet another vandal|Yet another vandal]] - [[User talk:Kalki/2005#Newbie, again| Newbie, again]] - [[User talk:Kalki/2005#Persistent Daniel Aubrey|Persistent Daniel Aubrey]] - [[User talk:Kalki/2005#List of films caching spam|List of films caching spam]] - [[User talk:Kalki/2005#Interested in becoming a Sysop|Interested in becoming a Sysop]] - [[User talk:Kalki/2005#Imperfection vs. Incomprehension|Imperfection vs. Incomprehension]] - [[User talk:Kalki/2005#Azerbaijani proverbs|Azerbaijani proverbs]] - [[User talk:Kalki/2005#Bureaucrat|Bureaucrat]] - [[User talk:Kalki/2005#Recovered/Recentchanges|Recovered/Recentchanges]] - [[User talk:Kalki/2005#A note of appreciation to all the new administrators|A note of appreciation to all the new administrators]] - [[User talk:Kalki/2005#College pranksters?|College pranksters?]] - [[User talk:Kalki/2005#Reirom VfD|Reirom VfD]] - [[User talk:Kalki/2005#IP lookups|IP lookups]] - [[User talk:Kalki/2005#Lynx change|Lynx change]] - [[User talk:Kalki/2005#Wikiquote:Issues|Wikiquote:Issues]] - [[User talk:Kalki/2005#Block-compress errors log|Block-compress errors log]] - [[User talk:Kalki/2005#Kudos for DeJong|Kudos for DeJong]] - [[User talk:Kalki/2005#Protection from move|Protection from move]] - [[User talk:Kalki/2005#Pirates|Pirates]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2005#RfA_Thanks|RfA Thanks]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2005#Thanks|Thanks]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2005#Hello.3F|Hello?]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2005#Wiki_reps|Wiki reps]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2005#Thanks.21|Thanks!]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2005#Unable_Log_in|Unable Log in]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2005#QOTD|QOTD]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2005#Abortion|Abortion]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2005#VfD|VfD]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2005#Invatation to help identify problems, suggest solutions, debate, & vote!|Invatation]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2005#Re: Sysop nomination|Sysop nomination]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2005#Changing username|Changing username]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2005#images village pump discussion|images]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2005#Ingmar Bergman "see also"|Ingmar Bergman]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2005#Sydsvenska dates in Ingmar Bergman|Sydsvenska]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2005#August 6th QOTD|August 6th QOTD]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2005#Shift to August 9th|August 9th]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2005#OK, I give up|OK, I give up]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2005#purge|purge]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2005#quotation about truth|Truth]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2005#RfA|RfA]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2005#Template:Wikipedia|Template:Wikipedia]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2005#Your QOTD votes/submissions|QOTD votes/submissions]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2005#Redlinks in "New pages"|New pages]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2005#Jerry Siegel|Jerry Siegel]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2005#Interested in being an admin?|admin?]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2005#I appreciate your note of appreciation|appreciation]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2005#Move logo to commons?|logo?]]</small> <small> '''[[User talk:Kalki/2006|2006]]''' : [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#Bakunin|Bakunin]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#Hey|Hey]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#68.170.86.111 (talk • contribs • page moves • block user • block log)|68.170.86.111]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#List or themes - a lot of themes missing|themes missing]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006# Danny blocking Nnimrodd|Danny]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#Quote of the day problem|QOTD problem]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#My RfA|My RfA]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#Ignorance is bliss|Ignorance is bliss]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#QotD state|QotD state]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#New page cycle|New page cycle]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#How to get make MediaWiki settings active|MediaWiki settings]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#My RfA|My RfA]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#Invitation to Be Nominated as an Administrator|Invitation]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#Blocking vandal 69.121.174.85|69.121.174.85]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#Possible impersonation in user name|Possible impersonation]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#My RfA|My RfA]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#Adding dates/works to Quotes of the Day|Adding dates/works to Quotes of the Day]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#Dates redirected to QotD|Dates redirected to QotD]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#Walt Whitman and Baseball|Walt Whitman and Baseball]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#Bolding...|'''Bolding...''']] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#Personal attack user names|Personal attack user names]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#Starting the QotD conversion|Starting the QotD conversion]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#Gracias|Gracias]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#Qotd watcher account?|Qotd watcher account?]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#A Note for you|A Note for you]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#QotD change completion|QotD change completion]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#Frida Kahlo|Frida Kahlo]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#Latest vandalism|Latest vandalism]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#QotD 7/24|QotD 7/24]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#James Branch Cabell Attribution|James Branch Cabell Attribution]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#WoW direct database vandalism?|WoW vandalism]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#HELP|HELP]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#Question|Question]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#PW Reset|PW Reset]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#Wiktionary message?|Wiktionary message?]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#QOTD question|QOTD question]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#La Rochefoucauld|La Rochefoucauld]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#WQ:QOTD|QOTD]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#A small point|A small point]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#Re: Missatribution|Re: Missatribution]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#Hello Kalki|Hello Kalki]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#Tidying up of User languages|Tidying up of User languages]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#Name change request|Name change request]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#Galbraith quote|Galbraith quote]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#Another username change request|Another username change request]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#B-101|B-101]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#Wazzaup?|Wazzaup?]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#RFA closures|RFA closures]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#John Adams|John Adams]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#Adi Gill|Adi Gill]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#Asian Wiki|Asian Wiki]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#Coordinated rename/username claim|Coordinated rename/username claim]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#Our vandal this afternoon|Our vandal this afternoon]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#Dhivehi Wikiquote|Dhivehi Wikiquote]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#Adam Copeland Wikiquote|Adam Copeland Wikiquote]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#Name Change request|Name Change request]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#Thanks|Thanks]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2006#Wikisource as source|Wikisource as source]] </small> <small> '''[[User talk:Kalki/2007|2007]]''' : [[User_talk:Kalki/2007#Thanks!|Thanks!]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2007#Account name|Account name]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2007#Message for you|Message for you]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2007#Revert War|Revert War]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2007#The Last Unicorn|The Last Unicorn]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2007#Admin Privileges|Admin Privileges]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2007#User: Adi Gill|User: Adi Gill]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2007#Reduced activity here...|Reduced activity here...]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2007#hi, i wanna start a new wiki quote in DHIVEHI language.|DHIVEHI language]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2007#February 14|February 14]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2007#Cat:Military leaders|Military leaders]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2007#Hello!|Hello!]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2007#Troll warning|Troll warning]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2007#Logo variant|Logo variant]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2007#Sonnets|Sonnets]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2007#Name change - JThorne|JThorne]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2007#Sourcing Jefferson|Sourcing Jefferson]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2007#Bot flag and insulting usernames|insulting usernames]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2007#QOTD|QOTD]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2007#Question|Question]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2007#Do you not have reasons|Do you not have reasons]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2007#Lynx removal Bot?|Lynx removal]] - [[User_talk:Kalki/2007#Name change - GordonWatts|GordonWatts]] - 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Narrowly defined, an [[author]] is the originator of any written work. == Quotes == *Writers collect things. We read magazines, we ride buses and eavesdrop on other people's conversations, we stop and read posters on telephone poles, we examine soup cans and old clothing stores and babies and pets and sewer covers and weather reports. We delve into ancient history, old gossip, rumors, hints of rumors, maps, brochures, irrelevant details, bad advice, good omens, lucky stars, and things that are nobody's business. In short, we are called to be witnesses. Things may happen, but unless someone takes note of it, it might not matter. **[[Kathleen Alcalá]] "The Madonna in Cyberspace" (2000) in ''The Desert Remembers My Name: On Family and Writing'' (2007) * “But you really are, you know.” This was said with intense earnestness. “I mean good, ''really'' good. I think it is wonderful to be an author like you. It must be almost like being God.”<br>Graham stared blankly. “Not to editors, sister.”<br>Sister didn’t get the whisper. She continued, “To be able to create living characters out of nothing; to unfold souls to all the world; to put thoughts into words; to build pictures and create worlds. I have often thought that an author was the most gloriously gifted person in all creation. Better an inspired author starving in a garret than a king upon his throne. Don’t you think so?”<br>“Definitely,” lied Graham. ** [[Isaac Asimov]], ''Author! Author!'' (1964; originally published in ''The Unknown Five'') * All writers are unregenerate thieves, and the ones who deny it are also liars. ** [[Dale Bailey]], Story Notes to ''Quinn’s Way'' (2003); in ''The Resurrection Man’s Legacy,'' <small> {{ISBN|1-930846-22-3}}, </small> p. 326 * Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear<br>Glean after what it can. ** [[Philip James Bailey]], ''Festus'' (1813), scene ''Home''. * I don't understand these authors who are always sneaking off to a shack in the mountains or getting up in a bird-house to do their work. What's the idea? Do they actually ''want'' to work? ** [[Robert Benchley]], "Please Interrupt!," ''After 1903—What?'' (1938) * There is probably no hell for authors in the next world — they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this. ** [[Christian Nestell Bovee]], ''Summaries of Thought'' (1862), "Authors", Volume I, p. 68. * And force them, though it was in spite<br>Of Nature and their stars, to write. ** [[Samuel Butler (poet)|Samuel Butler]], ''Hudibras'', Part I (1663-64), Canto I, line 647. * But words are things, and a small drop of [[ink]],<br>Falling, like dew, upon a thought produces<br>That which makes thousands, perhaps millions think. ** [[Lord Byron]], ''[[Don Juan (Byron)|Don Juan]]'' (1818-24), Canto III, Stanza 88. * But every fool describes, in these bright days,<br>His wondrous journey to some foreign court,<br>And spawns his quarto, and demands your praise,—<br>Death to his publisher, to him 'tis sport. ** [[Lord Byron]], ''[[Don Juan (Byron)|Don Juan]]'' (1818-24), Canto V, Stanza 52. * And hold up to the sun my little taper. ** [[Lord Byron]], ''[[Don Juan (Byron)|Don Juan]]'' (1818-24), Canto XII, Stanza 21. * All I knew then was what I couldn't do. All I knew then was what I wasn't, and it took me some years to discover what I was.<br>Which was a writer.<br>By which I mean not a “good” writer or a “bad” writer but simply a writer, a person whose most absorbed and passionate hours are spent arranging words on pieces of paper. ** [[Joan Didion]], {{cite journal|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/12/05/archives/why-i-write-why-i-write.html|title=Why I Write|date=December 5, 1976|journal=The New York Times}} * An author in his book must be like [[God]] in the [[universe]], present everywhere and visible nowhere. (9 December 1852) ** [[Gustave Flaubert]], Letters to Madame Louise Colet. * Les sots font le texte, et les hommes d'esprit les commentaires. ** Fools make the text, and men of wit the commentaries. ** [[w:Ferdinando Galiani|Ferdinando Galiani]], quoted in [[w:Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve|Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve]], "L'abbé Galiani" (26 August 1850), ''Causeries du lundi'', Vol. II (Paris: Garnier Frères, 1852), p. 431 * I like the idea of a literary patchwork, novel by novel, poem by poem, by different writers, mapping out an era, 'a continent' more and more thoroughly. No one writer can do it. ** 1979 interview included in ''Conversations with [[Nadine Gordimer]] edited by Nancy Topping Bazin and Marilyn Dallman Seymour (1990) * There is ''no'' way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured. ** [[Robert A. Heinlein]], ''The Cat Who Walks Through Walls'' (1985), Chapter 3 * But I did not explain to you the other insidious aspect of writing. There is no way to stop. Writers go on writing long after it becomes financially unnecessary...because it hurts less to write than it does not to write. ** [[Robert A. Heinlein]], ''The Cat Who Walks Through Walls'' (1985), Chapter 3 * Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, sequam Viribus. ** Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities. ** [[Horace]], ''Ars Poetica'' (18 BC), 38. * Tantum series juncturaque pollet. ** Of so much force are system and connection. ** [[Horace]], ''Ars Poetica'' (18 BC), 242. * Scribendi recte sapere est et principium et fons. ** Knowledge is the foundation and source of good writing. ** [[Horace]], ''Ars Poetica'' (18 BC), 309. * Nonumque prematur in annum. ** Let it (what you have written) be kept back until the ninth year. ** [[Horace]], ''Ars Poetica'' (18 BC), 388. * There are two things which I am confident I can do very well; one is an introduction to any literary work, stating what it is to contain, and how it should be executed in the most perfect manner. ** [[Samuel Johnson]], reported in [[James Boswell]], ''Life of Samuel Johnson'' (1755). * A man may write at any time if he set himself doggedly to it. ** [[Samuel Johnson]], reported in [[James Boswell]], ''Life of Samuel Johnson'' (1773). * No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money. ** [[Samuel Johnson]], reported in [[James Boswell]], ''Life of Samuel Johnson'' (1776). * Later on in life you will learn that writers are merely open, helpless texts with no real understanding of what they have written and therefore must half-believe anything and everything that is said of them. You, however, have not yet reached this stage of literary criticism. ** Lonnie Moore, "How to Become a Writer" (1982). * It is the rust we value, not the gold;<br>Authors, like coins, grow dear, as they grow old. ** [[Alexander Pope]], ''Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace'', Second Book of Horace, Epigram I, line 35. * I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts. ** [[Alexander Pope]], ''The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope'', preface (1717). *"Tis hard to say if greater want of skill<br>Appear in writing or in judging ill;<br>But, of the two less dang'rous is th' offence<br>To tire our patience than mislead our sense. ** [[Alexander Pope]], ''[[An Essay on Criticism]]'' (1709), line 1. * Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true,<br>But are not critics to their judgment too? ** [[Alexander Pope]], ''[[An Essay on Criticism]]'' (1709), line 17. * '''True ease in writing comes from art, not chance''',<br>As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. ** [[Alexander Pope]], ''[[An Essay on Criticism]]'' (1709), line 362. Epistles of Horace. H. 178. * In every work regard the writer's end,<br>Since none can compass more than they intend. ** [[Alexander Pope]], ''[[An Essay on Criticism]]'' (1709), Part II, line 55. *I hold to my old romantic belief that writers of all times and places belong to a noble fellowship; that although they are the voices of their own cultures and languages, they transcend these boundaries. **[[Chava Rosenfarb]] "A Yiddish Writer Reflects on Translation" (2005) in "Confessions of a Yiddish Writer and Other Essays" (2019) translated from the [[Yiddish]] with [[Goldie Morgentaler]] *what is writing if not a form of confession in disguise? No matter what the subject, all literary roads lead back to the self. The writer descends like a miner into the deepest shafts of her soul in order to unearth the blackest coals of her torment, or to retrieve the most glittering diamonds of her memories, and bring them back to the surface in the form of fictions that she wishes to share with the world. **[[Chava Rosenfarb]] "Confessions of a Yiddish Writer" (1973) in "Confessions of a Yiddish Writer and Other Essays" (2019) translated from the Yiddish with [[Goldie Morgentaler]] * In an age when many people lived on less than two dollars a day, his income rose to as much as a hundred thousand dollars a year. He was the highest paid writer in America, and it was widely reported that his magazine contributions could earn a dollar a word. In fact, his last contract with Harper & Brothers guaranteed him only a third of that, but it was still a better deal than anyone else could have expected, and he always insisted on a strict word count from his editors, even going so far as to demand that hyphenated words be counted as two. Legend has it that when an admirer enclosed a dollar with a request for his autograph, he replied not with his signature but with the single word "Thanks," in accordance with his rumored rate. ** [[w:Michael Shelden|Michael Shelden]], {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vsygemhX31MC&printsec=frontcover#v=snippet&q=hyphenated&f=false|isbn = 9781588369284|title = Mark Twain: Man in White: The Grand Adventure of His Final Years|date = 26 January 2010|publisher = Random House Publishing}} * Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic. ** [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]], ''Fragments of Adonais''. * As was the case in the 1950s, the 1970s, and now in 2024, writers sometimes exist in perilous times, balancing careers between the tick and tock of the Right and the Left, when a single misstep or perceived endorsement can be a terminal mistake. ** [[w:J. Michael Straczynski|J. Michael Straczynski]], ''Afterword'' in ''The Last Dangerous Visions'' (2024), p. 427 * Writers are [[w:Engineers of the human soul|engineers of human souls]]. ** [[Joseph Stalin]], quoted in [[Andrei Zhdanov]], "Soviet Literature — The Richest in Ideas, the Most Advanced Literature" (August 1934), at the [[w:First Congress of Soviet Writers|First Congress of Soviet Writers]]. Speech in [[Maxim Gorky]] ''et al.'', ''Soviet Writers' Congress 1934'' (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1977), pp. 15–26 * Authors—essayist, atheist, novelist, realist, rhymester, play your part,<br>Paint the mortal shame of nature with the living hues of art. ** [[Alfred, Lord Tennyson]], ''Locksley Hall Sixty Years After'' (1886), Line 139 (1886). * In every author let us distinguish the man from his works. ** [[Voltaire]], ''Dictionnaire philosophique portatif'' ("''A Philosophical Dictionary''") (1764), Poets. * I agree with [[Stalin]] and [[Hitler]] and [[Mussolini]] that the writer should serve his society. I differ with dictators as to how writers should serve. ** [[Kurt Vonnegut]] (the ''Playboy'' interview) * But you're ''our'' partic'lar author, you're our patron an' our friend,<br>You're the poet of the cuss-word an' the swear. ** [[Edgar Wallace]], "Tommy to his Laureate [Rudyard Kipling]" (Capetown, January 25, 1898), in ''Writ in Barracks'' (London: Methuen and Co., 1900), p. xxix. * This dull product of a scoffer's pen. ** [[William Wordsworth]], ''The Excursion'' (1814), Book H. * Ideas are free. But while the author confines them to his study, they are like birds in a cage, which none but he can have a right to let fly : for till he thinks proper to emancipate them, they are under his own dominion. ** [[Joseph Yates (judge)|Joseph Yates]], J., dissenting, 4 Burr. Part IV., p. 2,379; ''Dictionary of Legal Quotations'' (1904), p. 17. * The invention of an author is a species of property unknown to the common law of England. Its usages are immemorial; and the views of it tend to the benefit and advantage of the public with respect to the necessaries of life, and not to the improvement and graces of mind. ** [[Joseph Yates (judge)|Joseph Yates]], J., dissenting, 4 Burr. Part IV., p. 2,387; ''Dictionary of Legal Quotations'' (1904), p. 107. * Some write, confin'd by physic; some, by debt;<br>Some, for 'tis [[Sunday]]; some, because 'tis wet;<br>Another writes because his father writ,<br>And proves himself a bastard by his wit. ** [[Edward Young]], ''Epistles to Mr. Pope'' (1830), Epistle I, line 75. * An author! 'tis a venerable name!<br>How few deserve it, and what numbers claim!<br>Unbless'd with sense above their peers refined,<br>Who shall stand up dictators to mankind?<br>Nay, who dare shine, if not in virtue's cause?<br>That sole proprietor of just applause. ** [[Edward Young]], ''Epistles to Mr. Pope'' (1830), Epistle II. From Oxford, line 15. * For who can write so fast as men run mad? ** [[Edward Young]], ''Love of Fame'' (1725-28), Satire I, line 286. * Some future strain, in which the muse shall tell<br>How science dwindles, and how volumes swell.<br>How commentators each dark passage shun,<br>And hold their farthing candle to the sun. ** [[Edward Young]], ''Love of Fame'' (1725-28), Satire VH, line 95. * And then, exulting in their taper, cry, "Behold the Sun;" and, Indian-like, adore. ** [[Edward Young]], ''Night Thoughts'' (1742-1745), Night II. ===''[[w:Millar v Taylor|Millar v Taylor]]'' (1769)=== :<small>Quotes reported in the famous copyright case ''[[w:Millar v Taylor|Millar v Taylor]]'' (1769), 4 Burr. 2303, 98 ER 201; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, ''Dictionary of Legal Quotations'' (1904).</small> * It is certainly not agreeable to natural justice that a stranger should reap the beneficial pecuniary produce of another man's work. ** Willes, J., concurring, 4 Burr. Part IV., p. 2,334, ''Dictionary of Legal Quotations'' (1904), p. 17. * A writer's fame will not be the less, that he has bread, without being under the necessity of prostituting his pen to flattery or party, to get it. ** Willes, J., concurring, 4 Burr. Part IV., p. 2,335; ''Dictionary of Legal Quotations'' (1904), p. 162. * He who engages in a laborious work (such, for instance, as Johnson's Dictionary) which may employ his whole life, will do it with more spirit if, besides his own Glory, he thinks it may be a provision for his family. ** Willes, J., concurring, 4 Burr. Part IV., p. 2,335; ''Dictionary of Legal Quotations'' (1904), p. 163. ===''Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations'' (1922) === <small>Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 47-51.</small> * The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves. ** [[Joseph Addison]], ''The Spectator''. No. 166. * Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw from them as from wells, there is no more immortality to the thoughts and feelings of the soul than to the muscles and the bones. ** [[Henry Ward Beecher]], ''Star Papers. Oxford. Bodleian Library''. * A man of moderate Understanding, thinks he writes divinely: A man of good Understanding, thinks he writes reasonably. ** [[La Bruyère]], ''The Characters or Manners of the Present Age.'' Ch. I. * A man starts upon a sudden, takes Pen, Ink, and Paper, and without ever having had a thought of it before, resolves within himself he will write a Book; he has no Talent at Writing, but he wants fifty Guineas. ** [[La Bruyère]], ''The Characters or Manners of the Present Age'' (1688), Chapter XV. * And so I penned<br>It down, until at last it came to be,<br>For length and breadth, the bigness which you see. ** [[John Bunyan]], ''Pilgrim's Progress. Apology for his Book''. * Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind. ** [[Edmund Burke]], ''Reflections on the Revolution in France''. * The book that he has made renders its author this service in return, that so long as the book survives, its author remains immortal and cannot die. ** [[Richard de Bury]], ''Philobiblon'', Chapter I. 21. E. C. Thomas' translation. * Dear authors! suit your topics to your strength,<br>And ponder well your subject, and its length;<br>Nor lift your load, before you're quite aware<br>What weight your shoulders will, or will not, bear. ** [[Lord Byron]], ''Hints from Horace'', line 59. * La pluma es lengua del alma. ** The pen is the tongue of the mind. ** [[Miguel de Cervantes]], ''Don Quixote''. V. 16. * Apt Alliteration's artful aid. ** [[Charles Churchill]], ''The Prophecy of Famine, line 86. * That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most knowledge, and takes from him the least time. ** [[Charles Caleb Colton]], ''Lacon''. Preface. * Habits of close attention, thinking heads,<br>Become more rare as dissipation spreads,<br>Till authors hear at length one general cry<br>Tickle and entertain us, or we die! ** [[William Cowper]], ''Retirement'', line 707. * None but an author knows an author's cares,<br>Or Fancy's fondness for the child she bears. ** [[William Cowper]], ''The Progress of Error'', line 518. * So that the jest is clearly to be seen,<br>Not in the words— but in the gap between;<br>Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ,<br>The substitute for genius, sense, and wit. ** [[William Cowper]], ''Table Talk'', line 540. * Oh! rather give me commentators plain,<br>Who with no deep researches vex the brain;<br>Who from the dark and doubtful love to run,<br>And hold their glimmering tapers to the sun. ** [[George Crabbe]], ''The Parish Register'', Part I. Introduction. * Aucun fiel n'a jamais empoisonne ma plume. ** No gall has ever poisoned my pen. ** [[Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon]], ''Discours de Reception''. * Smelling of the lamp. ** [[Demosthenes]]. *"Gracious heavens!" he cries out, leaping up and catching hold of his hair, "what's this? Print!" ** [[Charles Dickens]], ''Christmas Stories. Somebody's Luggage'', Chapter III. * And choose an author as you choose a friend. ** [[Wentworth Dillon]], ''Essay on Translated Verse'', line 96. * The men, who labour and digest things most,<br>Will be much apter to despond than boast;<br>For if your author be profoundly good,<br>'Twill cost you dear before he's understood. ** [[Wentworth Dillon]], ''Essay on Translated Verse'', line 163. * When I want to read a book I write one. ** Attributed to [[Benjamin Disraeli]] in a review of Lothair in Blackwood's Magazine. * The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children. ** [[Benjamin Disraeli]], ''Speech''. Nov. 19, 1870. * The unhappy man, who once has trail'd a pen,<br>Lives not to please himself, but other men;<br>Is always drudging, wastes his life and blood,<br>Yet only eats and drinks what you think good. ** [[John Dryden]], ''Prologue to Lee's Caesar Borgia''. * All writing comes by the grace of God, and all doing and having. ** [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]], ''Essays. Of Experience''. * For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world. ** [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]], ''Essays'', ''Of Nature''. * The lover of letters loves power too. ** [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]], ''Society and Solitude. Clubs''. * The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his condition. ** [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]], ''Poetry and Imagination. Creation''. * Like his that lights a candle to the sun. ** [[John Fletcher]], ''Letter to Sir Walter Aston''. * Envy's a sharper spur than pay:<br>No author ever spar'd a brother;<br>Wits are gamecocks to one another. ** [[John Gay]], ''The Elephant and the Bookseller'', line 74. * The most original modern authors are not so because they advance what is new, but simply because they know how to put what they have to say, as if it had never been said before. ** [[Goethe]]. * One writer, for instance, excels at a plan, or a title-page, another works away the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index. ** [[Oliver Goldsmith]], ''The Bee''. No. 1. Oct. 6, 1759. *"The Republic of Letters" is a very common expression among the Europeans. ** [[Oliver Goldsmith]], ''Citizen of the World''. 20. * Their name, their years, spelt by the unlettered Muse. ** [[Thomas Gray]], ''Elegy''. 20. * His [Burke's] imperial fancy has laid all nature under tribute, and has collected riches from every scene of the creation and every walk of art. ** [[Robert Hall]], ''Apology for the Freedom of the Press'', Section IV. * Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word. ** [[Gail Hamilton]], ''Country Living and Country Thinking'', Preface. * But every little busy scribbler now<br>Swells with the praises which he gives himself;<br>And, taking sanctuary in the crowd,<br>Brags of his impudence, and scorns to mend. ** [[Horace]], Of the Art of Poetry. 475. Wentworth Dillon's translation. * Deferar in vicum vendentem thus et odores,<br>Et piper, et quicquid chartis amicitur ineptis. ** I (i.e. my writings) shall be consigned to that part of the town where they sell incense, and scents, and pepper, and whatever is wrapped up in worthless paper. ** [[Horace]], ''Epistles'', Bk.n. I. 269. * Piger scribendi ferre laborem;<br>Scribendi recte, nam ut multum nil moror. ** Too indolent to bear the toil of writing;<br>I mean of writing well; I say nothing about quantity. ** [[Horace]], ''Satires'', I. 4. 12. * Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus. ** Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. ** [[Horace]], ''Satires'', I. 10. 72. * Written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond. ** Jeremiah, XVII. 1. * He [Milton] was a Phidias that could cut a Colossus out of a rock, but could not cut heads out of cherry stones. ** [[Samuel Johnson]], according to Hannah More. (1781). * Each change of many-coloured life he drew,<br>Exhausted worlds and then imagined new*<br>Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign,<br>And panting Time toil'd after him in vain. ** [[Samuel Johnson]], Prologue on the Opening of the Drury Lane Theatre. * The chief' glory of every people arises from its authors. ** [[Samuel Johnson]], Preface to Dictionary. * Tenet insanabile multo<br>Scribendi cacoethes, et asgro in corde senescit. ** An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts. ** [[Juvenal]], ''Satires'' (early 2nd century), VII. 51. * Damn the age; I will write for Antiquity. ** [[Charles Lamb]], ''Bon Mots by Charles Lamb and Douglas Jerrold'', Ed. by Walter Jerrold. * To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how you did it. ** [[George Henry Lewes]], ''The Spanish Drama'', Chapter III. * If you once understand an author's character, the comprehension of his writings becomes easy. ** [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]], ''[[w:Hyperion (Longfellow novel)|Hyperion]]'' (1839), Book I, Chapter V. * Perhaps the greatest lesson which the lives of literary men teach us is told in a single word* Wait! ** [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]], ''[[w:Hyperion (Longfellow novel)|Hyperion]]'' (1839), Book I, Chapter VHI. * Whatever hath been written shall remain,<br>Nor be erased nor written o'er again;<br>The unwritten only still belongs to thee*<br>Take heed, and ponder well what that shall be. ** [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]], Morituri Sahctamus, line 168. * Look, then, into thine heart and write! ** [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]], ''Voices of the Night'', Prelude, Stanza 19. * It may be glorious to write<br>Thoughts that shall glad the two or three<br>High souls, like those far stars that come in sight<br>Once in a century. ** [[James Russell Lowell]], ''An Incident in a Railroad Car''. * He that commeth in print because he woulde be knowen, is like the foole that commeth into the Market because he woulde be seen. ** [[Lily]], ''Euphues'', ''The Anatomy of Wit'', ''To the Gentlemen Headers''. * He who writes prose builds his temple to<br>Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. ** [[Edward Bulwer-Lytton]], ''Caxtoniana'', Essay XXVH. The Spirit of Conservatism. * No author ever drew a character, consistent to human nature, but what he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies. ** [[Edward Bulwer-Lytton]], ''What Will He Do With It?'' Book IV. Chapter XIV. Heading. * You do not publish your own verses, Laelius; you criticise mine. Pray cease to criticise mine, or else publish your own. ** [[Martial]], ''Epigrams'' (c. 80-104 AD), Book I, Epigram 91. * Jack writes severe lampoons on me, 'tis said—But he writes nothing, who is never read. ** [[Martial]], ''Epigrams'' (c. 80-104 AD), Book IH, Epigram 9. * He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whole book full of them? ** [[Martial]], -Epigrams, Book VHI, Epigram 29. * The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr. ** Mohammed—Tribute to Reason. * To write upon all is an author's sole chance<br>For attaining, at last, the least knowledge of any. ** [[Thomas Moore]], ''Humorous and Satirical Poems'', ''Literary Advertisement''. * Prsebet mihi littera linguam:<br>Et, si non liceat scribere, mutus ero. ** This letter gives me a tongue; and were I not allowed to write, I should be dumb. ** [[Ovid]], ''Epistole Ex Ponto'', II. 6. 3. * Scriptaferuntannos; scriptis Agamemnona nosti,<br>Et quisquis contra vel simul arma tulit. ** Writings survive the years; it is by writings that you know Agamemnon, and those who fought for or against him. ** [[Ovid]], ''Epistole Ex Ponto'', IV. 8. 51. * Why did I write? what sin to me unknown<br>Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own?<br>As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame,<br>I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. ** [[Alexander Pope]], ''Prologue to Satires'', line 125. * E'en copious Dryden wanted, or forgot,<br>The last and greatest art—the art to blot. ** [[Alexander Pope]], ''Second Book of Horace'', Epistle I. L.280. * Whether the darken'd room to muse invite,<br>Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write;<br>In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint,<br>Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print. ** [[Alexander Pope]], ''Second Book of Horace'', Satire I, line 97. * Let him be kept from paper, pen, and ink;<br>So may he cease to write, and learn to think. ** [[Matthew Prior]], ''To a Person who Wrote III''. On Same Person. * 'Tis not how well an author says,<br>But 'tis how much, that gathers praise. ** [[Matthew Prior]], ''Epistle to Fleetwood Shepherd''. * As though I lived to write, and wrote to live. ** [[Samuel Rogers]], ''Italy''. A Character, line 16. * ''Lis ont les textes pour eux, mais j'en suis fache pour les textes. '' ** They have the texts on their side, but I pity the texts. ** Royer-Collard, against the opinions of the Jansenists of Port-Royal on Grace. "So much the worse for the texts." Phrase attributed to Voltaire. * Devise, wit; write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio. ** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Love's Labour's Lost]]'', Act I, scene 2, line 190. * Write till your ink be dry, and with your tears<br>Moist it again, and frame some feeling line<br>That may discover such integrity. ** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Two Gentlemen of Verona]]'', Act HI, scene 2. L.74. * Of all those arts in which the wise excel,<br>Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. ** John Sheffield (Duke of Buckingham), ''Essay on Poetry''. * Look in thy heart and write. ** Sir [[Philip Sidney]], William Gray's ''Life of Sir Philip Sidney''. * The great and good do not die even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which one still listens. ** [[Samuel Smiles]], ''Character'', Chapter X. * Ah, ye knights of the pen! May honour be your shield, and truth tip your lances ! Be gentle to all gentle people. Be modest to women. Be tender to children. And as for the Ogre Humbug, out sword, and have at him! ** [[William Makepeace Thackeray]], ''Roundabout Papers'', ''Ogres''. * What the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things? ** [[George Villiers]], ''The Rehearsal''. * So must the writer, whose productions should<br>Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould. ** [[Edmund Waller]], ''Epistle to Mr. Killegrew''. * Smooth verse, inspired by no unlettered Muse. ** [[William Wordsworth]], ''Excursion'', V. 262 (Knight's ed). 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Thursday, we got attacked by bees. Friday morning, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Elaine Stritch helped us make wallets. Friday evening, we performed ''[[w:Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes|Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes]]''. Part 1: ''Millennium Approaches''. Part 2... :'''Marge''': ''Perestroika''? :'''Lisa''': That's right! Strike the set, pizza party, Sunday morning and then-- ''[gasps]'' '''''Nooooo!''''' :'''Homer''': Goodbye, Lisa! I'll miss you a lot! Then a little! Then not too much! <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': I would kill for that! <hr width=50%> :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': I don't wanna get stuck behind the joggers from the fat camp. <hr width=50%> :'''Otto''': What's the matter, Lisa? You're usually the first one out of this death trap. <hr width=50%> :'''Mr. Largo''': Lisa, please stick to the illegally Xeroxed sheet music. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Can my son come too? He knows what to do when I swallow my tongue. <hr width=50%> :'''Krusty''': The arctic circle, or as I long to call it, my wife's side of the bed. For the purposes of that joke I'm married. <hr width=50%> :'''Krusty''': Look, I'm really sorry about all the things I've been charged with, as well as all the stuff you don't know about yet. ===[[w:Loan-a Lisa|Loan-a Lisa]]=== :'''Nelson''': I just paid some idiot 50 bucks to walk up the down escalator all day. ''[scene cuts to Gil walking up the down escalator]'' ===[[w:MoneyBART|MoneyBART]]=== :'''Bart''': Fine, you can be our coach. :'''Lisa''': Thanks. You can be the free safety. :'''Bart''': Wrong sport. :'''Lisa''': I mean, the point guard. :'''Bart''': Also wrong. :'''Lisa''': I'm gonna do a little research. :'''Bart''': A little is not gonna be enough, honey pie. :'''Lisa''': Don't call me "honey pie". :'''Bart''': You got it, tootsie pop. :'''Lisa''': ''[grunts]'' :'''Nelson''': Get a room, you two. :'''Lisa''': We're brother and sister. :'''Milhouse''': So are my parents, I think. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lisa''': Bart, this guy has walked the last two batters, and if he walks you, we win the game. Don't swing at anything. :'''Bart''': But I'm on a hot streak! :'''Lisa''': Hot streaks are a statistical illusion! :'''Bart''': I wish ''you'' were a statistical illusion. :'''Lisa''': Well, there's a 97% chance I'm not, so do what I say! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lisa''': Managers manage, and players play. :'''Ralph''': Do alligators alligate? :'''Lisa''': I don't know! Yes! :'''Ralph''': I'm scared! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lisa''': You made me love baseball. Not as a collection of numbers, but as an unpredictable, passionate game, beaten in excitement only by every other sport. ===[[w:Treehouse of Horror XXI|Treehouse of Horror XXI]]=== :'''Professor Frink''': ''[thinking he fast forwarded the entire episode with his remote]'' Oh, I went too far. I've spoiled the whole show for everybody. I don't deserve to wield the remote. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bart Simpson''': It's just a game. We're not really hurting anybody. ''[accidentally hits Milhouse in the eye with controller]'' :'''Milhouse Van Houten''': My non-lazy eye! <hr width="50%"/> :''[Marge accidentally hits Milhouse in the eye with her elbow]'' :'''Milhouse Van Houten''': My other eye! <hr width="50%"/> :''[After taking Lisa to the forest and carrying her up a tree, Edmund reveals his fangs]'' :'''Lisa Simpson''': ''[gasps]'' You're a vampire! I should be scared, but I'm not. :'''Edmund''': Let us move between the trees the way a bat does... by jumping! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lisa Simpson''': Edmund's almost here! So please, nobody be themselves. :'''Homer Simpson''': I know, I know. Don't serve garlic, don't stab your guest in the heart with a wooden stake, don't ask him if he knows Frankenstein. It's ''racist'' somehow. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Edmund''': ''[to Lisa]'' Sorry, my dad insisted on coming. ''[a bat appears and turns into Dracula]'' ''[clearly aggravated]'' Dad! I don't need a chaperone! I'm 400 years old! :'''Dracula''': You live in my crypt, you play by my rules! :'''Edmund''': You're tearing me apart! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Dracula''': Look, I'm more than just a vampire. I'm a nut for Dixieland jazz. ''[plays jazz trumpet]'' :'''Edmund''': ''[rolls his eyes and groans]'' You said you weren't gonna bring that! :'''Dracula''': I said I ''might'' not. ''[continues to play]'' :'''Edmund''': ''[whispers to Lisa]'' They say vampires live forever, but I die of embarrassment every day. :'''Lisa''': I know just how you feel. :''[Cut to Homer dancing with Santa's Little Helper]'' ===[[w:Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life|Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life]]=== :'''Lisa''': Dad, can I talk to you for a second? :'''Homer''': What is troubling you, my son? I mean, my girl son. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': Sooner or later, everyone meets their Homer. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': Oh, I'm sorry, Maggie, but even at your age, I'm sure you understand that things can't always go your way. '''AND THAT’S WHY <big>I CAN'T BELIEVE <big>WE DIDN'T GET THAT <big>''STUPID <big>ELF!!!!</big>''</big></big></big>''' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': Just pick a dead end and chill out till you die. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Groundskeeper Willie|Willie]]''': ''[singing to the tune of [[w:The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond|Loch Lomond]] while waxing the floor]'' Oh, I'll wax the upstairs and I'll wax the downstairs and I'll get drunk in the library! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lisa''': ''[after seeing Cloisters Academy school bus]'' Lord [[Buddha]], I know I'm not supposed to want stuff, but come on! <hr width="50%"/> :''[Upon learning that Lisa doesn't want to be like her, Marge is upset and distraught.]'' :'''Marge''': What's so wrong with me? :'''Homer''': Nothing, sweetie, nothing! Let me explain. She doesn't want to turn out like you didn't... not until... diplomatic.... trapped... help. Remember nothing. :'''Marge''': A mother will remember everything! :'''Homer''': Well if you look inside your purse, you can find the 7 of clubs. :'''Marge''':''[Looks inside her purse and pulls out a photo of Lisa]'' No, it's a photo of Lisa who wants to be nothing like me. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Marge''': What's your note say? :'''Lisa''': The seven of clubs? :'''Homer''': ''[Revealing himself to have put the 7 of clubs to cheer Lisa up]'' Tada! ===[[w:The Fool Monty|The Fool Monty]]=== :'''[[w:Jeff Zucker|Jeff Zucker]]''': [[w:NBC|NBC]], you are here to listen and not speak! ===[[w:How Munched is That Birdie in the Window?|How Munched is That Birdie in the Window?]]=== :'''Homer''': ''[telling the kids a horror story in a creepy voice]'' The Bloody Hangman walks on his stubby bone feet through the plague-ridden streets of London... :'''Lisa''': You said it was Boston. :'''Homer''': ''[still in a creepy voice]'' Did I? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Nelson''': My mom ran off with my birthday clown. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bart''': ''[to Raymond Bird]'' Now that you're officially my bird, let me fill you in on the pecking order around here. The top dog is me, followed by the top dog, the dog, then the cat and then you. But don't feel bad. You're ahead of Milhouse. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Milhouse''': I thought your race car was a Transformer! Nothing's one thing anymore! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bart''': You hear that, boy? You're gonna be a racing pigeon! It's getting a little chilly; I better put a blanket on Ray. ===[[w:The Fight Before Christmas|The Fight Before Christmas]]=== :'''Bart''': ''[clicks his BB gun and kicks the office door with his foot, ready to murder Santa for not getting the dirt bike from him (who was actually Krusty in the costume); serious]'' No disrespect, fat man, but you'd better poop out a dirt bike. :'''Krusty (Santa)''': ''[busy]'' Close the door, boy. I can't afford to heat the whole North Pole! :''[Bart looks around the office; the air was being pushed out of the steam radiator, the walls were torn a little, and the water from the ceiling was leaking]'' :'''Bart''': ''[walks over to Krusty’s desk]'' Listen here, Kringle. I may have been naughty this year. But by today’s standards, naughty’s nothing. I didn’t get anybody pregnant. I didn’t Facebook a kid to death. Make with my dirt bike! :'''Krusty (Santa)''': Kid, this company’s bust! For years, I’ve been giving out free toys and getting cookies in return. It’s not a sustainable business model. :'''Bart''': Oh, come on, man. Things aren’t ''that'' bad. :'''Krusty (Santa)''': They’re pretty bad. ''[scooping up and eating a red-nosed reindeer snout]'' I’m eating my own reindeer here! :'''Bart''': ''[rolls his eyes, groans]'' You win. :'''Krusty (Santa)''': ''[chuckles]'' That's a good boy. ''[rubs Bart's head and gives him a candy cane]'' You go home now, and maybe there'll be a nice pair of work socks under your tree. :'''Bart''': You don't have to do that. I have socks. I'll give you socks! :'''Krusty (Santa)''': Thanks, kid. Now you better head home. I'm sure in the 25 years of Earth time you've been gone, your parents must've gotten worried. ''[Bart leaves the office and closes the door]'' Kids never change. Always dumb as potatoes. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Agnes Skinner''': Hey, Simpson! How come you ain't in combat like a real man? :'''Homer''': I'm too fat to fit in a foxhole. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': Kids, remember when I promised to feed us from that victory garden? Well, instead, I grew this tree! :'''Lisa''': Don't you dare bring that thing in here! :'''Homer''': What? You don't want a Christmas tree?! That's crazy! Next you won't want a Christmas ham! :'''Lisa''': Don't worry about that. I love meat and I always will. ''[takes a bite out of a slice of ham]'' Mmm-mm! That is some sweet pig meat! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Announcer''': Tonight's ''Simpsons'' episode was brought to you by the symbol ''umlaut'', and the number ''E''. Not the letter ''E'', but the number whose exponential function is the derivative of itself. :'''Abraham Simpson''': Well, it's been a long run; but I think this will kill it. :'''Jasper''': What, The Simpsons? :'''Abraham Simpson''': No, Christmas. ===[[w:Donnie Fatso|Donnie Fatso]]=== :'''Judge Snyder''': Homer Simpson, you are hereby sentenced to ten years in the federal penitentiary. :''[Marge and Lisa gasps]'' :'''Homer''': It's okay. It's okay. I can be out in 18 months with good behavior. :'''Bart''': We're Simpsons, Dad. We don't do good behavior. :'''Homer''': ''[turn red in anger]'' Don't tell me I'm not capable of good behavior! ''[starts strangling Bart, then stops, turns his face normal]'' <hr width="50%"/> :''[Homer's stint as a Mob informant has indirectly led to Fat Tony's death]'' :'''FBI agent''': Homer, I just want you to know that, out of all the informants the FBI has ever had, you were the snitchiest. :'''Homer''': ''[bitterly]'' Oh, I see. You use me to kill a man, and all I get is a handshake and a blanket! :'''FBI agent''': I never shook your hand. :'''Other FBI agent''': And we never said you could have the blanket. ''[takes the blanket away]'' <hr width="50%"/> :''[Homer is talking with "Fit Tony", Fat Tony's cousin]'' :'''Fit Tony''': I keep my friends close... :'''Homer''': But your enemies closer? :'''Fit Tony''': No! Why would I do that? If I kept my enemies close, they would kill me! ===[[w:Moms I'd Like to Forget|Moms I'd Like to Forget]]=== :'''Bart''': All right, Comic Book Guy, tell me my origin story. :'''Man''': I will not relive that horror of that day! The answer is no, and I can say it in Na'vi or Klingon, which are pretty much the same. I have some theories on that, which I will share with you never. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Zack''': It was the fourth-graders. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Marge''': Why do you have to eat peanuts in the shower? ''[cut to a hideous collection of peanut shells, hair, and dirt Marge pulled out the drain]'' :'''Homer''': Can't start the day without that fresh-from-the-circus feeling! ''[walks out the bathroom humming clown music]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': This was a night for Marge if I assume I'd be home at this hour. ===[[w:Flaming Moe|Flaming Moe]]=== :'''Seymour''': Really? Right next to that Nacho-Cano? ===[[w:Homer the Father|Homer the Father]]=== :'''Apu''': And America has so many enemies. Iran, Iraq, China, Mordor, the hoochies that laid low Tiger Woods, undesirable immigrants - by which I mean everyone that came after me, including my children... <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bart''': I don't know. Can I really betray my country? I say the Pledge of Allegiance every day. :'''Chinese Agent''': You pledge allegiance to the flag. And the flag is made in China. ===[[w:The Blue and the Gray (The Simpsons)|The Blue and the Gray]]=== :'''Bart''': I just have one question about hair: where does mine start? Head, head, head, hair! Where's the border?! :'''Lisa''': Oh, my God! Me too! :'''Bart''': What are we?! <hr width="50%"/> :''[Moe is alone on Valentine's day]'' :'''TV''': Coming up next on world of war. Hitler and Eva Braun: crazy in love. :'''Moe''': Even you let me down Hitler. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Marge''': Aww, Homie, you always mean to say the nicest things. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Moe''': Excuse me, is this the seminar where you learn to pick up free escorts. :'''Chalmers''': Well, we're not learning how to fold cloth napkins. :'''Ned Flanders''': Well, I got excited for nothing. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bart''': Take that back! ''[pushes Milhouse]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lisa''': I find your decision to go back to blue empowering. :'''Marge''': I thought you found my decision to go from blue to gray empowering. :'''Lisa''': As a feminist virtually everything a woman does is empowering. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Ralph''': Grandma had hair like that when she went to sleep in her forever-box. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': Have you noticed how pizzas have gotten so small. :'''Woman''': I know, they are like dimes. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Patty''': So it's true, your hair committed blue-icide. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': Uh-oh, usually when it gets this quiet, Mr. Burns is standing behind me. :'''Mr. Burns''': Actually, I'm standing in front of you. ===[[w:Angry Dad: The Movie|Angry Dad: The Movie]]=== :'''Bart''': That's Angry Dad, the semi-autobiographical web cartoon I created. :'''Homer''': I legally forced him to say "semi". <hr width="50%"/> :''[Homer causes the animators' cubicles to collapse by kicking one over]'' :'''Bart''': Hey Homer, how would you like to be the voice of Angry Dad? :'''Homer''': It would be an '''HONOR!!!''' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Herman Melwood''': Don't thank me, thank Hollywood for being completely out of good ideas. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': ''[to Bart]'' My little [[Roman Polanski|Roman Polanski]]. :'''Marge''': Homer! :'''Homer''': What? What's wrong with being Roman Polanski? :'''Marge''': ''[whispers in Homer's ear]'' :'''Homer''': He ''[[w:Roman Polanski sexual abuse scandal|what?!]]'' ''[angrily turns red]'' YOU MONSTER!! ''[starts strangling Bart]'' ===[[w:The Scorpion's Tale|The Scorpion's Tale]]=== :'''Skinner''': Now, remember to stay hydrated, and... ''[rattling noise is heard]'' AAH! Rattle snake! ''[it's shown that it's just Bart with a rattle; he laughs]'' :'''Chalmers''': Hah! You fall for that every year, Seymour. :'''Skinner''': In one year I didn't, and I was bitten by an ''actual'' rattle snake. :'''Chalmers''': Yes, and if I recall, you took a sick day you did not have. :'''Skinner''': But I was gonna lose my foot! :'''Chalmers''': Of which you have two. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lisa''': These flowers saved me from a terrible fate: not getting an A on my next science project! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': ''[to Lisa]'' If you were a boy, you'd be a scientist! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Abe''': What did you do during the war? :'''Walter Hotenhoffer''': [[World War II]]? I wasn't born yet! :'''Abe''': It's funny how many Germans say that these days. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Marge''': It's like we've got our own monster! :'''Homer''': Your grandfather is not a monster! Now, let's chain him in the basement until the circus comes to town. :'''Abe''': Sounds good! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Abe''': Listen up Seniors! Together, we survived the [[Great Depression|Depression]], won [[World War I|a few]] [[World War II|wars]] and [[w:Apollo program|put a man on the moon]]. In fact, the only mistake our generation made, was creating ''that'' generation! ''[points at Homer, Lenny and Carl dancing around Homer's burning car]'' <hr width=“50%”/> :'''Marge''': Homer, I told you he wouldn't sleep through it. :'''Abe''': In my day, women didn't make a sound! ===[[w:A Midsummer's Nice Dream|A Midsummer's Nice Dream]]=== :'''Bart''': [[Cheech & Chong|Lisa's not here, man!]] ===[[w:Love Is a Many Strangled Thing|Love Is a Many Strangled Thing]]=== :'''Bart''': ''[laughing hysterically]'' Quit it! ''[The audience starts laughing at Bart]'' Knock it off! Stop it! Dad, this isn't funny! ''[Bart pees his pants and Homer stops tickling Bart]'' :'''Sideshow Mel''': ''[pointing at the Jumbotron with his stadium cheering glove]'' The child has wetted his trousers! ''[The audience burst out laughing]'' :'''Bart''': ''[holding his crotch embarrassed]'' Dad, how could you do that? The whole audience saw me pee my pants! :'''Homer''': Son, I'm really, really sorry. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Kent Brockman''': Taking pity on the boy, the operators of Springfield Stadium open the stadium's retractable roof, in an attempt to dry his pants. Unfortunately, the stain was picked up by Russian spy satellites and President [[Dmitry Medvedev]] has taken the pants wetting as a sign of American weakness. A Russian flotilla has just entered New York Harb-- :'''Homer''': ''[after TV turns off]'' Oh. Bart's never gonna forgive me for humiliating him. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Raphael''': Uh, not a good time to water the plants? :'''Dr. Zander''': No, it's fine. :''[Kareem choking Homer again]'' :'''Raphael''': Hey, Kareem, what do you think about today's selfish players? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bart Simpson''': Precious, is that you? :'''Homer Simpson''': Yes Mama. :'''Bart Simpson''': You think you're so pretty, where's my Lotto Ticket?! :'''Homer Simpson''': I forgot, Mama. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Moe''': Ooh, a text. Let's see. Text message for I.M.A. Wiener. As you can all can see, I.M.A. Wiener. :''[All laughter]'' :'''Barney''': I see it, Moe. :'''Moe''': "When I get a hold of you I..." Oh, Damn it! I typed an F and not a D... eh Delete, delete, delete... Oh Crap! I just sent donated $20 to Haiti! :''[Bart laughing]'' ===[[w:The Great Simpsina|The Great Simpsina]]=== :'''Lisa''': Initiate Phase 2. :'''Bart''': I forgot what Phase 2 is, but I'll assume we just dump the peaches like we discussed. :'''Lisa''': Affirmative. :'''Bart''': I'll assume that means "yes". :'''Lisa''': Roger. :'''Bart''': The name's Bart. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Boy''': I can see why they call you the "Great Simpsina". :'''Lisa''': My friends call me Lisa. :'''Bart''': She has no friends. :'''Lisa''': Shut up! ===[[w:The Real Housewives of Fat Tony|The Real Housewives of Fat Tony]]=== :'''Lisa''': This is our house. There's nothing buried here but hopes and dreams. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lisa''': Bart, I haven't been selling the truffles. I have been eating them. :'''Bart''': Really? Why? :'''Lisa''': Vegetarian food is ''so'' boring! Pasta! Soy! You know what's a bad pizza topping? ''Broccoli!'' <hr width="50%"/> :''[both Marge and Homer are drunk]'' :'''Marge''': Now, which is our room again? :'''Bart''': You know. It had that painting of that lady and that monster on the ceiling. :'''Marge''': That was a mirror! ===[[w:Homer Scissorhands|Homer Scissorhands]]=== :'''Lisa''': Okay, first of all, it's never wise to use the word "spew" in a love song. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Patty''': ''[realizes Homer snipped her hair and transformed it]'' Who undid my do? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lisa''': Why would a popular fifth grader like Taffy be interested in a Milhouse like Milhouse? :'''Bart''': I dunno. It's one of those mysteries, like how do my clothes get clean, and put back in my drawers? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lisa''': Taffy's up to something, and I won't find out what it is sitting on a computer. It's time to get boots on the ground! ''[cut to Lisa putting flower-patterned boots to her feet]'' ''[sweetly]'' You like my boots? :'''Bart''': Once you get past the sister ick, they're fine. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Milhouse''': You don't want me to be with you, you don't want me to be with someone else. How miserable do I have to be before you're happy? :'''Lisa''': Milhouse, I...I...oh. ''[Lisa kisses Milhouse]'' :'''Milhouse''': Lisa, does this mean you like me? :'''Lisa''': Yes. No! I don't know! It means that life is full of unexpected things and you should never give up. And you're cute in the moonlight. ''[Milhouse faints and falls off the cliff. A bald eagle flies up with Milhouse on its back]'' :'''Milhouse''': Everything's coming up Milhouse ''[Lisa smiles]'' ===[[w:500 Keys|500 Keys]]=== :'''Lisa''': What's this key with the plastic skull for? :'''Bart''': That's for my box with the real skull. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lisa''': So how come we have all these other keys? :'''Homer''': Well, if you live long enough, you'll start to accumulate things. This is from a gas station's men's room. They put a block of wood on it so you don't walk away with it. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lisa''': I've discovered a mystery wrapped in a riddle in the basement of a lousy school! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''' ''[grabs a beer from the fridge in the [[w:Duff Beer|Duff]] [[w:Blimp|blimp]] cabin]'': Hmm. Is it drinking and driving if you're flying a blimp? Maybe I can find the answer by texting. "Yo...Lenny...do you know anything about...driving...a...blimp...while...drunk?" :''[The blimp wedges itself into a tunnel, then amazingly comes out unharmed]'' :'''Homer''' ''[after hearing the blimp squeaking]'': What was that? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': Hey, kids! If I tossed you guys a bucket full of something, could you pour it out and toss the bucket back up? Don't drink it! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lisa''': That's where the ice bridge would be. Go down. :''[Homer sends the blimp into a free fall]'' :'''Lisa''': Dad, stop! :'''Homer''': But...ooh, there's so many ''[two]'' buttons. :''[Lisa presses the stop button, managing to avoid a crash]'' :'''Lisa''': ''[falling from the blimp]'' AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! ''[sees bus 23 in the river]'' Oooooooh! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Chalmers''': Skinner! When I say "drive us to Bolivia", that is your cue to ''start'' the damn ''car!'' :'''Skinner''': I can't find the key. :''[Chalmers points in Bart's direction]'' :'''Bart''': Looking for something? :'''Skinner''': Yes! My car key. :'''Bart''': Does it look like ''this''? ''[shows that he got Skinner's car key]'' :'''Skinner''': Yes. Quite a bit. :'''Chalmers''': He's got your key, Seymour. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lisa''': There are two things you didn't count on: my dad getting a giant wedding cake, and my sister locking herself in the car. :'''Skinner''': We planned for the wedding cake, we just didn't see the baby thing coming. :'''Chalmers''': Well, you should've. :'''Skinner''': How could I? She wasn't even born yet. :'''Chalmers''': People have babies! ===[[w:The Ned-Liest Catch|The Ned-Liest Catch]]=== :'''Chalmers''': Edna, until the state disciplinary committee rules on your case, every work day you'll report to a school board holding facility. An educational limbo, as it were, where you are the unbaptized dead baby. :''[Edna groans, looking disturbed]'' :'''Skinner''': They never seem to like that analogy. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lisa''': Actually, I do have a speech prepared. :'''Skinner''': Excellent, Lisa. Freeplay cancelled. :'''Children''': Aww. :'''Bart''': No one cancels my freeplay. :''[Bart breaks Milhouse's glasses]'' :'''Bart''': Sorry, man. :'''Milhouse''': It's OK, thanks for making me part of the revolution. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Moe''': Woah-woah-woah. No leaving until we all spook you on Edna's face. All right, pipe down back there, you'll get your chance. :'''Barney''': Aw, come on Moe, quit hogging the Face. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bart''': Teachers aren't allowed to live close to their students. They are natural enemies, like Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. ==External links== {{wikipedia|The Simpsons season 22}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Simpsons, Season 22}} [[Category:The Simpsons seasons]] mxgldzw8vvylv2bp6z3vstwk5257bqa 0 124238 3961112 3885924 2026-07-05T15:45:41Z ~2026-22475-30 3310494 /* A Cleveland Brown Christmas */ 3961112 wikitext text/x-wiki {{italic title}} ---- :'''Seasons:''' [[The Cleveland Show/Season 1|1]] [[The Cleveland Show/Season 2|2]] [[The Cleveland Show/Season 3|3]] [[The Cleveland Show/Season 4|4]] | [[The Cleveland Show|Main]] ---- The following is a list of quotes from the first season of ''[[The Cleveland Show]]''. === ''[[w:Pilot (The Cleveland Show)|Pilot]]'' === :''[Peter has a ACME firework-type rocket strapped to his back. Brian is holding a lighter.]'' :'''Peter''': Light it, Brian! :'''Brian''': Peter, I don't wanna do this. :'''Peter''': Do it, Brian. It's the only way I'm gonna catch that bird. :'''Roadrunner''' ''[offscreen]'': Meep-meep! :'''Peter''': Here he comes! Light it!! :''[After the Roadrunner zips by, Brian lights the rocket, sending Peter soaring through Cleveland's house, destroying it and revealing Cleveland in his second-floor bath tub and the now-overweighted Cleveland Jr. sitting on the second-floor toliet.]'' :'''Cleveland''': No, no, no, no, no, noooo! ''[His tub crashes with him in it as Cleveland Junior closes his eyes to not watch but the toilet stays intact.]'' Doggone it! That's it! No more! I'm tired of being kicked around by this world! :'''Brian''' ''[offscreen]'': I'm sorry, Cleveland. :'''Cleveland''': It's all right. :'''Brian''': I tried to stop him... :'''Cleveland''': I don't blame you, Brian! You a dog! A DOG!! <hr width=50%/> :''[Cleveland and Cleveland Jr. have left Quahog to mark the beginning of "The Cleveland Show"]'' :'''Stewie''': What the hell? He's getting his show? <hr width=50%/> :'''Rallo''': Well aren't we the Black Brady Bunch? :'''Cleveland''': Except I'm not a gay architect, and my wife's not sleeping with my son! :''[everyone laughs]'' :'''Cleveland Jr.''': Not yet! <hr width=50%/> :'''Cleveland''': Great! Have fun, kids. Don’t drink too many sodas. Hahaha. <hr width=50%/> :'''Cleveland''': Ahhhh a Bear! :'''Tim''': Ahhhh a Black Man! Yeah, doesn't feel so good, does it? <hr width=50%/> :'''Rallo''': Oh I know y'all ain't leaving without making these beds. === ''[[w:Da Doggone Daddy-Daughter Dinner Dance|Da Doggone Daddy-Daughter Dinner Dance]]'' === :''[Cleveland is in his own Men's Warehouse commercial]'' :'''Cleveland''': I'm gonna like the way I look...I guarantee it. === ''[[w:The One About Friends|The One About Friends]]'' === :'''Cleveland''': Hasta la possum, baby! === ''[[w:Birth of a Salesman (The Cleveland Show)|Birth of a Salesman]]'' === :'''Cleveland Jr.''': ''[as the group throws a joke at Cleveland Jr. as part of a comedy roast, to try and get him to cry]'' That's cruel without even knowing the reference. === ''[[w:Cleveland Jr.'s Cherry Bomb|Cleveland Jr.'s Cherry Bomb]]'' === :''[Federline Jones slaps Cleveland Jr.]'' :'''Cleveland Jr.''': I may be a virgin, ''[angrily pulls on Federline's gold necklace]'' but I'll kick your ass if you do that again! <hr width=50%/> :'''Priest''': All across this great land, teenagers are takin' a pledge: The Purity Pledge, to hand over their virginities to their fathers, the high priests of the home. :'''Cleveland''': Hear that? I'm the high priest of our home. I would like roast beef for dinner. :'''Donna''': Shut the hell up! <hr width=50%/> :'''Cleveland''': ''[grabs Federline's hat and hits him with it]'' BAD HORMONE-RIDDEN ADOLESCENT! BAD, BAD, BAD! === ''[[w:Ladies' Night (The Cleveland Show)|Ladies' Night]]'' === :'''Cleveland''': Last minute check: any chives in my teeth? ''[he shows his teeth, which are covered with green leafs]'' :'''Donna''': They're all over! What were you ''eating?!'' :'''Cleveland''': Chives. === ''[[w:A Brown Thanksgiving|A Brown Thanksgiving]]'' === :'''Auntie Momma''': And now that my work here is done, I better leave before I turn into a blumpkin. === ''[[w:From Bed to Worse|From Bed to Worse]]'' === :'''Roberta''': I can't believe we're stuck in this motel for another night! Nothing exciting has ever happened in a D.C. hotel! :'''Raymond''': Didn't [[w:Marion Barry#1990 arrest|Marion Barry get caught smoking crack]] at a D.C. hotel? :'''Roberta''': Okay, yeah, but besides that. :'''Raymond''': Didn't [[w:Reagan assassination attempt|Reagan get shot]] at a D.C. hotel? :'''Roberta''': Besides ''that''. :'''Raymond''': [[w:Watergate scandal|Watergate]] happened at a hotel, I know that. :'''Roberta''': I know, I know. :'''Raymond''': And didn't [[w:Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal|Eliot Spitzer]]-- :'''Roberta''': ''[cutting him off]'' Okay, whatever! The point is we need to go out and find a party. :'''Oliver''': Hey, guys, I got the idea. We need to go out to find a party! :'''Federline''': Yo, Oliver's right. There are so many bummed spots out there where I can get the crowd jumpin' with my demo! There's a fat beat on top of it, I'm going like ''[beatboxing]'', then I'd do, "Federline! Federline! JOONES!" It's hot, y'all. Peace. === ''[[w:A Cleveland Brown Christmas|A Cleveland Brown Christmas]]'' === :'''Kendra''': "You freak it you buy it." ''[pointing to the Christmas tree]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Donna''': It's like my great grandmother used to say, "A lie is just an upside down truth." :'''Cleveland''': What?! ''[to self]'' Can I trust Donna? <hr width=50%/> :'''Cleveland''': "Fred Peterson raped old ladies?!" <hr width=50%/> :'''Rallo''': Dear Santa: ''[clears throat]'' Fuck you and fuck Christmas. :'''Arianna the Bear''' ''[to Tim]'': This is what happens when you let a Jew run a Christmas pageant. <hr width=50%/> :''[after Rallo derails the toy train by putting a Santa doll on the tracks]'' :'''Reporter''': Blood on the tracks in Holidaytown where for 68 passengers, a routine train ride to Gum Drop Village instead took a detour to Gum Drop country morgue. And now over to Dirk with sports. :'''Dirk''': Better make that 2 massacres today. The Holidaytown Celebrators were shut out eight to nothing. A bad day indeed for pretend, cake figurine baseball. === ''[[w:Field of Streams|Field of Streams]]'' === :'''Cleveland''': Hey Junior, watch are you watching? ''The Cleveland Show''? <hr width=50%/> :'''Cleveland''': What are you doing up there? :'''Cleveland Jr.''': Larry the Leopard told me to climb the bookcase. :'''Cleveland''': Fourteen. You're fourteen! Now, get down here. I got something I want you to have. :'''Cleveland Jr.''': Wow, number 9? I thought when you left, they retired it for good. :'''Cleveland''': I'm [[w:Brett Favre|Brett Favre]]-ing it, except I'm not being a public jagoff about it. <hr width=50%/> :'''The Fluffers''' ''(to the tune of ''We Built This City'' by Jefferson Starship)'': We built this ballpark/We built this ballpark on a gay dude's ca-ash! <hr width=50%/> :'''Principal Wally''' ''(after Raymond high-fives one of his stoner friends)'': Watch the height of that five. All fives must be shoulder height or below. === ''[[w:Love Rollercoaster|Love Rollercoaster]]'' === :'''Cleveland Jr.''': I've never been friends with a girl before. Is it true you guys clap your breasts together, like a seal? :'''Tyra''': No! :'''Cleveland Jr.''': Thanks a lot, Wikipedia. <hr width=50%/> :'''Ms. Eck''': You know, I used to be quite doable myself. :'''Roberta''': So what happened? :'''Ms. Eck''': I turned 30. <hr width=50%/> :'''Lester''': I got bit by the inventing bug myself. Among other bugs. And crabs. <hr width=50%/> :'''Rallo''': You'd be amazed how many people on the internet wanna meet a five-year-old boy! <hr width=50%/> :'''Cleveland''': What the hell kind of comedy high school are you going to, anyway? <hr width=50%/> :'''Nerd''': This is still pretty cool! <hr width=50%/> :'''Nerd''': Who are you? :'''Tyra''': I'm Fat Girl. <hr width=50%/> :'''Federline''': Know what I'm sayin', Omega Moo? === ''[[w:Our Gang (The Cleveland Show)|Our Gang]]'' === :''[Cleveland shoots a hole in the ceiling, and then the ceiling cracks revealing Chris Griffin]'' :'''Chris''': Hi, Cleveland! :'''Cleveland''': Go back to Quahog! :'''Chris''': Okay. === ''[[w:Buried Pleasure|Buried Pleasure]]'' === :'''Cleveland''': Ah, Stoolfest! That magical time of year when hobos and drug addicts are dressed up like clowns, and allowed to operate dangerous rides! <hr width=50%/> :'''Cleveland''': ''[about Jane]'' We tried to get her to stop hitting Holt and she beat the respective craps out of us. :'''Donna''': ''She''... beat up all of ''you''? :'''Cleveland''': Well, what were we supposed to do? We can't hit a girl. :'''Donna''': Well, I understand. I never hit a girl, either. But I will smack the white off a bitch! :''[she punches Jane]'' :'''Donna''': Nobody hurts my man! <hr width=50%/> :'''Tim''': Did she agree to stay away from Holt? :'''Cleveland''': Does it look like it, Boo-Boo? <hr width=50%/> :'''Cleveland''': I'm gonna go tell Jane to say good-bye to my little friend! :'''Tim''': The Black guys love [[Scarface (1983 film)|Scarface]]. They cannot stop talking about it. === ''[[w:The Curious Case of Jr. Working at The Stool|The Curious Case of Jr. Working at The Stool]]'' === :'''Cleveland Jr.''': I'm going to get even with that candy-ass son of a motherfucking bitch. <hr width=50%/> :'''Cleveland Jr.''': MOO. === ''[[w:Once Upon a Tyne in New York|Once Upon a Tyne in New York]]'' === :'''Cleveland''': Good evening. In an effort to keep with these, our ever-changing times, tonight's episode of ''The Cleveland Show'' is presented in 2-D. If you wear glasses due to near-sightedness or astigmatism, put them on....'''NOW.''' <hr width=50%/> :''[Lester's limo driving away with Tyne chasing them and the kids realize they missed their ride]'' :'''Rallo''': Aw, shit! === ''[[w:The Brown Knight|The Brown Knight]]'' === :'''Dan Rather''': Hello, I'm Dan Rather, news veteran of 44 years, now reduced to co-hosting a local talk show. Just waiting to die, really. I stopped taking my heart pills this morning, so... any day now. <hr width=50%/> :'''Cleveland Jr.''': Don't worry, Daddy. I'm gonna feed you, and wash you and change you, just like you did when I was a baby. :'''Cleveland''': Thank you, Junior. ''[whispers]'' Don't let him do any of those things to me, Donna! :'''Donna''': Junior, can you give us some alone time? :'''Cleveland Jr.''': Okay. I'll go down to pediatrics and look at the chicken people. === ''[[w:Gone with the Wind (The Cleveland Show)|Gone with the Wind]]'' === :'''Cleveland''': Smells like a Denny's in here, but without the old man stink. :'''Rallo''': You got that covered. :'''Cleveland''': No, I smell like a middle-aged man: Propecia, hot wings, and night sweats from our adjustable-rate mortgage, now pass those eggs. :'''Donna''': Uh-uh. Remember what Dr. Fist said about your cholesterol? :'''Cleveland''': Yes, he said it was "appalling" and "life-threatening". Uh, pass the eggs. :'''Donna''': This is your breakfast, Cleveland. The same breakfast you've been eating for the past two weeks. :'''Cleveland''': More twigs? :'''Donna''': Fiber Twigs-The cereal that lowers your cholesterol. :'''Cleveland''': Aah! I got a splinter! :'''Roberta''': 'Cause you got a mouthful of wood, like usual. :'''Cleveland''': Huh? Oh. :''[both Roberta and Cleveland laugh. Then Cleveland pushes Roberta and grabs her plate of food]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Rallo''': Heat rises, I smell nothing! :''[Cleveland Jr. lifts him up]'' :'''Rallo''': AH! AAHHHHH! === ''[[w:Brotherly Love (The Cleveland Show)|Brotherly Love]]'' === :'''Cleveland''': You were the best bitch I ever had. :'''Terry''': And you were one cold pimp. :'''Cleveland''': Thanks. I'm sorry I set you up with all those men. <hr width=50%/> :'''Donna''': Where did you get that huge wad of cash? :'''Cleveland''': What? A man can't sneak into his house in the middle of the night, carrying a huge, suspicious-looking wad of cash, without his wife nagging him? Geez! <hr width=50%/> :'''Cleveland Jr.''': ''[to Chanel]'' Sorry he's so cranky. He was up til 7:15 last night. :'''Rallo''': Oh, thanks! Anybody else wanna take a shot? :'''Donna''': Rallo, are you bothering the big kids? Come here, I need to give you your diarrhea medicine. :''[Cleveland Jr. and Chanel laugh]'' :'''Rallo''': ''[to Cleveland Jr.]'' You are in for a world of hurt, buffalo butt! :'''Donna''': What did you call me? :'''Rallo''': No, not you, mo-''[Donna grabs his ear]'' Aaaarrggh! <hr width=50%/> :'''Chanel''': ''[sighs]'' This is so hard. I don't know how to find a se-can't of a triangle. :'''Cleveland, Jr.''': Well. Hold on then, se-can't. ''[laughs, then Chanel joins in]'' :'''Roberta''': Hey, is that Chanel Williams chopping it up with my steppity-bro? :'''Federline''': I think you mean step-brizzle. ''[he and Roberta laugh; they all laugh until Cleveland comes in]'' :'''Cleveland''': ''[bursts the door open]'' There's been a gas leak! :''[Cleveland, Jr., Chanel, Roberta and Federline keep laughing until he pushes them out]'' :'''Contractor''': Leave the batteries in your carbon monoxide detector from now on. :'''Cleveland''': When your wife says she'll use them in front of you, you find some batteries. :''[they both laugh]'' === ''[[w:Brown History Month|Brown History Month]]'' === :'''Rallo''': I'll just go ahead and be one of the other black presidents. Actually, I want to be the first black president. Who was it? :'''Mrs. Lowenstein''': Rallo, [[Barack Obama|Barack Hussein Obama]] is the first black president. :'''Rallo''': What? Washington wasn't black? :'''Mrs. Lowenstein''': No. :'''Rallo''': Jefferson? :'''Mrs. Lowenstein''': No. :'''Rallo''': If [[Rutherford B. Hayes]] wasn't a brother, I don't know what's up! <hr width=50%/> :'''Rallo''': ''[to Cleveland]'' You're pathetic for being friends with him. You're worse than Uncle Thomas the Tank Engine. :''[cut to the Island of Sodor]'' :'''Thomas''': I'd reckon I'll take you where these here tracks go, sir. :'''Sir Topham Hatt''': Thank you, Uncle Thomas. You're a clean, articulate train. :'''Thomas''': Just get yo' white ass on board. :'''Sir Topham Hatt''': What's that, Thomas? :'''Thomas''': ''[stammers]'' Uh... Choo-choo! === ''[[w:Cleveland's Angels|Cleveland's Angels]]'' === :'''Cleveland''': I just keep winning! I feel like a homeowner before 2008 (no jobs)! <hr width=50%/> :'''Holt''': I'm riding through them dirt roads and let me show you how I work them dirt hoes. === ''[[w:You're the Best Man, Cleveland Brown|You're the Best Man, Cleveland Brown]]'' === :''[Peter and Quagmire appear at the end of the episode during Freight Train and Cookie's wedding]'' :'''Quagmire''': Well, they made it through the whole season. Now can I have my own show, Peter? :'''Peter''': Quagmire, you're a rapist. :''[Quagmire mutters]'' == External links == {{wikipedia|The Cleveland Show (season 1)}} * {{imdb title|id=1195935|title=The Cleveland Show}} * [http://www.fox.com/programming/shows/?sh=the-cleveland-show TheClevelandShow.com] * [http://tvtdb.com/theclevelandshow Episode transcripts] at TVTDB.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Cleveland Show, The}} [[Category:The Cleveland Show seasons]] ecnyd02wv9lxadgfs2tkldbjh1jbtr8 3961113 3961112 2026-07-05T15:46:23Z ~2026-22475-30 3310494 /* Field of Streams */ 3961113 wikitext text/x-wiki {{italic title}} ---- :'''Seasons:''' [[The Cleveland Show/Season 1|1]] [[The Cleveland Show/Season 2|2]] [[The Cleveland Show/Season 3|3]] [[The Cleveland Show/Season 4|4]] | [[The Cleveland Show|Main]] ---- The following is a list of quotes from the first season of ''[[The Cleveland Show]]''. === ''[[w:Pilot (The Cleveland Show)|Pilot]]'' === :''[Peter has a ACME firework-type rocket strapped to his back. Brian is holding a lighter.]'' :'''Peter''': Light it, Brian! :'''Brian''': Peter, I don't wanna do this. :'''Peter''': Do it, Brian. It's the only way I'm gonna catch that bird. :'''Roadrunner''' ''[offscreen]'': Meep-meep! :'''Peter''': Here he comes! Light it!! :''[After the Roadrunner zips by, Brian lights the rocket, sending Peter soaring through Cleveland's house, destroying it and revealing Cleveland in his second-floor bath tub and the now-overweighted Cleveland Jr. sitting on the second-floor toliet.]'' :'''Cleveland''': No, no, no, no, no, noooo! ''[His tub crashes with him in it as Cleveland Junior closes his eyes to not watch but the toilet stays intact.]'' Doggone it! That's it! No more! I'm tired of being kicked around by this world! :'''Brian''' ''[offscreen]'': I'm sorry, Cleveland. :'''Cleveland''': It's all right. :'''Brian''': I tried to stop him... :'''Cleveland''': I don't blame you, Brian! You a dog! A DOG!! <hr width=50%/> :''[Cleveland and Cleveland Jr. have left Quahog to mark the beginning of "The Cleveland Show"]'' :'''Stewie''': What the hell? He's getting his show? <hr width=50%/> :'''Rallo''': Well aren't we the Black Brady Bunch? :'''Cleveland''': Except I'm not a gay architect, and my wife's not sleeping with my son! :''[everyone laughs]'' :'''Cleveland Jr.''': Not yet! <hr width=50%/> :'''Cleveland''': Great! Have fun, kids. Don’t drink too many sodas. Hahaha. <hr width=50%/> :'''Cleveland''': Ahhhh a Bear! :'''Tim''': Ahhhh a Black Man! Yeah, doesn't feel so good, does it? <hr width=50%/> :'''Rallo''': Oh I know y'all ain't leaving without making these beds. === ''[[w:Da Doggone Daddy-Daughter Dinner Dance|Da Doggone Daddy-Daughter Dinner Dance]]'' === :''[Cleveland is in his own Men's Warehouse commercial]'' :'''Cleveland''': I'm gonna like the way I look...I guarantee it. === ''[[w:The One About Friends|The One About Friends]]'' === :'''Cleveland''': Hasta la possum, baby! === ''[[w:Birth of a Salesman (The Cleveland Show)|Birth of a Salesman]]'' === :'''Cleveland Jr.''': ''[as the group throws a joke at Cleveland Jr. as part of a comedy roast, to try and get him to cry]'' That's cruel without even knowing the reference. === ''[[w:Cleveland Jr.'s Cherry Bomb|Cleveland Jr.'s Cherry Bomb]]'' === :''[Federline Jones slaps Cleveland Jr.]'' :'''Cleveland Jr.''': I may be a virgin, ''[angrily pulls on Federline's gold necklace]'' but I'll kick your ass if you do that again! <hr width=50%/> :'''Priest''': All across this great land, teenagers are takin' a pledge: The Purity Pledge, to hand over their virginities to their fathers, the high priests of the home. :'''Cleveland''': Hear that? I'm the high priest of our home. I would like roast beef for dinner. :'''Donna''': Shut the hell up! <hr width=50%/> :'''Cleveland''': ''[grabs Federline's hat and hits him with it]'' BAD HORMONE-RIDDEN ADOLESCENT! BAD, BAD, BAD! === ''[[w:Ladies' Night (The Cleveland Show)|Ladies' Night]]'' === :'''Cleveland''': Last minute check: any chives in my teeth? ''[he shows his teeth, which are covered with green leafs]'' :'''Donna''': They're all over! What were you ''eating?!'' :'''Cleveland''': Chives. === ''[[w:A Brown Thanksgiving|A Brown Thanksgiving]]'' === :'''Auntie Momma''': And now that my work here is done, I better leave before I turn into a blumpkin. === ''[[w:From Bed to Worse|From Bed to Worse]]'' === :'''Roberta''': I can't believe we're stuck in this motel for another night! Nothing exciting has ever happened in a D.C. hotel! :'''Raymond''': Didn't [[w:Marion Barry#1990 arrest|Marion Barry get caught smoking crack]] at a D.C. hotel? :'''Roberta''': Okay, yeah, but besides that. :'''Raymond''': Didn't [[w:Reagan assassination attempt|Reagan get shot]] at a D.C. hotel? :'''Roberta''': Besides ''that''. :'''Raymond''': [[w:Watergate scandal|Watergate]] happened at a hotel, I know that. :'''Roberta''': I know, I know. :'''Raymond''': And didn't [[w:Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal|Eliot Spitzer]]-- :'''Roberta''': ''[cutting him off]'' Okay, whatever! The point is we need to go out and find a party. :'''Oliver''': Hey, guys, I got the idea. We need to go out to find a party! :'''Federline''': Yo, Oliver's right. There are so many bummed spots out there where I can get the crowd jumpin' with my demo! There's a fat beat on top of it, I'm going like ''[beatboxing]'', then I'd do, "Federline! Federline! JOONES!" It's hot, y'all. Peace. === ''[[w:A Cleveland Brown Christmas|A Cleveland Brown Christmas]]'' === :'''Kendra''': "You freak it you buy it." ''[pointing to the Christmas tree]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Donna''': It's like my great grandmother used to say, "A lie is just an upside down truth." :'''Cleveland''': What?! ''[to self]'' Can I trust Donna? <hr width=50%/> :'''Cleveland''': "Fred Peterson raped old ladies?!" <hr width=50%/> :'''Rallo''': Dear Santa: ''[clears throat]'' Fuck you and fuck Christmas. :'''Arianna the Bear''' ''[to Tim]'': This is what happens when you let a Jew run a Christmas pageant. <hr width=50%/> :''[after Rallo derails the toy train by putting a Santa doll on the tracks]'' :'''Reporter''': Blood on the tracks in Holidaytown where for 68 passengers, a routine train ride to Gum Drop Village instead took a detour to Gum Drop country morgue. And now over to Dirk with sports. :'''Dirk''': Better make that 2 massacres today. The Holidaytown Celebrators were shut out eight to nothing. A bad day indeed for pretend, cake figurine baseball. === ''[[w:Field of Streams|Field of Streams]]'' === :'''Cleveland''': Hey Junior, watch are you watching? ''The Cleveland Show''? <hr width=50%/> :'''Cleveland''': What are you doing up there? :'''Cleveland Jr.''': Larry the Leopard told me to climb the bookcase. :'''Cleveland''': Fourteen. You're fourteen! Now, get down here. I got something I want you to have. :'''Cleveland Jr.''': Wow, number 9? I thought when you left, they retired it for good. :'''Cleveland''': I'm [[w:Brett Favre|Brett Favre]]-ing it, except I'm not being a public jagoff about it. <hr width=50%/> :'''The Fluffers''' ''[to the tune of ''We Built This City'' by Jefferson Starship]'': We built this ballpark/We built this ballpark on a gay dude's ca-ash! <hr width=50%/> :'''Principal Wally''' ''[after Raymond high-fives one of his stoner friends]'': Watch the height of that five. All fives must be shoulder height or below. === ''[[w:Love Rollercoaster|Love Rollercoaster]]'' === :'''Cleveland Jr.''': I've never been friends with a girl before. Is it true you guys clap your breasts together, like a seal? :'''Tyra''': No! :'''Cleveland Jr.''': Thanks a lot, Wikipedia. <hr width=50%/> :'''Ms. Eck''': You know, I used to be quite doable myself. :'''Roberta''': So what happened? :'''Ms. Eck''': I turned 30. <hr width=50%/> :'''Lester''': I got bit by the inventing bug myself. Among other bugs. And crabs. <hr width=50%/> :'''Rallo''': You'd be amazed how many people on the internet wanna meet a five-year-old boy! <hr width=50%/> :'''Cleveland''': What the hell kind of comedy high school are you going to, anyway? <hr width=50%/> :'''Nerd''': This is still pretty cool! <hr width=50%/> :'''Nerd''': Who are you? :'''Tyra''': I'm Fat Girl. <hr width=50%/> :'''Federline''': Know what I'm sayin', Omega Moo? === ''[[w:Our Gang (The Cleveland Show)|Our Gang]]'' === :''[Cleveland shoots a hole in the ceiling, and then the ceiling cracks revealing Chris Griffin]'' :'''Chris''': Hi, Cleveland! :'''Cleveland''': Go back to Quahog! :'''Chris''': Okay. === ''[[w:Buried Pleasure|Buried Pleasure]]'' === :'''Cleveland''': Ah, Stoolfest! That magical time of year when hobos and drug addicts are dressed up like clowns, and allowed to operate dangerous rides! <hr width=50%/> :'''Cleveland''': ''[about Jane]'' We tried to get her to stop hitting Holt and she beat the respective craps out of us. :'''Donna''': ''She''... beat up all of ''you''? :'''Cleveland''': Well, what were we supposed to do? We can't hit a girl. :'''Donna''': Well, I understand. I never hit a girl, either. But I will smack the white off a bitch! :''[she punches Jane]'' :'''Donna''': Nobody hurts my man! <hr width=50%/> :'''Tim''': Did she agree to stay away from Holt? :'''Cleveland''': Does it look like it, Boo-Boo? <hr width=50%/> :'''Cleveland''': I'm gonna go tell Jane to say good-bye to my little friend! :'''Tim''': The Black guys love [[Scarface (1983 film)|Scarface]]. They cannot stop talking about it. === ''[[w:The Curious Case of Jr. Working at The Stool|The Curious Case of Jr. Working at The Stool]]'' === :'''Cleveland Jr.''': I'm going to get even with that candy-ass son of a motherfucking bitch. <hr width=50%/> :'''Cleveland Jr.''': MOO. === ''[[w:Once Upon a Tyne in New York|Once Upon a Tyne in New York]]'' === :'''Cleveland''': Good evening. In an effort to keep with these, our ever-changing times, tonight's episode of ''The Cleveland Show'' is presented in 2-D. If you wear glasses due to near-sightedness or astigmatism, put them on....'''NOW.''' <hr width=50%/> :''[Lester's limo driving away with Tyne chasing them and the kids realize they missed their ride]'' :'''Rallo''': Aw, shit! === ''[[w:The Brown Knight|The Brown Knight]]'' === :'''Dan Rather''': Hello, I'm Dan Rather, news veteran of 44 years, now reduced to co-hosting a local talk show. Just waiting to die, really. I stopped taking my heart pills this morning, so... any day now. <hr width=50%/> :'''Cleveland Jr.''': Don't worry, Daddy. I'm gonna feed you, and wash you and change you, just like you did when I was a baby. :'''Cleveland''': Thank you, Junior. ''[whispers]'' Don't let him do any of those things to me, Donna! :'''Donna''': Junior, can you give us some alone time? :'''Cleveland Jr.''': Okay. I'll go down to pediatrics and look at the chicken people. === ''[[w:Gone with the Wind (The Cleveland Show)|Gone with the Wind]]'' === :'''Cleveland''': Smells like a Denny's in here, but without the old man stink. :'''Rallo''': You got that covered. :'''Cleveland''': No, I smell like a middle-aged man: Propecia, hot wings, and night sweats from our adjustable-rate mortgage, now pass those eggs. :'''Donna''': Uh-uh. Remember what Dr. Fist said about your cholesterol? :'''Cleveland''': Yes, he said it was "appalling" and "life-threatening". Uh, pass the eggs. :'''Donna''': This is your breakfast, Cleveland. The same breakfast you've been eating for the past two weeks. :'''Cleveland''': More twigs? :'''Donna''': Fiber Twigs-The cereal that lowers your cholesterol. :'''Cleveland''': Aah! I got a splinter! :'''Roberta''': 'Cause you got a mouthful of wood, like usual. :'''Cleveland''': Huh? Oh. :''[both Roberta and Cleveland laugh. Then Cleveland pushes Roberta and grabs her plate of food]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Rallo''': Heat rises, I smell nothing! :''[Cleveland Jr. lifts him up]'' :'''Rallo''': AH! AAHHHHH! === ''[[w:Brotherly Love (The Cleveland Show)|Brotherly Love]]'' === :'''Cleveland''': You were the best bitch I ever had. :'''Terry''': And you were one cold pimp. :'''Cleveland''': Thanks. I'm sorry I set you up with all those men. <hr width=50%/> :'''Donna''': Where did you get that huge wad of cash? :'''Cleveland''': What? A man can't sneak into his house in the middle of the night, carrying a huge, suspicious-looking wad of cash, without his wife nagging him? Geez! <hr width=50%/> :'''Cleveland Jr.''': ''[to Chanel]'' Sorry he's so cranky. He was up til 7:15 last night. :'''Rallo''': Oh, thanks! Anybody else wanna take a shot? :'''Donna''': Rallo, are you bothering the big kids? Come here, I need to give you your diarrhea medicine. :''[Cleveland Jr. and Chanel laugh]'' :'''Rallo''': ''[to Cleveland Jr.]'' You are in for a world of hurt, buffalo butt! :'''Donna''': What did you call me? :'''Rallo''': No, not you, mo-''[Donna grabs his ear]'' Aaaarrggh! <hr width=50%/> :'''Chanel''': ''[sighs]'' This is so hard. I don't know how to find a se-can't of a triangle. :'''Cleveland, Jr.''': Well. Hold on then, se-can't. ''[laughs, then Chanel joins in]'' :'''Roberta''': Hey, is that Chanel Williams chopping it up with my steppity-bro? :'''Federline''': I think you mean step-brizzle. ''[he and Roberta laugh; they all laugh until Cleveland comes in]'' :'''Cleveland''': ''[bursts the door open]'' There's been a gas leak! :''[Cleveland, Jr., Chanel, Roberta and Federline keep laughing until he pushes them out]'' :'''Contractor''': Leave the batteries in your carbon monoxide detector from now on. :'''Cleveland''': When your wife says she'll use them in front of you, you find some batteries. :''[they both laugh]'' === ''[[w:Brown History Month|Brown History Month]]'' === :'''Rallo''': I'll just go ahead and be one of the other black presidents. Actually, I want to be the first black president. Who was it? :'''Mrs. Lowenstein''': Rallo, [[Barack Obama|Barack Hussein Obama]] is the first black president. :'''Rallo''': What? Washington wasn't black? :'''Mrs. Lowenstein''': No. :'''Rallo''': Jefferson? :'''Mrs. Lowenstein''': No. :'''Rallo''': If [[Rutherford B. Hayes]] wasn't a brother, I don't know what's up! <hr width=50%/> :'''Rallo''': ''[to Cleveland]'' You're pathetic for being friends with him. You're worse than Uncle Thomas the Tank Engine. :''[cut to the Island of Sodor]'' :'''Thomas''': I'd reckon I'll take you where these here tracks go, sir. :'''Sir Topham Hatt''': Thank you, Uncle Thomas. You're a clean, articulate train. :'''Thomas''': Just get yo' white ass on board. :'''Sir Topham Hatt''': What's that, Thomas? :'''Thomas''': ''[stammers]'' Uh... Choo-choo! === ''[[w:Cleveland's Angels|Cleveland's Angels]]'' === :'''Cleveland''': I just keep winning! I feel like a homeowner before 2008 (no jobs)! <hr width=50%/> :'''Holt''': I'm riding through them dirt roads and let me show you how I work them dirt hoes. === ''[[w:You're the Best Man, Cleveland Brown|You're the Best Man, Cleveland Brown]]'' === :''[Peter and Quagmire appear at the end of the episode during Freight Train and Cookie's wedding]'' :'''Quagmire''': Well, they made it through the whole season. Now can I have my own show, Peter? :'''Peter''': Quagmire, you're a rapist. :''[Quagmire mutters]'' == External links == {{wikipedia|The Cleveland Show (season 1)}} * {{imdb title|id=1195935|title=The Cleveland Show}} * [http://www.fox.com/programming/shows/?sh=the-cleveland-show TheClevelandShow.com] * [http://tvtdb.com/theclevelandshow Episode transcripts] at TVTDB.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Cleveland Show, The}} [[Category:The Cleveland Show seasons]] jv164ccwfawz37qhfn2vhka1xa8y7w9 0 124253 3961114 3929853 2026-07-05T15:47:04Z ~2026-22475-30 3310494 /* How Do You Solve a Problem Like Roberta? [2.12] */ 3961114 wikitext text/x-wiki {{italic title}} ---- :'''Seasons:''' [[The Cleveland Show/Season 1|1]] [[The Cleveland Show/Season 2|2]] [[The Cleveland Show/Season 3|3]] [[The Cleveland Show/Season 4|4]] | [[The Cleveland Show|Main]] ---- '''''[[w:The Cleveland Show|The Cleveland Show]]''''' was an American animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane, Richard Appel, and Mike Henry for the Fox Broadcasting Company as a spin-off of Family Guy. The series centers on the Browns and Tubbs, two dysfunctional families consisting of parents Cleveland Brown and Donna Tubbs and their children Cleveland Brown, Jr., Roberta Tubbs, and Rallo Tubbs. Similar to ''Family Guy'', it exhibits much of its humor in the form of cutaway gags that often lampoon American culture. === ''[[w:Harder, Better, Faster, Browner|Harder, Better, Faster, Browner]]'' === :'''Holt''': Kenny West. Caught ya at the county fair. Yeah, I listen to rap. Gotta De La Soul CD in my car. Do a little beatboxing. You probably don't wanna hear it. Unless you do. You probably do. ''[starts beatboxing terribly]'' Boop-boop-boopa-doo-boop! Boop! Boop-bitty-boopydoop-boop! :'''Kenny''': I'm really not glad I heard that. :''[Kenny and Cleveland laugh and give each other five]'' :'''Cleveland''': Oh, Kenny. You're TRBL! :'''Kenny''': No, ''you're'' TRBL! :'''Cleveland''': No, ''you're'' TRBL! :'''Kenny''': We're ''both'' TRBL! :''[they laugh]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Kenny''': I still can't believe Beyoncé didn't win. === ''[[w:Cleveland Live!|Cleveland Live!]]'' === :'''Cleveland''': Donna's gonna be so surprised When she walks in to the- :'''Man in audience''': You're fat! :'''Cleveland''': You know what else is fat? Rudeness! <hr width=50%/> :'''Cleveland Jr.''': [[Toy Story|To Infinity and Beyond!]] <hr width=50%/> :'''Lester''': Wow, Cleveland, you've skipped "fun drunk" and "sad drunk" and went straight to "angry drunk". :'''Cleveland''': Okay, now where's the guy who said I was fat. :'''Man in audience ''': Right here. [Cleveland fires a gun at him] === ''[[w:How Cleveland Got His Groove Back|How Cleveland Got His Groove Back]]'' === :'''Lester''': You know, Cleveland. I'd rather hear a dry fart from a wet dog than another one of your baseball stories. <hr width=50%/> :'''Narrator''': There is no joy in Stoolbend, mighty Cleveland has struck out. === ''[[w:It's the Great Pancake, Cleveland Brown|It's the Great Pancake, Cleveland Brown]]'' === :''[Cleveland, Jr, wearing a black spandex suit, puts on black boots and white gloves and finally, a pancake costume. He looks at himself in the mirror and dances to "This Is How We Do It."]'' :'''Junior''': Aw, yeah! I'd eat me! This is my best Halloween costume since that time I went as Greg Page back in Australia. :''[Cutaway to him, dressed as Greg Page, at Michael, Ryan Malle's house]'' :'''Junior''': Trick or Treat! ''[Takes a piece of candy from Herbert's plastic pumpkin bucket]'' :'''Michel Ryan Malle''': Take two. ''[Junior does so]'' Take three. ''[Junior takes more candy]'' Take four. ''[Junior takes even more candy]'' That's enough! Happy Halloween! ''[Skips backwards into his house, shuts the door, and giggles from inside]'' <hr width=50%/> :''[Cleveland is holding a flashlight close to his face, telling Rallo a ghost story'' :'''Cleveland''': And then the ghost looked into the child's eyes. ''[Rallo whimpers]'' And he said, '''''BOO!!!''''' ''[Rallo screams and kicks Cleveland in the balls]'' :'''Cleveland''': Ow! Bitch! :''[Junior turns the living room light on]'' :'''Junior''': Breakfast, anyone? :''[Rallo laughs, but Cleveland growls in frustration]'' :'''Rallo''': What restaurant is that from? IHOP because diabetes took one of my legs? :'''Junior''': Ain't nothing but something to wear. :'''Cleveland''': Why the hell are you dressed like a damn buttery flapjack? :'''Junior''': This is my Halloween costume. It's what I'm gonna wear trick-or-treating. :'''Cleveland''': Trick-or-treating? You're fourteen! You're too old to be trick-or-treating! You go out looking like that, the other kids will eat you for breakfast! :'''Junior''' ''[Saying the same thing as him, but as a question]'' Breakfast? ''[They both laugh, but Cleveland is serious]'' :'''Cleveland''': But this is no laughing matter! Grow up and get out of that costume! <hr width=50%/> :''[Cleveland, Jr. gets into the fridge to get a can of pop. he opens the can]'' :'''Cleveland, Jr.''': ''[drops the can]'' What the Halloween? :''[Rallo, Cleveland and Donna are in costumes]'' :'''Cleveland''': Check it out, Junior. I'm the late baseball hall-of-famer [[w:Willie Stargell|Willie Stargell]]. And Donna's [[Michelle Obama]] with [[Oprah Winfrey|Oprah]]'s arms. :'''Donna''': Hey! :''[Donna's arms wiggle, but she stops them]'' :'''Cleveland, Jr.''': But Pops, you said I was too old to dress up. :'''Cleveland''': You are. And you're too young. :'''Cleveland, Jr.''': WHAT?! :'''Cleveland''': See, you're at that awkward age where dressing up is lame. === ''[[w:Little Man on Campus|Little Man on Campus]]'' === :'''Ernie''': So Junior, how's your woodshop project going? :''[Cleveland, Jr. is making a snow angel in the sawdust]'' :'''Cleveland, Jr.''': Whhheeee! I'm making sawdust angels. :'''Ernie''': That's your project? :'''Cleveland, Jr.''': Who cares? It's shop. It's not like a real class. :'''Mr. Tanner''': Not a real class? :''[Cleveland, Jr. turns to see Mr. Tanner]'' :'''Cleveland, Jr.''': I'm sorry. I didn't see you, Mr. Thumbs. :''[everyone gasps and Mr. Tanner gets mad]'' :'''Ernie''': That's what we call him behind his back. :'''Mr. Tanner''': You think these are funny? :''[he shows his hands with no fingers]'' :'''Mr. Tanner''': I can't walk them damn street without people pulling over and asking to buy me a ride. :'''Cleveland, Jr.''': ''[laughs]'' They think you're hitchhikers. :'''Mr. Tanner''': You better get serious, young fella. This project is worth 75% of your grade. :'''Cleveland, Jr.''': We get a grade in this class? Well if I failed sharp, I'll disappoint my father. And I've never disappointed my father! :'''Mr. Tanner''': Get your act together, Brown. If your final project doesn't blow me away, I will not hesitate to give you an F. :'''Cleveland, Jr.''': You would F me? Well how do you even write down grades? :'''Mr. Tanner''': I report them orally. That's right, I will F you orally. <hr width=50%/> :'''Chet Butler''': Just taking my state championship ring out for a little walk. :''[his ring shines]'' :'''Cleveland''': Hmm. :'''Chet Butler''': Of course you'll never know what that feels like, loser. :'''Cleveland''': Yeah? Well ''you'll'' never know what loser feels like, winner. :''[everyone cheers]'' :'''Chet Butler''': You've won this round, Cleveland. So I guess I ''do'' know what loser feels like. :''[everyone gasps]'' :'''Tim''': I'm, uh, gonna go get a beer. :''[everyone cheers again]'' === ''[[w:Fat and Wet|Fat and Wet]]'' === :''[Stoolbend Channel 6 starts]'' :'''Cleveland, Jr.''': Shh, shh. It's coming. It's results time. :'''Kendra''': I wish I could cross my fingers. :'''Sylverster Stalone Voise''': Here now with the news, Dwayne Meighan. :'''Dwayne Meighan''': Good evening. I'm Dwayne Meighan. Today was the day when they had had an election. Everybody went and said what they had about a mission called the Brown-Krinklesac for the fat people or the fat individual. They had people that you assign your name on a sheet and then you could say yes or no and that... was for you but everybody got to say yes or no. At this juncture, several people are on a voluntary basis had encountered what they had called a ballot. There was what they had said yes or no. They had made one pile for yes and another pile for those who said no. Both pile were then counted, double-checked as the result for which was made official were had been a mission had actually been defeated. :''[a DEFEATED sign lands on the Brown-Krinklesac screen]'' :'''Cleveland, Jr''': Aww. :''[Kendra sighs]'' :'''Donna''': I'm sorry, Junior. :'''Dwayne Meighan''': They had had a camera out at what they had at a part on polling place earlier with my friend Larvell. Larvel. === ''[[w:Another Bad Thanksgiving|Another Bad Thanksgiving]]'' === :'''Donna''': ''[on the phone with Cleveland]'' No sign of Janet or Holt. How about you? :'''Cleveland''': ''[on the phone with Donna]'' Nothing. And I've looked everywhere too. ''[takes a drink of his cocktail]'' Even as we speak, I'm sitting here with the Las Vegas Police Department searching through the reckus of all incoming citizens. Sipping coffee out of a little styrofoam cup in a windowless room. ''[Donna comes up as his voice is in both cell phones]'' Staring at a flickering computer screen... :''[Donna gets mad]'' :'''Cleveland''': ''[cries]'' Oh, hoh-hoh-hoh-hoh. Oh, Donna. I'm in a pool. I'm sorry. I'll look, I'll find them. This pool don't mean nothing to me! As opposed I wanted to get caught. I'm sick! ''[finishes his cocktail and cries, still finishes drink his cocktail and continues crying, finishes the last of his cocktail and takes his straw and umbrella out, eats his lemon and tries to get the last drop of his cocktail]'' :'''Donna''': Give me a break. === ''[[w:Murray Christmas|Murray Christmas]]'' === :'''Murray''': Are you an idiot?! I want you to open the front door! It's heavy! :'''Charles''': Hey, Murray! UP...YOURS!!! === ''[[w:Beer Walk!|Beer Walk!]]'' [2.15] === :''[Peter, Quagmire and Joe are with Cleveland at the Beer Walk]'' :'''Cleveland''': Thanks for coming to get drunk for charity, guys. :'''Peter''': Uh, whatever Fox is paying us. ''[looks around]'' Wow, Cleveland. I figured it was gonna be all black guys, but this is great. :'''Cleveland''': Missed ya. :'''Quagmire''': I came as soon as I heard. Then I drove straight down. Giggety-giggety. :'''Cleveland''': Comedy-comedy. ''[to Joe]'' But seriously, Joe. ''[slowly]'' Thank you for coming here to help with our charity function for the "disabled". :'''Joe''': You do know I hear perfectly well. Don't ya, Cleveland? :'''Cleveland''': I know you're trying. ''[turns Joe's wheelchair around]'' Brave, brave Joe. ''[pushes him as he screams]'' :'''Tim''': What do you think of Cleveland's old friends? :'''Holt''': Gay. :'''Lester''': Damn right gay. :'''Tim''': Yeah, you guys are so gay. Gay, gay, gay, gay! So gay! ''[they laugh]'' :'''Peter''': Really uh, progressive-thinking friends you got there, Cleveland. :'''Quagmire''': Yeah, I guess they like to throw around negatively inflective labels. ''[Joe comes back]'' :'''Joe''': You guys are the gays! :'''Peter''': No, Joe. :'''Quagmire''': Joe. :''[Last lines of the episode. Donna is washing the dishes]'' :'''Donna''': I'll teach him to wash my dishes in my own house. ''[realizes]'' Wait... what the fuck am I doin'? === ''[[w:Ain't Nothin' But Mutton Bustin'|Ain't Nothin' But Mutton Bustin']]'' === :''[Cleveland and Cleveland, Jr. are out for a drive with Cleveland, Jr. driving]'' :'''Cleveland''': Good. All right now accelerate just a little bit. :'''Cleveland, Jr.''': How am I doing, Daddy? :'''Cleveland''': Fine. Just put your pinkies down. :''[Cleveland, Jr. puts his pinkies down. suddenly, they run over a pedestrian on a bike]'' :'''Cleveland''': ''[looks back]'' Oh my god! You hit a cyclist! :'''Cleveland, Jr.''': What should I do, Daddy? :'''Cleveland''': Drive, drive, drive! :''[Cleveland, Jr. slams on the drive pedal and has his pinkies up. a police siren wails]'' :'''Cleveland''': Pinkies! :'''Cleveland, Jr.''': 5-0, 5-0. :'''Cleveland''': Faster, Junior! :''[police siren continues wailing as Cleveland, Jr. turns left, then right]'' :'''Cleveland, Jr.''': I can't shake them! :''[helicopters come by and a pilot shoots at the sides of the car and another shoots at Cleveland]'' :'''Cleveland, Jr.''': You're hit. :'''Cleveland''': No, ''HE'S hit!'' ''[shoots at the helicopter and it lands in explosion]'' :''[Cleveland, Jr. steers out of control and they head for a tree]'' :'''Cleveland''': Look out for that tree! ''[they bump into it and the airbag activates]'' :''[the buzzer on the set is heard as the FAIL screen blinks. the set closes]'' :'''Cleveland''': So this is what your dad does every day. :'''Cleveland, Jr.''': Wow, being a cable installer is stressful. No wonder you're always drunk. === ''[[w:How Do You Solve a Problem Like Roberta?|How Do You Solve a Problem Like Roberta?]]'' [2.12] === :'''Donna''': Roberta, you're a fifteen I forbid you to have animal contact with this man. :'''Roberta''': You can't stop me. I've been texting him throughout this entire conversation. :'''Donna''': Give me your phone, right now. ''[?] ['''Roberta''': '''AAAAAAHH!!''' No, do '''NOT!''' touch me! I'll elder-abuse you!]'' Give it to me! You are grounded, Roberta! Come on, step to me! I dare you! I double dog dare you! :'''Cleveland''': ''[Donna and Roberta begin fighting over the phone, with two mall security guards holding them back, creating a ''Jerry Springer''-like atmosphere among bystanders]'' Now, my final thought. ''[about Donna]'' Is it too late to do a Jerry Springer reference? Hasn't he been done to death? And why the hell was he ever famous to begin with It's because of you people. You're all trash. We'll be right back. <hr width=60%> :''[Arianna leaves as the audience gives an applause]'' :'''Wally Farquhare''': There, more like a cooler. Ooh. Am I right, fellas? :'''Audience member''': No. :'''Wally Farquhare''': All right. Now it's time to play "Who can sit on a block of ice the longest?" :''[the stage curtain opens to reveal Holt, Mr. Armstrong, Cleveland, Tim, Gordy and Angus]'' :'''Wally Farquhare''': Gentlemen, I wanna see a clean sit. No hop outs, sparts, or clenches. ''[points his gun in the air]'' Go. ''[shoots it] [everybody pull down their pants as they sit on a block of ice]'' :'''Cleveland''': Uhh... Ohh, ohh. :'''Roberta''': No! :'''Cleveland''': Roberta, go to your room. :'''Roberta''': (BLEEP) you. ''['''Rallo''': No, it's not, one of the together restaurants, you can watching [[Thomas and Friends]] we can know it.] [she walks away, while Cleveland is left sobbing] ''[during the drag race, a car crashes into Raymond, Tim and Arianna the Bear's stoner son. Raymond is in no pain, but the car is smashed up as if it hit a wall]'' :'''Raymond''': I'd like to solve the puzzle, Pat. ''[passes out on the hood]'' === ''[[w:Like a Boss (The Cleveland Show)|Like a Boss]]'' === :'''Cleveland''': This retreat is a waste of diesel fuel. :'''Cleveland''': I gotta be ruthless, like '''[[Bob the Builder]]''' before his morning coffee. :''[We see '''[[Bob the Builder]]''' trying to give a building instructor money. He shakes his head and the two men fight. Bob then walks up to him and bludgeons him to death with a hammer. Bob then has his vehicle friends build a house on top of the instructor's body.]'' === ''[[w:A Short Story and a Tall Tale|A Short Story and a Tall Tale]]'' === :'''Dwight Howard''': Hey, Mom. Why is Stanley from ''[[The Office (U.S. TV series)|The Office]]'' yelling at you? :'''Cleveland''': I am not Stanley from ''[[The Office (U.S. TV series)|The Office]]''. ===''[[w:Terry Unmarried|Terry Unmarried]]''=== :'''Rallo''': So what do say during naptime I crawl on your mat when Mrs. Lowenstein didn't look, we could kiss each other on the.... :''[he picks his nose, rolls the booger, flicks it in his mouth and eats it]'' :'''Rallo''': Mmm..Lips. :'''Little Black Girl''': Eww! :''[runs away]'' :'''Rallo''': What the... What'd I say? Bernard, Theodore. Y'all see that? She crazy! :'''Bernard''': What you expect? You just ate a booger in front of her. That ain't cool. :'''Rallo''': Why not? Boogers are fun, free and delicious. Besides, that guy's doing it and he looks pretty cool. :''[an Asian guy on the sidewalk picks his nose and eat it]'' :'''Asian Guy''': Ahh, it's all fun. :'''Theodore''': Yeah. Well, girls don't think it's cool. They think it's gross. And if you don't quit eating them boogers, you ain't gonna sco no mo. :'''Rallo''': Ain't gonna sco no mo?! That was a booger. I swallowed it. ===''[[w:The Blue, the Gray and the Brown|The Blue, the Gray and the Brown]]''=== :'''B. Emerson Plunkett V''': And now, let us sing the town song. :''[they start singing]'' :'''All''': ''Oh, Stoolbend, lies Stoolbend. Whiter than whipped cream.'' :'''Cleveland''': What are them, what now? :'''All''': ''We proudly vow to never have a good basketball team.'' :'''Cleveland''': Those are the words?! :'''All''': ''Your white line shines brightly, all brightness it shooes.'' :'''Cleveland''': Oh my god. :'''All''': ''And don't even get us started on taco munchers and Jews.'' :'''Cleveland''': Woah! ===''[[w:The Way the Cookie Crumbles|The Way the Cookie Crumbles]]''=== :'''Cleveland''': You're living in a storage unit?! :''[Evelyn and LeVar look at each other]'' :'''LeVar''': Yeah, thankful close owners. So we moved in here. :'''Cleveland''': What happened to your savings? :'''LeVar''': They're gone. Okay? I got scammed. :''[leaves]'' :'''Cleveland''': Scammed? What was it? A flim-flam, ponzi scheme, pyramid, straw men, three car monte, bayton switch, smash n' grab, ticklin' tate, jerk and jet, blow and go? :'''LeVar''': Nah, nothing like that. It was a telemarketing scam. :'''Cleveland''': A ring-ring sting? That's the oldest one? Oh my, you become a dumb old man. Ah, hoh-hoh! This is delicious! Ha-hoh! This makes me happier than a butterfly when he runs into his caterpillar ex-girlfriend. :''[Rick gets a cup of coffee]'' :'''Rick''': Karen? :'''Karen''': Oh. Hey, Rick. What have you been up to? :'''Rick''': What have I been up to? I'm flyin', I'm freakin' flyin'. Have fun on the ground with that drummer, you bitch! :''[He flies away, then cries]'''' :'''Cleveland''': Oh, Mom. I'm sorry this had to happen to you. You shouldn't be forced to live like this because you married a fool. :''[LeVar get saddened]'' :'''Cleveland''': The two of you shall move into Wilbermoore. My house, that's what I named it. ===''[[w:To Live and Die in VA|To Live and Die in VA]]''=== :''[Donna measures Cleveland, Jr.]'' :'''Cleveland, Jr.''': Hee-hee, hah-hah! :''[leaves]'' :'''Donna''': Come on, Rallo. You're up. ''[Rallo's hair is big]'' Rallo, you've grown a foot and a half. Young man, it is time I give you another haircut. :'''Rallo''': No offense, Mama. But I'm ready to get a real haircut from someone who qualified to cut hair. :'''Donna''': Oh, so suddenly my master's in cosmetology means nothing. :'''Rallo''': Yeah, suddenly. :''[Donna cuts a piece of Rallo's hair]'' :'''Donna''': Well, I guess I can't help you with that. Little smart ass. ===''[[w:The Essence of Cleveland|The Essence of Cleveland]]''=== :''[the police are chasing the bad guys]'' :''[one of them gunshoots, then the police shoots. the shooting continues as they bump into a red car, then the police car bumps into it and they tumble over]'' :''[Cleveland is at a hat sale]'' :'''Cleveland''': ''Trying on a hat, yes I'm trying on a...'' :''[sees the van screeching out of control]'' :'''Cleveland''': Aaah! :''[the van bumps into Cleveland and the bowler hat went flying in the air and lands on the ground]'' ===''[[w:Ship'rect|Ship'rect]]''=== :''[Roberta slams the door on Cleveland]'' :'''Donna''': Roberta, what's wrong? :'''Roberta''': What's wrong? Where I am innocently exploit Cleveland's celebirity connection, and the whole time he's just trying to pit me out! :'''Rallo''': ''[on the intercom]'' First good idea you had since you showed up in this peace. :'''Cleveland''': What the hell was that? :'''Donna''': It's Rallo. I got him an intercom so he doesn't feel left out. :'''Rallo''': ''[on the intercom]'' So how much we gettin' for the girl? :'''Roberta''': Shut up, Rallo. ''[turns off the intercom]'' :'''Rallo''': Hey, that's not my connection to the outside world. I exist! Rallo! :'''Donna''': Cleveland, I think you owe Roberta an apology. :'''Cleveland''': Okay, I'm sorry. Look, maybe I pushed things a little too fast. So let's just slow it down with a nice dinner for you, me, Barry and Larry. B. Shadwell and I already took the liberty of making reservations. :'''Donna''': You're going to that dinner alone. My daughter's not for sale like some Chinese baby. :''[chong]'' :'''Man''': This is a dream come true. :'''Woman''': I'm so excited to pick up Maline. :'''Chinese Guy''': Well, here she is. :''[Maline cries as the Chinese guy puts her in a Chinese box, puts in a bag and staples the top]'' :'''Chinese Guy''': ''[shows them the bag]'' No MSG! <hr width=50%/> ===''[[w:Back to Cool|Back to Cool]]''=== :'''Tim''': Ow! My eye! <hr width=50%/> :''[episode starts, Cleveland sits in couch, reading newspaper]'' :'''Cleveland''': Ese no bueno. :''[Rallo jumps on the couch and takes the newspaper from Cleveland and throws it at Roberta]'' :'''Roberta''': ''[screams]'' A homeless blanket touched me! :''[Rallo grabs remote from Roberta]'' :'''Rallo''': Yeah. ''Toddlers and Tiaras''. Five-year-old anorexics forced to get spray tans. :'''Roberta''': Hey! I was watching whatever that was. :''[both Roberta and Rallo fight their way into upstairs]'' :''[doorbell rings]'' :'''Cleveland''': ''[annoyed]'' I hope that's a child murderer. :''[Cleveland opens up door, finds to be Robert]'' :'''Cleveland''': Close enough. <hr width=50%/> :''[Roberta, Robert, Jr. and Rallo walk into the skate park, goes into park, dogs bark]'' :'''Robert''': Now, all the dogs are blindfolded, so it's a fair fight. But if they start wilding out, we're going to have to scram right quick. :''[Robert looks towards Junior]'' :'''Robert''': Junior, they'll come after you first, 'cause of they'll smell your salty meat sweat. But you big, you can handle them. :''[Robert, Jr. steps back]'' :'''Cleveland, Jr.''': That genie was right, salty meat sweat was a bad wish. ===''[[w:Your Show of Shows (The Cleveland Show)|Your Show of Shows]]''=== :'''Cleveland''': And what's with this G-Mail? I just got used to E-Mail, will someone please tell me why we skipped F-Mail? <hr width=50%/> :'''Mrs. Lowenstein''': It's time to sign up for the school's annual participation show, because certain parents felt that the word "talent" set up unreasonable expectations. ===''[[w:Hot Cocoa Bang Bang|Hot Cocoa Bang Bang]]''=== :'''Cleveland''': And Danny Trejo, I loved it when you raped that guy in ''[[American Me]]''. :'''Danny Trejo''': That was Edward James Olmos. :'''Cleveland''': You raped Edward James Olmos? Shame on you! He taught those kids math! !No es bueno! == External links == {{wikipedia|The Cleveland Show (season 2)}} * {{imdb title|id=1195935|title=The Cleveland Show}} * [http://www.fox.com/programming/shows/?sh=the-cleveland-show TheClevelandShow.com] * [http://tvtdb.com/theclevelandshow Episode transcripts] at TVTDB.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Cleveland Show, The}} [[Category:The Cleveland Show seasons]] sxyo8gcnb6cdviz6g3emnxse4xvqdd8 3961115 3961114 2026-07-05T15:47:33Z ~2026-22475-30 3310494 /* How Do You Solve a Problem Like Roberta? [2.12] */ 3961115 wikitext text/x-wiki {{italic title}} ---- :'''Seasons:''' [[The Cleveland Show/Season 1|1]] [[The Cleveland Show/Season 2|2]] [[The Cleveland Show/Season 3|3]] [[The Cleveland Show/Season 4|4]] | [[The Cleveland Show|Main]] ---- '''''[[w:The Cleveland Show|The Cleveland Show]]''''' was an American animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane, Richard Appel, and Mike Henry for the Fox Broadcasting Company as a spin-off of Family Guy. The series centers on the Browns and Tubbs, two dysfunctional families consisting of parents Cleveland Brown and Donna Tubbs and their children Cleveland Brown, Jr., Roberta Tubbs, and Rallo Tubbs. Similar to ''Family Guy'', it exhibits much of its humor in the form of cutaway gags that often lampoon American culture. === ''[[w:Harder, Better, Faster, Browner|Harder, Better, Faster, Browner]]'' === :'''Holt''': Kenny West. Caught ya at the county fair. Yeah, I listen to rap. Gotta De La Soul CD in my car. Do a little beatboxing. You probably don't wanna hear it. Unless you do. You probably do. ''[starts beatboxing terribly]'' Boop-boop-boopa-doo-boop! Boop! Boop-bitty-boopydoop-boop! :'''Kenny''': I'm really not glad I heard that. :''[Kenny and Cleveland laugh and give each other five]'' :'''Cleveland''': Oh, Kenny. You're TRBL! :'''Kenny''': No, ''you're'' TRBL! :'''Cleveland''': No, ''you're'' TRBL! :'''Kenny''': We're ''both'' TRBL! :''[they laugh]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Kenny''': I still can't believe Beyoncé didn't win. === ''[[w:Cleveland Live!|Cleveland Live!]]'' === :'''Cleveland''': Donna's gonna be so surprised When she walks in to the- :'''Man in audience''': You're fat! :'''Cleveland''': You know what else is fat? Rudeness! <hr width=50%/> :'''Cleveland Jr.''': [[Toy Story|To Infinity and Beyond!]] <hr width=50%/> :'''Lester''': Wow, Cleveland, you've skipped "fun drunk" and "sad drunk" and went straight to "angry drunk". :'''Cleveland''': Okay, now where's the guy who said I was fat. :'''Man in audience ''': Right here. [Cleveland fires a gun at him] === ''[[w:How Cleveland Got His Groove Back|How Cleveland Got His Groove Back]]'' === :'''Lester''': You know, Cleveland. I'd rather hear a dry fart from a wet dog than another one of your baseball stories. <hr width=50%/> :'''Narrator''': There is no joy in Stoolbend, mighty Cleveland has struck out. === ''[[w:It's the Great Pancake, Cleveland Brown|It's the Great Pancake, Cleveland Brown]]'' === :''[Cleveland, Jr, wearing a black spandex suit, puts on black boots and white gloves and finally, a pancake costume. He looks at himself in the mirror and dances to "This Is How We Do It."]'' :'''Junior''': Aw, yeah! I'd eat me! This is my best Halloween costume since that time I went as Greg Page back in Australia. :''[Cutaway to him, dressed as Greg Page, at Michael, Ryan Malle's house]'' :'''Junior''': Trick or Treat! ''[Takes a piece of candy from Herbert's plastic pumpkin bucket]'' :'''Michel Ryan Malle''': Take two. ''[Junior does so]'' Take three. ''[Junior takes more candy]'' Take four. ''[Junior takes even more candy]'' That's enough! Happy Halloween! ''[Skips backwards into his house, shuts the door, and giggles from inside]'' <hr width=50%/> :''[Cleveland is holding a flashlight close to his face, telling Rallo a ghost story'' :'''Cleveland''': And then the ghost looked into the child's eyes. ''[Rallo whimpers]'' And he said, '''''BOO!!!''''' ''[Rallo screams and kicks Cleveland in the balls]'' :'''Cleveland''': Ow! Bitch! :''[Junior turns the living room light on]'' :'''Junior''': Breakfast, anyone? :''[Rallo laughs, but Cleveland growls in frustration]'' :'''Rallo''': What restaurant is that from? IHOP because diabetes took one of my legs? :'''Junior''': Ain't nothing but something to wear. :'''Cleveland''': Why the hell are you dressed like a damn buttery flapjack? :'''Junior''': This is my Halloween costume. It's what I'm gonna wear trick-or-treating. :'''Cleveland''': Trick-or-treating? You're fourteen! You're too old to be trick-or-treating! You go out looking like that, the other kids will eat you for breakfast! :'''Junior''' ''[Saying the same thing as him, but as a question]'' Breakfast? ''[They both laugh, but Cleveland is serious]'' :'''Cleveland''': But this is no laughing matter! Grow up and get out of that costume! <hr width=50%/> :''[Cleveland, Jr. gets into the fridge to get a can of pop. he opens the can]'' :'''Cleveland, Jr.''': ''[drops the can]'' What the Halloween? :''[Rallo, Cleveland and Donna are in costumes]'' :'''Cleveland''': Check it out, Junior. I'm the late baseball hall-of-famer [[w:Willie Stargell|Willie Stargell]]. And Donna's [[Michelle Obama]] with [[Oprah Winfrey|Oprah]]'s arms. :'''Donna''': Hey! :''[Donna's arms wiggle, but she stops them]'' :'''Cleveland, Jr.''': But Pops, you said I was too old to dress up. :'''Cleveland''': You are. And you're too young. :'''Cleveland, Jr.''': WHAT?! :'''Cleveland''': See, you're at that awkward age where dressing up is lame. === ''[[w:Little Man on Campus|Little Man on Campus]]'' === :'''Ernie''': So Junior, how's your woodshop project going? :''[Cleveland, Jr. is making a snow angel in the sawdust]'' :'''Cleveland, Jr.''': Whhheeee! I'm making sawdust angels. :'''Ernie''': That's your project? :'''Cleveland, Jr.''': Who cares? It's shop. It's not like a real class. :'''Mr. Tanner''': Not a real class? :''[Cleveland, Jr. turns to see Mr. Tanner]'' :'''Cleveland, Jr.''': I'm sorry. I didn't see you, Mr. Thumbs. :''[everyone gasps and Mr. Tanner gets mad]'' :'''Ernie''': That's what we call him behind his back. :'''Mr. Tanner''': You think these are funny? :''[he shows his hands with no fingers]'' :'''Mr. Tanner''': I can't walk them damn street without people pulling over and asking to buy me a ride. :'''Cleveland, Jr.''': ''[laughs]'' They think you're hitchhikers. :'''Mr. Tanner''': You better get serious, young fella. This project is worth 75% of your grade. :'''Cleveland, Jr.''': We get a grade in this class? Well if I failed sharp, I'll disappoint my father. And I've never disappointed my father! :'''Mr. Tanner''': Get your act together, Brown. If your final project doesn't blow me away, I will not hesitate to give you an F. :'''Cleveland, Jr.''': You would F me? Well how do you even write down grades? :'''Mr. Tanner''': I report them orally. That's right, I will F you orally. <hr width=50%/> :'''Chet Butler''': Just taking my state championship ring out for a little walk. :''[his ring shines]'' :'''Cleveland''': Hmm. :'''Chet Butler''': Of course you'll never know what that feels like, loser. :'''Cleveland''': Yeah? Well ''you'll'' never know what loser feels like, winner. :''[everyone cheers]'' :'''Chet Butler''': You've won this round, Cleveland. So I guess I ''do'' know what loser feels like. :''[everyone gasps]'' :'''Tim''': I'm, uh, gonna go get a beer. :''[everyone cheers again]'' === ''[[w:Fat and Wet|Fat and Wet]]'' === :''[Stoolbend Channel 6 starts]'' :'''Cleveland, Jr.''': Shh, shh. It's coming. It's results time. :'''Kendra''': I wish I could cross my fingers. :'''Sylverster Stalone Voise''': Here now with the news, Dwayne Meighan. :'''Dwayne Meighan''': Good evening. I'm Dwayne Meighan. Today was the day when they had had an election. Everybody went and said what they had about a mission called the Brown-Krinklesac for the fat people or the fat individual. They had people that you assign your name on a sheet and then you could say yes or no and that... was for you but everybody got to say yes or no. At this juncture, several people are on a voluntary basis had encountered what they had called a ballot. There was what they had said yes or no. They had made one pile for yes and another pile for those who said no. Both pile were then counted, double-checked as the result for which was made official were had been a mission had actually been defeated. :''[a DEFEATED sign lands on the Brown-Krinklesac screen]'' :'''Cleveland, Jr''': Aww. :''[Kendra sighs]'' :'''Donna''': I'm sorry, Junior. :'''Dwayne Meighan''': They had had a camera out at what they had at a part on polling place earlier with my friend Larvell. Larvel. === ''[[w:Another Bad Thanksgiving|Another Bad Thanksgiving]]'' === :'''Donna''': ''[on the phone with Cleveland]'' No sign of Janet or Holt. How about you? :'''Cleveland''': ''[on the phone with Donna]'' Nothing. And I've looked everywhere too. ''[takes a drink of his cocktail]'' Even as we speak, I'm sitting here with the Las Vegas Police Department searching through the reckus of all incoming citizens. Sipping coffee out of a little styrofoam cup in a windowless room. ''[Donna comes up as his voice is in both cell phones]'' Staring at a flickering computer screen... :''[Donna gets mad]'' :'''Cleveland''': ''[cries]'' Oh, hoh-hoh-hoh-hoh. Oh, Donna. I'm in a pool. I'm sorry. I'll look, I'll find them. This pool don't mean nothing to me! As opposed I wanted to get caught. I'm sick! ''[finishes his cocktail and cries, still finishes drink his cocktail and continues crying, finishes the last of his cocktail and takes his straw and umbrella out, eats his lemon and tries to get the last drop of his cocktail]'' :'''Donna''': Give me a break. === ''[[w:Murray Christmas|Murray Christmas]]'' === :'''Murray''': Are you an idiot?! I want you to open the front door! It's heavy! :'''Charles''': Hey, Murray! UP...YOURS!!! === ''[[w:Beer Walk!|Beer Walk!]]'' [2.15] === :''[Peter, Quagmire and Joe are with Cleveland at the Beer Walk]'' :'''Cleveland''': Thanks for coming to get drunk for charity, guys. :'''Peter''': Uh, whatever Fox is paying us. ''[looks around]'' Wow, Cleveland. I figured it was gonna be all black guys, but this is great. :'''Cleveland''': Missed ya. :'''Quagmire''': I came as soon as I heard. Then I drove straight down. Giggety-giggety. :'''Cleveland''': Comedy-comedy. ''[to Joe]'' But seriously, Joe. ''[slowly]'' Thank you for coming here to help with our charity function for the "disabled". :'''Joe''': You do know I hear perfectly well. Don't ya, Cleveland? :'''Cleveland''': I know you're trying. ''[turns Joe's wheelchair around]'' Brave, brave Joe. ''[pushes him as he screams]'' :'''Tim''': What do you think of Cleveland's old friends? :'''Holt''': Gay. :'''Lester''': Damn right gay. :'''Tim''': Yeah, you guys are so gay. Gay, gay, gay, gay! So gay! ''[they laugh]'' :'''Peter''': Really uh, progressive-thinking friends you got there, Cleveland. :'''Quagmire''': Yeah, I guess they like to throw around negatively inflective labels. ''[Joe comes back]'' :'''Joe''': You guys are the gays! :'''Peter''': No, Joe. :'''Quagmire''': Joe. :''[Last lines of the episode. Donna is washing the dishes]'' :'''Donna''': I'll teach him to wash my dishes in my own house. ''[realizes]'' Wait... what the fuck am I doin'? === ''[[w:Ain't Nothin' But Mutton Bustin'|Ain't Nothin' But Mutton Bustin']]'' === :''[Cleveland and Cleveland, Jr. are out for a drive with Cleveland, Jr. driving]'' :'''Cleveland''': Good. All right now accelerate just a little bit. :'''Cleveland, Jr.''': How am I doing, Daddy? :'''Cleveland''': Fine. Just put your pinkies down. :''[Cleveland, Jr. puts his pinkies down. suddenly, they run over a pedestrian on a bike]'' :'''Cleveland''': ''[looks back]'' Oh my god! You hit a cyclist! :'''Cleveland, Jr.''': What should I do, Daddy? :'''Cleveland''': Drive, drive, drive! :''[Cleveland, Jr. slams on the drive pedal and has his pinkies up. a police siren wails]'' :'''Cleveland''': Pinkies! :'''Cleveland, Jr.''': 5-0, 5-0. :'''Cleveland''': Faster, Junior! :''[police siren continues wailing as Cleveland, Jr. turns left, then right]'' :'''Cleveland, Jr.''': I can't shake them! :''[helicopters come by and a pilot shoots at the sides of the car and another shoots at Cleveland]'' :'''Cleveland, Jr.''': You're hit. :'''Cleveland''': No, ''HE'S hit!'' ''[shoots at the helicopter and it lands in explosion]'' :''[Cleveland, Jr. steers out of control and they head for a tree]'' :'''Cleveland''': Look out for that tree! ''[they bump into it and the airbag activates]'' :''[the buzzer on the set is heard as the FAIL screen blinks. the set closes]'' :'''Cleveland''': So this is what your dad does every day. :'''Cleveland, Jr.''': Wow, being a cable installer is stressful. No wonder you're always drunk. === ''[[w:How Do You Solve a Problem Like Roberta?|How Do You Solve a Problem Like Roberta?]]'' [2.12] === :'''Donna''': Roberta, you're a fifteen I forbid you to have animal contact with this man. :'''Roberta''': You can't stop me. I've been texting him throughout this entire conversation. :'''Donna''': Give me your phone, right now. ''[?] ['''Roberta''': '''AAAAAAHH!!''' No, do '''NOT!''' touch me! I'll elder-abuse you!]'' Give it to me! You are grounded, Roberta! Come on, step to me! I dare you! I double dog dare you! :'''Cleveland''': ''[Donna and Roberta begin fighting over the phone, with two mall security guards holding them back, creating a ''Jerry Springer''-like atmosphere among bystanders]'' Now, my final thought. ''[about Donna]'' Is it too late to do a Jerry Springer reference? Hasn't he been done to death? And why the hell was he ever famous to begin with It's because of you people. You're all trash. We'll be right back. <hr width=60%> :''[Arianna leaves as the audience gives an applause]'' :'''Wally Farquhare''': There, more like a cooler. Ooh. Am I right, fellas? :'''Audience member''': No. :'''Wally Farquhare''': All right. Now it's time to play "Who can sit on a block of ice the longest?" :''[the stage curtain opens to reveal Holt, Mr. Armstrong, Cleveland, Tim, Gordy and Angus]'' :'''Wally Farquhare''': Gentlemen, I wanna see a clean sit. No hop outs, sparts, or clenches. ''[points his gun in the air]'' Go. ''[shoots it] [everybody pull down their pants as they sit on a block of ice]'' :'''Cleveland''': Uhh... Ohh, ohh. :'''Roberta''': No! :'''Cleveland''': Roberta, go to your room. :'''Roberta''': (BLEEP) you. ''['''Rallo''': No, it's not, one of the together restaurants, you can watching [[Thomas and Friends]] we can know it.]'' ''[she walks away, while Cleveland is left sobbing]'' ''[during the drag race, a car crashes into Raymond, Tim and Arianna the Bear's stoner son. Raymond is in no pain, but the car is smashed up as if it hit a wall]'' :'''Raymond''': I'd like to solve the puzzle, Pat. ''[passes out on the hood]'' === ''[[w:Like a Boss (The Cleveland Show)|Like a Boss]]'' === :'''Cleveland''': This retreat is a waste of diesel fuel. :'''Cleveland''': I gotta be ruthless, like '''[[Bob the Builder]]''' before his morning coffee. :''[We see '''[[Bob the Builder]]''' trying to give a building instructor money. He shakes his head and the two men fight. Bob then walks up to him and bludgeons him to death with a hammer. Bob then has his vehicle friends build a house on top of the instructor's body.]'' === ''[[w:A Short Story and a Tall Tale|A Short Story and a Tall Tale]]'' === :'''Dwight Howard''': Hey, Mom. Why is Stanley from ''[[The Office (U.S. TV series)|The Office]]'' yelling at you? :'''Cleveland''': I am not Stanley from ''[[The Office (U.S. TV series)|The Office]]''. ===''[[w:Terry Unmarried|Terry Unmarried]]''=== :'''Rallo''': So what do say during naptime I crawl on your mat when Mrs. Lowenstein didn't look, we could kiss each other on the.... :''[he picks his nose, rolls the booger, flicks it in his mouth and eats it]'' :'''Rallo''': Mmm..Lips. :'''Little Black Girl''': Eww! :''[runs away]'' :'''Rallo''': What the... What'd I say? Bernard, Theodore. Y'all see that? She crazy! :'''Bernard''': What you expect? You just ate a booger in front of her. That ain't cool. :'''Rallo''': Why not? Boogers are fun, free and delicious. Besides, that guy's doing it and he looks pretty cool. :''[an Asian guy on the sidewalk picks his nose and eat it]'' :'''Asian Guy''': Ahh, it's all fun. :'''Theodore''': Yeah. Well, girls don't think it's cool. They think it's gross. And if you don't quit eating them boogers, you ain't gonna sco no mo. :'''Rallo''': Ain't gonna sco no mo?! That was a booger. I swallowed it. ===''[[w:The Blue, the Gray and the Brown|The Blue, the Gray and the Brown]]''=== :'''B. Emerson Plunkett V''': And now, let us sing the town song. :''[they start singing]'' :'''All''': ''Oh, Stoolbend, lies Stoolbend. Whiter than whipped cream.'' :'''Cleveland''': What are them, what now? :'''All''': ''We proudly vow to never have a good basketball team.'' :'''Cleveland''': Those are the words?! :'''All''': ''Your white line shines brightly, all brightness it shooes.'' :'''Cleveland''': Oh my god. :'''All''': ''And don't even get us started on taco munchers and Jews.'' :'''Cleveland''': Woah! ===''[[w:The Way the Cookie Crumbles|The Way the Cookie Crumbles]]''=== :'''Cleveland''': You're living in a storage unit?! :''[Evelyn and LeVar look at each other]'' :'''LeVar''': Yeah, thankful close owners. So we moved in here. :'''Cleveland''': What happened to your savings? :'''LeVar''': They're gone. Okay? I got scammed. :''[leaves]'' :'''Cleveland''': Scammed? What was it? A flim-flam, ponzi scheme, pyramid, straw men, three car monte, bayton switch, smash n' grab, ticklin' tate, jerk and jet, blow and go? :'''LeVar''': Nah, nothing like that. It was a telemarketing scam. :'''Cleveland''': A ring-ring sting? That's the oldest one? Oh my, you become a dumb old man. Ah, hoh-hoh! This is delicious! Ha-hoh! This makes me happier than a butterfly when he runs into his caterpillar ex-girlfriend. :''[Rick gets a cup of coffee]'' :'''Rick''': Karen? :'''Karen''': Oh. Hey, Rick. What have you been up to? :'''Rick''': What have I been up to? I'm flyin', I'm freakin' flyin'. Have fun on the ground with that drummer, you bitch! :''[He flies away, then cries]'''' :'''Cleveland''': Oh, Mom. I'm sorry this had to happen to you. You shouldn't be forced to live like this because you married a fool. :''[LeVar get saddened]'' :'''Cleveland''': The two of you shall move into Wilbermoore. My house, that's what I named it. ===''[[w:To Live and Die in VA|To Live and Die in VA]]''=== :''[Donna measures Cleveland, Jr.]'' :'''Cleveland, Jr.''': Hee-hee, hah-hah! :''[leaves]'' :'''Donna''': Come on, Rallo. You're up. ''[Rallo's hair is big]'' Rallo, you've grown a foot and a half. Young man, it is time I give you another haircut. :'''Rallo''': No offense, Mama. But I'm ready to get a real haircut from someone who qualified to cut hair. :'''Donna''': Oh, so suddenly my master's in cosmetology means nothing. :'''Rallo''': Yeah, suddenly. :''[Donna cuts a piece of Rallo's hair]'' :'''Donna''': Well, I guess I can't help you with that. Little smart ass. ===''[[w:The Essence of Cleveland|The Essence of Cleveland]]''=== :''[the police are chasing the bad guys]'' :''[one of them gunshoots, then the police shoots. the shooting continues as they bump into a red car, then the police car bumps into it and they tumble over]'' :''[Cleveland is at a hat sale]'' :'''Cleveland''': ''Trying on a hat, yes I'm trying on a...'' :''[sees the van screeching out of control]'' :'''Cleveland''': Aaah! :''[the van bumps into Cleveland and the bowler hat went flying in the air and lands on the ground]'' ===''[[w:Ship'rect|Ship'rect]]''=== :''[Roberta slams the door on Cleveland]'' :'''Donna''': Roberta, what's wrong? :'''Roberta''': What's wrong? Where I am innocently exploit Cleveland's celebirity connection, and the whole time he's just trying to pit me out! :'''Rallo''': ''[on the intercom]'' First good idea you had since you showed up in this peace. :'''Cleveland''': What the hell was that? :'''Donna''': It's Rallo. I got him an intercom so he doesn't feel left out. :'''Rallo''': ''[on the intercom]'' So how much we gettin' for the girl? :'''Roberta''': Shut up, Rallo. ''[turns off the intercom]'' :'''Rallo''': Hey, that's not my connection to the outside world. I exist! Rallo! :'''Donna''': Cleveland, I think you owe Roberta an apology. :'''Cleveland''': Okay, I'm sorry. Look, maybe I pushed things a little too fast. So let's just slow it down with a nice dinner for you, me, Barry and Larry. B. Shadwell and I already took the liberty of making reservations. :'''Donna''': You're going to that dinner alone. My daughter's not for sale like some Chinese baby. :''[chong]'' :'''Man''': This is a dream come true. :'''Woman''': I'm so excited to pick up Maline. :'''Chinese Guy''': Well, here she is. :''[Maline cries as the Chinese guy puts her in a Chinese box, puts in a bag and staples the top]'' :'''Chinese Guy''': ''[shows them the bag]'' No MSG! <hr width=50%/> ===''[[w:Back to Cool|Back to Cool]]''=== :'''Tim''': Ow! My eye! <hr width=50%/> :''[episode starts, Cleveland sits in couch, reading newspaper]'' :'''Cleveland''': Ese no bueno. :''[Rallo jumps on the couch and takes the newspaper from Cleveland and throws it at Roberta]'' :'''Roberta''': ''[screams]'' A homeless blanket touched me! :''[Rallo grabs remote from Roberta]'' :'''Rallo''': Yeah. ''Toddlers and Tiaras''. Five-year-old anorexics forced to get spray tans. :'''Roberta''': Hey! I was watching whatever that was. :''[both Roberta and Rallo fight their way into upstairs]'' :''[doorbell rings]'' :'''Cleveland''': ''[annoyed]'' I hope that's a child murderer. :''[Cleveland opens up door, finds to be Robert]'' :'''Cleveland''': Close enough. <hr width=50%/> :''[Roberta, Robert, Jr. and Rallo walk into the skate park, goes into park, dogs bark]'' :'''Robert''': Now, all the dogs are blindfolded, so it's a fair fight. But if they start wilding out, we're going to have to scram right quick. :''[Robert looks towards Junior]'' :'''Robert''': Junior, they'll come after you first, 'cause of they'll smell your salty meat sweat. But you big, you can handle them. :''[Robert, Jr. steps back]'' :'''Cleveland, Jr.''': That genie was right, salty meat sweat was a bad wish. ===''[[w:Your Show of Shows (The Cleveland Show)|Your Show of Shows]]''=== :'''Cleveland''': And what's with this G-Mail? I just got used to E-Mail, will someone please tell me why we skipped F-Mail? <hr width=50%/> :'''Mrs. Lowenstein''': It's time to sign up for the school's annual participation show, because certain parents felt that the word "talent" set up unreasonable expectations. ===''[[w:Hot Cocoa Bang Bang|Hot Cocoa Bang Bang]]''=== :'''Cleveland''': And Danny Trejo, I loved it when you raped that guy in ''[[American Me]]''. :'''Danny Trejo''': That was Edward James Olmos. :'''Cleveland''': You raped Edward James Olmos? Shame on you! He taught those kids math! !No es bueno! == External links == {{wikipedia|The Cleveland Show (season 2)}} * {{imdb title|id=1195935|title=The Cleveland Show}} * [http://www.fox.com/programming/shows/?sh=the-cleveland-show TheClevelandShow.com] * [http://tvtdb.com/theclevelandshow Episode transcripts] at TVTDB.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Cleveland Show, The}} [[Category:The Cleveland Show seasons]] ilxanvbxh2o3jjj6fswqozu1yd1rwtr 0 125724 3961117 3916573 2026-07-05T15:47:50Z ~2026-38395-79 3347700 /* Quotes */ 3961117 wikitext text/x-wiki :''For the film, see [[Bats (film)]]''. [[File:Big-eared-townsend-fledermaus.jpg|thumb|right|Ere the bat hath flown<br>His cloister'd flight.]] '''[[w:Bat|Bats]]''' are flying mammals in the order '''''Chiroptera'''''. The forelimbs of bats are webbed and developed as wings, making them the only mammals naturally capable of true and sustained flight. Bats do not flap their entire forelimbs, as birds do, but instead flap their spread out digits, which are very long and covered with a thin membrane or patagium. There are about 1,100 bat species worldwide, which represent about twenty percent of all classified mammal species. About seventy percent of bats are insectivores. Most of the rest are frugivores, or fruit eaters. A few species such as the Fish-eating Bat feed from animals other than insects, with the vampire bats being the only mammalian parasite species. Bats are present throughout most of the world and perform vital ecological roles such as pollinating flowers and dispersing fruit seeds. Many tropical plant species depend entirely on bats for the distribution of their seeds. ==Quotes== *'''Jack''': ✨, ✨, little 🦇! <br> How I 💭 what you're at! <br> ⬆️ ⬆️ the 🌎 you 🪰, <br> 👍 a 🫖 tray in the 🌌. <br> ✨, ✨, little 🦇! <br> How I 💭 what you're at! ** [[Lewis Carroll]], "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat", ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]'' ch. VII * Criminals are a superstitious cowardly lot, so my disguise must be able to strike terror into their hearts. I must be a creature of the night, black, terrible... a... a... [...] a bat! That's it! It's an omen... I shall become a ''bat!'' ** ''The Batman Wars Against the Dirigible of Doom,'' Detective Comics #33 (November 1939), written by [[Bill Finger]] * I assume we all believe that bats have experience. After all, they are mammals, and there is no more doubt that they have experience than that mice or pigeons or whales have experience. I have chosen bats instead of wasps or flounders because if one travels too far down the phylogenetic tree, people gradually shed their faith that there is experience there at all. Bats, although more closely related to us than those other species, nevertheless present a range of activity and a sensory apparatus so different from ours that the problem I want to pose is exceptionally vivid (though it certainly could be raised with other species). Even without the benefit of philosophical reflection, anyone who has spent some time in an enclosed space with an excited bat knows what it is to encounter a fundamentally alien form of life. ** [[Thomas Nagel]], ''[http://organizations.utep.edu/portals/1475/nagel_bat.pdf What is it like to be a bat?]'' * I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand. If you gave it anything to eat, it brought its wings round before the mouth, hovering and hiding its head in the manner of {{w|Bird of prey|birds of prey}} when they feed. The adroitness it shewed in shearing off the wings of flies, which were always rejected, was worthy of observation, and pleased me much. Insects seemed to be most acceptable, though it did not refuse raw flesh when offered: so that the notion, that bats go down chimneys and gnaw men's [[bacon]], seems no improbable story. While I amused myself with this wonderful quadruped, I saw it several times confute the vulgar opinion, that bats, when down on a flat surface, cannot get on the wing again, by rising with great ease from the floor. It ran, I observed, with more despatch than I was aware of; but in a most ridiculous and grotesque manner. ** Reverend {{w|Gilbert White}}, {{cite book|title=The Natural History of Selborne|year=1834|publisher=Allan Bell & Company|edition=3rd|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r5NWAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA28|page=28}} (with notes by Captain {{w|Thomas Brown (naturalist)|Thomas Brown}}) ===''Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations''=== :<small>Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 57.</small> * The sun was set; the night came on apace,<br>And falling dews bewet around the place;<br>The bat takes airy rounds on leathern wings,<br>And the hoarse owl his woeful dirges sings. ** [[John Gay]], ''Shepherd's Week'', ''Wednesday; or, The Dumps''. * Far different there from all that charm'd before,<br>The various terrors of that horrid shore;<br> * * * * * *<br>Those matted woods where birds forget to sing.<br>But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling. ** [[Oliver Goldsmith]], ''The Deserted Village'' (1770), line 345. * Ere the bat hath flown<br>His cloister'd flight. ** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Macbeth]]'' (1605), Act III, scene 2, line 40. * On the bat's back I do fly<br>After summer merrily. ** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[The Tempest]]'' (c. 1610-1612), Act V, scene 1, line 91. ==External links== *{{wikipedia-inline|Bat}} *{{wiktionary-inline|bat}} *{{Commonscat-inline|Chiroptera}} *{{wikispecies-inline|Chiroptera}} [[Category:Mammals]] 70fbftjnqj0i79u3lua72bng3f9njfo 3961122 3961117 2026-07-05T15:48:43Z Morkoz 3317021 Undid revision [[Special:Diff/3961117|3961117]] by [[Special:Contributions/~2026-38395-79|~2026-38395-79]] ([[User talk:~2026-38395-79|talk]]) 3961122 wikitext text/x-wiki :''For the film, see [[Bats (film)]]''. [[File:Big-eared-townsend-fledermaus.jpg|thumb|right|Ere the bat hath flown<br>His cloister'd flight.]] '''[[w:Bat|Bats]]''' are flying mammals in the order '''''Chiroptera'''''. The forelimbs of bats are webbed and developed as wings, making them the only mammals naturally capable of true and sustained flight. Bats do not flap their entire forelimbs, as birds do, but instead flap their spread out digits, which are very long and covered with a thin membrane or patagium. There are about 1,100 bat species worldwide, which represent about twenty percent of all classified mammal species. About seventy percent of bats are insectivores. Most of the rest are frugivores, or fruit eaters. A few species such as the Fish-eating Bat feed from animals other than insects, with the vampire bats being the only mammalian parasite species. Bats are present throughout most of the world and perform vital ecological roles such as pollinating flowers and dispersing fruit seeds. Many tropical plant species depend entirely on bats for the distribution of their seeds. ==Quotes== *'''Mad Hatter''': Twinkle, twinkle, little bat! <br> How I wonder what you're at! <br> Up above the world you fly, <br> Like a tea tray in the sky. <br> Twinkle, twinkle, little bat! <br> How I wonder what you're at! ** [[Lewis Carroll]], "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat", ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]'' ch. VII * Criminals are a superstitious cowardly lot, so my disguise must be able to strike terror into their hearts. I must be a creature of the night, black, terrible... a... a... [...] a bat! That's it! It's an omen... I shall become a ''bat!'' ** ''The Batman Wars Against the Dirigible of Doom,'' Detective Comics #33 (November 1939), written by [[Bill Finger]] * I assume we all believe that bats have experience. After all, they are mammals, and there is no more doubt that they have experience than that mice or pigeons or whales have experience. I have chosen bats instead of wasps or flounders because if one travels too far down the phylogenetic tree, people gradually shed their faith that there is experience there at all. Bats, although more closely related to us than those other species, nevertheless present a range of activity and a sensory apparatus so different from ours that the problem I want to pose is exceptionally vivid (though it certainly could be raised with other species). Even without the benefit of philosophical reflection, anyone who has spent some time in an enclosed space with an excited bat knows what it is to encounter a fundamentally alien form of life. ** [[Thomas Nagel]], ''[http://organizations.utep.edu/portals/1475/nagel_bat.pdf What is it like to be a bat?]'' * I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand. If you gave it anything to eat, it brought its wings round before the mouth, hovering and hiding its head in the manner of {{w|Bird of prey|birds of prey}} when they feed. The adroitness it shewed in shearing off the wings of flies, which were always rejected, was worthy of observation, and pleased me much. Insects seemed to be most acceptable, though it did not refuse raw flesh when offered: so that the notion, that bats go down chimneys and gnaw men's [[bacon]], seems no improbable story. While I amused myself with this wonderful quadruped, I saw it several times confute the vulgar opinion, that bats, when down on a flat surface, cannot get on the wing again, by rising with great ease from the floor. It ran, I observed, with more despatch than I was aware of; but in a most ridiculous and grotesque manner. ** Reverend {{w|Gilbert White}}, {{cite book|title=The Natural History of Selborne|year=1834|publisher=Allan Bell & Company|edition=3rd|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r5NWAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA28|page=28}} (with notes by Captain {{w|Thomas Brown (naturalist)|Thomas Brown}}) ===''Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations''=== :<small>Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 57.</small> * The sun was set; the night came on apace,<br>And falling dews bewet around the place;<br>The bat takes airy rounds on leathern wings,<br>And the hoarse owl his woeful dirges sings. ** [[John Gay]], ''Shepherd's Week'', ''Wednesday; or, The Dumps''. * Far different there from all that charm'd before,<br>The various terrors of that horrid shore;<br> * * * * * *<br>Those matted woods where birds forget to sing.<br>But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling. ** [[Oliver Goldsmith]], ''The Deserted Village'' (1770), line 345. * Ere the bat hath flown<br>His cloister'd flight. ** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Macbeth]]'' (1605), Act III, scene 2, line 40. * On the bat's back I do fly<br>After summer merrily. ** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[The Tempest]]'' (c. 1610-1612), Act V, scene 1, line 91. ==External links== *{{wikipedia-inline|Bat}} *{{wiktionary-inline|bat}} *{{Commonscat-inline|Chiroptera}} *{{wikispecies-inline|Chiroptera}} [[Category:Mammals]] chwty7h0wb071wkdt2cy38nulzyikzk 0 125733 3961154 3953802 2026-07-05T16:27:19Z BD2412 3982 /* Quotes about George Washington */ Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]], replaced: Charles Francis Adams, Sr. → Charles Francis Adams Sr. (2) using [[Project:AWB|AWB]] 3961154 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Gilbert Stuart Williamstown Portrait of George Washington.jpg|thumb|I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that [[honesty]] is always the best [[policy]].]] '''[[w:George Washington|George Washington]]''' ([[22 February]] [[1732]] &ndash; [[14 December]] [[1799]]) was an American military officer, statesman, and [[w:Founding Fathers of the United States|Founding Father]] who served as the first [[president of the United States]] from 1789 to 1797. Appointed by the [[w:Second Continental Congress|Second Continental Congress]] as commander of the [[w:Continental Army|Continental Army]] in June 1775, Washington led [[w:Patriot (American Revolution)|Patriot]] forces to victory in the [[American Revolutionary War]] and then served as president of the [[Constitutional Convention (United States)|Constitutional Convention]] in 1787, which drafted and ratified the [[Constitution of the United States]] and established the [[Federal government of the United States|American federal government]]. Washington has thus been called the "[[w:Father of the Nation|Father of his Country]]". [[File:General George Washington at Trenton by John Trumbull.jpeg|thumb|There is a [[Destiny]] which has the control of our [[actions]], not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of [[Human nature|Human Nature]].]] == Quotes == [[File:Washingtoncongress.jpg|thumb|But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my [[reputation]], I beg it may be [[remembered]] by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare with the utmost [[sincerity]], I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.]] === 1750s === * '''[[Nothing]] is a greater stranger to my breast, or a [[sin]] that my [[soul]] more abhors, than that black and detestable one, ingratitude.''' ** Letter to Governor Dinwiddie (29 May 1754) * '''Tis true, I profess myself a Votary to [[Love]] — I acknowledge that a Lady is in the Case — and further I confess, that this Lady is known to you.''' — Yes Madam, as well as she is to one, who is too sensible of her Charms to deny the [[Power]], whose Influence he [[feels]] and must ever Submit to. I feel the force of her amiable beauties in the recollection of a thousand tender passages that I coud wish to obliterate, till I am bid to revive them. — but experience alas! sadly reminds me how Impossible this is. — and evinces an Opinion which I have long entertaind, that '''there is a [[Destiny]], which has the Sovereign controul of our Actions — not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of [[Human nature|Human Nature]].''' <br /> You have drawn me my dear Madam, or rather have I drawn myself, into an honest confession of a Simple Fact — misconstrue not my meaning — ’tis obvious — doubt it not, nor expose it, — the World has no business to know the object of my Love, declard in this manner to — you when I want to conceal it — '''One thing, above all things in this World I wish to know, and only one person of your Acquaintance can solve me that, or guess my meaning. — but adieu to this, till happier times, if I ever shall see them.''' ** [https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-06-02-0013#GEWN-02-06-02-0013-fn-0002 Letter to] [[w:Sally Fairfax|Mrs. George William Fairfax (Sally Cary Fairfax)]] (12 September 1758) * '''[[Discipline]] is the [[soul]] of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.''' ** Letter of Instructions to the Captains of the Virginia Regiments (29 July 1759) === 1770s === [[File:George Washington MET DT2823.jpg|thumb|Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.]] [[File:Washington_Crossing_the_Delaware_by_Emanuel_Leutze,_MMA-NYC,_1851.jpg|thumb|The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army...]] [[File:Gilbert du Motier Marquis de Lafayette.jpg|thumb|The [[Marquis de Lafayette]] is extremely solicitous of having a command equal to his rank … he is sensible; discreet in his manners; has made great proficiency in our language; and, from the disposition he discovered at the [[w:Battle of Brandywine|battle of Brandywine]], possesses a large share of [[bravery]] and military ardor.]] * The General is sorry to be informed —, that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing, a vice heretofore little known in an American army, is growing into a [[fashion]]; — he hopes the officers will, by example as well as influence, endeavor to check it, and that both they and the men will reflect that we can have little hope of the blessing of Heaven on our arms, if we insult it by impiety and folly; added to this, it is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense and character detests and despises it. ** Extract from the Orderly Book of the army under command of Washington, dated at Head Quarters, in the city of New York (3 August 1770); reported in [https://www.thefederalistpapers.org/founders/washington/george-washington-the-foolish-and-wicked-practice-of-profane-cursing-and-swearing ''American Masonic Register and Literary Companion, Volume 1''] (1829), p. 163 * Unhappy it is though to reflect, that a Brother's Sword has been sheathed in a Brother's breast, and that, '''the once happy and peaceful plains of America are either to be drenched with Blood, or Inhabited by Slaves. Sad alternative! But can a virtuous Man hesitate in his choice?''' ** Letter to Mr. [[w:George William Fairfax|George William Fairfax]] (31 May 1775) [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mgw:@field(DOCID+@lit(gw030206)) George Washington Papers] at the Library of Congress *As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. **[http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timeline/amrev/contarmy/accepts.html Acceptance speech after being "elected" by the Continental Congress as commander of the yet-to-be-created Continental Army] (15 June 1775) * '''But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.''' ** Washington's formal acceptance of command of the Army (16 June 1775), quoted in ''The Writings of George Washington : Life of Washington'' (1837) edited by Jared Sparks, p. 141 *When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen. **[http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timeline/amrev/contarmy/newyork.html George Washington to New York Legislature] (26 June 1775) * '''Every post is honorable in which a man can serve his country.''' ** Letter to [[w:Benedict Arnold|Benedict Arnold]] (14 September 1775) * The reflection upon my situation, and that of this army, produces many an uneasy hour, when all around me are wrapped in sleep. '''Few people know the predicament we are in, on a thousand accounts; fewer still will believe, if any disaster happens to these lines, from what cause it flows.''' I have often thought how much happier I should have been, if instead of accepting of a command under such circumstances, I had taken my musket upon my shoulders and entered the rank, or if I could have justified the measure of posterity, and my own conscience, had retired to the back country, and lived in a wigwam. If I shall be able to rise superior to these, and many other difficulties which might be enumerated, I shall most religiously believe that the finger of Providence is in it, to blind the eyes of our enemies; for surely if we get well through this month, it must be for want of their knowing the disadvantages we labor under. Could I have foreseen the difficulties which have come upon us, could I have known that such a backwardness would have been discovered in the old soldiers to the service, all the generals upon earth should not have convinced me of the propriety of delaying an attack upon Boston till this time. ** In a letter to [[w:Joseph Reed (jurist)|Joseph Reed]], during the siege of Boston (14 January 1776), quoted in ''History of the Siege of Boston, and of the Battles of Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill'' (1849) by Richard Frothingham, p. 286 * To expect … the same service from raw and undisciplined recruits, as from veteran soldiers, is to expect what never did and perhaps never will happen. Men, who are familiarized to danger, meet it without shrinking; whereas troops unused to service often apprehend danger where no danger is. ** Letter to the President of Congress (9 February 1776) * '''Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.''' ** General Orders, Headquarters, New York (2 July 1776) * '''The General hopes and trusts that every officer and man will endeavor to live and act as becomes a Christian soldier defending the dearest rights and liberties of his country.''' ** General Order (9 July 1776) [http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/gwhome.html George Washington Papers] at the Library of Congress, 1741-1799: Series 3g Varick Transcripts * '''The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves'''; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed, and themselves consigned to a state of wretchedness from which no human efforts will deliver them. '''The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.''' ** Address to the Continental Army before the [[w:Battle of Long Island|Battle of Long Island]] (27 August 1776) * There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves. ** Letter to the president of Congress, Heights of Harlem (24 September 1776) * '''To place any dependence upon militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff. '''Men just dragged from the tender scenes of domestic life - unaccustomed to the din of arms - totally unacquainted with every kind of military skill, which being followed by a want of confidence in themselves when opposed to troops regularly trained, disciplined, and appointed, superior in knowledge, and superior in arms, makes them timid and ready to fly from their own shadows. ** Letter to the president of Congress, Heights of Harlem (24 September 1776) * My brave fellows, you have done all I asked you to do, and more than can be reasonably expected; but your country is at stake, your wives, your houses and all that you hold dear. You have worn yourselves out with fatigues and hardships, but we know not how to spare you. If you will consent to stay one month longer, you will render that service to the cause of liberty, and to your country, which you probably can never do under any other circumstances. ** Encouraging his men to re-enlist in the army (31 December 1776) * Parade with me my brave fellows, we will have them soon! ** [http://archive.is/20120629215226/findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1272/is_2746_136/ai_n19377439/pg_2 Rallying his troops] at the [[w:Battle of Princeton|Battle of Princeton]] (3 January 1777) * '''The [[Marquis de Lafayette]] is extremely solicitous of having a command equal to his rank.''' I do not know in what light Congress will view the matter, but it appears to me, from a consideration of his illustrious and important connexions, the attachment which he has manifested for our cause, and the consequences which his return in disgust might produce, that it will be advisable to gratify him in his wishes; and the more so, as several gentlemen from France, who came over under some assurances, have gone back disappointed in their expectations. His conduct with respect to them stands in a favorable point of view; having interested himself to remove their uneasiness, and urged the impropriety of their making any unfavorable representations upon their arrival at home; and in all his letters he has placed our affairs in the best situation he' could. Besides, '''he is sensible; discreet in his manners; has made great proficiency in our language; and, from the disposition he discovered at the [[w:Battle of Brandywine|battle of Brandywine]], possesses a large share of bravery and military ardor.''' ** Letter to the Continental Congress (1 November 1777), as quoted in [https://books.google.com/books?id=3_lEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA665 ''Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States'' Vol. 23, Issue 2 (1835), p. 665] * A great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle [patriotism] alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward. ** Letter to John Banister, Valley Forge (21 April 1778) * While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian. ** General Orders (2 May 1778); published in ''Writings of George Washington'' (1932), Vol.XI, pp. 342-343 * It is not a little pleasing, nor less wonderful to contemplate, that after two years' manoeuvring and undergoing the strangest vicissitudes, that perhaps ever attended any one contest since the creation, both armies are brought back to the very point they set out from, and that which was the offending party in the beginning is now reduced to the use of the spade and pickaxe for defence. '''The hand of Providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than wicked, that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligations.''' But it will be time enough for me to turn preacher, when my present appointment ceases… ** Letter to Brigadier-General Nelson, 20 August 1778, in Ford's ''Writings of George Washington'' (1890), vol. VII, p. 161. Part of this is often attached to a fragment of a letter to John Armstrong of 11 March 1782; it is also often prefaced with the spurious "governing without God" sentence, as this 1867 example from Henry Wilson (''Testimonies of American Statesmen and Jurists to the Truths of Christianity'') shows: *** It is impossible to govern the world without God. It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the Providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits and humbly implore his protection and favor. I am sure there never was a people who had more reason to acknowledge a divine interposition in their affairs, than those of the United States; and I should be pained to believe that they have forgotten that agency which was so often manifested during the revolution; or that they failed to consider the omnipotence of Him, who is alone able to protect them. '''He must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than wicked, that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligations.''' * It gives me very sincere pleasure to find that there is likely to be a coalition of the Whigs in your State (a few only excepted) and that the Assembly of it, are so well disposed to second your endeavors in bringing those murderers of our cause—the Monopolizers—forestallers—& Engrossers—to condign punishment. '''It is much to be lamented that each State, long ’ere this, has not hunted them down as the pests of Society, & the greatest enemies we have, to the happiness of America.''' I would to God that one of the most attrocious in each State was hung in Gibbets, up on a gallows five times as high as the one prepared by Haman—No punishment, in my opinion, is too great for the Man, who can build “his greatness upon his Country’s ruin.” ** [http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-18-02-0452 George Washington to Joseph Reed, 12 December 1778], Founders Online, National Archives. Source: ''The Papers of George Washington'', Revolutionary War Series, vol. 18, 1 November 1778 – 14 January 1779, ed. Edward G. Lengel. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008, pp. 396–398. [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mgw4&fileName=gwpage054.db&recNum=1004 Page images] at American Memory (Library of Congress) * In the last place, though first in importance I shall ask—is there any thing doing, or that can be done to restore the credit of our currency? The depreciation of it is got to so alarming a point—that '''a waggon load of money will scarcely purchase a waggon load of provision.''' ** [http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-20-02-0157 Letter to John Jay, 23 April 1779], Founders Online, National Archives. Source: ''The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series'', vol. 20, 8 April–31 May 1779, ed. Edward G. Lengel. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010, p. 177. Also found in ''The Life John Jay With Selections from His Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers. by His Son, William Jay in Two Volumes'', Vol. II., 1833 * '''Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.''' ** Letter to Major-General Robert Howe (17 August 1779), published in "The Writings of George Washington": 1778-1779, edited by Worthington Chauncey Ford (1890) ** Paraphrased variants: ** Few men have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder. ** Few men have virtue enough to withstand the highest bidder * '''Know my good friend that no distance can keep ''anxious'' lovers long asunder, and that the wonders of former ages may be revived in this''' — But alas! will you not remark that amidst all the wonders recorded in holy writ no instance can be produced where a young Woman from ''real inclination'' has prefered an old man — This is so much against me that I shall not be able ''I fear'' to contest the prize with you — yet, under the encouragement you have given me I shall enter the list for so inestimable a jewell. ** Letter to the [[Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette|Marquis de Lafayette]] (30 September 1779) * '''A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man, that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of his friends, and that the most liberal professions of good will are very far from being the surest marks of it.''' I should be happy that my own experience had afforded fewer examples of the little dependence to be placed upon them. ** Letter to Major-General [[w:John Sullivan|John Sullivan]] (15 December 1779), published in ''The Writings of George Washington'' (1890) by Worthington Chauncey Ford, Vol. 8, p. 139 ====Letter to John Hancock (1775)==== *[F]ree Negroes who have served in this army are very much dissatisfied at being discarded. As it is to be apprehended that they may seek employ in the Ministerial Army, I have … given license for their being enlisted. **[https://web.archive.org/web/20141008220806/http://amrevmuseum.org/reflections/african-americans-continental-army-and-state-militias-during-american-war-independence To John Hancock] (31 December 1775) ==== Letter to Phyllis Wheatley (1776) ==== [[File:Phillis Wheatley frontispiece.jpg|thumb|I shall be happy to see [[Phillis Wheatley|a person so favoured by the Muses]], and to whom [[Nature]] has been so liberal and beneficent in her dispensations.]] :<small>[http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mgw:@field(DOCID+@lit(gw040306))#N0393-312 Letter to Phyllis Wheatley (28 February 1776)]</small> *Mrs. Phillis: Your favour of the 26th of October did not reach my hands 'till the middle of December. Time enough, you will say, to have given an answer ere this. Granted. But a variety of important occurrences, continually interposing to distract the mind and withdraw the attention, I hope will apologize for the delay, and plead my excuse for the seeming, but not real neglect. *I thank you most sincerely for your polite notice of me, in the elegant Lines you enclosed; and however undeserving I may be of such encomium and panegyrick, the style and manner exhibit a striking proof of your great poetical Talents. In honour of which, and as a tribute justly due to you, I would have published the Poem, had I not been apprehensive, that, while I only meant to give the World this new instance of your genius, I might have incurred the imputation of Vanity. This and nothing else, determined me not to give it place in the public Prints. *If you should ever come to Cambridge, or near Head Quarters, I shall be happy to see a person so favoured by the Muses, and to whom Nature has been so liberal and beneficent in her dispensations. I am, with great Respect, etc. ====Letter to Joseph Reed (1778)==== *It gives me very sincere pleasure to find that there is likely to be a coalition … so well disposed to second your endeavours in bringing those murderers of our cause (the monopolizers, forestallers, and engrossers) to condign punishment. It is much to be lamented that each State long ere this has not hunted them down as the pests of society, and the greatest Enemys we have to the happiness of America. I would to God that one of the most attrocious of each State was hung in Gibbets upons a gallows five times as high as the one prepared by Haman. No punishment in my opinion is too great for the Man who can build his greatness upon his Country's ruin. **Dec. 12, 1778 {[http://memory.loc.gov/mss/mgw/mgw3h/001/193192.jpg also found at the Library of Congress]} ***later misquoted against [[#Jews|jews]] ====Letter to Henry Laurens (1779)==== *I am not clear that a discrimination will not render slavery more irksome to those who remain in it. Most of the good and evil things in this life are judged of by comparison; and I fear a comparison in this case will be productive of much discontent in those who are held in servitude. **[https://web.archive.org/web/20141008220806/http://amrevmuseum.org/reflections/african-americans-continental-army-and-state-militias-during-american-war-independence Letter to Henry Laurens (20 March 1779)] ====Letter to Edmund Pendleton (1779)==== *… but I am under no apprehension of a capital injury from any other source than that of the continual depreciation of our Money.<br>This indeed is truly alarming, and of so serious a nature that every other effort is in vain unless something can be done to restore its credit.<br>..<br>Where this has been the policy (in Connecticut for instance) the prices of every article have fallen and the money consequently is in demand; but in the other States you can scarce get a single thing for it, and yet it is with-held from the public by speculators, while every thing that can be useful to the public is engrossed by this tribe of black gentry, who work more effectually against us that the enemys Arms; and are a hundd. times more dangerous to our liberties and the great cause we are engaged in. **Nov. 1, 1779 ([https://web.archive.org/web/20111119215223/http://memory.loc.gov/mss/mgw/mgw3h/001/378378.jpg the original was previously in the Library of Congress's online service]} {{unreliable source? |reason=378378.jpg does not appear to include these words}} ***later misquoted against [[#Jews|jews]] ====Letter to William Livingston (1779)==== *When one is over rated in this way, it is very natural to complain, or to feel disgust at the ingratitude of the world; tho' I believe with you, that '''to persevere in one's duty and be silent, is the best answer to calumny.''' **Dec. 7, 1779 ([https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/mss/mgw/mgw3c/003/003.pdf#page=114 To GOVERNOR WILLIAM LIVINGSTON]} George Washington Papers, Series 3, Subseries 3C, Varick Transcripts, Letterbook 3, pp114. === 1780s === [[File:Great Seal of the United States (reverse).svg|thumb|I am sure there never was a people, who had more reason to acknowledge a divine interposition in their affairs, than those of the United States; and I should be pained to believe, that they have forgotten that agency, which was so often manifested during our revolution, or that they failed to consider the omnipotence of that God, who is alone able to protect them.]] [[File:The Capture of the Hessians at Trenton December 26 1776.jpeg|thumb|Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence; true friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.]] [[File:Naturalization ceremony at Kennedy Space Center.jpg|thumb|America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of ''all'' Nations And Religions; whom we shall wellcome to a participation of all our rights and previleges, if by decency and propriety of conduct they appear to merit the enjoyment.]] [[File:Friendship love and truth.jpg|thumb|Democratical States must always feel before they can see: it is this that makes their Governments slow, but the people will be right at last...]] [[File:Liberty - Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument (Cleveland) - DSC07985.JPG|thumb|Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.]] [[File:General George Washington Resigning his Commission.jpg|thumb|Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.]] [[File:La_statue_de_la_liberté_jardin_du_luxembourg.jpg|thumb|The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.]] [[File:MtVernon.jpg|thumb|Unwilling am I, in the evening of a life nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode for an Ocean of difficulties...]] [[File:NYC - New York County Supreme Courthouse.jpg|thumb|The due [[administration of justice]] is the firmest pillar of good Government.]] *[A]bolish the name and appearance of a Black Corps. ** Recommendations to reorganize two Rhode Island regiments into integrated rather than segregated groups, in a [http://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/slavery/the-only-unavoidable-subject-of-regret/ letter to Major General William Heath (29 July 1780)], in ''The Writings of George Washington'', 19:93. According to historian Robert A. Selig, the Continental Army exhibited a degree of integration not reached by the American army again for 200 years (until after World War II). <!-- (see his article, "The Revolution's Black Soldiers: They fought for both sides in their quest for freedom," Colonial Williamsburg (Summer 1997), 15-22) --> * Example, whether it be good or bad, has a powerful influence. ** Letter to Lord Stirling (5 March 1780) *The many remarkable interpositions of the divine government, in the hours of our deepest distress and darkness, have been too luminous to suffer me to doubt the happy issue of the present contest. **[http://www.greatseal.com/mottoes/coeptis.html Letter to General Armstrong (26 March 1781)], as quoted in ''The Religious Opinions and Character of Washington'' (1836) by Edward Charles McGuire, p. 122 *The Commander in Chief earnestly recommends that the troops not on duty should universally attend with that seriousness of Deportment and gratitude of Heart which the recognition of such reiterated and astonishing interpositions of Providence demand of us. ** Notes on general orders to the troops, (20 October 1781), as quoted in ''The Writings of George Washington'' (1835) edited by Jared Sparks, Vol. 8, p. 189 * Without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive. And with it, everything honorable and glorious. ** To the [[Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette|Marquis de Lafayette]] (15 November 1781) * '''I am sure there never was a people, who had more reason to acknowledge a divine interposition in their affairs, than those of the United States; and I should be pained to believe, that they have forgotten that agency, which was so often manifested during our revolution, or that they failed to consider the omnipotence of that God, who is alone able to protect them.''' ** Letter to John Armstrong, 11 March 1782, in Ford's ''Writings of George Washington'' (1891), vol. XII, p. 111. This is frequently attached to part of a letter to Brigadier-General Nelson of 20 August 1778, as in this 1864 example from B. F. Morris, ''The Christian Life and Character of the Civil Institutions of the United States'', pp. 33-34: *** '''I am sure that there never was a people who had more reason to acknowledge a divine interposition in their affairs than those of the United States; and I should be pained to believe that they have forgotten that agency which was so often manifested during the Revolution, or that they failed to consider the omnipotence of that God who is alone able to protect them.''' He must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than wicked that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligations. * '''Be courteous to all, but intimate with few,''' and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence; '''true friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.''' ** [http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/founders/default.xqy?keys=FOEA-chron-1780-1783-01-15-12 Letter to Bushrod Washington] (15 January 1783) *'''Let your heart feel for the affliction, and distresses of every one'''—and let your hand give, in proportion to your purse—remembering always, the estimation of the Widows mite. But, that it is not every one who asketh, that deserveth charity; all however are worthy of the enquiry—or the deserving may suffer. **[http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/founders/default.xqy?keys=FOEA-chron-1780-1783-01-15-12 Letter to Bushrod Washington] (15 January 1783) *Do not conceive that fine Clothes make fine Men, any more than fine feathers make fine Birds—A plain genteel dress is more admired and obtains more credit than lace & embroidery in the Eyes of the judicious and sensible. **[http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/founders/default.xqy?keys=FOEA-chron-1780-1783-01-15-12 Letter to Bushrod Washington] (15 January 1783) * '''Happy, thrice happy shall they be pronounced hereafter, who have contributed any thing, who have performed the meanest office in erecting this stupendous fabrick of Freedom and Empire on the broad basis of Independency; who have assisted in protecting the rights of humane nature and establishing an Asylum for the poor and oppressed of all nations and religions.''' ** General Orders (18 April 1783) * '''It may be laid down, as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every citizen who enjoys the protection of a free government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defence of it''', and consequently that the Citizens of America (with a few legal and official exceptions) from 18 to 50 Years of Age should be borne on the Militia Rolls, provided with uniform Arms, and so far accustomed to the use of them, that the Total strength of the Country might be called forth at Short Notice on any very interesting Emergency. ** "Sentiments on a Peace Establishment" in a letter to [[Alexander Hamilton]] (2 May 1783); published in ''The Writings of George Washington'' (1938), edited by John C. Fitzpatrick, Vol. 26, p. 289 *'''The scheme, my dear Marqs., which you propose as a precedent to encourage the emancipation of the black people of this Country from that state of Bondage in wch. they are held, is a striking evidence of the benevolence of your Heart. I shall be happy to join you in so laudable a work; but will defer going into a detail of the business, till I have the pleasure of seeing you.''' **" TO THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS." in a letter to [[wikipedia:Thomas_Mifflin|Thomas Mifflin]] (17 JUNE 1783); published in ''The Writings of George Washington'' (1938), edited by John C. Fitzpatrick, Vol. 26, p. 294 * '''Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.''' ** [http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch7s5.html "Circular to the States" (8 June 1783)] * I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection; that he would incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to Government; to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another, for their fellow citizens of the United States at large; and, particularly, for their brethren who have served in the Geld; and finally, that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacifick temper of the mind, which were the characteristicks of the divine Author of our blessed religion ; without an humble imitation of whose example, in these things, we can never hope to be a happy Nation. ** Circular Letter to the Governours of the several States (18 June 1783). Misreported as "I make it my constant prayer that God would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacific temper of mind, which were the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion; without a humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy nation", in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, ''Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers'' (1895), p. 315 * The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations And Religions; whom we shall wellcome to a participation of all our rights and previleges, if by decency and propriety of conduct they appear to merit the enjoyment. ** Letter to the members of the Volunteer Association and other Inhabitants of the Kingdom of Ireland who have lately arrived in the City of New York (2 December 1783), as quoted in John C. Fitzpatrick, ed., ''The Writings of George Washington'' (1938), vol. 27, p. 254 * '''Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.''' ** Address to Congress resigning his commission (23 December 1783) * I am become a private citizen on the banks of the Potomac, and under the shadow of my own Vine and my own Fig-tree, free from the bustle of a camp and the busy scenes of public life, I am solacing myself with those tranquil enjoyments, of which the Soldier who is ever in pursuit of fame, the Statesman whose watchful days and sleepless nights are spent in devising schemes to promote the welfare of his own, perhaps the ruin of other countries, as if this globe was insufficient for us all, and the Courtier who is always watching the countenance of his Prince, in hopes of catching a gracious smile, can have very little conception. I am not only retired from all public employments, but I am retiring within myself; and shall be able to view the solitary walk, and tread the paths of private life with heartfelt satisfaction. '''Envious of none, I am determined to be pleased with all; and this my dear friend, being the order for my march, I will move gently down the stream of life, until I sleep with my Fathers.''' ** [http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=296 Letter] to [[Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette]] (1 February 1784) * A people... who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything. ** Letter to [[w:Benjamin Harrison V|Benjamin Harrison V]] (10 October 1784) *[T]he motives which predominate most in human affairs is self-love and self-interest. ** [https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/04-02-02-0135 Letter to James Madison] (3 December 1784) as quoted in ''Realistic Visionary: A Portrait of George Washington'' (2008) by Peter R. Henriques, p. 139. * Men's minds are as variant as their faces, and, where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the former is no more to be imputed to them as a crime, than the appearance of the latter; for both, being the work of nature, are alike unavoidable. ** Letter to [[w:Benjamin Harrison V|Benjamin Harrison V]] (9 March 1789), published in Washington's ''[https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=DTlEAQAAMAAJ&rdid=book-DTlEAQAAMAAJ&rdot=1 Writings: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts]'', Volume IX, p. 475. * '''Democratical States must always feel before they can see: it is this that makes their Governments slow, but the people will be right at last.''' ** Letter to the [[Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette|Marquis de Lafayette]] (25 July 1785) * As the complexion of European politics seems now (from letters I have received from the Marqs. de la Fayette, Chevrs. Chartellux, De la Luzerne, &c.,) to have a tendency to Peace, I will say nothing of war, nor make any animadversions upon the contending powers; otherwise, I might possibly have said that the retreat from it seemed impossible after the explicit declaration of the parties: '''My first wish is to see this plague to mankind banished from off the Earth, and the sons and Daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and innocent amusements, than in preparing implements and exercising them for the destruction of mankind:''' rather than quarrel about territory let the poor, the needy and oppressed of the Earth, and those who want Land, resort to the fertile plains of our western country, the second Promise, and there dwell in peace, fulfilling the first and great commandment. ** Letter to David Humphreys (25 July 1785), published in ''The Writings of George Washington'', edited by John C. Fitzpatrick, Vol. 28, pp. 202-3. The W. W. Abbot transcription (given at [http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/04-03-02-0142 Founders Online]) differs slightly: *** My first wish is, to see this plague to Mankind banished from the Earth; & the Sons & daughters of this World employed in more pleasing & innocent amusements than in preparing implements, & exercising them for the destruction of the human race. *We are either a united people, or we are not. If the former, let us, in all matters of general concern act as a Nation, which have national objects to promote, and a national character to support. If we are not, let us no longer act a farce by pretending to it. **[https://books.google.com/books?id=64MTAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA25 Letter to James Madison, 30 November 1785] * '''My manner of living is plain. I do not mean to be put out of it.''' A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always ready; and such as will be content to partake of them are always welcome. '''Those, who expect more, will be disappointed, but no change will be effected by it.''' ** Letter to [[w:George William Fairfax|George William Fairfax]] (25 June 1786), published in ''The Writings Of George Washington'' (1835) by Jared Sparks, p. 175 *There is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery. **[https://web.archive.org/web/20060503040039/http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/project/volumes/confederation/essay4.html Letter to Robert Morris] (12 April 1786) * '''If you tell the Legislatures they have violated the treaty of peace and invaded the prerogatives of the confederacy they will laugh in your face. What then is to be done? Things cannot go on in the same train forever.''' It is much to be feared, as you observe, that the better kind of people being disgusted with the circumstances will have their minds prepared for any revolution whatever. '''We are apt to run from one extreme into another. To anticipate & prevent disasterous <!-- [sic] --> contingencies would be the part of wisdom & patriotism.''' <br /> '''What astonishing changes a few years are capable of producing! I am told that even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror.''' From thinking proceeds speaking, thence to acting is often but a single step. But how irrevocable & tremendous! What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal & falacious!<!-- [sic] --> Would to God that wise measures may be taken in time to avert the consequences we have but too much reason to apprehend. <br /> Retired as I am from the world, I frankly acknowledge I cannot feel myself an unconcerned spectator. Yet having happily assisted in bringing the ship into port & having been fairly discharged; it is not my business to embark again on a sea of troubles. Nor could it be expected that my sentiments and opinions would have much weight on the minds of my Countrymen — they have been neglected, tho' given as a last legacy in the most solemn manner. I had then perhaps some claims to public attention. I consider myself as having none at present. ** [http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/documents/constitution/1784/jay2.html Letter to John Jay (15 August 1786)] * Altho’ I pretend to no peculiar information respecting commercial affairs, nor any foresight into the scenes of futurity; yet as the member of an infant-empire, '''as a Philanthropist by character, and (if I may be allowed the expression) as a Citizen of the great republic of humanity at large; I cannot help turning my attention sometimes to this subject.''' I would be understood to mean, I cannot avoid reflecting with pleasure on the probable influence that commerce may here after have on human manners & society in general. '''On these occasions I consider how mankind may be connected like one great family in fraternal ties—I endulge a fond, perhaps an enthusiastic idea, that as the world is evidently much less barbarous than it has been, its melioration must still be progressive—that nations are becoming more humanized in their policy—that the subjects of ambition & causes for hostility are daily diminishing—and in fine, that the period is not very remote when the benefits of a liberal & free commerce will, pretty generally, succeed to the devastations & horrors of war.''' ** “From George Washington to Lafayette, 15 August 1786,” [http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/04-04-02-0200 Founders Online, National Archives] Source: ''The Papers of George Washington'', Confederation Series, vol. 4, ''2 April 1786 – 31 January 1787'', ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995, pp. 214–216. [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mgw2&fileName=gwpage013.db&recNum=157&tempFile=./temp/~ammem_fmyS&filecode=mgw&next_filecode=mgw&itemnum=1&ndocs=100 Page scan] at American Memory (Library of Congress) * '''If they have real grievances redress them, if possible; or acknowledge the justice of them, and your inability to do it at the moment. If they have not, employ the force of government against them at once.''' ** Letter to [[w:Henry Lee|Henry Lee]] (31 October 1786) * '''Paper money has had the effect in your State that it ever will have, to ruin commerce—oppress the honest, and open a door to every species of fraud and injustice.''' **[https://founders.archives.gov/GEWN-04-04-02-0428 Letter to Jabez Bowen] (9 January 1787) * '''The only stipulations I shall contend for are, that in all things you shall do as you please. I will do the same; and that no ceremony may be used or any restraint be imposed on any one.''' ** Letter to [[w:David Humphreys (soldier)|David Humphreys]], inviting him to an indefinite stay at Mt. Vernon (10 October 1787), as published in ''Life and Times of David Humphreys'' (1917) by Frank Landon Humphreys, Vol. I, p. 426 *Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. **[http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/letter-to-james-madison-12/ Letter to James Madison] (2 March 1788) * Your young military men, who want to reap the harvest of laurels, don't care (I suppose) how many seeds of war are sown; but '''for the sake of humanity it is devoutly to be wished, that the manly employment of agriculture and the humanizing benefits of commerce, would supersede the waste of war and the rage of conquest; that the swords might be turned into plough-shares, the spears into pruning hooks, and, as the Scripture expresses it, "the nations learn war no more."''' ** Letter to Marquis de Chastellux (25 April 1788), published in ''The Writings of George Washington'', edited by John C. Fitzpatrick, Vol. 29, p. 485 * '''I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain (what I consider the most enviable of all titles) the character of an honest man''', as well as prove (what I desire to be considered in reality) that I am, with great sincerity & esteem, Dear Sir Your friend and Most obedient Hble Ser⟨vt⟩ ** [http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/04-06-02-0432 Letter to Alexander Hamilton (28 August 1788)] * '''The unfortunate condition of the persons, whose labour in part I employed, has been the only unavoidable subject of regret.''' To make the Adults among them as easy & as comfortable in their circumstances as their actual state of ignorance & improvidence would admit; & to lay a foundation to prepare the rising generation for a destiny different from that in which they were born; afforded some satisfaction to my mind, & could not I hoped be displeasing to the justice of the Creator. ** [http://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/slavery/the-only-unavoidable-subject-of-regret/ Comment of late 1788 or early 1789 upon his slaves], as recorded by [[w:David Humphreys (soldier)|David Humphreys]], in his notebooks on his conversations with Washington, now in the Rosenbach Library in Philadelphia<!-- as quoted in "Housing and Family Life of the Mount Vernon Negro," unpublished paper by Charles C. Wall, prepared for the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association (May 1962), prefatory note]. --> * '''The blessed Religion revealed in the word of God will remain an eternal and awful monument to prove that the best Institutions may be abused by human depravity; and that they may even, in some instances be made subservient to the vilest of purposes.''' Should, hereafter, those who are intrusted with the management of this government, incited by the lust of power & prompted by the supineness or venality of their Constituents, overleap the known barriers of this Constitution and violate the unalienable rights of humanity: it will only serve to shew, that no compact among men (however provident in its construction & sacred in its ratification) can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable—and if I may so express myself, that no wall of words—that no mound of parchmt can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on the one side, aided by the sapping current of corrupted morals on the other. ** p. 34 of a draft of a discarded and undelivered version of his first inaugural address (30 April 1789) * Such being the impressions under which I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station; it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official Act, my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the Universe, who presides in the Councils of Nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that his benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the People of the United States, a Government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes: and may enable every instrument employed in its administration to execute with success, the functions allotted to his charge. '''In tendering this homage to the Great Author of every public and private good, I assure myself that it expresses your sentiments not less than my own; nor those of my fellow-citizens at large, less than either. No People can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand, which conducts the Affairs of men more than the People of the United States.''' Every step, by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation, seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency. And in the important revolution just accomplished in the system of their United Government, the tranquil deliberations and voluntary consent of so many distinct communities, from which the event has resulted, cannot be compared with the means by which most Governments have been established, without some return of pious gratitude along with an humble anticipation of the future blessings which the past seem to presage. ** First Inaugural Address (30 April 1789), published in ''The Writings of George Washington'', edited by John C. Fitzpatrick, Vol. 30, pp. 292-3 * I dwell on this prospect with every satisfaction which an ardent love for my Country can inspire: since there is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists in the oeconomy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness, between duty and advantage, between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy, and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity: Since we ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven, can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained: And since '''the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.''' ** First Inaugural Address (30 April 1789), published in ''The Writings of George Washington'', edited by John C. Fitzpatrick, Vol. 30, pp. 294-5 * For myself the delay may be compared with a reprieve; for in confidence I assure you, with the world it would obtain little credit that '''my movements to the chair of Government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution: so unwilling am I, in the evening of a life nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode for an Ocean of difficulties''', without that competency of political skill, abilities and inclination which is necessary to manage the helm. ** Comment to General [[w:Henry Knox|Henry Knox]] on the delay in assuming office (March 1789) * In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence. ** Message to the U.S. Congress (9 July 1789); [http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC29437768&id=qy2nqT6FnLMC&pg=RA1-PA159&lpg=RA1-PA159&dq=%22carrying+these+into+effect,+fidelity+and+diligence%22&num=100 ''The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private'' (1837) edited by Jared Sparks, p. 159 (PDF)] * The satisfaction arising from the indulgent opinion entertained by the American People of my conduct, will, I trust, be some security for preventing me from doing any thing, which might justly incur the forfeiture of that opinion. And the consideration that '''human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected''', will always continue to prompt me to promote the progress of the former, by inculcating the practice of the latter. **Letter to the Protestant Episcopal Church (19 August 1789) [http://memory.loc.gov/mss/mgw/mgw2/038/0580042.jpg Scan at American Memory (Library of Congress).] * Impressed with a conviction that '''the due [[administration of justice]] is the firmest pillar of good Government''', I have considered the first arrangement of the Judicial department as essential to the happiness of our Country, and to the stability of its political system; hence the selection of the fittest characters to expound the law, and dispense justice, has been an invariable object of my anxious concern. ** [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mgw:@field(DOCID+@lit(gw300376)) Letter to U.S. Attorney General] [[w:Edmund Randolph|Edmund Randolph]] (28 September 1789), as published in ''The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799'' edited by John C. Fitzpatrick *** The inscription on the facade of the [[w:New York Supreme Court court|New York Supreme Court court]] house in New York County is a misquotation from the above letter: ''"The true administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good government."'' See [https://nypost.com/2009/02/16/george-denied-his-due/ "George Denied His Due" by Bruce Golding, in the ''New York Post'' (16 February 2009)] [https://web.archive.org/web/20250616205331/https://nypost.com/2009/02/16/george-denied-his-due/ Archived] [https://archive.is/bwNF8 from] the original on June 16, 2025. ==== The Newburgh Address (1783)==== [[File:George Washington at Princeton.jpg|thumb|If Men are to be precluded from offering their [[sentiments]] on a matter, which may involve the most [[serious]] and alarming [[consequences]], that can invite the [[consideration]] of [[Mankind]]; [[reason]] is of no use to us — the [[freedom of Speech]] may be taken away — and, dumb & [[silent]] we may be led, like [[sheep]], to the Slaughter.]] [[File:Washington Before Yorktown.jpg|thumb|Had this day been wanting, the [[World]] had never seen the last stage of [[perfection]] to which [[human]] [[nature]] is capable of attaining...]] :<small>Washington's response to the [[w:Newburgh Conspiracy|Newburgh Conspiracy]], known as [https://web.archive.org/web/20210308205206/https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/quotes/article/for-if-men-are-to-be-precluded-from-offering-their-sentiments-on-a-matter-which-may-involve-the-most-serious-and-alarming-consequences-that-can-invite-the-consideration-of-mankind-reason-is-of-no-use-to-us-the-freedom-of-speech-may-be-taken-away-and-dumb-/ Newburgh Address] (15 March 1783) · [https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/99-01-02-10840 Online edition at the National Archives] · [http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/milestones/newburgh/text.html The anonymous Newburgh letter, followed by Washington's response at ''Early America Milestones'']</small> * Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country. ** Statement as he put on his glasses before delivering his response to the first [http://www.earlyamerica.com/milestone-events/newburgh-address/ Newburgh Address] (15 March 1783), quoted in a [https://democraticthinker.wordpress.com/2010/01/08/newburgh-crisis-viwashingtons-newburgh-address/ letter] from General [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cobb_(Massachusetts) David Cobb] to Colonel [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Pickering Timothy Pickering] (25 November 1825) * The Author of the piece, is entitled to much credit for the goodness of his Pen: and I could wish he had as much credit for the rectitude of his Heart — for, as Men see thro’ different Optics, and are induced by the reflecting faculties of the Mind, to use different means to attain the same end; the Author of the Address, should have had more charity, than to mark for Suspicion, the Man who should recommend Moderation and longer forbearance — or, in other words, who should not think as he thinks, and act as he advises. But he had another plan in view, in which candor and liberality of Sentiment, regard to justice, and love of Country, have no part; and he was right, to insinuate the darkest suspicion, to effect the blackest designs. <br /> That the Address is drawn with great art, and is designed to answer the most insidious purposes. That it is calculated to impress the Mind, with an idea of premeditated injustice in the Sovereign power of the United States, and rouse all those resentments which must unavoidably flow from such a belief. That the secret Mover of this Scheme (whoever he may be) intended to take advantage of the passions, while they were warmed by the recollection of past distresses, without giving time for cool, deliberative thinking, & that composure of Mind which is so necessary to give dignity & stability to measures, is rendered too obvious, by the mode of conducting the business, to need other proof than a reference to the proceeding. * '''There might, Gentlemen, be an impropriety in my taking notice, in this Address to you, of an anonymous production — but the manner in which that performance has been introduced to the Army — the effect it was intended to have, together with some other circumstances, will amply justify my observations on the tendency of that Writing.''' With respect to the advice given by the Author — to suspect the Man, who shall recommend moderate measures and longer forbearance — I spurn it — as every Man, who regards that [[liberty]], & reveres that [[Justice]] for which we contend, undoubtedly must — for '''if Men are to be precluded from offering their [[sentiments]] on a matter, which may involve the most [[serious]] and alarming [[consequences]], that can invite the [[consideration]] of [[Mankind]]; [[reason]] is of no use to us — the [[freedom of Speech]] may be taken away — and, dumb & [[silent]] we may be led, like [[sheep]], to the Slaughter.''' * '''You will, by the dignity of your Conduct, afford occasion for Posterity to say, when speaking of the glorious example you have exhibited to Mankind, had this day been wanting, the World had never seen the last stage of perfection to which human nature is capable of attaining.''' === 1790s === [[File:M777 Light Towed Howitzer 1.jpg|thumb|To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.]] [[File:US Capitol dome Jan 2006.jpg|thumb|For happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens in giving it on all occasions their effectual support.]] * '''The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for giving to Mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy: a policy worthy of imitation.''' All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship. '''It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens in giving it on all occasions their effectual support.'''<br/>May [[w:American Jews|the Children of the Stock of Abraham]], who dwell in [[United States|this land]], continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other Inhabitants; while every one shall sit under his own vine and fig tree, and there shall be none to make him afraid. ** Letter to the Hebrew Congregation of Newport, Rhode Island (1790) * '''To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.''' ** First Annual Address, to both Houses of Congress (8 January 1790). ** Compare: "Qui desiderat pacem præparet bellum" (translated: "Who would desire peace should be prepared for war"), [[w:Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus|Vegetius]], ''Rei Militari'' 3, Prolog.; "In pace, ut sapiens, aptarit idonea bello" (translated: "In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war"), [[Horace]], Book ii. satire ii. [[File:Washington Indy Hall.jpg|thumb|All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external trappings of elevated office. To me there is nothing in it, beyond the lustre which may be reflected from its connection with a power of promoting human felicity.]] * '''The advancement of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation. But I cannot forbear intimating to you the expediency of giving effectual encouragement as well to the introduction of new and useful inventions from abroad, as to the exertions of skill and genius in producing them at home; and of facilitating the intercourse between the distant parts of our country by a due attention to the Post Office and Post Roads.''' ** First Annual Address, to both House of Congress (8 January 1790) * '''A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies.''' ** First Annual Address, to both House of Congress (8 January 1790) * '''All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external trappings of elevated office. To me there is nothing in it, beyond the lustre which may be reflected from its connection with a power of promoting human felicity. ''' ** Letter to Catherine Macaulay Graham (9 January 1790) * As mankind become more liberal they will be more apt to allow, that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the Community are equally entitled to the protection of civil Government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations in examples of justice and liberality. ** [http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-05-02-0193 Letter to Roman Catholics] (15 March 1790) *[A] good moral character is the first essential in a man, and that the habits contracted at your age are generally indelible, and your conduct here may stamp your character through life. It is therefore highly important that you should endeavor not only to be learned but virtuous. **[http://westillholdthesetruths.org/quotes/60/a-good-moral-character-is-the Letter to Steptoe Washington] (5 December 1790) * '''It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.''' ** Letter to his niece, Harriet Washington (30 October 1791) * '''Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause; and I was not without hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy of the present age would have put an effectual stop to contentions of this kind.''' ** [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=WasFi32.xml&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=69&division=div1 Letter to Sir Edward Newenham (22 June 1792)] as published in ''The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources'' (1939) as edited by John Clement Fitzpatrick <!-- United States Government Printing Office --> * '''Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated.''' I was in hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy, which has marked the present age, would at least have reconciled Christians of every denomination so far that we should never again see the religious disputes carried to such a pitch as to endanger the peace of society. ** [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=WasFi32.xml&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=155&division=div1 Letter to Edward Newenham (20 October 1792)], these statements and one from a previous letter to Newenham seem to have become combined and altered into a misquotation of Washington's original statements to read: ::: Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. I had hoped that liberal and enlightened thought would have reconciled the Christians so that their religious fights would not endanger the peace of Society. :::* As misquoted in ''The Conservative Soul: How We Lost It, How to Get It Back'' (2006) by Andrew Sullivan, p. 131 [[File:George Washington, freemason 02796u original.jpg|thumb|The milder [[virtues]] of the [[heart]] are highly respected by a [[society]] whose [[liberal]] [[principles]] must be founded in the immediate [[laws]] of [[truth]] and [[justice]]. To enlarge the sphere of [[social]] [[happiness]] is worthy the [[benevolent]] design of the [[Freemasonry|Masonic Institution]]; and it is most fervently to be wished, that the conduct of every member of the fraternity, as well as those publications which discover the principles which actuate them may tend to convince Mankind that the grand object of Masonry is to promote the happiness of the [[human]] race.]] * Flattering as it may be to the human mind, & truly honorable as it is to receive from our fellow citizens testimonies of approbation for exertions to promote the public welfare; it is not less pleasing to know that the milder [[virtues]] of the [[heart]] are highly respected by a [[society]] whose [[liberal]] [[principles]] must be founded in the immediate [[laws]] of [[truth]] and [[justice]]. To enlarge the sphere of [[social]] [[happiness]] is worthy the [[benevolent]] design of the [[Freemasonry|Masonic Institution]]; and it is most fervently to be wished, that the conduct of every member of the fraternity, as well as those publications which discover the principles which actuate them may tend to convince Mankind that the grand object of Masonry is to promote the happiness of the [[human]] race. ** [https://www.beliefnet.com/resourcelib/docs/86/Letter_from_George_Washington_to_the_Grand_Master_of_Free_Mas_1.html Letter to the Grand Lodge of Free Masons of Massachusetts (27 December 1792)], published in ''The Writings Of George Washington'' (1835) by Jared Sparks, p. 201 * '''We have abundant reason to rejoice, that, in this land, the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition, and that every person may here worship God according to the dictates of his own heart.''' In this enlightened age, & in this land of equal liberty, it is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the laws, nor deprive him of the right of attaining & holding the highest offices that are known in the United States. <br /> Your prayers for my present and future felicity are received with gratitude; and I sincerely wish, Gentlemen, that you may in your social and individual capacities taste those blessings, which a gracious God bestows upon the righteous. ** [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mgw2&fileName=gwpage039.db&recNum=111 Letter to the members] of [[w:The New Church |The New Church ]] in Baltimore (22 January 1793), published in ''The Writings Of George Washington'' (1835) by Jared Sparks, p. 201 * '''The friends of humanity will deprecate War, wheresoever it may appear; and we have experience enough of its evils, in this country, to know, that it should not be wantonly or unnecessarily entered upon.''' I trust, that the good citizens of the United States will show to the world, that they have as much wisdom in preserving peace at this critical juncture, as they have hitherto displayed valor in defending their just rights. ** Address to the merchants of Philadelphia (16 May 1793), published in ''The Writings Of George Washington'' (1835) by Jared Sparks, p. 202 *If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready for war **[http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/washs05.asp Fifth annual Message] (3 December 1793) * I am very glad to hear that the Gardener has saved so much of the St. foin seed, and that of the India Hemp. Make the most you can of both, by sowing them again in drills. . . Let the ground be well prepared, and the Seed (St. foin) be sown in April. The Hemp may be sown any where. ** George Washington in a letter to William Pearce at Mount Vernon (Philadelphia 24th Feby 1794), The Writings of George Washington, Bicentennial Edition 1939, [https://books.google.de/books?id=WIGyAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA279&dq=hemp p.279 books.google], and [https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-15-02-0210 founders.archives.gov] ** This quote is often confused with ''Make the most of the Indian hemp seed, and sow it everywhere!'' [http://www.mountvernon.org/research-collections/digital-encyclopedia/article/spurious-quotations/ George Washington Spurious Quotations] * '''When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly.''' ** Letter to Edmund Pendleton (22 January 1795) * Malignity, therefore, may dart its shafts, but no earthly power can deprive me of the consolation of knowing that I have not, in the whole course of my Administration (however numerous they may have been) committed an intentional error. * [https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/99-01-02-00615 Letter to David Humphreys] (12 June 1796) * '''Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable.''' It may, for a while, be irksome to do this, but that will wear off; and the practice will produce a rich harvest forever thereafter; whether in public or private walks of life. ** Letter to George Washington Parke Custis (7 January 1798) [[File:Mtvernon1.jpg|thumb|I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world...]] * '''It is infinitely better to have a few good men than many indifferent ones.''' ** Letter to James McHenry (10 August 1798) * '''I have heard much of the nefarious, & dangerous plan, & doctrines of the [[w:Illuminati|Illuminati]], but never saw the Book until you were pleased to send it to me.''' The same causes which have prevented my acknowledging the receipt of your letter, have prevented my reading the Book, hitherto; namely — the multiplicity of matters which pressed upon me before, & the debilitated state in which I was left after, a severe fever had been removed. And which allows me to add little more now, than thanks for your kind wishes and favourable sentiments, except to correct an error you have run into, of my Presiding over the English lodges in this Country. '''The fact is, I preside over none, nor have I been in one more than once or twice, within the last thirty years. I believe notwithstandings, that none of the Lodges in ''this'' Country are contaminated with the principles ascribed to the Society of the Illuminati.''' ** [http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/06-02-02-0435 Letter to Reverend G. W. Snyder (25 September 1798)] thanking him for a copy of ''Proofs of a Conspiracy against All the Religions and Governments of Europe'' (1798) by John Robison. *You could as soon as scrub the blackamore white, as to change the principles of '''a profest Democrat; and that he will leave nothing unattempted to overturn the Government of this Country.''' **[https://books.google.com/books?id=x4GyAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA474#v=onepage&q&f=false ''The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources 1745-1799, Vol. 36, August 4, 1797-October 28, 1798''] (letter written, 30 September 1798, Mount Vernon) p. 474 * <!-- Revd Sir I have your favor of the 17th instant before me; and my only motive to trouble you with the receipt of this letter, is to explain, and correct a mistake which I perceive the hurry in which I am obliged, often, to write letters, have led you into. <br /> --> '''It was not my intention to doubt that, the Doctrines of the [[w:Illuminati|Illuminati]], and principles of [[w:Jacobin (politics)|Jacobinism]] had not spread in the United States. On the contrary, no one is more truly satisfied of this fact than I am.''' <br /> The idea that I meant to convey, was, that I did not believe that the ''Lodges'' of Free Masons in ''this'' Country had, as ''Societies'', endeavoured to propagate the diabolical tenets of the first, or pernicious principles of the latter (if they are susceptible of seperation<!-- [sic] -->). That Individuals of them may have done it, or that the ''founder'', or ''instrument'' employed to found, the Democratic Societies in the United States, may have had these objects; and actually had a seperation<!-- [sic] --> of the ''People'' from their ''Government'' in view, is too evident to be questioned. <!-- <br /> My occupations are such, that but little leisure is allowed me to read News Papers, or Books of any kind; the reading of letters, and preparing answers, absorb much of my time. With respect — I remain Revd Sir Your Most Obedt Hble Ser. Go: Washington --> ** [http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=WasFi36.xml&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=388&division=div1 Letter to the Reverend G. W. Snyder (24 October 1798)] * '''So far as I am acquainted with the principles & Doctrines of Free Masonry, I conceive it to be founded in benevolence and to be exercised only for the good of mankind.''' If it has been a Cloak to promote improper or nefarious objects, it is a melancholly proof that in unworthy hands, the best institutions may be made use of to promote the worst designs. ** [http://memory.loc.gov/mss/mgw/mgw4/113/0400/0495.jpg Draft of a letter to the Grand Lodge of Free Masons of the State of Maryland (8 November 1798)] *'''As mankind become more liberal they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protection of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations in examples of justice and liberality.''' **[http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/letter-to-the-roman-catholics/ Letter to the Roman Catholics in America] (15 March 1790) * To sell the overplus I cannot, because '''I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species.''' To hire them out, is almost as bad, because they could not be disposed of in families to any advantage, and to disperse the families I have an aversion. What then is to be done? Something must or I shall be ruined; for all the money (in addition to what I raise by Crops, and rents) that have been received for Lands, sold within the last four years, to the amount of Fifty thousand dollars, has scarcely been able to keep me a float. ** Letter to Robert Lewis, 18 August 1799, published in John Clement Fitzpatrick, ''The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources'', volume 37, pp. 338-9 * '''I die hard but am not afraid to go'''. I believed from my first attack that I should not survive it — my breath cannot last long. ** The first sentence here is sometimes presented as being his last statement before dying, but they are reported as part of the fuller statement, and as being said in the afternoon prior to his death in ''Life of Washington'' (1859) by [[Washington Irving]], and his actual last words are stated to have been those reported by [[w:Tobias Lear|Tobias Lear]] below. * '''Tis well.''' ** Washington's last words, as recorded by [[w:Tobias Lear|Tobias Lear]], in his [http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/project/exhibit/mourning/lear.html journal (14 December 1799)]. Washington said this after being satisfied that precautions would be taken against his being buried prematurely: :: About ten o'clock he made several attempts to speak to me before he could effect it, at length he said, — "I am just going. Have me decently buried; and do not let my body be put into the Vault in less than three days after I am dead." I bowed assent, for I could not speak. He then looked at me again and said, "Do you understand me? I replied "Yes." "Tis well" said he. ::* A conflation of the last two quotes has also sometimes been reported as his last statement: "It is well. I die hard but am not afraid to go". ====Letter to Catharine Macaulay Graham (1790)==== :<small>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160218134748/http://www.bartleby.com/400/prose/421.html Letter to Catharine Macaulay Graham] (9 January 1790), New York.</small> *'''The establishment of our new government seemed to be the last great experiment for promoting human happiness by a reasonable compact in civil society'''. It was to be in the first instance, in a considerable degree, a government of accommodation as well as a government of laws. Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness. Few, who are not philosophical spectators, can realize the difficult and delicate part, which a man in my situation had to act. All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external happiness of elevated office. To me there is nothing in it beyond the lustre, which may be reflected from its connection with a power of promoting human felicity. ====To the Hebrew Congregation in {{w|Newport, Rhode Island}}, 18 August 1790==== :<small>''[https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-06-02-0135 From George Washington to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island, 18 August 1790]'', ''{{w|National Archives and Records Administration}}''.</small> * The reflection on the days of difficulty and danger which are past is rendered the more sweet, from a consciousness that they are succeeded by days of uncommon prosperity and security. If we have wisdom to make the best use of the advantages with which we are now favored, we cannot fail, under the just administration of a good Government, to become a great and happy people. * The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for having given to mankind examples of an enlarged and [[Liberalism|liberal]] policy: a policy worthy of imitation. All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship. It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. '''For happily the {{w|Government of the United States}}, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens, in giving it on all occasions their effectual support.''' * '''May the [[Jews|children]] of the Stock of [[Abraham]], who dwell [[w:History of the Jews in the United States|in this land]], continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other Inhabitants; while every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and figtree, and there shall be none to make him afraid. May the father of all mercies scatter light and not darkness in our paths, and make us all in our several vocations useful here, and in his own due time and way everlastingly happy.''' ==== Farewell Address (1796) ==== [[File:Gilbert_Stuart,_George_Washington_(Lansdowne_portrait,_1796).jpg|thumb|I have the consolation to believe, that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it...]] [[File:Black and white handshake MOD 45148076.jpg|thumb|Nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated.]] :<small> [[s:Washington's Farewell Address|The Farewell Address (17 September 1796) Full text at Wikisource]] </small> * '''Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.''' Satisfied, that, if any circumstances have given peculiar value to my services, they were temporary, '''I have the consolation to believe, that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.''' * '''Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment.''' <br/> The unity of Government, which constitutes you one people, is also now dear to you. It is justly so; for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquillity at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very Liberty, which you so highly prize. * '''It is of infinite moment, that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union to your collective and individual happiness'''; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the Palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion, that it can in any event be abandoned; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts. [[File:EdwardMoran-UnveilingTheStatueofLiberty1886Large.jpg|thumb|Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment.]] [[File:Ferguson Day 7, Picture 18.png|thumb|Hence, likewise, they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.]] * While, then, every part of our country thus feels an immediate and particular interest in Union, all the parts combined cannot fail to find in the united mass of means and efforts greater strength, greater resource, proportionably greater security from external danger, a less frequent interruption of their peace by foreign nations; and, what is of inestimable value, they must derive from Union an exemption from those broils and wars between themselves, which so frequently afflict neighbouring countries not tied together by the same governments, which their own rivalships alone would be sufficient to produce, but which opposite foreign alliances, attachments, and intrigues would stimulate and embitter. '''Hence, likewise, they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican Liberty.''' In this sense it is, that your Union ought to be considered as a main prop of your liberty, and that the love of the one ought to endear to you the preservation of the other. * '''One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts. '''You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and heart-burnings, which spring from these misrepresentations; they tend to render alien to each other those, who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection. * '''To the efficacy and permanency of your Union, a Government for the whole is indispensable.''' No alliances, however strict, between the parts can be an adequate substitute; they must inevitably experience the infractions and interruptions, which all alliances in all times have experienced. Sensible of this momentous truth, you have improved upon your first essay, by the adoption of a Constitution of Government better calculated than your former for an intimate Union, and for the efficacious management of your common concerns. * '''The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government. But the Constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all.''' The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established Government. <br /> All obstructions to the execution of the Laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation, the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community; and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels, and modified by mutual interests. <br /> However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people, and to usurp for themselves the reins of government; destroying afterwards the very engines, which have lifted them to unjust dominion. * Towards the preservation of your government, and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite, not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts. One method of assault may be to effect, in the forms of the constitution, alterations, which will impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown. [[File:Eagle and American Flag by Bubbels.jpg|thumb|It is of infinite moment, that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union to your collective and individual happiness.]] * I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the state, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. '''Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party, generally.''' * '''The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.''' But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. '''The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty.'''<br /> Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind, (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight,) the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it. * '''The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it. '''<br/> It serves always to distract the Public Councils, and enfeeble the Public Administration. It agitates the Community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. [[File:Benjamin_Franklin_-_Join_or_Die.jpg|thumb|Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party, generally.]] [[File:Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States.jpg|thumb|If in the opinion of the People, the distribution or modification of the Constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.]] * '''If in the opinion of the People, the distribution or modification of the Constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.''' * '''Of all the dispositions and habits, which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports.''' In vain would that man claim the tribute of Patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of Men and Citizens. The mere Politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connexions with private and public felicity. ** The Internet document known as "History Forgotten" or "Forsaken Roots" misquotes the opening of this section as follows: "It is impossible to govern the world without God and the Bible. Of all the dispositions and habits that lead to political prosperity, our religion and morality are the indispensable supports." * Let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect, that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. * '''It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government.''' * '''Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.''' * As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is, to use it as sparingly as possible; avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, but remembering also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it; avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts, which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen, which we ourselves ought to bear. [[File:Thanksgiving chapel interior.jpg|thumb|Of all the dispositions and habits, which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports.]] * '''Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all.''' Religion and Morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be, that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great Nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt, that, in the course of time and things, the fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages, which might be lost by a steady adherence to it? Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its Virtue? * In the execution of such a plan, '''nothing is more essential, than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular Nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated.''' The Nation, which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest. Antipathy in one nation against another disposes each more readily to offer insult and injury, to lay hold of slight causes of umbrage, and to be haughty and intractable, when accidental or trifling occasions of dispute occur. Hence frequent collisions, obstinate, envenomed, and bloody contests. *So likewise, a '''passionate attachment of one Nation for another''' produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite Nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest, in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter, without adequate inducement or justification. It leads also to concessions to the favorite Nation of privileges denied to others, which is apt doubly to injure the Nation making the concessions; by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained; and by exciting jealousy, ill-will, and a disposition to retaliate, in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld. And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens, (who devote themselves to the favorite nation,) facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding, with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation. [[File:Tiffany Education (center).JPG|thumb|In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened...]] * Real Patriots, who may resist the intrigues of the favourite, are liable to become suspected and odious; while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people, to surrender their interests. (Note: spelling/capitalization likely original.[http://www.bartleby.com/43/24.html]). * The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connexion as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop. * ''' 'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world'''; so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. '''I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.''' I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But, in my opinion, it is unnecessary and would be unwise to extend them. * There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation. [[File:UN General Assembly.jpg|thumb|Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all.]] * '''Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.''' * In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting impression I could wish; that they will control the usual current of the passions, or prevent our nation from running the course, which has hitherto marked the destiny of nations. '''But, if I may even flatter myself, that they may be productive of some partial benefit, some occasional good; that they may now and then recur to moderate the fury of party spirit, to warn against the mischiefs of foreign intrigue, to guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism; this hope will be a full recompense for the solicitude for your welfare, by which they have been dictated.''' ** This has sometimes been misquoted as: '''Guard against the postures of pretended patriotism.''' * The duty of holding a neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and humanity impose on every nation, in cases in which it is free to act, to maintain inviolate the relations of peace and amity towards other nations. * Though, in reviewing the incidents of my administration, I am unconscious of intentional error, I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors. Whatever they may be, I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which they may tend. I shall also carry with me the hope, that my Country will never cease to view them with indulgence; and that, after forty-five years of my life dedicated to its service with an upright zeal, the faults of incompetent abilities will be consigned to oblivion, as myself must soon be to the mansions of rest. == Posthumous attributions == [[File:The Old Flag Never Touched the Ground.jpg|thumb|Nothing but the rooting out of slavery can perpetuate the existence of our union, by consolidating it in a common bond of principle.]] * Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens,) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake; since history and experience prove, that Foreign Influence is one of the most baneful foes of Republican Government. But that jealousy, to be useful, must be impartial; else it becomes the instrument of the very influence to be avoided, instead of a defense against it. ** Attributed to [[George Washington]], John Frederick Schroeder, D. D., Maxims of Washington; Political, Social, Moral, and Religious. Third Edition, p. 90, (1854). * So, there lies the brave [[Johann de Kalb|de Kalb]]. The generous stranger, who came from a distant land to fight our battles and to water with his blood the tree of liberty. Would to God he had lived to share its fruits! ** Upon visiting the grave of [[Johann de Kalb]], some years after his death, as quoted in [https://books.google.com/books?id=40wyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA96&dq=%22Would+to+God+he+had+lived+to+share+its+fruits%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=2IoZVa3XLuyasQTXiIDoCg&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22Would%20to%20God%20he%20had%20lived%20to%20share%20its%20fruits%22&f=false "Baron De Kalb"] (1827), by [[w:George R. Graham|George R. Graham]] and [[Edgar Allan Poe]], ''Graham's Illustrated Magazine of Literature, Romance, Art, and Fashion'', Volume 2, Watson, p. 96. * Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly forsee that nothing but the rooting out of slavery can perpetuate the existence of our union, by consolidating it in a common bond of principle. ** Attributed to [[w:George Washington|George Washington]], John Bernard, Retrospections of America, 1797–1811, p. 91 (1887). This is from Bernard's account of a conversation he had with Washington in 1798. Reported as unverified in ''Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations'' (1989). {{Disputed begin}} ==Disputed== * Americans! let the opinion then delivered by the greatest and best of men, be ever present to your remembrance. He was collected within himself. His countenance had more than usual solemnity; his, eye was fixed, and seemed to look into futurity. "'''It is''' (said he) '''too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair. The event is in the hand of God.'''" This was the patriot voice of Washington; and this the constant tenor of his conduct. With this deep sense of duty, he gave to our Constitution his cordial assent; and has added the fame of a legislator to that of a hero. ** Attributions in an "Oration upon the Death of General Washington, Delivered at the Request of the Corporation of the City of New York On the 31st of December, 1799", by Gouverneur Morris. Though these words, supposedly given at the opening of the Constitutional Convention, were not recorded in [[James Madison]]'s summary of the events of 25 May 1787, George Bancroft accepted them as genuine (''History of the United States of America'', volume VI, Book III, Chapter I). Henry Cabot Lodge however gave cogent reasons for rejecting them (''George Washington'', Volume II, Chapter I). The attribution to Washington was so widely accepted that [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015060022434;view=1up;seq=48 it was engraved above the Fifteenth Street entrance to the Department of Commerce Bldg.] in Washington, D.C., on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Square_Arch the arch in Washington Square Park in New York City] and [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015060022434;view=1up;seq=50 on a bronze plaque above the Eighteenth Street doorway to Constitution Hall]. {{Disputed end}} {{Misattributed begin}} == Misattributed == :<small>Statements originally made by others, that have become wrongly attributed to Washington </small> [[File:George Washington dollar.jpg|thumb|He seemed to enjoy a triumph over me. Methought I heard him think, "Ay! I am fairly out and you are fairly in! See which of us will be the happiest!" ~ [[John Adams]] ]] * '''Associate yourself with Men of good Quality if you Esteem your own Reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad Company.''' ** This is from a set of maxims which Washington copied out in his own hand as a school-boy: [http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/documents/the-rules-of-civility/ "Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation]" Rule # 56 written out by Washington ''ca''. 1744: :: These maxims originated in the late sixteenth century in France and were popularly circulated during Washington's time. Washington wrote out a copy of the 110 Rules in his school book when he was about sixteen-years old... During the days before mere hero worship had given place to understanding and comprehension of the fineness of Washington's character, of his powerful influence among men, and of the epoch-making nature of the issues he so largely shaped, it was assumed that Washington himself composed the maxims, or at least that he compiled them. It is a satisfaction to find that his consideration for others, his respect for and deference to those deserving such treatment, his care of his own body and tongue, and even his reverence for his Maker, all were early inculcated in him by precepts which were the common practice in decent society the world over. These very maxims had been in use in France for a century and a half, and in England for a century, before they were set as a task for the schoolboy Washington. ::* Charles Moore in his [http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/documents/civility/index.html Introduction to ''George Washington's Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation'' (1926)], edited by Charles Moore, <!-- Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company -->xi-xv * A solemn scene it was indeed... He seemed to enjoy a triumph over me. Methought I heard him think,''' "Ay! I am fairly out and you are fairly in! See which of us will be the happiest!"''' ** [[John Adams]], in a letter to his wife [[Abigail Adams|Abigail]] was here expressing his impression of what Washington seemed to be thinking after Adams was inaugurated as President. These impressions have sometimes been quoted as if they were something Washington had actually said to Adams. Quoted in ''A History of the United States and Its People: From Their Earliest Records to the Present Time'' (1904) by William Abbatt and Elroy McKendree Avery, p. 177; ''John Adams'' (2002) by David G. McCullough, p. 469; and ''The Portable John Adams'' (2004) edited by John Patrick Diggins, p. xi ** Unsourced variants: Well, I am fairly out and you are fairly in. Now we shall see who enjoys it the most! <br /> Ah! I am fairly out and you are fairly in! See which of us will be the happiest! * '''The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.''' ** This statement was made by an official representative of the U.S. during Washington's presidency, but is actually a line from the English version of the ''[[w:Treaty of Tripoli|Treaty of Tripoli]]'' ([http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/bar1796t.asp#art11 Article 11]), which was signed at Tripoli on November 4, 1796, and at Algiers on January 3, 1797. It received ratification unanimously from the U.S. Senate on June 7, 1797 and was signed into law by [[John Adams]]. The wording of the treaty is by [[Joel Barlow]], U.S. Consul, who had served as Washington's chaplain, and was also a good friend of [[Thomas Paine|Paine]] and [[Thomas Jefferson|Jefferson]]; Article 11 of it reads: :::As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion,—as it has in itself no character or enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen,—and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries. * ...we are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, '''true religion affords to government its surest support'''. ** This is from a letter written ''to'' Washington on 9 October 1789 by the synod of the Reformed Dutch Church of North America (image of the letter on the Library of Congress site [http://memory.loc.gov/mss/mgw/mgw2/038/0650049.jpg here]). Washington quoted the portion in bold in his reply. * I am a citizen of the greatest Republic of Mankind. I see the human race united like a huge family by brotherly ties. We have made a sowing of liberty which will, little by little, spring up across the whole world. One day, on the model of the United States of America, a United States of Europe will come into being. The United States will legislate for all its nationalities. ** Attributed to Washington in [http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-europefuture/article_344.jsp "Farewell to the United States of Europe: long live the EU!" by André Fontaine at Open Democracy (29 November 2001)]. It appears to have originally circulated in French: ::: Je suis citoyen de la Grande République de l'Humanité. Je vois le genre humain uni comme une grande famille par des liens fraternels. Nous avons jeté une semence de liberté et d'union qui germera peu à peu dans toute la Terre. Un jour, sur le modèle des Etats-Unis d'Amérique, se constitueront les États-Unis d'Europe. Les États-Unis seront le législateur de toutes les nationalités. :: An anonymous blogger in [http://racehist.blogspot.com/2010/01/did-george-washington-predict-united.html "Did George Washington predict a "United States of Europe"? (30 January 2010)] showed that it derived from Gustave Rodrigues, ''Le peuple de l'action: essai sur l'idéalisme américain'' (A. Colin, 1917), p. 207: ::: Washington écrivait à La Fayette qu'il se condérait comme « citoyen de la grande république de l'humanité » et ajoutait : « Je vois le genre humain uni comme une grande famille par des liens fraternels ». Ailleurs il écrivait, prophétiquement: « Nous avons jeté une semence de liberté et d'union qui germera peu à peu dans toute la terre. Un jour, sur le modèle des Etats-Unis d'Amérique, se constitueront les États-Unis d'Europe. » :: A translation by Louise Seymour Houghton ([http://books.google.com/books?id=b8Y9AAAAYAAJ ''The People of Action: An Essay on American Idealism'' (1918)]) reads: ::: Washington wrote to Lafayette that he considered himself a "citizen of the great republic of humanity," adding: "I see the human race a great family, united by fraternal bonds." Elsewhere he wrote prophetically: "We have sown a seed of liberty and union that will gradually germinate throughout the earth. Some day, on the model of the United States of America, will be constituted the United States of Europe." [pp. 209-210] :: The first two quotations come from a letter to the Marquis de Lafayette of 15 August 1786 (see above) as quoted in Joseph Fabre's ''Washington, libérateur de l'Amérique: suivi de Washington et la revolution Américaine'' (Ch. Delagrave, 1886), and the third is also found in that source where, although placed between quotation marks, it is clearly intended as the author's own comments on what "Washington and his friends" were saying to the world by establishing the American Constitution. Gustave Rodrigues mistakenly printed Fabre's words as Washington's alongside some actual observations of his from a letter to Lafayette, and so created the misquotation. * Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people’s Liberty teeth and keystone under Independence. The church, the plow, the prairie wagon, and citizens’ firearms are indelibly related. From the hour the Pilgrims landed, to the present day, events, occurrences and tendencies prove that to insure peace, security and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable. Every corner of this Land knows firearms and more than 99 99/100 per cent of them by their silence indicate they are in safe and sane hands. The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference and they deserve a place of honor with all that’s good. When firearms go all goes, therefore we need them every hour. ** This is the conclusion to an article entitled "Older Ideas of Firearms" by C. S. Wheatley; it was published in the September 1926 issue of ''Hunter, Trader, Trapper'' (vol. 53, no. 3), p. 34. Wheatley had referred to George Washington's address to the second session of the first Congress immediately before this passage, which may have given rise to the mistaken attribution. See [http://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/02/26/firearm/ this piece] at ''Quote Investigator'' * The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments. ** US Senator [[w: William Borah|William Edgar Borah]], writing in ''The Reader's Digest'', Vol. 8, Issue 2 (1929), p. 776; this has only rarely begun to be attributed to Washington, since about 2010. * It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy, to deny a man the liberty he hath by nature upon a supposition that he may abuse it. ** [[Oliver Cromwell]], letter to Walter Dundas, 12 September 1650; this is also a recent misattribution. === Spurious attributions === :<small>Statements which evidence indicates are fabrications, never actually said by anyone prior to their being attributed to Washington.</small> * <span id="cannot-lie"></span>'''I cannot tell a lie, I did it with my little hatchet.''' ** The earliest source of this quote was a famous anecdote in ''The Life of George Washington, with Curious Anecdotes Laudable to Himself and Exemplary to his Countrymen'' (1806) by [[Parson Weems]], which is not considered a credible source, and many incidents recounted in the work are now considered to have sprung entirely from Weems’ imagination. This derives from an anecdote of Washington, as a young boy, confessing to his father Augustine Washington that it was he who had cut a cherished cherry tree. ** Variant:'''Father, I cannot tell a lie''', I cut the tree. * '''What students would learn in American schools above all is the religion of Jesus Christ.''' ** A modern fabrication, possibly derived from David Barton's claim (''Original Intent'', p. 85) that "By George Washington’s own words, what youths learned in America’s schools 'above all' was 'the religion of Jesus Christ.'”. Washington did use the phrase "above all the religion of Jesus Christ" on 12 May 1779 in a reply to a petition from a Lenape delegation asking for assistance in promoting the missionary activities of David Zeisberger among their people: "You do well to wish to learn our arts and ways of life, and above all, the religion of Jesus Christ. These will make you a greater and happier people than you are. Congress will do every thing they can to assist you in this wise intention..." He did not say anything about "What students would learn in American schools," though earlier in the same reply he did say "I am glad you have brought three of the Children of your principal Chiefs to be educated with us." While there's nothing in the reply about how those "Children" might be educated (in fact Congress put two of them through Princeton) it's possible that suggested the fabricated portion. See Louise Phelps Kellogg, ''Frontier Advance on the Upper Ohio 1778-1779'' (Madison WI, 1916), pp. 317-324, for the episode. Washington's reply is also found in John C. Fitzpatrick, ''The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799'', vol. 15 (Washington D.C., 1936), p. 55 * A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government. ** A further quote sometimes purported to be from a speech to Congress, January 7, 1790 purportedly in the Boston Independent Chronicle, January 14, 1790, this is actually a corruption of a statement made in his first State of the Union Address, relating to the need for maintaining governmental troops and military preparedness: ::: '''A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies.''' <br /> The proper establishment of the troops which may be deemed indispensable will be entitled to mature consideration. In the arrangements which may be made respecting it it will be of importance to conciliate the comfortable support of the officers and soldiers with a due regard to economy. ** The misquote can be found in the Congressional Record 2008, in a speech delivered by Paul Broun of Georgia.<ref>https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CRECB-2008-pt10/html/CRECB-2008-pt10-Pg13949.htm</ref> * '''It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.''' ** Washington is known to have made some official statements of public piety, but this is not one of them. The assertion is very widely reported to have been said in [[wikisource:Washington's Farewell Address|Washington's Farewell Address]] (17 September 1796), but this is ''not'' actually the case, as any search of the documents would reveal. It has also been [http://www.doctorsenator.com/ReligionandTyranny.html presented as] having been part of his Proclamation on January 1, 1795 of February 19th, 1795 as a day of national Thanksgiving. The oldest form of this saying appears as part of an argument for the existence of God attributed to Washington in an undocumented biography written for children. In ''A Life of Washington'' (1836) by [[w:James K. Paulding|James K. Paulding]], Washington is quoted as having stated: *** '''It is impossible to govern the universe without the aid of a Supreme Being.''' : (For the context see Paulding's anecdote given below in the section of quotations about Washington.) This is unattributed, and no source other than Paulding is known. In 1864 the words "the aid of a Supreme Being" were replaced by the word "God" in Benjamin Franklin Morris, [https://books.google.com/books?id=H92keUU_Xy8C&pg=PA510#v=onepage&q&f=false ''Christian Life and Character of the Civil Institutions of the United States''] (1864), p. 510: ::*It is impossible ... to govern the universe without '''God...''' :Three years later, in 1867, Henry Wilson (''Testimonies of American Statesmen and Jurists to the Truths of Christianity'', American Tract Society) replaced "universe" with "world": ::*It is impossible to govern the '''world''' without God. : In 1893 Howard H. Russell ([http://books.google.com/books?id=-z0OAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA40#v=onepage&q&f=false ''A Lawyer's Examination of the Bible''], 1893) added the word "rightly" and the phrase "and the Bible" to create the most commonly cited form: ::* It is impossible to '''rightly''' govern the world without God '''and the Bible'''. : This form, which is also found in [https://books.google.com/books?id=bb_hAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA35&dq=%22It+is+impossible+to+rightly+govern+the+world+without+God+and+the+Bible%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=whWlVJ61GJDugwTMk4CgDQ&ved=0CDcQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=%22It%20is%20impossible%20to%20rightly%20govern%20the%20world%20without%20God%20and%20the%20Bible%22&f=false ''Upper Room Bulletin'', Vol. 7, No. 3 (23 October 1920)], rests on no other authority than Russell, who was born long after Washington had died. It is clearly spurious. The saying is often found attached to genuine material such as [http://www.pilgrimhall.org/ThanxProc1789.htm Washington's 1795 Thanksgiving proclamation]: ::*It is in an especial manner our duty as a people, with devout reverence and affectionate gratitude, to acknowledge our many and great obligations to Almighty God, and to implore Him to continue and confirm the blessings we experienced. It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible. It is impossible to account for the creation of the universe, without the agency of a Supreme Being. It is impossible to govern the universe without the aid of a Supreme Being. It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being. Religion is as necessary to reason, as reason is to religion. The one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would lose his reason, in attempting to account for the great phenomena of nature, had he not a Supreme Being to refer to. : The first sentence is an almost accurate rendition of one from the official proclamation, being a portion of this segment: :: In such a state of things''' it is in an especial manner our duty as a people, with devout reverence and affectionate gratitude, to acknowledge our many and great obligations to Almighty God and to implore Him to continue and confirm the blessings we experience.''' Deeply penetrated with this sentiment, I, George Washington, President of the United States, do recommend to all religious societies and denominations, and to all persons whomsoever, within the United States to set apart and observe Thursday, the 19th day of February next as a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, and on that day to meet together and render their sincere and hearty thanks to the Great Ruler of Nations for the manifold and signal mercies which distinguish our lot as a nation... : It is to be noted that there is genuine piety expressed in this statement, but it is not of any sectarian kind, Christian or otherwise. The last portion of the bogus statement which uses it is a truncation of a statement attributed to him in an undocumented biography written for children. In ''A Life of Washington'' (1836) by [[w:James K. Paulding|James K. Paulding]], Washington is quoted as having stated: :: It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being. Religion is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion. The one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would lose his reason in attempting to account for the great phenomena of nature, had he not a Supreme Being to refer to; and well has it been said, that if there had been no God, mankind would have been obliged to imagine one. :In the spurious version of the Thanksgiving proclamation which uses a portion of this, Washington's allusions to [[Voltaire]]'s famous statement that "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him" has been omitted. In the cases of these "quotations" it seems that if statements suitable to their sectarian interests do not exist, some people feel it necessary to invent them. * '''Government is not reason, it is not eloquence,—it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant, and a fearful master; never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.''' ** Attributed to "The First President of the United States" in "Liberty and Government" by W. M., in ''The Christian Science Journal'', Vol. XX, No. 8 (November 1902) edited by [[Mary Baker Eddy]], p. 465; no earlier or original source for this statement is cited; later quoted in ''The Cry for Justice : An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest'' (1915) edited by [[Upton Sinclair]], p. 305, from which it became far more widely quoted and in Frank J. Wilstach, ''A Dictionary of Similes'', 2d ed., p. 526 (1924). In ''The Great Thoughts'' (1985), [[George Seldes]] says, p. 441, col. 2, footnote, this paragraph “although credited to the ‘Farewell’ [address] cannot be found in it. Lawson Hamblin, who owns a facsimile, and Horace Peck, America’s foremost authority on quotations, informed me this paragraph is apocryphal.” It is listed as spurious at the [http://www.mountvernon.org/research-collections/digital-encyclopedia/article/spurious-quotations/ Mount Vernon website] *** Unsourced variant : Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. {{anchor|Jews}} * The Jews work more effectively against us than the enemy's armies. They are a hundred times more dangerous to our liberties and the great cause we are engaged in. It is much to be lamented that each state, long ago, has not hunted them down as pests to society and the greatest enemies we have to the happiness of America. ** Sometimes rendered : "They (the Jews) work more effectively against us, than the enemy's armies. They are a hundred times more dangerous to our liberties and the great cause we are engaged in... It is much to be lamented that each state, long ago, has not hunted them down as pest to society and the greatest enemies we have to the happiness of America." ***Both of these are doctored statements that have been widely disseminated as genuine on many anti-semitic websites; They are distortions derived from a statement that was attributed to Washington in ''Maxims of George Washington'' about '''currency speculators''' during the Revolutionary war, ''not'' about Jews: "This tribe of black gentry work more effectually against us, than the enemy's arms. They are a hundred times more dangerous to our liberties, and the great cause we are engaged in. It is much to be lamented that each State, long ere this, has not hunted them down as pests to society, and the greatest enemies we have to the happiness of America." ****More information is available at Snopes. com: [http://www.snopes.com/quotes/thejews.htm "To Bigotry, No Sanction"] **This quotation is a classic anti-semitic hoax, evidently begun during or just before World War Two by American Nazi sympathizers, and since then has been repeated, for example, in foreign propaganda directed at Americans. **It is knitted from two separate letters by Washington, in reverse chronology, neither of them mentioning Jews **#The first part of this forgery is from Washington's [[#Letter to Edmund Pendleton (1779)|letter to Edmund Pendleton in November 1779]] complaining about black marketeers and others undermining the purchasing power of colonial currency **#The second part of this fabricated quote is from Washington's [[#Letter to Joseph Reed (1778)|letter to Joseph Reed in December 1778]] again condemning war profiteers * We had quitters during the Revolution too... we called them "Kentuckians." ** This attribution apparently originated with a statement of a cartoon version of Washington on [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0701155/quotes an episode] of [[The Simpsons]]. Though not initially presented as a genuine quote this has sometimes been attributed to Washington. * Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do—then do it with all your strength. ** This saying is not found in any source before 2010, when it was posted by The Ignorant Fisherman at [http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2451682/posts Free Republic] on 15 February. The language is not that of Washington or his time. {{Misattributed end}} ==Quotes about George Washington== :<small>Sorted alphabetically by author or source</small> [[File:Washington 1787-1790.jpg|thumb|More than all, and above all, Washington was master of [[himself]]. ~ [[w:Charles Francis Adams Sr.|Charles Francis Adams]] ]] [[File:Washington Constitutional Convention 1787.jpg|thumb|He is polite with [[dignity]], [[affable]] without formality, distant without haughtiness, grave without austerity; [[modest]], [[wise]] and [[good]]. ~ [[Abigail Adams]]]] [[File:Thomas Hovenden - The Last Moments of John Brown - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|The [[natural]] [[equal]] [[rights]] of men. If Washington or [[Jefferson]] or [[Madison]] should utter upon his native soil today the [[opinions]] he entertained and expressed upon this question, he would be denounced as a fanatical [[abolitionist]]. To declare the right of all men to [[liberty]] is sectional, because [[slavery]] is [[afraid]] of liberty and strikes the mouth that speaks the [[word]]. ~ [[George William Curtis]]]] [[File:George Washington Bridge, HAER NY-129-68.jpg|thumb|George Washington is one of the beacons placed at intervals along the highroad of [[history]]. ~ Orestes Ferrara]] [[File:Presence of Washington.jpg|thumb|Let us forget the other [[names]] of [[American]] [[statesmen]], that have been stamped upon these hills, but still call the loftiest — [[w:Mount Washington (New Hampshire)| WASHINGTON]]. ~ [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]] ]] [[File:MtRushmore GW close.jpg|thumb|He was, indeed, in every sense of the words, a [[wise]], a [[good]], and a [[great]] man. ~ [[Thomas Jefferson]] ]] [[File:Washington monument base and flags Jan 2006.jpg|thumb|Never did [[nature]] and [[fortune]] combine more [[perfectly]] to make a man [[great]], and to place him in the same constellation with whatever worthies have merited from man an [[everlasting]] [[remembrance]]. ~ [[Thomas Jefferson]] ]] [[File:IMG 2271 - Washington DC - Washington Monument - Cherry Blossoms.JPG|thumb|Let him who looks for a [[monument]] to Washington look around the [[United States]]. Your [[freedom]], your [[independence]], your [[national]] [[power]], your [[prosperity]], and your prodigious [[growth]] are a monument to him. ~ [[w:Lajos Kossuth|Lajos Kossuth]] ]] [[File:Portrait of George Washington-transparent.png|thumb|First in [[war]], first in [[peace]], and first in the [[hearts]] of his countrymen. ~ [[w:Henry Lee|Henry Lee]] ]] [[File:US Navy 050704-N-5608F-020 Fireworks burst above the Washington Monument in celebration of America's 229th birthday.jpg|thumb|To add brightness to the [[sun]], or [[glory]] to the [[name]] of Washington, is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked deathless splendor leave it shining on. ~ [[Abraham Lincoln]] ]] [[File:Night view of Washington Monuments.JPG|thumb|You have in American [[history]] one of the [[great]] captains of all times. ~ [[Helmuth von Moltke the Elder]] ]] [[File:Fourth of July fireworks behind the Washington Monument, 1986.jpg|thumb|Washington's [[genius]] lay in his [[understanding]] of [[power]], both [[military]] power, and [[political]] power, an understanding unmatched by that of any of his contemporaries. ~ [[w:Edmund Morgan|Edmund Sears Morgan]] ]] [[File:WDCMemorial.JPG|thumb|The name of an iron man goes round the world. <br /> It takes a long time to forget an iron man. ~ [[Carl Sandburg]] ]] [[File:MTVernonseenfromtheriver.jpg|thumb|When George Washington was fighting for [[freedom]] in the [[Revolutionary War]], he was fighting for the freedom of "whites only." Rich whites, at that. After the so-called Revolution, you couldn't [[vote]] unless you were a white man and you owned a plot of land. The Revolutionary War was led by some rich white boys who got tired of paying heavy [[taxes]] to the king. ~ [[Assata Shakur]]]] [[File:George Washington Statue Inside Washington Monument.JPG|thumb|No man ever united in his own person a more perfect alliance of the [[virtues]] of a [[philosopher]] with the [[talents]] of a [[Soldier|general]].]] :<small>These should be arranged alphabetically by author</small> * '''He is polite with [[dignity]], [[affable]] without formality, distant without haughtiness, grave without austerity; [[modest]], [[wise]] and [[good]].''' ** [[Abigail Adams]], in a letter to [[John Adams]], 1789; from ''[[Alexander Hamilton]]'' (2004) by [[w:Ron Chernow|Ron Chernow]], <!-- Penguin Books -->p. 279 * '''More than all, and above all, Washington was master of himself.''' If there be one quality more than another in his character which may exercise a useful control over the men of the present hour, it is the total disregard of self when in the most elevated positions for influence and example. ** [[Charles Francis Adams Sr.]], as quoted in [http://infomotions.com/etexts/gutenberg/dirs/1/5/1/4/15140/15140.htm ''Washington's Birthday : Its History, Observance, Spirit, and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse'' (1918) by Robert Haven Schauffler], p. 143 * If I were to characterize George Washington's feelings toward his country, I should be less inclined than most people to stress what is called Washington's love of his country. What impresses me as far more important is what I should call Washington's respect for his country. ** [http://www.clements.umich.edu/Staffpages/Adams.html Randolph Greenfield Adams], in ''The Dignity of George Washington'' (1932) * There is nothing that will make an Englishman shit so quick as the sight of General Washington. ** Retort attributed to [[Ethan Allen]], commenting after a picture of Washington was hung in a British outhouse; in an anecdote told by [[Abraham Lincoln]], as quoted in ''Lincoln'', Vol. 1 (1996) by David Herbert Donald ** Variant: It is most appropriately hung, nothing ever made the British shit like the sight of George Washington. *The location of Washington's home is most beautiful and commanding, but, oh, the air of dilapidation and decay that everywhere meets the eye, the tottering out-buildings, the mark of slavery o'ershadow[ing] the whole. Oh, the thought that it was here, that he whose name is the pride of this nation was the Slave Master. The humorous, little buildings surrounding, or rather in [the] rear of the great house plainly tell the tale-a Slave, Woman, the cook of the present owner, Grand Nephew of Gen. Washington, told me these buildings were the Servants' Quarters. The tomb is humble indeed. It would seem that, if the profession of reverence for the "Father of his Country" were real, that this home of Washington would be rescued from the curse of slave labor, and made to blossom in the sunshine of free labor.... **[[Susan B. Anthony]], 1854 letter included in ''Mistress of Herself: Speeches and Letters of [[Ernestine Rose]] edited by Paula Doress-Worters (2008) *When everybody says "lesbian," a word connected with [[Sappho]] and the island of Lesbos, that automatically means that your forefathers and foremothers are European, that George Washington is the father of our country and Columbus discovered America-all false assumptions. **[[Gloria E. Anzaldúa]] interview in ''Backtalk: women writers speak out'' by Donna Marie Perry (1993) * George Washington was the right man at the right [[time]] – sometimes he was the first man, but sometimes he simply knew when to ride the crest of a wave or the leading edge of a trend. ** [[Alan Axelrod]], [http://www.electricscotland.com/familytree/frank/axelrod.htm Alan Axelrod in an interview with Frank R. Shaw, Aug 23, 2007] * Washington wasn't born good. Only practice and habit made him so. ** [[w:William Bennet|William Bennet]], in ''Our Sacred Honor'' (1997) * '''You can no more love and revere the memory of the biographical George Washington than you can an isosceles triangle or a cubic foot of interstellar space.''' The portrait-painters began it—Gilbert Stuart and the rest of them. They idealized all the humanity out of the poor patriot's face and passed him down to the engravers as a rather sleepy-looking butcher's block. There is not a portrait of Washington extant which a man of taste and knowledge would suffer to hang on the wall of his stable. Then the historians jumped in, raping all the laurels from the brows of the man's great contemporaries and piling them in confusion upon his pate. They made him a god in wisdom, and a giant in arms; whereas, in point of ability and service, he was but little, if at all, superior to any one of a half-dozen of his now over-shadowed but once illustrious co-workers in council and camp, and in no way comparable with Hamilton. '''He towers above his fellows because he stands upon a pile of books.''' ** [[Ambrose Bierce]], "George the Made-over," in ''Tangential Views'' (1911) * When the [[Russian]] [[diplomat]] [[w:Pavel Svinin|Pavel Svinin]] came to the new [[United States]] in the first years of the [[w:19th century|19th century]], he was amazed to find [[w:Bust (sculpture)|busts]] and [[images]] everywhere. In [[homes]], in [[w:Civic space|civic spaces]], in [[businesses]], he kept running into the same image. It was not [[Jesus]], but George Washington. "It is noteworthy that every American considers it his [[sacred]] [[duty]] to have a likeness of Washington in his home," Svinin wrote, "just as we have images of [[God]]'s [[saints]]." ** Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey, [https://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Contested-Color-of-Christ/134414 “The Contested Color of Christ”], ''Chronicle'', (17 September 2012) * '''George Washington was perhaps the one indispensable man among the founders.''' It is hard to imagine any of the others commanding the respect needed to lead the Continental Army to victory over Great Britain, preside over the Constitutional Convention, and serve the United States as its first president. Little in Washington's early life gave a hint of the great achievements to come. ** Bob Blythe, in an official [http://www.nps.gov/revwar/about_the_revolution/george_washington.html National Park Service profile] * I have learned with inexplicable joy that you have had the goodness to honor me with a treasure from Mount Vernon — the portrait of Washington, some of his venerable reliques, and one of the monuments of his glory, which are to be presented me at your hands in the name of the brothers of '''the Great Citizen, the First-Born Son of the New World.''' No words can set forth all the value that this gift and its embodying considerations, so glorious for me, hold in my heart. ** [[Simón Bolívar]], in a letter to [[Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette]] (20 March 1826), as quoted in ''The Hispanic American Historical Review'', Vol. 1 (1918) edited by [[w:James Alexander Robertson|James Alexander Robertson]] * Today I have touched with my hands this inestimable present. The image of the first benefactor of the continent of Columbus, presented by the hero citizen, General Lafayette, and offered by the noble scion of that immortal family, was all that could reward the most enlightened merit of the first man in the universe. Shall I be worthy of so much glory? No; but I accept it with a joy and gratitude that will go down with the venerable reliques of the father of America to the most remote generations of my country. ** [[Simón Bolívar]], in a letter of thanks to [[w:George Washington Custis|George Washington Custis]], for an official gift presented by (25 May 1826)), as quoted in ''The Hispanic American Historical Review'', Vol. 1 (1918) edited by [[w:James Alexander Robertson|James Alexander Robertson]] * '''Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution.''' ** [[Napoleon Bonaparte|Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I of France)]], as quoted in ''Quotations for Special Occasions'' (1937) by Maud Van Buren * '''Washington absorbed, and later came to personify what you might call the dignity code.''' The code was based on the same premise as the nation's Constitution — that human beings are flawed creatures who live in constant peril of falling into disasters caused by their own passions. Artificial systems have to be created to balance and restrain their desires. <br /> The dignity code commanded its followers to be disinterested — to endeavor to put national interests above personal interests. It commanded its followers to be reticent — to never degrade intimate emotions by parading them in public. It also commanded its followers to be dispassionate — to distrust rashness, zealotry, fury and political enthusiasm. ** [[David Brooks]] in [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/opinion/07brooks.html?_r=1 "In Search of Dignity" in ''The New York Times'' (6 July 2009)] * George Washington once wrote that leading by conviction gave him "a consolation within that no earthly efforts can deprive me of." He continued: "The arrows of malevolence, however barbed and well pointed, never can reach the most vulnerable part of me." I read those words in Presidential Courage, written by historian Michael Beschloss in 2007. As I told Laura, if they're still assessing George Washington's legacy more than two centuries after he left office, this George W. doesn't have to worry about today's headlines. ** George W. Bush, ''Decision Points'' (2010), p. 122 * <p>Where may the wearied eye repose, <br /> When gazing on the Great; <br /> Where neither guilty glory glows, <br /> Nor despicable state? </p><p> Yes — one — the first — the last — the best— <br /> '''The [[w:Cincinnatus|Cincinnatus]] of the West. <br /> Whom envy dared not hate, <br /> Bequeath'd the name of Washington, <br /> To make man blush there was but one!'''</p> ** [[Lord Byron]], in "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte" (10 April 1814) * The schools I went to only taught yanqui history. You know stuff like George "I never told a lie" Washington, Bunker Hill, Lincoln freed the slaves. The schools were run by yanquis and discouraged the teaching of Puerto Rican history. But I had a teacher once, Carmen Maria Torres, who used to smuggle into the schools books on Puerto Rican history and she would spend time telling us about Puerto Rican heroes like Betances, and the revolution in Lares on September 23, 1968-I felt re-born. ** [[Blanca Canales]], interview in ''Palante'' (1970) * '''A degree of silence envelops Washington's actions; he moved slowly; one might say that he felt charged with future liberty, and that he feared to compromise it. It was not his own destiny that inspired this new species of hero: it was that of his country; he did not allow himself to enjoy what did not belong to him; but from that profound humility what glory emerged!''' Search the woods where Washington's sword gleamed: what do you find? Tombs? No; a world! Washington has left the United States behind for a monument on the field of battle. … Washington's Republic lives on; [[Napoleon Bonaparte|Bonaparte]]'s empire is destroyed. Washington and Bonaparte emerged from the womb of democracy: both of them born to liberty, the former remained faithful to her, the latter betrayed her. <br /> '''Washington acted as the representative of the needs, the ideas, the enlightened men, the opinions of his age; he supported, not thwarted, the stirrings of intellect; he desired only what he had to desire, the very thing to which he had been called: from which derives the coherence and longevity of his work.''' That man who struck few blows because he kept things in proportion has merged his existence with that of his country: his glory is the heritage of civilisation; his fame has risen like one of those public sanctuaries where a fecund and inexhaustible spring flows. ** [[François-René de Chateaubriand]] in ''[[w:Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe|Mémoires d'outre-tombe]]'' (1848 - 1850) Book VI, Chapter 8: Comparison of Washington and Bonaparte * The first step was to elect a President, and General Washington, the commander of the Revolution, was the obvious choice. Disinterested and courageous, far-sighted and patient, aloof yet direct in manner, inflexible once his mind was made up, Washington possessed the gifts of character for which the situation called. He was reluctant to accept office. Nothing would have pleased him more than to remain in equable but active retirement at Mount Vernon, improving the husbandry of his estate. But, as always, he answered the summons of duty. Gouverneur Morris was right when he emphatically wrote to him, "The exercise of authority depends on personal character. Your cool, steady temper is indispensably necessary to give firm and manly tone to the new Government." There was much confusion and discussion on titles and precedence, which aroused the mocking laughter of critics. But the prestige of Washington lent dignity to the new, untried office. On April 30, 1789, in the recently opened Federal Hall in New York, he was solemnly inaugurated as the first President of the United States. A week later the French States-General met at Versailles. Another great revolution was about to burst upon a bewildered world. ** [[Winston Churchill]], ''A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Volume Three: The Age of Revolution'' (1957), "The American Constitution", p. 260 * George Washington holds one of the proudest titles that history can bestow. He was the Father of his Nation. Almost alone his staunchness in the War of Independence held the American Colonies to their united purpose. His services after victory had been won were no less great. His firmness and example while first President restrained the violence of faction and postponed a national schism for sixty years. His character and influence steadied the dangerous leanings of Americans to take sides against Britain or France. He filled his office with dignity and inspired his administration with much of his own wisdom. To his terms as President are due the smooth transition of the Federal Government, the establishment of national credit, and the foundation of a foreign policy. By refusing to stand for a third term he set a tradition in American politics which has only been departed from by President Franklin Roosevelt in the Second World War. For two years Washington lived quietly at his country seat on the Potomac, riding round his plantations, as he had long wished to do. Amid the snows of the last days of the eighteenth century he took to his bed. On the evening of December 14, 1799, he turned to the physician at his side, murmuring, "Doctor, I die hard, but I am not afraid to go." Soon afterward he passed away. ** [[Winston Churchill]], ''A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Volume Three: The Age of Revolution'' (1957), "Washington, Adams, and Jefferson", p. 347-348 * [[Lafayette]] valued [[reputation]] and [[glory]], but cared little for the [[power]] that generally results from them. Having one day been asked who was in his opinion the greatest man of this age: "In my idea," replied he, "'''General [[George Washington|Washington]] is the greatest man, for I look upon him as the most virtuous.'''" ** [[w:Jules Germain Cloquet|Jules Germain Cloquet]], in ''Recollections of the Private Life of General Lafayette'' (1836), Vol. I, p. 24 * We cannot imagine an [[Dwight D. Eisenhower|Eisenhower]], a [[w:John J. Pershing|Pershing]], a [[Robert E. Lee|Lee]], [[dancing]] with [[joy]] on a dock, but Washington did it. ** [[w:Christopher Collier (historian)|Christopher Collier]] in ''Decision in Philadelphia: The Constitutional Convention of 1787'' (1987), p. 57, on Washington's reaction to the news of [[wikipedia:François Joseph Paul%2C marquis de Grasetilly%2C comte de Grasse | Admiral De Grasse's]] fleet arriving for the [[w:Siege of Yorktown|Battle of Yorktown]]. *Muslims served in the U.S. military under the command of General George Washington, who was Commander in Chief of the Continental Army during the American War for Independence. Rosters of soldiers serving in Washington's Army lists names like Bampett Muhammad, who fought for the Virginia Line between the years 1775 and 1783. Another one of Washington's soldiers, Yusuf Ben Ali, was a North African Arab who worked as an aide to General Thomas Sumter of South Carolina. Peter Buckminster, who fought in Boston, is perhaps Washington's most distinguished Muslim American soldier. Buckminster fired the gun that killed British Major General John Pitcairn at the Battle of Bunker Hill. Years after this famous battle, Peter changed his last name to 'Salaam', the Arabic word meaning 'peace'. Peter Salaam later reenlisted in the Continental Army to serve in the Battle of Saratoga and the Battle of Stony Point. If Washington had a problem with Muslims serving in his Army, he would not have allowed Muhammad, Ali and Salaam to represent and serve non-Muslim Americans. '''By giving these Muslims the honor of serving America, Washington made it clear that a person did not have to be of a certain religion or have a particular ethnic background to be an American patriot.''' **Craig Considine, [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-considine/the-difference-between-an_1_b_8257506.html "The Difference Between 'Anti-Islam' Patriots and Real Patriots" (7 October 2016)]<!-- also in "Saluting Muslim American Patriots" (7 October 2015) --> *The natural equal rights of men. If Washington or [[Jefferson]] or [[Madison]] should utter upon his native soil today the opinions he entertained and expressed upon this question, he would be denounced as a fanatical abolitionist. To declare the right of all men to liberty is sectional, because slavery is afraid of liberty and strikes the mouth that speaks the word. To preach slavery is not sectional — no: because freedom respects itself and believes in itself enough to give an enemy fair play. Thus Boston asked Senator Toombs to come and say what he could for slavery. I think Boston did a good thing, but I think Senator Toombs is not a wise man, for he went. He went all the way from Georgia to show Massachusetts how slavery looks, and to let it learn what it has to say. When will Georgia ask [[Wendell Phillips]] or [[Charles Sumner]] to come down and show her how liberty looks and speaks? **[[George William Curtis]], in "The Present Aspect of the Slavery Question", New York City(18 October 1859); published in [https://books.google.com/books?id=y3RaAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA86 ''Orations and Addresses of George William Curtis'' Vol. I, p. 86] * With the sure sagacity of a leader of men, Washington at once selected, for the highest and most responsible stations, the three chief Americans who represented the three forces in the nation which alone could command success in the institution of the government. [[Alexander Hamilton|Hamilton]] was the head, [[Thomas Jefferson|Jefferson]] was the heart, and [[John Jay]] was the conscience. '''Washington's just and serene ascendancy was the lambent flame in which these beneficent powers were fused, and nothing less than that ascendancy could have ridden the whirlwind and directed the storm that burst around him.''' ** [[George William Curtis]], as quoted in ''Manual Of Patriotism : For Use in the Public Schools of the State of New York'' (1900) By Charles Rufus Skinner, p. 261 * And has God been pleased to diffuse some Sparks of this Martial Fire through our Country? I hope he has: And though it has been almost extinguished by so long a Peace, and a Deluge of Luxury and Pleasure, now I hope it begins to kindle: And may I not produce you my Brethren, who are engaged in this Expedition, as instances of it? As a remarkable Instance of this, I may point out to the Public that heroic Youth Col. Washington whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preferred in so signal a Manner, for some important Service to his Country. ** [[w:Samuel Davies (clergyman)|Samuel Davies]], ''Religion and Patriotism the Constituents of a good Soldier: A Sermon Preached to Captain Overton's Independent Company of Volunteers, raised in Hanover County, Virginia'' * When George Washington dispatched [[Benedict Arnold]] on a mission to court [[w:French Canadian|French Canadians]]’ support for the [[American Revolution]] in 1775, he cautioned Arnold not to let their [[religion]] get in the way. “[[Prudence]], [[policy]] and a [[true]] [[Christian]] [[Spirit]],” Washington advised, “will [[lead]] us to [[look]] with [[compassion]] upon their [[errors]], without [[insulting]] them.” (After [[Benedict Arnold|Arnold]] [[betrayed]] the American cause, he publicly cited [[America]]’s alliance with [[Catholic]] [[France]] as one of his reasons for doing so.) ** [[w:Kenneth C. Davis|Kenneth C. Davis]], [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/americas-true-history-of-religious-tolerance-61312684/ “America’s True History of Religious Tolerance“], ''Smithsonian Magazine'', (October 2010) * He was addressing the members of [[America]]’s oldest [[synagogue]], the [[w:Touro Synagogue|Touro Synagogue]] in [[w:Newport, Rhode Island|Newport, Rhode Island]] (where his letter is read aloud every August). In closing, he wrote specifically to the [[Jews]] a phrase that applies to [[Muslims]] as well: “May the children of the Stock of [[Abraham]], who dwell in this land, continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other inhabitants, while every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and figtree, and there shall be none to make him afraid.” ** [[w:Kenneth C. Davis|Kenneth C. Davis]], [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/americas-true-history-of-religious-tolerance-61312684/ “America’s True History of Religious Tolerance“], ''Smithsonian Magazine'', (October 2010) * Men are beginning to feel that Washington stands out, not only as the leading American, but as the leading man of the race. '''Of men not named in Sacred Scripture, more human beings this day know and honor the name of George Washington than that of any other of the sons of men.''' ** [[w:Charles Deems|Charles Deems]], as quoted in ''Manual Of Patriotism : For Use in the Public Schools of the State of New York'' (1900) By Charles Rufus Skinner, p. 261 * A man of quiet strength, he took few friends into complete confidence. His critics mistook his dignified reserve for pomposity. Life for Washington was a serious mission, a job to be tackled soberly, unremittingly. He had little time for humor. Although basically good-natured, he wrestled with his temper and sometimes lost. He was a poor speaker and could become utterly inarticulate without a prepared text. He preferred to express himself on paper. Still, when he did speak, he was candid, direct, and looked people squarely in the eye. Biographer Douglas Southall Freeman conceded that Washington's "ambition for wealth made him acquisitive and sometimes contentious." Even after Washington established himself, Freeman pointed out, "he would insist upon the exact payment of every farthing due him" and was determined "to get everything that he honestly could." Yet neither his ambition to succeed nor his acquisitive nature ever threatened his basic integrity. ** William A. DeGregorio, ''The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents'' (1984), p. 1-2 *Wake up, America. Your liberties are being stolen before your very eyes. What Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln fought for, Truman, Acheson, and McGrath are striving desperately to nullify. Wake up, Americans, and dare to think and say and do. Dare to cry: No More War! **''The Autobiography of [[W.E.B. Du Bois]]: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century'' (1968) * Why celebrate Columbus? It was the onset of colonialism, the slave trade and dispossession of the Native people of the Americas. So, that is celebrated with a federal holiday. That’s followed then by Thanksgiving, which is a completely made-up story to say the Native people welcomed these people who were going to devastate their civilizations, which is simply a lie. And then you go to Presidents’ Days, the Founding Fathers, in February, and celebrate these slaveowners, Indian killers. George Washington headed the Virginia militia for the very purpose of killing Native people on the periphery of the colony, before, you know, when it was still a Virginia colony. And then we have the big day, the fireworks, July 4th, independence, which is probably the most tragic event in world history, because it gave us—it gave the world a genocidal regime under the guise of democracy. And that’s really the—I’m a historian, so that’s the historical context that I think we have to see Thanksgiving in, that it is a part of that mythology that attempts to cover up the real history of the United States. **[[Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz]] [https://www.democracynow.org/2016/11/23/historian_roxanne_dunbar_ortiz_on_thanksgiving Interview] with Democracy Now (2016) * It seemed to me that Benjamin Franklin was wiser than Washington; Alexander Hamilton was more brilliant; John Adams was better read; Thomas Jefferson was more intellectually sophisticated; James Madison was more politically astute. Yet each and all of these prominent figures acknowledged that Washington was their unquestioned superior. ** [[w:Joseph Ellis|Joseph Ellis]] ''[[w:His Excellency: George Washington|His Excellency: George Washington]]'' pp. xiv * The more important and less ambiguous fact is that Washington possessed a deep-seated capacity to feel powerful emotions. Some models of self-control are able to achieve their serenity easily, because the soul-fires never burned brightly to begin with. Washington became the most notorious model of self-control in all of American history, the original marble man, but he achieved this posture- and sometimes it ''was'' a posture- the same hard-earned way he learned soldiering, by direct experience with difficulty. Unlike Thomas Jefferson, he wrote no lyrical tribute to the interior struggle entitled "Dialogue Between the Head and Heart," but he lived that dialogue in a primal place deep within himself. Appearances aside, he was an intensely passionate man, whose powers of self-control eventually became massive because of the interior urges they were required to master. Nothing was more inherently chaotic or placed a higher premium on self-control than a battle. He had played a leading role in four of them; one a massacre that he oversaw; the other a massacre that he survived; one an embarrassing defeat; the other a hollow victory. Whether it was a miracle, destiny, or sheer luck, he had emerged from these traumatic experiences unscathed and with his reputation, each time, higher than before. He had shown himself to be physically brave, impetuously so at Fort Necessity, and personally proud, irrationally so in the Forbes campaign. His courage, his composure, and his self-control were all of a piece, having developed within that highly lethal environment that was the Ohio Country, where internal shields provided the only defense against dangers that came at you from multiple angles. ** [[w:Joseph Ellis|Joseph Ellis]], ''[[w:His Excellency: George Washington|His Excellency: George Washington]]'' (2004), pp. 37-38 * A final example, his trademark decision to surrender power as commander in chief and then president, was not, as Morris insisted, a sign that he had conquered his ambitions, but rather that he fully realized that all ambitions were inherently insatiable and unconquerable. He knew himself well enough to resist the illusion that he transcended human nature. Unlike Julius Caesar and Oliver Cromwell before him, and Napoleon, Lenin, and Mao after him, he understood that the greater glory resided in posterity's judgment. If you aspire to live forever in the memory of future generations, you must demonstrate the ultimate self-confidence to leave the final judgment to them. And he did. ** [[w:Joseph Ellis|Joseph Ellis]], ''[[w:His Excellency: George Washington|His Excellency: George Washington]]'' (2004), pp. 274-275 * '''George Washington is one of the beacons placed at intervals along the highroad of history.''' For his country he serves as a guide in time of stress and a refuge in tranquil moments; a never-failing example of true goodness; a warning to turbulent youth and a mute accusation of selfish interests. ** [http://orestesferrara.com/ Orestes Ferrara], as quoted in ''Bulletin of the Pan American Union'', Vol. 66 (1932), p. 471 * '''In all history few men who possessed unassailable power have used that power so gently and self-effacingly for what their best instincts told them was the welfare of their neighbors and all mankind.''' ** [[w:James Thomas Flexner|James Thomas Flexner]], in ''Washington : The Indispensable Man'' (1984), Introduction, p. xiv * '''Washington had always taught himself from experience.''' He learned the lessons of the American war all the more readily because he had no conventional lessons to unlearn. … '''Long before the end of the war, Washington had become much more effective than any of his military opponents.''' But this did not mean that what he had taught himself would have made him a great general on the battlefields of Europe. Evolved not from theory but from dealing with specific problems, his preeminence was achieved through a Darwinian adaptation to environment. '''It was the triumph of a man who knows how to learn, not in the narrow sense of studying other people's conceptions, but in the transcendent sense of making a synthesis from the totality of experience. <br /> Among the legacies of the Revolution to the new nation, the most widely recognized and admired was a man: George Washington. He had no rivals.''' ** [[w:James Thomas Flexner|James Thomas Flexner]] in ''Washington : The Indispensable Man'' (1984), Chapter 23 : Goodbye to War, p. 183 * '''Washington's appointments, when President, were made with a view to destroy party and not to create it, his object being to gather all the talent of the country in support of the national government; and he bore many things which were personally disagreeable in an endeavor to do this.''' ** [[w:Paul Leicester Ford|Paul Leicester Ford]], as quoted in ''Manual Of Patriotism : For Use in the Public Schools of the State of New York'' (1900) By Charles Rufus SkinnerTake, p. 261 * I frequently hear the old Generals of this martial country (who study the maps of America, and mark upon them all your operations) speak with sincere approbation and great applause of your conduct; and join in giving you the character of one of the greatest captains of the age. <br /> I must soon quit the scene, but you may live to see our country flourish; as it will, amazingly and rapidly, after the war is over. ** [[Benjamin Franklin]], in a letter to George Washington (5 March 1780), published in ''The Edinburgh Review'' Vol. 28 (1817), p. 284 * '''From the moment when he took command of the army, Washington was, indeed, "first in the hearts of his countrymen."''' And the student of our history cannot help remarking how providential it was that, at the outset of this struggle, Washington should come to the front. Eighty-Six years later, at the beginning of the rebellion, there was no accepted chief. Lincoln was doubted by the North and, and the army had no true leader. By a slow process Lincoln's commanding strength became known; by an equally tedious sifting of the generals the qualities of Grant, Sherman, Thomas and Meade were discovered. Only the tremendous resources of the North could have withstood the strain of such a delay. Had the same process been necessary at the outset of the Revolution, the colonies could have scarcely maintained the struggle. '''Had not Washington been at hand, accepted by the Congress and admired by the army, the virtual leader of both, the chances of success would have been slight. But he was Lincoln and Grant in one.''' Time and time again, through the long years, it was Washington alone who brought victory from defeat. Without him, the colonies might have won their independence as the result of an almost interminable guerilla warfare; but with him the fight was definite, glorious, and-for the infant republic, mercifully short. **[[w:Allen French|Allen French]] on the importance of Washington, in ''The Siege of Boston'' (1911) * I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power. ** [[Robert Frost]], as quoted in ''Patriarch: George Washington and the new American Nation'' (1993) by Richard Norton Smith * George Washington might have fought the [[w:Redcoats|Redcoats]]. But he left [[w:Barings|Barings]], the great [[w:London|London]] bank in charge of his personal finances throughout the war, and Barings did not let him down. ** [[w:John Kenneth Galbraith|John Kenneth Galbraith]], [[w:The Age of Uncertainty|The Age of Uncertainty]], Chapter 6, p. 183 * '''Eternity alone can reveal to the human race its debt of gratitude to the peerless and immortal name of Washington.''' ** [[James A. Garfield]], as quoted in ''The Life and Public Services of James A. Garfield'' (1881) by Emma Elizabeth Brown, p. 452 * '''Washington is beyond question one of the greatest men in history, one of the noblest men who ever lived.''' He is a towering figure in the establishment of the United States and he did more than any other man to create and preserve the Republic. Here was a man whose very strength resided in his austere sobriety, who in his own person demonstrated this soundness of America. He was a good man, not a demigod; he was an honest administrator, not a brilliant statesman; he was a military man, but never a militarist. He was touchingly proud of America, proud that it was his country that was given the historic chance of becoming a model of religious as well as political freedom. In a letter to the Hebrew Congregation of Newport, Rhode Island, whose service he once attended, he stressed that in America freedom of religious worship was one of the "inherent natural rights," where government "gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance." Washington was an exceptional man; with reason he became so merged with America that his is the most prominent name in the land. ** Wendell Garrett, in [http://www.artnet.com/magazine_pre2000/features/garrett/garrett11-10-99.asp "George Washington, Man or Myth?" in ''Artnet'' magazine] (November 1999) *If there were a row of pedestals on which to place human gods, I should place Washington on that pedestal as the most fitting occupant of it, so strongly am I impressed with his moral elevation and greatness of character. **[[William Ewart Gladstone]], quoted in [[w:Edward Walter Hamilton|Edward Walter Hamilton]], ''Mr. Gladstone: A Monograph'' (1898), p. 172 * His excellency General Washington has arrived amoungst us, universally admired. Joy was visable on every countenance. ** General [[w:Nathanael Greene|Nathanael Greene]] on the arrival of George Washington in Boston, 1775-1776, McCullough pg 20 * '''No nobler figure ever stood in the forefront of a nation's life.''' Washington was grave and courteous in address; his manners were simple and unpretending; his silence and the serene calmness of his temper spoke of a perfect self-mastery; but little there was in his outer bearing to reveal the grandeur of soul which lifts his figure with all the simple majesty of an ancient statue, out of the smaller passions, the meaner impulses of the world around him. <br /> '''It was only as the weary fight went on that the colonists learned, little by little, the greatness of their leader''' — his clear judgment, his calmness in the hour of danger or defeat; the patience with which he waited, the quickness and hardness with which he struck, the lofty and serene sense of duty that never swerved from its task through resentment or jealousy, that never, through war or peace, felt the touch of a meaner ambition; that knew no aim save that of guarding the freedom of his fellow-countrymen; and no personal longing save that of returning to his own fireside when their freedom was secured. <br /> It was almost unconsciously that men learned to cling to Washington with a trust and faith such as few other men have won, and to regard him with reverence which still hushes us in presence of his memory. ** [[John Richard Green]] in ''History of the English People'' (1880) *old George Washington, who wasn't called "the father of his country" for nothing, tip-toeing around the female slave stables with his pants down. **[[Ollie Harrington]], ''Why I Left America and Other Stories'' (1994) *Within a decade of [[George Whitefield|Whitefield]]'s death, Americans did manage to evolve their union under a leader who impressed [[w:Calvinism|Calvinists]] as perhaps just as benevolent and enlightened as Whitefield. George Washington, known to all Calvinists through the "prophetic" sermon of [[w:Samuel Davies (clergyman)|Samuel Davies]] following [[w:Edward Braddock|Braddock]]'s defeat, was, in the days of the Revolution, a glorious star, and then a luminary of "superior magnitude and splendor." **Alan Heimert, ''Religion and the American Mind: From the Great Awakening to the Revolution'' (1966), pp. 147-148 * '''Washington had no smashing, stunning victories. He was not a military genius, and his tactical and strategic maneuvers were not the sort that awed men. Military glory was ''not'' the source of his reputation.''' Something else was involved. '''Washington's genius, his greatness, lay in his character.''' He was, as [[François-René de Chateaubriand|Chateubriand]] said, a "hero of unprecedented kind." There had never been a great many like Washington before. Washington became a great man and was acclaimed as a classical hero because of the way he conducted himself during times of temptation. It was his moral character that set him off from other men. <br /> Washington fit the 18th-century image of a great man, of a man of virtue. This virtue was not given to him by nature. He had to work for it, to cultivate it, and everyone sensed that. Washington was a self-made hero, and this impressed an 18th-century enlightened world that put great stock in men controlling both their passions and their destinies. '''Washington seemed to possess a self-cultivated nobility.''' ** [[w:Don Higginbotham|Don Higginbotham]], in ''George Washington Reconsidered'' (2001), p. 313 * '''Let us forget the other [[names]] of [[American]] [[statesmen]], that have been stamped upon these hills, but still call the loftiest — [[w:Mount Washington (New Hampshire)| WASHINGTON]].''' [[Mountains]] are [[Earth]]'s undecaying [[monuments]]. They must stand while she [[endures]], and never should be consecrated to the mere [[great]] men of their own age and [[country]], but to the mighty ones [[alone]], whose [[glory]] is [[universal]], and whom [[all]] [[time]] will render [[illustrious]]. ** [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]], in "Sketches from Memory": The Notch of the White Mountains (1835) * The United States, for example, has never had a President as bad as [[w:George III of the United Kingdom|George III]], but neither has Britain had a king as admirable as [[w:George Washington|George Washington]] (of whom William Thackeray rightly said that 'his glory will descend to remotest ages' while the memory of the sovereign went the other way). **[[Christopher Hitchens]], ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=stfi0I6zcXwC&lpg=PP1&dq=the%20monarchy%20a%20critique&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=the%20monarchy%20a%20critique&f=false The Monarchy: A Critique of Britain's Favourite Fetish]'' (1990), Random House. * '''To him the title of ''Excellency'' is applied with peculiar propriety.''' He is the best: and the greatest man the world ever knew. In private life, he wins the hearts and wears the love of all who are so happy as to fall within the circle of his acquaintance. In his public character, he commands universal respect and admiration. Conscious that the principles on which he acts are indeed founded in virtue and truth, he steadily pursues the arduous work with a mind neither depressed by disappointment and difficulties, nor elated with temporary success. '''He retreats like a General and attacks like a Hero.''' If there are spots in his character, they are like the spots in the Sun; only discernable by the magnifying powers of a telescope. Had he lived in the days of idolatry he had been worshipped as a God. '''One age cannot do justice to his merit; but the united voices of a grateful posterity shall pay a chearful tribute of undissembled praise to the great assertor of their country's freedom.''' ** [[w:Francis Hopkinson|Francis Hopkinson]], one of the signers of the [[w:Declaration of Independence|Declaration of Independence]], in "A Political Catechism" (1777). ** Variant: Had Washington been born in the days of idolatry, he would be worshiped as a god. If there are spots on his characters, they are like spots on the sun, only discernible by the magnifying powers of a telescope. *** As quoted in ''Pennsylvania Journal, 1777-1776'' by [[w:David McCullough|David McCullough]], p. 290 *On the hypothesis of a separation of the Union into Northern and Southern, said he had made up his mind to remove and be of the Northern. ** [[w:Thomas Jefferson|Thomas Jefferson]], [https://web.archive.org/web/20150919061950/http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-28-02-0441 Notes of a Conversation with Edmund Randolph]. * When the clergy addressed General Washington on his departure from the government, it was observed in their consultation that he had never on any occasion said a word to the public which showed a belief in the Christian religion and they thought they should so pen their address as to force him at length to declare publicly whether he was a Christian or not. They did so. However [Dr.&nbsp;Rush] observed the old fox was too cunning for them. '''He answered every article of their address particularly except that, which he passed over without notice.''' Rush observes he never did say a word on the subject in any of his public papers except in his valedictory letter to the Governors of the states when he resigned his commission in the army, wherein he speaks of the benign influence of the Christian religion. I know that Gouvemeur Morris, who pretended to be in his secrets & believed himself to be so, has often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system than he himself did. ** [[w:Thomas Jefferson|Thomas Jefferson]], the ''Anas'' (1 February 1800), on [[w:George Washington|George Washington]]'s absent Christianity. Published in [http://oll.libertyfund.org/ToC/0054.php ''The Works of Thomas Jefferson in Twelve Volumes''], Federal Edition (1904) edited by [[w:Paul Leicester Ford|Paul Leicester Ford]], [http://oll.libertyfund.org/Texts/Jefferson0136/Works/0054-01_Bk.pdf Vol.&nbsp;1], <!-- New York: G.&nbsp;P. Putnam's Sons --> pp. 352–353 * His mind was great and powerful, without being of the very first order; his penetration strong, though, not so acute as that of a Newton, Bacon, or Locke; and as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow in operation, being little aided by invention or imagination, but sure in conclusion. ** [[Thomas Jefferson]], in a letter to Dr. Walter Jones. (2 January 1814) * '''On the whole, his character was, in its mass, perfect, in nothing bad, in few points indifferent; and it may truly be said, that never did nature and fortune combine more perfectly to make a man great, and to place him in the same constellation with whatever worthies have merited from man an everlasting remembrance.''' … These are my opinions of General Washington, which I would vouch at the judgment seat of God, having been formed on an acquaintance of thirty years... ** [[Thomas Jefferson]], in a letter to Dr. Walter Jones. (2 January 1814) * The President was much inflamed; got into one of those passions when he cannot command himself; ran on much on the personal abuse which had been bestowed on him; defied any man on earth to produce one single act of his since he had been in the Government, which was not done on the purest motives; '''that he had never repented but once the having slipped the moment of resigning his office, and that was every moment since; that by God he had rather be in his grave than in his present situation; that he had rather be on his farm than to be made Emperor of the world; and yet that they were charging him with wanting to be a King'''. That that rascal [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Freneau Freneau] sent him three of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_National_Gazette his papers] every day, as if he thought he would become the distributor of his papers; that he could see in this, nothing but an impudent design to insult him: he ended in this high tone. ** [[Thomas Jefferson]], writing in his diary (known as "[http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/JefBv012.html The Anas]") dated August 2, 1793, relating the reaction of George Washington to a print that depicted him placed on a guillotine. Various writers have turned this account into direct discourse, quoting Washington as saying "I had rather be in my grave than in my present situation, I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world; and yet they charge me with wanting to be a king" (as in ''The Alumni Register of the University of Pennsylvania'' (1925), p. 473). This version goes back at least to a 1906 commencement oration by John Bach McMaster (''Publications of the University of Pennsylvania, Proceedings of Commencement, June 13, 1906'', p. 29) * He was incapable of fear, meeting personal dangers with the calmest unconcern. '''Perhaps the strongest feature in his character was prudence, never acting until every circumstance, every consideration, was maturely weighed; refraining if he saw a doubt, but, when once decided, going through with his purpose, whatever obstacles opposed. His integrity was most pure, his justice the most inflexible I have ever known, no motives of interest or consanguinity, of friendship or hatred, being able to bias his decision. He was, indeed, in every sense of the words, a wise, a good, and a great man.''' His temper was naturally high toned; but reflection and resolution had obtained a firm and habitual ascendancy over it. If ever, however, it broke its bonds, he was most tremendous in his wrath. In his expenses he was honorable, but exact; liberal in contributions to whatever promised utility; but frowning and unyielding on all visionary projects and all unworthy calls on his charity. '''His heart was not warm in its affections; but he exactly calculated every man's value, and gave him a solid esteem proportioned to it.''' His person, you know, was fine, his stature exactly what one would wish, his deportment easy, erect and noble; the best horseman of his age, and the most graceful figure that could be seen on horseback. ** [[Thomas Jefferson]], in a letter to Dr. Walter Jones.(2 January 1814) * During the [[w:French Indian War|French Indian War]], General George Washington was convinced that his most formidable for was [[smallpox]] and he subjected his men to forced [[variolation]] to stop its spread. Many of the soldiers had only mild reactions, but some became seriously ill and died. The European press, especially among the antivaccine society, bitterly criticized Washington for forcing his men into possible harm without their consent, [[w:Hessian|Hessian]] soldiers, who fought alongside the British, were captured and imprisoned in [[w:Frederick, Maryland|Frederick, Maryland]] where they may have been subjected to variolation experimentation-a safety precaution before Washington would order to the procedure for his own army. ** Evelyn B. Kelly, [https://books.google.com/books?id=1CxDarcSR6cC&pg=PA86#v=onepage&q&f=false “Stem Cells”] (Greenwood Press 2007 ISBN 0-313-33763-2), pp.90-91 * Let him who looks for a monument to Washington look around the United States. Your freedom, your independence, your national power, your prosperity, and your prodigious growth are a monument to him. ** [[w:Lajos Kossuth|Lajos Kossuth]] {{source}} *While new American leaders such as George Washington, Patrick Henry, and Benjamin Franklin studied the Haudenosaunee government, they also engaged in land speculation over territory held by these peoples, and Mohawk lands were ceded through force, coercion, and deceit until fewer than 14,600 acres remained in New York State. **[[Winona LaDuke]] ''All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life'' (1999) * '''Unsupported for the most part by the population among whom he was quartered, and incessantly thwarted by the jealousy of Congress, he kept his army together by a combination of skill, firmness, patience, and judgment which has rarely been surpassed, and he led it at last to a signal triumph.''' <br /> In civil as in military life, he was pre-eminent among his contemporaries for the clearness and soundness of his judgment, for his perfect moderation and self-control, for the quiet dignity and the indomitable firmness with which he pursued every path which he had deliberately chosen. '''Of all the great men in history he was the most invariably judicious, and there is scarcely a rash word or action or judgment recorded of him. Those who knew him well, noticed that he had keen sensibilities and strong passions; but his power of self-command never failed him, and no act of his public life can be traced to personal caprice, ambition, or resentment.''' In the despondency of long-continued failure, in the elation of sudden success, at times when his soldiers were deserting by hundreds and when malignant plots were formed against his reputation, amid the constant quarrels, rivalries, and jealousies of his subordinates, in the dark hour of national ingratitude, and in the midst of the most universal and intoxicating flattery, he was always the same calm, wise, just, and single-minded man, pursuing the course which he believed to be right, without fear or favour or fanaticism; equally free from the passions that spring from interest, and from the passions that spring from imagination. '''He never acted on the impulse of an absorbing or uncalculating enthusiasm, and he valued very highly fortune, position, and reputation; but at the command of duty he was ready to risk and sacrifice them all.''' He was in the highest sense of the words a gentleman and a man of honour, and he carried into public life the severest standard of private morals. It was at first the constant dread of large sections of the American people, that if the old Government were overthrown, they would fall into the hands of military adventurers, and undergo the yoke of military despotism. It was mainly the transparent integrity of the character of Washington that dispelled the fear. '''It was always known by his friends, and it was soon acknowledged by the whole nation and by the English themselves, that in Washington America had found a leader who could be induced by.no earthly motive to tell a falsehood, or to break an engagement, or to commit any dishonourable act.''' ** [[w:William Edward Hartpole Lecky|William Edward Hartpole Lecky]], in ''The History of England in the Eighteenth Century'' Vol. III, p. 468 * '''First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.''' ** [[w:Henry Lee|Henry Lee]], from his eulogy for Washington, presented to Congress (26 December 1799) * This is the one hundred and tenth anniversary of the birthday of Washington. We are met to celebrate this day. '''Washington's is the mightiest name of earth — long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation.''' On that name no eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun, or glory to the name of Washington, is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. '''In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked deathless splendor leave it shining on.''' ** [[Abraham Lincoln]], closing words of an address before the Washingtonian Temperance Society, Springfield, Illinois (22 February 1842); published in the ''Sangamon Journal'' at Springfield, Illinois (25 February 1842); the entire speech was published in a letter edition of the ''Sangamon Journal'' (26 March1842)<!-- Copies on file in the Congressional Library --> *Could Washington himself speak, would he cast the blame of that sectionalism upon us, who sustain his policy, or upon you who repudiate it? We respect that warning of Washington. ** [[Abraham Lincoln]], [https://archive.is/MOWPe Cooper Union speech] (27 February 1860) * Without the great moral qualities that Washington possessed his career would not have been possible; but it would have been quite as impossible if the intellect had not equalled the character. <br /> '''There is no need to argue the truism that Washington was a great man, for that is universally admitted.''' But it is very needful that his genius should be rightly understood, and the right understanding of it is by no means universal. <br /> His character has been exalted at the expense of his intellect, and his goodness has been so much insisted upon both by admirers and critics that we are in danger of forgetting that he had a great mind as well as high moral worth. ** [[Henry Cabot Lodge]], as quoted in ''Manual Of Patriotism : For Use in the Public Schools of the State of New York'' (1900) By Charles Rufus SkinnerTake, p. 260 *Contrary to the frequent presentations by modern liberals, the 'three-fifths clause' of the Constitution was the anti-slavery movement's response to slave owners who wanted their slaves as property, except when it came to counting population for representation in the U.S. House of Representatives. In which case the slave owners wanted them counted as people. Thus the move to block slave owners’ power by reducing a slave to “three-fifths” of a person, with the objective of eventually phasing out slavery altogether. Alas, '''the birth of political factions, parties, took place rapidly, to the chagrin of President George Washington'''. In the battles between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton the Democratic-Republican Party, the ancestor of today’s Democrats was born. And the pro-slavery, judge-people-by-skin-color faction became the central, and as it played out, perpetual, driving force of the Democratic Party. **[[w:Jeff Lord|Jeffrey Lord]], as quoted in [https://web.archive.org/web/20150806153347/https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2015/02/will-gop-demand-obama-apology-for-slavery "Will GOP Demand Obama Apology for Slavery?"] (10 February 2015), ''Conservative Review'' * Having formed an army, Congress selected George Washington to command it. Washington had been with Braddock and Forbes's expedition to Fort Duquesne, and in between service with the regulars he had commanded the Virginia militia. As the crisis with England worsened, Washington played an active rle in Virginia's evolution from resistance to revolution, and he attended both the First and Second Continental Congress. He was the only delegate attending the deliberations in Philadelphia attired in a military uniform, perhaps symbolizing his readiness to fight for American rights. Washington was a reasonably experienced soldier, a form advocate of American liberties, impressive in looks, and articulate without being flamboyant. ** Allan R. Millett, Peter Maslowski, and William B. Feis, ''For the Common Defense: A Military History of the United States From 1607 to 2012'' (2012), p. 52 * "I declare with the utmost sincerity," Washington wrote the president of Congress, "I do not think myself equal to the Command I am honoured with." He probably meant it, since his frontier service had given him no opportunity to become acquainted with cavalry tactics, massed artillery, or the deployment of large forces. Yet Washington eventually embodied the Revolution, with the cause and the commander so intertwined in rebel eyes that they became synonymous. ** Allan R. Millett, Peter Maslowski, and William B. Feis, ''For the Common Defense: A Military History of the United States From 1607 to 2012'' (2012), p. 52 * During the war with France, Washington had developed an aversion to militiamen and an appreciation for British professionals. He had experienced nothing but problems with the Virginia militia. They never turned out in sufficient numbers, and hose who did he considered insolent and prone to panic and desertion. His opinion did not change during the Revolution, and most Continental officers shared his conviction that "to place any dependence upon Militia is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff." Paradoxically, Washington repeatedly depended on the militia to buttress the Continental Army during innumerable crises. If the militia dismayed Washington, British regulars impressed him, and he strove to mold the Continental Army into a mirror image of Britain's army. He insisted it should be "a respectable Army," not only well organized and disciplined but also officered by "Gentlemen, and Men of Character." He believed that the prospect of such an army endangering civilian supremacy was remote; the slight risk was necessary because the consequence of fighting without a regular army was "certain, and inevitable Ruin." ** Allan R. Millett, Peter Maslowski, and William B. Feis, ''For the Common Defense: A Military History of the United States From 1607 to 2012'' (2012), p. 52 * Considering the hypersensative fear of military ascendancy, Congress's selection of Washington was fortuitous. He repeatedly stated his belief in civil supremacy, remaining deferential to Congress even when its inefficiency threatened the army's survival. Having served in the Virginia assembly and in Congress, he understood the often maddeningly slow political process in representative governments and the nation's inadequate administrative machinery for conducting a large-scale war. By reporting to Congress on all matters great or trivial, by religiously adhering to congressional dictates, and through his immense patience in the face of nearly unbearable frustrations, Washington alleviated concern that he would capitalize on his growing military reputation and become a dictator. Although revolutions have frequently given birth to permanent presidents, kings, and emperors, Washington had no desire to become an American Cromwell. Like the men he commanded, he never forgot that he was a citizen first and only second a soldier. ** Allan R. Millett, Peter Maslowski, and William B. Feis, ''For the Common Defense: A Military History of the United States From 1607 to 2012'' (2012), p. 54 * The militia and the Continental Army were two sides of a double-edged sword. Neither blade was keenly honed, and even in combination they usually did not make a lethal weapon. Washington's task was never easy, but without either army it would have been impossible. ** Allan R. Millett, Peter Maslowski, and William B. Feis, ''For the Common Defense: A Military History of the United States From 1607 to 2012'' (2012), p. 57 * When Washington took command of the Continental Army on July 2, he was eager to pursue an aggressive strategy. But he could do little immediately. A severe shortage of weapons and powder prevented him from attacking the British Army, and his own army appalled him. The New Englanders struck him as "exceedingly dirty and nasty people" characterized by "an unaccountable kind of stupidity" and a lack of discipline. Knowing the eyes of the continent were upon him and expecting some momentous event, Washington found the inactivity around Boston galling, so in late summer 1775 he ordered Arnold to advance through the Maine wilderness to capture Quebec. Unknown to Washington, Congress had meanwhile ordered General Philip Schuyler to attack Montreal. Americans hoped the invasion would incite a Canadian revolt against Britain and convert the region into a fourteenth colony. Washington also struggled to discipline the army, but before he could achieve much success, that army almost disappeared. When enlistments expired at year's end, most men refused to reenlist. Washington had to discharge one army and recruit another while the enemy was only a musket shot away. He did it by calling out militiamen to fill the gaps until new Continental recruits arrived. ** Allan R. Millett, Peter Maslowski, and William B. Feis, ''For the Common Defense: A Military History of the United States From 1607 to 2012'' (2012), p. 59 * '''You have in American history one of the great captains of all times.''' It might be said of him, as it was of [[William the Silent]], that he seldom won a battle but he never lost a campaign. ** [[Helmuth von Moltke the Elder]], in a statement in Berlin (1874), as quoted in ''Family Relationships of George Washington'' (1931) by the United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission * '''Be assured his influence carried this government'''; for my own part I have a boundless confidence in him, nor have I any reason to believe he will ever furnish occasion for withdrawing it. ** [[James Monroe]], in a letter to [[Thomas Jefferson]] (12 July 1788), as published in ''The Writings of James Monroe'' (1898), p. 186 * '''Washington's genius lay in his understanding of power, both military power, and political power, an understanding unmatched by that of any of his contemporaries.''' ** [[w:Edmund Morgan|Edmund Sears Morgan]], in ''The Genius of George Washington'' (1982) Ch. 1 : A Sense of Power, p. 6 * And as to you, Sir, treacherous in private friendship (for so you have been to me, and that in the day of danger) and a hypocrite in public life, the world will be puzzled to decide whether you are an apostate or an impostor; whether you have abandoned good principles, or whether you ever had any. ** [[Thomas Paine]], letter to George Washington (July 30, 1796); Moncure D. Conway, ed., ''The Writings of Thomas Paine'', vol. 3 (1895), p. 252 * His was the belief of reason and revelation; and that belief was illustrated and exemplified in all his actions. No parade accompanied its exercise, no declamation its exhibition; for it was his opinion that a man who is always boasting of his religion, is like one who continually proclaims his honesty—he would trust neither one nor the other. He was not accustomed to argue points of faith, but on one occasion, in reply to a gentleman who expressed doubts on the subject, thus gave his sentiments:— :: “It is impossible to account for the creation of the universe without the agency of a Supreme Being. :: “It is impossible to govern the universe without the aid of a Supreme Being. :: “It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being. Religion is as necessary to reason, as reason is to religion. The one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would lose his reason in attempting to account for the great phenomena of nature, had he not a Supreme Being to refer to; and well has it been said, that if there had been no God, mankind would have been obliged to imagine one.” : On this basis of piety was erected the superstructure of his virtues. :* James Kirke Paulding, ''A Life of Washington'' (New-York, Harper and Brothers, 1835), vol. 2, p. 209-210; Paulding gives no authority for this anecdote * "One afternoon several young gentlemen, visitors at Mount Vernon, and myself were engaged in pitching the bar, one of the athletic sports common in those days, when suddenly the colonel appeared among us. He requested to be shown the pegs that marked the bounds of our efforts; then, smiling, and without putting off his coat, held out his hand for the missile. No sooner,"observed the narrator, with emphasis, "did the heavy iron bar feel the grasp of his mighty hand than it lost the power of gravitation, and whizzed through the air, striking the ground far, very far, beyond our utmost limits. We were indeed amazed, as we stood around, all stripped to the buff, with shirt sleeves rolled up, and having thought ourselves very clever fellows, while the colonel, on retiring, pleasantly observed, ''''When you beat my pitch, young gentlemen, I'll try again.''''" ** [[w:Charles Willson Peale|Charles Willson Peale]], recounting an incident of 1772, as quoted in ''Recollections and Private Memoirs of Washington'' (1861), edited by Benson J. Lossing * I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father." ** [[Will Rogers]], as quoted in ''Will Rogers' World : America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties — And Eighties and Nineties'' (1993) by Bryan B. Sterling and Frances N. Sterling * '''The name of an iron man goes round the world. <br /> It takes a long time to forget an iron man.''' ** [[Carl Sandburg]] in "Washington Monument by Night" in ''Slabs of the Sunburnt West'' (1922) * When George Washington was fighting for freedom in the Revolutionary War, he was fighting for the freedom of "whites only." Rich whites, at that. After the so-called Revolution, you couldn't vote unless you were a white man and you owned a plot of land. The Revolutionary War was led by some rich white boys who got tired of paying heavy taxes to the king. It didn't have anything at all to do with freedom, justice, and equality for all. ** [[Assata Shakur]], ''[[w:Assata: An Autobiography|Assata: An Autobiography]]'' (1988), p. 33 * In his famous Farewell Address of September 17, 1796, Washington said he would not serve as President for more than two terms and advised against entangling alliances with foreign countries. He had served his country so well that he could, with safety, turn over the burdens of office to the next President, John Adams. Washington wanted to spend his last years at home in the peace and quiet of private life. There was little privacy for him, however, when he did return to Mount Vernon. People from all over the United States and from foreign countries journeyed to Washington's home to pay him respect. His house was often crowded with guests. The three and a half years that he lived after he left the Presidency were busy and happy ones. On December 14, 1799, he died at Mount Vernon, and there he was buried. ** Francis Butler Simkins, Spotswood Hunnicutt, Sidman P. Poole, ''Virginia: History, Government, Geography'' (1957), p. 293 * Each year, on February 22, the nation honors the birthday of a great man- George Washington. Many persons admire him for different reasons: for his leadership in a war that brought us independence, for his part in making the Constitution, for his policies as President. Everyone admires Washington for his honesty, his courage, his patience, his good judgment, his firmness, and his greatness of heart. The Commonwealth of Virginia has paid tribute to her great son. While Washington was still alive, the French sculptor Houdon made the famous statue of him which stands in the Rotunda of the Capitol at Richmond. On the Capitol grounds there is a huge figure of Washington on horseback, surrounded by other heroes of the American Revolution. And, of course, the capital of our great country, which he helped found, is on the Potomac River near his home, and is named in his honor. On Washington's death, Henry Lee, in a speech before Congress, uttered these famous words: George Washington was "First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen." ** Francis Butler Simkins, Spotswood Hunnicutt, Sidman P. Poole, ''Virginia: History, Government, Geography'' (1957), p. 293-294 *In 1790 the Dutch Sephardic Jews of the Touro Synagogue sent a letter of congratulations to the newly elected president George Washington and received from him a reply that included these immortal lines: "The government of the United States... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance... May the children of the Stock of Abraham who dwell in this land continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other inhabitants, while everyone shall sit in safety under his own wine and fig tree and there shall be none to make him afraid." **[[Ilan Stavans]] Introduction to ''The Schocken Book of Modern Sephardic Literature'' (2005) * '''The purest of statesman, and the most perfect of patriots. May it please Heaven that his example shall continue to serve as a beacon to our Republics in their darkest moments of doubt and adversity.''' ** [[w:Jorge Ubico|Jorge Ubico]], as quoted in ''Bulletin of the Pan American Union'', Vol. 66 (1932), p. 464 * [[Deists]] saw the core of the various religions to be essentially the same, but for some, god’s providence was the perfect operation of his physical law, and others saw god as taking a more active agency in human affairs. In this sense, George Washington was not a classic deist, for he held closely to the belief that divine providence meant that god did indeed intervene in human affairs. While serving as a general during the revolution, Washington encouraged soldiers to attend worship services and discouraged profanity among the troops, and as president, he issued two national thanksgiving proclamations. ** Utter, Glenn H.; True, James L. (2004). [https://books.google.com/books?id=4lGEFFIuNG4C “Conservative Christians and political participation: a reference handbook”]. ABC-CLIO. p.5 ISBN 978-1-85109-513-1. Retrieved 5 January 2012. * George Washington was a famous general who never won a battle. He was our first millionaire, and he believed in property and the dignity of those who held it, and they put together a constitution which would protect property for all time. No nonsense about democracy! ** [[Gore Vidal]], "Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia" documentary film (2013) * Gentlemen, the character of Washington is among the most cherished contemplations of my life. '''It is a fixed star in the firmament of great names, shining without twinkling or obscuration, with clear, steady, beneficent light.''' ** [[Daniel Webster]], secretary of state, letter to the New York Committee for the Celebration of the Birthday of Washington (February 20, 1851); in ''The Writings and Speeches of Daniel Webster'', vol. 12 (1903), p. 261 * There is [[Benjamin Franklin|Franklin]], with his first proposal of Continental union. There is [[James Otis]], with his great argument against Writs of Assistance, and [[Samuel Adams]], with his inexorable demand for the removal of the British regiments from Boston. There is [[Josiah Quincy II|Quincy]], and there is [[w:Joseph Warren|Warren]], the protomartyr of [[w:Battle of Bunker Hill|Bunker Hill]]. There is [[Thomas Jefferson|Jefferson]], with the Declaration of Independence fresh from his pen, and [[John Adams]] close at his side. There are [[Alexander Hamilton|Hamilton]] and [[James Madison|Madison]] and [[John Jay|Jay]] bringing forward the Constitution; but, towering above them all is Washington, the consummate commander, the incomparable President, the world-renowned patriot. ** [[w:Robert Charles Winthrop|Robert Charles Winthrop]], as quoted in ''Manual Of Patriotism : For Use in the Public Schools of the State of New York'' (1900) By Charles Rufus SkinnerTake, p. 262 * '''That nature has given him extraordinary military talents will hardly be controverted by his most bitter enemies'''; and having been early actuated with a warm passion to serve his country in the military line, he has greatly improved them by unwearied industry, and a close application to the best writers upon tactics, and by a more than common method and exactnels: and, in reality, when it comes to be considered that at first he only headed a body of men entirely unacquainted with military discipline or operations, somewhat ungovernable in temper, and who at best could only be stiled an alert and good militia, acting under very short enlistments, uncloalhed, unaccoutred, and at all times very ill supplied with ammunition and artillery; and that with such an army he withstood the ravages and progress of near forty thousand veteran troops, plentifully provided with, every necessary article, commanded by the bravest officers in Europe, and supported by a very powerful navy, which effectually prevented all movements by water; when, I say, all this comes to be impartially considered, I think I may venture to pronounce, that general '''Washington will be regarded by mankind as one of the greatest military ornaments of the present age, and that his name will command the veneration of the latest posterity.''' ** [[Anonymous]], ''Sketch of the Life and Character of General Washington'' (1780), republished in ''The Critical Review, or, Annals of Literature'' (1780) edited by Tobias George Smollett, p. 473; and ''The New Annual Register, or, General Repository of History'', Vol. 1 (1781), edited by Andrew Kippis, p. 33 * There is a remarkable air of dignity about him, with a striking degree of gracefulness: he has an excellent understanding without much quickness; is strictly just, vigilant, and generous; an affectionate husband, a faithful friend, a father to the deserving soldier; gentle in his manners, in temper rather reserved; a total stranger to religious prejudices, which have so often excited Christians of one denomination to cut the throats of those of another; in his morals irreproachable; he was never known to exceed the bounds of the most rigid temperance: in a word, all his friends and acquaintance universally allow, that '''no man ever united in his own person a more perfect alliance of the virtues of a philosopher with the talents of a general. Candour, sincerity, affability, and simplicity, seem to be the striking features of his character, till an occasion offers of displaying the most determined bravery and independence of spirit.''' ** [[Anonymous]], ''Sketch of the Life and Character of General Washington'' (1780), republished in ''The Critical Review, or, Annals of Literature'' (1780) edited by Tobias George Smollett, p. 473; and ''The New Annual Register, or, General Repository of History'', Vol. 1 (1781), edited by Andrew Kippis, p. 33 * George Washington is the only president who didn't blame the previous administration for his troubles. ** Unknown author, quoted in ''The Quotable Politician'' (2003) by William B. Whitman * He [ [[w:George III of the United Kingdom|George III]]] asked [[w:Benjamin West|West]] what would Washington do were America to be declared independant{{sic}}. West said He believed He would retire to a private situation -- The King said '''if He did He would be the greatest man in the world''' ** From the diaries of [[w:Joseph Farington|Joseph Farington]] (entry of December 28, 1799). Farington is repeating what West told him of the period shortly after the defeat of Cornwallis at [[w:Siege of Yorktown|Yorktown]]. {{cite book |first=Joseph |last=Farington |coauthors=James Greig (ed.) |year=1922 |publisher=Hutchinson |location=London |title=The Farington Diary, vol. i |pages=278 |url=https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.164843/2015.164843.The-Farington-Diaryvol1#page/n325/mode/2up}} ===''Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations''=== :<small>Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 860-62.</small> * The defender of his country—the founder of liberty, <br /> The friend of man, <br /> History and tradition are explored in vain <br /> For a parallel to his character. <br /> In the annals of modern greatness <br /> He stands alone; <br /> And the noblest names of antiquity <br /> Lose their lustre in his presence. <br /> Born the benefactor of mankind, <br /> He united all the greatness necessary <br /> To an illustrious career. <br /> Nature made him great, <br /> He made himself virtuous. ** Part of an Epitaph found on the back of a portrait of Washington, sent to the family from England. See Werner's Readings. No. 49, p. 77 * Simple and brave, his faith awoke <br /> Ploughmen to struggle with their fate; <br /> Armies won battles when he spoke, <br /> And out of Chaos sprang the state. ** [[Robert Bridges]], ''Washington'' * While Washington's a watchword, such as ne'er <br /> Shall sink while there's an echo left to air. ** [[Lord Byron]], ''Age of Bronze'', Stanza 5 * There's a star in the West that shall nerer go down <br /> Till the records of Valour decay, <br /> We must worship its light though it is not our own, <br /> For liberty burst in its ray. <br /> Shall the name of a Washington ever be heard <br /> By a freeman, and thrill not his breast? <br /> Is there one out of bondage that hails not the word, <br /> As a Bethlehem Star of the West? ** [[Eliza Cook]], ''There's a Star in the West'' * The character, the counsels, and example of our Washington * * * they will guide us through the doubts and difficulties that beset us; they will guide our children and our children's children in the paths of prosperity and peace, while America shall hold her place in the family of nations. ** [[Edward Everett]], speech, ''Washington Abroad and at Home'' (July 5, 1858) * Here you would know, and enjoy, what posterity will say of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years. ** [[Benjamin Franklin]], letter to Washington (March 5, 1780) * O Washington! thrice glorious name, <br /> What due rewards can man decree— <br /> Empires are far below thy aim, <br /> And scepters have no charms for thee; <br /> Virtue alone has your regards, <br /> And she must be your great reward. ** [[Philip Freneau]], ''Washington's Arrival in Philadelphia'' * Since ancient Time began, <br /> Ever on some great soul God laid an infinite burden— <br /> The weight of all this world, the hopes of man, <br /> Conflict and pain, and fame immortal are his guerdon. ** [[R. W. Gilder]], ''Washington'', sSpeech at Trenton (Oct. 19, 1893) * Were an energetic and judicious system to be proposed with your signature it would be a circumstance highly honorable to your fame … and doubly entitle you to the glorious republican epithet, <br /> The Father of your Country. ** [[Henry Knox]], letter to Washington (March 19, 1787), urging that Washington attend the Philadelphia Convention. See Ford, ''Washington's Writings'', Volume XI, p. 123 * A nobleness to try for, <br /> A name to live and die for. ** [[George Parsons Lathrop]], ''Name of Washington'' * First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen. ** Gen. [[Henry Lee]], ''Funeral Oration on Washington'' * First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his fellow citizens. ** Resolution on Washington's Death. Prepared by General [[Henry Lee]] and offered in the House of Representatives by [[John Marshall]] * The purely Great <br /> Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere, <br /> Thou nameless, now a power and mixed with fate. ** [[James Russell Lowell]], ''Under the old Elm''. The elm near Cambridge with the inscription "Under this tree, Washington first took command of the American Army, July 3, 1775" * Oh, Washington! thou hero, patriot sage, <br /> Friend of all climes, and pride of every age! ** [[Thomas Paine]] * Every countenance seeked to say, "Long live George Washington, the Father of the People." ** ''Pennsylvania Packet'' (April 21, 1789). After the election of Washington. * Our common Father and Deliverer, to whose prudence, wisdom and valour we owe our Peace, Liberty and Safety, now leads and directs in the great councils of the nation … and now we celebrate an independent Government—an original Constitution! an independent Legislature, at the head of which we this day celebrate The Father of his Country—We celebrate Washington! We celebrate an Independent Empire! ** ''Pennsylvania Packet'' (July 9, 1789), p. 284. See Albert Matthews' article in ''Colonial Society of Mass. Publications. Transactions. 1902–4'', Volume 8, p. 275–287 (pub. 1906). In America the term was already familiar. George II was so-called by Governor Belcher (2 December 1731). George III also, in a petition drawn up by the Massachusetts House of Representatives (June, 30, 1768). Winthrop was styled thus by Governor Hutchinson. (1764). See ''History of Massachusetts'', I, 151 * His work well done, the leader stepped aside <br /> Spurning a crown with more than kingly pride. <br /> Content to wear the higher crown of worth, <br /> While time endures, "First citizen of earth." ** [[James J. Roche]], ''Washington'' *Washington and his associates believed that it was essential to the existence of this Republic that there should never be any union of Church and State; and such union is partially accomplished wherever a given creed is aided by the State or when any public servant is elected or defeated because of his creed. **[[Theodore Roosevelt]], [https://archive.org/stream/immigrationameri00daviuoft/immigrationameri00daviuoft_djvu.txt "Address to the Knights of Columbus"] (12 October 1915) * 'Twas his ambition, generous and great <br /> A life to life's great end to consecrate. ** [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]], ''Washington'' * While Washington hath left <br /> His awful memory, <br /> A light for after times. ** [[Robert Southey]], ode written during the War with America (1814) * That name was a power to rally a nation in the hour of thick-thronging public disasters and calamities; that name shone amid the storm of war, a beacon light to cheer and guide the country's friends; it flamed too like a meteor to repel her foes. ** [[Daniel Webster]], speech at a public dinner (22 February 1832) * That name descending with all time, spreading over the whole earth, and uttered in all the languages belonging to all tribes and races of men, will forever be pronounced with affectionate gratitude by everyone in whose breast there shall arise an aspiration for human rights and liberty. ** [[Daniel Webster]], speech at the Centennial Anniversary of Washington (22 February 1832) * America has furnished to the world the character of Washington! And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would have entitled them to the respect of mankind. ** [[Daniel Webster]], ''Completion of Bunker Hill Monument'' (17 June 1843), Volume I, p. 105 ==See also== * [[Founding Fathers of the United States]] * [[List of presidents of the United States]] ==External links== {{wikipedia}} {{Wikisource author}} {{commons | George Washington}} * [http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/gw1.html Official White House site] * [http://www.pbs.org/georgewashington/father/index.html Rediscovering George Washington (PBS profile)] * [http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/gw1/gw1.htm Speeches and Addresses of Washington] * [http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/ Papers of George Washington at the University of Virginia] * [http://etext.virginia.edu/washington/fitzpatrick/ Writings of Washington 1744-1799 at the University of Virginia] * [http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/gwintro.html Diaries of Washington at The Library of Congress] * [http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/gwhome.html George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress] * [http://earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/milestones/newburgh/ The Newburgh Address] * [http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/quotes/washframe.htm "George Washington's Silent Lack of Piety" at Positive Atheism] {{DEFAULTSORT:Washington, George}} [[Category:Founding Fathers of the United States of America]] [[Category:Freemasons]] [[Category:Military leaders from the United States]] [[Category:Nationalists]] [[Category:Presidents of the United States]] [[Category:Politicians from Virginia]] [[Category:United States presidential candidates, 1792]] [[Category:United States presidential candidates, 1789]] [[Category:Episcopalians from the United States]] [[Category:Free speech activists]] [[Category:Activists from the United States]] [[Category:Deists]] [[Category:Non-fiction authors from the United States]] [[Category:Farmers]] [[Category:1732 births]] [[Category:1799 deaths]] [[Category:People of the American Revolution]] [[Category:Commanding Generals and Chiefs of Staff of the United States Army]] hjyb82ddoe96u8gss14orn97w2csrfm 0 126397 3961335 3925939 2026-07-05T23:59:04Z Markjoseph125 19526 /* B */ added quote 3961335 wikitext text/x-wiki '''[[w:Fear|Fear]]''' is a basic emotional sensation and response system ("feeling") initiated by an aversion to some perceived [[risk]] or [[threat]]. __NOTOC__ {{TOCalpha|[[#Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations|''Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations'']] · [[#Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)|''Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers'']]}} == A == *We’ve become afraid of beautiful moments, as if we know they’ll one day become very painful memories. **[[Abdel Nasser Abdel Fattah]] **[https://shufunews.com/abdel-nasser-abdel-fattahs-sayings-about-separation/ Abdel Nasser Abdel Fattah’s sayings about separation] {{fix cite}} * Fear does not prevent [[death]], but it prevents [[life]]. If you are afraid, life has no value. If you die, everything dies.~~ December 18, 2024 ** [[Abdelnasser Abdelfattah]] ** [https://shufunews.com/abdelnasser-abdelfattah-various-quotes-and-sayings-from/ Abdelnasser Abdelfattah Various Quotes And Sayings From] {{fix cite}} [[File:Gaius_Caesar_Caligula.jpg|thumb|Let them [[hate]], so long as they fear. ~ [[Lucius Accius]]]] [[File:Baltimore riot police VOA.jpg|thumb|Fear is the foundation of most [[governments]]. ~ [[John Adams]]]] [[File:Delacroix - Ramasseuses de coquillages surprises par la marée.jpg|thumb|Sometimes, fear is a friendly reminder you're not ready for something. ~ Cindy Appel]] [[File:Stroop Report - Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 06b.jpg|thumb|Fear is fear. It doesn't speak in riddles. Fear means you're smart. You understand the risks. ~ Cindy Appel]] [[File:Aristotle Bust White Background Transparent.png|thumb|He who has overcome his fears will [[truly]] be [[free]]. ~ [[Aristotle]]]] * ''Oderint dum metuant.'' ** '''Let them [[hate]], so long as they fear.''' ** [[Lucius Accius]] from ''Atreus'', quoted in [[Seneca]], ''Dialogues'', Books III–V "De Ira", I, 20, 4. * '''Fear is the foundation of most [[governments]].''' ** [[John Adams]], ''Thoughts on Government'' (1776). * From remote times people have been accustomed to fear so-called [[death]]. They were always intimidated by [[hell]], and at the same time were not told about the meaning of perfectment. One cannot ask people to be brave if they do not know why they are on [[Earth]], and where they will be directed when liberated. We entrust Our co-workers to repeat as much as they can to people about the [[reincarnation|great Eternity and the continuity of life]]... We know what devastation fear produces in the human organism. Earthly physicians should distinguish a special kind of sickness caused by fear... Let them understand how harmful is fear. ** [[Agni Yoga]], ''Supermundane'', #44, (1938) * Fear, imposed from the top down- from shareholder to senior executive, senior executive to executive, and so on down the chain right to the maximally squeezed Manpower temp- is the dominant trope in the post-Reagan corporate culture. One of the simplest ways to instill this fear is to make employees acutely aware that their jobs are never safe. ** [[Mark Ames]], ''Going Postal: Rage, Murder and Rebellion: From Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond'' (2005), p. 103 * Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes [[action]], [[perseverance]], and facing your fears. ** [[Gillian Anderson]], excerpt from the foreword in ''[http://www.gilliananderson.ws/transcripts/99_00/99girlboss.shtml/ Girl Boss: Running the Show Like the Big Chicks]'' (1999) *:'''Renée Picard''':: '''Sometimes, fear is a friendly reminder you're not ready for something.''' *:'''Jean-Luc Picard''': '''No! Fear is fear. It doesn't speak in riddles. Fear means you're smart. You understand the risks.''' ** ''[[Star Trek: Picard]]'' episode Two of One (April 7, 2022) written by Cindy Appel & Jane Maggs * He who has overcome his fears will truly be [[free]]. ** Variant: I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies. ** [[Aristotle]], Quoted in ''Florilegium'' by [[w:Stobaeus|Joannes Stobaeus]] ==B== [[File:Ebenezer Sibly - Edwḍ Kelly, a Magician. in the Act of invoking the Spirit of a Deceased Person.jpg|thumb|[[Men]] fear [[death]] as [[children]] fear to go in the [[dark]]; and as that [[natural]] fear in [[children]] is increased with [[tales]], so is the other. ~ [[Francis Bacon]]]] * Nothing is terrible except fear itself. ** [[Francis Bacon]], ''De Augmentis Scientiarum'', Book II, ''Fortitudo'' (1623). * The fear that I heard in my father’s voice, for example, when he realized that I really ''believed'' I could do anything a white boy could do, and had every intention of proving it, was not at all like the fear I heard when one of us was ill or had fallen down the stairs or strayed too far from the house. It was another fear, a fear that the child, in challenging the white world’s assumptions, was putting himself in the path of destruction. ** [[James Baldwin]], ''[[w:The Fire Next Time|The Fire Next Time]]'' (1963), p. 26 * Men fear [[death]] as [[children]] fear to go in the [[dark]]; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. ** [[Francis Bacon]], ''Apothegms'', ''Of Death'' (1624). * Fear is the product of [[ignorance]], and in its initial stages it is not the product of wrong [[Thought|thinking]]. It is basically [[Instinct|instinctual]], and is found dominating in the non-mental [[Animals|animal kingdom]], as well as in the [[Humanity|human kingdom]]... But in the [[human]], its [[power]] is increased potently through the powers of the [[mind]], and through [[memory]] of past [[pain]] and [[Grievances|grievance]], and through anticipation of those we foresee, the power of fear is enormously aggravated by the thoughtform we ourselves have built of our own individual fears and phobias. This thoughtform grows in power as we pay attention to it, for "energy follows thought", till we become dominated by it. ** [[Alice Bailey]], ''The Way of the Disciple'' [1934]. ISBN 978-0-85330-123-3. * “I ain’t afraid of nothin.”<br>“You’re a bigger fool than I took you for, then.” ** [[Dale Bailey]], ''The Census Taker'' (2003). Originally published in [[w:The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction|F&SF]] (October-November 2003); reprinted in ''The Resurrection Man’s Legacy,'' <small> {{ISBN|1-930846-22-3}}, </small> p. 164 * Far too many people have been swept into the post-9/11 system of fear that is the basis of all public policy these days. ** [[w:Bob Barr|Bob Barr]], [[American Civil Liberties Union|ACLU]] boardmember and former Congressman from Georgia; quoted in [http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-03-01-immigration-IDs_x.htm "Feds may soon check all workers' IDs"], ''USA Today'', 2 March 2006. * Every time you go into battle, you are scared shitless. The panic will rise inside of you and you have to develop a technique to keep it down. The trick is to keep your fears under control. First, you have to know your fears. There are several kinds of fear a combat soldier has to deal with:<br>First of all, there is a 'deployment or mission fear.' This starts the day when you get your orders to go into combat. It's like a fist in the stomach. From this day on, until you come back home to safety you will feel this fear. Sometimes it's just a gloomy feeling, the certainty that you are doomed and sometimes, it makes you wake up in the morning with thoughts like: "Fuck! What have I done?!" This fear is the easiest to control. Keep busy, avoid moments of lineliness and stay focused on the task at hand. Fortunately, as soon as a soldier gets his or her marching orders, life becomes very busy and there isn't much time to start with deep thinking, anyway. ** Roland Bartetzko, ''The Smell of War'' (2018), self-published, paperback, p. 37 * The second fear is the 'battlefield fear.' This is the concrete, clear and present fear in face of a life-threatening situation. To get shot, to get maimed by a grenade or to step on a mine. Every soldier has a different method to manage this fear. I used to lie to muyself that the situation was much better than it looked, that the enemy wasn't that close, the shots were not aimed at me and the sound behind the bush was an animal and not an enemy soldier. My auto-suggestion method worked out fine for me. I also invented 'mantras' to calm myself down. One of them went like: "Today is a good day to die. But not for me. Not today!" Of course, endlessly repeating that you are not dying today, won't increase your chances to survive, but you can fool yourself into believing that it does. It worked and I calmed down. Other soldiers were using other methods, a lot of them were praying, others sang songs and some soldiers overcame their fear through shouting out loud or cursing. I lied to myself or repeated my mantras. Whatever works for you is fine.<br>The third type of fear, however, is the worst. It's not only related to combat, but all of us will experience it one day. It's the fear of imminent death. That you won't be there anymore. In combat, this happens when you are in a really hopeless situation. This fear is the worst feeling I have ever experienced, almost like if somebody pushes you from a cliff and you have inly seconds to live. You feel completely alone. In the end, there is nothing you can do to overcome this fear. While other fears can be managed, you cannot train or prepare for your last moment on earth. ** Roland Bartetzko, ''The Smell of War'' (2018), self-published, paperback, p. 38 * Fear is real and there is nothing you can do about it except to keep functioning, keep your hands and legs and body moving, your mind focused on the task at hand. ** [[Alvah Bessie]], ''Men in Battle: A Story of Americans in Spain'' (1939), p. 241 * Fear of serious [[injury]] cannot alone justify suppression of [[free speech]] and [[Freedom of assembly|assembly]]. Men feared [[Witchcraft|witches]] and burnt [[women]]. It is the function of [[speech]] to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. ** [[Louis Brandeis]], concurring, ''Whitney v. California'', 274 U.S. 357, 376 (1927). * The greatest [[weakness]] of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak. ** [[Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet]], ''Politique Tirée de l'Écriture Sainte (Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture)'' (1679 - published 1709). * I fear [[freedom]]. I, above all, fear the freedom that is above all feardom. ** [[Giannina Braschi]], "United States of Banana" (2011) Part I, p.14 * I saw the white of fear in [[United States|America]]’s eyes. We don’t fear the way we should fear. Our sense of [[danger]] should be at the height of our abuse. ** [[Giannina Braschi]], "United States of Banana" (2001) Part I, p. 23 * No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. ** [[Edmund Burke]], ''A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful'' (1756). * The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear. ** [[Edmund Burke]], ''Second Speech on Conciliation with America. The Thirteen Resolutions'' (March 22, 1775). * Early and provident fear is the mother of safety. ** [[Edmund Burke]], speech on the petition of the Unitarians, House of Commons (May 11, 1792); in ''The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke'' (1899), vol. 7, p. 50. * There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear. ** Attributed to [[Edmund Burke]]; reported as unverified in ''Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations'' (1989). * The most drastic and usually the most effective [[w:cure|remedy]] for [[w:fear|fear]] is direct action. ** [[w:William H. Burnham|William H. Burnham]], [http://archive.org/details/normalmind032389mbp ''The Normal Mind''] (1924), p. 424. * The fear of some divine and supreme powers keeps men in obedience. ** [[Robert Burton]], ''The Anatomy of Melancholy'', Part III, Section 4, member 1, subsec. 2 (1621-1651). ==C== [[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-2004-0312-503, Nürnberg, Reichsparteitag, Marsch der Wehrmacht.jpg |thumb|Fear is the great destroyer. ~ [[w:Michael Chabon|Michael Chabon]]]] [[File:Wim van den Heuvel en Yoka Berretty (1961).jpg |thumb|Fear is an incompetent teacher. ~ [[w:Michael Chabon|Michael Chabon]]]] [[File:SpaceSFMSpr1957.jpg|thumb|Psychologically speaking, we don't fear something that doesn't exist, something that never happened, something that never could happen - any more than people forbid or regulate something that no one wants to do anyway. ~ Phyllis Chesler]] [[File:Paton Sir Joseph Noel In Memoriam.jpg|thumb|Nothing in [[life]] is to be feared, it is only to be [[understood]]. ~ [[Marie Curie]]]] * They are the driven crowds that makes the army of the authoritarian overlord; they are the stuffing of conservatism ... mediocrity is their god. They fear the stranger, they fear the new idea; they are afraid to live, and scared to die. ** [[w:Donald Ewen Cameron|Donald Ewen Cameron]] as quoted by Harvey Weinstein in ''Father, Son and CIA'' pg. 101 * Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn't something most of us can afford to do. ** [[Ben Carson]], ''Take The Risk'' (p. 63). * The point is, we can decry the dangers we face or ignore them or even allow ourselves to be paralyzed by fear. ** [[Ben Carson]], ''Take The Risk'' (p. 236). * It was stupid to feel fear. Fear was nothing but the body’s involuntary response to perceived threats. Fear increased heartbeat, respiration, and perspiration; fear clouded the mind and paralyzed the limbs, and ''I’m going to die'' wasn’t subject to logical arguments about its counterproductivity. ** [[Adam-Troy Castro]], ''Emissaries from the Dead'' (2008), <small> {{ISBN|978-0-06-144372-5}}, </small> p. 284 * Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things underground, and much more in the skies. ** [[Miguel de Cervantes]], ''[[w:Don Quixote|Don Quixote de la Mancha]]'' (1605-1615), Part III, Book 6. * The past is written, but the [[future]] is left for us to write, and we have powerful tools, Rios: openness, [[optimism]], and the spirit of [[curiosity]]. All they have is [[secrecy]], and fear, and fear is the great destroyer, Rios. ** [[Jean-Luc Picard]] (played by [[Patrick Stewart]]) in the ''[[w:Star Trek: Picard|Star Trek: Picard]]'' episode Broken Pieces (March 12, 2020) written by [[w:Michael Chabon|Michael Chabon]] * But '''fear is an incompetent teacher.''' ** [[Jean-Luc Picard]] (played by [[Patrick Stewart]] in the ''[[w:Star Trek: Picard|Star Trek: Picard]]'' episode Et En Arcadia Argo, Part 2 (March 26, 2020) written by Michael Chabon & Akiva Goldsman * [[Myths]] are themselves a very important kind of proof. Myths preserve the history of human [[thought]] - [[dreams]], [[Nightmare|nightmares]], and [[memories]] - as well as the history of human deeds. And tangible proof aside, the legendary [[Amazons]] have been an almost universal male nightmare. Men have believed in them. Psychologically speaking, we don't fear something that doesn't exist, something that never happened, something that never could happen - any more than people forbid or regulate something that no one wants to do anyway. ** ''[[Wonder Woman]]'' interview with Phyllis Chesler (1972) * So much of "normal, civilized" [[life]] is bull that you can't imagine. … What frightens you, doesn't frighten me, what frightens me, you'd [[Laughter|laugh]] at. ** [[James Clavell]], in ''[[w:Noble House|Noble House]]'' (1981). * Not living in fear is a great gift, because certainly these days we do it so much. And do you know what I like about comedy? You can’t laugh and be afraid at the same time—of anything. If you're laughing, I defy you to be afraid. ** [[Stephen Colbert]] [http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2007/edition_09-23-2007/AStephen_Colbert ''Parade'' interview] (23 September 2007) * Like one that on a lonesome road<br>Doth walk in fear and dread,<br>And having once turned round walks on,<br>And turns no more his head;<br>Because he knows, a frightful fiend<br>Doth close behind him tread. * [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]], ''[[w:The Rime of the Ancient Mariner|The Rime of the Ancient Mariner]]'', Part VI, st. 10 (1798). * Who is all-powerful should fear everything. ** [[Pierre Corneille]], ''Cinna'', Act IV, scene ii (1640). * '''Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.''' Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. ** [[Marie Curie]], As quoted in ''Our Precarious Habitat'' (1973) by Melvin A. Benarde, p. v. ==D== [[File:IAO-logo.png|thumb|Fear ...can make you do more [[wrong]] than [[hate]] or [[jealousy]]. If you're afraid you don’t commit yourself to [[life]] completely; fear makes you always, always hold something back. ~ [[Phillip K. Dick]]]] <!-- [[File:Bäume_Jahreszeit_2013.jpg|thumb|All our times have come <br> Here but now they're gone <br> [[Seasons]] don't fear [[w:Grim reaper|the reaper]] <br> Nor do the [[wind]], the [[sun]] or the [[rain]]... we can be like they are <br> Come on baby... don't fear the reaper <br> Baby take my [[hand]]... don't fear the reaper <br> We'll be able to [[fly]]... don't fear the reaper <br> Baby I'm your [[man]]... ~ [[w:Blue Oyster Cult|Blue Oyster Cult]]]] --> * ''Où serait le mérite, si les héros n'avaient jamais peur?'' ** Where would be the merit if heroes were never afraid? ** [[Alphonse Daudet]], ''[[w:Tartarin of Tarascon|Tartarin de Tarascon]]'' (1872); French cited from ''Tartarin de Tarascon'' (Paris: E. Flammarion, 1887), p. 204; translation from the Webster's French Thesaurus edition (San Diego: Icon, 2008), p. 80. * Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,<br>I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. ** [[David]], [[w:Psalms|Psalms]], 23:4. * [[Yahweh|The Lord]] is my [[light]] and my [[salvation]]; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? ** [[David]], [[w:Psalms|Psalms]], 27:1. * [[God]] is our refuge and [[strength]], a very present help in trouble. Therefore will we not fear, though the earth be removed, and though the [[Mountain|mountains]] be carried into the midst of the sea. ** [[David]], [[w:Psalms|Psalms]], 46:1-2. * As the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him. ** [[David]], [[w:Psalms|Psalms]], 103:11. * The fear of the Lord is the beginning of [[wisdom]]. ** [[David]], [[w:Psalms|Psalms]], 111:10. * Be not afraid of sudden fear. ** [[David]], [[w:Book of Proverbs|Book of Proverbs]], 3:25. * All our times have come <br> Here but now they're gone <br> Seasons don't fear the reaper <br> Nor do the wind, the sun or the rain... we can be like they are <br> Come on baby... don't fear the reaper <br> Baby take my hand... don't fear the reaper <br> We'll be able to fly... don't fear the reaper <br> Baby I'm your man... ** [[w:Blue Oyster Cult|Blue Oyster Cult]] ''[[w:(Don't Fear) The Reaper|(Don't Fear) The Reaper]]|'' written by [[w:Buck Dharma|Buck Dharma]] * Fear, ...can make you do more [[wrong]] than [[hate]] or [[jealousy]]. If you're afraid you don’t [[commit]] yourself to [[life]] completely; fear makes you always, always hold something back. ** [[Phillip K. Dick]], ''[[w:Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said|Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said]]'', (1974), p. 171 * [[Death]] in itself is nothing; but we fear<br>To be we know not what, we know not where. ** [[John Dryden]], ''Aureng-Zebe'', Act IV, scene i (1676). * '''Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.''' ** [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]] ''[[Crime and Punishment]]'' Part I, Ch. 1 (1866). ==E== [[File:Speech Debelle.jpg|thumb|It was a high [[counsel]] that I once [[heard]] given to a [[young]] person, — always do what you are afraid to [[do]]. ~ [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]]]] * [[Courage]] is the price that life exacts for granting peace.<br>The soul that knows it not, know no release<br>From little things;<br>Knows not the livid loneliness of fear,<br>Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear<br>The sound of wings. ** [[Amelia Earhart]], ''Courage'' (1927). * Always believe that [[God]] is with you, and fear nothing. ** [[w:Eliezer|Eliezer]], ''The Jewish Encyclopedia: A Descriptive Record of the History, Religion, Literature and Customs of the Jewish People from the Earliest Times to the Present Day Volume 2'', edited by Isidore Singer, Cyrus Adler, (Dec 31, 1903), p.386. * Fear not those who argue but those who dodge. ** [[Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach]], ''Aphorisms'' (1905). * '''It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, — ''always do what you are afraid to do.''''' ** [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]], ''Essays, First Series'' (1841). * O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas. ** [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]], "Heroism", ''Essays: First Series'' (1903; vol. 2 of The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson), p. 259–60. * ''Quem metuunt oderunt; quem quisque odit, perisse expetit.'' ** Whom they fear, they hate; and whom they hate they want dead. *** [[Ennius]] as quoted by [[w:Cicero|Cicero]] in ''De Officiis'', Book II, Chapter 23 ==F== [[File:Spear_point_knife_blade.jpg|thumb|Quite an [[experience]], to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a [[slave]]. ~ Hampton Fancher & David Peoples]] * Quite an [[experience]], to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a [[slave]]. ** Roy Batty as interpreted by [[w:Rutger Hauer|Rutger Hauer]], in ''[[Blade Runner]]'' (1982); script by Hampton Fancher & David Peoples * '''Depend on me; never fear your [[enemies]]. I'll warrant We make more noise than they.''' ** [[Henry Fielding]], ''The Universal Gallant : Or, the Different Husbands, A Comedy'' (1735). <!-- 1775 edition, p. 222 --> * The road remains wide open while your dreams are alive. Only fear can block the way. Let fear propel you forward. Do not look back. Do not let failure stifle you. ** Iron-Tail Fratley (World Map Key Item), from ''[[w:Final Fantasy IX|Final Fantasy IX]]'' (2000). * '''None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.''' ** [[Ferdinand Foch]], As quoted in ''Encarta Book of Quotations'' (2000) by Bill Swainson and Anne H. Soukhanov, p. 338. ==G== *Fear, fear, she's the mother of [[violence]] :Making me tense to watch the way she breed :Fear, she's the mother of violence :You know self-[[defense]] is all you need :It's getting hard to breathe :It's getting so hard to [[believe]] :To believe in anything at all :* [[Peter Gabriel]] ''Mother of Violence'', [[w:Peter Gabriel (1978 album)|Peter Gabriel (1978 album)]]. ==H== [[File:Electricsheep-29229.jpg|thumb|I must not fear]. Fear is the [[mind]]-killer. Fear is the little-[[death]] that brings total obliteration. I will [[face]] my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner [[eye]] to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be [[nothing]]. Only I will remain. ~ [[Frank Herbert]]]] * The fear of death is born with man, though this is the only thing he knows is certain to happen to him. Attachment to material things makes man cling to life. When you chant the Name of the Divine, when you are one with the divine, you accept death. While you are attached to life and afraid of death, you die with that fear and that weight clinging to you. If you have attained liberation you are free from death (you accept inevitable). You die without fear and by remembering the Name of God, your soul leaves the body free of that fear and attachment. If you are reborn, your soul is still free from that fear. If you die in 'unity', you are free from rebirth, unless you will it. ** [[Haidakhan Babaji]], ''The Teachings of Babaji'', 1 December 1982. * "Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights. ** [[Dag Hammarskjöld]], in a statement on the 180th anniversary of the [[w:Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom|Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom]], written by [[Thomas Jefferson]], as quoted in ''Quote'' (20 May 1956). * '''I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.''' ** [[Frank Herbert]], ''[[Dune]]'' - [[w:Bene Gesserit|Bene Gesserit]] Litany Against Fear (1965), pg. 8. * The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don't ask for their love; only for their fear. ** [[Heinrich Himmler]], as quoted in ''Visions of Reality: A Study of Abnormal Perception and Behavior'' (2007) by Alberto Rivas, p. 162 * It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable. ** [[Eric Hoffer]], ''The Passionate State of Mind'' (1954). *You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. **[[Eric Hoffer]], ''The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms'' Section 222 (1955). *[Y]ou get used to everything. No human force, not even fear, is stronger than [[habit]]. **[[Michel Houellebecq]], [http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/21/opinion/how-frances-leaders-failed-its-people.html?_r=0 "The New York Times - The Opinion Pages", commentary about the November 2015 Paris attacks] (21 November 2015) * Never fear your, enemies. A bold fight is the best: we should advance, and not retrograde. ** [[w:William Alanson Howard|William Alanson Howard]], ''Official Proceedings of the National Republican Conventions of 1868, 1872, 1876, and 1880'' (1903), p. 250. * Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each one of us. To build for man a world without fear, we must be without fear. To build a world of justice, we must be just. And how can we fight for liberty if we are not free in our own minds? How can we ask others to sacrifice if we are not ready to do so?… Only in true surrender to the interest of all can we reach that strength and independence, that unity of purpose, that equity of judgment which are necessary if we are to measure up to our duty to the future, as men of a generation to whom the chance was given to build in time a world of peace. ** [[Dag Hammarskjöld]], in UN Press Release SG/360 (22 December 1953). *Some men sleep<br />with loose hands that by day are fists<br />holding [[fear]] **[[Linda Hogan (writer)]] Dark. Sweet.: New & Selected Poems (2014) * [[Emotions]] prepare us for [[action]]. They motivate seeking out rewarding stimuli, increasing alert-ness and avoiding [[threat]] (Bernhardt and Singer, 2012). Fear has a strong developmental and evolu-tionary function as a primordial reaction to danger that elicits a distinctive physiological and psycho-logical response. The endocrine system releases epinephrine, norepinephrine, and cortisol that excites the cardiovascular and respiratory systems, and releases glucose into the bloodstream, preparing the body for physical action (Rodrigues et al., 2009). A concomitant increase in attentional vigilance (Fi-nucane, 2011) and a bias toward threatening stimuli (Öhman et al., 2001) serve to heighten perceptual awareness, and learning/memory mechanisms (Öhman and Mineka, 2001). Fear is associated with changes in both the central and peripheral nervous system (Ekman, 1992; Kreibig, 2010; Nummenmaa and Saarimäki, 2017; Panksepp, 1982) and is also characterized by an idiosyncratic subjective experi-ence (Nummenmaa et al., 2014a, Nummenmaa et al., 2014b; Nummenmaa et al., 2018b, Nummenmaa et al., 2018a; Volynets et al., 2019) and overt expression (Smith et al., 2005). ** Matthew Hudson, Kerttu Seppälä, Vesa Putkinen, Lihua Sun, Enrico Glerean, Tomi Karjalainen, Henry K. Karlsson, Jussi Hirvonen, Lauri Nummenmaa. [https://www.utu.fi/en/news/press-release/horror-movies-manipulate-brain-activity-expertly-to-%20enhance-excitement “Dissociable neural systems for unconditioned acute and sustained fear”], ''NeuroImage'', 2020 * Acute fear in response to encountering threat is associated with a distinctive pattern of neural activity distributed through the cerebellum (Ploghaus et al., 1999), limbic system (Knight et al., 2004; LaBar et al., 1998), and cortex (prefrontal: Phelps, Delgado, Nearing and LeDoux, 2004; sensory: Morris et al., 2001; cingulate: Milad et al., 2007; insula: Critchley et al., 2002; motor: Lissek et al., 2014). This dis-tributed network (Saarimäki et al., 2016) enables the rapid detection and appraisal of threat, its saliency to oneself, the employment of executive functioning and memory for decision making and action plan-ning, and the implementation of action plans (Zhu and Thagard, 2002). <br> In addition to generating immediate survival responses, fear systems also modulate vigilance in anticipation of threat caused by environmental cues, perceptual uncertainty, and ambiguity that elicits a sustained fear prior to actual encountering of threat (Fanselow, 1994; Lang et al., 2000; Lehne and Koelsch, 2015). This gives rise to subjective feelings of anxiety, tension, suspense, dread, or foreboding that reflects a generalized antici-patory preparedness for the possibility of potential danger. Several recent studies have shown that spa-tiotemporally distant threats elicit activity in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, posterior cingulate cor-tex, hippocampus and amygdala, which are associated with a cognitive mechanism of fear that reflects the need for complex information processing and memory retrieval to generate an adaptive and flexible response. A threat that is proximal in space or time, on the other hand, elicits a reactive fear response of immediate action and fight or flight, and which elicits activity in the periaqueductal gray, amygdala, hypothalamus, and middle cingulate cortex (Mobbs et al., 2007; Qi et al., 2018). ** Matthew Hudson, Kerttu Seppälä, Vesa Putkinen, Lihua Sun, Enrico Glerean, Tomi Karjalainen, Henry K. Karlsson, Jussi Hirvonen, Lauri Nummenmaa. [https://www.utu.fi/en/news/press-release/horror-movies-manipulate-brain-activity-expertly-to-%20enhance-excitement “Dissociable neural systems for unconditioned acute and sustained fear”], ''NeuroImage'', 2020 * "I do not wish to experience that again.”<br>“Some people claim that the occasional exposure to fear enhances their enjoyment of more tranquil circumstances."<br>"Some people ought to be confined for their own good," my assistant said, “and to prevent them from spreading dangerous inanities.” ** [[Matthew Hughes (writer)|Matthew Hughes]], ''The Spiral Labyrinth'' (2007), <small> {{ISBN|978-1-59780-091-4}}, </small> p. 23 ==J== [[File:JohnVatopedi16.jpg|thumb|There is no fear in [[Agape|love]]. But [[perfect]] [[love]] drives out fear, because fear has to do with [[punishment]]. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. ~ [[First Epistle of John]]]] * '''Be not afraid of [[life]]. Believe that life ''is'' worth living, and your [[belief]] will help create the [[fact]].''' ** [[William James]], in "Is Life Worth Living?" ''The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy'' (1897). * When the attendant of the man of the true God rose early and went outside, he saw that an army with horses and war chariots was surrounding the city. At once the attendant said to him: “Alas, my master! What are we to do?” But he said: “Do not be afraid! For there are more who are with us than those who are with them.” ** [[Jeremiah]], 2 Kings 6ː15-16, [[New World Translation]] * Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear. ** [[w:Book of Job|Book of Job]], 41:33. * φόβος οὐκ ἔστιν ἐν τῇ ἀγάπῃ, ἀλλ’ ἡ τελεία ἀγάπη ἔξω βάλλει τὸν φόβον, ὅτι ὁ φόβος κόλασιν ἔχει, ὁ δὲ φοβούμενος οὐ τετελείωται ἐν τῇ ἀγάπῃ. ** There is no fear in [[Agape|love]]. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with [[punishment]]. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. ** [[First Epistle of John]] 4:18 [[New International Version|NIV]]. * Don’t be afraid, my Lord. My father always says that fear is the devil’s hairbrush, although no one knows quite what he means by it. ** [[Arthur M. Jolly]], in the play ''The Lady Demands Satisfaction'', (2018) ==K== * Let us never [[negotiate]] out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. ** [[John F. Kennedy]], inaugural address (January 20, 1961); in ''The Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961'', p. 2. * We have genuflected before the [[God]] of [[Science]] only to find that it has given us the [[Nuclear weapons|atomic bomb]], producing fears and [[anxieties]] that science can never mitigate. ** [[Martin Luther King]], ''Strength to Love'', 1963 * I'd rather be dead than afraid. ** [[Martin Luther King]], as quoted in [https://books.google.com/books?id=IjYHl0Z0eAoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:naHjXvcPfg8C&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi3x5KE8afYAhWqYd8KHcQzBrAQuwUIKzAA#v=onepage&q&f=false ''Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King''], by Gerald Posner * Still...let's talk about fear. We won't raise our voices and we won't scream; we'll talk rationally, you and I. We'll talk about the way the good fabric of things sometimes has a way of unraveling with shocking suddenness. ** [[Stephen King]], ''[[w:Night Shift (book)|Night Shift]], foreward (1978). * Fear is an emotion that makes us [[Blindness|blind]]. How many things are we afraid of? We're afraid to turn off the lights when our hands are wet. We're afraid to stick a [[knife]] into the toaster to get the stuck [[w:English_muffin|English muffin]] without unpluggin it first. We're afraid of what the doctor may tell us when the physical exam is over; when the [[airplane]] suddenly takes a great unearthly lurch in midair. We're afraid that the [[oil]] may run out, that the good [[air]] will run out, the good water, the good life. When the [[Children|daughter]] promised to be in by eleven and it's now quarter past twelve and sleet is spatting against the window like dry sand, we sit and pretend to watch [[Johnny Carson]] and look occasionally at the mute telephone and we feel the [[Emotions|emotion]] that makes us blind, the emotion that makes a stealthy ruin of the thinking process. ** [[Stephen King]], ''[[w:Night Shift (book)|Night Shift]], foreward (1978). * Fear makes us blind, and we touch each fear with all the avid curiousity of self-interest, trying to make a whole out of a hundred parts, like the blind men with their elephant. We sense the shape. [[Children]] grasp it easily, forget it, and relearn it as adults. The shape is there, and most of us come to realize what it is sooner or later: it is the shape of a body under a sheet. All our fears add up to one great fear, all our fears are part of that great fear - an arm, a leg, a finger, an ear. We're afraid of the body under the sheet. It's our body. And the great appeal of horror fiction through the ages is that it serves as a rehearsal for our own deaths. ** [[Stephen King]], ''[[w:Night Shift (book)|Night Shift]], foreward. :'''[[w:William Riker|William Riker]]''': Fear is the true enemy, the only enemy. :* [[w:William Riker|William Riker]] as interpreted by [[w:Jonathan Frakes|Jonathan Frakes]] in "[[w:The Last Outpost (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|The Last Outpost]]", ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Star Trek: The Next Generation]], (October 19, 1987); screenplay by Richard Krzemien, teleplay by Herbert Wright. :* Attributed to [[Sun Tzu]], but no source for this quote predates the episode's airing. * I'm either a [[mutant]] or a cripple, and I refuse to be a cripple. People [[pity]] cripples, but they're afraid of mutants … Fear implies [[respect]]. ** [[Dean Koontz]], in ''[[w:One Door Away from Heaven|One Door Away from Heaven]]'' (2001), Leilani Klonk, in Ch. 1, p. 4 ==L== * After I have conferred my [[power]] on the [[warrior]], when he goes to [[war]] he knows no fear, he knows no faltering. ** [[Lahar (god)|Lahar]], in ''[[Debate between sheep and grain]]'' (mid to late 3rd millennium BCE) [http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section5/tr532.htm] * Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully. ** [[Frances Moore Lappé]], ''O Magazine'', (May 2004). * I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are. ** [[Frances Moore Lappé]], ''O Magazine'', (May 2004). * The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. ** [[H. P. Lovecraft]], ''Supernatural horror in Literature'' (1927). * They are slaves who fear to speak<br>For the fallen and the weak. ** [[James Russell Lowell]], ''Stanzas on Freedom'', st. 4 (1843). * Fear. Fear attracts the fearful. The strong. The weak. The innocent. The [[Corruption|corrupt]]. Fear. Fear is my ally. ** [[w:Darth Maul|Darth Maul]], promotional clip for ''Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace'' (1999), written by [[George Lucas]] * Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to [[anger]], anger leads to [[hate]], hate leads to [[suffering]]. ** [[Yoda]] in ''Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace'' (1999)., written by [[George Lucas]] * Alike were they free from<br>Fear, that reigns with the tyrant, and envy, the vice of republics. ** [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]], ''Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie'' (1847), Part I, Section 1 (1847). * We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings. But, once recognized, those which do not enhance our future lose their power and can be altered. The fear of our desires keeps them suspect and indiscriminately powerful, for to suppress any truth is to give it strength beyond endurance. The fear that we cannot grow beyond whatever distortions we may find within ourselves keeps us docile and loyal and obedient, externally defined, and leads us to accept many facets of our oppression as women. ** [[Audre Lorde]], {{cite book |title={{w|Sister Outsider}}: Essays and Speeches |date=1984 |publisher=Crossing Press |isbn=978-0-89594-142-8 |page=57}} * The knowledge of fear can help make us free. ** [[Audre Lorde]], {{cite book |title={{w|Sister Outsider}}: Essays and Speeches |date=1984 |publisher=Crossing Press |isbn=978-0-89594-142-8 |page=75}} * For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true. ** [[Lucretius]], ''De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)'', Book II, l. 87. * fear kills, and joy maintains life. ** [[Jacques Lusseyran]], ''And There Was Light: The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II'', p. 253 ==M== * From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved. ** [[Niccolò Machiavelli]], ''The Prince'', Chapter 8 (1513). *I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. ** [[Nelson Mandela]], ''Long Walk to Freedom'' (1995). *Yearning conquers fear. **[[Anna Margolin]] "From a Diary" (1909) Translated from the Yiddish by Daniel Kennedy in ''During Sleepless Nights and Other Stories'' (2022) * '''I must say a [[word]] about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.''' ** [[Yann Martel]], Life of Pi, Chapter 56, p. 178 (2001). * There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it. ** George R.R. Martin, ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire#A Clash of Kings|A Clash of Kings]]'', Jon (I)—Jon Snow * To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves… We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation. ** [[Peter McWilliams]], ''Life 101'' (1995). * The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's goodbye to the Bill of Rights. ** [[H.L. Mencken]], "A Time to be Wary" (1933), collected in ''A Carnival of Buncombe''. * ''C'est de quoi j'ai le plus de peur que la peur.'' ** The thing I fear most is fear. ** [[Michel de Montaigne]], ''Essais'', Book I, Chapter 18 (1580). * We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we… remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment unpopular. ** [[Edward R. Murrow]], ''See It Now'', Report on Senator [[w:Joseph R. McCarthy|Joseph R. McCarthy]] (March 7, 1954). * There is a mental fear, which provokes others of us to see the images of witches in a neighbor's yard and stampedes us to burn down this house. And there is a creeping fear of doubt, doubt of what we have been taught, of the validity of so many things we had long since taken for granted to be durable and unchanging. It has become more difficult than ever to distinguish black from white, good from evil, right from wrong. ** [[Edward R. Murrow]], ''This I Believe'' (1951). * As long as I have a pen in my hand and a revolver in my pocket, I fear no one. ** [[Benito Mussolini]], 1914. Quoted in Paolo Monelli, ''Mussolini:the intimate life of a demagogue'', Vanguard Press, 1954. ==N== * One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to [[vanity]], ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear. ** [[Friedrich Nietzsche]], ''Human, All Too Human'', 74 (1878). * '''To show [[pity]] is felt as a sign of contempt because one has clearly ceased to be an object of fear as soon as one is pitied.''' ** [[Friedrich Nietzsche]], ''The Wanderer and his Shadow'' (1880), the third part of ''[[w:Human, All Too Human|Human]]''. * The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him "better." ** [[Friedrich Nietzsche]], ''Geneology of Morals'', Second Essay, Section 15 (1887). ==O== * There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized. ** [[Conan O'Brien]], Commencement Address at Dartmouth College, 2011 * When [[children]] from other [[countries]] are telling us that we've made them fear the [[sky]], it might be time to ask some hard questions. ** [[John Oliver (comedian)]] ''Last Week Tonight'' Ep. 19 ''Drones'' as quoted by [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/29/john-oliver-drones-last-week-tonight_n_5899716.html] ==P== [[File:PattonIV.jpg|thumb|Everybody's afraid, but to do your [[job]] in [[combat]] you have to put your fear down. If you're not afraid in combat, you're either a [[fool]] or a [[liar]]. ~ [[George S. Patton IV]]]] * Fear is the opposite of faith. ** [[Boyd K. Packer]] ''[http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2004/04/do-not-fear Do Not Fear]'', April 2004 * Everybody's afraid, but to do your job in combat you have to put your fear down. If you're not afraid in combat, you're either a fool or a liar. ** [[George S. Patton IV]], as quoted in ''The Bad War: An Oral History of the Vietnam War'' (1987) by Kim Willenson, p. 79 * I don't know about angels, but it's fear that gives men wings. ** [[Max Payne]], from ''[[w:Max Payne|Max Payne]]'' PC game (2001). * The second cause of quarrel is diffidence, a word that in [[Thomas Hobbes|Hobbes]]’s time meant “fear” rather than “shyness.” The second cause is a consequence of the first: [[competition]] breeds fear. If you have reason to suspect that your neighbor is inclined to eliminate you from the competition by, say, [[Homicide|killing]] you, then you will be inclined to protect yourself by eliminating him first in a preemptive strike. You might have this temptation even if you otherwise wouldn’t hurt a [[Flies|fly]], as long as you are not willing to lie down and be killed. The [[tragedy]] is that your competitor has every reason to crank through the same calculation, even if he is the kind of person who wouldn’t hurt a fly. In fact, even if he knew that you started out with no aggressive designs on him, he might legitimately worry that you are tempted to neutralize him out of fear that he will neutralize you first, which gives you an incentive to neutralize him before that, ad infinitum. The [[Political science|political scientist]] [[Thomas Schelling]] offers the analogy of an armed homeowner who surprises an armed burglar, each being tempted to shoot the other to avoid being shot first. This paradox is sometimes called the Hobbesian trap or, in the arena of [[international relations]], the security dilemma. ** [[Steven Pinker]], ''The Better Angels of Our Nature'' (2012) * I dread to think of a society devoid of love, compassion and humanity. ** [[Suman Pokhrel]], ''I dread to think of a society devoid of love, compassion and humanity'', (An interview with Romain Molina) * For [[fools]] rush in where [[angels]] fear to tread. ** [[Alexander Pope]], ''[[w:An Essay on Criticism|An Essay on Criticism]]'', Part III, l. 66 (1711). * The wise man, fearing, keeps himself from evil; but the foolish man goes on in his pride, with no thought of danger. ** Proverbs 14:16, Bible in Basic English ==Q== * Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it: He that fears otherwise, gives advantage to the danger. ** [[Francis Quarles]], ''Enchiridion'' (1640). ==R== [[File:Archimedes_lever_(Small).jpg|thumb|Fear is a tool. ~ [[w:Matt Reeves|Matt Reeves]] & [[w:Peter Craig|Peter Craig]]]] * In all your actions, words and thoughts, always regard yourself as standing before Hashem, with His Shechinah above you, for His glory fills the whole world. Speak with fear and awe, as a slave standing before his master. Act with restraint in front of everyone. When someone calls you, don't answer loudly, but gently and softly, as one who stands before his master. ** Iggeres Ha [[Ramban]], translation by [http://www.pirchei.com/specials/ramban/ramban.htm] * The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it. **[[w:John Randolph|John Randolph]], speech in the House of Representatives (March 5, 1806). * '''Fear''', ladies and gentlemen, '''is the only true comedian''' in town. ** [[w:Ian Rankin|Ian Rankin]], ''[[Ian Rankin#The Only True Comedian (2000)|The Only True Comedian]]'' *'''[[Batman|The Batman]]''': Fear is a tool. ** [[Batman|The Batman]] as interpreted by [[w:Robert Pattinson|Robert Pattinson]] in [[w:The Batman (film)|The Batman (film)]], (2022); screenplay by [[w:Matt Reeves|Matt Reeves]] & [[w:Peter Craig|Peter Craig]] * Most intellectual people do not [[believe]] in [[God]], but they fear him just the same. ** [[Wilhelm Reich]], in James Lee Christian ''Philosophy : An Introduction to the Art of Wondering'', (2005), p. 556. * The only thing you fear is fearlessness. <br/> The bigger the weapon, the greater the fear. ** [[w:R.E.M. (band)|R.E.M.]], ''Hyena'' (1986). * Hatred does not exist as a basic psychological structure. It is, however, the result of psychological manipulation of fear; and fear is not a basic psychological structure. ** [[Jane Roberts]], ''The Early Sessions: Book 2'', Session 75, Page 271. * ''L'amour de la justice n'est en la plupart des hommes que la crainte de souffrir l'injustice.'' ** The love of [[justice]] is simply in the majority of men the fear of suffering injustice. ** [[François de La Rochefoucauld]], ''Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims'', Maxim 78 (1665–1678). * ''Notre repentir n'est pas tant un regret du mal que nous avons fait, qu'une crainte de celui qui nous en peut arriver.'' ** Our repentance is not so much sorrow for the ill we have done as a fear of the ill that may befall us. ** [[François de La Rochefoucauld]], ''Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims'', Maxim 180 (1665–1678). * Fear was my father, Father Fear.<br>His look drained the stones. ** [[Theodore Roethke]], ''The Lost Son'', I (1948). * Let me assert my firm belief that '''the only thing we have to fear is fear itself'''—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. ** [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], inaugural address (March 4, 1933); in ''The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933'' (1938), p. 11. * We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression &mdash; everywhere in the world. The second is [[Freedom of religion|freedom of every person to worship God in his own way]] &mdash; everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want… everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear, which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide [[Disarmament|reduction of armaments]] to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit [[War of aggression|an act of physical aggression]] against any neighbor — anywhere in the world. That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. ** [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], Message to Congress (January 6, 1941). * You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." …You must do the thing you think you cannot do. ** [[Eleanor Roosevelt]], ''You Learn by Living'' (1960). * Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up. ** [[Veronica Roth]], ([[Divergent]]). * ''There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.'' ** [[Patrick Rothfuss]], ''The Name of the Wind'' (2007), Chapter 43 * Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. ** [[Bertrand Russell]], ''Unpopular Essays'', ''An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish'' (1950). * No man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is; no man can achieve the greatness of which he is capable until he has allowed himself to see his own littleness. ** [[Bertrand Russell]], ''Dreams and Facts'' (1919). * Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear. ** [[Bertrand Russell]], ''Why I Am Not a Christian'' (1927), "Fear, the Foundation of Religion". * To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. ** [[Bertrand Russell]], ''Marriage and Morals'' Ch. 16 (1929). * Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage. The craving for religious faith being largely an outcome of fear, the advocates of faith tend to think that certain kinds of fear are not to be deprecated. In this, to my mind, they are gravely mistaken. To allow oneself to entertain pleasant beliefs as a means of avoiding fear is not to live in the best way. In so far as religion makes its appeal to fear, it is lowering to human dignity. ** [[Bertrand Russell]], ''Education and the Social Order'' (1932), p. 112. * There are two ways of coping with fear: one is to diminish the external danger, and the other is to cultivate [[Stoicism|Stoic]] endurance. The latter can be reinforced, except where immediate action is necessary, by turning our thoughts away from the cause of fear. The conquest of fear is of very great importance. Fear is in itself degrading; it easily becomes an obsession; it produces hate of that which is feared, and it leads headlong to excesses of cruelty. Nothing has so beneficent an effect on human beings as security. …Fear, at present, overshadows the world. …If matters are to improve, the first and essential step is to find a way of diminishing fear. ** [[Bertrand Russell]], Nobel Lecture: ''What Desires Are Politically Important?'' (11 December, 1950). * Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. ** [[Bertrand Russell]], "A Liberal Decalogue", ''New York Times Magazine'' (16 December, 1951). ==S== [[File:Shakespeare Flower.jpg|thumb|Suspicion always haunts the [[Guilt|guilty]] mind; The [[thief]] doth fear each bush an officer. ~ [[William Shakespeare]]]] [[File:Frankenstein.1831.inside-cover.jpg|thumb|What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow. ~ [[Mary Shelley]]]] * In any case, we do not advance the human cause by refusing to consider ideas that make us frightened. ** [[Carl Sagan]], ''[[w:Broca's Brain|Broca's Brain]]'' (1979), Ballantine Books, Chapter 25, “The Amniotic Universe” (p. 364) * Afsan stood tall. “I am not afraid.”<br>“Fear is important, young one. Fear is the counselor. Those who don’t know when to fear wind up dead.” ** [[Robert J. Sawyer]], ''Far-Seer'' (1992), <small> {{ISBN|0-441-22551-9}}, </small> p. 40 * This course can therefore be summed up very simply in this way: Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God. ** [[Helen Schucman]] in [[A Course in Miracles|''A Course in Miracles'']] * The [[ego]] believes that to accomplish its goal is happiness. But it is given you to know that God’s function is yours, and happiness cannot be found apart from your joint will. Recognize only that the ego’s goal, which you have pursued quite diligently, has merely brought you fear, and it becomes difficult to maintain that fear is happiness. Upheld by fear, this is what the ego would have you believe. p. 10 ** [[Helen Schucman]] in [[A Course in Miracles|''A Course in Miracles'']] * The [[ego]] is afraid of the spirit's joy, because once you have experienced it you will withdraw all protection from the ego, and become totally without investment in fear. Your investment is great now because fear is a witness to the separation, and your ego rejoices when you witness to it. Leave it behind! Do not listen to it and do not preserve it. ** [[Helen Schucman]] in ''A Course in Miracles'' Chapter 4: The Illusions of the Ego, (1976) * The relationship of [[anger]] to attack is obvious, but the relationship of anger to fear is not always so apparent. Anger always involves projection of separation, which must ultimately be accepted as one's own [[responsibility]], rather than being [[Blame|blamed]] on others. Anger cannot occur unless you believe that you have been attacked, that your attack is justified in return, and that you are in no way responsible for it. ** [[Helen Schucman]] in [[A Course in Miracles|''A Course in Miracles'']] Chapter 4 The Illusions of the Ego, (1976) * '''Mankind must not go back to hiding in fear.''' No one else will protect us, and we must stand up for ourselves. While the rest of mankind dwells in the light, we must stand in the darkness to fight it (anomalies), contain it, and [[Censorship|shield it from the eyes of the public]], so that others may live in a [[sanity|sane]] and normal world. ** [[SCP Foundation]], ''[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/about-the-scp-foundation About The SCP Foundation]'' * Although acquired capability may not be directly treatable, explaining to [[combat]] [[w:Veteran|veterans]] how their [[experiences]] may have contributed to [[w:Invincibility|invincibility]] or [[w:Fearlessness|fearlessness]] toward [[pain]] and [[death]] may help them maintain [[awareness]] of their increased [[risk]]. It could be [[communicated]] to [[military]] personnel in general that they should seek help immediately when they feel [[suicidal]], not because they are [[weak]], but to the contrary, because they may lack fear. This explanation may also help decrease cognitive barriers to seeking aid for [[mental health]]. ** Edward A. Selby, Michael D. Anestis, Theodore W. Bender, Jessica D. Ribeiro, Matthew K. Nock, M. David Rudd, Craig J. Bryan, Ingrid C. Lim, Monty T. Baker, Peter M. Gutierrez, and Thomas E. Joiner, Jr.; [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2834834/ “Overcoming the Fear of Lethal Injury: Evaluating Suicidal Behavior in the Military through the Lens of the Interpersonal-Psychological Theory of Suicide”], ''Clin Psychol Rev'', 2010 Apr; 30(3): 298–307. * I am human, sometimes I feel afraid and sometimes I am worried because even though I am not afraid to spend a few years in jail, I understand that my mother and friends will be worried. I always discuss this in my head. [...] I'm more scared to live in this country, in this world, and do nothing: to spend life too afraid of everything, too afraid to speak or go to certain places, to just be in a normal work and don't create anything for the next generation. In my understanding, that is much more scary than to go to jail. ** [[Oksana Shachko]], as quoted in ''[https://luxtimes.lu/archives/12783-interview-speaking-of-femen-ism Interview: Speaking of Femen-ism]'' (3 August 2015), ''{{w|Luxemburger Wort}}''. * Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furious<br>Is to be frightened out of fear. ** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[w:Antony and Cleopatra|Antony and Cleopatra]]'' (1606-1607), Act III, scene xi. * To fear the worst oft cures the worse. ** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[w:Troilus and Cressida|Troilus and Cressida]]'' (1609), Act III, scene ii. * It is a basilisk unto mine eye,<br>Kills me to look on't. ** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Cymbeline]]'' (1611), Act II, scene 4, line 107. * Best safety lies in fear. ** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Hamlet]]'' (1600-02), Act I, scene 3, line 43. * Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear;<br>When little fears grow great, great love grows there. ** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Hamlet]]'' (1600-1601), Act III, scene 2. * There is not such a word<br>Spoke of in Scotland as this term of fear. ** [[William Shakespeare]], [[Henry IV, Part 1|''Henry IV'', Part I]] (c. 1597), Act IV, scene 1, line 84. * Thou tremblest; and the whiteness in thy cheek<br>Is apter than thy tongue to tell thy errand. ** [[William Shakespeare]], [[Henry IV, Part 2|''Henry IV'', Part II]] (c. 1597-99), Act 1, scene 1, line 68. * True [[nobility]] is exempt from fear. ** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[w:Henry VI, Part 2|Henry VI]]'' (1594), Act IV, scene i. * [[Suspicion]] always haunts the [[Guilt|guilty]] mind;<br>The thief doth fear each bush an officer. ** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[w:Henry VI, Part 3|Henry VI]]'' (1595), Act V, scene vi. * O God of battles! steel my soldiers' hearts;<br>Possess them not with fear; take from them now<br>The sense of reckoning, if the opposèd numbers<br>Pluck their hearts from them. ** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[w:Henry V (play)|Henry V]]'' (1600), Act IV, scene i. * Things done well,<br>And with a care, exempt themselves from fear;<br>Things done without example, in their issue<br>Are to be feared. ** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Henry VIII (play)|Henry VIII]]'' ([[w:Henry VIII (play)#Date|c. 1613]]), Act I, scene 2, line 88. * It is the part of men to fear and tremble,<br>When the most mighty gods by tokens send<br>Such dreadful heralds to astonish us. ** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Julius Caesar (play)|Julius Cæsar]]'' (1599), Act I, scene 3, line 54. * For I am sick and capable of fears,<br>Oppress'd with wrongs, and therefore full of fears,<br>A widow, husbandless, subject to fears,<br>A woman, naturally born to fears. ** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[King John]]'' (1598), Act III, scene 1, line 12. * And make my seated heart knock at my ribs. ** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Macbeth]]'' (1605), Act I, scene 3, line 136. * Present fears<br>Are less than horrible imaginings. ** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Macbeth]]'' (1605), Act I, scene 3, line 137. * Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep<br>In the affliction of these terrible dreams<br>That shake us nightly. ** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Macbeth]]'' (1605), Act III, scene 2, line 17. * Thou can'st not say I did it; never shake<br>Thy gory locks at me. ** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Macbeth]]'' (1605), Act III, scene 4, line 49. * You can behold such sights,<br>And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks,<br>When mine is blanch'd with fear. ** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Macbeth]]'' (1605), Act III, scene 4, line 114. * His flight was madness: when our actions do not,<br>Our fears do make us traitors. ** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Macbeth]]'' (1605), Act IV, scene 2, line 3. * The weariest and most loathed worldly life<br>That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment<br>Can lay on nature is a paradise<br>To what we fear of death. ** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[w:Measure for Measure|Measure for Measure]]'', Act III, scene i. * Or in the night, imagining some fear,<br>How easy is a bush suppos'd a bear! ** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'' (c. 1595-96), Act V, scene 1, line 21. * Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly. ** [[William Shakespeare]], ''The Rape of Lucrece'' (1594), line 230. * To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength,<br>Gives in your weakness strength unto your foe. ** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Richard II (play)|Richard II]]'' (c. 1595), Act III, scene 2, line 180. * Truly the souls of men are full of dread:<br>Ye cannot reason almost with a man<br>That looks not heavily and full of fear. ** [[William Shakespeare]], [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Richard III (play)|Richard III]]'' (c. 1591), Act II, scene 3, line 39. * They spake not a word;<br>But, like dumb statues or breathing stones,<br>Gazed each on other, and look'd deadly pale. ** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Richard III (play)|Richard III]]'' (c. 1591), Act III, scene 7, line 24. <--copied & pasted from [[Wrongs]]--> * Anything which is accomplished through making other people [[afraid]] is wrong. Anything which deprives other people of their [[dignity]] is wrong. ** [[w:Alexander D. Shimkin|Alexander D. Shimkin]], American civil rights worker and journalist, from [http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/xml/sc0066.xml Alex Shimkin oral history interview (cassette tape and transcript), 1965, Box 3, Folder 56, Archive no. 0050, Project South, SC 066, Stanford University Archives, Stanford, Calif.] * I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins,<br>That almost freezes up the heat of life. ** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' (1597), Act IV, scene 3, line 15. [[File:Sivananda Saraswati 1986 stamp of India.jpg|thumb|Fear is illusory; it cannot live. Courage is eternal, it will not die. ~ [[Swami Sivananda]]]] [[File:Miranda - Frederick Goodall.jpg|thumb|Fear cannot be without [[hope]] nor hope without fear. ~ [[Baruch Spinoza]]]] * What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow. ** [[Mary Shelley]], [http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/frankenstein/1831v1/intro.html Introduction] to the 1831 edition of ''[[Frankenstein (novel)|Frankenstein]]''. *Anything which is accomplished through making other people afraid is wrong. Anything which deprives other people of their dignity is wrong. ** [[w:Alexander D. Shimkin|Alexander D. Shimkin]], American civil rights worker and journalist, from [http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/xml/sc0066.xml Alex Shimkin oral history interview (cassette tape and transcript), 1965, Box 3, Folder 56, Archive no. 0050, Project South, SC 066, Stanford University Archives, Stanford, Calif.] *Fear is a great enemy of man. It is the enemy of his progress. It disturbs his peace and harmony. It sucks or saps his vitality and energy. It drains the nervous system of its reserve of energy. It produces weakness. **[[Swami Sivananda]], ''Conquest of Fear'', (1960) *Fear exists to glorify [[courage]]. A [[timid]] man exists to glorify a courageous man. There will be no value for goodness if badness does not exist. One side of a thing cannot have significance without the existence of the other side. Hence everything in this world has two sides. **[[Swami Sivananda]], ''Conquest of Fear'', (1960) *Fear is illusory; it cannot live. Courage is eternal, it will not die. Perils, calamities, dangers are the certain lot of every man who is a denizen of this world. Therefore, O Man! Fortify your mind with courage and patience. Fortitude, courage, presence of mind will sustain you through all dangers. **[[Swami Sivananda]], ''Conquest of Fear'', (1960) *[[God]] bestows perfect security on His devotees and removes all sorts of fears. He transforms the sense of insecurity and fear into one of [[confidence]] and [[faith]]. He saves him from panic and despair. **[[Swami Sivananda]], ''Conquest of Fear'', (1960) * Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. ** [[Solomon]], [[w:Ecclesiastes|Ecclesiastes]], 12:13. * '''Fear cannot be without [[hope]] nor hope without fear.''' ** [[Baruch Spinoza]], ''Ethics'', Part III, definition 13: explanation (1677). * He is fearful, like a man unacquainted with beer. ({{lang|sux-Xsux|𒇽𒆕𒉡𒁶𒉎𒁯𒁯𒊏𒀀𒀭}} <abbr title="transliteration" style="font-size:smaller;">translit.</abbr> ''{{lang|sux-Latn|lu₂ kak nu-zu-gin₇ ni₂ dar-dar-ra-/am₃\}}'') ** [[Sumerian proverbs|Sumerian proverb]] * To me, fearless is not the absence of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, fearless is having fears. Fearless is having [[doubt]]s. Lots of them. To me, fearless is [[living]] in spite of those things that scare you to death. ** [[Taylor Swift]], on the liner notes on her ''Fearless'' album in 2008 [https://people.com/celebrity/taylor-swift-calvin-harris-break-up-her-quotes-on-heartbreak-and-moving-on/] * The fear of [[death]] is more to be dreaded than death itself. ** [[Publilius Syrus]], ''Maxims'', No. 511 (100 BC). ==T== * You can't be scared. You do your thing, you hold your ground, you stand up tall, and whatever happens, happens. ** [[Donald J. Trump]] with Tony Schwartz, Trump: The Art of the Deal (1987) p. 89 * The person you are the most afraid to contradict is yourself. ** [[Nassim Nicholas Taleb]], ''The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms'' (2010) Preludes, p.3. * Fear needn’t be grounded in fact to cause problems. ** [[Sheri S. Tepper]], ''Gibbon's Decline & Fall'' (1996), Chapter 9 * '''Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.''' ** [[Henry David Thoreau]], ''Journal'' (September 7, 1851). * Man’s basic [[anxiety]] … drives the anxious subject to establish objects of fear. Anxiety strives to become fear, because fear can be met by courage. … Horror is ordinarily avoided by the transformation of anxiety into fear of something, no matter what. The human mind is not only, as [[John Calvin|Calvin]] has said, a permanent factory of idols, it is also a permanent factory of fears—the first in order to escape God, the second in order to escape anxiety. … But ultimately the attempts to transform anxiety into fear are vain. The basic anxiety, the anxiety of a finite being about the threat of nonbeing, cannot be eliminated. It belongs to existence itself. ** [[Paul Tillich]], ''The Courage To Be'' (1952), p. 39. * Is it that they fear the pain of death, or could it be they fear the joy of life? ** [[w:Toad The Wet Sprocket|Toad The Wet Sprocket]], ''Pray Your Gods'' (1991). * The reason why you don't put your hand in the fire is not because of fear, it's because you know that you'll get burned. You don't need fear to avoid unnecessary danger - just a minimum of intelligence and common sense. For such practical matters, it is useful to apply the lessons learned in the past. Now if someone threatened you with fire or with physical violence, you might experience something like fear. This is an instinctive shrinking back from danger, but not the psychological condition of fear that we are talking about here. The psychological condition of fear is divorced from any concrete and true immediate danger. It comes in many forms: unease, worry, anxiety, nervousness, tension, dread, phobia, and so on. This kind of psychological fear is always of something that might happen, not of something that is happening now. You are in the here and now, while your mind is in the future. This creates an anxiety gap. And if you are identified with your mind and have lost touch with the power and simplicity of [[Now|the Now]], that anxiety gap will be your constant companion. You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection - you cannot cope with the future. ** [[Eckhart Tolle]], ''[[The Power of Now]]'' A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (1997) * Anyone who is identified with their mind and, therefore, disconnected from their true power, their deeper self rooted in Being, will have fear as their constant companion. The number of people who have gone beyond mind is as yet extremely small, so you can assume that virtually everyone you meet or know lives in a state of fear. Only the intensity of it varies. It fluctuates between anxiety and dread at one end of the scale and a vague unease and distant sense of threat at the other. Most people become conscious of it only when it takes on one of its more acute forms. ** [[Eckhart Tolle]], ''[[The Power of Now]]'' A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (1997) * All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all forms of fear - are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. ** [[Eckhart Tolle]], ''[[The Power of Now]]'' A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (1997) * You can always cope with the [[Now|present moment]], but you cannot cope with something that is only a [[mind]] projection - you cannot cope with the future. Moreover, as long as you are identified with your [[Mind|mind,]] the [[ego]] runs your life, as I pointed out earlier. Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the [[ego]] is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident. Now remember that an emotion is the body's reaction to your mind. What message is the body receiving continuously from the ego, the false, mind-made self? Danger, I am under threat. And what is the emotion generated by this continuous message? Fear, of course. ** [[Eckhart Tolle]] in ''[[The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment]]'' (1997) p. 32 * Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but '''ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation'''. To the [[Ego|ego,]] death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life. For example, even such a seemingly trivial and "normal" thing as the compulsive need to be right in an argument and make the other person wrong - defending the mental position with which you have identified - is due to the fear of death. If you identify with a mental position, then if you are wrong, your mind-based sense of self is seriously threatened with annihilation. So you as the ego cannot afford to be wrong. To be wrong is to die. ** [[Eckhart Tolle]] in ''[[The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment]]'' (1997) p. 32 * Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing. Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the [[Now]]. Fear cannot prevail against it.<BR> If there is truly nothing that you can do to change your here and now, and you can't remove yourself from the situation, then accept your here and now totally by dropping all inner resistance. The false, unhappy self that loves feeling miserable, resentful, or sorry for itself can then no longer survive. This is called surrender. Surrender is not weakness. There is great strength in it. Only a surrendered person has spiritual power. ** [[Eckhart Tolle]] in ''[[The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment]]'' (1997) p. 56 * Are you worried? Do you have many "what if" thoughts? You are identified with your mind, which is projecting itself into an imaginary future situation and creating fear. There is no way that you can cope with such a situation, because it doesn't exist. It's a mental phantom. You can stop this health- and life-corroding insanity simply by acknowledging the present moment. Become aware of your breathing. Feel the air flowing in and out of your body. Feel your inner energy field. All that you ever have to deal with, cope with, in real life - as opposed to imaginary mind projections – is this moment. Ask yourself what "problem' you have right now, not next year, tomorrow, or five minutes from now. What is wrong with this moment? You can always cope with the Now, but you can never cope with the future -nor do you have to. The answer, the strength, the right action or the resource will be there when you need it, not before, not after. ** [[Eckhart Tolle]] in ''[[The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment]]'' (1997) p. 57 * Most humans are still in the grip of the [[Ego|egoic]] mode of [[consciousness]]: identified with their mind and run by their mind. If they do not free themselves from their mind in time, they will be destroyed by it. They will experience increasing confusion, conflict, violence, illness, despair, madness. Egoic mind has become like a sinking ship. If you don't get off, you will go down with it. The collective egoic mind is the most dangerously insane and destructive entity ever to inhabit this planet. ** [[Eckhart Tolle]] in ''[[The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment]]'' (1997) p.67 * If it weren't for alcohol, tranquilizers, antidepressants, as well as the illegal drugs, which are all consumed in vast quantities, the insanity of the human mind would become even more glaringly obvious than it is already. I believe that, if deprived of their drugs, a large part of the population would become a danger to themselves and others. These drugs, of course, simply keep you stuck in dysfunction. Their widespread use only delays the breakdown of the old [egoic] mind structures and the emergence of higher [[consciousness]]. While individual users may get some relief from the daily torture inflicted on them by their minds, they are prevented from generating enough conscious presence to rise above thought and so find true liberation. ** [[Eckhart Tolle]] in ''[[The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment]]'' (1997) p.67 * As you are run by the [[Ego|egoic]] mind, you are part of the collective insanity. Perhaps you haven't looked very deeply into the human condition in its state of dominance by the egoic mind. Open your eyes and see the fear, the despair, the greed, and the violence that are all-pervasive. See the heinous cruelty and suffering on an unimaginable scale that humans have inflicted and continue to inflict on each other as well as on other life forms on the planet. You don't need to condemn. Just observe. That is sin. That is insanity. ** [[Eckhart Tolle]] in ''[[The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment]]'' (1997) p.71 * Unhappiness is an [[ego]] created mental emotional disease that has reached epidemic proportions. It is the inner equivalent of the environmental pollution of our planet. Negative states, such as anger, anxiety, hatred, resentment, discontent, envy, jealousy, and so on, are not recognized as negative but as totally justified and are further misperceived not as self created but as caused by someone else or some external factor. “I am holding you responsible for my pain.” This is what by implication the [[ego]] is saying. p. 69 ** [[Eckhart Tolle]], in ''[[A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose]]'' (2005) * What is a negative emotion? An emotion that is toxic to the body and interferes with its balance and harmonious functioning. Fear, anxiety, anger, bearing a grudge, sadness, hatred or intense dislike, jealousy, envy – all disrupt the energy flow through the body, affect the heart, the immune system, digestion, production of hormones, and so on. p. 84 ** [[Eckhart Tolle]], in ''[[A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose]]'' (2005) * Donald continues to exist in the dark space between the fear of indifference and the fear of failure that led to his brother's destruction. It took forty-two years for the destruction to be completed, but the foundations were laid early and played out before Donald's eyes as he was experiencing his own trauma. The combination of these two things- what he witnessed and what he experienced- both isolated him and terrified him. The role that fear played in his childhood and the role it plays now can't be overstated. And the fact that fear continues to be an overriding emotion for him speaks to the hell that must have existed inside the House six decades ago. Every time you hear Donald talking about how something is the greatest, the best, the biggest, the most tremendous (the implication being that he made them so), you have to remember that the man speaking is still, in essential ways, the same little boy who is desperately worried that he, like his older brother, is inadequate and that he, too, will be destroyed for his inadequacy. At a very deep level, his bragging and false bravado are not directed at the audience in front of him but at his audience of one: his long-dead father. ** Mary L. Trump, ''Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created The World's Most Dangerous Man'' (2020), p. 202 * Donald's initial response to [[COVID-19 pandemic|COVID-19]] underscores the need to minimize [[negativity]] at all costs. Fear- the equivalent of weakness in our family- is as unacceptable to him now as it was when he was three years old. When Donald is in the most trouble, superlatives are no longer enough; both the situation and his reactions to it must be unique, even if absurd or nonsensical. On his watch, no [[hurricane]] has ever been as wet as [[w:Hurricane_Maria|Hurricane Maria]]. "Nobody could have predicted" a [[pandemic]] that his own [[w:United_States_Department_of_Health_and_Human_Services|Department of Health and Human Services]] was running simulations for just a few months before [[Coronavirus disease 2019|COVID-19]] struck in [[Washington (state)|Washington]] state. Why does he do this? Fear. Donald didn't drag his feet in December 2019, in January, in February, in March because of his narcissism; he did it because of his fear of appearing weak or failing to project the message that everything was "great," "beautiful," and "perfect." The irony is that his failure to face the truth has inevitably led to massive failure anyway. In this case, [[COVID-19 pandemic deaths|the lives of potentially hundreds of thousands of people will be lost]] and [[Economy of the United States|the economy of the richest country in history]] may well be destroyed. Donald will acknowledge none of this, moving the goalposts to hide the evidence and convincing himself in the process that he's done a better job than anybody else could have if only a few hundred thousand die instead of 2 million. ** Mary L. Trump, ''Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created The World's Most Dangerous Man'' (2020), p. 207-208 * Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear &mdash; not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea! — incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage. ** [[Mark Twain]], ''Pudd'nhead Wilson'', Chapter 12 (1894). ==V== * Take the so-called politics of fear — the constant reference to risks, from hoodies on the street corner to international [[terrorism]]. Whatever the truth of these risks and the best ways of dealing with them, the [[politics]] of fear plays on an assumption that people cannot bear the uncertainties associated with them. Politics then becomes a question of who can better deliver an illusion of control. ** Ex-vicar Mark Vernon; quoted in {{cite news | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6199716.stm | title = God. Who knows? | publisher = BBC News | date = [[4 December]] [[2006]] | accessdate = 2006-12-10 }} * ''Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentis.'' ** Whatever it is, I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts. ** [[Virgil]], ''The Aeneid'', Book II, l. 49. * Be a hero. Always say, “I have no fear.” Tell this to everyone—“Have no fear.” ** [[Swami Vivekananda]], ''Pearls of Wisdom''. ==W== * The villagers fear what they do not understand. ** Susan Wade, ''Like a Red, Red Rose,'' in [[w:Ellen Datlow|Ellen Datlow]] and [[w:Terri Windling|Terri Windling]] (eds.) ''[[w:Snow White, Blood Red (book)|Snow White, Blood Red]]'' (1993), p. 37 * The workplace is never free of fear- and it shouldn't be. Indeed, fear can be a powerful management tool. ** ''Wall Street Journal'', "Manager's Journal: Fear Is Nothing To Be Afraid Of," January 27, 1997. As quoted by [[Mark Ames]] in ''Going Postal: Rage, Murder and Rebellion: From Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond'' (2005), p. 103 * When I can read my title clear<br>To mansions in the skies,<br>I'll bid farewell to every fear,<br>And wipe my weeping eyes. ** [[Isaac Watts]], ''Hymns and Spiritual Songs'', Book II, hymn 65. * Fear. Fear murdered my parents. On the far side of the world, I tasted fear in its purest form and thought I conquered it. But fear followed me home. ** Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale), [[Batman Begins (video game)|Batman Begins: The Video Game]] (2005) * The only thing I am afraid of is fear. ** [[Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington]], From Philip Henry, Earl of Stanhope, ''Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington'', published 1888 (November 3, 1831). * I think there's a lot of [[people]] out there who say we must not have [[horror]] in any form, we must not say scary things to [[children]] because it will make them [[evil]] and disturbed... That offends me deeply, because the [[world]] is a scary and horrifying place, and everyone's going to get old and [[die]], if they're that [[lucky]]. To set children up to think that everything is sunshine and [[roses]] is doing them a great disservice. Children need horror because there are things they don't [[understand]]. It helps them to codify it if it is [[mythologized]], if it's put into the context of a [[story]], whether the story has a [[happy]] [[ending]] or not. If it scares them and shows them a little bit of the [[dark]] side of the world that is there and always will be, it's [[helping]] them out when they have to face it as adults. ** [[Joss Whedon]] to Michael Silverberg of NPR; quote featured in the Buffy ''Monster Book'' (2000) * People with real [[power]] never fear of losing it. People with [[control]] [[think]] of little else. ** [[Joss Whedon]] [http://whedonesque.com/comments/14699#more "Mom, He's Doing It Again.." (Whedonesque.com November 10, 2007)] * I am a member of a party of one, and I live in an age of fear. Nothing lately has unsettled my party and raised my fears so much as your editorial, on Thanksgiving Day, suggesting that employees should be required to state their beliefs in order to hold their jobs. The idea is inconsistent with [[United States Constitution|our constitutional theory]] and has been stubbornly opposed by watchful men since the early days of the Republic. ** [[E. B. White]], letter to the ''New York Herald Tribune'' (November 29, 1947). * ''Scare myself to death<br>That's why I keep on running'' ** [[Robbie Williams]] and {{w|Guy Chambers}}, ''[[W:Feel (Robbie Williams song)|Feel]]'', ''[[W:Escapology (album)|Escapology]]'' (18 November 2002) * “Fear is the most pointless emotion ever,” she told me. “Something bad will either happen or it won’t. Do everything you can to avoid it, sure, but after that, well, fear only punishes you for living in an imperfect universe.” ** [[w:Sean Williams (author)|Sean Williams]], ''All the Wrong Places'' (2015) in ''Meeting Infinity'', edited by [[w:Jonathan Strahan|Jonathan Strahan]], and published by Solaris {{ISBN|978-1-84997-922-1}}, e-book edition * Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. ** [[Marianne Williamson]], ''[[w:A Return to Love|A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"]]'', Ch. 7, Section 3 (1992) P. 190. * It is our [[light]], not our [[darkness]] that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be [[intelligent|brilliant]], [[gorgeous]], [[talented]], and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a [[child]] of [[God]]. Your playing small does not [[serve]] the [[world]]. There is nothing [[enlightened]] about shrinking so that other people will not [[feel]] insecure around you. We are [[all]] meant to shine, as children do. We were [[born]] to make manifest the [[glory]] of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are [[liberated]] from our own fear, our [[presence]] automatically liberates others. ** [[Marianne Williamson]], in [[w:A Return to Love|A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"]]'' (1992) * There is no governor anywhere; you are [[all]] absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped. We are all absolutely free. If everybody could go into [[w:Dhyāna|dhyana]] at will, nobody could be controlled — by fear of [[prison]], by fear of whips or electroshock, by fear of [[death]], even. All existing society is based on keeping those fears alive, to control the masses. Ten people who know would be more [[dangerous]] than a million armed [[anarchists]]. ** [[Robert Anton Wilson]], in ''[[w:Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy|Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy]] : The Trick Top Hat'' (1979) * Fair seedtime had my soul, and I grew up<br>Fostered alike by beauty and by fear. ** [[William Wordsworth]], ''The Prelude'', Book I, l. 301 (written 1799-1805). ==Y== * On my way from school to home I heard a man saying “I will kill you.” I hastened my pace and after a while I looked back if the man was still coming behind me. But to my utter relief he was talking on his mobile and must have been threatening someone else over the phone. ** [[Malala Yousafzai]]'s diary, 2009 "I am afraid", Saturday 3 January 2009; Cited in: [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7834402.stm Diary of a Pakistani schoolgirl] at ''news.bbc.co.uk''. 19 January 2009 ==''Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations''== :<small>Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 267-70.</small> * No one loves the man whom he fears. ** [[Aristotle]]. * ''Crux est si metuas quod vincere nequeas.'' ** It is tormenting to fear what you cannot overcome. ** [[Ausonius]], ''Septem Sapientum Sententiæ Septenis Versibus Explicatæ'', VII. 4. * The brave man is not he who feels no fear,<br>For that were stupid and irrational;<br>But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues,<br>And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from. ** [[Joanna Baillie]], ''Count Basil'' (1798), Act III, scene 1, line 151. * An aching tooth is better out than in,<br>To lose a rotten member is a gain. ** [[Richard Baxter]], ''Hypocrisy''. * Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring. ** [[Richard Baxter]], ''Love Breathing Thanks and Praise''. * The fear o' hell's the hangman's whip<br> To laud the wretch in order;<br>But where ye feel your honor grip,<br> Let that aye be your border. ** [[Robert Burns]], ''Epistle to a Young Friend''. * Fear is an ague, that forsakes<br>And haunts, by fits, those whom it takes;<br>And they'll opine they feel the pain<br>And blows they felt, to-day, again. ** [[Samuel Butler (poet)|Samuel Butler]], ''Hudibras'', Part I (1663-64), Canto III. * His fear was greater than his haste:<br>For fear, though fleeter than the wind,<br>Believes 'tis always left behind. ** [[Samuel Butler (poet)|Samuel Butler]], ''Hudibras'', Part III (1678), Canto III, line 64. * ''In summo periculo timor misericordiam non recipit.'' ** In extreme danger fear feels no pity. ** [[Julius Caesar]], ''Bellum Gallicum'', VII. 26. * ''El miedo tiene muchos ojos.'' ** Fear has many eyes. ** [[Miguel de Cervantes]], ''[[w:Don Quixote|Don Quixote]]'', III. 6. * ''Timor non est diuturnus magister officii.'' ** Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty. ** [[Cicero]], ''Philippicæ'', II. 36. * Like one, that on a lonesome road<br> Doth walk in fear and dread,<br>And having once turned round, walks on,<br> And turns no more his head;<br>Because he knows a frightful fiend<br> Doth close behind him tread. ** [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]], ''The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'' (1798; 1817), Part VI. * His frown was full of terror, and his voice<br>Shook the delinquent with such fits of awe<br>As left him not, till penitence had won<br>Lost favor back again, and clos'd the breach. ** [[William Cowper]], ''The Task'' (1785), Book II, line 659. * The clouds dispell'd, the sky resum'd her light,<br>And Nature stood recover'd of her fright.<br>But fear, the last of ills, remain'd behind,<br>And horror heavy sat on every mind. ** [[John Dryden]], ''Theodore and Honorio'', line 336. * We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger. ** [[George Eliot]], ''The Mill on the Floss'' (1860), Book VII, Chapter V. * Fear always springs from ignorance. ** [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]], ''The American Scholar''. * Fear is the parent of cruelty. ** [[James Anthony Froude]], ''Short Studies on Great Subjects'', Party Politics. * ''Quia me vestigia terrent<br>Omnia te adversum spectantia, nulla retrorsum.'' ** I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning. ** [[Horace]], ''Epistles'', I. 1. 74. * You are uneasy, * * * you never sailed with me before, I see. ** [[Andrew Jackson]], Parton's ''Life of Jackson'', Volume III, p. 493. * Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God. ** [[Samuel Johnson]], from Miss Reynolds, ''Recollections of Johnson''. * ''De loin, c'est quelque chose; et de prés, ce n'est rien.'' ** From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing. ** [[Jean de La Fontaine]], ''Fables'', IV. 10. * ''Major ignotarum rerum est terror.'' ** Apprehensions are greater in proportion as things are unknown. ** [[Livy]], ''Annales'', XXVIII. 44. * Oh, fear not in a world like this,<br> And thou shalt know ere long,—<br>Know how sublime a thing it is<br> To suffer and be strong. ** [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]], ''The Light of Stars'', Stanza 9. * They are slaves who fear to speak<br>For the fallen and the weak. ** [[James Russell Lowell]], ''Stanzas on Freedom'', last stanza. * The direst foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it; and the man who can overcome his own terror is a hero and more. ** [[George MacDonald]], ''Sir Gibbie'', Chapter XX. * Wink and shut their apprehensions up. ** [[John Marston]], ''Antonio's Revenge'', Prolog. * The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason; that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents. ** [[Michel de Montaigne]], ''Essays'', Fear. * Imagination frames events unknown,<br>In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin,<br>And what it fears creates. ** [[Hannah More]], ''Belshazzar'', Part II. * ''Quem metuit quisque, perisse cupit.'' ** Every one wishes that the man whom he fears would perish. ** [[Ovid]], ''Amorum'' (16 BC), II. 2. 10. * ''Membra reformidant mollem quoque saucia tactum:<br>Vanaque sollicitis incutit umbra metum.'' ** The wounded limb shrinks from the slightest touch; and a slight shadow alarms the nervous. ** [[Ovid]], ''Epistolæ Ex Ponto'', II. 7. 13. * ''Terretur minimo pennæ stridore columba<br>Unguibus, accipiter, saucia facta tuis.'' ** The dove, O hawk, that has once been wounded by thy talons, is frightened by the least movement of a wing. ** [[Ovid]], ''Tristium'', I. 1. 75. * Then flash'd the living lightning from her eyes,<br>And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies,<br>Not louder shrieks to pitying Heaven are cast,<br>When husbands, or when lap dogs, breathe their last;<br>Or when rich China vessels fallen, from high,<br>In glittering dust and painted fragments lie. ** [[Alexander Pope]], ''The Rape of the Lock'' (1712), Canto III, line 155. * A lamb appears a lion, and we fear<br>Each bush we see's a bear. ** [[Francis Quarles]], ''Emblems'', Book I, Emblem XIII, line 19. * Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall. ** [[Walter Raleigh]], written on a window pane for Queen Elizabeth to see. She wrote under it "If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all." [[Thomas Fuller]], ''Worthies of England'', Volume I, p. 419. * ''Ad deteriora credenda proni metu.'' ** Fear makes men believe the worst. ** [[Quintus Curtius Rufus]], ''De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni'', IV, 3, 22. * ''Ubi explorari vera non possunt, falsa per metum augentur.'' ** When the truth cannot be clearly made out, what is false is increased through fear. ** [[Quintus Curtius Rufus]], ''De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni'', IV, 10, 10. * ''Ubi intravit animos pavor, id solum metuunt, quod primum formidare cœperunt.'' ** When fear has seized upon the mind, man fears that only which he first began to fear. ** [[Quintus Curtius Rufus]], ''De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni'', IV, 16, 17. * ''Quem neque gloria neque pericula excitant, nequidquam hortere; timor animi auribus officit.'' ** The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of the mind. ** [[Sallust]], ''Catilina'', LVIII. * ''Wer nichts fürchtet ist nicht weniger mächtig, als der, den Alles fürchtet.'' ** The man who fears nothing is not less powerful than he who is feared by every one. ** [[Friedrich Schiller]], ''Die Räuber'', I. 1. * ''Wenn ich einmal zu fürchten angefangen<br>Hab' ich zu fürchten aufgehört.'' ** As soon as I have begun to fear I have ceased to fear. ** [[Friedrich Schiller]], ''Don Carlos'', I. 6. 68. * ''Ich weiss, dass man vor leeren Schrecken zittert;<br>Doch wahres Unglück bringt der falsche Wahn.'' ** I know that oft we tremble at an empty terror, but the false phantasm brings a real misery. ** [[Friedrich Schiller]], ''Piccolomini'', V. 1. 105. * Scared out of his seven senses. ** [[Walter Scott]], ''Rob Roy'', Chapter XXIV. * ''Necesse est multos timeat, quem multi timent.'' ** He must necessarily fear many, whom many fear. ** [[Seneca the Younger]], ''De Ira'', II. 11. * ''Si vultis nihil timere, cogitate omnia esse timenda.'' ** If you wish to fear nothing, consider that everything is to be feared. ** [[Seneca the Younger]], ''Quæstionum Naturalium'', VI. 2. * ''Tunc plurima versat<br>Pessimus in dubiis augur timor.'' ** Then fear, the very worst prophet in misfortunes, anticipates many evils. ** [[Statius]], ''Thebais'', III. 5. * ''Primus in orbe deos fecit timor.'' ** Fear in the world first created the gods. ** [[Statius]], ''Thebais'', III. 661. * Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl? ** [[Jonathan Swift]], ''Polite Conversation'' (c. 1738), Dialogue I. * ''Etiam fortes viros subitis terreri.'' ** Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors. ** [[Tacitus]], ''Annales'' (AD 117), XV. 59. * ''Bello in si bella vistà anco è l'orrore,<br>E di mezzo la tema esce il diletto.'' ** Horror itself in that fair scene looks gay,<br> And joy springs up e'en in the midst of fear. ** [[Torquato Tasso]], ''Gerusalemme'', XX. 30. * Fear<br>Stared in her eyes, and chalk'd her face. ** [[Alfred Tennyson]], ''The Princess'' (1847), IV, line 357. * Desponding Fear, of feeble fancies full,<br>Weak and unmanly, loosens every power. ** [[James Thomson (poet)|James Thomson]], ''The Seasons'', ''Spring'' (1728), line 286. * ''Il faut tout attendre et tout craindre du temps et des hommes.'' ** We must expect everything and fear everything from time and from men. ** [[Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues]], ''Réflexions'', CII. * ''Obstupui, steteruntque comæ, et vox faucibus hæsit.'' ** I was astounded, my hair stood on end, and my voice stuck in my throat. ** [[Virgil]], ''[[w:Aeneid|Æneid]]'' (29-19 BC), II. 774, and III. 48. * ''Degeneres animos timor arguit.'' ** Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind. ** [[Virgil]], ''[[w:Aeneid|Æneid]]'' (29-19 BC), IV. 13. * ''Pedibus timor addidit alas.'' ** Fear gave wings to his feet. ** [[Virgil]], ''[[w:Aeneid|Æneid]]'' (29-19 BC), VIII. 224. * Full twenty times was Peter feared,<br>For once that Peter was respected. ** [[William Wordsworth]], ''Peter Bell'', Part I, Stanza 3. * Less base the fear of death than fear of life. ** [[Edward Young]], ''Night Thoughts'' (1742-1745), Night V, line 441. ==''Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers'' (1895)== <small>Quotes reported in [[Wikisource:Author:Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert|Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert]]'s ''[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryburni00gilbgoog Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers]'' (1895).</small> * He has but one great fear that fears to do wrong. ** [[Christian Nestell Bovee]], p. 244. * When you have overcome one temptation, you must be ready to enter the lists with another. '''As distrust, in some sense, is the mother of safety, so security is the gate of danger. A man had need to fear this most of all, that he fears not at all.''' ** [[Thomas Brooks]], p. 532. * There is a virtuous fear, which is the effect of faith; and there is a vicious fear, which is the product of doubt. The former leads to hope, as relying on God, in whom we believe; the latter inclines to despair, as not relying on God, in whom we do not believe. Persons of the one character fear to lose God; persons of the other character fear to find Him. ** [[Blaise Pascal]], p. 244. * Nothing so demoralizes the forces of the soul as fear. Only as we realize the presence of the Lord does fear give place to faith. ** [[Sarah Smiley]], p. 243. * It is only the fear of God that can deliver us from the fear of man. ** [[John Witherspoon]], p. 243. == See also == * [[Awakening]] * [[Consciousness]] * [[Courage]] * [[Ego]] * [[Fear of God]] * [[Healing]] * [[Love]] * [[Now]] * [[Meditation]] * [[Mental health]] * [[Mind]] * [[Optimism]] * [[Prayer]] == External links == {{Wikipedia}} * [https://motivationandhappiness.com/2019/05/24/overcome-the-fear-of-being-judged-fear-motivation/ Overcome Fear and Judgement of Fear] {{wiktionary|fear}} {{emotions}} [[Category:Emotions]] hcnttylfdqr2k8a8tzicedbixsyre6g 0 126464 3961167 3952317 2026-07-05T16:32:44Z BD2412 3982 /* C */ Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]], replaced: William J. Brennan, Jr. → William J. Brennan Jr. using [[Project:AWB|AWB]] 3961167 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:2 Fillettes vendant des journaux, Wilmington (Delaware), mai 1910.jpg|thumb|In America, the President reigns for four years, and journalism governs for ever and ever. ~[[Oscar Wilde]]]] '''[[w:Journalism|Journalism]]''' is the discipline of gathering, writing and reporting [[w:News|news]], and broadly it includes the process of editing and presenting the news articles. Journalism applies to various media, but is not limited to newspapers, magazines, radio, and television. While under pressure to be the first to publish its stories, each news media organization adheres to its own standards of accuracy, quality, and style — usually [[w:Editing|editing]] and [[w:Proofreading|proofreading]] its reports prior to publication. Many news organizations claim proud traditions of holding government officials and institutions accountable to the public, while media critics have raised questions on the accountability of the press. The word ''journalism'' is taken from the French ''journal'' which in turn comes from the Latin ''diurnal'' or daily. The ''Acta Diurna'', a handwritten bulletin, was put up daily in the Forum, the main public square in ancient Rome, and was the world's first newspaper. [[File:Amy Goodman — Keynote, National Conference for Media Reform 2013 (8626124929).jpg|thumb|Going to where the silence is. That is the responsibility of a journalist: giving a voice to those who have been forgotten, forsaken, and beaten down by the powerful. ~[[Amy Goodman]]]] __NOTOC__ {{TOCalpha|''[[#Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' · [[#Attributed|Attributed]]}} == A == [[File:Julian Assange in Ecuadorian Embassy cropped.jpg|thumb|We are creating a space behind us that permits a form of journalism which lives up to the name that journalism has always tried to establish for itself. We are creating that space because we are taking on the criticism that comes from robust exposure of powerful groups. ~[[Julian Assange]]]] [[File:Great men and famous women - a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 7 (1894) (14760162546).jpg|thumb|Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it? ~[[Thomas Carlyle]]]] *The liberty of the press is essential to the security of freedom in a state: it ought not, therefore, to be restrained in this commonwealth. **[[w:Massachusetts Constitution|Massachusetts Constitution]] (1780) {{cite book|author=[[John Adams]], [[Samuel Adams]], [[w:James Bowdoin|James Bowdoin]]|title=[[w:Massachusetts Constitution|Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts]]|publisher=[[w:Massachusetts|Commonwealth of Massachusetts]]|year=1780|pages= Article XVI}}[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_Commonwealth_of_Massachusetts_%281780%29 Text] *Anonymous leaking is an ancient art and many websites publish documents from sources they cannot identify. What Wikileaks has done is to professionalise the operation. They have created a standard procedure for receiving, processing and publishing leaks. **Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists' (FAS) Project on Government Secrecy &mdash; reported in {{cite news|first=Paul |last=Marks |author= |url= |title=A fail-safe way to embarrass people in high places: Whistle-blowers can tell all without being traced, thanks to websites that anonymise their details |work= New Scientist|publisher=Reed Business Information |pages= |page=28, Volume 198; Issue 2655 |date=May 10, 2008 |accessdate= }} *My work as a journalist has been fundamental in my literary creations. Journalism taught me to know and love words, the tools of my trade, the material of my craft. Journalism taught me to search for truth and to try to be objective, how to capture the reader and to hold him firmly and not let him escape. It taught me to synthesize ideas and to be precise about events. And above all, it rid me of any fear of the blank page. **1984 interview included in ''Conversations with [[Isabel Allende]]'' (1999), translated from the Spanish by Cola Franzen *Under established First Amendment law, prior restraints, if constitutional at all, are permissible only in the most extraordinary circumstances. In this case, you have court orders that effectively shut down a Web site that has been at the forefront of exposing corruption in governments and corporations around the world and enjoin anyone who reads the order from publishing or even linking to the documents. **David Ardia, director of Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society's Citizen Media Law Project (CMLP), commenting on ''[[w:Bank Julius Baer vs. Wikileaks lawsuit|Bank Julius Baer vs. Wikileaks]]'' &mdash; reported in {{cite news|title=Preserving Free Speech on the Internet: In a cyberlaw clinic, students help litigate matters of first impression |work=Harvard Law Bulletin |publisher= [[w:Harvard Law School|Harvard Law School]]|page= |date=Fall 2008 |url=http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/bulletin/2008/fall/feature_2-side1.php|accessdate=2009-03-04} *We are creating a space behind us that permits a form of journalism which lives up to the name that journalism has always tried to establish for itself. We are creating that space because we are taking on the criticism that comes from robust exposure of powerful groups. **[[Julian Assange]] quoted in [https://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/aug/01/julian-assange-wikileaks-afghanistan Julian Assange, monk of the online age who thrives on intellectual battle, Carole Cadwalladr, ''The Guardian''], (1 August 2010) == B == * Experience has shown, contrary to general expectation, that newspapers are one of the best means of directing opinion—of quieting feverish movements—of causing the lies and artificial rumours, by which the enemies of the state may attempt to carry on their evil designs, to vanish. In these public papers, instruction may descend from the government to the people, or ascend from the people to the government: the greater the freedom allowed, the more correctly may a judgment be formed upon the course of opinion—with so much the greater certainty will it act. **[[Jeremy Bentham]], ''Principles of Penal Law''; part III, "Of Indirect Methods of Preventing Crimes"; ch. XIX, "Uses to be drawn from the power of Instruction". [https://books.google.com/books?id=GGpVAAAAcAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=%22jeremy%20bentham%22%20%22newspapers%20are%20one%20of%20the%20best%20means%20of%20directing%20opinion%22&pg=RA1-PA568#v=onepage&q=%22jeremy%20bentham%22%20%22newspapers%20are%20one%20of%20the%20best%20means%20of%20directing%20opinion%22&f=false Google Books] * You go all over America and you see small papers that do really good jobs in their communities of reporting. The modern New York Times, the modern Washington Post, the modern Wall Street Journal are better papers than they were at the time of Watergate in most respects. But if you look at the rest of the field, … real news based on the best obtainable version of the truth was becoming less and less a commodity, less and less a real part of our journalistic institutions. **[[Carl Bernstein]], interview in {{cite news | last =Staff | title =Interview: Carl Bernstein | work =[[w:Frontline (U.S. TV series)|FRONTLINE]] | publisher =[[w:WGBH|WGBH]] educational foundation | date =[[July 10]], [[2006]] | url =http://www-c.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/newswar/interviews/bernstein.html | accessdate =2009-02-20 }} *REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words. ** [[Ambrose Bierce]], ''The Devil's Dictionary'' (1911). * In the First Amendment the Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the government. The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the public. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. **{{cite book|author=[[w:Hugo Black|Hugo L. Black]]|title=[[w:New York Times Co. v. United States|New York Times Co. v. United States]]|publisher=[[w:Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court of the United States]]|year=1971|pages= 403 U.S. 713, at p. 717}} *It has been assumed that journalists are not permanently impacted by the events they cover. Exposure to the traumatic events they report on has been viewed as within their job description and a standard hazard of the profession, similar to an emergency room doctor or a firefighter. Many have viewed the journalists who cover death and destruction as unusually tough, somehow immune to the reverberating impact of the human suffering they witness. Until recently, journalists felt that if they publicly acknowledged that reporting experiences might affect them long-term, the journalist would be thought of as weak and less capable than his or her colleagues. ** Elisa E. Bolton, [https://www.ptsd.va.gov/public/community/journalists-ptsd.asp “Traumatic events encountered by journalists“], ''National Center for PTSD'', ''U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs''. *Blocking access to the entire site in response to a few documents posted there completely disregards the public's right to know. **Ann Brick, attorney for [[w:American Civil Liberties Union|American Civil Liberties Union]], statement made before injunction liften in ''[[w:Bank Julius Baer vs. Wikileaks lawsuit|Bank Julius Baer vs. Wikileaks]]'' &mdash; reported in {{cite news|first= |last= |title=Rights groups: Forcing Wikileaks.org offline raises 'serious First Amendment concerns'|work=[[n:Main Page|Wikinews]] |publisher= |page= |date=February 28, 2008 |url=http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Rights_groups:_Forcing_Wikileaks.org_offline_raises_%27serious_First_Amendment_concerns%27|accessdate=2009-03-04}} * Never forget that if you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one. **[[w:Arthur Brisbane|Arthur Brisbane]] (c. 1900) quoted in {{cite book | last =Carlson | first =Oliver | title =Brisbane: A Candid Biography | date =1937 | pages =Chapter 5}} * Time was when men of Horse Watson’s profession typically never slept sober, and died with their livers eroded. It must have been fun to watch the literate swashbucklers make fools of themselves in the frontier saloons, indulging in horsewhippings and shoot-outs with rival journalists and their partisans. But who stopped to think what it was to have the power of words and publication, to discover that an entire town and territory would judge, condemn, act, reprieve and glorify because of something you had slugged together the night before? Because of something you had handset into type, smudging your fingertips with metal poisons that inexorably began their journey through your bloodstream? For the sake of the power, you turned your liver and kidneys into spongy, irascible masses; you tainted the tissue of your brain with heavy metal ions until it became a house haunted by stumbling visions. Alcohol would temporarily overcome the effect. So you became an alcoholic, and purchased sanity one day at a time, and made a spectacle of yourself. It was neither funny nor tragic in the end—it was simply a fact of life that operated more slowly on the mediocre, because the mediocre could turn themselves off and go to sleep whether they had done the night’s job to their own satisfaction or not. ** [[Algis Budrys]], ''[[w:Michaelmas (novel)|Michaelmas]]'' (1977), {{ISBN|0-425-03812-2}}, Chapter 3 (pp. 36-37) * Journalism may not dare too much. It can be gently humorous and ironic, very lightly touched by idiosyncrasy, but it must not repel readers by digging too deeply. This is especially true of its approach to language: the conventions are not questioned. ** [[Anthony Burgess]], ''A Mouthful of Air: Language and Languages, Especially English'' (1992). * A would-be satirist, a hired buffoon,<br>A monthly scribbler of some low lampoon,<br>Condemn'd to drudge, the meanest of the mean,<br>And furbish falsehoods for a magazine. ** [[Lord Byron]], ''English Bards and Scotch Reviewers'' (1809), line 975. == C == *As [[W: mainstream news outlets|mainstream news outlets]] become increasingly complacent, and even supportive of pro-war policies, it becomes more essential that anti-war voices, and anti-war journalists in particular, resist the attempt by the United States to set the precedent that the act of publishing [[war crimes]] is a punishable offense. **[https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/10/22/fate-anti-war-journalism-lies-upcoming-assange-hearings Fate Of Anti-War Journalism Lies in Upcoming Assange Hearings, Sam Carliner,] October 22, 2021 *In contrast to publications that take such a careless or outright supportive stance on the irreparable harm of [[Foreign policy of the United States|U.S. foreign policy]] are [[WikiLeaks]] and its founder, [[Julian Assange]]. Following his view that “if wars can be started with lies, they can be stopped by truth,” Assange has published some of the most vital information on U.S. foreign policy of the 21st century with perfect accuracy. **[https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/10/22/fate-anti-war-journalism-lies-upcoming-assange-hearings Fate Of Anti-War Journalism Lies in Upcoming Assange Hearings, Sam Carliner,] October 22, 2021 *Despite the many problems with the mainstream press, journalism as an institution remains one of the most effective methods of resisting, and at times, ending wars. Even those distrustful of the press should be willing to oppose attacks on the right to a free press when such attacks occur. It is the guarantee of press freedom that enables anti-war reporting to make its way into the mainstream at times, shifting people's understanding of what their government does. **[https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/10/22/fate-anti-war-journalism-lies-upcoming-assange-hearings Fate Of Anti-War Journalism Lies in Upcoming Assange Hearings, Sam Carliner,] October 22, 2021 * A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up. ** [[Thomas Carlyle]], ''The French Revolution, A History'' (1837), Part I, Book VI, Chapter 5. * Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it? ** [[Thomas Carlyle]], ''The French Revolution, A History'' (1837), Part II, Book I, Chapter 4. * Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters' Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. It is not a figure of speech, or a witty saying; it is a literal fact, - very momentous to us in these times. **{{cite book|author=[[Thomas Carlyle]]|title=On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History: Six Lectures: Reported|publisher=Wiley & Halsted|year=1859|pages= 147, Lect. V: "The Hero as Man of Letters"}} * The journalists would appear to be in an almost literal sense the priests of the modern world... the corruption of the priesthood occurred at the precise moment in which it changed from a minority organised to impart knowledge into a minority organised to withhold it. The great danger of decadence in journalism is almost exactly the same. Journalism possesses in itself the potentiality of becoming one of the most frightful monstrosities and delusions that have ever cursed mankind. This horrible transformation will occur at the exact instant at which journalists realise that they can become an aristocracy. ** [[G. K. Chesterton]], "The New Priests" (1901) [https://books.google.com/books?id=v6-RGg0qKpsC&pg=PA551&dq=%22Journalism+possesses+in+itself+the+potentiality+of+becoming+one+of+the+most+frightful+monstrosities%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwikocyvmKf7AhWbj4kEHWQlDCAQuwV6BAgOEAY#v=onepage&q=%22Journalism%20possesses%20in%20itself%20the%20potentiality%20of%20becoming%20one%20of%20the%20most%20frightful%20monstrosities%22&f=false] * Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers another. ** [[G. K. Chesterton]], "On the Cryptic and the Elliptic", ''All Things Considered'' (1908) * I know that journalism largely consists in saying 'Lord Jones Dead' to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. ** [[G. K. Chesterton]], "The Purple Wig", ''The Wisdom of Father Brown'' (1914) * It is the one great weakness of journalism as a picture of our modern existence, that it must be a picture made up entirely of exceptions. We announce on flaring posters that a man has fallen off a scaffolding. We do not announce on flaring posters that a man has not fallen off a scaffolding. Yet this latter fact is fundamentally more exciting, as indicating that that moving tower of terror and mystery, a man, is still abroad upon the earth. That the man has not fallen off a scaffolding is really more sensational; and it is also some thousand times more common. But journalism cannot reasonably be expected thus to insist upon the permanent miracles. Busy editors cannot be expected to put on their posters, "Mr Wilkinson Still Safe," or "Mr Jones, of Worthing, Not Dead Yet." They cannot announce the happiness of mankind at all. They cannot describe all the forks that are not stolen, or all the marriages that are not judiciously dissolved. Hence the complete picture they give of life is of necessity fallacious; they can only represent what is unusual. However democratic they may be, they are only concerned with the minority. ** [[G. K. Chesterton]], ''The Ball and the Cross'' (1909), [http://www.classicreader.com/book/2241/4/ Chapter IV. A Discussion at Dawn] (second paragraph) *If Wikileaks were a print publication, the injunction would be unthinkable. … What distinguishes this case is that the allegedly intolerable materials were published on the Internet instead of on paper. But that's a poor reason to abandon the principles that protect those who want to publish -- as well as those who want to read. Censorship is censorship, no matter the medium. **{{cite news| |author=Editorial |title= Electronic censorship|work=[[w:Chicago Tribune|Chicago Tribune]] |publisher= Chicago Tribune Company |page=14 |date=February 26, 2008 }} *'''The [[duty]] of journalists is to tell the truth. Journalism means you go back to the actual facts, you look at the documents, you discover what the record is, and you report it that way.''' **[[Noam Chomsky]] interview in {{cite news | last =Wang | first =Joy | title =Lecture: Noam Chomsky | work =Bullpen: NYU Journalism | publisher =[[w:New York University|New York University]] | date =December 2004 | url =http://web.archive.org/web/20090617055506/http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/bullpen/noam_chomsky/lecture | accessdate = 2009-02-20 }} *The real purpose of state secrecy is to enable governments to establish their own self-interested and often mendacious version of the truth by the careful selection of “facts” to be passed on to the public. They feel enraged by any revelation of what they really know, or by any alternative source of information. Such threats to their control of the news agenda must be suppressed where possible and, where not, those responsible must be pursued and punished.<BR>Revealing important information about the Yemen war – in which at least 70,000 people have been killed – is the reason why the US government is persecuting both [[Julian Assange|Assange]] and Zikry. **[[Patrick Cockburn]], [https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/06/04/why-the-us-is-persecuting-assange/ ''Why the US is Persecuting Assange? CounterPunch''] (4 June 2019) *I was in Kabul a decade ago when [[WikiLeaks]] released a massive tranche of US government documents about the conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq and Yemen. On the day of the release, I was arranging by phone to meet an American official... He was intensely interested and asked me what was known about the degree of classification of the files. When I told him, he said in a relieved tone: “No real secrets, then.” **[[Patrick Cockburn]], [https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/06/04/why-the-us-is-persecuting-assange/ ''Why the US is Persecuting Assange? CounterPunch''] (4 June 2019) *We welcome everyone here to the hearing. In the Texas v. Johnson case in 1989, the Supreme Court set forth one of the fundamental principles of our democracy. That is, that if there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable. That was [[William J. Brennan Jr.|Justice William Brennan]]. **[[John Conyers|Congressman John Conyers]] in [https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-111hhrg63081/html/CHRG-111hhrg63081.htm ''U.S. Congress House Hearing: Espionage Act and '''the Legal and Constitutional Issue Raised by Wikileaks'''. Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, Second Session'',] (16 December 2010). [https://www.c-span.org/video/?297115-1/wikileaksthe-espionage-act-constitution ''C-SPAN'' recording] * ... whatever one thinks about this controversy, it is clear that prosecuting WikiLeaks would raise the most fundamental questions about freedom of speech about who is a journalist and about what the public can know about the actions of their own government. Indeed, while there's agreement that sometimes secrecy is necessary, the real problem today is not too little secrecy, but too much secrecy. **[[John Conyers|Congressman John Conyers]] in [https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-111hhrg63081/html/CHRG-111hhrg63081.htm ''U.S. Congress House Hearing: Espionage Act and '''the Legal and Constitutional Issue Raised by Wikileaks'''. Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, Second Session'',] (16 December 2010). [https://www.c-span.org/video/?297115-1/wikileaksthe-espionage-act-constitution ''C-SPAN'' *Media carries with it a credibility that is totally undeserved. You have all experienced this. [...]<br>Briefly stated, the '''Gell-Mann Amnesia effect''' is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. [...] You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. [...] You read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. '''You turn the page, and forget what you know.''' ** [[Michael Crichton]], [https://web.archive.org/web/20190808123852/http://larvatus.com/michael-crichton-why-speculate/ "Why Speculate?"] (speech at the International Leadership Forum, La Jolla, California, 26 April 2002). Archived from the [http://larvatus.com/michael-crichton-why-speculate/ original] on 8 August 2019. Retrieved 3 May 2022. == D == [[File:Betty Friedan 1960.jpg|thumb|Today's serious nonfiction writer is important to society because from a solid background of social sciences, combined with the journalistic skills of a reporter, one moves beyond the reporter function to the front edge of our emerging society. ~[[Betty Friedan]]]] * I don't really understand why journalism has to be so nasty, so sarcastic and intrusive. **[[w:Paul Daniels|Paul Daniels]], quoted in {{cite news | work =[[w:The Independent|The Independent]] | date =[[March 17]], [[2016]] | url =http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/paul-daniels-the-legendary-magicians-eleven-most-controversial-quotes-a6936341.html | accessdate =2017-01-04 }} * Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th' ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, '''comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable''', buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward. They ain't annything it don't turn its hand to fr'm explainin' th' docthrine iv thransubstantiation to composin' saleratus biskit. ** [[Finley Peter Dunne]], "Newspaper Publicity" in [https://books.google.com/books?id=97c_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA240&dq=%22newspaper+does+ivrything%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwioqKzz5MvPAhUJrD4KHROmCdsQ6AEIIDAA#v=onepage&q=%22newspaper%20does%20ivrything%22&f=false ''Observations by Mr. Dooley'' (1902)] == E == * Journalism is organised gossip. ** [[w: Edward Eggleston|Edward Eggleston]] {{source}} == F == * “Did she believe you?”<br>“She’s an excellent journalist—of course not.” ** [[Jasper Fforde]], ''One of Our Thursdays is Missing'' (2011), <small> ISBN 978-0-670-02252-6, </small> p. 205 * I suppose, in the end, we journalists try - or should try - to be the first impartial witnesses of history. If we have any reason for our existence, the least must be our ability to report history as it happens so that no one can say: 'We didn't know - no one told us.' **{{cite book | last =Fisk | first =Robert | authorlink =Robert Fisk | title =The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East | publisher =Fourth Estate | date =2005 | page = xxv | isbn = 0007203837}} * Today's serious nonfiction writer is important to society because from a solid background of social sciences, combined with the journalistic skills of a reporter, one moves beyond the reporter function to the front edge of our emerging society. **[[Betty Friedan]] (May 1978) ''30th Anniversary Journal'', [[w:American Society of Journalists and Authors|American Society of Journalists and Authors]], quoted in {{cite book | last =American Society of Journalists and Authors | authorlink =w:American Society of Journalists and Authors | coauthors =Edited by Glen Evans | title =The Complete Guide to Writing Non-Fiction | publisher =Writer's Digest Books | date =1983 | location =[[w:Cincinnati, Ohio|Cincinnati, Ohio]] | page = 5 | isbn = 0-89879-117-0}} == G == * When journalese was at its rifest the Ministry of Health was established - possibly a coincidence. **[[John Galsworthy]] (July 1924) ''On Expression'', Presidential Address to the English Association, p. 12. &mdash; Quote reproduced in {{cite book | last =Crystal | first =David | coauthors =Hillary Crystal | title =Words on Words: Quotations about Language and Languages | publisher =University of Chicago Press | date =2000 | pages =Page 276 | isbn =0226122018}} * Journalism is not a [[profession]] ... at its heart, it's just a craft. And that means that it can be practiced by anyone who is sensible and [[intelligent]] and [[thoughtful]] and [[curious]] ... ** [[w:Sue Gardner|Sue Gardner]], [https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Interview_with_Sue_Gardner_of_the_Wikimedia_Foundation "Interview with Sue Gardner of the Wikimedia Foundation"], Wikinews; October 24, 2007. * Grassroots journalism is part of the wider phenomenon of citizen-generated media - of a global conversation that is growing in strength, complexity, and power. When people can express themselves, they will. When they can do so with powerful yet inexpensive tools, they take to the new-media realm quickly. When they can reach a potentially global audience, they literally can change the world. **{{cite book | last =Gilmor | first =Dan | authorlink =w:Dan Gillmor | title =[[w:We the Media|We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People for the People]] | publisher =[[w:O'Reilly Media|O'Reilly Media]] | date =2006 | page =xv | isbn = 0596102275}} *While journalists should view Wikileaks with some skepticism, it cannot be ignored. Welcome to the brave new world of [[Investigative journalism|investigative reporting]]. **{{cite news|first=Sean |last=Gonsalves |author= |url=http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/90641/will_wikileaks_revolutionize_journalism/?page=2 |title= Will Wikileaks Revolutionize Journalism?|work= [[w:AlterNet|AlterNet]]|publisher= |pages= |page= |date= July 7, 2008|accessdate=2009-03-04 }} *Going to where the silence is. That is '''the responsibility of a journalist: giving a voice to those who have been forgotten, forsaken, and beaten down by the powerful....We must build a trickle-up media that reflects the true character of this country and its people.''' **[[Amy Goodman]], in ''[[w:The Exception to the Rulers|The Exception to the Rulers]]'' written with David Goodman (2004) *Journalists are supposed to be the check and balance on power, not win popularity contests. **[[Amy Goodman]], Introduction, ''Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America'' (2016) * The national religion in the United States is worship of all things military. And journalists are its high priests. **[[Glenn Greenwald]] (1967), interview with Democracy Now! (November 14, 2012). ''[http://www.democracynow.org/2012/11/14/glenn_greenwald_while_petraeus_had_affair Glenn Greenwald: While Petraeus Had Affair with Biographer, Corporate Media Had Affair with Petraeus.]'' Retrieved on 2012-11-15. *The destruction of media offices and the killing of a [[journalist]] in [[Gaza]] are extremely concerning. [[Journalists]] must be able to carry out their essential work, including in conflict zones, without fear of attack and harassment. They must be protected and respected... Even wars have rules. First and foremost, civilians must be protected... Indiscriminate attacks, and attacks against civilians and civilian property, are violations of the laws of war... **[[António Guterres|Antonio Guterres]], [https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/statement/2021-05-20/secretary-general%E2%80%99s-remarks-the-general-assembly-meeting-the-situation-the-middle-east-and-palestine-delivered Secretary-General’s Remarks to the General Assembly Meeting on the Situation in the Middle East and Palestine, United Nations Secretary-General, Statements,] (20 May 2021) == H == [[File:Thomas Jefferson 1904 Issue, 2c.jpg|thumb|Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. ~[[Thomas Jefferson]]]] * Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed. ** [[Elbert Hubbard]] (1914) ''The Roycroft Dictionary of Epigrams'' &mdash; quoted in {{cite book|author=ed. Shapiro, Fred R|title=The Yale Book of Quotations|publisher=Yale University Press|location=New Haven, Conn|pages= 374|isbn=0300107986}} == I == * …American sociologist [[George Yancey]] in his 2015 book “[https://www.ivpress.com/hostile-environment-ebook Hostile Environment]” focused on American media bias against Christianity and conservative [[religion]] in general and found its roots in the fact that '''mainline U.S. journalism is a self-perpetuating caste.''' If you are an Evangelical Christian or do not agree with the prevailing liberal and secular [[ideology]], particularly on moral matters, you will be thrown out of the first interview when you will try to be hired by one of the mainline media. ** [[Massimo Introvigne]], [https://bitterwinter.org/the-anti-religious-anti-cult-and-anti-tai-ji-men-bias-in-the-media/ "The Anti-Religious, Anti-Cult, and Anti-Tai-Ji-Men Bias in the Media"], ''Bitter Winter'' (May 2024) * Journalism is not about protecting viewers from [[complexity]]. It is about presenting complexity and [[trusting]] viewers to navigate it. A documentary that excludes all [[dissent]]ing voices is not an investigation. ** [[Massimo Introvigne]], [https://bitterwinter.org/france-hate-speech-against-scientology-now-funded-by-taxpayers/ "France: Hate Speech Against Scientology Now Funded by Taxpayers"], ''Bitter Winter'' (February 18, 2026) == J == * One's right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections. **{{cite book|author=[[Robert H. Jackson]]|title=[[w:West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette|West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette]]|publisher=[[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court of the United States]]|year=1943|pages= 319 U.S. 624, 638}} * The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them. ** [[Thomas Jefferson]], letter to Colonel Edward Carrington (16 January 1787) Lipscomb & Bergh ed. 6:57. * To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer, "by restraining it to true facts & sound principles only." Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits, than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood. Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day. . . . I will add, that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods & errors. He who reads nothing will still learn the great facts, and the details are all false. ** [[Thomas Jefferson]], letter to [[w:John Norvell|John Norvell]] (11 June 1807). [https://www.loc.gov/resource/mtj1.038_0592_0594/?sp=2&st=text Original and transcript] * I deplore with you the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed, and the malignity, the vulgarity, & mendacious spirit of those who write for them: and I enclose you a recent sample, the production of a New England judge, as a proof of the abyss of degradation into which we are fallen. These ordures are rapidly depraving the public taste and lessening its relish for sound food. As vehicles of information and a curb on our functionaries, they have rendered themselves useless by forfeiting all title to belief. That this has in a great degree been produced by the violence and malignity of party spirit I agree with you... ** [[Thomas Jefferson]], [https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-07-02-0052 Letter to Walter Jones (2 January 1814)]. * They lied about it! The enemy boils the ocean, cooks the sixth fleet and every man, woman and child within fifty miles of a shoreline - you could expect some coverage. What did they report? Minor soil erosion in the Florida Keys. They boiled the ocean, woman! **[[w:Arthur M. Jolly|Arthur M. Jolly]] in the play ''After It's All Over'', Original Works Press (2009). * What people outside do not appreciate is that a newspaper is like a soufflé, prepared in a hurry for immediate consumption. This of course is why whenever you read a newspaper account of some event of which you have personal knowledge it is nearly always inadequate or inaccurate. Journalists are as aware as anyone of this defect; it is simply that if the information is to reach as many readers as possible, something less than perfection has often to be accepted. ** [[w:David E. H. Jones|David E. H. Jones]], ''New Scientist'', [http://www.google.co.uk/search?gcx=w&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=%22What+people+outside+do+not+appreciate+is+that+a+newspaper+is+like+a+souffl%C3%A9%2C+prepared+in+a+hurry+for+immediate+consumption.+This+of+course+is+why+whenever+you+read+a+newspaper+account+of+some+event+of+which+you+have+personal+knowledge+it+is+nearly+always+inadequate+or+inaccurate.+Journalists+are+as+aware+as+anyone+of+this+defect%3B+it+is+simply+that+if+the+information+is+to+reach+as+many+readers+as+possible%2C+something+less+than+perfection+has+often+to+be+accepted.%22#hl=en&tbm=bks&q=What+people+outside+do+not+appreciate+is+that+a+newspaper+is+like+a+souffl%C3%A9,+prepared+in+a+hurry+for+immediate+consumption.+This+of+course+is+why+whenever+you+read+a+newspaper+account+of+some+event+of+which+you+have+personal+knowledge+it+is+nearly+always+inadequate+or+inaccurate.+Journalists+are+as+aware+as+anyone+of+this+defect%3B+it+is+simply+that+if+the+information+is+to+reach+as+many+readers+as+possible,+something+less+than+perfection+has+often+to+be+accepted.&sa=X&ei=3wqTTtKFG43TsgbMnf0V&ved=0CCsQgwM&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=3a0bebda8a811fa8&biw=1267&bih=709 Vol. 26] (1965). == K == * They were professional tantrum artists who only knew one thing: how to bludgeon the West to death with identity politics. And now, with the most arousing irony I have been witness to in years, we can safely say, "#TimesUp". ** Raheem Kassam, "No, I Don't Feel Sorry For Journalists Who Have Lost Their Jobs — I'm Bloody Thrilled", ''Daily Caller'', January 28, 2019 * My problem, and our problem — I think this is a view that's pretty widely shared in the news business — is, you know, we, and I don't just mean ''The Times'', are too ready to publish the blandest of quotes, or, sometimes, the idlest of gossip and innuendo, behind a cover of anonymity. I think it cheapens the currency of source protection. **[[w:Bill Keller|Bill Keller]], ''[[w:The New York Times|The New York Times]]'' executive editor, about anonymous sources (May 13, 2005) in ''[[w:On the Media|On the Media]]''. == L == * Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment. **[[Charles Lamb]] (1833) "On Books and Reading", ''The Last Essays of Elia'' &mdash; Quote reproduced in {{cite book | last =Crystal | first =David | coauthors =Hillary Crystal | title =Words on Words: Quotations about Language and Languages | publisher =University of Chicago Press | date =2000 | pages = 276 | isbn = 0226122018}} * The Seven Subjects of Sensational Journalism: crime, scandal, speculative science, insanity, superstitions such as numerology, monsters, and millionaires. ** [[Fritz Leiber]], ''A Rite of Spring'' (1977), in [[w:Terry Carr|Terry Carr]] (ed.), ''[[w:Universe 7|Universe 7]],'' p. 26 * As to [[Douglas MacArthur|[General Douglas] Macarthur]], I don't feel in a position to have clear opinions about anyone I know only from newspapers. You see, whenever they deal with anyone (or anything) I know myself, I find they're always a mass of lies & misunderstandings: so I conclude they're no better in the places where I ''don't'' know. **[[C. S. Lewis]], letter to Mrs. Mary Van Deusen, April 30, 1951. ''Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis, vol. 3, "Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy", 1950-1963.'' p. 114. == M == [[File:Janet Malcolm 3.18.13a (headshot).jpg|thumb|In our society, the journalist ranks with the philantropist as a person who has something extremely valuable to dispense (his currency is the strangely intoxicating substance called publicity), and who is consequently treated with a deference quite out of proportion to his merits as a person. ~[[w:Janet Malcolm|Janet Malcolm]]]] * The Web sites of interest groups generally advance the cause of journalganda, in that everything is presented through the filter of the interest group. […] It is an odd, unreal world but very important because it's where partisans can go to have their thoughts re-enforced. There's nothing like journalganda to make you feel absolutely certain you are correct, no matter what your position. […] Real journalism can always be identified by the way it makes normal people sometimes feel very uncomfortable about the world. ** Charles M. Madigan (October 25, 2005) [http://web.archive.org/web/20130625005510/http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0510250027oct25,0,3811209.column?page=2&coll=chi-ed_opinion_columnists-utl "The problem with today's 'journalism'"], ''[[w:Chicago Tribune|Chicago Tribune]]''. * Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse. Like the credulous widow who wakes up one day to find the charming young man and all her savings gone, so the consenting subject of a piece of nonfiction writing learns—when the article or book appears—''his'' hard lesson. Journalists justify their treachery in various ways according to their temperaments. The more pompous talk about freedom of speech and "the public's right to know"; the least talented talk about Art; the seemliest murmur about earning a living. ** [[w:Janet Malcolm|Janet Malcolm]], ''[[w:The Journalist and the Murderer|The Journalist and the Murderer]]'' (1990). New York: Knopf, p. 3 (the opening paragraph of the book). * In our society, the journalist ranks with the philantropist as a person who has something extremely valuable to dispense (his currency is the strangely intoxicating substance called publicity), and who is consequently treated with a deference quite out of proportion to his merits as a person. There are very few people in this country who do not regard with rapture the prospect of being written about or interviewed on a radio or television program. ** [[w:Janet Malcolm|Janet Malcolm]], ''The Journalist and the Murderer'' (1990). New York: Knopf, p. 58. * I have come to think […] the character called "I" in a work of journalism […] is unlike all the journalist's other characters in that he forms the exception to the rule that nothing may be invented: the "I" character in journalism is almost pure invention. Unlike the "I" of autobiography, who is meant to be seen as a representation of the writer, the "I" of journalism is connected to the writer only in a tenuous way—the way, say, that [[Superman]] is connected to Clark Kent. The journalistic "I" is an over[[w:reliable narrator|reliable narrator]], a functionary to whom crucial tasks of narration and argument and tone have been entrusted, an ad hoc creation, like the [[w:Greek chorus|chorus of Greek tragedy]]. He is an emblematic figure, an embodiment of the idea of the dispassionate observer of life. Nevertheless, readers who readily accept the idea that the narrator in a work of fiction is not the same person as the author of the book will stubbornly resist the idea of the invented "I" of journalism; and even among journalists, there are those who have trouble sorting themselves out from the Supermen of their texts. ** [[w:Janet Malcolm|Janet Malcolm]], ''The Journalist and the Murderer'' (1990). New York: Knopf, pp. 159–160. * The moral ambiguity of journalism lies not in its texts but in the relationships out of which they arise—relationships that are invariably and inescapably lopsided. The "good" characters in a piece of journalism are no less a product of the writer's unholy power over another person than are the "bad" ones.[…] The fact that the subject may be trying to manipulate the journalist—and none but the most otherworldly of subjects is above at least some manipulativeness—does not offset the journalist's own sins against the libertarian spirit.[…] There is an infinite variety of ways in which journalists struggle with the moral impasse[…]. The wisest know that the best they can do […] is still not good enough. The not so wise, in their accustomed manner, choose to believe there is no problem and that they have solved it. ** [[w:Janet Malcolm|Janet Malcolm]], ''The Journalist and the Murderer'' (1990). New York: Knopf, pp. 162-163. (The last sentence is the last sentence of the book.) *[[W:Whistleblowers|Whistleblowers]] are essential to good [[journalism]]. They allow reporters to get behind... the walls of secrecy built up by officials and press officers. The whistleblowers reveal abuses and wrongdoing within governments, companies, the military, intelligence agencies. These whistleblowers should be rewarded for their courage; instead, too often they end up facing prosecution or jail. **[[Ewen MacAskill]] in [https://www.democracynow.org/2021/10/25/belmarsh_tribunal Free Julian Assange: Snowden, Varoufakis, Corbyn & Tariq Ali Speak Out Ahead of Extradition Hearing, ''Democracy Now!'',] October 25, 2021 *If [[Julian Assange|Julian]] is to be prosecuted, then there’s a equally good case for the editor and journalists in ''The Guardian... New York Times, Der Spiegel, El País, La República'' and all the other organizations involved in this coverage being prosecuted, too. **[[Ewen MacAskill]] in [https://www.democracynow.org/2021/10/25/belmarsh_tribunal Free Julian Assange: Snowden, Varoufakis, Corbyn & Tariq Ali Speak Out Ahead of Extradition Hearing, ''Democracy Now!'',] October 25, 2021 * As Michael Schudson pointed out in “Discovering the News” (1978), the notion that good journalism is “objective”—that is, nonpartisan and unopinionated—emerged only around the start of the twentieth century. Schudson thought that it arose as a response to growing skepticism about the whole idea of stable and reliable truths. The standard of [[objectivity]], as he put it, “was not the final expression of a belief in facts but the assertion of a method designed for a world in which even facts could not be trusted. . . . Journalists came to believe in objectivity, to the extent that they did, because they wanted to, needed to, were forced by ordinary human aspiration to seek escape from their own deep convictions of doubt and drift.” In other words, objectivity was a problematic concept from the start... Lippmann’s argument was that journalism is not a profession. You don’t need a license or an academic credential to practice the trade. All sorts of people call themselves journalists. Are all of them providing the public with reliable and disinterested news goods? ** [[w:Louis Menand|Louis Menand]], [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/02/06/when-americans-lost-faith-in-the-news “When Americans Lost Faith in the News”], ''The New Yorker'', (January 30, 2023) * Between 1945 and 1975, there was one [[woman]] in the Cabinet and one [[Black person]]. Each served for two years. On the press side, it was worse. Female and Black reporters were programmatically excluded. They had no entrée to certain press functions, and editors did not assign women to cover government affairs. Flat-out [[racism]] and [[sexism]] persisted much longer than seems believable today. <br> The two main social organizations for Washington journalists were the [[w:Gridiron Club|Gridiron Club]] (founded in 1885) and the [[w:National Press Club|National Press Club]] (founded in 1908). The Gridiron invited members’ [[wives]] to a dinner in 1896, but a skit lampooning the [[suffrage]] movement did not go over well, and women were not allowed back until 1972. Into the nineteen-fifties, members performed in [[blackface]] for [[entertainment]] at Gridiron dinners. McGarr reports that the club’s signature tune was “The Watermelon Song,” sung in [[w:Dialect|dialect]]. <br> The National Press Club did not have a Black member until 1955, which was the first year that women were allowed to attend luncheons where members were briefed by officials. The women had to sit in the balcony and were not allowed to ask [[questions]]. The National Press Club did not have a woman member until 1971. <br> [[w:The Washington Post|The Washington Post]] hired its first Black reporter in 1951. He was assigned his own bathroom, and left the paper after two years. (McGarr says that the Post did not hire another Black reporter until 1972, but that’s incorrect: the paper hired [[w:Dorothy Butler Gilliam|Dorothy Gilliam]] in 1961, and Jack White in 1968.) Far into the [[w:Civil rights movement|civil-rights movement]], the Times had very few Black reporters. The record of [[w:General interest|general-interest]] [[w:Magazine|magazines]], including this one, was hardly better. ** Louis Menand, [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/02/06/when-americans-lost-faith-in-the-news “When Americans Lost Faith in the News”], ''The New Yorker'', (January 30, 2023) * The [[power]] of the [[press]], such as it is, is like the power of [[academic]] [[scholars]], [[scientific]] [[researchers]], and [[w:Supreme Court Justices|Supreme Court Justices]]. It is not backed by [[force]]. It rests on [[faith]]: the [[belief]] that these are groups of people dedicated to pursuing the [[truth]] without [[fear]] or [[favor]]. Once they disclaim that function, they will be [[perceived]] in the way everyone else is now perceived, as spinning for [[gain]] or [[status]]. ** Louis Menand, [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/02/06/when-americans-lost-faith-in-the-news “When Americans Lost Faith in the News”], ''The New Yorker'', (January 30, 2023) * Since there is no such thing as ideological truth, it follows that to the extent a reporter is a liberal reporter or a conservative reporter, or a Democratic or Communist or Republican reporter, he is no reporter at all. ** [[H. L. Mencken]] (1937), quoted in [[Alistair Cooke]], ''Memories of the Great and Good'', 1999, p. 224. * The newspapers were beginning to get on to Jaycie now. They had ignored her at first. Put things down to anyone and everything else. After all, it was a bit awkward for them having to do with a woman who was beautiful but apparently had no sex life; they didn’t know what to try and smear her with. ** [[Naomi Mitchison]], “Mary and Joe” in Harry Harrison (ed.) Nova 1, p. 163. * Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition. ** [[Bill Moyers]], "The Big Story", speech to the Texas State Historical Association, 7 March 1997, ''Moyers on Democracy'' (2008), p. 131. * The freedom of speech and of the press, which are secured by the First Amendment against abridgment by the United States, are among the fundamental personal rights and liberties which are secured to all persons by the Fourteenth Amendment against abridgment by a state. The safeguarding of these rights to the ends that men may speak as they think on matters vital to them and that falsehoods may be exposed through the processes of education and discussion is essential to free government. Those who won our independence had confidence in the power of free and fearless reasoning and communication of ideas to discover and spread political and economic truth. **{{cite book|author=[[w:Frank Murphy|Frank Murphy]]|title=[[w:Thornhill v. Alabama|Thornhill v. Alabama]]|publisher=[[w:Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court of the United States]]|year=1940|pages= 310 U.S. 88, 95}} == O == * The fat Russian agent was cornering all the foreign refugees in turn and explaining plausibly that this whole affair was an Anarchist plot. I watched him with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was telling lies—unless one counts journalists. ** [[George Orwell]], ''Homage to Catalonia'' (1938) * Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper, but in Spain, for the first time, I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie. I saw great battles reported where there had been no fighting, and complete silence where hundreds of men had been killed. I saw troops who had fought bravely denounced as cowards and traitors, and others who had never seen a shot fired hailed as the heroes of imaginary victories; and I saw newspapers in London retailing these lies and eager intellectuals building emotional superstructures over events that had never happened. I saw, in fact, history being written not in terms of what happened but of what ought to have happened according to various "party lines". ** [[George Orwell]], ''Looking Back on the Spanish War'' (1943) * Too many journalists, fixated as they are on today's events, have a weak sense of history. ** Fintan O'Toole, ''The Irish Times'' (2023) * Fandom and journalism make bad bedfellows. ** Fintan O'Toole, ''The Irish Times'' (2023) == P == * In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor and that is the danger we face today. ** [[w:Scott Pelley|Scott Pelley]] in a speech at [[w:Quinnipiac University|Quinnipiac University]] on 10 May 2013. {{Cite web|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AyCD_lcl1Q|Website=YouTube|title=CBS News anchor Scott Pelley: 'We're Getting the Big Stories Wrong Over and Over Again'|}} * It is not enough for [[journalists]] to see themselves as mere messengers without [[understanding]] the [[w:hidden agenda|hidden agenda]]s of the message and the myths that surround it. ** [[John Pilger]], 'Hidden Agendas', 1998 * Secretive power loathes journalists who do their job: who push back screens, peer behind façades, lift rocks. Opprobrium from on high is their badge of honour. **{{cite book | last =Pilger | first =John | authorlink =w:John Pilger | title =Tell Me No Lies: Investigative Journalism That Changed the World | publisher =Thunder's Mouth Press | date =2005 | page =xv | isbn =1560257865 }} * We journalists... have to be brave enough to defy those who seek our collusion in selling their latest bloody adventure in someone else's country... That means always challenging the official story, however patriotic that story may appear, however seductive and insidious it is. For propaganda relies on us in the media to aim its deceptions not at a far away country but at you at home... In this age of endless imperial war, the lives of countless men, women and children depend on the truth or their blood is on us... Those whose job it is to keep the record straight ought to be the voice of people, not power. **[[John Pilger]], ''The War You Don't See'', ITV1 (UK), (14 December 2010) *Why is WikiLeaks a landmark in journalism? Because its revelations have told us, with 100 per cent accuracy, how and why much of the world is divided and run. **[[John Pilger]], in [https://frontline.thehindu.com/cover-story/article25661115.ece ''New Cold War & looming threats, Frontline, India''] (21 December 2018) *'''Journalists can help people by telling the truth, or by as much truth as they can find, and acting not as agents of governments, of power, but of people. That is real journalism. The rest is specious and false.''' **[[John Pilger]], quoted in [https://www.thedailystar.net/opinion/interviews/news/real-journalists-act-agents-people-not-power-1687921 ''Real journalists act as agents of people, not power, Daily Star (Bangladesh)''] (16 January 2019) *To quote, without verifiable evidence, "western intelligence sources" is never journalism; it is almost always propaganda. I learned that as a reporter. The cold war drum beat of the '''BBC''' and others is leading us to a world war. ** John Pilger, [https://twitter.com/johnpilger/status/1285869017412956160 Twitter] (22 July 2020) == R == [[File:Helen Thomas - USNWR.jpg|thumb|It is my hope that future journalists will adhere to the true principles of the profession and understand that they play a vital role in helping to keep democracy and the exchange of free ideas alive at home and abroad. &ndash; [[Helen Thomas]]]] * A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life — what people are interested in. That's journalism. ** [[Burton Rascoe]], as quoted in ''Useful Quotations : A Cyclopedia of Quotations'' (1933) edited by [[Tryon Edwards]], C. N. Catrevas, and Jonathan Edwards * Controversy? You can't be any kind of reporter worthy of the name and avoid controversy completely. You can't be a good reporter and not be fairly regularly involved in some kind of controversy. And I don't think you can be a great reporter and avoid controversy very often, because one of the roles a good journalist plays is to tell the tough truths as well as the easy truths. And the tough truths will lead you to controversy, and even a search for the tough truths will cost you something. Please don't make this play or read as any complaint, it's trying to explain this goes with the territory if you're a journalist of integrity. That if you start out a journalist or if you reach a point in journalism where you say, "Listen, I'm just not going not touch anything that could possibly be controversial," then you ought to get out. ** [[Dan Rather]], interview in {{cite news | last =Staff | title =Dan Rather Interview: Broadcast Journalist, On the Frontlines of Breaking News | work =[[w:Academy of Achievement|Academy of Achievement]] | date =[[May 5]], [[2001]] | url =http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/rat0int-1 | accessdate =2009-02-20 }} * Good journalism questions the land of a thousand [forbidden topics] even at the risk of uncanny and disturbing findings. …Now, journalists are neither detectives nor spiritual preachers. It is enough when they do their job properly. But there is always also an investigative side to the journalistic profession, as well as an ethical one. Journalists are not detectives but through their job they can perform some measure of investigation; journalists are not detectives, but they can provide facts that detectives may somewhat use. Journalists are not even spiritual guides, but, properly doing their job, they can offer occasions and clues that can also help to somewhat nourish the soul of their readers. Let’s all wisely stay away from preaching journalism, but good journalists can at least avoid poisoning their own as well as their readers’ souls. ** [[Marco Respinti]], [https://bitterwinter.org/a-universal-declaration-on-combating-and-preventing-forced-organ-harvesting/ "China’s Human Harvest and Illegal Organ Trade: Publish or Perish?"], ''Bitter Winter'' * What a monstrous thing that a University should teach journalism! I thought that was only done at Oxford. This respect for the filthy multitude is ruining civilisation. ** [[Bertrand Russell]], in a letter to Lucy Martin Donnely (July 6, 1902). == S == * But I'll report it<br>Where senators shall mingle tears with smiles. ** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Coriolanus]]'' (c. 1607-08), Act I, scene 9, line 2. * Report me and my cause aright<br>To the unsatisfied. ** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Hamlet]]'' (1600-02), Act V, scene 2, line 350. * Bring me no more reports. ** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Macbeth]]'' (1605), Act V, scene 3, line 1. * I don't think it has ever been as scary as it is right now. Because it seems that all journalists are under threat ** '''Najib Sharifi''' head of the [[Afghan]] Journalists Safety Committee, in an interview with [[DW]] posted to [https://www.dw.com/en/2020-dozens-of-journalists-killed-in-targeted-attacks/a-56078207 2020: Dozens of journalists killed in targeted attacks] 2020 * I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon. ** [[w:Tom Stoppard|Tom Stoppard]], [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Tom_Stoppard_in_Conversation/PubwLmgAcd0C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22if%20your%20aim%20is%20to%20change%20the%20world%2C%20journalism%20is%20a%20more%20immediate%20short-term%20weapon.%20%22&pg=PA196&printsec=frontcover ''Tom Stoppard in Conversation''] (1994), p. 196, University of Michigan Press, Paul Delaney, ed. * I don't want to be part of the story. I want to be an anonymous, quiet onlooker who tries to work out what the hell is happening - its not easy - and then tells other people about it. I don't like being a figure in the thing. **[[w:John Simpson|John Simpson]], interview in {{cite news | last =Barnes | first =Nicky | title =Interview: John Simpson - John Simpson is one of the most respected journalists in the world. | work =BBC Norfolk | publisher =[[w:BBC|BBC]] | date =[[October 12]], [[2007]] | url =http://www.bbc.co.uk/norfolk/content/articles/2007/10/12/feature_john_simpson_oct07_feature.shtml | accessdate =2009-02-20 }} [[File:William Thomas Stead.jpg|thumb|The Press is at once the eye and the ear and the tongue of the people. It is the visible speech, if not the voice, of the democracy. It is the phonograph of the world. &ndash; [[w:William Thomas Stead|William Thomas Stead]]]] * The Press is at once the eye and the ear and the tongue of the people. It is the visible speech, if not the voice, of the democracy. It is the phonograph of the world. **[[w:William Thomas Stead|William Thomas Stead]] (May 1886) "Government by Journalism", ''Contemporary Review''. * Journalism (definition): The art, or science, of representing life as a series of clichés. ** Richard Summerbell, {{cite book | last =Summberbell| first =Richard | authorlink =Richard Summerbell | title = Abnormally Happy | publisher =New Star Books | date =1985 | page =30 | isbn = 091957341X}} == T == * To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week’s newspapers. ** [[Nassim N. Taleb]], ''The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms'' (2010), p. 21 * I've always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art. **[[w:Gay Talese|Gay Talese]] (September 14, 2006) &mdash; reported in {{cite news | last =Cathcart | first =Rebecca | title =Lecture: Gay Talese | work =Bullpen: NYU Journalism | publisher =[[w:New York University|New York University]] | url =http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/bullpen/gay_talese/lecture/ | accessdate =2009-02-20}} * The art of a news reporter is to learn how to lull a victim, because all good reporters are confidence tricksters in embryo. **[[w:Derek Tangye|Derek Tangye]], British author, Chapter VII, ''The Way to Minack'' (1968). * I do not think that journalism is a dying art. If anything, I believe it is more important than ever, and journalists worldwide are adapting to our modus operandi - to make public officials accountable to the people. The role of the journalist is indispensable, and as reviled as reporters may intermittently be, they are still highly respected when the pursue the truth and obtain positive results. It is my hope that future journalists will adhere to the true principles of the profession and understand that they play a vital role in helping to keep democracy and the exchange of free ideas alive at home and abroad. **{{cite book | last =Thomas | first =Helen | authorlink =Helen Thomas | title =Watchdogs of Democracy? | publisher =[[w:Simon and Schuster|Simon and Schuster]] | date =2006 | page =Foreword | isbn = 0743267818}} * So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here—not under any byline of mine; or anyone else I can think of. With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms. ** [[Hunter Thompson]] {{cite book|author=Thompson, Hunter S.|authorlink=Hunter S. Thompson|title=Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72|date=April 22, 1985|page= 48|isbn=0446313645}} * "Why bother with newspapers, if this is all they offer? [[w:Spiro Agnew|Agnew]] was right. The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits— a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage." ** [[Hunter S. Thompson]], ''Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'' p. 200 (1971) == U == * Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. ** {{cite book|author=[[w:United Nations General Assembly|United Nations General Assembly]]|title=[[w:Universal Declaration of Human Rights|Universal Declaration of Human Rights]]|publisher=[[w:United Nations|United Nations]]|location=[[w:Palais de Chaillot|Palais de Chaillot]], [[w:Paris|Paris]]|year=[[December 10]], [[1948]]|pages= Article 19}}[http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html Text] == V == [[File:Superman-facebook.svg|thumb|Journalism is the one thing that protects us. There's a history of crusading, let–the–chips–fall–where–they–may journalists. But that's given way to 'advocacy journalists,' who have [[Left-wing politics|left]]– or [[Right-wing politics|right–wing]] [[biases]]. That doesn't make sense. The only thing a journalist should [[worship]] is the [[truth]]. ~ [[Andrew Vachss]]]] * Journalism is the one thing that protects us. There's a history of crusading, let–the–chips–fall–where–they–may journalists. But that's given way to 'advocacy journalists,' who have [[Left-wing politics|left]]– or [[Right-wing politics|right–wing]] [[biases]]. That doesn't make sense. The only thing a journalist should [[worship]] is the [[truth]]. ** [[Andrew Vachss]], Duane Swierczynski interview, ''Philadelphia City Paper'', (July 7, 2005). == W == [[File:Oscar Wilde by Napoleon Sarony. Three-quarter-length photograph, seated.jpg|thumb|The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesmanlike habits, supplies their demands. ~ [[Oscar Wilde]]]] * I mean to work for ''[[60 Minutes]]'', and be able to go any place in the world, do any story, have enough time on the air, et cetera, there is simply no job in journalism like it. At the beginning, it was a dream. Even now, at the age of 84, I work with people who are half my age or less, and it is the draw of the story. If there is a good story going, why not be there? ** [[w:Mike Wallace|Mike Wallace]], interview in {{cite news | last =Staff | title =Mike Wallace Interview: CBS News Correspondent, 60 Minutes of Truth | work =[[w:Academy of Achievement|Academy of Achievement]] | date =[[June 8]], [[2002]] | url =http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/wal2int-1 | accessdate = 2009-02-20 }} * News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead. ** [[Evelyn Waugh]] (1938) ''Scoop'', I, Chapter 5, Sect. 1 &mdash; Quote reproduced in {{cite book | last =Crystal | first =David | coauthors =Hillary Crystal | title =Words on Words: Quotations about Language and Languages | publisher =University of Chicago Press | date =2000 | page = 277 | isbn = 0226122018}} * It's a truism that denials never quite catch up with charges. Honest journalists who may have mistakenly printed false information know that the most prominent retraction never quite undoes the damage done by the original publication. ** [[w:Tom Wicker|Tom Wicker]], [http://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/09/opinion/in-the-nation-lesson-of-lattimore.html "In the Nation; Lesson of Lattimore"] (June 9, 1989), ''The New York Times''. * It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes. Behind the barricade there may be much that is noble and heroic. But what is there behind the leading-article but prejudice, stupidity, cant, and twaddle? And when these four are joined together they make a terrible force, and constitute the new authority. ** [[Oscar Wilde]], [[w: The Soul of Man under Socialism|The Soul of Man under Socialism]] (1891), Wilde, Oscar, (1891 / 1912) The Soul of Man Under Socialism, London, Arthur L. Humphreys. Retrieved from University of California Libraries [https://archive.org Archive.org] 13 February 2018 https://archive.org/details/soulofmanunderso00wildiala * In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press. That is an Improvement certainly. but still it is very bad, and wrong, and demoralising. Somebody - was it Burke? - called journalism the fourth estate. That was true at the time, no doubt. But at the present moment it really is the only estate. It has eaten up the other three. The Lords Temporal say nothing, The Lords Spiritual have nothing to say and the House of Commons has nothing to say and says it. We are dominated by journalism. ** [[Oscar Wilde]], [[w: The Soul of Man under Socialism|The Soul of Man under Socialism]] (1891), Wilde, Oscar, (1891 / 1912) The Soul of Man Under Socialism, London, Arthur L. Humphreys. Retrieved from University of California Libraries [https://archive.org Archive.org] 13 February 2018 https://archive.org/details/soulofmanunderso00wildiala * In America, the President reigns for four years, and journalism governs for ever and ever. Fortunately, in America journalism has carried its authority to the grossest and most brutal extreme. As a natural consequence it has begun to create a spirit of revolt, people are amused by it, or disgusted by it, according to their temperaments. but it is no longer the real force it was. It is not seriously treated. In England, journalism, except in a few well-known instances, not having been carried to such excesses of brutality, is still a great factor, a remarkable power. The tyranny that it proposes to exercise over people's private lives seems to me to be quite extraordinary. ** [[Oscar Wilde]], [[w: The Soul of Man under Socialism|The Soul of Man under Socialism]] (1891), Wilde, Oscar, (1891 / 1912) The Soul of Man Under Socialism, London, Arthur L. Humphreys. Retrieved from University of California Libraries [https://archive.org Archive.org] 13 February 2018 https://archive.org/details/soulofmanunderso00wildiala * Here we allow absolute freedom to the journalist and entirely limit the artist. English public opinion, that is to say, tries to constrain and impede and warp the man who makes things that are beautiful in effect, and compels the journalist to retail things that are ugly, or disgusting, or revolting in fact, so that we have the most serious journalists in the world and the most indecent newspapers. ** [[Oscar Wilde]], [[w: The Soul of Man under Socialism|The Soul of Man under Socialism]] (1891), Wilde, Oscar, (1891 / 1912) The Soul of Man Under Socialism, London, Arthur L. Humphreys. Retrieved from University of California Libraries [https://archive.org Archive.org] 13 February 2018 https://archive.org/details/soulofmanunderso00wildiala * The fact is, that the public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesmanlike habits, supplies their demands. ** [[Oscar Wilde]], [[w: The Soul of Man under Socialism|The Soul of Man under Socialism]] (1891), Wilde, Oscar, (1891 / 1912) The Soul of Man Under Socialism, London, Arthur L. Humphreys. Retrieved from University of California Libraries [https://archive.org Archive.org] 26 February 2018 https://archive.org/details/soulofmanunderso00wildiala * There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not. ** [[Oscar Wilde]], ''The Critic as Artist'' (1891), Part II * Ernest: But what is the difference between Literature and Journalism? Gilbert: Journalism is unreadable and Literature is not read. That is all. ** [[Oscar Wilde]], [[w: The Critic as Artist|The Critic as Artist]] Part I (1891), Wilde, Oscar, (1891 / 1905) The Critic As Artist Part II, in Intentions New York, Bretanos. Retrieved from Library of Congress Americana [https://archive.org Archive.org] 26 February 2018 https://archive.org/details/intentionsdecayo00wild *As for modern Journalism, its not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest. ** [[Oscar Wilde]], [[w: The Critic as Artist|The Critic as Artist]] Part I (1891), Wilde, Oscar, (1891 / 1905) The Critic As Artist Part II, in Intentions New York, Bretanos. Retrieved from Library of Congress Americana [https://archive.org Archive.org] 26 February 2018 https://archive.org/details/intentionsdecayo00wild * <p>You cannot hope <br /> to bribe or twist, <br /> thank God! the <br /> British journalist.</p><p> But, seeing what <br /> the man will do <br /> unbribed, there's <br /> no occasion to.</p> ** [[Humbert Wolfe]], "Over the Fire", in ''The Uncelestial City'' (1930). * If somebody came from Mars to America and went around for months or years, and then you asked them who has the best jobs, they would say the journalists, because the journalists get to make momentary entries into people's lives when they are interesting, and get out when they cease to be interesting. ** [[Bob Woodward]], interview in {{cite news | last =Bradlee | first =Ben | title =Bob Woodward Interview: Investigative Reporter, Journalist for Truth | work =[[w:Academy of Achievement|Academy of Achievement]] | pages =Page 7 of 9 | date =[[May 1]], [[2003]] | url =http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/woo1int-7 | accessdate = 2009-02-20 }} == Y == * I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness... The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth. ** [[W. B. Yeats]] Letter to [[Katharine Tynan]] (30 August 1888) * A Statesman is an easy man, <br /> He tells his lies by rote; <br /> A Journalist makes up his lies, <br /> And takes you by the throat. ** [[W. B. Yeats]] in The Old Stone Cross *Journalism today is for the most part gentlemanly and decorous, in so far as the relations among newspapers in the big cities are concerned. But in that day the New York dailies openly assailed one another's actions and motives with all the contempt that lily-white citizens might express toward horse-thieves and road agents. Dana of the Sun and Pulitzer of the World fought a long feud, widely talked about, and the World and Herald frequently snarled at each other. **''[[Art Young]]: His Life and Times'' (1939) ===''Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations''=== :<small>Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 407-08.</small> * I would * * * earnestly advise them for their good to order this paper to be punctually served up, and to be looked upon as a part of the tea equipage. ** [[Joseph Addison]], ''Spectator'', No. 10. * They consume a considerable quantity of our paper manufacture, employ our artisans in printing, and find business for great numbers of indigent persons. ** [[Joseph Addison]], ''Spectator'', No. 367. * Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by no means big enough for the Gazette, may easily creep into the advertisements; by which means we often see an apothecary in the same paper of news with a plenipotentiary, or a running footman with an ambassador. ** [[Joseph Addison]], ''Tatler'', No. 224. * The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which a good thing may pass over unobserved, or be lost among commissions of bankrupt. ** [[Joseph Addison]], ''Tatler'', No. 224. * Ask how to live? Write, write, write, anything;<br>The world's a fine believing world, write news. ** [[Beaumont and Fletcher]], ''Wit without Money'', Act II. * [The opposition Press] which is in the hands of malecontents who have failed in their career. ** [[Otto von Bismarck]], to a deputation from Rügen to the King (Nov. 10, 1862). * Hear, land o' cakes, and brither Scots,<br>Frae Maidenkirk to Johnny Groat's;<br>If there's a hole in a' your coats,<br>* I rede you tent it:<br>A chiel's amang you taking notes,<br>* And, faith, he'll prent it. ** [[Robert Burns]], ''On Capt. Grose's Peregrinations Through Scotland''. * The editor sat in his sanctum, his countenance furrowed with care,<br>His mind at the bottom of business, his feet at the top of a chair,<br>His chair-arm an elbow supporting, his right hand upholding his head,<br>His eyes on his dusty old table, with different documents spread. ** [[Will Carleton]], ''Farm Ballads'', ''The Editor's Guests''. * Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all. ** [[Thomas Carlyle]], ''Heroes and Hero-Worship''. Lecture V. Burke is credited with having invented the term, but it does not appear in his published works. The "three estates of the realm" are the Lords Spiritual, The Lords Temporal, and the Commons. David Lindslay—Ane pleasant satyre of the Three Estatis. (1535). Rabelais—in Pantagruel, 4–48 describes a monk, a falconer, a lawyer, and a husbandman called the "four estates of the island." (Les quatre estatz de l'isle). * A parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the Twenty-seven millions, mostly fools. ** [[Thomas Carlyle]], ''Latter Day Pamphlets''. No, VI. Parliaments. * Get your facts first, and then you can distort 'em as much as you please. ** [[Mark Twain]], ''Interview with Kipling'', ''In From Sea to Sea'', Epistle 37. * Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost,<br>Who sums the treasure that it carries hence?<br>Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy cost,<br>Star-eyed intelligence? ** [[Mary Clemmer]], ''The Journalist'', Stanza 9. * To serve thy generation, this thy fate:<br>"Written in water," swiftly fades thy name;<br>But he who loves his kind does, first and late,<br>A work too great for fame. ** [[Mary Clemmer]], ''The Journalist''. Last Stanza. * I believe it has been said that one copy of the Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides. ** [[Richard Cobden]], speech at the Manchester Athenæum, Dec. 27, 1850. See The Times, Dec. 30, 1830, p. 7. Quoted in Morley's Life of Cobden. Note, Volume II, p. 429. Also reference to same, p. 428. * Did Charity prevail, the press would prove<br>A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love. ** [[William Cowper]], ''Charity'', line 624. * How shall I speak thee, or thy power address,<br>Thou God of our idolatry, the Press.<br>* * * * *<br>Like Eden's dead probationary tree,<br>Knowledge of good and evil is from thee. ** [[William Cowper]], ''Progress of Error'', line 452. * He comes, the herald of a noisy world,<br>With spatter'd boots, strapp'd waist, and frozen locks;<br>News from all nations lumbering at his back. ** [[William Cowper]], ''The Task'' (1785), Book IV, line 5. * When found, make a note of. ** [[Charles Dickens]], ''Dombey and Son'', Chapter 15. * Miscellanists are the most popular writers among every people; for it is they who form a communication between the learned and the unlearned, and, as it were, throw a bridge between those two great divisions of the public. ** [[Isaac D'Israeli]], ''Literary Character of Men of Genius'', Miscellanists. * None of our political writers … take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lords and Commons … passing by in silence that very large and powerful body which form the fourth estate in the community … the Mob. ** [[Henry Fielding]], ''Covent Garden Journal'' (June 13, 1752). * Caused by a dearth of scandal should the vapors<br>Distress our fair ones—let them read the papers. ** [[David Garrick]], ''Prologue to Sheridan's School for Scandal''. * The liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights of an Englishman. ** [[Junius]], ''Dedication to Letters''. * The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty Reasoning on Policy, and vain Conjectures on the public Management. ** [[Jean de La Bruyère]], ''The Characters or Manners of the Present Age'' (1688), Chapter I. * The News-writer lies down at Night in great Tranquillity, upon a piece of News which corrupts before Morning, and which he is obliged to throw away as soon as he awakes. ** [[Jean de La Bruyère]], ''The Characters or Manners of the Present Age'' (1688), Chapter I. * Tout faiseur de journaux doit tribut au Malin. ** Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil. ** [[Jean de La Fontaine]], ''Lettre à Simon de Troyes'' (1686). * Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment. ** [[Charles Lamb]], ''Essays of Elia'', ''Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading''. * Behold the whole huge earth sent to me hebdomadally in a brown paper wrapper. ** [[James Russell Lowell]], ''Biglow Papers'', Series I. No. 6. * I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets. ** [[Napoleon I]]. * The penny-papers of New York do more to govern this country than the White House at Washington. ** [[Wendell Phillips]]. * We live under a government of men and morning newspapers. ** [[Wendell Phillips]]. * The press is like the air, a chartered libertine. ** [[William Pitt]], to Lord Grenville (About 1757). * The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease. ** [[Alexander Pope]], ''Epistles of Horace'', Epistle I, Book II, line 108. * Cela est escrit. Il est vray. ** The thing is written. It is true. ** [[François Rabelais]], ''Pantagruel''. * Can it be maintained that a person of any education can learn anything worth knowing from a penny paper? It may be said that people may learn what is said in Parliament. Well, will that contribute to their education? ** Salisbury (Lord Robert Cecil), Speeches. House of Commons, 1861. On the Repeal of the Paper Duties. * The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villanous—licentious—abominable—infernal—not that I ever read them—no—I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper. ** [[Richard Brinsley Sheridan]], ''The Critic'', Act I, scene 1. * Trade hardly deems the busy day begun<br>Till his keen eye along the sheet has run;<br>The blooming daughter throws her needle by,<br>And reads her schoolmate's marriage with a sigh;<br>While the grave mother puts her glasses on,<br>And gives a tear to some old crony gone.<br>The preacher, too, his Sunday theme lays down<br>To know what last new folly fills the town;<br>Lively or sad, life's meanest, mightiest things,<br>The fate of fighting cocks, or fighting kings. ** [[Sprague]], ''Curiosity''. * Here shall the Press the People's right maintain,<br>Unawed by influence and unbribed by gain;<br>Here Patriot Truth her glorious precepts draw,<br>Pledged to Religion, Liberty, and Law. ** [[Joseph Story]], ''Motto of the Salem Register''. Adopted 1802. Reported in William W. Story's ''Life of Joseph Story'', Volume I, Chapter VI. * The thorn in the cushion of the editorial chair. ** [[William Makepeace Thackeray]], ''Roundabout Papers'', ''The Thorn in the Cushion''. == Attributed == * Knoll's Law of Media Accuracy: Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true — except for the rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge. ** [[w:Erwin Knoll|Erwin Knoll]], editor, ''The Progressive'' * In America the president reigns for four years, and journalism governs forever and ever. **[[Oscar Wilde]] &mdash; quoted in {{cite book | last =Janis | first =Lois August | title =Voyage to Insight | publisher =CMJ Publishers and Distrib. | date =2003 | pages =Page 70 | isbn = 1891280406}} * When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news. ** John B. Bogartto, ''New York Sun'' editor. Attributed in ''Bartlett's Familiar Quotations'', 16th edition, 1992, p. 554. See also [[w:Man bites dog | Man bites dog]]. * I do not care for the big 'ideas' of novelists. Novels are wonderful, of course, but I prefer newspapers. ** [[Will Cuppy]] in Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Haycraft (eds.), ''Twentieth Century Authors'', New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1942, p. 342. * Journalism is the first rough draft of history. :* Originally stated in slightly different forms “News/The press [is the] … first rough draft of history”, this form dates at least to the 1940s, and was most likely popularized by {{w|Alan Barth}}, as an editorial writer for the ''Washington Post'' in the 1940s. The sentiment appears several times in the editorial pages of the ''Post'' in that era, with the earliest citation from Barth being 1943: :: News is only the first rough draft of history. ::* {{w|Alan Barth}}, review of ''The Autobiography of a Curmudgeon'' by {{w|Harold L. Ickes}} in ''{{w|New Republic}},'' 1943, collected in ''The New Republic,'' Volume 108, [http://books.google.com/books?id=cDgQAAAAIAAJ&q=%22draft+of+history%22 p. 677] :* Subsequent uses in the ''Post'' include: :: ''Newspapers,'' after all, are ''the first drafts of history,'' or pretend they are. ::* Unsigned "Editor's Note" in ''The Washington Post'' (16 October 1944) :* Similar sentiment date to the first decade of the 1900s, including: [http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/first_draft_of_history_journalism/ “First draft of history” (journalism)], November 23, 2009, Barry Popik :: It is possible that ''a first rough draft of the History,'' down to 413, may have been sketched by Thucydides before 405. ::* (omits “news”, refers to specific text) 1902, {{w|Richard Claverhouse Jebb}}, [http://www.1902encyclopedia.com/T/THU/thucydides.html Thucydides], Encyclopaedia Britannica, 10th Edition (1902) Cited by Babette Hogan in comments to Shafer 2010 :: The ''newspapers'' are making morning after morning ''the rough draft of history.'' Later, the historian will come, take down the old files, and transform the crude but sincere and accurate annals of editors and reporters into history, into literature. The modern school must study the daily newspaper. ::* (omits “first”) 1905 December 5, The State, “[http://blog.readex.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/TP-State-News-Draft-Dec-5-1905.pdf The Educational Value of 'News.’]” Page 4, Column 4, Columbia, South Carolina [http://blog.readex.com/newspapers-the-rough-draft-of-history Newspapers: “the rough draft of history”], by Tony Pettinato, October 4th, 2010. Cited by Garson O'Toole of [http://QuoteInvestigator.com Quote Investigator], citing the database GenealogyBank, in comments to Shafer 2010 ::A reporter is a young man who blocks out ''the first draft of history'' each day on a rheumatic typewriter. ::* (omits “rough”) 3 July 1914, Lincoln (NE) Daily Star, “The Reporter” by [[w:George Helgesen Fitch|George Fitch]], pg. 6, col. 4 :* This quote is generally incorrectly credited to {{w|Philip L. Graham}}, in an address to ''Newsweek'' correspondents in London (1963): “[http://www.slate.com/id/2265540/pagenum/all Who Said It First? Journalism is the 'first rough draft of history.’]” by {{w|Jack Shafer}}, ''Slate'' (30 August 2010) ''Personal History'' (1997) by {{w|Katharine Graham}} ::So let us today drudge on about our inescapably impossible task of providing every week ''a first rough draft of history'' that will never be completed about a world we can never really understand. :* While this may have popularized the quote, earlier statements were given by others (as above), and even by Graham himself, including: :: The inescapable hurry of the press inevitably means a certain degree of superficiality. It is neither within our power nor our province to be ultimately profound. We write 365 days a year ''the first rough draft of history,'' and that is a very great task. ::* Address to the American Society for Public Administration (8 March 1953) Published in “[http://www.jstor.org/stable/972460 Public Administration and the Press]”, Philip L. Graham, ''Public Administration Review'', Volume 13, No. 2 (Spring, 1953), pp. 87–88 :* Various other misattributions exist – {{w|Helen Thomas}} misattributes it to {{w|Ben Bradlee}} in her memoir ''First Row at the White House''. {{cite book| title=Front Row at the White House: My Life and Times | authorlink=Helen Thomas | publisher=Simon and Schuster | year=2000 | isbn=0684845687 | last=Thomas | first=Helen | page=383}} == See also == * [[Alternative media]] * [[Investigative journalism]] * [[News]] * [[Newspapers]] * [[Mainstream media]] * [[Media bias]] ==External links== {{similarlinks}} [https://www.fourthestate.org/journalism-quotes/ Journalism Quotes at the Fourth Estate] [[Category:Journalism| ]] ht3clmbhos9awqhgcxrssasqol1fepr 0 126539 3961192 3932813 2026-07-05T16:35:00Z BD2412 3982 /* A */ Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]], replaced: Charles Francis Adams, Sr. → Charles Francis Adams Sr. using [[Project:AWB|AWB]] 3961192 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Battle of Thermopylae Spartans and Persians.jpg|thumb|They sent forth men to battle. But no such men return.<br>{{center|~&nbsp;[[Aeschylus]]}}]] [[File:Syria.BasharAlAssad.jpg|thumb|Have you heard about "good war"? I don't think anyone have heard about good war. It's a war, you always have casualties, you always have innocent people, people being killed by any means, no one can tell how...<br> ~&nbsp;[[Bashar al-Assad]] ]] [[File:Julian Assange in Ecuadorian Embassy cropped.jpg|thumb|If wars can be started with lies, they can be stopped by truth. ~ [[Julian Assange]]]] '''[[w:War|War]]''' is an intense armed [[conflict]] between [[State|states]], [[Government|governments]], [[societies]], or [[W:paramilitary groups|paramilitary groups]] such as [[Mercenary|mercenaries]], [[w:insurgent|insurgents]], and [[W:militias|militias]]. It is generally characterized by extreme [[violence]], [[aggression]], [[destruction]], and [[mortality]], using regular or irregular [[military]] forces. __NOTOC__ {{TOCalpha|[[#Unknown authorship|Unknown authorship]] • [[#War quotations in fiction|War quotations in fiction]]}} == A == * It would be superfluous in me to point out to [[John Russell, 1st Earl Russell|your Lordship]] that this is war. ** [[Charles Francis Adams Sr.|Charles Francis Adams Sr.]], Despatch to [[John Russell, 1st Earl Russell|Earl Russell]] at a period of diplomatic tension between the US and Britain during the [[American Civil War]] (September 5, 1863); ''Correspondence concerning Claims against Great Britain'', [https://archive.org/details/correspondenceco311unit/page/364/mode/2up vol. 2] (Washington, D.C., 1870), p. 365 * My voice is still for war. ** [[Joseph Addison]], ''{{w|Cato, a Tragedy}}'' (1713), act 2, sc. 1 * They sent forth men to battle,<br>But no such men return;<br>And home, to claim their welcome,<br>Come ashes in an urn. ** [[Aeschylus]], ''[[w:Oresteia|Agamemnon]]'', ll. 423–45 (tr. Philip Vellacott, 1956; rev. 1959) * What is the only provocation that could bring about the use of [[nuclear weapons]]? Nuclear weapons. What is the priority target for nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. What is the only established defense against nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. How do we prevent the use of nuclear weapons? By threatening the use of nuclear weapons. And we can't get rid of nuclear weapons, because of nuclear weapons. The intransigence, it seems, is a function of the weapons themselves. ** [[Martin Amis]], ''{{w|Einstein's Monsters}}'' (1987), "Thinkability" * The arms race is a race between nuclear weapons and ourselves. ** Martin Amis, ''Einstein's Monsters'' (1987), "Thinkability" * There are two rules of war that have not yet been invalidated by the [[New world order (politics)|new world order]]. The first rule is that the belligerent nation must be fairly sure that its actions will make things better; the second rule is that the belligerent nation must be more or less certain that its actions won't make things worse. America could perhaps claim to be satisfying the first rule (while admitting that the improvement may be only local and short term). It cannot begin to satisfy the second. ** [[Martin Amis]], [https://web.archive.org/web/20031013065253/http://www.globalpolicy.org/wtc/analysis/2003/0304palace.htm "The Palace of the End"], in ''The Guardian'' (4 March 2003) * A great [[historian]], [[Henry Steele Commager]], said that in their lust for victory, neither traditional party is looking beyond November. And he went on to cite three issues that their platforms totally ignore: [[Nuclear war|atomic warfare]], Presidential Directive 59 notwithstanding. If we don't resolve that issue, all others become irrelevant. The issue of our natural resources; the right of posterity to inherit the [[earth]], and what kind of earth will it be? The issue of [[nationalism]] — the recognition, he says, that every major problem confronting us is global, and cannot be solved by nationalism here or elsewhere — that is chauvinistic, that is parochial, that is as [[Anachronism|anachronistic]] as [[states' rights]] was in the days of [[Jefferson Davis]]. ** [[John B. Anderson]], [https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/presidential-debate-baltimore-reagan-anderson 1980 Presidential Debate], (21 September 1980) * Let who will boast their courage in the field,<br>I find but little safety from my shield.<br>Nature's, not honour's, law we must obey:</br>This made me cast my useless shield away,<br>And by a prudent flight and cunning save<br>A life, which valour could not, from the grave.<br>A better buckler I can soon regain;<br>But who can get another life again? ** [[Archilochus]], fragment 6, quoted by [[Plutarch]], [[w:Moralia (Plutarch)|''Instituta Laconica'']] (tr. Several Hands, 1691). Reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's]]'' (1922), p. 841 * Instead of breaking that bridge, we should, if possible, provide another, that he may retire the sooner out of Europe. ** [[Aristides]], referring to the proposal to destroy Xerxes' bridge of ships over the Hellespont. ("A bridge for a retreating army.") See [[Plutarch]], ''Life of Demosthenes''. Reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's]]'' (1922), p. 841 * This is war. '''Have you heard about "good war"? I don't think anyone have heard about good war. It's a war, you always have casualties, you always have innocent people, people being killed by any means''', no one can tell how... ** [[Bashar al-Assad]], [https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/syria-s-president-bashar-al-assad-speaks-nbc-news-n608746 Interview with Bill Neely], ''NBC News'' (July 2016) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45odEv_1DAY] * If wars can be started with lies, they can be stopped by [[truth]]. ** [[Julian Assange]], as quoted in Sam Carliner, [https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/10/22/fate-anti-war-journalism-lies-upcoming-assange-hearings "Fate of Anti-War Journalism Lies in Upcoming Assange Hearings"], ''Common Dreams'' (October 22, 2021) == B == [[File:Soldiers in trench.jpg|thumb|Comrade, I did not want to kill you. If you jumped in here again, I would not do it, if you would be sensible too. But you were only an idea to me before, an abstraction that lived in my mind and called forth its appropriate response. It was that abstraction I stabbed. ~&nbsp;[[w:Paul Bäumer|Paul Bäumer]] ]] [[File:Bulava SLBM launched by Yuri Dolgoruky submarine.jpg|thumb|The paradox of [[nuclear weapons]] is that the most powerful weapons ever created have no practical value as actual weapons of war, since there can be no winner in a war that kills everybody. ~ [[Medea Benjamin]] ]] [[File:RAF C-17 at Kabul Airport.jpg|thumb|I refuse to continue in a war that was no longer in the service of the vital national interest of our people. <br>~ [[Joe Biden]] ]] [[File:Bourne.jpg|thumb|War is the [[health]] of the [[State]].<br>{{center|~&nbsp;[[Randolph Bourne]]}}]] [[File:General Bradley.jpg|thumb|Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them must share the guilt for the [[dead]].<br>{{center|~&nbsp;[[Omar Bradley]]}}]] [[File:Smedley Butler and Jiggs, circa 1926 (14773593761).jpg|thumb|War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. ~ [[Smedley Butler]]]] * I refused to continue in a war that was no longer in the service of the vital national interest of our people. ... We’ve been a nation too long at war. If you're 20 years old today, you have never known an America at [[peace]]. ** [[Joe Biden]], [https://ae.usembassy.gov/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-end-of-the-war-in-afghanistan/ Remarks on the end of the War in Afghanistan] (September 1, 2021) * War can be and is mass murder, where the motive is wrong. It can be sacrifice and right action, where the motive is right. The slaying of a man in the act of killing the defenseless is not regarded as murder. The principle remains the same, whether it is killing an individual who is murdering, or fighting a nation which is warring on the defenseless. ** [[Alice Bailey]], "Treatise on the Seven Rays" (1936), collected in [https://archive.org/details/ponderonthis0000bail_q1c3/page/420/mode/2up ''Ponder on This''] (1974 [1971]), p. 180 * The distribution of the world's resources and the settled unity of the peoples of the world are ... one and the same thing, for behind all modern [[wars]] lies a fundamental economic problem. Solve that and wars will very largely cease. ** [[Alice Bailey]], [https://archive.org/details/problemsofhumani0000bail/page/166/mode/2up ''Problems of Humanity''] (1983 [1947]), ch. 6 * Of all the differences between the [[w:Old World|Old World]] and the [[w:New World|New]] this is perhaps the most salient: Half the wars of [[Europe]], half the [[troubles]] that have vexed European States, ... have arisen from [[theological]] differences or from the rival claims of [[church]] and [[state]]. This whole vast chapter of [[debate]] and [[strife]] has remained virtually unopened in the [[United States]]. ** [[w:Randall Balmer|Randall Herbert Balmer]], [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Thy_Kingdom_Come/vlzhyEqbqa8C?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover ''Thy Kingdom Come''] (Basic Books, 2007), p. viii * Comrade, I did not want to kill you. If you jumped in here again, I would not do it, if you would be sensible too. But you were only an idea to me before, an abstraction that lived in my mind and called forth its appropriate response. It was that abstraction I stabbed. But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your [[bayonet]], of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony — forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy? If we threw away these rifles and this uniform you could be my brother, just like Kat and Albert. Take twenty years of my life, comrade, and stand up — take more, for I do not know what I can even attempt to do with it now. ** [[w:Paul Bäumer|Paul Bäumer]], ''[[All Quiet on the Western Front]]'' (tr. A. W. Wheen, 1929) * [[Germany]] could not win this war because it was in league with the [[devil]]. This war would not have ended without [[revolution]]. ** [[Erich von dem Bach]], to Leon Goldensohn (14 February 1946), as quored in Leon Goldensohn and Robert Gellately, ''The Nuremberg Interviews'' (2004) * I’ve been thinking about the war a lot recently, and I think I’ve decided it’s wrong. We are defeating ourselves in waging it, will destroy ourselves by winning it. ** [[Iain Banks]], "Descendant" (1987), collected in ''[[w:The State of the Art|The State of the Art]]'' (1989) * All quiet along the [[w:Potomac|Potomac]] they say<br> Except now and then a stray picket<br>Is shot as he walks on his beat, to and fro,<br> By a rifleman hid in the thicket. ** [[Ethel Lynn Beers]], "The Picket Guard". Claimed by Lamar Fontaine. Reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's]]'' (1922), p. 842 * Gaily! gaily! close our ranks!<br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Arm! Advance!<br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Hope of France!<br>Gaily! gaily! close our ranks!<br>Onward! Onward! Gauls and Franks! ** [[Pierre-Jean de Béranger]], ''Les Gaulois et François'' (tr. C. L. Bett, 1847)<!--Reported in ''Hoyt's'' (1922), p. 842--> * Wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war. ** [[Wendell Berry]], "A Statement against the War in Vietnam", ''The Long-Legged House'' (1969) * The inevitableness, the [[idealism]], and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be repeatedly emphasized. ** {{w|Friedrich von Bernhardi}}, ''Germany and the Next War'' (1911), ch. 1 * War is a biological necessity of the first importance, a regulative element in the life of mankind which cannot be dispensed with. ... But it is not only a biological law but a moral obligation and, as such, an indispensable factor in civilization. ** {{w|Friedrich von Bernhardi}}, ''Germany and the Next War'' (1911), ch. 1 * Our next war will be fought for the highest interests of our country and of mankind. This will invest it with importance in the world's history. "World power or downfall" will be our rallying cry. ** {{w|Friedrich von Bernhardi}}, ''Germany and the Next War'' (1911), ch. 7 * We [[Germans]] have a far greater and more urgent duty towards civilization to perform than the Great Asiatic Power. We, like the [[Japan|Japanese]], can only fulfil it by the sword. ** {{w|Friedrich von Bernhardi}}, ''Germany and the Next War'' (1911), ch. 13 * Just for a word—"[[neutrality]]," a word which in war-time had so often been disregarded—just for a scrap of paper, [[United Kingdom|Great Britain]] was going to make war on a kindred nation who desired nothing better than to be friends with her. ** [[Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg]], German Chancellor, to Sir Edward Goschen, British Ambassador (August 4, 1914), in James M. Beck, [https://archive.org/details/caseofbelgiu00beck/page/214/mode/2up?q=%22was+going+to+make+war+on+a+kindred+nation%22 ''The Case of Belgium''] (1914), pp. 214–15 * Wars are God's way of teaching Americans geography. ** Attributed to [[Ambrose Bierce]] in Larry Minear, [https://archive.org/details/humanitarianpoli0000mine/page/66/mode/2up?q=%22way+of+teaching+Americans+geography%22 ''Humanitarian Politics''] (1995), p. 67 * ''L'affaire Herzegovinienne ne vaut pas les os d'un fusilier poméranien.'' ** The Herzegovina question is not worth the bones of a Pomeranian fusileer. *** [[Otto von Bismarck]] (1875), during the struggle between the Christian provinces and Turkey, which led to the Russo-Turkish War. Another version is "The Eastern Question is not worth," etc. * ''Lieber Spitzkugeln als Spitzreden.'' ** Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches. *** [[Otto von Bismarck]], Speech (1850), relative to Manteuffel's dealings with Austria during the insurrection of the People of Hesse Cassel * ''Ich sehe in unserm Bundesverhältnisse ein Gebrechen Preussens, welches wir früher oder später ferro et igne werden heilen müssen.'' ** I see in our relations with our alliance a fault of Prussia's, which we must cure sooner or later ferro et igne. *** [[Otto von Bismarck]], letter to Baron von Schleinitz (May 12, 1859) * [The great questions of the day] are not decided by speeches and majority votes, but by blood and iron. ** [[Otto von Bismarck]], Declaration to the Prussian House of Delegates (September 30, 1862). Same idea in Schenkendorf, ''Das Eiserne Kreuz'' * War tore the guts out of the [[British Empire|British empire]], weakening it in resources and morale. The first major loss was Ireland. ** [[Jeremy Black (historian)|Jeremy Black]], ''A History of the British Isles'' (1996) * No wars are unintended or 'accidental'. What is often unintended is the length and bloodiness of the war. ** [[Geoffrey Blainey]], ''The Causes of War'' (1973) * War and peace are not separate compartments. Peace depends on threats and force; often peace is the crystallisation of past force. ** [[Geoffrey Blainey]], ''The Causes of War'' (1973) * It is the problem of accurately measuring the relative power of nations which goes far to explain why wars occur. War is a dispute about the measurement of power. War marks the choice of a new set of weights and measures. ** [[Geoffrey Blainey]], ''The Causes of War'' (1973) * Generals gathered in their masses<br> just like witches at black masses.<br> Evil minds that plot destruction,<br> sorcerer of death's construction. ** [[w:Black Sabbath|Black Sabbath]], "War Pigs", [[w:Paranoid (album)|''Paranoid'']] (1970), written by [[w:Ozzy Osbourne|Ozzy Osbourne]], [[w:Tony Iommi|Tony Iommi]], [[w:Geezer Butler|Geezer Butler]] and [[w:Bill Ward|Bill Ward]] * What a place to plunder! ** Field Marshal von Blücher's comment on viewing London from St. Paul's, after the Peace Banquet at Oxford, 1814. Same idea in Malcolm, ''Sketches of Persia'', p. 232. In Thackeray, ''Four Georges'', George I says: "The bold old Reiter looked down from St. Paul's and sighed out, 'Was für Plunder!' The German women plundered; the German secretaries plundered; the German cooks and intendants plundered; even Mustapha and Mahomet, the German negroes, had a share of the booty." The German quoted would be correctly translated "what rubbish!" <!--Blücher, therefore, has been either misquoted or mistranslated.--> * War is not a pathology that, with proper hygiene and treatment, can be wholly prevented. War is a natural condition of the State, which was organized in order to be an effective instrument of violence on behalf of society. Wars are like deaths, which, while they can be postponed, will come when they will come and cannot be finally avoided. ** [[w:Philip Bobbitt|Philip Bobbitt]], ''[[w:The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History|The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History]]'' (2002) * War will make corpses of us all. ** Boromir in ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers]]'' (2002 film) * It is magnificent, but it is not war. ** General [[Pierre Bosquet]], on the Charge of the Light Brigade. Attributed also to Marshal Canrobert. Reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's]]'' (1922), p. 842 * [[War]] is the [[health]] of the [[State]].&nbsp; Only when the State is at war does the modern society function with that [[unity]] of [[sentiment]], simple uncritical [[patriotic]] [[devotion]], [[cooperation]] of services, which have always been the ideal of the State lover. ** [[Randolph Bourne]], [[s:The State|''The State'']] (1918), [[s:The State#I|§1]] * War is the health of the State and it is during war that one best understands the nature of that institution. ** Randolph Bourne, ''The State'' (1918), [[s:The State#II|§2]] * We have men of [[science]], too few men of God. '''We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the [[Sermon on the Mount|''Sermon on the Mount'']]. The world has achieved brilliance without [[conscience]]. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and [[Ethics|ethical]] infants.''' We know more about war than we know about [[peace]], more about killing than we know about living. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. ** [[Omar Bradley]], Armistice Day speech (11 November 1948), in Bradley's ''Collected Writings'', vol. 1 (1967) * Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them must share the guilt for the [[dead]]. ** Omar Bradley, as quoted in [[Peace Pilgrim]], ''Her Life and Work in Her Own Words'' (1992), p. 113 * Ethical obligation has to subordinate itself to the totalitarian nature of war. ** [[Karl Brandt]] (1947); ''Trials of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals under Control Council Law No. 10'', [https://archive.org/details/TrialsOfWarCriminalsBeforeTheNurembergMilitaryTribunalsUnderControlCouncil/Trials%20of%20war%20criminals%20before%20the%20Nuremberg%20Military%20Tribunals%20under%20Control%20Council%20law%20no.%2010.%20-%20Nuremberg%2C%20October%201946-%20April%2C%201949%20Volume%201/page/n1001/mode/2up?q=%22obligation+has+to+subordinate+itself+to+the%22 vol. 1] (October 1946–April 1949), p. 972<!--Quoted in article "Ethics of Nazi doctors analyzed in telecast" by Joanna Arnold, 10/17/07.--> * [[Politics]] is the domestication of war. **[[Giannina Braschi]], ''{{w|Yo-Yo Boing!}}'' (1998) * What we have here is a war, the war of matter and spirit...The war of banks and religion. In [[New York City]], [[Banking|banks]] tower over [[w:Cathedrals|cathedrals]]. Banks are the temples of America. This is a [[holy war]]. Our [[economy]] is our [[religion]]." ** [[Giannina Braschi]], ''{{w|United States of Banana}}'' (2011) * My tanks were filled with gasoline and wars. I was a lead soldier. I marched against the smoke of the city....And the world closed its doors—anvils and hammers against the sleeping men—doors of the [[heart]]—cities everywhere—and litte lead soldiers. ** [[Giannina Braschi]], ''Empire of Dreams'' (1988) * [War] is a highly planned and cooperative form of theft. ** [[Jacob Bronowski]], "Harvest of the Seasons", ''{{w|The Ascent of Man}}'' (1973) * Of course, it's tempting to close one's eyes to history and instead to speculate about the roots of war in some possible animal instinct. As if, like the tiger, we still had to kill to live or like the robin redbreast to defend a nesting territory. But war, organized war, is not a human instinct. It is a highly planned and cooperative form of theft. And that form of theft began ten-thousand years ago when the harvesters of wheat accumulated a surplus and the nomads rose out of the desert to rob them of what they themselves could not provide. The evidence for that, we saw, in the walled city of Jericho and it's prehistoric tower. That is the beginning of war. ** Jacob Bronowski, "Harvest of the Seasons", ''The Ascent of Man'' (1973) * War provides men with the perfect psychological backdrop to give vent to their contempt for women. The maleness of the military—the brute power of weaponry exclusive to their hands, the spiritual bonding of men at arms, the manly discipline of orders given and orders obeyed, the simple logic of the hierarchical command—confirms for men what they long suspect—that women are peripheral to the world that counts ** [[Susan Brownmiller]] [https://books.google.com/books/about/Against_Our_Will.html?id=jaWqAAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button#v=onepage&q&f=false ''Against Our Will''] (1975), p. 22 * The [[Federal government of the United States|Government of the United States]] would be constrained to hold the Imperial German government to a strict accountability for such acts of their naval authorities. ** [[William Jennings Bryan]], to the German government, when US Secretary of State. ''European War Series of Department of State'', no. 1, p. 54 * In war, [[science]] has proven itself an evil genius; it has made war more terrible than it ever was before. Man used to be content to slaughter his fellowmen on a single plane — the earth's surface. Science has taught him to go down into the water and shoot up from below and to go up into the clouds and shoot down from above, thus making the battlefield three times a bloody as it was before; but science does not teach brotherly love. Science has made war so hellish that civilization was about to commit suicide; and now we are told that newly discovered instruments of destruction will make the cruelties of the late war seem trivial in comparison with the cruelties of wars that may come in the future. ** [[William Jennings Bryan]], [[w:Scopes trial|Scopes "Monkey" trial]] summation (July 21, 1925) * Lay down the axe; fling by the spade;<br> Leave in its track the toiling plough;<br>The rifle and the bayonet-blade<br> For arms like yours were fitter now;<br>And let the hands that ply the pen<br> Quit the light task, and learn to wield<br>The horseman's crooked brand, and rein<br> The charger on the battle-field. ** [[William Cullen Bryant]], "Our Country's Call". Reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's]]'' (1922), p. 843 * None of our soldiers would understand not being asked to do whatever is necessary to reestablish a situation which is humiliating to us and unacceptable to our country's honor.—We are going to counter-attack. ** Credited to Major-Gen. {{w|Robert Lee Bullard}}, also to Major-Gen. {{w|Omar Bundy}}, in reply to the French command to retire in the second battle of the Marne, 1918. * The [[Flag of the United States|American flag]] has been forced to retire. This is intolerable. ** Major-Gen. [[R. L. Bullard]], on leaving the Conference of French Generals, July 15, 1918. Expressing regret that he could not obey orders. He is called "The General of No Retreat." See N. Y. Herald, Nov. 3, 1919. (Editorial). * You are there, stay there. ** Major-Gen. [[R. L. Bullard]]. Citation to American unit which captured Fay's Wood. See N. Y. Herald, Nov. 3, 1919. (Editorial). * I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people. ** [[Edmund Burke]], "Letters on a Regicide Peace", letter 1, 1796–1797, ''The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke'', vol. 5 (1899), p. 283. * This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers. We see them all around us: the winners and the losers. The losers can oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers. ** [[William S. Burroughs]], "The War Universe", taped conversation, first published in [http://openlibrary.org/b/OL7452886M/Grand_Street_37_(Grand_Street) ''Grand Street'', No. 37 (1991)]. * Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled;<br>Scots, wham Bruce has aften led,<br>Welcome to your gory bed,<br> Or to victory! ** [[Robert Burns]], ''Bruce to his Men at Bannockburn''. * But they will have it thus nevertheless, and so they put note of "divinity upon the most cruel and pernicious plague of human kind," adore such men with grand titles, degrees, statues, images, honour, applaud, and highly reward them for their good service, no greater glory than to die in the field. So Africanus is extolled by Ennius: Mars, and Hercules, and I know not how many besides of old, were deified; went this way to heaven, that were indeed bloody butchers, wicked destroyers, and troublers of the world, prodigious monsters, hell-hounds, feral plagues, devourers, common executioners of human kind, as Lactanius truly proves, and Cyprian to Donat, such as were desperate in wars, and precipitately made away themselves, (like those Celtes in Damascen, with ridiculous valour, ''ut dedecorosum putarent muro ruenti se subducere'', a disgrace to run away for a rotten wall, now ready to fall on their heads), such as will not rush on a sword's point, or seek to shun a cannon's shot, are base cowards, and no valiant men. By which means, ''Madet orbis mutuo sanguine'', the earth wallows in her own blood, ''Sævit amor ferri et scelerati insania belli''; and for that, which if it be done in private, a man shall be rigorously executed, "and which is no less than murder itself; if the same fact be done in public in wars, it is called manhood, and the party is honored for it." ** [[Robert Burton]], [[w:The Anatomy of Melancholy|The Anatomy of Melancholy]] [https://archive.org/stream/anatomyofmelanch00burt#page/40/mode/2up] (1621). * ''Dieu est d'ordinaire pour les gros escadrons contre les petits.'' ** God is generally for the big squadrons against the little ones. *** {{w|Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy}}, letter (October 18, 1677). Anticipated by Tacitus. ''Deus fortioribus adesse''. * Although it is commonly supposed that war making is the specific activity of [[nations]], the blind rage that motivates war destroys the very social bonds that make nations possible. Of course, it can fortify the [[nationalism]] of a nation, producing a provisional coherence bolstered by war and enmity, but it also erodes the social relations that make politics possible. The power of destruction unleashed by war breaks social ties and produces anger, revenge, and distrust (“embitterment”) such that it becomes unclear whether reparation is possible, undermining not only those relations that may have been built in the past, but also the future possibility of peaceful coexistence. ** [[Judith Butler]], {{cite book |title=The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind |date=4 February 2020 |publisher=Verso Books |isbn=978-1-78873-276-5 |page=154}} * Whatever the explicit strategic or political aims of a war may be, they prove to be weak in comparison with its aims of destruction; what war destroys first are the very restrictions imposed on destructive license. If we can rightly speak about the unstated “aim” of war, it is neither primarily to alter the political landscape nor to establish a new political order, but rather to destroy the social basis of politics itself. ** [[Judith Butler]], {{cite book |title=The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind |date=4 February 2020 |publisher=Verso Books |isbn=978-1-78873-276-5 |page=154}} * In all the trade of war, no feat<br>Is nobler than a brave retreat. ** [[Samuel Butler (poet)|Samuel Butler]], ''Hudibras'', Part I (1663-64), Canto III, line 607. * For those that run away, and fly,<br>Take place at least o' th' enemy. ** [[Samuel Butler (poet)|Samuel Butler]], ''Hudibras'', Part I (1663-64), Canto III, line 609. * Bloody wars at first began,<br>The artificial plague of man,<br>That from his own invention rise,<br>To scourge his own iniquities. ** [[Samuel Butler (poet)|Samuel Butler]], Satire. Upon the Weakness and Misery of Man, line 105. * War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. * A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes. ** [[Smedley Butler]], [https://archive.org/details/warisaracketelectronicresourcetheantiwarclassicbyam/page/n23/mode/2up ''War is a racket''] (1935), Chapter one, p. 23. * A few profit – and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can't end it by disarmament conferences. You can't eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can't wipe it out by resolutions. It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war. * Let the officers and the directors and the high-powered executives of our armament factories and our steel companies and our munitions makers and our [[shipbuilders]] and our airplane builders and the manufacturers of all the other things that provide profit in war time as well as the bankers and the speculators, be conscripted—to get $30 a month, the same wage as the lads in the trenches get. … Give capital and industry and labor thirty days to think it over and you will find, by that time, there will be no war. That will smash the war racket—that and nothing else. ** [[Smedley Butler]], [https://archive.org/details/warisaracketelectronicresourcetheantiwarclassicbyam/page/n39/mode/2up ''War is a racket''] (1935), Chapter four, p. 39-40. * O proud was our army that morning<br> That stood where the pine darkly towers,<br>When Sherman said—"Boys, you are weary,<br> This day fair Savannah is ours."<br>Then sang we a song for our chieftain<br> That echoed o'er river and lea,<br>And the stars on our banner shone brighter<br> When Sherman marched down to the sea. ** Samuel Hawkins Marshall Byers, ''Sherman's March to the Sea. Last stanza''. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * Hand to hand, and foot to foot:<br>Nothing there, save death, was mute;<br>Stroke, and thrust, and flash, and cry<br>For quarter or for victory,<br>Mingle there with the volleying thunder. ** [[Lord Byron]], ''Siege of Corinth'', Stanza 24. * War, war is still the cry, "War even to the knife!" ** [[Lord Byron]], ''[[Childe Harold's Pilgrimage]]'', Canto I (1812), Stanza 86. * And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed,<br> The mustering squadron, and the clattering car,<br>Went pouring forward with impetuous speed,<br> And swiftly forming in the ranks of war;<br> And the deep thunder peal on peal, afar<br>And near; the beat of the alarming drum<br> Roused up the soldier ere the morning star;<br>While throng'd the citizens with terror dumb,<br>Or whispering with white lips—"The foe! they come! they come!" ** [[Lord Byron]], ''[[Childe Harold's Pilgrimage]]'', Canto III (1816), Stanza 25. * Battle's magnificently stern array! ** [[Lord Byron]], ''[[Childe Harold's Pilgrimage]]'', Canto III (1816), Stanza 28. * The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,<br>And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold. ** [[Lord Byron]], ''Destruction of Sennacherib'', in ''Hebrew Melodies'' (1815). * Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green,<br>That host with their banners at sunset were seen;<br>Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown,<br>That host on the morrow lay wither'd and strown! ** [[Lord Byron]], ''Destruction of Sennacherib'', in ''Hebrew Melodies'' (1815). == C == [[File:Caesar, Summer garden.jpg|thumb|I came, I saw. I conquered.<br>{{center|~&nbsp;[[Julius Caesar]]}}]] [[File:Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae- Julius Caesar, from The Twelve Caesars MET DP870057.jpg|thumb|right|In war events of importance are the result of trivial causes. ~ [[Julius Caesar]] ]] [[File:M-T-Cicero.jpg|thumb|I cease not to advocate peace. It may be on unjust terms, but even so it is more expedient than the justest of civil wars.<br>{{center|~&nbsp;[[Cicero]]}}]] [[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1981-055-34, Opfer des Bombenkrieges.jpg|thumb|He said, “You’ve killed my granddaughter.” He said, “I hate you for this, and I’ll kill you.” And I got this in the middle of the war. And it made me very, very sad. We certainly never wanted to do anything like that. But in war, accidents happen. And that’s why you shouldn’t undertake military operations unless every other alternative has been exhausted, because innocent people do die. ~ [[Wesley Clark]] ]] [[File:American bases worldwide.svg|thumb|War in fact is becoming contemptible, and ought to be put down by the great nations of Europe, just as we put down a vulgar mob. ~ [[Mortimer Collins]]]] [[File:Seal of the International Court of Justice.png|thumb|It has often been remarked but seldom remembered that war itself is a crime. Yet a [[War crimes|war crime]] is more and other than war. It is an atrocity beyond the usual [[Barbarian|barbaric]] bounds of war. It is legal definition growing out of custom and tradition supported by every civilized nation in the world including our own. It is an act beyond the pale of acceptable actions even in war. ~[http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Primary/Winter_Soldier/WS_02_opening.html William Crandell in ''Winter Soldier Investigation Testimony''] ]] * ''Veni, vidi, vici.'' ** I came, I saw, I conquered. ** Attributed to Julius Cæsar. Plutarch—Life of Cæsar, states it was spoken after the defeat of Pharnaces, at Zela in Pontus, B.C. 47, not the Expedition to Britain, B.C. 55. According to Suetonius—Julius Cæsar. 37, the words were not Cæsar's but were displayed before Cæsar's title, "non acta belli significantem, sicut ceteri, sed celeriter confecti notam." Not as being a record of the events of the war, as in other cases, but as an indication of the rapidity with which it was concluded. Ne insolens barbarus dicat, "Ueni, uidi, uici." Never shall insolent barbarian say "I came, I saw, I conquered." Seneca the Elder—Suæsoria, II. 22. Buechmann, quoting the above, suggests that Cæsar's words may be an adaptation of a proverb by Apostolius, XII. 58. (Or XIV, in Elzivir Ed. Leyden, 1653). * ''In bello parvis momentis magni casus intercedunt.'' ** In war events of importance are the result of trivial causes. ** [[Julius Caesar]], ''Bellum Gallicum'', I, 21. Reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's]]'' (1922), p. 844 * War is the answer if you're questioning the general. ** [[Lil Wayne|Dwayne Carter]], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6Yyehm24Mo "Army Gunz"] (2006), ''Like Father, Like Son'' (2006), Cash Money Records * I normalized diplomatic relations with [[China]] in 1979. Since 1979, do you know how many times China has been at war with anybody? None. And we have stayed at war. (The United States is) the most warlike nation in the history of the world... How many miles of [[High-speed rail|high-speed railroad]] do we have in this country?... We have wasted, I think, $3 trillion ([[Military-industrial complex|military spending]]) ... China has not wasted a single penny on war, and that's why they're ahead of us. In almost every way... And I think the difference is if you take $3 trillion and put it in American infrastructure, you'd probably have $2 trillion left over. We'd have high-speed railroad. We'd have bridges that aren't collapsing. We'd have roads that are maintained properly. Our [[education system]] would be as good as that of, say, [[South Korea]] or [[Hong Kong]]. ** [[Jimmy Carter]] quoted in [https://www.npr.org/2019/04/15/713495558/president-trump-called-former-president-jimmy-carter-to-talk-about-china President Trump Called Former President Jimmy Carter To Talk About China, Emma Hurt, ''NPR''] (April 15, 2019) * War. War never changes. The [[Roman Empire|Romans]] waged war to gather [[Slavery|slaves]] and [[wealth]]. [[Spain]] built an empire from its lust for gold and territory. Hitler shaped a battered Germany into an economic superpower. But war never changes. ** Scott Campbell, Brian Freyermuth and Mark O'Green, ''[[Fallout]]'', interpreted by {{w|Ron Perlman}} as the narrator. (1997) * The combat deepens. On, ye brave,<br>Who rush to glory, or the grave!<br>Wave, Munich! all thy banners wave,<br> And charge with all thy chivalry. ** [[Thomas Campbell]], ''Hohenlinden''. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * ''La Garde meurt, mais ne se rend pas.'' ** The guard dies but does not surrender. *** Attributed to Lieut. Gen. [[w:Pierre Cambronne|Pierre Jacques, Baron de Cambronne]], when called to surrender by Col. Hugh Halkett. Cambronne disavowed the saying at a banquet at Nantes, 1835. The London Times on the Centenary of the battle of Waterloo published a letter, written at 11 P.M. on the evening of the battle, by Capt. Digby Mackworth, of the 7th Fusiliers, A. D. C. to Gen. Hill. In it the phrase is quoted as already familiar. Fournier in ''L'Esprit dans l'histoire'', pp. 412–15, ascribes it to a correspondent of the ''Independant'', Rougemont. It appeared there the next day, and afterwards in the ''Journal General de France'', June 24. This seems also improbable in view of the above mentioned letter. Reported as a misattribution in Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George, ''They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions'' (1989), p. 11-12. See also [[Victor Hugo]], ''Les Miserables'', ''Waterloo''. * '''War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle'''; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against each other. ** [[Thomas Carlyle]], as quoted by [[Emma Goldman]] in her essay, "Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty", chapter five of ''Anarchism and Other Essays'' (2nd revised edition, 1911). * There dwell and toil, in the British village of Dumdrudge, usually some five hundred souls. From these…there are successively selected, during the French War, say thirty able-bodied men: Dumdrudge, at her own expense, has suckled and nursed them; she has not without difficulty and sorrow, fed them up to manhood, and trained them to crafts, so that once can weave, another build, another hammer, and the weakest can stand under thirty stone avoirdupois. Nevertheless, amid much weeping and swearing, they are selected; all dressed in red; and shipped away, at the public charges, some two thousand miles, or say only to the south of Spain; and fed there till wanted. And now to that same spot in the south of Spain, are thirty similar French artisans, from a French Dumdrudge, in like manner wending: Till at length, after infinite effort, the two parties come into actual juxtaposition; and Thirty stands fronting Thirty, each with a gun in his hand. Straightway the word "Fire!" is given: and they blow the souls out of one another and in the place of sixty brisk useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcasses, which it must bury, and anew shed tears for. Had these men any quarrel? Busy as the Devil is, not the smallest!... their Governors had fallen out; and, instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot. Alas, so it is in Deutschland, and hitherto in all other lands... ** [[Thomas Carlyle]] in "Sartor Resartus", quoted in "In Flanders Fields: The 1917 Campaign" by Leon Wolff (1958). * O Chryste, it is a grief for me to telle,<br> How manie a noble erle and valrous knyghte<br>In fyghtynge for Kynge Harrold noblie fell,<br> Al sleyne on Hastyng's field in bloudie fyghte. ** [[Thomas Chatterton]], ''Battle of Hastings''. * Is this a call to war? Does anyone pretend that preparation for resistance to [[aggression]] is unleashing war? I declare it to be the sole guarantee of [[peace]]. We need the swift gathering of forces to confront not only military but moral aggression; the resolute and sober acceptance of their duty by the English-speaking peoples and by all the nations, great and small, who wish to walk with them. Their faithful and zealous comradeship would almost between night and morning clear the path of progress and banish from all our lives the fear which already darkens the sunlight to hundreds of millions of men. ** [[Winston Churchill]], [https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/speeches/1930-1938-the-wilderness/the-defence-of-freedom-and-peace-the-lights-are-going-out/ Broadcast to the United States and to London], 16 October 1938 * The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is over and the pigmies will now start to squabble. ** [[Winston Churchill]], comment on May 7, 1945, after General Ismay, his wartime chief of staff, announced the news of V-E Day. [[w:Kay Halle|Kay Halle]], ''Irrepressible Churchill'' (1966), p. 249. * To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war. ** [[Winston Churchill]], remarks at a White House luncheon (June 26, 1954). His exact words are not known, because the meetings and the luncheon that day were closed to reporters, but above is the commonly cited version. His words are quoted as "It is 'better to jaw-jaw than to war-war,'" in the sub-heading on p. 1 of ''The New York Times'' (June 27, 1954), and as "To jaw-jaw always is better than to war-war" on p. 3. ''The Washington Post'' in its June 27 issue, p. 1, has "better to talk jaw to jaw than have war", and ''The Star'', Washington, D.C., p. 1, a slight variation, "It is better to talk jaw to jaw than to have war". * Let us learn our lessons. … Never believe any war will be smooth and easy or that anyone who embarks on that strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events… incompetent or arrogant commanders, untrustworthy allies, hostile neutrals, malignant fortune, ugly surprise, awful miscalculations. ** [[Winston Churchill]]; quoted in {{cite news | first = Leonard | last = Fein | url = http://www.forward.com/articles/this-time-it-s-our-war/ | title = This Time It's Our War | publisher = [[w:The Forward|The Forward]] | date = [[July 25]], [[2003]] | accessdate = 2007-01-13 }} * ''Equidem ad pacem hortari non desino; quae vel iniusta utilior est quam iustissimum bellum cum civibus.'' ** As for me, I cease not to advocate peace. It may be on unjust terms, but even so it is more expedient than the justest of civil wars. *** [[Cicero]], ''Epistulae ad Atticum'' (Letters to Atticus) Book VII, Letter 14, section 3; as translated by E.O. Winstedt in the [http://archive.org/stream/letterstoatticus02ciceuoft#page/68/mode/2up Loeb Classical Library] * ''Silent enim leges inter arma.'' ** [[Cicero]], Laws are silent in time of war. ** ''Pro Milone''. Often paraphrased as ''[[w:Inter arma enim silent leges|Inter arma enim silent leges]]''. ** Variant translations: *** In a time of war, the law falls silent. *** Law stands mute in the midst of arms. * Parvi enim sunt foris arma, nisi est consilium domi. ** An army abroad is of little use unless there are prudent counsels at home. ** [[Cicero]], ''De Officiis'' (44 B.C.), I, 22. * Silent leges inter arma. ** The law is silent during war. ** [[Cicero]], ''Oratio Pro Annio Milone'', IV. * Pro aris et focis. ** For your altars and your fires. ** [[Cicero]], ''Oration for Roscius'', Chapter V. Also used by Tiberius Gracchus before this. * Nervi belli pecunia infinita. ** Endless money forms the sinews of war. ** [[Cicero]], ''Philippics'', V. 2. 5. Libanius—Orations. XLVI. Photius—Lex. 8. 5. Rabelais—Gargantua, Book I, Chapter XXVI. ("Corn" for "money"). * There's nothing more pornographic than glorifying war. ** [[Tom Clancy]], [http://www.cnn.com/books/news/9905/12/clancy.horner/~hsindex.html Interview promoting ''Every Man a Tiger'' (1999)], co-written with General Charles Horner. (12 May 1999). * We had a malfunction with a cluster bomb unit, and a couple of grenades fell on a schoolyard, and some, I think three, school children were killed... And two weeks later, I got a letter from a Serb grandfather. He said, “You’ve killed my granddaughter.” He said, “I hate you for this, and I’ll kill you.” And I got this in the middle of the war. And it made me very, very sad. We certainly never wanted to do anything like that. But in war, accidents happen. And that’s why you shouldn’t undertake military operations unless every other alternative has been exhausted, because innocent people do die. ** [[Wesley Clark]], ''Democracy Now — Gen. Wesley Clark Weighs Presidential Bid: “I Think About It Every Day”'', (2 March 2007) * Well here's to the Maine, and I'm sorry for Spain,<br>Said Kelly and Burke and Shea. ** [[W:J. I. C. Clarke|J. I. C. Clarke]], ''The Fighting Race''. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means. ** [[Karl von Clausewitz]], ''On War'', trans. O. J. Matthijs Jolles (1943), book 1, chapter 1, section 24, p. 16. Originally published in 1833. * War is only caused through the political intercourse of governments and nations … war is nothing but a continuation of political intercourse with an admixture of other means. ** [[Karl von Clausewitz]], ''On War'', trans. O. J. Matthijs Jolles (1943), book 8, chapter 6, p. 596. Originally published in 1833. * War is regarded as ''nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means''. ** [[Karl von Clausewitz]], ''On War'', trans. O. J. Matthijs Jolles (1943), author's note, p. xxix. Originally published in 1833. * War is fought by human beings. ** [[Carl von Clausewitz]] in ''On War'', trans. O. J. Matthijs Jolles (1943). Originally published in 1833. * Of course [[wars]] are fought by [[teenagers]]. Do you realize that? They really should be fought by the [[politicians]] and the old people who start these wars. ** [[James Clavell]] interview with [[w:Don Swaim|Don Swaim]] of CBS Radio (1986) [http://wiredforbooks.org/jamesclavell/ (RealAudio file)] * We made war to the end—to the very end of the end. ** [[Clemenceau]], ''Message to American People'' (September, 1918). * ''War is not the answer <br> For only love can conquer hate <br> You know we've got to find a way <br> To bring some lovin' here today'' ** {{w|Al Cleveland}}, {{w|Renaldo Benson}} and [[Marvin Gaye]], ''[[w:What's Going On (song)|What's Going On]], [[w:What's Going On (Marvin Gaye album)|What's Going On]]'' (1971) * I make my war upon privilege and authority, whereby the [[Right to property|right of property]], the true right in that which is proper to the individual, is annihilated. ** [[Voltairine de Cleyre]], in [http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/cleyre/indefenseofeg.html "In Defense of Emma Goldmann and the Right of Expropriation"], an address in Philadelphia (16 December 1893); [[Emma Goldman]]'s name is misspelled Goldmann throughout the 1910 version. Some of this text is quoted as presented in ''Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre'' (1914) edited by [[Alexander Berkman]] * What voice did on my spirit fall,<br> Peschiera, when thy bridge I crossed?<br> "'Tis better to have fought and lost,<br>Than never to have fought at all." ** [[Arthur Hugh Clough]], "Peschiera". Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * [T]he honours, the fame, the emoluments of war, belong not to [the middle and industrial classes]; the battle-plain is the harvest field of the [[aristocracy]], watered with the blood of the people...Whilst our trade rested upon our foreign dependencies, as was the case in the middle of the last century...force and violence, were necessary to command our customers for our manufacturers...But war, although the greatest of consumers, not only produces nothing in return, but, by abstracting labour from productive employment and interrupting the course of trade, it impedes, in a variety of indirect ways, the creation of wealth; and, should hostilities be continued for a series of years, each successive war-loan will be felt in our commercial and manufacturing districts with an augmented pressure. ** [[Richard Cobden]] in Edward P. Stringham, "Commerce, Markets, and Peace: Richard Cobden's Enduring Lessons", Independent Review 9, no. 1 (2004): 105, 110, 115. * War in fact is becoming contemptible, and ought to be put down by the great nations of Europe, just as we put down a vulgar mob. ** [[Mortimer Collins]], ''Thoughts in my Garden'', II. 243. * [[w:Peninsular War|The war]] had been going on long enough that soldiers digging graves for comrades would unearth bones of men killed in previous battles. And because they were starving just about anything went into the stewpot. Frogs. Mice. Bugs. Dogs. Snails. Worms. They slaughtered the horses and oxen that were pulling carts heaped with treasure; jeweled [[w:Reliquary|reliquaries]], silver candlestick holders, and gold crucifixes were abandoned in scorched fields or left in carts too heavy for starving men to pull. They drank from stagnant puddles and filthy streams... a well or cistern... never mind the body floating on the surface. ...[[w:Julia Blackburn|Blackburn]] [in ''Old Man Goya''] reports that a soldier who approached a convent being used as a hospital saw amputated limbs along the wall, "while more arms and legs kept flying out the windows..." At [[w:Battle of Corunna|La Coruña]], two thousand horses were shot to prevent enemy soldiers from riding them. ...One Spaniard kept a bag of French ears and fingers. ...[A] pack of English hounds accompanied [the [[Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington|Iron Duke]]]. Between military engagements he would go fox hunting.<br />At [[w:Battle of Talavera|Talavera]]... a fire sprang up in dry grass where... soldiers lay dead or dying, "and men were ashamed because their pangs of hunger increased with the smell of roasting meat." ** Evan S. Connell, ''Francisco Goya'' (2005) p. 174. * The flames of [[Moscow]] were the aurora of the liberty of the world. ** [[Benjamin Constant]], ''Esprit de Conquête''. Preface. (1813). * But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise,<br>Kings would not play at. ** [[William Cowper]], ''The Task'' (1785), Book V, line 187. * Hence jarring sectaries may learn<br>Their real interest to discern;<br>That brother should not war with brother,<br>And worry and devour each other. ** [[William Cowper]], ''The Nightingale and Glow-Worm''. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. [[File:US Navy 050730-N-0335C-002 U.S. Navy Cmdr. Thomas C. Graves and Executive Officer Lt. Brad Coletti look on during USS Constitution change of command ceremony.jpg|thumb|We give up the fort when there's not a man left to defend it. ~ [[W:George Croghan|George Croghan]] ]] * [[Zachary Taylor|General Taylor]] never surrenders. ** {{w|Thomas Leonidas Crittenden}}, Reply to Gen. {{w|Antonio López de Santa Anna}}, {{w|Battle of Buena Vista}}, Feb. 22, 1847. * We give up the fort when there's not a man left to defend it. ** General Croghan. At Fort Stevenson. (1812). * There was a war, just one in a long line of wars, fought for beliefs and principles as all wars have ever been fought and will ever be in days to come. Little was achieved, nothing was gained. Lives were taken and pain was inflicted. The real reasons are lost in the mists. ** [[w:Peter Crowther|Peter Crowther]] and [[w:James Lovegrove|James Lovegrove]], ''The Trembler on the Axis'' (1994), in Edward E. Kramer and Richard Gilliam (eds.) ''[[w:Elric of Melniboné|Tales of the White Wolf]],'' (ISBN 1-56504-175-5). * War has revealed an overpowering national instinct. The conflicting theories of the exact nature and limitations of our government had blinded the shrewdest minds to the fact that we were a nation, with all the feelings and instincts of a nation, and that our quarrels must be settled inside and not outside. ** [[George William Curtis]], as quoted in [https://archive.org/details/orationsandaddr03curtgoog "The Good Fight"] (1865). == D == [[File:BDUs-forest.jpg|thumb|By war's great sacrifice... The world redeems itself.<br>{{center|~&nbsp;J. Davidson}}]] [[File:USS New Orleans (LPD-18) launches RIM-116 missile 2013.jpg|thumb|War is the ultimate realization of modern technology.<br>{{center|~&nbsp;[[Don DeLillo]]}}]] [[File:Statue of Union Soldier Atop Memorial to Civil War Dead, Highland Cemetery, Ypsilanti, Michigan.JPG|thumb|We are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause. We must never forget that victory to the rebellion meant death to the republic. We must never forget that the loyal soldiers who rest beneath this sod flung themselves between the nation and [[w:Confederate States of America|the nation destroyers]]. If today we have a country not boiling in an agony of blood... If now we have a united country, no longer cursed by [[Slavery|the hell-black system of human bondage]], if the American name is no longer a by-word and a hissing to a mocking earth, if the star-spangled banner floats only over free American citizens in every quarter of the land, and our country has before it a long and glorious career of justice, liberty, and civilization, we are indebted to the unselfish devotion of the noble army who rest in these honored graves all around us.<br>{{center|~&nbsp;[[Frederick Douglass]]}}]] * &lsquo;But human beans [...] is shootling guns and going up in aerioplanes to drop their bombs on each other's heads every week. Human beans is always killing other human beans.&rsquo; ** [[Roald Dahl]], ''[[wikipedia:The BFG|The BFG]]'' * Men will seem to see new [[Destruction|destructions]] in the [[sky]]. The flames that fall from it will seem to rise in it and to fly from it with terror. They will hear every kind of [[animals]] speak in human language. They will instantaneously run in person in various parts of the world, without motion. They will see the greatest splendour in the midst of darkness. O! marvel of the human race! What madness has led you thus! '''You will speak with animals of every species and they with you in human speech. You will see yourself fall from great heights without any harm and torrents will accompany you, and will mingle with their rapid course.''' ** [[Leonardo da Vinci]], ''The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci'' (1938), ''XX Humorous Writings'', as translated by Edward MacCurdy. * From fear in every guise,<br> From sloth, from love of pelf,<br>By war's great sacrifice<br> The world redeems itself. ** [[John Davidson (poet)|John Davidson]] , ''War Song''. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * Wars throughout [[history]] have been waged for conquest and plunder. In the [[Middle Ages]] when the feudal [[Lord|lords]] who inhabited the [[Castle|castles]] whose towers may still be seen along the [[Rhine]] concluded to enlarge their domains, to increase their power, their prestige and their wealth they declared war upon one another. But they themselves did not go to war any more than the modern feudal lords, the barons of [[Wall Street]] go to war. The feudal barons of the Middle Ages, the economic predecessors of the [[Capitalism|capitalists]] of our day, declared all wars. And their miserable [[Serf|serfs]] fought all the battles. The poor, ignorant serfs had been taught to revere their masters; to believe that when their masters declared war upon one another, it was their patriotic duty to fall upon one another and to cut one another's throats for the profit and glory of the lords and barons who held them in contempt. And that is war in a nutshell. The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose — especially their lives. <br> They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have yourselves slaughtered at their command. But in all the history of the world you, the people, have never had a voice in declaring war, and strange as it certainly appears, no war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people. <br> And here let me emphasize the fact — and it cannot be repeated too often — that the working class who fight all the battles, the working class who make the supreme sacrifices, the working class who freely shed their blood and furnish the corpses, have never yet had a voice in either declaring war or making peace. It is the ruling class that invariably does both. They alone declare war and they alone make peace. <br> Yours not to reason why;<br>Yours but to do and die. <br> That is their motto and we object on the part of the awakening workers of this nation. <br> If war is right let it be declared by the people. You who have your lives to lose, you certainly above all others have the right to decide the momentous issue of war or peace. ** [[Eugene V. Debs]], "[http://www.marxists.org/archive/debs/works/1918/canton.htm The Canton, Ohio Speech, Anti-War Speech]" in ''The Call'' (16 June 1918) * '''War is the ultimate realization of modern technology'''. ** [[Don DeLillo]], ''End Zone'' ch.16, (1972). * The [[Presidency of Donald Trump|Trump administration]] has barred [[International Criminal Court]] investigators from entering the United States. Secretary of State [[Mike Pompeo]] announced Friday that the U.S. will start denying visas to members of the ICC who may be investigating alleged [[war crimes]] by the [[U.S. military]] in [[War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)|Afghanistan]]. In September, [[national security]] adviser [[John R. Bolton|John Bolton]] threatened U.S. sanctions against ICC judges if they continued to investigate alleged war crimes committed by U.S. troops in Afghanistan. ** [[W:Democracy Now|Democracy Now,]] [https://www.democracynow.org/2019/3/19/aclu_the_us_is_acting_like ''ACLU: The U.S. Is Acting Like an Authoritarian Regime by Barring ICC Officials Probing War Crimes''] (19 March 2019) * ''Di qui non si passa.'' ** By here they shall not pass. *** [[w:Armando Diaz|Armando Diaz]]. Words inscribed on the Altar of Liberty temporarily erected at Madison Square, N. Y., on the authority of Il Progresso Italiano. * ''Non si passa, passeremo noi.'' ** The words ascribed to General Diaz by the Italians at the battle of the Piave and Monta Grappa, June, 1918. These words are inscribed on the medals struck off for the heroes of this battle. * What argufies pride and ambition?<br> Soon or late death will take us in tow:<br>Each bullet has got its commission,<br> And when our time's come we must go. ** [[Charles Dibdin]], ''The Benevolent Tar''. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * I'm [[iron]]. I lasted through ten years of war, and now I can last through this. It's true, it's not good for the nerves. ** [[Sepp Dietrich]], To Leon Goldensohn, February 28, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" - by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004 - Page 280. * A feat of chivalry, fiery with consummate courage, and bright with flashing vigor. ** [[Benjamin Disraeli]], of the Charge of the Light Brigade, in the House of Commons (Dec. 15, 1855). * Carry his body hence,—<br>Kings must have slaves;<br>Kings climb to eminence<br>Over men's graves:<br>So this man's eye is dim;—<br>Throw the earth over him. ** [[Henry Austin Dobson]], "Before Sedan", line 7, in ''Vignettes in Rhyme and Vers de Societé'' (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1873), p. 56. * In war men pass like shadows that stain the grass,<br>Leaving their lives upon the green:<br>While Earth bewails the crimson sheen,<br>Men’s dreams and stars and whispers all helpless pass. ** [[Stephen R. Donaldson]], ''[[w:Lord Foul’s Bane|Lord Foul’s Bane]]'' (1977), Chapter 3 * War puts burdens on people without caring whether they are ready for them or not. ** [[Stephen R. Donaldson]], ''[[w:The Illearth War|The Illearth War]]'' (1977), Chapter 11 * We are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause. We must never forget that victory to the rebellion meant death to the republic. We must never forget that the loyal soldiers who rest beneath this sod flung themselves between the nation and [[Confederate States of America|the nation destroyers]]. If today we have a country not boiling in an agony of blood, like [[France]], if now we have a united country, no longer cursed by [[Slavery in the United States|the hell-black system of human bondage]], '''if the American name is no longer a by-word and a hissing to a mocking earth, if the star-spangled banner floats only over free [[w:United States citizenship|American citizens]] in every quarter of the land, and our country has before it a long and glorious career of [[justice]], [[liberty]], and [[civilization]], we are indebted to the unselfish devotion of the noble army who rest in these honored graves all around us'''. ** [[Frederick Douglass]], [http://deadconfederates.com/2015/05/25/frederick-douglass-on-decoration-day-1871-5/ "The Unknown Loyal Dead"] (30 May 1871), Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington County, Virginia. * All delays are dangerous in war. ** [[John Dryden]], ''Tyrannic Love'', Act I, scene 1. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * War, he sung, is toil and trouble;<br>Honour but an empty bubble. ** [[John Dryden]], ''Alexander's Feast'' (1697), line 99. *At the border posts, shed blood becomes a sea,<br />The martial emperor's dream of expansion has no end. **[[Du Fu]], Tang poet * When 'tis an aven thing in th' prayin', may th' best man win … an' th' best man will win. ** [[Finley Peter Dunne]], ''Mr. Dooley in Peace and War'', ''On Prayers for Victory''. * 'Tis startin' a polis foorce to prevint war…. How'll they be ar-rmed? What a foolish question. They'll be ar-rmed with love, if coorse. Who'll pay thim? That's a financyal detail that can be arranged later on. What'll happen if wan iv th' rough-necks reaches f'r a gun? Don't bother me with thrifles. ** [[Finley Peter Dunne]], ''On Making a Will''. Mr. Dooley's version of W. J. Bryan's Speech (1920). * Come you masters of war,/You that build all the guns,/You that build the death planes,/You that build the big bombs,/You that hide behind walls,/You that hide behind desks,/I just want you to know,/I can see through your masks./ ** [[Bob Dylan]], Masters of War 1963 * If God’s on our side/They’ll stop the next war ** [[Bob Dylan]], With God on Our Side 1964 == E == [[File:MX MIRV reentry vehicles.jpg|thumb|right|I do not know how the Third World War will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in the Fourth — rocks!<br>{{center|~&nbsp;[[Albert Einstein]]}}]] [[File:Castle Bravo Blast.jpg|thumb|right|War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.<br>{{center|~&nbsp;[[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]}}]] [[File:Peacekeeper-missile-testing.jpg|thumb|right|Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.<br>{{center|~&nbsp;[[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]}}]] [[File:StrawberryFieldsJuly2007.JPG|thumb|right|Imagine what would happen if the nations of the world spent as much on development as on building the machines of war. Imagine a world where every human being would live in freedom and dignity.[...] Imagine that such a world is within our grasp.<br>{{center|~&nbsp;[[Mohamed ElBaradei]]}}]] [[File:The Soviet Union 1988 CPA 5913 stamp (30th anniversary of Agreement Between the USA and the USSR on Exchanges in the Cultural, Technical and Educational Fields).jpg|thumb|As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.<br>{{center|~&nbsp;[[Albert Einstein]]}}]] [[File:Erasmus at EUR.JPG|thumb|The most disadvantageous [[peace]] is better than the most just war.<br>{{center|~&nbsp;[[Desiderius Erasmus|Erasmus of Rotterdam]]}}]] * There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war. ** [[Amelia Earhart]], [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:20_Hrs_40_Min_(Earhart).pdf/36 ''20 Hrs., 40 Min.'' (1928), p. 34] * There is no discharge in that war. ** [[Ecclesiastes]], VIII. 8. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * '''All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.''' All these aspirations are '''directed toward ennobling man's life''', lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence '''and leading the individual towards freedom'''. It is no mere chance that our older universities developed from clerical schools. Both churches and universities — insofar as they live up to their true function — serve the ennoblement of the individual. They seek to fulfill this great task '''by spreading moral and cultural understanding, renouncing the use of brute force.''' ** [[Albert Einstein]], "Moral Decay" (1937); later published in Out of My Later Years (1950) * I say when you get into a war, you should win as quick as you can, because your losses become a function of the duration of the war. I believe when you get in a war, get everything you need and win it. ** [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]], news conference, Indio, California (March 15, 1968), as reported in ''The New York Times'' (March 16, 1968), p. 15. * Now he conducted her through his armouries where he kept his weapons and weapons for his fighting men and all panoply of war. There he showed her swords and spears, maces and axes and daggers, orfreyed and damascened and inlaid with jewels; byrnies and baldricks and shields; blades so keen, a hair blown against them in a wind should be parted in twain; charmed helms on which no ordinary sword would bite. And Juss said unto the Queen, "Madam, what thinkest thou of these swords and spears? For know well that these be the ladder's rungs that we of Demonland climbed up by to that signiory and principality which now we hold over the four corners of the world." She answered, "O my lord, I think nobly of them. For an ill part it were while we joy in the harvest, to contemn the tools that prepared the land for it and reaped it." ** [[Eric Rücker Eddison]], ''The Worm Ouroboros'', [http://www.sacred-texts.com/ring/two/two39.htm page 499]. * As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable. ** [[Albert Einstein]], as quoted in "Einstein on the Atomic Bomb," part 1, an interview by Raymond Swing in ''Atlantic Monthly'' ([http://books.google.com/books?id=iaQGAQAAIAAJ&q=%22As+long+as+there+are+sovereign+nations+possessing+great+power+war+is+inevitable%22&pg=PA43#v=onepage November 1945]) * '''I do not know how the [[World War III|Third World War]] will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in the Fourth — rocks!''' ** [[Albert Einstein]], as quoted in an interview with Alfred Werner, published in ''Liberal Judaism'' 16 (April-May 1949), 12. Einstein Archive 30-1104, as sourced in ''The New Quotable Einstein'' by Alice Calaprice (2005), p. 173. * '''This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of the herd nature, the military system, which I abhor. That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him.''' He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed. This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. '''Heroism by order, senseless violence, and all the pestilent nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism — how I hate them! War seems to me a mean, contemptible thing: I would rather be hacked in pieces than take part in such an abominable business.''' ** [[Albert Einstein]], Mein Weltbild (My World-view) (1931). ** Variant translation: He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilisation should be done away with at once. '''Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.''' * '''I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its stupidity.''' ** [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]], Speech in [[w:Ottawa|Ottawa]] (10 January 1946), published in ''Eisenhower Speaks : Dwight D. Eisenhower in His Messages and Speeches'' (1948) edited by Rudolph L. Treuenfels. * '''Every [[Firearm|gun]] that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.''' ** [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]], 16 April 1953, [[Dwight D. Eisenhower#The_Chance_for_Peace_.281953.29|Speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors]] * All free men remember that in the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains. ** [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]], Inaugural Address. * '''Whether one believes in [[evolution]], [[intelligent design]], or [[w:Divine Creation|Divine Creation]], one thing is certain. Since the beginning of history, human beings have been at war with each other, under the pretext of [[religion]], [[ideology]], [[ethnicity]] and other reasons. And no civilization has ever willingly given up its most powerful weapons. We seem to agree today that we can share modern technology, but we still refuse to acknowledge that our values — at their very core — are shared values.''' ** [[Mohamed ElBaradei]], [http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/2005/elbaradei-lecture-en.html Nobel lecture Address in Oslo, Norway (10 December 2005)] * I knew years before the [[w:Pentagon Papers|Pentagon Papers]] came out that the Americans were being lied in to an essentially hopeless war. I’m not proud of the fact that it didn’t occur to me that my [[Oaths|oath of office]], which was to support the [[United States Constitution|Constitution]], called on me to put that information out and say, ‘64, when the war might have been avoided. But I certainly am glad that I finally came aware of what my real responsibilities were there. And I did put it out years later. At times, at that time, which published it, the “[[The New York Times|Times]],” and the 18 other newspapers, which defied [[Richard Nixon|President Nixon]]’s injunctions and did put it out, were in the position of Julian Assange is in now. ** {{cite news|last=Ellsberg|first=Daniel|authorlink=Daniel Ellsberg|url= |title= [[w:The Dylan Ratigan Show|The Dylan Ratigan Show]]|work=[[w:MSNBC|MSNBC]] |publisher=[[w:NBC Universal|NBC Universal]] |pages= |page= |date= June 11, 2010|accessdate=}} * By the rude bridge that arched the flood,<br> Their flag to April's breeze unfurl'd;<br>Here once the embattl'd farmers stood,<br> And fired the shot heard round the world. ** [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]], hymn sung at the completion of the Concord Monument. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * '''The most disadvantageous [[peace]] is better than the most just war.''' ** [[Desiderius Erasmus|Erasmus of Rotterdam]], ''Adagia'' (1508) * Ares (the God of War) hates those who hesitate. ** [[Euripides]], ''Heraclidæ'', 722. * '''The fundamental principle underlying all justifications of war, from the point of view of human personality, is '[[hero]]ism'. War, it is said, offers man the opportunity to awaken the hero who sleeps within him. War breaks the routine of comfortable life; by means of its severe ordeals, it offers a transfiguring knowledge of life, life according to [[death]]. The moment the individual succeeds in living as a hero, even if it is the final moment of his earthly life, weighs infinitely more on the scale of values than a protracted existence spent consuming monotonously among the trivialities of cities. From a spiritual point of view, these possibilities make up for the negative and destructive tendencies of war, which are one-sidedly and tendentiously highlighted by pacifist materialism. War makes one realise the relativity of human life and therefore also the law of a 'more-than-life', and thus war has always an anti-materialist value, a spiritual value.''' ** [[Julius Evola]], ''Metaphysics of War'' [2007], p. 21 == F == [[File:Fort Pillow Massacre, Kurz and Allison, Chicago, 1885.png|thumb|War means fighting, and fighting means killing.<br>{{center|~&nbsp;[[Nathan Bedford Forrest]]}}]] [[File:Battle of Fort Pillow.png|thumb|Expect no quarter.<br>{{center|~&nbsp;[[Nathan Bedford Forrest]]}}]] * [[w:Philo Farnsworth|Phil]] saw [[television]] as a marvelous teaching tool. There would be no excuse of illiteracy. [[Parenting|Parents]] could learn along with their [[children]]. News and sporting events could be seen as they were happening. Symphonies would mean more when one could see the [[Music|musicians]] as they played, and [[Film|movies]] would be seen in our own living rooms. He said there would be a time when we would be able to see and learn about people in other lands. '''If we understood them better, differences could be settled around conference tables, without going to war.''' ** Elma "Pen" Farnsworth on [http://www.byhigh.org/History/Farnsworth/PhiloT1924.html "Philo Taylor Farnsworth", ''Brigham Young University Highschool'']. * Before the [[French Revolution]], wars scarcely affected the masses. They were fought out between sovereigns — the emperor, the kings, or the aristocratic republics which were still numerous in the eighteenth century — between ruling classes few in numbers, homogeneous, cultured, and refined. These classes could fight each other without excessive animosity; they could recognize that the enemy's cause was as righteous as their own; they could wage war as a game, respecting its rules even when it would be more advantageous to break them; and admit defeat as soon as it became too dangerous to keep on. Today it is the people who fight. . . . This mass cannot keep up the efforts of a war unless it is fired by some passion common to it all. A nation at war must therefore ''hate'' the enemy, which means that it must be convinced that it is defending the most righteous of causes against the most infamous aggression; that it represents innocent Right fighting against Evil armed with the most diabolical of long-premeditated designs. ** [[w:Guglielmo Ferrero|Guglielmo Ferrero]], ''Peace and War (1933), pp. 57-58, trans. by Bertha Pritchard * It is proverbial that generals always prepare for the last war... ** {{cite book|last=Field|first=James A.|title=History of United States Naval Operations: Korea|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ixByAAAAMAAJ|year=1962|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|page=22}} * Jellicoe has all the Nelsonic attributes except one—he is totally wanting in the great gift of insubordination. ** [[Lord Fisher]], letter to a Privy Councillor (Dec. 27, 1916). * O great corrector of enormous times,<br>Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider<br>Of dusty and old titles, that healest with blood<br>The earth when it is sick, and curest the world<br>O' the pleurisy of people. ** [[John Fletcher]], ''The Two Noble Kinsmen'' (with [[William Shakespeare]]; c. 1613; published 1634), Act V, scene 1. * [[Nations]] have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. ** [[Abraham Flexner]], ''Universities'', part 3 (1930), p. 302. * The stories I have to tell are not for the ears of youngsters. What were the stories, really? A crowd of men charged from the trench. Later, some of them came back. What more was there to say? Once, a long time ago, war had been glamorous, with pageantry and uniforms to shame a peacock. Now it was only necessary, and the uniforms were the color of mud. ** [[Michael F. Flynn|Michael Flynn]], ''The Forest of Time'' (1987), reprinted in [[w:Gardner Dozois|Gardner Dozois]] (ed.), ''[[w:The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection|The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection]]'', p. 451 * My right has been rolled up. My left has been driven back. My center has been smashed. I have ordered an advance from all directions. ** Gen. [[Ferdinand Foch]], letter to Marshal [[Joseph Joffre]] during the [[w:First Battle of the Marne|Battle of the Marne]]. * Then came the attack in the Amiens sector on August 8. That went well, too. The moment had arrived. I ordered General Humbert to attack in his turn. "No reserves." No matter. Allez-y (Get on with it) I tell Marshal Haig to attack, too. He's short of men also. Attack all the same. There we are advancing everywhere—the whole line! En avant! Hup! ** Gen. Foch. In an interview with [[w:G. Ward Price|G. Ward Price]], correspondent of London Daily Mail (1919). * I am going on to the Rhine. If you oppose me, so much the worse for you, but whether you sign an armistice or not, I do not stop until I reach the Rhine. ** Gen. Foch to the Germans who came to ask for an armistice. As reported by G. Ward Price in the London Daily Mail. (1919). * Keep the home fires burning, while your hearts are yearning,<br> Tho' your lads are far away they dream of home.<br>There's a silver lining through the dark cloud shining;<br> Turn the dark cloud inside out till the boys come home. ** Mrs. Lena Guilbert Ford. Theme suggested by Ivor Novello, who wrote the music. Sung by the soldiers in the Great War. * '''All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young.''' ** [[Gerald Ford]], Address to the 75th annual convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Chicago, Illinois (19 August 1974); in ''Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Gerald R. Ford, 1974'', p. 25. * War means fighting, and '''fighting means killing'''. ** [[Nathan Bedford Forrest]], as quoted in ''May I Quote You, General Forrest?'' by Randall Bedwell. * Expect no quarter. ** [[Nathan Bedford Forrest]], as quoted in ''May I Quote You, General Forrest?'' by Randall Bedwell. * This fight is against slavery; '''if we lose it, you will be made free'''. ** [[Nathan Bedford Forrest]], as quoted in ''Report of the Joint Select Committee''. * The newspapers still talk about [[war|glory]] but the average man, thank God, has got rid of that illusion. It is a damned bore, with a stall mate as the most probable outcome, but one has to see it through, and see it through with the knowledge that whichever side wins, civilisation in Europe will be pipped for the next 30 years. Don't indulge in Romance here, Malcolm, or suppose that an era of jolly little nationalities is dawning. We shall be much too much occupied with pestilence and poverty to reconstruct. ** [[E. M. Forster]], ''Selected Letters'': Letter 136, to Malcolm Darling, 6 November 1914. * It was sad. It's war. Many others died, too. It's war. ** [[Wilhelm Frick]], About the death of his son, to Leon Goldensohn, March 10, 1946, "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn - History - 2007. * '''War is obsolete.''' It could never have been done before. Only ten years ago... technology reached the point where it could be done. Since then the invisible technological-capability revolution has made it ever easier so to do. It is a matter of converting the high technology from weaponry to livingry. The essence of livingry is human-life advantaging and environment controlling. With the highest aeronautical and engineering facilities of the world redirected from weaponry to livingry production, all humanity would have the option of becoming enduringly successful. All previous revolutions have been political—in them the have-not majority has attempted revengefully to pull down the economically advantaged minority. If realized, this historically greatest design revolution will joyously elevate all humanity to unprecedented heights. ** [[Buckminster_Fuller#Critical_Path_(1981)|''Critical Path'']], (1981) == G == [[File:M1A2 tanks at Combined Resolve II (14254298952).jpg|thumb|The [[art]] of [[w:War|war]] is simple enough. Find out where your [[enemy]] is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.<br>{{center|~&nbsp;[[Ulysses S. Grant]]}}]] [[File:Siege of Vicksburg-13, 15, & 17 Corps, Commanded by Gen. U.S. Grant, assisted by the Navy under Admiral Porter-Surrender, July 4, 1863 LCCN91481552.jpg|thumb|No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted.<br>{{center|~&nbsp;[[Ulysses S. Grant]]}}]] [[File:Confederate Monument - S face tight - Arlington National Cemetery - 2011.jpg|thumb|right|Wars produce many [[stories]] of [[fiction]], some of which are told until they are believed to be [[true]].<br>{{center|~&nbsp;[[Ulysses S. Grant]]}}]] [[File:Robert E. Lee at Fredericksburg.jpg|thumb|There will be people who will not be consoled for the loss of [[Slavery|a cause which they believed to be holy]]. As time passes, people, even of the South, will begin to wonder how it was possible that their ancestors ever fought for or justified institutions which acknowledged [[Slavery|the right of property in man]].<br>{{center|~&nbsp;[[Ulysses S. Grant]]}}]] * Wars had been fought for as far back as anyone could see. They accompanied the first tribes and settlements, and they persisted through the creation of [[Cities|cites]], [[nations]], [[Empire|empires]], and modern [[State|states]]. They varied only in the means available with which to fight them: as technology advanced so too did lethality, and the unsurprising result that as wars became bigger costs became greater. The first war of which we know the details—the [[w:Peloponnesian War|Peloponnesian War]] between Athens and Sparta during the 5^th century BCE—probably brought about the deaths of 250,000 people. The two world wars of the [[20th century|20^th century]] may well have killed 300 times that number. The propensity for violence that drove these conflict and all those in between remained much the same, as [[Thucydides]] had predicted it would, “human nature being what it is.” What made the difference were the “improvements” in weaponry that inflated the body count. ** [[John Lewis Gaddis]], ''The Cold War: A New History'' (2005), p. 51 * Your flaming torch aloft we bear,<br>With burning heart an oath we swear<br>To keep the faith, to fight it through,<br>To crush the foe or sleep with you<br> In Flanders' fields. ** [[C. B. Galbreath]]. Answer to McCrae's In Flanders' Fields. * The colossus of World War II seemed to be like a pyramid turned upside down. ** As quoted in "The First and the Last," 1954. * What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy? ** [[Mahatma Gandhi]], ''Non-Violence in Peace and War'', 1942, Vol. 1, Ch. 142 * You gotta remember that in war, you’re not deciding between the bad thing to and the good thing. You’re choosing between the bad and the worse. And you can’t control the shit that happens after you choose. ** [[Charles E. Gannon]], ''Trial By Fire'' (2014), chapter 27 * Sometimes, thinking just didn’t do any good, didn’t provide any answers. Because for some questions—such as the arbitrariness of life and death during wartime—there weren’t any answers. ** [[Charles E. Gannon]], ''Trial By Fire'' (2014), chapter 27 * When the red wrath perisheth, when the dulled swords fail,<br>These three who have walked with Death—these shall prevail.<br>Hell bade all its millions rise; Paradise sends three:<br>Pity, and Self-sacrifice, and Charity. ** [[Theodosia Garrison]], ''These shall Prevail''. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * Sufficeth this to prove my theme withal,<br>That every bullet hath a lighting place. ** [[Gascoigne]], ''Duke Bellum Inexpertis''. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * '<b>A more stupid and wasteful business there never was.</b> Fields will not be planted, food will run low, tax revenues will dry up &mdash; save from the makers of swords and munitions.' ** [[David Gemmell#Stormrider|David Gemmell, <i>Stormrider</i>]] (Ch. 15) * Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men. ** [[David Lloyd George]], ''War Memoirs'' (1942), vol. 2, chapter 81, p. 1815. * I was bandaging their wounds together with a field nurse. We did what we could: tearing strips from shirts and using them as bandages. So many died there! One lost his arm and died before making it to the crossing. Just fell down. Our radio operator too. Our girls, as they were climbing up the bank, got hit too. They were screaming, calling for their mothers. Torn limbs were flying from the blasts. It was terrifying. '''The most horrible is not the shelling itself, but to see its result'''. ** Maria Georgievna, [https://facingstalingrad.com/interviews/maria-faustova-aleksandr-voronov/ interview on facingstalingrad.com] * [B]y adopting [[microeconomics]], [[game theory]], [[Systems theory|systems analysis]], and other [[Management science|managerial techniques]], the [[John F. Kennedy|Kennedy]] [[w:Presidency of John F. Kennedy|administration]] advanced [[w:Limited war|“limited” war]] to greater specificity, making it seem much more controllable, manageable, and therefore desirable as [[Foreign policy of the United States|foreign policy]]. ** James Gibson, ''The Perfect War: Technowar in Vietnam''. Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986, p. 80; as qtd. in Antoine Bosquet, [https://www.academia.edu/390023/Cyberneticizing_the_American_War_Machine_Science_and_Computers_in_the_Cold_War “Cyberneticizing the American War Machine: Science and Computers in the Cold War”], p. 96. * The war we are fighting until victory or the bitter end is in its deepest sense a war between [[Christ]] and [[Karl Marx|Marx]].<br> Christ: the principle of love.<br> Marx: the principle of hate. ** [[Joseph Goebbels]], ''Der Kampf, den wir heute ausfechten bis zum Sieg oder bis zum bitteren Ende, ist im tiefsten Sinne ein Kampf zwischen Christus und Marx. <br> Christus: das Prinzip der Liebe. <br> Marx: das Prinzip des Hasses.<br>'' * We have 500,000 reservists in America who would rise in arms against your government if you dare to make a move against Germany. ** Zimmermann to Ambassador Gerard. "I told him that we had five hundred thousand and one lamp posts in America, and that was where the German reservists would find themselves if they tried any uprising." Ambassador Gerard's answer. Jakes W. Gerard, [http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timeline/progress/wwone/loyalty.html ''My Four Years in Germany''], p. 237. * Neither ridiculous shriekings for revenge by French chauvinists, nor the Englishmen's gnashing of teeth, nor the wild gestures of the Slavs will turn us from our aim of protecting and extending German influence all the world over. ** Official secret report of the Germans, quoted in the ''French Yellow Book''. * Ye living soldiers of the mighty war,<br> Once more from roaring cannon and the drums<br> And bugles blown at morn, the summons comes;<br>Forgot the halting limb, each wound and scar:<br> Once more your Captain calls to you;<br> Come to his last review! ** [[R. W. Gilder]], ''The Burial of Grant''. * An attitude not only of defence, but defiance. ** [[Thomas Gillespie]], ''The Mountain Storm''. "Defence not defiance" became the motto of the Volunteer Movement. (1859). * I believe the media can be the greatest force for [[peace]] on Earth. Instead, all too often, it is wielded as a weapon of war. That has to be challenged. ** [[Amy Goodman]] Introduction, Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America (2016) * If you are opposed to war, you are not a fringe minority. You are not a silent majority. You are part of a silenced majority. Silenced by the mainstream media. ** [[Amy Goodman]] The Exception to the Rulers written with David Goodman (2004) * [I]magine if the U.S. media showed uncensored, hellish images of war-even for one week. What impact would that have? I think we would be able to abolish war. ** [[Amy Goodman]] The Exception to the Rulers written with David Goodman (2004) * '''Göring''': '''Why, of course, the people don't want war.''' Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? '''Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in [[Russia]] nor in [[England]] nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood.''' But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a [[democracy]] or a [[Fascism|fascist]] [[dictatorship]] or a [[Parliamentary system|Parliament]] or a [[Communism|Communist]] dictatorship.<br> ''Gilbert'': There is one difference. In a democracy, the people have some say in the matter through their [[Representation|elected representatives]], and in the United States only [[United States Congress|Congress]] can declare wars. <br>''Göring'': Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, '''the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the [[Pacifism|pacifists]] for lack of [[patriotism]] and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.''' ** [[Hermann Göring]], [http://www.snopes.com/quotes/goering.htm In an interview with Gilbert in Göring's jail cell during the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials (18 April 1946)] * O, send Lewis Gordon hame<br>And the lad I maune name,<br>Though his back be at the wa'<br>Here's to him that's far awa'.<br>O, hon! my Highlandman,<br>O, my bonny Highlandman,<br>Weel would I my true love ken<br>Among ten thousand Highlandmen. ** Accredited to [[Geddes—Lewis Gordon]]. In ''Scotch Songs and Ballads''. * '''The [[art]] of [[war]] is simple enough. Find out where your [[enemy]] is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.''' ** [[Ulysses S. Grant]], Statement to John Hill Brinton, at the start of his Tennessee River Campaign, early 1862, as quoted in ''Personal Memoirs of John H. Brinton, Major and Surgeon U.S.V., 1861-1865'' (1914) by John Hill Brinton, p. 239. * No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works. ** [[Ulysses S. Grant]], to Gen. S. B. Buckner. Fort Donelson. February 16, 1862. * For the present, and so long as there are living witnesses of the great war of sections, '''there will be people who will not be consoled for the loss of [[Slavery|a cause which they believed to be holy]]. As time passes, people, even of the South, will begin to wonder how it was possible that their ancestors ever fought for or justified institutions which acknowledged [[Slavery|the right of property in man]]'''. ** [[Ulysses S. Grant]], [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4367 ''Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant''] (1885), Ch. 12. * '''I don't underrate the value of [[military]] [[knowledge]], but if men make war in slavish obedience to [[rules]], they will fail.''' ** [[Ulysses S. Grant]], as quoted in ''A History of Militarism: Romance and Realities of a Profession'' (1937) by Alfred Vagts, p. 27. * '''Though I have been trained as a [[soldier]], and participated in many [[battles]], there never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the [[sword]].''' I look forward to an epoch when a [[court]], recognized by all nations, will settle international differences, instead of keeping large standing [[armies]] as they do in [[Europe]]. ** [[Ulysses S. Grant]], as quoted in "International [[Arbitration]]" by W. H. Dellenback in ''The Commencement Annual, University of Michigan'' (30 June 1892) and in ''A Half Century of International Problems: A Lawyer's Views'' (1954) by [[w:Frederic René Coudert|Frederic René Coudert]], p. 180. * '''Wars produce many [[stories]] of [[fiction]], some of which are told until they are believed to be [[true]].''' ** [[Ulysses S. Grant]], [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4367 ''Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant''] (1885), Ch. 67. *'''War was return of earth to ugly earth,<br>War was foundering of sublimities,<br>Extinction of each happy art and faith<br>By which the world had still kept head in air'''. ** [[Robert Graves]] Recalling War," lines 31–34, from Collected Poems 1938 (1938). * The [[British Army|British army]] should be a projectile to be fired by the [[Royal Navy|British navy]]. ** [[Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon|Viscount Grey]]. Quoted by Lord Fisher, in Memories, as "the splendid words of Sir Edward Grey". * We will be misguided in our intentions if we point at one single thing and say that it will prevent war, unless, of course, that thing happens to be the will, the determination, and the resolve of people everywhere that nations will never again clash on the battlefield. ** [[Leslie Groves]] Opening address (7 Nov 1945) of Town Hall’s annual lecture series, as quoted in 'Gen. Groves Warns on Atom ‘Suicide’', New York Times (8 Nov 1945), 4. (Just three months before he spoke, two atom bombs dropped on Japan in Aug 1945 effectively ended WW II.) * [[Logistics]] is the ball and chain of armored warfare. ** [[Heinz Guderian]] Quoted in "Sword Point" - Page 141 - by Harold Coyle - 1988. * The facts come sometimes to belie those who are convinced of the present reality of ‘moral progress’, according to the most usual conception of it; but all they do is modify their ideas a little in this respect, or refer the realization of their ideal to a more or less remote future, and they, too, might crawl out of their difficulties by talking about a ‘rhythm of progress’. Besides this, by a much simpler solution, they usually strive to forget the lesson of experience: '''such are the incorrigible dreamers who, at each new war do not fail to prophesy that it will be the last.''' ** [[René Guénon]], ''East and West'' (Ghent NY: Sophia Perennis, 2001; originally published in 1924 in French as ''Orient et Occident''), p. 23 (Ch. 1, "Civilization & Progress"). [https://archive.org/details/eastwest0000guen/page/22/mode/2up?q=war&view=theater] * ''Con disavvantaggio grande si fa la guerra con chi non ha che perdere.'' ** One is in great disadvantage if goes to war with those who have nothing to lose. *** [[Francesco Guicciardini]], ''Storia d'Italia'' (1537-1540). == H == [[File:Filosofo detto eraclito, da villa dei papiri, peristilio quadrato.JPG|thumb|right|War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.<br>{{center|~&nbsp;[[Heraclitus]]}}]] * During the war of the rebellion [[Jay Gould|Gould]]'s firm did a large business in railway securities, and also made a great deal of money speculating in gold. Gould had private sources of information in the field, and he was able to turn almost every success or defeat of the [[w:Union army|Union army]] to profitable account. ** [[w:Murat Halstead|Murat Halstead]], J. Frank Beale, and [[w:Willis Fletcher Johnson|Willis Fletcher Johnson]]: {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rTacWNpL-rUC&pg=PA73|title = Life of Jay Gould: How He Made His Millions|page=73|year = 1892}} * '''Wars are not a pub brawl. They are complex projects that require an extraordinary degree of organisation, cooperation and appeasement.''' ** [[Yuval Noah Harari]], Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011), Chapter 19: "And they lived happily Ever After" * War itself is not a mere science but a more fickle sort of thing, often subject to fate or chance, being an entirely human enterprise... ** [[Victor Davis Hanson]], ''A War Like No Other - How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War'' (2005) * International [[war|wars]] became rare only after 1945, largely thanks to the new threat of nuclear annihilation. ** [[Yuval Noah Harari]], Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011), Chapter 8: "There Is No Justice in History" * The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war. ** [[John Hospers]], ''Libertarianism: A Political Philosophy for Tomorrow'', Los Angeles: CA, Nash Publishing (1971) p. 411-412 * '''I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.''' ** [[Jack Handey]] ''Deep Thoughts'' (1992), Berkley Publishing Group, <small> {{ISBN|0-425-13365-6}} </small> * Yes; quaint and curious war is!<br> You shoot a fellow down<br>You'd treat if met where any bar is,<br> Or help to half-a-crown. ** [[Thomas Hardy]], ''The Man he Killed''. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * They were left in the lurch<br>For want of more wadding—He ran to the church—<br> * * * * * *<br>With his arms full of hymnbooks …<br>Rang his voice, "Put Watts into 'em—Boys, give 'em Watts." ** [[Bret Harte]], ''Caldwell of Springfield''. * An hour ago, a Star was falling.<br>A star? There's nothing strange in that.<br> No, nothing; but above the thicket,<br>Somehow it seemed to me that God<br> Somewhere had just relieved a picket. ** [[Bret Harte]], ''Relieving Guard''. * Hark! I hear the tramp of thousands,<br> And of armèd men the hum;<br>Lo, a nation's hosts have gathered<br> Round the quick alarming drum—<br> Saying, Come,<br> Freemen, Come!<br>Ere your heritage be wasted,<br> Said the quick alarming drum. ** [[Bret Harte]], ''The Rèveille''. * Let the only walls the foe shall scale<br> Be ramparts of the dead! ** [[Paul H. Hayne]], ''Vicksburg''. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * My men never retire. They go forward or they die. ** [[w:William Hayward|Col. William Hayward]] to a French General who cried to him to retire his troops, the 369th Infantry, colored. See N. Y. Herald. Feb. 3, 1919. Attributed also to Major Bundy, but denied by him. * Most of these who are thrust into combat soon find it impossible to maintain the mythic perception of war. ** [[Chris Hedges]], ''War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning'' ISBN 1586480499, (2002) * The vanquished know [[war]]. They see through the empty [[w:jingoism|jingoism]] of those who use the [[abstract]] words of [[glory]], [[honor]], and [[patriotism]] to [[mask]] the cries of the [[wounded]], the [[senseless]] killing, [[w:war profiteering|war profiteering]], and chest-pounding [[grief]]. ** [[Chris Hedges]], [http://www.antiwar.com/orig/hedges.php?articleid=6294 War: Realities and Myths] (11 June 2005) * Napoleon healed through sword and fire the sick nation. ** [[Heinrich Heine]]. See Scherer, ''History of German Literature'', II. 116. * The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force. ** [[Robert Heinlein]], ''[[Starship Troopers]]''. * Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled, that force must be called in to win back our love? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation—the last arguments to which kings resort. ** [[Patrick Henry]], speech to the Virginia Convention, Richmond, Virginia (March 23, 1775); in William Wirt, ''Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry'', 9th ed. (1836, reprinted 1970), p. 139. "While there is no doubt as to the general effect of Henry's speech, questions as to its actual wording are not so easily disposed of. Not only is there no manuscript copy of the oration, there is no stenographic report…. It was not until some forty years later that William Wirt first reprinted a reconstruction of Henry's oration. In the absence of contemporary written information" there was much criticism of Wirt's text. Wirt collected much of the information for his biography of Patrick Henry "when many of Henry's auditors at St. John's [church] were still in their clear-minded fifties or sixties". Wirt collected information from "intelligent and reliable" auditors, including John Tyler, Judge St. George Tucker, and Edmund Randolph. "Wirt's text was based on a few very helpful sources plus many bits of information. He had ample proof for certain burning phrases … a remarkable resemblance to Henry's other speeches during that period", the fact that the speech conforms to others in "oratorical style and technique, even in the use of Biblical quotations or analogies. Of course, Wirt may have used fragments" from earlier speeches for the reconstruction. "Yet the information on the text as a whole is more precise than for many other great speeches in history". Robert Douthat Meade, ''Patrick Henry, Practical Revolutionary'' (1969), vol. 2, p. 38–40. "I can find no evidence that Patrick Henry's 'Give me liberty, or give me death' went ringing round the country in 1775, when he thus burst forth to the Virginia delegates, or in fact that it was quoted at all until after William Wirt's official life in 1817". Carroll A. Wilson, "Familiar 'Small College' Quotations, II: Mark Hopkins and the Log", ''The Colophon'' (spring 1938), p. 204. * '''The god of war has gone over to the other side.''' ** [[Adolf Hitler]], Statement to [[w:Alfred Jodl|Alfred Jodl]], after losses in the [[w:Battle of Stalingrad|Battle of Stalingrad]], as quoted in ''The Second World War : An Illustrated History'' (1979) by [[w: A. J. P. Taylor|A. J. P. Taylor]] * Hang yourself, brave Crillon. We fought at Arques, and you were not there. ** [[Henry IV of France|Henry IV]], to Crillon after a great victory. Sept. 20, 1597. Appeared in a note to Voltaire's Henriade, VIII. 109. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * Πόλεμος πάντων μὲν πατήρ ἐστι πάντων δὲ βασιλεύς, καὶ τοὺς μὲν θεοὺς ἔδειξε τοὺς δὲ ἀνθρώπους, τοὺς μὲν δούλους ἐποίησε τοὺς δὲ ἐλευθέρους.<br>{{center|~&nbsp;[[Heraclitus]]}} *# '''War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.''' *# War is the father and king of all, and has produced some as gods and some as men, and has made some slaves and some free. ([http://www.classicpersuasion.org/pw/heraclitus/herpatu.htm G. T. W. Patrick, 1889]) *#* [[Hippolytus]], ''Ref. haer. ix.'' 9 (Fragment 53). Context: "And that the father of all created things is created and uncreated, the made and the maker, we hear him (Heraclitus) saying, 'War is the father and king of all,' etc." *#* [[Plutarch]], ''de Iside'' 48, p. 370. Context, see frag. 43. *#* [[Proclus]] in ''Tim.'' 54 A (comp. 24 B). *#* Compare [[Chrysippus]] from ''Philodem. P. eusebeias, vii.'' p. 81, Gomperz. *#* [[Lucianus]], ''Quomodo hist. conscrib. 2;'' Idem, ''Icaromen 8.'' *# See also: [[Wiktionary:EL:πόλεμος πάντων μὲν πατήρ ἐστι, πάντων δὲ βασιλεύς|πόλεμος πάντων μὲν πατήρ ἐστι, πάντων δὲ βασιλεύς]] *# [[Martin Heidegger]], ''Parmenides'' (1942–1943) * Τίς γὰρ αὐτῶν νόος ἢ φρήν; [δήμων] ἀοιδοῖσι ἕπονται καὶ διδασκάλῳ χρέωνται ὁμίλῳ, οὐκ εἰδότες ὅτι πολλοὶ κακοὶ ὀλίγοι δὲ ἀγαθοί. αἱρεῦνται γὰρ ἓν ἀντία πάντων οἱ ἄριστοι, κλέος ἀέναον θνητῶν, οἱ δὲ πολλοὶ κεκόρηνται ὅκωσπερ κτήνεα. *# '''The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.''' *# For what sense or understanding have they? They follow minstrels and take the multitude for a teacher, not knowing that many are bad and few good. For the best men choose one thing above all – immortal glory among mortals; but the masses stuff themselves like cattle. ([http://www.classicpersuasion.org/pw/heraclitus/herpatu.htm G.T.W. Patrick, 1889]) *#: "The passage is restored as above by Bernays (''Heraclitea i.'' p. 34), and Bywater (p. 43), from the following sources: *#:* [[Clement of Alexandria|Clement of Alex.]] ''Strom. v. 9,'' p. 682. *#:* [[Proclus]] in ''Alcib.'' p. 255 Creuzer, = 525 ed. ''Cous. ii.'' *#:* [[Clement of Alexandria|Clement of Alex.]] ''Strom. iv.'' 7, p. 586." * Inquiry shall likewise be made about the professions and trades of those who are brought to be admitted to the &#91;Christian&#93; faith. ... A soldier of the civil authority must be taught not to kill men and to refuse to do so if he is commanded, and to refuse to take an oath; if he is unwilling to comply, he must be rejected. ... If a catechumen or a believer seeks to become a soldier, they must be rejected, for they have despised God. ** [[Hippolytus of Rome]], ''Apostolic Tradition'' * I believe that I am today acting according to the purposes of the almighty Creator. In resisting the Jew, I am fighting the Lord’s battle. ** Adolf Hitler, ''Mein Kampf'' (1925) * And I should not like to forget the hint which I have already given once before, on 1 September 1939, in the German Reichstag — that should the other world be plunged into a general war, Jewry as a whole will have played out its role in Europe. They can laugh at this today just as they laughed at my prophecies before. The coming months and years will prove that here too I was right. ** Adolf Hitler, quoted in ''Hitler, Reden und Prokiamationen, 1932—1945'', Neustadt/Aisch, (1963) * I have played straight with the Jews. On the eve of war I gave them a last warning. I warned them that if they again plunged the world into war, they would not be spared this time — that the vermin would be finally exterminated in Europe. They replied to this warning by a declaration of war. . . . We have pierced the Jewish abscess. The world of the future will be eternally grateful to us. ** Adolf Hitler, Le Testament politique de Hitler. Notes recueillies par Martin Bormann, Paris, 1959, * the red father of war<br />who signs his name<br />in the blood of other men ** [[Linda Hogan (writer)]] Dark. Sweet.: New & Selected Poems (2014) * Bleak are our shores with the blasts of December,<br> Fettered and chill is the rivulet's flow;<br>Throbbing and warm are the hearts that remember<br> Who was our friend when the world was our foe. ** [[Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.]], Welcome to the Grand Duke Alexis, Dec. 6, 1871. Referring to the fleet sent by Russia in Sept., 1863, an act with mixed motives, but for which we were grateful. * I war not with the dead. ** [[Homer]], ''Iliad'', Book VII, line 485. Pope's translation. Charles V. Of Luther. Found in W, line Hertslet—Der Treppenwitz der Weltgeschichte. * Cursed is the man, and void of law and right,<br>Unworthy property, unworthy light,<br>Unfit for public rule, or private care,<br>That wretch, that monster, who delights in war; ** [[Homer]], ''Iliad'', IX, 63; quoted by [[Polybius]], XII, 6, 26 ** Paton's translation of Polybius. * Take thou thy arms and come with me,<br>For we must quit ourselves like men, and strive<br>To aid our cause, although we be but two.<br>Great is the strength of feeble arms combined,<br>And we can combat even with the brave. ** [[Homer]], ''Iliad'', Book XIII, line 289. Bryant's translation. * The chance of war<br>Is equal, and the slayer oft is slain. ** [[Homer]], ''Iliad'', Book XVIII, line 388. Bryant's translation. * It is not right to exult over slain men. ** [[Homer]], ''Odyssey'', XII. 412. Quoted by John Morley in a speech during the Boer War. Also by John Bright in his speech on America, June 29, 1867. Compare Archilochus—Frag. Berk. No. 64. (Hiller. No. 60. Liebel. No. 41). * So ends the bloody business of the day. ** [[Homer]], ''Odyssey'', Book XXII, line 516. Pope's translation * Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war. ** [[Herbert Hoover]], address to the 23d Republican national convention, Chicago, Illinois (June 27, 1944). ''Official Report of the Proceedings of the Twenty-third Republican National Convention'' (1944), p. 166. * Nimirum hic ego sum. ** Here indeed I am; this is my position. ** [[Horace]], ''Epistles'', Book I. 15. 42 * Postquam Discordia tetra<br>Belli ferratos postes portasque refregit. ** When discord dreadful bursts her brazen bars,<br> And shatters locks to thunder forth her wars. ** [[Horace]], ''Satires'', I. 4. 60. Quoted. Original not known, thought to be from Ennius. * Ye who made war that your ships<br> Should lay to at the beck of no nation,<br>Make war now on Murder, that slips<br> The leash of her hounds of damnation;<br>Ye who remembered the Alamo,<br>Remember the Maine! ** [[Richard Hovey]], ''The Word of the Lord from Havana''. * We cannot well exaggerate ... the horrors, the hateful ravages, and the countless expense of war... show plainly to our children that war, with its embodied woes and furies must be avoided. ** [[w:Oliver Otis Howard|Oliver Otis Howard]], as quoted in [https://books.google.com/books?id=i5u1P0Fq4GYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=0307594084&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj17N6CovLcAhUPUt8KHTa1CrgQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q&f=false ''Gettysburg: The Last Invasion''] (2013), by [[Allen C. Guelzo]], p. 9 * Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:<br>He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored:<br>He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword:<br> His [[truth]] is marching on. ** [[Julia Ward Howe]], ''Battle Hymn of the Republic''. * ''L'Angleterre prit l'aigle, et l'Autriche l'aiglon.'' ** The English took the eagle and Austrians the eaglet. ** [[Victor Hugo]]. Napoleon adopted the lectern eagle for his imperial standard. His son was the eaglet. * Earth was the meadow, he the mower strong. ** [[Victor Hugo]], ''La Légende des Siècles''. * The sinews of war are those two metals (gold and silver). ** Arthur Hull to Robert Cecil, in a Memorial, Nov. 28, 1600. Same idea in Fuller's Holy State, p. 125. (Ed. 1649). * Individuals who commit serious violations of the laws of war with criminal intent – that is, intentionally or recklessly – may be prosecuted for '''war crimes'''. Individuals may also be held criminally liable for assisting in, facilitating, aiding, or abetting a war crime. All governments that are parties to an armed conflict are obligated to investigate alleged war crimes by members of their armed forces. ** Human Rights Watch [https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/09/02/yemen-coalition-bus-bombing-apparent-war-crime ''Yemen: Coalition Bus Bombing Apparent War Crime,''] (2 September 2018) * The closeness of their intercourse [the intercourse of nations] will assuredly render war as absurd and impossible by-and-by, as it would be for Manchester to fight with Birmingham, or Holborn Hill with the Strand. ** [[Leigh Hunt]], ''Preface to Poems''. * If we do not change course quickly, we will inevitably encounter an incident where that first domino is tipped—triggering a sequence of unstoppable events that will mark [[w:Nuclear holocaust|the end of our time]] on this tiny planet... My hope lies in... the leaders of [[communities]] and [[social movements]], big and small, who are willing to forfeit everything—including their lives—in defence of [[human rights]]. ** [[Zeid Raad Al Hussein|Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein]] in [https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/08/30/grassroots-leaders-provide-the-best-hope-to-a-troubled-world '''''Grassroots leaders provide the best hope to a troubled world''', The Economist'',] (30 August 2018) * All war [[propaganda]] consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder. ** [[Aldous Huxley]], in "Pacifism and Philosophy" (1936). * Pavlov’s findings were confirmed in the most distressing manner, and on a very large scale, during the two World Wars. As the result of a single catastrophic experience, or of a succession of terrors less appalling but frequently repeated, soldiers develop a number of disabling psycho-physical symptoms. Temporary unconsciousness, extreme agitation, lethargy, functional blindness or paralysis, completely unrealistic responses to the challenge of events, strange reversals of life-long patterns of behaviour—all the symptoms, which Pavlov observed in his dogs, re-appeared among the victims of what in the First World War was called ‘shell shock’, in the Second, ‘battle fatigue’. Every man, like every dog, has his own individual limit of endurance. Most men reach their limit after about thirty days of more or less continuous stress under the conditions of modern combat. The more than averagely susceptible succumb in only fifteen days. The more than averagely tough can resist for forty-five or even fifty days. Strong or weak, in the long run all of them break down. All, that is to say, of those who are initially sane. For, ironically enough, '''the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity.''' ** [[Aldous Huxley]], ''Brave New World Revisited'' (London: Chatto & Windus, 1959), Chapter 7: "Brainwashing", p. 88 [https://archive.org/details/bravenewworldrev0000aldo_p6s5/page/88/mode/2up?q=psychotics] == I == * I can give no adequate description of the Horror Camp in which my men and myself were to spend the next month of our lives. It was just a barren wilderness, as bare as a chicken run. Corpses lay everywhere, some in huge piles, sometimes they lay singly or in pairs where they had fallen. It took a little time to get used to seeing men women and children collapse as you walked by them and to restrain oneself from going to their assistance. One had to get used early to the idea that the individual just did not count. One knew that five hundred a day were dying and that five hundred a day were going on dying for weeks before anything we could do would have the slightest effect. It was, however, not easy to watch a child choking to death from [[w:Diptheria|diptheria]] when you knew a [[w:Tracheotomy|tracheotomy]] and nursing would save it, one saw women drowning in their own [[vomit]] because they were too weak to turn over, and men eating [[worms]] as they clutched a half loaf of [[bread]] purely because they had to eat worms to live and now could scarcely tell the difference. Piles of corpses, naked and obscene, with a woman too weak to stand proping herself against them as she cooked the food we had given her over an open fire; men and women crouching down just anywhere in the open relieving themselves of the dysentary which was scouring their bowels, a woman standing stark naked washing herself with some issue soap in water from a tank in which the remains of a child floated. It was shortly after the [[w:British Red Cross|British Red Cross]] arrived, though it may have no connection, that a very large quantity of lipstick arrived. This was not at all what we men wanted, we were screaming for hundreds and thousands of other things and I don't know who asked for lipstick. I wish so much that I could discover who did it, it was the action of genius, sheer unadulterated brilliance. I believe nothing did more for these internees than the lipstick. Women lay in bed with no sheets and no nightie but with scarlet red lips, you saw them wandering about with nothing but a blanket over their shoulders, but with scarlet red lips. I saw a woman dead on the post mortem table and clutched in her hand was a piece of lipstick. At last someone had done something to make them individuals again, they were someone, no longer merely the number tatooed on the arm. At last they could take an interest in their appearance. That lipstick started to give them back their humanity. ** An extract from the diary of Lieutenant Colonel Mervin Willett Gonin DSO who was amongst the first British soldiers to liberate [[w:Bergen-Belsen concentration camp|Bergen-Belsen]] in 1945. Source: [[w:Imperial War Museum|Imperial War Museum]] (1945). * Attempts to prohibit the use of particular weapons in warfare have been made in various civilizations over a long period of time....[I]n ancient times, the Laws of Manu (the greatest of the [[Hinduism|Hindu]] codes prohibited [[Hindu|Hindus]] from using poisoned arrows; and the [[Greeks]] and [[Roman Empire|Romans]] customarily observed a prohibition against using poison or poisoned weapons. During the [[Middle Ages]] the Lateran Council of 1132 declared that the [[w:Crossbow|crossbow]] [was prohibited.] ** Editor J. INT'L L (1907) Supplement 95-6. (11 dec. 1868) 1 AM. ''reproduced in id.,'' at p. 29; as quoted by Kelly Dawn Askin, (1997). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=ThfzGvSvQ2UC&hl=en War Crimes Against Women: Prosecution in International War Crimes Tribunals]''. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. ISBN 978-90-411-0486-1., p.35. * Colonial powers have long recruited soldiers from the periphery to fight wars at the center. …'''When war becomes a business model, and soldiers are sourced like cheap labor, we are no longer in the realm of [[politics]]. We are in the realm of trafficking.''' ** [[Massimo Introvigne]], [https://bitterwinter.org/putins-global-casting-call-how-slave-soldiers-ended-up-on-the-russian-front/ "Putin’s Global Casting Call: How Slave Soldiers Ended Up on the Russian Front"], ''Bitter Winter'' (September 5, 2025) * Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. ** [[Isaiah]], 2:4. == J == [[File:Saint James the Just.jpg|thumb|You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. ~ [[Epistle of James|James the Just]]]] [[File:WMD world map.svg|thumb|Reflective apologists for [[war]] at the present day all take it religiously. It is a sort of sacrament. It's [[profits]] are to the vanquished as well as to the victor; and quite apart from any question of profit, it is an [[absolute]] [[good]], we are told, for it is [[human nature]] at its highest dynamic. ~ [[William James]] ]] [[File:CH-53 landing at Defense Attaché Office compound, Operation Frequent Wind.jpg|thumb|How many men who listen to me tonight have served their nation in other wars? How very many are not here to listen? The war in Vietnam is not like these other wars. Yet, finally, war is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to kill a man that you do not even know well enough to hate. Therefore, to know war is to know that there is still madness in this world.<br>{{center|~&nbsp;[[Lyndon B. Johnson]]}}]] * Then, sir, we will give [[United States|them]] the bayonet! ** [[Stonewall Jackson]], reply to Colonel Barnard E. Bee when he reported that the Americans were beating them back. At the [[w:First Battle of Bull Run|First Battle of Bull Run]] (21 July 1861); as quoted in ''Stonewall Jackson As Military Commander'' (2000) by John Selby, p. 21. * You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. ** [[Epistle of James|James]] 4:2 [[New International Version|NIV]] * '''Reflective apologists for war at the present day all take it [[religiously]].''' It is a sort of [[sacrament]]. It's [[profits]] are to the vanquished as well as to the victor; and quite apart from any question of profit, it is an absolute good, we are told, for it is human nature at its highest dynamic. ** [[William James]], in [[s:The Moral Equivalent of War|''The Moral Equivalent of War'' (1906)]] * YOU are going to hear of wars and reports of wars; see that YOU are not terrified. For these things must take place, but the end is not yet. <br> For nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be food shortages and earthquakes in one place after another. All these things are a beginning of pangs of distress. ** [[Jesus]], [http://www.watchtower.org/e/bible/mt/chapter_024.htm Matthew 24:6-8 New World Translation] * He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off. ** [[Book of Job|Job]], XXXIX. 25. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * The safety of the country is at stake…. We must let ourselves be killed on the spot rather than retreat…. No faltering can be tolerated today. ** [[Joseph Joffre]]—Proclamation. Sept. 6, 1914. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. *The armies most successful in war are those in which every combatant has a clear conscience. **Josephus, ''Wars'', 2.20.7. * And war broke out in heaven: [[Michael (archangel)|Mi′cha•el]] and his angels battled with the [[dragon]], and the dragon and its [[angel]]s battled but it did not prevail, neither was a place found for them any longer in heaven. So down the great dragon was hurled, the original [[snake|serpent]], the one called [[Devil]] and [[Satan]], who is misleading the entire inhabited [[earth]]; he was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him. And I heard a loud voice in heaven say: : “Now have come to pass the salvation and the [[power]] and the [[Kingdom of God|kingdom of our God]] and the authority of his Christ, because the accuser of our brothers has been hurled down, who accuses them day and night before our God! :* John, [http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1001060069?q=michael&p=par Apocalypse or Revelation 12:9-12] * How many men who listen to me tonight have served their nation in other wars? How very many are not here to listen? The war in Vietnam is not like these other wars. Yet, finally, '''war is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to kill a man that you do not even know well enough to hate. It is a crime against mankind... Therefore, to know war is to know that there is still madness in this world'''. ** [[Lyndon B. Johnson]], [http://millercenter.org/president/speeches/speech-4035 State of the Union Address] (12 January 1966). * Among the calamities of war, may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of [[truth]], by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages. ** [[Samuel Johnson]], ''The Idler'', no. 30 (November 11, 1758). A more succinct version is: "The first casualty when war comes is truth", attributed to Senator [[Hiram Johnson]], remarks in the Senate, 1918. Burton Stevenson, ed., ''The Macmillan Book of Proverbs, Maxims, and Famous Phrases'' (1948), p. 2445. Reported as unverified in ''Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations'' (1989). * I have prayed in her fields of poppies,<br> I have laughed with the men who died—<br>But in all my ways and through all my days<br> Like a friend He walked beside.<br>I have seen a sight under Heaven<br> That only God understands,<br>In the battles' glare I have seen Christ there<br> With the Sword of God in His hand. ** [[Gordon Johnstone]], On Fields of Flanders. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * Every battle, every war - is fought for things worth [[dying]] for. ** [[w:Arthur M. Jolly|Arthur M. Jolly]], in the play ''Every Battle, Every War'', Original Works Press. (2009). * Men [[dying]] is a relative thing. The effect of the air campaign is a cumulative one and no one can predict which blow will be the crucial blow [to the enemy]. ** U.S. General Harold K. Johnson in a White House meeting of [[w:Lyndon B. Johnson|Lyndon B. Johnson]] and advisors, in response to the question of why they should ask a man to risk his life to bomb a tactically insignificant target. September 5, 1967. [http://web.archive.org/web/20021027113710/http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus/johnsonlb/v/13157.htm Memorandum From the President's Assistant (Jones) to President Johnson] * A navy is essentially and necessarily aristocratic. True as may be the political principles for which we are now contending they can never be practically applied or even admitted on board ship, out of port, or off soundings. This may seem a hardship, but it is nevertheless the simplest of truths. Whilst the ships sent forth by the Congress may and must fight for the principles of human rights and republican freedom, the ships themselves must be ruled and commanded at sea under a system of absolute despotism. ** [[John Paul Jones]], [http://www.rulit.me/books/the-last-ship-read-334944-1.html letter to the Naval Committee of Congress] (14 September 1775). * The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. ** Judges, XVI. 9. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * The people arose as one man. ** Judges, XX. 8. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * War is expensive. Winning a war, however, is less expensive than losing one. ** [[Mike Jones]], [http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/11/military.recruiting.ap/ &ldquo;Military re-enlistment bonuses skyrocket,&rdquo;] CNN, 11 April 2007. * In war you learn your lessons, and they stay learned, but the tuition fees are high. ** [[Ernst Jünger]], ''Storm of Steel'' (1920) == K == [[File:THE HOPE OF ALL THE WORLD - NARA - 515613.jpg|thumb|[[Strike action|Strike]] against war, for without you no battles can be fought.<br>{{center|~&nbsp;[[Helen Keller]]}}]] [[File:IraqWarHeader.jpg|thumb|War has a momentum of its own and it carries you away from all thoughtful intentions when you get into it.<br>{{center|~&nbsp;[[George F. Kennan]]}}]] [[File:Bucha, Ukraine, June 2022 (52136362580).jpg|thumb|War seldom ever leads to [[good]] [[results]].<br>{{center|~&nbsp;[[George F. Kennan]]}}]] [[File:AlfredPalmerM3tank1942b.jpg|thumb|Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.<br>{{center|~&nbsp;[[John F. Kennedy]]}}]] [[File:John_F._Kennedy%2C_White_House_color_photo_portrait.jpg|thumb|A war today or tomorrow, if it led to [[nuclear war]], would not be like any war in history. A full-scale nuclear exchange, lasting less than 60 minutes, with the weapons now in existence, could wipe out more than 300 million Americans, Europeans, and Russians, as well as untold numbers elsewhere.... the survivors would envy the dead. For they would inherit a world so devastated by explosions and poison and fire that today we cannot even conceive of its horrors.<br>{{center|~&nbsp;[[John F. Kennedy]]}}]] [[File:President Kennedy signs Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, 07 October 1963.jpg|thumb| So let us try to turn the world away from war. Let us make the most of this opportunity, and every opportunity, to reduce tension, to slow down the perilous nuclear arms race, and to check the world's slide toward final annihilation.<br>{{center|~&nbsp;[[John F. Kennedy]]}}]] [[File:M26-Pershing-Naktong-19500903.JPG|thumb|I am not unmindful of the [[fact]] that violence often brings about momentary results. [[Nations]] have frequently won their [[independence]] in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent [[peace]]. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.<br>{{center|~&nbsp;[[Martin Luther King Jr.]]}}]] [[File:John William Waterhouse - Ulysses and the Sirens (1891).jpg|thumb|There is a fascinating little [[story]] that is preserved for us in Greek literature about [[w:Odysseus|Ulysses]] and the [[w:siren|Sirens]]. ... When [[w:Orpheus|Orpheus]] sang, who bothered to listen to the Sirens? So we must fix our [[vision]] not merely on the negative expulsion of war, but upon the positive affirmation of [[peace]]. We must see that peace represents a sweeter [[music]], a cosmic melody that is far superior to the discords of war.<br>{{center|~&nbsp;[[Martin Luther King Jr.]]}}]] [[File:Flickr - Israel Defense Forces - Karakal Winter Training (1).jpg|thumb|Four things greater than all things are. Women and Horses and Power and War.<br>{{center|~&nbsp;[[Rudyard Kipling]]}}]] * Its is important, too, to realize that deadly violence among primitives is not even remotely comparable to modern warfare. When primitives fight, two little bands of men shoot arrows or swing war-clubs at one another because they want to fight; or because they are defending themselves, their families, or their territory. In the modern world soldiers fight because they have been brainwashed into believing in some kook ideology such as that of Nazism, socialism, or what American politicians choose to call "freedom". In any case the modern soldier is merely a pawn, a dupe who dies not for his family or his tribe but for the politicians who exploit him. If he's unlucky, maybe he does not die but comes home horribly crippled in a way that would never result from an arrow -or a spear-wound. Meanwhile, thousands of non-combatants are killed or mutilated. The environment is ravaged, not only in the war zone, but also back home, due to the accelerated consumption of natural resources needed to feed the war machine. In comparison, the violence of primitive man is relatively innocuous. ** Ted Kaczyneski, "''The Truth about Primitive Life: The Road to Revolution''" (2008) * (While smiling, and jokingly) You haven't come to see me for three weeks. I wondered whether you had become disgusted with us war criminals - particularly me, the so-called archcriminal of them all. ** [[Ernst Kaltenbrunner]] to Leon Goldensohn, 6/6/46, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004. * Even [[Philosophy|philosophers]] will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills. ** [[Immanuel Kant]], as quoted in ''Philosophical Perspectives on Peace: An Anthology of Classical and Modern Sources'' (1987) by Howard P. Kainz, p. 81 * All wars are accordingly so many attempts (not in the intention of man, but in the intention of Nature) to establish new relations among states, and through the destruction or at least the dismemberment of all of them to create new political bodies, which, again, either internally or externally, cannot maintain themselves and which must thus suffer like revolutions; until finally, through the best possible civic constitution and common agreement and legislation in external affairs, a state is created which, like a civic commonwealth, can maintain itself automatically. ** Immanuel Kant, [http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/ethics/kant/universal-history.htm "Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View"] (1784) as translated in ''On History'' (1963) by Lewis White Beck; also translated as ''Idea for a General History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose, Seventh Thesis'' * By virtue of their mutual interest does nature unite people against violence and war…the spirit of trade cannot coexist with war, and sooner or later this spirit dominates every people. For among all those powers…that belong to a nation, financial power may be the most reliable in forcing nations to pursue the noble cause of peace…and wherever in the world war threatens to break out, they will try to head it off through mediation, just as if they were permanently leagued for this purpose. ** [[Immanuel Kant]], ''[https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0872206912 To Perpetual Peace]''. * [t]he laws of war are only as strong as those who insist that they be observed." ** Peter Karsten, ''Law, Soldier, And Combat'', ''supra'' note 55, p. 70; as quoted in as quoted in Kelly Dawn Askin (1997). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=ThfzGvSvQ2UC&hl=en War Crimes Against Women: Prosecution in International War Crimes Tribunals]''. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. ISBN 978-90-411-0486-1., p.36. * [[Strike action|Strike]] against war, for without you no battles can be fought. Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder. Strike against preparedness that means death and misery to millions of human beings. Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction. ** [[Helen Keller]], in [http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/helenstrike.html "Strike Against War", speech in Carnegie Hall (5 January 1916)]. * Now the following questions have to be raised: did the occupation of other countries improve our own happiness? Does the individual German get anything out of such conquests? Won't we get into trouble with another powerful nation some place tomorrow or the day after? The differences in interests among the large nations will not be diminished by expanding ourselves. ** [[Friedrich Kellner]], ''My Opposition'' (1940). * Modern war has become too complex to be entrusted to the [[intuition]] of even the most [[experienced]] military commander. Only our giant [[brains]] can [[calculate]] all the [[possibilities]]. ** [[w:John Kemeny|John Kemeny]] (1961), as qtd. in Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi, ''The Worlds of Herman Kahn: The Intuitive Science of Thermonuclear War'', Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005, p. 149; as qtd. in Antoine Bosquet, [https://www.academia.edu/390023/Cyberneticizing_the_American_War_Machine_Science_and_Computers_in_the_Cold_War “Cyberneticizing the American War Machine: Science and Computers in the Cold War”], p. 88 * Anyone who has ever studied the history of American diplomacy, especially military diplomacy, knows that you might start in a war with certain things on your mind as a purpose of what you are doing, but in the end, you found yourself fighting for entirely different things that you had never thought of before … In other words, war has a momentum of its own and it carries you away from all thoughtful intentions when you get into it. Today, if we went into Iraq, like the president would like us to do, you know where you begin. You never know where you are going to end. ** [[George F. Kennan]], as quoted in [http://hnn.us/articles/997.html "George Kennan Speaks Out About Iraq" at ''History News Network'' (26 September 2002)] * Whenever you have a possibility of going in two ways, either for peace or for war, for peaceful methods of for military methods, in the present age there is a strong prejudice for the peaceful ones. War seldom ever leads to good results. ** [[George F. Kennan]], as quoted in "George Kennan Speaks Out About Iraq" at ''History News Network'' (26 September 2002) * For the love of God, for the love of your children and of the civilization to which you belong, cease this madness. You are mortal men. You are capable of error. You have no right to hold in your hands—there is no one wise enough and strong enough to hold in his hands—destructive power sufficient to put an end to civilized life on a great portion of our planet. ** [[George F. Kennan]], cited in {{cite news| url=http://www.boston.com/news/globe/obituaries/articles/2005/03/18/george_kennan_dies_at_101_devised_cold_war_policy| title=Obituary: George Kennan dies at 101; devised Cold War policy| date=2005-03-18| publisher=Boston Globe}}; also cited in {{cite book| title=House of War|last=Carroll| first=James| publisher=Houghton Mifflin Co| year=2006| location=Boston & New York| id={{ISBN|0618187804}}| chapter=Upstream| pages=581, note 140}} * War will exist until that distant day when the {{w|conscientious objector}} enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. ** [[John F. Kennedy]], [http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Ready-Reference/JFK-Quotations.aspx Undated Letter to a Navy friend]. [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/26/magazine/26wwln-safire-t.html Also mentioned by William Safire in his 2007-08-26 "On Language" article "Warrior" in the New York Times rubric Magazines.] * '''In a world of danger and trial, peace is our deepest aspiration''', and when peace comes we will gladly convert not our swords into plowshares, but our bombs into peaceful reactors, and our planes into space vessels. "Pursue peace," the Bible tells us, and we shall pursue it with every effort and every energy that we possess. But '''it is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.''' ** [[John F. Kennedy]], [http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=25654 Speech at Civic Auditorium, Seattle, Washington (6 September 1960)]<!-- Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project --> * And if there is one path above all others to war, it is the path of weakness and disunity. ** [[John F. Kennedy]], [https://www.jfklibrary.org/archives/other-resources/john-f-kennedy-speeches/berlin-crisis-19610725 "Radio and Television Report to the American People on the Berlin Crisis" (25 July 1961)]; addressing the impending possibility of war between the United States and the [[w:Soviet Union|Soviet Union]] (USSR) over the [[w:Berlin Crisis of 1961|crisis in]] [[w:Berlin|Berlin]], [[w:Germany|Germany]]. * Mankind must put an end to war — or war will put an end to mankind ** [[John F. Kennedy]], Address before the General Assembly before the United Nations (25 September 1961). * The world is a very different one now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human [[poverty]], and all forms of human life. ** [[John F. Kennedy]], Inaugural address (1961), as quoted in ''In Our Own Words : Extraordinary Speeches of the American Century'' (1999) by Robert G. Torricelli and Andrew Carroll, 222 * Every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable. Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear [[w:Sword of Damocles|sword of Damocles]], hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident or miscalculation or by madness. '''The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.''' ** [[John F. Kennedy]], Address to the United Nations General Assembly, (25 September 1961) * [[w:Trinity (nuclear test)|Eighteen years ago the advent of nuclear weapons]] [[w:History of nuclear weapons|changed the course of the world as well as the war]]. Since that time, all mankind has been struggling to escape from the darkening prospect of mass destruction on earth. In an age when both sides have come to possess enough [[nuclear power]] to destroy the human race several times over, the world of communism and the world of free choice have been caught up in a vicious circle of conflicting ideology and interest. Each increase of tension has produced an increase of arms; each increase of arms has produced an increase of tension. ** [[John F. Kennedy]], [https://www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/archives/JFKWHA/1963/JFKWHA-207/JFKWHA-207 Radio and Television Address to the American People on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty], (26 July 1963) * '''A war today or tomorrow, if it led to [[nuclear war]], would not be like any war in history.''' A full-scale nuclear exchange, lasting less than 60 minutes, with the weapons now in existence, could wipe out more than 300 million Americans, Europeans, and Russians, as well as untold numbers elsewhere. And '''the survivors''', as [[Nikita Khrushchev|Chairman Khrushchev]] warned the [[w:Chinese Communist Party|Communist Chinese]], "the survivors would envy the dead." For they '''would inherit a world so devastated by explosions and poison and fire that today we cannot even conceive of its horrors. So let us try to turn the world away from war. Let us make the most of this opportunity, and every opportunity, to reduce tension, to slow down the perilous nuclear arms race, and to check the world's slide toward final annihilation.''' ** [[John F. Kennedy]], [https://www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/archives/JFKWHA/1963/JFKWHA-207/JFKWHA-207 Radio and Television Address to the American People on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty], (26 July 1963) * It is not easy for a free community to organise for war. We are not accustomed to listen to experts or prophets. Our strength lies in an ability to improvise. Yet an open mind to untried ideas is also necessary. ** [[John Maynard Keynes]], ''How to Pay for the War'' (1940), Ch. 1. The Character of the Problem * O thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand between their loved homes and the war's desolation. ** [[Francis Scott Key]], "The Star-Spangled Banner" (1814). * The unified field theory that best fits the currently known facts is what I call the '''"theory of competitive control."''' This is the notion that non-state armed groups, of many kinds, draw their strength and freedom of action primarily from their ability to manipulate and mobilize populations, and that they do this using a spectrum of methods from coercion to persuasion, by creating a normative system that makes people feel safe through the predictability and order that it generates. This theory has been part of many people’s thinking about insurgency and civil war for a long time. But the cases…suggest that it applies to any non-state armed group that preys on a population. ** [[w:David Kilcullen|David Kilcullen]], ''Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla'', 2013. * War has changed little in principle from the beginning of recorded history. The [[w:Mechanized warfare|mechanized warfare]] of today is only an evolution of the time when men fought with clubs and stones, and its [[Machine|machines]] are as nothing without the men who invent them, man them and give them life. War is force- force to the utmost- force to make the enemy yield to our own will- to yield because they see their comrades killed and wounded- to yield because their own will to fight is broken. War is men against men. Mechanized war is still men against men, for machines are masses of inert metal without the men who control them- or destroy them. ** [[Ernest King|Ernest J. King]], as quoted in the prologue (page viii) of his memoirs, ''Fleet Admiral King: A Naval Record (1952)''. * Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, '''violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones. Violence is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding: it seeks to annihilate rather than convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.''' ** [[Martin Luther King Jr.]], The Quest for Peace and Justice (1964), [http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-lecture.html#footnote Martin Luther King's Nobel Lecture, delivered in the Auditorium of the University of Oslo (11 December 1964)] * '''We will not build a peaceful world by following a negative path. It is not enough to say "We must not wage [[war]]." It is necessary to love [[peace]] and sacrifice for it. We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war, but on the positive affirmation of peace.''' There is a fascinating little story that is preserved for us in Greek literature about [[w:Odysseus|Ulysses]] and the [[w:siren|Sirens]]. The Sirens had the ability to sing so sweetly that sailors could not resist steering toward their island. Many ships were lured upon the rocks, and men forgot home, duty, and honor as they flung themselves into the sea to be embraced by arms that drew them down to death. Ulysses, determined not to be lured by the Sirens, first decided to tie himself tightly to the mast of his boat, and his crew stuffed their ears with wax. But finally he and his crew learned a better way to save themselves: they took on board the beautiful singer Orpheus whose melodies were sweeter than the music of the Sirens. When Orpheus sang, who bothered to listen to the Sirens? So we must fix our vision not merely on the negative expulsion of war, but upon the positive affirmation of peace. '''We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody that is far superior to the discords of war. Somehow, we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race, which no one can win, to a positive contest to harness humanity's creative genius for the purpose of making peace and prosperity a reality for all the nations of the world. In short, we must shift the arms race into a peace race. If we have a will — and determination — to mount such a peace offensive, we will unlock hitherto tightly sealed doors of hope and transform our imminent cosmic elegy into a psalm of creative fulfillment. ''' ** [[Martin Luther King Jr.]], [https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1964/king/lecture/ “Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1964”], University of Oslo, ''Nobelprize.org'', (December 11, 1964) * War bred the strangest [[Paranoia|paranoias]] from its soup of [[Deception|deceptions]], [[misinformation]], misdirection, and poor communication. And lack of any cultural basis for understanding. ** [[w:Donald Kingsbury|Donald Kingsbury]], ''The Survivor'' (1991), reprinted in [[w:David G. Hartwell|David G. Hartwell]] (ed.), ''[[w:The Space Opera Renaissance|The Space Opera Renaissance]],'' {{ISBN|0-765-30618-2}}, p. 692 * Soon the men of the column began to see that though the scarlet line was slender, it was very rigid and exact. ** [[w:Alexander William Kinglake|Alexander William Kinglake]], ''Invasion of the Crimea'', Volume III, p. 455. "The spruce beauty of the slender red line." Kinglake—Invasion of the Crimea, Volume III, p. 248. Ed. 6. * For heathen heart that puts her trust<br> In reeking tube and iron shard—<br>All valiant dust that builds on dust,<br> And guarding calls not Thee to guard—<br>For frantic boast and foolish word,<br>Thy mercy on Thy People, Lord! ** [[Rudyard Kipling]], ''Recessional''. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * Four things greater than all things are,—<br>Women and Horses and Power and War. ** [[Rudyard Kipling]], ''[[s:The Ballad of the King's Jest|The Ballad of the King's Jest]]'' (1890). * For agony and spoil<br> Of nations beat to dust,<br>For poisoned air and tortured soil<br> And cold, commanded lust,<br>And every secret woe<br> The shuddering waters saw—<br>Willed and fulfilled by high and low—<br> Let them relearn the Law. ** [[Rudyard Kipling]], ''Justice'' (Oct. 24, 1918). * But let this fact burn its way into your brain to save you from hell and rouse you for the revolution—this fact:<br />Nowhere on all that battlefield among the shattered rifles and wrecked canon, among the broken ambulances and splintered ammunition wagons, nowhere in the mire and mush of blood and sand, nowhere among the bulging and befouling carcasses of dead horses and swelling corpses of dead men and boys—nowhere could be found the torn, bloated and fly-blown carcasses of bankers, bishops, politicians, "brainy capitalists" and other elegant and eminent "very best people."<br />Well, hardly.<br />Naturally—these proud, cunning and ''intelligent'' people were not there, ''on the firing line''.<br />Listen, oh, listen—you betrayed multitude of toil-damned, war-blasted workers of all nations:<br />If the masters want blood, let them cut their own throats.<br />We don't want other people's blood and we refuse to wast our own.<br />Let those who want "great victories" ''go to the firing line and get them''.<br />If war is good enough to ''vote'' or to ''pray'' for, it is good enough to ''go to—up close'' where bayonets gleam, swords flash, canon roar, rifles clash, flesh rips, blood spurts, bones snap, brains are dashed,—''up close'' where men toil, sweat, freeze, starve, kill, groan, scream, pray, laugh, howl, curse, go mad and die,—''up close'' where the flesh and blood of betrayed men and boys are pounded into a red mush of mud by shrieking canon balls, by the iron-shod hoofs of galloping horses and the steel-bound wheels of rushing gun-trucks.<br />"What is war?"<br />They say "War is Hell."<br />Well, then, let those who want hell, go to hell. ** [[w:George Ross Kirkpatrick|George Ross Kirkpatrick]], ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=JTBUggGDnmAC War--what For?]'' (1914) pp. 27-28 * You are ordered abroad as a soldier of [[George V of the United Kingdom|the King]] to help our French comrades against the invasion of a common enemy. You have to perform a task which will need your courage, your energy, and your patience. Remember that the honor of the British Army depends on your individual conduct. It will be your duty not only to set an example of discipline and perfect steadiness under fire, but also to maintain the most friendly relations with those whom you are helping in this struggle…. Do your duty bravely. Fear God and honor the King. ** [[w:Herbert Kitchener|Herbert Kitchener]], 1st Earl Kitchener, a printed address to the British Expeditionary Force, carried by the soldiers on the Continent. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * War is itself a political act with primarily political objects and under the American form of government political officials must necessarily direct its general course. ** [[w:Dudley Wright Knox|Dudley Wright Knox]], ''A History of the United States Navy'' (1936), chapter 24, final paragraph, p. 274. * We are all saddened by the [[W:Barbarism|barbarism]] of humanity. The most negative manifestation of [[free will]] is seen in outbursts of war. ** [[Koot Hoomi|Koot Hoomi]], in ''Supermundane'', [[Agni Yoga]] (1938) * Those who ignite wars should think about the abyss into which they thrust the planet. Even a war that afflicts only a few countries promotes the destruction of the entire planet. No one thinks of war as a planetary sickness, yet one can see what improvements in life are cut short everywhere in the world by even local wars. Such convulsions are not needed when steady progress is possible. 515. ** [[Koot Hoomi|Koot Hoomi]], in ''Supermundane'', [[Agni Yoga|''Agni Yoga'']] (1938) * How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print. ** [[Karl Kraus]], ''Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths: Selected Aphorisms'', as translated by Harry Zohn, Engendra Press: 1976, p. 81. * Every single war ever fought anywhere had spawned shadow battles between the warring governments and their own citizens. Black markets, war profiteering, blockade runners, quislings, conscientious objectors, organized crime and its less organized siblings. False government contracts, false traveling papers, false bills of lading, false passenger lists, and, for the really sophisticated, falsifying [[w:Database|deebee]] programs. All it took were contacts and money. ** [[Nancy Kress]], ''Probability Space'' (2002), <small> {{ISBN|0-765-34514-5}} </small>, Chapter 3 (p. 45) * "…wars of the 17th century on the European continent 3 million people perished, in the 18th century and in the 19th century - 5.5. million...[T]he First World War wiped out 10 million lives, the Second - over 50 million. ** V.N. Kudriavtsev, ''The Nuremberg Trial and Problems of Strengthening the International Legal Order, in'' THE NUREMBERG TRIAL AND INTERNATIONAL LAW 1-2 (Ginsburgs & Kudriavtsev eds,m 1990).; as quoted in [https://books.google.com/books?id=ThfzGvSvQ2UC&hl=en ''War Crimes Against Women: Prosecution in International War Crimes Tribunals''], by Kelly Dawn Askin, (1997). Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. ISBN 978-90-411-0486-1. p.12 * The superficial student of history stands under the impression that Europe before the nineteenth century was torn asunder by endless wars and disagreements, yet there was far more inner unity in spite of the lack of airliners and superhighways. The interrelationship between the European [[Monarchy|monarchs]] also had the practical effect that totalitarian wars were not waged and that between A.D. 900 and 1866 no European monarchy was wiped off the map with the exception of Poland and the temporary grabs of the [[French Revolution]]. There is also little doubt that the absence of the modern means of war contributed to the relative mildness of medieval warfare. Yet the fact that all rulers were related was of greater importance and it acted as a break during peace negotiations; playing bridge against one's cousin or brother-in-law, one is glad to gain small sums but never intends to ''ruin'' the opponent. Wars during the [[Middle Ages]] were collective duels and to a certain extent even a privilege of the [[nobility]] and their kinsmen. The introduction of [[mercenaries]] — soldiers receiving a ''solde'' — lowered the moral level of warfare. The towns, defending themselves against a decadent, robbing knighthood, hired professional soldiers. These, thanks to the invention of gunpowder, were able to destroy the castles of the marauding or rebelling nobility. Thus went down what once had been, in the days of its true service, the finest symbol of European [[liberty]]. ** [[Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn]], ''The Menace of the Herd'' (1943), p. 107 * Glory was the lie concocted to inspire innocent fools to war. ** [[w:Paul Kupperberg|Paul Kupperberg]], ''Walk Upon the Waters'' in [[w:Brian Thomsen|Brian Thomsen]] & [[w:Martin H. Greenberg|Martin H. Greenberg]] (eds.), ''Oceans of Magic'' (2001), p. 234 == L == [[File:4th_United_States_Colored_Infantry.jpg|thumb|The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.<br>{{center|~&nbsp;[[Marcus Annaeus Lucanus]]}}]] * War will not end until all of the violent people are killed. ** [[w:Roger Langbecker|Roger Langbecker]], ''Czarmangis''. * Friendship itself prompts it (Government of the U. S.) to say to the Imperial Government (Germany) that repetition by the commanders of German naval vessels of acts in contravention of those rights (neutral) must be regarded by the Government of the United States, when they affect American citizens, as deliberately unfriendly. ** Secretary of War Lansing. Reply to the German Lusitania Note (July 21, 1915). Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom. ** [[Bonar Law]]. Speech before the Great War. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * I have always believed that success would be the inevitable result if the two services, the army and the navy, had fair play, and if we sent the right man to fill the right place. ** [[w:Austen Henry Layard|Austen Henry Layard]], ''Speech in Parliament'' (Jan. 15, 1855). * It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it. ** [[Robert E. Lee]], comment to James Longstreet, on seeing a Union charge repelled in the Battle of Fredericksburg (13 December 1862). * When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the tug of war! ** [[Nathaniel Lee]], ''The Rival Queens; or, Alexander the Great'', Act IV, scene 2. * Art, thou hast many infamies,<br>But not an infamy like this.<br>O snap the fife and still the drum<br>And show the monster as she is. ** [[w:Richard Le Gallienne|Richard Le Gallienne]], ''The Illusion of War''. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, someway or another, and some in South Korea too. ** [[Curtis LeMay]], in ''Strategic Air Warfare: An Interview with Generals'' (1988) * I want you to make love, not war, I know you've heard it before. ** [[John Lennon]], in his final fading statement in "[[w:Mind Games (song)|Mind Games]]" on ''[[w:Mind Games|Mind Games]]'' (1973). * O, God assist our side: at least, avoid assisting the enemy and leave the rest to me. ** [[w:Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau|Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Dessau]], according to [[Thomas Carlyle]], ''Life of Frederick the Great'', Book XV, Chapter XIV. * The ballot is stronger than the bullet. ** [[Abraham Lincoln]] (1856). Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60 * We, on our side, are praying Him to give us victory, because we believe we are right; but those on the other side pray to Him, look for victory, believing they are right. What must He think of us? ** [[Abraham Lincoln]], in 1861, as quoted in [https://books.google.com/books?id=3WMDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA124 ''The Life of Abraham Lincoln: Drawn from Original Sources''] (1900), Volume 3, New York: Lincoln History Society, p. 124 * Armies, the world over, destroy enemies' property when they can not use it; and even destroy their own to keep it from the enemy. Civilized belligerents do all in their power to help themselves, or hurt the enemy, except a few things regarded as barbarous or cruel. Among the exceptions are the massacre of vanquished foes, and non-combatants, male and female. ** [[Abraham Lincoln]], [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln6/1:849?rgn=div1;view=fulltext letter to James C. Conkling] (26 August 1863) * One month too late. ** Von Linsingen's remark when told of Italy's declaration of war against Austria in Great War. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * To arms! to arms! ye brave!<br> Th' avenging sword unsheathe,<br>March on! march on! all hearts resolved<br> On victory or death! ** [[Joseph Rouget de Lisle]], ''The Marseilles Hymn''. 7th stanza by Du Bois. See Figaro, Literary Supplement, Aug. 7, 1908. * At the Captain's mess, in the Banquet-hall,<br>Sat feasting the officers, one and all—<br>Like a sabre-blow, like the swing of a sail,<br>One raised his glass, held high to hail,<br>Sharp snapped like the stroke of a rudder's play,<br>Spoke three words only: "To the day!" ** [[Ernest Lissauer]], ''Hassgesang gegen England'' (Song of Hate against England). Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * Thus, if there is anyone who is confident that he can advise me as to the best advantage of the state in this campaign which I am about to conduct, let him not refuse his services to the state, but come with me into Macedonia. I will furnish him with his sea-passage, with a horse, a tent, and even travel-funds. If anyone is reluctant to do this and prefers the leisure of the city to the hardships of campaigning, let him not steer the ship from on shore. ** [[Livy]], book 44, chapter 22; reported in ''Livy'', trans. Alfred C. Schlesinger (1951), vol. 13, p. 161. Lucius Aemilius Paulus is addressing the people at a public meeting. President Franklin Roosevelt attacked armchair generals by citing this and preceding passages at his press conference (March 17, 1942): "Being of an historical turn of mind, [I figured] that probably some poor devil had gone through this process of annoyance in past years, some previous time in history, so I went quite far back and I found [Lucius Aemilius] … it sounds as if it were written in 1942". ''The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1942'' (1950), p. 166. * The great war of to-day is a war for bread and butter ** [[Belva Ann Lockwood]] "Growth of Peace Principles" (1895) * Ez fer war, I call it murder,—<br> Ther you hev it plain and flat;<br>I don't want to go no furder<br> Than my Testyment fer that. ** [[James Russell Lowell]], ''The Biglow Papers'' (1848), No. 1. * We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage. ** [[James Russell Lowell]], ''The Biglow Papers'' (1848), No. 3. * Not but wut abstract war is horrid,<br> I sign to thet with all my heart,—<br>But civilysation doos git forrid<br> Sometimes, upon a powder-cart. ** [[James Russell Lowell]], ''The Biglow Papers'' (1848), No. 7. * War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation. ** [[Percival Lowell]], ''Mars and its Canals'' (1906), Chapter XXXII, Conclusion. * God has chosen little nations as the vessels by which He carries His choicest wines to the lips of humanity to rejoice their hearts, to exalt their vision, to strengthen their faith, and if we had stood by when two little nations ([[Belgium]] and [[Serbia|Servia]]) were being crushed and broken by the brutal hands of barbarians, our shame would have rung down the everlasting ages. ** [[Lloyd George]], speech at Queen's Hall (Sept., 1914). Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * The stern hand of Fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the everlasting things that matter for a nation—the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honour, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the pinnacles of [[Sacrifice]], pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven. We shall descend into the valley again; but as long as the men and women of this generation last, they will carry in their hearts the image of these mighty peaks, whose foundations are not shaken, though Europe rock and sway in the convulsions of a great war. ** [[Lloyd George]], speech at Queen's Hall (Sept., 1914). Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * Too late in moving here, too late in arriving there, too late in coming to this decision, too late in starting with enterprises, too late in preparing. In this war the footsteps of the allied forces have been dogged by the mocking specter of Too Late! and unless we quicken our movements, [[damnation]] will fall on the sacred cause for which so much gallant blood has flowed. ** [[Lloyd George]], speech, in the House of Commons (Dec. 20, 1915). Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * The last £100,000,000 will win. ** [[Lloyd George]], when Chancellor of the Exchequer, at the beginning of the war. 1914. See ''Everybody's Magazine'' (Jan., 1918), p. 8. * Is it, O man, with such discordant noises,<br> With such accursed instruments as these,<br>Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices,<br> And jarrest the celestial harmonies? ** [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]], ''Arsenal at Springfield'', Stanza 8. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * ''Ultima ratio regum.'' ** Last argument of kings. [Cannon.] ** [[Louis XIV]] ordered this engraved on cannon. Removed by the National Assembly, Aug. 19, 1790. Found on cannon in Mantua. (1613). On Prussian guns of today. Motto for pieces of ordnance in use as early as 1613. Buchmann—Geflügelte Wörte. Ultima razon de reges. (War). The ultimate reason of kings. Calderon. Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings. Frederick the Great to his brother Henry. April 21, 1759. * The Campbells are comin'. ** [[Robert T. S. Lowell]], ''The Relief of Lucknow''. Poem on same story written by Henry Morford, Alexander Maclagan. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * ''Pourquoi cette trombe enflammée<br>Qui vient foudroyer l'univers?<br>Cet embrasement de l'enfer?<br>Ce tourbillonnement d'armées<br>Par mille milliers de milliers?<br>—C'est pour un chiffon de papier.'' ** For what this whirlwind all aflame?<br> This thunderstroke of hellish ire,<br> Setting the universe afire?<br> While millions upon millions came<br> Into a very storm of war?<br> For a scrap of paper. ** [[w:Hyacinthe Loyson|Père Hyacinthe Loyson]], ''Pour un Chiffon de Papier''; translation by Edward Brabrook. In Notes and Queries, Jan. 6, 1917, p. 5. * ''Alta sedent civilis vulnera dextræ.'' ** The wounds of civil war are deeply felt. ** [[Marcus Annaeus Lucanus]], ''Pharsalia'', I. 32. * ''Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses.'' ** '''The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.''' *** [[Marcus Annaeus Lucanus]], ''Pharsalia'', Book IV, line 579. * ''Omnibus hostes<br>Reddite nos populis—civile avertite bellum.'' ** Make us enemies of every people on earth, but prevent a civil war. ** [[Marcus Annaeus Lucanus]], ''Pharsalia'', II. 52. * ''Non tam portas intrare patentes<br>Quam fregisse juvat; nec tam patiente colono<br>Arva premi, quam si ferro populetur et igni;<br>Concessa pudet ire via.'' ** The conqueror is not so much pleased by entering into open gates, as by forcing his way. He desires not the fields to be cultivated by the patient husbandman; he would have them laid waste by fire and sword. It would be his shame to go by a way already opened. ** [[Marcus Annaeus Lucanus]], ''Pharsalia'', II. 443. * 'Aig [F.-M. Sir Douglas Haig] 'e don't say much; 'e don't, so to say, say nothin'; but what 'e don't say don't mean nothin', not 'arf. But when 'e do say something—my Gawd! ** [[E. V. Lucas]], ''Boswell of Baghdad''. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * Enormous masses of ammunition, such as the human mind had never imagined before the war, were hurled upon the bodies of men who passed a miserable existence scattered about in mud-filled shell-holes. ** Quoted in "My War Memories, 1914-1918" - by [[Erich Ludendorff]] - 1919 * Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. Amen. ** [[Martin Luther]]. End of his speech at the Diet of Worms. April 18, 1521. Inscribed on his monument at Worms. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * I beg that the small steamers … be spared if possible, or else sunk without a trace being left. (Spurlos versenkt). ** Count Karl Von Luxburg, Chargé d'Affaires at Buenos Ayres. Telegram to the Berlin Foreign Office, May 19, 1917. Also same July 9, 1917, referring to Argentine ships. Cablegrams disclosed by Secretary Lansing as sent from the German Legation in Buenos Ayres by way of the Swedish Legation to Berlin. "If neutrals were destroyed so that they disappeared without leaving any trace, terror would soon keep seamen and travelers away from the danger zones." Prof. Oswald Flamm in the Berlin Woche. Cited in N. Y. Times, May 15, 1917. == M == [[File:The Final Stand at Bladensburg, Maryland, 24 August 1814.png|thumb|[P]eace is better than war, war is better than tribute.<br>{{center|~&nbsp;[[James Madison]]}}]] [[File:Cogordan - Joseph de Maistre, 1894 (page 12 crop).jpg|thumb|War is divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular, consequences little known because little studied, but which are nevertheless incontestable. War is divine in the mysterious [[glory]] that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it. War is divine by the manner in which it breaks out. ~ [[Joseph de Maistre]]]] [[File:US-NEW-CLASS-A-UNIFORM.png|thumb|Step by step, heart to heart. Left, right, left. We all fall down, like toy soldiers. Bit by bit torn apart, we never win, but the battle wages on for toy soldiers. ~ [[w:Martika|Martika]]]] [[File:Gustave de Molinari.jpg|thumb|War has been the [[necessary]] and [[inevitable]] [[consequence]] of the establishment of a [[monopoly]] on [[security]].<br>{{center|~&nbsp;[[Gustave de Molinari]]}}]] * I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes. ** [[Douglas MacArthur]], speech to a joint session of Congress after having been relieved of command in Korea by [[w:Harry S Truman|Truman]], 19 April 1951 * In war there is no substitute for victory. ** [[Douglas MacArthur]], speech to Congress, 19 April 1951 * That's the way it is in war. You win or lose, live or die—and the difference is just an eyelash. ** [[Douglas MacArthur]], ''Reminiscences'' (1964), p. 145 * Oh! wherefore come ye forth in triumph from the North,<br> With your hands and your feet, and your raiment all red?<br>And wherefore doth your rout send forth a joyous shout?<br> And whence be the grapes of the wine-press which ye tread? ** [[Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay]], ''The Battle of Naseby''. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60 * The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility. ** Attributed to Lord Fisher during the great War. Taken from Macaulay's Essay on Lord Nugent's Memorials of Hampden. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60 * [T]hat one should never permit a disorder to persist in order to avoid war, for war is not avoided thereby but merely deferred to one's own disadvantage... ** [[Niccolò Machiavelli]], ''The Prince'', Daniel Donno translation, Bantam, 1981, pp. 20, 82; Italian text, Il Principe, Nuova edizione a cura di Giorgio Inglese, Giulio Einaudi editore s.p.a., Torino, 2013 e 2014, pp.24, 171 * Di qui nacque che tutti li profeti armati vinsero, e li disarmati rovinarono. ** Hence it happened that all the armed prophets conquered, all the unarmed perished. ** [[Niccolò Machiavelli]], ''Il Principe'', C. 6 * War in men's eyes shall be<br>A monster of iniquity<br> In the good time coming.<br>Nations shall not quarrel then,<br> To prove which is the stronger;<br>Nor slaughter men for glory's sake;—<br> Wait a little longer. ** [[Charles Mackay]], ''The Good Time Coming''. * The warpipes are pealing, "The Campbells are coming."<br> They are charging and cheering. O dinna ye hear it? ** [[W:Alexander Maclagan|Alexander Maclagan]], ''Jennie's Dream''. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * ''J'y suis, et j'y reste.'' ** Here I am and here I stay. ** MacMahon, before Malakoff. Gabriel Hanotaux, in ''Contemporary France'', says that MacMahon denied this. Marquis de Castellane claimed the phrase in the Revue Hebdomodaire, May, 1908. Contradicted by L'Éclair, which quoted a letter by Gen. Biddulph to Germain Bapst, in which Gen. Biddulph tells that MacMahon said to him "Que j'y suis, et que j'y reste". * War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason; and if any thing is to be hoped, every thing ought to be tried. ** [[James Madison]], "Universal Peace", National Gazette (February 2, 1792), in Gaillard Hunt, ed., ''The Writings of James Madison'' vol. 6 (1906), p. 88–89. These words are inscribed in the Madison Memorial Hall, Library of Congress James Madison Memorial Building. * '''Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.''' War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war, and in the degeneracy of manners and of morals engendered by both. '''No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.''' ** [[James Madison]], "Political Observations" (20 April 1795); also in ''[http://archive.org/stream/lettersandotherw04madiiala#page/490/mode/2up Letters and Other Writings of James Madison]'' (1865), Vol. IV, p. 491 * No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. ** [[James Madison]], reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, ''Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers'' (1895), p. 614. * Unhappily, [[history]] proves that war is, in a certain sense, the habitual state of mankind, which is to say that human blood must flow without interruption somewhere or other on the globe, and that for every nation, [[peace]] is only a respite. ** [[Joseph de Maistre]], ''[[Considerations on France]]'' (1796), Ch. III * Now the real ''fruits'' of human nature – the arts, sciences, great enterprises, lofty conceptions, manly [[virtue]]s – are due especially to the state of war. […] In a word, we can say that [[blood]] is the manure of the plant we call ''[[genius]].'' ** [[Joseph de Maistre]], ''[[Considerations on France]]'' (1796), Ch. III * '''War is divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular, consequences little known because little studied, but which are nevertheless incontestable. War is divine in the mysterious [[glory]] that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it. War is divine by the manner in which it breaks out.''' ** [[Joseph de Maistre]], ''St. Petersburg Dialogues'' (1821), p. 218 * Opinion is so powerful in war that it can alter the nature of the same event and give it two different names, for no reason other than its own whim. A general throws his men between two enemy armies and he writes to his king, ''I have split him, he has lost.'' His opponent writes to his king, ''He has put himself between two fires, he is lost.'' Which of the two is mistaken? Whoever is seized by the ''cold goddess.'' Assuming that all things, especially size, are at least approximately equal, the only difference between the two positions is a purely moral one. '''It is [[imagination]] that loses battles.''' ** [[Joseph de Maistre]], ''St. Petersburg Dialogues'' (1821), p. 221 * He says, “No ruler in the history of the world has ever been able to afford a war. They’re not affordable things. No prince ever says, ‘This is my budget, so this is the kind of war I can have.’ You enter into one and it uses up all the money you’ve got, and then it breaks you and bankrupts you.” ** [[Hilary Mantel]], ''[[w:Wolf Hall|Wolf Hall]]'' (2009), Part 3, Section 1, <small> {{ISBN|978-0-312-42998-0}}, </small> p. 168 * The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue. ** [[Mao Zedong]], letter (January 5, 1930); in ''Selected Military Writings of Mao Tse-Tung'' (1966), p. 72. Mao was quoting from a letter from the Front Committee to the Central Committee, on guerrilla tactics. * ''Marlbrough s'en va-t-en guerre,<br>Mironton, mironton, mirontaine,<br>Marlbrough s'en va-t-en guerre,<br>Ne sait quand reviendra.'' ** Marlbrough (or Marlebrouck) S'en va-t-en Guerre. Old French Song. Attributed to Mme. de Sévigné. Found in Rondes avec Jeux et Petites Chansons traditionnelles, Pub. by Augener. Said to refer to Charles, Third Duke of Marlborough's unsuccessful expedition against Cherbourg or Malplaquet, probably the latter. (1709). See King's Classical Quotations. Air probably sung by the Crusaders of Godfrey de Bouillon, known in America "We won't go home until morning." Sung today in the East, tradition giving it that the ancestors of the Arabs learned it at the battle of Mansurah, April 5, 1250. The same appears in a Basque Pastorale; also in Chansons de Geste. Air known to the Egyptians. * The only hope for peace is to teach people who are full of pep and unbound force to enjoy being bound--enjoy submission to kind authority, wise authority, not merely tolerate such submission. Wars will only cease when humans enjoy being bound. ** [[William Moulton Marston]] as quoted in ''The Secret History of Wonder Woman'', (2014) by Jill Lepore, p. 238. * ''Cineri gloria sera venit''. (Also given as ''Cineri gloria sera sunt'' and ''Cineri gloria sera est''.) ** To the ashes of the dead, glory comes too late. ** [[Martial]], Epigrams (80-104 AD) * Step by step. Heart to heart. Left, right, left. We all fall down, like toy soldiers. Bit by bit torn apart, we never win, but the battle wages on for toy soldiers. ** [[w:Martika|Martika]], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mW4qmh8_9g "Toy Soldiers"] (1988), ''Martika'' * War is not the greatest [[evil]], though it is an evil. The open struggle of the battlefield is not the greatest evil; worse is that chronic condition of [[society]] which makes possible the [[violence]] of the stronger to the weaker; worse than war are insincerity and [[falsehood]]; worse is that [[egotism]] hidden under the mask of [[humanity]] and nobility in mind; worse is [[cowardice]] passing itself off as [[fortitude]]; worse is [[sophistry]] deceiving the sensible and wise. [[Death]] is not worse than a dishonourable life which destroys its own [[soul]] as well as that of its neighbour. **{{cite journal | last = Masaryk | first = Tomáš Garrigue | authorlink=Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk | date = 2017-03-29 | title = A Philosophy of Pacifism | journal = The New Europe | volume = 2 | issue = 24 | pages =342–350 | issn = | doi = | id = | url = https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_New_Europe/Volume_2/A_Philosophy_of_Pacifism }} * And silence broods like spirit on the brae,<br> A glimmering moon begins, the moonlight runs<br>Over the grasses of the ancient way<br> Rutted this morning by the passing guns. ** [[John Masefield]], August 14—In Philip the King. * For a flying foe<br>Discreet and provident conquerors build up<br>A bridge of gold. ** [[Philip Massinger]], ''The Guardian'', Act I, scene 1. * Some undone widow sits upon mine arm,<br>And takes away the use of it; and my sword,<br>Glued to my scabbard with wronged orphan's tears,<br>Will not be drawn. ** [[Philip Massinger]], ''A New Way to Pay Old Debts'', Act V, scene 1. * Wars and rumours of wars. ** Matthew, XXIV. 6. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war. ** [[John McCain]], quoted in ''Newsweek'' (23 June 2008), p. 21. * All quiet along the Potomac. ** Proverbial in 1861–62. Supposed to have originated with Gen. McClellan. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * How do wars begin? Through affront, through bravado, through stupidity or overconfidence, through sacred purpose or greed. ** [[Ian McDonald]], ''Verthandi’s Ring'' (2007) in [[w:Gardner Dozois|Gardner Dozois]] & [[w:Jonathan Strahan|Jonathan Strahan]] (eds.) ''[[w:The New Space Opera|The New Space Opera]]'' (mass market paperback edition, {{ISBN|978-0-06-135041-2}}), p. 43 * There's some say that we wan, some say that they wan,<br> Some say that nane wan at a', man,<br>But one thing I'm sure that at Sheriff-Muir,<br> A battle there was which I saw, man.<br>And we ran and they ran, and they ran and we ran,<br> And we ran, and they ran awa', man. ** [[Murdoch McLennan]], ''Sheriff-Muir''. (An indecisive battle, Nov. 13, 1715). * [W]ar is so complex, it’s beyond the ability of the [[human]] [[mind]] to comprehend allthe variables. Our [[judgement]], our [[understanding]], are not adequate. ** [[Robert McNamara|Robert McNamara]] in ''The Fog of War - Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara'', by Errol Morris (director), Columbia Tristar, 2004; as quoted in Antoine Bosquet, [https://www.academia.edu/390023/Cyberneticizing_the_American_War_Machine_Science_and_Computers_in_the_Cold_War “Cyberneticizing the American War Machine: Science and Computers in the Cold War”], p. 95. * There is war in the skies! ** [[Owen Meredith]] (Lord Lytton), ''Lucile'' (1860), Part I, Canto IV, Stanza 12. * [[City]] [[fighting]] also places enormous [[challenges]] on ground forces. Fighting in urban terrain generally favors the defenders, who can place [[w:Sniper|snipers]] in [[w:windows|windows]] and hide down narrow [[w:Alleys|alleys]]. <br> Even with precision munitions, it is difficult to use air and artillery power in a dense urban battle. Much of the fighting falls on the shoulders of the individual [[soldiers]], who have to clear the city block by block. ** Jim Michaels, [https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/03/29/united-states-mosul-isis-deadly-combat-world-war-ii/99787764/ “Iraqi forces in Mosul see deadliest urban combat since World War II”], ''USA Today'', ( March 29, 2017). * War challenges virtually every other institution of society—the justice and equity of its economy, the adequacy of its political systems, the energy of its productive plant, the bases, wisdom and purposes of its foreign policy. ** [[Walter Millis]], ''The Faith of an American'' (1941), p. 27. * What though the field be lost?<br>All is not lost; the unconquerable will,<br>And study of revenge, immortal hate<br>And courage never to submit or yield,<br>And what is else not to be overcome. ** [[John Milton]], ''[[Paradise Lost]]'' (1667; 1674), Book I, line 105. * Heard so oft<br>In worst extremes, and on the perilous edge<br>Of battle. ** [[John Milton]], ''[[Paradise Lost]]'' (1667; 1674), Book I, line 275. * Th' imperial ensign, which, full high advanc'd,<br>Shone like a meteor, streaming to the wind.<br>With gems and golden lustre rich emblazed,<br>Seraphic arms and trophies. ** [[John Milton]], ''[[Paradise Lost]]'' (1667; 1674), Book I, line 536. * My sentence is for open war. ** [[John Milton]], ''[[Paradise Lost]]'' (1667; 1674), Book II, line 51. * Others more mild,<br>Retreated in a silent valley, sing<br>With notes angelical to many a harp<br>Their own heroic deeds and hapless fall<br>By doom of battle. ** [[John Milton]], ''[[Paradise Lost]]'' (1667; 1674), Book II, line 546. * Black it stood as night,<br>Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell,<br>And shook a dreadful dart. ** [[John Milton]], ''[[Paradise Lost]]'' (1667; 1674), Book II, line 670. * So frown'd the mighty combatants, that hell<br>Grew darker at their frown. ** [[John Milton]], ''[[Paradise Lost]]'' (1667; 1674), Book II, line 719. * Arms on armour clashing bray'd<br>Horrible discord, and the madding wheels<br>Of brazen chariots ray'd; dire was the noise<br>Of conflict. ** [[John Milton]], ''[[Paradise Lost]]'' (1667; 1674), Book VI, line 209. * To overcome in battle, and subdue<br>Nations, and bring home spoils with infinite<br>Man-slaughter, shall be held the highest pitch<br>Of human glory. ** [[John Milton]], ''[[Paradise Lost]]'' (1667; 1674), Book XI, line 691. * The brazen throat of war. ** [[John Milton]], ''[[Paradise Lost]]'' (1667; 1674), Book XI, line 713. * No war or battle sound<br>Was heard the world around. ** [[John Milton]], ''Hymn of Christ's Nativity'', line 31. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings. ** [[Ludwig von Mises]], Nation, State and Economy (1919), p. 154. * In addition to [[w:Economic mobilization|economic]] and military {{w|mobilization}}, wartime measures typically encourage a high degree of political, social and intellectual [[conformity]]. The general idea is that, in the face of an existential challenge from a vicious [[enemy]], {{w|criticism of the government}} ought to cease. The [[media]] tends to become more [[patriotic]], as do former {{w|political partisans}}. ** [[Pankaj Mishra]], ''[https://theprint.in/opinion/world-is-fighting-a-war-against-covid-19-except-its-not-actually-one/417615/ From Modi to Johnson, leaders are using the pandemic to suppress their critics]'' (9 May, 2020), ''{{w|ThePrint}}'' *<p>Partout, à l’origine des sociétés, on voit donc les races les plus fortes, les plus guerrières, s’attribuer le gouvernement exclusif des sociétés&#8239;; partout on voit ces races s’attribuer, dans certaines circonscriptions plus ou moins étendues, selon leur nombre et leur force, le monopole de la sécurité.</p><p>Et, ce monopole étant excessivement profitable par sa nature même, partout on voit aussi les races investies du monopole de la sécurité se livrer à des luttes acharnées, afin d’augmenter l’<s></s>''étendue de leur marché,'' le nombre de leurs consommateurs ''forcés,'' partant la quotité de leurs bénéfices.</p><p>'''La guerre était la conséquence nécessaire, inévitable de l’établissement du monopole de la sécurité.'''</p><p>Comme une autre conséquence inévitable, ce monopole devait engendrer tous les autres monopoles.</p> ** [[Gustave de Molinari]], [[s:fr:De la production de la sécurité#VIII|§VIII]] de «&#8239;[[s:fr:De la production de la sécurité|De la production de la sécurité]]&#8239;», ''[[w:Journal des économistes|Journal des économistes]]'' 22, no. 95 (Paris: Chez Guillaumin et c<small>^e</small>, 15 Février 1849), [[:fr:s:Page:Journal des économistes, 1849, T22.djvu/290|p. 282]].&nbsp; Cf. [[:fr:s:Page:Journal des économistes, 1849, T22.djvu/297|pp. 289]]–[[:fr:s:Page:Journal des économistes, 1849, T22.djvu/298|280]]. ** Everywhere, when [[societies]] originate, we see the [[strongest]], most [[war]]like races seizing the exclusive [[government]] of the society.&nbsp; Everywhere we see these races seizing a [[monopoly]] on [[security]] within certain more or less extensive boundaries, depending on their number and strength.</p><p>And, this monopoly being, by its very [[nature]], extraordinarily [[profitable]], everywhere we see the races invested with the monopoly on security devoting themselves to bitter struggles, in order to <!--Page 35-->add to ''the extent of their [[market]]'', the number of their ''[[forced]]'' [[consumers]], and hence the amount of their gains.</p><p>'''[[War]] has been the [[necessary]] and [[inevitable]] [[consequence]] of the establishment of a [[monopoly]] on [[security]].'''</p><p>Another inevitable consequence has been that this monopoly has engendered all other monopolies.</p> *** [[Gustave de Molinari]], tr. J.&nbsp;Huston McCulloch, [[s:The Production of Security/5|§V]] of ''[[The Production of Security]]'' (Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2009; orig. 1849), [[s:Page:The Production of Security.pdf/35|pp. 34]]–[[s:Page:The Production of Security.pdf/36|35]].&nbsp; Cf. [[s:Page:The Production of Security.pdf/60|p. 59]]. * In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defence. ** [[James Monroe]], Annual Message. Dec. 2, 1823. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * War hath no fury like a non-combatant. ** [[Charles Edward Montague|C. E, Montague]], ''Disenchantment'' (1922). Quoted in Charlton, James,''The Military Quotation Book: More Than 1,100 of the Best Quotations About War, Leadership, Courage, Victory, and Defeat.'' St. Martin’s Press, New York, 2013. (p. 168); also quoted in Heinl, Jr., Robert Debs, ''Dictionary of Military and Naval Quotations'', Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD, 2014 (pg. 100). * Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out. ** [[Alan Moore]], "The Craft" - interview with Daniel Whiston, ''Engine Comics'' (January 2005) * Thrilled ye ever with the story<br>How on stricken fields of glory<br>Men have stood beneath the murderous iron hail! ** [[W:Henry Morford|Henry Morford]], ''Coming of the Bagpipes to Lucknow''. Poem on same story written by R. T. S. Lowell and Alexander Maclagan. * How stupid are all who deny [[hope]]! How [[Blindness|blind]] are those who affirm the advantage of wars! ** [[Morya]], ' Hierarchy, 390, (1931) * Cooperation must be accepted as the foundation of Existence. Only through the broadest cooperation is it possible to find the true relationship between the state and national labor. Otherwise the ruinous indebtedness of the state will increase. The solution of such a problem by means of war will be a sign of barbarism. One must think not about the destruction of nations, but about the improvement of the planet! ** [[Morya]], ''Aum'', 424, (1936) * We had nae heed for the parish bell,<br> But still—when the bugle cried,<br>We went for you to Neuve Chapelle,<br>We went for you to the yetts o' Hell,<br> And there for you we died! ** [[Neil Munro]], Roving Lads. (1915). == N == [[File:Agni-II missile (Republic Day Parade 2004).jpeg|thumb|right|War is the negation of truth and humanity. War may be unavoidable sometimes, but its progeny are terrible to contemplate. Not mere killing, for man must die, but the deliberate and persistent propagation of hatred and falsehood, which gradually become the normal habits of the people. [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] ]] [[File:Indian Army T-90.jpg|thumb|right|Wars are fought to gain a certain objective. War itself is not the objective; victory is not the objective; you fight to remove the obstruction that comes in the way of your objective. If you let victory become the end in itself then you've gone astray and forgotten what you were originally fighting about. ~ [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] ]] * They hold it atrocious to kill a fellow creature; therefore war is in their eyes incomprehensible and repulsive, a thing for which their language has no word. ** [[w:Fridtjof Nansen|Fridtjof Nansen]], ''Eskimo Life'' (1891), tr. William Archer (1893), [https://books.google.com/books?id=cTJCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA162 p. 162] in the second edition (1894) *'Wars aren't meant to be fought, They are meant to be won' **Neel Patel * 'Tis a principle of war that when you can use the lightning, 'tis better than cannon. ** [[Napoleon I]]. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * Providence is always on the side of the last reserve. ** Attributed to Napoleon I. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * Baptism of fire. ** Napoleon III in a letter to the Empress Eugenie after Saarbruecken. Referring to the experience of the Prince Imperial. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * We have to go along a road covered with blood. We have no other alternative. For us it is a matter of life or death, a matter of living or existing. We have to be ready to face the challenges that await us. ** [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]], speech to Egypt's National Assembly, Cairo, November 6, 1969, as reported by The Washington Post, November 7, 1969, p. 1. * '''The world of today has achieved much, but for all its declared love for humanity, it has based itself far more on hatred and violence than on the virtues that make one human. War is the negation of [[truth]] and humanity. War may be unavoidable sometimes, but its progeny are terrible to contemplate. Not mere killing, for man must die, but the deliberate and persistent propagation of hatred and falsehood, which gradually become the normal habits of the people. It is dangerous and harmful to be guided in our life's course by hatreds and aversions, for they are wasteful of energy and limit and twist the mind and prevent it from perceiving truth.''' ** [[Jawaharlal Nehru]], in ''[[w:The Discovery of India|The Discovery of India]]'' (1946). * '''Wars are fought to gain a certain objective. War itself is not the objective; victory is not the objective; you fight to remove the obstruction that comes in the way of your objective. If you let victory become the end in itself then you've gone astray and forgotten what you were originally fighting about.''' ** [[Jawaharlal Nehru]], in an interview with [[w:James Cameron (journalist)|James Cameron]], ''[[w:Picture Post|Picture Post]]'' (28 October 1950). * '''If in the modern world wars have unfortunately to be fought (and they do, it seems) then they must be stopped at the first possible moment, otherwise they corrupt us, they create new problems and make our future even more uncertain. That is more than morality; it's sense.''' ** [[Jawaharlal Nehru]], in an interview with [[w:James Cameron (journalist)|James Cameron]], ''Picture Post'' (28 October 1950). * England expects every officer and man to do his duty this day. ** Nelson—Signal, Oct. 21, 1805, to the fleet before the battle of Trafalgar. As reported in the London Times, Dec. 26, 1805. England expects that every man will do his duty. As reported by William Pryce Cunby, First Lieut. of the Bellerophon. The claim is that Nelson gave the order "Nelson confides," which was changed to "England expects." See Notes and Queries, Series VI, IX, 261.283; also Nov. 4, 1905, p. 370. * You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I tell you: it is the good war that hallows every cause. ** [[Friedrich Nietzsche]], ''Thus Spoke Zarathustra''. * What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine — they are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine — they are intoxication, ''drunken'' brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior, jealousies, meanness, indifference, ''selfish'' brutality on the part of the superior. ** [[Florence Nightingale]] in a letter (5 May 1855), published in ''Florence Nightingale : An Introduction to Her Life and Family'' (2001), edited by Lynn McDonald, p. 141. * A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning. ** [[Richard Nixon]], address before the National Association of Manufacturers, New York City (December 8, 1967); James J. Kilpatrick quoted a transcript in his syndicated column in ''The Evening Star'', Washington, D.C. (December 26, 1967,) p. A13. Nixon's topic was the "war in our cities". * I seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably the very last one. ** [[Richard Nixon]], on-the-record interview with C. L. Sulzberger (March 8, 1971), in ''The New York Times'' (March 10, 1971), p. 14. * A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers;<br>There was lack of woman's nursing, there was dearth of woman's tears. ** [[C. E. S. Norton]] (Lady Stirling-Maxwell), ''Bingen on the Rhine''. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. == O == [[File:VietnamMural.jpg|thumb|The only certainty in war is human suffering, uncertain costs, unintended consequences. ~ [[Barack Obama]]]] [[File:SaddamStatue.jpg|thumb|We may have occasion in our lifetime to once again rise up in defense of our freedom, and pay the wages of war.<br>{{center|~&nbsp;[[Barack Obama]]}}]] [[File:US Navy 041114-M-8205V-005 Iraqi Special Forces Soldiers assigned to the 1st Marines, patrol south clearing every house on their way through Fallujah, Iraq, during Operation Al Fajr (New Dawn).jpg|thumb|That’s what I’m opposed to. A dumb war. A rash war. A war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics. ~ [[Barack Obama]]]] * We may have occasion in our lifetime to once again rise up in defense of our freedom, and pay the wages of war. ** [[Barack Obama]], [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mheaney/Partisan_Dynamics_of_Contention.pdf Remarks Against Going to War with Iraq] (2 October 2002). * I am not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars. ** [[Barack Obama]], ''The New Yorker'' (2004) *That’s what I’m opposed to. '''A dumb war. A rash war. A war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics'''. **[[Barack Obama]], [http://action.barackobama.com/page/share/2002iraqfull Remarks of Illinois State Sen. Barack Obama Against Going to War with Iraq] (2002) * '''It's easier to start wars than to end them. It is easier to blame others than to look inward.''' It is easier to see what is different about someone than to find the things we share. But we should choose the right path, not just the easy path. ** [[Barack Obama]], A New Beginning (2009) * '''The only certainty in war is human suffering, uncertain costs, unintended consequences'''. ** [[Barack Obama]], [https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/08/05/remarks-president-iran-nuclear-deal Remarks by the President on the Iran Nuclear Deal at American University in Washington, D.C.] (2015) * War itself is never [[glorious]], and we must never [[trumpet]] it as such. ** [[Barack Obama]], in [http://books.google.co.in/books?id=-5FnvJEclewC&pg=PA3 Attitudes Aren't Free: Thinking Deeply About Diversity in the U.S. Armed Forces], p. 3. * '''War, no matter what our intentions may be, brings suffering and tragedy.''' ** [[Barack Obama]], [http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/24/politics/obama-vietnam-south-china-sea/ Obama raises human rights in Vietnam, calls for 'peaceful resolution' of South China Sea disputes], ''CNN'' (24 May 2016) * Artifacts tell us that violent conflict appeared with the very first man. Our early ancestors, having learned to make blades from flint and spears from wood, used these tools not just for hunting, but against their own kind. On every continent, the history of civilization is filled with war, whether driven by scarcity of grain or hunger for gold; compelled by nationalist fervor or religious zeal. Empires have risen and fallen. Peoples have been subjugated and liberated. And at each juncture, innocents have suffered, a countless toll, their names forgotten by time. ** [[Barack Obama]], [https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/05/27/remarks-president-obama-and-prime-minister-abe-japan-hiroshima-peace “Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Abe of Japan at Hiroshima Peace Memorial”]; Hiroshima Peace Memorial Hiroshima, Japan, (May 27, 2016) * War is a [[class conflict]], too. The rich and powerful who open war escape the consequences of their decisions. It’s not their children sent into the jaws of violence. It is often the vulnerable, the poor, & working people -who had little to no say in conflict - who pay the price. ** [[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez]], [https://twitter.com/aoc/status/1213210234732371968 ''Twitter post''] (3 January 2020) * March to the battle-field,<br> The foe is now before us;<br>Each heart is Freedom's shield,<br> And heaven is shining o'er us. ** [[B. E. O'Meara]], ''March to the Battle-Field''. [[File:Defense.gov News Photo 100816-M-9426J-001 - U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Daniel B. Wyss a squad leader with Golf Company 2nd Battalion 9th Marine Regiment collects information from Afghans.jpg|thumb|The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent... In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.~ [[Nineteen_Eighty-Four|George Orwell, ''1984'']]]] [[File:Wp ss 20160316 0018.png|thumb|In principle the war effort is always so planned as to eat up any surplus that might exist after meeting the bare needs of the population. In practice the needs of the population are always underestimated, with the result that there is a chronic shortage of half the necessities of life; but this is looked on as an advantage. It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another.... And at the same time the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival. ~ [[Nineteen_Eighty-Four|George Orwell, ''1984'']] ]] * War, it will be seen, is now a purely internal affair. In the past, the ruling groups of all countries, although they might recognize their common interest and therefore limit the destructiveness of war, did fight against one another, and the victor always plundered the vanquished. In our own day they are not fighting against one another at all. The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact. The very word "war", therefore, has become misleading. It would probably be accurate to say that by becoming continuous war has ceased to exist. ** [[Nineteen_Eighty-Four|George Orwell, ''1984'']] * In principle the war effort is always so planned as to eat up any surplus that might exist after meeting the bare needs of the population. In practice the needs of the population are always underestimated, with the result that there is a chronic shortage of half the necessities of life; but this is looked on as an advantage. It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another.... And at the same time the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival. ** [[Nineteen_Eighty-Four|George Orwell, ''1984'']] * A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war. This—although the vast majority of Party members understand it only in a shallower sense—is the inner meaning of the Party slogan: War is Peace. ** [[Nineteen_Eighty-Four|George Orwell, ''1984'']] * Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible... If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened.... And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed -if all records told the same tale — then the lie passed into history and became [[truth]]. Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past. And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. 'Reality control', they called it: in Newspeak, 'doublethink'... ** [[George Orwell]], ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'' (1949), Chapter III. * There is a hill in Flanders,<br> Heaped with a thousand slain,<br>Where the shells fly night and noontide<br> And the ghosts that died in vain,<br>A little hill, a hard hill<br> To the souls that died in pain. ** [[Everard Owen]], ''Three Hills'' (1915). == P == [[File:Battle of Guiliford Courthouse 15 March 1781.jpg|thumb|Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.<br>{{center|~&nbsp;[[Thomas Paine]]}}]] [[File:Battle of Springfield NJ 1780.jpg|thumb|We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.<br>{{center|~&nbsp;[[Thomas Paine]]}}]] [[File:March to Vincennes.jpg|thumb|These are the times that try men's souls. The Summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country, but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.<br>{{center|~&nbsp;[[Thomas Paine]]}}]] [[File:BattleofLongisland.jpg|thumb|War even to the knife.<br>{{center|~&nbsp;Palafox}}]] [[File:Fall of Fort Sackville.jpg|thumb|Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph.<br>{{center|~&nbsp;[[Thomas Paine]]}}]] [[File:US Army 52416 The American Soldier, 1781.jpg|thumb|What we obtain too cheaply we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.<br>{{center|~&nbsp;[[Thomas Paine]]}}]] [[File:041126-M-5191K-005 - Sgt Aubrey McDade, USMC.jpg|thumb|Once war consisted of individual combats between armed men...<br>{{center|~&nbsp;Kirby Page}}]] [[File:Apostle.Paul.Museum.of.the.Russian.icon.png|thumb|Though [[Christians|we]] live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. ~ [[Paul of Tarsus]]]] [[File:Ribera-platon.jpg|thumb|In order to increase their possessions they kick and butt with horns and hoofs of steel and kill each other, insatiable as they are. ~ [[Plato]]]] * Every war is the result of a difference of opinion. Maybe the biggest questions can only be answered by the greatest of conflicts. ** JC Denton, ''[[Deus Ex]]'', writen by Sheldon Pacotti. (June 17, 2000) * In war, force is used by the belligerents themselves, no effort being made to bring evildoers before a judicial body, each army acting as judge, jury and executioner. ** [[Kirby Page]], "[[Kirby_Page#.22What_is_War.3F.22_.281924.29|What is War?]]" (1924). * Once war consisted of individual combats between armed men. Later it was waged between lines of men in opposing trenches. Now it is organized slaughter of whole populations. ** [[Kirby Page]], "What is War?" (1924). * Tragic experience indicates that the most sacred obligations are utterly disregarded when their observance means losing the war. ** [[Kirby Page]], "What is War?" (1924). * War. War never changes. Since the dawn of human kind, when our ancestors first discovered the killing power of rock and bone, blood has been spilled in the name of everything: from God to justice to simple, psychotic rage. ** Emil Pagliarulo, ''[[Fallout|Fallout 3]]'', interpreted by {{w|Ron Perlman}} as the narrator. (October 2008) * Those who expect to reap the blessings of [[freedom]], must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it. ** [[Thomas Paine]], as quoted in ''[[s:The Crisis No. IV|The Crisis No. IV]]'' (12 September 1777). Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * In the early ages of the world, according to the Scripture chronology there were no kings; the consequence of which was, there were no wars; it is the pride of kings which throws mankind into confusion. ** Thomas Paine, ''Common Sense'' (1776) * These are the times that try men's souls. The Summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country, but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheaply we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated. ** [[Thomas Paine]], as quoted in ''[[s:The Crisis No. IV|The Crisis No. IV]]'' (12 September 1777). Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * War even to the knife. ** Palafox, the governor of Saragossa, when summoned to surrender by the French, who besieged that city in 1808. Generally quoted "At the point of the knife". * I have to say that war is man-made. It's made by men. It's their thing, it's their world, and they're terribly injured in it. They suffer terribly in it, but it's made by men. How do they come to live this way? ** [[Grace Paley]] "Of Poetry and Women and the World (1986) * Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here. ** [[John Parker]]. George Stimpson, ''A Book About American History'' (1950), p. 109. Captain Parker said this to his Minutemen troops at Lexington, Massachusetts, on April 19, 1775, as they prepared to meet the British in battle. Inscription on a marker at Lexington green. * Can any thing be more ridiculous, than that a man has a right to kill me, because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his prince has a quarrel with mine, though I have none with him. ** [[Blaise Pascal]], ''Pensées'', 294 * War is organised murder, and nothing else. ** [[w:Harry Patch|Harry Patch]] (the last surviving soldier to have fought in the trenches of the First World War; reported in [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/the-last-of-the-noblest-generation-1761467.html The Independent, 26 July 2009]). * Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow and of the man who leads that gains that victory. ** [[George S. Patton]], ''Cavalry Journal'' (September 1933). * ''Now in war we are confronted with conditions which are strange <br> If we accept them we will never win.'' ** [[George S. Patton]], in stanza 1 of "Absolute War" a poem composed by Patton in July 1944, during [[w:Operation Cobra|Operation Cobra]] as quoted in ''The Patton Papers 1940-1945'' (1996) edited by Martin Blumenson p. 492. * ''For in war just as in loving you must keep on shoving <br> Or you'll never get your reward. For if you are dilatory in the search for lust or glory <br> You are up shitcreek and that's the truth, Oh, Lord.''</p><p>''So let us do real fighting, boring in and gouging, biting. <br> Let's take a chance now that we have the ball. <br> Let's forget those fine firm bases in the dreary shell raked spaces, <br> Let's shoot the works and win! Yes win it all.''</p> ** [[George S. Patton]], in stanzas 4 and 5 of "Absolute War", as quoted in ''The Patton Papers 1940-1945'' (1996) edited by Martin Blumenson, p. 492. * Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best and it removes all that is base. ** [[George S. Patton]], ''Speech to the third army''. * Though [[Christians|we]] live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. ** [[Paul of Tarsus]], [[Second Epistle to the Corinthians]] 10:3 * But I have seen the unknown dead, those little men of the Republic. It was they who woke me up. If a stranger, an enemy, becomes a thing like that when he dies, if one stops short and is afraid to walk over him, it means that even beaten our enemy is someone, that after having shed his blood, one must placate it, give this blood a voice, justify the man who shed it. Looking at certain dead is humiliating. One has the impression that the same fate that threw these bodies to the ground holds us nailed to the spot to see them, to fill our eyes with the sight. It's not fear, not our usual cowardice. One feels humiliated because one understands–touching it with one's eyes–that we might be in their place ourselves: there would be no difference, and if we live we owe it to this dirtied corpse. That is why every war is a civil war; every fallen man resembles one who remains and calls him to account. ** [[Cesare Pavese]], ''The house on the hill''. * War makes men barbarous because, to take part in it, one must harden oneself against all regret, all appreciation of delicacy and sensitive values. One must live ''as if those values did not exist'', and when the war is over one has lost the resilience to return to those values. ** [[Cesare Pavese]], ''This Business of Living'', {{#dateformat:1939-09-09}} * [[Hell]], [[Heaven]] or Hoboken by Christmas. ** Attributed to General John Joseph Pershing. (1918). Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * [[Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette|Lafayette]], we are here. ** Gen. [[John J. Pershing|John Joseph Pershing]]. At the tomb of Lafayette. (1918). On the authority of a letter from the General's military secretary to George Morgan, Jan. 4, 1919. * Infantry, Artillery, Aviation—all that we have—are yours to dispose of as you will…. I have come to say to you that the American people would be proud to be engaged in the greatest battle in history. ** Gen. [[John J. Pershing|John Joseph Pershing]] to Gen. Foch, Letter written from Office of the Commander-in-Chief, American Expeditionary Forces, in France. See "Literary Digest History of World War," Volume V, p. 43. March 28, 1918. * ''Ils ne passeront pas.'' ** They shall not pass. *** [[Philippe Pétain|General Pétain]]. At the end of Feb., 1916, General de Castelnau was sent by General Joffre to decide whether Verdun should be abandoned or defended. He consulted with General Pétain, saying: "They (the Germans) must not pass." General Pétain said: "They shall not pass." In France the people credit it to General Joffre. See N. Y. Times, May 6, 1917. * γλυκύ δ᾽ἀπείρῳ πόλεμος.<br/>πεπειραμένων δέ τις ταρβεῖ προσιόντα νιν καρδία περισσῶς. * '''[[War]] is sweet to those who have no [[experience]] of it, <br/>but the experienced man trembles exceedingly at heart on its approach.''' ** [[Pindar]], Fragment 110; page 377. *** This phrase is the origin of the Latin proverb "''Dulce bellum inexpertis''" which is sometimes misattributed to [[Desiderius Erasmus‎]]. *** Variant translations: :::* '''War is sweet to them that know it not.''' :::* War is sweet to those not acquainted with it :::* War is sweet to those who do not know it. :::* War is sweet to those that never have experienced it. :::* War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it. * From the [[w:Rio Grande|Rio Grande]]'s waters to the icy lakes of [[Maine]],<br>Let all exult, for we have met the enemy again.<br>Beneath their stern old mountains we have met them in their pride;<br>And rolled from Buena Vista back the battle's bloody tide,<br>Where the enemy came surging swift like the Mississippi's flood,<br>And the Reaper, Death, with strong arms swung his sickle red with blood.<br>Santa Anna boasted loudly that before two hours were past<br>His Lancers through Saltillo should pursue us fierce and fast.<br>On comes his solid infantry, line marching after line.<br>Lo! their great standards in the sun like sheets of silver shine. ** Gen. Albert Pike—Battle of Buena Vista. * As an investigative journalist, I have often had to rely on the courageous, principled acts of [[w:whistle-blowers|whistle-blowers]]. The [[truth]] about the [[Vietnam War]] was told when [[Daniel Ellsberg]] leaked the [[W:Pentagon Papers|Pentagon Papers.]] The truth about [[Iraq War|Iraq]] and [[Afghanistan]], and [[Saudi Arabia]] and many other flashpoints was told when [[WikiLeaks]] published the revelations of whistle-blowers. ** [[John Pilger]] in [https://www.thedailystar.net/opinion/interviews/news/real-journalists-act-agents-people-not-power-1687921 ''Real journalists act as agents of people, not power, Daily Star (Bangladesh)''] (16 January 2019) * If I were an American, as I am an [[English people|Englishman]], while a foreign troop was landed in my country I never would lay down my arms,—never! never! never! ** [[William Pitt the Elder]] (Nov. 18, 1777). * When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. ** [[Plato]], ''The Republic'', Book VIII, 566e. * The inexperienced in wisdom and virtue, ever occupied with feasting and such, are carried downward, and there, as is fitting, they wander their whole life long, neither ever looking upward to the [[truth]] above them nor rising toward it, nor tasting pure and lasting pleasures. Like cattle, always looking downward with their heads bent toward the ground and the banquet tables, they feed, fatten, and fornicate. In order to increase their possessions they kick and butt with horns and hoofs of steel and kill each other, insatiable as they are. ** [[Plato]], ''[[The Republic (Plato)|Republic]]'' 586a-b. * He who first called money the sinews of the state seems to have said this with special reference to war. ** [[Plutarch]], ''Life of Cleomenes''. 27. * Sylla proceeded by persuasion, not by arms. ** [[Plutarch]], ''Lysander and Sylla Compared''. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * [[w:Lucius Aemilius Paulus Macedonicus|Paulus Aemilius]], on taking command of the forces in Macedonia, and finding them talkative and impertinently busy, as though they were all commanders, issued out his orders that they should have only ready hands and keen swords, and leave the rest to him. ** [[Plutarch]], ''Plutarch's Lives'', trans. John Dryden, rev. A. H. Clough (1859), life of Galba, vol. 5, p. 456. * It is the province of kings to bring wars about; it is the province of God to end them. ** [[w:Reginald Pole|Cardinal Pole]], to [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]]. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * She saw her sons with purple death expire,<br>Her sacred domes involved in rolling fire,<br>A dreadful series of intestine wars,<br>Inglorious triumphs and dishonest scars. ** [[Alexander Pope]], ''Windsor Forest'', line 323. * War is bad, heaven knows, but [[slavery]] is far worse. If the doom of slavery is not sealed by the war, I shall curse the day I entered the Army. ** Walter Stone Poor, a Union soldier from [[w:Maine in the American Civil War|Maine]], [https://books.google.com/books?id=1qhEHVki8tEC&pg=PA117 letter to George Fox] (15 May 1861), Sandy Hook * When there's a war around take the day off, that's my motto. **[[Terry Pratchett]], ''Interesting Times''. * The waves<br>Of the mysterious death-river moaned;<br>The tramp, the shout, the fearful thunder-roar<br>Of red-breathed cannon, and the wailing cry<br>Of myriad victims, filled the air. ** [[George D. Prentice]], ''Lookout Mountain'', line 16. * One thing had better be said at the outset. War occurs because the great mass of human beings are prepared, at least in certain circumstances, to regard the resort to arms as an acceptable proceeding. ** Robin Prior & Trevor Wilson, ''The First World War'' (1999), <small> 2001 paperback edition; ISBN 0–304-35984-X (even though Wikiquote is registering this as an invalid ISBN), </small> p. 22 * A man is known by the Company he joins.<br>Bad communication trenches corrupt good manners.<br>Never look a gift gun in the mouth.<br>A drop of oil in time saves time.<br>One swallow doesn't make a rum issue.<br>Where there's a war there's a way. ** Proverbial sayings, popular in the Great War. Origin about 1917. == Q == * If this bill passes … as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, to prepare definitely for a separation, amicably if they can, violently if they must. ** [[Josiah Quincy]], speech, In Congress. Jan. 14, 1811, against the admission of Louisiana to the Union. Quoted by Henry Clay in Congress (1813), "Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must." * Cœdes videtur significare sanguinem et ferrum. ** (Slaughter) means blood and iron. ** [[Quintilian]], ''Declamationes''. * And the Jews claim: "The Hand of God is tied up." while their own hands are shackled and they are cursed for what they say. Nay, both His hands are unconstrained. He disburses as He pleases. And that which has been revealed to thee from thy Lord will certainly make many of them increase in stubbornness and denial. And We have cast among them enmity and hatred till the day of Resurrection. '''Whenever they provoke a war, Allah puts it out, and they eager to make mischief on the Earth, but Allah loves not mischievous people.''' ** Quran, Chapter 5 (Al-Ma'idah) : 64 == R == [[File:Howard Chandler Christy - Gee I wish I were a Man, I'd Join the Navy - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|The sexual effect of a uniform, the erotically provocative effect of rhythmically executed goose-stepping, the exhibitionistic nature of militaristic procedures, have been more practically comprehended by a salesgirl or an average secretary than by our most erudite [[politicians]]. ~ [[Wilhelm Reich]]]] [[File:William_Holman_Hunt_-_The_Scapegoat.jpg|thumb|Under the influence of [[politicians]], [[masses]] of people tend to ascribe the [[responsibility]] for wars to those who wield [[power]] at any given [[time]]. In the [[First World War]] it was the munitions industrialists; in the [[Second World War]] it was the psychopathic [[w:General officer|generals]] who were said to be [[guilty]]. This is [[w:Buck passing|passing the buck]]. The responsibility for wars falls solely upon the shoulders of these same masses of people, for they have all the necessary means to avert war in their own [[hands]]. ~ [[Wilhelm Reich]]]] [[File:Poesia - Numine Afflatur - Raffaello.jpg|thumb|Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness...We are against war and the sources of war. We are for poetry and the sources of poetry. ~ [[Muriel Rukeyser]]]] * ''Ouvrez toujours à vos ennemis toutes les portes et chemin, et plutot leur faites un pont d'argent, afin de les renvoyer.'' ** Always open all gates and roads to your enemies, and rather make for them a bridge of silver, to get rid of them. ** [[François Rabelais]], ''Gargantua'', Book I, Chapter XLIII. Count de Pitillan, according to Gilles Corrozet—Les Divers Propos Memorables (1571) uses the same phrase with "golden" bridge for "silver." The same suggestion was made by Aristides, referring to the proposal to destroy Xerxes' bridge of ships over the Hellespont. ("A bridge for a retreating army.") See [[Plutarch]], ''Life of Demosthenes''. Louis II, Brantome, ''Memoirs'', Volume I, II, p. 83. Also French translation. of Thomasi, ''Life of Cæsar Borgia'', p. 64. * Lastly, forget good sportsmanship on the field of battle. War is not a refereed football game but the dirtiest game yet devised by human minds. And, if for one moment you feel soft towards that [[Nazism|Nazi]] shooting at you, remember he's trying to kill you and, if he had the chance, he'd drive your dad into slavery, cut your mother's throat, rape your wife, sister, sweetheart, or daughter. You'll get no quarter from him. Give him none! ** [[Edson Raff]], ''We Jumped to Fight'' (1944), p. 204 * I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war. I vote no. ** [[w:Jeannette Rankin|Jeannette Rankin]], casting her vote against the United States entering World War I, in the early hours of April 6, 1917, as reported by ''The New York Times'' (April 6, 1917), p. 1. Jeanette Rankin of Montana was the first woman elected to Congress, where she served 1917–1919 and 1941–1943. Not only did she vote against World War I, she was the only member of Congress to oppose declaring war on Japan in December 1941. * '''History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap'''. ** [[Ronald Reagan]], Address to the nation from the White House (16 January 1984). * A single pipe broken by a high-impact [[w:explosive|explosive]] [[weapon]] can deprive 100,000 people of [[water]]. That same weapon may also destroy the neighbourhood’s [[w:sewage system|sewage system]], causing thousands to fall [[ill]] and placing further strain on already overstretched [[w:hospitals|hospitals]]. <br> Local economies collapse and populations flee, leaving fewer [[doctors]] and [[engineers]], and no [[money]] to pay the salaries of those who remain. The acute pain caused by one attack triggers a ripple effect of long-term suffering that leaves no part of life unscathed. ** ''Red Cross'', [http://cityatwar.icrc.org/ “I saw my city die”]. * I never [[kill]] [[faces]]. These are the enemy, but if I don’t define things too closely, then I won’t miss any [[sleep]] tonight. ** [[w:Robert Reed|Robert Reed]], ''Prayer,'' in [[w:Rich Horton|Rich Horton]] (ed.) ''[[w:The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2013|The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2013]],'' p. 172 [http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/reed_05_12/ (Originally published at Clarkesworld #68] May, 2012) * War on the cheap is always a rotten policy. ** [[w:William Rees-Mogg|William Rees-Mogg]] [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/blogs/article-1217844/WILLIAM-REES-MOGG-The-big-tests-David-Cameron-tackle.html "The three big tests David Cameron has to tackle"], ''Daily Mail'' (<!-- UPDATED -->3 October 2009). * From the point of view of mass [[psychology]], the effect of militarism is based essentially on a libidinous mechanism. The sexual effect of a uniform, the erotically provocative effect of rhythmically executed goose-stepping, the exhibitionistic nature of militaristic procedures, have been more practically comprehended by a salesgirl or an average secretary than by our most erudite [[politicians]]. On the other hand it is political reaction that consciously exploits these sexual interests. It not only designs flashy uniforms for the men, it puts the recruiting into the hands of attractive women. In conclusion, let us but recall the recruiting posters of war-thirsty powers, which ran something as follows: ‘Travel to foreign countries — join the Royal Navy I’ and the foreign countries were portrayed by exotic women. And why are these posters effective? Because our youth has become sexually starved owing to sexual suppression. ** [[Wilhelm Reich]], ''The Mass Psychology of Fascism'', (1933), p. 31. * [[Catholic]] [[Christianity]] in particular has long since divested itself of the [[revolutionary]], i.e., rebellious, character of the primitive Christian movement. It seduces its millions of devotees into accepting war as an act of [[fate]], as a ‘[[punishment]] of [[sin]]’. Wars are indeed the consequences of sins, but entirely different sins from those conceived of by Catholicism. ** [[Wilhelm Reich]] in ''The Mass Psychology of Fascism'', (1933), p. 230. * Under the influence of [[politicians]], [[masses]] of people tend to ascribe the [[responsibility]] for wars to those who wield [[power]] at any given [[time]]. In the [[First World War]] it was the [[munitions]] [[industrialists]]; in the [[Second World War]] it was the [[psychopathic]] [[w:General officer|generals]] who were said to be [[guilty]]. This is [[w:Buck passing|passing the buck]]. The responsibility for wars falls solely upon the shoulders of these same masses of people, for they have all the necessary means to avert war in their own [[hands]]. ** [[Wilhelm Reich]], ''The Mass Psychology of Fascism'', (1933), p. 345. * People like to think of war as a ‘social thunderstorm’. It is said that it ‘purifies’ the atmosphere; it has its great benefits -it ‘hardens the [[youth]]’ and makes them [[courageous]]. As far as that goes, people say, we have always had and will always have wars. They are biologically motivated. According to [[Darwin]], the ‘[[struggle]] for [[existence]]’ is the [[law]] of [[life]]. Why, then, were [[peace]] conferences organized? Nor have I ever heard that bears or elephants split up into two camps and annihilate one another. In the [[animal]] kingdom there are no wars within the same [[species]]. Like [[sadism]], war among one’s own kind is an acquisition of ‘[[civilised]] man'. No, for some reason or another, man shies away from putting his finger on the [[causes]] of war. And there can be no [[doubt]] that better ways than war exist of making youth fit and [[healthy]], namely, a satisfying [[love]] life, [[pleasurable]] and steady [[work]], general [[sports]] and [[freedom]] from the malicious [[gossip]] of [[old]] [[maids]]. In short, such [[arguments]] are hollow chatter. ** [[Wilhelm Reich]], "The biological miscalculation in the human struggle for freedom (part I)", (1975), ''Journal of Orgonomy'' Vol 9, Issue 1. * And he gathered them together into a place called in the [[w:Hebrew language|Hebrew tongue]] Armageddon. ** [[Book of Revelation|Revelation]], XVI. 16. Armageddon. Correct reading is Har-Magedon, signifying Mountain of Megiddo. Authorized version, City of Megiddo. Mount Megiddo possibly Mount Carmel. The plain of Megiddo lay at its foot. Scene of many battles. * Then I saw when the Lamb broke one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying as with a voice of thunder, “Come.” I looked, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it had a bow; and a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and to conquer. ** Revelation 6:1-2 * Twelve mailed men sat drinking late,<br> The wine was red as blood.<br>Cried one, "How long then must we wait<br>Ere we shall thunder at the gate,<br> And crush the cursed brood?"<br>Twelve men of iron, drinking late,<br>Strike hands, and pledge a cup of hate:<br>* "The Day!" ** [[Charles Alex Richmond]], ''The Day''. * The war is a [[Hallucination|hallucination]] of those without [[homeland]]. ** [[Borislav Ristić]], [https://m.vecernji.hr/premium/rat-je-halucinacija-onih-bez-domovine-1263380 "Rat je halucinacija onih bez domovine"] ''Večernji list''. Published 11th August 2018. * If we are to end our wars, we have to dispense with a threatening, vengeful, bloodthirsty God. If we're to have any kind of world brotherhood, we have to dispense with a God who reserves his favors for a chosen few. Life is given to all. The sun shines freely on each of us. Would a God be less kindly? More than this, we must also dispense with our species God, and extend our ideas of divinity outward to the rest of nature which couches us and our religious theorizing with such a gracious and steady support. ** [[Jane Roberts]], ''The God of Jane: A Psychic Manifesto'', p. 63. [[File:Tri-service_medal_of_honor.jpg|thumb|'''The [[strength]] of a [[civilization]] is not measured by its [[ability]] to [[fight]] wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.''' ~ [[Gene Roddenberry]]]] * '''The [[strength]] of a [[civilization]] is not measured by its [[ability]] to [[fight]] wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.''' ** [[Gene Roddenberry]], shown at the end of the episode "Scorched Earth", no. 14 in the 3rd season of [[Wikipedia:Earth: Final Conflict|Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict]], first aired on February 7, 2000. * The morning came, there stood the foe;<br> Stark eyed them as they stood;<br>Few words he spoke—'twas not a time<br> For moralizing mood:<br>"See there the enemy, my boys!<br> Now, strong in valor's might,<br>Beat them or Betty Stark will sleep<br> In widowhood to-night." ** [[J. P. Rodmen]], ''Battle of Bennington''. * He who makes the powder wins the war. ** [[Walter Rodney]], {{cite book |title={{w|How Europe Underdeveloped Africa}} |date=1972 |publisher=Howard University Press |isbn=978-0-9501546-4-0 |page=118}} * Lo, steel-clad War his gorgeous standard rears !<br>The red-cross squadrons madly rage,<br> And mow thro' infancy and age... ** [[Samuel Rogers]], ''Ode to Superstition'' III.2. (1786). * I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody a chance to get sore at everybody else. Sometimes it takes two or three conferences to scare up a war, but generally one will do it. ** [[Will Rogers]], syndicated column (July 5, 1933); in ''The New York Times'' (July 6, 1933, p. 23). Disraeli is another who had an unsanguine view of conferences: "The Conference lasted six weeks. It wasted six weeks. It lasted as long as a Carnival, and, like a Carnival, it was an affair of masks and mystification. Our Ministers went to it as men in distressed circumstances go to a place of amusement—to while away the time, with a consciousness of impending failure". Speech in the House of Commons on Denmark and Germany, vote of censure (July 4, 1864), ''Hansard's Parliamentary Debates'', 3d series, vol. 176, col. 743. * I originated a remark many years ago that I think has been copied more than any little thing that I've every said, and I used it in the FOLLIES of 1922. I said America has a unique record. We never lost a war and we never won a conference in our lives. I believe that we could without any degree of egotism, single-handed lick any nation in the world. But we can't confer with [[w:Costa Rica|Costa Rica]] and come home with our shirts on. ** [[Will Rogers]], Paula McSpadden Love, ''The Will Rogers Book'' (1972), p. 177. The author was a niece of Will Rogers's and curator of the Will Rogers Memorial in Claremore, Oklahoma. * Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week. ** [[Will Rogers]] as quoted in ''Wit'' (2003) by Des MacHale, p. 299 * You can't say civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way. ** [[Will Rogers]], ''The Autobiography of Will Rogers'' (1949) * Since I am an immature and wicked man, war and unrest appeal to me more than good [[Bourgeoisie|bourgeois]] order. [[Cruelty|Brutality]] is respected, the people need wholesome fear. They want to fear someone. They want someone to frighten them and make them shudderingly submissive. ** [[Ernst Röhm ]], Cited in "The Nazis: A Warning from History", Disc 1, 10:48. Also quoted in "The Face of the Third Reich: Portraits of the Nazi Leadership" - Page 139 by Joachim C. Fest - History - 1999. * And while I am talking to you mothers and fathers, I give you one more assurance. I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars. ** [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], campaign speech, Boston, Massachusetts (October 30, 1940); in ''The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940'' (1941), p. 517. * To you men who, in your turn, have come together to spend and be spent in the endless crusade against wrong; to you who face the future resolute and confident; to you who strive in a spirit of brotherhood for the betterment of our nation; to you who gird yourselves for this great new fight in the never-ending warfare for the good of mankind, I say in closing what I said in that speech in closing: "We stand at Armageddon and we battle for the Lord." ** [[Theodore Roosevelt]], speech, at Chicago, Progressive Convention, Aug. 5, 1912, quoting from his speech in June. * There are a great many objections urged against the enfranchisement of women; and one that I have recently heard is that women would not go to war. Perhaps, if women had the franchise, men would not need to go to war neither. And this is one great reason why I demand the franchise. War is only a relic of the old barbarisms. So long as woman is deprived of her right, man is only next door to a barbarian. If he were not, he never would go to war. ** [[Ernestine Rose]], [https://awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu/2017/03/21/address-to-the-first-anniversary-of-the-american-equal-rights-association-may-9-1867-2/ Address] to the First Anniversary of the American Equal Rights Association (May 9, 1867) * Righteous Heaven,<br>In thy great day of vengeance! Blast the traitor<br>And his pernicious counsels, who, for wealth,<br>For pow'r, the pride of greatness, or revenge,<br>Would plunge his native land in civil wars. ** [[Nicholas Rowe]], ''Jane Shore'' (1714), Act III, scene 1, line 198. * War, the needy bankrupt's last resort. ** [[Nicholas Rowe]], ''Pharsalia'', Book I. 343. * War does not develop the virtues of peace. . .It is not a school that teaches respect for the person or property of others. ** Betty B. Rosenbaum, [https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2911&context=jclc "Relationship Between War and Crime in the United States"], ''Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology'', Volume 30, Issue 5, January-February, 1940. * When the rules of civilized society are suspended, when killing becomes a business and a sign of valor and heroism, when the wanton destruction of peaceable women and. children becomes an act of virtue, and is praised as a service to God and country, then it seems almost useless to talk about crime in the ordinary sense. ** Betty B. Rosenbaum, [https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2911&context=jclc "Relationship Between War and Crime in the United States"], ''Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology'', Volume 30, Issue 5, January-February, 1940. * [There is] an obliteration of all the religious, moral and legal habits which acted as a barrier against acts of murder or of aggression against personal inviolability. ** Betty B. Rosenbaum, [https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2911&context=jclc "Relationship Between War and Crime in the United States"], ''Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology'', Volume 30, Issue 5, January-February, 1940. * Uppermost on everybody’s mind of course, particularly here in America, is the horror of what has come to be known as [[September 11 attacks|9/11]]. Nearly three thousand civilians lost their lives in that lethal [[Terrorism|terrorist]] strike. The grief is still deep. The rage still sharp. The tears have not dried. And a strange, deadly war is raging around the world. Yet, each person who has lost a loved one surely knows secretly, deeply, that no war, no act of revenge, no daisy-cutters dropped on someone else’s loved ones or someone else’s children, will blunt the edges of their pain or bring their own loved ones back. War cannot avenge those who have died. War is only a brutal desecration of their memory. **[[Arundhati Roy]], [https://dharma-records.buddhasasana.net/texts/arundhati-roys-speech-come-september ''Come September'' Speech, Santa Fe, NM], (29 Sep 2002) * He never would believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden. ** [[Richard Rumbold]], at his execution (1685). See Macaulay—History of England, Chapter V. * It makes me hate war, but it doesn't make me believe that we're in a world that can live without war yet. ** Lt. Josh Rushing, Pentagon spokesman, in ''[[w:Control Room (film)|Control Room]]'' (2004), upon viewing footage of dead and wounded American soldiers in Iraq * '''I have seen war.''' I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. '''I hate war.''' ** [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]], August 1936 speech in Chautauqua, New York, reported in [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,756504,00.html?promoid=googlep Time magazine]. * Those who took refuge in the cave of Zeret tried to reproduce their traditional way of life underground, far from the omnivoyance of the [[Italian]] colonial army. This seems to be a characteristic of 20th century war: from the [[w:Madrid Metro|Madrid tube]] in the 1930s to the present [[Al-Qaeda]] bunkers in [[Afghanistan]], all the way through the [[w:Vietcong|Vietcong]] tunnels and the [[American]] [[w:Fallout shelter|nuclear shelters]] of the 1960s. Talking about the [[Iraq War]], Stephen Graham (2004: 18) writes: ‘this time... the key is between trans-global, near instantaneous killing power, operating on the fringes of the outer space, and deep, subterranean, terrestrial space’. Except for the outer space, though, there is nothing really new in the [[War on Terror|War against Terror]]—an offspring of [[colonial]] warfare (Mbembe 2003). For the last hundred years, against the destructiveness of industrial war, the only option of survival has been going underground. And this is what the followers of Abebe Aregai did. ** Alfredo González-Ruibal, Yonatan Sahle and Xurxo Ayán Vila, [https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/36054473.pdf “A social archaeology of colonial war in Ethiopia”], ''World Archeology'', Vol. 43, (04, Mar 2011), p.8 * Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness...We are against war and the sources of war. We are for poetry and the sources of poetry. ** [[Muriel Rukeyser]] ''The Life of Poetry'' (1949) p 211 and 213 * '''Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country.''' ** [[Bertrand Russell]], ''Has Man a Future?'' (1962), p. 78<!--79--> * [The Russians] dashed on towards that thin line tipped with steel. ** W. H. Russell—The British Expedition to the Crimea. (Revised edition), p. 187. Also in his Letters to the London Times, Oct. 25, 1854. Speaking of the 93rd Highlanders at Balaclava. Credit for authorship of "the thin red line" claimed by Russell in a letter printed in Notes and Queries, series 8, VII, p. 191. == S == [[File:USMC-00772.jpg|thumb|"War," a friend of mine said, "is not about sound at all. It is actually about silence, the silence of humanity." ~ [[Zainab Salbi]]]] [[File:RIAN archive 662758 Recruits entering Voroshilov Barracks.jpg|thumb|Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.<br>{{center|~&nbsp;[[Carl Sandburg]]}}]] [[File:Sensenmann auf dem Melaten-Friedhof, Köln.jpg|thumb|Only the dead have seen the end of war.<br>{{center|~&nbsp;[[George Santayana]]}}]] [[File:New Orleans h76369k.jpg|thumb|War is hell.<br>{{center|~&nbsp;[[William Tecumseh Sherman]]}}]] [[File:Sherman sea 1868.jpg|thumb|We fed thousands upon thousands of the families of rebel soldiers left on our hands, and whom we could not see starve. Now that war comes home to you; you feel very different. You deprecate its horrors, but did not feel them when you sent car-loads of soldiers and ammunition, and moulded shells and shot to carry war.<br>{{center|~&nbsp;[[William Tecumseh Sherman]]}}]] [[File:Atomic cloud over Hiroshima.jpg|thumb|A people who will persevere in war beyond a certain limit ought to know the consequences.<br>{{center|~&nbsp;[[William Tecumseh Sherman]]}}]] [[File:Hiroshima 10km.jpg|thumb|You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm as against these terrible hardships of war. They are inevitable.<br>{{center|~&nbsp;[[William Tecumseh Sherman]]}}]] [[File:Bruce Crandall's UH-1D.jpg|thumb|War! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing!<br>{{center|~&nbsp;[[w:Edwin Starr|Edwin Starr]]}}]] [[File:CDR Michele Day, USN (X.O.).jpg|thumb|War! war! war! Heaven aid the right! God move the hero's arm in the fearful fight! God send the women sleep in the long, long night... When the breasts on whose strength they leaned shall heave no more.<br>{{center|~&nbsp;[[Edmund Clarence Stedman]]}}]] [[File:Portrait of Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson II.jpg|thumb|right|A [[wise]] man does not try to hurry [[history]]. Many wars have been avoided by patience and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.<br>{{center|~&nbsp;[[Adlai Stevenson II]]}}]] [[File:Count and Countess László Széchenyi.jpg|thumb|War has been the excuse people have made throughout history to take something away from others that didn't belong to them...War is caused by greed. ~ [[László Széchenyi]]]] * [[Piers Morgan]]: You're always very keen to take a view, even if they're unproven, that is anti-American. You're never quite so keen to take a view that is anti-dictator. ... : [[Jeffrey Sachs]]: It's not whether they're dictators or not, it's what the United States' role is. I don't believe that any country can arrogate this task of bringing down other countries' governments. The [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] has been involved in probably 90 or 100 covert [[w:United States regime change operations|regime change operations]] since it was founded in 1947. My whole life has been the United States at war. It's sickening. It's tiring. These wars are disasters. It's just not our business to say, "That one's despicable. That one has to go." But literally this is what [[Obama]] did. It's a shame that he did this. He said, "[[w:Bashar al-Assad|Assad]] must go." ... Literally, Piers, it's been 13 years of mass killing since then, no resolution at all. Completely predictable. This is what I'm against. :* [[Jeffrey Sachs]] as interviewed by [[Piers Morgan]], [https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/tv-series/jeffrey-sachs-on-syria-assad-putin-transcript/ December 5, 2024] * I grew up in [[Iraq war|war-torn Iraq]], and I believe that there are two sides of wars and we've only seen one side of it. We only talk about one side of it. But there's another side that I have witnessed as someone who lived in it and someone who ended up working in it. ** [[Zainab Salbi]], ''[https://www.ted.com/talks/zainab_salbi?language=en Zainab Salbi: Women, wartime and the dream of peace]'', speech at [[w:TED (conference)#TEDGlobal|TEDGlobal]] 2010, ''[[w:TED (conference)|TED]]''. * '''"War," a friend of mine said, "is not about sound at all. It is actually about silence, the silence of humanity."''' ** [[Zainab Salbi]], ''[https://www.ted.com/talks/zainab_salbi?language=en Zainab Salbi: Women, wartime and the dream of peace]'', speech at [[w:TED (conference)#TEDGlobal|TEDGlobal]] 2010, ''[[w:TED (conference)|TED]]''. * '''There are two sides of war. There is a side that fights, and there is a side that keeps the schools and the factories and the hospitals open.''' There is a side that is focused on winning battles, and there is a side that is focused on winning life. There is a side that leads the front-line discussion, and there is a side that leads the back-line discussion. There is a side that thinks that peace is the end of fighting, and there is a side that thinks that peace is the arrival of schools and jobs. There is a side that is led by men, and there is a side that is led by [[Women in war|women]]. And in order for us to understand how do we build lasting peace, we must understand war and peace from both sides. We must have a full picture of what that means. ** [[Zainab Salbi]], ''[https://www.ted.com/talks/zainab_salbi?language=en Zainab Salbi: Women, wartime and the dream of peace]'', speech at [[w:TED (conference)#TEDGlobal|TEDGlobal]] 2010, ''[[w:TED (conference)|TED]]''. * To accept the legitimacy of the state is to embrace the necessity for war. ** [[L.K. Samuels]], “Iraq and the Roots of War,” ''California Freedom'' (June 2007). * Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. ** [[Carl Sandburg]], "The People, Yes", ''The People, Yes'' (1936), stanza 23, line 23, republished in ''The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg'', rev. and expanded ed. (1970), p. 464. * Mr. Speaker, in the brief time I have let me give you five reasons why I'm opposed to giving the President a blank check to launch a unilateral invasion and occupation of Iraq and why I will vote against this resolution. One: I have not heard any estimates of how many young American men and women might die in such a war, or how many tens of thousands of women and children in Iraq might also be killed. As a caring nation, we should do everything we can to prevent the horrible suffering that a war will cause. War must be the last recourse in international relations, not the first. Second... If President Bush believes that the US can go to war at any time against any nation, what moral or legal obligation can our government raise if another country chose to do the same thing. ** [[Bernie Sanders]], in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdFw1btbkLM Speech on Iraq War Resolution in US House of Representatives] (9 October 2002) * War was a masculine art, but when you started attacking women, you’d stopped engaging in war. You deserved anything that happened to you after that point. ** [[Brandon Sanderson]], ''[[w:Rhythm of War|Rhythm of War]]'' (2020), <small> {{ISBN|978-0-7653-2638-6}}, </small> p. 1165 (Chapter 111) * Irregular combatants are at their most effective in cities. They cannot easily shoot down planes, nor fight tanks in open fields. Instead, they draw the enemy into cities, and undermine the key advantage of today’s major powers, whose mechanised weapons are of little use in dense and narrow urban spaces. ** Saskia Sassen, [https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/jan/30/new-war-rise-endless-urban-conflict-saskia-sassen “Welcome to a new kind of war: the rise of endless urban conflict”], ''The Guardian'', (30 Jan 2018), last modified on (11 May 2018). * Another fucking war, man. I don't know where to begin, but I'll start with the radical leaders. Their steps we're following. ** [[w:Avenged Sevenfold|Matthew Charles Sanders]], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPpLVdbVXFI "Blinded in Chains"] (2005), ''City of Evil'' * '''Only the dead have seen the end of war.''' ** [[George Santayana]], ''Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies'' (1922); this is often misattributed to [[Plato]][http://plato-dialogues.org/faq/faq008.htm]. * '''Let no one ever, from henceforth say one word in any way countenancing war.''' It is dangerous even to speak of how here and there the individual may gain some hardship of soul by it. For '''war is hell, and those who institute it are criminals. Were there even anything to say for it, it should not be said; for its spiritual disasters far outweigh any of its advantages.''' ** [[Siegfried Sassoon]], As quoted by Robert Nichols in his introduction to ''The Counter-Attack and Other Poems'' (1918) * The fundamental of war has always been dehumanizing the enemy, seeing him as a soulless animal. ** [[Robert J. Sawyer]], ''Factoring Humanity'' (1998), Chapter 41 * ''Qui fuit peut revenir aussi;<br>Qui meurt, il n'en est pas ainsi.'' ** He who flies can also return; but it is not so with him who dies. ** Scarron. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * Ein Schlachten war's, nicht eine Schlacht, zu nennen!<br> It was a slaughter rather than a battle. ** [[Friedrich Schiller]], ''Die Jungfrau von Orleans'', I. 9. 50. * Est ist hier wie in den alten Zeiten<br>Wo die Klinge noch alles that bedeuten. ** It is now as in the days of yore when the sword ruled all things. ** [[Friedrich Schiller]], ;;Wallenstein's Lager;;, VI. 140. * War is not healthy for children and other living things. ** Lorraine Art Schneider, Mother's Day card (1967) for [[w:Another Mother for Peace|Another Mother for Peace]], used in the organization's logo. See [http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/peace/DG100-150/DG102AMP.html Swarthmore College Peace Collection]. * ''Hosti non solum dandam esse viam fugiendi verum etiam muniendam.'' ** Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it. ** [[Scipio Africanus]], according to Frontinus, ''Strateg'', IV. 7. 16. * One blast upon his bugle horn<br> Were worth a thousand men. ** [[Walter Scott]], ''Lady of the Lake'' (1810), Canto VI, Stanza 18. * In the lost battle,<br> Borne down by the flying,<br>Where mingles war's rattle<br> With groans of the dying. ** [[Walter Scott]], ''Marmion'' (1808), Canto III, Stanza 11. * "Charge, Chester, charge! On, Stanley, on!"<br>Were the last words of Marmion. ** [[Walter Scott]], ''Marmion'' (1808), Canto VI, Stanza 32. * Still from the sire the son shall hear<br>Of the stern strife, and carnage drear,<br> Of Flodden's fatal field,<br>When shiver'd was fair Scotland's spear,<br> And broken was her shield! ** [[Walter Scott]], ''Marmion'' (1808), Canto VI, Stanza 34. * There was a stately drama writ<br> By the hand that peopled the earth and air,<br>And set the stars in the infinite,<br> And made night gorgeous and morning fair;<br>And all that had sense to reason knew<br>That bloody drama must be gone through.<br>Some sat and watched how the action veered—<br>Waited, profited, trembled, cheered—<br>We saw not clearly nor understood,<br> But yielding ourselves to the masterhand,<br>Each in his part as best he could,<br> We played it through as the author planned. ** [[Alan Seeger]], ''The Hosts''. * I'm dedicating my little [[story]] to you; doubtless you will be among the very few who will ever [[read]] it. It seems [[w:War Story|war stories]] aren't very well received at this point. I'm told they're out-dated, untimely and as might be expected - make some [[unpleasant]] reading. And, as you have no doubt already perceived, human beings don't like to [[remember]] unpleasant things. They gird themselves with the [[armor]] of [[w:Wishful thinking|wishful thinking]], [[protect]] themselves with a [[shield]] of impenetrable [[optimism]], and, with a few exceptions, seem to accomplish their "[[forgetting]]" quite admirably. But you, my children, I don't want you to be among those who choose to forget. I want you to read my stories and a lot of others like them. I want you to fill your heads with Remarque and Tolstoy and Ernie Pyle. I want you to know what shrapnel, and "88's" and mortar shells and mustard gas mean. I want you to feel, no matter how vicariously, a semblance of the [[feeling]] of a torn limb, a burnt patch of flesh, the [[crippling]], [[numbing]] sensation of [[fear]], the [[hopeless]] [[emptiness]] of [[fatigue]]. All these things are complimentary to the province of war and they should be [[taught]] and demonstrated in [[w:Classroom|classrooms]] along with the more [[heroic]] aspects of [[uniforms]], and [[flags]], and [[honor]] and [[patriotism]]. I have no idea what your generation will be like. In mine we were to enjoy "Peace in our time". A very well meaning gentleman waved his umbrella and shouted those very words...less than a year before the whole world went to war. But this gentleman was suffering the worldly disease of insufferable optimism. He and his fellow humans kept polishing the [[w:Rose-colored glasses|rose colored glasses]] when actually they should have taken them off. They were [[sacrificing]] [[reason]] and [[reality]] for a brief and temporal [[w:Peace of mind|peace of mind]], the same peace of mind that many of my contemporaries derive by steadfastly refraining from remembering the war that came before. ** [[Rod Serling]], excerpt from a dedication to an unpublished short story, "First Squad, First Platoon"; from Serling to his as yet unborn children. * Too many wars are fought almost as if by rote. Too many wars are fought out of sloganry, out of battle hymns, out of aged, musty appeals to patriotism that went out with knighthood and moats. Love your country because it is eminently worthy of your affection. Respect it because it deserves your respect. Be loyal to it because it cannot survive without your loyalty. But do not accept the shedding of blood as a natural function or a prescribed way of history, even if history points this up by its repetition. That men die for causes does not necessarily sanctify that cause. And that men are maimed and torn to pieces every fifteen and twenty years does not immortalize or deify the act of war. Are you tough enough, young ladies and gentlemen, to try to build a world in which young men can live out their lives in fruitful pursuit of a decent, enriching consummation of both his talents and his hopes. But if survival calls for the bearing of arms, bear them, you must. As we all have. ** [[Rod Serling]], [https://rodserling.com/rod-serlings-1968-commencement-address/ ”Rod Serling’s 1968 Commencement Address of Rod Serling to Binghamton Central High School Graduates”], (January 28th, 1968) * When you leave here today, if you agree with me, and others, give thought if you will to the inconsistencies of our national morality. That we can punish civil disobedience that finds expression in a revulsion against death – and yet remain strangely unmoved by acts of murder against victims we are supposedly helping, and are ourselves dying for. <br> And even if you don’t agree – give thought to the whole adventure of war. It has been your fathers lot, and mine, and his. There has not been even a spasmodic moment when young men have not fought and died. When the solons, and the aged heads of state have not in their infinite wisdom and consummate judgment, sent the young off to end their lives. An obscure poet named [[w:Arthur Daidson Ficke Arthur Daidson Ficke ]]|, wrote this in the 19th century: “Old men in impotence can beget new wars to kill the lusty young; Young men can sing, old men forget…That any song was every sung.” Don’t you forget that song, the words, the music, the symphony to living. Remember that you can’t necessarily sanctify a cause by virtue of the fact that men die for it. A death in a worthless or even questionable cause is a pointless, meaningless, tragically premature death. So when, in future times, men ask you to prove patriotism and loyalty and affection for your native land – remember that these things are not always equated with a willingness to die or to kill. ** Rod Serling, [https://rodserling.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Serling_Commencement_IC_1972.pdf “Commencement Address of Rod Serling to Ithica College New York"], (May 13, 1972), pp.3-4 * Fortune is always on the side of the largest battalions. ** [[Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné]], ''Letters'', 202. * It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces. ** [[William H. Seward]], speech, The Irrepressible Conflict. Oct. 25, 1858. * They got [[money]] for wars, but can't feed the [[poor]]. ** [[Tupac Shakur]], ''[[w:Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z...|Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z...]]'', "Keep Ya Head Up", (February 16, 1993). * There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war. ** [[Bernard Shaw]], ''Heartbreak House''. Preface. Madness in Court. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. ** [[Bernard Shaw]], ''Man and Superman''. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * They shall not pass, tho' battleline<br>May bend, and foe with foe combine,<br> Tho' death rain on them from the sky<br> Till every fighting man shall die,<br>France shall not yield to German Rhine. ** [[Alice M. Shepard]], ''They Shall Not Pass''. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * “These movies, they make war seem like a mystical opportunity. Well, man, when I was here it wasn’t quite that way, y’know. It was leeches, fungus, the shits. It was searchin’ in the weeds for your buddy’s arm. It was lookin’ into the snaky eyes of some whore you were bangin’ and feelin’ weird shit crawl along your spine and expectin’ her head to do a Linda Blair three-sixty spin.” I slipped into a chair and leaned closer to Witcover. “It was Mordor, man. Stephen King land. Horror. And now, now I look around at all these movies and monuments and crap, and it makes me wanna fuckin’ puke to see what a noble hell it’s turnin’ out to be!” ** [[Lucius Shepard]], ''Shades'' (1987), reprinted in [[w:Gardner Dozois|Gardner Dozois]] (ed.), ''[[w:The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection|The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection]]'', p. 356 * '''A people who will persevere in war beyond a certain limit ought to know the consequences'''. Many, many peoples with less pertinacity have been wiped out of national existence. ** General [[William Tecumseh Sherman]], letter to Major R.M. Sawyer (31 January 1864), from Vicksburg. * Hold the Fort! I am coming. ** General [[William Tecumseh Sherman]], Signalled to Gen. Corse. Oct. 5, 1864. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * War is hell. ** Attributed to General [[William Tecumseh Sherman]]. (Not remembered by him). John Koolbeck, of Harlem, Iowa, who was Aide de Camp to Gen. Winslow, testifies that after the battle of Vicksburg, 1861, Gen. Sherman was watching the crossing of the army across a pontoon bridge, at the river Pearl. Koolbeck distinctly heard him say: "War is Hell." See Everybody's. Oct., 1918, p. 71. * I regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash — and it may be well that we become so hardened. ** General [[William Tecumseh Sherman]], in a letter to his wife (July 1864) * '''War is the remedy our enemies have chosen. Other simple remedies were within their choice. Yon know it and they know it, but they wanted war, and I say let us give them all they want; not a word of argument, not a sign of let up, no cave in till we are whipped or they are.''' ** General [[William Tecumseh Sherman]], [https://books.google.com/books?id=rcFZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA248 letter to James Guthrie] (14 August 1864), Georgia. * I've been where you are now and I know just how you feel. It's entirely natural that there should beat in the breast of every one of you a hope and desire that some day you can use the skill you have acquired here. Suppress it! You don't know the horrible aspects of war. I've been through two wars and I know. I've seen cities and homes in ashes. I've seen thousands of men lying on the ground, their dead faces looking up at the skies. I tell you, war is hell! ** General [[William Tecumseh Sherman]], address to the graduating class of the [[w:Michigan Military Academy|Michigan Military Academy]] (19 June 1879), as quoted from accounts by Dr. Charles O. Brown in the Battle Creek ''Enquirer and News'' (18 November 1933). * Greedy men say "More!" to war<br />Sitting together telling [[stories]]<br />could change that but who will take the time? ** [[Naomi Shihab Nye]] Voices in the Air: Poems for Listeners (2018) * How can there be war<br />and the next day eating, a man stacking plates<br />on the curl of his arm, a table of people<br />toasting one another in languages of [[grace]] ** [[Naomi Shihab Nye]] Voices in the Air: Poems for Listeners (2018) * You do not understand what happens in war—a sort of sublime madness, an unholy hatred that is twisted into an unreasoning sense of righteousness… ** [[Clifford D. Simak]], ''Cemetery World'' (1973), Chapter 7 * ''J'ai vécu.'' ** I existed. ** [[Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès]], when asked what he did during the Reign of Terror. See Mignet—Notices Hist. I. 81. * '''My knowledge of pain, learned with the sabre, taught me not to be afraid.''' And just as in dueling when you must concentrate on your enemy's cheek, so, too, in war. '''You cannot waste time on feinting and sidestepping. You must decide on your target and go in.''' ** [[Otto Skorzeny]], comparing his dueling days with commando tactics, as quoted in ''Skorzeny'' (1972) by Charles Whiting, p. 17. * '''[[All]]'s [[fair]] in [[love]] and war.''' ** [[w:Francis Edward Smedley|Francis Edward Smedley]], ''Frank Fairlegh : Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil'' (1850). * Sainte Jeanne went harvesting in France,<br> But ah! what found she there?<br>The little streams were running red,<br> And the torn fields were bare;<br>And all about the ruined towers<br> Where once her king was crowned,<br>The hurtling ploughs of war and death<br> Had scored the desolate ground. ** Marion Couthouy Smith—Sainte Jeanne of France. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * For God's sake, do not drag me into another war! I am worn down, and worn out, with crusading and defending Europe, and protecting mankind; I must think a little of myself. ** [[Sydney Smith]], letter to the Countess Grey (February 19, 1823); ''A Memoir of the Rev. Sydney Smith by His Daughter Lady Holland'' (1874), p. 434. * Every shot has its commission, d'ye see? We must all die at one time, as the saying is. ** [[Tobias Smollett]], ''The Reprisal'', Act III. 8. * Some of you will not come back. Some of you will come back maimed. Those of you who do come back will come back changed men. That is war! ** [[Jan Smuts]], when seeing off young South Africans in [[w:World War II|World War II]], as cited in Antony Lentin, 2010, Jan Smuts - Man of courage and vision, p. 138. {{ISBN|978-1-86842-390-3}}. * I came, I saw, God overcame. ** [[John Sobieski]], to the Pope, with the captured Mussulman standards. * A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in a nice war. Now this war is not at all a nice war. ** [[Gertrude Stein]], ''Wars I Have Seen'', Statement about World War II (written in 1943), p. 77 * War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost. ** [[Gertrude Stein]], ''Wars I Have Seen'' (1945) * War was a kind of poverty with bullets. ** [[Bruce Sterling]], ''Join the Navy and See the Worlds'' (2009) in [[w:Gardner Dozois|Gardner Dozois]] & [[w:Jonathan Strahan|Jonathan Strahan]] (eds.) ''[[w:The New Space Opera 2|The New Space Opera 2]]'' (mass market paperback edition, {{ISBN|978-0-06-156236-5}}), p. 327 * A [[wise]] man does not try to hurry [[history]]. Many [[wars]] have been avoided by patience and many have been precipitated by reckless haste. ** [[Adlai Stevenson II]], ''Speeches of Adlai Stevenson'' (1952), p. 39 * [[Speed]] is the essence of war. Take advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness; travel by unexpected routes and strike him where he has taken no precautions. ** [[Sun Tzu]], ''The Art of War'' * [I]n war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory. ** [[Sun Tzu]], [https://suntzusaid.com/book/4/15/ ''The Art of War''] * All warfare is based on deception. ** [[Sun Tzu]], ''Art of War'' * Terrible as an army with banners. ** Song of Solomon, VI. 4 and 10. * Either this or upon this. (Either bring this back or be brought back upon it). ** Said to be a Spartan mother's words to her son on giving him his shield. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * Then more fierce<br>The conflict grew; the din of arms, the yell<br>Of savage rage, the shriek of agony,<br>The groan of death, commingled in one sound<br>Of undistinguish'd horrors. ** [[Robert Southey]], ''Madoc in Wales'' (1805), Part II, XV. * War! war! war!<br>Heaven aid the right!<br>God move the hero's arm in the fearful fight!<br>God send the women sleep in the long, long night,<br> When the breasts on whose strength they leaned shall heave no more. ** [[Edmund Clarence Stedman]], ''Alice of Monmouth: an Idyl of the Great War'' (1864), VII. * The crystal-pointed tents from hill to hill. ** [[Edmund Clarence Stedman]], ''Alice of Monmouth: an Idyl of the Great War'' (1864), XI. * But, Virginians, don't do it, for I tell you that the flagon,<br> Filled with blood of Old Brown's offspring, was first poured by Southern hands;<br>And each drop from Old Brown's life-veins, like the red gore of the Dragon,<br> May spring up a vengeful Fury, hissing through your slave-worn lands:<br>* And Old Brown,<br>* Osawatomie Brown,<br>May trouble you worse than ever, when you've nailed his coffin down. ** [[Edmund Clarence Stedman]], ''How Old Brown Took Harper's Ferry''. Written during Brown's Trial. Nov., 1859. * '''Never run against a war hero.''' ** [[Adlai Stevenson]], who famously campaigned twice for US president against [[Dwight Eisenhower]], when asked if he had any advice to give to a young politician, as quoted in [http://en.epochtimes.com/news/4-11-4/24153.html "History Remembers…Adlai Stevenson" by Maureen Zebian in ''The Epoch Times'' (4 November 2004)]. * Waste of Blood, and waste of Tears<br>Waste of youth's most precious years,<br>Waste of ways the saints have trod,<br>Waste of Glory, waste of God,<br>War! ** [[Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy]], from ''Waste'', in ''More Rough Rhymes of a Padre'' (1919) * When battle approaches, when war arises, the plans of the gods, beloved by the gods, are destroyed. ** [[Sumerian proverb]] from [[Ur]]im, [http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/proverbs/t.6.2.3.html Text online] at {{w|The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature}}, {{w|3rd millennium BCE}}. * Hobbes clearly proves that every creature<br>Lives in a state of war by nature. ** [[Jonathan Swift]], ''Poetry'', ''A Rhapsody''. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * War, that mad game the world so loves to play. ** [[Jonathan Swift]], ''Ode to Sir William Temple''. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * Not with dreams, but with blood and with iron<br>Shall a nation be moulded to last. ** [[Algernon Charles Swinburne]], ''A Word for the Country''. * War has been the excuse people have made throughout history to take something away from others that didn't belong to them. And it's a never ending cycle. First one group takes away something from the other, then the other wants to take it back, only if they succeed, they take much more. And then it starts all over again. War is caused by greed. ** [[László Széchenyi]], ''Visions of Utopia'', p. 67 == T == [[File:The Old Flag Never Touched the Ground.jpg|thumb|Gods are on the side of the stronger.<br>{{center|~&nbsp;[[Tacitus]]}}]] [[File:Image-UN Swords into Plowshares Statue.JPG|thumb|right|If wars in the [[future]] are to be prevented the [[nations]] must be [[united]] in their determination to keep the [[peace]] under [[law]].<br>{{center|~&nbsp;[[Harry S. Truman]]}}]] * Ratio et consilium propriæ ducis artes. ** The proper qualities of a general are judgment and deliberation. ** [[Tacitus]], ''Annales'' (AD 117), III. 20. * Deos fortioribus adesse. ** The gods are on the side of the stronger. ** [[Tacitus]], ''Annales'' (AD 117), IV. 17. *אין לך מלחמה שנוצחת שאין בה מזרעו של עשו **no war is successful unless the seed of [[wikipedia:Esau|Esau]] has a share in it **Babylonian Talmud: Tractate Gittin, Folio 57b * We can start at once. We made preparations on the way. ** Commander Joseph K. Taussig for the American Navy, to the British Admiral's query: "When will you be ready?" (1917). Erroneously attributed to Admiral Sims. * [[w:Militarism|Militarism]]... is [[w:Fetishism|fetish]] worship. It is the prostration of men's souls before, and the laceration of their bodies to appease, an [[w:Idolatry|idol]]. ...Reverence for economic activity and industry and what is called business is also fetish worship, and in their devotion to that idol they torture themselves as needlessly, and indulge in the same meaningless antics. ** [[R. H. Tawney]], ''[[The Acquisitive Society]]'' (1920). * A little more grape, Captain Bragg. ** Attributed to General [[Zachary Taylor]] at Buena Vista. Feb. 23, 1847. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * The children born of thee are sword and fire,<br>Red ruin, and the breaking up of law. ** [[Alfred Tennyson]], ''[[Idylls of the King]]'' (published 1859-1885), Guinevere, line 423. * It cannot be made, it shall not be made, it will not be made; but if it were made there would be a war between France and England for the possession of Egypt. ** [[Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston]], speech, 1851, referring to the Suez Canal (an example of an indiscreet and unfulfilled prophecy). * Half a league, half a league,<br> Half a league onward,<br>All in the valley of Death<br> Rode the six hundred.<br>"Forward the Light Brigade!<br> Charge for the guns!" he said,<br>Into the valley of death<br> Rode the six hundred. ** [[Alfred Tennyson]], ''The Charge of the Light Brigade'' (1854), Stanza 1. * Forward, the Light Brigade!<br>Was there a man dismayed?<br> Not tho' the soldier knew<br> Some one had blunder'd.<br>Theirs not to make reply,<br>Theirs not to reason why,<br>Theirs but to do and die.<br> Into the valley of death<br> Rode the six hundred. ** [[Alfred Tennyson]], ''The Charge of the Light Brigade'' (1854), Stanza 2. * Cannon to right of them,<br>Cannon to left of them,<br>Cannon in front of them<br> Volley'd and thunder'd;<br>Stormed at with shot and shell,<br>Boldly they rode and well,<br> Into the jaws of Death,<br>Into the mouth of Hell<br> Rode the six hundred. ** [[Alfred Tennyson]], ''The Charge of the Light Brigade'' (1854), Stanza 3. "Jaws of death" used by Du Bartas—Weekes and Workes. Day I, Part IV. Twelfth Night, Act III, scene 4. * ''Omnia prius experiri verbis quam armis sapientem decet.'' ** [[Terence]], ''Eunuchus'', V. 1. 19. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. ** It becomes a wise man to try negotiation before arms. * Ten good soldiers, wisely led,<br>Will beat a hundred without a head. ** [[D. W. Thompson]], ''Paraphrase of Euripides''. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * The last half of the [[20th century]] will seem like a [[wild]] [[party]] for [[rich]] [[kids]], compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks. … "[[Winston Churchill]] said "The first casualty of War is always [[Truth]]." Churchill also said "In wartime, the Truth is so precious that it should always be surrounded by a bodyguard of [[Lies]]." <br> That [[wisdom]] will not be much comfort to babies born last week. The first [[news]] they get in this world will be News subjected to [[Military]] [[Censorship]]. That is a given in wartime, along with massive campaigns of deliberately-planted "Dis-information." That is routine behavior in Wartime — for all countries and all combatants — and it makes life difficult for people who value [[real]] news. Count on it. ** [[Hunter S. Thompson]], "When War Drums Roll" (17 September 2001) * Better, far better! Endure all the horrors of civil war than to see the dusky sons of Ham leading the fair daughters of the south to the altar. ** [[w:William Thompson|William M. Thompson]], letter to Warner A. Thompson (2 February 1861), as quoted in [https://books.google.com/books?id=1qhEHVki8tEC&pg=PA19 ''For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War''] (1997), by James M. McPherson, New York City: Oxford University Press, Inc., p. 19 * But what most showed the vanity of life<br>Was to behold the nations all on fire. ** [[James Thomson (poet)|James Thomson]], ''Castle of Indolence'' (1748), Canto I. 55. * Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war. ** [[Thucydides]], "The Funeral Speech", ''The Speeches of Pericles'', trans. H. G. Edinger (1979), p. 39. * "Victory after all, I suppose!" he said, feeling his aching head. "Well, it seems a very gloomy business." ** [[J. R. R. Tolkien]], ''The Hobbit''. * War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. ** [[J. R. R. Tolkien]], ''The Lord of the Rings'' * A thousand touching traits testify to the sacred power of the love which a righteous war awakes in noble nations. ** [[Heinrich von Treitschke]], ''German History'', Volume I, p. 482. * War is elevating, because the individual disappears before the great conception of the state…. What a perversion of morality to wish to abolish heroism among men! ** [[Heinrich von Treitschke]], ''Politics'', Volume I, p. 74. * God will see to it that war always recurs as a drastic medicine for the human race. ** [[Heinrich von Treitschke]], ''Politics'', Volume I, p. 76. * The struggle against war, properly understood and executed, presupposes the uncompromising hostility of the proletariat and its organizations, always and everywhere, toward its own and every other imperialist bourgeoisie... ** [[Leon Trotsky]] "Resolution on the Antiwar Congress of the London Bureau" (July 1936). * The struggle against war and its social source, capitalism, presupposes direct, active, unequivocal support to the oppressed colonial peoples in their struggles and wars against imperialism. A 'neutral' position is tantamount to support of imperialism. ** [[Leon Trotsky]] "Resolution on the Antiwar Congress of the London Bureau" (July 1936). * They said we were soft, that we would not fight, that we could not win. We are not a warlike nation. We do not go to war for gain or for territory; we go to war for principles, and we produce young men like these. I think I told every one of them that I would rather have that medal, the Congressional Medal of Honor, than to be President of the United States. ** [[Harry S. Truman]], remarks at presentation of the Congressional Medal of Honor to fourteen members of the Navy and Marine Corps (October 5, 1945); in ''Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Harry S. Truman, 1945'', p. 375. * '''In bitter despair, some people have come to believe that wars are inevitable. With tragic fatalism, they insist that wars have always been, of necessity, and of necessity wars always will be. To such defeatism, men and women of good will must not and can not yield. The outlook for humanity is not so hopeless.''' ** [[Harry S. Truman]], [https://www.trumanlibrary.org/ww2/stofunio.htm Address Before a Joint Session of the US Congress (16 April 1945)] * '''If wars in the future are to be prevented the nations must be united in their determination to keep the peace under law.''' <br /> Nothing is more essential to the future peace of the world than continued cooperation of the nations which had to muster the force necessary to defeat the conspiracy of the Axis powers to dominate the world. <br /> While these great states have a special responsibility to enforce the peace, their responsibility is based upon the obligations resting upon all states, large and small, not to use force in international relations except in the defense of law. '''The responsibility of the great states is to serve and not to dominate the world.''' ** [[Harry S. Truman]], [https://www.trumanlibrary.org/ww2/stofunio.htm Address Before a Joint Session of the US Congress (16 April 1945)] * '''Any man who sees Europe now must realize that victory in a great war is not something you win once and for all, like victory in a ball game. Victory in a great war is something that must be won and kept won.''' It can be lost after you have won it — if you are careless or negligent or indifferent. <br /> Europe today is hungry. I am not talking about Germans. I am talking about the people of the countries which were overrun and devastated by the Germans, and particularly about the people of Western Europe. Many of them lack clothes and fuel and tools and shelter and raw materials. They lack the means to restore their cities and their factories. <br /> As the winter comes on, the distress will increase. Unless we do what we can to help, we may lose next winter what we won at such terrible cost last spring. '''Desperate men are liable to destroy the structure of their society to find in the wreckage some substitute for hope.''' If we let Europe go cold and hungry, we may lose some of the foundations of order on which the hope for worldwide peace must rest. <br /> '''We must help to the limits of our strength. And we will.''' ** [[Harry S. Truman]], [http://millercenter.org/scripps/archive/speeches/detail/3821 Radio Report to the American People on the Potsdam Conference (9 August 1945)] * “We’d never—” Alexander began, but he didn’t finish the sentence. When you were in a war, who could say what you might be driven to do? ** [[Harry Turtledove]], ''The Great War: Walk in Hell'' (1999), <small> {{ISBN|0-345-40561-7}}, </small> p. 72 * They’d kill him or he’d kill them. War reduced everything to a brutal simplicity. ** [[Harry Turtledove]], ''The Great War: Walk in Hell'' (1999), <small> {{ISBN|0-345-40561-7}}, </small> p. 379 * I’ll tell you, though, this whole business of war would be a hell of a lot more fun if you didn’t get shot. ** [[Harry Turtledove]], ''[[w:The Great War: Breakthroughs|The Great War: Breakthroughs]]'' (2000), <small> {{ISBN|0-345-40563-3}}, </small> p. 245 * He didn’t doubt there would be a next war; there would always be a next war. ** [[Harry Turtledove]], ''[[w:The Great War: Breakthroughs|The Great War: Breakthroughs]]'' (2000), <small> {{ISBN|0-345-40563-3}}, </small> p. 298 * Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out … and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel … and in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for "the universal brotherhood of man" — with his mouth. ** [[Mark Twain]], ''The War Prayer''. * When you have prayed for victory you have prayed for many unmentioned results which follow victory—must follow it, cannot help but follow it. Upon the listening spirit of God the Father fell also the unspoken part of the prayer. He commandeth me to put it into words. Listen!<br><br>"O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle—be Thou near them! With them—in spirit—we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with anavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it—for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen". ** [[Mark Twain]], "The War Prayer" (dictated 1904–1905); in ''Europe and Elsewhere'' (1923), p. 397–98. == U == * War without [[fire]] is worth nothing—like [[sausage]]s without mustard. ** [[w:Jean Juvénal des Ursins|Jean Juvénal des Ursins]] or [[Henry V of England|Henry V]] == V == * With [[computers]] acting as the stimulus, the theory of war was assimilated into that of [[microeconomics]]. . . . Instead of evaluating military operations by their product –that is, victory – calculations were cast in terms of input–output and cost effectiveness. Since intuition was replaced by calculation, and since the latter wasto be carried out with the aid of computers, it was necessary that all the phenomena of war be reduced to quantitative form. Consequently everything that could be quantified was, while everything that could not be tended to be thrown onto the garbage heap. ** Martin Van Creveld, ''Technology and War: From 2000 B.C. to the Present'', New York, London: Free Press, Collier Macmillan, 1989, p. 246; as qtd. in Antoine Bosquet, [https://www.academia.edu/390023/Cyberneticizing_the_American_War_Machine_Science_and_Computers_in_the_Cold_War “Cyberneticizing the American War Machine: Science and Computers in the Cold War”], p. 94 * This is the soldier brave enough to tell<br>The glory-dazzled world that "war is hell." ** [[Henry Van Dyke]], on the St. Gaudens' Statue of Gen. Sherman. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * It's really hard to talk about morality and war in the same sentence. In a war, there are so many questionable things done. Where was the morality in the bombing of Coventry, or the bombing of Dresden, or the Bataan Death March, or the Rape of Nanking, or the bombing of Pearl Harbor? I believe that when you're in a war, a nation must have the courage to do what it must to win the war with a minimum loss of lives. ** [[Theodore Van Kirk]], as quoted in [https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/06/world/hiroshima-enola-gay-s-crew-recalls-the-flight-into-a-new-era.html?pagewanted=all "HIROSHIMA - Enola Gay's Crew Recalls The Flight Into a New Era"] (1995), ''The New York Times'' * [[Veterans for Peace]] knows that the U.S. is a nation addicted to war. At this time of uncertainty, it is critically important that we, as veterans, continue to be clear and concise that our nation must turn from war to diplomacy and peace. It is high time to unwind all these tragic, failed and unnecessary wars of aggression, domination and plunder. It is time to turn a page in history and to build a new world based on human rights, equality and mutual respect for all. We must build momentum toward real and lasting peace. Nothing less than the survival of human civilization is at stake. ** [https://www.veteransforpeace.org/our-work/position-statements/veterans-peace-statement-us-troops-withdrawal-syria? From ''Veterans For Peace Statement on Withdrawal of U.S. Troops from Syria,'' Full text online] (19 December 2018) * ''Arma virumque cano.'' ** Arms and the man I sing. ** [[Virgil]], ''[[w:Aeneid|Æneid]]'' (c. 29-19 BC), Book I, 1. * ''Quaeque ipse miserrima vidi<br>et quorum pars magna fui.'' ** I saw these terrible things,<br>and took great part in them. ** [[Virgil]], ''[[w:Aeneid|Æneid]]'' (c. 29-19 BC), trans. James H. Mantinband (1964), book II, lines 5–6, p. 25. This sentence has also been translated as: "All of which misery I saw, and a great part of which I was". Aeneas was describing the sack of [[Troy]]. * ''Una salus victis nullam sperare salutem.'' ** The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety. ** [[Virgil]], ''[[w:Aeneid|Æneid]]'' (c. 29-19 BC), Book II, 354. * ''Dolus an virtus quis in hoste requirat?'' ** Who asks whether the enemy were defeated by strategy or valor? ** [[Virgil]], ''[[w:Aeneid|Æneid]]'' (c. 29-19 BC), Book II, 390. * ''Exigui numero, sed bello vivida virtus.'' ** Small in number, but their valor tried in war, and glowing. ** [[Virgil]], ''[[w:Aeneid|Æneid]]'' (c. 29-19 BC), Book V, 754. * ''Bella, horrida bella.'' ** Wars, horrible wars. ** [[Virgil]], ''[[w:Aeneid|Æneid]]'' (c. 29-19 BC), Book VI, 86. * ''Sævit amor ferri et scelerata insania belli.'' ** The love of arms and the mad wickedness of war are raging. ** [[Virgil]], ''[[w:Aeneid|Æneid]]'' (c. 29-19 BC), Book VII, 461. * ''Nullum cum victis certamen et æthere cassis.'' ** Brave men ne'er warred with the dead and vanquished. ** [[Virgil]], ''[[w:Aeneid|Æneid]]'' (c. 29-19 BC), Book XI, 104. * ''On dit que Dieu est toujours pour les gros bataillons.'' ** It is said that God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions. ** [[Voltaire]], letter to M. le Riche. Feb. 6, 1770. Earlier said by Marechal Jacques d'Étampes, marquis de la Ferté to Anne of Austria. See Boursault—Lettres Nouvelles, p. 384. (Ed. 1698). Attributed to General Moreau by Alison; to General Charles Lee, by Hawthorne—Life of Washington. == W == [[File:GeorgeWashington.jpg|thumb|To be prepared for war is onto the most effectual means of preserving peace. ~ [[George Washington]]]] [[File:INF3-17 Production of tanks Artist Terence Cuneo 1939-1946.jpg|thumb|If we don’t end war, war will end us.<br>{{center|~&nbsp;[[H. G. Wells]]}}]] [[File:Wellington at Waterloo Hillingford.jpg|thumb|Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.<br>{{center|~&nbsp;''The Wellington—Despatch''}}]] * Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining? **[[George Wallace]], as quoted in ''Absurdities, Scandals & Stupidities in Politics'' (2006) by Hakeem Shittu and Callie Query, p. 106. * On to Richmond. ** [[Fitz-Henry Warren]]. Used as a standing headline in the N. Y. Tribune, by Dana, June–July, 1861, before the McDowell campaign. * A great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle [patriotism] alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward. ** [[George Washington]], letter to John Banister. Valley Forge, April 21, 1778 * To be prepared for war is onto the most effectual means of preserving peace. ** [[George Washington]], as quoted in ''Writings of George Washington'', Fitzpatrick, ed. Vol. 30, p. 491, “First Annual Address to Congress,” January 8, 1790. * They went to war against a preamble, they fought seven years against a declaration. ** [[Daniel Webster]], speech on the Presidential Protest. May 17, 1834. * Up Guards and at 'em! ** Attributed to Wellington during the Battle of Waterloo. Denied by the Duke to Mr. Croker, in answer to a letter written March 14, 1852. "What I must have said, and possibly did say was, 'Stand up guards!' and then gave the order to attack." See J. W. Choker's Memoirs, p. 544. Also Sir Herbert Maxwell's Biography of Wellington. * Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. ** Wellington—Despatch. (1815). Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing field of Eton. ** Attributed to Wellington. "The battle of Waterloo was won here," was said by the Duke of Wellington when present at a cricket match at Eton. Prof. W. Selwyn—Waterloo, a Lay of Jubilee. (Second Ed.). * ''The War That Will End War''. ** [[H. G. Wells]], book title, 1914. While the phrase "The war to end war" is often associated with Woodrow Wilson, its authorship was claimed by Wells in an article in ''Liberty'' (December 29, 1934), p. 4. Bertrand Russell also credited Wells in ''Portraits from Memory'' (1956), p. 83. A cynical version attributed to David Lloyd George is: "This war, like the next war, is a war to end war". See William Safire, ''Safire's Political Dictionary'' (1978), p. 777, for contemporary uses of the phrase. * A time will come when a politician who has wilfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own. ** [[H. G. Wells]], ''The Salvaging of Civilization'' (1921), chapter 1, conclusion, p. 40. * '''The atomic bomb had dwarfed the international issues to complete insignificance.''' When our minds wandered from the preoccupations of our immediate needs, we speculated upon the possibility of stopping the use of these frightful explosives before the world was utterly destroyed. For to us it seemed quite plain that these bombs and the still greater power of destruction of which they were the precursors might quite easily shatter every relationship and institution of mankind... war must end and that '''the only way to end war was to have but one government for mankind'''. :* [[H.G. Wells]] Ch. 3, Section 1 * The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill. ** [[Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington]], Saying. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * '''If we don’t end war, war will end us.''' ** The character John Cabal in [[H. G. Wells]] in ''[[w:Things to Come|Things to Come]]'' (1936). * [[w:Urban warfare|Urban warfare]] remains characterized by slow, massive [[destruction]]. Yet 50 years ago, there were no [[computers]], no [[internet]], no [[w:GPS|GPS]], no [[w:UAVs|UAVs]], no digital communications, no night-vision devices, and no precision strikes. Two facts account for the lack of change in tactics. First, cities are constructed of [[steel]] and [[w:concrete|concrete]], with streets providing the open spaces, which are usually linear. Any fighter in the open is quickly cut down. No technology can accurately detect and count humans inside [[buildings]] and [[w:Tunnels|tunnels]]. So the attacker must advance by blasting through the sides of buildings and slowly, slowly search every room. Second, tens to hundreds of thousands of civilians can be trapped in the cities. The [[terrorists]] in [[w:Mosul|Mosul]] have prevented the civilians from leaving in order to use them as shields. ** Bing West, [https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/06/urban-warfare-hue-mosul/532173/ “Urban Warfare, Then and Now”], ''The Atlantic'', (Jun 30, 2017). * This new Katterfelto, his show to complete,<br>Means his boats should all sink as they pass by our fleet;<br>Then as under the ocean their course they steer right on,<br>They can pepper their foes from the bed of old Triton. ** [[Henry Kirke White]], ''The Wonderful Juggler'', anticipating the submarine, in Napoleon's day. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * ''War! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing! <br> There's got to be a better way <br> What is it good for? <br> War has caused unrest <br> Among the younger generation <br> Induction then destruction <br> Who wants to die? <br> ... <br> War-I despise <br> Because it means destruction <br> Of innocent lives <br> War means tears <br> To thousands of mothers how <br> When their sons go off to fight <br> And lose their lives <br> ... <br> It's an enemy of all mankind <br> No point of war <br> Because you're a man <br> ... <br> War has shattered <br> Many young men's dreams <br> We've got no place for it today <br> They say we must fight to keep our freedom <br> But Lord, there's just got to be a better way <br> It ain't nothing but a heartbreaker <br> '''Friend only to the undertaker''''' ** {{w|Norman Whitfield}} and {{w|Barrett Strong}}, ''[[w:War (The Temptations song)|War]]'', ''{{w|Psychedelic Shack}}'' (1969) ** ''Life is much to short and precious <br> To spend fighting wars these days <br> War can't give life <br> It can only take it away <br> ... <br> War, it ain't nothing but a heartbreaker <br> War, friend only to the undertaker <br> Peace, love and understanding <br> Tell me, is there no place for them today.'' *** {{w|Edwin Starr}} version, ''[[w:War (Edwin Starr song)|War]]'', ''[[w:War & Peace (Edwin Starr album)|War & Peace]]''. (1970) * Now we remember over here in Flanders,<br>(It isn't strange to think of You in Flanders!)<br> This hideous warfare seems to make things clear.<br>We never thought about You much in England,<br>But now that we are far away from England<br> We have no doubts, we know that You are here. ** Mrs. C. T. Whitnall—Christ in Flanders. First appeared in the London Spectator. Later in the Outlook. July 26, 1916. * We seemed to see our flag unfurled,<br> Our champion waiting in his place<br>For the last battle of the world,<br> The Armageddon of the race. ** [[John Greenleaf Whittier]], ''Rantoul''. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. ** [[Oscar Wilde]], ''Intentions''. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * I will die in the last ditch. (Dyke). ** William of Orange. Hume—History of England, Chapter XLIII. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * Germany's greatness makes it impossible for her to do without the ocean, but the ocean also proves that even in the distance, and on its farther side, without Germany and the German Emperor, no great decision dare henceforth be taken. ** [[Wilhelm II, German Emperor|William II]], the former German Emperor—Speech, July, 1900. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * Our German Fatherland to which I hope will be granted … to become in the future as closely united, as powerful, and as authoritative as once the Roman world-empire was, and that, just as in the old times they said, "Civis romanus sum," hereafter, at some time in the future, they will say, "I am a German citizen." ** William II, the former German Emperor—Speech, in Oct., 1900. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * Every bullet has its billet. ** King William III, according to Wesley—Journal, June 6, 1765. Also in Song by H. R. Bishop, sung in The Circassian Bride. Quoted by Sterne—Tristram Shandy, Volume VIII, Chapter XIX. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * It's a long way to Tipperary, it's a long way to go;<br>It's a long way to Tipperary, to the sweetest girl I know!<br>Good-bye to Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square;<br>It's a long way to Tipperary, but my Heart's right there! ** Harry Williams and Jack Judge—It's a Long Way to Tipperary. Popular in The Great War. Chorus claimed by Alice Smythe B. Jay. Written in 1908. See N. Y. Times, Sept. 20, 1907. * War is only a sort of dramatic representation, a sort of dramatic symbol of a thousand forms of duty. I fancy that it is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you. ** [[Woodrow Wilson]], speech, Brooklyn Navy Yard, May 11, 1914. * You have laid upon me this double obligation: "we are relying upon you, Mr. President, to keep us out of war, but we are relying upon you, Mr. President, to keep the honor of the nation unstained." ** [[Woodrow Wilson]], speech, At Cleveland. Jan. 29, 1916. * It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation. ** [[Woodrow Wilson]], speech, At dedication of a Red Cross Building, May 12, 1917. * In short, if newspapers were written by people whose sole object in writing was to tell the truth about politics and the truth about art we should not believe in war, and we should believe in art. ** [[Virginia Woolf]] in ''The Three Guineas''. * They came with banner, spear, and shield;<br>And it was proved in Bosworth field,<br>Not long the Avenger was withstood—<br>Earth help'd him with the cry of blood. ** [[William Wordsworth]], ''Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle'', Stanza 3. Last line probably taken from John Beaumont's Battle of Flodden Field. Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 841-60. * But Thy most dreaded instrument<br>In working out a pure intent,<br>Is man,—arrayed for mutual slaughter,—<br>Yea, Carnage is Thy daughter. ** [[William Wordsworth]], ''Poems dedicated to National Independence and Liberty'' (1815), Ode XLV. Suppressed in later editions. "But Man is thy most awful instrument, / In working out a pure intent; / Thou cloth'st the wicked in their dazzling mail, / And for thy righteous purpose they prevail." Version in later editions. * Everyone loses in war, even the winners. ** [[John C. Wright]], ''Orphans of Chaos'' (2005), Chapter 7, “Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea” Section 2 * War is murder, king-sized. ** [[John C. Wright]], ''Fugitives of Chaos'' (2006), Chapter 18, “Festive Days on the Slopes of Vesuvius” == Z == * As regards Providence, he cannot shake off the prejudice that in war, God is on the side of the big battalions, which at present are in the enemy's camp. ** [[Zeller]], ''Frederick the Great as Philosopher''. Referring to Œuvres de Frederic, XVIII. 186–188, the contents of a letter from Frederick to the Duchess of Gotha, about 1757. Carlyle gives the date of the letter as May 8, 1760, in his History of Frederick the Great, II, Book XIX, Volume V, p. 606. * Look, there is one statement that bothers me more than anything else, and that's the idea that when the troops are in combat everybody has to shut up. Imagine if we put troops in combat with a faulty rifle, and that rifle was malfunctioning and troops were dying as a result. I can't think anyone would allow that to happen, that would not speak up. Well, what's the difference between a faulty plan and strategy that's getting just as many troops killed? ** Gen. [[Anthony Zinni]], U.S. Marine Corps (Ret.), former [[w:CENTCOM|CENTCOM]] Commander-in-Chief, 2004-05-21, television interview on CBS's ''60 Minutes''. == Unknown authorship == * War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military. ** Attributed to various Frenchmen including Talleyrand, Clemenceau, and Briand. Reported as unverified in ''Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations'' (1989). Often heard, "… entrusted to generals". * Months of boredom punctuated by moments of terror. ** Early appearance in ''The New York Times Current History of the European War'' ([https://books.google.com/books?id=50FIAQAAIAAJ&q=boredom%20punctuated%20by%20moments%20of%20terror&dq=boredom%20punctuated%20by%20moments%20of%20terror&hl=en&sa=X&ei=vVIaUcvoO5GO4gTb3YDwDQ&redir_esc=y 1915]) * It took me nearly a whole day to drive from Tokmak to the village of sonovka. I kept passing large Russian settlements on the road ... then Kirghiz villages completely ruined and razed literally to the ground - villages where, but three short years previously, there had been busy bazaars and farms surrounded with gardens and fields of luzerne. Now on every side a desert. It seemed incredible that it was possible in so short a time to wipe whole villages off the face of the earth, with their well-developed system of farming. It was only with the most attentive search that i could find the short stumps of their trees and remains of their irrigation canals. The destruction of the aryks or irrigation canals in this district quickly reduced a highly developed farming district into a desert and blotted out all traces of cultivation and settlement. Only in the water meadows and low-lying ground near the stream is any cultivation possible. ** Attributed to an observer of the aftermath of the [[w:Central Asian revolt of 1916|Central Asian revolt of 1916]] in 1919 in page 158 of ''The Revolt of 1916 in Russian Central Asia'' * One evening, in a high-society salon, people are discussing the war. A veteran recounts in moving terms the death of one of his friends. A lady weeps; she thinks of her husband who fell in the field of honor. "War is a terrible thing, unjustifiable," she sighs. Then, a well-known diplomat from the [[w:Quai d'Orsay|Quai d'Orsay]], who until then had not taken part in the conversation, says with tranquil arrogance: "'''War? It's not that terrible! The death of one man is, indeed, a terrible thing, but one hundred thousand deaths is a statistic'''" ** Unattributed fictional anecdote first published in the French satirical satirical newspaper ''[[w:Comic-Finance|Comic-Finance]]'', March 6, 1924.<ref>"[https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k72894557/f2.item.r De ci, de la]", ''Comic-Finance'', 6 March 1924, p. 2.</ref> ** The anecdote was reused (without attribution) in newspaper columns by [[w:fr:J.-Wladimir Bienstock|J.-Wladimir Bienstock]] and [[w:Curnonsky|Curnonsky]] in April 1924<ref>Curnonsky and Bienstock, J.-Wladimir (1924-04-04), ''[https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k76384899/f2.item.r Histoires d'hier et d'aujourd'hui de tous et de personne]'', ''Paris-Sour'', p. 2.</ref> and (in German) by [[Kurt Tucholsky]] in 1925 and later reprinted in anthologies of their writing.<ref>J.-Wladimir Bienstock and Curnonsky (1924), ''T.S.V.P. Petites histoires de tous et de personne''.</ref><ref>Tucholsky, Kurt (1925) "[[s:de:Französischer Witz|Französischer Witz]]" [French Wit], from: Tucholsky, Kurt (1932) ''Lerne lachen ohne zu weinen'', Berlin : Rowohlt, pp. 147–156.</ref> The quote is sometimes attributed to Tucholsky. ** The quote is commonly [[Joseph_Stalin#Misattributed|misattributed to Joseph Stalin]], variously claimed to have been said in 1933 in references to the deaths from the [[w:Holodomor|Holodomor]] or in conversation with Winston Churchill at the Tehran or Potsdam Conference in reference to the deaths of troops. It has also been misattributed to [[Adolf Eichmann]]. ==War quotations in fiction== [[File:Arlington_National_Cemetery_Seal.png|thumb|No, war is never inevitable. It must be the course of last resort. How great would be the guilt of an unnecessary war? ~ [[David McCullough|David McCullough]]]] [[File:White_Doves_at_the_Blue_Mosque_(5778806606).jpg|thumb|Make a [[w:War hawk|hawk]] a [[w:War dove|dove]], <br> Stop a war with [[love]], <br> Make a [[liar]] tell the [[truth]]. ~ [[w:Charles Fox |Charles Fox]]]] [[File:Delta-shield.svg|thumb|The Minstrel-Boy to the war is gone, <br> In the ranks of death you'll find him; <br> His father's sword he has girded on, <br> And his wild harp slung behind him. <br> "Land of song!" said the warrior-bard, <br> "Tho' all the world betrays thee, <br> One sword, at least, thy rights shall guard, <br> One faithful harp shall praise thee!" ~ [[Thomas Moore]]]] *'''[[James McHenry]]''': War is inevitable, sir. :'''[[John Adams]]''': No, war is never inevitable. It must be the course of last resort. How great would be the guilt of an unnecessary war? :* [[James McHenry]] as interpreted by [[w:Zak Orth|Zak Orth]] and [[John Adams]] as interpreted by [[w:Paul Giamatti|Paul Giamatti]] in ''[[w:John Adams (miniseries)|John Adams]]'', written by [[w:Kirk Ellis|Kirk Ellis]], "Part VI: Unnecessary War", (March 16 – April 27, 2008); based on the book by [[w:David McCullough|David McCullough]] * Make a [[w:War hawk|hawk]] a [[w:War dove|dove]], <br> Stop a war with [[love]], <br> Make a [[liar]] tell the [[truth]]. :* [[w:Charles Fox |Charles Fox]], [[w:Wonder Woman TV series|Wonder Woman TV series]], (November 7, 1975). * There are always casualties in war, gentlemen — otherwise it wouldn't be war. It'd just be a rather nasty argument with lots of pushing-and-shoving. ** [[w:Arnold_Rimmer|Arnold Rimmer]] in ''[[w:Red_Dwarf|Red Dwarf]]: [[w:Meltdown_(Red_Dwarf_episode)|Meltdown]]''. Rob Grant, Doug Naylor * Anyone who clings to the historically untrue — and thoroughly immoral — doctrine that 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] and of the [[Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington|Duke of Wellington]] and let them debate it. The ghost of [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] could referee, and the jury might well be the [[Dodo]], the [[w:Great Auk|Great Auk]], and the [[w:Passenger Pigeon|Passenger Pigeon]]. Violence settled their fates quite nicely. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms. ** Mr. Dubois, ''[[Starship Troopers]]'', by [[Robert A. Heinlein]]. *'''[[w:James T. Kirk|Captain Kirk]]''': [[Death]], [[destruction]], [[disease]], [[horror]]. That's what war is all about, Anan. That's what makes it a thing to be avoided. You've made it [[neat]] and [[painless]]. So neat and painless, you've had no [[reason]] to stop it. :* Captain [[w:James T. Kirk|James T. Kirk]], as interpreted by [[William Shatner]] in "[[w:A Taste of Armageddon|A Taste of Armageddon]]", ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek]]'', story by [[w:Robert Hamner|Robert Hamner]]; teleplay by [[w:Gene L. Coon|Gene L. Coon]] & Robert Hamner; (February 23, 1967) *'''Spock''': Captain, you took a big [[chance]]. :'''Kirk''': Did I, Mister Spock? They've been [[killing]] three million people a year. It had been going on for five hundred years. An actual attack wouldn't have killed any more people than one of their [[computer]] attacks, but it would have ended their ability to make war. The [[fighting]] would have been over permanently. :'''McCoy''': But you didn't [[know]] that it would [[work]]. :'''Kirk''': No. It was a calculated [[risk]]. Still, the Eminians keep a very [[orderly]] [[society]], and actual war is a very messy [[business]]. '''A very, very messy business.''' I had a [[feeling]] that they would do anything to avoid it, even [[talk]] [[peace]]. :* "[[w:A Taste of Armageddon|A Taste of Armageddon]]", ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek]]'', story by [[w:Robert Hamner|Robert Hamner]]; teleplay by [[w:Gene L. Coon|Gene L. Coon]] & Robert Hamner; (February 23, 1967) * '''Luke''': I'm looking for a great warrior.<br>'''Yoda''': Great warrior. [Laughs] Wars not make one great. ** [[George Lucas]], Leigh Brackett, and Lawrence Kasdan, ''[[The Empire Strikes Back]]'' (1980). * What this war represents is a [[failure]] to listen. Now you're closer to the Chancellor than anyone, please, ask him to stop the fighting and let the [[diplomacy]] resume. ** [[George Lucas]] [[w:Padmé_Amidala|Padmé Amidala]] in ''[[w:Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith|Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith]]'' 2005. * Wars don't ennoble men, it turns them into dogs, poisons the soul. ** Terrence Malick Private Witt in ''[[The Thin Red Line (1998 film)|The Thin Red Line]]''. * Property, the whole thing's about property. ** Terrence Malick First Sergeant Welsh, ''The Thin Red Line''. * There's a beast in every man. And it awakens when you put a sword in his hand. ** [[George R. R. Martin]] Ser Jorah Mormont, ''[[Game of Thrones]]''. * War makes thieves of many honest folk. ** Tom O'Sevens, in George R.R. Martin, ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire#A Storm of Swords|A Storm of Swords]]'', Chapter Arya (I) * The Minstrel-Boy to the war is gone, <br> In the ranks of death you'll find him; <br> His father's sword he has girded on, <br> And his wild harp slung behind him. <br> "Land of song!" said the warrior-bard, <br> "Tho' all the world betrays thee, <br> One sword, at least, thy rights shall guard, <br> One faithful harp shall praise thee!" ** [[Thomas Moore]], ''[[w:The Minstrel Boy|The Minstrel Boy]]'', verse 1; ''Irish Melodies'', (1813) * Once that first bullet goes past your head, politics and all that shit just goes right out the window. ** Ken Nolan Sergeant First Class Norm "Hoot" Gibson, ''[[Black Hawk Down]]''. * When I go home, people ask me: "Hey Hoot, why do you do it man? Why? You some kinda war junkie?", I won't say a god damn word. Why? They won't understand. They won't understand why we do it. They won't understand it's about the men next to you. And that's it. That's all it is. ** Ken Nolan Sergeant First Class Norm "Hoot" Gibson, ''Black Hawk Down''. * With every man I kill, the farther away from home I feel. ** Robert Rodat, Captain John Miller, ''[[Saving Private Ryan]]''. * I think now, looking back, we did not fight the enemy; we fought ourselves. The enemy was in us. The war is over for me now, but it will always be there, the rest of my days. As I'm sure Elias will be, fighting with Barnes for what Rhah called "possession of my soul." There are times since, I've felt like a child, born of those two fathers. But be that as it may, those of us who did make it have an obligation to build again. To teach to others what we know, and to try with what's left of our lives to find a goodness and a meaning to this life. ** [[Oliver Stone]], Chris Taylor, ''[[Platoon]]''. * If '''you''' are not affected, if '''you''' are not hurt by what we do, then '''you''' will not do anything to stop it. The war will simply continue. As long as it is just the soldiers, these barbaric men with guns who kill each other, as long as the damage is far away, the destruction and death out of your sight, then no amount of hand wringing and moral outrage will make it end. If '''you''' are affected, if your farms, your crops are destroyed, your neat buildings in your perfect towns burned to the ground, then there will be a reason to stop this. War is not tidy, it is not convenient, it is '''everywhere.''' It has to be felt by '''everyone.''' War '''is''' hell. ** General [[William Tecumseh Sherman]] from the [[w:Jeff Shaara|Jeff Shaara]] novel ''[[w:The Last Full Measure|The Last Full Measure]]''. * A story. A man fires a rifle for many years. and he goes to war. And afterwards he comes home, and he sees that whatever else he may do with his life - build a house, love a woman, change his son's diaper - he will always remain a jarhead. And all the jarheads killing and dying, they will always be me. We are still in the desert. ** Anthony Swofford, ''[[Jarhead]]''. [[File:Alvim-correa12.jpg|thumb|200px|And before we [[judge]] of them too harshly we must remember what ruthless and utter [[destruction]] our own species has wrought, not only upon [[animals]], such as the vanished [[w:Bison|bison]] and the [[w:Dodo|dodo]], but upon its inferior [[races]]. The [[w:Aboriginal Tasmanians|Tasmanian]]s, in spite of their [[human]] likeness, were entirely swept out of existence in a war of extermination waged by [[European]] [[immigrants]], in the space of fifty years. Are we such [[apostles]] of [[mercy]] as to [[complain]] if the [[w:Mars in fiction|Martians]] warred in the same [[spirit]]? ~ [[H.G. Wells]] ]] * We few, we happy few, we band of brothers: for he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother. ** King Henry, in ''[[Henry V (play)|King Henry V]]'', act 4 scene 3, [[William Shakespeare]] *'''[[w:Bugs Bunny|Bugs Bunny]]'': Of course you realize, this means war! * [[w:Tedd Pierce|Tedd Pierce]], ''[[w:Merrie Melodies|Merrie Melodies]]'', "[[w:Case of the Missing Hare|Case of the Missing Hare]]", ''[[w:Warner Bros.|Warner Bros.]]'' (December 12, 1942). * In God's name, march: True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings: Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. ** [[Richard III (play)|Richard III]], act 5 scene 2, by [[William Shakespeare]] * If we be conquered, let men conquer us, and not these bastard Bretons; whom our fathers have in their own land beaten, bobb'd, and thump'd, and in record, left them the heirs of shame. Shall these enjoy our lands? lie with our wives? Ravish our daughters? ** Richard III, act 5 scene 3, by [[William Shakespeare]] * If you need to stop an [[w:Asteroid|asteroid]], you call [[Superman]]. If you need to solve a [[mystery]], you call [[Batman]]. But if you need to end a [[war]], you call [[Wonder Woman]]. ** [[w:Gail Simone|Gail Simone]], ''Wonder Woman'', vol.3 {{fact}} * It's all an accident, an accident of hands. Mine, others, all without mind, from one extreme to another, but neither works nor will ever. Yet we stand here in the middle of no man's land. ** Sergeant Steiner considers the causes of WW2's eastern front as he releases a young Russian soldier, ''[[Cross of Iron]]''. * You do not want a war. You have seen violence, you have suffered loss. But you have seen nothing of war. War is not just the business of death. It is the antithesis of life. Hope tortured and flayed, reason dismembered, grinning at its limbs in its lap. Decency raped to death. ** [[Joss Whedon]] Urrkon of the D'avvrus, in ''Fray''. * And before we [[judge]] of them too harshly we must remember what ruthless and utter [[destruction]] our own species has wrought, not only upon [[animals]], such as the vanished [[w:Bison|bison]] and the [[w:Dodo|dodo]], but upon its inferior [[races]]. The [[w:Aboriginal Tasmanians|Tasmanian]]s, in spite of their [[human]] likeness, were entirely swept out of existence in a war of extermination waged by [[European]] [[immigrants]], in the space of fifty years. Are we such [[apostles]] of [[mercy]] as to [[complain]] if the [[w:Mars in fiction|Martians]] warred in the same [[spirit]]? ** [[H.G. Wells]] ''The War of the Worlds'', Book I, Ch. 1: The Eve of the War * The problem with gun runners going to war, is that there is no shortage of ammunition. ** Simeon Weisz, ''[[Lord of War]]''. ==See also== {{col-begin}} {{col-2}} * [[Anti-war movement]] * [[Disarmament]] * [[Just war theory]] * [[Military]] * [[Military-industrial complex]] * [[Nuclear war]] * [[Pacifism]] * [[Peace]] {{col-2}} * [[The Pentagon]] * [[Soldiers]] * [[Violence]] * [[War and peace]] * [[War of aggression]] * [[War crimes]] * [[Weapons]] {{col-end}} * [[William Shakespeare quotes about war|Shakespeare quotes about war]] * [[:Category:Wars and battles]] == References == {{reflist}} ==External links== {{wikipedia}} {{wiktionary|war}} {{wikisource portal|Wars}} {{Commons}} {{Social and political philosophy}} [[Category:War| ]] 9o8nvqaq49yziirt78rnlq4hp6zw5xg 0 126563 3961332 3925888 2026-07-05T23:47:10Z Markjoseph125 19526 /* B */ added quote 3961332 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:The Procession of the Trojan Horse in Troy by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo.jpg|thumb|Politics: a [[Trojan horse]] race. ~ [[Stanisław Jerzy Lec]] ]] [[File:Liberty-Manhattan.jpg|thumb|People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises. ~ [[Vladimir Lenin]]]] [[File:Simon Cameron.jpg|thumb|An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. ~ Attributed to {{w|Simon Cameron}} by [[w:Allen Johnson (historian)|Allen Johnson]]]] [[File:Alexis de tocqueville.jpg|thumb|The political activity prevailing in the United States is something one could never understand unless one had seen it. No sooner do you set foot on American soil than you find yourself in a sort of tumult; a confused clamor rises on every side, and a thousand voices are heard at once, each expressing some social requirements. All around you everything is on the move: here the people of a district are assembled to discuss the possibility of building a church; there they are busy choosing a representative; further on, the delegates of a district are hurrying to town to consult about some local improvements; elsewhere it's the village farmers who have left their furrows to discuss the plan for a road or a school. ~ [[Alexis de Tocqueville]]]] [[File:Marcel Proust 2.jpg|thumb|All that I grasped was that to repeat what everybody else was thinking was, in politics, the mark not of an inferior but of a superior mind. ~ [[Marcel Proust]]]] [[File:Voting machine lever.jpg|thumb|The only mark-to-market thing in politics is Election Day; everything else is hot air. ~ [[Mike Murphy (political consultant)|Mike Muprhy]]]] '''[[w:Politics|Politics]]''' (from [[Greek language|Greek]]: πολιτικός ''politikos'', meaning "of, for, or relating to [[Citizenship|citizens]]") is the practice and theory of influencing other people on a global, civic or individual level. More narrowly, it refers to achieving and exercising positions of governance — organized control over a [[human]] [[community]], particularly a [[state]] or [[civilization]]. Furthermore, politics is the study or practice of the distribution of power and resources within a given community (a hierarchically organized population) as well as the interrelationship(s) between communities and states. __NOTOC__ {{TOCalpha|[[#Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations|''Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations'']] · [[#The Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904)|''The Dictionary of Legal Quotations'']] · [[#Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989)|''Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations'']]}} == A == * Politics is [[people]]. ** [[Anonymous]]. Reported as an "old saying" in [[Edgar George Holt]], [https://archive.org/details/politicsispeople0000holt/page/n7/mode/2up ''Politics is People''] (1969), Foreword * He who thus considers things in their first [[growth]] and [[origin]], whether a state or anything else, will obtain the clearest view of them. ** [[Aristotle]], [[w:Politics (Aristotle)|Politics: The Polis]] ([[w:4th Century BCE|350BCE]]) * [[Patriotism]] is in political life what [[faith]] is in [[religion]]. **[[John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton|Lord Acton]] in 'Nationality', in ''The Home and Foreign Review'' (July 1862). ** Alternative version quoted in {{cite news | first = Pauline | last = Arrillaga | url = http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061021/ap_on_el_gu/governor_kinky | title = On the Road with Texas Candidate Kinky | publisher = Associated Press (via ''Yahoo! News'') | date = [[21 October]] [[2006]] | accessdate = 2008-03-19 }} * All [[power]] tends to [[Corruption|corrupt]], and [[Absolutism|absolute power]] corrupts absolutely. ** [[John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton|Lord Acton]], letter to Mandell Creighton, April 1887. Reprinted in John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, ''Essays on Freedom and Power'', 1949, Boston:The Beacon Press, p.&nbsp;364. * [[Liberty]] is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. ** [[John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton|Lord Acton]], "Freedom in Antiquity", in ''The History of Freedom and Other Essays: And Other Essays‎'' (1907), p.&nbsp;22. * There is only one thing more useful in politics than having the right friends, and that is having the right enemies. ** Anonymous, ''Economist'' 375: 8432 ([[25 June]] [[2005]]), p.&nbsp;84. * Man is by [[Human nature|nature]] a political [[Animals|animal]]. ** [[Aristotle]], ''[[w:Politics (Aristotle)|Politics]]'', chapter 2 ([[w:Bekker numbers|Bekker]] I.1253a2). Translated by [[Josiah Tucker]], [https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_a-treatise-concerning-ci_tucker-josiah_1781/page/380/mode/2up ''A Treatise Concerning Civil Government''] (1781), p. 381 *It is necessary therefore that the person who is to study, with any tolerable chance of profit, the principles of [[Nobility|nobleness]] and [[justice]] and politics generally, should have received a good moral training. For our data here are moral judgments, and if a man knows what it is right to do, he does not require a formal reason. And a person that has been thus trained, either possesses these first principles already, or can easily acquire them. As for him who neither possesses nor can acquire them, let him take to heart the words of [[Hesiod]]: * ''‘He is the best of all who thinks for himself in all things. He, too, is good who takes advice from a wiser (person). But he who neither thinks for himself, nor lays to heart another's wisdom, this is a useless man.’'' ** [[Aristotle]], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.218683 ''The Ethics Of Aristotle''] , Bk. 1, Chapter II * The shifty language of politics,... that strange language full of [[Maya]] and falsities of self-illusion and deliberate [[delusion]] of others, which almost immediately turns all true and vivid phrases into a jargon, so that men may fight in a cloud of [[words]] without any clear sense of the thing they are battling for.... ** [[Sri Aurobindo]], September, 1918, quoted from [[Sri Aurobindo]], ., Nahar, S., Aurobindo, ., & Institut de recherches évolutives (Paris). ''India's rebirth: A selection from Sri Aurobindo's writing, talks and speeches.'' Paris: Institut de Recherches Evolutives. 3rd Edition (2000). [https://web.archive.org/web/20170826004028/http://bharatvani.org/books/ir/IR_frontpage.htm] == B == * I had broken the first commandment of political life, a commandment I had flogged relentlessly for the last year. Stay on message, stick to the talking points.<br>Thou shalt not speak from the heart. ** [[Dale Bailey]], ''Death and Suffrage'' (2002). Originally published in [[w:The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction|F&SF]] (February 2002); reprinted in ''The Resurrection Man’s Legacy,'' <small> {{ISBN|1-930846-22-3}}, </small> p. 37 * “My only remaining question is, why an honest [[w:Pimp|pimp]], [[con man]], [[fraud]], and [[Kidnapped|kidnapper]] like yourself would get involved in something as nasty as large-scale [[Corporations|corporate]] activity?”<br>“The money was good.”<br>“Oh, but if ''that’s'' your excuse, what will be next? Politics?” ** [[w:John Barnes|John Barnes]], ''The Lost Princess Man'' (2009) in [[w:Gardner Dozois|Gardner Dozois]] & [[w:Jonathan Strahan|Jonathan Strahan]] (eds.) ''[[w:The New Space Opera 2|The New Space Opera 2]]'' (mass market paperback edition, {{ISBN|978-0-06-156236-5}}), p. 144 * POLITICS, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of [[principles]]. ** [[Ambrose Bierce]], ''The Devil's Dictionary''. * POLITICS, n. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. ** [[Ambrose Bierce]], ''The Devil's Dictionary''. * [[President of the United States|PRESIDENCY]], n. The greased pig in the field game of [[Politics of the United States|American politics]]. ** [[Ambrose Bierce]] in ''The Devil's Dictionary''. * Political [[technology]] determines political [[success]]. ** [[w:Morton Blackwell|Morton C. Blackwell]] in ''Laws of Politics''. * Sound doctrine is sound politics. ** [[w:Morton Blackwell|Morton C. Blackwell]] in ''Laws of Politics''. * In politics, you have your word and your friends; go back on either and you're dead. ** [[w:Morton Blackwell|Morton C. Blackwell]] in ''Laws of Politics''. * In volunteer politics, a builder can build faster than a destroyer can destroy. ** [[w:Morton Blackwell|Morton C. Blackwell]] in ''Laws of Politics''. * In politics, nothing moves unless it's pushed. ** [[w:Morton Blackwell|Morton C. Blackwell]] in ''Laws of Politics''. * Moral outrage is the most powerful motivating force in politics. ** [[w:Morton Blackwell|Morton C. Blackwell]] in ''Laws of Politics''. * …'''even the best politics will not and cannot provide the fullness of [[hope]] we need.''' Politics matters, of course, but a hope based in politics, regardless of right or left, will always disappoint. …'''A people given over to [[wickedness]] will ruin even the best political system.''' Nor can we vote our way to righteousness; politics cannot make us love our neighbors as ourselves.<br>From newly minted college Marxists to MAGA social media, many of those who are investing their hearts and hopes in politics are looking for things that politics cannot give to them. Politics will never love them back, and the things that politics can sometimes deliver, such as vengeance and a sense of triumph over one’s perceived enemies, are hardly the foundations of lasting personal happiness, living the good life, and building a flourishing society.<br>Those who trust in politics will be distraught when the political winds turn against them, even if little to nothing changes in their day-to-day lives. ** Nathanael Blake, [https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/02/advice-for-the-class-of-2025-never-put-your-hope-in-earthly-kingdoms/ "Advice For The Class Of 2025: Never Put Your Hope In Earthly Kingdoms"], ''The Federalist'' (May 2, 2025) * Politics is not an [[exact science]]. ** ''Die Politik ist keine exakte Wissenschaft.'' ** [[Otto von Bismarck]], speech to Prussian upper house (18 December 1863) ** Variant: ''Die Politik ist keine Wissenschaft, wie viele der Herren Professoren sich einbilden, sondern eine Kunst.'' *** Politics is not a science, as the professors are apt to suppose. It is an art. *** Expression in the Reichstag (1884), as quoted in ''The Quote Verifier : Who Said What, Where, and When'' (2006) by Ralph Keyes. * ''Die Politik ist die Lehre vom Möglichen.'' ** '''Politics is the [[art]] of the [[Possibility|possible]].''' ** [[Otto von Bismarck]], remark to Meyer von Waldeck, 11 August 1867. Quoted in Heinz Amelung, ''Bismarck-Worte'', 1918; as reported in ''The Yale Book of Quotations'', Yale University Press, 2006. This is widely attributed to Bismarck but there is no firsthand account of his exact words, as discussed in Ralph Keyes, ''The Quote Verifier'', Macmillan, 2006. * Have you ever seen a candidate talking to a rich person on [[television]]? ** [[Art Buchwald]],''Quotations for our Time'' by Laurence J. Peter (1977). * Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting [[hair]]. ** [[George Burns]], quoted in Antony Jay, ''Lend Me Your Ears: The Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations''. Oxford University Press, (p.49-50). == C == * An honest [[Politicians|politician]] is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. ** Attributed to {{w|Simon Cameron}} by [[w:Allen Johnson (historian)|Allen Johnson]], ''Chronicles of America Series'', Yale University Press, 1918. (Cameron was forced to resign as United States Secretary of War in 1862, due to allegations of corruption). * The pendulum will swing back. ** [[Joseph Gurney Cannon]], maxim indicating that in life and politics the things detested today may be praised tomorrow. Quoted in a tribute to Cannon on his retirement, The Sun, Baltimore, Maryland, March 4, 1923.—Congressional Record, March 4, 1923, vol. 64, p. 5714. "Uncle Joe" Cannon, who was Speaker of the House 1903–1911, served in the House for 46 years. * [[wikipedia:Aline Chretien|Aline]] and I have travelled a very long, very hard road together, from our [[working class]] homes in rural [[Quebec]] to the palaces of [[London]], [[Paris]], [[Moscow]], and [[Beijing]]. Politics was the route, public service the reward. ** [[Jean Chrétien]], ''My Years As Prime Minister'' (2007) Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2007, <nowiki>ISBN 978-0-676-97900-8</nowiki> Chapter Fourteen, Vive le Canada, p. 406 * Politics and Religion are obsolete. The time has come for [[Science]] and [[Spirituality]]. ** Often quoted by [[Arthur C. Clarke]] as one of his favorite remarks of [[Jawaharlal Nehru]], though some of his earliest citations of it, in ''Voices from the Sky : Previews of the Coming Space Age'' (1967), p.&nbsp;154 indicate that Nehru may himself been either quoting or paraphrasing a statement of [[w:Vinoba Bhave|Vinoba Bhave]]. * We shouldn’t be playing politics. We should be focusing on what’s important. ** [[Genevieve Cogman]], ''The Untold Story'' (2021), <small> {{ISBN|978-1-9848-0480-8}} </small>, Chapter 23 (p. 328) * A lifetime spent in and out of embassies has left me half convinced that lies are the normal coinage of human intercourse. ** [[w:Albert E. Cowdrey|Albert E. Cowdrey]], ''The Familiar'' in ''[[w:The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction]],'' March 1997, p. 39 * Lucien B. Fenimore, after three hundred years of politics, no longer believed in [[coincidence]]. He didn’t believe in accidental accidents either. ** [[w:Kendell Foster Crossen|Kendell Foster Crossen]], ''The Hour of the Mortals,'' [[w:Startling Stories|Startling Stories]] (August 1952), p. 85 == D == * In my whole legal career I have not met worse types of [[criminals]] than in politics. ** [[Chittaranjan Das]], quoted from [[Sri Aurobindo]], ., Nahar, S., Aurobindo, ., & Institut de recherches évolutives (Paris). ''India's rebirth: A selection from Sri Aurobindo's writing, talks and speeches.'' Paris: Institut de Recherches Evolutives. 3rd Edition (2000). [https://web.archive.org/web/20170826004028/http://bharatvani.org/books/ir/IR_frontpage.htm] * Finality is not the language of politics. ** [[Benjamin Disraeli]], speech in the House of Commons, 28 February 1859. * Politicians are like [[w:Diaper|nappies]], they should be changed regularly and for the same reason. ** [[Ken Dodd]] ** This quote has been credited to multiple sources, including Mark Twain, José Maria de Eça de Queiroz (translated from Portuguese), and "unknown, originated around 1992" (see The Quote Investigator entry "[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/10/17/diaper/ Politicians Are Like Diapers. They Should Be Changed Regularly]" and The Big Apple, [http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/politicians_and_diapers_should_both_be_changed_regularly_and_for_the_same_r/ Entry from December 12, 2009]: “Politicians and [[w:Diaper|diapers]] should both be changed regularly, and for the same reason”). It may have originated in a Reader's Digest joke column. A columnist for the Indiana Gazette [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-indiana-gazette-books-bricks-naps/195177614/ quotes a version of this] (February 17, 1987) that he says he got from someone who got it from a "Reader's Digest fan." * The true destiny of [[United States|America]] is religious, not political: it is spiritual, not physical. ** {{w|Alvin R. Dyer}} in ''Ensign'' (November 1968) <!-- p. 106 --> == E== * Never do anything against [[conscience]] even if the state demands it. ** [[Albert Einstein]], as quoted by Virgil Henshaw in Albert Einstein: Philosopher Scientist (1949) edited by Paul A. Schilpp * That is simple, my friend. It is because Politics is more difficult than [[physics]]. ** Albert Einstein when asked "Dr. Einstein, why is it that when the mind of man has stretched so far as to discover the structure of the atom we have been unable to devise the political means to keep the atom from destroying us?” a conferee at a meeting at Princeton, N.J. (Jan 1946), as recalled by Greenville Clark in "Letters to the Times" in ''New York Times'' (22 Apr 1955), 24. * Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen. ** [[Dwight Eisenhower]] ** [[Henry Brooks Adams]], ''[http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext00/eduha10h.htm The Education of Henry Adams]'', 1907: ch. 22. *'''Soloviev''': All [[liberal]], [[capitalistic]], [[socialistic]] [[movements]] are directed by [[Jews]]. We must expose them. '''They are the [[antichrist|anti-christ]]!''' :'''Golivinski''': But sir, shouldn’t we keep this political? :'''Soloviev''': '''In [[Russia]] [[Religion in Russia|religion]] and [[Government of Russia|politics]] are the same!''' Our people will '''[[believe]]''' [[Antisemitism|anything '''negative about the Jews''']]'''!''' Go ahead boy! :* [[Will Eisner]], ''[[w:The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion|The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion]]'', (10/2/2005), p. 48. *'''Researcher''': In almost every country there are people trying to seize political [[power]]! What is the easy way? :'''Graphic novelist''': Well…I guess by identifying a felt [[threat]] to the people and leading a [[defense]]! <br> So you pick a group of people who are vulnerable and could seem to be a threat! :* Ibid, p. 115. * Whether or not our position fairly can be charged as “apolitical” depends entirely upon how one defines “political.” If “political” be taken in the narrow sense, as signifying those means and methods the world regularly accepts as normative for its doing of politics, then the position of me and mine clearly and is that of apoliticism. If, however, “political” be understood in the broad, etymological sense, as identifying whatever actions have public effect upon the life of the “[[Cities|city]]” (polis), then there are no grounds for accusing either “me” or any of “mine” of advocating apoliticism. ** [[Vernard Eller]], ''Christian Anarchy: Jesus’ Primacy Over the Powers'' (1987). ==F == * '''I say that politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of [[religion]]'''. Political institutions are secular by definition and operate in independent spheres. All my predecessors have said the same thing, for many years at least, albeit with different accents. '''I believe that [[Catholic Church|Catholics]] involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I'm here.''' ** [[Pope Francis]], interviewed in [http://www.repubblica.it/cultura/2013/10/01/news/pope_s_conversation_with_scalfari_english-67643118/ "How the Church will change" by Eugenio Scalfari in ''La Repubblica'' (1 October 2013)], as translated from Italian to English by Kathryn Wallace *Politics must not be subject to the [[economy]], nor should the economy be subject to the dictates of an efficiency-driven paradigm of [[technocracy]]. **Pope Francis, in his 2015 encyclical letter ''Laudato si','' paragraph 189 * … that is the nature of politics: ''poly'', meaning more than one, and ''ticks'', meaning [[blood]]-sucking [[Parasitism|parasites]]. ** [[Kinky Friedman]], attributed by him to "some guy in [[w:Corpus Christi, Texas|Corpus]]" ** Quoted in {{cite news | first = Michael Ray | last = Taylor | authorlink = | url = http://www.nashvillescene.com/Stories/Cover_Story/2007/10/11/Poly_Ticks_as_Unusual/index.shtml | title = Poly-Ticks as Unusual | work = [[w:Nashville Scene|Nashville Scene]] | date = [[October 11]], [[2007]] | accessdate = 2008-03-19 }} * Politics is policy. What policy should you follow in view of the idea that there isn’t enough to go around — the power of the few, or the needs of the many? [[Political economy]] is based on misassumptions... That’s the basis of all politics: it has to be you or me, there’s not enough for both of us. Survival of the fittest... But we can do so much now, with so little, that we can take care of everybody. That’s why the idea of [[w:scarcity|scarcity]] is all wrong. Up to now, the world of politics doesn’t know that. That’s why all nations are dependent on armaments, why we have the arms race. The politicians still say that it’s you or me, and that’s why they go for the gun... The young world is giving up any interest in their political system. They have decided that it is absolutely corrupt. ** [[Buckminster Fuller]] in [https://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/85/buckminster-fuller-talks-politics Buckminster Fuller Talks Politics, (1982)] == G == * Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. ** [[John Kenneth Galbraith]], letter to [[John F. Kennedy]], 2 March 1962, printed in Galbraith's ''Ambassador's Journal'' (1969). * There's no real power in Politics. Every day, it's all about whose turn it is to get punched in the face. ** [[Ricky Gervais]], in "Dead Funny", an Interview with Graham Wray in Event, a Mail on Sunday weekend magazine, 06.04.2014, P. 15. * [[Life]] isn’t binary — and neither is politics. If you are adrift in the [[Oceans|ocean]], your enemy isn’t just [[Shark (fish)|sharks]]; it’s [[w:Thirst|thirst]], [[hunger]], drowning, and [[despair]] itself. If you face your predicament assuming the only thing you have to worry about is being eaten by a shark, you might fend off the sharks, but you will also probably die. Indeed, by ignoring other threats, you’d probably make yourself more vulnerable to a shark attack. ** [[Jonah Goldberg]], [https://www.nationalreview.com/g-file/conservatives-president-trump-moral-equivalent-of-war-arguments/ "War on the Right"] (4 May 2018), ''National Review'' * We will stand by our friends and administer a stinging rebuke to men or parties who are either [[indifferent]], [[Neglect|negligent]], or [[Hostility|hostile]], and, wherever opportunity affords, to secure the election of [[Intelligence|intelligent]], [[Honesty|honest]], [[Earnestness|earnest]] [[Trade unions|trade unionists]], with clear, unblemished, paid-up union cards in their possession. ** [[Samuel Gompers]], "Men of Labor! Be Up and Doing" (editorial), ''American Federationist'' (May 1906) * They [<nowiki/>[[Government|governments]]] talk about the people and the [[proletariat]], I talk about the [[fools]] and the suckers. ** [[Graham Greene]], ''The Third Man''. * Nothing lies outside the political sphere understood in this way. Everything has a political color. It is always in the political fabric - and never outside of it - that a person emerges as a free and responsible being, as a person in relationship with other people, as someone who takes on a historical task. Personal relationships themselves acquire an ever-increasing political dimension. Man enter into relationships among themselves through political means. ** [[Gustavo Gurierrez]], ''A Theology of Liberation'' == H == [[File:LuMaxArt_Golden_Family_With_World_Religions.jpg|thumb|[P]olitics takes on religious overtones when religion proper withers... ~ [[Paul Hollander]]]] * I'll show you politics in [[United States|America]]. Here it is, right here. "I think the puppet on the right shares my beliefs." "I think the puppet on the left is more to my liking." "Hey, wait a minute, there's one guy holding out both puppets!" ** [[Bill Hicks]], ''[[w:Rant in E-Minor|Rant in E-Minor]]'' (released posthumously, 1997). * It has been pointed out often enough that politics takes on religious overtones when [[religion]] proper withers, at any rate among [[Intellectual|intellectuals]]. ** [[Paul Hollander]], ''The Survival of the Adversary Culture'' (1991), Transaction Publishers, pp. 157–158 * '''Religious ideas, supposedly private matters between man and god, are in practice always political ideas.''' ** [[Christopher Hitchens]], ''The Monarchy: A Critique of Britain's Favourite Fetish'' (1990), ''Chatto Counterblasts''. * It is not nuclear violence alone that is the threat to mankind. It is the willingness to kill our fellow human beings – the innocent as well as the noninnocent- for '''political ends'''. Unless we are willing to redirect our time, energy, and resources away from perfecting the means of mass [[destruction]] of whatever sort and into exploring [[nonviolence|nonviolent]] alternatives to [[war]] itself, our efforts to combat the threat of nuclear war are likely to be of no avail. ** [[Robert L. Holmes]], ''On War and Morality'' [https://books.google.com/books?id=TBoABAAAQBAJ&q=Robert+L.+Holms#v=onepage&q=Robert%20L.%20Holms&f=false (1989)] Introduction p. 10 * With regard to [[nuclear weapons]], the situation is far more dangerous than the last [[Doomsday Clock]] report. New weapons systems under development are much more effectively dangerous. The [[Presidency of Joe Biden|Biden administration]], expanding upon [[Donald Trump|Trump]]’s confrontational approach, has [[Noam Chomsky|Chomsky]] at a loss for words to describe the danger at hand. Only recently, Biden met with [[NATO]] leaders and instructed them to plan on two wars, [[China]] and [[Russia]]. According to Chomsky: “This is beyond [[insanity]].” Not only that, the group is carrying out provocative acts when [[diplomacy]] is really needed. This is an extraordinarily dangerous situation... It is important to emphasize that throughout history political parties that rely upon lies bring society down to its knees in piles of shameless destruction. ** [https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/07/12/a-world-of-total-illusion-and-fantasy-an-interview-with-noam-chomsky/ A World of Total Illusion and Fantasy: Noam Chomsky on the Future of the Planet, Robert Hunziker, ''CounterPunch''] (12 July 2021) * According to Chomsky, '''the Doomsday Clock setting at 100 seconds to midnight is based upon: (1) [[global warming]] (2) [[nuclear war]] and (3) [[disinformation]], or the collapse of any kind of rational discourse.''' As such, number three makes it impossible to deal with the first two major problems. Along those lines, within the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] there’s virtually a disappearance of any pretense of rational discourse. Twenty-five (25%) percent of Republicans believe the government is run by an [[QAnon|elite satanic group of pedophiles]]. Seventy percent (70%) of Republicans believe that the [[2020 United States presidential election|election]] was stolen. Only fifteen percent (15%) of Republicans believe that global warming is a serious problem. Therein lies an insurmountable problem to solving the main issues that continually tick the clock ever closer to a [[disaster]] scenario that will likely be unprecedented in the annals of [[warfare]] and environmental degradation. As a result, Chomsky says: “We’re living in a world of total illusion and [[fantasy]].... Unless this is dealt with soon, it’ll be impossible to deal with the two major issues within the time span that we have available, which is not very long.” ** [https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/07/12/a-world-of-total-illusion-and-fantasy-an-interview-with-noam-chomsky/ A World of Total Illusion and Fantasy: Noam Chomsky on the Future of the Planet, Robert Hunziker, ''CounterPunch''] (12 July 2021) * That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, [[Public opinion|Public Opinion]]. ** [[Thomas Huxley]] in "Universities, Actual & Ideal" == I == * '''Good politics comes from [[love]]—love for the nation, the city, and the citizens.''' Normally, however, we only understand a concept when we are confronted with its contrary. We know what “hot” means by comparing it to “cold.”<br>We may understand political charity by looking at its contrary, political malevolence. There are historical cases when rulers hate their citizens and seek to punish and destroy them. ** [[Massimo Introvigne]], [https://bitterwinter.org/political-charity-populonia-and-tai-ji-men-case/ "Political Charity and Fiscal Malevolence: The Story of Populonia and the Tai Ji Men Case"], ''Bitter Winter'' (September 2022) * Many have argued that the basic question of Western [[political philosophy]] is why we accept to surrender a part of our [[liberty]] to join an [[organization]]. Wouldn’t it be better to remain [[Freedom|free]]? ** [[Massimo Introvigne]], [https://bitterwinter.org/jehovahs-witnesses-how-the-ghent-decision-subverted-the-idea-of-liberty/ "Jehovah’s Witnesses: How the Ghent Decision Subverted the Idea of Liberty"], ''Bitter Winter'' (April 2021) == J == * I will have nothing to do with this pseudo-religious approach to politics. I part company with the [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] and [[Mahatma Gandhi|Gandhi]]. I do not believe in working up mob hysteria. Politics is a gentleman's game. ** [[Muhammad Ali Jinnah]] speaking to journalist Durga Das in London (December 1920) as quoted in Jinnah, Pakistan and Islamic Identity : The Search for Saladin (1997) by Akbar S. Ahmed, p. 67. * Politics is momentum. ** [[Gary Johnson]], in an interview with ''{{w|CNBC}}''´s [[w:John Harwood (journalist|John Harwood]] [http://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/22/libertarian-candidate-gary-johnson-says-most-of-gop-right-now-is-me.html] (August 22, 2016). == K == * Acts of [[commemoration]] are the very stuff of politics; in and through our political process we decide who or what should be remembered or memorialized and in what ways. As David Thelen argues, “[M]emory, private and individual, as much as collective and cultural is constructed, not reproduced. . . . [T]his construction is not made in isolation but in conversations with others that occur in the contexts of community, broader politics, and social dynamics.” Should law and legal process lend themselves to these processes? Can they do so without compromising values central to law’s integrity? These normative questions have so far driven scholarship of law and memory. ** Thomas R. Kearns quoting David Thelen; (August 2002). [https://books.google.com/books?id=J_9YVh0QmUQC ''History, Memory, and the Law'']. University of Michigan Press. pp.10-11 * In all times and ages, ''political'' crimes have always been punished more severely than others – even in the degenerate [[Russian Empire|State]] of [[Nicholas II of Russia|Nicholas II]]. The fact that in modern '[[Democracy|democracies]]' we lean towards political clemency proves only one thing: the loss of any sense of the 'political' in general. ** [[Alexandre Kojève]], ''The Notion of Authority'' (2020) [1942], p. 79 *'''{{w|Uatu}}''': Despite the intentions of human politics, [[history]] has shown that it is often the one, not the many, who have led the world towards its destiny... now turn your eyes to Earth once more and tell me what you see. ** ''{{w|Earth X}}'', ch. 3, written by {{w|Jim Krueger}} and {{w|Alex Ross}} == L == * ... for our [[English language|English]] grumbling is equally distributed between the [[weather]] and politics, and the case would be desperate when confined to the last. ** [[Letitia Elizabeth Landon]], ''[[Romance and Reality]]'' (1831), Vol. I, Chapter 18. * Then the great question of government is also in an unsatisfactorv condition; for I think all will agree that there is no country in the world which is governed, as every country in the world ought to be, solely with regard to the interests and advancement of the people who are governed. On the contrary we find everywhere personal and party considerations, and matters are in such condition that even the wisest and the best of our statesmen cannot do many things which they wish to do, and find themselves forced into many actions of which in truth they do not approve... All of these difficulties arise from [[ignorance]] and [[selfishness]]. If men understood the plan of [[evolution]], instead of working each for his own personal ends they would all join together as a community and work harmoniously for the [[Common good|good of all]] with mutual [[tolerance]] and [[forbearance]]. It is obvious that if this were done all of these evils would almost immediately cease or at any rate could very shortly be removed. p. 326 ** [[Charles Webster Leadbeater]], ''Some Glimpses of Occultism: Ancient and Modern'' (1903) * A great change too will come over the power side of man’s development; the whole question of government and organization will stand upon a different basis. Men will see then vividly and clearly the effect upon the astral plane of many of their actions upon the physical, and thus much that is now done thoughtlessly will become an absolute impossibility There could be no possibility of the [[slaughter]] of [[animals]] for [[food]], for example, if only men were able to see the results upon the astral plane which that slaughter produces. The crime which men call sport would be utterly abolished if they were able to see what it is that they are really doing. It needs so slight a development to change the whole face of this which we call civilization, and to change it very much for the better. p. 345 ** [[Charles Webster Leadbeater]], ''Some Glimpses of Occultism: Ancient and Modern'' (1903) * Politics: a [[Trojan horse]] race. ** [[Stanisław Jerzy Lec]], in ''Unkempt Thoughts'' [''Myśli nieuczesane''] (1957) as translated by Jacek Galazka (1962). * Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation. ** [[Vladimir Lenin]], ''The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism'' (1913), p.&nbsp;5. * People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises. ** [[Vladimir Lenin]], ''On Culture and Cultural Revolution'', p. 40 * Politics was for those who had too much to eat. ** [[w:Ken Liu|Ken Liu]], ''A Brief History of the Trans-Pacific Tunnel'' (2013), reprinted in [[w:Rich Horton|Rich Horton]] (ed.) ''The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2014'' (p. 346) == M == * Furthermore, [[Historian|historians]] must not abandon political history entirely for [[sociology]] or cultural studies. Like it or not, politics matter to our societies and to our lives. We need only ask ourselves how different the world would have been if [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] and the [[Nazism|Nazis]] had not seized control of one of [[Europe]]’s most powerful states. Or what could have happened to [[Economy of the United States|American capitalism]] and the American people if [[Franklin D. Roosevelt|Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] had not been able, as president, to implement the [[New Deal]]. ** [[Margaret MacMillan]], ''The Use and Abuses of History'' (2008) * I think there's a less than 5 percent [[chance]] that what I'd like to see happen actually happens. But it seems to me an obligation, even if it's a 5 percent chance, to try to make it happen. You could call it a triumph of hope over experience. But what else is politics if not that? ** [[Kanan Makiya]], as quoted in [http://web.archive.org/web/20060915191012/http://www.brandeis.edu/ethics/news/2002/2002.Nov.03.html "The Dissident"] (3 November 2002), by Laura Secor, ''The Boston Globe'', Massachusetts: Globe Newspaper Company, p. D1<!-- and [http://web.archive.org/web/20120301192136/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/magazine/07MAKIYA-t.htm "Regrets Only?"] (7 October 2007), by Dexter Filkins, ''The New York Times Magazine''--> * “I didn’t know that you were into politics.”<br>“Anyone with [[money]] has to be. Real money, I mean. Even criminals need to keep a politician in their pockets these days.” ** [[Paul J. McAuley]], ''Four Hundred Billion Stars'' (1988) Chapter 3, “The Keep” * Politics is about being able to do things that your colleagues couldn't do, and for them to recognize that. What marks out successful leaders from the unsuccessful is their decisiveness, [[courage]] and [[clarity]] - a strategic vision. ** {{w|David Miliband}}, ''The World Wars'' (2014). * As far I'm concerned, the two poles of politics were not [[Left-wing politics|Left Wing]] or [[Right-wing politics|Right Wing]]. In fact they're just two ways of ordering an [[Developed country|industrial society]] and we're fast moving beyond the industrial societies of the [[19th century|19th]] and [[20th century|20th centuries]]. ** [[Alan Moore]], [http://web.archive.org/web/20060404210249/http://www.comicon.com/thebeat/2006/03/a_for_alan_pt_1_the_alan_moore.html] (March 2006) * [T]he only mark-to-market thing in politics is Election Day; everything else is hot air. ** [[Mike Murphy (political consultant)|Mike Murphy]], [http://conversationswithbillkristol.org/video/mike-murphy-ii/ interview with Bill Kristol] (7 February 2018), [http://conversationswithbillkristol.org/transcript/mike-murphy-ii-transcript/ transcript] == N == * Man's capacity for [[justice]] makes [[democracy]] possible, but man's inclination to [[injustice]] makes democracy necessary. ** [[Reinhold Niebuhr]], ''The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness'', 1944. * '''Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.''' ** [[Friedrich Nietzsche]], ''{{w|Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None}}'', Part I, Chapter 11, “''Vom neuen Götzen''” (“The New Idol”). Published in four parts between 1883 and 1891 Another translation: “But the state lieth in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it saith it lieth; and whatever it hath it hath stolen.” * There's an increasing sense in our political life that in both parties politicians call themselves [[Public servant|public servants]] but act like bosses who think that voters work for them. [[Physician|Physicians]] who routinely help the needy and the uninsured do not call themselves [[servants]]. They get to be called the 1%. Politicians who jerk around doctors, [[nurses]] and [[Health care|health systems]] call themselves servants, when of course they look more like little [[King|kings]] and [[Queen|queens]] instructing the grudging [[Peasant|peasants]] in how to arrange their affairs. ** Peggy Noonan, "Our Selfish 'Public Servants'," The Wall Street Journal, Saturday/Sunday, January 18-19, 2014, A13 ==O== * I think it’s great that we (in the [[United States|USA]]) have multiple female presidential candidates, so there’s not the [[Women|woman]] running... I’m very excited about there being multiple women across — that can represent different parts of the political spectrum on the left, so that’s something that I’m thankful for... what we’re trying to do is is frame the debate and the conversation... that we’re going to be having in the next two years... ** [[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez]] in [https://theintercept.com/2019/01/28/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-podcast/ ''Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on her First Weeks In Washington, The Intercept''] (28 January 2019) == P == * When citizens are relatively equal, politics has tended to be fairly democratic. When a few individuals hold enormous amounts of wealth, democracy suffers. The reason for this pattern is simple. Through campaign contributions, [[lobbying]], influence over public discourse, and other means, wealth can be translated into political power. When wealth is highly concentrated—that is, when a few individuals have enormous amounts of money—political power tends to be highly concentrated, too. The wealthy few tend to rule. Average citizens lose political power. Democracy declines. ** [[Benjamin I. Page]] and Martin Gilens, ''Democracy in America?: What Has Gone Wrong and What We Can Do About It'' ([[w:University of Chicago Press|University of Chicago Press]]: 2017), p. 19 * In politics, wishful thinking just gives the wolves a license to howl. ** [[Edgar Pangborn]], ''[[w:A Mirror for Observers|A Mirror for Observers]]'' (1954), Part One, Chapter 4 * Politics is nothing but common action to secure more favorable living conditions. ** [[H. Beam Piper]], ''Last Enemy'' (1950), reprinted in ''The Complete Paratime,'' <small> {{ISBN|0-441-00801-1}}, </small> p. 81 * {{w|Ankh-Morpork}} had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote. ** [[Terry Pratchett]], ''Mort'' (2009), p. 184 * Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it and seeing it, to found one in himself. But whether it exists anywhere or ever exists is no matter; for this is the only commonwealth in whose politics he can ever take part. ** [[Plato]], ''Republic'' 592b * All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs. ** {{w|John Enoch Powell}}, ''Joseph Chamberlain'' (Thames and Hudson, 1977), p. 151. * Politics is a harsh blood sport and the (Irish) electorate is not easily impressed. ** Jim Power, ''The Irish Examiner'', 9th January 2020 * I can't help feeling wary when I hear anything said about the [[masses]]. First you take their faces from 'em by calling 'em the masses and then you accuse 'em of not having any faces. ** [[J. B. Priestley]] in ''Saturn Over the Water'' (1961) ch. 2. * All that I grasped was that to repeat what everybody else was thinking was, in politics, the mark not of an inferior but of a superior mind. ** [[Marcel Proust]], ''Within a Budding Grove'', C. Moncrieff, trans. (1982), p. 495. == Q == * Politics is the art of postponing [[decisions]] until they are no longer relevant. ** {{w|Henri Queuille}}, ''The Bureaucrat'' (1985). == R == * The politics of the unpolitical—these are the politics of those who desire to be pure in heart: the politics of men without personal ambition; of those who have not desires wealth or an unequal share of worldly possessions; of those who have always striven, whatever their race or condition, for human values and not for national or sectional interests. : For our Western world, [[Christ]] is the supreme example of this unselfish [[devotion]] to the good of humanity, and the [[Sermon on the Mount]] is the source of all the politics of the unpolitical. :* [[Herbert Read]], “The Politics of the Unpolitical,” ''To Hell with Culture'' (1963), p. 38. * I don't make jokes. I just watch the Government and report the facts. ** [[Will Rogers]], quoted in {{cite book | last = Colton | first = Joel | coauthors = Caroline Farrar Ware | title = The Twentieth Century | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=JlIQAAAAIAAJ&q=%22i+don't+make+jokes%22+government+%22report+the+facts%22&dq=%22i+don't+make+jokes%22+government+%22report+the+facts%22&pgis=1 | accessdate = 2008-03-19 | year = 1972 | publisher = Nineteenth Century and After | pages = page 9 }} * Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to [[Sex work|the first]]. ** [[Ronald Reagan]], At a conference in [[Los Angeles]], 2 March 1977, in Bill Adler ''Reagan Wit'' (1981) ch. 5 * That who votes doesn't win in politics. It is that who counts votes. ** [[Borislav Ristić]], quoted in: [https://www.vecernji.hr/premium/lako-je-penzionerima-koji-imaju-zive-roditelje-1255300 "Lako je penzionerima koji imaju žive roditelje"] ''Večernji list''. Published 30-06-2018. * More people than ever before look to government as their best chance of securing well-being rather than as their inevitable enemy. Politics as a contest to capture state power has at times apparently replaced religion (sometimes even appearing to eclipse [[Market economy|market economics]]) as the focus of faith that can move mountains. ** [[w:John Roberts (historian)|J. M. Roberts]], ''The New Penguin History of the World (Fifth Edition)'' (2007) == S == * In [[science]] it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken," and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion. ** [[Carl Sagan]] (1987) Keynote address at CSICOP conference, as quoted in ''Do Science and the Bible Conflict?'' (2003) by Judson Poling, p. 30. * Political systems are self-destructive constructs. They possess a de-evolutionary or [[Cannibalism|cannibalizing]] nature, locked firmly within closed-ended structures, micromanaged from top tiers, and endowed with an overwhelming capacity to crank out external controls in assembly-line fashion. With clockwork precision, these systems manufacture rules and a legal apparatus which in turn erect artificial barriers to prevent the optimizing processes of evolution and information fluidity. ** [[L.K. Samuels]], ''In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action'', Cobden Press (2013) p. 11. * Money and generous benefits can easily alter a person’s political outlook. [[Ideology]] follows the money. ** [[L.K. Samuels]], ''In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action'', Cobden Press (2013) p. 301. * Campaign promises are—by long democratic tradition—the least binding form of human commitment. ** [[Antonin Scalia]], ''[[w:Republican Party of Minnesota v. White|Republican Party v. White]],'' [http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/01-521.ZO.html 536 U.S. 765] (2002) (majority opinion). * Politics is a consequence of how a person understands their experience. ** [[Sarah Schulman]], {{cite book |title=Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair |date=2016 |publisher={{w|Arsenal Pulp Press}} |isbn=9781551526447|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Conflict_Is_Not_Abuse/ZK42DwAAQBAJ}} * I was dealing with a political story where much of the action took place on the floor of the [[U.S. Senate]], and one of the edicts that came down from the Mt. Sinai of advertisers row was that at no time in a political drama must a speech or a character be equated with an existing [[Political parties|political party]] or current political problems. So several million viewers were treated to an incredible display of senators shouting, gesticulating and talking in hieroglyphics, saying not a single thing germane to the current political scene. ** [[Rod Serling]], ''Patterns'', (1957); as quoted in "Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval", ''American Masters'', (November 29, 1995). * Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics. ** [[Richard Brinsley Sheridan]] in ''The Duenna'', Act ii, scene 4. * Politics is simply the way human beings treat<br />one another on the earth. ** [[Naomi Shihab Nye]] Voices in the Air: Poems for Listeners (2018) * I don't understand how people can disconnect politics from daily life, because that's how politics count. We're daily life people and that's where politics become a reality to us. ** [[Naomi Shihab Nye]] [https://www.aljadid.com/content/talking-poet-naomi-shihab-nye Interview] with Al Jadid (1996) * The separation between politics and [[economics]], between state and [[civil society]] is how the [[bourgeois]] society appears and presents itself. But it is not its real essence. In reality, politics is the quintessence, or the concentrated form of economics. The political sphere is built on the sphere of production, and there is a close relationship between those who command production and those who wield power. ** [[Issa G. Shivji]], {{cite book |title=Silences in NGO Discourse: The Role and Future of NGOs in Africa |date=30 June 2007 |publisher=Fahamu/Pambazuka |isbn=978-0-9545637-5-2 |page=41}} * I have no faith in political [[arithmetic]]. ** [[Adam Smith]] in ''Wealth of Nations''. * Politics: the art of convincing decent people to forget the lesser of two [[Evil|evils]] is also evil. ** [[Edward Snowden]], ''Twitter'' [https://twitter.com/snowden/status/741584993009438720?lang=en June 11, 2016] * A coalition is by definition made up of people who have something in common, not everything in common. ** Rebecca Solnit, "[https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/how-big-should-your-tent-be How Big Should Your Tent Be?]," 2025 * To refuse political [[equality]] is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect. ** [[Elizabeth Cady Stanton]], reported in ''Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Correspondence, Writings, Speeches'' (1981), p.&nbsp;249. * The only thing worse in politics than being wrong is being boring, as [[Richard Nixon|Dick Nixon]] would say. ** [[Roger Stone]], as quoted in [https://www.weeklystandard.com/matt-labash/debriefing-mike-murphy "Debriefing Mike Murphy"] (18 March 2016), by Matt Labash, ''The Weekly Standard'' * “Our ideas” are only partly our ideas. Most of our ideas are abbreviations or residues of the thought of other people, of our teachers (in the broadest sense of the term) and of our teachers’ teachers; they are abbreviations and residues of the thought of the past. These thoughts were once explicit and in the center of consideration and discussion. It may even be presumed that they were once perfectly lucid. By being transmitted to later generations they have possibly been transformed, and there is no certainty that the transformation was effected consciously and with full clarity. … This means that the clarification of our political ideas insensibly changes into and becomes indistinguishable from the history of political ideas. ** [[Leo Strauss]], ''What is Political Philosophy?'' (1959), p. 73 * [P]olitics is always just a few steps away from ''[[w:The_Lord_of_the_Flies|The Lord of the Flies]]''... ** [[Charlie Sykes|Charlie J. Sykes]], [https://www.weeklystandard.com/charles-j-sykes/as-suspect-is-arrested-over-suspicious-packages-incivility-and-toxicity-reign-supreme "The Derangement of the American Mind"] (October 2018), ''The Weekly Standard'' == T== * The pursuit of [[wealth]] generally diverts men of great talents and strong passions from the pursuit of power; and it frequently happens that a man does not undertake to direct the fortunes of the state until he has shown himself incompetent to conduct his own. ** [[Alexis de Tocqueville]], Democracy in America, vol. 1, chapter 13 (1835–1840). * Politics is, as it were, the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its two opposite halves,—sometimes split into quarters, it may be, which grind on each other. Not only individuals, but States, have thus a confirmed dyspepsia, which expresses itself, you can imagine by what sort of eloquence. ** [[Henry David Thoreau]], "[[s:Life Without Principle|Life Without Principle]]", ''The Atlantic Monthly'' '''12''' 71, October 1863: pp.&nbsp;484–495. * The main mark of modern [[Government|governments]] is that we do not know who governs, de facto any more than de jure. We see the politician and not his backer; still less the backer of the backer; or, what is most important of all, the banker of the backer. ** [[J.R.R. Tolkien]], ''The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien''. * Throned above all, in a manner without parallel in all past, is the veiled prophet of finance, swaying all men living by a sort of magic, and delivering oracles in a language not understood of the people. ** [[J.R.R. Tolkien]], ''The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien''.{{page needed | Date = November 2013}} * A leader has to lead, or otherwise he has no business in politics. ** [[Harry Truman]], reported in Merle Miller, ''Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman'' (1974), p.&nbsp;422. * Political relations are based on self-interest: benefits to be gained and losses to be avoided. For the most part, man’s politics is determined by his evaluation of material [[good and evil]]. Politics results from a [[conflict of interests]], not of [[consciences]]. ** [[Kwame Ture]] and [[Charles V. Hamilton]], {{cite book |title={{w|Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America}} |date=1967 |publisher=Vintage Books |isbn=978-0-394-70033-5 |page=75}} * What people believe and what they’ll do because they believe it is a big part of what’s real, especially in politics. ** [[Harry Turtledove]], ''[[w:The Great War: Breakthroughs|The Great War: Breakthroughs]]'' (2000), Chapter 17, <small> ({{ISBN|0-345-40563-3}}, p. 394) </small> == U == == V == * Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them. ** [[Paul Valéry]], ''Tel Quel'' (1943). * Take the so-called politics of fear — the constant reference to risks, from hoodies on the street corner to international [[terrorism]]. Whatever the truth of these risks and the best ways of dealing with them, '''the politics of fear plays on an assumption that people cannot bear the uncertainties associated with them. Politics then becomes a question of who can better deliver an illusion of control'''. ** {{w|Mark Vernon}}; quoted in {{cite news | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6199716.stm | title = God. Who knows? | publisher = BBC News | date = [[4 December]] [[2006]] | accessdate = 2006-12-10 }} * The term “political overconfidence” should be at the front of our awareness in political discussions, and the political overconfidence we should each be most aware of and most eager to expose is, of course, our own. ** [[Magnus Vinding]], ''Reasoned Politics'' (Ratio Ethica, 2022) == W == *One man's diplomacy will have a chance of success only if it is backed by power. **Chaim Weizmann. Quoted by [https://wiki.projectherzl.com/wiki/Quotes_by_Chaim_Weizmann Project Herzl]. * The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful [[despotism]]. ** [[George Washington]], ''Farewell Address'' (1796). * Why is it the [[Mongol invasions and conquests|Mongols]] of this world always tell us they're defending us against the Mongols? ** [[Edward Whittemore]], ''Nile Shadows'' (1983). * '''I was aggressively nonpolitical. I believed that people who make a fuss about politics do so because their heads are too empty to think about more important things.''' So I felt nothing but impatient contempt for [[John Osborne|Osborne's]] Jimmy Porter and the rest of the heroes of [[Class conflict|social protest]]. ** [[Colin Wilson]] in ''Postscript to the Outsider '', p. 2 (1967). * [[Aristocracy]] and exclusiveness tend to final overthrow, in language as in politics. ** {{W|William Dwight Whitney}}, ''Language and the Study of Language: Twelve Lectures on the Principles of Linguistic Science'' (1868), p.&nbsp;150. * A [[cult]] is a religion with no political power. ** [[Tom Wolfe]], ''[[w:In Our Time (Wolfe book)|In Our Time]]'', "Entr'actes and Canapes",1980. == Y == * Such are the times, that the mere presentation of a {{w|report}} can be a political act. ** [[Huma Yusuf]], ''[https://www.dawn.com/news/1554406/missing-rights Missing rights]'' (04 May, 2020), ''[[Dawn (newspaper)|Dawn]]'' == Z == * Politics is [[war]] without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. ** [[Mao Zedong]], "On Protracted War" (May 1938) <!-- Google Books shows this as having appeared in ''Selected Works'' as "On Protracted War" (May 1938), but I am unable to confirm this or find complete citation details of the original publication. --> * '''Every [[Chinese Communist Party|Communist]] must grasp the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.''' ** [[Mao Zedong]], "The Little Red Book". * Politics is like bad [[cinema]] — people overact, take it too far. When I speak with politicians, I see this in their facial expressions, their eyes, the way they squint. I look at things like a producer. I would often watch a scene on the monitor, and the [[Film director|director]] and I would yell, ‘Stop, no more, this is unwatchable! No one will believe this.’ ** [[Volodymyr Zelensky]], [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/11/04/how-trumps-emissaries-put-pressure-on-ukraines-new-president "The Swamp" – interview in The New Yorker by Joshua Yaffa] (4 November 2019) ==''Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations''== :<small>Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 610-13.</small> * Man is by nature a civic animal. ** [[Aristotle]], ''[[w:Politics (Aristotle)|Politics]]'' I. 2. * All [[political parties]] die at last of swallowing their own lies. ** Attributed to [[John Arbuthnot]] in ''Life of Emerson', p. 165. * You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the [[universe]]. ** [[Edmund Burke]], ''[[w:Reflections on the Revolution in France|Reflections on the Revolution in France]]'' Volume III, p. 277. * Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures. ** [[Edmund Burke]], ''Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontent''. Phrase used in letter by Earl of Shelburne (July 11, 1765), before Burke's use of it. * Away with the cant of "Measures, not men!"—the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing. ** [[George Canning]], speech against the Addington Ministry (1801). * One of the greatest of [[Roman Empire|Romans]], when asked what were his politics, replied, "Imperium et libertas." That would not make a bad programme for a [[Government of the United Kingdom|British Ministry]]. ** {{w|Randolph Churchill}}, speech, Mansion House, London (Nov. 10, 1879). * Here the two great interests IMPERIUM ET LIBERTAS, res olim insociabiles (saith [[Tacitus]]), began to incounter each other. ** [[w:Sir Winston Churchill (1620–1688)|Sir Winston Churchill (1620–1688)]] ''Divi Britannici'', p. 849. (1675). * It is a condition which confronts us—not a theory. ** [[Grover Cleveland]], Annual Message (1887). * [[Information]] upon points of practical politics. ** [[Benjamin Disraeli]], ''Vivian Gray'', Chapter XIV. Given by Walsh as first appearance of the phrase "practical politics". * All political power is a trust. ** [[Charles James Fox]] (1788). * Oh! we'll give 'em Jessie<br>When we rally round the polls. ** Popular song of Fremont's Supporters in the Presidential Campaign of 1856. * Measures, not men, have always been my mark. ** [[Oliver Goldsmith]], ''Good-Natured Man'', Act II. * Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind,<br>And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. ** [[Oliver Goldsmith]], ''Retaliation'' (1774), line 31. * Who will burden himself with your liturgical parterre when the burning questions [brennende Fragen] of the day invite to very different toils? ** {{w|Karl Rudolf Hagenbach}}, ''Grundlinien der Liturgik und Homiletik'' (1803). "Burning question" used by Edward Miall, M.P., also by Disraeli in the House of Commons (March, 1873). * Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. ** [[Thomas Jefferson]], letter to [[Tench Coxe]] (1799). * If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; by resignation, none. ** Usually quoted, "Few die and none resign." [[Thomas Jefferson]], letter to Elias Shipman and Merchants of New Haven (July 12, 1801). * Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest men, with understanding sufficient for their stations. No duty is at the same time more difficult to fulfil. The knowledge of character possessed by a single individual is of necessity limited. To seek out the best through the whole Union, we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with the purest motives, is sometimes incorrect. ** [[Thomas Jefferson]], letter to Elias Shipman and Merchants of New Haven (July 12, 1801). Paraphrased as "Put the right man in the right place" by [[w:John Bach McMaster|John Bach McMaster]], ''History of the People of the United States'' Volume II, p. 586. * Skilled to pull wires he baffles nature's hope, who sure intended him to stretch a rope. ** [[James Russell Lowell]], ''The Boss'' (referring to "[[w:William M. Tweed|Boss Tweed]]"). * Factions among yourselves; preferring such<br>To offices and honors, as ne'er read<br>The elements of saving policy;<br>But deeply skilled in all the principles<br>That usher to destruction. ** [[Philip Massinger]], ''The Bondman'', Act I, scene 3, line * Every time I fill a vacant office I make ten malcontents and one ingrate. ** [[Molière]], quoting [[Louis XIV]], ''Siècle de Louis Quatorze''. * Those who would treat politics and morality apart will never understand the one or the other. ** [[John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn]], ''Rousseau'', p. 380. * ''Car c'est en famille, ce n'est pas en public, qu'un lave son linge sale.'' ** But it is at home and not in public that one should wash ones dirty linen. ** [[Napoleon I of France]], on his return from Elba, speech to the Legislative Assembly. * Better a hundred times an honest and capable [[Public administration|administration]] of an erroneous policy than a corrupt and incapable administration of a good one. ** {{w|Edward John Phelps}}, at a dinner of the New York Chamber of Commerce (Nov. 19, 1889). *:A [[weapon]] that comes down as still<br>As [[Snow|snowflakes]] fall upon the sod;<br>But executes a freeman's will,<br>As [[lightning]] does the will of [[God]];<br>And from its [[force]], nor [[Door|doors]] nor locks<br>Can shield you; 'tis the ballot-box. ** [[John Pierpont]], ''A Word from a Petitioner''. * Old politicians chew on [[wisdom]] past,<br>And totter on in business to the last. ** [[Alexander Pope]], ''Moral Essays'' (1731-35), Epistle I, line 228. * A [[w:Mugwump|mugwump]] is a person educated beyond his intellect. ** [[Horace Porter]], ''A Bon-Mot in Cleveland Blaine Campaign'', (1884). * Abstain from beans. ** [[Pythagoras]]. Advice against political voting, which was done by means of beans. See Lucian Gallus, IV. 5. Vitarum Auctio. Sect. 6. The superstition against beans was prevalent in Egypt however. See Herodotus, II. 37, also Sextus Empiricus. Explanations to abstain from beans from lost treatise of Aristotle in Diog. Laertes, VIII. 34. Beans had an oligarchical character on account of their use in voting. Plutarch gives a similar explanation in De Educat, Chapter XVII. Caution against entering public life, for the votes by which magistrates were elected were originally given by beans. Pythagoras referred to by Jeremy Taylor—Holy Living. Section IV, p. 80. * Get thee [[glass]] [[eyes]];<br>And, like a scurvy politician, seem<br>To see the things thou dost not. ** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[King Lear]]'', Act IV, scene 6, line 174. * O, that estates, degrees, and offices<br>Were not deriv'd corruptly, and that clear honour<br>Were purchased by the merit of the wearer! ** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Merchant of Venice]]'', Act II, scene 9, line 41. * Persuade me not; I will make a Star-chamber matter of it. ** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Merry Wives of Windsor]]'', Act I, scene 1, line 1. * Who is the dark [[Horses|horse]] he has in his stable? ** [[William Makepeace Thackeray]], ''Adventures of Philip''. * The gratitude of place expectants is a lively sense of future favours. ** Ascribed to [[Robert Walpole]] by {{w|Willaim Hazlitt}}, ''Wit and Humour''. Same in La Rochefoucauld, ''Maxims''. * I am not a politician, and my other habits air good. ** [[Artemus Ward]], Fourth of July Oration. * Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself. ** [[Woodrow Wilson]], speech to the Pan-American Scientific Congress at [[w:Washington, D.C.|Washington]] (January 6, 1916). ==''The Dictionary of Legal Quotations'' (1904)== :<small>Quotes reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, ''The Dictionary of Legal Quotations'' (1904), p. 196-198.</small> * There may be cases in which there is so much of difficulty in knowing where the law stands that we take time to consider, and sometimes doubt much and sometimes differ among ourselves. But I believe every one of the [[Judges]] acts upon the principle that he is before man and [[God in Christianity|God]] in the discharge of his duty, and acts upon his solemn oath, and declares tbe law not according to any political fancy, or for the purposes of serving one party or serving another, but according to the pure conviction of his own mind without looking to any party. ** [[Sir John Bayley, 1st Baronet]], ''Case of Edmonds and others'' (1821), 1 St. Tr. (N. S.) 899. * I am in too high a situation to fear any man or class of men. I thank God I am in a position which puts me above politics. ** Earl of Clonwell, ''Case of Glennan and others'' (1796), 26 How. St. Tr. 459. * Political arguments, in the fullest sense of the word, as they concern the government of a nation, must be, and always have been, of great weight in the consideration of the Court. ** Lord Hardwicke, ''The Earl of Chesterfield v. Janssen'' (1750), 1 Atk. 352; id. 2 Ves. Sen. 153. * One cannot look too closely at and weigh in too golden scales the acts of men hot in their political excitement. ** [[Henry Hawkins, 1st Baron Brampton|Hawkins]], J., ''Ex parte Castioni'' (1890), 60 L. J. Rep. (N. S.) Mag. Cas. 33. * It cannot but occur to every person's observation, that as long as parties exist in [[United Kingdom|the country]] (and perhaps it is for the good of the country that parties should exist to a certain degree, because they keep ministers on their guard in their conduct), they will have their friends and adherents. A great political character, who held a high situation in this country some years ago, but who is now dead, used to say that ministers were the better for being now and then a little peppered and salted. And while these parties exist, they will have their friendships and attainments, which will sometimes dispose them to wander from argument to declamation. ** [[Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon|Lord Kenyon]], ''Holt's Case'' (1793), 22 How. St. Tr. 1234. * The learned counsel has very properly avoided all political discussions unconnected with the subject, and I shall follow his example. [[Courts]] of justice have nothing to do with them. ** [[Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon|Lord Kenyon]], L.C.J., ''Trial of John Vint and others'' (1799), 27 How. St. Tr. 640. * Men argue differently, from natural phenomena and political appearances: they have different capacities, different degrees of [[knowledge]], and different [[intelligence]]. But the means of information and judging are open to both: each professes to act from his own skill and sagacity; and, therefore, neither needs to communicate to the other. ** [[William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield|Lord Mansfield]], ''Carter v. Boehm'' (1765), 3 Burr. 1905. * The [[Constitutions|Constitution]] does not allow reasons of State to influence our judgments: God forbid it should! We must not regard political consequences, how formidable soever they might be: if rebellion was the certain consequence, we are bound to say, "Fiat justitia mat caelum." The Constitution trusts the [[Monarchy of the United Kingdom|King]] with reasons of State and [[Politics of the United Kingdom|policy]]; he may stop prosecutions,1 he may pardon offences2; it is his, to judgewhetherthelaworthecriminalshould yield. We have no election. ** [[William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield|Lord Mansfield]], ''Case of John Wilkes'' (1770), 19 How. St. Tr. 1112. ==''Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations'' (1989)== * Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. ** [[Henry Adams]], The Education of Henry Adams, ed. Ernest Samuels, chapter 24, p. 373 (1973). Originally published in 1906. * The only way you can do that [decrease [[Taxation in the United States|taxes]], [[balance]] the budget, and increase [[United States Armed Forces|military]] [[Government spending|spending]]] is with [[Mirror|mirrors]], and that's what it would take. ** [[John B. Anderson]], remarks at GOP Presidential Forum, Des Moines, Iowa, January 5, 1980, as reported by the Des Moines Sunday Register, January 6, 1980, p. 4A. * PUSH, n. One of the two things mainly conducive to success, especially in politics. The other is Pull. ** [[Ambrose Bierce]], The Devil's Dictionary, p. 270 (1948). Originally published in 1906 as The Cynic's Word Book. * Politics is not an exact science. *:(Die Politik ist keine exakte Wissenschaft.) ** [[Otto von Bismarck]], Prussian Chamber, December 18, 1863.—The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 3d ed., p. 84 (1979). * Politics is the art of the possible. *:(Die Politik ist die Lehre von Moglichen.) ** [[Otto von Bismarck]], conversation with Meyer von Waldeck, August 11, 1867.—The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 3d ed., p. 84 (1979). * All political power is primarily an illusion…. Illusion. Mirrors and blue smoke, beautiful blue smoke rolling over the surface of highly polished mirrors, first a thin veil of blue smoke, then a thick cloud that suddenly dissolves into wisps of blue smoke, the mirrors catching it all, bouncing it back and forth. ** {{w|Jimmy Breslin}} How the Good Guys Finally Won, Notes from an Impeachment Summer, p. 33–34 (1975). The phrase is usually quoted as "blue smoke and mirrors". * A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature. ** [[w:James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce|James Bryce]]; in Owen Wister, ''Roosevelt: The Story of a Friendship'', p. 66 (1930). This remark was made during a conversation with Wister in London in 1921. * Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of [[Christianity|Christian]] [[charity]]. The cause of [[Civil liberties|civil liberty]] and civil government gains as little as that of religion by this confusion of duties. Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume. ** [[Edmund Burke]], "Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790", ''The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke'', vol. 3, p. 246 (1899). * Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage. ** [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]], address recorded for the Republican Lincoln Day dinners, January 28, 1954. ''Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower'', 1954, p. 219. * The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. ** [[H. L. Mencken]], "Women as Outlaws", A Mencken Chrestomathy, p. 29 (1949). This essay was first published in The Smart Set, December 1921. * The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men. ** [[Reinhold Niebuhr]]. This statement is attributed to him in his obituary in The New York Times, June 2, 1971, p. 45. Reported as unverified in ''Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations'' (1989). * They are wrong who think that politics is like an [[Oceans|ocean]] voyage or a [[military]] campaign, something to be done with some particular end in view, something which leaves off as soon as that end is reached. It is not a public chore, to be got over with. It is a way of life. It is the life of a domesticated political and social creature who is born with a love for public life, with a desire for honor, with a feeling for his fellows; and it lasts as long as need be. ** Attributed to [[Plutarch]] in ''The Great Quotations'', ed. George Seldes, p. 570 (1966). Reported as unverified in ''Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations'' (1989). * The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency. ** Vice President [[Theodore Roosevelt]], remarks to Harvard and Yale undergraduates invited to Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, Long Island, June 1901.—Hermann Hagedorn, The Roosevelt Family of Sagamore Hill, p. 112 (1954). * Politics is the practical exercise of the art of self-government, and somebody must attend to it if we are to have self-government; somebody must study it, and learn the art, and exercise patience and sympathy and skill to bring the multitude of opinions and wishes of self-governing people into such order that some prevailing opinion may be expressed and peaceably accepted. Otherwise, confusion will result either in dictatorship or anarchy. The principal ground of reproach against any American citizen should be that he is not a politician. Everyone ought to be, as [[Abraham Lincoln|Lincoln]] was. ** {{w|Elihu Root}}, "Lincoln as a Leader of Men", Men and Policies, Addresses by Elihu Root, ed. Robert Bacon and James B. Scott, p. 75 (1924). * Who put up that cage?<br>Who hung it up with bars, doors?<br>Why do those on the inside want to get out?<br>Why do those outside want to get in?<br>What is this crying inside and out all the time?<br>What is this endless, useless beating of baffled wings at these bars, doors, this cage? ** [[Carl Sandburg]], "Money, Politics, Love and Glory", The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg, rev. and expanded ed., p. 394 (1970). * Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. ** [[Robert Louis Stevenson]], "Yoshida-Torajiro", Familiar Studies of Men and Books, p. 175 (1902). * The political activity prevailing in the United States is something one could never understand unless one had seen it. No sooner do you set foot on American soil than you find yourself in a sort of tumult; a confused clamor rises on every side, and a thousand voices are heard at once, each expressing some social requirements. All around you everything is on the move: here the people of a district are assembled to discuss the possibility of building a church; there they are busy choosing a representative; further on, the delegates of a district are hurrying to town to consult about some local improvements; elsewhere it's the village farmers who have left their furrows to discuss the plan for a road or a school. ** [[Alexis de Tocqueville]], Democracy in America, ed. J. P. Mayer, trans. George Lawrence, vol. 1, part 2, chapter 6, p. 242 (1969). Originally published in 1835–1840. * There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one. ** [[Alexis de Tocqueville]], Democracy in America, ed. J. P. Mayer, trans. George Lawrence, vol. 1, part 2, chapter 8, p. 270 (1969). Originally published in 1835–1840. * Politics is a fascinating game, because politics is government. It is the art of government. ** [[Harry S. Truman]].—William Hillman, Mr. President: The First Publication from the Personal Diaries, Private Letters, Papers and Revealing Interviews of Harry S. Truman, p. 198 (1952). * Politics makes strange bed-fellows. ** [[Charles Dudley Warner]], My Summer in a Garden, 15th week, p. 131 (1871). * Until you've been in politics<br>you've never really been alive<br>it's rough and sometimes it's<br>dirty and it's always hard<br>work and tedious details<br>But, it's the only sport for grownups—all other<br>games are for kids.<br>—Heinlein ** Author unknown. Framed saying on the mantel of Senator John C. Culver's private office, 1978. Elizabeth Drew, "A Reporter at Large (Senator John C. Culver—part I)", The New Yorker, September 11, 1978, p. 60. Disclaimed by Robert A. 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The series is a satirical depiction of American life, epitomized by the Simpson family. ===''[[w:The Falcon and the D'ohman|The Falcon and the D'ohman]]''=== :'''Marge''': I do have a place you can go, where a sadistic man with government experience can feel right at home. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': So much violence on the surface world... I'm going back! ''[jumps back under ice]'' <hr width=50%> :'''Wayne''': Homer is implanted with several high powerful tracking devices. :'''Marge''': How did that happen? :'''Wayne''': I left them out in a bowl and he ate them. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': No! Not the middle seat! <hr width=50%> :'''Lunchlady Doris''': We can't keep serving the same thing every day, these kids have mashed potatoes coming out of their ears. :''[Jimbo runs past with mash potato in his ears, as he didn't want to listen to Bart]'' :'''Superintendent Chalmers''': Point taken. <hr width=50%> :'''Wayne''': Your town appears on no maps or charts. :'''Homer''': Yeah, they couldn't find a Google map photo without me naked or urinating. :'''Marge''': And when there was a map makers convention here, we all got [[Lou Gehrig]]'s disease. :'''Homer''': Not the one you're thinking of though, there's another one. <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': What brought you to Springfield? Was it our Frito Lay distribution center? <hr width=50%> :'''Moe''': Wow, that's the farthest one of my eggs ever made it down someone's throat. <hr width=50%> :'''Moe''': My fresco! That's coming out of your stealings! <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': I guess it's not much when you look at real problems in the world like Major League umpires not using instant replay.. ok... ===''[[w:Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts|Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts]]''=== :'''Nelson''': This place is beautiful as a the side of a Coors Lite bottle. The kind my dad used to leave in the bathroom. <hr width=50%> :'''Bart''': I thought teachers only went outside to smoke and cry. <hr width=50%> :'''Bart''': Same garbage, different dumpster. <hr width=50%> :'''Edna''': We have shirts from other high schools. :'''Marge''': Ooh, we can wear those to the nice malls. <hr width=50%> :'''Lisa''': ''[After seeing Bart locking a door.]'' Bart, what are you doing? :'''Bart''': Taking over the school. With all the kids inside. :'''Lisa''': What?! I'm telling mom! :'''Bart''': Great, you can call her from the closet phone. ''[Locks Lisa in the closet.]'' :'''Lisa''': ''[offscreen]'' Hello, mom? You won't believe what Bart's doing. :'''Bart''': There really is a phone in there? ''[Bart opens the closet door, revealing that Lisa was faking. Lisa sticks her tongue at Bart. Bart locks the closet again.]'' So immature. <hr width=50%> :''[The kids threaten to destroy a photocopier if Willie breaks the door down.]'' :'''Principal Skinner''': Willie, stay your tractor. :'''Groundskeeper Willie''': Ya can't just turn 'er on and off like that! ''[Skinner turns the key which turns off the tractor.]'' Oh, ah guess ya can. <hr width=50%> :'''Sea Captain''': Yar, just plastic. Which is healthier than what you find in the ocean. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Don't buy it. I bought one last year and it was crap construction! <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Marge, my ice cream's melting and I haven't finished my brownie! ===''[[w:Treehouse of Horror XXII|Treehouse of Horror XXII]]''=== :'''Ned''': ''[to Mrs. Muntz who accosts him]'' Spend less time on your back and more time on your knees. <hr width=50%> :'''Bart''': Traitor! How dare you betray the planet I got laid on? :'''Chalmers''': There they are! Lets fry these calamari and serve them in a dipping sauce made from their own blood! :'''Skinner''': But why?! :'''Chalmers''': Well, it's not so bad. :'''Skinner''': Well, it's a little. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': For further communication, I will require more beans. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Halloween - the one time of the year where the squalor of our home works to our advantage. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': I'm on the floor. I can't move. So far, a normal Sunday morning... <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': I take your sugary sweets and give you healthy items... :'''Bart''': This is exactly why kids need a union. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer as God''': Slay Montgomery Burns and pee in his ashes! :'''Ned''': Are you sure, Lord? :'''Homer as God''': If you're having trouble with the second part, drink a lot of water. Now I gotta go, a hip hop star is thanking me at the VMAs. <hr width=50%> :'''Ned''': ''[About to pray.]'' Heavenly Father, I... :'''Homer as God''': Quiet you! Your next divine whack job is a twofer. I command you to kill Patty and Selma Bouvier. :'''Ned''': Patty and Selma? Sure they smoke and they don't shave much of anything. But do they deserve to die? :'''Homer as God''': Do not question me, the star of the Bible! ''[We pan back to see Homer with his voice-changing machine.]'' Now, on a non-murder related note. I want you to find out what's making that funny noise in Homer Simpson's car. It goes chigga, chigga, chigga, chigga, chigga, chigga, chigga, but you only hear it when you drive over 30 and you never hear it when you take it to the shop. ''[Homer's God voice comes through a speaker in Ned's Bible.]'' Then, it sounds perfect. :'''Ned''': Yes, Lord. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Wake up, Flanders. There is no Hell and there is no God. If they're were, would he let him do this? ''[grabs a lighter to burn the Bible]'' :'''God''': ''[breaks the ceiling]'' Why, you little...! ''[strangles Homer; he dies]'' <hr width=50%> :'''Lisa''': Now prepare to take an incredible journey across the room. ===''[[w:Replaceable You|Replaceable You]]''=== :'''Homer''': I won't say, but his initials are S.F. :'''Roz''': Stupid Flanders! <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': You're my personal savior. :'''Ned''': Thank you, but I don't approve... :'''Homer''': Hail Flanders, mightier than Jesus. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': She's the most evil person to come out of Ohio since LeBron. But at least he thought long and hard before screwing everybody over. In public. For no reason. <hr width=50%> :'''Professor Fink''': Hello, Miss Wyoming. I'll have to climb your Grand Tetons to another night. <hr width=50%> :'''Miss Wyoming''': ''[after receiving Frink's call]'' '''WHY WON'T HE LOVE ME!?''' ''[cries on her bed]'' <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': If an emergency alarm goes off, there's ear plugs in the top drawer. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Marge, get my seal club, the big one! <hr width=50%> :'''Bart''': To sweeten the deal, I'll pick you first for basketball. <hr width=50%> :'''Milhouse''': I really need that cootie shot, my dog and I accidentally touched tongues. :'''Bart''': How is this accidentally when it's the fifth time? ===''[[w:The Food Wife|The Food Wife]]''=== :'''Homer''': I've come around on hipsters. It takes a lot of guts to all wear the same hat. <hr width=50%> :'''Krusty''': Krustyland has a new ride, the Eyeballs of Death. It only passed the safety by a 3 to 2 vote. And that third didn't come cheap. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': I don't eat anything new unless I've eaten it before. <hr width=50%> :'''Lisa''': They're using pancakes as spoons. :'''Bart''': Ooh, let's see what else they're doing wrong. <hr width=50%> :'''Ned''': SPORTS stands for Strict Parental Oversight Rather Than Sports. <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': What if we roll pennies and go to the dollar store? :'''Homer''': That's good, Marge. Get all the terrible ideas out of your system. <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': How come they never call me fun mom? :'''Homer''': A family's like a team. On every team, you have the slam dunking mega star and the referee. <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': But this was all I had! :'''Gordon Ramsay''': Stop your bloody winging Marge! :'''Marge''': Aaah! Gordon Ramsay? :'''Gordon Ramsay''': You shut up big blue! Didn't you? Why did you invite Homer? He stole your bloody thunder. You're not as much fun as him and you'll never will be. ''[Marge cries]'' Darling, darling, crying's not fun. Homer's fun! Now get out of my dream! :'''Marge''': It's my dream! :'''Gordon Ramsay''': Not anymore it's not! Ramsay, awake! ''[snaps his fingers, then awakes from his own bed]'' What in the hell was that? <hr width=50%> :'''Developer''': I have twins I've never met. :'''Bart''': When you meet them, tell them your game is too easy. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': From the dad that brought you cemetery paintball and go carts on real roads... ===''[[w:The Book Job|The Book Job]]''=== :'''Milhouse''': These aren't dinosaurs! Dinosaurs '''sing!''' ''[throws Barney doll into a dinosaur's mouth]'' :'''Ralph''': ''[getting scared]'' I wanna go back inside mommy. ''[tries to hide under Sarah's skirt]'' <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': It's not against the law to sleep in a [[Tyrannosaurus]] head! :'''Security Guard''': Sir, you're inside an [[w:Allosaurus|Allosaurus]]. :'''Homer''': I demand to speak to my paleontologist! <hr width=50%> :'''[[Neil Gaiman]]''': I've heisted myself to the bestseller list once again. And the most brilliant part is: I don't even know how to read! <hr width=50%> :'''Lisa''': I got the idea from every movie ever made. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': ''[about Neil Gaiman]'' British Fonzie is right. <hr width=50%> :'''TweenLit CEO''': Is [[R.L. Stine]] here? Because you just gave me [[w:Goosebumps|goosebumps]]. <hr width=50%> :'''Tweenlit CEO''': ''[about the changes made to the group's novel]'' Don't feel bad. Before we got our hands on [[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]], it was about a girl who fell in love with a golem, but teens weren't going to spend their allowances to join 'Team Shmuel'! <hr width=50%> :'''Lisa''': Everybody knows you got the idea for the series after an explosion at a crumpet factory knocked you off a double-Decker bus. How could that be made up? <hr width=50%> :'''Bart''': The point of the dinosaurs is: no matter what we do, an asteroid is going to wipe us out. So we should party hard and wreck the place! :'''Homer''': Yeah, why should the asteroid have all the fun?! <hr width=50%> :'''Kids''': ''[Shrieks]'' A troll! :'''Moe''': Hey, I ain't a troll! Look, I bleed red, just like you! ''[He pokes a needle on his finger. Green blood leaked out of Moe's finger.]'' The first part is always green. It turns red! ===''[[w:The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants|The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants]]''=== :'''Jimbo''': Your fists are your sisters? :'''Dolph''': Yeah, Pocahontas and Sacagawea! :'''Bart''': Nice save. <hr width=50%> :'''Mr. Burns''': Take us out first. Anyone can start a family. These days no one can find a job. <hr width=50%> :'''Bart''': I'll get one those jobs where you don't need to read. Like french fry maker or general. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Can you be my dad? :'''Robert''': If your mom was a secretary, there's a good chance I am. <hr width=50%> :'''Robert''': There ain't enough bourbon in Kentucky for you, big guy. :'''Homer''': Yeah, the governor wrote me a letter to that effect. <hr width=50%> :'''Robert''': Before you say yes, Simpson I fell it's my duty to warn you, account men lose their soul. :'''Homer''': Woohoo! No more church! <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': In two weeks, the only tie I'll be wearing will be for auto erotic asphyxiation. <hr width=50%> :'''Krusty''': Why can't I be funny with just my words? [[Bill Maher]] doesn't put dangerous things near his crotch. Except when he's off work. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': ''[about the children's movie I watched]'' If you got that, then-- ''[notices his son is watching a porn movie]'' :'''XXX Babe''': Are you sure you're Martin Scorsese? ''[A hand (used by Homer) blocks the laptop and puts the CD back in the case.]'' :'''Homer''': Enjoy the outdoors, you stupid kid! <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': ''[watches the people taking the rafts to the ground which the raft doesn't stop from riding]'' Um…I think we're supposed to get off "here"! ===''[[w:The Ten-Per-Cent Solution|The Ten-Per-Cent Solution]]''=== :'''Krusty''': They were kids, and we gave them candy if they laughed! And if they didn't, until the 70s, I hit them with a stick! Some jerk tacked down the kids and made a documentary. It's called "Circus of Shame" or something. <hr width=50%> :'''Annie''': I was so mad at him, I didn't have sex with a clown for five months! :'''Bart''': Well, What about mimes? :'''Annie''': Come on, I'm not made of stone. <hr width=50%> :'''Krusty''': They took my dressing room, my parking space, even my writer, so I don't have a funny third item. <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': Bart, No more TV! We're going to get some fresh air and visit a museum. Of television! <hr width=50%> :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': This is the part where I get the kids out of the room. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': People also lover a quitter. [[Sarah Palin]]. [[The Beatles]]. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': If you ever hear a star's name and wonder, is he dead? The answer is either "I represent him" or "yes." <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': And all the movies are over a year old. It's like those parodies were written when the movies came out, but it took so long to animate them that we look dated and hackey. ===''[[w:Holidays of Future Passed|Holidays of Future Passed]]''=== :''[The Simpsons have just finished the Thanksgiving dinner]'' :'''Homer''': I'll never eat turkey again. Marge, we got any ham?! <hr width=50%> :'''Abe''': ''[wearing an elf hat and having some mashed potato on his face in the shape of a beard]'' I'm Santa?! Oh, now I'll never die. <hr width=50%> :'''Bart''': Can we just send out a picture of the pets as reindeers? :'''Marge''': We tried that last year. :''[camera pans to a photo of Santa's Little Helper and Snowball V with toy reindeer horns attacking Homer]'' :'''Homer''': D'oh! <hr width=50%> :'''Bart''': Who cares what we look like in whatever stupid year this is? :'''Marge''': You'll understand one day, when you have kids of your own. :'''Lisa''': Umm, who say's we're gonna have kids of our own? :'''Bart''': Not me, man! This cycle of jerks has to end! <hr width=50%> :'''Milhouse''': I can't believe we put a man on the Sun, but we can't stop my sneezing. <hr width=50%> :'''Lisa''': How did my daughter turn into my brother? :'''Milhouse''': Don't blame me. When we had her, they used only the best genetic material - which meant none of mine. <hr width=50%> :'''Milhouse''': Why don't you take Zia to your parents for Christmas, while I nurse my allergies in one of the non-Christmas celebrating states? :'''Lisa''': You could go back to [[Michigan]]. It's still under [[Sharia|Sharia law]]. :'''Milhouse''': Yeah, but they always make ''me'' wear a veil. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Oh, Marge. How would you like some future sex? :'''Marge''': Why do you say future? This is now. :'''Homer''': I meant a week from tomorrow. That's when the new penis gets here. <hr width=50%> :'''Bart''': Oh man. I can't believe they still haven't figured out a way to de-tangle Christmas lights. :'''[[Skippy|elder son]]''': Mom's boyfriend is good at de-tangling them. :'''Bart''': ''[mockingly]'' Well, maybe mom should ''marry'' him! :'''[[Skippy|elder son]]''': She did! :'''[[Jiff|younger son]]''': We weren't supposed to tell you. <hr width=50%> :''[Homer comes in with a top hat, a scarf, a smoking pipe, and a carrot]'' :'''[[Skippy|elder son]]''': Hey, grampa, are you gonna build a snowman? :'''Homer''': No, I just like to dress up to eat my carrots and smoke. <hr width=50%> :'''Lisa''': Want to go to a concert tonight? 68% of the original [[Cher]] is playing. <hr width=50%> :'''Lisa''': Sometimes I wish strangling your kid was still legal. :'''Marge''': Not since they passed Homer's law. <hr width=50%> :'''Lisa''': My daughter thinks I'm a ruthless tyrant, like [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] or [[Prince Harry of Wales|Prince Harry]]. :'''Homer''': ''[chuckles]'' Bloody Harry. He brought back beheading in a big way. <hr width=50%> :''[Bart and Lisa are drinking wine in the Simpsons's treehouse, and are a bit drunk]'' :'''Lisa''': Should I've married Nelson? 'Cause we still talk on the phone. :'''Bart''': Nelson calls you? :'''Lisa''': Well, someone calls someone. :'''Bart''': The boys think I'm a lousy father. :'''Lisa''': Oh, poor Bart. My daughter thinks I'm a lousy mother. :'''Bart''': ''[laughs gleefully, but stops quickly]'' Sorry. :'''Lisa''': Meh, it's okay. But you know who took her side? ''[mockingly]'' Marge Bouvier Simpson. :'''Bart''': ''[scoffs]'' What did she do? :'''Lisa''': She told me to relax and bake cookies. :'''Bart''': Did you bake any? :'''Lisa''': Yes I did, and they were some of the best cookies ever made in this house, but that is not the point! <hr width=50%> :'''Bart''': Where's dad? :'''Lisa''': He took the boys out. :'''Bart''': How can he be such a cool grandfather when he's such a lousy father? :'''Marge''': People learn from their mistakes, and your father made so many mistakes. <hr width=50%> :'''Lisa''': Oh, Martin Prince is now Marcia Princess. <hr width=50%> :'''Lisa''': [[Google]], even though you've enslaved half the world, you're still a damn fine search engine. <hr width=50%> :''[Lisa sees the posters of women from Joan of Arc to Empress Zinzam on the wall of Zia's Ultranet room. The last poster features Lisa; she gasps in joy]'' :'''Zia''': Mom? Why are you here? :'''Lisa''': I was worried. I thought I would find- :'''Zia''': What? Me flashing my boobs on Unripemelons.com? :'''Lisa''': What? No! It doesn't matter what I thought. I'm sorry I spied on you. But what I found, is, ''my daughter looks up to me!'' :'''Zia''': Well, of course I do! I look up to both my parents! :''[a hologram of Milhouse wearing a [[burqa]] appears]'' :'''Milhouse''': Could somebody FedEx me a prayer mat? And quick! :''[the hologram disappears; Zia turns back to Lisa]'' :'''Zia''': But I especially look up to you. :''[Lisa and Zia embrace. A door opens behind Zia, revealing a disco room full of partying people. An embarrassed Zia slams the door shut and keeps on embracing]'' <hr width=50%> :'''Bart''': Boys, I've acted like a ten-year-old for the last 30 years, and I swear to you, I will grow up and act like a 20-year-old, the way a divorced 40-year-old should. :'''Bart's [[Jiff|younger son]]''': You're gonna have to do better than that. :'''Bart''': Boys, I'm a deadbeat dad, I live in a school, it's Christmas. The only thing worth anything in my life is you. :'''Bart's [[Skippy|elder son]]''': Oh, Dad. :'''Bart's [[Jiff|younger son]]''': You've taught us the meaning of Christmas. Which schools are forbidden to tell us anymore. :''[Bart hugs his sons]'' <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Is it snowing down here? :'''Wiseguy''': No, one of the freezers is busted. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': ''[touched the boys have forgiven Bart]'' If those boys can forgive their train wreck of a father, maybe I can forgive... ''[de-freezes grampa]'' :'''Grampa''': You quit drinking like a coward, the one thing you were good at—— :''[Homer re-freezes Abe and then de-freezes him]'' :'''Grampa''': Lawn chair-breaking—— :''[Homer re-freezes Abe and then de-freezes him]'' :'''Grampa''': Hair-losing—— :''[Homer re-freezes Abe and then de-freezes him]'' :'''Grampa''': Marge-loving—— :''[Homer re-freezes Abe and then de-freezes him]'' :'''Grampa''': Barometer dropping—— :''[Homer re-freezes Abe and then de-freezes him]'' :'''Grampa''': Father freezing—— :''[Homer re-freezes Abe and then de-freezes him]'' :'''Grampa''': But you'd always come and get me when I wandered out on the freeway. Because deep down you couldn't stand to see me smooshed. :''[Homer and Abe reconcile]'' ===''[[w:Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson|Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson]]''=== :'''Lenny''': When a guy who loves America cries, it makes him super straight. <hr width=50%> :'''Apu''': The hot dogs spin counter clockwise in fear when you arrive. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': They know I'm doing a character. Like [[Stephen Colbert]] or [[Newt Gingrich]]. <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': Hey, no one's shotgun! Now, be quiet! <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Do you really need all these [[Kurt Vonnegut]] novels? :'''Lisa''': They self-reference each other! <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': ''[offscreen during credits]'' When's our next game? Are we going to New York, or-- ''[The Gracie Films logo appears.]'' Oh. ===''[[w:The D'oh-cial Network|The D'oh-cial Network]]''=== :'''Grampa''': And I created an alcoholic hippo. :'''Homer''': You never showed it to me! :'''Grampa''': A stupid alcoholic hippo! :'''Homer''': I still want to see it! :'''Grampa''': There is no hippo! :'''Homer''': Then why did you say that? :'''Grampa''': 'Cause you're the hippo! :'''Homer''': Are you just saying that because you don't want me to see the hippo? :'''Grampa''': I don't have a hippo! <hr width=50%> :'''Mapple Salesperson''': The lightest, most desirable computer in the world, for the next three weeks - the Mapple Void. :'''Homer''': I'll take it, provided you charge me for services that Google offers for free. :'''Mapple Salesperson''': We already have! :'''Homer''': Sweet. <hr width=50%> :'''Lisa''': I have a thousand friends! And only eight of them are Milhouse! <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Man, this website makes talking drunk to my wife so much safer. <hr width=50%> :'''Lenny''': Uh-oh. Doctor Hibbert keeps liking Bumblebee Man's posts. That's how it starts. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': ''[growls]'' Down in front! Ohhhh…dammit! Why do kids have heads? <hr width=50%> :'''Comic Book Guy''': ''[after the data is comprised and it's down]'' Time to get a life. ===''[[w:Moe Goes from Rags to Riches|Moe Goes from Rags to Riches]]''=== :'''Bart''': From now on, I'll dominate you in ways you don't realize. <hr width=50%> :'''Comic Book Guy''': Worst climbing Everest! <hr width=50%> :'''Bart''': I dump on you, and you take it. That's how friendship works. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Marguerite, I leave to fight in Flanders. Stupid Flanders! ===''[[w:The Daughter Also Rises|The Daughter Also Rises]]''=== :'''Lisa''': ''[to Moe]'' This...is episode 499. <hr width=50%> :'''Luigi''': Now that's a spicy meet-cube! <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': We show girls love on Valentine's Day, and they let us blow things up on the Fourth of July. I just pray they never fall on the same day. <hr width=50%> :'''Bart''': Luckily, she doesn't know that our viewing platforms are... multi. ===''[[w:At Long Last Leave|At Long Last Leave]]''=== :'''Carl''': I'll have you know I'm also a hair donor. [[Salma Hayek]] wore me to the Oscars. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': ''[to Maggie]'' Let her slice off the tip of your ear and she'll go right to sleep. :'''Carl''': No. :'''Homer''': That's not a choice you get to make. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Ohh, I always thought tarred and feathered was just a figure of speech. Good luck patching pot holes and stuffing pillows now! <hr width=50%> :'''Lisa''': I pick up books like you pick up beers! :'''Homer''': Then you have a serious reading problem. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Sorry, Dad. I was afraid of the dragon wouldn't cough the moon back up. :'''Grampa''': You idgit! Dragon always coughs the moon back up. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': ''[hear the bullies]'' Someone's downstairs! <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': Don't even bother shooting us. We found a new place we love. It may not have indoor plumbing, but it has something else we treasure more. :'''Homer''': Yeah, non jerks! :''[The crowd gasps as Quimby and Wiggum realizes they were unfair to the Simpsons.]'' :'''Marge''': In our new community people accept each other for who they are. I thought I wanted to come back to my house, but instead I'm going back to my Home! ===''[[w:Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart|Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart]]''=== :'''Bart''': It's time to start your annual mad dash around town to get her a present that's not completely insulting. :'''Homer''': Is it possible for here. <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': ''[holding a cigarette]'' You sell cigarettes to kids. :'''Lisa''': Oh. <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': Please don't say one again. :'''Homer''': ''[whispers weakly]'' Onnneee. :'''Marge''': Homie, whatever it is, it's not happening. :'''Homer''': ''[furiously turns red and angrily grunts]'' This yolk-separating camera-hog was supposed to call you and say happy birthday! From her show! :'''Marge''': ''[calms Homer down]'' Well, at least you remembered I like her. ''[kisses Homer which ticks him off]'' :'''Homer''': ''[shocked]'' A pity kiss?! ''[turns red in anger]'' That tears it! I'm gonna call that Paula Paul and give her a piece of my mind! Huh? The phone's dead. Normal, normal, normal, normal, nor... Uncharacteristic?! Hm? A chew-through. What could have... ''[sees the rabbit eating wire]'' Aw... I mean, ''[furiously turns red and angrily growls]'' :'''Bart''': Aw, he's trying to eat "ewectwicity." :'''Homer''': ''[angrily screams at Bart]'' You let this monster into our home, where he chewed through our one and only phone cord! :'''Lisa''': Wait! Maybe Paula Paul left a message. :'''Paula Paul''': ''[on phone]'' Hi, Marge! Paula Paul here, calling live from What's On Paula's Windowsill?, ready to wish you a happy birthday, but since you're not home yet, we'll go to commercial and call you right back. (beep) Hi, Paula Paul, calling back for Marge Simpson! Kind of a big moment for you, a little surprised you're not picking up! (beep) Marge, this is just plain disrespectful. I bumped a segment to do this and you're making me look like an a*s! (beep) Screw you, Marge Simpson! Don't read my books and don't make my recipes! May my curse follow you beyond the grave! :'''Bart''': Check it out! It's on TV! :'''Paula Paul''': ''[on TV]'' They're booing you, Marge! An audience full of church groups and Marines! :'''Officer''': Marge, go to hell, Marge! :'''Marge''': ''[sadly turns off the TV]'' I think that's enough birthday fun. ''[walks upstairs]'' :'''Homer''': ''[turns red in anger]'' Why you little... I'm gonna get... ''[grunts; turns his face normal]'' No, Homer. You can't strangle a boy on his mother's birthday. Juries hate that. So instead, boy, I want you to... ''[grunts; angrily turns red again]'' Get in that rabbit cage! :'''Bart''': No way, man. I'm a free-range kid. :'''Homer''': No backtalk! In the cage! Now! Get in there. <hr width=50%> :'''Lisa''': I don't think dad is coming. :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': ''[Looking at a painting of Homer as a horse's ass]'' I can see how this show isn't to his liking. <hr width=50%> :'''Milhouse''': Every vandalism spree needs an obnoxious laughter. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': For once, the Indian has been outsourced. <hr width=50%> :'''Apu''': What. <hr width=50%> :'''[[w:Apu Nahasapeemapetilon|Apu]]''': Convenience forever, freshness never! <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Finally, a supermarket with a clear premise - island something. :'''Bart''': It's like going to [[w:Hawaii|Hawaii]] without all the murderous locals. ===''[[w:How I Wet Your Mother|How I Wet Your Mother]]''=== :'''Homer''': Attention, lovers of free office supplies - come and steal things you can easily afford! <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': ''[on the uralarm]'' Now that's what I call looking out for a number one. <hr width=50%> :'''B.F. Sherwood''': Now, I believe that to solve Homer's problem, he must face what's inside the coffin. :'''Homer''': Forget it, Doc. What if that's my marriage in there? :'''Bart''': Marriage, shmarriage. What's in the box, man? ''[he opens the coffin, causing the fishes out of the coffin]'' :'''Homer''': ''[angrily]'' See what your monkeyshines have done, boy? :'''Bart''': Still smells better than your gym socks, man. :'''Homer''': ''[turns red in anger]'' Why you little... ''[angrily strangles Bart]'' I'll teach you to make fun of my socks. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Lighten up, Marge. I take you to the [[Disneyland]] of me and you just want to go to the lost and found. <hr width=50%> :'''Dream Apu''': Homer, you do not yet understand the meaning of karma. :'''Homer''': But isn't karma just an expression of the dhrama? :'''Dream Apu''': That is beside the point, okay? ===''[[w:Them, Robot|Them, Robot]]''=== :'''Millhouse''': My heart makes up for my shortcomings, like Rudy! :'''Robot''': Rudy was only put in at the end of a meaningless game. We will notify you if this game comes meaningless. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': What happened to you guys? You used to be cool. :'''Robot''': We are the same temperature. We have always been. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': I'm all alone, and when there's some problem due to a human error, guess who's to blame? <hr width=50%> :'''Barney''': If we've learned anything from ''[[The Full Monty]]'', it's that, in a tough economy, ugly people strip for money. ===''[[w:Beware My Cheating Bart|Beware My Cheating Bart]]''=== :'''Homer''': Oh, that's such a first-take answer! ===''[[w:A Totally Fun Thing That Bart Will Never Do Again|A Totally Fun Thing That Bart Will Never Do Again]]''=== :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': ''[after Maggie offers him her pacifier]'': Sorry kid, but there comes a day when that just doesn't do anything anymore. <hr width=50%> :'''Bart''': Mom! Dad! I woke up and the money jar was full! That means the devil accepted my bargain. Now, to uphold my end of the deal! Snowball II! :'''[[w:Marge Simpson|Marge]]''': ''[Puts her hand on his shoulder]'' No! <hr width=50%> :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': ''[angrily turns red]'' Choke on my numb blue hands. <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': But where does the ship stop again? :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': I don't know. A lot of barefoot kids kicking soccer balls, shell necklaces, they really hit the poverty nicely. <hr width=50%> :'''Lisa''': ''[as she's being welcomed into the Kid Zone Elite]'' It's so diverse. I've died and gone to a PBS kids' show. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': ''[after finding Bart's room empty]'' Bart's been Raptured and his crap's been craptured. <hr width=50> :'''Homer''': Thanks to you, we're having fun. Before we-had-kids fun! ===''[[w:The Spy Who Learned Me|The Spy Who Learned Me]]''=== :'''Homer''': Cleatus the football game robot, you're my only hope. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': And now because it's after noon, I can go to Moe's without having a "drinking problem." :'''Lenny''': Hey, Homer. I could hear your pathetic rationalizing through the door. <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': This date night was even worse than the date night we saw Date Night. <hr width=50%> :'''Bart''': Nelson took my lunch money again! <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': Homer, I'm a single mother, trying to raise a family here. :'''Homer''': But you're not- :'''Marge''': Just zip it. <hr width=50%> :'''Lenny''': Trouble in paradise? :'''Homer''': No, my marriage. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Now that's what I call a snappy retort. :'''Marge''': Stop saying what you call things! I'm trying to watch the movie. ===''[[w:Ned 'N Edna's Blend|Ned 'N Edna's Blend]]''=== :'''Ned''': Well, sir. Now we'll have an open marriage. :'''Edna''': Um, you do know what that means? :'''Ned''': No, but I'm sure [[Newt Gingrich]] wouldn't steer us wrong. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Mmmm...historically inaccurate. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': People here do not respect boundaries. :'''Ned''': Homer, did you just buckle your belt through my loop? <hr width=50%> :'''Sea Captain''': I'm married to the sea, and I'm seeing two of the great lakes on the side. I won't say which ones but it's ERIE how SUPERIOR they are. <hr width=50%> :'''Moe''': And that's that. Another story in the classic infallible three-act structure. Good enough for Aristotle, good enough for The Simpsons. :'''Lisa''': Mr. Szyslak, I have a feeling there's going to be one more act to this story. :'''Moe''': Well I'm not hanging around for that. Pfftt. Four acts. ===''[[w:Lisa Goes Gaga|Lisa Goes Gaga]]''=== :'''Gaga dancers''': ''[chanting]'' There is no over the top, there is no over the top. <hr width=50%> :'''Gaga''': Never forget, you're all my little monsters. :'''Moe''': Actually, I'm half monster, half Armenian. Pick your poison. <hr width=50%> :'''Nelson''': Lisa, what you did is like my mother sticking ten bucks in her own g-string. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': I cheat on my diet, but nobody knows cause the damage is on the inside and the first warning sign is sudden death. <hr width=50%> :'''Principal Skinner''': Well, Lady Gaga couldn't arrive soon enough for one Lisa Simpson. Now let's turn to the ever-unpopular "Popularity Awards," the awards voted by students, in judgment of their peers. No way that can go wrong. First up, Campus Clown. ''[opens the envelope to reveal purple water covering his face]'' Bart Simpson! :''[Bart Simpson gasps in surprise, and kisses Lisa. Then Bart Simpsons wallows in tightrope.]'' <hr width=50%> :'''Bart''': Without awards show, how would I know what movie has the best beheading or that Glee is a comedy? <hr width=50%> :'''Wiggum''': ''[on Ralph]'' Ah, he's a dumb kid, but he's an above average dog. Roll over, son! <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': ''[accidentally climbing the real tree]'' Oh, I'm on the wrong tree! ==External links== {{wikipedia|The Simpsons (season 23)}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Simpsons, Season 23}} [[Category:The Simpsons seasons]] qpma44favp7rzm8w0suzgh6lia0eq3z 0 130073 3961118 3852919 2026-07-05T15:48:02Z ~2026-22475-30 3310494 /* American Prankster */ 3961118 wikitext text/x-wiki {{italic title}} ---- :'''Seasons:''' [[The Cleveland Show/Season 1|1]] [[The Cleveland Show/Season 2|2]] [[The Cleveland Show/Season 3|3]] [[The Cleveland Show/Season 4|4]] | [[The Cleveland Show|Main]] ---- '''''[[w:The Cleveland Show|The Cleveland Show]]''''' was an American animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane, Richard Appel, and Mike Henry for the Fox Broadcasting Company as a spin-off of Family Guy. The series centers on the Browns and Tubbs, two dysfunctional families consisting of parents Cleveland Brown and Donna Tubbs and their children Cleveland Brown, Jr., Roberta Tubbs, and Rallo Tubbs. Similar to ''Family Guy'', it exhibits much of its humor in the form of cutaway gags that often lampoon American culture. ===''[[w:BFFs (The Cleveland Show)|BFFs]]''=== :''[Cleveland returns to Quahog and rings the Griffins' doorbell. Brian is heard barking]'' :'''Stewie''': ''[from inside the house]'' Hey, get back! Get back! Go to your crate! Brian, go to your crate! :'''Brian''': ''[from inside the house]'' I don't have a crate, I've ''never'' had a crate. :'''Stewie''': You ''should''. You'd feel safer there. :''[Cleveland rings the doorbell again]'' :'''Brian''': Who is it, Stewie? :''[the curtain is the window is pulled back a little]'' :'''Stewie''': Some black guy. :'''Brian''': Uh, we don't want any candy bars. :'''Stewie''': Or magazines. :'''Cleveland''': Brian, it's Cleveland. :'''Brian''': Oh. Hi, Cleveland. :'''Stewie''': Has he been cancelled already? He doesn't just get to come back! :'''Cleveland''': Is Peter home? :'''Brian''': He...is...''[whispering to Stewie]'' It's Cleveland!...''[out loud, to Cleveland]''...not. :'''Cleveland''': Did he say when he'd be back? :'''Brian''': No....uh...vember. <hr width=60%> :''[Peter is seen sneaking into his car and tries to get away from Cleveland]'' :'''Cleveland''': Peter! :''[Peter runs into his car and tries to get his key]'' :'''Peter''': Come on, come on! :'''Cleveland''': Peter, it's Cleveland! Hello! Peter, I'm standin' right here! :'''Peter''': ''[mouthing silently]'' Fuck. ''[gets out of the car and says out loud]'' Oh. Hey, Cleveland. I didn't see you there. <hr width=60%> :'''Tim''': So, uh. Lester, wha-uh-what the-what can we expect from this? :'''Lester''': ''[in the same intonation as "I don't know"]'' Mmmm. I'm not usually on the [[w:Ned Beatty|Ned Beatty]] side of this situation. Best I can guess is...ouchie in the boom boom. <hr width=60%> :'''Peter''': Leggo my negro. <hr width=60%> :'''Peter''': See, Cleveland. That's the difference between our shows. On our show, we would have shown the rape, and had a show tune about the rape. :'''Cleveland''': And I would have just been the black guy. ''[cries]'' ===''[[w:The Hurricane!|The Hurricane!]]''=== :'''Cleveland''': Of course I do, son, but Christianity makes sense: A virgin had God's baby, who then grew up to be murdered by the ''[clears throat]'' Romans, so you and I could be forgiven for Eve eating that apple she got from the talkin' snake. Three days later, Jesus rose from the dead to tell everyone he was coming back someday to fight the Devil; then he flew up to his mansion in Heaven where he sits in judgment of the gays! HOW CAN YOU NOT BELIEVE THAT?! <!--9:22--> :'''Junior''': Just don't. :'''Cleveland''': But this is a Christian home! :'''Junior''': Then how come we never go to church? :'''Donna''': Church is for those in need, Junior. You don't go to the doctor when you're healthy. <hr /> :'''Rallo''': I heard what you said downstairs. Heartbreaking stuff, man. It got me thinking about how much you and I have in common. :'''Junior''': Really? :'''Rallo''': Mm-hmm. I used to be just like you. Lost. No direction. I was a real troublemaker. Then one day, I pushed things too far. Drew on the wall with a crayon after Momma told me not to. :'''Junior''': Oh, no. :'''Rallo''': That was the day my luck ran out. Got put in a time out—10 to 15—mandatory minimum. That's hard time for a kid, time I'll never get back, so I prayed for forgiveness, and Jesus entered my heart and changed my life. It was divine intervention. :'''Junior''': You drew on the wall the next day. :'''Rallo''': In the name of the Lord. I'm talking about faith. I believe that the man who created the entire universe knows my name and cares what happens to me. Do you know what that is? :'''Junior''': Narcissism? <hr width=50%/> :'''Cleveland''': ''[after being hit on the head by a tree]'' And that's the way it is Friday, May 19, 1978... :'''Donna''': Oh, no. He thinks he's [[w:Walter Cronkite|Walter Cronkite]] again! :'''Rallo''': Man, that's some C-BS! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- :'''Junior''': No! This is what you get when you ignore the warnings of the [[w:National Weather Service|National Weather Service]] , like a dumbass, and think you can wait out a hurricane! ===''[[w:Nightmare on Grace Street|Nightmare on Grace Street]]''=== :'''Rallo''': But we can't go home now. :'''Cleveland''': You're right. Your mom and Junior will tease the dickens out of us. ''[looks off camera]'' Can we say that? Oh, okay. They'll tease the dickens out of us. ''[bumps into a table]'' Ow! Right in the dickens! <hr width=60%> :''[Cleveland pushes Donny across WD-40 fluid from Junior's costume toward the window]'' :'''Donny''': I hate black people! :''[Donny falls out the window]'' :'''Cleveland''': Figures. ===''[[w:Skip Day (The Cleveland Show)|Skip Day]]''=== :''[Cleveland, Jr. cleans his award]'' :'''Cleveland''': Junior, I don't ever wanna see you laughed at like that again. :''[Cleveland, Jr. trips over]'' :'''Cleveland''': ''[laughs]'' Walk much? So anyway. From this moment on, I don't want you to follow anybody else's rules. I want you to be a renegade. :'''Cleveland, Jr.''': Okay. :'''Cleveland''': See? That's exactly what I'm talking about. Don't say okay to everything. :'''Cleveland, Jr.''': ''[sadly]'' Sorry. :'''Cleveland''': And don't say sorry all the time. :'''Cleveland, Jr.''': Okay. :'''Cleveland''': No! Oh, forget it. Just go to bed. :'''Cleveland, Jr.''': Okay, sorry. :'''Cleveland''': Oh. Dang it, Junior! It's only 6:30! :'''Cleveland, Jr.''': ''[in bed]'' I thought I seemed early. :'''Cleveland''': Then why were you going to bed? :'''Cleveland, Jr.''': Well, because you told me to, Daddy. :'''Cleveland''': That's exactly why you shouldn't. Here, chug this beer. :'''Cleveland, Jr.''': I'm not 21. Plus, I'm on allergy medication that shouldn't be mixed with alcohol. But if you say so. ''[drinks the beer, causing him to fall down and dies]'' :''[cut to the hospital]'' :'''Doctor''': I'm sorry. We did all we could. He's dead. :'''Cleveland''': ''[sobs]'' Junior, please don't leave me! :'''Cleveland, Jr.''': ''[gets up and is alive]'' Okay. :'''Cleveland''': ''[angrily]'' Aah, you're hopeless! ===''[[w:Yemen Party|Yemen Party]]''=== :''[Rallo is in a costume]'' :'''Rallo''': And on this faithful day, by amalgamating the power of electricity, Rallo Tubbs will transform himself into ''[takes a fork out]'' Electro-Boy! :''[hop and tries to stick the fork in the outlet; electricity is heard]'' :'''Cleveland''': Kids, dinner! :'''Rallo''': Coming. ''[drops the fork, picks up scissors; screams and starts cutting]'' ===''[[w:Sex and the Biddy|Sex and the Biddy]]''=== :'''Murray''': Come on, our table's back here. We already had our soup and sent back our first two courses. :'''Rallo''': Ha! Wait, we? :''[Hazel puts on her lipstick and puckers up]'' :'''Hazel''': Hi, Rallo. I'm so glad you could join us. :'''Rallo''': Excuse me? What's Wrinkle-Me-Elma doing here? ''[Murray picks him up and puts him in a booster seat]'' You said it was just gonna be us. :'''Murray''': ''[pinches and moves Hazel's cheek]'' You tell that face no. :''[they start making out]'' :'''Rallo''': Well, I don't have an old people fetish. ===''[[w:Die Semi-Hard|Die Semi-Hard]]''=== :'''[[Bystander]] at the Nativity scene''': Jesus was white! <hr width=60%> :'''Cleveland''': Welcome to the party over here, pal. <hr width=60%> :'''Cleveland, Jr.''': Will you tell us the sequel next Christmas, Dad? :'''Cleveland''': Let's wait and see how the internet responds to the first one. <hr width=60%> :'''Cleveland''': Scooby-dooby-Doo, motherfucker!! :'''Lester''': I'm sorry, we didn't catch that. There was a long beep at the end of your sentence. <hr width=60%> :'''Federline''': Oh, my God, I'm the first rapper to shot! I hope this becomes a thing. ===''[[w:Y Tu Junior Tambien|Y Tu Junior Tambien]]''=== :'''Holt''': All hot girls are crazy...but not all crazy girls are hot. <hr width=60%> :'''Chonie''': Sweet burritos and skeptical papacitos. :'''Donna''': Oooo, I like her. ===''[[w:There Goes El Neighborhood|There Goes El Neighborhood]]''=== :''[Clevland puts a little blue football helmet next to the yellow, the red, the purple and the green]'' :'''Cleveland''': Donna, ya gotta see what I did for the superbowl party! Put some deodorant on and come in here. ''[spraying is heard]'' Both arms. :''[Donna continues spraying and comes down]'' :'''Donna''': Cleveland, what on earth is that? :''[two chairs are floating above the couch]'' :'''Cleveland''': VRP Scarbucks. I'm not sitting down here with you. :''[suddenly, they hear an earthquake]'' :'''Donna''': Oh my god! Is that the rapture? :'''Cleveland''': No, rehearsal for the blue angel fly-over. They protect nothing. :'''Donna''': You know, Cleveland. If you didn't spend all our money on your superbowl parties, maybe you can buy me a McMansion. Like that new one across the street. Mmm. ''[a mansion is across the street from their house]'' Killers. :'''Cleveland''': Vulgar. It's vulgar, Donna. Do you want to be vulgar? Look, somebody's trying to break into it! ''[a burglar crawls into the window]'' Donna, call the police. :''[Rallo has a cell phone]'' :'''Rallo''': No, man. You should do it. You sound white on the phone. They actually might come. :''[Cleveland and a policeman, holding a flashlight walk to the mansion]'' :'''Policeman''': You sounded white on the phone. :'''Cleveland''': Yeah, yeah, yeah. That window. ''[the policeman pulls out a gun and walks over. Cleveland whispers]'' Hey, can I hold the gun? :'''Policeman''': Sure. :''[Cleveland makes gun sounds]'' :'''Cleveland''': How do I look? :'''Policeman''': Bad ass. :''[the doors open]'' :'''Cleveland''': Freeze, dirt bag! ''[Chonie angrily walks up]'' Chonie? ===''[[w:Dancing with the Stools|Dancing with the Stools]]''=== :''[Roberta is making out with Federline]'' :'''Rallo''': Roberta...Roberta...Roberta... :'''Roberta''': Rallo, leave us alone! Go play a video game or somethin'! :'''Rallo''': Cool! If you need me, I'll be warming up some foil in the microwave for no reason. :''[he leaves and as Roberta and Federline resume making out, a microwave running, an electrical shock and explosion are heard]'' :'''Rallo''': ''[off-screen]'' Wa'n' me. ===''[[w:Brown Magic|Brown Magic]]''=== :''[Donna is reading an Entertainment Weekly magazine, while Cleveland is texting]'' :'''Cleveland''' ''[laughs]'' Me and Lester are texting each other, Donna. Can you imagine him lying in bed next to Kimber. They look like the number 10. ''[laughs, sighs and gets depressed]'' I feel bad for Lester. :'''Rallo''': Hey, guys. I got a magic trick for you. :'''Cleveland''': Hey, hey, hey, hey. Get out of here, Rallo! How do you know we weren't doing something prizy. :'''Rallo''': 'Cause I don't hear "Celebration" by Kool and the Gang Now think of a number then write it down, and only use this pen and press really hard and then rip it off and don't let me see it. ''[Cleveland writes down a number, rip the paper off and tries not to let Rallo see it. Rallo then writes a number]'' Okay, what's your number? 10? :'''Cleveland''': Yeah. Poor Lester. You trick, Rallo. Run along to bed. :'''Rallo''': Hold on, now. You haven't seen the incredible floating cigarette. ''[he has a cigarette hang from a string and tied to his finger]'' :'''Donna''': Rallo, where did you get that cigarette? :'''Rallo''': Tobacco Company. Reppler's handing them out at the playground. :'''Cleveland''': ''[to Donna]'' Smart. Now go back to bed. :'''Rallo''': One more, one more. ''[hands out cards]'' Pick a card, any card. :''[Cleveland picks out a card]'' :'''Cleveland''': Jack of clubs. Now go away. :'''Rallo''': Aw, man. ''[leaves and closes the door]'' :'''Donna''': What are you so hard on that boy? :'''Cleveland''': STEP-boy. ===''[[w:'Til Deaf|'Til Deaf]]''=== :''[a gunshot is heard as everybody runs out of The Broken Stool and screams. Lester shoots once more and misses the apple on Tim's head]'' :'''Lester''': Dang, missed again. Huh, who am I kidding? I can't hurt a healthy snack. :'''Cleveland''': Guys, I'm not sure about the hunting trip. Haven't found the right moment to run it by Donna yet. Not like I need a permission slip or anything. :'''Holt''': Got mine. Signed by my mom. :''[he and Tim high-five each other]'' :'''Cleveland''': If I even mention it, she'll flip out. Something's got her all insane in the fem brain. I don't know what to do. :'''Lester''', '''Holt''' and '''Tim''': Lie to her. :'''Cleveland''': Okay! <hr width=60%> :'''Cleveland''': ''[deep thought]'' God, Pictonary sucks. I love not havin' to hear my family. Uh-oh – something's happening! ''[the family are already jumping happily, and Cleveland joins in]'' We're happy and jumping! Yay! ===''[[w:Das Shrimp Boot|Das Shrimp Boot]]''=== :'''Rallo''': With the Commodores, those cats are out of sight. Ya ding. :'''Roberta''': Does everyone in this family stuck in the '70s? Can any of you name a single current rapper? :'''Cleveland''': What's a rapper? :'''Donna''': Oh, Cleveland. You ''are'' stuck in the '70s. They're the guys who wear the gold chains and go "Whippity-bop, Flippity-bop." :'''Cleveland''': ''[pretending he has a microphone]'' Ohh, Donna. That is fresh. Let's have some more of that. :''[Cleveland and Donna start rap dance in front of Roberta]'' :'''Donna''': Whooly-hop, Whooly-hoo. And a woop-a-doo-lo-doo. :'''Cleveland''': Scratch, scratch, sratch. ''[uses Roberts plate as a record]'' :'''Donna''': Uh-huh. :'''Cleveland''': Don't give me no job. :'''Donna''': Uh-huh. :'''Cleveland''': Too bad. :'''Donna''': Uh-huh. :'''Cleveland''': Her bad. :'''Donna''': I'm bad. :''[she and Cleveland stand together]'' :'''Roberta''': Well. If we're going on a '70s cruise, I'm gonna go get unwaxed. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- : '''Announcer on Radio''': Look out for that truck. : '''Cleveland''': Ah! TRUCK! ===''[[w:March Dadness|March Dadness]]''=== :'''Cleveland''': Yeah! Par three over here! ===''[[w:The Men in Me|The Men in Me]]''=== :'''Cleveland''': Donna, you don't think I'm the whitest black man in America. Do you? :'''Donna''': No, honey. What does that even mean? :'''Rallo''': May I take this? It means you were dancing like a little white girl so you could see a little white boy dance and sing for little white boys, white girls and a rainbow of pedophiles. :'''Cleveland''': I was trying to win those tickets for Junior. :'''Cleveland, Jr.''': Keep me out of your freak show. ''[whispers]'' I really do want to go. :'''Roberta''': Look at you, you still say things like "Party over here!" and "Too legit to quit!" :'''Cleveland''': Yeah, boyee! :'''Roberta''': Gross. :'''Rallo''': You're joke. :'''Donna''': Stop teasing Cleveland. <hr width=60%> :''[Cleveland walks up to Barbara's house and rings the doorbell]'' :'''Barbara''': ''[gasps]'' Cleveland Brown! :'''Cleveland''': White lady I've never seen before! :'''Barbara''': ''[laughs]'' I thought if I raised you, Cleveland. I'm your nanny Barbara. :'''Cleveland''': What? :'''Barbara''': Look at you, all grown up. My Cleveland has come back to me. ''[wiggles her finger]'' Party over here! :''[Cleveland is surprised]'' :'''Cleveland''': We'll be white black. ===''[[w:Frapp Attack!|Frapp Attack!]]''=== :'''Donna''': Cleveland, get yo' ass off the grass!! <hr width=60%> :''[Cleveland gets a frozen cappuccino splashed in his face]'' :'''Cleveland''': Aaaah! Frapp attack! You frapped me! She frapped me! I got frapp in my 'stache!! ===''[[w:American Prankster (The Cleveland Show)|American Prankster]]''=== :'''Rallo''': You've been "Ralloed". <hr width=60%> :'''Cleveland Jr.''': ''[shows a PowerPoint presentation during the scout tour meeting]'' Just look at that mass expand of virgin territory. The dense bushy thicket. And if you look close enough, you can see... my penis and testicles! ''[sees the picture Rallo took of him coming out of the shower]'' MY PENIS & TESTICLES!!?? <hr width=60%> :'''Donna''': Rallo, from now on, there will be no videogames, ''[Long Pause; ?]'' and no internet, no Angry Birds, no Angry Birds for Android, no Kindle, no Zoom, no Teo no Roku no Prondo no Switch no playpad no MIGO NO LICKSTER!!! :'''Roberta''': You know what, Donna, don't EVER DO THAT AGAIN, OR GIVE ME YOU'RE GROUNDED IN A WORD! :'''Donna''': That's it! ''[quoting How Do You Solve a Problem Like Roberta?]'' I forbid you to have animal contact with this man! <hr width=60%> :'''Rallo''': Evening suckers. Anybody want to smell my flower? :'''Everybody but Donna''': I do! :'''Donna''': No! No more Rallo'ing, Rallo. Because you do not want to get Donna'ed. :'''Cleveland''': ''[miserably]'' Been a while since I got Donna'ed. ===''[[w:B.M.O.C. (The Cleveland Show)|B.M.O.C.]]''=== :'''Cleveland''': How much you make in a year, fake cop? :'''Officer''': $65,000. :'''Cleveland''': ''[deep]'' Really? <hr width=60%> :'''Cleveland''': Do you still serve grilled cheeses here? :'''Worker''': No – the campus banned trans fats. :'''Cleveland''': ''[deep]'' Really? <hr width=60%> :'''Rallo''': So, does this mean you might wanna go to State? :'''Roberta''': State?! That Podunk school? Where I'm goin' is gonna cost WAY more than that. :'''Cleveland''', '''Donna''': ''[deep]'' Really? ===''[[w:Jesus Walks (The Cleveland Show)|Jesus Walks]]''=== :'''Cleveland Jr.''': Well, I'm off to sing about Jesus and crap. <hr width=60%> :'''Vanessa''': When we get to North Carolina, I'm going to Tear. You. Two. Up. :'''Cleveland Jr.''': Tear us up? I just wanted to smooch. :'''Hunter''': Yeah. And I just wanted to take you to the soda fountain for a phosphate. :'''Vanessa''': Ohh, is that like a Jewish sex thing? Because I heard you guys are really kinky. :'''Hunter''': Not true. At all. :'''Vanessa''': Get ready, boys. Because when I'm done with you. You will both. See. God. <hr width=60%> :'''Cleveland Jr.''': Is he fucking kidding with this? :'''Donna''': ''[whispers]'' Don't say "fuck" in church. ===''[[w:Flush of Genius|Flush of Genius]]''=== :'''Rallo''': Mom!!! :'''Donna''': ''[brandishing a bat]'' You havin' a nightmare? :'''Rallo''': No. But–what were you gonna do— Never mind. Check it out. ''[touches "The Eliminator" line with a ruler]'' The day is here. I'm tall enough to ride The Eliminator, the scariest roller coaster there is. :'''Donna''': Fine. We'll go to Crazy Kingdom this weekend. ''[Rallo hugs her by the legs]'' Now I gotta get back before Cleveland realizes I'm not in bed. :'''Cleveland''': ''[off-screen]'' Donna? DONNA! I'm trapped inside the duvet cover! <hr width=60%> :'''Cleveland''': Ohh – here comes old Dixie! <hr width=60%> :'''Cleveland''': RRRAGHHHH! Uncaring bastards! <hr width=60%> :'''Gus''': ''[piggybacking on Jr.]'' Wheee! This is wonderful! ===''[[w:Mama Drama (The Cleveland Show)|Mama Drama]]''=== :'''Rallo''': Mama, can I have some chocolate milk too for trying? :'''Donna''': Of course you can have some. When you actually find something. Well, I'm off to the grocery store. :'''Rallo''': Don't forget that stuff Miss Lowenstein needs you to buy me for the recital this Sunday. :'''Cleveland''': Oh, for Mother's Day? :''[Donna moans as she heads to the door]'' :'''Rallo''': Uh. You mean, other's day, 'cause Sunday is just an other day. ''[laughs]'' Nothing special. :'''Cleveland''': Huh. Nothing special my fanny. Check out what I made for my mommy for Mommy's Day. ''[lifts the present to reveal a clay model of Evelyn's head]'' I made a bust of my mom's head. ''[pours milk on it]'' It's also a volcano! ''[makes sounds as the milk explodes]'' Spew. Spew. Spew. :'''Donna''': ''[sobs]'' Well, I'm running late for weeping in my car. :''[leaves]'' :'''Cleveland''': Bye! :''[Rallo throws Cleveland's project out]'' :'''Rallo''': Have you lost you mind? You don't mention Mother's Day in front of her. The woman was abandoned at birth by her mother. :'''Cleveland''': Donna was? Oh yeah. ''[thinking]'' Poor Donna. Well, I'd better talk to her. Good thing I've been practicing my listening face. :''[Cleveland is in bed with Donna as he listens]'' :'''Donna''': Cleveland, what the hell are you doing? :'''Cleveland''': Listening! ===''[[w:All You Can Eat (The Cleveland Show)|All You Can Eat]]''=== :'''Roberta''': Count to five before you follow me. :'''Cleveland Jr.''': ''[exasperated]'' Yeah, I know the drill. ''[after Roberta leaves]'' Bitch. :''[Last lines of the episode. Jr. has come home dressed as a gay biker.]'' :'''Cleveland Jr.''': Why do I listen to you!? ==External links== {{wikipedia|The Cleveland Show (season 3)}} * {{imdb title|id=1195935|title=The Cleveland Show}} * [http://www.fox.com/programming/shows/?sh=the-cleveland-show TheClevelandShow.com] * [http://tvtdb.com/theclevelandshow Episode transcripts] at TVTDB.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Cleveland Show, The}} [[Category:The Cleveland Show seasons]] g0k29kcqfyqq2nic82e9veqhjsk5w8o 0 137639 3961174 3797027 2026-07-05T16:32:57Z BD2412 3982 /* 1960s */ Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]], replaced: Thomas Watson, Jr. → Thomas Watson Jr. using [[Project:AWB|AWB]] 3961174 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Stakeholder (en).svg|thumb|Stakeholders of an organization.]] An '''{{w|organization}}''' (or '''organisation''') is a group of people, operating within a defined structure, cooperating for some agreed-upon purpose. == Quotes == === Pre-19th century === * Management of many is the same as management of few. It is a matter of organization. ** [[Sun Tzu]] (c. 6th century BC) ''The Art of War'' * This great increase of the quantity of work which, in consequence of the [[division of labour]], the same number of people are capable of performing, is owing to three different circumstances; first, to the increase of dexterity in every particular workman; secondly, to the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another; and lastly, to the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one man to do the work of many. ** [[Adam Smith]], ''{{w|The Wealth of Nations}}'' (1776), Chapter I. === 1800s === * It appears to me, that any explanation of the cheapness of manufactured articles, as consequent upon the [[division of labour]], would be incomplete if the following principle were omitted to be stated. :''That the master manufacturer, by dividing the work to he executed into different processes, each requiring different degrees of skill or of force, can purchase exactly that precise quantity of both which is necessary for each process; whereas, if the whole work were executed by one workman, that person must possess sufficient skill to perform the most difficult, and sufficient strength to execute the most laborious, of the operations into which the art is divided.'' ** [[Charles Babbage]], ''[https://books.google.nl/books?id=wUQeMa0MFnkC On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures]'' (1832) p. 175-6 * The establishment of "The Times" newspaper is an example, on a large scale, of a manufactory in which the [[division of labour]], both mental and bodily, is admirably illustrated, and in which also the effect of domestic economy is well exemplified. It is scarcely imagined, by the thousands who read that paper in various quarters of the globe, what '''a scene of organized activity''' the factory presents during the whole night, or what a quantity of talent and mechanical skill is put in action for their amusement and information. ** [[Charles Babbage]], ''On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures'' (1832) p. 270; Ch. 28 "Proper circumstances for the application of machinery." *<p>[[Humans|Man]] experiences a multitude of [[needs]], on whose satisfaction his [[happiness]] depends, and whose non-satisfaction entails [[suffering]].&nbsp; [[Alone]] and [[isolated]], he could only provide in an incomplete, insufficient manner for these incessant <!--Page 18-->needs.&nbsp; The instinct of [[sociability]] brings him together with similar persons, and drives him into [[communication]] with them.&nbsp; Therefore, impelled by the ''[[self-interest]]'' of the individuals thus brought together, a certain ''[[division of labor]]'' is established, necessarily followed by [[exchanges]].&nbsp; In brief, we see an ''organization'' emerge, by means of which man can more completely satisfy his needs than he could living in isolation.</p><p>This [[natural]] organization is called ''[[society]]''. The object of society is therefore the most complete satisfaction of man's needs.&nbsp; The division of labor and exchange are the means by which this is accomplished.</p> ** [[Gustave de Molinari]], J. Huston McCulloch (tr.), ''The Production of Security,'' Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1977/2009. orig. 1849. [[File:Organizational diagram of the New York and Erie Railroad, 1855.jpg|thumb|Organizational diagram of the New York and Erie Railroad by McCallum, 1855]] * The magnitude of the business of this road, its numerous and important connections, and. the large number of employés engaged in operating it, have led many, whose opinions are entitled to respect, to the conclusion, that a proper regard to details, which enter so largely into the elements of success in the management of all railroads, cannot possibly be attained by any plan that contemplates its organization as a whole ; and in proof of this position, the experience of shorter roads is referred to, the business operations of which have been conducted much more economically. ** [[Daniel McCallum]] (1855) "[https://books.google.com/books?id=4Gc9AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA33 Report of the Superintendent of the New York and Erie Railroad to the Stockholders, for the Year Ending September 30]" in: ''Annual Report''. New York and Erie Railroad Company, 1856. p. 33: First paragraphs of the Report of the Superintendent. * In my opinion '''a [[system]] of operations,''' to be efficient and successful, should be such as to give to the principal and responsible head of the running department a complete daily history of details in all their minutiae... A few general principles, however, may be regarded as settled and necessary in its formation, amongst which are: *# A proper division of responsibilities. *# Sufficient power conferred to enable the same to be fully carried out, that such responsibilities may be real in their character. *# The means of knowing whether such responsibilities are faithfully executed. *# Great promptness in the report of all derelictions of duty, that evils may be at once corrected. *# Such information, to be obtained through a system of daily reports and checks that will not embarrass principal officers, nor lessen their influence with their subordinates. *# The adoption of a system, as a whole, which will not only enable the General Superintendent to detect errors immediately, but will also point out the delinquent. ** [[Daniel McCallum]] (1855) "[https://books.google.com/books?id=4Gc9AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA33 Report of the Superintendent of the New York and Erie Railroad to the Stockholders, for the Year Ending September 30]" in: ''Annual Report''. New York and Erie Railroad Company, 1856. p. 35-36: Partly cited in: {{w|George Leonard Vose}}. ''Handbook of Railroad Construction.'' J. Munroe, 1857. p. 415-16 * In the social production of their life, [[men]] enter into definite relations that are indispensable and independent of their [[will]]; these relations of production correspond to a definite stage of development of their material forces of production. The sum total of these {{w|relations of production}} constitutes the economic structure of [[society]] — the real foundation, on which rises a [[:w:Base and superstructure|legal and political superstructure]] and to which correspond definite forms of {{w|social consciousness.}} '''The [[mode of production]] of material life determines the social, political and intellectual life process in general.''' ** [[Karl Marx]], Preface to ''{{w|A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy}}'' (1859). * The directing motive, the end and aim of capitalist production, is to extract the greatest possible amount of [[w:surplus value|surplus value]], and consequently to [[W:Exploitation of labour|exploit]] [[labor-power]] to the greatest possible extent. ** [[Karl Marx]] (1867), ''{{w|Das Kapital}},'' "Buch I : Capital: A Critique of Political Economy," Ch. 13, pg. 363. * Nowadays, the phenomenon (of [[division of labor]]) has developed so generally it is obvious to all. We need have no further illusions about the tendencies of modern [[industry]]; it advances steadily towards powerful [[machines]], towards great concentrations of forces and [[capital]], and consequently to the extreme division of labor. Occupations are infinitely separated and specialized, not only inside the factories, but each product is itself a specialty dependent upon others. [[Adam Smith]] and [[John Stuart Mill]] still hoped that [[agriculture]], at least, would be an exception to the rule, and they saw it as the last resort of small-scale industry. Although one must be careful not to generalize unduly in such matters, nevertheless it is hard to deny today that the principal branches of the agricultural industry are steadily being drawn into the general movement. Finally, [[business]] itself is ingeniously following and reflecting in all its shadings the infinite diversity of industrial enterprises; and, while this evolution is realizing itself with unpremeditated spontaneity, the [[economists]], examining its causes and appreciating its results, far from condemning or opposing it, uphold it as necessary. They see in it the supreme law of human societies and the condition of their progress. ** [[Émile Durkheim]], ''[[w:The Division of Labor in Society|The Division of Labor in Society]]'' (1893), p. 39 === 1900s === * The [[Management|administrative function]] has many duties. It has to foresee and make preparations to meet the financial, commercial, and technical conditions under which the concern must be started and run. It deals with the organization, selection, and management of the staff. It is the means by which the various parts of the undertaking communicate with the outside world, etc. Although this list is incomplete, it gives us an idea of the importance of the administrative function. The sole fact that it is in charge of the staff makes it in most cases the predominant function, for we all know that, even if a firm has perfect machinery and manufacturing processes, it is doomed to failure if it is run by an inefficient staff. ** [[Henri Fayol]], (1900) ''Henri Fayol addressed his colleagues in the mineral industry 23 June 1900'' === 1910s === * In the railroad operation of this country an economy of $1,000,000 a day is possible. ** An attorney for the shippers (1910) cited in: {{w|ASME}} Sub-Committee on Administration, "[https://archive.org/stream/transactionsofa34amer#page/1131/mode/1up The Present State of the Art of Industrial Management]," ''ASME Transactions'' 34 (1912): p. 1131 ** Statement made before the US Interstate Commerce Commission in a hearing on the matter of proposed advances in freight rates by carriers, November 21, 1910. [[File:Ford assembly line - 1913 (restored).jpg|thumb|''In the past the man has been first; in the future the [[system]] must be first.''<br> - [[Frederick Winslow Taylor]] (1911)]] * In the past the man has been first; in the future the [[system]] must be first. This in no sense, however, implies that great men are not needed. On the contrary, the first object of any good system must be that of developing first-class men. ** [[Frederick Winslow Taylor]] (1911) ''Principles of Scientific Management,'' p. 2. * The estimate that at least $1,000,000 a day could be saved by the pursuit of methods of [[scientific management]] was first made by Mr. [[Harrington Emerson]]. It is submitted that, with aggregate operating expenses by the railroads in 1908 of $1,669,938,717, of which $1,035,437,528 was for labor, this estimate appears moderate. ** United States. Interstate Commerce Commission, ‎Martin Augustine Knapp (1911), ''Evidence Taken by the Interstate Commerce Commission in the Matter of Proposed Advances in Freight Rates by Carriers: August to December, 1910.'' * According to [[Frederick Winslow Taylor|Taylor]], the principles of [[Efficiency]] are: ::(1) Science, not rule of thumb. ::(2) Harmony, not discord. ::(3) Cooperation, not competition. ::(4) Maximum output, not restricted output. ::(5) The development of each man to his greatest efficiency and prosperity. :* [[Herbert N. Casson]]. ''Ads and Sales: A Study of Advertising and Selling, from the Standpoint of new principles of scientific management''. Published 1911, p. 8 :* ''Comment'': While later in the 20th century theory started to speak of management and organization, the [[scientific management]] movement spoke of management and efficiency. In a way the listed principles of [[efficiency]] are a listing of [[principles of organization]]. * Modern [[industry]] is stated by some writers to have begun in 1738 when {{w|John Wyatt}} brought out a {{w|spinning machine}}. Others place the period as between 1750 and 1800, when the {{w|power loom}} and [[steam engine]] came into being. It was marked by the development of labor-saving machinery. It was brought about by the change from handicraft to manufacture. ** {{w|ASME}} Sub-Committee on Administration , "[https://archive.org/stream/transactionsofa34amer#page/1131/mode/1up The Present State of the Art of Industrial Management : Majority Report of Sub-Committee on Administration]," ''ASME Transactions'' 34 (1912): p. 1131 * Early British economists held that the application of the principle of [[division of labor]] was the basis of manufacture.... Charles Babbage, believed ... in [an] "Economy of Machinery and Manufacture." It appears, however, that another principle is the basic one in the rise of industry. It is the [[transference of skill]]. The transference of skill from the inventor or designer to the power-driven mechanism brought about the industrial revolution from handicraft to manufacture. It will be necessary to refer to this principle frequently throughout this report, in showing the meaning and position of management in industry. ** {{w|ASME}} Sub-Committee on Administration , "[https://archive.org/stream/transactionsofa34amer#page/1131/mode/1up The Present State of the Art of Industrial Management : Majority Report of Sub-Committee on Administration]," ''ASME Transactions'' 34 (1912): p. 1133 * The supreme principle [in [[Industry|Industrial Organization]] ] has been the belief that business [[efficiency]] and the [[welfare]] of the [[employee]]s are but different sides of the same problem. Character is an economic asset ; and business efficiency depends not merely on the physical condition of employees, but on their general attitude and feeling towards the employer. ** [[Edward Cadbury]]. ''[https://archive.org/details/experimentsinind00cadb Experiments in industrial organization].'' (1912). Introduction, p. vii * The test of any scheme of factory organization is the extent to which it creates and fosters the atmosphere and spirit of cooperation and good-will, without in any sense lessening the loyalty of the worker to his own class and its organizations. ** [[Edward Cadbury]]. ''[https://archive.org/details/experimentsinind00cadb Experiments in industrial organization].'' (1912). Introduction, p. vii * The new industrial methods have greatly accelerated certain tendencies that had already manifested themselves in the old domestic [[factories]] and some of these deserve more than passing notice as they are affecting not only productive processes but our [[social organization]] as well. Perhaps the most important of these influences are those that tend toward ::(1) Aggregation or increase in size of industrial enterprises. ::(2) [[Specialization]] or the limiting of the field of activity, not only of enterprises but also of men. ::(3) [[Standardization]] or the reduction of all lines of product to a limited number of types and sizes. ::(4) Extreme [[division of labor]], following aggregation, specialization, and standardization and requiring special consideration. :These tendencies are all closely interlocked with each other, and with modern productive methods. It will be clearer, however, to discuss them separately before summing up their joint action. :* [[Dexter S. Kimball]], ''[https://archive.org/details/industrialorg00kimbrich Principles of industrial organization].'' New York : McGraw-Hill, 1913; 1919. p. 34 * Organization aims to unite individuals into a body which shall work together for a common end. Specifically, organization prepares for the transaction of business by electing and appointing officers and committees, delegating authorities and bringing into systematic connection and cooperation, each and every part of the industrial body. Right organization, in short, puts vitality into the entire factory, secures the efficient working-together of all employees, from the manager's office to the mechanic's bench, routes materials, sub-divides work, inspects output and delivers the right goods, fully processed, at the shipping room door on the correct delivery date. ** [[Clinton E. Woods]] (1914) "[http://archive.org/stream/industrialorgani00chicrich#page/22/mode/2up Charting authorities in the industrial body]" in: ''Industrial organization''. A.W. Shaw Company. p. 24 === 1920s === * The Methods of Industrial Management. — A committee of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers made an extensive canvass in the fall of 1912 to determine what were the new elements in modern management as well as what the committee designated as the regulative principles of industrial management. The committee confirmed [[Adam Smith]]'s statement made in 1776 in his "Wealth of Nations," in which he held that the application of the principle of [[division of labor]] was the basis of manufacture. The committee also agreed with [[Charles Babbage]], who in his work entitled "Economy of Machinery and Manufacture" written in 1832, added another principle, namely the [[transference of skill]]. ** [[Hugo Diemer]] (1921). ''[https://archive.org/stream/factoryorganiza00diemgoog#page/n30/mode/1up Factory organization and administration],'' p. 10 * Tektology must clarify the modes of organization that are perceived to exist in nature and human activity; then it must generalize and systematize these modes; further it must explain them, that is, propose abstract schemes of their tendencies and laws; finally, based on these schemes, determine the direction of organizational methods and their role in the universal process. This general plan is similar to the plan of any natural science; but the objective of tektology is basically different. Tektology deals with organizational experiences not of this or that specialized field, but of all these fields together. In other words, tektology embraces the subject matter of all the other sciences and of all the human experience giving rise to these sciences, but only from the aspect of method, that is, it is interested only in the modes of organization of this subject matter. ** [[Alexander Bogdanov]]. ''Tektologia: Vseobshchaya Organizatsionnaya Nauka (Tektology. The Universal Organizational Science)'' (Moscow, Izdatelstvo Z. I. Grschebina, 1922. p. 82. === 1930s === * Through all the years that I have been in business I have never yet found our business bad as a result of any outside force. It has always been due to some defect in our own company, and whenever we located and repaired that defect our business became good again - regardless of what anyone else might be doing. And it will always be found that this country has nationally bad business when business men are drifting, and that business is good when men take hold of their own affairs, put leadership into them, and push forward in spite of obstacles. Only disaster can result when the fundamental principles of business are disregarded and what looks like the easiest way is taken. These fundamentals, as I see them, are: :(1) To make an ever increasingly large quantity of goods of the best possible quality, to make them in the best and most economical fashion, and to force them out onto the market. :(2) To strive always for higher quality and lower prices as well as lower costs. :(3) To raise wages gradually but continuously B and never to cut them. :(4) To get the goods to the consumer in the most economical manner so that the benefits of low cost production may reach him. :These fundamentals are all summed up in the single word 'service'... The service starts with discovering what people need and then supplying that need according to the principles that have just been given. :* [[Henry Ford]] in: Justus George Frederick (1930), ''A Philosophy of Production: A Symposium,'' p. 32; as cited in: [[Morgen Witzel]] (2003) ''Fifty Key Figures in Management.'' p. 196 * Organization is as old as human society itself. ** [[James D. Mooney]] Mooney and A.C. Reilley, ''Onward Industry!,'' New York: Harper and Bros, 1931. p. xiii. * Organization is the arrangement of personnel for facilitating the accomplishment of some agreed purpose through the allocation of functions and responsibilities. ** [[John M. Gaus]], "A theory of organization in public administration." The Frontiers of Public Administration (1936): 66.; Cited in [[Philip Selznick]] (1948, 25) * An organization comes into being when (1) there are persons able to communicate with each other (2) who are willing to contribute action (3) to accomplish a common purpose. The elements of an organization are therefore (1) communication; (2) willingness to serve; and (3) common purpose. These elements are necessary and sufficient conditions initially, and they are found in all such organizations. The third element, purpose, is implicit in the definition. Willingness to serve, and communication, and the interdependence of the three elements in general, and their mutual dependence in specifie cooperative systems, are matters of experience and observation. ** [[Chester Barnard]] (1938) ''[[:w:The Functions of the Executive|The Functions of the Executive]]'' p. 82 === 1940s === * The most important thing about organizations is that, though they are tools, each nevertheless has a life of its own. ** [[Philip Selznick]] (1949). ''TVA and the grass roots : a study in the sociology of formal organization,'' Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. p. 10 === 1950s === * Almost every organization... exhibits two faces — a smiling face which it turns toward its members and a frowning face which it turns to the world outside. ** [[Kenneth Boulding]] (1953) ''The Organizational Revolution: A Study in the Ethics of Economic Organization'', Harper & Brothers. p. 10 * [[General Systems Theory]]... possibly the model of the world as a great organization can help to reinforce the sense of reverence for the living which we have almost lost. ** [[Ludwig von Bertalanffy]] (1955) "General System Theory". In: ''Main Currents in Modern Thought'' 11: pp.75-83. * Today our main problem is that of organized [[complexity]]. Concepts like those of organization, wholeness, directiveness, [[teleology]], control, self-regulation, differentiation and the like are alien to conventional physics. However, they pop up everywhere in the biological, behavioural and social sciences, and are, in fact, indispensable for dealing with living organisms or social groups. Thus, a basic problem posed to modern science is a general theory of organization. ** [[Ludwig von Bertalanffy]] (1956) "General System Theory". In: ''General Systems, Yearbook of the Society for General Systems Research'', vol. 1, 1956. * As a formal analytical point of reference, primacy of orientation to the attainment of a specific goal is used as the defining characteristic of an organization which distinguishes it from other types of social systems. ** [[Talcott Parsons]] (1956: 64); Partly cited in: Chiara Demartini (2013). ''Performance Management Systems: Design, Diagnosis and Use.'' p. 17 * It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization. The incompetent never get into a position to destroy it. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up. ** [[Charles E. Sorensen]] (1956) ''My Forty Years with Ford'', New York, New York, USA: Norton. p. 51 * Management has a design and operation function, as does engineering. The design is usually done under the heading of organization. It should be noted first that the performance of a group of people is a strong function of the capabilities of the individuals and a rather weak function of the way they are organized. That is, good people do a fairly good job under almost any organization and a somewhat better one when the organization is good. Poor talent does a poor job with a bad organization, but it is still a poor job no matter what the organization. Repeated reorganizations are noted in groups of individuals poorly suited to their function, though no amount of good organization will give good performance. The best architectural design fails with poor bricks and mortar. But the payoff from good organization with good people is worthwhile. ** [[Robert E. Machol]], {{w|Harry H. Goode}} (1957) ''System Engineering: An Introduction to the Design of Large-scale Systems''. McGraw-Hill. p. 514 * An organization is a group of living human beings. The formal or official design for living never completely accounts for what the participants do. It is always supplemented by what is called the “informal structure,” which arises as the individual brings into play his own personality, his special problems and interests. Formal relations co-ordinate roles or specialized activities, not persons. ** [[Philip Selznick]], ''Leadership in Administration: A Sociological Interpretation,'' 1957, 2011. p. 8 * Organization is a mechanism or structure that enables living things to work effectively together. ** [[Louis A. Allen]]. ''Management and organization,'' McGraw-Hill, 1958. === 1960s === * Formal theories of organization have been taught in management courses for many years, and there is an extensive literature on the subject. The textbook [[principles of organization]] — [[hierarchical structure]], [[authority]], [[unity of command]], [[task specialization]], [[division of staff and line]], [[span of control]], equality of responsibility and authority, etc. — comprise a logically persuasive set of assumptions which have had a profound influence upon managerial behavior. ** [[Douglas McGregor]] (1960), ''The Human Side of Enterprise;'' p. 15. Annotated Edition, 2006, p. 21. * Classical [[organization theory]] suffers from "ethnocentrism": It ignores the significance of the political, social, and economic milieu in shaping organizations and influencing managerial practice. ** [[Douglas McGregor]] (1960), ''The Human Side of Enterprise;'' p. 16. Annotated Edition, 2006, p. 23. * The scientific study of [[leadership]] in complex organizations, as an area of enquiry in its own right, is relatively new; hardly more than a decade old. As in any new "science" there is yet no comprehensive framework within which to operate. Unlike medical men after Harvey's great discovery on the circular system of the human body, we have no unifying concepts around which to make further refinements and discoveries. :[[Ernest Dale]] modestly recognizes this fact. In ''The Great Organizers'' he takes the position that before we proceed too far in theory it is first necessary to known the history and the terrain of the subject. His vehicle is the case history in depth; his method is the comparative historical approach, not deduction based on a comprehensive model. :* Robert H. Guest. "Reviewed Work: The Great Organizers by Ernest Dale," ''Technology and Culture,'' Vol. 3, No. 3 (Summer, 1962), pp. 349-351 * The basic problem of [[social organization]] is how to co-ordinate the economic activities of large numbers of people. ** [[Milton Friedman]] ''Capitalism and Freedom'' (1962) Ch. 1 The Relation Between Economic Freedom and Political Freedom * I firmly believe that any organization, in order to survive and achieve success, must have a sound set of beliefs on which it premises all its policies and actions. <br> Next I believe that the most important single factor in corporate success is faithful adherence to those beliefs. <br>And, finally I believe if an organization is to meet the challenge of a changing world, it must be prepared to change everything about itself except those beliefs as it moves through corporate life. <br> Basic philosophy, spirit and drive of an organization have far more to do with its relative achievements than do technological or economic resources, organizational structure, innovation and timing... ** [[Thomas Watson Jr.]] (1962) as cited in: Heather Clark, John Chandler, Jim Barry (1994) ''Organisation and Identities: : Text and Readings in Organizational Behaviour''. p. 355 * [[Social organizations]] are flagrantly open systems in that the input of energies and the conversion of output into further energy input consists of transactions between the organization and its environment. ** [[Daniel Katz]] & [[Robert L. Kahn]] (1966), ''The Social Psychology of Organizations.'' p. 16-17 * The inevitable counterpart of [[specialization]] is organization. This is what brings the work of specialists to a coherent result. If there are many specialists, this coordination will be a major task. So complex, indeed, will be the job of organizing specialists that there will be specialists on organization and organizations of specialists on organization. More perhaps than machinery, massive and complex business organizations are the tangible manifestation of advanced technology. ** [[John Kenneth Galbraith]], ''[[w:The New Industrial State|The New Industrial State]]'' (1967), p. 16 * The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action. ** [[Malcolm X]], in ''Village Voice'' interview, February 1965, in ''By Any Means Necessary'', p. 21 === 1970s === [[File:Galbright star model.png|thumb|[[Jay R. Galbraith|Galbraith]]'s Star Model of [[organizational design]].]] * [[People]] do not exist just for organizations. They track all kinds of mud from the rest of their lives into the organization, and they have all kinds of interests that are independent of the organization. ** [[Charles Perrow]] (1972, ''Complex organizations: a critical essay'', Random House, p. 4 * During the last fifty years, society in every developed country has become a society of [[institutions]]. Every major social task, whether economic performance or health care, education or the protection of the environment, the pursuit of new knowledge or defense, is today being entrusted to big organizations, designed for perpetuity and managed by their own managements. ** [[Peter Drucker]], ''Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices,'' (1973), p. 3. * No [[organization chart]] is likely ever to be displayed in a major art museum. What matters is not the chart but the organization. A chart is nothing but an oversimplification which enables people to make sure that they talk about the same things in discussing organization. One never makes. ** [[Peter Drucker]] (1973) ''Management''. p. 547-8. * The purpose of an organization is to enable common men to do uncommon things. ** [[Peter Drucker]] ''MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices'' (1973) Chapter 36, pg. 455 * There is no one best way to organize... Any way of organizing is not equally effective. ** [[Jay R. Galbraith]], ''Designing complex organizations,'' 1973. p. 2: The two underlying assumptions of [[contingency theory]]. * All organisations have to make provision for continuing activities directed towards the achievement of given aims. Regularities in activities such as task allocation, supervision, and co-ordination are developed. Such regularities constitute the organisation’s structure, and the fact that these activities can be arranged in various ways means that organisations can have differing structures. ** [[:w:Derek S. Pugh|Pugh, D.]] and [[:w:David J. Hickson|Hickson, D.]] (1973). ''The comparative study of organizations.'' In Salaman, G. and Thompson, K., editors, ''People and Organizations,'' Longmans, London. pp 50–66. Cited in: Andreas Schaad. (2003) ''A Framework for Organisational Control Principles.'' p. 24 * [[Organization design]] is conceived to be a decision process to bring about a coherence between the goals or purposes for which the organization exists, the patterns of division of labor and interunit coordination and the people who will do the work. ** [[Jay R. Galbraith]] (1977). ''Organization design.'' p. 5 * Organizations are goal-directed, boundary-maintaining, activity systems. ** [[Howard E. Aldrich]] (1979). ''Organizations and Environments,'' p. 4 [[File:Technostructure.svg|thumb|''Given the five parts of the organization - operating core, strategic apex, middle line, technostructure, and support staff - we may now ask how they all function together. In fact, we cannot describe the one way they function together, for research suggests that the linkages are varied and complex...''<br> - Mintzberg (1979)]] * Given the five parts of the organization - operating core, strategic apex, middle line, technostructure, and support staff - we may now ask how they all function together. In fact, we cannot describe the one way they function together, for research suggests that the linkages are varied and complex. The parts of the organization are joined together by different flows - of ''authority'', of ''work material'', of ''information'', and of ''decision processes'' (themselves informational). ** [[Henry Mintzberg]] (1979) ''The structuring of organizations: A synthesis of the research'' p. 35 * If an organization is to learn anything, then the distribution of its memory, the accuracy of that memory, and the conditions under which that memory is treated as a constraint become crucial characteristics of organizing. ** [[Karl E. Weick]] (1979; 206), cited in: [[James P. Walsh]] and Gerardo Rivera Ungson. "Organizational memory." ''Academy of management review'' 16.1 (1991): 57-91. === 1980s === * Any approach to the study of organizations is built on specific assumptions about the nature of organizations and how they are designed and function. ** R.L. Daft, [[Karl E. Weick]]. "Toward a model of organizations as interpretation systems," ''Academy of management review,'' 1984. * [[Institutional theories]] of organization provide a rich, complex view of organizations. In these theories, organizations are influenced by normative pressures, sometimes arising from external sources such as the state, other times arising from within the organization itself. Under some conditions, these pressures lead the organization to be guided by legitimated elements, from standard operating procedures to professional certification and state requirement, which often have the effect of directing attention away from task performance... Institutional theories of organization have spread rapidly, a testimony to the power of the imaginative ideas developed in theoretical and empirical work. ** Lynne G. Zucker (‎1987). "Institutional Theories of Organization," In: ''Annual Review of Sociology'' Vol. 13: 443-464 * We create organizations to serve us, but somehow they also force us to serve them. Sometimes it feels as if our institutions have run out of control, like the machinery of Charlie Chaplin's film Modem Times. Why we should become slaves to our servants... A society of organizations is one in which organizations enter our lives as influential forces in a great many ways — in how we work, what we eat, how we get educated and cured of our illnesses, how we get entertained, and how our ideas are shaped. The ways in which we try to control our organization and our organization in return try to control us become major issues in the lives of all of us. ** [[Henry Mintzberg]] (1989) ''Mintzberg on management: inside our strange world of organizations''. p. 301. As cited in: R. van den Nieuwenhof (2003) ''2 strategie: omgaan met de omgeving''. p. 36 === 1990s === * The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances - need not be signs of an impending disorder that will destroy us. Instead, fluctuations are the primary source of creativity. ** [[Margaret Wheatley]] (1992) ''Leadership and the New Science''. p. 19-20 as cited in: [[Michael C. Jackson]] (2000) ''Systems Approaches to Management''. p. 77 * Organizations are systems of coordinated action among individuals and groups whose preferences, information, interests, or knowledge differ. Organization theories describe the delicate conversion of conflict into cooperation, the mobilization of resources, and the coordination of effort that facilitate the joint survival of an organization and its members. ** [[James G. March]], and [[Herbert A. Simon]]. "Organizations revisited." Industrial and Corporate Change 2.1 (1993): 299-316. * We are organizational creatures. We are born not only into a society and culture but usually into a specific, complex organization: a family. Our marriages are organizations. We study in schools that are organizations; we earn a living in businesses that are organizations; at some time or another we will likely worship in an organization; and when we die there will be organizations to usher us out of this world. **{{cite book|author=Peck, M. Scott|title=A World Waiting to Be Born|pages=5|year=1993|chapter=Something is Seriously Wrong}} * We don't know what organization is. ...We do know that complex [[w:Adaptive system|adaptive systems]] have to be [[w:Nonlinear system|nonlinear]] and capable of storing information. ...We know a little bit about what distinguishes an adaptive complex system from a nonadaptive system, such as [[w:Turbulence|turbulent]] fluid flow. ** [[J. Doyne Farmer]], ''The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution'' (1995) * By ''organization'' [[Humberto Maturana|Maturana]] refers to the relations between components that give a system its identity, that make it a member of a particular type. Thus, if the organization of a system changes, so does its identity. By ''structure'' Maturana means the actual components and relations between components that constitute a particular example of a type of system. The organization is realized through the structure, but it is the structure that can interact and change. So long as the structural changes maintain the organization, the system’s identity remains. ** [[John Mingers]], ''Self-Producing Systems: Implications and Applications of Autopoiesis.'' Contemporary Systems Thinking. New York: Plenum P, 1995 === 2000s === * The [[Internet]] is the technological basis for the organizational form of the [[Information Age]]: the network." ** [[Manuel Castells]], ''The Internet Galaxy - Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society'' (2001). p. 1; Opening, The Network is the Message. * [[Cultures]] are not made from free-floating values. They are rooted in [[institutions]] and organizations. ** [[Manuel Castells]], ''The Internet Galaxy - Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society'' (2001). p. 48 * Self-organization [is] the appearance of structure or pattern without an external agent imposing it. ** [[Francis Heylighen]] (2001) "[http://pcp.vub.ac.be/papers/EOLSS-Self-Organiz.pdf The science of self-organization and adaptivity]" in: ''The Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems'' 5 (3), p. 253-280 * Until I came to IBM, I probably would have told you that culture was just one among several important elements in any organization's makeup and success — along with vision, strategy, marketing, financials, and the like... I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game, it is the game. In the end, an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value. ** [[Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.]] ''Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance?'' (2002) * In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions. ** [[Margaret Wheatley]], as quoted in ''100 Ways to Motivate Yourself'' (2004) by Steve Chandler, p. 123 * Any [[social organization]] does well enough if it isn't rigid. The framework doesn't matter as long as there is enough looseness to permit that one man in a multitude to display his genius. Most so-called social scientists seem to think that organization is everything. It is almost nothing — except when it is a straitjacket. It is the incidence of heroes that counts, not the pattern of zeros. ** [[Robert A. Heinlein]] (2007), ''[[Glory Road]],'' p. 277 * From a legal point of view, an organisation is a legal person. It is legitimised, under the laws of the land, by a legally recognised and binding constitution specifying purpose, procedures to be followed, hierarchical offices to be taken up, authority to be granted, and membership criteria and categories. ** [[Ralph Douglas Stacey]] (2007), ''Strategic Management and Organisational Dynamics.'' p. 316. * We use the word "organization" to mean both the state of being organized and the groups that do the organizing... We use one word for both because, at a certain scale, we haven't been able to get organization without organizations; the former seems to imply the latter. ** [[Clay Shirky]], ''Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations,'' 2008. p. 29 === 2010s === * Organizations are (1) social entities that (2) are goal-directed, (3) are designed as deliberately structured and coordinated activity systems, and (4) are linked to the external environment. ** [[Richard L. Daft‎]], Jonathan Murphy, ‎Hugh Willmott (2010) ''Organization Theory and Design,'' p. 10; Cited in: {{w|Jan A. P. Hoogervorst}} (2009), ''Enterprise Governance and Enterprise Engineering,'' p. 80. * The essence of an organisation is not the bricks, or the people, but the means in which these are combined. ** Paul Griseri (2013). ''An Introduction to the Philosophy of Management.'' p. 20 * A [[corporation]] is a ''group'' of [[people]], and if you want to come together for [[profit]] or [[nonprofit]], that's your [[business]]—whatever you want to do. ** [[Krist Novoselic]], interviewed by Nick Gillespie, "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4TPRH2uK9w Nirvana's Krist Novoselic on Punk, Politics, & Why He Dumped the Dems]", ''ReasonTV'' (19 June 2014), 17:10–17:20. == See also == * [[Companies]] * [[Learning organization]] * [[Corporations]] * [[Organization chart]] * [[Organizational culture]] * [[Organizational design]] * [[Organizational structure]] * [[Organizational theory]] * [[Principles of organization]] * [[Civil society]] == External links == {{Wikipedia}} {{Wiktionary|organization}} [[Category:Organizations| ]] [[Category:Organizational theory]] [[Category:Sociology]] [[Category:Chronologically ordered theme pages to be converted to alphabetical ordering]] 183vp1sdv68ihthzp2l63d5n0y898in 0 138871 3961088 3856519 2026-07-05T15:20:07Z ~2026-22475-30 3310494 3961088 wikitext text/x-wiki {{DISPLAYTITLE:''The Simpsons''/Season 24}} {{The Simpsons header}} '''''[[w:The Simpsons|The Simpsons]]''''' (1989–present) is an American animated sitcom broadcast by the Fox Broadcasting Company created by [[Matt Groening]]. The series is a satirical depiction of American life, epitomized by the Simpson family. ===''[[w:Moonshine River|Moonshine River]]''=== :'''Marge''': Just once I'd like your father to be on a Jumbotron for something good. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': You've learned a very valuable life lesson, boy. Which is that love doesn't exist except briefly between a man and a woman before marriage. After that, it's just hanging out with someone who kinda hates you, but you can't get it together to leave. <hr width=50%> :'''Bart''': Come on, Dad. You love New York, now that your two least favorite buildings have been obliterated: Old Penn Station and Shea stadium. <hr width=50%> :'''Moe''': If the late great [[Nora Ephron]] taught us anything, it's that - oh, what's my other inflatable doll doing here?!? ===''[[w:Treehouse of Horror XXIII|Treehouse of Horror XXIII]]''=== :'''Bart''': Now to get my comic book and explore a world where no one's mad at [[George Lucas]]. <hr width=50%/> :'''Bart''': It's Homer before his boobs came in. <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': Awww, sweetie, sometimes a mysterious invisible being from hell waits for a family to go to sleep then kills them. Now, go to bed. <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': A black hole...''[whispering]'' I'm sorry, can we call it that? <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': Come on, you can't look at that infinitely dense little guy and not want to feed it something. <hr width=50%/> :'''Frink''': Oh my God, Particle! <hr width=50%/> :'''Moe''': Man, soccer's even boring for the ball. <hr width=50%/> :'''Satan-Moe''': ''[reacting to Homer giving oral sex to him which is censored by a blanket on the camera]'' Ohhh yea-- Cinnamooooon cinamon CINAMOOOOON! <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': I'm here to take my life back! :'''Artie Ziff''': I thought this might happen. So I mastered Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Crawl atop me and meet your doom! :'''Homer''': Not so fast! Say hello the United Federation of Homers Through History! <hr width=50%/> :'''Bishop Homer''': Crush them, in the name of Jebus! ===''[[w:Adventures in Baby-Getting|Adventures in Baby-Getting]]''=== :'''The Rich Texan''': Stopping all Americans from voting is for the protection of all Americans. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Marge, I was just being a good husband by pretending to agree with you while secretly undermining your agenda. <hr width=50%> :'''Bart''': Oh no, Lisa's face! It's the same. <hr width=50%> :'''Lisa''': I hope you're happy. You all just wasted your time working your way into an after school class. Bart, Milhouse, Nelson, and Ralph: Aahhh! <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Geez. I mean I'm no [[w:Luis Guzmán|Luis Guzmán]], but I'm alright. ===''[[w:Gone Abie Gone|Gone Abie Gone]]''=== :'''Homer''': ''[plugs Marge's ears, talks quieter]'' One onion rings, please. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Wait, the frog in the trench coat is Kermit too. :'''Lenny''': All the frogs in that show are Kermit. Keeps all the other frog actors out of work. <hr width=50%> :'''Moe''': Hey, don't you badmouth this country. Compared to the rest of the third-world, we're doing great. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': That's one way to avoid drunk driving. :'''Marge''': Another way is don't drink. :'''Homer''': I'm not [[Superman]]. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': And I don't think you're boring. It's just that in today's multi-channel environment you have too many choices. Look at Sunday night! There's like eight amazing shows, none of them on Fox. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Happy Anni...birth...tine's...shark week? ===''[[w:Penny-Wiseguys|Penny-Wiseguys]]''=== :'''Lisa''': But I promised [[Paul McCartney]] I wouldn't eat meat. :'''Lunchlady Doris''': And I promised [[Paul McCartney]] I wouldn't sleep with John. <hr width=50%> :'''Dan''': Fat Tony, a word? :'''Fat Tony''': How about meringue? :'''Dan''': That's a great word. <hr width=50%> :'''Fat Tony''': We are bleeding red ink, which is the only thing we should not be bleeding. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': ''[saddened]'' Oh, what I wouldn't give for an anvil to fall on me. ''[an anvil falls on him]'' D'oh! <hr width=50%> :'''Dan''': How do you keep finding me? :'''Homer''': You really should tweet less. :'''Dan''': But everyone deserves to know what I'm thinking all the time. ===''[[w:A Tree Grows in Springfield|A Tree Grows in Springfield]]''=== :'''Homer''': A paper-based read-a-ma-jig? What are we, cavemen? <hr width=50%> :'''Lisa''': Willie, I love your chaps. :'''Willie''': Me pants are ripped out! <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': I don't care for silent auctions. It just encourages hovering. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Free Tibet! You heard me, free him now! <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': "Hope"? Is this one of those coincidences, like Jesus on a tortilla or George Washington on a dollar bill? ===''[[w:The Day the Earth Stood Cool|The Day the Earth Stood Cool]]''=== :'''T-Rex''': T.V.? We don't own a T.V. :'''Lisa''': I didn't know that was an option. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': No one judges my wife's thunder bags. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Wearing scarves in non-scarf weather is the essence of cool. <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': The kids are a mess. You brought them home exhausted and pretentious. <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': You're all bald. :'''Homer''': No, I'm young person cool-bald. Not old person sad-bald. <hr width=50%> :'''Terrence''': You know there are now restaurants there with two locations. Not near my kids. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Beat it, ducks! I'm not old enough to have food for you. I'm sexy. Young and sexy! ===''[[w:To Cur with Love|To Cur with Love]]''=== :'''Burns''': I insist you never wear shoes or a proper necktie again. Just house slippers and the most humiliating tie there is - bolo. <hr width=50%> :'''Herman''': God closes a door, he opens a gunshot. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Well, that's just how dogs are. The most disloyal, unfaithful creatures God ever made. <hr width=50%> :'''Grampa''': Unfortunately, like all true stories, this one has a crappy ending. :'''Bart''': You have a story with an ending. <hr width=50%> :'''Bart''': He's alive! :'''Marge''': And he didn't pee on the floor. :'''Grampa''': For me, that's a perfect day. <hr width=50%> :'''Lisa''': I love that dog...but that is one long, stupid name. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': That's right, your lord sticks his hand in his pants. And yes, it is the same hand I tapped you with. ===''[[w:Homer Goes to Prep School|Homer Goes to Prep School]]''=== :'''Homer''': Listen, I gotta know. You're not just being nice to me because, in a pinch, you could make candles from my fat. :'''Lloyd''': Well, that is a big part of it. :'''Homer''': It's okay. I know what I am. <hr width=50%> :'''Weak Guy''': All I wanted...to be fun. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Do not question the wisdom of Tom Skerritt. <hr width=50%> :'''Moe''': Well, Homer's gone. Let's all go into our suspended state 'til he gets back. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': If [[Jesus]] had a gun, He'd be alive today. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Marge, this is it. TEOTWAWKI. :'''Marge''': The end of the world as we know it?!? <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': I guess despite all our so-called civilization, anarchy lurks around every corner like a racially diverse street gang on a network cop show. <hr width=50%> :'''Bart''': Dad, what would you do if you got my ear in the mail? :'''Homer''': I don't know; feed it to the dog. :'''Bart''': You'd have to wrap cheese around it. :'''Homer''': Don't you tell me how to feed you to the dog! <hr width=50%> :'''Fun Center Supervisor''' ''[on her cell phone]'': I hate working here. At least at Krusty Burger, you can burn yourself and go home. ===''[[w:A Test Before Trying|A Test Before Trying]]''=== :'''Bart''': Looks like Mr. Vanilla just grew some chocolate chips. :'''Seymour''': Save your analogies for the analogy portion of the exam. <hr width=50%> :'''Lisa''': So how's the studying going? :'''Bart''': When I start, I'll tell you. ''[lies down on the bed]'' :'''Lisa''': ''[sensually obsolete]'' This is the most selfish thing you've ever done! You're letting your friends go hang because you are lazy, and selfish-- ''[Bart closes his eyes slowly]'' hey, are you falling asleep just to spite me? <hr width=50%> :'''Lisa''': Spinach Farm, huh? You talk in your sleep! :'''Bart''': Lisa, I want to pass the test, but I need your help and I had all sorts of problems. Lack of attention, I'm afraid of ovals, I only know 24 letters-- (''Lisa closes her eyes that Bart done earlier'') don't you fall asleep on me! <hr width=50%> :'''Lisa''': Well, Bart. I hope you're happy. All my extra credits are like frequent flyer miles on a bankrupt airline. <hr width=50%> :'''Chalmers''': I hate waiting. That's why I hate risotto. :'''Skinner''': Even mushroom risotto? :'''Chalmers''': What do '''''you''''' think?!? <hr width=50%> :'''Mrs. Krabappel-Flanders''': We got hired at this school to escape accountability. Who's gonna hire a hire a lunchlady who's been accused of murdering her husband? :'''Lunchlady Doris''': Never convicted. They couldn't find the body. Anyone care for some chicken Pete pie? <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': When I found out shrimp cocktails had no alcohol, I really lost interest. ===''[[w:The Changing of the Guardian|The Changing of the Guardian]]''=== :'''Homer''': Like all childless couples, they troll the beaches waiting for the egg-layers to wander off from their young. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Worry-wart Marge. You don't look a Trojan horse in the mouth. <hr width=50%> :'''Bart''': All you need to know is that I'm a politeness monster who eats "pleases" and farts "thank yous", ma'am. :'''Lisa''': I'm exactly the kind of kid he's pretending to be. <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': I think I hear a slight accent. :'''Woman''': Mid-Atlantic. :'''Marge''': *gasp* That's where they filmed The Wire! Step on it! <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': What women really want is a guy who's confident enough to go completely downhill after marriage and know she'll still love him. <hr width=50%> :'''Cletus''': Anything new that wanders into this house ends up in the stew pot. <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': Kids, your father and I have decided we're not in such a hurry to get you guardians. :'''Homer''': Instead of concentrating on dying, we're going to concentrate on living. :'''Bart''': If you call this living. :'''Homer''': ''[turns red with anger]'' Why, you little... ''[furiously lunges at Bart and angrily strangles him]'' I do call this living. Living the way kids in lndia can only dream of. :'''Lisa''': There is nothing like your biological family. ===''[[w:Love is a Many-Splintered Thing|Love is a Many-Splintered Thing]]''=== :'''GPS''': Switching to male voice, so you will obey. :'''Homer''': Finally, a supervisor! <hr width=50%> :'''Mary''': ''[singing]'' There ain't not never no place none better than home. Count the negatives, it all works out. <hr width=50%> :'''Bart''': You got star quality, like the Hulk in movies other than ''The Hulk''. <hr width=50%> :'''Milhouse''': I can't wait to use your moves on Lisa. :'''Lisa''': Eww. On every level, eww. <hr width=50%> :'''Bart''': I'll be more attentive to your needs on the seesaw. I'll stay down there as long as you want. ===''[[w:Hardly Kirk-ing|Hardly Kirk-ing]]''=== :'''Homer''': "Spot the hidden objects." Boy, you're pretty pushy for a book I just met. <hr width=50%> :''[after Marge tells them that she's banning TV from the house]'' :'''Homer''': Honey, this sounds like a noble experiment, but like Prohibition, it will end in a hail of bullets. <hr width=50%> :'''Bart''': That's the way people talk about Ralph. Ralph, whose favorite color is peanut butter. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': ''[to Kuddle on the tablet]'' If I might you, why do I need all these books? <hr width=50%> :''[Homer is watching Maggie's ''Baby Poindexter'' DVDs]'' :'''Bart''': Dad, what are you watching? :'''Homer''': I think it's a Terrence Malick movie. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': We're taking Maggie to the bookstore, so she can learn the way kids did from 1910 to 2002. <hr width=50%> :''[last lines]'' :'''Homer''': Why, you little...! That's not a heartwarming thing to end on! ===''[[w:Gorgeous Grampa|Gorgeous Grampa]]''=== :'''Lisa''': ''[as Homer changes channels, sees "Swamp Huffers"]'' Um...<br>(sees "American Tattoo Burner-Offers) oh!<br>(sees "Autopsy Wars") Ugh!<br>(sees "Coackroach Tervention") Eek!<br>(sees "Wheelchair Thieves of Beverly Hills") Yikes!<br>(sees "Porn Hoarders") Oh.<br>(sees "One Big Happy Hobo Taxidermy Family") Ew.<br>(sees "Roadkill Cook-Off") Ugh.<br>(sees "Everglades Gay Wedding Chapel") Well...<br>(sees "Cough Syrup Bandit) ew!<br>(sees "American Junk Piercers") Ah!<br>(sees "Skunk People") Dad!<br>(sees "Tiny Horses, Tiny Glue Factory") Nope!<br>(sees "Toddlers and Tarantulas", screams)<br>(sees "Meth Boss") Whoa.<br>(sees "Crocodile Matchmaker") Seriously?<br>(sees "Porn Hoarders: Texas", shrieks) <hr width=50%> :'''Bart''': ''[to Lisa]'' Your father wasted his life his whole life being married to your mother and having you. We got to find him a boyfriend before it's too late. :'''Lisa''': Why don't you put a personal ad on the Internet? That's how young people date these days. :'''Bart''': It's weird that you don't consider yourself a young person. :'''Lisa''': I know. It's weird to me too. <hr width=50%> :'''Grampa''': I don't ride side-saddle. I'm as straight as a submarine. <hr width=50%> :'''Burns''': Hello, Smithers. Fancy seeing you in casual encounter park. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Oh, my gay dad is gay for gays. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Writing is for bathroom walls and acting is for getting out of DUIs. ===''[[w:Black Eyed, Please|Black Eyed, Please]]''=== :'''Hibbert''': You may never see a film in 3D again. ''[chuckles]'' :'''Homer''': But the storytelling is finally catching up to the technology. <hr width=50%> :'''Lisa''': Why does someone become a bully? :'''Jimbo''': Neglect. :'''Dolph''': Abuse. :'''Kearney''': I'm a Cubs fan. <hr width=50%> :'''Ned''': ''[after seeing a weird church in the devilish cave]'' No, not Surf n Murf! <hr width=50%> :'''Edna''': I know you feel guilty about about cold-cocking Homer. :'''Ned''': Please don't use that word in bed. <hr width=50%> :'''Ned''': I want you to punch me in the eye. If you do, then we're even according to Exodus, Leviticus, and Matthew. :'''Homer''': You went and hired a law firm, eh. That's pretty aggressive. <hr width=50%> :'''Ned''': Come on, Homer. I'm insisting on a fisting. :'''Smithers''': What's this about a fisting? <hr width=50%> :''[Ned comes home and finds his parents and Homer smoking marijuana and watching TV]'' :'''Ned''': Homer, I can't believe you're partaking with my parents. :'''Homer''': Yeah, it's medicinal; we had a pain in our neck! ===''[[w:Dark Knight Court|Dark Knight Court]]''=== :'''Burns''': How much for your entire collection? :'''Comic Book Guy''': Um, the speed of light expressed in dollars. :'''Burns''': ''[to Smithers]'' Just give him Faraday's constant. <hr width=50%> :'''Martin''': Who could have shoved eggs up our brass? <hr width=50%> :'''Cletus''': Egg don't belong in a chicken's eye. It belongs in her pee-poo-birth-hole. <hr width=50%> :'''Lisa''': Bart must not be judged by these kids. But by a jury...of kids, mostly these kids...there's only so many kids. <hr width=50%> :'''Bart''': Pass the gravy, Gloria All-Wrong. ===''[[w:What Animated Women Want|What Animated Women Want]]''=== :'''Homer''': Listen, we swore we'd never go to sleep angry at each other. :'''Marge''': I'm not going to sleep. :'''Homer''': Well, you didn't have two beers with your lunch. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Marge, I thought this was an innocuous lunch, but it's become terribly ocuous. <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': The most romantic part of this was the hold music when I made the reservation. <hr width=50%> :'''Waiter''': I hope you are enjoying your sushi. :'''Marge''': It's as yummy as your poorly produced local commercial says. ===''[[w:Pulpit Friction|Pulpit Friction]]''=== :'''Homer''': Well, I'm not one for taking new jobs on a whim. But as we say in the snow plow business, I'm your astronaut. <hr width=50%> :'''Helen''': Why won't someone blame the children? <hr width=50%> :'''Moe''': Bring out your beds. Bring out your beds. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Boy, why are your friends so dirty? :'''Bart''': Dunno. Why are your friends such drunks? :'''Homer''': Touche. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Hehehe, the brain is so stupid. <hr width=50%> :'''Lenny''': ''[as the frog licks his own eyeball]'' Ow! He took my contact. ''[the frog licks his own eyeball again]'' Ow! Now I got two in own eye. :''[Everyone started panicking about frogs.]'' :'''Moe''': Remember you said when hell freezes over? I think this is close enough. :'''Lindsay''': Huh, I'm in no position to argue. ===''[[w:Whiskey Business|Whiskey Business]]''=== :'''Moe''': ''[strict]'' Oh, that tears it! No more delays! ===''[[w:The Fabulous Faker Boy|The Fabulous Faker Boy]]''=== :'''Milhouse''': Did you ever wonder if hippopotamuses think that rhinos are unicorns? <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': My head hairs! I'm bald! <hr width=50%> :'''Moe''': There's sexy bald like...uh...Babar, king of the elephants. I read his books as a kid. He married his cousin Celeste. That was my takeaway. <hr width=50%> :'''Martin''': Let me go. I have a swim lesson with a gorgeous lifeguard. :'''Dolph''': What gender? :'''Martin''': You're not allowed to ask. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': We don't get together to share our emotions. We get together to escape them! <hr width=50%> :'''Carl''': Why don't we talk about it over at Moe's? :'''Homer''': It's not even noon. :'''Carl''': Yeah, I got a watch, egghead. ===''[[w:The Saga of Carl|The Saga of Carl]]''=== :'''Homer''': Sorry, Carl, it's WWII all over again. America kicks Iceland's ass. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': And I'm 69 because people always laugh when you say "69." Hehe, no one knows why. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': ''[realizes the pop-up ad "Ki-Yah! Karate Monsters"]'' What the? Change the channel? But I'm watching soft core tennis! <hr width=50%> :'''Moe''': Yeah, I always go with three, the number of brothers and sisters I, uh, Hunger Gamed in the womb. <hr width=50%> :'''Patty''': So, now you're going to get hit on by ever loser in town. :'''Selma''': And this town has losers like Mexico has headless corpses. ===''[[w:Dangers on a Train|Dangers on a Train]]''=== :'''Homer''': Hey, those Yelp reviews don't write themselves. Did you know a well-placed one-star could destroy a "Mom and Pop" hardware in nothing flat? <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Just call me Borders Books 'cause I'll always be here. <hr width=50%> :'''Ben''': Accidental motherhood is the best thing that can happen to a woman. <hr width=50%> :'''Ben''': Whoa!, A is for apple, right? ==External links== {{wikipedia|The Simpsons (season 24)}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Simpsons, Season 24}} [[Category:The Simpsons seasons]] b1fctwhz4icyjktp36gyv7c52ht0zta 0 139538 3961260 3960915 2026-07-05T19:46:00Z BD2412 3982 Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]] 3961260 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Edgar M Bronfman 1989.jpg|thumb|right|Edgar M Bronfman in 1989]] '''[[w:Edgar Bronfman Sr.|Edgar Bronfman Sr.]]''' (born [[June 20]], [[1929]] – [[21 December]] [[2013]]) is a businessman, heir to Seagram's fortune. {{businesspeople-stub}} ==Quotes== * To turn $100 into $110 is work. To turn $100 million into $110 million is inevitable. ** Quoted in Nancy Folbre, "Field Guide to the U.S. Economy" (2011), p. 15. *There is nothing that makes the mind more elastic and expandable than discovering how the world works. Developing and rewarding curiosity will be where innovation finds its future. ** From an editorial on Inside Higher Ed. http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2013/10/17/liberal-arts-are-best-preparation-even-business-career-essay. *True learning comes from engaging in discourse with those who are profoundly different. Your mind may not be swayed, but the interaction should open up your eyes. ** http://www.faithstreet.com/onfaith/2012/10/09/bronfman-why-civil-discourse-is-imperative-for-inter-jewish-dialogue/11782. *I am not beholden to a Jewish tradition based on divine law and belief, but rather see Judaism as a golden heritage of rigorous inquiry, wisdom and discussion of the human condition which offers me profound wisdom and guidance in how I live my life. ** http://blogs.forward.com/avraham-burg/tags/edgar-m-bronfman/ *In terms of defending Jews, I'm a Jew, and I was in a position to do so, so I did. ** http://www.jta.org/2013/12/21/news-opinion/united-states/edgar-bronfman-84-leading-philanthropist-and-jewish-communal-leader. *Curiosity and openness to new ways of thinking ensures future success more than any other quality. Learn, read, question, think. In developing the ability to exercise those traits, you will not only be successful in business, but in the business of life.” **http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2013/10/17/liberal-arts-are-best-preparation-even-business-career-essay *I have learned that success in business, and perhaps in most aspects of life, requires both self-discipline and objectively imposed discipline from outside.’ **Good Spirits. *I have found philanthropy deeply satisfying work. I encourage all people to engage in giving to others, be it through time or money. The point is to be involved. Helping is a joyful experience and enriches the giver as much as those who receive. By enabling people to do good work, I participate in a brighter future for the Jewish people and, I hope, all of humanity.” **Giving Pledge. *I’ve found that volunteer work can enrich one’s life providing balance and perspective. Indeed, the WJC was probably the most important thing to me outside of Seagram, offering a chance to develop aspects of my personality.” **Good Spirits. *I am 83 this year and after a lifetime of Jewish activism, I have determined that what I hold to be the greatest Jewish value is our ability to question.” ** http://www.faithstreet.com/onfaith/2012/10/09/bronfman-why-civil-discourse-is-imperative-for-inter-jewish-dialogue/11782. *I spent my entire career in business, and was fortunate to experience success. Essential to my success, however, was the fact that I was engaged in the larger world around me as a curious person who wanted to learn. I did not rely only on business perspectives. In fact, it was a drive to understand and enjoy life -- and be connected to something larger than myself in my love of reading, learning, and in my case, studying and learning about Judaism -- that allows me, at 84, to see my life as fully rounded. **http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2013/10/17/liberal-arts-are-best-preparation-even-business-career-essay *As a Jew who does not believe in God, but very strongly believes in Jewish peoplehood, the idea of a prayer or blessing does not resonate in a traditional sense. For me, a blessing is a statement of intention of purpose and an expression of gratitude.” **http://blogs.forward.com/avraham-burg/tags/edgar-m-bronfman/ *I am not beholden to a Jewish tradition based on divine law and belief, but rather see Judaism as a golden heritage of rigorous inquiry, wisdom and discussion of the human condition which offers me profound wisdom and guidance in how I live my life.” **http://blogs.forward.com/avraham-burg/tags/edgar-m-bronfman/ *Our community can’t stake its future on telling young people whom they should or should not marry. The goal of outreach work should not be convincing Jews why they should marry other Jews. Outreach work should instead be about making Judaism relevant and providing substantive educational opportunities.” **http://forward.com/articles/133808/opening-our-tent/ *In my personal and professional Jewish life, my belief is that we must educate ourselves before we can reach out to others.” **http://forward.com/articles/178634/trying-to-reach-out-to-unaffiliated-jews/ *The causes of Jewish renaissance and pluralism inform much of my work. My goal is to build a Jewish future by working to form a knowledgeable, proud and welcoming Jewish community throughout the world.” – Giving Pledge. *We need to restrain ourselves in what we say about other religions, in how we judge other faiths. We don't need new laws. We cannot restrict freedom of speech. We need to restrict ourselves. Otherwise, in the end, we will be restricted.” **http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/muslims-also-deserve-respect-1.180300. *Exploring Israel's meaning to you, as an American and as a Jew, is to firmly lock yourself onto the chain of thousands of years of Jewish history, and also claim your legacy as an American who is blessed to live in a land of freedom.” **http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/supporting-israel-means-questioning-its-policies-1.356546. ==External links== {{Wikipedia}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Bronfman, Edgar}} [[Category:Businesspeople from Montreal]] [[Category:Philanthropists]] [[Category:Jews from Canada]] [[Category:1929 births]] [[Category:2013 deaths]] [[Category:Articles with bare URLs]] [[Category:Chief executive officers]] [[Category:Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients]] oydlypdgp3zs3qkbwatf8dtz1nc6jum 0 139740 3961180 3434133 2026-07-05T16:33:09Z BD2412 3982 Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]], replaced: Roy R. 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Grinker Sr. (2) using [[Project:AWB|AWB]] 3961180 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Complexity Map.svg|thumb|320px|History of complexity science]] '''[[:w:Systems theory|Systems theory]]''' is an interdisciplinary field of [[science]], which studies the nature of complex systems in [[nature]], [[society]] and science, and studies complex parts of [[reality]] as [[system]]s. == Quotes == :''Quotes are arranged in chronological order'' === 1950s === * [General System Theory]... is a [[Mathematical logic|logico-mathematical]] field, the subject matter of which is the formulation and derivation of those principles which hold for [[system]]s in general. ** [[Ludwig von Bertalanffy]] (1952) ''[[Ludwig_von_Bertalanffy#Problems_of_Life.2C_1952.2C_1960|Problems of Life]]''. p. 8 * General Systems Theory is a name which has come into use to describe a level of theoretical model-building which lies somewhere between the highly generalized constructions of [[pure mathematics]] and the specific theories of the specialized disciplines. [[Mathematics]] attempts to organize highly general relationships into a coherent system, a system however which does not have any necessary connections with the "real" world around us. It studies all thinkable relationships abstracted from any concrete situation or body of [[empirical knowledge]]. ** [[Kenneth Boulding]] (1956) "[[Kenneth_Boulding#General_Systems_Theory_-_The_Skeleton_of_Science.2C_1956|General systems theory - the skeleton of science]]" in: ''Management Science'', Vol.2. No. 3. (April 1956) p. 197: Opening sentences * The idea of a systems can be seen as a further generalized and extended thought of the following consideration. First, there is the rather sweeping claim, that "Every system has subsystems". Taking this together with "Every system has its environment", we are indeed confronted with limitless vistas of systems. One us unable to think of anything, or of any combination of things, which could not be regarded as a system. And, of course, a concept that applies to everything is logically empty. <br> What characteristics are there which any object or group of objects could have, such that they would fail to form some kind of system? In my view, general systems theory not only does not, but further could not, answer this question. And it is partly for this reason that I believe that general systems theory is not in fact science at all, but rather naive and speculative philosophy. ** R.C. Buck in: {{w|Herbert Feigl}}, Michael Scriven ed. (1956) ''The Foundations of Science and the Concepts of Psychology and Psychoanalysis''. p. 226 * [[General systems theory]] is a series of related [[Definition|definitions]], [[Assumption|assumptions]], and [[postulates]] about all levels of systems from atomic particles through [[Atom|atoms]], [[Molecule|molecules]], [[Crystal|crystals]], [[Virus|viruses]], [[Cell (biology)|cells]], [[w:Organs|organs]], [[individuals]], small groups, societies, [[Planet|planets]], [[Solar System|solar systems]], and [[Galaxy|galaxies]]. General behavior systems theory is a subcategory of such [[theory]], dealing with living systems, extending roughly from viruses through societies. A significant fact about living things is that they are open systems, with important inputs and outputs. [[Law|Laws]] which apply to them differ from those applying to relatively closed systems. ** [[James Grier Miller]] (1956) "General behavior systems theory and summary". In: ''Journal of Counseling Psychology''. 3 (2) 120-124. * [The objective of the Society for General Systems Research]. To encourage the development of theoretical systems which are applicable to more than one of the traditional departments of [[knowledge]]. All [[sciences]] develop theoretical systems of [[concepts]], [[Relationship|relationships]], and [[Scientific modelling|models]]. Many of these systems are isomorphic, but their similarity is undetected because of differences in terminology and if other barriers to communications among specialists. Furthermore, systems which have been well worked out can be of assistance in the development of others. The major functions or general systems research are therefore:<br> 1) to investigate the isomorphy of concepts, laws, and models in various fields, and to help in useful transfers from one field to another;<br> 2) to encourage the development of adequate theoretical models in areas which lack them;<br> 3) to eliminate the duplication of theoretical efforts in different fields;<br> 4) to promote the unity of science through improving the communication among specialists. ** Bertalanffy, Boulding, Gerard & Rappoport (1956) "Society for the Advancement of General Systems Theory: Program" in: ''General program''. Vol.124. American Association for the Advancement of Science (1956) p. 223 === 1960s === * A number of proposals have been advanced in recent years for the development of ‘[[general systems theory]]’ which, abstracting from [[properties]] peculiar to physical, biological, or [[Social system|social systems]], would be applicable to all of them. We might well feel that, while the goal is laudable, systems of such diverse kinds could hardly be expected to have any nontrivial properties in common. [[Metaphors|Metaphor]] and [[analogy]] can be helpful, or they can be misleading. All depends on whether the similarities the metaphor captures are significant or superficial.<br>It may not be entirely vain, however, to search for common properties among diverse kinds of complex systems... The ideas of feedback and information provide a frame of reference for viewing a wide range of situations, just as do the ideas of [[evolution]], of [[relativism]], of axiomatic method, and of operationalism... hierarchic systems have some common properties that are independent of their specific content... ** [[Herbert Simon]] (1962) "The Architecture of complexity." in: ''Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society''. Vol 106, pp. 467-468. as cited in: "James Grier Miller (1916)" at isss.org retrieved Nov 16, 2012 * System theory is basically concerned with problems of relationships, of structure, and of [[interdependence]] rather than with the constant attributes of objects. In general approach it resembles field theory except that its dynamics deal with temporal as well as spatial patterns. Older formulations of system constructs dealt with the closed systems of the physical sciences, in which relatively self-contained structures could be treated successfully as if they were independent of external forces. But living systems, whether biological [[Organism|organisms]] or social organizations, are acutely dependent on their external environment and so must be conceived of as open systems ** [[Daniel Katz]] & [[Robert L. Kahn]] (1966), ''The Social Psychology of Organizations.'' 2d ed. 1978. p. 22 * There is a revolutionary scientific perspective (stemming) from the General Systems Research movement and (with a) wealth of principles, ideas and insights that have already brought higher degree of scientific order and understanding to many areas as of [[biology]], [[psychology]] and some physical sciences... Modern systems research can provide the basic of a framework more capable of doing justice to the complexities and dynamic properties of the socio-cultural system. ** [[Walter F. Buckley]] (1967) ''Sociology and modern systems theory'', p. vii; As cited in: cited in: [[Ludwig von Bertalanffy]] (1968)'' [[Ludwig_von_Bertalanffy#General_System_Theory.2C_1968|General System Theory]]''. p. 7-8 * Systems theory provides: *# A common vocabulary unifying the several "behavioral" disciplines. *# A technique for treating large, complex organizations; *# A synthetic approach where piecemeal analysis is not possible due to the intricate interrelationships of parts that cannot be treated out of context of the whole; *# A viewpoint that gets at the heart of sociology because it sees the sociocultural system in terms of information and communication nets; *# The study of ''relations'' rather than "entities" with an emphasis on process and transition probabilities as the basis of a flexible structure of many degrees of freedom. *# "An operationally definable, objective, non-anthropomorphic study of purposiveness, goal-seeking system behavior, symbolic cognitive processes, consciousness and self-awareness, and sociocultural emergence and dynamics in general. ** [[Walter F. Buckley]] (1967) ''Sociology and modern systems theory'', p. 39 * Of the so-called global theories the one initially stated and defined by Bertalanffy in 1947 under the title of "general systems theory" has taken hold... Since then he has refined, modified and applied his concepts, established a society for general systems theory and published a ''General Systems Yearbook''. Many social scientists but only a handful of psychiatrists studied, understood or applied systems theory. Suddenly, under the leadership of Dr. William Gray of [[Boston]], a threshold was reached so that at the 122nd annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in 1966 two sessions were held at which this theory was discussed and regular meetings for psychiatrists were ensured for future participation in and development of this "Unified Theory of Human Behavior." If there be a third revolution (i.e. after the psychoanalytic and behavioristic), it is in the development of a general theory. ** [[Roy R. Grinker Sr.]], Helen MacGill Hughes (ed.) (1967) ''Towards a Unified Theory of Human Behaviour''. 2e ed. New York, Basic Books. p. ix * It is sheer nonsense to expect that any human being has yet been able to attain such insight into the problems of [[society]] that he can really identify the central problems and determine how they should be solved. The [[system]]s in which we live are far too complicated as yet for our intellectual powers and technology to understand. ** [[C. West Churchman]] (1968) ''The Systems Approach'' p.x * A great many writers have manifestly believed that there is a way of considering phenomena which is sufficiently different from the well-established modes of scientific analysis to deserve the particular title of [[systems thinking]]. ** [[Frederick Edmund Emery]] (ed.) (1969) ''Systems thinking: selected readings'' Penguin, p. 7: Beginning of editorial by Fred Emery. === 1970s === * The basic managerial idea introduced by [[systems thinking]], is that to manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately. ** [[Russell L. Ackoff]] and [[Fred Emery]] (1972) ''On purposeful systems'', cited in: Lloyd Dobyns, Clare Crawford-Mason (1994) ''Thinking about quality: progress, wisdom, and the Deming philosophy''. p. 40 * General systems theory is the scientific exploration of "wholes" and "wholeness" which, not so long ago, were considered metaphysical notions transcending the boundaries of science. [[Hierarchy|Hierarchic]] structure, stability, [[teleology]], differentiation, approach to and maintenance of steady states, goal-directedness — these are a few of such general system properties. ** [[Ervin László]] (1972) ''Introduction to Systems Philosophy: Toward a New Paradigm of Contemporary Thought''. p. xviii * There has been an increased but still rather limited response to [[general systems theory]], as variously reflected in the work of [[Gregory Bateson|Bateson]], Vayda, [[Anatol Rapoport|Rappaport]], Adams, and an interest in the use of computers, programming, matrices, etc. But the interaction between general systems theory (as represented, for example, by the theoretical work of [[Ludwig von Bertalanffy|Von Bertalanffy]]) has been compromised, partly by the state of field data, extraordinarily incomparable as it inevitably is, as well as historical anthropological methods of dealing with wholes. General systems theory has taken its impetus from the excitement of discovering larger and larger contexts, on the one hand, and a kind of microprobing into fine detail within a system, on the other. Both of these activities are intrinsic to anthropology to the extent that field work in living societies has been the basic disciplinary method. It is no revelation to any field-experienced anthropologist that everything is related to everything else, or that whether the entire sociocultural setting can be studied in detail or not, it has to be known in general outline. ** [[Margaret Mead]] (1973) "[http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev.an.02.100173.000245 Changing Styles of Anthropological Work]" in: ''Annual Review of Anthropology'' p. 8 * What I consider completely sterile is the attitude, for instance, of [[Ludwig von Bertalanffy|Bertalanffy]] who is going around and jumping around for years saying that all the analytical science and molecular biology doesn’t really get to interesting results; let’s talk in terms of general systems theory … there cannot be anything such as general systems theory, it’s impossible. Or, if it existed, it would be meaningless. ** [[Jacques Monod]] (1974) "On chance and necessity". In F. J. Ayala & T. Dobzhansky, (Eds.), ''Studies in the philosophy of biology''. cited in: [[Brian R. Gaines]] (1979) "[http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~gaines/reports/SYS/GS79/GS79.pdf General systems research: quo vadis?]", ''General Systems'', Vol. 24 (1979), p. 4 * General systems theory deals with the most fundamental concepts and aspects of systems. Many theories dealing with more specific types of systems (e.g., dynamical systems, automata, control systems, game-theoretic systems, among many others) have been under development for quite some time. General systems theory is concerned with the basic issues common to all these specialized treatments. ** [[Mihajlo D. Mesarovic|M.D. Mesarovic]] and Y. Takahare (1975) ''General Systems Theory, Mathematical foundations''. Academic Press. Cited in: Franz Pichler, Roberto Moreno Diaz (1993). ''Computer Aided Systems Theory''. p. 134 * The Society for General Systems Theory and its publication ''General Systems'' was a mixed bag. Few authors were actually doing research -they philosophized, and many prematurely resolved dilemmas by mathematical equations in a language poorly understood by the empirical investigator. ** [[Roy R. Grinker Sr.]] (1976) in ''General systems''. Vol.19, p. 57 === 1980s === * Systems theory is an attempt to provide a general explanation for social behaviour (certain types of this [[theory]] are referred to as grand theory). ** Michael Peart Jackson (1982). ''Industrial Relations: A Textbook''. p. 17 * [[Project management]] utilises the systems approach to [[management]] by having functional personnel (the vertical hierarchy) assigned to a specific project (the horizontal hierarchy). ** [[Harold Kerzner]] (1982) ''Project management for executives''. p. 3 * [[General systems theory]] is considered as a formal theory ([[Mihajlo D. Mesarovic|Mesarovic]], [[A. Wayne Wymore|Wymore]]), a methodology ([[w:William Ross Ashby|Ashby]], [[George Klir|Klir]]), a way of thinking ([[Ludwig von Bertalanffy|Bertalanffy]], [[C. West Churchman|Churchman]]), a way of looking at the world ([[Gerald Weinberg|Weinberg]]), a search for an optimal simplification (Ashby, Weinberg), didactic method ([[Kenneth Boulding|Boulding]], Klir, Weinberg), metalanguage ([[w:Lars Löfgren|Logren]]), and profession (Klir). ** [[George Klir|G.J. Klir]] cited in: James T. Ziegenfuss (1983) ''Patients' rights and organizational models: sociotechnical systems research on mental health programs''. p. 104 * For a long time, people have been trying to characterize or define the notion of [[system]]. After all, “systems” are supposed to be what System Theory is about. The results so far have been contradictory and unsatisfactory. This confusion at the foundations has led many to conclude that there is no such thing as a "system" and hence to deny that System Theory is about anything. Even those most sympathetic to the notion have difficulties at this level. The very founders of System Theory did not try to say what a system was; and as for System Theory, they characterized it only obliquely, by saying it comprised all studies of interest to more than one discipline. They thereby begged the entire question. ** [[Robert Rosen]], "Some comments on systems and system theory." in: ''International Journal of General Systems.'' Vol 13, (1986); p. 1 === 1990s === * (Systems science) does not aim to find the one true representation for a given type of [[system]]s (e.g. physical, chemical or biological systems), but to formulate general principles about how different representations of different systems can be constructed so as to be effective in problem-solving. ** [[Francis Heylighen]], 1990, "Classical and non-classical representations in physics I." ''Cybernetics and Systems'' 21. p. 423; * Systems inquiry has demonstrated its capability in dealing effectively with highly complex and large-scale problem situations. It has orchestrated the efforts of various disciplines within the framework of [[systems thinking]]. It has introduced systems approaches and methods to the analysis, design, development, evaluation, and management of systems of all kinds... Systems theory pursues the scientific exploration and understanding of systems that exist in the various realms of experience, in order to arrive at a general theory of systems: an organized expressing of sets of interrelated concepts and principles that apply to all systems. ** [[Béla H. Bánáthy]] (1991) ''Systems design of education'' p. 31 * Critical [[systems thinking]] is a robust recent trend in humanistically oriented systems work. Spearheaded by work of [[:w:Werner Ulrich|Ulrich]] (1983), [[Robert L. Flood|Flood]] (1990), and Flood and [[Michael C. Jackson|Jackson]] (1991), this approach manages to accommodate the knowledge-constitutive interests of [[Jürgen Habermas]] (1971) and the interpretive analytical orientations of [[Michel Foucault]] (1972) through a meta-[[methodology]] involving constant critical reflection. The meta-methodology serves as the basis for the generation of a new methodology that critically applies various systems approaches to [[problem solving]]. ** [[:w:Alexander Laszlo (scientist)|Alexander Laszlo]] and Stanley Krippner (1992) "[http://archive.syntonyquest.org/elcTree/resourcesPDFs/SystemsTheory.pdf Systems Theories: Their Origins, Foundations, and Development]" * Systems science and [[technology]] constitute one aspect of [[systems thinking]], but the [[humanities]] and [[Art|arts]] make up the other. The fact that design plays such a large part in the systemic treatment of problems makes it apparent that art has a major role in it as well. [[Ethics]] and [[aesthetics]] are integral aspects of evaluating systems... the systems approach involves the pursuit of [[truth]] (science) and its effective use (technology), plenty (economics), the [[Goodness|good]] (ethics and morality), and [[beauty]] and [[fun]] (aesthetics). To compare systems methodology with that of any of the so-called ‘hard’ disciplines—for example, physics—is to misunderstand the nature of systems. The worry is not that the systems approach is not scientific in the sense which physics or chemistry or biology is, but that some try to make it scientific in that sense. To the extent they succeed, they destroy it. ** [[Russell L. Ackoff]] (1999). "Disciplines, the two cultures and the scianities". ''Systems Research and Behavioral Science''. 16 (6), p. 537. Cited in: Sherryl Stalinski (2005) ''A Systems View of Social Systems, Culture and Communities''. Saybrook Graduate School. p. 5 * Complexity theory is really a movement of the [[sciences]]. Standard sciences tend to see the world as mechanistic. That sort of science puts things under a finer and finer microscope. In [[biology]] the investigations go from classifying organisms to functions of organisms, then organs themselves, then cells, and then organelles, right down to protein and enzymes, metabolic pathways, and [[DNA]]. This is finer and finer reductionist thinking.<br>The movement that started complexity looks in the other direction. It’s asking, how do things assemble themselves? How do patterns emerge from these interacting elements? [[Complexity]] is looking at interacting elements and asking how they form patterns and how the patterns unfold. It’s important to point out that the patterns may never be finished. They’re open-ended. In standard science this hit some things that most scientists have a negative reaction to. Science doesn’t like perpetual novelty. ** [[W. Brian Arthur]] (1999) in: ''[http://web.archive.org/web/20071011023150/http://www.dialogonleadership.org/Arthur-1999.html Coming from Your Inner Self, Conversation with W. Brian Arthur, Xerox PARC, April 16, 1999],'' by Joseph Jaworski, Gary Jusela, C. Otto Scharmer ** W. Brian Arthur no longer speaks of systems theory, but of complexity theory instead. === 2000s === * What is ''systems science''? This question, which I have been asked on countless occasions, can basically be answered either in terms of activities associated with systems science or in terms of the domain of its inquiry. The most natural answers to the question are, almost inevitably, the following definitions: *# Systems science is what systems scientists do when they claim they do science. *# Systems science is that field of scientific inquiry whose objects of study are [[systems]]. :Without further explanation, these definitions are clearly of little use. :* [[George Klir]] (2001) ''Facets of Systems Science,'' p. 3 * Within [[sociology]] there have been several system theories, differing from one another in the extent to which, for example, human agency, creativity, and entrepreneurship are assumed to play a role in system formation and reformation; conflict and struggle are taken into account; power and stratification are part and parcel of the theory; structural change and transformation – and more generally, historically developments – are taken into account and explained. What the various system theories have in common is a systematic concern with complex and varied interconnections and interdependencies of social life. Complexity has been a central concept for many working in the systems perspective. The tradition is characterized to a great extent by a burning ambition and hope to provide a unifying language and [[conceptual framework]] for all the social sciences. ** [[Tom R. Burns]] (2006) "System Theories" in: George Ritzer ed. ''The Encyclopedia of Sociology,'' Blackwell Publishing. * System theories have been applied to a wide spectrum of empirical cases and policy issues. [[Talcott Parsons|Parsons]] and his followers, in particular, applied their systems theory to diverse empirical phenomena in [[sociology]] as well as in other disciplines: [[wikipedia:Modernization|modernization]], [[economics]], [[politics]], social order, industrialization and [[Economic development|development]], [[Fascism]] and [[McCarthyism]], [[international relations]], [[social change]] and [[evolution]], complex organizations, [[health care]], [[universities]], [[religion]], [[Professional|professions]], small groups, and [[family]] as well as abstract questions such as the place of norms in maintaining social order both historically and cross-nationally. [[Marxism|Marxian theory]] and dynamic system theories have also been applied to a spectrum of diverse empirical and policy subjects. ** [[Tom R. Burns]] (2006) "System Theories" in: George Ritzer ed. ''The Encyclopedia of Sociology,'' Blackwell Publishing. p. 4. * The overall field of systems science is still in formation. ** [[Len R. Troncale]] (2006; 554) as cited in: Hieronymi, Andreas. "Understanding systems science: A visual and integrative approach." ''Systems research and behavioral science'' 30.5 (2013): 580-595. * Systems theory is antireductionist; it asserts that no system can be adequately understood or totally explained once it has been broken down into its component parts ** [[Charles Zastrow]] (2009) ''Introduction to Social Work and Social Welfare: Empowering People''. p. 49 === 2010s === * Systems theory is a science which has the comparative study of systems as its object. ** Rudolf Stichweh (2011) "[http://www.unilu.ch/files/stw_systems-theory-international-encyclopedia-of-political-science_2.pdf Systems Theory]", in:y. In: Bertrand Badie et al. (eds.), ''International Encyclopedia of Political Science''. Sage New York. * [[Complexity]] by itself is not the catalyst in which a system might crash. Rather, it is how the complexity emerges in a system that determines whether that system will do what it was intended to do or morph into an unworkable organization clogged by bottlenecks and blockages. Does the system emerge through a natural course of events vetted by trial and error, or does it emerge by artificial means that detach the system from its external, self-assembled process? ** [[L.K. Samuels]], ''In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action,'' Cobden Press, (2013) p. 28. ==See also== *[[Cybernetics]] *[[Synergy]] *[[System]] *[[Systems engineering]] *[[Systems thinking]] *[[:Category:Systems scientists|Systems scientists]] == External links == {{wikipedia}} {{Wikibooks|Systems Theory}} * [http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/SYSTHEOR.html Systems theory] at Principia Cybernetica Web [[Category:Holism]] [[Category:Science]] [[Category:Semiotics]] [[Category:Chronologically ordered theme pages to be converted to alphabetical ordering]] [[Category:Systems]] fu3c48kiv96gxunmloock73abnwzb9d 0 139860 3961262 3960924 2026-07-05T19:46:38Z BD2412 3982 Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]] 3961262 wikitext text/x-wiki '''[[:w:Roy R. Grinker Sr.|Roy Richard Grinker Sr.]]''' (Augustgbytu 2, 1900 – May 9, 1993) was an American neurologist and [[psychiatrist]], and pioneer in American [[psychiatry]]. == Quotes = * [[:w:Smith Ely Jelliffe|Jelliffe]] changed from an enumerator of visits to the out-patient dept to the most dynamic figure in American Psychiatry ** Grinker (1933) cited in: John Chynoweth Burnham, William McGuire, Sigmund Freud (1983) ''Jelliffe, American Psychoanalyst and Physician''. p. 166 * This mechanistic approach to [[psychiatry]] is being used extensively at present; I think it can be stated unequivocally that it is fraught with extreme danger. There is not only an emotional but an intellectual change in the patients. Those who have seen fighters that have been in many battles know the 'punch-drunk' or 'slap-happy' conditions and may recognize a similar state in some patients after shock therapy. ** Grinker (1942) as cited in: Linda Andre (2009) ''Doctors of Deception: What They Don't Want You to Know about Shock''. p. 49 * There is no single cause for any disturbance of the total organism, whether this be expressed as a behavior pattern often labeled psychiatric entity, or a physical disturbance classified as a somatic disease. ** Grinker and Robbins (1954) cited in: Eugene Frederick Hahn (1956) ''Stuttering: significant theories and therapies''. p. 17 * Fatal heart attacks can be triggered by 'anger in all degrees, depression, and anxiety... This doctor states that anxiety places more stress on the heart than any other stimulus, including physical exercise and fatigue. ** Cited in: McMillen, S.I (1963) ''None of These Diseases'' Fleming H. Revell, Co., Westwood, NJ. p. 61 * I have tried to show that [[psychiatry|psychiatric research]] can be empirical and experimental, controlled, and operational and not dependent on inferences, analogies, or anecdotes. Hypotheses can be derived which are testable. Theory is a different matter. At the present we rely heavily on psychoanalytic theory or on still poorly formulated and defined [[general systems theory]], [[information theory]], or transactional theory. To explain the depth and variety of the interrelationship of somatopsychosocial facets of the totality of [[human behavior]] in process requires a unified theory of human behavior which we have not yet even approached. Integration or synthesis of biological, psychological, and social theory is not enough. ** Ginker (1964) as cited in: S. Nassir Ghaemi (2009) ''The Rise and Fall of the Biopsychosocial Model''. p. 24 * Of the so-called global theories the one initially stated and defined by Bertalanffy in 1947 under the title of "[[general systems theory]]" has taken hold... Since then he has refined, modified and applied his concepts, established a society for general systems theory and published a ''General Systems Yearbook''. Many social scientists but only a handful of psychiatrists studied, understood or applied systems theory. Suddenly, under the leadership of Dr. William Gray of Boston, a threshold was reached so that at the 122nd annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in 1966 two sessions were held at which this theory was discussed and regular meetings for psychiatrists were ensured for future participation in and development of this "Unified Theory of Human Behavior." If there be a third revolution (i.e. after the psychoanalytic and behavioristic), it is in the development of a general theory. ** Grinker, Helen MacGill Hughes (ed.) (1967) ''Towards a Unified Theory of Human Behaviour''. 2e ed. New York, Basic Books. p. ix; cited in: [[Ludwig von Bertalanffy]] (1968)'' [[Ludwig_von_Bertalanffy#General_System_Theory.2C_1968|General System Theory]]''. p. 7 * The [[Society for General Systems Theory]] and its publication ''General Systems'' was a mixed bag. Few authors were actually doing research - they philosophized, and many prematurely resolved dilemmas by mathematical equations in a language poorly understood by the empirical investigator. ** Grinker (1976) in ''General systems''. Vol.19, p. 57 * [[Psychiatry]] is as broad as life ** Attributed to Grinker Sr. in: Michael Shepherd (1982) ''Psychiatrists on psychiatry''. p. 31 * Psychiatry rides madly in all direction ** Attributed to Grinker Sr. in: Michael Shepherd (1982) ''Psychiatrists on psychiatry''. p. 31. This is also the title of a 1964 article in the Archives of General Psychiatry. === ''Men Under Stress'', 1945 === * The emotional stress is a complex network of unusual strains inherent in the combat situation. The stress is derived from different sources, which again mutually reinforce each other. ** p. 33 cited in: David Goodman Mandelbaum -(1952) ''Soldier groups and Negro soldiers''. p. 78 * Prior to his introduction to combat, the average flier possesses a series of intellectual and emotional attitudes regarding his relation to the war. The intellectual attitudes comprise his opinon concerning the necessity of the war and the merits of our cause. Here the American soldier is in a peculiarly disadvantageous position compared with his enemies and most of his Allies. Although attitudes vary from strong conviction to profound cynicism, the most usual reaction is one of passive acceptance of our part in the conflict. Behind this acceptance there is little real conviction. The political, economic or even military justifications for our involvement in the war are not apprehended except in a vague way. The men feel that, if our leaders, the “big-shots,” could not keep us out, then there is no help for it; we have to fight. There is much danger for the future in this attitude, since the responsibility is not personally accepted but is displaced to the leaders. If these should lose face or the men find themselves in economic difficulties in the postwar world, the attitude can easily shift to one of blame of the leaders. The the cry will rise: “We were betrayed—the politicians got us in for their own gain. The militarists made us suffer for it. ** p. 38-39 cited in: The Clare Spark Blog (2009) [http://clarespark.com/2009/12/09/strategic-regression-in-the-greatest-generation/ Strategic Regression in “the greatest generation”] December 9, 2009 * There is much that is lacking in the political education of American troops, for which army policy cannot be criticized in view of the similar apathy on the home front. Late in the struggle the army became aware of this weakness among our soldiers. The Information and Education Division was then organized to repair this gap in the psychological preparation for combat. Some progress in the face of considerable resistance has been made by this service, but at the time of writing the men still have only a dim comprehension of the meaning of the fascist political state and its menace to our liberal democratic government. The war is generally regarded as a struggle between national states for economic empires. The men are not fully convinced that our country was actually threatened, or, if so, only remotely, or because of the machinations of large financial interests. In such passive attitudes lie the seeds of disillusion, which could prove very dangerous in the postwar period. Certainly they stand in startling contrast with the strong political and national convictions of our Axis enemies, which can inspire their troops, when the occasion demands, with a fanatical and religious fervor. Fortunately, strong intellectual motivation has not proved to be of the first importance to good morale in combat. The danger of this lack seems to be less to the prospect of military success than to success in the peace and to stability in the postwar period. ** p. 38-39 cited in: The Clare Spark Blog (2009) [http://clarespark.com/2009/12/09/strategic-regression-in-the-greatest-generation/ Strategic Regression in “the greatest generation”] December 9, 2009 * The formation of such feelings of obligation and loyalty to any group with which one is identified is of the highest significance to good morale. It is the essence of the powerful patriotic feelings which are stimulated in times of war, but which have their origins in earliest childhood. …Not all Americans have been able to develop a range of identification large enough to include the nation and thus to develop strong feelings of loyalty and obligation. To some extent this ability seems to be a measure of social maturity. ** p. 40 cited in: The Clare Spark Blog (2009) [http://clarespark.com/2009/12/09/strategic-regression-in-the-greatest-generation/ Strategic Regression in “the greatest generation”] December 9, 2009 * The men seldom have any real, concrete notions of what [[combat]] is like. Their minds are full of romanticized, Hollywood versions of their future activity in combat, colored with vague ideas of being a hero and winning ribbons and decorations. ** p. 44 * Combat leaves a lasting impression on men’s minds, changing them as radically as any crucial experience through which they live. ** p. 371 === ''The borderline syndrome'', (1968) === :Grinker, R. R., Werble, B., & Drye, R. C. (1968). ''The borderline syndrome: A behavioral study of ego-functions''. New York: Basic Books * In this book, we have reported on a behavioral research study of hospital patients that included a post-hospital follow-up and an investigation of patients'families, We have in brief attempted to state ''what'' the borderline syndrome is and speculate on the ''how'' and the ''why''. ** p. v * Although depression as an affect is found in several of the borderline categories, it does not correspond with that seen in the depressive syndrome. The borderline depression is a feeling of loneliness and isolation. ** p. 95 == Quotes about Roy R. Grinker Sr. == * In his attempt to produce an integrative overview of twentieth-century psychiatric history and thought, Grinker has given us a book that is full of broad generalizations about the importance of an interdisciplinary approach to mental health and psychiatric research. ** Citation in: "Psychiatry in Broad Perspective. Roy R. Grinker" in: ''The Personnel and Guidance Journal''. Volume 54, Issue 8, April 1976 * [Roy R. Grinker's ''Psychiatry in Broad Perspective'']... provokes us to more thinking and, one hopes more research... ** ''American Journal of Psychiatry'', quoted in ''The Psychiatric quarterly'' (1977). Vol 49-50. p. 162 * Roy Grinker's life spanned nearly the entire 20th century, and his influence on the development of psychiatry during that century was profound... Roy Grinker was especially proud of his teaching and training, and many of his students went on to become chairs of departments across the country. He used to tell his residents who were anxious about graduating and going out into the world: "Well, you can always start the program over!" During his career, Grinker's interests ranged over neurology, psychiatry, psychosomatic medicine, clinical research, and psychoanalysis. Ultimately, he was a mentor and role-model for several generations of teachers and leaders in all these various fields. ** Paul C. 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Shannon]] to find fundamental limits on signal processing operations such as compressing data and on reliably storing and communicating data. __NOTOC__ {{TOCalpha}} == B == * [[Claude Shannon]], the founder of information theory, invented a way to measure 'the amount of information' in a message without defining the word 'information' itself, nor even addressing the question of the meaning of the message. ** [[Hans Christian von Baeyer]] (2003) ''Information, The New Language of Science''. p. 28. * In fact, an information theory that leaves out the issue of noise turns out to have no content. ** [[Hans Christian von Baeyer]] (2003) ''Information, The New Language of Science''. p. 122. * If quantum communication and quantum computation are to flourish, a new information theory will have to be developed. ** [[Hans Christian von Baeyer]] (2003) ''Information, The New Language of Science''. p. 231. * The 19th and first half of the 20th century conceived of the world as [[chaos]]. Chaos was the oft-quoted blind play of atoms, which, in mechanistic and positivistic philosophy, appeared to represent ultimate reality, with life as an accidental product of physical processes, and mind as an epi-phenomenon. It was chaos when, in the current theory of evolution, the living world appeared as a product of chance, the outcome of random mutations and survival in the mill of natural selection. In the same sense, human personality, in the theories of behaviorism as well as of psychoanalysis, was considered a chance product of nature and nurture, of a mixture of genes and an accidental sequence of events from early childhood to maturity.<br>Now we are looking for another basic outlook on the world -- the world as organization. Such a conception -- if it can be substantiated -- would indeed change the basic categories upon which scientific thought rests, and profoundly influence practical attitudes.<br>This trend is marked by the emergence of a bundle of new disciplines such as [[cybernetics]], information theory, [[general system theory]], [[game theory|theories of games]], of [[decisions]], of queuing and others; in practical applications, systems analysis, [[systems engineering]], [[operations research]], etc. They are different in basic assumptions, mathematical techniques and aims, and they are often unsatisfactory and sometimes contradictory. They agree, however, in being concerned, in one way or another, with "systems," "wholes" or "organizations"; and in their totality, they herald a new approach. ** [[Ludwig von Bertalanffy]] (1968) ''General System Theory''. p. 166-167 as quoted in Lilienfeld (1978, pp. 7-8) and Alexander Laszlo and Stanley Krippner (1992) "[http://archive.syntonyquest.org/elcTree/resourcesPDFs/SystemsTheory.pdf Systems Theories: Their Origins, Foundations, and Development]". * We completely ignore the human value of the [[information]]. A selection of 100 letters is given a certain information value, and we do not investigate whether it makes sense in English, and, if so, whether the meaning of the sentence is of any practical importance. According to our definition, a set of 100 letters selected at random (according to the rules of Table 1.1), a sentence of 100 letters from a newspaper, a piece of Shakespeare or a theorem of Einstein are given exactly the same informational value. ** [[Léon Brillouin]] (1962) ''Science and Information Theory, second edition''. p. 9. ==F== * In fact, the science of thermodynamics began with an analysis, by the great engineer Sadi Carnot, of the problem of how to build the best and most efficient engine, and this constitutes one of the few famous cases in which engineering has contributed to fundamental physical theory. Another example that comes to mind is the more recent analysis of information theory by [[Claude Elwood Shannon|Claude Shannon]]. These two analyses, incidentally, turn out to be closely related. ** [[Richard Feynman]] (1964) ''[[w:The Feynman Lectures on Physics|The Feynman Lectures on Physics]]'' "The Laws of Thermodynamics". * Whether computers are used for engineering design, medical data processing, composing music, or other purposes, the structure of computing is much the same. We are extremely short of talented people in this field, and so we need departments, curricula, and research and degree programs in computer science... I think of the Computer Science Department as eventually including experts in Programming, [[Numerical Analysis]], Automata Theory, Data Processing, Business Games, Adaptive Systems, Information Theory, [[Information Retrieval]], Recursive Function Theory, Computer Linguistics, etc., as these fields emerge in structure... Universities must respond [to the computer revolution] with far reaching changes in the educational structure. ** [[George Forsythe]] As cited in [[Donald Knuth]] (1972). ''[http://www.stanford.edu/dept/ICME/docs/history/forsythe_knuth.pdf "George Forsythe and the Development of Computer Science"]. ''Comms. ACM''. == G == * Incomplete [[knowledge]] of the future, and also of the past of the transmitter from which the future might be constructed, is at the very basis of the concept of [[information]]. On the other hand, complete ignorance also precludes communication; a common language is required, that is to say an agreement between the transmitter and the receiver regarding the elements used in the communication process... <br>[The information of a message can] be defined as the 'minimum number of binary decisions which enable the receiver to construct the message, on the basis of the data already available to him.' These data comprise both the convention regarding the symbols and the language used, and the knowledge available at the moment when the message started. ** [[Dennis Gabor]] (1952) "Optical transmission," in: ''Information Theory: Papers Read at a Symposium on Information Theory''. as cited in: [[James Grier Miller]] (1978) ''Living Systems''. p. 12. * I have tried to show that psychiatric research can be empirical and experimental, controlled, and operational and not dependent on inferences, analogies, or anecdotes. Hypotheses can be derived which are testable. Theory is a different matter. At the present we rely heavily on psychoanalytic theory or on still poorly formulated and defined general systems theory, information theory, or transactional theory. To explain the depth and variety of the interrelationship of somatopsychosocial facets of the totality of [[human behavior]] in process requires a unified theory of human behavior which we have not yet even approached. Integration or synthesis of biological, psychological, and [[social theory]] is not enough. ** [[Roy R. Grinker Sr.]] (1964) as cited in: S. Nassir Ghaemi (2009) ''The Rise and Fall of the Biopsychosocial Model''. p. 24. ==H== * Cybernetics is concerned primarily with the construction of theories and models in science, without making a hard and fast distinction between the physical and the biological sciences. The theories and models occur both in symbols and in hardware, and by 'hardware* we shall mean a machine or computer built in terms of physical or chemical, or indeed any handleable parts. Most usually we shall think of hardware as meaning electronic parts such as valves and relays. Cybernetics insists, also, on a further and rather special condition that distinguishes it from ordinary scientific theorizing: it demands a certain standard of effectiveness. In this respect it has acquired some of the same motive power that has driven research on modern logic, and this is especially true in the construction and application of artificial languages and the use of operational definitions. Always the search is for precision and effectiveness, and we must now discuss the question of effectiveness in some detail. It should be noted that when we talk in these terms we are giving pride of place to the theory of automata at the expense, at least to some extent, of feedback and information theory. ** [[Frank Honywill George|F.H. George]] (1962) ''[http://webdev.archive.org/stream/brainasacomputer007406mbp#page/n15/mode/2up The Brain As A Computer]'' Pergamon Press. p. 2. ==J== * Every time we fire a phonetician/linguist, the performance of our system goes up ** Attributed to [[Fred Jelinek]] (1988) in: Roger K. Moore (2005). "Results from a Survey of Attendees at ASRU 1997 and 2003" == M == * [[Pure mathematics]], being mere tautology, and pure [[physics]], being mere fact, could not have engendered them; for creatures to live, must sense the useful and the good; and engines to run must have energy available as work : and both, to endure, must regulate themselves. So it is to [[Thermodynamics]] and to its brother ''Σp'' log ''p'', called Information theory, that we look for the distinctions between work and energy and between signal and noise. ** [[Warren S. McCulloch]] (1961) in: Pask ''[http://www.pangaro.com/pask/pask%20approach%20to%20cybernetics.pdf An approach to Cybernetics]''. Preface. p. 7. * The field of 'information theory' began by using the old hardware paradigm of transportation of data from point to point. ** [[Marshall McLuhan]] (1988) ''Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan)''. p. 111. * Without an understanding of causality there can be no [[theory of communication]]. What passes as information theory today is not communication at all, but merely transportation. ** [[Marshall McLuhan]] (1988) ''Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan)''. p. 362. ==P== * Some authors state that the last stage in this chain of measurements involves "consciousness," or the "intellectual inner life" of the observer, by virtue of the "principle of psycho-physical parallelism." Other authors introduce a wave function for the entire universe. In this book, I shall refrain from using concepts that I do not understand. ** [[Asher Peres]] (1995) ''Quantum theory: concepts and methods''. p. 26-27. == S == * My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it 'information,' but the word was overly used, so I decided to call it 'uncertainty.' When I discussed it with John von Neumann, he had a better idea. Von Neumann told me, 'You should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so it already has a name. In the second place, and more important, no one really knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage.' ** [[Claude Elwood Shannon]] (1971) ''Scientific American'', Vol 225, p. 180. * A great deal of the thinking [in Organizational Development] has been influenced by [[cybernetics]] and information theory, though this has been used as much to extend the scope of {{w|closed-system}} as to improve the sophistication of {{w|open system}} formulations. It was [[Ludwig von Bertalanffy|von Bertalanffy]] (1950) who, in terms of the general transport equation which he introduced, first fully disclosed the importance of openness or closedness to the environment as a means of distinguishing living organisms from inanimate objects. ** [[Eric Trist]] and [[Fred Emery]] (1963) "The Causal Texture of Organizational Environments". In: ''Human Relations'', 18: p. 22. ==V== * The [[cybernetics]] phase of cognitive science produced an amazing array of concrete results, in addition to its long-term (often underground) influence: ** the use of mathematical logic to understand the operation of the nervous system; ** the invention of information processing machines (as digital computers), thus laying the basis for artificial intelligence; ** the establishment of the metadiscipline of [[system theory]], which has had an imprint in many branches of science, such as engineering (systems analysis, control theory), biology (regulatory physiology, ecology), social sciences (family therapy, structural anthropology, management, urban studies), and economics ([[game theory]]); ** information theory as a statistical theory of signal and communication channels; ** the first examples of self-organizing systems. :This list is impressive: we tend to consider many of these notions and tools an integrative part of our life... :* [[Francisco Varela]] (1991) ''The Embodied Mind'' p. 38. == See also == * [[Communication]] * [[Cryptography]] * [[Cybernetics]] * [[Information]] * [[Theory]] == External links == {{wikipedia}} [[Category:Science]] [[Category:Semiotics]] [[Category:Computer science]] 1yvfcttxbok3x4t796mu58w0ilsk4x1 0 142477 3961157 3457083 2026-07-05T16:27:27Z BD2412 3982 /* Quotes */ Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]], replaced: Thomas Watson, Jr. → Thomas Watson Jr. using [[Project:AWB|AWB]] 3961157 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Schiller by Louis Ammy Blanc.jpg|thumb|right|The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error. Satisfied if they themselves can escape from the hard labour of thought, they willingly abandon to others the guardianship of their thoughts. ~ [[Friedrich Schiller]]]] [[File:Immanuel Kant portrait c1790.jpg|thumb|Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. Such immaturity is self-caused if it is not caused by lack of intelligence, but by lack of determination and courage to use one's intelligence without being guided by another. ~ [[Immanuel Kant]]]] [[File:Свастика.jpg|thumb|We are not talking about mere instinctive conformity — it is, after all, a perennial failing of [[mankind]]. What we are talking about is a rationalized conformity — an open, articulate philosophy which holds that group [[values]] are not only expedient but [[right]] and [[good]] as well. ~ [[w:William H. Whyte|William H. Whyte, Jr.]]]] [[File:Photomerge_London.jpg|thumb|Groupthink is characterized by a shared "illusion of invulnerability," an exaggerated belief in the competence of the group, a "shared illusion of unanimity" within the group... ~ Fredric Solomon and Robert Q. Marston]] '''[[w:Groupthink|Groupthink]]''' is a psychological phenomenon that occurs within a [[group of people]], in which the desire for [[harmony]] or [[conformity]] in the group results in an incorrect or deviant [[decision-making]] outcome. Group members try to minimize conflict and reach a consensus decision without critical evaluation of alternative ideas or viewpoints, and by isolating themselves from outside influences. == Quotes == [[File:Reichsparteitag 1935 mod.jpg|thumb|I use the term [[w:groupthink|groupthink]] as a quick and easy way to refer to the mode of [[thinking]] that persons engage in when concurrence-seeking becomes so dominant in a cohesive ingroup that it tends to override realistic appraisal of alternative courses of [[action]]. ~ [[w:Irving Janis|Irving Janis]] ]] :<small>Alphabetized by author </small> * '''[[Nothing]] is so unworthy of a [[Civilization|civilised]] nation as allowing itself to be [[Government|governed]] without opposition by an irresponsible clique that has yielded to base [[instinct]].''' ** [[Anonymous]] [http://zulutango.com/whiterose/leafoneeng.html first leaflet] of the [[White Rose]] resistance group, June 1942, opposing complacency and conformity during the [[Nazi]] regime in [[Germany]]. * '''[[Solitude]] is out of [[fashion]].''' Our companies, our schools and our [[culture]] are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that [[creativity]] and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place. ** [[Susan Cain]], in "The Rise of the New Groupthink," Opinion section of ''The New York Times,'' (online 13 January 2012; in print 15 January 2012) *In the long run my observations have convinced me that some men, reasoning preposterously, first establish some conclusion in their minds which, either because of its being their own or because of their having [[w:Received wisdom|received]] it from some person who has their entire confidence, impresses them so deeply that one finds it impossible ever to get it out of their heads. Such arguments in support of their fixed idea ... gain their instant acceptance and applause. '''On the other hand whatever is brought forward against it, however ingenious and conclusive, they receive with disdain or with hot rage - if indeed it does not make them ill. Beside themselves with passion, some of them would not be backward even about scheming to suppress and silence their adversaries.''' I have had some experience of this myself. ... No good can come of dealing with such people, especially to the extent that their company may be not only unpleasant but dangerous. **[[w:Galileo Galilei|Galileo Galilei]] * '''I use the term [[w:groupthink|groupthink]] as a quick and easy way to refer to the mode of [[thinking]] that persons engage in when concurrence-seeking becomes so dominant in a cohesive ingroup that it tends to override realistic appraisal of alternative courses of [[action]].''' Groupthink is a term of the same order as the words in the [[w:newspeak|newspeak]] vocabulary [[George Orwell]] used in his dismaying world of ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four|1984]]''. In that context, groupthink takes on an invidious connotation. '''Exactly such a connotation is intended, since the term refers to a deterioration in mental efficiency, [[reality]] [[testing]] and [[moral]] [[judgments]] as a result of group pressures.''' ** [[w:Irving Janis|Irving Janis]], in "Groupthink", in ''Psychology Today'' (November 1971), p. 43 * The main principle of groupthink, which I offer in the spirit of [[w:Parkinson's Law|Parkinson's Law]], is this: The more amiability and ''[[w:Esprit de corps (disambiguation|esprit de corps]]'' there is among the members of a policy-making [[w:Ingroups and outgroups|ingroup]], the greater the danger that independent critical thinking will be replaced by groupthink, which is likely to result in irrational and dehumanizing actions directed against outgroups. ** [[w:Irving Janis|Irving Janis]], in "Groupthink", in ''Psychology Today'' (November 1971), p. 43 * All mass movements, as one might expect, slip with the greatest ease down an inclined plane represented by large numbers. Where the many are, there is security; what the many believe must of course be true; what the many want must be worth striving for, and necessary, and therefore good. ** [[Carl G. Jung]], ''The Undiscovered Self'' (1958), p. 33 * Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. Such immaturity is self-caused if it is not caused by lack of intelligence, but by lack of determination and courage to use one's intelligence without being guided by another. ''Sapere Aude''! Have the courage to use your own intelligence! ** [[Immanuel Kant]], "What is Enlightenment" (1784) * '''Each [[individual]] possesses a [[conscience]] which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the unimpeded flow of impulses destructive to others.''' But when he merges his person into an organizational structure, a new creature replaces autonomous man, unhindered by the limitations of individual morality, freed of humane inhibition, mindful only of the sanctions of [[authority]]. ** [[Stanley Milgram]], ''[[w:Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View|Obedience to Authority : An Experimental View]]'' (1974), p. 188 * Once, I remember, I ran across the case of a boy who had been sentenced to prison, a poor, scared little brat, who had intended something no worse than mischief, and it turned out to be a [[crime]]. '''The [[judge]] said he disliked to sentence the lad; it seemed the wrong thing to do; but the [[law]] left him no option. I was struck by this. The judge, then, was doing something as an official that he would not [[dream]] of doing as a [[man]]; and he could do it without any sense of [[responsibility]], or discomfort, simply because he was acting as an official and not as a man.''' On this principle of [[action]], it seemed to me that one could commit almost any kind of [[crime]] without getting into trouble with one's conscience. <br> '''Clearly, a great crime had been committed against this boy; yet nobody who had had a hand in it — the judge, the jury, the prosecutor, the complaining witness, the policemen and jailers — felt any responsibility about it, because they were not acting as men, but as officials.''' Clearly, too, the public did not regard them as criminals, but rather as upright and conscientious men. <br> The [[idea]] came to me then, vaguely but unmistakably, that if the primary intention of [[government]] was not to abolish crime but merely to monopolize crime, no better device could be found for doing it than the inculcation of precisely this frame of [[mind]] in the officials and in the public; for the effect of this was to exempt both from any allegiance to those sanctions of [[humanity]] or decency which anyone of either class, acting as an [[individual]], would have felt himself bound to [[respect]] — nay, would have wished to respect. '''This idea was vague at the moment, as I say, and I did not work it out for some years, but I think I never quite lost track of it from that [[time]].''' ** [[Albert Jay Nock]], [http://www.mises.org/daily/2714 "Anarchist's Progress" in ''The American Mercury'' (1927); § III : To Abolish Crime or to Monopolize It?] * The common characteristics of "groupthink" include: an illusion of invulnerability; an unquestioned belief in the group's inherent morality; collective efforts to discount warnings; stereotyped views of the enemy as evil; self-censorship of deviations from group beliefs; a shared illusion of unanimity; suppression of dissent; and the emerge of self-appointed mind-guards who screen the group from dissidents. ** Connie Peck, in ''The United Nations As a Dispute Settlement System'' (1996), p. 32; at the end of this quote Peck is referring to (Janis 1972.1986) * '''It becomes clear that the [[Solomon Asch|Asch]], [[Stanley Milgram|Milgram]] and [[Philip Zimbardo|Zimbardo]] experiments replicated, in a compressed [[time]], the dynamics of [[authority]] and groupthink that play a critical role in our socialization.''' Asch showed that once the standard is set, people will adopt it and go along with it, even if it is illogical. '''When the stakes are raised, as they were in Milgram's work, people may struggle with unethical commands, but the majority still [[obey]].''' And when authorities set parameters but leave the decision-making to the rest of us, we still have a tendency to impose strict [[control]] on those we consider deviant. '''All of these findings affirm the [[power]] of [[culture]], socialization, and our widespread [[fear]] that we will be [[Judgment|judged]] and [[Punishment|punished]].''' <br> Since human beings have a desperate need for safety, approval, and belonging (which yields access to group resources), the worst kind of punishment is ostracism. '''This shunning may be subtle or extreme.''' ** Toni Raiten-D'Antonio, in ''Ugly as Sin : The Truth about How We Look and Finding Freedom from Self-Hatred'' (2010), Ch. 8 : Difference as Deviance p. 89 * The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error. Satisfied if they themselves can escape from the hard labour of thought, they willingly abandon to others the guardianship of their thoughts. ** [[Friedrich Schiller]], ''The Aesthetic Education of Man'', Eighth Letter * Groupthink is characterized by a shared "illusion of invulnerability," an exaggerated belief in the competence of the group, a "shared illusion of unanimity" within the group, and a number of other symptoms ** Fredric Solomon and Robert Q. Marston in ''The Medical Implications of Nuclear War'' (1986), p. 544 * Thinking things through is hard work and it sometimes seems safer to follow the crowd. That blind adherence to such group thinking is, in the long run, far more dangerous than independently thinking things through ** [[Thomas Watson Jr.]], in a statement of 1957, cited in [http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/watsonjr/watsonjr_quoted.html "Tom Watson, Jr. quoted - IBM" at ibm.com (2013)] * Groupthink being a coinage — and, admittedly, a loaded one — a working definition is in order. '''We are not talking about mere instinctive conformity — it is, after all, a perennial failing of [[mankind]]. What we are talking about is a rationalized conformity — an open, articulate philosophy which holds that group values are not only expedient but [[right]] and [[good]] as well.''' ** [[w:William H. Whyte|William H. Whyte, Jr.]], who coined the term in "Groupthink" in ''Fortune magazine'' (March 1952) * '''I summarize more than 30 years of [[research]] on factors that can create a "perfect [[storm]]" which leads [[good]] [[people]] to engage in [[evil]] [[actions]].''' This transformation of [[human]] [[character]] is what I call the "Lucifer Effect," named after [[God]]'s favorite [[Angels|angel]], [[Lucifer]], who fell from [[grace]] and ultimately became [[Satan]]. <br> Rather than providing a religious analysis, however, I offer a psychological account of how ordinary people sometimes turn evil and commit unspeakable acts. ** [[Philip Zimbardo]], in his [http://www.lucifereffect.com/ introduction to his site on ''The Lucifer Effect'' (2007)] == See also == *[[Collectivism]] *[[Cult]] *[[Erhard Seminars Training]] *[[Fallacy]] * [[Herd mentality]] *[[Large-group awareness training]] *[[New religious movement]] *[[Resistance movement]] *[[Sect]] *[[Self religion]] *[[Stereotypes]] ==External links== {{Wikipedia}} {{Wiktionary|groupthink}} {{commonscat}} [[Category:Psychology]] [[Category:Sociology]] 8fzysoajgfuzvln5jib3cusbto70qba 0 142832 3961173 3762575 2026-07-05T16:32:55Z BD2412 3982 /* Quotes */ Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]], replaced: William J. Brennan, Jr. → William J. Brennan Jr. using [[Project:AWB|AWB]] 3961173 wikitext text/x-wiki An '''[[w:Obscenity|obscenity]]''' is any statement or act that strongly offends the prevalent morality of the time. It is derived from the Latin ''obscaena'' (offstage) a cognate of the Ancient Greek root ''skene'', because some potentially offensive content, such as murder or sex, was depicted offstage in classical drama. The word can be used to indicate a strong moral repugnance, in expressions such as "obscene profits" or "the obscenity of war". ==Quotes== [[File:Gladiatrix_relief.jpg|thumb|The [[Amazon]] sites led me to other woman-killing outlets. None of the little movies has much plot. They're just five- or ten-minute scenes of attractive young women, usually undressed, dying violently. Overwhelmingly, the imagery displays young women as sexual objects for male [[entertainment]] — not as individuals with personalities. Obviously, there's a commercial market for this material, presumably among men who derive pleasure from watching females die (or pretend to die). ~ Jim Haught]] * But implicit in the history of the First Amendment is the rejection of obscenity as utterly without redeeming social importance. ** [[William J. Brennan Jr.]], ''Roth v. United States'', 354 U.S. 484 (1957); often misquoted as "utterly without redeeming social value". The decision also cited the test used in American courts in judging obscenity: "whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest", 354 U.S. 489. This was noted to be "the first definition of obscenity offered by the court. It was modified in several subsequent decisions and finally replaced with another standard in the 1973 case of ''Miller v. California''". Congressional Quarterly Inc., ''The Supreme Court and Its Work'' (1981), p. 215. * When the [[imagination]] [[sleeps]], [[words]] are emptied of their meaning: a deaf population absent-mindedly registers the [[condemnation]] of a [[man]]. … there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak. ** [[Albert Camus]], ''[[w:Reflections on the Guillotine|Reflections on the Guillotine]]'' (1957); later included in ''[[w:Resistance, Rebellion, and Death|Resistance, Rebellion, and Death]]'' (1960). * We train young men to drop fire on people, but their commanders won't allow them to write "fuck" on their airplanes because it's obscene! ** [[w:Francis Ford Coppola|Francis Ford Coppola]] and [[w:John Milius|John Milius]], ''Apocalypse Now'' (1979). * The [[Amazon]] sites led me to other woman-killing outlets. None of the little movies has much plot. They're just five- or ten-minute scenes of attractive young women, usually undressed, dying violently. Overwhelmingly, the imagery displays young women as sexual objects for male entertainment — not as individuals with personalities. Obviously, there's a commercial market for this material, presumably among men who derive pleasure from watching females die (or pretend to die). <br> One producer of these films has been the center of Canada's longest-running obscenity trial. Donald Smith, who calls himself "Dr. Don," created death movies of his wife. Then he advertised for models in Winnipeg newspapers. He made many quickie films and posted them for sale on a Web site which said its purpose was "to show beautiful women getting killed."Canadian police investigated in 2000. Smith and his wife were charged with obscenity. When the case came to trial in 2002, counts against the wife were dropped. The defense contended that the movies didn't fit the legal definition of obscenity because no sex occurred in them. <br> The defense presented an expert witness, film professor Barry Grant of Brock University, who declared that Dr. Don's videos were little different from horror scenes in modern "slasher" movies shown in theaters and sold in video stores. Dr. Grant testified that grotesque killing has been part of cinema since silent days. <br> Despite the professor's testimony, a jury convicted Smith. He was sentenced to probation, banned from the Internet, and fined $100,000. <br> The sentencing judge, Helen Pierce of Ontario Superior Court of Justice, wrote that Dr. Don's videos had "the potential to change attitudes toward women, cause psychological harm to anyone who had previously been a victim of sexual violence, and could do serious psychological harm to adolescents." She said his films imply that an attacker "can silence women with his violence, leave them on sexual display, and walk away without consequence." ** Helen Pierce in [https://jezebel.com/5863488/the-horrifying-world-of-internet-snuff-sites “The Horrifying World Of Internet Snuff Sites”] by Jim Haught, ''[[w:Jezebel (website)|Jezebel]]'', (12/01/11). * You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity. ** [[Roman Polański]], as quoted in ''Shakespearean Criticism : Excerpts from the Criticism of William Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations'' (1985) by Laurie Lanzen Harris, p. 11. * '''Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.''' ** [[Bertrand Russell]], as quoted in ''[[w:Look (American magazine)|Look]]'' (New York, 23 February 1954). ** Cf. Russell (1928), ''[[Bertrand Russell#Sceptical Essays .281928.29|Sceptical Essays]]'', «It is obvious that "obscenity" is not a term capable of exact legal definition; in the practice of the Courts, it means "anything that shocks the magistrate".» ==See also== *[[Censorship]] *[[Freedom of speech]] *[[Pornography]] *[[Profanity]] ==External links== {{Wikipedia}} {{Wiktionary|obscenity}} [[Category:Discourse]] [[Category:Society]] [[Category:Sexuality and society]] 455595iqljoa2xsw1bqxeg6zlnxqipl 0 143275 3961145 3591656 2026-07-05T16:26:22Z BD2412 3982 /* Quotes */ Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]], replaced: Walter M. Miller, Jr. → Walter M. Miller Jr. using [[Project:AWB|AWB]] 3961145 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:World largest deserts.svg|thumb|right|All fancies fled away. That's what happened in all deserts. It was just you, and what you [[Belief|believed]]. ~ [[Terry Pratchett]] ]] A '''[[w:desert|desert]]''' is a region of land that is very dry because of low rainfall amounts (precipitation), often having little coverage by plants, and in which streams dry up unless they are supplied by water from outside areas. The word is also used metaphorically to designate wastelands, barren regions and unproductive societies or situations. == Quotes == [[File:Great Sand Dunes.jpg|thumb|right|The desert was held in a crazed [[communism]] by which [[Nature]] and the elements were for the free use of every known friendly person for his own purposes and no more. ~ [[T. E. Lawrence]] ]] [[File:Morocco Africa Flickr Rosino December 2005 84514010 edited by Buchling.jpg|thumb|right|Inhuman [[solitude]] made of sand and [[God]]. Surely only two kinds of people can bear to live in such desert: lunatics and [[prophets]]. ~ [[Nikos Kazantzakis]] ]] [[File:Rub al Khali 002.JPG |thumb|right|What makes the desert beautiful is that it hides, somewhere, a well. ~ [[Antoine de Saint Exupéry]], in ''[[The Little Prince]]'']] [[File:Carthage column.JPG|thumb|right|They make a desert and call it [[peace]]. ~ [[Tacitus]] ]] * '''It is the [[real]], and not the map, whose vestiges persist here and there in the deserts that are no longer those of the Empire, but ours: ''the desert of the real itself''.''' ** [[Jean Baudrillard]], in ''[[w:Simulacra and Simulation|Simulacra and Simulation]]'' (1981) * '''The [[apocalypse]] is finished, today it is the precession of the neutral, of forms of the neutral and of [[indifference]].''' I will leave it to be considered whether there can be a [[Romance|romanticism]], an aesthetic of the neutral therein. I don't think so — '''all that remains, is the fascination for desertlike and indifferent forms, for the very operation of the [[system]] that annihilates us.''' ** [[Jean Baudrillard]], in ''[[w:Simulacra and Simulation|Simulacra and Simulation]]'' (1981), Ch. 18 : On [[Nihilism]], translation by Sheila Faria Glaser * I think you are another of these desert-loving English: [[w:Charles Montagu Doughty|Doughty]], [[w:Lady Hester Stanhope|Stanhope]], [[w:Charles George Gordon|Gordon of Khartoum]]. No Arab loves the desert. '''We love water and green trees, there is [[nothing]] in the desert. No man [[Necessity|needs]] nothing.''' ** [[w:Robert Bolt|Robert Bolt]] and [[w:Michael Wilson|Michael Wilson]], in [[Lawrence of Arabia (film)|''Lawrence of Arabia'' (1962)]] * '''I've been through the desert on a [[horse]] with no [[name]]'''<br>It felt good to be out of the [[rain]].<br>In the desert you can remember your name<br>'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no [[pain]]. ** [[w:Dewey Bunnell|Dewey Bunnell]], in ''[[w:A Horse with No Name|A Horse with No Name]]'', on [[America (band)| America]]'s first album, ''[[w:America (America album)|America]]'' (1971) * '''After nine days I let the horse run [[free]]<br>'Cause the desert had turned to [[sea]].'''<br>There were plants and [[birds]] and rocks and things,<br>There was sand and hills and rings.<br>The [[ocean]] is a desert with its life underground,<br>And a perfect disguise above.<br>Under the cities lies a [[heart]] made of [[Brahman|ground]],<br>But the [[humans]] will [[Gift|give]] no [[love]]. ** [[w:Dewey Bunnell|Dewey Bunnell]], in ''A Horse with No Name'', on ''[[w:America (America album)|America]]'' (1971) * "I’ve crossed these sands many times," said one of the camel drivers one night. "But the desert is so huge, and the horizon so distant, that they make a [[person]] feel small, and as if he should remain [[silent]]." The boy intuitively knew what he meant, even without having ever set foot in the desert before. Whenever he saw the sea, or a fire, he fell silent, impressed by their elemental force. I’ve learned things from the sheep, and I’ve learned things from crystal, he thought. I can learn something from the desert, too. It seems old and wise. ** [[Paulo Coelho]], in ''[[w:The Alchemist (novel)|The Alchemist]]'' (1988), p. 73 * "Once you get into the desert, there’s no going back," said the camel driver. "and, when you can’t go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward. The rest is up to [[Allah]], including the [[danger]]." ** [[Paulo Coelho]], in ''[[w:The Alchemist (novel)|The Alchemist]]'' (1988), p. 77 * '''The desert takes our [[dreams]] away from us, and they don't always return.''' We know that, and we are used to it. Those who don't return become a part of the clouds, a part of the animals that hide in the ravines and of the water that comes from the earth. They become part of [[All|everything]] … They become the [[Soul]] of the [[World]]. ** [[Paulo Coelho]], in ''[[w:The Alchemist (novel)|The Alchemist]]'' (1988), p. 102 * You neglect and belittle the desert. <br> The desert is not remote in southern tropics <br> The desert is not only around the corner, <br> '''The desert is squeezed in the tube-train next to you, <br> The desert is in the [[heart]] of your brother.''' ** [[T. S. Eliot]], in ''[[w:The Rock (play)|The Rock]]'' (1934) * Polish comes from the cities; [[wisdom]] from the desert. ** [[Frank Herbert]], in ''[[Dune]]'' (1965) * The wilderness and the parched land will exult, and the desert plain will be joyful and blossom as the saffron. Without fail it will blossom; it will rejoice and shout for joy. The glory of Lebanon will be given to it, the splendor of Carmel and of Sharon. They will see the glory of Jehovah, the splendor of our God. At that time the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped. At that time the lame will leap like the deer, and the tongue of the speechless will shout for joy. For waters will burst forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert plain. The heat-parched ground will become a reedy pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water. In the lairs where jackals rested, there will be green grass and reeds and papyrus. ** [[Isaiah]], ''Isaiah 35:1, 2, 6, 7'' * '''Inhuman solitude made of sand and [[God]].''' Surely only two kinds of [[people]] can bear to live in such desert: lunatics and [[prophets]]. The [[mind]] topples here not from fright but from sacred awe; sometimes it collapses downward, losing human stability, sometimes it springs upward, enters [[heaven]], sees [[God]] [[face]] to face, touches the hem of His blazing garment without being burned, hears what He says, and taking this, slings it into men's [[consciousness]]. Only in the desert do we see the [[birth]] of these fierce, indomitable [[souls]] who rise up in rebellion even against [[God]] himself and stand before Him fearlessly, their minds in resplendent consubstantiality with the skirts of the Lord. God sees them and is proud, because in them his breath has not vented its [[force]]; in them, God has not stooped to becoming a man. ** [[Nikos Kazantzakis]], in ''Report to Greco'' (1965), "The Desert. Sinai.", Ch. 21, p. 276 * Arabs felt no incongruity in bringing [[God]] into the weaknesses and appetites of their least creditable causes. He was the most familiar of their [[words]]; and indeed we lost much eloquence when making Him the shortest and ugliest of our monosyllables.<br> '''This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in [[words]], and indeed in [[thought]].''' It was easily felt as an influence, and those who went into the desert long enough to forget its open spaces and its emptiness were inevitably thrust upon God as the only refuge and rhythm of being. ** [[T. E. Lawrence]], in ''[[w:Seven Pillars of Wisdom|Seven Pillars of Wisdom]]'' (1922), Ch. 3 * The desert was held in a crazed [[communism]] by which [[Nature]] and the elements were for the free use of every known friendly person for his own purposes and no more. Logical outcomes were the reduction of this licence to privilege by the men of the desert, and their hardness to strangers unprovided with introduction or guarantee, since the common security lay in the common responsibility of kinsmen. ** [[T. E. Lawrence]], in ''[[w:Seven Pillars of Wisdom|Seven Pillars of Wisdom]]'' (1922), Ch. 11 * The desert, like every landscape, had its own persona. It was a situation of white glare by day, white glare glimmering from the sands up into the atmosphere. Beneath, faintly showed the contours of the dunes as if through mist or water. Above, a flat coppery sky rested on the framework of the glare. Sometimes a formation of rock came swimming out of the glare like a great thorn-backed fish; items at a distance were of a tindery brittle blueness unlike the fluid blueness of a watered country.<br>The heat of the desert was not like a heat, but like a whittling away. There seem to sound in the desert, a high-pitched whistling, but there was no sound save the furnace wind raising the sand like smoke from the ridges, as if the dunes actually burned.<br>The word of the desert was this: I am made from all the dusts of the bones of men who have perished here, and my rocks are monuments to mountains I have ground away.<br>There were no green places, no springs. To this desert, such as these were wounds which it had healed with aridity. What it could not eradicate, it buried.<br>By night the sand chilled. Frost scaled its surfaces so it shone with a pure black shining. It was [[Beauty |beautiful]] as only such a spot could be beautiful—because it had warped the natural laws, and here it told you the hideous was fair. And was believed. ** [[Tanith Lee]], ''Death's Master'' (1979), Book Two, Part 1 ''The Garden of the Golden Daughters'', Chapter 10 * '''Encounters between [[strangers]] in the desert, while rare, were occasions of mutual [[suspicion]], and masked by initial preparations on both sides for an incident that might prove either cordial or warlike.''' ** [[Walter M. Miller Jr.]], in ''A Canticle for Leibowitz'' (1959), Ch 1 * The [[memory]] stole over him: a desert is what you think it is. And now, you can think clearly...<br />'''There were no lies here. All fancies fled away. That's what happened in all deserts. It was just you, and what you believed.'''<br />What have I always believed?<br />That, on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest ''inside'', then it would, in the end, more or less, turn out all right.<br />You couldn't get that on a banner. '''But the desert looked better already.''' ** [[Terry Pratchett]], in ''[[w:Small Gods|Small Gods]]'' (1992) * "It's a little lonely in the desert..."<br>"It is lonely when you're among people, too," said the snake. ** [[Antoine de Saint Exupéry]], in ''[[The Little Prince]]'', Ch. XVII * '''What makes the desert [[beautiful]] is that it hides, somewhere, a well.''' ** [[Antoine de Saint Exupéry]], in ''[[The Little Prince]]'', Ch. XXIV * '''They make a desert and call it [[peace]].''' ** [[Tacitus]], in ''[[w:Agricola (book)|Agricola]]'' * I would say that the desert deserves to be called a temple of our God without walls. Since it is clear that God dwells in silence, we must believe that he loves the solitary expanses of the desert. ... '''Although God is present everywhere, and regards the whole world as his domain, we may believe that his preferred place is the solitudes of heaven and of the desert.''' ** [[Eucherius of Lyon]], in ''De laude eremi'' 3 ==External links== {{Wikipedia}} {{Wiktionary|desert}} {{commonscat|Deserts}} [[Category:Physical geography]] l4v9ffcormt4hqzvhdwak7enhm6omjw 0 143744 3961255 3960904 2026-07-05T19:44:53Z BD2412 3982 Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]] 3961255 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:ThomasJWatsonJr.jpg|thumb|upright|Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker.]] '''[[:w:Thomas John Watson Jr.|Thomas Watson Jr.]]''' ([[January 14]], [[1914]] – [[December 31]], [[1993]]) was an American businessman, political figure, philanthropist and the 2nd president of IBM (1952–1971). == Quotes == [[File:IBM 360 Announcement center (6880675992).jpg|thumb|upright|[[Machines]] might give us more time to think but will never do our [[thinking]] for us.]] * [[Machines]] might give us more time to think but will never do our [[thinking]] for us. ** Thomas Watson, Jr. (1957) cited in: [http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/watsonjr/watsonjr_quoted.html Tom Watson, Jr. quoted - IBM] at ibm.com, 2013. * [[Thinking]] things through is hard work and it sometimes seems safer to follow the crowd. That blind adherence to such [[group thinking]] is, in the long run, far more dangerous than independently thinking things through ** Thomas Watson, Jr. (1957) cited in: [http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/watsonjr/watsonjr_quoted.html Tom Watson, Jr. quoted - IBM] at ibm.com, 2013. * Here's a reminder on accepting Christmas gifts from vendors: don't. ** Watson Jr. (Dec 8, 1959) cited in: IBM (1988) ''Thirty years of management briefings, 1958-1988''. p. 13. * I firmly believe that any [[organization]], in order to survive and achieve success, must have a sound set of beliefs on which it premises all its policies and actions. <br> Next I believe that the most important single factor in corporate success is faithful adherence to those beliefs. <br>And, finally I believe if an organization is to meet the challenge of a changing world, it must be prepared to change everything about itself except those beliefs as it moves through corporate life. <br> Basic philosophy, spirit and drive of an organization have far more to do with its relative achievements than do technological or economic resources, [[organizational structure]], innovation and timing... ** Watson, Jr. (1962) as cited in: Heather Clark, John Chandler, Jim Barry (1994) ''Organisation and Identities: : Text and Readings in Organizational Behaviour''. p. 355. * Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the [[stigma]] of [[conformity]]. ** Attributed to Watson Jr. in: "Stand up and be counted" in: ''Year: encyclopedia news annual'' (1965). p. 280. * If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good. ** Watson, Jr. cited in: Joseph Mancuso (1975) ''Managing technology products''. p. 160. == See also == * [[Thomas J. Watson]] == External links == {{wikipedia}} * [http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/watsonjr/watsonjr_quoted.html Tom Watson, Jr. quoted - IBM] {{DEFAULTSORT:Watson, Jr., Thomas}} [[Category:Philanthropists from the United States]] [[Category:People from Dayton]] [[Category:Businesspeople from the United States]] [[Category:United States Ambassadors to Russia and the Soviet Union]] [[Category:1914 births]] [[Category:1993 deaths]] 2soyelou2qzzjn0pq2hmuqwszu8gtdp 0 144357 3961132 3920091 2026-07-05T16:25:48Z BD2412 3982 /* B */ Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]], replaced: Kingman Brewster, Jr. → Kingman Brewster Jr. using [[Project:AWB|AWB]] 3961132 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Charles Allan Gilbert - All is Vanity.jpg|thumb|right|From the very [[beginning]], [[existentialism]] defined itself as a [[philosophy]] of ambiguity. ~ [[Simone de Beauvoir]] ]] '''[[w:Ambiguity|Ambiguity]]''' of [[information]], in [[words]], pictures, or other media, indicates the ability to express more than one interpretation. This is generally contrasted with [[w:vagueness|vagueness]], in that specific and distinct interpretations are permitted (although some may not be immediately apparent), whereas with information that is vague it is difficult to form any interpretation at the desired level of specificity. Context may play a role in resolving ambiguity. For example, the same piece of information may be ambiguous in one context and unambiguous in another. <!-- The lexical ambiguity of a word or phrase pertains to its having more than one meaning in the language to which the word belongs. "Meaning" hereby refers to whatever should be captured by a good dictionary. --> __NOTOC__ {{TOCalpha}} == A == [[File:Alice 05a-1116x1492.jpg|thumb|right|The only way to see the phenomena, rather than sterile distillations of them, to experience them in their ambiguity again, would be to have available alternate visions, a diversity of profound opinions ~ [[Allan Bloom]] ]] == B == * '''From the very [[beginning]], [[existentialism]] defined itself as a [[philosophy]] of ambiguity.''' It was by affirming the irreducible [[character]] of ambiguity that [[Søren Kierkegaard|Kierkegaard]] opposed himself to [[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel|Hegel]], and it is by ambiguity that, in our own generation, [[Jean-Paul Sartre|Sartre]], in ''[[w:Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology|Being and Nothingness]]'', fundamentally defined man, that being whose being is not to be, that subjectivity which realizes itself only as a presence in the [[world]], that engaged [[freedom]], that surging of the for-oneself which is immediately given for others. ** [[Simone de Beauvoir]], ''[[w:The Ethics of Ambiguity|The Ethics of Ambiguity]]'' (1947) Part I : Ambiguity and Freedom. * '''The impression that our general populace is better educated depends on an ambiguity in the meaning of the word [[education]], or a fudging of the distinction between liberal and technical education.''' A highly trained computer specialist need not have had any more learning about morals, politics or religion than the most ignorant of persons. All to the contrary, his narrow education, with, the prejudices and the pride accompanying it, and its literature which comes to be and passes away in a day and uncritically accepts the premises of current wisdom, can cut him off from the liberal learning that simpler folk used to absorb from a variety of traditional sources. ** [[Allan Bloom]], ''[[The Closing of the American Mind]]'' (1987) p. 59. * '''That gray net of [[abstraction]], used to cover the world in order to simplify and explain it in a way that is pleasing to us, has become the world in our eyes.''' The only way to see the phenomena, rather than sterile distillations of them, to experience them in their ambiguity again, would be to have available alternate visions, a diversity of profound opinions. … Souls artificially constituted by a new kind of education live in a world transformed by man’s artifice and believe that all values are relative and determined by the private economic or sexual drives of those who hold them. How are they to recover the primary natural experience? ** [[Allan Bloom]], ''[[The Closing of the American Mind]]'' (1987) p. 238. * '''If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it’s quite [[conscious]].''' ** [[Kingman Brewster Jr.]], on appointment as President of Yale University, as quoted in ''The New York Tribune'' (14 October 1963). * Why do I require an hour to give this lecture when all I have to say really could go into roughly six sentences? Because I could not utter six sentences which are not so heavily charged with ambiguity that no one... would get the picture... '''Most human sentences are... aimed at getting rid of the ambiguity which you unfortunately left trailing in the last sentence.''' ...It is not possible to get rid of ambiguity in our statements, because that would press symbolism beyond its capabilities. And it is not possible to get rid of ambiguity because the number of responses that the brain could make never has a sharp edge because the thing is not a digital machine.<!--pp. 105-106--> ** [[Jacob Bronowski]], ''The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination'' (1978) * Ambiguity, multivalence, the fact that '''language simply cannot be regarded as a clear and final exposition of what it says''', is central to both science and... literature. Why to science? ...you cannot make a single general statement about anything in the world which is really wholly delimited, wholly unambiguous, and divides the world into two pieces. ...you cannot say anything about a table or a chair which does not leave you open to challenge, "...I am using this chair as a table." ...'''the word "table" was not invented in order to bisect the universe into tables and non-tables. And if that is true of "table," it is true of "honor,"... "love,"..."gravity,"... "mass" and "energy" and everything else.'''<!--pp. 106-107--> ** [[Jacob Bronowski]], ''The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination'' (1978) * My narrative may be invaded by inaccuracy and confusion; but if I live no longer, I will, at least, live to complete it. What but ambiguities, abruptnesses, and dark transitions, can be expected from the historian who is, at the same time, the sufferer of these disasters? ** [[Charles Brockden Brown]], in ''[[w:Wieland (novel)|Wieland; or, the Transformation]]'' (1798). == C == [[File:Original My Wife and My Mother-in-Law postcard (1888).png|thumb|right|Ambiguity is not desirable or meaningful if it confuses an issue that is meant to be clear. ~ [[Peter Chung]] ]] * '''Ambiguity— Maybe it’s not something to fear. Maybe it’s just another adventure to take or puzzle to solve.''' ** [[Lucy Carter]], ''For the Intellect'' (2023). * '''Ambiguity is not desirable or meaningful if it confuses an issue that is meant to be clear.''' This is the challenge of making a film that communicates but doesn't talk down: a lot of viewers and studio execs (and directors) hold that ANY ambiguity is the result of the filmmaker's failure. I disagree, but I also hold that, in order for ambiguity to be effective, certain things NEED to be unambiguous. ** [[Peter Chung]], in [http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?showall=true&bookmarkedmessageid=15&boardid=59&threadid=87 "Re: Utopia or Deuteranopia?" (21 January 2006)]. * '''If physics is too difficult for the physicists, the nonphysicist may wonder whether he should try at all to grasp its complexities and ambiguities.''' It is undeniably an effort, but probably one worth making, for the basic questions are important and the new experimental results are often fascinating. <!-- And if the layman runs into serious perplexities, he can be consoled with the thought that the points which baffle him are more than likely the ones for which the professionals have not found satisfactory answers. --> ** [[Edward Condon]], ''Physics'', in ''What is Science? : Twelve Eminent Scientists and Philosophers Explain Their Various Fields to the Layman'' (1955), by James Roy Newman, p. 102. == D == [[File:Cruciform.box.illusion.png|thumb|right|An ambiguity hangs over the [[morality]] of this story. Should we have a leader or should we think for ourselves? ~ [[Philip K. Dick]]]] * Now I show [[trust]] of a [[robot]] as [[leader]], a robot who is the suffering servant, which is to say a form of [[Christ]]. Leader as servant of man; leader who should be dispensed with — perhaps. '''An ambiguity hangs over the [[morality]] of this [[story]].''' Should we have a leader or should we [[think]] for ourselves? Obviously the latter, in principle. But — sometimes there lies a gulf between what is theoretically right and that which is practical. It's interesting that I would trust a robot and not an android. Perhaps it's because a robot does not try to deceive you as to what it is. ** [[Philip K. Dick]], on ''[[The Last of the Masters]]'' (1954), in ''The Golden Man'' (1980), p. 337. * '''Humans are so deaf and [[blind]] to their own [[language]]'s ambiguities, they concoct their [[wishes]] in terms so permeable that I can grant them in a way they never [[imagined]].''' ''I want to be as [[rich]] as my [[father]]''. Fair enough. Nelchael crashes the markets, Dad's bankrupt, and thanks for the [[soul]], brother. ** [[w:Glen Duncan|Glen Duncan]] in [[I, Lucifer (Glen Duncan)|''I, Lucifer'' (2003)]] == E == == F == * '''Something happens whose ambiguity has left the historians of medicine at a loss: blind repression in an [[absolutist]] regime, according to some; but according to others, the gradual discovery by [[science]] and [[philanthropy]] of madness in its positive truth. As a matter of fact, beneath these reversible meanings, a structure is forming which does not resolve the ambiguity but determines it.''' It is this structure which accounts for the transition from the medieval and humanist experience of madness to our own experience, which confines insanity within mental illness. In the Middle Ages and until the Renaissance, man's dispute with madness was a dramatic debate in which he confronted the secret powers of the world; the experience of madness was clouded by images of the Fall and the Will of God, of the Beast and the Metamorphosis, and of all the marvelous secrets of Knowledge. In our era, the experience of madness remains silent in the composure of a knowledge which, knowing too much about madness, forgets it. But from one of these experiences to the other, the shift has been made by a world without images, without positive character, in a kind of silent transparency which reveals— as mute institution, act without commentary, immediate knowledge — a great motionless structure; this structure is one of neither drama nor knowledge; it is the point where history is immobilized in the tragic category which both establishes and impugns it. ** [[Michel Foucault]], ''Madness and Civilization'' (1964), Preface. == G == * We live in an essential and unresolvable tension between our unity with nature and our dangerous uniqueness. Systems that attempt to place and make sense of us by focusing exclusively either on the uniqueness or the unity are doomed to failure. But we must not stop asking and questing because the answers are complex and ambiguous. ** [[Stephen Jay Gould]], ''Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes'' (1983), "Our Natural Place", p. 250. * We can still have a genre of scientific books suitable for and accessible alike to professionals and interested laypeople. The concepts of science, in all their richness and ambiguity, can be presented without any compromise, without any simplification counting as distortion, in language accessible to all intelligent people. ** [[Stephen Jay Gould]], ''Wonderful Life'' (1989). * '''[[Life]] is inherently ambiguous'''; baseball games pit pure good against abject evil. Even [[Saddam Hussein]] must have committed one act of kindness in his life, but what iota of good could possibly be said for aluminum bats or the designated hitter rule? ** [[Stephen Jay Gould]], in "Baseball and the Two Faces of Janus", p. 272; originally published as "The Virtues of Nakedness" in The New York Review of Books (11 October 1990). == H == [[File:Norimberga, medaglia satirica di papa-diavolo, 1550 ca.JPG|thumb|right|The acceptance of ambiguity implies more than the commonplace understanding that some [[good]] things and some [[bad]] things happen to us. It means that we know that good and evil are inextricably intermixed in human affairs… ~ [[Sydney J. Harris]] ]] * '''The acceptance of ambiguity implies more than the commonplace understanding that some [[good]] things and some [[bad]] things happen to us.''' It means that we know that good and evil are inextricably intermixed in human affairs; that they contain, and sometimes embrace, their opposites; that [[success]] may involve [[failure]] of a different kind, and failure may be a kind of triumph. ** [[Sydney J. Harris]], ''Clearing the Ground'' (1986) Learning to Live with Ambiguity. * The finer sentiments of the mind, the operations of the understanding, the various agitations and passions, though really in themselves distinct, easily escape us, when surveyed by reflection; nor is it in our power to recall the original object, as often as we have the time to contemplate it. Ambiguity, by this means, is gradually introduced into our reasonings; similar objects are readily taken to be the same: the conclusion becomes at last very wide of the premises. ** [[David Hume]], ''[[An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding]]'' (1748), VII: The Idea of Necessary Connexion, Part I. * The chief obstacle... to our improvement in the moral and metaphysical sciences is the obscurity of the ideas, and ambiguity of the terms. ** [[David Hume]], ''[[An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding]]'' (1748), VII: The Idea of Necessary Connexion, Part I. * By what invention can we throw light upon these ideas, and render them altogether precise and determinate to our intellectual view? Produce the impressions or original sentiments, from which the ideas are copied. '''These impressions are all strong and sensible. They admit not of ambiguity.''' They are not only placed in full light themselves, but may throw light on their correspondent ideas, which lie in obscurity. <!-- And by this means, we may, perhaps, attain a new microscope of species of optics, by which, in the moral sciences, the most minute and most simple ideas may be so enlarged as to fall readily under our apprehension, and be equally known with the grossest and most sensible ideas, that can be the object of our enquiry. --> ** [[David Hume]], ''[[An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding]]'' (1748), VII: The Idea of Necessary Connexion, Part I. * From this circumstance alone, that a controversy has been long kept on foot, and remains undecided, we may presume that there is some ambiguity in the expression, and that the disputants affix different ideas to the terms employed in the controversy. ** [[David Hume]], ''[[An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding]]'' (1748), VIII: Of Liberty and Necessity, Part I. * If men attempt the discussion of questions which lie entirely beyond the reach of human capacity, such as those concerning the origin of worlds, or the economy of the intellectual system or region of spirits, they may long beat the air in their fruitless contests, and never arrive at any determinate conclusion. But if the question regard any subject of common life and experience, nothing, one would think, could preserve the dispute so long undecided but some ambiguous expressions, which keep the antagonists still at a distance, and hinder them from grappling with each other. ** [[David Hume]], ''[[An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding]]'' (1748), VIII: Of Liberty and Necessity, Part I == I == == J == * The abundance of our definitive words about [[God]] shows that we don't view him as a great mystery anymore, but as a sterile calculation without ambiguity or obscurity. ** [[Skye Jethani]], ''The Divine Commodity : Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity'' (2009). == K == [[File:Duck-Rabbit illusion.jpg|thumb|right|The subject of a [[w:gestalt psychology|gestalt]] demonstration knows that his perception has shifted because he can make it shift back and forth repeatedly while he holds the same book or piece of paper in his hands. ~ [[Thomas Kuhn]] ]] * Freedom succumbs to dizziness. Further than this, psychology cannot and will not go. In that very moment everything is changed, and freedom, when it again rises, sees that it is guilty. Between these two moments lies the leap, which no science has explained and which no science can explain. He who becomes guilty in anxiety becomes as ambiguously guilty as it is possible to become. ** [[Søren Kierkegaard]], in ''[[The Concept of Anxiety|The Concept of Anxiety]]'' (1844), p. 61. * If the child sees its mother distressed, it never thinks of tracing the distress back to God as the cause, or that there might be an ambiguity of distress and accordingly that the distress might come from God for the very purpose of drawing the person to God. The child, however, immediately thinks of evil people. ** [[Søren Kierkegaard]], ''[[w:Four Upbuilding Discourses, 1844|Four Upbuilding Discourses]]'' (1844), One Who Prays Aright Struggles in Prayer and Is Victorious — in That God Is Victorious. * '''The subject of a [[w:gestalt psychology|gestalt]] demonstration knows that his perception has shifted because he can make it shift back and forth repeatedly while he holds the same book or piece of paper in his hands.''' Aware that nothing in his environment has changed, he directs his attention increasingly not to the figure (duck or rabbit) but to the lines of the paper he is looking at. Ultimately he may even learn to see those lines without seeing either of the figures, and he may then say (what he could not legitimately have said earlier) that it is these lines that he really sees but that he sees them alternately ''as'' a duck and ''as'' a rabbit. … As in all similar psychological experiments, the effectiveness of the demonstration depends upon its being analyzable in this way. Unless there were an external standard with respect to which a switch of vision could be demonstrated, no conclusion about alternate perceptual possibilities could be drawn. ** [[Thomas Kuhn]], ''[[w:The Structure of Scientific Revolutions|The Structure of Scientific Revolutions]]'' (3rd edn., p. 114). == L == * Ambiguity: the bastard child of creativity and cowardice. ** [[Yahia Lababidi]], ''Signposts to Elsewhere'' (2008). == M == * “Which alternative is worse, I wonder?” she said. “To deny death and thus risk never being wholly alive, or to face oblivion squarely and risk paralysis by dread?” <br /> “Nobody knows,” I said. “It’s ambiguous.” <br /> “If I ever get to be God,” she said, unleashing the grin of the person who’d invented Largesse, “my first act will be to make ambiguity illegal.” ** [[James K. Morrow]], ''[[w:The Philosopher's Apprentice|The Philosopher's Apprentice]]'' (2008), Ch. 6, p. 134. * What I love about fiction is the way this form of expression allows an author to wrestle an idea to the ground, as opposed to the bumper-sticker dialectics that pass for political and philosophical discourse in most sectors of our culture. In the age of mass communication, we need the quiet, contemplative and often ambiguous medium of the novel more than ever. ** [[James K. Morrow]], in an [http://harpercollins.com/author/authorExtra.aspx?authorID=29554&displayType=interview interview at Harper Collins], and in ''[[w:The Philosopher's Apprentice|The Philosopher's Apprentice]]'' (2008), P. S., p. 13. * In highly charged political matters, one person's ambiguity may be another person's truth. ** [[Richard Mottram]], in February 1985, as a prosecution witness in the case against [[w:Clive Ponting|Clive Ponting]], as quoted in [http://politics.guardian.co.uk/byers/story/0,11320,656525,00.html. 'Sir Richard Mottram" by Richard Norton-Taylor, in ''The Guardian'' (25 February 2002)]. == N == == O == == P == * Most people aren't sure what's going to happen on a first date. Given that ambiguity, every woman must be totally aware at every moment that she is responsible for every choice she makes. … protect yourselves. See trouble coming. ** [[Camille Paglia]], in interview for ''Playboy'' magazine (May 1995). * ''Rules for Definitions''. I. Not to undertake to define any of the things so well known of themselves that the clearer terms cannot be had to explain them. II. '''Not to leave any terms that are at all obscure or ambiguous without definition.''' III. Not to employ in the definition of terms any words but such as are perfectly known or already explained. ** [[Blaise Pascal]], ''The Art of Persuasion'' (1658). ** Variant translation: ''Rules necessary for definitions''. '''Not to leave any terms at all obscure or ambiguous without definition'''; Not to employ in definitions any but terms perfectly known or already explained. * ''Rules for Demonstrations.'' I. Not to undertake to demonstrate any thing that is so evident of itself that nothing can be given that is clearer to prove it. II. To prove all propositions at all obscure, and to employ in their proof only very evident maxims or propositions already admitted or demonstrated. III. '''To always mentally substitute definitions in the place of things defined, in order not to be misled by the ambiguity of terms which have been restricted by definitions.''' ** [[Blaise Pascal]], ''The Art of Persuasion'' (1658). ** Variant translation: ''Rules necessary for demonstrations.'' To prove all propositions, and to employ nothing for their proof but axioms fully evident of themselves, or propositions already demonstrated or admitted; '''Never to take advantage of the ambiguity of terms by failing mentally to substitute definitions that restrict or explain them.''' * '''Ambiguity — the Devil's volleyball.''' ** [[Emo Philips]], ''E=MO²'' (1985) "A Fine How Ya Do". == Q == == R == * '''[[Skepticism]] with regard to the senses had troubled Greek philosophers from a very early stage... The [[w:Sophism|Sophists]], notably [[Protagoras]] and [[w:Gorgias|Gorgias]], had been led by the ambiguities and apparent contradictions of sense-perception to a [[w:Subjectivism|subjectivism]] not unlike [[David_Hume|Hume's]].''' <!-- Pyrrho seems to have added moral and logical skepticism to skepticism as to the senses. '''He is said to have maintained that there could never be any rational ground for preferring one course of action to another.''' A modern disciple would go to church on Sundays and perform the correct genuflections, but without any of the genuine religious beliefs that are suppose to inspire these actions. Ancient Skeptics went through the whole pagan ritual, and were even sometimes priests; their skepticism assured them that this behavior could not be proved wrong, and their common sense assured them that it was convenient. --> ** [[Bertrand Russell]], ''[[A History of Western Philosophy]]'', Book One, Part III, Chapter XXVI, Cynics and Skeptics, p. 233. == S == * As for myself, I confess to a preference for clear-cut situations, for radical and even extreme positions. But I also feel a secret and very strong attraction to ambiguous situations.. ..for example, that hovering moment when it is no longer day and not yet night, the shades of emotion between indifference and friendship … (they) are so fascinating because they are so indefinable. That which is pure transition, is all the more appealing to the mind because of its elusiveness. ** [[Michel Seuphor]], ''Abstract Painting'' (1964). * '''Men have an all but incurable propensity to try to prejudge all the great questions which interest them by stamping their [[prejudices]] upon their [[language]].''' [[Law]], in many cases, means not only a command, but a beneficent command. Liberty means not the bare absence of restraint, but the absence of injurious restraint. [[Justice]] means not mere impartiality in applying general rules to particular cases, but impartiality in applying beneficent general rules to particular cases. Some people half consciously use the word "true" as meaning useful as well as true. '''Of course language can never be made absolutely neutral and colourless; but unless its ambiguities are understood, accuracy of [[thought]] is impossible, and the injury done is proportionate to the logical [[force]] and general vigour of [[character]] of those who are misled.''' ** [[James Fitzjames Stephen]], in ''Liberty, Equality, Fraternity'' (1873-1874) Ch. 4. * '''There are ambiguities in the art of painting but they are the ambiguities of a fine precision''': the discovered fact of the image containing at the same time the reverberations of the unknown, the truly mysterious… I would take this further and add that painting is itself precise in its ideas. In the sense that the image is the idea in its purist form. ** [[Patrick Swift]], in "The Painter in the Press", ''X'' magazine, Vol. I, No.4 (October 1960). == T == == U == == V == == W == [[File:Circle-A red.svg |thumb|right| [[Pierre-Joseph Proudhon]] … became the first man willingly to claim the title of anarchist. Undoubtedly Proudhon did this partly in defiance, and partly in order to exploit the word's [[paradoxical]] [[qualities]]. He had recognized the ambiguity of the Greek ''anarchos'', and had gone back to it for that very reason — to emphasize that the criticism of [[authority]] on which he was about to embark need not necessarily imply an advocacy of disorder. ~ [[George Woodcock]] ]] * '''Like such titles as [[Christianity|Christian]] and [[w:Religious Society of Friends|Quaker]], "[[anarchist]]" was in the end proudly adopted by one of those against whom it had been used in condemnation.''' In 1840, [[Pierre-Joseph Proudhon]], that stormy, argumentative [[individualist]] who prided himself on being a man of paradox and a provoker of contradiction, published the work that established him as a pioneer libertarian thinker. It was ''What Is Property?'', in which he gave his own question the celebrated answer: "Property is theft." '''In the same book he became the first man willingly to claim the title of anarchist.''' <br> Undoubtedly Proudhon did this partly in defiance, and partly in order to exploit the word's paradoxical qualities. He had recognized the ambiguity of the Greek ''anarchos'', and had gone back to it for that very reason — to emphasize that the criticism of authority on which he was about to embark need not necessarily imply an advocacy of disorder. <!-- '''The passages in which he introduces "anarchist" and "anarchy" are historically important enough to merit quotation, since they not merely show these words being used for the first time in a socially positive sense, but also contain in germ the justification by natural law which anarchists have in general applied to their arguments for a non-authoritarian society.''' :: What is to be the form of government in the future? … I hear some of my readers reply: "Why, how can you ask such a question? You — are a republican." A republican! Yes, but that word specifies nothing. ''Res publico''; that is, the public thing. Now, whoever is interested in public affairs — no matter under what form of government, may call himself a republican. Even kings are republicans. "Well, you are a democrat." No … "Then what are you?" '''I am an anarchist!'''--> ** [[George Woodcock]], ''Anarchism : A History of Libertarian Ideas and Movements'' (1962), Prologue. == X== == Y == == Z == * '''More often than not, the classes of objects encountered in the real physical world do not have precisely defined criteria of membership.''' For example, the class of animals clearly includes dogs, horses, birds, etc. as its members, and clearly excludes such objects as rocks, fluids, plants, etc. However, such objects as starfish, bacteria, etc. have an ambiguous status with respect to the class of animals. The same kind of ambiguity arises in the case of a number such as 10 in relation to the “class” of all real numbers which are much greater than 1. ** [[Lotfi A. Zadeh]], in "Fuzzy Sets", in ''Information and Control'', Vol. 8, issue 3 (1965), p. 338. == External links == {{Wikipedia}} {{Wiktionary|ambiguity}} [[Category:Philosophy]] r8bxj31xcm2kpbod4ktwkq97x6155rk 3 145033 3961095 3933227 2026-07-05T15:32:07Z Rsjaffe 750673 Rsjaffe moved page [[User talk:Renamed user 7ac1f43d306d4b5f596ea383293c4226]] to [[User talk:Nyxaros]]: Automatically moved page while renaming the user "[[Special:CentralAuth/Renamed user 7ac1f43d306d4b5f596ea383293c4226|Renamed user 7ac1f43d306d4b5f596ea383293c4226]]" to "[[Special:CentralAuth/Nyxaros|Nyxaros]]" 2042443 wikitext text/x-wiki Hi, [[Wikiquote:Welcome, newcomers|welcome]] to [[Wikiquote:About|English Wikiquote]]. * For a quick overview of what Wikiquote is, read [[Wikiquote:Wikiquote]]. ** See also [[Wikiquote:What Wikiquote is not|What Wikiquote is not]] for common activities that Wikiquote does not support. * To ask for help or to talk with another editor, visit our [[Wikiquote:Village pump|Village pump]]. * To browse Wikiquote, take a look at our [[Wikiquote:Browse|browsing start page]]. * Before creating new articles, consult our [[Wikiquote:Guide to layout|guide]]. 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Ballie (2011) * A man is only a mature boy. The theatre widens as he ascends. ** September 20, 1870, as attributed in ''Preacher, Entrepreneur: Rev. D.J. Waller Sr.'' by William M. Ballie (2011) * The time [will] come when a thousand students [will] be assembled on the hill for the purpose of seeing an education. ** 1875, as attributed in ''Preacher, Entrepreneur: Rev. D.J. Waller Sr.'' by William M. Ballie (2011) ==Quotes about David Jewett Waller, Sr.== *No other man has left or probably will leave a greater impression on [[w:Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania|this community]] that he [Waller] did. ** 1893, Waller's obituary, as attributed in ''Preacher, Entrepreneur: Rev. D.J. Waller Sr.'' by William M. Ballie (2011)''. == External links == {{wikipedia|David Jewett Waller Sr.}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Waller, David Jewett, Sr.}} [[Category:Christian leaders]] [[Category:Businesspeople from the United States]] [[Category:1815 births]] [[Category:1893 deaths]] [[Category:People from Wilkes-Barre]] 44wpyndo0eahvm5cmr0tqlyxyxni4bg 0 147244 3961155 3191076 2026-07-05T16:27:23Z BD2412 3982 /* Quotes about Gerrit Blaauw */ Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]], replaced: Thomas Watson, Jr. → Thomas Watson Jr. using [[Project:AWB|AWB]] 3961155 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Gerrit Blaauw.jpg|thumb|upright|'''Gerrit Blaauw, 1975''']] '''[[:w:Gerrit Blaauw|Gerrit Anne (Gerry) Blaauw]]''' (July 17, 1924 - March 21, 2018) was a Dutch computer scientist, known as one of the principal designers of the [[w:IBM|IBM]] [[w:System/360|System/360]] line of computers, together with [[Fred Brooks]], [[Gene Amdahl]], and others. == Quotes == * The term architecture is used here to describe the attributes of a system as seen by the programmer, i.e., the [[conceptual structure]] and functional behavior, as distinct from the organization of the data flow and controls, the logical design, and the physical implementation. i. Additional details concerning the architecture, ** [[Gene Amdahl]], Gerrit Blaauw, and [[Fred Brooks]] (1964) "Architecture of the IBM System." in: ''IBM Journal of Research and Development'' Vol 8 (2) p. 87-101 * [The architecture specification covers] all functions of the machine that are observable by the program. ** G.A. Blaauw, F.P. Brooks, "The Structure of System/360", ''IBM Systems Journal'', Vol.3, No.2, p. 119-135, 1964; as cited in: Vojin G. Oklobdzija (1999) "[http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/~vojin/CLASSES/EEC180B/Fall99/Writings/RISC-Chaptr.PDF Reduced instruction set computing]" * The architecture of a [[system]] can be defined as the functional appearance of the system to the user. ** Blaauw (1972) cited in: Gerritt A Blaauw (1976) ''Digital system implementation''. p. 6 === ''7000QX Committee Interim Report'' (1958) === G.A. Blaauw & H.G. Kolsky (1958) [http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/IBM/Stretch/pdfs/05-09/102634054.pdf 7000QX ''Committee Interim Report'']. Project 7000. Product Development, Laboratory Poughkeepsie, N.Y. December 31, 1958 * The purpose of the Committee was to study and report upon the desirability and characteristics of another computer system based on Stretch technology but having a lower cost and broader market than the 7000 Sigma system. The Committee was instructed to keep an open mind in initially examining various machine possibilities both from the engineering and marketing points of view... ** p. 1 * A study of the high-speed computer market with the intention of specifying a new computer brings forth a number of interesting observations... [An] striking feature of the market is that we seem to be close to satisfying the need for present-day uses of computers, but are standing on the threshold of a vast new area of applications. This new area can be characterized by the phrase ''computers which interact with the outside world''. This concept is called "Integrated Data Processing", "Real-Time. Operation", "Process Control", "In-Line Operation", etc, Its characteristic feature is the ability of the computer to accept and send information directly to other devices. The use of computers in this fashion is being developed in the aircraft and missile industries . It is important to note that both scientific and commercial applications are going in this direction. ** p. 3 * Scientific customers are traditionally less worried about reprogramming efforts than commercial customers, since many jobs are of a research nature and will be done over from time to time anyway. This is obviously true of many small and 'lone shot" problems. In practice, however, there are many more machine hours spent on production-type scientific problems than on those of research-type at most scientific computing installations. These production problems can be as rigid and static as any commercial job. The scientists responsible for production work will complain about reprogramming just as violently as an accountant will under the same circumstances. ** p. 3: About reprogramming applications === ''Computer architecture'' (1972) === Gerrit Blaauw (1972) "[https://dya-knowledge.sogeti.nl/dirsrc/images/3/3b/Blaauw_Architectuur.pdf Computer Architecture]". ''Elektron. Rechenanl.'' Vol 14 (2) p. 154-159 * In computer design three levels can be distinguished: architecture, implementation and realisation; for the first of them, the following working definition is given: ''The architecture of a [[system]] can be defined as the functional appearance of the system to the user, its phenomenology''. :Although the term ''architecture'' was introduced only ten years ago in computer technology (''Buchholz''), the concept of architecture is as old as the use of mechanism by man. When a child is taught to look at a clock, it is taught the architecture of the clock. It is told to observe the position of the short and the long hand and to relate these to the hours and the minutes. Once it can distinguish the architecture from the visual appearance, it can tell time as easily from a wrist watch as from the clock on the church tower. :The inner structure of a system is not considered by the architecture: we do not need to know what makes the clock tick, to know what time it is. This inner structure, considered from a logical point of view, will be called the ''implementation'', and its physical embodiment the ''realisation''. :* p. 154 * The result of the implementation, the logical design, is traditionally shown as a series of block diagrams. These blocks represent in effect a series of statements, Actually, a direct presentation of these statements is more suitable and, although less familiar, more easily understood. The Harvard Mark IV was to large degree designed and described by such statements, as has been the case with several subsequent developments. ** p. 154 * There always is an architecture, whether it is defined in advance - as with modern computers - or found out after the fact - as with many older computers. For architecture is determined by behavior, not by words. Therefore, the term ''architecture'', which rightly implies the notion of the ''arch'', or prime structure, should not be understood as the vague overall idea. Rather, the product of the computer architecture, the principle of operations manual, should contain all detail which the user can know, and sooner or later is bound to know. ** p. 155 === ''Specification of Digital Systems'' (1978) === G.A. Blaauw (1978). "[http://assets.cs.ncl.ac.uk/seminars/219.pdf Specification of Digital Systems]". ''Proc. Seminar in Digital Systems Design (Lecture Notes)''. University of New Castle upon Tyne. , Engeland * The design of a digital system starts with the specification of the architecture of the system and continues with its implementation and its subsequent realisation... the purpose of architecture is to provide a function. Once that function is established, the purpose of implementation is to give a proper cost-performance and the purpose of realisation is to build and maintain the appropriate logical organisation. ** p. 29 * By ''architecture'' I mean 'appearance to the user' - it is the functional specification of the system (its behavioural appearance). By ''implementation'' I mean 'internal logical organisation which performs the functions specified by the architecture' and by ''realisation'' I mean 'the physical components in which the logical organisation is embodied'. ** p. 29 * A hardware design language should be (i) sufficiently high level, (ii) conversational, (iii) general purpose, and (iv) structured: :(i) ''High Level'': The language should be able to express easily , and directly the desired function . Also, it should avoid suggesting an implementation (fo r example, by introducing unnecessary concepts). It should avoid involved or clever language constructs and it should be understandable to the users (that is, readable, pronouncable and not cryptic) . :(ii) ''Conversational'': A language that is available conversationally aids the description by the elimination of errors through syntax checks. Also, the description is executable and thus demonstrates the architecture. It is of course not possible to verify the architecture - there is nothing to compare it with. What is possible is to check the implementation against the architecture . By selectively substituting implementation for architecture one can perform efficient simulation experiments. :(iii) ''General purpose'': When the language is general purpose the same language can be used for all levels of design (architecture, implementation, realisation) . Similarly, design tools necessary for testing, collecting performance statistics, editors, tracers etc . can also be built using the same language . Thus a general purpose l anguage represents a desirable economy of thought for the designer. :(iv) ''Structured'': A language that exhibits good structure permits the designer to show the structure of his design . It allows the designer to develop his specifications in a top-down way so that design details can be developed and expressed gradually. :* p. 30 === ''Computer architecture: concepts and evolution'' (1997) === Gerrit A. Blaauw, Frederick Phillips Brooks (1997) ''Computer architecture: concepts and evolution''. Addison-Wesley * In this remarkable book on computer design, long-known in the field and widely used in manuscript form, Gerrit A. Blaauw and Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. provide a definitive guide and reference for practicing computer architects and for students. The book complements Brooks' recently updated classic, The Mythical Man-Month, focusing here on the design of "hardware" and there on "software," here on the "content" of computer architecture and there on the "process" of architecture design. The book's focus on "architecture" issues complements Blaauw's early work on "implementation" techniques. Having experienced most of the computer age, the authors draw heavily on their first-hand knowledge, emphasizing timeless insights and observations. ** Abstract. * Blaauw and Brooks first develop a [[conceptual framework]] for understanding computer architecture. They then describe not only what present architectural practice is, but how it came to be so. A major theme is the early divergence and the later reconvergence of computer architectures. They examine both innovations that survived and became part of the standard computer, and the many ideas that were explored in real machines but did not survive. In describing the discards, they also address "why" these ideas did not make it ** Abstract == Quotes about Gerrit Blaauw == * As usual the audience consisted mainly of professors of computing science; this time the speakers were mainly specialists in logic design: for many in the audience the exposure was a shock. At the level of component technology the change over the last fifteen years has been drastic: what used to be expressed in milliseconds is expressed in microseconds now, what used to be expressed in kilobucks is now expressed in dimes and quarters. This change has been so drastic that it is well-known. Much less known is that at the next levels, viz. of circuit design and logic design, the attention of the designers has been so fully usurped by the obligation to adapt to the ever changing technology, that at those levels design methodology has had no chance to mature from craft to scientific discipline. This is in sharp contrast to the developments in programming methodology, where during that period of fifteen years a fairly stable "base" could be enjoyed. Having witnessed that development in programming methodology at close quarters, I was overcome by the feeling of being exposed to the result of fifteen years of intellectual stagnation, and it was during Blaauw's lecture on the first afternoon that I asked my right-hand neighbour "Close your eyes, forget how you came here and guess in which year you are living."; without hesitation he came up with exactly the same year I had in mind: 1962. ** [[Edsger W. Dijkstra]] (1977-82) ''Selected Writings on Computing: A Personal Perspective'', Springer-Verlag, 1982. ISBN 0–387–90652–5. Chapter . [http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD635.html Tripreport E.W.Dijkstra, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 5 - 10 Sept. 1977]. About the 1977 "Joint International Seminar on the Teaching of Computing Science", in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. * The term ''Computer Architecture'' was first defined in the paper by Amdahl, Blaauw and Brooks of International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation announcing IBM System/360 computer family on April 7, 1964. On that day IBM Corporation introduced, in the words of IBM spokesman, "''the most important product announcement that this corporation has made in its history''". :''Computer architecture'' was defined as the attributes of a computer seen by the machine language programmer as described in the ''Principles of Operation''. IBM referred to the ''Principles of Operation'' as a definition of the machine which enables machine language programmer to write functionally correct, time independent programs that would run across a number of ''implementations'' of that particular architecture. :The ''architecture'' specification covers: ''all functions of the machine that are observable by the program''. On the other hand ''Principles of Operation''. are used to define the functions that the implementation should provide. In order to be functionally correct it is necessary that the implementation conforms to the ''Principles of Operation''... :* Vojin G. Oklobdzija (1999) "[http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/~vojin/CLASSES/EEC180B/Fall99/Writings/RISC-Chaptr.PDF Reduced instruction set computing]" * Practical knowledge of modularity has come largely from the computer industry. The term architecture was first used in connection with computers by the designers of the System/360: Gene M. Amdahl, Gerrit A. Blaauw, and Frederick P. Brooks. ** James H. Gilmore, ‎B. Joseph Pine (2000) ''Markets of One: Creating Customer-unique Value Through Mass''. p. 51 * Blaauw... joined the IBM research lab at Poughkeepsie, New York, USA. During this period Blaauw became famous for his methodological manner of building computer machines. He made a difference between architecture, implementation and realization of a machine. After a couple of years working on some different machines, one of the most famous machines built by Frederick Brooks, Gerrit Blaauw and Gene Amdahl was the IBM System/360, which was introduced in 1964. IBM Board Chairman [[Thomas Watson Jr.]] called the event the most important product announcement in the company's history. ** [http://www-set.win.tue.nl/UnsungHeroes/heroes/blaauw.html Gerrit Blaauw], unsung heroes in Dutch computing history, 2007 == External links == {{wikipedia}} * [http://www-set.win.tue.nl/UnsungHeroes/heroes/blaauw.html Gerrit Blaauw], unsung heroes in Dutch computing history. * ''[http://www.utwente.nl/ewi/geschiedenisinf/deel_2/diesrede_blaauw.doc/ Diesrede Blaauw: Beschrijven en begrijpen]'' 26 November 1976 (in Dutch) * ''[http://www.google.com/patents/US3202971 Data processing system programmed by instruction and associated control words including word address modification]''. 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The series is a satirical depiction of American life, epitomized by the Simpson family. ===''[[w:Homerland|Homerland]]''=== :'''Wiggum''': When I look at people, I don't see colors; I just see crackpot religions. <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': He's like a husband in a widow's memory, perfect. <hr width=50%> :'''Lisa''': Bart, why is the dad I've always wished for creeping me out? :'''Bart''': I don't know, 'cause you're incapable of experiencing joy? :'''Lisa''': Point taken. <hr width=50%> :'''Bart''': You have some big underpants to fill. I didn't know they made underoos in size 52. :'''Homer''': They're called superoos, son, with pictures of the cast of ''[[The Expendables]]''. :'''Bart''': More like ''[[The Expendables|The Expandables]]''. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': I'm not sure man who eats right and doesn't drink can be good in bed. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Oh, I've been listening to this song for three days, and it's only the end of the first verse! ===''[[w:Treehouse of Horror XXIV|Treehouse of Horror XXIV]]''=== :'''Homer''': Marge, they knew what they were getting into when their parents sold them to the circus. <hr width=50%> :'''Burns''': I don't hand out candy, you son of a Grinch. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer/The Fat In The Hat''': Now hop on my cycle, there's nothing to fear. And we shall have candy...and maybe some beer. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer/The Fat In The Hat''': ''[his dying words after Maggie stabs him]'' I'm frightened of nothing/Not even hellfire/Just don't ever let me be played by [[w:Mike Myers|Mike Myers]]. ===''[[w:Four Regrettings and a Funeral|Four Regrettings and a Funeral]]''=== :'''Reverend Lovejoy''': So, is there truly anyone among us without regrets? :'''Agnes''': I have no regrets. :'''Seymour''': Really, Mother? :'''Agnes''': Oh, I didn't see you there. :'''Mr. Burns''': Speaking of return on investments, my Apple stock is up 3,500%. :'''Homer''': Aw, you misheard that on purpose! <hr width=50%> :'''Milhouse''': Why are you doing this, Bart? :'''Bart''': 50% attention-seeking, 50% to drop things on people. :'''Ralph''': He's gonna visit my sky granny. <hr width=50%> :'''Rafael''': ''[to Homer]'' That's a ball-proof window, sir. Would you like me to ask Siri for a nearby hospital? :'''Siri''': ''[to Rafael]'' I'm sorry, I don't see any "hops petals" near you. Deleting all contact information. :'''Rafeal''': No, no, I didn't ask you to do that, Siri. I... :'''Siri''': Delete confirmed. <hr width=50%> :'''Ned Flanders''': Pray for a miracle, boy. God can hear you better from up there. :'''Bart''': ''[Pray to God]'' Dear Lord, please help me land safely. Or transform this basket into a flying killer robot that I control with my mind. Amen. :'''Ned Flanders''': That's not a prayer. :'''Bart''': My God says it is. <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': It's all my fault. I should never have listened to those KISS albums when I was pregnant. :'''Chief Wiggum''': ''[to Marge]'' Marge, with all due respect, that's ridiculous. My Sarah listened to Mozart and Churchill speeches when she was pregnant with Ralphie, and he can't even open a refrigerator. ===''[[w:YOLO (The Simpsons)|YOLO]]''=== :'''Eduardo''': Did you hair burn off in a fire that trapped you in a candy factory? :'''Homer''': D’oh <hr width=50%> :'''Bart''': I feel kind of melancholy. :'''Homer''': Hmm...melon-collie. <hr width=50%> :'''Ned''': That sounds salty, but you seem sweet. I'm going to call you kettle corn. <hr width=50%> :'''Willie''': You want me to carve it into a thank-o-lantern? :'''Lisa''': No, this is good. :'''Willie''': Well, this knave's got to carve something. ===''[[w:Labor Pains (The Simpsons)|Labor Pains]]''=== :'''Moe''': Read 'em and weep. The novels of [[Charlotte Brontë]]. :'''Carl''': I thought we were playing cards. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': You like lies? Here's a few: College is expensive, but it's worth it. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': I'm sorry, Homer, Jr. You'll occupy an idealized place in my heart that no one can ever quite fill. :'''Bart''': Therapy, please. :'''Lisa''': Me too. <hr width=50%> :'''Lisa''': I'm a [[Arnold Schwarzenegger|Schwarzenegger]] wife! :'''Homer''': But you're also the housekeeper. So it's all good. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': ''[After imagining telling Marge about Homer Jr.]'' This simulation has been brought to you by your brain, a subsidiary of your penis. ===''[[w:The Kid is All Right|The Kid is All Right]]''=== :'''Moe''': Alright, '80s party! Where's the beef? Tear down that wall because I think the beef is behind that wall. <hr width=50%> :'''Principal Skinner''': I must say, Lisa, it was amusing to see you thoroughly de-high-horsed. :'''Lisa''': That isn't a word. :'''Principal Skinner''': Oooh, back on the saddle she climbs. <hr width=50%> :'''Principal Skinner''': It's called precipitation because it never fails to precipitate bad behavior. <hr width=50%> :'''Lisa''': Excellent! ''[tents fingers]'' What am I doing? Untent! Untent! ===''[[w:Yellow Subterfuge|Yellow Subterfuge]]''=== :'''[[w:Principal Skinner|Skinner]]''': You're like egg salad at a picnic, [[w:Bart Simpson|Simpson]]. Even when you look good, we know you're going bad. <hr width=50%> :'''[[w:Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]''': You could do what ''[[Everybody Loves Raymond]]'' did. :'''[[w:Krusty the Clown|Krusty]]''': Go off the air while I'm still good? That horse has left the stable, gone to the glue factory and has been used to make art projects. <hr width=50%> :[''after Bart complains to Marge because the family does not believe in him''] :'''Homer''': Bart, sweetie. This is an opportunity for you to turn things around... yet again. And I believe in you... yet again. <hr width=50%> :''[after Homer arrives at the pier]'' :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': ''[sobs]'' Skinner didn't let me go. ''[sobs]'' :'''[[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]]''': Really? Oh. I bet that submarine isn't so fun anyway. :'''Bart''': ''[sniffs]'' You think so? :''[In the submarine]'' :'''Navy captain''': Fire that torpedo, [[w:Milhouse Van Houten|Milhouse]]! :'''Milhouse''': Aye-aye! ''[presses a button]'' Where did it go? :'''Navy captain''': It was just imaginary. :''[outside the submarine, the Springfield lighthouse blows up]'' ===''[[w:White Christmas Blues|White Christmas Blues]]''=== :'''Gloria''': Well, there's a rec room off the kitchen. But sometimes it's there and sometimes it isn't. Our house is very odd that way. <hr width=50%> :'''Quimby''': Don't you idiots see what this means? :'''Lenny''': Idiots? Why do we re-elect this guy? :'''Carl''': Because his opponent has a long Slavic name. <hr width=50%> :'''Gloria''': Global warming. Huh, by pure coincidence every scientist was right. ===''[[w:Steal This Episode|Steal This Episode]]''=== :'''Gratman''': I'm here to arrest and hopefully stage the prison suicide of the mastermind of this operation: Homer Simpson! <hr width=50%> :'''FBI Troop 1''': Copyrighted material! :'''FBI Troop 2''': Don't look at it! :'''FBI Troop 3''': Somebody sell me a ticket! :'''Gratman''': Get your earmuffs on and your blindfolds on. We were trained for this. :''[he shoots Homer's laptop and the projection screen reads "NO SIGNAL"]'' :'''Gratman''': ''[grabs Homer from climbing over a fence]'' From now on, the only place you'll be watching movies without buying a ticket is jail! <hr width=50%> :'''Lenny''': ''[on piracy]'' That was so much better than the cinema. It mixes the wonder of movie-going with the rush of stealing. :'''Carl''': All we want is brand new, big-budget entertainment in our homes for nothing. Why doesn't Hollywood get that? <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': That was the greatest thing I've seen on a computer that I could talk about with you in the room. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Hey, they tricked us! That's a commercial! If I wanted to pay for commercials I can't skip, I'd sign up for [[w:Hulu|Hulu Plus]]! <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Wait, you guys saw the new Radioactive Man sequel? :'''Carl''': Uh, it's not a sequel, it's a reboot. :'''Lenny''': Actually, this one undoes the stuff from [[w:Radioactive Man (The Simpsons episode)|the last one]], so it's a deboot. ===''[[w:Married to the Blob|Married to the Blob]]''=== :'''[[w:Bart Simpson|Bart]]''': [[w:Homer Simpson|Homer]], will you take me to buy a comic book Tuesday at midnight? :'''Homer''': And miss the back half of [[Jimmy Kimmel]]? That's when he experiments, boy. <hr width=50%> :'''[[w:Comic Book Guy|Comic Book Guy]]''': I cannot hide the snide inside! <hr width=50%> :'''Comic Book Guy''': The closest thing I have to a father is the [[w:Obi-Wan Kenobi|Obi-Wan]] doll in my store, and he comes from [[w:Jedi|a race of celibate knights]] so... <hr width=50%> :'''Comic Book Guy''': Nerds don't get girls! <hr width=50%> :'''Comic Book Guy''': Since I met Kumiko, strangely, comic books no longer seem so important. I will also be selling greeting cards. And, every day, I will give one to Kumiko in commemoration of today with the salutation, "Best... Day... Ever." ===''[[w:Specs and the City|Specs and the City]]''=== :'''Burns''': Beware, rabbits. I spy with my transplanted eyes. <hr width=50%> :'''Lisa''': How does this mean anything when everyone's forced to do it? :'''Marge''': What did I say about pointing out the meaninglessness of things? :'''Lisa''': Not to. <hr width=50%> :'''Nelson''': Simpson, there's going to be a heart in my hand, either paper or yours. <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': I'm afraid wives don't make passes at husbands who wear those glasses. ===''[[w:Diggs (The Simpsons)|Diggs]]''=== :'''Marge''': Bart's usually first in line for taco night, but now he's muy tarde. Is it alright to say tarde? <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Pressure is how you make your beloved diamonds, Marge. :'''Marge''': I don't have any diamonds. :'''Homer''': Quit pressuring me! <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': If God needs money, why doesn't he just write another Bible. The first one sold pretty well. ===''[[w:The Man Who Grew Too Much|The Man Who Grew Too Much]]''=== :'''Lisa''': Nobody form any opinions while I'm gone. :'''Marge''': Well, hurry! We have no minds of our own. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Real doctor or PhD? <hr width=50%> :'''Sideshow Bob''': Bart, And don't you think the parts that aren't evil, are a little...pretentious. :'''Bart''': Absolutely...we're talking about Lisa, right? <hr width=50%> :'''Todd''': We took the pledge. :'''Rod''': We won't have sex until we're married. :'''Todd''': To each other. <hr width=50%> :'''Sideshow Bob''': Just tell them that God wants them to ignore everything in their bodies that God is making happen. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': ''[Sighs as he looks at his late wife, Edna Krabappel and wearing a black armband]'' Sure do miss that laugh. :'''Nelson''': Ha-ha! I miss her too. <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': ''[to the teen-abstinance group]'' If you defeat this madman, I'll release you from your pledge and teach you other fun ways not to get pregnant. :'''Shauna''': I think I might be pregnant already. :'''Marge''': Well, that's one of them. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': ''[to Sideshow Bob at the dam]'' How dare you torture my children with Mozart! ===''[[w:The Winter of His Content|The Winter of His Content]]''=== :'''Nelson''': Simpson, I won't forget this. From now on, you and I are as tight as whiteys. <hr width=50%> :'''Dolph''': Well, you're gay for homophobia! :'''Kearney''': Wow, you just made me gay for tolerance. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Honey, Grandpa is the closet thing I have to a father and I love him, but three octogenocerauses?!? <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': My lifestyle is my retirement plan. ===''[[w:The War of Art (The Simpsons)|The War of Art]]''=== :'''Homer''': Emojis! Now she's gone too far. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Kettle corn, the heroin of the farmer's market. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': That's the great thing about art, everyone can have their opinion about why it sucks. ===''[[w:You Don't Have to Live Like a Referee|You Don't Have to Live Like a Referee]]''=== :'''Skinner''': So from now on, our cafeteria will only serve delicious Stuffwich's heroes, hoagies, and torpedoes. :'''Nelson''': What about po' boys? :'''Skinner''': Sorry, Nelson. Poor boys, such as yourself, will go hungry. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': The only thing that keeps me from living here is that fish that swims up your pee stream. That is a deal breaker. <hr width=50%> :'''Superintendent''': Skinner! I have seven other principals, and I've never yelled their names. Not even once. <hr width=50%> :'''Dolph''': Why are you concussing yourself? Why are you concussing yourself? ===''[[w:Luca$|Luca$]]''=== :'''Milhouse''': A fat kid with a dream. I can't compete with that. <hr width=50%> :'''Lisa''': He's just Ralph with a dream, the dream of not ralphing. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Whoo hoo! I've got a date with my daughter! :'''Cletus''': Yeah, we've all been there. No need to act like you just invented air conditioning. <hr width=50%> :'''Milhouse''': I never would have suspected the one criminal in town. <hr width=50%> :'''Patty''': Justin Blobber over there doesn't remind you of anyone? <hr width=50%> :'''Bart''': Don't want to be seen with you when you're hitting bottom. :'''Lisa''': At least we hope it's bottom. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Wow...this looks just like the dress you wore on Project Runway! ===''[[w:Days of Future Future|Days of Future Future]]''=== :'''Bart''': Wow, now I see why they call you Miss Hoover. You must have been vacuuming for an hour. <hr width=50%> :'''Frink''': You used up all your clones you fat, fat, fat reckless, fat pig. <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': You can live with your no good son. :'''Bart''': Hey, what did I do? :'''Marge''': Nothing for 30 years. You're perfect for each other. <hr width=50%> :'''Bart''': I am as healthy as a horse. :'''Marge''': Horses only live 30 years. ===''[[w:What to Expect When Bart's Expecting|What to Expect When Bart's Expecting]]''=== :'''Homer''': Oh, why are you doing this to me, booze? I drank every kind of you. <hr width=50%> :'''Lenny''': Why do they call this a yard of ale? :'''Carl''': Easy. After you drink it, you're passed out in a yard. <hr width=50%> :''[Groundskeeper Willie has been talked into posing nude for Evelyn Trunch's art class]'' :'''Groundskeeper Willie''': Oh, I just came in to take out the trash! :'''Evelyn Trunch''': And you shall leave immortal! Also, take out the trash. <hr width=50%> :'''Bart Simpson''': I admit, I ''did'' make a voodoo doll of Mrs. Trunch. But I just asked for a stomachache, not a baby! :'''Principal Skinner''': Classic wish maker's mistake: vague language. <hr width=50%> :'''Guy Outside the Tent''': '[to Jimbo]'' Yeah, you know...I just don't think we're gonna get in to see him today. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Do you know how embarrassed I was to get a call at my arraignment for my behavior during the pub crawl because of a voodoo curse my son placed on his art teacher? <hr width=50%> :'''Bart''': A minute of fun, a lifetime of work. I've never heard of a pregnancy like this. ===''[[w:Brick Like Me|Brick Like Me]]''=== :'''Krusty''': Come back, I'm a clown! I can't afford to look ridiculous! <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Marge, did you replace our regular mirror with a magical mirror from a mystical salesman at a weird store that if we went back to find it, it wouldn't be there anymore? :'''Marge''': No. :'''Homer''': AAAAHHH!! <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Get it together, Homer. I'm sure lots of people every time you look in the mirror and see a hideous flesh monster, just a one-time thing. ''[sees a reflection of normal self]'' Oh, brick me! ''[taps on the glass]'' Leave me alone! Why don't you go back to where you came from? <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': ''[noticing the beer is plastic circles and reflects it to normal]'' What the--? This isn't beer. Beer is plastic circles. How can I drink-- this? <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Marge, would you give up eating steak in the matrix to go slurp goo in Zion? :'''Marge''': We don't have that movie here. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Oh, they're so cute when they're Duplo. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': It's not selling out. It's co-branding. Co-branding! <hr width=50%> :'''Willie''': Stop it! If you pull out these bricks, the whole school could collapse! :'''Bart''': But there's a skunk in there. :'''Willie''': ''[gasps]'' Scottish steak! ''[bursts into it, making the whole school collapse, except for the broom closet]'' :'''Skinner''': You are going to rebuild on every brick of this school. <hr width=50%> :'''Ralph''': ''Yo soy el'' language lab! <hr width=50%> :'''Comic Book Guy''': As an adult who surrounds himself with child's toys, I represent the part of your psyche that prefers ''this'' artificial world! ===''[[w:Pay Pal (The Simpsons)|Pay Pal]]''=== :'''Bart''': I want you to binge watch all the shows you've ever done. :'''Krusty''': I've never said no to a binge. <hr width=50%> :'''Rabbi Krustofski''': What did the burning bush say? :'''Krusty''': It said ow! Put me out! How many talking bushes do you think there are? <hr width=50%> :'''Krusty''': No one told me this roast would treat me the same way as every roast I've ever seen and laughed at. ===''[[w:The Yellow Badge of Cowardge|The Yellow Badge of Cowardge]]''=== :'''Lisa''': ''[narrating]'' Bart won a blue ribbon, but was it worth it? :'''Marge''': Lisa! Bath time! :'''Lisa''': Mom! I'm narrating! :'''Marge''': The water's going to get cold! :'''Lisa''': Fine! <hr width=50%> :'''Milhouse''': ''[after getting beaten up by Nelson]'' I'm afraid I don't remember. :'''Bart''': ''[relieved]'' Whew. <hr width=50%> :'''Bart''': ''[to Maggie]'' I suck? You suck! <hr width=50%> :'''Kearney''': ''[stretching a rubber bracelet]'' Crouch or forehead? :'''Dolph''': Forehead, for once. ''[Kearney shoots the rubber bracelet like a slingshot at Milhouse's forehead]'' :'''Milhouse''': Wha? ''[He starts to remember about Nelson beating Milhouse up during the school race]'' :'''Milhouse''': ''[to Bart, angrily]'' Bart Simpson! You ran away when I was getting beat up! :''[The crowd boos angrily at Bart for his lies]'' :'''Mrs. Skinner''': Bart's a coward! :'''Krusty''': He lied to us! <hr width=50%> :'''Milhouse''': ''[to Bart]'' This is an angry sleepover. I'm only doing it 'cause it was on the books. <hr width=50%> :'''Krusty''': How can they say I'm past my prime? Me, the voice of Ovaltine. <hr width=50%> :'''Lisa''': ''[while the Gracie Films logo begins, but no music]'' [[Usher (entertainer)|Usher]], will you stop that person who's shushing? ==External links== {{wikipedia|The Simpsons (season 25)}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Simpsons, Season 25}} [[Category:The Simpsons seasons]] ivtu18ftu01rpk49wipdo188lahnmif 0 151471 3961131 1667333 2026-07-05T16:25:46Z BD2412 3982 /* top */ Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]], replaced: Walter M. Miller, Jr. → Walter M. Miller Jr. using [[Project:AWB|AWB]] 3961131 wikitext text/x-wiki #Redirect [[Walter M. Miller Jr.]] pp9mz3a8z2hk0ickrgvse0cdd14l0eh 4 151666 3961196 3745145 2026-07-05T16:35:16Z BD2412 3982 /* top */ Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]], replaced: Walter M. Miller, Jr. → Walter M. 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In cultural references it also sometimes designates the [[w:Doom book|Doom book]] of [[Alfred the Great]], [[w:Mount Doom|Mount Doom]], a volcano in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' by [[J.R.R. Tolkien]], and [[w:Doctor Doom|Doctor Doom]], a character in the [[w:Marvel Universe|Marvel Universe]], or [[Last Judgment|Doomsday]]. : See also: ::'''[[Destiny]]''' ::'''[[Fate]]''' ::'''[[Wyrd]]''' __NOTOC__ {{TOCalpha}} == A == [[File:King Alfred - geograph.org.uk - 1320225.jpg|thumb|Doom very evenly! Do not doom one doom to the [[rich]]; another to the [[poor]]! Nor doom one doom to your [[friend]]; another to your [[foe]]! ~ [[Alfred the Great]] ]] * '''Doom very evenly! Do not doom one doom to the [[rich]]; another to the [[poor]]! Nor doom one doom to your [[friend]]; another to your [[foe]]!''' ** [[Alfred the Great]], in the [[w:Doom book| Doom Book]] (''c''. 893 AD) * '''Ever since I arrived to a state of [[manhood]], I have felt a sincere passion for [[liberty]].''' The [[history]] of [[nations]] doomed to perpetual [[slavery]], in consequence of yielding up to tyrants their natural born liberties, I read with a sort of philosophical horror; so that '''the first systematical and bloody attempt at Lexington, to enslave America, thoroughly electrified my mind, and fully determined me to take part with my country.''' ** [[Ethan Allen]], as quoted in "In the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress!" - ''American Heritage'' magazine Vol. 14, Issue 6 (October 1963) == B == [[File:Emily Brontë by Patrick Branwell Brontë restored.jpg|thumb|right|I am the only being whose doom<br/> No tongue would ask no [[eye]] would mourn… ~ [[Emily Brontë]] ]] * Let those deplore their doom,<br>Whose hope still grovels in this dark sojourn:<br>But lofty souls, who look beyond the tomb,<br>Can smile at Fate, and wonder how they mourn. ** [[James Beattie]], ''The Minstrel'' (1771), Book I * There's no point fighting about this. You have to learn to accept the inevitable. We are all doomed anyway. ** The [[Devil]], in [[Bedazzled (2000 film)|''Bedazzled'' (2000)]], written by Larry Gelbart, Harold Ramis and Peter Tolan, based on the 1967 film by [[Peter Cook]] * And, when you, looking on your fellow men<br> Behold them doomed to endless misery,<br> How can you talk of joy and rapture then?<br> May God withhold such cruel joy from me! ** [[Anne Brontë]], in "A Word to the Calvinists" (28 May 1843) * O! there lives within my heart<br> A hope long nursed by me,<br> (And should its cheering ray depart<br> How dark my soul would be) {{pbr}}That as in Adam all have died<br> In Christ shall all men live<br> And ever round his throne abide<br> Eternal praise to give; {{pbr}}That even the wicked shall at last<br> Be fitted for the skies<br> And when their dreadful doom is past<br> To life and light arise. ** [[Anne Brontë]], in "A Word to the Calvinists" (28 May 1843) * '''I am the only being whose doom<br/> No tongue would ask no [[eye]] would mourn'''<br/> I never caused a thought of gloom<br/> A [[smile]] of [[joy]] since I was born ** [[Emily Brontë]], in "I Am the Only Being" (1836) == C == [[File:Aerial view from Paramotor of Uffington White Horse - geograph.org.uk - 305467.jpg|thumb|right|Out of the mouth of the [[Mother]] of [[God]],<br> More than the [[doors]] of doom,<br> I call the muster of Wessex men<br> From grassy hamlet or ditch or den,<br> To break and be broken, [[God]] [[knows]] when,<br> But I have seen for whom. ~ [[G. K. Chesterton]] ]] [[File:Statue d'Alfred le Grand à Winchester.jpg|thumb|right|[[Alfred the Great|Alfred]] born in Wantage<br> Rules [[England]] till the doom.<br /> Because in the forest of all [[fears]]<br> Like a [[strange]] fresh gust from [[sea]],<br> Struck him that ancient [[innocence]]<br> That is more than mastery. ~ [[G. K. Chesterton]] ]] [[File:Rembrandt-Belsazar.jpg|thumb|right|On the dooming wall their bodiless [[hands]] <br> have blazoned "[[w:The writing on the wall|Upharsin]]," and flaring brands <br> Illumine the message... ~ [[Voltairine de Cleyre]] ]] [[File:Artwork showing a blurred globe and other celestial bodies, inspired by the asteroid belt of HD 69830.jpg|thumb|right|what if a [[dawn]] of a doom of a [[dream]]<br> bites this [[universe]] in two,<br> peels [[forever]] out of it's [[grave]]<br> and sprinkles nowhere with me and you? ~ [[E. E. Cummings]] ]] * [[Society]] is as needful to us as air or food. A child doomed to utter loneliness, growing up without sight or sound of human beings, would not put forth equal power with many brutes; and a man, never brought into contact with minds superior to his own, will probably run one and the same dull round of thought and action to the end of llfe. ** [[William Ellery Channing]], in [http://www.americanunitarian.org/selfculture.htm "Self-Culture", an address in Boston (September 1838)] * "Out of the mouth of the [[Mother]] of [[God]],<br> More than the [[doors]] of doom,<br> I call the muster of Wessex men<br> From grassy hamlet or ditch or den,<br> To break and be broken, God knows when,<br> But I have seen for whom. ** [[G. K. Chesterton]], in ''[[The Ballad of the White Horse]]'' (1911), Book II : The Gathering Of The Chiefs * A dancing sparkle, a doubtful [[star]],<br> On the waste wind whirled and driven;<br> But '''it seems to sing of a wilder [[worth]],<br> A [[time]] discrowned of doom and [[birth]],<br> And the kingdom of the poor on [[earth]]<br> Come, as it is in [[heaven]].''' ** [[G. K. Chesterton]], in ''[[The Ballad of the White Horse]]'' (1911), Book IV : The Woman In The Forest * "Spears at the charge!" yelled Mark amain.<br> "Death on the gods of death!<br> Over the thrones of doom and blood<br> Goeth [[God]] that is a craftsman good,<br> And gold and iron, earth and wood,<br> Loveth and laboureth. ** [[G. K. Chesterton]], in ''[[The Ballad of the White Horse]]'' (1911), Book VI : Ethandune: The Slaying Of The Chiefs * Their [[great]] [[souls]] went on a [[wind]] away,<br> And they have not tale or tomb;<br> And [[Alfred the Great|Alfred]] born in Wantage<br> Rules [[England]] till the doom.{{pbr}}Because in the forest of all [[fears]]<br> Like a [[strange]] fresh gust from [[sea]],<br> Struck him that ancient [[innocence]]<br> That is more than mastery. ** [[G. K. Chesterton]], in ''[[The Ballad of the White Horse]]'' (1911), Book VII : Ethandune: The Last Charge * He gat [[good]] [[laws]] of the ancient kings,<br> Like treasure out of the tombs;<br> And many a thief in thorny nook,<br> Or noble in sea-stained turret shook,<br> For the opening of his iron book,<br> And the gathering of the dooms. ** [[G. K. Chesterton]], in ''[[The Ballad of the White Horse]]'' (1911), Book VIII : The Scouring Of The Horse * '''Written in red their protest stands, <br> For the [[Gods]] of the [[World]] to see'''; <br> On the dooming wall their bodiless hands <br> have blazoned "[[w:The writing on the wall|Upharsin]]," and flaring brands <br> Illumine the message: "Seize the lands! <br> Open the [[prisons]] and make men [[free]]!" ** [[Voltairine de Cleyre]], in "Written-In-Red" * my father moved through dooms of love<br> through sames of am through haves of give<br> singing each morning out of each night<br> my father moved through depths of height ** [[E. E. Cummings]], in 34, in ''50 Poems'' (1940) * measureless our pure living complete love<br> '''whose doom is beauty and its fate to grow''' ** [[E. E. Cummings]], in 50, in ''50 Poems'' (1940) * '''what if a dawn of a doom of a dream<br> bites this universe in two,<br> peels forever out of it's grave<br> and sprinkles nowhere with me and you?''' ** [[E. E. Cummings]], in XX, in ''1 x 1'' (1944) == D == * '''If others in the same Glass better see<br>'Tis for Themselves they look, but not for me:<br>For ''my'' Salvation must its Doom receive<br>Not from what ''others'', but what I believe.''' ** [[John Dryden]], in ''[[w:Religio Laici|Religio Laici]]'' (1682) * It is required of every man … that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellowmen, and travel far and wide; and if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death. It is doomed to wander through the world — oh, woe is me! — and witness what it cannot share, but might have shared on earth, and turned to happiness! ** [[Charles Dickens]], in ''A Christmas Carol'' (1843), Stave 1 == E == * You're all sinners. You're all doomed to perdition. You're all goin' to the painful, stinkin', scaldin', everlastin' tortures of a fiery hell, created by God for sinners, unless, unless, unless you repent. ** [[Elmer Gantry (film)|Elmer Gantry (1960)]], screenplay by [[w:Richard Brooks|Richard Brooks]], based on the novel by [[Sinclair Lewis]] * '''Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.''' ** [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]], in ''Society and Solitude'', Work and Days * '''Look upon this moment. Savor it!''' Rejoice with great gladness! Great gladness! '''Remember it always, for you are joined by it. You [[Unity|are One]], under the [[stars]].''' Remember it well, then... this [[night]], this [[great]] [[victory]]. So that in the years ahead, you can say, "I was there that night, with Arthur, the King!" '''For it is the [[Fate|doom]] of men that they forget.''' ** [[Merlin]], following the decisive British victory over the Saxons at the [[w:Battle of Badon|Battle of Badon]], in [[Excalibur (film)|''Excalibur'' (1981)]], written by Rospo Pallenberg and John Boorman == F == * '''I decline to accept the end of man.''' It is easy enough to say that man is immortal because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking. '''I refuse to accept this.''' I [[believe]] that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible [[voice]], but because he has a [[soul]], a [[spirit]] capable of [[compassion]] and sacrifice and endurance. The [[poet]]'s, the [[writer]]'s, [[duty]] is to write about these things. It is his privilege to [[help]] man endure by lifting his [[heart]], by reminding him of the [[courage]] and [[honor]] and [[hope]] and [[pride]] and compassion and [[pity]] and sacrifice which have been the [[glory]] of his past. '''The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.''' ** [[William Faulkner]], in his speech at the Nobel Prize Banquet after receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature (10 December 1950) * Nicole was the product of much ingenuity and toil. … She illustrated very simple principles, containing in herself her own doom, but illustrated them so accurately that there was grace in the procedure, and presently Rosemary would try to imitate it. ** [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]], in ''[[Tender is the Night]]'' (1934), Book I, Ch. 12 == G == * Turn your eyes from the [[w:Human Torch|Torch]], [[w:Overmind (comics)|Over-Mind]] — '''''DOOM''' approaches!'' ** [[w:Archie Goodwin|Archie Goodwin]], in lines for [[w:Doctor Doom|Doctor Doom]], in ''[[Fantastic Four]]' # 116 : [http://marvel.wikia.com/Fantastic_Four_Vol_1_116 The Alien, the Ally, and Armageddon] == H == * '''Would [[Time]] but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's Day.''' ** [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]], in [[wikisource:Wakefield|"Wakefield"]] (1835) from [[wikisource:Twice _Told_Tales|''Twice Told Tales'']] (1837, 1851) * There is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghostlike, the spot where some great and marked event has given the color to their lifetime; and still the more irresistibly, the darker the tinge that saddens it. ** [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]], in ''[[w:The Scarlet Letter|The Scarlet Letter]]'' (1850), Chapter V: Hester at Her Needle * Discovery is dangerous… but so is life. A man unwilling to take risk is doomed never to learn, never to grow, never to live. ** [[w:Brian Herbert|Brian Herbert]] and [[w:Kevin J. Anderson|Kevin J. Anderson]], in ''Dune: House Harkonnen'' (2000) * Chief is Crom. He dwells on a great mountain. What use to call on him? Little he cares if men live or die. Better to be silent than to call his attention to you; he will send you dooms, not fortune! ** [[Robert E. Howard]], in "[[s:Queen of the Black Coast|Queen of the Black Coast]]" (1934) == I == == J == [[File:Julian of Norwich.jpg|thumb|right|We be often [[dead]] as to man’s doom in [[earth]]; but in the [[sight]] of [[God]] the [[soul]] that shall be saved was never dead, nor ever shall be. ~ [[Julian of Norwich]] ]] * I have to find my peace 'cause no-one seems to let me be, <br /> False prophets cry of doom, what are the possibilities? ** [[Michael Jackson]], in ''[[w:Jam (song)|Jam]]'', on ''[[w:Dangerous (album)|Dangerous]]'' (1991) * '''Some of you are doomed to be artists.''' ** [[w:Robert Edmond Jones|Robert Edmond Jones]], as quoted in "The Life and Work of Martha Graham" (1991), p. 115; this was often used by [[Martha Graham]], and has often become attributed to her. * I to them that were about me: ''It is to-day Doomsday with me.'' And this I said for that I thought to have died. ** [[Julian of Norwich]], in ''Revelations of Divine Love'' (c.1393), Ch. 8 * And though longing and pity are two sundry properties, as to my sight, in this standeth the point of the Spiritual Thirst: which is ''desire in Him as long as we be in need'', drawing us up to His bliss. And all this was seen in the Shewing of Compassion: for that shall cease on Doomsday. ** [[Julian of Norwich]], in ''Revelations of Divine Love'' (c.1393), Ch. 31 * '''God deemeth us upon our Nature-Substance, which is ever kept one in Him, whole and safe without end: and ''this'' doom is of His rightfulness. And man judgeth upon our changeable Sense-soul, which seemeth now one, now other, — according as it taketh of the parts, — and showeth outward. And ''this'' wisdom is ''mingled''. ** [[Julian of Norwich]], in ''Revelations of Divine Love'' (c.1393), Ch. 45 * '''The first doom, which is of God’s rightfulness, is of His high endless life; and this is that fair sweet doom that was shewed in all the fair Revelation, in which I saw Him assign to us no manner of blame.''' But though this was sweet and delectable, yet in the beholding only of this, I could not be fully eased: and that was because of the doom of Holy Church, which I had afore understood and which was continually in my sight. And therefore by ''this'' doom methought I understood that sinners are worthy sometime of blame and wrath; but these two could I not see in God; and therefore my desire was more than I can or may tell. For the higher doom was shewed by God Himself in that same time, and therefore me behoved needs to take it; and the lower doom was learned me afore in Holy Church, and therefore I might in no way leave the lower doom. Then was this my desire: that I might see in God in what manner that which the doom of Holy Church teacheth is true in His sight, and how it belongeth to me verily to know it; whereby the two dooms might both be saved, so as it were worshipful to God and right way to me. <br> And to all this I had none other answer but a marvellous example of a lord and of a servant, as I shall tell after: — and that full mistily shewed. And yet I stand desiring, and will unto my end, that I might by grace know these two dooms as it belongeth to me. '''For all heavenly, and all earthly things that belong to Heaven, are comprehended in these two dooms. And the more understanding, by the gracious leading of the Holy Ghost, that we have of these two dooms, the more we shall see and know our failings. And ever the more that we see them, the more, of nature, by grace, we shall long to be fulfilled of endless joy and bliss. For we are made thereto, and our Nature-Substance is now blissful in God, and hath been since it was made, and shall be without end.''' ** [[Julian of Norwich]], in ''Revelations of Divine Love'' (c.1393), Ch. 45 * '''In this life mercy and forgiveness is our way and evermore leadeth us to grace. And by the tempest and the sorrow that we fall into on our part, we be often dead as to man’s doom in earth; but in the sight of God the soul that shall be saved was never dead, nor ever shall be.''' ** [[Julian of Norwich]], in ''Revelations of Divine Love'' (c.1393), Ch. 50 * As verily as we shall be in the bliss of God without end, Him praising and thanking, so verily we have been in the foresight of God, loved and known in His endless purpose from without beginning. In which unbegun love He made us; and in the same love He keepeth us and never suffereth us to be hurt by which our bliss might be lost.''' And therefore when the Doom is given and we be all brought up above, then shall we clearly see in God the secret things which be now hid to us.''' Then shall none of us be stirred to say in any wise: ''Lord, if it had been thus, then it had been full well''; but we shall say all with one voice: ''Lord, blessed mayst thou be, for it is thus: it is well; and now see we verily that all-thing is done as it was then ordained before that anything was made.'' ** [[Julian of Norwich]], in ''Revelations of Divine Love'' (c.1393), Ch. 85 == K == [[File:Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at a civil rights march on Washington D.C. in 1963.jpg|thumb|right|Every crisis has both its [[dangers]] and its [[opportunities]]. It can spell either salvation or doom. In a [[dark]] confused world the [[kingdom of God]] may yet reign in the [[hearts]] of men. ~ [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]] ]] * Oppressed people deal with their oppression in three characteristic ways. One way is acquiescence: the oppressed resign themselves to their doom. They tacitly adjust themselves to oppression and thereby become conditioned to it. In every movement toward [[freedom]] some of the oppressed prefer to remain oppressed. ** [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]], in "Three Ways of Meeting Oppression" (1958) * Granted that we face a world crisis which leaves us standing so often amid the surging murmur of life's restless sea. But every crisis has both its [[dangers]] and its [[opportunities]]. It can spell either salvation or doom. '''In a [[dark]] confused world the [[kingdom of God]] may yet reign in the [[hearts]] of men.''' ** [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]], in ''The Quest for Peace and Justice'' (1964) == L == [[File:The One Ring by Yukatan.svg|thumb|right|In the land of Mordor, in the [[fires]] of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Sauron forged, in secret, a Master Ring to control all others. And into this Ring he poured his [[cruelty]], his [[malice]] and his will to dominate all [[life]]. ~ ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (film)|The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' ]] [[File:Editor at large 1206.svg|thumb|right|The [[words]] "[[God]] is [[love]]" have this deep [[meaning]]: that everything that is against love is ultimately doomed and damned. ~ [[Halford E. Luccock]] ]] * Long ago, there existed a kingdom, where a golden power lay hidden... It was a prosperous land, blessed with green forests, tall mountains, and peace... But one day, a man of great evil found the golden power and took it for himself... With its strength, he commanded darkness across the kingdom... But then, when all hope had died and the hour of doom was at hand, a young boy in green appeared as if from nowhere... Wielding the blade of evil's bane, he sealed the dark one away and gave the land light... This boy, who traveled through time to save the land, was known as the Hero of Time. ** ''[[The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker]]'' (2003) * In the land of Mordor, in the [[fires]] of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Sauron forged, in [[secret]], a Master Ring to control all others. '''And into this Ring he poured his [[cruelty]], his [[malice]] and his will to dominate all [[life]]. One Ring to rule them all.''' ** [[w:Galadriel|Galadriel]], in ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (film)|The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' (2001), written by [[w:Frances Walsh|Frances Walsh]], [[w:Philippa Boyens|Philippa Boyens]] and [[Peter Jackson]], based on the ''[[The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' by [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] * '''One by one, the Free Lands of Middle-Earth fell to the power of the Ring. But there were some who resisted.''' A last alliance of Men and Elves marched against the armies of Mordor. And on the slopes of Mount Doom, they fought for the [[freedom]] of Middle-Earth. ** Galadriel, in ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (film)|The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' (2001), written by [[w:Frances Walsh|Frances Walsh]], [[w:Philippa Boyens|Philippa Boyens]] and [[Peter Jackson]], based on the ''[[The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' by [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] * '''It is because of Men the Ring survives.''' I was there, [[w:Gandalf|Gandalf]]. I was there three thousand years ago, when Isildur took the Ring. I was there the day the [[strength]] of Men failed. I led Isildur into the [[heart]] of Mount Doom, where the Ring was forged — the one place it could be destroyed. '''It should have ended that day, but [[evil]] was allowed to endure.''' ** [[w:Elrond|Elrond]] in ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (film)|The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' (2001), written by [[w:Frances Walsh|Frances Walsh]], [[w:Philippa Boyens|Philippa Boyens]] and [[Peter Jackson]], based on the ''[[The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' by [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] * [[Strangers]] from distant lands, [[friends]] of old, you have been summoned here to answer the threat of Mordor. Middle Earth stands upon the brink of destruction; none can escape it. '''You will [[unite]] or you will fall. Each race is bound to this [[fate]], this one doom.''' ** Elrond in ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (film)|The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' (2001), written by [[w:Frances Walsh|Frances Walsh]], [[w:Philippa Boyens|Philippa Boyens]] and [[Peter Jackson]], based on the ''[[The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' by [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] * The Ring cannot be destroyed, Gimli, son of Gloin, by any craft that we here possess. The Ring was made in the [[fires]] of Mount Doom. Only there can it be unmade. ** Elrond in ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (film)|The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' (2001), written by [[w:Frances Walsh|Frances Walsh]], [[w:Philippa Boyens|Philippa Boyens]] and [[Peter Jackson]], based on the ''[[The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' by [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] * Your coming to us is as the footsteps of doom. You bring great [[evil]] here, Ringbearer. ** Galadriel in ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (film)|The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' (2001), written by [[w:Frances Walsh|Frances Walsh]], [[w:Philippa Boyens|Philippa Boyens]] and [[Peter Jackson]], based on the ''[[The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' by [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] * '''Come, my friends. The [[w:Ents|Ents]] are going to [[war]].''' It is likely that we go to our doom … the Last March of the Ents! ** [[w:Treebeard|Treebeard]], in ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (film)|The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers]]'' (2002), written by [[w:Frances Walsh|Frances Walsh]], [[w:Philippa Boyens|Philippa Boyens]] and [[Peter Jackson]], based on the ''[[The Two Towers]]'' by [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] * '''The [[words]] "[[God]] is [[love]]" have this deep [[meaning]]: that everything that is against love is ultimately doomed and damned.''' ** [[Halford E. Luccock]], ''Keeping Life Out of Confusion'' Sermon (11 September 1938), as quoted in "Disguised Fascism Seen As A Menace" in ''The New York Times'' (12 September 1938), p. 15; also in [http://shii.org/knows/Fascism_comes_wrapped_in_the_flag "Fascism comes wrapped in the flag" (with online facsimile of article)] == M == [[File:Hans Thoma - Adam und Eva, 1897.jpg|thumb|right|The apple cannot be stuck back on the [[w:Tree of the knowledge of good and evil|Tree of Knowledge]]; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less. ~ [[Arthur Miller]] ]] [[File:MemlingJudgmentCentre.jpg|thumb|right|Without redemption all [[mankind]]<br>Must have been lost, adjudged to [[death]] and [[hell]]<br>By doom severe. ~ [[John Milton]] in ''[[Paradise Lost]]'']] * Who’s to doom, when the [[judge]] himself is dragged to the bar? ** [[Herman Melville]], in ''[[Moby-Dick]]'' (1851), Ch. 132 : The Symphony * '''The [[apple]] cannot be stuck back on the [[w:Tree of the knowledge of good and evil|Tree of Knowledge]]; once we begin to [[see]], we are doomed and challenged to seek the [[strength]] to see more, not less.''' ** [[Arthur Miller]], commenting on ''After the Fall'' (1964) in ''The Saturday Evening Post '' (1 February 1964) * '''Listen, are we helpless? Are we doomed to do it again and again and again? Have we no [[choice]] but to play the [[Phoenix]] in an unending sequence of rise and fall? ' ** [[Walter M. Miller Jr.]], in a ''[[w:A Canticle for Leibowitz|A Canticle for Leibowitz]]'' (1959), Fiat Voluntas Tua * And now without [[redemption]] all [[mankind]] <br> Must have been lost, adjudged to [[death]] and [[hell]]<br>By doom severe. ** [[John Milton]], ''[[Paradise Lost]]'' (1667; 1674), Book III, line 222 * [[Life]] is but [[jest]]:<br> A [[dream]], a doom;<br> A gleam, a gloom — <br> And then — [[good]] rest! ** [[w:Leon de Montenaeken|Leon de Montenaeken]], in ''Peu de Chose et Presque Trop'' [Nought and too Much] == N == == O == * We're all doomed, you know. The whole, silly, drunken, pathetic lot of us. Doomed by the air we're about to breathe. **''[[On the Beach]]'' (1959), written by John Paxton, based on the 1957 novel by [[Nevil Shute]] == P == == Q == == R == * '''We do not hold the [[belief]] that this [[earth]] is a realm of [[misery]] where man is doomed to destruction.''' ** [[Ayn Rand]], in ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]'' (1957), Part Three: A is A, Chapter Two: The Utopia of Greed * '''Neither you, [[Saint Peter|Simon]], nor the fifty thousand, nor the Romans, nor the [[Jews]], nor [[w:Judas|Judas]], nor the twelve, nor the priests, nor the scribes, nor doomed [[Jerusalem]] itself, [[understand]] what [[power]] is, understand what [[glory]] is, understand at all. ** [[w:Tim Rice|Tim Rice]], in ''[[Jesus Christ Superstar]]'' (1971) * None saw their spirits' shadow shake the grass, <br /> Or stood aside for the half used life to pass <br />Out of those doomed nostrils and the doomed mouth, <br />When the swift iron burning bee <br />Drained the wild honey of their youth. ** [[Isaac Rosenberg]], in "Dead Man's Dump" * Again and again in a nation's history the time may, and indeed sometimes must, come when the nation's highest [[duty]] is [[war]]. '''But [[peace]] must be the normal condition, or the nation will come to a bloody doom.''' ** [[Theodore Roosevelt]], in a speech delivered at Galena, Illinois (27 April 1900), later in ''[[The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses]]'' * [[Poverty]] is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, [[moral]] and intellectual flabbiness, to which those doom themselves who elect to spend all their years in that vainest of all [[vain]] pursuits — the pursuit of mere [[pleasure]] as a sufficient [[end]] in itself. ** [[Theodore Roosevelt]], in [http://www.jonesmansion.com/history/speechon.htm "National Duties" an address at the Minnesota State Fair, St. Paul (2 September 1901)], later in ''[[The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses]]'' * The [[slave]] is doomed to [[worship]] [[time]] and [[fate]] and [[death]], because they are greater than anything he finds in [[himself]], and because all his [[thoughts]] are of things which they devour. ** [[Bertrand Russell]], in ''A Free Man's Worship'' (1903) * Brief and powerless is man's [[life]]; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and [[dark]]. ** [[Bertrand Russell]], in "Mysticism and Logic" in ''A Free Man's Worship'' (1903) == S == <!-- [[File:Dannecker Schiller Nürnberg.jpg|thumb|right|No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, <br>Who's made the master of his destiny. ~ [[Friedrich Schiller]] ]] --> [[File:Shakespeare Portrait Comparisons 2.JPG|thumb|right|[[Love]]'s not [[Time]]'s [[fool]], though rosy lips and cheeks<br> Within his bending sickle's compass come;<br> Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,<br> But bears it out even to the edge of doom. ~ [[William Shakespeare]] ]] * '''No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, <br>Who's made the master of his destiny.''' ** [[Friedrich Schiller]], in ''[[w:Wilhelm Tell|Wilhelm Tell]]'' (1803), Gessler, in Act III, sc. iii, as translated by Sir Thomas Martin * Malcolm! awake!<br>Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit,<br>And look on death itself! up, up, and see<br>The great doom's image! ** [[William Shakespeare]], in ''[[Macbeth]]'' (1606), '''Macduff''', Act II, Scene III * '''Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul<br> Of the wide world dreaming on things to come,<br> Can yet the lease of my true love control, <br> Supposed as forfeit to a confin'd doom.''' ** [[William Shakespeare]], in ''[[The Sonnets]] : CVII *'''Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks<br> Within his bending sickle's compass come;<br> Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,<br> But bears it out even to the edge of doom.''' :'''If this be error and upon me prov'd,<br> I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd.''' :* [[William Shakespeare]], in ''[[The Sonnets]] : CXVI * We seem doomed to repeat all our mistakes and find that we are being groomed, and doomed, by the legions of war, Odin's messengers, who would have us believe that aggression is the only way forward. Now we live in a war zone, the entire world. ** [[Ralph Steadman]], in ''Fear And Loathing On The Road To Hollywood'', p. 157 * ''{{w|Doctor Doom}}:'' Bereft of my technology... mystic armor damaged... offensive and defensive capabilities minimal. Enemy forces... ''[a horde of demons closes in]'' substantial. It matters not. Even cornered, to my last breath I remain who and what I am. I will not hide, nor tremble, nor beg. Let them come and reckon with fury that is DOOM defiant. Here I stand, hell-horde! Unbowed! But understand: If it is my destiny that I should perish this day, I shall not go down easily... and I shall NOT go down ALONE.<br />''Demons:'' RIP its SKIN. Wear it for HIDE. Its EYES for me. Tear its FLESH from its BONES.<br />''Doctor Doom:'' Yes, come, and let us make an end of it — ''there is DOOM enough for ALL!'' ** {{citation | month = June | year = 2006 | author = J. Michael Straczynski | authorlink = J. Michael Straczynski | title = The Hammer Falls (Part 2) | periodical = {{w|Fantastic Four}} | issue = 537 }} == T == <!-- [[File:John Collier Queen Guinevre's Maying.jpg|thumb|right|Behold, thy doom is mine.<br> Let [[chance]] what will, I [[love]] thee to the [[death]]! ~ [[Alfred, Lord Tennyson]] ]] --> [[File:Escudo Real de Gondor.svg|thumb|right|He was elven-[[wise]], and there was a [[light]] in his [[eyes]] that when they were kindled few could endure. His [[face]] was [[sad]] and stern because of the doom that was laid on him, and yet [[hope]] dwelt ever in the depths of his [[heart]], from which [[mirth]] would arise at times like a spring from the [[Stone|rock]]. ~ [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] ]] [[File:Brillanten.jpg|thumb|right|Fëanor, being come to his full might, was filled a new [[thought]]... He began a long and [[secret]] labour, and he summoned all his lore, and his [[power]], and his subtle skill; and at the [[end]] of [[all]] he made the [[w:Silmaril|Silmarils]]. ~ [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] ]] [[File:Varda Elentári.jpg|thumb|right|If any [[change]] shall come and the Marring be amended, Manwë and [[w:Varda|Varda]] may [[know]]; but they have not [[revealed]] it, and it is not declared in the dooms of Mandos. ~ [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] ]] [[File:Stöwer Titanic.jpg|thumb|right| In the last moments of the great ship’s doom, when all was plainly lost, when braver and hardier men might almost have been excused for doing practically anything to save themselves, they stood responsive to their conductor’s baton and played a recessional tune. ~ [[Steve Turner]] ]] * [[Life]] is not as idle ore,<br> But iron dug from central gloom,<br> And heated hot with burning fears,<br> And dipt in baths of hissing tears,<br>And batter'd with the shocks of doom,<br> To shape and use. ** [[Alfred Tennyson]], ''[[In Memoriam A.H.H.]]'' (1849), Part CXVIII, Stanza 5 * '''Behold, thy doom is mine.<br> Let [[chance]] what will, I [[love]] thee to the [[death]]!''' ** [[Alfred, Lord Tennyson]], in [[Idylls of the King]]'', The Coming of Arthur * Goodnight! for we shall never bid again<br> Goodmorrow — Dark my doom was here, and dark<br> It will be there. I see thee now no more. ** [[Alfred, Lord Tennyson]], in [[Idylls of the King]]'', Balin and Balan * We two were born together, and we die<br> Together by one doom… ** [[Alfred, Lord Tennyson]], in [[Idylls of the King]]'', Balin and Balan * If ever Lancelot, that most noble knight,<br> Were for one hour less noble than himself,<br> Pray for him that he scape the doom of fire,<br> And weep for her that drew him to his doom. ** [[Alfred, Lord Tennyson]], in [[Idylls of the King]]'', Guinevere * '''My doom is, I love thee still.<br> Let no man dream but that I love thee still.''' ** [[Alfred, Lord Tennyson]], in [[Idylls of the King]]'', Guinevere * Ill doom is mine<br> To war against my people and my knights. ** [[Alfred, Lord Tennyson]], in [[Idylls of the King]]'',The Passing of Arthur * ''Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, <br>Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,<br>Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,<br>One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne <br>In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. ** [[J. R. R. Tolkien]], in ''[[The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' (1954), Book I, The Shadow of the Past * ''Seek for the [[Sword]] that was broken:<br>In Imladris it dwells;<br>There shall be counsels taken<br>Stronger than Morgul-spells.<br>There shall be shown a token<br>That Doom is near at hand,<br>For Isildur's Bane shall waken,<br>And the Halfling forth shall stand.'' ** [[J. R. R. Tolkien]], in ''[[The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' (1954), Book II, The Council of Elrond * Out of doubt, out of dark, to the day's rising, </br>He rode singing in the sun, sword unsheathing.</br>Hope he rekindled, and in hope ended;</br>Over death, over dread, over doom lifted </br>Out of loss, out of life, unto long glory. ** [[J. R. R. Tolkien]], in ''[[The Return of the King]]'' (1955), "The Battle of the Pelennor Fields", and later in "Many Partings" * '''Elrond saw many things and read many hearts.''' One day, therefore, before the fall of the year he called Aragorn to his chamber, and he said: "Aragorn, Arathorn's son, Lord of the Dúnedain, listen to me! '''A great doom awaits you, either to rise above the height of all your fathers since the days of Elendil, or to fall into darkness with all that is left of your kin. Many years of trial lie before you.''' You shall neither have wife, nor bind any woman to you in troth, until your time comes and you are found worthy of it." ** [[J. R. R. Tolkien]], in [[Appendices to The Lord of the Rings]] * '''He became at last the most hardy of living Men, skilled in their crafts and lore, and was yet more than they; for he was elven-wise, and there was a [[light]] in his [[eyes]] that when they were kindled few could endure.''' His face was sad and stern because of the doom that was laid on him, and yet hope dwelt ever in the depths of his heart, from which mirth would arise at times like a spring from the rock. ** [[J. R. R. Tolkien]], in [[Appendices to The Lord of the Rings]], of Aragorn Elessar * Fëanor, being come to his full might, was filled a new thought, or it may be that some shadow of foreknowledge came to him of the doom that drew near; and he pondered how the light of the Trees, the glory of the Blessed Realm, might be preserved imperishable. Then he began a long and secret labour, and he summoned all his lore, and his power, and his subtle skill; and at the end of all he made the Silmarils. ** [[J. R. R. Tolkien]], in ''[[The Silmarillion]]'' (1977), The Quenta Silmarillion * '''The Doom of Men, that they should depart, was at first a gift of Ilúvatar.''' It became a grief to them only because coming under the shadow of Morgoth it seemed to them that they were surrounded by a great darkness, of which they were afraid; and some grew wilful and proud and would not yield, until life was reft from them. ** [[J. R. R. Tolkien]], in ''[[The Silmarillion]]'' (1977), The Akallabêth * In the last moments of the great ship’s doom, when all was plainly lost, when braver and hardier men might almost have been excused for doing practically anything to save themselves, they stood responsive to their conductor’s baton and played a recessional tune. ** [[Steve Turner]], in ''The Band That Played On'' (2011) == U == == V == [[File:Giovanni Domenico Tipeolo, Procession of the Trojan Horse in Troy, 1760.jpg|thumb|right|The fatal day, th' appointed hour, is come. ~ [[Virgil]] ]] * In youth alone, unhappy mortals live;<br>But, ah! the mighty bliss is fugitive:<br>Discolour'd sickness, anxious labour, come,<br>And age, and death's inexorable doom. ** [[Virgil]], in the ''[[w:Georgics|Georgics]]'' (29 BC), Book III, lines 66 * Arms and the Man I sing, the first who bore<br>His course to Latium from the Trojan shore;<br>By fate expell'd, on land and ocean tost,<br>Before he reach'd the fair Lavinian coast:<br>'''Doom'd by the Gods a length of wars to wage,<br>And urg'd by Juno's unrelenting rage;<br>Ere the brave hero rais'd, in these abodes,<br>His destin'd walls, and fix'd his wand'ring gods.'''<br>Hence the fam'd Latian line, and senates come,<br>And the proud triumphs, and the tow'rs of Rome. ** [[Virgil]], in the ''[[w:Aeneid|Aeneid]]'' (29–19 BC), Book I, opening lines, as translated by [[w:Christopher Pitt|Christopher Pitt]] (1740) ** Variant translation: ** Arms, and the man who first, by Fate's command,<br>From Iion flying, sought Italia's strand,<br>And gain'd Lavinium, are my themes of song.<br>Long toss'd by waves, on land he suffer'd long:<br>From power supernal, such his doom of woe;<br>Pursued by vengeful Juno as her foe. *** As translated by [[w:Charles Symmons|Charles Symmons]] (1817) * The fatal day, th' appointed hour, is come. ** [[Virgil]], in the ''[[w:Aeneid|Aeneid]]'' (29–19 BC), Book II, Line 324, as translated by [[John Dryden]] * '''[[Fate]], and the dooming gods, are deaf to tears.''' ** [[Virgil]], in the ''[[w:Aeneid|Aeneid]]'' (29–19 BC), Book II, Line 376, as translated by [[John Dryden]] == W == * The night-wind blew cold on my desolate heart<br>But colder those wild words of doom,—“Ye must part.” ** [[Sarah Helen Whitman]], in "Our Island of Dreams" * The sweet imperious mouth, whose haughty valor<br>Defied all portents of impending doom. ** [[Sarah Helen Whitman]], in ''The Portrait'' (of [[Edgar Allan Poe]]) * Who, doomed to go in company with Pain,<br>And Fear, and Bloodshed, miserable train!<br>Turns his necessity to glorious gain. ** [[William Wordsworth]], in "Character of the Happy Warrior" (1806) * In truth the prison, unto which we doom <br /> Ourselves, no prison is. ** [[William Wordsworth]], in "Nuns Fret Not", l. 8 (1806) == X == == Y == == Z == == Anonymous == * Three things all ways threaten a man's peace<br/>And one before the end shall overthrow his mind;<br/>Either illness or age or the edge of vengeance<br/>Shall draw out the breath from the doom-shadowed. ** [[Anonymous]] Old English poem, ''[[w:The Seafarer (poem)|The Seafarer]]'', line 68 == External links == {{Wikipedia}} {{Wiktionary|doom}} [[Category:Themes]] tr8ttb5ioz351zq6qtqsukrtcn0i4rh 0 153064 3961371 3951376 2026-07-06T06:07:53Z ~2026-22475-30 3310494 3961371 wikitext text/x-wiki {{italic title}} ---- {{Pokémon header}} ---- <br/> This is a list of episodes in Pokémon: Johto League Champions, the fourth season of the Pokémon animated series (ポケットモンスター Poketto Monsutā?, Pokét Monsters), covering the further adventures of series protagonist Ash Ketchum and his friends in Johto. ===''A Goldenrod Opportunity'' [4.01]=== ===''A Dairy Tale Ending'' [4.02]=== ===''Air Time'' [4.03]=== :'''Ash''': My name is Pallet and I come from Ketchum! :'''Mary''': Ash, is not that wrong? :'''Ash''': No, this is Ash and I am Pikachu! <hr width=50%/> :'''Misty''': This Meowth looks so real, I can't tell it's a dummy! :'''Meowth''': [''to himself''] She can't tell I'm real and I'm the dummy? ===''The Bug Stops Here'' [4.04]=== :'''Ash''': Casey, this isn't fair! :'''Casey''': Tough luck! I saw this Scyther way before you did! :'''Ash''': I'm not talking about me! This isn't fair to Chikorita! You're pushing it too hard! It's barely hanging on! It's too weak to attack! :'''Casey''': What do you know? Chikorita's gonna do whatever I tell it to! <hr width=50%/> :'''Misty''': CASEY. :'''Casey''': What, Misty? :'''Misty''': What's more important to you: Winning some contest or the well-being of your Pokémon? :'''Casey''': How can you even ask me that? My Pokémon mean everything to me! :'''Misty''': Well, if that's true, you sure have a funny way of showing it. ===''Type Casting'' [4.05]=== :[''Flying in their hot air balloon''] :'''Jessie''': There it is. I think we should go straight up the river. :'''Meowth''': And so do the cops. :'''Jessie''': James, what's taking so long? Aren't those potatoes ready yet? :'''James''': Not yet, Jess. :'''Jessie''': Can't you hurry it up a little? :'''Meowth''': Hey, maybe they'll cook faster if we turn the fire higher. :'''James''': Great idea. :[''Meowth turns the fire up which burns the balloon and they come crashing down''] :'''Jessie''': That was a great idea! :'''Meowth''': Are the spuds done? :'''James''': Well done. <hr width=50%/> :'''Fisherman''': I love to, but before I do, one of you trainers could catch me a Sudowoodo. :'''Ash''': A Sudowoodo? :'''Fisherman''': Yes, the Sudowoodo is a real rare kind of Pokémon. They say you can find them at the top of that mountain there, but I have never seen one. Three Pokémon Trainers might have a better chance of catching a Sudowoodo than me. :'''Misty''': [''when Ash opens his Pokédex''] Let’s see what Dexter says. :'''Dexter''': “Sudowoodo, the Imitation Pokémon. This rare Pokémon hides in trees to avoid capture.” :'''Misty''': Sudowoodo looks pretty interesting. <hr width=50%/> :'''Pierre''': That's impossible! None of the research papers back that up! :'''Marie''': Well, if you spend less reading research and more time DOING research, you it IS possible! :'''Pierre''': Then you're saying every single report is wrong?! :'''Marie''': I’m saying there’s a possibility they are! :'''Pierre''': You must be smarter than I am! And the other experts that agree with me! :'''Marie''': I don’t know about the other experts, but I’m definitely smarter than you are! <hr width=50%/> :'''Ash''': Sudowoodo is a Rock-type?! :'''Misty''': That’s pretty hard to believe. Rock-type Pokémon are usually rocky and gravely like Geodude, Graveler, Golem and Onix. :'''Ash''': Sudowoodo is more like... :'''Misty''': More like a Grass-type Pokémon. I can’t believe it’s a Rock-type. :'''Marie''': I agree with you, Misty. I can’t believe it either. But all the researchers say Sudowoodo is a Rock-type. <hr width=50%/> :'''Pierre''': We already have the answers! :'''Marie''': You can believe the books, but I think finding answers first hand is always the best! :'''Brock''': Exactly right! Yours is the first hand I've held in a long time and I can tell you from personal experience you can't find this in a book! Maybe you and I can do some research in the field of love? :'''Misty''': [''pulls Brock by his ear''] In that field, your position is left out. <hr width=50%/> :[''when trying to find a Sudowoodo''] :'''Marie''': There have been reports of Sudowoodo looking like oak trees, plum trees and cherry trees. They even change color like real trees. :'''Ash''': Wow. [''fantasizes several Sudowoodo''] They ''must'' be Grass-types. :'''Pierre''': [''looking up''] Sudowoodo gather branches to look like trees. :[''the leaves fall down from the branches''] :'''Ash''': Maybe not. <hr width=50%/> :[''When Sudowoodo falls through a hole''] :'''Ash''': Did Sudowoodo use Dig? :'''Marie''': Maybe that means it’s a Ground-type. :[''Suddenly, a net comes up out of the hole, revealing Sudowoodo''] :'''Ash''': What’s going on here?! :'''Jessie''': Prepare for trouble, because we’re in cahoots. :'''James''': And make it trouble, right down to our roots. :'''Jessie''': To protect the world from devastation. :'''James''': To unite all peoples within our nation. :'''Jessie''': To denounce the evils of truth and love. :'''James''': To extend our reach to the stars above. :'''Jessie''': Jessie! :'''James''': And James! :'''Jessie''': Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light. :'''James''': Surrender now or prepare to fight fight fight. :'''Meowth''': [''bursts out of a stump''] ''That’s'' right! <hr width=50%/> :'''Misty''': They’re gone! :'''Ash''': And took Sudowoodo with them! :'''Marie''': We’ll never find it again! :'''Brock''': Don't worry, Marie, we'll find that Sudowoodo and if we don't I'll leave my friends and dedicate myself to working with you 24/7 every minute of the day and night... [''gets hit by Misty’s mallet''] :'''Misty''': How about part time. <hr width=50%/> :[''about the Sudowoodo that Team Rocket brought''] :'''Fisherman''': [''suspiciously''] Why isn’t it saying anything? :'''Meowth''': Maybe it doesn’t want to talk to strangers. :'''Fisherman''': Well, whatever it is, it doesn’t look too healthy. ===''Fossil Fools'' [4.06]=== :'''Ash''': When are we gonna see ''your'' big discovery? :'''Foster''': Let’s finish this first, then we’ll see. :'''Oak''': That’s what I used to say to get you off ''my'' back. ===''Carrying On'' [4.07]=== :'''Jessie''': Oh as bad as that was; it taught us all an important lesson. :'''James''': It may be cloudy but our motto always shines through. :'''Wobbuffet''': [''pops out''] Wobba-fet! :'''Jessie''': Yes, that’s right, Wobbuffet. I- Hey! Who asked you for your opinion? You’re never right! ===''Hassle in the Castle'' [4.08]=== :'''Brock''': If you like strength? Call me Rocko Brocko! Romantic? Try lover! Or Brocky, anything! you can call me any name that fits me! Well, what would you like to call me? :'''Misty''': [''bored''] Why don’t you try insane? :'''Dr. Anna''': Let’s start with Brock. And I’m Doctor Anna. <hr width=50%/> :'''Ash''': Hey, you’ll never know. Maybe those two would make a really good match. :'''Misty''': You must mean the Zubat. <hr width=50%/> :'''James''': We could have knocked on the front door. Why did we have to sneak in the back way, Jessie? :'''Jessie''': It’s what all the villains do, James. :'''Meowth''': It’s better this way. I get to pussyfoot around, and I’m good at it. <hr width=50%/> :'''Dr. Anna''': Excuse me, do you have an appointment?! :'''Jessie''': We have no appointment, but we've been having some trouble! :'''James''': So prescribe us some ointment on the double! :'''Jessie''': To protect us from all that chafing and itching! :'''James''': It might finally stop all of Jessie's... complaining! ''[Can't say ''that'' one for the kiddies, James...]'' :'''Jessie''': To eradicate the evils of athlete's feet! :'''James''': Maybe I can get rid of my prickly heat! :'''Jessie''': Jessie! :'''James''': James! :'''Jessie''': Team Rocket's been scratching at the speed of light! :'''James''': So give us some salve or we'll never sleep tonight! :'''Meowth''': Meowth, that's right. <hr width=50%/> :'''Anna''': It looks like both routes are dangerous. :'''James''': We could all be trapped here for the rest of our lives! :'''Meowth''': Well that’s that! Let’s take a break and make a sandwich! ===''Two Hits and a Miss'' [4.09]=== :'''Misty''': Why did all those Trainers bow to you? :'''Kenso''': Because I am the shihan of this dojo :[''Misty and Brock gasp''] :'''Ash:''' Shihan? I think I had that once at a Chinese restaurant. :[''Everyone else but Ash falls over''] :'''Brock''': DON'T YOU KNOW ANYTHING?! A shihan is the master teacher in a dojo! :'''Ash''': I thought it was chicken in a garlic sauce. :'''Kenso''': You're confusing me with General Tso. <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': Mmmm, I’d love to bring that back to the boss. :'''James''': We’d move straight to the Hitmontop of his list. :'''Meowth''': Then why don’t we try to catch it? :'''Wobbuffet''': Wobbuffet! :'''Team Rocket''': Exactly right! :[''pause''] :'''Jessie''': Would you get back in your ball?! :'''Wobbuffet''': [''when being sent back in''] Wobbu! :'''James''': We were talking about the top, not the bottom. ===''A Hot Water Battle'' [4.10]=== :'''Chikorita''': Chiko! [Totodile!] :''[Chikorita walks towards Totodile]'' :'''Chikorita''': Chiko-chiko! [You did that on purpose!] :'''Totodile''': To-to-dile! [No, I didn't!] <hr width=50%> :'''Meowth''': Thanks for saving me, pal. <hr width=50%> :'''Narrator''': Chikorita, Totodile, and Cyndaquil work down their differences, pulled together, and got through an exciting adventure. Now, their friends again, and after they've been enjoyed some rest and relaxation, they'll set out once more on the road to Johto. ===''Hook, Line and Stinker'' [4.11]=== :'''Misty''': Sign up this Poliwhirl as my partner, please! :'''Lady''': Alright. :'''Ash''': I want Pikachu to be my partner... :'''Pikachu''': Pika-chu! :'''Brock''': And I’ve decided I want ''you'' to be my partner! :'''Lady''': [''gasps''] What?... :'''Misty''': [''dragging Brock by the ear''] Nice try, Brock, but I think you missed the boat again... ===''Beauty and the Breeder'' [4.12]=== :'''Misty''': Wow, this is unbelievable! Everybody must be here for the contest! They're all so stylish. Hey, Brock, what kind of contest is this? :'''Ash''': A Pokémon catching contest? What Pokémon should I use for this one? :'''Brock''': It's not a catching contest [Brock brushing Vulpix] It happens to be an important Pokémon Beauty Contest. :'''Misty''': So that's why you've been grooming Vulpix, You're gonna enter the contest. :'''Togepi''': Toge! Toge! Toge! :'''Brock''': I'm not gonna enter the contest but Vulpix is! I'll explain later. Right now, I have to get Vulpix ready! :'''Vulpix''': Vul! :'''Brock''': Vulpix, I have to make you look beautiful. :'''Vulpix''': Vul! :'''Brock''': And speaking of beauty, you two could use a little sprucing up! You can't meet Suzie looking all scruffy and scuzzy! :''[Misty is just nervous]'' :'''Misty''': You don't look so great yourself, Brock. :''[Brock came has a different outfit and Ash is shocked]'' :'''Brock''': So how do I look now? :'''Ash''': You look like the ice cream man. :'''Pikachu''': Pika. :'''Misty''': What he means is you look very cool and very sweet. :'''Togepi''': Toge! Toge! Toge! <hr width=50%/> :''[Zane starts to become irritated by Misty's constant questions]'' :'''Zane''': May I ask a question? :'''Misty''': Sure. :'''Zane''': I'm minding my own business, trying to get my Ninetales ready for the beauty contest. THEN YOU COME ALONG AND ASK ME A MILLION QUESTIONS! SO MY QUESTION IS, WILL YOU PLEASE LEAVE ME ALONE?!! :'''Misty''': Oh, I'm sorry. <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': And there you have it, another masterpiece of Pokémon perfection! :'''James''': Yes, and ''true artists'' can even take a pathetically repulsive Pokémon and bring out its beauty, or at least cover up the ugly. <hr width=50%/> :'''Officer Jenny''': Hold it right there! These two contestants are frauds! They locked up the real number one contestant and his Marill in a closet and took his place. :'''Brock''': Is that really true? :'''Jessie''': James, talk your way out of this. :'''James''': We certainly wouldn't have done it if we thought we'd get caught. ''[Meowth sighs in frustration]'' :'''Jessie''': Our original number was 259! How can we make the judges wait that long to see the winners? :'''James''': We're going to win anyway, so the first-place finishers might as well be the first-place starters. :'''Officer Jenny''': ''[erupting into fury]'' '''''<big>THAT'S THE LAST STRAW! YOU TWO ARE OUTTA HERE!!!</big>''''' :''[Officer Jenny throws out Team Rocket and their Pokémon]'' :'''Jessie''': '''''HOW DARE YOU?''''' :'''Officer Jenny''': AND DON'T EVEN THINK OF COMING BACK! <hr width=50%/> :'''Zane & Suzy''': Fire Spin Attack! :''[Vulpix and Ninetails use a Fire Spin on Team Rocket sends them flying, all fried to a crisp in the sky] :'''Team Rocket''': We're blasting off again! ===''A Better Pill to Swallow'' [4.13]=== :'''Brock''': [''to Old Man Shuckle''] I've never asked you for a favor before mainly because I've never met you before! But I'd be the happiest person in the world if you gave me that Shuckle juice! ===''Power Play'' [4.14]=== :'''Meowth''': Ahhh... Ain't that beautiful?... Nuttin' makes me more peaceful an' calm than sittin' an' watchin' a sunset. :'''Wobbuffet''': [''pops up behind him''] Wo-bba! :'''Meowth''': Hey! Pipe down! Can't ya see I'm calm an' peaceful here, ya dopey blob?! ===''Mountain Time'' [4.15]=== :'''Ash''': ''[gasps]'' Pikachu! :'''Misty''': ''[gasps]'' Togepi! <hr width=50%/> :'''Ash''': Hey! What are you guys tryin' to pull this time?! :'''Jessie''': The same as always. We're taking your Pikachu. :'''Brock''': You can't be serious! :'''Misty''': After we just saved all of you! :'''James''': It isn't our fault that you have bad judgment. ===''Wobbu-Palooza'' [4.16]=== :'''James''': I feel guilty stealing food from all the people who fed us so well. :'''Meowth''': All we're doin' is cuttin' out the middleman. ===''Imitation Confrontation'' [4.17]=== :[''Duplica's Ditto imitating Ash's Totodile is unable to perform a Hydro Pump attack''] :'''Duplica''': I don't understand what the problem could be Ash, your Totodile knows Hydro Pump, doesn't it? :'''Ash''': Uh, well... Not exactly, no. :'''Totodile''': To-to-to-to-to-to-to. Dile! :'''Duplica''': [''moans and hangs her head down in disappointment/disbelief''] I guess what ya don't know can't hurt ya... ===''The Trouble with Snubbull'' [4.18]=== :'''Brock''': Nurse Joy, I think I could use a physical exam too! :'''Nurse Joy''': [''confused''] What? :'''Brock''': Your beauty makes my temperature rise, and your loveliness makes my tender heart skip a beat! :'''Misty''': [''pulls Brock by his ear''] If you think Nurse Joy would fall for that story, the only thing you need examined is your head. <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': Prepare to say good-bye to all of our trouble! :'''James''': Prepare to say hello to Snubbull! :'''Jessie''': To protect ourselves from being poor! :'''James''': When we get enough, we'll still get more! :'''Jessie''': We'll capture Snubbull and return it to its rich owner and get a big reward! :'''James''': So then there won't be anything we can't afford! :'''Jessie''': Jessie! :'''James''': James! :'''Jessie''': Team Rocket likes blasting off at the speed of light! :'''James''': But catching that Snubbull and getting that reward would be a delight! :'''Meowth''': Meowth! That's right! Agh! But what you're doin' ta me is dead wrong! You're supposed ta be my friends! :'''Jessie''': We ''are'' your friends Meowth and sometimes friends have to make sacrifices. :'''James''': What's the big deal?! Once we get that reward we'll buy you a new tail. :'''Meowth''': I don't wanna new tail! I want this one! ===''Ariados Amigos'' [4.19]=== :'''Misty''': That treatment made me look like a movie star all right, the star of a Horror Movie!... :'''Brock''': At least you didn't get your face blown up... ===''Wings 'N' Things'' [4.20]=== :''[Ash, Brock and Misty are talking to Zach in the playground]'' :'''Ash''': I don't see how we can expect you to just throw away your favourite Pokémon. :'''Misty''': But what else can Zach's dad do, Ash? :'''Zach''': Yeah. :'''Brock''': If your dad was in some other kind of business, maybe it wouldn't seem so bad. :'''Misty''': But he makes glass and windows. :'''Ash''': Why'd you pick a Yanma to begin with? :'''Zach''': It happened a few months ago when there was this really bad rainstorm. ''[A flashback occurs with him and his dad taking their barrow]'' That day, I was helping my dad deliver some glass to a town a couple miles from here. We were on our way back home, when I saw something. ''[Spots a Yanma lying on the ground]'' Hey! What's wrong? Are you okay? Yanma was soaked from the rain and it was in really bad shape. So my dad and I wrapped it up the best we could and took it home. After I got it warmed up a little, I dried Yanma's wings with a hair dryer. Pretty soon, Yanma was as good as new! :'''Yanma''': ''[flying off]'' Yan, yan. :'''Zach''': Hey, Yanma! :'''Yanma''': Yan, yan. ''[Nuzzles Zach, making him giggle]'' :'''Zach''': And That's all it took to tame Yanma. ''[The flashback ends]'' But, even though Yanma was easy to tame, it's a born troublemaker. ''[A flashback occurs to when Yanma was back to strength]'' As soon as it got better, Yanma broke all the glass in my father's factory, and dad told me to get rid of Yanma. Maybe I should've. :'''Brock''': Yanma was your friend. :'''Zach''': Right. :'''Misty''': I can understand that. :'''Ash''': Yeah, me too. :'''Zach''': I convinced my dad to try and let me train Yanma to stop making shockwaves. ''[A flashback to when he trained Yanma occurs]'' Now listen up, Yanma, you can't beat your wings too fast. Understand? :'''Yanma''': Yan, yan. ''[Flaps its wings]'' :'''Zach''': No, Yanma! You're not listening! :'''Yanma''': Yan, yan, yan. :''[Soon, Yanma is flying away from Zach]'' :'''Zach''': Wait! Yanma, come back here! :'''Yanma''': Yan, yan. :''[The flashback ends]'' :'''Zach''': Well, I tried my best, but I guess it wasn't good enough. :'''Misty''': It's too bad there's nothing you can do. :'''Brock''': I guess it's a long shot, but it might help if you, your dad and Yanma move someplace else. :'''Misty''': They'd still have the same problem. :'''Ash''': Maybe they could replace all the windows here with plastic. :'''Misty''': Then he'd go out of business. :'''Zach''': It's too late. :'''Brock, Misty & Ash''': Huh? :'''Zach''': I, I don't have any choice but to let Yanma go. :'''Brock, Misty & Ash''': Huh? :'''Zach''': Yanma will do just fine on it's own. I'll miss my friend, but a window maker's son isn't meant to be a Yanma trainer. :'''Ash''': Guess you're right. <hr width=50%/> :''[James is looking through a pair of binoculars with Jessie sitting on a rock and Meowth on the grass]'' :'''Jessie''': Well, do you see the twerps? :'''Meowth''': Or Pikachu? :'''James''': Nothing. But I do see... ''[A Yanma flies into view, the very same one that Zach was friends with]'' :'''Yanma''': Yan. Yan. Yan. Yan. ''[Flies down and lands on the opposite side of the river to Team Rocket]'' :'''Jessie''': What's that? :'''James'''': I'm not sure. :'''Meowth''': That there's a Yanma. :'''Jessie''': A Yanma? :''[Yanma is drinking water...]'' :'''Yanma''': Yan. ''[Team Rocket captures it in a net]'' Yan, yan? :'''James''': We gotcha! :'''Jessie''': We caught a Yo-yo! :'''Meowth''': It's called a Yanma. :'''Jessie''': Don't contradict me! ''[Holds up Yanma]'' Huh! I have a poem! If you added wings to Caterpie... It would look just like a Yanma, see? :'''James''': Jessie, I think you may have an honest to goodness talent. :'''Meowth''': Yeah, but not for poetry. :'''Yanma''': Yan. ''[Flies away with a string attached to its torso]'' :'''Jessie''': Huh? :'''James''': Come back here! ''[Pulls on the string that Yanma is attached to]'' :'''Yanma''': Yan, yan, YAAAAANNN! ''[Emits a shockwave that shatters a window of a nearby house]'' :'''Jessie''': Hey! What was that? :'''James''': ''[pulls out a little red book]'' Let me see. It says here that Yanma can flap its wings fast enough to generate a shockwave capable of shattering windows. :'''Jessie''': Windows? I know! :'''James''': Know what? :'''Jessie''': If we can make Yanma smash some windows, I know how we can make cash from windows! :'''Meowth''': Huh? :'''James''': Maybe Jessie's a poet after all! ===''The Grass Route'' [4.21]=== :'''Ephraim''': Wow, you must be a really great Pokémon Trainer Ash. :'''Ash''': [''chuckling''] Maybe. I don't like to say I'm great but that's what people tell me. :'''Misty''': [''bored''] Those people mustn't know him too well... ===''The Apple Corp'' [4.22]=== :'''Ash''': Look guys, the Pichu really love Charmaine and Charmaine really loves the Pichu too. :'''Brock''': [''jealous''] Lucky Pichu... ===''Houndoom's Special Delivery'' [4.23]=== :'''Ash''': ''[voiceover]'' Houndoom's Special Delivery! <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': Ah! Just listen to that sweet mountain song. :'''James''': Just feel the free fresh mountain air as it rushes through your hair. :'''Meowth''': Just t'ink... We made t'ree cups of tea from only one teabag... :'''Jessie''': What's the matter with us?! This has to stop! It's all wrong! :'''James''': What's wrong? :'''Meowth''': You don't like my tea? :'''Jessie''': ''[angrily]'' This is no time for sipping and drifting and dreaming! We're acting like a bunch of pink-slip dot-com slackers! :'''Meowth''': Aah! :'''James''': You're absolutely right! We've been totally ignoring our Team Rocket responsibilities! :'''Meowth''': Da Boss sent us to bring back some rare and valuable Pokémon, and we're gonna do it one a' dese years! :'''James''': Oh! Luck has struck! It's the Twerp and his Pikachu! :'''Jessie''': Let's keep it simple this time. Just take one Pokémon at a time. :'''Meowth''': Nuttin' fancy, just a tried-and-true sneak attack. <hr width=50%/> :'''Misty''': [''with Togepi crying''] Guys, where are you?! I can't see in this smoke! WHOA! AAAAAH! :'''Togepi''': To-Ge-Prrrriiii! :'''Misty''': Ah! Togepi! Togepi, Where are you?! Togepi! <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': Failed again. :'''James''': Foiled again. :'''Wobbuffet''': Wobbu, Wobbu. :'''Meowth''': Our simple plan is spoiled again. :'''Wobbuffet''': Woooobbuffet :'''Jessie, James, and Meowth''': We're blasting off like always! :'''Wobbuffet''': Woooobbuffet :[''Ding''] <hr width=50%/> :'''Misty''': Togepi! Togepi, can you hear me?! <hr width=50%/> :'''Misty''': Togepi, answer me! Come back! :'''Ash''': Togepi! :'''Pikachu''': Pi-Pi-Pi! :'''Brock''': Togepi! :'''Misty''': Come back, Togepi! <hr width=50%/> :'''Togepi''': Togepriiiiiii! :'''Houndoom''': Hell? :'''Togepi''': Priiiiiii! :'''Togepi''': Togepriiiiiii! :'''Houndoom''': Hell? Huh! :'''Togepi''': Priiiiiii! :'''Houndoom''': Hell! :'''Togepi''': Priiiiii! Toge? :'''Houndoom''': Hell! :'''Togepi''': Toge-Togepriiii! <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': We have to do something! We're headed for disaster! :'''Wobbuffet''': Woooobbuffet :'''Jessie''': We don't need another disaster! :'''James''': Can't you see that we're about to crash?! :'''Wobbuffet''': Wobbu! <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': We must've skipped off the surface, James, just like a stone. :'''James''': Skipping like a stone is a whole lot better than sinking like one, Jessie. :'''Meowth''': Don't look now, but I think we're sunk anyways. :'''Jessie and James''': Huh? :'''Wobbuffet''': Wobbu, Wobb! <hr width=50%/> :'''Misty''': [''off screen''] Here's Togepi! :[''Ash, Misty and Brock finds out Houndoom is with Togepi.''] :'''Ash''': Hey! :'''Brock''': Togepi! :'''Misty''': There's my Togepi! Thank goodness it's all right. :'''Ash''': Misty, Togepi's so all right that it didn't even miss its afternoon nap! :'''Brock''': Wish I could've stayed that relaxed through all this excitement. <hr width=50%/> :'''Misty''': Hello there, remember me? <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': Great. Not only have we found Pikachu, but a whole flock of Mareep, too. :'''James''': I love Mareep because they aren't too wild, but they're extraordinarily woolly! :'''Jessie''': Meowth, what's that frighteningly rare-looking Pokémon? :'''Meowth''': Dat's a Houndoom. Okay. Today, team, we're gonna catch 'em all! <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': You didn't think we'd be back so soon, did you? :'''James''': We may be losers, but we're certainly not quitters! :'''Meowth''': Our balloon's patched up, and we're ready to rock! :'''Wobbuffet''': Wooooobbuffet! <hr width=50%/> :'''James''': Bye, Houndoom. It was nice stealing you. :'''Wobbuffet''': Wooooobbuffet! <hr width=50%/> :'''Mareep farmer''': Houndoom use your flamethrower! :'''Houndoom''': GRRRRRR! AAAAAAAAARGH!!!! :''[the Flamethrower fries the Meowth Balloon and Team Rocket]'' :'''Jessie, James and Meowth''': Whoa! We've been fried! :'''Wobbuffet''': Wooooobbuffet! :'''Misty''': Bye-Bye now! :'''Togepi''': Toge-Togepriii! :'''Houndoom''': Helllllllllllllll. :'''Togepi''': Toge... <hr width=50%/> :'''Misty''': It's time, Togepi. We have to leave, so let say goodbye to Houndoom. :'''Togepi''': Toge. :'''Houndoom''': Hell, Hell. :'''Togepi''': Toge-Toge. <hr width=50%/> :'''Togepi''': Toge? To-Toge-Prrrrrriiiii! :'''Misty''': What's the matter Togepi? We gotta keep going... Ah!!! [''Togepi jumps out from Misty's arms''] :'''Togepi''': Toge, Toge-Toge-Toge. :'''Houndoom''': Helllllll. Hell.. [''angrily growling''] Grrrrrrrrrrr! :'''Togepi''': Toge? :'''Houndoom''': Grrrrrr! Hell-Hell-Hell! :'''Togepi''': [''Togepi becomes scared and sad and starts crying''] Priiii-riiiiiiii! Priiiiiii-riiiiiii! :'''Misty''': [''comforting its crying Togepi''] I know it's sad to say goodbye, Togepi. But, we have to. :'''Togepi''': Toge? [''Houndoom comes close, Togepi stops crying and smiles''] Togeprrrriiii. :'''Houndoom''': Hell, Hell. ===''A Ghost of a Chance'' [4.24]=== :'''Misty''': At least there's no fire here. :''[The room suddenly bursts into flames]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Morty''': Thieves! You should be ashamed of yourself, how can people who are Pokémon Trainers steal other trainers' Pokémon?! :'''James''': It's quite easy. :'''Jessie''': We're Team Rocket members first and people second! :'''Meowth''': I ain't even a people. :''[Pikachu pops his head out of the hole] '' :'''Jessie''': Look, it's Pikachu! :'''Meowth''': We hit the jackpot! :'''Pikachu''': ''[tries to shock Team Rocket]'' Pika... :'''Jessie''': Careful, Pikachu. :'''James''': I wouldn't zap us if I were you. :'''Meowth''': Unless you wanna zap your friend Togepi, too! :'''Pikachu''': Pi, Pi, Pika. :'''Jessie''': We won! :'''Meowth''': Pikachu and Togepi! :'''James''': And we've never would of caught them if I haven't bought my trusty medal deceter! ===''From Ghost to Ghost'' [4.25]=== :'''James''': Look Meowth, my treasure detector is working again. :'''Meowth''': It woiked before? :'''James''': Luckily it was blasted away along with us, and the closer we get to Ecruteak, the more Treasure it senses! :'''Jessie''': I wish you'd come to ''your'' senses James, the only thing that contraption does is detect junk. ===''Trouble's Brewing'' [4.26]=== :'''Brock''': [''referring to four of the Kimono Sisters''] Ash, this is terrible, I want all of them and they all want me. Am I right? :'''Ash''': You're half right. <hr width=50%/> :''[Team Rocket sips tea]'' :'''Meowth''': It's like something out of a bilge pump. ===''All That Glitters'' [4.27]=== :'''Ash''': [''to Team Rocket''] Give me Pikachu! :'''Jessie''': I'm sorry, that selection is unavailable! ===''The Light Fantastic'' [4.28]=== :'''Meowth''': [''referring to a piece of ice he's just licked''] Hey! That thing could've been poison! :'''Jessie''': Well if it were, we wanted you to be the first to know! :'''Meowth''': That's considerate. ===''Un''BEAR''able'' [4.29]=== :'''Jessie''': A corn field? I have an idea! :'''Meowth''': I dunno what it sounds like, but I bet it's corny. <hr width=50%/> :'''Brock''': I was having a beautiful dream and, all of a sudden, it turned into a horrible nightmare. :'''Misty''': ''[quietly]'' Quiet, or I'll turn your life into a nightmare! :'''Brock''': Okay. <hr width=50%/> :'''Nurse Joy''': Oh, no! That's the third report of backpack thief we've had this week. :'''Brock''': Nurse Joy, perhaps you and I can search for this thief, and in the process, discover true love. :'''Misty''': ''[pulls Brock by the ear]'' Knock it off, or you're gonna discover true pain. :'''Ash''': Did anybody else who got their backpack stolen mention a Teddiursa? :'''Nurse Joy''': Yes. Was the Teddiursa you met extra cute, extra cuddly and sweet as could be? :'''Misty''': That's my Teddiursa! :'''Nurse Joy''': And that's how it fools everybody, I'm afraid. :'''Misty''': Guess I got fooled too. <hr width=50%/> :'''Ash''': You caused a lotta trouble! :'''Misty''': Yeah! What do you have to say for yourself now?! :'''Teddiursa''': [''pulling yet another cute expression and holding a paw to its mouth''] Ur... :'''Misty''': Cutie... I mean ''bad'' Teddiursa! :'''Ash''': Give back Brock's backpack, you thief! :''[Teddiursa takes the loaf of bread out of the backpack and eats it]'' :'''Misty''': This stinks. :'''Brock''': It's not even ashamed that it's a liar! ===''Moving Pictures'' [4.30]=== :'''Ash''': If ya can't trust a little old lady, who can ya trust? ===''Spring Fever'' [4.31]=== :'''Jessie''': Let's forget Pokémon for a while. Once we find a spring we could open a quaint little inn there. We can call it "Jessie's Lodge". :'''James''': Jessie's Lodge? :'''Jessie''': Alright, "Jessie and James's Lodge". :'''Meowth''': Hey! Don't forget me! :'''Jessie''': "Jessie ''and'' James ''and'' Friend"! ===''Freeze Frame'' [4.32]=== :'''Misty''': Look guys it's a Pokémon Centre. :'''Ash''': Wow, I never thought they'd have one all the way up here. :'''Brock''': Wouldn't this be the perfect spot to cuddle up with a hot cocoa and a warm Nurse Joy? :[''Everyone else looks at Brock strangely''] :'''Ash, Misty and Todd''': Uh... :'''Brock''': That's not what I meant! I meant a warm fire! ===''The Stolen Stones'' [4.33]=== :'''James''': Our plan to divide and conquer those kids worked completely. :'''Jessie''': We got the twerps off our tails and brought back Pikachu too. :'''Wobbuffet: [''pops up''] Wob-buffet! :'''Meowth''': Heh! This is the only plan we ever had that actually worked! Let's get back ta the Boss before we blow it. ===''The Dunsparce Deception'' [4.34]=== :[''James and Meowth are in Moltres and Dunsparce costumes respectively in a tacky play''] :'''Jessie''': The mighty battle between Dunsparce and Moltres has begun!... Er, Moltres uses a Wing Attack. :'''James''': [''poking Meowth''] Wing wing... :'''Meowth''': Hey! Watch where you're wingin'! ===''The Wayward Wobbuffet'' [4.35]=== :''[Team Rocket have crash landed next to a tree after their Meowth balloon deflated]'' :'''James''': To get Pikachu, we need that key. The key's with Wobbuffet and Wobbuffet's gone. :'''Meowth''': All of a sudden, Wobbuffet's our key player. :'''Jessie''': ''[impersonating Wobbuffet]'' Wobbuffet! :'''James''': I never thought I'd be saying this but I kind of miss the little blob... :'''Meowth''': Wobbuffet added that certain nothin'. :'''Jessie''': ''[impersonating Wobbuffet]'' Wobbuffet! :'''James''': ''[off camera]'' Jessie? :'''Jessie''': What is it now, James?! :'''James''': Look! Wobbuffet! :'''Jessie''': Hmmm? :''[The camera cuts to a knocked out Wobbuffet who is now in a speedboat. Ash, Misty and Brock are giving chase on the pavement beside the waterway]'' :'''Misty''': Wobbuffet, wait! :'''Meowth''': Look! The twerps are here! :''[The camera cuts to Ash, Misty and Brock]'' :'''Jessie''': ''[off camera]'' Wobbuffet! :''[Ash, Misty and Brock look to see Team Rocket running along the other side of the waterway]'' :'''Jessie''': Listen to me, Wobbuffet! Hit the brakes! Just hit the brakes! :''[However, Wobbuffet is still knocked out]'' :'''James''': It's no use, Wobbuffet's out like a light! :'''Ash''': I'm gonna have to get into that boat! :'''Jessie''': Not before I do! :''[Ash and Jessie jump into the speedboat. Jessie tries to kick Ash off, but Ash luckily ducks in time and starts to lose balance. Meanwhile, Wobbuffet regains consciousness]'' :'''Wobbuffet''': Wobbu! ''[Turns to Ash and Jessie, but he accidentally breaks off the steering wheel]'' Wobbuffet! :'''Ash''': Wobbuffet's awake again. :'''Jessie''': Yes, but shouldn't that steering wheel be steering? :'''Wobbuffet''': Wobbuffet? :''[Ash and Jessie start panicking]'' :'''Jessie''': Wobbuffet, pull the throttle back! It'll stop! :'''Wobbuffet''': Wobbu! ''[Puts the throttle up, but the lever breaks, causing the speedboat to go faster as Ash and Jessie hang on for dear life. Meanwhile, Goneff is riding a motorcycle with three police cars in pursuit]'' :'''Goneff''': Hee hee hee hee hee. Next time, don't leave motorcycle running, flatfeet! :''[Back on the waterway, Ash and Jessie see a Lapras paddle boat ahead of them]'' :'''Jessie''': Get out of the way! :'''Ash''': We're gonna crash into it! :''[The speedboat runs right up and over the Lapras paddle boat and goes flying, but Wobbuffet falls out of it]'' :'''Wobbuffet''': WAAAAAA! ''[Lands on Goneff's motorcycle]'' :'''Goneff''': Oh, it's you, you double criss-crosser! :'''Wobbuffet''': Wobbuffet! :''[Meanwhile, Ash and Jessie are heading straight for a bridge]'' :'''Jessie''': Wobbuffet's gone! Where did it go?! :'''Ash''': Never mind that, look! I choose you, Totodile! ''[Sends out Totodile]'' :'''Totodile''': Toto toto toto. :'''Ash''': Hurry, Totodile, shoot your Water Gun against that bridge! :'''Totodile''': Totodile! ''[Uses Water Gun on the bridge support with a ladder, which brings the speedboat to a complete stop]'' :'''Ash''': You were great, Totodile. :'''Totodile''': To, toto toto toto... ===''Sick Daze'' [4.36]=== :'''Misty''': I call it Misty's Mystery Stew, and it's got 47 secret ingredients! <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': [''after James and Meowth taste Misty's cooking''] Hey... What's the matter with you two? Don't you like it? :'''Meowth''': Well it ain't that I don't like it Jessie, it's that I ''hate'' it. ===''Ring Masters'' [4.37]=== :'''Jessie''': Don't you understand what it means to have pride and self respect and a sense of worth and value and dignity?! :'''Meowth''': I used ta... Before I met you! ===''The Poké-Spokeman'' [4.38]=== :'''Meowth''': I guess I am a liar, but before I learned how ta talk human I was honest an' trustworthy jus' like every udder Pokémon. Sometimes I wish I was never coised with such intelligence an' ability... ===''Control Freak!'' [4.39]=== :'''Meowth''': I wish I wasn't making a dope out of myself! :'''James''': Then stop that dreadful dancing! :'''Meowth''': Believe me, Jimmy, I wanna stop, but my body's got a mind of its own! <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': Prepare for the worst trouble you've ever seen! :'''James''': With the staff and the mask Jessie's the queen! :'''Jessie''': I'll rule the world with power and might! :'''James''': She'll capture Pokémon without a fight! :'''Jessie''': A queen, whose subjects must all kneel down before me! :'''James''': Yeah... But... I'll just kneel on one knee. :'''Jessie''': Jessie, Her Royal Highness! :'''James''': James, her lowly... Hey, wait a second! :'''Jessie''': Queen Jessie ruling all with power and might! :'''James''': [''desperately''] You'd better surrender or she'll go on like this all night! :'''Meowth''': [''desperately''] Yeah. Why fight? <hr width=50%/> :'''Meowth''': This as this fast as it can go. ===''The Art of Pokémon'' [4.40]=== :'''Ash''': [''to Team Rocket''] Are you gonna let those Smeargle go free?! :'''Smeargle''': [''at different intervals''] Smeargle... :'''Jessie''': No way! :'''James''': We're not in favor of ''that'' kind of artistic freedom! ===''The Heartbreak of Brock'' [4.41]=== :'''Brock''': Look out! ''[catches Temacu]'' You almost fell in. :'''Temacu''': Yeah, thanks a... ''[as she raises her head, Temacu sees Brock's face and immediately blushes in his handsome presence]'' AHHH! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Misty''': You've done some low things but this is the lowest! Tricking an innocent girl into getting engaged! :'''James''': It wasn't me, it was ''her''! ===''Current Events'' [4.42]=== :'''Meowth''': [''after clawing the card which fried the trio from the electricity''] I nailed it. :'''Head of Security''': I'm the Head of Security, have you been waiting long? :'''Brock''': [''grabs her hand''] For you? I've been waiting my whole life for you. :'''Misty''': [''pulls Brock by the ear''] Cool it, Brock. She's here to save Ash, not your love life. <hr width=50%/> :'''Ash Ketchum''': ''[pounds on the door]'' Help! Somebody, open the door! Misty, Brock, Pikachu! Get us out of here! <hr width=50%/> :'''Head of Security''': [''once she opens the door''] Got it! Now let's go in and find your friend. :'''Brock''': Oh thank you, miss! Now perhaps you can open your heart and let my love enter in. :'''Head of Security''': [''confused''] Huh? :'''Misty''': [''pulls Brock's ear''] It's time for you to exit. ===''Turning over a New Bayleef'' [4.43]=== :'''Brock''': If Bayleef is like a girl in love, ''logical'' explanations won't work! <hr width=50%/> :'''Ash Ketchum''': Well, I don't care when it evolved. It shouldn't be tackling me like that. :'''Misty''': I'm sure Bayleef isn't trying to hurt you, Ash. That's probably the way it shows affection, and it just doesn't know its own strength yet. :'''Brock''': Tackling you must be Bayleef's way of saying 'I love you'! :'''Ash and Misty''': Huh...? :'''Brock''': Love can be painful, Ash! Bayleef wants you to fall for it and fall hard! That's probably why it's using its Tackle attack! :'''Misty''': Brock, I think you're having a Goofy attack... ===''Doin' What Comes Natu-rally'' [4.44]=== :[''Victreebel bites/consumes James as usual while Team Rocket battle in a school''] :'''James''': Victreebel! Please! Not in front of the children! ===''The Big Balloon Blow-Up'' [4.45]=== :[''Team Rocket are at the entry form desk''] :'''Jessie''': Don't forget to put my name in James. :'''James''': Yes and Meowth's too. :'''Guy''': You don't have to put down the name of the Pokémon you're using. :'''Meowth''': Whadda ya mean Usin'?! [''the guy gasps in surprise''] Nobody's usin' me Pal! I'm the balloon pilot here; these two are just along fer the ride! ===''The Screen Actor's Guilt'' [4.46]=== :[''The group have just viewed a movie trailer with Brad Van Darn, a man they met earlier''] :'''Brad''': [''in the trailer''] I'll take you to the Ultra Maximum. :'''Ash''': He doesn't act like a movie star in person... :'''Brock''': He doesn't act like a person in the movies! :'''Misty''': Hey! Where's Togepi? :'''Brock''': Yeah, Smoochum's gone, too. :'''Ash Ketchum''': And Pikachu's not here, either! :'''Robo Skiploom''': Skiploom. :'''Smoochum''': Smoochum! Smoochum! Smoochum! Smoochum! Smoochum! :'''Pikachu''': Pi, Pika. Pi. :'''Smoochum''': Smoochum! :'''Robo Skiploom''': Skiploom. :'''Jessie''': Excellent. :'''James''': Our Robo Skiploom is working like a charm. :'''Meowth''': Yeah, but I wonder who that Smoochum belongs to. :'''Jessie''': In about five seconds, it's going to belong to us! :'''Robo Skiploom''': Skiploom. :'''Smoochum''': Smoochum! :'''Pikachu''': Pika! Pi! Pika! Pi. Pi. :'''Jessie''': Having a little problem getting through, Pikachu? I suppose we should've made a bigger hole, cause you're a whole lot bigger, aren't you, Pikachu? ===''Right On, Rhydon'' [4.47]=== :'''Jessie''': Well, now that we know what that Rhydon likes to eat... :'''James''': ...We'll just find where it feeds and lie in wait. :'''Meowth''': Heh! Lyin' an' waitin' happens ta be my specialty! ===''The Kecleon Caper'' [4.48]=== :'''Brock''': If you like those Pokémon, wait till you see Onix! :'''Misty''': '''USE YOUR HEAD, BROCK! THIS IS NO PLACE FOR AN ONIX!''' :'''Brock''': Maybe you're right... <hr width=50%> :[''Brock climbs a ladder and prepares to dangerously scale a blimp to get a Pokémon back for a pair of sisters''] :'''Brock''': This is for Madison and Alexa! I've got to do something to win their love! Or at least their pity! ===''The Joy of Water Pokémon'' [4.49]=== :'''Joy''': There's no Pokémon that's better than any other, there's no Pokémon that's worse than any other, they are all precious creatures... ===''Got Miltank?'' [4.49]=== :'''Ash''': Team Rocket, before you ruin everything you should know that Miltank healed Meowth's injuries too! :'''Pikachu''': Pika! :'''Jessie''': Well isn't that sweet... But I don't remember asking it to! ===''Fight for the Light'' [4.50]=== :''[Ash and his friends walking through a park in Olivine City]'' :'''Ash''': I hope she'll be alright. :'''Brock''': I wonder who Sparkle is. Hey, maybe it's her cousin. Do you think she's as pretty as Jasmine? :'''Misty''': When do you think she'll be ready to battle with you? :'''Ash''': Oh! That's right! I gotta find out! ''[Runs back the other way]'' :'''Brock''': But she's not at the gym anymore, Ash! :'''Ash''': ''[stops]'' Oh, that's right. :'''Misty''': Hey, look over there. :'''Brock''': Huh? :'''Pikachu''': Ka? :''[They look and see Janina scrubbing her Onix in a grey sand pit]'' :'''Ash''': Hey, Janina! :'''Janina''': Huh? ''[Turns to Ash, Brock and Misty]'' I shouldn't have played that trick on you, I'm sorry. :'''Ash''': Don't worry, it's not that big a deal. But can I ask you what you're doing? :'''Janina''': Well, you see, I rubbed water-repellent wax all over my Onix, and now I'm trying to clean it off by scrubbing it with sand. :'''Ash''': Water-repellent wax? :'''Misty''': So that's why it wasn't affected by Totodile's Water Gun attack. :'''Brock''': That's not a very kind way to treat your Onix, you know. :'''Janina''': Oh, I know that now. But all I ever wanted was to be an apprentice at Jasmine's gym, and I was just hoping to make her proud of me, that's all. So I decided to do whatever I could to overcome Onix's weakness. :'''Ash''': So that was it. :'''Pikachu''': Pika. :'''Janina''': And no one ever told me it was against the rules. :'''Brock''': Instead of trying to erase a Pokémon's weaknesses, you have to encourage its natural strengths! :'''Janina''': But how am I supposed to do that? :'''Brock''': If you listen to your Onix with both your heart and your ears, you'll learn everything you need to. :'''Janina''': Hey! That's exactly what Jasmine used to tell me to do! :'''Ash''': Oh! Do you have any idea where I can find Jasmine right now? :'''Janina''': Yeah, I'm pretty sure she's at the Shining Lighthouse down on the wharf. :'''Ash''': Thanks! ''[Runs off]'' :'''Misty''': Wait up, Ash! :''[Misty and Brock race off to catch up with Ash]'' :'''Janina''': ''[to Onix]'' So, I guess I'll have to try listening to you a little bit better. :'''Janina's Onix''': ''[responds]'' ===''Machoke, Machoke Man'' [4.51]=== :[''Chuck has his Machoke Karate Chop him multiple times to psyche itself up for battle''] :'''Chuck''': [''to Machoke''] Come on! Focus your energy! Focus on winning! It's ''all'' about the focus, Machoke! == External links== {{Wikipedia|List of Pokémon: Johto League Champions episodes}} [[Category:Japanese TV shows]] [[Category:Pokémon]] 1aikzkuoaoff9qzapkeqt4mizcm6xx0 0 153076 3961372 3874834 2026-07-06T06:18:45Z ~2026-22475-30 3310494 3961372 wikitext text/x-wiki {{italic title}} ---- {{Pokémon header}} ---- <br/> This is a list of episodes in '''''Pokémon: Master Quest,''''' the fifth season of the Pokémon animated series (ポケットモンスター Poketto Monsutā?, Pokét Monsters), covering the further adventures of series protagonist Ash Ketchum and his friends in Johto. ===''Around the Whirlpool'' [5.01]=== ===''Fly Me to the Moon'' [5.02]=== '''Brock''': By the looks of it, I'd say were going to Pudgy Pidgey Isle. '''Misty''': Oh, Corsola, Corsola. Wherefore art thou swimming off to, my lovely little Corsola? ===''Takin' It on the Chinchou'' [5.03]=== ===''A Corsola Caper!'' [5.04]=== ===''Mantine Overboard!'' [5.05]=== ===''Octillery the Outcast'' [5.06]=== :'''Misty''': Hey Ash. Team Rocket. :'''Ash''': Oh yeah, I forgot. Pikachu, Thunderbolt! :'''Pikachu''': Pika? Pika-CHU!! ''[the thunderbolt starts frying Team Rocket]'' :'''Marcelus''': Now Octillery, Ocktazooka! :''[Octillery fires an Octazooka at the crisped up Team Rocket]'' :'''Team Rocket''': Team Rocket's blasting off again! :'''Wobbuffet''': Wobbufett! ===''Dueling Heroes'' [5.07]=== ===''The Perfect Match'' [5.08]=== :''[The Referee for the Whirl Cup tournament is announcing the rules]'' :'''Referee''': Here are the rules of the match. Each trainer is allowed two Pokémon, and the first trainer to knock out both opposing Pokémon the winner. :'''Misty''': Well, I know who I'm starting with. Let the games begin! ''[Throws her Poké ball and out comes Poliwhirl]'' :'''Misty's Poliwhirl''': Poli. :'''Ash''': Poliwhirl, not bad. Then I'll use... ''[Throws his Poké ball and out pops Totodile]'' :'''Totodile''': Toto toto totodile! :'''Announcer''': Ash will be battling with Totodile while Misty puts Poliwhirl to the test! :'''Referee''': Ready, begin! :'''Ash''': Totodile, Water Gun! :''[Totodile uses Water Gun]'' :'''Misty''': Okay, Poliwhirl, Bubble attack now! :''[Poliwhirl jumps up to avoid Totodile's Water Gun attack]'' :'''Misty's Poliwhirl''': Poli! :'''Ash''': What? :'''Totodile''': Toto. :''[Poliwhirl jumps into the water]'' :'''Announcer''': Poliwhirl has jumped into the water and is headed straight toward Totodile. :'''Ash''': Alright, Totodile, here it comes. You have to get in the water, now! :'''Totodile''': Dile! :''[But Poliwhirl jumps out of the water]'' :'''Misty's Poliwhirl''': Whirl! ''[Uses Bubble on Totodile]'' :'''Totodile''': ''[getting hit by Poliwhirl's bubbles]'' Dile, Dile, Dile! :'''Ash''': Totodile! :''[Totodile unleashes a big white circle]'' :'''Misty's Poliwhirl''': Poliwhirl! :''[The Bubble attack stops and Totodile has come out with dizzy eyes]'' :'''Totodile''': To, to, dile! :''[Brock, Pikachu and Togepi are watching the battle as spectators]'' :'''Pikachu''': Pika, Pika! :'''Togepi''': Togepi! :''[The crowd cheers]'' :'''Announcer''': Totodile is in trouble after that close range Bubble attack! :'''Misty''': Alright, Poliwhirl, use Double Slap! :''[Poliwhirl starts to come down]'' :'''Ash''': Totodile, watch out! :'''Totodile''': Dile. ''[Recovers from his dilemma]'' :'''Misty's Poliwhirl''': Poliwhirl! ''[Uses Double Slap, but Totodile dodges it]'' :'''Misty''': Poliwhirl! :'''Ash''': Skull Bash! :''[Totodile uses Skull Bash on Poliwhirl]'' :'''Announcer''': Totodile's Skull Bash hits its mark! :'''Misty's Poliwhirl''': Whirl! ''[Goes into one of the pillars and jumps back down, hence the saying "What goes up, must come down"]'' :'''Totodile''': ''[Landing on the platform]'' Toto! :'''Announcer''': But Poliwhirl comes back strong! :'''Misty''': Use Double Slap again! :'''Ash''': Totodile, Water Gun! :'''Totodile''': Toto toto... ''[Uses Water Gun, but Poliwhirl dodges it and then lands on the platform]'' Dile! :'''Misty's Poliwhirl''': Poliwhirl! ''[Double Slaps Totodile and sends him flying]'' :'''Announcer''': Poliwhirl's Double Slap sends Totodile flying! :''[As the announcer talks, Totodile hits a pillar and falls back down onto the battlefield]'' :'''Ash''': Totodile, stand up! :''[Totodile gets up, but he is all out of sorts]'' :'''Totodile''': Dile, dile, dile, dile. ''[Collapses]'' :'''Ash''': Totodile? :'''Referee''': Totodile is unable to battle! Poliwhirl wins! :''[The camera pulls out of the arena as Ash recalls Totodile]'' :'''Announcer''': Look like Double Slap did the trick! Misty and Poliwhirl win the first battle! :'''Misty''': We did it! We did it! I love you, Poliwhirl! ===''Plant it Now... Diglett Later'' [5.09]=== :'''Mayor of Diglett Village''': We're a band of Diglett thieves known as the Band of Diglett Thieves! :'''Jessie''': Now there's an original name. :'''Mayor of Diglett Village''': We used to be known by a much more creative name, but those old folkies in there just kept getting confused. ===''Hi-Ho Silver... Away!'' [5.10]=== ===''The Mystery is History'' [5.11]=== :'''Ritchie''': It's Team Rocket! :'''Ash''': Yeah, Cassidy! :'''Misty''': ''[referencing Buzz Lightyear character in Toy Story series]'' And Buzz! :'''Butch''': The name's not Buzz! It's Butch! Didn't you hear me the first time? :'''Cassidy''': Hand over the baby Lugia or we'll take it by force. ===''A Parent Trapped!'' [5.12]=== :'''All''': Who's that Pokémon? It's Dragonite! ===''A Promise is a Promise'' [5.13]=== :'''All''': Who's that Pokémon? It's Exeggutor! ===''Throwing in the Noctowl'' [5.14]=== ===''Nerves of Steelix'' [5.15]=== :''[Steelix surfaces in front of Cyndaquil]'' :'''Ash''': It's right in front of you! ===''Bulbasaur... the Ambassador!'' [5.16]=== ===''Espeon, Not Included'' [5.17]=== :''[The title card comes up]'' :'''Ash''': ''[voiceover]'' Espeon, Not Included. :''[Ash, Misty, Brock, Pikachu and Togepi are sampling some kebabs]'' :'''Ash''': You know, these are the best kebabs I've ever eaten. :'''Misty''': I forgot to tell you, Ash. I got an email from Sakura, and she's going to meet up with us here. :'''Ash''': ''[with his mouth full]'' That's the girl who's got an Eevee, right? :'''Pikachu''': Pika pika! :'''Brock''': Yeah, along with four beautiful older sisters. But, that's not important. :'''Misty''': I wonder where she is. ''[Stands up]'' Huh? ''[Sees an Espeon running towards them]'' Look at that! :''[Everyone else looks]'' :'''Brock''': Huh? :'''Pikachu''': Ka? :'''Brock''': It's an Espeon! :''[The Espeon stops in front of Ash and his friends as a familiar voice is heard]'' :'''Sakura''': ''[off camera]'' Misty! :'''Ash & Friends''': Huh? :''[Espeon's Trainer, Sakura, approaches them]'' :'''Misty''': Sakura! :'''Sakura''': Hi! :'''Misty''': Hi! :'''Sakura''': It's been, way too long. :'''Misty''': I was getting worried. :'''Sakura''': Oh, sorry. I was just taking care of Espeon and it got late. :'''Misty''': That's okay, I didn't realise you had an Espeon. :'''Sakura''': Yeah. My Eevee evolved into an Espeon. :'''Ash''': ''[gets out his Pokédex]'' Wow, let me see. :'''Ash's Pokédex''': Espeon, the Sun Pokemon. Espeon are able to read air currents, allowing it to predict the future as well as its opponent's next moves. :'''Ash''': Cool. :'''Misty''': So, it's a psychic type, huh? :'''Sakura''': Uh huh. :'''Brock''': Your family almost has all the evolutions of Eevee. Ahhhh! Satsuki has a Jolteon, Sumomo has a Vaporeon, Tamao has an Umbreon, and Koume has a Flareon. And, presenting, your Espeon! :'''Ash''': Awesome, you really do have all of them. :'''Misty''': Sakura, that's so cool. :'''Sakura''': Yeah, you're right. Now that Eevee evolved, we do. ''[to Espeon]'' Right, Espeon? :'''Espeon''': ''[Nuzzles in agreement]'' ===''For Ho-Oh the Bells Toll'' [5.18]=== ===''Extreme Pokémon!'' [5.19]=== ===''An EGG-sighting Adventure!'' [5.20]=== :'''Meowth''': They're making a run for it! :'''Jessie''': What are you saying?! :'''James''': Oh, that they're making a run for it. ===''Hatching a Plan'' [5.21]=== :'''Jessie''': Hello there, prepare for trouble! :'''James''': Sorry Jess, but I'm afraid we've already been down that road. :'''Jessie''': Ah, that's right, then let's cut to the chase! :'''Ash Ketchum''': Team Rocket, huh? I'm not really in the mood to play around with you guys right now. So why don't you just go away? ===''Dues and Don'ts'' [5.22]=== :'''Giovanni''': What is it? :'''Wendy''': Giovanni, this is Wendy from Human Resources. Our Johto Regional recruder is found couple of potential candidates. :'''Giovanni''': Very interesting. Although they cutting back on useless staff. I suppose it is necessary for an evil organization to look for promising evildoers to act to our evil team. :'''Wendy''': I've uploaded their data, sir. :'''Giovanni''': Hmm. Hmm? :'''Wendy''': Jessie. :''[flashback begins]'' :'''Jessie''': Ahh! There's nothing like a fruit smoothie after a grooving workout. Be a dear and take care of the bill, please? I'll pay you back later! See ya! :'''Wendy''': Uh, Jessie. :''[flashback ends]'' :'''Wendy''': ''[growls]'' She still owes me that money! :'''Giovanni''': What's going on out there? :'''Wendy''': Uh, it was nothing. It's just that they borrowed a large amount of money from us and not paid a cent of it back. :'''Giovanni''': ''[sighs]'' It's always something with those 3! :'''Wendy''': I must adjust that we cut our losters and block their reinstatement with Team Rocket. :'''Giovanni''': No, just keep an eye on them until they paid their lone. But if it seems they caught pay-it back, we'll have to strike them out his members. :''[Persian meowing]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''All''': Who's that Pokémon? It's Smeargle! :'''Smeargle''': Smeargle! <hr width=50%/> :'''Wendy''': Master Giovanni, I have a scout from the Johto Region on the line. Jessie and James have passed. :'''Giovanni''': Hmm. Work them hard until they've paid back that lone. Um, second thought. Just work them hard. :'''Wendy''': Yes, I will, sir. ''[growls]'' Jessie, you locked out again! I'll never forget that fruit smoothie! <hr width=50%/> :'''Wendy''': Revenge is sweet, my dear Jessie! ===''Just Waiting On a Friend'' [5.23]=== ===''A Tyrogue Full of Trouble'' [5.24]=== ===''Xatu the Future'' [5.25]=== ===''Talkin' 'Bout an Evolution''[5.26]=== :'''All''': Who's that Pokémon? It's Marowak! :'''Marowak''': Marowak! ===''Rage of Innocence'' [5.27]=== :'''Jessie''': Arbok, use accid attack! Let's go! :'''Dr. Lance''': Dragonite! Twister! ===''As Cold as Pryce'' [5.28]=== :'''All''': Who's that Pokémon? It's Magneton! :'''Magneton''': Magneton! ===''Nice Pryce, Baby'' [5.29]=== ===''Whichever Way the Wind Blows'' [5.30]=== ===''Some Like it Hot'' [5.31]=== :'''Meowth''': This place is famous for those big old geezers. :'''Jessie''': Yes, and they say the geysers are fairly renowned as well. <hr width=50%/> :'''Misty''': Oh, give me a break! My Water Pokémon would turn your Fire Pokémon into nothing more than a pathetic puff of smoke! :'''Egan''': TAKE THAT BACK! :'''Misty''': I WILL NOT! <hr width=50%> :'''Egan''': WHAT AM I SAYING? THE ANSWER TO THAT IS NO! :'''Misty''': LISTEN TO ME, HOTHEAD! WE'RE JUST TRYING TO HELP YOU, GET IT! :'''Egan''': I DON'T NEED ANY HELP FROM SOME TWO BIG WATER-LOGGED GIRL! :'''Misty''': I'D SAY YOU DO NEED HELP, BECAUSE YOU'RE JUST A ONE-TRICK TRAINER! :'''Egan''': TAKE IT BACK!!! ===''Hocus Pokémon'' [5.32]=== :'''Misty''': It looks like that cliff is going to collapse! <hr width=50%> :'''Lily''': Goodbye! :'''Team Rocket''': Team Rocket's falling down again! :'''Wobbuffet''': Wobbu! :'''All''': Who's that Pokémon? It's Dewgong! :'''Dewgong''': Dewgong! <hr width=50%/> :'''Ash''': This is awesome! I'm a Pikachu! ===''As Clear as Crystal'' [5.33]=== ===''Same Old Song and Dance'' [5.34]=== ===''Enlighten Up!'' [5.35]=== ===''Will the Real Oak Please Stand Up?'' [5.36]=== :'''James''': It inflates its psychic self. But we'll put it on the shelf. Wobbuffet. ===''Wish Upon a Star Shape'' [5.37]=== ===''Outrageous Fortunes'' [5.38]=== :'''Narrator''': It's a perfect day as our heroes head toward Blackthorn City, where Ash hopes to win his eighth and final badge to qualify for the Johto League. :'''Brock''': Let me see. It looks like we're close. :'''Ash''': Hey! :'''Misty''': Look! There it is! :'''Brock''': The Pokémon Center. :'''Ash''': What do you say we go check it out? Huh? :'''Delaney''': Keep it up, Poliwrath! :'''Mason''': Hitmontop, hang in there! :[''crowd shouting''] :'''Brock''': Hey, look at that! :'''Misty''': Sounds like lots of fun! :'''Ash''': You're right. Come on! :'''Mason''': Hitmontop, Triple Kick, now! :'''Delaney''': Dodge it, Poliwrath! [...] Now, Poliwrath, Double Slap! :'''Ash''': Poliwrath and Hitmontop, huh? :'''Misty''': Well, I'm certain that Poliwrath will win, hands down! :'''Ash''': Well, that's no surprise. :'''Brock''': We know you'll always take the side of Water Pokémon, Misty. :'''Delaney''': Poliwrath, Submission, go! :'''Mason''': Hang in there, Hitmontop! [...] Oh, no! :'''Delaney''': Sorry, Mason. :'''Brock''': Wow! That was an amazing move! :'''Ash''': But I thought only Fighting Pokémon use Submission. :'''Misty''': True, but Poliwrath acquired Submission Attack when it evolved from a Poliwhirl. ===''One Trick Phony!'' [5.39]=== ===''I Politoed Ya So!'' [5.40]=== ===''Beauty Is Skin Deep'' [5.41]=== ===''Fangs for Nothin''' [5.42]=== ===''Great Bowls of Fire!'' [5.43]=== '''All''': Who's that Pokémon? It's Chinchou! ===''Better Eight Than Never'' [5.44]=== :'''Jessie''': Dig for treasure! :'''James''': Dig with pleasure! :'''Jessie and James''': Prepare for trouble with our bag of tricks! :'''Meowth''': Yeah! :'''Jessie and James''': And make it double with a couple of picks! :'''Meowth''': Yeah! :'''Jessie and James''': To protect the world from devastation! :'''Meowth''': Yeah! :'''Jessie and James''': To unite all peoples within our nation! :'''All''': Team Rocket! <hr width=50%/> :'''James''': I, for one, couldn't be happier! We're finally stealing something other than that pesky little Pikachu for a change. Besides, I get to try out my new pickax! :'''Jessie''': So, Meowth, how much further before we get to that Dragon Fang? :'''Meowth''': Ah! Allow me to peruse the map. We started digging here, then we turned this way so the fang should be right there! :'''James''': Great! :'''Jessie''': I can almost smell it! :'''Meowth''': That was me. <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': Huh? :'''James''': Something doesn't feel right. :'''James''': Meowth, are you certain that you got the location correct? :'''Meowth''': Of course. My calculations are flawless. Uh-oh! :'''Jessie''': So what do you mean by uh-oh? :'''Meowth''': It seems as though we're digging directly under the lake. :'''Jessie and James''': What?! <hr width=50%/> :'''All''': Team Rocket's all washed up again! ===''Why? Wynaut!'' [5.45]=== :'''Ash''': I told you, you wouldn't get away with it! Pikachu, Thunderbolt! :''Pikachu''': Pika! Pika...chu! ''[Pikachu shoots a Thunderbolt at Team Rocket, it explodes, sends them flying]'' :'''Team Rocket''': Looks like Team Rocket's blasting off again! ===''Just Add Water'' [5.46]=== ===''Lapras of Luxury'' [5.47]=== :''[Ash and friends are inside the Marine Pokémon Laboratory to receive an Egg that they must deliver to Professor Elm. A woman is heard panting, obviously in a rush for something.]'' :''Woman''': Outta my way, please! :''[They all yell.]'' :'''Misty''': Sorry! :'''Ash''': What's the big rush?! :'''Brock''': I'll tell you: it's a rush to excellence, to beauty, and to romance! ''[The romantic runs off towards the woman as always...]'' :'''Ash''': Uh, Brock, where are you going?! :'''Pikachu''': Pikachu! :'''Misty''': We better follow him! :''[They hurry after Brock and the woman, who is seen in front of a bay with a radar and a Lanturn. :'''Lanturn''': Baa? :'''Woman''': Alright, Lanturn, they're coming! Let's get ready! :'''Lanturn''': Baa! Baaaa..... ''[It jumps into the water and uses Supersonic, acting as a doppler.]'' :'''Woman''': Supersonic level optimized and fully operational! :'''Brock''': ''[as Ash and Misty and their Pokémon catch up with him]'' Excuse me, I know you must be real busy... with your equipment and all, but, I can't wait to express my feelings for one as beautiful as you! :'''Woman''': Please, be quiet! Or I won't be able to hear them when they speak! :'''Ash''': When who speaks? :''[As the radar keeps pinging, a group of some kind of Pokémon can be heard singing.]'' :'''Misty''': It sounds... more like they're crying. :'''Togepi''': Toge. :'''Woman''': It's the song of travel. :'''Ash''': That's a song? :'''Pikachu''': Pika? :''[The song and the radar grow louder.]'' :'''Woman''': Huh? :''[The radar shows ten figures, marked by stars, traveling toward the dock.]'' :'''Woman''': Yes, they'll be here soon! Lanturn, look! Here they come! :'''Lanturn''': Baaa! :''[The Pokémon's heads surface one by one, and they are revealed to be a herd of Lapras. One of them makes a rather large splash.]'' :'''Ash and Brock''': Lapras! :'''Ash''': Just look at 'em all! :'''Togepi''': Togepi! :''[The Lapras all sing in greeting.]'' :'''Woman''': It's great to see them looking so well! :'''Ash''': So it was the Lapras who were doing all that singing! :'''[One of them cries and swims toward Ash and company, showing affection to Ash and Pikachu.]'' :'''Ash''': Hey there, Lapras, you sure are a friendly one! :'''Misty''': It's trying to tell you something. :'''Ash''': Huh? :''[The rest of the Lapras cry at Ash, trying to communicate the same thing this Lapras is.]'' :'''Ash''': Yeah, seems like all of them are! Hey, wait a minute, I ''know'' you! :'''Pikachu''': Pika! :''[A flashback of this Lapras, who Ash remembers to be his very own, who helped him through the Orange League and especially through beating the Supreme Gym Leader, Drake, having to leave Ash to join this very herd plays out.]'' :'''Ash''': ''[in the flashback]'' They're waiting for ya... it's time to go. :''[His Lapras cries emotionally.]'' :'''Ash''': Get outta here! :'''[His Lapras joins the others and shows affection to the herd leader as the flashback ends.]'' :''[In the present, his Lapras cries to him as he realizes it grew up from the time he owned it.]'' :'''Ash''': Aha! Lapras, you're my old buddy, aren't you? :''[Ash hugs Lapras and Pikachu jumps onto its head as it cries out.]'' :I didn't even recognize you! You really grew up, Lapras! :'''Pikachu''': Pika-pika! <hr width=50%/> :'''Ash''': Okay, Pikachu, let’s finish it with Thunder now! :''[Pikachu launches Thunder at Team Rocket, it explodes now sends them flying, now fried to a crisp]'' :'''Team Rocket''': Looks like Team Rocket’s blasting off again! ===''Hatch Me if You Can'' [5.48]=== ===''Entei at Your Own Risk'' [5.49]=== :'''Misty''': Hey! Last one in there's a Slowpoke <hr width="50%"/> :'''Larvitar''': ''[whines]'' Lar... ''[screeches loudly]'' '''''LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!''''' :'''Ash''': '''STOP SCREECHING, LARVITAR!!!''' :'''Pikachu''': Pika! ===''A Crowning Achievement'' [5.50]=== :'''James''': So the twerps have a little lunch by the lake, huh? :'''Meowth''': Yeah, and while they’re munchin’ lunch, we’ll pinch Pikachu, right, Jess? :[''Jessie, however, is eating a sandwich''] :'''James''': Hey, who said it was lunch time? :'''Meowth''': Yeah, where’s ours? :'''Jessie''': [''with a mouth full''] It’s all gone. <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': Well, did you guys hear that? :'''James''': I heard king, and king means jewels! :'''Meowth''': And jewels mean dough! LOTS OF DOUGH! <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': We may have missed our chance to grab the King’s Rock, but catching that Slowking would sure put a jewel in our crown. :'''James''': Yes, a Pokémon fit for a king. :'''Meowth''': Or fit for a boss is how I see it. ===''Here's Lookin' At You, Elekid'' [5.51]=== :'''Meowth''': Sweet! :'''Jessie''': Lovely! But I'm sure this Weepinbell could eek out a little more. '''''Excuse me, James! We could use some of your help here!''''' <hr width=50%> :'''Jessie''': Well, they could be have gotten too far away. :'''Meowth''': We gotta get those spire plugs back and present them to the boss! :'''James''': I wonder. Will the boss like them? :'''Meowth''': Of course! That Elekid's gonna be a regular harden to boss' morning routine. Like runnin' his electric raise up for instance. And he's gonna say, "It's the best shave I ever had!" Then he'll use his hand dryer into the perfect load dry. :'''James''': It could just plug the in. :'''Meowth''': But this way is cheaper. :'''Jessie''': And Larvitar? :'''Meowth''': The boss is always saying that he can't find any good help these days. But with Larvitar being the help those days he'll be done. And when he sees the look of sincere save it to in Larvitar on his eyes, he'll say, "Larvitar, your are in a way this in a see of loses." :'''James''': You think so? :'''Jessie''': Now, stop dreaming about it and actually do it! ===''You're a Star, Larvitar!'' [5.52]=== ===''Address Unown!'' [5.53]=== ===''Mother of All Battles!'' [5.54]=== ===''Pop Goes the Sneasel'' [5.55]=== :'''Team Rocket''': You've win those callous claws of yours! What else you'll be trailed this never would've happen! Thanks, your advice is newted, but it's attached too late. Wobbuffet! Aah! Looks like Team Rocket's blasting off again! ===''A Claim to Flame'' [5.56]=== :'''Narrator''': Since their arrival in Silver Town, our heroes have been spending time at the Pokémon Center, finishing up final details before Ash can begin competing in the Silver Conference. :'''Ash''': ''[exiting the Pokémon Center]'' Glad that's out of the way. Are you ready for some battling, Pikachu? :'''Pikachu''': Pika, Pika! :'''Misty''': Not so fast, Ash... :'''Ash''': Huh? :'''Brock''': Have you even looked at the Guide Book yet? :'''Pikachu''': Pi? :'''Ash''': Uh, not really... :'''Ash, Brock and Misty''': Huh? ''[They notice a rather familiar person in front of Ash, and who else would it be than his rival, Gary Oak?]'' :'''Gary''': Old habits die hard, eh, Ashy Boy? :'''Ash''': Gary! :'''Gary''': Yeah, long time no see, huh? :'''Ash''': I know! So are you gonna battle in the Silver Conference too? :'''Gary''': Yep! I dotted every I and crossed every T and figured out which Pokémon I'm using, so now I'm just chilling out! :'''Brock''': Wow! You not only finished all your paperwork, but you picked out all your Pokémon as well? :'''Misty''': That's great, Gary! :'''Gary''': Thanks, guys. This conference means a lot to me. It's Numero Uno or bust! :'''Ash''': Then you better prepare for a bust, because I'm gonna battle you and I'm gonna beat you! :'''Pikachu''': Pika! :'''Gary''': Heheheheh! Still got that naïve enthusiasm, I see! ''[obviously, this riles up Ash and Pikachu]'' :'''Ash''': Oh, really?! :'''Gary''': Just because you got lucky at the Indigo Plateau doesn't mean a hill of beans! ''[He starts to walk toward the Pokémon Center.]'' :I'm setting you straight this go-round, no doubt about it! :'''Misty''': Wow. He's sure feeling pretty confident... :'''Togepi''': Toge... :'''Ash''': I don't care! I'm putting him in his place once and for all! :'''Pikachu''': ''[agitated]'' Pika, Pika! <hr width=50%> :''[As Ash and friends look for the Athlete's Village, they reunite with President Charles Goodshow, who also oversaw the Indigo League and is giving out balloons to children.]'' :'''Ash''': Mr. Goodshow! :'''Mr. Goodshow''': Hm? It's Ash, Brock, and Misty! :'''Brock''': Hey, how've you been? :'''Misty''': Why are you here giving out balloons, Mr. Goodshow? :'''Mr. Goodshow''': You see, as president of the Pokémon League Torch Committee, one of my jobs is to greet the fans! And what better way than with balloons, huh?! :''[He scratches his beard.]'' :''[laughing]'' Yes, very clever! :'''Brock''': Everyone loves balloons! :'''Mr. Goodshow''': Say, Ash, it's been a long time since I've seen you! So, I'll bet you came here to compete in the Silver Conference, that right? :'''Ash''': Right! :'''Mr. Goodshow''': Great, great! Promise me you'll get out there and show 'em what a real battle is all about, 'kay, Ash? :'''Ash''': You got it, Mr. Goodshow! :'''Pikachu''': ''[cheerfully]'' Pika, Pika! <hr width= 50%> :''[After Ash handily defeated all three opponents in the preliminary Trainer Screening, he, Brock, and Misty are watching the monitor to see the 48 Trainers who advanced.]'' :'''Trainer''': ''[amidst the overlapping chatter]'' I look pretty good! Hahaha! :'''Misty''': Wow! :'''Ash''': So these are the Trainers who can move on to the semifinals, huh? :'''Brock''': ''[noticing their good friend Harrison's picture]'' Oh! There's Harrison! He got through the screening! :'''Ash''': ''[chuckles]'' :'''Misty''': I'm so happy for him! :'''Togepi''': Togeprrri! Toge? :'''Ash and Misty''': [noticing Gary's picture]'' Ohh! :'''Misty''': There's Gary, too! :'''Ash''': Yeah, and what about me? ''[he sees himself on the screen.]'' Ah! :'''Pikachu''': Pika! :'''Ash''': Alright! :'''Pikachu''': Pika! :'''Misty''' You're right in there with Gary! That's great! :'''Ash''': Yeah, for now, 'til I blow past him to the victory! :'''Pikachu''': Pika, Pika! :'''Mr. Goodshow''': Maybe... :'''Ash, Brock and Misty''': Huh? :'''Togepi''': Toge? :'''Mr. Goodshow''': I wonder, will it all go that easily? :'''Ash''': Mr. Goodshow? :'''Misty''': What exactly do you mean by that? :'''Mr. Goodshow''': I mean, just getting through the semifinals is a tall order in itself! The Silver Conference semifinals are fought between three members of each block, and the trainer who comes out with the most Victory Points from those battles can participate in the Victory Tournament in the finals! Only ''sixteen'' participants who make their way through the semifinals will be able to compete in that Victory Tournament! :'''Misty''': Wow, I guess it is a pretty long road before you get to that final tournament, isn't it? :'''Brock''': Yeah, and a pretty ''rough'' road, too. :'''Mr. Goodshow''': That's what I'm telling ya! So! Good luck!! :'''Pikachu''': Pika! :'''Ash''': But all that stuff you're sayin' just makes me wanna win it that much more! Wanna hear my plan? We win, and then we win... and then we win some more! :'''Pikachu''': Pika, Pika! <hr width=50%> :'''Ash, Brock and Misty''': ''[before commercial break]'' Who's that Pokémon? :''[after commercial break]'' It's... Scizor! :'''Scizor''': Scizor. <hr width= 50%> :''[A restless Ash and Pikachu are seen in his hotel room bed in the Athlete's Village, with the former appearing pretty anxious.]'' :'''Ash''': Urgh... it's no use! I just can't get to sleep! :'''Pikachu''': Pika? :'''Ash''': Uh, sorry Pikachu. Did I wake you? :'''Pikachu''': ''[shaking his head]'' Pika, Pikachu. Pikachu! :''[Ash and Pikachu then take a walk to clear his mind from the tension about the semifinals.]'' :'''Ash''': You know, the semifinals start up tomorrow after the opening ceremonies, Pikachu, and there's gonna be a lot of really strong Trainers wanting to win, just like us! I'm sure glad that we're a team. :'''Pikachu''': Pika! :''[As they walk, the silhouette of Gary can be seen staring across the lake, also seeming to clear his head and eliminate his worries.] :'''Ash''': It'll just be us against a lot of really strong Trainers! Who's that? :'''Gary''': Huh? Hey, Ash. Can't you sleep? :'''Ash''': ''[nervously]'' Pikachu and I were just out for some... fresh air, that's all. :'''Pikachu''': Pika. :''[The three sit together on a tree stump looking outward in a moment of reflection.]'' :'''Ash''': So, Gary, guess you couldn't sleep either, right? :'''Gary''': Okay. Mmm... you got me this time, buddy. :'''Ash''': Well then, that makes two of us. :''[Ash and Gary look up at the full moon illuminating their surroundings.]'' :'''Gary''': Boy, talk about a full moon! :'''Ash''': Awesome! :'''Gary''': That same kind of moon was out the first night after I left Pallet Town. 'Member? :'''Ash''': No, not really... :'''Gary''': That was the same day you came to Professor Oak's laboratory, and you were acting weird 'cause you were late, 'member? :'''Ash''': Do you have to bring ''that'' up? :'''Gary''': And the only Pokémon left was a feisty little Pikachu that wouldn't do anything it was told to do! :'''Pikachu''': Piiika? :'''Gary''': And ''now'', look what's happened! That Pikachu has become your best buddy ''and'' your best Pokémon! :'''Pikachu''': Pi? :'''Ash''': Uhh... well, you're right about that one, Gary. :'''Pikachu''': Pikachu! :'''Gary''': I wonder... if you hadn't come late that day, or if... say, I hadn't watching a big moon like this that night, we might've ended up in two different parts of the world tonight, doing completely different things, having completely different hopes and dreams, and who knows ''what'' dreams? And there's so many more dreams we haven't even ''thought'' of! :'''Ash''': ''[taken about by this rather unexpected reflective side of his rival]'' Hey, Gary, you okay? I mean, why are you thinking about all this stuff? :'''Gary''': ''[standing up]'' No reason. I was just thinking that there are all kinds of possibilities waiting for the two of us out there in the future. But that doesn't change the present, Ashy! I'm gonna beat anyone who gets in my way of first place, and that includes you! :'''Ash''': Ah... ''[smiling]'' Okay, now you sound more like Gary, which can mean only one thing. ''[He grunts as he also stands up]'' Means you better get used to that number two spot, 'cause I'm gonna be Numero Uno, even if we ''are'' friends! :'''Pikachu''': Pikachu! :''[The two just stand there looking at each other as the night turns into day.]'' <hr width=50%> :'''Announcer''': Ladies and gentlemen, I've just been informed that there seems to be a bit of confusion as to the exact whereabouts of our torch runner. ''[He gasps.]'' This just in: it appears that an unfortunate accident has left our torch runner unable to continue! ''[This, of course, was courtesy of Team Rocket, who, in another failed attempt to capture Pikachu, caused the runner to sprain his ankle.]'' :''[The crowd can quietly be heard chattering in confusion.]'' :'''Brock''': ''Now'' what?! :'''Togepi''': Toge! :'''Misty''': They've ''got'' to use the Sacred Flame! :'''Togepi''': Toge! Toge, Toge! :'''Misty''': Togepi? :'''Pikachu''': Pika! :'''Brock and Misty''': Huh?! :'''Pikachu''': Pika! :''[A silhouette of a boy and his Pikachu bearing the torch is revealed to be none other than Ash Ketchum, who was privileged with the role after he and Gary negotiated, seemingly with Mr. Goodshow or another official.]'' :'''Misty''': Look! :'''Brock''': Hey, it's Ash! :'''Togepi''': Toge! :'''Delia''' ''[who is watching from home with Mimey]'' Oh! :'''Mimey''': Mime! :'''Announcer''': Carrying the torch is Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town! :'''Tracey''': Ohh! :'''Professor Oak''': My stars! Now, how did Ash get that torch?! :'''Announcer''': The Sacred Ho-Oh Flame, from the same Legendary Pokémon that was said to have quelled the battle... :'''Professor Elm''': Ah...! :'''Announcer''': ...restoring life to the plains and forests, is now being carried onto the Silver Stadium platform! :''[Mr. Goodshow chuckles to himself and stands up as Ash is positioned to light the Sacred Flame.]'' :''[With Mr. Goodshow, Gary and the injured runner, the rest of the semifinals competitors watching, and the crowd watching, Ash turns to the cauldron and lights it with the torch, causing the Sacred Flame to burn brightly in the night sky. The crowd erupts.]'' :'''Togepi''': Toge, Toge, Togeprrri! :'''Misty''': Yayyy! Hahaha! :''[Mr. Goodshow walks up to the podium and clears his throat as he prepares to address the Trainers.]'' :''Mr. Goodshow'': Skillful and excited participants! Now that the Ho-Oh Sacred Flame is watching over all of you, battle with honesty, integrity, and honor, so that you will never regret a single moment of your time here! :''[The crowd cheers as the camera shows Gary and Harrison standing beside each other, and Ash and Pikachu looking at each other.]'' :'''Narrator''': With Ash and Gary's help, the Sacred Ho-Oh Flame burns proudly into the sky, marking the opening of the Johto League Silver Conference! Could this turn of events be a hint of great things to come? Stay tuned! :''[The "TO BE CONTINUED" text appears in the bottom right corner.]'' ===''Love, Pokémon Style'' [5.57]=== :'''Brock''': ''[Explaining the semifinals format, a format that can be compared to the group stage of the FIFA World Cup]'' :The semifinals will be a round robin tournament between all three trainers. :''[The screen changes to show a visual of a scoreboard with Mr. Goodshow, Brock, and Misty. With Mr. Goodshow having won against Misty, he has 3 Victory Points while Misty has none.] :A win is three points, a loss is zero points, and a draw is one point for each. :[''The completed scoreboard shows Mr. Goodshow having drawn against Brock to finish four points, Misty with three points with a win against Brock, and Brock with one in a draw against Mr. Goodshow and a loss against Misty. Thus, Mr. Goodshow advances.]'' :Whoever ends up with the most points moves on to the Victory Tournament! :'''Ash''': Okay, so a win is three points... ah, who cares?! I'll just win 'em all and go to the Victory Tournament! :'''Pikachu''': Pikachu! <hr width=50%> :''[Ash's Kingler, who he had great faith in to perform well against his Fire-type-using opponent, Macey, has just been knocked out by the Thunder Shock of three Voltorb that a man dropped down a hill, which might have caused injuries or deaths if Kingler wasn't there. It now sits a healing table in the Pokémon Center with Ash & friends and Nurse Joy.] :'''Ash''': ''[panicked]'' Nurse Joy, my Kingler is-- :'''Nurse Joy''': Your Kingler will be just fine, but I'm afraid there'll be no battling today. :'''Ash''': Ohh... that's just great. ''[He sits down on a bench outside and sulks.]'' ''Now'' what am I gonna do...? :'''Misty''': I guess you're gonna have to make do with Totodile, Ash. It's your only Water Pokémon. :''[The sound of a motorcycle revving is heard, which catches the attention of the gang, especially when it's revealed that the motorcycle is Officer Jenny's!]'' :'''Officer Jenny''': Hello, Ash! Hello Misty and Brock! :'''Ash, Brock and Misty''': Officer Jenny?! :''[Jenny's motorcycle screeches to a stop, a Pokémon jumps out, and how convenient is it that it's Ash's Squirtle, wearing his trademark glasses from the Squirtle Squad?]'' :'''Squirtle''': Squirtle! Squirtle, Squirtle! :'''Ash''': Is that Squirtle...? It is! I can't believe it! :'''Pikachu''': Pika, Pika! :'''Ash''': Hey there, buddy! How've you been? :'''Squirtle''': Squirtle, Squirtle! :'''Pikachu''': Pikachu! :'''Misty''': But how on Earth did Ash's Squirtle get HERE? :'''Jenny''': When Squirtle saw Ash running at the opening ceremonies, there was no stopping it! :''[Brock, as usual, falls for Jenny, being the hopeless romantic he is...]'' :'''Brock''': Every time I see your face, there's just no stopping me! :'''Jenny''': What? :'''Misty''': ''[Dragging Brock off by his ear]'' Enough! Love is blind, but you're annoying. :'''Ash''': This is great, but what about all it's firefighting work with the Squirtle Squad? :'''Jenny''': The Squirtle Squad has grown so much, they said that your Squirtle could take a little time off, Ash! :'''Ash''': The perfect time, too! :'''Brock''': Hey Ash, you ''could'' hurry and change your entry! :'''Ash''': Yeah! Squirtle, that okay? :'''Squirtle''': ''[Giving a thumbs-up]'' Squirt! Squirtle-squirt! <hr width=50%> :'''Brock''': Both of Ash's Pokémon are Water types, and they're totally weak against Fire type! ''[Pretty sure you meant to say ''Electric'' type to refer to Macey's Electabuzz, Brock...]'' <hr width=50%> :'''Announcer''': ''[After Ash's Squirtle was knocked to its shell by Macey's Quilava's Quick Attack]'' :What's this? It appears Squirtle has fallen on its back and can't get up! ''[Of course, this is a reference to the infamous line "I've fallen and I can't get up!" from LifeAlert commercials.]'' ===''Tie One On!'' [5.58]=== :''[Ash, Brock and Misty are in the Silver Town Pokémon Center awaiting Ash's pairing for his first match in the Johto League Silver Conference Victory Tournament after tying with Jackson to advance.]'' :'''Brock''': Hey, guys! The pairings for the Finals Tournament just went up! :'''Ash''': Harrison made it! :'''Misty''': Well, that doesn't surprise me! :''[The giant monitor shows Harrison being paired up against an unknown boy for his first match.]'' :'''Brock''': Yeah, he's really good. :'''Ash''': Let's see, where am I...? :''[The camera pans over to the right, where Ash is shown versus... his biggest rival, Gary?!]'' :''[The camera zooms in on their top halves.]'' :'''Ash''': Oh...! It's Gary! :''[Brock and Misty both gasp.]'' :'''Pikachu''': Pika... :'''Gary''': Lucky you! :'''Ash, Brock and Misty''': ''[turning toward Gary]'' Huh? :'''Togepi''': Toge? :'''Gary''': Your Silver Conference experience is going to be a short one! I hope you had fun. :'''Ash''': Hey! Grr...! :'''Pikachu''': Pika! :'''Narrator''': ''[with more enthusiasm and urgency than usual]'' So, the day has finally come when these two rivals must clash head-to-head, with the championship on the line! ''[although Ash would have a long way to go to get there if he wins]'' :Will Ash emerge victorious, or will Gary's prediction come true?! :''[A blazing fire appears in the background of the rivals in a standoff before the "TO BE CONTINUED" text appears in the bottom left corner.]'' ===''The Ties That Bind'' [5.59]=== :''[Ash, Brock, Misty, Pikachu, and Togepi are eating breakfast after a sleepless Ash became agitated over which Pokémon to use against Gary.]'' :'''Misty''': So, what type of Pokémon does Gary have the most of? :'''Togepi''': ''[munching on a sandwich]'' Toge! :'''Brock''' Gary's got all kinds. He doesn't really favor one type! :'''Misty''': All different types?! He really is a chip off the old Oak block! :'''Brock''': Not only that, they're all first class and in tiptop shape, so he must've rotated them a lot! :'''Ash''': He did. He's been that way for as long as I've ''known'' the guy. :'''Brock''': And since he doesn't prefer one particular Pokémon over another, it'll be a different story than battling someone like Misty with all one type, so putting your team together is crucial. :''[An anxious Ash looks up towards the sky, where large wings can be seen as a cloud reveals them.]'' :'''Ash''': Huh? ''[The wings are revealed to belong to Ash's ace, Charizard!]'' Hey, look guys! :'''Brock and Misty''': Huh? :'''Pikachu''': Pika? :''[Charizard roars.]'' :'''Ash''': ''[dancing for joy]'' It's Charizard!! ''[He laughs in triumph, but then groans as he is greeted as usual by Charizard's Flamethrower, being turned into soot and falling over, but because Ash is Ash, he survives anyway.]'' :'''Misty''': Charizard? :'''Brock''': Uh-huh. I made a phone call to Liza late last night. :'''Ash''': Am I glad to see you! Thanks! You sure came at a great time! :''[Charizard roars happily]'' :'''Ash''': Huh? ''[Gary appears to greet him right before the match, leading them to begin a stare-off.]'' :'''Misty''': It's... Gary. :'''Pikachu''': Pika? :'''Togepi''': Toge? :''[The two just look at each other for a few moments before greeting each other.]'' :'''Gary''': Morning, Ash. :'''Ash''': ''[begrudgingly]'' Good morning. :''[The staring contest intensifies, until a cheerful Professor Oak shows up who previously watched Ash's matches on TV.]'' :'''Professor Oak''': This calls for a poem! :'''Gary''': Huh? :'''Ash''': Waah! Professor Oak! :'''Gary''': Grandpa! :'''Oak''': Rivals, now they meet, / Gary, Ash to compete. :'''Delia''': Brilliant! :'''Ash''': Mom? :'''Pikachu''': Pika! :'''Misty''': Hi there! :'''Brock''': It's been a long time! :'''Delia''': We just ''had'' to come! :'''Oak''': To cheer you both on! :'''Ash''': Professor, thank you! Thank you! :'''Delia''': It ''is'' the Victory Tournament! I just had to see it live! :'''Oak''': My, my, my! You two will be facing off, eh? :'''Gary''': Uh, yeah. :'''Ash''': Uh-huh. :'''Oak''': Well, lighten up and relax, you two. If you both keep acting ''this'' tense, by tomorrow, you won't even be able to compete! :'''Gary''': ''[smiling]'' Guess you're right. :'''Oak''': Now that's more like it. <hr width=50%> :''[Just before Ash, Brock, and Misty leave to choose Ash's Pokémon for the fight against Gary, Delia and Ash share a final exchange.]'' :'''Ash''': Huh? :'''Delia''': I just wanted you to know that I think you're a wonderful Pokémon Trainer, and I'm proud of all your hard work and training! I'm sure you'll make me the proudest mom there could be. :'''Ash''': ''[Nodding]'' Mm. I'll do my best! :'''Oak''': Ah... Rivals for so long, and now they battle each other at the Victory Tournament! :'''Delia''': This will be a match to remember. <hr width=50%> :''[The sun shines on the Silver Stadium as the crowd cheers, signifying that the Victory Tournament will finally begin after much anticipation from Ash, Gary, Harrison, & 13 other Trainers, and of course, the entire world.]'' :'''Announcer''': The day of the Johto League Silver Conference Victory Tournament has finally arrived! :''[Shots of Mr. Goodshow, by himself and Macey and Jackson in the audience are shown.]'' :It's been an arduous journey for the sixteen gifted Trainers who earned the privilege of battling today, and I guarantee you'll witness a competition you'll ''never'' forget! The air here in the Silver Stadium is charged with excitement! Ladies and gentlemen, keep in mind from the beginning of this tournament, the battlefields will be randomly chosen and constantly changing, from grass to rock to water and to ice! :''[As the announcer speaks, Team Rocket are shown selling Silver Conference badges at a booth outside the stadium.]'' :'''James''': Get your Silver Conference commemorative badges right here~! :'''Announcer''': In addition, all matches will be Full 6-on-6 Battles, making every Trainer's strategy all the more important! <hr width=50%> :''[Pikachu, Togepi, Psyduck and Politoed are cheering on Ash as Misty and Brock sit in anticipation for the battle to begin.]'' :'''Announcer''': The second match in this first round will be a battle between two trainers of the same age and from the same hometown: Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town, and Gary Oak, also from Pallet Town! :'''Gary's Cheerleaders''': Gary, Gary, he's our man! If he can't do it, no one can! Gary! :'''Misty''': Oh, good. Gary's cheerleading team is back. :'''Brock''': ''[completely smitten, because why not]'' And not a moment too soon! What a smorgasbord of beauty! :''[Misty reacts unamused to this, of course.]'' :'''Announcer''': Gary is the grandson of well-known Pokémon expert Professor Oak! :''[Oak notices the camera and clearly does not want to be seen. Delia, however, throws up a peace sign with a wide smile on her face.]'' :And Ash has earned himself quite a reputation as well by achieving the best 16 at the Indigo Plateau! ''[Who knows how far he would've gone if Charizard didn't have obedience issues...]'' :Folks, it would not be understatement to say this will be one of the finest matches you'll see anywhere! Fasten your seatbelts; this battle is about to begin! Let's see what battlefield they'll be fighting on! :''[The wheel flashes through the four battlefields a few times before stopping on the rock battlefield.]'' :And it's a rock field! :''[The crowd chatters in awe as the plain battlefield covering opens to bring up a very rocky battlefield, which will make for lots of strategic plays.]'' :'''Ash''': Whoa... :'''Misty''': Oh, wow! :'''Pikachu''': Pika... :'''Announcer''': It's time to decide who takes the first move! :'''Spectator''': Go, Gary! I went to school with Gary, you know. :''[The wheel alternates between green, Ash's side, and red, signifying Gary, who are portrayed to the viewer as the good and evil side, respectively, before stopping on a red wedge, giving Gary the opening move.]'' :'''Announcer''': And the first move goes to Gary Oak! What Pokémon will he use first? :'''Gary''': Nidoqueen, I choose you! :'''Nidoqueen''': Nido! :'''Brock''': Powerful choice! :'''Misty''': I figured Gary would start out in a big way! :'''Ash''': That's just fine with me! Go, Tauros! :'''Announcer''': Gary has chosen to start out with his Nidoqueen, and Ash with Tauros! :'''Referee''': Let the match begin! <hr width= 50%> :''[Ash's Heracross has just knocked out Gary's Magmar, leaving both trainers with one Pokémon down.]'' :'''Gary''': I guess it's time to show 'em my best! Deal with this, Ashy Boy! Mwah! ''[he kisses the Poké Ball, which must mean this Pokémon means quite a lot to him...]'' Blastoise! I choose you! :'''Blastoise''': Blastoise! :'''Ash''': Ah, Blastoise?! :'''Announcer''': Gary's choice for third Pokémon is Blastoise! :'''Misty''': Brock, could that be... :'''Brock''': The same Squirtle that Gary originally received from Professor Oak? Yeah, that's the one. :'''Oak''': It looks like Gary is anxious to finish this up here and now! Blastoise IS the most powerful Pokémon Gary has. :''[Ash and Misty's Pokémon amp up their cheering, knowing of Blastoise's threat to Ash's path to victory over his rival.]'' :'''Pikachu''': Pikachu! Pika! :'''Ash''': Okay, Heracross! Use Fury Swipes! :'''Heracross''': ''[charging]'' Heracross! :'''Gary''': Blastoise! Hydro Pump! :'''Blastoise''': Blas...toise! ''[A powerful Hydro Pump is fired from its cannons, and a shot of the two Pokémon and their Trainers clashing is shown as the episode draws to a conclusion.]'' :'''Narrator''': There have been ''plenty'' of turnovers in this match already, so the ultimate victor is ''anyone's'' guess! But to find out the winner, stay tuned! :''[The "TO BE CONTINUED" text appears.]'' ===''Can't Beat the Heat!'' [5.60]=== :''[Gary's Blastoise has knocked out Ash's Bayleef, leaving him with three Pokémon left while his rival still has five.]'' :'''Ash''': Gary is pretty impressive... but so are we! :'''Announcer''': Ladies and gentlemen, we'll take a five-minute intermission here, giving Ash time to regroup after losing three of his Pokémon. :'''Pikachu''': ''[pleading]'' Pika-pi! Pikachu, Pikachu! :'''Ash''': Hey, Pikachu, what is it? :'''Brock''': Ash, I think it's asking if it can battle! :'''Misty''': Well, it makes sense. Gary IS using a Water Pokémon. :'''Togepi''': Togeprri! :'''Ash''': I wish I could, buddy, but I'm only allowed to use the Pokémon I registered ''before'' the match. :'''Pikachu''': ''[in protest]'' Pika!! ''[He crosses his arms.]'' :'''Oak''': Those two battling so fiercely has got my stomach in knots! :'''Delia''': They've never changed. :'''Oak''': Oh? How do you mean? :'''Delia''': Gary was always the confident one taking the lead with Ash right behind, struggling to keep up with him! :'''Oak''': He may not admit it, but I think that Gary considers Ash his most important friend of all. :'''Delia''': I think Ash feels the same way! :''[A buzzer sounds, signaling the end of the intermission.]'' <hr width= 50%> :'''Gary''': You've made it ''this'' far, Ashy Boy. And that'll be far enough! Blastoise, go! :'''Blastoise''': Blastoise! :'''Announcer''': And, now for the final battle, Gary brings back his Blastoise, and Ash will be staying with Charizard. Blastoise appears to have an overwhelming advantage based on Pokémon type, but this match isn't over just yet, folks! Believe me! :'''Ash''': ''[in his thoughts]'' Advantage? Who cares. We made it this far, right, and we're going all the way! <hr width= 50%> :''[Ash's Charizard and Gary's Blastoise, each of their last Pokémon, are repeatedly firing Flamethrower and Hydro Pump in attempts of hitting one another.]'' :'''Blastoise''': Blast! Toise! Blast! :'''Ash''': That's no good. I've gotta do something about that Hydro Pump first! Huh?! :''[One of Charizard's Flamethrowers covers a rock in molten lava, causing the gears to start spinning in Ash's head...] :That's it! If we can't hit Blastoise, we can hit everything else! Charizard, use Flamethrower to burn the battlefield! :''[Charizard roars each time it scatters several Flamethrowers across the rocky battlefield as all a puzzled Blastoise can do is watch.]'' :'''Announcer''': Charizard is striking the field with Flamethrower! What sort of strategy could Ash have up his sleeve? :'''Gary''': Okay, what's Ash's idea this time...? :'''Misty''': I can't figure out what Ash is doing...! :'''Brock''': Hmm... :'''Ash''': Way to go, Charizard! Keep up that Flamethrower! :''[Charizard roars in agreement as it fires a shot that melts a hefty chunk off of one of the rocks.]'' :'''Delia''': It's starting to get awfully warm in here... :'''Professor Oak''': What? Look there! :'''Delia''': Oh my?! :'''Professor Oak''': The field is melting! :'''Gary''': No way! :'''Ash''': Awesome! :'''Announcer''': ''What kind of crazy--'' I mean, what a novel and unique strategy! Charizard's Flamethrower attacks are melting the field, leaving Blastoise with nowhere to run! :'''Pikachu''': Pika... :'''Togepi''': Toge? :'''Misty''': Looks like Ash has done it again...! :'''Brock''': Blastoise may be strong against Fire directly, but NOT against something like THIS! :'''Announcer''': What will Gary do? Blastoise has been completely immobilized! :''[Of course, Gary comes up with a solution rather quickly...]'' :'''Gary''': Blastoise, use Hydro Pump to cool the field down! :'''Blastoise''': Blastoise! Blast! ''[It fires three shots of Hydro Pump that extinguish the lava on the field and cover it completely in steam, leaving the two Pokémon invisible to the audience and especially Ash and Gary.]'' :'''Announcer''': Would you look at that! Trying to cool that red-hot battlefield with a Hydro Pump attack was all it took to cover it with a thick layer of steam! :''[Ash and Gary endure the impact of Blastoise's attacks, anticipating what will occur when the steam clears.]'' :And now, it's impossible for anyone to see what's happened to either Blastoise or Charizard! :''[The steam clears, showing Blastoise and Charizard up close struggling claw-in-claw against each other.]'' :There they are! Having been thrown together, Charizard and Blastoise are locked together in close-range, hand-to-hand combat! :'''Gary''': Charizard's too close! Blastoise can't aim with its hydro cannons! :'''Ash''': Use Dragon Rage! :''[Charizard roars as it charges its Dragon Rage.]'' :'''Gary''': Dodge it, quick! :'''Blastoise''': Blastoise! ''[It ducks its head into its shell, letting Dragon Rage fly over it.]'' :'''Ash''': Charizard! Lift Blastoise up into the air! :''[Charizard does just that, trying to repeat the strategy that failed against Gary's Golem due to it being too heavy.]'' :'''Gary''': Bite attack, Blastoise! Go! :'''Blastoise''': Blast! ''[It bites Charizard's shoulder area in an attempt to make it drop Blastoise.]'' :''[Charizard groans in pain.]'' :'''Brock''': Ahh! :'''Misty''': Charizard! :'''Ash''': Charizard, don't give in! Seismic Toss with ''everything you've got!!'' :''[Charizard roars as it carries Blastoise in circles.]'' :'''Announcer''': And Charizard is going to try Seismic Toss once again! :''[The attack speeds up, portraying Charizard circling the Earth, which is centered on the Pacific Ocean.]'' :'''Gary''': Blastoise! :''[Charizard begins its rapid descent down to the battlefield.]'' :'''Announcer''': Folks, it looks like this time, it's going to work! :''[A large impact sound can be heard as the two hit the ground.]'' :''[Ash and Gary watch in tension while their cheering sections, as well as Delia & Professor Oak, Harrison, Mr. Goodshow, and Jackson & Macey and the people surrounding them, watch in suspense as the smoke starts to clear.]'' :''[When it does, and Charizard is standing while Blastoise is on all fours staring at the ground.]'' :'''Blastoise''': ''[as it slowly gets up]'' Blast. Toise. :''[The two stare each other down for a few extremely tense seconds. Then, Blastoise falls to the ground once again, but this time it cannot get up, making Charizard and Ash the winner of the highly anticipated battle between rivals!]'' :'''Blastoise''': ''[falling]'' Blast... Toise... Blastoise... :'''Referee''': Blastoise is unable to battle! Charizard is the winner! :'''Announcer''': Blastoise has been defeated! The winner is Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town!! :''[An overhead shot of the Silver Stadium is seen as the entire audience cheers.]'' :''[Ash stares into space in disbelief that he had beaten his long-time rival.]'' :It was a long and fierce battle, but in the end, Ash emerged victorious! It was something to see! :'''Ash''': I won... and I beat... ''Gary''...! :'''Gary''': Hm! ''[He walks off the battlefield, clearly impressed with Ash.]'' :'''Pikachu''': Pika-pi! ''[squeaks in excitement]'' :'''Ash''': Huh? Pikachu! :''[Brock, Misty, and their Pokémon walk up to congratulate Ash.]'' :'''Misty''': That was awesome! :'''Brock''': You hung in there, Ash! :'''Ash''': Hey, thanks a lot, guys. Alright! I finally beat Gary! ''[He grunts in excitement and jumps for joy.]'' I won the first match of the Championship Tournament! :'''Pikachu''': Pi-Pikachu! <hr width=50%/> :''[At night, after Ash's victory over Gary, his rival is seen standing at the same pond they reflected at before the Johto League began.]'' :'''Ash''': Gary? :'''Gary''': Hey, Ash. Thanks for coming to see me. :'''Ash''': No problem. So what's up, Gary? :''[Gary reaches into his pocket and pulls out the red half of a Poké Ball they broke in a fishing argument with Ash, who considered it a draw, while Gary considered it a loss for Ash.]'' :'''Gary''': This. :'''Ash''': Huh? :'''Gary''': Here, take it. It belongs to you; you earned it. Really, I mean it! :'''Ash''': Thanks... :'''Gary''': That battle today of ours was awesome! I don't even feel bad that I lost! You see, Ash, when we tied long ago, I felt like a failure. :''[Ash is dumbstruck at this new admission over their argument, meaning he does regret being so in Ash's face over it.]'' :But today, you totally beat me fair and square, get it? :'''Ash''': I guess... You know, I feel like I got a whole lot stronger by battling with you today! :'''Gary''': Me too. I'll cheer for you in your second match. :''[They shake hands.]'' :'''Ash''': Thanks. :'''Gary''': Good luck! ===''Playing with Fire!'' [5.61]=== ===''Johto Photo Finish'' [5.62]=== ===''Gotta Catch Ya Later!'' [5.63]=== :''[Ash and Pikachu are sitting on a tree, depressed that their longtime travel partners Brock and Misty have now left them for new ambitions.]'' :'''Ash''': Everyone's gone, Pikachu... :'''Pikachu''': Pikachu... Pi? :''[Pikachu looks up, appearing to notice something.]'' :'''Ash''': Not sure I like being alone... :'''Pikachu''': Pika-pi! :'''Ash''': Huh...? :''[A trail of sparkles moves through the clouds.]'' :'''Ash''': Ohh! Look at that! :''[The sparkles are revealed to belong to the Legendary Pokémon Ho-Oh, who Ash and Pikachu saw on that fateful day they first began their journey.]'' :'''Ash''': Oh, it's Ho-Oh! :''[Ash and Pikachu watch as Ho-Oh flies away.]'' :'''Ash''': I know where it's headed. It's headed to the Hoenn Region. That's where all those Pokémon I've never seen before are. And all those battles that I'm destined to fight in. ===''Hoenn Alone!'' [5.64]=== :''[After a long boat ride, we can finally see Littleroot Town, where Ash will soon begin his journey through the Hoenn region.]'' :'''Ash''': Finally, the Hoenn region! Lots of new Pokémon for me to catch, and lots of new rivals for me to battle against! :'''Narrator''': Still on his quest to become a Pokémon Master, Ash has finally arrived in the Hoenn region, where a brand new journey and many exciting new adventures await! :''[Ash stares in anticipation of his newest adventure.]'' <hr width=50%> :''[Final lines. As the boat inches closer to its landing spot in Hoenn, we see new Pokémon native to the region, including Wingull, Pelipper, Sharpedo, and Wailmer.]'' :'''Ash''': Wow, awesome! I've never seen ''any'' of these Pokémon! I can't wait for Pikachu to wake up and check out all of these cool new Pokémon with me too! ''[Ash runs back inside to wake his best buddy up. However, Pikachu is breathing rather heavily...]'' :Pikachu! Pikachu, wake up! You gotta see this! We're in the Hoenn region, and-- :''[Ash reaches out his hands to wake up Pikachu, but its cheek sparks electricity, causing Ash to recoil.]'' :Uh! :'''Pikachu''': ''[struggling and sparking electricity]'' Pika... Pika... :''[Pikachu has become sick from its earlier encounter with Team Rocket, where the evil trio used a giant electromagnetic device that absorbed its energy.]'' :'''Ash''': ''[bending down to Pikachu's level]'' Pikachu! What's wrong! Are you okay? ''[Pikachu's electricity causes Ash's hand to recoil again.]'' You're burning up! You must have a bad fever! :'''Pikachu''': Pika... Pi... Pi... :'''Ash''': Pikachu! Hey, can you hear me, buddy? Pikachu...! :''[The text "NEXT TIME... A NEW BEGINNING!" appears, ending the original series on a cliffhanger.]'' == External links== {{Wikipedia|List of Pokémon: Master Quest episodes}} [[Category:Japanese TV shows]] [[Category:Pokémon]] a3dt4a6kfg31vw6qd8qhqvlhwoofz1v 0 153080 3961373 3944963 2026-07-06T06:26:21Z ~2026-22475-30 3310494 3961373 wikitext text/x-wiki ---- {{Pokémon header}} ---- <br/> This is a list of episodes in Pokémon: Advanced, the sixth season of the Pokémon animated series (ポケットモンスター Poketto Monsutā?, Pokét Monsters), covering the Hoenn Region where the protagonist Ash Ketchum went on to further adventures and meets new friends along the way to the Hoenn League. In Japan, this began the Pokét Monsters: Advanced Generation (ポケットモンスター アドバンスジェネレーション Poketto Monsutā Adobansu Jenerēshon?) series. Misty and Brock leave Ash's side. Ash meets a new friend named May, who participates in contests, and her brother Max. Brock returns and the four travel together through the Hoenn region. ===''Get the Show on the Road!'' [6.01]=== :''[First lines. The episode opens in a woodland, but the camera cuts to a bicycle wheel spinning. We then see a girl in red riding the bicycle]'' :'''May''': Woo hoo! Yeah! ''[voiceover]'' Hi, my name's May and I'm 10 years old. I'm on my way to meet my dad's friend, Professor Birch, and to get my beginner's Pokémon. Then I can begin my journey as a Pokémon trainer, but just between you and me, what I'm more interested in is travelling and seeing new places. Mmmm, there it is. Littleroot Town up ahead. :''[Then, a Duskull appears beside her]'' :'''Duskull''': Duskull. :'''May''': ''[screams as she goes down a hill and crashes into a tree]'' I guess I...shoulda worn a...helmet. ''[falls down]'' Ow. :'''Duskull''': Duskull. ''[Flies off]'' :''[Soon, May is riding her bike up a hill]'' :'''May''': The truth is, I don't like Pokémon. ''[cycles out of the woodland and stops on the top of a rocky landscape]'' Oh, wow. ''[the camera reveals that she is watching a boat which is arriving at the docks in Littleroot Town]'' But for travelling, I just love it. <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': Do you smell something burning? :'''Team Rocket''': I think we're smelling us? :''[The giant robot explodes and sends the now fried Team Rocket flying] :'''Meowth''': Quite a Thunderbolt. :'''Jessie''': It has renewed my energy and passion. :'''Wobbuffet''': Wobbuffet! :'''James''': Here we go. :'''Team Rocket''': Looks like Team Rocket's blasting off again! :'''Wobbuffet''': Wobbuffet! ===''A Ruin with a View'' [6.02]=== :''[After Azurill breaks free from May's Poke Ball]'' :'''May''': Hey! What gives? :'''Ash''': Well, you're not going to catch anything that way. :'''May''': Why not? I threw an empty Poke Ball at it, didn't I? :'''Ash''': First, you have to battle the Pokemon and weaken it, then you throw your Pokeball. ===''There's No Place Like Hoenn'' [6.03]=== :'''May''': Torchic, use Amber! :'''Torchic''': [''confused''] Tor? :'''Max''': You mean Ember. :'''May''': Oops, I mean Ember! ===''You Never Can Taillow'' [6.04]=== :''[Ash, Max and May are having lunch, only to realize they don't have any food]'' :'''Ash''': You mean... :'''Max''': There's... :'''May''': No lunch?! :''[in Ash's backpack, Pikachu finds his empty can of Pokémon food]'' :'''May''': You're one professional traveler, Ash. I'm surprised you'd forget something like our food. :'''Max''': She has a point. :'''Ash''': ''[shocked]'' All right, guess I messed up. ===''In the Knicker of Time'' [6.05]=== :'''May''': [''referring to Nicholai''] Ahh! That Zigzagoon disguised itself as a human! :'''Max''': Would you like to take another whack at that, sis? That really is a human! :'''May''': I didn't know Zigzagoon could evolve into humans. :'''Max''': [''exasperated''] Are we ''really'' related?! <hr width=50%/> :'''James''': Surrender now with your exposed knees or prepare to fight! <hr width=50%/> :'''Ash''': Now, Pikachu, Thunder, go! :''[Pikachu launches Thunder at Team Rocket, explosion, sending the now fried to a crisp Team Rocket flying]'' :'''Team Rocket''': Looks like Team Rocket’s blasting off again! ===''A Poached Ego'' [6.06]=== ===''Tree's A Crowd'' [6.07]=== ===''A Tail with a Twist'' [6.08]=== :'''Max''': I don't think it's about the food. :'''Brock''': You're right. Treecko are tree climber Pokémon. Plus, they're pretty shy so it's more comfortable up there. <hr width=50%/> :'''James''': Poor Seviper! :'''Meowth''': It knows not what it's done! <hr width=50%/> :'''Everyone''': Who's that Pokémon? It's Gligar! ===''Taming of the Shroomish'' [6.09]=== :'''May''': ''[breathes in]'' Ahhh! That smells great! :'''Max''': What smells great? The air pollution, garbage, or the car exhaust? <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': I think there's a fungus! :'''James''': And they're among us! ===''You Said a Mouthful!'' [6.10]=== :[''after Taillow and Treecko lost to Pelliper''] :'''Max''': NO! Not Fire attacks too? :'''Brock''': That Pelipper is full of surprises, huh! :'''May''': Um, Max, I thought that you said that Pelipper can only use Flying and Water attacks. Sounds like you need to study a little more. :'''Max''': That's all it ''can'' use. I don't get it, What's the deal with this Pelipper? This is ''not'' supposed to be happening. ===''A Bite to Remember'' [6.11]=== :'''Katrina''': '''''Poochyena!''''' What kind of behaviour is that, huh? Now no more tackling or you'll get a time-out! Honestly. <hr width=50%/> :'''May''': Don't do it, Ash! He's gonna make them lose on purpose so that Poochyena will evolve, '''aren't you?''' <hr width=50%/> :'''James''': We'll reset with the controls for something else! :'''Meowth''': One! Two! Three! Four! Five! ''[dressed as a Sunflora]'' Sun! Sun! Sun! Sun! :'''Max''': Aah! Persian evolved into a Sunflora? But that's not possible! :'''Jessie''': Oh, sure. That's what everybody told Albert Einstein before he invented the light bulb. I guess he showed them what's not possible didn't he? :'''Max''': Edison invented the light bulb! :'''Jessie''': He certainly did. ===''The Lotad Lowdown'' [6.12]=== ===''All Things Bright and Beautifly!'' [6.13]=== :'''Jessie''': Do this right Seviper, now go use Sacred Fire! :'''Seviper''': ''[does nothing but stares at Jessie in confusion]'' Seviper? [Sacred Fire?!] :'''Meowth''': Uh-oh... :'''James''': I'm not sure Seviper knows how to use that attack... :'''Jessie''': Well, come on! Use Sacred Fire! What are you waiting for? :''[Seviper starts sweating and shakes its head fast, as if to say, "I don't even know that move!"]'' :'''Jessie''': You don't know it? Alright, use Water Pulse! ''[Seviper shakes its head again as if to say, "I don't know that move either!"]'' Then use Blaze Kick! ''[Seviper shakes its head more faster, sweating even more as if to say "You have got to be kidding me!". You could guess where this is going.]'' :'''James''': Awkward... :'''Meowth''': I guess that Seviper ain't learned new attacks. :'''Wobbuffet''': Wobbu! [No duh!] :'''Jessie''': ''[horrified]'' What?! ''[starts looking at a book to look up moves Seviper can learn. As she lists the moves, Seviper starts gushing a waterfall of sweat, knowing that it does not know any of the moves mentioned]'' Ok, let me see here. You know Dragon Claw? What about Psywave? Luster Purge? AAAAHHHH!! Would somebody please wake me up from this terrible nightmare?! :'''Male audience member''': ''[as the crowd starts booing]'' You're a waste of our time and money! :'''Female audience member''': Why did she even enter?! <hr width=50%> :''[After Jessie receives a score of zero for that epic disaster of a performance, the heroes stare in disbelief]'' :'''May''': How could anyone be that bad? :'''Max''': No joke. ===''All in a Day's Wurmple'' [6.14]=== :'''Team Rocket''': Prepare for trouble now that we are united! Make it double because you weren't invited! :'''May''': Hey! Look, there's Wurmple! Wait! Here I come! :'''Jessie''': How dare you run off when we weren't completely finished! :'''James''': I'll have you know that we pour our hearts and souls into that motto and every time we.... :'''Meowth''': Save it, James. Let's just go grab that Wurmple before shes does! :'''Team Rocket''': Good idea! <hr width=50%/> :'''May''': ''[jumps up]'' Yeah! We did it! Alright! <hr width=50%/> :'''Team Rocket''': Team Rocket's blasting off again! :''[as they see the sun in the evening sky] :'''Wobbuffet''': Wobbuffet! ===''Gonna Rule the School!'' [6.15]=== :'''Greg''': Go, Sneasel! ===''The Winner by a Nosepass'' [6.16]=== :''[May reveals to Roxanne that she wants to be a Coordinator rather than a trainer]'' :'''Roxanne''': So, you've decided to become a Pokémon Coordinator instead, May? :'''May''': Yes. :'''Roxanne''': Well, people choose different ways of interacting with Pokémon. Good luck with your choice. :'''May''': Thank you, Roxanne. <hr width=50%> :'''One of Roxanne's students''': Teacher, everything's ready. ''[one is refereeing the match, while the other students have assembled the camera equipment for recording the battle]'' :'''Roxanne''': Alright, thanks! :'''Brock''': Wow, they call you teacher? :'''Roxanne''': Yes. You see, they're all students from the Trainer's school, Brock. They come here to work in the gym as interns and in the process of assisting me, they also gain valuable experience as trainers. :'''Max''': Cool. :'''Roxanne''': Say, Ash? Mind if I made a video tape of our battle? :'''Ash''': Uhhh...no. :'''Roxanne''': Thanks. I like to use the videos in class. I've found that if trainers were able to watch and study actual gym battles, it's a great way to learn. <hr width=50%> :''[With Treecko defeated, Ash selects Pikachu]'' :'''One of Roxanne's students''': Uhhh...Pikachu? :'''Roxanne''': You really wanted to challenge using an Electric Pokémon in a Rock Gym? You might want to rethink that one! ===''Stairway to Devon' [6.17]=== ===''On a Wingull and a Prayer'' [6.18]=== :''[The Team Aqua Grunt and his Crawdaunt are in his speedboat, speeding away from Mr. Briney]'' :'''Team Aqua Grunt''': Okay, we're close to the rendezvous point. :'''Crawdaunt''': Crawdaunt! :'''Team Aqua Grunt''': Crawdaunt, what? Huh? ''[Looks back to see that the S.S. Wingull, Mr. Briney's high tech boat, is pursing them]'' Where'd that boat come from? :'''Mr Briney''': Team Aqua! Give Peeko back to me now! The oceans tie the world together! You will never get away from me! :'''Team Aqua Grunt''': Heh! Oh please! Spare me the dramatics! :'''Max''': ''[from inside the S.S. Wingull]'' He's picking up speed! :'''Mr Briney''': And heading straight for Triangle Rock! :'''Brock''': I'll bet that's where he's gonna meet up with the rest of his team members. :'''Ash''': You're right. C'mon, Pikachu. :'''Pikachu''': Pika. ''[He leaves with Ash]'' :'''Brock''': Huh? :'''May''': Wait! :''[Ash and Pikachu climb onto the roof of the S.S. Wingull]'' :'''Ash''': Okay, Crawdaunt's a water Pokémon, so let's fight it by using Lightning. :'''Pikachu''': Pikaaaaaaa... ''[Charges up electricity]'' :''[The camera cuts to the Team Aqua Grunt]'' :'''Team Aqua Grunt''': ''[to Crawdaunt]'' Water Pulse! :'''Crawdaunt''': Crawdaunt! ''[Uses Water Pulse on the S.S. Wingull, sending it flying]'' :'''Ash''': Warrgghh! :'''Team Aqua Grunt''': Follow up with Bubble Beam! :'''Crawdaunt''': Crawdaunt! ''[Uses Bubble Beam and it sends a huge wave over the S.S. Wingull]'' :''[Then, Ash and Pikachu see Triangle Rock in the distance]'' :'''Ash''': Oh! They're almost at Triangle Rock! ===''Sharpedo Attack!'' [6.19]=== :'''Jessie''': Prepare for trouble, or you'll walk the plank! :'''James''': Make it double, or your boat will sink! :'''Jessie''': That doesn't rhyme! :'''Jessie''': To protect the world from devastation! :'''James''': To unite all peoples within our nation! :'''Jessie''': To denounce the evils of truth and love! :'''James''': To extend our reach to the stars above! :'''Jessie''': Jessie! :'''James''': James! :'''Jessie''': Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light! :'''James''': Surrender now or prepare to fight, fight, fight! :'''Meowth''': Meowth, that's right! <hr width=50%/> :'''James''': [''referring to the Sharpedo''] Is it possible they're all smiling at us? :'''Meowth''': Well, if they are smilin' it's probably because they're lookin' at the next meal they're gonna devour! <hr width=50%/> :'''James''': So how come you didn't see the Sharpedo coming! :'''Seviper''': Seviper! <hr width=50%/> :'''All''': Who's that Pokémon? It's Igglybuff! :'''Igglybuff''': Iggly! ===''Brave the Wave'' [6.20]=== :'''Ash''': [''quoting Brawly''] Totally gnarly with some really wicked wavage? :'''Max''': Anyone here speak ''that'' language? <hr width=50%/> :'''Brawly''': Hey! Who are you crazy dudes, anyway? :'''Jessie''': Prepare for trouble all you dudes and dudettes! :'''James''': Make it double... :'''Meowth''': Enough! You already got that part out! ===''Which Wurmple is Which?'' [6.21]=== :'''May''': Well my Wurmple is a lot smarter than yours. :'''Jessie''': My Wurmple's attending night school to get its PhD! ===''A Hole Lotta Trouble'' [6.22]=== :'''May''': Wow, this cave seems to go on forever... :'''Max''': Yeah, kinda like you do sometimes... <hr width=50%/> :'''May''': And you were calling ''me'' the heavy one. :'''Jessie''': I heard that! Don't just sit there, push me! :'''May''': Good grief! ''[pulls Jessie by the legs]'' :'''Jessie''': I said push, don't pull me! <hr width=50%/> :'''James''': Hey! What do you want?! And quit staring at me like that! ''[starts knuckling Aron on the head]'' You're not scaring anyone with that head armour! :'''Brock''': JAMES, KNOCK IT OFF! <hr width=50%/> :'''James''': Jessie's an idiot! Meowth's a loser! I don't need them!!! <hr width=50%/> :''[while being chased by Aron]'' :'''James''': I don't deserve this! :'''Ash and Brock''': Yes you do! :'''James''': We'll discuss it later! ===''Gone Corphishin''' [6.23]=== :'''Brock''': Oh, no! I don't believe it! :'''Jessie''': Prepare for trouble from the depths of the earth! :'''James''': And make it double for all the trouble it's worth! :'''Max''': And they still insist on doing their motto? :'''May''': Pretty pathetic, isn't it? :'''Team Rocket''': The shame. ===''A Corphish out of Water'' [6.24]=== :[''Ash, Pikachu and Corphish are asleep on the same bed''] :'''Ash''': Yeah... Go Corphish. Crabhammer now... :'''Corphish''': [''bonks its owner''] Phish... Cor. :'''Ash''': Great. Good job Corphish. That was... super effective... ===''A Mudkip Mission'' [6.25]=== :'''Swampy''': What?! Me?! A monster?! :'''Ash''': A talking monster! :'''Max''': Yoo-hoo! It's a person! <hr width=50%/> :'''Old Man Swamp''': Why just call me "Swampy", or "Old Man Swamp"! :'''Ash''': Old Man Swamp. Been in these parts a long time, have you, Swampy? Old Man Swamp. :'''Old Man Swamp''': Hey kid, you don't know me that well. <hr width=50%/> :'''Old Man Swamp''': What's this? My can! ===''Turning Over a Nuzleaf'' [6.26]=== :'''Jessie''': We'll just take Pikachu and the Nuzleaf and be on our way! ===''A Three Team Scheme'' [6.27]=== :'''May''': That's enough! Look, are you supposed the battle without opponent, which you catch the Pokémon you make friends and battle with him?! You better snaps yourself band on of this little world of words, get it? ===''Seeing is Believing'' [6.28]=== :'''Birch''': What's up with Lotad? :'''Brock''': That Lotad, it's kind of a daydreamer, Professor. <hr width=50%/> :'''May''': Brock, is the Professor really playing with all the Pokémon he's studying? :'''Brock''': It's his way of talking to the Pokémon at their own level. <hr width=50%/> :[''Jessie's Dustox is covered by a sheet while Meowth feebly imitates a Beautifly in costume''] :'''Jessie''': Meowth! Do ya mind telling me what you're doing?! :'''Meowth''': I'm a Beau-ti-fly, I ain't never heard a' Meowth! :'''Jessie''': Uncover that thing right now! :'''James''': It was all Meowth's idea! <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': I didn't get a Beautifly. I got a Dustox. :'''Prof. Birch''': Yes! Your Pokémon was a Cascoon, so the only thing that could've evolved into was a Dustox! ===''Ready, Willing and Sableye'' [6.29]=== :'''Brock''': HEY, CORPHISH, KNOCK IT OFF! ===''A Meditite Fight'' [6.30]=== ===''Just One of the Geysers'' [6.31]=== :'''All''': Huh? :'''Jessie''': Prepare for trouble from up on the ridge! :'''James''': And make it double, 'cause we've raided the fridge! :'''Jessie''': To protect the world from devonstation! :'''James''': To unite all peoples within our nation! :'''Jessie''': To denounce the evils of a yummy pear! :'''James''': To extend out reach to a chocolate éclair! :'''Jessie''': Jessie! :'''James''': James! :'''Jessie''': Team Rocket blasts off with all the four food groups! :'''James''': And believe it or not, that includes much of all soups! :'''Meowth''': Oy, gevalt! :'''Wobbuffet''': Wobbuffet! :'''All''': Team Rocket! ===''Abandon Ship!'' [6.32]=== :'''Ash''': Team Rocket! :'''Max''': I can't believe you were just a nice old couple! :'''Jessie''': No one's ever accused us of being old! :'''James''': And ''certainly'' not a couple! ===''Now ''That's'' Flower Power!'' [6.33]=== :'''Drew''': Please, no comparison. You see, you and your Pokémon here, you've got no style. :'''May''': HEY! YOU CAN MAKE FUN OF ME ALL YOU WANT, BUT DON'T YOU DARE MAKE FUN OF MY POKÉMON! :'''Drew''': Whoa. Just calm down, little girl. ===''Having a Wailord of a Time'' [6.34]=== :'''Ash''': [''thinking''] Keep stalling her, Max. Don't let May come in here. <hr width=50%> :'''May''': SOMETHING'S UP. You're acting weird. :'''Max''': What do you mean by weird? :'''May''': DID SOMETHING HAPPEN TO MY TORCHIC, MAX?! TELL ME RIGHT NOW! COME ON, OUT WITH IT! <hr width=50%> :''[in a flashback, Max presents May a Combusken by mistake]'' :'''Max''': Congratulations, May! Your Torchic evolved into Combusken! :'''May''': WHO ARE YOU KIDDING?! '''''<big>DO YOU THINK I'M SOME KIND OF IDIOT?! WHAT HAVE YOU TWO DONE WITH MY TORCHIC?!</big>''''' <hr width=50%> :'''Ash''': Uh... Hi, May. :'''May''': Torchic, I found you. :''[May turns her attention to Ash]'' :'''May''': YOU BETTER TELL ME WHAT'S GOING ON HERE, ASH KETCHUM! :'''Max''': Sorry, Ash, she got away from me. ===''Win, Lose or Drew!'' [6.35]=== :'''May''': That Drew! Thinks he's so great! ===''The Spheal of Approval'' [6.36]=== :'''May''': I must be in heaven! :'''Brock''': No, you're just at the mall. ===''Jump for Joy!'' [6.37]=== ===''A Different Kind of Misty!'' [6.38]=== :'''Jessie''': We can do this the easy way or the hard way. :'''Alyssa''': How about no way. Magnemite, Thunderbolt! :'''Magnemite''': Magnemite! :'''Alyssa''': It didn't work. :'''Magnemite''': Magnemite. :'''Jessie''': You're wasting your wattage. :'''James''': We've shielded ourselves from all electrical hijynx! :'''Meowth''': Now, let's have it show our hand! :'''Magnemite''': Magnemite! :'''Team Rocket''': While we stay at arm's length! :'''Alyssa''': Magnemite! :'''Pikachu''': Pika! :'''Thatcher''': Oh no! :'''Jessie''': Looks like we have the stone and a lighter! :'''James''': Guess we'll get glowing! <hr width=50%/> :'''Team Rocket''': Time to fly! :'''Ash Ketchum''': Hey, you get back here! :'''Jessie''': Sorry. We can't hear you! :'''James''': But you haven't heard the last of us! :'''Brock''': They're getting away, and this fog is covering their escape! :'''May''': It will be impossible to follow 'em! ===''A Poké-BLOCK Party'' [6.39]=== :'''All''': 1, 2, 3, and 4, and 5, 6, 7, and 8, 9, and 10! We did it! :'''Jessie''': We got Pikachu and Whismur! <hr width=50%/> :'''Ash''': ''[smugly]'' I can figure this maze out with my eyes closed! ''[immediately runs into a dead end]'' :'''May''': ''[deadpan]'' Maybe you should try it with your mouth closed. ===''Watt's With Wattson?'' [6.40]=== :''[At the Mauville Gym, Ash's battle against Wattson is about to begin. Wattson's assistant, Watt, is explaining the rules]'' :'''Watt''': And now, the Mauville Gym battle will begin. Each Trainer will use three Pokémon. The battle ends when all three of either Trainer's Pokémon are unable to continue. :'''Wattson''': I'll be battling with Voltorb, Magnemite and Magneton. I've been working with these three for a great number of years. :''[The camera cuts to Brock, May and Max who are watching the battle]'' :'''Max''': So the Mauville Gym is an Electric Pokémon Gym. :'''Brock''': It's kind of surprising he would reveal what Pokémon he'll be using. :'''May''': Yeah, that's confidence. :'''Max''': I wonder what Pokémon Ash is gonna use first. Hey, Treecko's strong against Electric Pokémon. That would work! :'''May''': Hmm, but a Water Pokémon like Corphish wouldn't work. :'''Brock''': Right, I'll bet Taillow would do okay. ''[Folds his arms]'' Heh, even though Taillow's a Flying-type Pokémon, I still think it'd be a pretty good matchup. :'''Pikachu''': Pika. ''[Jumps onto the battlefield]'' :'''Ash''': You're ready to go, huh? :'''Pikachu''': Pika! :'''Ash''': Alright then, I choose you! :'''Pikachu''': Pika! ''[Powers up electricity with his cheeks]'' :'''May''': He's starting with Pikachu. Wow! :'''Brock''': I get it. Ash is gonna jump right into this battle head-on. :'''Wattson''': ''[Laughs]'' Great! Super! Like I said, you've got spunk starting with an Electric Pokémon. You asked for this. Here we go, use Swift, Magnemite! :'''Wattson's Magnemite''': Magnemite. ''[Uses Swift]'' Magnemite. :'''Ash''': Okay, dodge and use Thunderbolt! :'''Wattson''': ''[Laughs]'' Electric attacks are useless against my Pokémon, Ash! :''[Pikachu dodges the stars from Magnemite's Swift attack]'' :'''Pikachu''': Pika... ''[Uses Thunderbolt on Magnemite]'' CHUUUUUU! :'''Magnemite''': Magnemite! Magnemite. ''[Faints]'' :'''Wattson''': What!? But how? :'''Watt''': Ah! What? Ugh! Magnemite cannot battle, Pikachu wins. :'''Ash''': Yes! Good job, Pikachu! :'''Pikachu''': Pika pika! :'''Max''': Man, he beat Magnemite with one attack. :'''May''': Unbelievable! :'''Brock''': What's unbelievable is how powerful that Thunderbolt attack was. :'''Wattson''': ''[Laughs]'' I guess for every rule, there's an exception. Now, Voltorb, use Screech! :'''Wattson's Voltorb''': Voltorb. ''[Uses Screech]'' :'''Ash''': Pikachu, Thunderbolt one more time. :'''Pikachu''': Pika... ''[Uses Thunderbolt on Voltorb]'' CHUUUUUU! :'''Wattson's Voltorb''': Voltorb. ''[Faints]'' Voltorb, Volt. :'''Wattson''': Not again! Winning twice in a row with one attack!? :'''Watt''': Voltorb's unable to battle. Pikachu wins! :'''Wattson''': Now, Magneton, a real Electric attack! Zap Cannon! :'''Wattson's Magneton''': Magneton! ''[Uses Zap Cannon]'' :'''Ash''': Alright, use Thunder! :'''Pikachu''': Pika... ''[Uses Thunder on Magneton]'' CHUUUUUUUUUUU! :''[Pikachu's Thunder attack hits Magneton]'' :'''Wattson's Magneton''': Magneton! Magne... ''[Faints]'' ...ton. :'''Wattson''': Impossible! :'''Watt''': There's no way. Magneton is unable to battle, Pikachu's the winner! This match goes to Ash from Pallet Town. :'''Ash''': Great job, Pikachu. :'''Pikachu''': Pika pika! :'''May''': Oh, a clean sweep for Pikachu! :'''Max''': With only one attack each time. :'''Brock''': Wow, I've never seen Pikachu look better! :''[Wattson is feeling speechless. He walks over to Ash]'' :'''Wattson''': Ash, powerful stuff. ''[Shows Ash the Dynamo Badge in his left hand]'' Take this, the Dynamo Badge. :'''Ash''': Thanks, Mr. Wattson. ''[Takes the Dynamo Badge]'' :'''Wattson''': Sure, you beat me, Ash, but good. ''[Walks away]'' :'''Watt''': You know, boss... :'''Ash''': ''[off camera]'' Pikachu, what's wrong? :'''Watt''': Huh? :''[Ash and his friends are attending to Pikachu who is now feeling unwell]'' :'''Ash''': Hey, buddy, you don't look so good. :'''Pikachu''': ''[weakly]'' Pika. :'''Ash''': Ah! Oh, no! You're burnin' up! == External links== {{Wikipedia|List of Pokémon: Advanced episodes}} [[Category:Japanese TV shows]] [[Category:Pokémon]] onv2sbp0wxu7nf1ni1b8rdpfnxa6rrd 0 153131 3961291 3944964 2026-07-05T21:25:16Z ~2026-25217-78 3313596 /* Don't Touch that 'Dile [3.01] */ 3961291 wikitext text/x-wiki ---- {{Pokémon header}} ---- <br/> This is a list of episodes in Pokémon: The Johto Journeys, the third season of the Pokémon animated series (ポケットモンスター Poketto Monsutā?, Pokét Monsters), covering the further adventures of series protagonist Ash Ketchum as he travels to Johto and meets new friends. ===''Don't Touch that 'Dile'' [3.01]=== :''[First lines. The episode opens in a forest as the camera pans down to Ash, Misty and Brock who are walking in the fog]'' :'''Narrator''': Once again, our heroes have left the comforts of Pallet Town behind them. Their sights set on a new goal. Now, Ash and his friends are heading for New Bark Town, and the Johto League. Well, maybe. :'''Pikachu''': Pika, Pi! ("Ash!") :'''Ash''': Huh? :'''Pikachu''': ''[pointing ahead]'' Pika, Pika. ("Look up ahead.") :'''Ash''': What, Pikachu? ''[Looks up and sees a branch above him]'' Yeah, that branch looks familiar. :'''Misty''': Ash! You mean... :'''Pikachu''': Pika. ("We're lost.") :'''Misty''': ''[collapses]'' Now we've been walking around in circles all day! You said you knew where we were going and we're totally lost, now! Where do we go?! :'''Ash''': Well, if you're so smart, why don't you be the one to decide?! :'''Misty''': ''[stands up]'' That's a good idea. I'll find a way out of here. :''[The camera cuts to Ash who is standing with his arms folded. He then walks up to Misty]'' :'''Ash''': Come on, Misty, let's go. We're waiting for your directions. :'''Misty''': Don't rush me, Ash! I just have to think! :'''Ash''': Well, this is gonna be a brand new experience for you. :'''Misty''': ''[yells at Ash]'' WE'RE NOT LOST 'CAUSE OF ME! :'''Brock''': Hey! Yelling never solves anything, so just calm down! You two have to learn to be more mature like me. :'''Ash & Misty''': Uhh... :''[Then, a strange creature catches Togepi's senses]'' :'''Togepi''': Toge. ''[Jumps out of Misty's arms]'' Toge, Togepi! :''[Pikachu goes after Togepi]'' :'''Ash''': Pikachu! Pikachu! ''[Starts pursuing Pikachu and Togepi]'' Ohhh! ''[He, Pikachu and Togepi see the glowing blue figure of a creature]'' :''[The title card comes up]'' :'''Ash''': ''[voiceover]'' Don't Touch That 'Dile. <hr width=50%> :'''Jessie''': ''[referring to the escaped Totodile, whose jaw is clamped down on her hair]'' This thing's becoming a big headache! :'''James''': Jessie, just think of it as a Pokémon hair extension. :'''Jessie''': [''stomping several times''] I DON'T FIND THIS FUNNY! My hair is gonna come out of the roots if this doesn't let go of me! :''[As Jessie tries to swing Totodile off from her hair, Meowth goes over to a nearby phone booth]'' :'''Meowth''': I'm calling the boss to tell him we got ahold of a new Pokémon, or it got ahold of ''you''. ''[The phone booth door closes in his face, knocking him back]'' Wargh! Wargh! ''[Hits the ground]'' What was that for?! :'''Jessie''': I know how you operate, Meowth, and if you make the call, you'll take all the credit. :'''Meowth''': I don't think I like the implication of your accusation! ''[Thinks back to when he, Jessie and James got blasted off in the past]'' Is it too much to ask after enduring enough humiliation to last nine lives for me to be the one to call the boss to bear him these good tidings? ''[Returns to the present]'' I may be a Pokémon, but for your information, I've still got feelings and I wanna make that call! :'''Jessie''': Let me remind you that I took all the risk in stealing this thing, so I should get the reward! Now, I'm telling you to get out of my hair and let me make that phone call! :''[As Meowth and Jessie argue, James walks into the phone booth and prepares to make the call to Giovanni]'' :'''Meowth''': I ain't in your hair! That's the Totodile, and it's obviously putting a big strain on your brain! :'''Jessie''': ''[angrily]'' At least I have a brain, you halfwit! :''[James put a coin in the operator]'' :'''Meowth''': ''[off camera]'' Half a wit is better than none! :'''Jessie''': ''[off camera]'' How dare you?! ''[starts beating up Meowth on camera]'' :''[James then realizes something, which causes Jessie and Meowth to notice him in the booth]'' :'''James''': By any chance, do either of you remember the boss' area code? :''[Jessie and Meowth stumble in disbelief, take James out of the phone booth and start beating him up]'' :'''Meowth''': Hey, what's the idea? == The Double Trouble Header == :'''Brock''': Yeah! That's the spirit, Casey! :'''Misty''': Er, Brock, aren't we supposed to be on Ash's side? :'''Brock''': I usually root for the underdog cos the underdog is usually Ash. :'''Misty''': I didn't think of that. Destroy 'em Casey! :'''Brock''': Go, Casey! :'''Ash''' ''[annoyed]'': Some friends they are. == A Sappy Ending == :'''Misty''': [''gasps''] Togepi! Togepi! Come back here! [''Togepi is going to fall down and Misty desperate grabbed it''] :'''James''': [''referring to tree sap''] It's sweet, and it's yummy, and it tastes like honey! It's delicious, and nutritious and, it's free! == Roll On, Pokémon! == :'''Brock''': What a gem, so absolutely priceless, I never imagined there'd be such a treasure hidden in this valley, never imagined anything so precious and beautiful... :[''Ash and Misty groan''] :'''Ash''': It's just a rock... :'''Misty''': I think he means Rochelle... == Illusion Confusion == :'''Hagatha''': Oh I forgot to mention, since I'm the one who raised it, this Hoothoot only gets along with ''pretty'' girls. :'''Misty''': Oh, is that right Hoothoot? Do you like pretty girls? :'''Hoothoot''': Hoot, hoot... :'''Ash''': Too bad there aren't any here. :[''Misty and Hagatha glare at Ash with demon-like expressions while Hagatha growls''] :'''Misty''': What did you say Ash Ketchum?! == Flower Power == :'''Jessie''': [''to Meowth''] We needed you to warm up the crowd, not to cool them off... :'''James''': Now they'll never get to see Jessie and me dance... :'''Meowth''': An' you t'ink that's a bad t'ing? == Spinarak Attack == :'''James''': Meowth! Why are you eating out of that priceless piece of pottery?! :'''Meowth''': It makes the chow taste better. == Snubbull Snobbery == :'''Jessie''': Sorry to break up the party. :'''James''': And the marriage. :'''Meowth''': [''with Snubbull biting on his tail''] I'm in extreme pain here! == The Little Big Horn == :'''Jenny''': Would you mind coming with me? :'''Brock''': Oh boy, where should we go Officer? For a romantic stroll in this beautiful urban oasis? :'''Jenny''': You don't get it; I'd like you to come down to the station so I can fill out a report. :'''Brock''': Great, but it sure is an unusual first date. :[''Ash and Misty groan''] :'''Misty''': He doesn't have a clue... == The Chikorita Rescue == :'''Ash''': Team Rocket, prepare for trouble! On second thought, make that double! :'''Jessie''': To protect the world from devastation? :'''James''': To unite all people within our nation? :'''Ash''': Maybe you think I'm a little too brash, but the Master is here, and the name... ''[turning towards the Team Rocket Trio]'' is Ash! :'''Pikachu''': Pikachu! :''[Ash, with a large Poké Ball in the background, poses with one in his outstretched arm.]'' :'''Ash''': My Pokémon Team is faster than light! So surrender now, or you're in for a fight! :'''Meowth''': Me-owth, that's right! :'''Jessie''': ''[grunts as she pushes Meowth to the floor]'' [''to Ash''] How dare you mangle our motto? :'''James''': That is copyrighted material! :'''Meowth''': Copycat! :'''Ash''': All right Pikachu, hit 'em with a Thunderbolt! :''[Pikachu releases a Thunderbolt on Team Rocket, now fried to a crisp, the machine explodes, sends them flying]'' :'''Team Rocket''': We're blasting off again! == Once in A Blue Moon == :[''Meowth holds up a round object with a happy expression''] :'''Jessie''': What are you so happy about? What's that thing you've got there? :'''Meowth''': It's just an old lawn ornament, there's a bunch o' neat stuff over in that field an' it's all round... :'''Jessie''': Small minds are easily amused. == The Whistle Stop == :''[Jessie and James are sending out their Pokémon to battle Ash and crew.]'' :'''Jessie''': Lickitung, go! :'''James''': Victreebel, too! :'''Lickitung''': Licki! :'''Victreebel''': ''[screams as it chows down on James]'' :'''James''': ''[gibberish, that when backmasked, has James saying "Leo Burnett and 4Kids are the devil! Leo Burnett...!". This line was recorded in protest of 4Kids' decision to give their voice work to Leo Burnett Worldwide, which enabled them to not have to pay voice actors for Pokémon commercials. This, according to James' actor Eric Stuart, indirectly revoked his health care plan, and as a result, the line was recorded and inserted into this episode. Because 4Kids got in trouble for the line, however, it is replaced with James wailing in later releases.]'' Hey! Put me... == Ignorance is Blissey == :'''Ash''': Some night. I didn't do anything wrong and I still got sent to bed without any supper. :'''Misty''': WILL YOU STOP COMPLAINING, ASH?! BROCK AND I ARE JUST AS HUNGRY AS YOU ARE! :'''Brock''': THAT'S RIGHT! SO STOP YOUR GRUMBLING AND GO TO SLEEP, WILL YA?! :'''Ash''': Tell that to my stomach. <hr width="50/%"> :'''Ash''': ''[facing Team Rocket when they stole all the food from the Pokemon Center]'' YOU THREE HAVE CAUSED ENOUGH TROUBLE WHEN YOU TOOK THAT FOOD!! '''''NOW GIVE IT BACK OR ELSE!!!!!''''' == A Bout with Sprout == :'''Ash''': The most important thing a new Pokémon Trainer has to remember is... Uh... Let's see now, uh, what was it?... It's on the tip of my tongue... Uh... == Fighting Flyer with Fire == :'''Falkner''': Forfeit! :'''Ash''': Forfeit?! :'''Falkner''': It's supposed to be a trainer's responsibility to judge whether his Pokémon can continue to battle or not. == For Crying Out Loud == :'''Brock''': Well ya know what ya always find in beautiful places like this, don't ya? :'''Ash & Misty''': No, Brock, what? :'''Brock''': Beautiful girls... Guys, this could be it, this could be where I'm finally gonna meet the girl of my dreams! :'''Misty''': That's crazy, what makes you think you're gonna find the girl of your dreams here? :'''Brock''': Because she's standing right over there... <hr width="50%"/> :'''Wilhomena''': All right, you weasely Pokémon thief! What did you do with my little Marill? :'''Ash''': Is it supposed to be a dream or a nightmare? :'''Wilhomena''': ''[shakes Ash violently]'' I heard you talking about my Marill! Now, where is it?! :'''Ash''': ''Your'' Marill?! :'''Wilhomena''': YES!!! What have you done with my Pokémon?! :'''Ash''': It... went for a little swim! :'''Brock''': ''[steps in]'' I believe I can rectify this terrible misapprehension! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Misty''': [''to Wilhomina's Marill, after it angrily hits her''] DON'T DO THAT! Go ahead, stay here and cry then if you can. == Tanks A Lot == :[''After Togepi and Sentret drive away in the Team Rocket tank''] :'''Meowth''': Hey, how'd they do that? :'''Jessie''': JAMES. Don't tell me you forgot to put the parking brake on! :'''James''': Alright, what would you like me to tell you then? ---- :'''Misty''': [''shocked''] What?! Togepi is inside on that thing?! [''running''] Togepi!! ---- :'''James''': You're gonna have to pay if you destroy that tank, missy! :'''Misty''': NO WE'RE NOT, AND THE NAME IS MISTY! <hr width=50%/> :'''Misty''': [''disappointed scolding at Togepi''] And you're not driving again until you're eighteen! == Charizard's Burning Ambitions == :'''Ash''': Charizard, I need to give me a ride. :''[Charizard becomes shocked by Ash's request to give him a ride and shakes its head, as if it is saying "I'm sorry, but I can't give you a ride just yet."]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Liza''': ''[To Charizard]'' You'll never be a great Charizard if you act tough and don't respect your own limitation. == Grin to Win == :'''James''': [''checking each Sunflora''] Hmmm, the leaves on this one are out of proportion with its petals... This one has a nice smile, but its shape leaves something to be desired... This one's physically nice but it lacks personality... There's something insincere about this one's smile... This one just doesn't want to win badly enough, you can tell by the look in its eyes... == Chikorita's Big Upset == :'''Ash''': Hey, Chikorita, why don't you go eat with the other Pokemon? :'''Chikorita''': Chiko. Chiko. ''[Pikachu walks by with an offer of food]'' :'''Pikachu''': Pika. ''[Eventually, Chikorita refused and bashing it by her leaf]'' :'''Chikorita''': Chiko. :'''Pikachu''': Pika. :'''Ash''': That wasn't nice. <hr width=50%/> :[''Jessie and James are threatened by their robot gone haywire tugging on their ropes while Meowth sits up top in the balloon they're connected to''] :'''Meowth''': [''before extending his claws''] Time for emergency measures... Hah! :'''Jessie''': Wait a second, what are you going to do? :'''James''': We're your friends, you can't cut us loose! :'''Meowth''': The two o' you are weighin' this t'ing down so I'm gonna have ta exercise my escape claws! [''his claws now touch the ropes''] :'''Jessie''': That actually makes a great deal of sense... YOU TRAITOR! == Foul Weather Friends == :'''Meowth''': We want them Hoppip so we can start our own business an' go legit'. :'''Jessie''': We never do anything honest! :'''Meowth''': We could still cheat on our taxes, couldn't we? == The Superhero Secret == :'''Gligarman''': That's some daughter I have... :'''Brock''': Yeah, she sure is, wonder where she disappeared to? She was here a minute ago. == Mild 'N Wooly == :'''James''': When I was a boy, practically every stitch of clothing I owned; sweaters, socks, unmentionables, everything was made of Mareep wool. :'''Jessie''': [''shocked''] Huh?! :'''James''': It was... like heaven. I had snugly little Mareep wool shorts, cute little Mareep wool mittens, a scarf of course and the most adorable Mareep wool stocking cap you've ever seen. My schoolmates were so envious they beat me nearly every day. == Wired for Battle == :'''Misty''': Shingo can't watch the battle and his computer at the same time. :'''Pikachu''': Pika. :'''Muramasa''': He's starting to realize where his attention ''should'' be. == Good 'Quil Hunting == :[''After the usual Team Rocket motto''] :'''Meowth''': Meowth! That's right!... But This ain't! :[''Only Misty and Brock are present''] :'''Jessie''': Where are Pikachu and the twerp?! :'''Misty''': Neither of them is here right now! :'''Jessie''': Whoops! In that case we take all that back. Let's go. <hr width=50%/> ''[Cyndaquil burns the jerkish trainer with flamethrower and send him running]'' :'''Misty''': THAT'S WHAT YOU GET FOR BEING A CHEATER! :'''Brock''': MAYBE YOU SHOULD TRY TRAINING YOURSELF BEFORE YOU TRY TRAINING ANYMORE POKEMON! == A Shadow of a Drought == :'''Jessie''': [''referring to the water supply''] What?! It's all gone! Meowth drank the canteen dry! :'''James''': Hey! We were ''all'' supposed to get a share! :'''Meowth''': I know, but my share was on the bottom. == Going Apricorn == :'''Meowth''': [''referring to the Apricorns''] If we can get our paws on them Pokéballs, people will pay a pretty penny for 'em cos them things don't grow on trees ya know. :'''James''': Actually Meowth, if you really ''had'' been listening to every word, you would have heard the sweet little girl say those Pokéballs ''really'' ''do'' grow on trees. :'''Jessie''': Forget it James, there's money to be made. :'''Ash''': Pikachu! Use Thunder! :'''Pikachu''': Pika... CHU!!! :[''The Thunder Attack shocks Team Rocket and the fan causing it's light bulbs to overload and break, it explodes on Team Rocket by frying all of them, sent blasting off''] :'''Team Rocket''': Looks like Team Rocket's blasting off again! == Gettin' the Bugs Out == :'''Bugsy''': Wrong, miss. This is definitely a Pokémon Gym. The Azalea Town Gym and if you don't mind saying so, miss, your ignorance is showing. Because everyone knows that Bug Pokémon are the best Pokémon in the world. :'''Misty''': DON'T YOU DARE CALL ME IGNORANT! JUST WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?! :'''Bugsy''': I don't have to tell you who I am. You're the ones who ought to be telling me who you are. <hr width=50%> :'''Bugsy''': Have you ever heard the saying, the trainer who learns the rules of the Bug Pokémon learns to rule the Bug Pokémon? :'''Ash''': No, who said that? :'''Bugsy''': Me, weren't ya listening? == A Farfetch'd Tale == :'''Sylvester''': [''to his father''] Have you seen... uh... my Farfetch'd? :'''Sylvester's father''': I knew it; you let that thing run away again, didn't ya? :'''Sylvester''': I, I didn't say it ran away! :'''Sylvester's father''': Well if it didn't run away how come you're lookin' for it? :'''Sylvester''': Uh, well I... :'''Sylvester's father''': You just can't do anything right, can ya?! :'''Misty''': He's scary... :'''Brock''': I'm ready to apologise to him and I didn't even do anything! == Tricks of the Trade == :'''James''': [''to Victreebel''] Just remember how well I take care of you the next time you decide to bite the head that waters you. == The Fire-in Squad == :'''Meowth''': We're gonna have ta do this the 'charred' way! :'''Jessie''': Let's blast them James. :'''James''': I believe that's my cue, to barbecue! == No Big Woop == :'''Jessie''': [''referring to Wooper''] I can't do it; I can't look at that sweet little face and stay angry... :'''James''': It's absolutely adorable, isn't it Jessie? :'''Meowth''': It reminds me of me. == Tunnel Vision == :[''Jigglypuff and Snubbull are currently fighting by slapping each other''] :'''Jessie''': Get in there Meowth; can't you see that Snubbull's in danger? Quit standing around gawking and do something to help out! :'''James''': What are you waiting for? :'''Meowth''': I was kinda waitin' fer Jigglypuff ta slap that Snubbull silly. == Hour of the Houndour == :'''Meowth''': [''as he steals food from Nurse Joy''] Time ta say Ciao to yer chow! == The Totodile Duel == :'''Misty''': [''astonished''] I just caught a tea kettle... :'''Ash''': It put up a pretty good fight though. :'''Brock''': Could ya throw it back and try for a coffee maker? :'''Misty''': I came here for Pokémon, not appliances! <hr width=50%/> :'''Ash''': Misty is kind of scaring me. :'''Brock'''ː She's almost as scary as that Mini-Misty. :'''Misty''': Don't mess with me ''or'' Mini-Misty. == Hot Matches == :'''Wobbuffet''': [''appears''] Wob-buffet! :'''Jessie''': [''to Wobbuffet''] Must you always butt into our business?! :'''Wobbuffet''': [''nodding''] Wobbu, Wobbu, Wobbu, Wobbu, Wobbu. :'''Jessie''': [''recalling Wobbuffet''] I was afraid you'd say that. == Love, Totodile Style == :'''Ash''': [''referring to Totodile and Quagsire''] I think Totodile just found a new girlfriend. :'''Pikachu''': Pika? :'''Misty''': [''groans''] Oh great, just what we need... A Pokémon that acts just like Brock... :'''James''': I knew we shouldn't had eaten all that food. :'''Jessie''': Well, that's what we get for being nice to a Pokemon on an empty stomach. :'''Pikachu''': Pika, Pikachu! :'''Meowth''': Hey, pipe down, Pikachu. :'''Jessie''': So, what if our circus plan didn't work? Even if Azumarill won't perform, The Boss will still pay us for three rare Pokemon. :'''Meowth''': ''[laughs]'' Yeah! :'''James''': Let's go! == Fowl Play == :'''Meowth''': That rule stuff's a lot o' baloney! Rules fer decent honourable trainers don't apply ta us! :'''Ash''': Okay, hold it, Totodile! Your turn Pikachu! Aim a Thunderbolt Attack right where it's cracked! :''[Pikachu launches a Thunderbolt at the crack of the robot and at Team Rocket causing it to explode, Team Rocket, now fried and charred to a crisp, were sent blasting off]'' :'''Team Rocket''': Team Rocket's blasting off again! :'''Wobbuffet''': Wobbuffet! == Forest Grumps == :'''Misty''': [''referring to their position''] We're just a few feet from the bottom! :'''Meowth''': If we'd had known that we coulda' taken your Pokémon last night! :'''Misty''': [''annoyed''] You were gonna to take my Pokémon, were ya?! :'''Meowth''': [''nervous''] I meant we was gonna take yer Pokémon fer a nice walk in the moonlight... :'''Jessie''': Hey, wait a second. All of the Ursaring are gone and Team Rocket's back together. So that must mean... WE CAN BATTLE YOU FOR PIKACHU!!!! == The Psychic Sidekicks == :'''James''': Our mirror ploy also has the contributing secondary effect of damaging a Psychic Pokémon's confidence against Ghost Pokémon, consequently eroding its trainer's faith and trust in the Pokémon's natural abilities and talents. :'''Jessie''': I had no idea you had such an analytical mind. :'''Meowth''': How'd ya t'ink o' that? :'''James''': I just made it up as I went along. :'''Jessie & Meowth''': [''clapping''] Ohhhh... == The Fortune Hunters == :''[After being blasted off, Team Rocket land in a park with the Fortune Telling book]'' :'''Jessie''': Meowth, where'd that book you're holding come from? :'''Meowth''': Yeah, I picked it up just before we got blasted. It's a guide to Pokémon Fortune Telling. :'''Jessie''': Oh, Pokémon Fortune Telling? ''[Snatches the book off Meowth and reads it]'' I've heard all about these little books, I've been meaning to shoplift one. :'''James''': What is Pokémon Fortune Telling? :'''Jessie''': It compares people to Pokémon and tells your fortune. Let's see, it'll probably say I'm an elegant Ninetales type. ''[Giggles]'' Here we are, it says I'm an... ''[Squeals]'' It says I'm an Eevee type. ''[A fantasy of her and an Eevee is shown]'' Yep, that's me. A cuddly, adorable Eevee type. :'''Meowth''': Jess sure don't seem like an Eevee. :'''James''': More like an Eevil. :'''Meowth''': Hey, Jess! Look up what kind of Pokemon personality type matches me! :'''Jessie''': You little fur brain!!! You ''ARE'' a Pokémon! :'''Meowth''': Oh, yeah. I forgot about dat. :'''Jessie''': Would you like me to look up your fortune for you, James? :'''James''': Alright, but I don't believe in those silly things. :'''Jessie''': ''[Looks inside the book]'' Well, let's see now...it should be right here...here it is! You're a...''[gasps]'' :'''Meowth''': He's a... :''[A fantasy of a Moltres is shown]'' :'''Jessie & Meowth''': A Moltres?! :'''Jessie''': The Moltres type will always prevail and just like a real Moltres, the Moltres type personality... soars high above all others?! :'''James''': ''[laughs]'' Now isn't that ridiculous? :'''Jessie''': Absolutely. :'''Meowth''': Yeah, Dere's nuttin' Moltres-y about you, Jimmy-boy. :'''Jessie''': Look, here's what today's fortune for the Moltres type personality: "You will have good luck with money and find something lost." :'''James''': Too bad those fortunes never come true, isn't it? ''[Sees something on the ground]'' Huh? What is this shiny little thing? ''[Picks up a silver coin]'' It's a... 1867 silver dollar! This must be my lucky day! :'''Meowth''': Hey, dat's pretty good luck and mad as some money if ya ask me. :'''James''': Okay, it's just a coincidence. Hey, what is this in my shoe? ''[Removes his right boot and out comes a bottle cap]'' Ah, I've been looking for this bottle cap for weeks. I was positive I lost it. :'''Jessie''': The book says "you will have good luck with money and you'll find something lost." :'''James''': Oh, c'mon. It's another coincidence. :'''Jessie''': Wait a second, there's one more thing here. "Beware of danger near water." :'''James''': That's ridiculous, we're nowhere near any water. ''[Turns on a drinking fountain and gets squirted with water]'' :'''Meowth''': Whaddya say now? :'''James''': It was right, that silly little fortune telling book was right! ''[Takes the book off of Jessie]'' Let me see that thing! ''[Looks inside the book]'' "Moltres type, no matter what difficulties befall them, the Moltres type will always prevail and just like a real Moltres, the Moltres type personality soars high above all others and triumphs! I knew it all along! Through all the pain, through all the humiliation, I always felt that I was meant for something greater! ''[Laughs evilly]'' :'''Jessie''': James, are you?! :''[James runs over to a lamp post and climbs to the top]'' :'''James''': I, James, am the mighty Moltres! And like the mighty Moltres, I am destined to rule! First, I shall become the Supreme ruler of Team Rocket... then... then I shall become the ruler of all Pokémon! Ah-haha! :'''Jessie''': Our Moltres is certainly full of himself. :'''Meowth''': He's full of hot air! :''[James jumps down and lands in front of Jessie and Meowth]'' :'''James''': Hear me! From this day forward, you will be my subjects and I will be the mighty Moltres-like monarch you will obey and revere! :'''Jessie''': What? :'''Meowth''': Revere you? :'''James''': Correct. I believe that I saw a daycare centre in the last town. We shall go there with haste, and I shall lead you in pillaging and plundering Pokémon! Your Moltres master will lead you to victory. Aahh! ''[Runs off]'' :'''Jessie''': James, wait! :'''Meowth''': Wait! <hr width=50%/> :'''James''': I am the flame that burns brightest! :''[James flies downward in a Moltres costume.]'' :'''James''': A flame that lights the night! A flame that shatters the darkness! ''I am a flaming Moltres! Bwahahahahah!'' :''[Moltres' cry can be heard.]'' :'''Meowth''': ''[looking unimpressed]'' 'Dat outfit... Where'd he get it? :'''Jessie''': I think that costume came right out of his closet... :'''Misty''': Go, Poliwhirl, full-force Water Gun Attack! :''[Poliwhirl uses a water gun on Cassidy, Butch, Primeape, and Raticate]'' :'''Ash''': Okay, Pikachu, use your Thunderbolt Attack! :'''Pikachu''': Pika... Chu! :''[Thunderbolt shocks Butch, Cassidy, Raticate, and Primeape, now fried to a crisp, and collapses]'' :'''Misty''': It's your bad luck day any day you mess with me! :'''Ash''': Hey, that sounds like Gyarados' Dragon Rage! :'''Misty''': What did you say!? == External links== {{Wikipedia|List of Pokémon: The Johto Journeys episodes}} [[Category:Japanese TV shows]] [[Category:Pokémon]] 74g3egkc9f9di8p07n0g2pajzi7sf5t 3961294 3961291 2026-07-05T21:35:30Z ~2026-25217-78 3313596 3961294 wikitext text/x-wiki ---- {{Pokémon header}} ---- <br/> This is a list of episodes in Pokémon: The Johto Journeys, the third season of the Pokémon animated series (ポケットモンスター Poketto Monsutā?, Pokét Monsters), covering the further adventures of series protagonist Ash Ketchum as he travels to Johto and meets new friends. ===''Don't Touch that 'Dile'' [3.01]=== :''[First lines. The episode opens in a forest as the camera pans down to Ash, Misty and Brock who are walking in the fog]'' :'''Narrator''': Once again, our heroes have left the comforts of Pallet Town behind them. Their sights set on a new goal. Now, Ash and his friends are heading for New Bark Town, and the Johto League. Well, maybe. :'''Pikachu''': Pika, Pi! ("Ash!") :'''Ash''': Huh? :'''Pikachu''': ''[pointing ahead]'' Pika, Pika. ("Look up ahead.") :'''Ash''': What, Pikachu? ''[Looks up and sees a branch above him]'' Yeah, that branch looks familiar. :'''Misty''': Ash! You mean... :'''Pikachu''': Pika. ("We're lost.") :'''Misty''': ''[collapses]'' Now we've been walking around in circles all day! You said you knew where we were going and we're totally lost, now! Where do we go?! :'''Ash''': Well, if you're so smart, why don't you be the one to decide?! :'''Misty''': ''[stands up]'' That's a good idea. I'll find a way out of here. :''[The camera cuts to Ash who is standing with his arms folded. He then walks up to Misty]'' :'''Ash''': Come on, Misty, let's go. We're waiting for your directions. :'''Misty''': Don't rush me, Ash! I just have to think! :'''Ash''': Well, this is gonna be a brand new experience for you. :'''Misty''': ''[yells at Ash]'' WE'RE NOT LOST 'CAUSE OF ME! :'''Brock''': Hey! Yelling never solves anything, so just calm down! You two have to learn to be more mature like me. :'''Ash & Misty''': Uhh... :''[Then, a strange creature catches Togepi's senses]'' :'''Togepi''': Toge. ''[Jumps out of Misty's arms]'' Toge, Togepi! :''[Pikachu goes after Togepi]'' :'''Ash''': Pikachu! Pikachu! ''[Starts pursuing Pikachu and Togepi]'' Ohhh! ''[He, Pikachu and Togepi see the glowing blue figure of a creature]'' :''[The title card comes up]'' :'''Ash''': ''[voiceover]'' Don't Touch That 'Dile. <hr width=50%> :'''Jessie''': ''[referring to the escaped Totodile, whose jaw is clamped down on her hair]'' This thing's becoming a big headache! :'''James''': Jessie, just think of it as a Pokémon hair extension. :'''Jessie''': [''stomping several times''] I DON'T FIND THIS FUNNY! My hair is gonna come out of the roots if this doesn't let go of me! :''[As Jessie tries to swing Totodile off from her hair, Meowth goes over to a nearby phone booth]'' :'''Meowth''': I'm calling the boss to tell him we got ahold of a new Pokémon, or it got ahold of ''you''. ''[The phone booth door closes in his face, knocking him back]'' Wargh! Wargh! ''[Hits the ground]'' What was that for?! :'''Jessie''': I know how you operate, Meowth, and if you make the call, you'll take all the credit. :'''Meowth''': I don't think I like the implication of your accusation! ''[Thinks back to when he, Jessie and James got blasted off in the past]'' Is it too much to ask after enduring enough humiliation to last nine lives for me to be the one to call the boss to bear him these good tidings? ''[Returns to the present]'' I may be a Pokémon, but for your information, I've still got feelings and I wanna make that call! :'''Jessie''': Let me remind you that I took all the risk in stealing this thing, so I should get the reward! Now, I'm telling you to get out of my hair and let me make that phone call! :''[As Meowth and Jessie argue, James walks into the phone booth and prepares to make the call to Giovanni]'' :'''Meowth''': I ain't in your hair! That's the Totodile, and it's obviously putting a big strain on your brain! :'''Jessie''': ''[angrily]'' At least I have a brain, you halfwit! :''[James put a coin in the operator]'' :'''Meowth''': ''[off camera]'' Half a wit is better than none! :'''Jessie''': ''[off camera]'' How dare you?! ''[starts beating up Meowth on camera]'' :''[James then realizes something, which causes Jessie and Meowth to notice him in the booth]'' :'''James''': By any chance, do either of you remember the boss' area code? :''[Jessie and Meowth stumble in disbelief, take James out of the phone booth and start beating him up]'' :'''Meowth''': Hey, what's the idea? ===''The Double Trouble Header'' [3.02]=== :'''Brock''': Yeah! That's the spirit, Casey! :'''Misty''': Er, Brock, aren't we supposed to be on Ash's side? :'''Brock''': I usually root for the underdog cos the underdog is usually Ash. :'''Misty''': I didn't think of that. Destroy 'em Casey! :'''Brock''': Go, Casey! :'''Ash''' ''[annoyed]'': Some friends they are. ===''A Sappy Ending'' [3.03]=== :'''Misty''': [''gasps''] Togepi! Togepi! Come back here! [''Togepi is going to fall down and Misty desperate grabbed it''] :'''James''': [''referring to tree sap''] It's sweet, and it's yummy, and it tastes like honey! It's delicious, and nutritious and, it's free! ===''Roll On, Pokémon!'' [3.04]=== :'''Brock''': What a gem, so absolutely priceless, I never imagined there'd be such a treasure hidden in this valley, never imagined anything so precious and beautiful... :[''Ash and Misty groan''] :'''Ash''': It's just a rock... :'''Misty''': I think he means Rochelle... ===''Illusion Confusion'' [3.05]=== :'''Hagatha''': Oh I forgot to mention, since I'm the one who raised it, this Hoothoot only gets along with ''pretty'' girls. :'''Misty''': Oh, is that right Hoothoot? Do you like pretty girls? :'''Hoothoot''': Hoot, hoot... :'''Ash''': Too bad there aren't any here. :[''Misty and Hagatha glare at Ash with demon-like expressions while Hagatha growls''] :'''Misty''': What did you say Ash Ketchum?! ===''Flower Power'' [3.06]=== :'''Jessie''': [''to Meowth''] We needed you to warm up the crowd, not to cool them off... :'''James''': Now they'll never get to see Jessie and me dance... :'''Meowth''': An' you t'ink that's a bad t'ing? ===''Spinarak Attack'' [3.07]=== :'''James''': Meowth! Why are you eating out of that priceless piece of pottery?! :'''Meowth''': It makes the chow taste better. ===''Snubbull Snobbery'' [3.08]=== :'''Jessie''': Sorry to break up the party. :'''James''': And the marriage. :'''Meowth''': [''with Snubbull biting on his tail''] I'm in extreme pain here! ===''The Little Big Horn'' [3.09]=== :'''Jenny''': Would you mind coming with me? :'''Brock''': Oh boy, where should we go Officer? For a romantic stroll in this beautiful urban oasis? :'''Jenny''': You don't get it; I'd like you to come down to the station so I can fill out a report. :'''Brock''': Great, but it sure is an unusual first date. :[''Ash and Misty groan''] :'''Misty''': He doesn't have a clue... ===''The Chikorita Rescue'' [3.10]=== :'''Ash''': Team Rocket, prepare for trouble! On second thought, make that double! :'''Jessie''': To protect the world from devastation? :'''James''': To unite all people within our nation? :'''Ash''': Maybe you think I'm a little too brash, but the Master is here, and the name... ''[turning towards the Team Rocket Trio]'' is Ash! :'''Pikachu''': Pikachu! :''[Ash, with a large Poké Ball in the background, poses with one in his outstretched arm.]'' :'''Ash''': My Pokémon Team is faster than light! So surrender now, or you're in for a fight! :'''Meowth''': Me-owth, that's right! :'''Jessie''': ''[grunts as she pushes Meowth to the floor]'' [''to Ash''] How dare you mangle our motto? :'''James''': That is copyrighted material! :'''Meowth''': Copycat! :'''Ash''': All right Pikachu, hit 'em with a Thunderbolt! :''[Pikachu releases a Thunderbolt on Team Rocket, now fried to a crisp, the machine explodes, sends them flying]'' :'''Team Rocket''': We're blasting off again! ===''Once in A Blue Moon'' [3.11]=== :[''Meowth holds up a round object with a happy expression''] :'''Jessie''': What are you so happy about? What's that thing you've got there? :'''Meowth''': It's just an old lawn ornament, there's a bunch o' neat stuff over in that field an' it's all round... :'''Jessie''': Small minds are easily amused. ===''The Whistle Stop'' [3.12]=== :''[Jessie and James are sending out their Pokémon to battle Ash and crew.]'' :'''Jessie''': Lickitung, go! :'''James''': Victreebel, too! :'''Lickitung''': Licki! :'''Victreebel''': ''[screams as it chows down on James]'' :'''James''': ''[gibberish, that when backmasked, has James saying "Leo Burnett and 4Kids are the devil! Leo Burnett...!". This line was recorded in protest of 4Kids' decision to give their voice work to Leo Burnett Worldwide, which enabled them to not have to pay voice actors for Pokémon commercials. This, according to James' actor Eric Stuart, indirectly revoked his health care plan, and as a result, the line was recorded and inserted into this episode. Because 4Kids got in trouble for the line, however, it is replaced with James wailing in later releases.]'' Hey! Put me... ===''Ignorance is Blissey'' [3.13]=== :'''Ash''': Some night. I didn't do anything wrong and I still got sent to bed without any supper. :'''Misty''': WILL YOU STOP COMPLAINING, ASH?! BROCK AND I ARE JUST AS HUNGRY AS YOU ARE! :'''Brock''': THAT'S RIGHT! SO STOP YOUR GRUMBLING AND GO TO SLEEP, WILL YA?! :'''Ash''': Tell that to my stomach. <hr width="50/%"> :'''Ash''': ''[facing Team Rocket when they stole all the food from the Pokemon Center]'' YOU THREE HAVE CAUSED ENOUGH TROUBLE WHEN YOU TOOK THAT FOOD!! '''''NOW GIVE IT BACK OR ELSE!!!!!''''' ===''A Bout with Sprout'' [3.14]=== :'''Ash''': The most important thing a new Pokémon Trainer has to remember is... Uh... Let's see now, uh, what was it?... It's on the tip of my tongue... Uh... ===''Fighting Flyer with Fire'' [3.15]=== :'''Falkner''': Forfeit! :'''Ash''': Forfeit?! :'''Falkner''': It's supposed to be a trainer's responsibility to judge whether his Pokémon can continue to battle or not. ===''For Crying Out Loud'' [3.16]=== :'''Brock''': Well ya know what ya always find in beautiful places like this, don't ya? :'''Ash & Misty''': No, Brock, what? :'''Brock''': Beautiful girls... Guys, this could be it, this could be where I'm finally gonna meet the girl of my dreams! :'''Misty''': That's crazy, what makes you think you're gonna find the girl of your dreams here? :'''Brock''': Because she's standing right over there... <hr width="50%"/> :'''Wilhomena''': All right, you weasely Pokémon thief! What did you do with my little Marill? :'''Ash''': Is it supposed to be a dream or a nightmare? :'''Wilhomena''': ''[shakes Ash violently]'' I heard you talking about my Marill! Now, where is it?! :'''Ash''': ''Your'' Marill?! :'''Wilhomena''': YES!!! What have you done with my Pokémon?! :'''Ash''': It... went for a little swim! :'''Brock''': ''[steps in]'' I believe I can rectify this terrible misapprehension! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Misty''': [''to Wilhomina's Marill, after it angrily hits her''] DON'T DO THAT! Go ahead, stay here and cry then if you can. ===''Tanks A Lot'' [3.17]=== :[''After Togepi and Sentret drive away in the Team Rocket tank''] :'''Meowth''': Hey, how'd they do that? :'''Jessie''': JAMES. Don't tell me you forgot to put the parking brake on! :'''James''': Alright, what would you like me to tell you then? <hr width=50%/> :'''Misty''': [''shocked''] What?! Togepi is inside on that thing?! [''running''] Togepi!! <hr width=50%/> :'''James''': You're gonna have to pay if you destroy that tank, missy! :'''Misty''': NO WE'RE NOT, AND THE NAME IS MISTY! <hr width=50%/> :'''Misty''': [''disappointed scolding at Togepi''] And you're not driving again until you're eighteen! ===''Charizard's Burning Ambitions'' [3.18]=== :'''Ash''': Charizard, I need to give me a ride. :''[Charizard becomes shocked by Ash's request to give him a ride and shakes its head, as if it is saying "I'm sorry, but I can't give you a ride just yet."]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Liza''': ''[To Charizard]'' You'll never be a great Charizard if you act tough and don't respect your own limitation. ===''Grin to Win'' [3.19]=== :'''James''': [''checking each Sunflora''] Hmmm, the leaves on this one are out of proportion with its petals... This one has a nice smile, but its shape leaves something to be desired... This one's physically nice but it lacks personality... There's something insincere about this one's smile... This one just doesn't want to win badly enough, you can tell by the look in its eyes... ===''Chikorita's Big Upset'' [3.20]=== :'''Ash''': Hey, Chikorita, why don't you go eat with the other Pokemon? :'''Chikorita''': Chiko. Chiko. ''[Pikachu walks by with an offer of food]'' :'''Pikachu''': Pika. ''[Eventually, Chikorita refused and bashing it by her leaf]'' :'''Chikorita''': Chiko. :'''Pikachu''': Pika. :'''Ash''': That wasn't nice. <hr width=50%/> :[''Jessie and James are threatened by their robot gone haywire tugging on their ropes while Meowth sits up top in the balloon they're connected to''] :'''Meowth''': [''before extending his claws''] Time for emergency measures... Hah! :'''Jessie''': Wait a second, what are you going to do? :'''James''': We're your friends, you can't cut us loose! :'''Meowth''': The two o' you are weighin' this t'ing down so I'm gonna have ta exercise my escape claws! [''his claws now touch the ropes''] :'''Jessie''': That actually makes a great deal of sense... YOU TRAITOR! ===''Foul Weather Friends'' [3.21]=== :'''Meowth''': We want them Hoppip so we can start our own business an' go legit'. :'''Jessie''': We never do anything honest! :'''Meowth''': We could still cheat on our taxes, couldn't we? ===''The Superhero Secret'' [3.22]=== :'''Gligarman''': That's some daughter I have... :'''Brock''': Yeah, she sure is, wonder where she disappeared to? She was here a minute ago. ===''Mild 'N Wooly'' [3.23]=== :'''James''': When I was a boy, practically every stitch of clothing I owned; sweaters, socks, unmentionables, everything was made of Mareep wool. :'''Jessie''': [''shocked''] Huh?! :'''James''': It was... like heaven. I had snugly little Mareep wool shorts, cute little Mareep wool mittens, a scarf of course and the most adorable Mareep wool stocking cap you've ever seen. My schoolmates were so envious they beat me nearly every day. ===''Wired for Battle'' [3.24]=== :'''Misty''': Shingo can't watch the battle and his computer at the same time. :'''Pikachu''': Pika. :'''Muramasa''': He's starting to realize where his attention ''should'' be. ===''Good 'Quil Hunting'' [3.25]=== :[''After the usual Team Rocket motto''] :'''Meowth''': Meowth! That's right!... But This ain't! :[''Only Misty and Brock are present''] :'''Jessie''': Where are Pikachu and the twerp?! :'''Misty''': Neither of them is here right now! :'''Jessie''': Whoops! In that case we take all that back. Let's go. <hr width=50%/> ''[Cyndaquil burns the jerkish trainer with flamethrower and send him running]'' :'''Misty''': THAT'S WHAT YOU GET FOR BEING A CHEATER! :'''Brock''': MAYBE YOU SHOULD TRY TRAINING YOURSELF BEFORE YOU TRY TRAINING ANYMORE POKEMON! ===''A Shadow of a Drought'' [3.26]=== :'''Jessie''': [''referring to the water supply''] What?! It's all gone! Meowth drank the canteen dry! :'''James''': Hey! We were ''all'' supposed to get a share! :'''Meowth''': I know, but my share was on the bottom. ===''Going Apricorn'' [3.27]=== :'''Meowth''': [''referring to the Apricorns''] If we can get our paws on them Pokéballs, people will pay a pretty penny for 'em cos them things don't grow on trees ya know. :'''James''': Actually Meowth, if you really ''had'' been listening to every word, you would have heard the sweet little girl say those Pokéballs ''really'' ''do'' grow on trees. :'''Jessie''': Forget it James, there's money to be made. :'''Ash''': Pikachu! Use Thunder! :'''Pikachu''': Pika... CHU!!! :[''The Thunder Attack shocks Team Rocket and the fan causing it's light bulbs to overload and break, it explodes on Team Rocket by frying all of them, sent blasting off''] :'''Team Rocket''': Looks like Team Rocket's blasting off again! ===''Gettin' the Bugs Out'' [3.28]=== :'''Bugsy''': Wrong, miss. This is definitely a Pokémon Gym. The Azalea Town Gym and if you don't mind saying so, miss, your ignorance is showing. Because everyone knows that Bug Pokémon are the best Pokémon in the world. :'''Misty''': DON'T YOU DARE CALL ME IGNORANT! JUST WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?! :'''Bugsy''': I don't have to tell you who I am. You're the ones who ought to be telling me who you are. <hr width=50%> :'''Bugsy''': Have you ever heard the saying, the trainer who learns the rules of the Bug Pokémon learns to rule the Bug Pokémon? :'''Ash''': No, who said that? :'''Bugsy''': Me, weren't ya listening? ===''A Farfetch'd Tale'' [3.29]=== :'''Sylvester''': [''to his father''] Have you seen... uh... my Farfetch'd? :'''Sylvester's father''': I knew it; you let that thing run away again, didn't ya? :'''Sylvester''': I, I didn't say it ran away! :'''Sylvester's father''': Well if it didn't run away how come you're lookin' for it? :'''Sylvester''': Uh, well I... :'''Sylvester's father''': You just can't do anything right, can ya?! :'''Misty''': He's scary... :'''Brock''': I'm ready to apologise to him and I didn't even do anything! ===''Tricks of the Trade'' [3.30]=== :'''James''': [''to Victreebel''] Just remember how well I take care of you the next time you decide to bite the head that waters you. ===''The Fire-in Squad'' [3.31]=== :'''Meowth''': We're gonna have ta do this the 'charred' way! :'''Jessie''': Let's blast them James. :'''James''': I believe that's my cue, to barbecue! ===''No Big Woop'' [3.32]=== :'''Jessie''': [''referring to Wooper''] I can't do it; I can't look at that sweet little face and stay angry... :'''James''': It's absolutely adorable, isn't it Jessie? :'''Meowth''': It reminds me of me. ===''Tunnel Vision'' [3.33]=== :[''Jigglypuff and Snubbull are currently fighting by slapping each other''] :'''Jessie''': Get in there Meowth; can't you see that Snubbull's in danger? Quit standing around gawking and do something to help out! :'''James''': What are you waiting for? :'''Meowth''': I was kinda waitin' fer Jigglypuff ta slap that Snubbull silly. ===''Hour of the Houndour'' [3.34]=== :'''Meowth''': [''as he steals food from Nurse Joy''] Time ta say Ciao to yer chow! ===''The Totodile Duel'' [3.35]=== :'''Misty''': [''astonished''] I just caught a tea kettle... :'''Ash''': It put up a pretty good fight though. :'''Brock''': Could ya throw it back and try for a coffee maker? :'''Misty''': I came here for Pokémon, not appliances! <hr width=50%/> :'''Ash''': Misty is kind of scaring me. :'''Brock'''ː She's almost as scary as that Mini-Misty. :'''Misty''': Don't mess with me ''or'' Mini-Misty. ===''Hot Matches'' [3.36]=== :'''Wobbuffet''': [''appears''] Wob-buffet! :'''Jessie''': [''to Wobbuffet''] Must you always butt into our business?! :'''Wobbuffet''': [''nodding''] Wobbu, Wobbu, Wobbu, Wobbu, Wobbu. :'''Jessie''': [''recalling Wobbuffet''] I was afraid you'd say that. ===''Love, Totodile Style'' [3.37]=== :'''Ash''': [''referring to Totodile and Quagsire''] I think Totodile just found a new girlfriend. :'''Pikachu''': Pika? :'''Misty''': [''groans''] Oh great, just what we need... A Pokémon that acts just like Brock... :'''James''': I knew we shouldn't had eaten all that food. :'''Jessie''': Well, that's what we get for being nice to a Pokemon on an empty stomach. :'''Pikachu''': Pika, Pikachu! :'''Meowth''': Hey, pipe down, Pikachu. :'''Jessie''': So, what if our circus plan didn't work? Even if Azumarill won't perform, The Boss will still pay us for three rare Pokemon. :'''Meowth''': ''[laughs]'' Yeah! :'''James''': Let's go! ===''Fowl Play'' [3.38]=== :'''Meowth''': That rule stuff's a lot o' baloney! Rules fer decent honourable trainers don't apply ta us! :'''Ash''': Okay, hold it, Totodile! Your turn Pikachu! Aim a Thunderbolt Attack right where it's cracked! :''[Pikachu launches a Thunderbolt at the crack of the robot and at Team Rocket causing it to explode, Team Rocket, now fried and charred to a crisp, were sent blasting off]'' :'''Team Rocket''': Team Rocket's blasting off again! :'''Wobbuffet''': Wobbuffet! ===''Forest Grumps'' [3.39]=== :'''Misty''': [''referring to their position''] We're just a few feet from the bottom! :'''Meowth''': If we'd had known that we coulda' taken your Pokémon last night! :'''Misty''': [''annoyed''] You were gonna to take my Pokémon, were ya?! :'''Meowth''': [''nervous''] I meant we was gonna take yer Pokémon fer a nice walk in the moonlight... :'''Jessie''': Hey, wait a second. All of the Ursaring are gone and Team Rocket's back together. So that must mean... WE CAN BATTLE YOU FOR PIKACHU!!!! ===''The Psychic Sidekicks'' [3.40]=== :'''James''': Our mirror ploy also has the contributing secondary effect of damaging a Psychic Pokémon's confidence against Ghost Pokémon, consequently eroding its trainer's faith and trust in the Pokémon's natural abilities and talents. :'''Jessie''': I had no idea you had such an analytical mind. :'''Meowth''': How'd ya t'ink o' that? :'''James''': I just made it up as I went along. :'''Jessie & Meowth''': [''clapping''] Ohhhh... ===''The Fortune Hunters'' [3.41]=== :''[After being blasted off, Team Rocket land in a park with the Fortune Telling book]'' :'''Jessie''': Meowth, where'd that book you're holding come from? :'''Meowth''': Yeah, I picked it up just before we got blasted. It's a guide to Pokémon Fortune Telling. :'''Jessie''': Oh, Pokémon Fortune Telling? ''[Snatches the book off Meowth and reads it]'' I've heard all about these little books, I've been meaning to shoplift one. :'''James''': What is Pokémon Fortune Telling? :'''Jessie''': It compares people to Pokémon and tells your fortune. Let's see, it'll probably say I'm an elegant Ninetales type. ''[Giggles]'' Here we are, it says I'm an... ''[Squeals]'' It says I'm an Eevee type. ''[A fantasy of her and an Eevee is shown]'' Yep, that's me. A cuddly, adorable Eevee type. :'''Meowth''': Jess sure don't seem like an Eevee. :'''James''': More like an Eevil. :'''Meowth''': Hey, Jess! Look up what kind of Pokemon personality type matches me! :'''Jessie''': You little fur brain!!! You ''ARE'' a Pokémon! :'''Meowth''': Oh, yeah. I forgot about dat. :'''Jessie''': Would you like me to look up your fortune for you, James? :'''James''': Alright, but I don't believe in those silly things. :'''Jessie''': ''[Looks inside the book]'' Well, let's see now...it should be right here...here it is! You're a...''[gasps]'' :'''Meowth''': He's a... :''[A fantasy of a Moltres is shown]'' :'''Jessie & Meowth''': A Moltres?! :'''Jessie''': The Moltres type will always prevail and just like a real Moltres, the Moltres type personality... soars high above all others?! :'''James''': ''[laughs]'' Now isn't that ridiculous? :'''Jessie''': Absolutely. :'''Meowth''': Yeah, Dere's nuttin' Moltres-y about you, Jimmy-boy. :'''Jessie''': Look, here's what today's fortune for the Moltres type personality: "You will have good luck with money and find something lost." :'''James''': Too bad those fortunes never come true, isn't it? ''[Sees something on the ground]'' Huh? What is this shiny little thing? ''[Picks up a silver coin]'' It's a... 1867 silver dollar! This must be my lucky day! :'''Meowth''': Hey, dat's pretty good luck and mad as some money if ya ask me. :'''James''': Okay, it's just a coincidence. Hey, what is this in my shoe? ''[Removes his right boot and out comes a bottle cap]'' Ah, I've been looking for this bottle cap for weeks. I was positive I lost it. :'''Jessie''': The book says "you will have good luck with money and you'll find something lost." :'''James''': Oh, c'mon. It's another coincidence. :'''Jessie''': Wait a second, there's one more thing here. "Beware of danger near water." :'''James''': That's ridiculous, we're nowhere near any water. ''[Turns on a drinking fountain and gets squirted with water]'' :'''Meowth''': Whaddya say now? :'''James''': It was right, that silly little fortune telling book was right! ''[Takes the book off of Jessie]'' Let me see that thing! ''[Looks inside the book]'' "Moltres type, no matter what difficulties befall them, the Moltres type will always prevail and just like a real Moltres, the Moltres type personality soars high above all others and triumphs! I knew it all along! Through all the pain, through all the humiliation, I always felt that I was meant for something greater! ''[Laughs evilly]'' :'''Jessie''': James, are you?! :''[James runs over to a lamp post and climbs to the top]'' :'''James''': I, James, am the mighty Moltres! And like the mighty Moltres, I am destined to rule! First, I shall become the Supreme ruler of Team Rocket... then... then I shall become the ruler of all Pokémon! Ah-haha! :'''Jessie''': Our Moltres is certainly full of himself. :'''Meowth''': He's full of hot air! :''[James jumps down and lands in front of Jessie and Meowth]'' :'''James''': Hear me! From this day forward, you will be my subjects and I will be the mighty Moltres-like monarch you will obey and revere! :'''Jessie''': What? :'''Meowth''': Revere you? :'''James''': Correct. I believe that I saw a daycare centre in the last town. We shall go there with haste, and I shall lead you in pillaging and plundering Pokémon! Your Moltres master will lead you to victory. Aahh! ''[Runs off]'' :'''Jessie''': James, wait! :'''Meowth''': Wait! <hr width=50%/> :'''James''': I am the flame that burns brightest! :''[James flies downward in a Moltres costume.]'' :'''James''': A flame that lights the night! A flame that shatters the darkness! ''I am a flaming Moltres! Bwahahahahah!'' :''[Moltres' cry can be heard.]'' :'''Meowth''': ''[looking unimpressed]'' 'Dat outfit... Where'd he get it? :'''Jessie''': I think that costume came right out of his closet... <hr width=50%/> :'''Misty''': Go, Poliwhirl, full-force Water Gun Attack! :''[Poliwhirl uses a water gun on Cassidy, Butch, Primeape, and Raticate]'' :'''Ash''': Okay, Pikachu, use your Thunderbolt Attack! :'''Pikachu''': Pika... Chu! :''[Thunderbolt shocks Butch, Cassidy, Raticate, and Primeape, now fried to a crisp, and collapses]'' :'''Misty''': It's your bad luck day any day you mess with me! :'''Ash''': Hey, that sounds like Gyarados' Dragon Rage! :'''Misty''': What did you say!? == External links== {{Wikipedia|List of Pokémon: The Johto Journeys episodes}} [[Category:Japanese TV shows]] [[Category:Pokémon]] ljdlf0qagy1yb6sx7bv2uksieg5pwue 0 154003 3961374 3945087 2026-07-06T06:38:37Z ~2026-22475-30 3310494 3961374 wikitext text/x-wiki {{italic title}} ---- {{Pokémon header}} ---- <br/> This is a list of episodes in Pokémon: Advanced Challenge, the seventh season of the Pokémon animated series (ポケットモンスター Poketto Monsutā?, Pokét Monsters), covering the continuing adventures of series protagonist Ash Ketchum in Hoenn. ===''What You Seed is What You Get'' [7.01]=== :''[Ash and Pikachu exit the Pokémon Centre in Mauville City]'' :'''Ash''': All right, Pikachu, are you ready to go to the next gym? :'''Pikachu''': Pikachu. :'''Narrator''': Fresh off a victory at the Mauville Gym, which earned him his third badge, Ash can't wait to get to his next battle, in hopes of qualifying for the Hoenn League. :'''Max''': Hey, Ash, what's the name of the next town we're going to? :'''Ash''': Huh? ''[chuckles]'' Come to think of it, Max, I guess I'm not sure. :'''Max''': ''[disappointed]'' That's great. :'''May''': Well, I happen to know, our next stop is Fallarbor Town. :'''Ash''': That doesn't sound right? :''[Max gets out his PokéNav]'' :'''Max''': Yeah, this says the next gym is in Lavaridge Town. :'''Ash''': Well, if Lavaridge Town is my next badge, then that's where we're going. :'''Pikachu''': Pika pika. :'''May''': Now wait just a minute, Ash! Nurse Joy said the next Pokémon Contest is in Fallarbor Town, so we're going there! :'''Ash''': Nope, my battle's in Lavaridge Town! :'''May''': BUT I'LL MISS MY POKÉMON CONTEST! :'''Ash''': LAVARIDGE TOWN! :'''May''': FALLARBOR TOWN! :'''Ash''': FIRST MY GYM BATTLE! :'''May''': FIRST MY POKÉMON CONTEST! :'''Brock''': Alright, settle down, you two. :'''Max''': We'll do both. ''[The camera cuts to his PokéNav which has two red dots flashing]'' Those two towns are almost right next to each other. :'''Brock''': Great, then why don't we go to Fallarbor Town right now? ''[turns to Ash]'' And after that, we can head to Lavaridge Town for your gym battle. :'''May''': Sounds like a good plan to me. :'''Ash''': Okay, I know when I'm outvoted. :'''Pikachu''': Pika. :'''May''': Then let's hit the road, you guys, and Fallarbor Town, look out! <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': All that hard work for nothing... :'''James''': So much for the fruit of our labour. :'''Meowth''': Guess we're just stuck with the fruit we already got. :'''Wobbuffet''': Wobbuffet. :'''Team Rocket''': Looks like Team Rocket's blasting off again! ===''Love At First Flight'' [7.02]=== ===''Let Bagons Be Bagons'' [7.03]=== :''[The title card comes up]'' :'''Ash''': ''[voiceover]'' Let Bagons Be Bagons. :''[A Bagon leaps into the air]'' :'''Bagon''': Baaaaaaa... ''[Starts diving down towards Ash and his friends]'' ....Gon! :'''Max''': It's coming down! :'''Ash''': Run for it! :''[Ash and his friends run away from the falling Bagon, but Bagon hits a rock, destroying it on impact. Ash and his friends turn back. When the dust clears, they see Bagon who is now standing on the ground]'' :'''Bagon''': Ba. Bagon! :'''Max''': I think that Bagon's looking for a fight. :'''Ash''': Fine then. Taillow, I choose you! ''[Sends out Taillow]'' :'''Taillow''': Taillow! :'''Bagon''' ''[turning to Taillow]'' Ba? ''[Starts racing against Taillow to the top of a rocky mountain and waits to attack]'' Bagon! :'''Taillow''': Taaiiiiii! :'''Ash''': It's probably gonna use that same attack. Taillow, watch out! :'''Taillow''': Taaiiiiii! :''[Bagon launches itself off the edge of the cliff]'' :'''Bagon''': Gon gon gon gon gon, Gon! ''[Falls down]'' :'''Ash''': Taillow, dodge it. :''[Taillow stops flying for a moment, but Bagon misses it]'' :'''Taillow''': Taillow! ''[Flies upwards]'' :''[Then, Bagon hits its head on a rock and stands its ground]'' :'''Ash''': Now, Taillow, use Wing Attack. :'''Taillow''': Taillow! :''[Then, Michelle, a woman dressed in purple appears on the scene]'' :'''Michelle''': Ha! :'''Brock''': Oh! :'''Ash, Max & May''': Huh? :'''Michelle''': ''[on her phone]'' Taillow: target spotted. Speed: 85, Angle: 34 degrees, Range to target: 16 metres, calculating probable coordinates for next collision vector. ''[The camera cuts to Taillow]'' Bagon, shift one metre to the left. :''[Bagon jumps out of Taillow's path as Taillow swoops past]'' :'''Ash''': It dodged it. :'''Michelle''': ''[to Ash and his friends]'' Hey, if you fools all lost your minds, where do you get off launching a sneak attack on my Bagon like that? :'''Ash''': What are you talking about? Your Bagon attacked us first! :'''Michelle''': Oh, yeah, well if it's a fight you're after, you've got your wish! :'''Max''': We never said that. :'''May''': We were just innocently walking along the path when your Bagon came swooping down on us from the cliff. :'''Michelle''': Oh, uh, that's what happened? ''[Removes her sunglasses]'' Sorry about that. Guess I should have asked first instead of assuming you were attacking. :'''Brock''': Forget about it, no problem. ''[Holds Michelle's hand]'' Some of the world's greatest romances began with silly little misunderstandings! :'''Michelle''': Are you alright? :'''Brock''': My name's Brock, I'll be just fine if you tell me who you are. :'''Michelle''': Okay, I'm Michelle. :'''Brock''': Ah, Michelle, what a beautiful name! :'''Ash''': Hi, I'm Ash from Pallet Town. :'''Max''': And I'm Max. :'''May''': My name's May. Hi! :'''Pikachu''': Pika, Pikachu. <hr width=50%/> :'''James''': This is the captain! Lunch will not be served today! ===''The Princess and the Togepi'' [7.04]=== ===''A Togepi Mirage!'' [7.05]=== :'''Misty''': Togetic, I love you! ===''Candid Camerupt!'' [7.06]=== :'''James''': Now I know what a hotdog feels like: boiled in its own juices. :'''Meowth''': I'm sweating here like a Snorlax in leather pants. :'''Jessie''': Oh, please! Stop the pity party, wimps! We'll find water any minute now. :'''James''': I'll take a large, please. [''faints''] :'''Meowth''': Make dat two wit ice. [''faints''] :'''Jessie''': Oh, who am I kidding? [''faints''] <hr width=50%/> :''[When May sees Max blushing at Vivi]'' :'''May''': Hey, am I crazy or does my brother have a girlfriend? <hr width=50%/> :''[After Max's win, but ultimately gets rejected by Vivi soon after]'' :'''Ash''': Hey, Max. Great win, Way to go! :'''Max''': [tearfully heartbroken] What's so great about it? [Corphish tries to confort him]'' :'''May''': Oh, poor Max. I guess Corphish chopped his heart in two with its pincer! <hr width=50%/> :''[When Camerupt gets angry after being hit in the face from Iron Tail]'' :'''Vicky:''' It's a nasty habit a lot of Camerupt have, for some reason, getting hit in the face tends to make them uncontrollably angry, and after that, its Eruption time. ===''I Feel Skitty!'' [7.07]=== ===''ZigZag Zangoose!'' [7.08]=== :''[Ash has just won a match against Nicholai using Treecko, but Team Rocket are spying on him from behind a bush]'' :'''Meowth''': Twerp straight ahead, and while he's busy battling with that wacky kid in a costume, we'll grab Pikachu. :'''James''': ''[referring to Nicolai]'' Wait a minute. Isn't he that kid we ran into before who was obsessed with his short pants? :'''Jessie''': I don't care if he likes the short pants, long pants or underpants! I just wanna get Pikachu! :''[Wobbuffet pops up]'' :'''Wobbuffet''': Wobbuffet. :'''Jessie''': So I'm gonna do it now! Go, Seviper! ''[Sends out Seviper]'' :'''Seviper''': Seviper! :'''Jessie''': Listen here, Seviper, as soon as the twerp is looking the other way, I want you to grab Pikachu. :'''Seviper''': Seviper. <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': I understand. I suppose everyone has one person in the world they wish they could abandon on an island or throw down a Raticate hole. Cassidy, for instance! :'''James/Meowth''': Cassidy? :'''Jessie''': She's the one I'd tear into pieces if I had half a chance! <hr width=50%/> :''[Seviper and Zangoose are battling each other]'' :'''Jessie''': Seviper, Bite attack now! :'''Seviper''': Seviper. ''[Readies its bite attack so it can bite Zangoose]'' :'''Nicholai''': Zangoose, just keep dodging! :'''Zangoose''': Zan... ''[Seviper bites it]'' ...Goose! :'''Jessie''': All right, now use your Poison Tail, Seviper! :''[Seviper uses Poison Tail]'' :'''Nicholai''': Here it comes! :'''Seviper''': Seviper! :'''Nicholai''': All that training with Ash is really paying off! Except it's so tired. You've just got to keep dodging its attacks, Zangoose. You can't let Seviper do any more damage! :'''Jessie''': I've had enough of playing games. All right, Seviper, attack and finish it off! :'''Seviper''': ''[Hisses until it hear's Pikachu's scream]'' :'''Pikachu''': Pikaaaaaaaa! :''[The cage that Pikachu is inside lands infront of Jessie and Nicholai]'' :'''Jessie & Nicholai''': ''[surprised]'' Huh? :''[The camera cuts to Ash and his friends, James, Meowth and Wobbuffet racing to the cage]'' :'''Ash''': Pikachu! :'''James''': Hold up a minute! :'''Meowth''': Pikachu's ours, we stole it! :''[They get into a fight...]'' :'''Ash''': I got yaaaaa! :'''Max''': Give us back Pikachu! :'''Meowth''': Forget about it, it's ours now! :'''Ash''': Give it back, Team Rocket! :'''James''': Let go of my foot! :'''Meowth''': Wrong, that's my foot! :''[Until Wobbuffet walks away with Pikachu in the cage]'' :'''Wobbuffet''': Wobba wobba. :'''Ash''': ''[to Wobbuffet]'' Hey! Get back here with that! :''[Ash, Brock, May, Max, James and Meowth start chasing after Wobbuffet]'' :'''James''': Wobbuffet! :'''Wobbuffet''': Waaaaaaaaaa! :'''Pikachu''': Pika. :''[The chase continues when Nicholai appears in his Zangoose costume]'' :'''Nicholai''': Wait a second, they can't catch it. ''[A flashback with May's Skitty occurs]'' Because of the way it zigzags back and forth just like that Skitty did in the training exercise. ''[The flashback ends]'' Zangoose, you gotta move like Wobbuffet. Make zigzags! :'''Zangoose''': Zangoose. :''[The chase continues until Jessie pops up]'' :'''Jessie''': ''[angrily]'' '''EVERYONE, STOP RIGHT NOW!''' :'''Ash''': Aha. ''[Takes the cage off of Wobbuffet's head]'' I'll just take this! :'''James''': ''[frustrated]'' Oh, it happened again! :'''Meowth''': You're all a bunch of cheaters! :'''Ash''': You guys are the cheaters! :'''Pikachu''': Pika pika! :'''Jessie''': Take your silly squabbles elsewhere. I have a sacred battle to concentrate on. ''[to Seviper]'' Seviper, go! :'''Nicholai''': Zangoose, attack now! :'''Zangoose''': Zangoose. :'''Jessie''': I see you've chosen to waste what little energy it has left. That's fine. Chase it down! :''[Zangoose runs around as Seviper chases it]'' ===''Maxxed Out!'' [7.09]=== ===''Pros and Con Artists'' [7.10]=== ===''Come What May!'' [7.11]=== ===''Cheer Pressure'' [7.12]=== ===''Game Winning Assist'' [7.13]=== :'''Team Rocket''': Prepare for trouble, we've got a Numel mobile! And make it double, cause we're making it real! To protect the world from devonstation! To unite all peoples within our nation! To denounce the evils of truth and love! To extend our reach to the stars above! I'm Jessie! And don't forget James! Team Rocket, landing clean at the speed of light! Surrender now or prepare to fight, fight, fight! Meowth, yep, that's right! Wobbuh! ===''Fight for the Meteorite'' [7.14]=== :'''Ash Ketchum''': Yeah, who are you, guys? :'''Jessie''': Glad you ask! Prepare for trouble on scenic tour! :'''James''': And make it double that's for sure! :'''Meowth''': Stop! Do we gotta do the routine every time? I'm an old woman, I'm too tired! :'''Ash Ketchum''': Wait a minute! :'''Jessie''': Now, on with the show! To protect the world from devastation! :'''James''': To unite all peoples within our nation! :'''Jessie''':To denounce the evils of truth and love! :'''Men''': Team Aqua. A pleasure to see you again feel commander Tabitha. Hi. Heh, well, of course, commander, Shelly. Always showing up fashionably late to the party. Actually it looks to me like I'm just in time. Since this nice man here is about to give me that meteorite. The attitude must be effecting your brain. Well, if it's a fight, you want is a fight you'll get, Tabitha. Mightyena, Golbat, go! Go Crawdaunt, Walrein! :'''Walrein''': Wal, Walrein! :'''Crawdaunt''': Crawdaunt! :'''Men''': Heh. Commander, the meteorite! A Squad, quickly! After him! Right! We'll have to split up. You four go after the meteorite while we stay here and fight! Okay! Shall we get this started? Yep, but you're gonna regret it. :'''Team Rocket''': To extend our reach to the stars above! Jessie! James! Team Rocket blast off at the speed of light! Surrender now or prepare to fight, fight, fight! Meowth, that's right! :'''Brock''': So, any ideas, Ash? :'''Ash Ketchum''': Well, first we gotta get down from here. ===''Poetry Commotion!'' [7.15]=== :'''Flannery''': Sorry for this mess, guys. Believe it or not, I was planning on doing all this clean up myself. ===''Going, Going, Yawn'' [7.16]=== :'''Mr. Moore''': This Gym Battle between Flannery, our first year Gym Leader and Ash from Pallet Town will now begin. :'''Flannery''': Grandpa! Do you have to say that I'm new? :'''Mr. Moore''': No "Grandpa" stuff out here, Flannery. You'll address me as Judge. :'''Flannery''': Yeah, alright. :'''Mr. Moore''': Trainers can use up to three Pokémon, though only the challenger is allowed to make substitutions. :'''Flannery''': Say what?! :'''Mr. Moore''': Do you not know the rules? :'''Flannery''': Yeah, of course I do. [''laughs''] Well Ash, It's showtime! :'''Ash''': Yup, Should be a great battle if you're as good as you say you are. :'''Flannery''': Uhhhhhh, yeah. ===''Going for a Spinda'' [7.17]=== :'''Spinda''': Spin! Spin! :'''Claire''': My Spinda! :'''Royce''': What the place is this going on here? :'''Spinda''': Spin! Spin! :'''Jessie''': Prepare for trouble from the team with a heart! :'''James''': But make it double if you're smart! :'''Jessie''': To protect the world from devastation! :'''James''': To unite all peoples within our nation! :'''Jessie''': To denounce the evils of truth and love! :'''James''': To extend our reach to the stars above! :'''Jessie''': Jessie! :'''James''': James! :'''Jessie''': Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light! :'''James''': Surrender now or prepare to fight, fight, fight! :'''Meowth''': Meowth, that's right! :'''Wobbuffet''': Wobbuh! ===''All Torkoal, No Play'' [7.18]=== ===''Manectric Charge'' [7.19]=== :'''Jessie''': Prepare for trouble from the masters of lies and deceit. :'''James''': Make it double and you’ll learn how to cheat. :'''Jessie''': To protect the world from devastation. :'''James''': To unite all peoples within our nation. :'''Jessie''': To denounce the evils of truth and love. :'''James''': To extend our reach to the stars above. :'''Jessie''': Jessie! :'''James''': James! :'''Jessie''': Team Rocket blasts off like a rockin’, sockin’ soccer ball. :'''James''': Surrender now or prepare to fall. :'''Meowth''': Meowth, that’s all! :'''Wobbuffet''': Wobbuffet! ===''Delcatty Got Your Tongue'' [7.20]=== ===''Disaster of Disguise'' [7.21]=== :'''Brock''': Hey, what's going on? Let go of my mask! ===''Disguise Da Limit'' [7.22]=== ===''Take The Lombre Home'' [7.23]=== ===''True Blue Swablu'' [7.24]=== :'''Ash''': ''[Explaining how to fly]'' As soon as you're going fast enough while you flap your wings, you jump! <hr width=50%/> :'''Swablu''': Blu, blu, blu, blu! :'''May''': Swablu! :'''James''': You were caught red-handed! :'''Jessie''': But don't be Swablu. :'''Swablu''': Blu, blu, blu! :'''Ash Ketchum''': Team Rocket! :'''Pikachu''': Pika! :'''Jessie''': Prepare for trouble, we want the feathers! :'''James''': Make it double, we're all togethers! :'''Jessie''': To protect the boss from insomniation! :'''James''': To unite a well-rested nation! :'''Jessie''': To denounce the evils of lack of sleep! :'''James''': To extend our reach to the Sandman's Keep! :'''Jessie''': Jessie! :'''James''': James! :'''Jessie''': Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light! :'''James''': Surrender now to the foils of fatigue or prepare to fight, fight, fight! :'''Meowth''': Meowth, that's right! :'''Wobbuffet''': Wobbuffet! ===''Gulpin It Down'' [7.25]=== :'''Professor Jacuzzi''': So, who in the name of science are you? ===''Exploud and Clear'' [7.26]=== :'''Max''': Humans can have that same problem. :'''May''': Really? What are you, an expert now? :'''Max''': Well, as a matter fact, I am. After spending time with ''you'' day after day, I felt like I was going berserk myself. :'''May''': What was that?! :'''Max''': Don't hurt me! It was a joke. :'''May''': [''gasps''] Now Max, you know I'd never hurt my sweet, adorable, little brother. :'''Max''': Hmm. :'''May''': But maybe you should watch what you say, just in case! :[''Brock and Guy laugh at both May and Max''] <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': That same old thing?! How about something new? :'''Ash''': Huh? What are you talking about? :'''Jessie''': Prepare for trouble, funny you should ask! :'''James''': And make it double— :'''Ash''': Aw, come on. Talk about old! ===''Go Go Ludicolo!'' [7.27]=== ===''A Double Dilemma'' [7.28]=== :'''May''': As you can see, Skitty's quite a juggler. <hr width=50%> :'''Larry''': Now you're talkin'. :'''All''': Go! ===''Love, Petalburg Style!'' [7.29]=== :'''Meowth''': Those two are dumb and dumber! So then what does that make me? :'''Jessie & James''': I dunno, dumberer? :'''Meowth''': No, it would be dumbest! Not dumberer, dumbest! <hr width="50%"/> :''[Cacnea had destroyed the firework machine that Norman and Nurse Joy had set up for Caroline for Norman and Caroline's anniversary]'' :'''Norman and Nurse Joy''': ''[in unison]'' Oh, no! :'''May''': ''[shocked]'' What was that explosion?! :'''Norman''': ''[fueled with fury]'' That does it! You'll regret ever coming to this town! ''[The Team Rocket trio tremble in fear]'' :'''Meowth''': Okay, so now I'm afraid. :'''Max''': Why is Dad flipping out like that? :'''Caroline''': Good Lord! :'''Norman''': NOW, SLAKING!!! ''[Slaking furiously runs out of the greenhouse and in front of Team Rocket]'' :'''Ash''': Wow, look at that! :'''Pikachu''': Pika! :'''Slaking''': ''[roars ferociously]'' '''''SLAKIIIIIIINNNGGG!!!!!''''' ''[the roar makes the Team Rocket shriek]'' :'''Norman''': Go, Slaking, give 'em your Focus Punch! ''[Slaking hurls Focus Punch on the Team Rocket trio, sending them flying into the air]'' :'''Jessie''': What was that? :'''James''': King of the jungle. :'''Meowth''': In that case, we just got the royal treatment. :'''Jessie, James and Meowth''': We're blasting off again! ===''Balance of Power'' [7.30]=== ===''A Six Pack Attack!'' [7.31]=== ===''The Bicker the Better'' [7.32]=== :''[Ash and May start to bicker as they walk through some countryside]'' :'''May''': Incredible! Raising your voice to a girl just 'cause she's looking in the mirror. :'''Ash''': Talk about nerve! Standin' around gazing at yourself while your friends are all waiting. :'''May''': What did you say?! :'''Ash''': You heard me! :'''May''': Wanna know what your problem is? :'''Ash''': I already know! :'''Max''': Brock, is it only me, or have they been fighting all day? :'''Brock''': All day. :'''Max''': I wish they could just bring it to a close already. :'''Brock''': No kidding. :'''May''': I can't stand you, Ash Ketchum! :'''Ash''': Gee, I'm heartbroken! :'''Oscar & Andi''': Excuse us, you two lovebirds. :'' [Ash and May turn to look at Oscar and Andi, a smartly dressed couple with Andi in the pink dress and Oscar in a blue uniform]'' :'''Oscar''': Oscar is the name. :'''Andi''': I'm Andi, and love is the name. :'''Max''': Check out those guys. What's up with them? :'''Brock''': Hello, gorgeous. :'''Oscar''': Seeing how much in love you two appear to be... :'''Andi''': We thought we'd offer you a challenge. :'''Both''': Us, in love? :'''Ash''': ''[with his arms folded]'' Huh! That's a laugh! :'''May''': Hardy har har! :'''Oscar''': Hmm mmm mmm. That's what young lovebirds always say. :'''Andi''': And fighting's the first sign of love. :'''Oscar''': It's pretty obvious that you two were in the middle of a fight, right? :'''Andi''': That means... :'''Oscar & Andi''': You two are in love. :'''Ash & May''': We don't think, we know. :'''Oscar & Andi''': Told you. You answered together. <hr width=50%> :''[Ash and his friends are walking on a path beside the river]'' :'''Ash''': That was the worst battle ever. :'''May''': Yeah, you were pretty pathetic, alright. :''[Ash's head appears in a speech bubble]'' :'''Ash''': Excuse me, You are the one who had lost it for us. :''[May's head appears in a separate speech bubble]'' :'''May''': You got something to say? :'''Ash''': I just did! :'''May''': Oh, yeah? :''[They start arguing again. Meanwhile, Brock, Pikachu and Max appear in a bigger speech bubble]'' :'''Max''': Hey, Brock, am I just having déjà vu? This sounds familiar. :'''Pikachu''': Pika Pika. :'''Brock''': ''[cheerfully]'' Let me explain something. Believe it or not, this sort of turmoil has been going on between a man and a woman since the beginning of time. :'''Max''': Whoa. :''[Meanwhile, Jessie and James are arguing also]'' :'''Jessie''': You just had to stick your Cacnea's nose where it wasn't needed. :'''James''': I wouldn't talk if I were you. If your Seviper hadn't tried to save the world, Cacnea and I could have won back there. :''[Jessie's face appears in a speech bubble]'' :'''Jessie''': Let's talk about saving the world. Seviper and I had our hands full just trying to keep you and your Cacnea from getting blown away. :''[James' face appears in a separate speech bubble]'' :'''James''': Gee, thanks anyway, but we all blasted off just like always. :'''Jessie''': Have you ever considered that perhaps our 'blasting off' expertise comes from YOUR side of the family? :'''James''': Take that back! :'''Jessie''': I'm just getting warmed up, incompetent blue-haired bigmouth! :'''James''': Oh yeah, well at least I'm not ugly! :'''Jessie''': Now that's crossing the line, Buster! :'''James''': ''[cheerfully]'' Yep, I knew that one would do the trick! Ah, yes. ''[sings]'' Ugly, ugly, ugly, Jessie is so ugly! :'''Jessie''': ''[sings]'' La la la la. :''[As they are singing, Meowth appears in a speech bubble]'' :'''Meowth''': And Pokémon actually take orders from these clowns? <hr width+50%> :'''Jessie''': ''[to May, who she is teaming up with against James and Ash]'' I hope you're ready. With our combined feminine prowess, they'll be toast in no time flat! :'''May''': ''[nervously]'' Uhh... well, yeah, I suppose I wouldn't mind knocking ''Ash'' down a peg or two. :'''James''': ''[to Ash]'' Let's blow those whining women to the Dark Ages, right where they belong! :'''Ash''': ''[as if to say "That's a little extreme..."]'' Mmm... yeah, okay! ===''Grass Hysteria!'' [7.33]=== :'''Pikachu''': Pika-pi! :'''Bulbasaur''': Bulba! :'''Team Rocket''': 'Scuse us! Coming through! Pardon! :'''Ash Ketchum''': What in the world is that? A huge robot? :'''Jessie''': Prepare for trouble, we're having oodles of fun! :'''James''': And make it double as you gaze upon our mechanized marvel, the Mean Old Lady Mark One! :'''Jessie''': To protect the world from devastation! :'''James''': To unite all peoples within our nation! :'''Jessie''': To denounce the evils of truth and love! :'''James''': To extend our reach to the stars above! :'''Jessie''': Jessie! :'''James''': Jamsey! :'''Jessie''': Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light! :'''James''': Surrender now or prepare to fight, fight, fight! :'''Meowth''': Meowth, that's right! :'''Wobbuffet''': Wobbuffet! ===''Hokey Pokéballs'' [7.43]=== :'''Nurse Joy''': You're not the repairman! :'''Team Rocket''': Prepare for trouble, aren't you smart! When it comes to twerps you're off the chart! To protect the world from devonstation! To unite all peoples within our nation! To denounce the evils of truth and love! To extend our reach to the stars above! It's Jessie! It's James as well! Team Rocket perfectly pirouettes at the speed of light! Surrender now or prepare to spin and fight! Meowth, that's right! Wobbuffet! ===''Whiscash and Ash'' [7.35]=== :'''Sullivan''': What is the meaning of this? ===''Me, Myself and Time'' [7.36]=== :'''Team Rocket''': We'll be back! <hr width=50%/> :'''Ash Ketchum''': Trainers, which one of these Pokémon is the best to beat Illumise? OK, trainers. If you chose Crobat, you were right! :'''Crobat''': Cro! ===''A Fan with a Plan'' [7.37]=== :'''Pokédex''': Lairon, the Iron Armor Pokémon. Lairon is the evolved form of Aron. By drinking nutrient rich spring water, it's strength than its steel body. Flareon, the Flame Pokémon. Flareon is the evolved form of Eevee. The air it inhales is hypnotic by a flame inside its body and expelled as fire. <hr width=50%/> :'''Brock''': ''[Under his breath]'' Turnip thief. <hr width=50%/> :'''Ash Ketchum''': Trainers, which one of these Pokémon evolves to Seviper? OK, trainers. If you chose Arbok, you were right! ''[This quiz is 100% wrong. Arbok is not capable of evolving further. In addition, Seviper has no evolutionary lines. Did the writers watched the episodes where Jessie released her Arbok and later acquired a Seviper?]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Pokédex''': Masquerain, the Eyeball Pokémon. Masquerain is the evolved form of Surskit. It's feelers which reassemble eyeballs help to throw out opponents. It's able to hover in the sky like a helicopter. <hr width=50%/> :'''Savannah''': Hey, those aren't yours! :'''Team Rocket''': Prepare for trouble, they are today! If you can't win them, steal them, that's what we always say. To protect my entry status from devonstation! To allow a certain contestant to complete her registration. To denounce the evils of losing that's true! To extend her winning streak from zero to two. Jessie! And James. Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light! Surrender now, do me a favor, or I'll have to fight. This Contest will have a cute winner by tonight! Meowth, that's right. Wobbuffet! <hr width=50%/> :'''Team Rocket''': A dreadful twerps for the worst kind! We're blasting off again! ===''Cruisin' For a Losin''' [7.38]=== :'''May''': ''[to Bulbasaur]'' Now throw Lairon with all your might. :''[May's Bulbasaur uses Vine Whip on Lairon]'' :'''May's Bulbasaur''': Bulbasaur! :'''Savannah''': Send Shockwave now! :'''Lairon''': Lai.... ''[Uses Shockwave on May's Bulbasaur]'' ...ron! :'''May's Bulbasaur''': Bulbasaur! :'''Vivian''': So that's it. Who'd have expected Lairon to use electric attacks? :''[The camera cuts to Sandra, Ash, Pikachu, Max and Brock who among the audience watching the R1 Rubello Town Pokémon Contest]'' :'''Sandra''': Yeah! All right! :'''Max'''': But Bulbasaur's a grass-type, so how could electric-type attacks have any effect against it? :'''Sandra''': Just wait, you'll see in a second. ''[The camera cuts to Lairon who is still using Shock Wave on May's Bulbasaur]'' That's the whole reason why Lairon didn't dodge Vine Whip. :'''May's Bulbasaur''': Bulba! ''[Becomes paralysed]'' :'''May''': Bulbasaur, you've got to get up! :'''May's Bulbasaur''': Bulba. :''[The camera cuts to Ash and the others]'' :'''Ash''': It's paralysed for real this time. :'''Max''': But Shock Wave doesn't paralyse enough an opponent, only it stuns them. :'''Brock''': Unless there's contact. :'''Ash''': What? :'''Sandra''': That's right. Since the two of them were directly connected by Bulbasaur's Vine Whip, then the attack had a much greater effect. That was another one of my ideas for mom. :'''Savannah''': I've got to hand it to her. That attack was beautiful and effective, just like Sandra said it would be. :'''May''': ''[to her Bulbasaur]'' Come on, don't give up. ''[The sparks disappear from Bulbasaur's body]'' Huh? :'''Vivian''': It's obvious Bulbasaur has taken a lot of damage. Will May be able to recoup in time? :'''Savannah''': Metal Claw, Lairon! Go! :'''Lairon''': Lairon! Lairon! ''[Uses Metal Claw on Bulbasaur]'' :'''May''': Bulbasaur! :''[The contest judges give three X's]'' :'''Vivian''': ''[appears from the right side of the screen]'' Bulbasaur is out of the battle, and Savannah continues on to the final round! :'''May''': Hey wait, I'm not done fighting! :'''Nurse Joy''': Yes, you are! :'''May''': Huh? :'''Nurse Joy''': Where's your concern for your Pokemon's health, May?! :'''Raoul''': That is a coordinator's Number 1 priority, not winning. :'''Mr Sukizo''': By now, you should know that. :''[May is upset by what the judges have just said to her, as is everybody else]'' ===''Pearls are A Spoink's Best Friend'' [7.39]=== :''[Ash and his friends are walking along with Spoink who has nothing on its head]'' :'''Max''': As soon as Spoink sees anything round, it gets all excited and just plops it up on its head. :'''Brock''': I can understand Spoink's excitement, but still... :'''Electrode''': Electrode. :''[They meet an Electrode]'' :'''Ash''': Wait, that's not your pearl. :'''Spoink''': Spoink! :'''Electrode''': Elec... ''[Gets carried by Spoink's psychic power and lands on its head]'' ...trode. :''[Ash and his friends try to remove Electrode from Spoink's head]'' :'''Max''': Cool it, Spoink. :'''Ash''': Don't mess with this one. :'''Electrode''': Electrode. ''[Uses Explosion and sends everyone flying]'' :'''Max''': That's an Explosion attack gone awry! :''[Soon, Ash and his friends are bushed]'' :'''Ash''': This is gonna be a lot harder than I thought. :'''Pikachu''': Pikachu. :'''Mudkip''': Mudkip. :''[They see Spoink's pearl]'' :'''Brock''': Hey, is that it? ''[Picks up Spoink's pearl]'' This is it, guys. ''[The pearl glows and floats back to Spoink's head]'' :'''Max''': It's a perfect fit. :'''May''': Beautiful. :'''Ash''': Now do you feel better, Spoink? :'''Spoink''': Spoink. ''[Jumps off joyfully]'' Spoink, spoink, spoink, spoink, spoink, spoink, spoink. :'''Torkoal''': ''[crying]'' Torrrkooaaalll! :'''Max''': Torkoal's obviously happy. :'''May''': Imagine if it didn't find its pearl. :'''Spoink''': Spoink, spoink, spoink, spoink, spoink, spoink. :'''Ash''': Careful, you don't lose it again, OK? :'''Ash & Friends''': Arrggh! ''[They fall into a pit]'' :'''Ash''': Not another one of these holes! :'''Jessie''': Prepare for trouble, that's the name of our game! :'''James''': Make it double, it's our claim to fame! :'''Jessie''': To protect the world from devastation! :'''James''': To unite all peoples within our nation! :'''Jessie''': To denounce the evils of truth and love! :'''James''': To extend our reach to the stars above! :'''Jessie''': Jessie! :'''James''': James! :'''Jessie''': Team Rocket blasting off at the super speed of light! :'''James''': Surrender now or prepare to fight, fight, fight! :'''Meowth''': Meowth, that's right! :'''Wobbuffet''': Wobbuffet! :'''May''': Team Rocket! :'''Jessie''': But not the Team Rocket from days of old. :'''James''': We're a brand new Team Rocket, fresh-faced in bold. :'''Max''': Yeah, how so? :'''Jessie''': First off, there's this. ''[Cuts a rope with some scissors and a boulder falls down while Ash and his friends get lifted in a net]'' :'''Meowth''': How do you like us now? :'''James''': There's plenty more where that came from. :'''Magikarp''': Magikarp. :'''Jessie''': It's not changing color it's showing its true color!!! :'''Meowth''': That Feebas is a fraud! :'''James''': Great, another Magikarp. ===''That's Just Swellow'' [7.40]=== ===''Take This House and Shuppet'' [7.41]=== :'''Narrator''': Ah, the broad expanse of the universe. So infinite in its reach, so impressive in its magnitude. An imposing force... This, of course, has nothing to do with Team Rocket, as their attempt to capture Pikachu is thwarted yet again. Join us as we’re serenaded by an all too familiar refrain. :'''Team Rocket''': AAAAAAH! WE'RE BLASTING OFF AGAIN! <hr width=50%/> :'''Brock''': ''[Looking at his puffed-up hair]'' Well, gotta say, I'm pretty stylin'. ===''A Shroomish Skirmish'' [7.42]=== :'''Team Rocket''': Prepare for trouble, we're hungry to fight! Make it double we're- Hey, forget that there's food here! Dinner is served! :'''May''': Guess they're not too concerned about table manners. :'''Team Rocket''': Ah, that hit the spot! Full timmies happy hearts! We are the world! Yes, peace in love! Now, back to evil! How far did I get? Right around make it double! Right, make it double! To protect the world from devonstation! To unite all peoples within our nation! To denounce the evils of truth and love! To extend our reach to the stars above! Jessie! And James! Team Rocket ate your lunch at the speed of light! Surrender now or prepare to fight, fight, fight! That's right! Wobbuffet! <hr width=50/%> :'''Pokédex''': Breloom, the Mushroom Pokémon. Breloom is the evolved form of Shroomish. It's excellent footwork, hits it with in striking distance of its opponent where it unleashes of a rush of punches. ===''Unfair-Weather Friends'' [7.43]=== :'''Jessie''': Leave it to the twerps to drag us through three seasons in one day! ===''Who's Flying Now?'' [7.44]=== :'''May''': Combusken, Beautifly, Skitty, Bulbasaur! :'''Ash''': Swellow, Grovyle, Corphish, Torkoal! :'''Brock''': Forretress, Lombre, Mudkip! :[they start singing the song: You and me and Pokémon] <hr width=50%> :'''James''': That wasn't nice. We're supposed to be a team. ===''Sky High Gym Battle!'' [7.45]=== :''[Before the battle commences, Winona sits down and says a prayer to the skies]'' :'''Winona''': Oh great sky above, I ask you that you grant us wings. Grant us your power to conquer even the strongest of stormy winds. ''[Gets back on her feet]'' And please guide us to your great blue world and let us share its infinite power and majesty! <hr width=50%> :''[Winona had just recalled her Altaria having lost to Ash's Grovyle despite a type advantage]'' :'''Winona''': I must say, your strategy was excellent. You caught me completely off guard! :'''Ash''': Gee, thanks Winona! But I'm not gonna forget that this match has just only gotten started! :'''Winona''': That's true and don't think I part with my badges from my gym that easily! <hr width=50%> :'''Winona''': Ash, on days that are so beautiful and clear like today, my Flying Pokemon and I are able to manifest greater power than we were able to in less perfect conditions. Those of us whose dreams reach towards the sky are loved by the sky in return. :'''Ash''': Wow. I didn't know the sky could love you. <hr width=50%> :''[Ash's Swellow is summoned and ready to fight Winona's Shiny Swellow]'' :'''Max''': I can't believe Ash's choice! :'''May''': I know. It's going to be a battle of Swellow vs Swellow! <hr width=50%> :'''Winona''': I've got to compliment you, Ash, on making it this far in our Fortree Gym Battle. I'm afraid this is where it all ends. <hr width=50%> :'''Brock''': Shutting down that Aerial Ace attack took serious skill. Firing a Wing Attack at the ground to reveal the position of the opponent in a cloud of dust right when it was flying in was a real smart strategy! ===''Lights, Camerupt, Action!'' [7.46]=== :'''May''': Like I always say, the merry the morrier! ===''Crazy as a Lunatone'' [7.47]=== :'''Team Rocket''': Prepare for trouble, truer words never spoken! Double that, my flashlight isn't broken! To protect the world from devonstation! To unite all peoples within our nation! To denounce the evils of truth and love! To extend our reach to the stars above! I'm Jessie! And I'm James! Vmmmmm! Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light! Mmmm! Surrender now or prepare to fight, fight, fight! Meowth, that's right! Wobbuffet! Chime! Chime! Chime! ===''The Garden of Eatin''' [7.48]=== ===''A Scare to Remember'' [7.49]=== :'''Ash Ketchum''': You don't remember who those guys are, do you? ===''Pokéblock, Stock, and Berry'' [7.50]=== ===''Lessons in Lilycove'' [7.51]=== ===''Judgment Day!'' [7.52]=== == External links== {{Wikipedia|List of Pokémon: Advanced Challenge episodes}} [[Category:Japanese TV shows]] [[Category:Pokémon]] m18mdagz1by1aw5mw50i8tiby0ijlli 0 156515 3961331 3891464 2026-07-05T23:44:05Z Markjoseph125 19526 /* B */ added quote 3961331 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Baseball & Softball Field at Lewis Morris Park in Morris County, NJ - 1.jpg|thumb|Baseball is not life itself, although the resemblance keeps coming up.]] '''{{w|Baseball}}''' is a [[w:bat-and-ball games|bat-and-ball game]] played between two opposing teams, of nine players each, that take turns [[w:batting (baseball)|batting]] and [[w:Fielding (baseball)|fielding]]. The game proceeds when a player on the [[w:fielding team (baseball)|fielding team]], called the {{w|pitcher}}, throws a ball which a player on the [[w:batting team (baseball)|batting team]] tries to hit with a bat. The objective of the offensive team ([[w:Batting team (baseball)|batting team]]) is to hit the ball into the field of play, allowing its players to run the [[w:Base (baseball)|bases]], having them advance counter-clockwise around four bases to score what are called "[[w:Run (baseball)|runs]]". The objective of the defensive team ([[w:Fielding team (baseball)|fielding team]]) is to prevent batters from becoming runners, and to prevent runners' [[w:base running|advance around the bases]]. A run is scored when a runner legally advances around the bases in order and touches home plate (the place where the player started as a batter). The team that scores the most runs by the end of the game is the winner. Baseball evolved from older bat-and-ball games already being played in England by the mid-18th century. This game was brought by immigrants to North America, [[w:History of baseball in the United States|where the modern version developed]]. By the late 19th century, baseball was widely recognized as the [[w:national sport|national sport]] of the [[w:Baseball in the United States|United States]]. Baseball is popular in [[w:North America|North America]] and parts of [[w:Central America|Central]] and [[South America]], the [[w:Caribbean|Caribbean]], and [[East Asia]], particularly in [[w:Baseball in Japan|Japan]], [[w:Baseball in South Korea|South Korea]], and [[w:Sports in Taiwan#Baseball|Taiwan]]. [[File:FieldofDreamsMay06.jpg|thumb|right|I love baseball. You know, it doesn't have to mean anything. It's just very beautiful to watch.]] [[File:Fenway park.jpg|thumb|right|This field, this [[game]]: it's a part of our [[past]], Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was [[good]] and it could be again. Oh… [[people]] will come Ray. People will most definitely come.]] :See also: ::[[Baseball (TV series)|'''''Baseball''''' (TV series)]] __NOTOC__ {{TOCalpha}} == Quotes == :<small>Sorted alphabetically by author or source</small> === A === * I once loved this game, but after being traded four times, I realize that it's nothing but a business. I treat my horses better than the owners treat us. Its a shame they've destroyed my love for the game. ** {{w|Dick Allen}}, as quoted in [http://www.mediafire.com/view/jqt6fm9lpmabyvz/.png "Dick Allen: 'Still My Own Man'; Goodwill"] by Peter Bonventre, in ''Newsweek'' (August 21, 1972), p.&nbsp;84 * I love baseball. You know, it doesn't have to mean anything. It's just very beautiful to watch. ** [[Woody Allen]] as Leonard Zelig in ''[[Zelig]]'' * Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind, then the manager is a success. The players make the manager. It's never the other way. ** {{w|Sparky Anderson}}, as quoted in "Confident Sparky Isn't Worrrying About Pitching; Confident Sparky" by Ross Newhan, in ''The Los Angeles Times'' (March 11, 1971), p.&nbsp;D1 * The game of baseball is like wrestling with your dad in that, at any given point, your dad will make you feel, "I got him." But as soon as you do a cheap elbow and have the idea, "I'm going to take advantage of this situation," before you know it, you are on your back and feeling his entire weight and he's staring right in your eyes going, "Always remember that at any given time I can do this." ** Brad Andress, strength and conditioning coach with the {{w|Detroit Tigers}} (1990-1999) and {{w|Colorado Rockies}} (2000-2008), [https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/453843073/ "Humble Path to Success,"] ''The Daily Oklahoman'' (July 2, 2000) * Baseball can be summed up in one word — youneverknow. ** {{w|Joaquin Andujar}}, as quoted in "Trujillo throws himself into starters' race" by Peter Gammons, in ''The Boston Globe'' (March 28, 1985), p. 51 * Isn't this a silly game? People throw balls and people swing bats. ** {{w|Johnny Antonelli}}, as quoted in "Antonelli Projects Image That Isn't Really New?" by Jack Mann, ''Newsday'' (January 12, 1961), p.&nbsp;54 * '''Baseball is not life itself, although the resemblance keeps coming up.''' It's probably a good idea to keep the two sorted out, but old fans, if they're anything like me, can't help noticing how cunningly our game replicates the larger schedule, with its beguiling April optimism; the cheerful roughhouse of June; the grinding, serious, unending (surely) business of midsummer; the September settling of accounts, when hopes must be traded in for philosophies or brave smiles; and then the abrupt running-down of autumn, when we wish for - almost demand - a prolonged and glittering final adventure just before the curtain. ** {{w|Roger Angell}}, ''The Summer Game'' (1972); as quoted in ''The New York Times'' (March 27, 1988), p. 51; and in ''Remember Roberto'' (1994) by Jim O'Brien, p.&nbsp;233 === B === * Baseball is easy to fathom, not like [[football]], which people explain to me at great length and I understand for one brief moment before it all falls apart in my brain and looks like an ominous [[calculus]] problem. The tension in baseball comes in spurts between long waits where everyone can forget about it, a perfectly [[life|lifelike]] rhythm. ** {{w|Eve Babitz}}, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=R4MkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT38&dq=%22baseball+is+easy%22 Two by Two: Tango, Two-step, and the L.A. Night]'' (1999) * And so commenced my central obsessions, those legacies that have shaped my life. From that time onward, my youth was consumed by baseball and books. During that summer and the summers that followed – all through my high school career – Ford and I worked in the quiet isolation of the backyard. I took to baseball with a kind of innate facility, as if an understanding of the game had been encoded in my genes. I relished the sting of a line-drive into well-oiled leather, the inexorable trajectory of a fly ball is it plummeted toward a waiting glove. I relish it still. There is an order and a symmetry to the game which counteracts the chaos that pervades our lives; even then, in some inchoate, inexpressible fashion, I understood this simple truth. ** [[Dale Bailey]], ''The Resurrection Man’s Legacy'' (1995). Originally published in [[w:The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction|F&SF]] (July 1995); reprinted in ''The Resurrection Man’s Legacy,'' <small> {{ISBN|1-930846-22-3}}, </small> pp. 22-23 * Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball. ** [[Jacques Barzun]], ''God's Country and Mine: A Declaration of Love Spiced with a Few Harsh Words'' (1954), p. 159 * I've gotten so disgusted with baseball, I don't follow it anymore. I just see the headlines and turn my head away in shame from what we have done with our most interesting game and best, healthiest pastime. [...] It's a matter of contention perpetually, bad behavior by all sorts of people in authority in the game. And, of course, the commercialization is beyond anything that was ever thought of, the overvaluing, really, of the game itself. It's out of proportion to the place an entertainment ought to have. Other things are similarly commercialized and out of proportion. But for baseball, which is so intimately connected with the nation's spirit and tradition, it's a disaster. ** [[Jacques Barzun]], as quoted in "As Timeless as Tomorrow" by Steve Wilstein, in ''The Toronto Globe & Mail'' (March 26, 1993) * Baseball leads its fans through various aspects of mental skill development—pattern recognition, numerical calculation, correlation, inferencing, understanding of uncertainty, probability, risk and reward. It also teaches that a little [[knowledge]] is a dangerous thing. In baseball as in other fields, as soon as we master received [[wisdom]], we tend to assume we know more than we do. It’s one thing to be conversant in a field, but it’s entirely another to grasp the limits of one’s own understanding. Baseball has taught me many times that I’ve been quite wrong about something, after I had been utterly convinced by my detailed knowledge that I must be right. '''Expertise does not automatically confer wisdom, or even correctness.''' ** Charles Blahous, [https://www.discoursemagazine.com/p/what-baseball-teaches-us "What Baseball Teaches Us"], ''Discourse'' (March 28, 2024) * Nearly everyone's son wants to be a baseball player. Why not? What other profession could he choose where he can slide around in the dirt, never work when it rains and spit whenever he wants? ** [[Erma Bombeck]], "A Mouthful on Baseball's Spitting Image," ''The Baltimore Sun'' (July 15, 1993) * You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping as baseball and in the end, it turns out that it was the other way around all the time. ** {{w|Jim Bouton}}, [[w:Ball Four|''Ball Four'']] (1970), [https://archive.org/details/ballfourmylifeha00bout/page/368 p.&nbsp;369] * Look, if Barry Bonds gets into the Hall of Fame, he deserves it. If Barry Bonds does not get into the Hall of Fame, he deserves it. ** Howard Bryant, author and baseball historian, quoted in ''The Atlantic'', December 2025 * Baseball is just the great American pastime. I try to figure out what it is. I think it's the joy of feeling a part of, more than other sports -- wondering whether the guy's going to walk the hitter on purpose, wondering if the steal sign is on, wondering if he's going to bring in a relief pitcher ... The fan somehow feels more a part of the game sitting in the stands ... A lot of them are faster moving, but, in baseball, I get caught up in what I'd do if I were managing. The game seems to move along pretty good ... but I don't even mind when it drags. ** [[George H. W. Bush]], as quoted in [https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/1989/03/31/a-presidents-passion-for-baseball/eb486807-9157-4b19-8c9f-a85591b002a4/?utm_term=.f28fad598413 “A President's Passion for Baseball"] by Thomas Boswell, in ''The Washington Post'' (March 31, 1989) === C === * You have to be a man to be a big leaguer, but you have to have a lot of little boy in you, too. ** {{w|Roy Campanella}}, on January 31, 1954, addressing the 31st annual meeting of the New York Chapter of the {{w|Baseball Writers' Association of America}}, where he was accepting the {{w|Sid Mercer}} Memorial Award for Player of the Year; as quoted in [https://books.google.com/books?id=LlYQtv6StcwC&pg=PA182&dq=%22roy+campanella%22+%22to+be+a+man%22+%22little+boy%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiWwMeJs8HhAhWPUt8KHXyIBgcQ6AEINzAC#v=onepage&q=%22roy%20campanella%22%20%22to%20be%20a%20man%22%20%22little%20boy%22&f=false ''It's Good to Be Alive''] (1959) by Campanella, p.&nbsp;182 * The baseball mania has run its course. It has no future as a professional endeavor. ** ''{{w|Cincinnati Gazette}}'', published in 1879; as quoted in ''Cooperstown Corner: Columns from the Sporting News, 1962-1969'' (1969) * I carried this rubber ball with me all the time. I squeezed it to strengthen my fingers and wrists and my friend and I would walk to and from school throwing the rubber ball back and forth. Many times at night, I laid in the bed and threw the ball against the ceiling and caught it. Baseball was my whole life. I would forget to eat because of baseball and one time my mother wanted to punish me. She started to burn my bat, but I got it out of the fire and saved it. Many times today she tells me how wrong she was and how right I was to want to play baseball. I bought my parents their home in Puerto Rico and gave them possessions they never thought they’d ever see. All from baseball. ** [[Roberto Clemente]], as quoted in “Clouter Clemente: Popular Buc; Rifle-Armed Flyhawk Aims At Second Bat Crown” by Les Biederman, in ''The Sporting News'' (September 5, 1964) * I am having a plaque put on the front of my house. It will say, "To God, Mother, Father and Baseball." ** [[Roberto Clemente]], as quoted in [http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/61275081/ "'''Clemente's Smiling All the Way to the Bank'''"] by Milton Richman (UPI), in ''The San Bernardino County Sun'' (Tuesday, December 6, 1966), p.&nbsp;27 * Baseball is a human enterprise. Therefore, by definition, it’s imperfect, it’s flawed, it doesn’t embody perfectly everything that’s worthwhile about our country or about our culture. But it comes closer than most things in American life. And maybe this story, which is probably apocryphal, gets to the heart of it: An Englishman and an American having an argument about something that has nothing to do with baseball. It gets to the point where it’s irreconcilable, to the point of exasperation, and the American says to the Englishman, "Ah, screw the king!" And the Englishman is taken aback, thinks for a minute and says, "Well, screw [[Babe Ruth]]!" Now think about that. The American thinks he can insult the Englishman by casting aspersions upon a person who has his position by virtue of nothing except for birth; nothing to do with personal qualities, good, bad or otherwise. But who does the Englishman think embodies America? Some scruffy kid who came from the humblest of beginnings, hung out as a six-year-old behind his father’s bar; a big, badly flawed, swashbuckling palooka, who strides with great spirit — not just talent, but with a spirit of possibility and enjoyment of life across the American stage. That’s an American to the Englishman. You give me Babe Ruth over any king who’s ever sat on the throne and I’ll be happy with that trade. ** [[Bob Costas]], in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg2JJMREm48&feature=share "The Fourth Inning"] from [[Baseball (documentary)|''Baseball'']] (airdate September 21, 1994). === D === * Yes, I know all about [[w:Eri Yoshida|Eri Yoshida]] and the fact that she’s the first female [[w:Professional baseball|professional baseball]] player in [[Japan]] having been signed to the "Kobe 9 Cruise" at age 16, and currently playing for the [[w:Chico Outlaws|Chico Outlaws]] in [[California]]. <br> Her qualifications? <br> She pitches a sidearm knuckleball that has been clocked at about 53 mph. Her other pitches come in at around 61 mph. It's not likely she’ll be striking out the likes of [[w:Ichiro Suzuki|Ichiro]] with that. Still, it’s a hopeful sign, a [[girl]] on a baseball team. * Then there’s [[w:Jackie Mitchell|Jackie Mitchell]]. In 1931, while signed to the [[w:Chattanooga Lookouts|Chattanooga Lookouts]] of the [[w:Southern Association|Southern Association]]’s Double-A league, she pitched in an exhibition game against the [[w:New York Yankees|New York Yankees]]. <br> First batter she faced and struck out? [[Babe Ruth]]. The second? [[Lou Gehrig]]. Not too shabby for a one-pitch wonder who had a nasty 12-6 curveball and great control. * [[w:Toni Stone|Toni Stone]] played second base for a lot of years, beginning with a semi-pro men’s team when she was just 15, and wound up in the [[w:Negro League Baseball|Negro Leagues]], where a female ball player in the 30s was no more welcome than her [[Black people|black]] [[male]] counterparts were in [[w:Major League Baseball|MLB]]. ** Nancy Doublin, [https://bleacherreport.com/articles/447773-no-girls-allowed-why-arent-there-any-women-in-mlb "No Girls Allowed: Why Aren't There Any Women In MLB?"], ''[[w:Bleacher Report|Bleacher Report]]'', (September 1, 2010). === E === * When I was a small boy in Kansas, a [[friend]] of mine and I went fishing and as we sat there in the warmth of the summer afternoon on a river bank, we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. '''I told him that I wanted to be a real major league [[baseball]] player, a genuine professional like [[w:Honus Wagner|Honus Wagner]].''' My friend said that he'd like to be [[president of the United States]]. '''Neither of us got our wish.''' ** [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]], as quoted in ''Baseball's Greatest Quotes'' (1992) by Paul Dickson; cited in [http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/robinson/jrgmday.html "Game Day in the Majors" at the Library of Congress] <!-- Accessed 2008·04·22 --> === G === * It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. ** {{w|A. Bartlett Giamatti}}, "Green Fields of the Mind," ''Yale Alumni Magazine and Journal'' (Fall 1977); reprinted as [http://www.mediafire.com/view/olhpiptvlbjwrr0/Giamatti%2C%20A.%20Bartlett.%20That%20Game.jpg "That Game"] in ''The Hartford Courant'' (December 24, 1977) * The only form in which baseball is truly interesting is the typographical form. [[w:Grantland Rice|Rice]], [[Ring Lardner|Lardner]], [[w:William B. Hanna|Hanna]], [[w:Hugh Fullerton|Fullerton]] and the other arch-deceivers seem to be in a gigantic conspiracy to keep the public well fooled. It is a successful conspiracy, too. They write such entertaining yarns about baseball that it makes you want to see a game; then, when you do see it, you are so anxious to read what they are going to say about it that you forget you've been bored. Thus you are caught in a [[vicious circle]]. To put it briefly, baseball is the dullest of all sports. I have never been able to understand why the clergymen want to prevent its being played on Sunday; there is so little about the game to distract one's attention that the grandstand is the ideal place for [[meditation]] and [[prayer]]. ** {{w|Louis Graves}}, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Yao5AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA367 "The Dullest Game in the World,"] ''Harper's Weekly'' (April 8, 1916) * Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only time we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot. ** [[Dick Gregory]], ''From the Back of the Bus'' (1962) === H === * I listened to the Axis radio. Tokyo Rose said, and she quoted American sources, that Negroes were good enough to serve in the American Army, but they weren't good enough to pitch in the American Big League baseball. And they broadcast this not only to our own troops but also to the billion and a half colored peoples of the earth. ** [[Ollie Harrington]], ''Why I Left America and Other Essays'' (1993) * “In baseball, democracy shines its clearest,” he later wrote. “The only race that matters is the race to the bat. The creed is the rulebook; color merely something to distinguish one team’s uniform from another.” ** {{w|Ernie Harwell}}, quoted in [[w:Tim Wendel|Tim Wendel]], ''Summer of ’68'' (2012), Chapter 3 (p. 77 in the paperback edition) * Some people give their bodies to science; I give mine to baseball. ** [https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/10/baseball-player-chewing-mystery/680448 Ron Hunt], who set the Major League record for getting hit by pitches in 1971 === J === * You know what baseball is? It's playing cards, sleeping, watching TV. Dress. Batting practice. Fool around with the fans. Joke with teammates. Football is a little different. Before the game, everybody sits on the floor, quietly, thinking whose head they're going to take off. ** {{w|Bo Jackson}}, as quoted in [http://articles.latimes.com/1990-04-29/sports/sp-400_1_don-zimmer "Morning Briefing: Craig Never Asked Zimmer, but He Got the Plane Truth"] by Harley Tinkham, in ''The Los Angeles Times'' (April 29, 1990), p.&nbsp;C2 * [[Speed]] alone doesn't count, while [[strength]] alone isn't of much value. You've got to use your head. The team with the noodle is the one that invariably wins in the long run. The theme of baseball is much like that of [[boxing|prize fighting]]. Speed and strength must be mixed thoroughly with brains. ** {{w|Fielder Jones}}, as quoted in "Why Chicago Wins Games; Fielder Jones Divulges His Secret of Winning Ball Games," ''Detroit Free Press'' (April 28, 1907), p.&n&nbsp;bsp;20 * ''Baseball is But a Game of Life''<br>First base of [[Egotism]], Second base of [[confidence|overconfidence]],<br>Third base of [[indifference]], Home Plate of honest [[achievement]].<br>A good many men lose by reason of pop-flies;<br>the short-stop of [[public opinion]] frequently nips short the<br>career of a man who fails to connect with the ball of life<br>with a good sound wallop.<br>The winner is the man who knocks the [[w:Glossary_of_baseball_(H)#horsehide|horse-hide]] of [[opportunity]]<br>loose with the bat of honest [[effort]].<br>When you have batted for the last, made the rounds of the bases<br>and successfully negotiated home-plate,<br>may we hope to hear the Umpire of LIFE, which after all<br>is the [[esteem]] of friends and acquaintances,<br>call to you that you’re safe. ** {{w|Sad Sam Jones}}, as quoted in [https://archive.org/details/whenbostonstillh0000unse?q=%22first+base+of+egotism%22 "Sad Sam Jones"] by Alexander Edelman, in ''When Boston still had the Babe: the 1918 world champion Red Sox'' (2008), ed. Bill Nowlin, p.&nbsp;69 === K === * Given good eyes and average physical strength, any [[boy]] can learn to bat. ** [[Harold Keith]], ''Sports and Games'' (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1941), p.&nbsp;17 * Baseball is older than the American nation itself. There are tales about Abner Doubleday's "devising" the game at Coopertown, New York, in 1839. But long before General George Washington struck out Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, sports-hungry American colonists living along the eastern seaboard were playing it. Robert W. Henderson, a sportsman who is also an executive officer of the New York Public Library, has produced inimpeachable evidence to show that the game is closely related to the old West England sport of rounders, and that there was a baseball game in England as early as 1744. ** [[Harold Keith]], ''Sports and Games'' (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1941), p.&nbsp;22 * The game quickly worked its way over the Allegheny mountains and across the western prairies until soon it obtained a permanent footing in every town and village in the land. It achieved its most lasting popularity before radio and paved roads destroyed the isolation of the American small town. In those days baseball was the most popular game at recess at the little frame country school and also the two-story brick town school. It also furnished a clean and exciting Sunday afternoon recreation for hundreds of active young men who had no other outlet for muscular energy, and also for thousands of spectators who proudly followed their nines to the small plank grandstands at the edge of the village or in the vacant lots of the cities, and, while supporting them zealously and vociferously, acquired for themselves health and pleasure and an escape from the routine boredom of their own lives that was an invaluable tonic as they faced their jobs the following Monday morning. ** [[Harold Keith]], ''Sports and Games'' (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1941), p.&nbsp;23 * Now its rootage and growth are even more vast. Not only do the major and minor leagues play to larger crowds than ever before, but baseball has spawned a lusty manchild- softball- that leads the nation in outdoor sports attendance.<br>Other nations have adopted baseball. The Japanese player is learning fast. Already he is a skillful fielder and an alert base-runner. American teams touring Japan report that nearly everybody there is playing baseball. Japanese youngsters are on their way to the baseball grounds early in the morning and play all day. A game was played in the rain at Kokura in 1934 at which eleven thousand spectators knelt in the outfield in water up to their hips. Twenty thousand saw this game and some were at the gates as early as five o'clock in the morning. ** [[Harold Keith]], ''Sports and Games'' (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1941), p.&nbsp;23 * Of any tradition outside of our [[US Constitution|Constitution]], that is our tradition, baseball. ** [[Gene Kelly]], as quoted in [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=w9JRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=PnADAAAAIBAJ&pg=6672%2C4870526 "Dancing in the Ballpark: What Gene Kelly Really Wanted Was to Play Shortstop for the Bucs"] by Patricia Ward Kelly, in ''The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'' (June 8, 2002), p.&nbsp;A-11 * Baseball has an inner beauty. It is not governed by time. [...] Baseball, in crucial moments, is often a contact sport, with men on the bases. But if you sit back and just look, you're seeing the most orderly and the most classic game, I believe, in the world. This is why you cannot photograph it. You cannot put it on television and make it as exciting as the other sports. It's too big a range and you have the flattening out on the screen. You lose all the kinetic energy. ** Gene Kelly, as quoted in "Dancing in the Ballpark" * Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics. You "take in" a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the clock running and the bodies flying. ** [[Charles Krauthammer]], Column, April 23, 2010, [http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/krauthammer042310.php3#.U4ACaMJOWUk "The joys of losing"] at ''jewishworldreview.com''. === L === * Bo would come out to the baseball games and yell at me. He'd yell, "'''You're a sissy. You're a big sissy. You're hitting a ball that can't hit back. Come out and hit a man that can hit you back.'''" ** {{w|Barry Larkin}} (who played baseball at [[w:University of Michigan|Michigan]] while his brother was playing football at [[w:University of Notre Dame|Notre Dame]]), recalling the heckling he received from [[w:Bo Schembechler|Bo]]—then the football coach at [[w:Barry Larkin|Michigan]] (who, many years later, would become President of the [[w:Detroit Tigers|Detroit Tigers]]); as quoted in [http://articles.latimes.com/1990-04-29/sports/sp-400_1_don-zimmer "Morning Briefing: Craig Never Asked Zimmer, but He Got the Plane Truth"] by Harley Tinkham, in ''The Los Angeles Times'' (April 29, 1990), p.&nbsp;C2 * Baseball, the most statistics-afflicted sport there is, is fair game for amateur decision-making buffs to second-guess, and it is truly amazing (at least to this author) how many of the hallowed traditions don’t stand up to reasonable scrutiny. ** [[Harold Lewis]], ''Why Flip a Coin?'' (1997), <small> {{ISBN|0-471-16597-2}}, </small> p. 167 === M === * I have never known a day when I didn't learn something new about this game. ** {{w|Connie Mack}}, as quoted by {{w|Red Smith}} in his Introduction to ''Connie Mack's Baseball Book'' (1950), [https://books.google.com/books?id=pXiCAAAAMAAJ&q=%22when+I+didn%27t+learn+something+new+about+this+game%22&dq=%22when+I+didn%27t+learn+something+new+about+this+game%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjvrr6M68HhAhWldN8KHafBB8IQ6AEIOzAD p. ix] * Baseball is still a [[sport]]. Professional [[American football|football]] is a [[cult]]. A whole way of life and values has grown up around it and its demands are heavy. To forego the exhibition games is to fail a loyalty test. Not to possess [[w:Washington Redskins|Redskins]] season tickets spells a fatal absence of status, only slightly less damaging than never being seen in the owner's box. Nobody keeps score on you at a baseball game. Come or don't come, it's up to you. You don't have to go to clinic or brunch or post-game celebration or wake. You can be a Red Sox fan and still be a free American. '''Baseball is what we used to be. Football is what we have become.''' ** {{w|Mary McGrory}}, [http://www.mediafire.com/view/3cmnebmmaf0kivq/Deliver_us_from_football.jpg "Deliver Us From Football,"] ''The Chicago Tribune'' (October 13, 1975) * Why, certainly I'd like to have a fellow who hits a home run every time at bat, who strikes out every opposing batter when he's pitching and who is always thinking about two innings ahead. The only trouble is to get him to put down his cup of beer, come down out of the stands, and do those things. ** {{w|Danny Murtaugh}}, as quoted in [https://www.si.com/vault/issue/43351/21 "Scorecard: They Said It,"] edited by Andrew Crichton, in ''Sports Illustrated'' (October 7, 1974), p.&nbsp;16; reproduced in [https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/d9cd13bd "Danny Murtaugh"] at [[w:Society_for_American_Baseball_Research#Research_committees|SABR Biography Project]] === N === * Now, don't get me wrong. I like baseball. I played it when I was growing up — my hero was [[Roberto Clemente]]. But you have to be a die-hard fan for baseball. What are there — 162 games in baseball? (My wife once asked me: "When does the season start? When does it end?") I just can't keep interested over the long haul. I really don't get interested until it reaches the [[w:Major League Baseball postseason|playoffs and the World Series]]. ** [[Joe Namath]], [https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SCS19900909.1.116&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-%252522home+runs+vs.+touchdowns%252522-------1 "Home Runs vs. Touchdowns; Face it: Contact is a Major Attraction,"] ''The Santa Cruz Sentinel'' (September 9, 1990) * Baseball is...watching your husband sing "Happy Birthday" to {{w|Charlie Finley}}'s mule. ** Mrs. {{w|Jim Nash}} (uncredited), as quoted in [http://www.mediafire.com/view/vsfayasbrorsune/.png "Baseball Is ... Being Told You Have Gout"] by Wayne Minshew, in "The Atlanta Constitution" (July 26, 1971), p.&nbsp;5-C *[B]aseball has to accept that it is now more like classical music than popular music, with football and basketball — and soccer? — being the Justin Biebers and Lady Gagas of sports. Baseball need not hang its head in shame. A lot of things that are good and worthy are not popular. And baseball is ''plenty'' popular, for heaven's sake. **[[Jay Nordlinger]], [https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/baseball-and-its-worriers/ "Baseball and Its Worriers"] (3 September 2018), ''National Review'' === R === * '''If you build it, he will come.''' ** "The [[Voice]]", heard by an Iowa corn farmer, who is inspired by it to build a baseball diamond in his cornfields, in ''[[Field of Dreams]]'' (1989), screenplay by {{w|Phil Alden Robinson}}, based upon the book ''[[w:Shoeless Joe (novel)|Shoeless Joe]]'' (1982) by {{w|W. P. Kinsella}}; this was ranked #39 of the [[w:AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes|100 most memorable American movie quotations]] of all time in a poll by the {{w|American Film Institute}}. * Hitting is the most individual thing in sports. In football, a guy blocks for you. In basketball a guy sets a screen for you. In baseball, '''you're out there by yourself with this round bat and a round ball and you're supposed to hit it square.''' ** {{w|Pete Rose}}, circa March 1970 (recycling an already [https://www.newspapers.com/image/legacy/174997520/?clipping_id=108608296 more-than half-century-old baseball truism]); in [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/108617491/philadelphia-daily-news/ "Pete Rose: Anything for a Bat Title; Even a Bunt"] by Stan Hochman * '''The one constant through [[all]] the years, Ray, has been baseball.''' [[America]] has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. '''But ''baseball'' has marked the time.''' This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. '''It reminds us of all that once was [[good]] and that could be again.''' Oh... people will come Ray. '''People will most definitely come.''' ** "Terence Mann" (a character based on [[J. D. Salinger]] as portrayed in the [[story]] ''[[w:Shoeless Joe (novel)|Shoeless Joe]]''), in ''[[Field of Dreams]]'' (1989), screenplay by {{w|Phil Alden Robinson}} * He told me he couldn't wait for the basketball season to end, so he could go back to baseball and get out of shape. ** [[Bill Russell]], on former [[w:Boston Celtics|Celtic]] teammate [[w:Gene Conley|Gene Conley]], who doubled as a major league pitcher; as quoted in [http://articles.latimes.com/1990-04-29/sports/sp-400_1_don-zimmer "Morning Briefing: Craig Never Asked Zimmer, but He Got the Plane Truth"] by Harley Tinkham, in ''The Los Angeles Times'' (April 29, 1990) === S === * It was as a sociologist, not as a sportsman—I cannot endure the boredom of sport—that I seized the opportunity to witness for the first time a game of baseball. I found that it has the great advantage over cricket of being over sooner. ** [[George Bernard Shaw]], "An American Baseball Game," in ''A Freshman Miscellany'' (1930) by Karl J. Holzknecht, pp.&nbsp;249 * There are a lot of people coming into this country playing ball now who I think don't know how lucky they are to be able to play in a country like this, in the Major Leagues. We were in San Francisco once, and [[Willie Mays]] was getting ready to hit. And I said to him, "Willie, this is some game, isn't it? And Willie said to me, in this real high-pitched voice of his, "Smitty, if it wasn't for baseball, I would be picking cotton." And me, I grew up on a farm. And I knew I didn't want to be a farmer if I could be a ballplayer. I worked. I don't think some of these guys want to work very hard. If they're home run hitters, that's all they want to concentrate on. ** [[w:Hal Smith (catcher)|Hal Smith]], as quoted in ''Kiss It Goodbye: The Mystery, the Mormon, and the Moral of the 1960 Pirates'' (2010) by John Moody, p.&nbsp;353 * Baseball is not pressure. Pressure is when you're 7 years old and you don't have food to eat. I used to cry a lot, inside. So when you've come from nowhere and have all that I have now, I sleep like a baby every night. ** {{w|Sammy Sosa}}, as quoted in [https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/08/sports/sports-of-the-times-a-most-valuable-player-and-provider.html "Sports of The Times: A Most Valuable Player (and Provider)"] by {{w|Ira Berkow}}, in ''The New York Times'' (February 8, 1999) * Baseball is the American success story. It is the only avenue of escape for thousands of boys born into a dreary environment of [[poverty]]. It is, moreover, a great common ground on which bartenders and bishops, clergymen and bosses, bankers and laborers meet with true [[equality]] and understanding. The game has proved in everyday language that [[democracy]] works. ** {{w|J. G. Taylor Spink}}, ''Judge Landis and Twenty-Five Years of Baseball'' (1947), p.&nbsp;264 * The game of baseball is like the game of [[life]]. You're up one day, down the next. You have a bad day, so what? It's the same as being married and having a family. You expect your family to stay healthy, but if a child comes down with the measles, you're not through with children. We're down right now, but we'll be back. ** {{w|Eddie Stanky}}, manager of the then cellar-dwelling {{w|Chicago White Sox}}, speaking on April 24, 1968; as quoted in "Master of the Put-On" by John Hall, in ''The Los Angeles Times'' (May 8, 1968), p.&nbsp;E3 * I would say I wouldn't know, but I would say the reason why they'd want it passed is to keep baseball going as the highest baseball sport that has gone into baseball, and from the baseball angle. I'm not going to speak of any other sport. I'm not in here to argue about other sports; I'm in the baseball business. It's been run cleaner than any baseball business that was ever put out in a hundred years at the present time. ** [[Casey Stengel]], speaking on July 8, 1958 before the Senate Anti-Trust and Monopoly Subcommittee on proposed measure to exempt MLB from existing anti-trust laws; included in "Casey & The Mick" on ''Baseball's Greatest Hits; Let's Play'' (1990) === T === * '''I said: "Baseball is the hurrah game of the republic!"''' He was hilarious: "That's [[beautiful]]: the hurrah game! well — it's our game: that's the chief fact in connection with it: America's game: has the snap, go fling, of the American atmosphere — belongs as much to our institutions, fits into them as significantly, as our constitutions, laws: is just as important in the sum total of our historic life." ** Horace Traubel, of a conversation with [[Walt Whitman]] (4 July 1889) in ''With Walt Whitman in Camden'' (1906), Vol. IV, p.&nbsp;508 === U === * There was a [[beauty]] here bigger than the hurtling beauty of [[basketball]], a beauty refined from country pastures, a game of [[solitude|solitariness]], of [[waiting]], waiting for the pitcher to complete his gaze toward first base and throw his lightning, a game whose very taste, of spit and dust and grass and sweat and leather and sun, was [[United States of America|America]]. ** [[John Updike]], ''{{w|Rabbit Redux}}'' (1971) === V === * Good pitching always stops good hitting, and vice versa. ** {{w|Bob Veale}}, as quoted in [https://archive.org/details/Sports-Illustrated-1966-08-15/page/n11 "They Said It"] ''Sports Illustrated'' ( August 15, 1966), p.&nbsp;10; reprinted in [https://www.si.com/vault/2004/09/27/8186836/they-said-it "They Said It"], ''Sports Illustrated'' (September 27, 2004) * Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off. ** {{w|Bill Veeck}} (with Ed Linn), "Back Where I Belong" ''Sports Illustrated'' (March 14, 1976) * This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.. ** Bill Veeck (with Linn), "Back Where I Belong" === W === * But as far back as I can remember all I could think of, morning, noon, and night, was baseball. ** [[w: Rube Waddell|George Edward "Rube" Waddell]] as quoted in [https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Glory_of_Their_Times.html?id=RAkPAQAAMAAJ "The Glory of Their Times (1966) by Lawrence S. Ritter p. 19] * [B]aseball is a game of idling, a game of stories. It's an informal game, unlike football, which is paramilitary in nature. As Fred Moody once commented, NFL football doesn't consider the press to be a necessary evil. It considers the press to be an unnecessary evil. ** {{w|Emmett Watson}}, [http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19910305&slug=1269891 "Baseball Is A Fun Sport Partly Because 'Anything Can Happen'"] (5 March 1991), ''The Seattle Times'' * '''Baseball is like church. Many attend, but few understand.''' ** [[w:Wes Westrum|Wes Westrum]], as quoted in "Are You Bright Enough to be a Big Leaguer?" by John Devaney, in ''The Los Angeles Times'' (June 17, 1962) * '''In our sun-down perambulations, of late, through the outer parts of Brooklyn, we have observed several parties of youngsters playing "base", a certain game of ball''' … Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our close rooms … the game of ball is [[glorious]]. ** [[Walt Whitman]], in the 23 July 1846 edition of the ''Brooklyn Daily Eagle'', as quoted in [http://books.google.com/books?id=M34nK8SaiMcC&dq=Walt+Whitman+schools&lr=&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0 ''Walt Whitman Looks at the Schools'' (2007) by Florence Bernstein Freedman, p. 126] * I grew up in central Illinois midway between Chicago and St. Louis and I made an historic blunder. All my friends became Cardinals fans and grew up happy and liberal and I became a Cubs fan and grew up embittered and conservative. ** [[George Will]], as quoted in ''[[w:Baseball (TV series)|Baseball]]'', by [[w:Ken Burns|Ken Burns]], [[w:PBS|PBS]] * Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic [[individualism]] and our yearning for [[community]]. ** [[George Will]], ''{{w|Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball}}'' (1990) * Baseball is too much a business to be a sport and too much a sport to be a business. ** {{w|William Wrigley Jr.}}, as quoted in [http://www.mediafire.com/view/64smejlwb308x42/Money-Mad_Owners_Ruining_Game_.jpg "Baseball in Danger! Money-Mad Owners Ruining Game as Sport"] by {{w|Red Smith}}, in ''The Boston Globe'' (September 21, 1946) == External links == * {{wikipedia-inline}} * {{commonscat-inline}} * {{Wiktionary-inline}} [[Category:Baseball| ]] 76lv1p10k2g5rwljg11tsaizxiyc7hx 0 157088 3961178 2158718 2026-07-05T16:33:03Z BD2412 3982 /* G - L */ Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]], replaced: Roy R. Grinker, Sr. → Roy R. Grinker Sr. using [[Project:AWB|AWB]] 3961178 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Mertons social strain theory.svg|thumb|[[Robert K. Merton|Merton]]'s social strain theory.]] '''[[:w:Social theory|Social theories]]''' or '''social thoughts''' are frameworks of empirical evidence used to study and interpret social phenomena. A tool used by social scientists, social theories relate to historical debates over the most valid and reliable methodologies (e.g. [[positivism]] and anti-positivism), as well as the primacy of either structure or agency. __NOTOC__ :<small>'''CONTENT'''</small> : [[#A - F|A - F]] , [[#G - L|G - L]] , [[#M - R|M - R]] , [[#S - Z|S - Z]] , [[#See also|See also]] , [[#External links|External links]] == Quotes == :''Quotes are arranged alphabetically by author'' === A - F === * Widely dispersed knowledge concerning the important role of basic cooperative processes among living beings may lead to the acceptance of cooperation as a guiding principle both in social theory and as a basis for [[human behavior]]. Such a development when it occurs will alter the course of human history. ** [[W. C. Allee]] ''Cooperation among Animals with Human Implications'' (1951) Page 213 (cited in "The Altruism Equation", by Lee Alan Dugatkin (2006), page 58) * [[Henri de Saint-Simon|Saint-Simon]] leaves a legacy which affects all socialisms, for he introduces into social theory (he theme of idleness and parasitism as social problems consequent on the evasion of the central social responsibility ascribed to citizens: the duty to be ''productive''. ** [[w:Peter Beilharz|Peter Beilharz]], in ''Labour's Utopias: Bolshevism, Fabianism, Social Democracy'' (1992). * Writers are greatly respected. The intelligent public is wonderfully patient with them, continues to read them, and endures disappointment after disappointment, waiting to hear from art what it does not hear from theology, philosophy, social theory, and what it cannot hear from pure science. '''Out of the struggle at the center has come an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this [[life]] is for.''' ** [[Saul Bellow]] [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1976/bellow-lecture.html Nobel Prize lecture] (12 December 1976) === G - L === * '''The merit of [[Karl Marx|Marx]] is that he suddenly produces a qualitative change in the history of social thought.''' He interprets history, understands its dynamic, predicts the future, but in addition to predicting it (which would satisfy his scientific obligation), '''he expresses a revolutionary concept: the world must not only be interpreted, it must be transformed.''' Man ceases to be the slave and tool of his environment and converts himself into the architect of his own destiny. ** [[Che Guevara]] [http://www.marxists.org/archive/guevara/1960/10/08.htm "Notes for the Study of the Ideology of the Cuban Revolution" (8 October 1960)] * I have tried to show that psychiatric research can be empirical and experimental, controlled, and operational and not dependent on inferences, analogies, or anecdotes. Hypotheses can be derived which are testable. Theory is a different matter. At the present we rely heavily on psychoanalytic theory or on still poorly formulated and defined general systems theory, information theory, or transactional theory. To explain the depth and variety of the interrelationship of somatopsychosocial facets of the totality of human behavior in process requires a unified theory of human behavior which we have not yet even approached. Integration or synthesis of biological, psychological, and social theory is not enough. ** [[Roy R. Grinker Sr.]] (1964) as cited in: S. Nassir Ghaemi (2009) ''The Rise and Fall of the Biopsychosocial Model''. p. 24 * … a rather different class of applications of the idea of best allocation of scarce resources... usually referred to as the theory of optimal economic growth. In most studies of this kind made in the countries with market economies there is not an identifiable client to whom the findings are submitted as policy recommendations. Nor is there an obvious choice of objective function, such as cost minimization or profit maximization in the studies addressed to individual enterprises. The field has more of a speculative character. The models studied usually contain only a few highly aggregated variables. One considers alternative objective functions that incorporate or emphasize various strands of ethical, political, or social thought. These objectives are then tried out to see what future paths of the economy they imply under equally simplified assumptions of technology or resource availability. ** [[Tjalling Koopmans]] ''Three essays on the state of economic science.'' Vol. 21. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1957. p. 244 * The great attraction of [[Anthropology|cultural anthropology]] in the past was precisely that it seemed to offer such a richness of independent natural experiments; but unfortunately it is now clear that there has been a great deal of historical continuity and exchange among those "independent" experiments, most of which have felt the strong effect of contact with societies organized as modern states. More important, there has never been a human society with unlimited resources, of three sexes, or the power to read other people's minds, or to be transported great distances at the speed of light. How then are we to know the effect on human social organization and history of the need to scrabble for a living, or of the existence of males and females, or of the power to make our tongues drop manna and so to make the worse appear the better reason? A solution to the epistemological impotence of social theory has been to create a literature of imagination and logic in which the consequences of radical alterations in the conditions of human existence are deduced. It is the literature of science fiction. … [S]cience fiction is the laboratory in which extraordinary social conditions, never possible in actuality, are used to illumine the social and historical norm. … Science fiction stories are the Gedanken experiments of social science. ** [[Richard Lewontin]] "The Last of the Nasties?" in ''New York Review of Books'' (2/29/96) === M - R === * [[Jurgen Habermas]] is widely considered as the most influential thinker in Germany over the past decade. As a philosopher and sociologist he has mastered and creatively articulated an extraordinary range of specialized literature in the social sciences, social theory and the history of ideas in the development of a comprehensive and provocative [[critical theory]] of knowledge and human interests. His roots are in the tradition of German thought from [[Kant]] to [[Marx]], and he has been associated with the [[Frankfurt School]] of critical theorists which pioneered in the study of the relationship of the ideas of Marx and [[Freud]]. ** [[:w:Jack Mezirow|Jack Mezirow]] (1981). "A critical theory of adult learning and education". in: ''Adult Education''. Vol 32, nr. 1, p. 3 * Whoever saw, as many did, a whole city reduced to rubble — kilometers of streets on which there remained no trace of life, not even a cat, not even a homeless dog — emerged with a rather ironic attitude toward descriptions of the hell of the big city by contemporary poets, descriptions of the hell in their own souls. '''A real "wasteland" is much more terrible than any imaginary one.''' Whoever has not dwelt in the midst of horror and dread cannot know how strongly a witness and participant protests against himself, against his own neglect and egoism. Destruction and suffering are the school of social thought. ** [[Czesław Miłosz]] ''The Captive Mind'' (1953) * '''Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.''' We talk of the good of society. Is this something apart from, and transcending, the good of the individuals composing it? If the individual is ignored and sacrificed for what is considered the good of the society, is that the right objective to have? <br> It was agreed that the individual should not be sacrificed and indeed that real social progress will come only when opportunity is given to the individual to develop, provided "the individual" is not a selected group but comprises the whole community. '''The touchstone, therefore, should be how far any political or social theory enables the individual to rise above his petty self and thus think in terms of the good of all. The law of life should not be competition or acquisitiveness but cooperation, the good of each contributing to the good of all.''' ** [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] As quoted in ''World Marxist Review : Problems of Peace and Socialism'' (1958), p. 40 * A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed. In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set. ** [[Talcott Parsons]] (1937) ''[http://archive.org/details/structureofsocia00pars The structure of social action: a study in social theory with special reference to a group of recent European writers]''. Reprint 1949, 1968 p. 8 === S - Z === * We are all familiar with the passionate and closely argued appeal against censorship by the outstanding Soviet writer [[Alexander Solzhenitsyn|A. Solzhenitsyn]].He as well as [[w:Georgi Vladimov|G. Vladimov]], [[w:Grigory Svirsky|G. Svirsky]], and other writers who have spoken out on the subject have clearly shown how '''incompetent censorship destroys the living soul of Soviet literature, but the same applies of course to all other manifestations of social thought, causing stagnation and dullness and preventing fresh and deep ideas. <br> Such ideas, after all, can arise only in discussion, in the face of objections, only if there is a potential possibility of expressing not only true but also dubious ideas.''' This was clear to the philosophers of ancient Greece and hardly anyone nowadays would have any doubts on that score. But after fifty years of complete domination over the minds of an entire nation, our leaders seem to fear even allusions to such a discussion. ** [[Andrei Sakharov]] ''Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom'' (1968) * The dominant social thought shapes the institutionalized order of [[society]]... and the malfunctioning of established institutions in turn alters social thought. ** Theodore W. Schultz (1977) In: {{cite web |url=http://www.eaber.org/intranet/documents/41/1822/CCER_Lin_2007.pdf |title= Cambridge University Marshall Lecture – Development and Transition: Idea, Strategy, and Viability |author=Justin Yifu Lin |format=PDF}} * [[Islam]] is the first school of social thought that recognizes the masses as the basis, the fundamental and conscious factor in determining history and society not the elect as Nietzsche thought, not the aristocracy and nobility as Plato claimed, nor great personalities as Carlyle and Emerson believed, not those of pure blood as Alexis Carrel imagined, not the priests or the intellectuals, but the masses." ** [[Ali Shariati]] (1979), ''On the sociology of Islam: lectures.'' p. 49 * I shall treat anarchism, despite its many variations: as a system of social thought, aiming at fundamental changes in the structure of society and particularly — for this is the common element uniting all its forms — at the replacement of the authoritarian state by some form of non-governmental cooperation between free individuals. ** [[George Woodcock‎‎]], in [http://www.ditext.com/woodcock/anarch.html ''Anarchism'' (1963)] [http://www.ditext.com/woodcock/1.html Prologue] == See also == * [[Sociology]] == External links == {{Wikipedia}} [[Category:Sociology]] qfms1kmlrry43r1ecdstroockgcu0o3 0 157227 3961279 3952481 2026-07-05T20:45:11Z ~2026-22475-30 3310494 3961279 wikitext text/x-wiki ---- {{Pokémon header}} ---- <br/> This is a list of episodes in '''''Pokémon: Indigo League''''', the first season of the Pokémon animated series (ポケットモンスター Poketto Monsutā?, Pokét Monsters), covering the adventures of the series protagonist Ash Ketchum and his friends Pikachu, Misty and Brock on the way to the Indigo Plateau. ===''Pokémon: I Choose You]'' [1.01]=== :''[First lines. The opening cutscene of Pokémon Red and Blue (Red and Green in Japan) plays, portraying a battle between a Gengar and a Nidorino. Near the end, the cutscene transitions from the Game Boy's 8-bit graphics to vivid cel animation, revealing the battle to be happening in a packed stadium.]'' :'''Stadium Announcer''': And Nidorino begins the battle with a Horn Attack! Oh, but Gengar bounces right back, ''[Gengar uses Hypnosis]'' and there it is, the Hypnosis Power of Gengar! This could be the end of Nidorino. ''[Nidorino gets recalled by his trainer]'' Wait, the trainer recalled Nidorino. Which Pokémon will he use now? ''[the trainer throws a green and white Poké ball, Gengar steps back and out comes an Onix]'' Oh, it's Onix! Now this giant Pokémon's on the attack. ''[the camera pulls back to reveal that the battle is on television]'' Ho-ho, but Gengar jumps aside! Gengar is moving beautifully today. Its training is top-notch, no doubt about it! :''[As the commentary on TV continues, a spikey haired boy named Ash Ketchum puts on a green fingerless glove.]'' :'''Ash''': ''[in his mind]'' Yes, I am Ash. ''[the camera cuts to him in his room, He wore a red and white cap with a dark green L like symbol and a blue and white buttoned short sleeved shirt under a dark slate gray shirt, and light blue cuffed jeans]'' :'''Narrator''': Ash Ketchum is a boy from Pallet Town. :''[We see a Poliwag-style pencil sharpener, a Clefairy-shaped piggy bank and two Zubats hanging on a hanger. We then see the boy, Ash Ketchum, putting his white trainers on]'' :'''Ash Ketchum''': ''[speaks]'' And now that I'm 10, I can finally get my Pokémon license. :''[The camera shows a poster with a Squirtle, a Bulbasaur and a Charmander]'' :'''Narrator''': 10-year-olds can get a beginner Pokémon from Professor Oak, the town's Pokémon expert. :'''Ash Ketchum''': ''[puts on his hat, then flips it backwards]'' I will journey to gain the wisdom of Pokémon training, ''[picks up a Voltorb alarm clock and gets a green Speed Stripes background behind him]'' and I hereby declare to the Pokémon of the world; I will be a Pokémon Master. Pokémon Master! That is what I'll- :'''Delia Ketchum''': ''[offscreen]'' Ash, get to bed! ''[Ash yelps and flings the Voltorb alarm clock toward her, who catches it and shows Ash the time]'' It's 11:00, and you should be asleep! :'''Ash Ketchum''': But tomorrow, I begin my Pokémon journey. I can't even sleep. :'''Delia Ketchum''': Well, if you can't sleep, at least get ready for tomorrow, so, here, watch this. ''[changes channels on Ash's television]'' :'''Professor Oak''': ''[on TV]'' Good evening, Pallet, tomorrow's the big day for the newest class of Pokémon students. I'd like to introduce you to Bulbasaur, Charmander and Squirtle. Each one is available for new trainees. Which one shall you choose? :'''Delia Ketchum''': Go to bed when this is done. :'''Ash Ketchum''': ''[seeing the commercial]'' Alright, I'm going. :'''Delia''': And change into your pajamas, OK? ''[closes the door]'' :'''Professor Oak''': ''[on TV]'' ...character to help them develop their special powers. :'''Ash''': ''I'm going.'' :''[Cut to title card]'' :'''Ash''' ''[narrating]'' "Pokémon, I Choose You!" <hr width=50%> :'''Delia''': I packed your sneakers and jeans, nice clean shirts and underwear, and your favorite snacks, and some hot chocolate in case you want something hot, but be careful not to burn yourself. And a pair of rubber gloves to do your laundry and a new clothesline to hang it out to dry, and- :'''Ash''': Mom, you are embarrassing me, in front of all these people! Don't you know, I'm a big kid now? Pokémon Trainers can take care of themselves. <hr width=50%> :'''Ash''': Hey! Get away from there! ''[angrily groans]'' :''[A Rattata runs away from Ash's backpack]'' :'''Pokédex''': A forest Pokémon: Rattata. It likes cheese, nuts, fruits, and berries. :'''Ash''': Yeah, but this isn't a forest. It's an open field! :'''Pokédex''': It also comes out into open fields to steal food from ''stupid'' travellers. :'''Ash''': That means I'm stupid...? :''[Pikachu laughs hysterically from a tree branch]'' <hr width=50%> :''[Ash and Pikachu are being chased by a flock of Spearow. He steals the bicycle of a young girl, later known as Misty, to flee the Spearow, but he eventually rides off a cliff, falling off of the bike, with the Spearow still in hot pursuit. Ash then persuades Pikachu, who became weak after the trip, to enter his Poké Ball, but to no avail. This gives Ash no choice but to muster up the guts to take on the Spearow himself]'' :'''Ash''': Spearows, do you know who I am? I am Ash, from the town of Pallet. I'm destined to be the world's number-one Pokémon Master. I can't be defeated by the likes of you. ''[Pikachu, hearing Ash's speech, starts to pay attention to his Trainer's bravery as he continues on]'' I'm going to capture and defeat you all. You hear me? ''[the Spearow hone-in on Ash in the final moments before their attack, leading him to plead one last time for Pikachu's safety]'' '''[[w:Pikachu|Pikachu]]''', go inside the Poké Ball; it's the only way. ''[Pikachu looks down at the Poké Ball, and then back at him. A lightning bolt strikes behind the Spearow]'' '''''Come and get me!''''' ''[as the Spearow charge in toward him, Pikachu starts running toward him, climbing onto his shoulder, and jumping off Ash's shoulder to counter the Spearow]'' Whoa! :'''Pikachu''': ''[a lightning bolt strikes him]'' ''Pika-'''CHU!''''' :'''Ash''': '''''WHOA!''''' :''[He releases a powerful Thunder Shock, dispersing the Spearow and creating a large explosion in the area]'' <hr width=50%> :''[Last lines; In the aftermath of Pikachu's act of defense toward Ash, the rainy night turns into a sunny morning. The camera shows Misty's bike that Ash took to escape the Spearow flock, revealing that said bike was destroyed by Pikachu's Thunder Shock, and the camera pan toward an unconscious Ash and Pikachu, and the two of them slowly wake up]'' :'''Pikachu''': ''[weakly]'' '''[[w:Pikachu|Pikachu]]'''. :'''Ash''': ''[breathes a sigh of relief]'' Well, we beat 'em. :'''Pikachu''': ''[in agreement]'' Chu. :''[In the sky, a large golden bird-like Pokémon, which later was revealed as the Legendary Pokémon Ho-Oh, cries out as it flies over Ash and Pikachu as a sign of amazing things to come]'' :'''Ash''': Huh? ''[notices what he doesn't yet know to be Ho-Oh as it flies off towards a rainbow, leaving a trail of sparkles]'' What's that? :'''Pokédex''': There is no data. There are still Pokémon yet to be identified. :''[Ho-Oh is seen one last time flying off into the bright blue sky]'' :'''Narrator''': This is just the beginning of the amazing adventures of Ash and '''[[w:Pikachu|Pikachu]]'''. Their journey is destined to be packed with non-stop action, millions of laughs, heart-pounding perils, and endless excitement. ''[Ash, holding Pikachu, stops at the top of a hill. Pikachu then licks Ash's face, which moves him to near tears. However, he holds them in, as he realizes he must get to a Pokémon Center to heal Pikachu's wounds as soon as possible]'' Together, they'll encounter fantastic friends, evil enemies and meet creatures beyond their wildest imagination, and as their story unfolds, we'll unlock the magic and mystery of a most wondrous place: '''[[w:Pokémon|the incredible world of Pokémon]]'''! ''[The screen shrinks to the left, then stops moving. The text "TO BE CONTINUED" appears.]'' ===''Pokémon Emergency! [1.02]''=== :''[The episode begins with a recap of the previous episode, starting with Ash declaring his ambitions of becoming a Pokémon Master over a background set of green speed lines]'' :'''Ash''': That's right! I declare to the Pokémon of the world. I will be the greatest Pokémon Trainer. The greatest Pokémon Master...of all time! :'''Narrator''': Last time, Ash, our hero from Pallet, chose Pikachu, a Pokémon who was not too thrilled with its new trainer. Soon, they found themselves fighting off a flock of fearsome Spearows. Pikachu saved the day with its amazing Thunder Shock, but the electrifying encounter left Pikachu weak and his fate in Ash's hands. :'''Ash''': We...beat 'em. :'''Pikachu''': ''[weakly]'' Chu. :''[The recap ends and the scene changes to the second episode's title card]'' :'''Ash''': ''[voiceover]'' Pokémon Emergency! :''[We then cut to Viridian City in a sunset. Then, we hear the voice of a female police officer, named Officer Jenny, making an announcement about potential thieves in the area.]'' :'''Officer Jenny''': Attention, citizens of Viridian City! Attention, citizens of Viridian City! We have reports of possible Pokémon thieves in our area! Be on the lookout for suspicious looking strangers! Repeat: Be on the lookout for suspicious looking - Huh? ''[sees Ash rushing Pikachu to the Pokémon Center.]'' Speak of the Devil! ''[grabs Ash by the shirt collar to stop him]'' Hold it! And just where do you think you're going with that Pokémon, young man? :'''Ash''': ''[angrily]'' It's my Pokémon and its hurt! And I gotta get it to the hospital right away! :'''Officer Jenny''': Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you might be stealing it. Just show me your ID and you can go. :'''Ash''': ''[surprised]'' ID? Ugh... I don't have any. You see, we just came here from Pallet and we- :'''Officer Jenny''': You know, you're the fourth person I've seen today from Pallet Town. :'''Ash''': The fourth? Oh, that means Gary Oak's here already. :'''Officer Jenny''': It's very unusual for someone to carry a Pokémon in his arms and not in a Pokéball. How do I know you didn't steal that Pokémon, especially since you don't have any identification? :'''Ash''': Please let me through. I wouldn't steal a Pokémon, and I've got to get Pikachu to the hospital. Please, miss. :'''Officer Jenny''': ''[notices something in Ash's pocket]'' Hey, what's that in your pocket? :'''Ash''': What? ''[takes out his Pokédex]'' Oh, this? :'''Officer Jenny''': ''[swipes the Pokédex from Ash]'' This is perfect! A Pokédex! This will solve our problem! ''[presses some buttons in Ash's Pokédex]'' Let's see if you're the real deal... :'''Dexter''': I'm Dexter, a Pokédex programmed by Professor Oak for Pokémon Trainer Ash Ketchum of the town of Pallet. My function is to provide Ash with information and advice regarding Pokémon and their training. If lost or stolen, I cannot be replaced. :'''Ash''': Oh, my Pokédex. I didn't realize it was also my ID. Can I take Pikachu to the Pokémon Center now? :'''Officer Jenny''': I'll get you there in no time at all. ''[They mount on board her motorcycle.]'' Sit back, hold on and don't yell. :''[She revs her engine and they take off to the Pokémon Center, leaving a cloud of dust.]'' :'''Ash''': '''WHOA!''' :''[Meanwhile, caught in the dust is Misty, who is holding her charred bicycle and is not happy with Ash for taking it]'' :'''Misty''': ''[coughing]'' Hey, what's the big idea?! Ugh, come back here! ''[runs after Ash with her burnt bike]'' :''[A hook grabs hold of the Wanted poster on its bottom right corner and removes it from the noticeboard. Then, we notice that the hook is coming from a Meowth balloon controlled by two members from Team Rocket, Jessie and James. Soon, Jessie and James are looking at the Wanted poster]'' :'''Jessie''': A Wanted poster. How flattering. :'''James''': Flattering? This picture makes me look terrible. :'''Jessie''': Then, you should be happy The Photographer captured the real you. :'''James''': Exactly. :'''Jessie''': We'll show these bumpkins. :'''James''': The people of Viridian City will be sorry they ever saw this face. :''[The camera cuts to a Meowth who can speak human]'' :'''Meowth''': We're all sorry to see your face. Stay focused. We're here to capture rare and unusual Pokémon. Don't forget, Meowth. :'''Jessie''': Absolutely. :'''James''': But of course. :'''Meowth''': And just remember, I'm the top cat. :'''James''': You got it. :'''Meowth''': Meowth. :''[Down on the ground, Officer Jenny is driving Ash and Pikachu to Viridian City's Pokémon Centre when she sees it straight ahead]'' :'''Officer Jenny''': There it is! :''[Viridian City's gigantic Pokémon Centre comes into view]'' :'''Ash''': Pokémon Centre? It's gigantic. :'''Officer Jenny''': This is tricky. Just hold on. Here we go! ''[jumps high on her motorcycle]'' :'''Ash''': Whoa! :''[The motorcycle comes skidding into the Pokémon Centre and stops right in front of the reception desk which is being manned by a Pokémon Nurse called Nurse Joy. Officer Jenny puts her foot on the pedal to stop her motorcycle]'' :'''Nurse Joy''': ''[annoyed]'' We have a driveway, you know. :'''Officer Jenny''': It's a Pokémon Emergency! :'''Ash''': ''[stands up]'' Please help it! :'''Nurse Joy''': Looks like a Pikachu. We’ll do what we can. ''[turns round to her computer]'' I need a stretcher for a small electric Pokémon, stat! :''[A couple of Chansey enter with a stretcher]'' :'''Chansey''': Chansey! :''[Nurse Joy puts Ash's injured Pikachu on the stretcher]'' :'''Nurse Joy''': It'll be okay. ''[to Chansey]'' Rush this Pokémon to the critical care unit. :'''Chansey''': Chansey! :''[They take Pikachu away with the stretcher]'' :'''Nurse Joy''' ''[puts on a pair of white gloves as one of the Chansey stands next to her]'' We’ll begin the treatment right away. :'''Ash''': Uh... :'''Nurse Joy''': Who are you? :'''Officer Jenny''': His name is Ash. He's the Pokémon's Trainer. :'''Ash''': If there's anything I can do, please just tell me. :'''Nurse Joy''': You can be more responsible. :'''Ash''': Uh? :'''Nurse Joy''': ''[sternly]'' If you want to become a Pokémon trainer, young man, you don't let your Pokémon battle till it's in this condition. :'''Ash''': But you don't know what happened. :'''Nurse Joy''': What's past is past. Now, we have to heal your Pikachu. :'''Ash''': What can I do? :'''Nurse Joy''': Just leave everything to me. :'''Ash''': Please. :'''Officer Jenny''': It's in your hands. I know you'll give the Pokémon excellent care. :'''Nurse Joy''': You got it here just in time. :'''Officer Jenny''': That's my job. ''[realises something]'' Oh my goodness. I left my motorcycle parked at the front desk! :'''Nurse Joy''': Next time, use the driveway. :'''Officer Jenny''': ''[chuckling sheepishly]'' Heh heh. ''[leaves]'' :'''Nurse Joy''': Ash, you'll will have to go to the waiting room. :'''Ash''': Can't I... ''[the door closes after Nurse Joy goes through; in his mind]'' Pikachu. <hr width=50%/> :'''Professor Oak''': When my grandson Gary said that you wouldn't have a single new Pokémon by the time you got to Viridian City, I bet him $1,000,000 that he'd be wrong! :'''Ash''': ''[surprised]'' Well, money isn't everything, right? :'''Professor Oak''': ''[dejected]'' Oh, why do I even bother? <hr width=50%/> :''[Misty confronts Ash at the Pokémon Center with her burnt bicycle]'' :'''Misty''': ''[panting]'' I knew I'd find you here! :'''Ash''': ''[seeing that her bike is destroyed]'' Hey, what happened to your bike?! :'''Misty''': What happened to my bike?! ''YOU'' happened to my bike, you little loser! This is what's left after you stole it to save your Pokémon! Now I can see why your Pokémon is in... WHOAOAOAOAH! ''[tumbles over and falls down]'' :'''Ash''': Let me help you. :'''Misty''': ''[slaps Ash's left arm]'' I don’t need your help, and you're gonna pay for what you did to my bike! :'''Ash''': I'll make up for it. I promise I will, really. But I can't do anything about your bike until... :'''Misty''': ''[angrily]'' I don't want any of your lame excuses, kid! I just want a new bike right now! :'''Ash''': It's my Pikachu. My Pikachu's not too good. :''[Misty becomes worried as Ash looks behind at the red light with a needle on it]'' :'''Misty''': Is it very serious? :'''Ash''': I think so, and there's nothing I can do to help now. <hr width=50%/> :''[Ash, Misty, and Nurse Joy have their lines of sight impaired by a Koffing's Smokescreen attack]'' :'''Ash''': What are...Who are they?! :'''Jessie''': Don't be frightened, little boy. :'''James''': Allow us to introduce ourselves. :'' [A teenage girl and boy emerge from the smoke]'' :'''Jessie''': To protect the world from devastation. :'''James''': To unite all people within our nation. :'''Jessie''': To denounce the evils of truth and love! :'''James''': To extend our reach to the stars above. :'''Jessie''': Jessie! :'''James''': James. :'''Jessie''': Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light! :'''James''': Surrender now or prepare to fight! :'''Meowth''':''[appearing from the top of the screen]'' Meowth! That's right! :'''Ash''': What are you talking about? :'''Jessie''': He just doesn't get it, does he? :'''Ash''': ''[off camera]'' How can I? You don't make any sense. :'''James''': We're here for the Pokémon. :'''Ash''': You're NOT getting Pikachu! :'''Jessie''': Pikachu? We're not interested in your precious Electric rat. You are. :'''James''': We seek only rare and valuable Pokémon. :'''Nurse Joy''': You are wasting your time. This is a center for weak and injured Pokémon. :'''Jessie''': Well, that may be so, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if we find a few little Pokémon gems among all the junk. :'''Ash''': You're starting to bug me. :'''Jessie''': Isn't that cute. :'''James''': The boy's bugged. :'''Meowth''': Meowth, then, let's squash him. :'''James''': Koffing, Attack! :'''Jessie''': Ekans, Go! :''[Nurse Joy, Ash and Misty flee the scene with Pikachu on the stretcher as Ekans and Koffing cause destruction]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Misty''': You grab Pikachu and get out of here! I'll take care of these three clowns. :'''Jessie''': That's pretty big talk coming from such a little lady. :'''Misty''': At least you're right about the pretty part, thanks for the compliment. :'''James''': The girl thinks she's pretty. :'''Jessie''': I agree with her. I think she's pretty, too. Pretty pathetic! :'''Misty''': ''[annoyed]'' Hmmmm, I'll show you! Poké Ball, go! ''[Goldeen comes out rolling and jumping on the floor, to Jessie and James' shock]'' Goldeen, return! ''[Goldeen is back inside the Poké Ball]'' :'''Jessie''': That's her best shot? :'''James''': She's all washed up. <hr width=50%/> :'''Officer Jenny''': Too late, but not for the fireworks! <hr width=50%/> :''[The Meowth balloon is flying past the full moon, but Team Rocket is hanging from a rope]'' :'''Jessie''': Great! A cat losing to a mouse! :'''Meowth''': That Pikachu is no ordinary Pikachu. :'''James''': It's certainly very rare. A perfect prize! :'''Jessie''': Let's catch it! :'''Meowth''': Perhaps, we will. :''[Then, the Meowth balloon pops, sending the three characters hurtling through the night]'' ===''Ash Catches a Pokémon'' [1.03]=== :'''Ash''': ''[hugging his Poké-Ball]'' I love my new little Pokémon! :'''Misty''': I guess it takes a worm to love a worm. :'''Ash''': ''[sarcastically]'' Very funny. <hr width=50%/> :'''Misty''': ''[about Caterpie]'' It's so gross. ''[scared]'' Ash, put that slimy thing back in the Poké-Ball! Bugs are one of the three most disgusting things in the world! :'''Ash''': Aside from you, what are the other disgusting things? :'''Misty''': Very funny. ''[smashing]'' Carrots, ''[kicking]'' peppers, ''[hitting with a wooden hammer]'' and bugs. Everybody has something they don't like and I don't like bugs! :'''Ash''': ''[making a silly face]'' Yeah? Well, I like carrots, and peppers, and bugs. ''[now serious]'' What I ''don't'' like is the way you're hurting Caterpie's feelings with your silly fear of bugs. :'''Misty''': ''[dismissively]'' Hmph! ===''Challenge of the Samurai'' [1.04]=== :''[Misty screams]'' :'''Ash''': What's wrong now? :'''Misty''': I saw another bug! Gross! :'''Ash''': Maybe its a... ''[both he and Pikachu sighed. Then he's in the cow costume]'' Cow-terpie! <hr width=50%/> :''[Last lines]'' :'''James''': Do you have any more bright ideas? :'''Jessie''': Well, unlike you at least I have ideas! :'''Meowth''': Yeah, and they're all bad. :'''Jessie''': WHO ASKED YOU?! :''[The Kakunas and Beedrills are suddenly waking up]'' :'''James''': Oh-oh. :'''Jessie''': Oh no. :''[They're attacked by the swarm of Beedrills offscreen]'' ===''Showdown in Pewter City'' [1.05]=== :'''Ash''': My conscience is holding me back! I can't bring myself to beat Brock! I'm imagining his little brothers and sisters stopping me from beating the one person they love! :'''Misty''': Uh, Ash, I think you better open your eyes! <hr width=50%/> :'''Brock''': Hey Ash, are you sure it's okay if I go with you on your Pokémon journey? :'''Ash''': Sure I'm sure, the more the merrier! And it's good to have somebody to talk with. :'''Brock''': Well, what about that girl who keeps following you? :'''Misty''': DON'T FORGET ABOUT MY BIKE, ASH KETCHUM! I'M GONNA FOLLOW YOU UNTIL YOU PAY ME BACK! :'''Ash''': I know! I KNOW! Pikachu, let's try to lose her! :'''Pikachu''': Chu! ''[runs with Ash]'' :'''Brock''': ''[catching up]'' Wait up, Ash! :'''Misty''': ''[chasing after them]'' YOU WON'T GET AWAY! ===''Clefairy and the Moon Stone'' [1.06]=== :'''Jessie''': Well, it looks like Team Rocket is.... :'''James''': Blasting off again! :'''Meowth''': That was the Metronome! :'''Jessie''': I give it two thumbs down! :'''James''': Me too! :'''Meowth''': Meowth three! ===''The Water Flowers of Cerulean City'' [1.07]=== :'''James''': The coast is clear. :'''Jessie''': Nothing to fear. :'''Meowth''': Nobody here! <hr width=50%/> :'''Officer Jenny''': You two look very suspicious to me. :'''Ash''': Hey, you're that motorcycle officer from Viridian. :'''Officer Jenny''': Huh? Ah, you must've met my sister-in-law. If you know my sister-in-law, that means you probably had some dealings with the police in Viridian! :'''Ash''': Well, I... :'''Officer Jenny''': Now, maybe you just stopped to ask her for directions, or maybe you found a wallet on the street and turned it in to her, OR MAYBE YOU'RE A BURGLAR WHO BROKE OUTTA JAIL!!! ''[swings her handcuffs in a loop like a yo-yo]'' :'''Ash''': I've never been to jail! :'''Brock''': Neither have I, ma'am. :'''Officer Jenny''': That's what they all say. <hr width=50%/> :'''Misty''': Oh no! Staryu looks like it's in real pain! :'''Ash''': It doesn't even have a face. How can you tell? :'''Misty''': Because I'm sensitive to other's feelings! That's how! :'''Ash''': ''[sarcastically]'' Oh, yeah? Like I'm not? <hr width=50%/> :'''Ash''': Misty, you're not gonna be a sore loser, aren't you? :'''Misty''': I didn't lose anything! It was just a draw! :'''Ash''': Well, I'm the one who won the badge! :'''Misty''': You know you lost with Butterfree! :'''Ash''': That was just round 1. I made a great comeback! :'''Misty''': If Team Rocket hadn't busted in, I would've destroyed you! :'''Ash''': You're lucky they've showed up. You were about to lose! :'''Misty''': Lose?! I was just getting started! :'''Ash''': Oh, yeah?! :'''Misty''': Oh, yeah! :'''Brock''': Oh, brother! ===''The Path to the Pokémon League'' [1.08]=== ===''The School of Hard Knocks'' [1.09]=== :'''Misty''': All that crunching is ruining my romantic daydreams! <hr width=50%/> :'''Giselle''': True, but there's one thing you didn't know [The screen pans to her in a cerulean blue vest with two buttons under a white short puffy sleeved shirt, a red ribbon, and dark blue pleated skirt. later a group of boys come] your opponent's from the Cerulean City Gym. Her Pokemon has much more experience battling. You should've known that. You're an embarrassment to the whole school! :'''Joe''': But, Giselle... :'''Ash''': [blushing at her] She's really pretty, isn't she? :'''Brock''': Yeah, she looks just like a movie star. ''[Then the screen pans to Misty]'' :'''Misty''': [thinking] They like stars, do they? I'll be glad to show them some stars. ''[Cuts to Giselle is on a blue starry background from the Sailor Moon franchise]'' :'''Giselle''': I'm the top student in the beginning class of the most exclusive club in the world, Pokémon Tech. It's sad that others aren't blessed with my beauty, my talent, my humble attitude. People call me a star, [the shining yellow star flies and cut to her on a galaxy background] but I'm just Giselle. ===''Bulbasaur and the Hidden Village'' [1.10]=== ===''Charmander - The Stray Pokémon'' [1.11]=== :'''Misty''': I just can't go one step further. We've been looking for Vermilion City for 10 whole days! :'''Brock''': Uh, there's a bug right on your... <hr width=50%/> :'''Brock''': ''[as Charmander is dying in the Pokémon Center; in his mind]'' Charmander, you've got to hold on. Please, keep your flame burning. <hr width=50%/> :''[Charmander closes eyes, and uses Flamethrower on Team Rocket and fries them]'' :'''James''': You see!? Did I tell you we needed fire-proof uniform?! :'''Jessie''': Shut up and keep running! :'''Meowth''': Some geniuses! Meowth! :'''Team Rocket''': Looks like Team Rocket's blasting off again! :'''Damian''': ''[appears from the bushes; surprised]'' Charmander beat them? ===''Here Comes the Squirtle Squad'' [1.12]=== :'''Misty''': It's Meowth! :'''Ash''': Meowth?! ===''Mystery at the Lighthouse'' [1.13]=== ===''Electric Shock Showdown'' [1.14]=== :'''Brock''': ''[after Team Rocket's cheer]'' That was really disturbing. <hr width=50%/> :'''Ash''': Use the strategy we planned, Pikachu! You can do it! :'''Surge''': A strategy? So they've planned a new way to lose! ===''Battle Aboard the St. Anne'' [1.15]=== :'''James''': Wait! There goes my next paycheck! :'''Jessie''': Who cares about your paycheck? What about mine?! :'''Meowth''': We gotta get out of here! <hr width=50%/> :'''Captain''': May I have your attention? Anyone who didn't leave the ship safely, please say "Aye." Good. Well done. Everyone's safe then. :'''Narrator''': Not everyone, Captain. And as the St. Anne heads to the bottom of the sea, our heroes, are trapped unconscious inside, and so is Team Rocket. Could this be the end?! How will they escape their "watery" fate? I don't know, but, I have a terrible "sinking" feeling. ===''Pokémon Shipwreck'' [1.16]=== :'''James''': Jessica? :'''Jessie''': Yes, James. :'''James''': Whoever said beauty doesn't last must've been thinking of us. :'''Jessie''': I'll always remember what a wonderful dresser you were.
 :'''James''': So will I. <hr width=50%/> :'''James''': What is that?! :'''Misty''': Now you've done it! Magikarp has evolved into a Gyarados! :'''Jessie''': Gyarados?! I miss Magikarp! <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': Dimwit! If you're the master, don't act like you're scared of it! :'''James''': I am scared! ===''Island of the Giant Pokémon'' [1.17]=== :''[All Pokémon are speaking in Pokémon language, with English subtitles translating their speech]'' :'''Squirtle''': Maybe they got eaten by wild Pokémon. ''[makes a scary face with razor-sharp teeth, making a chomping motion]'' :'''Pikachu''': Don't say things like that! :'''Charmander''': Yeah, cut it out! :'''Squirtle''': Sorry. <hr width=50%/> :''[The first thing Team Rocket does after calling their boss is recite their motto for no apparent reason]'' :'''Giovanni''': Nitwits! How dare you annoy me with your nonsense? Don't ever bother me like this again! ''[hangs up]'' <hr width=50%/> :''[After a giant Venusaur is spotted]'' :'''Squirtle''': ''[to Bulbasaur]'' You go and speak to it, you guys are like family! :'''Bulbasaur''': No way. Just call me an orphan, I have no family. :'''Charmander''': Good point. :'''Squirtle''': Coward. <hr width=50%/> :''[The phone rings]'' :'''Giovanni''': ''[answers it]'' Yes? What?! Pokémon Land has been totally destroyed?! ''[hangs up; growls]'' I spent millions on that place! ===''Beauty and the Beach'' [1.18]=== :'''Prof. Oak''': Your mother's been worried about you, Ash. She says she still thinks of you as her little pumpkin. :'''Ash''': That makes me sound like a baby. :'''Delia''': You'll ''always'' be my baby, won't you? :'''Ash''': Yeah. :'''Delia''': Well, I just hope you aren't eating a lot of junk food and getting into any trouble. :'''Ash''': Of course not! ''[suddenly remembers his boat accident]'' At least not a lotta trouble. :'''Delia''': What's that mean? :'''Moe''': ''I'm'' the one who got into trouble, Mrs. Ketchum. Ash helped out at my restaurant when I really needed help. But even more importantly, your son has been a great inspiration to me. :'''Delia''': That's wonderful! What a relief. :'''Ash''': Thanks, Moe. <hr width="50%"> :''[Misty is walking down the catwalk in a beauty contest, wearing a bikini]'' :'''Misty''': This is totally embarrassing and degrading, but we need the money! ===''Tentacool & Tentacruel'' [1.19]=== ===''The Ghost of Maiden's Peak'' [1.20]=== :'''James''': I can't believe you're letting that ghost get me just because you're both so cheap! :'''Jessie''': You don't want to go? :'''James''': Of course I don't wanna go. I don't wanna go! I don't wanna go! I don't wanna go! <hr width="50%"> :'''James''': You really do care! :'''Jessie''': It's not 'cuz of you. Girls like her disgust me. Always waiting around for her man as if she were his faithful pet. She can't stand the thought of losing him. She cries, but I'd say, "see ya later!". There are plenty more fish in the sea. :'''Meowth''': I could sure go for some fish. <hr width="50%"> :'''Misty''': Then how about this! :'''Gastly''': What's that? :'''Misty''': It's a cross! I've also got garlic, a stake, and a hammer! :'''Gastly''': ...What do I look like, a vampire or something? ===''Bye Bye Butterfree'' [1.21]=== :'''Ash''': Take care, Butterfree! Good luck, buddy! Goodbye, Butterfree. I'll always remember you. Thank you for everything. Goodbye, Butterfree! ===''Abra and the Psychic Showdown'' [1.22]=== :'''Ash''': Telekinesis is okay, but I have my own secret method for bending spoons. ''[bends the spoon with his hands and laughs]'' Muscle over mind! :'''Misty''': Embarrassing. :'''Brock''': Just pretend we never met him before. ===''The Tower of Terror'' [1.23]=== :'''Ash''': I'm feeling like a ghost myself ''[He turns and got a deadly Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror skull mask on]'' BBLLLLAAAAAHHH!!! :'''Both''': AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! :'''Ash''': ''[after frightening his group with a deadly skull mask]'' Sorry, guys! I was just testing you. If we're gonna try to catch a Ghost Pokémon, we gotta learn to deal with fear. That's the only way we can become great Pokémon trainers. :'''Misty''': You must be crazy! :'''Brock''': Don't ever do that! <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': You mangy alley cat! You numskull! You ruined my beautiful face! <hr width=50%/> :'''Misty''': Look! ''[Something flies up the air]'' :'''All''': Huh! [They see at all of those floating in the air] AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! ''[Then a chair flies and knocks Brock in]'' :'''Brock''': WOOOAAAAHHH!! HELP ME! ===''Haunter vs. Kadabra'' [1.24]=== :'''Ash''': Ohh... Sabrina's the meanest Trainer I ever met. :'''Sabrina's Father''': She wasn't always such a mischievous girl. :'''Ash''': You mean, you knew Sabrina before she changed? :'''Sabrina's Father''': Huh? Well! I've heard stories. <hr width=50%> :'''Sabrina's Father''': Though she was very young, Sabrina became completely obsessed with her psychic training. She didn't want to make friends. all she wanted was to be left alone to develop her powers. Her parents tried to help, but Sabrina used her psychic powers to drive them away. The conflict caused Sabrina to split into two girls. The strong Pokémon Trainer who was always causing trouble, and the lonely little girl who desperately desires to make friends. That doll that Sabrina always holds represents her true self, before her training, before she rejected her own heart. :'''Ash''': Sabrina had this picture of her family in her room. If you have the same picture, then, that must mean you are... :'''Sabrina's Father''': Huh?! ''[thinks]'' Does he know? He must have figured it out by now. After everything I said, he must have figured out the truth about Sabrina and me. He must realize that I'm Sabrina's Father! :'''Ash''': ...Then, that must mean you are a photographer. :'''Sabrina's Father''': ''[face faults]'' Whoa! :'''Pikachu''': Pika! :'''Sabrina's Father''': Don't you see?! Don't you get it?! :'''Ash''': Get what? :'''Sabrina's Father''': Never mind... :'''Ash''': Sabrina turned Brock and Misty into dolls. :'''Sabrina's Father''': Yeah, there's nothing we can do about that. :'''Ash''': Whoa! :'''Sabrina's Father''': The only way to rescue your friends is to defeat Sabrina. Isn't that why you traveled to Lavender Town, to get a Ghost Pokémon? :'''Ash''': But Haunter has disappeared someplace. :'''Sabrina's Father''': Then, you must find Haunter first. Without it, you'll never be able to defeat Sabrina and her Psychic Pokémon. :'''Ash''': I guess not... <hr width=50%> :'''Jessie''': To protect the world from devastation. :'''James''': To unite all people within our nation. :'''Jessie''': To denounce the evils of truth and love. :'''James''': To extend our reach to the stars above. :'''Jessie''': Jessie! :'''James''': James! :'''Meowth''': Yeah, yeah, that's very dramatic. Now, let's cut to the chase, and catch that Pikachu. :'''Jessie''': Just leave that to us. :'''Meowth''': By the way, what is the secret weapon you cooked up this time? :'''James''': A deadly weapon that has been perfected for over thousands of years. Now we've learned to use its awesome powers. With a flick of this fishing net, we'll round up Pikachu. :'''Meowth''': You mean that's your secret weapon?! :'''James''': It takes a genius to realize a fishing net is the perfect weapon! :'''Jessie''': Oh, James, it's the greatest discovery since Einstein invented the light bulb! :'''Jessie and James''': ''[sing and dance]'' Even greater than the chicken who invented the egg! :''[The egg falls on them]'' :'''James''': All of us true geniuses know, of course, that it was actually the egg that preceded the chicken. :'''Jessie''': Of course. I knew that. I had just forgotten. :'''Meowth''': Now you got my brain scrambled! Let's cut the egg-splanations and capture Pikachu! <hr width=50%> :'''James''': Don't laugh, Jessie, otherwise you are going to let go. :'''Jessie''': I won't crack. The Members of Team Rocket have been trained to resist all silliness, and to be totally serious! <hr width=50%/> :''[concrete is being poured into a hole Team Rocket is trapped in]'' :'''Jessie''': Hello, up there! Anyone?! We're trapped down here! :'''James''': Stop pouring cement! :'''Meowth''': Get me outta here quick! <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': A little cement.... :'''James''': ...will never stop Team Rocket. :'''Meowth''': A little cement? :'''All three''': ''[flee]'' We're blasting off again! ===''Primeape Goes Bananas'' [1.25]=== :'''Professor Oak''': I can't write a good poem without rhymes, and you can't be a good Pokémon trainer without catching more Pokémon. <hr width="50%"> :'''Brock''': ''[Holding a box of rice balls]'' These donuts are great! Jelly-filled are my favorite! Nothing beats a jelly-filled donut! ===''Pokémon Scent-sation'' [1.26]=== :'''Erika''': P for Pretty, E for Elegant, R for Radiant, F for Fun, U for Urbane, M for Mysterious, E for Energy, and that spells... :'''Misty''': Perfume! :'''Brock''': Right! <hr width=50%/> :''[The three employees angrily confront Ash for his rude remarks about the perfume]'' :'''Employee 1''': YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF! :'''Employee 2''': YOU INSENSITIVE LITTLE WORM! :'''Ash''': What did I say? :''[The purple-haired employee kicks Ash out of the store]'' :'''Employee 3''': GET OUT! AND DON'T COME BACK! :'''Ash''': I don't wanna come back! I'm on my way to the Celadon Gym! <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': It stinks... :'''James''': Just like your plan! :'''Meowth''': You said it! ===''Hypno's Naptime'' [1.27]=== ===''Pokémon Fashion Flash'' [1.28]=== :'''James''': Now we need a total makeover so nobody we ripped off can recognize us! :'''Jessie''': They're all just jealous because they're not attractive enough to wear our designs! :'''Team Rocket''': BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD! :'''Narrator''': So long, Salon Roquet! ===''The Punchy Pokémon'' [1.29]=== :'''Meowth''': Honey baked ham! Roast leg of lamb! Strawberry jam! :'''James''': Sirloin steaks! Chocolate cakes! :'''Jessie''': Can't you numbskulls think of anything but food?! <hr width=50%/> :'''Meowth''': It looks like it works. Really appreciate it. :''[the bomb beeps, electricity hits Team Rocket, they are fried to a crisp, the bomb explodes which sends them outside blasting off] :'''Team Rocket''': Team Rocket's blasting off again! ===''Sparks Fly For Magnemite'' [1.30]=== :'''Ash''': Gee, that Magnemite is following Pikachu around like some sort of streaker. :'''Brock''': Um, Ash, you mean 'stalker'. ----- :'''Professor Oak''': ''[chuckles]'' It's been quite a while since Ash sent me a new Pokémon. I wonder what he's captured this time? ''[a Poke Ball popped open, and as Professor Oak held his nose, out of it comes a very rancid Muk!]'' Hmm? Ugh! What is that smell?! Ew... What's the idea of sending me a Muk?! Yecch! :'''Muk''': MUK!!! ===''Dig Those Diglett'' [1.31]=== :''[A Diglett returns the uncooperative Poké Ball to Gary]'' :'''Gary''': Oh thanks. Wait! This can't happen! <hr width=50%/> :'''James''': Some principle of induced evolution. :'''Jessie''': ''[reads a manual]'' It says here that Pokémon need to accumulate a certain amount of experience points before they can successfully evolve. :'''James''': ''[depressed]'' ''Our'' experience is nothing but losing. ===''The Ninja Poké-Showdown'' [1.32]=== :'''Ash''': Venonat? It's you! I'm gonna teach you a lesson! ''[runs up to it, but it jumps back through the door it came out of]'' Come back! ''[enters through the door, but screams upon seeing spinning projectiles flying towards him]'' :'''Misty and Brock''': ''[react upon hearing the projectiles hit the wall and are concerned about Ash]'' Ash! :'''Pikachu''': Kachu! ''[Ash!]'' :''[Misty, Brock, and Pikachu enter the door, but they find an empty room and cannot find Ash.]'' :'''Misty''': Where is he? :'''Brock''': There must be another way out. :'''Misty''': Maybe it's just another trick. :''[The door soon turns around to reveal Ash pinned to the wall by multiple shurikens, much to their surprise.]'' :'''Ash''': Someone help me... :'''Aya''': ''[cackles and jumps down from the ceiling]'' Born in darkness, living in darkness, such is the fate of the ninja. I am Aya, ninja warrior! :'''Misty''': ''[about Aya's uniform color]'' But don't you think that color is a little bright for a ninja? :'''Aya''': I don't need your fashion report! But tell me, didn't you enjoy my little star treatment? ''[reveals her shuriken]'' :'''Ash''': You can't just chuck throwing stars around. It's dangerous! :'''Misty''': That's right! Tell her, Brock! :''[However, Brock wasn't listening and approached Aya.]'' :'''Brock''': ''[lovestruck]'' I think that electric pink suits you perfectly, and you certainly look lovely. ''[but Aya responds by slapping Brock's hand, much to Ash and Misty's shock and embarrassment]'' :'''Aya''': ''[pushes Brock away]'' This is a training camp! It was your fault you let your guard down. :'''Ash''': ''[offended]'' My guard down? :'''Aya''': I won't let you leave this mansion without having a Pokémon battle with me, first. ''[her Venonat appears behind her]'' :'''Ash''': ''[shrugs]'' Oh, that thing! :'''Aya''': This Venonat informed me that three stupid-looking people had entered the mansion. :'''Ash''': For your information, we're not the stupid ones around here! I accept your challenge! ''[suddenly remembers he's still stuck]'' Uh, but first, could you let me down from here? :''[Everyone face faults in embarrassment. Soon, Ash is freed from his predicament and takes his place on the battlefield.]'' :'''Aya''': One Pokémon for each of us. Choose yours now. ===''The Flame Pokémon-athon!'' [1.33]=== :'''Dario''': ''[growls after his defeat]'' You're the reason I didn't win the Pokémon challenge! Team Rocket's the worst. :'''Jessie''': We'll just have to plan better next year. :'''James''': And maybe you can get some nicer riding clothes. :'''Meowth''': And give that smelly bird a bath. ===''The Kangaskhan Kid'' [1.34]=== ===''The Legend of Dratini'' [1.35]=== ===''The Bridge Bike Gang'' [1.36]=== :''[Ash, Misty and Brock finds out Jessie and James used to belong to a bike gang]'' :'''James''': I guess our secret past is not a secret anymore. :'''Ash''': I kind of wish it still was! ===''Ditto's Mysterious Mansion'' [1.37]=== :'''James''': Will you stop it, Meowth?! :'''Jessie''': The only way we can get out of this mess is to dress you up like a Dratini and present you to the boss. :'''Meowth''': Pea-brains! This won't work! ===''Electric Soldier Porygon'' [1.38]=== ===''Pikachu's Goodbye'' [1.39]=== :'''Meowth''': It's a Pika-Palooza! :'''Jessie''': We're at the Pika of our powers. :'''James''': Chu can say that again, Jess! <hr width=50%/> :''[Last lines; the Pikachu cheer]'' :'''Misty''': What do you think they're doing? :'''Brock''': Well, I think they might be cheering. For Ash and for Pikachu! :''[Pikachu runs up to Ash, who smiles tearfully]'' :'''Pikachu''': ''[leaps up to him]'' Pikapi! :'''Ash''': Pikachu! :''[They embrace joyfully]'' :'''Narrator''': Another adventure has brought Ash and Pikachu even closer. In their hearts, they know they'll go on to face every challenge together. ===''The Battling Eevee Brothers'' [1.40]=== :''[Jessie breathes fire in anger]'' :'''Meowth''': Wow! Jessie just evolved into a Flareon! <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': Well, it's back to eating the lunch of losers. :'''James''': Victory tasted a lot better. ===''Wake Up Snorlax!'' [1.41]=== ===''Showdown at Dark City'' [1.42]=== :''[Last lines; Team Rocket is still covered in red paint]'' :'''Jessie''': Well, that was a complete waste of time. :'''James''': Looks like we're through. :'''Meowth''': ''[notices Electabuzz and Scyther charging at them]'' Huh? Unfortunately, we're not quite through yet. :'''Jessie and James''': Huh? :'''Scyther''': Scyther! :'''Electabuzz''': Blblblblblblbl! :'''Team Rocket''': AAH! :'''James''': Somebody... :'''Team Rocket''': HELP! ===''The March of the Exeggutor Squad'' [1.43]=== ===''The Problem with Paras'' [1.44]=== :'''Jessie''': Well, there goes our billions. :'''James''': And zillions. :'''Meowth''': I'm a hero, but I got zero! ===''The Song of Jigglypuff'' [1.45]=== :''[Team Rocket realizes they recorded their own snoring instead of Jigglypuff's song]'' :'''James''': What is that awful sound? :'''Jessie''': It's all of us snoring! :'''Meowth''': What are we supposed to do with that? ===''Attack of the Prehistoric Pokémon'' [1.46]=== :''[Gary is digging for fossils and stumbles upon one]'' :'''Gary''': Success! My first Pokémon fossil! :'''Fan Girls''': Yay! Gary, Gary, he's the best! Found a fossil before the rest! Go, Gary! :''[An expert comes over, takes the fossil out of Gary's hands and examines it]'' :'''Gary''': Impressive, isn't it? Found it on my first try. Looks like a brain from an extinct Pokémon. :'''Expert''': This is- :'''Gary''': ''[hopeful]'' A brain? :'''Expert''': It's fossilized Pokémon manure. :''[Gary face faults]'' :'''Fan Girls''': Ew. Yuck! Gross! ===''A Chansey Operation'' [1.47]=== ===''Holy Matrimony!'' [1.48]=== :''[Arriving next to the normal mansion]'' :'''Ash''': Whoa! Look at that! :'''Misty''': It's huge! :'''Brock''': I've seen shopping malls smaller than this place! :'''Misty''': It must have a hundred rooms! :'''Ash''': It's the biggest mansion I've ever seen! :'''Hopkins''': ''[through the megaphone]'' This is not the mansion! This little dog house is for Growlie. <hr width=50%/> :[After hearing James' tragic but fake story] :'''Jessie''': That's such a sad ending! :'''Meowth''': That poor kid! :'''Brock''': I can't believe James is gone! :'''Ash''': I miss him! :'''Misty''': ''[annoyed]'' Hmph! JAMES IS STANDING RIGHT HERE! :'''James''': Huh? Wait. Yeah, that right! ''[both Jessie and Meowth glare at him]'' Aah! I'm all mixed up! <hr width=50%/> :'''Meowth''': ''[sighs]'' I guess all of that money and luxury was just too tempting for James to give up. ===''So Near, Yet So Farfetch'd'' [1.49]=== ===''Who Gets to Keep Togepi?'' [1.50]=== ===''Bulbasaur's Mysterious Garden'' [1.51]=== :'''Ash''': It's gotta be okay. ''[as Nurse Joy and Chansey cart Bulbasaur to the healing room, a bunch of flowers start to bloom in the vase magically]'' :'''Togepi''': ''[noticing the flowers]'' Prii! Toge, Toge, Toge, Toge, Toge, Toge, Toge, Togepri! :'''Misty''': What's the matter, Togepi? Is something wrong? Huh? <hr width="50%/"> :''[Ash, Brock and Misty join Pikachu and see an entire field full of Bulbasaur, and the pollen trail going straight to a giant, dead tree]'' :'''Ash''': Wow! This must be the Mysterious Garden! :''[Down in the field, the Bulbasaur are starting the ceremony by chanting their names]'' :'''Group of Bulbasaur''': ''[chanting]'' Bulba, Bulba, Bulbasaur. Bulba, Bulba, Bulbasaur. Bulba, Bulba, Bulbasaur... :''[As they continue chanting, the branches of the tree start growing, nearly going up to the moon. Soon, flowers start blooming in the field and flowers start to blossom on the tips of the branches of the tree, leaving our heroes in wonderment]'' :'''Ash''': That's neat! :'''Misty''': Wow! It's so pretty! :''[Then, some giant bangs are heard and a glow is seen inside the tree]'' :'''Ash''': What's that banging sound? :''[The source of the banging is soon revealed to be a Venusaur, who steps onto the tree stump in front of the tree where it came from]'' :'''Venusaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :'''Ash''': Look, you guys! It's a Venusaur! :'''Misty'''': It's giant! :''[Ash gets out his Pokédex to scan Venusaur]'' :'''Ash's Pokédex''': Venusaur, the final form of the Bulbasaur evolution. This Seed Pokémon soaks up the sun's rays as a source of energy. :'''Brock''': Hmmm, But that kind of behaviour makes it sound like a plant. :'''Ash''': I don't see my Bulbasaur anyplace around here! :'''Misty''': Hey, Ash, your Bulbasaur still has that bandage on its head. :'''Ash''': Hmmmm. :'''Pikachu''': ''[sees Ash's Bulbasaur; jumping up in excitement]'' Pika! :'''Ash''': Hey, there it is! Over here, Bulba- :'''Brock''': ''[covers Ash's mouth]'' Hey, not so loud! Don't forget. Human beings aren't supposed to be here. :'''Ash''': Oh, right. :'''Misty''': Let's watch the festival. :''[Soon, the festival is underway]'' :'''Venusaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :'''All the Bulbasaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :'''Venusaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :'''All the Bulbasaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :'''Venusaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :'''All the Bulbasaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :'''Venusaur''': SAUR! ["RISE!"] :'''All the Bulbasaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :''[Ash's Bulbsasaur is watching quietly]'' :'''Venusaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :'''All the Bulbasaur''': SAUR! ["RISE!"] :'''Ash's Bulbasaur''': Bulbasaur. :'''Venusaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"'' :'''All the Bulbasaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :''[As the festival goes on, the Bulbasaur start glowing]'' :'''Venusaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :'''All the Bulbasaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :''Ash, Brock and Misty are amazed by what they have seen. Meanwhile, Team Rocket have come across the vine wall blocking the entrance to the festival]'' :'''Jessie''': How do we get in there? :'''James''': Why doesn't just Meowth just Scratch his way through with his claws? :'''Meowth''': I just filed them. :'''Jessie''': ''[holding an axe]'' Alright, garden wall, you axed for it! :'''James''': ''[holding a saw]'' We're the toughest team you ever saw! :'''Meowth''': ''[holding a pair of scythes]'' Let's cut ta da chase! :''[However, before they can start chopping the wall apart, the vines attack them and force them back]'' :'''Jessie''': A temper tantrum, eh?! Let's get to the root of its problem! :'''Meowth''': En garde! :''[They charge at the vines, but the vines force them to retreat]'' :'''James''': I think its bite is as bad as its bark! :''[Back in the field, the Bulbasaur begin to glow bright. The glows soon fade to reveal that most of them have evolved into Ivysaur]'' :'''One of the Ivysaur''': Ivysaur! ''["Alright!"]'' :'''Ash''': Alright! ''[scans Ivysaur with his Pokédex]'' :'''Ash's Pokédex''': The Seed Pokemon, Ivysaur, Bulbasaur's evolved form. The bulb on its back absorbs nourishment and blooms into a large flower. :'''Venusaur''': Saur. ''["Begin!"]'' :'''All the Ivysaur''': Saur. ["We begin!"] :'''Venusaur''': Saur. ''["Begin!"]'' :'''All the Ivysaur''': Saur. ''["We begin!"]'' :'''Ash''': This must be their evolution festival. :'''Brock''': For a long time, people have disagreed whether Bulbasaur is an animal-type Pokémon or a plant-type. If either plants or animals disappear from the planet, life wouldn't go on. :'''Misty''': They need each other to live and grow. :'''Pikachu''': Pika. :'''Brock''': Maybe the Bulbasaur are a sign that all Life on Earth is connected. :'''Ash''': Maybe you're right. I wonder if my Bulbasaur's gonna evolve, too. ''[surprised by what he sees]'' :'''Brock''': Huh? :''[Ash and his friends see that Ash's Bulbasaur hasn't evolved and is now resisting the evolutionary process]'' :'''Misty''': It's not evolving! :'''Ash''': Why not? :'''Brock''': It looks like it's trying NOT to evolve! :'''Pikachu''': Pika? :'''Venusaur''': Venus, Venusaur? ''["What? Who is that over there?"]'' :'''Ash's Bulbasaur''': Bulbasaur? :'''Venusaur''': Venusaur? ''["Why have you not evolved?"]'' :'''Ash's Bulbasaur''': Bulba? ''["Pardon?"]'' :'''Venusaur''': Venu, Venusaur? ''["I said, 'Why have you not evolved?'"]'' :'''Ash's Bulbasaur''': Bulba, Bulbasaur. ''["I just wasn't ready to evolve."]'' :'''Venusaur''': Venusaur, Venusaur, Venusaur? ''["All Bulbasaur must evolve! Why do you refuse?"]'' :'''Ash's Bulbasaur''': Bulbasaur! Bulba Bulba... ''[shakes its head]'' ...Bulbasaur, Saur! ''["I didn't come here for this festival, and I don't think I'll ever be ready to evolve."]'' :'''Venusaur''': Venusaur? Venu SAUR! ''["What? How disgraceful of you to trespassing our festival!"]'' :'''All the Ivysaur''': Ivysaur! ''["Trespasser!"]'' :'''Ash's Bulbasaur''': Bulbasaur? :''[Ash, Brock and Misty have seen what has happened]'' :'''Misty''': The others are getting really angry at Bulbasaur. :'''Ash''': I wonder why? :'''Brock''': Bulbasaur's more stubborn than you! :'''Venusaur''': Venusaur! ''[uses Vine Whip on Ash's Bulbasaur]'' :'''Ash's Bulbasaur''': BULBA! ''["YIKES!"]'' :'''Ash''': Hey! ''[jumps down onto the field]'' :'''Pikachu: Pik! ''[follows Ash]'' :'''Ash''': ''[stands in the way of Venusaur's Vine Whip attack to protect his Bulbasaur]'' Oh! :'''Pikachu''': Pikapi? :'''Ash's Bulbasaur''': Bulbasaur? :''[Ash turns and grins at Pikachu and Bulbasaur]'' ===''Riddle Me This'' [1.52]=== :''[Ash and the gang were in a wading pool, trying to figure out a riddle]'' :'''Brock''': It's where a firefighter can never win. Where could that be? :'''Misty''': Where can a firefighter never win? Maybe someplace that doesn't have enough water. ''[realizes Togepi has wandered off to shore]'' Huh? Togepi? :'''Togepi''': ''[seeing the Gyrados fixture]'' Toge. :'''Misty''': What are you doing, Togepi? Togepi, move away! That water's boiling. ''[Togepi climbs to the top of the fixture and jumps on it multiple times before opening the secret entrance]'' ===''The Case of the K-9 Caper!'' [1.53]=== ===''Pokémon Paparazzi'' [1.54]=== ===''The Ultimate Test'' [1.55]=== :'''Narrator''': There seems to be a little mix-up! ===''The Breeding Center Secret'' [1.56]=== :'''Jessie''': James! Watch where you're throwing that dirt! :'''James''': Watch?! I can't see the foot in front of my face! :'''Meowth''': If you don't quit squawkin', you'll see the foot in front of your face! Mine! ===''All Fired Up!'' [1.57]=== :'''Ash''': ''[shouts excitedly]'' Yee...'''''HAH!''''' :'''Misty''': Ash, are you going crazy?! :'''Brock''': The answer is yes. :'''Pikachu''': Pika. ''[Togepi suddenly starts crying as a result of Ash scaring it]'' :'''Misty''': Now, just look what you did to Togepi. Oh, it's all right, little Togepi. ''[After the crying stops, Togepi lets out a very sad squeak]'' ''[Squirtle’s Water Gun hits Team Rocket to put out the fire and they are crisped up from the flame]'' :'''Meowth''': Dat was very refreshing. :'''Jessie''': ''[loses her temper]'' Listen twerp! Just because you and that swuirt toy saved our lives, it doesn’t mean we can’t be mean!! :'''James''': We’re taking that flame-o, lame-o! == Fire and Ice == :''[Ash and Pikachu were having a meal at an all-you-can-eat buffet when Misty and Togepi arrive]'' :'''Misty''': Careful, Ash. All that food can make your belly as big as your head. :'''Togepi''': Toge, Toge. :'''Ash''': Thanks, Mist, but I can't help it. I got all this food for free! That's 'cause she happens to be a big fan of mine. :'''Misty''': ''[puts Togepi down]'' Ash, everybody in the Pokémon League gets to eat here for free. ''[does not realize that Togepi slides off the booth seat and heads across the floor]'' :'''Ash''': What?! Really? :'''Misty''': I know you won twice, and that's great. But you can't let that make you crazy. :'''Ash''': I can't? How come? :'''Misty''': Oh, well. I give up. :'''Pikachu''': ''[seeing Togepi pulling the tablecloth with the cutlery on top]'' Pika, Pika! ''[the cutlery falls over]'' PIKACHU! ''[dives in, but Togepi walks out of harm's way and the cutlery lands around Pikachu, who catches the fork with the teeth]'' Pikachu. :'''Togepi''': Toge, Toge, Toge. ''[laughs at Pikachu holding the fork with the mouth]'' Togepi! ==External links== {{Wikipedia|List of Pokémon: Indigo League episodes}} {{Authority control}} [[Category:Japanese TV shows]] [[Category:Pokémon]] rgdk2xhre00o1bigos6gdww0caxt8xf 3961280 3961279 2026-07-05T20:45:39Z ~2026-22475-30 3310494 /* Pokémon: I Choose You] [1.01] */ 3961280 wikitext text/x-wiki ---- {{Pokémon header}} ---- <br/> This is a list of episodes in '''''Pokémon: Indigo League''''', the first season of the Pokémon animated series (ポケットモンスター Poketto Monsutā?, Pokét Monsters), covering the adventures of the series protagonist Ash Ketchum and his friends Pikachu, Misty and Brock on the way to the Indigo Plateau. ===''Pokémon: I Choose You'' [1.01]=== :''[First lines. The opening cutscene of Pokémon Red and Blue (Red and Green in Japan) plays, portraying a battle between a Gengar and a Nidorino. Near the end, the cutscene transitions from the Game Boy's 8-bit graphics to vivid cel animation, revealing the battle to be happening in a packed stadium.]'' :'''Stadium Announcer''': And Nidorino begins the battle with a Horn Attack! Oh, but Gengar bounces right back, ''[Gengar uses Hypnosis]'' and there it is, the Hypnosis Power of Gengar! This could be the end of Nidorino. ''[Nidorino gets recalled by his trainer]'' Wait, the trainer recalled Nidorino. Which Pokémon will he use now? ''[the trainer throws a green and white Poké ball, Gengar steps back and out comes an Onix]'' Oh, it's Onix! Now this giant Pokémon's on the attack. ''[the camera pulls back to reveal that the battle is on television]'' Ho-ho, but Gengar jumps aside! Gengar is moving beautifully today. Its training is top-notch, no doubt about it! :''[As the commentary on TV continues, a spikey haired boy named Ash Ketchum puts on a green fingerless glove.]'' :'''Ash''': ''[in his mind]'' Yes, I am Ash. ''[the camera cuts to him in his room, He wore a red and white cap with a dark green L like symbol and a blue and white buttoned short sleeved shirt under a dark slate gray shirt, and light blue cuffed jeans]'' :'''Narrator''': Ash Ketchum is a boy from Pallet Town. :''[We see a Poliwag-style pencil sharpener, a Clefairy-shaped piggy bank and two Zubats hanging on a hanger. We then see the boy, Ash Ketchum, putting his white trainers on]'' :'''Ash Ketchum''': ''[speaks]'' And now that I'm 10, I can finally get my Pokémon license. :''[The camera shows a poster with a Squirtle, a Bulbasaur and a Charmander]'' :'''Narrator''': 10-year-olds can get a beginner Pokémon from Professor Oak, the town's Pokémon expert. :'''Ash Ketchum''': ''[puts on his hat, then flips it backwards]'' I will journey to gain the wisdom of Pokémon training, ''[picks up a Voltorb alarm clock and gets a green Speed Stripes background behind him]'' and I hereby declare to the Pokémon of the world; I will be a Pokémon Master. Pokémon Master! That is what I'll- :'''Delia Ketchum''': ''[offscreen]'' Ash, get to bed! ''[Ash yelps and flings the Voltorb alarm clock toward her, who catches it and shows Ash the time]'' It's 11:00, and you should be asleep! :'''Ash Ketchum''': But tomorrow, I begin my Pokémon journey. I can't even sleep. :'''Delia Ketchum''': Well, if you can't sleep, at least get ready for tomorrow, so, here, watch this. ''[changes channels on Ash's television]'' :'''Professor Oak''': ''[on TV]'' Good evening, Pallet, tomorrow's the big day for the newest class of Pokémon students. I'd like to introduce you to Bulbasaur, Charmander and Squirtle. Each one is available for new trainees. Which one shall you choose? :'''Delia Ketchum''': Go to bed when this is done. :'''Ash Ketchum''': ''[seeing the commercial]'' Alright, I'm going. :'''Delia''': And change into your pajamas, OK? ''[closes the door]'' :'''Professor Oak''': ''[on TV]'' ...character to help them develop their special powers. :'''Ash''': ''I'm going.'' :''[Cut to title card]'' :'''Ash''' ''[narrating]'' "Pokémon, I Choose You!" <hr width=50%> :'''Delia''': I packed your sneakers and jeans, nice clean shirts and underwear, and your favorite snacks, and some hot chocolate in case you want something hot, but be careful not to burn yourself. And a pair of rubber gloves to do your laundry and a new clothesline to hang it out to dry, and- :'''Ash''': Mom, you are embarrassing me, in front of all these people! Don't you know, I'm a big kid now? Pokémon Trainers can take care of themselves. <hr width=50%> :'''Ash''': Hey! Get away from there! ''[angrily groans]'' :''[A Rattata runs away from Ash's backpack]'' :'''Pokédex''': A forest Pokémon: Rattata. It likes cheese, nuts, fruits, and berries. :'''Ash''': Yeah, but this isn't a forest. It's an open field! :'''Pokédex''': It also comes out into open fields to steal food from ''stupid'' travellers. :'''Ash''': That means I'm stupid...? :''[Pikachu laughs hysterically from a tree branch]'' <hr width=50%> :''[Ash and Pikachu are being chased by a flock of Spearow. He steals the bicycle of a young girl, later known as Misty, to flee the Spearow, but he eventually rides off a cliff, falling off of the bike, with the Spearow still in hot pursuit. Ash then persuades Pikachu, who became weak after the trip, to enter his Poké Ball, but to no avail. This gives Ash no choice but to muster up the guts to take on the Spearow himself]'' :'''Ash''': Spearows, do you know who I am? I am Ash, from the town of Pallet. I'm destined to be the world's number-one Pokémon Master. I can't be defeated by the likes of you. ''[Pikachu, hearing Ash's speech, starts to pay attention to his Trainer's bravery as he continues on]'' I'm going to capture and defeat you all. You hear me? ''[the Spearow hone-in on Ash in the final moments before their attack, leading him to plead one last time for Pikachu's safety]'' '''[[w:Pikachu|Pikachu]]''', go inside the Poké Ball; it's the only way. ''[Pikachu looks down at the Poké Ball, and then back at him. A lightning bolt strikes behind the Spearow]'' '''''Come and get me!''''' ''[as the Spearow charge in toward him, Pikachu starts running toward him, climbing onto his shoulder, and jumping off Ash's shoulder to counter the Spearow]'' Whoa! :'''Pikachu''': ''[a lightning bolt strikes him]'' ''Pika-'''CHU!''''' :'''Ash''': '''''WHOA!''''' :''[He releases a powerful Thunder Shock, dispersing the Spearow and creating a large explosion in the area]'' <hr width=50%> :''[Last lines; In the aftermath of Pikachu's act of defense toward Ash, the rainy night turns into a sunny morning. The camera shows Misty's bike that Ash took to escape the Spearow flock, revealing that said bike was destroyed by Pikachu's Thunder Shock, and the camera pan toward an unconscious Ash and Pikachu, and the two of them slowly wake up]'' :'''Pikachu''': ''[weakly]'' '''[[w:Pikachu|Pikachu]]'''. :'''Ash''': ''[breathes a sigh of relief]'' Well, we beat 'em. :'''Pikachu''': ''[in agreement]'' Chu. :''[In the sky, a large golden bird-like Pokémon, which later was revealed as the Legendary Pokémon Ho-Oh, cries out as it flies over Ash and Pikachu as a sign of amazing things to come]'' :'''Ash''': Huh? ''[notices what he doesn't yet know to be Ho-Oh as it flies off towards a rainbow, leaving a trail of sparkles]'' What's that? :'''Pokédex''': There is no data. There are still Pokémon yet to be identified. :''[Ho-Oh is seen one last time flying off into the bright blue sky]'' :'''Narrator''': This is just the beginning of the amazing adventures of Ash and '''[[w:Pikachu|Pikachu]]'''. Their journey is destined to be packed with non-stop action, millions of laughs, heart-pounding perils, and endless excitement. ''[Ash, holding Pikachu, stops at the top of a hill. Pikachu then licks Ash's face, which moves him to near tears. However, he holds them in, as he realizes he must get to a Pokémon Center to heal Pikachu's wounds as soon as possible]'' Together, they'll encounter fantastic friends, evil enemies and meet creatures beyond their wildest imagination, and as their story unfolds, we'll unlock the magic and mystery of a most wondrous place: '''[[w:Pokémon|the incredible world of Pokémon]]'''! :''[The screen shrinks to the left, then stops moving. The text "TO BE CONTINUED" appears.]'' ===''Pokémon Emergency! [1.02]''=== :''[The episode begins with a recap of the previous episode, starting with Ash declaring his ambitions of becoming a Pokémon Master over a background set of green speed lines]'' :'''Ash''': That's right! I declare to the Pokémon of the world. I will be the greatest Pokémon Trainer. The greatest Pokémon Master...of all time! :'''Narrator''': Last time, Ash, our hero from Pallet, chose Pikachu, a Pokémon who was not too thrilled with its new trainer. Soon, they found themselves fighting off a flock of fearsome Spearows. Pikachu saved the day with its amazing Thunder Shock, but the electrifying encounter left Pikachu weak and his fate in Ash's hands. :'''Ash''': We...beat 'em. :'''Pikachu''': ''[weakly]'' Chu. :''[The recap ends and the scene changes to the second episode's title card]'' :'''Ash''': ''[voiceover]'' Pokémon Emergency! :''[We then cut to Viridian City in a sunset. Then, we hear the voice of a female police officer, named Officer Jenny, making an announcement about potential thieves in the area.]'' :'''Officer Jenny''': Attention, citizens of Viridian City! Attention, citizens of Viridian City! We have reports of possible Pokémon thieves in our area! Be on the lookout for suspicious looking strangers! Repeat: Be on the lookout for suspicious looking - Huh? ''[sees Ash rushing Pikachu to the Pokémon Center.]'' Speak of the Devil! ''[grabs Ash by the shirt collar to stop him]'' Hold it! And just where do you think you're going with that Pokémon, young man? :'''Ash''': ''[angrily]'' It's my Pokémon and its hurt! And I gotta get it to the hospital right away! :'''Officer Jenny''': Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you might be stealing it. Just show me your ID and you can go. :'''Ash''': ''[surprised]'' ID? Ugh... I don't have any. You see, we just came here from Pallet and we- :'''Officer Jenny''': You know, you're the fourth person I've seen today from Pallet Town. :'''Ash''': The fourth? Oh, that means Gary Oak's here already. :'''Officer Jenny''': It's very unusual for someone to carry a Pokémon in his arms and not in a Pokéball. How do I know you didn't steal that Pokémon, especially since you don't have any identification? :'''Ash''': Please let me through. I wouldn't steal a Pokémon, and I've got to get Pikachu to the hospital. Please, miss. :'''Officer Jenny''': ''[notices something in Ash's pocket]'' Hey, what's that in your pocket? :'''Ash''': What? ''[takes out his Pokédex]'' Oh, this? :'''Officer Jenny''': ''[swipes the Pokédex from Ash]'' This is perfect! A Pokédex! This will solve our problem! ''[presses some buttons in Ash's Pokédex]'' Let's see if you're the real deal... :'''Dexter''': I'm Dexter, a Pokédex programmed by Professor Oak for Pokémon Trainer Ash Ketchum of the town of Pallet. My function is to provide Ash with information and advice regarding Pokémon and their training. If lost or stolen, I cannot be replaced. :'''Ash''': Oh, my Pokédex. I didn't realize it was also my ID. Can I take Pikachu to the Pokémon Center now? :'''Officer Jenny''': I'll get you there in no time at all. ''[They mount on board her motorcycle.]'' Sit back, hold on and don't yell. :''[She revs her engine and they take off to the Pokémon Center, leaving a cloud of dust.]'' :'''Ash''': '''WHOA!''' :''[Meanwhile, caught in the dust is Misty, who is holding her charred bicycle and is not happy with Ash for taking it]'' :'''Misty''': ''[coughing]'' Hey, what's the big idea?! Ugh, come back here! ''[runs after Ash with her burnt bike]'' :''[A hook grabs hold of the Wanted poster on its bottom right corner and removes it from the noticeboard. Then, we notice that the hook is coming from a Meowth balloon controlled by two members from Team Rocket, Jessie and James. Soon, Jessie and James are looking at the Wanted poster]'' :'''Jessie''': A Wanted poster. How flattering. :'''James''': Flattering? This picture makes me look terrible. :'''Jessie''': Then, you should be happy The Photographer captured the real you. :'''James''': Exactly. :'''Jessie''': We'll show these bumpkins. :'''James''': The people of Viridian City will be sorry they ever saw this face. :''[The camera cuts to a Meowth who can speak human]'' :'''Meowth''': We're all sorry to see your face. Stay focused. We're here to capture rare and unusual Pokémon. Don't forget, Meowth. :'''Jessie''': Absolutely. :'''James''': But of course. :'''Meowth''': And just remember, I'm the top cat. :'''James''': You got it. :'''Meowth''': Meowth. :''[Down on the ground, Officer Jenny is driving Ash and Pikachu to Viridian City's Pokémon Centre when she sees it straight ahead]'' :'''Officer Jenny''': There it is! :''[Viridian City's gigantic Pokémon Centre comes into view]'' :'''Ash''': Pokémon Centre? It's gigantic. :'''Officer Jenny''': This is tricky. Just hold on. Here we go! ''[jumps high on her motorcycle]'' :'''Ash''': Whoa! :''[The motorcycle comes skidding into the Pokémon Centre and stops right in front of the reception desk which is being manned by a Pokémon Nurse called Nurse Joy. Officer Jenny puts her foot on the pedal to stop her motorcycle]'' :'''Nurse Joy''': ''[annoyed]'' We have a driveway, you know. :'''Officer Jenny''': It's a Pokémon Emergency! :'''Ash''': ''[stands up]'' Please help it! :'''Nurse Joy''': Looks like a Pikachu. We’ll do what we can. ''[turns round to her computer]'' I need a stretcher for a small electric Pokémon, stat! :''[A couple of Chansey enter with a stretcher]'' :'''Chansey''': Chansey! :''[Nurse Joy puts Ash's injured Pikachu on the stretcher]'' :'''Nurse Joy''': It'll be okay. ''[to Chansey]'' Rush this Pokémon to the critical care unit. :'''Chansey''': Chansey! :''[They take Pikachu away with the stretcher]'' :'''Nurse Joy''' ''[puts on a pair of white gloves as one of the Chansey stands next to her]'' We’ll begin the treatment right away. :'''Ash''': Uh... :'''Nurse Joy''': Who are you? :'''Officer Jenny''': His name is Ash. He's the Pokémon's Trainer. :'''Ash''': If there's anything I can do, please just tell me. :'''Nurse Joy''': You can be more responsible. :'''Ash''': Uh? :'''Nurse Joy''': ''[sternly]'' If you want to become a Pokémon trainer, young man, you don't let your Pokémon battle till it's in this condition. :'''Ash''': But you don't know what happened. :'''Nurse Joy''': What's past is past. Now, we have to heal your Pikachu. :'''Ash''': What can I do? :'''Nurse Joy''': Just leave everything to me. :'''Ash''': Please. :'''Officer Jenny''': It's in your hands. I know you'll give the Pokémon excellent care. :'''Nurse Joy''': You got it here just in time. :'''Officer Jenny''': That's my job. ''[realises something]'' Oh my goodness. I left my motorcycle parked at the front desk! :'''Nurse Joy''': Next time, use the driveway. :'''Officer Jenny''': ''[chuckling sheepishly]'' Heh heh. ''[leaves]'' :'''Nurse Joy''': Ash, you'll will have to go to the waiting room. :'''Ash''': Can't I... ''[the door closes after Nurse Joy goes through; in his mind]'' Pikachu. <hr width=50%/> :'''Professor Oak''': When my grandson Gary said that you wouldn't have a single new Pokémon by the time you got to Viridian City, I bet him $1,000,000 that he'd be wrong! :'''Ash''': ''[surprised]'' Well, money isn't everything, right? :'''Professor Oak''': ''[dejected]'' Oh, why do I even bother? <hr width=50%/> :''[Misty confronts Ash at the Pokémon Center with her burnt bicycle]'' :'''Misty''': ''[panting]'' I knew I'd find you here! :'''Ash''': ''[seeing that her bike is destroyed]'' Hey, what happened to your bike?! :'''Misty''': What happened to my bike?! ''YOU'' happened to my bike, you little loser! This is what's left after you stole it to save your Pokémon! Now I can see why your Pokémon is in... WHOAOAOAOAH! ''[tumbles over and falls down]'' :'''Ash''': Let me help you. :'''Misty''': ''[slaps Ash's left arm]'' I don’t need your help, and you're gonna pay for what you did to my bike! :'''Ash''': I'll make up for it. I promise I will, really. But I can't do anything about your bike until... :'''Misty''': ''[angrily]'' I don't want any of your lame excuses, kid! I just want a new bike right now! :'''Ash''': It's my Pikachu. My Pikachu's not too good. :''[Misty becomes worried as Ash looks behind at the red light with a needle on it]'' :'''Misty''': Is it very serious? :'''Ash''': I think so, and there's nothing I can do to help now. <hr width=50%/> :''[Ash, Misty, and Nurse Joy have their lines of sight impaired by a Koffing's Smokescreen attack]'' :'''Ash''': What are...Who are they?! :'''Jessie''': Don't be frightened, little boy. :'''James''': Allow us to introduce ourselves. :'' [A teenage girl and boy emerge from the smoke]'' :'''Jessie''': To protect the world from devastation. :'''James''': To unite all people within our nation. :'''Jessie''': To denounce the evils of truth and love! :'''James''': To extend our reach to the stars above. :'''Jessie''': Jessie! :'''James''': James. :'''Jessie''': Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light! :'''James''': Surrender now or prepare to fight! :'''Meowth''':''[appearing from the top of the screen]'' Meowth! That's right! :'''Ash''': What are you talking about? :'''Jessie''': He just doesn't get it, does he? :'''Ash''': ''[off camera]'' How can I? You don't make any sense. :'''James''': We're here for the Pokémon. :'''Ash''': You're NOT getting Pikachu! :'''Jessie''': Pikachu? We're not interested in your precious Electric rat. You are. :'''James''': We seek only rare and valuable Pokémon. :'''Nurse Joy''': You are wasting your time. This is a center for weak and injured Pokémon. :'''Jessie''': Well, that may be so, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if we find a few little Pokémon gems among all the junk. :'''Ash''': You're starting to bug me. :'''Jessie''': Isn't that cute. :'''James''': The boy's bugged. :'''Meowth''': Meowth, then, let's squash him. :'''James''': Koffing, Attack! :'''Jessie''': Ekans, Go! :''[Nurse Joy, Ash and Misty flee the scene with Pikachu on the stretcher as Ekans and Koffing cause destruction]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Misty''': You grab Pikachu and get out of here! I'll take care of these three clowns. :'''Jessie''': That's pretty big talk coming from such a little lady. :'''Misty''': At least you're right about the pretty part, thanks for the compliment. :'''James''': The girl thinks she's pretty. :'''Jessie''': I agree with her. I think she's pretty, too. Pretty pathetic! :'''Misty''': ''[annoyed]'' Hmmmm, I'll show you! Poké Ball, go! ''[Goldeen comes out rolling and jumping on the floor, to Jessie and James' shock]'' Goldeen, return! ''[Goldeen is back inside the Poké Ball]'' :'''Jessie''': That's her best shot? :'''James''': She's all washed up. <hr width=50%/> :'''Officer Jenny''': Too late, but not for the fireworks! <hr width=50%/> :''[The Meowth balloon is flying past the full moon, but Team Rocket is hanging from a rope]'' :'''Jessie''': Great! A cat losing to a mouse! :'''Meowth''': That Pikachu is no ordinary Pikachu. :'''James''': It's certainly very rare. A perfect prize! :'''Jessie''': Let's catch it! :'''Meowth''': Perhaps, we will. :''[Then, the Meowth balloon pops, sending the three characters hurtling through the night]'' ===''Ash Catches a Pokémon'' [1.03]=== :'''Ash''': ''[hugging his Poké-Ball]'' I love my new little Pokémon! :'''Misty''': I guess it takes a worm to love a worm. :'''Ash''': ''[sarcastically]'' Very funny. <hr width=50%/> :'''Misty''': ''[about Caterpie]'' It's so gross. ''[scared]'' Ash, put that slimy thing back in the Poké-Ball! Bugs are one of the three most disgusting things in the world! :'''Ash''': Aside from you, what are the other disgusting things? :'''Misty''': Very funny. ''[smashing]'' Carrots, ''[kicking]'' peppers, ''[hitting with a wooden hammer]'' and bugs. Everybody has something they don't like and I don't like bugs! :'''Ash''': ''[making a silly face]'' Yeah? Well, I like carrots, and peppers, and bugs. ''[now serious]'' What I ''don't'' like is the way you're hurting Caterpie's feelings with your silly fear of bugs. :'''Misty''': ''[dismissively]'' Hmph! ===''Challenge of the Samurai'' [1.04]=== :''[Misty screams]'' :'''Ash''': What's wrong now? :'''Misty''': I saw another bug! Gross! :'''Ash''': Maybe its a... ''[both he and Pikachu sighed. Then he's in the cow costume]'' Cow-terpie! <hr width=50%/> :''[Last lines]'' :'''James''': Do you have any more bright ideas? :'''Jessie''': Well, unlike you at least I have ideas! :'''Meowth''': Yeah, and they're all bad. :'''Jessie''': WHO ASKED YOU?! :''[The Kakunas and Beedrills are suddenly waking up]'' :'''James''': Oh-oh. :'''Jessie''': Oh no. :''[They're attacked by the swarm of Beedrills offscreen]'' ===''Showdown in Pewter City'' [1.05]=== :'''Ash''': My conscience is holding me back! I can't bring myself to beat Brock! I'm imagining his little brothers and sisters stopping me from beating the one person they love! :'''Misty''': Uh, Ash, I think you better open your eyes! <hr width=50%/> :'''Brock''': Hey Ash, are you sure it's okay if I go with you on your Pokémon journey? :'''Ash''': Sure I'm sure, the more the merrier! And it's good to have somebody to talk with. :'''Brock''': Well, what about that girl who keeps following you? :'''Misty''': DON'T FORGET ABOUT MY BIKE, ASH KETCHUM! I'M GONNA FOLLOW YOU UNTIL YOU PAY ME BACK! :'''Ash''': I know! I KNOW! Pikachu, let's try to lose her! :'''Pikachu''': Chu! ''[runs with Ash]'' :'''Brock''': ''[catching up]'' Wait up, Ash! :'''Misty''': ''[chasing after them]'' YOU WON'T GET AWAY! ===''Clefairy and the Moon Stone'' [1.06]=== :'''Jessie''': Well, it looks like Team Rocket is.... :'''James''': Blasting off again! :'''Meowth''': That was the Metronome! :'''Jessie''': I give it two thumbs down! :'''James''': Me too! :'''Meowth''': Meowth three! ===''The Water Flowers of Cerulean City'' [1.07]=== :'''James''': The coast is clear. :'''Jessie''': Nothing to fear. :'''Meowth''': Nobody here! <hr width=50%/> :'''Officer Jenny''': You two look very suspicious to me. :'''Ash''': Hey, you're that motorcycle officer from Viridian. :'''Officer Jenny''': Huh? Ah, you must've met my sister-in-law. If you know my sister-in-law, that means you probably had some dealings with the police in Viridian! :'''Ash''': Well, I... :'''Officer Jenny''': Now, maybe you just stopped to ask her for directions, or maybe you found a wallet on the street and turned it in to her, OR MAYBE YOU'RE A BURGLAR WHO BROKE OUTTA JAIL!!! ''[swings her handcuffs in a loop like a yo-yo]'' :'''Ash''': I've never been to jail! :'''Brock''': Neither have I, ma'am. :'''Officer Jenny''': That's what they all say. <hr width=50%/> :'''Misty''': Oh no! Staryu looks like it's in real pain! :'''Ash''': It doesn't even have a face. How can you tell? :'''Misty''': Because I'm sensitive to other's feelings! That's how! :'''Ash''': ''[sarcastically]'' Oh, yeah? Like I'm not? <hr width=50%/> :'''Ash''': Misty, you're not gonna be a sore loser, aren't you? :'''Misty''': I didn't lose anything! It was just a draw! :'''Ash''': Well, I'm the one who won the badge! :'''Misty''': You know you lost with Butterfree! :'''Ash''': That was just round 1. I made a great comeback! :'''Misty''': If Team Rocket hadn't busted in, I would've destroyed you! :'''Ash''': You're lucky they've showed up. You were about to lose! :'''Misty''': Lose?! I was just getting started! :'''Ash''': Oh, yeah?! :'''Misty''': Oh, yeah! :'''Brock''': Oh, brother! ===''The Path to the Pokémon League'' [1.08]=== ===''The School of Hard Knocks'' [1.09]=== :'''Misty''': All that crunching is ruining my romantic daydreams! <hr width=50%/> :'''Giselle''': True, but there's one thing you didn't know [The screen pans to her in a cerulean blue vest with two buttons under a white short puffy sleeved shirt, a red ribbon, and dark blue pleated skirt. later a group of boys come] your opponent's from the Cerulean City Gym. Her Pokemon has much more experience battling. You should've known that. You're an embarrassment to the whole school! :'''Joe''': But, Giselle... :'''Ash''': [blushing at her] She's really pretty, isn't she? :'''Brock''': Yeah, she looks just like a movie star. ''[Then the screen pans to Misty]'' :'''Misty''': [thinking] They like stars, do they? I'll be glad to show them some stars. ''[Cuts to Giselle is on a blue starry background from the Sailor Moon franchise]'' :'''Giselle''': I'm the top student in the beginning class of the most exclusive club in the world, Pokémon Tech. It's sad that others aren't blessed with my beauty, my talent, my humble attitude. People call me a star, [the shining yellow star flies and cut to her on a galaxy background] but I'm just Giselle. ===''Bulbasaur and the Hidden Village'' [1.10]=== ===''Charmander - The Stray Pokémon'' [1.11]=== :'''Misty''': I just can't go one step further. We've been looking for Vermilion City for 10 whole days! :'''Brock''': Uh, there's a bug right on your... <hr width=50%/> :'''Brock''': ''[as Charmander is dying in the Pokémon Center; in his mind]'' Charmander, you've got to hold on. Please, keep your flame burning. <hr width=50%/> :''[Charmander closes eyes, and uses Flamethrower on Team Rocket and fries them]'' :'''James''': You see!? Did I tell you we needed fire-proof uniform?! :'''Jessie''': Shut up and keep running! :'''Meowth''': Some geniuses! Meowth! :'''Team Rocket''': Looks like Team Rocket's blasting off again! :'''Damian''': ''[appears from the bushes; surprised]'' Charmander beat them? ===''Here Comes the Squirtle Squad'' [1.12]=== :'''Misty''': It's Meowth! :'''Ash''': Meowth?! ===''Mystery at the Lighthouse'' [1.13]=== ===''Electric Shock Showdown'' [1.14]=== :'''Brock''': ''[after Team Rocket's cheer]'' That was really disturbing. <hr width=50%/> :'''Ash''': Use the strategy we planned, Pikachu! You can do it! :'''Surge''': A strategy? So they've planned a new way to lose! ===''Battle Aboard the St. Anne'' [1.15]=== :'''James''': Wait! There goes my next paycheck! :'''Jessie''': Who cares about your paycheck? What about mine?! :'''Meowth''': We gotta get out of here! <hr width=50%/> :'''Captain''': May I have your attention? Anyone who didn't leave the ship safely, please say "Aye." Good. Well done. Everyone's safe then. :'''Narrator''': Not everyone, Captain. And as the St. Anne heads to the bottom of the sea, our heroes, are trapped unconscious inside, and so is Team Rocket. Could this be the end?! How will they escape their "watery" fate? I don't know, but, I have a terrible "sinking" feeling. ===''Pokémon Shipwreck'' [1.16]=== :'''James''': Jessica? :'''Jessie''': Yes, James. :'''James''': Whoever said beauty doesn't last must've been thinking of us. :'''Jessie''': I'll always remember what a wonderful dresser you were.
 :'''James''': So will I. <hr width=50%/> :'''James''': What is that?! :'''Misty''': Now you've done it! Magikarp has evolved into a Gyarados! :'''Jessie''': Gyarados?! I miss Magikarp! <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': Dimwit! If you're the master, don't act like you're scared of it! :'''James''': I am scared! ===''Island of the Giant Pokémon'' [1.17]=== :''[All Pokémon are speaking in Pokémon language, with English subtitles translating their speech]'' :'''Squirtle''': Maybe they got eaten by wild Pokémon. ''[makes a scary face with razor-sharp teeth, making a chomping motion]'' :'''Pikachu''': Don't say things like that! :'''Charmander''': Yeah, cut it out! :'''Squirtle''': Sorry. <hr width=50%/> :''[The first thing Team Rocket does after calling their boss is recite their motto for no apparent reason]'' :'''Giovanni''': Nitwits! How dare you annoy me with your nonsense? Don't ever bother me like this again! ''[hangs up]'' <hr width=50%/> :''[After a giant Venusaur is spotted]'' :'''Squirtle''': ''[to Bulbasaur]'' You go and speak to it, you guys are like family! :'''Bulbasaur''': No way. Just call me an orphan, I have no family. :'''Charmander''': Good point. :'''Squirtle''': Coward. <hr width=50%/> :''[The phone rings]'' :'''Giovanni''': ''[answers it]'' Yes? What?! Pokémon Land has been totally destroyed?! ''[hangs up; growls]'' I spent millions on that place! ===''Beauty and the Beach'' [1.18]=== :'''Prof. Oak''': Your mother's been worried about you, Ash. She says she still thinks of you as her little pumpkin. :'''Ash''': That makes me sound like a baby. :'''Delia''': You'll ''always'' be my baby, won't you? :'''Ash''': Yeah. :'''Delia''': Well, I just hope you aren't eating a lot of junk food and getting into any trouble. :'''Ash''': Of course not! ''[suddenly remembers his boat accident]'' At least not a lotta trouble. :'''Delia''': What's that mean? :'''Moe''': ''I'm'' the one who got into trouble, Mrs. Ketchum. Ash helped out at my restaurant when I really needed help. But even more importantly, your son has been a great inspiration to me. :'''Delia''': That's wonderful! What a relief. :'''Ash''': Thanks, Moe. <hr width="50%"> :''[Misty is walking down the catwalk in a beauty contest, wearing a bikini]'' :'''Misty''': This is totally embarrassing and degrading, but we need the money! ===''Tentacool & Tentacruel'' [1.19]=== ===''The Ghost of Maiden's Peak'' [1.20]=== :'''James''': I can't believe you're letting that ghost get me just because you're both so cheap! :'''Jessie''': You don't want to go? :'''James''': Of course I don't wanna go. I don't wanna go! I don't wanna go! I don't wanna go! <hr width="50%"> :'''James''': You really do care! :'''Jessie''': It's not 'cuz of you. Girls like her disgust me. Always waiting around for her man as if she were his faithful pet. She can't stand the thought of losing him. She cries, but I'd say, "see ya later!". There are plenty more fish in the sea. :'''Meowth''': I could sure go for some fish. <hr width="50%"> :'''Misty''': Then how about this! :'''Gastly''': What's that? :'''Misty''': It's a cross! I've also got garlic, a stake, and a hammer! :'''Gastly''': ...What do I look like, a vampire or something? ===''Bye Bye Butterfree'' [1.21]=== :'''Ash''': Take care, Butterfree! Good luck, buddy! Goodbye, Butterfree. I'll always remember you. Thank you for everything. Goodbye, Butterfree! ===''Abra and the Psychic Showdown'' [1.22]=== :'''Ash''': Telekinesis is okay, but I have my own secret method for bending spoons. ''[bends the spoon with his hands and laughs]'' Muscle over mind! :'''Misty''': Embarrassing. :'''Brock''': Just pretend we never met him before. ===''The Tower of Terror'' [1.23]=== :'''Ash''': I'm feeling like a ghost myself ''[He turns and got a deadly Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror skull mask on]'' BBLLLLAAAAAHHH!!! :'''Both''': AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! :'''Ash''': ''[after frightening his group with a deadly skull mask]'' Sorry, guys! I was just testing you. If we're gonna try to catch a Ghost Pokémon, we gotta learn to deal with fear. That's the only way we can become great Pokémon trainers. :'''Misty''': You must be crazy! :'''Brock''': Don't ever do that! <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': You mangy alley cat! You numskull! You ruined my beautiful face! <hr width=50%/> :'''Misty''': Look! ''[Something flies up the air]'' :'''All''': Huh! [They see at all of those floating in the air] AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! ''[Then a chair flies and knocks Brock in]'' :'''Brock''': WOOOAAAAHHH!! HELP ME! ===''Haunter vs. Kadabra'' [1.24]=== :'''Ash''': Ohh... Sabrina's the meanest Trainer I ever met. :'''Sabrina's Father''': She wasn't always such a mischievous girl. :'''Ash''': You mean, you knew Sabrina before she changed? :'''Sabrina's Father''': Huh? Well! I've heard stories. <hr width=50%> :'''Sabrina's Father''': Though she was very young, Sabrina became completely obsessed with her psychic training. She didn't want to make friends. all she wanted was to be left alone to develop her powers. Her parents tried to help, but Sabrina used her psychic powers to drive them away. The conflict caused Sabrina to split into two girls. The strong Pokémon Trainer who was always causing trouble, and the lonely little girl who desperately desires to make friends. That doll that Sabrina always holds represents her true self, before her training, before she rejected her own heart. :'''Ash''': Sabrina had this picture of her family in her room. If you have the same picture, then, that must mean you are... :'''Sabrina's Father''': Huh?! ''[thinks]'' Does he know? He must have figured it out by now. After everything I said, he must have figured out the truth about Sabrina and me. He must realize that I'm Sabrina's Father! :'''Ash''': ...Then, that must mean you are a photographer. :'''Sabrina's Father''': ''[face faults]'' Whoa! :'''Pikachu''': Pika! :'''Sabrina's Father''': Don't you see?! Don't you get it?! :'''Ash''': Get what? :'''Sabrina's Father''': Never mind... :'''Ash''': Sabrina turned Brock and Misty into dolls. :'''Sabrina's Father''': Yeah, there's nothing we can do about that. :'''Ash''': Whoa! :'''Sabrina's Father''': The only way to rescue your friends is to defeat Sabrina. Isn't that why you traveled to Lavender Town, to get a Ghost Pokémon? :'''Ash''': But Haunter has disappeared someplace. :'''Sabrina's Father''': Then, you must find Haunter first. Without it, you'll never be able to defeat Sabrina and her Psychic Pokémon. :'''Ash''': I guess not... <hr width=50%> :'''Jessie''': To protect the world from devastation. :'''James''': To unite all people within our nation. :'''Jessie''': To denounce the evils of truth and love. :'''James''': To extend our reach to the stars above. :'''Jessie''': Jessie! :'''James''': James! :'''Meowth''': Yeah, yeah, that's very dramatic. Now, let's cut to the chase, and catch that Pikachu. :'''Jessie''': Just leave that to us. :'''Meowth''': By the way, what is the secret weapon you cooked up this time? :'''James''': A deadly weapon that has been perfected for over thousands of years. Now we've learned to use its awesome powers. With a flick of this fishing net, we'll round up Pikachu. :'''Meowth''': You mean that's your secret weapon?! :'''James''': It takes a genius to realize a fishing net is the perfect weapon! :'''Jessie''': Oh, James, it's the greatest discovery since Einstein invented the light bulb! :'''Jessie and James''': ''[sing and dance]'' Even greater than the chicken who invented the egg! :''[The egg falls on them]'' :'''James''': All of us true geniuses know, of course, that it was actually the egg that preceded the chicken. :'''Jessie''': Of course. I knew that. I had just forgotten. :'''Meowth''': Now you got my brain scrambled! Let's cut the egg-splanations and capture Pikachu! <hr width=50%> :'''James''': Don't laugh, Jessie, otherwise you are going to let go. :'''Jessie''': I won't crack. The Members of Team Rocket have been trained to resist all silliness, and to be totally serious! <hr width=50%/> :''[concrete is being poured into a hole Team Rocket is trapped in]'' :'''Jessie''': Hello, up there! Anyone?! We're trapped down here! :'''James''': Stop pouring cement! :'''Meowth''': Get me outta here quick! <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': A little cement.... :'''James''': ...will never stop Team Rocket. :'''Meowth''': A little cement? :'''All three''': ''[flee]'' We're blasting off again! ===''Primeape Goes Bananas'' [1.25]=== :'''Professor Oak''': I can't write a good poem without rhymes, and you can't be a good Pokémon trainer without catching more Pokémon. <hr width="50%"> :'''Brock''': ''[Holding a box of rice balls]'' These donuts are great! Jelly-filled are my favorite! Nothing beats a jelly-filled donut! ===''Pokémon Scent-sation'' [1.26]=== :'''Erika''': P for Pretty, E for Elegant, R for Radiant, F for Fun, U for Urbane, M for Mysterious, E for Energy, and that spells... :'''Misty''': Perfume! :'''Brock''': Right! <hr width=50%/> :''[The three employees angrily confront Ash for his rude remarks about the perfume]'' :'''Employee 1''': YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF! :'''Employee 2''': YOU INSENSITIVE LITTLE WORM! :'''Ash''': What did I say? :''[The purple-haired employee kicks Ash out of the store]'' :'''Employee 3''': GET OUT! AND DON'T COME BACK! :'''Ash''': I don't wanna come back! I'm on my way to the Celadon Gym! <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': It stinks... :'''James''': Just like your plan! :'''Meowth''': You said it! ===''Hypno's Naptime'' [1.27]=== ===''Pokémon Fashion Flash'' [1.28]=== :'''James''': Now we need a total makeover so nobody we ripped off can recognize us! :'''Jessie''': They're all just jealous because they're not attractive enough to wear our designs! :'''Team Rocket''': BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD! :'''Narrator''': So long, Salon Roquet! ===''The Punchy Pokémon'' [1.29]=== :'''Meowth''': Honey baked ham! Roast leg of lamb! Strawberry jam! :'''James''': Sirloin steaks! Chocolate cakes! :'''Jessie''': Can't you numbskulls think of anything but food?! <hr width=50%/> :'''Meowth''': It looks like it works. Really appreciate it. :''[the bomb beeps, electricity hits Team Rocket, they are fried to a crisp, the bomb explodes which sends them outside blasting off] :'''Team Rocket''': Team Rocket's blasting off again! ===''Sparks Fly For Magnemite'' [1.30]=== :'''Ash''': Gee, that Magnemite is following Pikachu around like some sort of streaker. :'''Brock''': Um, Ash, you mean 'stalker'. ----- :'''Professor Oak''': ''[chuckles]'' It's been quite a while since Ash sent me a new Pokémon. I wonder what he's captured this time? ''[a Poke Ball popped open, and as Professor Oak held his nose, out of it comes a very rancid Muk!]'' Hmm? Ugh! What is that smell?! Ew... What's the idea of sending me a Muk?! Yecch! :'''Muk''': MUK!!! ===''Dig Those Diglett'' [1.31]=== :''[A Diglett returns the uncooperative Poké Ball to Gary]'' :'''Gary''': Oh thanks. Wait! This can't happen! <hr width=50%/> :'''James''': Some principle of induced evolution. :'''Jessie''': ''[reads a manual]'' It says here that Pokémon need to accumulate a certain amount of experience points before they can successfully evolve. :'''James''': ''[depressed]'' ''Our'' experience is nothing but losing. ===''The Ninja Poké-Showdown'' [1.32]=== :'''Ash''': Venonat? It's you! I'm gonna teach you a lesson! ''[runs up to it, but it jumps back through the door it came out of]'' Come back! ''[enters through the door, but screams upon seeing spinning projectiles flying towards him]'' :'''Misty and Brock''': ''[react upon hearing the projectiles hit the wall and are concerned about Ash]'' Ash! :'''Pikachu''': Kachu! ''[Ash!]'' :''[Misty, Brock, and Pikachu enter the door, but they find an empty room and cannot find Ash.]'' :'''Misty''': Where is he? :'''Brock''': There must be another way out. :'''Misty''': Maybe it's just another trick. :''[The door soon turns around to reveal Ash pinned to the wall by multiple shurikens, much to their surprise.]'' :'''Ash''': Someone help me... :'''Aya''': ''[cackles and jumps down from the ceiling]'' Born in darkness, living in darkness, such is the fate of the ninja. I am Aya, ninja warrior! :'''Misty''': ''[about Aya's uniform color]'' But don't you think that color is a little bright for a ninja? :'''Aya''': I don't need your fashion report! But tell me, didn't you enjoy my little star treatment? ''[reveals her shuriken]'' :'''Ash''': You can't just chuck throwing stars around. It's dangerous! :'''Misty''': That's right! Tell her, Brock! :''[However, Brock wasn't listening and approached Aya.]'' :'''Brock''': ''[lovestruck]'' I think that electric pink suits you perfectly, and you certainly look lovely. ''[but Aya responds by slapping Brock's hand, much to Ash and Misty's shock and embarrassment]'' :'''Aya''': ''[pushes Brock away]'' This is a training camp! It was your fault you let your guard down. :'''Ash''': ''[offended]'' My guard down? :'''Aya''': I won't let you leave this mansion without having a Pokémon battle with me, first. ''[her Venonat appears behind her]'' :'''Ash''': ''[shrugs]'' Oh, that thing! :'''Aya''': This Venonat informed me that three stupid-looking people had entered the mansion. :'''Ash''': For your information, we're not the stupid ones around here! I accept your challenge! ''[suddenly remembers he's still stuck]'' Uh, but first, could you let me down from here? :''[Everyone face faults in embarrassment. Soon, Ash is freed from his predicament and takes his place on the battlefield.]'' :'''Aya''': One Pokémon for each of us. Choose yours now. ===''The Flame Pokémon-athon!'' [1.33]=== :'''Dario''': ''[growls after his defeat]'' You're the reason I didn't win the Pokémon challenge! Team Rocket's the worst. :'''Jessie''': We'll just have to plan better next year. :'''James''': And maybe you can get some nicer riding clothes. :'''Meowth''': And give that smelly bird a bath. ===''The Kangaskhan Kid'' [1.34]=== ===''The Legend of Dratini'' [1.35]=== ===''The Bridge Bike Gang'' [1.36]=== :''[Ash, Misty and Brock finds out Jessie and James used to belong to a bike gang]'' :'''James''': I guess our secret past is not a secret anymore. :'''Ash''': I kind of wish it still was! ===''Ditto's Mysterious Mansion'' [1.37]=== :'''James''': Will you stop it, Meowth?! :'''Jessie''': The only way we can get out of this mess is to dress you up like a Dratini and present you to the boss. :'''Meowth''': Pea-brains! This won't work! ===''Electric Soldier Porygon'' [1.38]=== ===''Pikachu's Goodbye'' [1.39]=== :'''Meowth''': It's a Pika-Palooza! :'''Jessie''': We're at the Pika of our powers. :'''James''': Chu can say that again, Jess! <hr width=50%/> :''[Last lines; the Pikachu cheer]'' :'''Misty''': What do you think they're doing? :'''Brock''': Well, I think they might be cheering. For Ash and for Pikachu! :''[Pikachu runs up to Ash, who smiles tearfully]'' :'''Pikachu''': ''[leaps up to him]'' Pikapi! :'''Ash''': Pikachu! :''[They embrace joyfully]'' :'''Narrator''': Another adventure has brought Ash and Pikachu even closer. In their hearts, they know they'll go on to face every challenge together. ===''The Battling Eevee Brothers'' [1.40]=== :''[Jessie breathes fire in anger]'' :'''Meowth''': Wow! Jessie just evolved into a Flareon! <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': Well, it's back to eating the lunch of losers. :'''James''': Victory tasted a lot better. ===''Wake Up Snorlax!'' [1.41]=== ===''Showdown at Dark City'' [1.42]=== :''[Last lines; Team Rocket is still covered in red paint]'' :'''Jessie''': Well, that was a complete waste of time. :'''James''': Looks like we're through. :'''Meowth''': ''[notices Electabuzz and Scyther charging at them]'' Huh? Unfortunately, we're not quite through yet. :'''Jessie and James''': Huh? :'''Scyther''': Scyther! :'''Electabuzz''': Blblblblblblbl! :'''Team Rocket''': AAH! :'''James''': Somebody... :'''Team Rocket''': HELP! ===''The March of the Exeggutor Squad'' [1.43]=== ===''The Problem with Paras'' [1.44]=== :'''Jessie''': Well, there goes our billions. :'''James''': And zillions. :'''Meowth''': I'm a hero, but I got zero! ===''The Song of Jigglypuff'' [1.45]=== :''[Team Rocket realizes they recorded their own snoring instead of Jigglypuff's song]'' :'''James''': What is that awful sound? :'''Jessie''': It's all of us snoring! :'''Meowth''': What are we supposed to do with that? ===''Attack of the Prehistoric Pokémon'' [1.46]=== :''[Gary is digging for fossils and stumbles upon one]'' :'''Gary''': Success! My first Pokémon fossil! :'''Fan Girls''': Yay! Gary, Gary, he's the best! Found a fossil before the rest! Go, Gary! :''[An expert comes over, takes the fossil out of Gary's hands and examines it]'' :'''Gary''': Impressive, isn't it? Found it on my first try. Looks like a brain from an extinct Pokémon. :'''Expert''': This is- :'''Gary''': ''[hopeful]'' A brain? :'''Expert''': It's fossilized Pokémon manure. :''[Gary face faults]'' :'''Fan Girls''': Ew. Yuck! Gross! ===''A Chansey Operation'' [1.47]=== ===''Holy Matrimony!'' [1.48]=== :''[Arriving next to the normal mansion]'' :'''Ash''': Whoa! Look at that! :'''Misty''': It's huge! :'''Brock''': I've seen shopping malls smaller than this place! :'''Misty''': It must have a hundred rooms! :'''Ash''': It's the biggest mansion I've ever seen! :'''Hopkins''': ''[through the megaphone]'' This is not the mansion! This little dog house is for Growlie. <hr width=50%/> :[After hearing James' tragic but fake story] :'''Jessie''': That's such a sad ending! :'''Meowth''': That poor kid! :'''Brock''': I can't believe James is gone! :'''Ash''': I miss him! :'''Misty''': ''[annoyed]'' Hmph! JAMES IS STANDING RIGHT HERE! :'''James''': Huh? Wait. Yeah, that right! ''[both Jessie and Meowth glare at him]'' Aah! I'm all mixed up! <hr width=50%/> :'''Meowth''': ''[sighs]'' I guess all of that money and luxury was just too tempting for James to give up. ===''So Near, Yet So Farfetch'd'' [1.49]=== ===''Who Gets to Keep Togepi?'' [1.50]=== ===''Bulbasaur's Mysterious Garden'' [1.51]=== :'''Ash''': It's gotta be okay. ''[as Nurse Joy and Chansey cart Bulbasaur to the healing room, a bunch of flowers start to bloom in the vase magically]'' :'''Togepi''': ''[noticing the flowers]'' Prii! Toge, Toge, Toge, Toge, Toge, Toge, Toge, Togepri! :'''Misty''': What's the matter, Togepi? Is something wrong? Huh? <hr width="50%/"> :''[Ash, Brock and Misty join Pikachu and see an entire field full of Bulbasaur, and the pollen trail going straight to a giant, dead tree]'' :'''Ash''': Wow! This must be the Mysterious Garden! :''[Down in the field, the Bulbasaur are starting the ceremony by chanting their names]'' :'''Group of Bulbasaur''': ''[chanting]'' Bulba, Bulba, Bulbasaur. Bulba, Bulba, Bulbasaur. Bulba, Bulba, Bulbasaur... :''[As they continue chanting, the branches of the tree start growing, nearly going up to the moon. Soon, flowers start blooming in the field and flowers start to blossom on the tips of the branches of the tree, leaving our heroes in wonderment]'' :'''Ash''': That's neat! :'''Misty''': Wow! It's so pretty! :''[Then, some giant bangs are heard and a glow is seen inside the tree]'' :'''Ash''': What's that banging sound? :''[The source of the banging is soon revealed to be a Venusaur, who steps onto the tree stump in front of the tree where it came from]'' :'''Venusaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :'''Ash''': Look, you guys! It's a Venusaur! :'''Misty'''': It's giant! :''[Ash gets out his Pokédex to scan Venusaur]'' :'''Ash's Pokédex''': Venusaur, the final form of the Bulbasaur evolution. This Seed Pokémon soaks up the sun's rays as a source of energy. :'''Brock''': Hmmm, But that kind of behaviour makes it sound like a plant. :'''Ash''': I don't see my Bulbasaur anyplace around here! :'''Misty''': Hey, Ash, your Bulbasaur still has that bandage on its head. :'''Ash''': Hmmmm. :'''Pikachu''': ''[sees Ash's Bulbasaur; jumping up in excitement]'' Pika! :'''Ash''': Hey, there it is! Over here, Bulba- :'''Brock''': ''[covers Ash's mouth]'' Hey, not so loud! Don't forget. Human beings aren't supposed to be here. :'''Ash''': Oh, right. :'''Misty''': Let's watch the festival. :''[Soon, the festival is underway]'' :'''Venusaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :'''All the Bulbasaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :'''Venusaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :'''All the Bulbasaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :'''Venusaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :'''All the Bulbasaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :'''Venusaur''': SAUR! ["RISE!"] :'''All the Bulbasaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :''[Ash's Bulbsasaur is watching quietly]'' :'''Venusaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :'''All the Bulbasaur''': SAUR! ["RISE!"] :'''Ash's Bulbasaur''': Bulbasaur. :'''Venusaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"'' :'''All the Bulbasaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :''[As the festival goes on, the Bulbasaur start glowing]'' :'''Venusaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :'''All the Bulbasaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :''Ash, Brock and Misty are amazed by what they have seen. Meanwhile, Team Rocket have come across the vine wall blocking the entrance to the festival]'' :'''Jessie''': How do we get in there? :'''James''': Why doesn't just Meowth just Scratch his way through with his claws? :'''Meowth''': I just filed them. :'''Jessie''': ''[holding an axe]'' Alright, garden wall, you axed for it! :'''James''': ''[holding a saw]'' We're the toughest team you ever saw! :'''Meowth''': ''[holding a pair of scythes]'' Let's cut ta da chase! :''[However, before they can start chopping the wall apart, the vines attack them and force them back]'' :'''Jessie''': A temper tantrum, eh?! Let's get to the root of its problem! :'''Meowth''': En garde! :''[They charge at the vines, but the vines force them to retreat]'' :'''James''': I think its bite is as bad as its bark! :''[Back in the field, the Bulbasaur begin to glow bright. The glows soon fade to reveal that most of them have evolved into Ivysaur]'' :'''One of the Ivysaur''': Ivysaur! ''["Alright!"]'' :'''Ash''': Alright! ''[scans Ivysaur with his Pokédex]'' :'''Ash's Pokédex''': The Seed Pokemon, Ivysaur, Bulbasaur's evolved form. The bulb on its back absorbs nourishment and blooms into a large flower. :'''Venusaur''': Saur. ''["Begin!"]'' :'''All the Ivysaur''': Saur. ["We begin!"] :'''Venusaur''': Saur. ''["Begin!"]'' :'''All the Ivysaur''': Saur. ''["We begin!"]'' :'''Ash''': This must be their evolution festival. :'''Brock''': For a long time, people have disagreed whether Bulbasaur is an animal-type Pokémon or a plant-type. If either plants or animals disappear from the planet, life wouldn't go on. :'''Misty''': They need each other to live and grow. :'''Pikachu''': Pika. :'''Brock''': Maybe the Bulbasaur are a sign that all Life on Earth is connected. :'''Ash''': Maybe you're right. I wonder if my Bulbasaur's gonna evolve, too. ''[surprised by what he sees]'' :'''Brock''': Huh? :''[Ash and his friends see that Ash's Bulbasaur hasn't evolved and is now resisting the evolutionary process]'' :'''Misty''': It's not evolving! :'''Ash''': Why not? :'''Brock''': It looks like it's trying NOT to evolve! :'''Pikachu''': Pika? :'''Venusaur''': Venus, Venusaur? ''["What? Who is that over there?"]'' :'''Ash's Bulbasaur''': Bulbasaur? :'''Venusaur''': Venusaur? ''["Why have you not evolved?"]'' :'''Ash's Bulbasaur''': Bulba? ''["Pardon?"]'' :'''Venusaur''': Venu, Venusaur? ''["I said, 'Why have you not evolved?'"]'' :'''Ash's Bulbasaur''': Bulba, Bulbasaur. ''["I just wasn't ready to evolve."]'' :'''Venusaur''': Venusaur, Venusaur, Venusaur? ''["All Bulbasaur must evolve! Why do you refuse?"]'' :'''Ash's Bulbasaur''': Bulbasaur! Bulba Bulba... ''[shakes its head]'' ...Bulbasaur, Saur! ''["I didn't come here for this festival, and I don't think I'll ever be ready to evolve."]'' :'''Venusaur''': Venusaur? Venu SAUR! ''["What? How disgraceful of you to trespassing our festival!"]'' :'''All the Ivysaur''': Ivysaur! ''["Trespasser!"]'' :'''Ash's Bulbasaur''': Bulbasaur? :''[Ash, Brock and Misty have seen what has happened]'' :'''Misty''': The others are getting really angry at Bulbasaur. :'''Ash''': I wonder why? :'''Brock''': Bulbasaur's more stubborn than you! :'''Venusaur''': Venusaur! ''[uses Vine Whip on Ash's Bulbasaur]'' :'''Ash's Bulbasaur''': BULBA! ''["YIKES!"]'' :'''Ash''': Hey! ''[jumps down onto the field]'' :'''Pikachu: Pik! ''[follows Ash]'' :'''Ash''': ''[stands in the way of Venusaur's Vine Whip attack to protect his Bulbasaur]'' Oh! :'''Pikachu''': Pikapi? :'''Ash's Bulbasaur''': Bulbasaur? :''[Ash turns and grins at Pikachu and Bulbasaur]'' ===''Riddle Me This'' [1.52]=== :''[Ash and the gang were in a wading pool, trying to figure out a riddle]'' :'''Brock''': It's where a firefighter can never win. Where could that be? :'''Misty''': Where can a firefighter never win? Maybe someplace that doesn't have enough water. ''[realizes Togepi has wandered off to shore]'' Huh? Togepi? :'''Togepi''': ''[seeing the Gyrados fixture]'' Toge. :'''Misty''': What are you doing, Togepi? Togepi, move away! That water's boiling. ''[Togepi climbs to the top of the fixture and jumps on it multiple times before opening the secret entrance]'' ===''The Case of the K-9 Caper!'' [1.53]=== ===''Pokémon Paparazzi'' [1.54]=== ===''The Ultimate Test'' [1.55]=== :'''Narrator''': There seems to be a little mix-up! ===''The Breeding Center Secret'' [1.56]=== :'''Jessie''': James! Watch where you're throwing that dirt! :'''James''': Watch?! I can't see the foot in front of my face! :'''Meowth''': If you don't quit squawkin', you'll see the foot in front of your face! Mine! ===''All Fired Up!'' [1.57]=== :'''Ash''': ''[shouts excitedly]'' Yee...'''''HAH!''''' :'''Misty''': Ash, are you going crazy?! :'''Brock''': The answer is yes. :'''Pikachu''': Pika. ''[Togepi suddenly starts crying as a result of Ash scaring it]'' :'''Misty''': Now, just look what you did to Togepi. Oh, it's all right, little Togepi. ''[After the crying stops, Togepi lets out a very sad squeak]'' ''[Squirtle’s Water Gun hits Team Rocket to put out the fire and they are crisped up from the flame]'' :'''Meowth''': Dat was very refreshing. :'''Jessie''': ''[loses her temper]'' Listen twerp! Just because you and that swuirt toy saved our lives, it doesn’t mean we can’t be mean!! :'''James''': We’re taking that flame-o, lame-o! == Fire and Ice == :''[Ash and Pikachu were having a meal at an all-you-can-eat buffet when Misty and Togepi arrive]'' :'''Misty''': Careful, Ash. All that food can make your belly as big as your head. :'''Togepi''': Toge, Toge. :'''Ash''': Thanks, Mist, but I can't help it. I got all this food for free! That's 'cause she happens to be a big fan of mine. :'''Misty''': ''[puts Togepi down]'' Ash, everybody in the Pokémon League gets to eat here for free. ''[does not realize that Togepi slides off the booth seat and heads across the floor]'' :'''Ash''': What?! Really? :'''Misty''': I know you won twice, and that's great. But you can't let that make you crazy. :'''Ash''': I can't? How come? :'''Misty''': Oh, well. I give up. :'''Pikachu''': ''[seeing Togepi pulling the tablecloth with the cutlery on top]'' Pika, Pika! ''[the cutlery falls over]'' PIKACHU! ''[dives in, but Togepi walks out of harm's way and the cutlery lands around Pikachu, who catches the fork with the teeth]'' Pikachu. :'''Togepi''': Toge, Toge, Toge. ''[laughs at Pikachu holding the fork with the mouth]'' Togepi! ==External links== {{Wikipedia|List of Pokémon: Indigo League episodes}} {{Authority control}} [[Category:Japanese TV shows]] [[Category:Pokémon]] ijc7inmosrbjfgpcat8r9smfjypmt95 3961281 3961280 2026-07-05T20:46:38Z ~2026-22475-30 3310494 /* Fire and Ice */ 3961281 wikitext text/x-wiki ---- {{Pokémon header}} ---- <br/> This is a list of episodes in '''''Pokémon: Indigo League''''', the first season of the Pokémon animated series (ポケットモンスター Poketto Monsutā?, Pokét Monsters), covering the adventures of the series protagonist Ash Ketchum and his friends Pikachu, Misty and Brock on the way to the Indigo Plateau. ===''Pokémon: I Choose You'' [1.01]=== :''[First lines. The opening cutscene of Pokémon Red and Blue (Red and Green in Japan) plays, portraying a battle between a Gengar and a Nidorino. Near the end, the cutscene transitions from the Game Boy's 8-bit graphics to vivid cel animation, revealing the battle to be happening in a packed stadium.]'' :'''Stadium Announcer''': And Nidorino begins the battle with a Horn Attack! Oh, but Gengar bounces right back, ''[Gengar uses Hypnosis]'' and there it is, the Hypnosis Power of Gengar! This could be the end of Nidorino. ''[Nidorino gets recalled by his trainer]'' Wait, the trainer recalled Nidorino. Which Pokémon will he use now? ''[the trainer throws a green and white Poké ball, Gengar steps back and out comes an Onix]'' Oh, it's Onix! Now this giant Pokémon's on the attack. ''[the camera pulls back to reveal that the battle is on television]'' Ho-ho, but Gengar jumps aside! Gengar is moving beautifully today. Its training is top-notch, no doubt about it! :''[As the commentary on TV continues, a spikey haired boy named Ash Ketchum puts on a green fingerless glove.]'' :'''Ash''': ''[in his mind]'' Yes, I am Ash. ''[the camera cuts to him in his room, He wore a red and white cap with a dark green L like symbol and a blue and white buttoned short sleeved shirt under a dark slate gray shirt, and light blue cuffed jeans]'' :'''Narrator''': Ash Ketchum is a boy from Pallet Town. :''[We see a Poliwag-style pencil sharpener, a Clefairy-shaped piggy bank and two Zubats hanging on a hanger. We then see the boy, Ash Ketchum, putting his white trainers on]'' :'''Ash Ketchum''': ''[speaks]'' And now that I'm 10, I can finally get my Pokémon license. :''[The camera shows a poster with a Squirtle, a Bulbasaur and a Charmander]'' :'''Narrator''': 10-year-olds can get a beginner Pokémon from Professor Oak, the town's Pokémon expert. :'''Ash Ketchum''': ''[puts on his hat, then flips it backwards]'' I will journey to gain the wisdom of Pokémon training, ''[picks up a Voltorb alarm clock and gets a green Speed Stripes background behind him]'' and I hereby declare to the Pokémon of the world; I will be a Pokémon Master. Pokémon Master! That is what I'll- :'''Delia Ketchum''': ''[offscreen]'' Ash, get to bed! ''[Ash yelps and flings the Voltorb alarm clock toward her, who catches it and shows Ash the time]'' It's 11:00, and you should be asleep! :'''Ash Ketchum''': But tomorrow, I begin my Pokémon journey. I can't even sleep. :'''Delia Ketchum''': Well, if you can't sleep, at least get ready for tomorrow, so, here, watch this. ''[changes channels on Ash's television]'' :'''Professor Oak''': ''[on TV]'' Good evening, Pallet, tomorrow's the big day for the newest class of Pokémon students. I'd like to introduce you to Bulbasaur, Charmander and Squirtle. Each one is available for new trainees. Which one shall you choose? :'''Delia Ketchum''': Go to bed when this is done. :'''Ash Ketchum''': ''[seeing the commercial]'' Alright, I'm going. :'''Delia''': And change into your pajamas, OK? ''[closes the door]'' :'''Professor Oak''': ''[on TV]'' ...character to help them develop their special powers. :'''Ash''': ''I'm going.'' :''[Cut to title card]'' :'''Ash''' ''[narrating]'' "Pokémon, I Choose You!" <hr width=50%> :'''Delia''': I packed your sneakers and jeans, nice clean shirts and underwear, and your favorite snacks, and some hot chocolate in case you want something hot, but be careful not to burn yourself. And a pair of rubber gloves to do your laundry and a new clothesline to hang it out to dry, and- :'''Ash''': Mom, you are embarrassing me, in front of all these people! Don't you know, I'm a big kid now? Pokémon Trainers can take care of themselves. <hr width=50%> :'''Ash''': Hey! Get away from there! ''[angrily groans]'' :''[A Rattata runs away from Ash's backpack]'' :'''Pokédex''': A forest Pokémon: Rattata. It likes cheese, nuts, fruits, and berries. :'''Ash''': Yeah, but this isn't a forest. It's an open field! :'''Pokédex''': It also comes out into open fields to steal food from ''stupid'' travellers. :'''Ash''': That means I'm stupid...? :''[Pikachu laughs hysterically from a tree branch]'' <hr width=50%> :''[Ash and Pikachu are being chased by a flock of Spearow. He steals the bicycle of a young girl, later known as Misty, to flee the Spearow, but he eventually rides off a cliff, falling off of the bike, with the Spearow still in hot pursuit. Ash then persuades Pikachu, who became weak after the trip, to enter his Poké Ball, but to no avail. This gives Ash no choice but to muster up the guts to take on the Spearow himself]'' :'''Ash''': Spearows, do you know who I am? I am Ash, from the town of Pallet. I'm destined to be the world's number-one Pokémon Master. I can't be defeated by the likes of you. ''[Pikachu, hearing Ash's speech, starts to pay attention to his Trainer's bravery as he continues on]'' I'm going to capture and defeat you all. You hear me? ''[the Spearow hone-in on Ash in the final moments before their attack, leading him to plead one last time for Pikachu's safety]'' '''[[w:Pikachu|Pikachu]]''', go inside the Poké Ball; it's the only way. ''[Pikachu looks down at the Poké Ball, and then back at him. A lightning bolt strikes behind the Spearow]'' '''''Come and get me!''''' ''[as the Spearow charge in toward him, Pikachu starts running toward him, climbing onto his shoulder, and jumping off Ash's shoulder to counter the Spearow]'' Whoa! :'''Pikachu''': ''[a lightning bolt strikes him]'' ''Pika-'''CHU!''''' :'''Ash''': '''''WHOA!''''' :''[He releases a powerful Thunder Shock, dispersing the Spearow and creating a large explosion in the area]'' <hr width=50%> :''[Last lines; In the aftermath of Pikachu's act of defense toward Ash, the rainy night turns into a sunny morning. The camera shows Misty's bike that Ash took to escape the Spearow flock, revealing that said bike was destroyed by Pikachu's Thunder Shock, and the camera pan toward an unconscious Ash and Pikachu, and the two of them slowly wake up]'' :'''Pikachu''': ''[weakly]'' '''[[w:Pikachu|Pikachu]]'''. :'''Ash''': ''[breathes a sigh of relief]'' Well, we beat 'em. :'''Pikachu''': ''[in agreement]'' Chu. :''[In the sky, a large golden bird-like Pokémon, which later was revealed as the Legendary Pokémon Ho-Oh, cries out as it flies over Ash and Pikachu as a sign of amazing things to come]'' :'''Ash''': Huh? ''[notices what he doesn't yet know to be Ho-Oh as it flies off towards a rainbow, leaving a trail of sparkles]'' What's that? :'''Pokédex''': There is no data. There are still Pokémon yet to be identified. :''[Ho-Oh is seen one last time flying off into the bright blue sky]'' :'''Narrator''': This is just the beginning of the amazing adventures of Ash and '''[[w:Pikachu|Pikachu]]'''. Their journey is destined to be packed with non-stop action, millions of laughs, heart-pounding perils, and endless excitement. ''[Ash, holding Pikachu, stops at the top of a hill. Pikachu then licks Ash's face, which moves him to near tears. However, he holds them in, as he realizes he must get to a Pokémon Center to heal Pikachu's wounds as soon as possible]'' Together, they'll encounter fantastic friends, evil enemies and meet creatures beyond their wildest imagination, and as their story unfolds, we'll unlock the magic and mystery of a most wondrous place: '''[[w:Pokémon|the incredible world of Pokémon]]'''! :''[The screen shrinks to the left, then stops moving. The text "TO BE CONTINUED" appears.]'' ===''Pokémon Emergency! [1.02]''=== :''[The episode begins with a recap of the previous episode, starting with Ash declaring his ambitions of becoming a Pokémon Master over a background set of green speed lines]'' :'''Ash''': That's right! I declare to the Pokémon of the world. I will be the greatest Pokémon Trainer. The greatest Pokémon Master...of all time! :'''Narrator''': Last time, Ash, our hero from Pallet, chose Pikachu, a Pokémon who was not too thrilled with its new trainer. Soon, they found themselves fighting off a flock of fearsome Spearows. Pikachu saved the day with its amazing Thunder Shock, but the electrifying encounter left Pikachu weak and his fate in Ash's hands. :'''Ash''': We...beat 'em. :'''Pikachu''': ''[weakly]'' Chu. :''[The recap ends and the scene changes to the second episode's title card]'' :'''Ash''': ''[voiceover]'' Pokémon Emergency! :''[We then cut to Viridian City in a sunset. Then, we hear the voice of a female police officer, named Officer Jenny, making an announcement about potential thieves in the area.]'' :'''Officer Jenny''': Attention, citizens of Viridian City! Attention, citizens of Viridian City! We have reports of possible Pokémon thieves in our area! Be on the lookout for suspicious looking strangers! Repeat: Be on the lookout for suspicious looking - Huh? ''[sees Ash rushing Pikachu to the Pokémon Center.]'' Speak of the Devil! ''[grabs Ash by the shirt collar to stop him]'' Hold it! And just where do you think you're going with that Pokémon, young man? :'''Ash''': ''[angrily]'' It's my Pokémon and its hurt! And I gotta get it to the hospital right away! :'''Officer Jenny''': Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you might be stealing it. Just show me your ID and you can go. :'''Ash''': ''[surprised]'' ID? Ugh... I don't have any. You see, we just came here from Pallet and we- :'''Officer Jenny''': You know, you're the fourth person I've seen today from Pallet Town. :'''Ash''': The fourth? Oh, that means Gary Oak's here already. :'''Officer Jenny''': It's very unusual for someone to carry a Pokémon in his arms and not in a Pokéball. How do I know you didn't steal that Pokémon, especially since you don't have any identification? :'''Ash''': Please let me through. I wouldn't steal a Pokémon, and I've got to get Pikachu to the hospital. Please, miss. :'''Officer Jenny''': ''[notices something in Ash's pocket]'' Hey, what's that in your pocket? :'''Ash''': What? ''[takes out his Pokédex]'' Oh, this? :'''Officer Jenny''': ''[swipes the Pokédex from Ash]'' This is perfect! A Pokédex! This will solve our problem! ''[presses some buttons in Ash's Pokédex]'' Let's see if you're the real deal... :'''Dexter''': I'm Dexter, a Pokédex programmed by Professor Oak for Pokémon Trainer Ash Ketchum of the town of Pallet. My function is to provide Ash with information and advice regarding Pokémon and their training. If lost or stolen, I cannot be replaced. :'''Ash''': Oh, my Pokédex. I didn't realize it was also my ID. Can I take Pikachu to the Pokémon Center now? :'''Officer Jenny''': I'll get you there in no time at all. ''[They mount on board her motorcycle.]'' Sit back, hold on and don't yell. :''[She revs her engine and they take off to the Pokémon Center, leaving a cloud of dust.]'' :'''Ash''': '''WHOA!''' :''[Meanwhile, caught in the dust is Misty, who is holding her charred bicycle and is not happy with Ash for taking it]'' :'''Misty''': ''[coughing]'' Hey, what's the big idea?! Ugh, come back here! ''[runs after Ash with her burnt bike]'' :''[A hook grabs hold of the Wanted poster on its bottom right corner and removes it from the noticeboard. Then, we notice that the hook is coming from a Meowth balloon controlled by two members from Team Rocket, Jessie and James. Soon, Jessie and James are looking at the Wanted poster]'' :'''Jessie''': A Wanted poster. How flattering. :'''James''': Flattering? This picture makes me look terrible. :'''Jessie''': Then, you should be happy The Photographer captured the real you. :'''James''': Exactly. :'''Jessie''': We'll show these bumpkins. :'''James''': The people of Viridian City will be sorry they ever saw this face. :''[The camera cuts to a Meowth who can speak human]'' :'''Meowth''': We're all sorry to see your face. Stay focused. We're here to capture rare and unusual Pokémon. Don't forget, Meowth. :'''Jessie''': Absolutely. :'''James''': But of course. :'''Meowth''': And just remember, I'm the top cat. :'''James''': You got it. :'''Meowth''': Meowth. :''[Down on the ground, Officer Jenny is driving Ash and Pikachu to Viridian City's Pokémon Centre when she sees it straight ahead]'' :'''Officer Jenny''': There it is! :''[Viridian City's gigantic Pokémon Centre comes into view]'' :'''Ash''': Pokémon Centre? It's gigantic. :'''Officer Jenny''': This is tricky. Just hold on. Here we go! ''[jumps high on her motorcycle]'' :'''Ash''': Whoa! :''[The motorcycle comes skidding into the Pokémon Centre and stops right in front of the reception desk which is being manned by a Pokémon Nurse called Nurse Joy. Officer Jenny puts her foot on the pedal to stop her motorcycle]'' :'''Nurse Joy''': ''[annoyed]'' We have a driveway, you know. :'''Officer Jenny''': It's a Pokémon Emergency! :'''Ash''': ''[stands up]'' Please help it! :'''Nurse Joy''': Looks like a Pikachu. We’ll do what we can. ''[turns round to her computer]'' I need a stretcher for a small electric Pokémon, stat! :''[A couple of Chansey enter with a stretcher]'' :'''Chansey''': Chansey! :''[Nurse Joy puts Ash's injured Pikachu on the stretcher]'' :'''Nurse Joy''': It'll be okay. ''[to Chansey]'' Rush this Pokémon to the critical care unit. :'''Chansey''': Chansey! :''[They take Pikachu away with the stretcher]'' :'''Nurse Joy''' ''[puts on a pair of white gloves as one of the Chansey stands next to her]'' We’ll begin the treatment right away. :'''Ash''': Uh... :'''Nurse Joy''': Who are you? :'''Officer Jenny''': His name is Ash. He's the Pokémon's Trainer. :'''Ash''': If there's anything I can do, please just tell me. :'''Nurse Joy''': You can be more responsible. :'''Ash''': Uh? :'''Nurse Joy''': ''[sternly]'' If you want to become a Pokémon trainer, young man, you don't let your Pokémon battle till it's in this condition. :'''Ash''': But you don't know what happened. :'''Nurse Joy''': What's past is past. Now, we have to heal your Pikachu. :'''Ash''': What can I do? :'''Nurse Joy''': Just leave everything to me. :'''Ash''': Please. :'''Officer Jenny''': It's in your hands. I know you'll give the Pokémon excellent care. :'''Nurse Joy''': You got it here just in time. :'''Officer Jenny''': That's my job. ''[realises something]'' Oh my goodness. I left my motorcycle parked at the front desk! :'''Nurse Joy''': Next time, use the driveway. :'''Officer Jenny''': ''[chuckling sheepishly]'' Heh heh. ''[leaves]'' :'''Nurse Joy''': Ash, you'll will have to go to the waiting room. :'''Ash''': Can't I... ''[the door closes after Nurse Joy goes through; in his mind]'' Pikachu. <hr width=50%/> :'''Professor Oak''': When my grandson Gary said that you wouldn't have a single new Pokémon by the time you got to Viridian City, I bet him $1,000,000 that he'd be wrong! :'''Ash''': ''[surprised]'' Well, money isn't everything, right? :'''Professor Oak''': ''[dejected]'' Oh, why do I even bother? <hr width=50%/> :''[Misty confronts Ash at the Pokémon Center with her burnt bicycle]'' :'''Misty''': ''[panting]'' I knew I'd find you here! :'''Ash''': ''[seeing that her bike is destroyed]'' Hey, what happened to your bike?! :'''Misty''': What happened to my bike?! ''YOU'' happened to my bike, you little loser! This is what's left after you stole it to save your Pokémon! Now I can see why your Pokémon is in... WHOAOAOAOAH! ''[tumbles over and falls down]'' :'''Ash''': Let me help you. :'''Misty''': ''[slaps Ash's left arm]'' I don’t need your help, and you're gonna pay for what you did to my bike! :'''Ash''': I'll make up for it. I promise I will, really. But I can't do anything about your bike until... :'''Misty''': ''[angrily]'' I don't want any of your lame excuses, kid! I just want a new bike right now! :'''Ash''': It's my Pikachu. My Pikachu's not too good. :''[Misty becomes worried as Ash looks behind at the red light with a needle on it]'' :'''Misty''': Is it very serious? :'''Ash''': I think so, and there's nothing I can do to help now. <hr width=50%/> :''[Ash, Misty, and Nurse Joy have their lines of sight impaired by a Koffing's Smokescreen attack]'' :'''Ash''': What are...Who are they?! :'''Jessie''': Don't be frightened, little boy. :'''James''': Allow us to introduce ourselves. :'' [A teenage girl and boy emerge from the smoke]'' :'''Jessie''': To protect the world from devastation. :'''James''': To unite all people within our nation. :'''Jessie''': To denounce the evils of truth and love! :'''James''': To extend our reach to the stars above. :'''Jessie''': Jessie! :'''James''': James. :'''Jessie''': Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light! :'''James''': Surrender now or prepare to fight! :'''Meowth''':''[appearing from the top of the screen]'' Meowth! That's right! :'''Ash''': What are you talking about? :'''Jessie''': He just doesn't get it, does he? :'''Ash''': ''[off camera]'' How can I? You don't make any sense. :'''James''': We're here for the Pokémon. :'''Ash''': You're NOT getting Pikachu! :'''Jessie''': Pikachu? We're not interested in your precious Electric rat. You are. :'''James''': We seek only rare and valuable Pokémon. :'''Nurse Joy''': You are wasting your time. This is a center for weak and injured Pokémon. :'''Jessie''': Well, that may be so, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if we find a few little Pokémon gems among all the junk. :'''Ash''': You're starting to bug me. :'''Jessie''': Isn't that cute. :'''James''': The boy's bugged. :'''Meowth''': Meowth, then, let's squash him. :'''James''': Koffing, Attack! :'''Jessie''': Ekans, Go! :''[Nurse Joy, Ash and Misty flee the scene with Pikachu on the stretcher as Ekans and Koffing cause destruction]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Misty''': You grab Pikachu and get out of here! I'll take care of these three clowns. :'''Jessie''': That's pretty big talk coming from such a little lady. :'''Misty''': At least you're right about the pretty part, thanks for the compliment. :'''James''': The girl thinks she's pretty. :'''Jessie''': I agree with her. I think she's pretty, too. Pretty pathetic! :'''Misty''': ''[annoyed]'' Hmmmm, I'll show you! Poké Ball, go! ''[Goldeen comes out rolling and jumping on the floor, to Jessie and James' shock]'' Goldeen, return! ''[Goldeen is back inside the Poké Ball]'' :'''Jessie''': That's her best shot? :'''James''': She's all washed up. <hr width=50%/> :'''Officer Jenny''': Too late, but not for the fireworks! <hr width=50%/> :''[The Meowth balloon is flying past the full moon, but Team Rocket is hanging from a rope]'' :'''Jessie''': Great! A cat losing to a mouse! :'''Meowth''': That Pikachu is no ordinary Pikachu. :'''James''': It's certainly very rare. A perfect prize! :'''Jessie''': Let's catch it! :'''Meowth''': Perhaps, we will. :''[Then, the Meowth balloon pops, sending the three characters hurtling through the night]'' ===''Ash Catches a Pokémon'' [1.03]=== :'''Ash''': ''[hugging his Poké-Ball]'' I love my new little Pokémon! :'''Misty''': I guess it takes a worm to love a worm. :'''Ash''': ''[sarcastically]'' Very funny. <hr width=50%/> :'''Misty''': ''[about Caterpie]'' It's so gross. ''[scared]'' Ash, put that slimy thing back in the Poké-Ball! Bugs are one of the three most disgusting things in the world! :'''Ash''': Aside from you, what are the other disgusting things? :'''Misty''': Very funny. ''[smashing]'' Carrots, ''[kicking]'' peppers, ''[hitting with a wooden hammer]'' and bugs. Everybody has something they don't like and I don't like bugs! :'''Ash''': ''[making a silly face]'' Yeah? Well, I like carrots, and peppers, and bugs. ''[now serious]'' What I ''don't'' like is the way you're hurting Caterpie's feelings with your silly fear of bugs. :'''Misty''': ''[dismissively]'' Hmph! ===''Challenge of the Samurai'' [1.04]=== :''[Misty screams]'' :'''Ash''': What's wrong now? :'''Misty''': I saw another bug! Gross! :'''Ash''': Maybe its a... ''[both he and Pikachu sighed. Then he's in the cow costume]'' Cow-terpie! <hr width=50%/> :''[Last lines]'' :'''James''': Do you have any more bright ideas? :'''Jessie''': Well, unlike you at least I have ideas! :'''Meowth''': Yeah, and they're all bad. :'''Jessie''': WHO ASKED YOU?! :''[The Kakunas and Beedrills are suddenly waking up]'' :'''James''': Oh-oh. :'''Jessie''': Oh no. :''[They're attacked by the swarm of Beedrills offscreen]'' ===''Showdown in Pewter City'' [1.05]=== :'''Ash''': My conscience is holding me back! I can't bring myself to beat Brock! I'm imagining his little brothers and sisters stopping me from beating the one person they love! :'''Misty''': Uh, Ash, I think you better open your eyes! <hr width=50%/> :'''Brock''': Hey Ash, are you sure it's okay if I go with you on your Pokémon journey? :'''Ash''': Sure I'm sure, the more the merrier! And it's good to have somebody to talk with. :'''Brock''': Well, what about that girl who keeps following you? :'''Misty''': DON'T FORGET ABOUT MY BIKE, ASH KETCHUM! I'M GONNA FOLLOW YOU UNTIL YOU PAY ME BACK! :'''Ash''': I know! I KNOW! Pikachu, let's try to lose her! :'''Pikachu''': Chu! ''[runs with Ash]'' :'''Brock''': ''[catching up]'' Wait up, Ash! :'''Misty''': ''[chasing after them]'' YOU WON'T GET AWAY! ===''Clefairy and the Moon Stone'' [1.06]=== :'''Jessie''': Well, it looks like Team Rocket is.... :'''James''': Blasting off again! :'''Meowth''': That was the Metronome! :'''Jessie''': I give it two thumbs down! :'''James''': Me too! :'''Meowth''': Meowth three! ===''The Water Flowers of Cerulean City'' [1.07]=== :'''James''': The coast is clear. :'''Jessie''': Nothing to fear. :'''Meowth''': Nobody here! <hr width=50%/> :'''Officer Jenny''': You two look very suspicious to me. :'''Ash''': Hey, you're that motorcycle officer from Viridian. :'''Officer Jenny''': Huh? Ah, you must've met my sister-in-law. If you know my sister-in-law, that means you probably had some dealings with the police in Viridian! :'''Ash''': Well, I... :'''Officer Jenny''': Now, maybe you just stopped to ask her for directions, or maybe you found a wallet on the street and turned it in to her, OR MAYBE YOU'RE A BURGLAR WHO BROKE OUTTA JAIL!!! ''[swings her handcuffs in a loop like a yo-yo]'' :'''Ash''': I've never been to jail! :'''Brock''': Neither have I, ma'am. :'''Officer Jenny''': That's what they all say. <hr width=50%/> :'''Misty''': Oh no! Staryu looks like it's in real pain! :'''Ash''': It doesn't even have a face. How can you tell? :'''Misty''': Because I'm sensitive to other's feelings! That's how! :'''Ash''': ''[sarcastically]'' Oh, yeah? Like I'm not? <hr width=50%/> :'''Ash''': Misty, you're not gonna be a sore loser, aren't you? :'''Misty''': I didn't lose anything! It was just a draw! :'''Ash''': Well, I'm the one who won the badge! :'''Misty''': You know you lost with Butterfree! :'''Ash''': That was just round 1. I made a great comeback! :'''Misty''': If Team Rocket hadn't busted in, I would've destroyed you! :'''Ash''': You're lucky they've showed up. You were about to lose! :'''Misty''': Lose?! I was just getting started! :'''Ash''': Oh, yeah?! :'''Misty''': Oh, yeah! :'''Brock''': Oh, brother! ===''The Path to the Pokémon League'' [1.08]=== ===''The School of Hard Knocks'' [1.09]=== :'''Misty''': All that crunching is ruining my romantic daydreams! <hr width=50%/> :'''Giselle''': True, but there's one thing you didn't know [The screen pans to her in a cerulean blue vest with two buttons under a white short puffy sleeved shirt, a red ribbon, and dark blue pleated skirt. later a group of boys come] your opponent's from the Cerulean City Gym. Her Pokemon has much more experience battling. You should've known that. You're an embarrassment to the whole school! :'''Joe''': But, Giselle... :'''Ash''': [blushing at her] She's really pretty, isn't she? :'''Brock''': Yeah, she looks just like a movie star. ''[Then the screen pans to Misty]'' :'''Misty''': [thinking] They like stars, do they? I'll be glad to show them some stars. ''[Cuts to Giselle is on a blue starry background from the Sailor Moon franchise]'' :'''Giselle''': I'm the top student in the beginning class of the most exclusive club in the world, Pokémon Tech. It's sad that others aren't blessed with my beauty, my talent, my humble attitude. People call me a star, [the shining yellow star flies and cut to her on a galaxy background] but I'm just Giselle. ===''Bulbasaur and the Hidden Village'' [1.10]=== ===''Charmander - The Stray Pokémon'' [1.11]=== :'''Misty''': I just can't go one step further. We've been looking for Vermilion City for 10 whole days! :'''Brock''': Uh, there's a bug right on your... <hr width=50%/> :'''Brock''': ''[as Charmander is dying in the Pokémon Center; in his mind]'' Charmander, you've got to hold on. Please, keep your flame burning. <hr width=50%/> :''[Charmander closes eyes, and uses Flamethrower on Team Rocket and fries them]'' :'''James''': You see!? Did I tell you we needed fire-proof uniform?! :'''Jessie''': Shut up and keep running! :'''Meowth''': Some geniuses! Meowth! :'''Team Rocket''': Looks like Team Rocket's blasting off again! :'''Damian''': ''[appears from the bushes; surprised]'' Charmander beat them? ===''Here Comes the Squirtle Squad'' [1.12]=== :'''Misty''': It's Meowth! :'''Ash''': Meowth?! ===''Mystery at the Lighthouse'' [1.13]=== ===''Electric Shock Showdown'' [1.14]=== :'''Brock''': ''[after Team Rocket's cheer]'' That was really disturbing. <hr width=50%/> :'''Ash''': Use the strategy we planned, Pikachu! You can do it! :'''Surge''': A strategy? So they've planned a new way to lose! ===''Battle Aboard the St. Anne'' [1.15]=== :'''James''': Wait! There goes my next paycheck! :'''Jessie''': Who cares about your paycheck? What about mine?! :'''Meowth''': We gotta get out of here! <hr width=50%/> :'''Captain''': May I have your attention? Anyone who didn't leave the ship safely, please say "Aye." Good. Well done. Everyone's safe then. :'''Narrator''': Not everyone, Captain. And as the St. Anne heads to the bottom of the sea, our heroes, are trapped unconscious inside, and so is Team Rocket. Could this be the end?! How will they escape their "watery" fate? I don't know, but, I have a terrible "sinking" feeling. ===''Pokémon Shipwreck'' [1.16]=== :'''James''': Jessica? :'''Jessie''': Yes, James. :'''James''': Whoever said beauty doesn't last must've been thinking of us. :'''Jessie''': I'll always remember what a wonderful dresser you were.
 :'''James''': So will I. <hr width=50%/> :'''James''': What is that?! :'''Misty''': Now you've done it! Magikarp has evolved into a Gyarados! :'''Jessie''': Gyarados?! I miss Magikarp! <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': Dimwit! If you're the master, don't act like you're scared of it! :'''James''': I am scared! ===''Island of the Giant Pokémon'' [1.17]=== :''[All Pokémon are speaking in Pokémon language, with English subtitles translating their speech]'' :'''Squirtle''': Maybe they got eaten by wild Pokémon. ''[makes a scary face with razor-sharp teeth, making a chomping motion]'' :'''Pikachu''': Don't say things like that! :'''Charmander''': Yeah, cut it out! :'''Squirtle''': Sorry. <hr width=50%/> :''[The first thing Team Rocket does after calling their boss is recite their motto for no apparent reason]'' :'''Giovanni''': Nitwits! How dare you annoy me with your nonsense? Don't ever bother me like this again! ''[hangs up]'' <hr width=50%/> :''[After a giant Venusaur is spotted]'' :'''Squirtle''': ''[to Bulbasaur]'' You go and speak to it, you guys are like family! :'''Bulbasaur''': No way. Just call me an orphan, I have no family. :'''Charmander''': Good point. :'''Squirtle''': Coward. <hr width=50%/> :''[The phone rings]'' :'''Giovanni''': ''[answers it]'' Yes? What?! Pokémon Land has been totally destroyed?! ''[hangs up; growls]'' I spent millions on that place! ===''Beauty and the Beach'' [1.18]=== :'''Prof. Oak''': Your mother's been worried about you, Ash. She says she still thinks of you as her little pumpkin. :'''Ash''': That makes me sound like a baby. :'''Delia''': You'll ''always'' be my baby, won't you? :'''Ash''': Yeah. :'''Delia''': Well, I just hope you aren't eating a lot of junk food and getting into any trouble. :'''Ash''': Of course not! ''[suddenly remembers his boat accident]'' At least not a lotta trouble. :'''Delia''': What's that mean? :'''Moe''': ''I'm'' the one who got into trouble, Mrs. Ketchum. Ash helped out at my restaurant when I really needed help. But even more importantly, your son has been a great inspiration to me. :'''Delia''': That's wonderful! What a relief. :'''Ash''': Thanks, Moe. <hr width="50%"> :''[Misty is walking down the catwalk in a beauty contest, wearing a bikini]'' :'''Misty''': This is totally embarrassing and degrading, but we need the money! ===''Tentacool & Tentacruel'' [1.19]=== ===''The Ghost of Maiden's Peak'' [1.20]=== :'''James''': I can't believe you're letting that ghost get me just because you're both so cheap! :'''Jessie''': You don't want to go? :'''James''': Of course I don't wanna go. I don't wanna go! I don't wanna go! I don't wanna go! <hr width="50%"> :'''James''': You really do care! :'''Jessie''': It's not 'cuz of you. Girls like her disgust me. Always waiting around for her man as if she were his faithful pet. She can't stand the thought of losing him. She cries, but I'd say, "see ya later!". There are plenty more fish in the sea. :'''Meowth''': I could sure go for some fish. <hr width="50%"> :'''Misty''': Then how about this! :'''Gastly''': What's that? :'''Misty''': It's a cross! I've also got garlic, a stake, and a hammer! :'''Gastly''': ...What do I look like, a vampire or something? ===''Bye Bye Butterfree'' [1.21]=== :'''Ash''': Take care, Butterfree! Good luck, buddy! Goodbye, Butterfree. I'll always remember you. Thank you for everything. Goodbye, Butterfree! ===''Abra and the Psychic Showdown'' [1.22]=== :'''Ash''': Telekinesis is okay, but I have my own secret method for bending spoons. ''[bends the spoon with his hands and laughs]'' Muscle over mind! :'''Misty''': Embarrassing. :'''Brock''': Just pretend we never met him before. ===''The Tower of Terror'' [1.23]=== :'''Ash''': I'm feeling like a ghost myself ''[He turns and got a deadly Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror skull mask on]'' BBLLLLAAAAAHHH!!! :'''Both''': AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! :'''Ash''': ''[after frightening his group with a deadly skull mask]'' Sorry, guys! I was just testing you. If we're gonna try to catch a Ghost Pokémon, we gotta learn to deal with fear. That's the only way we can become great Pokémon trainers. :'''Misty''': You must be crazy! :'''Brock''': Don't ever do that! <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': You mangy alley cat! You numskull! You ruined my beautiful face! <hr width=50%/> :'''Misty''': Look! ''[Something flies up the air]'' :'''All''': Huh! [They see at all of those floating in the air] AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! ''[Then a chair flies and knocks Brock in]'' :'''Brock''': WOOOAAAAHHH!! HELP ME! ===''Haunter vs. Kadabra'' [1.24]=== :'''Ash''': Ohh... Sabrina's the meanest Trainer I ever met. :'''Sabrina's Father''': She wasn't always such a mischievous girl. :'''Ash''': You mean, you knew Sabrina before she changed? :'''Sabrina's Father''': Huh? Well! I've heard stories. <hr width=50%> :'''Sabrina's Father''': Though she was very young, Sabrina became completely obsessed with her psychic training. She didn't want to make friends. all she wanted was to be left alone to develop her powers. Her parents tried to help, but Sabrina used her psychic powers to drive them away. The conflict caused Sabrina to split into two girls. The strong Pokémon Trainer who was always causing trouble, and the lonely little girl who desperately desires to make friends. That doll that Sabrina always holds represents her true self, before her training, before she rejected her own heart. :'''Ash''': Sabrina had this picture of her family in her room. If you have the same picture, then, that must mean you are... :'''Sabrina's Father''': Huh?! ''[thinks]'' Does he know? He must have figured it out by now. After everything I said, he must have figured out the truth about Sabrina and me. He must realize that I'm Sabrina's Father! :'''Ash''': ...Then, that must mean you are a photographer. :'''Sabrina's Father''': ''[face faults]'' Whoa! :'''Pikachu''': Pika! :'''Sabrina's Father''': Don't you see?! Don't you get it?! :'''Ash''': Get what? :'''Sabrina's Father''': Never mind... :'''Ash''': Sabrina turned Brock and Misty into dolls. :'''Sabrina's Father''': Yeah, there's nothing we can do about that. :'''Ash''': Whoa! :'''Sabrina's Father''': The only way to rescue your friends is to defeat Sabrina. Isn't that why you traveled to Lavender Town, to get a Ghost Pokémon? :'''Ash''': But Haunter has disappeared someplace. :'''Sabrina's Father''': Then, you must find Haunter first. Without it, you'll never be able to defeat Sabrina and her Psychic Pokémon. :'''Ash''': I guess not... <hr width=50%> :'''Jessie''': To protect the world from devastation. :'''James''': To unite all people within our nation. :'''Jessie''': To denounce the evils of truth and love. :'''James''': To extend our reach to the stars above. :'''Jessie''': Jessie! :'''James''': James! :'''Meowth''': Yeah, yeah, that's very dramatic. Now, let's cut to the chase, and catch that Pikachu. :'''Jessie''': Just leave that to us. :'''Meowth''': By the way, what is the secret weapon you cooked up this time? :'''James''': A deadly weapon that has been perfected for over thousands of years. Now we've learned to use its awesome powers. With a flick of this fishing net, we'll round up Pikachu. :'''Meowth''': You mean that's your secret weapon?! :'''James''': It takes a genius to realize a fishing net is the perfect weapon! :'''Jessie''': Oh, James, it's the greatest discovery since Einstein invented the light bulb! :'''Jessie and James''': ''[sing and dance]'' Even greater than the chicken who invented the egg! :''[The egg falls on them]'' :'''James''': All of us true geniuses know, of course, that it was actually the egg that preceded the chicken. :'''Jessie''': Of course. I knew that. I had just forgotten. :'''Meowth''': Now you got my brain scrambled! Let's cut the egg-splanations and capture Pikachu! <hr width=50%> :'''James''': Don't laugh, Jessie, otherwise you are going to let go. :'''Jessie''': I won't crack. The Members of Team Rocket have been trained to resist all silliness, and to be totally serious! <hr width=50%/> :''[concrete is being poured into a hole Team Rocket is trapped in]'' :'''Jessie''': Hello, up there! Anyone?! We're trapped down here! :'''James''': Stop pouring cement! :'''Meowth''': Get me outta here quick! <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': A little cement.... :'''James''': ...will never stop Team Rocket. :'''Meowth''': A little cement? :'''All three''': ''[flee]'' We're blasting off again! ===''Primeape Goes Bananas'' [1.25]=== :'''Professor Oak''': I can't write a good poem without rhymes, and you can't be a good Pokémon trainer without catching more Pokémon. <hr width="50%"> :'''Brock''': ''[Holding a box of rice balls]'' These donuts are great! Jelly-filled are my favorite! Nothing beats a jelly-filled donut! ===''Pokémon Scent-sation'' [1.26]=== :'''Erika''': P for Pretty, E for Elegant, R for Radiant, F for Fun, U for Urbane, M for Mysterious, E for Energy, and that spells... :'''Misty''': Perfume! :'''Brock''': Right! <hr width=50%/> :''[The three employees angrily confront Ash for his rude remarks about the perfume]'' :'''Employee 1''': YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF! :'''Employee 2''': YOU INSENSITIVE LITTLE WORM! :'''Ash''': What did I say? :''[The purple-haired employee kicks Ash out of the store]'' :'''Employee 3''': GET OUT! AND DON'T COME BACK! :'''Ash''': I don't wanna come back! I'm on my way to the Celadon Gym! <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': It stinks... :'''James''': Just like your plan! :'''Meowth''': You said it! ===''Hypno's Naptime'' [1.27]=== ===''Pokémon Fashion Flash'' [1.28]=== :'''James''': Now we need a total makeover so nobody we ripped off can recognize us! :'''Jessie''': They're all just jealous because they're not attractive enough to wear our designs! :'''Team Rocket''': BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD! :'''Narrator''': So long, Salon Roquet! ===''The Punchy Pokémon'' [1.29]=== :'''Meowth''': Honey baked ham! Roast leg of lamb! Strawberry jam! :'''James''': Sirloin steaks! Chocolate cakes! :'''Jessie''': Can't you numbskulls think of anything but food?! <hr width=50%/> :'''Meowth''': It looks like it works. Really appreciate it. :''[the bomb beeps, electricity hits Team Rocket, they are fried to a crisp, the bomb explodes which sends them outside blasting off] :'''Team Rocket''': Team Rocket's blasting off again! ===''Sparks Fly For Magnemite'' [1.30]=== :'''Ash''': Gee, that Magnemite is following Pikachu around like some sort of streaker. :'''Brock''': Um, Ash, you mean 'stalker'. ----- :'''Professor Oak''': ''[chuckles]'' It's been quite a while since Ash sent me a new Pokémon. I wonder what he's captured this time? ''[a Poke Ball popped open, and as Professor Oak held his nose, out of it comes a very rancid Muk!]'' Hmm? Ugh! What is that smell?! Ew... What's the idea of sending me a Muk?! Yecch! :'''Muk''': MUK!!! ===''Dig Those Diglett'' [1.31]=== :''[A Diglett returns the uncooperative Poké Ball to Gary]'' :'''Gary''': Oh thanks. Wait! This can't happen! <hr width=50%/> :'''James''': Some principle of induced evolution. :'''Jessie''': ''[reads a manual]'' It says here that Pokémon need to accumulate a certain amount of experience points before they can successfully evolve. :'''James''': ''[depressed]'' ''Our'' experience is nothing but losing. ===''The Ninja Poké-Showdown'' [1.32]=== :'''Ash''': Venonat? It's you! I'm gonna teach you a lesson! ''[runs up to it, but it jumps back through the door it came out of]'' Come back! ''[enters through the door, but screams upon seeing spinning projectiles flying towards him]'' :'''Misty and Brock''': ''[react upon hearing the projectiles hit the wall and are concerned about Ash]'' Ash! :'''Pikachu''': Kachu! ''[Ash!]'' :''[Misty, Brock, and Pikachu enter the door, but they find an empty room and cannot find Ash.]'' :'''Misty''': Where is he? :'''Brock''': There must be another way out. :'''Misty''': Maybe it's just another trick. :''[The door soon turns around to reveal Ash pinned to the wall by multiple shurikens, much to their surprise.]'' :'''Ash''': Someone help me... :'''Aya''': ''[cackles and jumps down from the ceiling]'' Born in darkness, living in darkness, such is the fate of the ninja. I am Aya, ninja warrior! :'''Misty''': ''[about Aya's uniform color]'' But don't you think that color is a little bright for a ninja? :'''Aya''': I don't need your fashion report! But tell me, didn't you enjoy my little star treatment? ''[reveals her shuriken]'' :'''Ash''': You can't just chuck throwing stars around. It's dangerous! :'''Misty''': That's right! Tell her, Brock! :''[However, Brock wasn't listening and approached Aya.]'' :'''Brock''': ''[lovestruck]'' I think that electric pink suits you perfectly, and you certainly look lovely. ''[but Aya responds by slapping Brock's hand, much to Ash and Misty's shock and embarrassment]'' :'''Aya''': ''[pushes Brock away]'' This is a training camp! It was your fault you let your guard down. :'''Ash''': ''[offended]'' My guard down? :'''Aya''': I won't let you leave this mansion without having a Pokémon battle with me, first. ''[her Venonat appears behind her]'' :'''Ash''': ''[shrugs]'' Oh, that thing! :'''Aya''': This Venonat informed me that three stupid-looking people had entered the mansion. :'''Ash''': For your information, we're not the stupid ones around here! I accept your challenge! ''[suddenly remembers he's still stuck]'' Uh, but first, could you let me down from here? :''[Everyone face faults in embarrassment. Soon, Ash is freed from his predicament and takes his place on the battlefield.]'' :'''Aya''': One Pokémon for each of us. Choose yours now. ===''The Flame Pokémon-athon!'' [1.33]=== :'''Dario''': ''[growls after his defeat]'' You're the reason I didn't win the Pokémon challenge! Team Rocket's the worst. :'''Jessie''': We'll just have to plan better next year. :'''James''': And maybe you can get some nicer riding clothes. :'''Meowth''': And give that smelly bird a bath. ===''The Kangaskhan Kid'' [1.34]=== ===''The Legend of Dratini'' [1.35]=== ===''The Bridge Bike Gang'' [1.36]=== :''[Ash, Misty and Brock finds out Jessie and James used to belong to a bike gang]'' :'''James''': I guess our secret past is not a secret anymore. :'''Ash''': I kind of wish it still was! ===''Ditto's Mysterious Mansion'' [1.37]=== :'''James''': Will you stop it, Meowth?! :'''Jessie''': The only way we can get out of this mess is to dress you up like a Dratini and present you to the boss. :'''Meowth''': Pea-brains! This won't work! ===''Electric Soldier Porygon'' [1.38]=== ===''Pikachu's Goodbye'' [1.39]=== :'''Meowth''': It's a Pika-Palooza! :'''Jessie''': We're at the Pika of our powers. :'''James''': Chu can say that again, Jess! <hr width=50%/> :''[Last lines; the Pikachu cheer]'' :'''Misty''': What do you think they're doing? :'''Brock''': Well, I think they might be cheering. For Ash and for Pikachu! :''[Pikachu runs up to Ash, who smiles tearfully]'' :'''Pikachu''': ''[leaps up to him]'' Pikapi! :'''Ash''': Pikachu! :''[They embrace joyfully]'' :'''Narrator''': Another adventure has brought Ash and Pikachu even closer. In their hearts, they know they'll go on to face every challenge together. ===''The Battling Eevee Brothers'' [1.40]=== :''[Jessie breathes fire in anger]'' :'''Meowth''': Wow! Jessie just evolved into a Flareon! <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': Well, it's back to eating the lunch of losers. :'''James''': Victory tasted a lot better. ===''Wake Up Snorlax!'' [1.41]=== ===''Showdown at Dark City'' [1.42]=== :''[Last lines; Team Rocket is still covered in red paint]'' :'''Jessie''': Well, that was a complete waste of time. :'''James''': Looks like we're through. :'''Meowth''': ''[notices Electabuzz and Scyther charging at them]'' Huh? Unfortunately, we're not quite through yet. :'''Jessie and James''': Huh? :'''Scyther''': Scyther! :'''Electabuzz''': Blblblblblblbl! :'''Team Rocket''': AAH! :'''James''': Somebody... :'''Team Rocket''': HELP! ===''The March of the Exeggutor Squad'' [1.43]=== ===''The Problem with Paras'' [1.44]=== :'''Jessie''': Well, there goes our billions. :'''James''': And zillions. :'''Meowth''': I'm a hero, but I got zero! ===''The Song of Jigglypuff'' [1.45]=== :''[Team Rocket realizes they recorded their own snoring instead of Jigglypuff's song]'' :'''James''': What is that awful sound? :'''Jessie''': It's all of us snoring! :'''Meowth''': What are we supposed to do with that? ===''Attack of the Prehistoric Pokémon'' [1.46]=== :''[Gary is digging for fossils and stumbles upon one]'' :'''Gary''': Success! My first Pokémon fossil! :'''Fan Girls''': Yay! Gary, Gary, he's the best! Found a fossil before the rest! Go, Gary! :''[An expert comes over, takes the fossil out of Gary's hands and examines it]'' :'''Gary''': Impressive, isn't it? Found it on my first try. Looks like a brain from an extinct Pokémon. :'''Expert''': This is- :'''Gary''': ''[hopeful]'' A brain? :'''Expert''': It's fossilized Pokémon manure. :''[Gary face faults]'' :'''Fan Girls''': Ew. Yuck! Gross! ===''A Chansey Operation'' [1.47]=== ===''Holy Matrimony!'' [1.48]=== :''[Arriving next to the normal mansion]'' :'''Ash''': Whoa! Look at that! :'''Misty''': It's huge! :'''Brock''': I've seen shopping malls smaller than this place! :'''Misty''': It must have a hundred rooms! :'''Ash''': It's the biggest mansion I've ever seen! :'''Hopkins''': ''[through the megaphone]'' This is not the mansion! This little dog house is for Growlie. <hr width=50%/> :[After hearing James' tragic but fake story] :'''Jessie''': That's such a sad ending! :'''Meowth''': That poor kid! :'''Brock''': I can't believe James is gone! :'''Ash''': I miss him! :'''Misty''': ''[annoyed]'' Hmph! JAMES IS STANDING RIGHT HERE! :'''James''': Huh? Wait. Yeah, that right! ''[both Jessie and Meowth glare at him]'' Aah! I'm all mixed up! <hr width=50%/> :'''Meowth''': ''[sighs]'' I guess all of that money and luxury was just too tempting for James to give up. ===''So Near, Yet So Farfetch'd'' [1.49]=== ===''Who Gets to Keep Togepi?'' [1.50]=== ===''Bulbasaur's Mysterious Garden'' [1.51]=== :'''Ash''': It's gotta be okay. ''[as Nurse Joy and Chansey cart Bulbasaur to the healing room, a bunch of flowers start to bloom in the vase magically]'' :'''Togepi''': ''[noticing the flowers]'' Prii! Toge, Toge, Toge, Toge, Toge, Toge, Toge, Togepri! :'''Misty''': What's the matter, Togepi? Is something wrong? Huh? <hr width="50%/"> :''[Ash, Brock and Misty join Pikachu and see an entire field full of Bulbasaur, and the pollen trail going straight to a giant, dead tree]'' :'''Ash''': Wow! This must be the Mysterious Garden! :''[Down in the field, the Bulbasaur are starting the ceremony by chanting their names]'' :'''Group of Bulbasaur''': ''[chanting]'' Bulba, Bulba, Bulbasaur. Bulba, Bulba, Bulbasaur. Bulba, Bulba, Bulbasaur... :''[As they continue chanting, the branches of the tree start growing, nearly going up to the moon. Soon, flowers start blooming in the field and flowers start to blossom on the tips of the branches of the tree, leaving our heroes in wonderment]'' :'''Ash''': That's neat! :'''Misty''': Wow! It's so pretty! :''[Then, some giant bangs are heard and a glow is seen inside the tree]'' :'''Ash''': What's that banging sound? :''[The source of the banging is soon revealed to be a Venusaur, who steps onto the tree stump in front of the tree where it came from]'' :'''Venusaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :'''Ash''': Look, you guys! It's a Venusaur! :'''Misty'''': It's giant! :''[Ash gets out his Pokédex to scan Venusaur]'' :'''Ash's Pokédex''': Venusaur, the final form of the Bulbasaur evolution. This Seed Pokémon soaks up the sun's rays as a source of energy. :'''Brock''': Hmmm, But that kind of behaviour makes it sound like a plant. :'''Ash''': I don't see my Bulbasaur anyplace around here! :'''Misty''': Hey, Ash, your Bulbasaur still has that bandage on its head. :'''Ash''': Hmmmm. :'''Pikachu''': ''[sees Ash's Bulbasaur; jumping up in excitement]'' Pika! :'''Ash''': Hey, there it is! Over here, Bulba- :'''Brock''': ''[covers Ash's mouth]'' Hey, not so loud! Don't forget. Human beings aren't supposed to be here. :'''Ash''': Oh, right. :'''Misty''': Let's watch the festival. :''[Soon, the festival is underway]'' :'''Venusaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :'''All the Bulbasaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :'''Venusaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :'''All the Bulbasaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :'''Venusaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :'''All the Bulbasaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :'''Venusaur''': SAUR! ["RISE!"] :'''All the Bulbasaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :''[Ash's Bulbsasaur is watching quietly]'' :'''Venusaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :'''All the Bulbasaur''': SAUR! ["RISE!"] :'''Ash's Bulbasaur''': Bulbasaur. :'''Venusaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"'' :'''All the Bulbasaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :''[As the festival goes on, the Bulbasaur start glowing]'' :'''Venusaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :'''All the Bulbasaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :''Ash, Brock and Misty are amazed by what they have seen. Meanwhile, Team Rocket have come across the vine wall blocking the entrance to the festival]'' :'''Jessie''': How do we get in there? :'''James''': Why doesn't just Meowth just Scratch his way through with his claws? :'''Meowth''': I just filed them. :'''Jessie''': ''[holding an axe]'' Alright, garden wall, you axed for it! :'''James''': ''[holding a saw]'' We're the toughest team you ever saw! :'''Meowth''': ''[holding a pair of scythes]'' Let's cut ta da chase! :''[However, before they can start chopping the wall apart, the vines attack them and force them back]'' :'''Jessie''': A temper tantrum, eh?! Let's get to the root of its problem! :'''Meowth''': En garde! :''[They charge at the vines, but the vines force them to retreat]'' :'''James''': I think its bite is as bad as its bark! :''[Back in the field, the Bulbasaur begin to glow bright. The glows soon fade to reveal that most of them have evolved into Ivysaur]'' :'''One of the Ivysaur''': Ivysaur! ''["Alright!"]'' :'''Ash''': Alright! ''[scans Ivysaur with his Pokédex]'' :'''Ash's Pokédex''': The Seed Pokemon, Ivysaur, Bulbasaur's evolved form. The bulb on its back absorbs nourishment and blooms into a large flower. :'''Venusaur''': Saur. ''["Begin!"]'' :'''All the Ivysaur''': Saur. ["We begin!"] :'''Venusaur''': Saur. ''["Begin!"]'' :'''All the Ivysaur''': Saur. ''["We begin!"]'' :'''Ash''': This must be their evolution festival. :'''Brock''': For a long time, people have disagreed whether Bulbasaur is an animal-type Pokémon or a plant-type. If either plants or animals disappear from the planet, life wouldn't go on. :'''Misty''': They need each other to live and grow. :'''Pikachu''': Pika. :'''Brock''': Maybe the Bulbasaur are a sign that all Life on Earth is connected. :'''Ash''': Maybe you're right. I wonder if my Bulbasaur's gonna evolve, too. ''[surprised by what he sees]'' :'''Brock''': Huh? :''[Ash and his friends see that Ash's Bulbasaur hasn't evolved and is now resisting the evolutionary process]'' :'''Misty''': It's not evolving! :'''Ash''': Why not? :'''Brock''': It looks like it's trying NOT to evolve! :'''Pikachu''': Pika? :'''Venusaur''': Venus, Venusaur? ''["What? Who is that over there?"]'' :'''Ash's Bulbasaur''': Bulbasaur? :'''Venusaur''': Venusaur? ''["Why have you not evolved?"]'' :'''Ash's Bulbasaur''': Bulba? ''["Pardon?"]'' :'''Venusaur''': Venu, Venusaur? ''["I said, 'Why have you not evolved?'"]'' :'''Ash's Bulbasaur''': Bulba, Bulbasaur. ''["I just wasn't ready to evolve."]'' :'''Venusaur''': Venusaur, Venusaur, Venusaur? ''["All Bulbasaur must evolve! Why do you refuse?"]'' :'''Ash's Bulbasaur''': Bulbasaur! Bulba Bulba... ''[shakes its head]'' ...Bulbasaur, Saur! ''["I didn't come here for this festival, and I don't think I'll ever be ready to evolve."]'' :'''Venusaur''': Venusaur? Venu SAUR! ''["What? How disgraceful of you to trespassing our festival!"]'' :'''All the Ivysaur''': Ivysaur! ''["Trespasser!"]'' :'''Ash's Bulbasaur''': Bulbasaur? :''[Ash, Brock and Misty have seen what has happened]'' :'''Misty''': The others are getting really angry at Bulbasaur. :'''Ash''': I wonder why? :'''Brock''': Bulbasaur's more stubborn than you! :'''Venusaur''': Venusaur! ''[uses Vine Whip on Ash's Bulbasaur]'' :'''Ash's Bulbasaur''': BULBA! ''["YIKES!"]'' :'''Ash''': Hey! ''[jumps down onto the field]'' :'''Pikachu: Pik! ''[follows Ash]'' :'''Ash''': ''[stands in the way of Venusaur's Vine Whip attack to protect his Bulbasaur]'' Oh! :'''Pikachu''': Pikapi? :'''Ash's Bulbasaur''': Bulbasaur? :''[Ash turns and grins at Pikachu and Bulbasaur]'' ===''Riddle Me This'' [1.52]=== :''[Ash and the gang were in a wading pool, trying to figure out a riddle]'' :'''Brock''': It's where a firefighter can never win. Where could that be? :'''Misty''': Where can a firefighter never win? Maybe someplace that doesn't have enough water. ''[realizes Togepi has wandered off to shore]'' Huh? Togepi? :'''Togepi''': ''[seeing the Gyrados fixture]'' Toge. :'''Misty''': What are you doing, Togepi? Togepi, move away! That water's boiling. ''[Togepi climbs to the top of the fixture and jumps on it multiple times before opening the secret entrance]'' ===''The Case of the K-9 Caper!'' [1.53]=== ===''Pokémon Paparazzi'' [1.54]=== ===''The Ultimate Test'' [1.55]=== :'''Narrator''': There seems to be a little mix-up! ===''The Breeding Center Secret'' [1.56]=== :'''Jessie''': James! Watch where you're throwing that dirt! :'''James''': Watch?! I can't see the foot in front of my face! :'''Meowth''': If you don't quit squawkin', you'll see the foot in front of your face! Mine! ===''All Fired Up!'' [1.57]=== :'''Ash''': ''[shouts excitedly]'' Yee...'''''HAH!''''' :'''Misty''': Ash, are you going crazy?! :'''Brock''': The answer is yes. :'''Pikachu''': Pika. ''[Togepi suddenly starts crying as a result of Ash scaring it]'' :'''Misty''': Now, just look what you did to Togepi. Oh, it's all right, little Togepi. ''[After the crying stops, Togepi lets out a very sad squeak]'' ''[Squirtle’s Water Gun hits Team Rocket to put out the fire and they are crisped up from the flame]'' :'''Meowth''': Dat was very refreshing. :'''Jessie''': ''[loses her temper]'' Listen twerp! Just because you and that swuirt toy saved our lives, it doesn’t mean we can’t be mean!! :'''James''': We’re taking that flame-o, lame-o! ===''Fire and Ice'' [1.58]=== :''[Ash and Pikachu were having a meal at an all-you-can-eat buffet when Misty and Togepi arrive]'' :'''Misty''': Careful, Ash. All that food can make your belly as big as your head. :'''Togepi''': Toge, Toge. :'''Ash''': Thanks, Mist, but I can't help it. I got all this food for free! That's 'cause she happens to be a big fan of mine. :'''Misty''': ''[puts Togepi down]'' Ash, everybody in the Pokémon League gets to eat here for free. ''[does not realize that Togepi slides off the booth seat and heads across the floor]'' :'''Ash''': What?! Really? :'''Misty''': I know you won twice, and that's great. But you can't let that make you crazy. :'''Ash''': I can't? How come? :'''Misty''': Oh, well. I give up. :'''Pikachu''': ''[seeing Togepi pulling the tablecloth with the cutlery on top]'' Pika, Pika! ''[the cutlery falls over]'' PIKACHU! ''[dives in, but Togepi walks out of harm's way and the cutlery lands around Pikachu, who catches the fork with the teeth]'' Pikachu. :'''Togepi''': Toge, Toge, Toge. ''[laughs at Pikachu holding the fork with the mouth]'' Togepi! ==External links== {{Wikipedia|List of Pokémon: Indigo League episodes}} {{Authority control}} [[Category:Japanese TV shows]] [[Category:Pokémon]] fl8qrjsi0fqjssd46oecjbyp540nz5z 3961282 3961281 2026-07-05T20:48:02Z ~2026-22475-30 3310494 /* All Fired Up! [1.57] */ 3961282 wikitext text/x-wiki ---- {{Pokémon header}} ---- <br/> This is a list of episodes in '''''Pokémon: Indigo League''''', the first season of the Pokémon animated series (ポケットモンスター Poketto Monsutā?, Pokét Monsters), covering the adventures of the series protagonist Ash Ketchum and his friends Pikachu, Misty and Brock on the way to the Indigo Plateau. ===''Pokémon: I Choose You'' [1.01]=== :''[First lines. The opening cutscene of Pokémon Red and Blue (Red and Green in Japan) plays, portraying a battle between a Gengar and a Nidorino. Near the end, the cutscene transitions from the Game Boy's 8-bit graphics to vivid cel animation, revealing the battle to be happening in a packed stadium.]'' :'''Stadium Announcer''': And Nidorino begins the battle with a Horn Attack! Oh, but Gengar bounces right back, ''[Gengar uses Hypnosis]'' and there it is, the Hypnosis Power of Gengar! This could be the end of Nidorino. ''[Nidorino gets recalled by his trainer]'' Wait, the trainer recalled Nidorino. Which Pokémon will he use now? ''[the trainer throws a green and white Poké ball, Gengar steps back and out comes an Onix]'' Oh, it's Onix! Now this giant Pokémon's on the attack. ''[the camera pulls back to reveal that the battle is on television]'' Ho-ho, but Gengar jumps aside! Gengar is moving beautifully today. Its training is top-notch, no doubt about it! :''[As the commentary on TV continues, a spikey haired boy named Ash Ketchum puts on a green fingerless glove.]'' :'''Ash''': ''[in his mind]'' Yes, I am Ash. ''[the camera cuts to him in his room, He wore a red and white cap with a dark green L like symbol and a blue and white buttoned short sleeved shirt under a dark slate gray shirt, and light blue cuffed jeans]'' :'''Narrator''': Ash Ketchum is a boy from Pallet Town. :''[We see a Poliwag-style pencil sharpener, a Clefairy-shaped piggy bank and two Zubats hanging on a hanger. We then see the boy, Ash Ketchum, putting his white trainers on]'' :'''Ash Ketchum''': ''[speaks]'' And now that I'm 10, I can finally get my Pokémon license. :''[The camera shows a poster with a Squirtle, a Bulbasaur and a Charmander]'' :'''Narrator''': 10-year-olds can get a beginner Pokémon from Professor Oak, the town's Pokémon expert. :'''Ash Ketchum''': ''[puts on his hat, then flips it backwards]'' I will journey to gain the wisdom of Pokémon training, ''[picks up a Voltorb alarm clock and gets a green Speed Stripes background behind him]'' and I hereby declare to the Pokémon of the world; I will be a Pokémon Master. Pokémon Master! That is what I'll- :'''Delia Ketchum''': ''[offscreen]'' Ash, get to bed! ''[Ash yelps and flings the Voltorb alarm clock toward her, who catches it and shows Ash the time]'' It's 11:00, and you should be asleep! :'''Ash Ketchum''': But tomorrow, I begin my Pokémon journey. I can't even sleep. :'''Delia Ketchum''': Well, if you can't sleep, at least get ready for tomorrow, so, here, watch this. ''[changes channels on Ash's television]'' :'''Professor Oak''': ''[on TV]'' Good evening, Pallet, tomorrow's the big day for the newest class of Pokémon students. I'd like to introduce you to Bulbasaur, Charmander and Squirtle. Each one is available for new trainees. Which one shall you choose? :'''Delia Ketchum''': Go to bed when this is done. :'''Ash Ketchum''': ''[seeing the commercial]'' Alright, I'm going. :'''Delia''': And change into your pajamas, OK? ''[closes the door]'' :'''Professor Oak''': ''[on TV]'' ...character to help them develop their special powers. :'''Ash''': ''I'm going.'' :''[Cut to title card]'' :'''Ash''' ''[narrating]'' "Pokémon, I Choose You!" <hr width=50%> :'''Delia''': I packed your sneakers and jeans, nice clean shirts and underwear, and your favorite snacks, and some hot chocolate in case you want something hot, but be careful not to burn yourself. And a pair of rubber gloves to do your laundry and a new clothesline to hang it out to dry, and- :'''Ash''': Mom, you are embarrassing me, in front of all these people! Don't you know, I'm a big kid now? Pokémon Trainers can take care of themselves. <hr width=50%> :'''Ash''': Hey! Get away from there! ''[angrily groans]'' :''[A Rattata runs away from Ash's backpack]'' :'''Pokédex''': A forest Pokémon: Rattata. It likes cheese, nuts, fruits, and berries. :'''Ash''': Yeah, but this isn't a forest. It's an open field! :'''Pokédex''': It also comes out into open fields to steal food from ''stupid'' travellers. :'''Ash''': That means I'm stupid...? :''[Pikachu laughs hysterically from a tree branch]'' <hr width=50%> :''[Ash and Pikachu are being chased by a flock of Spearow. He steals the bicycle of a young girl, later known as Misty, to flee the Spearow, but he eventually rides off a cliff, falling off of the bike, with the Spearow still in hot pursuit. Ash then persuades Pikachu, who became weak after the trip, to enter his Poké Ball, but to no avail. This gives Ash no choice but to muster up the guts to take on the Spearow himself]'' :'''Ash''': Spearows, do you know who I am? I am Ash, from the town of Pallet. I'm destined to be the world's number-one Pokémon Master. I can't be defeated by the likes of you. ''[Pikachu, hearing Ash's speech, starts to pay attention to his Trainer's bravery as he continues on]'' I'm going to capture and defeat you all. You hear me? ''[the Spearow hone-in on Ash in the final moments before their attack, leading him to plead one last time for Pikachu's safety]'' '''[[w:Pikachu|Pikachu]]''', go inside the Poké Ball; it's the only way. ''[Pikachu looks down at the Poké Ball, and then back at him. A lightning bolt strikes behind the Spearow]'' '''''Come and get me!''''' ''[as the Spearow charge in toward him, Pikachu starts running toward him, climbing onto his shoulder, and jumping off Ash's shoulder to counter the Spearow]'' Whoa! :'''Pikachu''': ''[a lightning bolt strikes him]'' ''Pika-'''CHU!''''' :'''Ash''': '''''WHOA!''''' :''[He releases a powerful Thunder Shock, dispersing the Spearow and creating a large explosion in the area]'' <hr width=50%> :''[Last lines; In the aftermath of Pikachu's act of defense toward Ash, the rainy night turns into a sunny morning. The camera shows Misty's bike that Ash took to escape the Spearow flock, revealing that said bike was destroyed by Pikachu's Thunder Shock, and the camera pan toward an unconscious Ash and Pikachu, and the two of them slowly wake up]'' :'''Pikachu''': ''[weakly]'' '''[[w:Pikachu|Pikachu]]'''. :'''Ash''': ''[breathes a sigh of relief]'' Well, we beat 'em. :'''Pikachu''': ''[in agreement]'' Chu. :''[In the sky, a large golden bird-like Pokémon, which later was revealed as the Legendary Pokémon Ho-Oh, cries out as it flies over Ash and Pikachu as a sign of amazing things to come]'' :'''Ash''': Huh? ''[notices what he doesn't yet know to be Ho-Oh as it flies off towards a rainbow, leaving a trail of sparkles]'' What's that? :'''Pokédex''': There is no data. There are still Pokémon yet to be identified. :''[Ho-Oh is seen one last time flying off into the bright blue sky]'' :'''Narrator''': This is just the beginning of the amazing adventures of Ash and '''[[w:Pikachu|Pikachu]]'''. Their journey is destined to be packed with non-stop action, millions of laughs, heart-pounding perils, and endless excitement. ''[Ash, holding Pikachu, stops at the top of a hill. Pikachu then licks Ash's face, which moves him to near tears. However, he holds them in, as he realizes he must get to a Pokémon Center to heal Pikachu's wounds as soon as possible]'' Together, they'll encounter fantastic friends, evil enemies and meet creatures beyond their wildest imagination, and as their story unfolds, we'll unlock the magic and mystery of a most wondrous place: '''[[w:Pokémon|the incredible world of Pokémon]]'''! :''[The screen shrinks to the left, then stops moving. The text "TO BE CONTINUED" appears.]'' ===''Pokémon Emergency! [1.02]''=== :''[The episode begins with a recap of the previous episode, starting with Ash declaring his ambitions of becoming a Pokémon Master over a background set of green speed lines]'' :'''Ash''': That's right! I declare to the Pokémon of the world. I will be the greatest Pokémon Trainer. The greatest Pokémon Master...of all time! :'''Narrator''': Last time, Ash, our hero from Pallet, chose Pikachu, a Pokémon who was not too thrilled with its new trainer. Soon, they found themselves fighting off a flock of fearsome Spearows. Pikachu saved the day with its amazing Thunder Shock, but the electrifying encounter left Pikachu weak and his fate in Ash's hands. :'''Ash''': We...beat 'em. :'''Pikachu''': ''[weakly]'' Chu. :''[The recap ends and the scene changes to the second episode's title card]'' :'''Ash''': ''[voiceover]'' Pokémon Emergency! :''[We then cut to Viridian City in a sunset. Then, we hear the voice of a female police officer, named Officer Jenny, making an announcement about potential thieves in the area.]'' :'''Officer Jenny''': Attention, citizens of Viridian City! Attention, citizens of Viridian City! We have reports of possible Pokémon thieves in our area! Be on the lookout for suspicious looking strangers! Repeat: Be on the lookout for suspicious looking - Huh? ''[sees Ash rushing Pikachu to the Pokémon Center.]'' Speak of the Devil! ''[grabs Ash by the shirt collar to stop him]'' Hold it! And just where do you think you're going with that Pokémon, young man? :'''Ash''': ''[angrily]'' It's my Pokémon and its hurt! And I gotta get it to the hospital right away! :'''Officer Jenny''': Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you might be stealing it. Just show me your ID and you can go. :'''Ash''': ''[surprised]'' ID? Ugh... I don't have any. You see, we just came here from Pallet and we- :'''Officer Jenny''': You know, you're the fourth person I've seen today from Pallet Town. :'''Ash''': The fourth? Oh, that means Gary Oak's here already. :'''Officer Jenny''': It's very unusual for someone to carry a Pokémon in his arms and not in a Pokéball. How do I know you didn't steal that Pokémon, especially since you don't have any identification? :'''Ash''': Please let me through. I wouldn't steal a Pokémon, and I've got to get Pikachu to the hospital. Please, miss. :'''Officer Jenny''': ''[notices something in Ash's pocket]'' Hey, what's that in your pocket? :'''Ash''': What? ''[takes out his Pokédex]'' Oh, this? :'''Officer Jenny''': ''[swipes the Pokédex from Ash]'' This is perfect! A Pokédex! This will solve our problem! ''[presses some buttons in Ash's Pokédex]'' Let's see if you're the real deal... :'''Dexter''': I'm Dexter, a Pokédex programmed by Professor Oak for Pokémon Trainer Ash Ketchum of the town of Pallet. My function is to provide Ash with information and advice regarding Pokémon and their training. If lost or stolen, I cannot be replaced. :'''Ash''': Oh, my Pokédex. I didn't realize it was also my ID. Can I take Pikachu to the Pokémon Center now? :'''Officer Jenny''': I'll get you there in no time at all. ''[They mount on board her motorcycle.]'' Sit back, hold on and don't yell. :''[She revs her engine and they take off to the Pokémon Center, leaving a cloud of dust.]'' :'''Ash''': '''WHOA!''' :''[Meanwhile, caught in the dust is Misty, who is holding her charred bicycle and is not happy with Ash for taking it]'' :'''Misty''': ''[coughing]'' Hey, what's the big idea?! Ugh, come back here! ''[runs after Ash with her burnt bike]'' :''[A hook grabs hold of the Wanted poster on its bottom right corner and removes it from the noticeboard. Then, we notice that the hook is coming from a Meowth balloon controlled by two members from Team Rocket, Jessie and James. Soon, Jessie and James are looking at the Wanted poster]'' :'''Jessie''': A Wanted poster. How flattering. :'''James''': Flattering? This picture makes me look terrible. :'''Jessie''': Then, you should be happy The Photographer captured the real you. :'''James''': Exactly. :'''Jessie''': We'll show these bumpkins. :'''James''': The people of Viridian City will be sorry they ever saw this face. :''[The camera cuts to a Meowth who can speak human]'' :'''Meowth''': We're all sorry to see your face. Stay focused. We're here to capture rare and unusual Pokémon. Don't forget, Meowth. :'''Jessie''': Absolutely. :'''James''': But of course. :'''Meowth''': And just remember, I'm the top cat. :'''James''': You got it. :'''Meowth''': Meowth. :''[Down on the ground, Officer Jenny is driving Ash and Pikachu to Viridian City's Pokémon Centre when she sees it straight ahead]'' :'''Officer Jenny''': There it is! :''[Viridian City's gigantic Pokémon Centre comes into view]'' :'''Ash''': Pokémon Centre? It's gigantic. :'''Officer Jenny''': This is tricky. Just hold on. Here we go! ''[jumps high on her motorcycle]'' :'''Ash''': Whoa! :''[The motorcycle comes skidding into the Pokémon Centre and stops right in front of the reception desk which is being manned by a Pokémon Nurse called Nurse Joy. Officer Jenny puts her foot on the pedal to stop her motorcycle]'' :'''Nurse Joy''': ''[annoyed]'' We have a driveway, you know. :'''Officer Jenny''': It's a Pokémon Emergency! :'''Ash''': ''[stands up]'' Please help it! :'''Nurse Joy''': Looks like a Pikachu. We’ll do what we can. ''[turns round to her computer]'' I need a stretcher for a small electric Pokémon, stat! :''[A couple of Chansey enter with a stretcher]'' :'''Chansey''': Chansey! :''[Nurse Joy puts Ash's injured Pikachu on the stretcher]'' :'''Nurse Joy''': It'll be okay. ''[to Chansey]'' Rush this Pokémon to the critical care unit. :'''Chansey''': Chansey! :''[They take Pikachu away with the stretcher]'' :'''Nurse Joy''' ''[puts on a pair of white gloves as one of the Chansey stands next to her]'' We’ll begin the treatment right away. :'''Ash''': Uh... :'''Nurse Joy''': Who are you? :'''Officer Jenny''': His name is Ash. He's the Pokémon's Trainer. :'''Ash''': If there's anything I can do, please just tell me. :'''Nurse Joy''': You can be more responsible. :'''Ash''': Uh? :'''Nurse Joy''': ''[sternly]'' If you want to become a Pokémon trainer, young man, you don't let your Pokémon battle till it's in this condition. :'''Ash''': But you don't know what happened. :'''Nurse Joy''': What's past is past. Now, we have to heal your Pikachu. :'''Ash''': What can I do? :'''Nurse Joy''': Just leave everything to me. :'''Ash''': Please. :'''Officer Jenny''': It's in your hands. I know you'll give the Pokémon excellent care. :'''Nurse Joy''': You got it here just in time. :'''Officer Jenny''': That's my job. ''[realises something]'' Oh my goodness. I left my motorcycle parked at the front desk! :'''Nurse Joy''': Next time, use the driveway. :'''Officer Jenny''': ''[chuckling sheepishly]'' Heh heh. ''[leaves]'' :'''Nurse Joy''': Ash, you'll will have to go to the waiting room. :'''Ash''': Can't I... ''[the door closes after Nurse Joy goes through; in his mind]'' Pikachu. <hr width=50%/> :'''Professor Oak''': When my grandson Gary said that you wouldn't have a single new Pokémon by the time you got to Viridian City, I bet him $1,000,000 that he'd be wrong! :'''Ash''': ''[surprised]'' Well, money isn't everything, right? :'''Professor Oak''': ''[dejected]'' Oh, why do I even bother? <hr width=50%/> :''[Misty confronts Ash at the Pokémon Center with her burnt bicycle]'' :'''Misty''': ''[panting]'' I knew I'd find you here! :'''Ash''': ''[seeing that her bike is destroyed]'' Hey, what happened to your bike?! :'''Misty''': What happened to my bike?! ''YOU'' happened to my bike, you little loser! This is what's left after you stole it to save your Pokémon! Now I can see why your Pokémon is in... WHOAOAOAOAH! ''[tumbles over and falls down]'' :'''Ash''': Let me help you. :'''Misty''': ''[slaps Ash's left arm]'' I don’t need your help, and you're gonna pay for what you did to my bike! :'''Ash''': I'll make up for it. I promise I will, really. But I can't do anything about your bike until... :'''Misty''': ''[angrily]'' I don't want any of your lame excuses, kid! I just want a new bike right now! :'''Ash''': It's my Pikachu. My Pikachu's not too good. :''[Misty becomes worried as Ash looks behind at the red light with a needle on it]'' :'''Misty''': Is it very serious? :'''Ash''': I think so, and there's nothing I can do to help now. <hr width=50%/> :''[Ash, Misty, and Nurse Joy have their lines of sight impaired by a Koffing's Smokescreen attack]'' :'''Ash''': What are...Who are they?! :'''Jessie''': Don't be frightened, little boy. :'''James''': Allow us to introduce ourselves. :'' [A teenage girl and boy emerge from the smoke]'' :'''Jessie''': To protect the world from devastation. :'''James''': To unite all people within our nation. :'''Jessie''': To denounce the evils of truth and love! :'''James''': To extend our reach to the stars above. :'''Jessie''': Jessie! :'''James''': James. :'''Jessie''': Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light! :'''James''': Surrender now or prepare to fight! :'''Meowth''':''[appearing from the top of the screen]'' Meowth! That's right! :'''Ash''': What are you talking about? :'''Jessie''': He just doesn't get it, does he? :'''Ash''': ''[off camera]'' How can I? You don't make any sense. :'''James''': We're here for the Pokémon. :'''Ash''': You're NOT getting Pikachu! :'''Jessie''': Pikachu? We're not interested in your precious Electric rat. You are. :'''James''': We seek only rare and valuable Pokémon. :'''Nurse Joy''': You are wasting your time. This is a center for weak and injured Pokémon. :'''Jessie''': Well, that may be so, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if we find a few little Pokémon gems among all the junk. :'''Ash''': You're starting to bug me. :'''Jessie''': Isn't that cute. :'''James''': The boy's bugged. :'''Meowth''': Meowth, then, let's squash him. :'''James''': Koffing, Attack! :'''Jessie''': Ekans, Go! :''[Nurse Joy, Ash and Misty flee the scene with Pikachu on the stretcher as Ekans and Koffing cause destruction]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Misty''': You grab Pikachu and get out of here! I'll take care of these three clowns. :'''Jessie''': That's pretty big talk coming from such a little lady. :'''Misty''': At least you're right about the pretty part, thanks for the compliment. :'''James''': The girl thinks she's pretty. :'''Jessie''': I agree with her. I think she's pretty, too. Pretty pathetic! :'''Misty''': ''[annoyed]'' Hmmmm, I'll show you! Poké Ball, go! ''[Goldeen comes out rolling and jumping on the floor, to Jessie and James' shock]'' Goldeen, return! ''[Goldeen is back inside the Poké Ball]'' :'''Jessie''': That's her best shot? :'''James''': She's all washed up. <hr width=50%/> :'''Officer Jenny''': Too late, but not for the fireworks! <hr width=50%/> :''[The Meowth balloon is flying past the full moon, but Team Rocket is hanging from a rope]'' :'''Jessie''': Great! A cat losing to a mouse! :'''Meowth''': That Pikachu is no ordinary Pikachu. :'''James''': It's certainly very rare. A perfect prize! :'''Jessie''': Let's catch it! :'''Meowth''': Perhaps, we will. :''[Then, the Meowth balloon pops, sending the three characters hurtling through the night]'' ===''Ash Catches a Pokémon'' [1.03]=== :'''Ash''': ''[hugging his Poké-Ball]'' I love my new little Pokémon! :'''Misty''': I guess it takes a worm to love a worm. :'''Ash''': ''[sarcastically]'' Very funny. <hr width=50%/> :'''Misty''': ''[about Caterpie]'' It's so gross. ''[scared]'' Ash, put that slimy thing back in the Poké-Ball! Bugs are one of the three most disgusting things in the world! :'''Ash''': Aside from you, what are the other disgusting things? :'''Misty''': Very funny. ''[smashing]'' Carrots, ''[kicking]'' peppers, ''[hitting with a wooden hammer]'' and bugs. Everybody has something they don't like and I don't like bugs! :'''Ash''': ''[making a silly face]'' Yeah? Well, I like carrots, and peppers, and bugs. ''[now serious]'' What I ''don't'' like is the way you're hurting Caterpie's feelings with your silly fear of bugs. :'''Misty''': ''[dismissively]'' Hmph! ===''Challenge of the Samurai'' [1.04]=== :''[Misty screams]'' :'''Ash''': What's wrong now? :'''Misty''': I saw another bug! Gross! :'''Ash''': Maybe its a... ''[both he and Pikachu sighed. Then he's in the cow costume]'' Cow-terpie! <hr width=50%/> :''[Last lines]'' :'''James''': Do you have any more bright ideas? :'''Jessie''': Well, unlike you at least I have ideas! :'''Meowth''': Yeah, and they're all bad. :'''Jessie''': WHO ASKED YOU?! :''[The Kakunas and Beedrills are suddenly waking up]'' :'''James''': Oh-oh. :'''Jessie''': Oh no. :''[They're attacked by the swarm of Beedrills offscreen]'' ===''Showdown in Pewter City'' [1.05]=== :'''Ash''': My conscience is holding me back! I can't bring myself to beat Brock! I'm imagining his little brothers and sisters stopping me from beating the one person they love! :'''Misty''': Uh, Ash, I think you better open your eyes! <hr width=50%/> :'''Brock''': Hey Ash, are you sure it's okay if I go with you on your Pokémon journey? :'''Ash''': Sure I'm sure, the more the merrier! And it's good to have somebody to talk with. :'''Brock''': Well, what about that girl who keeps following you? :'''Misty''': DON'T FORGET ABOUT MY BIKE, ASH KETCHUM! I'M GONNA FOLLOW YOU UNTIL YOU PAY ME BACK! :'''Ash''': I know! I KNOW! Pikachu, let's try to lose her! :'''Pikachu''': Chu! ''[runs with Ash]'' :'''Brock''': ''[catching up]'' Wait up, Ash! :'''Misty''': ''[chasing after them]'' YOU WON'T GET AWAY! ===''Clefairy and the Moon Stone'' [1.06]=== :'''Jessie''': Well, it looks like Team Rocket is.... :'''James''': Blasting off again! :'''Meowth''': That was the Metronome! :'''Jessie''': I give it two thumbs down! :'''James''': Me too! :'''Meowth''': Meowth three! ===''The Water Flowers of Cerulean City'' [1.07]=== :'''James''': The coast is clear. :'''Jessie''': Nothing to fear. :'''Meowth''': Nobody here! <hr width=50%/> :'''Officer Jenny''': You two look very suspicious to me. :'''Ash''': Hey, you're that motorcycle officer from Viridian. :'''Officer Jenny''': Huh? Ah, you must've met my sister-in-law. If you know my sister-in-law, that means you probably had some dealings with the police in Viridian! :'''Ash''': Well, I... :'''Officer Jenny''': Now, maybe you just stopped to ask her for directions, or maybe you found a wallet on the street and turned it in to her, OR MAYBE YOU'RE A BURGLAR WHO BROKE OUTTA JAIL!!! ''[swings her handcuffs in a loop like a yo-yo]'' :'''Ash''': I've never been to jail! :'''Brock''': Neither have I, ma'am. :'''Officer Jenny''': That's what they all say. <hr width=50%/> :'''Misty''': Oh no! Staryu looks like it's in real pain! :'''Ash''': It doesn't even have a face. How can you tell? :'''Misty''': Because I'm sensitive to other's feelings! That's how! :'''Ash''': ''[sarcastically]'' Oh, yeah? Like I'm not? <hr width=50%/> :'''Ash''': Misty, you're not gonna be a sore loser, aren't you? :'''Misty''': I didn't lose anything! It was just a draw! :'''Ash''': Well, I'm the one who won the badge! :'''Misty''': You know you lost with Butterfree! :'''Ash''': That was just round 1. I made a great comeback! :'''Misty''': If Team Rocket hadn't busted in, I would've destroyed you! :'''Ash''': You're lucky they've showed up. You were about to lose! :'''Misty''': Lose?! I was just getting started! :'''Ash''': Oh, yeah?! :'''Misty''': Oh, yeah! :'''Brock''': Oh, brother! ===''The Path to the Pokémon League'' [1.08]=== ===''The School of Hard Knocks'' [1.09]=== :'''Misty''': All that crunching is ruining my romantic daydreams! <hr width=50%/> :'''Giselle''': True, but there's one thing you didn't know [The screen pans to her in a cerulean blue vest with two buttons under a white short puffy sleeved shirt, a red ribbon, and dark blue pleated skirt. later a group of boys come] your opponent's from the Cerulean City Gym. Her Pokemon has much more experience battling. You should've known that. You're an embarrassment to the whole school! :'''Joe''': But, Giselle... :'''Ash''': [blushing at her] She's really pretty, isn't she? :'''Brock''': Yeah, she looks just like a movie star. ''[Then the screen pans to Misty]'' :'''Misty''': [thinking] They like stars, do they? I'll be glad to show them some stars. ''[Cuts to Giselle is on a blue starry background from the Sailor Moon franchise]'' :'''Giselle''': I'm the top student in the beginning class of the most exclusive club in the world, Pokémon Tech. It's sad that others aren't blessed with my beauty, my talent, my humble attitude. People call me a star, [the shining yellow star flies and cut to her on a galaxy background] but I'm just Giselle. ===''Bulbasaur and the Hidden Village'' [1.10]=== ===''Charmander - The Stray Pokémon'' [1.11]=== :'''Misty''': I just can't go one step further. We've been looking for Vermilion City for 10 whole days! :'''Brock''': Uh, there's a bug right on your... <hr width=50%/> :'''Brock''': ''[as Charmander is dying in the Pokémon Center; in his mind]'' Charmander, you've got to hold on. Please, keep your flame burning. <hr width=50%/> :''[Charmander closes eyes, and uses Flamethrower on Team Rocket and fries them]'' :'''James''': You see!? Did I tell you we needed fire-proof uniform?! :'''Jessie''': Shut up and keep running! :'''Meowth''': Some geniuses! Meowth! :'''Team Rocket''': Looks like Team Rocket's blasting off again! :'''Damian''': ''[appears from the bushes; surprised]'' Charmander beat them? ===''Here Comes the Squirtle Squad'' [1.12]=== :'''Misty''': It's Meowth! :'''Ash''': Meowth?! ===''Mystery at the Lighthouse'' [1.13]=== ===''Electric Shock Showdown'' [1.14]=== :'''Brock''': ''[after Team Rocket's cheer]'' That was really disturbing. <hr width=50%/> :'''Ash''': Use the strategy we planned, Pikachu! You can do it! :'''Surge''': A strategy? So they've planned a new way to lose! ===''Battle Aboard the St. Anne'' [1.15]=== :'''James''': Wait! There goes my next paycheck! :'''Jessie''': Who cares about your paycheck? What about mine?! :'''Meowth''': We gotta get out of here! <hr width=50%/> :'''Captain''': May I have your attention? Anyone who didn't leave the ship safely, please say "Aye." Good. Well done. Everyone's safe then. :'''Narrator''': Not everyone, Captain. And as the St. Anne heads to the bottom of the sea, our heroes, are trapped unconscious inside, and so is Team Rocket. Could this be the end?! How will they escape their "watery" fate? I don't know, but, I have a terrible "sinking" feeling. ===''Pokémon Shipwreck'' [1.16]=== :'''James''': Jessica? :'''Jessie''': Yes, James. :'''James''': Whoever said beauty doesn't last must've been thinking of us. :'''Jessie''': I'll always remember what a wonderful dresser you were.
 :'''James''': So will I. <hr width=50%/> :'''James''': What is that?! :'''Misty''': Now you've done it! Magikarp has evolved into a Gyarados! :'''Jessie''': Gyarados?! I miss Magikarp! <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': Dimwit! If you're the master, don't act like you're scared of it! :'''James''': I am scared! ===''Island of the Giant Pokémon'' [1.17]=== :''[All Pokémon are speaking in Pokémon language, with English subtitles translating their speech]'' :'''Squirtle''': Maybe they got eaten by wild Pokémon. ''[makes a scary face with razor-sharp teeth, making a chomping motion]'' :'''Pikachu''': Don't say things like that! :'''Charmander''': Yeah, cut it out! :'''Squirtle''': Sorry. <hr width=50%/> :''[The first thing Team Rocket does after calling their boss is recite their motto for no apparent reason]'' :'''Giovanni''': Nitwits! How dare you annoy me with your nonsense? Don't ever bother me like this again! ''[hangs up]'' <hr width=50%/> :''[After a giant Venusaur is spotted]'' :'''Squirtle''': ''[to Bulbasaur]'' You go and speak to it, you guys are like family! :'''Bulbasaur''': No way. Just call me an orphan, I have no family. :'''Charmander''': Good point. :'''Squirtle''': Coward. <hr width=50%/> :''[The phone rings]'' :'''Giovanni''': ''[answers it]'' Yes? What?! Pokémon Land has been totally destroyed?! ''[hangs up; growls]'' I spent millions on that place! ===''Beauty and the Beach'' [1.18]=== :'''Prof. Oak''': Your mother's been worried about you, Ash. She says she still thinks of you as her little pumpkin. :'''Ash''': That makes me sound like a baby. :'''Delia''': You'll ''always'' be my baby, won't you? :'''Ash''': Yeah. :'''Delia''': Well, I just hope you aren't eating a lot of junk food and getting into any trouble. :'''Ash''': Of course not! ''[suddenly remembers his boat accident]'' At least not a lotta trouble. :'''Delia''': What's that mean? :'''Moe''': ''I'm'' the one who got into trouble, Mrs. Ketchum. Ash helped out at my restaurant when I really needed help. But even more importantly, your son has been a great inspiration to me. :'''Delia''': That's wonderful! What a relief. :'''Ash''': Thanks, Moe. <hr width="50%"> :''[Misty is walking down the catwalk in a beauty contest, wearing a bikini]'' :'''Misty''': This is totally embarrassing and degrading, but we need the money! ===''Tentacool & Tentacruel'' [1.19]=== ===''The Ghost of Maiden's Peak'' [1.20]=== :'''James''': I can't believe you're letting that ghost get me just because you're both so cheap! :'''Jessie''': You don't want to go? :'''James''': Of course I don't wanna go. I don't wanna go! I don't wanna go! I don't wanna go! <hr width="50%"> :'''James''': You really do care! :'''Jessie''': It's not 'cuz of you. Girls like her disgust me. Always waiting around for her man as if she were his faithful pet. She can't stand the thought of losing him. She cries, but I'd say, "see ya later!". There are plenty more fish in the sea. :'''Meowth''': I could sure go for some fish. <hr width="50%"> :'''Misty''': Then how about this! :'''Gastly''': What's that? :'''Misty''': It's a cross! I've also got garlic, a stake, and a hammer! :'''Gastly''': ...What do I look like, a vampire or something? ===''Bye Bye Butterfree'' [1.21]=== :'''Ash''': Take care, Butterfree! Good luck, buddy! Goodbye, Butterfree. I'll always remember you. Thank you for everything. Goodbye, Butterfree! ===''Abra and the Psychic Showdown'' [1.22]=== :'''Ash''': Telekinesis is okay, but I have my own secret method for bending spoons. ''[bends the spoon with his hands and laughs]'' Muscle over mind! :'''Misty''': Embarrassing. :'''Brock''': Just pretend we never met him before. ===''The Tower of Terror'' [1.23]=== :'''Ash''': I'm feeling like a ghost myself ''[He turns and got a deadly Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror skull mask on]'' BBLLLLAAAAAHHH!!! :'''Both''': AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! :'''Ash''': ''[after frightening his group with a deadly skull mask]'' Sorry, guys! I was just testing you. If we're gonna try to catch a Ghost Pokémon, we gotta learn to deal with fear. That's the only way we can become great Pokémon trainers. :'''Misty''': You must be crazy! :'''Brock''': Don't ever do that! <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': You mangy alley cat! You numskull! You ruined my beautiful face! <hr width=50%/> :'''Misty''': Look! ''[Something flies up the air]'' :'''All''': Huh! [They see at all of those floating in the air] AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! ''[Then a chair flies and knocks Brock in]'' :'''Brock''': WOOOAAAAHHH!! HELP ME! ===''Haunter vs. Kadabra'' [1.24]=== :'''Ash''': Ohh... Sabrina's the meanest Trainer I ever met. :'''Sabrina's Father''': She wasn't always such a mischievous girl. :'''Ash''': You mean, you knew Sabrina before she changed? :'''Sabrina's Father''': Huh? Well! I've heard stories. <hr width=50%> :'''Sabrina's Father''': Though she was very young, Sabrina became completely obsessed with her psychic training. She didn't want to make friends. all she wanted was to be left alone to develop her powers. Her parents tried to help, but Sabrina used her psychic powers to drive them away. The conflict caused Sabrina to split into two girls. The strong Pokémon Trainer who was always causing trouble, and the lonely little girl who desperately desires to make friends. That doll that Sabrina always holds represents her true self, before her training, before she rejected her own heart. :'''Ash''': Sabrina had this picture of her family in her room. If you have the same picture, then, that must mean you are... :'''Sabrina's Father''': Huh?! ''[thinks]'' Does he know? He must have figured it out by now. After everything I said, he must have figured out the truth about Sabrina and me. He must realize that I'm Sabrina's Father! :'''Ash''': ...Then, that must mean you are a photographer. :'''Sabrina's Father''': ''[face faults]'' Whoa! :'''Pikachu''': Pika! :'''Sabrina's Father''': Don't you see?! Don't you get it?! :'''Ash''': Get what? :'''Sabrina's Father''': Never mind... :'''Ash''': Sabrina turned Brock and Misty into dolls. :'''Sabrina's Father''': Yeah, there's nothing we can do about that. :'''Ash''': Whoa! :'''Sabrina's Father''': The only way to rescue your friends is to defeat Sabrina. Isn't that why you traveled to Lavender Town, to get a Ghost Pokémon? :'''Ash''': But Haunter has disappeared someplace. :'''Sabrina's Father''': Then, you must find Haunter first. Without it, you'll never be able to defeat Sabrina and her Psychic Pokémon. :'''Ash''': I guess not... <hr width=50%> :'''Jessie''': To protect the world from devastation. :'''James''': To unite all people within our nation. :'''Jessie''': To denounce the evils of truth and love. :'''James''': To extend our reach to the stars above. :'''Jessie''': Jessie! :'''James''': James! :'''Meowth''': Yeah, yeah, that's very dramatic. Now, let's cut to the chase, and catch that Pikachu. :'''Jessie''': Just leave that to us. :'''Meowth''': By the way, what is the secret weapon you cooked up this time? :'''James''': A deadly weapon that has been perfected for over thousands of years. Now we've learned to use its awesome powers. With a flick of this fishing net, we'll round up Pikachu. :'''Meowth''': You mean that's your secret weapon?! :'''James''': It takes a genius to realize a fishing net is the perfect weapon! :'''Jessie''': Oh, James, it's the greatest discovery since Einstein invented the light bulb! :'''Jessie and James''': ''[sing and dance]'' Even greater than the chicken who invented the egg! :''[The egg falls on them]'' :'''James''': All of us true geniuses know, of course, that it was actually the egg that preceded the chicken. :'''Jessie''': Of course. I knew that. I had just forgotten. :'''Meowth''': Now you got my brain scrambled! Let's cut the egg-splanations and capture Pikachu! <hr width=50%> :'''James''': Don't laugh, Jessie, otherwise you are going to let go. :'''Jessie''': I won't crack. The Members of Team Rocket have been trained to resist all silliness, and to be totally serious! <hr width=50%/> :''[concrete is being poured into a hole Team Rocket is trapped in]'' :'''Jessie''': Hello, up there! Anyone?! We're trapped down here! :'''James''': Stop pouring cement! :'''Meowth''': Get me outta here quick! <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': A little cement.... :'''James''': ...will never stop Team Rocket. :'''Meowth''': A little cement? :'''All three''': ''[flee]'' We're blasting off again! ===''Primeape Goes Bananas'' [1.25]=== :'''Professor Oak''': I can't write a good poem without rhymes, and you can't be a good Pokémon trainer without catching more Pokémon. <hr width="50%"> :'''Brock''': ''[Holding a box of rice balls]'' These donuts are great! Jelly-filled are my favorite! Nothing beats a jelly-filled donut! ===''Pokémon Scent-sation'' [1.26]=== :'''Erika''': P for Pretty, E for Elegant, R for Radiant, F for Fun, U for Urbane, M for Mysterious, E for Energy, and that spells... :'''Misty''': Perfume! :'''Brock''': Right! <hr width=50%/> :''[The three employees angrily confront Ash for his rude remarks about the perfume]'' :'''Employee 1''': YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF! :'''Employee 2''': YOU INSENSITIVE LITTLE WORM! :'''Ash''': What did I say? :''[The purple-haired employee kicks Ash out of the store]'' :'''Employee 3''': GET OUT! AND DON'T COME BACK! :'''Ash''': I don't wanna come back! I'm on my way to the Celadon Gym! <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': It stinks... :'''James''': Just like your plan! :'''Meowth''': You said it! ===''Hypno's Naptime'' [1.27]=== ===''Pokémon Fashion Flash'' [1.28]=== :'''James''': Now we need a total makeover so nobody we ripped off can recognize us! :'''Jessie''': They're all just jealous because they're not attractive enough to wear our designs! :'''Team Rocket''': BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD! :'''Narrator''': So long, Salon Roquet! ===''The Punchy Pokémon'' [1.29]=== :'''Meowth''': Honey baked ham! Roast leg of lamb! Strawberry jam! :'''James''': Sirloin steaks! Chocolate cakes! :'''Jessie''': Can't you numbskulls think of anything but food?! <hr width=50%/> :'''Meowth''': It looks like it works. Really appreciate it. :''[the bomb beeps, electricity hits Team Rocket, they are fried to a crisp, the bomb explodes which sends them outside blasting off] :'''Team Rocket''': Team Rocket's blasting off again! ===''Sparks Fly For Magnemite'' [1.30]=== :'''Ash''': Gee, that Magnemite is following Pikachu around like some sort of streaker. :'''Brock''': Um, Ash, you mean 'stalker'. ----- :'''Professor Oak''': ''[chuckles]'' It's been quite a while since Ash sent me a new Pokémon. I wonder what he's captured this time? ''[a Poke Ball popped open, and as Professor Oak held his nose, out of it comes a very rancid Muk!]'' Hmm? Ugh! What is that smell?! Ew... What's the idea of sending me a Muk?! Yecch! :'''Muk''': MUK!!! ===''Dig Those Diglett'' [1.31]=== :''[A Diglett returns the uncooperative Poké Ball to Gary]'' :'''Gary''': Oh thanks. Wait! This can't happen! <hr width=50%/> :'''James''': Some principle of induced evolution. :'''Jessie''': ''[reads a manual]'' It says here that Pokémon need to accumulate a certain amount of experience points before they can successfully evolve. :'''James''': ''[depressed]'' ''Our'' experience is nothing but losing. ===''The Ninja Poké-Showdown'' [1.32]=== :'''Ash''': Venonat? It's you! I'm gonna teach you a lesson! ''[runs up to it, but it jumps back through the door it came out of]'' Come back! ''[enters through the door, but screams upon seeing spinning projectiles flying towards him]'' :'''Misty and Brock''': ''[react upon hearing the projectiles hit the wall and are concerned about Ash]'' Ash! :'''Pikachu''': Kachu! ''[Ash!]'' :''[Misty, Brock, and Pikachu enter the door, but they find an empty room and cannot find Ash.]'' :'''Misty''': Where is he? :'''Brock''': There must be another way out. :'''Misty''': Maybe it's just another trick. :''[The door soon turns around to reveal Ash pinned to the wall by multiple shurikens, much to their surprise.]'' :'''Ash''': Someone help me... :'''Aya''': ''[cackles and jumps down from the ceiling]'' Born in darkness, living in darkness, such is the fate of the ninja. I am Aya, ninja warrior! :'''Misty''': ''[about Aya's uniform color]'' But don't you think that color is a little bright for a ninja? :'''Aya''': I don't need your fashion report! But tell me, didn't you enjoy my little star treatment? ''[reveals her shuriken]'' :'''Ash''': You can't just chuck throwing stars around. It's dangerous! :'''Misty''': That's right! Tell her, Brock! :''[However, Brock wasn't listening and approached Aya.]'' :'''Brock''': ''[lovestruck]'' I think that electric pink suits you perfectly, and you certainly look lovely. ''[but Aya responds by slapping Brock's hand, much to Ash and Misty's shock and embarrassment]'' :'''Aya''': ''[pushes Brock away]'' This is a training camp! It was your fault you let your guard down. :'''Ash''': ''[offended]'' My guard down? :'''Aya''': I won't let you leave this mansion without having a Pokémon battle with me, first. ''[her Venonat appears behind her]'' :'''Ash''': ''[shrugs]'' Oh, that thing! :'''Aya''': This Venonat informed me that three stupid-looking people had entered the mansion. :'''Ash''': For your information, we're not the stupid ones around here! I accept your challenge! ''[suddenly remembers he's still stuck]'' Uh, but first, could you let me down from here? :''[Everyone face faults in embarrassment. Soon, Ash is freed from his predicament and takes his place on the battlefield.]'' :'''Aya''': One Pokémon for each of us. Choose yours now. ===''The Flame Pokémon-athon!'' [1.33]=== :'''Dario''': ''[growls after his defeat]'' You're the reason I didn't win the Pokémon challenge! Team Rocket's the worst. :'''Jessie''': We'll just have to plan better next year. :'''James''': And maybe you can get some nicer riding clothes. :'''Meowth''': And give that smelly bird a bath. ===''The Kangaskhan Kid'' [1.34]=== ===''The Legend of Dratini'' [1.35]=== ===''The Bridge Bike Gang'' [1.36]=== :''[Ash, Misty and Brock finds out Jessie and James used to belong to a bike gang]'' :'''James''': I guess our secret past is not a secret anymore. :'''Ash''': I kind of wish it still was! ===''Ditto's Mysterious Mansion'' [1.37]=== :'''James''': Will you stop it, Meowth?! :'''Jessie''': The only way we can get out of this mess is to dress you up like a Dratini and present you to the boss. :'''Meowth''': Pea-brains! This won't work! ===''Electric Soldier Porygon'' [1.38]=== ===''Pikachu's Goodbye'' [1.39]=== :'''Meowth''': It's a Pika-Palooza! :'''Jessie''': We're at the Pika of our powers. :'''James''': Chu can say that again, Jess! <hr width=50%/> :''[Last lines; the Pikachu cheer]'' :'''Misty''': What do you think they're doing? :'''Brock''': Well, I think they might be cheering. For Ash and for Pikachu! :''[Pikachu runs up to Ash, who smiles tearfully]'' :'''Pikachu''': ''[leaps up to him]'' Pikapi! :'''Ash''': Pikachu! :''[They embrace joyfully]'' :'''Narrator''': Another adventure has brought Ash and Pikachu even closer. In their hearts, they know they'll go on to face every challenge together. ===''The Battling Eevee Brothers'' [1.40]=== :''[Jessie breathes fire in anger]'' :'''Meowth''': Wow! Jessie just evolved into a Flareon! <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': Well, it's back to eating the lunch of losers. :'''James''': Victory tasted a lot better. ===''Wake Up Snorlax!'' [1.41]=== ===''Showdown at Dark City'' [1.42]=== :''[Last lines; Team Rocket is still covered in red paint]'' :'''Jessie''': Well, that was a complete waste of time. :'''James''': Looks like we're through. :'''Meowth''': ''[notices Electabuzz and Scyther charging at them]'' Huh? Unfortunately, we're not quite through yet. :'''Jessie and James''': Huh? :'''Scyther''': Scyther! :'''Electabuzz''': Blblblblblblbl! :'''Team Rocket''': AAH! :'''James''': Somebody... :'''Team Rocket''': HELP! ===''The March of the Exeggutor Squad'' [1.43]=== ===''The Problem with Paras'' [1.44]=== :'''Jessie''': Well, there goes our billions. :'''James''': And zillions. :'''Meowth''': I'm a hero, but I got zero! ===''The Song of Jigglypuff'' [1.45]=== :''[Team Rocket realizes they recorded their own snoring instead of Jigglypuff's song]'' :'''James''': What is that awful sound? :'''Jessie''': It's all of us snoring! :'''Meowth''': What are we supposed to do with that? ===''Attack of the Prehistoric Pokémon'' [1.46]=== :''[Gary is digging for fossils and stumbles upon one]'' :'''Gary''': Success! My first Pokémon fossil! :'''Fan Girls''': Yay! Gary, Gary, he's the best! Found a fossil before the rest! Go, Gary! :''[An expert comes over, takes the fossil out of Gary's hands and examines it]'' :'''Gary''': Impressive, isn't it? Found it on my first try. Looks like a brain from an extinct Pokémon. :'''Expert''': This is- :'''Gary''': ''[hopeful]'' A brain? :'''Expert''': It's fossilized Pokémon manure. :''[Gary face faults]'' :'''Fan Girls''': Ew. Yuck! Gross! ===''A Chansey Operation'' [1.47]=== ===''Holy Matrimony!'' [1.48]=== :''[Arriving next to the normal mansion]'' :'''Ash''': Whoa! Look at that! :'''Misty''': It's huge! :'''Brock''': I've seen shopping malls smaller than this place! :'''Misty''': It must have a hundred rooms! :'''Ash''': It's the biggest mansion I've ever seen! :'''Hopkins''': ''[through the megaphone]'' This is not the mansion! This little dog house is for Growlie. <hr width=50%/> :[After hearing James' tragic but fake story] :'''Jessie''': That's such a sad ending! :'''Meowth''': That poor kid! :'''Brock''': I can't believe James is gone! :'''Ash''': I miss him! :'''Misty''': ''[annoyed]'' Hmph! JAMES IS STANDING RIGHT HERE! :'''James''': Huh? Wait. Yeah, that right! ''[both Jessie and Meowth glare at him]'' Aah! I'm all mixed up! <hr width=50%/> :'''Meowth''': ''[sighs]'' I guess all of that money and luxury was just too tempting for James to give up. ===''So Near, Yet So Farfetch'd'' [1.49]=== ===''Who Gets to Keep Togepi?'' [1.50]=== ===''Bulbasaur's Mysterious Garden'' [1.51]=== :'''Ash''': It's gotta be okay. ''[as Nurse Joy and Chansey cart Bulbasaur to the healing room, a bunch of flowers start to bloom in the vase magically]'' :'''Togepi''': ''[noticing the flowers]'' Prii! Toge, Toge, Toge, Toge, Toge, Toge, Toge, Togepri! :'''Misty''': What's the matter, Togepi? Is something wrong? Huh? <hr width="50%/"> :''[Ash, Brock and Misty join Pikachu and see an entire field full of Bulbasaur, and the pollen trail going straight to a giant, dead tree]'' :'''Ash''': Wow! This must be the Mysterious Garden! :''[Down in the field, the Bulbasaur are starting the ceremony by chanting their names]'' :'''Group of Bulbasaur''': ''[chanting]'' Bulba, Bulba, Bulbasaur. Bulba, Bulba, Bulbasaur. Bulba, Bulba, Bulbasaur... :''[As they continue chanting, the branches of the tree start growing, nearly going up to the moon. Soon, flowers start blooming in the field and flowers start to blossom on the tips of the branches of the tree, leaving our heroes in wonderment]'' :'''Ash''': That's neat! :'''Misty''': Wow! It's so pretty! :''[Then, some giant bangs are heard and a glow is seen inside the tree]'' :'''Ash''': What's that banging sound? :''[The source of the banging is soon revealed to be a Venusaur, who steps onto the tree stump in front of the tree where it came from]'' :'''Venusaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :'''Ash''': Look, you guys! It's a Venusaur! :'''Misty'''': It's giant! :''[Ash gets out his Pokédex to scan Venusaur]'' :'''Ash's Pokédex''': Venusaur, the final form of the Bulbasaur evolution. This Seed Pokémon soaks up the sun's rays as a source of energy. :'''Brock''': Hmmm, But that kind of behaviour makes it sound like a plant. :'''Ash''': I don't see my Bulbasaur anyplace around here! :'''Misty''': Hey, Ash, your Bulbasaur still has that bandage on its head. :'''Ash''': Hmmmm. :'''Pikachu''': ''[sees Ash's Bulbasaur; jumping up in excitement]'' Pika! :'''Ash''': Hey, there it is! Over here, Bulba- :'''Brock''': ''[covers Ash's mouth]'' Hey, not so loud! Don't forget. Human beings aren't supposed to be here. :'''Ash''': Oh, right. :'''Misty''': Let's watch the festival. :''[Soon, the festival is underway]'' :'''Venusaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :'''All the Bulbasaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :'''Venusaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :'''All the Bulbasaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :'''Venusaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :'''All the Bulbasaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :'''Venusaur''': SAUR! ["RISE!"] :'''All the Bulbasaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :''[Ash's Bulbsasaur is watching quietly]'' :'''Venusaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :'''All the Bulbasaur''': SAUR! ["RISE!"] :'''Ash's Bulbasaur''': Bulbasaur. :'''Venusaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"'' :'''All the Bulbasaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :''[As the festival goes on, the Bulbasaur start glowing]'' :'''Venusaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :'''All the Bulbasaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :''Ash, Brock and Misty are amazed by what they have seen. Meanwhile, Team Rocket have come across the vine wall blocking the entrance to the festival]'' :'''Jessie''': How do we get in there? :'''James''': Why doesn't just Meowth just Scratch his way through with his claws? :'''Meowth''': I just filed them. :'''Jessie''': ''[holding an axe]'' Alright, garden wall, you axed for it! :'''James''': ''[holding a saw]'' We're the toughest team you ever saw! :'''Meowth''': ''[holding a pair of scythes]'' Let's cut ta da chase! :''[However, before they can start chopping the wall apart, the vines attack them and force them back]'' :'''Jessie''': A temper tantrum, eh?! Let's get to the root of its problem! :'''Meowth''': En garde! :''[They charge at the vines, but the vines force them to retreat]'' :'''James''': I think its bite is as bad as its bark! :''[Back in the field, the Bulbasaur begin to glow bright. The glows soon fade to reveal that most of them have evolved into Ivysaur]'' :'''One of the Ivysaur''': Ivysaur! ''["Alright!"]'' :'''Ash''': Alright! ''[scans Ivysaur with his Pokédex]'' :'''Ash's Pokédex''': The Seed Pokemon, Ivysaur, Bulbasaur's evolved form. The bulb on its back absorbs nourishment and blooms into a large flower. :'''Venusaur''': Saur. ''["Begin!"]'' :'''All the Ivysaur''': Saur. ["We begin!"] :'''Venusaur''': Saur. ''["Begin!"]'' :'''All the Ivysaur''': Saur. ''["We begin!"]'' :'''Ash''': This must be their evolution festival. :'''Brock''': For a long time, people have disagreed whether Bulbasaur is an animal-type Pokémon or a plant-type. If either plants or animals disappear from the planet, life wouldn't go on. :'''Misty''': They need each other to live and grow. :'''Pikachu''': Pika. :'''Brock''': Maybe the Bulbasaur are a sign that all Life on Earth is connected. :'''Ash''': Maybe you're right. I wonder if my Bulbasaur's gonna evolve, too. ''[surprised by what he sees]'' :'''Brock''': Huh? :''[Ash and his friends see that Ash's Bulbasaur hasn't evolved and is now resisting the evolutionary process]'' :'''Misty''': It's not evolving! :'''Ash''': Why not? :'''Brock''': It looks like it's trying NOT to evolve! :'''Pikachu''': Pika? :'''Venusaur''': Venus, Venusaur? ''["What? Who is that over there?"]'' :'''Ash's Bulbasaur''': Bulbasaur? :'''Venusaur''': Venusaur? ''["Why have you not evolved?"]'' :'''Ash's Bulbasaur''': Bulba? ''["Pardon?"]'' :'''Venusaur''': Venu, Venusaur? ''["I said, 'Why have you not evolved?'"]'' :'''Ash's Bulbasaur''': Bulba, Bulbasaur. ''["I just wasn't ready to evolve."]'' :'''Venusaur''': Venusaur, Venusaur, Venusaur? ''["All Bulbasaur must evolve! Why do you refuse?"]'' :'''Ash's Bulbasaur''': Bulbasaur! Bulba Bulba... ''[shakes its head]'' ...Bulbasaur, Saur! ''["I didn't come here for this festival, and I don't think I'll ever be ready to evolve."]'' :'''Venusaur''': Venusaur? Venu SAUR! ''["What? How disgraceful of you to trespassing our festival!"]'' :'''All the Ivysaur''': Ivysaur! ''["Trespasser!"]'' :'''Ash's Bulbasaur''': Bulbasaur? :''[Ash, Brock and Misty have seen what has happened]'' :'''Misty''': The others are getting really angry at Bulbasaur. :'''Ash''': I wonder why? :'''Brock''': Bulbasaur's more stubborn than you! :'''Venusaur''': Venusaur! ''[uses Vine Whip on Ash's Bulbasaur]'' :'''Ash's Bulbasaur''': BULBA! ''["YIKES!"]'' :'''Ash''': Hey! ''[jumps down onto the field]'' :'''Pikachu: Pik! ''[follows Ash]'' :'''Ash''': ''[stands in the way of Venusaur's Vine Whip attack to protect his Bulbasaur]'' Oh! :'''Pikachu''': Pikapi? :'''Ash's Bulbasaur''': Bulbasaur? :''[Ash turns and grins at Pikachu and Bulbasaur]'' ===''Riddle Me This'' [1.52]=== :''[Ash and the gang were in a wading pool, trying to figure out a riddle]'' :'''Brock''': It's where a firefighter can never win. Where could that be? :'''Misty''': Where can a firefighter never win? Maybe someplace that doesn't have enough water. ''[realizes Togepi has wandered off to shore]'' Huh? Togepi? :'''Togepi''': ''[seeing the Gyrados fixture]'' Toge. :'''Misty''': What are you doing, Togepi? Togepi, move away! That water's boiling. ''[Togepi climbs to the top of the fixture and jumps on it multiple times before opening the secret entrance]'' ===''The Case of the K-9 Caper!'' [1.53]=== ===''Pokémon Paparazzi'' [1.54]=== ===''The Ultimate Test'' [1.55]=== :'''Narrator''': There seems to be a little mix-up! ===''The Breeding Center Secret'' [1.56]=== :'''Jessie''': James! Watch where you're throwing that dirt! :'''James''': Watch?! I can't see the foot in front of my face! :'''Meowth''': If you don't quit squawkin', you'll see the foot in front of your face! Mine! ===''All Fired Up!'' [1.57]=== :'''Ash''': ''[shouts excitedly]'' Yee...'''''HAH!''''' :'''Misty''': Ash, are you going crazy?! :'''Brock''': The answer is yes. :'''Pikachu''': Pika. ''[Togepi suddenly starts crying as a result of Ash scaring it]'' :'''Misty''': Now, just look what you did to Togepi. Oh, it's all right, little Togepi. ''[After the crying stops, Togepi lets out a very sad squeak]'' :''[Squirtle’s Water Gun hits Team Rocket to put out the fire and they are crisped up from the flame]'' :'''Meowth''': Dat was very refreshing. :'''Jessie''': ''[loses her temper]'' Listen twerp! Just because you and that swuirt toy saved our lives, it doesn’t mean we can’t be mean!! :'''James''': We’re taking that flame-o, lame-o! ===''Fire and Ice'' [1.58]=== :''[Ash and Pikachu were having a meal at an all-you-can-eat buffet when Misty and Togepi arrive]'' :'''Misty''': Careful, Ash. All that food can make your belly as big as your head. :'''Togepi''': Toge, Toge. :'''Ash''': Thanks, Mist, but I can't help it. I got all this food for free! That's 'cause she happens to be a big fan of mine. :'''Misty''': ''[puts Togepi down]'' Ash, everybody in the Pokémon League gets to eat here for free. ''[does not realize that Togepi slides off the booth seat and heads across the floor]'' :'''Ash''': What?! Really? :'''Misty''': I know you won twice, and that's great. But you can't let that make you crazy. :'''Ash''': I can't? How come? :'''Misty''': Oh, well. I give up. :'''Pikachu''': ''[seeing Togepi pulling the tablecloth with the cutlery on top]'' Pika, Pika! ''[the cutlery falls over]'' PIKACHU! ''[dives in, but Togepi walks out of harm's way and the cutlery lands around Pikachu, who catches the fork with the teeth]'' Pikachu. :'''Togepi''': Toge, Toge, Toge. ''[laughs at Pikachu holding the fork with the mouth]'' Togepi! ==External links== {{Wikipedia|List of Pokémon: Indigo League episodes}} {{Authority control}} [[Category:Japanese TV shows]] [[Category:Pokémon]] ktv6ilisha2vxueg0z3q41klm7h1p58 3961283 3961282 2026-07-05T20:54:15Z ~2026-22475-30 3310494 3961283 wikitext text/x-wiki ---- {{Pokémon header}} ---- <br/> This is a list of episodes in '''''Pokémon: Indigo League''''', the first season of the Pokémon animated series (ポケットモンスター Poketto Monsutā?, Pokét Monsters), covering the adventures of the series protagonist Ash Ketchum and his friends Pikachu, Misty and Brock on the way to the Indigo Plateau. ===''Pokémon: I Choose You'' [1.01]=== :''[First lines. The opening cutscene of Pokémon Red and Blue (Red and Green in Japan) plays, portraying a battle between a Gengar and a Nidorino. Near the end, the cutscene transitions from the Game Boy's 8-bit graphics to vivid cel animation, revealing the battle to be happening in a packed stadium.]'' :'''Stadium Announcer''': And Nidorino begins the battle with a Horn Attack! Oh, but Gengar bounces right back, ''[Gengar uses Hypnosis]'' and there it is, the Hypnosis Power of Gengar! This could be the end of Nidorino. ''[Nidorino gets recalled by his trainer]'' Wait, the trainer recalled Nidorino. Which Pokémon will he use now? ''[the trainer throws a green and white Poké ball, Gengar steps back and out comes an Onix]'' Oh, it's Onix! Now this giant Pokémon's on the attack. ''[the camera pulls back to reveal that the battle is on television]'' Ho-ho, but Gengar jumps aside! Gengar is moving beautifully today. Its training is top-notch, no doubt about it! :''[As the commentary on TV continues, a spikey haired boy named Ash Ketchum puts on a green fingerless glove.]'' :'''Ash''': ''[in his mind]'' Yes, I am Ash. ''[the camera cuts to him in his room, He wore a red and white cap with a dark green L like symbol and a blue and white buttoned short sleeved shirt under a dark slate gray shirt, and light blue cuffed jeans]'' :'''Narrator''': Ash Ketchum is a boy from Pallet Town. :''[We see a Poliwag-style pencil sharpener, a Clefairy-shaped piggy bank and two Zubats hanging on a hanger. We then see the boy, Ash Ketchum, putting his white trainers on]'' :'''Ash Ketchum''': ''[speaks]'' And now that I'm 10, I can finally get my Pokémon license. :''[The camera shows a poster with a Squirtle, a Bulbasaur and a Charmander]'' :'''Narrator''': 10-year-olds can get a beginner Pokémon from Professor Oak, the town's Pokémon expert. :'''Ash Ketchum''': ''[puts on his hat, then flips it backwards]'' I will journey to gain the wisdom of Pokémon training, ''[picks up a Voltorb alarm clock and gets a green Speed Stripes background behind him]'' and I hereby declare to the Pokémon of the world; I will be a Pokémon Master. Pokémon Master! That is what I'll- :'''Delia Ketchum''': ''[offscreen]'' Ash, get to bed! ''[Ash yelps and flings the Voltorb alarm clock toward her, who catches it and shows Ash the time]'' It's 11:00, and you should be asleep! :'''Ash Ketchum''': But tomorrow, I begin my Pokémon journey. I can't even sleep. :'''Delia Ketchum''': Well, if you can't sleep, at least get ready for tomorrow, so, here, watch this. ''[changes channels on Ash's television]'' :'''Professor Oak''': ''[on TV]'' Good evening, Pallet, tomorrow's the big day for the newest class of Pokémon students. I'd like to introduce you to Bulbasaur, Charmander and Squirtle. Each one is available for new trainees. Which one shall you choose? :'''Delia Ketchum''': Go to bed when this is done. :'''Ash Ketchum''': ''[seeing the commercial]'' Alright, I'm going. :'''Delia''': And change into your pajamas, OK? ''[closes the door]'' :'''Professor Oak''': ''[on TV]'' ...character to help them develop their special powers. :'''Ash''': ''I'm going.'' :''[Cut to title card]'' :'''Ash''' ''[narrating]'' "Pokémon, I Choose You!" <hr width=50%> :'''Delia''': I packed your sneakers and jeans, nice clean shirts and underwear, and your favorite snacks, and some hot chocolate in case you want something hot, but be careful not to burn yourself. And a pair of rubber gloves to do your laundry and a new clothesline to hang it out to dry, and- :'''Ash''': Mom, you are embarrassing me, in front of all these people! Don't you know, I'm a big kid now? Pokémon Trainers can take care of themselves. <hr width=50%> :'''Ash''': Hey! Get away from there! ''[angrily groans]'' :''[A Rattata runs away from Ash's backpack]'' :'''Pokédex''': A forest Pokémon: Rattata. It likes cheese, nuts, fruits, and berries. :'''Ash''': Yeah, but this isn't a forest. It's an open field! :'''Pokédex''': It also comes out into open fields to steal food from ''stupid'' travellers. :'''Ash''': That means I'm stupid...? :''[Pikachu laughs hysterically from a tree branch]'' <hr width=50%> :''[Ash and Pikachu are being chased by a flock of Spearow. He steals the bicycle of a young girl, later known as Misty, to flee the Spearow, but he eventually rides off a cliff, falling off of the bike, with the Spearow still in hot pursuit. Ash then persuades Pikachu, who became weak after the trip, to enter his Poké Ball, but to no avail. This gives Ash no choice but to muster up the guts to take on the Spearow himself]'' :'''Ash''': Spearows, do you know who I am? I am Ash, from the town of Pallet. I'm destined to be the world's number-one Pokémon Master. I can't be defeated by the likes of you. ''[Pikachu, hearing Ash's speech, starts to pay attention to his Trainer's bravery as he continues on]'' I'm going to capture and defeat you all. You hear me? ''[the Spearow hone-in on Ash in the final moments before their attack, leading him to plead one last time for Pikachu's safety]'' '''[[w:Pikachu|Pikachu]]''', go inside the Poké Ball; it's the only way. ''[Pikachu looks down at the Poké Ball, and then back at him. A lightning bolt strikes behind the Spearow]'' '''''Come and get me!''''' ''[as the Spearow charge in toward him, Pikachu starts running toward him, climbing onto his shoulder, and jumping off Ash's shoulder to counter the Spearow]'' Whoa! :'''Pikachu''': ''[a lightning bolt strikes him]'' ''Pika-'''CHU!''''' :'''Ash''': '''''WHOA!''''' :''[He releases a powerful Thunder Shock, dispersing the Spearow and creating a large explosion in the area]'' <hr width=50%> :''[Last lines; In the aftermath of Pikachu's act of defense toward Ash, the rainy night turns into a sunny morning. The camera shows Misty's bike that Ash took to escape the Spearow flock, revealing that said bike was destroyed by Pikachu's Thunder Shock, and the camera pan toward an unconscious Ash and Pikachu, and the two of them slowly wake up]'' :'''Pikachu''': ''[weakly]'' '''[[w:Pikachu|Pikachu]]'''. :'''Ash''': ''[breathes a sigh of relief]'' Well, we beat 'em. :'''Pikachu''': ''[in agreement]'' Chu. :''[In the sky, a large golden bird-like Pokémon, which later was revealed as the Legendary Pokémon Ho-Oh, cries out as it flies over Ash and Pikachu as a sign of amazing things to come]'' :'''Ash''': Huh? ''[notices what he doesn't yet know to be Ho-Oh as it flies off towards a rainbow, leaving a trail of sparkles]'' What's that? :'''Pokédex''': There is no data. There are still Pokémon yet to be identified. :''[Ho-Oh is seen one last time flying off into the bright blue sky]'' :'''Narrator''': This is just the beginning of the amazing adventures of Ash and '''[[w:Pikachu|Pikachu]]'''. Their journey is destined to be packed with non-stop action, millions of laughs, heart-pounding perils, and endless excitement. ''[Ash, holding Pikachu, stops at the top of a hill. Pikachu then licks Ash's face, which moves him to near tears. However, he holds them in, as he realizes he must get to a Pokémon Center to heal Pikachu's wounds as soon as possible]'' Together, they'll encounter fantastic friends, evil enemies and meet creatures beyond their wildest imagination, and as their story unfolds, we'll unlock the magic and mystery of a most wondrous place: '''[[w:Pokémon|the incredible world of Pokémon]]'''! :''[The screen shrinks to the left, then stops moving. The text "TO BE CONTINUED" appears.]'' ===''Pokémon Emergency! [1.02]''=== :''[The episode begins with a recap of the previous episode, starting with Ash declaring his ambitions of becoming a Pokémon Master over a background set of green speed lines]'' :'''Ash''': That's right! I declare to the Pokémon of the world. I will be the greatest Pokémon Trainer. The greatest Pokémon Master...of all time! :'''Narrator''': Last time, Ash, our hero from Pallet, chose Pikachu, a Pokémon who was not too thrilled with its new trainer. Soon, they found themselves fighting off a flock of fearsome Spearows. Pikachu saved the day with its amazing Thunder Shock, but the electrifying encounter left Pikachu weak and his fate in Ash's hands. :'''Ash''': We...beat 'em. :'''Pikachu''': ''[weakly]'' Chu. :''[The recap ends and the scene changes to the second episode's title card]'' :'''Ash''': ''[voiceover]'' Pokémon Emergency! :''[We then cut to Viridian City in a sunset. Then, we hear the voice of a female police officer, named Officer Jenny, making an announcement about potential thieves in the area.]'' :'''Officer Jenny''': Attention, citizens of Viridian City! Attention, citizens of Viridian City! We have reports of possible Pokémon thieves in our area! Be on the lookout for suspicious looking strangers! Repeat: Be on the lookout for suspicious looking - Huh? ''[sees Ash rushing Pikachu to the Pokémon Center.]'' Speak of the Devil! ''[grabs Ash by the shirt collar to stop him]'' Hold it! And just where do you think you're going with that Pokémon, young man? :'''Ash''': ''[angrily]'' It's my Pokémon and its hurt! And I gotta get it to the hospital right away! :'''Officer Jenny''': Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you might be stealing it. Just show me your ID and you can go. :'''Ash''': ''[surprised]'' ID? Ugh... I don't have any. You see, we just came here from Pallet and we- :'''Officer Jenny''': You know, you're the fourth person I've seen today from Pallet Town. :'''Ash''': The fourth? Oh, that means Gary Oak's here already. :'''Officer Jenny''': It's very unusual for someone to carry a Pokémon in his arms and not in a Pokéball. How do I know you didn't steal that Pokémon, especially since you don't have any identification? :'''Ash''': Please let me through. I wouldn't steal a Pokémon, and I've got to get Pikachu to the hospital. Please, miss. :'''Officer Jenny''': ''[notices something in Ash's pocket]'' Hey, what's that in your pocket? :'''Ash''': What? ''[takes out his Pokédex]'' Oh, this? :'''Officer Jenny''': ''[swipes the Pokédex from Ash]'' This is perfect! A Pokédex! This will solve our problem! ''[presses some buttons in Ash's Pokédex]'' Let's see if you're the real deal... :'''Dexter''': I'm Dexter, a Pokédex programmed by Professor Oak for Pokémon Trainer Ash Ketchum of the town of Pallet. My function is to provide Ash with information and advice regarding Pokémon and their training. If lost or stolen, I cannot be replaced. :'''Ash''': Oh, my Pokédex. I didn't realize it was also my ID. Can I take Pikachu to the Pokémon Center now? :'''Officer Jenny''': I'll get you there in no time at all. ''[They mount on board her motorcycle.]'' Sit back, hold on and don't yell. :''[She revs her engine and they take off to the Pokémon Center, leaving a cloud of dust.]'' :'''Ash''': '''WHOA!''' :''[Meanwhile, caught in the dust is Misty, who is holding her charred bicycle and is not happy with Ash for taking it]'' :'''Misty''': ''[coughing]'' Hey, what's the big idea?! Ugh, come back here! ''[runs after Ash with her burnt bike]'' :''[A hook grabs hold of the Wanted poster on its bottom right corner and removes it from the noticeboard. Then, we notice that the hook is coming from a Meowth balloon controlled by two members from Team Rocket, Jessie and James. Soon, Jessie and James are looking at the Wanted poster]'' :'''Jessie''': A Wanted poster. How flattering. :'''James''': Flattering? This picture makes me look terrible. :'''Jessie''': Then, you should be happy The Photographer captured the real you. :'''James''': Exactly. :'''Jessie''': We'll show these bumpkins. :'''James''': The people of Viridian City will be sorry they ever saw this face. :''[The camera cuts to a Meowth who can speak human]'' :'''Meowth''': We're all sorry to see your face. Stay focused. We're here to capture rare and unusual Pokémon. Don't forget, Meowth. :'''Jessie''': Absolutely. :'''James''': But of course. :'''Meowth''': And just remember, I'm the top cat. :'''James''': You got it. :'''Meowth''': Meowth. :''[Down on the ground, Officer Jenny is driving Ash and Pikachu to Viridian City's Pokémon Centre when she sees it straight ahead]'' :'''Officer Jenny''': There it is! :''[Viridian City's gigantic Pokémon Centre comes into view]'' :'''Ash''': Pokémon Centre? It's gigantic. :'''Officer Jenny''': This is tricky. Just hold on. Here we go! ''[jumps high on her motorcycle]'' :'''Ash''': Whoa! :''[The motorcycle comes skidding into the Pokémon Centre and stops right in front of the reception desk which is being manned by a Pokémon Nurse called Nurse Joy. Officer Jenny puts her foot on the pedal to stop her motorcycle]'' :'''Nurse Joy''': ''[annoyed]'' We have a driveway, you know. :'''Officer Jenny''': It's a Pokémon Emergency! :'''Ash''': ''[stands up]'' Please help it! :'''Nurse Joy''': Looks like a Pikachu. We’ll do what we can. ''[turns round to her computer]'' I need a stretcher for a small electric Pokémon, stat! :''[A couple of Chansey enter with a stretcher]'' :'''Chansey''': Chansey! :''[Nurse Joy puts Ash's injured Pikachu on the stretcher]'' :'''Nurse Joy''': It'll be okay. ''[to Chansey]'' Rush this Pokémon to the critical care unit. :'''Chansey''': Chansey! :''[They take Pikachu away with the stretcher]'' :'''Nurse Joy''' ''[puts on a pair of white gloves as one of the Chansey stands next to her]'' We’ll begin the treatment right away. :'''Ash''': Uh... :'''Nurse Joy''': Who are you? :'''Officer Jenny''': His name is Ash. He's the Pokémon's Trainer. :'''Ash''': If there's anything I can do, please just tell me. :'''Nurse Joy''': You can be more responsible. :'''Ash''': Uh? :'''Nurse Joy''': ''[sternly]'' If you want to become a Pokémon trainer, young man, you don't let your Pokémon battle till it's in this condition. :'''Ash''': But you don't know what happened. :'''Nurse Joy''': What's past is past. Now, we have to heal your Pikachu. :'''Ash''': What can I do? :'''Nurse Joy''': Just leave everything to me. :'''Ash''': Please. :'''Officer Jenny''': It's in your hands. I know you'll give the Pokémon excellent care. :'''Nurse Joy''': You got it here just in time. :'''Officer Jenny''': That's my job. ''[realises something]'' Oh my goodness. I left my motorcycle parked at the front desk! :'''Nurse Joy''': Next time, use the driveway. :'''Officer Jenny''': ''[chuckling sheepishly]'' Heh heh. ''[leaves]'' :'''Nurse Joy''': Ash, you'll will have to go to the waiting room. :'''Ash''': Can't I... ''[the door closes after Nurse Joy goes through; in his mind]'' Pikachu. <hr width=50%/> :'''Professor Oak''': When my grandson Gary said that you wouldn't have a single new Pokémon by the time you got to Viridian City, I bet him $1,000,000 that he'd be wrong! :'''Ash''': ''[surprised]'' Well, money isn't everything, right? :'''Professor Oak''': ''[dejected]'' Oh, why do I even bother? <hr width=50%/> :''[Misty confronts Ash at the Pokémon Center with her burnt bicycle]'' :'''Misty''': ''[panting]'' I knew I'd find you here! :'''Ash''': ''[seeing that her bike is destroyed]'' Hey, what happened to your bike?! :'''Misty''': What happened to my bike?! ''YOU'' happened to my bike, you little loser! This is what's left after you stole it to save your Pokémon! Now I can see why your Pokémon is in... WHOAOAOAOAH! ''[tumbles over and falls down]'' :'''Ash''': Let me help you. :'''Misty''': ''[slaps Ash's left arm]'' I don’t need your help, and you're gonna pay for what you did to my bike! :'''Ash''': I'll make up for it. I promise I will, really. But I can't do anything about your bike until... :'''Misty''': ''[angrily]'' I don't want any of your lame excuses, kid! I just want a new bike right now! :'''Ash''': It's my Pikachu. My Pikachu's not too good. :''[Misty becomes worried as Ash looks behind at the red light with a needle on it]'' :'''Misty''': Is it very serious? :'''Ash''': I think so, and there's nothing I can do to help now. <hr width=50%/> :''[Ash, Misty, and Nurse Joy have their lines of sight impaired by a Koffing's Smokescreen attack]'' :'''Ash''': What are...Who are they?! :'''Jessie''': Don't be frightened, little boy. :'''James''': Allow us to introduce ourselves. :'' [A teenage girl and boy emerge from the smoke]'' :'''Jessie''': To protect the world from devastation. :'''James''': To unite all people within our nation. :'''Jessie''': To denounce the evils of truth and love! :'''James''': To extend our reach to the stars above. :'''Jessie''': Jessie! :'''James''': James. :'''Jessie''': Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light! :'''James''': Surrender now or prepare to fight! :'''Meowth''':''[appearing from the top of the screen]'' Meowth! That's right! :'''Ash''': What are you talking about? :'''Jessie''': He just doesn't get it, does he? :'''Ash''': ''[off camera]'' How can I? You don't make any sense. :'''James''': We're here for the Pokémon. :'''Ash''': You're NOT getting Pikachu! :'''Jessie''': Pikachu? We're not interested in your precious Electric rat. You are. :'''James''': We seek only rare and valuable Pokémon. :'''Nurse Joy''': You are wasting your time. This is a center for weak and injured Pokémon. :'''Jessie''': Well, that may be so, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if we find a few little Pokémon gems among all the junk. :'''Ash''': You're starting to bug me. :'''Jessie''': Isn't that cute. :'''James''': The boy's bugged. :'''Meowth''': Meowth, then, let's squash him. :'''James''': Koffing, Attack! :'''Jessie''': Ekans, Go! :''[Nurse Joy, Ash and Misty flee the scene with Pikachu on the stretcher as Ekans and Koffing cause destruction]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Misty''': You grab Pikachu and get out of here! I'll take care of these three clowns. :'''Jessie''': That's pretty big talk coming from such a little lady. :'''Misty''': At least you're right about the pretty part, thanks for the compliment. :'''James''': The girl thinks she's pretty. :'''Jessie''': I agree with her. I think she's pretty, too. Pretty pathetic! :'''Misty''': ''[annoyed]'' Hmmmm, I'll show you! Poké Ball, go! ''[Goldeen comes out rolling and jumping on the floor, to Jessie and James' shock]'' Goldeen, return! ''[Goldeen is back inside the Poké Ball]'' :'''Jessie''': That's her best shot? :'''James''': She's all washed up. <hr width=50%/> :'''Officer Jenny''': Too late, but not for the fireworks! <hr width=50%/> :''[The Meowth balloon is flying past the full moon, but Team Rocket is hanging from a rope]'' :'''Jessie''': Great! A cat losing to a mouse! :'''Meowth''': That Pikachu is no ordinary Pikachu. :'''James''': It's certainly very rare. A perfect prize! :'''Jessie''': Let's catch it! :'''Meowth''': Perhaps, we will. :''[Then, the Meowth balloon pops, sending the three characters hurtling through the night]'' ===''Ash Catches a Pokémon'' [1.03]=== :'''Ash''': ''[hugging his Poké-Ball]'' I love my new little Pokémon! :'''Misty''': I guess it takes a worm to love a worm. :'''Ash''': ''[sarcastically]'' Very funny. <hr width=50%/> :'''Misty''': ''[about Caterpie]'' It's so gross. ''[scared]'' Ash, put that slimy thing back in the Poké-Ball! Bugs are one of the three most disgusting things in the world! :'''Ash''': Aside from you, what are the other disgusting things? :'''Misty''': Very funny. ''[smashing]'' Carrots, ''[kicking]'' peppers, ''[hitting with a wooden hammer]'' and bugs. Everybody has something they don't like and I don't like bugs! :'''Ash''': ''[making a silly face]'' Yeah? Well, I like carrots, and peppers, and bugs. ''[now serious]'' What I ''don't'' like is the way you're hurting Caterpie's feelings with your silly fear of bugs. :'''Misty''': ''[dismissively]'' Hmph! ===''Challenge of the Samurai'' [1.04]=== :''[Misty screams]'' :'''Ash''': What's wrong now? :'''Misty''': I saw another bug! Gross! :'''Ash''': Maybe its a... ''[both he and Pikachu sighed. Then he's in the cow costume]'' Cow-terpie! <hr width=50%/> :''[Last lines]'' :'''James''': Do you have any more bright ideas? :'''Jessie''': Well, unlike you at least I have ideas! :'''Meowth''': Yeah, and they're all bad. :'''Jessie''': WHO ASKED YOU?! :''[The Kakunas and Beedrills are suddenly waking up]'' :'''James''': Oh-oh. :'''Jessie''': Oh no. :''[They're attacked by the swarm of Beedrills offscreen]'' ===''Showdown in Pewter City'' [1.05]=== :'''Ash''': My conscience is holding me back! I can't bring myself to beat Brock! I'm imagining his little brothers and sisters stopping me from beating the one person they love! :'''Misty''': Uh, Ash, I think you better open your eyes! <hr width=50%/> :'''Brock''': Hey Ash, are you sure it's okay if I go with you on your Pokémon journey? :'''Ash''': Sure I'm sure, the more the merrier! And it's good to have somebody to talk with. :'''Brock''': Well, what about that girl who keeps following you? :'''Misty''': DON'T FORGET ABOUT MY BIKE, ASH KETCHUM! I'M GONNA FOLLOW YOU UNTIL YOU PAY ME BACK! :'''Ash''': I know! I KNOW! Pikachu, let's try to lose her! :'''Pikachu''': Chu! ''[runs with Ash]'' :'''Brock''': ''[catching up]'' Wait up, Ash! :'''Misty''': ''[chasing after them]'' YOU WON'T GET AWAY! ===''Clefairy and the Moon Stone'' [1.06]=== :'''Jessie''': Well, it looks like Team Rocket is.... :'''James''': Blasting off again! :'''Meowth''': That was the Metronome! :'''Jessie''': I give it two thumbs down! :'''James''': Me too! :'''Meowth''': Meowth three! ===''The Water Flowers of Cerulean City'' [1.07]=== :'''James''': The coast is clear. :'''Jessie''': Nothing to fear. :'''Meowth''': Nobody here! <hr width=50%/> :'''Officer Jenny''': You two look very suspicious to me. :'''Ash''': Hey, you're that motorcycle officer from Viridian. :'''Officer Jenny''': Huh? Ah, you must've met my sister-in-law. If you know my sister-in-law, that means you probably had some dealings with the police in Viridian! :'''Ash''': Well, I... :'''Officer Jenny''': Now, maybe you just stopped to ask her for directions, or maybe you found a wallet on the street and turned it in to her, OR MAYBE YOU'RE A BURGLAR WHO BROKE OUTTA JAIL!!! ''[swings her handcuffs in a loop like a yo-yo]'' :'''Ash''': I've never been to jail! :'''Brock''': Neither have I, ma'am. :'''Officer Jenny''': That's what they all say. <hr width=50%/> :'''Misty''': Oh no! Staryu looks like it's in real pain! :'''Ash''': It doesn't even have a face. How can you tell? :'''Misty''': Because I'm sensitive to other's feelings! That's how! :'''Ash''': ''[sarcastically]'' Oh, yeah? Like I'm not? <hr width=50%/> :'''Ash''': Misty, you're not gonna be a sore loser, aren't you? :'''Misty''': I didn't lose anything! It was just a draw! :'''Ash''': Well, I'm the one who won the badge! :'''Misty''': You know you lost with Butterfree! :'''Ash''': That was just round 1. I made a great comeback! :'''Misty''': If Team Rocket hadn't busted in, I would've destroyed you! :'''Ash''': You're lucky they've showed up. You were about to lose! :'''Misty''': Lose?! I was just getting started! :'''Ash''': Oh, yeah?! :'''Misty''': Oh, yeah! :'''Brock''': Oh, brother! ===''The Path to the Pokémon League'' [1.08]=== ===''The School of Hard Knocks'' [1.09]=== :'''Misty''': All that crunching is ruining my romantic daydreams! <hr width=50%/> :'''Giselle''': True, but there's one thing you didn't know [The screen pans to her in a cerulean blue vest with two buttons under a white short puffy sleeved shirt, a red ribbon, and dark blue pleated skirt. later a group of boys come] your opponent's from the Cerulean City Gym. Her Pokemon has much more experience battling. You should've known that. You're an embarrassment to the whole school! :'''Joe''': But, Giselle... :'''Ash''': [blushing at her] She's really pretty, isn't she? :'''Brock''': Yeah, she looks just like a movie star. ''[Then the screen pans to Misty]'' :'''Misty''': [thinking] They like stars, do they? I'll be glad to show them some stars. ''[Cuts to Giselle is on a blue starry background from the Sailor Moon franchise]'' :'''Giselle''': I'm the top student in the beginning class of the most exclusive club in the world, Pokémon Tech. It's sad that others aren't blessed with my beauty, my talent, my humble attitude. People call me a star, [the shining yellow star flies and cut to her on a galaxy background] but I'm just Giselle. ===''Bulbasaur and the Hidden Village'' [1.10]=== ===''Charmander - The Stray Pokémon'' [1.11]=== :'''Misty''': I just can't go one step further. We've been looking for Vermilion City for 10 whole days! :'''Brock''': Uh, there's a bug right on your... <hr width=50%/> :'''Brock''': ''[as Charmander is dying in the Pokémon Center; in his mind]'' Charmander, you've got to hold on. Please, keep your flame burning. <hr width=50%/> :''[Charmander closes eyes, and uses Flamethrower on Team Rocket and fries them]'' :'''James''': You see!? Did I tell you we needed fire-proof uniform?! :'''Jessie''': Shut up and keep running! :'''Meowth''': Some geniuses! Meowth! :'''Team Rocket''': Looks like Team Rocket's blasting off again! :'''Damian''': ''[appears from the bushes; surprised]'' Charmander beat them? ===''Here Comes the Squirtle Squad'' [1.12]=== :'''Misty''': It's Meowth! :'''Ash''': Meowth?! ===''Mystery at the Lighthouse'' [1.13]=== ===''Electric Shock Showdown'' [1.14]=== :'''Brock''': ''[after Team Rocket's cheer]'' That was really disturbing. <hr width=50%/> :'''Ash''': Use the strategy we planned, Pikachu! You can do it! :'''Surge''': A strategy? So they've planned a new way to lose! ===''Battle Aboard the St. Anne'' [1.15]=== :'''James''': Wait! There goes my next paycheck! :'''Jessie''': Who cares about your paycheck? What about mine?! :'''Meowth''': We gotta get out of here! <hr width=50%/> :'''Captain''': May I have your attention? Anyone who didn't leave the ship safely, please say "Aye." Good. Well done. Everyone's safe then. :'''Narrator''': Not everyone, Captain. And as the St. Anne heads to the bottom of the sea, our heroes, are trapped unconscious inside, and so is Team Rocket. Could this be the end?! How will they escape their "watery" fate? I don't know, but, I have a terrible "sinking" feeling. ===''Pokémon Shipwreck'' [1.16]=== :'''James''': Jessica? :'''Jessie''': Yes, James. :'''James''': Whoever said beauty doesn't last must've been thinking of us. :'''Jessie''': I'll always remember what a wonderful dresser you were.
 :'''James''': So will I. <hr width=50%/> :'''James''': What is that?! :'''Misty''': Now you've done it! Magikarp has evolved into a Gyarados! :'''Jessie''': Gyarados?! I miss Magikarp! <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': Dimwit! If you're the master, don't act like you're scared of it! :'''James''': I am scared! ===''Island of the Giant Pokémon'' [1.17]=== :''[All Pokémon are speaking in Pokémon language, with English subtitles translating their speech]'' :'''Squirtle''': Maybe they got eaten by wild Pokémon. ''[makes a scary face with razor-sharp teeth, making a chomping motion]'' :'''Pikachu''': Don't say things like that! :'''Charmander''': Yeah, cut it out! :'''Squirtle''': Sorry. <hr width=50%/> :''[The first thing Team Rocket does after calling their boss is recite their motto for no apparent reason]'' :'''Giovanni''': Nitwits! How dare you annoy me with your nonsense? Don't ever bother me like this again! ''[hangs up]'' <hr width=50%/> :''[After a giant Venusaur is spotted]'' :'''Squirtle''': ''[to Bulbasaur]'' You go and speak to it, you guys are like family! :'''Bulbasaur''': No way. Just call me an orphan, I have no family. :'''Charmander''': Good point. :'''Squirtle''': Coward. <hr width=50%/> :''[The phone rings]'' :'''Giovanni''': ''[answers it]'' Yes? What?! Pokémon Land has been totally destroyed?! ''[hangs up; growls]'' I spent millions on that place! ===''Beauty and the Beach'' [1.18]=== :'''Prof. Oak''': Your mother's been worried about you, Ash. She says she still thinks of you as her little pumpkin. :'''Ash''': That makes me sound like a baby. :'''Delia''': You'll ''always'' be my baby, won't you? :'''Ash''': Yeah. :'''Delia''': Well, I just hope you aren't eating a lot of junk food and getting into any trouble. :'''Ash''': Of course not! ''[suddenly remembers his boat accident]'' At least not a lotta trouble. :'''Delia''': What's that mean? :'''Moe''': ''I'm'' the one who got into trouble, Mrs. Ketchum. Ash helped out at my restaurant when I really needed help. But even more importantly, your son has been a great inspiration to me. :'''Delia''': That's wonderful! What a relief. :'''Ash''': Thanks, Moe. <hr width="50%"> :''[Misty is walking down the catwalk in a beauty contest, wearing a bikini]'' :'''Misty''': This is totally embarrassing and degrading, but we need the money! ===''Tentacool & Tentacruel'' [1.19]=== ===''The Ghost of Maiden's Peak'' [1.20]=== :'''James''': I can't believe you're letting that ghost get me just because you're both so cheap! :'''Jessie''': You don't want to go? :'''James''': Of course I don't wanna go. I don't wanna go! I don't wanna go! I don't wanna go! <hr width="50%"> :'''James''': You really do care! :'''Jessie''': It's not 'cuz of you. Girls like her disgust me. Always waiting around for her man as if she were his faithful pet. She can't stand the thought of losing him. She cries, but I'd say, "see ya later!". There are plenty more fish in the sea. :'''Meowth''': I could sure go for some fish. <hr width="50%"> :'''Misty''': Then how about this! :'''Gastly''': What's that? :'''Misty''': It's a cross! I've also got garlic, a stake, and a hammer! :'''Gastly''': ...What do I look like, a vampire or something? ===''Bye Bye Butterfree'' [1.21]=== :'''Ash''': Take care, Butterfree! Good luck, buddy! Goodbye, Butterfree. I'll always remember you. Thank you for everything. Goodbye, Butterfree! ===''Abra and the Psychic Showdown'' [1.22]=== :'''Ash''': Telekinesis is okay, but I have my own secret method for bending spoons. ''[bends the spoon with his hands and laughs]'' Muscle over mind! :'''Misty''': Embarrassing. :'''Brock''': Just pretend we never met him before. ===''The Tower of Terror'' [1.23]=== :'''Ash''': I'm feeling like a ghost myself ''[He turns and got a deadly Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror skull mask on]'' BBLLLLAAAAAHHH!!! :'''Both''': AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! :'''Ash''': ''[after frightening his group with a deadly skull mask]'' Sorry, guys! I was just testing you. If we're gonna try to catch a Ghost Pokémon, we gotta learn to deal with fear. That's the only way we can become great Pokémon trainers. :'''Misty''': You must be crazy! :'''Brock''': Don't ever do that! <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': You mangy alley cat! You numskull! You ruined my beautiful face! <hr width=50%/> :'''Misty''': Look! ''[Something flies up the air]'' :'''All''': Huh! [They see at all of those floating in the air] AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! ''[Then a chair flies and knocks Brock in]'' :'''Brock''': WOOOAAAAHHH!! HELP ME! ===''Haunter vs. Kadabra'' [1.24]=== :'''Ash''': Ohh... Sabrina's the meanest Trainer I ever met. :'''Sabrina's Father''': She wasn't always such a mischievous girl. :'''Ash''': You mean, you knew Sabrina before she changed? :'''Sabrina's Father''': Huh? Well! I've heard stories. <hr width=50%> :'''Sabrina's Father''': Though she was very young, Sabrina became completely obsessed with her psychic training. She didn't want to make friends. all she wanted was to be left alone to develop her powers. Her parents tried to help, but Sabrina used her psychic powers to drive them away. The conflict caused Sabrina to split into two girls. The strong Pokémon Trainer who was always causing trouble, and the lonely little girl who desperately desires to make friends. That doll that Sabrina always holds represents her true self, before her training, before she rejected her own heart. :'''Ash''': Sabrina had this picture of her family in her room. If you have the same picture, then, that must mean you are... :'''Sabrina's Father''': Huh?! ''[thinks]'' Does he know? He must have figured it out by now. After everything I said, he must have figured out the truth about Sabrina and me. He must realize that I'm Sabrina's Father! :'''Ash''': ...Then, that must mean you are a photographer. :'''Sabrina's Father''': ''[face faults]'' Whoa! :'''Pikachu''': Pika! :'''Sabrina's Father''': Don't you see?! Don't you get it?! :'''Ash''': Get what? :'''Sabrina's Father''': Never mind... :'''Ash''': Sabrina turned Brock and Misty into dolls. :'''Sabrina's Father''': Yeah, there's nothing we can do about that. :'''Ash''': Whoa! :'''Sabrina's Father''': The only way to rescue your friends is to defeat Sabrina. Isn't that why you traveled to Lavender Town, to get a Ghost Pokémon? :'''Ash''': But Haunter has disappeared someplace. :'''Sabrina's Father''': Then, you must find Haunter first. Without it, you'll never be able to defeat Sabrina and her Psychic Pokémon. :'''Ash''': I guess not... <hr width=50%> :'''Jessie''': To protect the world from devastation. :'''James''': To unite all people within our nation. :'''Jessie''': To denounce the evils of truth and love. :'''James''': To extend our reach to the stars above. :'''Jessie''': Jessie! :'''James''': James! :'''Meowth''': Yeah, yeah, that's very dramatic. Now, let's cut to the chase, and catch that Pikachu. :'''Jessie''': Just leave that to us. :'''Meowth''': By the way, what is the secret weapon you cooked up this time? :'''James''': A deadly weapon that has been perfected for over thousands of years. Now we've learned to use its awesome powers. With a flick of this fishing net, we'll round up Pikachu. :'''Meowth''': You mean that's your secret weapon?! :'''James''': It takes a genius to realize a fishing net is the perfect weapon! :'''Jessie''': Oh, James, it's the greatest discovery since Einstein invented the light bulb! :'''Jessie and James''': ''[sing and dance]'' Even greater than the chicken who invented the egg! :''[The egg falls on them]'' :'''James''': All of us true geniuses know, of course, that it was actually the egg that preceded the chicken. :'''Jessie''': Of course. I knew that. I had just forgotten. :'''Meowth''': Now you got my brain scrambled! Let's cut the egg-splanations and capture Pikachu! <hr width=50%> :'''James''': Don't laugh, Jessie, otherwise you are going to let go. :'''Jessie''': I won't crack. The Members of Team Rocket have been trained to resist all silliness, and to be totally serious! <hr width=50%/> :''[concrete is being poured into a hole Team Rocket is trapped in]'' :'''Jessie''': Hello, up there! Anyone?! We're trapped down here! :'''James''': Stop pouring cement! :'''Meowth''': Get me outta here quick! <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': A little cement.... :'''James''': ...will never stop Team Rocket. :'''Meowth''': A little cement? :'''All three''': ''[flee]'' We're blasting off again! ===''Primeape Goes Bananas'' [1.25]=== :'''Professor Oak''': I can't write a good poem without rhymes, and you can't be a good Pokémon trainer without catching more Pokémon. <hr width="50%"> :'''Brock''': ''[Holding a box of rice balls]'' These donuts are great! Jelly-filled are my favorite! Nothing beats a jelly-filled donut! ===''Pokémon Scent-sation'' [1.26]=== :'''Erika''': P for Pretty, E for Elegant, R for Radiant, F for Fun, U for Urbane, M for Mysterious, E for Energy, and that spells... :'''Misty''': Perfume! :'''Brock''': Right! <hr width=50%/> :''[The three employees angrily confront Ash for his rude remarks about the perfume]'' :'''Employee 1''': YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF! :'''Employee 2''': YOU INSENSITIVE LITTLE WORM! :'''Ash''': What did I say? :''[The purple-haired employee kicks Ash out of the store]'' :'''Employee 3''': GET OUT! AND DON'T COME BACK! :'''Ash''': I don't wanna come back! I'm on my way to the Celadon Gym! <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': It stinks... :'''James''': Just like your plan! :'''Meowth''': You said it! ===''Hypno's Naptime'' [1.27]=== ===''Pokémon Fashion Flash'' [1.28]=== :'''James''': Now we need a total makeover so nobody we ripped off can recognize us! :'''Jessie''': They're all just jealous because they're not attractive enough to wear our designs! :'''Team Rocket''': BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD! :'''Narrator''': So long, Salon Roquet! ===''The Punchy Pokémon'' [1.29]=== :'''Meowth''': Honey baked ham! Roast leg of lamb! Strawberry jam! :'''James''': Sirloin steaks! Chocolate cakes! :'''Jessie''': Can't you numbskulls think of anything but food?! <hr width=50%/> :'''Meowth''': It looks like it works. Really appreciate it. :''[the bomb beeps, electricity hits Team Rocket, they are fried to a crisp, the bomb explodes which sends them outside blasting off] :'''Team Rocket''': Team Rocket's blasting off again! ===''Sparks Fly For Magnemite'' [1.30]=== :'''Ash''': Gee, that Magnemite is following Pikachu around like some sort of streaker. :'''Brock''': Um, Ash, you mean 'stalker'. ----- :'''Professor Oak''': ''[chuckles]'' It's been quite a while since Ash sent me a new Pokémon. I wonder what he's captured this time? ''[a Poke Ball popped open, and as Professor Oak held his nose, out of it comes a very rancid Muk!]'' Hmm? Ugh! What is that smell?! Ew... What's the idea of sending me a Muk?! Yecch! :'''Muk''': MUK!!! ===''Dig Those Diglett'' [1.31]=== :''[A Diglett returns the uncooperative Poké Ball to Gary]'' :'''Gary''': Oh thanks. Wait! This can't happen! <hr width=50%/> :'''James''': Some principle of induced evolution. :'''Jessie''': ''[reads a manual]'' It says here that Pokémon need to accumulate a certain amount of experience points before they can successfully evolve. :'''James''': ''[depressed]'' ''Our'' experience is nothing but losing. ===''The Ninja Poké-Showdown'' [1.32]=== :'''Ash''': Venonat? It's you! I'm gonna teach you a lesson! ''[runs up to it, but it jumps back through the door it came out of]'' Come back! ''[enters through the door, but screams upon seeing spinning projectiles flying towards him]'' :'''Misty and Brock''': ''[react upon hearing the projectiles hit the wall and are concerned about Ash]'' Ash! :'''Pikachu''': Kachu! ''[Ash!]'' :''[Misty, Brock, and Pikachu enter the door, but they find an empty room and cannot find Ash.]'' :'''Misty''': Where is he? :'''Brock''': There must be another way out. :'''Misty''': Maybe it's just another trick. :''[The door soon turns around to reveal Ash pinned to the wall by multiple shurikens, much to their surprise.]'' :'''Ash''': Someone help me... :'''Aya''': ''[cackles and jumps down from the ceiling]'' Born in darkness, living in darkness, such is the fate of the ninja. I am Aya, ninja warrior! :'''Misty''': ''[about Aya's uniform color]'' But don't you think that color is a little bright for a ninja? :'''Aya''': I don't need your fashion report! But tell me, didn't you enjoy my little star treatment? ''[reveals her shuriken]'' :'''Ash''': You can't just chuck throwing stars around. It's dangerous! :'''Misty''': That's right! Tell her, Brock! :''[However, Brock wasn't listening and approached Aya.]'' :'''Brock''': ''[lovestruck]'' I think that electric pink suits you perfectly, and you certainly look lovely. ''[but Aya responds by slapping Brock's hand, much to Ash and Misty's shock and embarrassment]'' :'''Aya''': ''[pushes Brock away]'' This is a training camp! It was your fault you let your guard down. :'''Ash''': ''[offended]'' My guard down? :'''Aya''': I won't let you leave this mansion without having a Pokémon battle with me, first. ''[her Venonat appears behind her]'' :'''Ash''': ''[shrugs]'' Oh, that thing! :'''Aya''': This Venonat informed me that three stupid-looking people had entered the mansion. :'''Ash''': For your information, we're not the stupid ones around here! I accept your challenge! ''[suddenly remembers he's still stuck]'' Uh, but first, could you let me down from here? :''[Everyone face faults in embarrassment. Soon, Ash is freed from his predicament and takes his place on the battlefield.]'' :'''Aya''': One Pokémon for each of us. Choose yours now. ===''The Flame Pokémon-athon!'' [1.33]=== :'''Dario''': ''[growls after his defeat]'' You're the reason I didn't win the Pokémon challenge! Team Rocket's the worst. :'''Jessie''': We'll just have to plan better next year. :'''James''': And maybe you can get some nicer riding clothes. :'''Meowth''': And give that smelly bird a bath. ===''The Kangaskhan Kid'' [1.34]=== ===''The Bridge Bike Gang'' [1.35]=== :''[Ash, Misty and Brock finds out Jessie and James used to belong to a bike gang]'' :'''James''': I guess our secret past is not a secret anymore. :'''Ash''': I kind of wish it still was! ===''Ditto's Mysterious Mansion'' [1.36]=== :'''James''': Will you stop it, Meowth?! :'''Jessie''': The only way we can get out of this mess is to dress you up like a Dratini and present you to the boss. :'''Meowth''': Pea-brains! This won't work! ===''Pikachu's Goodbye'' [1.37]=== :'''Meowth''': It's a Pika-Palooza! :'''Jessie''': We're at the Pika of our powers. :'''James''': Chu can say that again, Jess! <hr width=50%/> :''[Last lines; the Pikachu cheer]'' :'''Misty''': What do you think they're doing? :'''Brock''': Well, I think they might be cheering. For Ash and for Pikachu! :''[Pikachu runs up to Ash, who smiles tearfully]'' :'''Pikachu''': ''[leaps up to him]'' Pikapi! :'''Ash''': Pikachu! :''[They embrace joyfully]'' :'''Narrator''': Another adventure has brought Ash and Pikachu even closer. In their hearts, they know they'll go on to face every challenge together. ===''The Battling Eevee Brothers'' [1.48]=== :''[Jessie breathes fire in anger]'' :'''Meowth''': Wow! Jessie just evolved into a Flareon! <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': Well, it's back to eating the lunch of losers. :'''James''': Victory tasted a lot better. ===''Wake Up Snorlax!'' [1.39]=== ===''Showdown at Dark City'' [1.40]=== :''[Last lines; Team Rocket is still covered in red paint]'' :'''Jessie''': Well, that was a complete waste of time. :'''James''': Looks like we're through. :'''Meowth''': ''[notices Electabuzz and Scyther charging at them]'' Huh? Unfortunately, we're not quite through yet. :'''Jessie and James''': Huh? :'''Scyther''': Scyther! :'''Electabuzz''': Blblblblblblbl! :'''Team Rocket''': AAH! :'''James''': Somebody... :'''Team Rocket''': HELP! ===''The March of the Exeggutor Squad'' [1.41]=== ===''The Problem with Paras'' [1.42]=== :'''Jessie''': Well, there goes our billions. :'''James''': And zillions. :'''Meowth''': I'm a hero, but I got zero! ===''The Song of Jigglypuff'' [1.43]=== :''[Team Rocket realizes they recorded their own snoring instead of Jigglypuff's song]'' :'''James''': What is that awful sound? :'''Jessie''': It's all of us snoring! :'''Meowth''': What are we supposed to do with that? ===''Attack of the Prehistoric Pokémon'' [1.44]=== :''[Gary is digging for fossils and stumbles upon one]'' :'''Gary''': Success! My first Pokémon fossil! :'''Fan Girls''': Yay! Gary, Gary, he's the best! Found a fossil before the rest! Go, Gary! :''[An expert comes over, takes the fossil out of Gary's hands and examines it]'' :'''Gary''': Impressive, isn't it? Found it on my first try. Looks like a brain from an extinct Pokémon. :'''Expert''': This is- :'''Gary''': ''[hopeful]'' A brain? :'''Expert''': It's fossilized Pokémon manure. :''[Gary face faults]'' :'''Fan Girls''': Ew. Yuck! Gross! ===''A Chansey Operation'' [1.45]=== ===''Holy Matrimony!'' [1.46]=== :''[Arriving next to the normal mansion]'' :'''Ash''': Whoa! Look at that! :'''Misty''': It's huge! :'''Brock''': I've seen shopping malls smaller than this place! :'''Misty''': It must have a hundred rooms! :'''Ash''': It's the biggest mansion I've ever seen! :'''Hopkins''': ''[through the megaphone]'' This is not the mansion! This little dog house is for Growlie. <hr width=50%/> :[After hearing James' tragic but fake story] :'''Jessie''': That's such a sad ending! :'''Meowth''': That poor kid! :'''Brock''': I can't believe James is gone! :'''Ash''': I miss him! :'''Misty''': ''[annoyed]'' Hmph! JAMES IS STANDING RIGHT HERE! :'''James''': Huh? Wait. Yeah, that right! ''[both Jessie and Meowth glare at him]'' Aah! I'm all mixed up! <hr width=50%/> :'''Meowth''': ''[sighs]'' I guess all of that money and luxury was just too tempting for James to give up. ===''So Near, Yet So Farfetch'd'' [1.47]=== ===''Who Gets to Keep Togepi?'' [1.58]=== ===''Bulbasaur's Mysterious Garden'' [1.49]=== :'''Ash''': It's gotta be okay. ''[as Nurse Joy and Chansey cart Bulbasaur to the healing room, a bunch of flowers start to bloom in the vase magically]'' :'''Togepi''': ''[noticing the flowers]'' Prii! Toge, Toge, Toge, Toge, Toge, Toge, Toge, Togepri! :'''Misty''': What's the matter, Togepi? Is something wrong? Huh? <hr width="50%/"> :''[Ash, Brock and Misty join Pikachu and see an entire field full of Bulbasaur, and the pollen trail going straight to a giant, dead tree]'' :'''Ash''': Wow! This must be the Mysterious Garden! :''[Down in the field, the Bulbasaur are starting the ceremony by chanting their names]'' :'''Group of Bulbasaur''': ''[chanting]'' Bulba, Bulba, Bulbasaur. Bulba, Bulba, Bulbasaur. Bulba, Bulba, Bulbasaur... :''[As they continue chanting, the branches of the tree start growing, nearly going up to the moon. Soon, flowers start blooming in the field and flowers start to blossom on the tips of the branches of the tree, leaving our heroes in wonderment]'' :'''Ash''': That's neat! :'''Misty''': Wow! It's so pretty! :''[Then, some giant bangs are heard and a glow is seen inside the tree]'' :'''Ash''': What's that banging sound? :''[The source of the banging is soon revealed to be a Venusaur, who steps onto the tree stump in front of the tree where it came from]'' :'''Venusaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :'''Ash''': Look, you guys! It's a Venusaur! :'''Misty'''': It's giant! :''[Ash gets out his Pokédex to scan Venusaur]'' :'''Ash's Pokédex''': Venusaur, the final form of the Bulbasaur evolution. This Seed Pokémon soaks up the sun's rays as a source of energy. :'''Brock''': Hmmm, But that kind of behaviour makes it sound like a plant. :'''Ash''': I don't see my Bulbasaur anyplace around here! :'''Misty''': Hey, Ash, your Bulbasaur still has that bandage on its head. :'''Ash''': Hmmmm. :'''Pikachu''': ''[sees Ash's Bulbasaur; jumping up in excitement]'' Pika! :'''Ash''': Hey, there it is! Over here, Bulba- :'''Brock''': ''[covers Ash's mouth]'' Hey, not so loud! Don't forget. Human beings aren't supposed to be here. :'''Ash''': Oh, right. :'''Misty''': Let's watch the festival. :''[Soon, the festival is underway]'' :'''Venusaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :'''All the Bulbasaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :'''Venusaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :'''All the Bulbasaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :'''Venusaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :'''All the Bulbasaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :'''Venusaur''': SAUR! ["RISE!"] :'''All the Bulbasaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :''[Ash's Bulbsasaur is watching quietly]'' :'''Venusaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :'''All the Bulbasaur''': SAUR! ["RISE!"] :'''Ash's Bulbasaur''': Bulbasaur. :'''Venusaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"'' :'''All the Bulbasaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :''[As the festival goes on, the Bulbasaur start glowing]'' :'''Venusaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :'''All the Bulbasaur''': SAUR! ''["RISE!"]'' :''Ash, Brock and Misty are amazed by what they have seen. Meanwhile, Team Rocket have come across the vine wall blocking the entrance to the festival]'' :'''Jessie''': How do we get in there? :'''James''': Why doesn't just Meowth just Scratch his way through with his claws? :'''Meowth''': I just filed them. :'''Jessie''': ''[holding an axe]'' Alright, garden wall, you axed for it! :'''James''': ''[holding a saw]'' We're the toughest team you ever saw! :'''Meowth''': ''[holding a pair of scythes]'' Let's cut ta da chase! :''[However, before they can start chopping the wall apart, the vines attack them and force them back]'' :'''Jessie''': A temper tantrum, eh?! Let's get to the root of its problem! :'''Meowth''': En garde! :''[They charge at the vines, but the vines force them to retreat]'' :'''James''': I think its bite is as bad as its bark! :''[Back in the field, the Bulbasaur begin to glow bright. The glows soon fade to reveal that most of them have evolved into Ivysaur]'' :'''One of the Ivysaur''': Ivysaur! ''["Alright!"]'' :'''Ash''': Alright! ''[scans Ivysaur with his Pokédex]'' :'''Ash's Pokédex''': The Seed Pokemon, Ivysaur, Bulbasaur's evolved form. The bulb on its back absorbs nourishment and blooms into a large flower. :'''Venusaur''': Saur. ''["Begin!"]'' :'''All the Ivysaur''': Saur. ["We begin!"] :'''Venusaur''': Saur. ''["Begin!"]'' :'''All the Ivysaur''': Saur. ''["We begin!"]'' :'''Ash''': This must be their evolution festival. :'''Brock''': For a long time, people have disagreed whether Bulbasaur is an animal-type Pokémon or a plant-type. If either plants or animals disappear from the planet, life wouldn't go on. :'''Misty''': They need each other to live and grow. :'''Pikachu''': Pika. :'''Brock''': Maybe the Bulbasaur are a sign that all Life on Earth is connected. :'''Ash''': Maybe you're right. I wonder if my Bulbasaur's gonna evolve, too. ''[surprised by what he sees]'' :'''Brock''': Huh? :''[Ash and his friends see that Ash's Bulbasaur hasn't evolved and is now resisting the evolutionary process]'' :'''Misty''': It's not evolving! :'''Ash''': Why not? :'''Brock''': It looks like it's trying NOT to evolve! :'''Pikachu''': Pika? :'''Venusaur''': Venus, Venusaur? ''["What? Who is that over there?"]'' :'''Ash's Bulbasaur''': Bulbasaur? :'''Venusaur''': Venusaur? ''["Why have you not evolved?"]'' :'''Ash's Bulbasaur''': Bulba? ''["Pardon?"]'' :'''Venusaur''': Venu, Venusaur? ''["I said, 'Why have you not evolved?'"]'' :'''Ash's Bulbasaur''': Bulba, Bulbasaur. ''["I just wasn't ready to evolve."]'' :'''Venusaur''': Venusaur, Venusaur, Venusaur? ''["All Bulbasaur must evolve! Why do you refuse?"]'' :'''Ash's Bulbasaur''': Bulbasaur! Bulba Bulba... ''[shakes its head]'' ...Bulbasaur, Saur! ''["I didn't come here for this festival, and I don't think I'll ever be ready to evolve."]'' :'''Venusaur''': Venusaur? Venu SAUR! ''["What? How disgraceful of you to trespassing our festival!"]'' :'''All the Ivysaur''': Ivysaur! ''["Trespasser!"]'' :'''Ash's Bulbasaur''': Bulbasaur? :''[Ash, Brock and Misty have seen what has happened]'' :'''Misty''': The others are getting really angry at Bulbasaur. :'''Ash''': I wonder why? :'''Brock''': Bulbasaur's more stubborn than you! :'''Venusaur''': Venusaur! ''[uses Vine Whip on Ash's Bulbasaur]'' :'''Ash's Bulbasaur''': BULBA! ''["YIKES!"]'' :'''Ash''': Hey! ''[jumps down onto the field]'' :'''Pikachu: Pik! ''[follows Ash]'' :'''Ash''': ''[stands in the way of Venusaur's Vine Whip attack to protect his Bulbasaur]'' Oh! :'''Pikachu''': Pikapi? :'''Ash's Bulbasaur''': Bulbasaur? :''[Ash turns and grins at Pikachu and Bulbasaur]'' ===''The Case of the K-9 Caper!'' [1.50]=== ===''Pokémon Paparazzi'' [1.51]=== ===''The Ultimate Test'' [1.52]=== :'''Narrator''': There seems to be a little mix-up! ===''The Breeding Center Secret'' [1.53]=== :'''Jessie''': James! Watch where you're throwing that dirt! :'''James''': Watch?! I can't see the foot in front of my face! :'''Meowth''': If you don't quit squawkin', you'll see the foot in front of your face! Mine! ==External links== {{Wikipedia|List of Pokémon: Indigo League episodes}} {{Authority control}} [[Category:Japanese TV shows]] [[Category:Pokémon]] 5sgabxo4ilvwg829avj30djvfylauee 0 157742 3961175 2161170 2026-07-05T16:32:59Z BD2412 3982 /* S - Z */ Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]], replaced: Thomas Watson, Jr. → Thomas Watson Jr. using [[Project:AWB|AWB]] 3961175 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:ASAM Organizational Structure.jpg|thumb|Organizational Structure of [[:w:Association for Standardisation of Automation and Measuring Systems|ASAM]].]] An '''[[:w:Organizational structure|organizational structure]]''' defines how activities such as task allocation, coordination and supervision are directed towards the achievement of organizational aims. It can also be considered as the viewing glass or perspective through which individuals see their [[organization]] and its [[environment]]. __NOTOC__ :<small>'''CONTENT'''</small> : [[#A - F|A - F]] , [[#G - L|G - L]] , [[#M - R|M - R]] , [[#S - Z|S - Z]] , [[#See also|See also]] , [[#External links|External links]] == Quotes == :''Quotes are arranged alphabetically by author'' === A - F === * Since the concentric organization chart has neither top nor bottom, the interpretations of the relationships existing within the organization are not dependent upon the position of the diagram which represents them. Any organization chart is designed to present certain facts about a given organization at given time. These facts or relationships do not depend on viewing the organization from any particular angle or any specific position, which is also the case for the concentric organization chart. However, with the traditional organization chart, the relationships which it intends to portray can be interpreted properly only when the chart is presented to the viewer in a certain position, that is, with the top at the top and the bottom at the bottom. Should this not be done, the organization should be upside down Should this not be done, the organization would be upside down, with relationships existing inversely to the facts of the organizational structure. ** Edward Franz Leopold Brech (1965) ''Organisation, the framework of management'', p. 438 (published earlier in: ''Journal of applied psychology''. Vol 34. p. 377). * The purposes of [[Organization chart|functional charts]] is : 1. to get an overall picture of the existing organizational structure : 2. discover organizational weaknesses such as: ::a. confused lines of authority and responsibility :: b. duplication of functions :: c. inefficient allocation of personnel :: d. too extended a [[span of control]] :: e. lack of intermediate supervisory levels : 3. discover organizational strengths which may be used in setting standards of good structure : 4. provide a basis for planning : 5. provide a basis for reorganization :* Civil Service Commission, Division of Training (1943) ''Guide To Municipal Functional Organization Charts''. New York City, p. 10 ; Cited in: John J. Unterkofler (1954; p. 19). * The first organization structure in the modern West was laid down in the [[w:canon law|canon law]] of the [[Catholic Church]] eight hundred years ago. ** [[Peter F. Drucker]], ''Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices,'' New York: Harper & Row, 1973. p. 525 === G - L === * You cannot run your business, or anything else, on a [[theory]]. :'''Two Organizational Structures''' :Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization. :'''Leadership''' :Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned. :'''Disease''' :The worst disease that can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposes, alcoholism; it;s egotism. :'''On Carling''' :The key element in good business management is emotional attitude. :* {{w|Harold S. Geneen}}, ''Managing,'' (1984), as cited in: ''Hospital Turnarounds: Lessons in Leadership,'' Beard Books, 1999, p. 100. * There is no such thing as a good or bad organizational structure; there are only appropriate or inappropriate ones. ** [[Harold Kerzner]], ''Project management: a systems approach to planning, scheduling, and controlling'' (1979), p. 93. * The strategic use of information technology (I/T) is now and has been a fundamental issue for every business. In essence, I/T can alter the basic nature of an industry. The effective and efficient utilization of information technology requires the alignment of the I/T strategies with the business strategies, something that was not done successfully in the past with traditional approaches. New methods and approaches are now available. The strategic alignment framework applies the Strategic Alignment Model to reflect the view that business success depends on the linkage of business strategy, information technology strategy, organizational infrastructure and processes, and I/T infrastructure and processes... We [have looked] at why it may not be sufficient to work on any one of these areas in isolation or to only harmonize business strategy and information technology. One reason is that, often, too much attention is placed on technology, rather than business, management, and organizational issues. The objective is to build an organizational structure and set of business processes that reflect the interdependence of enterprise strategy and information technology capabilities. The attention paid to the linkage of information technology to the enterprise can significantly affect the competitiveness and efficiency of the business. The essential issue is how information technology can enable the achievement of competitive and strategic advantage for the enterprise. ** Jerry N. Luftman, Paul R. Lewis, and Scott H. Oldach (1993) "Transforming the enterprise: The alignment of business and information technology strategies." ''IBM Systems Journal'' Vol 32 (1). p. 198 Abstract. === M - R === * Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the unimpeded flow of impulses destructive to others. But when he merges his person into an organizational structure, a new creature replaces autonomous man, unhindered by the limitations of individual morality, freed of humane inhibition, mindful only of the sanctions of authority. ** [[Stanley Milgram]], ''Obedience to Authority : An Experimental View'' (1974), p. 188. * Many formal organizational structures arise as reflections of rationalized institutional rules. The elaboration of such rules in modern states and societies accounts in part for the expansion and increased complexity of formal organizational structures. Institutional rules function as myths which organizations incorporate, gaining legitimacy, resources, stability, and enhanced survival prospects. Organizations whose structures become isomorphic with the myths of the institutional environment-in contrast with those primarily structured by the demands of technical production and exchange-decrease internal coordination and control in order to maintain legitimacy. Structures are decoupled from each other and from ongoing activities. In place of coordination, inspection, and evaluation, a logic of confidence and good faith is employed. ** [[John W. Meyer]] and Brian Rowan. "[http://www.sasse.se/akademiska/310/meyer%20rowan.pdf Institutionalized organizations: Formal structure as myth and ceremony]." ''American journal of sociology'' (1977): 340-363. * By ''[[organization]]'' [[Humberto Maturana|Maturana]] refers to the relations between components that give a system its identity, that make it a member of a particular type. Thus, if the organization of a system changes, so does its identity. By ''structure'' Maturana means the actual components and relations between components that constitute a particular example of a type of system. The organization is realized through the structure, but it is the structure that can interact and change. So long as the structural changes maintain the organization, the system’s identity remains. ** [[John Mingers]], ''Self-Producing Systems: Implications and Applications of Autopoiesis.'' Contemporary Systems Thinking. New York: Plenum P, 1995. === S - Z === * I firmly believe that any [[organization]], in order to survive and achieve success, must have a sound set of beliefs on which it premises all its policies and actions. <br> Next I believe that the most important single factor in corporate success is faithful adherence to those beliefs. <br>And, finally I believe if an organization is to meet the challenge of a changing world, it must be prepared to change everything about itself except those beliefs as it moves through corporate life. <br> Basic philosophy, spirit and drive of an organization have far more to do with its relative achievements than do technological or economic resources, organizational structure, innovation and timing... ** [[Thomas Watson Jr.]] (1962) as cited in: Heather Clark, John Chandler, Jim Barry (1994) ''Organisation and Identities: : Text and Readings in Organizational Behaviour''. p. 355. * In the last few years, an information resources management concept has emerged as a focus of managing information activities. Although lacking a concise or universal definition, the IRM concept has become a framework for planning more responsive and coordinated [[information management]] organization structures throughout Government and the private sector. In brief, IRM is viewed as an integration of management responsibilities for the control of information-related activities and related processes. It includes the planning and management of information collection, use, and dissemination as well as management of information technology. ** United States. General Accounting Office (1981) ''[http://www.gao.gov/assets/140/134203.pdf Department of Agriculture Needs Leadership in Managing Its Resources]''. p. 20. == See also == * [[Corporation]] * [[Organization]] * [[Organization chart]] * [[Organizational theory]] == External links == {{Wikipedia}} [[Category:Business]] 3fyiq5pkhkzq8dr0dwuzqcljbxo2xf3 0 158948 3961376 3889562 2026-07-06T06:48:09Z ~2026-22475-30 3310494 3961376 wikitext text/x-wiki ---- {{Pokémon header}} ---- <br/> This is a list of episodes in Pokémon: Advanced Battle, the eighth season of the Pokémon animated series (ポケットモンスター Poketto Monsutā?, Pokét Monsters), covering both the final adventures of series protagonist Ash Ketchum in Hoenn and the beginning of his Battle Frontier adventures on his second journey in Kanto. ===''Clamperl of Wisdom'' [8.01]=== ===''The Relicanth Really Can'' [8.02]=== ===''The Evolutionary War'' [8.03]=== ===''Training Wrecks'' [8.04]=== :'''Meowth''': Hey, not the motto! What's the point then in using skipper disguises? :'''Jessie''': I just felt that the mustache look wasn't working for me! :'''James''': OK, let's do this in our usual style! ===''Gaining Groudon'' [8.05]=== :''[Seeing Maxie and Archie arguing]'' :'''James''': This is better than my favorite soap opera! ===''The Scuffle of Legends'' [8.06]=== ===''It's Still Rocket Roll to Me'' [8.07]=== :'''James''': Ooh, don't you think we could use a cool rocket like that one? :'''Jessie''': What does that thing have that our balloon doesn't have? :'''James''': Powerful engines plus he wouldn't pop. :'''Meowth''': I know. :'''Jessie''': You want to give it to the boss, right? :'''Meowth''': I'm thinking their boss would really love to have that rocket. :'''Team Rocket''': I'm feeling alright? :'''Meowth''': Think about it. It's the perfect thing for a guy like him. A rocket for the boss at Team Rocket. I only wonder why we never thought before. :'''James''': How in the world does once steal a rocket? :'''Meowth''': I got a plan. Just imagine the boss wakes up one morning feeling in his young energetic is a little kid. Why you ask? Cause today's gonna rocking in this safe from his own backyard. As he leaves the off behind and settles into orbit, the he'll feel so come and a peace with the universe that he'll begin to devise a plan. A glorious new plan to crush all enemies and to rule the entire galaxy, and he'll say, "Forgiving me this rocket ship, I'll make sure Meowth and friends are rewarded handsome way." He, he! :'''Team Rocket''': Jess! <hr width=50%/> :'''Ash Ketchum''': Trainers, which one of these Pokémon does not evolve? OK, trainers. If you chose Tangela, you were right! :'''Tangela''': Tang! ''[This is before Tangrowth was introduced in Generation IV]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Ash''': Oh, you even have space suits for Pokémon. <hr width=50%/> :'''Jin''': Security. Stop those intruders! :'''Rachel''': You three! This is a restricted area. Identify yourselves! ===''Solid as a Solrock'' [8.08]=== :'''Jessie''': You're telling me those two little twin friends at the twerps are the gym leaders here? :'''James''': That's right. Guess they led anybody be a gym leader these days. :'''Meowth''': With them be in twins, they'll be twice as here when we steal their Lunatone & Solrock and them both to the boss! Just imagine the boss exhausted and depressed from the Daily Grind and putting up what he's losing employees. When suddenly, he's bathed a bright light. He looks up to see Lunatone and Solrock floating peacefully in the air above him. Desire his new powerful friends will cheer the boss up so much, he'll be like a new man! Fully energy again! The boss since so rocking Lunatone will paint the town red. Don't dance 'til dawn. They'll do the fandango! And that's when the boss he'll say, "I say, I simply must reward Meowth and his friends for this fabulous evening!" :'''Team Rocket''': Sounds good to us! We'll be rich! We'll be famous! What a blast! <hr width=50%/> :'''Both''': Huh? :'''Rachel''': What in the world's going on? :'''Jessie''': ♪ Prepare for lunar trouble, a bad moon from outer space! ♪ :'''James''': ♪ And sunshine makes it double, 'cause we're here to wreck the place! ♪ :'''Jessie''': ♪ A moon of smelly cheese to cause the world's devastation! ♪ :'''James''': ♪ A sunny and awful day for all the peoples within our nation! ♪ :'''Jessie''': ♪ To denounce by the light of the silvery moon, the evils of truth and love! ♪ :'''James''': ♪ To extend our reach to the boss, a flaming gas from up above! ♪ :'''Jessie''': ♪ Jessie, the moon maid! ♪ :'''James''': ♪ James, the sun dude! ♪ :'''Jessie''': ♪ Team Rocket blasts off into the infinity galaxy at the speed of light! ♪ :'''James''': ♪ Earthlings everywhere, surrender to your pitiful planet to us now, or prepare, prepare for a fight! ♪ :'''Meowth''': ♪ Meowth, that's right! ♪ :''[objects breaks when Tate and Liza scream until falling objects go with the Globo Robo Extendoarm Greenmeanie CageClaw] <hr width=50%/> :'''Ash''': Team Rocket! :'''Liza''': Give those creeps who stole the shuttle! :'''Tate''': What do you want? :'''Jessie''': Just a couple things. :'''James''': Like your Lunatone and Solrock to be exact! :'''Meowth''': This robot was built a specially for catching Lunatone and Solrock, and it's called the Globo Robo Extendoarm Greenmeanie CageClaw. :'''James''': That's got to be the worst name ever. :'''Jessie''': Can we just call it robot for short? :'''Ash''': Why don't you get outta here, we're in the middle of an important gym battle! :'''Liza''': Well, look at that hole, our Dad's gonna be furious! <hr width=50%/> :'''Meowth''': Go, Globo Robo Extendoarm Greenmeanie CageClaw, attack! :'''Lunatone''': Lun! Lun! :'''Solrock''': Solr! <hr width=50%/> :'''Meowth''': But it's okay! :'''Jessie''': Is it okay? :'''Meowth''': Cause it's about to explode. :'''Jessie''': Meowth, you are so fired! :'''James''': Never put your money where your Meowth is! :'''Meowth''': How's I supposed to know they're gonna use Psychic on us. What am I Psychic? :'''Wobbuffet''': Wobbuffet! :'''Team Rocket''': Team Rocket's blasting off again! :'''Wobbuffet''': Wobbuffet! <hr width=50%/> :'''Liza''': Good surprise attack, but it'll take more than that to break our combination defence! :'''Tate''': Anything else up your sleeve, Ash, or is that it? :'''Ash''': Guess I'm not going to win by tricking 'em. There has to be something I haven't thought of, but what? ''[Looks at the sky and sees clouds]'' That's it! Of course! It's my best shot! I just got to trust my Pokémon's inner strength! Pikachu, use Thunder! :'''Liza''': Fine, we'll block it again with Light Screen! :'''Ash''': That's what I was hoping you'll do! :''[Tate and Liza are confused by Ash's reaction]'' :'''Liza''': What does that mean? :''[Pikachu uses Thunder to strike the clouds causing the Thunder to strike both Swellow and Pikachu. Uhhh...Ash, are you sure that's a good idea?]'' :'''Tate''': Why did he do that? :'''Liza''': Maybe he's just given up? :'''Ash''': Hang in there, you guys! I know you can pull through it! :'''Brock''': I think they're storing up electricity in their bodies. :'''Max''': But Swellow is a Flying-type! :'''May''': I know they want to do this for Ash, but couldn't it hurt them? <hr width=50%/> :''[Both Pikachu and Swellow are encased in Thunder]'' :'''Liza''': I can't believe that work! :'''Tate''': They're using Thunder as armour! ''[Yes, people, it's Thunder Armour! How does that work?!]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Liza''': Great battle, Ash! Your Pokémon absorbed that Thunder with no fear of damage to themselves. ''[Yet it's a bizarre method]'' :'''Tate''': My sister and I have both learned a lot just from watching you battle. :'''Liza''': I guess we still need to work on our combinations more, huh? ''[Tate nods his head in agreement]'' :'''Ash''': Come on, you guys almost had me with all those combination attacks right from the beginning. :'''Brock''': Yeah, your coordination was pretty good once you two got in sync. ''[This is one of Tate and Liza's flaws in their battlestyle]'' :'''Max''': That's for sure. :'''May''': I can see how you two became the Gym Leaders here. :'''Both Tate and Liza''': Oh, wow, thanks. :'''Liza''': ''[to Tate]'' Well, do you have something for Ash, Tate? :'''Tate''': Yep. ''[He opens up the small box in his hand to deliver Ash his 7th Hoenn Gym badge.]'' :'''Liza''': Ash, congratulations. :'''Tate''': This is a Mind Badge, proving that you were victorious at the Mossdeep Gym. ===''Vanity Affair'' [8.09]=== :'''Drake''': Finish with Flamethrower! :''[Salamence unleashes Flamethrower at Team Rocket, the engine explodes, sends the crisped up Team Rocket including Wobbuffet and Chimeco flying]'' :'''Jessie''': Burned again! :'''James''': That guy can cook! :'''Meowth''': And now we’re toast! :'''Team Rocket''': We’re blasting off again! ===''Where's Armaldo?'' [8.10]=== :'''Jessie''': Imagine how much ancient Pokémon like those would be worse! We could make millions. :'''James''': Cradily alone would bring in enough dough we'd never have to work another day with our lives. :'''Meowth''': Hold it, here's a better idea. Let's give the boss all of those Pokémon. :'''James''' Why would we want to do that? :'''Meowth''': Just imagine the boss exhausted from hard work, coming to this island for a peaceful getaway. And when he sees Cradily and Lileep, the boss he'll go primal. "Just as I that these ancient Pokémon has awaken my wild primitive instants deep inside." [Imitating Tarzan yell] He'll be come one week nature and say, "For us story me to my wild and free self, I'll see to Meowth and friends enjoy while success too!" [water splashes] :'''Team Rocket''': Yay! Here's to wild time! Wild and freezing! That's us! Wobbuffet! <hr width=50%/> :'''Ash Ketchum''': Not again. :'''Pikachu''': Pika. :'''Armaldo''': Armaldo! Ar! Do! Ar! :'''All''': Armaldo! :'''Professor Proctor''': What is this? :'''Team Rocket''': Prepare for trouble, with evil unmatched! And make it double, your Armaldo's been snatched! To protect the world from devastation! To unite all peoples within our nation! To denounce the evils of truth and love! To extend our reach to the stars above! Jessie! James! Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light! Surrender now or prepare for a prehistoric fight! That's right! Wobbuffet! Chime! ===''A Cacturne for the Worse'' [8.11]=== :'''May''': '''''Max! <big>MAX, YOU'RE TOOOOOOOAAAAAAST!!!!!</big>''''' :'''Max''': Sorry! I was just trying to help! Harley said that when he was young, he was afraid of Pokémon and I was trying to make him feel better! ===''Claydol Big and Tall'' [8.12]=== :'''Meowth''': ''[on top of a Claydol using Rapid Spin]'' Who turned on the spin circle? :'''Jessie''': I'm about to lose my lunch! :'''James''': That's OK, you're about to get mine! <hr width=50%/> :'''Ash''': ''[dressed up as an eggplant as a lure]'' How does this always happen? :'''James''': Here it comes! Dance like an eggplant! ''[starts dancing and calling out]'' Claydol, over here! :'''Ash''': We're eggplants! :'''James''': Not two guys in costumes at all! :'''Ash''': We're delicious! :'''James''': And no fat, which you might want to look into! <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': I'm started to have my doubts about this... :'''May''': [''bored''] The story, or the guy reading it? <hr width=50%/> :'''Sigourney''': So, what is your motivation? :'''Team Rocket''': We feel everyone should aspire to prepare for trouble! And their goal should be to make it double! To protect the world from devastation! To unite all peoples within our nation! To denounce the evils of truth and love! To dream... ahem yes, to dream of extending our destructive reach to the stars above! Jessie! James! Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light! Surrender now or prepare for a dramatic fight! That's right! Wobbuffet! Chime! ===''Once in a Mawile'' [8.13]=== :'''Brock''': We're coming, Lombre! :'''Max''': Whoa, what's that? :'''Lombre''': Lombre! :'''Samantha''': I'm assuming this Lombre belongs to one of you all. :'''Brock''': How perceptive of you my dear! The Lombre is mine! My name! It's Brock! Tell me. What's yours? :'''Samantha''': Oh, well my name is Samantha. :'''Brock''': Sanantha! A name that stands for a thousand Pokémon! The "S" stands for the sweetness of a Swablu, "A" for the evolved abilities of the awesome Altaria! :'''Max''': OK, at least we all know you can spell. :'''Brock''': Hey! <hr width=50%/> :'''Pokédex''': Mawile, the Deciever Pokémon. Mawile has jaw like appendages at the ends of a steel horns. It deceives any opponent who lowers its guard with its hypnotic expression then quickly spins around to bite them. <hr width=50%/> :'''Mawile''': Mawile. :'''Ash Ketchum''': Check it out. :'''Samantha''': It looks to me like my Mawile's got a crush on your Lombre. :'''Brock''': What do you think me guy? Huh? Huh? :'''Lombre''': Lombre. :'''Brock''': Samantha, scuse me, a sensitive appears that our Pokémon are so deeply in love. Perhaps you and I should set an example of what true love is really love! :'''Max''': You mean what true weird is really love? <hr width=50%/> :'''Meowth''': Check out the Mawile. :'''Jessie''': It's not only cute, it's talented, too. :'''Meowth''': It's the perfect gift to make us look good to the boss. :'''James''': Alright, let's hear it, then. :'''Meowth''': When he sees that Mawile cutting a rug with that ripping dance, he's gonna love it and he's super happy. :'''James''': What? Is that it? :'''Meowth''': Don't rush me, I'm getting there. So, after a nice hot depth, the Mawile will dodge spinning a cool breeze. And the boss he'll say, "Wow, that's a breeze!" He! :'''James''': Why not use a fan for that? :'''Meowth''': There's a fan having extra joy that makes a comfy cushion too! :'''James''': Then buy a coushion! :'''Meowth''': Yeah, well listen to it what the boss says next, "Because Meowth and friends have away a taken ordinary things had turning them to fun, I'm rewarded 'em like there's no tomorrow!" See? :'''James''': I'm still not sold. :'''Jessie''': Dudette, there's nothing left to lose! :'''Team Rocket''': Right! :'''Wobbuffet''': Wobbuffet! <hr width=50%/> :'''May''': Something doesn't seem right about that. :'''All''': Aah! :'''Samantha''': What happened? :'''Team Rocket''': Prepare for trouble, what happened is us! Make it double, no muss, no fuss! Let's cut to the chase! :'''Mawile''': Mawile! :'''Team Rocket''': After a while, Mawile! <hr width=50%/> :'''Corphish''': Corphish! :'''Mawile''': Maw! Maw! Maw! :'''Team Rocket''': It's always fight our flight! <hr width=50%/> :'''Ash Ketchum''': Trainers, what humble Pokémon is the first evolution of Flygon? OK, trainers. If you chose Trapinch, you were right! <hr width=50%/> :'''Team Rocket''': Prepare for trouble, the lights on us! Finding a light switch was a big plus! To protect the world from devonstation! To unite all peoples within our nation! To denounce the evils of truth and love! To extend our reach to the stars above! Jessie! James! Team Rocket puts on quite a show at the speed of light! Surrender now or prepare to fight, fight, and then fight! Meowth, that's right! :'''Ash Ketchum''': Team Rocket! <hr width=50%/> :'''James''': I've always wanted a green Mawile with a pan on its head. :'''Jessie''': I'm sad, I don't want to talk about it! :'''Meowth''': No problemo. We'll just give this to the boss instead. :'''Team Rocket''': Yeah? With similar results? :'''Meowth''': After a nice nap, there's nothing like a Lombre staring at changed the face, or happily strolling to the pool and having a Lombre leering at you. Hmm. Maybe at night, those two can have themselves to scaring contest? If we unload this your Lombre on to the boss, he'll unload us out of the job! What are we gonna do? What are we gonna do? What are we gonna do? :'''James''': We just won't give it to the boss, that's all. :'''Wobbuffet''': Wobbuffet! <hr width=50%/> :'''Team Rocket''': I didn't want a Pokémon with a bad sense apure anyway! Then perhaps you should've given it perk when they ask for it! :'''Meowth''': Yeah, cause now the really bad joke is on us! :'''Wobbuffet''': Wobbuffet! :'''Team Rocket''': We're blasting off again! <hr width=50%/> :'''May''': I guess misery loves company! :'''Max''': And Mawile loves Lombre. ===''Beg, Burrow and Steal'' [8.14]=== :'''Pokédex''': Trapinch, the Ant Pit Pokémon. Trapinch dig cone shaped holes and desert areas. It's large and powerful jaws are capable of crushing stone. <hr width=50%/> :'''Elisa''': You must leave here at once. This is dangerous place and you are trespassing. :'''Brock''': My name's Brock, beautiful. You must have a name, too, right? :'''Elisa''': If you must know, the name's Elisa, and I'm a safety ranger. :'''Brock''': Then, save me! Can't you see I'm falling? Like a rock off a cliff falling hopelessly in love with you! :'''Max''': Not quite. You hit bottom a long, long time ago. :'''Brock''': Bye! <hr width=50%/> :'''Pokédex''': Meganium, the Earth Pokémon. Meganium has Chikorita's final evolved form. It releases its send from its pedals that has the power to crawl and desire to fight. <hr width=50%/> :'''Pokédex''': Vibrava, the Vibration Pokémon. Vibrava is the evolved form of Trapinch. But flapping their wings, they create vibrations in mitting ultrasonic waves. <hr width=50%/> :'''Pikachu''': Pika! Pika! :'''Ash Ketchum''': Pikachu! :'''Elisa''': Hey, what's that? :'''Team Rocket''': Prepare for trouble in our Diglett Supreme! Make it double, I'm digging this scheme! To protect the world from devastation! To unite all peoples within our nation! To denounce the evils of truth and love! To extend our reach to the stars above! Jessie! And James! Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light! Surrender now or prepare to fight, fight, fight! Meowth, that's right! Wobbuffet! Chime! Chime! <hr width=50%/> :'''All''': Team Rocket! :'''Ash Ketchum''': Give Pikachu back! :'''Jessie''': Ah, you're so predictable. :'''James''': Say something new! :'''Meowth''': Hear at least we switch up the motto sometime. :'''Ash Ketchum''': Fine! Pikachu, use Thunderbolt! :'''Pikachu''': Pikachu! Pika! :'''Meowth''': [cackling] Our Diglett supreme's a giant ground type, and besides the Thunderbolt didn't unique. :'''Brock''': I'll show them. Let's go, Ludicolo! :'''Ludicolo''': Ludicolo! :'''Max''': Could you save the dancing for later, please? :'''Brock''': Ludicolo, use water gun! :'''Ludicolo''': Ludicolo! :'''Meowth''': [cackling again] Since our big Diglett supreme is a ground type, it's weak against water attack! :'''Team Rocket''': Meowth, wrong answer! Aah! :'''Ash Ketchum''': Pikachu! :'''Elisa''': Wait. Stay here. :''[thudding]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Ash Ketchum''': Trainers, which Pokémon would last the longest against a Psychic attack? OK, trainers. If you chose Teddiursa, you were right! :'''Teddiursa''': Teddiursa! <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': What do we have here? :'''James''': It's just a Trapinch. :'''Meowth''': You mean, the boss is Trapinch after weekend through with it. :'''James''': Why would he want that? :'''Meowth''': Imagine the boss taking a break from his hard work one day, and he catch the munchies. So he gets the feeling that he wants a walnut. But with that hard shell when those two up fingers, there ain't no ways gonna crack it open! And that's where Trapinch comes into save the day! So with that nut safely in the boss's mouth, this is what he'll say, "Meowth and friends were nice to give me a practical and thoughtful gift." Sweet! :'''Team Rocket''': Whoo! He ye! He ye! We'll be Team Rocket royalty! :'''Wobbuffet''': Wobbuh! <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': Thunderbolt, talk about predictable! :'''Meowth''': I can think of one thing that's even more. :'''James''': Our blasting off? :'''Team Rocket''': How predictable! :'''Wobbuffet''': Wobbuffet! ===''Absol-ute Disaster'' [8.15]=== ===''Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snorunt'' [8.16]=== :'''Brock''': Your advise is like your beauty unmatched beyond compare! Nurse Joy, I will stay right here by your side until our burning love has melted away every last snowflake! :'''Nurse Joy''': Uh... :'''Snorunt''': Snorunt! :'''Brock''': Or maybe I'll just cool down for a while! <hr width=50%/> :'''Pokédex''': Snorunt, the Snow Hat Pokémon. Snorunt primarily habits very snowy regions. It has long been said that any home visited body Snorunt will be blessed with good fortune. :'''Snorunt''': Snorunt. <hr width=50%/> :'''Ash Ketchum''': Corphish, use Crabhammer, now! :'''Corphish''': Corphish! :'''Team Rocket''': Aah! :'''Snorunt''': Snorunt. :'''Team Rocket''': To the bomb! Wobbuffet! <hr width=50%/> :'''Ash Ketchum''': Trainers, which Pokémon is the pre-evolved form of Pikachu? OK, trainers. If you chose Pichu, you were right! :'''Pichu''': Pichu! <hr width=50%/> :'''All''': Aah! :'''Jessie''': We're back! :'''James''': And there's no business! :'''Meowth''': Like snow business. :'''Ash Ketchum''': No, not you three again! :'''Pikachu''': Pika, Pi! :'''Snorunt''': Snorunt! :'''Ash Ketchum''': Give us back those Pokémon! :'''Nurse Joy''': Didn't you learn your lesson? :'''Team Rocket''': Prepare for trouble we learned more than you think! And make it double, because I'm wearing mink! To protect the world from devastation! To unite all peoples within our nation! To denounce the evils of truth and love! To extend our reach to the stars above! Jessie! James! Team Rocket shooshes downhill at the speed of light! Surrender now or prepare for a snowy winter fight! Meowth, that's right! Wobbuh! Chime! :'''Ash Ketchum''': Team Rocket! <hr width=50%/> :'''Team Rocket''': That dumb hole I see wind again! Coming from a dumb old icy Pokémon! My favorite example is a dumb and older flying on either side of me. Wobbuffet! We'll you coming old! Wobbu! ===''Do I Hear a Ralts?'' [8.17]=== :'''May''': I know who you are! :'''Jessie''': Then prepare for trouble, Little Miss Smartypants! ===''The Great Eight Fate!'' [8.18]=== ===''Eight Ain't Enough'' [8.19]=== ===''Showdown at Linoone'' [8.20]=== :'''Team Rocket''': Prepare for trouble we're not someone, we're us! So make it double and stop all the fuss! To protect the world from devastation! To unite all peoples within our nation! To denounce the evils of truth and love! To extend our reach to the stars above! Jessie! James! Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light! Surrender now or prepare to fight, fight, fight! That's right! Wobbuffet! Chime! <hr width=50%/> :'''James''': Go, Cacnea! ''[sends out Cacnea, who hugs him]'' Eeeee!!! Cacnea, please! Do I look like a teething ring?! ===''Who, What, When, Where, Wynaut?'' [8.21]=== :'''Ash''': All right Pikachu! Go! Give ‘em Thunder! :'''Pikachu''': Pika! Pika CHU!! ''[unleashes Thunder on Team Rocket causing the Container to fall off]'' :'''May''': Beautifly… :'''Drew''': Masquerain… :'''Drew and May''': Silver Wind Attack! :''[Beautifly and Masquerain unleash Silver Wind on Seviper, Duxtox, and Cacnea by sending them flying on the crisped up Wobbuffet Balloon and the crisped up Team Rocket including Wobbuffet, the Wobbuffet Balloon explodes sends them flying]'' ===''Date Expectations'' [8.22]=== :'''Pokédex''': Donphan, the Iron Pokémon. Donphan is the evolved form of Phanpy. They attack by rolling their bodies into a circle and charging their enemies. <hr width=50%/> :'''Both''': Holy rollers! :'''Jessie''': I see a chance for some real wheeling and dealing! :'''James''': Well, in that case, we should get them all rolling! :'''Meowth''': Yeah, we'll catch 'em and give 'em to the boss for a real good time! :'''Jessie''': What would the boss do with Donphan? :'''Meowth''': Use him for bowling balls for one thing. Talk about big time striking power! He would roll in strike every time. Plus, no more got a ball. :'''James''': No more bowling alley, either. :'''Meowth''': OK. He can use Donphan for transportation. :'''James''': Where would he put his belongings? :'''Meowth''': In the trunk, of course. And after that Donphan can roll on for a perfect message. :'''James''': Perfect, the boss doesn't mind being flatten like a human pancake! :'''Meowth''': All right, maybe he can not. :'''Jessie''': Who care to be a like some? With a tramport could like hours, we go after whenever Pokémon we got a good chance of catching! And we all it's on Donphan are looking pretty good. :'''Both''': Yay! :'''Wobbuffet''': Wobbu! <hr width=50%/> :'''May''': Welcome to another episode of May's expeditions, with Mystery May, who today along with her trusty friends, finds herself on an unexpected detour, far away from Pacifidlog Town and May's very next Pokémon contest. Instead, they wander remote down till island, where Donphan roll and humans pay the toll. Our heroes seem to have landed upon the island during the breeding season of the Donphan. :'''Max''': Surprised you're not freaking out. :'''May''': That's why I'm doing this, so I don't freak out! <hr width=50%/> :'''Ash Ketchum''': Trainers, which Pokémon would not be effected by Earthquake? OK, trainers. If you chose Lunatone, you were right! :'''Lunatone''': Luna! <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': Things could be worse! :'''James''': In what way! :'''Meowth''': At least peeing lost off cool. :'''Team Rocket''': We're off and blasting off again! <hr width=50%/> :'''All''': Aah! :'''May''': Where'd that net come from? :'''Team Rocket''': Prepare for trouble, it's a Donphan snare! Make it double, we're taking the pair! To protect the world from devonstation! To unite all peoples within our nation! To denounce the evils of truth and love! To extend our reach to the stars above! Jessie! And James! Team Rocket roll on at the speed of light! Surrender now or prepare to fight! That's right! Wobbuh! Chime! <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': Why did those Donphan always have to do their roll out of taxitive brew! :'''James''': Cause that's what happened when you try stealing them during breeding season! :'''Meowth''': I guess we'll learning how to roll with the punches, huh? :'''Team Rocket''': We're blasting off again! Wobbuffet! ===''Mean with Envy'' [8.23]=== :'''Jessie''': I have a great idea! ===''Pacifidlog Jam'' [8.24]=== :'''Vivian''': Meowth has now transformed into a giant Wailord! <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': That's not right! :'''James''': NO! You're not a Flying Type! <hr width=50%/> :'''Raoul Contesta''': This performance is declared illegal! (Buzzer) <hr width=50%/> :'''Vivian''': You don't belong in this contest! :'''Jessie''': Well then, you should prepare for trouble if that's what you think! :'''James''': And make it double, Miss Snooty-in-Pink! ===''Berry, Berry Interesting'' [8.25]=== :'''Ash''': Can you help us? :'''Nurse Joy''': ''Aah, it's some kind of monster!'' :'''Ash''': I'm not a monster, Nurse Joy. I'm Ash, from Pallet Town. <hr width=50%/> :''[Jessie and James taste May's Pokéblock]'' :'''James''': It has a hint of, how you say... jet fuel. With the aftertaste of burning truck tires. And for some strange reason, I cannot quite swallow it! :'''Ash''': Is that good? :'''Brock''': What your conclusion, then, sir? :'''James''': It is my conclusion that this Pokéblock should be destroyed before anyone eats any of it by mistake. <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': Prepare for trouble, you block making squirts! :'''James''': ''[talking muffled due to his mouth hurting from eating a Tamato Berry]'' Make it double dough my mouth really hurts! :'''Jessie''': To protect the world from devastation! :'''James''': To unite da peoples within bar dation! :'''Jessie''': To denounce the evils of truth and love! :'''James''': To extend dour reach to the dars abobe! :'''Jessie''': Jessie! :'''James''': And James! :'''Jessie''': Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light! :'''James''': Surrenber now or prepare for a flamy flighb! :'''Meowth''': Meowth! That's right! ===''Less is Morrison'' [8.26]=== :'''James''': Was that the twerp going by in a cloud of dust? :'''Jessie''': Yes, with the strange floating Pokémon. :'''Meowth''': That's a Beldum. It floats around using magnetic waves. Of course! That Beldum would make a gift fig for a boss! Imagine after a nasty day at work, totally waked out and that's when Beldum floats over and uses magnetic waves to loosen up all those tense muscles. Then it some poké acupressure kind of see of Beldum's claws. No one if there's no pain, no gain, guess what he'll say, "Meowth and friends are so very awesome They are ease gift hardful gifts to me!" :'''Team Rocket''': Yee! Team Rocket's on a roll, happy rich it in control! Wobbuffet! ===''The Ribbon Cup Caper!'' [8.27]=== :'''Team Rocket''': Not yet! [Water splashes] ===''Hi Ho Silver Wind!'' [8.28]=== :'''Boy''': Are you Norman for real? :'''Team Rocket''': Yes, prepare for trouble, little boy! And make it double, I'm the real McCoy! To protect all Gyms from devonstation! And from Gym Leader impersonation! To give in to evil if you just can't beat her! To extend our reach to the Gym Leader! Whose name is... It's Norman! ===''Deceit and Assist'' [8.29]=== ===''Rhapsody in Drew'' [8.30]=== ===''Island Time'' [8.31]=== :'''Ash Ketchum''': All right! Then let's all work together and we'll build a ship! :'''Pikachu''': Pika! Pika! :'''Combusken''': Combusken! :'''Corphish''': Corphish! Corphish! Corphish! Corphish! :'''Mudkip''': Mudkip! :'''Glalie''': Glalie! :'''Ludicolo''': Ludicolo! Ludicolo! Ludicolo! :'''Pikachu''': Chu! :'''Torkoal''': Koal! :'''Swellow''': Swellow! :'''Beautifly''': Beautifly! :'''Grovyle''': Gro! :'''Bulbasaur''': Bulbasaur! :'''Fortress''': Fortress. :'''Skitty''': [Mewing] :'''Wailmer''': Wail! :'''Skitty''': [Mewing] :'''Wailmer''': Wail! :'''Bellossom''': Belo, Bellossom! Belo, Bellossom! Belo, Bellossom! <hr width=50%/> :'''Brock''': Hmm, I'm sure you're right about that. :'''Pikachu''': Pika! Pika, Pi! :'''James''': Two points! :'''Meowth''': Ha! :'''Jessie''': Pikachu and the ship our ours! :'''Ash Ketchum''': I knew it! :'''Robin''': But we work together on that! :'''Team Rocket''': Prepare for trouble we like to work alone! Make it double cause we're bad to the bone! To protect the world from devastation! To unite all peoples within our nation! To denounce the evils of truth and love! To extend our reach to the stars above! Jessie! And James! Team Rocket sails the 7 seas at the speed of light! Surrender now or prepare for a waterlogged fight, fight, fight! Meowth, that's right! Wobbu! Chime! Chime! ===''Like a Meowth to a Flame'' [8.32]=== :'''Officier Jenny''': Officer, this is Officer Jenny. The torch is arriving soon, so I want everyone at your post right away. :'''Meowth''': That must be the score he was talking about! :'''James''': Very nice, Jess. The Pokémon lead torch! :'''Jessie''': Well, what can I say when I'm hot, I'm hot. :'''James''': You know the torch flame comes from a Moltres. Legendary Pokéfats would go nuts! :'''Jessie''': Someone will pay a fortune for that thing. :'''Meowth''': But someone ain't get me. We gonna steal it and give it to the boss. Imagine the boss riding into the office one lovely morning. He'll park his bike, look up, and wham! He'll see the torch lit by Moltres's flame shimmering above headquarters. "Ah, yes burning and bright, the fire from the legendary Pokémon Moltres lighting up my life!" Then, after drinking the cup of fresh torch brew coffee, and cooking up a delicious meal on his torch fire stove, he'll be soaking in his torch cheated personal jacuzzi. And guess what he's gonna say, "Meowth and his friends have given me a freak and I could ask for, so now I shall do the same for them!" :'''Team Rocket''': Everything! Life is cool! Life is cool! Boot your money means we rule! Wobbuffet! <hr width=50%/> :'''Ash Ketchum''': Trainers, what humble Pokémon does Kingdra begin as? OK, trainers. If you chose Horsea, you were right! :'''Horsea''': Horsea! <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': I wouldn't met the force on it. :'''Ash Ketchum''': They're heading for the water! :'''Jessie''': Lose a motorcycle, gain a torch! :'''Tyson''': Criminals! :'''Charles Goodshow''': You can't take our torch! :'''Team Rocket''': Prepare for trouble your logic is flawed! That's right possession's 9/10ths of the law! To protect the world from devastation! To unite all peoples within our nation! To denounce the evils of truth and love! To extend our reach to the stars above! Jessie! James! Team Rocket torches the competition at the speed of light! Surrender now or prepare for a marathon fight! Meowth, that's right! Wobbbuh! Chiiiiime! <hr width=50%/> :'''Meowth''': I ain't through at you yet! And you can fetch you both aren't that one! <hr width=50%/> :'''Team Rocket''': Meowth can you use Thunderbolt? I guess you could say that's a real fanther in his cab! Hats off to you! Wobbuffet! ===''Saved by the Beldum'' [8.33]=== :'''Jump''': Wow, this is sweeter than a candy cane! ===''From Brags to Riches'' [8.34]=== ===''Shocks and Bonds'' [8.35]=== ===''A Judgment Brawl'' [8.36]=== :'''Ash''': Grovyle, we won! You were awesome! :'''Katie''': So were you, Ash. Our battle was tougher than I thought it would be. You won fair and square. Keep on winning! :'''Ash''': Thanks. I'll do my best. ===''Choose It or Lose It!'' [8.37]=== ===''At the End of the Fray'' [8.38]=== ===''The Scheme Team'' [8.39]=== :'''Butch''': Move it, pond-scum! :'''Cassidy''': We're on official business! :'''Jessie''': Hey! :'''Cassidy''': Well, well. Jessie and James! :'''Butch''': Hello, losers! :'''Jessie''': What are you doing here, Cassidy? :'''James''': And you, Biff! :'''Butch''': My name's not Biff, it's Butch and you know it! :'''Cassidy''': Ugghhh, out of our way! We're on serious business here! :'''Jessie''': Yeah, well Giovanni himself just assigned us personally to an important top secret mission! :'''Cassidy''': What, taking out the trash? :'''Jessie''': No, but now that you've mentioned it, IT'S NOT A BAD IDEA! :''[Jessie angrily kicks Cassidy's segway. Cassidy struggles to regain control of her segway]'' :'''Cassidy''': THE ONLY REASON THE BOSS SENT YOU TO HOENN IN THE FIRST PLACE WAS TO GET RID OF YOU! :'''Jessie''': HE PROMISED TO MAKE US EXECUTIVES JUST NOW, AND WHEN HE DOES, THE FIRST THING I'M GONNA DO IS FIRE YOU! ===''The Right Place and the Right Mime'' [8.40]=== ===''A Real Cleffa Hanger'' [8.41]=== ===''Numero Uno Articuno''[8.42]=== ===''The Symbol Life'' [8.43]=== ===''Hooked on Onix'' [8.45]=== ===''Rough, Tough Jigglypuff'' [8.46]=== ===''On Cloud Arcanine'' [8.47]=== :'''May''': So, what's Extreme Speed, Brock? :'''Brock''': It's an attack that increases a Pokémon's speed. :''[This is in error, as Extreme Speed in the games is a damage dealing move, not a status-affecting move. Brock is confusing this move for Agility. However, he can arguably be considered partially right if it's taken into account that it's a move that lets the Pokémon use it first, unless the opponent has a higher speed stat when also using the move or others like it, such as Aqua Jet and Quick Attack.]'' ===''Sitting Psyduck'' [8.48]=== ===''Hail to the Chef!'' [8.49]=== :'''Meowth''': '''''YOU SNEAKY SNEASEL! YOU DID THAT ON PURPOSE, DID YA?!''''' :'''Sneasel''': Sne-sne-sne! [I sure did, and it was funny!] :'''Meowth''': WELL, THERE'S NO ONE WHO'S GONNA PEPPER-POISON MEOWTH AND GET AWAY WITH IT! NOW, TIME TO SLICE AND DICE YOU!!! ===''Caterpie's Big Dilemma'' [8.50]=== :''[Note: This episode replaces the art style that was first used in Once in a Mawile. With the new art style, the animation, scenery, and characters are brighter than the previous art style. :''[Team Rocket are raiding Dr. Gordon's laboratory]'' :'''James''': Ooooh, lookie what we have here. ''[Climbs down a ladder]'' These inventions will make us rich. :'''Meowth''': How are we ever gonna thank the doc? :'''Jessie''': Theft is an insincere form of flattery. ''[She hears Caterpie]'' Hm? :''[Caterpie enters the room, followed by Ash and his friends, Zander and Dr. Gordon]'' :'''Ash & Friends''': Hey! :'''Dr Gordon''': Hey! What do you think you're doing? those are MY blueprints! :'''Ash''': Team Rocket! :'''May''': You were the thieves from last night. :'''Zander & Dr Gordon''': Hm. :'''Jessie''': That's right. :'''James''': There was a slight hitch in our plan last night but it's worked out now. :'''Dr Gordon''': So are these three friends of yours, then? :'''Ash & Friends''': ''[gasp]'' No! Not at all! :'''Max''': They're just crooks who go around stealing everything. :'''Zander''': Go, Caterpie! :'''Caterpie''': ''[gets ready to stop Team Rocket]'' :'''Jessie''': Seviper, go! :''[Seviper emerges from its Poké ball]'' :'''Seviper''': Seviper! ''[Stands in front of Caterpie]'' Seviper! :''[Meowth carries a green sack as he aims for the door]'' :'''Meowth''': Come on, let's go! :'''Jessie & James''': Right! :''[James picks up an orange case]'' :'''James''': We wouldn't want to leave without this, right? :'''Dr Gordon''': Not that! It's the most important invention I've ever completed in my life! :'''Jessie''': All the more reason to take it, then. :'''Jessie & James''': Goodbye! ''[They flee]'' :'''Zander''': Caterpie, String Shot! :''[Caterpie uses String Shot to take the case from James' right hand]'' :'''James''': Hey! :'''Jessie''': Seviper, get it back! :'''Seviper''': Seviper! ''[Grabs the case]'' :'''Ash''': Pikachu, Quick Attack now! :'''Pikachu''': Pika! ''[Jumps off Ash's shoulder]'' Pi... kaaa! ''[Uses Quick Attack on Seviper, causing it to lose the case. The case, meanwhile, lands on the floor and opens up, revealing some small, blue balls]'' :'''Caterpie''': ''[sees the blue balls and eats one of them]'' :'''Dr Gordon''': NO! You can't eat that! :'''Caterpie''': ''[replies to Dr Gordon]'' :'''Dr Gordon''': Duuhhh! Caterpie! :'''Caterpie''': ''[starts to glow]'' :'''Zander''': Wha? What's wrong? ''[His Caterpie starts growing]'' Ugh! :''[Dr Gordon, May, Max, Brock and Ash gasp]'' :'''Ash''': Huh? :'''Meowth''': Aaaahhh! :'''Jessie''': What's going on, James? :'''James''': Not good. :'''Caterpie''': ''[growls at Team Rocket, rendering them nervous]'' :'''Jessie''': I think it's upset. :'''James''': Would you like to talk? :'''Caterpie''': ''[crossly refuses]'' :'''Meowth''': Nnh! Does that mean "No"? :'''Wobbuffet''': Wobba! :'''Caterpie''': ''[growls at Team Rocket and sends them blasting off]'' :'''Team Rocket''': Ow! We're blasting off again! :'''Wobbuffet''': Wobbuffet. :''[The stolen goods land in Dr. Gordon’s laboratory]'' :'''Zander''': Caterpie, how did you get so big, pal? :'''Caterpie''': ''[groans]'' :'''Dr Gordon''': Because truth is stranger than fiction, though that's what they say, anyway. The reason Caterpie grew so large is because it ate one of my newest inventions. :'''Brock''': Those blue things. ''[A flashback occurs]'' They were "Mystery Candies", and they enhance a Pokémon's abilities, right? :'''Dr Gordon''' Sort of. It's Mystery Candy complete. :'''Ash''': So what's the complete part? :'''Pikachu''': Pika? :'''Dr Gordon''': Just a little something I created by combining everything I could think of that could possibly improve a Pokémon's health. :'''Max''': So it's just like a super-powerful vitamin, right? :'''May''': And pretty soon it'll return back to normal. :'''Dr Gordon''': That I don't know. :'''May''': You're just teasing us, right? :'''Zander''': Please, Dr. Gordon, can't you help me get my Caterpie back? :'''Dr Gordon''': Yes, don't worry. Where there's a will, there's a way. At least, that's what I keep hearing, anyway. :'''Zander''': Well that's a relief. :'''Caterpie''': ''[nods happily]'' :''[But then, Caterpie starts growing again]'' :'''Zander''': Huh? Caterpie! :'''Ash''': Oh, no! Did it eat more? :'''Dr Gordon''': You didn't have to. It's still under the effects from before. :'''May''': Zander, get Caterpie back in its Poké ball quick! :'''Zander''': No, I can't do that, May! :'''Ash''': Wha!? Why not? :'''Zander''': Caterpie and I are best friends, but I've never ever caught it before. :''[But then, Caterpie hits the ceiling]'' :'''Dr Gordon''': Run for the hills! ''[He runs away with Ash and his friends. Zander follows too]'' :''[Everybody flees the laboratory and watches as the now gigantic Caterpie rips through the roof of Dr Gordon's laboratory]'' :'''Zander''': How big? ''[Caterpie climbs down from the roof, scaring everyone]'' Don't go, Caterpie! :''[Caterpie heads for the nearby city which has a tall red and white tower]'' :'''Ash''': Oh, no. If Caterpie makes it into town, that could be bad. :'''Pikachu''': Pika. ===''The Saffron Con'' [8.51]=== ===''A Hurdle for Squirtle'' [8.52]=== ===''Pasta La Vista!'' [8.53]=== :''[Note: This is the last episode of Pokémon to be dubbed by 4Kids Entertainment.]'' :'''Kyle Hamm''': For the last time, no! I’m not going in there! :'''Terry''': Please Kyle, at least talk to him. :'''Kyle Hamm''': What’s the use?! :'''Ash and Max''': Who's that? :'''Master Hamm''': Hmm? :''[Terri enters with Kyle, who she is dragging by the wrist.]'' :'''Terri''': Oh, come on! :'''Kyle''': Whoa! Hey! :'''Master Hamm''': It’s about time! <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': That was a bad plan... :'''James''': So, what made us think it would work?! :'''Meowth''': I guess we weren't using our noodles! :'''Jessie, James, & Meowth''': Team Rocket's blasting off again! :''[They disappear with a twinkle.]'' :''[Note: According to Maddie Blaustein, if one listens closely, Meowth says "Team Rocket's 'Blaustein' off again!", in tribute to her final performance as Meowth.]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Kyle Hamm''': Dad, that's so great! But, before you go, will you make those same noodles for me one more time? :'''Master Hamm''': You got it! <hr width=50%/> :''[At the noodle restaurant, Master Hamm has made some bowls of noodles for his son Kyle, and Ash and his friends]'' :'''Ash, Max, May & Brock''': Thank you, Master Hamm. ''[They taste their noodles]'' :'''Ash''': It's great. :'''Kyle Hamm''': This is just the flavour I remember. :'''Master Hamm''': Of course it is, son, I'm not about to let a whippersnapper beat me at my own noodle game. ''[Chuckles]'' :''[Soon, Ash and his friends have left the restaurant with Kyle and his father waving goodbye]'' :'''Narrator''': So, Ash and friends, having finally gotten their fill of delicious noodles, head out of Saffron City, and make their way toward their next goal, the Battle Arena. :'''Ash''': Pikachu, are you ready to go win our next Frontier Symbol? Ha. :'''Pikachu''': Pi, Pikachu. == External links== {{Wikipedia|List of Pokémon: Advanced Battle episodes}} [[Category:Japanese TV shows]] [[Category:Pokémon]] brj1srl5loqkngo6w14113lcph4lgnh 0 160074 3961090 3905273 2026-07-05T15:25:16Z ~2026-22475-30 3310494 3961090 wikitext text/x-wiki {{DISPLAYTITLE:''The Simpsons''/Season 26}} {{The Simpsons header}} '''''[[w:The Simpsons|The Simpsons]]''''' (1989–present) is an American animated sitcom broadcast by the Fox Broadcasting Company created by [[Matt Groening]]. The series is a satirical depiction of American life, epitomized by the Simpson family. ===''[[w:Clown in the Dumps|Clown in the Dumps]]''=== :'''Marj Sampsan''': All hail the dark lord of the twin moons! <Hr width=“50% “/> :'''Brt Sampsan''': Don't have cow, man! <Hr width=“50% “/> :'''Brt Sampsan''': Cow, man! <Hr width=“50% “/> :'''Maagi Sampsan''': Make purchase of the merchandise! <Hr width=“50% “/> :'''Brt Sampsan''': Don't! Don't have cow, man! <Hr width=“50% “/> :'''Marge''': ''[to Lisa]'' The doctor gave us this machine to help him breathe in his sleep, go to bed, I'll take care of him. :''[Lisa goes back to her bedroom]'' <hr width=50%> :''[Homer wheezes in his sleep]'' :'''Marge''': Oh no, oh my god, oh, holy moly, it's not wor-no good, no good, oh, aah, what'll I do?!? Oh, breathe, Homie, breathe. <hr width=50%> :''[at some kind of restaurant]'' :'''Bart''': I'm not going anywhere for at least 10 years. ''[Hibbert coughs a bit]'' 5 years? ''[Hibbert coughs a bit again]'' 6 months? ''[Hibbert coughs a bit once again]'' Should worry about that guy, he's got the cough. :''[at a funeral service]'' :'''Man''': Worst funeral I have ever live tweeted. ===''[[w:The Wreck of the Relationship|The Wreck of the Relationship]]''=== :'''Lisa''': Mom, it's trash talk. You know how guys say mean things to their friends the way women say nice things to their enemies? <hr width=50%> :'''Lisa''': She's under a lot of stress, her husband's at sea. <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': Homie, the fantasy draft just ended. I got you five kickers. It is called football, right? <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': ''[runs to Milhouse with Bart watching a red band trailer]'' Brief nudity!!!!!!!!!!!!! <hr width=50%> :''[Hour 1, Homer tells Bart to eat his broccoli]'' :'''Homer''': Eat your broccoli. :'''Bart''': No. :''[Hour 3, Homer tells Bart again]'' :'''Homer''': Eat your broccoli. :'''Bart''': No. :''[Hour 7, Homer and Bart sleeping on the dinner table and Homer turns Bart’s Krusty alarm clock off and tells Bart to eat his broccoli again]'' :'''Homer''': Eat your broccoli! :'''Bart''': No! ===''[[w:Super Franchise Me|Super Franchise Me]]''=== :'''Marge''': It's like they don't care if you make money, as long as they make money. What kind of corporation does that? <hr width=50%> :'''Grandpa''': Homer, if I ever seem that senile, get a gun and...what are you doing with that gun?! <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Well, family, we should be proud. We took on corporate America and broke even. <hr width=50%> :'''Bart''': What's your soda refill policy? :'''Marge''': All you can drink, if you buy a jumbo cup. :'''Homer''': Careful, Marge, that's how I bankrupted a Pizza Hut. :'''Ned''': Homer, this is my Freezer-ino! :'''Homer''': Seriously, I am getting so tired of those stupid Flanders-isms! :'''Ned''': It's the name of the freezer. :'''Homer''': Okily-Dokahama? :'''Ned''': Right next to Mount Fuji-I'm glad to see you! ===''[[w:Treehouse of Horror XXV|Treehouse of Horror XXV]]''=== :'''Lisa''': It's true, it would be a cold day in [[Hell]] when I was popular. <hr width=50%> :'''Jimbo''': I want to see "Boobs in the Soup! :'''Skinner''': There is no "Naked Lunch Lady"! Bart made it up! <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': The power of Chrysler compels you! <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': The bed is lifting me, the elevator at work can't even do that. <hr width=50%> :'''Grandpa''': I was sleeping in the dryer and got caught in your sheets. <hr width=50%> :'''Moe''': These eye clamps are the only way I can tolerate today's TV. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': You went to [[Hell]] and came back a winner like [[Jesus]]. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': It's in [[Hell]], the [[Inferno]], [[Perdition]], [[Arizona]] without the golf. ===''[[w:Opposites A-Frack|Opposites A-Frack]]''=== :'''Bart''': You always do the right thing...sort of. <hr width=50%> :'''Lisa''': Wait, I finally get what you're saying. Fracking is great, but the only place it should ever happen is in other people's towns. <hr width=50%> :'''Mr. Burns''': I appreciate the counsel, Simpson, now please trap door yourself out. <hr width=50%> :'''Mr. Burns''': I demand to see that capitalism castrating suffragette this instant. ===''[[w:Simpsorama|Simpsorama]]'' ([[Futurama/Season 7#Simpsons Crossover: Simpsorama|Futurama]] Crossover)=== :'''Lisa''': Professor Farnsworth, I'm dying to know how you got here. Was it a time machine? :'''Professor Farnsworth''': Little girl, time machines are physical impossibilities. We teleported from a singularity that I quantum-entangled to Bender under the guise of fixing his collar. :'''Professor Frink''': Yes, but how did Bender get here? :'''Professor Farnsworth''': With a time machine. :'''Lisa''': But you just said that— :'''Professor Farnsworth''': Sample's ready! ===''[[w:Blazed and Confused|Blazed and Confused]]''=== :'''Mr. Lassen''': We should team up, I can get you out of here. :'''Sideshow Bob''': A partner, intriguing, who gets to gut him like a little pot-bellied salmon? :'''Mr. Lassen''': I assumed we'd take turns. :'''Sideshow Bob''': No deal. <hr width=50%> :'''Superintendent Chalmers''': According to this file from Blazing Guy's secret security, your behavior was so egregious we can do something that we've never done before - fire a teacher. :'''Principal Skinner''': Hand in your red pen...oh, I'm not gonna pass fingernail inspection tonight. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': A camping we will go. :'''Bart''': ''[singing]'' But where I still don't know. :'''Homer''': A place that's filled with sun and sand, a desert steamed from Disneyland, keep expectations low. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Oh, Marge, I can't stand it when you cry at dinner. The pork chops look traumatized, the mashed potatoes can't stand to watch, even the children seem upset. <hr width=50%> :'''Superintendent Chalmers''': Seymour, your new teacher is...everybody pray! :'''Principal Skinner''': This is a public school. :'''Superintendent Chalmers''': I said pray! ===''[[w:Covercraft|Covercraft]]''=== :'''Homer''': What I feel is envy. :'''Lisa''': Wow! He's right. <hr width=50%> :'''Bart''': What's a game show? :'''Homer''': Something you make sketches about. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Lisa, how many times have I told you to bow down to our corporate overlords? <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': I want his fame and fortune so much. Why must the lords of rock be so cruel? <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Oh, what kind of erotic asphyxia? <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Yep, it's all about the music and it would take a pretty unforeseen circumstance to make that change. Pretty unforeseen. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': This is embarrassing to admit, but I haven't even thought about gels. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': I don't have what it takes to play the guitar. <hr width=50%> :'''Lisa''': Oh no, King Toots is closed. Dad, you're going to have to take me to the big Fox music store. <hr width=50%> :'''Moe''': You call that a left testicle, Toot? <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': You know what? Apu leaving is the best thing that ever happened to this band. We're gonna be like Genesis after Peter Gabriel left. :'''Bart''': You mean more popular but not as good? :'''Homer''': ''[angrily to Bart]'' Phil Collins-era Genesis is not as good, huh? "No Reply at All," "Land of Confusion," "Throwing it All Away," "Illegal Alien," "I Can't Dance," and I'm sure I don't need to mention "Invisible Touch"! Hmph! ''[angrily goes to the kitchen]'' ===''[[w:I Won't Be Home for Christmas (The Simpsons)|I Won't Be Home for Christmas]]''=== :'''Homer''': What the? This isn't Halloween. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Thank you, magical creatures of the mall! You have all taught me a Christmas message I'll never forget. The place to get drunk is at home. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': You're all right stupid Flanders, you're all right. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Yeah, but doesn't the money go to schools? :'''Apu''': You have been to our schools, what do you think? <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Yeah? Well, good luck assembling all those toys without me! :'''Patty''': We already did it! :'''Homer''': Ah! The ghost of Marge future! <hr width=50%> :'''Lisa''': Mom, where's Dad? :'''Marge''': I don't know. :'''Bart''': Aw, it's Christmas Eve, man, we do not want to set a precedent for fat guys being late tonight! <hr width=50%> :'''Moe''': Eh, how you doing there? Uh, your front door was locked, So, uh, rather than call or knock, I, uh, came down your chimbley there. ''[coughs]'' :'''Marge''': Moe Szyslak, you didn't climb down our chimney just to say "Merry Christmas." :'''Moe''': ''[coughing]'' ''[clears throat]'' Midge, it's one minute till Christmas, and if I'm ever gonna be a good guy, it's now. All right, here I go. I'm the one that kept Homer from coming home, 'cause, uh, well, I was lonely. ''[Marge gasps]'' Yeah, that's right-- me, Mr. Party Pants. So, uh, so don't hold it against Homer, eh? :'''Marge''': Oh, my poor Homie. This is what I was hoping for. For it not to have been completely his fault. Thank you, Moe. ''[mumbling]'': Huh? :'''Moe''': I'm sorry, Marge, I'm sorry, but it was Christmas, and we were under the mistletoe. ===''[[w:The Man Who Came to Be Dinner|The Man Who Came to Be Dinner]]''=== :'''Lisa''': Well, I guess we've learned that of all the countless planets in the universe, we have evolved into the most inedible species. Like three bean salad at a barbecue, we will remain untouched. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': ''[angrily shouting at Bart]'' Stupid kid, you ruin every trip! <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': Homer, you have to stop dropping your pants for everyone who claims they're a doctor. :'''Homer''': Fine. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Wow, this place is completely alien, but everything's in English, just like Canada! <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Look at all these knobs and buttons. They're clearly a superior race. Maybe that means they'll be nice to us. :'''Lisa''': You mean like Europeans were to the Native Americans or the Belgians were to The Congo? :'''Homer''': That's right, pick the only two times in history where things got messy. <hr width=50%> :'''Lisa''': They revamped this ride because of massive complaints from two people. ===''[[w:Bart's New Friend|Bart's New Friend]]''=== :'''Bart''': You did it, Homer, you saved me from the bullies, you're the coolest kid I've ever met. :'''Milhouse''': What about me? :'''Bart''': You're in the top hundred. :'''Milhouse''': Booyah! :'''Bart''': Now you're not. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Okay, Marge, we can go to the circus, maybe I can finally find out why a man would think a stool is a proper defense against a lion. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': I don't have time for childish games. If I don't do my job, atoms go boom! <hr width=50%> :'''Don''': It's like rooting for the Cubs, you keep thinking they'll make it, and then you realize they never ever will. ===''[[w:The Musk Who Fell To Earth|The Musk Who Fell To Earth]]''=== :'''Lenny''': No, mine was rubber mats in the decontamination showers, also water in the decontamination showers. :'''Burns''': Never! <hr width=50%> :'''Lisa''': For a man who likes electric cars, he sure burns a lot of rocket fuel. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Between your genius and my nothing, we make a great team. Come on, give me a hug! <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Fine, we'll both go, and if anyone asks you something you don't understand, just say protons. <hr width=50%> :'''Bart''': Squaky, until I met you, I never thought I could love something bald. ===''[[w:Walking Big & Tall|Walking Big & Tall]]''=== :'''Homer''': Bart, I believe you're forgetting America's greatest wartime wheelchair-bound leader, Professor X of the X-Men. :'''Bart''': It's not that Professor X wouldn't get up, it's that he couldn't! <hr width=50%> :'''Bart''': Aw, jeez, I thought writing another hit song would be easier. :'''Lisa''': Well, it would have helped if you hadn't crumpled up all the paper before we wrote anything on it. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': So from now on you can never call me by these names: chubby, chunky, blobbo, slobbo, fat guy, Michelin Man, Stay Puft, Chumbawumba, It is Balloon!, Papa Grande, Augustus Gloop, beached whale, big boned, Wisconsin Skinny, butterball, dump truck, jelly belly, pudgy wudgy, lard butt, blubberino, Buddah belly, Hurry Eat Tubman, one ton soup, blob saget, Chub hub, Calvin Cool whip, Manfred Mannboobs, 21 Lump Street, Walking 'Before' Picture, fatso, Harvey Milk Chocolate, Obese want Cannoli, Mahatma Gumbo, Salvador Deli, Elmer Pantry, KFC and the Sponge Cake Band, Snackie Oneassis, The Foody Blues, Hoagie Carmichael, and wide load. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Marge, you're my wife of ten years and I love you, but I must observe the teachings of this man I just met tonight. Now the first thing I have to do is make amends with the bathroom scale. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': I have so many questions for you. First or all, is this floor reinforced? <hr width=50%> :'''Bart''': Thinking back, I'm kinda surprised Mom and Dad let a crazy man spend all night in my bedroom. :'''Homer''': Simpler times. <hr width=50%> :'''Moleman''': I didn't write it. I brought it from a salesman who was selling it to half the towns in America. I didn't think you'd find out because I never thought any of us would go anywhere. ===''[[w:My Fare Lady|My Fare Lady]]''=== :'''Taxi Driver''': Those smart cars are cutting into our business. We used to get uber amounts of work giving people lifts. <hr width=50%> :'''Mr. Burns''': They say you catch more flies with honey, I say with fly traps. <hr width=50%> :'''Moe''': The only reason you haven't been fired is because your file here has been holding up a sofa that was missing a leg. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Look, Moe. The least you can let me do is anything I want. <hr width=50%> :'''Moe''': You guys cost me my chance with a woman of certain age! <hr width=50%> :'''Moe''': I'm broke. Now I am going to have to live on my savings here. ''[Opens cash register]'' ALL RIGHT WHO RUBBED MY NICKELS?!!? ===''[[w:The Princess Guide (The Simpsons)|The Princess Guide]]''=== :'''Princess Kemi''': So, all these concubines belong to this one tyrant? :'''Homer''': It's called ''The Bachelor''. <hr width=50%> :'''Princess Kemi''': I think he is a sweet, sweet man, but when I kissed him, it was not romantic, more like when Snow White kissed Dopey. :'''Moe''': No, no, not this comparison again! <hr width=50%> :'''Moe''': Do you mind riding a cute little scooter with your arms around my waist? :'''Princess Kemi''': I don't. :'''Moe''': To the scooter store! <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': She's gone! :'''Moe''': And she trashed my bar! Oh no, wait, she actually cleaned up a little bit. Good for her. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Sorry, Marge, but I am the royal babysitter. If I start watching commoners, the tongues of the court will be a wag. ===''[[w:Sky Police|Sky Police]]''=== :'''Reverend Lovejoy''': Relax, Marge. If God lets the Jews have Sunday on a Saturday, he'll be cool with this. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': But it's not on the calendar? Okay, but if I'm sleepy at work tomorrow, I get to tell everyone why. <hr width=50%> :'''Bart''': I can't believe it, but the church is going to have to ask people for money. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Oh, God gets your papers, but he just clicks delete without reading them, like email updates from Linkedln. ===''[[w:Waiting for Duffman|Waiting for Duffman]]''=== :'''Lisa''': I'm not sure how many more times we can watch Dad chased down by an angry crowd before it affects us psychologically. :'''Dr. Schulman''': As a family therapist, I can assure you that you have all the coping skills you need. :'''Marge''': Why is Lisa talking to an empty seat? :'''Lisa''': See you next Tuesday, Dr. Schulman! Oh, right, you're in Maui. <hr width=50%> :'''Bart''': I will do something no one has ever done, be fun sober! <hr width=50%> :'''Mr. Duff''': Why don't you kids run off and play in the bottle cap pit? :'''Marge''': Don't cut yourselves! <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': These reality shows really leave you no privacy. ===''[[w:Peeping Mom|Peeping Mom]]''=== :'''Milhouse''': Fie? :'''Bart''': Yeah, look it up. :'''Milhouse''': Used to express disgust or outrage? That's the worst F word there is! <hr width=50%> :'''Bart''': Dad, are you gonna snitch on me? :'''Homer''': Moes before bros. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Oh, you must be Flanders' new dog. I just want to apologize in advance for the things I'm gonna blame on you. <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': I'm not giving up on Bart, just like I didn't give up on our marriage when you quit your job to start the North American Sumo League. :'''Homer''': The NASL would have made money if someone had washed a few sumo loin cloths for me. :'''Marge''': I said I would do yours, but not the whole dojo. <hr width=50%> :'''Chief Wiggum''': I've got everything I need to convict your boy, except for motive, means, and opportunity. :'''Lou''': You also have no evidence. :'''Chief Wiggum''': That's implied. ===''[[w:The Kids Are All Fight|The Kids Are All Fight]]''=== :'''Moe''': These photos show that 6 years ago Bart and Lisa were fighting like Creationists and Common Sense. :'''Homer''': Isn't that sweet, six years ago they were fighting, now they're playing pool in a bar. :'''Moe''': Father of the year, pal, father of the year. :'''Carl''': Yeah Homer, we'll definitely help you, but you're gonna have to wait. :'''Lenny''': We just ordered a pie for the bar. :''[Homer gets out a shotgun,cocks it, and shoots the pizza]'' :'''Carl''': What did you do that for?! :'''Barney''': Yeah! It took us 45 minutes to choose a topping! :'''Lenny''': We decided on cheese. <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': It all began six years ago. Back then, Clevelanders had nothing bad to say about LeBron and they needed cash when they took the turnpike to Toledo. <hr width=50%> :'''Bart''': I saved you. :'''Lisa''': But you pushed me! :'''Bart''': Duh, I couldn't save you until I pushed you. Girls make no sense. <hr width=50%> :'''Lisa''': I was pretending, and it worked! :'''Bart''': You know, kid. With your smarts and my Barts, we make a good team! :'''Lisa''': What are Barts? :'''Bart''': You're the smart one, you figure it out. <hr width=50%> :'''Maude''': My bladder's going to burst. :'''Ned''': Now I know you've had a few too many waters, but that is no reason for the sailor talk. <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': What are we going to do? :'''Homer''': It's not so bad, sweety. I took a box of Altoids from her waiting room. The most anyone has ever gotten out of therapy. <hr width=50%> :'''Lisa''': Remember when Apu let Dad have the experienced hot dog? :'''Homer''': Just once and I'm still taking medication for it. ===''[[w:Let's Go Fly a Coot|Let's Go Fly a Coot]]''=== :'''Milhouse''': If it's the blue hair and the schnoz you're digging, I've got plenty more cousins. :'''Bart''': Thanks, Milhouse. I think I'm gonna steer clear of Van Houtens for awhile. :'''Milhouse''': More for me, marrying a cousin worked out great for my parents. <hr width=50%> :'''Bart''': Dad, I apologize. I only say this at gunpoint, but it's true. I love you. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': That's Mock Rickly, my old Air Force buddy. :'''Bart''': You said you were in the Army. :'''Lisa''': You said you were in the Navy. :'''Abe''': That's the kind of mix up that used to happen when I was in the Marines. <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': ''[to Bart and Lisa]'' Geez, kids. I guess you've had your last birthday. You're going to stay your current ages for the rest of your lives. :'''Homer''': ''[pushing a turtle with a broom]'' Shoo! Shoo now! :''[camera pans to a line of [[w:F-4 Phantoms|McDonell Douglas F-4 Phantom IIs]]]'' :'''Pilot''': Just pick them up! :'''Marge''': Eh... They feel weird. ===''[[w:Bull-E|Bull-E]]''=== :'''Marge''': Sweetie, What happened. <hr width=50%> :'''Ned''': He's a hero all right, a hero sandwich full of bologna! <hr width=50%> :'''Chief Wiggum''': A TV star criticizing his writers, what has this world come to? Another bully for your collection boys. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': But we have learned our lesson, so I hereby promise. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': No, no, honey. I love everything your force me to do. And sometimes if you do all that, you get a very special night. :'''Bart''': And what does that get you? :'''Homer''': Hopefully not a you. <hr width=50%> :'''Lisa''': Bart, some of your biggest heroes are dancers. Krusty was on ''Dancing with the Stars'' until a panel of experts determined he wasn't a star. :'''Ned''': And done. Proud of you boys. :'''Homer''': ''[flips the fence to the brown side]'' Thanks for painting my fence stupid Flanders! :'''Ned''': Homer Simpson reorder that border. We've been painting since sun-up. :'''Homer''': Half the fence is mine. :'''Ned''': Fine. Let the good lord decide. :'''Homer''': ''[spins the fence]'' D'oh! Woo-hoo! D'oh! Woo-hoo! D'oh! ''[the fence comes to a stop at the painted side]'' Woo-hoo! ===''[[w:Mathlete's Feat|Mathlete's Feat]]''=== :''[the Simpsons are seated as normal when a hover vehicle driven by [[Rick and Morty]] runs the family into goo]'' :'''Rick''': Oh my God, Morty! What did you do?! You killed the Simpsons, Morty! :'''Morty''': Oh my God! No! No, ahh..-I-I-I didn't mean to! There's so much Si-Simpsons! :'''Rick''': Oh, goo— oh God, look at the baby one! Oh my God, Morty! You killed the entire Simpsons, Morty! They're a beloved f''ahhh''-mily, Morty! They're-they're-they're-they're a national treasure and you killed them! :'''Morty''': Ahh... I'm just a kid! I'm just a kid, I don't wanna go to jail! :'''Rick''': Relax, Morty, calm down, we'll take care of it. ''[scoops goo into vial]'' Okay, I want you to take that vial of Simpsons goo ''[shoots portal]'' and this picture to this address. They'll make us new Simpsons. You understand me, Morty? :'''Morty''': Me?! Wh-wh-what are you gonna do?! :'''Rick''': Morty, I gotta clean this place up before somebody comes snooping around. You know many characters there are in ''The Simpsons'', Morty? There's like a billion cha-''ah''racters. 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Thanks for trying to cheer me up. :''[Both James and Meowth are wearing the traditional kimonos]'' :'''Meowth''': Jessie.... :'''James''': Since you didn't win the doll set... :'''Jessie''': W-What are you...? ''[closes her eyes]'' Oh, no. ''[imagines Team Rocket as the whole doll set]'' You're all just a bunch of living dolls! :'''James and Meowth''': Thank you. ===''The Purr-fect Hero'' [2.02]=== :'''Brock''': Kids Day should be a boy's holiday only. For men! :'''Ash''': Real men! :'''Brock''': Real, tough men! :''[Misty whacks Brock and Ash with a fan on their heads]'' :'''Misty''': I'M JUST AS TOUGH AS YOU TWO, NOW ARE WE GONNA PLAY OR ARE WE GONNA PLAY?! ===''Riddle Me This'' [2.03]=== ===''Volcanic Panic'' [2.04]=== ===''Beach Blank-Out Blastoise'' [2.05]=== ===''The Misty Mermaid'' [2.06]=== :'''James''': ...and next time, we steal men's clothes. <hr width=50%> :'''Violet''': Okay, let's start the rehearsal. This is a really awesome story. :'''Daisy:''' Violet was our scriptwriter as usual. ''[giggles]'' :'''Violet''': ''[giggles]'' Okay, the story goes: the Magical Mermaid is relaxing peacefully with her Pokémon, Seel, when two evil villains suddenly appear. ''[she and Lily playfully place prop swords near Misty's neck]'' :'''Misty''': Huh? :'''Lily''': We tie you up and try to make you tell us where the sunken treasure is. But when you won't tell us, we get really rough. :'''Misty''': ''[nervous]'' Uh, can we use a stand-in for this part? ''[gets bonked in the head by Violet]'' Ow! :'''Violet''': Don't get cute. :'''Misty''': I'm doing you the favor, remember? So, stop picking on me! I'm doing the best I can! :'''Violet''': Okay, then Daisy comes out all dressed up as the charming prince. And she, like, fights off the villain and saves you. :'''Daisy''': Hyah! ''[waves her prop sword around like she's fighting the villains]'' Uh! Y'ah! :'''Violet''': The Magical Mermaid and the prince fall totally in love and raise a whole lot of Seel and live happily ever after. :'''Seel''': ''[clapping]'' Seel, Seel, Seel, Seel. :'''Brock''': ''[applauding]'' I like that charming prince. :'''Ash''': ''[applauding]'' I like the Seel. :'''Misty''': ''[unamused]'' You would... ===''Clefairy Tales'' [2.07]=== ===''The Battle of the Badge'' [2.08]=== :'''Gary''': It's here.... :'''Ash''': What's here? :'''Gary''': A Pokémon that we've never seen did this. ===''It's Mr. Mime Time'' [2.09]=== ===''Holiday Hi-Jynx'' [2.10]=== ===''Snow Way Out!'' [2.11]=== ===''Showdown at the Po-ké Corral'' [2.12]=== :'''Ash''': Hey! Cut it out! == The Evolution Solution == == The Pi-Kahuna == :'''Meowth''': And now, all we have to do is wait for the next Humunga-Dunga. How long could that be? What? A couple of days? A week. Tops. Right? Right?! <hr width=50%> :'''Misty''': Sleepy, Togepi. Time for your nap. <hr width=50%> :'''Misty''': ''[after Ash made a failed attempt to surf like Jan]'' I guess Ash must be practicing his wipeouts. Right, Togepi? :'''Togepi''': ''[chirps in agreement]'' :'''Ash''': ''[climbs up to his board, but suddenly]'' Huh?! ''[his foot cramps up underwater]'' Ah, my foot! Something's wrong with my foot! ''[a wave splashes over him; meanwhile, the blue-eyed Pikachu senses what's happening and runs off]'' Help! Help! :'''Brock''': ''[gasps upon hearing Ash's cries]'' :'''Ash''': Help! Somebody! Help! :'''Misty''': It's Ash! :'''Pikachu''': Pika. :''[Brock rushes out to help Ash as he manages to swim to his board.]'' :'''Brock''': Ash, what's wrong? :'''Ash''': It's my foot! ''[screams as a large wave crash over him]'' :'''Brock''': Ash? Look out! :''[But before Brock can do anything, an even bigger wave head toward Ash.]'' :'''Misty''': Oh, no! That wave! :''[Before the wave comes down on an unconscious naked Ash, the man from earlier rescues him on a surfboard with his Pikachu on the nose of the board, to the surprise of our heroes.]'' :'''Victor''': Puka, pipeline! :'''Puka''': Chu! ''[Right!]'' :''[Puka tilts the board so that it heads to the pipeline of the wave.]'' :'''Victor''': Puka, shoot the curl! :'''Puka''': Pika! ''[Oh, yeah!]'' :''[The two shoot the curl and get Ash to shore and safety, while Ash, who is naked, wakes up briefly and sees what he thinks to be Pikachu in front of him.]'' :'''Ash''': Pika...chu? I am... naked... ''[passes out]'' <hr width=50%> :'''Victor''': This is my cabin. How are you, kid? I know you are naked, so do you hurt anywhere? :'''Ash''': I'm naked, and I'm okay. Who are you? :'''Misty''': Oh, That's Victor. :'''Brock''': Victor is the reason you are still here. He saved your life, Ash. :''[Victor offers naked Ash a beverage.]'' :'''Ash''': Thanks, and thank you for saving me. :'''Victor''': No, no, don't thank me. == Make Room for Gloom == :'''Ash''': Uh, Brock, are you talking to somebody? :'''Misty''': I think maybe you had a little to much of that antidote. <hr width=50%/> :'''Brock''': Rejected by the one girl I loved! I'll never find another like her again!! :'''Ash''': Uh, don't worry, Brock. You'll find plenty of other girls that won't reject you. <hr width=50%/> :'''Misty''': Hey, Ash! You didn't do any training. The Pokémon League competition is less than two months away. When are you gonna get ready? :'''Ash''': Don't worry, Misty. There's always tomorrow. :'''Misty''': Oh! :'''Narrator''': Don't be so sure, Ash. You're already one tomorrow closer to the battle of your life! == Lights, Camera, Quack-tion! == :'''Jessie''': Meowth, will you stop moving around? :'''Meowth''': I've got to breathe, don't I? Talk about a cliffhanger! :'''Jessie''': Prepare for trouble! :'''James''': With no stunt double! == Go West, Young Meowth == :'''Meowth''': She sells seashells by the seashore. <hr width=50%/> :'''Ash''': That's scary. :'''Brock''': Looks like our movie career is over. :'''Misty''': Even before it got started. == To Master the Onixpected! == :''[Ash and the gang catch Team Rocket disguised as polecats]'' :'''Jessie''': Prepare for trouble, whippersnapper! :'''James''': And make it double, young feller! :'''Meowth''': I think we can fast forward through this. :''[he presses the fast-forward button on his remote, and everything speeds up]'' :'''Jessie''': ''[in hyperspeed]'' To protect the world from devastation! :'''James''': ''[also in hyperspeed]'' To unite all people within our nation! :'''Jessie''': To denounce the evils of truth and love! :'''James''': To extend our reach to the stars above! :'''Jessie''': Jessie! :'''James''': James! :'''Jessie''': Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light! :'''James''': Surrender now or prepare to fight! :'''Meowth''': ''[also in hyperspeed]'' Okay! :''[he presses the play button, and everything returns to normal speed]'' :'''Meowth''': ''[normal speed]'' Meowth, that's right! :'''Jessie''': ''[also in normal speed; worn out]'' Exhausting. :'''James''': ''[also in normal speed; worn out]'' I think I bit my tongue! <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': I think things are looking sort of rocky, don't you? :'''James''': These Pokémon couldn't be boulder! :'''Meowth''': Maybe people take them for granite! == The Ancient Puzzle of Pokémopolis == :'''Ash''': Where's that Jiggly-giant? == Bad to the Bone! == :'''Professor Oak''': It's too late for pointers, young man! If you're not ready for the Pokémon League now, you should quit and go home!! == All Fired Up! == :'''Ash''' ''[shouts in excitement]'' Yee...'''''HAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWW!!!!!!''''' :'''Misty''': Ash, are you going crazy?! :'''Brock''': The answer is yes. :'''Pikachu''': ''[exasperated]'' Pika... ''[Togepi, having being scared by Ash's outburst, bawls loudly]'' :'''Misty''': Now, just look what you did to Togepi. ''[shakes Togepi up and down]'' Oh, it's all right, little Togepi. :'''Togepi''': ''[stops crying]'' Togepri. :'''Ash''': Sorry, Misty. <hr width="50%/"> :'''Jessie''': I think our plan.... :'''James''': Backfired! <hr width=50%/> :'''Narrator''': Will he be out of the league? Who knows? He's got to be in it to win it. == Round One - Begin! == :'''Mandi''': But I'm Mandi the Astounding. How could I lose? == Fire and Ice == :'''Waitress''': Do you want a plate? :'''Ash''': Yeah, but only if it's a collection plate! == The Fourth Round Rumble == :'''Jeanette''': ''[to Bellsprout]'' Make Bulba-sore! ''[laughs]'' == A Friend in Deed == :'''Jessie''': I just don't understand it. :'''James''': How can we feel so low.... :'''Meowth''': When we're up so high? :'''Jessie''': 100 Pokémon in a bag, 100 Pokémon.... :'''James''': If all of those Pokémon go free.... :'''Meowth''': Ain't no Pokémon for me. == Friend and Foe Alike == == Friends to the End == :''[at the beginning of the episode, Ash is moping around, annoyed about how his Charizard cost him the match at the Indigo Plateau...]'' :'''Ash''': ''[thinking]'' Why did I have to lose? :'''Pikachu''': ''[worried]'' Pika-pi. :'''Professor Oak''': So, he's been laying in there by himself since he had lost the match. :'''Brock''': Yeah, he won't even eat or anything. Will he? :'''Delia''': Maybe he's coming down with a cold. :'''Brock''': No, silly, he's just depressed is all. :'''Professor Oak''': Depressed about what?! :'''Delia''': About the match?! :'''Brock''': ''[nods his head 'yes']'' I see. I think that he feels like a total loser 'cause Ritchie beat him. Did he? :'''Misty''': He should be happy he made it all the way to the Fifth Round. I know he feels bad, but he can't just mope around forever. Can he? ''[opens the door and walks into the room to get Ash]'' Hey, Ash, let's go get something to eat. :'''Ash''': No, thanks. :'''Misty''': ''[groans]'' Well, how about a walk? :'''Ash''': Go by yourself if you can. :'''Misty''': ''[groans in frustration]'' Hey, let's go down the Pokemon village and buy some souvenirs. ''[tries to get Ash up from the bed]'' Maybe they'll have some-- :'''Ash''': ''[pulls away]'' Just leave us alone. :'''Misty''': Suit yourself. Hey, I'm just trying to help you, Ash. :'''Ash''': ''[sits up]'' Well, I don't want your help. :'''Misty''': You big baby! :'''Ash''': ''[stands up from the bed]'' Just get out. :'''Misty''': OK. I'll leave you alone. :'''Pikachu''': ''[tries to calm them down]'' Pika-pika! :''[Brock and Delia run in]'' :'''Brock''': Okay now, that's enough, guys. :'''Delia''': You mustn't be angry with Misty, honey. She thinks you should be very happy. :'''Ash''': Well, why? :'''Misty''': With the way you were training, you are lucky we even made it through the First Round. :'''Ash''': Oh, yeah? Well, I didn't see you out there winning any of those matches. :'''Misty''': When are you gonna get over yourself, Ash? :'''Ash''': Why don't you? :'''Misty''': Why don't I what? :'''Pikachu''': ''[tries to calm them down]'' Pika... :'''Brock''': ''[restrains Ash]'' Okay, that's it. :'''Ash''': Thank you for saving me, Brock. :'''Pikachu''': Pika... :'''Professor Oak''': ''[walks in]'' I'm afraid Misty has a point, Ash. :'''Ash''': Huh? I see. :'''Professor Oak''': Maybe you could've gone much further if you haven't been so sure of yourself and you trained your Charizard properly. :'''Ash''': But, sir, I... :'''Professor Oak''': One could only advance so far relying on strength and intuition. Trainers must learn to battle with a deeper understanding of each Pokémon's natural abilities. :'''Ash''': Uh... Hmm... :'''Misty''': That isn't easy, especially for some lazy Trainers. :'''Ash''': Are you calling me lazy? :'''Misty''': I didn't call anybody anything. I was talking to Pikachu. <hr width=50%/> :'''Misty''': I said I didn't, and I didn't! :'''Ash''': I said you did, because you did! :'''Misty''': I didn't! :'''Ash''': You did! :'''Misty''': Did not! :'''Ash''': Did too! :'''Misty''': Did too! :'''Ash''': You did not! :'''Pikachu''': Pika, Pika! (Quiet, you two!) ''[he shocks everyone]'' :'''Professor Oak''': Don't shock us, too! :'''Ash''': Thank you, Pikachu. <hr width=50%/> :'''Narrator''': Ash battled bravely in his first Pokémon League competition, and although he had lost one crucial match, our young hero won a life-long friend. Now, he's more determined than ever to achieve his dreams of becoming a Pokémon Master. == Pallet Party Panic == :''[The episode opens on a footpath as the camera pans up to reveal that the footpath actually leads to Pallet Town]'' :'''Narrator''': After battling in the Pokémon League competition at the Indigo Plateau... ''[The camera fades to outside Professor Oak's Laboratory where a party is about to start]'' ...Ash and his friends return to Pallet Town for a hero's welcome. :''[We see Ash, Pikachu, Professor Oak and Delia standing on a yellow table, holding drinks. Misty and Brock, meanwhile, are standing on the grass and holding their drinks]'' :'''Ash''': Uh, I'm very happy to be back in Pallet home, and to everybody who supported me throughout the Pokémon League, I just want to say "thank you very much." :'''Pikachu''': Pikachu. :'''Professor Oak''': And thanks to Ash for representing us so well. :'''Delia''': And we all owe Professor Oak a big thank you for hosting us here today. Now, let's start the party! :'''Professor Oak''': First, let's salute Ash for finishing in the top 16 at the Pokémon League, and doing Pallet Town proud! Hip hip... :'''Crowd''': Hooray! :''[Ash crouches down to Pikachu]'' :'''Ash''': Thank you, too, Pikachu. And all the Pokémon. ''[Clings glasses with Pikachu]'' :'''Pikachu''': Pika! :''[The title card comes up]'' :'''Ash''': ''[voiceover]'' Pallet Party Panic. :''[Soon, everyone is eating as Brock bites into a bit of chicken]'' :'''Brock''': ''[with his mouth full]'' Mmmm, Pallet Town really knows how to throw a party! ''[Eats a bit of his candy stick]'' The food is delicious! :'''Misty''': Hey, guys, we shouldn't be the only ones celebrating, why don't we let our Pokémon join the party, too? :'''Ash''': Good idea! We couldn't have gone to the Pokémon League without them. :'''Pikachu''': Pikachu. :'''Brock''': ''[With his mouth full]'' You're right. Geodude, Onix, Zubat, Vulpix, it's time to come out and chow down! Aaaah, ah! :'''Misty''': Goldeen, Staryu, Psyduck, you're invited, too! Go! :''[Brock and Misty's Pokémon come out of their Poké balls]'' :'''Ash''': Squirtle, Bulbasaur, Pidgeotto, join the party! ''[Sends out Squirtle, Bulbasaur and Pidgeotto]'' :'''Squirtle''': Squirtle. :'''Bulbasaur''': Bulbasaur. :'''Ash''': Chariza... ''[Brock and Misty stop him]'' Ahh! :'''Misty''': Think about this first, Ash! :'''Brock''': Letting Charizard out is not such a great idea, Ash! :'''Ash''': But, I... ''[Thinks back to when Charizard disobeyed him, breathes fire at him and napped during the Indigo League, thus costing Ash his match in Round 5 and letting Ritchie win. Then, Ash returns to the present]'' OK, OK. I'll invite Charizard next time. :'''Misty''': Okay, everybody! Time to dig in! :''[The Pokémon join in as Psyduck trips up]'' :'''Psyduck''': Psy! :'''Bulbasaur''': Bulba. Bulbasaur. ''[Walks over Psyduck]'' :''[The camera cuts Staryu, Goldeen, Geodude and Squirtle]'' :'''Geodude''': Geodude. :'''Squirtle''': Squirtle, Squirtle. :''[Pidgeotto and Zubat join them. The camera cuts to Brock and Misty]'' :'''Brock''': Ash must be really proud. :'''Misty''': I think he's grown up a lot since being in the Pokémon League. Don't you? Huh? :'''Misty & Brock''': Huh? :'''Misty''': Where's Ash? :''[Ash and Pikachu are running as they run past some of the partygoers]'' :'''Ash''': Let's eat fast so we can eat again! ''[Laughs]'' :'''Pikachu''': Pikachu. :'''Misty''': ''[sighs]'' == A Scare in the Air == == Poké Ball Peril == == The Lost Lapras == == Fit to be Tied == == Pikachu Re-Volts == :'''James''': That was unpleasant. :'''Butch and Cassidy''': Our old friends. :'''Jessie and James''': Hmm? Whoa! :'''Jessie''': Cassidy?! :'''James''': And Botch. :'''Butch''': Oh! The name is Butch. :'''Jessie''': There is only enough room for one Team Rocket. Just one. :'''Butch''': Then, prepare for trouble. :'''Jessie and James''': Huh?! :'''Jessie''': You are the ones that should prepare for trouble. :'''Cassidy''': Grrr! You two don't even know how to say the motto. :'''James''': You just made your trouble double. :'''Butch''': I'm the one that has the next line. :'''Jessie''': To protect the world from devastation. :'''Cassidy''': To ''infect'' the world with devastation. :'''James''': To unite all peoples within our nation. :'''Butch''': To blight all people in every nation. :'''Jessie''': To denounce the evils of truth and love. :'''Cassidy''': The ''goodness'' of truth and love. :'''James''': Reach to the stars above. :'''Butch''': ''Wrath'' to the stars above. :'''Jessie''': Jessie. :'''Cassidy''': Cassidy. :'''James''': James. :'''Butch''': Butch. :'''Jessie''': Team Rocket blasts off at the Speed of Light. :'''Cassidy''': Team Rocket, circling Earth all day and night. :'''James''': Surrender now or prepare to fight. :'''Butch''': Surrender to us now or you'll surely lose the fight. == The Crystal Onix == == In the Pink == :'''Meowth''': Look, that thing is pink, too! :'''Jessie & James''': ''[happily]'' Ah! :'''Jessie''': Imagine, a pink Jigglypuff! :'''James''': ''[frowning]'' Hey, wait a minute, aren't Jigglypuffs always pink? :'''Jessie''': ''[frowning]'' Yes, they are. <hr width=50%> :'''Jessie''': What we need is a Pokémon who can lick 'em all! ''[throws a Pokéball]'' This looks like the perfect job for... Lickitung! :''[Licktung comes out]'' :'''Lickitung''': Licki! :'''James''': Look! A pink Lickitung! ''[gets hit by Jessie's paper fan]'' :'''Jessie''': James! Lickitung has ''always'' been pink! :'''Meowth''': ''[To James]'' Any more of that, and ''you'll'' be turning pink! <hr width=50%> :'''Ash''': The professor sure has a lot of Muk on his hands. <hr width=50%> :''[Team Rocket are beating up an agitated Nidoking]'' :'''Officer Jenny''': Hey! Who do you think you are, coming here and causing trouble?! :'''Jessie''': Did she say... :'''James''': Trouble? :''[Jessie and James are suddenly in pink Tauros and Gengar costumes]'' :'''Jessie''': I think you'd better prepare for trouble! :'''James''': I'm in the pink, so make it double! <hr width=50%> :'''Ash''': ''[grabs Tracey's sketchbook]'' Let me see. :'''Tracey''': Hey! :'''Ash''': ''[sees a sketch of Officer Jenny]'' Aw... :'''Tracey''': Well, like you know, I can't just watch Pokémon all the time. ''[laughs]'' == Shell Shock! == == Stage Fight! == == Bye Bye Psyduck == :'''Marina''': Oh! I just love Staryu! :'''Misty''': I think Staryu is one of my most favorite Pokémon of them all. :'''Marina''': And yours really sparkles, Misty. :'''Misty''': Do you think so? I'd like to keep Staryu looking good, so I polished it every day. :'''Marina''': You did a really great job! :'''Misty''': I'm so glad you liked it! :''[Quite suddenly, Ash's head, minus his body, emerges in his speech bubble.]'' :'''Ash''': ''[head only, annoyed]'' Are you two just gonna talk all day?! :'''Misty''': Oh, okay. == The Joy of Pokémon == == Navel Maneuvers == == Snack Attack == :'''Misty''': Togepi, use your Metronome! You can do it, Togepi! :'''Togepi''': Toge, Toge, Toge, pr, To. :'''Ash''': Nice try, Misty, but Togepi doesn't know any attacks yet. :'''Tracy''': Togepi's just a baby, Misty. == A Shipful of Shivers == == Meowth Rules! == == Tracey Gets Bugged == :'''Misty''': Oh, no. Not another Ash. == A Way Off Day Off == == The Mandarin Island Miss Match == :'''Ash''': Oh yeah, she's using perverse psychology on me! == Wherefore Thou Art, Pokémon? == :'''Misty''': ''[Referring to Emily & Ralph]'' They're not mature enough to admit it, but they really like each other. :'''Tracey''': You know what? It's exactly the same thing with you and Ash. :'''Misty & Ash''': You must be crazy! <hr width=50%> :'''Emily & Ralph''': Why did you send me that stupid letter? And why did you send me such a stupid present? :'''Emily''': Is this your idea of a joke? :'''Ralph''': That's what I'd like to know! :'''Emily''': Well, thanks a lot for sending me these flowers, Ralph. You know I'm allegic! :'''Ralph''': I guess you'd think it's real funny that I throw up in airplanes. :'''Emily''': I can't stand you, Ralph! :'''Ralph''': I can't stand you, either! :''[Emily & Ralph both pick up a stick and start to fight with the sticks]'' == Get Along, Little Pokémon == ''[Pikachu is being smothered by a group of Magnemite]'' :'''Pikachu''': ''[Distressed]'' Pika! :'''Ash''': Is something the matter, Pikachu? == The Mystery Menace == :'''Mayor of Trovitopolis''': ''[As a child, to his Bulbasaur]'' Quit your blubbering! If you're not going to evolve, what do I need you for?! == Misty Meets Her Match == == Bound for Trouble == :'''Jessie''': ''[chuckles]'' Bye-bye, birdy! == Charizard Chills == == The Pokémon Water War == :'''Officer Jenny''': I’m warning you for the last time, sir! ''[notices Ash and Misty are crawling to the burned museum]'' :'''Misty''': This looks like a job for Stary! == Pokémon Food Fight! == :'''Tracey''': '''SNORLAX WASN'T SUPPOSED TO EAT THE APPLE!!''' == Pokémon Double Trouble == :'''Jessie''': Just get out of my way, Grandma! :'''Misty''': ''[To Jessie]'' I wouldn't call her Grandma if I were you, you old witch! <hr width=50%> :'''Jessie''': I don't care if you're in the Orange Crew or Grapefruit League! James, launch an all-out smog attack immediately! :'''James''': Roger! :'''Weezing''': Weezing! Wee! Wee! Wee! :'''Luana''': Alakazam, use Phsychic attack! Shut that robot's mouth! :'''Alakazam''': Alakazam! :'''Jessie''': James, what's going on? <hr width=50%> :'''James''': Meowth, do something! :'''Jessie''': Get us out of here! :'''Meowth''': I can't! Our Rhydon's off! :[exploding] :'''Team Rocket''': Team Rocket's blasting off again! <hr width=50%> :'''All''': Good afternoon. :'''Launa''': Chilton, would you kindly prepare for a deluxe suite for my guests, please? :'''Sheldon''': Right away, ma'am. :'''Misty''': Our own deluxe suite. Now that's sweet! :'''Togepi''': Togepi! :''[all Pokémon are jumping on one leg while other trainer has Raichu, Wartortle, Machop, Sandslash, Electabuzz, and Poliwhirl] :'''Tracy''': The trainers must come here... so their Pokémon can get into shape. :'''Misty''': A gym at the gym. <hr width=50%> :'''Ash''': Well, in that case, we'll be able to ease this match, 1, 2, 3! :'''Pikachu''': Pi! Chu! == The Wacky Watcher! == == The Stun Spore Detour == :'''Ash Ketchum''': Well, at least he got cooled off. :'''Pikachu''': Pika! Pika! :'''Ash''': Hey, Tracy, do you think you could help me with my training, now? Kinda get off to a rocky start. ''[shouts]'' :'''Pikachu''': Pika! Pika! Pikachu! Pika! Pikachu! :'''Misty''': Oh, hi, Pikachu. :'''Pikachu''': Pi. :'''Misty''': I thought you and Ash were gonna go down to the beach to do a little training! :'''Pikachu''': Pikachu! Pika! Pika! Pika! Pi! :'''Misty''': Did something happen to Ash? :'''Ash''': It got us! :'''Misty''': Hmm? :'''Ash''': It got us! :'''Misty''': What got you? :'''Tracey''': We both fell into a Vileplume's head. :'''Misty''': [gasping] You breathed in Stun Spore! :'''Ash Ketchum''': Can't move. :'''Misty''': Oh, no! Good thing that wasn't little Susie! :'''Pikachu''': Pikachu. <hr width=50%/> :'''Meowth''': All right, kid. Hand over that Poliwag! :'''Misty''': Poliwag doesn't want to go with you two! :'''James''': Do it, or else. :'''Misty''': No way! == Hello, Pummelo! == == Enter the Dragonite == == Viva Las Lapras == == The Underground Round Up == :''[Tracey, Poncho, Ash, Pikachu, Misty, Togepi and an Electrode are running through the town when they see something]'' :'''Ash''': ''[gasps]'' :''[They see a large machine approaching them. It stops right in front of them]'' :'''Pikachu''': Pikachu? :'''Tracey''': What's this thing? :'''Jessie''': ''[from inside machine]'' How's my hair? :'''James''': ''[from inside machine]'' Good, how's mine? :'''Meowth''': ''[from inside machine]'' Good! How's mine? :'''Jessie & James''': Smelly. :''[Team Rocket rises up out of the machine]'' :'''Jessie''': Time again to prepare for trouble! :'''James''': And Just like always, make it double! :'''Jessie''': To protect the world from devastation! :'''James''': To unite all people within our nation! :'''Jessie''': To denounce the evils of truth and love! :'''James''': To extend our reach to the stars above! :'''Jessie''': Jessie! :'''James''': James! :'''Jessie''': Team Rocket, blast off at the speed of light! :'''James''': Suh... ''[Clears throat]'' Surrender now or prepare to fight. :'''Meowth''': Meowth, Dat's right! Make way for the environmentally unfriendly Electrode Eliminator! :'''Jessie''': We convinced the mayor that it's the quickest way to take out the Electrode trash. :'''James''': It seems, the citizens are tired of waiting while pokey old Poncho cobbles all the crackly little critters. :'''Meowth''': ''[showing the contract]'' Now we got da contract to corral them, so it's time for Mr. Molasses to hit da trail! :'''Ash''': I don't trust a thing you say! This must be some kind of trick. :'''Pikachu''': Pikachu! :'''Poncho''': It's no trick. :'''Ash''': Huh? :'''Poncho''': That work order they're waving's got the mayor's seal on it. :'''Misty''': I can't believe it. Why would Team Rocket want to help out and move the Electrode? :'''Jessie''': For purely selfish reasons, of course. :'''James''': Not only do we get paid handsomely for our efforts, but we're going to keep all the Electrode we clear out. :'''Meowth''': Yeah! An' they used to say crime doesn't pay. :''[Jessie and James chuckle as Team Rocket lower back down into the Electrode Eliminator and drive toward a group of Electrode]'' :'''Multiple Electrode''': Electrode! :'''Meowth''': Initiate the Electrode elimination system! :'''James''': Roger! Armoured arms, go! :''[The arms extend]'' :'''Jessie''': Now let's get them popping mad! :''[The arms touch two Electrode and make them go boom]'' :'''Meowth''': That oughtta do it. It won't be long now. :''[Ash and his friends watch as Team Rocket makes the Electrode go boom]'' :'''Tracey''': Oh no! Team Rocket's gonna make all the Electrode explode! :'''Misty''': But I don't see what good it does anybody if they blow up the Electrode. :'''Poncho''': It's good for those three. Exploding tires them out, lowers the Electrode's energy to the bare minimum so they can't help but get captured. :'''Electrode on Right''': Electrode. ''[Gets lifted up by the arm on the right]'' :'''Electrode on Left''': Electrode. ''[Gets lifted up by the arm on the left]'' :''[The two Electrode are placed in a containment area]'' :'''Electrode on Left''': Electrode. :'''Electrode on Right''': Electrode. :'''Poncho''': See how easy they're all getting scooped up? Now they can't explode and defend themselves, least not until their power gets regenerated. :'''Misty''': I wish we could do something to help. :'''Poncho''': So do I, Misty. Just as much as you do. But Team Rocket are the ones the mayor has hired to do the job. :'''Misty''': Guess so. :'''Ash''': All they care about is getting those Electrode! :'''Tracey''': But with that official order, there's nothing we can do to stop them! :''[More Electrode blow up when the machine's arms touch them as Ash and his friends look on]'' == A Tent Situation == == The Rivalry Revival == == External links== {{Wikipedia|List of Pokémon: Adventures on the Orange Islands episodes}} [[Category:Japanese TV shows]] [[Category:Pokémon]] rov3kt7iduhnaihlhxdfshrwb7svmoi 3961289 3961285 2026-07-05T21:22:31Z ~2026-25217-78 3313596 3961289 wikitext text/x-wiki {{italic title}} ---- {{Pokémon header}} ---- <br/> This is a list of episodes in Pokémon: Adventures on the Orange Islands, the second season of the Pokémon animated series (ポケットモンスター Poketto Monsutā, Pokét Monsters), continuing the adventures of series protagonist Ash Ketchum as he travels to the Orange Islands with Pikachu, Misty and Tracey. ===''Princess vs. Princess'' [2.01]=== :''[Last lines]'' :'''Jessie''': ''[sorrowfully after losing the contest and final match to Misty]''. I lost...the dolls. ''[silently crying, but Lickitung licks her face, causing her to fall backwards]'' Eugh!!! Thanks for trying to cheer me up. :''[Both James and Meowth are wearing the traditional kimonos]'' :'''Meowth''': Jessie.... :'''James''': Since you didn't win the doll set... :'''Jessie''': W-What are you...? ''[closes her eyes]'' Oh, no. ''[imagines Team Rocket as the whole doll set]'' You're all just a bunch of living dolls! :'''James and Meowth''': Thank you. ===''The Purr-fect Hero'' [2.02]=== :'''Brock''': Kids Day should be a boy's holiday only. For men! :'''Ash''': Real men! :'''Brock''': Real, tough men! :''[Misty whacks Brock and Ash with a fan on their heads]'' :'''Misty''': I'M JUST AS TOUGH AS YOU TWO, NOW ARE WE GONNA PLAY OR ARE WE GONNA PLAY?! ===''Riddle Me This'' [2.03]=== ===''Volcanic Panic'' [2.04]=== ===''Beach Blank-Out Blastoise'' [2.05]=== ===''The Misty Mermaid'' [2.06]=== :'''James''': ...and next time, we steal men's clothes. <hr width=50%> :'''Violet''': Okay, let's start the rehearsal. This is a really awesome story. :'''Daisy:''' Violet was our scriptwriter as usual. ''[giggles]'' :'''Violet''': ''[giggles]'' Okay, the story goes: the Magical Mermaid is relaxing peacefully with her Pokémon, Seel, when two evil villains suddenly appear. ''[she and Lily playfully place prop swords near Misty's neck]'' :'''Misty''': Huh? :'''Lily''': We tie you up and try to make you tell us where the sunken treasure is. But when you won't tell us, we get really rough. :'''Misty''': ''[nervous]'' Uh, can we use a stand-in for this part? ''[gets bonked in the head by Violet]'' Ow! :'''Violet''': Don't get cute. :'''Misty''': I'm doing you the favor, remember? So, stop picking on me! I'm doing the best I can! :'''Violet''': Okay, then Daisy comes out all dressed up as the charming prince. And she, like, fights off the villain and saves you. :'''Daisy''': Hyah! ''[waves her prop sword around like she's fighting the villains]'' Uh! Y'ah! :'''Violet''': The Magical Mermaid and the prince fall totally in love and raise a whole lot of Seel and live happily ever after. :'''Seel''': ''[clapping]'' Seel, Seel, Seel, Seel. :'''Brock''': ''[applauding]'' I like that charming prince. :'''Ash''': ''[applauding]'' I like the Seel. :'''Misty''': ''[unamused]'' You would... ===''Clefairy Tales'' [2.07]=== ===''The Battle of the Badge'' [2.08]=== :'''Gary''': It's here.... :'''Ash''': What's here? :'''Gary''': A Pokémon that we've never seen did this. ===''It's Mr. Mime Time'' [2.09]=== ===''Holiday Hi-Jynx'' [2.10]=== ===''Snow Way Out!'' [2.11]=== ===''Showdown at the Po-ké Corral'' [2.12]=== :'''Ash''': Hey! Cut it out! ===''The Evolution Solution'' [2.13]=== ===''The Pi-Kahuna'' [2.14]=== :'''Meowth''': And now, all we have to do is wait for the next Humunga-Dunga. How long could that be? What? A couple of days? A week. Tops. Right? Right?! <hr width=50%> :'''Misty''': Sleepy, Togepi. Time for your nap. <hr width=50%> :'''Misty''': ''[after Ash made a failed attempt to surf like Jan]'' I guess Ash must be practicing his wipeouts. Right, Togepi? :'''Togepi''': ''[chirps in agreement]'' :'''Ash''': ''[climbs up to his board, but suddenly]'' Huh?! ''[his foot cramps up underwater]'' Ah, my foot! Something's wrong with my foot! ''[a wave splashes over him; meanwhile, the blue-eyed Pikachu senses what's happening and runs off]'' Help! Help! :'''Brock''': ''[gasps upon hearing Ash's cries]'' :'''Ash''': Help! Somebody! Help! :'''Misty''': It's Ash! :'''Pikachu''': Pika. :''[Brock rushes out to help Ash as he manages to swim to his board.]'' :'''Brock''': Ash, what's wrong? :'''Ash''': It's my foot! ''[screams as a large wave crash over him]'' :'''Brock''': Ash? Look out! :''[But before Brock can do anything, an even bigger wave head toward Ash.]'' :'''Misty''': Oh, no! That wave! :''[Before the wave comes down on an unconscious naked Ash, the man from earlier rescues him on a surfboard with his Pikachu on the nose of the board, to the surprise of our heroes.]'' :'''Victor''': Puka, pipeline! :'''Puka''': Chu! ''[Right!]'' :''[Puka tilts the board so that it heads to the pipeline of the wave.]'' :'''Victor''': Puka, shoot the curl! :'''Puka''': Pika! ''[Oh, yeah!]'' :''[The two shoot the curl and get Ash to shore and safety, while Ash, who is naked, wakes up briefly and sees what he thinks to be Pikachu in front of him.]'' :'''Ash''': Pika...chu? I am... naked... ''[passes out]'' <hr width=50%> :'''Victor''': This is my cabin. How are you, kid? I know you are naked, so do you hurt anywhere? :'''Ash''': I'm naked, and I'm okay. Who are you? :'''Misty''': Oh, That's Victor. :'''Brock''': Victor is the reason you are still here. He saved your life, Ash. :''[Victor offers naked Ash a beverage.]'' :'''Ash''': Thanks, and thank you for saving me. :'''Victor''': No, no, don't thank me. ===''Make Room for Gloom'' [2.15]=== :'''Ash''': Uh, Brock, are you talking to somebody? :'''Misty''': I think maybe you had a little to much of that antidote. <hr width=50%/> :'''Brock''': Rejected by the one girl I loved! I'll never find another like her again!! :'''Ash''': Uh, don't worry, Brock. You'll find plenty of other girls that won't reject you. <hr width=50%/> :'''Misty''': Hey, Ash! You didn't do any training. The Pokémon League competition is less than two months away. When are you gonna get ready? :'''Ash''': Don't worry, Misty. There's always tomorrow. :'''Misty''': Oh! :'''Narrator''': Don't be so sure, Ash. You're already one tomorrow closer to the battle of your life! ===''Lights, Camera, Quack-tion!'' [2.16]=== :'''Jessie''': Meowth, will you stop moving around? :'''Meowth''': I've got to breathe, don't I? Talk about a cliffhanger! :'''Jessie''': Prepare for trouble! :'''James''': With no stunt double! ===''Go West, Young Meowth'' [2.17]=== :'''Meowth''': She sells seashells by the seashore. <hr width=50%/> :'''Ash''': That's scary. :'''Brock''': Looks like our movie career is over. :'''Misty''': Even before it got started. ===''To Master the Onixpected!'' [2.18]=== :''[Ash and the gang catch Team Rocket disguised as polecats]'' :'''Jessie''': Prepare for trouble, whippersnapper! :'''James''': And make it double, young feller! :'''Meowth''': I think we can fast forward through this. :''[he presses the fast-forward button on his remote, and everything speeds up]'' :'''Jessie''': ''[in hyperspeed]'' To protect the world from devastation! :'''James''': ''[also in hyperspeed]'' To unite all people within our nation! :'''Jessie''': To denounce the evils of truth and love! :'''James''': To extend our reach to the stars above! :'''Jessie''': Jessie! :'''James''': James! :'''Jessie''': Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light! :'''James''': Surrender now or prepare to fight! :'''Meowth''': ''[also in hyperspeed]'' Okay! :''[he presses the play button, and everything returns to normal speed]'' :'''Meowth''': ''[normal speed]'' Meowth, that's right! :'''Jessie''': ''[also in normal speed; worn out]'' Exhausting. :'''James''': ''[also in normal speed; worn out]'' I think I bit my tongue! <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': I think things are looking sort of rocky, don't you? :'''James''': These Pokémon couldn't be boulder! :'''Meowth''': Maybe people take them for granite! ===''The Ancient Puzzle of Pokémopolis'' [2.19]=== :'''Ash''': Where's that Jiggly-giant? ===''Bad to the Bone!'' [2.20]=== :'''Professor Oak''': It's too late for pointers, young man! If you're not ready for the Pokémon League now, you should quit and go home!! ===''All Fired Up!'' [2.21]=== :'''Ash''' ''[shouts in excitement]'' Yee...'''''HAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWW!!!!!!''''' :'''Misty''': Ash, are you going crazy?! :'''Brock''': The answer is yes. :'''Pikachu''': ''[exasperated]'' Pika... ''[Togepi, having being scared by Ash's outburst, bawls loudly]'' :'''Misty''': Now, just look what you did to Togepi. ''[shakes Togepi up and down]'' Oh, it's all right, little Togepi. :'''Togepi''': ''[stops crying]'' Togepri. :'''Ash''': Sorry, Misty. <hr width="50%/"> :'''Jessie''': I think our plan.... :'''James''': Backfired! <hr width=50%/> :'''Narrator''': Will he be out of the league? Who knows? He's got to be in it to win it. ===''Round One - Begin!'' [2.22]== :'''Mandi''': But I'm Mandi the Astounding. How could I lose? ===''Fire and Ice'' [2.23]=== :'''Waitress''': Do you want a plate? :'''Ash''': Yeah, but only if it's a collection plate! ===''The Fourth Round Rumble'' [2.24]== :'''Jeanette''': ''[to Bellsprout]'' Make Bulba-sore! ''[laughs]'' ===''A Friend in Deed'' [2.25]=== :'''Jessie''': I just don't understand it. :'''James''': How can we feel so low.... :'''Meowth''': When we're up so high? :'''Jessie''': 100 Pokémon in a bag, 100 Pokémon.... :'''James''': If all of those Pokémon go free.... :'''Meowth''': Ain't no Pokémon for me. ===''Friend and Foe Alike'' [2.26]=== ===''Friends to the End'' [2.27]=== :''[at the beginning of the episode, Ash is moping around, annoyed about how his Charizard cost him the match at the Indigo Plateau...]'' :'''Ash''': ''[thinking]'' Why did I have to lose? :'''Pikachu''': ''[worried]'' Pika-pi. :'''Professor Oak''': So, he's been laying in there by himself since he had lost the match. :'''Brock''': Yeah, he won't even eat or anything. Will he? :'''Delia''': Maybe he's coming down with a cold. :'''Brock''': No, silly, he's just depressed is all. :'''Professor Oak''': Depressed about what?! :'''Delia''': About the match?! :'''Brock''': ''[nods his head 'yes']'' I see. I think that he feels like a total loser 'cause Ritchie beat him. Did he? :'''Misty''': He should be happy he made it all the way to the Fifth Round. I know he feels bad, but he can't just mope around forever. Can he? ''[opens the door and walks into the room to get Ash]'' Hey, Ash, let's go get something to eat. :'''Ash''': No, thanks. :'''Misty''': ''[groans]'' Well, how about a walk? :'''Ash''': Go by yourself if you can. :'''Misty''': ''[groans in frustration]'' Hey, let's go down the Pokemon village and buy some souvenirs. ''[tries to get Ash up from the bed]'' Maybe they'll have some-- :'''Ash''': ''[pulls away]'' Just leave us alone. :'''Misty''': Suit yourself. Hey, I'm just trying to help you, Ash. :'''Ash''': ''[sits up]'' Well, I don't want your help. :'''Misty''': You big baby! :'''Ash''': ''[stands up from the bed]'' Just get out. :'''Misty''': OK. I'll leave you alone. :'''Pikachu''': ''[tries to calm them down]'' Pika-pika! :''[Brock and Delia run in]'' :'''Brock''': Okay now, that's enough, guys. :'''Delia''': You mustn't be angry with Misty, honey. She thinks you should be very happy. :'''Ash''': Well, why? :'''Misty''': With the way you were training, you are lucky we even made it through the First Round. :'''Ash''': Oh, yeah? Well, I didn't see you out there winning any of those matches. :'''Misty''': When are you gonna get over yourself, Ash? :'''Ash''': Why don't you? :'''Misty''': Why don't I what? :'''Pikachu''': ''[tries to calm them down]'' Pika... :'''Brock''': ''[restrains Ash]'' Okay, that's it. :'''Ash''': Thank you for saving me, Brock. :'''Pikachu''': Pika... :'''Professor Oak''': ''[walks in]'' I'm afraid Misty has a point, Ash. :'''Ash''': Huh? I see. :'''Professor Oak''': Maybe you could've gone much further if you haven't been so sure of yourself and you trained your Charizard properly. :'''Ash''': But, sir, I... :'''Professor Oak''': One could only advance so far relying on strength and intuition. Trainers must learn to battle with a deeper understanding of each Pokémon's natural abilities. :'''Ash''': Uh... Hmm... :'''Misty''': That isn't easy, especially for some lazy Trainers. :'''Ash''': Are you calling me lazy? :'''Misty''': I didn't call anybody anything. I was talking to Pikachu. <hr width=50%/> :'''Misty''': I said I didn't, and I didn't! :'''Ash''': I said you did, because you did! :'''Misty''': I didn't! :'''Ash''': You did! :'''Misty''': Did not! :'''Ash''': Did too! :'''Misty''': Did too! :'''Ash''': You did not! :'''Pikachu''': Pika, Pika! (Quiet, you two!) ''[he shocks everyone]'' :'''Professor Oak''': Don't shock us, too! :'''Ash''': Thank you, Pikachu. <hr width=50%/> :'''Narrator''': Ash battled bravely in his first Pokémon League competition, and although he had lost one crucial match, our young hero won a life-long friend. Now, he's more determined than ever to achieve his dreams of becoming a Pokémon Master. ===''Pallet Party Panic'' [2.28]=== :''[The episode opens on a footpath as the camera pans up to reveal that the footpath actually leads to Pallet Town]'' :'''Narrator''': After battling in the Pokémon League competition at the Indigo Plateau... ''[The camera fades to outside Professor Oak's Laboratory where a party is about to start]'' ...Ash and his friends return to Pallet Town for a hero's welcome. :''[We see Ash, Pikachu, Professor Oak and Delia standing on a yellow table, holding drinks. Misty and Brock, meanwhile, are standing on the grass and holding their drinks]'' :'''Ash''': Uh, I'm very happy to be back in Pallet home, and to everybody who supported me throughout the Pokémon League, I just want to say "thank you very much." :'''Pikachu''': Pikachu. :'''Professor Oak''': And thanks to Ash for representing us so well. :'''Delia''': And we all owe Professor Oak a big thank you for hosting us here today. Now, let's start the party! :'''Professor Oak''': First, let's salute Ash for finishing in the top 16 at the Pokémon League, and doing Pallet Town proud! Hip hip... :'''Crowd''': Hooray! :''[Ash crouches down to Pikachu]'' :'''Ash''': Thank you, too, Pikachu. And all the Pokémon. ''[Clings glasses with Pikachu]'' :'''Pikachu''': Pika! :''[The title card comes up]'' :'''Ash''': ''[voiceover]'' Pallet Party Panic. :''[Soon, everyone is eating as Brock bites into a bit of chicken]'' :'''Brock''': ''[with his mouth full]'' Mmmm, Pallet Town really knows how to throw a party! ''[Eats a bit of his candy stick]'' The food is delicious! :'''Misty''': Hey, guys, we shouldn't be the only ones celebrating, why don't we let our Pokémon join the party, too? :'''Ash''': Good idea! We couldn't have gone to the Pokémon League without them. :'''Pikachu''': Pikachu. :'''Brock''': ''[With his mouth full]'' You're right. Geodude, Onix, Zubat, Vulpix, it's time to come out and chow down! Aaaah, ah! :'''Misty''': Goldeen, Staryu, Psyduck, you're invited, too! Go! :''[Brock and Misty's Pokémon come out of their Poké balls]'' :'''Ash''': Squirtle, Bulbasaur, Pidgeotto, join the party! ''[Sends out Squirtle, Bulbasaur and Pidgeotto]'' :'''Squirtle''': Squirtle. :'''Bulbasaur''': Bulbasaur. :'''Ash''': Chariza... ''[Brock and Misty stop him]'' Ahh! :'''Misty''': Think about this first, Ash! :'''Brock''': Letting Charizard out is not such a great idea, Ash! :'''Ash''': But, I... ''[Thinks back to when Charizard disobeyed him, breathes fire at him and napped during the Indigo League, thus costing Ash his match in Round 5 and letting Ritchie win. Then, Ash returns to the present]'' OK, OK. I'll invite Charizard next time. :'''Misty''': Okay, everybody! Time to dig in! :''[The Pokémon join in as Psyduck trips up]'' :'''Psyduck''': Psy! :'''Bulbasaur''': Bulba. Bulbasaur. ''[Walks over Psyduck]'' :''[The camera cuts Staryu, Goldeen, Geodude and Squirtle]'' :'''Geodude''': Geodude. :'''Squirtle''': Squirtle, Squirtle. :''[Pidgeotto and Zubat join them. The camera cuts to Brock and Misty]'' :'''Brock''': Ash must be really proud. :'''Misty''': I think he's grown up a lot since being in the Pokémon League. Don't you? Huh? :'''Misty & Brock''': Huh? :'''Misty''': Where's Ash? :''[Ash and Pikachu are running as they run past some of the partygoers]'' :'''Ash''': Let's eat fast so we can eat again! ''[Laughs]'' :'''Pikachu''': Pikachu. :'''Misty''': ''[sighs]'' ===''A Scare in the Air'' [2.29]=== ===''Poké Ball Peril'' [2.30]=== ===''The Lost Lapras'' [2.31]=== ===''Fit to be Tied'' [2.32]=== ===''Pikachu Re-Volts'' [2.33]=== :'''James''': That was unpleasant. :'''Butch and Cassidy''': Our old friends. :'''Jessie and James''': Hmm? Whoa! :'''Jessie''': Cassidy?! :'''James''': And Botch. :'''Butch''': Oh! The name is Butch. :'''Jessie''': There is only enough room for one Team Rocket. Just one. :'''Butch''': Then, prepare for trouble. :'''Jessie and James''': Huh?! :'''Jessie''': You are the ones that should prepare for trouble. :'''Cassidy''': Grrr! You two don't even know how to say the motto. :'''James''': You just made your trouble double. :'''Butch''': I'm the one that has the next line. :'''Jessie''': To protect the world from devastation. :'''Cassidy''': To ''infect'' the world with devastation. :'''James''': To unite all peoples within our nation. :'''Butch''': To blight all people in every nation. :'''Jessie''': To denounce the evils of truth and love. :'''Cassidy''': The ''goodness'' of truth and love. :'''James''': Reach to the stars above. :'''Butch''': ''Wrath'' to the stars above. :'''Jessie''': Jessie. :'''Cassidy''': Cassidy. :'''James''': James. :'''Butch''': Butch. :'''Jessie''': Team Rocket blasts off at the Speed of Light. :'''Cassidy''': Team Rocket, circling Earth all day and night. :'''James''': Surrender now or prepare to fight. :'''Butch''': Surrender to us now or you'll surely lose the fight. ===''The Crystal Onix'' [2.34]=== ===''In the Pink'' [2.35]=== :'''Meowth''': Look, that thing is pink, too! :'''Jessie & James''': ''[happily]'' Ah! :'''Jessie''': Imagine, a pink Jigglypuff! :'''James''': ''[frowning]'' Hey, wait a minute, aren't Jigglypuffs always pink? :'''Jessie''': ''[frowning]'' Yes, they are. <hr width=50%> :'''Jessie''': What we need is a Pokémon who can lick 'em all! ''[throws a Pokéball]'' This looks like the perfect job for... Lickitung! :''[Licktung comes out]'' :'''Lickitung''': Licki! :'''James''': Look! A pink Lickitung! ''[gets hit by Jessie's paper fan]'' :'''Jessie''': James! Lickitung has ''always'' been pink! :'''Meowth''': ''[To James]'' Any more of that, and ''you'll'' be turning pink! <hr width=50%> :'''Ash''': The professor sure has a lot of Muk on his hands. <hr width=50%> :''[Team Rocket are beating up an agitated Nidoking]'' :'''Officer Jenny''': Hey! Who do you think you are, coming here and causing trouble?! :'''Jessie''': Did she say... :'''James''': Trouble? :''[Jessie and James are suddenly in pink Tauros and Gengar costumes]'' :'''Jessie''': I think you'd better prepare for trouble! :'''James''': I'm in the pink, so make it double! <hr width=50%> :'''Ash''': ''[grabs Tracey's sketchbook]'' Let me see. :'''Tracey''': Hey! :'''Ash''': ''[sees a sketch of Officer Jenny]'' Aw... :'''Tracey''': Well, like you know, I can't just watch Pokémon all the time. ''[laughs]'' ===''Shell Shock!'' [2.36]=== ===''Stage Fight!'' [2.37]=== ===''Bye Bye Psyduck'' [2.38]=== :'''Marina''': Oh! I just love Staryu! :'''Misty''': I think Staryu is one of my most favorite Pokémon of them all. :'''Marina''': And yours really sparkles, Misty. :'''Misty''': Do you think so? I'd like to keep Staryu looking good, so I polished it every day. :'''Marina''': You did a really great job! :'''Misty''': I'm so glad you liked it! :''[Quite suddenly, Ash's head, minus his body, emerges in his speech bubble.]'' :'''Ash''': ''[head only, annoyed]'' Are you two just gonna talk all day?! :'''Misty''': Oh, okay. ===''The Joy of Pokémon'' [2.39]=== ===''Navel Maneuvers'' [2.40]=== ===''Snack Attack'' [2.41]=== :'''Misty''': Togepi, use your Metronome! You can do it, Togepi! :'''Togepi''': Toge, Toge, Toge, pr, To. :'''Ash''': Nice try, Misty, but Togepi doesn't know any attacks yet. :'''Tracy''': Togepi's just a baby, Misty. ===''A Shipful of Shivers'' [2.42]=== ===''Meowth Rules!'' [2.43]=== ===''Tracey Gets Bugged'' [2.44]== :'''Misty''': Oh, no. Not another Ash. ===''A Way Off Day Off'' [2.45=== ===''The Mandarin Island Miss Match'' [2.46]=== :'''Ash''': Oh yeah, she's using perverse psychology on me! ===''Wherefore Thou Art, Pokémon?'' [2.47]=== :'''Misty''': ''[Referring to Emily & Ralph]'' They're not mature enough to admit it, but they really like each other. :'''Tracey''': You know what? It's exactly the same thing with you and Ash. :'''Misty & Ash''': You must be crazy! <hr width=50%> :'''Emily & Ralph''': Why did you send me that stupid letter? And why did you send me such a stupid present? :'''Emily''': Is this your idea of a joke? :'''Ralph''': That's what I'd like to know! :'''Emily''': Well, thanks a lot for sending me these flowers, Ralph. You know I'm allegic! :'''Ralph''': I guess you'd think it's real funny that I throw up in airplanes. :'''Emily''': I can't stand you, Ralph! :'''Ralph''': I can't stand you, either! :''[Emily & Ralph both pick up a stick and start to fight with the sticks]'' ===''Get Along, Little Pokémon'' [2.48]=== ''[Pikachu is being smothered by a group of Magnemite]'' :'''Pikachu''': ''[Distressed]'' Pika! :'''Ash''': Is something the matter, Pikachu? ===''The Mystery Menace'' [2.49]=== :'''Mayor of Trovitopolis''': ''[As a child, to his Bulbasaur]'' Quit your blubbering! If you're not going to evolve, what do I need you for?! ===''Misty Meets Her Match'' [2.50]=== ===''Bound for Trouble'' [2.51]=== :'''Jessie''': ''[chuckles]'' Bye-bye, birdy! ===''Charizard Chills'' [2.52]=== ===''The Pokémon Water War'' [2.53]=== :'''Officer Jenny''': I’m warning you for the last time, sir! ''[notices Ash and Misty are crawling to the burned museum]'' :'''Misty''': This looks like a job for Stary! ===''Pokémon Food Fight!'' [2.54]=== :'''Tracey''': '''SNORLAX WASN'T SUPPOSED TO EAT THE APPLE!!''' ===''Pokémon Double Trouble'' [2.55]=== :'''Jessie''': Just get out of my way, Grandma! :'''Misty''': ''[To Jessie]'' I wouldn't call her Grandma if I were you, you old witch! <hr width=50%> :'''Jessie''': I don't care if you're in the Orange Crew or Grapefruit League! James, launch an all-out smog attack immediately! :'''James''': Roger! :'''Weezing''': Weezing! Wee! Wee! Wee! :'''Luana''': Alakazam, use Phsychic attack! Shut that robot's mouth! :'''Alakazam''': Alakazam! :'''Jessie''': James, what's going on? <hr width=50%> :'''James''': Meowth, do something! :'''Jessie''': Get us out of here! :'''Meowth''': I can't! Our Rhydon's off! :[exploding] :'''Team Rocket''': Team Rocket's blasting off again! <hr width=50%> :'''All''': Good afternoon. :'''Launa''': Chilton, would you kindly prepare for a deluxe suite for my guests, please? :'''Sheldon''': Right away, ma'am. :'''Misty''': Our own deluxe suite. Now that's sweet! :'''Togepi''': Togepi! :''[all Pokémon are jumping on one leg while other trainer has Raichu, Wartortle, Machop, Sandslash, Electabuzz, and Poliwhirl] :'''Tracy''': The trainers must come here... so their Pokémon can get into shape. :'''Misty''': A gym at the gym. <hr width=50%> :'''Ash''': Well, in that case, we'll be able to ease this match, 1, 2, 3! :'''Pikachu''': Pi! Chu! ===''The Wacky Watcher!'' [2.56]=== ===''The Stun Spore Detour'' [2.57]=== :'''Ash Ketchum''': Well, at least he got cooled off. :'''Pikachu''': Pika! Pika! :'''Ash''': Hey, Tracy, do you think you could help me with my training, now? Kinda get off to a rocky start. ''[shouts]'' :'''Pikachu''': Pika! Pika! Pikachu! Pika! Pikachu! :'''Misty''': Oh, hi, Pikachu. :'''Pikachu''': Pi. :'''Misty''': I thought you and Ash were gonna go down to the beach to do a little training! :'''Pikachu''': Pikachu! Pika! Pika! Pika! Pi! :'''Misty''': Did something happen to Ash? :'''Ash''': It got us! :'''Misty''': Hmm? :'''Ash''': It got us! :'''Misty''': What got you? :'''Tracey''': We both fell into a Vileplume's head. :'''Misty''': [gasping] You breathed in Stun Spore! :'''Ash Ketchum''': Can't move. :'''Misty''': Oh, no! Good thing that wasn't little Susie! :'''Pikachu''': Pikachu. <hr width=50%/> :'''Meowth''': All right, kid. Hand over that Poliwag! :'''Misty''': Poliwag doesn't want to go with you two! :'''James''': Do it, or else. :'''Misty''': No way! ===''Hello, Pummelo!'' [2.58]=== ===''Enter the Dragonite'' [2.59]=== ===''Viva Las Lapras'' [2.60]=== ===''The Underground Round Up'' [2.61]=== :''[Tracey, Poncho, Ash, Pikachu, Misty, Togepi and an Electrode are running through the town when they see something]'' :'''Ash''': ''[gasps]'' :''[They see a large machine approaching them. It stops right in front of them]'' :'''Pikachu''': Pikachu? :'''Tracey''': What's this thing? :'''Jessie''': ''[from inside machine]'' How's my hair? :'''James''': ''[from inside machine]'' Good, how's mine? :'''Meowth''': ''[from inside machine]'' Good! How's mine? :'''Jessie & James''': Smelly. :''[Team Rocket rises up out of the machine]'' :'''Jessie''': Time again to prepare for trouble! :'''James''': And Just like always, make it double! :'''Jessie''': To protect the world from devastation! :'''James''': To unite all people within our nation! :'''Jessie''': To denounce the evils of truth and love! :'''James''': To extend our reach to the stars above! :'''Jessie''': Jessie! :'''James''': James! :'''Jessie''': Team Rocket, blast off at the speed of light! :'''James''': Suh... ''[Clears throat]'' Surrender now or prepare to fight. :'''Meowth''': Meowth, Dat's right! Make way for the environmentally unfriendly Electrode Eliminator! :'''Jessie''': We convinced the mayor that it's the quickest way to take out the Electrode trash. :'''James''': It seems, the citizens are tired of waiting while pokey old Poncho cobbles all the crackly little critters. :'''Meowth''': ''[showing the contract]'' Now we got da contract to corral them, so it's time for Mr. Molasses to hit da trail! :'''Ash''': I don't trust a thing you say! This must be some kind of trick. :'''Pikachu''': Pikachu! :'''Poncho''': It's no trick. :'''Ash''': Huh? :'''Poncho''': That work order they're waving's got the mayor's seal on it. :'''Misty''': I can't believe it. Why would Team Rocket want to help out and move the Electrode? :'''Jessie''': For purely selfish reasons, of course. :'''James''': Not only do we get paid handsomely for our efforts, but we're going to keep all the Electrode we clear out. :'''Meowth''': Yeah! An' they used to say crime doesn't pay. :''[Jessie and James chuckle as Team Rocket lower back down into the Electrode Eliminator and drive toward a group of Electrode]'' :'''Multiple Electrode''': Electrode! :'''Meowth''': Initiate the Electrode elimination system! :'''James''': Roger! Armoured arms, go! :''[The arms extend]'' :'''Jessie''': Now let's get them popping mad! :''[The arms touch two Electrode and make them go boom]'' :'''Meowth''': That oughtta do it. It won't be long now. :''[Ash and his friends watch as Team Rocket makes the Electrode go boom]'' :'''Tracey''': Oh no! Team Rocket's gonna make all the Electrode explode! :'''Misty''': But I don't see what good it does anybody if they blow up the Electrode. :'''Poncho''': It's good for those three. Exploding tires them out, lowers the Electrode's energy to the bare minimum so they can't help but get captured. :'''Electrode on Right''': Electrode. ''[Gets lifted up by the arm on the right]'' :'''Electrode on Left''': Electrode. ''[Gets lifted up by the arm on the left]'' :''[The two Electrode are placed in a containment area]'' :'''Electrode on Left''': Electrode. :'''Electrode on Right''': Electrode. :'''Poncho''': See how easy they're all getting scooped up? Now they can't explode and defend themselves, least not until their power gets regenerated. :'''Misty''': I wish we could do something to help. :'''Poncho''': So do I, Misty. Just as much as you do. But Team Rocket are the ones the mayor has hired to do the job. :'''Misty''': Guess so. :'''Ash''': All they care about is getting those Electrode! :'''Tracey''': But with that official order, there's nothing we can do to stop them! :''[More Electrode blow up when the machine's arms touch them as Ash and his friends look on]'' ===''A Tent Situation'' [2.62]=== ===''The Rivalry Revival'' [2.63]=== == External links== {{Wikipedia|List of Pokémon: Adventures on the Orange Islands episodes}} [[Category:Japanese TV shows]] [[Category:Pokémon]] pew1lcv2kayf8bi5hzp4oaffdr42mol 3961290 3961289 2026-07-05T21:23:51Z ~2026-25217-78 3313596 3961290 wikitext text/x-wiki {{italic title}} ---- {{Pokémon header}} ---- <br/> This is a list of episodes in Pokémon: Adventures on the Orange Islands, the second season of the Pokémon animated series (ポケットモンスター Poketto Monsutā, Pokét Monsters), continuing the adventures of series protagonist Ash Ketchum as he travels to the Orange Islands with Pikachu, Misty and Tracey. ===''Princess vs. Princess'' [2.01]=== :''[Last lines]'' :'''Jessie''': ''[sorrowfully after losing the contest and final match to Misty]''. I lost...the dolls. ''[silently crying, but Lickitung licks her face, causing her to fall backwards]'' Eugh!!! Thanks for trying to cheer me up. :''[Both James and Meowth are wearing the traditional kimonos]'' :'''Meowth''': Jessie.... :'''James''': Since you didn't win the doll set... :'''Jessie''': W-What are you...? ''[closes her eyes]'' Oh, no. ''[imagines Team Rocket as the whole doll set]'' You're all just a bunch of living dolls! :'''James and Meowth''': Thank you. ===''The Purr-fect Hero'' [2.02]=== :'''Brock''': Kids Day should be a boy's holiday only. For men! :'''Ash''': Real men! :'''Brock''': Real, tough men! :''[Misty whacks Brock and Ash with a fan on their heads]'' :'''Misty''': I'M JUST AS TOUGH AS YOU TWO, NOW ARE WE GONNA PLAY OR ARE WE GONNA PLAY?! ===''Riddle Me This'' [2.03]=== ===''Volcanic Panic'' [2.04]=== ===''Beach Blank-Out Blastoise'' [2.05]=== ===''The Misty Mermaid'' [2.06]=== :'''James''': ...and next time, we steal men's clothes. <hr width=50%> :'''Violet''': Okay, let's start the rehearsal. This is a really awesome story. :'''Daisy:''' Violet was our scriptwriter as usual. ''[giggles]'' :'''Violet''': ''[giggles]'' Okay, the story goes: the Magical Mermaid is relaxing peacefully with her Pokémon, Seel, when two evil villains suddenly appear. ''[she and Lily playfully place prop swords near Misty's neck]'' :'''Misty''': Huh? :'''Lily''': We tie you up and try to make you tell us where the sunken treasure is. But when you won't tell us, we get really rough. :'''Misty''': ''[nervous]'' Uh, can we use a stand-in for this part? ''[gets bonked in the head by Violet]'' Ow! :'''Violet''': Don't get cute. :'''Misty''': I'm doing you the favor, remember? So, stop picking on me! I'm doing the best I can! :'''Violet''': Okay, then Daisy comes out all dressed up as the charming prince. And she, like, fights off the villain and saves you. :'''Daisy''': Hyah! ''[waves her prop sword around like she's fighting the villains]'' Uh! Y'ah! :'''Violet''': The Magical Mermaid and the prince fall totally in love and raise a whole lot of Seel and live happily ever after. :'''Seel''': ''[clapping]'' Seel, Seel, Seel, Seel. :'''Brock''': ''[applauding]'' I like that charming prince. :'''Ash''': ''[applauding]'' I like the Seel. :'''Misty''': ''[unamused]'' You would... ===''Clefairy Tales'' [2.07]=== ===''The Battle of the Badge'' [2.08]=== :'''Gary''': It's here.... :'''Ash''': What's here? :'''Gary''': A Pokémon that we've never seen did this. ===''It's Mr. Mime Time'' [2.09]=== ===''Holiday Hi-Jynx'' [2.10]=== ===''Snow Way Out!'' [2.11]=== ===''Showdown at the Po-ké Corral'' [2.12]=== :'''Ash''': Hey! Cut it out! ===''The Evolution Solution'' [2.13]=== ===''The Pi-Kahuna'' [2.14]=== :'''Meowth''': And now, all we have to do is wait for the next Humunga-Dunga. How long could that be? What? A couple of days? A week. Tops. Right? Right?! <hr width=50%> :'''Misty''': Sleepy, Togepi. Time for your nap. <hr width=50%> :'''Misty''': ''[after Ash made a failed attempt to surf like Jan]'' I guess Ash must be practicing his wipeouts. Right, Togepi? :'''Togepi''': ''[chirps in agreement]'' :'''Ash''': ''[climbs up to his board, but suddenly]'' Huh?! ''[his foot cramps up underwater]'' Ah, my foot! Something's wrong with my foot! ''[a wave splashes over him; meanwhile, the blue-eyed Pikachu senses what's happening and runs off]'' Help! Help! :'''Brock''': ''[gasps upon hearing Ash's cries]'' :'''Ash''': Help! Somebody! Help! :'''Misty''': It's Ash! :'''Pikachu''': Pika. :''[Brock rushes out to help Ash as he manages to swim to his board.]'' :'''Brock''': Ash, what's wrong? :'''Ash''': It's my foot! ''[screams as a large wave crash over him]'' :'''Brock''': Ash? Look out! :''[But before Brock can do anything, an even bigger wave head toward Ash.]'' :'''Misty''': Oh, no! That wave! :''[Before the wave comes down on an unconscious naked Ash, the man from earlier rescues him on a surfboard with his Pikachu on the nose of the board, to the surprise of our heroes.]'' :'''Victor''': Puka, pipeline! :'''Puka''': Chu! ''[Right!]'' :''[Puka tilts the board so that it heads to the pipeline of the wave.]'' :'''Victor''': Puka, shoot the curl! :'''Puka''': Pika! ''[Oh, yeah!]'' :''[The two shoot the curl and get Ash to shore and safety, while Ash, who is naked, wakes up briefly and sees what he thinks to be Pikachu in front of him.]'' :'''Ash''': Pika...chu? I am... naked... ''[passes out]'' <hr width=50%> :'''Victor''': This is my cabin. How are you, kid? I know you are naked, so do you hurt anywhere? :'''Ash''': I'm naked, and I'm okay. Who are you? :'''Misty''': Oh, That's Victor. :'''Brock''': Victor is the reason you are still here. He saved your life, Ash. :''[Victor offers naked Ash a beverage.]'' :'''Ash''': Thanks, and thank you for saving me. :'''Victor''': No, no, don't thank me. ===''Make Room for Gloom'' [2.15]=== :'''Ash''': Uh, Brock, are you talking to somebody? :'''Misty''': I think maybe you had a little to much of that antidote. <hr width=50%/> :'''Brock''': Rejected by the one girl I loved! I'll never find another like her again!! :'''Ash''': Uh, don't worry, Brock. You'll find plenty of other girls that won't reject you. <hr width=50%/> :'''Misty''': Hey, Ash! You didn't do any training. The Pokémon League competition is less than two months away. When are you gonna get ready? :'''Ash''': Don't worry, Misty. There's always tomorrow. :'''Misty''': Oh! :'''Narrator''': Don't be so sure, Ash. You're already one tomorrow closer to the battle of your life! ===''Lights, Camera, Quack-tion!'' [2.16]=== :'''Jessie''': Meowth, will you stop moving around? :'''Meowth''': I've got to breathe, don't I? Talk about a cliffhanger! :'''Jessie''': Prepare for trouble! :'''James''': With no stunt double! ===''Go West, Young Meowth'' [2.17]=== :'''Meowth''': She sells seashells by the seashore. <hr width=50%/> :'''Ash''': That's scary. :'''Brock''': Looks like our movie career is over. :'''Misty''': Even before it got started. ===''To Master the Onixpected!'' [2.18]=== :''[Ash and the gang catch Team Rocket disguised as polecats]'' :'''Jessie''': Prepare for trouble, whippersnapper! :'''James''': And make it double, young feller! :'''Meowth''': I think we can fast forward through this. :''[he presses the fast-forward button on his remote, and everything speeds up]'' :'''Jessie''': ''[in hyperspeed]'' To protect the world from devastation! :'''James''': ''[also in hyperspeed]'' To unite all people within our nation! :'''Jessie''': To denounce the evils of truth and love! :'''James''': To extend our reach to the stars above! :'''Jessie''': Jessie! :'''James''': James! :'''Jessie''': Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light! :'''James''': Surrender now or prepare to fight! :'''Meowth''': ''[also in hyperspeed]'' Okay! :''[he presses the play button, and everything returns to normal speed]'' :'''Meowth''': ''[normal speed]'' Meowth, that's right! :'''Jessie''': ''[also in normal speed; worn out]'' Exhausting. :'''James''': ''[also in normal speed; worn out]'' I think I bit my tongue! <hr width=50%/> :'''Jessie''': I think things are looking sort of rocky, don't you? :'''James''': These Pokémon couldn't be boulder! :'''Meowth''': Maybe people take them for granite! ===''The Ancient Puzzle of Pokémopolis'' [2.19]=== :'''Ash''': Where's that Jiggly-giant? ===''Bad to the Bone!'' [2.20]=== :'''Professor Oak''': It's too late for pointers, young man! If you're not ready for the Pokémon League now, you should quit and go home!! ===''All Fired Up!'' [2.21]=== :'''Ash''' ''[shouts in excitement]'' Yee...'''''HAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWW!!!!!!''''' :'''Misty''': Ash, are you going crazy?! :'''Brock''': The answer is yes. :'''Pikachu''': ''[exasperated]'' Pika... ''[Togepi, having being scared by Ash's outburst, bawls loudly]'' :'''Misty''': Now, just look what you did to Togepi. ''[shakes Togepi up and down]'' Oh, it's all right, little Togepi. :'''Togepi''': ''[stops crying]'' Togepri. :'''Ash''': Sorry, Misty. <hr width="50%/"> :'''Jessie''': I think our plan.... :'''James''': Backfired! <hr width=50%/> :'''Narrator''': Will he be out of the league? Who knows? He's got to be in it to win it. ===''Round One - Begin!'' [2.22]=== :'''Mandi''': But I'm Mandi the Astounding. How could I lose? ===''Fire and Ice'' [2.23]=== :'''Waitress''': Do you want a plate? :'''Ash''': Yeah, but only if it's a collection plate! ===''The Fourth Round Rumble'' [2.24]=== :'''Jeanette''': ''[to Bellsprout]'' Make Bulba-sore! ''[laughs]'' ===''A Friend in Deed'' [2.25]=== :'''Jessie''': I just don't understand it. :'''James''': How can we feel so low.... :'''Meowth''': When we're up so high? :'''Jessie''': 100 Pokémon in a bag, 100 Pokémon.... :'''James''': If all of those Pokémon go free.... :'''Meowth''': Ain't no Pokémon for me. ===''Friend and Foe Alike'' [2.26]=== ===''Friends to the End'' [2.27]=== :''[at the beginning of the episode, Ash is moping around, annoyed about how his Charizard cost him the match at the Indigo Plateau...]'' :'''Ash''': ''[thinking]'' Why did I have to lose? :'''Pikachu''': ''[worried]'' Pika-pi. :'''Professor Oak''': So, he's been laying in there by himself since he had lost the match. :'''Brock''': Yeah, he won't even eat or anything. Will he? :'''Delia''': Maybe he's coming down with a cold. :'''Brock''': No, silly, he's just depressed is all. :'''Professor Oak''': Depressed about what?! :'''Delia''': About the match?! :'''Brock''': ''[nods his head 'yes']'' I see. I think that he feels like a total loser 'cause Ritchie beat him. Did he? :'''Misty''': He should be happy he made it all the way to the Fifth Round. I know he feels bad, but he can't just mope around forever. Can he? ''[opens the door and walks into the room to get Ash]'' Hey, Ash, let's go get something to eat. :'''Ash''': No, thanks. :'''Misty''': ''[groans]'' Well, how about a walk? :'''Ash''': Go by yourself if you can. :'''Misty''': ''[groans in frustration]'' Hey, let's go down the Pokemon village and buy some souvenirs. ''[tries to get Ash up from the bed]'' Maybe they'll have some-- :'''Ash''': ''[pulls away]'' Just leave us alone. :'''Misty''': Suit yourself. Hey, I'm just trying to help you, Ash. :'''Ash''': ''[sits up]'' Well, I don't want your help. :'''Misty''': You big baby! :'''Ash''': ''[stands up from the bed]'' Just get out. :'''Misty''': OK. I'll leave you alone. :'''Pikachu''': ''[tries to calm them down]'' Pika-pika! :''[Brock and Delia run in]'' :'''Brock''': Okay now, that's enough, guys. :'''Delia''': You mustn't be angry with Misty, honey. She thinks you should be very happy. :'''Ash''': Well, why? :'''Misty''': With the way you were training, you are lucky we even made it through the First Round. :'''Ash''': Oh, yeah? Well, I didn't see you out there winning any of those matches. :'''Misty''': When are you gonna get over yourself, Ash? :'''Ash''': Why don't you? :'''Misty''': Why don't I what? :'''Pikachu''': ''[tries to calm them down]'' Pika... :'''Brock''': ''[restrains Ash]'' Okay, that's it. :'''Ash''': Thank you for saving me, Brock. :'''Pikachu''': Pika... :'''Professor Oak''': ''[walks in]'' I'm afraid Misty has a point, Ash. :'''Ash''': Huh? I see. :'''Professor Oak''': Maybe you could've gone much further if you haven't been so sure of yourself and you trained your Charizard properly. :'''Ash''': But, sir, I... :'''Professor Oak''': One could only advance so far relying on strength and intuition. Trainers must learn to battle with a deeper understanding of each Pokémon's natural abilities. :'''Ash''': Uh... Hmm... :'''Misty''': That isn't easy, especially for some lazy Trainers. :'''Ash''': Are you calling me lazy? :'''Misty''': I didn't call anybody anything. I was talking to Pikachu. <hr width=50%/> :'''Misty''': I said I didn't, and I didn't! :'''Ash''': I said you did, because you did! :'''Misty''': I didn't! :'''Ash''': You did! :'''Misty''': Did not! :'''Ash''': Did too! :'''Misty''': Did too! :'''Ash''': You did not! :'''Pikachu''': Pika, Pika! (Quiet, you two!) ''[he shocks everyone]'' :'''Professor Oak''': Don't shock us, too! :'''Ash''': Thank you, Pikachu. <hr width=50%/> :'''Narrator''': Ash battled bravely in his first Pokémon League competition, and although he had lost one crucial match, our young hero won a life-long friend. Now, he's more determined than ever to achieve his dreams of becoming a Pokémon Master. ===''Pallet Party Panic'' [2.28]=== :''[The episode opens on a footpath as the camera pans up to reveal that the footpath actually leads to Pallet Town]'' :'''Narrator''': After battling in the Pokémon League competition at the Indigo Plateau... ''[The camera fades to outside Professor Oak's Laboratory where a party is about to start]'' ...Ash and his friends return to Pallet Town for a hero's welcome. :''[We see Ash, Pikachu, Professor Oak and Delia standing on a yellow table, holding drinks. Misty and Brock, meanwhile, are standing on the grass and holding their drinks]'' :'''Ash''': Uh, I'm very happy to be back in Pallet home, and to everybody who supported me throughout the Pokémon League, I just want to say "thank you very much." :'''Pikachu''': Pikachu. :'''Professor Oak''': And thanks to Ash for representing us so well. :'''Delia''': And we all owe Professor Oak a big thank you for hosting us here today. Now, let's start the party! :'''Professor Oak''': First, let's salute Ash for finishing in the top 16 at the Pokémon League, and doing Pallet Town proud! Hip hip... :'''Crowd''': Hooray! :''[Ash crouches down to Pikachu]'' :'''Ash''': Thank you, too, Pikachu. And all the Pokémon. ''[Clings glasses with Pikachu]'' :'''Pikachu''': Pika! :''[The title card comes up]'' :'''Ash''': ''[voiceover]'' Pallet Party Panic. :''[Soon, everyone is eating as Brock bites into a bit of chicken]'' :'''Brock''': ''[with his mouth full]'' Mmmm, Pallet Town really knows how to throw a party! ''[Eats a bit of his candy stick]'' The food is delicious! :'''Misty''': Hey, guys, we shouldn't be the only ones celebrating, why don't we let our Pokémon join the party, too? :'''Ash''': Good idea! We couldn't have gone to the Pokémon League without them. :'''Pikachu''': Pikachu. :'''Brock''': ''[With his mouth full]'' You're right. Geodude, Onix, Zubat, Vulpix, it's time to come out and chow down! Aaaah, ah! :'''Misty''': Goldeen, Staryu, Psyduck, you're invited, too! Go! :''[Brock and Misty's Pokémon come out of their Poké balls]'' :'''Ash''': Squirtle, Bulbasaur, Pidgeotto, join the party! ''[Sends out Squirtle, Bulbasaur and Pidgeotto]'' :'''Squirtle''': Squirtle. :'''Bulbasaur''': Bulbasaur. :'''Ash''': Chariza... ''[Brock and Misty stop him]'' Ahh! :'''Misty''': Think about this first, Ash! :'''Brock''': Letting Charizard out is not such a great idea, Ash! :'''Ash''': But, I... ''[Thinks back to when Charizard disobeyed him, breathes fire at him and napped during the Indigo League, thus costing Ash his match in Round 5 and letting Ritchie win. Then, Ash returns to the present]'' OK, OK. I'll invite Charizard next time. :'''Misty''': Okay, everybody! Time to dig in! :''[The Pokémon join in as Psyduck trips up]'' :'''Psyduck''': Psy! :'''Bulbasaur''': Bulba. Bulbasaur. ''[Walks over Psyduck]'' :''[The camera cuts Staryu, Goldeen, Geodude and Squirtle]'' :'''Geodude''': Geodude. :'''Squirtle''': Squirtle, Squirtle. :''[Pidgeotto and Zubat join them. The camera cuts to Brock and Misty]'' :'''Brock''': Ash must be really proud. :'''Misty''': I think he's grown up a lot since being in the Pokémon League. Don't you? Huh? :'''Misty & Brock''': Huh? :'''Misty''': Where's Ash? :''[Ash and Pikachu are running as they run past some of the partygoers]'' :'''Ash''': Let's eat fast so we can eat again! ''[Laughs]'' :'''Pikachu''': Pikachu. :'''Misty''': ''[sighs]'' ===''A Scare in the Air'' [2.29]=== ===''Poké Ball Peril'' [2.30]=== ===''The Lost Lapras'' [2.31]=== ===''Fit to be Tied'' [2.32]=== ===''Pikachu Re-Volts'' [2.33]=== :'''James''': That was unpleasant. :'''Butch and Cassidy''': Our old friends. :'''Jessie and James''': Hmm? Whoa! :'''Jessie''': Cassidy?! :'''James''': And Botch. :'''Butch''': Oh! The name is Butch. :'''Jessie''': There is only enough room for one Team Rocket. Just one. :'''Butch''': Then, prepare for trouble. :'''Jessie and James''': Huh?! :'''Jessie''': You are the ones that should prepare for trouble. :'''Cassidy''': Grrr! You two don't even know how to say the motto. :'''James''': You just made your trouble double. :'''Butch''': I'm the one that has the next line. :'''Jessie''': To protect the world from devastation. :'''Cassidy''': To ''infect'' the world with devastation. :'''James''': To unite all peoples within our nation. :'''Butch''': To blight all people in every nation. :'''Jessie''': To denounce the evils of truth and love. :'''Cassidy''': The ''goodness'' of truth and love. :'''James''': Reach to the stars above. :'''Butch''': ''Wrath'' to the stars above. :'''Jessie''': Jessie. :'''Cassidy''': Cassidy. :'''James''': James. :'''Butch''': Butch. :'''Jessie''': Team Rocket blasts off at the Speed of Light. :'''Cassidy''': Team Rocket, circling Earth all day and night. :'''James''': Surrender now or prepare to fight. :'''Butch''': Surrender to us now or you'll surely lose the fight. ===''The Crystal Onix'' [2.34]=== ===''In the Pink'' [2.35]=== :'''Meowth''': Look, that thing is pink, too! :'''Jessie & James''': ''[happily]'' Ah! :'''Jessie''': Imagine, a pink Jigglypuff! :'''James''': ''[frowning]'' Hey, wait a minute, aren't Jigglypuffs always pink? :'''Jessie''': ''[frowning]'' Yes, they are. <hr width=50%> :'''Jessie''': What we need is a Pokémon who can lick 'em all! ''[throws a Pokéball]'' This looks like the perfect job for... Lickitung! :''[Licktung comes out]'' :'''Lickitung''': Licki! :'''James''': Look! A pink Lickitung! ''[gets hit by Jessie's paper fan]'' :'''Jessie''': James! Lickitung has ''always'' been pink! :'''Meowth''': ''[To James]'' Any more of that, and ''you'll'' be turning pink! <hr width=50%> :'''Ash''': The professor sure has a lot of Muk on his hands. <hr width=50%> :''[Team Rocket are beating up an agitated Nidoking]'' :'''Officer Jenny''': Hey! Who do you think you are, coming here and causing trouble?! :'''Jessie''': Did she say... :'''James''': Trouble? :''[Jessie and James are suddenly in pink Tauros and Gengar costumes]'' :'''Jessie''': I think you'd better prepare for trouble! :'''James''': I'm in the pink, so make it double! <hr width=50%> :'''Ash''': ''[grabs Tracey's sketchbook]'' Let me see. :'''Tracey''': Hey! :'''Ash''': ''[sees a sketch of Officer Jenny]'' Aw... :'''Tracey''': Well, like you know, I can't just watch Pokémon all the time. ''[laughs]'' ===''Shell Shock!'' [2.36]=== ===''Stage Fight!'' [2.37]=== ===''Bye Bye Psyduck'' [2.38]=== :'''Marina''': Oh! I just love Staryu! :'''Misty''': I think Staryu is one of my most favorite Pokémon of them all. :'''Marina''': And yours really sparkles, Misty. :'''Misty''': Do you think so? I'd like to keep Staryu looking good, so I polished it every day. :'''Marina''': You did a really great job! :'''Misty''': I'm so glad you liked it! :''[Quite suddenly, Ash's head, minus his body, emerges in his speech bubble.]'' :'''Ash''': ''[head only, annoyed]'' Are you two just gonna talk all day?! :'''Misty''': Oh, okay. ===''The Joy of Pokémon'' [2.39]=== ===''Navel Maneuvers'' [2.40]=== ===''Snack Attack'' [2.41]=== :'''Misty''': Togepi, use your Metronome! You can do it, Togepi! :'''Togepi''': Toge, Toge, Toge, pr, To. :'''Ash''': Nice try, Misty, but Togepi doesn't know any attacks yet. :'''Tracy''': Togepi's just a baby, Misty. ===''A Shipful of Shivers'' [2.42]=== ===''Meowth Rules!'' [2.43]=== ===''Tracey Gets Bugged'' [2.44]=== :'''Misty''': Oh, no. Not another Ash. ===''A Way Off Day Off'' [2.45=== ===''The Mandarin Island Miss Match'' [2.46]=== :'''Ash''': Oh yeah, she's using perverse psychology on me! ===''Wherefore Thou Art, Pokémon?'' [2.47]=== :'''Misty''': ''[Referring to Emily & Ralph]'' They're not mature enough to admit it, but they really like each other. :'''Tracey''': You know what? It's exactly the same thing with you and Ash. :'''Misty & Ash''': You must be crazy! <hr width=50%> :'''Emily & Ralph''': Why did you send me that stupid letter? And why did you send me such a stupid present? :'''Emily''': Is this your idea of a joke? :'''Ralph''': That's what I'd like to know! :'''Emily''': Well, thanks a lot for sending me these flowers, Ralph. You know I'm allegic! :'''Ralph''': I guess you'd think it's real funny that I throw up in airplanes. :'''Emily''': I can't stand you, Ralph! :'''Ralph''': I can't stand you, either! :''[Emily & Ralph both pick up a stick and start to fight with the sticks]'' ===''Get Along, Little Pokémon'' [2.48]=== ''[Pikachu is being smothered by a group of Magnemite]'' :'''Pikachu''': ''[Distressed]'' Pika! :'''Ash''': Is something the matter, Pikachu? ===''The Mystery Menace'' [2.49]=== :'''Mayor of Trovitopolis''': ''[As a child, to his Bulbasaur]'' Quit your blubbering! If you're not going to evolve, what do I need you for?! ===''Misty Meets Her Match'' [2.50]=== ===''Bound for Trouble'' [2.51]=== :'''Jessie''': ''[chuckles]'' Bye-bye, birdy! ===''Charizard Chills'' [2.52]=== ===''The Pokémon Water War'' [2.53]=== :'''Officer Jenny''': I’m warning you for the last time, sir! ''[notices Ash and Misty are crawling to the burned museum]'' :'''Misty''': This looks like a job for Stary! ===''Pokémon Food Fight!'' [2.54]=== :'''Tracey''': '''SNORLAX WASN'T SUPPOSED TO EAT THE APPLE!!''' ===''Pokémon Double Trouble'' [2.55]=== :'''Jessie''': Just get out of my way, Grandma! :'''Misty''': ''[To Jessie]'' I wouldn't call her Grandma if I were you, you old witch! <hr width=50%> :'''Jessie''': I don't care if you're in the Orange Crew or Grapefruit League! James, launch an all-out smog attack immediately! :'''James''': Roger! :'''Weezing''': Weezing! Wee! Wee! Wee! :'''Luana''': Alakazam, use Phsychic attack! Shut that robot's mouth! :'''Alakazam''': Alakazam! :'''Jessie''': James, what's going on? <hr width=50%> :'''James''': Meowth, do something! :'''Jessie''': Get us out of here! :'''Meowth''': I can't! Our Rhydon's off! :[exploding] :'''Team Rocket''': Team Rocket's blasting off again! <hr width=50%> :'''All''': Good afternoon. :'''Launa''': Chilton, would you kindly prepare for a deluxe suite for my guests, please? :'''Sheldon''': Right away, ma'am. :'''Misty''': Our own deluxe suite. Now that's sweet! :'''Togepi''': Togepi! :''[all Pokémon are jumping on one leg while other trainer has Raichu, Wartortle, Machop, Sandslash, Electabuzz, and Poliwhirl] :'''Tracy''': The trainers must come here... so their Pokémon can get into shape. :'''Misty''': A gym at the gym. <hr width=50%> :'''Ash''': Well, in that case, we'll be able to ease this match, 1, 2, 3! :'''Pikachu''': Pi! Chu! ===''The Wacky Watcher!'' [2.56]=== ===''The Stun Spore Detour'' [2.57]=== :'''Ash Ketchum''': Well, at least he got cooled off. :'''Pikachu''': Pika! Pika! :'''Ash''': Hey, Tracy, do you think you could help me with my training, now? Kinda get off to a rocky start. ''[shouts]'' :'''Pikachu''': Pika! Pika! Pikachu! Pika! Pikachu! :'''Misty''': Oh, hi, Pikachu. :'''Pikachu''': Pi. :'''Misty''': I thought you and Ash were gonna go down to the beach to do a little training! :'''Pikachu''': Pikachu! Pika! Pika! Pika! Pi! :'''Misty''': Did something happen to Ash? :'''Ash''': It got us! :'''Misty''': Hmm? :'''Ash''': It got us! :'''Misty''': What got you? :'''Tracey''': We both fell into a Vileplume's head. :'''Misty''': ''[gasping]'' You breathed in Stun Spore! :'''Ash Ketchum''': Can't move. :'''Misty''': Oh, no! Good thing that wasn't little Susie! :'''Pikachu''': Pikachu. <hr width=50%/> :'''Meowth''': All right, kid. Hand over that Poliwag! :'''Misty''': Poliwag doesn't want to go with you two! :'''James''': Do it, or else. :'''Misty''': No way! ===''Hello, Pummelo!'' [2.58]=== ===''Enter the Dragonite'' [2.59]=== ===''Viva Las Lapras'' [2.60]=== ===''The Underground Round Up'' [2.61]=== :''[Tracey, Poncho, Ash, Pikachu, Misty, Togepi and an Electrode are running through the town when they see something]'' :'''Ash''': ''[gasps]'' :''[They see a large machine approaching them. It stops right in front of them]'' :'''Pikachu''': Pikachu? :'''Tracey''': What's this thing? :'''Jessie''': ''[from inside machine]'' How's my hair? :'''James''': ''[from inside machine]'' Good, how's mine? :'''Meowth''': ''[from inside machine]'' Good! How's mine? :'''Jessie & James''': Smelly. :''[Team Rocket rises up out of the machine]'' :'''Jessie''': Time again to prepare for trouble! :'''James''': And Just like always, make it double! :'''Jessie''': To protect the world from devastation! :'''James''': To unite all people within our nation! :'''Jessie''': To denounce the evils of truth and love! :'''James''': To extend our reach to the stars above! :'''Jessie''': Jessie! :'''James''': James! :'''Jessie''': Team Rocket, blast off at the speed of light! :'''James''': Suh... ''[Clears throat]'' Surrender now or prepare to fight. :'''Meowth''': Meowth, Dat's right! Make way for the environmentally unfriendly Electrode Eliminator! :'''Jessie''': We convinced the mayor that it's the quickest way to take out the Electrode trash. :'''James''': It seems, the citizens are tired of waiting while pokey old Poncho cobbles all the crackly little critters. :'''Meowth''': ''[showing the contract]'' Now we got da contract to corral them, so it's time for Mr. Molasses to hit da trail! :'''Ash''': I don't trust a thing you say! This must be some kind of trick. :'''Pikachu''': Pikachu! :'''Poncho''': It's no trick. :'''Ash''': Huh? :'''Poncho''': That work order they're waving's got the mayor's seal on it. :'''Misty''': I can't believe it. Why would Team Rocket want to help out and move the Electrode? :'''Jessie''': For purely selfish reasons, of course. :'''James''': Not only do we get paid handsomely for our efforts, but we're going to keep all the Electrode we clear out. :'''Meowth''': Yeah! An' they used to say crime doesn't pay. :''[Jessie and James chuckle as Team Rocket lower back down into the Electrode Eliminator and drive toward a group of Electrode]'' :'''Multiple Electrode''': Electrode! :'''Meowth''': Initiate the Electrode elimination system! :'''James''': Roger! Armoured arms, go! :''[The arms extend]'' :'''Jessie''': Now let's get them popping mad! :''[The arms touch two Electrode and make them go boom]'' :'''Meowth''': That oughtta do it. It won't be long now. :''[Ash and his friends watch as Team Rocket makes the Electrode go boom]'' :'''Tracey''': Oh no! Team Rocket's gonna make all the Electrode explode! :'''Misty''': But I don't see what good it does anybody if they blow up the Electrode. :'''Poncho''': It's good for those three. Exploding tires them out, lowers the Electrode's energy to the bare minimum so they can't help but get captured. :'''Electrode on Right''': Electrode. ''[Gets lifted up by the arm on the right]'' :'''Electrode on Left''': Electrode. ''[Gets lifted up by the arm on the left]'' :''[The two Electrode are placed in a containment area]'' :'''Electrode on Left''': Electrode. :'''Electrode on Right''': Electrode. :'''Poncho''': See how easy they're all getting scooped up? Now they can't explode and defend themselves, least not until their power gets regenerated. :'''Misty''': I wish we could do something to help. :'''Poncho''': So do I, Misty. Just as much as you do. But Team Rocket are the ones the mayor has hired to do the job. :'''Misty''': Guess so. :'''Ash''': All they care about is getting those Electrode! :'''Tracey''': But with that official order, there's nothing we can do to stop them! :''[More Electrode blow up when the machine's arms touch them as Ash and his friends look on]'' ===''A Tent Situation'' [2.62]=== ===''The Rivalry Revival'' [2.63]=== == External links== {{Wikipedia|List of Pokémon: Adventures on the Orange Islands episodes}} [[Category:Japanese TV shows]] [[Category:Pokémon]] nips1ut8v4k55jly0zo9pekisrsnttp 0 174558 3961301 3870713 2026-07-05T22:07:02Z Filmator1 3314256 /* */ 3961301 wikitext text/x-wiki {{italic title}} [[File:Daredevil_Logo.svg|thumb|right|I don't believe in a book of rules, I don't believe in heavens or in hells, but I do believe in the devil. And I know why he's here.{{center|—''Matt Murdock''}}]] '''''[[w:Daredevil_(TV_series)|Marvel's Daredevil]]''''', or simply '''''Daredevil''''', is an American web television series developed by [[w:Drew Goddard|Drew Goddard]] with [[w:Steven S. DeKnight|Steven S. DeKnight]], based on the [[w:Marvel Comics|Marvel Comics]] character of the same name. == Season 1 == === ''Into The Ring'' [1.01] === :''[first scene of the series: Matt Murdock goes to confession]'' :'''[[w:Daredevil (Marvel Comics)|Matt Murdock]]''': Bless me Father, for I have sinned. It's been, uh…it's been too long since my last confession. My dad, he used to come to this church back when I was a kid. He was a fighter. Old school. Boxer. Lost more than he won. Had a 24-31 record before he, uh… But he could take a punch. Jesus, he could take a punch. :'''Father Lantom''': Language. :'''Matt''': Sorry, Father. Yeah... Guys he went up against used to say it was like hitting oak. And nights when he was outmatched, my dad's strategy was to let 'em hit him 'til they broke their hands. Never got knocked out, my dad. Knocked down, sure, but he, uh, always got back up. He was always on his feet when he lost. Every now and then, though, uh… Every now and then, he'd get hit and something inside him would snap. My grandmother…She was the real Catholic. Fear of God ran deep. You'd have liked her. She used to say, "Be careful of the Murdock boys. They got the devil in 'em." And you'd see it sometimes in the ring. His eyes would go dead… and he'd start walking forward real slow, hands at his sides like he wasn't afraid of anything. And the other guy, he'd see that look, and he'd try to get away from him. Nah. My dad, he'd catch him and trap him in a corner. Let the devil out. Yeah. Now, I didn't understand it, you know? What he was feeling deep inside, I didn't understand it. Not back then. :'''Lantom''': But you understand it now? Perhaps this would be easier if you tell me what you've done. :'''Matt''': I'm not seeking penance for what I've done, Father. I'm asking forgiveness…for what I'm ''about'' to do. :'''Lantom''': That's not how this works. What exactly are you about to do? :[''Matt doesn't respond''] <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Foggy Nelson|Foggy Nelson]]''': Good morning, sunshine! :'''Matt''': What time is it? :'''Foggy''': Half past "get the hell up"! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Susan Harris''': ''[telling Foggy about the future offices Nelson and Murdock]'' You've got a reception area, a conference room and two offices. ''[Matt enters behind them]'' Corner suite has a view of the Hudson, you can flip a coin with your partner for it. :'''Matt''': Uh, ''he'' can have the view. :'''Susan''': ''[turns, realizes Matt is blind]'' I'm so sorry. I didn't... :'''Matt''': ''[smiles]'' Of course not. :'''Susan''': Susan Harris, Midtown Property Solution. ''[sticks her hand out]'' :'''Matt''': Matt Murdock. ''[Susan remembers he can't see her hand and pulls it back, curtsying awkwardly]'' :'''Foggy''': She just curtsied. It was adorable. <hr width="50%"/> :''[debating whether to take Karen Page as their first client]'' :'''Foggy''': All right, I'm just gonna say this once and we can move on. You don't necessarily show the best judgment when beautiful women are involved. :'''Matt''': How would I even know if she's a beautiful woman? :'''Foggy''': I don't know. It's kinda spooky, actually. But if there's a stunning woman with questionable character in the room, Matt Murdock's gonna find her and Foggy Nelson is gonna suffer. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Matt and Foggy show up at an interrogation room where Karen is being held for questioning]'' :'''[[w:Karen Page|Karen Page]]''': Who the hell are you guys? :'''Matt''': I'm Matt. He's Foggy. ''[Foggy smiles and nods]'' :'''Karen''': Who sent you? :'''Matt''': No one sent us. :'''Karen''': So…what? You're a couple of good Samaritans? Today's just my lucky day? :'''Foggy''': ''[shrugs]'' I…bribed the desk sergeant with a box of cigars. For his mom. :'''Matt''': Our practice is relatively young, Ms. Page, and we are aggressively pursuing new clientele. ''[to Foggy]'' Stop giving Bess cigars. :'''Foggy''': She likes to smoke, man. It's a free country. :'''Karen''': How long have you been practicing law? :'''Matt''': What time is it? :'''Foggy''': It's 12:22 AM. :'''Matt''': About seven hours. :'''Foggy''': Well, if you go from when we passed the bar... :'''Matt''': I was going from when we got our own desks. :'''Foggy''': Oh, then, yeah. Seven hours. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Owl (Marvel Comics)|Leland Owlsley]]''': [[The Avengers (2012 film)|Heroes and their consequences]] are why we have our current opportunities. === ''Cut Man'' [1.02] === :'''Foggy''': Could you, could you hear me just now? :'''Karen''': Nope. :'''Foggy''': The correct answer is "Yes, and you sound amazing." :'''Karen''': Well, of the two lies, I took the lesser. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Josie''': ''[to Karen]'' You could do so much better, love. :'''Foggy''': Thank you, Josie, but this is my employee for your information, and we are not on a date. ''[Looks at Karen]'' Are we on a date? :'''Karen''': Definitely not. :'''Foggy''': Okay, good because I was starting to worry you might be in love with me. What other explanation could there be? You hang around my office all day. :'''Karen''': Well, I'm your secretary, Foggy. :'''Foggy''': You refuse to leave. You're always at your desk. :'''Karen''': I'm a good secretary! :'''Foggy''': No. You gaze at me lovingly when you think I'm not looking. ''[Karen laughs]'' What? You might. How would I know? I'm not looking. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Claire Temple (Marvel Cinematic Universe)|Claire Temple]]''': I found a man who needed help, so I helped him. :'''Matt''': Oh yeah? That simple? :'''Claire''': ''[glances at unconscious Russian]'' Do you really want to get into this in front of him? :'''Matt''': He's out. :'''Claire''': Maybe he's faking. :'''Matt''': ''[listens]'' He's not. :'''Claire''': Okay, that right there? That's what I'm talking about. Okay, I find a guy in a dumpster who turns out to be some kind of blind vigilante who can do all of this really weird shit like smell cologne through walls and sense whether someone's unconscious or faking it. Slap on top of that, he can take an unbelievable amount of punishment without one damn complaint. :'''Matt''': The last part's the Catholicism. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jack Murdock''': ''[into his wife's answering machine]'' Hey, it's, uh, it's me. I'm about to go do something…well, I'm about to go be me. You know better than anybody that doesn't always go so well. I don't know how this is gonna go, but if I were a betting man, Matty's gonna need you. More than ever. Look after him, okay? And I know what I'm asking here, but he's a good kid. He sure as hell didn't get that from me. So it's better this way. Just once, I want Matty to hear people cheer for his old man. Just once. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Claire''': So, what? I'm supposed to take it on faith I'm on the right side of this? :'''Matt''': You don't carry a masked man bleeding to death into your apartment on faith. You knew which side you were on the moment you found me. Why'd you help me, Claire? :'''Claire''': I'm a nurse. Work the ER at Metro-General. A few weeks ago, cops bring in three men. Said they were robbing tourists, beating them up pretty bad. Apparently, a man in a black mask took issue with their activities and decided to step in. I counted nine broken bones between them. A few days after that, EMTs bring in a 19-year-old waitress, said some guy she knew waited for her after work in the parking lot, attacked her, tried to drag her in the alley. She said she screamed and screamed, and a man in a black mask heard her and he saved her life. So, yeah, word's getting around. And I want to believe in what you're doing. === ''Rabbit In A Snowstorm'' [1.03] === :''[Matt and Foggy are arguing whether or not they should defend Healy]'' :'''Matt''': You're the one that keeps saying we need real clients. :'''Foggy''': That's not a client. It's a shark in a skin suit. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Matt delivers a closing statement at Healy's trial]'' :'''Matt''': Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, forgive me if I seem distracted. I've been preoccupied of late with, uh, questions of morality. Of right and wrong, good and evil. Sometimes the delineation between the two is a sharp line. Sometimes it's a blur, and often it's like pornography: you just know when you see it. A man is dead. I don't mean to make light of that, but these questions... these questions are vital ones because they tether us to each other, to humanity. Not everyone feels this way. Not everyone sees the sharp line, only the blur. A man is dead. Um, a man is dead. And my client, John Healy, took his life. This is not in dispute. It is a matter of record, of fact, and facts have no moral judgment. They merely state what is. Not what we think of them, not what we feel. They just are. What was in my client's heart when he took Mr. Prohaszka's life, whether he is a good man or something else entirely, is irrelevant. These questions of good and evil, as important as they are, have no place in a court of law. Only the facts matter. My client claims he acted in self-defense. Mr. Prohaszka's associates have refused to make a statement regarding the incident. The only other witness, a frightened young woman, has stated that my client was pleasant and friendly, and that she only saw the struggle with Mr. Prohaszka after it had started. Those are the facts. Based on these and these alone, the prosecution has failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that my client was not acting solely in self-defense. And those, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, are the facts. My client, based purely on the sanctity of the law which we've all sworn an oath to uphold, must be acquitted of these charges. Now, beyond that, beyond these walls... he may well face a judgement of his own making. But here, in this courtroom, the judgement is yours and yours alone. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Owlsley''': You've lost your strong-arm and the tape. You got nothing on juror eight now. :'''James Wesley''': She's only a piece of the puzzle. :'''Owlsley''': You ever try putting a puzzle together with a piece missing? It's damned aggravating. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Healy has just given up Wilson Fisk's name to Matt]'' :'''John Healy''': You think this is still about you? I gave up his name. You don't do that, not to him. He'll find me... and make an example... and then he'll find everyone I've ever cared about... and do the same to them... so that no one ever does what I just did. You should have just killed me. You coward. ''[turns and impales his head through a spike]'' <hr width="50%"/> :''[Fisk is staring at a painting in an art gallery - it is made up of layers of textured white. Vanessa approaches him.]'' :'''[[w:Vanessa Fisk|Vanessa Marianna]]''': There's an old children's joke. You hold up a white piece of paper and you ask, "What's this?" A rabbit in a snowstorm. You interested or just looking? :'''[[w:Kingpin (comics)|Wilson Fisk]]''': Interested. :'''Vanessa''': People always ask me how can we charge so much for what amounts to gradations of white. I tell them it's not about the artist's name or the skill required, not even about the art itself. All that matters is "How does it make you feel?" :'''Fisk''': It makes me feel alone. === ''In The Blood'' [1.04] === :'''Karen:''' What? So that's it? :'''[[w:Ben Urich|Ben Urich]]:''' Stories like this are built on sources, Miss Page. Credible sources. I did some digging into your, uh... past activities. :'''Karen:''' Well, I did some digging, too. I read every big story with your byline. The VA kickbacks, toxic runoff, the Teachers Union scandal. Hell, you pretty much brought down the Italian mob back when I was in diapers! What ever happened to that reporter, Mr. Urich? :'''Ben''': He got old. And a hell of a lot less stupid. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Vanessa''': How are you enjoying "Rabbit in a Snowstorm"? :'''Fisk''': You remember. :'''Vanessa''': Of course. It's one of my favorite pieces. :'''Fisk''': I hung it in my bedroom. It's the last thing I see every night. :'''Vanessa''': That's either very romantic or very sad. :'''Fisk''': I like to tell myself it's the former. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Vanessa''': The city's really changing. :'''Fisk''': Not fast enough. :'''Vanessa''': I don't know. Be a shame to see all the character scrubbed away. :'''Fisk''': You didn't grow up here, did you? :'''Vanessa''': ''[laughs]'' What gave it away? :'''Fisk''': When I was a kid, I used to dream what it would be like to, to live somewhere far away from Hell's Kitchen. Somewhere beautiful. :'''Vanessa''': What made you stay? :'''Fisk''': I didn't. When I was 12 years old, my mother, she sent me to stay with relatives. Had a farm, middle of nowhere. Those were good years. :'''Vanessa''': But you came back. :'''Fisk''': Yes. Time and distance, they afford a certain clarity. I realized that this city was a part of me, that it was in my blood. And I would do anything to make it a better place for people like you. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Fisk''': A woman that can be bought isn't worth having. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Wesley''': They say the past is etched in stone, but it isn't. It's smoke trapped in a closed room, swirling, changing. Buffeted by the passing of years and wishful thinking. But even though our perception of it changes, one thing remains constant. The past can never be completely erased. It lingers. Like the scent of burning wood. === ''World on Fire'' [1.05] === :'''Claire''': You have X-ray fingers now? :'''Matt''': I can hear your bones shift when you breathe. No grinding means nothing's broken. :'''Claire''': What does a hairline fracture ''sound'' like? :'''Matt''': ''[pause]'' An old ship? :''[they both smile]'' :'''Claire''': How do you…I mean, I know that you're blind, but you see so much. How? :'''Matt''': I guess you have to think of it as more than just five senses. I can't see, not like everyone else, but I can feel. Things like balance and direction. Micro-changes in air density, vibrations, blankets of temperature variations. Mix all that with what I hear, subtle smells. All of the fragments form a sort of impressionistic painting. :'''Claire''': Okay, but what does that look like? Like, what do you actually see? :'''Matt''': ''[pause]'' A world on fire. :'''Claire''': If all I saw was fire, I'd probably want to hit people too. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Owlsley''': Where are the Smiley Twins? Sleeping off another kidnapping? :'''Fisk''': The Ranskahovs are no longer a part of this organization. :'''Owlsley''': Since when? :'''Fisk''': Since I removed Anatoly's head with my car door. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Karen:''' ''[smacks the new photocopier in frustration]'' UGH! Gosh! You don't make any sense! :'''Foggy''': ''[amused]'' Whoa, be nice to it! You know, for when the machines take over. :'''Karen:''' ''[smiles]'' I can't get any of this crap I bought to work! :'''Foggy''': Bad time to mention the phones? All I hear when I try to dial is a bunch of clicks. Could be the machines plotting, but I don't speak computer overlord. :'''Karen:''' No, it's the rats. :'''Foggy''': The who what now? ''[Matt comes in]'' :'''Karen:''' ''[scoffs]'' They chewed through the main line. Phone guy's working on it now. Exterminator's Monday. :'''Foggy''': We have rats now? I'm never sleeping here again! :'''Matt''': Then there's an upside. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Vanessa''': So why does a man like you feel alone? :'''Fisk''': Nature of my business, I suppose. :'''Vanessa''': And what kind of business is that? :'''Fisk''': Rebuilding this city. I want to carve something beautiful out of its ugliness…set free its potential. :'''Vanessa''': You sound like an artist. :'''Fisk''': I'm just a man with a dream. :'''Vanessa''': What do you think an artist is? ''[indicating his cufflinks]'' Are those the only ones you have? You were wearing them last time. :'''Fisk''': They were my father's. I wear them every day to remember him. :'''Vanessa''': Did he pass? :'''Fisk''': When I was a boy. May I ask you something now? :'''Vanessa''': I'd say you've earned it. :'''Fisk''': What kind of gun is that you have in your purse? :'''Vanessa''': It's a .22. :'''Fisk''': Did you think you would need that tonight? :'''Vanessa''': We've been sitting here talking for hours and you're going to insult me like I have no idea what you really do? :'''Fisk''': What I said about what I want for this city is the truth. But money and influence is not enough to usher change on such a scale. Sometimes it requires force. :'''Vanessa''': I know you're a dangerous man. That's why I brought a gun to a dinner date. :'''Fisk''': Would you like to leave? :'''Vanessa''': No. I'd like a reason to stay. :'''Fisk''': I've done things that I'm not proud of, Vanessa. I've hurt people and I'm going to hurt more. It's impossible to avoid for what I'm trying to do. But I take no pleasure in it, in cruelty. But this city isn't a caterpillar. It doesn't spin a cocoon and wake up a butterfly. A city crumbles and fades. It needs to die before it can be reborn. :'''Vanessa''': So I don't need the gun? :'''Fisk''': No. By my side is the safest place that you could ever be. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Claire''': Why don't you go to the police with all that you have on the Russians? :'''Matt''': I wear a mask and beat on people. Doesn't exactly mesh with police policy. === ''Condemned'' [1.06] === :''[Matt has just brought Vladimir to an abandoned building]'' :'''Matt''': Don't move. You've been shot. ''[Vladimir curses in Russian]'' That sounds pretty bad, but I don't speak asshole. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Foggy''': ''[Watching footage of the explosion]'' Jesus, look at this. It's like a war zone out there. We better call Matt and make sure he's okay. ''[Takes out his phone]'' :'''Karen''': Foggy, you're bleeding. :'''Foggy''': Huh? ''[looks and notices that his shirt is indeed soaked with blood]'' Oh, that explains it. :'''Karen''': Explains what? :'''Foggy''': The stabbing pain in my side. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Matt needs to treat Vladimir's bullet wound, so he calls Claire]'' :'''Matt''': I need your help. I found someone who has intel on what I've been looking for, but he's been shot. :'''Claire''': So call 911! :'''Matt''': Can't. Police are the ones that shot him. I'm thinking they'd like a crack at finishing the job. :'''Claire''': Do you want me to come out to you? In all this? :'''Matt''': No. I want you to walk me through stabilizing him. :'''Claire''': It's not as easy as it looks in the movies, you know? :'''Matt''': I don't really go to the movies. I like records, though. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Fisk''': ''[Over the police radio]'' I'd like to speak to the man in the mask, please. :'''Matt''': ''[Picks the radio]'' Hello. :'''Fisk''': Are you there? Can you hear me? :'''Matt''': Who is this? :'''Fisk''': I think you know. You've been asking about me. I thought it was time we spoke. :'''Matt''': Say your name. :'''Fisk''': You first. :''[Matt hesitates]'' :'''Fisk''':That's what I thought. You and I have a lot in common. :'''Matt''': We're nothing alike. :'''Fisk''': That's what you'll tell yourself. :'''Matt''': You're feeding off this city like a cancer. :'''Fisk''': I want to save this city, like you. Only on a scale that matters. :'''Matt''': Now tell that to the people you've hurt. :'''Fisk''': Young man, life is not a fairy tale. Not everyone deserves a happy ending. :'''Matt''': I'm gonna find you, and I'm gonna make you pay for what you've done. :'''Fisk''': No, you are not. Not that I don't admire what you're trying to do, to change the world, with nothing but desire and your own two hands, secure in the knowledge that you're doing the right thing, the only thing. That's something that I do understand. But we both can't have what we want. So, your part, in this drama, by necessity, comes to an end. :'''Matt''': It's gonna take a lot more than a voice on a radio to stop me. :'''Fisk''': It's not me you need to worry about. It's the city you just blew the hell out of. :'''Matt''': ''[chuckles]'' You... You think anyone's gonna believe that? :'''Fisk''': You're running around in a mask, holing up with a known felon in the wake of a series of bombings. There's that police officer you're holding hostage, so... yes. Actually, I do. But it doesn't have to be this way. The Russian, is he alive? :'''Vladimir''': I'm still here, you fat shit! :'''Matt''': Does that answer your question? :'''Fisk''': It's a one-time offer. You kill the Russian, and we'll call the night a push. You know what he's done to women. To children. To the people of this city that you claim to care about. But do you know how much he enjoyed it? :'''Matt''': You just confirmed how important he is. That must worry you, what he might tell me. :'''Fisk''': Which means he hasn't told you anything yet. You're a child playing at being a hero. :'''Matt''': No, no, I'm not trying to be a hero. I'm just a guy that got fed up with men like you and I decided to do something about it. :'''Fisk''': That's what makes you dangerous. It's not the mask. It's not the skills. It's your ideology. The lone man who thinks he can make a difference. I'm glad we could talk. I, I respect your conviction even if it runs counter with my own. === ''Stick'' [1.07] === :''[In a flashback, Matt and Stick are on a park bench, eating ice cream]'' :'''Young Matt Murdock''': So what kind of training is this? :'''[[w:Stick (comics)|Stick]]''': You like ice cream? :'''Young Matt''': Yeah. :'''Stick''': Then shut up and eat it. I'll ask the questions. First thing you gotta understand is nobody feels sorry for you and nobody ever will. 'Cause when it comes to being born lucky you won the friggin' lottery. :'''Young Matt''': I did? :'''Stick''': ''[Smacks him with his cane]'' What did I say about questions? :'''Young Matt''': "Shut up." :'''Stick''': Good. How old were you when you got blinded? :'''Young Matt''': Nine. :'''Stick''': Nine? So you had nine whole years of looking at movies, blue skies, up girlies' skirts that I never had. I was born blind. You don't hear me whining about it, do you? :'''Young Matt''': No. :'''Stick''': So, you're nine years old, walking along, minding your own business and whammo! Get hit by a truck, killed dead on the spot. :'''Young Matt''': I wasn't killed. :'''Stick''': You lived? Praise God, it's a miracle. So you survive the truck and get this chemical shit in your eyes. What next? :'''Young Matt''': I hear things. :'''Stick''': What kind of things? :'''Young Matt''': Everything. Coughs and fights and cats meowing. Sometimes blocks away. I can sense things. I know where things are and when they move. But I can't see. :'''Stick''': You know what they call stuff like that? Gifts. The special kind. The kind that very few people have. Or deserve. :'''Young Matt''': I never thought of it that way. :'''Stick''': Well, that's because you're stupid. :'''Young Matt''': I'm not stupid, I'm smart. :'''Stick''': Because you taught yourself how to run your little fingers over the bumps and read Braille? Smart don't come out of books, kid. Smart is making the right decision at the right time. Like now. What's it gonna be, Matty? You gonna spend your life crying and rocking yourself to sleep at night? Or are you gonna dig deep and find out what it takes to reshuffle those cards life dealt you? Your call. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Ben''': There are no heroes, no villains. Just people with different agendas. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Young Matt''': No one's bought me ice cream since my dad died. :'''Stick''': What's it taste like? :'''Young Matt''': Vanilla. :'''Stick''': ''[scoffs]'' Everybody can taste vanilla. Pay a little more attention, use those gifts. You know what you got? ''[sniffs]'' Sugar grains, vanilla bean, milk from three different dairies from two states... ''[licks]'' ugh... batch of chemicals straight off the periodic tables and... ''[sniffs]'' dirt off the guy's hand that served it to you. He spent his morning gardening. Whole world around you, Matty, and it is friggin' huge. And all you need... are the guts to let it in. Try. That dog, what's his story? :'''Young Matt''': He's hungry... his stomach's growling... and he's dying to eat the hot dogs that guy's carrying just upwind of him. :'''Stick''': Not bad. What about the girl? :'''Young Matt''': Her skin's... Her skin's too hot. Her heart's beating fast. Is she sick? :'''Stick''': Worse. She's in love. And the old man? :'''Young Matt''': He's...He's dying. :'''Stick''': And there's nothing you can do about it. Big world, not all of it flowers and sunshine. And the only way guys like you and me can survive is to grab it by the throat and never let go. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Young Matt''': My dad. They paid him to lose against Creel. But... But I wanted him to win. So he did because of me. Because of me. I just wanted him to come home. :'''Stick''': But he didn't and he never will. We all pay for our choices kid. Maybe your old man fought for you, maybe he did it for himself. The only thing you know for sure is he's gone now. But I'm here. Now, get up. Time to stop taking a beating and start giving one. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Stick''': ''[to Matt]'' Kid, in war, people die. If it's not you, it's the guy next to you. How many men have you killed protecting this city? You're still afraid to cross that line. Someday, it's gonna come down to you or the other guy. If it's not Fisk, somebody else. What're you gonna do then? === ''Shadows in the Glass'' [1.08] === :''[Fisk wants Detective Hoffman to kill his partner Detective Blake so that Blake won't squeal on Fisk]'' :'''Fisk''': I know that you have feelings regarding this matter. I respect that. But if Detective Blake chooses to speak out of turn the result would be unpleasant, for you and for me. :'''Detective Carl Hoffman''': Out of turn? You shot him! :'''Wesley''': Technically, we paid someone else to shoot him. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Daredevil''': I didn't blow the hell out of the Russians. And I didn't shoot those cops. :'''Ben''': So, what? You want me to write your side of this? :'''Daredevil''': No, I want you to expose the man responsible. The man who's tearing this city apart, piece by piece. :'''Ben''': You got a name? :'''Daredevil''': Wilson Fisk. :'''Ben''': Never heard of him. :'''Daredevil''': Because he doesn't want you to. That's what makes him dangerous. Living in the shadows, no one knowing who he is. :'''Ben''': Said the man in the mask. <hr width="50%"/> :''[After Madame Gao calls Fisk out on pretending to not understand Chinese just so that he could keep Wesley on hand for meetings]'' :'''Madame Gao''': It is the clever man who plays the fool. And a foolish woman who does not recognize it. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Ben''': "You get what you deserve." It's an old saying. One that survived the years, because it's true. For the most part. But not for everyone. Some get more than they deserve. Because they believe they aren't like everyone else. That the rules, the ones people like me and you, the people that work and struggle to live our lives, just live, don't apply to them. That they can do anything and live happily ever after, while the rest of us suffer. They do this from the shadows. Shadows that we cast with our indifference. With a pervasive lack of interest in anything that doesn't directly affect us, we, in the here and now. Or maybe it's just the shadow of weariness. Of how tired we are, struggling to claw our way back to a middle class that no longer exist, because of those who take more than they deserve. And they keep taking, until all that's left for the rest of us is a memory of how it used to be before the corporations and the bottom line decided we didn't matter anymore. But we do. You and I, the people of this city, we still matter. There's someone in Hell's Kitchen that doesn't share this belief. He's been among us for quite some time. You've never heard his name. You've never seen his face. He's stayed in the shadows. Because men like him, men that want to control our city, our lives, fear the light and what it reveals. This man must no longer be allowed to operate in the darkness. If he has nothing to hide, let him step forward. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Fisk calls a press conference]'' :'''Fisk''': I'm not very good at this, out, being in public. But I felt the need to speak up for this city that I love with all my heart. No one should have to live in fear. In fear of madmen who have no regard for who they injure. In fear of the Devil of Hell's Kitchen, who has inflicted untold pain and suffering. This masked terrorist and psychopaths of his kind, we must show them we will not bow down to their campaign of coercion and intimidation. We must stand up to them. As this man, my dearest friend, Leland Owlsley, a pillar in the financial community, stood up when he was recently assaulted. But this assault was for no other reason than to send me a message. A message warning me to stop. To give up my dream that I have for this city. A dream of a better place. A place for its citizens to feel safe. To feel pride. I tried to do this quietly, not wanting to draw attention. The last thing I wanted was for anyone close to me to become a target from those who do not share my dream. For those who will have this city stay exactly as it is, mired in poverty and crime. But I know now it was foolish to make that decision. That I can no longer do it alone. That I cannot keep living in the shadows afraid of the light. None of us can. None of us should be forced to. We must do this together. We must resist those who would have us live in fear. My name is Wilson Fisk. And together, we can make this city a better place. === ''Speak of the Devil'' [1.09] === :'''Matt''': Do you believe in the Devil, Father? :'''Lantom''': You mean... as a concept? :'''Matt''': No. Do you believe he exists? In this world, among us. :'''Lantom''': You want the short answer or the long one? :'''Matt''': Just the truth. :'''Lantom''': When I was in seminary I was more studious than pious, more skeptical than most of my peers. I had this notion which I was more than willing to speak about, at length, to whoever I could corner, that the Devil was inconsequential. Minor figure in the grand scheme. :'''Matt''': Not very Catholic of you. :'''Lantom''': Uh-huh, yeah. In my defense, in the scriptures, the Hebrew word "Satan" actually means "adversary." It's applied to any antagonist. Angels and humans, serpents and kings. Medieval theologians reinterpreted those passages to be about a single monstrous enemy. And, in my youthful zeal, I was certain I knew why: propaganda. Played up to drive people into the church. :'''Matt''': So you don't believe he exists. :'''Lantom''': Am I done talking? :'''Matt''': Sorry. :'''Lantom''': Years later, I was in Rwanda trying to help local churches provide aid and sanctuary to refugees. I'd become close with the village elder, Gahiji. He and his family had the respect of everybody, Hutu and Tutsi alike. He'd helped them all through famines, disease. The militia liked to force Hutu villagers to murder their neighbors with machetes. But nobody would raise a hand against Gahiji. They said, "Well how can we kill such a holy man?" So the militia commander sent soldiers with orders to cut his head off in front of the entire village. Gahiji didn't try to put up a fight. Just asked for the chance to say goodbye to his family. By the time he was done, even the soldiers didn't wanna kill him. So they went to their commander and asked permission to shoot him. At least give him a quick death. The commander wanted to meet this man who had won the respect of so many. He went to Gahiji. Talked with him in his hut for many hours. Then he dragged him out in front of his village and hacked him to pieces along with his entire family. In that man who took Gahiji's life, I saw the Devil. So yes, Matthew. I believe he walks among us, taking many forms. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lantom''': I was worried you might've gone out and done something foolish, after our talk this morning. :'''Matt''': I haven't done anything. Not yet. :'''Lantom''': Sounds a bit on the ominous side. :'''Matt''': I went to visit someone close to the... close to the Devil. Not to hurt her, just to get a sense of him. Of who he is and what it would take to... do what I have to. :'''Lantom''': And... what did you learn? :'''Matt''': That he has someone he loves... who loves him, who'd mourn his loss. :'''Lantom''': Mmm-hmm. Few things are absolute, Matthew. Even Lucifer was once an angel. It's why judgment and vengeance... are best left to God. Especially when murder is not in your heart. :'''Matt''': How do you know? :'''Lantom''': You're here, aren't you? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Matt''': I know my soul is damned if I take his life. But if I stand idle, if I... if I let him consume this city, all the people that will suffer and die... :'''Lantom''': There is a ''wide'' gulf between inaction and murder, Matthew. Another man's evil ''does not'' make you good. Men have used the atrocities of their enemies to justify their own throughout history. So the question you have to ask yourself is: are you struggling with the fact that you don't want to kill this man but ''have'' to? Or that you don't have to kill him but ''want'' to? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Vanessa''': You don't need sight to appreciate art, but you do need honesty. :'''Matt''': Sight helps. :'''Vanessa''': Sure. But there's something very intimate in experiencing art through someone else's eyes. That's a good line, by the way. You should use it. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Vanessa''': So, give me an idea what you're after. :'''Matt''': I'm not sure. :'''Vanessa''': Good... art isn't furniture. If you knew exactly what you were looking for, you'd be just decorating. Art should speak to you... move you. ''[Walks up to a piece]'' This one, for example. One of my favorite pieces. :'''Matt''': Describe it to me. :'''Vanessa''': Imagine a sea of tonal reds. The color of anger... of rage... but also the color of the heart... of love... hope. This strikes the perfect balance between the two. :'''Matt''': I don't know, it sounds aggressive. :'''Vanessa''': All depends on your point of view. === ''Nelson v. Murdock'' [1.10] === :'''Foggy''': Okay, so you get these whatever-you-call-thems when you're a kid. How do you go from that to what you're doing now? :'''Matt''': When I was a kid, before the accident…I'd lay awake at night listening to the sirens. I liked to put stories to them. Trying to figure out what they were for, ambulance or cops, robbery or fire. I don't know, just a stupid game. But after I lost my sight, after my abilities developed, I realized how many sirens there actually were…how much this city suffered every single night. :'''Foggy''': You've been running around doing this since you were a kid? :'''Matt''': No. I…I tried not to fight…to make my dad proud. To…to block it out. The sirens, the pain, the fear, all strangling Hell's Kitchen. For years, I buried my head and turned away. Then one night, right after we quit Landman & Zack…I heard it. :'''Foggy''': Heard what? :'''Matt''': A little girl. Crying in her bed, in a building down the block. Her father liked to go to her room late at night…when his wife was asleep. :'''Foggy''': ''[horrified]'' Oh, Jesus. :'''Matt''': I called Child Services. Like you're supposed to. But the mom, she wouldn't believe it. Said it wasn't true. And the dad, he was smart. ''[scoffs]'' He made sure what he did, how he did it, didn't leave a mark. The law couldn't do anything to help that little girl. But I could. ''[Matt is shown beating said father senseless]'' He spent the next month in a hospital, eating through a straw. And I never slept better. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Foggy''': We are both one day gonna be fine, upstanding members of the legal profession. ''El grande''…how do you say "lawyers" in Spanish? :'''Matt''': Lawyers? ''Abogados''. :'''Foggy''': ''El grande avocados!'' :'''Matt''': ''[laughs]'' That's not Spanish, that's fruit. :'''Foggy''': Pfft. It's a vegetable at best. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Gao''': There is conflict within you. :'''Fisk''': Conflict? :'''Gao''': Man cannot be both savior and oppressor, light and shadow. One has to be sacrificed for the other. Choose and choose wisely. Or others shall choose for you. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Foggy''': You're going to get yourself killed, you keep this up. You know that, right? :'''Matt''': I can take care of myself. :'''Foggy''': What about the rest of us? Me, Karen…we're a part of this now, because of you. And we didn't get a say in that. :'''Matt''': What do you think's gonna happen if I give up now, Foggy? Who's going to stop Fisk? :'''Foggy''': Oh, I don't know. The law? :'''Matt''': Tell that to Elena. ''[pause]'' If you could have put on a mask and prevented what happened to her…you telling me you wouldn't have? :'''Foggy''': It's not fair, Matt. :'''Matt''': We don't live in a world that's fair. We live in this one. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Owlsley talks with Fisk about Nobu's fight with the man in the mask]'' :'''Owlsley''': You burned him alive? Christ. :'''Fisk''': I never laid a hand on Nobu. :'''Owlsley''': So, you maneuvered that masked idiot to take him out. Same result. :'''Fisk''': I need you to speak with Gao. :'''Owlsley''': Me? The hell am I gonna say to her? :'''Fisk''': Reassure her everything is fine. :'''Owlsley''': So, you want me to lie. :'''Wesley''': Mmm, you weren't particularly fond of Nobu. You thought he was unsettling, if I recall. :'''Owlsley''': I think ''you're'' unsettling half the time. See me lighting a match? === ''The Path of the Righteous'' [1.11] === :'''Karen''': You think someone's trying to kill Fisk? :'''Ben''': I've been writing about crime in this city since before you were born. The only thing I know without a doubt is you don't get to be the man at the top without making enemies looking to tear you down to the ground. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lantom''': I have a pretty good idea who you are and what you do. How you do it… That's something else entirely. :'''Matt''': Accident when I was a kid. Used to think it was God's will. :'''Lantom''': Used to? :'''Matt''': Yeah, He made each and every one of us with a purpose, didn't He? A reason for being. :'''Lantom''': I believe so, yes. :'''Matt''': Then why did He put the Devil in me? Why do I feel it in my heart and my soul clawing to be let out if that's not all part of God's plan? :'''Lantom''': Maybe you're being called to summon the better angels of your nature. Maybe that's the struggle you're feeling deep within you. :'''Matt''': And how do you know the angels and the Devil inside me aren't the same thing? :'''Lantom''': I don't, but nothing drives people to the church faster than the thought of the Devil snapping at their heels. Maybe that was God's plan all along. Why He created him, allowed him to fall from grace to become a symbol to be feared warning to us all, to tread the path of the righteous. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Karen''': Isn't it a bit early for beer? :'''Matt''': Depends what kind of day you're having. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Wesley''': Reach out to Gao. :'''Owlsley''': Me? What if she's the one who did all this? :'''Wesley''': Well, you said you didn't think it was her. :'''Owlsley''': What the hell do I know? I was almost poisoned. I'm not thinking straight. :'''Wesley''': Speak with Gao... if she wasn't involved, we might need her support against further unpleasantries. :'''Owlsley''': And if she was involved? :'''Wesley''': Then it's been an honor doing business with you. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Fisk''': I don't know how to pray. My father was not a religious man. My mother wanted to be -- I think, needed to be -- but she never quite found it within herself. I'd seen it in movies, watched it on television. I read it in books when I was a child. After I was sent away, I tried to mimic the words. The sentiment. But it was false. It was an imitation of faith. No... I can't pray for you. All I can do is make you a promise. One that not even God, if there is such a thing, can prevent me from keeping. The people that did this to you... They will suffer, Vanessa. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Wesley''': Do you love this city? :'''Karen''': I, I, um, haven't been here long enough. :'''Wesley''': Huh. I find a few days, a week at most, is ample time to form an emotional response. Growing to love something is really simply forgetting slowly what you dislike about it. I'll be perfectly honest, the situation calls for it, I do not love this city. The crush of the unwashed garbage stacked on the sidewalk, the air that seems to adhere to your skin, the layer of filth you can never completely wash away. :'''Karen''': Maybe you should move. :''[. . .]'' :''[after Wesley leaves his gun on the table, Karen summons up enough strength to grab it and point it at him]'' :'''Wesley''': ''[bluffing]'' Do you really think I would put a loaded gun on the table where you could reach it? :'''Karen''': I don't know. ''[cocks it]'' Do you really think this is the first time I've shot someone? :'''Wesley''': Miss Page— :''[Karen calls Wesley's bluff and shoots him in the right shoulder; he stares at her in shock, and she puts six more rounds into his chest, killing him]'' === ''The Ones We Leave Behind'' [1.12] === :'''Fisk''': It's a difficult thing, isn't it? Taking a life. Feeling the weight and responsibility of all the years the person you've murdered has lived—moments that they've cherished, the dreams that they've struggled towards—gone, because of you. I want you to know something. Something important that I've learned: that it gets easier the more you do it. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Matt''': Did something happen? :'''Karen''': Yes. The world fell apart. Didn't you notice? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Ben''': Run the article. It'll sell papers, it's sexy. :'''Mitchell Ellison''': You sound like a whore. :'''Ben''': Well, I learned how to be one from you. I get lucky sometimes, sure. Land a story that makes a difference, like Union Allied. But most of the time, now, working for this paper... I might as well be wearing lipstick and a red dress. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Owlsley''': So, what's our play here? :'''Gao''': The wheel constantly turns. We must adapt to its position, or be crushed beneath it. :'''Owlsley''': What? Where the hell are you going? :'''Gao''': I will visit my homeland and reflect upon the future. :'''Owlsley''': Home? China? :'''Gao''': It is a considerable distance farther. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Owlsley''': Wind blows the hardest the closer you get to the mountain top. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Doris''': ''[to Ben]'' You never needed that man. You never needed that paper. You only ever needed a story. Go tell it. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Fisk has broken into Ben's apartment]'' :'''Ben''': People seek the truth no matter where they find it. :'''Fisk''': That may have been the case when you and I were young. This world around us is preoccupied with celebrity weddings and videos of cats. But complicated issues, issues that matter? They take too much focus. They take too much time away from texting and the thousand channels on the satellite dish. :'''Ben''': Guess I have more faith in humanity. :'''Fisk''': Ah. So did Christ, if I recall. I'll go. Just one more thing: Were you alone when you spoke to my mother? :'''Ben''': ''[realizing]'' Your guy at the ''Bulletin''? :'''Fisk:''' Yes, I received a call that was upsetting. Were you alone? :'''Ben''': Yeah. I was alone. :'''Fisk:''' Wesley, was that you? :'''Ben''': Wesley? :'''Fisk:''' Yes, I didn't think so. You're a man of principle, of conviction. I understand that, I even admire it. But you went after my mother. That's not something that I can forgive. :'''Ben''': I wrote a lot of stories in my years pushing ink. You know how many times people have threatened me get me to keep my mouth shut? :'''Fisk''': ''[seething with rage]'' But this is my ''mother'' that you brought into this, Mr. Urich. My ''mother!'' So I am not here to threaten you. I'm here to KILL you! ''[Fisk stands up and grabs Urich by the neck. Urich struggles. Fisk throws him to the ground and chokes him to death with his bare hands]'' === ''Daredevil'' [1.13] === :''[at Ben's funeral]'' :'''Lantom''': How you holding up? :'''Matt''': Like a good Catholic boy. :'''Lantom''': That bad, huh? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Owlsley''': I've spent my entire life hiding assets overseas for pricks like you. My son and I will be just another transaction, disappearing into the tax-exempt ether. But I'm the fair sort. That's why I'm only taking half your money. You go your way, I go mine. Not what I'd call "win-win", but it's as close as we're gonna get with this. So. We on the same page? :'''Fisk''': I, uh... ''No.'' I don't think we are! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Matt''': I thought "Nelson and Murdock" were over... :'''Foggy''': There's nothing I want more than to find a way back to where we were, but... I don't know if we can. :'''Matt''': No, we can't. But maybe we can find a way to move ''forward'', Foggy. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Fisk''': I was thinking about a story from the Bible. :'''FBI Guard 1''': Did I tell you to open your mouth? :'''FBI Guard 2''': Let 'im talk. Don't mean nothin'. :'''Fisk''': I'm not a religious man, but I've read bits and pieces over the years. Curiosity more than faith. But this one story… There was a man, he was traveling from Jerusalem to Jericho when he was set upon by men of ill intent. They stripped the traveler of his clothes, they beat him, and they left him bleeding in the dirt. And a priest happened by, saw the traveler, but he moved to the other side of the road and continued on. And a Levite, a religious functionary, he came to the place, saw the dying traveler, but he, too, moved to the other side of the road, passed him by. But then came a man from Samaria, a Samaritan, a good man. He saw the traveler bleeding in the road and he stopped to aid him without thinking of the circumstance or the difficulty it might bring him. The Samaritan tended to the traveler's wounds, applying oil and wine, and he carried him to an inn, gave him all the money he had for the owner to take care of the traveler, as the Samaritan, he continued on his journey. He did this simply because the traveler was his neighbor. He loved his city and all the people in it. I always thought that I was the Samaritan in that story. It's funny, isn't it? How even the best of men can be deceived by their true nature. :'''FBI Agent 1''': What the hell does that mean? :'''Fisk''': It means that I'm not the Samaritan, that I'm not the priest or the Levite…'''''that I am the ill intent who set upon the traveler on a road that he should not have been on!''''' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Sgt. Brett Mahoney''': The way things are going around here, I'm thinking about taking an early pension. Move my mom somewhere warm. :'''Matt''': Be a shame. The only cop on the force we know for sure is honest. :'''Mahoney''': Never see [[Serpico]]? Honest cops are usually the ones get shot in the face. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Fisk''': I wanted to make this city... something better than it is. Something beautiful. YOU TOOK THAT AWAY FROM ME! YOU TOOK EVERYTHING! I'M GONNA KILL YOU! :'''Daredevil''': Take your shot. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Fisk''': ''[as he thrashes Daredevil]'' This city doesn't deserve a better tomorrow! It deserves to drown in its filth! It deserves people like my father! People like you! :'''Daredevil''': ''[suddenly blocking his attack]'' This is ''my'' city! My ''family!'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Fisk''': ''[defeated; laughs at Daredevil]'' You really think... this will change anything? You think one man in a silly little costume will make a difference…? ''[Daredevil knocks him down]'' == Season 2 == === ''Bang'' [2.01] === :'''Foggy''': You ever wake up in the morning... from the second you get out of bed, it's like... every molecule in your body hurts? :'''Matt''': No, never. :'''Foggy''': I'm in agony, dude. :'''Matt''': What, did you go back to the gym? :'''Foggy''': Hell, no! Do I look capable of making healthy life choices? I went out, Matthew. Went out dancing. :'''Matt''': I'm choosing not to believe that. :'''Foggy''': And yet, it's true. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Foggy''': You know what my problem is? :'''Matt''': Well, it ain't the moves. :'''Foggy''': You know I got the moves. That's the tragedy of you being blind, you've never seen me dance. :'''Matt''': Yeah, but I can cite the legends I heard in law school. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Karen''': Well, uh, Mr. Marino's dog was viciously beaten by his neighbor after the dog, um... defiled the neighbor's statue of Saint Francis. :'''Matt''': "Defiled"? :'''Karen Page''': Um... humped repeatedly until completion. :'''Foggy''': That's a dog I want to defend. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Foggy''': You can't drink the water here. Josie's pipes have issues. :'''Matt''': Rust, mold. :'''Foggy''': I think I can actually see the bacteria floating in there. :'''Karen''': Oh, ew, ew. :'''Matt''': See, that... that's why we, uh, keep our cocktails neat. :'''Foggy''': Pretend you're abroad. On vacation someplace exotic, but no mojitos. Josie just throws mint in the beer. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Matt seems to have Castle cornered]'' :'''[[w:Punisher|Frank Castle]]''': ''[pulls a pistol]'' Bang. ''[shoots Daredevil in the head]'' === ''Dogs to a Gunfight'' [2.02] === :'''Matt''': Hey, Foggy, can I get some aspirin? :'''Foggy''': You sure you don't want an x-ray? Maybe a psych eval? :'''Matt''': An aspirin's fine, buddy. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Blake Tower|Blake Tower]]''': It's an ongoing investigation. But our intelligence people are close to completing a profile. :'''Foggy''': A profile? :'''Blake''': Even got a code name. :'''Foggy''': Like what? "Killdozer," or "Dumbass With A Gun"? :'''Blake''': Not quite. They're calling this one "The Punisher". <hr width="50%"/> :''[Castle walks into a pawn shop. He approaches the owner, who nervously grabs the handle of the double barreled gun under his desk]'' :'''Pawn Shop Owner:''' Do I know you? :'''Castle:''' I need an NYPD mobile communications rig. One that gets encrypted tactical frequencies. :'''Pawn Shop Owner:''' ''[scoffs]'' What do I look like, [[w:RadioShack|RadioShack]]? Anyway, dealing in this shit is ''illegal''. ''[Castle puts a couple $100 bills down on the counter]'' You sure you're not a cop? 'Cause that's trouble I don't need. ''[Castle moves to pick up his money]'' Whoa, whoa, whoa! I gotta ask, right? Just hold on. ''[The owner unlocks a cabinet in the back and removes a heavy satchel containing a communications rig]'' Yep. Straight out of Officer McDipshit's dashboard. Gets you tactical bands, surveillance feeds. Hell, it'll probably pick up the mayor banging his boyfriend. ''[Castle scoffs]'' It's a grand. We're talking about a one-of-a-kind item. ''[Castle counts out a few more $100s and plants them on the counter. Castle notices the surveillance camera watching the counter]'' :'''Castle:''' Video tape. :'''Pawn Shop Owner:''' Sure. What the hell. ''[He removes the tape from the system]'' :'''Castle:''' What about the double-barrel under the counter? ''[Castle deposits a few more $100s. The owner takes out his double-barrel and empties the shells. Castle pockets the shells, then picks up the communications rig and begins walking towards the door]'' :'''Pawn Shop Owner:''' ''[clears throat]'' Hey, man, hold on. Sure I can't get you anything else? You know, I got it all, man. Yeah, bondage... back-door, grannies. Or maybe you're in the market for something younger? She's barely 12. Guaranteed! ''[Castle stops and drops his satchel]'' Haha, you like that, huh? For a 100$, she's all yours. ''[Castle flips the sign in the door from "Open" to "Closed", then turns around and begins walking back towards the counter]'' That's my man. ''[As he strides towards the counter, Castle picks up a baseball bat]'' What the hell are you doin'? Hey, man, just take it easy. ''[stammering]'' I'm just trying to make a buck! ''[Castle swings the bat at the owner's head]'' <hr width="50%"/> :''[Karen and Foggy are at the office]'' :'''Foggy''': Anything else we've been ignoring? :'''Karen''': Uh, yeah. Um... There you go. ''[hands Foggy a bunch of envelopes]'' :'''Foggy''': Thank you. ''[flips through the mail]'' "Overdue." "Past Due." "Final Notice." Hey! "First Notice." That's a win. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Matt''': You think, uh you think he's crazy? Uh, the Punisher? :'''Karen''': No. I think he was inevitable. :'''Matt''': Inevitable? How so? :'''Karen''': Maybe maybe we created him. All of us. The moment that we let Daredevil, or the Devil of Hell's Kitchen, or whatever it is... :'''Matt''': There's there's no connection. :'''Karen''': Well, actually, I think it's a pretty straight line, Matt. Daredevil practiced vigilante justice in our backyard and we applauded him for it. I know that I did. And we never stopped to think that maybe his actions could open the door for men like this. Men men with guns. Men who think that the law belongs to them. :'''Matt''': There's a difference. :'''Karen''': Well, I don't see it. Not anymore. === ''New York's Finest'' [2.03] === :'''Daredevil''': I'm just saying, I know it can be hard. :'''Castle''': Do you? You know it can be hard? You run around this city in a pair of little boy's pajamas and a mask. You go home at night, right? Take that mask off, maybe you think…it wasn't you who did those things, maybe it was somebody else. Well, see, soldiers... we don't wear masks, yeah? We don't get that privilege. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Claire''': You know, you're good with people. :'''Foggy''': Yeah, I'm a real charmer. :'''Claire''': I'm serious. The only thing I ever saw stop a thug mid-fight... was a bigger thug. :'''Foggy''': Yeah, I like to keep it thuggish. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Castle''': I'm not a bad guy, Red. :'''Daredevil''': You wanna explain that to the orphans and the widows of the men you killed? :'''Castle''': Oh, for Christ's sake, that's what you think? I'm just some crazy asshole going around, unloading on whoever I want to, huh? :'''Daredevil''': Yeah, that's ''exactly'' what I think! :'''Castle''': That it? :'''Daredevil''': You think you're anything else? :'''Castle''': I think that the people I kill need killing, that's what I think. :'''Daredevil''': You left men hanging from meat hooks! :'''Castle''': They got off easy, in my opinion. :'''Daredevil''': You shot up a hospital! :'''Castle''': Yeah, and nobody got hurt who didn't deserve it. :'''Daredevil''': Oh, yeah. What--what about you, Frank? What happens the day someone decides ''you'' deserve it? :'''Castle''': I'll tell you what, they better not miss. :'''Daredevil''': You run around this city like it's your damn shooting gallery. You think you can-- :'''Castle''': Yeah, and what do you do? What do ''you'' do?! You act like it's a playground, you beat up the bullies with your fists, you throw 'em in jail, everybody calls you a hero, right? And then a month, a week, a ''day'' later, they're back on the streets doing the ''same Goddamn thing!'' :'''Daredevil''': Yeah. So-- So you just put 'em in the morgue! :'''Castle''': You're goddamn right I do. :'''Daredevil''': You ever doubt yourself, Frank? :'''Castle''': Not even for a second. :'''Daredevil''': Really? Really, you never think for one second, "Shit, I just killed a human being!" :'''Castle''': That's being pretty generous. :'''Daredevil''': A human being who did a lot of stupid shit, maybe even evil, but had one small piece of goodness in him. Maybe just a scrap, Frank, but ''something!'' And then you come along and that one tiny flicker of light gets snuffed out forever... :'''Castle''': I think you're wrong. :'''Daredevil''': Which part? :'''Castle''': All of it. I think there's no good in the filth that I put down, that's what I think. :'''Daredevil''': And how do you know? :'''Castle''': I just know. Look around, Red. This city, it stinks. It's a sewer. It stinks and it smells like shit and I can't get the stink out of my nose. I think that this world, it needs men that are willing to make the hard call, that's what I think. I think you and me are the same! :'''Daredevil''': That's bullshit, Frank, and you know it! :'''Castle''': Only I do the one thing that you can't. You hit them and they get back up, I hit them and they ''stay'' down. It's permanent. I make sure that they don't make it out on the street again. I take pride in that. :'''Daredevil''': Let me ask you this. :'''Castle''': What's that? :'''Daredevil''': What about hope? :'''Castle''': Oh, fuck. :'''Daredevil''': C'mon, Frank. :'''Castle''': You wanna talk about Santa Claus, you wanna talk about Santa Claus?! :'''Daredevil''': I live in the real world too, and I've seen it. :'''Castle''': Yeah? What have you seen. :'''Daredevil''': Redemption, Frank. :'''Castle''': Ah, Jesus Christ... :'''Daredevil''': It's real and it's possible. The people you murder deserve another chance. :'''Castle''': What, to kill again? Rape again? Is that what you want? :'''Daredevil''': No, Frank. To try again, Frank. To try. And if you don't get that, there's something broken in you, you can't fix, and you really are a nutjob. :'''Castle''': What did you say? :'''Daredevil''': You're... you're unhinged... Frank. You are. You think God made you a one-man firing squad. But you're wrong. There is goodness in people, even in you. And you're gonna have to kill me, 'cause I'm never gonna stop coming for you, until I take you down. You wanna know why? :'''Castle''': Why's that? :'''Daredevil''': Because you're insane. === ''Penny and Dime'' [2.04] === :'''[[w:List of Punisher supporting characters#Finn Cooley|Finn Cooley]]''': The Irish may not have invented revenge, but we sure as hell took some time perfecting it. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Castle''': I gotta say, sometimes... sometimes I think you really just might be the Devil. :'''Daredevil''': Sometimes I think I might be, too. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Castle''': It's... One Batch, Two Batch, Penny and Dime, you know? It was her favorite book. You gotta cross the ocean, and go fight. You see, whole time you're thinking you're gonna be scared, right? But then you're not. See, that part of it was always easy for me. Killing. Even watching my buddies die, it just didn't mean nothing. The first time I got scared was on a plane on the way home. I kept thinking God was gonna pull the rug out from under us, you know? Shit, that's his kind of funny, you know. But the plane landed safe and we were home. Driving through traffic. Yeah, you pass fast food and donut shops and all that greasy shit, the shit you fought to protect, and then the car stops. We were outside her school. I get to her classroom, right? She's in there, but she's got no idea. She's got no idea Daddy's home. I walk in, these kids, they're not even studying, they're-they're doing some kind of yoga. Yeah. You know? She's there. She's doing her poses, you know, she's bending and, you know, she's moving. She looks like a flower. Yeah. And you know, you can't even understand it, you know, how does something like that have... How does something that beautiful have... How does that... how does that come from me, you know? And she looks up and she sees me. I see her. By God, that's real. That's real, Red. Boom. In an instant, she's across that classroom floor, she's in my arms. She's squeezing me so tight, I swear I was gonna bust a rib, you know? We just stayed there like that, we're holding each other. Teacher's filming the whole thing on her phone, you know, she's gonna put it on YouTube or some shit. She can't hold the thing steady, because, you know, she's... she's bawling so hard, and the kids are all wailing, you know, they're screaming. And me? Shit, I'm the worst of all. I'm a... I'm a rubber-faced clown, you know? I cried so hard. But not my baby. Not my girl. You know, she's my girl. She's... she's not crying, she's holding me up. My girl, she's keeping me on my feet. She says, "I knew it, Daddy. I knew it." And then we go home. To the wife, the boy. Place is the exact same, it's like it was just holding its breath waiting for me to get back, you know? Then it hit me. All of it, you know? The first time I felt how tired I was, you know, I was just tired, you know? You ever been tired, Red? :'''Daredevil''': Yeah. :'''Castle''': So, you know. It's just, I couldn't do nothing, you know? All the things. I couldn't take my wife to bed. Ball with the boy. Shit... I was too tired, I couldn't even drink a goddamn beer, you know? But not her. My girl was up. See, she wanted to, uh, she wanted me to tuck her in. She... she outgrew it, she knew it, but she didn't care. She wanted it. She had that book. Her favorite book was out on the pillows. One Batch, Two Batch, Penny and Dime, you know? I read her that book every night before this shit. I read it every single night, but, see, that was over now, because Daddy's home now. She looked at me and she begged me, Red. She begged. She begged. I said, "No. Daddy's too tired, see. But I'll... I'll read to you tomorrow night. I promise." Yeah. Never think that for her there was not gonna be any tomorrow, see? The last time I'd see her, I'd be holding her lifeless body in my arms. Meat was spilling out of her, Red. The place where her face used to be. I think I'm done, Red. I think I'm done. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Castle''': I guess, uh... I guess I was wrong. :'''Daredevil''': About? :'''Castle''': About you being a pussy. :'''Daredevil''': Don't get all sweet on me now, Frank. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Foggy''': Careful, Matt. :'''Matt''': What's that? :'''Foggy''': Keep going like this, you just might end up happy. And for a Catholic boy, that's a pretty dangerous thing. === ''Kinbaku'' [2.05] === :''[Foggy has swiped some caviar while he and Matt crash a party]'' :'''Foggy''': Are you gonna kick us out, bro? :'''Waiter''': Depends. Are you pompous jackasses? :'''Matt''': Uh, well, we're not... pompous. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Elektra (comics)|Elektra Natchios]]''': A long time ago, before he died, my father did business with the Roxxon Corporation. :'''Matt''': Roxxon? :'''Elektra''': Energy, cleaning supplies, macaroni and cheese. Child labor, slave trade. They have their fingers in everything. I believe it's called diversification. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Elektra''': You're the only person I can trust. :'''Matt''': Well, sweetheart, you don't break into my house and then talk to me about trust. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Blake pays a visit to Nelson & Murdock]'' :'''Foggy''': You know it's really not a good idea to piss her off. So, what can I do for the Assistant District Attorney? :'''Blake''': It's more, "what I can do for ''you''", Mr. Nelson. We need all your files on the Grote case. Notes, interviews, any and all recordings and e-mails. :'''Foggy''': And in return, we get... :'''Blake''': I convince District Attorney Reyes to scratch the names of Nelson and Murdock off her shit-list. :'''Foggy''': Wow. There's an actual list? :'''Blake''': Mr. Nelson, I- :'''Foggy:''' I'm sorry. Believe me, the sooner this Punisher mess is off our plate, the better. So show me a subpoena and... ''[Blake appears to be somewhat nervous]'' Is there a problem? :'''Blake''': ''[takes a seat]'' Are you really gonna make me jump through hoops for this? :'''Foggy''': Trust me, there's nothing I'd rather do more than cooperate with your office. But a legal firm sharing privileged communications with a client, I mean, even a deceased one, without a court order? I've seen lawyers get disbarred for less. And I don't know about you, but I worked really hard for my law degree. Nights and everything. :'''Blake''': Reyes... she staked all her political chips on the conviction of this Punisher freak. Now, if things'll go her way, there'll be an opening in the District Attorney's office in the not-so-distant future. :'''Foggy''': And DA Tower has a nice ring to it. :'''Blake''': Now, I'd start considering the benefits that could accrue if your firm were more... cooperative. :'''Foggy''': Like I said. Show me a subpoena, and I'll cooperate like a son of a bitch. :'''Blake''': Reyes is gonna roll over you like a tank. :'''Foggy''': You keep saying that. And yet... still kinda here. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Matt''': I don't drink anything they don't serve at Josie's. :'''Karen''': Yeah, well, I don't see swill on the menu. === ''Regrets Only'' [2.06] === :'''Matt''': I wanna know how you found me. :'''Elektra''': I know who you are because I watch the news. "The successful apprehension of Wilson Fisk." :'''Matt''': I wear a mask. :'''Elektra''': Well, you can't mask that ass. I'd know it anywhere. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Elektra''': I have a rule of my own. :'''Matt''': Shoot. :'''Elektra''': No sex. :'''Matt''': Oh, my God. You have a pair on you. This may come as a surprise to you, but I've actually moved on in the ten years since you left. I'm seeing someone now, which is only part of the reason why I have zero interest in ever starting anything up with you ever again. :'''Elektra''': Of course you do. Check, please. :'''Matt''': You're still so arrogant. :'''Elektra''': Just realistic. :'''Matt''': What makes you think every man you meet wants to sleep with you? :'''Elektra''': Because so far, they have. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Karen''': Is this your first case? :'''Christopher Roth''': Second. I won my first. Domestic violence. I believe in protecting women. :'''Karen''': ''[sarcastically]'' Thanks, from all of us. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Foggy''': Is this about saving a man or saving a vigilante? :'''Matt''': He's a person. Like you, Foggy. Like me. And he shouldn't have to die. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Matt''': After last night, the Yakuza know they've been compromised, which means security's gonna be tight. :'''Elektra''': There was a time when you trusted me. :'''Matt''': When was that? === ''Semper Fidelis'' [2.07] === :'''Foggy''': Mr. Castle is as much a victim... no, he's not. Okay, so... you're 19... standing in hot sand... sun burning down... noise... yelling, gunfire... The only thing that you know for sure is that you're surrounded by an enemy that wants you dead. But you do it. You endure it. Why? Because you have orders. And you have a duty. And also because your life doesn't end here. You have people you love waiting at home. Because... aside from being a decorated Marine, the man before you is a good husband and an excellent father. Frank Castle returned from the hell of war wanting nothing more than to pick up his life. But his wife, young son, and daughter were brutally murdered by criminals, and no one, not the police and certainly not the District Attorney stepped up to make it right. See, Frank Castle never came home. He just traded in one war zone for another. This trial isn't about vigilantes. It's about the failure of the justice system. And how one man, Frank Castle, is being used as a pawn to cover up that system's mistakes. The prosecution wants blood. But as the judge just said, to get it, they have to prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt. So all I'm asking of you today... keep an open mind. That's all, Your Honor. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Karen''': Just for a minute... try... try to be Frank Castle. To be solely fueled by... by a single cluster of seconds. One moment in... in your entire life... And every time you close your eyes, you relive that moment. And every time you open them, you find only the... the briefest peace before you realize that that nightmare is real. That nothing has changed. Your family isn't coming back. And so you watch them die... all over again right in front of you. We're not talking about something that happened to Frank Castle, we're talking about something that is happening to him. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Matt''': Your Honor, New York hasn't seen a trial this divisive and this public in years. :'''Foggy''': Finding an impartial jury is not easy. Everybody has an opinion about Frank Castle. :'''Judge Cynthia Batzer''': It's New York, Mr. Nelson. Everybody has an opinion about everything. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Elektra''': What do you tell people? About? Where you got your scars? :'''Matt''': Um... Lucky me, I wear suits to work, so... rarely comes up. :'''Elektra''': What do you tell the women you bring home? :'''Matt''': Well, they're enjoying themselves too much. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Elektra''': I was only following your rules. :'''Daredevil''': What rules? :'''Elektra''': You don't get what you want by day. You take it by force at night. This is who you are, Matthew. And don't fool yourself into thinking it's anything else. === ''Guilty as Sin'' [2.08] === :'''Castle''': You know those, uh... those people? The ones I put down, the people I killed? I want you to know that I'd do it all again. This is a circus, all right? It's a charade, it's an act. It's bullshit about how crazy I am. :'''Batzer''': Language. :'''Castle''': I ain't crazy! I'm not crazy. Okay? I know what I did. I know who I am. And I do not need your help. I'm smack-dab in the middle of my right goddamn mind, and any scumbag, any... any lowlife, any maggot piece of shit that I put down, I did it... because I liked it! :'''Batzer''': Order. :'''Castle''': Hell, I loved it! I'm sittin' here, I'm... I'm just itching. I'm itching to do it again. And you think... What, you think you're gonna send me to a nuthouse? Some doctor, they're gonna get me to stop from doing what I want to do? Well, that ain't happening! Not on my watch! You people, you call me the Punisher, ain't that right? The big bad Punisher. :'''Batzer''': Bailiff! :'''Castle''': Well, here I am! You want it, you got it! :'''Batzer''': Remove the witness. :'''Castle''': I am the Punisher! I'm right here! You want it, I'll give it to you. And anybody who came here today to hear me whine, to hear me beg? Well, you can kiss my ass! Do you hear me? I'm guilty. Come on, please, Judge! I'm guilty, you hear me? I'm guilty! I'm guilty! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Elektra''': We live on the front lines. Like it or not. :'''Matt''': It doesn't mean we have to fight Stick's way. He kills his enemies, and we don't have to. :'''Elektra''': You make that choice sound so easy. :'''Matt''': No, it's not easy. It's impossible. But it's a choice and it's a choice that I remake every single day. Every second, sometimes. And you can, too. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Stick''': They found the secret. :'''Matt''': What secret? :'''Stick''': Immortality. Bringing the dead back to life. :'''Matt''': Come on, Stick. :'''Stick''': I thought you were a Catholic, Matty. Doesn't your whole belief system hinge on one guy pulling that off? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Matt''': All right, Frank. You don't want to tell us? I'll tell you. I'm gonna tell you exactly what kind of man you are. You're the kind of man this city needs. Because, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, we all know this city needs help. Needs it now. Not tomorrow, not next week, not when the day comes, when the corruption that Wilson Fisk left in his wake is flushed out for good, and the police force is finally back on its feet. We need it now. 'Cause this city's been sick. And the cops, they can't fix it alone, they need... we all need men and women who are willing to take the fight themselves. The kind of people who risk their lives so that we can walk safe at night in our own neighborhoods. The ones our esteemed District Attorney here is trying so hard to destroy. New York needs these people. We need... heroes. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Castle''': You know those, uh... those people? The ones I put down, the people I killed? I want you to know that I'd do it all again. This is a circus, all right? It's a charade, it's an act. It's bullshit about how crazy I am - I ain't crazy! I'm not crazy, okay? I know what I did. I know who I am. And I do not need your help! I'm smack-dab in the middle of my right goddamn mind, and any scumbag, any... any lowlife, any maggot piece of shit that I put down, I did it because I ''liked'' it! Hell, I ''loved'' it! I'm sittin' here, I'm--I'm just itching. I'm-I'm-I'm ''itching'' to do it again! And you think... What, you think you're gonna send me to a nuthouse?! Some doctor, they're gonna get me to stop from doing what I want to do?! Well, that ain't happening! Not on my watch! You people, you call me the Punisher, ain't that right? The big bad Punisher! Well, here I am! You want it, you got it! I ''am'' the Punisher! I'm right here! You want it, I'll give it to you! And anybody who came here today to hear me whine, to hear me beg?! Well, you can kiss my ass! Do you hear me?! I'm guilty! Come on, please, Judge! I'm guilty, you hear me?! I'm guilty! I'm guilty! I'll kill every one of 'em! I'll kill every single one! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Elektra''': Why are you so good? :'''Matt''': I'm not. :'''Elektra''': Yes. There's a light inside you. I tried to snuff it out in college. I'm so lucky I failed. === ''Seven Minutes in Heaven'' [2.09] === :'''Fisk''': You have a gift, Mr. Castle. I assumed that the stories I read in the paper about your attacks on the criminal world were apocryphal. How could one man be capable of such... violence? But then I saw it, with my own two eyes. And when one comes across someone with such talent -- with such a gift, well... You don't let that go to waste. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Fisk has arranged for Castle to take out Dutton, the prison kingpin]'' :'''Castle''': The hell is this? :'''Fisk''': I'm in control now. And I've set you free. :'''Castle''': What does that mean, "free"? ''[stands up, panting]'' I'll show you. :'''Fisk''': 'Cause everyone warned me that prison would be an inhumane environment. It is. But I... I find it refreshing. The perfect microcosm of the animal world. When an animal wants something, when it needs something, other things... need to be stepped on. :'''Castle''': You want me on the outside so I can step on every piece of shit I see. That way, nobody gets strong, and we... the city's yours for the taking. :'''Fisk''': Something like that. :'''Castle''': Yeah. So if you can do that, if you can get me out, why not just do it yourself? :'''Fisk''': Because I play the long game, Mr. Castle. You see, when I'm finally let out of this cage, it won't be to ''wage'' war. It will be to ''win'' one. You, sir... You need to focus on "now". I've given you a chance to walk free, to put that gift of yours to work, to find... What does Dutton call him? The Blacksmith. If I were in your shoes... I would use this opportunity to find your justice, to kill your way to justice. And not for me. Of course not. Not for yourself. For your family. For ''them''. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Foggy''': You don't get to create danger, and then protect us from that danger. That's not heroic. That's insane. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Dutton''': I just wanna make that clear... in case you get any ideas about stepping up. :'''Fisk''': I have no intentions of doing that. :'''Dutton''': Cut the shit, fat man. I've known guys like you my whole life. I killed most of 'em. You ain't never seen a throne you didn't wanna sit in. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Fisk''': That's difficult to admit, but... you have a gift, Mr. Castle. I assumed that the stories that I read in the paper about your attacks on the criminal world were apocryphal. How could one man be capable of such... violence? But then I saw it... with my own two eyes. And when one comes across someone with such talent... with such a gift... well... you don't let that go to waste. No. No, you don't. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Fisk visits Dutton in the prison infirmary after Castle's attack]'' :'''Fisk''': The physician says that your condition is grave, that your lungs are filling with liquid. In a few hours, you're likely to suffocate in your own blood. But you won't suffer alone. I'll be here. Because you were right. In prison, there's only room for ''one'' kingpin. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Daredevil''': Wait... You're dead. :'''Nobu''': There is no such thing. === ''The Man in the Box'' [2.10] === :'''Claire''': Always the last place you look. But you knew I was coming, huh? :'''Matt''': I heard you. Three stories down. :'''Claire''': You do know that sounds creepy, right? :'''Matt''': Yeah, I've been told. :'''Claire''': I brought you coffee. :'''Matt''': No, thanks. :'''Claire''': Right. Forgot, you like to suffer. Well, the joke's on you... 'cause our vending machine coffee really sucks. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Matt''': I know where to start. :'''Foggy''': You always know where to start. You just never know when to stop, Matt. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Matt is interviewing Wilson Fisk in prison]'' :'''Fisk:''' Sometimes I'm glad I'm in here. The fate of New York City is out of my hands, for once. :'''Matt''': ''[slams his hand on the table]'' That's bullshit! :'''Fisk:''' I don't know what you expect from me. But we're finished here. Mr. Donovan? ''[Donovan clicks off the tape recorder]'' :'''Matt''': Vanessa. ''[This gets Fisk's attention]'' You asked me if I remembered the art gallery. I do. I remember her very well. She's out of the country; she....wants to come back. :'''Fisk:''' ''[to Donovan]'' Leave us. ''[Donovan steps out]'' :'''Matt''': So listen to me very closely: I will use every legal loophole and footnote to make certain that ''never'' happens. You see, unlike your other adversaries, Mr. Fisk, I can break you without breaking a single law. You may have expensive lawyers, but with one envelope and $6 postage, I can make sure Vanessa never sets foot on American soil again. One letter to the right office, and I get her visa pulled. I can prove she was an accomplice to every one of your crimes. And now you're thinking you can serve your sentence, hop on a jet, go to her whenever you like. Live somewhere like Monaco, or…I don't know, wherever the hell you fat cats go to sun yourselves. But you can't. You can visit her, but you'll never live with her. Because this is New York, Wilson. You live here. This is your jungle. This is your blood, like it is mine. She will never come... and you'll never leave. You screw with me now, just a little bit…and you'll never really be with your one and only Vanessa ever again. :''[Fisk snaps, breaks his handcuffs, lunges over the table, and pounds Matt's head repeatedly against the table]'' :'''Fisk''': SPEAK HER NAME AGAIN! GO AHEAD! ''[Matt punches him, and Fisk slams him into the table again''] Yes, the son of a boxer! :'''Matt''': You... You are running this place! Yeah, you did set him free... :'''Fisk''': You ask such small questions, Mr. Murdock. :'''Matt''': I know you're regaining power in here- :'''Fisk''': Yes, ask my lawyer. He'll deny it. Ask the guards, they'll deny it! Ask the inmates here. They'll cut their tongues out before they talk! But I have something to say to you: When I finally get out of this cage, I will dismantle the lives of the two amateurs THAT PUT ME IN HERE!! You, Mr. Murdock, and Franklin Percy Nelson! :'''Matt:''' No, I-- I put you here! Not Nelson! ''I'' did! :'''Fisk:''' The two of you took the laurels. You'll both take the blame. I'll chop both the heads off that snake, ''and I'll spend more than $6 on postage to bring you down!'' You see, I've had a lot of time to reflect on my journey here, Mr. Murdock! My mistakes, everything I took for granted. While I try and sleep in this bleak place, the one thing that keeps me warm is the thought that I will look down upon this city, the city that ''birthed me'', with the woman that I love, whom I love with ''everything'' that I am! If you're worried that Frank Castle will wreak havoc on Hell's Kitchen, ''[throws Matt back into his seat]''...'''just wait.''' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jacques Duchamps''': I know what you've done, and who you have killed. The list is long. The pilot in Buenos Aires, the lawyer in Berlin... and that very messy episode in Morocco. I'm still trying to understand how one woman can fit six bodies in the trunk of a Maserati. :'''Elektra''': Are you gonna try to kill me? :'''Jacques''': Something like that. :'''Elektra''': Well, you ought to know... it's rude to keep a girl waiting. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Karen''': You would never have pulled this patriarchal shit with Ben. I can take care of myself. :'''Ellison''': You're right. And I'll never make that mistake again. Not about someone I care about. === ''.380'' [2.11] === :'''Castle''': Now you need to go in the back and get the waitress. You tell the cook and anyone else who's back there to find the biggest piece of stainless steel and you get under it. Go now. :'''Karen''': Wait a minute, wh-what's happening? :'''Castle''': The Buick. It drove around the block three times before it pulled up. :'''Karen''': Who are they? :'''Castle''': Just some guys who are about to walk into a diner for the last time. :'''Karen''': You-you wanted them here. You parked me outside like...bait. :'''Castle''': You need to go. :'''Karen''': You're such an asshole. :'''Castle''': Yeah. You got that right. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Castle''': Look, I might generally be considered out of my skull, so this might not mean much, but this could be the craziest, most batshit thing I've ever heard in my life. People that can hurt you, the ones that can really hurt you, are the ones that are close enough to do it. People that get inside you and... and... and tear you apart, and make you feel like you're never gonna recover. shit. I'd... I... I would chop my arm off right here, in this restaurant, just to feel that one more time for my wife. My old lady, she didn't just break my heart. She... She'd rip it out, she'd tear it apart, she'd step on that shit, feed it to a dog. I mean, she was ruthless. She brought the pain. But she'll never hurt me again. You see, I'll never feel that. You sit here and you're all confused about this thing, but you have it. You have everything. So, hold on to it. Use two hands and never let go. You got it? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Daredevil''': I can't let you start a war for the wrong reasons. :'''Castle''': Maybe a war is what I need. Maybe I ''need'' that. These people, they took my children from me! ''They killed my kids!'' Don't you ''get'' that?! :'''Daredevil''': We do right by them! Help me. Work with me to find the men who gave the order! :'''Castle''': And then what, Red? We gonna-- We gonna bring 'em in for justice, is that what we're gonna do? Your way's bullshit, Red, it doesn't work! I need 'em... I need 'em ''gone'', it's gotta be ''permanent'', it's gotta be ''finished!'' :'''Daredevil''': I-- I understand. You're right; my way isn't working. So maybe just this once... Maybe... Y'know... Your way's what it's gonna take. :'''Castle''': Wait, "just this once". No, no, no, Red, that's... that's not how it works. It's just... You cross over on my side of the line, you don't get to come back from that. Not ever. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Claire''': That candle that you're burning at both ends? Sooner or later, it's gonna fizzle out. :'''Matt''': I'm fine. Really. :'''Claire''': You know the problem with martyrs? The good ones end up dead. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Gao''': I see from the uniform you've taken the Devil's name to heart. :'''Daredevil''': Yeah, I had to... 'cause of people like you. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Daredevil''': Thanks, Madame Gao. :'''Gao''': But I fear that the path you've chosen... isn't going to be an easy one. :'''Daredevil''': Yeah, it never is. === ''The Dark at the End of the Tunnel'' [2.12] === :'''Young Elektra''': You said we're going to war. :'''Stick''': We are. And there'll be a time and place for you to turn yourself loose. But right now, the last thing you want is for everybody here to be scared shitless of you. Tame that fire... or they'll tame it for you. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Elektra''': You tried to have me killed. :'''Stick''': You got that right. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Elektra''': You want me to help you save the man who ordered my death? :'''Daredevil''': Yes. :'''Elektra''': You really do hate me. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Nobu Yoshioka''': It's painful, raising children. We spend our lives teaching them to be strong, to be independent. Not realizing that once we have achieved that... they are no longer in our control. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Ellison''': Look, look, Karen, Karen... I understand that this whole journalism thing is new to you, but a real journalist doesn't just up and quit. :'''Karen''': Well, that's not fair. :'''Ellison''': That's exactly fair! Stories don't disappear, they... they change. They become different stories. === ''A Cold Day in Hell's Kitchen'' [2.13] === :'''[[w:Jeryn Hogarth|Jeri Hogarth]]''': Hopefully you'll find our starting salary competitive. :'''Foggy''': That's one way to describe it. :'''Jeri''': It gets better. How does Hogarth, Chow, Benowitz & Nelson sound? :'''Foggy''': Like a mouthful. I mean, a good mouthful. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Matt''': So, what if... What if... from now on, if... if we make it... wherever you run, I... I run with you? :'''Elektra''': You're not serious. :'''Matt''': I've never been more serious. This... Elektra, this is a part of me that I need. And you're the only one who gets it. Without this, I'm not alive. I'm not. Not really. And I know that now, thanks to you. I don't know what we are together, and if we have any chance in the future... But I... I do know that I'm free with you. Like with no one else. :'''Elektra''': You hide from yourself. You don't let anyone in. :'''Matt''': You. I let you in. Think about it. What if this isn't the end? What if it's just the beginning? :'''Elektra''': No... They'll find us. :'''Matt''': No, we'll keep moving. We'll change identities. We'll... we'll hide. They'll never catch us. What do you say? :'''Elektra''': Uh, I say... let's go to London. Yeah? Madrid. Tunisia. There are sexy places to hide. :'''Matt''': Hey, I've never been further north than 116th Street, so... :'''Elektra''': Because you love New York. :'''Matt''': And I'd give my life for it, but... there's one thing in this world that makes me feel more alive. And that's you. :'''Elektra''': I'm the Black Sky, Matthew. :'''Matt''': Yeah, and I'm the Devil of Hell's Kitchen. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Nobu''': No one... escapes destiny. ''[to Elektra]'' You belong to us. ''[to Daredevil]'' And you... belong in the ground. ''[yells]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Daredevil''': You're done, Nobu. Your army will crumble. And you will leave my city alone. :'''Nobu''': Your city belongs to no one. And she... belongs to us! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Stick''': Was it worth it? :'''Matt''': What? :'''Stick''': Loving her. :'''Matt''': You taught me to cut all my ties to humanity... to other people. I had only a few moments with her... amidst all the... noise, chaos, and the violence. We were together only for moments. That was all. Orchids. She likes orchids. And, yeah, Stick... it was worth it. :'''Stick''': Matt, you are the toughest son of a bitch I have ever met. Let's go home. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Karen''': "What is it, to be a hero? Look in the mirror and you'll know." ''[sighs]'' ''[typing]'' "Look into your own eyes and tell me you are not heroic, that you have not endured, or suffered... or lost the things you care about most. And yet, here you are... a survivor of Hell's Kitchen... the hottest place anyone's ever known. A place where cowards don't last long. So... you must be a hero. We all are. Some more than others, but none of us alone. Some bloody their fists trying to keep the Kitchen safe. Others bloody the streets in the hope they can stop the tide, the crime, the cruelty... the disregard for human life all around them. But this is Hell's Kitchen. Angel or Devil, rich or poor, young or old, you live here. You didn't choose this town. It chose you. Because a hero isn't someone who lives above us, keeping us safe. A hero's not a God or an idea. A hero lives ''here'' on the street, among us, with us. Always here, but rarely recognized. Look in the mirror and see yourself for what you truly are. You're a New Yorker. You are a hero. This is ''your'' Hell's Kitchen. Welcome home. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Karen''': What am I doing here, Matt? :'''Matt''': I, uh, have something... :'''Karen''': No. I don't want... :'''Matt''': I have something that I ''need'' you to see. ''[Matt pulls the Daredevil mask out of the package as Karen looks at him, first in confusion and then in dawning realization and shock]'' I'm Daredevil. == Season 3 == ===''Resurrection'' [3.01] === :'''Maggie Grace''': Angry, sarcastic... and stubborn. Maybe you don't have any friends. :'''Matt''': Someone once told me that warriors are meant to be alone. That caring for people would make me weak. :'''Maggie''': Sounds like he needed to get laid. :'''Matt''': ''[chuckles]'' Ha! That actually explains a lot. I mean he was right of course, I let people in, I paid the price. What is this? :'''Maggie''': Dug those out of storage. You're probably the last one to read them. :'''Matt''': My bible. Alright. I get the hint. :'''Maggie''': And I get the sense that things are complicated with you and the 'Guy upstairs' :'''Matt''': ''[laughs]'' No. Not at all. If anything I'd say where we finally stand with each other. ''[pauses]'' There's a man from the land of Uz. :'''Maggie''': [[Book of Job]]. :'''Matt''': The Book of Job. The story of God's perfect servant Job. He prayed everyday, falling to his knees on the ground, face in the dirt. Slaughtered 10 goats, one for each of his children, burned them at the altar in God's honour. All of God's soldiers, Job, he was the most loyal. :'''Maggie''': I know the story Matthew. :'''Matt''': Ah, well then you know what happens next. God murdered all ten of Job's children in cold blood. Scorched every inch of Job's land, lashed at his skin until it was covered in bloody welts. God rained shit and misery on the life of his most perfect servant and still... Job would not curse him. You know what I realised... Job was a pussy. You may say that was me Sister. I suffered willingly. I gave my, er, sweat and blood and skin, without complaint because I too believed that I was God's soldier. ... Well not anymore. I am what I do in the dark now, and bleed only for myself. :''[Maggie removes the cross from around her neck and puts it in Matt's hand. He feels it for a moment before chucking it onto the bed]'' :'''Matt''': You weren't listening. :'''Maggie''': I heard every spiteful word. You might hate God right now but the feeling is not mutual :'''Matt''': I don't hate Him. I've just seen His true face is all. And for the record, I had friends, I had a life. I-- care about people and I'm choosing to let them believe that I'm gone because I am. I'm not Job. ''[sniffs]'' And I know my truth now. :'''Maggie''': What 'truth'? :'''Matt''': Well that, in front of this God, I'd rather die as the devil than live as Matt Murdock. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Fisk''': Tell me, special agent Nadeem... Do you have anyone in your life who you love so much you would do anything to protect them? :'''Nadeem''': Are you threatening me? :'''Fisk''': I have made many mistakes. But I accept the debt I'm paying because of them. But what I will ''not'' accept that the woman I love should have to pay for them, too. I would do anything to protect her. ''Anything.'' :'''Nadeem''': I'm sorry, what is it you're saying? :'''Fisk''': I want to make a deal. ===''Please'' [3.02] === :'''Neda''': You. ''[gasps]'' :'''Daredevil''': Your father... he's in a coma. :'''Neda''': He's alive. Why did you help us? :'''Daredevil''': The men who did this are in police custody for another crime. You head down to the 15th Precinct right now, you can identify them. :'''Neda''': You caught them? :'''Daredevil''': You should go. :'''Neda''': Thank God for you. :'''Daredevil''': He didn't help you. I did. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Fisk''': I've spent much of my life alone. And for many years, I pretended that this was the source of my strength. I told myself I had free will. And in that time, I achieved a great deal. But I was not fulfilled. I was longing for a connection that I could imagine but I could not achieve. Searching and not finding. Until Vanessa. Until I discovered love. I thought I would explode with the sense of power and freedom that she brought me. That the world lay at my feet. But then that passed when I discovered the great lie at the heart of love. That what I took for true freedom was precisely the reverse. You can build a prison of stone and steel, but you merely present the prisoner with a challenge. Any truly determined man will find a way out. But love... Love is the perfect prison. Inescapable. So you see, Agent Nadeem... I am always in prison, wherever I go. And if these things help me protect Vanessa, then they are nothing to me. I will do whatever I must. ===''No Good Deed'' [3.03] === :'''Foggy''': Fisk had Ms. Cardenas killed. Maybe you don't give a damn, because she's dead and can't vote for you, but she was a good person. She cared about her community, was braver than both of us put together. Fisk WILL hurt more people like her. She didn't have a voice, because the people in power didn't care. You're supposed to be Ms. Cardenas' voice! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Fisk''': You can take him, grab his gun. come for me! I'm caged up, unarmed! But you won't. You ''can't'' kill me. You can't even kill yourself... <hr width="50%"/> :'''Dex''': I understand you're just trying to do your job, but respectfully? if I were wearing a mask, the press would be calling me a hero. Instead, I'm sitting here with you, trying to justify protecting myself. :'''Psychiatrist''': I'm not the enemy. I'm just trying to... Look, forget the psych bullshit for a minute. Just... tell me for real, how are you? :'''Dex''': It's hard. It's really hard. ===''Blindsided'' [3.04] === ===''The Perfect Game'' [3.05] === :''[In a flashback, Dex is working at suicide prevention hotline. He reads off a script as Fisk observes.]'' :'''Dex''': Tell me, Craig... Are you thinking about taking your own life right now? Okay. Do you have a plan? :''[Dex notices that no one is around him. He puts the script down.]'' :'''Dex''': What kind of gun do you have, Craig? :''[Fisk takes interest.]'' :'''Dex''': Yeah, I'm familiar with the M11. Did a couple years in the army, got real cozy with the M11. It's reliable. Let me ask you a question, Craig. This asshole stepdad of yours is giving you so much grief... Why take your own life? Why not... :''[Dex notices Julie watching and quickly hunches over the script.]'' :'''Dex''': Take a deep breath, Craig? We're gonna work through this together. I'm not going anywhere. === ''The Devil You Know'' [3.06] === :'''Karen''': I want you to tell me I'm a bad person. :'''Foggy''': I can't say that. :'''Karen''': Why not? :'''Foggy''': Because you're not. :'''Karen''': Then why are you looking at me like that? :'''Foggy''': Because my friend -- my amazing, kind, brilliant friend went through something terrible and I didn't know. :'''Karen''': When I got the gun, I could've called the cops, I could've run. :'''Foggy''': You were afraid for your life. It was self-defense! :'''Karen''': Seven times. :'''Foggy''': What? :'''Karen''': I shot him seven times. Because I wanted him dead. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Foggy''': Has Matt been a shitty friend lately? Without a doubt. But deep down, I think it's hurting him as much as it's hurting us. :'''Karen''': How do you figure? :'''Foggy''': Because he could've gone to ''any'' reporter, Karen, but he came to you. Maybe Matt's finally coming to his senses. But even if he isn't, the way he's been treating us lately has been on him. But us turning our backs would be on us. People have bailed on Matt his whole life, and I'm not gonna be one of 'em. You do what you want, but that's not the kind of friend ''I'' wanna be. :'''Karen''': ''[laughs]'' It's like you argue for a living! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Dex''': I don't know what strings you had to pull to get that waitress a job, but it was a waste of your time. Yeah, they train us in counterintel at Quantico. You really think I'm gonna fall for some bush-league honey trap? You got it in your head that she means something to me. But she doesn't. She doesn't mean shit to me. So what? You... You have me tailed for a few days, you think you know me? Think you got me dialed? You don't, all right? You don't know anything about me. Say something! :'''Fisk''': When I was a boy... I... beat my father's skull in with a hammer. I was twelve years old. Young for my age, in fact. Terribly inexperienced. I'd never been to a dance with a girl or... stayed up past midnight. Never been out of the city or even taken a subway on my own. Yet there I was. Twelve years old, standing over my father's body... watching him die by my hand. That feeling -- that moment... I sense it's something you're familiar with. You were taught to hide beneath many fictions. You fashioned yourself into something the world would ''tolerate''. A soldier doing his patriotic duty, a sniper in the FBI... The watchful companion of a nice young woman. :'''Dex''': You destroyed what we had. :'''Fisk''': If it were honest and true, no one could've destroyed it! :'''Dex''': I should've let you die. ''[Fisk steps forward.]'' Stay back... :'''Fisk''': Julie never would've understood you. And society won't, either; it punishes people like you. Like us... <hr width="50%"/> :'''Maggie''': When someone in need tries to push you away... You have to find the strength to hold on tighter. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Daredevil''': Who are you? :'''Dex''': ''[dressed in a Daredevil suit]'' I'm Daredevil. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Dex''': Hello, Karen. It's nice to see you again. ===''Aftermath'' [3.07] === ===''Upstairs/Downstairs'' [3.08] === :'''Karen''': ''[to Fisk, referring to the murder of his father]'' A hammer, at that age... Is there any part of you that hasn't broken, I wonder? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Karen''': Okay... you want secrets? I can tell you a secret, Wilson. Is it okay if I call you that? I feel like we know each other well enough by now... :'''Fisk''': As you wish, Karen... :'''Karen''': Great. James Wesley... What was it like for you when he disappeared? Really, it's those first 24 hours that are the worst, aren't they? When you call and you call and you call, and there's just NO answer. It becomes an obsession. The calling. The never-ending loop of a ghost's voicemail in your ear. You worry. You wonder. You swear "God dammit, if he's still living I'm gonna kill him myself." Is that what it was like for you? Did you rage at him? 'Cause you thought he betrayed you? Because I wonder, what would be worse for you? His duplicity, or his death? He died quickly... if you were wondering. Didn't suffer much. You see, Wilson, Matt Murdock isn't the person you should be worried about. I killed Wesley. I shot him seven times... because the clip ran out. He deserved ''more.'' <hr width="50%"/> :''[As Matt punches a bag downstairs, Maggie prays upstairs:]'' :'''Maggie''': I don't know if I have the strength to get through this. He's so stubborn, full of fury and foolish pride. Please, watch over him? Keep him from making the same damn mistake that took you from us? Our son is too much like you, Jack. ===''Revelations'' [3.09] === :'''Father Lantom''': Growing up without your parents, Matthew, you don't grow to see them as people. You need to understand that... to understand her. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Tammy Hatley''': I'm not your boss anymore. Wilson Fisk is. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jack Murdock (Hallucination)''': You're too mad to think straight, and it's gonna get you killed. Mattie, c'mon. Your mother didn't only leave you, she left me too. :'''Matt''': You looking for sympathy? Because that's not happening. :'''Jack''': She left us because we're cursed. Because she knew we got the devil inside! :'''Matt''': So it's my fault. :'''Jack''': Would you be honest with yourself? You put on that mask because it lets you feel alright with who you ''really'' are. It lets you hurt people, it makes your feel like it's for something important, ''[overlapping with Fisk's Hallucination]'' something good, maybe even for God. But that ain't the truth... :'''Fisk Hallucination''': And we both know it. You and your father, cut from the same cloth. A corrupt boxer who takes as much satisfaction in inflicting pain as he does money for taking dives. And his son, who's trying to convince himself he's any better than his criminal father. You were born from nothing! You ''remain'' nothing! ===''Karen'' [3.10] === :'''Lantom''': Well, you have to realize, Karen, that whatever it is that you've done or haven't done, it can still be redeemed. :'''Karen''': Yeah, that's nice, but I'm not so sure that I believe that. :'''Matt''': Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end. ===''Reunion'' [3.11] === :'''Fisk''': I know that most of you will find this difficult to accept. That's only because you've been manipulated. Poisoned into believing the news media's fake story, that I am evil. That I am a criminal! Quite the opposite is true. Because I challenged the system. Because I told the truth and I tried to make this city a better place, the people in power decided to tear me down. To tear me down with false allegations. They sent someone to frame me -- Daredevil! The killer who's now showing his true colors. Who's tried to murder people in newspaper offices and churches, attacking our sacred institutions. Believe me, Daredevil is our true public enemy! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Nadeem''': Listen to me very carefully: If we take Karen Page into custody, she'll be dead before she reaches HQ. ''[off his look]'' No, don't react. Just get her the hell away from us, we clear? :'''Mahoney''': Crystal. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Falb''': I know who you are, Mr. Fisk. You are a wolf, too. Men like you took away my family, took my ability to love... and almost took my life. You will take nothing more. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Foggy''': Step one, we work together. Step two, we come up with a plan. And step three, we execute that plan. :'''Matt''': That's genius. Come up with that by yourself? :'''Foggy''': So, I'm still working out the details. ===''One Last Shot'' [3.12] === :'''Seema''': Sami was curled up with me in a bathtub, waiting for men to come kill him. Do you know what I hoped for in that moment? That they'd kill him first, so he didn't have to watch me die. How do you fix that? :'''Nadeem''': Seems, Seems... I am so sorry. But I will make you and Sami safe. I promise you. :'''Seema''': I can't let what you say matter to me anymore, Rahul. Sami deserves at least one person in his life he can trust. And that's never going to be you. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Matt''': Are you ready for this? Testifying's not gonna be easy. :'''Nadeem''': I love my job. I love being the good guy. I wanna be on the right side of the line again. :'''Matt''': You didn't love it enough to stop Fisk. :'''Nadeem''': Fisk knows how to make people vulnerable. He got my sister-in-law's health insurance cancelled. He left my family with bills to pay, bills that I had to ta-- :'''Matt''': So you take a loan, you sell your house, you figure it out. :'''Nadeem''': It wasn't that easy-- :'''Matt''': You backed his play, Ray, you moved him into his hotel and you gave him his toys back. :'''Nadeem''': He was giving us information that saved lives--! :'''Matt''': Yeah, while he was taking lives. While he was taking over the city, you knew-- :'''Nadeem''': Well, what the hell are you doing?! I thought you were my lawyer! :'''Matt''': I ''am'' your lawyer, Ray, but I can't do anything to help you if you don't answer this one simple question -- why didn't you blow the whistle when you watched your boss murder an agent? :'''Nadeem''': ...I don't know. :'''Matt''': Or when you watched Dex walk in that church? You didn't say a goddamn word when he murdered a priest. :'''Nadeem''': I don't know-- :'''Matt''': THEN WHY ARE WE HERE?! :'''Nadeem''': BECAUSE I TOOK THE DAMN BAIT! Because I didn't want my son just to see me as an average federal employee...! I messed up. I destroyed my life. My family's life. And I would do anything to take it all back again. :'''Matt''': Good. You tell that to the DA, and I can help you. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Vanessa''': I think it's time we speak plainly. Speak honestly. :'''Fisk''': I'm always honest with you. :'''Vanessa''': When I first met you, I was fascinated by your strength. Your brutality so clear to me, even as you hid it from me. I wanted to observe everything you did. And as I did, I fell in love with you. But this? If this is all we have... it will leave me lonely, Wilson. As lonely as I was in Spain. When you stopped your man from speaking in front of me, I... I was reminded that I am not a part of your life. Not fully, and so not at all. And this... I don't want to admire your world. I want to live inside of it with you. :'''Fisk''': Vanessa... It's one thing to know my work. But it's another... to dirty your hands with it. :'''Vanessa''': My hands were never clean. If you truly want me... share your life with me! ''Fully.'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Nadeem''': ''[recording a video]'' Hey, beautiful. It's me. I'm home. You remember our wedding vows? "I love you more than life itself". I still do. And Sami? Your name means "Elevated". And that's what you did for me. You made my life better in the most unexpected ways. Elevate your mom now. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Nadeem''': I hoped it'd be you. :'''Dex''': Hi, Ray. Come on inside. Let's talk. :'''Nadeem''': Come on, Dex. We both know you're a better liar than that. You want a private place to kill me. :'''Dex''': You're in a tough spot, Ray. I get that. It sounds hard. Really hard. :'''Nadeem''': When he's done with you, he'll bury you, too. You know that, right? :'''Dex''': I'm doing fine. And you would be, too, if you hadn't opened your mouth. :'''Nadeem''': It's not too late to turn things around, Dex. Fisk manipulated you, just like he did me and Tammy and everyone else. I can help you cut a deal with the DA. We can take him down, you and me. Two federal agents... like we were before. :'''Dex''': ''[scoffs]'' No, that's not gonna happen, Ray. I'm more than a fed now. I feel more myself than I have in my whole life. Fisk gave me that. :'''Nadeem''': As long as I'm alive, my family's at risk. :'''Dex''': ''[points the gun at Nadeem]'' Let's go, Ray. :'''Nadeem''': ''[last words]'' I'm not going anywhere with you, Dex. ''[sighs]'' Whatever you need to do... you do it here. :''[Nadeem attempts to shoot Dex with a gun but Dex shoots him first, Nadeem dies]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Foggy''': Matt, please-- :'''Matt''': No. We tried it your way. ===''A New Napkin'' [3.13] === :'''Fisk''': I never knew that I could feel this way until the day that we met. I didn't think that I was capable, that there would be someone... that I would care for more than my own life. That her happiness would be more important than anything else. And then... the terrifying thought occurred to me that perhaps my feelings were a trick. The self-deception of a vain man. That the only reason why I love you is because of the way I see my reflection in your eyes. That thought, it fills me with dread. The fear that... That I don't deserve you. And that I am broken! :'''Vanessa''': Don't you understand we're all broken? The point is to find the person whose broken pieces fit with yours. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Karen''': It's, uh-- It's not murder if it's self-defense, right? :'''Foggy''': Technically, plotting to kill someone is the exact legal opposite of self-defense. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Daredevil''': I have a question: Did you enjoy the feeling you got when you killed those birdies? :'''Dex''': "Birdies"? :'''Daredevil''': The ones you killed with rocks. Bet it felt good at first, right? Then it's never the same after that. What do you think Doctor Mercer would say if she could see you now? :'''Dex''': Can you hang on a second? I need a tissue for all the tears I'm crying over my shitty childhood. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Nadeem''': ''[via video message recorded before death]'' If you're showing this to Sami, I need you to stop the video now. For everyone else... My name is Special Agent Ray Nadeem of the FBI, and under federal law, I swear that the testimony I'm about to give is the truth, whole truth and nothing but the truth... and should be considered my dying declaration. I'm guilty of a number of criminal acts, and I was in no way acting alone. Wilson Fisk coerced me and a number of fellow FBI agents into aiding and abetting a criminal conspiracy... to extort protection money from New York crime organizations. Agents Arinori, Johnson, Markham, Mockter, O'Connor and Ramsey all took part and continue to act as Fisk's operatives under the orders of our boss, Special Agent in Charge Tammy Hattley. There may be others. I can't be sure. But I personally witnessed SAC Hattley murder Agent Winn in her kitchen, using my handgun. And then witnessed Fisk's aide, Felix Manning, remove the body and use this crime and threat against my family to blackmail me into cooperating with Fisk. I'm not making any excuses, because I aided and abetted the worst crime of them all. I personally drove Special Agent Ben Poindexter to the Clinton Church... dressed in a fake Daredevil suit. I knew at this point that Poindexter was the killer who attacked the Bulletin, and I knew he was gonna do something horrible at the church. But I let it happen anyway. So I'm guilty of aiding and abetting the murder of Father Paul Lantom. I'm ashamed of what I've done. But that doesn't change the fact that I and everyone I just named are guilty as hell. Seems... you need to get this video to my attorneys. And don't try and run. Go to the FBI and pretend like you don't know anything about any of this. Tell them I'm a monster. ''[sobs]'' It's the only way that you and Sami can get through this. I'm sorry, baby. I will always love you. ''[kisses]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Daredevil''': Police are on their way up. You need to shut down the elevators. :'''Shelby''': Why? :'''Daredevil''': ''So nobody stops me.'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Fisk''': I will never stop hunting Karen Page or Foggy Nelson. I will tell the world who you really are. :'''Vanessa''': Wilson. :'''Fisk''': Vanessa, please go! Please! :'''Daredevil''': ''[grunting]'' You... You... You ''want'' me to kill you. :'''Fisk''': No prison can keep me. You know that. COME ON, KILL ME! :'''Daredevil''': NO! God knows I want to, but you don't get to destroy who I am! You will go ''back'' to prison, and you will live the rest of your miserable life in a cage, knowing you'll never have Vanessa, that this city rejected you. ''It beat you.'' '''I BEAT YOU!''' ''[unmasks himself]'' You'll keep my secret, and you won't harm Karen Page or Foggy Nelson or anyone else. Because if you do, I ''will'' go after your wife. ''[Fisk snarls softly]'' And I will prove Vanessa ordered the murder of Agent Ray Nadeem, and like her husband, she'll spend the rest of her life in a cell. ''[masks himself]'' :'''Fisk''': ''[to Vanessa]'' I failed you. I failed you. :'''Vanessa''': No. :'''Fisk''': Everything that I tried to build for us... Vanessa... today was the happiest day of my life. :'''Vanessa''': ''[approaches Fisk]'' All I wanted was you. Please. :'''Fisk''': ''[to Daredevil]'' If I agree to your demands, then... you leave my wife alone! You leave Vanessa free! :'''Daredevil''': If you keep your word. :'''Fisk''': ''[shakes Daredevil's hand]'' Then, it's a deal. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Matt''': Last time we spoke, I confronted Father Lantom. I was angry. I'd change that if I could. :'''Maggie''': If God allowed that, there'd be no future. Just people endlessly rewriting the past. :'''Matt''': Yeah. I think he was trying to tell me that for a long time. His last words were, "Forgive us." :'''Maggie''': Do you think that's possible? :'''Matt''': He told me something, years ago, when this happened, that I never forgot. See, I was pretty angry at God and bitter towards his world. How could a loving God blind me? Why? Anyway, he told me... God's plan is like a beautiful tapestry. And the tragedy of being human is that we only get to see it from the back. With all the ragged threads and the muddy colors. And we only get a hint at the true beauty that would be revealed if we could see the whole pattern on the other side... as God does. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Matt''': Feels like half of Hell's Kitchen is here today to say goodbye to Father Paul Lantom. Seems fair. He certainly welcomed everyone here, Catholic or not. And he expected those of us who were to, uh, look for ways to do good in our community. Not even the kids got out of that requirement. I'm sure I'm not the only one who remembers his "suggestion" that we give some of our First Communion money to the poor box. And that was his way. To think of the community, and the, uh... and the individuals in it. To think in terms of, "What can I give?" He gave his life, right here in this church, protecting others. Standing up to a man who used fear as a tool to set neighbors against one another. If Father Lantom had an enemy, I would say it was fear. For me, personally, he spent many years trying to get me to face my own fears. To understand how they enslaved me, how they divided me from the people that I love. He counseled me to transcend my fears, to be brave enough to forgive... and see the possibilities of being a man without fear. That was his legacy. And now it's up to all of us to, uh, live up to it. == Cast == *[[w:Charlie Cox|Charlie Cox]] - [[w:Daredevil (Marvel Comics)|Matt Murdock/Daredevil]] *[[w:Deborah Ann Woll|Deborah Ann Woll]] - [[w:Karen Page|Karen Page]] *[[w:Elden Henson|Elden Henson]] - [[w:Foggy Nelson|Foggy Nelson]] *[[w:Toby Leonard Moore|Toby Leonard Moore]] - James Wesley *[[w:Bob Gunton|Bob Gunton]] - [[w:Owl (Marvel Comics)|Leland Owlsley]] *[[w:Ayelet Zurer|Ayelet Zurer]] - [[w:Vanessa Fisk|Vanessa Marianna]] *[[w:Rosario Dawson|Rosario Dawson]] - [[w:Claire Temple (Marvel Cinematic Universe)|Claire Temple]] *[[w:Vincent D'Onofrio|Vincent D'Onofrio]] - [[w:Kingpin (comics)|Wilson Fisk/Kingpin]] *[[w:Jon Bernthal|Jon Berthal]] - [[w:Punisher|Frank Castle/The Punisher]] *[[w:Élodie Yung|Élodie Yung]] - [[w:Elektra (comics)|Elektra Natchios]] *[[w:Stephen Rider|Stephen Rider]] - [[w:Blake Tower|Blake Tower]] *[[w:Joanne Whalley|Joanne Whalley]] - [[w:Maggie Murdock|Sister Maggie]] == External links == {{wikipedia}} {{Marvel Cinematic Universe}} [[Category:Netflix shows]] [[Category:2010s American crime drama TV shows]] [[Category:Cancelled shows]] [[Category:Marvel Cinematic Universe TV series]] [[Category:Blindness in fiction]] [[Category:Daredevil (Marvel Comics)]] qixpqd0brv33aoz2327mtmledo107tr 0 179011 3961310 2851380 2026-07-05T23:03:27Z GrimRob 1187925 wiktionary 3961310 wikitext text/x-wiki '''[[w:Allocution|Allocution]]''' is a formal statement made to the court by the defendant who has been found guilty, prior to being sentenced. It is part of the criminal procedure in some common law jurisdictions. {{theme-stub}} == Quotes == * Sometimes, when the allocution is raw with begging and bargaining and terror and fear, I will take my glasses off as I look directly into the defendant’s eyes. When I do, the defendant’s facial features becomes fuzzy and obscured and indistinct even though I appear to be focused on the face. I know that doing so is cowardly. But when I reject the plea for mercy, it helps to get me through the long nights that follow. ** Judge Richard Kopf[http://wednesdaywiththedecentlyprofane.me/2014/03/19/my-dirty-little-secret-how-i-obscure-the-suffering-of-the-defendant-during-allocution/] == External links == {{wikipedia}} {{wiktionary}} [[Category:Crime]] 005dct85g3eeoinr1vwn4517td224tk 0 180546 3961091 3869847 2026-07-05T15:26:59Z ~2026-22475-30 3310494 3961091 wikitext text/x-wiki {{DISPLAYTITLE:''The Simpsons''/Season 27}} {{The Simpsons header}} '''''[[w:The Simpsons|The Simpsons]]''''' (1989–present) is an American animated sitcom broadcast by the Fox Broadcasting Company created by [[Matt Groening]]. The series is a satirical depiction of American life, epitomized by the Simpson family. ===''[[w:Every Man's Dream|Every Man's Dream]]''=== :''[Homer started sleeping at the Nuclear Plant after Marge threw him out of the house]'' :'''Lenny''': Poor guy, living at the plant. :'''Carl''': And yet, he's still late! <hr width=50%> :''[Selma calls Homer]'' :'''Selma''': Hello, Homer. Marge is getting ready for a date! :'''Homer''': ''[sad]'' Marge? On a date? :'''Selma''': Yep! But I'll make you a deal: I'll try to save your marriage if you can guess which one I am. :'''Homer''': Patty? :'''Selma''': Wrong!! ''[hangs up on Homer, who starts crying]'' ===''[[w:Cue Detective|Cue Detective]]''=== :''[Lisa and Bart are investigating Nelson, who's playing a game on a tablet, about the missing smoker]'' :'''Lisa''': And those are some nice upgrades. :'''Bart''': Expensive upgrades! :'''Lisa''': Upgrades like that costs gems, and gems cost cash. :'''Bart''': Expensive cash! :'''Lisa''': Where did you get the cash, Nelson? :'''Nelson''': I don't use gems! I'm a grinder. A grinder! :''[spins the merry-go-round, making Bart and Lisa dizzy]'' <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Then they called me "Stinkson"! That's not even my name! :'''Lisa''': What happened? Our family's been ostracized for lots of things, but never our hygiene. ''[silence]'' ''Rarely'' our hygiene. ''[silence]'' Never ''my'' hygiene! ===''[[w:Puffless|Puffless]]''=== :'''Patty''': I'm about to say something I never thought I'd say to you... Something nice. :'''Homer''': Mmhh?! :'''Patty''': I only mock you because I'm jealous of what Marge has on you. I only have Selma, and now I don't even have that. :'''Homer''': Oh, Patty, I waited so long for you to open a window of niceness. :'''Patty''': No, that was it, window shut. <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': Eh, what's the penalty for... driving a tractor drunk through a... renaissance fair? :'''Patty''': Can't help you! I might be having a stroke! I have to consult a competent medical professional! ''[types on a medicine website "Have I had a stroke?"]'' Hmm... Got that, got that... m-Hmm... Who doesn't have that? ''[groans]'' Is anyone here to get an ambulance license? :'''Comic Book Guy''': That'll be mine! :'''Patty''': Here you go! ''[gives him a license]'' :'''Comic Book Guy''': I lied! ''[runs away]'' <hr width=50%> :'''Bart''': Now, put your good clothes on. :'''Marge''': I'm already in a dress and pearls, and I'm 8 years old. ===''[[w:Halloween of Horror|Halloween of Horror]]''=== :'''Homer''': I don't want to be rude, but you losers should go suck somewhere else. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lisa''': Why are you locking up the house? :'''Homer''': ''[scared]'' Wha...? ''[heavily breathing]'' Why does anything happen? Why are blue jeans blue? Who invented haircuts? ''[laughs]'' It's all just stuff I'm saying! ===''[[w:Treehouse of Horror XXVI|Treehouse of Horror XXVI]]''=== :''[Bart enters the music room looking for Mr. Largo. A classic violin music plays on the background]'' :'''Bart''': Mr. Largo? Hmm, something's wrong. That music is in tune... :'''Sideshow Bob''': Hello, Bart! :'''Bart''': Aah! Sideshow Bob!! :'''Sideshow Bob''': 'Twas I who texted you... using Milhouse's phone! Did you know his wallpaper is American Girl Doll? Now let me put this in terms that a young boy would understand: ''[he opens a violin case and takes out a harpoon gun, then aims it at Bart while he speaks]'' you and I have danced a grand ''pas de deux'' worthy of Nijinsky, but ''this''... is... the final... plié! :'''Bart''': ''[unamused]'' Yawn. You couldn't kill me with that thing if I drew an "X" on my forehead. ''[he does so with blue chalk, then makes a taunting dance]'' Bob and a spear gun, sitting in a tree, S-U-C-K-I-N- ''[Bob shoots him with the gun, impaling him in the chest; he doesn't seem fazed, at first]'' Ha! Nice try, Bob, but I'm sure you made some... ''[he starts to falter]'' stupid... mistake... :'''Sideshow Bob''': Not this time. ''[yanks the spear projectile from Bart's chest, pulling out his heart]'' :'''Bart''': ''[in a weaker voice]'' Tell my father... he's... fat... ''[dies]'' :'''Sideshow Bob''': ''[smiles in triumph]'' The deed is done. 24 years of trying to kill a ten-year-old child have finally paid off. <hr width=50%> :''[Sideshow Bob has invented a Reanimator machine in the basement that can resurrect Bart]'' :'''Sideshow Bob''': And now, Bart, let's bring the old "spark" back to our special relationship! ''[He pulls the lever and activates the machine; in a second, Bart is born anew with no ill effects]'' :'''Bart''': ''[gets sassy]'' You couldn't kill me if I came in with pneumonia and a knife in my back. ''[Bob pulls out a sledgehammer and kills him again with one whack on the head]'' :'''Sideshow Bob''': I didn't care for the "thwock" the sledgehammer made. ''[tosses the hammer and returns to the Reanimator]'' No worries, I'll just kill him again. ''[activates the Reanimator again and revives Bart]'' :'''Bart''': ''[with a confident smile]'' That's why I'm the Unkillable Kid. ''[Bob arrives and hits him with the sledgehammer again, this time in the stomach, but nothing happens]'' Still not dead. ''[Bob gets annoyed and whacks him on the head again]'' Psych! ''[Bob then gets infuriated and whacks him in a frenzy]'' Ay carumba! ''[the whacking continues until his guts spill out and he finally succumbs to his wounds]'' :'''Sideshow Bob''': We're both going to be ''sore'' tomorrow! ''[cackles in glee and revives Bart again, starting a death montage]'' <hr width=50%> :''[Sideshow Bob, revived as a mix-and-match critter, finishes T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" he reads to the students at Springfield University]'' :'''Sideshow Bob''': "...By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown :Till human voices wake us, and we drown." :''[to the students]'' Any questions? :'''Female Student 3''': ''[with Bart relaxing next to her]'' Yes, what are you supposed to be again? :'''Sideshow Bob''': ''[responds in annoyance]'' A full professor! But the tenure committee is excruciatingly slow. ''[He looks up at Bart and mutters with a "Why I oughtta..." and grunting before he gives off a cluck like a chicken and lays an egg that rolls in front of him. At once, he feels humiliated and embarrassed.]'' <hr width=50%> :'''Lisa''': Grampa, everyone in town thinks you are foolish. :'''Grampa Simp-san''': Who is more foolish---the fool, or the fool who thinks the fool a fool? :'''Bart''': What the hell does that mean, Grampa-san? :'''Grampa Simp-san''': For centuries, our family has made a daily offering of a special donut to a slumbering underwater sea creature, so that he does not rise and destroy us all. ''[Bart and Lisa laugh]'' :'''Bart''': He is foolish! :'''Lisa''': So foolish! ''[laughs and turns to Grampa Simp-san]'' Doesn't mean you are not special. <hr width=50%> :'''Milhouse''': Okay, guys. My cellphone is somewhere in that pulsing ooze. Now each grab one ankle while I dive in! :'''Lisa''': We have to be careful, Milhouse. There's no telling what that stu-- Bart! What are you doing?! :'''Bart''': ''[with a green "beard" made from the ooze]'' Madam, how do you do? :'''Lisa''': ''[offscreen voice]'' You don't know what that stuff is doing to you! :'''Bart''': Oh, it's just the same junk Dad brings us home from work! ''[reveals that the ooze is radioactive waste from the nuclear plant]'' To us Simpsons, this green goop is mother's m-- ''[a bubble with the radioactive ooze blows up, throwing them out of the hole]'' <hr width=50%> :'''Kang''': Once again, they just had a cameo! :'''Kodos''': Don't be confused, or they'll put us in 4:3 (4 by 3)! ''[The black bars split into HDTV and transform into SDTV (4:3)]'' Oh, they're doing it! No!!!!!! :'''Kang''': Just because it looks like [[The Simpsons/Season 4|Season 4]] doesn't make it season four! ===''[[w:Friend with Benefit|Friend with Benefit]]''=== :'''Lisa''': Magic Club! Join the Magic Club! Want to cut up a banana without peeling it? Join and ''[in a spooky tone]'' I'll tell you how! It's with a needle and thread!! :'''Harper''': I like magic. I'm going to take one of your cards. ''[takes one of them and performs a magic trick, making the cards multiply]'' Or did I take 52? :'''Lisa''': ''[gasps]'' Do you want to join in? You could be president! Just man the booth, I need to go to the bathroom. :'''Harper''': I'd love to join. Honestly, this is the only booth that doesn't creep me out. ''[looks at Ralph's Hug Club]'' :'''Ralph''': Hug me! Hug me! ''[Principal Skinner puts a "Warning, Do not hug" sign on him]'' Hug me! :'''Harper''': I'm Harper. Just moved here. Trying to make friends. :'''Lisa''': Lisa. Always been here. Trying to make friends. ''[they hug]'' :'''Groundskeeper Willie''': Well, I've got news for all of your clubs! It's 3 p.m., so Willie's turnin' on the sprinklers! :''[turns the sprinklers on, scaring all the kids]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': Marge, do you know how it feels when you have a man to provide you everything you need? :'''Marge''': I have thought a lot about that, and I have to say... no. ===''[[w:Lisa with an 'S'|Lisa with an 'S']]''=== :''[Marge and Bart are trying to talk with Lisa via Skype]'' :'''Marge''': Are you sure you set it up right? :'''Bart''': Yes! :'''Marge''': Then why aren't we skyping? :'''Bart''': I don't know, maybe Lisa's drugged-out. :'''Marge''': My daughter is not drugged-out! :'''Bart''': Maybe she's just sleeping late after partying at discoteques. :'''Marge''': How do you know about all-night discoteques? :'''Bart''': We have Disco Stu in this town, Mom. He's a resource. Use him!! ''[Skype tone plays]'' ===''[[w:Paths of Glory (The Simpsons)|Paths of Glory]]''=== :''[Homer and Marge are sad, eating pizza after taking Bart to the asylum. Lisa enters the kitchen]'' :'''Lisa''': Mom! Dad! I've discovered the most amazing thing, I can't wait... hum... Where's Bart? :'''Marge''': He's safe. :'''Homer''': And more importantly: We're safe. :'''Marge''': ''[sobs]'' I miss him so much! ''[combs Santa's Little Helper's fur like Bart's hair]'' :'''Lisa''': Hmm... Can I call him? :'''Homer''': You can call his guard, Tico. He picks up sometimes. :'''Lisa''': I see... Okay... I'll do that. ''[leaves]'' :'''Marge''': Homie, where did we go wrong? :'''Homer''': I don't know, sweetie. I don't know. We did everything we could for him during the commercials. ===''[[w:Barthood|Barthood]]''=== :''[as police arrive]'' :'''Millhouse''': ''[Bart hits a street light]'' Blam! Blam! Blam, Blam! Hey, you missed one! ''[stops with his skateboard]'' :'''Bart''': Nope, can’t do it, my grandpa lives there. :''[police car sirens are heard as the police car stops, and then Chief Wiggum points a flash light at them]'' :'''Chief Wiggum''': Stop! Stop right there! ''[while holding his flashlight after getting out of the car]'' Ah, looks like we finally put an end to this Light-mare on Elm Street. Hahaha. :'''Joke Police''': Actually, it’s Maple Street, Chief. :'''Chief Wiggum''': ''[turns off his flashlight]'' Thank you, Joke Police. :'''Millhouse''': ''[while holding his skateboard]'' Please don’t arrest me! It’s a victim-less crime! ===''[[w:The Girl Code|The Girl Code]]''=== :'''Homer''': Computers? Pasty weirdos? Backslashes?? Goth Lisa?! What's going on here? <hr width=50%> :'''Lisa''': ''[to Homer]'' In a way, we're teaching a computer to predict the future. :'''Homer''': Young lady, what have I told you about crossing the line from science fact to science fiction? :'''Lisa''': Relax, Dad. All we're trying to do is demo a build for the AppCrush convention. :'''Quinn''': If we can solve our backened server issues... ''[Homer moans]'' :'''Lisa''': ...And maximize our query speed... ''[Homer moans]'' :'''Quinn''': ...Then we can get hands-on write-ups from DoingDoing. ''[Homer moans]'' :'''Lisa''': And JezeBot. ''[Homer moans]'' :'''Quinn''': And our AMA subreddit will be trending ''[Homer moans]'' :'''Lisa''': Giga-trending!! :'''Homer''': ''Aah!!'' I hate the modern world and all its crazy words! ''[on the phone]'' Siri, tell Amazon to drone me a beer. ''[a drone enters from the window and gives Homer a Duff Beer can]'' <hr width=50%> :'''Sideshow Mel''': I'd pay a fortune for that app! $1.99! ===''[[w:Teenage Mutant Milk-Caused Hurdles|Teenage Mutant Milk-Caused Hurdles]]''=== :''[Lisa gets a message on her cellphone]'' :'''Lisa''': Oh my god! I just got invited to my first third grade party! :'''Homer''': Are the parents gonna be home? :'''Lisa''': Yes. :'''Homer''': ''Pft!'' Lame!! :'''Bart''': Guys, I need to sharpen my mustaches. Which is better? A, ''[changes it to a downwards position]'' or B? ''[keeps changing it between upwards and downwards]'' A or B? A or B? A or B!? A or... B? <hr width=50%> :'''Lisa''': NOOOO!! No, no, no, nooooo!!! :'''Bart''': What happened? Did jazz die? :'''Lisa''': ''[enters Homer and Marge's bedroom]'' Look at me!! ''[the camera turns around, revealing her face with acne]'' :'''Marge''': Acne!? But she's only eight! :'''Lisa''': ''[worried]'' Somehow I'm becoming the Squeaky-Voiced Teen! ''[with a squeaky voice]'' Do you want fries with that? ''[back to her normal voice]'' What am I saying!? :'''Bart''': I, too, was visited by the Ghost of Puberty Present. I've got a starter 'stache! Next, I'm a loser, then I'm a creep, then I'm a perv! I've got to buy a van. :'''Lisa''': ''[cries]'' This isn't fair, I'm not ready for my awkward years. This is my happy childhood, for crying out loud!! <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': ''[thinking]'' Oh, my God, I'm popular! Hope this doesn't go to my head. It went right to my head!! ''Aaaah!!'' <hr width=50%> :'''Snake Jailbird''': Talk to me. :'''Homer Simpson''': Yes. I need a milk refund! :'''Snake Jailbird''': Right. Um, address please? Wait, hold on. ''[grabs a knife and carves at a thief's forehead]'' "742 Nevergreen"…oh, Evergreen Terrace. Sorry, our system's a little slow! ===''[[w:Much Apu About Something|Much Apu About Something]]''=== :'''Jay''': ''[to Apu]'' That's exactly what I'm talking to you about. You're my uncle and I love you, but you're a stereotype, man. Take a penny, leave a penny. I'm Indian, I do yoga. Why don't you go back to the Temple of Doom, Dr. Jones! <hr width=50%> :'''Apu''': This stereotype will no longer be a troublesome potato in your spicy vindaloo! <hr width=50%> :'''Jay''': I was kind of a douchewheel. :'''Apu''': Even your way of apologizing offends me. <hr width=50%> :'''Lisa''': Bart, wait! I like the new you. Listen, before you flip those circuit breakers, look deep in your sister's eyes and tell me what you see. :'''Bart''': I see love. :'''Lisa''': Unconditional love. :'''Bart''': Which means I can do whatever I want! :'''Lisa''': D'oh! <hr width=50%> :'''Mayor Quimby''': Springfield has more handicapped parking spots for fat guys than any other non-Chicago city. <hr width=50%> :'''Apu''': ''[reads a Playdude magazine]'' Before I die, I would like to know just what is in these nudie magazines. :'''Sanjay''': What is it, brother? :'''Apu''': An interview with... Jim Gaffigan. <hr width=50%> :'''Apu''': Quick & Fresh? Who spells "quick" with a "Q"? <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': Oh, Apu, it's good to see you doing so well. I know you can't turn your head, but you've got a great view. Oh! Are you okay? :'''Homer''': Marge, he's got nine lives. :'''Apu''': I am a Hindu, sir, not a cat. I have infinite lives during some of which I may be a cat. In those I do have nine. ===''[[w:Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4|Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4]]''=== :'''Power Plant Employee''': Hey, Professor, I didn't know you worked here at the plant! :'''Professor Frink''': I consult! Sometimes they listen, sometimes not. People have died... ''[whispering]'' You didn't hear that from me! :'''Power Plant Employee''': So, who are you here with? :'''Professor Frink''': Well, no one as yet. But I haven't turned on the old Frink charm! ''[to a woman]'' Hello there. ''vo-ivy''. ''[she ignores him and enters the reactor core room, making Frank sad]'' Well, there's, uh... no mistaking that message. ===''[[w:Gal of Constant Sorrow|Gal of Constant Sorrow]]''=== :'''Marge''': Oh, this tile is lose! I'll have to call a handy man. :'''Homer''': Eh... Why did you say it like that, with the pause between the words? Are you saying I'm not handy?! :'''Marge''': That's how you say it. Handy man. :'''Homer''': It's handyman! :'''Marge''': That's what I said! handy ''[pause]'' man. :'''Homer''': ''[angrily]'' Marjorie, there is the profession: handyman, and there are men who are handy! Which are you saying I'm not? Tell me... :'''Marge''': A handy ''[pause]'' man. ''[Homer exclaims angrily]'' :'''Bart''': Face it, Homeboy, you ain't handy! Unless we need a big fat paperweight. :'''Homer''': I'll paperweight you!! ''[sits on Bart]'' :'''Marge''': Homie, sweetie, replacing a tile is something you really need a professional for. :'''Homer''': I know how to replace a tile! All guys do! We talk about it all the time. Grout? :'''Marge''': There's no stopping what I've started here. Here's your tile! ''[puts the tile on Homer's plate]'' Have fun! Handy ''[pause]'' man! ''[leaves]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Disco Stu''': ''[discovers a floor of Moe's Tavern]'' Ugh. This is place is dirtier than a tunnel! ===''[[w:Lisa the Veterinarian|Lisa the Veterinarian]]''=== :'''Homer''': Wow, an indoor water park! Hopefully, this will put the final nail in the coffin of lakes and rivers. :'''Marge''': Well, as a mother, I... :'''Homer''': We all know you're a mother. :'''Marge''': As a mother, I like that wherever I look, I can see a lifeguard. <hr width=50%> :'''Otto''': ''[drowning]'' I'm finding Nemo! ''[he disappears underwater and leaves through a pipe]'' I saw heaven! ===''[[w:The Marge-ian Chronicles|The Marge-ian Chronicles]]''=== :'''Homer''': Hey, Flanders! Gas up your leaf blower much? ''[notices Flanders' hen house]'' Chickens?! Since when do you have chickens? :'''Ned''': Oh, about six months. :'''Homer''': Well, they've been driving me crazy. Get rid of them! :'''Ned''': ''[chuckles]'' Don't let these feathery fellas ruffle your feathers, fella. :'''Homer''': Chickens. You have yourself a perfectly good coop, and that's what you keep in it? ''[whistles]'' :'''Ned''': Oh, Homer, surely you know there's nothing tastier than a fresh-laid egg! ''[to Rod and Todd]'' How do you want 'em, boys? :'''Rod and Todd''': Coddled! Coddled! Coddled! :'''Ned''': ''[chuckles]'' What is it about boys and their coddled eggs? ===''[[w:The Burns Cage|The Burns Cage]]''=== :'''Homer Simpson''': ''[texts on this phone during a couch gag when "Meh" shows up]'' Up your… ''[other text shows the creator's name]'' Oh, sorry. Yes, sir. ''[other text shows the developers' names]'' Who are these guys? ''[other "Meh" text shows up]'' "Meh?" <hr width=50%> :''[Smithers saves Mr. Burns' life after a parachute jump gone wrong]'' :'''Mr. Burns''': ''[steps on Smithers' head]'' I did it! All by myself! ''[looks at Waylon]'' Oh, Smithers, do you always have to be underfoot? :'''Smithers''': Sorry, sir. If there was a less spectacular way to save your life, I... I should've found it. <hr width=50%> :'''Smithers''': Mr. Burns, coming down I... I thought we weren't gonna make it, and I thought I'd never get to say something I've always wanted to. The truth is, sir, I'm in love with... :'''Mr. Burns''': The sound of your own voice? Yes, well, no dogwood, I, listening to the nightingale trill her unending tune! Don't take this the wrong way, but you mean nothing to me. Someone I give less thought to than the little piece of popcorn stuck in my tooth. Ooh, can you remove it? ''[Smithers removes the popcorn stuck in Burn's teeth]'' I'll see you back at the office. Don't be late! ===''[[w:How Lisa Got Her Marge Back|How Lisa Got Her Marge Back]]''=== :''[Bart prepares his money pulling prank and Hans Moleman is walking down the street]'' :'''Bart''': Ah, my first sucker! ''[chuckles]'' :'''Moleman''': Oh, a dollar. Now I can have lunch! ''[tries to grab the bill when his glasses fell, making him see perfectly]'' ''Hmm?!'' It's a trick! I never needed these. ''[throws his glasses and walks away. Bart groans]'' :'''Cletus''': Oh, lookie here, it's the old fishing line on a dollar bill prank. Man, even a backwoods, no account, inbred, lead-paint-eating, kerosene-huffing, roadkill-chomping, uh... what was my point? ''[walks away]'' :'''Kirk''': ''[to Luann]'' That is a practical joke, Luann. Which is too bad, because I desperately need that dollar. Yeah, I could also use the fishing line to get some dinner. :'''Luann''': Bart, if Milhouse is hiding with you, tell him he has to shop for school clothes. ''[Milhouse comes out from behind the bushes]'' :'''Milhouse''': Yay!! School clothes! <hr width=50%> :'''Bart''': ''[to Homer, who's watching football]'' Dad, I'm worried. No one is falling for my pranks anymore! :'''Homer''': Son, I know this seems like the biggest disappointment of your life, but trust me, there are going to be so many more. What you've got to remember is... Oh my God, 13 men in the field! Review it, review it, review it! Yes!! Play stands! <hr width=50%> :'''Lisa''': Mom, I've been working on a new solo jazz piece. :'''Marge''': ''[groans]'' Can I hear it? ''[Lisa starts playing her jazz solo]'' :'''Homer''': Oh, I'd love to stay and listen, but I'm late for work! ''[leaves and comes back with Snowball V]'' Here's another super-fan to hear you lay down your licks! ''[leaves, comes back, puts glasses and a beret on Snowball V and leaves again]'' :'''Homer''': ''[To Maggie who had her hair cut like Bart's]'' Why you little! :'''Bart''': Dad, no! You're gonna strangle a baby! :'''Homer''': ''[gasps]'' Oh my God. That would've been horrible! ''[to Bart]'' Why you little! ''[strangles him]'' Turning a sweet little baby into a you! ''[sits beside him]'' Bart, you're a great kid, but if I had another one like you, I'd hang myself from a highway overpass! Please, give your sister the precious gift of not being you. :'''Bart''': Okay Dad. Mags, it was fun while it lasted. ''[puts her hair back to normal]'' :'''Homer''': Huh? Ha! I didn't know it was that easy. ''[makes Bart's hair look like Maggie's]'' :'''Bart''': Stop that! ''[makes his hair like Sideshow Bob's]'' :'''Homer''': Aah! Sideshow Bob! ===''[[w:Fland Canyon|Fland Canyon]]''=== :''[Homer puts Maggie to sleep]'' :'''Lisa''': ''[offscreen]'' Did you put the baby to sleep? ''[Maggie wakes up]'' :'''Homer''': D'oh! <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Oh... I can't read that again. I hate to see a wolf get punished for having normal appetites. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Okay, sweetie, I got a story about another little girl who got lost in the woods, but it wasn't a girl, and it wasn't the woods. ''[Maggie sucks her pacifier]'' Suck, suck indeed! And it all happened once upon a time, before you were born, and my chances for a man cave went out the window. <hr width=50%> :'''Rev. Lovejoy''': Bless you all for sacrificing your Saturday afternoon to help us clean up skid row. :'''Homer''': When God came for Sunday I said nothing. Now he comes for Saturday. :'''Ned''': Homer Simpson, it's one thing to moan and groan on the bus, but in front of these unfortunates, well... ''[scoffs]'' that just curls my 'stache! ''[his mustache curls a bit]'' :'''Homer''': Hey, Flanders, why don't you take some advice from your Bible and zip it? :'''Ned''': Oh, where does the Bible say "zip it"!? :'''Homer''': It's the first thing the burning bush said to Moses! ''[a homeless man approaches Homer]'' :'''Homeless Man''': Thank you for teaching us Scripture. ''[hugs Homer while he shows his tongue to Ned]'' Thank you. <hr width=50%> :'''Bart Simpson''': Enjoying your moon view, Homer? ===''[[w:To Courier with Love|To Courier with Love]]''=== :'''Marge''': Homer, you have to do more! :'''Homer''': Ook?! :'''Marge''': I'm getting tired of your "Ooks". I can't do this alone. Where's your chore list? :'''Homer''': Oh, I'm taking care of that! It's laminated. And to make sure I do it... ''[shows Marge a doodle of her on the back of the chore list]'' Hmm? :''[Marge groans]'' <hr width=50%> :''[Homer, Bart, Lisa and Maggie find an old car on the garage]'' :'''Lisa''': I've never seen this. It must've been left by some previous owner. :'''Homer''': Holy moly, a valuable antique car!! This is the find of a lifetime! Oh, it's a stick. :''[Homer enters the car and starts the engine]'' :'''Lisa''': Dad, shouldn't we see who owns the car? :'''Homer''': Now, sweetie, according to the ancient law of Trover, abandoned property passes to the subsequent landowner. :'''Bart''': Man, ever since you watched Medieval Tomb Robbers on the History Channel, everything with you is Trover, Trover, Trover! :'''Homer''': Boy, either show me a writ of replevin or pipe down! <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Well, if it isn't my favorite gal in my favorite room! :'''Marge''': I'm glad you had a good day. :'''Homer''': You don't sound glad. :'''Marge''': I'm not glad. :'''Homer''': But you said you were glad! :'''Marge''': You need to read between the lines. :'''Homer''': Why? There's just white space there. :'''Marge''': ''[crying]'' I'm sorry, Homie. Your life is full of fun surprises. My life sucks! :''[sobs and grabs a box of tissues]'' :'''Homer''': ''[thinking]'' Uh-oh. Tissues. ''[Marge lays down on the bed]'' W... would it help if I rubbed your back? Huh? Eh? Uh... :'''Marge''': Your hands smell like steering wheel. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Poor Marge. What do I do? Help me, universe! ''[the doorbell rings and Homer opens the door]'' [[Jay Leno]]?! :'''[[Jay Leno]]''': Hiya! I was just passing in my 1973 Citroen DS Pallas when I saw that classic Morgan with the original wood dash interior. Man, I... I'd like to buy it! :'''Homer''': You'll have to pay cash with no questions asked. :'''[[Jay Leno]]''': How much you want? :'''Homer''': I said no questions! ===''[[w:Simprovised|Simprovised]]''=== :'''Chief Wiggum''': ''[at the evidence locker]'' Let's see... Present for Ralph, present for Ralph... Ooh, what do we have here? ''[grabs a crossbow]'' Boy, Ralph would kill himself with this in two seconds. And somehow it'd be my fault. <hr width=50%> :''[Chief Wiggum leaves the evidence locker whistling and encounters with Lou]'' :'''Chief Wiggum''': Uh... You heard me whistling there, right? That indicates innocence. :'''Lou''': Uh.. Proclaiming your innocence indicates guilt. :'''Chief Wiggum''': Uh, yeah? Well, what does that mean? ''Skiddily bop and bah!'' :''[he runs outside the door, enters on a car and drives away]'' <hr width=50%> :'''Bart''': Okay, so, at a Ralph party, always get to the cake before... :''[they see the cake deformed as Ralph's face]'' :'''Lisa''': Too late! <hr width=50%> :'''Bart''': Oh my treehouse sucks. :'''Nelson''': Haw-Haw! You have class envy! :'''Mrs. Muntz''': Nelson, honey, I told you to stop sayin' "haw-haw". :'''Nelson''': Give me a dollar and I'll stop. :'''Mrs. Muntz''': I don't got a dollar! :'''Nelson''': Haw-Haw! <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': Do you want to practice your speech on me? :'''Homer''': ''[chuckles]'' No need, honey! Same speech I give every year. The opening joke about Lenny's grandma always kills. :'''Marge''': You can't joke about her. They just put her on life support. :'''Homer''': What?! No! She's the linchpin! :'''Marge''': It's okay, it's okay. Everyone is terrified of public speaking. But just in case, I'll defrost a failure ham. :'''Homer''': You don't have faith in me! I have savers! If I get heckled, I'll say, "Get a half-life!". :''[Marge stares at him]'' :'''Marge''': I'm sure that'll be funny to them. <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': Ooh. Throwing away your "No Girls" sign? Is it time for you to have "the talk" with your dad? Because he's gonna have to read a few things first. :'''Bart''': No! I'm tearing it down. Ralph has a cool treehouse, and mine sucks. :'''Marge''': Well, Bart, your father built it, and he did the very best he could. :''[a flashback shows Homer building the treehouse on a sapling]'' :'''Homer''': I did my job. Now it's your turn, tree! Get growing! <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': I'll tell you what, why don't I spruce it up for you? Huh? :'''Bart''': But you're an inside grown-up. Moms can't build treehouses. :'''Marge''': You realize that saying that is gonna make this mom work her keister off to make you the best darn treehouse you ever saw! :'''Bart''': Sounds good! <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': ''[during Gracie Films/20th Century Fox logos]'' Waiting on the pants. Oh Bart, not culottes! No! ===''[[w:Orange Is the New Yellow|Orange Is the New Yellow]]''=== :'''Lenny''': Quitting time! :'''Carl''': Quitting time! :'''Homer''': Thank God it's Friday. :'''Lenny''': Thursday. :'''Homer''': Same thing. See you Monday! <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': ''[on a phone call with Marge]'' Marge, baby, I'm out the door. :'''Marge''': Are you sure? Because sometimes people say they're out the door when they really haven't left yet. :'''Homer''': Those people are horrible, horrible liars. See you soon! ''[hangs up the phone]'' :'''Mr. Burns''': Simpson! Not so fast. Hold up one end of this poster! ''[Homer and Smithers hold a "Safety first, last and always" poster]'' Now use it to conceal this. ''[they close a leak with the poster]'' Excellent. Now, let me just crank up the plumb bob to determine the vertical marvel, we'll have this poster level in under three hours! <hr width=50%> :'''Lisa''': ''[dressed as a seahorse]'' Mom! Mom! My costume for the science play is all wrong! :'''Marge''': You said you were a seahorse! :'''Lisa''': A male seahorse, with a pouch! :'''Marge''': Males have pouches? :'''Lisa''': Male seahorses' nurturing is one of the wonders of the world. You said you read the script! :'''Marge''': Bart gave me a synopsis, I... ''[realizes that Bart made up the synopsis]'' Oh boy. <hr width=50%> :''[Maggie spills her carrots and peas on Marge]'' :'''Bart''': Mom, I'll clean that up for you. :'''Marge''': Oh, thank God, some help. :'''Bart''': Where's the mop? :'''Marge''': In the mop closet. :'''Bart''': Where's the bucket? :'''Marge''': Under the mop! ''[Bart opens a closet]'' Other closet! ''[he opens the second closet and some things fall from it]'' :'''Bart''': There's stuff in front of it. ''[Marge groans]'' Let me help! ''[grabs a box and two bottles fall from it and start crossing the floor]'' Ay caramba! Hey, there's wood underneath this linoleum. :'''Marge''': Oh! Just go play outside. :'''Bart''': Outside? Your loss. <hr width=50%> :'''Bart''': Hey, Martin. :'''Martin''': Bartholomew! This playground has safely stimulated my imagination. :'''Bart''': What the hell are you talking about? :'''Martha''': Martin! ''[chuckles]'' Who's your new friend? :'''Martin''': ''[whispering]'' Mother, don't blow this for me! :'''Martha''': Fine, I'll just go sit and talk to his mother. Where is she? :'''Bart''': I'm here by myself. But I have a safety number! ''[calls a number on his phone]'' :'''Moe''': Moe's Tavern. Homer ain't here, and for once, that's the truth. ''[Martha calls the police]'' <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Marge is right, Your Honor. My e-mail password is "bad dad." :'''Bart''': Yeah, Judge. If you wanna know who should be in jail, he weighs 240 and smells like onions. ''[Homer slaps Bart in the back of the head]'' <hr width=50%> :'''Chief Wiggum''': Simpson, are you here unsupervised? :'''Bart''': Yeah, and so what? :'''Chief Wiggum''': I'd lose the attitude, "[[Sylvester Stallone]]"! ''[Lou chuckles]'' Finally, a laugh out of Lou! Son, kids aren't allowed on their own anymore, now who said you could come here? :'''Bart''': My mom. :'''Chief Wiggum''': Ugh. Always the mom. ==External links== {{wikipedia|The Simpsons (season 27)}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Simpsons, Season 27}} [[Category:The Simpsons seasons]] gk27m6t7d02lvhvn5zuvsihxnfhkjbu 10 183248 3961287 3865782 2026-07-05T21:09:26Z ~2026-38100-15 3347602 3961287 wikitext text/x-wiki <noinclude>{{italic title}}{{Wikipedia|Template:Toy Story}}{{clear}}</noinclude><div align="center"><div style="width:700px;border:2px solid #05428a"> {|width=700px |- |style="background:white;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);" align=center colspan=3|[[File:Toy Story.svg|150px|center]] |- |style="background:#e10024;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);" align=right rowspan=2|<small><span style="color:#fed700;">'''&nbsp;&nbsp;Films&nbsp;&nbsp;'''</span></small> |style="background:#fed700;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);" colspan=2|<small>&nbsp; ''[[File:Toy Story logo.svg|40px|link=Toy Story|<span style="color:#05428a;">Toy Story</span>]]'' <small>&nbsp;(1995)</small> '''·''' ''[[File:Toy Story 2 logo.svg|40px|link=Toy Story 2|<span style="color:#05428a;">Toy Story 2</span>]]'' <small>&nbsp;(1999)</small> '''·''' ''[[File:Toy Story 3 logo.svg|40px|link=Toy Story 3|<span style="color:#05428a;">Toy Story 3</span>]]'' <small>&nbsp;(2010)</small> '''·''' ''[[File:Toy Story 4 logo.svg|40px|link=Toy Story 4|<span style="color:#05428a;">Toy Story 4</span>]]'' <small>&nbsp;(2019)</small> '''·''' ''[[File:Toy Story 5 logo.png|40px|link=Toy Story 5]]'' <small>&nbsp;(2026)</small></small> |- |style="background:#e10024;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);" align=right|<small><span style="color:#fed700;">'''&nbsp;&nbsp;Spin&#8209;offs&nbsp;&nbsp;'''</span></small> |style="background:#fed700;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);" colspan=2|<small>&nbsp; ''[[Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins|<span style="color:#05428a;">Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins</span>]]'' <small>&nbsp;(2000)</small> '''·''' ''[[File:Lightyear movie title teaser.jpg|40px|link=Lightyear (film)|<span style="color:#05428a;">Lightyear</span>]]'' <small>&nbsp;(2022)</small> &nbsp;</small> |- |style="background:#e10024;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);" align=right|<small><span style="color:#fed700;">'''&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Toy Story Toons|<span style="color:#fed700;">Shorts</span>]]&nbsp;&nbsp;'''</span></small> |style="background:#fed700;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);" colspan=2|<small>&nbsp; ''[[File:Toy Story Toons logo.png|50px|link=Toy Story Toons]]'' <small>&nbsp;(2011-12)</small> &nbsp;</small> |- |style="background:#e10024;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);" align=right|<small><span style="color:#fed700;">'''&nbsp;&nbsp;Television&nbsp;&nbsp;'''</span></small> |style="background:#fed700;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);" colspan=2|<small>&nbsp; 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Shortly after [[Christmas]], Bonnie brings some of her [[toys]] to Mason's house where they encounter [[dinosaur]]-themed [[w:action figure|action figures]] called Battlesaurs who don't know they are toys and are being [[w:manipulation (psychology)|manipulated]] by the [[power]]-hungry Cleric. :''Written and directed by [[Steve Purcell]].'' {{center|'''The [[battle]] for all [[toy]] kind.''' ([[#Taglines|taglines]])}} == Woody == * Trixie, the Battlesaurs are not [[playing]]. They've ''never'' been played with. They ''don't'' even ''[[know]]'' they're ''[[toys]]''! == [[Buzz Lightyear|Buzz]] == * The way Bonnie's [[mind]] works is a [[mystery]] to [[science]]. == Angel Kitty == [[File:3D-rendered character with a sign saying "hello".jpg|thumb|[[Greet]] the [[world]] with an open [[heart]].<br />{{center|~&nbsp;[[#Angel Kitty|Angel Kitty]]}}]] [[File:Parental Advisory label.svg<!--File:Black TV-G icon.png-->|thumb|[[w:Personal boundaries|Limitations]] are the [[w:shackle|shackles]] we bind to [[ourselves]].<br />{{center|~&nbsp;[[#Angel Kitty|Angel Kitty]]}}]] [[File:Love shadows everything.jpg|thumb|The [[joy]] that you [[give]] to others is the joy that comes back to you.<br />{{center|~&nbsp;[[#Angel Kitty|Angel Kitty]]}}]] [[File:Gift-wraping.jpg<!--File:Weihnachten 2008.JPG-->|thumb|Be [[grateful]] for your [[gifts]].&nbsp; They are all around you.<br />{{center|~&nbsp;[[#Angel Kitty|Angel Kitty]]}}]] *[[Greet]] the [[world]] with an open [[heart]]. *[[w:Personal boundaries|Limitations]] are the [[w:shackle|shackles]] we bind to [[ourselves]]. *The [[joy]] that you [[give]] to others is the joy that comes back to you. *Be [[grateful]] for your [[gifts]].&nbsp; They are all around you. == The Cleric == *I find their lack of armour... disturbing. == Trixie == * Everyone [[needs]] an [[w:apartment|apartment]] shaped like their own [[head]]. == Dialogue == :''[first lines]'' :'''Bonnie''': ''[as Santa Woody]'' Ho, ho, howdy everyone. That sure was a fun Christmas. :''[crunching]'' :'''Bonnie''': Hello, villagers. Shoo! Excuse me, pardon me, thank you. Hey, there, Baby Reindeer. Let's spread some Christmas cheer. ''[as Trixie]'' I am the goblin fairy. I'll make you the most beautiful of all. Pling! <hr width=50%> :'''Mr. Pricklepants''': Prepare yourself, in''ha''bit the part, you must not ''[[theatre|play]]'' the [[dinosaur]], you must ''be'' the dinosaur. :'''Trixie''': But I ''am'' the dinosaur. :'''Mr. Pricklepants''': Exactly! Now, ''get'' out there and ''sparkle''. <hr width=50%> :'''Jessie''': Aw, don't worry, Trixie, next time, you'll be a dinosaur for sure. :'''Rex''': Andy used to play with me as a dinosaur all the time. :'''Mr. Potato Head''': Yeah, me too. It's not all that's cracked up to be. :'''Trixie''': How would I know? :'''Mr. Potato Head''': Good point. <hr width=50%> :'''Woody''': Trixie, the Battlesaurs are not [[playing]]. They've ''never'' been played with. They ''don't'' even ''[[know]]'' they're ''[[toys]]''! :'''Buzz''': Incredible, isn't it? <hr width=50%> :'''Buzz''': Oh, ''I'' get it – you're ''glad'' Mason got the Optimum X! :'''The Cleric''': He ''plays'' there, while I ''[[rule]]'' here. My Battlesaurs have no ''[[w: use (law)|use]]'' for "play". They have everything they [[need]], [[contentment|content]] in their [[ignorance]]. :'''Guard #1''': ''[whispers]'' What's "ignorance"? :'''Guard #2''': I dunno. <hr width=50%> :'''Mason''': Oh, what [[planet]] is ''he'' from?! :'''Bonnie''': [[Neptune]]... or maybe [[Florida]]. == Taglines == * The [[battle]] for all [[toy]] kind. == Cast == * Trixie – {{w|Kristen Schaal}} * Rex – {{w|Wallace Shawn}} * Woody – [[Tom Hanks]] * Buzz Lightyear – [[Tim Allen]] * Reptillus Maximus – {{w|Kevin McKidd}} * Bonnie – [[w:Emily Hahn (actress)|Emily Hahn]] * The Cleric – [[Steve Purcell]] * Ray-gon — Jonathan Kydd * Mason – R.C. Cope * Angel Kitty – Emma Hudak * Mr. Potato Head – {{w|Don Rickles}} * Mr. Pricklepants – [[Timothy Dalton]] * Mrs. Anderson – {{w|Lori Alan}} * Jessie – {{w|Joan Cusack}} * Aliens – {{w|Jeff Pidgeon}} == External links == {{Wikipedia}} *{{Official website|http://www.pixar.com/short_films/Toy-Story-Toons/tsttf}}. *{{IMDb title|3473654}}. *{{rotten-tomatoes|toy_story_that_time_forgot}}. *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7_UZPAa6oA Commercial] on [[w:YouTube|YouTube]]. {{Toy Story}} {{Authority control}} [[Category:2014 American animated films]] [[Category:Animated Christmas TV specials]] [[Category:Toy Story]] [[Category:American animated TV shows]] faclh48c0zsqhfpktydeonzcn53nj7g 0 187145 3961306 3960268 2026-07-05T22:33:43Z ~2026-37727-64 3346896 /* Dialogue */ 3961306 wikitext text/x-wiki {{italic title}} '''''[[w:Toy Story of Terror!|Toy Story of Terror!]]''''' (16 October, 2013) is a [[Halloween]]-themed 21-minute television special that aired on [[w:American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]. Set after the events of ''[[Toy Story 3]]'', the special follows the toys on their road trip, when a flat tire leads Bonnie and her mother to spend the night in a roadside motel. After Mr. Potato Head goes missing, the others begin to search for him, but they find themselves caught up in a mysterious, monstrous, and terrifying sequence of events that lead them to a big conspiracy. :''Written and directed by [[w:Angus MacLane|Angus MacLane]] == Woody == * Oh, don't listen to her, Betsy. You can do it. Don't give up. * We have to get her out! * Oh, Potato Head, don't leave the bag. A motel is one of the easiest places for a toy to get lost! == [[Buzz Lightyear|Buzz]] == * Tactics, Betsy, tactics. Look for something to defend yourself with. * It's okay, Jessie. You're safe now. == Jessie == * A cat? Come on, guys. This isn't scary. * Potato Head, where... Where are you going? * Jessie never gives up. Jessie finds a way. == Dialogue == :''[After the title, a black and white showing of clouds are shown and the camera pans down to a graveyard. A woman, Betsy, enters frantic; she runs until she trips over a tombstone and lands on a tombstone. She sees a bat flying towards her, it transforms into a dracula and chases after her]'' :'''Dracula''': ''[moaning]'' Betsy... :'''Betsy''': No! :'''Rex''': Watch out! ''[pops up]'' He's right behind you! :'''Mr. Potato Head''': Hey, down in front! :'''Rex''': Oh, sorry. :''[In color. It's revealed to be a movie watched by Woody, Buzz, Jessie, Mr. Potato Head, Rex, Mr. Pricklepants, and Trixie in Bonnie's mom's trunk of the car]'' :'''Dracula''': ''[in the movie]'' I'm coming to get you, Betsy. :'''Rex''': Run, Betsy! Run! :'''Trixie''': Oh, come on. There's no way she can outrun a vampire. :'''Woody''': Oh, don't listen to her, Betsy. You can do it. Don't give up. :''[It turns out that Bonnie and her mom are on a car trip. In the car, Bonnie rubs his eye and yawns]'' :'''Bonnie''': ''[sleepy]'' Are we there yet? :'''Mrs. Anderson''': ''[as she drives]'' Not for a few more hours, Bonnie. You can go back to sleep. <hr width=50%/> :''[The toys continue to watch the movie in the trunk; Betsy is trying to get to the door of a church with the vampire closing in on her]'' :'''Betsy''': ''[in the movie]'' Help! Open the door! :'''Dracula''': ''[in the movie]'' No one can help you now, Betsy. :'''Mr. Potato Head''': Boring! :'''Mr. Pricklepants''': Patience. All great horror films start slowly. You see, they're designed to... :''[Annoyed, Mr. Potato Head pulls his ears out, which muted Mr. Pricklepants' talking]'' :'''Betsy''': ''[in the movie]'' Please, let me in! ''[manages to get in and close the door to save herself from the vampire. The vampire's laugh is heard. A crash sound is heard which frightens Betsy. She sees a broken vase and sees something behind a curtain]'' :'''Buzz''': Tactics, Betsy, tactics. Look for something to defend yourself with. ''[Betsy grabs a vase and empties the flowers and water]'' There we go. :'''Mr. Pricklepants''': ''[sighs]'' Technically, that would be useless. Everybody knows a wooden stake through the heart is the only way to kill a vampire. :''[Betsy slowly moves to the curtains and move it revealing a black cat. The toys shout in terror. Betsy yells. The cat screeches and pounces past her]'' :'''Mr. Pricklepants''': ''[chuckles]'' Only a kitty cat. Classic misdirection. :'''Jessie''': A cat? Come on, guys. This isn't scary. <hr width=50%/> :''[The car hits a bump, which startles the toys. The car gets a flat tire and Jessie is knocked in a tool box, trapping her inside. Jessie tries to get out, but can't]'' :'''Jessie''': Help! ''[muffled]'' Get me out of here! :'''Buzz''': Jessie! :'''Woody''': We have to get her out! :'''Buzz''': ''[tries to open the tool box]'' Jessie! Jessie, can you hear me? ''[the car hits another bump and stops at a roadside motel. Buzz grabs a lug wrench and puts it under the tool box]'' Okay, everyone, on 3. 1, 2, 3! ''[the toys jump on the lug wrench, tipping the tool box, opening it up, freeing Jessie; Jessie breathes heavily. Woody, Buzz, Rex, and Mr. Pricklepants look at her in concern]'' Jessie, Jessie? :'''Trixie''': ''[to Mr. Potato Head]'' What's the matter with Jessie? :'''Mr. Potato Head''': She was abandoned in a box for years. :'''Jessie''': ''[panting]'' I-I couldn't... I couldn't find a way out. :'''Bonnie''': Mom, can I bring my toys. :''[The toys hides inside the case just in time as Bonnie's mom grab her case filled with her daughter's toys, the car stops at a motel, Bonnie and her mom get out of the car and enter the motel. Bonnie carries her suitcase with her toys in it. Mr. Pricklepants looks outside the bag]'' :'''Mr. Pricklepants''': The roadside motel is one of the most common locals for a horror film. Remote, isolated, a comforting environment to allure the suspicions of the audience. I'll expect they'll be asking the innkeeper to use the telephone any minute now. :'''Mrs. Anderson''': Will it be okay if I used your phone? Our car has a flat. :'''Mr. Pricklepants''': ''[chuckles]'' Right on cue. :'''Buzz''': It's okay, Jessie. You're safe now. :'''Woody''': We'll be back on the road before you know it. What's the latest, Trixie? :'''Trixie''': Uh, she's still on the phone with the tow truck company. :'''Mrs. Anderson''': 6 am? That's the earliest you can get here? :'''Rex''': 6 am? You mean we have to stay here all night? :'''Mr. Pricklepants''': Bum, bum, bum. :'''Jessie''': I don't care where we are as long as I'm not stuck alone in that box. :''[bell dings]'' :'''Ron''': If you could just sign here in the guestbook. ''[laughs]'' I'll need to see a major credit card for the incidentals. Okay, let's see here. I'm going to put you in room seven. :''[Outside the Sleep Well motel, Bonnie and her mom go to the 7 room]'' :'''Ron''': ''[voice over]'' You know, we have a little saying around here, at the Sleep Well Motel, your gonna sleep well. <hr width=50%/> :''[At the Sleep Well Motel, Bonnie and her mom are sleeping in their room. Trixie opens the bag and looks around]'' :'''Trixie''': Well, it looks like they're asleep. :'''Mr. Potato Head''': ''[sighs]'' Finally. ''[starts to leave]'' :'''Jessie''': Potato Head, where... Where are you going? :'''Mr. Potato Head''': We're at a motel. We're at a motel. I just wanna check out the amenities. You know, the free stuff? Little soaps, shower caps? Shampoo? Conditioner? :'''Mr. Pricklepants''': Oh, I wouldn't go out there if I were you. The first to leave usually gets it. == Cast == * [[w:Joan Cusack|Joan Cusack]] — [[w:Jessie (Toy Story)|Jessie]] * [[Tom Hanks]] — [[w:Woody (Toy Story)|Woody]] * [[Tim Allen]] — [[w:Buzz Lightyear|Buzz Lightyear]] * [[w:Carl Weathers|Carl Weathers]] — Combat Carl and Combat Carl Jr. * [[Stephen Tobolowsky]] — Ron the Manager * [[Timothy Dalton]] — Mr. Pricklepants * [[w:Wallace Shawn|Wallace Shawn]] — Rex * [[w:Don Rickles|Don Rickles]] — Mr. Potato Head * [[w:Kristen Schaal|Kristen Schaal]] — Trixie * [[w:John Ratzenberger|John Ratzenberger]] — Hamm * [[w:Kate McKinnon|Kate McKinnon]] — PEZ Cat * [[w:Lori Alan|Lori Alan]] — Mrs. Anderson * [[w:Peter Sohn|Peter Sohn]] — Transitron * Emily Hahn — Bonnie * [[w:Dawnn Lewis|Dawnn Lewis]] — Delivery Lady * Jason "J-Top" Topolski — Vampire and Tow Truck Guy * [[w:Ken Marino|Ken Marino]] — Pocketeer * [[w:Christian Roman|Christian Roman]] — Old Timer * [[w:Laraine Newman|Laraine Newman]] — Betsy * [[w:Tara Strong|Tara Strong]] — Ron's Computer * [[w:Angus MacLane|Angus MacLane]] — Officer Wilson * [[w:Josh Cooley|Josh Cooley]] — Officer Phillips * [[Dee Bradley Baker]] — Mr. Jones ==External links== {{wikipedia}} {{Toy Story}} {{Authority control}} [[Category:2013 computer-animated films]] [[Category:2013 American animated films]] [[Category:American computer-animated films]] [[Category:Animated short films]] [[Category:Halloween TV specials]] [[Category:Films about lizards]] [[Category:Toy Story]] 28elw9uuchcptqhngdk0yzo0xlwbyjj 0 188615 3961144 3720228 2026-07-05T16:26:21Z BD2412 3982 /* top */ Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]], replaced: William J. Brennan, Jr. → William J. Brennan Jr. using [[Project:AWB|AWB]] 3961144 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:DavidSouter.jpg|thumb|Whatever court we are in, whatever we are doing, whether we are in a trial court or an appellate court, at the end of our task some human being is going to be affected … so we had better use every power of our minds and our hearts and our beings to get those rulings right.]] '''[[w:David Souter|David Hackett Souter]]''' ([[September 17]], [[1939]] – [[May 8]], [[2025]]) was an [[w:Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States|Associate Justice of the]] [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court of the]] [[United States]]. He served from October 1990 until his retirement in June 2009. He was appointed by [[President of the United States|President]] [[George H. W. Bush]] to fill the seat vacated by [[William J. Brennan Jr.]]. == Quotes == * '''Whatever court we are in, whatever we are doing, whether we are in a trial court or an appellate court, at the end of our task some human being is going to be affected.''' Some human life is going to be changed in some way by what we do, whether we do it as trial judges or whether we do it as appellate judges, as far removed from the trial arena as it is possible to be. And so we had better use every power of our minds and our hearts and our beings to get those rulings right. ** Statement to the Judiciary Committee of the US Senate (13 September 1990) * '''"Democracy works "only if the people have faith in those who govern, and that faith is bound to be shattered when high officials and their appointees engage in activities which arouse suspicions of malfeasance and corruption."''' ''United States v. Mississippi Valley Generating Co.'', 364 U. S. 520, 562 (1961) ** David Souter, Opinion of the Court, ''[[w:Nixon v. Shrink Missouri Government PAC|Nixon v. Shrink Missouri Government PAC]]'', 528 U.S. 377 (2000) *What I worry about is that when problems are not addressed, people will not know who is responsible. And when the problems get bad enough – as they might do, for example, another serious terrorist attack, as they might do with another financial meltdown – some one person will come forward and say, "Give me total power, and I will solve this problem." That is how the Roman republic fell….That is how democracy dies. And if something is not done to improve the level of civic knowledge, that is what you should worry about at night. **With Margaret Warner at ‘Constitutionally Speaking’ in Concord, N.H. on Sept. 14, 2012: [http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/conversation-justice-david-souter/ David Souter Gets Rock Star Welcome, Offers Constitution Day Warning &#124; PBS NewsHour] *I think the case is so strong that I can tell you the day you see a camera come into our courtroom, it's going to roll over my dead body. **[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A00E6D71539F933A05750C0A960958260 On Cameras in Supreme Court, Souter Says, 'Over My Dead Body'], ''The New York Times'', March 30, 1996 <!-- accessed 2017-11-14 --> == Quotes about Souter == * Justice David Souter served [[Supreme Court of the United States | our Court]] with great distinction for nearly twenty years. He brought uncommon [[wisdom]] and [[kindness]] to a lifetime of [[public service]]. . . . He will be greatly missed. ** [[John Roberts]], Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, in [https://www.supremecourt.gov/publicinfo/press/pressreleases/pr_05-09-25b a statement issued the day after Souter's death.] (May 9, 2025) == External links== {{Wikipedia}} {{wikisource-author|David Souter}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Souter, David}} [[Category:1939 births]] [[Category:2025 deaths]] [[Category:Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States]] [[Category:Lawyers from the United States]] [[Category:Episcopalians from the United States]] [[Category:People from Boston]] [[Category:Harvard University alumni]] lpbtoivxgzn7ae1flr9y06in52go90s 0 189129 3961139 3573630 2026-07-05T16:26:10Z BD2412 3982 /* ''Lies, Damn Lies, and Armenian Deaths'' (2009) */ Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]], replaced: Henry Morgenthau, Sr. → Henry Morgenthau Sr. using [[Project:AWB|AWB]] 3961139 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Bruce Fein by Gage Skidmore.jpg|thumb|{{w|Bruce Fein}} in 2011]] '''{{w|Bruce Fein}}''' (born March 12, 1947) is an American lawyer who specializes in [[United States Constitution|constitutional]] and [[international law]]. Fein has written numerous articles on constitutional issues for ''{{w|The Washington Times}}'', ''{{w|Slate.com}}'', ''[[The New York Times]]'', and ''{{w|Legal Times}}'', and is active on {{w|civil liberties}} issues. He has worked for the {{w|American Enterprise Institute}} and the {{w|Heritage Foundation}}, both [[conservative]] {{w|think tank}}s, as an analyst and commentator. Fein is a principal in a government affairs and public relations firm, The Lichfield Group, in [[Washington, D.C.]]. He is also a resident scholar at the {{w|Turkish Coalition of America}}. == Quotes == * The Justice Department's conclusion that [[w:Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act|Section 504]] of the {{w|Rehabilitation Act of 1973}} does not prohibit discrimination based on actual or perceived capacity to transmit [[AIDS]] to others has been assailed as legally or medically flawed, mean-spirited, and antagonistic toward the gay community. The criticisms are misplaced. The Department's sober examination of the Rehabilitation Act reveals a commendable dedication to the [[rule of law]] and the belief that Congress, not bureaucrats, should be the foremost architect of national public policy. [...] The gay community and other political minorities, as the foremost beneficiaries of the rule of law, should applaud, not condemn, the Department's opinion. By refusing to usurp policy making power from Congress, the Justice Department acted in the highest tradition of executive restraint. ** ''[http://www.nytimes.com/1986/07/13/business/aids-in-the-workplace-the-administration-s-impeccable-logic.html AIDS in the workplace; the administration's impeccable logic]'', ''[[The New York Times]]'' (July 13, 1986) * Congress does act slowly, often without foresight, and in ways detrimental to efficient government. But our entire consitutional scheme of checks and balances is intended to curb swift government action and to subordinate efficiency concerns to safeguard liberty and freedom. ** ''[http://www.nytimes.com/1986/07/13/business/aids-in-the-workplace-the-administration-s-impeccable-logic.html AIDS in the workplace; the administration's impeccable logic]'', ''[[The New York Times]]'' (July 13, 1986) * The paramount political benefit of membership on a large-sized intelligence committee is the capacity to leak information to favored reporters in order to elicit media good will. ** ''[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/10/opinion/a-tight-plug-on-intelligence-leaks.html A Tight Plug on Intelligence Leaks]'', ''[[The New York Times]]'' (June 10, 1987) * Information sharing and liaison arrangements, however, are indispensable to success in combating worldwide terrorism, narcotics trafficking and other such activities. By sharply curtailing the likelihood of leaks, a joint intelligence committee would encourage the executive branch to be more forthright with Congress and would help rebuild foreigners' trust in our intelligence community. Congressmen opposing such commendable results shoulder a heavy burden. ** ''[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/10/opinion/a-tight-plug-on-intelligence-leaks.html A Tight Plug on Intelligence Leaks]'', ''[[The New York Times]]'' (June 10, 1987) * If you crave presidential lawlessness, war crimes, and international mayhem, you should adore [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] presidential aspirant [[Hillary Clinton]]. ** ''[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-fein/hillary-clinton-unfit-for_b_8313372.html Hillary Clinton: Unfit for the Presidency]'' (October 16, 2015), ''{{w|Huffington Post}}'' * Hillary Clinton is a clear and present danger to the [[US Constitution|Constitution]], the rule of law, and international peace and security. Her eagerness for war, i.e., legalized murder, to create an image of adolescent toughness makes her a worse fit for the Presidency than would {{w|Lady Macbeth}}. ** ''[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-fein/hillary-clinton-unfit-for_b_8313372.html Hillary Clinton: Unfit for the Presidency]'' (October 16, 2015), ''{{w|Huffington Post}}'' === ''Armenian crime amnesia?'' (2007) === <small>''[http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2007/oct/16/armenian-crime-amnesia/ Armenian crime amnesia?]''. ''{{w|The Washington Times}}'' (October 16, 2007)</small> * Armenian crimes against humanity and war crimes against the Ottoman Turkish and Kurdish populations of eastern and southern Anatolia during World War I and its aftermath have been forgotten amidst congressional preoccupation with placating the vocal and richly financed Armenian lobby. * A historically supportable resolution would have condemned massacres against Armenians with the same vigor, as it should have condemned massacres by Armenians against the innocent Muslim populations of the crumbling Ottoman Empire. * Nothing seems to have changed from those days, when Christian lives were more precious than the lives of the “infidels.” * Best contemporaneous estimates place the number of Armenians who died in the war and its aftermath at between 150,000 and 600,000. The Armenian death count climbed to 1.5 million over the years on the back of political clout and propaganda. * Like [[Benito Mussolini]], Armenians believe truth is an assertion at the head of a figurative bayonet. * In parts of Europe, disbelief in the Armenian genocide allegation is a crime on par with [[Holocaust]] denial. But the Holocaust was proven before the Nuremburg Tribunal with the trappings of due process. Armenians, in contrast, have forgone bringing their genocide allegation before the International Court of Justice because it is unsupported by historical facts. * Congress should reject that cynicism in defense of historical truth. === ''Lies, Damn Lies, and Armenian Deaths'' (2009) === [[File:1895erzurum-victims.jpg|300px|thumb|There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and the number of Armenians who are claimed by Armenians and their echo chambers to have died in an alleged [[Armenian genocide|World War I genocide]].]] [[File:Ambassador Morgenthau's Story p314.jpg|300px|thumb|[[w:Armenian Genocide denial|Not a single one of those deaths]] necessarily falls within the definition of genocide in the authoritative {{w|Genocide Convention}} of 1948.]] <small>''[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-fein/lies-damn-lies-and-armeni_b_211408.html Lies, Damn Lies, and Armenian Deaths]'', ''{{w|The Huffington Post}}'' (April 24, 2009)</small> * To paraphrase [[Mark Twain]], there are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and the number of Armenians who are claimed by Armenians and their echo chambers to have died in an alleged [[Armenian genocide|World War I genocide]]. * [[w:Armenian Genocide denial|Not a single one of those deaths]] necessarily falls within the definition of genocide in the authoritative {{w|Genocide Convention}} of 1948. It requires proof that the accused was responsible for the physical destruction of a group in whole or in substantial part specifically because of their race, nationality, religion, or ethnicity. A political or military motivation for a death falls outside the definition. * Immediately after the war, when events and memories were fresh, Armenians had no incentive to concoct high casualty figures or genocidal motivations for their deaths. Their objective was statehood. * To make their case more convincing, Armenians hiked the number of deaths. They also altered their story line from having died as belligerents against the Turks to having perished like unarmed helpless lambs. * After statehood was lost, Armenians turned to their genocide playbook which exploited [[Christian]] bigotries and contempt for Ottoman [[Muslims]]. They remembered earlier successful anti-Ottoman propaganda. * [[Henry Morgenthau Sr.|Henry Morganthau]], was openly [[racist]] and devoted to propaganda. * From 280,000-750,000, Armenians initially raised their death count to 800,000 to test the credibility waters. ... They are now testing the waters at 2.5-3 million killed as their chances for a congressional genocide resolution recede. It speaks volumes that champions of the inflated death figures have no explanation for why Armenians on the scene would have erred. Think of the absurdity of discarding the current death count of Afghan civilians in the [[War in Afghanistan (2001–present)|United States-Afghan war]] in favor of a number deduced in the year 2109! * Armenians have a genuine tale of woe. It largely overlaps with the tale of tragedy and suffering that can be told by Ottoman Muslims during the war years. * Unskewed historical truth is the antechamber of Turkish-Armenian reconciliation. * Armenians are balking because they are skeptical of their own figures and accusations. ==External links== {{Sister project links}} * [http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/pdf/Fein080725.pdf Statement of Bruce Fein Before The House Judiciary Committee Re: Impeachment 7/25/2007] * [http://www.slate.com/?id=3944&qp=39355 Columns written by Bruce Fein for Slate] * [http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07132007/profile.html [[Bill Moyers]] explores the talk of impeachment of Bush and Cheney with Fein, PBS, July 2007] * [http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/13038 Video of Fein in a debate/discussion] with {{w|Jane Hamsher}} on {{w|Bloggingheads.tv}} * [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-calderone/edward-snowden-father-legal-team_b_4036699.html Lon Snowden Praises Glenn Greenwald, ACLU After Split With Legal Team] {{DEFAULTSORT:Fein, Bruce}} [[Category:1943 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Lawyers from the United States]] [[Category:Non-fiction authors from the United States]] [[Category:Right-libertarians from the United States]] [[Category:Political commentators from the United States]] [[Category:Columnists from the United States]] [[Category:Jews from the United States]] [[Category:Libertarian conservatives]] [[Category:Political authors from the United States]] [[Category:Harvard University alumni]] rvp2a1t1u0zqbqnxiuwh7m81nzpcpfe 0 190697 3961134 3535545 2026-07-05T16:25:59Z BD2412 3982 /* Quotes */ Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]], replaced: Thomas Watson, Jr. → Thomas Watson Jr. using [[Project:AWB|AWB]] 3961134 wikitext text/x-wiki [[Image:LOC Utah Prisoners c1885.jpg|thumb|Prisoners in [[Utah]] c.1885 wearing striped prison uniforms considered a badge of shame]] A '''{{w|badge of shame}}''', also a '''symbol of shame''', '''mark of shame''', or simply a '''stigma''', is typically a distinctive symbol required to be worn by a specific group or an individual for the purpose of public [[humiliation]], [[ostracism]], or [[persecution]]. {{sociology-stub}} == Quotes == * To be associated with industry no longer carries the stigma of profiteering, exploitation and of being uncaring as it did when I was at school. ** [[Richard Branson]]; From Branson's Foreword to the book: {{cite book |last=Marcouse |first=Ian |date=1996 |title=Understanding Industry |url= |location=Bath |publisher=Hodder & Stoughton |page=ix |isbn=034067927-1 |accessdate=2014 }} * Probably the respect or stigma attaching to particular classes of actions arose from the fact that these classes of actions were—or were thought to be—beneficial or injurious to the society of the time; but it is also clear that this good or bad name once created clings to the action long after the action has ceased in the course of social progress to be beneficial in the one case, or injurious in the other; and indeed long after the thinkers of the race have discovered the discrepancy. And so in a short time arises a great confusion in the popular mind between what is really good or evil for the race and what is reputed to be so—the bolder spirits who try to separate the two having to atone for this confusion by their own martyrdom. ** [[Edward Carpenter]] “Defence of criminals: A criticism of morality” (1889) * The notion that "applied" knowledge is somehow less worthy than "pure" knowledge, was natural to a society in which all useful work was performed by slaves and serfs, and in which industry was controlled by the models set by custom rather than by intelligence. Science, or the highest knowing, was then identified with pure theorizing, apart from all application in the uses of life; and knowledge relating to useful arts suffered the stigma attaching to the classes who engaged in them. ** [[John Dewey]] (1916) ''Democracy and Education''. * The Greeks, who were apparently strong on visual aids, originated the term stigma to refer to bodily signs designed to expose something unusual and bad about the moral status of the signifier. The signs were cut or burnt into the body and advertised that the bearer was a slave, a criminal, or a traitor — a blemished person, ritually polluted, to be avoided, especially in public places. Later, in Christian times, two layers of metaphor were added to the term : the first referred to bodily signs of holy grace that took the form of eruptive blossoms on the skin; the second, a medical allusion to this religious allusion, referred to bodily signs of physical disorder. Today the term is widely used in something like the original literal sense, but is applied more to the disgrace itself than to the bodily evidence of it. Furthermore, shifts have occurred in the kinds of disgrace that arouse concern. Students, however, have made little effort to describe the structural preconditions of stigma, or even to provide a definition of the concept itself. It seems necessary, therefore, to try at the beginning to sketch in some very general assumptions and definitions. ** [[Erving Goffman]] (1963), ''Stigma : Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity'' p. 1-2 * Racial discrimination a mark of shame on twentieth-century man, although intolerable to most humans can still be seen in various parts of the world. And the power-seeking policies of the strong are hampering the execution of United Nations' ideals. ** [[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi]], [http://members.cybertrails.com/~pahlavi/un-1.html The Shah's Message on the occasion of the 23rd Anniversary of the Foundation of the United Nations - October 24, 1968] * Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. ** Attributed to [[Thomas Watson Jr.]] in: "Stand up and be counted" in: ''Year: encyclopedia news annual'' (1965). p. 280. == See also == * [[Social stigma]] * [[Taboo]] == External links == {{Wikipedia}} [[Category:Sociology]] [[Category:Symbolism]] a0iqm8axn7fv2iq2jziwm658mzzkht2 3 190980 3961129 3960937 2026-07-05T16:23:14Z Codename Noreste 3154048 /* Changing titles containing ", Jr." to "Jr." */ reply to BD2412 ([[mw:c:Special:MyLanguage/User:JWBTH/CD|CD]]) 3961129 wikitext text/x-wiki {{User:BD2412/Status}} *[[/Archive 1]] (April 2006 - December 2008) *[[/Archive 2]] (January 2009 - December 2011) *[[/Archive 3]] (January 2011 - June 2013) *[[/Archive 4]] (July 2014 - September 2014) *[[/Archive 5]] (October 2014 - August 2016) *[[/Archive 6]] (September 2016 - March 2018) *[[/Archive 7]] (April 2018) == Request for adminship == https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Requests_for_adminship#Just_A_Regular_New_Yorker_(talk_%C2%B7_contributions) - [[User:Just A Regular New Yorker|J.A.R.N.Y.]]|[[User talk:Just A Regular New Yorker|🗣]] 18:15, 1 June 2018 (UTC) : I'll keep an eye on it. Cheers! [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 21:58, 1 June 2018 (UTC) ::I really hate to be a nudge, but is there any chance you can add to the discussion? I hate asking this, I know no one wants to be told to do something by someone else, but I received opposition, and only mild support, and I would appreciate if a sysop showed support. Thanks. [[User:Just A Regular New Yorker|J.A.R.N.Y.]]|[[User talk:Just A Regular New Yorker|🗣️]]|[[Special:emailuser/Just A Regular New Yorker|📧]] 22:24, 3 June 2018 (UTC) ::: Sorry, I thought you were nudging me to be aware of it. I am also a 'crat here, so I will likely be closing the discussion. It would therefore be a conflict if I also proffered a substantive opinion. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 22:41, 3 June 2018 (UTC) ::::If the discussion ends the way it is now, with one ''oppose'', one ''support'', and one ''weak support'', will that be enough to be promoted? [[User:Just A Regular New Yorker|J.A.R.N.Y.]]|[[User talk:Just A Regular New Yorker|🗣️]]|[[Special:emailuser/Just A Regular New Yorker|📧]] 00:58, 4 June 2018 (UTC) ::::: I would not consider that sufficient. Promotion to adminship is a considerably more substantial matter than the typical discussion and vote. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 01:26, 4 June 2018 (UTC) ::::::Do you have any suggestions for how I can get people to chime in? [[User:Just A Regular New Yorker|J.A.R.N.Y.]]|[[User talk:Just A Regular New Yorker|🗣️]]|[[Special:emailuser/Just A Regular New Yorker|📧]] 01:43, 4 June 2018 (UTC) ::::::: I suppose you could post a notice in the Administrator's Noticeboard. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 01:46, 4 June 2018 (UTC) {{outdent}} Thanks. I’ll try that. [[User:Just A Regular New Yorker|J.A.R.N.Y.]]|[[User talk:Just A Regular New Yorker|🗣️]]|[[Special:emailuser/Just A Regular New Yorker|📧]] 02:02, 4 June 2018 (UTC) :Looks like the vote is over. How does it work. Does it depend on the decision of the first ‘crat that gets to it, or are the votes counted? [[User:Just A Regular New Yorker|J.A.R.N.Y.]]|[[User talk:Just A Regular New Yorker|🗣️]]|[[Special:emailuser/Just A Regular New Yorker|📧]] 18:33, 8 June 2018 (UTC) :: The closing 'crat weighs the consensus of the community. I would let this stay open for a few more days to see if there is any further participation, or any further reply to any of your comments. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 21:31, 8 June 2018 (UTC) == Promotion == [[Thanksgiving|Thanks]]! —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 21:57, 1 June 2018 (UTC) : Haha, don't thank me, now you have more work to do! [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 21:58, 1 June 2018 (UTC) ==Raymond Chandler== Hello BD2412, I'll like to solicit your help for a task. I think it would be beneficial if a photo of [[Raymond Chandler]] was there on his article. But there doesn't seem to be a way to make his photo appear there, not with the usual methods as it is on Wikipedia and not Commons, see [[:w:File:RaymondChandlerPromoPhoto.jpg]]. Is there any way for it to be shown on the article without copying it to Commons? If not, can you see if it can be copied to Commons because I'm not too sure about the copyright laws. [[User:MonsterHunter32|MonsterHunter32]] ([[User talk:MonsterHunter32|talk]]) 14:11, 14 July 2018 (UTC) : The reason that the Raymond Chandler photograph can be shown on Wikipedia, and can not be moved to Commons or used on Wikiquote, is that the copyright law restricts the fair use of images covered by copyright to circumstances where they are required to illustrate the description of the subject for educational value. An encyclopedia article on the subject is considered to be of such value, but a collection of quotes from the subject is considered to be merely entertainment, and not susceptible to fair use. Therefore, we can not use copyright-protected images anywhere on Wikiquote. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 14:34, 14 July 2018 (UTC) :: Oh too bad I didn't know it couldn't be used in another wiki. Thanks for making me aware about it. [[User:MonsterHunter32|MonsterHunter32]] ([[User talk:MonsterHunter32|talk]]) 15:06, 14 July 2018 (UTC) ::: No problem. Cheers! [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 15:08, 14 July 2018 (UTC) == Doug McIlroy == I believe you are the only WQ admin I know of. Mind taking a look at [https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Doug_McIlroy&action=history this]? [[User:GreenMeansGo|<span style="font-family:Impact"><span style="color:#07CB4B">G</span><span style="color:#449351">M</span><span style="color:#35683d">G</span></span>]][[User talk:GreenMeansGo#top|<sup style="color:#000;font-family:Impact">talk</sup>]] 12:52, 1 August 2018 (UTC) * Page protected, vandal blocked. Cheers! [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 13:04, 1 August 2018 (UTC) == Time to undo edit protection? == I refer to this: [https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Wikiquote%3AWikiquote&type=revision&diff=2395507&oldid=2395500 Changed protection level for "Wikiquote:Wikiquote": Edit warring / Content dispute ] [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 21:22, 4 November 2018 (UTC) : No edits should be made to this page without discussion, so I see no reason why it should ever be unprotected. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 22:20, 4 November 2018 (UTC) :: Thanks for the quick reply. I inadvertently violated this rule in October and November of last year. I intend to propose we add a note to this page to alert other editors of this restriction and instruct them on how to propose future changes. Where can I find the rule to reference in my proposal? [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 05:03, 5 November 2018 (UTC) ::: Generally, proposals to change a policy should be raised on the talk page for that policy. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 16:30, 16 November 2018 (UTC) :::: I'm sorry but I'm still having trouble getting my mind around this. In particular I have three questions: :::: 1. Where can I find the general rule that policy page changes should be raised on the talk page? :::: 2. ''Is'' [[WQ:WQ]] a policy? :::: 3. Why are none of the pages listed in [https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Category:Wikiquote_official_policy Wikiquote official policy category] edit protected? [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 02:24, 18 November 2018 (UTC) ::::: 1. The general rule that policy page changes should be raised on talk pages can be found at [[Wikiquote:Policies and guidelines#How policy has been formulated]]. ::::: 2. [[WQ:WQ]] should be considered policy. Although we have never had a formal adoption discussion of the topic, it predates most other policies and has been treated as policy by the community since its adoption. ::::: 3. Other pages are likely unprotected because they have not been subject to a pattern of vandalism and/or edit warring. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 16:58, 18 November 2018 (UTC) === Info box text === As indicated above, I have in mind proposing a box at the top of WQ:WQ along the lines of {{tl|Official policy}} Based on what you've told me, I'm thinking the text would be something like this - <table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3" style="background-color: #f5f5f5; border: 3px solid green;margin:0 auto;"><tr><td>[[Image:Exquisite-opera.png|75px]]</td><td>This page has wide acceptance among editors and is considered a standard that all users should follow.</br>You cannot make any changes to this page without prior discussion.</td></tr></table> Does that correctly explain the permanent edit protection? [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 01:23, 19 November 2018 (UTC) : Yes, but note that the edit protection in this case is not merely due to the page being a policy page, but specifically a result of the vandalism or edit warring which has occurred on that page. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 02:00, 19 November 2018 (UTC) :: Is that something we should say in the box? [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 05:02, 19 November 2018 (UTC) ::: I would just go with the first box, since page protection due to misuse can occur anywhere. Policy changes should not be changed without discussion, but will not necessarily be locked for editing. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 14:18, 19 November 2018 (UTC) :::::: Which is the "first box" - the first box above (the standard policy page box) or the second box above (the first draft of my proposed box for this page)? [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 17:19, 19 November 2018 (UTC) ::::::: The standard policy page box. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 17:48, 19 November 2018 (UTC) :::: I'm seeing two possible problems with this: First, this isn't a policy page. (What is the process for making it a policy page?) Second, the policy box says "Please do not make significant changes to this page without prior discussion." I'm thinking that doesn't reflect the status of this page, to wit: discussion ''required'' for ''any'' change. [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 19:31, 19 November 2018 (UTC) ===Today's edit to [[WQ:WQ]]=== I understood you to say (see above) that one of the reasons you left this page permanently edit protected was because it should not be edited without first discussing the change on the talk page. Did I get it all wrong? [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 02:08, 21 November 2018 (UTC) : That the page should not be edited without discussion includes editing to add Easter egg links to topics unrelated to the page. I see no discussion of whether to add those links to the page in the first place. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 02:17, 21 November 2018 (UTC) :: So the rule is "no edits without discussion EXCEPT edits which undo a prior edit made without discussion"? [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 15:48, 21 November 2018 (UTC) ::: In this case, it was an administrative action to restore a ''status quo ante'' preceding the addition of dubious piping for a policy page. Obviously, it would be absurd if undiscussed changes were made to such a page without discussion, and then could not be reverted by an administrator without discussion (in which case, for example, a vandal could replace the page with a string of obscenities, and the obscenities would then need to remain until a community consensus had been reached for their removal). [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 15:56, 21 November 2018 (UTC) :::: So the rule is "no edits without discussion EXCEPT edits ''by an administrator'' which undo a prior edit made without discussion"? [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 15:48, 21 November 2018 (UTC) ::::: It's not an exception, it is merely enforcement of the rule. For example, the law doesn't say "you can't take someone's wallet without their permission EXCEPT if you are a police officer taking a wallet back from a pickpocket to return to the person the pickpocket took it from". [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 18:11, 21 November 2018 (UTC) :::: "No edits of this page without prior discussion. To enforce this rule an administrator may make an edit without prior discussion."? [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 23:46, 21 November 2018 (UTC) ::::: As a practical matter, that is necessary and correct. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 23:55, 21 November 2018 (UTC) === Back to the info box text proposal === I have two concerns about using the standard policy info box for this page:<br> FIRST, this page is not currently identified as a policy page. (I'm wondering what the procedure is for making it a policy page.)<br> SECOND, the policy box says "Please do not make significant changes to this page without prior discussion." Not "You cannot make any changes to this page without prior discussion (unless you are an administrator enforcing this rule)." [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 04:24, 22 November 2018 (UTC) : Info boxes like these are directed to provide information to people who might be expected not to know the rules. They do not need to indicate that administrators are permitted to make edits to enforce the rules, just as STOP signs on the street do not need to say "STOP (unless you are an emergency vehicle heading to an emergency)", and "No entry" signs generally do not need to say that authorized people are still allowed to enter. Now that you know the rules, you don't need such an indication either. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 04:32, 22 November 2018 (UTC) :: Regarding my first concern, I await your response. :: Regarding my second concern, taking out the parenthetical still leaves us with a conflict between "Please do not make significant changes to this page without prior discussion" (which allows any edit and asks for, but does not require, prior discussion for significant changes) and "You cannot make any changes to this page without prior discussion." [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 16:56, 22 November 2018 (UTC) ::: I addressed the first point previously in this conversation. As for the second, perhaps a better wording would be, "Significant changes should not be made to this page without prior discussion". [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 17:03, 22 November 2018 (UTC) :::: First concern: Are you referring to "[[WQ:WQ]] should be considered policy"? If so, do I correctly understand the answer to the question of whether it ''is'' a policy to be "no, but it should be"? If so, then that brings me to my second inquiry: You mention "a formal adoption discussion." Where does that take place? :::: Second concern: How does "Significant changes should not be made to this page without prior discussion" work if the page is permanently edit protected (blocking even insignificant changes)? [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 21:33, 22 November 2018 (UTC) ::::: Some pages in the project space on this site are old enough that they were created to serve as policy pages prior to the adoption of normal practices for establishing policies. I would consider this to be one of them. The place to initiate a formal proposal for a page to be considered a policy page would be [[Wikiquote:Village Pump]], where I have opened such a discussion with respect to [[WQ:WQ]]. As to the edit protection, no policy page should be edited without discussion, but where a page is subject to vandalism or edit warring, we have no choice but to protect it. Protection may be indefinite without being considered permanent, as any administrator can unprotect a page if they thing further issues are unlikely to arise. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 22:59, 23 November 2018 (UTC) === Please review whether the time has come to unprotect this page === Looking at the history of [[WQ:WQ]] it appears to me - maybe I'm missing something - that there has been only one incident of disruptive editing in the past 15 years. That disruption was caused by only one editor. Given this history I suggest that "further issues are unlikely to arise" that require the continuation of an edit protection that began 7 months ago. [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 18:54, 24 November 2018 (UTC) : Any administrator can unprotect the page. I would therefore suggest proposing this at [[Wikiquote:Administrators' noticeboard]], so that we can get a sense of whether other administrators agree that further issues are unlikely to arise. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 20:03, 24 November 2018 (UTC) :: Well, [https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Time_to_unprotect_Wikiquote:Wikiquote? that] was somewhat equivocal. However, I do note that the one admin to chime in seemed to favor unprotection. [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 06:36, 26 December 2018 (UTC) Here is another possible way to look at it: We both agree that substantial changes to policy pages "shouldn't" take place without prior discussion (you would go further and say "mustn't"). Converting QT:QT from unprotected to permanently protected is a substantive change. The discussion on the admin noticeboard did not result in consensus support for permanent protection. So, now that the edit war is well in the past, we should revert to the status quo, to wit: unprotection. Your thoughts? [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 06:36, 26 December 2018 (UTC) : Since discussion is now underway on the Administrator's noticeboard, the issue should be resolved in that discussion. Cheers! [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 14:15, 26 December 2018 (UTC) :: Thanks. I'll take my thought there. (I posted here because I was thinking the discussion there had petered out. And I wanted you to get first crack at my alternative approach.) [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 16:47, 26 December 2018 (UTC) == Urgent - article protection needed == Please protect [[Jonathan Mitchell]]. The IP is removing quotes that have been verified as from the subject, and if they are not notable then neither are the rest of them. I have evidence that the IP is a user socking, the user being the creator of the article who has a history of biased editing on Wikipedia. This is urgent. Thanks. [[User:TLPG|TLPG]] ([[User talk:TLPG|talk]]) 02:37, 1 January 2019 (UTC) * It sounds like you are having a content dispute. I would disagree that all quotes are equally notable. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 02:39, 1 January 2019 (UTC) ** What about the sock issue? The article should be protected at least surely? Also I wouldn't mind knowing how some quotes are more notable than others. [[User:TLPG|TLPG]] ([[User talk:TLPG|talk]]) 02:43, 1 January 2019 (UTC) *** I have semi-protected the page for two weeks. As for the notability of individual quotes, see [[Wikiquote:Quotability]]. Cheers! [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 02:56, 1 January 2019 (UTC) **** Thanks. I've challenged the IP to go to the talk page and prove the quotes aren't notable, and how the originals are. For the record, I put them there for balance. [[User:TLPG|TLPG]] ([[User talk:TLPG|talk]]) 02:58, 1 January 2019 (UTC) == A favour maybe? == I hope this isn't out of line, particularly on a public platform, but I have seen that you are an admin on Wikipedia as well as here. Could you possibly do a checkuser on the IP editing on the Jonathan Mitchell article against the [[User:Ylevental|creator of the article]] on WP? The IP is totally denying it but I have evidence (that can't be revealed publicly due to privacy rules) that it is him. A CU would confirm it. It would enforce a block on here for the IP range for say three months (a soft block of course to avoid collateral damage), although I would leave it for another 48 hours at the most to allow the IP to go to the talk page as challenged. If the IP doesn't show up it will mean that he has nothing and may well try to revert again once the protection expires in two weeks without talking about the content. A note - the user concerned has had an article he created speedily deleted and out of the very same bias against Autism (hence his editing on the Mitchell article here) he has it in draft mode determined to have this person have an article as part of his efforts to promote Autism in a negative light, rather than in a balanced manner. The draft is for Thomas Clements. [[User:TLPG|TLPG]] ([[User talk:TLPG|talk]]) 21:49, 1 January 2019 (UTC) * I am not a Checkuser on any project. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 21:53, 1 January 2019 (UTC) ** Ah sorry. I foolishly assumed CU was automatically part of your powers. By the way, as an indication of guilt (IMHO), I got an alert when I logged in that the creator of the article mentioned me on Wikipedia. He would only have done that if he knew what was going on here. If there is anything you can do on WP I would appreciate it. I don't edit on WP. [[User:TLPG|TLPG]] ([[User talk:TLPG|talk]]) 10:46, 2 January 2019 (UTC) == Thomas & Friends vandals... == ...are at it again. Apparently, protecting each article for six months was not going to stop them. I request each article (including [[The Railway Series]], [[The Adventure Begins]], etc.) be protected for no less than a year, and that all these vandals be blocked for no less than that same time period, lest they vandalize other pages. [[User:WikiLubber|WikiLubber]] ([[User talk:WikiLubber|talk]]) 00:50, 19 January 2019 (UTC) == IP vandal [[User:68.201.9.142]] == It is changing the release years of film articles without explanation. I request all pages it vandalized be protected for no less than six months and the IP be blocked for no less than that same time period. [[User:WikiLubber|WikiLubber]] ([[User talk:WikiLubber|talk]]) 00:50, 19 January 2019 (UTC) * The IP has been blocked. I see no reason to protect all of the pages. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 04:46, 19 January 2019 (UTC) == Another remorseless vandal afoot... == On [[The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea‎]], it constantly removes quotes and replaces Melody with Jasmine, but there is no Jasmine in the Little Mermaid franchise. I request the IP be blocked for no less than three months. [[User:WikiLubber|WikiLubber]] ([[User talk:WikiLubber|talk]]) 22:59, 19 January 2019 (UTC) * I blocked the IP for a week, but since it just started editing, there's no way to know whether this is a dynamic IP which can quickly change to a new address. If vandalism from this IP address resumes, I will impose the lengthier block requested. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 23:09, 19 January 2019 (UTC) == Wp-links == Hi BD2412ǃ Have you noticed this? [[:w:Wikipedia talk:External links]]--[[User:Risto hot sir|Risto hot sir]] ([[User talk:Risto hot sir|talk]]) 22:19, 31 January 2019 (UTC) : Thanks for the notice. Cheers! [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 02:54, 1 February 2019 (UTC) == EVula's rights? == What is the go with Evula's ongoing rights? It is 4+ years since they used them, and 2+ years since they have been seen on any wiki. I know that Evula was an early member here and elsewhere, however, in light of recent history, why would we have those rights retained for someone who is fully inactive? ''<span style="font-size:smaller">[[user talk:billinghurst|sDrewth]]</span>'' 12:49, 25 February 2019 (UTC) :[[User:Billinghurst|Billinghurst]]. You can open a discussion a [[WQ:VP]] or [[WQ:AN]] regarding this, and if three users support a vote of confidence, then one can be opened at [[WQ:RFA]]. [[User:GreenMeansGo|<span style="font-family:Impact"><span style="color:#07CB4B">G</span><span style="color:#449351">M</span><span style="color:#35683d">G</span></span>]][[User talk:GreenMeansGo#top|<sup style="color:#000;font-family:Impact">talk</sup>]] 22:39, 25 February 2019 (UTC) ::As peripheral to the community, I will leave it to those properly active to look at, I just find it weird. ''<span style="font-size:smaller">[[user talk:billinghurst|sDrewth]]</span>'' 11:07, 26 February 2019 (UTC) ''<span style="font-size:smaller">[[user talk:billinghurst|sDrewth]]</span>'' 11:07, 26 February 2019 (UTC) ::: '''Note:''' It has been a while since a vote of confidence has been raised over inactivity, but [[Wikiquote:Requests_for_adminship/Archives/2015#Votes_of_confidence|the last time that happened]], there was no consensus for any removal of rights. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 12:54, 26 February 2019 (UTC) == IP vandals... == A bunch of IP addresses constantly bully admins such as Kalki, UDScott, and Tegel, and vandalize the Administrators' noticeboard‎ without explanation or remorse. No matter how many we block, another IP with the same MO continues where it left off. I request permanent protection of all pages they vandalized, including all talk pages (including your own, just in case). But something has to be done to stop that vandal permanently. [[User:WikiLubber|WikiLubber]] ([[User talk:WikiLubber|talk]]) 12:47, 12 May 2019 (UTC) :Meh. We can't very well protect all admin talk pages and AN, in the case that an IP has some legitimate issue. It's usually taken care of in under five minutes. A minor annoyance. Eventually they'll get a girlfriend or a job or something, get out of their basement and find something else to do with their time. [[User:GreenMeansGo|<span style="font-family:Impact"><span style="color:#07CB4B">G</span><span style="color:#449351">M</span><span style="color:#35683d">G</span></span>]][[User talk:GreenMeansGo#top|<sup style="color:#000;font-family:Impact">talk</sup>]] 14:23, 12 May 2019 (UTC) :: Most of these edits have come from IP addresses starting in the 86.17-86.18 range. I am thinking that we could rangeblock everything under that for a few days to see if that cools things off. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 14:27, 12 May 2019 (UTC) :::To lock out the last five IPs on my talk page, we'd have to range block 4.2 million IPs. Reducing that to the 86.179 through 86.173 range for a partial range block would still block 2 million. [[User:GreenMeansGo|<span style="font-family:Impact"><span style="color:#07CB4B">G</span><span style="color:#449351">M</span><span style="color:#35683d">G</span></span>]][[User talk:GreenMeansGo#top|<sup style="color:#000;font-family:Impact">talk</sup>]] 14:56, 12 May 2019 (UTC) :::: It sounds like a lot, but it is a fraction of a percent of all IPs. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 15:19, 12 May 2019 (UTC) ::::: If that plan does work, I recommend those IPs within the range be blocked for no less than six months. [[User:WikiLubber|WikiLubber]] ([[User talk:WikiLubber|talk]]) 21:54, 12 May 2019 (UTC) :::::: Actually, I have never done a rangeblock before, and I am not sure how to do one. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 22:11, 12 May 2019 (UTC) :::::::I mean, I can do it, but I'd prefer to have a consensus at VP or AN before blocking so many IPs. [[User:GreenMeansGo|<span style="font-family:Impact"><span style="color:#07CB4B">G</span><span style="color:#449351">M</span><span style="color:#35683d">G</span></span>]][[User talk:GreenMeansGo#top|<sup style="color:#000;font-family:Impact">talk</sup>]] 23:27, 12 May 2019 (UTC) :::::::: Perhaps we can narrow it down to a bit tighter of a range, or a set of smaller ranges. I am not greatly concerned that we will thwart a large number of innocent IP editors from working on Wikiquote. We are not that heavily trafficked. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 23:31, 12 May 2019 (UTC) == Koenraad Elst == Hi, dropping you a note because there is a bit of concern about linking to this project from English Wikipedia, specifically in relation to India articles and even more specifically because someone here has been adding swathes of quotes from books written by Koenraad Elst to various articles here. I've tried to work out what the WQ selection criteria may be but I'm not getting it, sorry. What I do know is that sister links from en-WP Indic articles to content here that contains a lot of stuff by Elst may well be rejected. He has his place, sure, just as quotes by Hitler or Lenin etc have their place, but the sheer number of examples I've seen here added by ΞΔΞ in particular seem, wittingly or unwittingly, to be essentially a propaganda exercise. Elst is a Hindu nationalist and occasional outright pseudo-historian, denounced by academics but, like David Frawley, S. R. Goel, Ishwar Sharan etc, admired by the anti-Muslim element among Indian politicians for his borderline fascist opinions. Wikiquote can do whatever its community wish to do, of course, and Elst is both entitled to his opinions and probably to some record of them here, but driving traffic from en-WP to articles here that seem massively weighted in POV terms is problematic - there's a reason why articles related to India and Pakistan on en-WP are subject to two different sanctions regimes and we don't need to stoke the fires. Just a heads-up so you are aware if people here should complain about WQ links being removed. There's a brief discussion [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:RegentsPark&oldid=899041285#Pragya_Singh_Thakur here] and in the last three sections [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Risto_hot_sir#Inappropriate_links here]. - [[User:Sitush|Sitush]] ([[User talk:Sitush|talk]]) 15:24, 27 May 2019 (UTC) * Thanks for your concern. Generally, if a subject is notable and has made notable quotes relevant to a particular page, we have no limitation to the number of quotes by that subject that can be included in this compendium. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 16:18, 27 May 2019 (UTC) :*Yeah, I think the issue is what is considered to be a notable quote. Eg: if someone is quoted by someone else then that might meet the criterion but if some random contributor here just sees something they like in a book and posts it then, well, that might say more about the contributor than the quote.{{pb}}Anyway, not my problem: we'll just be removing the sister links as and when necessary. Somewhere down the line, I should imagine this is going to be a big issue with Wikidata making the inter-project links, too, and I'd be surprised if the WMF would appreciate the concept of neutrality/not censored being extended to the point of actively promoting an Islamophobic POV or similar, which is what seems to be happening, whether by design or accident. - [[User:Sitush|Sitush]] ([[User talk:Sitush|talk]]) 16:58, 27 May 2019 (UTC) == one eyeball == ... might need to be kept on [[Atlas Shrugged]]. Had a little bit of link spam recently. — [[user:billinghurst|billinghurst]] ''<span style="font-size:smaller">[[user talk:billinghurst|sDrewth]]</span>'' 21:01, 5 March 2020 (UTC) * One eye is now on it. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 21:02, 5 March 2020 (UTC) == [[Anthony Fauci]] == Hi BD2412, how do you do? Can I ask why you are [https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Anthony_Fauci&curid=225652&diff=2801785&oldid=2795506 adding these comments] to the Ron Paul quote, but not to Anthony Fauci's own quote that the Coronavirus "is not a major threat for the people of the United States and this is not something that the citizens of the United States right now should be worried about"? This seems to be a double standard. I am not sure there is anything to "correct" in Ron Paul's quote when he says that this is "A virus that has ''thus far'' killed just over 5,000 worldwide and less than 100 in the United States? By contrast, tuberculosis, an old disease not much discussed these days, killed nearly 1.6 million people in 2017." And I am not sure your updates are in line with Wikiquote's purpose. ~ [[User:DanielTom|DanielTom]] ([[User talk:DanielTom|talk]]) 14:55, 28 May 2020 (UTC) : We often provide contextual information to clarify the relevance of quotes. In this case, Fauci's earlier quote was a cautiously optimistic statement made in late January, when it was reasonably possible that the outbreak would be contained, while Paul's quote was a fairly outright declaration of a conspiracy theory in mid-March, after a national emergency had already been declared in the United States, and numbers along the lines of what we have seen since had already been projected. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 15:51, 28 May 2020 (UTC) == Lint concern... == {{ping|BD2412}} [[:User:BD2412/Status]] Did you mean to have a stray closing SUP tag in this? I've been making a concerted effort to clear some of the Lint Error backlogs , and the stray SUP tag was identified as part of those efforts. [[User:ShakespeareFan00|ShakespeareFan00]] ([[User talk:ShakespeareFan00|talk]]) 14:20, 16 September 2020 (UTC) : Thanks, I have removed the stray tag. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 14:23, 16 September 2020 (UTC) :: Hmm , it's now saying there's an unclosed BIG as well. Sorry, I am sounding like the pedantic obsessive that worries when the fries aren't straight in the takeaway :lol: [[User:ShakespeareFan00|ShakespeareFan00]] ([[User talk:ShakespeareFan00|talk]]) 14:34, 16 September 2020 (UTC) == Wikiquote Council at en.wp == I am interested but not available to edit there at the moment. —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 22:20, 6 December 2020 (UTC) : Understood, but we still need a certain number of people to sign up to make the project go. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 22:23, 6 December 2020 (UTC) :: Is there a spot at WQ to sign up? Thanks in advance, [[User:Ottawahitech|Ottawahitech]] ([[User talk:Ottawahitech|talk]]) 18:03, 12 December 2020 (UTC) ::: The sign-up spot is on Wikipedia, at [[w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Wikiquote|Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Wikiquote]]. Cheers! [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 18:30, 12 December 2020 (UTC) == Block? == I don't know what these two users are up to but it's nothing good. Please consider a block: [[Special:Contributions/14.139.153.162]], [[Special:Contributions/Manasvip]], [[Special:Contributions/Ashank07]]. [[User:Praxidicae|Praxidicae]] ([[User talk:Praxidicae|talk]]) 17:54, 6 January 2021 (UTC) : I would hang on for a bit. Obviously these are the same person, but they may just be trying to get the hang of editing, with an intent to do some good. Have you asked them what they're up to? [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 18:01, 6 January 2021 (UTC) ::No, they previously edited on enwiki under the IP I linked which has been blocked because nothing constructive has ever come from it. I can't imagine anything good will come from their new accounts. [[User:Praxidicae|Praxidicae]] ([[User talk:Praxidicae|talk]]) 18:06, 6 January 2021 (UTC) == sorry == I have the memory of a flea: I cannot remember where I saw those images with swasticas. I'll keep looking for them next time I do a run through [[:category: women]]. [[User:Ottawahitech|Ottawahitech]] ([[User talk:Ottawahitech|talk]]) 04:08, 17 January 2021 (UTC) It appears that [[User:Kalki]] does not understand how [https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Village_pump#Why_are_there_so_many_pages_with_images_containing_a_swastika_on_WQ? painful the use of the symbol] is for some people. I know other users on other projects who may be able to explain it better than me, for example [[User:DeborahJay]] whom I met at [[simple]]. [[User:Ottawahitech|Ottawahitech]] ([[User talk:Ottawahitech|talk]]) 21:45, 27 January 2021 (UTC) : My impression of Kalki over a long term dealing with them is that they consider themself an artist and their work on Wikiquote (which is often quite productive) to be a sort of art project. I think they enjoy the shock value of challenging conformity or some comparable rubric in using swastikas. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 21:50, 27 January 2021 (UTC) == By January 12, 2020, Coronavirus had killed over 1,944,000 people worldwide, and over 380,000 in the United States? == Hi BD2412, I am curious to find out which counter was used to add this info. I think the enwiki ''COVID-19 pandemic'' uses the Johns Hopkins counter, but there other ''reliable sources'' counters being used, some with fairly large differences. Thanks in advance, [[User:Ottawahitech|Ottawahitech]] ([[User talk:Ottawahitech|talk]]) 21:39, 6 February 2021 (UTC) * I have been using [https://coronavirus.1point3acres.com/en this one], though in retrospect it does seem to run a bit higher than [https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#cases_casesper100klast7days CDC numbers]. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 22:19, 6 February 2021 (UTC) :: Not sure how interested you are in the number of new covid cases. If you are you may want to check the chart titled <blockquote>Distribution of COVID-19 cases worldwide, as of week 7 2021</blockquote> on [https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/geographical-distribution-2019-ncov-cases the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control website]. It shows the number has started increasing, yet again. Cheers, [[User:Ottawahitech|Ottawahitech]] ([[User talk:Ottawahitech|talk]]) 01:13, 26 February 2021 (UTC) ::: Thanks. My intent is to go until the one-year anniversary of the quote (March 16), since it references a one-year period for another disease for comparison. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 01:40, 26 February 2021 (UTC) :Copyright question: I have just posted 3 quotes from the same source ([[Rachel Maddow]]), each to a different WQ page. I am not sure whether this can be viewed as a copyright infringement. Thanks in advance, [[User:Ottawahitech|Ottawahitech]] ([[User talk:Ottawahitech|talk]]) 16:08, 19 April 2022 (UTC) :: I don't see why this would be a problem. The quotes are quotes. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 23:20, 19 April 2022 (UTC) == USER:GreenMeansGo breached 3RR == Hi {{PAGENAME}}: Please be informed that [[USER:GreenMeansGo]] has breached [[w:wp:3RR]] at [[WQ:AN]]. I bring this to your attention because I don't think there is an official board to report such infractions on WQ. I ask that you reflect on this matter since any action on your part has project-wise implications. Thanks in advance, [[User:Ottawahitech|Ottawahitech]] ([[User talk:Ottawahitech|talk]]) 15:47, 26 March 2021 (UTC) : [[User:GreenMeansGo|GreenMeansGo]] was quite clearly carrying out the administrative function of discussion closure, to which 3RR does not apply. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 16:39, 26 March 2021 (UTC) == Readers questions? == Hi {{PAGENAME}}, I need help as a reader of wikipedia, and don't know where else to go. I see that you are a practicing lawyer in the field of Intellectual Property. Can you please help me understand the following wikipedia article: <blockquote> [[w:Bell-Northern Research]]: This wikipedia article claims that BNR no longer exists, however, a [https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/08/11/bell-labs-descendant-sues-apple-for-infringing-on-clutch-of-patents recent news article] claims that BNR has recently filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple. How is this possible? Can defunct companies file lawsuits? </blockquote> Thanks in advance [[User:Ottawahitech|Ottawahitech]] ([[User talk:Ottawahitech|talk]]) 00:12, 13 August 2021 (UTC) : It appears that BNR was purchased by, and incorporated into, another company. The purchasing company can choose to maintain some form of subsidiary entity by the name of the purchased company, and can exercise rights in intellectual property that came with the purchased company. I would imagine something like that is going on here. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 04:45, 13 August 2021 (UTC) == Deletion of pages on WQ == Hi {{PAGENAME}} Despite what you seem to think, I do not create pages here that I know are not suitable for WQ. Deleting the pages I have created without giving me an opportunity to ask questions is counter-productive for the project, IMIO. Repectfully, [[User:Ottawahitech|Ottawahitech]] ([[User talk:Ottawahitech|talk]]) 12:43, 25 December 2021 (UTC) : {{re|Ottawahitech}} These were not pages, they were redirects, and clearly not the ones you intended. [[Argentina]] was redirected to [[United States]], which is nonsense. [[South America]] was also redirected to [[United States]], which is no better. [[Rhode Island]] was seemingly randomly picked out of the red-linked states to redirect to a category that currently does not include it. The better thing to do would be to create the pages of ''actual quotes'' on these places, an endeavor that is not helped by these redirects. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 19:43, 25 December 2021 (UTC) ::Thanks for the speedy response. I did not intend to rush you, especially since it is holiday season. ::I looked at the log for both [[Argentina]] and [[South America]] and was surprised to see such a blatant mistake. I usually notice and correct such mistakes. Had those pages been deleted by another admin I would have assumed that the page was erroneously deleted. It has been my experience that some inexperienced patrollers/admins are in a rush and tend to cut corners such as checking subsequent edits, reading comments left on talkpages, etc, before proposing/deleting a page. As far as ar as [https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Rhode_Island&action=edit&redlink=1 Rhode Island] is concerned, I do not normally add redirects unless I need them to eliminate an existing redlink. Not sure what happened here either. ::I asked the above questions on your usertalk page because my previous attempts to address such issues at the various [[:Category:Deletion requests|deletion discussion venue]]s have failed to elicit responses, and requests I have posted on pages of some other admins have not been fully addressed (it could be a matter of language in some of the cases I am thinking of). In general I do not find deletions of pages that I started until a much later date. It is a problem for me especially with my flea-size memory. So I therefore prefer the enwiki deletion notification system where users whose pages are proposed for deletion automatically receive a message on their usertalk page. Others at WQ may feel the same way I do. ::<small> Note: If this message does not make any sense I blame the new [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Talk_pages_project/ReplyingReply tool]] :)</small> [[User:Ottawahitech|Ottawahitech]] ([[User talk:Ottawahitech|talk]]) 21:21, 25 December 2021 (UTC) ::: If your aim is to eliminate a red link, the best way to do this is by finding quotes on the subject of the link and creating a page for them. Red links serve a purpose. They alert editors to the need for a page to be created. Cheers! [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 22:34, 25 December 2021 (UTC) ::::My aim is not to eliminate one [[redlink]], my aim is to eliminate as many [[redlinks]] as possible. Cheers, [[User:Ottawahitech|Ottawahitech]] ([[User talk:Ottawahitech|talk]]) 18:16, 26 December 2021 (UTC) ::::BTW eliminating one [[redlink]] on WQ takes me much longer than doing other useful tasks on WQ. ::::For example this morning I spent more than an hour, trying to justify keeping [[Northern Light]] an article I started after seeing your pervious post above. I find this exhausting and it leaves me little energy for other things I enjoy doing on WQ. [[User:Ottawahitech|Ottawahitech]] ([[User talk:Ottawahitech|talk]]) 17:02, 30 December 2021 (UTC) ::::: There should be no incoming links at all for a subject that can not support an article. If I create a redlink for [[dogs eating bananas]], do you feel compelled to "fix" it by finding a place to redirect it, or finding quotes about dogs eating bananas? [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 20:24, 30 December 2021 (UTC) ::::::Personally I am not interested in [[dogs eating bananas]], but that does not mean that someone else may, and may be able to explain why it should exist here. ::::::I do feel though, that [[Northern Light]], should have an article here ESPECIALLY since it does not have information available on the main wiki. It is a weekly community paper published in a small county that does not have other public sources of information such as a dedicated TV station. It has survived in [[Whatcom county]] for over 150 years, and as such would probably pass the notability requiremnt on Enwiki, or least should, IMIO. ::::::I believe having access to articles about newspapers such as [[Northern Light]], would be beneficial for WQuotians, if no one else. If these type of articles would be permitted to exist on wikis, they would provide a convenient way to locate appropriate sources to include in other articles. [[User:Ottawahitech|Ottawahitech]] ([[User talk:Ottawahitech|talk]]) 21:52, 30 December 2021 (UTC) == How we will see unregistered users == <section begin=content/> Hi! You get this message because you are an admin on a Wikimedia wiki. When someone edits a Wikimedia wiki without being logged in today, we show their IP address. As you may already know, we will not be able to do this in the future. This is a decision by the Wikimedia Foundation Legal department, because norms and regulations for privacy online have changed. Instead of the IP we will show a masked identity. You as an admin '''will still be able to access the IP'''. There will also be a new user right for those who need to see the full IPs of unregistered users to fight vandalism, harassment and spam without being admins. Patrollers will also see part of the IP even without this user right. We are also working on [[m:IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation/Improving tools|better tools]] to help. If you have not seen it before, you can [[m:IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation|read more on Meta]]. If you want to make sure you don’t miss technical changes on the Wikimedia wikis, you can [[m:Global message delivery/Targets/Tech ambassadors|subscribe]] to [[m:Tech/News|the weekly technical newsletter]]. We have [[m:IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation#IP Masking Implementation Approaches (FAQ)|two suggested ways]] this identity could work. '''We would appreciate your feedback''' on which way you think would work best for you and your wiki, now and in the future. You can [[m:Talk:IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation|let us know on the talk page]]. You can write in your language. The suggestions were posted in October and we will decide after 17 January. Thank you. /[[m:User:Johan (WMF)|Johan (WMF)]]<section end=content/> 18:14, 4 January 2022 (UTC) <!-- Message sent by User:Johan (WMF)@metawiki using the list at https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Johan_(WMF)/Target_lists/Admins2022(3)&oldid=22532499 --> == Permission to run formatting regular expressions on all pages (Crosspost from the Village Pump) == I am requesting permission to create a bot that runs formatting regular expressions on all pages. – [[User:Ilovemydoodle|Ilovemydoodle]] ([[User talk:Ilovemydoodle|talk]]) 04:36, 10 May 2022 (UTC) : My concern is that you have fewer than a thousand edits across all Wikimedia projects, with virtually all of those coming within the past few months. Also, do you have any experience creating bots? [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 05:17, 10 May 2022 (UTC) ::I don’t have any experience creating bots, but I do have some knowledge in programming, and I am already working on the bot. – [[User:Ilovemydoodle|Ilovemydoodle]] ([[User talk:Ilovemydoodle|talk]]) 05:37, 10 May 2022 (UTC) == Abnormally large number of redactions... == https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/Ilovemydoodle&offset=20220522084156&target=Ilovemydoodle This is not a normal editing pattern, and I would strongly urge an administrator intervention. [[User:ShakespeareFan00|ShakespeareFan00]] ([[User talk:ShakespeareFan00|talk]]) 09:27, 22 May 2022 (UTC) :{{u|ShakespeareFan00}}, I'm currently having a discussion about this over at [[User talk:Ferien#Redacting]] --[[User:Ferien|Ferien]] <small>([[User talk:Ferien|talk]])</small> 09:28, 22 May 2022 (UTC) == Funny or serious? == Hi {{PAGENAME}}, In case you are not aware, An article created here about a Nigerian woman has gone through some unusual handling. * [[Afro Candy]] was created on 9 December 2022‎. * It was prodded by wq-admin-1 later that day, saying that the article had no quotes * On 10 December 2022‎ quotes were added to the article by the article creator * After the quotes were added, I removed the PROD * On 11 December my PROD removal was removed by the article creator * On 20 December 2022 wq-admin-2 removed the PROD again, and at the same time changed the intro to point out that the subject is a pornographic actress. The source that was used on enwp to designate this actress as a PA was [[ Vanguard News]] (I think?) Since this article is about a living person, I worry that wmf may be sued for slander (or whatever the legal terminology is). I hope this is not too confusing - I will leave this I your capable hands. [[User:Ottawahitech|Ottawahitech]] ([[User talk:Ottawahitech|talk]]) 00:22, 23 December 2022 (UTC) : Based on what I see here, I am not worried about it. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 00:40, 23 December 2022 (UTC) == Quote formating question == Hi {{PAGENAME}}, Sometime ago I saw the way you formatted quotes. It made sense to me and I decided to follow your example. Most quotes I have seen consist of 4 parts: * (1) The quote itself (no quotation marks) ** (2) The name of the person who said it (if they are not the topic of the page), followed by ** (3) A link (or some other identifying info) to the quote in a primary or secondary source, followed by ** (4) the date (not clear if it is the date the person who is quoted made it or the date the source was published) The quote you made had one of those 4 parts in bold, but I cannot remember if it was part 3 or part 4. Am I making sense? Thanks in advance, [[User:Ottawahitech|Ottawahitech]] ([[User talk:Ottawahitech|talk]]) 22:33, 19 January 2023 (UTC) * I don't think I put any of those parts in bold. Maybe the quote itself, if it is one of the most famous quotes by the person or about the subject. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 22:44, 19 January 2023 (UTC) *:Thanks. I don't remember where & exactly when I started bolding #3, but I found some articles where I did this on May 5 of 2022 ([[ Matt Gaetz]],[[Pramila Jayapal]], [[Jen Psaki]]). I know for sure I did it on more, possibly many more articles. I also vaguely remember bolding a couple of #4’s fairly recently. *:[[User:GreenMeansGo]] removed my bolding on Matt Gaetz, but I believe the other two are still bolded to this day. Need I methodically check all articles that I edited or not. What do you think? It is certainly not setting a good example for newer editors. [[User:Ottawahitech|Ottawahitech]] ([[User talk:Ottawahitech|talk]]) 22:14, 20 January 2023 (UTC) :::We don't really have an objective standard for bolded quotes. I'm not sure if we could ever actually have one. It's pretty subjective. [[User:GreenMeansGo|<span style="font-family:Impact"><span style="color:#07CB4B">G</span><span style="color:#449351">M</span><span style="color:#35683d">G</span></span>]][[User talk:GreenMeansGo#top|<sup style="color:#000;font-family:Impact">talk</sup>]] 20:38, 22 January 2023 (UTC) ==Template:Worldcat subject== A page that you have been involved in editing, [[:Template:Worldcat subject]], has been listed for [[Wikiquote:Votes for deletion|deletion]]. All contributions are appreciated, but it may not satisfy Wikiquote's criteria for inclusion, for the reasons given in the nomination for deletion (see also [[Wikiquote:Wikiquote|what Wikiquote is]] and [[Wikiquote:What Wikiquote is not|is not]]). If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments at [[Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/Template:Worldcat subject]]. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Thank you. --[[User:Lemonaka|Lemonaka]] ([[User talk:Lemonaka|talk]]) 17:57, 3 May 2023 (UTC) == [[:Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/M. A. Khan]] == I would like to ask to revisit the case of [[:Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/M. A. Khan]] and your good faith closure. During the early page of that VfD the specific person was not identified and there was ambiguity with another person. However towards the midway point the creator did manage to identify an individual and was, in my opinion, and to establish a reasonable case for notability on a [[W:WP:THREE]], albeit I felt a little battered by the creator getting them to get to that point and of course I prefer to see a linked English Wikipedia article. A problem arose because in my view the creator became frustrated on failure to close the VFD in reasonable timeframe and essentially as I felt the creator was harassing me I recused from the discussion. However while there may have been an overall consensus for deletion the reasoning of some of the earlier votes were invalidated. I would suggest a cleanstart VfD with the latest information would likely survive the vote. Would you like to consider this? Thankyou. -- [[User:DeirgeDel|DeirgeDel]]^{[[User talk:DeirgeDel| t]]}_{[[:m:User:DeirgeDel/A|a]]}^{[[Special:Contributions/DeirgeDel|c]]} 03:27, 10 July 2023 (UTC) : Wikiquote is not the place to establish notability. Have an article created and survive on Wikipedia first. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 03:31, 10 July 2023 (UTC) == On WQ in general == Hi BD2412, I thought to pose some three of the most venerable users here an important question I just can't seem to figure out: why do you think, WQ has such an horrendous page rank on most search engines? Why wouldn't e.g. a ''very ''expansive WQ article on a relatively niche intellectual always top a short and potentially skewed WP article? Indeed, I think, especially for controversial leaders from historical scientific, religious, and or political movements, having a representative WQ entry is much more insightful than the overly curated alternative. What might be '''the exact reason for this very noticeable skew?''' Do you also believe that, maybe, the aforementioned inclusion of certain figures' exact quotes, from politically incorrect up to and including borderline defamatory, has - rightly or not - lead to the actual WMF, well, '''somehow hardcoding this inferior status into the platform regardless of quality?''' Any clarification would be extremely helpful! [[User:Biohistorian15|Biohistorian15]] ([[User talk:Biohistorian15|talk]]) 14:21, 25 March 2024 (UTC) : I literally ''never'' think about Wikiquote search engine ranking, and I doubt anyone else here does, either. Our goal is to assemble a resource, not to appease an inconstant Google algorithm. Our pages are, to a great deal, appendices to existing Wikipedia pages, and our readership will tend to come through Wikipedia readers continuing here from those articles (or people who ''know'' about us directly searching for specific quotes). To the extent that we have "competition" it is with other quote aggregation sites, which tend to merely scrape the web and lack our editorial processes. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 15:07, 25 March 2024 (UTC) ::I see. That wasn't to imply vanity on your part tough, I just think that some pages here would really deserve more than the few dozen daily viewers they seem to be getting. [[User:Biohistorian15|Biohistorian15]] ([[User talk:Biohistorian15|talk]]) 15:12, 25 March 2024 (UTC) :::Yeah I agree, @[[User:Biohistorian15|Biohistorian15]]. I've created some :::pages which I wish got more views to be honest. It's nothing greedy or vain or anything like that (well, maybe a little), it just feels kind of pointless to create good articles for so few people to read and I feel like the thoughts and wisdom of people like [[Victor L Berger]] and [[Henry Demarest Lloyd]] would be quite a good influence for a lot of people. :::Also that there is an extreme amount of misattributed quotations online shows the need for a reliable and comprehensive collection of quotations, which of course Wikiquote is. So, yes, I agree with you and I also don't know why it isn't so popular. :::Hope you don't mind me butting in on your talk page, @[[User:BD2412|BD2412]]. :::- [[User:IOHANNVSVERVS|IOHANNVSVERVS]] ([[User talk:IOHANNVSVERVS|talk]]) 06:33, 26 March 2024 (UTC) ::: Another issue is that links to Wikiquote on Wikipedia are buried at the bottom of the page. Perhaps we could have [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_articles ''featured articles''] (like Wikipedia does), and then these specially approved articles could be given greater prominence on the corresponding Wikipedia page. [[User:IOHANNVSVERVS|IOHANNVSVERVS]] ([[User talk:IOHANNVSVERVS|talk]]) 05:58, 27 March 2024 (UTC) ::::I agree. And if a single, larger widget closer to the top would seem out of place, one could do the exact same for various other wiki-projects, e.g. "Wikispecies" per zoological articles, "Wikisource" for historical documents (*including as a widget hovering next to sub-entries, e.g.: "read the full document" next to headings discussing some peace treaty resolving a given conflict...) etc. You should propose something like this idea on the en.wiki village pump! [[User:Biohistorian15|Biohistorian15]] ([[User talk:Biohistorian15|talk]]) 10:01, 27 March 2024 (UTC) ::::: I am dubious about the prospects of such a proposal, but I do like the idea of having featured pages on this project. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 15:47, 27 March 2024 (UTC) ::::::Agreed. [[User:IOHANNVSVERVS|IOHANNVSVERVS]] ([[User talk:IOHANNVSVERVS|talk]]) 16:01, 27 March 2024 (UTC) :::::::Hey, apparently there is an ongoing discussion to that effect though lol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Advertising_sister_projects [[User:Biohistorian15|Biohistorian15]] ([[User talk:Biohistorian15|talk]]) 15:14, 28 March 2024 (UTC) == Is wheel reverting really just as simple as three strikes in 24 hours and you're out? == I asked this question at the VP but thought I should ask you directly, I noticed the other day you created my user talk page and it's been a while since we've interacted. <br> How many times do you think an editor can revert someone before a block is justified? Is the answer different depending on what the page is and who the editors involved are? Is this something an administrator has ever been blocked for doing, if so, I would like to see some links. Does it matter how spaced out the reversions are? I've heard somewhere before that 3 revisions in 24 hours is too many, but what about just 1 revision every day, endlessly? I don't think endlessly undoing edits on your own is a particularly good use of anyone's time, because you could at least make it a team effort to try to demonstrate you are on the right side of the community's consensus, however I'd like to know what is allowed and what isn't and whether it's any more complicated than three strikes and you're out. If that's really how it works than all you would need to do to get another user blocked is wait for them to revert an edit, then, within 24 hours get them to revert you two more times, which seems counterproductive and like it incentivizes the behavior in question. [[User:CensoredScribe|CensoredScribe]] ([[User talk:CensoredScribe|talk]]) 16:01, 27 November 2024 (UTC) == Is requesting arbitration from an administrator on a controversial article prone to reversions acceptable in your opinion? == I think {{u|Ficaia}} doesn't like quotes that aren't at least a hundred years old whereas most of the community will allow them, you are one of the few editors I've seen with an express interest in improving our coverage of science, so perhaps you've encountered similar problems when quoting science journals you've been told haven't met the "test of time" or that are "too technical sounding". Either the admittedly boring science journals used by Wikipedia or the much more interesting entertainment articles not from Wikipedia included on the [https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Abortion Abortion talk page] should be mentioned. If I had to pick one I'd go with the entertainment, because this is the world's most well researched medical procedure and one of the safest, the technical descriptions tend to be similar to one another and the procedure they describe is fairly self-evident. What do you think? [[User:CensoredScribe|CensoredScribe]] ([[User talk:CensoredScribe|talk]]) 16:01, 27 November 2024 (UTC) == Note == Just noting that you're the only one left who can close the interface admin request. [[User:GreenMeansGo|<span style="font-family:Impact"><span style="color:#07CB4B">G</span><span style="color:#449351">M</span><span style="color:#35683d">G</span></span>]][[User talk:GreenMeansGo#top|<sup style="color:#000;font-family:Impact">talk</sup>]] 14:50, 9 October 2025 (UTC) : {{re|GreenMeansGo}} Thanks, I'll be able to have a look at this in about an hour. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 18:13, 9 October 2025 (UTC) : Just to close the loop, this is now done. Cheers! [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 20:02, 9 October 2025 (UTC) == You may be an eligible candidate for the U4C election == <div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr"> Greetings, The [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Universal_Code_of_Conduct/Coordinating_Committee|Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C)]] seeks candidates for the 2026 election. The U4C is the global committee responsible for overseeing enforcement of the [[foundation:Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Universal Code of Conduct|Universal Code of Conduct]]. Elections are held annually, if elected a committee member serves for two years. 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Currently, your signature might use this as the moment: * <code><nowiki>[[User:BD2412|<font style="background:#F2E6CE">''BD2412''</font>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']]</nowiki></code> Please change it to utilize the following code: * <code><nowiki>[[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']]</nowiki></code> This is because <code><nowiki><font></nowiki></code> is deprecated, and I would encourage you to change your custom signature across many wikis where you use it. Thank you. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:33, 4 May 2026 (UTC) : {{done}}, cheers! [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 18:48, 4 May 2026 (UTC) == Changing titles containing ", Jr." to "Jr." == Since you are implementing those changes repeatedly, I would suggest that you add yourself to the pseudo-bot user group so that the changes do not flood recent changes, and once you are done, you can remove yourself from that group. Thank you. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 04:21, 5 July 2026 (UTC) : {{re|Codename Noreste}} I'm done with the page moves at this point. That was all of them. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 04:31, 5 July 2026 (UTC) :: The same applies for repetitive edits to pages, not just page moves. Also, you do not need to grant yourself the bot flag, because you already have pseudo-bot (which you can remove later). [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 16:23, 5 July 2026 (UTC) g76zqr0qvsw4or5o6kwsk19et82vbfb 3961265 3961129 2026-07-05T19:48:50Z BD2412 3982 /* Changing titles containing ", Jr." to "Jr." */ I frankly don't think this number of edits is that much of a concern to recent changes, in any case. 3961265 wikitext text/x-wiki {{User:BD2412/Status}} *[[/Archive 1]] (April 2006 - December 2008) *[[/Archive 2]] (January 2009 - December 2011) *[[/Archive 3]] (January 2011 - June 2013) *[[/Archive 4]] (July 2014 - September 2014) *[[/Archive 5]] (October 2014 - August 2016) *[[/Archive 6]] (September 2016 - March 2018) *[[/Archive 7]] (April 2018) == Request for adminship == https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Requests_for_adminship#Just_A_Regular_New_Yorker_(talk_%C2%B7_contributions) - [[User:Just A Regular New Yorker|J.A.R.N.Y.]]|[[User talk:Just A Regular New Yorker|🗣]] 18:15, 1 June 2018 (UTC) : I'll keep an eye on it. Cheers! [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 21:58, 1 June 2018 (UTC) ::I really hate to be a nudge, but is there any chance you can add to the discussion? I hate asking this, I know no one wants to be told to do something by someone else, but I received opposition, and only mild support, and I would appreciate if a sysop showed support. Thanks. [[User:Just A Regular New Yorker|J.A.R.N.Y.]]|[[User talk:Just A Regular New Yorker|🗣️]]|[[Special:emailuser/Just A Regular New Yorker|📧]] 22:24, 3 June 2018 (UTC) ::: Sorry, I thought you were nudging me to be aware of it. I am also a 'crat here, so I will likely be closing the discussion. It would therefore be a conflict if I also proffered a substantive opinion. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 22:41, 3 June 2018 (UTC) ::::If the discussion ends the way it is now, with one ''oppose'', one ''support'', and one ''weak support'', will that be enough to be promoted? [[User:Just A Regular New Yorker|J.A.R.N.Y.]]|[[User talk:Just A Regular New Yorker|🗣️]]|[[Special:emailuser/Just A Regular New Yorker|📧]] 00:58, 4 June 2018 (UTC) ::::: I would not consider that sufficient. Promotion to adminship is a considerably more substantial matter than the typical discussion and vote. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 01:26, 4 June 2018 (UTC) ::::::Do you have any suggestions for how I can get people to chime in? [[User:Just A Regular New Yorker|J.A.R.N.Y.]]|[[User talk:Just A Regular New Yorker|🗣️]]|[[Special:emailuser/Just A Regular New Yorker|📧]] 01:43, 4 June 2018 (UTC) ::::::: I suppose you could post a notice in the Administrator's Noticeboard. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 01:46, 4 June 2018 (UTC) {{outdent}} Thanks. I’ll try that. [[User:Just A Regular New Yorker|J.A.R.N.Y.]]|[[User talk:Just A Regular New Yorker|🗣️]]|[[Special:emailuser/Just A Regular New Yorker|📧]] 02:02, 4 June 2018 (UTC) :Looks like the vote is over. How does it work. Does it depend on the decision of the first ‘crat that gets to it, or are the votes counted? [[User:Just A Regular New Yorker|J.A.R.N.Y.]]|[[User talk:Just A Regular New Yorker|🗣️]]|[[Special:emailuser/Just A Regular New Yorker|📧]] 18:33, 8 June 2018 (UTC) :: The closing 'crat weighs the consensus of the community. I would let this stay open for a few more days to see if there is any further participation, or any further reply to any of your comments. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 21:31, 8 June 2018 (UTC) == Promotion == [[Thanksgiving|Thanks]]! —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 21:57, 1 June 2018 (UTC) : Haha, don't thank me, now you have more work to do! [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 21:58, 1 June 2018 (UTC) ==Raymond Chandler== Hello BD2412, I'll like to solicit your help for a task. I think it would be beneficial if a photo of [[Raymond Chandler]] was there on his article. But there doesn't seem to be a way to make his photo appear there, not with the usual methods as it is on Wikipedia and not Commons, see [[:w:File:RaymondChandlerPromoPhoto.jpg]]. Is there any way for it to be shown on the article without copying it to Commons? If not, can you see if it can be copied to Commons because I'm not too sure about the copyright laws. [[User:MonsterHunter32|MonsterHunter32]] ([[User talk:MonsterHunter32|talk]]) 14:11, 14 July 2018 (UTC) : The reason that the Raymond Chandler photograph can be shown on Wikipedia, and can not be moved to Commons or used on Wikiquote, is that the copyright law restricts the fair use of images covered by copyright to circumstances where they are required to illustrate the description of the subject for educational value. An encyclopedia article on the subject is considered to be of such value, but a collection of quotes from the subject is considered to be merely entertainment, and not susceptible to fair use. Therefore, we can not use copyright-protected images anywhere on Wikiquote. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 14:34, 14 July 2018 (UTC) :: Oh too bad I didn't know it couldn't be used in another wiki. Thanks for making me aware about it. [[User:MonsterHunter32|MonsterHunter32]] ([[User talk:MonsterHunter32|talk]]) 15:06, 14 July 2018 (UTC) ::: No problem. Cheers! [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 15:08, 14 July 2018 (UTC) == Doug McIlroy == I believe you are the only WQ admin I know of. Mind taking a look at [https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Doug_McIlroy&action=history this]? [[User:GreenMeansGo|<span style="font-family:Impact"><span style="color:#07CB4B">G</span><span style="color:#449351">M</span><span style="color:#35683d">G</span></span>]][[User talk:GreenMeansGo#top|<sup style="color:#000;font-family:Impact">talk</sup>]] 12:52, 1 August 2018 (UTC) * Page protected, vandal blocked. Cheers! [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 13:04, 1 August 2018 (UTC) == Time to undo edit protection? == I refer to this: [https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Wikiquote%3AWikiquote&type=revision&diff=2395507&oldid=2395500 Changed protection level for "Wikiquote:Wikiquote": Edit warring / Content dispute ] [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 21:22, 4 November 2018 (UTC) : No edits should be made to this page without discussion, so I see no reason why it should ever be unprotected. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 22:20, 4 November 2018 (UTC) :: Thanks for the quick reply. I inadvertently violated this rule in October and November of last year. I intend to propose we add a note to this page to alert other editors of this restriction and instruct them on how to propose future changes. Where can I find the rule to reference in my proposal? [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 05:03, 5 November 2018 (UTC) ::: Generally, proposals to change a policy should be raised on the talk page for that policy. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 16:30, 16 November 2018 (UTC) :::: I'm sorry but I'm still having trouble getting my mind around this. In particular I have three questions: :::: 1. Where can I find the general rule that policy page changes should be raised on the talk page? :::: 2. ''Is'' [[WQ:WQ]] a policy? :::: 3. Why are none of the pages listed in [https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Category:Wikiquote_official_policy Wikiquote official policy category] edit protected? [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 02:24, 18 November 2018 (UTC) ::::: 1. The general rule that policy page changes should be raised on talk pages can be found at [[Wikiquote:Policies and guidelines#How policy has been formulated]]. ::::: 2. [[WQ:WQ]] should be considered policy. Although we have never had a formal adoption discussion of the topic, it predates most other policies and has been treated as policy by the community since its adoption. ::::: 3. Other pages are likely unprotected because they have not been subject to a pattern of vandalism and/or edit warring. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 16:58, 18 November 2018 (UTC) === Info box text === As indicated above, I have in mind proposing a box at the top of WQ:WQ along the lines of {{tl|Official policy}} Based on what you've told me, I'm thinking the text would be something like this - <table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3" style="background-color: #f5f5f5; border: 3px solid green;margin:0 auto;"><tr><td>[[Image:Exquisite-opera.png|75px]]</td><td>This page has wide acceptance among editors and is considered a standard that all users should follow.</br>You cannot make any changes to this page without prior discussion.</td></tr></table> Does that correctly explain the permanent edit protection? [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 01:23, 19 November 2018 (UTC) : Yes, but note that the edit protection in this case is not merely due to the page being a policy page, but specifically a result of the vandalism or edit warring which has occurred on that page. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 02:00, 19 November 2018 (UTC) :: Is that something we should say in the box? [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 05:02, 19 November 2018 (UTC) ::: I would just go with the first box, since page protection due to misuse can occur anywhere. Policy changes should not be changed without discussion, but will not necessarily be locked for editing. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 14:18, 19 November 2018 (UTC) :::::: Which is the "first box" - the first box above (the standard policy page box) or the second box above (the first draft of my proposed box for this page)? [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 17:19, 19 November 2018 (UTC) ::::::: The standard policy page box. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 17:48, 19 November 2018 (UTC) :::: I'm seeing two possible problems with this: First, this isn't a policy page. (What is the process for making it a policy page?) Second, the policy box says "Please do not make significant changes to this page without prior discussion." I'm thinking that doesn't reflect the status of this page, to wit: discussion ''required'' for ''any'' change. [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 19:31, 19 November 2018 (UTC) ===Today's edit to [[WQ:WQ]]=== I understood you to say (see above) that one of the reasons you left this page permanently edit protected was because it should not be edited without first discussing the change on the talk page. Did I get it all wrong? [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 02:08, 21 November 2018 (UTC) : That the page should not be edited without discussion includes editing to add Easter egg links to topics unrelated to the page. I see no discussion of whether to add those links to the page in the first place. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 02:17, 21 November 2018 (UTC) :: So the rule is "no edits without discussion EXCEPT edits which undo a prior edit made without discussion"? [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 15:48, 21 November 2018 (UTC) ::: In this case, it was an administrative action to restore a ''status quo ante'' preceding the addition of dubious piping for a policy page. Obviously, it would be absurd if undiscussed changes were made to such a page without discussion, and then could not be reverted by an administrator without discussion (in which case, for example, a vandal could replace the page with a string of obscenities, and the obscenities would then need to remain until a community consensus had been reached for their removal). [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 15:56, 21 November 2018 (UTC) :::: So the rule is "no edits without discussion EXCEPT edits ''by an administrator'' which undo a prior edit made without discussion"? [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 15:48, 21 November 2018 (UTC) ::::: It's not an exception, it is merely enforcement of the rule. For example, the law doesn't say "you can't take someone's wallet without their permission EXCEPT if you are a police officer taking a wallet back from a pickpocket to return to the person the pickpocket took it from". [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 18:11, 21 November 2018 (UTC) :::: "No edits of this page without prior discussion. To enforce this rule an administrator may make an edit without prior discussion."? [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 23:46, 21 November 2018 (UTC) ::::: As a practical matter, that is necessary and correct. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 23:55, 21 November 2018 (UTC) === Back to the info box text proposal === I have two concerns about using the standard policy info box for this page:<br> FIRST, this page is not currently identified as a policy page. (I'm wondering what the procedure is for making it a policy page.)<br> SECOND, the policy box says "Please do not make significant changes to this page without prior discussion." Not "You cannot make any changes to this page without prior discussion (unless you are an administrator enforcing this rule)." [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 04:24, 22 November 2018 (UTC) : Info boxes like these are directed to provide information to people who might be expected not to know the rules. They do not need to indicate that administrators are permitted to make edits to enforce the rules, just as STOP signs on the street do not need to say "STOP (unless you are an emergency vehicle heading to an emergency)", and "No entry" signs generally do not need to say that authorized people are still allowed to enter. Now that you know the rules, you don't need such an indication either. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 04:32, 22 November 2018 (UTC) :: Regarding my first concern, I await your response. :: Regarding my second concern, taking out the parenthetical still leaves us with a conflict between "Please do not make significant changes to this page without prior discussion" (which allows any edit and asks for, but does not require, prior discussion for significant changes) and "You cannot make any changes to this page without prior discussion." [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 16:56, 22 November 2018 (UTC) ::: I addressed the first point previously in this conversation. As for the second, perhaps a better wording would be, "Significant changes should not be made to this page without prior discussion". [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 17:03, 22 November 2018 (UTC) :::: First concern: Are you referring to "[[WQ:WQ]] should be considered policy"? If so, do I correctly understand the answer to the question of whether it ''is'' a policy to be "no, but it should be"? If so, then that brings me to my second inquiry: You mention "a formal adoption discussion." Where does that take place? :::: Second concern: How does "Significant changes should not be made to this page without prior discussion" work if the page is permanently edit protected (blocking even insignificant changes)? [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 21:33, 22 November 2018 (UTC) ::::: Some pages in the project space on this site are old enough that they were created to serve as policy pages prior to the adoption of normal practices for establishing policies. I would consider this to be one of them. The place to initiate a formal proposal for a page to be considered a policy page would be [[Wikiquote:Village Pump]], where I have opened such a discussion with respect to [[WQ:WQ]]. As to the edit protection, no policy page should be edited without discussion, but where a page is subject to vandalism or edit warring, we have no choice but to protect it. Protection may be indefinite without being considered permanent, as any administrator can unprotect a page if they thing further issues are unlikely to arise. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 22:59, 23 November 2018 (UTC) === Please review whether the time has come to unprotect this page === Looking at the history of [[WQ:WQ]] it appears to me - maybe I'm missing something - that there has been only one incident of disruptive editing in the past 15 years. That disruption was caused by only one editor. Given this history I suggest that "further issues are unlikely to arise" that require the continuation of an edit protection that began 7 months ago. [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 18:54, 24 November 2018 (UTC) : Any administrator can unprotect the page. I would therefore suggest proposing this at [[Wikiquote:Administrators' noticeboard]], so that we can get a sense of whether other administrators agree that further issues are unlikely to arise. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 20:03, 24 November 2018 (UTC) :: Well, [https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Time_to_unprotect_Wikiquote:Wikiquote? that] was somewhat equivocal. However, I do note that the one admin to chime in seemed to favor unprotection. [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 06:36, 26 December 2018 (UTC) Here is another possible way to look at it: We both agree that substantial changes to policy pages "shouldn't" take place without prior discussion (you would go further and say "mustn't"). Converting QT:QT from unprotected to permanently protected is a substantive change. The discussion on the admin noticeboard did not result in consensus support for permanent protection. So, now that the edit war is well in the past, we should revert to the status quo, to wit: unprotection. Your thoughts? [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 06:36, 26 December 2018 (UTC) : Since discussion is now underway on the Administrator's noticeboard, the issue should be resolved in that discussion. Cheers! [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 14:15, 26 December 2018 (UTC) :: Thanks. I'll take my thought there. (I posted here because I was thinking the discussion there had petered out. And I wanted you to get first crack at my alternative approach.) [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 16:47, 26 December 2018 (UTC) == Urgent - article protection needed == Please protect [[Jonathan Mitchell]]. The IP is removing quotes that have been verified as from the subject, and if they are not notable then neither are the rest of them. I have evidence that the IP is a user socking, the user being the creator of the article who has a history of biased editing on Wikipedia. This is urgent. Thanks. [[User:TLPG|TLPG]] ([[User talk:TLPG|talk]]) 02:37, 1 January 2019 (UTC) * It sounds like you are having a content dispute. I would disagree that all quotes are equally notable. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 02:39, 1 January 2019 (UTC) ** What about the sock issue? The article should be protected at least surely? Also I wouldn't mind knowing how some quotes are more notable than others. [[User:TLPG|TLPG]] ([[User talk:TLPG|talk]]) 02:43, 1 January 2019 (UTC) *** I have semi-protected the page for two weeks. As for the notability of individual quotes, see [[Wikiquote:Quotability]]. Cheers! [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 02:56, 1 January 2019 (UTC) **** Thanks. I've challenged the IP to go to the talk page and prove the quotes aren't notable, and how the originals are. For the record, I put them there for balance. [[User:TLPG|TLPG]] ([[User talk:TLPG|talk]]) 02:58, 1 January 2019 (UTC) == A favour maybe? == I hope this isn't out of line, particularly on a public platform, but I have seen that you are an admin on Wikipedia as well as here. Could you possibly do a checkuser on the IP editing on the Jonathan Mitchell article against the [[User:Ylevental|creator of the article]] on WP? The IP is totally denying it but I have evidence (that can't be revealed publicly due to privacy rules) that it is him. A CU would confirm it. It would enforce a block on here for the IP range for say three months (a soft block of course to avoid collateral damage), although I would leave it for another 48 hours at the most to allow the IP to go to the talk page as challenged. If the IP doesn't show up it will mean that he has nothing and may well try to revert again once the protection expires in two weeks without talking about the content. A note - the user concerned has had an article he created speedily deleted and out of the very same bias against Autism (hence his editing on the Mitchell article here) he has it in draft mode determined to have this person have an article as part of his efforts to promote Autism in a negative light, rather than in a balanced manner. The draft is for Thomas Clements. [[User:TLPG|TLPG]] ([[User talk:TLPG|talk]]) 21:49, 1 January 2019 (UTC) * I am not a Checkuser on any project. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 21:53, 1 January 2019 (UTC) ** Ah sorry. I foolishly assumed CU was automatically part of your powers. By the way, as an indication of guilt (IMHO), I got an alert when I logged in that the creator of the article mentioned me on Wikipedia. He would only have done that if he knew what was going on here. If there is anything you can do on WP I would appreciate it. I don't edit on WP. [[User:TLPG|TLPG]] ([[User talk:TLPG|talk]]) 10:46, 2 January 2019 (UTC) == Thomas & Friends vandals... == ...are at it again. Apparently, protecting each article for six months was not going to stop them. I request each article (including [[The Railway Series]], [[The Adventure Begins]], etc.) be protected for no less than a year, and that all these vandals be blocked for no less than that same time period, lest they vandalize other pages. [[User:WikiLubber|WikiLubber]] ([[User talk:WikiLubber|talk]]) 00:50, 19 January 2019 (UTC) == IP vandal [[User:68.201.9.142]] == It is changing the release years of film articles without explanation. I request all pages it vandalized be protected for no less than six months and the IP be blocked for no less than that same time period. [[User:WikiLubber|WikiLubber]] ([[User talk:WikiLubber|talk]]) 00:50, 19 January 2019 (UTC) * The IP has been blocked. I see no reason to protect all of the pages. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 04:46, 19 January 2019 (UTC) == Another remorseless vandal afoot... == On [[The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea‎]], it constantly removes quotes and replaces Melody with Jasmine, but there is no Jasmine in the Little Mermaid franchise. I request the IP be blocked for no less than three months. [[User:WikiLubber|WikiLubber]] ([[User talk:WikiLubber|talk]]) 22:59, 19 January 2019 (UTC) * I blocked the IP for a week, but since it just started editing, there's no way to know whether this is a dynamic IP which can quickly change to a new address. If vandalism from this IP address resumes, I will impose the lengthier block requested. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 23:09, 19 January 2019 (UTC) == Wp-links == Hi BD2412ǃ Have you noticed this? [[:w:Wikipedia talk:External links]]--[[User:Risto hot sir|Risto hot sir]] ([[User talk:Risto hot sir|talk]]) 22:19, 31 January 2019 (UTC) : Thanks for the notice. Cheers! [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 02:54, 1 February 2019 (UTC) == EVula's rights? == What is the go with Evula's ongoing rights? It is 4+ years since they used them, and 2+ years since they have been seen on any wiki. I know that Evula was an early member here and elsewhere, however, in light of recent history, why would we have those rights retained for someone who is fully inactive? ''<span style="font-size:smaller">[[user talk:billinghurst|sDrewth]]</span>'' 12:49, 25 February 2019 (UTC) :[[User:Billinghurst|Billinghurst]]. You can open a discussion a [[WQ:VP]] or [[WQ:AN]] regarding this, and if three users support a vote of confidence, then one can be opened at [[WQ:RFA]]. [[User:GreenMeansGo|<span style="font-family:Impact"><span style="color:#07CB4B">G</span><span style="color:#449351">M</span><span style="color:#35683d">G</span></span>]][[User talk:GreenMeansGo#top|<sup style="color:#000;font-family:Impact">talk</sup>]] 22:39, 25 February 2019 (UTC) ::As peripheral to the community, I will leave it to those properly active to look at, I just find it weird. ''<span style="font-size:smaller">[[user talk:billinghurst|sDrewth]]</span>'' 11:07, 26 February 2019 (UTC) ''<span style="font-size:smaller">[[user talk:billinghurst|sDrewth]]</span>'' 11:07, 26 February 2019 (UTC) ::: '''Note:''' It has been a while since a vote of confidence has been raised over inactivity, but [[Wikiquote:Requests_for_adminship/Archives/2015#Votes_of_confidence|the last time that happened]], there was no consensus for any removal of rights. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 12:54, 26 February 2019 (UTC) == IP vandals... == A bunch of IP addresses constantly bully admins such as Kalki, UDScott, and Tegel, and vandalize the Administrators' noticeboard‎ without explanation or remorse. No matter how many we block, another IP with the same MO continues where it left off. I request permanent protection of all pages they vandalized, including all talk pages (including your own, just in case). But something has to be done to stop that vandal permanently. [[User:WikiLubber|WikiLubber]] ([[User talk:WikiLubber|talk]]) 12:47, 12 May 2019 (UTC) :Meh. We can't very well protect all admin talk pages and AN, in the case that an IP has some legitimate issue. It's usually taken care of in under five minutes. A minor annoyance. Eventually they'll get a girlfriend or a job or something, get out of their basement and find something else to do with their time. [[User:GreenMeansGo|<span style="font-family:Impact"><span style="color:#07CB4B">G</span><span style="color:#449351">M</span><span style="color:#35683d">G</span></span>]][[User talk:GreenMeansGo#top|<sup style="color:#000;font-family:Impact">talk</sup>]] 14:23, 12 May 2019 (UTC) :: Most of these edits have come from IP addresses starting in the 86.17-86.18 range. I am thinking that we could rangeblock everything under that for a few days to see if that cools things off. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 14:27, 12 May 2019 (UTC) :::To lock out the last five IPs on my talk page, we'd have to range block 4.2 million IPs. Reducing that to the 86.179 through 86.173 range for a partial range block would still block 2 million. [[User:GreenMeansGo|<span style="font-family:Impact"><span style="color:#07CB4B">G</span><span style="color:#449351">M</span><span style="color:#35683d">G</span></span>]][[User talk:GreenMeansGo#top|<sup style="color:#000;font-family:Impact">talk</sup>]] 14:56, 12 May 2019 (UTC) :::: It sounds like a lot, but it is a fraction of a percent of all IPs. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 15:19, 12 May 2019 (UTC) ::::: If that plan does work, I recommend those IPs within the range be blocked for no less than six months. [[User:WikiLubber|WikiLubber]] ([[User talk:WikiLubber|talk]]) 21:54, 12 May 2019 (UTC) :::::: Actually, I have never done a rangeblock before, and I am not sure how to do one. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 22:11, 12 May 2019 (UTC) :::::::I mean, I can do it, but I'd prefer to have a consensus at VP or AN before blocking so many IPs. [[User:GreenMeansGo|<span style="font-family:Impact"><span style="color:#07CB4B">G</span><span style="color:#449351">M</span><span style="color:#35683d">G</span></span>]][[User talk:GreenMeansGo#top|<sup style="color:#000;font-family:Impact">talk</sup>]] 23:27, 12 May 2019 (UTC) :::::::: Perhaps we can narrow it down to a bit tighter of a range, or a set of smaller ranges. I am not greatly concerned that we will thwart a large number of innocent IP editors from working on Wikiquote. We are not that heavily trafficked. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 23:31, 12 May 2019 (UTC) == Koenraad Elst == Hi, dropping you a note because there is a bit of concern about linking to this project from English Wikipedia, specifically in relation to India articles and even more specifically because someone here has been adding swathes of quotes from books written by Koenraad Elst to various articles here. I've tried to work out what the WQ selection criteria may be but I'm not getting it, sorry. What I do know is that sister links from en-WP Indic articles to content here that contains a lot of stuff by Elst may well be rejected. He has his place, sure, just as quotes by Hitler or Lenin etc have their place, but the sheer number of examples I've seen here added by ΞΔΞ in particular seem, wittingly or unwittingly, to be essentially a propaganda exercise. Elst is a Hindu nationalist and occasional outright pseudo-historian, denounced by academics but, like David Frawley, S. R. Goel, Ishwar Sharan etc, admired by the anti-Muslim element among Indian politicians for his borderline fascist opinions. Wikiquote can do whatever its community wish to do, of course, and Elst is both entitled to his opinions and probably to some record of them here, but driving traffic from en-WP to articles here that seem massively weighted in POV terms is problematic - there's a reason why articles related to India and Pakistan on en-WP are subject to two different sanctions regimes and we don't need to stoke the fires. Just a heads-up so you are aware if people here should complain about WQ links being removed. There's a brief discussion [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:RegentsPark&oldid=899041285#Pragya_Singh_Thakur here] and in the last three sections [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Risto_hot_sir#Inappropriate_links here]. - [[User:Sitush|Sitush]] ([[User talk:Sitush|talk]]) 15:24, 27 May 2019 (UTC) * Thanks for your concern. Generally, if a subject is notable and has made notable quotes relevant to a particular page, we have no limitation to the number of quotes by that subject that can be included in this compendium. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 16:18, 27 May 2019 (UTC) :*Yeah, I think the issue is what is considered to be a notable quote. Eg: if someone is quoted by someone else then that might meet the criterion but if some random contributor here just sees something they like in a book and posts it then, well, that might say more about the contributor than the quote.{{pb}}Anyway, not my problem: we'll just be removing the sister links as and when necessary. Somewhere down the line, I should imagine this is going to be a big issue with Wikidata making the inter-project links, too, and I'd be surprised if the WMF would appreciate the concept of neutrality/not censored being extended to the point of actively promoting an Islamophobic POV or similar, which is what seems to be happening, whether by design or accident. - [[User:Sitush|Sitush]] ([[User talk:Sitush|talk]]) 16:58, 27 May 2019 (UTC) == one eyeball == ... might need to be kept on [[Atlas Shrugged]]. Had a little bit of link spam recently. — [[user:billinghurst|billinghurst]] ''<span style="font-size:smaller">[[user talk:billinghurst|sDrewth]]</span>'' 21:01, 5 March 2020 (UTC) * One eye is now on it. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 21:02, 5 March 2020 (UTC) == [[Anthony Fauci]] == Hi BD2412, how do you do? Can I ask why you are [https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Anthony_Fauci&curid=225652&diff=2801785&oldid=2795506 adding these comments] to the Ron Paul quote, but not to Anthony Fauci's own quote that the Coronavirus "is not a major threat for the people of the United States and this is not something that the citizens of the United States right now should be worried about"? This seems to be a double standard. I am not sure there is anything to "correct" in Ron Paul's quote when he says that this is "A virus that has ''thus far'' killed just over 5,000 worldwide and less than 100 in the United States? By contrast, tuberculosis, an old disease not much discussed these days, killed nearly 1.6 million people in 2017." And I am not sure your updates are in line with Wikiquote's purpose. ~ [[User:DanielTom|DanielTom]] ([[User talk:DanielTom|talk]]) 14:55, 28 May 2020 (UTC) : We often provide contextual information to clarify the relevance of quotes. In this case, Fauci's earlier quote was a cautiously optimistic statement made in late January, when it was reasonably possible that the outbreak would be contained, while Paul's quote was a fairly outright declaration of a conspiracy theory in mid-March, after a national emergency had already been declared in the United States, and numbers along the lines of what we have seen since had already been projected. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 15:51, 28 May 2020 (UTC) == Lint concern... == {{ping|BD2412}} [[:User:BD2412/Status]] Did you mean to have a stray closing SUP tag in this? I've been making a concerted effort to clear some of the Lint Error backlogs , and the stray SUP tag was identified as part of those efforts. [[User:ShakespeareFan00|ShakespeareFan00]] ([[User talk:ShakespeareFan00|talk]]) 14:20, 16 September 2020 (UTC) : Thanks, I have removed the stray tag. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 14:23, 16 September 2020 (UTC) :: Hmm , it's now saying there's an unclosed BIG as well. Sorry, I am sounding like the pedantic obsessive that worries when the fries aren't straight in the takeaway :lol: [[User:ShakespeareFan00|ShakespeareFan00]] ([[User talk:ShakespeareFan00|talk]]) 14:34, 16 September 2020 (UTC) == Wikiquote Council at en.wp == I am interested but not available to edit there at the moment. —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 22:20, 6 December 2020 (UTC) : Understood, but we still need a certain number of people to sign up to make the project go. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 22:23, 6 December 2020 (UTC) :: Is there a spot at WQ to sign up? Thanks in advance, [[User:Ottawahitech|Ottawahitech]] ([[User talk:Ottawahitech|talk]]) 18:03, 12 December 2020 (UTC) ::: The sign-up spot is on Wikipedia, at [[w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Wikiquote|Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Wikiquote]]. Cheers! [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 18:30, 12 December 2020 (UTC) == Block? == I don't know what these two users are up to but it's nothing good. Please consider a block: [[Special:Contributions/14.139.153.162]], [[Special:Contributions/Manasvip]], [[Special:Contributions/Ashank07]]. [[User:Praxidicae|Praxidicae]] ([[User talk:Praxidicae|talk]]) 17:54, 6 January 2021 (UTC) : I would hang on for a bit. Obviously these are the same person, but they may just be trying to get the hang of editing, with an intent to do some good. Have you asked them what they're up to? [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 18:01, 6 January 2021 (UTC) ::No, they previously edited on enwiki under the IP I linked which has been blocked because nothing constructive has ever come from it. I can't imagine anything good will come from their new accounts. [[User:Praxidicae|Praxidicae]] ([[User talk:Praxidicae|talk]]) 18:06, 6 January 2021 (UTC) == sorry == I have the memory of a flea: I cannot remember where I saw those images with swasticas. I'll keep looking for them next time I do a run through [[:category: women]]. [[User:Ottawahitech|Ottawahitech]] ([[User talk:Ottawahitech|talk]]) 04:08, 17 January 2021 (UTC) It appears that [[User:Kalki]] does not understand how [https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Village_pump#Why_are_there_so_many_pages_with_images_containing_a_swastika_on_WQ? painful the use of the symbol] is for some people. I know other users on other projects who may be able to explain it better than me, for example [[User:DeborahJay]] whom I met at [[simple]]. [[User:Ottawahitech|Ottawahitech]] ([[User talk:Ottawahitech|talk]]) 21:45, 27 January 2021 (UTC) : My impression of Kalki over a long term dealing with them is that they consider themself an artist and their work on Wikiquote (which is often quite productive) to be a sort of art project. I think they enjoy the shock value of challenging conformity or some comparable rubric in using swastikas. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 21:50, 27 January 2021 (UTC) == By January 12, 2020, Coronavirus had killed over 1,944,000 people worldwide, and over 380,000 in the United States? == Hi BD2412, I am curious to find out which counter was used to add this info. I think the enwiki ''COVID-19 pandemic'' uses the Johns Hopkins counter, but there other ''reliable sources'' counters being used, some with fairly large differences. Thanks in advance, [[User:Ottawahitech|Ottawahitech]] ([[User talk:Ottawahitech|talk]]) 21:39, 6 February 2021 (UTC) * I have been using [https://coronavirus.1point3acres.com/en this one], though in retrospect it does seem to run a bit higher than [https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#cases_casesper100klast7days CDC numbers]. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 22:19, 6 February 2021 (UTC) :: Not sure how interested you are in the number of new covid cases. If you are you may want to check the chart titled <blockquote>Distribution of COVID-19 cases worldwide, as of week 7 2021</blockquote> on [https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/geographical-distribution-2019-ncov-cases the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control website]. It shows the number has started increasing, yet again. Cheers, [[User:Ottawahitech|Ottawahitech]] ([[User talk:Ottawahitech|talk]]) 01:13, 26 February 2021 (UTC) ::: Thanks. My intent is to go until the one-year anniversary of the quote (March 16), since it references a one-year period for another disease for comparison. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 01:40, 26 February 2021 (UTC) :Copyright question: I have just posted 3 quotes from the same source ([[Rachel Maddow]]), each to a different WQ page. I am not sure whether this can be viewed as a copyright infringement. Thanks in advance, [[User:Ottawahitech|Ottawahitech]] ([[User talk:Ottawahitech|talk]]) 16:08, 19 April 2022 (UTC) :: I don't see why this would be a problem. The quotes are quotes. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 23:20, 19 April 2022 (UTC) == USER:GreenMeansGo breached 3RR == Hi {{PAGENAME}}: Please be informed that [[USER:GreenMeansGo]] has breached [[w:wp:3RR]] at [[WQ:AN]]. I bring this to your attention because I don't think there is an official board to report such infractions on WQ. I ask that you reflect on this matter since any action on your part has project-wise implications. Thanks in advance, [[User:Ottawahitech|Ottawahitech]] ([[User talk:Ottawahitech|talk]]) 15:47, 26 March 2021 (UTC) : [[User:GreenMeansGo|GreenMeansGo]] was quite clearly carrying out the administrative function of discussion closure, to which 3RR does not apply. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 16:39, 26 March 2021 (UTC) == Readers questions? == Hi {{PAGENAME}}, I need help as a reader of wikipedia, and don't know where else to go. I see that you are a practicing lawyer in the field of Intellectual Property. Can you please help me understand the following wikipedia article: <blockquote> [[w:Bell-Northern Research]]: This wikipedia article claims that BNR no longer exists, however, a [https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/08/11/bell-labs-descendant-sues-apple-for-infringing-on-clutch-of-patents recent news article] claims that BNR has recently filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple. How is this possible? Can defunct companies file lawsuits? </blockquote> Thanks in advance [[User:Ottawahitech|Ottawahitech]] ([[User talk:Ottawahitech|talk]]) 00:12, 13 August 2021 (UTC) : It appears that BNR was purchased by, and incorporated into, another company. The purchasing company can choose to maintain some form of subsidiary entity by the name of the purchased company, and can exercise rights in intellectual property that came with the purchased company. I would imagine something like that is going on here. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 04:45, 13 August 2021 (UTC) == Deletion of pages on WQ == Hi {{PAGENAME}} Despite what you seem to think, I do not create pages here that I know are not suitable for WQ. Deleting the pages I have created without giving me an opportunity to ask questions is counter-productive for the project, IMIO. Repectfully, [[User:Ottawahitech|Ottawahitech]] ([[User talk:Ottawahitech|talk]]) 12:43, 25 December 2021 (UTC) : {{re|Ottawahitech}} These were not pages, they were redirects, and clearly not the ones you intended. [[Argentina]] was redirected to [[United States]], which is nonsense. [[South America]] was also redirected to [[United States]], which is no better. [[Rhode Island]] was seemingly randomly picked out of the red-linked states to redirect to a category that currently does not include it. The better thing to do would be to create the pages of ''actual quotes'' on these places, an endeavor that is not helped by these redirects. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 19:43, 25 December 2021 (UTC) ::Thanks for the speedy response. I did not intend to rush you, especially since it is holiday season. ::I looked at the log for both [[Argentina]] and [[South America]] and was surprised to see such a blatant mistake. I usually notice and correct such mistakes. Had those pages been deleted by another admin I would have assumed that the page was erroneously deleted. It has been my experience that some inexperienced patrollers/admins are in a rush and tend to cut corners such as checking subsequent edits, reading comments left on talkpages, etc, before proposing/deleting a page. As far as ar as [https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Rhode_Island&action=edit&redlink=1 Rhode Island] is concerned, I do not normally add redirects unless I need them to eliminate an existing redlink. Not sure what happened here either. ::I asked the above questions on your usertalk page because my previous attempts to address such issues at the various [[:Category:Deletion requests|deletion discussion venue]]s have failed to elicit responses, and requests I have posted on pages of some other admins have not been fully addressed (it could be a matter of language in some of the cases I am thinking of). In general I do not find deletions of pages that I started until a much later date. It is a problem for me especially with my flea-size memory. So I therefore prefer the enwiki deletion notification system where users whose pages are proposed for deletion automatically receive a message on their usertalk page. Others at WQ may feel the same way I do. ::<small> Note: If this message does not make any sense I blame the new [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Talk_pages_project/ReplyingReply tool]] :)</small> [[User:Ottawahitech|Ottawahitech]] ([[User talk:Ottawahitech|talk]]) 21:21, 25 December 2021 (UTC) ::: If your aim is to eliminate a red link, the best way to do this is by finding quotes on the subject of the link and creating a page for them. Red links serve a purpose. They alert editors to the need for a page to be created. Cheers! [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 22:34, 25 December 2021 (UTC) ::::My aim is not to eliminate one [[redlink]], my aim is to eliminate as many [[redlinks]] as possible. Cheers, [[User:Ottawahitech|Ottawahitech]] ([[User talk:Ottawahitech|talk]]) 18:16, 26 December 2021 (UTC) ::::BTW eliminating one [[redlink]] on WQ takes me much longer than doing other useful tasks on WQ. ::::For example this morning I spent more than an hour, trying to justify keeping [[Northern Light]] an article I started after seeing your pervious post above. I find this exhausting and it leaves me little energy for other things I enjoy doing on WQ. [[User:Ottawahitech|Ottawahitech]] ([[User talk:Ottawahitech|talk]]) 17:02, 30 December 2021 (UTC) ::::: There should be no incoming links at all for a subject that can not support an article. If I create a redlink for [[dogs eating bananas]], do you feel compelled to "fix" it by finding a place to redirect it, or finding quotes about dogs eating bananas? [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 20:24, 30 December 2021 (UTC) ::::::Personally I am not interested in [[dogs eating bananas]], but that does not mean that someone else may, and may be able to explain why it should exist here. ::::::I do feel though, that [[Northern Light]], should have an article here ESPECIALLY since it does not have information available on the main wiki. It is a weekly community paper published in a small county that does not have other public sources of information such as a dedicated TV station. It has survived in [[Whatcom county]] for over 150 years, and as such would probably pass the notability requiremnt on Enwiki, or least should, IMIO. ::::::I believe having access to articles about newspapers such as [[Northern Light]], would be beneficial for WQuotians, if no one else. If these type of articles would be permitted to exist on wikis, they would provide a convenient way to locate appropriate sources to include in other articles. [[User:Ottawahitech|Ottawahitech]] ([[User talk:Ottawahitech|talk]]) 21:52, 30 December 2021 (UTC) == How we will see unregistered users == <section begin=content/> Hi! You get this message because you are an admin on a Wikimedia wiki. When someone edits a Wikimedia wiki without being logged in today, we show their IP address. As you may already know, we will not be able to do this in the future. This is a decision by the Wikimedia Foundation Legal department, because norms and regulations for privacy online have changed. Instead of the IP we will show a masked identity. You as an admin '''will still be able to access the IP'''. There will also be a new user right for those who need to see the full IPs of unregistered users to fight vandalism, harassment and spam without being admins. Patrollers will also see part of the IP even without this user right. We are also working on [[m:IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation/Improving tools|better tools]] to help. If you have not seen it before, you can [[m:IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation|read more on Meta]]. If you want to make sure you don’t miss technical changes on the Wikimedia wikis, you can [[m:Global message delivery/Targets/Tech ambassadors|subscribe]] to [[m:Tech/News|the weekly technical newsletter]]. We have [[m:IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation#IP Masking Implementation Approaches (FAQ)|two suggested ways]] this identity could work. '''We would appreciate your feedback''' on which way you think would work best for you and your wiki, now and in the future. You can [[m:Talk:IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation|let us know on the talk page]]. You can write in your language. The suggestions were posted in October and we will decide after 17 January. Thank you. /[[m:User:Johan (WMF)|Johan (WMF)]]<section end=content/> 18:14, 4 January 2022 (UTC) <!-- Message sent by User:Johan (WMF)@metawiki using the list at https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Johan_(WMF)/Target_lists/Admins2022(3)&oldid=22532499 --> == Permission to run formatting regular expressions on all pages (Crosspost from the Village Pump) == I am requesting permission to create a bot that runs formatting regular expressions on all pages. – [[User:Ilovemydoodle|Ilovemydoodle]] ([[User talk:Ilovemydoodle|talk]]) 04:36, 10 May 2022 (UTC) : My concern is that you have fewer than a thousand edits across all Wikimedia projects, with virtually all of those coming within the past few months. Also, do you have any experience creating bots? [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 05:17, 10 May 2022 (UTC) ::I don’t have any experience creating bots, but I do have some knowledge in programming, and I am already working on the bot. – [[User:Ilovemydoodle|Ilovemydoodle]] ([[User talk:Ilovemydoodle|talk]]) 05:37, 10 May 2022 (UTC) == Abnormally large number of redactions... == https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/Ilovemydoodle&offset=20220522084156&target=Ilovemydoodle This is not a normal editing pattern, and I would strongly urge an administrator intervention. [[User:ShakespeareFan00|ShakespeareFan00]] ([[User talk:ShakespeareFan00|talk]]) 09:27, 22 May 2022 (UTC) :{{u|ShakespeareFan00}}, I'm currently having a discussion about this over at [[User talk:Ferien#Redacting]] --[[User:Ferien|Ferien]] <small>([[User talk:Ferien|talk]])</small> 09:28, 22 May 2022 (UTC) == Funny or serious? == Hi {{PAGENAME}}, In case you are not aware, An article created here about a Nigerian woman has gone through some unusual handling. * [[Afro Candy]] was created on 9 December 2022‎. * It was prodded by wq-admin-1 later that day, saying that the article had no quotes * On 10 December 2022‎ quotes were added to the article by the article creator * After the quotes were added, I removed the PROD * On 11 December my PROD removal was removed by the article creator * On 20 December 2022 wq-admin-2 removed the PROD again, and at the same time changed the intro to point out that the subject is a pornographic actress. The source that was used on enwp to designate this actress as a PA was [[ Vanguard News]] (I think?) Since this article is about a living person, I worry that wmf may be sued for slander (or whatever the legal terminology is). I hope this is not too confusing - I will leave this I your capable hands. [[User:Ottawahitech|Ottawahitech]] ([[User talk:Ottawahitech|talk]]) 00:22, 23 December 2022 (UTC) : Based on what I see here, I am not worried about it. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 00:40, 23 December 2022 (UTC) == Quote formating question == Hi {{PAGENAME}}, Sometime ago I saw the way you formatted quotes. It made sense to me and I decided to follow your example. Most quotes I have seen consist of 4 parts: * (1) The quote itself (no quotation marks) ** (2) The name of the person who said it (if they are not the topic of the page), followed by ** (3) A link (or some other identifying info) to the quote in a primary or secondary source, followed by ** (4) the date (not clear if it is the date the person who is quoted made it or the date the source was published) The quote you made had one of those 4 parts in bold, but I cannot remember if it was part 3 or part 4. Am I making sense? Thanks in advance, [[User:Ottawahitech|Ottawahitech]] ([[User talk:Ottawahitech|talk]]) 22:33, 19 January 2023 (UTC) * I don't think I put any of those parts in bold. Maybe the quote itself, if it is one of the most famous quotes by the person or about the subject. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 22:44, 19 January 2023 (UTC) *:Thanks. I don't remember where & exactly when I started bolding #3, but I found some articles where I did this on May 5 of 2022 ([[ Matt Gaetz]],[[Pramila Jayapal]], [[Jen Psaki]]). I know for sure I did it on more, possibly many more articles. I also vaguely remember bolding a couple of #4’s fairly recently. *:[[User:GreenMeansGo]] removed my bolding on Matt Gaetz, but I believe the other two are still bolded to this day. Need I methodically check all articles that I edited or not. What do you think? It is certainly not setting a good example for newer editors. [[User:Ottawahitech|Ottawahitech]] ([[User talk:Ottawahitech|talk]]) 22:14, 20 January 2023 (UTC) :::We don't really have an objective standard for bolded quotes. I'm not sure if we could ever actually have one. It's pretty subjective. [[User:GreenMeansGo|<span style="font-family:Impact"><span style="color:#07CB4B">G</span><span style="color:#449351">M</span><span style="color:#35683d">G</span></span>]][[User talk:GreenMeansGo#top|<sup style="color:#000;font-family:Impact">talk</sup>]] 20:38, 22 January 2023 (UTC) ==Template:Worldcat subject== A page that you have been involved in editing, [[:Template:Worldcat subject]], has been listed for [[Wikiquote:Votes for deletion|deletion]]. All contributions are appreciated, but it may not satisfy Wikiquote's criteria for inclusion, for the reasons given in the nomination for deletion (see also [[Wikiquote:Wikiquote|what Wikiquote is]] and [[Wikiquote:What Wikiquote is not|is not]]). If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments at [[Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/Template:Worldcat subject]]. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Thank you. --[[User:Lemonaka|Lemonaka]] ([[User talk:Lemonaka|talk]]) 17:57, 3 May 2023 (UTC) == [[:Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/M. A. Khan]] == I would like to ask to revisit the case of [[:Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/M. A. Khan]] and your good faith closure. During the early page of that VfD the specific person was not identified and there was ambiguity with another person. However towards the midway point the creator did manage to identify an individual and was, in my opinion, and to establish a reasonable case for notability on a [[W:WP:THREE]], albeit I felt a little battered by the creator getting them to get to that point and of course I prefer to see a linked English Wikipedia article. A problem arose because in my view the creator became frustrated on failure to close the VFD in reasonable timeframe and essentially as I felt the creator was harassing me I recused from the discussion. However while there may have been an overall consensus for deletion the reasoning of some of the earlier votes were invalidated. I would suggest a cleanstart VfD with the latest information would likely survive the vote. Would you like to consider this? Thankyou. -- [[User:DeirgeDel|DeirgeDel]]^{[[User talk:DeirgeDel| t]]}_{[[:m:User:DeirgeDel/A|a]]}^{[[Special:Contributions/DeirgeDel|c]]} 03:27, 10 July 2023 (UTC) : Wikiquote is not the place to establish notability. Have an article created and survive on Wikipedia first. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 03:31, 10 July 2023 (UTC) == On WQ in general == Hi BD2412, I thought to pose some three of the most venerable users here an important question I just can't seem to figure out: why do you think, WQ has such an horrendous page rank on most search engines? Why wouldn't e.g. a ''very ''expansive WQ article on a relatively niche intellectual always top a short and potentially skewed WP article? Indeed, I think, especially for controversial leaders from historical scientific, religious, and or political movements, having a representative WQ entry is much more insightful than the overly curated alternative. What might be '''the exact reason for this very noticeable skew?''' Do you also believe that, maybe, the aforementioned inclusion of certain figures' exact quotes, from politically incorrect up to and including borderline defamatory, has - rightly or not - lead to the actual WMF, well, '''somehow hardcoding this inferior status into the platform regardless of quality?''' Any clarification would be extremely helpful! [[User:Biohistorian15|Biohistorian15]] ([[User talk:Biohistorian15|talk]]) 14:21, 25 March 2024 (UTC) : I literally ''never'' think about Wikiquote search engine ranking, and I doubt anyone else here does, either. Our goal is to assemble a resource, not to appease an inconstant Google algorithm. Our pages are, to a great deal, appendices to existing Wikipedia pages, and our readership will tend to come through Wikipedia readers continuing here from those articles (or people who ''know'' about us directly searching for specific quotes). To the extent that we have "competition" it is with other quote aggregation sites, which tend to merely scrape the web and lack our editorial processes. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 15:07, 25 March 2024 (UTC) ::I see. That wasn't to imply vanity on your part tough, I just think that some pages here would really deserve more than the few dozen daily viewers they seem to be getting. [[User:Biohistorian15|Biohistorian15]] ([[User talk:Biohistorian15|talk]]) 15:12, 25 March 2024 (UTC) :::Yeah I agree, @[[User:Biohistorian15|Biohistorian15]]. I've created some :::pages which I wish got more views to be honest. It's nothing greedy or vain or anything like that (well, maybe a little), it just feels kind of pointless to create good articles for so few people to read and I feel like the thoughts and wisdom of people like [[Victor L Berger]] and [[Henry Demarest Lloyd]] would be quite a good influence for a lot of people. :::Also that there is an extreme amount of misattributed quotations online shows the need for a reliable and comprehensive collection of quotations, which of course Wikiquote is. So, yes, I agree with you and I also don't know why it isn't so popular. :::Hope you don't mind me butting in on your talk page, @[[User:BD2412|BD2412]]. :::- [[User:IOHANNVSVERVS|IOHANNVSVERVS]] ([[User talk:IOHANNVSVERVS|talk]]) 06:33, 26 March 2024 (UTC) ::: Another issue is that links to Wikiquote on Wikipedia are buried at the bottom of the page. Perhaps we could have [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_articles ''featured articles''] (like Wikipedia does), and then these specially approved articles could be given greater prominence on the corresponding Wikipedia page. [[User:IOHANNVSVERVS|IOHANNVSVERVS]] ([[User talk:IOHANNVSVERVS|talk]]) 05:58, 27 March 2024 (UTC) ::::I agree. And if a single, larger widget closer to the top would seem out of place, one could do the exact same for various other wiki-projects, e.g. "Wikispecies" per zoological articles, "Wikisource" for historical documents (*including as a widget hovering next to sub-entries, e.g.: "read the full document" next to headings discussing some peace treaty resolving a given conflict...) etc. You should propose something like this idea on the en.wiki village pump! [[User:Biohistorian15|Biohistorian15]] ([[User talk:Biohistorian15|talk]]) 10:01, 27 March 2024 (UTC) ::::: I am dubious about the prospects of such a proposal, but I do like the idea of having featured pages on this project. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 15:47, 27 March 2024 (UTC) ::::::Agreed. [[User:IOHANNVSVERVS|IOHANNVSVERVS]] ([[User talk:IOHANNVSVERVS|talk]]) 16:01, 27 March 2024 (UTC) :::::::Hey, apparently there is an ongoing discussion to that effect though lol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Advertising_sister_projects [[User:Biohistorian15|Biohistorian15]] ([[User talk:Biohistorian15|talk]]) 15:14, 28 March 2024 (UTC) == Is wheel reverting really just as simple as three strikes in 24 hours and you're out? == I asked this question at the VP but thought I should ask you directly, I noticed the other day you created my user talk page and it's been a while since we've interacted. <br> How many times do you think an editor can revert someone before a block is justified? Is the answer different depending on what the page is and who the editors involved are? Is this something an administrator has ever been blocked for doing, if so, I would like to see some links. Does it matter how spaced out the reversions are? I've heard somewhere before that 3 revisions in 24 hours is too many, but what about just 1 revision every day, endlessly? I don't think endlessly undoing edits on your own is a particularly good use of anyone's time, because you could at least make it a team effort to try to demonstrate you are on the right side of the community's consensus, however I'd like to know what is allowed and what isn't and whether it's any more complicated than three strikes and you're out. If that's really how it works than all you would need to do to get another user blocked is wait for them to revert an edit, then, within 24 hours get them to revert you two more times, which seems counterproductive and like it incentivizes the behavior in question. [[User:CensoredScribe|CensoredScribe]] ([[User talk:CensoredScribe|talk]]) 16:01, 27 November 2024 (UTC) == Is requesting arbitration from an administrator on a controversial article prone to reversions acceptable in your opinion? == I think {{u|Ficaia}} doesn't like quotes that aren't at least a hundred years old whereas most of the community will allow them, you are one of the few editors I've seen with an express interest in improving our coverage of science, so perhaps you've encountered similar problems when quoting science journals you've been told haven't met the "test of time" or that are "too technical sounding". Either the admittedly boring science journals used by Wikipedia or the much more interesting entertainment articles not from Wikipedia included on the [https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Abortion Abortion talk page] should be mentioned. If I had to pick one I'd go with the entertainment, because this is the world's most well researched medical procedure and one of the safest, the technical descriptions tend to be similar to one another and the procedure they describe is fairly self-evident. What do you think? [[User:CensoredScribe|CensoredScribe]] ([[User talk:CensoredScribe|talk]]) 16:01, 27 November 2024 (UTC) == Note == Just noting that you're the only one left who can close the interface admin request. [[User:GreenMeansGo|<span style="font-family:Impact"><span style="color:#07CB4B">G</span><span style="color:#449351">M</span><span style="color:#35683d">G</span></span>]][[User talk:GreenMeansGo#top|<sup style="color:#000;font-family:Impact">talk</sup>]] 14:50, 9 October 2025 (UTC) : {{re|GreenMeansGo}} Thanks, I'll be able to have a look at this in about an hour. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 18:13, 9 October 2025 (UTC) : Just to close the loop, this is now done. Cheers! [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 20:02, 9 October 2025 (UTC) == You may be an eligible candidate for the U4C election == <div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr"> Greetings, The [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Universal_Code_of_Conduct/Coordinating_Committee|Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C)]] seeks candidates for the 2026 election. The U4C is the global committee responsible for overseeing enforcement of the [[foundation:Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Universal Code of Conduct|Universal Code of Conduct]]. Elections are held annually, if elected a committee member serves for two years. 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[[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 18:48, 4 May 2026 (UTC) == Changing titles containing ", Jr." to "Jr." == Since you are implementing those changes repeatedly, I would suggest that you add yourself to the pseudo-bot user group so that the changes do not flood recent changes, and once you are done, you can remove yourself from that group. Thank you. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 04:21, 5 July 2026 (UTC) : {{re|Codename Noreste}} I'm done with the page moves at this point. That was all of them. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 04:31, 5 July 2026 (UTC) :: The same applies for repetitive edits to pages, not just page moves. Also, you do not need to grant yourself the bot flag, because you already have pseudo-bot (which you can remove later). [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 16:23, 5 July 2026 (UTC) ::: I frankly don't think this number of edits is that much of a concern to recent changes, in any case. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 19:48, 5 July 2026 (UTC) 9scqewhtepdy2y26gnkpwzfnzwocznw 0 191398 3961092 3818336 2026-07-05T15:28:30Z ~2026-22475-30 3310494 3961092 wikitext text/x-wiki {{DISPLAYTITLE:''The Simpsons''/Season 28}} {{The Simpsons header}} '''''[[w:The Simpsons|The Simpsons]]''''' (1989–present) is an American animated sitcom broadcast by the Fox Broadcasting Company created by [[Matt Groening]]. The series is a satirical depiction of American life, epitomized by the Simpson family. ===''[[w:Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus|Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus]]''=== :'''Marge''': What a beautiful day for a family stroll! :'''Apu''': ''[carrying his octuplets]'' Tell that to my aching back! :'''Bart''': ''[groans]'' It's not a family stroll! Homer forgot where he parked his car last night and now we have to find it! :'''Marge''': What a beautiful day to be in denial! :'''Lisa''': Yeah, Bart, who cares? The sun is shining, birds are singing, people... are... staring up at the sky in terror? :''[the family screams]'' :'''Homer''': Do you see it, Lisa? There's... nothing... there. :'''Milhouse''': And that's where Lard Lad used to be! <hr width=50%> :'''Lou''': Uh... Looks like we better file a report with the Bureau of Missing Statues. :'''Chief Wiggum''': Yeah. Be like that time that Rodin statue got stolen. What was the name of the statue again? Eh, ah, let me think. ''[sits on the statue's base imitating The Thinker]'' Um... thinking. Yeah... Still thinking. Still thinking... <hr width=50%> :'''Kent Brockman''': In response to the outcry, Lard Lad's parent company, Tianjin Mining and Smelting and Donuts, has issued the following statement: "We are rebranding Lard Lad with an updated statue." :'''Homer''': Ooh, rebranding! :'''Lisa''': That just means admitting failure, Dad. :'''Homer''': Ooh, admitting failure! ===''[[w:Friends and Family (The Simpsons)|Friends and Family]]''=== :'''Smithers''': Come on, sir. You'll be late for your appointment. :'''Mr. Burns''': Hush! No one must know I'm not in perfect mental health. The Kaiser would be furious! <hr width=50%> :''[Mr. Burns walks down the medical complex's hallway]'' :'''Doctor 1''': Hip joints! Who wants a hip joint? :'''Doctor 2''': Eyeballs! Can't see without your eyeballs! :'''Doctor 3''': Euthanasia! Sweet, sweet euthanasia! :'''Mr. Burns''': ''Ooh!'' Can I buy it as a gift? :'''Doctor 3''': No! <hr width=50%> :'''Dr. Nussbaum''': I believe last week we were discussing your anger issues. :'''Mr. Burns''': ''[angry]'' Anger issues? Anger issues?! Anger issues? Anger issues?! :'''Dr. Nussbaum''': Yeah all right, I'm afraid our 50 minutes are almost up. :'''Mr. Burns''': Sorry. You were saying? ===''[[w:The Town (The Simpsons)|The Town]]''=== :'''Marge''': I know you're in a hurry to go to the bar to watch football, but first, I want you to put the kids to bed. :'''Homer''': ''Ugh!'' <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': ''[reading The Wizard of Oz]'' Everything after the tornado was a dream. The end! <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': Yay! :'''Lenny''': The only Boston wins is because they cheat! Listening in our teams' headsets, fattening our cheerleaders, you know, for three games last year, Boston used a volleyball painted brown! :'''Boston fan 1''': That was never proven, you Springfield screw-job. :'''Moe''': ''Ugh!'' Boston fans. In town for the [[Dennis Lehane]] book tour. :'''Lenny''': Go kiss a Kennedy, you rule-breaking cranberry squeezers! :'''Boston fan 2''': We don't cheat! We won 12 division titles in ten years, fair and square! :'''Boston fan 1''': You dorks are just jealous of all our championship rings! ''[they start kissing their hands]'' :'''Homer''': You're the one who's jealous. I only wish I could be as jealous as you! :'''Boston fan 1''': Geez, Jay, this place has got more knobs than a hardware store. I hate this town! :'''Jay''': So don't I. Frigging doorknobs ''[they laugh]'' :'''Boston fan 1''': Automatic! ''[they kiss their hands again]'' ===''[[w:Treehouse of Horror XXVII|Treehouse of Horror XXVII]]''=== :''[Sideshow Bob gets out from behind a tree]'' :'''The Simpsons''': Aahh!!! Sideshow Bob! ''[Kang or Kodos gets out from behind a tree]'' Aahh!!! One of you guys! :''[the ghost of Frank Grimes merges from the ground]'' :'''Marge''', '''Bart''' and '''Lisa''': Frank Grimes? :'''Homer''': Who? :'''Frank Grimes''': I'm the guy who hated you. Hated you! Died from my hatred of you!! :'''Homer''': ''[giggles]'' Good old Grimey. <hr width=50%> :'''Sideshow Bob''': To the point, we are evil geniuses who, somehow, lost every battle we've had with Homer Simpson. :'''Homer''': ''[eating tinsels]'' What? :'''Sideshow Bob''': So we decided to form this furious four! :'''Frank Grimes''': Bob, seriously man, one suggestion? Shut up! I mean, the baby is already asleep. :'''Sideshow Bob''': ''Awww.'' <hr width=50%> :'''Frank Grimes''': Will nobody stop these people? ''[clips from all previous episodes appear and a counter goes from 1 to 600]'' Oh, hi. How do you do, Children? I'm Frank Grimes. In [[Hell]], they make you watch them all in a row. Welcome to our 600th Episode. Treehouse of Horror 27. <hr width=50%> :'''Milhouse''': ''[suffocated inside a plastic bag]'' Why did Mom "DOUBLE WRAP"?!?!?!? :'''Frank Grimes''': ''[narrating]'' Chief Clancy Wiggum arrests Lisa and Lisa is arrested for the murder. <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': Attention lovers of studio perfectionism, I drugged all the concessions so you'll do what I say! :'''[[w:Donald Fagen|Donald Fagen]]''': Drugs at a Steely Dan concert? I never thought I see the day. :'''Homer''': Angry mob, kill the intruders. Steely Dan, play "Deacon Blues". No, "Royal Scam". No, "Babylon Sisters". ===''[[w:Trust but Clarify|Trust but Clarify]]''=== :'''Krusty the Clown''': Hey hey! What time is it, kids? :'''Kids''': Product tie-in time! :'''Krusty the Clown''': That's right! I'm introducing a new line of candy so delicious that the Krusty Corporation board of directors will stop threatening to oust me! ''[drum roll]'' Presenting: Krustaceans! They look like shrimp, they taste like candy, and they're organic! Uh... "Clown eats snack"? Uh-oh, this could get ugly. <hr width=50%> :'''Krusty the Clown''': Hey hey, kids! Krusty won't be needing the spit bucket! <hr width=50%> :'''Bart''': ''[eating the candy]'' Mmm! They are good! :'''Lisa''': How did you get them so fast? :'''Bart''': I'm a Krusty Prime member. $75.00 a month, but it's worth it. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': I was in line for that job and I lost it to someone who barely speaks English! It's humidifying. :'''Homer's Ambition''': Well, then why the hell don't you do something about it?! :'''Homer''': Huh? Who said that?! :'''Homer's Ambition''': Me! :'''Homer''': Who are you? :'''Homer's Ambition''': I'm your ambition! :'''Homer''': How come I never met you before? :'''Homer's Ambition''': I've been locked up for 30 years by Apathy and Alcoholism! <hr width=50%> :'''Lisa''': ''[picks up a box of samples]'' We've got to get these samples analyzed. Bart, do you think we'll get out of here safely? :'''Bart''': I think the guard's no problem. :''[The robotic security guard is sleeping on his chair, cuts back to Bart and Lisa tiptoeing while Lisa carrying a box of samples]'' :'''Bart''': Here comes our ride. ===''[[w:There Will Be Buds|There Will Be Buds]]''=== :'''Narrator''': Well, it's the first Saturday in September, and that means one thing in Springfield. It's that time again! Opening day of peewee football! And everybody's headed down to Child Soldier Field to catch all the action! It all comes down to this, the first game of the year, perfect season on the line, and drunks are being rolled off the field. Ladies and gentlemen, your Springfield Neutrinos! <hr width=50%> :'''Lenny''': They over-fogged the run-in! :'''Carl''': They put those kids in danger just to psych up the crowd! ''[yelling]'' Yeah, are you psyched up now? Huh? Are you?! <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': Concussions!! ''[knocks Homer's soda into his hot dogs]'' :'''Homer''': Concessions!! <hr width=50%> :'''Kent Brockman''': Professor, what danger does this concussion threat truly pose? :'''Professor Frink''': Uh... Well, Kent, these children will need their brains unbruised for the demanding, high-tech jobs of the future: polishing and buffing our robot masters. :'''Kent Brockman''': Indeed. And here to defend youth football, we have Nelson's dad. :'''Eddie Muntz''': Are you wearing makeup? :'''Kent Brockman''': Is it worth the risk to your son's health when only point 1% of youth football players make it to the pros? :'''Eddie Muntz''': You saying my boy doesn't have what it takes to play pro ball? Huh! Boy, show him your moves! Juke it, juke it! ===''[[w:Havana Wild Weekend|Havana Wild Weekend]]''=== :'''Kirk''': Okay, vultures... uh... Okay, um... :'''H. K. Duff''': Forget it! I'm out. :'''Kirk''': Uh... Vultures, almost every kid wears a retainer, and that is not cool! ''[shows Milhouse's braces]'' But this retainer is a de-lamer. As it turns this grill from blah to bling! ''[puts a golden retainer on his mouth with "MILHOUSE" written on it]'' :'''Simpson family''': Ooh! :'''Homer''': Oh, now that's a Milhouse I'd marry! ===''[[w:Dad Behavior|Dad Behavior]]''=== :'''Man''': ''[during a couch gag with the memorial of his family]'' Hello? Hello? ''[sits on the couch and holds the remote]'' Finally, I get the remote. <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': Homer, are you ever planning on putting this stuff together? :'''Homer''': Sure, right after I watch this DVD. ''[pushes the TV back to its normal position]'' :'''Marge''': ''[groans]'' Just what are you watching that's so important? ''[grabs the DVD case]'' ''Outstanding College Mascot Fights''? :'''Homer''': S.E.C. edition. ===''[[w:The Last Traction Hero|The Last Traction Hero]]''=== :'''Homer''': No parking spots? Lousy butt-kissers coming in before noon, eating donuts are rightfully mine. ''[stops at a smart car]'' D'oh! Stupid smart car. ''[spots at an SUV]'' D'oh! Spot hogging SUV. ''[spots a sinkhole with two vehicles inside it]'' D'oh! Inconvenient sinkhole! ''[spots at a parking sign: "Created by [[Matt Groening]]"]'' D'oh! Mandatory credit! ''[spots at another parking sign: "Developed by [[James L. Brooks]], [[Matt Groening]] & Sam Simon"]'' D'oh! "Developed By"? What does that even mean? ''[spots at an empty parking space]'' It's empty! ===''[[w:The Nightmare After Krustmas|The Nightmare After Krustmas]]''=== ===''[[w:Pork and Burns|Pork and Burns]]''=== ===''[[w:The Great Phatsby|The Great Phatsby, Part 1]]''=== :'''Homer''': ''[narrating]'' In my younger and more vulnerable years, my father gave me some advice. He said, "The laziest way to tell a story is through voice-over narration." :'''Homer''': ''[A mistake is made when he is on about the eating habits of the golden goose]'' "He eats just like I do, without swallowing." ''[This should have said chewing instead of swallowing]'' ===''[[w:The Great Phatsby|The Great Phatsby, Part 2]]''=== :'''Moe''': ''[narrating]'' [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]] once wrote: "There are no second acts in American lives." But he never said anything about second parts in American TV shows. ===''[[w:Fatzcarraldo|Fatzcarraldo]]''=== ===''[[w:The Cad and the Hat|The Cad and the Hat]]''=== :'''Bart''': Who the hell are you? :'''Bart's Guilt''': I'm your guilt. :'''Bart''': I don't have any guilt. :'''Bart's Guilt''': You do now. :'''Bart's Denial''': Don't worry, Bart. I'll protect you. I'm Denial. :''[Bart's Guilt kills Bart's Denial and throws him out the window]'' :'''Bart''': Ay, caramba! ===''[[w:Kamp Krustier|Kamp Krustier]]''=== ===''[[w:22 for 30|22 for 30]]''=== :'''Bart''': Okay, here's a shot: you're not bald, your hair left out of embarrassment. :'''Homer''': ''[turns red in anger]'' Why, you little.... ''[he grabs Bart's neck with a towel to strangle him, Bart throws his basketball into the hoop]'' I'll teach you to win the game! ''[angrily strangles Bart]'' You stupid buzzer-beating, clutch-shooting ice water in your veins here comes the post-game interview! You have to give them credit they played hard! :'''Bart''': Oh, come on, man. I'm taking my talents to Shelbyville. This is the first thing you've done as a coach. People are gonna hear about this, Dad. :'''Homer''': I'm so proud of these boys, and especially our sixth man and knights. :'''Bart''': You're still nicer than Bobby Knight. :'''Homer''': ''[stops strangling Bart, turns his face normal]'' All right, let me hear your side. ===''[[w:A Father's Watch|A Father's Watch]]''=== :'''Marge''': I had a nightmare where that happened to Bart, but I never told you about it. <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': Wait a minute? :'''Homer''': D’oh? <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Oh, Bart, look what brought you got now for later. ===''[[w:Caper Chase|Caper Chase]]''=== :''[Mr. Burns is aghast at the rampant political correctness at Yale University]'' :'''Mr. Burns''': This was the home of ruthless media disruptor [[w:Samuel Morse|Samuel F. B. Morse]]! Who's his successor? That fellow? ''[gestures towards a student]'' :'''Yale Student''': "Fellow"! That term is cisgender normative, okay?! You're worse than Hitler! :'''Mr. Burns''': Too late for flattery. I'm not giving this school a dime. ===''[[w:Looking for Mr. Goodbart|Looking for Mr. Goodbart]]''=== :'''Lisa''': A Skunk-a-san! ''[Homer tries to throw Pokeballs at the skunk but it does not work]'' Why can't I capture you? ''[moves myPhone away, revealing a real skunk]'' Aah! It's real! ''[skunk sprays Homer]'' D'oh! ''[starts to lose consciousness then drops. cut to garage where Homer is in a tomato sauce bath]'' :'''Bart''': Sprayed by a skunk. dad, that game is too dangerous. ===''[[w:Moho House|Moho House]]''=== ===''[[w:Dogtown (The Simpsons)|Dogtown]]''=== :'''GPS''': Turn left. :'''Homer''': You're the driver. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Okay, kids. Give me your best worried looks. Ooh, that's good worried. Maggie, when we visit Gil, you should think about your mom and me disappearing forever, every time we step behind a wall. <hr width=50%> :'''Lisa''': Mr. Gunderson, they don't let saxophones in the ICU, so I'll just tell you the song I wrote for you. 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They are his Court, and in his [[name]] they [[defraud]] and [[govern]], [[enrich]] themselves and perpetuate their [[power]]. Even [[literacy]] they [[fear]], for the [[written]] [[word]] is another channel of [[communication]] that might cause their [[enemies]] to become [[united]]. Their [[weapons]] are keen-honed, and they use them with [[skill]]. They will press the [[battle]] upon the [[world]] when their [[Conflict of interest|interests are threatened]], and the [[violence]] which follows will last until the structure of [[society]] as it [[now]] exists is leveled to rubble, and a new society emerges. I am sorry: But that is how I [[see]] it. | author = Walter M. 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The show focuses on the Special Victims Unit, a special squad dealing with sex crimes and crimes against children. ===''Alternate'' [9.01]=== :'''Benson''': What's going on? :'''Captain Cragen''': I've been temporarily reassigned. Chief of D's office. :'''Benson''': Why? :'''Captain Cragen''': You aided your fugitive brother, Elliot covered up his kid's DUI, Fin's stepson butchered two people and walked. Somebody's gotta take the heat. :'''Benson''': But we're the ones who screwed up. :'''Captain Cragen''': On my command. 1PP calls that "failure to supervise". :'''Benson''': That's insane! :'''Stabler''': You want insane? Guess who they put in charge. :'''Munch''': I had nothin' to do with that! If drafted, I will not run, if elected, I will not serve. :'''Fin''': You are lyin' like a politician. You took the Sergeant's' exam right behind our back. What's up with that? :'''Munch''': I took it last year on a bar bet. :'''Captain Cragen''': ''[hands Munch his key]'' Enjoy your new office, Sergeant Munch. Don't let the power get to your head. :'''Lake''': It was an honor serving under you, sir. :'''Captain Cragen''': I'm not dead yet, Detective Lake. :'''Stabler''': We'll get you back, Captain. :'''Captain Cragen''': Try and behave yourselves. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Munch:''' I knew there was something hinky about her. It was so obvious. :'''Fin:''' Did superpowers come with that promotion? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Dr. Huang''': ''[about Janis]'' Tell me about her alters. :'''Benson''': So far we've seen Dr. Young, a little girl, and a mean Russian. :'''Stabler''': And I bet she does a great Christopher Walken too. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lake:''' ''[to Fin]'' I'm not saying I didn't see crazies in Brooklyn, but you guys are cuckoo magnets. ===''Avatar'' [9.02]=== :'''Eric''': I'm about to seriously freak out 5,000,000 people. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lauren''': I've loved him since I was 15. What? You think a 15 year old can't fall in love. :'''Stabler''': I have teenage daughters who fall in love all the time. ===''Impulsive'' [9.03]=== :'''Benson''': Casey, you're drowning right now and, unless Stabler can convince that guy to change his mind, I can’t even throw you a life jacket. :'''Novak''': I'm a big girl. I know how to swim. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Stabler''': Earl Romaine, you're under arrest for the rape of Shane Mills. :'''Romaine''': Screw you. :'''Lake''': Sorry, you're not his type. ===''Savant'' [9.04]=== :''[Detectives attempt to solve the horrible beating of a woman, the only witness to which is her mentally impaired daughter, who has [[w:Williams Syndrome|Williams Syndrome]].]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Katie''': I'm Katie. :'''[[w:John Q. Munch|Munch]]''': Sergeant Munch. :'''Katie''': Munch. That's funny. Can I have a hug, Munch? :'''Munch''': No, you may not. I'm a stranger. You shouldn't even be talking to me. :'''Katie''': Okay. Bye. :''[she walks up to Fin's desk]'' :'''Fin''': Somethin' I could do for you? :'''Katie''': Are you mad at me? :'''Fin''': Didn't Sergeant Munch just tell you not to talk to strangers? :''[Katie nods; Fin winks at her and signals her to leave him]'' <hr width="50%"/> :''[After interviewing a group therapy group for parents of neuro-atypical children]'' :'''[[w:Olivia Benson|Benson]]:''' How's Kathy? :'''[[w:Elliot Stabler|Stabler]]:''' Over 40 and having a baby. I just can't stop thinking about all the bad things that could happen. :'''Benson:''' So why don't you see a doctor? :'''Stabler:''' We're Catholic. Means it's better not to know. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Woman in clinic:''' ''[To Fin and Lake]'' Has the doctor told you if it's a boy or a girl? :'''[[w:Fin Tutuola|Fin]]:''' Excuse me? :'''Woman:''' It's so hard for gay couples to adopt. A surrogate's really your only option. ''[Fin and Lake look at each other.]'' I don't get why they think that it's better to keep kids in the system than to send them into a gay home. You seem like a nice couple to me. :''[Lake grins broadly and puts his hand on Fin's thigh. Fin looks incredulous.]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Stabler:''' And now we can't touch him? :'''[[w:Donald Cragen|Captain Cragen]]:''' The Patriot Act trumps rape and attempted murder every time. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Porter:''' You'll force me to make a formal complaint. :'''Fin:''' Where you shove that is up to you. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Casey Novak|Novak]]:''' What would I be up against using Katie as a witness? :'''Munch:''' Anxiety, ADD, and they have trouble taking criticism. :'''Fin:''' That sounds like you, Munch. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Nicholson:''' ''[Opens his door to find Novak, Stabler, and Fin standing outside]'' Get the hell away from my door. You've got people thinking I tried to kill my wife. :'''Stabler:''' We need to speak to your daughter. :'''Nicholson:''' No, you will not speak to her. Not now, not ever. You've got her anxious and upset now leave her alone. ''[Tries to close door]'' :'''Novak:''' ''[Blocks the door]'' I'm Assistant District Attorney Casey Novak. Here's how this is going to play out. Now we ''will'' end up at a hearing and the judge will side with me, because you cannot stop us from questioning the only witness to the attack. :'''Nicholson:''' I'm her father. :'''Novak:''' And your also a suspect Mr. Nicholson. It's about time you faced facts. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Novak:''' The ''Patriot Act.'' This convoluted piece of legislature isn't worth the paper it's written on. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Stabler:''' Do you care at all or is this guy just a pawn to you? :'''Porter:''' You're a bastard. :'''Stabler:''' I get that a lot. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Novak is attempting to prove that Katie can sworn-in at a trial]'' :'''Novak:''' Your honor, I submit that this witness can be sworn. :'''Judge Petrovsky:''' So ordered. ''[bangs gavel]'' :'''Katie:''' ''[puts her hands over her ears in pain]'' Don't do that! :'''Novak:''' She has very sensitive hearing. :'''Judge Petrovsky:''' I... I'm sorry. :'''Katie:''' That's okay. Can I have a hug? :'''Judge Petrovsky:''' ''[awkwardly]'' No. Maybe later. ===''Harm'' [9.05]=== :'''Stabler''': Security cameras across the globe. Munch'll never leave his house again. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Dr. Warner''': ''[about the torture Sutton performed on Iraqi prisoners]'' So much for 2500 years of 'first do no harm'. :'''Dr. Huang''': That's a little black and white. :'''Dr. Warner''': Sorry, I didn't realize the Hippocratic Oath was written in shades of grey. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Dr. Sutton''': Our country is at war. I have skills that can help. Do you really expect me not to use them? :'''Dr. Warner''': You took an oath. You don't get to take a time-out because we're at war, because it's difficult to uphold. The oath was written for times like these. ===''Svengali'' [9.06]=== :'''Benson''': You mutilated women. :'''Morten''': There's beauty in everyone. Sometimes you have to dig deep to find it. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Fin''': Someone tried to bust my eardrums, I'm gonna bust they ass!! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Novak''': Well, you were great. :'''Morten''': Did you like it? Bet you didn't know what was gonna happen next. :'''Novak''': You put on quite a show. You got her off, she's going to a psych ward. :'''Morten''': Is that a frown on your pretty face? :'''Novak''': Actually, I think Cecilia is going exactly where she belongs. So are you. :'''Morten''': You're backing out on the deal. :'''Novak''': No, you're being transferred to a federal prison. :'''Morten''': I thought you'd be a sore loser. :'''Novak''': You're gonna love Florence Super Max. 23-hour lockdown, no visitors, no mail, no phone calls. No human contact for the rest of your life. :'''Morten''': You can't do that to me. :'''Novak''': Why don't you wave bye to all of your fans? :'''Morten''': We made a deal. :'''Novak''': And it's a masterpiece. How do you like my work? :'''Morten''': ''[as the cops take him to their squad car]'' You used me! You set me up! This isn't right! It's not fair! ===''Blinded'' [9.07]=== :'''Stabler''': You know, I'm gonna have a child in a month. That's scary enough. But the thought that I was never gonna be able to see that child, that terrified me. Saul Picard? Bring him on. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Saul''': I don't deserve to live. Don't you understand? If the state thinks that killin' me will stop one pervert from doing what I did to those poor little girls, then it's worth it. Please. Let me go home to die. <hr width="50%"/> :'''McCoy''': Congratulations. :'''Novak''': For what? :'''McCoy''': The excellent job you did as Saul Picard's defense attorney. Judge Bradley called me. :'''Novak''': Jack, I... :'''McCoy''': I told him he must be mistaken, since I only have prosecutors working in this office. At least I thought I did. Until I got this. ''[hands Novak a notice]'' :'''Novak''': Who gave this to you? :'''McCoy''': What matters is what's in it. 5 years ago, the cops responded to a disturbance call in your apartment. You told the officers it was a mistake, but it isn't true, is it? :'''Novak''': My fiancee Charlie, he attacked me. He was a schizophrenic, and he was off his medication. When the police saw the cuts and bruises on my face and neck, they wanted to arrest Charlie. But I thought I could help him. So, I identified myself as an ADA, and I begged them not to take him in. :'''McCoy''': You abused the authority of this office for personal reasons back then, just like you're doing now! :'''Novak''': Sick people like Saul Picard shouldn't be put to death! :'''McCoy''': The last time I checked, the Supreme Court still says you can't execute a mentally ill person in this country. :'''Novak''': And what if a jury found him responsible, because he was lucid when he decided to stop taking his medication? :'''McCoy''': That's not your problem. That's why he has a defense attorney. :'''Novak''': No defense attorney could make a jury see past what he did to those little girls. :'''McCoy''': So you weren't about to take a chance he'd be convicted? :'''Novak''': Because he belongs in a hospital, not a prison cell, and you know it. :'''McCoy''': I'll tell you what I know. You're going to stay on this case through the 730 hearing, and you're going to behave yourself, because if you don't, I'm not only going to fire you. I'll make sure the bar yanks your license. And if you don't think I have the juice to do it, try me. ===''Fight'' [9.08]=== :'''[[w:Odafin Tutuola|Fin]]:''' ''[Looking at an internet photo of Lake in a boxing ring.]'' Get outta here. That's not you. :'''[[w:Chester Lake (Law & Order)|Lake]]:''' Bet your ass it is. :'''[[w:Donald Cragen|Captain Cragen]]:''' ''[reads]'' "Naptime Wins in A.C." :'''Fin:''' What, they call you Naptime because your boring stories put everybody to sleep? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Fin:''' Kona woulda beat yo' ass. :'''Lake:''' I would've held my own ... for a couple of rounds. :'''Fin:''' I would've liked to see that. Don't expect me to cry at your funeral. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Fin:''' ''[studying a Confederate flag on a frat house's wall.]'' 'sup with that flag? :'''Frat boy:''' KDA was founded by a direct descendant of [[Jefferson Davis]]. We're very proud of our heritage. :'''Fin:''' You know you lost the war. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Clerk''': Docket ending 2500. People v. Jadon Odami. :'''Judge Cohen''': On the charge of murder in the second degree, how do you plead? :'''Woodrow''': Not guilty, your honor. :'''Jadon''': That's not what I told you to say. :'''Woodrow''': You were coerced during interrogation. :'''Novak''': Your honor, there was no coercion. The defendant freely confessed. :'''Woodrow''': Really? What, his mother just happened to pop in during the middle of his interview? :'''Jadon''': Your honor, I killed Julie Donovan. I plead guilty. :'''Judge Cohen''': Listen to your attorney, son. :'''Jadon''': ''[turns to his attorney]'' You fired. ''[unamused, Woodrow shakes his head and leaves the courtroom]'' Okay. He's not my lawyer now. ===''Paternity'' [9.09]=== :''[Stabler and Benson just found out that Tommy isn't Jake's son and are walking through the precinct hallway while discussing whether or not to tell Jake]'' :'''Benson''': He has the right to know. :'''Stabler''': It's not our place to tell him. :'''Benson''': Jake is raising a child that biologically isn't his. He's married to a woman who's being unfaithful. You think that ignorance is bliss? :'''Stabler''': First of all, Tommy ''is'' his son. And Jake is the only father he's ever known. Now they love each other. Why do you want to mess with that? :'''Benson''': Because it's not fair to Jake or Tommy. :'''Stabler''': If Leah Keegan wants to tell her husband that Tommy's not his, that's her choice, not ours. :''[Benson spots Jake sitting in a chair, having overheard what Stabler just said]'' :'''Jake''': What do you mean? Tommy's not my son? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Stabler''': Kathy wants to name him after me. :'''Benson''': Just what the world needs. Another Elliot Stabler. ===''Snitch'' [9.10]=== :'''Sarah''': In Northern Mozambique, women can have many husbands, so shouldn't it be my choice to decide what kind of marriage I want? :'''Stabler''': And if you want to marry a cat? <hr width="50%"/> :'''King''': ''[as Danielson walks by]'' Nice booty. :'''Danielson''': Oh yeah? Watch it kick your ass! <hr width=50%"/> :'''Danielson''': Please tell the jury what happened. :'''Chuckwei''': I was walking home from work on 168th Street when I saw a man beat a boy with a metal pipe. :'''Danielson''': ''[shows a photo of the victim]'' This is the victim, Damon Moore. Is he the boy you saw? :'''Chuckwei''': Yes. :'''Danielson''': And the man who beat him to death, is he in this courtroom? :''[in a moment of silence, Chuckwei stares at King, who stares back; afterwards, Chuckwei points at him]'' :'''Chuckwei''': That is the man. There. :'''King''': He's a liar. The cops are makin' him lie! :'''Brayden''': Dennis, shut up! :'''Chuckwei''': No! NO! ''[jumps out of his seat]'' You murdered that boy in front of a crowd of people! And in front of GOD!! :'''King''': ''[storms out of his seat, topples the table, and charges at Chuckwei]'' You're a dead man! You're a dead man! Ya hear me?! :''[Stabler grabs King and pins him to the ground]'' :'''Judge''': Order! ORDER! Get the jury out of here! Court officers! :''[the court officers grab King]'' :'''King''': Get 'em off! Get off me! ''[to Chuckwei]'' You're dead! Your family's dead! Everything you love is dead! You're dead! :'''Judge''': Take the defendant to lockup! :''[Benson and Stabler walk up to Chuckwei]'' :'''Benson''': Are you okay? :'''Chuckwei''': Yes. I'm no longer afraid. ===''Streetwise'' [9.11]=== :''[The rape and murder of a wealthy teen seems to point detectives to a gang of street kids.]'' :'''[[w:Chester Lake (Law & Order)|Lake]]:''' The earring was hawked by Sunshine Smith, who lives at 6789 Peekaboo Lane. That's a fairy tale, friend. :'''Pawn shop owner:''' Now that you read it back to me, it does sound a tad bit suspicious. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Reviewing pawnshop tape]'' :'''Lake:''' Man, you know it's illegal for underage kids to pawn. :'''Pawn shop owner:''' Hey, guy gotta eat. :'''[[w:Odafin Tutuola|Fin]]:''' You need to go on a diet. <hr width="50%"/> :''[As Stabler handcuffs Cole]'' :'''Cole:''' You're gonna break my wrists! :'''[[w:Elliot Stabler|Stabler]]:''' I'm Irish, but I'm not that lucky. ===''Signature'' [9.12]=== :''[Benson works with FBI profiling agent Lauren Cooper when a dead man and woman are found in central park due to an anonymous tip. The woman is though to have been killed by a serial killer called 'the woodsman'.]'' :'''Agent Cooper''': I don't think we need to hear anymore. :'''[[w:Melinda Warner|Dr. Warner]]''': I speak for the dead and I'm not done. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Agent Cooper''':''[about woman's body]'' At least he didn't chop her up into little pieces. At least he let her keep her head. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Olivia Benson|Benson]]''': Are you Lavender? :'''Lavender''': Its La-''van''-der! Do I look like a damn flower to you? <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Olivia Benson|Benson]]''':''[to Cooper]'' Are you okay? :'''Cooper''':''[crying]'' No. I said I wasn't used to dealing with victims. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Benson is preparing to interrogate Cooper]'' :'''Cooper''': You must get a lot of confessions in here. Can't wait to unburden the soul, confirm your deepest suspicions. They want absolution. They want to be able to sleep at night. :'''Benson''': Can you sleep at night, Lauren? :'''Cooper''': I sleep. Just. Fine. <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Chester Lake (Law & Order)|Lake]]:''' ''[to himself]'' I'm gonna blow your freakin' brains out. :'''CSU Tech:''' ''[Overhearing]'' You better not be talkin' to me. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Benson''': Just how close were you 2? :'''Cooper''': He was like a father to me! :'''Benson''': Is that what they're calling it these days? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Cragen''': ''(about Agent Cooper)'' She executed Mr. Moore :'''Chief Muldrew''': You mean the ''serial killer.'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Novak''': It doesn't matter what he did, Larry Moore was murdered. That is a Class-A fellony. :'''Lydia''': I presume you live on Planet Earth. Where're you going to find a jury pool that doesn't think the guy deserves to die? :'''Novak''': That has no baring on the law. :'''Lydia''': Explain that to ''John Q. Public''. There'll be months of media spinning. Trotting out the murdered womans family members in support of a ''rogue'' FBI agent. :'''Novak''': Agent Cooper stalked and shot a man in Central Park and you want to give her a pass? :'''Lydia''': This office is not going to let you spend $2,000,000, on a case you can't win. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Cooper''': ''[As Lake and Benson arrive to arrest her]'' Proud of yourself? :'''Benson''': I would have been proud to help you collar the bastard who murdered 24 women. That would have satisfied me. :'''Cooper''': That wasn't good enough. :'''Benson''': ''[Quickly takes away Cooper's gun]'' Why not? :'''Cooper''': You know why. How many dead babies have you stood over? How many rape victims? You can't tell me you never wanted to put your gun under the bastard's chin who raped a 2-year old. :'''Benson''': ''[pause]'' I have too much to lose. :'''Cooper''': I don't. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Benson begs Cooper to make a deal and mitigate her sentence]'' :'''Benson''': Take the deal, Lauren. It's a way out. :'''Cooper''': No. :'''Benson''': Why the hell not? :'''Cooper''': Because those who fight monsters better make damn sure they don't become them. ''[pulls out her gun]'' :'''Lake:''' GUN!! :''[Cooper shoots herself]'' <hr width="50%"/> ===''Unorthodox'' [9.13]=== :''[A 12-year old Jewish boy is sexually assaulted, and the search for his rapist leads Benson and Stabler into the Hassidic community.]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Stabler:''' You know, I was up all night with the baby. And it got me thinking. :'''Novak:''' You want me to send Jack to Family Court. :'''Stabler:''' I want to do what's right, Casey. :'''Novak:''' Sleep deprivation's making you soft, Elliot. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Munch''': You can tell the Grand Rebbe he can kiss my tuchus. My Yiddish is a little rusty, but I'm pretty sure they just told our friend here to keep us away from the synagogue. ===''Inconceivable'' [9.14]=== :'''Benson''': What they are doing is trapping her in a child's body forever. :'''Stabler''': Parents have to make hard choices. This last pregnancy, Kathy was over 40. That carries a higher risk of things like [[Down Syndrome]]. :'''Benson''': And, you know what? Eli turned out perfect, so spare me the perils of women over 40 having babies. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Clerk''': Docket ending 25801. People vs. James and Victoria Grall. One count assault in the second degree, one count grand larceny, one count burglary. :'''Judge Petrovsky''': How do you plead? :'''James''': Not guilty, your honor. :'''Eva''': They should be charged with murder! :'''Judge Petrovsky''': Court officers, remove this woman! :''[the court officers escort Eva out of the courtroom as James and Victoria look on with remorse]'' :'''James''': She's right. We ''should'' be charged with murder. :'''Judge Petrovsky''': Would the People like to amend the charge? :'''Novak''': No, your honor. The defendants are only grandstanding to further their political agenda. :'''James''': If you were fit for your job, you'd seek justice for these lost souls. :'''Victoria''': It was an accident. :'''Judge Petrovsky''': Mr. Hunter, control your clients. :'''Hunter''': As your honor well knows, according to New York law, life does not begin until a baby draws breath. :'''James''': It begins at the moment of conception. :'''Novak''': Even in the cases of abandoned newborns, a murder charge cannot be brought if it's determined the infant was stillborn. :'''Judge Petrovsky''': The charges stand. :'''Hunter''': Actually, your honor, the grand larceny should be dropped to ''petty'' larceny. Human bodies cannot legally be sold, and therefore have no monetary value. :'''Novak''': The couples who went to Hudson Cryobank each spent tens of thousands of dollars to get those embryos. :'''Hunter''': That was for services provided. It wasn't a sticker price of an embryo. :'''Judge Petrovsky''': That's an issue for your trial judge. I'll add on the lesser charge and hear the People as to bail. :'''Novak''': $100,000 each. :'''Hunter''': Excessive. The defendants are not a flight risk. They have ties to the community. :'''Judge Petrovsky''': Bail is set at 10,000 each, cash or bond. ''[bangs gavel]'' Next case. ===''Undercover'' [9.15]=== :''[Fin catches Harris trying to rape Benson]'' :'''Fin''': Let her go now! :'''Harris''': Get the hell outta here! :'''Fin''': Police! Move away from her! Move away! :'''Harris''': She's trying to escape! :'''Fin''': And you had to drop your pants to stop her? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Benson''': Lowell Harris, you're under arrest for raping Ashley Tyler. :'''Fin''': And the attempted murder of a police officer. :'''Harris''': You're a cop? :'''Benson''': Who's the bitch now? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Benson''': Seventeen years as a corrections officer. Eleven different prisons. It says here that the first ten stops were maximum security men's facilities. :'''Harris''': I go where I'm told. :'''Benson''': You go where you're not gonna get your ass kicked. :'''Harris''': [pauses] What are you talking about? :'''Benson''': I read your evaluations. They dumped you at Sealview because you didn't have the balls to handle men. :'''Harris''': Shut up. :'''Benson''': You know what I think? I think you hate women. That's why you rape them. And if you hate women so much, that must mean that you like men. :''[Harris jumps up]'' :'''Harris''': Shut up. Shut up, you filthy whore. Do you understand me? :'''Benson''': Did I strike a nerve? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Benson''': He almost killed me. :'''Hunter''': He didn't know you were a cop. :'''Benson''': And that gives him the right to attack me? :'''Hunter''': The law gives Officer Harris every right to strike an inmate to force compliance! :'''Benson''': But not the right to try and rape me!! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Dr. Warner''': How'd you know to ask Ashley about the mole? :'''Benson''': ''[evasive]'' She remembered. :'''Dr. Warner''': But you couldn't have known she was right. :'''Benson''': ''[pause]'' I saw it... when he had me in the basement. :'''Dr. Warner''': Olivia, did he rape you? :'''Benson''': ''[quietly]'' It's the closest I've ever come. ===''Closet'' [9.16]=== :'''Stabler''': Where were you last night? :'''Ramirez''': Hanging with friends. :'''Stabler''': Doing what? :'''Ramirez''': Stuff. :'''Stabler''': Where? :'''Ramirez''': Around. :'''Stabler''': Okay, hey -- I want you to start answering my questions in complete sentences. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Balthus''': My client doesn't know what happened that night, he's confused. :'''Novak''': What, he confused committing murder with a little slap and tickle? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Lincoln''': ''[after his brain damage has forced him to retire from football]'' I had it all. Career, someone I loved ... football gave me everything. Then took it all away. ===''Authority'' [9.17]=== :'''Munch''': "Just following orders." That's the preferred defense of every war criminal from [[Adolf Eichmann|Eichmann]] to [[Milosevic]]. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Rook is holding Benson hostage and trying to get Stabler to inflict pain on her via remote control]'' :'''Rook''': I put my faith in a little god in a white coat and he killed my wife and son. PUSH THE BUTTON! :'''Stabler''': No. :''[Rook pushes the button and a female voice screams]'' :'''Rook''': PUSH … THE … BUTTON!!! :'''Stabler''': I can't do it. :'''Rook''': No? Why? :'''Stabler''': Too many people have suffered already. :'''Rook''': Then you, Elliot Stabler, are a human being. Congratulations, you are not a sheep like I was. You're a man. Thank you. <hr width=50%"/> :'''Rook''': Where are you taking me? :'''Benson''': Central Booking. :'''Rook''': May I tie my shoe? :''[Benson and Stabler exchange an irritated glance]'' :'''Stabler''': Yeah, sure. Go ahead. :'''Rook''': Thank you. :''[Rook activates a detonator that is tied to his ankle causing the studio to explode; the blast knocks all three of them to the ground]'' ===''Trade'' [9.18]=== :'''Bartlett''': Great body. :'''Benson''': Excuse me? :'''Bartlett''': The coffee. Though I`ll bet yours is smooth and robust. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bartlett''': I didn't bribe anyone. :'''Novak''': ''[sarcastically]'' No. That $50,000 payment to juror #4 was charity. ===''Cold'' [9.19]=== :'''Novak''': What are you selling, Brett? :'''Smith''': Criminal Defense. :'''Novak''': Yeah, hard to imagine. :'''Smith''': You've worked sex crimes longer than most and you're still passionate, we need you. :'''Novak''': Yeah, well, it's harder to care when your clients are guilty. :'''Smith''': Ours are accused of SEC violations, not diddling some 4-year-old on the playground. :'''Novak''': Look, I'm sorry. I have to go. :'''Smith''': No more late night calls, no more rape victims and dead kids. How do you sleep at night? :'''Novak''': I don't. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Novak enters Judge Donnelly's chambers]'' :'''Novak''': You wanted to see me, Judge Donnelly? :'''Judge Donnelly''': Yes. The DA is declining to re-file charges against Thomas Crane. :'''Novak''': He raped and murdered Alisa Hernandez, and he gets to keep his badge? :'''Judge Donnelly''': Because of your actions, counselor. :'''Novak''': With all due respect, ma'am, this doesn't concern you. :'''Judge Donnelly''': It does now. ''[hands Novak a notice]'' :'''Novak''': I'm being called before the bar. :'''Judge Donnelly''': At my insistence. :'''Novak''': Why? :'''Judge Donnelly''': Because you lost perspective. And because I sit on the peer review board, and I cannot allow you to commit a Brady violation and lie to the court without consequence. :'''Novak''': The reports weren't finished, your honor! I sent them back! :'''Judge Donnelly''': You lied to Petrovsky, and now, you are lying to me. The lab reports were dated and stamped! We are civil servants, Casey! No one is falling on their sword for you. What I want to know is why. :'''Novak''': Because the bad guys can't always win. He deserved to pay. :'''Judge Donnelly''': And so do you. :'''Novak''': How much trouble am I in? :'''Judge Donnelly''': Censure. Possible suspension. :'''Novak''': For how long? :'''Judge Donnelly''': A year. Maybe more. :'''Novak''': What should I do? :'''Judge Donnelly''': Something else. ==External links== [[Category:Law & Order: Special Victims Unit seasons]] s5hcxhexwjj95p1529e25c8s5rdkwu5 0 195784 3961143 3888895 2026-07-05T16:26:19Z BD2412 3982 /* ''Hopeless'' [5.04] */ Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]], replaced: Kingman Brewster, Jr. → Kingman Brewster Jr. using [[Project:AWB|AWB]] 3961143 wikitext text/x-wiki {{italic title}} ---- :'''Season''' [[Criminal Minds (season 1)|1]] [[Criminal Minds (season 2)|2]] [[Criminal Minds (season 3)|3]] [[Criminal Minds (season 4)|4]] [[Criminal Minds (season 5)|5]] [[Criminal Minds (season 6)|6]] [[Criminal Minds (season 7)|7]] [[Criminal Minds (season 8)|8]] [[Criminal Minds (season 9)|9]] [[Criminal Minds (season 10)|10]] [[Criminal Minds (season 11)|11]] [[Criminal Minds (season 12)|12]] [[Criminal Minds (season 13)|13]] [[Criminal Minds (season 14)|14]] [[Criminal Minds (season 15)|15]] | ''[[Criminal Minds: Evolution]]'' | [[Criminal Minds|'''Main''']] ---- '''''[[Criminal Minds]]''''' (2005–2020) is an American television show, airing on [[w:CBS|CBS]], about an elite squad of FBI profilers that analyzes the country's most twisted criminal minds and anticipates their next move before they strike again. ===''Nameless, Faceless'' [5.01]=== :'''[[w:David Rossi|David Rossi]]''': [[Karl Kraus (writer)|Karl Kraus]] said, "A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards." ===''Haunted'' [5.02]=== :'''[[w:Aaron Hotchner|Aaron Hotchner]]''': [[Emily Dickinson]] wrote, "One need not be a chamber to be haunted; one need not be a house. The brain has corridors surpassing material place." <hr width="50%"/> :'''Aaron Hotchner''': "There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man." [[Polybius]] ===''Reckoner'' [5.03]=== :'''[[w:David Rossi|David Rossi]]''': "Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical." [[Blaise Pascal]] <hr width="50%"/> :'''David Rossi''': "I have always found that mercy bears richer fruit than strict justice." [[Abraham Lincoln]] ===''Hopeless'' [5.04]=== :'''[[w:Derek Morgan (Criminal Minds)|Derek Morgan]]''': [[Kingman Brewster Jr.|Kingman Brewster Jr.]] said, "There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness." <hr width="50%"/> :'''Derek Morgan''': [[William Shakespeare]] wrote, "These violent delights have violent ends." ===''Cradle to Grave'' [5.05]=== :'''[[w:Jennifer Jareau|Jennifer Jareau]]''': Journalist William D. Tammeus wrote, "You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around and why his parents will always wave back." ===''The Eyes Have It'' [5.06]=== :'''[[w:Derek Morgan (Criminal Minds)|Derek Morgan]]''': "And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee." [[Gospel of Matthew|Matthew]] 5:29 <hr width="50%"/> :'''Derek Morgan''': "Dwell in peace in the home of your own being and the messenger of death will not be able to touch you." [[Guru Nanak]] ===''The Performer'' [5.07]=== :'''[[w:Spencer Reid|Spencer Reid]]''': "In all the darkest pages of the malign supernatural, there is no more terrible tradition than that of the vampire, a pariah even among demons." Writer [[w:Montague Summers|Montague Summers]] <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Emily Prentiss|Emily Prentiss]]''': Writer [[Cyril Connolly]] said, "Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self." ===''Outfoxed'' [5.08]=== :'''[[w:Derek Morgan (Criminal Minds)|Derek Morgan]]''': "Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it's an enemy." [[Albert Einstein]] ===''100'' [5.09]=== :'''[[w:Aaron Hotchner|Aaron Hotchner]]''': "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." [[Friedrich Nietzsche]] <hr width="50%"/> :'''Aaron Hotchner''': Poet [[w:Haniel Long|Haniel Long]] said, "So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty." ===''The Slave of Duty'' [5.10]=== :'''[[w:Aaron Hotchner|Aaron Hotchner]]''': [[W. S. Gilbert]] wrote, "It's love that makes the world go round." And if that's true, then the world spun a little faster with Haley in it. Haley was my best friend since we were in high school. We certainly had our struggles, but if there's one thing we agreed on unconditionally, it was our love and commitment to our son Jack. Haley's love for Jack was joyous and fierce. That fierceness is why she isn't here today. A mother's love is an unrivaled force of nature. And we can all learn much from the way Haley lived her life. Haley's death causes each of us to stop and take stock of our lives; to measure who we are and what we've become. I don't have all those answers for myself, but I know who Haley was. She was the woman who died protecting the child we brought into this world together. And I will make sure that Jack grows up knowing who his mother was and how she loved and protected him and how much I loved her. If Haley were with us today, she would ask us not to mourn her death but to celebrate her life. She would tell us... She would tell us to love our families unconditionally and to hold them close, because in the end, they are all that matter. I met Haley at the tryouts of our high school's production of ''[[The Pirates of Penzance]]''. I found our copy of the play and I was looking through it the other night, and I came upon a passage that seemed appropriate for this moment: "Oh, dry the glistening tear that dews that martial cheek. Thy loving children hear, in them thy comfort seek. With sympathetic care their arms around thee creep, for, oh, they cannot bear to see their father weep." <hr width="50%"/> :'''Aaron Hotchner''': "Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts." [[Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.|Oliver Wendell Holmes]] <hr width="50%"/> :'''Aaron Hotchner''': "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]] [NOTE: This quote is falsely attributed to Emerson and was first published in a 1940 book by [[w:William Morrow and Company|William Morrow and Company]] titled ''Meditations in Wall Street''. At the time the book was published, the author of the quote was unknown, but in 1947, ''[[The New York Times]]'' identified the author as Henry Stanley Haskins, a Wall Street trader with a checkered background.] ===''Retaliation'' [5.11]=== :'''[[w:Emily Prentiss|Emily Prentiss]]''': "Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure." [[Tacitus]] <hr width="50%"/> :'''Emily Prentiss''': [[Washington Irving]] said, "There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They are messengers of overwhelming grief and of unspeakable love." [NOTE: This quote is frequently misattributed to Irving. The earliest instance it could be located was in an article that was published by ''The American Masonic Register'' on February 6, 1841. Here, the quote was not attributed to anyone. In 1845, the quote was printed in ''The Mother's Assistant and Young Lady's Friend'', published by William C. Brown, who attributed the quote to an author named Dr. Johnson, whose first name was never disclosed.] ===''The Uncanny Valley'' [5.12]=== :'''[[w:Spencer Reid|Spencer Reid]]''': [[Peace Pilgrim|Mildred Lisette Norman]] wrote, "Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness, possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions." <hr width="50%"/> :'''Spencer Reid''': [[Isaac Asimov]] wrote, "In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate." ===''Risky Business'' [5.13]=== :'''[[w:Jennifer Jareau|Jennifer Jareau]]''': "Life is a game; play it. Life is too precious; do not destroy it." [[Mother Teresa]] [NOTE: This quote is often misattributed to Mother Teresa and is actually a variant of [[Kent M. Keith]]'s 1968 book ''The Paradoxical Commandments''.] <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jennifer Jareau''': "Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn." [[C. S. Lewis]] [NOTE: Lewis never actually said this quote; it was written for the 1993 film ''[[Shadowlands]]'' and was spoken by [[Anthony Hopkins]], who played Lewis.] ===''Parasite'' [5.14]=== :'''[[w:David Rossi|David Rossi]]''': "If I am what I have and if I lose what I have, who then am I?" German psychologist [[Erich Fromm]] <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Emily Prentiss|Emily Prentiss]]''': "Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive." [[Walter Scott|Sir Walter Scott]] ===''Public Enemy'' [5.15]=== :'''[[w:David Rossi|David Rossi]]''': "Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy." [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]] <hr width="50%"/> :'''David Rossi''': [[William Shakespeare]] wrote, "When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry." [NOTE: This quote is frequently misattributed to Shakespeare and is actually an old Yiddish proverb.] ===''Mosley Lane'' [5.16]=== :'''[[w:Jennifer Jareau|Jennifer Jareau]]''': [[Friedrich Nietzsche|Nietzsche]] wrote, "Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man." <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jennifer Jareau''': [[Emily Dickinson]] wrote, "Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all." ===''Solitary Man'' [5.17]=== :'''[[w:Emily Prentiss|Emily Prentiss]]''': [[Tennessee Williams]] said, "We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life." <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Derek Morgan (Criminal Minds)|Derek Morgan]]''': [[Christopher Lasch]] said, "Family is a haven in a heartless world." ===''The Fight'' [5.18]=== :'''[[w:Aaron Hotchner|Aaron Hotchner]]''': [[Mother Teresa]] said, "I have found the paradox that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love." ===''A Rite of Passage'' [5.19]=== :'''[[w:Emily Prentiss|Emily Prentiss]]''': "A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together." [[Chuck Jones]] <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Aaron Hotchner|Aaron Hotchner]]''': "Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose." [[Helen Keller]] ===''...A Thousand Words'' [5.20]=== :'''[[w:David Rossi|David Rossi]]''': "A sincere artist tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing." Painter [[w:William Dobell|William Dobell]] <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:Aaron Hotchner|Aaron Hotchner]]''': [[Mahatma Gandhi|Gandhi]] said, "I have seen children successfully surmount the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul." ===''Exit Wounds'' [5.21]=== :'''[[w:Penelope Garcia|Penelope Garcia]]''': "Nature, in her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theater of the tragedy of man." [[John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn|John Morley]] <hr width="50%"/> :'''Penelope Garcia''': [[w:Ralph Washington Sockman|Ralph W. Sockman]] said, "Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as real strength." ===''The Internet Is Forever'' [5.22]=== :'''[[w:Aaron Hotchner|Aaron Hotchner]]''': "The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it's taken place." [[George Bernard Shaw]] [NOTE: This quote is falsely attributed to Shaw and was actually first published in a ''Fortune Magazine'' article by [[w:William H. Whyte|William H. Whyte]] in September 1950, approximately two months before Shaw died.] <hr width="50%"/> :'''[[w:David Rossi|David Rossi]]''': "The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had." [[Eric Schmidt]] ===''Our Darkest Hour'' [5.23]=== :'''[[w:Derek Morgan (Criminal Minds)|Derek Morgan]]''': [[Alfred Lord Tennyson]] wrote, "And out of the darkness came the hands that reached thro' nature, moulding men." [[Category:Criminal Minds seasons]] damd3i26b3jl7dxdailjycrkt3mmzs8 0 195793 3961342 3958528 2026-07-06T01:02:01Z ~2026-38372-08 3347816 /* Keeping It Together */ 3961342 wikitext text/x-wiki ---- :'''Seasons:''' [[Steven Universe (season 1)|1]] [[Steven Universe (season 2)|2]] [[Steven Universe (season 3)|3]] [[Steven Universe (season 4)|4]] [[Steven Universe (season 5)|5]] | [[Steven Universe: The Movie|Film]] | [[Steven Universe Future|Future]] | [[Steven Universe: Lars of the Stars|Lars of the Stars]] | [[Steven Universe|Main]] ---- {{italic title}} The following is a list of quotes from the second season of ''[[Steven Universe]]''. === ''Full Disclosure'' === :'''Greg''': I saw the spaceship starting to leave and then it crashed and I came back and— ''[sees Steven's black eye]'' Ugh, your eye... But you're okay! I guess those jerks were no match for the Crystal Gems! :'''Steven''': No way! They were super strong! :'''Greg''': But you were able to beat them back? :'''Steven''': No, they totally stomped us! This warrior Jasper was super beefy and knocked me unconscious. Then they abducted me onto the ship because they wanted to take me away forever, and then we crashed the ship and I almost died! ''[Greg freaks out]'' :'''Greg''': W-What do they want with you?! :'''Steven''': They think I'm Mom. :'''Greg''': Ar-are more Homeworld Gems gonna come after you?! :'''Steven''': I— uhh... I don't know. Maybe? :'''Greg''': Steven, I'm supportive and very proud of you... and I'll be right back. ''[runs into his van]'' Gotta calm down. Where's my— ''[brings a series of CDs up front]'' Where's my relaxing music CD?! This one? ''[inserts CD; starts blaring loud metal music]'' Wrong one!! Stop!! Eject!! <hr width="50%"> :'''Ronaldo''': Oh! I see... You come up here to brood too! :'''Steven''': Brood? :'''Ronaldo''': Yes, Steven. That's just what people like us do. Suffer quietly, shouldering the knowledge no one else can bear. :'''Steven''': Hm. :'''Ronaldo''': As an aficionado of the weird yourself, you've probably noticed ordinary people fear the cold leaded anchor of the truth. The abyss is no Sunday swan ride. :'''Steven''': I know! My dad flipped out when I told him! :'''Ronaldo''': Sounds typical. But it's a good reminder. This is no easy path we've chosen here. There are... sacrifices. Look at them all down there, Steven. It's our duty to let those simple people live out their simple lives, without ever knowing the burden of being friends with us. :'''Steven''': At least we can be there for each other. :'''Ronaldo''': Is that giant hand from the sky sitting right in the middle of the beach?! I gotta get some of this for my blog! <hr width="50%"> :'''Amethyst''': Aw, come on! :'''Garnet''': No whining. We need to start cleaning up the debris. :'''Pearl''': Garnet's right. People are already coming back into town! :'''Steven''': We've got to keep them off the beach. If any humans got access to Gem technology, ''[shuts blinds]'' they could really hurt themselves. Maybe we should shut them out... for good. :'''Pearl''': You know... we did once have a fence. Let's get a new one—with barbed wire! :'''Amethyst''': This time, let's build a moat. I could be... ''[shapeshifts her head]'' the crocodi-i-ile!! Jazz hands! :'''Garnet''': No. :'''Amethyst''': Why not? :'''Pearl''': You always say you'll be the crocodile, but you never commit! :'''Garnet''': No fence either. :'''Amethyst/Pearl''': Garnet! :'''Garnet''': Steven needs to see his father and his friends. :'''Steven''': No, I don't! I can't keep clinging to the vestiges of my humanity. It's time I got serious. ''[his phone starts ring-toning again]'' Errh! :'''Pearl''': Steven, why is your communication device playing that song? :'''Steven''': It's Connie, trying to call me... but I can't face her anymore. :'''Pearl''': So... you're just going to ignore her forever? :'''Steven''': It's the responsible thing to do. :'''Amethyst''': ''[sees thru blinds]'' It's gonna be hard, 'cause she's coming up the steps right now. :'''Steven''': What?! === ''Open Book'' === === ''Joy Ride'' === :'''Steven''': Family stuff is tricky. :'''Buck, Sour Cream, and Jenny''': Mmhm. :'''Steven''': A few months back, my dad and the Gems grounded me from TV. :'''Buck, Sour Cream, and Jenny''': That's the worst. / Bummer. / No way! :'''Steven''': And then I found out that the Gems are alien rebels and that there are other Gems out in space that want us dead 'cause they think we're traitors. And they tried to take me hostage 'cause they think I'm my mom. And... maybe I kinda am? ''[sighs]'' I wish I could talk to Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl about it, but... I think they kinda blame me for my mom not being around. :''[Buck, Sour Cream and Jenny are in a state of shock for a beat. Jenny turns off the radio]'' :'''Jenny''': That's heavy. :'''Steven''': I guess. <hr width=50%> :'''Garnet''': Steven... you're ungrounded from TV. :''[Steven cries tears of joy and hugs Garnet]'' === ''[[w:Say Uncle (Steven Universe)|Say Uncle]]'' === :'''Steven''': ''[breathes deeply]'' Shield. ''[his gem glows; slowly opens his eyes, finding himself encased his bubble shield]'' No! Not bubble shield! ''[dispels his bubble and throws a little tantrum]'' What am I doing wrong? The Gems can all summon ''their'' weapons, why can't I? ''[desperately]'' Isn't there somebody who can help me?! <hr width="50%" /> :'''Steven''': Oh, my gosh, Uncle Grandpa! You're really here, I can't believe it! I mean… I literally can't believe it. How is this even possible?! :'''Uncle Grandpa''': Don't worry, bro. None of this is canon. ''[pulls a real cannon out of Belly Bag]'' But this is! ''[launches his head like a cannonball with smoke trails spelling "APRIL FOOLS" and crashes into a ship with Lars and Sadie on it]'' :'''Lars''': Oh, no!! Our ship!! <hr width=50% /> :'''Amethyst''': Steven! :'''Pearl''': What's going on?! Who is this stranger? :'''Steven''': He's not a stranger, he's Uncle Grandpa! :''[Uncle Grandpa honks his nose]'' :'''Amethyst''': Uncle… Grandpa? :'''Pearl''': So that would make him Greg's brother… and father? :'''Garnet''': That would explain a lot. <hr width=50% /> :'''Garnet''': Gem huddle! :'''Pearl''': Obviously, we're dealing with some sort of super powerful, reality-warping entity. :'''Garnet''': He could be a danger to the fabric of space itself. :'''Amethyst''': I don't know, guys. I kinda like him. :'''Steven''': Hey! What are you guys talking about? :'''Uncle Grandpa''': Are you forming a secret club? <hr width=50% /> :'''Pizza Steve''': Oh, hey, it's just me, Pizza Steve—just the coolest and tastiest Steve who ever lived. :'''Steven''': Hi, Pizza Steve! I'm a Steve too. Steven Universe. :'''Pizza Steve''': ''Ste''-ven Universe... ''[pops out on top of Steven's hair]'' Come on, Uncle G. I've got two rules: no more than 40 or 50 vans and only ''one'' Steve allowed! :'''Uncle Grandpa''': Yeah, but this Steven is special. :'''Mr. Gus''': Yeah. He's a Crystal Gem. :'''Uncle Grandpa''': Good mornin Mr. Gus. :'''Mr. Gus''': What's up, Uncle Grandpa? :'''Steven''': Whoa Mr. Gus! How do you know about me? :'''Mr. Gus''': I have a comprehensive knowledge of all magical denizens of the multiverse. I know all about the Crystal Gems. Come on, man, check this out. I even made my own Gemsona. ''[shows art of "Mr. Gusite"]'' My gem is on my tail and my weapon is a frying pan. <hr width=50% /> :''[The Gems run frantically across the plot hole many times, stop for a breather]'' :'''Garnet''': There's got to be some way out of here. :'''Pearl''': ''[extremely panicked]'' WE'LL NEVER ESCAPE!! THIS IS OUR NEW HOME! :'''Garnet''': Pearl you're overreacting. :'''Pearl''': I'M NOT OVERREACTING! ''[runs around screaming crazily until she crashes into Amethyst]'' :'''Amethyst''': Hey, where's Steven? ''[Pizza Steve walks in dressed like Steven]'' :'''Pizza Steve''': Lookin' for me, Pizza Steven Universe? ''[Pearl gasps, cowers behind Garnet]'' :'''Pearl''': That's not my baby! :'''Amethyst''': Ah, nice! ''[eyes on Pizza Steve]'' :'''Pizza Steve''': Whoa, hold on! :'''Amethyst''': ''Pizza!!'' ''[chases Pizza Steve offscreen]'' :'''Pizza Steve''': Don't eat Pizza Steve! ''[munching noises]'' :''[Amethyst walks back on, putting on Pizza Steve's sunglasses from out of her mouth]'' :'''Garnet''': Okay, I'm ready for this episode to end. ''[stomps her foot on the ground, causing the plot hole to crack and shatter, leaving them back at the beach]'' :''[They see Steven, Uncle Grandpa, Lion, and Giant Realistic Flying Tiger having a tea party]'' :'''Uncle Grandpa''': ''[sighs]'' I'm sorry I couldn't help you learn to use your shield, Steven. :'''Steven''': It's okay, Uncle Grandpa. I had a lotta fun today. :'''Gems''': Steven! :'''Garnet''': Get away from that man! :'''Pearl''': He's a '''''MONSTER!''''' :''[Amethyst hisses and growls]'' :'''Steven''': Hey, cut it out, guys. He's done enough already. <hr width=50% /> :'''Gems''': ''[diving towards Uncle Grandpa while beating him up]'' '''''FINISH HIM!!!''''' :'''Steven''': ''[rushing in as a chibi]'' No, don't hurt him! ''[lets out a small fart; in slow-motion]'' '''''STOP!!!!!!''''' ''[his gem begins to glow and halts the Gems, in shock and surprise, with his shield]'' Whoa! ''[turns to Uncle Grandpa]'' I did it, Uncle Grandpa! I really did it! :'''Uncle Grandpa''': Yay. :'''Pearl''': Protecting him activated Steven's powers?! :'''Garnet''': He must really care about this stranger. :'''Amethyst''': I hope he didn't care about that pizza. :'''Steven''': Listen! It was a big, weird surprise when Uncle Grandpa showed up here today. We've never met anyone like Uncle Grandpa, but you can't just attack people you don't understand. You have to stick up for them, and listen to what they have to say. You guys always do that for me. :'''Pearl''': ''[blushing with tears in her eyes, feeling guilty and sorry]'' Steven, you're right. ''[cries emotionally]'' HOW CAN I BE SO BLIND?! I'M SORRY! :'''Amethyst''': I also apologize for Pearl. :'''Garnet''': Thank you, you taught us a valuable lesson, Uncle Grandpa. <hr width=50% /> :'''Uncle Grandpa''': Boy, that sure makes my eyes hurt. Now let's see here... ''[Grab a checklist revealing several other Cartoon Network protagonists]'' Dexter, Dee-dee, Blossom, Bubbles, Buttercup, Ed, Edd, Eddy, Billy, Mandy, Mac, Juniper Lee, Swat Kats, Flapjack, Finn, Oh! Steven! ''[checks off Steven's name]'' Now who's next? ''[Clarence's name is shown at the bottom of the list]'' === ''Story for Steven'' === === ''Shirt Club '' === :''[Steven rushes to the Beach House]'' :'''Steven''': Garnet! Amethyst! Pearl! :'''Garnet''': Steven! :'''Pearl''': What is it?! :'''Amethyst''': Whoa, where's the fire? :'''Steven''': It's an emergency! You have to help me take down all the shirts and stop Buck from making more! :'''Pearl''': Have the shirts come to life and and possessed the bodies of their wearers?! :'''Steven''': Uh, no! They just— :'''Amethyst''': Are people catching on fire when they put on the magic shirts? :'''Steven''': No! No, they're just— :'''Pearl''': Are the shirts destroying the wearer's will to continue on in this mortal coil, thereby shutting down Beach City!?! :'''Steven''': ''NOOOOO''!!! They're— they're just... using my art in a way I don't agree with. :'''Pearl''': Oh. ''[all Gems sit down]'' :'''Garnet''': Ah, we'll pass. :'''Steven''': What?! But— but I really need your help! :'''Pearl''': Steven, this sounds like a very abstract problem. :'''Amethyst''': It's not something we can ''punch''! :'''Garnet''': You must learn to help yourself. That's how you become stronger. ''[shades sparkle]'' :'''Amethyst/Pearl''': Good point, good point. / Oh, absolutely. :'''Steven''': But..! :'''Amethyst''': You figure something ''out'', Steven! :'''Pearl''': Yes! Why not dust off those conflict resolution skills? :'''Garnet''': Let your problem be known, then you can work towards an understanding. :'''Steven''': Oh... I'll make them understand. I'll make them all understand... ''[leaves]'' :'''Amethyst''': Eh, he'll be fine. === ''Love Letters'' === :''[Steven and Connie meet Jamie sitting on a log in the beach]'' :'''Steven''': Jamie! :'''Jamie''': Oh, hey, Connie and Steven. You guys come out here to stare at the ocean and think about life too? :'''Connie''': Uhh, no...? We came to, uh— :'''Jamie''': Yeah, life is crazy. One day, you're right here in Beach City delivering mail and then the next thing you know... you're on a bus to Kansas, following your dreams of becoming an actor. "Follow your dreams," they said. But no one said anything about all the rejection and sadness there was to be found. So many auditions day after day... So much rejection day after day... That's why I came back. ''[two seagulls crash into each other and fall into the sea]'' One more rejection would have destroyed my fragile heart. ''[sobs, chuckles]'' Sorry... sometimes I get caught up in the drama zone, you know? :'''Steven''': Yeah, right... Drama zone. :'''Connie''': Oh, by the way, we have something for yo— :'''Steven''': No, we don't! <hr width=50%> :'''Garnet''': I didn't mean to upset you. :'''Jamie''': Then will you go out with me? :'''Garnet''': No! :'''Jamie''': But I've loved you since the moment I saw you. :'''Garnet''': Love at first sight doesn't exist. Love takes time and love takes work. At the very least, you have to know the other person. And you literally have no idea who or what I am. ''[shades glimmer]'' :'''Jamie''': But I bloom for you like— like a... camellia... under moonlight? :'''Garnet''': No, you don't! ''[long beat]'' You make a very convincing lovesick fool. You convinced these children. ''[adjusts her shades]'' You even convinced yourself. ''[smiling]'' You're a fantastic actor. :'''Jamie''': ''[beat]'' ..What am I supposed to do now? :'''Garnet''': Start with local theater. ''[slaps Jamie's back, then walks away. Connie and Steven walk closer to him]'' :'''Connie''': Are you okay? :'''Jamie''': Yeah. That was some pretty solid advice. :'''Steven''': Were those more letters you wrote to Garnet? :'''Jamie''': No. That was the mail I was supposed to deliver on my last route. :'''Steven''': ''[beat]'' We'll help you pick it all up. :'''Jamie''': Thanks. === ''Reformed'' === :'''Garnet''': This is not a good choice for your form. :'''Amethyst''': Lighten up, Garnet. Can't you take a joke? :'''Garnet''': It's not funny. You've made yourself ridiculous. :'''Amethyst''': <big>'''''RIDICULOUS?!?!'''''</big> :'''Garnet''': Keep your voice down! The creature... :'''Amethyst''': Hrrr... You wanted me to be more like Pearl, and now I am!! :'''Garnet''': ''[low voice]'' Pearl would've taken her regeneration seriously! :'''Amethyst''': WHAT DO YOU CARE!?! MY FORM IS '''''MY'' BUSINESS!!''' :'''Garnet''': It's my business when it affects the strength of the team!! :'''Amethyst''': ..So what?! I'm not strong enough?! ''[gets dragged by the Slinker]'' :'''Steven''': Amethyst! :'''Amethyst''': '''ARE YOU SAYING... <big>I'M ''WEAK''</big>?!?!''' ''[poofs again; Steven catches her gemstone]'' :'''Steven''': Is it weird I'm getting numbed to this? === ''[[w:Sworn to the Sword|Sworn to the Sword]]'' === :'''Connie''': ''[fights off seagulls with her violin bow]'' Run back to your masters! Tell them we're not afraid of your kind! :'''Steven''': ''[chuckles]'' Thanks for saving my jam snack. Unfortunately, it's not safe from me. ''[munches it]'' You're such a good sword fighter, Connie. :'''Connie''': Really? I was just swinging this thing around. I don't really know what I'm doing, but I'd love to learn how to use a real sword! :'''Steven''': Oh! ''[gulps snack; starry eyes]'' Steven has an idea! :''[back at the Beach House]'' :'''Pearl''': You want me to do ''what''?! :'''Steven''': You should teach Connie to sword fight, she's already so good! :'''Connie''': Steven! :'''Steven''': But you are! Y-You helped me fight the robot floaty-thing, she took down that evil clone of herself, uh... those mean seagulls just now? :'''Pearl''': You're awfully young to begin something like this. But I suppose I was only a few thousand years old when I began fighting alongside Rose Quartz. ''[Connie raises her hand]'' Yes, Connie? :'''Connie''': Please! I want to learn! I mean, I don't know what'll happen in the future. But if something dangerous comes along... I don't wanna be a burden, I wanna help! I want to be there for Steven to fight by his side! The Earth is my home too. Can't I help protect it? ''[Pearl starts watering tears of joy]'' :'''Pearl''': Oh... okay... If that's how you feel... we should get started! :'''Steven''': Woo-hoo! ''[runs after her laughing]'' :'''Connie''': Wait, now? <hr width=50%> :'''Pearl''': All right, everything begins with your stance. Remember: :''[singing] You do it for him, and you would do it again'' :''You do it for her, that is to say, you'll do it for him.'' :''Keep your stance wide, keep your body lowered'' :''As you're moving forward, balance is the key'' :''Right foot, left foot, now go even faster'' :''And as you're moving backwards, keep your eyes on me.'' :'''Connie''': ''Keep my stance wide'' ("Good.") :''Keep my body lowered'' ("Right.") :''As I'm moving forward'' :'''Pearl''': ''Concentrate! Don't you want him to live?!'' :'''Connie''': ''Right foot, left foot'' :'''Pearl''': ''Yes, but put your whole body into it!'' :''Everything you have, everything you are'' :''You've got to give.'' :''On the battlefield, when everything is chaos'' :''And you have nothing but the way you feel, your strategy and a sword'' :''You just think about the life you'll have together after the war'' :''And then you do it for her, that's how you know you can win'' :''You do it for her, that is to say, you'll do it for him.'' <hr width=25%> :''Deep down, you know you weren't built for fighting'' :''But that doesn't mean you're not prepared to try'' :''What they don't know is your real advantage'' :''When you live for someone, you're prepared to die.'' :'''Connie''': ''Deep down, I know that I'm just a human'' ("True.") :'''Both''': ''But I/you know that I/you can draw my/your sword and fight'' :'''Connie''': ''With my short existence,'' ("Good.") ''I can make a difference'' ("Yes, excellent!") :''I can be there for him, I can be his knight.'' :'''Connie''': ''I can do it for him'' :'''Both''': ''You'd do it for her'' :'''Pearl''': ''Okay, now do that again'' ("Yes, ma'am.") :''You do it for her, and now you say'' :'''Connie''': ''I'll do it for him.'' <hr width=50%> :'''Amethyst''': ''[belly laughs]'' Wow, Garnet! That is the funniest thing I've ever heard! :'''Garnet''': Garnet, master of comedy. :'''Amethyst''': Hehehe... Yo, Steven. ''[pretend-yells]'' '''WHY ARE YOU STANDING THERE ALL SAD LIKE THAT?!?!''' :'''Steven''': W-well... Connie is taking sword fighting lessons from Pearl, but I think it's getting a little too serious. She wants Connie to do all this dangerous stuff for me. :'''Garnet''': That makes sense. :'''Steven''': What do you mean? :'''Garnet''': Back during the war, Pearl took pride in risking her destruction for your mother. She put Rose Quartz over everything — over logic, over consequence, over her own life. :''[Pearl and Rose switch to Connie and Steven, respectively. She charges at the enemy before cutting to Steven's horrified face]'' :'''Amethyst''': You okay, dude? :'''Steven''': I have to do something!! Thanks for telling me that, bye!! === ''Rising Tides, Crashing Skies'' === :'''RonaIdo''': I am now going to attempt to make contact with the mysterious, reclusive, ''[Steven comes out]'' and—ahh! :'''Steven''': Hi, Ronaldo! Uh, hi, Peedee. Is that a camera? :'''Peedee''': Yeah. We're making a movie about— :'''RonaIdo''': It's an investigative report, shot ''[[w:cinéma vérité|camera vérité]]''. :'''Steven''': Cool! :'''RonaIdo''': So... you wanna participate in a groundbreaking interview? :'''Steven''': Hmm. Only if ''you'' participate in a glass of fresh-squeezed lemonade! ''[walks back inside]'' :''[cue Ronaldo and Steven in the Beach House]'' :'''Steven''': Ohh, that giant hand? It was a spaceship coming to get us. :'''RonaIdo''': Us?! I knew it! Steven, we know too much! :'''Steven''': No, not "us" us. I-I meant me and the Crystal Gems. :'''RonaIdo''': Wait. So the hand wasn't here to snatch up humans for a human zoo? Or interfere with our subsidized Beach City wind farm?! Or thaw the cryogenically frozen pets of the one percent!?! :'''Steven''': Uh... no, I'm pretty sure it came to Beach City for me and the Crystal Gems. :'''RonaIdo''': Oh. So, if you and the Crystal Gems weren't here, we wouldn't have been attacked by the giant hand? :'''Steven''': Ohh-hoh-hoh! Definitely not. === ''Keeping It Together'' === :'''Garnet''': We need to track down Peridot. We found her (escape) pod. We know she's out there somewhere. She came to Earth with a job to do and odds are, she's still gonna try to do it. That's why I've gathered you here. <hr width=50% /> :'''Pearl''': Garnet, you don't think Peridot would come looking for us, do you? :'''Garnet''': We weren't her priority. She was sent here to do something in the Kindergarten. :'''Pearl''': Do you think she's still going to try to reactivate it? :'''Garnet''': Mm. If she gets it back up and running, the Injectors will turn back on. :'''Steven''': Injectors? What're those? :'''Pearl''': You've already seen them. ''[projects hologram from her gemstone]'' Well, you've seen them disabled. If Peridot reactivates them, they'll pick right up where they left off, planting gems in the crust of the Earth, where they'll incubate and suck the life right out of the ground. We can't let Peridot restart Gem production here. If we do... ''[sighs]'' the entire planet will become… :'''Garnet''': Janked. :'''Amethyst''': Garnet! ''[laughs]'' That mouth! ''[sniggers]'' :'''Garnet''': Don't worry. We'll stop her. <hr width=50% /> :'''Peridot''': Log Date 6-5-2. This is Peridot updating status. Still stuck on miserable planet. The fusion experiments are developing properly. A few have even emerged early- ''[spots Steven and shrieks; Steven stares silently at her as she looks around; whispers to him]'' Are the ''other ones'' with you? ''[Steven slowly shakes his head no and nods yes quickly, shrugging]'' Of course. Why not? :'''Garnet''': ''[off-screen]'' PERIDOT! :'''Pearl''': THERE SHE IS! <hr width=50% /> :'''Garnet''': These were Crystal Gems, shattered into pieces. They were buried together. :'''Steven''': Why aren't you moving?! :'''Garnet''': They were forced together. They were forced to fuse! This is wrong! I-I'm sorry! ''[glows and starts to come undone]'' :'''Steven''': No, no, Garnet! You're coming undone! <hr width=50% /> :'''Steven''': We did it! Garnet? :'''Garnet/Ruby''': So ''this'' is what Homeworld thinks of fusion. :'''Garnet/Sapphire''': We couldn't have known they would do this. :'''Garnet/Ruby''': ''This'' is where they've been…all the ones we couldn't find… they've been here the whole time! :'''Garnet/Sapphire''': Rose couldn't have known. :'''Garnet/Ruby''': This is punishment for the rebellion! :'''Garnet/Sapphire''': ''[breaking down]'' It's not our fault! :'''Steven''': Garnet! :'''Garnet''': S-Steven. :'''Amethyst''': ''[sliding down with Pearl]'' Yo! We're back. :'''Pearl''': Garnet, we lost Peridot. Her fingers were too fast for us. ''[two fused hands climb up on Amethyst and grabs them]'' Um… what are these things? :'''Garnet''': PUT THEM DOWN! :'''Steven''': Uh! :'''Pearl''': Wha...? ''[throws the hands away]'' :'''Garnet''': We need to poof and bubble all of them. We can't let any escape. ''[She poofs the hands as the screen turns black]'' <hr width=50% /> :'''Garnet''': What Homeworld did… taking the shattered parts of fallen Gems and combining them—those Gems weren't asked permission. Fusion is a choice. Those Gems weren't given a choice. It isn't right. It isn't fusion! <hr width=50% /> :''[Steven looks at Garnet as he takes the clothes out the dryer into the basket]'' :'''Steven''': What's it like... being a fusion? :'''Garnet''': You fused. :'''Steven''': I mean, like, all the time. Do you forget who you used to be? :'''Garnet''': You forget you were ever alone. You know when you fuse, you don't feel like two people. You feel like one being. And your old names might as well be names for your left arm, and your right. :'''Steven''': When you split up, is it like you disappear? :'''Garnet''': I embody my— I mean, Ruby and Sapphire's love. I always exist in them, even if I split apart. But the strength of that love keeps me together, so I can stay Garnet for a very long time. :'''Steven''': That's why you're so great! :'''Garnet''': ''[smiles]'' Ha. ''[Steven starts laughing, with a light blue colored sock being blown away]'' :'''Steven''': Oh, no! ''[Garnet catches it]'' :'''Garnet''': Don't wanna break up a pair. :'''Steven''': ''[holds peach colored sock]'' Yeah, you're right. ''[Garnet folds socks into basket]'' They belong together. === ''We Need to Talk'' === :'''Greg''': ''[turning off the lights after seeing Rose and Pearl fusing into Rainbow Quartz; stoked]'' I can't believe I got that on video! What on earth was that?! :'''Rose''': That was Rainbow Quartz. <hr width="50%"> :''[Greg re-watches Pearl and Rose's fusion dance, practices and falls down]'' :'''Greg''': Ah, geez! How'd she get her legs to do that? ''[groans]'' :'''Amethyst''': Hey! ''[looks at face-to-face with Garnet]'' Are you dead? :'''Greg''': Wha? Uh, no, no. I'm alive. :'''Amethyst''': Whoa, cool! ''[jumps over Greg, runs to the TV]'' It's us from before! :'''Greg''': Yeah, I was just... trying to get my head around this fusion dance. :'''Amethyst''': A fusion dance ain't about your head! ''[laughs out loud]'' :'''Greg''': Wait... you guys are Gems. You gotta help me out here. I need to be able to fuse with Rose! :'''Garnet''': First, you need a gem at the core of your being. Then you need a body that can turn into light. Then you need the partner who you trust with that light. :'''Greg''': Metaphorically? :'''Garnet''': Literally. :'''Amethyst''': ''[whispers]'' Shh! Come on! I still wanna see him try! :'''Greg''': Ugh, so it's true. I really can't do it. ''[touches his face]'' I'm kidding myself with this! I'm never gonna be a Gem... ''[Garnet looks down and picks up a twig]'' :'''Garnet''': Amethyst... give us some privacy! ''[throws it far away]'' :'''Amethyst''': YEAH!! ''[scampers after it]'' :'''Garnet''': Let me tell you something, Mr. Universe. I think you can do it, but it won't work if you dance like Pearl. You have to dance like you. You have to fuse ''your'' way. Get open. Get honest. Invent yourselves together. ''[lowers her shades and winks left of her three eyes]'' That's fusion. :'''Greg''': EYE—think I get it. === ''Chille Tid'' === :'''Steven''': "Sleep is a curse, and yet a curse I need to live"—Steven Universe. ---- :'''Garnet''': Let me show you how it's done. ''(She falls over, stiff as a board)'' :'''Pearl''': That's pretty convincing. ---- :'''Steven''': Lapis! :'''Lapiz''': No. I'm ''not'' Lapis anymore. We're Malachite now. === ''[[w:Cry for Help (Steven Universe)|Cry for Help]]'' === :'''Peridot''': This is Peridot, transmitting on all frequencies from abandoned Crystal System colony planet Earth, to Yellow Diamond. My mission has been compromised. My escort ''and'' informant are gone, and I am now stranded! ''[desperately]'' Please send help! <hr width=50%/> :'''Garnet''': It's as I feared. :''[The Communication Hub is glowing and shooting a beam of light towards the sky]'' :'''Pearl''': It looks like Peridot somehow repaired the Communication Hub. Well, at least some of it. :'''Steven''': So... we just gotta wreck it up again, right? (''to Amethyst'') You guys should form Sugilite! :'''Amethyst''': (''smiling a bit'') Yeah... Well, it's up to Garnet, I guess. (''smiling widely, to Garnet'') What do you say? ''[Pearl looks scared in the background]'' Shall we mash it up?... :'''Garnet''': No. :'''Amethyst''': But, don't we need to be huge like last time? :'''Garnet''': Last time was a disaster. Last time we fused, Sugilite went berserk. It's because of her that we can't even warp here anymore. (''takes off her visor'') I can be brash, you can be reckless. And we can both get carried away. So, for the time being, ''[She puts her visor back on and Amethyst's reflection can be seen in them]'' Sugilite is benched. What we need now is to be careful. ''[Steven gasps]'' It's you and me, Pearl. Let's fuse. ''[Pearl looks astonished as she begins to tear up]'' Don't cry, Pearl. ''[Pearl tries to not cry and quivers as she strongly breathes in through her nose, sniffling thickly]'' Come on, let's do this. :'''Pearl''': I'm right behind you. (''sniffling'') :'''Steven''': (''running towards them'') Woo-hoo! Fusion! Fusion! Fusion! Fusion! *sits to the left of Lion* (''Amethyst walks over'') :'''Garnet''': (''gemstones glow'') Ready. :'''Pearl''': (''grunts; stretches'') Hang on, it's been such a long time. <hr width=50%/> :'''Sardonyx''': Gooooood evening, everybody! (''struts over to Lion, Steven, and Amethyst and does a twirl'') This is the lovely Sardonyx! Coming to you ''a-live'' from the soon-to-be-former Communication Hub! How are y'all doin' tonight? :'''Amethyst''': (''sarcastically'') Great... :'''Steven''': (''gasps'') Giant woman! <hr width=50%/> :'''Amethyst''': ''Maybe you're better off with her / I think she's better for you / I forgot how great it felt to be us / Guess I got carried away. / I had to use you to make me feel strong / But I don't care about that now / I see a tower built out of my mistakes / And it all comes crashing down. / Is there something I can doo-oo / Is there something I can doo-oo-oo / Is there something I can doo-oo / Can I make it up to you?'' <hr width=50%/> :''[Pearl and Garnet are about to fuse again when Amethyst interrupts the moment]'' :'''Amethyst''': Stop! :'''Pearl''': Is something the matter, Amethyst? :'''Amethyst''': You... you shouldn't. :'''Steven''': Pearl, we saw you. :'''Pearl''': (''shocked'') What? :'''Steven''': You need to tell Garnet it was you! :'''Garnet''': I don't understand. :'''Pearl''': I'm sorry. It's just... so much fun being Sardonyx with you. :'''Garnet''': ''[drops Pearl to the ground]'' ''That's'' why I couldn't see us finding Peridot. :'''Pearl''': Wait, let me explain! :'''Garnet''': You've been fixing the hub! :'''Pearl''': It really was Peridot! The first time. :'''Garnet''': You ''tricked'' me! :'''Pearl''': No! No, no, no, no! We just needed a reason to fuse! I just wanted to share a few more victories with you! :'''Garnet''': Those weren't ''victories''! :'''Amethyst''': Wait, Garnet! You know, we're so much weaker than you! Fusing with you is like our one chance to feel... ''stronger''! :'''Garnet''': Don't defend her! Peridot is out there somewhere and Pearl's been distracting us with... ''nothing''! :'''Pearl''': Garnet... :'''Garnet''': ''[angrily points at her]'' That's enough! ''[to Amethyst]'' Amethyst, fuse with me! :'''Amethyst''': But-! :'''Garnet''': (''clenching her fist'') Let's just get this over with. === ''Keystone Motel'' === :'''Steven''': Pearl! Where have you been?! :'''Pearl''': Looking for Peridot… For a few days straight. Steven, I know I might have… disappointed all of you. I know Garnet's very upset with me. But I'm going to prove to her that she can trust me again. ''[Garnet walks in through the front door]'' Oh! Garnet! I was just looking for Peridot! She's bound to be somewhere, right? Any new ideas? ''[Garnet says nothing and walks past her; remorsefully]'' I'm sorry. :'''Greg''': ''[enters the house with a brochure; excitedly]'' Who wants to go on a road trip?! Umm… Is this a bad time? :'''Garnet''': No. Please continue. <hr width=50%/> :'''Garnet''': ''[agitated, panting]'' Calm down... I don't feel like forgiving Pearl!... You don't understand, you must... If you're not going to listen, then you can just GO! ''[splits into Ruby and Sapphire]'' :'''Sapphire''': ''[calmly]'' We must move past this, Ruby. :'''Ruby''': ''[furiously]'' She ''lied'' to us so we'd form Sardonyx! She ''tricked'' us! Don't you feel used?! :'''Steven''': ''[surprised]'' Ruby! Sapphire! I… :'''Sapphire''': You're choosing to take it personally. :'''Ruby''': IT'S ''FUSION'', SAPPHIRE! WHAT'S MORE PERSONAL TO US THAN ''FUSION?!'' :'''Sapphire''': I know you're still upset... :'''Ruby''': Oh, so it's just me?! :'''Sapphire''': Of course not. Can't you see I'm completely engulfed with rage? :'''Ruby''': Well, it doesn't feel like it! :'''Sapphire''': The sooner we forgive Pearl, the better it will be for us all. :'''Ruby''': YOU'RE NOT AS ABOVE THIS AS YOU THINK YOU ARE! <hr width=50%/> :'''Sapphire''': ''[about Ruby, while she shakes the table]'' This will pass. She'll eventually just burn herself out. :'''Ruby''': ''[angrily]'' THAT'S WHAT ''YOU'' THINK! '''I AM AN ETERNAL FLAME, BABY!''' ''[flips the table]'' :''[while Greg talks to Steven, arguing with each other simultaneously]'' :'''Ruby''': You don't know me! :'''Sapphire''': How could I possibly not know you? We always fuse! We always fuse, what are you even going on about fusion? :'''Ruby''': Look at you! ''[laughing]'' You don't even know yourself! Ha! :'''Sapphire''': So don't act so ridiculous. :'''Ruby''': ''I'm'' ridiculous?! :'''Sapphire''': Yes, yes. <hr width=50%/> :'''Ruby & Sapphire''': Steven! :'''Steven''': ''[enraged]'' I was so happy when Garnet said she wanted to go on this trip with me and Dad! Home's been awful! Here's been awful! I thought you wanted to have a fun time, but everyone's been acting awful too! It... it just came with us! I don't understand! Is it... is it me? :'''Ruby''': ...No! Steven, it's all us! :'''Sapphire''': But we made him feel like it was his fault... I keep looking into the future, when all of this has already been solved, as if it doesn't matter how you feel in the present! ''[starting to cry]'' No wonder you think I don't care...! :'''Ruby''': Sapphire... No, nonononono! This is all my fault, I... I didn't want to look for a solution, I... I just wanted to be mad! You're right! You're always right! I was being stupid! :'''Sapphire''': I don't think you're stupid! :'''Ruby''': I'm... sorry. ''[gently brushes Sapphire's hair aside, revealing her sad eye]'' :'''Sapphire''': You honestly think I'm not upset about what happened? I was just... trying to do the right thing. :'''Ruby''': I know... ''[starts smiling]'' You know what's nice about being split up? :'''Sapphire''': What? :'''Ruby''': I get to look at you... :'''Sapphire''': ''[pushes her off, laughing]'' Be serious! :'''Ruby''': ''[hugs Sapphire]'' There's my Laughy Sapphy! :'''Sapphire''': Shh! You're embarrassing me in front of Steven! ''[cut to Steven, feeling awkward at the scene]'' === ''Onion Friend'' === === ''Historical Friction'' === :'''Steven''': Hey, Pearl! ''[sees a desolate Pearl sitting on the couch, looking at the ceiling]'' Pearl? :'''Pearl''': ''[jumps up]'' Steven! You're back! :'''Steven''': Yeah... ''[sits down]'' Show business is rough. :'''Pearl''': Is there something I can help you with? :'''Steven''': Not unless you can make William Dewey interesting. :'''Pearl''': How do ''you'' know William Dewey? :'''Steven''': I'm gonna be him in this play! But he's totally boring! He's perfect and he never makes mistakes. :'''Pearl''': ''[sigh]'' Wish I could say the same for myself. :'''Steven''': Yeah, but nobody's like that! Everybody gets stuff wrong, and then you have to keep going and it's hard, which is why it's great when you never stop trying! :'''Pearl''': ..When did you get so smart? === ''Friend Ship'' === :''[Steven and the Gems warp into the Galaxy Warp and find Peridot, gathering pieces of the Homeworld Warp]'' :'''Peridot''': Stupid broken warp. First, the Communication Hub. Now this is busted again. These Crystal Gems are a menace. :'''Pearl''': Oh, aha! Look! I was right! My plan worked perfectly! :'''Steven''': ''[waves at her]'' Good morning! :'''Peridot''': What?! How did you know I was here? :'''Steven''': We found a ''secret'' way to track you, and we'll never tell you how, even if you ask nicely. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Steven and the Gems enter a room in the ship. Peridot appears on a projected screen]'' :'''Peridot''': ''[laughs]'' You Gems really are as dull as dirt! :'''Pearl''': You're the dull one if you thing you can fly this wreck! :'''Peridot''': ''[pauses]'' What? Can you speak louder? Some of these communicators are gunked up. :'''Steven''': ''[cleans off a microphone, speaks into it]'' Pearl says ''you're'' the dull one if you think you can fly this wreck! :'''Peridot''': ''[waits for Steven's response to come through] [laughs]'' Fly? I'm not using this vessel to fly. I'm using it to '''''TRAP YOU!''''' ''[a door closes, trapping Steven and the Gems in the room]'' Isn't this nice? No more Crystal Gems running around, messing with my plans, destroying my things. Looks like I've got you just where I want you. How does it feel to be so easily outsmarted, you '''''CLODS?!''''' :'''Pearl''': No... :'''Amethyst''': ''[speaks into the microphone]'' Hey, uh, this is Amethyst. I don't appreciate being called a clod, you clo- :'''Peridot''': Enough talk! Prepare yourselves for annihilation! ''[dramatically hits a button]'' Hiyah! ''[nothing happens, hits it again]'' Hiyah! :''[the room's laser cannons activate and take aim at Steven and the Gems]'' :'''Peridot''': It works! Yes! '''''DIE, DIE, DIE, DIE, DIE, DIE, DIE, DIE, DIE, DIE, DIE, DIE, DIIIIE!''''' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Garnet''': Pearl, stop. That isn't helping. :'''Pearl''': I have to do something. I can't believe I walked us right into Peridot's trap. This is all my… ''[Peridot's hologram disappears as the ground starts to shake]'' fault? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Pearl''': ''[through screen]'' Garnet… I'm sorry! :'''Amethyst''': Wait a sec! :'''Pearl''': Things weren't supposed to turn out this way... ''[inside, Garnet punches the wall again]'' :'''Garnet''': We'll get outta here somehow. :'''Pearl''': ''[sighs]'' That's not what I mean! I really wanted to catch Peridot to make up for what I did... ''[Garnet withdraws her gauntlets]'' I wanted to prove to you that... that everything could go back to normal... :'''Garnet''': Catching Peridot won't make things go back to normal. ''[through screen]'' This isn't about Peridot. :'''Amethyst''': Hey... they're actually talking! :'''Steven''': Now they can finally work things out! :''[soon, the gears start to activate and turn and start closing into the trapped two]'' :'''Amethyst''': Not if they get crushed! :''[both Garnet and Pearl push their unflinching sides]'' :'''Pearl''': Please! Tell me! How can I make you forgive me?! :'''Garnet''': You can't! You lied to me! You need to learn that there are consequences to your actions! :'''Pearl''': I'm sorry! I... I couldn't help myself! :'''Garnet''': ''[kicks opposite side of wall next to Pearl]'' I don't want to hear your excuses! :'''Pearl''': But it's true! No matter how hard I try to be strong like you, I'm just a Pearl. I'm useless on my own. ''[cries]'' I need someone to tell me what to do. :''[the walls suddenly stop moving; Both Amethyst and Steven pull her whip on its gears in its place. Garnet and Pearl pause for a beat]'' :'''Pearl''': When we fuse, I can feel what it's like to be you. Confident and secure, and complete. You're perfect. You're the perfect relationship. You're always together, I just... I wanted to be a part of that. :'''Garnet''': You're wrong! I'm not as strong as you think. I fell apart over this. Ruby and Sapphire were in turmoil over how you deceived me. ''[through screen]'' I came undone. :'''Amethyst''': Whoa, that really happened? :'''Steven''': ''[nods]'' Hm. :'''Garnet''': It's not easy being in control. I have weaknesses too, but I choose not to let them consume me. I struggle to stay strong because I know the impact I have on everyone. Please understand, Pearl. ''[through screen]'' You have an impact too. ''[inside]'' There are times when I look up to you for strength. You are your ''own'' gem. You control your destiny. Not me, not Rose, not Steven. But you must choose to be strong, so we can move forward. So I can trust you again. :'''Pearl''': I understand. I can't give up anymore! :'''Garnet''': Good. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Peridot''': Stupid button here, I don't know what anything is AGGGH! ''[raises her fists in frustration]'' Blast this old Gem tech! Where'd they go? Why isn't anything working?! :''[The Crystal Gems burst into the control bridge]'' :'''Garnet''': Surrender, Peridot! You have nowhere to run! :'''Steven''': The Crystal Gems are gonna get you! :'''Peridot''': You really think this is the end?! ''[aims her blaster at the Gems; laughs]'' This, this is only the beginning... of my escape! ''[points her blaster away at the ceiling and fires an energy shot, blast a large hole in the roof of the ship, and begins to fly off again with her helicopter fingers; laughing tauntingly]'' Well, I'd love to stick around and watch another one of your pathetic attempts to capture me, but I guess I'm just too smart for the likes of you lumpy, clumpy, clods! ''[continues laughing until Steven grabs her onto one of her feet]'' :'''Steven''': I caught a Peridot! :'''Peridot''': Hey! Get your touch-stumps off me, you Steven! === ''Nightmare Hospital'' === :'''Dr. Maheswaran''': ''[sighs]'' I had a rough day at work and I'm not in the mood for any more surprises. :'''Connie''': What happened at work? :'''Dr. Maheswaran''': ''[takes off her jacket and hangs it on Rose's sword, mistaking it for a coat rack]'' There was a really strange case at the hospital today, straight out of a ''nightmare''. ''[beat]'' Oh, don't worry, the rules of doctor-patient confidentiality keep me from sharing the graphic details, but... ''[realizing]'' Hang on a moment. When did we get a coat rack? :'''Connie''': Oh, no... :'''Dr. Maheswaran''': ''[shocked]'' A ''SWORD''?! Connie, where did you get this?! :'''Steven''': I-it's— :'''Connie''': I found it! I just... found it outside and I wanted to show it to Steven. :'''Dr. Maheswaran''': How could you possibly think this is okay?! :'''Connie''': It's— :'''Dr. Maheswaran''': Do you know how many children I see everyday in the hospital who've cut their faces off playing with swords?! :'''Connie''': I— :'''Dr. Maheswaran''': NONE!! Because they all have parents who love them, and who don't let them play around with deadly weapons like some kind of gang member! No playing with swords, under any circumstances! ''[her cell phone rings, answers it]'' This is Dr. Maheswaran. Yes, calm down, Stromberg. Another one? :'''Steven''': ''[to Connie]'' Is she gonna give it back? :'''Dr. Maheswaran''': All right, I'll-I'll be right there. ''[zips sword in duffle bag]'' I have to go to the hospital. I'll have a talk with your father to calculate just how grounded you are. ''[leaves, comes back]'' And we're using the abacus! ''[leaves again]'' :'''Connie''': I ''hate'' that abacus. Steven, I'm so sorry. She took your mother's sword! :'''Steven''': Maybe we can get her to change her mind? :'''Connie''': She never ''ever'' changes her mind. We've got to get that sword back ourselves. <hr width=50%> :'''Connie''': Mom... I'm really sorry about lying to you. It started off as a tiny secret, and then I felt like if I didn't hide it, you wouldn't let me see Steven ever again. :'''Dr. Maheswaran''': Is that how you feel? Are we too controlling? :'''Connie''': ..Maybe. :'''Dr. Maheswaran''': I just wanted to be a good mother. I... I just wanted to protect you. :'''Connie''': I can protect myself now! ''[Dr. Maheswaran pauses for a long beat, sighs]'' :'''Dr. Maheswaran''': Okay. ''[Connie winces]'' We'll... pull back on the rules, and I'll try to keep an open mind about ''[Connie's lenses]'' this, and ''[Lion]'' that, and... him. ''[Steven stays frightened]'' It scares me that you can't talk to me. I need to know what's happening in your life. I... I need to step in when you're in over your head. Would you just promise me you'll stop all this lying? :'''Connie''': ''[beat]'' That's a rule. ''[they embrace each other]'' :'''Dr. Maheswaran''': I love you, honey. :'''Connie''': I love you too, Mom. === ''Sadie's Song'' === :'''Sadie''': Please, Mom. Don't make me do this. :'''Barb''': Make you? You said you wanted to sing. :'''Sadie''': Yeah! I did! I did! I did, I did. Just like I say lots of things like, "Hey, Mom. Swimming looks fun", then bam! Suddenly, I'm anchoring a 400 meter relay for the Beach City Seals. "Hey, Mom. I thought signing up for softball would be nice." 6 birthdays later, I'm still getting nothing but kneepads and batting helmets. "Hey, Mom. I wanna sing at this year's Beachapalooza", and what do I get? THIS! I just thought, for once, I get to do things my way, but you came in and took over everything like you always do. :'''Barb''': I just wanted everyone to know how talented my daughter is. :'''Sadie''': THIS is not your daughter. :'''Barb''': ''[stunned]'' I'm sorry. === ''Catch and Release'' === :''[While Steven gets ready for bed, Peridot kidnaps him to the Galaxy Warp and forces him to fix the Homeworld Warp]'' :'''Steven''': What do you want from me?! :'''Peridot''': I want to get off this lousy gem-forsaken planet! :'''Steven''': Huh? :'''Peridot''': ''[shapes her fingers into arrows and points down to the Homeworld Warp]'' You have to fix this! :'''Steven''': Wait, what?! :'''Peridot''': You're my last chance. I've got no Flask Robonoids. I've got no foot! I've got no response from Yellow Diamond! ''[breathes in and out]'' I know (that) you fixed Lazuli's gem. Whatever you did, you've got to do it to the Homeworld Warp! Or else! ''[charges up her energy blaster, threatening to blast him]'' :'''Steven''': Oh, o-okay, just give me a second! My mouth gets really dry when I'm scared. ''[licks his palm]'' Here goes. ''[slaps his palm onto the Homeworld Warp pad, but nothing happened]'' :'''Peridot''': ''[confused]'' What was that? It didn't do anything! :'''Steven''': It… doesn't always work. :'''Peridot''': No. No, no, no, no, no! It ''has'' to work! :'''Steven''': I'm really sorry. :'''Peridot''': ''[laughs and sits down; plaintively]'' This was it. This was my last shot. ''[gasps]'' I'm gonna die here! :'''Steven''': Hey, hey, come on. Earth isn't that bad. :'''Peridot''': It doesn't matter what Earth is like! It's not going to be like anything soon! <hr width=50%/> :'''Peridot''': Wait. Y-You need me! I'm the only one who knows about the… :''[Garnet grabs Peridot by the waist and squeezes her, poofing her to her gemstone as her limb enhancers fall to the ground]'' :'''Pearl''': ''[shocked]'' What on earth?! :'''Amethyst''': Ugh, sick. There's bits of her all over. :'''Garnet''': Nope. She's right here. ''[bubbles Peridot's gemstone and sends it off to the temple]'' And now she's in the temple. :'''Pearl''': So… these weren't actually ''part'' of her body? <hr width=50%/> :'''Steven''': ''[entering Rose's room]'' Room, I need to talk to Peridot. :'''Cloud Peridot''': I'm the only one who knows about the… :'''Steven''': The what?! <hr width=50%/> :'''Peridot''': My limb enhancers! Where are my limb enhancers?! :'''Steven''': Aww, you're like, an angry little slice of pie. :'''Peridot''': Stop talking! I ''demand'' to know what this place is and where I-- ''[looks up and sees all gems in bubbles; horrified]'' Oh my stars. You're going to harvest me? <hr width=50%/> :'''Steven''': ''[getting padded by Peridot]'' Why are you acting like this?! :'''Peridot''': You smashed me into a limbless cloud, you trapped me in your bubble dungeon, and you called me... ''cute''! ''[Steven evades her punch, face-flat on the floor]'' :'''Steven''': I didn't poof you! I freed you! ''[Peridot turns back]'' :'''Peridot''': Why would you make such a miscalculation? :'''Steven''': Back at the warp pad, what were you trying to say? Why do we need you? What do you know? :'''Peridot''': What do I know? Everything there is to know about the Cluster, you pebble! :'''Steven''': Cluster? Wait, pebble? :'''Peridot''': My mission. The reason why I'm on this sad rock in the first place! I was to check progress on the Cluster! Just in and out, before it hatches. I wasn't supposed to get stuck here! But now it's going to emerge and nothing can stop it, and we'll all be shattered!! :'''Steven''': Okay, okay, wait, slow down. Now, from the top—emerging, hatching, Clusters? :'''Peridot''': You wanna know? :'''Steven''': Yes. :'''Peridot''': You ''really'' wanna know? :'''Steven''': Yes? <hr width=50%/> :'''Peridot''': ''[in bathroom]'' Hmm... Seems I've discovered some sort of archaic... think chamber. Roomy, with a fresh hint of Earth citrus. ''[lifts toilet seat]'' A perfect crossroads for my escape. :'''Amethyst''': ''[fiddling the bathroom doorknob]'' It's locked. :'''Garnet''': Peridot, open the door! ''[flushing sounds are heard]'' :'''Amethyst''': Uh, if you're trying to flush yourself down the toilet, it ''won't'' work. ''[cut to Peridot spinning inside the toilet bowl]'' Trust me, I've tried. :'''Pearl''': How did she get out?! We bubbled her! :'''Amethyst''': Maybe we needed a bigger bubble. :'''Garnet''': My bubbles are fine. :'''Steven''': ''[sweating nervously]'' I did it. :'''Pearl''': ''[shocked]'' Steven, why would you do such a thing?! :'''Steven''': Because she knows something. Something that's made her scared. :'''Amethyst''': Duh, Homeworld girl knows we're gonna beat her into a green pancake. :'''Steven''': No, not 'cause of us. 'Cause of something called "the Cluster." :'''Garnet''': Cluster? That's new. :'''Pearl''': What else did she tell you? :'''Steven''': That's all I got. :'''Peridot''': That's right, you dirt bombs! You don't even know what's coming! ''[notices her reflection in the mirror]'' Ooh… :'''Garnet''': I'm tired of playing these games. If we can't fight her, fine. We'll talk. Peridot! :'''Peridot''': ''[slips off the sink]'' Whoa! :'''Garnet''': All right, no more fighting. Let's just have a civil conversation. :'''Peridot''': As if I'd negotiate with you, filthy war machine! :'''Garnet''': ''[summons her gauntlets]'' Okay, let's kick her butt. :'''Steven''': Wait! :'''Peridot''': Yeah! Destroy me again! ''[hangs on bath curtain pole with a plunger]'' And have fun trying to talk to me when I'm in a ''bubble''! ''[almost slips off]'' :'''Pearl''': I really hate to say it, but unfortunately if she has information, she's more valuable to us like… this. :'''Garnet''': This is going to be tricky. ''[hear knobs turning, water splashing]'' :'''Peridot''': H-h-hot hot hot!! :'''Steven''': You have to turn the knob the other way for cold! ''[later in the kitchen with the Gems]'' Wait, so we're just gonna let her live in my bathroom? :'''Pearl''': Well, yes. What other option do we have? Keep her outside on a leash? <hr width=50%/> :'''Peridot''': What a great souvenir of that ''other'' time you assaulted me. :'''Steven''': Oh, right, sorry. I can take it back. :'''Peridot''': No, it's too late! You… wouldn't happen to have the rest? :'''Steven''': ''[washing his face]'' Uh, sorry, we lost them. Well, we kinda threw 'em away. ''[points to his toothbrush, sitting on the floor next to her]'' Can you pass me that? :'''Peridot''': ''[picks it up]'' Is this a weapon?! :'''Steven''': Only for cavities. ''[Peridot tosses him his toothbrush]'' Thanks! :'''Peridot''': ''[gestures to a comb]'' Is that a weapon? :'''Steven''': ''[while brushing his teeth]'' No. That's a comb I never use. :'''Peridot''': ''[climbs onto the toilet and gestures to the towel he's holding]'' Is ''that'' a weapon? :'''Steven''': Hmm? Oh, well, I guess if you get it wet and roll it up. ''[rolls up his towel, making Peridot flinch in fear]'' Look, I know you're scared, but I'm not going to hurt you. And whatever's going on, whatever the "Cluster" is, I wanna help. :'''Peridot''': I doubt you can help me, but I… appreciate the offer. :'''Steven''': ''[smiles]'' Now, do you mind moving (aside)? ''[points at the toilet]'' I have to use that. :'''Peridot''': ''[as the star iris closes in on her]'' For what? === ''When It Rains'' === :'''Garnet''': ''[knocking on the bathroom door]'' Open the door, Peridot! If this "Cluster" is putting us in danger, you need to tell us what it is so we can (find it and) stop it! :'''Peridot''': No! I hate you! I'm not telling you anything about the Cluster! :'''Amethyst''': Oh, come on. Is it like a big, hunk of granola? :'''Peridot''': What's granola? :'''Pearl''': I'm sure it's not granola. Now, Peridot, I'm sure we can reach some sort of agreement. Perhaps a trade is in order? :'''Peridot''': Oh, sure. Why don't you just give me back my leg enhancements and my arm attachments with my screen and my log and all my information? Oh, wait, YOU DESTROYED THEM! So, no, I don't think we can reach some sort of agreement! :''[The Crystal Gems groan in annoyance]'' :'''Steven''': ''[flushing the toilet]'' Okay, Peridot, you can turn around now. ''[exits the bathroom; clears throat]'' Sorry for interrupting your interrogation. :'''Garnet''': Don't worry about it, Steven. :'''Pearl''': I swear, Peridot is gonna crack any second now. :'''Peridot''': I'll ''never'' crack for the likes of you, you… Crystal Clods! ''[laughs]'' :'''Pearl''': ''[angrily]'' Ooh, I got your clods right here, you little…! :'''Garnet''': ''[puts her hand on her shoulder]'' Hold on, Pearl. If she's not gonna be of any help, let's investigate this thing on our own. :'''Steven''': I'll come with you. :'''Garnet''': Sorry, Steven. We're gonna need you to stay here and keep an eye on our…''guest.'' :'''Steven''': Really? :'''Amethyst''': Yeah. Make sure she doesn't try anything. :'''Pearl''': Don't worry. She's harmless without her limb enhancers. :'''Peridot''': I'M NOT HARMLESS! :'''Pearl''': Oh, hush up! <hr width=50%> :'''Steven''': ''[calling out to Peridot]'' They left, you know. You can come out now. :'''Peridot''': No. I-I like it in here. <hr width=50%> :'''Steven''': My dad's from Earth, but my mom's a Gem. :'''Peridot''': You're some sort of hybrid? How is that possible? :'''Steven''': The answer to that is a story I like to call, "The Ballad of Rose and Greg." <hr width=50%/> :'''Peridot''': These are the early attempts at artificial fusion. :'''Steven''': That's a lot of gem shards. :'''Peridot''': We were growing them here at this very site. But these were just prototypes for the final product, a singular giant artificial fusion, comprised of millions of gem shards…the Cluster. :'''Steven''': Peridot, you're saying there's a giant mutant gem the size of the Earth under us right now? :'''Peridot''': Oh, no. When it forms, it'll be much, much bigger than the Earth. Right now, it lies dormant, incubating in the Earth's core. But when it emerges and takes its physical form, it will destroy the planet. The prototypes are already emerging. The Cluster is next. If we can't get off this planet, we've got to stop the Cluster! I thought it'd be impossible, but now we have a chance. :'''Steven''': What is it? :'''Peridot''': ''[grabs Steven's shoulders and grins malevolently]'' It's you, Steven! ''[she and Steven climb out of the control room]'' Now that you're filled in, we can get to work! :'''Steven''': Uhh, how am I supposed to help? :'''Peridot''': Well, you have all the information that we need about Earth and its erratic behavior. Put that together with my expansive knowledge of the Cluster and we just might be able to stop it! :'''Steven''': No, Peridot, I don't think you get it. Just because I know how clouds work doesn't mean I know how to stop a giant mutant in the center of the earth. Besides, the only reason that I know anything about clouds and rain is because my dad told me. :'''Peridot''': What are you talking about? :'''Steven''': I used to be really scared of thunderstorms, just like you. Then Dad explained how rain and all that stuff works, then I wasn't scared of rain anymore. :'''Peridot''': Well, I'm sure you have other knowledge about how this planet works. :'''Steven''': Sure, but none of it's gonna help us. If we want to stop this Cluster thing, we'll ''need'' help from the Crystal Gems. :'''Peridot''': I said I don't need them! Let's just warp me back to the bathroom, or whatever you call it, and we'll take care of this. If it looks really bad, then we can just ask this "dad" for help, right? === ''Back to the Barn'' === :'''Peridot''': What is that?! :'''Steven''': ''[speaking with the Cluster puppet]'' It's the Cluster. :'''Peridot''': It does not look like that. But it ''is'' real, and it can activate at any moment! :'''Amethyst''': What a cluster. :'''Garnet''': That abomination must be stopped. :'''Pearl''': But how? We'll need to build some sort of machine to take us to the center of the Earth, it'll have to- :'''Peridot''': ''[swats at Pearl, interrupting her]'' Hey! I wasn't finished speaking! What we ''need'' is to build some sort of machine to take us to the center of the Earth. <hr width=50%/> :'''Pearl''': All right. What we have here in the barn should be adequate enough for us to get started. First, I recommend we organize the component types, and assemble a rough blueprint based off what we have available. Sorry, Steven. It's a lovely drawing, but it won't look like this. ''[Steven stops spinning on the swivel chair, now frowning]'' :'''Peridot''': ''[examines piece of chalk]'' Hmm... Good. Yes, this is adequate. Thank you. You can go now. :'''Pearl''': ..Uh, what? :'''Peridot''': Hm? ''[beat]'' Umm, that will be all? ''[claps to her for a beat, whispers to Steven]'' How do you get her to leave? :'''Pearl''': Excuse me, I am not leaving. :'''Steven''': Yeah! She's gotta stay here to help us build the drill thing, right? :'''Peridot''': ''[laughs]'' No, no, you're confused. A Pearl can't build a thing like this. :'''Steven''': Why not? :'''Peridot''': Because Pearls aren't ''for'' this! They're... for standing around, an-and looking nice, and uh... holding your stuff for you. Right? :'''Pearl''': That's enough! If we're going to work together, you're going to have to listen to me. :'''Peridot''': Listen to you? ''[starts laughing, turns to Steven]'' Did you teach her to talk like this? :'''Steven''': What are you talking about? :'''Peridot''': She's a Pearl. She's a made-to-order servant just like the hundreds of other Pearls being flaunted around back on Homeworld. :'''Steven''': Wait... There's hundreds of Pearls?! :'''Pearl''': ''[nervous]'' Well... yes, but— :'''Peridot''': ''[holding Pearl's sash]'' And she looks like a fancy one, too. ''[Pearl gasps]'' :'''Steven''': Hundreds of Pearls... :'''Peridot''': So, who do you belong to anyway? :'''Pearl''': ''[grabs her sash away from her]'' Nobody!! :'''Peridot''': Then... what are you for? ''[Pearl recoils back]'' Well, you can belong to me for now. Ha! A Peridot with a Pearl? What would they say back home? :'''Pearl''': Now listen here, you tiny twerp! In case you've forgotten, you're on ''our'' turf now! And I didn't fight a thousand-year war for this planet's independence to take orders from the likes of ''you!!'' :'''Peridot''': Excuse me? I am a natural technician and a certified Kindergartener. I was made for this! ''You'' were made to take orders, not to give them! :'''Steven''': Whoa, whoa, hang on, guys! Now, we can all agree that you are both good at building things, so... can't you just try listening to each other? :'''Both''': '''''NO!''''' :'''Pearl''': I'm as good at building things as you! Better, even! :'''Peridot''': Ha! Name one thing you could engineer better. Go on! :'''Steven''': ''[whispers]'' Robots. :'''Both''': Hm? :'''Steven''': You should build robots. Giant robots! I see a race. A giant robo-race... with prizes. Giant robo-prizes! :'''Pearl''': You mean like a competition? :'''Steven''': Yeah! To see who's better at building stuff! :'''Peridot''': What are these robots you speak of? :'''Steven''': They're like those funky marble guys you were sending—only bigger, and you can ride them! ''[makes robot noises]'' :'''Peridot''': Hah! Building one of these robots will be easy! :'''Pearl''': Well, I can build one faster! :'''Peridot''': That's what you think! === ''Too Far'' === :'''Peridot''': ''[talking into a tape recorder]'' Log date 7-1-1-2. It's the third rotation of the Earth since commencements of a... collaborative approach to stopping the Cluster. :'''Pearl''': I've finished drawing up the blueprints for the drill head. Peridot, if you could come take a look at this? :'''Peridot''': Remind me again why I should listen to you? Oh, right. ''[plays recorder; thru recorder] The Pearl here has developed an aptitude for engineering that I begrudgingly respect. But that doesn't explain the spontaneous singing... crying... singing while crying.'' :'''Pearl''': ''[to Steven; annoyed]'' Why did you give her that? :'''Steven''': Well, we did destroy all her stuff. I thought it might help make her feel a little better. :'''Peridot''': ''[thru recorder] Clod! [fast-forwards] Mighty clod! [fast-forwards] Running out of ways to say clod.'' :'''Garnet''': All right. I chased away those cows. Now let's get to work. :'''Peridot''': ''[to Garnet; clears throat]'' Before we begin, would you mind unfusing? It's making me incredibly uncomfortable. :''[beat as Steven, Amethyst and Pearl nervously look to Garnet. The scene then cuts to Garnet leashing Peridot to a fence.] :'''Peridot''': ''[as Garnet walks away]'' What?! What'd I say?! :'''Steven''': Did we really have to do that? :'''Garnet''': Her having free reign of the place made ''me'' incredibly uncomfortable. <hr width=50% /> :''[Steven and Amethyst walk up to a leashed Peridot growling over a microwave]'' :'''Peridot''': I just need some sort of leverage optimizer... :'''Amethyst''': Leverage optimizer? :'''Peridot''': That's what I said. :'''Amethyst''': Ohhh! Ha! You mean you want a screwdriver? ''[laughing]'' :'''Peridot''': Do you have one or not? :'''Steven''': Uh... ''[hands a screwdriver]'' Why don't you just use this one? :'''Peridot''': Because it was outside my radius. :'''Amethyst''': He-hey... Hey, Peridot... ''[points to her nose]'' What do you call this? :'''Peridot''': A scent sponge. :'''Steven''': Huh? ''[Amethyst laughs some more]'' :'''Amethyst''': Okay... ''[opens her eye]'' what's this? :'''Peridot''': Vision sphere. :'''Steven''': Peridot, that's— :'''Amethyst''': Wait, wait, Steven! Peridot... ''[waves her fingers]'' these? :'''Peridot''': ''[getting annoyed]'' Touch stumps. :'''Amethyst''': ''[points to her foot]'' This?! :'''Peridot''': Gravity connectors. :'''Amethyst''': ''This''?! :'''Peridot''': '''THAT'S YOUR BUTT!!!''' ''[Steven and Amethyst laugh out loud]'' :'''Steven''': Oh, man, Peridot, you're killing me! :'''Peridot''': I am not! That would violate our truce agreement! :'''Amethyst''': No, no, no! You're funny! :'''Peridot''': Funny? <hr width=50% /> :'''Peridot''': The strangest thing is, Amethyst... you think you have to listen to them! ''[laughs]'' You are the one they should put you in charge! :'''Amethyst''': Ha! That's your best joke yet. :'''Peridot''': No, really. Pearl is a Pearl. Garnet is a fusion. I don't even know what ''he's'' supposed to be. :'''Steven''': Hey! :'''Peridot''': You're the only Crystal Gem that's actually a Gem! :'''Amethyst''': Uh... ''[laughs nervously]'' What? :'''Peridot''': You outrank everyone on your team. They should be listening to you. You're a strong, singular, fully-functional soldier, despite the fact that you're defective. :'''Amethyst''': ..Defective? :'''Peridot''': Well, sure. You're small. :'''Amethyst''': So? :'''Peridot''': Well, you're not supposed to be! Hold on, wait, wait. Let me guess. ''[points to Amethyst's hole]'' This— ''[runs to hole]'' This is the hole you came out of. Too small, too low, the exit marks look about 500 years newer than every other hole. Hmm... this place must have been empty when you came out. No wonder you have no idea what you're supposed to look like! :'''Steven''': Peridot... ''[Amethyst holds Steven on the shoulder]'' :'''Amethyst''': What was I supposed to look like? :'''Peridot''': Well, you're a quartz. They're huge, loyal soldiers. You should be twice your size. Broad shouldered, intimidating, but you simply stayed in the ground too long. :'''Amethyst''': Are you saying I'm wrong?! :'''Peridot''': ''[laughing]'' Gemetically speaking, yes. When you think about it it's also... ''[snickers]'' funny! ''[Amethyst feels more enraged]'' :'''Steven''': Amethyst? :'''Peridot''': Hey, soldier. Maybe you can help me get this hunk of drill off. :''[Amethyst violently slashes the drill head off of an Injector with her whip]'' :'''Peridot''': See? Look at that! You can do everything a normal quartz can do. Let's head back and shove this thing in Pearl's face! :'''Steven''': Amethyst? Are you okay? :'''Amethyst''': Don't worry about it. <hr width=50% /> :'''Pearl''': ''WE LEAVE FOR ONE SECOND AND EVERYTHING GOES OFF THE RAILS!'' :'''Garnet''': I blame the cows. <hr width=50% /> :'''Peridot''': ''[thru recorder]'' "''Log date 7-1-1-2. This entire planet is backwards. There hasn't been one instance of correct behavior exhibited by anyone of these Crystal Gems. I have conclusion that they are all defective. But I am no better. I failed my mission and I'm now working with the enemy. And I can't even get that right. I have apparently "hurt" Amethyst's "feelings", which was not my intent. If I damaged my standing with the best Gem here, then I've made a serious mistake. I'm still learning. I hope you understand. I want to understand. I'm sorry. [pause] Peridot, Facet 5, end log.''" === ''The Answer'' === :'''Garnet''': ''[narrating]'' Sapphire had been called to Earth by Blue Diamond, specifically to share her vision of the future. :'''Sapphire''': ''[enters her Diamond's palanquin]'' My Diamond, I have arrived. :'''Garnet''': ''[narrating]'' Blue Diamond spoke… :'''Blue Diamond (Garnet)''': Sapphire, tell me what will happen here. :'''Sapphire''': I foresee the rebels attacking the Cloud Arena. Before they are cornered, they will destroy the physical forms of seven gems, including two of my Ruby guards, and myself. Immediately after my form is destroyed, the rebels will be captured. The rebellion ends here. :'''Blue Diamond (Garnet)''': Thank you, Sapphire. :'''Garnet''': ''[narrating]'' Blue Diamond said, relieved. :'''Blue Diamond (Garnet)''': That's all I needed to know. :'''Sapphire''': I look forward to speaking with you again once I reform back on Homeworld. <hr width=50% /> :'''Rose''': ''[off-screen]'' Blue Diamond, leave this planet! This colony will ''not'' be completed! :'''Ruby Guard''': It's the rebels! :'''Various Gems''': Who are you?! Show yourselves! :'''Rose''': ''[floating from above Pearl]'' We… :'''Rose & Pearl''': …are the Crystal Gems! :'''Garnet''': ''[narrating]'' The attack was right on schedule. <hr width=50% /> :'''Sapphire''': Thank you, Ruby. You did your best. :'''Garnet''': ''[narrating]'' Ruby suddenly realized what Sapphire meant. She'd known that Ruby would fail. Sapphire had accepted it. But Ruby… Ruby could not. :'''Ruby''': ''NO!!'' ''[charges at Sapphire, pushing her out of the way of Pearl's attack, causing them to spin into the air and accidentally fuse into Garnet for the first time]'' <hr width=50% /> :'''Garnet''': ''[narrating]'' The furious crowd closed in around Ruby and Sapphire. They'd never seen fusion of two different types of gems. :'''Various Gems (Garnet)''': Unbelievable! Disgusting! This is unheard of! :'''Garnet''': ''[narrating]'' Blue Diamond's voice cut through the crowd. :'''Blue Diamond (Garnet)''': The rebels have fled. Sapphire, this is ''not'' the scenario you described. :'''Sapphire''': This is… not what I saw! I don't know what happened, I… :'''Ruby''': No! It was me! :'''Blue Diamond (Garnet)''': Clearly. :'''Garnet''': ''[narrating]'' Said Blue Diamond. :'''Blue Diamond (Garnet)''': How dare you fuse with a member of my court? :'''Ruby''': Forgive me, I… :'''Blue Diamond (Garnet)''': You will be broken for this! <hr width=50% /> :'''Both''': ''Where did we go, what did we do?'' :''I think we made something entirely new'' :''And it wasn't quite me and it wasn't quite you'' :''I think it was someone entirely new.'' :'''Ruby''': ''Oh, um'' :''Well, I just can't stop thinking'' :'''Sapphire''': ''So, um'' :''Did you say I was different?'' :'''Ruby''': ''And you hadn't before'' :'''Sapphire''': ''Of course not'' :''When would I have ever?'' :'''Ruby''': ''I'm so sorry'' :'''Sapphire''': ''No, no, don't be'' :'''Ruby''': ''And now you're here forever!'' :'''Sapphire''': ''What about you?'' :'''Ruby''': ''What about me?'' :'''Sapphire''': ''Well, you're here too'' :''We're here together.'' :''Mm-m-m-m-mm'' :'''Both''': ''Mm-m-m-m-mm, hm-m-m-m-m'' :''Mm-m-m-m-mm'' :''Mm-m-m-m-mm...'' <hr width=50% /> :'''Garnet''': ''[narrating]'' I was back. I was someone and I didn't know who. But I felt I was getting the hang of my strange new form. ''[beat]'' And then I fell. :'''Past Garnet''': Ahh! ''[tumbling down a hill and crashes in bushes]'' Ouch... ''[a sword is pointed to her face]'' Aahh! Don't hurt her! Don't hurt... me? :''[Pan up to see Pearl as the sword bearer]'' :'''Pearl''': It's you... the fusion. :'''Past Garnet''': We didn't mean to fuse! Well... well, we did this time. We'll unfuse! We-we'll... w-we'll... ''[Rose Quartz comes by]'' :'''Rose''': No, no, please. I'm glad to see you again. :'''Garnet''': And there they were - Rose Quartz, the leader of the rebellion and her terrifying renegade Pearl. :'''Past Garnet''': I don't... upset you? :'''Rose''': Who cares about how I feel? How ''you'' feel is bound to be much more interesting. :'''Past Garnet''': How I feel? I-I feel... uh, lost... and scared... a-and happy. W-Why am I so sure that I'd rather be this than everything I was supposed to be, and that I'd rather do this than everything I was supposed to do? ''[Rose chuckles and smiles]'' :'''Rose''': Welcome to Earth. :'''Past Garnet''': C-Can you tell me?! How was Ruby able to alter fate? Or, why was Sapphire willing to give up everything? W-What am I?! :'''Rose''': No more questions. Don't ''ever'' question this. You already are the answer. :''[Flashback story ends as Garnet concludes]'' :'''Steven''': So…what was it? The answer? :'''Garnet''': ''[whispers]'' Love. :'''Steven''': Wow… I knew it. :'''Garnet''': So did I. === ''Steven's Birthday'' === :''[Steven runs and hides to an edge of the barn; he de-ages into his normal state]'' :'''Steven''': Ohhh, geez! If I can just keep this up for the rest of my life, no one will suspect a thi— :''[he sees wide-eyed Amethyst and Greg staring at Steven for a beat; he drops a piñata stick]'' :'''Amethyst''': What are you doing?! :'''Steven''': ''[stammers]'' U-uh— well, what are ''[ages back]'' you doing? :'''Greg''': What are ''you'' doing to your body?! :'''Amethyst''': Woah, woah, woah... Have you been stretching yourself out all day?! :'''Steven''': No! I was just... slouching. :'''Greg''': Why are you doing this? It... really isn't like you. :'''Steven''': Because, Dad! I can't stay a kid forever! When Connie grows up and becomes president, what is that gonna make me? First Boy?! :'''Amethyst''': Steven, you can't just keep stretching forever. If you hold it too long, you could really hurt yourself. :'''Steven''': Yeah, well, I'm half-human so maybe it works different for me! We'll just have to wait and see, right?! :'''Greg''': ''[sighs]'' Steven... <hr width=50%/> :'''Connie''': ''[holds up crying Baby Steven in front of everyone]'' We were just talking, then all of a sudden… :'''Pearl''': He turned back into a baby?! :'''Connie''': Yes! :'''Amethyst''': Dude, I told you. Stretching your body out for that long is not good for you. ''[Baby Steven talks in baby language in response; holds him up to Pearl]'' Here you go, Pearl. :'''Pearl''': Oh, no, no, don't give him to me! :'''Garnet''': Hand him over, Amethyst. :'''Amethyst''': Here you go. ''[gives her Baby Steven]'' <hr width=50%/> :''[Greg, Connie and Amethyst (as a baby car seat for Baby Steven) drive up in his van; Connie waves a maraca trying to calm down Baby Steven]'' :'''Connie''': How can the Gems not know what to do?! :'''Greg''': You think they know the first thing about raising a baby? That was all me! But I don't get it. Driving always used to calm him down. :'''Connie''': But, how do we change him back?! :'''Greg''': I don't know! Look, Connie, let me take you home. I-I'll call you when this all this gets sorted out. :''[Connie turns to Baby Steven babbling and crying]'' :'''Connie''': W-Wait, no! I wanna stay. :'''Greg''': Are you sure? :'''Connie''': Yeah! I just want to be there for Steven. Don't worry, Steven. It doesn't matter to me what age it seems like you are, I wanna hang out with you no matter what. Your dad still has to earn his car wash and the Gems have to do gem stuff, so I'll watch you when they're not around. I can come see you after I'm done training with Pearl, too. Doesn't that sound fun? ''[Baby Steven holds onto her finger; cooing happily]'' :'''Greg''': Look at that. He finally stopped crying. :'''Connie''': Well, that's a start. ''[Amethyst clears her throat]'' :'''Greg''': What's up, Amethyst? :'''Amethyst''': Baby Steven needs changin'. === ''It Could've Been Great'' === :'''Steven''': ''Life and death and love and birth'' :''And peace and war on the planet Earth'' :''Is there anything that's worth more'' :''Than peace and love on the planet Earth?'' :''Whoahh, come on and sing it with me'' :'''Peridot''': Sing? :'''Steven''': ''The words relate to the key'' :'''Peridot''': Key? :'''Steven''': ''If it's a pattern, if it's a pattern'' :''Then just repeat after me.'' :''Life and death and love and birth'' :'''Peridot''': ''Life and death and love and birth'' :'''Steven''': ''Now using mi-fa-mi-mi-fa-mi-ti-la!'' :'''Both''': ''And peace and war on the planet Earth.'' :'''Steven''': Yes, yes! That's it! :'''Peridot''': That's so easy. :'''Steven''': Yeah, but that's what's fun about it! You should write something, you should write a song. :'''Peridot''': About what? :'''Steven''': Whatever you're thinking. <hr width=25% /> :'''Peridot''': ''I guess we're already here, I guess we already know'' :''We've all got something to fear, we've all got nowhere to go'' :''I think you're all '''insane''', but I guess I am too'' :''Anybody would be if they were stuck on Earth with you.'' :'''Steven''': ''[laughing]'' Yes! ''Life and death and love and birth and'' :'''Amethyst''': ''Life and death and love and birth and'' :'''Pearl''': ''Life and death and love and birth'' :''And peace and war on the planet Earth.'' :'''Garnet''': ''Is there anything that's worth more'' :'''Steven''': ''Is there anything that's worth more'' :'''Peridot''': ''Is there anything that's worth more'' :''Than peace and love on the planet Earth?'' <hr width=50% /> :'''Peridot''': Coordinates! ''[popping out from the drill's cockpit]'' We still have the Cluster's exact coordinates in order to drill! :'''Pearl''': There's a Diamond base that may hold that information, but getting there is going to be difficult. :'''Steven''': How come? :'''Pearl''': Because it's not accessible by warp pad, and it's on… ''[gazes up into the sky]'' :'''Steven''': ''[gasps]'' The moon?! :'''Pearl''': Yes, Steven. The moon. <hr width=50% /> :'''Steven''': ''[singing while floating around] ♪ I was bouncing on the moon one day… ♪ [bumps into the wall and looks up at a mural]'' Huh? Hey, Peridot, who is this supposed to be? :'''Peridot''': ''[approaches and gasps in surprise at the mural]'' It's Blue Diamond! Wait. Are they ''all'' here?! Ah, yes! There she is! :'''Steven''': Who? :''[They run up to the mural of Yellow Diamond]'' :'''Peridot''': Behold, Yellow Diamond! Isn't she magnificent? :'''Steven''': Wow! So, who are the Diamonds anyway? They seem like a big deal. :'''Peridot''': Are you joking me? The Diamonds are the Gem matriarchs! Together, they make up the Great Diamond Authority that governs Homeworld and all the outlying colonies! We live to serve them. ''[Garnet clears her throat and glares down at her in annoyance; nervously chuckles]'' I…I mean, we were all made to serve them, even though some of us don't anymore. <hr width=50% /> :'''Peridot''': This is so incredible! Only the most elite can enter these sanctums. We are literally walking in the footsteps of the Diamonds. :'''Steven''': They must really like stairs. ''[They enter an upstairs room with only a single mysterious object in the middle]'' Hey, what's this room? :'''Garnet''': ''[continues walking]'' It's not what we came for. :'''Amethyst''': Can we hurry it up? This place gives me the creeps. :'''Steven''': ''[as they reach the top of the moon base]'' We really are on the moon. <hr width=50% /> :''[Peridot brings up a hologram of Earth, which starts eroding to a hollowed-out version with a ring system as Steven and the Gems awe in shock]'' :'''Peridot''': Ta-da! A finished Earth colony. Wow, look at this! Eighty-nine Kindergartens, sixty-seven spires, a Galaxy Warp in each facet, efficient use of all available materials. What were you thinking shutting this operation down?! It could've been great! :'''Garnet''': No! You're wrong! :'''Peridot''': What do you mean? It's perfect. Look at it! :'''Pearl''': We ''are'' looking at it. :'''Amethyst''': Yeah, this plan stinks! :'''Garnet''': Completing this colony would have meant the extinction of all life on Earth! :'''Peridot''': But think of the good it would've done! The Gems that would've been made, our empire expanded! :'''Pearl''': Rose Quartz believed all life was precious and ''worth'' protecting. :'''Peridot''': Well, if she wanted to protect it, she did a lousy job! There'd be no Cluster if the Earth had stayed a colony! Now there's no colony, and there's gonna be no Earth! So thank you, Rose Quartz, you doomed the planet! :''[Garnet, Pearl and Amethyst stare angrily at Peridot for a beat]'' :'''Steven''': Ohh-hoh-hoh! ''[nervously]'' Is there anything that's worth more than— :'''Garnet''': ''[picks up Peridot by the tunic, sharply]'' You, listen to me, now. ''[summons gauntlet]'' You are talking about things that you do ''not'' understand. :'''Steven''': Garnet! Stop, please! It's not worth it. We're done here. Let's just go home. :''[Garnet drops Peridot on the seat and smashes the control panel with her gauntlet and the hologram dissipates; the Gems start leaving soon after. Steven sighs]'' :'''Peridot''': What'd I say? I'm just stating a fact. The rebellion didn't really save Earth, it just delayed the inevitable. :'''Steven''': ''[sighs]'' That's not the way they see it. They've spent thousands of years trying to protect the Earth. I thought maybe you finally understood why. === ''Message Received'' === :'''Peridot''': ''[quickly hides the Diamond Communicator prism she took from the Moon Base behind her back when she sees Steven]'' Oh! Steven. :'''Steven''': Peridot, I need to talk to you. :'''Peridot''': Uh, yeah! Sure. :''[They both enter the truck]'' :'''Peridot''': Why are we in this broken down vehicle? :'''Steven''': I wanted to ask you… ''[looks down at her hiding right hand, then up to her face]'' about the Diamonds? :'''Peridot''': Oh! I don't know what the others have told you, but there's a reason they're in charge. :'''Steven''': Why's that? :'''Peridot''': They're objectively better than us. Every Gem has their strengths and weaknesses, but not them. They're absolutely totally completely flawless beings! Especially my diamond, Yellow Diamond, the most perfect, the most reasonable, rational, efficient decider ever to exist in the universe! :'''Steven''': You're really loyal to her, aren't you? :'''Peridot''': How could I not be? We might have our little truce, but I'll never forsake the Gem I was made for! <hr width="50%"/> :''[Steven shows the Gems the Diamond Communicator prism Peridot took from the Moon Base after locking her in the barn, and they gasp in shock]'' :'''Pearl''': She took a direct line to the Diamonds, from the moon base?! What was she thinking?! :'''Amethyst''': ''[frustrated]'' Man, after everything we've gone through, she's ''still'' out to get us! Oh, I'm taking back all my cool nicknames for her. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Yellow Pearl''': This is the Yellow Diamond control room. :'''Amethyst''': Is that another Pearl? :'''Steven''': Who is she? :'''Pearl''': Not all Pearls know each other, Steven. :'''Yellow Pearl''': Who authorized you to make this call? :'''Peridot''': No one. But it's an emergency! :'''Yellow Pearl''': That's no excuse to use the direct Diamond communication channel! :'''Yellow Diamond''': Pearl? :'''Yellow Pearl''': Yes, my Diamond? :'''Yellow Diamond''': Why is there someone on the diamond line? :'''Yellow Pearl''': I don't know! I was just about to tell her that… :'''Yellow Diamond''': I'll take it from here. ''[brings the screen up to her eye level, revealing herself]'' :''[The Crystal Gems gasp in shock]'' :'''Amethyst''': Is that… :'''Pearl''': Yellow… :'''Garnet''': Diamond. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Peridot''': Wait! I— I wouldn't have called just to waste your time with a report. :'''Yellow Diamond''': You already have. :'''Peridot''': ''[nervously]'' No, I mean... The reason I called – the ''real'' reason... I believe we should terminate the Cluster. :'''Yellow Diamond''': ...''Why?'' :'''Peridot''': The organic ecosystem creates resources unique to this world. We can't sacrifice all that potential just for one geo-weapon! I'd like to tell you some plans I came up with to utilize the planet without disrupting the local— :'''Yellow Diamond''': I've heard enough! I don't care about potential and resources. :'''Peridot''': What? :'''Yellow Diamond''': I want my Cluster, and I want that planet to ''die''. Just make that happen. :'''Peridot''': ...No! :'''Yellow Pearl''': Huh?! :'''Yellow Diamond''': Are you questioning my authority? :'''Peridot''': I'm questioning your objectivity! My Diamond. :'''Yellow Pearl''': Well! ''[Yellow Diamond stands up]'' :'''Yellow Diamond''': You are out of line. :'''Peridot''': I just think— :'''Yellow Diamond''': I'm not interested in the puny thoughts of a Peridot. :'''Peridot''': But— :'''Yellow Diamond''': You have disrespected this channel and my time with your presence, and you would do well to— :'''Peridot''': But— :'''Yellow Diamond''': ''Shut your mouth!!'' ''[beat]'' You have failed at every stage of this mission! Your only chance to redeem yourself is to obey this simple order: You are to leave the Cluster to grow. It will tear apart the Earth, and I will take immense satisfaction in erasing that hideous rock off of our star maps! ''Is that clear?!'' :'''Peridot''': I won't do it!! I can tell you with certainty that there are things on this planet worth protecting! ''[Steven smiles]'' :'''Yellow Diamond''': What do ''you'' know about the Earth?! :'''Peridot''': ''[losing her temper]'' APPARENTLY MORE THAN ''YOU'', YOU... <big>'''''CLOD!'''''</big> ''[Yellow Diamond suddenly becomes incredibly livid at a petrified Peridot]'' Uhh... Peridot out. :''[She terminates communication; Steven and the Gems come out from hiding and happily congratulate Peridot]'' :'''Steven''': That was AMAZING! :'''Peridot''': ''[sweating and looking devastated]'' I can't believe I just did that... :'''Steven''': I was so wrong about being so wrong about you! :'''Peridot''': ''[still sweating and devastated]'' I can't believe I just did that...! :'''Garnet''': You thought you could change her mind. :'''Amethyst''': Yellow D got torn down by the "Peridactyl"! :'''Peridot''': ''[sighs and gives the communicator to Pearl]'' Can one of you take this? :'''Pearl''': Why? :'''Peridot''': Because it can be remotely detonated. :''[The communicator starts to glow red; Steven and the Gems panic while Peridot curls up into a ball on the ground]'' :'''Pearl''': How do we stop it?! :'''Garnet''': Just get rid of it! :'''Pearl''': Err, here, Amethyst! ''[passes it to her]'' :'''Amethyst''': ''WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH IT?!'' :''[She throws it to Steven, who bubbles it; Garnet punches it away into the sky, where it explodes harmlessly]'' :'''Peridot''': ''[still curled up]'' I thought I could reason with her... :'''Amethyst''': ''[grinning]'' Yeah, you ''REALLY'' made her mad. :'''Pearl''': ''[smiling]'' And then you insulted her to her face. :'''Steven''': ''[overjoyed]'' Do you know what this means?! :'''Peridot''': I'm a traitor to my Homeworld. :'''Steven''': ''You're a Crystal Gem!!!'' ''[hugs Peridot]'' :'''Garnet''': ''[smiling]'' Whether you like it or not. :''[Peridot starts groaning loudly as the camera zooms out to the whole of Earth]'' === ''Log Date 7 15 2'' === :'''Peridot''': Log Date 7-1-5-2. I can't believe I just did that! I disobeyed my orders and went against Yellow Diamond's wishes! I'm a traitorous clod! I never want to think about what I've done again! ''[stops recording, rewinds and plays the recording; laughs madly]'' And I called Yellow Diamond a clod, right to her face! ''[falls to her knees]'' I called Yellow Diamond a clod, ''right to her face.'' :'''Steven''': Uh, Peridot? Are you going to be okay? :'''Peridot''': ''[enthusiastically with a deranged smile]'' No! :'''Steven''': It's all going to work out. You're with us now. :'''Peridot''': You don't understand! I'm protecting a planet I was once trying to destroy! I used to follow every order, every rule. Now I'm a traitor. ''[cringes]'' A rebel! ''[eyes turn to stars]'' '''A CRYSTAL GEMMMMMMMMMMMM....''' ''[snickers]'' :'''Steven''': Well, that tape recorder seems to be helping. :'''Peridot''': '''NO IT'S NOT!''' ''[throws it at Garnet, who had just entered]'' It's a chronicle of my descent into madness!!! :'''Garnet''': ''[holding out the recorder to Peridot]'' You dropped this. :'''Peridot''': Get it away from me! Give it to Steven. Return madness to its source! <hr width=50%/> :''[Steven presses the rewind button on the tape recorder, rewinding all the way back to the beginning to where he first gave it to Peridot]'' :'''Peridot''': ''[through recorder]'' Log Date 7-1-1-2. The Steven has given me this Earth machine to replace my communicator log. It looks… extremely primitive. ''[takes the recorder out of his hand]'' He also said he wanted me to stop calling him, "the Steven." :'''Steven''': It's just "Steven." :'''Peridot''': ''[through recorder]'' I said I'd call him whatever I want. ''[hisses at him; Steven holds up his finger in her face]'' He told me that was rude. :'''Steven''': Rude. :'''Peridot''': ''[through recorder]'' I guess I'll call him, "Steven." <hr width=50%/> :'''Peridot''': "Jokes." ''[opens up the joke book; clears throat]'' "Why did the chicken cross the road? The chicken wanted to get to the other side of the road." ''[laughs; then confused]'' What's a chicken? <hr width=50%/> :''[Steven installs a TV, inserts a VHS tape in it, and ''Camp Pining Hearts'' begins to start]'' :'''TV Narrator''': ''On the last episode of ''"Camp Pining Hearts"…'' :'''Paulette''': I don't care that you're on the yellow team, Percy. We can make this work! :'''Percy''': It's the color war, Paulette. Doesn't that mean anything to you? :''[They lean in closer to kiss]'' :'''Peridot''': What is this strange ritual? :'''Steven''': Uh, that's um… :'''Peridot''': Are they attempting fusion? :'''Steven''': No, well, my dad told me during certain stages in your life-- :'''Peridot''': How could anyone indulge in this baseless drivel?! I'll have no part of it! ''[through recorder]'' Hour 78 of ''"Camp Pining Hearts." [repeating Percy's line]'' It's the the color war, Paulette. Doesn't that mean anything to you? :'''Steven''': Uh, you've been here for a few days. Is everything okay? :'''Peridot''': I've just been… watching your previously recorded entertainment. :'''Steven''': Is that the same episode from three days ago? :'''Peridot''': There's more than one? :'''Steven''': Hmm... nah. Oh, you made a picture. ''[reaches a piece of paper before Peridot snatches it]'' :'''Peridot''': Picture?! This isn't just a picture, Steven! It's a complex chart cataloging the compatible characteristics between campers. Somehow, the rejects at Camp Clod fail to recognize the superior pair that is Pierre and Percy. :'''Steven''': Well, that's 'cause Paulette likes Percy. :'''Peridot''': Paulette? Ha! Paulette has ''no'' place in the camp's hierarchy. Now, Pierre-- Pierre is a brute! Pierre laid waste to the three-legged races! Pierre and Percy present the strongest battle formation! They'd destroy the camp! :'''Steven''': You got all this from one episode? :'''Peridot''': It's ''{{w|subtext}}'', Steven. Allow me to explain. ''[cut back to recorder held by Steven]'' ''Well, first of all, Percy and Pierre are both on the yellow team, and als-'' :'''Steven''': Ugh, I remember this part. ''[fast-forwards recorder as we see Peridot speeding through the entire session; Steven soon falls asleep with Garnet now sitting on the couch]'' :'''Peridot''': ''[sped through] Percy is using his pogo stick to save her. Not to mention Percy is adept at aquatic sports. He would have won the canoe race if he weren't so busy drooling over Paulette, and the other part where Percy goes to the bottom of the lake to get Paulette's friendship bracelet ''proves'' that he has the largest lung capacity in the entire camp! And Pierre is a force to be reckoned with on land, when he hung Bunk Seven's underwear in the tree, the whole- [fast-forwarding stops]'' And that's why Percy and Pierre are objectively the best for each other! ''[Steven slumps down the floor; Garnet gives a thumbs up; tears up her complex chart, angrily] '''GRAHHH!!!''''' <hr width=50%/> :'''Peridot''': ''[through recorder]'' Pearl really tries for some reason and I can appreciate that. Amethyst's company is entertaining as well, but the fused one… ''[sees Garnet for a long beat, she gives her a thumbs up]'' …eludes me. <hr width=50%/> :'''Garnet''': Peridot, I'm proud of you. :'''Peridot''': Why?! :'''Garnet''': Because you've made an effort to understand me. :'''Peridot''': But I ''still'' don't understand you! Why are you fused all the time?! :'''Garnet''': I'm Percy and Pierre. :'''Peridot''': ''[realizing]'' Oh! :''[Steven fast-forwards the tape recorder]'' :'''Peridot''': ''[through recorder] Okay, go.'' :'''Garnet''': ''[through recorder] Log Date 7-14-2.'' :'''Peridot''': ''[through recorder] No, you say it "7-1-4-2." [groans] Log Date 7-1-4-2. I have attempted a fusion with the fusion Garnet. I had hoped to gain a better understanding of fusion. Instead, I gained a better understanding of Garnet. :'''Garnet''': ''[through recorder] Wait, keep it on a moment. Steven, you probably shouldn't have listened to Peridot's logs, but I know your curiosity comes from a place of caring. You should give the recorder back to her now. She's going to want to keep it.'' :'''Peridot''': ''[through recorder] Wait, what?'' [[Category:Steven Universe seasons]] blbxoyz3fnqwycyq8ef0etictknt1am 0 196321 3961267 3949017 2026-07-05T19:49:14Z ~2026-38500-23 3347766 /* Funny, We Shrunk the Adults */ 3961267 wikitext text/x-wiki {{italic title}} '''''[[w:Alvin and the Chipmunks (1983 TV series)|Alvin and the Chipmunks]]''''' is an American animated television series featuring [[w:Alvin and the Chipmunks|The Chipmunks]], produced by Bagdasarian Productions in association with [[w:Ruby-Spears|Ruby-Spears Enterprises]] from 1983 to 1987, for the first five seasons, [[w:Fred Wolf Films|Murakami-Wolf-Swenson]] in 1988, for the sixth season, and [[w:DIC Entertainment|DIC Entertainment]] from 1988 to 1990, for the final three seasons. === ''The C-Team'' === :''[First lines of the series]'' :'''Alvin''': There's got to be something interesting. :'''Theodore''': We could share my apple. :'''Simon''': Too common, Theodore. :'''Theodore''': Oh well, In that case... ''[bites the apple]'' :'''Dave''': Boys, time to leave for school! :'''Alvin''': There's nothing for show and tell. :''[The Chipmunks run out of the room]'' === ''[[w:The Chipettes|The Chipettes]]'' === :''[The Chipmunks enters the Chipettes' room by mistake]'' :'''Theodore''': ''[off-screen]'' Alvin, Is that you? :'''The Chipettes''': ''[scream off-screen]'' :''[The Chipettes are first shown as Chipmunks jumped out of the bed]'' :'''Alvin''': What are you doing here?! :'''Brittany''': What are you doing in here?! This is our room! :'''Simon''': This is the Chipmunks' room! :'''Jeanette''': Precisely. :'''Theodore''': Well, we have a concert here tomorrow night. :'''Eleanor''': So do we, our first American concert. :'''Alvin''': Oh yeah? We'll see about the manager has say about that. :''[The Chipmunks run out of the room]'' :'''Brittany''': This way, Eleanor. :'''Eleanor''': Coming, Brittany! Come on, Jeanette. :''[Jeanette runs after Brittany and Eleanor]'' ---- :'''Brittany''': Sir, would you please get these animals another room? :'''Simon and Theodore''': "Animals"? :'''Alvin''': Actually sir, it's these girls who need another room. :'''Receptionist''': Oh, I'm sorry. You'll just have to share the room. You see, we're all booked up for the Chipmunk concert. :'''Chipmunks''': That's us! :'''Chipettes''': WE'RE the Chipmunks! :''[Both groups argue]'' :'''Receptionist''': Oh, wait...who's there? I don't care who the real Chipmunks are! I just want the best group for tomorrow's concert! :'''Brittany''': That settles it! We'll sing for you tomorrow, and you decide who performs. :'''Alvin''': And the winner keeps the Chipmunk name forever! Deal? :'''Brittany''': Deal! ''[she and Alvin shake hands]'' === ''Snow Job'' === :'''Theodore''': Sorry Alvin, Sometimes my stomach kicks over. :'''Alvin''': Never mind, just convince Colorado this time. I think he went into the Sauna. :''[Alvin, Simon, and Theodore enter the Sauna, Dave is in here]'' :'''Simon''': Alvin, I'm the president of your fan club. :''[Simon and Theodore are sweaty]'' :'''Theodore''': Alvin, I was president. :'''Simon''': Whatever. === ''Bigger!'' === :'''Brittany''': This video stinks! ''[throws a rattle]'' :'''Alvin''': It's... coming along great. :''[Brittany throws the bottle]'' :'''Brittany''': I want a new director! :'''Alvin''': ''[sobs]'' This is harder than a thought. I don't feel good. === ''Funny, We Shrunk the Adults'' === :''Simon has accused Alvin of ruining his lab coat as it is tiny. Theodore takes tiny lab coat'' :'''Theodore''': There it is, thanks! :'''Alvin''': Why do you want it?' :'''Theodore''': It is the coat the my Mr. Scientist action figure! :''Simon's lab coat is in dryer. Simon claims it'' :'''Alvin''': ''[clear his throat]'' I think someone or someone else is owed an apology. :'''Simon''': Apology accepted. :''[Simon leaves]'' :'''Alvin''': Not me! You,... SIMON! :''[The scene fades to black]'' === ''Staying Afloat'' === :'''Brittany''': Where are the police when you need them? :'''Theodore''': Right behind us. === ''Dave's Dream Cabin'' === :'''Alvin''': When will I be on your show? :'''Robby Leach''': When pigs fly! :'''Alvin''': Does that mean this week or next week? === ''Operation Theodore'' === :'''Brittany''': ''[looks at the girl]'' You're not Bobby. :'''Alvin''': Brittany, have you seen Theodore? :''[Brittany cries loudly]'' ==External links== {{wikipedia}} [[Category:American TV shows]] [[Category:Animated TV shows]] [[Category:NBC shows]] [[Category:Cancelled shows]] [[Category:Cartoon Network shows]] pe1gp7d5w0qwa671trr5etgr10yre7i 3961271 3961267 2026-07-05T19:57:02Z ~2026-38500-23 3347766 3961271 wikitext text/x-wiki {{italic title}} '''''[[w:Alvin and the Chipmunks (1983 TV series)|Alvin and the Chipmunks]]''''' is an American animated television series featuring [[w:Alvin and the Chipmunks|The Chipmunks]], produced by Bagdasarian Productions in association with [[w:Ruby-Spears|Ruby-Spears Enterprises]] from 1983 to 1987, for the first five seasons, [[w:Fred Wolf Films|Murakami-Wolf-Swenson]] in 1988, for the sixth season, and [[w:DIC Entertainment|DIC Entertainment]] from 1988 to 1990, for the final three seasons. === ''The C-Team'' === :''[First lines of the series]'' :'''Alvin''': There's got to be something interesting. :'''Theodore''': We could share my apple. :'''Simon''': Too common, Theodore. :'''Theodore''': Oh well, In that case... ''[bites the apple]'' :'''Dave''': Boys, time to leave for school! :'''Alvin''': There's nothing for show and tell. :''[The Chipmunks run out of the room]'' === ''[[w:The Chipettes|The Chipettes]]'' === :''[The Chipmunks enters the Chipettes' room by mistake]'' :'''Theodore''': ''[off-screen]'' Alvin, Is that you? :'''The Chipettes''': ''[scream off-screen]'' :''[The Chipettes are first shown as Chipmunks jumped out of the bed]'' :'''Alvin''': What are you doing here?! :'''Brittany''': What are you doing in here?! This is our room! :'''Simon''': This is the Chipmunks' room! :'''Jeanette''': Precisely. :'''Theodore''': Well, we have a concert here tomorrow night. :'''Eleanor''': So do we, our first American concert. :'''Alvin''': Oh yeah? We'll see about the manager has say about that. :''[The Chipmunks run out of the room]'' :'''Brittany''': This way, Eleanor. :'''Eleanor''': Coming, Brittany! Come on, Jeanette. :''[Jeanette runs after Brittany and Eleanor]'' ---- :'''Brittany''': Sir, would you please get these animals another room? :'''Simon and Theodore''': "Animals"? :'''Alvin''': Actually sir, it's these girls who need another room. :'''Receptionist''': Oh, I'm sorry. You'll just have to share the room. You see, we're all booked up for the Chipmunk concert. :'''Chipmunks''': That's us! :'''Chipettes''': WE'RE the Chipmunks! :''[Both groups argue]'' :'''Receptionist''': Oh, wait...who's there? I don't care who the real Chipmunks are! I just want the best group for tomorrow's concert! :'''Brittany''': That settles it! We'll sing for you tomorrow, and you decide who performs. :'''Alvin''': And the winner keeps the Chipmunk name forever! Deal? :'''Brittany''': Deal! ''[she and Alvin shake hands]'' == ''Tell it to the Judge]] == :''Mover delivers a ten-speed bicycle for Dave, who has already departed for a business trip'' :'''Alvin'''{talking to himself}: Wow, it arrived. :''Flashback. Dave is reading a catalog and cuts a check'' :'''Dave''': Just what I always wanted. I will use this bicycle for long, leisurely rides. :'''Alvin''': And after you are done, we all can use the bike for long, leisurely rides? :'''Dave''': Absolutely not! :''Dave keeps repeating "absolutely not" as Alvin returns to the present'' :'''Alvin'''{talking to himself}: Dave has prohibited me from using the bike for long, leisurely rides. However, he did not say I was prohibited from using it for short, simple rides. :''Alvin rides off on bicycle'' === ''Snow Job'' === :'''Theodore''': Sorry Alvin, Sometimes my stomach kicks over. :'''Alvin''': Never mind, just convince Colorado this time. I think he went into the Sauna. :''[Alvin, Simon, and Theodore enter the Sauna, Dave is in here]'' :'''Simon''': Alvin, I'm the president of your fan club. :''[Simon and Theodore are sweaty]'' :'''Theodore''': Alvin, I was president. :'''Simon''': Whatever. === ''Bigger!'' === :'''Brittany''': This video stinks! ''[throws a rattle]'' :'''Alvin''': It's... coming along great. :''[Brittany throws the bottle]'' :'''Brittany''': I want a new director! :'''Alvin''': ''[sobs]'' This is harder than a thought. I don't feel good. === ''Funny, We Shrunk the Adults'' === :''Simon has accused Alvin of ruining his lab coat as it is tiny. Theodore takes tiny lab coat'' :'''Theodore''': There it is, thanks! :'''Alvin''': Why do you want it?' :'''Theodore''': It is the coat the my Mr. Scientist action figure! :''Simon's lab coat is in dryer. Simon claims it'' :'''Alvin''': ''[clear his throat]'' I think someone or someone else is owed an apology. :'''Simon''': Apology accepted. :''[Simon leaves]'' :'''Alvin''': Not me! You,... SIMON! :''[The scene fades to black]'' === ''Staying Afloat'' === :'''Brittany''': Where are the police when you need them? :'''Theodore''': Right behind us. === ''Dave's Dream Cabin'' === :'''Alvin''': When will I be on your show? :'''Robby Leach''': When pigs fly! :'''Alvin''': Does that mean this week or next week? === ''Operation Theodore'' === :'''Brittany''': ''[looks at the girl]'' You're not Bobby. :'''Alvin''': Brittany, have you seen Theodore? :''[Brittany cries loudly]'' ==External links== {{wikipedia}} [[Category:American TV shows]] [[Category:Animated TV shows]] [[Category:NBC shows]] [[Category:Cancelled shows]] [[Category:Cartoon Network shows]] tat7cnk9dcqvb56wk8yr24ni0myugqz 3961272 3961271 2026-07-05T19:57:18Z ~2026-38500-23 3347766 /* Tell it to the Judge]] */ 3961272 wikitext text/x-wiki {{italic title}} '''''[[w:Alvin and the Chipmunks (1983 TV series)|Alvin and the Chipmunks]]''''' is an American animated television series featuring [[w:Alvin and the Chipmunks|The Chipmunks]], produced by Bagdasarian Productions in association with [[w:Ruby-Spears|Ruby-Spears Enterprises]] from 1983 to 1987, for the first five seasons, [[w:Fred Wolf Films|Murakami-Wolf-Swenson]] in 1988, for the sixth season, and [[w:DIC Entertainment|DIC Entertainment]] from 1988 to 1990, for the final three seasons. === ''The C-Team'' === :''[First lines of the series]'' :'''Alvin''': There's got to be something interesting. :'''Theodore''': We could share my apple. :'''Simon''': Too common, Theodore. :'''Theodore''': Oh well, In that case... ''[bites the apple]'' :'''Dave''': Boys, time to leave for school! :'''Alvin''': There's nothing for show and tell. :''[The Chipmunks run out of the room]'' === ''[[w:The Chipettes|The Chipettes]]'' === :''[The Chipmunks enters the Chipettes' room by mistake]'' :'''Theodore''': ''[off-screen]'' Alvin, Is that you? :'''The Chipettes''': ''[scream off-screen]'' :''[The Chipettes are first shown as Chipmunks jumped out of the bed]'' :'''Alvin''': What are you doing here?! :'''Brittany''': What are you doing in here?! This is our room! :'''Simon''': This is the Chipmunks' room! :'''Jeanette''': Precisely. :'''Theodore''': Well, we have a concert here tomorrow night. :'''Eleanor''': So do we, our first American concert. :'''Alvin''': Oh yeah? We'll see about the manager has say about that. :''[The Chipmunks run out of the room]'' :'''Brittany''': This way, Eleanor. :'''Eleanor''': Coming, Brittany! Come on, Jeanette. :''[Jeanette runs after Brittany and Eleanor]'' ---- :'''Brittany''': Sir, would you please get these animals another room? :'''Simon and Theodore''': "Animals"? :'''Alvin''': Actually sir, it's these girls who need another room. :'''Receptionist''': Oh, I'm sorry. You'll just have to share the room. You see, we're all booked up for the Chipmunk concert. :'''Chipmunks''': That's us! :'''Chipettes''': WE'RE the Chipmunks! :''[Both groups argue]'' :'''Receptionist''': Oh, wait...who's there? I don't care who the real Chipmunks are! I just want the best group for tomorrow's concert! :'''Brittany''': That settles it! We'll sing for you tomorrow, and you decide who performs. :'''Alvin''': And the winner keeps the Chipmunk name forever! Deal? :'''Brittany''': Deal! ''[she and Alvin shake hands]'' == ''Tell it to the Judge'' == :''Mover delivers a ten-speed bicycle for Dave, who has already departed for a business trip'' :'''Alvin'''{talking to himself}: Wow, it arrived. :''Flashback. Dave is reading a catalog and cuts a check'' :'''Dave''': Just what I always wanted. I will use this bicycle for long, leisurely rides. :'''Alvin''': And after you are done, we all can use the bike for long, leisurely rides? :'''Dave''': Absolutely not! :''Dave keeps repeating "absolutely not" as Alvin returns to the present'' :'''Alvin'''{talking to himself}: Dave has prohibited me from using the bike for long, leisurely rides. However, he did not say I was prohibited from using it for short, simple rides. :''Alvin rides off on bicycle'' === ''Snow Job'' === :'''Theodore''': Sorry Alvin, Sometimes my stomach kicks over. :'''Alvin''': Never mind, just convince Colorado this time. I think he went into the Sauna. :''[Alvin, Simon, and Theodore enter the Sauna, Dave is in here]'' :'''Simon''': Alvin, I'm the president of your fan club. :''[Simon and Theodore are sweaty]'' :'''Theodore''': Alvin, I was president. :'''Simon''': Whatever. === ''Bigger!'' === :'''Brittany''': This video stinks! ''[throws a rattle]'' :'''Alvin''': It's... coming along great. :''[Brittany throws the bottle]'' :'''Brittany''': I want a new director! :'''Alvin''': ''[sobs]'' This is harder than a thought. I don't feel good. === ''Funny, We Shrunk the Adults'' === :''Simon has accused Alvin of ruining his lab coat as it is tiny. Theodore takes tiny lab coat'' :'''Theodore''': There it is, thanks! :'''Alvin''': Why do you want it?' :'''Theodore''': It is the coat the my Mr. Scientist action figure! :''Simon's lab coat is in dryer. Simon claims it'' :'''Alvin''': ''[clear his throat]'' I think someone or someone else is owed an apology. :'''Simon''': Apology accepted. :''[Simon leaves]'' :'''Alvin''': Not me! You,... SIMON! :''[The scene fades to black]'' === ''Staying Afloat'' === :'''Brittany''': Where are the police when you need them? :'''Theodore''': Right behind us. === ''Dave's Dream Cabin'' === :'''Alvin''': When will I be on your show? :'''Robby Leach''': When pigs fly! :'''Alvin''': Does that mean this week or next week? === ''Operation Theodore'' === :'''Brittany''': ''[looks at the girl]'' You're not Bobby. :'''Alvin''': Brittany, have you seen Theodore? :''[Brittany cries loudly]'' ==External links== {{wikipedia}} [[Category:American TV shows]] [[Category:Animated TV shows]] [[Category:NBC shows]] [[Category:Cancelled shows]] [[Category:Cartoon Network shows]] 1iw2cyw7awq7cxvrj7lnoy9y04szoth 3961274 3961272 2026-07-05T20:03:03Z ~2026-38500-23 3347766 /* Tell it to the Judge */ 3961274 wikitext text/x-wiki {{italic title}} '''''[[w:Alvin and the Chipmunks (1983 TV series)|Alvin and the Chipmunks]]''''' is an American animated television series featuring [[w:Alvin and the Chipmunks|The Chipmunks]], produced by Bagdasarian Productions in association with [[w:Ruby-Spears|Ruby-Spears Enterprises]] from 1983 to 1987, for the first five seasons, [[w:Fred Wolf Films|Murakami-Wolf-Swenson]] in 1988, for the sixth season, and [[w:DIC Entertainment|DIC Entertainment]] from 1988 to 1990, for the final three seasons. === ''The C-Team'' === :''[First lines of the series]'' :'''Alvin''': There's got to be something interesting. :'''Theodore''': We could share my apple. :'''Simon''': Too common, Theodore. :'''Theodore''': Oh well, In that case... ''[bites the apple]'' :'''Dave''': Boys, time to leave for school! :'''Alvin''': There's nothing for show and tell. :''[The Chipmunks run out of the room]'' === ''[[w:The Chipettes|The Chipettes]]'' === :''[The Chipmunks enters the Chipettes' room by mistake]'' :'''Theodore''': ''[off-screen]'' Alvin, Is that you? :'''The Chipettes''': ''[scream off-screen]'' :''[The Chipettes are first shown as Chipmunks jumped out of the bed]'' :'''Alvin''': What are you doing here?! :'''Brittany''': What are you doing in here?! This is our room! :'''Simon''': This is the Chipmunks' room! :'''Jeanette''': Precisely. :'''Theodore''': Well, we have a concert here tomorrow night. :'''Eleanor''': So do we, our first American concert. :'''Alvin''': Oh yeah? We'll see about the manager has say about that. :''[The Chipmunks run out of the room]'' :'''Brittany''': This way, Eleanor. :'''Eleanor''': Coming, Brittany! Come on, Jeanette. :''[Jeanette runs after Brittany and Eleanor]'' ---- :'''Brittany''': Sir, would you please get these animals another room? :'''Simon and Theodore''': "Animals"? :'''Alvin''': Actually sir, it's these girls who need another room. :'''Receptionist''': Oh, I'm sorry. You'll just have to share the room. You see, we're all booked up for the Chipmunk concert. :'''Chipmunks''': That's us! :'''Chipettes''': WE'RE the Chipmunks! :''[Both groups argue]'' :'''Receptionist''': Oh, wait...who's there? I don't care who the real Chipmunks are! I just want the best group for tomorrow's concert! :'''Brittany''': That settles it! We'll sing for you tomorrow, and you decide who performs. :'''Alvin''': And the winner keeps the Chipmunk name forever! Deal? :'''Brittany''': Deal! ''[she and Alvin shake hands]'' === ''Tell it to the Judge'' === :''Mover delivers a ten-speed bicycle for Dave, who has already departed for a business trip'' :'''Alvin'''{talking to himself}: Wow, it arrived. :''Flashback. Dave is reading a catalog and cuts a check'' :'''Dave''': Just what I always wanted. I will use this bicycle for long, leisurely rides. :'''Alvin''': And after you are done, we all can use the bike for long, leisurely rides? :'''Dave''': Absolutely not! :''Dave keeps repeating "absolutely not" as Alvin returns to the present'' :'''Alvin'''{talking to himself}: Dave has prohibited me from using the bike for long, leisurely rides. However, he did not say I was prohibited from using it for short, simple rides. :''Alvin rides off on bicycle'' :''Alvin wishes to sue Brittany for the accident'' :'''Simon''': How will you even begin? Lawyers are expensive. :'''Alvin''': I will find a good, cheap lawyer. :''Later'' :'''Alvin'''{on phone}: Thank you for letting me know. I understand. ''hangs up'' :'''Simon''': I told you it would be hard. :'''Alvin''': I will settle for a cheap lawyer. :''Later'' :'''Alvin'''{on phone}: You want how much? Forget it!! ''slams down phone'' :'''Alvin''': If I cannot get a cheap lawyer or a good lawyer, I will settle for a bad lawyer! :''Later; Alvin is pacing the floor'' :'''Alvin''': That is it; I have tried every lawyer in town. Where does the little guy go to get justice. :''Theodore is watching TV'' :'''Announcer''': Welcome to another edition of ''Public Court''; where the little guy goes to get justice! === ''Snow Job'' === :'''Theodore''': Sorry Alvin, Sometimes my stomach kicks over. :'''Alvin''': Never mind, just convince Colorado this time. I think he went into the Sauna. :''[Alvin, Simon, and Theodore enter the Sauna, Dave is in here]'' :'''Simon''': Alvin, I'm the president of your fan club. :''[Simon and Theodore are sweaty]'' :'''Theodore''': Alvin, I was president. :'''Simon''': Whatever. === ''Bigger!'' === :'''Brittany''': This video stinks! ''[throws a rattle]'' :'''Alvin''': It's... coming along great. :''[Brittany throws the bottle]'' :'''Brittany''': I want a new director! :'''Alvin''': ''[sobs]'' This is harder than a thought. I don't feel good. === ''Funny, We Shrunk the Adults'' === :''Simon has accused Alvin of ruining his lab coat as it is tiny. Theodore takes tiny lab coat'' :'''Theodore''': There it is, thanks! :'''Alvin''': Why do you want it?' :'''Theodore''': It is the coat the my Mr. Scientist action figure! :''Simon's lab coat is in dryer. Simon claims it'' :'''Alvin''': ''[clear his throat]'' I think someone or someone else is owed an apology. :'''Simon''': Apology accepted. :''[Simon leaves]'' :'''Alvin''': Not me! You,... SIMON! :''[The scene fades to black]'' === ''Staying Afloat'' === :'''Brittany''': Where are the police when you need them? :'''Theodore''': Right behind us. === ''Dave's Dream Cabin'' === :'''Alvin''': When will I be on your show? :'''Robby Leach''': When pigs fly! :'''Alvin''': Does that mean this week or next week? === ''Operation Theodore'' === :'''Brittany''': ''[looks at the girl]'' You're not Bobby. :'''Alvin''': Brittany, have you seen Theodore? :''[Brittany cries loudly]'' ==External links== {{wikipedia}} [[Category:American TV shows]] [[Category:Animated TV shows]] [[Category:NBC shows]] [[Category:Cancelled shows]] [[Category:Cartoon Network shows]] t3gfk27ogzx0q79nrxga25j2ix71gas 0 198453 3961093 3871098 2026-07-05T15:29:57Z ~2026-22475-30 3310494 3961093 wikitext text/x-wiki {{DISPLAYTITLE:''The Simpsons''/Season 29}} {{The Simpsons header}} '''''[[w:The Simpsons|The Simpsons]]''''' (1989–present) is an American animated sitcom broadcast by the Fox Broadcasting Company created by [[Matt Groening]]. The series is a satirical depiction of American life, epitomized by the Simpson family. ===''[[w:The Serfsons|The Serfsons]]''=== :''[Marge cooks food for her family]'' :'''Homer''': Aw, water soup again? :''[Marge knocks out a three eyed crow and adds it to the soup]'' :'''Marge''': Now, it's crow soup. :'''Homer''': Ooh, I call an eye! :'''Lisa''': Me too! :'''Bart''': Me three! :'''Marge''': And Maggie gets the break. :''[Marge plucks the beak out and gives it to Maggie]'' :'''Maggie''': Aaaeeey! Uh-Ah! :''[Maggie uses the beak as a passy and sucks on it]'' <hr width=50%> :'''Lisa''': Lousy nobles. We serfs are starving, while they're feasting and jousting and posing for tapestries, where they're friends with a unicorn. As if any unicorn would like them. Unicorns like nice people. I'm a nice person. <hr width=50%> :''[Homer pokes his father's spider web, looking for his mother-in-law's]'' :'''Grandpa''': Son, is that you? :'''Homer''': No. ===''[[w:Springfield Splendor|Springfield Splendor]]''=== ===''[[w:Whistler's Father|Whistler's Father]]''=== :'''Bart''': Isn't this great,baby alone time. Where's Maggie’s Peek-a-boo. :'''Lisa''': Well, what do you think of my late pick-up room? :'''Ned''': It's wonderful, hard to believe it's the same room they found all those dead rats in. :'''Lisa''': Maggie, you can whistle? ''[she gasps surprisingly at Maggie's talent.]'' you're gifted too, maybe more gifted! ===''[[w:Treehouse of Horror XXVIII|Treehouse of Horror XXVIII]]''=== :'''Lisa''': No one ever wants the apple. They must be afraid there's a razor blade in me. :'''Bart''': ''[sarcastic]'' Yeah, THAT'S the reason. <hr width=50%> :''[Homer eats a living chocolate bunny, who screams in pain]'' :'''Lisa''': Daaaad! I can't listen to this horror! :'''Homer''': Okay, I'm onto it. :''[Homer bites the mouth off]'' :'''Lisa''': Thank you. <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': Maggie, sweetie. You should be in bed. :''[Maggie is revealed to be possessed by Pazuzu]'' :'''Maggie''': No one leaves alive! :'''Marge''': Ooooh, her first words! <hr width=50%> :'''Dr. Hibbert''': Someone's starting their terrible twos. ''[chuckles]'' :'''Maggie''': Someone's having an affair with his nurse! :''[Bernice glares at Hibbert, who quickly takes out a thermometer]'' :'''Dr. Hibbert''': Say "Ahh!" :'''Maggie''': Aaaahhhh-DULTERER! <hr width=50%> :'''Maggie''': ''[possessed]'' I am Pazuzu, demon of the southwest wind! :'''Lisa''': Wait, wait, so you're not even as powerful as the south wind or the west wind? How lame is that? :'''Maggie''': I used to be very important. Google it! <hr width=50%> :''[Introducing the final story, "MMM... Homer"]'' :'''Lisa''': What you're about to see is so disgusting, you'll watch ''[[w:Game of Thrones|Game of Thrones]]'' to calm down. You have been warned! ===''[[w:Grampy Can Ya Hear Me|Grampy Can Ya Hear Me]]''=== ===''[[w:The Old Blue Mayor She Ain't What She Used to Be|The Old Blue Mayor She Ain't What She Used to Be]]''=== :'''Helen''': She's completely cooked. Unlike the children she brought to the potluck. :'''Rev. Lovejoy''': Oh, Helen is a bitter as the lemonade she brought to the potluck. What a terrible potluck that was. :'''Sideshow Mel''': Why wasn't this a town hall event? I like to see them balance on the stools. ---- :'''Homer''': Marge, can you cook a Hot Pocket in the dryer? :'''Marge''': Homer Simpson, the only time you shut your mouth is to keep food inside! ===''[[w:Singin' in the Lane|Singin' in the Lane]]''=== :'''Reynolds''': Well, here's $400, and screw you. :'''Bart''': Wow. I finally found my path in life: '''socio'''. ===''[[w:Mr. Lisa's Opus|Mr. Lisa's Opus]]''=== :'''Homer''': Why you little -- :'''Bart''': I'm not little. I'm 20, and I live at home. :'''Homer''': Why you disappointing -- :'''Bart''': You know, you're choking someone who can vote. :'''Homer''': But did you vote? :'''Bart''': No. :'''Homer''': Why you little -- <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Sweetie, marriages are like water heaters. They sit peacefully for years, until they explode in a fireball, ruining everything you own. ===''[[w:Gone Boy|Gone Boy]]''=== :'''Bart''': Nothing good ever comes from trying. ===''[[w:Haw-Haw Land |Haw Haw Land]]''=== :'''Otto''': I brought my stems. :''[Otto opens his coat to reveal a bag with stems in it]'' :'''Security Guard''': Sir, this is a conference of science, technology, engineering, and math. ''[the points to a STEM sign]'' :''[Otto walks to a DOPE sign]'' :'''Otto''': But what about this one? :''[Dr. Hibbert walks out of the room next to the DOPE sign]'' :'''Dr. Hibbert''': Dialogue on pedriatric education. ===''[[w:Frink Gets Testy|Frink Gets Testy]]''=== :'''Mr. Burns''': I need you to tell me who is worthy of surviving the Apocalypse with me. I only want the sharpest razors in this town's Halloween candy. ===''[[w:Homer is Where the Art Isn't|Homer is Where the Art Isn't]]''=== :'''Mayor Quimby''': Did you know we had to lay off a third of the police force? That's right: Eddie. :'''Eddie''': I used to have a gun! <hr width=50%> :'''Manacek''': Your story had everything: a field trip, a dream sequence, Sideshow Mel. ===''[[w:3 Scenes Plus a Tag from a Marriage|3 Scenes Plus a Tag from a Marriage]]''=== ===''[[w:Fears of a Clown|Fears of a Clown]]''=== ===''[[w:No Good Read Goes Unpunished|No Good Read Goes Unpunished]]''=== :'''Marge''': We're going to spend family time together without watching TV. :'''Lisa''': Mom is right - Americans watch way too much TV. How many hours? Let me Google that. ''[uses her iPhone and laughs]'' Instead of TV, I typed "[[w:tuberculosis|TB]]"! Let me Google that! :''[The family all start using their iPhones and consoles, to Marge's annoyance]'' :'''Marge''': Turn off the devices, pronto! :'''Lisa''': "Pronto!" Odd word. Let me Google that. :'''Bart''': Hey, I'm doing something educational. :'''Marge''': Educational, my foot! I saw pixels. :'''Bart''': It's [[w:Minecraft|Tunnelcraft]]. A simulated world, where you explore, mine resources, and work with friends to build replicas of real buildings. :'''Marge''': Can you ''die'' in it? :'''Bart''': Yes. :'''Marge''': It's a video game! <hr width=50%> :''[The Simpsons are in a book store]'' :'''Homer''': ''[reading book title]'' "Man-Killing Snakes of the Amazon". :'''Library Owner''': Sir! Never say "[[w:Amazon (company)|Amazon]]" in a book store! <hr width=50%> :'''Lisa''': Something that started decades ago and was applauded and inoffensive is now politically incorrect... What can you do? ''[glances at a picture of [[w:Apu Nahasapeemapetilon|Apu]]]'' :'''Marge''': Some things will be dealt with at a later date. :'''Lisa''': If at all. ===''[[w:King Leer|King Leer]]''=== :'''Homer''': If the beer's in a frosted mug, you're not alcoholic, you're an aficionado. <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': Homer, what's your favorite movie? :'''Homer''': ''[[Fast and Furious 6]]''. :'''Marge''': And what's the theme of that movie? :'''Homer''': ''[[Cars (film)|Cars]]''. :'''Marge''': What was the OTHER theme? :'''Homer''': ''[gasps]'' Family. ===''[[w:Lisa Gets the Blues|Lisa Gets the Blues]]''=== :'''Homer''': Well, we did it, kids. And the best thing is, the next episode will beat ''Gunsmoke''. :'''Bart''': What about all the episodes they made on the radio? :'''Homer''': ''[mad]'' Have a beignet. ===''[[w:Forgive and Regret|Forgive and Regret]]''=== :'''Lisa''': Oh, I hate confrontation. :''[shivers then nervously glances at Bart]'' :'''Bart''': So just leave your body. :'''Lisa''': Ok. :''[Lisa leaves her body and appears as a spirit]'' :'''Lisa''': Oh my god! - Hey! :''[camera pans downward to see Bart slapping Lisa's face. Lisa possesses herself back and pushes Bart]'' ===''[[w:Left Behind (The Simpsons)|Left Behind]]''=== :'''Ned''': ''[plays Christian parody rock music in the car]'' :'''Homer''': Maybe we should talk. :'''Ned''': Well, of course, my friend! Wanna talk about Jesus? :'''Homer''': No. :'''Ned''': Wanna talk about Ecclesiastes? :'''Homer''': No. :'''Ned''': Wanna talk about baby Jesus? :'''Homer''': ''[turns Christian rock back on]'' ===''[[w:Throw Grampa From the Dane|Throw Grampa From the Dane]]''=== ===''[[w:Flanders' Ladder|Flanders' Ladder]]''=== :''[As the family hook up the VCR]'' :'''Bart''': Gross, the remote has a cord on it! :'''Homer''': My first remote. Coincidentally, the same time I got fat. <hr width=50%> :'''Maude Flanders' Ghost''': You've got to talk to me, Bart. :'''Bart''': Leave me alone, leave me alone! The power of Homer's socks compels you! :''[He holds them up; Maude screams and flees]'' <hr width=50%> :''[Nelson and his gang confront Homer, wearing Ghostface masks and armed with T-shirt cannons]'' :'''Nelson''': Maude Flanders says hello. :'''Homer''': ''[cheerfully]'' Hello! :''[They fire T-shirts at him, knocking him down]'' :'''Nelson''': Let's move! ''[they leave]'' :'''Maude Flanders' Ghost''': Thank you, Bart. I'm finally at peace. ''[starts to float away]'' :'''Bart''': You know Ned remarried? :'''Maude Flanders' Ghost''': He WHAT?! <hr width=50%> :'''Bart''': Dad! :'''Homer''': ''[turns red in anger]'' Why you little... ''[angrily strangles Bart]'' ==External links== {{wikipedia|The Simpsons (season 29)}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Simpsons, Season 29}} [[Category:The Simpsons seasons]] fyvekll8rlqpgedk2dge97hmcjn9fsm 2 199751 3961364 3960841 2026-07-06T04:35:33Z AC9016 2870313 /* About AC9016 */ 3961364 wikitext text/x-wiki == About AC9016 == {{User contrib|14000}} * I am a Wikiquote user who worked on here anonymously from 2011 to when I created an account in 2016. Since then I have done pretty much the same thing as I was doing before- creating pages for movies, books, people and shows and improving existing pages on movies, books, people and shows whenever I can. I have created the list of pages shown below, and have edited many others. I do my best to comply with site formatting and regulations, but most of all I'm trying to make the site better. I believe that making the site better matters more than strict, legalistic adherence to the rules. Wikiquote offers us the opportunity to make books, films, shows, works of a wide range of types and subjects, available for the entire world to view selections from. We can't show them the whole book, but we can show them some of its gems. We can't show them a movie, but we can show people some of its best dialogue and statements. Wikiquote is a great site, and my goal, as I said, is to do as much as I can to make it better than when I found it. --[[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 19:58, 7 December 2017 (UTC) :I take great pride in not just the number of pages that exist because of me, but what pages they are- generals, admirals, heroes, movies, wars that have altered the course of history. Getting to create new pages, giving a voice of sorts to individuals and events and institutions that anyone can freely look up and use as a starting point for further research- that, in a nutshell, is the point of Wikipedia and Wikiquote. --[[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 02:51, 10 November 2020 (UTC) == Favorite Movies == Not a complete list, but here are some that I like. * [[Casablanca (film)]] (1942) * [[It's a Wonderful Life]] (1946) * [[The Long Gray Line]] (1955) * [[12 Angry Men]] (1957) * [[The D.I. (film)]] (1957) * [[The Great Escape (film)]] (1963) * [[Zulu (film)]] (1964) * [[In the Heat of the Night (film)]] (1967) * [[Battle of Britain (film)]] (1969) * [[Kelly's Heroes]] (1970) * [[Patton (film)]] (1970) * [[The Omen]] (1976) * [[MacArthur (film)]] (1977) * [[Smokey and the Bandit]] (1977) * [[Star Wars (film)]] (1977) * [[Damien: Omen II]] (1978) * [[Omen III: The Final Conflict]] (1981) * [[Taps]] (1981) * [[Tank (film)]] (1984) * [[Ferris Bueller's Day Off]] (1986) * [[The Last Days of Patton]] (1986) * [[Home Alone]] (1990) * [[Other People's Money]] (1991) * [[Home Alone 2: Lost in New York]] (1992) * [[Scent of a Woman]] (1992) * [[The Good Son (film)]] (1993) * [[The Mask (film)]] (1994) * [[Toy Story]] (1995) * [[Broken Arrow (1996 film)]] * [[Michael Collins (film)]] (1996) * [[Sgt. Bilko]] (1996) * [[Home Alone 3]] (1997) * [[Mulan (1998 film)]] * [[The General's Daughter (film)]] (1999) * [[Toy Story 2]] (1999) * [[Titan AE]] (2000) * [[The Last Castle]] (2001) * [[Treasure Planet]] (2002) * [[We Were Soldiers]] (2002) * [[Elephant (film)]] (2003) * [[Zero Day (film)]] (2003) * [[Lord of War]] (2005) * [[The Devil Wears Prada (film)]] (2006) * [[V for Vendetta (film)]] (2006) * [[Valkyrie (film)]] (2008) * [[Tron: Legacy]] (2010) * [[Dredd (film)]] (2012) * [[The Hunger Games (film)]] (2012) * [[The Maze Runner (film)]] (2014) * [[Look Who's Back (film)]] (2015) == Favorite Quotes == * The sunrise was the colour of bad blood. It leaked out of the east and stained the dark sky red, marked the scraps of the cloud with stolen gold. Underneath it the road twisted up the mountainside towards the fortress of Fontezarmo - a cluster of sharp towers, ash-black again the wounded heavens. The sunrise was red, black and gold. The colours of their profession. ** Joe Abercrombie, ''Best Served Cold'' (2009) * We do not murder. We do not execute. We do not massacre. We never, you may be very certain, we never torture. We have no truck with crimes of passion or hatred or pointless gain. We do not do it for a delight in inhumation, or to feed some secret inner need, or for petty advantage, or for some cause or belief; I tell you, gentlemen, that all of these reasons are in the highest degree suspect. Look into the face of a man who will kill you for a belief and your nostrils will snuff up the scent of abomination. Hear a speech declaring a holy war and, I assure you, your ears will catch the clink of evil's scales and the dragging of its monstrous tail over the purity of the language. No, we do it for the money. And because we above all must know the value of a human life, we do it for a great deal of money. There can be few cleaner motives, shorn of all pretense. ** Dr. Cruces of the Ankh-Morpork Assassin's Guild, in ''Pyramids'' (1989) by Terry Pratchett * ''Das Beste oder nichts'' ** Gottlieb Daimler's personal motto, translatable as "The best or nothing at all", "Nothing but the best" or "The best or nothing". The third translation was adopted for the English version of the motto of Mercedes-Benz starting in 2010. :Oh that my Pow'r to Saving were confin’d: :Why am I forc’d, like Heav’n, against my mind, :To make Examples of another Kind? :Must I at length the Sword of Justice draw? :Oh curst Effects of necessary Law! :How ill my Fear they by my Mercy scan, :Beware the Fury of a Patient Man. :* [[John Dryden]], ''Absalom and Achitophel'' (1681), Pt. I, line 999–1005. Compare Publius Syrus, Maxim 289, "Furor fit læsa sæpius patientia" ("An over-taxed patience gives way to fierce anger"). :Happy the man, and happy he alone, :He who can call today his own; :He who, secure within, can say, :Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today. :* [[John Dryden]], ''Imitation of Horace'' (1685), Book III, Ode 29, lines 65–68. * Men For Others ** Motto of [[Georgetown Preparatory School]] * Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed. Their mistaken course stems from false notions of equality, ladies and gentlemen. Equality, rightly understood, as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences. Wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. ** [[Barry Goldwater]], in his acceptance speech as the Republican candidate in the 1964 U.S. presidential election. :*Out of the night that covers me, :Black as the pit from pole to pole, :I thank whatever gods may be :for my unconquerable soul. :*In the fell clutch of circumstance :I have not winced nor cried aloud. :Under the bludgeonings of chance :My head is bloody, but unbowed. :*Beyond this place of wrath and tears :Looms but the Horror of the shade, :And yet the menace of the years :Finds and shall find me unafraid. :*It matters not how strait the gate, :How charged with punishments the scroll, :I am the master of my fate: :I am the captain of my soul. :* William Ernest Henley, ''Invictus'' (1875) * No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby. * [[H.L. Mencken]], 'Notes on Journalism' in the ''Chicago Tribune'', 19 September 1926 * Calm is what you have to be when people look to you. And it's all you can be when things are out of your hands. ** Colonel James Hsu, ''Fallout: New Vegas'' (2010) * STRIKE FIRST <br>STRIKE HARD <br>NO MERCY ** [[The Karate Kid]] (1984) * War has changed little in principle from the beginning of recorded history. The mechanized warfare of today is only an evolution of the time when men fought with clubs and stones, and its machines are as nothing without the men who invent them, man them and give them life. War is force- force to the utmost- force to make the enemy yield to our own will- to yield because they see their comrades killed and wounded- to yield because their own will to fight is broken. War is men against men. Mechanized war is still men against men, for machines are masses of inert metal without the men who control them- or destroy them. ** Fleet Admiral [[Ernest King]], ''Fleet Admiral King: A Naval Record'' (1952) p. viii * The central core of truth is that Christmas turns everything upside down, the upside of heaven come down to earth. The Christmas story puts a new value on every man. He is not a thing to be used, not a chemical accident, not an educated ape. Every man is a V.I.P., because he has divine worth. That was revealed when “Love came down at Christmas.” A scientist said, making a plea for exchange scholarships between nations, “The best way to send an idea is to wrap it up in a person.” That was what happened at Christmas. The idea of divine love was wrapped up in a person. Christmas is good news in a world of bad news. … Christmas brings hope to a dark world. : ~ [[Halford E. Luccock]]; displayed as the Quote of the Day for 25 December 2017 ~ :Forgive him who wrongs you; :join him who cuts you off; :do good to him who does evil to you; :and speak the truth :even if it be against yourself. :~ Inscription on the Sword of Muhammad; displayed as the Quote of the Day for 25 June 2017 ~ * ''Per Ardua Ad Astra'' ** Motto of the Royal Air Force; translates as "Through Adversity to the Stars" * ''Serve To Lead'' ** Motto of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst :Love all, trust a few, :Do wrong to none. :* William Shakespeare, ''All's Well That Ends Well'', displayed as the Quote of the Day for 13 February 2018 * The news today about "Atomic bombs" is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to do such work for war-purposes: calmly plotting the destruction of the world! Such explosives in men's hands, while their moral and intellectual status is declining, is about as useful as giving out firearms to all inmates of a gaol and then saying that you hope "this will ensure peace". ... Well we're in God's hands. But He does not look kindly on Babel-builders. ** [[J.R.R. Tolkien]], displayed as the Quote of the Day for 3 January 2018 * ''Non Sibi Sed Patriae'' ** Unofficial motto of the United States Navy, translates to English as "Not for Self but for Country" * ''A Posse Ad Esse'' ** Motto of the Woodberry Forest School; translates to English as "From Possibility to Actuality" == Pages Created == === 2010s === ==== 2011 ==== :<small>7 new pages created in 2011.</small> * [[Lord of the Flies (1990 film)]] - 25 August 2011 (anonymous), [[Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant]] - 29 August 2011 (anonymous), [[28 Weeks Later]] - 30 August 2011 (anonymous), [[Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood]] 5 September 2011 (anonymous), [[Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30]] - 5 September 2011 (anonymous), [[The Last Castle]] - 12 September 2011 (anonymous), [[The Last Days of Patton]] - 14 September 2011 (anonymous) ==== 2012 ==== :<small>6 new pages created in 2012.</small> * [[Carriers (film)]] - 17 January 2012 (anonymous), [[Michael Collins (film)]] - 19 March 2012 (anonymous), [[The Hunger Games (film)]] - 28 March 2012 (anonymous), [[Call of Duty 3]] - 8 April 2012 (anonymous), [[Omen III: The Final Conflict]] - 11 April 2012 (anonymous), [[Swing Kids]] - 13 April 2012 (anonymous) ==== 2016 ==== :<small>8 new pages created in 2016.</small> * [[Ernest King]] - 19 March 2016 (anonymous; I created this account just after creating this page), [[The Maze Runner (film)]] - 27 March 2016, [[Mark W. Clark]] - 15 April 2016, [[William Westmoreland]] - 16 July 2016 (This page had actually been created once before, but it was deleted due to there being no properly sourced quotes.), [[Wheeler L. Baker]] - 12 August 2016, [[Maxwell D. Taylor]] - 19 August 2016, [[Bruce Palmer, Jr.]] - 20 August 2016, [[George S. Patton IV]] - 11 November 2016 ==== 2017 ==== :<small>8 new pages created in 2017.</small> * [[Pat Conroy]] - 27 April 2017, [[James Dashner]] - 28 April 2017, [[The General's Daughter (film)]] - 1 June 2017, [[RoboCop 2]] - 15 November 2017, [[Look Who's Back (film)]] - 12 December 2017, [[The Ogre (1996 film)]] - 15 December 2017, [[The Long Gray Line]] - 15 December 2017, [[The D.I. (film)]] - 20 December 2017 ==== 2018 ==== :<small>5 new pages created in 2018.</small> * [[Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials]] - 25 March 2018, [[Maze Runner: The Death Cure]] - 1 April 2018, [[Ann E. Dunwoody]] - 17 October 2018, [[Rules of Engagement (film)]] - 22 October 2018, [[Salvatore Giunta]] - 31 October 2018 ==== 2019 ==== :<small>12 new pages created in 2020.</small> * [[Alvah Bessie]]- 19 January 2019, [[Edson Raff]] - 19 January 2019, [[William D. Leahy]] - 27 January 2019, [[John Gunther]] - 2 February 2019, [[Spanish Civil War]] - 9 February 2019, [[Arthur Rostron]] - 2 March 2019, [[Hugh L. Scott]] - 3 April 2019, [[Brightburn]] - 31 May 2019, [[Mercenary]] - 9 June 2019, [[Alexander Vandegrift]]- 9 June 2019, [[Hampden-Sydney College]]- 5 August 2019, [[William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim]]- 10 November 2019 === 2020s === ==== 2020 ==== :<small>19 new pages created in 2020.</small> * [[Lynn Compton]]- 14 March 2020, [[Donald Malarkey]]- 21 March 2020, [[MJ Hegar]]- 2 May 2020, [[Harold Keith]]- 18 August 2020, [[Maryland]]- 6 September 2020, [[Raymond A. Spruance]]- 2 November 2020, [[Irish Civil War]]- 5 November 2020, [[Kyle Carpenter]]- 9 November 2020, [[Black Cadillac (film)]]- 10 November 2020, [[The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2]]- 11 November 2020, [[The Hunger Games: Mockingjay- Part 1]]- 18 November 2020, [[Cornell University]]- 23 November 2020, [[Virginia Military Institute]]- 25 November 2020, [[United States Military Academy]]- 25 November 2020, [[The Citadel]]- 29 November 2020, [[Kiem Do]]- 8 December 2020, [[Premium Rush]]- 12 December 2020, [[Russian Civil War]]- 22 December 2020, [[Jack Bamford]]- 29 December 2020 ==== 2021 ==== :<small>16 new pages created in 2021.</small> * [[Hugh Shelton]]- 7 January 2021, [[Richard Winters]]- 7 January 2021, [[Hitler Youth]]- 7 January 2021, [[William Calley]]- 1 February 2021, [[Austin Mahone]]- 11 February 2021, [[Harry F. Byrd]]- 12 February 2021, [[Keith Whitley]]- 15 February 2021, [[Enzo Ferrari]]- 18 February 2021, [[Wentworth Military Academy and College]]- 12 May 2021, [[Brooklyn Nine-Nine (season 8)]]- 3 November 2021, [[Wonder (film)]]- 28 November 2021, [[David Halberstam]]- 15 December 2021, [[Thomas Jones (civil servant)]]- 15 December 2021, [[Chinese Civil War]]- 15 December 2021, [[Ty Seidule]]- 15 December 2021, [[United States Naval Academy]]- 15 December 2021 ==== 2022 ==== :<small>60 new pages created in 2022.</small> * [[Bob Altemeyer]]- 3 January 2022, [[Leo Amery]] - 3 January 2022, [[Republic of Vietnam Navy]]- 5 January 2022, [[Royal Air Force]]- 5 January 2022, [[British Army]]- 5 January 2022, [[Percy Spender]]- 5 January 2022, [[Samuel Eliot Morison]]- 5 January 2022, [[Flamethrower]]- 8 January 2022, [[82nd Airborne Division]]- 8 January 2022, [[Tank]]- 16 January 2022, [[Mark Levin]]- 16 January 2022 (This page had existed twice before; it was deleted in 2007 and again in 2008 due to there being no properly sourced quotes.), [[Ferrari]]- 16 January 2022 (This page had existed twice before; it was deleted twice in 2009 due to a total lack of sourced quotes.), [[Saab Automobile]]- 16 January 2022, [[Oldsmobile]]- 16 January 2022, [[Cadillac]]- 16 January 2022, [[Judith Levine]]- 17 January 2022, [[Harmful to Minors]]- 17 January 2022, [[Harold Lindsell]]- 6 February 2022, [[Max Rafferty]]- 6 February 2022 [[Buick]]- 6 February 2022, [[Ranger School]]- 24 March 2022, [[Irish Naval Service]]- 22 April 2022, [[Critical race theory]]- 5 May 2022, [[Conflict: Vietnam]]- 16 May 2022, [[MG 42]]- 4 June 2022, [[Edgar Huff]]- 5 June 2022, [[William Guarnere]]- 6 June 2022, [[M1 Garand]]- 6 June 2022, [[Edward Heffron]]- 6 June 2022, [[James Forrestal]]- 6 June 2022, [[Sue Klebold]]- 6 June 2022, [[Husband E. Kimmel]]- 6 June 2022, [[John J. McNeill]]- 6 June 2022, [[Frank John Hughes]]- 6 June 2022, [[Ford Motor Company]]- 6 June 2022, [[Irish Air Corps]]- 6 June 2022, [[Rudy Reyes (actor)]]- 17 June 2022, [[Evan Wright]]- 17 June 2022, [[Nathaniel Fick]]- 17 June 2022, [[Kemper Military School]]- 1 August 2022, [[Cross country running]]- 5 August 2022, [[Volleyball]]- 5 August 2022, [[Wrestling]]- 5 August 2022 (This page had existed once before; it was deleted on 6 May 2008 by UDScott for having no sourced quotes), [[Charles B. Dew]]- 14 August 2022, [[Adam Kinzinger]]- 21 August 2022, [[Nicholas Irving]]- 21 August 2022, [[David Bellavia]]- 21 August 2022, [[Henry Scott Tuke]]- 28 August 2022, [[Lisa Jakub]]- 21 October 2022, [[Roy Benavidez]]- 11 November 2022, [[Delbert Black]]- 14 November 2022, [[Robert F. Foley]]- 19 November 2022, [[Frederick M. Franks Jr.]]- 19 November 2022, [[Todd Strasser]]- 21 November 2022, [[Benjamin Muse]]- 22 November 2022, [[Strom Thurmond]]- 28 November 2022, [[Tim Kennedy (fighter)]]- 8 December 2022, [[Presidency of Woodrow Wilson]]- 8 December 2022, [[Robert Lee Bullard]]- 30 December 2022, [[Missouri]]- 31 December 2022 ==== 2023 ==== :<small>61 new pages created in 2023.</small> * [[Chuck Pfarrer]] - 1 January 2023, [[Ezra Cornell]] - 24 March 2023, [[Michael J. Daly]] - 29 March 2023, [[Servant leadership]]- 17 June 2023, [[Robin Olds]]- 18 June 2023, [[Cole C. Kingseed]]- 24 June 2023, [[Man Down (2015 film)]]- 24 June 2023, [[12 Strong]]- 24 June 2023, [[Medal of Honor]]- 24 June 2023, [[University of Virginia]]- 26 June 2023, [[University of Virginia School of Law]]- 26 June 2023, [[Walter R. Borneman]]- 26 June 2023, [[No Hard Feelings]]- 4 July 2023, [[Presidency of George W. Bush]]- 15 July 2023, [[1st Infantry Division (United States)]]- 15 July 2023, [[Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries|MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries]]- 15 July 2023, [[David Goggins]]- 24 July 2023, [[Joan Biskupic]]- 28 July 2023, [[Norwich University]]- 5 August 2023, [[Dog (2022 film)]]- 5 August 2023, [[Sebastian Junger]]- 6 August 2023, [[Chevrolet]]- 13 August 2023, [[Mercenaries 2: World in Flames]]- 18 August 2023, [[Casey McQuiston]]- 30 August 2023, [[Sumner Welles]]- 11 September 2023, [[Detroit: Become Human]]- 16 September 2023, [[Kevin Roberts (academic)]]- 28 September 2023, [[Alex Sanders (politician)]]- 8 October 2023, [[Plymouth (automobile)]]- 8 October 2023, [[Survivor guilt]]- 8 October 2023, [[John W. Dower]]- 8 October 2023, [[Marcus Luttrell]]- 9 October 2023, [[Maurice Sugar]]- 9 October 2023, [[Gregg F. Martin]]- 13 October 2023, [[Georgetown Preparatory School]]- 17 October 2023, [[Albert Coady Wedemeyer]]- 28 October 2023, [[Frazier Hunt]]- 30 October 2023, [[Enoch Crowder]]- 30 October 2023, [[Thomas Blamey]]- 30 October 2023, [[Philip Alexander Bruce]]- 1 November 2023, [[NYPD Blue (season 12)]]- 3 November 2023, [[Tom Brokaw]]- 3 November 2023, [[Heartstopper (TV series)]]- 6 November 2023, Category: British TV shows- 7 November 2023, [[Mark Judge (writer)]]- 7 November 2023, [[Harry D. Train II]]- 11 November 2023, [[James M. Sellers]]- 11 November 2023, Category: Georgetown Preparatory School alumni- 12 November 2023, Category: Georgetown Preparatory School- 12 November 2023, [[David Lipsky]]- 12 November 2023, [[Brooklyn Nine-Nine (season 7)]]- 12 November 2023, [[Brooklyn Nine-Nine (season 6)]]- 12 November 2023, [[Woodberry Forest School]]- 12 November 2023, Category: Woodberry Forest School alumni- 12 November 2023, Category: Woodberry Forest School- 12 November 2023, [[William Douglas Crowder]]- 13 November 2023, [[Georgetown University]]- 15 November 2023, [[J. Harvie Wilkinson III]]- 21 November 2023, [[Allen James Lynch]]- 3 December 2023, [[Big Mama Thornton]]- 19 December 2023, [[Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke]]- 19 December 2023, [[Mildred D. Taylor]]- 31 December 2023 ==== 2024 ==== :<small>36 new pages created in 2024.</small> * [[Clara Leach Adams-Ender]]- 28 January 2024, [[Kansas State University]]- 25 March 2024, [[Larry O. Spencer]]- 31 March 2024, [[Twelve O'Clock High]]- 1 April 2024, [[Ralph Puckett]]- 1 April 2024, [[American decline]]- 19 April 2024, [[Samuel V. Wilson]]- 15 May 2024, [[Alice Oseman]]- 26 May 2024, [[Franklin D. Miller]]- 22 June 2024, Category: Navy Cross recipients- 6 July 2024, [[Edward Byers]]- 6 July 2024, Category: Distinguished Service Cross recipients- 6 July 2024, Category: George Cross recipients- 6 July 2024, [[Thomas Payne (soldier)]]- 6 July 2024, [[Transphobia in the United States]]- 29 July 2024, [[James G. Stavridis]]- 30 August 2024, [[Roger Severino]]- 1 September 2024, [[Eddie Rickenbacker]]- 5 September 2024, [[Harry F. Byrd Jr.]]- 8 September 2024, Category: University of Virginia School of Law alumni- 8 September 2024, Category: Virginia Military Institute alumni- 9 September 2024, [[William C. Dietz]]- 9 September 2024, Category: Hampden-Sydney College alumni- 11 September 2024, Category: Hampden-Sydney College- 12 September 2024, Category: Hampden-Sydney College faculty- 12 September 2024, [[Kenneth Preston]]- 23 September 2024, [[Jon Wefald]]- 22 December 2024, [[Raymond G. Murphy]]- 24 December 2024, [[Vernon Baker]]- 24 December 2024, [[Walter D. Ehlers]]- 24 December 2024, [[Victoria Cross]]- 25 December 2024, [[Hiroshi Miyamura]]- 25 December 2024, [[Earl Plumlee]]- 31 December 2024, [[Paul Bucha]]- 31 December 2024, [[Harvey C. Barnum Jr.]]- 31 December 2024, [[Clarence Sasser]]- 31 December 2024 ==== 2025 ==== :<small>34 new pages created in 2025.</small> * [[George B. McClellan]]- 24 January 2025, [[Maynard Harrison Smith]]- 26 January 2025, [[James Stockdale]]- 26 January 2025, [[John L. Barkley]]- 6 March 2025, [[Josiah Bunting III]]- 6 March 2025, [[Mitchell Paige]]- 6 March 2025, [[Thomas J. Hudner Jr.]]- 7 March 2025, [[Hector A. Cafferata Jr.]]- 7 March 2025, [[Jack H. Jacobs]]- 9 March 2025, [[Clinton Romesha]]- 16 March 2025, [[John William Finn]]- 22 March 2025, [[Carroll O'Connor]]- 22 March 2025, [[Mike Wallace]]- 19 April 2025, [[Joe M. Jackson]]- 19 April 2025, [[William D. Swenson]]- 20 April 2025, [[Jay R. Vargas]]- 20 April 2025, [[Ruben Rivers]]- 12 May 2025, [[John R. Fox]]- 12 May 2025, [[Lewis Millett]]- 17 May 2025, [[Thomas G. Kelley]]- 19 May 2025, [[Alwyn Cashe]]- 23 May 2025, [[Duane E. Dewey]]- 26 May 2025, [[Matthew O. Williams]]- 26 May 2025, [[William R. Charette]]- 5 June 2025, [[Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower]]- 12 June 2025, [[Zohran Mamdani]]- 30 July 2025, [[Luke Combs]]- 5 August 2025, [[Tim Kaine]]- 3 October 2025, [[Abigail Spanberger]]- 3 October 2025, [[Eugene B. Fluckey]]- 31 October 2025, [[Cameron Kasky]]- 7 December 2025, [[The Great Santini]]- 24 December 2025, [[Noah Feldman]]- 25 December 2025, [[James E. Livingston]]- 25 December 2025 ==== 2026 ==== :<small>23 new pages created in 2026.</small> * [[Camp Camp/Season 2]]- 1 January 2026 * [[Love, Victor (Season 1)]]- 1 January 2026 * [[Love, Victor]]- 1 January 2026 * [[Love, Victor (Season 2)]]- 1 January 2026 * [[Camp Camp/Season 3]]- 1 January 2026 * [[Camp Camp/Season 4]]- 3 January 2026 * [[Richard Ojeda]]- 6 January 2026 * Category: Silver Star Medal recipients- 6 January 2026 * [[Ruben Gallego]]- 7 January 2026 * [[Jack Reed (Rhode Island politician)]]- 11 January 2026 * [[Riley (film)]]- 11 January 2026 * [[Texas A&M University]]- 14 January 2026 * Category: Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross recipients- 14 January 2026 * Category: Legion of Honour recipients- 15 January 2026 * [[University of Pennsylvania]]- 15 January 2026 * [[David Horsey]]- 16 January 2026 * [[Secret Weapons Over Normandy]]- 29 March 2026 * [[Frank Murphy]]- 30 March 2026 * [[Robert Eugene Bush]]- 26 April 2026 * [[Mark Edmundson]]- 27 April 2026 * [[M16 rifle]]- 2 July 2026 * [[Glenn Youngkin]]- 3 July 2026 * [[Dustin Thao]]- 5 July 2026 ==== 2027 ==== ==== 2028 ==== ==== 2029 ==== === 2030s === ==== 2030 ==== ==== 2031 ==== ==== 2032 ==== ==== 2033 ==== ==== 2034 ==== ==== 2035 ==== ==== 2036 ==== ==== 2037 ==== ==== 2038 ==== ==== 2039 ==== === 2040s === ==== 2040 ==== ==== 2041 ==== ==== 2042 ==== ==== 2043 ==== ==== 2044 ==== ==== 2045 ==== ==== 2046 ==== ==== 2047 ==== ==== 2048 ==== ==== 2049 ==== === 2050s === ==== 2050 ==== == Planned Pages == * 75th Ranger Regiment * Thomas Perkins Abernethy- American historian * Calpernia Addams- Author of ''Mark 947: A Life Shaped by God, Gender, and Force of Will'' (2002) * Charles Henry Ambler- Professor at WVU for approx. 30 years, historian of Virginia and West Virginia * William H. Armstrong- Author, Augusta Military Academy (Class of 1932 est.), Hampden-Sydney College (Class of 1936), UVA graduate school * Trezzvant Anderson- American journalist, wrote a book that he published in 1945 on the 761st Tank Battalion * Army of the Republic of Vietnam * Henry H. Arnold, General of the Army, General of the Air Force * Edward L. Beach Sr.- U.S. Navy captain (served 1888-1921), author of fiction & nonfiction * Edward L. Beach Jr.- U.S. Navy captain (served 1939-1966), author (among other works) of ''Run Silent, Run Deep'', novel published in 1955. Wrote other fiction & nonfiction works. * Rick Bragg, American author * Josiah Bunting III- Author, VMI Class of 1963, President of Hampden-Sydney College (1977-1987), Superintendent of VMI (1995-2003) * Joseph Buttigieg, former William R. Kenan Professor of English at University of Notre Dame * Aubrey H. Camden * Child abuse * Cinderella Man- 2005 film * Marvin Clark (author)- Woodberry Forest School (Class of 1977), UVA Law (Class of 1984), retired judge and author * Christopher Paul Curtis- American author, author of ''The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963'' (1995) * Robert L. Eichelberger- US Army general (served 1909-1948), author of ''Our Jungle Road to Tokyo'' * Escape to Witch Mountain (1975 film) * The Elder Scrolls III: Tribunal * The Elder Scrolls III: Bloodmoon * Exit (2019 film) * Bradley A. Fiske, USNA Class of 1875 * Flame tank * Bill Ferguson (politician)- Maryland state senator, Georgetown Prep (Class of 2005) * Wesley L. Fox, colonel, USMC (served 1950-1993), author of ''Marine Rifleman: Forty-Three Years in the Corps'' (2002) & ''Six Essential Elements of Leadership: Marine Corps Wisdom from a Medal of Honor Recipient'' (2011) * James M. Gavin- lieutenant general, U.S. Army (served 1924-1958), author, DSC * Doris Kearns Goodwin- American historian and author * William Kelly Harrison, Jr.- US Army lieutenant general (served 1917-1957), USMA Class of 1917, DSC * Homer Hickam- American author, Vietnam veteran with the 4th Infantry Division * Andrew A. Humphreys, USMA Class of 1831 * Nicholas von Hoffman- American journalist and author * James Kendall Hosmer- American historian, U.S. Army veteran (served approx. 1862-1863) * Irish Army * Italian Civil War * John Hattendorf- American historian, author, Ernest J. King Professor of Maritime History at the Naval War College (1984-2016) * Jang Yeong-jin, only known openly gay defector from North Korea, author of A Mark of Red Honor, published in Korean in 2015 and translated to English in 2017 * James J. Kilpatrick- American journalist and author, ally of the Byrd machine and advocate of Massive Resistance * William Lederer- American naval officer and author * The Lucky Ones- 2008 film that Roger Ebert liked. * Richard C. Lukas- American historian, specializing in Poland during World War II. * John K. Mahon, American historian, supervised the doctoral dissertation of Craig Symonds * Richard Myers, USAF- Retired USAF general, 14th President of Kansas State University, author of ''Eyes on the Horizon: Serving on the Front Lines of National Security'' * George B. McClellan, USMA Class of 1846, 4th Commanding General of the United States Army * Nancy Mace- 1st female graduate of The Citadel * Armistead Maupin- American author * Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction * Dakota Myer- U.S. Marine, Medal of Honor recipient for the War in Afghanistan, author of ''Into The Fire'' (2013) & ''The Way Forward'' (2022) * Richard Myers- Retired U.S. Air Force 4-star general (served 1965-2005) author of ''Eyes on the Horizon: Serving on the Front Lines of National Security'', 14th President of Kansas State University (2016-2022) * Malcolm Nance- Retired U.S. Navy senior chief petty officer, soldier in the International Legion of Ukraine from 2022 to present. * Eric Nylund- American writer, author of ''Halo: Fall of Reach'', ''Halo: First Strike'', ''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx'' * Cao Van Vien, one of only two 4-star generals in the history of South Vietnam * Oakland Motor Car Company * Alice Oseman- American author * Dave Richard Palmer, USMA Class of 1956, 53rd Superintendent of the United States Military Academy * Ann Patchett, American author * Gary Paulsen- American novelist, author of ''Hatchet'' * Premature (2014 film) * University of Richmond * Republic of Vietnam Airborne Division * Republic of Vietnam Air Force * Matthew B. Ridgeway- US Army general (served 1917-1955), author, DSC * Mo Rocca- Georgetown Preparatory School (Class of 1987), Harvard University (Class of 1991), comedian & author. * Rolls-Royce * Royal Marines * Clinton Romesha- U.S. Army (1999-2011), Medal of Honor recipient for the War in Afghanistan, author of ''Red Platoon'' (2016) * James M. Sellers Jr. * Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse- 2015 film * Mark Kennedy Schriver- Georgetown Preparatory School (Class of 1982), Maryland House of Delegates (1995-2003), author * Norton A. Schwartz- Retired USAF general, author of ''Journey: Memoirs of an Air Force Chief of Staff''. * Michaelangelo Signorile- Author of ''Queer in America: Sex, The Media, and the Closets of Power'' (1993) * Harry G. Summers Jr.- US Army, Ret., author * Craig Symonds- American maritime historian, Ernest J. King Professor of Maritime History at the Naval War College (2017-2020) * Joseph Taussig- US Navy vice admiral, USNA Class of 1899, served in the U.S. Navy 1895-1941, 1943-1947, author * United States Air Force Academy * Robert Grainger Ker Thompson, RAF officer, counterinsurgency warfare expert in Vietnam War * The Aeronauts (film), 2019 film * The Day Will Come (2016 film) * The Sadness, 2021 Taiwanese horror film * The Thinning, 2016 YouTube film * The Thinning: New World Order, 2018 YouTube film * Tiger tank * Toyota * Ukrainian Air Force * Ukrainian Navy * Ukrainian Army * Ukrainian Air Assault Forces * Ukrainian Special Forces * Vietnamese Rangers, elite light infantry of the ARVN * Virginia Commonwealth University == Project Pages == * [[101st Airborne Division]] * 12 Strong- Movie * [[2021 storming of the United States Capitol]] * [[Frank Abagnale]] * Bob Altemeyer * [[Perry Anderson]] * [[Authoritarianism]] * [[Bayonet]] * [[Carl L. Becker]]- Professor of history at Cornell University from 1917 to 1941, author of numerous books on early American history. Need to add quotations from more of his books, as well as consult the books already quoted to get page numbers specified for existing quotes. * David Bellavia- Former U.S. Army SSG and MOH recipient; need to add quotes from his 2007 memoir ''House to House: An Epic Memoir of War'' * [[Bisexuality]]- This page is practically a stub, need to obtain books and articles on the subject and add content from them to the page. * [[Wilhelm Bittrich]], Waffen-SS general * Walter R. Borneman, American historian; need to add quotes from more of his books and articles. * Robert Lee Bullard- U.S. Army 3-star general, commanded the 1st Infantry Division in World War I. Bullard wrote approximately 3 books that I will obtain copies of, read, and add noteworthy quotes from onto his Wikiquote page. Quotes about Bullard will also be needed. * [[Jimmy Carter]]- Lots of books by and about Carter that need to be added or expanded on his Wikiquote page. Too many to list here. * [[Neville Chamberlain]], British prime minister * [[Henry Steele Commager]]- American author and educator * [[Coming out]]- SMALL article about a really important topic. It needs expansion badly. * Cornell University- More quotes/expansion needed. * Critical race theory- More quotes/expansion needed. * [[Chester W. Nimitz|Chester Nimitz]]- More quotes/expansion needed. * Michael J. Daly- Medal of Honor recipient- More quotes/expansion needed. * [[Dictatorship]] * [[Sepp Dietrich]], Waffen-SS general- More quotes/expansion needed. * [[Daniel Drezner]]- American professor of political science at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Medford & Somerville, MA; author of numerous books and peer-reviewed articles, content from which needs to be added to Wikiquote. * [[Tammy Duckworth]]- U.S. Senator from Illinois since 2017, served in the Illinois Army National Guard (1992-2014; 22 years, retired as LTC). Her page is in dire need of expansion. * [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Elizabeth II]]- More quotes/expansion needed, especially quotes about Elizabeth II. * [[John Feffer]] * Enzo Ferrari- More quotes/expansion needed. * [[FernGully: The Last Rainforest]]- LOQ trimming project * [[Fascism]] * [[Scott Galloway (professor)]]- More quotes/expansion needed. * [[Girls]] * William Guarnere- More quotes/expansion needed. * [[Heinz Guderian]]- More quotes/expansion needed. * [[Günter Grass]] * [[Rodolfo Graziani]]- More quotes/expansion needed. * [[William Frederick Halsey, Jr.]]- More quotes/expansion needed. * [[Tom Hanks]] * [[Michael Hayden (general)|Michael Hayden]]- Retired U.S. Air Force general * [[Chris Hedges]]- More quotes/expansion needed. * [[Jesse Helms]]- U.S. Senator from North Carolina, ardent homophobe and opponent of LBGT rights * [[Harvard University]]- More quotes/expansion needed. * Edward Heffron- More quotes/expansion needed. * [[Homophobia]] * [[Homosexuality]] * [[Honda]] * Edgar Huff * Frank John Hughes * [[Cordell Hull]] * [[E. W. Howe]]- Page needs expansion from each of Howe's books/writings, as well as quotes about him * [[Lee Iacocca]] * [[Iraq War]] * Irish Air Corps * Nicholas Irving- Former sniper in 3rd Ranger Battalion; need to add quotes from ''Basic & Intermediate Combat Survival'' (2011), ''Team Reaper: 3rd Ranger Battalion's Deadliest Sniper Team'' (2012), ''The Reaper: Autobiography of One of the Deadliest Special Ops Snipers'' (2015, with Gary Brozek), ''Way of the Reaper: My Greatest Untold Missions and the Art of Being a Sniper'' (2016, with Gary Brozek), ''Reaper: Ghost Target'' (2018, with A.J. Tata), ''Reaper: Threat Zero'' (2019, with A.J. Tata), ''Reaper: Drone Strike'' (2020, with A.J. Tata) * [[Islamophobia]] * Husband E. Kimmel- Former commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Page is effectively a stub, as under-studied as Kimmel was and is, and needs to be expanded however possible. * [[Ed Koch]]- 105th Mayor of New York City, author of numerous books * Cole C. Kingseed- Retired U.S. Army colonel, also an author and historian; need to find more quotes from his books and articles. * [[Korean War]] * [[The Last Unicorn (film)]]- LOQ trimming project * [[William D. Leahy|William Leahy]] * [[Henry M. Leland]] * [[James Longstreet]] * [[Robert Lutz]] * [[David Mamet]] * Man Down (2015 film)- Need to add more quotes for this film. * John J. McNeill * [[William H. McRaven]]- Retired 4-star US Navy admiral, author. Need to add more from his written works and add more quotes about him. * Medal of Honor- Need to add more quotes about the award. * [[Mark Milley]]- U.S. Army general * [[Harvey Milk]]- US Navy veteran, LGBT+ rights activist * [[George Meade]]- More quotes/expansion needed, especially quotes about Meade and quotes from Meade's memoirs. * Samuel Eliot Morison- Stub page. Morison has a vast number of published works and only one of those has been quoted on his page so far. * [[John Money]]- stub page * Benjamin Muse- Virginia politician, need to add quotes from ''Virginia's Massive Resistance'' (1961), ''Tarheel Tommy Atkins'' (1963), ''Ten Years of Prelude'' (1964), ''The American Negro Revolution: From Nonviolence to Black Power, 1963-1967'', ''The Twentieth Century As I Saw It'' (1981) * [[Mrs. Doubtfire]] * [[The Mummy (1999 film)]]- LOQ trimming project * [[Otto Ohlendorf]] * [[Robin Olds]]- U.S. Air Force brigadier general, need to add quotes from Olds' memoirs and find quotes about him * [[The Pagemaster]]- 1994 film, LOQ trimming project * [[Joachim Peiper]], Waffen-SS colonel * [[Ralph Peters]]- Retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, prolific author. Need to add many more quotes from his considerable list of published books, as well as other notable quotes like his resignation letter to Fox News. * [[Józef Piłsudski]] * [[Poland]] * [[Chesty Puller]]- Only a dozen or quotes from Puller and none about him; practically a stub page. * [[Erwin Rommel]]- More quotes/expansion needed, especially quotes about Rommel. * Rules of Engagement (film)- 128 minutes runtime, LOQ of 5 quotes per hour for films= 11 authorized quotes. Film currently has 5. * [[Gerd von Rundstedt]], German Army general in World War II * [[Same-sex marriage]]- Extremely short page, in dire need of added quotes. * [[Baldur von Schirach]] * Servant leadership- Need to add more quotes about this leadership philosophy. * Hugh L. Scott- More quotes/expansion needed, especially quotes from Scott's memoirs. * [[Robert Lee Scott Jr.]]- Needs expansion, especially quotes from each of Scott's books. * [[Albert Schweitzer]]- Needs more quotes about Schweitzer * [[Secularism]] * [[Adam Silvera]]- Author, need to add quotes from ''The First to Die at the End'', ''Color Outside the Lines'' (contributing author) and expand on several of the books/stories already quoted. * [[Otto Skorzeny]], Waffen-SS commando * [[Suicide]] * [[Stand and Deliver]]- Editing quotes and dialogue, LOQ trimming * [[Timothy D. Snyder]]- More quotes/expansion needed. * [[Trumpism]] * [[United States Marine Corps]]- For all the time the USMC has been around, and all that has been said and written about them, practically none of it is on the Wikiquote page. Lots of material to be added. * United States Military Academy * Alexander Vandegrift- Need to go through Vandegrift's memoirs, as well as find more quotes about him. * Republic of Vietnam Navy * Waffen-SS * [[War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)]] * [[Betty White]] * [[Who Done It? (1942 film)]] * [[Bob Woodward]]- The page for one of the greatest journalists ever is practically a stub, featuring a mere handful of his many books. This needs a great deal of expansion and improvement. * Richard Winters- More quotes/expansion needed, especially quotes from Winters' memoirs and quotes about Winters. * [[Yale University]] == Completed Project Pages == * [[The Black Cauldron (film)]] * [[Boy]] * [[Anita Bryant]]- Will continue to gradually edit this page, as there are quotes from other books Bryant "wrote" that could do to be added. But the page has been upgraded considerably from its former stub-status and is no longer a priority for editing. * [[Bullying]] * [[Conflict: Vietnam]] * [[Down Periscope]] * [[The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind]] * The General's Daughter (film) * [[The Hobbit (1977 film)]] * Harold Keith- Need to expand this page with quotes from ''Brief Garland'' (1971), and Keith's first-ever published written work, a short story published in an unknown monthly issue of ''Lone Scout'' magazine in 1917. * [[Ernest King]] * [[Liar Liar]] * [[Douglas MacArthur]] * [[The Mummy Returns]]- LOQ trimming project, finally completed in November 2022. Will continue to monitor as some anonymous user has been messing with the page every so many months. * [[Top Gun: Maverick]] * [[Vietnam War]]- Will continue adding quality content over time. 01fqxiylgjnfo8a596tucm7va1l847f 4 201239 3961199 3743553 2026-07-05T16:35:22Z BD2412 3982 /* top */ Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]], replaced: Walter M. Miller, Jr. → Walter M. Miller Jr. using [[Project:AWB|AWB]] 3961199 wikitext text/x-wiki {| style="background:{{{color}}};color:{{{foreground|var(--color-base-fixed,#202122)}}};" | align=center | [[File:Bombes à retardement poster (crop).jpg|222px]] | align=center | &nbsp; | align=center | {{quote of the day | quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> --> He had never [[seen]] a "Fallout," and he [[hoped]] he'd never see one. A consistent description of the [[monster]] had not survived, but Francis had heard the [[legends]]. … Brother Francis visualized a Fallout as half-salamander, because, according to tradition, the thing was [[born]] in [[Nuclear war|the Flame Deluge]], and as half-incubus who despoiled virgins in their [[sleep]], for, were not the monsters of the [[world]] still called "[[children]] of the Fallout"? That the [[demon]] was capable of inflicting all the woes which descended upon [[Book of Job|Job]] was recorded [[fact]], if not an article of [[creed]]. | author = Walter M. Miller Jr. }} | align=center | &nbsp; | align=center | |} qdyyg5dgyf9zocrpeifv4xzfpwjygv8 0 201717 3961350 3659777 2026-07-06T02:09:22Z ~2026-33625-15 3337022 /* Dialogue */ 3961350 wikitext text/x-wiki {{italic title}} '''''[[w:Franklin and the Turtle Lake Treasure|Franklin and the Turtle Lake Treasure]]''''' is a children's [[w:Animation|animated]] [[w:Adventure film|adventure]] [[w:Drama film|drama]] direct-to-video film produced by [[w:DreamWorks Animation|DreamWorks Animation]], [[w:Gaumont Animation|Alphanim]], [[w:Nelvana|Nelvana]] and [[w:StudioCanal|StudioCanal]] and distributed by [[w:Universal Pictures|Universal Pictures]], released on September 6, 2006. based on the TV series ''[[w:Franklin (TV series)|Franklin]]''. It was the first [[w:Franklin (TV series)|Franklin]] movie shown in theaters in Canada and France. ==Dialogue== :'''Aunt Lucy''': Why don't you come over tomorrow and we can out together? :'''Franklin''': Is ''she'' going to be there? :'''Aunt Lucy''': Sam? I imagine so. But I promise, she won't bite. We turtles don't have teeth, you know. ''[chuckles]'' <hr width=60%> :'''Bear''': We're going on a treasure hunt. :'''Samantha''': ''[yawns loudly]'' :'''Aunt Lucy''': ''[speaking in a pirate brogue]'' Not one to join us, Missy? You'll walk the plank if you don't. :'''Samantha''': Guess I'll take my chances with the sharks. :'''Franklin''': So what do you want to do? :'''Samantha''': Not play some dumb kids game. <hr width=60%> :'''Mr. Turtle''': ''[regarding Turtle Lake]'' It's nice you're getting the chance to go up there. ''[regarding Sam and Franklin]'' And even nicer to see you two on friendly terms. :'''Samantha''': Actually, we're more like fellow adventurers than friends. Oh, and thank you for the flowers, Mr. Turtle. They were lovely. <hr width=60%> :''[last lines]'' :'''Samantha''': Granny's map? But I couldn't. :'''Franklin''': It's okay. Aunt Lucy said I could give it to you. You know, to remember your summer by. :'''Samantha''': I won't ever forget this summer. :''[Samantha gives him a small smooch]'' :'''Bear''': Ahem. :'''Aunt Lucy''': Well, what do you know? Life is just full of surprises, isn't it? ==Voice Cast== * Coming Soon! ==External links== {{wikipedia}} [[Category:2006 films]] [[Category:Canadian animated films]] [[Category:French animated films]] [[Category:Traditionally animated films]] [[Category:Children's animated adventure films]] [[Category:Children's animated fantasy films]] [[Category:Franklin]] [[Category:Direct-to-video animated films]] [[Category:Television series finales]] [[Category:Animated films based on children's books]] [[Category:Films based on animated television series]] [[Category:Films about turtles]] n6hh776kta9sobae0kanpzsrwtq3561 0 207528 3961071 3953517 2026-07-05T13:38:16Z ~2026-38381-99 3347679 /* Dialogue */ 3961071 wikitext text/x-wiki {{italic title}} '''''[[w:Maya the Bee (2014 film)|Maya the Bee]]''''' (promoted theatrically as '''''Maya the Bee Movie''''') is a 2014 [[w:3-D film|3D]] [[w:computer-animated|computer-animated]] [[w:comedy|comedy]] [[w:adventure film|adventure film]] directed by Alexs Stadermann, loosely based on the German [[w:Maya the Bee|children's book of the same name]] by [[w:Waldemar Bonsels|Waldemar Bonsels]]. It was released theatrically in Australia on November 1, 2014, and also in United States and Canada on March 8, 2015. :''Directed by Alexs Stadermann. Produced by Barbara Stephen and Thorsten Wegener. Written by Fin Edquist and Marcus Sauermann''. {{film-stub}} == Maya == * ''[plays the guitar and singing]'' ''Little flower, little flower, I like flowers'' * ''[in a guard's voice]'' Attention! * ''[to Flip]'' You're a funny green bee. * I've left the hive, Willy, and I'm never, ever coming back. * ''[singing]'' ''I wanna sing songs, I wanna be free. I wanna be me, I'm Maya the Bee'' == Willy == * There's an old bee saying: "Stay in the hive; stay alive". * There's an old bee saying: "Don't make clubs with strange bugs". * There's an old bee saying: "You can always count on a friend. But I guess I got that one wrong too!" * Maya, not so fast! I forgot to tell you the most important bee saying of all: "You should always wait for Willy!" == Hank == * ''Get'' away from that bee, now! * Oh boy, you're so grounded. Anymore grounded in you're be a worm. ''(Right, Sting?)'' == Buzzlina Von Beena == * Oh, please! Can you really trust a bee who sneaks around in disguises playing foolish children's... games? * Not on us, honey-heads! The hornets! Drop it on the hornets! Charge! == Dialogue == ==Voice cast== * Coco Jack Gillies as [[w:Maya the Bee|Maya]] * [[w:Kodi Smit-McPhee|Kodi Smit-McPhee]] as Willy * [[w:Richard Roxburgh|Richard Roxburgh]] as Flip * [[w:Justine Clarke|Justine Clarke]] as Miss Cassandra * [[w:Jacki Weaver|Jacki Weaver]] as Buzzlina Von Beena * Andy McPhee as Hank, the leader of hornets and Sting's father * [[Miriam Margolyes]] as The Queen * [[w:The Umbilical Brothers|David Collins]] as Arnie * [[w:Shane Dundas|Shane Dundas]] as Barney * Jimmy James Eaton as Paul * [[w:Heather Mitchell|Heather Mitchell]] as The Nurse * [[w:Noah Taylor|Noah Taylor]] as Crawley * [[w:Cameron Ralph|Cameron Ralph]] as Momo * [[w:Glenn Fraser|Glenn Fraser]] as Kurt * [[w:Heather Mitchell|Heather Mitchell]] as Thekla * Stavroula Mountzouris as Lara * Sam Haft as Drago ==External links== {{wikipedia}} [[Category:2010s Australian animated films]] [[Category:2010s German films]] [[Category:2014 computer-animated films]] [[Category:3D animated films]] [[Category:Animated films about bees]] [[Category:Animated films about father–son relationships]] [[Category:Animated films about friendship]] [[Category:Australian computer-animated films]] [[Category:Computer-animated films]] [[Category:Children's animated comedy films]] [[Category:Children's animated adventure films]] [[Category:Children's animated fantasy films]] [[Category:Films directed by Alexs Stadermann]] [[Category:German animated films]] [[Category:Maya the Bee films]] 2q9067i0irw9obzfquixg3os9448imr 0 208167 3961162 3653364 2026-07-05T16:32:20Z BD2412 3982 /* Quotes about Bryce */ Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]], replaced: Henry Morgenthau, Sr. → Henry Morgenthau Sr. using [[Project:AWB|AWB]] 3961162 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:1st Viscount Bryce 1902b.jpg|thumb|James Bryce in 1902]] '''[[w:James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce|James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce]]''',<small> [[w:Order of Merit|OM]], [[w:Royal Victorian Order|GCVO]], [[w:Privy Council of the United Kingdom|PC]], [[w:Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]], [[w:Fellow of the British Academy|FBA]]</small> (10 May 1838 – 22 January 1922) was an [[Ulster]]-born [[academic]], [[jurist]], [[historian]], and [[w:Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] politician. ==Quotes== ===1870s=== *Whether the associations of the [[Empire|Imperial]] name are bad, as [[William Ewart Gladstone|Mr. Gladstone]] thinks, I will not discuss. Splendid and imposing they certainly were, not only in the age of the [[w:Nerva–Antonine dynasty|Antonines]], but in the best days of the [[Middle Ages|mediaeval]] [[Holy Roman Empire|Empire]], from [[w:Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor|Otto the Great]] to [[Frederick Barbarossa|Frederick II]]. But that splendour they have lost. ... In fact, the title of [[King]] is now the less common of the two, and, with such associations as our kingship has, it is far more dignified. There has been a [[Monarchy of the United Kingdom|King of the English]] ever since the ninth or tenth century; no other [[Monarchy]] in [[Europe]] (except the lands of our [[Scandinavia|Scandinavian]] kingsfolk and except the Crown of [[w:Stephen I of Hungary|St. Stephen]]) can boast of anything like an equal [[antiquity]]. ... Why endanger the pre-eminence of style of the only European Crown which combines the glories of ancient legitimacy with those of equally ancient [[Constitutions|constitutional]] [[freedom]]? **Letter to ''The Times'' (13 March 1876), p. 8, after [[Queen Victoria]] was given the title "Empress of India" *He was opposed on principle to an Established Church. **Speech in Tower Hamlets, London (27 March 1879), quoted in ''The Times'' (31 March 1879), p. 6 *In regard to [[Government spending|public expenditure]], the practice and rule of the Liberal Government had been economy and retrenchment, while that of the Tory Government was extravagance and waste. The cause of the extravagance of the present Government had been their foreign policy, which was one of "blustering and flustering." **Speech in Tower Hamlets, London (27 March 1879), quoted in ''The Times'' (31 March 1879), p. 6 ===1880s=== *[[Russia]]...crushed [[Poland]]; but I ask hon. Members whether they desire to see this country imitate the methods by which Poland has been crushed? This force of [[Nations|nationality]] is a great force in human affairs... I do not say that it is always a good thing. It is one of those sentiments which, though primarily and usually good, because it binds men together by a common devotion to a fine idea, may also become a destroying [[power]] and the instrument of [[evil]]. It works for good or ill, just as you choose to treat it. But it is a force which [[Government|Governments]] ignore at their peril. I submit that the wise and prudent course for statesmen to take is by giving such recognition as they can to the principle of nationality to make it what it ought to be, a fertilizing stream, and not a devastating torrent—a means of fostering and ennobling national life, and not a source of disaffection and hatred. **[http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1886/may/17/second-reading-adjourned-debate-third#column_1225 Speech] in the House of Commons on the [[w:Government of Ireland Bill 1886|Irish Home Rule Bill]] (17 May 1886) *I believe that [[Ireland]] will be better legislated for in a [[Legislature]] in [[Dublin]] by its own Members, because that Legislature will be in sympathy with the feelings and will understand the needs of its fellow-citizens... It is idle to think of legislating satisfactorily for Ireland in a House in which the Irish Members constitute a small minority out of sympathy with the majority—a House chiefly composed of Members who have never been in Ireland, and have no direct personal knowledge of Irish conditions and Irish sentiment—a House whose acts and votes are checked and nullified by another and an irresponsible House, in which there is not a single Representative of Irish national feeling. **[http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1886/may/17/second-reading-adjourned-debate-third#column_1226 Speech] in the House of Commons on the [[w:Government of Ireland Bill 1886|Irish Home Rule Bill]] (17 May 1886) *[[Liberalism]] was a plant which did not thrive in stagnant waters, and the waters of [[London]], to their shame be it spoken, were stagnant. Where there was a want of active zeal all the worse and baser instincts which had power in [[Politics of the United Kingdom|politics]] told against the Liberal party. The [[money]] power was against the Liberal party, and so was the [[Alcoholic beverages|liquor]] power. **Speech to the London Liberal and Radical Union at St. James's-hall (11 January 1887), quoted in ''The Times'' (12 January 1887), p. 7 *The educated classes were apt to speak in a patronizing tone of the "masses of the people", and to talk of political education as if it were only needed by those masses, but the fact was that the middle classes needed education, especially on this [[w:Irish question|Irish question]], quite as much as the masses. The whole trouble and difficulty of our dealings with Ireland had arisen from our ignorance. ... He confidently believed that the country would arrive at but one conclusion, and that that would be in favour of [[w:Irish Home Rule movement|Home Rule]]. The work would not be a long one, because two or three years would undoubtedly see the solution of this question in the sense which they desired to see it concluded—a consummation which was so much to be desired not only in the interests of Ireland but also of [[England]], [[Scotland]], and [[Wales]]. **Speech to the Home Rule Union at the National Liberal Club, London (24 February 1887), quoted in ''The Times'' (25 February 1887), p. 4 *In answer to a question, Mr. Bryce said that if Scotch Home Rule meant that [[Scotland]] was to have such a complete [[Constitutions|constitution]] as Mr. Gladstone's Bill of 1886 proposed to give to Ireland, then he did not think that that was at all desirable and that Scotland wanted it. (Hisses and cheers.) At the same time he was bound to say that if Scotland did want it she was entitled to get it. (Loud cheers.) **Speech in the Albert Hall, Aberdeen (17 October 1887), quoted in ''The Times'' (18 October 1887), p. 7 ===1890s=== *The best justification for the despotic system described is to be found in the administration of [[British Raj|British India]]. That administration is no doubt in some respects imperfect. ... But it is incomparably better than the administration of any subject territory by an alien and distant race of conquerors than has ever been before. It had in particular attained three great objects. It has established perfect internal peace and security through a vast area, much of which is still inhabited by wild tribes; it has secured a perfectly just [[Public administration|administration]] of the law, [[w:Civil_law|civil]] as well as [[w:Criminal_law|criminal]], between all [[Race|races]] and [[Caste system in India|castes]]; and it has imbued the officials with a feeling that their first duty is to do their best for the welfare of the natives and to defend them against the rapacity of [[Western imperialism in Asia|European adventurers]]. These things have been achieved by an efficiently organized [[w:Indian Civil Service (British India)|Civil Service]] inspired by high traditions, kept apart from [[Politics of the United Kingdom|British party politics]], and standing quite outside the [[Prejudice|prejudices]], [[Jealousy|jealousies]], and [[Superstition|superstitions]] which sway the native mind. Only through despotic methods could that have been done for India which the English have done. **'British Experience in the Government of Colonies', ''The Century'' (New York), 57, 5 (March 1899), pp. 718-728, quoted in ''The Times'' (27 February 1899), p. 7 *[Bryce] expressed his cordial agreement with what Mr. Washington had said as to the importance of basing the [[progress]] of the [[African Americans|coloured people of the South]] upon industrial training. Having made two or three visits to the [[Southern United States|South]] he had got an impression of the extreme complexity and difficulty of [[Racism in the United States|the problem which Mr. Washington was so nobly striving to solve]]. It was no wonder that it should be difficult seeing that the [[White people|whites]] had such a long start of the [[Black people|coloured people]] in [[civilization]]. He believed that the general sentiment of white people was one of friendliness and a desire to help the negroes. The exercise of [[political rights]] and the attainment to equal [[citizenship]] must depend upon the quality of the people who exercised those rights, and the best thing the coloured people could do, therefore, was to endeavour to attain material [[prosperity]] by making themselves capable of prosecuting these trades and occupations which they began to learn in the days of [[Slavery in the United States|slavery]], and which now, after waiting for 20 years, they had begun to see were necessary to their well-being. **Speech at the reception for [[Booker T. Washington]] held in Essex Hall, Strand, London (3 July 1899), quoted in ''The Times'' (4 July 1899), p. 13 ===1900s=== *Whatever be the issue, one can dwell with unmixed satisfaction upon the absence among ourselves of any recrudescence of mediaeval [[Antisemitism|intolerance]] towards a people whose peculiar defects are fairly chargeable upon what they have been forced in the past to suffer, whose possession of some peculiar merits cannot be denied, and who have made within recent times extraordinary contributions to [[learning]] and [[philosophy]], to science and to one, at least, of the arts. **'Preface' to C. Russell and H. S. Lewis, ''The Jew in London: A Study of Racial Character and Present-Day Conditions; Being Two Essays Prepared for the Toynbee Trustees'' (1900), pp. xvii-xviii *He had said from the first that the [[Second Boer War|war]] had been a hideous blunder, and he had supported that opinion in the [[House of Commons]]. (Cheers.) ... Stop the farm-burning; it had been a great mistake and was against British ideas. (Cheers.) Recognize that they were dealing with men whose [[bravery]] and [[tenacity]] they could admire, and offer terms to the representatives of [[South Africa|the two Republics]] and to the [[Boer|burghers]] who were now in arms. **Speech in the public baths of Caledonian Road, Islington, London (12 December 1900) against the [[w:Second Boer War|Boer War]], quoted in ''The Times'' (13 December 1900), p. 10 *[T]here had been many changes in the national ideals in this country during the past 50 years. ... [[liberty]], so far as it regarded political power, freedom of opinion, and freedom of action, was rather more in men's minds in the fifties as an essential element in the making of national happiness and well-being than it was in the present day. ... [[Republic|Republicanism]] was then a thing much talked of in [[England]]. It was curious to note how completely that had gone, and the discovery made that the true enemy of [[liberty]] and [[democracy]] was not a [[monarchy]], but [[money]], and the power that money exerted. **Speech to the Economic Students' Union at the School of Economics and Political Science, London (14 December 1900), quoted in ''The Times'' (17 December 1900), p. 13 *With the old ideal of liberty there was a great and urgent passion for [[Freedom of conscience|freedom of opinion]] and [[freedom of speech]]. In the present day we cared very much less for freedom of opinion as an element in our national life than we did in those days. But we ought always to be on our guard against giving the smallest encouragement to any attempt of any kind of any dominant party to put down the free expression of anything which was not criminal. **Speech to the Economic Students' Union at the School of Economics and Political Science, London (14 December 1900), quoted in ''The Times'' (17 December 1900), p. 13 *One of the most remarkable changes was the extent to which indifference had come to prevail in matters of religious opinion. With regard to freedom of action, there would have been a stronger objection then than there was now in allowing the great majority of persons engaged in any particular trade to coerce the minority into their wishes. On the question of non-interference, he pointed out that the difficulties of ''[[Laissez-faire|laissez faire]]'' were now far more generally recognized than they were 40 or 50 years ago. For one reason or another there was now far less disposition to accept the doctrines of ''laissez faire'' than there was then, and they played a much smaller part in the ideal we formed of what was good for a nation. **Speech to the Economic Students' Union at the School of Economics and Political Science, London (14 December 1900), quoted in ''The Times'' (17 December 1900), p. 13 *In those days it was thought that only through the principle of nationality could freedom be established, and here, again, the changes which had happened had made this ideal seem less needed than it was. The principle of nationality was held to make for peace and was quite consistent with [[cosmopolitanism]], which played a leading part in conceptions of what was needed for the happiness of the world. There was rather more in the old ideals of the moral element and less of the material element than there was to-day; there was, too, rather more of a sanguine spirit, and the golden age seemed nearer then it seemed now. **Speech to the Economic Students' Union at the School of Economics and Political Science, London (14 December 1900), quoted in ''The Times'' (17 December 1900), p. 13 *Having condemned the policy of severity which had been adopted with the object of bringing the [[Second Boer War|[Boer] war]] to a conclusion, he said that it might be doubted whether anything short of the restoration of the independence of the two Republics—subject of course to a measure of [[British Empire|British control]]—would have the effect of inducing the Boers to lay down their arms. The passion for independence was strong; it had been the cherished ideal of those people ever since they quitted Cape Colony and won the country for themselves. Our demand for unconditional surrender was a fatal blunder. **Speech to the Women's National Liberal Association Conference, Memorial Hall, London (12 June 1901), quoted in ''The Times'' (13 June 1901), p. 12 *What was a reasonable offer? In the first place, there ought to be an amnesty. ... The second point in the terms should be a grant of money to rebuild the burned homesteads and restock the devastated farms. ... Nothing would do more to accelerate the return of peace and order than to give the people occupation and a chance of living. Then, it should be part of any reasonable offer to the Boers that there should be a speedy restoration of self-governing institutions. **Speech to the Women's National Liberal Association Conference, Memorial Hall, London (12 June 1901), quoted in ''The Times'' (13 June 1901), p. 12 *The danger which threatened the natives in the future, at any rate in the mining districts, would arise from the desire to obtain a constant and cheap supply of native labour for the [[Mineral industry of Africa|mines]]. It would be the duty of those in authority to guard the native against the oppressive laws which were in force in the [[Boer|Dutch Republics]]. In conclusion, he protested against a policy of harshness and violence in [[South Africa]]. We should try to inculcate [[forbearance]], [[wisdom]], and the [[generosity]] into the minds of those who had the government of the country. **Speech to the Women's National Liberal Association Conference, Memorial Hall, London (12 June 1901), quoted in ''The Times'' (13 June 1901), p. 12 *He would admit that British landowners would benefit by a [[Taxation|tax]] on foreign [[grain]], because it would enable them to exact higher rents for the [[land]]. The British [[Agriculture|farmer]] would not benefit one penny. The manufacturer would lose by paying a much higher price for his materials and by paying higher [[Wage|wages]], which was a part of [[Joseph Chamberlain|Mr. Chamberlain]]'s scheme... [T]he artisan would not gain unless his wages rose, and if his wages were raised certain branches of trade would cease, because they would not be able to compete against foreign competition. **Speech to a Liberal meeting in Tunbridge Wells (12 October 1903), quoted in ''The Times'' (13 October 1903), p. 5 *[T]he Liberal party stands to-day firmly upon the ground which it has occupied during the last 60 years—namely, on the ground of [[free trade]], [[peace]], and good-will among the nations; that the Liberal party has the wish to apply that policy to [[German Empire|Germany]] in like manner as to other peoples, and that the idea of using force as a means for meeting commercial competition is completely foreign to British Liberalism. **Letter to [[w:Theodor Barth|Theodor Barth]], published in ''Die Nation'', quoted in ''The Times'' (15 August 1905), p. 4 ===1910s=== *The [[United States]] are deemed all the world over to be pre-eminently the land of [[equality]]. This was the first feature which struck [[Europe|Europeans]] when they began, after the peace of 1815 had left them time to look beyond the [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]], to feel curious about the phenomena of a new society. This was the great theme of [[Alexis de Tocqueville|Tocqueville]]'s description, and the starting-point of his speculations; this has been the most constant boast of the Americans themselves, who have believed their liberty more complete than that of any other people, because equality has been more fully blended with it. **''The American Commonwealth: Volume II'' (1910), p. 810 *In how many and which of these senses of the word does equality exist in the United States? Not as regards material conditions. Till about the middle of [[19th century|last century]] there were no great fortunes in America, few large fortunes, no [[Poverty in the United States|poverty]]. Now there is some poverty (though only in a few places can it be called pauperism), many large fortunes, and a greater number of gigantic fortunes than in any other country of the world. **''The American Commonwealth: Volume II'' (1910), pp. 810–811 *[Bryce] thought she [<nowiki/>[[Russia]]] was becoming a menace to Europe with her vast and rapidly increasing population and her also rapidly increasing prosperity. The Duma was no check on the ambitions of the official class. Germany, he thought, was right to arm and she would need every man. **Remarks to [[w:C. P. Scott|C. P. Scott]], as recorded in his diary (30 June 1914), in Trevor Wilson (ed.), ''The Political Diaries of C. P. Scott, 1911-1928'' (1970), p. 88 *[T]he learned had been at work in exploring the fields of [[history]] and [[philology]]. The origins of the several families of mankind were investigated and their affinities set forth. The old annals were edited and republished, the old poems popularised. The ancient exploits of the race were held up to admiration, and each people was supplied by [[Historian|historians]] and [[poets]] with fuel to feed the flame of national pride. It was all natural, and in one sense it was laudable. Men's souls are raised by the recollection of great deeds done by their forefathers. But the study of the past has its dangers when it makes men transfer past claims and past hatreds to the present. A sage friend remarked to me lately while we were discussing the complications of [[Southeastern Europe|South-eastern Europe]]: "How much better if we could get rid of history altogether!" The learned men and the literary men, often themselves intoxicated by their own [[Enthusiasm|enthusiasms]], never put their books to a worse use than when they filled each people with a conceit of its own super-eminent gifts and merits. **''Race Sentiment as a Factor in History: A Lecture Delivered before the University of London on February 22, 1915'' (1915), p. 31 *That glorification of national virtues and achievements on which I have been dwelling, might at other times have been a harmless form of pleasure. But it came at a time of keen rivalry, when everything that tended to stimulate racial vanity was caught up and used by those statesmen and other leaders who sought to embark on policies of expansion and aggression even at the cost of rousing national jealousies or embittering national animosities. We all know how vanity may, in individual men, become a powerful spring of action, and intensify energy even while it disturbs the balance of judgment. It is the same with nations. When convinced of their own superiority they may wish to assert it by force, contemning their neighbours, and fancying that they hold a commission from Providence or Fate to improve the rest of the world against its will. As we see to-day that science has made war more hideous and terrible, so we must also confess that learning and literature have done something to prepare nations for war. A sounder learning and a deeper insight might have corrected this danger and taught the peoples that they have at least as much to gain by co-operation as by competition and more to gain from friendship than from hatred. But there is a faculty in man that is sometimes prone to choose the evil and reject the good **''Race Sentiment as a Factor in History: A Lecture Delivered before the University of London on February 22, 1915'' (1915), pp. 32-33 *Let us repress the spirit of [[hatred]]. We are justly indignant at the way in which the enemy Powers have waged [[World War I|war]]. We trust that our victory will warn the world that such methods must never be resorted to again, and that those guilty of them will be punished. But is it wise to talk of banning a whole people for all time to come? The [[Germans|German people]] are under a harsh and tyrannous rule, which has not only deceived and misled them, but silences any protest—and there are those who wish to protest—against its crimes. Some day, we hope, they will overthrow it, when they have learnt the truth. To indulge revenge will be to sow the seeds of future wars. Nations cannot hate one another for ever, and the sooner they cease to do so the better for all of them. We must of course take all proper steps to defend ourselves in future from any dangers that might arise if after the war the enemy countries were to resume an insidious hostility. That is at present no more than a possibility which may never arise. **Speech ("The Church and International Relations") to the Autumnal Assembly of the Congregational Union of England and Wales in Birmingham (3 October 1916), quoted in ''The Times'' (4 October 1916), p. 5 *Let us consult [[reason]] rather than [[passion]]. If severe terms have to be imposed, let that be done only so far as is necessary for securing future peace, not in the vindictive spirit which, in perpetuating hatreds, would end by relighting the flames of war. In settling the terms of peace, let us as far as possible respect the principles of nationality. Contentment and tranquillity are most to be expected where frontiers follow feelings. Can any international machinery be created after the war is over whereby the peoples that desire peace can league themselves to restrain aggression and compel a reference of controversies to arbitration or conciliation? **Speech ("The Church and International Relations") to the Autumnal Assembly of the Congregational Union of England and Wales in Birmingham (3 October 1916), quoted in ''The Times'' (4 October 1916), p. 5 *[N]owhere in the world was there a higher idealism than that which possessed the American people... America in this war represented the conscience and judgment of the world. **Speech to a dinner of the Pilgrim's Club in the Savoy Hotel, quoted in ''The Times'' (13 April 1917), p. 8 *[T]he [[Magna Carta|Charter]] was demanded by those who complained of the irregular and arbitrary [[violence]] of [[w:John, King of England|King John]], and the restrictions it imposed upon the Crown's action became the corner stone of English freedom. Its provisions, never repealed, though varied and to some extent amplified in subsequent instruments similarly extorted from subsequent monarchs, were solemnly reasserted in the famous declaration by [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|Parliament]] in 1628 which we call the [[w:Petition of Right|Petition of Right]], and were finally re-enacted in the [[w:Bill of Rights 1689|Bill of Rights of 1689]]. Thus the Charter of 1215 was the starting-point of the constitutional [[History of the United Kingdom|history of the English race]], the first link in a long chain of constitutional instruments which have moulded men's minds and held together free [[Government|governments]] not only in [[England]] but wherever the [[English people|English race]] has gone and the [[English language|English tongue]] is spoken. **'Preface', Henry Elliot Malden (ed.), ''Magna Carta Commemoration Essays'' (1917), pp. xii-xiii *[P]erhaps may we find the chief contribution of England to [[Politics|political]] progress, in the doctrine of the [[Rule of law|supremacy of law]] over arbitrary power, in the steady assertion of the principle that every exercise of executive authority may be tested in a court of law to ascertain whether or no it infringes the rights of the subject... It was this guarantee of personal civil rights that most excited the admiration of Continental observers in the eighteenth century, and caused the British Constitution to be taken as the pattern which less fortunate countries should try to imitate. If it be said, and truly said, that this fundamental principle could not have been maintained in England without the assertion by the Parliaments of the fifteenth and, again more forcibly and persistently, by those of the seventeenth century, of control over the power of the Crown, it is to be remembered that their efforts might not have succeeded had not the earlier resistance to that power by the men who secured Magna Carta created and fostered in the minds of the upper and middle classes that firm and constant spirit of independence, that vigilant will to withstand the aggressions of the executive, which overthrew [[Charles I of England|Charles the First]] and expelled [[James II of England|James the Second]]. **'Preface', Henry Elliot Malden (ed.), ''Magna Carta Commemoration Essays'' (1917), pp. xvi-xvii ===1920s=== *What do you think of [[John Maynard Keynes|J. M. Keynes]]'s [[w:The Economic Consequences of the Peace|book]]? ... The condemnation of the work of the [[Paris Peace Conference (1919)|Conference]] as a whole is none too severe. I remember few cases in history where negotiators might have done so much good, and have done so much evil. **Letter to C. P. Scott (20 January 1920), quoted in Trevor Wilson (ed.), ''The Political Diaries of C. P. Scott, 1911-1928'' (1970), p. 380 *I venture to hope that...the [[Government of the United Kingdom|Government]] will approach the question with a desire to deal in the most liberal manner they can with Ireland, and to give her, if need be, more than justice requires, in order that we may bring about peace. That would be good policy in the long run. **[https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1921/jun/16/the-government-of-ireland#column_635 Speech] in the House of Lords during the [[w:Irish War of Independence|Irish War of Independence]] (16 June 1921) *When repeated experiments have failed, when every policy that has been proposed as a remedy for the ills of Ireland has been tried in succession and found wanting, is it not time to try some other experiment? I think the only experiment that can be tried is to make the Irish people masters of their own fortunes. Throw responsibility upon them, make them feel that it is to their interest to preserve law and order. Make them feel that the laws they are to obey are laws made by themselves, and that if they adopt a policy it will not be reversed by people sitting at Westminster, who have not that intimate knowledge of Irish conditions and wishes which can be possessed only by those who live in the midst of the people. **[https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1921/dec/15/address-in-reply-to-his-majestys-most#column_112 Speech] in the House of Lords (15 December 1921) ==Quotes about Bryce== *No one in our time has contributed more largely to create and foster this temper between the two great kindred peoples than our distinguished Ambassador, now once more at home among us, Mr. Bryce. **[[H. H. Asquith]] on Bryce's role as Ambassador to the United States (1913), quoted in ''The Times'' (23 January 1922), p. 12 *He was told that the day before Lord Bryce's death, the secretary of the [[w:British Academy|academy]] received from him a type-written copy of a short notice which Lord Bryce had written with regard to the late [[w:Donald Mackay, 11th Lord Reay|Lord Reay]]... The last sentence of that notice...was:—"To his friends who thus saw him (in his later years) he will remain an unforgettable example of dignified [[strength]] and [[nobility]] of [[soul]]." That which was so happily written about Lord Reay was no less applicable to the man who wrote it. **[[Arthur Balfour]], speech in Burlington House (23 February 1922), quoted in ''The Times'' (24 February 1922), p. 14 *Although the work of a visitor, the reputation of ''The American Commonwealth'' has stood very high in the United States. It has been continually quoted as a standard authority by contemporary [[History of the United States|American historians]], and was used as a text-book throughout the country for over thirty years. It is much better known there than in England. When [[w:Edwin Lawrence Godkin|Edward Lawrence Godkin]] of the ''New York Nation'' was asked by an English member of parliament whether he had ever heard of a book called ''The American Commonwealth'' he answered ‘You bet’. **[[w:E. I. Carlyle|E. I. Carlyle]], 'Bryce, James, Viscount Bryce (1838–1922)', in J. R. H. Weaver (ed.), ''The Dictionary of National Biography, 1922–1930'' (1937), p. 131 *As ambassador at [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]], an office which he filled from February 1907 until April 1913, Bryce was particularly successful in gaining the approval of the American people and in becoming an American institution. Whenever he attended the Old Presbyterian church at Washington he was as a matter of course ushered into [[Abraham Lincoln]]'s pew. ‘Old man Bryce is all right’ was the reputed verdict of a miner in [[Nevada]], and this popular sentiment gave him power in that great democracy which does not allow itself to be governed by the opinions of its politicians. **[[w:E. I. Carlyle|E. I. Carlyle]], 'Bryce, James, Viscount Bryce (1838–1922)', in J. R. H. Weaver (ed.), ''The Dictionary of National Biography, 1922–1930'' (1937), p. 133 *It is due to the memory of Lord Bryce to recall the fact that the name of the [[Commonwealth of Australia]] was suggested by his great work on the American Commonwealth. It lay constantly on the table of successive [[w:Federation of Australia#Early constitutional conventions|Federal Conventions]], and was of the utmost service to members in framing the new [[w:Constitution of Australia|Constitution]]. **[[w:John Cockburn (Australian politician)|John Cockburn]], letter to ''The Times'' (27 January 1922), p. 6 *The announcement of the death of Lord Bryce will carry sorrow into every home in America. He was sincerely loved in my country, intensely admired, and completely trusted. I think no Ambassador that has ever come to us achieved quite his measure of success. His penetrating and sympathetic insight into our life...was extraordinary in the last degree. His ''American Commonwealth'' became a text-book immediately upon its appearance, and is still unsurpassed as a treatise upon [[Politics of the United States|American political]] and social conditions. **[[w:Bainbridge Colby|Bainbridge Colby]], statement to ''The Times'' (23 January 1922), quoted in ''The Times'' (24 January 1922), p. 11 * To this day, the [[Turkey|Turkish]] government [[Genocide denial|refuses to acknowledge]] the [[Armenian genocide]]. This is strange, since the historical evidence of what happened is plentiful. Western observers like the US ambassador in [[Constantinople]], [[Henry Morgenthau Sr.|Henry Morgenthau]], wrote detailed reports about what was being done - including the telling statement of [[Mehmed Talat|Mehmed Talaat Pasha]], the Interior Minister, that all the [[Armenians]] had to perish because 'those who were innocent today might be guilty tomorrow'. Western [[missionaries]] too wrote harrowing accounts of what they witnessed. Their testimony formed an important part of the wartime report on 'The Treatment of the Armenians' compiled by Viscount Bryce, who had also investigated the [[German Empire|German]] atrocities in [[Belgium]] in [[1914]]. ** [[Niall Ferguson]], ''The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West'' (2006), p. 177 *During the war three Committees were appointed in the [[France|French]], [[United Kingdom|British]], and [[Italy|Italian]] [[Parliamentary system|Parliaments]], with the idea that by meeting together they should promote unity, explain difficulties, and remove differences... Lord Bryce was the chairman of the British Committee, and was pre-eminent among us. In a series of remarkable speeches, delivered in fluent and scholarly French and Italian, he left upon all who heard him the indelible impression of a great European. His tact was of inestimable service in our social intercourse, and his caution and world-wide experience in our councils. **[[w:Henry Franklin-Bouillon|Henry Franklin-Bouillon]] and [[w:Halford Mackinder|Halford Mackinder]], letter to ''The Times'' (28 January 1922), p. 12 *I regarded Lord Bryce as an old friend and a trusted counsellor to whom I could always turn, confident in the strength and wisdom of his advice, and my loss is one which will be shared not only by our own country and America, where he was so beloved and respected, but among all English-speaking people. **[[George V of the United Kingdom|George V of the United Kingdom]], telegram to Lady Bryce, quoted in ''The Times'' (28 January 1922), p. 12 *Lord Bryce's death will be deeply mourned everywhere in America, everywhere that democratic institutions are established and beloved, everywhere that the aspirations of the peoples lead them toward such institutions. His writings on American democracy enhanced America's introduction to the world and made mankind understand the great experiment this nation was undertaking. More than that, he gave us Americans the best vision of ourselves, because it represented the observations of the sincere friend and kindly critic... [I]n his latest work comparing the world democracies he performed a monumental service at precisely the right moment in behalf of the rightly guided evolution of popular institutions everywhere. **[[Warren G. Harding]], statement to ''The Times'' (23 January 1922), quoted in ''The Times'' (24 January 1922), p. 11 *In a fine letter to me in November last, "in these days," he says, "of darkness and confused groping," he recalls how we were inspired by hopes of "some 55 years ago in the struggle for social and political progress." And this spirit he maintained to the last. Of all his many qualities and gifts, that which impressed me most was his staunchness to principle, to colleagues, to righteousness. **[[w:Frederic Harrison|Frederic Harrison]], letter to ''The Times'' (6 February 1922), p. 6 *The ''American Commonwealth'' appeared in 1888. It met with immediate and enthusiastic acclaim in two hemispheres, and during the half-century that followed, remained the classic work in the field... No other foreigner, indeed no American writer on American democracy, enjoyed so great a prestige, or wielded so great an influence in the United States as did Lord Bryce. Our language and history were also his, and he brought to his task a thorough knowledge of the English background in which, despite the "[[w:Frontier thesis|Frontier Theory]]," so many of the ideals and institutions of America are rooted. **William Ezra Lingelbach, 'American Democracy and European Interpreters', ''The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography'', Vol. 61, No. 1 (January 1937), pp. 14-15 *Bryce's picture of American democracy was much more nearly in accord with America's own ideas about itself. Although "originally written with a view to European rather than American readers," the work was widely read by the general public in the States, and studied by thousands of students in American colleges and universities, where the abridged edition became a standard textbook in classes on civics and comparative government. Hence Bryce interpreted American democracy not only to Europeans but to Americans themselves, contributing much toward shaping and formulating their philosophy and thought about their own government. The ''American Commonwealth'' passed through numerous editions, those of 1899 and 1910 representing thorough revisions in the light of new conditions. Altogether more than 166,000 copies of the work were sold in the United States. **William Ezra Lingelbach, 'American Democracy and European Interpreters', ''The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography'', Vol. 61, No. 1 (January 1937), p. 17 *In his penetrating analysis of the [[Two-party system|party system]] and the manner in which it functioned in state and municipal life, Bryce made a startling contribution to [[Politics of the United States|American politics]]. His exposé of the highly organized party machine with the [[w:Political boss|political Boss]] at the top—ruthless, all powerful and often corrupt—was a revelation even to those who were fairly familiar with our political life. To many thoughtful Americans it was a challenge which did not go unheeded, and it is safe to say that America owes a great deal to Viscount Bryce for the steady improvement in municipal government during the last quarter of a century. **William Ezra Lingelbach, 'American Democracy and European Interpreters', ''The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography'', Vol. 61, No. 1 (January 1937), pp. 17-18 *Thoroughly convinced of the merits of the democratic form of government, Bryce was equally aware of its faults and dangers. These he exposed with a courage and an objectivity that aroused a great deal of enmity against him in this country. As time passed, this too disappeared, and the author of the ''American Commonwealth'' has become recognized as the ablest European interpreter of American institutions. **William Ezra Lingelbach, 'American Democracy and European Interpreters', ''The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography'', Vol. 61, No. 1 (January 1937), p. 19 *The amiable Bryce steadily exerts what influence he has here on behalf of the Pacifist crowd, who are really the tepid enemies of the [[w:Allies of World War I|Allies]]. **[[Theodore Roosevelt]] to [[w:Arthur Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham|Arthur Lee]] (10 November 1916), quoted in David Lloyd George, ''War Memoirs, Volume I'' (1938), p. 415 *The loss suffered by England by his death, great though it was, was as nothing to the irreparable loss suffered by the Greeks and Armenians still living under the terrible yoke of Turkish oppression. His name had become known throughout the Near East as that of the greatest champion of the oppressed, and he was loved by them on account of the successful appeals he made on their behalf to the conscience of mankind. **John Stavridi, Greek Consul-General, speech to the service held in Bryce's memory in the [[w:Saint Sophia Cathedral, London|Greek Church]], Moscow Road, Bayswater (5 February 1922), quoted in ''The Times'' (6 February 1922), p. 7 *I had a long and delightful friendship with Viscount Bryce. He was one of the most remarkable of men, the most accurate in his analysis, and actually encyclopaedic in his knowledge. His histories were admirable and his ''American Commonwealth'' is a monument to his ability, in the acquisition of facts and the organisation of them as a basis for the history of the country he had no equal. He was fond of the United States and stood as high in the estimation of Americans as he can have in that of his own fellow-countrymen. We had a real affection for him and a generous appreciation of how greatly he contributed to the maintenance of cordial relations between the two countries. **[[William Howard Taft]], statement to ''The Times'' (23 January 1922), quoted in ''The Times'' (24 January 1922), p. 11 *In February, 1907...he was appointed...Ambassador to the United States. ... It must be said that before that time his influence on American sentiment towards Great Britain had not been fortunate. ... His opinions on English politics were, for that time, of an extremely advanced, almost Republican type; and while this attitude of mind naturally commended him all the more to the sympathy of patriotic Americans, his language and views undoubtedly encouraged hostility to British monarchical and aristocratic institutions. Whatever harm he may have done, however, was nobly set off by his services as Ambassador. **''The Times'' (23 February 1922), p. 12 *Few men have had so long and so honourable a record of intellectual productivity. Nor have many men, certainly few of his generation, had more friends or been held in such high esteem by large circles in almost every country in the world. 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The series is a satirical depiction of American life, epitomized by the Simpson family. ===''[[w:Bart's Not Dead|Bart's Not Dead]]''=== :'''Dolph''': Hey, Martin Princess. If you like that cello so much, why don't you marry it? :'''Chalmers''': No heckling! :'''Skinner''': Way to crush him, sir. :'''Kearney''': Hey, Skinner! If you like Chalmers so much, why don't you marry him? :'''Skinner''': Well, as the superintendent, he's married to all the principals. :'''Chalmers''': Thank you. You've made the anniversary of my wife's death even more depressing. <hr width=50%> :'''Milhouse''': She loves me, she loves me not. Oh, why do I always use flowers with two pedals? <hr width=50%> :'''Ralph''': I'm turning my back on you. ''[does a 360]'' Hi, Bart! ===''[[w:Heartbreak Hotel (The Simpsons)|Heartbreak Hotel]]''=== ===''[[w:My Way or the Highway to Heaven|My Way or the Highway to Heaven]]''=== :'''Genevieve Bouvier''': 'My husband is a collaborator!' :'''US Paratrooper''': 'Well I've got a screenplay I've been looking for someone to help me write.' :'''Genevieve Bouvier''': 'Not zat kind.' :'''US Paratrooper''': 'If I just get something on the page, that's progress.' ===''[[w:Treehouse of Horror XXIX|Treehouse of Horror XXIX]]''=== :'''Sea Captain''': Fools! This whole contest was a ruse! ''[Homer then yelps after being grabbed by two Fogburyport citizens]'' You are here to be sacrifice to an evil god from the ocean depths. :'''Lisa''': SpongeBob? :'''Sea Captain''': No! To the eternal lord of horror, Cthulhu! <hr width=50%> :'''Sea Captain''': An eating contest against the monstrous Cthulhu? To him, the Great Barrier Reef is just an average barrier reef. :'''Lisa''': Well, my dad didn't eat breakfast. :'''Cthulhu''': Uh-oh. ===''[[w:Baby You Can't Drive My Car|Baby You Can't Drive My Car]]''=== ===''[[w:From Russia Without Love|From Russia Without Love]]''=== :'''Bart''': Ho-ho. One Sumatran Breeding Rat, already in labor. :'''Homer''': ''[opens Bart's bedroom door, sternly]'' You paid for mail-order rats when your grandfather's nursing home is full of them? ''[the scene changes to the kitchen]'' All right, boy. I'm gonna find out just what you've been up to. ''[switches the light off, turns the torch on, Marge enters the kitchen and switches the light on]'' :'''Bart''': ''[gulps]'' Oh, Mom, thank god. :'''Marge''': ''[switches the light off, turns the torch on, hand it to Homer]'' This one's brighter. ''[to Bart]'' Now talk. What are you up to? All right, we'll make you talk. Give me your phone. <hr width=50%> :'''Moe''': I'm putting on pants for this! ===''[[w:Werking Mom|Werking Mom]]''=== ===''[[w:Krusty the Clown (The Simpsons episode)|Krusty the Clown]]''=== :'''Principal Skinner''': I come bearing the thing you journalists hate most. News. ===''[[w:Daddicus Finch|Daddicus Finch]]''=== :'''Kent Brockman''': This is Kent Brockman. I'm here with three local blue-collar men who voted for Trump. How do you feel now? :'''Blue-Collar Man''': Please stop interviewing us. :'''Kent Brockman''': Never! ===''[[w:'Tis the 30th Season|'Tis the 30th Season]]''=== ===''[[w:Mad About the Toy|Mad About the Toy]]''=== ===''[[w:The Girl on the Bus|The Girl on the Bus]]''=== :'''Ralph''': You were sleeping like teacher. :'''Lisa''': Oh, Ralph. I'm deceiving all the people I love, and it's so exciting. :'''Ralph''': Lies are like stars... they always come out. :'''Lisa''': Oh, my God, that's really profound. :'''Ralph''': I have five face holes! <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': ''[yells at Bart]'' You do not say suck at the dinner table! :'''Bart''': But veggie loaf does suck. It sucks a whole truck full of butts. :'''Homer''': You leave trucks out of this. ===''[[w:I'm Dancing as Fat as I Can|I'm Dancing as Fat as I Can]]''=== :'''Ned''': Diddly? They can't say that on TV. ===''[[w:The Clown Stays in the Picture|The Clown Stays in the Picture]]''=== ===''[[w:101 Mitigations|101 Mitigations]]''=== ===''[[w:I Want You (She's So Heavy) (The Simpsons)|I Want You (She's So Heavy)]]''=== :'''Ralph''': ''[inside the lobster tank]'' I'm expensive! ===''[[w:E My Sports|E My Sports]]''=== ===''[[w:Bart vs. Itchy & Scratchy|Bart vs. Itchy & Scratchy]]''=== ===''[[w:Girl's in the Band|Girl's in the Band]]''=== ===''[[w:I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say D'oh|I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say D'oh]]''=== ===''[[w:D'oh Canada|D'oh Canada]]''=== :'''Lisa''': While the children are bouncing around why we don't do a little bouncing too. :'''Bart''': That it's even more romantic than what you said at quarter backs. ===''[[w:Crystal Blue-Haired Persuasion|Crystal Blue-Haired Persuasion]]''=== ==External links== {{wikipedia|The Simpsons season 30}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Simpsons, Season 30}} [[Category:The Simpsons seasons]] q7wlem23o2umg509i9z1g4b35bbs4lk 0 215110 3961064 3959220 2026-07-05T12:52:58Z Mwangiwainaina 3347664 /* Thanos */ Added content. 3961064 wikitext text/x-wiki {{italic title}} [[File:A definition of parties; or The political effects of the paper system considered Fleuron W030741-2.png|thumb|Everybody wants a happy ending. Right? But it doesn't always roll that way.]] [[File:Judith by Maerten van Heemskerck.png|thumb|I went for the head.]] [[File:Amerrrica (14559335603).jpg|thumb|As far as I'm concerned, that's America's ass.]] [[File:The Time Machine by Norman Saunders.jpg|thumb|Think about it. If you travel to the past, that past becomes your future. And your former ''present'' becomes the ''past'', which can't now be changed by your new future!]] '''''[[w:Avengers: Endgame|Avengers: Endgame]]''''' is a 2019 American [[w:Superhero film|superhero film]] based on the [[w:Marvel Comics|Marvel Comics]] superhero team the [[w:Avengers (comics)|Avengers]], produced by [[w:Marvel Studios|Marvel Studios]] and distributed by [[w:Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures|Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures]]. It is a sequel to ''[[Avengers: Infinity War|Infinity War]]'', and the 22nd film in the [[w:Marvel Cinematic Universe|Marvel Cinematic Universe]] (MCU). In the film, the surviving members of the Avengers and their allies work to reverse the damage caused by [[Thanos]] in ''Infinity War''. :''Directed by [[w:Russo brothers|Anthony and Joe Russo]]. Written by [[w:Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely|Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely]].'' {{center|'''Avenge the Fallen''' ([[#Taglines|taglines]])}} == Tony Stark/Iron Man == '''Tony Stark:''' Is this thing on? Hey, Ms. Potts. Pep. If you find this recording, don't post it on social media. It's gonna be a real tearjerker. I don't know if you're ever gonna see these. I don't even know if you're still... Oh, God, I hope so. Today's day 21? No, uh, 22. You know, if it wasn't for the existential terror of steering into the literal void of space, I'd say I'm feeling a little better today. The infection's run its course thanks to the blue meanie back there. Oh, you would love her. Very practical. Only a tiny bit sadistic. So, the fuel cells were cracked during battle and we figured out a way to reverse the ion charge, bought ourselves about 48 hours of flight time. Uh, but it's now dead in the water. 1,000 light years from the nearest 7-11. Oxygen will run out tomorrow morning... and that will be it. I know I said no more surprises, but I gotta say, I was really hoping to pull off one last one. But it looks like... well, you know what it looks like. Don't feel bad about this. I'm mean, actually, if you grieve for a couple weeks... and then move on with enormous guilt. ''[pauses]'' I should probably lie down for a minute, rest my eyes. Please know, when I drift off and be like everything lately, I'm fine. I'm totally fine. I dream about you. Because it's always you. '''Tony Stark:''' ''[prerecorded post-mortem message]'' Everybody wants a happy ending. Right? But it doesn't always roll that way. Maybe this time. I'm hoping if you play this back, it's in celebration. I hope families are reunited, I hope we get it back and something like a normal version of the planet has been restored, if there ever was such a thing. God, what a world. Universe, now. If you told me ten years ago that we weren't alone, let alone, you know, to this extent, I mean, I wouldn't have been surprised, but come on. The epic forces of dark and light that have come in to play. And for better or worse, that's the reality Morgan's gonna have to find a way to grow up in. So I thought I better record a little greeting, in the case of an untimely death, on my part. I mean, not that death at any time isn't untimely. This time travel thing we're gonna try and pull off tomorrow, it's got me scratching my head about the survivability of it all. Then again that's the hero gig. Part of the journey is the end. What am I even tripping for? Everything's gonna workout exactly the way it's supposed to. ''[To Morgan]'' I love you 3000. == Thanos == '''Thanos:''' In all my years of [[conquest]], [[violence]], [[Genocide|slaughter]], it was never personal. But I'll tell you now, what I'm about to do to your [[Earth|stubborn, annoying little planet]]... I'm gonna enjoy it. [[Revenge|Very, very much]].You cannot live with your own failure...where did that bring you?..[to the avengers]..back to me. [[Cont..]] I thought by eliminating half of life..the other half would thrive. But you've shown me.. that's impossible. == Steve Rogers/Captain America == '''Steve Rogers''': [[Avengers: Infinity War|Five years ago, we lost]]. All of us. We lost friends... We lost family... We lost a part of ourselves. Today we have a chance to take it all back. You know your teams, you know your missions. Get the Stones, get them back. One round trip each. No mistakes. No do-overs. Most of us are going somewhere we know; that doesn't mean we should know what to expect. Be careful. Look out for each other. This is the fight of our lives. And we're gonna win. Whatever it takes. Good luck. == Dialogue == :''[The team attacks Thanos at his home. As Steve and Natasha enter, Rocket turns the Infinity Gauntlet over to find the Infinity Stones missing]'' :'''Rocket''': Oh, no... :'''Captain America''': ''[to Thanos]'' Where are they? :'''Captain Marvel''': ''[Tightens her vise grip on Thanos' throat]'' ''Answer the question''. :'''[[Thanos]]''': The universe required correction. After that, the stones served no purpose beyond temptation. :'''Bruce''': [[Avengers: Infinity War|You murdered TRILLIONS!]] ''[shoves Thanos to the ground]'' :'''Thanos''': You should be grateful. ''[gets punched by Bruce]'' :'''Black Widow''': Where are the stones? :'''Thanos''': Gone. Reduced to atoms. :'''Bruce''': You used '''''them''''' two days ago! :'''Thanos''': [[Avengers: Infinity War|I used the stones to destroy the stones. It nearly killed me, but the work is done. It always will be. I am... inevitable]]. :'''War Machine''': We have to tear this place apart. He has to be lying! :'''Nebula''': My father is many things. A liar is not one of them. :'''Thanos''': Ahhh. Thank you, daughter. Perhaps I treated you too harshly– ''[Gets decapitated by Thor]'' :'''Rocket''': What? What did you do? :'''Thor''': [[Avengers: Infinity War|I went for the head.]] <hr width="50%"/> :''[Inside the Avengers Compound, the heroes are conducting a time travel experiment]'' :'''Banner''': Okay, here we go. Time travel test number one. Scott, fire up the uhhhh…the van thing. ''[Scott opens the portal]'' :'''Steve''': Breakers are set, emergency generators are on standby. :'''Banner''': Good. 'Cause if we blow the grid, I don't wanna lose tiny here in [[w:Back to the Future|the 1950's]]. :'''Scott''': Excuse me? :'''Natasha''': He's kidding. You can't say things like that. :'''Banner''': It was a bad joke. :'''Natasha''': You were kidding, right? :'''Banner''': ''[whispering to Romanoff]'' I have no idea. We're talking about time travel here. Either it's all a joke, or none of it is. ''[loudly and gives Scott a thumbs up]'' We're good! Get your helmet on, Scott. I'm gonna send you back a week, let you walk around for an hour, then bring you back in 10 seconds. Makes sense? :'''Scott''': Perfectly not confusing. :'''Steve''': Good luck, Scott. You got this. :'''Scott''': You're right. I do, Captain America! :'''Banner''': On the count of 3. 3…2…1! :''[Bruce presses a button, and Scott disappears into the Quantum Tunnel. In 5 seconds, Bruce presses a button, and someone in the Ant-Man suit comes back. A teenager appears out of it]'' :'''Young Scott''': Uh, guys? T-This doesn't feel right. :'''Steve''': What is this? :'''Banner''': What's going on? :'''Natasha''': Who is that? :''[Banner pushes another couple of buttons, trying to fix the problem]'' :'''Banner''': Hold on. :'''Natasha''': Is that Scott? :'''Young Scott''': ''[irritated]'' Yes, it's Scott! :''[Scott gets sucked in back into the quantum tunnel, and it appears to be an old man in the Ant-Man suit]'' :'''Elderly Scott''': OWW! My back…! :'''Steve''': What is this? :'''Banner''': Can I get a little space here. :'''Steve''': Yeah, yeah. Can you bring him back? :'''Banner''': I'm working on it! ''[taps the side of the button pad, trying to pull back Scott]'' :''[After a moment, another person appears in front of them. This time, it's a baby in the Ant-Man suit]'' :'''Steve''': It's a baby. :'''Banner''': It's Scott! :'''Rogers''': As a ''baby!'' :'''Banner''': [[w:Ant-Man (film)|He'll grow]]! :'''Rogers''': ''[exasperated]'' Bring Scott back! :'''Banner''': When I say kill the power, kill the power. :'''Natasha''': ''[annoyed, she goes to kill the power]'' Oh, my God. :'''Banner''': ''[configuring the time machine]'' And…kill it! :''[Natasha kills the power as Banner sends baby Scott back into the Quantum Realm and retrieves Scott's present self, who is shaken from the Avengers' experiment]'' :'''Scott''': Somebody peed my pants… :'''Romanoff''': Oh, thank God. :'''Scott''': But I don't know if it was baby-me or old-me. Or…just me-me. :'''Banner''': ''Time travel! [Steve just shakes his head and walks away]'' What? I see this as an absolute win. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Nebula is fitting a time travel suit onto Clint Barton]'' :'''Banner''': Clint, now you're gonna feel a little discombobulated from the chronoshift, don't worry about that-- :'''James Rhodes''': Wait, wait, wait a second. Let me ask you something. If we can do this, you know…go back in time, why don't we just find baby Thanos, you know, and… ''[makes a gesture of strangling a baby with a rope, complete with "choking sound"]'' :'''Banner''': ''[disgusted]'' First of all, that's ''horrible''... :'''Rhodes''': It's ''Thanos''. :'''Banner''': ...and secondly, time doesn't work that way. Changing the past doesn't change the future! :'''Scott''': Look, we go back, we get the stones before Thanos gets them? Thanos doesn't have the stones. Problem solved! :'''Clint Barton''': Bingo. :'''Nebula''': That's not how it works. :'''Barton''': Well, that's what I heard. :'''Banner''': What, by who? Who told you that? :'''Rhodes''': ''[counting with his fingers]'' ''[[Star Trek]]'', ''[[The Terminator|Terminator]]'', ''[[w:Timecop|Timecop]]'', ''[[w:Time After Time (1979 film)|Time After Time]]''… :'''Scott''': …''[[Quantum Leap]]''… :'''Rhodes''': ''[[A Wrinkle in Time (2018 film)|Wrinkle in Time]]'', ''[[Somewhere in Time]]''… :'''Scott''': ''[[Hot Tub Time Machine]]''… :'''Rhodes''': ''Hot Tub Time Machine'', ''[[Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure]]'' - basically, any movie that deals with time travel. :'''Scott''': ''[[Die Hard]]''? No, that's not one. :'''Rhodes''': This is ''known.'' :'''Banner''': I don't know why everyone believes that, but that isn't true. Think about it. If you travel to the past, that past becomes your future. And your former ''present'' becomes the ''past'', which can't now be changed by your new future! :'''Nebula''': Exactly. :'''Scott''': ''[confused]'' So ''[[Back to the Future]]'' is a bunch of ''bullshit?'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Steve''': Okay, so the "how" works. Now we gotta figure out the "when" and the "where." Almost all of us has had an encounter with at least one of the six Infinity Stones. :'''Stark''': Well, I'd substitute the word "encounter" for "damn well near been killed by" one of the six Infinity Stones. :'''Scott''': I haven't, I don't even know what the hell you're all talking about. :'''Banner''': Regardless, we only have enough Pym Particles for one round trip each, and these Stones have been in a lot of different places throughout history. :'''Stark''': Our history. So, not a lot of convenient spots to just drop in. :'''Clint''': Which means we have to pick our targets. :'''Stark''': Correct. :'''Steve''': Let's start with the Aether. Thor, what do you know? :'''Natasha''': ''[Thor is sitting on a chair with his sunglasses on]'' Is he asleep? :'''Rhodey''': No. I'm pretty sure he's dead. :'''Thor''': ''[wakes up]'' Where to start? Umm…the Aether, first, is not a stone, someone called it a stone before. It's more of a…an angry sludge thing, so…someone's gonna need to amend that. Here's an interesting story though, many years ago…my [[w:Bor (comics)|grandfather]] had to hide the stones from the [[w:Elves (Marvel Comics)|Dark Elves]], wooooh, scary beings. So [[w:Jane Foster (comics)|Jane]]… ''[an image of Jane Foster pops up on the screen]'' Oh, there she is. That's Jane. She's– an old flame of mine. She– she stuck her hand inside a rock [[Thor: The Dark World|this one time]]– and then the Aether stuck itself inside her. And she became very, very sick. So I had to take her to Asgard, which is where I'm from. And we had to try and fix her. We were dating at the time, you see. I got to introduce her to my [[w:Frigga (comics)|mother]]…who's dead… ''[seeming on the verge of tears]'' …and, oh, you know, Jane and I aren't even dating anymore, these things happen though you know, nothing last forever… ''[Tony starts to push Thor back to his chair]'' I'm not done yet, the only thing permanent in life is impermanence. :'''Stark''': Awesome. Eggs? Breakfast? :'''Thor''': No. I'd like a Bloody Mary. :'''Rocket''': [[w:Star-Lord|Quill]] said he [[Guardians of the Galaxy (film)|stole the Power Stone from Morag]]. :'''Scott''': Is that a person? :'''Rocket''': Morag's a planet, Quill was a person. :'''Scott''': A planet? Like in outer space? :'''Rocket''': ''[Mockingly]'' Oh, look: it's like a little puppy, all happy and everything. ''[starts petting Scott]'' Do you want to go to space? You want to go to space, puppy? I'll take you to space! :'''Nebula''': Thanos [[Avengers: Infinity War|found the Soul Stone on Vormir]]. :'''Natasha''': ''[in a business-like tone]'' What is Vormir? :'''Nebula''': A dominion of death, at the very center of Celestial existence. It's where... Thanos [[Avengers: Infinity War|murdered]] my [[w:Gamora|sister]]. :'''Scott''': Not it. :'''Natasha''': ''[lying on a paper-filled table]'' That Time Stone guy… :'''Banner''': ''[lying down on the floor]'' [[Doctor Strange]]. :'''Natasha''': Yeah, what kind of doctor was he? :'''Stark''': Neuro stuff meets rabbit from a hat. Nice place in the [[w:Greenwich Village|Village]], though. :'''Banner''': Yeah. Sullivan Street. ''[Corrects himself]'' Hmm– Bleecker. :'''Natasha''': Wait, he lived in New York? :'''Stark''': ''[Sarcastically]'' No, [[Doctor Strange (film)|he lived in Toronto]]. :'''Natasha''': Guys, if you pick [[The Avengers (2012 film)|the right year]], there are three Stones in New York. :'''Banner''': ''[Sits up in surprise] '''Shut the front door!''''' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Tony Stark''': ''[about the 2012 version of Steve Rogers, to contemporary Rogers] ''Mr. Rogers, I almost forgot, that suit did nothing for your ass. :'''Steve Rogers''': No one asked you to look, Tony. :'''Tony Stark''': It's ridiculous. :'''Scott Lang''': I think you look great, Cap. As far as I'm concerned, that's America's ass. <hr width="50%"/> :'''The Ancient One''': I'd be careful going that way. We just had the floors waxed. :'''Bruce Banner''': I'm looking for Doctor Strange. :'''The Ancient One''': You're about...five years too early. Stephen Strange is currently performing surgery about twenty blocks that way. What do you want from him? :'''Bruce Banner''': ''That,'' actually. ''(He points towards the Eye of Agamotto)'' :'''The Ancient One''': Ah! I'm afraid not. :'''Bruce Banner''': Sorry, but I wasn't asking. :'''The Ancient One''': You don't want to do this. :'''Bruce Banner''' ''(missing her warning)'': Ah, you're right, I don't. But I need that stone, and I don't have time to beat it - :''(The Ancient One pushes Bruce's astral form out of his body. Bruce looks at The Ancient One, horrified.)'' :'''The Ancient One''': Let's start over, shall we? <hr width="50%"/> :''[Bruce Banner is trying to reason with the Ancient One to let him have the Time Stone]'' :'''The Ancient One''': I'm sorry, I can't help you, Bruce. If I give up the Time Stone to help your Reality, I'm dooming my own. :'''Bruce Banner''': With all due respect, I'm not sure the science really supports that. :'''The Ancient One''': ''[conjures a long ray, denoting the flow of time with the Infinity Stones circling around it]'' The Infinity Stones create what you experience as the flow of time. Remove one stone and that flow splits. ''[pulls out one of the Stones, which causes a black stream indicating a point of divergence to appear]'' Now, this ''may'' benefit your reality, but my new one… not so much. In this new branched Reality, without our chief weapon against the forces of darkness, our world will be overrun. Millions will suffer. So tell me Doctor, can your science prevent all that? :'''Banner''': No, but we can erase it. Because once we are done with the stones, we can return each one to its own timeline at the moment it was taken. So, chronologically, in that reality, they never left. :'''The Ancient One''': But you are leaving out the most important part. In order to return the stones, you have to survive. :'''Banner''': We will. I will. I promise. :'''The Ancient One''': I can't risk this Reality on a promise. It is the duty of the Sorcerer Supreme to protect the Time Stone. :'''Banner''': Then, why the hell did Strange give it away? :'''The Ancient One''': ''[Surprised]'' What did you say? :'''Banner''': Strange, [[Avengers: Infinity War|he gave it away. He gave it to Thanos]]. :'''The Ancient One''': Willingly? :'''Banner''': Yes. :'''The Ancient One''': Why? :'''Banner''': I have no idea. Maybe he made a mistake. :'''The Ancient One''': Or I did. ''[Reunites Banner's spirit with his body]'' Strange is meant to be the best of us. :'''Banner''': So he must have done it for a reason. :'''The Ancient One''': I fear you might be right. ''[Gives Bruce the Time Stone]'' :'''Banner''': Thank you. :'''The Ancient One''': I'm counting on you, Bruce. We all are. <hr width="50%"/> :''[After the Snap is undone, Iron Man, Captain America, and Thor approach Thanos from 2014 after his attack on the New Avengers Facility, who is fully aware of his plan's success and his fate and the Avengers' attempts to undo his plan, and has arrived at Earth]'' :'''Iron Man''': What's he been doing? :'''Thor''': Absolutely nothing. :'''Captain America''': Where are the stones? :'''Iron Man''': Somewhere under all this. All I know is he doesn't have them. :'''Captain America''': So we keep it that way. :'''Thor''': You know it's a trap, right? :'''Iron Man''': Yeah. And I don't much care. :'''Thor''': Good. Just as long as we are all in agreement... ''[Summons Mjølnir and Stormbreaker]'' Let's kill him ''properly'' this time. :''[The three walk over to confront Thanos face-to-face]'' :'''Thanos''': You could not live with your own failure. Where did that bring you? Back to me. I thought by eliminating half of life, the other half would thrive. But you've shown me that's impossible. And as long as there are those that remember what was, there will always be those that are unable to accept what can be. They will resist. :'''Iron Man''': Yep, we're all kinds of stubborn. :'''Thanos''': I'm thankful. Because now, I know what I must do. I will shred this universe down to its last atom - and then, with the stones you've collected for me, create a new one. Teeming with life, that knows not what it has lost, but only what it has been given. ''[Thor starts up Stormbreaker and Mjolnir]'' A grateful universe. :'''Captain America''': Born out of blood. :'''Thanos''': They'll never know it. Because you won't be alive to tell them. ''[The three fight Thanos]'' <hr width="50%"/> :''[Doctor Strange has magically transported all the previously disintegrated Avengers and their allies, hundreds in all, to the battlefield to face Thanos' hordes]'' :'''Doctor Strange''': Is that everyone? :'''Wong''': What, you wanted ''more''? :''[Giant-Man emerges with Professor Hulk, War Machine, and Rocket. The Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy, Wakandans, Asgardians, Masters of the Mystic Arts, and Ravagers take up battle positions]'' :'''Captain America''': '''''Avengers...''''' ''[he summons Mjolnir]'' '''''...assemble.''''' <hr width="50%"/> :''[Captain Marvel lands in front of Spider-Man, after destroying the Sanctuary II]'' :'''Spider-Man''': ''[nervously holding the Nano Gauntlet]'' Hi, I'm... Peter Parker. :'''Captain Marvel''': Hey, Peter Parker. You got something for me? <hr width="50%"/> :''[In the final fight for the Nano Gauntlet with the Infinity Stones, Captain Marvel blasts at Thanos, who pulls the Power Stone out of the Gauntlet and uses it in his free hand to hit Captain Marvel away. Iron Man looks at Dr. Strange, who simply raises one finger, reminding him that the one win over Thanos he foresaw is now at risk. As Iron Man nods, Thanos puts the Power Stone back into the Gauntlet, channeling the powers of the Stones. Iron Man attacks Thanos, pulling on the Gauntlet before Thanos punches him away]'' :'''Thanos''': ''[as he straightens the Gauntlet on his hand; grinning maniacally]'' I am… inevitable. ''[snaps his fingers, but nothing happens except a metallic clink. Looking confused, he turns the Gauntlet around to find the Stones gone, then sees Iron Man with the Stones on the back hand on his suit, looking wide-eyed]'' :'''Iron Man''': And [[Iron Man (2008 film)|I... am... '''''Iron Man.''''']] ''[snaps his fingers]'' :''[Elsewhere, Rocket fires at a Leviathan, then takes cover as it crumbles into ash, just as it devours him. The Black Order and Thanos's army start crumbling to ash. Black Panther and Star-Lord look around in surprise. Cap looks on in exhaustion, knowing that they won. In horror, Thanos looks around as he watches his entire army disintegrate. He looks at Cap, who just stares at him. Thanos sits down, and mourns the loss of his army, then his body turns to ash as the remains drift away in the breeze]'' <hr width="50%"/> :''[Last lines: Steve fails to come back immediately after returning Mjolnir and the Infinity Stones in their original places in time. In 2023, Bucky Barnes and Sam Wilson see an elderly Steve sitting on the bench near them.]'' :'''Sam Wilson''': Cap? :'''Steve''': Hi, Sam. :'''Sam''': So did something go wrong, or did something go right? :'''Steve''': Well, after I put the stones back, I thought, maybe I'll try some of that life Tony was telling me to get. :'''Sam''': How did that work out for you? :'''Steve''': It was beautiful. :'''Sam''': I'm happy for you. Truly. :'''Steve''': Thank you. :'''Sam''': Only thing bumming me out is the fact I have to live in a world without Captain America. :'''Steve''': Oh. That reminds me… ''[Brings out his shield.]'' Try it on. ''[Sam look over to Bucky, who nods, and Sam holds Steve's shield.]'' How does it feel? :'''Sam''': Like it's someone else's. :'''Steve''': It isn't. :'''Sam''': Thank you. I'll do my best. :'''Steve''': That's why it's yours. ''[Shakes Sam's hand]'' :'''Sam''': ''[Seeing elderly Steve's wedding ring]'' You wanna tell me about [[w:Peggy Carter|her]]? :'''Steve''': [[Captain America: The First Avenger|No. No, I don't think I will]]. :''[In 1948, Steve has time traveled back to be with Peggy Carter. They are dancing to "[[w:It's Been a Long, Long Time|It's Been a Long, Long Time]]", and end with a kiss.]'' == Cast == {{col-begin}} {{col-3}} * '''[[Robert Downey Jr.|Robert Downey, Jr.]]''' – [[w:Tony Stark (Marvel Cinematic Universe)|Tony]] * '''[[Chris Evans (actor)|Chris Evans]]''' – [[w:Steve Rogers (Marvel Cinematic Universe)|Steve]] * '''[[Mark Ruffalo]]''' – [[w:Bruce Banner (Marvel Cinematic Universe)|Bruce]] * '''[[Chris Hemsworth|Christopher Hemsworth]]''' – [[w:Thor (Marvel Cinematic Universe)|Thor]] * '''[[Scarlett Johansson]]''' – [[w:Natasha Romanoff (Marvel Cinematic Universe)|Natasha]] * '''[[Jeremy Renner]]''' – [[w:Hawkeye (comics)|Clint]] * '''[[Don Cheadle]]''' – [[w:War Machine|Rhodey]] * '''[[Paul Rudd]]''' – [[w:Scott Lang (Marvel Cinematic Universe)|Scott]] * '''[[Benedict Cumberbatch]]''' – [[w:Doctor Strange|Dr. Strange]] * '''[[Chadwick Boseman]]''' – [[w:Black Panther (comics)|T'Challa]] * '''[[Brie Larson]]''' – [[w:Carol Danvers|Carol]] * '''[[Tom Holland (actor)|Tom Holland]]''' – [[w:Peter Parker (Marvel Cinematic Universe)|Peter]] * '''[[Karen Gillan]]''' – [[w:Nebula (comics)|Nebula]] * '''[[Zoe Saldana|Zöe Saldaña]]''' – [[w:Gamora|Gamora]] * '''[[w:Evangeline Lilly|Evangeline Lilly]]''' – [[w:Hope Pym|Hope]] * '''[[w:Tessa Thompson|Tessa Thompson]]''' – [[w:Valkyrie (Marvel Comics)|Valkyrie]] * '''[[Rene Russo]]''' – [[w:Frigga (comics)|Frigga]] * '''[[Elizabeth Olsen]]''' – [[w:Scarlet Witch|Wanda]] * '''[[w:Anthony Mackie|Anthony Mackie]]''' – [[w:Falcon (comics)|Sam]] * '''[[w:Sebastian Stan|Sebastian Stan]]''' – [[w:Bucky Barnes|Bucky]] * '''[[Tom Hiddleston]]''' – [[w:Loki (Marvel Cinematic Universe)|Loki]] * '''[[Danai Gurira]]''' – [[w:Okoye (comics)|Okoye]] * '''[[w:Benedict Wong|Benedict Wong]]''' – [[w:Wong (comics)|Wong]] * '''[[w:Pom Klementieff|Pom Klementieff]]''' – [[w:Mantis (Marvel Comics)|Mantis]] * '''[[Dave Bautista]]''' – [[w:Drax the Destroyer|Drax]] * '''[[Letitia Wright]]''' – [[w:Shuri (comics)|Shuri]] * '''[[w:John Slattery|John Slattery]]''' – [[w:Howard Stark|Howard]] {{col-3}} * '''[[Tilda Swinton]]''' – [[w:Ancient One|The Ancient One]] * '''[[w:Jon Favreau|Jon Favreau]]''' – [[w:Happy Hogan (comics)|Happy]] * '''[[Hayley Atwell]]''' – [[w:Peggy Carter|Peggy]] * '''[[Natalie Portman]]''' – [[w:Jane Foster (comics)|Jane]] * '''[[w:Marisa Tomei|Marisa Tomei]]''' – [[w:Aunt May|Aunt May]] * '''[[w:Taika Waititi|Taika Waititi]]''' – [[w:Korg (comics)|Korg]] <small>(voice)</small> * '''[[Angela Bassett]]''' – [[w:Ramonda (comics)|Ramonda]] * '''[[Michael Douglas]]''' – [[w:Hank Pym|Hank]] * '''[[Michelle Pfeiffer]]''' – [[w:Wasp (comics)|Janet]] * '''[[w:William Hurt|William Hurt]]''' – [[w:Thunderbolt Ross|Secretary Ross]] * '''[[w:Cobie Smulders|Cobie Smulders]]''' – [[w:Maria Hill|Agent Hill]] * '''[[w:Sean Gunn|Sean Gunn]]''' – [[w:Rocket Raccoon|Rocket]] <small>(on-set)</small>, Kraglin * '''[[w:Winston Duke|Winston Duke]]''' – [[w:Man-Ape|M'Baku]] * '''[[w:Linda Cardellini|Linda Cardellini]]''' – Laura Barton * '''[[w:Maximiliano Hernández|Maximiliano Hernández]]''' – [[w:Jasper Sitwell|Jasper]] * '''[[w:Frank Grillo|Frank Grillo]]''' – [[w:Crossbones (comics)|Rumlow]] * '''[[w:Hiroyuki Sanada|Hiroyuki Sanada]]''' – Akihiko * '''[[w:Tom Vaughan-Lawlor|Tom Vaughan-Lawlor]]''' – [[w:Ebony Maw|Ebony Maw]] * '''[[w:James D'Arcy|James D'Arcy]]''' – [[w:Edwin Jarvis|Jarvis]] * '''[[w:Jacob Batalon|Jacob Batalon]]''' – Ned * '''[[w:Vin Diesel|Vin Diesel]]''' – [[w:Groot|Teenage Groot]] <small>(voice)</small> * '''[[w:Bradley Cooper|Bradley Cooper]]''' – [[w:Rocket Raccoon|Rocket]] <small>(voice)</small> * '''[[Gwyneth Paltrow]]''' – [[w:Pepper Potts|Pepper]] * '''[[Robert Redford]]''' – [[w:Alexander Goodwin Pierce|Secretary Pierce]] * '''[[w:Josh Brolin|Josh Brolin]]''' – [[w:Thanos|Thanos]] * '''[[w:Chris Pratt|Chris Pratt]]''' – [[w:Star-Lord|Quill]] * '''[[w:Samuel L. 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This hope has now been fulfilled. ~ J. Marshall]] [[File:Other side of Moenjodaro by Usman Ghani.jpg|thumb|The Indus civilization has challenged scholars’ understanding since its discovery some eighty years ago, and in recent years the application of systematic and problem-orientated research, coupled with much new and unexpected data, has overturned many previous interpretations. ~ Jane McIntosh]] The '''[[w:Indus Valley Civilisation|Indus Valley Civilisation]]''' ('''IVC''') was a [[w:Bronze Age|Bronze Age]] [[w:civilisation|civilisation]] in the northwestern regions of [[South Asia]], lasting from 3300&nbsp;[[w:Common Era|BCE]] to 1300&nbsp;BCE, and in its mature form from 2600&nbsp;BCE to 1900&nbsp;BCE. Together with [[ancient Egypt]] and [[Mesopotamia]], it was one of three early civilisations of the [[Near East]] and [[w:South Asia|South Asia]], and of the three, the most widespread, its sites spanning an area stretching from today's northeast [[Afghanistan]], through much of [[Pakistan]], and into western and northwestern [[India]]. It flourished in the basins of the [[Indus River]], which flows through the length of Pakistan, and along a system of perennial, mostly [[w:monsoon|monsoon]]-fed, rivers that once coursed in the vicinity of the seasonal [[w:Ghaggar-Hakra River|Ghaggar-Hakra river]] in northwest India and eastern Pakistan. __NOTOC__ {{TOCalpha}} ==E== * The ethos of the ancient Indian Civilization is shaped during the Neolithic and Chalcolithic Periods. ** Eltsov, Piotr Andreevich, From Harappa to Hastinapura, quoted in Danino, M. (2010). The lost river : on the trail of the Sarasvatī. Penguin Books India. ==K== *There appear to be many continuities [between the Indus and later historical cultures]. Agricultural and pastoral subsistence strategies continue, pottery manufacture does not change radically, many ornaments and luxury items continue to be produced using the same technology and styles . . . There is really no Dark Age isolating the protohistoric period from the historic period. ** Kenoyer, J.M., ''‘The Indus Civilization’'', Wisconsin Academy Review, Madison, March 1987, p. 26. Quoted in Danino, M. (2010). The lost river : on the trail of the Sarasvatī. Penguin Books India. * Although the overall socioeconomic organization changed, continuities in technology, subsistence practices, settlement organization, and some regional symbols show that the indigenous population was not displaced by invading hordes of Indo-Aryan speaking people. For many years, the ‘invasions’ or ‘migrations’ of these Indo-Aryan-speaking Vedic/[[Aryan race|Aryan]] tribes explained the decline of the Indus civilization and the sudden rise of urbanization in the [[Ganga]]-Yamuna valley. This was based on simplistic models of culture change and an uncritical reading of Vedic texts. Current evidence does not support a pre- or proto-historic Indo-Aryan invasion of [[South Asia|southern Asia]]. Instead, there was an overlap between Late Harappan and post-Harappan communities, with no biological evidence for major new populations. **[[J.M. Kenoyer]]: “The Indus Valley Tradition of Western India and some parts of pakistan”, Journal of World Prehistory, 1991/4. , quoted in [[Elst, Koenraad]] (1999). [https://web.archive.org/web/20100412074243/http://www.bharatvani.org/books/ait/ ''Update on the Aryan invasion debate''] New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. ==L== *In 1922 [[Archaeology|archaeologists]] started to turn up evidence of the Indus civilization. Mohenjodaro and Harappa have had most of the publicity, but new discoveries are still being made all the time.... <br> Common sense might suggest that here was a striking example of a refutable hypothesis that had in fact been refuted. Indo-European scholars should have scrapped all their historical reconstructions and started again from scratch. But that is not what happened. Vested interests and academic posts were involved. Almost without exception the scholars in question managed to persuade themselves that despite appearances the theories of the [[Philology|philologists]] and the hard evidence of [[Archaeology|archeology]] could be made to fit together. The trick was to think of the horse-riding Aryans as conquerors of the cities of the Indus civilization in the same way that the [[Spain|Spanish]] [[w:Conquistadores|conquistadores]] were [[Spanish colonization of the Americas|conquerors]] of the cities of [[Mexico]] and [[Peru]] or the [[w:Israelites|Israelites]] of the [[Book of Exodus|Exodus]] were conquerors of [[w:Jericho|Jericho]]. The lowly Dasa of the Rig Veda , who had previously been thought of as primitive savages, were now reconstructed as members of a high civilization. **Leach argues how, even after the discovery of the Indus Valley civilization, entrenched biases led scholars to cling to and reinterpret conflicting evidence to preserve their established historical narratives **[[Edmund Leach|Sir Edmund Leach]]. "Aryan invasions over four millennia.'' In Culture through Time, Anthropological Approaches, edited by E. Ohnuki-Tierney, Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1990, pp. 227-245. ==M== * The Indus civilization (…) is doubly remarkable: first, because it was the only complex society of either [[Antiquity]] or the [[Modernity|modern world]], that operated without social stratification and the [[state]]; and, second, in what must be a related phenomenon, because it was an [[agrarian]] society in which the villages were not oppressed by the towns (…) In sum, Indus Civilization is by far the most [[Egalitarianism|egalitarian]] of any of the pristine Old or New World civilizations, and that by a long way and by any measure. **Charles Keith Maisels (Early Civilizations of the Old World, Routledge, London & New York, 1999, p.252-254)[https://archive.org/details/B-001-000-174/page/252/mode/2up] , quoted in [[Elst, Koenraad]] (2018). ''Still no trace of an Aryan invasion: A collection on Indo-European origins''. *Not often has it been given to archaeologists, as it was given to Schliemann at Tiryns and Mycenae, or to [Aurel] Stein in the deserts of Turkestan, to light upon the remains of a long-forgotten civilization. It looks, however, at this moment, as if we were on the threshold of such a discovery in the plains of the Indus. **Marshall, John in Lahiri, Nayanjot, Finding Forgotten Cities, quoted in Danino, M. (2010). The lost river : on the trail of the Sarasvatī. Penguin Books India. * Indians have always been justly proud of their age-old civilization and believing that this civilization was as ancient as any in Asia, they have long been hoping that archaeology would discover definite monumental evidence to justify their belief. This hope has now been fulfilled. ** Marshall, John, quoted in Danino, M. (2010). The lost river : on the trail of the Sarasvatī. Penguin Books India. *Taken as a whole, [the Indus Valley people’s] religion is so characteristically Indian as hardly to be distinguished from still living Hinduism. ** Marshall, John, (ed.), Mohenjo-daro and the Indus Civilization,, vol. 1, p. vi. in Danino, M. (2010). The lost river : on the trail of the Sarasvatī. Penguin Books India. *These discoveries establish the existence in [[Sindh|Sind]] (the northernmost province of the [[w:Bombay_Presidency|Bombay Presidency]]) and the [[Punjab]], during the fourth and third millennium B.C., of a highly developed city life; and the presence, in many of the [[House|houses]], of wells and bathrooms as well as an elaborate drainage-system, betoken a social condition of the [[Citizenship|citizens]] at least equal to that found in [[Sumer]], and superior to that prevailing in contemporary [[Babylonia]] and [[Ancient Egypt|Egypt]]. . . . Even at Ur the houses are by no means equal in point of construction to those of Mohenjo-daro. **[[John Marshall (archaeologist)|Marshall, Sir John]], The Prehistoric Civilization of the Indus, Illustrated London News, Jan. 7, 1928, 1. quoted in Durant, Will (1963). Our Oriental heritage. New York: Simon & Schuster. * Hitherto it has commonly been supposed that the pre-Aryan peoples of India were... black skinned, flat nosed barbarians. . . . Never for a moment was it imagined that five thousand years ago, before the Aryans were heard of, Panjab and Sind . . . were enjoying an advanced and singularly uniform civilization of their own . . . even superior to that of contemporary Mesopotamia and Egypt. . . . there is nothing that we know of in prehis- toric Egypt or Mesopotamia or anywhere else in western Asia to compare with the well- built baths and commodious houses of the citizens of Mohenjodara. . . . nothing that we know of in other countries at this period bears any resemblance, in point of style, to the miniature faience models . . . which . . . are distinguished by a breadth of treatment and a feeling for line and plastic form that has rarely been surpassed in glyptic art. **Sir John Marshall (1931) in Bryant, E. F. (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture : the Indo-Aryan migration debate. Oxford University Press. chapter 9 * There is one curious fact in regard to the beginnings of Indian history. For the Indus Valley culture, we have abundant archaeological data, but no written evidence. For the early Vedic culture we have abundant written evidence but no archaeological data. **Dr. Majumdar 1959, 1959. "Rgvedic Civilization in the Light of Archaeology." Annals of the Bhandarfcar Orien- tal Research Institute 40:1-15. quoted in Bryant, E. F. (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture : the Indo-Aryan migration debate. Oxford University Press. chapter 9 *The Indus civilization has challenged scholars’ understanding since its discovery some eighty years ago, and in recent years the application of systematic and problem-orientated research, coupled with much new and unexpected data, has overturned many previous interpretations. **[[Jane McIntosh]], The Ancient Indus Valley, 2008 ==R== * It is difficult to see what is particularly non-Aryan about the Indus Valley civilization. **Colin Renfrew, Archaeology and Language, pp 188 ff. also quoted in The Indo-Aryan Controversy: Evidence and Inference in Indian History ed. Bryant E., L Patton ==S== *A continuous series of cultural developments links the so-called two major phases of urbanization in South Asia . . . The essential of Harappan identity persisted. ** Shaffer Jim G., ‘Reurbanization: The Eastern Panjab and Beyond’, , pp. 60, 58 & 63. in Danino, M. (2010). The lost river : on the trail of the Sarasvatī. Penguin Books India. ==W== * The great rivers, for all their beneficence, were at the same time treacherous and formidable enemies. If not constrained and directed by wise, largescale and sustained effort, they were destroyers no less than fertilizers. ** Sir Mortimer Wheeler, [https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.44291/page/n59/mode/2up ''Civilizations of the Indus Valley and Beyond''] (1966), p. 61 == External links == {{wikipedia}} [[Category:History of India]] [[Category:History of Afghanistan]] [[Category:History of Pakistan]] [[Category:Civilizations]] [[Category:Indus Valley civilisation]] sab25ogozd6c82vcep0qqknaxkizwzw 3961363 3961362 2026-07-06T04:24:05Z ~2026-38579-05 3347849 /* S */ 3961363 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Mohenjo-daro.jpg|thumb|Indus Civilization is by far the most [[Egalitarianism|egalitarian]] of any of the pristine Old or New World civilizations, and that by a long way and by any measure. ~ Charles Keith Maisels]] [[File:Dancing Girl of Mohenjo-daro.jpg|thumb|Indians have always been justly proud of their age-old civilization and believing that this civilization was as ancient as any in Asia, they have long been hoping that archaeology would discover definite monumental evidence to justify their belief. This hope has now been fulfilled. ~ J. Marshall]] [[File:Other side of Moenjodaro by Usman Ghani.jpg|thumb|The Indus civilization has challenged scholars’ understanding since its discovery some eighty years ago, and in recent years the application of systematic and problem-orientated research, coupled with much new and unexpected data, has overturned many previous interpretations. ~ Jane McIntosh]] The '''[[w:Indus Valley Civilisation|Indus Valley Civilisation]]''' ('''IVC''') was a [[w:Bronze Age|Bronze Age]] [[w:civilisation|civilisation]] in the northwestern regions of [[South Asia]], lasting from 3300&nbsp;[[w:Common Era|BCE]] to 1300&nbsp;BCE, and in its mature form from 2600&nbsp;BCE to 1900&nbsp;BCE. Together with [[ancient Egypt]] and [[Mesopotamia]], it was one of three early civilisations of the [[Near East]] and [[w:South Asia|South Asia]], and of the three, the most widespread, its sites spanning an area stretching from today's northeast [[Afghanistan]], through much of [[Pakistan]], and into western and northwestern [[India]]. It flourished in the basins of the [[Indus River]], which flows through the length of Pakistan, and along a system of perennial, mostly [[w:monsoon|monsoon]]-fed, rivers that once coursed in the vicinity of the seasonal [[w:Ghaggar-Hakra River|Ghaggar-Hakra river]] in northwest India and eastern Pakistan. __NOTOC__ {{TOCalpha}} ==E== * The ethos of the ancient Indian Civilization is shaped during the Neolithic and Chalcolithic Periods. ** Eltsov, Piotr Andreevich, From Harappa to Hastinapura, quoted in Danino, M. (2010). The lost river : on the trail of the Sarasvatī. Penguin Books India. ==K== *There appear to be many continuities [between the Indus and later historical cultures]. Agricultural and pastoral subsistence strategies continue, pottery manufacture does not change radically, many ornaments and luxury items continue to be produced using the same technology and styles . . . There is really no Dark Age isolating the protohistoric period from the historic period. ** Kenoyer, J.M., ''‘The Indus Civilization’'', Wisconsin Academy Review, Madison, March 1987, p. 26. Quoted in Danino, M. (2010). The lost river : on the trail of the Sarasvatī. Penguin Books India. * Although the overall socioeconomic organization changed, continuities in technology, subsistence practices, settlement organization, and some regional symbols show that the indigenous population was not displaced by invading hordes of Indo-Aryan speaking people. For many years, the ‘invasions’ or ‘migrations’ of these Indo-Aryan-speaking Vedic/[[Aryan race|Aryan]] tribes explained the decline of the Indus civilization and the sudden rise of urbanization in the [[Ganga]]-Yamuna valley. This was based on simplistic models of culture change and an uncritical reading of Vedic texts. Current evidence does not support a pre- or proto-historic Indo-Aryan invasion of [[South Asia|southern Asia]]. Instead, there was an overlap between Late Harappan and post-Harappan communities, with no biological evidence for major new populations. **[[J.M. Kenoyer]]: “The Indus Valley Tradition of Western India and some parts of pakistan”, Journal of World Prehistory, 1991/4. , quoted in [[Elst, Koenraad]] (1999). [https://web.archive.org/web/20100412074243/http://www.bharatvani.org/books/ait/ ''Update on the Aryan invasion debate''] New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. ==L== *In 1922 [[Archaeology|archaeologists]] started to turn up evidence of the Indus civilization. Mohenjodaro and Harappa have had most of the publicity, but new discoveries are still being made all the time.... <br> Common sense might suggest that here was a striking example of a refutable hypothesis that had in fact been refuted. Indo-European scholars should have scrapped all their historical reconstructions and started again from scratch. But that is not what happened. Vested interests and academic posts were involved. Almost without exception the scholars in question managed to persuade themselves that despite appearances the theories of the [[Philology|philologists]] and the hard evidence of [[Archaeology|archeology]] could be made to fit together. The trick was to think of the horse-riding Aryans as conquerors of the cities of the Indus civilization in the same way that the [[Spain|Spanish]] [[w:Conquistadores|conquistadores]] were [[Spanish colonization of the Americas|conquerors]] of the cities of [[Mexico]] and [[Peru]] or the [[w:Israelites|Israelites]] of the [[Book of Exodus|Exodus]] were conquerors of [[w:Jericho|Jericho]]. The lowly Dasa of the Rig Veda , who had previously been thought of as primitive savages, were now reconstructed as members of a high civilization. **Leach argues how, even after the discovery of the Indus Valley civilization, entrenched biases led scholars to cling to and reinterpret conflicting evidence to preserve their established historical narratives **[[Edmund Leach|Sir Edmund Leach]]. "Aryan invasions over four millennia.'' In Culture through Time, Anthropological Approaches, edited by E. Ohnuki-Tierney, Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1990, pp. 227-245. ==M== * The Indus civilization (…) is doubly remarkable: first, because it was the only complex society of either [[Antiquity]] or the [[Modernity|modern world]], that operated without social stratification and the [[state]]; and, second, in what must be a related phenomenon, because it was an [[agrarian]] society in which the villages were not oppressed by the towns (…) In sum, Indus Civilization is by far the most [[Egalitarianism|egalitarian]] of any of the pristine Old or New World civilizations, and that by a long way and by any measure. **Charles Keith Maisels (Early Civilizations of the Old World, Routledge, London & New York, 1999, p.252-254)[https://archive.org/details/B-001-000-174/page/252/mode/2up] , quoted in [[Elst, Koenraad]] (2018). ''Still no trace of an Aryan invasion: A collection on Indo-European origins''. *Not often has it been given to archaeologists, as it was given to Schliemann at Tiryns and Mycenae, or to [Aurel] Stein in the deserts of Turkestan, to light upon the remains of a long-forgotten civilization. It looks, however, at this moment, as if we were on the threshold of such a discovery in the plains of the Indus. **Marshall, John in Lahiri, Nayanjot, Finding Forgotten Cities, quoted in Danino, M. (2010). The lost river : on the trail of the Sarasvatī. Penguin Books India. * Indians have always been justly proud of their age-old civilization and believing that this civilization was as ancient as any in Asia, they have long been hoping that archaeology would discover definite monumental evidence to justify their belief. This hope has now been fulfilled. ** Marshall, John, quoted in Danino, M. (2010). The lost river : on the trail of the Sarasvatī. Penguin Books India. *Taken as a whole, [the Indus Valley people’s] religion is so characteristically Indian as hardly to be distinguished from still living Hinduism. ** Marshall, John, (ed.), Mohenjo-daro and the Indus Civilization,, vol. 1, p. vi. in Danino, M. (2010). The lost river : on the trail of the Sarasvatī. Penguin Books India. *These discoveries establish the existence in [[Sindh|Sind]] (the northernmost province of the [[w:Bombay_Presidency|Bombay Presidency]]) and the [[Punjab]], during the fourth and third millennium B.C., of a highly developed city life; and the presence, in many of the [[House|houses]], of wells and bathrooms as well as an elaborate drainage-system, betoken a social condition of the [[Citizenship|citizens]] at least equal to that found in [[Sumer]], and superior to that prevailing in contemporary [[Babylonia]] and [[Ancient Egypt|Egypt]]. . . . Even at Ur the houses are by no means equal in point of construction to those of Mohenjo-daro. **[[John Marshall (archaeologist)|Marshall, Sir John]], The Prehistoric Civilization of the Indus, Illustrated London News, Jan. 7, 1928, 1. quoted in Durant, Will (1963). Our Oriental heritage. New York: Simon & Schuster. * Hitherto it has commonly been supposed that the pre-Aryan peoples of India were... black skinned, flat nosed barbarians. . . . Never for a moment was it imagined that five thousand years ago, before the Aryans were heard of, Panjab and Sind . . . were enjoying an advanced and singularly uniform civilization of their own . . . even superior to that of contemporary Mesopotamia and Egypt. . . . there is nothing that we know of in prehis- toric Egypt or Mesopotamia or anywhere else in western Asia to compare with the well- built baths and commodious houses of the citizens of Mohenjodara. . . . nothing that we know of in other countries at this period bears any resemblance, in point of style, to the miniature faience models . . . which . . . are distinguished by a breadth of treatment and a feeling for line and plastic form that has rarely been surpassed in glyptic art. **Sir John Marshall (1931) in Bryant, E. F. (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture : the Indo-Aryan migration debate. Oxford University Press. chapter 9 * There is one curious fact in regard to the beginnings of Indian history. For the Indus Valley culture, we have abundant archaeological data, but no written evidence. For the early Vedic culture we have abundant written evidence but no archaeological data. **Dr. Majumdar 1959, 1959. "Rgvedic Civilization in the Light of Archaeology." Annals of the Bhandarfcar Orien- tal Research Institute 40:1-15. quoted in Bryant, E. F. (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture : the Indo-Aryan migration debate. Oxford University Press. chapter 9 *The Indus civilization has challenged scholars’ understanding since its discovery some eighty years ago, and in recent years the application of systematic and problem-orientated research, coupled with much new and unexpected data, has overturned many previous interpretations. **[[Jane McIntosh]], The Ancient Indus Valley, 2008 ==R== * It is difficult to see what is particularly non-Aryan about the Indus Valley civilization. **Colin Renfrew, Archaeology and Language, pp 188 ff. also quoted in The Indo-Aryan Controversy: Evidence and Inference in Indian History ed. Bryant E., L Patton ==S== *A continuous series of cultural developments links the so-called two major phases of urbanization in indian subcontinent . . . The essential of Harappan identity persisted. ** Shaffer Jim G., ‘Reurbanization: The Eastern Panjab and Beyond’, , pp. 60, 58 & 63. in Danino, M. (2010). The lost river : on the trail of the Sarasvatī. Penguin Books India. ==W== * The great rivers, for all their beneficence, were at the same time treacherous and formidable enemies. If not constrained and directed by wise, largescale and sustained effort, they were destroyers no less than fertilizers. ** Sir Mortimer Wheeler, [https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.44291/page/n59/mode/2up ''Civilizations of the Indus Valley and Beyond''] (1966), p. 61 == External links == {{wikipedia}} [[Category:History of India]] [[Category:History of Afghanistan]] [[Category:History of Pakistan]] [[Category:Civilizations]] [[Category:Indus Valley civilisation]] dh9zyg0cujdafhtswljdryucuwg0xz4 3961365 3961363 2026-07-06T04:39:26Z ~2026-38271-60 3347854 /* */ 3961365 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Mohenjo-daro.jpg|thumb|Indus Civilization is by far the most [[Egalitarianism|egalitarian]] of any of the pristine Old or New World civilizations, and that by a long way and by any measure. ~ Charles Keith Maisels]] [[File:Dancing Girl of Mohenjo-daro.jpg|thumb|Indians have always been justly proud of their age-old civilization and believing that this civilization was as ancient as any in Asia, they have long been hoping that archaeology would discover definite monumental evidence to justify their belief. This hope has now been fulfilled. ~ J. Marshall]] [[File:Other side of Moenjodaro by Usman Ghani.jpg|thumb|The Indus civilization has challenged scholars’ understanding since its discovery some eighty years ago, and in recent years the application of systematic and problem-orientated research, coupled with much new and unexpected data, has overturned many previous interpretations. ~ Jane McIntosh]] The '''[[w:Indus Valley Civilisation|Indus Valley Civilisation]]''' ('''IVC''') was a [[w:Bronze Age|Bronze Age]] [[w:civilisation|civilisation]] in the northwestern regions of [[South Asia]], lasting from 3300&nbsp;[[w:Common Era|BCE]] to 1300&nbsp;BCE, and in its mature form from 2600&nbsp;BCE to 1900&nbsp;BCE. Together with [[ancient Egypt]] and [[Mesopotamia]], it was one of three early civilisations of the [[Near East]] and [[w:South Asia|South Asia]], and of the three, the most widespread, its sites spanning an area stretching from today's northeast [[Afghanistan]], throught [[Pakistan]], and into western and northwestern [[India]]. It flourished in the basins of the [[Indus River]], which flows through the length of western south asia, and along a system of perennial, mostly [[w:monsoon|monsoon]]-fed, rivers that once coursed in the vicinity of the seasonal [[w:Ghaggar-Hakra River|Ghaggar-Hakra river]] in northwest India. __NOTOC__ {{TOCalpha}} ==E== * The ethos of the ancient Indian Civilization is shaped during the Neolithic and Chalcolithic Periods. ** Eltsov, Piotr Andreevich, From Harappa to Hastinapura, quoted in Danino, M. (2010). The lost river : on the trail of the Sarasvatī. Penguin Books India. ==K== *There appear to be many continuities [between the Indus and later historical cultures]. Agricultural and pastoral subsistence strategies continue, pottery manufacture does not change radically, many ornaments and luxury items continue to be produced using the same technology and styles . . . There is really no Dark Age isolating the protohistoric period from the historic period. ** Kenoyer, J.M., ''‘The Indus Civilization’'', Wisconsin Academy Review, Madison, March 1987, p. 26. Quoted in Danino, M. (2010). The lost river : on the trail of the Sarasvatī. Penguin Books India. * Although the overall socioeconomic organization changed, continuities in technology, subsistence practices, settlement organization, and some regional symbols show that the indigenous population was not displaced by invading hordes of Indo-Aryan speaking people. For many years, the ‘invasions’ or ‘migrations’ of these Indo-Aryan-speaking Vedic/[[Aryan race|Aryan]] tribes explained the decline of the Indus civilization and the sudden rise of urbanization in the [[Ganga]]-Yamuna valley. This was based on simplistic models of culture change and an uncritical reading of Vedic texts. Current evidence does not support a pre- or proto-historic Indo-Aryan invasion of [[South Asia|southern Asia]]. Instead, there was an overlap between Late Harappan and post-Harappan communities, with no biological evidence for major new populations. **[[J.M. Kenoyer]]: “The Indus Valley Tradition of Western India and some parts of pakistan”, Journal of World Prehistory, 1991/4. , quoted in [[Elst, Koenraad]] (1999). [https://web.archive.org/web/20100412074243/http://www.bharatvani.org/books/ait/ ''Update on the Aryan invasion debate''] New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. ==L== *In 1922 [[Archaeology|archaeologists]] started to turn up evidence of the Indus civilization. Mohenjodaro and Harappa have had most of the publicity, but new discoveries are still being made all the time.... <br> Common sense might suggest that here was a striking example of a refutable hypothesis that had in fact been refuted. Indo-European scholars should have scrapped all their historical reconstructions and started again from scratch. But that is not what happened. Vested interests and academic posts were involved. Almost without exception the scholars in question managed to persuade themselves that despite appearances the theories of the [[Philology|philologists]] and the hard evidence of [[Archaeology|archeology]] could be made to fit together. The trick was to think of the horse-riding Aryans as conquerors of the cities of the Indus civilization in the same way that the [[Spain|Spanish]] [[w:Conquistadores|conquistadores]] were [[Spanish colonization of the Americas|conquerors]] of the cities of [[Mexico]] and [[Peru]] or the [[w:Israelites|Israelites]] of the [[Book of Exodus|Exodus]] were conquerors of [[w:Jericho|Jericho]]. The lowly Dasa of the Rig Veda , who had previously been thought of as primitive savages, were now reconstructed as members of a high civilization. **Leach argues how, even after the discovery of the Indus Valley civilization, entrenched biases led scholars to cling to and reinterpret conflicting evidence to preserve their established historical narratives **[[Edmund Leach|Sir Edmund Leach]]. "Aryan invasions over four millennia.'' In Culture through Time, Anthropological Approaches, edited by E. Ohnuki-Tierney, Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1990, pp. 227-245. ==M== * The Indus civilization (…) is doubly remarkable: first, because it was the only complex society of either [[Antiquity]] or the [[Modernity|modern world]], that operated without social stratification and the [[state]]; and, second, in what must be a related phenomenon, because it was an [[agrarian]] society in which the villages were not oppressed by the towns (…) In sum, Indus Civilization is by far the most [[Egalitarianism|egalitarian]] of any of the pristine Old or New World civilizations, and that by a long way and by any measure. **Charles Keith Maisels (Early Civilizations of the Old World, Routledge, London & New York, 1999, p.252-254)[https://archive.org/details/B-001-000-174/page/252/mode/2up] , quoted in [[Elst, Koenraad]] (2018). ''Still no trace of an Aryan invasion: A collection on Indo-European origins''. *Not often has it been given to archaeologists, as it was given to Schliemann at Tiryns and Mycenae, or to [Aurel] Stein in the deserts of Turkestan, to light upon the remains of a long-forgotten civilization. It looks, however, at this moment, as if we were on the threshold of such a discovery in the plains of the Indus. **Marshall, John in Lahiri, Nayanjot, Finding Forgotten Cities, quoted in Danino, M. (2010). The lost river : on the trail of the Sarasvatī. Penguin Books India. * Indians have always been justly proud of their age-old civilization and believing that this civilization was as ancient as any in Asia, they have long been hoping that archaeology would discover definite monumental evidence to justify their belief. This hope has now been fulfilled. ** Marshall, John, quoted in Danino, M. (2010). The lost river : on the trail of the Sarasvatī. Penguin Books India. *Taken as a whole, [the Indus Valley people’s] religion is so characteristically Indian as hardly to be distinguished from still living Hinduism. ** Marshall, John, (ed.), Mohenjo-daro and the Indus Civilization,, vol. 1, p. vi. in Danino, M. (2010). The lost river : on the trail of the Sarasvatī. Penguin Books India. *These discoveries establish the existence in [[Sindh|Sind]] (the northernmost province of the [[w:Bombay_Presidency|Bombay Presidency]]) and the [[Punjab]], during the fourth and third millennium B.C., of a highly developed city life; and the presence, in many of the [[House|houses]], of wells and bathrooms as well as an elaborate drainage-system, betoken a social condition of the [[Citizenship|citizens]] at least equal to that found in [[Sumer]], and superior to that prevailing in contemporary [[Babylonia]] and [[Ancient Egypt|Egypt]]. . . . Even at Ur the houses are by no means equal in point of construction to those of Mohenjo-daro. **[[John Marshall (archaeologist)|Marshall, Sir John]], The Prehistoric Civilization of the Indus, Illustrated London News, Jan. 7, 1928, 1. quoted in Durant, Will (1963). Our Oriental heritage. New York: Simon & Schuster. * Hitherto it has commonly been supposed that the pre-Aryan peoples of India were... black skinned, flat nosed barbarians. . . . Never for a moment was it imagined that five thousand years ago, before the Aryans were heard of, Panjab and Sind . . . were enjoying an advanced and singularly uniform civilization of their own . . . even superior to that of contemporary Mesopotamia and Egypt. . . . there is nothing that we know of in prehis- toric Egypt or Mesopotamia or anywhere else in western Asia to compare with the well- built baths and commodious houses of the citizens of Mohenjodara. . . . nothing that we know of in other countries at this period bears any resemblance, in point of style, to the miniature faience models . . . which . . . are distinguished by a breadth of treatment and a feeling for line and plastic form that has rarely been surpassed in glyptic art. **Sir John Marshall (1931) in Bryant, E. F. (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture : the Indo-Aryan migration debate. Oxford University Press. chapter 9 * There is one curious fact in regard to the beginnings of Indian history. For the Indus Valley culture, we have abundant archaeological data, but no written evidence. For the early Vedic culture we have abundant written evidence but no archaeological data. **Dr. Majumdar 1959, 1959. "Rgvedic Civilization in the Light of Archaeology." Annals of the Bhandarfcar Orien- tal Research Institute 40:1-15. quoted in Bryant, E. F. (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture : the Indo-Aryan migration debate. Oxford University Press. chapter 9 *The Indus civilization has challenged scholars’ understanding since its discovery some eighty years ago, and in recent years the application of systematic and problem-orientated research, coupled with much new and unexpected data, has overturned many previous interpretations. **[[Jane McIntosh]], The Ancient Indus Valley, 2008 ==R== * It is difficult to see what is particularly non-Aryan about the Indus Valley civilization. **Colin Renfrew, Archaeology and Language, pp 188 ff. also quoted in The Indo-Aryan Controversy: Evidence and Inference in Indian History ed. Bryant E., L Patton ==S== *A continuous series of cultural developments links the so-called two major phases of urbanization in indian subcontinent . . . The essential of Harappan identity persisted. ** Shaffer Jim G., ‘Reurbanization: The Eastern Panjab and Beyond’, , pp. 60, 58 & 63. in Danino, M. (2010). The lost river : on the trail of the Sarasvatī. Penguin Books India. ==W== * The great rivers, for all their beneficence, were at the same time treacherous and formidable enemies. If not constrained and directed by wise, largescale and sustained effort, they were destroyers no less than fertilizers. ** Sir Mortimer Wheeler, [https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.44291/page/n59/mode/2up ''Civilizations of the Indus Valley and Beyond''] (1966), p. 61 == External links == {{wikipedia}} [[Category:History of India]] [[Category:History of Afghanistan]] [[Category:History of Pakistan]] [[Category:Civilizations]] [[Category:Indus Valley civilisation]] ejxdikxiekqxgu13gaeq30ksofab8ew 0 219391 3961111 3717590 2026-07-05T15:44:48Z ~2026-22475-30 3310494 3961111 wikitext text/x-wiki {{italic title}} '''''[[w:The Wild Thornberrys|The Wild Thornberrys]]''''' (1998-2004) is a Nicktoon involving the wildlife and young girl adventurer Eliza Thornberry, who has the magic power to communicate with animals more than humans thanks to a shaman. == Season 1 (1998-99) == === Flood Warning [1.1] === :'''Nigel Thornberry''': ''[to a warthog]'' Hello, hoggy. === Dinner with Darwin [1.2] === :'''Marriane Thornberry''': "You online?" :'''Tribal Chief''': "Sure, who isn't?" :'''Debbie Thornberry''': "Loneliness, emptiness, futility." === Bad Company [1.3] === :'''Debbie Thornberry''': "Somebody used the last of my two-in-one organic shampoo and conditioner." :'''Eliza Thornberry''': ''[sotto]'' C'mon, Darwin, pull me up. :''[Darwin gives the rope a tug, like a bell ringer. The chair immediately bounces into the air. Eliza GIGGLES with delight. When the chair bounces back down, an uneasy Darwin is pulled up along with the rope.]'' :''[Nigel takes the empty bottle of shampoo and scans the back. Behind him, unnoticed by him or Marianne, Eliza and Darwin are dropping IN and OUT OF FRAME, on the chair and rope, respectively. Darwin looks unhappy, but Eliza is having a great time.]'' :'''Nigel Thornberry''': May I? Thank you, Debbie. ''[reading]'' Passion flower, Brazil nut, chamomile. Why Debbie! You're not out of shampoo! All these ingredients come from the rainforest. They're all right here. Why an intrepid teen with a thirst for adventure, and guide to local plants... :''[In the background, Donnie notices what Darwin is doing and instinctively mimics Darwin’s actions, tugging on Darwin's end of the rope as Darwin comes down. Darwin goes up, Donnie leaps onto Darwin, HOOTING.]'' :'''Marianne Thornberry''': ''[to Debbie]'' We'll pick you up another bottle when we get to Manaus ''[pronounced Mah-NOW]'' . === Gold Fever [1.4] === === Matadi or Bust [1.5] === :'''Debbie''': ''[scoffs]'' "She's talking to the monkey again." :'''Hippo''': "Wait! You're the girl I met this morning." === The Temple of Eliza [1.6] === :'''Darwin''': "I'm always the royal pet chimpanzee." ''[sighs]'' === Vacant Lot [1.7] === :''[Debbie is listening to the radio when a possum-like animal breaks the antenna when he's sleeping on it]'' :'''Debbie Thornberry''': "Argh! ''[to the animal]'' What did I ever do to you? I don't even know what you are! ''[The animal is backing away from Debbie]'' Okay . . . if I was an antenna, and I wasn't destroyed by a . . . thing, I'd be . . . in the closet!" ''[The animal looks towards the camera]'' :'''Darwin''': "Oh, me? I'm fine. Why do you ask?" === Only Child [1.8] === === Iron Curtain [1.9] === === Valley Girls [1.10] === === Blood Sisters [1.11] === === Eliza-cology [1.12] === === Flight of the Donnie [1.13] === === Naimina Enkiyio [1.14] === === Lost & Foundation [1.15] === === Nigel Knows Best [1.16] === === The Great Bangaboo [1.17] === === Rumble in the Jungle [1.18] === === The Dragon and the Professor [1.19] === :'''Darwin''': "You and me, other girls, other chimps, sounds like fun!" === Born to Be Wild [1.20] === == Season 2 (1999-00) == === Rebel Without a Trunk [2.1] === :'''Rosie''': "Atta-girl, Eliza!" === Pal Joey [2.2] === === Rain Dance [2.3] === === Darwin Plays the Palace [2.4] === === Stick Your Neck Out [2.5] === === No Laughing Matter [2.6] === === Chimp Off the Old Block [2.7] === === Koality & Kuantity [2.8] === :'''Lyrebird''': "Lyrebird." === Chew if by Sea [2.9] === === Clash of the Teutons [2.10] === === You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yeti [2.11] === === On the Right Track [2.12] === === Polar Opposites [2.13] === === Two's Company [2.14] === === Show Me the Bunny [2.15] === === Reef Grief [2.16] === === Thornberry Island [2.17] === === Dances with Dingoes [2.18] === === Tamper-Proof Seal [2.19] === === You Otter Know [2.20] === === Have Yourself A Thornberry Little Christmas [2.21] === === The Kung and I [2.22] === === Dear Diary [2.23] === :'''Rat''': ''[about Debbie]'' "What's her problem?" :'''Eliza Thornberry''': "She doesn't get out much, can you tell me where the water's coming from?" :'''Rat''': "Through that hole." :'''Eliza Thornberry''': "Thanks. ''[to Debbie]'' Debbie, come on, there's water up here." :'''Debbie Thornberry''': ''[Scoffs]'' "Like I'm thirsty." === Black and White and Mom All Over [2.24] === === A Tiger by the Tail [2.25] === === Forget Me Not [2.26] === === Song for Eliza [2.27] === === Gift of Gab [2.28] ===   === Luck Be an Aye-Aye [2.29] === === Bogged Down [2.30] === === Monkey See, Monkey Don't [2.31] === === Where the Gauchos Roam [2.32] === === A Shaky Foundation [2.23] === === Cheetahs Never Prosper [2.24] === === Gobi Yourself [2.25] === === Every Little Bit Alps [2.26] === === Pack Of Thornberrys [2.27] === == Season 3 (2000-01) == === Dragon Me Along [3.1] === === Time Flies [3.2] === === Tyler Tucker, I Presume? [3.3] === === Critical Masai [3.4] === === Horse Sense [3.5] === === Queen of Denial [3.6] === === Island Trade [3.7] === === Birthday Quake [3.8] === === The Legend of Ha Long Bay [3.9] === === Spirited Away [3.10] === === A Family Tradition [3.11] === === Happy Campers [3.12] === === New Territory [3.13] === :'''Debbie Thornberry''': ''[to Eliza]'' "You spend all your time talking to a monkey, and you're telling me how to talk to people?" === The Anniversary [3.14] === === Happy Old Year [3.15] === === All Work and No Play [3.16] === === Operation: Valentine [3.17] === === Hello, Dolphin! [3.18] === :'''Collin''': ''[about Debbie]'' "Does everyone in your family yell?" :'''Eliza Thornberry''': "Sorry, they're catching us on a bad day." === April Fool's Day [3.19] === === Gem of a Mom [3.20] === == Season 4 (2001-02) == === The Origin of Donnie (Part 1) [4.1] === === The Origin of Donnie (Part 2) [4.2] === === The Origin of Donnie (Part 3) [4.3] === === The Origin of Donnie (Part 4) [4.4] === === The Trouble With Darwin [4.5] === === Hot Air [4.6] === == Season 5 (2003-04) == === The Wild Snob-Berry [5.1] === === Ice Follies [5.2] === === Fool's Gold [5.3] === === Clash and Learn [5.4] === === Sir Nigel (Part 1) [5.5] === === Sir Nigel (Part 2) [5.6] === === Look Who's Squawking [5.7] === === Eliza Unplugged [5.8] === ==Film== {{Main|The Wild Thornberrys Movie}} ==External links== {{wikipedia}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Wild Thornberrys}} [[Category:The Wild Thornberrys]] [[Category:1990s American animated TV shows]] [[Category:2000s American animated TV shows]] [[Category:1990s Nickelodeon original series]] [[Category:2000s Nickelodeon original series]] [[Category:Traditionally animated TV shows]] [[Category:American children's animated adventure TV shows]] [[Category:Cancelled shows]] [[Category:Nicktoons]] [[Category:Animated TV shows about apes]] [[Category:Animated TV shows about children]] [[Category:Teen animated TV shows]] [[Category:Animated TV shows about families]] e8rhbov0k5743fr7oj8x4nlzxql2asw 0 222076 3961361 3958386 2026-07-06T03:55:15Z ~2026-38403-81 3347841 /* Everything's Fine */ 3961361 wikitext text/x-wiki ---- :'''Seasons:''' [[Steven Universe (season 1)|1]] [[Steven Universe (season 2)|2]] [[Steven Universe (season 3)|3]] [[Steven Universe (season 4)|4]] [[Steven Universe (season 5)|5]] | [[Steven Universe: The Movie|Film]] | [[Steven Universe Future|Future]] | [[Steven Universe: Lars of the Stars|Lars of the Stars]] | [[Steven Universe|Main]] ---- {{italic title}} '''''[[w:Steven Universe Future|Steven Universe Future]]''''' (2019–2020) is an animated limited series produced by [[w:Cartoon Network|Cartoon Network]] as an epilogue for [[Steven Universe (season 5)|Season 5]] of ''[[Steven Universe]]'' and ''[[Steven Universe: The Movie]]''. ==Episodes== ===''Little Homeschool''=== :'''Steven''': Life is a little different these days. The Diamonds have ended their reign of terror, the intergalactic war is over, and Earth is officially an independent planet. We're all safe to explore our dreams. Lars opened up his own pastry shop, and it's got a real cute space gimmick goin' on. Sadie's been touring with The Suspects, promoting their new album, and Connie has been getting a head start on college prep. She's two years away from applying, but she says it doesn't hurt to start early. And speaking of higher education, Garnet, Amethyst, Pearl and I have been cooking up a dream of our own! :'''Cherry Quartz''': I have no idea who you're talking about. Garnet, can you wrap the tape around the fire alarm? ''[Garnet shrugs and nods]'' :'''Steven''': ''[chuckling]'' Don't worry about it. You'll learn all that, and more, right here at Little Homeschool. ''[gives Cherry Quartz a tour around]'' Here at Little Homeschool, you have a chance to rediscover yourself and learn to live on Earth if you like. You can forge a new identity. Grow your own ideas. And even find your inner morp. :'''Cherry Quartz''': Wait, what's a morp? :'''Steven''': That's ''exactly'' the kind of question we love to hear! :'''Garnet''': ''[teaching various Gems in a yoga class]'' Find your center, your very core. Remember, your body isn't just a projection of light, but also a reflection of your inner soul. :'''Steven''': ''[standing upside-down]'' Garnet teaches, uhh... All sorts of stuff. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Steven''': You know, half those Gems are soldiers who fought by your side before they were corrupted and turned into monsters. They're lost and confused and still a little messed up, but they're getting the help they need. :'''Jasper''': Like all the other Gems you ''use.'' :'''Steven''': ''[frustrated]'' AGGGHHH! I only came here because I felt bad for you, but all of this is your own fault! All the other Gems were corrupted by the Diamonds, but-- but you corrupted yourself just to win a fight! Which you ''LOST!'' To ''ME!'' No one's making you stay here all alone in the middle of nowhere, ready to fight a war that's been over for years! Are you just gonna sit here for centuries waiting for someone to give you a purpose?! ''Because I'm trying to give you one!'' :'''Jasper''': Listen, weakling! You might have Pink Diamond's gem, but you are ''not'' my Diamond, and I am ''not'' going to take orders from some weak, sappy, useless piece of dirt! If you think you're hard enough to tell me what to do, then fight me and prove it. :'''Steven''': Fine! :'''Jasper''': ''[suddenly smiles eagerly]'' Really? Huh, well then! Why don't you throw the first punch? ''[beckons tauntingly, and Steven punches her, pushing her back a few feet]'' Ooohh...! ''[laughs aggressively and charges back at him]'' :'''Steven''': I... guess we're doing this. <hr width="50%"/> :''[During his fight with Jasper, Steven bubbles a nest of baby birds to protect them]'' :'''Jasper''': Stop trying to help those tiny flapping Earthlings, and ''FIGHT ME!'' :'''Steven''': I'll never stop trying to help them, or you! :'''Jasper''': ''[kicking his shield away and pinning him down]'' I don't need your help! ''You're'' the one that needs help! You think you've beaten me, but you've never beaten me on your own! You've always been a fusion! You've always had your friends! Because you're nothing without them! You think everyone needs help! :'''Steven''': ''[tearing up]'' I-- I just-- :'''Jasper''': But ''it's only you. No one'' is as '''''pitiful''''' as '''''you!''''' :''[Shaken and angry, Steven starts to glow pink and pushes Jasper back with a sudden burst of strength, much to her surprise]'' :'''Steven''': ''[looking at himself]'' Whoa... what? ''[Jasper grins, and Steven angrily summons a bubble glove and charges at her with it]'' I'M... ''NOT''... PITIFUL! ''[sends her flying back through several trees]'' :'''Jasper''': ''[chuckles]'' Ha. Not bad. ''[continues to fight Steven, who catches her in the middle of a spin-dash]'' Nice catch. :'''Steven''': You should see my ''THROW!'' ''[tosses her up into the air, where she laughs as he hits her several more times]'' STOP LAUGHING! ''[sends her slamming back down into the ground, then gasps in shock and returns to normal]'' Jasper... :'''Jasper''': ''[gets up and shakes herself off, impressed]'' Huh. I didn't think you had it in you. :'''Steven''': I don't... I don't know what that was. I'm sorry. :'''Jasper''': ''[rolling her eyes]'' Ugh! Don't apologize. :'''Steven''': I... think I had you all wrong. Maybe you don't have something to learn from me. Maybe I have something to learn from you. ''[Jasper raises an eyebrow]'' Would you ever be interested in teaching? :'''Jasper''': ''[scoffs]'' Tssh! At your crummy little school? :'''Steven''': No, just me. You brought something out of me I didn't know I had. :'''Jasper''': ''[walks up to Steven, placing a hand on his shoulder]'' Consider that fight back there your first and ''only'' lesson. ''[begins walking off]'' :'''Steven''': Well... can I come back to see you sometime? :'''Jasper''': Do what you want. ===''Guidance''=== :'''Steven''': I didn't know Bixbite wanted a career in the culinary arts. :'''Amethyst''': Yeah, we talked a lot about her interests and experiences. Then, I spoke to Kofi and set her up here. :'''Steven''': This was your idea? :'''Amethyst''': Yeah, and she's just the beginning. I wanted to do something big for the school, so I've been pairing Gems up with human jobs. The results have been amazing! I call it: the Gem-Human Excellence Mentorship, or G-H-E-M. :'''Steven''': Oh, I get it, like GEM. :'''Amethyst''': No, it's G''H''EM. There's an "H". <hr width="50%"/> :'''Steven''': Hmm, I don't know about this. :'''Amethyst''': About what? :'''Steven''': Ice Gems doing ice stuff, pilot Gems doing pilot stuff, guard Gems doing guard stuff. Isn't this exactly what they were doing on Homeworld? :'''Amethyst''': ''[chuckles]'' No. :'''Ruby Bodyguard #1''': It's ''just'' like we used to do on Homeworld! :'''Ruby Bodyguard #2''': Thanks, Amethyst! :'''Amethyst''': These are the jobs they wanted. :'''Steven''': Well, sure, they ''think'' they want to do this stuff. But, it's up to us to get them out of their comfort zones. :'''Amethyst''': I dunno, man. Comfortable can be good too. :'''Steven''': Bear with me for a sec. ''[to Larimar and Snowflake Obsidian]'' Hey, guys, I was wondering what you two did on Homeworld. :'''Snowflake Obsidian''': I dug ice trenches for their armies. :'''Larimar''': I made ice sculptures for the Diamonds. :'''Steven''': So ice is kind of like your default mode? :'''Snowflake Obsidian''': ''[exchanges looks with Larimar]'' Yes. :'''Steven''': Did you ever think of trying something else? :'''Snowflake Obsidian''': Like filling ice trenches? :'''Steven''': ''[as he sees Nephrite flying overhead]'' Well, how would you like to fly a plane? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Steven''': I had an idea for you, Larimar. You could operate the Funland rollercoaster! It's a great job, and you get to help people have fun. :'''Larimar''': What is this wonderful noise? :'''Steven''': Those are the joyful screams of people on a rollercoaster. :'''Larimar''': Human screams are my favorite of the Earth's delights! I want to hear the human screams forever. :'''Steven''': Okay, that's kind of troubling... but your heart's in the right place. :'''Larimar''': One day, I'll make ''you'' scream, Steven. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Larimar''': I just wanted to say thanks for the amusement park job. I'm not great at the roller-coaster operation, we know, but I found out I'm good at handing out prizes to children, and I love their laughter. :'''Steven''': Aww. :'''Larimar''': It sounds just like screaming. ===''Rose Buds''=== :'''Holly Blue Agate''': Stop relaxing and get back to your posts! Ugh! How can you stand this total lack of order? :'''Amethyst Guard''': Chill out, Holly Blue. You know you want to. :'''Holly Blue Agate''' I give up. No one answers to me, and I answer to no one. I'd give anything for an order from the Diamonds, but all they talk about is Steven, Steven, Steven-- ''[sees him]'' Steven! :'''Steven''': Hi, Holly. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Steven''': ''[seeing all of the Rose Quartzes being un-bubbled]'' So... Many... Rose Quartzes. How did the-- :'''Superfan Rose''': Oh, now that it's Era 3, we were all unbubbled, so now, we're making up for lost time. Hi! I'm Rose Quartz, and you, you're Steven! You are so much smaller than I imagined! Is it because you're half organic? Can you believe it, Rose Quartz?! :'''Hippie Rose''': It's like, we where bubbled, but now we're like, not bubbled. :'''Steven''': Th-It's really-- It's really great. ===''Volleyball''=== :'''Steven''': So, how would you like your magical spit administered today? :'''Ruby bodyguard''': Ah, geez, uh... the ''not'' kissing one? :'''Steven''': You got it! ''[licks his palm and applies healing spit onto the Ruby's gem, healing the crack]'' Man, what kind of enemies does the mayor have to keep you landing in my office? :'''Ruby bodyguard''': That's classified information, nurse-citizen Universe. :'''Steven''': Okay, well, try not to classify too hard out there. Oh, don't forget your lollipop! <hr width="50%"/> :''[On Pink Pearl's cracked face]'' :'''Pearl''': How could White be so careless? :'''Pink Pearl''': ''[chuckling]'' Oh, no, Pearl. You've got it all wrong. Pink did this. :'''Pearl''': ''[shocked]'' What did you say? ''[approaches her]'' :'''Steven''': Pearl, no...! :'''Pink Pearl''': It's a funny story, really. Once, Pink got tired of asking Yellow and Blue for her own colony, so she went straight to White. Of course, White told her she wasn't fit to run one, and, well, that set her off. :'''Pearl''': "Set her off"? What are you talking about? :'''Pink Pearl''': You remember how she was, with her destructive powers, throwing tantrums left and right. She had a scream that could crack the walls. She didn't mean to hurt me. ''[chuckles]'' I just happened to be standing too close to her that time, and-- :'''Steven''': ''[covering his ears anxiously]'' Doesn't matter! I'm gonna fix it! :'''Pearl''': Destructive powers?! Pink didn't have destructive powers, she was a healer! She didn't throw tantrums, she kept her feelings secret! :'''Pink Pearl''': The Pink I knew couldn't keep a secret to save her gem. :'''Pearl''': Are you kidding?! If anything, she was ''too'' good at keeping secrets, even from me! :''[Frustrated by their arguing, Steven furiously snaps and starts glowing pink]'' :'''Steven''': ''[lividly]'' ''STOP IT!'' I CAN'T DEAL WITH ''ONE MORE'' HORRIBLE THING SHE DID, OKAY?! ''[Both Pearls gasp]'' I DON'T WANNA HEAR ABOUT IT, I DON'T EVEN WANNA ''THINK'' ABOUT IT! :'''Pearl''': Steven! :'''Steven''': I JUST WANT TO '''''FIX IT!!!''''' :''[Steven unleashes a shockwave that causes cracks around the room. Pink Pearl cowers in fear, and Steven looks at his own reflection in shock and remorse]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Pearl''': I'm sorry for not believing you. It looks like I'm still making excuses for her. :'''Pink Pearl''': ''[tearfully]'' Is that what ''I've'' been doing?! But... she didn't mean to! :'''Pearl''': But you were hurt! Badly hurt! :'''Pink Pearl''': I was badly hurt... How did ''you'' stop hurting? :'''Pearl''': ''[embraces her tightly]'' I didn't. :''[Pink Pearl returns the hug, and they fuse into Mega Pearl]'' :'''Steven''': You fused! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Steven''': I'm so sorry. The whole trip was for nothing. :'''Mega Pearl''': No, it wasn't for nothing. Your mother's Pearls never had the whole picture. One knew your mother was trying to change, but she couldn't understand why. The other never expected her to change at all. Now, I get to understand everything. Now, they finally get to have each other. :''[She separates into the two Pearls, peacefully holding hands]'' ===''Bluebird''=== :'''Steven''': Tsk, tsk, tsk. You guys fused just because you hate me, didn't you? :'''Aquamarine and "Eyeball" Ruby''': Yes! :'''Steven''': If that's the only reason, then it's no wonder you can't keep it together. :'''Aquamarine''': What are you talking about? :'''Steven''': There are so many other reasons to fuse, like friendship and responsibility and... and love. Imagine how much better it would feel to fuse to support each other, instead of tearing someone down. Your life would fill with warmth and friendship and joy and love and-- :'''"Eyeball" Ruby''': ''[covering her ears; agitated]'' Wowie, wow! He is ''so'' annoying! :'''Aquamarine''': ''[also agitated]'' I hate him so much! :'''Aquamarine and "Eyeball" Ruby''': I know! Me too! ''[they fuse back into Bluebird]'' :'''Steven''': ''[annoyed]'' Are you kidding me? :'''Bluebird''': At last! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Steven''': I'm really sorry, Dad. I never should have given Bluebird a chance. :'''Greg''': I love how you believe in everyone. You stuck to your principles, and I'm proud of you. I mean, everyone can change, but not everyone wants to. ===''A Very Special Episode''=== :''[Rainbow Quartz 2.0 unfuses and Steven answers the call]'' :'''Garnet''': Steven, you're late. I need you for the Sunstone safety Geminar. :'''Steven''': ARGH! :'''Garnet''': Don't worry, ''I'll'' handle the geminar. I'll explain to them every possible future where they get hurt in this house. :'''Steven''': I don't know if that's a good idea. I'll be right there. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Ocean Jasper''': I slip on the stairs? :'''Garnet''': Yes. You shatter on impact. :''[Ocean Jasper, Earth and Heaven Beetle, and a Nephrite scream]'' :'''Steven''': ''[enters through the door]'' Garnet, I'm here. :'''Garnet''': Steven, help. I think I'm scaring them. :'''Steven''': It's okay. We got this. Let's get this safety Geminar started with a very special guest speaker. :''[They both dance and fuse into Sunstone]'' :'''Sunstone''': Your rockin' pal Sunstone's here to shine. :'''Ocean Jasper''': Watch out, Sunstone. It's dangerous in here. :'''Sunstone''': Not if you practice home safety. Don't slip up. Clear objects off the stairs. Foul shot! Make sure you cover your trash, or you might attract wild animals. Come on. Let's go! Don't leave the water running, it could flood your house. Put protective covers on electrical outlets, especially when kids are around. And most importantly, turn off motion smoothing on your TV. :'''Ocean Jasper''': Wow, everything looks so much better! <hr width="50%"/> :''[Steven receives a call from Pearl, who he left to take care of Onion]'' :'''Steven''': ''[exhausted]'' Please, please have everything under control... :'''Pearl''': STEVEN! EVERYTHING IS OUT OF CONTROL! :'''Steven''': Yup... :'''Pearl''': It's getting really weird here! Steven, you were never like this, you were such a good kid! I'm so sorry I never told you that! Aah! I... I can hear him, but I can't see him! I think he's in the walls! I don't know how he got there, and I don't know how to get him out! ''[call ends]'' :'''Steven''': ''[long gasp]'' Garnet, can you handle things on your own for a little bit? :'''Garnet''': No problem. Our students love me. ''[walks over to them]'' Let me tell you all the ways you can get hit by a car. :'''Steven''': Agh, Garnet! Forget it. I'll stay. I'll stay! :'''Pearl''': ''[in another call]'' STEVEN, THERE'S A SNAKE! :'''Steven''': Never mind! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Rainbow Quartz 2.0''': Why play with sharp objects when you can play with my sharp wit? Crack jokes, not cookie jars, as I always say. Ha ha! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Garnet''': It's important to keep in mind that all these horrible things ''did'' happen to you in alternate timelines. Safety is fun. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Onion has led Garnet's students off a cliff]'' :'''Pearl''': Oh, no! :'''Garnet''': Steven, quick! Sunstone can save them! :'''Steven''': Okay... ''[they fuse into Sunstone]'' :'''Sunstone''': Oh, yeah! :'''Pearl''': No! Let Rainbow save them! ''[fuses with Steven]'' :'''Rainbow Quartz 2.0''': ''[showing his umbrella]'' I'll catch them with this! :'''Amethyst''': ''[rushing in]'' Hey, wait! ''I'' need Steven! :'''Steven''' ''[unfuses from Pearl]'' What is it, Amethyst? :'''Amethyst''': I just miss you, man! I haven't seen you for, like, eleven minutes! ===''Snow Day''=== :'''Amethyst''': ''[enters with fried eggs for eyes]'' You really gonna skip the most egg-ssential meal of the day? :'''Steven''': Of course not. I've got all my morning nutrients in this protein shake. :'''Amethyst''': ''[pokes yolk to leak]'' Dude, you're making me sad. :'''Garnet''': Steven. I packed everything you're gonna need for today in your cheeseburger backpack. :'''Steven''': Oh, uh, I don't really use that anymore. Besides, I packed my own bag. :'''Garnet''': At least pet this cat. :'''Cat Steven''': ''[popping out of the backpack]'' Meow. :'''Steven''': Why was I going to need... ''[sighs]'' Never mind. Got to go. :'''Pearl''': Hold it. According to my weather application, it's going to snow all day and overnight. You're going to freeze if you don't put on a puffer, a hat, and two scarves. Better make it three. :'''Steven''': ''[muffling in denial]'' Pearl, I need to get going! :'''Pearl''': But classes don't start for another couple of hours. :'''Garnet''': Wait for us. We can head over together. :'''Amethyst''': Why are you taking the old Dondai anyway? We have the warp technology. :'''Steven''': It's because I've got errands to run in town before classes start. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Steven''': ''[after returning home from his errands]'' Hey, guys. :'''Amethyst''': Guess what we've got lined up tonight. "Pupcopter's Sky-High Adventure"! :'''Pearl''': Sheet masks with cute animal faces! :'''Garnet''': And, most importantly, pizza. :'''Steven''': Guys, I've been a vegetarian for like, a month, and "Pupcopter" is for 6-year-olds, and I have my own skin care routine. Anyways, it's cool. I already ate. ''[walks upstairs]'' :'''Amethyst''': Oh, well. We'll just watch the movie with Cat Steven. :'''Garnet''': My bad. I was sure we were in the pepperoni timeline. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Amethyst''': Man, you had a better work-life balance when the Diamonds were trying to destroy the planet. :'''Steven''': That was then. This is now. :'''Amethyst''': Hey, you know what we haven't done in a long time? ''[shapeshifts into 14-year-old Steven]'' Steven Tag! :'''Steven''': Amethyst, what the heck?! :'''Amethyst''': You know the rules, buster. You get tagged, you have to turn into Steven. :'''Steven''': But I'm already Steven! :'''Amethyst''': Nah, bruh. ''Classic'' Steven. :'''Steven''': ''Classic Steven?!'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Pearl''': Steven, what are you doing? :'''Steven''': Pearl! :'''Pearl''': Has cabin fever taken hold already? :'''Steven''': It's Amethyst and Garnet! They're playing Steven Tag to mess with me! :'''Pearl''': Steven Tag? Wow, that takes me back. Well, I'm sure they… ''[gets tagged by Garnet and falls on her knees to the floor]'' :'''Steven''': Ha! Joke's on you! Pearl doesn't shapeshift! ''[Pearl starts to glow]'' Huh? :'''Pearl''': ''[shapeshifts into 14-year-old Steven]'' The power of Steven Tag COMPELS ME! :'''Steven''': ''[chuckles]'' Wow. Good for her. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Steven''': ''[shivering]'' They'll never stop until they make me play. ''[Alexandrite, in the form of 14-year-old Steven, appears behind him]'' Oh, jeez. ''[screams as Alexandrite blasts fire at him with her second mouth, but protects himself with his bubble shield]'' I really didn't want to do this, but you leave me no choice. I ''JOIN'' THE GAME! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Steven''': You shouldn't have messed with me. Huh? ''[gets tagged by Sapphire]'' :'''Sapphire''': Tag. :'''Steven''': ''[falls off the lighthouse]'' Oh, no. Is this the end of my adult life? ===''Why So Blue?''=== :'''Steven''' You're right. This is harder than usual. :'''Lapis''': You've just got to force them to stop. This is going to be a fight. They're not nice like me. :'''Steven''': Umm... :'''Lapis''': Exactly. :'''Steven''': They just don't understand that they're doing harm. Y-you get it. What made it click for you? :'''Lapis''': ''A cycle of horrible torture.'' ''[smiling]'' But other than that, living in nature, getting creative. :'''Steven''': Yeah! Come on, we can do that for them. :'''Lapis''': Okay. Just a little torture. :'''Steven''': N-no, just the other stuff. :'''Lapis''': ''[sighs]'' Fine, we'll try it your way. :''[They head back to the two Lapis Lazulis]'' :'''Steven''': Hey, so, why don't we explore the many things that you can do that don't involve destroying worlds? :'''"Mean" Lapis''': Should we listen to him? :'''"Nice" Lapis''': He ''is'' half-Diamond. Maybe we should half-listen? :'''Steven''': I'll take that as a "yes." Let's go. ===''Little Graduation''=== :'''Lars''': ''[about Shep]'' Say hi to them for me. ===''Prickly Pair''=== :'''Cactus Steven''': I can't tell Pearl how I feel, 'cause she'd blame herself! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Cactus Steven''': I can't hear any more high and mighty advice from Garnet! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Cactus Steven''': I'm so sick of Amethyst acting like she's so mature now! :'''Amethyst''': Why's it being so weirdly specific? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Amethyst''': Hey, dude? :'''Pearl''': Is there anything you need to talk about? :'''Steven''': ''[softly]'' ... I think I've said enough. ===''In Dreams''=== :''[After Steven and Peridot have watched the'' Camp Pining Hearts ''reboot]'' :'''Steven''': Wha…? Wha…?! :'''Steven and Peridot''': '''''WHAT HAVE THEY DONE?!?!?''''' :'''Peridot''': What is with this Rodrigo guy?! He has no charisma! :'''Steven''': And can we talk about this cinematography?! :'''Peridot''': GAAAH, THEY'VE CHANGED ''ALL'' THE CHARACTERS, AND I DON'T CARE ABOUT ANY OF THEM! ''[grabs the television]'' HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME?! ''[sobs] Camp Pining Hearts'' helped me escape when everything around me was in chaos... :'''Steven''': ''CPH'' brought us together... :'''Peridot''': And now, LOOK AT THIS NIGHTMARE! ''[the TV suddenly shows Steven's dream]'' Steven?! You didn't tell me that they cast you! :'''Steven''': What?! They didn't. I-Is this... my dream from last night? ''[on the TV, after Steven falls and the dream ends, it goes back to'' Camp Pining Hearts ''again]'' Whoa! My- My powers must be interfering with the TV signal! :'''Peridot''': ''[delighted]'' Steven! Do you know what this means?! :'''Steven''': I have to start wearing a tinfoil hat? :'''Peridot''': No! It means that if we can put your dreams on the television, we can reboot the reboot! :'''Steven''': "Reboot the...?" Peridot, you're a genius! :'''Peridot''': I know. :'''Steven''': And, well, it might be fun to fix something that isn't the entire universe. :'''Peridot''': ''[grabs him with one arm]'' This is going to be the beginning of Peridot and Steven Productions! :'''Steven''': Yeah-- whoa! ''[topples onto her]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Steven''': Peridot! We've always had something to fix together - the Cluster, the Diamonds, or Spinel! I don't think I know how to be a friend without something to fix! But I... I just can't do it anymore! I'm so tired... Now I'm even doing it in my dreams! I'm sorry, I can't do this for you. Please don't leave! Don't... leave! :''[The dream stops, in the manner of a TV turning off; Steven awakens, in tears, to Peridot's concerned voice]'' :'''Peridot''': Steven? Steven! STEVEN! Steven, I saw everything! It's-- It's fine! We don't have to do this anymore. ''[hugs him and starts tearing up]'' I don't care about the show, and I ''definitely'' don't care about Rodrigo! Hrrrgh, I'm such a clod! :'''Steven''': But I really wanted to spend time with you! I just... wanted an excuse to hang out. :'''Peridot''': We don't need an excuse to hang out. :'''Steven''': Can... we still watch ''CPH'' together? Even if it sucks? :'''Peridot''': ''[removes her visor to wipe her eyes, and smiles]'' Of course. :''[Later, they watch the show]'' :'''Jasmine''': ''[in the show, angrily]'' How could you lie to me like that, Rodrigo?! I guess you just can't help being a bad person! :''[Steven and Peridot laugh]'' :'''Peridot''': Jasmine, you just ''buried a body in the woods'', and now you're mad that Rodrigo cheated at ''cards?!'' :''[They laugh again]'' :'''Peridot''': This show is the worst! :'''Steven''': ''[smiling warmly at her]'' This show is the best. ===''Bismuth Casual''=== :''[At the Starlight Roller Rink]'' :'''Bismuth''': Woooow! So you mean to tell me people pay to have wheels strapped to their feet for fun? That is really something else. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Patricia''': You should have seen Daniel earlier. He was all bent out of shape 'cos his mom tore into him over his last test scores! :'''Daniel''': ''[groans]'' You know, I kind of forgot about it for a sec. :'''Steven''': Heh... I know how that is. One time, White Diamond tore into me... literally! ''[laughs awkwardly]'' She, uh, she took my gem - I'm part Gem, by the way - she pulled it right out of my body. :'''Daniel''': Okay...? :'''Patricia''': So what grade are you in, Steven? :'''Steven''': Grade? Err, uh... sixteen? :'''Patricia''': ''[laughs]'' :'''Daniel''': So you're taking AP classes? :'''Steven''': Uh... :'''Connie''': Y'all ready to skate? :'''Patricia''': Heck, yeah! :''[Connie, Patricia and Daniel skate away]'' :'''Steven''': I really blew that one. Bet if they were enemy Gems, we'd be best friends by now. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Pearl forms a roll of toilet paper from her gem and gives it to Bismuth]'' :'''Pearl''': Oh, here, take this. Every human has at least one of these in their homes. Sometimes they even use it ''[secretively]'' for vandalism! Good luck out there! ''[starts skating away]'' :'''Bismuth''': Wait, where are you going? :'''Pearl''': You don't need me anymore, Bismuth - the humans already love you! I'm going to make some new connections of my own! ''[to a random skater]'' Hello, fellow skater! Would you like a fresh roll? ''[forms another roll]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Steven''': When Connie and I were fighting to save the universe, things were sort of easier. We were fighting the same fight. Now it's like we're living different lives. I wonder if I'm even her best friend anymore... :'''Bismuth''': ''[pounds the table firmly]'' How long has this been going on? :'''Steven''': Err... couple of months. :'''Bismuth''': Listen, Steven. Pearl brought me here to set me up with her friends, but Connie came here to be with ''you.'' You've got nothing to mope about. :'''Steven''': But her friends think I'm weird. :'''Bismuth''': Of course you're weird! You're a Crystal Gem! Connie knows that, she's always known that! That never stopped you from being friends! <hr width="50%"/> :''[After Steven collapses in the rink]'' :'''Connie''': Steven! Are you okay? :'''Steven''': Connie, I'm sorry... I don't wanna hold you back. :'''Connie''': I don't mind. :'''Steven''': You've got school, new friends, you're going places and... I'm happy for you. But I feel like you're drifting away from me. I wish we could reconnect, but... BUT I DON'T KNOW HOW TO SKATE! <hr width="50%"/> :''[After Steven and Connie win the skating contest as Stevonnie]'' :'''Patricia''': Steven, Connie, that was amazing! :'''Daniel''': What the heck was that out there? :'''Connie''': Oh, fusion? Yeah, that's kind of our thing. :'''Steven''': It's something I picked up from my mom's side of the family. :'''Daniel''': The only thing I get from my mom's side of the family is ''stressed out.'' :'''Steven''': ''[chuckles]'' Same... ===''Together Forever''=== :''[After Connie turns down Steven's proposal]'' :'''Steven''': I don't get it. Ruby and Sapphire said I should go for it. :'''Garnet''': You can't trust love advice from those two hopeless romantics. :'''Steven''': Then why didn't you stop me? :'''Garnet''': There was no future where you didn't propose to Connie. :'''Steven''': Of course... :'''Garnet''': ''[hugs him]'' Your soulmate is your complement, not your missing piece. Ruby and Sapphire love being together, but they each have their own individual lives. Whatever hole there is in your life, Steven, I want you to understand that Connie-Stevonnie won't be able to fill it. ===''Growing Pains''=== :'''Priyanka''': Steven, do you remember anything bad in your childhood that particularly stuck with you? :'''Steven''': I guess… I kind of freaked out when they [[w:Gem Glow|cancelled my favorite ice cream]]. And then I got attacked by a giant bug monster. And I got trapped in a bubble and almost drowned. I lost control of my body and turned into a blob of cats. I almost turned so old I died. Amethyst almost died. Pearl [[w:Steven the Sword Fighter|''did'' die]]. Garnet got destabilized right in front of me. I woke up with a black eye, [[w:Jail Break (Steven Universe)|imprisoned on a spaceship]]-- :'''Priyanka''': Steven, this is serious! :'''Steven''': But that was just the early stuff. :'''Priyanka''': I think all these experiences have been subjecting your body to a harmful amount of stress, and that's affecting your ability to respond to new forms of stress in a healthy way. You've been dealing with genuine threats from such a young age, your body is now responding to minor threats as if your life were in danger. :'''Steven''': But, why am I only swelling up now? :'''Priyanka''': Stress is less harmful when we have people we trust to help us through it. Maybe if... if you're losing your supportive relationships, or if you have a recent experience that was particularly awf-- :''[Steven remembers his failed proposal to Connie, and immediately starts stressing and swelling up]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Greg''': Come on, Steven, talk to me. :'''Steven''': ''[tearing up]'' I... well... I, um... I proposed to Connie! :'''Greg''': You what?! :'''Steven''': She said no. :'''Greg''': Oh, Steven... :'''Steven''': My body... it's reacting like it's the end of the world. I think I've seen the world almost end so many times now that ''everything'' that goes wrong feels that... that extreme! I should be feeling so good these days! The Earth is safe, it's Era 3... But I'm swelling up over these third era problems! What do I do? How do I move on from all the stuff I've been through? How do I live life if it always feels like I'm about to die?! :'''Greg''': It's gonna be all right, Stewball. I'm here for you. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Steven''': I guess I thought I could just follow Connie to college, like if we got married I'd know what to do with myself. But I'm the one that's gotta figure that stuff out. :'''Greg''': Cut yourself some slack! It's okay to be worried and make some mistakes when you're figuring out what to do with your life. That's not unusual. Uh, well, the magic swelling is a little unusual, but that's okay too! If you want to be a giant boy, we can use the car wash as a shower. === ''Mr. Universe'' === :'''Steven''': I don't need this song! I need...I need what you had! :'''Greg''': What? :'''Steven''': I wish I could've grown up at a house like that. :'''Greg''': No you don't! :'''Steven''': Maybe your parents weren't so bad. Maybe they gave you curfews and chaperones and meatloaf f-for a reason! :'''Greg''': Steven, you don't know what they were like! :'''Steven''': They can't be worse then mom's family. I went halfway across the galaxy for them, and this was right here?! :'''Greg''': Steven, I couldn't do anything growing up. Everything I liked, or wore, wanted was always wrong! Trust me, you're better off then I was. :'''Steven''': I can't believe I never realized, you're... you're just like Mom! ''[turns pink as his grip tightens on the steering wheel]'' :'''Greg''': You grew up with actual freedom! :'''Steven''': I grew up in a ''van!'' I never went to school! I've never been to the doctor until two days ago! :'''Greg''': Steven! You're a gem! You're not like other kids! :'''Steven''': I could have done all that stuff! My problem isn't that I'm a gem, my problem is that I'm a ''UNIVERSE!!'' ===''Fragments''=== :'''Pearl''': How could this happen? You crashed the van with Greg inside? You know how fragile he is, these pink outbursts of yours are getting out of hand. :'''Steven''': It's not an ''OUTBURST! [turns pink and swells up]'' :'''Pearl''': See? This is exactly what I'm talking about! What's happening to you? :'''Steven''': Nothing! ...It's nothing. :'''Pearl''': S-Steven! Where are you going?! We're not pro- ''[Steven summons out a generated force field]'' Steven! Drop this wall! :'''Steven''': Pearl, sorry. I'm trying- I just… need… some space, OK? I'll be in my room. :'''Amethyst''': Not so fast, my dude. You gotta tell us what's going on. :'''Garnet''': It looks like Steven is trying to avoid a serious discussion about this ''all'' together. :'''Steven''': '''NO, I'M''' <big>'''NOT!!!'''</big> ''[slams his fist into the stairs in rage, unleashing a room-wrecking shockwave]'' :'''Garnet''': Steven, you have got to calm down and talk to us! :'''Amethyst''': Just chill, man! :'''Steven''': Nnghh… :'''Pearl''': We need to do something about this before someone gets hurt! :'''Steven''': NNGGHH… :'''Garnet''': Don't let this power control you. You're better than this. :'''Steven''': NNGGHH… <big><big>'''''LEAVE ME ALONE!!!!!'''''</big></big> ''[notices the Gems are walking in slow-motion]'' I'm…speeding up again. I gotta get out of here. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Steven''': This thing with my powers is a real problem! :'''Jasper''': The only problem you have are your friends. :'''Steven''': Huh? :'''Jasper''': Can't you see they're holding you back? :'''Steven''': What? No, they're-- they're just worried about me. :'''Jasper''': They're afraid. Of your power. :'''Steven''': Yeah... yeah, I guess so... :'''Jasper''': You are too. You came all the way out here to hide from it. But ''I'm'' not here to hide. I don't stifle my anger or my power; I channel it into training! :'''Steven''': Oh, right... this destroyed forest. :'''Jasper''': I've got no one to serve, nowhere to go. All I have left is '''''POWER!''' [she punches a tree, completely smashing it apart]'' And in order to control that power, I have to ''use'' it. Those so-called "friends" of yours don't understand. They want you to feel bad for being yourself. :'''Steven''': I ''do'' feel bad… ''[steps over to another tree and punches it, cringing in pain and remorse]'' :'''Jasper''': YEAH, DESTROY THAT WEAKLING TREE! :'''Steven''': No! ''[kisses the tree, healing it and making grass sprout around it]'' :'''Jasper''': Ugh! Gross! That's disgusting! Bleh! No! The grass! ''[tears at it]'' Get outta here! ''[grabs Steven]'' Quit helping the local ecosystem recover! <hr width="50%"/> :''[On Steven's new, more muscular form]'' :'''Jasper''': Hm. Not bad for three days of work. ''[Steven kisses one of his biceps]'' I didn't teach you that… <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jasper''': What are you holding back for?! You think I can't take it? I'm not gonna coddle you, Steven! Do you wanna go home to your Gems? :'''Steven''': No… :'''Jasper''': Are you afraid to be strong? Are you pathetic? Are you ''weak?'' :'''Steven''': <big>'''''I'M NOT!!!!!!!'''''</big> <hr width="50%"/> :'''Steven''': You're right, Jasper… I ''have'' been holding back. <hr width="50%"/> :''[Having shattered Jasper after losing control in their rematch, Steven hurries back to his bathroom and dips the fragments into Diamond aura potions]'' :'''Steven''': Please, please let this work! ''[crying]'' Jasper, I'm sorry. Please… come back. ''[his tears add Pink's aura to the mix]'' Please… :''[After a while, Jasper's gem glows and heals, and she reforms]'' :'''Jasper''': ''[panting]'' Huh? What? You... ''shattered'' me? :'''Steven''': Jasper! I-I'm so sorry, I should have stopped! I-I just wasn't thinking! :'''Jasper''': ''[steps out of the bathtub and bows on one knee]'' I bow to your strength… ''my Diamond.'' :'''Steven''': ''[horrified]'' No...! ===''Homeworld Bound''=== :'''Pearl''': ''[knocks on the bathroom door]'' Steven? :'''Amethyst''': What's going on in there? ''[Jasper emerges]'' Jasper?! :'''Pearl''': What are you-? :'''Amethyst''': Where's Steven?! :'''Jasper''': Right here. ''[steps aside, revealing him looking scared and depressed]'' :'''Amethyst''': Steven? Where have you been?! :''[Steven walks off upstairs to his conservatory]'' :'''Pearl''': You can't just disappear for days without telling us! :'''Jasper''': My Diamond can do as he pleases. :'''Amethyst''': Wait, what?! :'''Pearl''': Why are you calling him that?! :'''Garnet''': Steven! :'''Pearl''': Where is he going?! :''[The Gems follow Steven to his conservatory]'' :'''Pearl''': Steven, wait! :'''Garnet''': You don't need to go. :''[Steven turns pink and puts a barrier in front of the Gems and Jasper as he sighs]'' :'''Amethyst''': What the HECK?! :'''Steven''': You guys… I love you, but you ''can't'' help me anymore. I've been avoiding the only people in the entire universe who can. Please, don't follow me. You too, Jasper. Find something better to do with your life. :'''Garnet''': Steven! Remember, we'll always be your family. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Spinel''': STEVEN! ''[grabs him and kisses him]'' :'''Steven''': ''[turning pink]'' Spinel, what is wrong with you?! :'''Spinel''': Oh, y'know, the usual. :'''Steven''': ''[turning back to normal]'' So, how've you been since, err...? :'''Spinel''': Since I tried to kill you? That was so embarrassing. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Steven''': ''[controlling White Diamond]'' Whoa. This is… so weird. I'm-I'm, I'm a Diamond. This- This is the last thing I needed to see. I don't wanna be you! I don't wanna be anything like you! Why won't you just go '''AWAY?!''' ''[punches a pillar]'' Don't hurt me! She can't hurt me. I'm controlling her. So why am I so afraid? ''[remembers White pulling his gemstone out of his navel; scowls angrily]'' '''''She's''''' the one who should be afraid. :'''White Diamond''': ''[talking in Steven's voice]'' What's- what's going on? ''[Steven starts controlling her like a puppet]'' What? No, stop it. I don't like this! :'''Steven''': Too bad. ''[force controls her by walking her to a pillar]'' :'''White Diamond''': Let me go! ''[grabs hold of the pillar]'' Please! You're scaring me! :'''Steven''': This is for '''''everything''''' you put me through! ''[forces White Diamond to slam her head into the pillar, in an attempt to shatter her gemstone, instead, snaps them out of it and hits his own head, allowing White Diamond to regain her control again]'' :'''White Diamond''': ''[breathing; horrified]'' What… what ''was'' that?! :'''Steven''': I-I don't know. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Spinel''': Hey, buddy, where you going? :'''Steven''': Wait a second - ''you'' used to have vengeful thoughts! :'''Spinel''': ''[awkwardly]'' Ooooh, yeah... but I don't get 'em anymore. :'''Steven''': How did you make them stop? :'''Spinel''': I met a little someone named Steven Universe! And he told me: ''[singing]'' [[w:Steven Universe: The Movie|I–I–I–I–I–I, I can make a chaaaaange! You can make a promise...]] :'''Steven''': Gah! Don't give me my own advice! ===''Everything's Fine''=== :'''Steven''': Hey, Connie, what's up? :'''Connie''': Steven! Good, you finally picked up! I can't believe we haven't spoken since the hospital. How are you? :'''Steven''': I'm great! Never been better! :'''Connie''': Really? Have you had any more issues with swelling and glowing pink? :'''Steven''': Um... Nope? Well, maybe, but how about you? How's college prep? :'''Connie''': Steven, that's, uh- It's fine, but what do you mean, maybe? :'''Steven''': Look, there's nothing to worry about. I'm OK. :'''Connie''': Steven... :'''Steven''': I should go. I don't wanna wake up the Gems. :'''Connie''': But they don't even sleep! :'''Steven''': Uh, bye! <hr width="50%"/> :''[While trying to help in Bismuth's workshop]'' :'''Steven''': Ooh, look at that. Now you have ''two'' anvils. :'''Bismuth''': Noooo! My anvil! My beautiful anvil! :'''Steven''': Heh, heh, heh, heh, heh, my work here is done. Well, toodles! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Connie''': Steven! :'''Steven''': Huh? :'''Connie''': I knew it! You ''are'' swelling and glowing again. I've been trying to call you, but I came as soon as I saw this. ''[holds out her phone, on which Steven, glowing and swelled up, is doing the plant Steven's dance and looping the message "Steven's here to help!"]'' What is going on? :'''Steven''': I... broadcast my subconscious sometimes these days. It's really no big deal. :'''Connie''': Okay, but... I can tell something is bothering you. ''[holds out her phone again; the message makes some statics]'' :'''Steven''': Ah, I don't know what you're talking about. I'm fine! Awesome, in fact. Come on, you've seen me when I wasn't doing well. :'''Greg''': Steven, if being like this is what you want, then we'll support you one hundred percent. Whatever makes you happy. But, if you're not happy, if something's wrong- :'''Steven''': Nothing's wrong! Besides, I don't want you to worry. :'''Connie''': We ''are'' worried! :'''Greg''': Steven, you know you can tell us anything. :'''Steven''': It's not that easy! You know what? I don't have to deal with this! ''[walks towards the door, but Amethyst, Pearl, and Connie block his way]'' :'''Amethyst''': Hold up, dude. :'''Garnet''': Steven, you need to stop running. :'''Greg''': Please. :''[Steven starts groaning in frustration, his head briefly swelling out of shape]'' :'''Connie''': Steven, we should get you back to the hospital. :'''Amethyst and Pearl''': HOSPITAL?! :'''Pearl''': When were you in the hospital?! :'''Connie''': You didn't tell them?! :'''Steven''': ''[becoming hysterical, starting to laugh uneasily]'' It wasn't that important, you guys! You're making a big deal out of nothing. Have I done some things wrong? Sure! I trashed the house today, I broke an anvil - what teenager hasn't? Dad and I had a little disagreement, but that's practically a rite of passage! I mean, it would be weird if we didn't, right? And ''maybe'' I've had a not-so-nice thought or two about, like, you know, slamming White Diamond's head through a pillar, but it's not like I actually went through with it! I only ''actually'' shattered Jasper! :''[Pearl gasps in horrified shock]'' :'''Amethyst''': WHAT?! :''[Garnet, Connie, and Greg all gasp in horror]'' :'''Connie''': You're- you're joking, right? :'''Steven''': Oh, don't worry! I fixed that too! I can fix ''anything!'' I can just keep messing up and fixing things forever, and you'll never have to know or think about any of it! :'''Garnet''': Steven... :'''Steven''': ''[sighs; finally loses it]'' How messed up is that? That I've gotten away with this for so long? You have ''no'' idea how bad I am! Y-You think I'm so great, and I'm so mature, and I always know what to do! But ''that's'' not true! I haven't learned a thing from my problems! They've all just made me worse! You all think of me as some angel, but I'm not that kid anymore! ''[scowls]'' I'm a fraud. ''[falls to the floor; breathing shakily]'' I'm a fraud. I'm a MONSTER! ''[massive pink spikes burst out of his back, tearing his shirt with everyone taking a step back, with plain terror]'' ===''I Am My Monster''=== :'''Greg''': ''[calling out]'' Just calm down, son! Take deep breaths! Deep breaths! :'''Amethyst''': Yeah! Relax, buddy! :'''Peridot''': Let's hurry up and clobber that thing! :'''Garnet''': Stand down. :'''Peridot''': What for?! :'''Lapis''': Where's Steven? :'''Garnet''': That ''is'' Steven. :'''Peridot, Bismuth & Lapis''': ''[shocked]'' WHAT?! :''[Monster Steven bashes his head against the cliff of the temple, causing an avalanche of boulders to fall]'' :'''Garnet''': RUN! :'''Amethyst''': He's not listening to us at all! :'''Pearl''': What happened to him? First, he says he's a shatterer and then he's turned into this...''thing''! :'''Connie''': We can change him back, can't we? :'''Garnet''': As long as he believes he's a monster, he'll ''stay'' one. :'''Bismuth''': We gotta keep him away from the town! :'''Garnet''': Connie, do what you can to protect the townspeople. :'''Connie''': Right! :'''Garnet''': ''[to Bismuth, Lapis, and Peridot]'' You three, joint him into the ocean and hold him there. Let's go, guys. ''[she, Amethyst, and Pearl fuse into Alexandrite]'' <hr width="50%"> :''[Spinel and the Diamonds arrive in their ship]'' :'''Spinel''': ''[emerging, holding Steven's flip flop he left behind on Homeworld]'' You forgot your foot thong thingy! ''[sees Monster Steven]'' OOOH, OH! :''[The Diamonds walk out of the ship]'' :'''Yellow Diamond''': What is going on here? :'''White Diamond''': Why is something like this ''always'' happening when we show up for a visit? :'''Blue Diamond''': What is that thing? :'''Garnet''': That "thing" is Steven. :''[Blue Diamond, White Diamond, and Spinel all gasp in shock]'' :'''Yellow Diamond''': What?! :'''White Diamond''': Impossible! :'''Blue Diamond''': Is he corrupted? :'''Yellow Diamond''': But how? :'''Garnet''': Never mind that. We have to change him back. :'''Yellow Diamond''': Leave it to me. ''[she catches Monster Steven's head in an energy aura and tries to shrink it down, only for it to revert back immediately, to her confusion]'' With my new power, I should be able to alter his physical form. :'''Blue Diamond''': He's resisting. Maybe he needs to feel better first. I can help with that. ''[she sends a cloud of joy towards Monster Steven, but he blows it right back]'' :'''Yellow Diamond''': Look out! ''[the cloud hits her and Spinel, and they start laughing uncontrollably]'' Wow! Your new power didn't work either! :'''White Diamond''': ''[pushes Yellow and Blue aside and approaches Monster Steven]'' Enough. I know exactly how to help. If I connect with him and he speaks through me, maybe we'll understand what he's going through. Now then, do you hear me, Steven? ''[her gem glows and the atmosphere's colors change]'' Just relax and let me in… Wait-- ''[her eyes glow, and she cries out and falls back as Yellow and Blue catch her]'' :'''Yellow Diamond''': White! :'''Blue Diamond''': What happened?! :'''White Diamond''': ''[horrified]'' That's ''not'' Steven anymore! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Amethyst''': Guys, look! The Cluster is trying to hold Steven back! :'''Peridot''': I can't believe it! He's even stronger than the Cluster! :'''Bismuth''': Don't let your guard down. He could break free at any moment! :'''Pearl''': Deep inside this…monster, Steven must be in there, so angry. :'''Amethyst''': I knew something was going on. I- Why didn't I ''do'' something?! :'''Sapphire''': ''[crying]'' If we don't get through to him, he'll stay like this ''forever!'' ''[starts sobbing along with Ruby while Lapis watches]'' :'''Amethyst''': ''[to Greg as he takes a few steps back]'' Dude, you should get outta here before you get hurt! :'''Greg''': ''[stomps his foot]'' NO! Everytime Gem stuff happens, I run the other way! This is ''my'' son! And he's right to be angry, because I didn't protect him! :'''Blue Diamond''': ''[tearing up; crying]'' You didn't protect him from us! He's like this because of us! :'''Yellow Diamond''': ''[crying]'' ''We're'' the source of Steven's suffering! :'''Spinel''': ''[breaks down, sobbing hysterically and blowing her nose into her pigtails]'' THIS IS ''MY'' FAULT! :'''White Diamond''': ''[crying]'' Spinel, don't be silly. Everyone knows that all of this is because of ''me!'' :'''Spinel''': No, it's ME! I tried to wipe his friends' memories, so he would die alone on a barren world! :'''White Diamond''': ''[sobbing sorrowfully]'' That was because you were angry with Pink! And if Pink hurt you, it was because ''I'' hurt ''her!'' Like I hurt Yellow and Blue and Steven and everyone in the entire universe! This is all ''my'' fault! :'''Connie''': YES, it is! ''[rides in on Lion]'' Yes, you hurt him, but this isn't the time to make this all about you! That is not helping! Maybe Steven would care how sad you are, because he always puts everyone else's feelings first! But he can't do that for you right now, because he needs ''us'' this time! We all have Steven when we needed him. But the only person who's never had Steven is Steven! He's ''always'' been there for us, so… how can we be there for him now? :''[Ruby and Sapphire smile and fuse back into Garnet]'' :'''Garnet''': I know how. ''[Monster Steven breaks free of the Cluster's hand, defeating it and charges at the beach]'' Okay! No time to waste. Yellow, make me as big as him! :'''Yellow Diamond''': Right. :'''Garnet''': Blue, lift everyone up! :'''Blue Diamond''': Of course. :'''Garnet''': Everyone, get in line! :'''Greg''': You got it! :'''Garnet''': It's time to show Steven… some love. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Garnet''': ''[hugging her arms tightly around Monster Steven while he struggles; calmly]'' Steven, when I fell apart, you were there for me. I want to be there for ''you'' now. I'm here, Steven. I'm here. :'''Lapis''': This is working? You hear us? Steven! ''[comes and hugs him]'' :''[Everyone comes in for the hug too]'' :'''Greg''': I'm here, Schtu-Ball! Whatever you need, I'll make it happen! You hear me?! :'''Peridot''': Steven, you never gave up on me for some reason I don't understand! I'll do the same for you! :'''Amethyst''': I know you feel bad! Believe me, I get it! Sometimes it feels like you're never gonna like yourself but… it's possible, man! :'''Pearl''': Steven, I know how awful it feels to keep a part of yourself secret! You shouldn't have to hide anything from me! :''[Monster Steven stammers emotionally, and the Cluster's hand reappears and takes his]'' :'''Connie''': ''[jumps off Lion's head before landing on Monster Steven's nose and hugs his face; sighs]'' Steven… you must have been ''so'' afraid to show us this side of yourself, but we're not going anywhere. We're all gonna take care of you the same way you took care of us. You know what? I don't have your powers, but… ''[kisses him with a pink droplet appearing]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Steven''': ''[wakes up, back to his normal human-self, still crying]'' Huh? ''[looks and sees everyone smiling at him]'' Wha…I… Did-Did I-I'm- ''[Lion pops up and licks him; chuckling]'' Lion. ''[hugs Lion]'' Lion! ''[begins sobbing, letting out his emotions]'' ===''The Future''=== :'''Jasper''': ''[bursts through the wall, staying aloof]'' Heard you're leaving. ''[faces at Steven]'' I'm coming with you! :'''Steven''': Jasper, I'm going ''alone.'' :'''Jasper''': Then who will protect you?! :'''Steven''': I can protect myself. :'''Jasper''': ''[sighs disappointedly, scowls]'' I know. ''[punches a hole in the ground and looks the opposite direction]'' Farewell, my Diamond. ''[headbutts the wall, creating another Jasper-shaped hole next to the previous one, walks through it]'' :'''Steven''': Whoa! Even Jasper's more upset than my own family! Maybe I need a round two? <hr width="50%"> :'''Garnet''': I couldn't resist looking into your future. I peeked, and I saw a possibility that our tears would keep you from leaving. But I also saw many paths ahead of you, and we are a part of ''all'' of them. Wherever you end up, we will visit you to talk, to listen, to be there – whenever you need us. We love you, Steven. ==External links== {{wikipedia}} [[Category:Steven Universe]] nb0ykajr0ezbrj24ihvw56f0kn2pqkg 828 223730 3961209 2733500 2025-12-11T23:09:31Z w>Izno 0 merge: general improvement for anti-abuse and unaffecting others elsewhere; using modules can consider whether to reintroduce a user link for TAs 3961209 Scribunto text/plain local p = {} function p.main(frame) local args = frame:getParent().args return p._main(args) end function p._main(args) local ret = {} local fullUrl = mw.uri.fullUrl local format = string.format for i, username in ipairs(args) do local label = args['label' .. tostring(i)] local url = "" local targetUser = username if (username:sub(1, (mw.site.namespaces.User.name .. ':'):len()) == (mw.site.namespaces.User.name .. ':')) then targetUser = username:sub((mw.site.namespaces.User.name .. ':'):len() + 1) end if targetUser:sub(1, 2) == '~2' then -- Temporary user target; use internal contributions link url = mw.site.namespaces.Special.name .. ':Contributions/' .. targetUser url = format('[[%s|%s]]', url, label or username) else -- Named user target; use external link url = fullUrl(mw.site.namespaces.User.name .. ':' .. targetUser) url = tostring(url) url = format('[%s %s]', url, label or username) end ret[#ret + 1] = url end ret = mw.text.listToText(ret) ret = '<span class="plainlinks">' .. ret .. '</span>' return ret end return p hak477gvfx84g483g7gn6fyx1mrea6m 3961210 3961209 2026-07-05T16:38:17Z Codename Noreste 3154048 1 revision imported from [[:w:Module:No_ping]] 3961209 Scribunto text/plain local p = {} function p.main(frame) local args = frame:getParent().args return p._main(args) end function p._main(args) local ret = {} local fullUrl = mw.uri.fullUrl local format = string.format for i, username in ipairs(args) do local label = args['label' .. tostring(i)] local url = "" local targetUser = username if (username:sub(1, (mw.site.namespaces.User.name .. ':'):len()) == (mw.site.namespaces.User.name .. ':')) then targetUser = username:sub((mw.site.namespaces.User.name .. ':'):len() + 1) end if targetUser:sub(1, 2) == '~2' then -- Temporary user target; use internal contributions link url = mw.site.namespaces.Special.name .. ':Contributions/' .. targetUser url = format('[[%s|%s]]', url, label or username) else -- Named user target; use external link url = fullUrl(mw.site.namespaces.User.name .. ':' .. targetUser) url = tostring(url) url = format('[%s %s]', url, label or username) end ret[#ret + 1] = url end ret = mw.text.listToText(ret) ret = '<span class="plainlinks">' .. ret .. '</span>' return ret end return p hak477gvfx84g483g7gn6fyx1mrea6m 4 225805 3961203 3742481 2026-07-05T16:35:45Z BD2412 3982 /* Lewis F. Powell Jr. - misquotes */ Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]], replaced: Lewis F. Powell, Jr. → Lewis F. Powell Jr. (2) using [[Project:AWB|AWB]] 3961203 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Village pump archives}} == Adding interviews by journalists and including context from the journalist alongside direct quotes from the interview subjects. == I was recently told in an edit summary by {{U|Peter1c}} for the age for [[Economic inequality]] that Wikiquote should not include paraphrasing??? Case in point: <br> * "While most Americans think of the US as being a country of great economic mobility and opportunity, its economic mobility rate is now one of the worst in the developed world." he wrote. He explained that there is essentially two Americas, for the top 40% and bottom 60%. The former is faring significantly better, and those at the highest level of wealth are as far removed from everyone else as they ever have been... (Part of this entry is a quote and part is a paraphrase. The paraphrase part does not meet WQ:Q) <br> I disagree, I believe that this quote, additional explanation and all, does meet [[WQ:Q]], even if it's "smoother"/"less clunky" to quote without the additional context. Any thoughts? I would appreciate being given the official stance on this from an active administrator or two if possible. [[User:CensoredScribe|CensoredScribe]] ([[User talk:CensoredScribe|talk]]) 16:57, 7 January 2020 (UTC) == IMPORTANT: Admin activity review == Hello. A policy regarding the removal of "advanced rights" (administrator, bureaucrat, etc. ) was adopted by [[:m:Requests for comment/Activity levels of advanced administrative rights holders|global community consensus]] in 2013. According to this policy, the [[:m:stewards|stewards]] are reviewing administrators' activity on all Wikimedia Foundation wikis with no inactivity policy. To the best of our knowledge, your wiki does not have a formal process for removing "advanced rights" from inactive accounts. This means that the stewards will take care of this according to the [[:m:Admin activity review|admin activity review]]. We have determined that the following users meet the inactivity criteria (no edits and no log actions for more than 2 years): #Jeffq (administrator) These users will receive a notification soon, asking them to start a community discussion if they want to retain some or all of their rights. If the users do not respond, then their advanced rights will be removed by the stewards. However, if you as a community would like to create your own activity review process superseding the global one, want to make another decision about these inactive rights holders, or already have a policy that we missed, then please notify the [[:m:Stewards' noticeboard|stewards on Meta-Wiki]] so that we know not to proceed with the rights review on your wiki. Thanks, --[[User:علاء|علاء]] ([[User talk:علاء|talk]]) 19:56, 7 January 2020 (UTC) :{{re|علاء}} You may wish to update the English version of this template to say "no edits and no log<u>ged</u> actions". [[User:GreenMeansGo|<span style="font-family:Impact"><span style="color:#07CB4B">G</span><span style="color:#449351">M</span><span style="color:#35683d">G</span></span>]][[User talk:GreenMeansGo#top|<sup style="color:#000;font-family:Impact">talk</sup>]] 22:37, 7 January 2020 (UTC) ::A local policy on activity seems most appropriate. I can't speak for others, but two years is an extremely long time. A 1 year policy would make more sense and often (personal experience) has brought me back to activity as a friendly poke that if I don't contribute, I will lose my rights. Looking around, I think this friendly poke is needed for a few admins. {{Ping|GreenMeansGo}} Thoughts? '''~[[User:~riley|<span style="color:#232323;">''riley''</span>]]''' ''(<span style="color:#4F4F4F;">[[User talk:~riley|<span style="color:#4F4F4F;">talk</span>]]</span>)'' 00:40, 8 January 2020 (UTC) :::Well they just noticed us earlier last year, which caused quite a purge. I wouldn't be opposed to a local standard. [[User:GreenMeansGo|<span style="font-family:Impact"><span style="color:#07CB4B">G</span><span style="color:#449351">M</span><span style="color:#35683d">G</span></span>]][[User talk:GreenMeansGo#top|<sup style="color:#000;font-family:Impact">talk</sup>]] 11:38, 8 January 2020 (UTC) == Addition to [[WQ:IMAGE]] guidance? == [[File:Freedom mobile version.png|thumb]] I have seen ''a lot'' of articles where there have been a dozen or more images all stacked in the lead. Compare the image placement for the current article for [[France]]. Ten images, all stacked together in the lead. Now, pull out your phone and view the mobile version of the article for France. On mobile version, you have to scroll through all ten of these images before you get to the text in the first section. And 10 is actually a pretty low count. The article for [[Freedom]] currently has ''63 images stacked in the lead'', meaning the page is rendered basically entirely unusable for mobile viewers. We've ''got'' to stop doing this. The same page for Freedom, that is entirely unnavigable for mobile users, get a sustained [https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikiquote.org&platform=mobile-web&agent=user&range=latest-20&pages=Freedom 66 average daily view from mobile users]. [[User:GreenMeansGo|<span style="font-family:Impact"><span style="color:#07CB4B">G</span><span style="color:#449351">M</span><span style="color:#35683d">G</span></span>]][[User talk:GreenMeansGo#top|<sup style="color:#000;font-family:Impact">talk</sup>]] 16:04, 15 January 2020 (UTC) :Another problem that has arisen lately regarding the placement of images at the top of pages is that some users are placing select images at the top that appear to push a POV. Having this elevated placement on the page emphasizes these quotes over others. As a solution to this, for those pages where there has been discussion and argument about this, images have been placed in the alphabetic sections based on the author of the quote (thereby moving them further down the page based entirely on the alphabet and not on anyone's sense of what should be emphasized). This may not solve every problem, since some pages do not have these alphabetic sections, but it would also help with the issue you identified. I would invite further discussion to determine the best approach, but I agree that the problem you have raised is troubling. ~ [[User:UDScott|UDScott]] ([[User talk:UDScott|talk]]) 16:19, 15 January 2020 (UTC) ::I was kindof hoping we could get a good consensus on the issue, and maybe I could beg someone to make a bot to disperse images throughout an article. This probably spans most of the non-stub pages on the project if I was guessing. [[User:GreenMeansGo|<span style="font-family:Impact"><span style="color:#07CB4B">G</span><span style="color:#449351">M</span><span style="color:#35683d">G</span></span>]][[User talk:GreenMeansGo#top|<sup style="color:#000;font-family:Impact">talk</sup>]] 16:47, 15 January 2020 (UTC) ::: I have long noted both of the above problems on various pages, and certainly not had time to sufficiently address the issues where I had noted them, but will attempt to begin work on both problems in the weeks and months ahead. I am not sure a "dispersal" bot would be easy to construct or apply, but I will henceforth spend more of my own time further re-establishing what was once an extensive norm of 1 lead image and significant and clearly relevant quote as caption in the short intro section, or sometimes 2 where the intro area is extensive. After those 1 or 2 images in the intro area it is definitely preferable that all further images be placed in the sequences and sections in which the quotes used for their captions occur on the page, and believe this should become policy, but one not likely to be immediately clear to all new editors, as there are numerous pages where such procedures as were once norms have now long been abandoned. I am not extensively familiar with the display behaviors using mobile formatting on devices (usually switching to desktop mode on the relatively rare occasions I check in on mobile), but I believe that groupings of these ''beneath'' the section headings are not so much as problem as grouping them at the very head of the article ''before'' even the intro quite obviously is. ~ <span style= "color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]]·[[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 18:12, 15 January 2020 (UTC) ::::{{re|Kalki}} To be clear, the article for Freedom looks like this on mobile, and continues on like that for 63 images before the reader can get to the text. The problem is really the grouping of too many images in any one place anywhere, but grouping them at the top of the article in particular is especially problematic. Many readers may not even realize there is text at all. [[User:GreenMeansGo|<span style="font-family:Impact"><span style="color:#07CB4B">G</span><span style="color:#449351">M</span><span style="color:#35683d">G</span></span>]][[User talk:GreenMeansGo#top|<sup style="color:#000;font-family:Impact">talk</sup>]] 18:23, 15 January 2020 (UTC) ::::: Yes, that is obviously an extreme problem, and I encourage other editors to set to remedying it with moving of all but one or two of images below the intro sections ASAP, and preferably into the proper sections and sequences on the pages, though I know that this can sometimes be tedious where sequential order was not maintained in the placement of images. I will probably begin attending to some of these pages myself in the coming days, and probably for some weeks ahead. ~ <span style= "color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]]·[[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 18:33, 15 January 2020 (UTC) : I have just reorganized the images on the [[Freedom]] page to be closer to the norms evident even on that page only months ago. That is all I have time for right now — must be leaving, but expect to be back within a few hours. ~ <span style= "color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]]·[[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 19:58, 15 January 2020 (UTC) ::On the subject of the previous state of the article, {{re|Peter1c}} when adding images to pages, please don't stack them at the top for the above reasons. Truth be told, there's probably a lot of people doing it, but the last thing we should want to do is make the issue worse and harder to clean up. [[User:GreenMeansGo|<span style="font-family:Impact"><span style="color:#07CB4B">G</span><span style="color:#449351">M</span><span style="color:#35683d">G</span></span>]][[User talk:GreenMeansGo#top|<sup style="color:#000;font-family:Impact">talk</sup>]] 20:09, 15 January 2020 (UTC) {{re|GreenMeansGo}}, yes I have been adding images at the top of page above the first section heading. I didn't know about the issue of how this affected mobile view. Sorry about this. I understand concerns about mobile view and issues of neutral point of view. I will adjust my methods accordingly. Thank you for the opportunity to work with you on Wikiquote. 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[[User:PoolsHaza181|PoolsHaza181]] ([[User talk:PoolsHaza181|talk]]) 20:01, 30 January 2020 (UTC) :Hey [[User:PoolsHaza181|PoolsHaza181]]. To my knowledge, most of the popular private quote websites don't include sources at all, and may or may not be reliable in their content. For our purposes, we can and do pull quotes from lots of things, including interviews, books, and newspapers. But one of the main differences between Wikiquote and a lot of other sites is that we do require sources. This makes things a little more difficult sometimes, but ideally it makes us a higher quality source for our readers. [[User:GreenMeansGo|<span style="font-family:Impact"><span style="color:#07CB4B">G</span><span style="color:#449351">M</span><span style="color:#35683d">G</span></span>]][[User talk:GreenMeansGo#top|<sup style="color:#000;font-family:Impact">talk</sup>]] 20:10, 30 January 2020 (UTC) ::Continuing this discussion: is brainyquote reliable on quotes for sources? Thanks. ([[User:Josephine W.|<span style="font:100% Times;white-space:nowrap;border-radius:99em;padding:0 4em;box-shadow:2px 2px 11px #bbb;background: blue;color:purple " lang="en">Josephine W. </span>]] （[[User talk:Josephine W.|Talk]]） 08:49, 2 March 2020 (UTC)) == Why aren't anchors a thing here? == I don't edit here, but I do like to link to Wikiquote on internal project discussions. Why aren't [[m:Help:Anchors|anchors]] regularly deployed on English WikiQuote? If I want to link to my [[Hamlet#Scene_ii_5|favorite quote]], I'm basically stuck linking to the whole page or nothing at all. Can someone please ping an explanation to me? [[User:MJL|MJL]] ([[User talk:MJL|talk]]) 07:16, 18 February 2020 (UTC) :See [[#Anchors]]. [[User:IKhitron|IKhitron]] ([[User talk:IKhitron|talk]]) 13:08, 18 February 2020 (UTC) ::Hmm.. Now I'm even more convinced that this is a problem. There could simply be a policy page that says people shouldn't replace manually placed anchors without a good reason. [[User:MJL|MJL]] ([[User talk:MJL|talk]]) 16:26, 18 February 2020 (UTC) == Robert James Masters new article on The Art of the Chase book, a Literary Work == I tried to upload 13 MS Word pages containing original quotes from my book, the Art of the Chase I was not linking to any website. {{unsigned2|06:01, 21 February 2020|Robert James Masters}} :{{ping|Robert James Masters}} May you accurately describe your problem? You can copy these pages, not upload them. Also, Hi. I wanted to ask you to sign comments in talk pages. The easiest way to sign is to add <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki> at the end -- it is automatically transformed to your IP address with a timestamp or, if you register, to a username and a timestamp. This makes it much easier to track discussions, and is the common practice here. Thanks. [[User:Josephine W.|<span style="font:100% Times;white-space:nowrap;border-radius:99em;padding:0 4em;box-shadow:2px 2px 11px #bbb;background: blue;color:purple " lang="en">Josephine W. </span>]] （[[User talk:Josephine W.|Talk]]） 06:07, 21 February 2020 (UTC) :: {{User:Robert James Masters}} attempted to post a large excerpt (48000⁺ bytes) from his "book", but it was prevented by the [https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Special:AbuseLog&wpSearchUser=Robert+James+Masters '''abuse filter'''] (both local and global filters). Why? In short: Wikiquote is not for publishing or promoting your book. {{pbri}} A 19 page PDF was uploaded from Microsoft® Word [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Quotations_from_The_Art_of_the_Chase_PDF.pdf at Wikimedia Commons], where it has been flagged by OgreBot for review. I do not know whether it will ultimately be accepted or rejected at Commons, but this does not belong at Wikiquote. ~ [[User:Ningauble|Ningauble]] ([[User talk:Ningauble|talk]]) 15:57, 21 February 2020 (UTC) == Categories sorting templates == Hello, I was just wondering if we could insert a template tool searching the usages of a certain template (i.e. a quick tool on the template page which could insert that template onto any one page, or adding the form that will automatically put the page into a certain category for every template). May admins fix this problem? I asked before but there was no fix to this problem. [[User:Josephine W.|<span style="font:100% Times;white-space:nowrap;border-radius:99em;padding:0 4em;box-shadow:2px 2px 11px #bbb;background: blue;color:purple " lang="en">Josephine W. </span>]] （[[User talk:Josephine W.|Talk]]） 06:14, 21 February 2020 (UTC) : It is not clear to me what you are trying to do or what is actually broken. Can you clarify with a more concrete example? Is this related to the [[w:WP:HotCat|HotCat]] gadget? ~ [[User:Ningauble|Ningauble]] ([[User talk:Ningauble|talk]]) 16:45, 21 February 2020 (UTC) :: What I mean is that like [[Wikiquote:Babel|Babel]] and [[Wikiquote:Speedy deletions|Speedy Deletion Templates]], templates can automatically mark pages that have the template into a category. [[User:Josephine W.|<span style="font:100% Times;white-space:nowrap;border-radius:99em;padding:0 4em;box-shadow:2px 2px 11px #bbb;background: blue;color:purple " lang="en">Josephine W. </span>]] （[[User talk:Josephine W.|Talk]]） 00:56, 22 February 2020 (UTC) ::: Sounds like you mean [[:mw:INCLUDEONLY]]. —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 01:04, 22 February 2020 (UTC) :::: I assume that as such, there are categories sorting templates? [[User:Josephine W.|<span style="font:100% Times;white-space:nowrap;border-radius:99em;padding:0 4em;box-shadow:2px 2px 11px #bbb;background: blue;color:purple " lang="en">Josephine W. </span>]] （[[User talk:Josephine W.|Talk]]） 03:04, 22 February 2020 (UTC) :::: Then may I ask how exactly to sort every page including template x into a category? [[User:Josephine W.|<span style="font:100% Times;white-space:nowrap;border-radius:99em;padding:0 4em;box-shadow:2px 2px 11px #bbb;background: blue;color:purple " lang="en">Josephine W. </span>]] （[[User talk:Josephine W.|Talk]]） 10:22, 23 February 2020 (UTC) == Additional interface for edit conflicts on talk pages == ''Sorry, for writing this text in English. If you could help to translate it, it would be appreciated.'' You might know the new interface for edit conflicts (currently a beta feature). Now, Wikimedia Germany is designing an additional interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. This interface is shown to you when you write on a discussion page and another person writes a discussion post in the same line and saves it before you do. With this additional editing conflict interface you can adjust the order of the comments and edit your comment. We are inviting everyone to have a look at [[m:WMDE Technical Wishes/Edit Conflicts#Edit conflicts on talk pages|the planned feature]]. Let us know what you think on our [[mw:Help talk:Two Column Edit Conflict View|central feedback page]]! -- For the Technical Wishes Team: [[m:User:Max Klemm (WMDE)|Max Klemm (WMDE)]] 14:14, 26 February 2020 (UTC) <!-- Message sent by User:Max Klemm (WMDE)@metawiki using the list at https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Technical_Wishes_News_list_all_village_pumps&oldid=19845780 --> == vector.js Sub-Userpages == Are there vector.js sub-userpages since there are monobook.js sub-userpages? ([[User:Josephine W.|<span style="font:100% Times;white-space:nowrap;border-radius:99em;padding:0 4em;box-shadow:2px 2px 11px #bbb;background: blue;color:purple " lang="en">Josephine W. </span>]] （[[User talk:Josephine W.|Talk]]） 04:37, 27 February 2020 (UTC)) * Yes, {{u|Josephine W.}}, there are. Most people use common.js (applies to all skins) unless it is a script that only works for a specific skin. '''~[[User:~riley|<span style="color:#232323;">''riley''</span>]]''' ''(<span style="color:#4F4F4F;">[[User talk:~riley|<span style="color:#4F4F4F;">talk</span>]]</span>)'' 01:33, 8 April 2020 (UTC) * Thank you! Sorry for my inactivity recently. ([[User:Josephine W.|<span style="font:100% Times;white-space:nowrap;border-radius:99em;padding:0 4em;box-shadow:2px 2px 11px #bbb;background: blue;color:purple " lang="en">Josephine W. </span>]] （[[User talk:Josephine W.|Talk]]） 23:43, 25 April 2020 (UTC)) == Lewis F. Powell Jr. - misquotes == Hello, I'm a OTRS volunteer, and I'm processing a [[ticket:2019121810007394|ticket]] about misquotes attributed to Lewis F. Powell. The writer says that the ways of General Maxwell Taylor and Lewis F. Powell hadn't, to their knowledge, crossed. They also mention that the first quote doesn't sound like Powell at all. Could you please review those quotes? I've informed the writer about this discussion, so they can watch it. --[[User:Martin Urbanec|Martin Urbanec]] ([[User talk:Martin Urbanec|talk]]) 16:10, 6 March 2020 (UTC) : What is OTRS? By "first quote," do you mean this one: [[Lewis_F._Powell,_Jr.#1970s]]? [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 16:21, 7 March 2020 (UTC) :: Sorry for confusing you. OTRS is the system used to process contact addresses like info-en@wikiquote.org. You can read more at [[:w:WP:OTRS]]. :: I mean the quotes mentioning General Taylor, so ''I know of no other nation in history that deliberately fought a major war with no intention or effort to use its full available...'' and ''It was abundantly clear from his letters that, virtually to the end, he remained deeply interested in national and world events. Yet he never ceased to engage in self-deprecating''. --[[User:Martin Urbanec|Martin Urbanec]] ([[User talk:Martin Urbanec|talk]]) 17:52, 8 March 2020 (UTC) : Unfortunately, the text for the cited source is not available at Google books. However, [https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/author/TAYLOR,-JOHN-M-JUSTICE-LEWIS-F-POWELL,-JR-,-FOREWORD- one bookseller site] describes the source as having a forward from Justice Powell. That suggests their paths did not cross but, instead, ran parallel for a substantial time. [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 17:11, 9 March 2020 (UTC) * I have gone ahead and removed these as we are unable to verify their accuracy. Closing the OTRS ticket. '''~[[User:~riley|<span style="color:#232323;">''riley''</span>]]''' ''(<span style="color:#4F4F4F;">[[User talk:~riley|<span style="color:#4F4F4F;">talk</span>]]</span>)'' 22:05, 17 April 2020 (UTC) :: The quotes were questioned because "the ways of General Maxwell Taylor and Lewis F. Powell hadn't, to their knowledge, crossed." We've confirmed that the source given by the original editor (a) exists, (b) is by General Maxwell, and (c) Powell wrote the introduction. That would seem to resolve the concerns that called the quotes into question. I vote for restoring the quotes. (To be fair, my post above could have been clearer. What I meant to say is that the available information suggests that Taylor and Powell were not acquaintances (whose paths merely crossed) but friends (whose paths ran parallel).) [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 17:06, 18 April 2020 (UTC) * [https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Lewis_F._Powell,_Jr.&diff=2779628&oldid=2346431 This] is not a minor edit. The source cited is a book by General Maxwell Taylor's own son who states (on p. xvi) that Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. was a close friend of his father's, having corresponded with him over the years. I restored the quotations. ~ [[User:DanielTom|DanielTom]] ([[User talk:DanielTom|talk]]) 17:54, 18 April 2020 (UTC) ** Thanks for joining the conversation. It appears my preferences on this wiki unlike any other were set to minor edit by default. You'll notice this issue in my [[Special:Contributions/~riley|contributions]]. Thanks for bringing it to my attention! Thanks for providing further clarification on this albeit original research. I have updated the OTRS client. '''~[[User:~riley|<span style="color:#232323;">''riley''</span>]]''' ''(<span style="color:#4F4F4F;">[[User talk:~riley|<span style="color:#4F4F4F;">talk</span>]]</span>)'' 08:48, 19 April 2020 (UTC) *** Cool, thanks riley. ~ [[User:DanielTom|DanielTom]] ([[User talk:DanielTom|talk]]) 11:17, 19 April 2020 (UTC) :: Just curious, DanielTom, where did you find the text to check? [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 17:02, 19 April 2020 (UTC) ::: Excerpts from the book are available on [https://books.google.com/books?id=oAcgAAAAMAAJ Google Books]. ~ [[User:DanielTom|DanielTom]] ([[User talk:DanielTom|talk]]) 19:17, 19 April 2020 (UTC) :::: Thanks! [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 15:29, 20 April 2020 (UTC) == Requesting guidance == Hello, I am new to wikiquote. In Pakistan there is annual women's right movement march ([[:en:w:Aurat March]]) held on International women's day 8 March, getting substantial media attention. Many quotes from social media hashstags are also being covered by Pakistan main stream media. One of such hashtag is "Why I March" under which reasons of March are quoted. Some of that discussion can be covered in Wikipedia but some notable statements made on social media covered by mainstream media as notable can not be covered in wikipedia and likely to be suitable to wikiquote. Please do guide me know what is better as per wikiquote rules & practice 'Aurat March' and 'Why I March for Aurat March' can be separate articles ? Ought to be clubbed together in single article with separate sections? Or Ought to clubbed without separate alphabet only sections ? Please let me know Thanks & warm regards [[User:Bookku|Bookku]] ([[User talk:Bookku|talk]]) 05:20, 9 March 2020 (UTC) == [[:s:What Modern Warfare Looks Like When Experimented Upon Helpless People]] == Someone posted a few sentences from "What Modern Warfare Looks Like When Experimented Upon Helpless People", a 1936 speech by Malaku E. Bayen, on English Wikisource. It's out of scope over there; would it belong here? The only source I can find for it is [http://rastaites.com/oldnews/hearticals/ethiopianworldfederation/voe1.htm this 2006 online newsletter]. [[User:Beleg Tâl|Beleg Tâl]] ([[User talk:Beleg Tâl|talk]]) 16:44, 15 March 2020 (UTC) * It does not appear to have the qualities of [[Wikiquote:Quotability]]. (Not least because one can find only a fragment in only one source for it.) ~ [[User:Ningauble|Ningauble]] ([[User talk:Ningauble|talk]]) 21:00, 15 March 2020 (UTC) == Is it common here to have 3 languages other than english pages but.. == Is it common at wikiquote to have ''3 languages other than english'' pages but no english language page? Example: [[Stephen Chbosky]]. Thanks in advance, [[User:Ottawahitech|Ottawahitech]] ([[User talk:Ottawahitech|talk]]) 15:48, 20 March 2020 (UTC) == Offensive link in a Walt Disney article == While investigating a quotation for a book I'm copyediting, I clicked on a link that said I could find the full text of a book on Walt Disney. Clicking it brought me to a porn site. I don't know how to edit, but I wanted to ask someone in the knowledge community to fix it. It's the "Walt Disney" entry. Within the article, there's a heading "Deeds Rather Than Words (1963)." The line immediately below the heading ends with a link, supposedly providing full online text for the aforementioned book. That's the offending link. Yuck. Thanks :{{done}}. Removed hijacked link. ~ [[User:Ningauble|Ningauble]] ([[User talk:Ningauble|talk]]) 14:04, 21 March 2020 (UTC) == Limits on quotes from news articles? == Hi, I am trying to create a page for Bangalore Nagarathnamma, with quotes from this article from a news website - https://www.firstpost.com/living/an-early-20th-century-tale-of-censorship-how-bangalore-nagarathnamma-fought-social-norms-to-revive-the-legacy-of-muddupalani-8132331.html Is there a similar limit on news articles as books, novels or written works? I was unable to find a specific limit for news articles - https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Limits_on_quotations The Quotes are directly from her, made before the 1920s. Is it appropriate to add some or all of them into Wikiquote? --[[User:Wallacegromit1|Wallacegromit1]] ([[User talk:Wallacegromit1|talk]]) 12:18, 7 April 2020 (UTC) == Editing news 2020 #1 – Discussion tools == <div class="plainlinks mw-content-ltr" lang="en" dir="ltr"> <em>[[m:VisualEditor/Newsletter/2020/April|Read this in another language]] • [[m:VisualEditor/Newsletter|Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter]]</em> [[File:TalkPages-Reply-v1.0.png|thumb|300px|alt=Screenshot showing what the Reply tool looks like|This early version of the Reply tool automatically signs and indents comments.]] The [[mw:Editing|Editing team]] has been working on [[mw:Talk pages project|the talk pages project]]. The goal of the talk pages project is to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. This project is the result of the [[mw:Talk pages consultation 2019|Talk pages consultation 2019]]. [[File:TalkPages-Reply-v2.0.png|thumb|300px|alt=Reply tool improved with edit tool buttons|In a future update, the team plans to test a tool for easily linking to another user's name, a rich-text editing option, and other tools.]] The team is building a [[mw:Talk pages project/replying|new tool for replying]] to comments now. This early version can sign and indent comments automatically. <strong>Please [[mw:Talk pages project/replying/prototype testing#Reply%20version%201.0|test the new Reply tool]].</strong> *On 31 March 2020, the new {{Int:discussiontools-replylink}} tool was offered as a [[mw:Beta Feature|Beta Feature]] editors at four Wikipedias: [[w:ar:Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures|Arabic]], [[w:nl:Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures|Dutch]], [[w:fr:Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures|French]], and [[w:hu:Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures|Hungarian]]. 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I have done some preliminary improvements including: * Archiving completed requests, removing spam and self-promotion, and removing non-notable authors. * Creating a user-friendly main page with 10 main "categories" (based on the common request types) to choose from * Creating subpages with a header and "add entry" button * Moving the 250~ requests into their applicable subpage To be done still : * Add instructions to the top of each subpage * Add a pre-load template to the button and help header for what information is specifically requested * Format previous requests so they aren't a complete mess * Do a final review to see which are non-notable and which are already completed. * Set up a system for marking requests as complete and auto-archiving. Please let me know your thoughts on this and if there is anything I can further do to improve the page/process. If you would like to help, please let me know. '''~[[User:~riley|<span style="color:#232323;">''riley''</span>]]''' ''(<span style="color:#4F4F4F;">[[User talk:~riley|<span style="color:#4F4F4F;">talk</span>]]</span>)'' 07:36, 10 April 2020 (UTC) == Finding out who the editor was == I saw an interesting quote on [[Patricia Churchland]], and was wondering who was the editor who added it, so that I can [[User:Ottawahitech#Thanking others|thank them]]. Unfortunately this wiki has no access to ''wikiblame'' which is software that is available on ''enwiki'' which allows any user to annonymously reseach who contributed a certain piece of content to a wiki-page. Is there any tool on ''wikiquote'' that can be used for this purpose? Thanks in advance, [[User:Ottawahitech|Ottawahitech]] ([[User talk:Ottawahitech|talk]]) 16:06, 17 April 2020 (UTC) == My new project – Stubs! == I'm making a focus on creating more (and maintaining the existing) stub templates. There are currently 60 stub templates as of posting this. My goal is to make that 600. If you have nothing to do, check the page out, and maybe even contribute your own stub templates from the list of needed templates :D [[User:Dibbydib/Stub|Visit the page here]], these contain guidelines on creating your own stub templates, and a list of already created stub templates. I look forward on helping Wikiquote! <span style="font-family:Arial Black, Gadget, sans-serif;">[[User:Dibbydib|dibbydib]] ([[User talk:Dibbydib|T]] · [[Special:Contributions/Dibbydib|C]])</span>^{'' [[User:Dibbydib/Stub|Project Stub]]''} 09:23, 26 April 2020 (UTC) :Glad to see you bringing some structure to this but can you explain a little more about why you think we should have an order of magnitude more stub types... That seems excessive for such a small project. —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 10:03, 26 April 2020 (UTC) :: I first got into this by discovering there aren't even any stubs for chefs and other professions, and discovering that many of these don't even make sense grammar-wise. I'm also considering nationalities for these (also, [[Template:Asbox]] is unprotected...) If I see something stub-template-wise, I'll try and fix it. maybe scale it down to 350.. <span style="font-family:Arial Black, Gadget, sans-serif;">[[User:Dibbydib|dibbydib]] ([[User talk:Dibbydib|T]] · [[Special:Contributions/Dibbydib|C]])</span>^{'' [[User:Dibbydib/Stub|Project Stub]]''} 22:24, 26 April 2020 (UTC) == Categories == User ‎Akhiljaxxn has reverted my edits of singer-songwriters, like Bruce Springsteen. If anyone, Bruce is a singer-songwriter, I think. That editor also claims that Michael Jackson, Adele and Lana Del Rey aren't singer-songwriters. So what's the definition? There's confusion in subcategories, too: Musicians from the United States is the main category, guitarists from the United States a subcategory. Do we need both in the same article? - Academics from the United States has over 800 persons - should there be more subcategories (only economists at the moment)?--[[User:Vilho-Veli|Vilho-Veli]] ([[User talk:Vilho-Veli|talk]]) 15:50, 26 April 2020 (UTC) ::I think the user is confused with the singer-songwriter and a singer who also a songwriter. The category singer-songwriter is not the same or equivalent to category singer or category songwriter. Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and perform their own musical material, including lyrics and melodies. whereas a songwriter is a musician who professionally composes musical compositions and writes lyrics for songs. [[User:Akhiljaxxn|Akhiljaxxn]] ([[User talk:Akhiljaxxn|talk]]) 17:19, 26 April 2020 (UTC) :::Doesn't Springsteen write, compose and perform his own musical material? And why don't you change the categories at English Wikipedia also?--[[User:Vilho-Veli|Vilho-Veli]] ([[User talk:Vilho-Veli|talk]]) 17:44, 26 April 2020 (UTC) ::::Well, did en-Wikipedia accept your POV?--[[User:Vilho-Veli|Vilho-Veli]] ([[User talk:Vilho-Veli|talk]]) 14:54, 27 April 2020 (UTC) Lana Del Rey: guitarists from the United States is a subcategory of Musicians from the United States, so both are not needed. The same is with singer-songwriters from the United States/singers from the United States. Record producers is necessary 'till we have the category Record producers from the United States. Model is mentioned in the text. And so on.--[[User:Vilho-Veli|Vilho-Veli]] ([[User talk:Vilho-Veli|talk]]) 13:00, 28 April 2020 (UTC) :"Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose, and perform their own musical material, including lyrics and melodies" (en-Wikipedia). Bruce Springsteen does exactly that. So please don't waste my time anymore.--[[User:Vilho-Veli|Vilho-Veli]] ([[User talk:Vilho-Veli|talk]]) 23:08, 28 April 2020 (UTC) ::: "please don't waste my time" is not a phrase that tends to promote a resolution of disputes. [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 16:18, 29 April 2020 (UTC) It isn't clear exactly what you two are fighting over. Akhiljaxxn, would you please provide a link to the Vilho-Veli Bruce Springsteen reversion that you find objectionable? [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 16:18, 29 April 2020 (UTC) :::: The latest comment at en-Wikipedia by 1995hoo: come on, folks, this is a bit ridiculous. The singer-songwriter article even mentions Springsteen by name as an example.--[[User:Vilho-Veli|Vilho-Veli]] ([[User talk:Vilho-Veli|talk]]) 18:32, 29 April 2020 (UTC) ::::: At en.Wikiquote we cannot do anything about some link (not linked) at en-Wikipedia. Is discussion intended to be constructive in any way? ~ [[User:Ningauble|Ningauble]] ([[User talk:Ningauble|talk]]) 20:07, 29 April 2020 (UTC) :I just want to find out what's the definition of the singer-songwriter - so that we don't have to discuss it concerning ALL other singer-songwriters.--[[User:Vilho-Veli|Vilho-Veli]] ([[User talk:Vilho-Veli|talk]]) 20:32, 29 April 2020 (UTC) Oops, my bad. I should have said "'''Vilho-Veli''', would you please provide a link to the '''Akhiljaxxn''' Bruce Springsteen reversion that you find objectionable?" [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 06:04, 30 April 2020 (UTC) ::If someone is a singer-songwriter at Wikipedia, she/he is that also here.--[[User:Vilho-Veli|Vilho-Veli]] ([[User talk:Vilho-Veli|talk]]) 11:56, 6 May 2020 (UTC) ::: That is a good statement of your position. Unfortunately, it doesn't tell us how that position differs from Akhiljaxxn's position. Is [https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Bruce_Springsteen&type=revision&diff=2785814&oldid=2785779 this] the link to the edit you gave as an example above? If so, why not solve the problem by using both categories ("singer ..." and "singer-songwriter ..." - and, what the heck, add "songwriter ..." as well)? :::: Yes, that's it. In my opinion we don't need unnecessary categories. "Singer-songwriter" tells that one's a singer and a songwriter. "Singers from the United States" would have too many people without subcategories. --[[User:Vilho-Veli|Vilho-Veli]] ([[User talk:Vilho-Veli|talk]]) 17:03, 7 May 2020 (UTC) The categories are mainly for showing the most essential facts, so you don't have necessarily to read all the text. That's why we don't need the bloody infoboxes. Could somebody tell how to copy images from those. I had to go to the Occitan Wikipedia before I found the image (Ayn Rand) that wasn't in an infobox! Only very few people actually go to search the categories: Singer-songwriters from the United States 3 daily, Singers from the United States and Songwriters from the United States only one.--[[User:Vilho-Veli|Vilho-Veli]] ([[User talk:Vilho-Veli|talk]]) 19:47, 7 May 2020 (UTC) :You say "In my opinion we don't need unnecessary categories." Putting aside the issue of who gets to decide what is unnecessary and what is needed, what is the harm of having unnecessary and unneeded categories? [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 04:46, 9 May 2020 (UTC) ::The principle: not a main category if there's a subcategory.--[[User:Vilho-Veli|Vilho-Veli]] ([[User talk:Vilho-Veli|talk]]) 16:53, 11 May 2020 (UTC) ::: Okay, here is what I think you are saying: When an artist is both a "singer" (maim category) and a "singer-songwriter" (sub-category) then editors should use only the more specific "singer-songwriter" sub-category because otherwise there would be too many listings under the general "singer" category. Do I have that right? [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 15:53, 14 May 2020 (UTC) :::: Exactly!--[[User:Vilho-Veli|Vilho-Veli]] ([[User talk:Vilho-Veli|talk]]) 16:34, 14 May 2020 (UTC) Doing a quick search I couldn't find anything on Wikiquote about this issue. However, I did find something at [[w:Wikipedia:Categorization#Category_tree_organization ]]. As I read that text you are right. You may want to cite this link when making similar changes in the future. [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 16:44, 15 May 2020 (UTC) ::Thank You!--[[User:Vilho-Veli|Vilho-Veli]] ([[User talk:Vilho-Veli|talk]]) 21:53, 15 May 2020 (UTC) == New Wikiquotian here - how is it determined which quotes should be put in the article? == Thanks in advance, [[User:Thatoneweirdwikier]] [[User talk:Thatoneweirdwikier]] 20:12, 13 May 2020 (UTC) : {{yo|Thatoneweirdwikier}} I think that [[Wikiquote:Quotability]] is probably a good reference for quotes, but usually, it's just the best quotes from the person (or about the subject). Make sure to actually reference them though~ [[User:Dibbydib|<span style="color:#0ea900">'''dibbydib'''</span>]]^{'''⌐■_■'''} <span style="color:blue">([[User talk:Dibbydib|<span style="color:blue">barate me</span>]])</span> 09:08, 14 May 2020 (UTC) ==User:Pratap Pandit== {{vandal|Pratap Pandit}} has been edit warring across some articles. I was asked to report it here. Last month he began by [https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=2020_Palghar_mob_lynching&diff=2785043&oldid=2784659 removing quotes he didn't like], claiming they are non-notable, are not "enduring" (even though we are talking about a current event, so "enduring" cannot be measured in any case). However, they were from a very notable journalist, who furthermore is also well known for his stance on this particular lynching. The journalist was also very critical of the police handling of the case and has made himself many enemies due to his reporting. As such, the quote is not just pithy, eloquent, and poignant, but also represents a particular perspective on the lynching. We are also talking about an ongoing lynching incident. [[2020 Palghar mob lynching|The lynching is highly controversial and political]], with developments still ongoing, claims of media bias and police bias, [https://www.republicworld.com/india-news/law-and-order/palghar-lynching-case-lawyer-dies-in-car-accident.html and just now the lawyer of one of the victims in the killings was killed in a car accident]. [[Template:Remove|The rule is to move quotes to the talkpage, not just remove them]] but Pratap has even [https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:2020_Palghar_mob_lynching&diff=2794774&oldid=2794770 deleted ("censored") the same quotes on the talkpage.] As pointed out by Dibbydib already, Pratap also made [https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3APratap_Pandit&type=revision&diff=2795058&oldid=2795052 blatantly false accusations against me] (claiming it was I who was removing quotes, when all I did was reverting his edit that simultaneously deleted quotes while adding his quotes in the same edit). {{user|Pratap Pandit}} has been on a campaign to shut down and censor a perspective on this lynching since last month. He did the same at wikipedia with success (?), but was now blocked on wikipedia. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:2020_Palghar_mob_lynching/Archive_1 He has been the most active editor on wikipedia about this lynching] before getting blocked. Pratap has also been edit-warring with Rupert at [[2020 coronavirus pandemic in India]] --[[User:დამოკიდებულება|დამოკიდებულება]] ([[User talk:დამოკიდებულება|talk]]) 10:12, 15 May 2020 (UTC :Most of the accusations above are useless bickering. Serious comments meriting a response have been replied at the appropriate threads on the talk page of these 2 pages. On the accusations of edit warring on [[2020 coronavirus pandemic in India]], you should understand that you are not supposed to restore Content that is copyright violation. If you think I have mistaken then let another editor judge. By repeatedly re-adding the disputed content that is also blatant copyright violation, you are edit warring and making copyright violations. That is 2 offence at the same time. Regarding Arnab's comment I would like to see that evidence how those comment have achieved fame and deserve to be added to this article. I haven't found any and you have not produced any either. Now instead of establishing on the article talk page first how these comments / rants/ libel by Arnab Goswami against someone qualifies as "has achieved fame", this user has decided to attempt getting the other editor blocked by hook or by crook. I would like to note that Arnab Goswami has been sued in India for his libelous claims. So much for yellow journalism. The issue on Wikipedia is none of your business and I feel there is no need to discuss it here on Wikiquote. --[[User:Pratap Pandit|Pratap Pandit]] ([[User talk:Pratap Pandit|talk]]) 16:27, 15 May 2020 (UTC) Please move this discussion to [[Wikiquote:Administrators' noticeboard]]. [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 16:38, 15 May 2020 (UTC) :{{done}} Discussion has been moved to [[Wikiquote:Administrators' noticeboard]]--[[User:Pratap Pandit|Pratap Pandit]] ([[User talk:Pratap Pandit|talk]]) 10:26, 17 May 2020 (UTC) ==დამოკიდებულება== {{vandal|დამოკიდებულება}} First, Can this editor add an English name so that it is easier to communicate, instead of copy pasting every time. Communicating with fellow editors should not be made difficult by adding non english text not supported by English Keyboards. Second this user has been adding massive amount of non notable content from propaganda sites like MEMRI, that are also copyright violations, on political topics related to India. I have challenged some of his edits and in retaliation, a report has been made here on VP. This users behavior should also be checked in light of these findings. --[[User:Pratap Pandit|Pratap Pandit]] ([[User talk:Pratap Pandit|talk]]) 16:31, 15 May 2020 (UTC) Please move this discussion to [[Wikiquote:Administrators' noticeboard]]. [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 16:40, 15 May 2020 (UTC) :{{done}} [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]], thread has been moved to [[Wikiquote:Administrators' noticeboard]] --[[User:Pratap Pandit|Pratap Pandit]] ([[User talk:Pratap Pandit|talk]]) 16:46, 15 May 2020 (UTC) == Pratap Pandit & დამოკიდებულება edit dispute == {{ping|დამოკიდებულება|Pratap Pandit}} There has recently been an edit dispute between these two contributors recently. I've put the thread from [[User talk:Pratap Pandit|Pratap's talk page]] here for conveniance. {{Discussion-closed-top|archived from [[User talk:Pratap Pandit]]}} Quotes should never be removed without a comment on the talkpage, and should always be moved to the Talk page with a note that they were removed from the article, giving full reasoning. If it is a misattribution, the quote should not be removed, instead being moved to a "Misattributed" section, where explanation of the misattribution can be made in a subbullet. Thanks. --დამოკიდებულება (talk) 08:00, 25 April 2020 (UTC) *Perhaps it is time for you to start following the same advice you are giving to the others. Why did you remove the Home Minister's quote ? Also there is no need to copy paste entire quotes on the talk page. Learn to use Article history and Diffs. *Please stop removing sourced content from Wikiquote. *'''Notable: We limit ourselves to quotations which are notable. A quotation can be notable because it has achieved fame due to its enduring relevance to many people. This is not the case here''' * Read more on https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:What_Wikiquote_is_not * If you disagree then discuss on the talk page first. [[User:Pratap Pandit|Pratap Pandit]] ([[User talk:Pratap Pandit|talk]]) 21:34, 14 May 2020 (UTC) :: @Pratap Pandit: It does seem that you were adding unsourced and rather POV quotes at the time. One time, however, you did add a source but removed an already-existing reference, in that case it had to be rolled back. I also doubt the legitimacy of these quotes, as I spotted a number of grammar mistakes, such as not ending the quote with a full stop, or not including a space from one sentence to another. :: Removing someone else's quote and adding your own, ''especially'' when the other's quote is sourced and the one you're adding is dubious at best, isn't okay. I suggest resolving this dispute at the [[WQ:VP|village pump]] and avoid POV pushing and/or edit warring. [[User:Dibbydib|<span style="color:#0ea900">'''dibbydib'''</span>]]^{'''⌐■_■'''} <span style="color:blue">([[User talk:Dibbydib|<span style="color:blue">barate me</span>]])</span> 08:10, 15 May 2020 (UTC) ::: @Dibbydib:, If you are making serious allegations then it is expected that you provide diffs to back those claims. I am careful to add sources to the quote, can you tell me where did I add unsourced quotes. The wording of the quote, along with grammar errors are exactly what the subject said. If there are missing fullstop, then the right thing to do is to fix it and not use this trivial thing as an excuse to rollback. @Dibbydib: I went ahead and added few more sources to back up the quote that I had added. --[[User:Pratap Pandit|Pratap Pandit]] ([[User talk:Pratap Pandit|talk]]) 16:43, 15 May 2020 (UTC) :::დამოკიდებულება, removing copyright violation is not considered Edit warring. It is you who is edit warring by repeatedly adding the copyright violations into the article. I have replied to the topics on the talk page of the article. I would like to continue the discussion at the right place, which is the talk page of the article. --[[User:Pratap Pandit|Pratap Pandit]] ([[User talk:Pratap Pandit|talk]]) 16:35, 15 May 2020 (UTC) {{Discussion-closed-bottom}} There are current concerns over first notability, and then copyright infringement at [[2020 Palghar mob lynching]] and [[2020 coronavirus pandemic in India]]. I currently have my suspicions on Pratap who first removes a few quotes based on "notability" ([[WQ:Q|quotability]]), then changes it later to "unreliable source" when said source (MEMRI) has been used plenty of other occasions on Wikiquote, plus the fact that MEMRI didn't even publish the quote. '''The quote was actually first published at New Age Islam and then republished by MEMRI.''' This notion of an "unreliable source" was tried by Pratap, and links to [https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Middle_East_Media_Research_Institute this page], of which is of dubious origin, ''is a wiki'', plus almost all the references for the page link to the MEMRI site itself. Also, the last time this page was edited was in 2012, and their logo is sketchy as hell. This is 100% a conspiracy theory website and shouldn't be cited to resolve a dispute. Then, Pratap Pandit later claimed it also to be a copyright infringement in ''"Please do not add entire paragraphs from copyrighted websites. These are not quotes."''. I don't know what exactly to say of this since it's literally a quote in the website itself, and would have been fine to add in, I might leave this here. These are sensitive topics and I fear that POV has played a part in this. I advise you two to sort this stuff out. [[User:Dibbydib|<span style="color:#0ea900">'''dibbydib'''</span>]]^{'''⌐■_■'''} <span style="color:blue">([[User talk:Dibbydib|<span style="color:blue">barate me</span>]])</span> 22:49, 15 May 2020 (UTC) :Thank you dibbydib for commenting. :The case at [[2020 Palghar mob lynching]] is very easy: #Arnab is a very notable journalist. #He is known for having been very vocal (and some say, controversial) about the case. So he for sure deserves a quote about this lynching case. His voice is a unique perspective on this lynching. #Furthermore, Arnab's reporting had political and even physical consquences. As widely reported, Arnab and his wife were physically attacked in Mumbai while driving in their car by some leaders of the local youth Congress party.[https://www.ibtimes.co.in/breaking-arnab-goswami-his-wife-attacked-by-goons-mumbai-attackers-arrested-anchor-safe-818194] #And last but not least, the quotes are also pithy and eloquent. :All this makes it clear that a quote of Arnab is deserved. One could of course still discuss ''which'' quotes of Arnab to include. See also my comments above at [[Wikiquote:Village_pump#User:Pratap_Pandit]]. :I don't know if there has been a coverup in this lynching case, as some claim, but what I do know is that the way that facts and quotes have been removed on wikiquote (and wikipedia) has ''all the signs of a "coverup"''. --[[User:დამოკიდებულება|დამოკიდებულება]] ([[User talk:დამოკიდებულება|talk]]) 07:39, 16 May 2020 (UTC) :: {{yo|დამოკიდებულება}} Oh, that changes everything. I've also noticed Pratap was [[Special:CentralAuth/Pratap Pandit|blocked for sockpuppetry]] on the English Wikipedia. :: Users [[Special:Contributions/Cedix|Cedix]], [[Special:Contributions/Pratap Pandit|Pratap Pandit]], [[Special:Contributions/Bajrang Ram|Bajrang Ram]], [[Special:Contributions/TedCarl|TedCarl]], [[Special:Contributions/Apyn|Apyn]], and [[Special:Contributions/Mr.Regalis|Mr.Regalis]] (from enwiki) were proven to be the same user from [[Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/BabbarJatt/Archive|this sockpuppet investigation]]. If you see two or more of these accounts contributing, hit up [[WQ:AN|AN]]. :: I also looked through [[Special:Contributions/Pratap Pandit|Pratap Pandit's contributions]] and found that the user was most likely a single-purpose account. All signs point to NOTHERE. Will put on AN if this escalated. [[User:Dibbydib|<span style="color:#0ea900">'''dibbydib'''</span>]]^{'''⌐■_■'''} <span style="color:blue">([[User talk:Dibbydib|<span style="color:blue">barate me</span>]])</span> 08:40, 16 May 2020 (UTC) :::If you think I have violated any rule, you are free to report me. --[[User:Pratap Pandit|Pratap Pandit]] ([[User talk:Pratap Pandit|talk]]) 09:37, 16 May 2020 (UTC) *regarding MEMRI here is what [https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/middle-east-media-research-institute-memri/ Media Bias Fact Check] says about them. "'''we rate MEMRI a Questionable source based on promotion of Israeli propaganda, poor sourcing and a few failed fact checks.'''" :Do you still need more evidence that MEMRI is a shitty propaganda site and not a reliable source ? If a shitty propaganda site is all this user can find to support a random comment on the internet then that is a good indication of that random quote not meeting the criteria to be included on Wikiquote. --[[User:Pratap Pandit|Pratap Pandit]] ([[User talk:Pratap Pandit|talk]]) 11:06, 16 May 2020 (UTC) ::These issues are already discussed at WQ:AN (After User:Butwhatdoiknow asked to move it to WQ:AN) so I will not participate here. If you read the threads at WQ:AN , it would be clear to you. The only diffs worth looking at in their report are the ones from Wikiquote, and they are all from content disputes being discussed on the respective talk page. After failing to find any evidence of policy violation against me, these members of the "We group" have added diffs of content dispute, hoping to mislead others into thinking that this is some kind of offence to have a content dispute and discuss it on the talk page. In fact User:Dibbydib himself is a big part of the problem here. While the content dispute was ongoing, it was [https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3APratap_Pandit&type=revision&diff=2795058&oldid=2795052 Dibbydib who first escalated this by asking] to take "Content dispute" to Village pump. And in his comment above he accusing me of reporting the other editor's behavior. Dibbydib is now turning a blind eye towards all the disruption and harassment against me and is siding with the other harassers in trying to bludgeon me on the AN thread. He seems to be incapable or unwilling to look at things from a neutral perspective. Reading the threads on that page, it would be clear to anyone, that they have no evidence for violation of any policy against me. It seems this group is hoping for sanctions based on "imaginary violations" and content disputes. --[[User:Pratap Pandit|Pratap Pandit]] ([[User talk:Pratap Pandit|talk]]) 10:16, 17 May 2020 (UTC) :{{done}} Discussion has been moved to [[Wikiquote:Administrators' noticeboard]] --[[User:Pratap Pandit|Pratap Pandit]] ([[User talk:Pratap Pandit|talk]]) 10:16, 17 May 2020 (UTC) == Proposal: Do something about these glarish year articles! == This is a pet peeve of mine. Almost every article on a year does not have any quotes, and is always replaced with a placeholder. Since the community "has not come to a consensus" since 2007 ([https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=2000&action=history]), I propose we actually do something relating to these "year" articles. When quotes are found, add them instead of putting that annoying placeholder and leaving everything. I propose three formats for these pages, which would go on the year article [[2011]] if implemented: * 1: Quotes ''about'' the year (e.g. "...and May 1st, 2011 there's gonna be a terrific earthquake, way greater than anything the earth has ever experienced, and that'll be the beginning of Judgement day..." — [[w:Harold Camping|Harold Camping]] on the [[w:2011 end times prediction|2011 end times prediction]]) * 2: Quotes ''from'' the year (e.g. "Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow." — Apple co-founder Steve Jobs’ last words on Oct. 5, 2011) * 3: Why not both? Consensus needed! [[User:Dibbydib|<span style="color:#0ea900">'''dibbydib'''</span>]]^{'''⌐■_■'''} <span style="color:blue">([[User talk:Dibbydib|<span style="color:blue">barate me</span>]])</span> 06:52, 16 May 2020 (UTC) : It seems to me that quotes ''from'' the year would be too numerous to be of any use. I'm good with quotes about the year. [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 23:06, 16 May 2020 (UTC) == Planned maintenance operation (read-only time) on May 19 @ 5:00 A.M. UTC == Hi, There's a planned maintenance operation in the upcoming week. It will happen on Tuesday 19th May at 05:00 AM UTC, for 15 minutes. This wiki will go read-only during this operation. During this operation, Wikidata would also be in read-only so services targeting Wikidata may not work during the meantime. See also: [[phab:T251981]]. --[[User:Kaartic|Kaartic]] ([[User talk:Kaartic|talk]]) 15:08, 16 May 2020 (UTC) == Rename [[:Category:Electronic games]] to Video games? == {{closedtop|Renamed}} [[User:Dibbydib|<span style="color:#0ea900">'''dibbydib'''</span>]]^{'''⌐■_■'''} <span style="color:blue">([[User talk:Dibbydib|<span style="color:blue">barate me</span>]])</span> 08:46, 25 May 2020 (UTC) In my opinion it's a much better label, as all its subcategories also use the phrase 'video game' and it appears a much better label. Consensus closes 22 March (I don't want to wait too long) [[User:Dibbydib|<span style="color:#0ea900">'''dibbydib'''</span>]]^{'''⌐■_■'''} <span style="color:blue">([[User talk:Dibbydib|<span style="color:blue">barate me</span>]])</span> 02:23, 18 May 2020 (UTC) :'''Support''': per all its articles seems to be about video games. Rupert Loup 02:47, 22 May 2020 (UTC) {{closedbottom}} == Planned maintenance operation (read-only time) on May 19 @ 5:00 A.M. UTC == Hi, This is a reminder about the planned maintenance operation that is will happen happen on Tuesday 19th May at 05:00 AM UTC, for 15 minutes. This wiki will go read-only during this operation. During this operation, Wikidata would also be in read-only so services targeting Wikidata may not work during the meantime. See also: [[phab:T251981]] --[[User:Kaartic|Kaartic]] ([[User talk:Kaartic|talk]]) 15:11, 16 May 2020 (UTC) == Category pages in one place == Is it possible to view all pages for a major category on one page. For example, if I view the Scientists category, I then must pick a subcategory (e.g. Geologists), and then often a sub-subcategory. Rather than this, I would like a list of the pages for all scientists in one place. Thanks! ==Block evasion by Pratap_Pandit== {{vandal|Pratap Pandit}} was recently blocked on wikiquote during which time he used socks to edit wikiquote. At a time when he was blocked at wikiquote, he edited on wikiquote with socks. A number of similar edits were made on similar topics by similar IPs on wikiquote, for example here: [https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Indian_independence_movement&diff=2797651&oldid=2789522][https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Indian_independence_movement&diff=2797652&oldid=2797651][https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Indian_independence_movement&diff=2797654&oldid=2797652][https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Indian_independence_movement&diff=2797655&oldid=2797654][https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Indian_independence_movement&diff=2797657&oldid=2797655][https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Indian_independence_movement&diff=2797658&oldid=2797657] The edits were of the exact same type and topics (articles) as the editing of some of his other socks. There are many other examples where Pratap edited articles that were edited by me (or Rupert) previously [https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Pratap_Pandit]. There was similar block evasion on other wikimedia projects on articles and topics Pratap edited before with similar account names/numbers. I am sure that this is a sock used for block evasion. [https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:COVID-19_pandemic_in_India&diff=prev&oldid=2796797 Pratap was already criticized for the hounding against me and Rupert, by for example going through dozens of articles edited] by me or User:Rupert loup and making spurious claims, for [[harassing]], for [[hounding]], for [[stalking]], and for not being [[WQ:CIVIL]]. Rupert loup already [https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:COVID-19_pandemic told Pratap many times:] : This is hounding, you should stop stalking and making baseless accusations. [[WQ:CIVIL]] and [[WQ:WQT]]. --[[User:დამოკიდებულება|დამოკიდებულება]] ([[User talk:დამოკიდებულება|talk]]) 10:11, 23 May 2020 (UTC) ===Continued Harassment, hounding and stalking by Pratap Pandit=== Pratap has now added the checkcopyright template to dozens of articles without giving any evidence or proof explaining why they are needed. The only criteria seems to be if the article was edited by me or Rupert. The way this is done is disruptive. An admin has already reverted his edit on the Copyrights page. The same pattern of Harassment, hounding and stalking by Pratap Pandit is seen in his mass nominations at Articles for deletion. --[[User:დამოკიდებულება|დამოკიდებულება]] ([[User talk:დამოკიდებულება|talk]]) 09:11, 24 May 2020 (UTC) :Village pump is the place to ask "[i]f you have a question about Wikiquote and how it works." Do you have such a question? [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 16:39, 24 May 2020 (UTC) ::@[[User:Butwhatdoiknow]] this is in relation to [[w:User:Pratap Pandit|User:Pratap Pandit]], who has been blocked as a sock, troll etc on en.wp; although I've got absolutely no idea whatsoever why that's an issue for WQ... [[User:Serial Number 54129|<span style="color:black">'''——'''</span>]][[Special:Contributions/Serial Number 54129|<span style="color:black">''SerialNumber''</span>]][[User talk:Serial Number 54129|<span style="color:#8B0000">54129</span>]] 16:44, 24 May 2020 (UTC) ::: Still not clear what the question is. [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 17:06, 24 May 2020 (UTC) This is not the first report about Pratap, and I was just dropping a note on the continued Harassment, hounding and stalking by Pratap Pandit. It was already noted by others for example that Pratap's account may need [https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Wikiquote:Administrators%27_noticeboard&diff=2795957&oldid=2795881 a "global lock"], that [https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Wikiquote:Village_pump&diff=2795640&oldid=2795632 all signs point to WP:NOTHERE] that he [https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Wikiquote:Administrators%27_noticeboard&diff=2796204&oldid=2796197 is engaging in continuous harassment and edit warring] and that [https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Miszatomic&diff=prev&oldid=2796094 action should be taken by admins]. I was previously told to report Pratap's harassment and edit-warring at Village Pump (see the earlier reports above), and since most reports are still on this page, I added it here. --[[User:დამოკიდებულება|დამოკიდებულება]] ([[User talk:დამოკიდებულება|talk]]) 09:13, 25 May 2020 (UTC) :This page is not the place to "drop a note." [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 17:05, 25 May 2020 (UTC) I tried to move the content to AN, but this was reverted by Pratap. --[[User:დამოკიდებულება|დამოკიდებულება]] ([[User talk:დამოკიდებულება|talk]]) 10:44, 25 May 2020 (UTC) :As I [https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:%E1%83%93%E1%83%90%E1%83%9B%E1%83%9D%E1%83%99%E1%83%98%E1%83%93%E1%83%94%E1%83%91%E1%83%A3%E1%83%9A%E1%83%94%E1%83%91%E1%83%90&type=revision&diff=2800551&oldid=2797601&diffmode=source noted on your talk page]. Please Stop Spamming [[WQ:AN]]. These threads had already been moved to [[WQ:AN]] when [[:User:Butwhatdoiknow]] asked them to be moved. Those threads already have replies on WQ:AN. --[[User:Pratap Pandit|Pratap Pandit]] ([[User talk:Pratap Pandit|talk]]) 11:11, 25 May 2020 (UTC) :: Improper reversion on AN is undone. [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 17:50, 25 May 2020 (UTC) == Re-introducing the Navbox? == {{closedtop|Navboxes already exist, redirecting [[Template:Navbox]] to [[:Category:Navigational templates]]}} [[User:Dibbydib|<span style="color:#0ea900">'''dibbydib'''</span>]]^{'''⌐■_■'''} <span style="color:blue">([[User talk:Dibbydib|<span style="color:blue">barate me</span>]])</span> 05:26, 2 June 2020 (UTC) The Navbox, [[Template:Navbox|deleted again and again]], is a great template to organise wiki content. However, it has been sparsely used, and sometimes the template didn't even work due to improper creation. If the Navbox is able to be properly installed, we should be able to group a variety of content together. Sure, categories exist, but Navboxes have been very useful in navigating other wikis such as Wikipedia. I propose that we actually re-introduce this integral wiki feature, and '''actually implement it''' which was the main reason that the template got deleted in the first place, simply because the template remained neglected. If this proposal is successful I will work on adding useful navboxes to articles. <span style="font-family:Arial Black, Gadget, sans-serif;">[[User:Dibbydib|dibbydib]] ([[User talk:Dibbydib|T]] · [[Special:Contributions/Dibbydib|C]])</span> 07:01, 3 April 2020 (UTC) * '''support''' I can see a clear use case for these. '''~[[User:~riley|<span style="color:#232323;">''riley''</span>]]''' ''(<span style="color:#4F4F4F;">[[User talk:~riley|<span style="color:#4F4F4F;">talk</span>]]</span>)'' 07:27, 10 April 2020 (UTC) : '''Questions''' {{Yo|:Dibbydib}} What is a navbox? What is a template? Who will replace you when you are no longer here? Thanks in advance, [[User:Ottawahitech|Ottawahitech]] ([[User talk:Ottawahitech|talk]]) 15:46, 10 April 2020 (UTC) :: This got existential real quick, damn. But for reference, [[w:Template:Navbox|here's the navbox template on Wikipedia]], plus [[w:WP:NAVBOX|this section from WP:CLN about navboxes and navigation templates]]. If you need help with templates [[w:H:T|there's a help page for it.]] Happy editing! <span style="font-family:Arial Black, Gadget, sans-serif;">[[User:Dibbydib|dibbydib]] ([[User talk:Dibbydib|T]] · [[Special:Contributions/Dibbydib|C]])</span> 22:36, 13 April 2020 (UTC) * '''support''' ([[User:Josephine W.|<span style="font:100% Times;white-space:nowrap;border-radius:99em;padding:0 4em;box-shadow:2px 2px 11px #bbb;background: blue;color:purple " lang="en">Josephine W. </span>]] （[[User talk:Josephine W.|Talk]]） 00:11, 26 April 2020 (UTC)) *'''support''' We already have some navboxes , see the Category:Navigational_templates --[[User:დამოკიდებულება|დამოკიდებულება]] ([[User talk:დამოკიდებულება|talk]]) 19:08, 29 May 2020 (UTC) {{closedbottom}} == Showing off some cool stuff + RfA advice? == So I was tinkering around with userscripts lately and made two cool things: # [[User:Dibbydib/newpages|A link to NewPages in pt-personal]] # [[User:Dibbydib/an|A link to Administrator's Noticeboard in the sidebar]] They should work 100% of the time but if not, bring it to my talk page. I'll work on scripts that add text to pages later once I figure out what the heck I'm doing. Would also like some advice or tips on a potential [[WQ:RFA|RfA]] I might do in the not-too-far future? It'll be in my sights when I get ~5k or ~10k edits. Happy editing quotians :) [[User:Dibbydib|<span style="color:#0ea900">'''dibbydib'''</span>]]^{'''⌐■_■'''} <span style="color:blue">([[User talk:Dibbydib|<span style="color:blue">barate me</span>]])</span> 08:08, 28 May 2020 (UTC) : Thanks for the userscripts contributions. For those of us who are not Wiki-wizards, would it be possible to show the result when they are used? [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 15:31, 28 May 2020 (UTC) :: I'm gonna fork some code from scripts that I already know, which first show a diff preview before saving. The ones currently used are just handy links right now. [[User:Dibbydib|<span style="color:#0ea900">'''dibbydib'''</span>]]^{'''⌐■_■'''} <span style="color:blue">([[User talk:Dibbydib|<span style="color:blue">barate me</span>]])</span> 23:47, 28 May 2020 (UTC) === RfA Advice === [https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Dibbydib&diff=prev&oldid=2803552&diffmode=source Dibbydib cannot understand] a basic fact that matter on Wikipedia are not discussed on other projects. Despite comment by 2 different admins Dibbydib repeats matter about Wikipedia not once but '''Eleven times'''. (see [https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Dibbydib&diff=prev&oldid=2803552&diffmode=source link] for diffs). This is a classic case of Unable to get a point. Such a clueless user becoming an admin will be an absolute disaster to Wikiquote which is already in a very bad shape. --[[User:Pratap Pandit|Pratap Pandit]] ([[User talk:Pratap Pandit|talk]]) 10:29, 2 June 2020 (UTC) : This comment is premature. Three is no pending RfA. [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 16:04, 2 June 2020 (UTC) ::Read above, he says that the RfA is not-too-far in future. Hence the advice on the impending RfA. In addition to what I noted above, I also see a major problem in his assessment of NPOV. An Editor spams WQ article with far right POV, when the spamming is challenged, Dibbydib concludes that the editor challenging the user adding far right POV is having an Islamic POV. If such people become admin then the chaos that will ensue is unimaginable. WQ users should watchout and be careful. --[[User:Pratap Pandit|Pratap Pandit]] ([[User talk:Pratap Pandit|talk]]) 17:07, 2 June 2020 (UTC) ::I see that Dibbydib has repeatedly tried to [https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Wikiquote:Village_pump&type=revision&diff=2804467&oldid=2804454&diffmode=source censor my comments] on this page, Village pump. He must understand that Dibbydib is not allowed to do that. This further shows your poor judgement skills and how inappropriate Dibbydib is for a job of a responsible admin.--[[User:Pratap Pandit|Pratap Pandit]] ([[User talk:Pratap Pandit|talk]]) 08:28, 3 June 2020 (UTC) ::: <small>Note: Copied from my talk page (yes, Pratap took it to my talk page)</small> ::: You were derailing the conversation in order to try and justify yourself in the AN argument. It's unnecessary and I viewed it in my revert as an [[WQ:ATTACK|attack]]. Again, I've said what I've said in the AN thread. I will be taking another break from this dispute as it's getting too toxic again, and I'm trying to distance myself from it to work on other things. ::: Or, should I use your own words: "hijacking each thread and spamming it with drama" :P ::: Also, some clarifications, I'm not solely against you. I'm against your action pretending like I ignored GMG's comment in edits when I clearly didn't blah blah blah it's on AN - I have nothing against you as an editor, even if you have something against me. ::: '''This isn't "advice", it's you trying to [[w:WP:WIN|win a pointless argument]] in a month-long dispute that I'm taking a break from.''' [[User:Dibbydib|<span style="color:#0ea900">'''dibbydib'''</span>]]^{'''⌐■_■'''} <span style="color:blue">([[User talk:Dibbydib|<span style="color:blue">barate me</span>]])</span> 08:48, 3 June 2020 (UTC) ::::My comments are not off-topic. If you believe it was off topic, you can share your opinion, as a comment here saying you believe it is off topic. You are not allowed to remove or close threads discussing "your" actions on a community page, like village pump. You do not have any authority to stifle or corrupt my comments. An admin will do it if it is needed. If you repeat corrupting my comments, you will be reported for edit warring and violation of talk page guidelines where you are tweaking my comment. ::::Dibbydib, you asked for feedback on your impending RfA and you got your feedback. If you dont have a stomach to digest honest feedback, why are you even asking for it. On top of that you call a honest feedback on some of your recent actions as an "Attack" and then [https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Wikiquote:Village_pump&type=revision&diff=2804467&oldid=2804454&diffmode=source go on to remove the feedback]. When I restored my comment you then tried to [https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Wikiquote:Village_pump&type=revision&diff=2804534&oldid=2804533&diffmode=source stifle by corrupting my comment using CSS] and [https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Wikiquote:Village_pump&diff=next&oldid=2804534&diffmode=source tags added in between my comment]. I reverted your corruption of my comments. As if that was not enough you then asked your coterie ( User:დამოკიდებულება) to join in and [https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Wikiquote:Village_pump&diff=next&oldid=2804544&diffmode=source edit war to corrupt my comment] once again. These are further examples of your poor judgement and lack of even a basic understanding of Talk page guidelines, that ask editors not to tweak or corrupt another editor's comment.--[[User:Pratap Pandit|Pratap Pandit]] ([[User talk:Pratap Pandit|talk]]) 11:58, 3 June 2020 (UTC) ::::# {{re|Pratap Pandit|დამოკიდებულება}} I didn't ask დამოკიდებულება to revert your edit and have no relations with them or other editors. ::::# It's not feedback to me, it's just an excuse to attack me which as you can assume I didn't take well. ::::# Don't get in an edit war again. That also counts for დამოკიდებულება. ::::# If you take offense to notes I've placed on the texts, perhaps you shouldn't have gone out of your way to attack me. ::::# I'm not doing an RfA in at least 3 months or so. ::::# If you think "corruption of my comments" was adding a note correcting yourself, perhaps you (and quoting you), don't have a stomach to digest honest feedback. :::::: Don't go after me, period. Yes, I thought, and still think, like it's an attack. Nothing against you, just maybe don't go discussing about me again. I also won't be on for tomorrow. [[User:Dibbydib|<span style="color:#0ea900">'''dibbydib'''</span>]]^{'''⌐■_■'''} <span style="color:blue">([[User talk:Dibbydib|<span style="color:blue">barate me</span>]])</span> 12:11, 3 June 2020 (UTC) :::::::If you did not ask User:დამოკიდებულება to corrupt my comments by restoring your edits, then why dont you ask User:დამოკიდებულება to not do that ? You are free to disagree with me feedback, you have no right to remove them or corrupt my comments as you have been doing repeatedly. I am as much a part of this community as you are. --[[User:Pratap Pandit|Pratap Pandit]] ([[User talk:Pratap Pandit|talk]]) 12:14, 3 June 2020 (UTC) :::::::: "''If you did not ask User:დამოკიდებულება to corrupt my comments by restoring your edits, then why dont you ask User:დამოკიდებულება to not do that ? ''" I have, which is why I've pinged დამოკიდებულება in the previous comment. :::::::: "''You are free to disagree with me feedback, you have no right to remove them or corrupt my comments as you have been doing repeatedly.''" It's pretty easy to spot that it isn't "feedback", it's off-topic attacks. '''This was not advice, it was attacking and sometimes straight-up incorrect,''' as explained in the AN thread. Don't go after random discussions I make trying to "[[w:WP:WIN|prove me wrong]]". :::::::: No harm given, but this seems too far, even for you. [[User:Dibbydib|<span style="color:#0ea900">'''dibbydib'''</span>]]^{'''⌐■_■'''} <span style="color:blue">([[User talk:Dibbydib|<span style="color:blue">barate me</span>]])</span> 23:57, 3 June 2020 (UTC) :::::::::It seems it is too hard for you to understand the basic talk page guideline, that you are not allowed to edit another person's comment. You are free to disagree with my comment, but your reply, "has" to be in the next line and not right in [https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Wikiquote:Village_pump&diff=next&oldid=2804534&diffmode=source the middle of another person's comment], as you did above. --[[User:Pratap Pandit|Pratap Pandit]] ([[User talk:Pratap Pandit|talk]]) 18:09, 4 June 2020 (UTC) :: You say "the RfA is not-too-far in future." The future - even the very near future - is not now, it is later. I stand by my statement that your comment is premature. [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 15:38, 3 June 2020 (UTC) ::Advice on RfA that hasn't been made on a page (Village pump) where it won't be made. :::Butwhatdoiknow, I would appreciate if you stop messing with the section header that I had created. There is nothing wrong with it. I have moved your header below. --[[User:Pratap Pandit|Pratap Pandit]] ([[User talk:Pratap Pandit|talk]]) 20:08, 4 June 2020 (UTC) *Dibbydib has been violating copyright licensing requirements of attributions while copying content into Wikiquote. [https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Duck&action=edit this page] that Dibbydib created "today" was copied from [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Duck&action=edit here] without providing any credits as mandated by CC Terms, while copying. This is a failure of basic requirement from an editor and repeated violation is a blockable offence. Another reason that shows how unfit and clueless Dibbydib is, to stand for an RfA. --[[User:Pratap Pandit|Pratap Pandit]] ([[User talk:Pratap Pandit|talk]]) 14:33, 4 June 2020 (UTC) :: It's fine to do that. If you think it's not, it's time to delete [https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2020_Palghar_mob_lynching&oldid=6941726 this page you made to the Simple English Wikipedia] which you copy-pasted from Wikipedia. :: WMF wikis (and wikis in general) have been sharing templates and features back and forth for years. For example, [[Template:Done]] was also likely copied from Wikipedia, is on almost every WMF wiki, and none of them have been taken down for copyright concerns since its creation in 2005. We're allowed to do this since in-wiki copyrights only apply when going off of a project not covered by the WMF. [[User:Dibbydib|<span style="color:#0ea900">'''dibbydib'''</span>]]^{'''⌐■_■'''} <span style="color:blue">([[User talk:Dibbydib|<span style="color:blue">barate me</span>]])</span> 23:09, 4 June 2020 (UTC) :::No it is not fine. Your comment clarifies that you have a very poor understanding of Creative Common Attribution requirement. Copying within Wikipedia projects is allowed but You NEED to FOLLOW some rules that you did not follow, hence I flagged your Copyright violation here. When I copied I attributed it in the edit summary. When you copied you did not list the source. This is not optional. This is a mandatory requirement according to the Wikipedia license. Instead of wasting both mine and your time in arguing here, you should go and educate yourself about the mandatory attribution requirement explained at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reusing_Wikipedia_content . --[[User:Pratap Pandit|Pratap Pandit]] ([[User talk:Pratap Pandit|talk]]) 23:24, 4 June 2020 (UTC) :::: If that's the case, then what about [[w:Template:Done|Template:Done]]? :::: That's originally created from the English Wikipedia, and has been distributed on almost every WMF project ([[Template:Done|including this one]]), and has been spread far and wide without any attribution to the original template. ([https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Template:Done wikisource] [https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Template:Done wikivoyage] [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Done metawiki] [https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Done wikispecies] [https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Template:Done wikinews] [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:Done wikidata] [https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Template:Done wikibooks]). :::: Icon templates are continually spread far and wide across WMF wikis without attribution for years, and popular consensus is that you don't have to attribute the original wiki for them. If you want to link back to the original source, go ahead, but this is not a copyright violation, otherwise the hundreds of <nowiki>{{Done}}</nowiki>'s would be. I'll put up a discussion though. [[User:Dibbydib|<span style="color:#0ea900">'''dibbydib'''</span>]]^{'''⌐■_■'''} <span style="color:blue">([[User talk:Dibbydib|<span style="color:blue">barate me</span>]])</span> 23:23, 5 June 2020 (UTC) ::::Closed: off-topic attacking from unrelated dispute [[User:Dibbydib|<span style="color:#0ea900">'''dibbydib'''</span>]]^{'''⌐■_■'''} <span style="color:blue">([[User talk:Dibbydib|<span style="color:blue">barate me</span>]])</span> 23:16, 15 June 2020 (UTC) :::::No you dont get to close threads about you. Find an admin and ask him to do it for you, if at all it is necessary. This discussion must remain open for others to chime in. Since you have continued violating the CC by SA licensing requirements I am taking this to AN now. --[[User:Pratap Pandit|Pratap Pandit]] ([[User talk:Pratap Pandit|talk]]) 00:26, 20 June 2020 (UTC) {{re|Dibbydib}} Having read the brief discussion on this topic on the Administrator's noticeboard, I can't see a good reason why you ''wouldn't'' provide attribution when copying any content from Wikipedia or any other Wikimedia project. It would certainly be useful to enable editors to contact the original creator of a template if they have any questions about modifications, for example. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:#F2E6CE;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122);">''BD2412''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 01:27, 21 June 2020 (UTC) == Butwhatdoiknow messing with the headers of the thread above == Hi Butwhatdoiknow, Please stop [https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Wikiquote:Village_pump&type=revision&diff=2805032&oldid=2804995&diffmode=source messing] [https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Wikiquote:Village_pump&diff=next&oldid=2805044&diffmode=source with the headers]. Dibbydib asked for the RfA advice and he got it. If you have comments you are welcome to post in the thread "as a comment" like you have already done. Please stop messing with the headers. They are as neutral as they can be and you should use your time elsewhere to do somthing more productive then messing around with the perfectly valid headers. --[[User:Pratap Pandit|Pratap Pandit]] ([[User talk:Pratap Pandit|talk]]) 20:12, 4 June 2020 (UTC) :{{Ping|Pratap Pandit}} I do not know why you choose to start a private conversation with me on the Village Pump page, but I have transferred it to my talk page. I welcome the opportunity to discuss this with you there. [[User:Butwhatdoiknow|Butwhatdoiknow]] ([[User talk:Butwhatdoiknow|talk]]) 16:17, 5 June 2020 (UTC) == Help please == Where can I find sourced quotes since wq doesn't allow unsourced.??? 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See also, the complete [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-June/093543.html mailing list thread]. --[[User:Kaartic|Kaartic]] ([[User talk:Kaartic|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 08:20, 26 June 2020 (UTC) kb5v2spzv0x4vab2a41rh5hasjcavqg 0 227132 3961153 3533909 2026-07-05T16:27:13Z BD2412 3982 /* About */ Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]], replaced: Henry Morgenthau, Sr. → Henry Morgenthau Sr. using [[Project:AWB|AWB]] 3961153 wikitext text/x-wiki '''[[:w:Genocide denial|Genocide denial]]''' is the attempt to deny or minimize statements of the scale and severity of an incidence of [[genocide]]. ==Examples== * I don't think there was any overall [[Third Reich|Reich]] policy to kill the [[Judaism|Jews]]. If there was, they would have been killed and there would not be now so many millions of survivors. And believe me, I am glad for every survivor that there was. **[[David Irving]], [http://www.ihr.org/books/kulaszka/35irving.html The 'False News' Trial of Ernst Zündel — 1988: David Irving]. ==About== (chronologial order) *The [[Nationalism|nationalist]] not only does not disapprove of [[War crimes|atrocities]] committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them. For quite six years the [[English people|English]] admirers of [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] [[Holocaust denial|contrived not to learn of the existence of Dachau and Buchenwald]]. And those who are loudest in denouncing the [[Germany|German]] [[Concentration camp|concentration camps]] are often quite unaware, or only very dimly aware, that there are also concentration camps in [[Russia]]. Huge events like the [[Ukraine]] famine of 1933, involving the deaths of millions of people, have actually escaped the attention of the majority of English russophiles. Many [[English people]] have heard almost nothing about [[The Holocaust|the extermination of German and Polish Jews]] during [[World War II|the present war]]. Their own [[antisemitism]] has caused this vast crime to bounce off their [[consciousness]]. In nationalist thought there are facts which are both true and untrue, known and unknown. A known fact may be so unbearable that it is habitually pushed aside and not allowed to enter into logical processes, or on the other hand it may enter into every calculation and yet never be admitted as a fact, even in one's own mind. **[[George Orwell]], [http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/nationalism/english/e_nat Notes on Nationalism] *The perpetrators of genocide dig up the mass graves, burn the bodies, try to cover up the evidence and intimidate the witnesses. They deny that they committed any crimes, and often blame what happened on the victims. They block investigations of the crimes, and continue to govern until driven from power by force, when they flee into exile. There they remain with impunity, like [[Pol Pot]] or [[Idi Amin]], unless they are captured and a tribunal is established to try them. **Gregory Stanton, 1996, quoted in Gordon page 453 *Following the physical destruction of a people and their material culture, memory is all that is left and is targeted as the last victim. Complete annihilation of a people requires the banishment of recollection and suffocation of remembrance. Falsification, deception and half-truths reduce what was to what might have been or perhaps what was not at all." **{{cite book | last=Hovannisian |first=Richard G. | title=Remembrance and Denial: The Case of the Armenian Genocide | date=1998 | publisher=Wayne State University Press | isbn=081432777X | page=202 | url=https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=kiBHkRtRmIIC&oi=fnd&pg=PA23 | language=en | chapter=Denial of the Armenian Genocide in Comparison with Holocaust Denial}} *[In] the act of denying this historical truth [of the Holocaust], the deniers denigrate the Jewish people and memories of historical occurrences, suggest that those who accept the truth of the Holocaust lie, and relativize the suffering incurred. Thus, the act of Holocaust denial is not simply an expression of belief in what did or did not happen historically, given that the Holocaust has been historically verified. It is an act of vilification that denigrates and harms. **Katharine Gelber, quoted in {{cite journal |last=Gordon |first=Gregory S. |title=Speech Along the Atrocity Spectrum |journal=Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law |date=2014 |volume=42 |issue=2 |url=https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2536240 |language=en}} page 454 *[[Genocide denial|Negationism]] means the denial of historical [[crimes against humanity]]. It is not a reinterpretation of known [[Fact|facts]], but the [[denial]] of known facts. The term negationism has gained currency as the name of a movement to deny a specific crime against humanity, the Nazi genocide on the Jews in 1941–45, also known as the [[holocaust]] ([[Greek language|Greek]]: complete burning) or the ''Shoah'' ([[w:Hebrew language|Hebrew]]: disaster). Negationism is mostly identified with the effort at re-writing history in such a way that the fact of the Holocaust is omitted. **[[Koenraad Elst]]. [http://voiceofdharma.org/books/negaind/ch1.htm Chapter One&nbsp;– Negationism in General], ''Negationism in India: Concealing the Record of Islam'' (2002). * To this day, the [[Turkey|Turkish]] government refuses to acknowledge the [[Armenian genocide]]. This is strange, since the historical evidence of what happened is plentiful. Western observers like the US ambassador in [[Constantinople]], [[Henry Morgenthau Sr.|Henry Morgenthau]], wrote detailed reports about what was being done - including the telling statement of [[Mehmed Talat|Mehmed Talaat Pasha]], the Interior Minister, that all the [[Armenians]] had to perish because 'those who were innocent today might be guilty tomorrow'. Western missionaries too wrote harrowing accounts of what they witnessed. Their testimony formed an important part of the wartime report on 'The Treatment of the Armenians' compiled by Viscount Bryce, who had also investigated the [[German Empire|German]] atrocities in [[Belgium]] in 1914. It might conceivably be argued that the [[Citizenship|citizens]] of [[Christendom|Christian powers]] already - or later to be - hostile to the [[Turks]] had an interest in misrepresenting them. The Young Turks themselves insisted that they were merely retaliating against a pro-Russian fifth column. That was also the line taken by the Sultan in his reply to [[Pope Benedict XV]]'s intercession on behalf of the Armenians. Yet agents of the Turks' own wartime allies gave the lie to these claims. [[w:Rafael_de_Nogales|Rafael de Nogales]], a [[South America|South American]] mercenary who served as Inspector General of the Turkish forces in Armenia, reported that the Governor-General of the province had ordered the local authorities in Adil Javus 'to exterminate all Armenian males of twelve years of age and over'. A [[Germans|German]] schoolteacher at [[Aleppo]] was appalled by what he saw of the 'extermination of the Armenian nation' and wrote urging his own government to 'put a stop to the brutality'. ** [[Niall Ferguson]], ''The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West'' (2006), p. 177 *The discourse in the [[Muslim world]] about Jews is utterly shocking. Not only is there Holocaust denial—there’s Holocaust denial that then asserts that we will do it for real if given the chance. The only thing more obnoxious than denying the Holocaust is to say that it should have happened; it didn’t happen, but if we get the chance, we will accomplish it. There are children’s shows in the [[Palestine|Palestinian]] territories and elsewhere that teach five-year-olds about the glories of [[martyrdom]] and about the necessity of killing Jews. ** [[Sam Harris]], [http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/why-dont-i-criticize-israel "Why Don't I Criticize Israel?"] (27 July 2014), ''Sam Harris''. * My grandfather’s often-uttered phrase echoes in my ears: "There’s no question the [[Nazism|Nazis]] were evil monsters, but I blame the bystanders." My grandfather felt profoundly betrayed by the people who had a voice and did not use it. He understood the [[Existentialism|existential]] [[evil]] of the Nazis, but felt most betrayed by the neighbors, the shop keepers and the friends who stood silent. He never accepted that humanity was unwilling to help. ** [[Alexi Ashe Meyers]] according to [https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/11/opinions/october-7-women-rape-hamas-justice-meyers/index.html Opinion: After my grandmother’s ordeal in the Holocaust, I have to speak out against sexual violence by Hamas on October 7] (December 11, 2023) ==See also== *[[Denial]] *[[Genocide]] ==External links== {{wikipedia}} [[Category:Genocides|denial]] [[Category:Historiography]] [[Category:Crime]] [[Category:Cover-ups]] 939swv6ahbpkj24vkmy8c2s62b4tjyn 0 229398 3961378 3959017 2026-07-06T07:11:41Z ~2026-34778-23 3341197 /* Gaston's Birthday */ 3961378 wikitext text/x-wiki {{italic title}} '''''[[w:Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom|Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom]]''''' (2009–2013) is a British animated children's television series aimed at children originally broadcast on Nickelodeon UK. ==Opening== :'''Holly''': ''[voiceover]'' Somewhere, hidden amongst thorny brambles is a Little Kingdom of elves and fairies. Everyone who lives here is very, very small. :'''Ben''': I'm Ben Elf. :'''Holly''': I'm Princess Holly. Come on, let's play! :'''Ben''': Wait for us! :'''Holly''': ''[voiceover]'' [[w:Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom|Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom]]. ==Season 1 (2008-2011)== ===''Holly's Magic Wand''=== :'''Holly''': I'm sure I left my wand here. It's gone! ''[Holly is crying.]'' :'''Ben''': Hi, Holly. :'''Holly''': Hi, Ben. :'''Ben''': What's wrong? :'''Holly''': I've lost my wand. I can't do magic anymore. :'''Ben''': Maybe that's a good thing. :'''Holly''': It's not funny! I'm never going to find my wand and I'll be sad forever. ''[She cries again.]'' :'''Ben''': Cheer up, Holly. I will find your wand. :'''Holly''': How? :'''Ben''': Elves are very good at finding things, and I'm an elf. ''[blows trumpet]'' :'''Holly''': Thanks, Ben. ===''Elf Joke Day''=== :'''Holly''': Hi, Ben. :'''Ben''': Hi, Holly. I've got a new toy. :'''Holly''': What is it? :'''Ben''': It's a telescope. You can see things that are really far away. :'''Holly''': Wow! Can I have a go? :'''Ben''': ''[hands the telescope to Holly]'' Okay. :'''Holly''': ''[holds the telescope to her eye]'' I can't see anything. :'''Ben''': Try twisting it a bit. :'''Holly''': ''[twists the telescope a bit]'' It still doesn't work. ''[she puts the telescope off her eye, revealing a black ring around it]'' :''[Ben starts laughing.]'' :'''Holly''': Why are you laughing, Ben? :'''Ben''': It's a joke telescope! It gives you a black ring around your eye that makes you look really silly! Look! ''[grabs a spyglass to make Holly look at it]'' :'''Holly''': Ah! Why did you do that? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Wise Old Elf''': ''[opening the door]'' Let's go and join in the fun! :'''Nanny Plum''': ''[screaming while breaking the toy mouse]'' Help! :'''Wise Old Elf''': ''[entering with Ben and Holly]'' Ho-ho-ho. Happy Elf Joke Day! :'''Nanny Plum''': That was not funny, Wise Old Elf. ===''Morning, Noon, and Night''=== :''[rooster crows]'' :'''Nanny Plum''': That's the cockerel crow, Princess Holly! Time for fairies to get up! ===''Betty Caterpillar''=== :'''Holly''': Look, Betty Caterpillar is sad. :''[Betty starts crying.]'' :'''Ben''': I think she feels a bit left out. ''[Gaston the Ladybird and Bobby the Bee are having fun flying. Betty is crying again.]'' I know how to cheer her up. :'''Holly''': Oh, good. Go on then, Ben. :'''Ben''': Don't be sad, Betty. Flying isn't everything. Elve's can't fly, and I'm an elf. ''[blows trumpet]'' :''[Betty cries again.]'' :'''Holly''': That didn't cheer her up much. ''[Betty cries once again.]'' Maybe I can make her fly by magic. :'''Ben''': Can you do that? :'''Holly''': Um, I think so. ===''Picnic on the Moon''=== :'''Ben''': (''o.s.'') Today's adventure starts... In Outer Space! :''[The scene pans up to the moon, the title Picnic on the Moon appears.]'' :'''Ben and Holly''': (''o.s.'') Picnic on the Moon! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Nanny Plum:''' That's the last straw, No water in the sea and we can't eat food, What kind of picnic is this? :'''Mr. Elf:''' ''[shouting]'' <big>'''''IT'S NOT A PICNIC!!!'''''</big> :'''Nanny Plum:''' Ok, let's go home. :'''King Thistle:''' nanny plum’s right, it’s time to go, ==Season 2 (2011-2014)== ===''Gaston to the Rescue''=== :'''King Thistle:''' Ewww, who let this smelly ladybird in the house?! :'''Queen Thistle:''' ''[screaming loudly]'' :'''King Thistle''': HOLLY!!!! :'''Holly''': Yes, Daddy? :'''King Thistle''': Please keep Gaston under control. :'''Holly''': Sorry, Daddy. :'''King Thistle''': We live in the castle, Gaston lives outside. :''[Gaston is whining.]'' :'''Ben''': Never mind, Gaston. Let's all go to the great elf tree instead. :'''Mr. Elf''': Mrs. Elf, that blueberry pie smells delicious. :'''Mrs. Elf''': Yes, Mr. Elf. The secret is to cook it very slowly over 3 days. :'''Ben''': Hello Mum! :'''Holly''': Hello! :'''Mrs. Elf''': Hello Ben, Hello Holly! :'''Mr. Elf''': Ah, Can't he shake himself outside? :'''Mrs. Elf''': That pie is not for you, Gaston! Now Ben, Gaston should live outside, we live inside. :'''Ben''': Okay, Mum. :'''Mr. Elf''': AGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!! Where's the pie gone?! :'''Mrs. Elf''': Gaston's eating it! :'''Holly''': We don't know it was Gaston. :'''Ben''': It could have been someone else. :'''Mrs. Elf''': He's the only one with pie on his face! :'''Mr. Elf''': <big> ''[crossly]'' Out Gaston, I never want to see you again.</big> :''[Gaston is whining.]'' :'''Ben''': Sorry, Gaston. :'''Holly''': You'd better go home. :'''Mrs. Elf''': Go on, Gaston! Off you go! :'''Queen Thistle''': Bedtime, Holly! ''[Holly sighs]'' Are you all right, darling? :'''Holly''': I'm a bit sad. Gaston isn't allowed in our houses anymore. ''[Gaston is howling.]'' Gaston! Oh, Gaston is all wet and cold. :'''King Thistle''': Gaston, go and make that rucket somewhere else! :'''Holly''': Poor Gaston. ''[rooster crowing]'' Gaston! Holly: Gaston? Ben: Gaston?, Holly: Gaston!, Ben: Gaston, Holly: hello, Ben, I can’t find Gaston anywhere, ===''Nanny's Magic Test''=== :'''Wise Old Elf''': I'm taking away your wand! :'''Nanny Plum''': You can't do that! :'''Wise Old Elf''': I just did. :'''Nanny Plum''': It's an outrage! The king will be very angry! :''[cut to the Little Castle]'' :'''King Thistle''': ''[laughing out loud]'' :'''Nanny Plum''': It's not funny! :'''King Thistle''': You're right, it's not funny. ''[keeps laughing]'' :'''Wise Old Elf''': Nanny does not have a license, she must not do magic! :'''King Thistle''': Yes, yes, Wise Old Elf. But maybe we can overlook it just this once as it's Nanny? ===''Dolly Plum''=== :'''Nanny Plum''': Oh, Thanks, Holly. :''[Daisy and Poppy are crying again.]'' :'''Holly''': Now the twins are crying again. Ben: I know the elves could make a nanny plum doll, elves are good at making things and I’m an elf [he blows a horn], ===''Daisy and Poppy Go Bananas''=== :'''Queen and King Thistle''': ''[screaming]'' :'''King Thistle''': What on Earth is going on?! :'''Queen Thistle''': It's an indoor thunderstorm! :'''King Thistle''': I wonder if they had something to do with Granny. :''[rooster crows]'' ===''Gaston's Birthday''=== :'''King Thistle''': ''[sighing happily]'' I do like a nice relaxing bath. It's good to get away from all that talk about birthdays. :''[King Thistle hears splashing sounds.]'' :'''Redbeard the Elf Pirate''': Happy Birthday, your majesty! ''[he blows a party horn]'' :'''King Thistle''': ''[screaming loudly]'' Get out of my bath, it's not my birthday! :'''Redbeard the Elf Pirate''': I know, this is a dry run. :'''King Thistle:''' Now see here, I don't want any birthday stuff. :'''Redbeard the Elf Pirate''': ''[sighs]'' That's what you say every year. :'''King Thistle:''' '''''LOOK, I DON'T WANT A CAKE, I DON'T WANT A SONG, AND I DON'T WANT A PIRATE IN MY BATH!''''' :'''Redbeard the Elf Pirate:''' So, you really don't want a party? :'''King Thistle:''' No, I don't want a party, not this year, not next year, not at any year. Never, no Party! :'''Redbeard The Elf Pirate:''' And that's when he started shouting, he was a tiny bit angry. :'''Queen Thistle:''' So he really doesn't want a party? :'''Redbeard The Elf Pirate:''' No. :'''Queen Thistle:''' (sadly) Oh dear, What will we do with the presents we wrapped? ===''The Mermaid''=== :''[Holly, Ben, Nanny Plum, Gaston and Mr. Elf heard a distant crying noise.]'' :'''Holly''': Listen, somebody's crying! :''[It was Oceana, the mermaid, who lost her mirror, and is crying.]'' :'''Holly''': It's a girl! Hello, what are you doing in The Lake? :'''Oceana''': I live here. :'''Holly''': You live in The Lake? :'''Oceana''': Yes. I'm a mermaid. ''[dives to the sea and floats back up]'' My name is Oceana. :'''Holly''': Why were you crying? :'''Oceana''': l've lost my mirror. :'''Holly''': That must be the mirror Lucy found. :'''Oceana''': And where is this Lucy? :'''Holly''': She's a big girl, so she'll be on her way to school. ===''Ben & Holly's Christmas''=== ====Episode 1==== :'''Wise Old Elf''': Hello. We've come to see the Christmas trees. :'''Father Christmas''': Ho ho ho! :'''Man''': Hello, Father Christmas. I like the outfit. What fashion is it exactly? :'''Father Christmas''': Uh, It's meant to be a disguise. :'''Holly''': So many lovely Christmas trees. :'''Woman''': Yes, pine elves are very good at growing Christmas trees. :'''All''': And we're pine elves! ====Episode 2==== :'''King Thistle''': ''[gasps indignantly]'' ''[crossly]'' Oof, let me out….! ==Cast== *Preston Nyman - Ben *Sian Taylor - Holly *Taig McNab - Gaston ==External links== *{{imdb title|1436544|Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom}} {{wikipedia}} [[Category:2000s UK animated TV shows]] [[Category:2010s UK animated TV shows]] [[Category:Animated TV shows about children]] [[Category:Cancelled shows]] [[Category:Nick Jr. shows]] [[Category:Flash animated TV shows]] [[Category:Treehouse TV shows]] [[Category:UK children's animated comedy TV shows]] [[Category:UK children's animated fantasy TV shows]] [[Category:UK preschool education TV shows]] lmapeewnwtd6n8o9shtajxoyqxe2g8f 0 231778 3961098 3939067 2026-07-05T15:34:14Z ~2026-22475-30 3310494 3961098 wikitext text/x-wiki {{DISPLAYTITLE:''The Simpsons''/Season 32}} {{The Simpsons header}} '''''[[w:The Simpsons|The Simpsons]]''''' (1989–present) is an American animated sitcom broadcast by the Fox Broadcasting Company created by [[Matt Groening]]. The series is a satirical depiction of American life, epitomized by the Simpson family. ===''[[w:Undercover Burns|Undercover Burns]]''=== :'''Mr. Burns''': Aw, somebody drew a cucumber crying, that's nice. <hr width=50%> :'''Mr. Burns''': Oh, why can't I be loved AND feared, like God? :'''Homer''': Why? Because you're the boss, we're the workers. It goes back to caveman days. Ten guys killed the mammoth while the boss yelled at them. Then the boss got all the meat and they got all the toenails. Because that's the way life works. Next came the Renaissance, and the invention of the time clock, which meant the boss no longer had to waste time checking on his employees and could become Pope and marry his sister. With recent times came unions and workers' rights. Which were then taken away in even more recent times. :'''Lenny''': Wrap it up, Homer. That catwalk is starting to buckle. :'''Homer''': My point is, no matter what, Mr. Burns, the boss sucks, so why shouldn't you? ===''[[w:I, Carumbus|I, Carumbus]]''=== ===''[[w:Now Museum, Now You Don't|Now Museum, Now You Don't]]''=== :'''Marge''': Oh, I think you'd better stay home from school, sweetie. :'''Lisa''': I'm not at school? :'''Marge''': No, honey. And you should stay home. :'''Lisa''': Yes, Miss Hover. ===''[[w:Treehouse of Horror XXXI|Treehouse of Horror XXXI]]''=== :'''Bart''': Oh, thanks, Mom. "Just keep away from scrotum." Uh, Grampa, where's your scrotum? :'''Grampa''': Mm, I think it's in my other pants. <hr width=50%> :'''Krusty Doll''': His accessories will go to his widow. :''[A symbol-banging monkey bangs their symbols together]'' :'''Krusty Doll''': His widow was a monkey? Eh, love is love. <hr width=50%> :'''Bart''': My toys. You're alive? :'''Krusty Doll''': Bart Simpson, I'm gonna do what clowns do best: kill. ''[Using an orange rope as a whiplash, he hits Bart down]'' <hr width=50%> :'''Sherri''': Nice party, Lisa. Didn't realize the theme was being a loser. :'''Lisa''': My party is not full of losers. :'''Ralph''': I can burp magic! <hr width=50%> :'''Sherri and Terri''': Are we that predictable? ===''[[w:The 7 Beer Itch|The 7 Beer Itch]]''=== :'''Groundskeeper Willie''': Lily gets why we're here. Life is supposed to be fun. I loved her. We all loved her. The way gophers love that sweet, sweet poison. Every man wanted her for the greatest reason there is. Lily could make life fun. ===''[[w:Podcast News|Podcast News]]''=== :'''Kent''': Now to go back to my loving family. :''[Kent's children shows them on tech]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Maggie Simpson''': ''[Megan Richie voice to the lens]'' For two episodes, Alex Trebek was a Canadian-American game show host and television personality, best known for hosting Jeopardy!. You families got to know him. He voiced himself in the season 9 episode "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace" in 1997 and the season 24 episode "Penny-Wiseguys" in 2012 and sadly on November 8th after Donald Trump got fired, Alex Trebek passed away, so from all of us here at The Simpsons, our sincere condolences to his family and his friends. ===''[[w:Three Dreams Denied|Three Dreams Denied]]''=== :'''Dewey Largo''': The best sound of all, silence. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': That's baloney. Anybody could fake a check from Warner Bros. Animation. :'''Bart''': No, it's legit. I made more in a minute than you do in a month, fatso. :'''Homer''': ''[turns red in anger]'' Why, you little... ''[tries to strangles Bart]'' :'''Bart''': Uhp-uhp-uhp. Keep your hands off the moneymaker. And don't look me in the voice. ===''[[w:The Road to Cincinnati|The Road to Cincinnati]]''=== ===''[[w:Sorry Not Sorry (The Simpsons)|Sorry Not Sorry]]''=== :'''Lisa''' ''[to Miss Hoover]'': I come here every day eager to learn and you just put me down and complain about your job. In the end, what are you? You're just somebody who works off a formula that leaves no room for passion, individual effort, or the process of [[w:Learning|learning]] itself. :'''Miss Hoover''': Mm. :'''Lisa''': In other words, you're an uninspiring hack. :'''Miss Hoover''': [[w:Apology|Apologize]] immediately. :'''Lisa''': No. I told the truth. :'''Miss Hoover''': The truth has no place in this classroom. Lisa, go to [[w:School detention|detention]]. ''[echoing]'': Detention. Detention. Detention. :''[The class hamster does a [[w:Spit-take|spit-take]] upon hearing this]''https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/2600:1700:C361:A40:39F7:CD1C:F13D:BB3F ===''[[w:A Springfield Summer Christmas for Christmas|A Springfield Summer Christmas for Christmas]]''=== :'''Bart''': Okay, there's nowhere else to sleep. I have no choice. ''[ends up entering Lisa's bedroom with Maggie, Lisa, and the dolls]'' Ay, caramba! Okay, ladies, let's get this over with. ''[as he sees so many dolls on the floor, he becomes very frightened. Then he leaps on her bed]'' No more girly stuff, lights out. :'''Lisa''': As you wish, Prince pajama foot. ===''[[w:The Dad-Feelings Limited|The Dad-Feelings Limited]]''=== ===''[[w:Diary Queen|Diary Queen]]''=== :'''Skinner''': Assembly item number two: Don't take drugs! :'''Lisa''': I don't! :'''Skinner''': Our most successful assembly ever. <hr width=50%> :'''Todd''': Order! Order! :'''Ned''': Now, we can't leave Springfield unless it's unanimous. Todd? :'''Todd''': I vote "yes." I can finally get away from that ladybug that scares me. :'''Rod''': I am tired of Mr. Simpson peeing in our bird bath. :'''Ned''': Well, that's one, two, three, and... :'''Edna''': I have to stay here in Springfield, because boys like Bart Simpson need me. Sweet, misunderstood boys, who just need someone to recognise the basic goodness that's trapped inside them and is desperately trying to get out. ===''[[w:Wad Goals|Wad Goals]]''=== ===''[[w:Yokel Hero|Yokel Hero]]''=== ===''[[w:Do PizzaBots Dream of Electric Guitars?|Do PizzaBots Dream of Electric Guitars?]]''=== :'''Homer''': Hey, what's the haps, pop-diggity? :'''Grampa''': D'oh! What's wrong with you? Can't you talk like a normal 55-year-old man?https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/2600:1700:C361:A40:39F7:CD1C:F13D:BB3F ===''[[w:Manger Things|Manger Things]]''=== ===''[[w:Uncut Femmes|Uncut Femmes]]''=== ===''[[w:Burger Kings|Burger Kings]]''=== :'''Marge''': With all these commercials, I'm afraid your father's going to need bigger pants. Alexa, do you have any X-X-X-X- X-X-X-XL in stock? <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Lisa, I'm sorry to put it on you, but every generation has its to-do list. Yours is putting Miami on stilts, inventing new bees, and learning to peacefully live with fire tornadoes. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Yeah, Cool? :'''Marge''': What? ===''[[w:Panic on the Streets of Springfield|Panic on the Streets of Springfield]]''=== :'''Dr. Hibbert''': Homer, the results of your physical are very concerning. You're 80 pounds overweight. :'''Homer''': I wore my socks on the scale. :'''Dr. Hibbert''': And your cholesterol is sky high. :'''Homer''': Go big or go home. :'''Dr. Hibbert''': Oh, and your testosterone is just a little bit low. :'''Homer''': ''[Gasps]'' Testosterone? That's what fuels my punching and yelling. And my undeserved confidence. Now I'll never be a quarterback slash international super spy. :'''Dr. Hibbert''': Don't worry. Lot T is very common amongst men your age. It can be treated with a prescription drug called Vicodude. :'''Homer''': Pill me up! <hr width=50%> :'''Nelson''': Haw-haw! This taco had a mom. <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': Oh, really? You hate the outdoors! You've never been camping! You've never hauled or towed anything, or shown any interest in hauling and towing! And please, tell me the meaning of the word, '''''torque.''''' :'''Homer''': The smoke hole where the truck's farts come out? :'''Marge''': Torque is the tendency of a force to rotate the body to which it is applied. '''LIKE THIS!''' ''[spins Homer around]'' HOMER JAY SIMPSON, YOU ARE '''NOT''' A TRUCK GUY!! ===''[[w:Mother and Child Reunion (The Simpsons)|Mother and Child Reunion]]''=== Homer: ## ''[Singing]'' when my feelings it's sad my back ## ''[Humming]'' Marge: hello Homer Simpson what are you up to Homer: when my feelings. ''[Singing]'' If there is something we can be here because you're here today I'm feeling so happy. ===''[[w:The Man from G.R.A.M.P.A.|The Man from G.R.A.M.P.A.]]''=== [SINGING] Hmm. Let's see. Oh. There it is. HOMER: Woo-hoo Grampa. [LAUGHS] [HUMMING] Hi Grampa. What are you doing Playing I love them all good let's see I see elephants and toys and lots of more [CHUCKLES] Wow. I thought that's a cool nice place. [GIGGLES] [WHISTLING] [GASPS] oh. Wow that's a good one [BOTH LAUGHING] ===''[[w:The Last Barfighter|The Last Barfighter]]''=== [SINGING] the Simpsons [HOMER HUMMING] BART: hi Homer. What are you doing Well I think that's worth with try [LAUGHS] You want to hear it Surehttps://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/2600:1700:C361:A40:39F7:CD1C:F13D:BB3F I come to my place I come to my place let's go to get I come to my place I come to my place let's go find the way BOTH: Yeahhttps://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/2600:1700:C361:A40:39F7:CD1C:F13D:BB3F That was a good song Homer. Thanks. I worked really hard can't wait to sing I'm barfighter [CHUCKLES] [HUMMING] hi There bart Bart: hi I'm so excited for barfighter BOTH: let's fight [CHEERING] Woo-hoo. Homer: I'm so happy barfighter Thanks. You're welcome [WHOOPS] Three cheers for Bart Simpson ALL: hip hip hooray hip hip hooray hip hip hooray BART: wow that's a good barfighter ==External links== {{wikipedia|The Simpsons season 32}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Simpsons, Season 32}} [[Category:The Simpsons seasons]] fmw0z34nm4lp9i4zwgzyc2v4nzz82mu 0 241047 3961099 3918626 2026-07-05T15:35:11Z ~2026-22475-30 3310494 3961099 wikitext text/x-wiki {{DISPLAYTITLE:''The Simpsons''/Season 33}} {{The Simpsons header}} '''''[[w:The Simpsons|The Simpsons]]''''' (1989–present) is an American animated sitcom broadcast by the Fox Broadcasting Company created by [[Matt Groening]]. The series is a satirical depiction of American life, epitomized by the Simpson family. ===''[[w:The Star of the Backstage|The Star of the Backstage]]''=== :'''Sasha''': Remember the night of the cast party? You and me... in the hot tub? :'''Barney''': That night really happened? I thought I imagined it. :'''Sasha''': It was real. And I've never had better. ===''[[w:Bart's in Jail!|Bart's in Jail!]]''=== :'''Bill Cipher''': Buy crypto, suckers! ===''[[w:Treehouse of Horror XXXII|Treehouse of Horror XXXII]]''=== :'''Homer''': ''[as a deer]'' Time for a little "stag party." :'''Mr. Burns''': ''[as a hunter]'' Thank God you're herbivores. :'''Homer''': ''[as a deer]'' That's right. And today your name is "Herb." <hr width=50%> :'''Ralph''': ''[after killing Sherri and Terri]'' I killed Jerry and Larry! <hr width=50%> :'''Ralph''': That's my pee-pee bed. ===''[[w:The Wayz We Were|The Wayz We Were]]''=== ===''[[w:Lisa's Belly|Lisa's Belly]]''=== :'''Ralph''': Lisa is soft now. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Honey, if something's bothering you, you gotta let it out. Like swallowed burps, buried feelings can burst out at the worst possible-- ''[burps]'' ===''[[w:A Serious Flanders|A Serious Flanders (Part 1)]]''=== :'''Kostas Becker''': A greedy man once yearned for more, so the fool began to borrow. He ate and drank and told the bank, "I'll pay the debt tomorrow." But as both dolt and purse grew fat, the calendar grew thinner. The debt collector had enough and hungered for his dinner. The coward ran, with coin in hand, but came dawn, lost his breath. The fool was caught, 'twas all for naught, for the collector's name was Death. <hr width=50%> :'''Fat Tony''': Why are you dipping my face in dough? Why are you kneading my face into an "O" shape? Why are you pushing my face toward the deep fryer? Oh, I see. Clever. ===''[[w:A Serious Flanders|A Serious Flanders (Part 2)]]''=== ===''[[w:Portrait of a Lackey on Fire|Portrait of a Lackey on Fire]]''=== :'''Chalmers''': SPINNNNERS! ===''[[w:Mothers and Other Strangers (The Simpsons)|Mothers and Other Strangers]]''=== ===''[[w:A Made Maggie|A Made Maggie]]''=== :'''Homer''': I'm looking for a godfather for my little angel. :'''Lenny''': Aw, what a cutie. Let me give her a sip of beer. :'''Homer''': Okay, you're out. :'''Lenny''': If I'm out, Carl's out. :'''Carl''': I decide who tells me what to do. Moe? :'''Moe''': You're out, Carl. <hr width=50%/> :'''Louie''': Boss, Benny down at the liquor store is late on his payment. Again! :'''Legs''': Let me break his kneecaps. :'''Fit-Fat Tony''': Marone a mi! You never ever talk that way in front of a baby. :'''Louie''': Uh, uh, okay, uh, what if we get him a boo-boo to the brain? Make him go night-night forever? :'''Fit-Fat Tony''': Disgusting! You give the ''Kiss of Death'' with that mouth? <hr width=50%/> :'''Fit-Fat Tony''': ''[singing]'' Twinkle, twinkle, little star. Let me Hotwire you a car. We'll change the plates, I know a guy. You'll be my little alibi. ===''[[w:The Longest Marge|The Longest Marge]]''=== ===''[[w:Pixelated and Afraid|Pixelated and Afraid]]''=== ===''[[w:Boyz N the Highlands|Boyz N the Highlands]]''=== :'''Dolph:''' So, Simpson, what did you do to get stuck on this perp hike? :'''Bart:''' Let's just say I got a little creative with some laundry pods. <hr width=50%> :'''Lisa:''' Mom, Dad, with Bart away, I can now fulfill a dream I never dared speak aloud. For one fleeting weekend, I want to live as... an only child. :'''Marge:''' "Only child"? What about Maggie? :'''Lisa:''' Um, I kind of made alternate arrangements for her. :''[The scene changes to Maggie with her aunts]'' :'''Patty:''' Time for a ''Flip This Bathroom'' marathon. :'''Selma:''' Ooh, baby, Mama loves her terra route. :''[Maggie sighs, and the scene changes back to Lisa]'' :'''Lisa:''' ''[points to the sibling pie chart]'' As you can see on this pie chart, this is the time you spend on my older and younger siblings. So, if you'll just humor a middle child's most frivolous whimsy, I would like you to spend the entire weekend focusing only on me. :'''Homer:''' No. :'''Marge:''' Homer! ''[To Lisa]'' Of course we will. :'''Lisa:''' ''[hugs her parents]'' Oh, it's wonderful! Oh, and for the next two days, I would like you to call me Jules. I think an only child would have a name... ''[flips the page with another pie chart with Jules's name on it]'' like Jules. :''[Homer and Marge look at each other confusingly]'' :'''Jules:''' Okay! Our first only-child activity is gonna be playing horsey. Start working on your neighs. :''[Homer and Marge neigh like horses]'' ===''[[w:You Won't Believe What This Episode is About - Act Three Will Shock You!|You Won't Believe What This Episode is About - Act Three Will Shock You!]]''=== :'''Marge''': Everybody, out, out, out, out, out! Me and the floors deserve to savor every minute of our special spa day. And take the dog. Now it's my time to make these stains "herstory." :'''Lisa''': Ugh, are you quoting their actual slogan? :'''Marge''': I'm quoting my wildest dreams. <hr width=50%> :'''Lenny Leonard''': Once it became clear that human companionship was a non-starter, I adopted this handsome little mister, Devin. <hr width=50%> :'''Lenny''': So, where'd you get your dog? :'''Homer''': Uh, I think he came with the house? <hr width=50%> :'''Lisa''': Okay, so far, the neighborhood rage is contained to just dog lovers. Oh, no. It's spread to the cat people. Oh, now it's the horse crazies. :'''Marge''': Those horse crazies don't mess around. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': I'm Homer Simpson, and I'm truly sorry. ''[cuts to an Imagine Spot of the crowd as pilgrims]'' :'''Everyone''': Tsk, tsk, tsk! :'''Homer''': Sorry if you pee-pee babies were offended by something that was no big deal and everything's fine. So what's the issue? :'''Bart''': ''[to Lisa]'' Amazing job, you really got his voice down. ===''[[w:Bart the Cool Kid|Bart the Cool Kid]]''=== ===''[[w:Pretty Whittle Liar|Pretty Whittle Liar]]''=== :'''Ralph''': I want to be a big word. <hr width=50%> :'''Shauna''': Oh, look who it is, Little Miss Google Noodle. :'''Lisa''': This isn't fair. There's four times as many of you. :'''Kearney''': She's trying to teach us to multiply. :'''Shauna''': Get her! ''[She and the male bullies surround Lisa to beat her up, but Lisa crawls out of their circle and runs off into a magic club]'' <hr width=50%> :'''Myles''': ''[pulling Lisa inside with a hula hoop]'' Yoink. ===''[[w:The Sound of Bleeding Gums|The Sound of Bleeding Gums]]''=== ===''[[w:My Octopus and a Teacher|My Octopus and a Teacher]]''=== :'''Milhouse''': Bart had Skittles with milk for breakfast. :'''Nelson''': I told him he couldn't handle the rainbow. ===''[[w:Girls Just Shauna Have Fun|Girls Just Shauna Have Fun]]''=== ===''[[w:Marge the Meanie|Marge the Meanie]]''=== :'''Moe''': No outside peas. <hr width=50%> :'''Mr. Burns''': ''[to Blinky]'' What are you looking at? ===''[[w:Meat Is Murder (The Simpsons)|Meat Is Murder]]''=== ===''[[w:Poorhouse Rock|Poorhouse Rock]]''=== :'''Bart''': Ay, caramba! :'''Marge''': Bart, don't watch that. ''[puts a sack onto Bart's head]'' Now go to bed. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Mmm...chest chips. ==External links== {{wikipedia|The Simpsons (season 33)}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Simpsons, Season 33}} [[Category:The Simpsons seasons]] gbfxwhcipilcr1qrerpy6zvywugoum3 0 243877 3961183 3846584 2026-07-05T16:33:19Z BD2412 3982 /* Quotes */ Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]], replaced: Leighton W. Smith, Jr. → Leighton W. Smith Jr. (2) using [[Project:AWB|AWB]] 3961183 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:USNA Gold Seal.png|thumb|Now colleges from sea to sea<br>May sing of colors true<br>But who has better right than we<br>To hoist a symbol hue<br>For sailors brave in battle fair<br>Since fighting days of old<br>Have proved the sailor's right to wear<br>The Navy Blue and Gold ~ Roy de Saussure Horn]] The '''[[w:United States Naval Academy|United States Naval Academy]]''' ('''USNA''', '''Annapolis''', or simply '''Navy''') is a [[w:United States Service academies|federal service academy]] adjacent to [[w:Annapolis|Annapolis]], [[Maryland]]. Established on 10 October 1845, under [[w:Secretary of the Navy|Secretary of the Navy]] [[George Bancroft]], it is the second oldest of the five [[w:United States service academies|U.S. service academies]], and educates officers for [[w:Commission (document)#United States|commissioning]] primarily into the [[United States Navy]] and [[United States Marine Corps]]. The {{convert|338|acre|ha|0|adj=on}} campus is located on the former grounds of [[w:Fort Severn|Fort Severn]] at the confluence of the [[w:Severn River (Maryland)|Severn River]] and [[w:Chesapeake Bay|Chesapeake Bay]] in [[w:Anne Arundel County, Maryland|Anne Arundel County]], {{convert|33|mi|km|0}} east of [[Washington, D.C.]], and {{convert|26|mi|km|0|}} southeast of [[Baltimore]]. The entire campus (known to insiders as "the Yard") is a [[w:National Historic Landmark|National Historic Landmark]] and home to many historic sites, buildings, and monuments. It replaced [[w:Philadelphia Naval Asylum|Philadelphia Naval Asylum]], in [[Philadelphia]], that served as the first United States Naval Academy from 1838 to 1845, when the Naval Academy formed in Annapolis. {{center|'''''Ex Scientia Tridens'''''&nbsp; <small>([[#Motto|motto]])</small>}} == Quotes == [[File:121011-N-OA833-002 (24401310884).jpg|thumb|Aerial view of the US Naval Academy in 2012]] [[File:BancroftHall.JPG|thumb|Bancroft Hall Rotunda, steps leading upward to Memorial Hall]] [[File:US Navy 110527-N-OA833-014 Newly commissioned Navy and Marine Corps officers toss their hats during the U.S. Naval Academy Class of 2011 graduation.jpg|thumb|Four years together by the Bay<br>Whеre Severn joins thе tide<br>Then by the Service called away<br>We're scattered far and wide ~ Roy de Saussure Horn]] * William F. Halsey, Jr., wasn't destined for academic stardom at the Naval Academy, but he applied himself just enough to make respectable marks without adversely affecting his preferred social and athletic pursuits. Once, when Halsey came dangerously close to failing theoretical mechanics, his father strongly advised him to drop football. That, of course, was out of the question. Instead, Bill recruited the scholars in his class to tutor him and a few others similarly challenged. When the exam was over, Bill went to his father's quarters for lunch and was immediately asked if the results had been posted. "Yes, sir," Bill answered, and then reported that he had made 3.98 out of 4.0. His father stared at him for a full minute and finally asked incredulously, "Sir, have you been drinking?" ** [[Walter R. Borneman]], ''The Admirals: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy and King- The Five-Star Admirals Who Won the War at Sea'' (2012), p. 45 * The class of 1904 has several distinctions: we were the last to enter the Academy with less than 100 men, the last to be designated "naval cadets" instead of "midshipmen," and the last that never lived in Bancroft Hall, the present dormitory. On the other hand, we were the first whose senior cadet officer was a five-striper. My first year at the Academy- my plebe, or fourth-class year- the cadet body totaled only 238, or enough for a battalion, which was commanded by a four-striper; but by my first-class year we totaled more than 600, enough for a regiment, and the cadet commander sprouted another stripe. I was not he. I never had more than the two stripes that went with my duties as the adjutant of the second battalion. ** [[William Frederick Halsey, Jr.]] and J. Bryan, III, ''Admiral Halsey's Story'' (1947). New York: Whittlesey House, p. 5 * My football was confined to the scrubs, the "Hustlers," for the first two years, but just before the opening game of the 1902 season, the regular fullback was badly injured and I was put in. I kept the job that season and the next, my last. Here is as good a place as any to state that those two teams were probably the poorest that the Academy ever produced, but poor as they were, they were no poorer than their fullback. More than forty years later, General of the Army Eisenhower, whom I had never met before, came up to me in Fleet Admiral King's office in Washington. His remark was not, "I'm glad to meet you," or, "How are you?" but, "Admiral, they tell me you claim to be the worst fullback that ever went to the Naval Academy." I wasn't sure what this was leading to, so my answer was a bit truculent. "Yes. That's true. What about it?" Eisenhower laughed and stuck out his hand. "I want you to meet the worst halfback that ever went to the Military Academy! ** [[William Frederick Halsey, Jr.]] and J. Bryan, III, ''Admiral Halsey's Story'' (1947). New York: Whittlesey House, p. 6 * Much has been written in the national and local news about the 381 books that were removed from the Nimitz Library at the United States Naval Academy before a visit from Pete Hegseth, Defense Secretary. The stated impetus for the removal of these books was an order from Secretary Hegseth regarding compliance with President Trump’s Executive Order from January 20, 2025, regarding diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI. The order is broad and general, using wording that can be interpreted in many ways. It does not mention books, publications or press at all.<br>Many of the removed books are not specifically about diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI. However, many are by authors who are Black, LGBTQIA+, female, or anyone who is not a white, heterosexual male. In many cases, the books are academic analysis of historical movements, situations and experiences that have brought the country to where it is today. ** Catherine Hollerbach, [https://publiclibrariesonline.org/2025/06/books-removed-from-the-united-states-naval-academy-library-a-local-perspective/"Books Removed from the United States Naval Academy Library – a Local Perspective"], ''Public Libraries Online'', 2 June 2025 * The members of the community surrounding USNA took the removal of nearly 400 books personally, reacting with surprise and concern. Staff and customers at Anne Arundel County Public Library (AACPL), whose service area includes USNA and the City of Annapolis, immediately spoke out and began working to help provide access to the diverse materials. As a Book Sanctuary, AACPL is committed to fighting for the freedom to read and maintain a well curated collection with many diverse viewpoints.<br>The Annapolis Book Club staged a read aloud of one of the removed books, Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” at a local park that is less than a mile from USNA. The book is a memoir of by the famous Black author who describes the racism, classism, and abuse that she endures during her lifetime growing up in the South and then moving to California in her later years.<br>Another group, including authors, civil rights leaders, military veterans, LGBTQIA+ advocates and elected officials protested outside the main gate of the Academy the same week demanding that the books be reinstated. The downtown entrance is usually open to the public with proper identification during certain hours, but it was locked during the protest. ** Catherine Hollerbach, [https://publiclibrariesonline.org/2025/06/books-removed-from-the-united-states-naval-academy-library-a-local-perspective/"Books Removed from the United States Naval Academy Library – a Local Perspective"], ''Public Libraries Online'', 2 June 2025 * Annapolitan William Marks, a retired Navy commander, is organizing a campaign called “Operation Caged Bird,” a reference to Maya Angelou’s book “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.” He is working with Jinny Amundson, owner of Old Fox Books in Annapolis to get the books into the hands of midshipmen during the upcoming Commissioning Week at the end of May. Their efforts have raised over $40,000 so far and gathered a contingent of volunteers.<br>Many AACPL customers started asking if they could donate books so the midshipmen can have access to them. AACPL doesn’t accept book donations, but anyone who lives or works in Maryland can get a library card at AACPL. Midshipmen, instructors and USNA staff, and other community members who live on the Naval Academy property can get library cards at AACPL – and many have! Over the past month, AACPL has received an influx of online applications for virtual library cards from people affiliated with USNA and this doesn’t include people who just walked into the library to get a card. AACPL owns some of the books that were pulled from Nimitz Library, and others can be requested through interlibrary loan.<br>AACPL was already working with midshipmen volunteers and doing outreach to USNA, and this has only increased the staff’s motivation to let the USNA community know what the public library has to offer. This has become more important due to the recent removal of categories of materials at the college library. The public library is ready to step up and stand by the values of intellectual freedom when faced with barriers that limit access for members of the community. ** Catherine Hollerbach, [https://publiclibrariesonline.org/2025/06/books-removed-from-the-united-states-naval-academy-library-a-local-perspective/"Books Removed from the United States Naval Academy Library – a Local Perspective"], ''Public Libraries Online'', 2 June 2025 * King's oaken hull began to split in 1947, when he suffered a stroke. His mind remained alert, but his iron-plated timbers began to creak and sag. He moved into a suite at Bethesda Naval Hospital for full-time care, and at one point he shared a floor with the acutely depressed James Forrestal, who ended his life by jumping from the sixteenth-floor window in 1949. King spent the next seven summers at the naval hospital in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He slipped his moorings and sailed over the bar on June 25, 1956, at the age of seventy-eight. He was buried at Annapolis, home of the United States Naval Academy. The only hymn sung at his funeral was a Navy anthem, an old favorite of Roosevelt's: "Eternal Father, Strong to Save." ** Johnathan W. Jordan, ''American Warlords: How Roosevelt's High Command Led America To Victory In World War II'' (2016), p. 473. * To the Class of 1901, United States Naval Academy. ** [[Ernest King]], dedication of ''Fleet Admiral King: A Naval Record'' (1952), co-written with Walter Muir Whitehill * '''Now colleges from sea to sea'''<br>'''May sing of colors true'''<br>'''But who has better right than we'''<br>'''To hoist a symbol hue'''<br>'''For sailors brave in battle fair<br>Since fighting days of old'''<br>'''Have proved the sailor's right to wear'''<br>'''The Navy Blue and Gold''' ** Commander Roy de Saussure Horn (USNA Class of 1915), first verse of "Navy Blue & Gold" (1923)[https://genius.com/United-states-naval-academy-navy-blue-and-gold-lyrics], music by J.W. Crosley * So hoist our colors, hoist them high<br>And vow allegiance true<br>So long as sunset gilds the sky<br>Above the ocean blue<br>Unlowered shall those colors be<br>Whatever fate they meet<br>So glorious in victory<br>Triumphant in defeat ** Commander Roy de Saussure Horn (USNA Class of 1915), second verse of "Navy Blue & Gold" (1923)[https://genius.com/United-states-naval-academy-navy-blue-and-gold-lyrics], music by J.W. Crosley * Four years together by the Bay<br>Whеre Severn joins thе tide<br>Then by the Service called away<br>We're scattered far and wide<br>But still when two or three shall meet<br>And old tales be retold<br>From low to highest in the Fleet<br>We'll pledge the Blue and Gold ** Commander Roy de Saussure Horn (USNA Class of 1915), third verse of "Navy Blue & Gold" (1923)[https://genius.com/United-states-naval-academy-navy-blue-and-gold-lyrics], music by J.W. Crosley * There were a lot of people who were willing to write a letter for me. Not because I was academically inclined, but because I worked hard. ** [[Leighton W. Smith Jr.]], on his admission to the [[w:United States Naval Academy|United States Naval Academy]] at Annapolis in 1958 as an appointment of US congressman [[w:Frank W. Boykin|Frank W. Boykin]], as quoted in ''Afterburner : Naval Aviators and the Vietnam War'' (2004) by [[w:John Darrell Sherwood|John Darrell Sherwood]], Ch. 20 : Leighton Warren Smith and the Fall of Thanh Hoa, p. 272 * I didn't realize it at the time, but it became apparent to me later, that I had just experienced the most incredible lesson in leadership that I would ever experience: a Navy captain, who was in charge of the entire day-to-day operations of the Naval Academy, took the time to reach down deep into that organization and drag an individual up who was having trouble and try to instill in that individual a little bit of self-discipline and self-confidence. He knew my uncle, obviously, but I felt he would have done this for anyone in my predicament regardless of who his relatives were. ** [[Leighton W. Smith Jr.]], on a meeting with Captain [[w:William F. Bringle|William Floyd Bringle]] during a period of low academic performances in his first year at Annapolis, in which he was told he ''would'' improve his them within 10 days or face another counseling session with him, as quoted in ''Afterburner : Naval Aviators and the Vietnam War'' (2004) by John Darrell Sherwood, Ch. 20 : Leighton Warren Smith and the Fall of Thanh Hoa, p. 274 * The admirals' academy careers are a study in contrasts. King made the best record. He was one of the lucky plebes who reached the Caribbean during the Spanish-American War, although he missed the Battle of Santiago. A star man in academic standing and a member of the junior varsity football team, the Hustlers, throughout his four years at the academy, in his first-class year he was chosen to command the battalion and graduated number four in a class of sixty-seven. His last year was dangerous, however. Put on report three times for smoking, he narrowly escaped a spell in the Santee and invited much more serious trouble by Frenching out to visit a girl in Annapolis. On one occasion a friend, learning of an unscheduled inspection at 10:00pm, loyally frenched out himself to bring King back on time. A few years later King was assigned to the Executive Department at the academy. At dinner with the midshipmen in Bancroft Hall one evening he was asked if he had ever frenched out. He admitted that he had. The next question was, "Did you ever get caught?" "No," King replied, "but I almost did." "How did you manage not to?" the midshipman persisted. "I am afraid I cannot tell you now," King parried, "but when you graduate, come out to my house and I will give you a drink and tell you how to French out and not be caught." ** Jack Sweetman, ''The United States Naval Academy: An Illustrated History'' (1995), 2nd Edition, edited by Thomas J. Cutler, p. 151-152 == See also == * [[United States Navy]] == External links == {{wikipedia}} [[Category:United States Naval Academy| ]] 3fpxl81pga7pu08jir0cy7kteupp9iu 0 245715 3961351 3838121 2026-07-06T02:15:45Z VampaVampa 3157904 +4 3961351 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Ukrainian Ambassador to the United Kingdom, October 2024 (cropped).jpg|thumb|Valerii Zaluzhnyi (2024)]] '''[[w:Valerii Zaluzhnyi|Valerii Zaluzhnyi]]''' ([[w:Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]]: Валерій Федорович Залужний; born 8 July 1973) is a [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] military officer who currently serves as the [[w:Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine|Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine]] since 27 July 2021. {{military-stub}} ==Quotes== * Ukraine's defense forces are holding back the [[Russia]]n aggressor's offensive. ** Valerii Zaluzhnyi (2022) cited in "[https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-shoots-down-several-russian-aircraft-1682211 Ukraine Shoots Down Several Russian Aircraft, Country's Military Claims]" on ''Newsweek'', 24 February 2022. * Our Air Defense Forces shot down an (Russian) IL-76 with an enemy landing in the Vasilkov area. This is revenge for Luhansk in 2014. Death to the enemies! ** Valerii Zaluzhnyi (2022) cited in "[https://www.world-today-news.com/air-defense-forces-shot-down-russian-il-76-with-troops-near-kiev-zaluzhny-ukraine-news-politics/ Air defense forces shot down Russian IL-76 with troops near Kiev – Zaluzhny – Ukraine news, Politics]" on ''World Today News'', 25 February 2022. * Welcome to hell! ** Valerii Zaluzhnyi (2022) cited in "[https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/3402859-welcome-to-hell-armed-forces-of-ukraine-absolutely-ready-to-repel-aggressor.html Welcome to hell!’: Armed Forces of Ukraine absolutely ready to repel aggressor]" on ''Ukrinform'', 12 February 2022. * I believe we can confidently say that in 2024, World War III has begun. This is because … Ukraine is no longer facing just Russia. Ukraine is facing soldiers from North Korea. … In Ukraine, civilians are openly being killed by Iranian Shaheds without any pretense or shame. … God gives us, not only Ukraine but the entire world, a chance to draw the right conclusions now. It is still possible to stop this here, on Ukrainian soil. … I believe the world war has begun—welcome to it. ** "[https://english.nv.ua/nation/zaluzhnyi-world-war-iii-has-begun-50468411.html Zaluzhnyi: World War III has begun]", ''The New Voice of Ukraine'', 21 November 2024. * The revolution in defense technologies, particularly through the use of unmanned systems and artificial intelligence, is more likely to focus on the destruction of strategic military and civilian infrastructure across the entire country. … This conclusion highlights the primary—and possibly the only—strategy for future victory: building a system of national 'resilience'. ** "[https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3925232-technological-revolution-creates-ideal-conditions-for-war-of-attrition-zaluzhnyi.html Technological revolution creates ideal conditions for war of attrition – Zaluzhnyi]", ''Ukrinform'', 9 November 2024. * I don’t know if the Ukrainian people will be ready for that, ready for these tough policies. ** Shaun Walker, "[https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/aug/25/general-envoy-future-ukraine-president-valerii-zaluzhnyi-london-waiting-game General, envoy … future Ukraine president? Valerii Zaluzhnyi’s London waiting game]", ''The Guardian'', 25 August 2025. * If you hear that this is another war—a war between the major world powers for influence and power—think carefully about whether everyone is physically ready to fight for this. It is certain that at least three countries are already ready for it, including Iran. Russia is constantly using Iranian technology in its war against Ukraine. The third country is Ukraine. That is the only positive in this dangerous situation for us. As for the rest, war is the most terrible thing that humanity has invented. ** "[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/03/21/ukraine-war-tells-us-about-iran-conflict/ What the Ukraine war tells us about the Iran conflict]", ''Daily Telegraph'', 21 March 2026. == External links == {{wikipedia}} {{commonscat}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Zaluzhnyi, Valerii}} [[Category:1973 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Military leaders from Ukraine]] tqjhnfvgpls12w80gfwem30ese2z661 0 250964 3961101 3933139 2026-07-05T15:36:04Z ~2026-22475-30 3310494 3961101 wikitext text/x-wiki {{DISPLAYTITLE:''The Simpsons''/Season 34}} {{The Simpsons header}} '''''[[w:The Simpsons|The Simpsons]]''''' (1989–present) is an American animated sitcom broadcast by the Fox Broadcasting Company created by [[Matt Groening]]. The series is a satirical depiction of American life, epitomized by the Simpson family. ===''[[w:Habeas Tortoise|Habeas Tortoise]]''=== :'''Helen Lovejoy''': I've noticed lately that people have been putting up quite a few little DIY free libraries all over town. :'''Homer''': ''[to Marge]'' What's DIY stands for? :'''Marge''': Do it yourself. :'''Homer''': I'm trying to, but I can't. ===''[[w:One Angry Lisa|One Angry Lisa]]''=== :'''Homer''': Mmm...jelly legs. ===''[[w:Lisa the Boy Scout|Lisa the Boy Scout]]''=== :'''Male Hacker''': Attention corporate overlords, we are Psuedo-Nonymous and we have taken over this broadcast. We are the anarchist collective of nameless hacktivists who published the internal emails of Waffle House, and brought Home Depot's 'Find a store near you' feature to its knees. :'''Female Hacker''': Now we have hacked into the Disney corporation's servers and seized hundreds of thousands of hours of never-before-aired footage from the television show, "The Simpsons". Stories so ill-conceived, so idiotic, so controversial, so cringeworthy, so disturbing, so upsetting, so politically correct, so unwatchable, that their exposure will destroy the value of the very IP itself. :'''Male Hacker''': Until we are paid a ransom of $20 Million in Bitcoin, we will air these show-destroying scenes one after another, starting now. <hr width="50%"> :''[The Truth About Lenny]'' :'''Carl''': No, no, it can't be true! :'''Homer''': It is true, Carl, there never was a Lenny. :''[Lenny fades away.]'' :'''Carl''': So, Lenny was just a figment of my imagination, I...I made him up? :'''Moe''': Yeah, your psyche created "Lenny" to help you deal with a terrible trauma there. :'''Carl''': What trauma? :'''Homer''': Finding out your previous best friend isn't real, it's kind of a thing with you. :'''Carl''': Huh. Hey, I've never seen you around before. I'm Carl, what's your name? ''[Steven appears]''. Nice to meet you, Steven. :'''Moe''': Aw crap, here we go again. <hr width="50%"> :'''Male Hacker''': Now you see we mean business, Disney. You will submit 20 Million in Bitcoin to our crypto wallet at the following address. :'''Female Hacker''': Until the payment arrives, we'll keep playing these nonsensical clips no one was ever meant to see. <hr width="50%"> :''[Homer is mowing the lawn when Flanders opens his window]'' :'''Ned''': I wouldn't mean to be unneighborly but would you know what happened to my old nostril skirt? :'''Homer''': Mustache, you say? Hmm, let me think? Stroking this goatee I've always had... stroking stroking. :'''Ned''': That's it! :''[he throws a necklace with a cross on it out the window, angrily]'' :'''Ned''': Boys, we're Jewish now. :'''Rodd''': L'chaim! :'''Todd''': To life! ===''[[w:The King of Nice|The King of Nice]]''=== :'''Lindsey Naegle''': We want to know what you want in your daytime programming. There are no wrong answers and no bad ideas. :'''Helen Lovejoy''': In that case, recipes. :'''Lindsey Naegle''': Sure. ''[write the marker in the smart board]'' :'''Bernice Hibbert''': Air fryer recipes. :''[Lindsey Naegle sighs, and write that down again]'' :'''Julio''': Celebrities come on the show? :'''Lindsey Naegle''': Well, yes, obviously, but... :'''Julio''': Put it on the board then. :'''Marge''': Uh, I was thinking... :'''Agnes''': Something with vacuum. ===''[[w:Not It|Not It]]''=== :'''Mrs. Gumble''': ''[to Barney]'' Have fun playing in the gutter! <hr width=50%> :'''Barney Gumble''': It's floating. It's still floating! This is fun to me. I love you, paper boat! <hr width=50%> :'''Krusto''': I'm Krusto, the funniest clown in the whole wide world. :'''Barney''': Uh, people who have to tell you they're funny usually aren't can I get my boat back, sewer clown? <hr width=50%> :'''Krusto''': My audience! No! It took me years to grow them! ''[yelps in pain as his body starts twisting and contorting onto itself]'' I can't start over! What would that even look like?! Dancing for followers on TikTok?! I haven't written a joke since 1647! And that material has not... aged... well! I blame cancel culture! ''[shrinks away into nothing]'' ===''[[w:Treehouse of Horror XXXIII|Treehouse of Horror XXXIII]]''=== *'''Marge''': ''[carrying Maggie to her room]'' Ah, what a long day. What should we read tonight? "Good Night Escaped Gorilla," "The Pookadook," "What Do You People Do All Day?," "The Pookadook," "S'up, Moon?," "The Pookadook?" Wait, how many ''Pookadooks'' do we have? Oh, I guess just one. ===''[[w:From Beer to Paternity|From Beer to Paternity]]''=== ===''[[w:Step Brother from the Same Planet|Step Brother from the Same Planet]]''=== :'''Lisa''': I'll sleep when I'm nine. <hr width=50%> :'''Calvin''': Psst. Homer. Want to play questions? :'''Homer''': Okay. Question number one: Shut up. :'''Calvin''': ''[laughs]'' You're funny. We should go out on our bikes tomorrow. I know this place by the nuclear plant that has the best jumps. Oh, wait. Did you bring your bike? :'''Homer''': I don't have a bike, I have a car. And I don't play at the nuclear plant, I work there because I am a grown-up. ===''[[w:When Nelson Met Lisa|When Nelson Met Lisa]]''=== :'''Nelson''': Remember that principal we arrested for matricide? :'''Lisa''': ''[gasps]'' Skinner killed his mother? :'''Nelson''': No, mattress-cide. He ripped the tag off his mattress. <hr width=50%> :'''Ralph''': The church is eating me. ===''[[w:Game Done Changed|Game Done Changed]]''=== ===''[[w:Top Goon|Top Goon]]''=== :'''Nelson''': From up here the wads look like ants. :'''Moe''': Hey, you wanna drop pickled eggs on 'em? :'''Nelson''': Sure! ''[Moe hands Nelson a jar of pickled eggs to drop on people]'' :'''Moe''': Yeah, Duff lets me use their blimp 'cause I buy up all the booze that the employees drown in. :'''Nelson''': Pretty sweet for a couple of scuzzes. :'''Moe''': Yeah, it's a big world down there, kid. And when its back is turned, you can steal anything you want from it. ''[Looks down as Nelson continues to drop the eggs]'' Ooh, that egg just hit a cop's horse. Floor it, Jimmy! ''Floor it''! :''[Jimmy revs the blimp and hightails it away from danger]'' ===''[[w:My Life as a Vlog|My Life as a Vlog]]''=== ===''[[w:The Many Saints of Springfield|The Many Saints of Springfield]]''=== :'''Rod''', '''Todd''': I found a pregnancy test. Yay! ===''[[w:Carl Carlson Rides Again|Carl Carlson Rides Again]]''=== :'''Carl''': Don't talk about Moe's. Don't talk about Moe's. ===''[[w:Bartless|Bartless]]''=== :''[At home, Homer and Marge scold Bart for defacing library books]'' :'''Marge''': Thanks to your little prank, 25 library books were ruined. Haven't we told you that books are precious? :'''Homer''': I'm afraid to count how many times I've said that. :'''Bart''': No, you weren't even there. I was just trying to make it fun for the kid. You never take my side. :'''Homer''': Side? Get a load of this kid with a side. ''[Yells at Bart]'' How dare you defend yourself? You are the destroyer! :'''Marge''': Yes, that's it. The destroyer. You ruin everything, even our holiday picture. ''[Shows Bart their holiday picture]'' :'''Homer''': There's no such thing as Christmas fangs! I had to wear a ''scarf'' to midnight mass. :'''Marge''': I don't have a moment when I'm not worried about what you'll do next. ''[Loses her breath]'' I can't... I ju... I can't... :'''Homer''': Babe, babe, tag me in. I can take him. ''[Marge tags Homer, and he leaps over the bed]'' Destroyer. Our house is filled with unexploded pranks. Any toilet seat could be covered in superglue. :'''Lisa''': ''[enters the bedroom, carrying a glass of hot dog water]'' Bart put hot dog water in the ice maker. He's the destroyer! :'''Homer''': I just told him that. :'''Lisa''': Good. ''[puts the glass on the floor]'' :''[SHL licks the glass]'' :'''Homer''': Ten years as your father has left me empty. Like an orange soda bottle at a picnic sticky and covered with dying bees! I'm just... I c-- I can't... :'''Marge''': Babe, babe. ''[Homer tags Marge and collapses]'' :'''Marge''': Okay, punishments. What's your least favorite vegetable? :'''Bart''': Swiss chard. ''[gasps]'' :'''Marge''': You're looking at a whole lot of swiss chard sandwiches, buster. :'''Homer''': ''[gets up on his feet]'' And you're never allowed to read a book again! ===''[[w:Hostile Kirk Place|Hostile Kirk Place]]''=== ===''[[w:Pin Gal|Pin Gal]]''=== ===''[[w:Fan-ily Feud|Fan-ily Feud]]''=== ===''[[w:Write Off This Episode|Write Off This Episode]]''=== ===''[[w:The Very Hungry Caterpillars|The Very Hungry Caterpillars]]''=== ===''[[w:Clown V. Board of Education|Clown V. Board of Education]]''=== :''[The Simpsons are eating dinner, but Homer tries to take a pork chop and Bart grabs it with the hand glove grabber stick]'' :'''Homer''': You know the rules, boy. In this house, I get the first shower and the last pork chop. ===''[[w:Homer's Adventures Through the Windshield Glass|Homer's Adventures Through the Windshield Glass]]''=== ==External links== {{wikipedia|The Simpsons (season 34)}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Simpsons, Season 34}} [[Category:The Simpsons seasons]] td9ppmzhou4d6c3anjshkvovcqrrcq4 1 253495 3961356 3721408 2026-07-06T03:36:35Z AC9016 2870313 /* More repeat vandalism */ Reply 3961356 wikitext text/x-wiki == Repeat Vandalism == There have been numerous instances of an anonymous user vandalizing this page. They have generally used a different IP address every time, although sometimes parts of the addresses are similar. I cannot say as a complete certainty that it is the same person, but they have been making the same change to the page every single time, reverting it to a past version of the page where the quotes displayed are over the LOQ limit, and the only captioned image of Arnold Vosloo, with the words "The creature will suck them dry and become whole again." Every so often whoever this is comes back to revert the page to how they want it, but now that I am paying closer attention, reverting the vandalism is easy enough. The vandal has come back more often here in late 2022, no doubt because I have been undoing the damage more often. I will continue to monitor. Of note is the fact that there is a trend of this anonymous vandal using similar IP addresses, specifically the first component on the left. 91, 92, 178 have all been used at least twice each so far. Updated note: Still coming back in 2025, and this same vandalism is still going on. Will continue to monitor and revert the vandalism as needed, and I will continue to document all IP addresses associated with the vandalism. *List of vandalism by anonymous user, listed by date and IP address: ** 2025-04-06: 178.66.158.188 --[[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 01:22, 12 May 2025 (UTC) ** 2024-07-16: 178.66.157.241 --[[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 01:39, 25 January 2025 (UTC) **2022-12-22: 92.100.44.215 --[[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 06:21, 22 December 2022 (UTC) **2022-12-21: 95.55.133.219 --[[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 02:20, 22 December 2022 (UTC) **2022-12-21: 95.55.18.165 --[[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 02:23, 22 December 2022 (UTC) **2022-12-10: 91.12.8.88 **2022-12-09: 178.66.136.247 **2022-12-08: 178.66.81.216 **2022-11-25: 92.100.178.73 (Thanks awfully for taking a day off for Thanksgiving, old chap) **2022-11-01: 178.66.143.70 **2022-08-06: 92.100.57.168 **2021-12-06: 92.100.44.96 **2021-10-30: 91.122.110.48 **2020-11-10: 92.100.102.46 **2020-10-18: 92.100.98.231 **2016-11-24: 91.122.12.37 (First-ever appearance of that captioned image of Arnold Vosloo, possibly the same user. It is even more likely because the first component of the IP address is 91.) [[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 22:29, 10 December 2022 (UTC) :{{u|AC9016}}, as the vandalism is coming from quite a few different IPs, I have semi-protected this page for a week. This should help, but if vandalism continues when it expires and you think protection should be added again, please make a request on the [[WQ:AN|administrators' noticeboard]]. Thank you! --[[User:Ferien|Ferien]] <small>([[User talk:Ferien|talk]])</small> 23:21, 10 December 2022 (UTC) ::Yes, the anonymous vandal returned not long after the protected status expired, under the latest IP address, 95.55.133.219. I will need to post to the admin noticeboard. --[[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 02:21, 22 December 2022 (UTC) ::Thank you for your assistance by the way. If you can semi-protect the page again until I can make a request and report on the noticeboard (that'll be tomorrow at this point) it would be greatly appreciated. --[[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 02:22, 22 December 2022 (UTC) == Reported Repeat Vandalism == I have reported repeat vandalism as occurring on this page on the appropriate noticeboard, and identified the latest IP address the anonymous vandal is operating under, 92.100.44.215. This is the 6th time that 92 has come up as the first component in the anonymous user's IP address, interestingly enough. Chances are they will simply switch to another soon, whether or not 92.100.44.215 gets blocked, as that has been their standard pattern so far. Whoever keeps doing this, they are REAL persistent, as I have tracked the vandalism occurring all the way back to November 2016 or so. I am hoping for assistance and intervention from an administrator. I have no issue checking back on the page and reverting the vandalism, but protecting the page is the only way anonymous vandals will be denied access to it. [[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 06:39, 22 December 2022 (UTC) == More repeat vandalism == :93.185.26.90- 3 September 2023 and 4 September 2023. I think it is safe to assume this is the same user, who, humorously, apparently took 3 months to notice the restriction on anonymous users editing this move's page after the protected status expired in June 2023. That restriction needs to be restored immediately. Any assistance would be appreciated. :[[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 14:02, 7 September 2023 (UTC) ::{{done}} - I've protected it again. ~ [[User:UDScott|UDScott]] ([[User talk:UDScott|talk]]) 14:06, 7 September 2023 (UTC) :::Late reply, but thank you for protecting this page. All is well so far. [[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 23:26, 3 July 2024 (UTC) :::Vandalism happened the exact same way as it did before, back in July 2024; I just missed it this time and the vandalism got left in place. I'm manually fixing the page and re-implementing some edits other users made. Semi-protecting the page again would be appreciated. [[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 01:40, 25 January 2025 (UTC) :::This page needs to be protected again; I just came back and caught the same anonymous user having vandalized the page on 6 April 2025. This vandalism may actually be the same person going back as much as 9 years. Please set whatever protection you can on the page and please consider long-term options, because this vandal has been at this (quite likely) for nearly a decade, so they will be back. [[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 01:24, 12 May 2025 (UTC) :::Update- got a couple of additional incidents of vandalism here in 2026. The same exact edit being made as before, except now, this user has switched to creating throwaway accounts. Please protect the page again when you can. [[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 03:36, 6 July 2026 (UTC) ewf3hvbf5z66nru1cyxyhk1hyi1rad4 3961357 3961356 2026-07-06T03:41:23Z AC9016 2870313 3961357 wikitext text/x-wiki == Repeat Vandalism == There have been numerous instances of an anonymous user vandalizing this page. They have generally used a different IP address every time, although sometimes parts of the addresses are similar. I cannot say as a complete certainty that it is the same person, but they have been making the same change to the page every single time, reverting it to a past version of the page where the quotes displayed are over the LOQ limit, and the only captioned image of Arnold Vosloo, with the words "The creature will suck them dry and become whole again." Every so often whoever this is comes back to revert the page to how they want it, but now that I am paying closer attention, reverting the vandalism is easy enough. The vandal has come back more often here in late 2022, no doubt because I have been undoing the damage more often. I will continue to monitor. Of note is the fact that there is a trend of this anonymous vandal using similar IP addresses, specifically the first component on the left. 91, 92, 178 have all been used at least twice each so far. Updated note: Still coming back in 2025, and this same vandalism is still going on. Will continue to monitor and revert the vandalism as needed, and I will continue to document all IP addresses associated with the vandalism. *List of vandalism by anonymous user, listed by date and IP address (more recently using throwaway account names): ** 06 July 2026: ~2026-38198-11 ** 04 July 2026: ~2026-38293-83 ** 30 May 2026: ~2026-32042-30 ** 2025-04-06: 178.66.158.188 --[[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 01:22, 12 May 2025 (UTC) ** 2024-07-16: 178.66.157.241 --[[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 01:39, 25 January 2025 (UTC) **2022-12-22: 92.100.44.215 --[[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 06:21, 22 December 2022 (UTC) **2022-12-21: 95.55.133.219 --[[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 02:20, 22 December 2022 (UTC) **2022-12-21: 95.55.18.165 --[[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 02:23, 22 December 2022 (UTC) **2022-12-10: 91.12.8.88 **2022-12-09: 178.66.136.247 **2022-12-08: 178.66.81.216 **2022-11-25: 92.100.178.73 (Thanks awfully for taking a day off for Thanksgiving, old chap) **2022-11-01: 178.66.143.70 **2022-08-06: 92.100.57.168 **2021-12-06: 92.100.44.96 **2021-10-30: 91.122.110.48 **2020-11-10: 92.100.102.46 **2020-10-18: 92.100.98.231 **2016-11-24: 91.122.12.37 (First-ever appearance of that captioned image of Arnold Vosloo, possibly the same user. It is even more likely because the first component of the IP address is 91.) [[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 22:29, 10 December 2022 (UTC) :{{u|AC9016}}, as the vandalism is coming from quite a few different IPs, I have semi-protected this page for a week. This should help, but if vandalism continues when it expires and you think protection should be added again, please make a request on the [[WQ:AN|administrators' noticeboard]]. Thank you! --[[User:Ferien|Ferien]] <small>([[User talk:Ferien|talk]])</small> 23:21, 10 December 2022 (UTC) ::Yes, the anonymous vandal returned not long after the protected status expired, under the latest IP address, 95.55.133.219. I will need to post to the admin noticeboard. --[[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 02:21, 22 December 2022 (UTC) ::Thank you for your assistance by the way. If you can semi-protect the page again until I can make a request and report on the noticeboard (that'll be tomorrow at this point) it would be greatly appreciated. --[[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 02:22, 22 December 2022 (UTC) == Reported Repeat Vandalism == I have reported repeat vandalism as occurring on this page on the appropriate noticeboard, and identified the latest IP address the anonymous vandal is operating under, 92.100.44.215. This is the 6th time that 92 has come up as the first component in the anonymous user's IP address, interestingly enough. Chances are they will simply switch to another soon, whether or not 92.100.44.215 gets blocked, as that has been their standard pattern so far. Whoever keeps doing this, they are REAL persistent, as I have tracked the vandalism occurring all the way back to November 2016 or so. I am hoping for assistance and intervention from an administrator. I have no issue checking back on the page and reverting the vandalism, but protecting the page is the only way anonymous vandals will be denied access to it. [[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 06:39, 22 December 2022 (UTC) == More repeat vandalism == :93.185.26.90- 3 September 2023 and 4 September 2023. I think it is safe to assume this is the same user, who, humorously, apparently took 3 months to notice the restriction on anonymous users editing this move's page after the protected status expired in June 2023. That restriction needs to be restored immediately. Any assistance would be appreciated. :[[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 14:02, 7 September 2023 (UTC) ::{{done}} - I've protected it again. ~ [[User:UDScott|UDScott]] ([[User talk:UDScott|talk]]) 14:06, 7 September 2023 (UTC) :::Late reply, but thank you for protecting this page. All is well so far. [[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 23:26, 3 July 2024 (UTC) :::Vandalism happened the exact same way as it did before, back in July 2024; I just missed it this time and the vandalism got left in place. I'm manually fixing the page and re-implementing some edits other users made. Semi-protecting the page again would be appreciated. [[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 01:40, 25 January 2025 (UTC) :::This page needs to be protected again; I just came back and caught the same anonymous user having vandalized the page on 6 April 2025. This vandalism may actually be the same person going back as much as 9 years. Please set whatever protection you can on the page and please consider long-term options, because this vandal has been at this (quite likely) for nearly a decade, so they will be back. [[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 01:24, 12 May 2025 (UTC) :::Update- got a couple of additional incidents of vandalism here in 2026. The same exact edit being made as before, except now, this user has switched to creating throwaway accounts. Please protect the page again when you can. [[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 03:36, 6 July 2026 (UTC) gjq9kd2crbg08cf0c5i7vf0gcd45052 3961358 3961357 2026-07-06T03:42:13Z AC9016 2870313 /* Repeat Vandalism */ Reply 3961358 wikitext text/x-wiki == Repeat Vandalism == There have been numerous instances of an anonymous user vandalizing this page. They have generally used a different IP address every time, although sometimes parts of the addresses are similar. I cannot say as a complete certainty that it is the same person, but they have been making the same change to the page every single time, reverting it to a past version of the page where the quotes displayed are over the LOQ limit, and the only captioned image of Arnold Vosloo, with the words "The creature will suck them dry and become whole again." Every so often whoever this is comes back to revert the page to how they want it, but now that I am paying closer attention, reverting the vandalism is easy enough. The vandal has come back more often here in late 2022, no doubt because I have been undoing the damage more often. I will continue to monitor. Of note is the fact that there is a trend of this anonymous vandal using similar IP addresses, specifically the first component on the left. 91, 92, 178 have all been used at least twice each so far. Updated note: Still coming back in 2025, and this same vandalism is still going on. Will continue to monitor and revert the vandalism as needed, and I will continue to document all IP addresses associated with the vandalism. *List of vandalism by anonymous user, listed by date and IP address (more recently using throwaway account names): ** 06 July 2026: ~2026-38198-11 ** 04 July 2026: ~2026-38293-83 ** 30 May 2026: ~2026-32042-30 ** 2025-04-06: 178.66.158.188 --[[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 01:22, 12 May 2025 (UTC) ** 2024-07-16: 178.66.157.241 --[[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 01:39, 25 January 2025 (UTC) **2022-12-22: 92.100.44.215 --[[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 06:21, 22 December 2022 (UTC) **2022-12-21: 95.55.133.219 --[[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 02:20, 22 December 2022 (UTC) **2022-12-21: 95.55.18.165 --[[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 02:23, 22 December 2022 (UTC) **2022-12-10: 91.12.8.88 **2022-12-09: 178.66.136.247 **2022-12-08: 178.66.81.216 **2022-11-25: 92.100.178.73 (Thanks awfully for taking a day off for Thanksgiving, old chap) **2022-11-01: 178.66.143.70 **2022-08-06: 92.100.57.168 **2021-12-06: 92.100.44.96 **2021-10-30: 91.122.110.48 **2020-11-10: 92.100.102.46 **2020-10-18: 92.100.98.231 **2016-11-24: 91.122.12.37 (First-ever appearance of that captioned image of Arnold Vosloo, possibly the same user. It is even more likely because the first component of the IP address is 91.) [[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 22:29, 10 December 2022 (UTC) :{{u|AC9016}}, as the vandalism is coming from quite a few different IPs, I have semi-protected this page for a week. This should help, but if vandalism continues when it expires and you think protection should be added again, please make a request on the [[WQ:AN|administrators' noticeboard]]. Thank you! --[[User:Ferien|Ferien]] <small>([[User talk:Ferien|talk]])</small> 23:21, 10 December 2022 (UTC) ::Yes, the anonymous vandal returned not long after the protected status expired, under the latest IP address, 95.55.133.219. I will need to post to the admin noticeboard. --[[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 02:21, 22 December 2022 (UTC) ::Thank you for your assistance by the way. If you can semi-protect the page again until I can make a request and report on the noticeboard (that'll be tomorrow at this point) it would be greatly appreciated. --[[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 02:22, 22 December 2022 (UTC) ::Four years later, this vandal has swapped to employing throwaway accounts, as I have detailed here above. I will see about making a request for restored protected status to the page. [[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 03:42, 6 July 2026 (UTC) == Reported Repeat Vandalism == I have reported repeat vandalism as occurring on this page on the appropriate noticeboard, and identified the latest IP address the anonymous vandal is operating under, 92.100.44.215. This is the 6th time that 92 has come up as the first component in the anonymous user's IP address, interestingly enough. Chances are they will simply switch to another soon, whether or not 92.100.44.215 gets blocked, as that has been their standard pattern so far. Whoever keeps doing this, they are REAL persistent, as I have tracked the vandalism occurring all the way back to November 2016 or so. I am hoping for assistance and intervention from an administrator. I have no issue checking back on the page and reverting the vandalism, but protecting the page is the only way anonymous vandals will be denied access to it. [[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 06:39, 22 December 2022 (UTC) == More repeat vandalism == :93.185.26.90- 3 September 2023 and 4 September 2023. I think it is safe to assume this is the same user, who, humorously, apparently took 3 months to notice the restriction on anonymous users editing this move's page after the protected status expired in June 2023. That restriction needs to be restored immediately. Any assistance would be appreciated. :[[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 14:02, 7 September 2023 (UTC) ::{{done}} - I've protected it again. ~ [[User:UDScott|UDScott]] ([[User talk:UDScott|talk]]) 14:06, 7 September 2023 (UTC) :::Late reply, but thank you for protecting this page. All is well so far. [[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 23:26, 3 July 2024 (UTC) :::Vandalism happened the exact same way as it did before, back in July 2024; I just missed it this time and the vandalism got left in place. I'm manually fixing the page and re-implementing some edits other users made. Semi-protecting the page again would be appreciated. [[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 01:40, 25 January 2025 (UTC) :::This page needs to be protected again; I just came back and caught the same anonymous user having vandalized the page on 6 April 2025. This vandalism may actually be the same person going back as much as 9 years. Please set whatever protection you can on the page and please consider long-term options, because this vandal has been at this (quite likely) for nearly a decade, so they will be back. [[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 01:24, 12 May 2025 (UTC) :::Update- got a couple of additional incidents of vandalism here in 2026. The same exact edit being made as before, except now, this user has switched to creating throwaway accounts. Please protect the page again when you can. [[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 03:36, 6 July 2026 (UTC) 7jy8gvz4is5u2wjutc5ca9m3cfvk1fh 3961360 3961358 2026-07-06T03:48:43Z AC9016 2870313 3961360 wikitext text/x-wiki == Repeat Vandalism == There have been numerous instances of an anonymous user vandalizing this page. They have generally used a different IP address every time, although sometimes parts of the addresses are similar. I cannot say as a complete certainty that it is the same person, but they have been making the same change to the page every single time, reverting it to a past version of the page where the quotes displayed are over the LOQ limit, and the only captioned image of Arnold Vosloo, with the words "The creature will suck them dry and become whole again." Every so often whoever this is comes back to revert the page to how they want it, but now that I am paying closer attention, reverting the vandalism is easy enough. The vandal has come back more often here in late 2022, no doubt because I have been undoing the damage more often. I will continue to monitor. Of note is the fact that there is a trend of this anonymous vandal using similar IP addresses, specifically the first component on the left. 91, 92, 178 have all been used at least twice each so far. Updated note: Still coming back in 2026, meaning this same vandalism is still going on after 10 years. Will continue to monitor and revert the vandalism as needed, and I will continue to document all IP addresses associated with the vandalism. *List of vandalism by anonymous user, listed by date and IP address (more recently using throwaway account names): ** 06 July 2026: ~2026-38198-11 ** 04 July 2026: ~2026-38293-83 ** 30 May 2026: ~2026-32042-30 ** 2025-04-06: 178.66.158.188 --[[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 01:22, 12 May 2025 (UTC) ** 2024-07-16: 178.66.157.241 --[[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 01:39, 25 January 2025 (UTC) **2022-12-22: 92.100.44.215 --[[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 06:21, 22 December 2022 (UTC) **2022-12-21: 95.55.133.219 --[[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 02:20, 22 December 2022 (UTC) **2022-12-21: 95.55.18.165 --[[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 02:23, 22 December 2022 (UTC) **2022-12-10: 91.12.8.88 **2022-12-09: 178.66.136.247 **2022-12-08: 178.66.81.216 **2022-11-25: 92.100.178.73 (Thanks awfully for taking a day off for Thanksgiving, old chap) **2022-11-01: 178.66.143.70 **2022-08-06: 92.100.57.168 **2021-12-06: 92.100.44.96 **2021-10-30: 91.122.110.48 **2020-11-10: 92.100.102.46 **2020-10-18: 92.100.98.231 **2016-11-24: 91.122.12.37 (First-ever appearance of that captioned image of Arnold Vosloo, possibly the same user. It is even more likely because the first component of the IP address is 91.) [[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 22:29, 10 December 2022 (UTC) :{{u|AC9016}}, as the vandalism is coming from quite a few different IPs, I have semi-protected this page for a week. This should help, but if vandalism continues when it expires and you think protection should be added again, please make a request on the [[WQ:AN|administrators' noticeboard]]. Thank you! --[[User:Ferien|Ferien]] <small>([[User talk:Ferien|talk]])</small> 23:21, 10 December 2022 (UTC) ::Yes, the anonymous vandal returned not long after the protected status expired, under the latest IP address, 95.55.133.219. I will need to post to the admin noticeboard. --[[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 02:21, 22 December 2022 (UTC) ::Thank you for your assistance by the way. If you can semi-protect the page again until I can make a request and report on the noticeboard (that'll be tomorrow at this point) it would be greatly appreciated. --[[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 02:22, 22 December 2022 (UTC) ::Four years later, this vandal has swapped to employing throwaway accounts, as I have detailed here above. I will see about making a request for restored protected status to the page. [[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 03:42, 6 July 2026 (UTC) == Reported Repeat Vandalism == I have reported repeat vandalism as occurring on this page on the appropriate noticeboard, and identified the latest IP address the anonymous vandal is operating under, 92.100.44.215. This is the 6th time that 92 has come up as the first component in the anonymous user's IP address, interestingly enough. Chances are they will simply switch to another soon, whether or not 92.100.44.215 gets blocked, as that has been their standard pattern so far. Whoever keeps doing this, they are REAL persistent, as I have tracked the vandalism occurring all the way back to November 2016 or so. I am hoping for assistance and intervention from an administrator. I have no issue checking back on the page and reverting the vandalism, but protecting the page is the only way anonymous vandals will be denied access to it. [[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 06:39, 22 December 2022 (UTC) == More repeat vandalism == :93.185.26.90- 3 September 2023 and 4 September 2023. I think it is safe to assume this is the same user, who, humorously, apparently took 3 months to notice the restriction on anonymous users editing this move's page after the protected status expired in June 2023. That restriction needs to be restored immediately. Any assistance would be appreciated. :[[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 14:02, 7 September 2023 (UTC) ::{{done}} - I've protected it again. ~ [[User:UDScott|UDScott]] ([[User talk:UDScott|talk]]) 14:06, 7 September 2023 (UTC) :::Late reply, but thank you for protecting this page. All is well so far. [[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 23:26, 3 July 2024 (UTC) :::Vandalism happened the exact same way as it did before, back in July 2024; I just missed it this time and the vandalism got left in place. I'm manually fixing the page and re-implementing some edits other users made. Semi-protecting the page again would be appreciated. [[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 01:40, 25 January 2025 (UTC) :::This page needs to be protected again; I just came back and caught the same anonymous user having vandalized the page on 6 April 2025. This vandalism may actually be the same person going back as much as 9 years. Please set whatever protection you can on the page and please consider long-term options, because this vandal has been at this (quite likely) for nearly a decade, so they will be back. [[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 01:24, 12 May 2025 (UTC) :::Update- got a couple of additional incidents of vandalism here in 2026. The same exact edit being made as before, except now, this user has switched to creating throwaway accounts. Please protect the page again when you can. [[User:AC9016|AC9016]] ([[User talk:AC9016|talk]]) 03:36, 6 July 2026 (UTC) g9ort1nmdufmwk6dvuoc0nuevgrdm0q 4 255079 3961200 3749095 2026-07-05T16:35:26Z BD2412 3982 /* top */ Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]], replaced: Walter M. Miller, Jr. → Walter M. 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Jain was named [[w:Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge|America's Top Young Scientist]] at the age of 13. He was later named one of [[w:Time (Magazine)|Time's 25 Most Influential Teens]]. == Quotes == * Things become easy once you learn them. The monster of complex STEM problems can be tamed with experiments and trying again one more time! ** [https://www.americanbazaaronline.com/2018/10/19/rishab-jain-crowned-americas-top-young-scientist-435506/ ''Indian American teen Rishab Jain crowned America’s Top Young Scientist,''] (19 October 2018) == External links == * [https://twitter.com/RishabJainK Twitter feed] {{DEFAULTSORT:Jain, Rishab}} [[Category:Medical scientists]] [[Category:Inventors]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Engineers from the United States]] [[Category:2004 births]] [[Category:People from Portland]] [[Category:Indian Americans]] 1ryx9cxvep389srle4omwddw3vk8jcc 0 258040 3961130 3757545 2026-07-05T16:25:41Z BD2412 3982 Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]], replaced: Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr. → Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (2) using [[Project:AWB|AWB]] 3961130 wikitext text/x-wiki The '''[[w:2024 United States presidential election|2024 United States presidential election]]''' was the 60th quadrennial [[w:United States presidential election|presidential election]], held on Tuesday, November 5, 2024. Voters elected a [[President of the United States|president]] and [[w:Vice President of the United States|vice president]] for a term of four years. Incumbent President [[Joe Biden]], a member of the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]], [[w:Joe Biden 2024 presidential campaign|was running]] for re-election until he withdrew on July 21, 2024; [[Kamala Harris]], the vice-president, quickly replaced him as the Democratic nominee. Biden's predecessor [[Donald Trump]], a member of the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]], [[w:Donald Trump 2024 presidential campaign|is the candidate]] for re-election to a second, nonconsecutive term. [[Ron DeSantis]], [[Nikki Haley]], [[Vivek Ramaswamy]], and other candidates unsuccessfully ran for the Republican nomination. In August 2024, Trump was endorsed by [[Robert F. Kennedy Jr.|Robert Francis Kennedy Jr.]] abandoning his campaign as an independent candidate; originally, he intended to challenge Biden for the Democratic Party nomination. Trump was declared the victor of this election on November 6th, 2024, and [[w:Second inauguration of Donald Trump|was inaugurated]] on January 20, 2025. [[File:58th Presidential Inaugural Ceremony 170120-D-BP749-1327.jpg|thumb|I’m talking now, if you don’t mind, please. Does that sound familiar?~[https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4873107-trump-harris-im-talking-now/ In the debate Trump to Harris]]] [[File:2021 noncitizen processing facility (51161183439).jpg|thumb|Basically they are importing as many votes as possible.~Musk [https://nypost.com/2024/02/04/news/musk-claims-biden-is-allowing-migrant-surge-to-pack-dem-voter-rolls/amp/ nypost] ]] [[File:Homeless in san francisco mission district California (6086987323).jpg|thumb| I would hope that most of the young people and protestors do not want to see Donald Trump, who is a racist, a sexist, a homophobe who doesn't acknowledge the reality of climate change, become elected president of the United States. Senator Sanders [https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/05/02/bernie-sanders-trump-biden/73531861007/ usatoday] ]] [[File:DC Capitol Storming IMG 7948.jpg|thumb|If everything's honest, I’d gladly accept the results. If it’s not, you have to fight for the right of the country. If we don’t win, you know, it depends,It always depends on the fairness of the election.[a stolen election] allows for the termination of all rules, regulations and articles, even those found in the Constitution.. ~Trump [https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/trump-2024-election-results-honest-wisconsin-rcna150385 msnbc] [https://time.com/6972021/donald-trump-2024-election-interview/ time] ]] [[File:CPWVa Party Symbol.jpg|thumb|I think most Americans at this time are disgusted with the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, and they’re looking for an alternative.~Stephen Edward Broden [https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/02/abortion-rfk-jr-2024-elections-00155723 politico] ]] ==Debates== *[[Jill Biden]] will not be remembered kindly in [[History of the United States|American history]] **[[Meghan McCain|Meghan Mccain]] *Folks, I might not walk as easily or talk as smoothly as I used to. I might not debate as well as I used to. But what I do know is how to tell the truth. **[https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1806746426904379543 Biden] *There’s no way whoever is in charge of [[Presidency of Joe Biden|this presidency]] didn’t know this man was suffering from serious cognitive challenges. I loathe today’s Democrats, but when they can manage to make me feel sorry for Joseph Biden, they are more than loathsome. They are beyond reproach. **[[James Woods]] *We finally beat Medicare..[[[trump]]]]] **Biden [https://apnews.com/article/debate-trump-biden-presidential-campaign-44e71c900a1c4af2bed93041fdfe923d] *They should use the commercial break to swap in the real Democratic nominee. The only time Biden came remotely close to life in the debate is when he’s talking about Trump’s conviction and J6. Turns out he doesn’t give a damn about the things Americans actually care about. **[[Vivek Ramaswamy]] [https://x.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/1806516787003228548] The choice in this election remains very simple. It's a choice between someone who cares about you—your rights, your prospects, your future—versus someone who's only in it for himself. I'll be voting Biden. *[https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1806686107632877647 Hillary Clinton] *Trump’s strongest moment was when he said he wanted Biden to be a good President so Trump didn’t have to put himself through this. Came across as authentic, credible, honest, unifying. That kind of candor, contrasted with Biden’s apparent lobotomy, won over a lot of independents. **[https://x.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/1806658600422482082 Vivek G Ramaswamy] *Did I just Hallucinate The disastrous presidential debate?[[trump]]]]]]] **Dr [[Jordan Peterson|Jordan B Peterson]] [https://x.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1806641988680266001] *[[Jill Biden]] will not be remembered kindly in [[History of the United States|American history]] **[[Meghan McCain|Meghan Mccain]] *Folks, I might not walk as easily or talk as smoothly as I used to. I might not debate as well as I used to. But what I do know is how to tell the truth. **[https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1806746426904379543 Biden] *There’s no way whoever is in charge of [[Presidency of Joe Biden|this presidency]] didn’t know this man was suffering from serious cognitive challenges. I loathe today’s Democrats, but when they can manage to make me feel sorry for Joseph Biden, they are more than loathsome. They are beyond reproach. **[[James Woods]] *We finally beat Medicare..[[[trump]]]]] **Biden [https://apnews.com/article/debate-trump-biden-presidential-campaign-44e71c900a1c4af2bed93041fdfe923d] *They should use the commercial break to swap in the real Democratic nominee. The only time Biden came remotely close to life in the debate is when he’s talking about Trump’s conviction and J6. Turns out he doesn’t give a damn about the things Americans actually care about. **[[Vivek Ramaswamy]] [https://x.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/1806516787003228548] The choice in this election remains very simple. It's a choice between someone who cares about you—your rights, your prospects, your future—versus someone who's only in it for himself. I'll be voting Biden. *[https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1806686107632877647 Hillary Clinton] *Trump’s strongest moment was when he said he wanted Biden to be a good President so Trump didn’t have to put himself through this. Came across as authentic, credible, honest, unifying. That kind of candor, contrasted with Biden’s apparent lobotomy, won over a lot of independents. **[https://x.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/1806658600422482082 Vivek G Ramaswamy] *Did I just Hallucinate The disastrous presidential debate? **Dr [[Jordan Peterson|Jordan B Peterson]] [https://x.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1806641988680266001] == Interviews with candidates == *[https://www.foxnews.com/video/6363352689112 Full interview: Vice President Kamala Harris sits down with Bret Baier in 'Special Report' exclusive] (October 16, 2024) a [[Fox]] video *[https://www.foxnews.com/video/6363205585112 Fox News Shannon Bream interviews Governor of Minnesota Tim Walz] (October 13, 2024) == Quotes == *Under Trump, this kind of government will perish from the earth. And elections? Forget about it. That’s over. That’s done. If he gets in, I can tell you right now, he will never leave. He will never leave. **[[Robert De Niro]] [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/05/28/robert-de-niro-donald-trump-victory-means-u-s-government-will-perish-from-the-earth/] *What if the weakest president we’ve ever had was re-elected? **[https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/ai-tools-present-new-risks-in-2024-us-election/7097302.html RNC ad] *MAGA forces are determined to take this country backwards, backwards to an America where there is no [[Freedom of choice|right to choose]], no right to [[privacy]], no right to [[Birth control|contraception]], [[2020s anti-LGBT movement in the United States|no right to marry who you love]]. They promote [[Authoritarianism|authoritarian]] leaders, and they fan the flames of [[w:Political_violence|political violence]] that are a threat to our personal rights, to the pursuit of justice, to the [[rule of law]], to the very soul of this country. They look at the mob that stormed the [[w:United_States_Capitol|United States Capitol]] on [[2021 United States Capitol attack|January 6]]—brutally attacking [[Law enforcement in the United States|law enforcement]]—not as [[Insurrection|insurrectionists]] who placed a dagger to the throat of our democracy, but they look at them as patriots. And they see their MAGA failure to stop a [[w:Peaceful_transfer_of_power|peaceful transfer of power]] after the [[2020 United States presidential election|2020 election]] as preparation for the [[w:2022_United_States_elections|2022]] and 2024 elections. They tried everything last time to nullify the votes of 81 million people. This time, they're determined to succeed in thwarting the will of the people. That's why respected [[Conservatism|conservatives]], like Federal Circuit Court Judge [[J. Michael Luttig|Michael Luttig]], has called Trump and the extreme MAGA Republicans, quote, a "clear and present danger" to our democracy. ** [[Joe Biden]], [https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-united-states-democracy-philadelphia-pennsylvania Address on United States Democracy in Philadelphia], 1 September 2022 * A new Gallup poll showed that just 33 percent of Americans are satisfied with the nation's position in the world today. This is down from 65 percent in 2000. As Donald Trump and Joe Biden—two historically old and deeply unpopular presidential candidates—square off yet again for America's top job, it's not hard to understand these sentiments. America is in decline in the 21st century in measure after measure, from numerous public-policy failures, to increasingly dysfunctional [[Politics of the United States|politics]], to an [[epidemic]] of [[mental health]] issues among young people. This predicament raises two essential questions: Is America's downturn merely another dip in a long arc of non-linear, yet essentially upward, [[progress]]? Or is it, rather, the first phase of steep and irreversible national decline? The answer lies with the American people. Like all nations, America is, above all, the hearts and minds of its people. And the trend line is moving hard in the wrong direction: Things are getting worse, not better. Tribalism is intensifying. [[Social media|Social-media]] platforms are getting smarter at manipulating human cognition. The political system's defects are worsening. And America's public-policy failures are deepening. ** William Cooper, ''Newsweek'', [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/america-is-in-decline-opinion/ "America Is in Decline"] 19 April 2024 * This is the final battle. With you at my side, we will demolish the [[deep state]], expel the warmongers from [[Federal government of the United States|our government]]. We will drive out the [[Globalism|globalists]]. We will cast out the [[Communism|Communists]], [[Marxism|Marxists]], and [[Fascism|Fascists]], and we will throw off the sick [[Ruling class|political class]] that hates our country. We will rout the [[fake news]] [[Mass media|media]], and we will defeat crooked Joe Biden. We will liberate America from these villains once and for all. ** [[Donald Trump]], [https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/06/trump-lists-all-the-villains-he-plans-to-destroy-in-a-second-term Trump told the audience at the Oakland County Republican Party’s Lincoln Day Dinner] * You keep your promises to those that we've made, promises to. Those that have invested in should keep what they have. We shouldn't in any way jeopardize those that are already expecting something. This is about the new group coming in. It's the new ones coming in. It's those in their twenties that are coming in. You're coming to them and you're saying the game has changed. We're going to do this completely differently. That's how you go and you focus on it. We've got to start doing things like that. But more than that, we have to look at the fact that there is a spending problem in [[Washington, D.C.|DC]] and [[Republican Party (United States)|Republicans]] and [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrats]] have done this to us, [[Neil Cavuto|Neil]]. Don't forget that when this all started, with the Republicans, they passed a $2.2 trillion [[COVID-19 pandemic in the United States|COVID]] stimulus package 419-6 in the House and 96 to 0 in the [[United States Senate|Senate]] that expanded [[Social programs in the United States|welfare]]. Now we have 90 million people on [[w:Medicaid|Medicaid]]. You've got 42 million people on food stamps. We should be taking people from [[welfare]] to [[work]]. We shouldn't be paying people to sit on the couch and adding to the rolls of welfare. It was under Republicans' watch. They opened up earmarks again. Why are we spending on pork projects when one in six Americans can't pay their utility bill? We should stop borrowing. We don't have endless [[Credit card|credit cards]] in our households or our businesses. Why are we allowing that to happen? And we should make sure that they understand that you should not pass a [[Government spending|spending]] bill that doesn't take us back to pre-COVID levels. This is going to have to be harsh. It's going to take a president that is going to call out Republicans and Democrats. I did that as governor. I'll do it again as president. ** [[Nikki Haley]], Fox News appearance, as quoted in [https://www.foxnews.com/media/nikki-haley-slams-bidens-proposed-budget-ultimate-socialist-president ''Nikki Haley slams Biden's proposed budget: 'The ultimate socialist president''] (9 March 2023) *Donald Trump is the weakest president in [[History of the United States|American history]] when it comes to China, Chinese officials are pulling for his re-election. **[https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/biden-campaign-press-release-donald-trump-the-weakest-president-american-history-when-it Biden Campaign] *[[China–United States relations|Washington’s hawkish stance on China]] is here to stay, irrespective of who wins the presidency in the 2024 election. **[https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/04/28/us-china-asia-taiwan-desantis-youngkin-bolton-election/ foreignpolicy] *It's time to finish the job. **[https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/01/20/us/biden-2024-president-election-news Biden reelection] *Republicans are focused on voter ID rules and making it harder to cast mail ballots. **[https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/20/us/politics/voting-rights-laws-states.html nytimes] *Donald Trumps set a [[Foreign policy of the United States|foreign policy]] pitch in his second bid for the White House: Want [[World War III|World War 3]]? Vote for the other guy. **[https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/06/trumps-2024-game-plan-dove-hawks-00081180 politico] If 2016 was the most important election in our lifetimes, 2024 is shaping up to be the most dispiriting. *If he is re-elected, [Biden] he'll be 82 on Inauguration Day in 2025. *The video of Joe Biden falling at the [[U.S. Air Force]] [[Academy]] [[graduation]] should point that he shouldn't be running in 2024. **[https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/walk-before-you-run-how-bidens-tumble-disqualifies-him-from-2024-bid WashingtonExaminer] *This election is a referendum on the failures of Joe Biden - an open border, [[inflation]], and a woke ideology infecting our society. **[https://twitter.com/RonDeSantis/status/1664801923516575747?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet DeSantis 2024] *Within 6 months , we're gonna drill , get our [[energy]] down, close up our border. **[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVGdr3FtWhs Trump reveals actions he'll take in first 6 months as president] *Ron DeSantis voted against the wall. **[https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/may/26/maga-inc/pro-donald-trump-pac-ad-misleads-about-ron-desanti/ misleading Trump ad] *Ron [DeSantis] was a big lockdown [[governor]] on the [[COVID-19 pandemic|China virus]], sealing all beaches and everything else for an extended period. **[https://www.politifact.com/article/2023/may/25/ad-watch-pro-donald-trump-pacs-video-misleads-abou/ Trump ad] *'Great American comeback' **[https://www.skynews.com.au/world-news/united-states/great-american-comeback-ron-desantis-launches-2024-presidential-campaign/video/a7d5fbae50358fbf73fb2b0dd65204bd Ron DeSanti ] *Crooked [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] Prosecutors, many of them [[Racism|Racists]] in Reverse, are trying to steal a second Presidential Election, They did it in 2020, and we’re not going to let them do it again in 2024. MAGA!!! **[https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-crooked-democrat-prosecutors-trying-to-steal-2024-election Truth social] *I was on Twitter spaces earlier tonight and it broke the internet. **[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ron-desantis-2024-presidential-run-paperwork-twitter-spaces/ DeSantis campaign speech] *On day one of my new administration, I will direct the [[w:United_States_Department_of_Justice|DOJ]] to investigate every radical district attorney and attorney general in America for their illegal, racist ... enforcement of the law **[https://www.newsmax.com/politics/donald-trump-probe-2024-election/2023/04/27/id/1117822/ Trump campaign speech] *DeSantis runs against Biden in 2024, then DeSantis will easily win – he doesn’t even need to campaign. **[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-ron-desantis-interview-2024-campaign-b2344632.html Elon Musk] *To further drain the swamp, I will push for a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on members of [[United States Congress|Congress]]. We’re going to ask that everyone that sells drug, that gets caught selling drugs, to receive the [[Capital punishment|death penalty]] for their heinous acts because it’s the only way. **[https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/trumps-proposed-national-greatness-agenda-policies/ Trump's proposed policy changes for his 'National Greatness Agenda'] *a hypothetical three-way 2024 election outcome is in which Biden wins only [[California]] and [[w:Connecticut|Connecticut]], Trump wins nine hardcore Republican states, including [[Louisiana]], [[Mississippi]] and [[Alabama]], and a [[w:No_Labels|No Labels]] candidate wins the 39 remaining states. **[https://www.voanews.com/a/group-s-third-party-candidate-could-upend-2024-us-presidential-race/7038147.html VOA] * DeSantis has sold himself to the Republican establishment as a less chaotic avatar of Trumpism than Trump himself. **[https://www.arabnews.com/node/2298586/world Don vs. Ron: Why Trump is trouncing DeSantis in 2024 race] *With 2024 campaigns underway, we will stop removing videos with false claims that widespread fraud, errors, or glitches occurred in the 2020 and other past US Presidential elections. **[https://blog.youtube/inside-youtube/us-election-misinformation-update-2023/ Youtube] *We want a good [[Chief executive officer|CEO]] of America. **[https://www.cnbc.com/video/2023/05/16/elon-musk-on-2024-election-we-want-a-good-ceo-of-america.html Elon Musk] *It is unconscionable for a President to indict the leading candidate opposing him. **McCarthy [https://nypost.com/2023/06/08/gop-lawmakers-blast-biden-for-weaponizing-doj-over-latest-trump-indictment/ nypost] *Biden and his administration “have weaponized the [[Federal government of the United States|government]] against their political opponents.” **RNC [https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/donald-trump-faces-second-indictment-weeks-visit-michigan BRIDGE MICHIGAN] *They can't beat me at the ballet box so they are out there trying to take me out by other means, anything they can think of, if I didn't run for office or if I wasn't leading by a lot it would all end and end very nicely I'd have a much easier life. On November 5th 2024 justice will be done. **[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zATT6FV4KCo Trump] *The next Republican president, in short, will almost certainly be the worst boss. **[https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/23/opinion/trump-presidency-business-owner.html NYTimes] *United States is in a cold war with [[China]] and actually at war with [[Russia]]. **[https://www.forbes.com/sites/brittanylewis/2023/06/23/were-in-a-cold-war-with-china-and-at-war-with-russia-doug-burgum-on-forbes-road-to-2024/?sh=a5022b924c78 Forbes] *This election will decide whether your generation inherits a [[Fascism|FASCIST]] country or a FREE country—whether you will have the rule of tyrants or the [[rule of law]]—whether [[Marxism|Marxist]] radicals burn our civilization to the ground, which they’re looking to do, or young [[Patriotism|patriots]] like you propel America to glorious new heights. **Turning point trump [https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/trump-2024-offers-hope-of-a-brighter-future-for-americas-young-voters/] * We’re at such a low point in the [[American imperialism|American empire]]. Its spiritual decay and its immoral decadence are so profound that we have to begin on the foundational level of a spiritual awakening and a moral reckoning. [[Organization|Organized]] greed. [[Institutional racism|Institutionalized hatred]]. Routinized indifference to the lives of [[Poverty in the United States|poor]] and [[working people]] of all colors. We’ve got to get beyond an analysis of the predatory [[capitalist]] processes that have saturated every nook and cranny of the [[culture]]. We’ve got to get beyond the ways in which the [[Politics of the United States|political system]] has been colonized by [[Corporations|corporate]] [[wealth]] and by [[Money|monied]] [[elite]]. We’ve got to get beyond that sense of impotence of the [[Citizenship|citizenry]]. These are all the signs of an {{w|American decline|empire in decline}}. The only thing that we have to add is military overreach, and we see that as well. ** [[Cornel West]], Speaking to [[Chris Hedges]] about his decision to run for president in 2024. [https://scheerpost.com/2023/06/05/chris-hedges-dr-cornel-west-announces-he-is-running-for-president/ Chris Hedges: Dr. Cornel West Announces He Is Running for President]. Scheerpost. June 5, 2023 * I'm here to declare myself an independent candidate for president of the United States. ** [[Robert F. Kennedy Jr.]], From a speech in Philadelphia, as cited in [https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/09/politics/kennedy-independent-campaign/index.html "Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces independent run for president, ending Democratic primary challenge to Biden"], ''CNN'' (9 October 2023) * And this ain't a good sequel like ''[[Paddington 2]].'' It's more like we're watching ''[[Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom|The Temple of Doom]].''<br> No, this ain't ''[[The Empire Strikes Back]]'' It's the time you tried to reheat your [[w:Big_Mac|Big Mac]]! <br> This ain't even ''[[Fast & Furious 6|Fast and Furious 6]]!'' It's more like [[w:Home_Sweet_Home_Alone|that ''Home Alone'']] we got on [[Netflix]]! <br> I think [[w:Olivia_Rodrigo|Olivia Rodrigo]] would agree. This is even worse than your ex eatin' strawberry ice cream, no! <br> This ain't ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers]].'' This was ''[[Shrek Forever After|Shrek: Forever After]]'' when it stole two hours of my life! <br> It's not ''[[The Dark Knight (film)|The Dark Knight]]''! It's my high school production of ''[[Grease (film)|Grease]]'' and I'm the only guy <br> Because the [[American football|football]] coach wouldn't let anyone miss a practice day! And if I do recall, they finished last anyway! <br> Now I'm onstage doo-woppin' by myself That's when someone in the back row screams, "I'm in [[hell]]!" <br> I feel lower than dirt, smaller than nothing And on the next day my junior prom date dumped me! <br> We've all been there, right? Anyway, that's what this election feels like. ** [["Weird Al" Yankovic]], "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fNWHbnIn0g Deja Vu (But Worse)]," 28 June 2024 * NBC News exit polls show democracy and the economy were top of mind for voters today, followed by abortion and immigration. ** [[MSNBC]] according to [https://www.msnbc.com/politics/2024-election/live-blog/election-race-results-trump-harris-2024-live-updates-rcna176538 Live updates: Trump-Harris election results to start trickling in after first polls close] (Nov. 5, 2024) == Video clips == * "On Jan. 6, 2021, an angry mob of [[Donald Trump]] supporters swarmed a CBC News crew working near [[Capitol Hill]]. Nearly four years later, reporter [[Katie Nicholson]] tracked down one of the people who surrounded her that day to find out what she’s thinking heading into another volatile U.S. presidential election." ** <small> [https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6536373 Reporter tracks down Jan. 6 protester who told her to 'run'] A video by the [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]] (October 15,2024)</small> * I think that if you-- you, you ask me right now, why it went down this way? Ballpark answer: Misogyny, weakened rhetoric on immigration -- that is to say, Democrats stopped pushing back against anti-immigrant sentiment and started kind of adopting it themselves -- and a lack of economic populism. They are fighting for procedural institutionalist rhetoric in a world that is populist. ** [[Vaush]], in response to [[Kamala Harris]]' loss, on 6 November 2024 -- "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WHXX3Kb1Ms Yeah, It Was Really Bad]" == External links == {{wikipedia}} [[Category:Presidential elections in the United States]] [[Category:2020s elections in the United States]] [[Category:2024 elections]] [[Category:2024 United States presidential election| ]] o0711ucs1ztluzuzf235r6has25ij0a 0 259644 3961217 3958479 2026-07-05T17:00:30Z ~2026-38358-39 3347723 /* 4. Guess Who's Slammin' to Dinner? */ 3961217 wikitext text/x-wiki {{italic title}} '''''{{w|My Adventures with Superman}}''''' is a animated superhero series based on the [[w:DC Comics|DC Comics]] character [[Superman]]. {{tv-stub}} =='''Season 1 (2023)'''== ==='''1. Adventures of a Normal Man Part 1'''=== ==='''2. Adventures of a Normal Man Part 2'''=== ==='''3. My Interview with Superman'''=== ==='''4. Let's Go to Ivo Tower, You Say'''=== ==='''5. You Will Believe A Man Can Lie'''=== ==='''6. My Adventures with Mad Science'''=== :'''Lois''': How'd you know you'd be bulletproof? :'''Clark''': I didn't, I just knew that you weren't. ==='''7. Kiss Kiss Fall in Portal'''=== ==='''8. Zero Day Part 1'''=== ==='''9. Zero Day Part 2'''=== :'''Jimmy''': ''[addressing the people of Metropolis via social media]'' Hi, Birdwatchers. You know me as Flamebird, but my real name is Jimmy Olsen - Superman's best friend. :'''Lois''': And I'm Lois Lane, Superman's... ''[blushes]'' a reporter for the ''Daily Planet''. Metropolis is under attack. Superman is out there right now, defending us, but he can't do this on his own. When I first met Superman, I didn't know how to feel. He was stronger than us, faster, more powerful, and every single day he went out there... and used that power to ''help'' us. People have told you to fear Superman because he's different from us - but we humans are capable of causing hurt and pain too. Because of greed. Because we want to punish those who don't look or act like us. Because of fear. But... we're also capable of greatness. It's what we ''choose'' to do that matters. Superman's made his choice. It's our turn, Metropolis. :'''Jimmy''': So please, turn off your power. Shut off your building's breakers, your generators - do anything you can to starve Parasite of energy! :'''Lois''': Superman has saved this city over and over again. It's time for us to save Superman! :'''Parasite''': ''[preparing to crush Superman]'' '''YOU... ''LOSE!''''' :''[Citizens start turning off their power all over the city, depriving Parasite of energy and weakening him. Superman hears them all whispering to each other to have faith in him.]'' :'''Parasite''': '''WHAT DID YOU DO? YOU ''DID'' SOMETHING! YOU ''CHEATED'' AGAIN!''' :'''Superman''': Dr. Ivo, I know you're in there - please stand down! I won't let you hurt the people of this city, or anyone, ever again. :'''Parasite''': '''YOU AREN'T THE HERO HERE! YOU'RE NOT EVEN HUMAN! ''YOU TURNED ME INTO A MONSTER!!!''''' :'''Superman''': You ''chose'' to be a monster, Ivo. :''[Using his X-ray vision, he sees Ivo's real body inside his giant Parasite armour]'' :'''Parasite''': '''THEN WHAT DOES THAT MAKE AN ALIEN FREAK LIKE ''YOU?!''''' :'''Superman''': Don't you read the paper? ''[flies right through the armour, tearing Ivo out of it]'' I'm Superman. ==='''10. Hearts of the Fathers'''=== =='''Season 2 (2024)'''== ==='''1. More Things in Heaven And Earth'''=== ==='''2. Adventures with My Girlfriend'''=== ==='''3. Fullmetal Scientist'''=== ==='''4. Two Lanes Diverged'''=== ==='''5. Most Eligible Superman'''=== :'''Kara''': Kal-El from Krypton! I answered your call. The beacon reached me across your galaxy, the only other Kryptonian in existence, and I arrive only to see you brought me to this... sickening display. :'''Superman''': You're Kara? You're my cousin? :'''Kara''': And you're a disappointment. I thought I would find a warrior. Instead, I find a joke. A lap dog serving as entertainment to a weak and dissolute world. I'm not saying there aren't temptations here, but a true Kryptonian pushes through. This planet has made you soft. :'''Superman''': What are you saying? :'''Kara''': You have two choices. Join me in conquering this planet or '''kneel before the new Kryptonian Empire.''' ==='''6. The Machine Who Would Be Empire'''=== :''[Superman is pitted against three Brainiac units within holograms of a Thanagarian, a creature resembling a Parademon and one with a Green Lantern ring]'' :'''Superman''': Who are these people? :'''Primus Brainiac''': A means to measure your potential. You are familiar with the Kryptonian mind scan, are you not? Consciousness preserved in a holographic form. These scans are all that's left of those that did not comply with the original Kryptonian Empire. Their hatred and anguish? ''[chuckling]'' It's perfect for training our warriors. :''[The Green Lantern hologram sheds tears as he snarls at Superman]'' :'''Superman''': ''[shocked]'' This is... this is too cruel! :'''Primus Brainiac''': "Cruel" is a word created by the weak. :'''Superman''': Kara said you wanted to bring back the ''best'' of Krypton! The technology, the scientific advancements! :'''Primus Brainiac''': How do you think we made those advancements? War was the engine which fuelled the empire. This was ''my'' Krypton. ==='''7. Olsen's Eleven'''=== ==='''8. The Death of Clark Kent'''=== ==='''9. Pierce the Heavens, Superman!'''=== :'''Lois''': Clark, I am so sorry. I was scared, so I pushed you away…But love is not for cowards. You’re kind, and sweet, and strong - not because of your powers but because of your heart. I didn’t name you Superman because of what you can do. I called you that because it’s who you are! ==='''10. My Adventures with Supergirl'''=== =='''Season 3 (2026)'''== ==='''1. Into the New World'''=== ==='''2. Mobile Suit Toyman'''=== ==='''3. All's Fair in Love and W.O.R.M.S.'''=== ==='''4. Guess Who's Slammin' to Dinner?'''=== ==='''5. The Death of Superman'''=== ==='''6. Party Animals'''=== ==='''7. The Ex-Games'''=== ==Cast== * {{w|Jack Quaid}} as [[Superman|Kal-El / Clark Kent / Supermam]] * [[w:Alice Lee (actress)|Alice Lee]] as {{w|Lois Lane}} * Ishmel Sahid as {{w|Jimmy Olsen}} * Darrell Brown as {{w|Perry White}} * [[w:Reid Scott (actor)|Reid Scott]] as [[w:Jonathan and Martha Kent|Jonathan Kent]] * {{w|Kari Wahlgren}} as [[w:Jonathan and Martha Kent|Martha Kent]], Young Clark Kent * {{w|Zehra Fazal}} as [[w:Livewire (DC Comics)|Leslie Willis / Livewire]] * Jason Marnocha as {{w|Jor-El}} * Azuri Hardy-Jones as [[w:Newsboy Legion|Flip Johnson]] * {{w|Chris Parnell}} as [[w:Deathstroke|Slade Wilson / Deathstroke]] * {{w|Jeannie Tirado}} as {{w|Lana Lang}} * {{w|Kiana Madeira}} as [[w:Supergirl (Kara Zor-El)|Kara Zor-El / Supergirl]] * Michael Yurchak as [[w:Toyman|Winslow Schott]] * {{w|Michael Emerson}} as [[w:Brainiac (character)|Brainiac]] * [[w:Vincent Tong (voice actor)|Vincent Tong]] as {{w|Steve Lombard}} * Melanie Minichino as {{w|Cat Grant}} * Jake Green as [[w:Professor Ivo|Dr. Anthony Ivo]]/[[w:Parasite (comics)|Parasite]] * Laila Berzins as [[w:Heat Wave (character)|Heat Wave]] * {{w|Catherine Taber}} as [[w:Silver Banshee|Siobhan McDougal / Silver Banshee]] * {{w|André Sogliuzzo}} as {{w|Monsieur Mallah}} * Jessie Inocalla as [[w:Brain (DC Comics)|Brain]] * David Errigo Jr. as {{w|Mister Mxyzptlk}} ==External links== {{Adult Swim}} [[Category:2020s American animated TV shows]] [[Category:Animated Superman TV shows]] [[Category:Traditionally animated TV shows]] [[Category:Anime-influenced Western animated TV shows]] [[Category:Crime TV shows]] [[Category:Animated television programs based on DC Comics]] [[Category:Television series by Warner Bros. 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It is defined as any change or disturbance to the environment perceived to be deleterious or undesirable. {{Nature-stub}} ==Quotes== * All our [[Poverty reduction|efforts to defeat poverty]] and pursue [[sustainable development]] will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated. ** [[Kofi Annan]], UN Secretary-General, "In larger freedom: towards development, security and human rights for all", 2005 report for the United Nations sixtieth anniversary summit * Environmental and {{w|Biodiversity loss|biodiversity crises}} are at root ''social'' crises. They are caused by profound problems in the social world, by elites, and the [[Hierarchy|hierarchical]] control of decision-making and allocation of resources in profit-driven, expansionistic, ecocidal [[capitalist]] societies. As social ''problems'', environmental crises require social ''solutions'', namely radical political change seeking to create just, [[Democracy|democratic]], and [[Sustainability|sustainable]] societies. What we today call “natural disasters,” are at [the] root [of] ''social'' disasters that must be addressed if we are to solve the global {{w|Climate crisis|climate emergency}}. We must not only transform our {{w|Anthropocentrism|anthropocentric}} and [[Speciesism|speciesist]] identities, our arrogant and vainglorious forms of human supremacism and pathological alienation, we must also transform our [[Economic growth|growth]]-oriented, [[profit]]-driven, [[meat]]-based, [[fossil fuel]] addicted societies. For millennia, the western world above all has lived by the philosophy of [[Human|humans]] first, even humans only. It is now time for a new philosophy of earth first whereby humanity begins the arduous process of {{w|Degrowth|de-growth}} -- radically reducing their [[population]] numbers and [[Consumption (economics)|consumption]] levels, rewilding natural environments and reserving vast habitats for [[wildlife]] alone, and shifting from a growth-oriented to a [[w:Steady-state_economy|steady-state]] [[Sustainability|sustainable]] economy. ** [[Steven Best]], "[https://www.all-creatures.org/lifestyle/img/failed-species.pdf Failed Species: The Rise and Fall of the Human Empire]". ''Romanian Journal of Artistic Creativity''. 9 (2). (2021). * The growth and progress upon which we looked back with such pride had committed mankind to living on a scale that exceeds the sustainable carrying capacity of this finite planet, and the leaders of nations continued to devote far more effort toward attempting to prolong overshoot than toward undoing it. Reluctance to face facts was driving us to make bad matters worse. The faster the present generation draws down the fossil energy legacy upon which persistently exuberant lifestyles now depend, the less opportunity posterity will have to live in anything like the same way or the same numbers. Yet most contemporary political proposals for solving problems of economic stagnation or inequity amount to plans for speeding up the rate of drawdown of non-renewable resources. ** {{w|William R. Catton Jr.|William R. Catton}}, ''Overshoot'' (1980) * Our way of walking on the [[Earth]] has a great influence on [[animals]] and [[plants]]. We have killed so many animals and plants and destroyed their environments. Many are now [[Extinction|extinct]]. In turn, our environment is now harming us. '''We are like sleepwalkers, not knowing what we are doing or where we are heading. Whether we can wake up or not depends on whether we can walk mindfully on our [[Mother Nature|Mother Earth]]. The future of all life, including our own, depends on our mindful steps.''' ** [[Thích Nhất Hạnh]] in ''The World We Have: A Buddhist Approach to Peace and Ecology'' (2008), Ch. 1: The Bells of Mindfulness, p. 3 * Using [[science]], [[technology]], and cheap [[energy]], we expanded [[Farm|farmlands]], chain-sawed [[forests]], exploited [[wikipedia:Fisheries|fisheries]], [[Mining|mined]] [[wikipedia:Minerals|minerals]], pumped [[oil]], and flattened [[Mountain|mountains]] for their buried [[wikipedia:Coal|coal]]. And we did these things in a way that was not remotely sustainable. By harvesting renewable resources faster than they could regrow, by using non-renewable resources that could not be recycled, and by choking environments with industrial wastes, we were borrowing from future generations and from other species. ** [[Richard Heinberg]], "[https://undark.org/2018/07/26/ted-nordhaus-carrying-capacity-ecology/ Ted Nordhaus Is Wrong: We Are Exceeding Earth’s Carrying Capacity]." ''Undark'' (July 26, 2018) * In the last few decades entire new categories of [[waste]] have come to plague and menace the American scene…. [[Pollution]] is growing at a rapid rate…. Pollution destroys beauty and menaces [[health]]. It cuts down on [[efficiency]], reduces [[property]] values and raises [[Taxation in the United States|taxes]]…. Almost all these wastes and pollutions are the result of activities carried on for the benefit of man. A prime national goal must be an environment that is pleasing to the senses and healthy to live in. [[Federal government of the United States|Our Government]] is already doing much in this field. We have made significant progress. But more must be done. ** [[Lyndon B. Johnson]], special message to the Congress on conservation and restoration of natural beauty, February 8, 1965. ''The Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965'', book 1, p. 161–62. * Generations of Americans will pay the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] campaign debt to the energy industry with global instability, depleted national coffers and increased [[vulnerability]] to price shocks in the [[oil]] [[market]]. They will also pay with reduced prosperity and quality of life at home. [[Pollution]] from [[wikipedia:Power plants|power plants]] and traffic smog will continue to skyrocket. [[wikipedia:Carbon dioxide|Carbon-dioxide]] emissions will aggravate [[global warming]]. [[wikipedia:Acid rain|Acid rain]] from Midwestern coal plants has already sterilized half the lakes in the Adirondacks and destroyed the forest cover in the high peaks of the Appalachian range up into [[Canada]]. [[Presidency of George W. Bush|The administration]]'s attacks on [[science]] and the law have put something even greater at risk. [[United States|Americans]] need to recognize that we are facing not just a threat to our [[Nature|environment]] but to our values, and to our [[democracy]]. ** [[Robert F. Kennedy Jr.]], In "Crimes against nature" in ''Rolling Stone'' magazine (December 11, 2003). * We are deluged by information regarding our destruction of the world and hear almost nothing about how to nurture it. It is no surprise then that [[environmentalism]] becomes synonymous with dire predictions and powerless feelings. Our natural inclination to do right by the world is stifled, breeding despair when it should be inspiring action. The participatory role of people in the well-being of the land has been lost, our reciprocal relations reduced to a Keep Out sign. [...] People ''do'' know the consequences of our collective damage, they do know the wages of an extractive economy, but they don’t stop. They get very sad, they get very quiet. So quiet that protection of the environment that enables them to eat and breathe and imagine a future for their children doesn’t even make it onto a list of their top ten concerns. The Haunted Hayride of {{w|toxic waste}} dumps, the [[w:Retreat of glaciers since 1850|melting glaciers]], the litany of doomsday projections—they move anyone who is still listening only to despair. Despair is paralysis. It robs us of agency. It blinds us to our own power and the power of the earth. ** [[Robin Wall Kimmerer]], {{cite book |title={{w|Braiding Sweetgrass}}: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants |date=16 September 2013 |publisher=Milkweed Editions |isbn=978-1-57131-871-8 |pages=327-328}} * We are already experiencing huge cost externalities from population hypergrowth and profligate [[fossil fuel]] use in the form of environmental devastation. Of the earth’s estimated 10 million species, 300,000 have vanished in the past fifty years. Each year, 3,000 to 30,000 species become extinct, an all-time high for the last 65 million years. Within one hundred years, between one-third and two-thirds of all birds, animals, plants, and other species will be lost. Nearly 25 percent of the 4,630 known mammal species are now threatened with extinction, along with 34 percent of [[fish]], 25 percent of [[wikipedia:Amphibians|amphibians]], 20 percent of [[wikipedia:Reptiles|reptiles]], and 11 percent of [[birds]]. Even more, species are having population declines. Environmental scientists speak of an “omega point” at which the vast interconnected networks of Earth’s [[Ecology|ecologies]] are so weakened that human existence is no longer possible. ** [[James Howard Kunstler]], ''The Long Emergency'' (2005), Chapter 1, p. 8. * The [[Industrial Revolution]] still cannot be considered an unqualified success, for all the comfort and convenience enjoyed by a minority of people in the world. Where we stand now is the brink of unprecedented damage to the [[ecology]] of the only habitable [[planet]] in the only [[universe]] we know of, and I refer not just to [[climate change]]—which may or may not be caused by human activity —but to all the other insults and injuries we’ve done to the biosphere. While [[industrialism]] led to the formation of a prosperous middle class, it also plunged millions of people into the grimmest kind of regimented quasislavery in conditions that were arguably no improvement over their grandparents’ lives as agricultural [[Peasant|peasants]] (or their distant ancestors as hunter-gatherers). ** James Howard Kunstler, ''Too Much Magic'' (2012), Chapter 4, p. 74. * The human predicament was exceptional in that, empowered by a planetary larder of fossil fuels, they developed a global complex society, grew exuberantly at the expense of surrounding life, and collapsed a planetary life-support system. The consumer society selected for a phantom of happiness/purpose that the consumer bots were conditioned to pursue by working to make ‘money’ they use to consume products produced by an economic system NOT REMOTELY CLOSE TO SUSTAINABLE. Our collective unintended Calhoun rat-like experiment on ourselves is having what should be expected outcomes as our empire-building socio-economic pathology makes for a world of pathologies (or what was merely a world of wounds as Aldo Leopold noted) filled by human pathogens. ** Eric Lee's [https://medium.com/@alysion42/the-conqueror-worm-updated-9e0fdccd0cf1 review] of [[Edgar Allan Poe]]'s "The Conqueror Worm" (first published on August 8, 2018; republished on ''Medium'' on November 11, 2025) * … our use of fire is at the core [of our predicament] and is the real creator and destroyer. ** Rob Mielcarski, "[https://un-denial.com/2024/07/20/by-paqnation-aka-chris-humans-are-not-a-species/ Humans Are Not a Species]." ''Un-Denial'' (July 20, 2024) * Native birds and small mammals are already being negatively affected on multiple fronts by climate change, urban development, deforestation, toxic chemicals, invasive species, and the degradation of native grasslands. Domestic and feral cats are just one more factor making their survival increasingly tenuous. The effects on our environment from the loss of the multitude of small mammals and birds extend well beyond their direct killing by domestic cats. Birds are important for the pollination and seed dispersal of many plants. Small mammals are prey for bobcats, foxes, dingoes, weasels, caracals, ocelots, snakes, and birds of prey. Domestic cats have essentially replaced all those animals in urban and rural areas. ** Lyle Lewis, ''Racing to Extinction: Why Humanity Will Soon Vanish'' (2024), Chapter 9. * Over timescales relevant to [[civilization]] (which began 10,000 years ago with [[agriculture]] and [[cities]]), plots of almost anything relating to human activity look like hockey sticks: population, [[Agriculture|agricultural]] output, industrial output, mined materials, deforestation, species extinctions, and so on. Many of these certainly correlate to [[population growth]], but the per capita impacts also have shot up, compounding the human footprint to a frightening degree. At this point, humans and their livestock account for 96% of mammal mass on the planet, leaving a mere 4% for all wild [[animals]] (half of this from massive [[whales]] and other marine mammals). It’s not just a footprint any more: it’s a boot on the throat of the planet, leaving non-human life gasping and silently begging for even a little mercy. ** Tom Murphy, "[https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2022/06/shedding-our-fossil-fuel-suit/ Shedding Our Fossil Fuel Suit]." ''Do the Math'' (June 21, 2022). Republished in [https://www.resilience.org/stories/2022-06-22/shedding-our-fossil-fuel-suit/ Resilience.org]. * Our fossil fuel bonanza has left our [[ecosystem]] in a perilous state. We have destroyed vast [[forests]] and habitat, [[Pollution|polluted]] [[water]] and [[soil]], kicked off [[Climate change|a rapid climate trend]] that natural systems may not adapt to quickly enough, and basically overrun the [[planet]]. […] 96% of mammal mass on the planet is now in the form of [[Human|humans]] and our livestock, leaving a paltry 4% of wild mammals—land and sea. Roughly 70% of [[Vertebrates|vertebrate]] numbers have [[Extinction|vanished]] since 1970 (undoubtedly a higher fraction if the survey had started in 1700). Forests are also way down. ** Tom Murphy, "[https://www.resilience.org/stories/2022-12-06/finite-feeding-frenzy/ Finite Feeding Frenzy]." ''Resilience'' (December 6, 2022). Originally published in ''[https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2022/12/finite-feeding-frenzy/ Do the Math]'' (December 5, 2022). * Neglect in protecting our heritage of natural resources could prove extremely harmful for the human race and for all species that share common space on planet [[earth]]. Indeed, there are many lessons in human history which provide adequate warning about the [[chaos]] and destruction that could take place if we remain guilty of myopic indifference to the progressive erosion and decline of nature’s resources. Much has been written, for instance, about the [[Maya civilization]], which flourished during 250–950 AD, but collapsed largely as a result of serious and prolonged drought. Even earlier, some 4000 years ago a number of well-known [[wikipedia:Bronze_Age|Bronze Age]] cultures also crumbled extending from the [[wikipedia:Mediterranean_basin|Mediterranean]] to the [[Indus Valley Civilisation|Indus Valley]], including the [[Civilization|civilizations]], which had blossomed in [[Mesopotamia]]. More recent examples of societies that collapsed or faced chaos on account of depletion or degradation of natural resources include the [[Cambodia|Khmer Empire]] in [[Southeast Asia|South East Asia]], [[wikipedia:Easter_Island|Eastern Island]], and several others. Changes in climate have historically determined periods of peace as well as conflict. The recent work of [[wikipedia:David_Zhang|David Zhang]] has, in fact, highlighted the link between temperature fluctuations, reduced [[Agriculture|agricultural]] production, and the frequency of [[War|warfare]] in Eastern [[China]] over the last millennium. Further, in recent years several groups have studied the link between climate and security. These have raised the threat of dramatic population migration, conflict, and war over [[water]] and other resources as well as a realignment of power among nations. Some also highlight the possibility of rising tensions between rich and poor nations, health problems caused particularly by [[water]] shortages, and crop failures as well as concerns over [[Nuclear weapons|nuclear proliferation]]. ** [[Rajendra K. Pachauri]], [https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2007/ipcc/lecture/ Nobel Prize Lecture of the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change], 10 December 2007 * It’s usually the top income earners that reap the biggest reward and the average worker may barely notice that GDP increased and those in extreme poverty definitely wouldn’t. Lifting people out of poverty is one of the main reasons that is cited in favour of continued economic growth. In fact, in older data, whilst $2.20 might have ended up in the pockets of those under the then poverty line, in the 1980s, for every $100 added to the global economy, that shrunk to just 60 cents in the 1990s… [and] it is much worse now. All that extra growth required to lift people out of poverty is devastating for the environment. ** Mike Roberts, "[https://mikerobertsblog.wordpress.com/2025/08/04/a-balance-between-environment-protection-and-economic-growth/ A Balance Between Environment Protection and Economic Growth]" (August 4, 2025) * The advent of [man-made] chemicals … allowed us to begin poisoning ourselves and the entire planet. ** Elisabeth Robson's [https://medium.com/@elisabethrobson/racing-to-extinction-915972014fd8 review] of ''Racing to Extinction'' by Lyle Lewis (February 21, 2025) * We do not face a choice between protecting our environment or protecting our economy. 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===T=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''The Flood'' ✓ * ''The Kangaroo King'' ✓ * ''The Secrets of The Octopus'' ✓ * ''The Last Rhinos: A New Hope ✓ * ''The Hidden Kingdoms of China'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===U=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Untamed Americas'' {{Col-end}} ===W=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Whales in Crisis'' * ''Winged seduction birds of paradise |braflix.bz, * ''Wolves: A Legend Return to Yellowstone'' {{Col-end}} ===Y=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * '' Yellowstone Wolf Dynasty'' {{Col-end}} ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ '''BBC America/BBC Earth Programming''' ===A=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Africa'' ✓ * ''A Perfect Planet'' * ''Africa's Wild Year'' ✓ * ''A Wild Year On Earth'' ✓ * ''Asia: Bonus Edition * ''Attenborough and the Giant Elephant'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===B=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Blue Planet'' ✓ * ''Blue Planet II'' ✓ * ''Big Cats 24/7'' ✓ * ''Big Cat 24/7 || * ''Big Bear Diary'' ✓ * ''Big Little Journeys'' |'''braflix.bz''' * ''Bears: Spy In The Woods | {{Col-end}} ===C=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''China: Nature Ancient Kingdom'' (flixhq) {{Col-end}} ===D=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Dynasties'' ✓ * ''Deep Blue'' ✓ * ''Dynasties II'' * ''Dogs In The Wild: Meet The Family'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''David Attenborough: A Life on our Planet'' ✓ * ''David Attenborough: Life In Cold Blood * ''David Attenborough: Conquest of the Skies * ''Deep Ocean: The Lost World Of The Pacific'' (Saved) {{Col-end}} ===E=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Earth Flight'' ihavenotv?,hd-feemovie.com , azmovies.net * ''Expedition Wolf'' (check) * ''Enchanted Kingdom'' (Idris Elba) ww5.tinyzone.org * ''Earth's Great River's'' (ihavenotv) * ''Earth's Great Seasons'' ✓ * ''Earth's Great River's II'' (ihavenotv?) * ''Earth Tropical Islands'' (ihavenotv?) * ''Eden: Untamed Planet'' (ihavenotv) {{Col-end}} ===F=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Frozen Planet'' ✓ * ''Frozen Planet II'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===G=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Galapagos'' movies24free.com''' * ''Great Barrier Reef' (azmovies.net, * ''Gorilla Family and Me'' * ''Grizzy Bear Cubs and Me {{Col-end}} ===H=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Hostile Planet'' ✓ * ''Hidden Habitats'' (theflixer.sx) {{Col-end}} ===J=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Japan: Earth's Enchanted Islands'' (azmovies.net) {{Col-end}} ===K=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Kingdom (123movies9.surf) {{Col-end}} ===L=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Life'' ✓ * ''Life Story'' ✓ * ''Life In Color'' ✓ * ''Little Big Cat'' * ''Life in Cold Blood'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''London's Wild Side'' * ''Lands Of The Monsoon'' * ''Lions: Spy In The Den'' * ''Life In The Undergrowth'' azmovies.net, * ''Lost land of The Tiger'' (ihavenotv.com) {{Col-end}} ===M=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Mammals'' ✓ * ''Mirco Monsters'' (ihavenotv, azmovies.net, ww5.tinyzone.org) * ''Madagascar'' (David Attenborugh) *hdtodayz.to* * ''Mountains: Life Above the Clouds'' {{Col-end}} ===N=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Nature's Great Events'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===O=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''One Life'' (documentaryarea.com) * ''Our Planet'' (flixq?) (ihavenotv.com) (Netflix on YouTube?) * ''Ocean Giants'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''Our Planet II'' ✓ * ''Our Living World'' * ''Operation Snow Tiger'' (theflixer.sx, * ''Operation Dung Beetle'' {{Col-end}} ===P=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Planet Earth'' ✓ * ''Planet Earth II'' ✓ * ''Planet Earth III'' ✓ * ''Planet Earth: Asia'' ✓ * ''Planet Earth: Africa'' * ''Polar Bear: Spy On The Ice'' * ''Penguins: Spy In The Huddle (allmovieshub.express) * ''Planet Earth: South Pacific'' * ''Planet Earth: The Blue Planet II'' {{Col-end}} ===R=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Reindeer Family and Me'' {{Col-end}} ===S=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Shark'' (azmovies.net) * ''Snow Bears * ''Serengeti'' ✓ * ''Serengeti II'' ✓ * ''Serengeti III'' ✓ * ''Spy In The Den'' * ''Spy In The Snow * ''Spy In The Ocean (123movieslive.top ) * ''Spy In The Wild'' ✓ * ''Snow Chick: A Penguin's Tale'' (123movieslive.top, ww5.tinyzone.org * ''South Pacific'' (has episodes) * ''Seven Worlds, One Planet'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===T=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''The Hunt'' ✓ * ''Tiny Giants'' '''ww8.watchseriesfree.co''' * ''Tiger Island'' * ''The Wild Place'' * ''The Wild Sides'' ✓ * ''The Urban Gorilla'' * ''The Blue Planet'' * ''Tropical Islands'' (ihavenotv.com? check) * ''The Mating Game'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''The Rise of Black Wolf''✓ * ''The Cheetah Family & Me '' * ''The Great Bear Steak Out'' * ''The Polar Bear Family & Me'' * ''The Great Rift: Africa's Wild Hart'' * ''Tiger Spy In The Jungle'' (David Attenbourgh) topdocumentarys.com, azmovies.net {{Col-end}} ===W=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Wild West'' ✓ * ''Wild Spring * ''Wild China'' (Roku) (flixhq.to) * ''Wild Japan'' (look up) * ''Wild Alaska'' * ''Wild Isles'' (flixhq.to) * ''Wild Tokyo'' * ''Wild Arabia'' ✓ * ''Wild Brazil'' (movies24free.com) * ''Wild Nordic (movies24free.com) * ''Wild Singapore '' * ''Wild Indonesia'' * ''Wild Patagonia'' ✓ * ''Wild Caribbean'' (pluto tv?) * ''Wild Yellowstone'' * ''Wild New Zealand '' * ''Wild City: Singapore '' * ''Wild Lands: South Africa'' {{Col-end}} ===Y=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Yellowstone'', {{Col-end}} _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ '''Animal Planet''' ===A=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''A Panda is Born'' * ''A Panda's Story'' * ''Animal Battlegrounds'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===B=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * '' Big Cat Tales'' ✓ * '' Big Cats: Secret Lives'' * '' Britain's Wildest Places'' ✓ * '' Battle Ground: Rhino Wars'' * '' Big Cat Tales: More From The Mara Region'' {{Col-end}} ===D=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Dolphin Days'' ✓ * ''Dark Days In Monkey City'' {{Col-end}} ===E=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Escape To Chimp Eden'' {{Col-end}} ===G=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Going Ape'' ✓ * ''Gorilla School'' ✓ * ''Gorillas on the Brink: Saving a Species'' * ''Growing up Animal Series: '' * ''- Grizzly'' * ''- Lion'' * ''- Tiger '' * ''- Cheetah '' * ''- Marsupia'' * ''- Elephant'' * ''- Wolf'' * ''- Clouded Leopard'' * ''- Zebra'' * ''- Baboon'' * ''- Black Bear'' * ''- Orangutan'' * ''- Rhino'' * ''- Lynx'' * ''- Polar Bear'' * ''- Penguin'' * ''- Giraffe'' * ''- Walrus'' * ''- Hyena'' * ''- Camel'' * ''- Moose'' * ''- Leopard'' * ''- Sitka Deer'' * ''- Gorilla'' * ''- Giant Panda'' {{Col-end}} ===I=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Into The Pride '' * ''Into The Lions Den'' * ''I Was Prey'' (Tv Series) 2017-2019 * ''It's Me or The Dog'' (Tv Series) 2007-2012 {{Col-end}} ===K=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Killer Whales: The Mega Hunt'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===L=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Little Giants'' ✓ * ''Lemur Kingdom'' * ''League of Monkey's'' * ''Living With Man-Eaters'' ✓ * ''Lone Star Law'' (Tv Series) 2016-2022 {{Col-end}} ===M=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Man vs Bear'' ✓ * ''Meerkat Manor (www.azmovies.net) * ''Mounted Branch'' ✓ * ''Man-Eating Super Croc'' * ''Man-Eating Super Squid'' * ''Mysterious Wild Of India'' * ''Meerkat Manor'' (Tv Series) 2005-2008 * ''Mysterious Creatures With Forrest Galante'' ✓ * ''Meet the Pandas: Washington's New Power Couple'' {{Col-end}} ===N=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Night'' (Discovery+) {{Col-end}} ===O=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Otter Dynasty'' ✓ * ''Orangutan Island''| ww8.watchseriesfree.com {{Col-end}} ===P=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Project Grizzly'' ✓ * ''Pandamonium'' ✓ * ''Panda Republic'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===R=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Rise of The Warrior Apes'' * ''Romeo & Juliet: A Monkey's Tale'' {{Col-end}} ===S=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Survival of the Beast'' * ''Season of The Grizzly'' * ''Saving Grace: The Otter'' ✓ * ''Safari: An Extraordinary Adventure'' * ''Saving The Gorillas: Ellen's Next Adventure'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===T=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''The Nile'' * ''The Pack'' ✓ * ''Tucan Nation'' * ''The Real Lion Queen'' (saved) * ''The Beauty of Snakes'' * ''The Great Shark Chase'' * ''The Magic Of The Big Blue: Seven Continents'' {{Col-end}} ===W=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Wild Deep'' * ''Wild Costa Rica'' (solarmoviesz.com, * ''Wild New Zealand'' * ''Wolves and Warriors'' ✓ * ''Walking With Elephants'' ✓ * ''Wild Africa: Rivers Of Life'' '''theflixer.sx''' * ''Wildest Islands of Indonesia" azmovies.net {{Col-end}} ===Y=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Yellowstone Journals'' '''theflixer.sx''' {{Col-end}} ===Z=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Zolton: The Wolfman'' ✓ {{Col-end}} _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ am35mxcfbpalqjb7p2psh1peykdw27h 3961222 3961218 2026-07-05T17:21:03Z Sandi74645 3160827 /* S */ 3961222 wikitext text/x-wiki '''<big>Former Programming</big>''' ===A=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''A Penguin's Life'' ✓ * ''Africa's Hunters'' ✓ * ''Africa's Lost Eden'' * ''Africa's Wild West'' ✓ * ''Amazon Underworld'' ✓ * ''America the Beautiful'' ✓ * ''America's Wild Frontier'' (flickystream.su) * ''Alaska's Grizzly Gauntlet'' ✓ * ''Animals, They're Just Like Us!'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===B=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Brazil'' * ''Boss Croc'' ✓ * ''Bumblebees (youtube) * ''Born In Africa'' ✓ * ''Baboon Queen'' * ''Birth of A Pride'' ✓ * ''Big Sur: Wild California'' ✓ * ''Behind Russia's Frozen Curtain'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===C=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Cub Camp'' ✓ * ''Cobra Mafia'' ✓ * ''Cat Attack-tics'' ✓ * ''Croc Labyrinth'' * ''China's Wild Side''| * ''Cheetah Fatal Instinct" (youtube) * ''Clash of The Tigers'' (abc.com) * ''Cat Wars: Lions Vs Cheetah'' (youtube) * ''Caribbean's Deadly Underworld | xtubeflix.com {{Col-end}} ===D=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Dino Fish'' * ''Dino Bird (movies2watch.biz,123movie.work) * ''Dead By Dawn'' ✓ * ''Deep Sea Killers'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===E=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Emperors of The Ice * ''Extraordinary Birder with Christian Cooper'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===F=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Future Cat'' ✓ * ''Florida Untamed'' ✓ * ''Fur Seals: Battle For Survival'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===G=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Game of Lions'' ✓ * ''Grizzly Cauldron'' ✓ * ''Gangster Jackals | www.cineby.at, * ''Great Barrier Reef'' (ww5.tinyzone.org) * ''Giraffe: African Giant'' ✓ * ''Galapagos: Enchanted Islands'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===H=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Hippo Vs Croc'' ✓ * ''Hunt for The Shadow Cat * ''Hunt for The Giant Squid'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===I=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Into The Okavango'' ✓ * ''Into The Pride Lands'' ✓ * ''India's Wild Leopards'' ✓ * ''Incredible Animal Journeys'' ✓ * ''Inside The Enchanted Forests'' ✓ * ''Inside The Enchanted Waterways'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===J=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Jaguar vs Croc'' ✓ * ''Jade Eyed Leopard'' ✓ * ''Jaguar Beach Battle'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===K=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Killer Shew'' ✓ * ''Kiler Queen'' ✓ * ''Kangaroo Kaos (has episodes) {{Col-end}} ===L=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Little Giant'' ✓ * ''Little Killers'' * ''Lemur Island'' | bflix.se * ''Lion Dynasty'' ✓ * ''Lion Ganglands'' ✓ * ''Lion Battle Zone'' ✓ * ''Leopard Kingdom'' ✓ * ''Leopard Huntress'' ✓ * ''Land of 10,000 Grizzlies''|watch.cinewave.qzz.io, * ''Leopards of Dead Tree Island''| * ''Leopard: Ultimate Survivor'' | {{Col-end}} ===M=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Man Vs Lion'' ✓ * ''Man vs Puma ✓ * ''Man vs Monster'' * ''Mexico Untamed'' ✓ * ''Man vs Cheetah'' ✓ * ''Moster Croc Hunt'' ✓ * ''Mystery of the giant Cave Spider'' (saved/non english) {{Col-end}} ===O=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Otter Town'' (Saved "No English") {{Col-end}} ===P=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Penguinpalooza'' * ''Paradise Islands'' ✓ * ''Praire Dog Manor'' ✓ * ''Path of The Pather'' ✓ * ''Planet of the Birds'' ✓ * ''Predator In Paradise'' * ''Peru's Wild Kingdom'' (saved) * ''Pristine Seas: The Power of Protection ✓ * ''Puma!: Elusive Hunter of the Andes'' {{Col-end}} ===R=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Rebal Monkeys'' * ''Real Angry Birds'' * ''Return of The Clouded Leopard {{Col-end}} ===S=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Super Cat'' ✓ * ''South Africa'' * ''Super Squirrel'' * ''Surpet's Surprise'' ✓ * ''Strangest Bird Alive'' * ''Secret Life of Pearls'' * ''Secret Life of Tigers'' * ''Secrets of Wild India'' (movieseq.com) * ''Secrets of the King Cobra'' ✓ * ''Saving Giraffes: The Long Journey Home'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===T=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''The Nile'' * ''Tiger Wars'' ✓ * ''Tiger's Revenge'' * ''The Jungle King'' * ''The Kangaroo King'' ✓ * ''Tree Climbing Lions ✓ * ''The Forbidden River'' * ''The Unlikely Leopard'' ✓ * ''The Way of the Cheetah'' ✓ * ''The Great Elephant Walk'' {{Col-end}} ===U=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Untamed Americas'' * ''Ultimate Honey Badger'' * ''Ultimate Rivals: Cats vs Dogs'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===W=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Wild 24'' (saved) * ''Wild Artic ✓ * ''Wild Chile'' * ''Wild Egypt'' ✓ * ''Wild Korea'' ✓ * ''Wild Hawaii'' ✓ * ''Wild Russia'' ✓ * ''Wild Nordic'' ✓ * ''Wild Borneo'' * ''Wild Vietnam'' ✓ * ''Wild Monsoon'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''Wild Thailand'' (saved) * ''War Elephants'' * ''Wild Indonesia'' ✓ * ''Wild Sir Lanka'' ✓ * ''Wild Argentina'' (moviemoza.com, movies2watch.biz, ihavenotv.com,123movie.work) * ''Wild Mississippi'' (has episodes) * ''War of The Lions'' * ''Wild Yellowstone'' ✓ * ''Wild New Zealand'' * ''Wild Cats Of India'' ✓ * ''Whales of the Deep'' {{Col-end}} ===Y=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Yellowstone Wolf Dynasty'' ✓ * ''Yellowstone Wolves: Succession ✓ {{Col-end}} ===Numbers=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''20 years with Dolphins'' {{Col-end}} ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ '''National Geographic Animal Programming''' ===A=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''A Real Bug's Life'' ✓ * ''A Real Bug's Life II'' ✓ * ''Attack of the Killer Bees'' * ''America's National Parks'' ✓ * ''Animal's They're Just Like US!'' ✓ * ''Animals up close with Bertie Gregory'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===B=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Bear Island * ''Bumblebees ✓ * ''Born in Africa'' * ''Battle For Elephants'' * ''Big Sur: Wild California'' uflix.to {{Col-end}} ===C=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Chimps on The Edge * ''Cheetahs Up Close with Berite Gregory ✓ {{Col-end}} ===D=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Dead By Dawn'' ✓ * ''Devils of The Deep: The Giant Squad * ''Dolphins Up Close with Bertie Gregory ✓ {{Col-end}} ===E=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Eye of The Leopard ✓ * ''Expedition Great White'' * ''Eternal Enemies: Lions and Hyenas {{Col-end}} ===G=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Ghost Elephants ✓ * ''Great Migration's'' ✓ * ''Gabon: The Last Eden'' {{Col-end}} ===H=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Hostile Planet'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===I=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Into The Pride * ''Into The Pride Lands ✓ * ''In Search of The Jaguar * ''Incredible Animal Journeys'' ✓ * ''Inside The Enchanted Forests'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===K=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Kangaroo Kaos * ''Kingdom Of The Apes * ''Kingdom of The Blue Whale * ''Kingdom of The Polar Bear'' ✓ * ''Kingdom of The White Wolf'' ✓ * ''Killer Whales: Wolves of the Sea {{Col-end}} ===L=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Little Giant'' ✓ * ''Last Stand of The Great Bear * ''Last of The Giants: Wild Fish'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===M=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Meet The Chimps'' ✓ * ''Moose: Titans of the North'' {{Col-end}} ===N=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''National Parks: USA'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===O=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Ocean With David Attenborough'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===P=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Path of The Panther'' ✓ * ''Panda's The Journey Home (123movieslive.top) {{Col-end}} ===Q=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Queens'' ✓ * ''Ocean With David Attenborough'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===S=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''She Wolf'' ✓ * ''Squid vs Whale'' * ''Savage Kingdom'' ✓ * ''Secrets of The Bees ✓ * ''Secrets of The Whales'' ✓ * ''Secrets of The Octopus'' ✓ * ''Secrets of The Penguins'' ✓ * ''Secrets of The Elephants'' ✓ * ''Shark Movers Deadly Cargo'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===T=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''The Flood'' ✓ * ''The Kangaroo King'' ✓ * ''The Secrets of The Octopus'' ✓ * ''The Last Rhinos: A New Hope ✓ * ''The Hidden Kingdoms of China'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===U=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Untamed Americas'' {{Col-end}} ===W=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Whales in Crisis'' * ''Winged seduction birds of paradise |braflix.bz, * ''Wolves: A Legend Return to Yellowstone'' {{Col-end}} ===Y=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * '' Yellowstone Wolf Dynasty'' {{Col-end}} ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ '''BBC America/BBC Earth Programming''' ===A=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Africa'' ✓ * ''A Perfect Planet'' * ''Africa's Wild Year'' ✓ * ''A Wild Year On Earth'' ✓ * ''Asia: Bonus Edition * ''Attenborough and the Giant Elephant'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===B=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Blue Planet'' ✓ * ''Blue Planet II'' ✓ * ''Big Cats 24/7'' ✓ * ''Big Cat 24/7 || * ''Big Bear Diary'' ✓ * ''Big Little Journeys'' |'''braflix.bz''' * ''Bears: Spy In The Woods | {{Col-end}} ===C=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''China: Nature Ancient Kingdom'' (flixhq) {{Col-end}} ===D=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Dynasties'' ✓ * ''Deep Blue'' ✓ * ''Dynasties II'' * ''Dogs In The Wild: Meet The Family'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''David Attenborough: A Life on our Planet'' ✓ * ''David Attenborough: Life In Cold Blood * ''David Attenborough: Conquest of the Skies * ''Deep Ocean: The Lost World Of The Pacific'' (Saved) {{Col-end}} ===E=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Earth Flight'' ihavenotv?,hd-feemovie.com , azmovies.net * ''Expedition Wolf'' (check) * ''Enchanted Kingdom'' (Idris Elba) ww5.tinyzone.org * ''Earth's Great River's'' (ihavenotv) * ''Earth's Great Seasons'' ✓ * ''Earth's Great River's II'' (ihavenotv?) * ''Earth Tropical Islands'' (ihavenotv?) * ''Eden: Untamed Planet'' (ihavenotv) {{Col-end}} ===F=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Frozen Planet'' ✓ * ''Frozen Planet II'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===G=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Galapagos'' movies24free.com''' * ''Great Barrier Reef' (azmovies.net, * ''Gorilla Family and Me'' * ''Grizzy Bear Cubs and Me {{Col-end}} ===H=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Hostile Planet'' ✓ * ''Hidden Habitats'' (theflixer.sx) {{Col-end}} ===J=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Japan: Earth's Enchanted Islands'' (azmovies.net) {{Col-end}} ===K=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Kingdom (123movies9.surf) {{Col-end}} ===L=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Life'' ✓ * ''Life Story'' ✓ * ''Life In Color'' ✓ * ''Little Big Cat'' * ''Life in Cold Blood'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''London's Wild Side'' * ''Lands Of The Monsoon'' * ''Lions: Spy In The Den'' * ''Life In The Undergrowth'' azmovies.net, * ''Lost land of The Tiger'' (ihavenotv.com) {{Col-end}} ===M=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Mammals'' ✓ * ''Mirco Monsters'' (ihavenotv, azmovies.net, ww5.tinyzone.org) * ''Madagascar'' (David Attenborugh) *hdtodayz.to* * ''Mountains: Life Above the Clouds'' {{Col-end}} ===N=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Nature's Great Events'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===O=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''One Life'' (documentaryarea.com) * ''Our Planet'' (flixq?) (ihavenotv.com) (Netflix on YouTube?) * ''Ocean Giants'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''Our Planet II'' ✓ * ''Our Living World'' * ''Operation Snow Tiger'' (theflixer.sx, * ''Operation Dung Beetle'' {{Col-end}} ===P=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Planet Earth'' ✓ * ''Planet Earth II'' ✓ * ''Planet Earth III'' ✓ * ''Planet Earth: Asia'' ✓ * ''Planet Earth: Africa'' * ''Polar Bear: Spy On The Ice'' * ''Penguins: Spy In The Huddle (allmovieshub.express) * ''Planet Earth: South Pacific'' * ''Planet Earth: The Blue Planet II'' {{Col-end}} ===R=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Reindeer Family and Me'' {{Col-end}} ===S=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Shark'' (azmovies.net) * ''Snow Bears * ''Serengeti'' ✓ * ''Serengeti II'' ✓ * ''Serengeti III'' ✓ * ''Spy In The Den'' * ''Spy In The Snow * ''Spy In The Ocean (123movieslive.top ) * ''Spy In The Wild'' ✓ * ''Snow Chick: A Penguin's Tale'' (123movieslive.top, ww5.tinyzone.org * ''South Pacific'' (has episodes) * ''Seven Worlds, One Planet'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===T=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''The Hunt'' ✓ * ''Tiny Giants'' '''ww8.watchseriesfree.co''' * ''Tiger Island'' * ''The Wild Place'' * ''The Wild Sides'' ✓ * ''The Urban Gorilla'' * ''The Blue Planet'' * ''Tropical Islands'' (ihavenotv.com? check) * ''The Mating Game'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''The Rise of Black Wolf''✓ * ''The Cheetah Family & Me '' * ''The Great Bear Steak Out'' * ''The Polar Bear Family & Me'' * ''The Great Rift: Africa's Wild Hart'' * ''Tiger Spy In The Jungle'' (David Attenbourgh) topdocumentarys.com, azmovies.net {{Col-end}} ===W=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Wild West'' ✓ * ''Wild Spring * ''Wild China'' (Roku) (flixhq.to) * ''Wild Japan'' (look up) * ''Wild Alaska'' * ''Wild Isles'' (flixhq.to) * ''Wild Tokyo'' * ''Wild Arabia'' ✓ * ''Wild Brazil'' (movies24free.com) * ''Wild Nordic (movies24free.com) * ''Wild Singapore '' * ''Wild Indonesia'' * ''Wild Patagonia'' ✓ * ''Wild Caribbean'' (pluto tv?) * ''Wild Yellowstone'' * ''Wild New Zealand '' * ''Wild City: Singapore '' * ''Wild Lands: South Africa'' {{Col-end}} ===Y=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Yellowstone'', {{Col-end}} _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ '''Animal Planet''' ===A=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''A Panda is Born'' * ''A Panda's Story'' * ''Animal Battlegrounds'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===B=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * '' Big Cat Tales'' ✓ * '' Big Cats: Secret Lives'' * '' Britain's Wildest Places'' ✓ * '' Battle Ground: Rhino Wars'' * '' Big Cat Tales: More From The Mara Region'' {{Col-end}} ===D=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Dolphin Days'' ✓ * ''Dark Days In Monkey City'' {{Col-end}} ===E=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Escape To Chimp Eden'' {{Col-end}} ===G=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Going Ape'' ✓ * ''Gorilla School'' ✓ * ''Gorillas on the Brink: Saving a Species'' * ''Growing up Animal Series: '' * ''- Grizzly'' * ''- Lion'' * ''- Tiger '' * ''- Cheetah '' * ''- Marsupia'' * ''- Elephant'' * ''- Wolf'' * ''- Clouded Leopard'' * ''- Zebra'' * ''- Baboon'' * ''- Black Bear'' * ''- Orangutan'' * ''- Rhino'' * ''- Lynx'' * ''- Polar Bear'' * ''- Penguin'' * ''- Giraffe'' * ''- Walrus'' * ''- Hyena'' * ''- Camel'' * ''- Moose'' * ''- Leopard'' * ''- Sitka Deer'' * ''- Gorilla'' * ''- Giant Panda'' {{Col-end}} ===I=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Into The Pride '' * ''Into The Lions Den'' * ''I Was Prey'' (Tv Series) 2017-2019 * ''It's Me or The Dog'' (Tv Series) 2007-2012 {{Col-end}} ===K=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Killer Whales: The Mega Hunt'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===L=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Little Giants'' ✓ * ''Lemur Kingdom'' * ''League of Monkey's'' * ''Living With Man-Eaters'' ✓ * ''Lone Star Law'' (Tv Series) 2016-2022 {{Col-end}} ===M=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Man vs Bear'' ✓ * ''Meerkat Manor (www.azmovies.net) * ''Mounted Branch'' ✓ * ''Man-Eating Super Croc'' * ''Man-Eating Super Squid'' * ''Mysterious Wild Of India'' * ''Meerkat Manor'' (Tv Series) 2005-2008 * ''Mysterious Creatures With Forrest Galante'' ✓ * ''Meet the Pandas: Washington's New Power Couple'' {{Col-end}} ===N=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Night'' (Discovery+) {{Col-end}} ===O=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Otter Dynasty'' ✓ * ''Orangutan Island''| ww8.watchseriesfree.com {{Col-end}} ===P=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Project Grizzly'' ✓ * ''Pandamonium'' ✓ * ''Panda Republic'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===R=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Rise of The Warrior Apes'' * ''Romeo & Juliet: A Monkey's Tale'' {{Col-end}} ===S=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Survival of the Beast'' * ''Season of The Grizzly'' * ''Saving Grace: The Otter'' ✓ * ''Safari: An Extraordinary Adventure'' * ''Saving The Gorillas: Ellen's Next Adventure'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===T=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''The Nile'' * ''The Pack'' ✓ * ''Tucan Nation'' * ''The Real Lion Queen'' (saved) * ''The Beauty of Snakes'' * ''The Great Shark Chase'' * ''The Magic Of The Big Blue: Seven Continents'' {{Col-end}} ===W=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Wild Deep'' * ''Wild Costa Rica'' (solarmoviesz.com, * ''Wild New Zealand'' * ''Wolves and Warriors'' ✓ * ''Walking With Elephants'' ✓ * ''Wild Africa: Rivers Of Life'' '''theflixer.sx''' * ''Wildest Islands of Indonesia" azmovies.net {{Col-end}} ===Y=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Yellowstone Journals'' '''theflixer.sx''' {{Col-end}} ===Z=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Zolton: The Wolfman'' ✓ {{Col-end}} _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 0kawlxs1p7wc2991ygy1euzsfqfa9s4 3961225 3961222 2026-07-05T17:52:46Z Sandi74645 3160827 /* S */ 3961225 wikitext text/x-wiki '''<big>Former Programming</big>''' ===A=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''A Penguin's Life'' ✓ * ''Africa's Hunters'' ✓ * ''Africa's Lost Eden'' * ''Africa's Wild West'' ✓ * ''Amazon Underworld'' ✓ * ''America the Beautiful'' ✓ * ''America's Wild Frontier'' (flickystream.su) * ''Alaska's Grizzly Gauntlet'' ✓ * ''Animals, They're Just Like Us!'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===B=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Brazil'' * ''Boss Croc'' ✓ * ''Bumblebees (youtube) * ''Born In Africa'' ✓ * ''Baboon Queen'' * ''Birth of A Pride'' ✓ * ''Big Sur: Wild California'' ✓ * ''Behind Russia's Frozen Curtain'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===C=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Cub Camp'' ✓ * ''Cobra Mafia'' ✓ * ''Cat Attack-tics'' ✓ * ''Croc Labyrinth'' * ''China's Wild Side''| * ''Cheetah Fatal Instinct" (youtube) * ''Clash of The Tigers'' (abc.com) * ''Cat Wars: Lions Vs Cheetah'' (youtube) * ''Caribbean's Deadly Underworld | xtubeflix.com {{Col-end}} ===D=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Dino Fish'' * ''Dino Bird (movies2watch.biz,123movie.work) * ''Dead By Dawn'' ✓ * ''Deep Sea Killers'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===E=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Emperors of The Ice * ''Extraordinary Birder with Christian Cooper'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===F=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Future Cat'' ✓ * ''Florida Untamed'' ✓ * ''Fur Seals: Battle For Survival'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===G=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Game of Lions'' ✓ * ''Grizzly Cauldron'' ✓ * ''Gangster Jackals | www.cineby.at, * ''Great Barrier Reef'' (ww5.tinyzone.org) * ''Giraffe: African Giant'' ✓ * ''Galapagos: Enchanted Islands'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===H=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Hippo Vs Croc'' ✓ * ''Hunt for The Shadow Cat * ''Hunt for The Giant Squid'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===I=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Into The Okavango'' ✓ * ''Into The Pride Lands'' ✓ * ''India's Wild Leopards'' ✓ * ''Incredible Animal Journeys'' ✓ * ''Inside The Enchanted Forests'' ✓ * ''Inside The Enchanted Waterways'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===J=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Jaguar vs Croc'' ✓ * ''Jade Eyed Leopard'' ✓ * ''Jaguar Beach Battle'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===K=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Killer Shew'' ✓ * ''Kiler Queen'' ✓ * ''Kangaroo Kaos (has episodes) {{Col-end}} ===L=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Little Giant'' ✓ * ''Little Killers'' * ''Lemur Island'' | bflix.se * ''Lion Dynasty'' ✓ * ''Lion Ganglands'' ✓ * ''Lion Battle Zone'' ✓ * ''Leopard Kingdom'' ✓ * ''Leopard Huntress'' ✓ * ''Land of 10,000 Grizzlies''|watch.cinewave.qzz.io, * ''Leopards of Dead Tree Island''| * ''Leopard: Ultimate Survivor'' | {{Col-end}} ===M=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Man Vs Lion'' ✓ * ''Man vs Puma ✓ * ''Man vs Monster'' * ''Mexico Untamed'' ✓ * ''Man vs Cheetah'' ✓ * ''Moster Croc Hunt'' ✓ * ''Mystery of the giant Cave Spider'' (saved/non english) {{Col-end}} ===O=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Otter Town'' (Saved "No English") {{Col-end}} ===P=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Penguinpalooza'' * ''Paradise Islands'' ✓ * ''Praire Dog Manor'' ✓ * ''Path of The Pather'' ✓ * ''Planet of the Birds'' ✓ * ''Predator In Paradise'' * ''Peru's Wild Kingdom'' (saved) * ''Pristine Seas: The Power of Protection ✓ * ''Puma!: Elusive Hunter of the Andes'' {{Col-end}} ===R=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Rebal Monkeys'' * ''Real Angry Birds'' * ''Return of The Clouded Leopard {{Col-end}} ===S=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Super Cat'' ✓ * ''South Africa'' * ''Super Squirrel'' * ''Surpet's Surprise'' ✓ * ''Strangest Bird Alive'' * ''Secret Life of Pearls'' * ''Secret Life of Tigers'' * ''Secrets of Wild India'' (movieseq.com) * ''Secrets of the King Cobra'' ✓ * ''Saving Giraffes: The Long Journey Home'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===T=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''The Nile'' * ''Tiger Wars'' ✓ * ''Tiger's Revenge'' * ''The Jungle King'' * ''The Kangaroo King'' ✓ * ''Tree Climbing Lions ✓ * ''The Forbidden River'' * ''The Unlikely Leopard'' ✓ * ''The Way of the Cheetah'' ✓ * ''The Great Elephant Walk'' {{Col-end}} ===U=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Untamed Americas'' * ''Ultimate Honey Badger'' * ''Ultimate Rivals: Cats vs Dogs'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===W=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Wild 24'' (saved) * ''Wild Artic ✓ * ''Wild Chile'' * ''Wild Egypt'' ✓ * ''Wild Korea'' ✓ * ''Wild Hawaii'' ✓ * ''Wild Russia'' ✓ * ''Wild Nordic'' ✓ * ''Wild Borneo'' * ''Wild Vietnam'' ✓ * ''Wild Monsoon'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''Wild Thailand'' (saved) * ''War Elephants'' * ''Wild Indonesia'' ✓ * ''Wild Sir Lanka'' ✓ * ''Wild Argentina'' (moviemoza.com, movies2watch.biz, ihavenotv.com,123movie.work) * ''Wild Mississippi'' (has episodes) * ''War of The Lions'' * ''Wild Yellowstone'' ✓ * ''Wild New Zealand'' * ''Wild Cats Of India'' ✓ * ''Whales of the Deep'' {{Col-end}} ===Y=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Yellowstone Wolf Dynasty'' ✓ * ''Yellowstone Wolves: Succession ✓ {{Col-end}} ===Numbers=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''20 years with Dolphins'' {{Col-end}} ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ '''National Geographic Animal Programming''' ===A=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''A Real Bug's Life'' ✓ * ''A Real Bug's Life II'' ✓ * ''Attack of the Killer Bees'' * ''America's National Parks'' ✓ * ''Animal's They're Just Like US!'' ✓ * ''Animals up close with Bertie Gregory'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===B=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Bear Island * ''Bumblebees ✓ * ''Born in Africa'' * ''Battle For Elephants'' * ''Big Sur: Wild California'' uflix.to {{Col-end}} ===C=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Chimps on The Edge * ''Cheetahs Up Close with Berite Gregory ✓ {{Col-end}} ===D=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Dead By Dawn'' ✓ * ''Devils of The Deep: The Giant Squad * ''Dolphins Up Close with Bertie Gregory ✓ {{Col-end}} ===E=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Eye of The Leopard ✓ * ''Expedition Great White'' * ''Eternal Enemies: Lions and Hyenas {{Col-end}} ===G=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Ghost Elephants ✓ * ''Great Migration's'' ✓ * ''Gabon: The Last Eden'' {{Col-end}} ===H=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Hostile Planet'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===I=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Into The Pride * ''Into The Pride Lands ✓ * ''In Search of The Jaguar * ''Incredible Animal Journeys'' ✓ * ''Inside The Enchanted Forests'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===K=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Kangaroo Kaos * ''Kingdom Of The Apes * ''Kingdom of The Blue Whale * ''Kingdom of The Polar Bear'' ✓ * ''Kingdom of The White Wolf'' ✓ * ''Killer Whales: Wolves of the Sea {{Col-end}} ===L=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Little Giant'' ✓ * ''Last Stand of The Great Bear * ''Last of The Giants: Wild Fish'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===M=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Meet The Chimps'' ✓ * ''Moose: Titans of the North'' {{Col-end}} ===N=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''National Parks: USA'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===O=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Ocean With David Attenborough'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===P=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Path of The Panther'' ✓ * ''Panda's The Journey Home (123movieslive.top) {{Col-end}} ===Q=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Queens'' ✓ * ''Ocean With David Attenborough'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===S=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''She Wolf'' ✓ * ''Squid vs Whale'' * ''Savage Kingdom'' ✓ * ''Sharks Reef Rivals ✓ * ''Secrets of The Bees ✓ * ''Secrets of The Whales'' ✓ * ''Secrets of The Octopus'' ✓ * ''Secrets of The Penguins'' ✓ * ''Secrets of The Elephants'' ✓ * ''Shark Movers Deadly Cargo'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===T=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''The Flood'' ✓ * ''The Kangaroo King'' ✓ * ''The Secrets of The Octopus'' ✓ * ''The Last Rhinos: A New Hope ✓ * ''The Hidden Kingdoms of China'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===U=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Untamed Americas'' {{Col-end}} ===W=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Whales in Crisis'' * ''Winged seduction birds of paradise |braflix.bz, * ''Wolves: A Legend Return to Yellowstone'' {{Col-end}} ===Y=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * '' Yellowstone Wolf Dynasty'' {{Col-end}} ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ '''BBC America/BBC Earth Programming''' ===A=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Africa'' ✓ * ''A Perfect Planet'' * ''Africa's Wild Year'' ✓ * ''A Wild Year On Earth'' ✓ * ''Asia: Bonus Edition * ''Attenborough and the Giant Elephant'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===B=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Blue Planet'' ✓ * ''Blue Planet II'' ✓ * ''Big Cats 24/7'' ✓ * ''Big Cat 24/7 || * ''Big Bear Diary'' ✓ * ''Big Little Journeys'' |'''braflix.bz''' * ''Bears: Spy In The Woods | {{Col-end}} ===C=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''China: Nature Ancient Kingdom'' (flixhq) {{Col-end}} ===D=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Dynasties'' ✓ * ''Deep Blue'' ✓ * ''Dynasties II'' * ''Dogs In The Wild: Meet The Family'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''David Attenborough: A Life on our Planet'' ✓ * ''David Attenborough: Life In Cold Blood * ''David Attenborough: Conquest of the Skies * ''Deep Ocean: The Lost World Of The Pacific'' (Saved) {{Col-end}} ===E=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Earth Flight'' ihavenotv?,hd-feemovie.com , azmovies.net * ''Expedition Wolf'' (check) * ''Enchanted Kingdom'' (Idris Elba) ww5.tinyzone.org * ''Earth's Great River's'' (ihavenotv) * ''Earth's Great Seasons'' ✓ * ''Earth's Great River's II'' (ihavenotv?) * ''Earth Tropical Islands'' (ihavenotv?) * ''Eden: Untamed Planet'' (ihavenotv) {{Col-end}} ===F=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Frozen Planet'' ✓ * ''Frozen Planet II'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===G=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Galapagos'' movies24free.com''' * ''Great Barrier Reef' (azmovies.net, * ''Gorilla Family and Me'' * ''Grizzy Bear Cubs and Me {{Col-end}} ===H=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Hostile Planet'' ✓ * ''Hidden Habitats'' (theflixer.sx) {{Col-end}} ===J=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Japan: Earth's Enchanted Islands'' (azmovies.net) {{Col-end}} ===K=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Kingdom (123movies9.surf) {{Col-end}} ===L=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Life'' ✓ * ''Life Story'' ✓ * ''Life In Color'' ✓ * ''Little Big Cat'' * ''Life in Cold Blood'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''London's Wild Side'' * ''Lands Of The Monsoon'' * ''Lions: Spy In The Den'' * ''Life In The Undergrowth'' azmovies.net, * ''Lost land of The Tiger'' (ihavenotv.com) {{Col-end}} ===M=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Mammals'' ✓ * ''Mirco Monsters'' (ihavenotv, azmovies.net, ww5.tinyzone.org) * ''Madagascar'' (David Attenborugh) *hdtodayz.to* * ''Mountains: Life Above the Clouds'' {{Col-end}} ===N=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Nature's Great Events'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===O=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''One Life'' (documentaryarea.com) * ''Our Planet'' (flixq?) (ihavenotv.com) (Netflix on YouTube?) * ''Ocean Giants'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''Our Planet II'' ✓ * ''Our Living World'' * ''Operation Snow Tiger'' (theflixer.sx, * ''Operation Dung Beetle'' {{Col-end}} ===P=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Planet Earth'' ✓ * ''Planet Earth II'' ✓ * ''Planet Earth III'' ✓ * ''Planet Earth: Asia'' ✓ * ''Planet Earth: Africa'' * ''Polar Bear: Spy On The Ice'' * ''Penguins: Spy In The Huddle (allmovieshub.express) * ''Planet Earth: South Pacific'' * ''Planet Earth: The Blue Planet II'' {{Col-end}} ===R=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Reindeer Family and Me'' {{Col-end}} ===S=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Shark'' (azmovies.net) * ''Snow Bears * ''Serengeti'' ✓ * ''Serengeti II'' ✓ * ''Serengeti III'' ✓ * ''Spy In The Den'' * ''Spy In The Snow * ''Spy In The Ocean (123movieslive.top ) * ''Spy In The Wild'' ✓ * ''Snow Chick: A Penguin's Tale'' (123movieslive.top, ww5.tinyzone.org * ''South Pacific'' (has episodes) * ''Seven Worlds, One Planet'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===T=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''The Hunt'' ✓ * ''Tiny Giants'' '''ww8.watchseriesfree.co''' * ''Tiger Island'' * ''The Wild Place'' * ''The Wild Sides'' ✓ * ''The Urban Gorilla'' * ''The Blue Planet'' * ''Tropical Islands'' (ihavenotv.com? check) * ''The Mating Game'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''The Rise of Black Wolf''✓ * ''The Cheetah Family & Me '' * ''The Great Bear Steak Out'' * ''The Polar Bear Family & Me'' * ''The Great Rift: Africa's Wild Hart'' * ''Tiger Spy In The Jungle'' (David Attenbourgh) topdocumentarys.com, azmovies.net {{Col-end}} ===W=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Wild West'' ✓ * ''Wild Spring * ''Wild China'' (Roku) (flixhq.to) * ''Wild Japan'' (look up) * ''Wild Alaska'' * ''Wild Isles'' (flixhq.to) * ''Wild Tokyo'' * ''Wild Arabia'' ✓ * ''Wild Brazil'' (movies24free.com) * ''Wild Nordic (movies24free.com) * ''Wild Singapore '' * ''Wild Indonesia'' * ''Wild Patagonia'' ✓ * ''Wild Caribbean'' (pluto tv?) * ''Wild Yellowstone'' * ''Wild New Zealand '' * ''Wild City: Singapore '' * ''Wild Lands: South Africa'' {{Col-end}} ===Y=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Yellowstone'', {{Col-end}} _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ '''Animal Planet''' ===A=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''A Panda is Born'' * ''A Panda's Story'' * ''Animal Battlegrounds'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===B=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * '' Big Cat Tales'' ✓ * '' Big Cats: Secret Lives'' * '' Britain's Wildest Places'' ✓ * '' Battle Ground: Rhino Wars'' * '' Big Cat Tales: More From The Mara Region'' {{Col-end}} ===D=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Dolphin Days'' ✓ * ''Dark Days In Monkey City'' {{Col-end}} ===E=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Escape To Chimp Eden'' {{Col-end}} ===G=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Going Ape'' ✓ * ''Gorilla School'' ✓ * ''Gorillas on the Brink: Saving a Species'' * ''Growing up Animal Series: '' * ''- Grizzly'' * ''- Lion'' * ''- Tiger '' * ''- Cheetah '' * ''- Marsupia'' * ''- Elephant'' * ''- Wolf'' * ''- Clouded Leopard'' * ''- Zebra'' * ''- Baboon'' * ''- Black Bear'' * ''- Orangutan'' * ''- Rhino'' * ''- Lynx'' * ''- Polar Bear'' * ''- Penguin'' * ''- Giraffe'' * ''- Walrus'' * ''- Hyena'' * ''- Camel'' * ''- Moose'' * ''- Leopard'' * ''- Sitka Deer'' * ''- Gorilla'' * ''- Giant Panda'' {{Col-end}} ===I=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Into The Pride '' * ''Into The Lions Den'' * ''I Was Prey'' (Tv Series) 2017-2019 * ''It's Me or The Dog'' (Tv Series) 2007-2012 {{Col-end}} ===K=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Killer Whales: The Mega Hunt'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===L=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Little Giants'' ✓ * ''Lemur Kingdom'' * ''League of Monkey's'' * ''Living With Man-Eaters'' ✓ * ''Lone Star Law'' (Tv Series) 2016-2022 {{Col-end}} ===M=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Man vs Bear'' ✓ * ''Meerkat Manor (www.azmovies.net) * ''Mounted Branch'' ✓ * ''Man-Eating Super Croc'' * ''Man-Eating Super Squid'' * ''Mysterious Wild Of India'' * ''Meerkat Manor'' (Tv Series) 2005-2008 * ''Mysterious Creatures With Forrest Galante'' ✓ * ''Meet the Pandas: Washington's New Power Couple'' {{Col-end}} ===N=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Night'' (Discovery+) {{Col-end}} ===O=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Otter Dynasty'' ✓ * ''Orangutan Island''| ww8.watchseriesfree.com {{Col-end}} ===P=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Project Grizzly'' ✓ * ''Pandamonium'' ✓ * ''Panda Republic'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===R=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Rise of The Warrior Apes'' * ''Romeo & Juliet: A Monkey's Tale'' {{Col-end}} ===S=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Survival of the Beast'' * ''Season of The Grizzly'' * ''Saving Grace: The Otter'' ✓ * ''Safari: An Extraordinary Adventure'' * ''Saving The Gorillas: Ellen's Next Adventure'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===T=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''The Nile'' * ''The Pack'' ✓ * ''Tucan Nation'' * ''The Real Lion Queen'' (saved) * ''The Beauty of Snakes'' * ''The Great Shark Chase'' * ''The Magic Of The Big Blue: Seven Continents'' {{Col-end}} ===W=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Wild Deep'' * ''Wild Costa Rica'' (solarmoviesz.com, * ''Wild New Zealand'' * ''Wolves and Warriors'' ✓ * ''Walking With Elephants'' ✓ * ''Wild Africa: Rivers Of Life'' '''theflixer.sx''' * ''Wildest Islands of Indonesia" azmovies.net {{Col-end}} ===Y=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Yellowstone Journals'' '''theflixer.sx''' {{Col-end}} ===Z=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Zolton: The Wolfman'' ✓ {{Col-end}} _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ dbklh3nzy2372qeol3iou3tcr257nk4 3961228 3961225 2026-07-05T18:25:00Z Sandi74645 3160827 /* L */ 3961228 wikitext text/x-wiki '''<big>Former Programming</big>''' ===A=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''A Penguin's Life'' ✓ * ''Africa's Hunters'' ✓ * ''Africa's Lost Eden'' * ''Africa's Wild West'' ✓ * ''Amazon Underworld'' ✓ * ''America the Beautiful'' ✓ * ''America's Wild Frontier'' (flickystream.su) * ''Alaska's Grizzly Gauntlet'' ✓ * ''Animals, They're Just Like Us!'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===B=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Brazil'' * ''Boss Croc'' ✓ * ''Bumblebees (youtube) * ''Born In Africa'' ✓ * ''Baboon Queen'' * ''Birth of A Pride'' ✓ * ''Big Sur: Wild California'' ✓ * ''Behind Russia's Frozen Curtain'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===C=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Cub Camp'' ✓ * ''Cobra Mafia'' ✓ * ''Cat Attack-tics'' ✓ * ''Croc Labyrinth'' * ''China's Wild Side''| * ''Cheetah Fatal Instinct" (youtube) * ''Clash of The Tigers'' (abc.com) * ''Cat Wars: Lions Vs Cheetah'' (youtube) * ''Caribbean's Deadly Underworld | xtubeflix.com {{Col-end}} ===D=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Dino Fish'' * ''Dino Bird (movies2watch.biz,123movie.work) * ''Dead By Dawn'' ✓ * ''Deep Sea Killers'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===E=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Emperors of The Ice * ''Extraordinary Birder with Christian Cooper'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===F=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Future Cat'' ✓ * ''Florida Untamed'' ✓ * ''Fur Seals: Battle For Survival'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===G=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Game of Lions'' ✓ * ''Grizzly Cauldron'' ✓ * ''Gangster Jackals | www.cineby.at, * ''Great Barrier Reef'' (ww5.tinyzone.org) * ''Giraffe: African Giant'' ✓ * ''Galapagos: Enchanted Islands'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===H=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Hippo Vs Croc'' ✓ * ''Hunt for The Shadow Cat * ''Hunt for The Giant Squid'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===I=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Into The Okavango'' ✓ * ''Into The Pride Lands'' ✓ * ''India's Wild Leopards'' ✓ * ''Incredible Animal Journeys'' ✓ * ''Inside The Enchanted Forests'' ✓ * ''Inside The Enchanted Waterways'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===J=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Jaguar vs Croc'' ✓ * ''Jade Eyed Leopard'' ✓ * ''Jaguar Beach Battle'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===K=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Killer Shew'' ✓ * ''Kiler Queen'' ✓ * ''Kangaroo Kaos (has episodes) {{Col-end}} ===L=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Little Giant'' ✓ * ''Little Killers'' * ''Lemur Island'' | bflix.se * ''Lion Dynasty'' ✓ * ''Lion Ganglands'' ✓ * ''Lion Battle Zone'' ✓ * ''Leopard Kingdom'' ✓ * ''Leopard Huntress'' ✓ * ''Land of 10,000 Grizzlies''|watch.cinewave.qzz.io, * ''Leopards of Dead Tree Island'' ✓ * ''Leopard: Ultimate Survivor'' | {{Col-end}} ===M=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Man Vs Lion'' ✓ * ''Man vs Puma ✓ * ''Man vs Monster'' * ''Mexico Untamed'' ✓ * ''Man vs Cheetah'' ✓ * ''Moster Croc Hunt'' ✓ * ''Mystery of the giant Cave Spider'' (saved/non english) {{Col-end}} ===O=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Otter Town'' (Saved "No English") {{Col-end}} ===P=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Penguinpalooza'' * ''Paradise Islands'' ✓ * ''Praire Dog Manor'' ✓ * ''Path of The Pather'' ✓ * ''Planet of the Birds'' ✓ * ''Predator In Paradise'' * ''Peru's Wild Kingdom'' (saved) * ''Pristine Seas: The Power of Protection ✓ * ''Puma!: Elusive Hunter of the Andes'' {{Col-end}} ===R=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Rebal Monkeys'' * ''Real Angry Birds'' * ''Return of The Clouded Leopard {{Col-end}} ===S=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Super Cat'' ✓ * ''South Africa'' * ''Super Squirrel'' * ''Surpet's Surprise'' ✓ * ''Strangest Bird Alive'' * ''Secret Life of Pearls'' * ''Secret Life of Tigers'' * ''Secrets of Wild India'' (movieseq.com) * ''Secrets of the King Cobra'' ✓ * ''Saving Giraffes: The Long Journey Home'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===T=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''The Nile'' * ''Tiger Wars'' ✓ * ''Tiger's Revenge'' * ''The Jungle King'' * ''The Kangaroo King'' ✓ * ''Tree Climbing Lions ✓ * ''The Forbidden River'' * ''The Unlikely Leopard'' ✓ * ''The Way of the Cheetah'' ✓ * ''The Great Elephant Walk'' {{Col-end}} ===U=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Untamed Americas'' * ''Ultimate Honey Badger'' * ''Ultimate Rivals: Cats vs Dogs'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===W=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Wild 24'' (saved) * ''Wild Artic ✓ * ''Wild Chile'' * ''Wild Egypt'' ✓ * ''Wild Korea'' ✓ * ''Wild Hawaii'' ✓ * ''Wild Russia'' ✓ * ''Wild Nordic'' ✓ * ''Wild Borneo'' * ''Wild Vietnam'' ✓ * ''Wild Monsoon'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''Wild Thailand'' (saved) * ''War Elephants'' * ''Wild Indonesia'' ✓ * ''Wild Sir Lanka'' ✓ * ''Wild Argentina'' (moviemoza.com, movies2watch.biz, ihavenotv.com,123movie.work) * ''Wild Mississippi'' (has episodes) * ''War of The Lions'' * ''Wild Yellowstone'' ✓ * ''Wild New Zealand'' * ''Wild Cats Of India'' ✓ * ''Whales of the Deep'' {{Col-end}} ===Y=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Yellowstone Wolf Dynasty'' ✓ * ''Yellowstone Wolves: Succession ✓ {{Col-end}} ===Numbers=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''20 years with Dolphins'' {{Col-end}} ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ '''National Geographic Animal Programming''' ===A=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''A Real Bug's Life'' ✓ * ''A Real Bug's Life II'' ✓ * ''Attack of the Killer Bees'' * ''America's National Parks'' ✓ * ''Animal's They're Just Like US!'' ✓ * ''Animals up close with Bertie Gregory'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===B=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Bear Island * ''Bumblebees ✓ * ''Born in Africa'' * ''Battle For Elephants'' * ''Big Sur: Wild California'' uflix.to {{Col-end}} ===C=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Chimps on The Edge * ''Cheetahs Up Close with Berite Gregory ✓ {{Col-end}} ===D=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Dead By Dawn'' ✓ * ''Devils of The Deep: The Giant Squad * ''Dolphins Up Close with Bertie Gregory ✓ {{Col-end}} ===E=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Eye of The Leopard ✓ * ''Expedition Great White'' * ''Eternal Enemies: Lions and Hyenas {{Col-end}} ===G=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Ghost Elephants ✓ * ''Great Migration's'' ✓ * ''Gabon: The Last Eden'' {{Col-end}} ===H=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Hostile Planet'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===I=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Into The Pride * ''Into The Pride Lands ✓ * ''In Search of The Jaguar * ''Incredible Animal Journeys'' ✓ * ''Inside The Enchanted Forests'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===K=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Kangaroo Kaos * ''Kingdom Of The Apes * ''Kingdom of The Blue Whale * ''Kingdom of The Polar Bear'' ✓ * ''Kingdom of The White Wolf'' ✓ * ''Killer Whales: Wolves of the Sea {{Col-end}} ===L=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Little Giant'' ✓ * ''Last Stand of The Great Bear * ''Last of The Giants: Wild Fish'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===M=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Meet The Chimps'' ✓ * ''Moose: Titans of the North'' {{Col-end}} ===N=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''National Parks: USA'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===O=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Ocean With David Attenborough'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===P=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Path of The Panther'' ✓ * ''Panda's The Journey Home (123movieslive.top) {{Col-end}} ===Q=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Queens'' ✓ * ''Ocean With David Attenborough'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===S=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''She Wolf'' ✓ * ''Squid vs Whale'' * ''Savage Kingdom'' ✓ * ''Sharks Reef Rivals ✓ * ''Secrets of The Bees ✓ * ''Secrets of The Whales'' ✓ * ''Secrets of The Octopus'' ✓ * ''Secrets of The Penguins'' ✓ * ''Secrets of The Elephants'' ✓ * ''Shark Movers Deadly Cargo'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===T=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''The Flood'' ✓ * ''The Kangaroo King'' ✓ * ''The Secrets of The Octopus'' ✓ * ''The Last Rhinos: A New Hope ✓ * ''The Hidden Kingdoms of China'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===U=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Untamed Americas'' {{Col-end}} ===W=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Whales in Crisis'' * ''Winged seduction birds of paradise |braflix.bz, * ''Wolves: A Legend Return to Yellowstone'' {{Col-end}} ===Y=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * '' Yellowstone Wolf Dynasty'' {{Col-end}} ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ '''BBC America/BBC Earth Programming''' ===A=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Africa'' ✓ * ''A Perfect Planet'' * ''Africa's Wild Year'' ✓ * ''A Wild Year On Earth'' ✓ * ''Asia: Bonus Edition * ''Attenborough and the Giant Elephant'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===B=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Blue Planet'' ✓ * ''Blue Planet II'' ✓ * ''Big Cats 24/7'' ✓ * ''Big Cat 24/7 || * ''Big Bear Diary'' ✓ * ''Big Little Journeys'' |'''braflix.bz''' * ''Bears: Spy In The Woods | {{Col-end}} ===C=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''China: Nature Ancient Kingdom'' (flixhq) {{Col-end}} ===D=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Dynasties'' ✓ * ''Deep Blue'' ✓ * ''Dynasties II'' * ''Dogs In The Wild: Meet The Family'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''David Attenborough: A Life on our Planet'' ✓ * ''David Attenborough: Life In Cold Blood * ''David Attenborough: Conquest of the Skies * ''Deep Ocean: The Lost World Of The Pacific'' (Saved) {{Col-end}} ===E=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Earth Flight'' ihavenotv?,hd-feemovie.com , azmovies.net * ''Expedition Wolf'' (check) * ''Enchanted Kingdom'' (Idris Elba) ww5.tinyzone.org * ''Earth's Great River's'' (ihavenotv) * ''Earth's Great Seasons'' ✓ * ''Earth's Great River's II'' (ihavenotv?) * ''Earth Tropical Islands'' (ihavenotv?) * ''Eden: Untamed Planet'' (ihavenotv) {{Col-end}} ===F=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Frozen Planet'' ✓ * ''Frozen Planet II'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===G=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Galapagos'' movies24free.com''' * ''Great Barrier Reef' (azmovies.net, * ''Gorilla Family and Me'' * ''Grizzy Bear Cubs and Me {{Col-end}} ===H=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Hostile Planet'' ✓ * ''Hidden Habitats'' (theflixer.sx) {{Col-end}} ===J=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Japan: Earth's Enchanted Islands'' (azmovies.net) {{Col-end}} ===K=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Kingdom (123movies9.surf) {{Col-end}} ===L=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Life'' ✓ * ''Life Story'' ✓ * ''Life In Color'' ✓ * ''Little Big Cat'' * ''Life in Cold Blood'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''London's Wild Side'' * ''Lands Of The Monsoon'' * ''Lions: Spy In The Den'' * ''Life In The Undergrowth'' azmovies.net, * ''Lost land of The Tiger'' (ihavenotv.com) {{Col-end}} ===M=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Mammals'' ✓ * ''Mirco Monsters'' (ihavenotv, azmovies.net, ww5.tinyzone.org) * ''Madagascar'' (David Attenborugh) *hdtodayz.to* * ''Mountains: Life Above the Clouds'' {{Col-end}} ===N=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Nature's Great Events'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===O=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''One Life'' (documentaryarea.com) * ''Our Planet'' (flixq?) (ihavenotv.com) (Netflix on YouTube?) * ''Ocean Giants'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''Our Planet II'' ✓ * ''Our Living World'' * ''Operation Snow Tiger'' (theflixer.sx, * ''Operation Dung Beetle'' {{Col-end}} ===P=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Planet Earth'' ✓ * ''Planet Earth II'' ✓ * ''Planet Earth III'' ✓ * ''Planet Earth: Asia'' ✓ * ''Planet Earth: Africa'' * ''Polar Bear: Spy On The Ice'' * ''Penguins: Spy In The Huddle (allmovieshub.express) * ''Planet Earth: South Pacific'' * ''Planet Earth: The Blue Planet II'' {{Col-end}} ===R=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Reindeer Family and Me'' {{Col-end}} ===S=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Shark'' (azmovies.net) * ''Snow Bears * ''Serengeti'' ✓ * ''Serengeti II'' ✓ * ''Serengeti III'' ✓ * ''Spy In The Den'' * ''Spy In The Snow * ''Spy In The Ocean (123movieslive.top ) * ''Spy In The Wild'' ✓ * ''Snow Chick: A Penguin's Tale'' (123movieslive.top, ww5.tinyzone.org * ''South Pacific'' (has episodes) * ''Seven Worlds, One Planet'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===T=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''The Hunt'' ✓ * ''Tiny Giants'' '''ww8.watchseriesfree.co''' * ''Tiger Island'' * ''The Wild Place'' * ''The Wild Sides'' ✓ * ''The Urban Gorilla'' * ''The Blue Planet'' * ''Tropical Islands'' (ihavenotv.com? check) * ''The Mating Game'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''The Rise of Black Wolf''✓ * ''The Cheetah Family & Me '' * ''The Great Bear Steak Out'' * ''The Polar Bear Family & Me'' * ''The Great Rift: Africa's Wild Hart'' * ''Tiger Spy In The Jungle'' (David Attenbourgh) topdocumentarys.com, azmovies.net {{Col-end}} ===W=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Wild West'' ✓ * ''Wild Spring * ''Wild China'' (Roku) (flixhq.to) * ''Wild Japan'' (look up) * ''Wild Alaska'' * ''Wild Isles'' (flixhq.to) * ''Wild Tokyo'' * ''Wild Arabia'' ✓ * ''Wild Brazil'' (movies24free.com) * ''Wild Nordic (movies24free.com) * ''Wild Singapore '' * ''Wild Indonesia'' * ''Wild Patagonia'' ✓ * ''Wild Caribbean'' (pluto tv?) * ''Wild Yellowstone'' * ''Wild New Zealand '' * ''Wild City: Singapore '' * ''Wild Lands: South Africa'' {{Col-end}} ===Y=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Yellowstone'', {{Col-end}} _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ '''Animal Planet''' ===A=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''A Panda is Born'' * ''A Panda's Story'' * ''Animal Battlegrounds'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===B=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * '' Big Cat Tales'' ✓ * '' Big Cats: Secret Lives'' * '' Britain's Wildest Places'' ✓ * '' Battle Ground: Rhino Wars'' * '' Big Cat Tales: More From The Mara Region'' {{Col-end}} ===D=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Dolphin Days'' ✓ * ''Dark Days In Monkey City'' {{Col-end}} ===E=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Escape To Chimp Eden'' {{Col-end}} ===G=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Going Ape'' ✓ * ''Gorilla School'' ✓ * ''Gorillas on the Brink: Saving a Species'' * ''Growing up Animal Series: '' * ''- Grizzly'' * ''- Lion'' * ''- Tiger '' * ''- Cheetah '' * ''- Marsupia'' * ''- Elephant'' * ''- Wolf'' * ''- Clouded Leopard'' * ''- Zebra'' * ''- Baboon'' * ''- Black Bear'' * ''- Orangutan'' * ''- Rhino'' * ''- Lynx'' * ''- Polar Bear'' * ''- Penguin'' * ''- Giraffe'' * ''- Walrus'' * ''- Hyena'' * ''- Camel'' * ''- Moose'' * ''- Leopard'' * ''- Sitka Deer'' * ''- Gorilla'' * ''- Giant Panda'' {{Col-end}} ===I=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Into The Pride '' * ''Into The Lions Den'' * ''I Was Prey'' (Tv Series) 2017-2019 * ''It's Me or The Dog'' (Tv Series) 2007-2012 {{Col-end}} ===K=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Killer Whales: The Mega Hunt'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===L=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Little Giants'' ✓ * ''Lemur Kingdom'' * ''League of Monkey's'' * ''Living With Man-Eaters'' ✓ * ''Lone Star Law'' (Tv Series) 2016-2022 {{Col-end}} ===M=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Man vs Bear'' ✓ * ''Meerkat Manor (www.azmovies.net) * ''Mounted Branch'' ✓ * ''Man-Eating Super Croc'' * ''Man-Eating Super Squid'' * ''Mysterious Wild Of India'' * ''Meerkat Manor'' (Tv Series) 2005-2008 * ''Mysterious Creatures With Forrest Galante'' ✓ * ''Meet the Pandas: Washington's New Power Couple'' {{Col-end}} ===N=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Night'' (Discovery+) {{Col-end}} ===O=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Otter Dynasty'' ✓ * ''Orangutan Island''| ww8.watchseriesfree.com {{Col-end}} ===P=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Project Grizzly'' ✓ * ''Pandamonium'' ✓ * ''Panda Republic'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===R=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Rise of The Warrior Apes'' * ''Romeo & Juliet: A Monkey's Tale'' {{Col-end}} ===S=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Survival of the Beast'' * ''Season of The Grizzly'' * ''Saving Grace: The Otter'' ✓ * ''Safari: An Extraordinary Adventure'' * ''Saving The Gorillas: Ellen's Next Adventure'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===T=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''The Nile'' * ''The Pack'' ✓ * ''Tucan Nation'' * ''The Real Lion Queen'' (saved) * ''The Beauty of Snakes'' * ''The Great Shark Chase'' * ''The Magic Of The Big Blue: Seven Continents'' {{Col-end}} ===W=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Wild Deep'' * ''Wild Costa Rica'' (solarmoviesz.com, * ''Wild New Zealand'' * ''Wolves and Warriors'' ✓ * ''Walking With Elephants'' ✓ * ''Wild Africa: Rivers Of Life'' '''theflixer.sx''' * ''Wildest Islands of Indonesia" azmovies.net {{Col-end}} ===Y=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Yellowstone Journals'' '''theflixer.sx''' {{Col-end}} ===Z=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Zolton: The Wolfman'' ✓ {{Col-end}} _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ fkygsavcqkf2kx22sim26cf55gimrc3 3961236 3961228 2026-07-05T18:46:20Z Sandi74645 3160827 /* W */ 3961236 wikitext text/x-wiki '''<big>Former Programming</big>''' ===A=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''A Penguin's Life'' ✓ * ''Africa's Hunters'' ✓ * ''Africa's Lost Eden'' * ''Africa's Wild West'' ✓ * ''Amazon Underworld'' ✓ * ''America the Beautiful'' ✓ * ''America's Wild Frontier'' (flickystream.su) * ''Alaska's Grizzly Gauntlet'' ✓ * ''Animals, They're Just Like Us!'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===B=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Brazil'' * ''Boss Croc'' ✓ * ''Bumblebees (youtube) * ''Born In Africa'' ✓ * ''Baboon Queen'' * ''Birth of A Pride'' ✓ * ''Big Sur: Wild California'' ✓ * ''Behind Russia's Frozen Curtain'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===C=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Cub Camp'' ✓ * ''Cobra Mafia'' ✓ * ''Cat Attack-tics'' ✓ * ''Croc Labyrinth'' * ''China's Wild Side''| * ''Cheetah Fatal Instinct" (youtube) * ''Clash of The Tigers'' (abc.com) * ''Cat Wars: Lions Vs Cheetah'' (youtube) * ''Caribbean's Deadly Underworld | xtubeflix.com {{Col-end}} ===D=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Dino Fish'' * ''Dino Bird (movies2watch.biz,123movie.work) * ''Dead By Dawn'' ✓ * ''Deep Sea Killers'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===E=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Emperors of The Ice * ''Extraordinary Birder with Christian Cooper'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===F=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Future Cat'' ✓ * ''Florida Untamed'' ✓ * ''Fur Seals: Battle For Survival'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===G=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Game of Lions'' ✓ * ''Grizzly Cauldron'' ✓ * ''Gangster Jackals | www.cineby.at, * ''Great Barrier Reef'' (ww5.tinyzone.org) * ''Giraffe: African Giant'' ✓ * ''Galapagos: Enchanted Islands'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===H=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Hippo Vs Croc'' ✓ * ''Hunt for The Shadow Cat * ''Hunt for The Giant Squid'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===I=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Into The Okavango'' ✓ * ''Into The Pride Lands'' ✓ * ''India's Wild Leopards'' ✓ * ''Incredible Animal Journeys'' ✓ * ''Inside The Enchanted Forests'' ✓ * ''Inside The Enchanted Waterways'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===J=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Jaguar vs Croc'' ✓ * ''Jade Eyed Leopard'' ✓ * ''Jaguar Beach Battle'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===K=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Killer Shew'' ✓ * ''Kiler Queen'' ✓ * ''Kangaroo Kaos (has episodes) {{Col-end}} ===L=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Little Giant'' ✓ * ''Little Killers'' * ''Lemur Island'' | bflix.se * ''Lion Dynasty'' ✓ * ''Lion Ganglands'' ✓ * ''Lion Battle Zone'' ✓ * ''Leopard Kingdom'' ✓ * ''Leopard Huntress'' ✓ * ''Land of 10,000 Grizzlies''|watch.cinewave.qzz.io, * ''Leopards of Dead Tree Island'' ✓ * ''Leopard: Ultimate Survivor'' | {{Col-end}} ===M=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Man Vs Lion'' ✓ * ''Man vs Puma ✓ * ''Man vs Monster'' * ''Mexico Untamed'' ✓ * ''Man vs Cheetah'' ✓ * ''Moster Croc Hunt'' ✓ * ''Mystery of the giant Cave Spider'' (saved/non english) {{Col-end}} ===O=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Otter Town'' (Saved "No English") {{Col-end}} ===P=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Penguinpalooza'' * ''Paradise Islands'' ✓ * ''Praire Dog Manor'' ✓ * ''Path of The Pather'' ✓ * ''Planet of the Birds'' ✓ * ''Predator In Paradise'' * ''Peru's Wild Kingdom'' (saved) * ''Pristine Seas: The Power of Protection ✓ * ''Puma!: Elusive Hunter of the Andes'' {{Col-end}} ===R=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Rebal Monkeys'' * ''Real Angry Birds'' * ''Return of The Clouded Leopard {{Col-end}} ===S=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Super Cat'' ✓ * ''South Africa'' * ''Super Squirrel'' * ''Surpet's Surprise'' ✓ * ''Strangest Bird Alive'' * ''Secret Life of Pearls'' * ''Secret Life of Tigers'' * ''Secrets of Wild India'' (movieseq.com) * ''Secrets of the King Cobra'' ✓ * ''Saving Giraffes: The Long Journey Home'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===T=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''The Nile'' * ''Tiger Wars'' ✓ * ''Tiger's Revenge'' * ''The Jungle King'' * ''The Kangaroo King'' ✓ * ''Tree Climbing Lions ✓ * ''The Forbidden River'' * ''The Unlikely Leopard'' ✓ * ''The Way of the Cheetah'' ✓ * ''The Great Elephant Walk'' {{Col-end}} ===U=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Untamed Americas'' * ''Ultimate Honey Badger'' * ''Ultimate Rivals: Cats vs Dogs'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===W=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Wild 24'' (saved) * ''Wild Artic ✓ * ''Wild Chile'' * ''Wild Egypt'' ✓ * ''Wild Korea'' ✓ * ''Wild Hawaii'' ✓ * ''Wild Russia'' ✓ * ''Wild Nordic'' ✓ * ''Wolf vs Bear✓ () * ''Wild Borneo'' * ''Wild Vietnam'' ✓ * ''Wild Monsoon'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''Wild Thailand'' (saved) * ''War Elephants'' * ''Wild Indonesia'' ✓ * ''Wild Sir Lanka'' ✓ * ''Wild Argentina'' (moviemoza.com, movies2watch.biz, ihavenotv.com,123movie.work) * ''Wild Mississippi'' (has episodes) * ''War of The Lions'' * ''Wild Yellowstone'' ✓ * ''Wild New Zealand'' * ''Wild Cats Of India'' ✓ * ''Whales of the Deep'' {{Col-end}} ===Y=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Yellowstone Wolf Dynasty'' ✓ * ''Yellowstone Wolves: Succession ✓ {{Col-end}} ===Numbers=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''20 years with Dolphins'' {{Col-end}} ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ '''National Geographic Animal Programming''' ===A=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''A Real Bug's Life'' ✓ * ''A Real Bug's Life II'' ✓ * ''Attack of the Killer Bees'' * ''America's National Parks'' ✓ * ''Animal's They're Just Like US!'' ✓ * ''Animals up close with Bertie Gregory'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===B=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Bear Island * ''Bumblebees ✓ * ''Born in Africa'' * ''Battle For Elephants'' * ''Big Sur: Wild California'' uflix.to {{Col-end}} ===C=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Chimps on The Edge * ''Cheetahs Up Close with Berite Gregory ✓ {{Col-end}} ===D=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Dead By Dawn'' ✓ * ''Devils of The Deep: The Giant Squad * ''Dolphins Up Close with Bertie Gregory ✓ {{Col-end}} ===E=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Eye of The Leopard ✓ * ''Expedition Great White'' * ''Eternal Enemies: Lions and Hyenas {{Col-end}} ===G=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Ghost Elephants ✓ * ''Great Migration's'' ✓ * ''Gabon: The Last Eden'' {{Col-end}} ===H=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Hostile Planet'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===I=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Into The Pride * ''Into The Pride Lands ✓ * ''In Search of The Jaguar * ''Incredible Animal Journeys'' ✓ * ''Inside The Enchanted Forests'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===K=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Kangaroo Kaos * ''Kingdom Of The Apes * ''Kingdom of The Blue Whale * ''Kingdom of The Polar Bear'' ✓ * ''Kingdom of The White Wolf'' ✓ * ''Killer Whales: Wolves of the Sea {{Col-end}} ===L=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Little Giant'' ✓ * ''Last Stand of The Great Bear * ''Last of The Giants: Wild Fish'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===M=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Meet The Chimps'' ✓ * ''Moose: Titans of the North'' {{Col-end}} ===N=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''National Parks: USA'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===O=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Ocean With David Attenborough'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===P=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Path of The Panther'' ✓ * ''Panda's The Journey Home (123movieslive.top) {{Col-end}} ===Q=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Queens'' ✓ * ''Ocean With David Attenborough'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===S=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''She Wolf'' ✓ * ''Squid vs Whale'' * ''Savage Kingdom'' ✓ * ''Sharks Reef Rivals ✓ * ''Secrets of The Bees ✓ * ''Secrets of The Whales'' ✓ * ''Secrets of The Octopus'' ✓ * ''Secrets of The Penguins'' ✓ * ''Secrets of The Elephants'' ✓ * ''Shark Movers Deadly Cargo'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===T=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''The Flood'' ✓ * ''The Kangaroo King'' ✓ * ''The Secrets of The Octopus'' ✓ * ''The Last Rhinos: A New Hope ✓ * ''The Hidden Kingdoms of China'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===U=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Untamed Americas'' {{Col-end}} ===W=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Whales in Crisis'' * ''Winged seduction birds of paradise |braflix.bz, * ''Wolves: A Legend Return to Yellowstone'' {{Col-end}} ===Y=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * '' Yellowstone Wolf Dynasty'' {{Col-end}} ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ '''BBC America/BBC Earth Programming''' ===A=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Africa'' ✓ * ''A Perfect Planet'' * ''Africa's Wild Year'' ✓ * ''A Wild Year On Earth'' ✓ * ''Asia: Bonus Edition * ''Attenborough and the Giant Elephant'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===B=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Blue Planet'' ✓ * ''Blue Planet II'' ✓ * ''Big Cats 24/7'' ✓ * ''Big Cat 24/7 || * ''Big Bear Diary'' ✓ * ''Big Little Journeys'' |'''braflix.bz''' * ''Bears: Spy In The Woods | {{Col-end}} ===C=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''China: Nature Ancient Kingdom'' (flixhq) {{Col-end}} ===D=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Dynasties'' ✓ * ''Deep Blue'' ✓ * ''Dynasties II'' * ''Dogs In The Wild: Meet The Family'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''David Attenborough: A Life on our Planet'' ✓ * ''David Attenborough: Life In Cold Blood * ''David Attenborough: Conquest of the Skies * ''Deep Ocean: The Lost World Of The Pacific'' (Saved) {{Col-end}} ===E=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Earth Flight'' ihavenotv?,hd-feemovie.com , azmovies.net * ''Expedition Wolf'' (check) * ''Enchanted Kingdom'' (Idris Elba) ww5.tinyzone.org * ''Earth's Great River's'' (ihavenotv) * ''Earth's Great Seasons'' ✓ * ''Earth's Great River's II'' (ihavenotv?) * ''Earth Tropical Islands'' (ihavenotv?) * ''Eden: Untamed Planet'' (ihavenotv) {{Col-end}} ===F=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Frozen Planet'' ✓ * ''Frozen Planet II'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===G=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Galapagos'' movies24free.com''' * ''Great Barrier Reef' (azmovies.net, * ''Gorilla Family and Me'' * ''Grizzy Bear Cubs and Me {{Col-end}} ===H=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Hostile Planet'' ✓ * ''Hidden Habitats'' (theflixer.sx) {{Col-end}} ===J=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Japan: Earth's Enchanted Islands'' (azmovies.net) {{Col-end}} ===K=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Kingdom (123movies9.surf) {{Col-end}} ===L=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Life'' ✓ * ''Life Story'' ✓ * ''Life In Color'' ✓ * ''Little Big Cat'' * ''Life in Cold Blood'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''London's Wild Side'' * ''Lands Of The Monsoon'' * ''Lions: Spy In The Den'' * ''Life In The Undergrowth'' azmovies.net, * ''Lost land of The Tiger'' (ihavenotv.com) {{Col-end}} ===M=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Mammals'' ✓ * ''Mirco Monsters'' (ihavenotv, azmovies.net, ww5.tinyzone.org) * ''Madagascar'' (David Attenborugh) *hdtodayz.to* * ''Mountains: Life Above the Clouds'' {{Col-end}} ===N=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Nature's Great Events'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===O=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''One Life'' (documentaryarea.com) * ''Our Planet'' (flixq?) (ihavenotv.com) (Netflix on YouTube?) * ''Ocean Giants'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''Our Planet II'' ✓ * ''Our Living World'' * ''Operation Snow Tiger'' (theflixer.sx, * ''Operation Dung Beetle'' {{Col-end}} ===P=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Planet Earth'' ✓ * ''Planet Earth II'' ✓ * ''Planet Earth III'' ✓ * ''Planet Earth: Asia'' ✓ * ''Planet Earth: Africa'' * ''Polar Bear: Spy On The Ice'' * ''Penguins: Spy In The Huddle (allmovieshub.express) * ''Planet Earth: South Pacific'' * ''Planet Earth: The Blue Planet II'' {{Col-end}} ===R=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Reindeer Family and Me'' {{Col-end}} ===S=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Shark'' (azmovies.net) * ''Snow Bears * ''Serengeti'' ✓ * ''Serengeti II'' ✓ * ''Serengeti III'' ✓ * ''Spy In The Den'' * ''Spy In The Snow * ''Spy In The Ocean (123movieslive.top ) * ''Spy In The Wild'' ✓ * ''Snow Chick: A Penguin's Tale'' (123movieslive.top, ww5.tinyzone.org * ''South Pacific'' (has episodes) * ''Seven Worlds, One Planet'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===T=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''The Hunt'' ✓ * ''Tiny Giants'' '''ww8.watchseriesfree.co''' * ''Tiger Island'' * ''The Wild Place'' * ''The Wild Sides'' ✓ * ''The Urban Gorilla'' * ''The Blue Planet'' * ''Tropical Islands'' (ihavenotv.com? check) * ''The Mating Game'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''The Rise of Black Wolf''✓ * ''The Cheetah Family & Me '' * ''The Great Bear Steak Out'' * ''The Polar Bear Family & Me'' * ''The Great Rift: Africa's Wild Hart'' * ''Tiger Spy In The Jungle'' (David Attenbourgh) topdocumentarys.com, azmovies.net {{Col-end}} ===W=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Wild West'' ✓ * ''Wild Spring * ''Wild China'' (Roku) (flixhq.to) * ''Wild Japan'' (look up) * ''Wild Alaska'' * ''Wild Isles'' (flixhq.to) * ''Wild Tokyo'' * ''Wild Arabia'' ✓ * ''Wild Brazil'' (movies24free.com) * ''Wild Nordic (movies24free.com) * ''Wild Singapore '' * ''Wild Indonesia'' * ''Wild Patagonia'' ✓ * ''Wild Caribbean'' (pluto tv?) * ''Wild Yellowstone'' * ''Wild New Zealand '' * ''Wild City: Singapore '' * ''Wild Lands: South Africa'' {{Col-end}} ===Y=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Yellowstone'', {{Col-end}} _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ '''Animal Planet''' ===A=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''A Panda is Born'' * ''A Panda's Story'' * ''Animal Battlegrounds'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===B=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * '' Big Cat Tales'' ✓ * '' Big Cats: Secret Lives'' * '' Britain's Wildest Places'' ✓ * '' Battle Ground: Rhino Wars'' * '' Big Cat Tales: More From The Mara Region'' {{Col-end}} ===D=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Dolphin Days'' ✓ * ''Dark Days In Monkey City'' {{Col-end}} ===E=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Escape To Chimp Eden'' {{Col-end}} ===G=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Going Ape'' ✓ * ''Gorilla School'' ✓ * ''Gorillas on the Brink: Saving a Species'' * ''Growing up Animal Series: '' * ''- Grizzly'' * ''- Lion'' * ''- Tiger '' * ''- Cheetah '' * ''- Marsupia'' * ''- Elephant'' * ''- Wolf'' * ''- Clouded Leopard'' * ''- Zebra'' * ''- Baboon'' * ''- Black Bear'' * ''- Orangutan'' * ''- Rhino'' * ''- Lynx'' * ''- Polar Bear'' * ''- Penguin'' * ''- Giraffe'' * ''- Walrus'' * ''- Hyena'' * ''- Camel'' * ''- Moose'' * ''- Leopard'' * ''- Sitka Deer'' * ''- Gorilla'' * ''- Giant Panda'' {{Col-end}} ===I=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Into The Pride '' * ''Into The Lions Den'' * ''I Was Prey'' (Tv Series) 2017-2019 * ''It's Me or The Dog'' (Tv Series) 2007-2012 {{Col-end}} ===K=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Killer Whales: The Mega Hunt'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===L=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Little Giants'' ✓ * ''Lemur Kingdom'' * ''League of Monkey's'' * ''Living With Man-Eaters'' ✓ * ''Lone Star Law'' (Tv Series) 2016-2022 {{Col-end}} ===M=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Man vs Bear'' ✓ * ''Meerkat Manor (www.azmovies.net) * ''Mounted Branch'' ✓ * ''Man-Eating Super Croc'' * ''Man-Eating Super Squid'' * ''Mysterious Wild Of India'' * ''Meerkat Manor'' (Tv Series) 2005-2008 * ''Mysterious Creatures With Forrest Galante'' ✓ * ''Meet the Pandas: Washington's New Power Couple'' {{Col-end}} ===N=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Night'' (Discovery+) {{Col-end}} ===O=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Otter Dynasty'' ✓ * ''Orangutan Island''| ww8.watchseriesfree.com {{Col-end}} ===P=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Project Grizzly'' ✓ * ''Pandamonium'' ✓ * ''Panda Republic'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===R=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Rise of The Warrior Apes'' * ''Romeo & Juliet: A Monkey's Tale'' {{Col-end}} ===S=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Survival of the Beast'' * ''Season of The Grizzly'' * ''Saving Grace: The Otter'' ✓ * ''Safari: An Extraordinary Adventure'' * ''Saving The Gorillas: Ellen's Next Adventure'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===T=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''The Nile'' * ''The Pack'' ✓ * ''Tucan Nation'' * ''The Real Lion Queen'' (saved) * ''The Beauty of Snakes'' * ''The Great Shark Chase'' * ''The Magic Of The Big Blue: Seven Continents'' {{Col-end}} ===W=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Wild Deep'' * ''Wild Costa Rica'' (solarmoviesz.com, * ''Wild New Zealand'' * ''Wolves and Warriors'' ✓ * ''Walking With Elephants'' ✓ * ''Wild Africa: Rivers Of Life'' '''theflixer.sx''' * ''Wildest Islands of Indonesia" azmovies.net {{Col-end}} ===Y=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Yellowstone Journals'' '''theflixer.sx''' {{Col-end}} ===Z=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Zolton: The Wolfman'' ✓ {{Col-end}} _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ brumn2jmag31rj0h5gcarvvpbkjkdpq 3961237 3961236 2026-07-05T18:46:55Z Sandi74645 3160827 /* W */ 3961237 wikitext text/x-wiki '''<big>Former Programming</big>''' ===A=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''A Penguin's Life'' ✓ * ''Africa's Hunters'' ✓ * ''Africa's Lost Eden'' * ''Africa's Wild West'' ✓ * ''Amazon Underworld'' ✓ * ''America the Beautiful'' ✓ * ''America's Wild Frontier'' (flickystream.su) * ''Alaska's Grizzly Gauntlet'' ✓ * ''Animals, They're Just Like Us!'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===B=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Brazil'' * ''Boss Croc'' ✓ * ''Bumblebees (youtube) * ''Born In Africa'' ✓ * ''Baboon Queen'' * ''Birth of A Pride'' ✓ * ''Big Sur: Wild California'' ✓ * ''Behind Russia's Frozen Curtain'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===C=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Cub Camp'' ✓ * ''Cobra Mafia'' ✓ * ''Cat Attack-tics'' ✓ * ''Croc Labyrinth'' * ''China's Wild Side''| * ''Cheetah Fatal Instinct" (youtube) * ''Clash of The Tigers'' (abc.com) * ''Cat Wars: Lions Vs Cheetah'' (youtube) * ''Caribbean's Deadly Underworld | xtubeflix.com {{Col-end}} ===D=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Dino Fish'' * ''Dino Bird (movies2watch.biz,123movie.work) * ''Dead By Dawn'' ✓ * ''Deep Sea Killers'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===E=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Emperors of The Ice * ''Extraordinary Birder with Christian Cooper'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===F=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Future Cat'' ✓ * ''Florida Untamed'' ✓ * ''Fur Seals: Battle For Survival'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===G=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Game of Lions'' ✓ * ''Grizzly Cauldron'' ✓ * ''Gangster Jackals | www.cineby.at, * ''Great Barrier Reef'' (ww5.tinyzone.org) * ''Giraffe: African Giant'' ✓ * ''Galapagos: Enchanted Islands'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===H=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Hippo Vs Croc'' ✓ * ''Hunt for The Shadow Cat * ''Hunt for The Giant Squid'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===I=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Into The Okavango'' ✓ * ''Into The Pride Lands'' ✓ * ''India's Wild Leopards'' ✓ * ''Incredible Animal Journeys'' ✓ * ''Inside The Enchanted Forests'' ✓ * ''Inside The Enchanted Waterways'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===J=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Jaguar vs Croc'' ✓ * ''Jade Eyed Leopard'' ✓ * ''Jaguar Beach Battle'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===K=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Killer Shew'' ✓ * ''Kiler Queen'' ✓ * ''Kangaroo Kaos (has episodes) {{Col-end}} ===L=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Little Giant'' ✓ * ''Little Killers'' * ''Lemur Island'' | bflix.se * ''Lion Dynasty'' ✓ * ''Lion Ganglands'' ✓ * ''Lion Battle Zone'' ✓ * ''Leopard Kingdom'' ✓ * ''Leopard Huntress'' ✓ * ''Land of 10,000 Grizzlies''|watch.cinewave.qzz.io, * ''Leopards of Dead Tree Island'' ✓ * ''Leopard: Ultimate Survivor'' | {{Col-end}} ===M=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Man Vs Lion'' ✓ * ''Man vs Puma ✓ * ''Man vs Monster'' * ''Mexico Untamed'' ✓ * ''Man vs Cheetah'' ✓ * ''Moster Croc Hunt'' ✓ * ''Mystery of the giant Cave Spider'' (saved/non english) {{Col-end}} ===O=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Otter Town'' (Saved "No English") {{Col-end}} ===P=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Penguinpalooza'' * ''Paradise Islands'' ✓ * ''Praire Dog Manor'' ✓ * ''Path of The Pather'' ✓ * ''Planet of the Birds'' ✓ * ''Predator In Paradise'' * ''Peru's Wild Kingdom'' (saved) * ''Pristine Seas: The Power of Protection ✓ * ''Puma!: Elusive Hunter of the Andes'' {{Col-end}} ===R=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Rebal Monkeys'' * ''Real Angry Birds'' * ''Return of The Clouded Leopard {{Col-end}} ===S=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Super Cat'' ✓ * ''South Africa'' * ''Super Squirrel'' * ''Surpet's Surprise'' ✓ * ''Strangest Bird Alive'' * ''Secret Life of Pearls'' * ''Secret Life of Tigers'' * ''Secrets of Wild India'' (movieseq.com) * ''Secrets of the King Cobra'' ✓ * ''Saving Giraffes: The Long Journey Home'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===T=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''The Nile'' * ''Tiger Wars'' ✓ * ''Tiger's Revenge'' * ''The Jungle King'' * ''The Kangaroo King'' ✓ * ''Tree Climbing Lions ✓ * ''The Forbidden River'' * ''The Unlikely Leopard'' ✓ * ''The Way of the Cheetah'' ✓ * ''The Great Elephant Walk'' {{Col-end}} ===U=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Untamed Americas'' * ''Ultimate Honey Badger'' * ''Ultimate Rivals: Cats vs Dogs'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===W=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Wild 24'' (saved) * ''Wild Artic ✓ * ''Wild Chile'' * ''Wild Egypt'' ✓ * ''Wild Korea'' ✓ * ''Wild Hawaii'' ✓ * ''Wild Russia'' ✓ * ''Wild Nordic'' ✓ * ''Wild Borneo'' * ''Wolf vs Bear✓ () * ''Wild Vietnam'' ✓ * ''Wild Monsoon'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''Wild Thailand'' (saved) * ''War Elephants'' * ''Wild Indonesia'' ✓ * ''Wild Sir Lanka'' ✓ * ''Wild Argentina'' (moviemoza.com, movies2watch.biz, ihavenotv.com,123movie.work) * ''Wild Mississippi'' (has episodes) * ''War of The Lions'' * ''Wild Yellowstone'' ✓ * ''Wild New Zealand'' * ''Wild Cats Of India'' ✓ * ''Whales of the Deep'' {{Col-end}} ===Y=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Yellowstone Wolf Dynasty'' ✓ * ''Yellowstone Wolves: Succession ✓ {{Col-end}} ===Numbers=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''20 years with Dolphins'' {{Col-end}} ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ '''National Geographic Animal Programming''' ===A=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''A Real Bug's Life'' ✓ * ''A Real Bug's Life II'' ✓ * ''Attack of the Killer Bees'' * ''America's National Parks'' ✓ * ''Animal's They're Just Like US!'' ✓ * ''Animals up close with Bertie Gregory'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===B=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Bear Island * ''Bumblebees ✓ * ''Born in Africa'' * ''Battle For Elephants'' * ''Big Sur: Wild California'' uflix.to {{Col-end}} ===C=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Chimps on The Edge * ''Cheetahs Up Close with Berite Gregory ✓ {{Col-end}} ===D=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Dead By Dawn'' ✓ * ''Devils of The Deep: The Giant Squad * ''Dolphins Up Close with Bertie Gregory ✓ {{Col-end}} ===E=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Eye of The Leopard ✓ * ''Expedition Great White'' * ''Eternal Enemies: Lions and Hyenas {{Col-end}} ===G=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Ghost Elephants ✓ * ''Great Migration's'' ✓ * ''Gabon: The Last Eden'' {{Col-end}} ===H=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Hostile Planet'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===I=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Into The Pride * ''Into The Pride Lands ✓ * ''In Search of The Jaguar * ''Incredible Animal Journeys'' ✓ * ''Inside The Enchanted Forests'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===K=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Kangaroo Kaos * ''Kingdom Of The Apes * ''Kingdom of The Blue Whale * ''Kingdom of The Polar Bear'' ✓ * ''Kingdom of The White Wolf'' ✓ * ''Killer Whales: Wolves of the Sea {{Col-end}} ===L=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Little Giant'' ✓ * ''Last Stand of The Great Bear * ''Last of The Giants: Wild Fish'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===M=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Meet The Chimps'' ✓ * ''Moose: Titans of the North'' {{Col-end}} ===N=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''National Parks: USA'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===O=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Ocean With David Attenborough'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===P=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Path of The Panther'' ✓ * ''Panda's The Journey Home (123movieslive.top) {{Col-end}} ===Q=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Queens'' ✓ * ''Ocean With David Attenborough'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===S=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''She Wolf'' ✓ * ''Squid vs Whale'' * ''Savage Kingdom'' ✓ * ''Sharks Reef Rivals ✓ * ''Secrets of The Bees ✓ * ''Secrets of The Whales'' ✓ * ''Secrets of The Octopus'' ✓ * ''Secrets of The Penguins'' ✓ * ''Secrets of The Elephants'' ✓ * ''Shark Movers Deadly Cargo'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===T=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''The Flood'' ✓ * ''The Kangaroo King'' ✓ * ''The Secrets of The Octopus'' ✓ * ''The Last Rhinos: A New Hope ✓ * ''The Hidden Kingdoms of China'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===U=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Untamed Americas'' {{Col-end}} ===W=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Whales in Crisis'' * ''Winged seduction birds of paradise |braflix.bz, * ''Wolves: A Legend Return to Yellowstone'' {{Col-end}} ===Y=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * '' Yellowstone Wolf Dynasty'' {{Col-end}} ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ '''BBC America/BBC Earth Programming''' ===A=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Africa'' ✓ * ''A Perfect Planet'' * ''Africa's Wild Year'' ✓ * ''A Wild Year On Earth'' ✓ * ''Asia: Bonus Edition * ''Attenborough and the Giant Elephant'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===B=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Blue Planet'' ✓ * ''Blue Planet II'' ✓ * ''Big Cats 24/7'' ✓ * ''Big Cat 24/7 || * ''Big Bear Diary'' ✓ * ''Big Little Journeys'' |'''braflix.bz''' * ''Bears: Spy In The Woods | {{Col-end}} ===C=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''China: Nature Ancient Kingdom'' (flixhq) {{Col-end}} ===D=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Dynasties'' ✓ * ''Deep Blue'' ✓ * ''Dynasties II'' * ''Dogs In The Wild: Meet The Family'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''David Attenborough: A Life on our Planet'' ✓ * ''David Attenborough: Life In Cold Blood * ''David Attenborough: Conquest of the Skies * ''Deep Ocean: The Lost World Of The Pacific'' (Saved) {{Col-end}} ===E=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Earth Flight'' ihavenotv?,hd-feemovie.com , azmovies.net * ''Expedition Wolf'' (check) * ''Enchanted Kingdom'' (Idris Elba) ww5.tinyzone.org * ''Earth's Great River's'' (ihavenotv) * ''Earth's Great Seasons'' ✓ * ''Earth's Great River's II'' (ihavenotv?) * ''Earth Tropical Islands'' (ihavenotv?) * ''Eden: Untamed Planet'' (ihavenotv) {{Col-end}} ===F=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Frozen Planet'' ✓ * ''Frozen Planet II'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===G=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Galapagos'' movies24free.com''' * ''Great Barrier Reef' (azmovies.net, * ''Gorilla Family and Me'' * ''Grizzy Bear Cubs and Me {{Col-end}} ===H=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Hostile Planet'' ✓ * ''Hidden Habitats'' (theflixer.sx) {{Col-end}} ===J=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Japan: Earth's Enchanted Islands'' (azmovies.net) {{Col-end}} ===K=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Kingdom (123movies9.surf) {{Col-end}} ===L=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Life'' ✓ * ''Life Story'' ✓ * ''Life In Color'' ✓ * ''Little Big Cat'' * ''Life in Cold Blood'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''London's Wild Side'' * ''Lands Of The Monsoon'' * ''Lions: Spy In The Den'' * ''Life In The Undergrowth'' azmovies.net, * ''Lost land of The Tiger'' (ihavenotv.com) {{Col-end}} ===M=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Mammals'' ✓ * ''Mirco Monsters'' (ihavenotv, azmovies.net, ww5.tinyzone.org) * ''Madagascar'' (David Attenborugh) *hdtodayz.to* * ''Mountains: Life Above the Clouds'' {{Col-end}} ===N=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Nature's Great Events'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===O=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''One Life'' (documentaryarea.com) * ''Our Planet'' (flixq?) (ihavenotv.com) (Netflix on YouTube?) * ''Ocean Giants'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''Our Planet II'' ✓ * ''Our Living World'' * ''Operation Snow Tiger'' (theflixer.sx, * ''Operation Dung Beetle'' {{Col-end}} ===P=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Planet Earth'' ✓ * ''Planet Earth II'' ✓ * ''Planet Earth III'' ✓ * ''Planet Earth: Asia'' ✓ * ''Planet Earth: Africa'' * ''Polar Bear: Spy On The Ice'' * ''Penguins: Spy In The Huddle (allmovieshub.express) * ''Planet Earth: South Pacific'' * ''Planet Earth: The Blue Planet II'' {{Col-end}} ===R=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Reindeer Family and Me'' {{Col-end}} ===S=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Shark'' (azmovies.net) * ''Snow Bears * ''Serengeti'' ✓ * ''Serengeti II'' ✓ * ''Serengeti III'' ✓ * ''Spy In The Den'' * ''Spy In The Snow * ''Spy In The Ocean (123movieslive.top ) * ''Spy In The Wild'' ✓ * ''Snow Chick: A Penguin's Tale'' (123movieslive.top, ww5.tinyzone.org * ''South Pacific'' (has episodes) * ''Seven Worlds, One Planet'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===T=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''The Hunt'' ✓ * ''Tiny Giants'' '''ww8.watchseriesfree.co''' * ''Tiger Island'' * ''The Wild Place'' * ''The Wild Sides'' ✓ * ''The Urban Gorilla'' * ''The Blue Planet'' * ''Tropical Islands'' (ihavenotv.com? check) * ''The Mating Game'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''The Rise of Black Wolf''✓ * ''The Cheetah Family & Me '' * ''The Great Bear Steak Out'' * ''The Polar Bear Family & Me'' * ''The Great Rift: Africa's Wild Hart'' * ''Tiger Spy In The Jungle'' (David Attenbourgh) topdocumentarys.com, azmovies.net {{Col-end}} ===W=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Wild West'' ✓ * ''Wild Spring * ''Wild China'' (Roku) (flixhq.to) * ''Wild Japan'' (look up) * ''Wild Alaska'' * ''Wild Isles'' (flixhq.to) * ''Wild Tokyo'' * ''Wild Arabia'' ✓ * ''Wild Brazil'' (movies24free.com) * ''Wild Nordic (movies24free.com) * ''Wild Singapore '' * ''Wild Indonesia'' * ''Wild Patagonia'' ✓ * ''Wild Caribbean'' (pluto tv?) * ''Wild Yellowstone'' * ''Wild New Zealand '' * ''Wild City: Singapore '' * ''Wild Lands: South Africa'' {{Col-end}} ===Y=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Yellowstone'', {{Col-end}} _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ '''Animal Planet''' ===A=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''A Panda is Born'' * ''A Panda's Story'' * ''Animal Battlegrounds'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===B=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * '' Big Cat Tales'' ✓ * '' Big Cats: Secret Lives'' * '' Britain's Wildest Places'' ✓ * '' Battle Ground: Rhino Wars'' * '' Big Cat Tales: More From The Mara Region'' {{Col-end}} ===D=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Dolphin Days'' ✓ * ''Dark Days In Monkey City'' {{Col-end}} ===E=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Escape To Chimp Eden'' {{Col-end}} ===G=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Going Ape'' ✓ * ''Gorilla School'' ✓ * ''Gorillas on the Brink: Saving a Species'' * ''Growing up Animal Series: '' * ''- Grizzly'' * ''- Lion'' * ''- Tiger '' * ''- Cheetah '' * ''- Marsupia'' * ''- Elephant'' * ''- Wolf'' * ''- Clouded Leopard'' * ''- Zebra'' * ''- Baboon'' * ''- Black Bear'' * ''- Orangutan'' * ''- Rhino'' * ''- Lynx'' * ''- Polar Bear'' * ''- Penguin'' * ''- Giraffe'' * ''- Walrus'' * ''- Hyena'' * ''- Camel'' * ''- Moose'' * ''- Leopard'' * ''- Sitka Deer'' * ''- Gorilla'' * ''- Giant Panda'' {{Col-end}} ===I=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Into The Pride '' * ''Into The Lions Den'' * ''I Was Prey'' (Tv Series) 2017-2019 * ''It's Me or The Dog'' (Tv Series) 2007-2012 {{Col-end}} ===K=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Killer Whales: The Mega Hunt'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===L=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Little Giants'' ✓ * ''Lemur Kingdom'' * ''League of Monkey's'' * ''Living With Man-Eaters'' ✓ * ''Lone Star Law'' (Tv Series) 2016-2022 {{Col-end}} ===M=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Man vs Bear'' ✓ * ''Meerkat Manor (www.azmovies.net) * ''Mounted Branch'' ✓ * ''Man-Eating Super Croc'' * ''Man-Eating Super Squid'' * ''Mysterious Wild Of India'' * ''Meerkat Manor'' (Tv Series) 2005-2008 * ''Mysterious Creatures With Forrest Galante'' ✓ * ''Meet the Pandas: Washington's New Power Couple'' {{Col-end}} ===N=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Night'' (Discovery+) {{Col-end}} ===O=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Otter Dynasty'' ✓ * ''Orangutan Island''| ww8.watchseriesfree.com {{Col-end}} ===P=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Project Grizzly'' ✓ * ''Pandamonium'' ✓ * ''Panda Republic'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===R=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Rise of The Warrior Apes'' * ''Romeo & Juliet: A Monkey's Tale'' {{Col-end}} ===S=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Survival of the Beast'' * ''Season of The Grizzly'' * ''Saving Grace: The Otter'' ✓ * ''Safari: An Extraordinary Adventure'' * ''Saving The Gorillas: Ellen's Next Adventure'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===T=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''The Nile'' * ''The Pack'' ✓ * ''Tucan Nation'' * ''The Real Lion Queen'' (saved) * ''The Beauty of Snakes'' * ''The Great Shark Chase'' * ''The Magic Of The Big Blue: Seven Continents'' {{Col-end}} ===W=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Wild Deep'' * ''Wild Costa Rica'' (solarmoviesz.com, * ''Wild New Zealand'' * ''Wolves and Warriors'' ✓ * ''Walking With Elephants'' ✓ * ''Wild Africa: Rivers Of Life'' '''theflixer.sx''' * ''Wildest Islands of Indonesia" azmovies.net {{Col-end}} ===Y=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Yellowstone Journals'' '''theflixer.sx''' {{Col-end}} ===Z=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Zolton: The Wolfman'' ✓ {{Col-end}} _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ru79mucvthsca5xr21dsqo1n97ozebl 3961238 3961237 2026-07-05T18:47:19Z Sandi74645 3160827 /* W */ 3961238 wikitext text/x-wiki '''<big>Former Programming</big>''' ===A=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''A Penguin's Life'' ✓ * ''Africa's Hunters'' ✓ * ''Africa's Lost Eden'' * ''Africa's Wild West'' ✓ * ''Amazon Underworld'' ✓ * ''America the Beautiful'' ✓ * ''America's Wild Frontier'' (flickystream.su) * ''Alaska's Grizzly Gauntlet'' ✓ * ''Animals, They're Just Like Us!'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===B=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Brazil'' * ''Boss Croc'' ✓ * ''Bumblebees (youtube) * ''Born In Africa'' ✓ * ''Baboon Queen'' * ''Birth of A Pride'' ✓ * ''Big Sur: Wild California'' ✓ * ''Behind Russia's Frozen Curtain'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===C=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Cub Camp'' ✓ * ''Cobra Mafia'' ✓ * ''Cat Attack-tics'' ✓ * ''Croc Labyrinth'' * ''China's Wild Side''| * ''Cheetah Fatal Instinct" (youtube) * ''Clash of The Tigers'' (abc.com) * ''Cat Wars: Lions Vs Cheetah'' (youtube) * ''Caribbean's Deadly Underworld | xtubeflix.com {{Col-end}} ===D=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Dino Fish'' * ''Dino Bird (movies2watch.biz,123movie.work) * ''Dead By Dawn'' ✓ * ''Deep Sea Killers'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===E=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Emperors of The Ice * ''Extraordinary Birder with Christian Cooper'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===F=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Future Cat'' ✓ * ''Florida Untamed'' ✓ * ''Fur Seals: Battle For Survival'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===G=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Game of Lions'' ✓ * ''Grizzly Cauldron'' ✓ * ''Gangster Jackals | www.cineby.at, * ''Great Barrier Reef'' (ww5.tinyzone.org) * ''Giraffe: African Giant'' ✓ * ''Galapagos: Enchanted Islands'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===H=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Hippo Vs Croc'' ✓ * ''Hunt for The Shadow Cat * ''Hunt for The Giant Squid'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===I=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Into The Okavango'' ✓ * ''Into The Pride Lands'' ✓ * ''India's Wild Leopards'' ✓ * ''Incredible Animal Journeys'' ✓ * ''Inside The Enchanted Forests'' ✓ * ''Inside The Enchanted Waterways'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===J=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Jaguar vs Croc'' ✓ * ''Jade Eyed Leopard'' ✓ * ''Jaguar Beach Battle'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===K=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Killer Shew'' ✓ * ''Kiler Queen'' ✓ * ''Kangaroo Kaos (has episodes) {{Col-end}} ===L=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Little Giant'' ✓ * ''Little Killers'' * ''Lemur Island'' | bflix.se * ''Lion Dynasty'' ✓ * ''Lion Ganglands'' ✓ * ''Lion Battle Zone'' ✓ * ''Leopard Kingdom'' ✓ * ''Leopard Huntress'' ✓ * ''Land of 10,000 Grizzlies''|watch.cinewave.qzz.io, * ''Leopards of Dead Tree Island'' ✓ * ''Leopard: Ultimate Survivor'' | {{Col-end}} ===M=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Man Vs Lion'' ✓ * ''Man vs Puma ✓ * ''Man vs Monster'' * ''Mexico Untamed'' ✓ * ''Man vs Cheetah'' ✓ * ''Moster Croc Hunt'' ✓ * ''Mystery of the giant Cave Spider'' (saved/non english) {{Col-end}} ===O=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Otter Town'' (Saved "No English") {{Col-end}} ===P=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Penguinpalooza'' * ''Paradise Islands'' ✓ * ''Praire Dog Manor'' ✓ * ''Path of The Pather'' ✓ * ''Planet of the Birds'' ✓ * ''Predator In Paradise'' * ''Peru's Wild Kingdom'' (saved) * ''Pristine Seas: The Power of Protection ✓ * ''Puma!: Elusive Hunter of the Andes'' {{Col-end}} ===R=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Rebal Monkeys'' * ''Real Angry Birds'' * ''Return of The Clouded Leopard {{Col-end}} ===S=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Super Cat'' ✓ * ''South Africa'' * ''Super Squirrel'' * ''Surpet's Surprise'' ✓ * ''Strangest Bird Alive'' * ''Secret Life of Pearls'' * ''Secret Life of Tigers'' * ''Secrets of Wild India'' (movieseq.com) * ''Secrets of the King Cobra'' ✓ * ''Saving Giraffes: The Long Journey Home'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===T=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''The Nile'' * ''Tiger Wars'' ✓ * ''Tiger's Revenge'' * ''The Jungle King'' * ''The Kangaroo King'' ✓ * ''Tree Climbing Lions ✓ * ''The Forbidden River'' * ''The Unlikely Leopard'' ✓ * ''The Way of the Cheetah'' ✓ * ''The Great Elephant Walk'' {{Col-end}} ===U=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Untamed Americas'' * ''Ultimate Honey Badger'' * ''Ultimate Rivals: Cats vs Dogs'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===W=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Wild 24'' (saved) * ''Wild Artic ✓ * ''Wild Chile'' * ''Wild Egypt'' ✓ * ''Wild Korea'' ✓ * ''Wild Hawaii'' ✓ * ''Wild Russia'' ✓ * ''Wild Nordic'' ✓ * ''Wild Borneo'' * ''Wolf vs Bear ✓ * ''Wild Vietnam'' ✓ * ''Wild Monsoon'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''Wild Thailand'' (saved) * ''War Elephants'' * ''Wild Indonesia'' ✓ * ''Wild Sir Lanka'' ✓ * ''Wild Argentina'' (moviemoza.com, movies2watch.biz, ihavenotv.com,123movie.work) * ''Wild Mississippi'' (has episodes) * ''War of The Lions'' * ''Wild Yellowstone'' ✓ * ''Wild New Zealand'' * ''Wild Cats Of India'' ✓ * ''Whales of the Deep'' {{Col-end}} ===Y=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Yellowstone Wolf Dynasty'' ✓ * ''Yellowstone Wolves: Succession ✓ {{Col-end}} ===Numbers=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''20 years with Dolphins'' {{Col-end}} ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ '''National Geographic Animal Programming''' ===A=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''A Real Bug's Life'' ✓ * ''A Real Bug's Life II'' ✓ * ''Attack of the Killer Bees'' * ''America's National Parks'' ✓ * ''Animal's They're Just Like US!'' ✓ * ''Animals up close with Bertie Gregory'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===B=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Bear Island * ''Bumblebees ✓ * ''Born in Africa'' * ''Battle For Elephants'' * ''Big Sur: Wild California'' uflix.to {{Col-end}} ===C=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Chimps on The Edge * ''Cheetahs Up Close with Berite Gregory ✓ {{Col-end}} ===D=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Dead By Dawn'' ✓ * ''Devils of The Deep: The Giant Squad * ''Dolphins Up Close with Bertie Gregory ✓ {{Col-end}} ===E=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Eye of The Leopard ✓ * ''Expedition Great White'' * ''Eternal Enemies: Lions and Hyenas {{Col-end}} ===G=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Ghost Elephants ✓ * ''Great Migration's'' ✓ * ''Gabon: The Last Eden'' {{Col-end}} ===H=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Hostile Planet'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===I=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Into The Pride * ''Into The Pride Lands ✓ * ''In Search of The Jaguar * ''Incredible Animal Journeys'' ✓ * ''Inside The Enchanted Forests'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===K=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Kangaroo Kaos * ''Kingdom Of The Apes * ''Kingdom of The Blue Whale * ''Kingdom of The Polar Bear'' ✓ * ''Kingdom of The White Wolf'' ✓ * ''Killer Whales: Wolves of the Sea {{Col-end}} ===L=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Little Giant'' ✓ * ''Last Stand of The Great Bear * ''Last of The Giants: Wild Fish'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===M=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Meet The Chimps'' ✓ * ''Moose: Titans of the North'' {{Col-end}} ===N=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''National Parks: USA'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===O=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Ocean With David Attenborough'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===P=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Path of The Panther'' ✓ * ''Panda's The Journey Home (123movieslive.top) {{Col-end}} ===Q=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Queens'' ✓ * ''Ocean With David Attenborough'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===S=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''She Wolf'' ✓ * ''Squid vs Whale'' * ''Savage Kingdom'' ✓ * ''Sharks Reef Rivals ✓ * ''Secrets of The Bees ✓ * ''Secrets of The Whales'' ✓ * ''Secrets of The Octopus'' ✓ * ''Secrets of The Penguins'' ✓ * ''Secrets of The Elephants'' ✓ * ''Shark Movers Deadly Cargo'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===T=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''The Flood'' ✓ * ''The Kangaroo King'' ✓ * ''The Secrets of The Octopus'' ✓ * ''The Last Rhinos: A New Hope ✓ * ''The Hidden Kingdoms of China'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===U=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Untamed Americas'' {{Col-end}} ===W=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Whales in Crisis'' * ''Winged seduction birds of paradise |braflix.bz, * ''Wolves: A Legend Return to Yellowstone'' {{Col-end}} ===Y=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * '' Yellowstone Wolf Dynasty'' {{Col-end}} ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ '''BBC America/BBC Earth Programming''' ===A=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Africa'' ✓ * ''A Perfect Planet'' * ''Africa's Wild Year'' ✓ * ''A Wild Year On Earth'' ✓ * ''Asia: Bonus Edition * ''Attenborough and the Giant Elephant'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===B=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Blue Planet'' ✓ * ''Blue Planet II'' ✓ * ''Big Cats 24/7'' ✓ * ''Big Cat 24/7 || * ''Big Bear Diary'' ✓ * ''Big Little Journeys'' |'''braflix.bz''' * ''Bears: Spy In The Woods | {{Col-end}} ===C=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''China: Nature Ancient Kingdom'' (flixhq) {{Col-end}} ===D=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Dynasties'' ✓ * ''Deep Blue'' ✓ * ''Dynasties II'' * ''Dogs In The Wild: Meet The Family'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''David Attenborough: A Life on our Planet'' ✓ * ''David Attenborough: Life In Cold Blood * ''David Attenborough: Conquest of the Skies * ''Deep Ocean: The Lost World Of The Pacific'' (Saved) {{Col-end}} ===E=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Earth Flight'' ihavenotv?,hd-feemovie.com , azmovies.net * ''Expedition Wolf'' (check) * ''Enchanted Kingdom'' (Idris Elba) ww5.tinyzone.org * ''Earth's Great River's'' (ihavenotv) * ''Earth's Great Seasons'' ✓ * ''Earth's Great River's II'' (ihavenotv?) * ''Earth Tropical Islands'' (ihavenotv?) * ''Eden: Untamed Planet'' (ihavenotv) {{Col-end}} ===F=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Frozen Planet'' ✓ * ''Frozen Planet II'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===G=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Galapagos'' movies24free.com''' * ''Great Barrier Reef' (azmovies.net, * ''Gorilla Family and Me'' * ''Grizzy Bear Cubs and Me {{Col-end}} ===H=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Hostile Planet'' ✓ * ''Hidden Habitats'' (theflixer.sx) {{Col-end}} ===J=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Japan: Earth's Enchanted Islands'' (azmovies.net) {{Col-end}} ===K=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Kingdom (123movies9.surf) {{Col-end}} ===L=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Life'' ✓ * ''Life Story'' ✓ * ''Life In Color'' ✓ * ''Little Big Cat'' * ''Life in Cold Blood'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''London's Wild Side'' * ''Lands Of The Monsoon'' * ''Lions: Spy In The Den'' * ''Life In The Undergrowth'' azmovies.net, * ''Lost land of The Tiger'' (ihavenotv.com) {{Col-end}} ===M=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Mammals'' ✓ * ''Mirco Monsters'' (ihavenotv, azmovies.net, ww5.tinyzone.org) * ''Madagascar'' (David Attenborugh) *hdtodayz.to* * ''Mountains: Life Above the Clouds'' {{Col-end}} ===N=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Nature's Great Events'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===O=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''One Life'' (documentaryarea.com) * ''Our Planet'' (flixq?) (ihavenotv.com) (Netflix on YouTube?) * ''Ocean Giants'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''Our Planet II'' ✓ * ''Our Living World'' * ''Operation Snow Tiger'' (theflixer.sx, * ''Operation Dung Beetle'' {{Col-end}} ===P=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Planet Earth'' ✓ * ''Planet Earth II'' ✓ * ''Planet Earth III'' ✓ * ''Planet Earth: Asia'' ✓ * ''Planet Earth: Africa'' * ''Polar Bear: Spy On The Ice'' * ''Penguins: Spy In The Huddle (allmovieshub.express) * ''Planet Earth: South Pacific'' * ''Planet Earth: The Blue Planet II'' {{Col-end}} ===R=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Reindeer Family and Me'' {{Col-end}} ===S=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Shark'' (azmovies.net) * ''Snow Bears * ''Serengeti'' ✓ * ''Serengeti II'' ✓ * ''Serengeti III'' ✓ * ''Spy In The Den'' * ''Spy In The Snow * ''Spy In The Ocean (123movieslive.top ) * ''Spy In The Wild'' ✓ * ''Snow Chick: A Penguin's Tale'' (123movieslive.top, ww5.tinyzone.org * ''South Pacific'' (has episodes) * ''Seven Worlds, One Planet'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===T=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''The Hunt'' ✓ * ''Tiny Giants'' '''ww8.watchseriesfree.co''' * ''Tiger Island'' * ''The Wild Place'' * ''The Wild Sides'' ✓ * ''The Urban Gorilla'' * ''The Blue Planet'' * ''Tropical Islands'' (ihavenotv.com? check) * ''The Mating Game'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''The Rise of Black Wolf''✓ * ''The Cheetah Family & Me '' * ''The Great Bear Steak Out'' * ''The Polar Bear Family & Me'' * ''The Great Rift: Africa's Wild Hart'' * ''Tiger Spy In The Jungle'' (David Attenbourgh) topdocumentarys.com, azmovies.net {{Col-end}} ===W=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Wild West'' ✓ * ''Wild Spring * ''Wild China'' (Roku) (flixhq.to) * ''Wild Japan'' (look up) * ''Wild Alaska'' * ''Wild Isles'' (flixhq.to) * ''Wild Tokyo'' * ''Wild Arabia'' ✓ * ''Wild Brazil'' (movies24free.com) * ''Wild Nordic (movies24free.com) * ''Wild Singapore '' * ''Wild Indonesia'' * ''Wild Patagonia'' ✓ * ''Wild Caribbean'' (pluto tv?) * ''Wild Yellowstone'' * ''Wild New Zealand '' * ''Wild City: Singapore '' * ''Wild Lands: South Africa'' {{Col-end}} ===Y=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Yellowstone'', {{Col-end}} _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ '''Animal Planet''' ===A=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''A Panda is Born'' * ''A Panda's Story'' * ''Animal Battlegrounds'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===B=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * '' Big Cat Tales'' ✓ * '' Big Cats: Secret Lives'' * '' Britain's Wildest Places'' ✓ * '' Battle Ground: Rhino Wars'' * '' Big Cat Tales: More From The Mara Region'' {{Col-end}} ===D=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Dolphin Days'' ✓ * ''Dark Days In Monkey City'' {{Col-end}} ===E=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Escape To Chimp Eden'' {{Col-end}} ===G=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Going Ape'' ✓ * ''Gorilla School'' ✓ * ''Gorillas on the Brink: Saving a Species'' * ''Growing up Animal Series: '' * ''- Grizzly'' * ''- Lion'' * ''- Tiger '' * ''- Cheetah '' * ''- Marsupia'' * ''- Elephant'' * ''- Wolf'' * ''- Clouded Leopard'' * ''- Zebra'' * ''- Baboon'' * ''- Black Bear'' * ''- Orangutan'' * ''- Rhino'' * ''- Lynx'' * ''- Polar Bear'' * ''- Penguin'' * ''- Giraffe'' * ''- Walrus'' * ''- Hyena'' * ''- Camel'' * ''- Moose'' * ''- Leopard'' * ''- Sitka Deer'' * ''- Gorilla'' * ''- Giant Panda'' {{Col-end}} ===I=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Into The Pride '' * ''Into The Lions Den'' * ''I Was Prey'' (Tv Series) 2017-2019 * ''It's Me or The Dog'' (Tv Series) 2007-2012 {{Col-end}} ===K=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Killer Whales: The Mega Hunt'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===L=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Little Giants'' ✓ * ''Lemur Kingdom'' * ''League of Monkey's'' * ''Living With Man-Eaters'' ✓ * ''Lone Star Law'' (Tv Series) 2016-2022 {{Col-end}} ===M=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Man vs Bear'' ✓ * ''Meerkat Manor (www.azmovies.net) * ''Mounted Branch'' ✓ * ''Man-Eating Super Croc'' * ''Man-Eating Super Squid'' * ''Mysterious Wild Of India'' * ''Meerkat Manor'' (Tv Series) 2005-2008 * ''Mysterious Creatures With Forrest Galante'' ✓ * ''Meet the Pandas: Washington's New Power Couple'' {{Col-end}} ===N=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Night'' (Discovery+) {{Col-end}} ===O=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Otter Dynasty'' ✓ * ''Orangutan Island''| ww8.watchseriesfree.com {{Col-end}} ===P=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Project Grizzly'' ✓ * ''Pandamonium'' ✓ * ''Panda Republic'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===R=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Rise of The Warrior Apes'' * ''Romeo & Juliet: A Monkey's Tale'' {{Col-end}} ===S=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Survival of the Beast'' * ''Season of The Grizzly'' * ''Saving Grace: The Otter'' ✓ * ''Safari: An Extraordinary Adventure'' * ''Saving The Gorillas: Ellen's Next Adventure'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===T=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''The Nile'' * ''The Pack'' ✓ * ''Tucan Nation'' * ''The Real Lion Queen'' (saved) * ''The Beauty of Snakes'' * ''The Great Shark Chase'' * ''The Magic Of The Big Blue: Seven Continents'' {{Col-end}} ===W=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Wild Deep'' * ''Wild Costa Rica'' (solarmoviesz.com, * ''Wild New Zealand'' * ''Wolves and Warriors'' ✓ * ''Walking With Elephants'' ✓ * ''Wild Africa: Rivers Of Life'' '''theflixer.sx''' * ''Wildest Islands of Indonesia" azmovies.net {{Col-end}} ===Y=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Yellowstone Journals'' '''theflixer.sx''' {{Col-end}} ===Z=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Zolton: The Wolfman'' ✓ {{Col-end}} _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 57xv5se94ssrfk3k594vp8nmwty1dr6 3961240 3961238 2026-07-05T19:01:49Z Sandi74645 3160827 /* L */ 3961240 wikitext text/x-wiki '''<big>Former Programming</big>''' ===A=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''A Penguin's Life'' ✓ * ''Africa's Hunters'' ✓ * ''Africa's Lost Eden'' * ''Africa's Wild West'' ✓ * ''Amazon Underworld'' ✓ * ''America the Beautiful'' ✓ * ''America's Wild Frontier'' (flickystream.su) * ''Alaska's Grizzly Gauntlet'' ✓ * ''Animals, They're Just Like Us!'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===B=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Brazil'' * ''Boss Croc'' ✓ * ''Bumblebees (youtube) * ''Born In Africa'' ✓ * ''Baboon Queen'' * ''Birth of A Pride'' ✓ * ''Big Sur: Wild California'' ✓ * ''Behind Russia's Frozen Curtain'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===C=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Cub Camp'' ✓ * ''Cobra Mafia'' ✓ * ''Cat Attack-tics'' ✓ * ''Croc Labyrinth'' * ''China's Wild Side''| * ''Cheetah Fatal Instinct" (youtube) * ''Clash of The Tigers'' (abc.com) * ''Cat Wars: Lions Vs Cheetah'' (youtube) * ''Caribbean's Deadly Underworld | xtubeflix.com {{Col-end}} ===D=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Dino Fish'' * ''Dino Bird (movies2watch.biz,123movie.work) * ''Dead By Dawn'' ✓ * ''Deep Sea Killers'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===E=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Emperors of The Ice * ''Extraordinary Birder with Christian Cooper'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===F=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Future Cat'' ✓ * ''Florida Untamed'' ✓ * ''Fur Seals: Battle For Survival'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===G=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Game of Lions'' ✓ * ''Grizzly Cauldron'' ✓ * ''Gangster Jackals | www.cineby.at, * ''Great Barrier Reef'' (ww5.tinyzone.org) * ''Giraffe: African Giant'' ✓ * ''Galapagos: Enchanted Islands'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===H=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Hippo Vs Croc'' ✓ * ''Hunt for The Shadow Cat * ''Hunt for The Giant Squid'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===I=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Into The Okavango'' ✓ * ''Into The Pride Lands'' ✓ * ''India's Wild Leopards'' ✓ * ''Incredible Animal Journeys'' ✓ * ''Inside The Enchanted Forests'' ✓ * ''Inside The Enchanted Waterways'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===J=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Jaguar vs Croc'' ✓ * ''Jade Eyed Leopard'' ✓ * ''Jaguar Beach Battle'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===K=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Killer Shew'' ✓ * ''Kiler Queen'' ✓ * ''Kangaroo Kaos (has episodes) {{Col-end}} ===L=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Little Giant'' ✓ * ''Little Killers'' * ''Lion Kingdom'' %% * ''Lemur Island'' | bflix.se * ''Lion Dynasty'' ✓ * ''Lion Ganglands'' ✓ * ''Lion Battle Zone'' ✓ * ''Leopard Kingdom'' ✓ * ''Leopard Huntress'' ✓ * ''Land of 10,000 Grizzlies''|watch.cinewave.qzz.io, * ''Leopards of Dead Tree Island'' ✓ * ''Leopard: Ultimate Survivor'' | {{Col-end}} ===M=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Man Vs Lion'' ✓ * ''Man vs Puma ✓ * ''Man vs Monster'' * ''Mexico Untamed'' ✓ * ''Man vs Cheetah'' ✓ * ''Moster Croc Hunt'' ✓ * ''Mystery of the giant Cave Spider'' (saved/non english) {{Col-end}} ===O=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Otter Town'' (Saved "No English") {{Col-end}} ===P=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Penguinpalooza'' * ''Paradise Islands'' ✓ * ''Praire Dog Manor'' ✓ * ''Path of The Pather'' ✓ * ''Planet of the Birds'' ✓ * ''Predator In Paradise'' * ''Peru's Wild Kingdom'' (saved) * ''Pristine Seas: The Power of Protection ✓ * ''Puma!: Elusive Hunter of the Andes'' {{Col-end}} ===R=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Rebal Monkeys'' * ''Real Angry Birds'' * ''Return of The Clouded Leopard {{Col-end}} ===S=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Super Cat'' ✓ * ''South Africa'' * ''Super Squirrel'' * ''Surpet's Surprise'' ✓ * ''Strangest Bird Alive'' * ''Secret Life of Pearls'' * ''Secret Life of Tigers'' * ''Secrets of Wild India'' (movieseq.com) * ''Secrets of the King Cobra'' ✓ * ''Saving Giraffes: The Long Journey Home'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===T=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''The Nile'' * ''Tiger Wars'' ✓ * ''Tiger's Revenge'' * ''The Jungle King'' * ''The Kangaroo King'' ✓ * ''Tree Climbing Lions ✓ * ''The Forbidden River'' * ''The Unlikely Leopard'' ✓ * ''The Way of the Cheetah'' ✓ * ''The Great Elephant Walk'' {{Col-end}} ===U=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Untamed Americas'' * ''Ultimate Honey Badger'' * ''Ultimate Rivals: Cats vs Dogs'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===W=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Wild 24'' (saved) * ''Wild Artic ✓ * ''Wild Chile'' * ''Wild Egypt'' ✓ * ''Wild Korea'' ✓ * ''Wild Hawaii'' ✓ * ''Wild Russia'' ✓ * ''Wild Nordic'' ✓ * ''Wild Borneo'' * ''Wolf vs Bear ✓ * ''Wild Vietnam'' ✓ * ''Wild Monsoon'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''Wild Thailand'' (saved) * ''War Elephants'' * ''Wild Indonesia'' ✓ * ''Wild Sir Lanka'' ✓ * ''Wild Argentina'' (moviemoza.com, movies2watch.biz, ihavenotv.com,123movie.work) * ''Wild Mississippi'' (has episodes) * ''War of The Lions'' * ''Wild Yellowstone'' ✓ * ''Wild New Zealand'' * ''Wild Cats Of India'' ✓ * ''Whales of the Deep'' {{Col-end}} ===Y=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Yellowstone Wolf Dynasty'' ✓ * ''Yellowstone Wolves: Succession ✓ {{Col-end}} ===Numbers=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''20 years with Dolphins'' {{Col-end}} ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ '''National Geographic Animal Programming''' ===A=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''A Real Bug's Life'' ✓ * ''A Real Bug's Life II'' ✓ * ''Attack of the Killer Bees'' * ''America's National Parks'' ✓ * ''Animal's They're Just Like US!'' ✓ * ''Animals up close with Bertie Gregory'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===B=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Bear Island * ''Bumblebees ✓ * ''Born in Africa'' * ''Battle For Elephants'' * ''Big Sur: Wild California'' uflix.to {{Col-end}} ===C=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Chimps on The Edge * ''Cheetahs Up Close with Berite Gregory ✓ {{Col-end}} ===D=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Dead By Dawn'' ✓ * ''Devils of The Deep: The Giant Squad * ''Dolphins Up Close with Bertie Gregory ✓ {{Col-end}} ===E=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Eye of The Leopard ✓ * ''Expedition Great White'' * ''Eternal Enemies: Lions and Hyenas {{Col-end}} ===G=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Ghost Elephants ✓ * ''Great Migration's'' ✓ * ''Gabon: The Last Eden'' {{Col-end}} ===H=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Hostile Planet'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===I=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Into The Pride * ''Into The Pride Lands ✓ * ''In Search of The Jaguar * ''Incredible Animal Journeys'' ✓ * ''Inside The Enchanted Forests'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===K=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Kangaroo Kaos * ''Kingdom Of The Apes * ''Kingdom of The Blue Whale * ''Kingdom of The Polar Bear'' ✓ * ''Kingdom of The White Wolf'' ✓ * ''Killer Whales: Wolves of the Sea {{Col-end}} ===L=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Little Giant'' ✓ * ''Last Stand of The Great Bear * ''Last of The Giants: Wild Fish'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===M=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Meet The Chimps'' ✓ * ''Moose: Titans of the North'' {{Col-end}} ===N=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''National Parks: USA'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===O=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Ocean With David Attenborough'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===P=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Path of The Panther'' ✓ * ''Panda's The Journey Home (123movieslive.top) {{Col-end}} ===Q=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Queens'' ✓ * ''Ocean With David Attenborough'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===S=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''She Wolf'' ✓ * ''Squid vs Whale'' * ''Savage Kingdom'' ✓ * ''Sharks Reef Rivals ✓ * ''Secrets of The Bees ✓ * ''Secrets of The Whales'' ✓ * ''Secrets of The Octopus'' ✓ * ''Secrets of The Penguins'' ✓ * ''Secrets of The Elephants'' ✓ * ''Shark Movers Deadly Cargo'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===T=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''The Flood'' ✓ * ''The Kangaroo King'' ✓ * ''The Secrets of The Octopus'' ✓ * ''The Last Rhinos: A New Hope ✓ * ''The Hidden Kingdoms of China'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===U=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Untamed Americas'' {{Col-end}} ===W=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Whales in Crisis'' * ''Winged seduction birds of paradise |braflix.bz, * ''Wolves: A Legend Return to Yellowstone'' {{Col-end}} ===Y=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * '' Yellowstone Wolf Dynasty'' {{Col-end}} ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ '''BBC America/BBC Earth Programming''' ===A=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Africa'' ✓ * ''A Perfect Planet'' * ''Africa's Wild Year'' ✓ * ''A Wild Year On Earth'' ✓ * ''Asia: Bonus Edition * ''Attenborough and the Giant Elephant'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===B=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Blue Planet'' ✓ * ''Blue Planet II'' ✓ * ''Big Cats 24/7'' ✓ * ''Big Cat 24/7 || * ''Big Bear Diary'' ✓ * ''Big Little Journeys'' |'''braflix.bz''' * ''Bears: Spy In The Woods | {{Col-end}} ===C=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''China: Nature Ancient Kingdom'' (flixhq) {{Col-end}} ===D=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Dynasties'' ✓ * ''Deep Blue'' ✓ * ''Dynasties II'' * ''Dogs In The Wild: Meet The Family'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''David Attenborough: A Life on our Planet'' ✓ * ''David Attenborough: Life In Cold Blood * ''David Attenborough: Conquest of the Skies * ''Deep Ocean: The Lost World Of The Pacific'' (Saved) {{Col-end}} ===E=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Earth Flight'' ihavenotv?,hd-feemovie.com , azmovies.net * ''Expedition Wolf'' (check) * ''Enchanted Kingdom'' (Idris Elba) ww5.tinyzone.org * ''Earth's Great River's'' (ihavenotv) * ''Earth's Great Seasons'' ✓ * ''Earth's Great River's II'' (ihavenotv?) * ''Earth Tropical Islands'' (ihavenotv?) * ''Eden: Untamed Planet'' (ihavenotv) {{Col-end}} ===F=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Frozen Planet'' ✓ * ''Frozen Planet II'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===G=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Galapagos'' movies24free.com''' * ''Great Barrier Reef' (azmovies.net, * ''Gorilla Family and Me'' * ''Grizzy Bear Cubs and Me {{Col-end}} ===H=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Hostile Planet'' ✓ * ''Hidden Habitats'' (theflixer.sx) {{Col-end}} ===J=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Japan: Earth's Enchanted Islands'' (azmovies.net) {{Col-end}} ===K=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Kingdom (123movies9.surf) {{Col-end}} ===L=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Life'' ✓ * ''Life Story'' ✓ * ''Life In Color'' ✓ * ''Little Big Cat'' * ''Life in Cold Blood'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''London's Wild Side'' * ''Lands Of The Monsoon'' * ''Lions: Spy In The Den'' * ''Life In The Undergrowth'' azmovies.net, * ''Lost land of The Tiger'' (ihavenotv.com) {{Col-end}} ===M=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Mammals'' ✓ * ''Mirco Monsters'' (ihavenotv, azmovies.net, ww5.tinyzone.org) * ''Madagascar'' (David Attenborugh) *hdtodayz.to* * ''Mountains: Life Above the Clouds'' {{Col-end}} ===N=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Nature's Great Events'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===O=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''One Life'' (documentaryarea.com) * ''Our Planet'' (flixq?) (ihavenotv.com) (Netflix on YouTube?) * ''Ocean Giants'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''Our Planet II'' ✓ * ''Our Living World'' * ''Operation Snow Tiger'' (theflixer.sx, * ''Operation Dung Beetle'' {{Col-end}} ===P=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Planet Earth'' ✓ * ''Planet Earth II'' ✓ * ''Planet Earth III'' ✓ * ''Planet Earth: Asia'' ✓ * ''Planet Earth: Africa'' * ''Polar Bear: Spy On The Ice'' * ''Penguins: Spy In The Huddle (allmovieshub.express) * ''Planet Earth: South Pacific'' * ''Planet Earth: The Blue Planet II'' {{Col-end}} ===R=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Reindeer Family and Me'' {{Col-end}} ===S=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Shark'' (azmovies.net) * ''Snow Bears * ''Serengeti'' ✓ * ''Serengeti II'' ✓ * ''Serengeti III'' ✓ * ''Spy In The Den'' * ''Spy In The Snow * ''Spy In The Ocean (123movieslive.top ) * ''Spy In The Wild'' ✓ * ''Snow Chick: A Penguin's Tale'' (123movieslive.top, ww5.tinyzone.org * ''South Pacific'' (has episodes) * ''Seven Worlds, One Planet'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===T=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''The Hunt'' ✓ * ''Tiny Giants'' '''ww8.watchseriesfree.co''' * ''Tiger Island'' * ''The Wild Place'' * ''The Wild Sides'' ✓ * ''The Urban Gorilla'' * ''The Blue Planet'' * ''Tropical Islands'' (ihavenotv.com? check) * ''The Mating Game'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''The Rise of Black Wolf''✓ * ''The Cheetah Family & Me '' * ''The Great Bear Steak Out'' * ''The Polar Bear Family & Me'' * ''The Great Rift: Africa's Wild Hart'' * ''Tiger Spy In The Jungle'' (David Attenbourgh) topdocumentarys.com, azmovies.net {{Col-end}} ===W=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Wild West'' ✓ * ''Wild Spring * ''Wild China'' (Roku) (flixhq.to) * ''Wild Japan'' (look up) * ''Wild Alaska'' * ''Wild Isles'' (flixhq.to) * ''Wild Tokyo'' * ''Wild Arabia'' ✓ * ''Wild Brazil'' (movies24free.com) * ''Wild Nordic (movies24free.com) * ''Wild Singapore '' * ''Wild Indonesia'' * ''Wild Patagonia'' ✓ * ''Wild Caribbean'' (pluto tv?) * ''Wild Yellowstone'' * ''Wild New Zealand '' * ''Wild City: Singapore '' * ''Wild Lands: South Africa'' {{Col-end}} ===Y=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Yellowstone'', {{Col-end}} _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ '''Animal Planet''' ===A=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''A Panda is Born'' * ''A Panda's Story'' * ''Animal Battlegrounds'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===B=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * '' Big Cat Tales'' ✓ * '' Big Cats: Secret Lives'' * '' Britain's Wildest Places'' ✓ * '' Battle Ground: Rhino Wars'' * '' Big Cat Tales: More From The Mara Region'' {{Col-end}} ===D=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Dolphin Days'' ✓ * ''Dark Days In Monkey City'' {{Col-end}} ===E=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Escape To Chimp Eden'' {{Col-end}} ===G=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Going Ape'' ✓ * ''Gorilla School'' ✓ * ''Gorillas on the Brink: Saving a Species'' * ''Growing up Animal Series: '' * ''- Grizzly'' * ''- Lion'' * ''- Tiger '' * ''- Cheetah '' * ''- Marsupia'' * ''- Elephant'' * ''- Wolf'' * ''- Clouded Leopard'' * ''- Zebra'' * ''- Baboon'' * ''- Black Bear'' * ''- Orangutan'' * ''- Rhino'' * ''- Lynx'' * ''- Polar Bear'' * ''- Penguin'' * ''- Giraffe'' * ''- Walrus'' * ''- Hyena'' * ''- Camel'' * ''- Moose'' * ''- Leopard'' * ''- Sitka Deer'' * ''- Gorilla'' * ''- Giant Panda'' {{Col-end}} ===I=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Into The Pride '' * ''Into The Lions Den'' * ''I Was Prey'' (Tv Series) 2017-2019 * ''It's Me or The Dog'' (Tv Series) 2007-2012 {{Col-end}} ===K=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Killer Whales: The Mega Hunt'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===L=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Little Giants'' ✓ * ''Lemur Kingdom'' * ''League of Monkey's'' * ''Living With Man-Eaters'' ✓ * ''Lone Star Law'' (Tv Series) 2016-2022 {{Col-end}} ===M=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Man vs Bear'' ✓ * ''Meerkat Manor (www.azmovies.net) * ''Mounted Branch'' ✓ * ''Man-Eating Super Croc'' * ''Man-Eating Super Squid'' * ''Mysterious Wild Of India'' * ''Meerkat Manor'' (Tv Series) 2005-2008 * ''Mysterious Creatures With Forrest Galante'' ✓ * ''Meet the Pandas: Washington's New Power Couple'' {{Col-end}} ===N=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Night'' (Discovery+) {{Col-end}} ===O=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Otter Dynasty'' ✓ * ''Orangutan Island''| ww8.watchseriesfree.com {{Col-end}} ===P=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Project Grizzly'' ✓ * ''Pandamonium'' ✓ * ''Panda Republic'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===R=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Rise of The Warrior Apes'' * ''Romeo & Juliet: A Monkey's Tale'' {{Col-end}} ===S=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Survival of the Beast'' * ''Season of The Grizzly'' * ''Saving Grace: The Otter'' ✓ * ''Safari: An Extraordinary Adventure'' * ''Saving The Gorillas: Ellen's Next Adventure'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===T=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''The Nile'' * ''The Pack'' ✓ * ''Tucan Nation'' * ''The Real Lion Queen'' (saved) * ''The Beauty of Snakes'' * ''The Great Shark Chase'' * ''The Magic Of The Big Blue: Seven Continents'' {{Col-end}} ===W=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Wild Deep'' * ''Wild Costa Rica'' (solarmoviesz.com, * ''Wild New Zealand'' * ''Wolves and Warriors'' ✓ * ''Walking With Elephants'' ✓ * ''Wild Africa: Rivers Of Life'' '''theflixer.sx''' * ''Wildest Islands of Indonesia" azmovies.net {{Col-end}} ===Y=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Yellowstone Journals'' '''theflixer.sx''' {{Col-end}} ===Z=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Zolton: The Wolfman'' ✓ {{Col-end}} _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 081ay5vyo1fwxyhcd4hrgan2d2n2koi 3961241 3961240 2026-07-05T19:02:11Z Sandi74645 3160827 /* L */ 3961241 wikitext text/x-wiki '''<big>Former Programming</big>''' ===A=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''A Penguin's Life'' ✓ * ''Africa's Hunters'' ✓ * ''Africa's Lost Eden'' * ''Africa's Wild West'' ✓ * ''Amazon Underworld'' ✓ * ''America the Beautiful'' ✓ * ''America's Wild Frontier'' (flickystream.su) * ''Alaska's Grizzly Gauntlet'' ✓ * ''Animals, They're Just Like Us!'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===B=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Brazil'' * ''Boss Croc'' ✓ * ''Bumblebees (youtube) * ''Born In Africa'' ✓ * ''Baboon Queen'' * ''Birth of A Pride'' ✓ * ''Big Sur: Wild California'' ✓ * ''Behind Russia's Frozen Curtain'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===C=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Cub Camp'' ✓ * ''Cobra Mafia'' ✓ * ''Cat Attack-tics'' ✓ * ''Croc Labyrinth'' * ''China's Wild Side''| * ''Cheetah Fatal Instinct" (youtube) * ''Clash of The Tigers'' (abc.com) * ''Cat Wars: Lions Vs Cheetah'' (youtube) * ''Caribbean's Deadly Underworld | xtubeflix.com {{Col-end}} ===D=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Dino Fish'' * ''Dino Bird (movies2watch.biz,123movie.work) * ''Dead By Dawn'' ✓ * ''Deep Sea Killers'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===E=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Emperors of The Ice * ''Extraordinary Birder with Christian Cooper'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===F=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Future Cat'' ✓ * ''Florida Untamed'' ✓ * ''Fur Seals: Battle For Survival'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===G=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Game of Lions'' ✓ * ''Grizzly Cauldron'' ✓ * ''Gangster Jackals | www.cineby.at, * ''Great Barrier Reef'' (ww5.tinyzone.org) * ''Giraffe: African Giant'' ✓ * ''Galapagos: Enchanted Islands'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===H=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Hippo Vs Croc'' ✓ * ''Hunt for The Shadow Cat * ''Hunt for The Giant Squid'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===I=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Into The Okavango'' ✓ * ''Into The Pride Lands'' ✓ * ''India's Wild Leopards'' ✓ * ''Incredible Animal Journeys'' ✓ * ''Inside The Enchanted Forests'' ✓ * ''Inside The Enchanted Waterways'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===J=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Jaguar vs Croc'' ✓ * ''Jade Eyed Leopard'' ✓ * ''Jaguar Beach Battle'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===K=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Killer Shew'' ✓ * ''Kiler Queen'' ✓ * ''Kangaroo Kaos (has episodes) {{Col-end}} ===L=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Little Giant'' ✓ * ''Little Killers'' * ''Lion Kingdom'' * ''Lemur Island'' | bflix.se * ''Lion Dynasty'' ✓ * ''Lion Ganglands'' ✓ * ''Lion Battle Zone'' ✓ * ''Leopard Kingdom'' ✓ * ''Leopard Huntress'' ✓ * ''Land of 10,000 Grizzlies''|watch.cinewave.qzz.io, * ''Leopards of Dead Tree Island'' ✓ * ''Leopard: Ultimate Survivor'' | {{Col-end}} ===M=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Man Vs Lion'' ✓ * ''Man vs Puma ✓ * ''Man vs Monster'' * ''Mexico Untamed'' ✓ * ''Man vs Cheetah'' ✓ * ''Moster Croc Hunt'' ✓ * ''Mystery of the giant Cave Spider'' (saved/non english) {{Col-end}} ===O=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Otter Town'' (Saved "No English") {{Col-end}} ===P=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Penguinpalooza'' * ''Paradise Islands'' ✓ * ''Praire Dog Manor'' ✓ * ''Path of The Pather'' ✓ * ''Planet of the Birds'' ✓ * ''Predator In Paradise'' * ''Peru's Wild Kingdom'' (saved) * ''Pristine Seas: The Power of Protection ✓ * ''Puma!: Elusive Hunter of the Andes'' {{Col-end}} ===R=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Rebal Monkeys'' * ''Real Angry Birds'' * ''Return of The Clouded Leopard {{Col-end}} ===S=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Super Cat'' ✓ * ''South Africa'' * ''Super Squirrel'' * ''Surpet's Surprise'' ✓ * ''Strangest Bird Alive'' * ''Secret Life of Pearls'' * ''Secret Life of Tigers'' * ''Secrets of Wild India'' (movieseq.com) * ''Secrets of the King Cobra'' ✓ * ''Saving Giraffes: The Long Journey Home'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===T=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''The Nile'' * ''Tiger Wars'' ✓ * ''Tiger's Revenge'' * ''The Jungle King'' * ''The Kangaroo King'' ✓ * ''Tree Climbing Lions ✓ * ''The Forbidden River'' * ''The Unlikely Leopard'' ✓ * ''The Way of the Cheetah'' ✓ * ''The Great Elephant Walk'' {{Col-end}} ===U=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Untamed Americas'' * ''Ultimate Honey Badger'' * ''Ultimate Rivals: Cats vs Dogs'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===W=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Wild 24'' (saved) * ''Wild Artic ✓ * ''Wild Chile'' * ''Wild Egypt'' ✓ * ''Wild Korea'' ✓ * ''Wild Hawaii'' ✓ * ''Wild Russia'' ✓ * ''Wild Nordic'' ✓ * ''Wild Borneo'' * ''Wolf vs Bear ✓ * ''Wild Vietnam'' ✓ * ''Wild Monsoon'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''Wild Thailand'' (saved) * ''War Elephants'' * ''Wild Indonesia'' ✓ * ''Wild Sir Lanka'' ✓ * ''Wild Argentina'' (moviemoza.com, movies2watch.biz, ihavenotv.com,123movie.work) * ''Wild Mississippi'' (has episodes) * ''War of The Lions'' * ''Wild Yellowstone'' ✓ * ''Wild New Zealand'' * ''Wild Cats Of India'' ✓ * ''Whales of the Deep'' {{Col-end}} ===Y=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Yellowstone Wolf Dynasty'' ✓ * ''Yellowstone Wolves: Succession ✓ {{Col-end}} ===Numbers=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''20 years with Dolphins'' {{Col-end}} ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ '''National Geographic Animal Programming''' ===A=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''A Real Bug's Life'' ✓ * ''A Real Bug's Life II'' ✓ * ''Attack of the Killer Bees'' * ''America's National Parks'' ✓ * ''Animal's They're Just Like US!'' ✓ * ''Animals up close with Bertie Gregory'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===B=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Bear Island * ''Bumblebees ✓ * ''Born in Africa'' * ''Battle For Elephants'' * ''Big Sur: Wild California'' uflix.to {{Col-end}} ===C=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Chimps on The Edge * ''Cheetahs Up Close with Berite Gregory ✓ {{Col-end}} ===D=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Dead By Dawn'' ✓ * ''Devils of The Deep: The Giant Squad * ''Dolphins Up Close with Bertie Gregory ✓ {{Col-end}} ===E=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Eye of The Leopard ✓ * ''Expedition Great White'' * ''Eternal Enemies: Lions and Hyenas {{Col-end}} ===G=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Ghost Elephants ✓ * ''Great Migration's'' ✓ * ''Gabon: The Last Eden'' {{Col-end}} ===H=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Hostile Planet'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===I=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Into The Pride * ''Into The Pride Lands ✓ * ''In Search of The Jaguar * ''Incredible Animal Journeys'' ✓ * ''Inside The Enchanted Forests'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===K=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Kangaroo Kaos * ''Kingdom Of The Apes * ''Kingdom of The Blue Whale * ''Kingdom of The Polar Bear'' ✓ * ''Kingdom of The White Wolf'' ✓ * ''Killer Whales: Wolves of the Sea {{Col-end}} ===L=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Little Giant'' ✓ * ''Last Stand of The Great Bear * ''Last of The Giants: Wild Fish'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===M=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Meet The Chimps'' ✓ * ''Moose: Titans of the North'' {{Col-end}} ===N=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''National Parks: USA'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===O=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Ocean With David Attenborough'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===P=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Path of The Panther'' ✓ * ''Panda's The Journey Home (123movieslive.top) {{Col-end}} ===Q=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Queens'' ✓ * ''Ocean With David Attenborough'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===S=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''She Wolf'' ✓ * ''Squid vs Whale'' * ''Savage Kingdom'' ✓ * ''Sharks Reef Rivals ✓ * ''Secrets of The Bees ✓ * ''Secrets of The Whales'' ✓ * ''Secrets of The Octopus'' ✓ * ''Secrets of The Penguins'' ✓ * ''Secrets of The Elephants'' ✓ * ''Shark Movers Deadly Cargo'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===T=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''The Flood'' ✓ * ''The Kangaroo King'' ✓ * ''The Secrets of The Octopus'' ✓ * ''The Last Rhinos: A New Hope ✓ * ''The Hidden Kingdoms of China'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===U=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Untamed Americas'' {{Col-end}} ===W=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Whales in Crisis'' * ''Winged seduction birds of paradise |braflix.bz, * ''Wolves: A Legend Return to Yellowstone'' {{Col-end}} ===Y=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * '' Yellowstone Wolf Dynasty'' {{Col-end}} ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ '''BBC America/BBC Earth Programming''' ===A=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Africa'' ✓ * ''A Perfect Planet'' * ''Africa's Wild Year'' ✓ * ''A Wild Year On Earth'' ✓ * ''Asia: Bonus Edition * ''Attenborough and the Giant Elephant'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===B=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Blue Planet'' ✓ * ''Blue Planet II'' ✓ * ''Big Cats 24/7'' ✓ * ''Big Cat 24/7 || * ''Big Bear Diary'' ✓ * ''Big Little Journeys'' |'''braflix.bz''' * ''Bears: Spy In The Woods | {{Col-end}} ===C=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''China: Nature Ancient Kingdom'' (flixhq) {{Col-end}} ===D=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Dynasties'' ✓ * ''Deep Blue'' ✓ * ''Dynasties II'' * ''Dogs In The Wild: Meet The Family'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''David Attenborough: A Life on our Planet'' ✓ * ''David Attenborough: Life In Cold Blood * ''David Attenborough: Conquest of the Skies * ''Deep Ocean: The Lost World Of The Pacific'' (Saved) {{Col-end}} ===E=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Earth Flight'' ihavenotv?,hd-feemovie.com , azmovies.net * ''Expedition Wolf'' (check) * ''Enchanted Kingdom'' (Idris Elba) ww5.tinyzone.org * ''Earth's Great River's'' (ihavenotv) * ''Earth's Great Seasons'' ✓ * ''Earth's Great River's II'' (ihavenotv?) * ''Earth Tropical Islands'' (ihavenotv?) * ''Eden: Untamed Planet'' (ihavenotv) {{Col-end}} ===F=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Frozen Planet'' ✓ * ''Frozen Planet II'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===G=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Galapagos'' movies24free.com''' * ''Great Barrier Reef' (azmovies.net, * ''Gorilla Family and Me'' * ''Grizzy Bear Cubs and Me {{Col-end}} ===H=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Hostile Planet'' ✓ * ''Hidden Habitats'' (theflixer.sx) {{Col-end}} ===J=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Japan: Earth's Enchanted Islands'' (azmovies.net) {{Col-end}} ===K=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Kingdom (123movies9.surf) {{Col-end}} ===L=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Life'' ✓ * ''Life Story'' ✓ * ''Life In Color'' ✓ * ''Little Big Cat'' * ''Life in Cold Blood'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''London's Wild Side'' * ''Lands Of The Monsoon'' * ''Lions: Spy In The Den'' * ''Life In The Undergrowth'' azmovies.net, * ''Lost land of The Tiger'' (ihavenotv.com) {{Col-end}} ===M=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Mammals'' ✓ * ''Mirco Monsters'' (ihavenotv, azmovies.net, ww5.tinyzone.org) * ''Madagascar'' (David Attenborugh) *hdtodayz.to* * ''Mountains: Life Above the Clouds'' {{Col-end}} ===N=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Nature's Great Events'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===O=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''One Life'' (documentaryarea.com) * ''Our Planet'' (flixq?) (ihavenotv.com) (Netflix on YouTube?) * ''Ocean Giants'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''Our Planet II'' ✓ * ''Our Living World'' * ''Operation Snow Tiger'' (theflixer.sx, * ''Operation Dung Beetle'' {{Col-end}} ===P=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Planet Earth'' ✓ * ''Planet Earth II'' ✓ * ''Planet Earth III'' ✓ * ''Planet Earth: Asia'' ✓ * ''Planet Earth: Africa'' * ''Polar Bear: Spy On The Ice'' * ''Penguins: Spy In The Huddle (allmovieshub.express) * ''Planet Earth: South Pacific'' * ''Planet Earth: The Blue Planet II'' {{Col-end}} ===R=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Reindeer Family and Me'' {{Col-end}} ===S=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Shark'' (azmovies.net) * ''Snow Bears * ''Serengeti'' ✓ * ''Serengeti II'' ✓ * ''Serengeti III'' ✓ * ''Spy In The Den'' * ''Spy In The Snow * ''Spy In The Ocean (123movieslive.top ) * ''Spy In The Wild'' ✓ * ''Snow Chick: A Penguin's Tale'' (123movieslive.top, ww5.tinyzone.org * ''South Pacific'' (has episodes) * ''Seven Worlds, One Planet'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===T=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''The Hunt'' ✓ * ''Tiny Giants'' '''ww8.watchseriesfree.co''' * ''Tiger Island'' * ''The Wild Place'' * ''The Wild Sides'' ✓ * ''The Urban Gorilla'' * ''The Blue Planet'' * ''Tropical Islands'' (ihavenotv.com? check) * ''The Mating Game'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''The Rise of Black Wolf''✓ * ''The Cheetah Family & Me '' * ''The Great Bear Steak Out'' * ''The Polar Bear Family & Me'' * ''The Great Rift: Africa's Wild Hart'' * ''Tiger Spy In The Jungle'' (David Attenbourgh) topdocumentarys.com, azmovies.net {{Col-end}} ===W=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Wild West'' ✓ * ''Wild Spring * ''Wild China'' (Roku) (flixhq.to) * ''Wild Japan'' (look up) * ''Wild Alaska'' * ''Wild Isles'' (flixhq.to) * ''Wild Tokyo'' * ''Wild Arabia'' ✓ * ''Wild Brazil'' (movies24free.com) * ''Wild Nordic (movies24free.com) * ''Wild Singapore '' * ''Wild Indonesia'' * ''Wild Patagonia'' ✓ * ''Wild Caribbean'' (pluto tv?) * ''Wild Yellowstone'' * ''Wild New Zealand '' * ''Wild City: Singapore '' * ''Wild Lands: South Africa'' {{Col-end}} ===Y=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Yellowstone'', {{Col-end}} _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ '''Animal Planet''' ===A=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''A Panda is Born'' * ''A Panda's Story'' * ''Animal Battlegrounds'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===B=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * '' Big Cat Tales'' ✓ * '' Big Cats: Secret Lives'' * '' Britain's Wildest Places'' ✓ * '' Battle Ground: Rhino Wars'' * '' Big Cat Tales: More From The Mara Region'' {{Col-end}} ===D=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Dolphin Days'' ✓ * ''Dark Days In Monkey City'' {{Col-end}} ===E=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Escape To Chimp Eden'' {{Col-end}} ===G=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Going Ape'' ✓ * ''Gorilla School'' ✓ * ''Gorillas on the Brink: Saving a Species'' * ''Growing up Animal Series: '' * ''- Grizzly'' * ''- Lion'' * ''- Tiger '' * ''- Cheetah '' * ''- Marsupia'' * ''- Elephant'' * ''- Wolf'' * ''- Clouded Leopard'' * ''- Zebra'' * ''- Baboon'' * ''- Black Bear'' * ''- Orangutan'' * ''- Rhino'' * ''- Lynx'' * ''- Polar Bear'' * ''- Penguin'' * ''- Giraffe'' * ''- Walrus'' * ''- Hyena'' * ''- Camel'' * ''- Moose'' * ''- Leopard'' * ''- Sitka Deer'' * ''- Gorilla'' * ''- Giant Panda'' {{Col-end}} ===I=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Into The Pride '' * ''Into The Lions Den'' * ''I Was Prey'' (Tv Series) 2017-2019 * ''It's Me or The Dog'' (Tv Series) 2007-2012 {{Col-end}} ===K=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Killer Whales: The Mega Hunt'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===L=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Little Giants'' ✓ * ''Lemur Kingdom'' * ''League of Monkey's'' * ''Living With Man-Eaters'' ✓ * ''Lone Star Law'' (Tv Series) 2016-2022 {{Col-end}} ===M=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Man vs Bear'' ✓ * ''Meerkat Manor (www.azmovies.net) * ''Mounted Branch'' ✓ * ''Man-Eating Super Croc'' * ''Man-Eating Super Squid'' * ''Mysterious Wild Of India'' * ''Meerkat Manor'' (Tv Series) 2005-2008 * ''Mysterious Creatures With Forrest Galante'' ✓ * ''Meet the Pandas: Washington's New Power Couple'' {{Col-end}} ===N=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Night'' (Discovery+) {{Col-end}} ===O=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Otter Dynasty'' ✓ * ''Orangutan Island''| ww8.watchseriesfree.com {{Col-end}} ===P=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Project Grizzly'' ✓ * ''Pandamonium'' ✓ * ''Panda Republic'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===R=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Rise of The Warrior Apes'' * ''Romeo & Juliet: A Monkey's Tale'' {{Col-end}} ===S=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Survival of the Beast'' * ''Season of The Grizzly'' * ''Saving Grace: The Otter'' ✓ * ''Safari: An Extraordinary Adventure'' * ''Saving The Gorillas: Ellen's Next Adventure'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===T=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''The Nile'' * ''The Pack'' ✓ * ''Tucan Nation'' * ''The Real Lion Queen'' (saved) * ''The Beauty of Snakes'' * ''The Great Shark Chase'' * ''The Magic Of The Big Blue: Seven Continents'' {{Col-end}} ===W=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Wild Deep'' * ''Wild Costa Rica'' (solarmoviesz.com, * ''Wild New Zealand'' * ''Wolves and Warriors'' ✓ * ''Walking With Elephants'' ✓ * ''Wild Africa: Rivers Of Life'' '''theflixer.sx''' * ''Wildest Islands of Indonesia" azmovies.net {{Col-end}} ===Y=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Yellowstone Journals'' '''theflixer.sx''' {{Col-end}} ===Z=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Zolton: The Wolfman'' ✓ {{Col-end}} _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ da85vjf0pij206xmncxhpgmi9qfvsg3 3961250 3961241 2026-07-05T19:37:13Z Sandi74645 3160827 /* S */ 3961250 wikitext text/x-wiki '''<big>Former Programming</big>''' ===A=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''A Penguin's Life'' ✓ * ''Africa's Hunters'' ✓ * ''Africa's Lost Eden'' * ''Africa's Wild West'' ✓ * ''Amazon Underworld'' ✓ * ''America the Beautiful'' ✓ * ''America's Wild Frontier'' (flickystream.su) * ''Alaska's Grizzly Gauntlet'' ✓ * ''Animals, They're Just Like Us!'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===B=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Brazil'' * ''Boss Croc'' ✓ * ''Bumblebees (youtube) * ''Born In Africa'' ✓ * ''Baboon Queen'' * ''Birth of A Pride'' ✓ * ''Big Sur: Wild California'' ✓ * ''Behind Russia's Frozen Curtain'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===C=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Cub Camp'' ✓ * ''Cobra Mafia'' ✓ * ''Cat Attack-tics'' ✓ * ''Croc Labyrinth'' * ''China's Wild Side''| * ''Cheetah Fatal Instinct" (youtube) * ''Clash of The Tigers'' (abc.com) * ''Cat Wars: Lions Vs Cheetah'' (youtube) * ''Caribbean's Deadly Underworld | xtubeflix.com {{Col-end}} ===D=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Dino Fish'' * ''Dino Bird (movies2watch.biz,123movie.work) * ''Dead By Dawn'' ✓ * ''Deep Sea Killers'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===E=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Emperors of The Ice * ''Extraordinary Birder with Christian Cooper'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===F=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Future Cat'' ✓ * ''Florida Untamed'' ✓ * ''Fur Seals: Battle For Survival'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===G=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Game of Lions'' ✓ * ''Grizzly Cauldron'' ✓ * ''Gangster Jackals | www.cineby.at, * ''Great Barrier Reef'' (ww5.tinyzone.org) * ''Giraffe: African Giant'' ✓ * ''Galapagos: Enchanted Islands'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===H=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Hippo Vs Croc'' ✓ * ''Hunt for The Shadow Cat * ''Hunt for The Giant Squid'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===I=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Into The Okavango'' ✓ * ''Into The Pride Lands'' ✓ * ''India's Wild Leopards'' ✓ * ''Incredible Animal Journeys'' ✓ * ''Inside The Enchanted Forests'' ✓ * ''Inside The Enchanted Waterways'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===J=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Jaguar vs Croc'' ✓ * ''Jade Eyed Leopard'' ✓ * ''Jaguar Beach Battle'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===K=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Killer Shew'' ✓ * ''Kiler Queen'' ✓ * ''Kangaroo Kaos (has episodes) {{Col-end}} ===L=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Little Giant'' ✓ * ''Little Killers'' * ''Lion Kingdom'' * ''Lemur Island'' | bflix.se * ''Lion Dynasty'' ✓ * ''Lion Ganglands'' ✓ * ''Lion Battle Zone'' ✓ * ''Leopard Kingdom'' ✓ * ''Leopard Huntress'' ✓ * ''Land of 10,000 Grizzlies''|watch.cinewave.qzz.io, * ''Leopards of Dead Tree Island'' ✓ * ''Leopard: Ultimate Survivor'' | {{Col-end}} ===M=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Man Vs Lion'' ✓ * ''Man vs Puma ✓ * ''Man vs Monster'' * ''Mexico Untamed'' ✓ * ''Man vs Cheetah'' ✓ * ''Moster Croc Hunt'' ✓ * ''Mystery of the giant Cave Spider'' (saved/non english) {{Col-end}} ===O=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Otter Town'' (Saved "No English") {{Col-end}} ===P=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Penguinpalooza'' * ''Paradise Islands'' ✓ * ''Praire Dog Manor'' ✓ * ''Path of The Pather'' ✓ * ''Planet of the Birds'' ✓ * ''Predator In Paradise'' * ''Peru's Wild Kingdom'' (saved) * ''Pristine Seas: The Power of Protection ✓ * ''Puma!: Elusive Hunter of the Andes'' {{Col-end}} ===R=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Rebal Monkeys'' * ''Real Angry Birds'' * ''Return of The Clouded Leopard {{Col-end}} ===S=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Super Cat'' ✓ * ''Swam Lions * ''South Africa'' * ''Super Squirrel'' * ''Surpet's Surprise'' ✓ * ''Strangest Bird Alive'' * ''Secret Life of Pearls'' * ''Secret Life of Tigers'' * ''Secrets of Wild India'' (movieseq.com) * ''Secrets of the King Cobra'' ✓ * ''Saving Giraffes: The Long Journey Home'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===T=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''The Nile'' * ''Tiger Wars'' ✓ * ''Tiger's Revenge'' * ''The Jungle King'' * ''The Kangaroo King'' ✓ * ''Tree Climbing Lions ✓ * ''The Forbidden River'' * ''The Unlikely Leopard'' ✓ * ''The Way of the Cheetah'' ✓ * ''The Great Elephant Walk'' {{Col-end}} ===U=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Untamed Americas'' * ''Ultimate Honey Badger'' * ''Ultimate Rivals: Cats vs Dogs'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===W=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Wild 24'' (saved) * ''Wild Artic ✓ * ''Wild Chile'' * ''Wild Egypt'' ✓ * ''Wild Korea'' ✓ * ''Wild Hawaii'' ✓ * ''Wild Russia'' ✓ * ''Wild Nordic'' ✓ * ''Wild Borneo'' * ''Wolf vs Bear ✓ * ''Wild Vietnam'' ✓ * ''Wild Monsoon'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''Wild Thailand'' (saved) * ''War Elephants'' * ''Wild Indonesia'' ✓ * ''Wild Sir Lanka'' ✓ * ''Wild Argentina'' (moviemoza.com, movies2watch.biz, ihavenotv.com,123movie.work) * ''Wild Mississippi'' (has episodes) * ''War of The Lions'' * ''Wild Yellowstone'' ✓ * ''Wild New Zealand'' * ''Wild Cats Of India'' ✓ * ''Whales of the Deep'' {{Col-end}} ===Y=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Yellowstone Wolf Dynasty'' ✓ * ''Yellowstone Wolves: Succession ✓ {{Col-end}} ===Numbers=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''20 years with Dolphins'' {{Col-end}} ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ '''National Geographic Animal Programming''' ===A=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''A Real Bug's Life'' ✓ * ''A Real Bug's Life II'' ✓ * ''Attack of the Killer Bees'' * ''America's National Parks'' ✓ * ''Animal's They're Just Like US!'' ✓ * ''Animals up close with Bertie Gregory'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===B=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Bear Island * ''Bumblebees ✓ * ''Born in Africa'' * ''Battle For Elephants'' * ''Big Sur: Wild California'' uflix.to {{Col-end}} ===C=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Chimps on The Edge * ''Cheetahs Up Close with Berite Gregory ✓ {{Col-end}} ===D=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Dead By Dawn'' ✓ * ''Devils of The Deep: The Giant Squad * ''Dolphins Up Close with Bertie Gregory ✓ {{Col-end}} ===E=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Eye of The Leopard ✓ * ''Expedition Great White'' * ''Eternal Enemies: Lions and Hyenas {{Col-end}} ===G=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Ghost Elephants ✓ * ''Great Migration's'' ✓ * ''Gabon: The Last Eden'' {{Col-end}} ===H=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Hostile Planet'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===I=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Into The Pride * ''Into The Pride Lands ✓ * ''In Search of The Jaguar * ''Incredible Animal Journeys'' ✓ * ''Inside The Enchanted Forests'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===K=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Kangaroo Kaos * ''Kingdom Of The Apes * ''Kingdom of The Blue Whale * ''Kingdom of The Polar Bear'' ✓ * ''Kingdom of The White Wolf'' ✓ * ''Killer Whales: Wolves of the Sea {{Col-end}} ===L=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Little Giant'' ✓ * ''Last Stand of The Great Bear * ''Last of The Giants: Wild Fish'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===M=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Meet The Chimps'' ✓ * ''Moose: Titans of the North'' {{Col-end}} ===N=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''National Parks: USA'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===O=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Ocean With David Attenborough'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===P=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Path of The Panther'' ✓ * ''Panda's The Journey Home (123movieslive.top) {{Col-end}} ===Q=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Queens'' ✓ * ''Ocean With David Attenborough'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===S=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''She Wolf'' ✓ * ''Squid vs Whale'' * ''Savage Kingdom'' ✓ * ''Sharks Reef Rivals ✓ * ''Secrets of The Bees ✓ * ''Secrets of The Whales'' ✓ * ''Secrets of The Octopus'' ✓ * ''Secrets of The Penguins'' ✓ * ''Secrets of The Elephants'' ✓ * ''Shark Movers Deadly Cargo'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===T=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''The Flood'' ✓ * ''The Kangaroo King'' ✓ * ''The Secrets of The Octopus'' ✓ * ''The Last Rhinos: A New Hope ✓ * ''The Hidden Kingdoms of China'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===U=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Untamed Americas'' {{Col-end}} ===W=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Whales in Crisis'' * ''Winged seduction birds of paradise |braflix.bz, * ''Wolves: A Legend Return to Yellowstone'' {{Col-end}} ===Y=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * '' Yellowstone Wolf Dynasty'' {{Col-end}} ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ '''BBC America/BBC Earth Programming''' ===A=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Africa'' ✓ * ''A Perfect Planet'' * ''Africa's Wild Year'' ✓ * ''A Wild Year On Earth'' ✓ * ''Asia: Bonus Edition * ''Attenborough and the Giant Elephant'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===B=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Blue Planet'' ✓ * ''Blue Planet II'' ✓ * ''Big Cats 24/7'' ✓ * ''Big Cat 24/7 || * ''Big Bear Diary'' ✓ * ''Big Little Journeys'' |'''braflix.bz''' * ''Bears: Spy In The Woods | {{Col-end}} ===C=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''China: Nature Ancient Kingdom'' (flixhq) {{Col-end}} ===D=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Dynasties'' ✓ * ''Deep Blue'' ✓ * ''Dynasties II'' * ''Dogs In The Wild: Meet The Family'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''David Attenborough: A Life on our Planet'' ✓ * ''David Attenborough: Life In Cold Blood * ''David Attenborough: Conquest of the Skies * ''Deep Ocean: The Lost World Of The Pacific'' (Saved) {{Col-end}} ===E=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Earth Flight'' ihavenotv?,hd-feemovie.com , azmovies.net * ''Expedition Wolf'' (check) * ''Enchanted Kingdom'' (Idris Elba) ww5.tinyzone.org * ''Earth's Great River's'' (ihavenotv) * ''Earth's Great Seasons'' ✓ * ''Earth's Great River's II'' (ihavenotv?) * ''Earth Tropical Islands'' (ihavenotv?) * ''Eden: Untamed Planet'' (ihavenotv) {{Col-end}} ===F=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Frozen Planet'' ✓ * ''Frozen Planet II'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===G=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Galapagos'' movies24free.com''' * ''Great Barrier Reef' (azmovies.net, * ''Gorilla Family and Me'' * ''Grizzy Bear Cubs and Me {{Col-end}} ===H=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Hostile Planet'' ✓ * ''Hidden Habitats'' (theflixer.sx) {{Col-end}} ===J=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Japan: Earth's Enchanted Islands'' (azmovies.net) {{Col-end}} ===K=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Kingdom (123movies9.surf) {{Col-end}} ===L=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Life'' ✓ * ''Life Story'' ✓ * ''Life In Color'' ✓ * ''Little Big Cat'' * ''Life in Cold Blood'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''London's Wild Side'' * ''Lands Of The Monsoon'' * ''Lions: Spy In The Den'' * ''Life In The Undergrowth'' azmovies.net, * ''Lost land of The Tiger'' (ihavenotv.com) {{Col-end}} ===M=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Mammals'' ✓ * ''Mirco Monsters'' (ihavenotv, azmovies.net, ww5.tinyzone.org) * ''Madagascar'' (David Attenborugh) *hdtodayz.to* * ''Mountains: Life Above the Clouds'' {{Col-end}} ===N=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Nature's Great Events'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===O=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''One Life'' (documentaryarea.com) * ''Our Planet'' (flixq?) (ihavenotv.com) (Netflix on YouTube?) * ''Ocean Giants'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''Our Planet II'' ✓ * ''Our Living World'' * ''Operation Snow Tiger'' (theflixer.sx, * ''Operation Dung Beetle'' {{Col-end}} ===P=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Planet Earth'' ✓ * ''Planet Earth II'' ✓ * ''Planet Earth III'' ✓ * ''Planet Earth: Asia'' ✓ * ''Planet Earth: Africa'' * ''Polar Bear: Spy On The Ice'' * ''Penguins: Spy In The Huddle (allmovieshub.express) * ''Planet Earth: South Pacific'' * ''Planet Earth: The Blue Planet II'' {{Col-end}} ===R=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Reindeer Family and Me'' {{Col-end}} ===S=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Shark'' (azmovies.net) * ''Snow Bears * ''Serengeti'' ✓ * ''Serengeti II'' ✓ * ''Serengeti III'' ✓ * ''Spy In The Den'' * ''Spy In The Snow * ''Spy In The Ocean (123movieslive.top ) * ''Spy In The Wild'' ✓ * ''Snow Chick: A Penguin's Tale'' (123movieslive.top, ww5.tinyzone.org * ''South Pacific'' (has episodes) * ''Seven Worlds, One Planet'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===T=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''The Hunt'' ✓ * ''Tiny Giants'' '''ww8.watchseriesfree.co''' * ''Tiger Island'' * ''The Wild Place'' * ''The Wild Sides'' ✓ * ''The Urban Gorilla'' * ''The Blue Planet'' * ''Tropical Islands'' (ihavenotv.com? check) * ''The Mating Game'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''The Rise of Black Wolf''✓ * ''The Cheetah Family & Me '' * ''The Great Bear Steak Out'' * ''The Polar Bear Family & Me'' * ''The Great Rift: Africa's Wild Hart'' * ''Tiger Spy In The Jungle'' (David Attenbourgh) topdocumentarys.com, azmovies.net {{Col-end}} ===W=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Wild West'' ✓ * ''Wild Spring * ''Wild China'' (Roku) (flixhq.to) * ''Wild Japan'' (look up) * ''Wild Alaska'' * ''Wild Isles'' (flixhq.to) * ''Wild Tokyo'' * ''Wild Arabia'' ✓ * ''Wild Brazil'' (movies24free.com) * ''Wild Nordic (movies24free.com) * ''Wild Singapore '' * ''Wild Indonesia'' * ''Wild Patagonia'' ✓ * ''Wild Caribbean'' (pluto tv?) * ''Wild Yellowstone'' * ''Wild New Zealand '' * ''Wild City: Singapore '' * ''Wild Lands: South Africa'' {{Col-end}} ===Y=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Yellowstone'', {{Col-end}} _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ '''Animal Planet''' ===A=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''A Panda is Born'' * ''A Panda's Story'' * ''Animal Battlegrounds'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===B=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * '' Big Cat Tales'' ✓ * '' Big Cats: Secret Lives'' * '' Britain's Wildest Places'' ✓ * '' Battle Ground: Rhino Wars'' * '' Big Cat Tales: More From The Mara Region'' {{Col-end}} ===D=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Dolphin Days'' ✓ * ''Dark Days In Monkey City'' {{Col-end}} ===E=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Escape To Chimp Eden'' {{Col-end}} ===G=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Going Ape'' ✓ * ''Gorilla School'' ✓ * ''Gorillas on the Brink: Saving a Species'' * ''Growing up Animal Series: '' * ''- Grizzly'' * ''- Lion'' * ''- Tiger '' * ''- Cheetah '' * ''- Marsupia'' * ''- Elephant'' * ''- Wolf'' * ''- Clouded Leopard'' * ''- Zebra'' * ''- Baboon'' * ''- Black Bear'' * ''- Orangutan'' * ''- Rhino'' * ''- Lynx'' * ''- Polar Bear'' * ''- Penguin'' * ''- Giraffe'' * ''- Walrus'' * ''- Hyena'' * ''- Camel'' * ''- Moose'' * ''- Leopard'' * ''- Sitka Deer'' * ''- Gorilla'' * ''- Giant Panda'' {{Col-end}} ===I=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Into The Pride '' * ''Into The Lions Den'' * ''I Was Prey'' (Tv Series) 2017-2019 * ''It's Me or The Dog'' (Tv Series) 2007-2012 {{Col-end}} ===K=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Killer Whales: The Mega Hunt'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===L=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Little Giants'' ✓ * ''Lemur Kingdom'' * ''League of Monkey's'' * ''Living With Man-Eaters'' ✓ * ''Lone Star Law'' (Tv Series) 2016-2022 {{Col-end}} ===M=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Man vs Bear'' ✓ * ''Meerkat Manor (www.azmovies.net) * ''Mounted Branch'' ✓ * ''Man-Eating Super Croc'' * ''Man-Eating Super Squid'' * ''Mysterious Wild Of India'' * ''Meerkat Manor'' (Tv Series) 2005-2008 * ''Mysterious Creatures With Forrest Galante'' ✓ * ''Meet the Pandas: Washington's New Power Couple'' {{Col-end}} ===N=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Night'' (Discovery+) {{Col-end}} ===O=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Otter Dynasty'' ✓ * ''Orangutan Island''| ww8.watchseriesfree.com {{Col-end}} ===P=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Project Grizzly'' ✓ * ''Pandamonium'' ✓ * ''Panda Republic'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===R=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Rise of The Warrior Apes'' * ''Romeo & Juliet: A Monkey's Tale'' {{Col-end}} ===S=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Survival of the Beast'' * ''Season of The Grizzly'' * ''Saving Grace: The Otter'' ✓ * ''Safari: An Extraordinary Adventure'' * ''Saving The Gorillas: Ellen's Next Adventure'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===T=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''The Nile'' * ''The Pack'' ✓ * ''Tucan Nation'' * ''The Real Lion Queen'' (saved) * ''The Beauty of Snakes'' * ''The Great Shark Chase'' * ''The Magic Of The Big Blue: Seven Continents'' {{Col-end}} ===W=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Wild Deep'' * ''Wild Costa Rica'' (solarmoviesz.com, * ''Wild New Zealand'' * ''Wolves and Warriors'' ✓ * ''Walking With Elephants'' ✓ * ''Wild Africa: Rivers Of Life'' '''theflixer.sx''' * ''Wildest Islands of Indonesia" azmovies.net {{Col-end}} ===Y=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Yellowstone Journals'' '''theflixer.sx''' {{Col-end}} ===Z=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Zolton: The Wolfman'' ✓ {{Col-end}} _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4znjqo1bay5stfi6f8pkncal1irg1t8 3961251 3961250 2026-07-05T19:39:56Z Sandi74645 3160827 /* S */ 3961251 wikitext text/x-wiki '''<big>Former Programming</big>''' ===A=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''A Penguin's Life'' ✓ * ''Africa's Hunters'' ✓ * ''Africa's Lost Eden'' * ''Africa's Wild West'' ✓ * ''Amazon Underworld'' ✓ * ''America the Beautiful'' ✓ * ''America's Wild Frontier'' (flickystream.su) * ''Alaska's Grizzly Gauntlet'' ✓ * ''Animals, They're Just Like Us!'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===B=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Brazil'' * ''Boss Croc'' ✓ * ''Bumblebees (youtube) * ''Born In Africa'' ✓ * ''Baboon Queen'' * ''Birth of A Pride'' ✓ * ''Big Sur: Wild California'' ✓ * ''Behind Russia's Frozen Curtain'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===C=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Cub Camp'' ✓ * ''Cobra Mafia'' ✓ * ''Cat Attack-tics'' ✓ * ''Croc Labyrinth'' * ''China's Wild Side''| * ''Cheetah Fatal Instinct" (youtube) * ''Clash of The Tigers'' (abc.com) * ''Cat Wars: Lions Vs Cheetah'' (youtube) * ''Caribbean's Deadly Underworld | xtubeflix.com {{Col-end}} ===D=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Dino Fish'' * ''Dino Bird (movies2watch.biz,123movie.work) * ''Dead By Dawn'' ✓ * ''Deep Sea Killers'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===E=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Emperors of The Ice * ''Extraordinary Birder with Christian Cooper'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===F=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Future Cat'' ✓ * ''Florida Untamed'' ✓ * ''Fur Seals: Battle For Survival'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===G=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Game of Lions'' ✓ * ''Grizzly Cauldron'' ✓ * ''Gangster Jackals | www.cineby.at, * ''Great Barrier Reef'' (ww5.tinyzone.org) * ''Giraffe: African Giant'' ✓ * ''Galapagos: Enchanted Islands'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===H=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Hippo Vs Croc'' ✓ * ''Hunt for The Shadow Cat * ''Hunt for The Giant Squid'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===I=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Into The Okavango'' ✓ * ''Into The Pride Lands'' ✓ * ''India's Wild Leopards'' ✓ * ''Incredible Animal Journeys'' ✓ * ''Inside The Enchanted Forests'' ✓ * ''Inside The Enchanted Waterways'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===J=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Jaguar vs Croc'' ✓ * ''Jade Eyed Leopard'' ✓ * ''Jaguar Beach Battle'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===K=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Killer Shew'' ✓ * ''Kiler Queen'' ✓ * ''Kangaroo Kaos (has episodes) {{Col-end}} ===L=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Little Giant'' ✓ * ''Little Killers'' * ''Lion Kingdom'' * ''Lemur Island'' | bflix.se * ''Lion Dynasty'' ✓ * ''Lion Ganglands'' ✓ * ''Lion Battle Zone'' ✓ * ''Leopard Kingdom'' ✓ * ''Leopard Huntress'' ✓ * ''Land of 10,000 Grizzlies''|watch.cinewave.qzz.io, * ''Leopards of Dead Tree Island'' ✓ * ''Leopard: Ultimate Survivor'' | {{Col-end}} ===M=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Man Vs Lion'' ✓ * ''Man vs Puma ✓ * ''Man vs Monster'' * ''Mexico Untamed'' ✓ * ''Man vs Cheetah'' ✓ * ''Moster Croc Hunt'' ✓ * ''Mystery of the giant Cave Spider'' (saved/non english) {{Col-end}} ===O=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Otter Town'' (Saved "No English") {{Col-end}} ===P=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Penguinpalooza'' * ''Paradise Islands'' ✓ * ''Praire Dog Manor'' ✓ * ''Path of The Pather'' ✓ * ''Planet of the Birds'' ✓ * ''Predator In Paradise'' * ''Peru's Wild Kingdom'' (saved) * ''Pristine Seas: The Power of Protection ✓ * ''Puma!: Elusive Hunter of the Andes'' {{Col-end}} ===R=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Rebal Monkeys'' * ''Real Angry Birds'' * ''Return of The Clouded Leopard {{Col-end}} ===S=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Super Cat'' ✓ * ''Swam Lions * ''Super Pride * ''South Africa'' * ''Super Squirrel'' * ''Surpet's Surprise'' ✓ * ''Strangest Bird Alive'' * ''Secret Life of Pearls'' * ''Secret Life of Tigers'' * ''Secrets of Wild India'' (movieseq.com) * ''Secrets of the King Cobra'' ✓ * ''Saving Giraffes: The Long Journey Home'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===T=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''The Nile'' * ''Tiger Wars'' ✓ * ''Tiger's Revenge'' * ''The Jungle King'' * ''The Kangaroo King'' ✓ * ''Tree Climbing Lions ✓ * ''The Forbidden River'' * ''The Unlikely Leopard'' ✓ * ''The Way of the Cheetah'' ✓ * ''The Great Elephant Walk'' {{Col-end}} ===U=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Untamed Americas'' * ''Ultimate Honey Badger'' * ''Ultimate Rivals: Cats vs Dogs'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===W=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Wild 24'' (saved) * ''Wild Artic ✓ * ''Wild Chile'' * ''Wild Egypt'' ✓ * ''Wild Korea'' ✓ * ''Wild Hawaii'' ✓ * ''Wild Russia'' ✓ * ''Wild Nordic'' ✓ * ''Wild Borneo'' * ''Wolf vs Bear ✓ * ''Wild Vietnam'' ✓ * ''Wild Monsoon'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''Wild Thailand'' (saved) * ''War Elephants'' * ''Wild Indonesia'' ✓ * ''Wild Sir Lanka'' ✓ * ''Wild Argentina'' (moviemoza.com, movies2watch.biz, ihavenotv.com,123movie.work) * ''Wild Mississippi'' (has episodes) * ''War of The Lions'' * ''Wild Yellowstone'' ✓ * ''Wild New Zealand'' * ''Wild Cats Of India'' ✓ * ''Whales of the Deep'' {{Col-end}} ===Y=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Yellowstone Wolf Dynasty'' ✓ * ''Yellowstone Wolves: Succession ✓ {{Col-end}} ===Numbers=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''20 years with Dolphins'' {{Col-end}} ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ '''National Geographic Animal Programming''' ===A=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''A Real Bug's Life'' ✓ * ''A Real Bug's Life II'' ✓ * ''Attack of the Killer Bees'' * ''America's National Parks'' ✓ * ''Animal's They're Just Like US!'' ✓ * ''Animals up close with Bertie Gregory'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===B=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Bear Island * ''Bumblebees ✓ * ''Born in Africa'' * ''Battle For Elephants'' * ''Big Sur: Wild California'' uflix.to {{Col-end}} ===C=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Chimps on The Edge * ''Cheetahs Up Close with Berite Gregory ✓ {{Col-end}} ===D=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Dead By Dawn'' ✓ * ''Devils of The Deep: The Giant Squad * ''Dolphins Up Close with Bertie Gregory ✓ {{Col-end}} ===E=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Eye of The Leopard ✓ * ''Expedition Great White'' * ''Eternal Enemies: Lions and Hyenas {{Col-end}} ===G=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Ghost Elephants ✓ * ''Great Migration's'' ✓ * ''Gabon: The Last Eden'' {{Col-end}} ===H=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Hostile Planet'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===I=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Into The Pride * ''Into The Pride Lands ✓ * ''In Search of The Jaguar * ''Incredible Animal Journeys'' ✓ * ''Inside The Enchanted Forests'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===K=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Kangaroo Kaos * ''Kingdom Of The Apes * ''Kingdom of The Blue Whale * ''Kingdom of The Polar Bear'' ✓ * ''Kingdom of The White Wolf'' ✓ * ''Killer Whales: Wolves of the Sea {{Col-end}} ===L=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Little Giant'' ✓ * ''Last Stand of The Great Bear * ''Last of The Giants: Wild Fish'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===M=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Meet The Chimps'' ✓ * ''Moose: Titans of the North'' {{Col-end}} ===N=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''National Parks: USA'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===O=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Ocean With David Attenborough'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===P=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Path of The Panther'' ✓ * ''Panda's The Journey Home (123movieslive.top) {{Col-end}} ===Q=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Queens'' ✓ * ''Ocean With David Attenborough'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===S=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''She Wolf'' ✓ * ''Squid vs Whale'' * ''Savage Kingdom'' ✓ * ''Sharks Reef Rivals ✓ * ''Secrets of The Bees ✓ * ''Secrets of The Whales'' ✓ * ''Secrets of The Octopus'' ✓ * ''Secrets of The Penguins'' ✓ * ''Secrets of The Elephants'' ✓ * ''Shark Movers Deadly Cargo'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===T=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''The Flood'' ✓ * ''The Kangaroo King'' ✓ * ''The Secrets of The Octopus'' ✓ * ''The Last Rhinos: A New Hope ✓ * ''The Hidden Kingdoms of China'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===U=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Untamed Americas'' {{Col-end}} ===W=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Whales in Crisis'' * ''Winged seduction birds of paradise |braflix.bz, * ''Wolves: A Legend Return to Yellowstone'' {{Col-end}} ===Y=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * '' Yellowstone Wolf Dynasty'' {{Col-end}} ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ '''BBC America/BBC Earth Programming''' ===A=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Africa'' ✓ * ''A Perfect Planet'' * ''Africa's Wild Year'' ✓ * ''A Wild Year On Earth'' ✓ * ''Asia: Bonus Edition * ''Attenborough and the Giant Elephant'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===B=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Blue Planet'' ✓ * ''Blue Planet II'' ✓ * ''Big Cats 24/7'' ✓ * ''Big Cat 24/7 || * ''Big Bear Diary'' ✓ * ''Big Little Journeys'' |'''braflix.bz''' * ''Bears: Spy In The Woods | {{Col-end}} ===C=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''China: Nature Ancient Kingdom'' (flixhq) {{Col-end}} ===D=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Dynasties'' ✓ * ''Deep Blue'' ✓ * ''Dynasties II'' * ''Dogs In The Wild: Meet The Family'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''David Attenborough: A Life on our Planet'' ✓ * ''David Attenborough: Life In Cold Blood * ''David Attenborough: Conquest of the Skies * ''Deep Ocean: The Lost World Of The Pacific'' (Saved) {{Col-end}} ===E=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Earth Flight'' ihavenotv?,hd-feemovie.com , azmovies.net * ''Expedition Wolf'' (check) * ''Enchanted Kingdom'' (Idris Elba) ww5.tinyzone.org * ''Earth's Great River's'' (ihavenotv) * ''Earth's Great Seasons'' ✓ * ''Earth's Great River's II'' (ihavenotv?) * ''Earth Tropical Islands'' (ihavenotv?) * ''Eden: Untamed Planet'' (ihavenotv) {{Col-end}} ===F=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Frozen Planet'' ✓ * ''Frozen Planet II'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===G=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Galapagos'' movies24free.com''' * ''Great Barrier Reef' (azmovies.net, * ''Gorilla Family and Me'' * ''Grizzy Bear Cubs and Me {{Col-end}} ===H=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Hostile Planet'' ✓ * ''Hidden Habitats'' (theflixer.sx) {{Col-end}} ===J=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Japan: Earth's Enchanted Islands'' (azmovies.net) {{Col-end}} ===K=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Kingdom (123movies9.surf) {{Col-end}} ===L=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Life'' ✓ * ''Life Story'' ✓ * ''Life In Color'' ✓ * ''Little Big Cat'' * ''Life in Cold Blood'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''London's Wild Side'' * ''Lands Of The Monsoon'' * ''Lions: Spy In The Den'' * ''Life In The Undergrowth'' azmovies.net, * ''Lost land of The Tiger'' (ihavenotv.com) {{Col-end}} ===M=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Mammals'' ✓ * ''Mirco Monsters'' (ihavenotv, azmovies.net, ww5.tinyzone.org) * ''Madagascar'' (David Attenborugh) *hdtodayz.to* * ''Mountains: Life Above the Clouds'' {{Col-end}} ===N=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Nature's Great Events'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===O=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''One Life'' (documentaryarea.com) * ''Our Planet'' (flixq?) (ihavenotv.com) (Netflix on YouTube?) * ''Ocean Giants'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''Our Planet II'' ✓ * ''Our Living World'' * ''Operation Snow Tiger'' (theflixer.sx, * ''Operation Dung Beetle'' {{Col-end}} ===P=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Planet Earth'' ✓ * ''Planet Earth II'' ✓ * ''Planet Earth III'' ✓ * ''Planet Earth: Asia'' ✓ * ''Planet Earth: Africa'' * ''Polar Bear: Spy On The Ice'' * ''Penguins: Spy In The Huddle (allmovieshub.express) * ''Planet Earth: South Pacific'' * ''Planet Earth: The Blue Planet II'' {{Col-end}} ===R=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Reindeer Family and Me'' {{Col-end}} ===S=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Shark'' (azmovies.net) * ''Snow Bears * ''Serengeti'' ✓ * ''Serengeti II'' ✓ * ''Serengeti III'' ✓ * ''Spy In The Den'' * ''Spy In The Snow * ''Spy In The Ocean (123movieslive.top ) * ''Spy In The Wild'' ✓ * ''Snow Chick: A Penguin's Tale'' (123movieslive.top, ww5.tinyzone.org * ''South Pacific'' (has episodes) * ''Seven Worlds, One Planet'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===T=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''The Hunt'' ✓ * ''Tiny Giants'' '''ww8.watchseriesfree.co''' * ''Tiger Island'' * ''The Wild Place'' * ''The Wild Sides'' ✓ * ''The Urban Gorilla'' * ''The Blue Planet'' * ''Tropical Islands'' (ihavenotv.com? check) * ''The Mating Game'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''The Rise of Black Wolf''✓ * ''The Cheetah Family & Me '' * ''The Great Bear Steak Out'' * ''The Polar Bear Family & Me'' * ''The Great Rift: Africa's Wild Hart'' * ''Tiger Spy In The Jungle'' (David Attenbourgh) topdocumentarys.com, azmovies.net {{Col-end}} ===W=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Wild West'' ✓ * ''Wild Spring * ''Wild China'' (Roku) (flixhq.to) * ''Wild Japan'' (look up) * ''Wild Alaska'' * ''Wild Isles'' (flixhq.to) * ''Wild Tokyo'' * ''Wild Arabia'' ✓ * ''Wild Brazil'' (movies24free.com) * ''Wild Nordic (movies24free.com) * ''Wild Singapore '' * ''Wild Indonesia'' * ''Wild Patagonia'' ✓ * ''Wild Caribbean'' (pluto tv?) * ''Wild Yellowstone'' * ''Wild New Zealand '' * ''Wild City: Singapore '' * ''Wild Lands: South Africa'' {{Col-end}} ===Y=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Yellowstone'', {{Col-end}} _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ '''Animal Planet''' ===A=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''A Panda is Born'' * ''A Panda's Story'' * ''Animal Battlegrounds'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===B=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * '' Big Cat Tales'' ✓ * '' Big Cats: Secret Lives'' * '' Britain's Wildest Places'' ✓ * '' Battle Ground: Rhino Wars'' * '' Big Cat Tales: More From The Mara Region'' {{Col-end}} ===D=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Dolphin Days'' ✓ * ''Dark Days In Monkey City'' {{Col-end}} ===E=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Escape To Chimp Eden'' {{Col-end}} ===G=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Going Ape'' ✓ * ''Gorilla School'' ✓ * ''Gorillas on the Brink: Saving a Species'' * ''Growing up Animal Series: '' * ''- Grizzly'' * ''- Lion'' * ''- Tiger '' * ''- Cheetah '' * ''- Marsupia'' * ''- Elephant'' * ''- Wolf'' * ''- Clouded Leopard'' * ''- Zebra'' * ''- Baboon'' * ''- Black Bear'' * ''- Orangutan'' * ''- Rhino'' * ''- Lynx'' * ''- Polar Bear'' * ''- Penguin'' * ''- Giraffe'' * ''- Walrus'' * ''- Hyena'' * ''- Camel'' * ''- Moose'' * ''- Leopard'' * ''- Sitka Deer'' * ''- Gorilla'' * ''- Giant Panda'' {{Col-end}} ===I=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Into The Pride '' * ''Into The Lions Den'' * ''I Was Prey'' (Tv Series) 2017-2019 * ''It's Me or The Dog'' (Tv Series) 2007-2012 {{Col-end}} ===K=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Killer Whales: The Mega Hunt'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===L=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Little Giants'' ✓ * ''Lemur Kingdom'' * ''League of Monkey's'' * ''Living With Man-Eaters'' ✓ * ''Lone Star Law'' (Tv Series) 2016-2022 {{Col-end}} ===M=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Man vs Bear'' ✓ * ''Meerkat Manor (www.azmovies.net) * ''Mounted Branch'' ✓ * ''Man-Eating Super Croc'' * ''Man-Eating Super Squid'' * ''Mysterious Wild Of India'' * ''Meerkat Manor'' (Tv Series) 2005-2008 * ''Mysterious Creatures With Forrest Galante'' ✓ * ''Meet the Pandas: Washington's New Power Couple'' {{Col-end}} ===N=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Night'' (Discovery+) {{Col-end}} ===O=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Otter Dynasty'' ✓ * ''Orangutan Island''| ww8.watchseriesfree.com {{Col-end}} ===P=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Project Grizzly'' ✓ * ''Pandamonium'' ✓ * ''Panda Republic'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===R=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Rise of The Warrior Apes'' * ''Romeo & Juliet: A Monkey's Tale'' {{Col-end}} ===S=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Survival of the Beast'' * ''Season of The Grizzly'' * ''Saving Grace: The Otter'' ✓ * ''Safari: An Extraordinary Adventure'' * ''Saving The Gorillas: Ellen's Next Adventure'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===T=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''The Nile'' * ''The Pack'' ✓ * ''Tucan Nation'' * ''The Real Lion Queen'' (saved) * ''The Beauty of Snakes'' * ''The Great Shark Chase'' * ''The Magic Of The Big Blue: Seven Continents'' {{Col-end}} ===W=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Wild Deep'' * ''Wild Costa Rica'' (solarmoviesz.com, * ''Wild New Zealand'' * ''Wolves and Warriors'' ✓ * ''Walking With Elephants'' ✓ * ''Wild Africa: Rivers Of Life'' '''theflixer.sx''' * ''Wildest Islands of Indonesia" azmovies.net {{Col-end}} ===Y=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Yellowstone Journals'' '''theflixer.sx''' {{Col-end}} ===Z=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Zolton: The Wolfman'' ✓ {{Col-end}} _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 5x5evrciozrmfzjd8qhdkx7wg3pwar0 3961270 3961251 2026-07-05T19:50:39Z Sandi74645 3160827 /* T */ 3961270 wikitext text/x-wiki '''<big>Former Programming</big>''' ===A=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''A Penguin's Life'' ✓ * ''Africa's Hunters'' ✓ * ''Africa's Lost Eden'' * ''Africa's Wild West'' ✓ * ''Amazon Underworld'' ✓ * ''America the Beautiful'' ✓ * ''America's Wild Frontier'' (flickystream.su) * ''Alaska's Grizzly Gauntlet'' ✓ * ''Animals, They're Just Like Us!'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===B=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Brazil'' * ''Boss Croc'' ✓ * ''Bumblebees (youtube) * ''Born In Africa'' ✓ * ''Baboon Queen'' * ''Birth of A Pride'' ✓ * ''Big Sur: Wild California'' ✓ * ''Behind Russia's Frozen Curtain'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===C=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Cub Camp'' ✓ * ''Cobra Mafia'' ✓ * ''Cat Attack-tics'' ✓ * ''Croc Labyrinth'' * ''China's Wild Side''| * ''Cheetah Fatal Instinct" (youtube) * ''Clash of The Tigers'' (abc.com) * ''Cat Wars: Lions Vs Cheetah'' (youtube) * ''Caribbean's Deadly Underworld | xtubeflix.com {{Col-end}} ===D=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Dino Fish'' * ''Dino Bird (movies2watch.biz,123movie.work) * ''Dead By Dawn'' ✓ * ''Deep Sea Killers'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===E=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Emperors of The Ice * ''Extraordinary Birder with Christian Cooper'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===F=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Future Cat'' ✓ * ''Florida Untamed'' ✓ * ''Fur Seals: Battle For Survival'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===G=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Game of Lions'' ✓ * ''Grizzly Cauldron'' ✓ * ''Gangster Jackals | www.cineby.at, * ''Great Barrier Reef'' (ww5.tinyzone.org) * ''Giraffe: African Giant'' ✓ * ''Galapagos: Enchanted Islands'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===H=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Hippo Vs Croc'' ✓ * ''Hunt for The Shadow Cat * ''Hunt for The Giant Squid'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===I=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Into The Okavango'' ✓ * ''Into The Pride Lands'' ✓ * ''India's Wild Leopards'' ✓ * ''Incredible Animal Journeys'' ✓ * ''Inside The Enchanted Forests'' ✓ * ''Inside The Enchanted Waterways'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===J=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Jaguar vs Croc'' ✓ * ''Jade Eyed Leopard'' ✓ * ''Jaguar Beach Battle'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===K=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Killer Shew'' ✓ * ''Kiler Queen'' ✓ * ''Kangaroo Kaos (has episodes) {{Col-end}} ===L=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Little Giant'' ✓ * ''Little Killers'' * ''Lion Kingdom'' * ''Lemur Island'' | bflix.se * ''Lion Dynasty'' ✓ * ''Lion Ganglands'' ✓ * ''Lion Battle Zone'' ✓ * ''Leopard Kingdom'' ✓ * ''Leopard Huntress'' ✓ * ''Land of 10,000 Grizzlies''|watch.cinewave.qzz.io, * ''Leopards of Dead Tree Island'' ✓ * ''Leopard: Ultimate Survivor'' | {{Col-end}} ===M=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Man Vs Lion'' ✓ * ''Man vs Puma ✓ * ''Man vs Monster'' * ''Mexico Untamed'' ✓ * ''Man vs Cheetah'' ✓ * ''Moster Croc Hunt'' ✓ * ''Mystery of the giant Cave Spider'' (saved/non english) {{Col-end}} ===O=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Otter Town'' (Saved "No English") {{Col-end}} ===P=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Penguinpalooza'' * ''Paradise Islands'' ✓ * ''Praire Dog Manor'' ✓ * ''Path of The Pather'' ✓ * ''Planet of the Birds'' ✓ * ''Predator In Paradise'' * ''Peru's Wild Kingdom'' (saved) * ''Pristine Seas: The Power of Protection ✓ * ''Puma!: Elusive Hunter of the Andes'' {{Col-end}} ===R=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Rebal Monkeys'' * ''Real Angry Birds'' * ''Return of The Clouded Leopard {{Col-end}} ===S=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Super Cat'' ✓ * ''Swam Lions * ''Super Pride * ''South Africa'' * ''Super Squirrel'' * ''Surpet's Surprise'' ✓ * ''Strangest Bird Alive'' * ''Secret Life of Pearls'' * ''Secret Life of Tigers'' * ''Secrets of Wild India'' (movieseq.com) * ''Secrets of the King Cobra'' ✓ * ''Saving Giraffes: The Long Journey Home'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===T=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''The Nile'' * ''Tiger Wars'' ✓ * ''Tiger's Revenge'' * ''The Jungle King'' * ''The Kangaroo King'' ✓ * ''Tree Climbing Lions ✓ * ''The Forbidden River'' * ''The Unlikely Leopard'' ✓ * ''The Way of the Cheetah'' ✓ * ''The Great Elephant Walk'' {{Col-end}} ===U=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Untamed Americas'' * ''Ultimate Honey Badger'' * ''Ultimate Rivals: Cats vs Dogs'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===W=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Wild 24'' (saved) * ''Wild Artic ✓ * ''Wild Chile'' * ''Wild Egypt'' ✓ * ''Wild Korea'' ✓ * ''Wild Hawaii'' ✓ * ''Wild Russia'' ✓ * ''Wild Nordic'' ✓ * ''Wild Borneo'' * ''Wolf vs Bear ✓ * ''Wild Vietnam'' ✓ * ''Wild Monsoon'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''Wild Thailand'' (saved) * ''War Elephants'' * ''Wild Indonesia'' ✓ * ''Wild Sir Lanka'' ✓ * ''Wild Argentina'' (moviemoza.com, movies2watch.biz, ihavenotv.com,123movie.work) * ''Wild Mississippi'' (has episodes) * ''War of The Lions'' * ''Wild Yellowstone'' ✓ * ''Wild New Zealand'' * ''Wild Cats Of India'' ✓ * ''Whales of the Deep'' {{Col-end}} ===Y=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Yellowstone Wolf Dynasty'' ✓ * ''Yellowstone Wolves: Succession ✓ {{Col-end}} ===Numbers=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''20 years with Dolphins'' {{Col-end}} ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ '''National Geographic Animal Programming''' ===A=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''A Real Bug's Life'' ✓ * ''A Real Bug's Life II'' ✓ * ''Attack of the Killer Bees'' * ''America's National Parks'' ✓ * ''Animal's They're Just Like US!'' ✓ * ''Animals up close with Bertie Gregory'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===B=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Bear Island * ''Bumblebees ✓ * ''Born in Africa'' * ''Battle For Elephants'' * ''Big Sur: Wild California'' uflix.to {{Col-end}} ===C=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Chimps on The Edge * ''Cheetahs Up Close with Berite Gregory ✓ {{Col-end}} ===D=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Dead By Dawn'' ✓ * ''Devils of The Deep: The Giant Squad * ''Dolphins Up Close with Bertie Gregory ✓ {{Col-end}} ===E=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Eye of The Leopard ✓ * ''Expedition Great White'' * ''Eternal Enemies: Lions and Hyenas {{Col-end}} ===G=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Ghost Elephants ✓ * ''Great Migration's'' ✓ * ''Gabon: The Last Eden'' {{Col-end}} ===H=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Hostile Planet'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===I=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Into The Pride * ''Into The Pride Lands ✓ * ''In Search of The Jaguar * ''Incredible Animal Journeys'' ✓ * ''Inside The Enchanted Forests'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===K=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Kangaroo Kaos * ''Kingdom Of The Apes * ''Kingdom of The Blue Whale * ''Kingdom of The Polar Bear'' ✓ * ''Kingdom of The White Wolf'' ✓ * ''Killer Whales: Wolves of the Sea {{Col-end}} ===L=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Little Giant'' ✓ * ''Last Stand of The Great Bear * ''Last of The Giants: Wild Fish'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===M=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Meet The Chimps'' ✓ * ''Moose: Titans of the North'' {{Col-end}} ===N=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''National Parks: USA'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===O=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Ocean With David Attenborough'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===P=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Path of The Panther'' ✓ * ''Panda's The Journey Home (123movieslive.top) {{Col-end}} ===Q=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Queens'' ✓ * ''Ocean With David Attenborough'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===S=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''She Wolf'' ✓ * ''Squid vs Whale'' * ''Savage Kingdom'' ✓ * ''Sharks Reef Rivals ✓ * ''Secrets of The Bees ✓ * ''Secrets of The Whales'' ✓ * ''Secrets of The Octopus'' ✓ * ''Secrets of The Penguins'' ✓ * ''Secrets of The Elephants'' ✓ * ''Shark Movers Deadly Cargo'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===T=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''The Flood'' ✓ * ''The Kangaroo King'' ✓ * ''The Unlikely Leopard ✓ * ''The Secrets of The Octopus'' ✓ * ''The Last Rhinos: A New Hope ✓ * ''The Hidden Kingdoms of China'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===U=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Untamed Americas'' {{Col-end}} ===W=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Whales in Crisis'' * ''Winged seduction birds of paradise |braflix.bz, * ''Wolves: A Legend Return to Yellowstone'' {{Col-end}} ===Y=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * '' Yellowstone Wolf Dynasty'' {{Col-end}} ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ '''BBC America/BBC Earth Programming''' ===A=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Africa'' ✓ * ''A Perfect Planet'' * ''Africa's Wild Year'' ✓ * ''A Wild Year On Earth'' ✓ * ''Asia: Bonus Edition * ''Attenborough and the Giant Elephant'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===B=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Blue Planet'' ✓ * ''Blue Planet II'' ✓ * ''Big Cats 24/7'' ✓ * ''Big Cat 24/7 || * ''Big Bear Diary'' ✓ * ''Big Little Journeys'' |'''braflix.bz''' * ''Bears: Spy In The Woods | {{Col-end}} ===C=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''China: Nature Ancient Kingdom'' (flixhq) {{Col-end}} ===D=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Dynasties'' ✓ * ''Deep Blue'' ✓ * ''Dynasties II'' * ''Dogs In The Wild: Meet The Family'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''David Attenborough: A Life on our Planet'' ✓ * ''David Attenborough: Life In Cold Blood * ''David Attenborough: Conquest of the Skies * ''Deep Ocean: The Lost World Of The Pacific'' (Saved) {{Col-end}} ===E=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Earth Flight'' ihavenotv?,hd-feemovie.com , azmovies.net * ''Expedition Wolf'' (check) * ''Enchanted Kingdom'' (Idris Elba) ww5.tinyzone.org * ''Earth's Great River's'' (ihavenotv) * ''Earth's Great Seasons'' ✓ * ''Earth's Great River's II'' (ihavenotv?) * ''Earth Tropical Islands'' (ihavenotv?) * ''Eden: Untamed Planet'' (ihavenotv) {{Col-end}} ===F=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Frozen Planet'' ✓ * ''Frozen Planet II'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===G=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Galapagos'' movies24free.com''' * ''Great Barrier Reef' (azmovies.net, * ''Gorilla Family and Me'' * ''Grizzy Bear Cubs and Me {{Col-end}} ===H=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Hostile Planet'' ✓ * ''Hidden Habitats'' (theflixer.sx) {{Col-end}} ===J=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Japan: Earth's Enchanted Islands'' (azmovies.net) {{Col-end}} ===K=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Kingdom (123movies9.surf) {{Col-end}} ===L=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Life'' ✓ * ''Life Story'' ✓ * ''Life In Color'' ✓ * ''Little Big Cat'' * ''Life in Cold Blood'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''London's Wild Side'' * ''Lands Of The Monsoon'' * ''Lions: Spy In The Den'' * ''Life In The Undergrowth'' azmovies.net, * ''Lost land of The Tiger'' (ihavenotv.com) {{Col-end}} ===M=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Mammals'' ✓ * ''Mirco Monsters'' (ihavenotv, azmovies.net, ww5.tinyzone.org) * ''Madagascar'' (David Attenborugh) *hdtodayz.to* * ''Mountains: Life Above the Clouds'' {{Col-end}} ===N=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Nature's Great Events'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===O=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''One Life'' (documentaryarea.com) * ''Our Planet'' (flixq?) (ihavenotv.com) (Netflix on YouTube?) * ''Ocean Giants'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''Our Planet II'' ✓ * ''Our Living World'' * ''Operation Snow Tiger'' (theflixer.sx, * ''Operation Dung Beetle'' {{Col-end}} ===P=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Planet Earth'' ✓ * ''Planet Earth II'' ✓ * ''Planet Earth III'' ✓ * ''Planet Earth: Asia'' ✓ * ''Planet Earth: Africa'' * ''Polar Bear: Spy On The Ice'' * ''Penguins: Spy In The Huddle (allmovieshub.express) * ''Planet Earth: South Pacific'' * ''Planet Earth: The Blue Planet II'' {{Col-end}} ===R=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Reindeer Family and Me'' {{Col-end}} ===S=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Shark'' (azmovies.net) * ''Snow Bears * ''Serengeti'' ✓ * ''Serengeti II'' ✓ * ''Serengeti III'' ✓ * ''Spy In The Den'' * ''Spy In The Snow * ''Spy In The Ocean (123movieslive.top ) * ''Spy In The Wild'' ✓ * ''Snow Chick: A Penguin's Tale'' (123movieslive.top, ww5.tinyzone.org * ''South Pacific'' (has episodes) * ''Seven Worlds, One Planet'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===T=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''The Hunt'' ✓ * ''Tiny Giants'' '''ww8.watchseriesfree.co''' * ''Tiger Island'' * ''The Wild Place'' * ''The Wild Sides'' ✓ * ''The Urban Gorilla'' * ''The Blue Planet'' * ''Tropical Islands'' (ihavenotv.com? check) * ''The Mating Game'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''The Rise of Black Wolf''✓ * ''The Cheetah Family & Me '' * ''The Great Bear Steak Out'' * ''The Polar Bear Family & Me'' * ''The Great Rift: Africa's Wild Hart'' * ''Tiger Spy In The Jungle'' (David Attenbourgh) topdocumentarys.com, azmovies.net {{Col-end}} ===W=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Wild West'' ✓ * ''Wild Spring * ''Wild China'' (Roku) (flixhq.to) * ''Wild Japan'' (look up) * ''Wild Alaska'' * ''Wild Isles'' (flixhq.to) * ''Wild Tokyo'' * ''Wild Arabia'' ✓ * ''Wild Brazil'' (movies24free.com) * ''Wild Nordic (movies24free.com) * ''Wild Singapore '' * ''Wild Indonesia'' * ''Wild Patagonia'' ✓ * ''Wild Caribbean'' (pluto tv?) * ''Wild Yellowstone'' * ''Wild New Zealand '' * ''Wild City: Singapore '' * ''Wild Lands: South Africa'' {{Col-end}} ===Y=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Yellowstone'', {{Col-end}} _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ '''Animal Planet''' ===A=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''A Panda is Born'' * ''A Panda's Story'' * ''Animal Battlegrounds'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===B=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * '' Big Cat Tales'' ✓ * '' Big Cats: Secret Lives'' * '' Britain's Wildest Places'' ✓ * '' Battle Ground: Rhino Wars'' * '' Big Cat Tales: More From The Mara Region'' {{Col-end}} ===D=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Dolphin Days'' ✓ * ''Dark Days In Monkey City'' {{Col-end}} ===E=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Escape To Chimp Eden'' {{Col-end}} ===G=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Going Ape'' ✓ * ''Gorilla School'' ✓ * ''Gorillas on the Brink: Saving a Species'' * ''Growing up Animal Series: '' * ''- Grizzly'' * ''- Lion'' * ''- Tiger '' * ''- Cheetah '' * ''- Marsupia'' * ''- Elephant'' * ''- Wolf'' * ''- Clouded Leopard'' * ''- Zebra'' * ''- Baboon'' * ''- Black Bear'' * ''- Orangutan'' * ''- Rhino'' * ''- Lynx'' * ''- Polar Bear'' * ''- Penguin'' * ''- Giraffe'' * ''- Walrus'' * ''- Hyena'' * ''- Camel'' * ''- Moose'' * ''- Leopard'' * ''- Sitka Deer'' * ''- Gorilla'' * ''- Giant Panda'' {{Col-end}} ===I=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Into The Pride '' * ''Into The Lions Den'' * ''I Was Prey'' (Tv Series) 2017-2019 * ''It's Me or The Dog'' (Tv Series) 2007-2012 {{Col-end}} ===K=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Killer Whales: The Mega Hunt'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===L=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Little Giants'' ✓ * ''Lemur Kingdom'' * ''League of Monkey's'' * ''Living With Man-Eaters'' ✓ * ''Lone Star Law'' (Tv Series) 2016-2022 {{Col-end}} ===M=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Man vs Bear'' ✓ * ''Meerkat Manor (www.azmovies.net) * ''Mounted Branch'' ✓ * ''Man-Eating Super Croc'' * ''Man-Eating Super Squid'' * ''Mysterious Wild Of India'' * ''Meerkat Manor'' (Tv Series) 2005-2008 * ''Mysterious Creatures With Forrest Galante'' ✓ * ''Meet the Pandas: Washington's New Power Couple'' {{Col-end}} ===N=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Night'' (Discovery+) {{Col-end}} ===O=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Otter Dynasty'' ✓ * ''Orangutan Island''| ww8.watchseriesfree.com {{Col-end}} ===P=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Project Grizzly'' ✓ * ''Pandamonium'' ✓ * ''Panda Republic'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===R=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Rise of The Warrior Apes'' * ''Romeo & Juliet: A Monkey's Tale'' {{Col-end}} ===S=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Survival of the Beast'' * ''Season of The Grizzly'' * ''Saving Grace: The Otter'' ✓ * ''Safari: An Extraordinary Adventure'' * ''Saving The Gorillas: Ellen's Next Adventure'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===T=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''The Nile'' * ''The Pack'' ✓ * ''Tucan Nation'' * ''The Real Lion Queen'' (saved) * ''The Beauty of Snakes'' * ''The Great Shark Chase'' * ''The Magic Of The Big Blue: Seven Continents'' {{Col-end}} ===W=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Wild Deep'' * ''Wild Costa Rica'' (solarmoviesz.com, * ''Wild New Zealand'' * ''Wolves and Warriors'' ✓ * ''Walking With Elephants'' ✓ * ''Wild Africa: Rivers Of Life'' '''theflixer.sx''' * ''Wildest Islands of Indonesia" azmovies.net {{Col-end}} ===Y=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Yellowstone Journals'' '''theflixer.sx''' {{Col-end}} ===Z=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Zolton: The Wolfman'' ✓ {{Col-end}} _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 00jnwbcofpfqjrbmmmh9kasvay222vl 3961300 3961270 2026-07-05T22:03:24Z Sandi74645 3160827 /* S */ 3961300 wikitext text/x-wiki '''<big>Former Programming</big>''' ===A=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''A Penguin's Life'' ✓ * ''Africa's Hunters'' ✓ * ''Africa's Lost Eden'' * ''Africa's Wild West'' ✓ * ''Amazon Underworld'' ✓ * ''America the Beautiful'' ✓ * ''America's Wild Frontier'' (flickystream.su) * ''Alaska's Grizzly Gauntlet'' ✓ * ''Animals, They're Just Like Us!'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===B=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Brazil'' * ''Boss Croc'' ✓ * ''Bumblebees (youtube) * ''Born In Africa'' ✓ * ''Baboon Queen'' * ''Birth of A Pride'' ✓ * ''Big Sur: Wild California'' ✓ * ''Behind Russia's Frozen Curtain'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===C=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Cub Camp'' ✓ * ''Cobra Mafia'' ✓ * ''Cat Attack-tics'' ✓ * ''Croc Labyrinth'' * ''China's Wild Side''| * ''Cheetah Fatal Instinct" (youtube) * ''Clash of The Tigers'' (abc.com) * ''Cat Wars: Lions Vs Cheetah'' (youtube) * ''Caribbean's Deadly Underworld | xtubeflix.com {{Col-end}} ===D=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Dino Fish'' * ''Dino Bird (movies2watch.biz,123movie.work) * ''Dead By Dawn'' ✓ * ''Deep Sea Killers'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===E=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Emperors of The Ice * ''Extraordinary Birder with Christian Cooper'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===F=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Future Cat'' ✓ * ''Florida Untamed'' ✓ * ''Fur Seals: Battle For Survival'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===G=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Game of Lions'' ✓ * ''Grizzly Cauldron'' ✓ * ''Gangster Jackals | www.cineby.at, * ''Great Barrier Reef'' (ww5.tinyzone.org) * ''Giraffe: African Giant'' ✓ * ''Galapagos: Enchanted Islands'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===H=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Hippo Vs Croc'' ✓ * ''Hunt for The Shadow Cat * ''Hunt for The Giant Squid'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===I=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Into The Okavango'' ✓ * ''Into The Pride Lands'' ✓ * ''India's Wild Leopards'' ✓ * ''Incredible Animal Journeys'' ✓ * ''Inside The Enchanted Forests'' ✓ * ''Inside The Enchanted Waterways'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===J=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Jaguar vs Croc'' ✓ * ''Jade Eyed Leopard'' ✓ * ''Jaguar Beach Battle'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===K=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Killer Shew'' ✓ * ''Kiler Queen'' ✓ * ''Kangaroo Kaos (has episodes) {{Col-end}} ===L=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Little Giant'' ✓ * ''Little Killers'' * ''Lion Kingdom'' * ''Lemur Island'' | bflix.se * ''Lion Dynasty'' ✓ * ''Lion Ganglands'' ✓ * ''Lion Battle Zone'' ✓ * ''Leopard Kingdom'' ✓ * ''Leopard Huntress'' ✓ * ''Land of 10,000 Grizzlies''|watch.cinewave.qzz.io, * ''Leopards of Dead Tree Island'' ✓ * ''Leopard: Ultimate Survivor'' | {{Col-end}} ===M=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Man Vs Lion'' ✓ * ''Man vs Puma ✓ * ''Man vs Monster'' * ''Mexico Untamed'' ✓ * ''Man vs Cheetah'' ✓ * ''Moster Croc Hunt'' ✓ * ''Mystery of the giant Cave Spider'' (saved/non english) {{Col-end}} ===O=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Otter Town'' (Saved "No English") {{Col-end}} ===P=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Penguinpalooza'' * ''Paradise Islands'' ✓ * ''Praire Dog Manor'' ✓ * ''Path of The Pather'' ✓ * ''Planet of the Birds'' ✓ * ''Predator In Paradise'' * ''Peru's Wild Kingdom'' (saved) * ''Pristine Seas: The Power of Protection ✓ * ''Puma!: Elusive Hunter of the Andes'' {{Col-end}} ===R=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Rebal Monkeys'' * ''Real Angry Birds'' * ''Return of The Clouded Leopard {{Col-end}} ===S=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Super Cat'' ✓ * ''Swam Lions * ''Super Snake * ''Super Pride * ''South Africa'' * ''Super Squirrel'' * ''Surpet's Surprise'' ✓ * ''Strangest Bird Alive'' * ''Secret Life of Pearls'' * ''Secret Life of Tigers'' * ''Secrets of Wild India'' (movieseq.com) * ''Secrets of the King Cobra'' ✓ * ''Saving Giraffes: The Long Journey Home'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===T=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''The Nile'' * ''Tiger Wars'' ✓ * ''Tiger's Revenge'' * ''The Jungle King'' * ''The Kangaroo King'' ✓ * ''Tree Climbing Lions ✓ * ''The Forbidden River'' * ''The Unlikely Leopard'' ✓ * ''The Way of the Cheetah'' ✓ * ''The Great Elephant Walk'' {{Col-end}} ===U=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Untamed Americas'' * ''Ultimate Honey Badger'' * ''Ultimate Rivals: Cats vs Dogs'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===W=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Wild 24'' (saved) * ''Wild Artic ✓ * ''Wild Chile'' * ''Wild Egypt'' ✓ * ''Wild Korea'' ✓ * ''Wild Hawaii'' ✓ * ''Wild Russia'' ✓ * ''Wild Nordic'' ✓ * ''Wild Borneo'' * ''Wolf vs Bear ✓ * ''Wild Vietnam'' ✓ * ''Wild Monsoon'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''Wild Thailand'' (saved) * ''War Elephants'' * ''Wild Indonesia'' ✓ * ''Wild Sir Lanka'' ✓ * ''Wild Argentina'' (moviemoza.com, movies2watch.biz, ihavenotv.com,123movie.work) * ''Wild Mississippi'' (has episodes) * ''War of The Lions'' * ''Wild Yellowstone'' ✓ * ''Wild New Zealand'' * ''Wild Cats Of India'' ✓ * ''Whales of the Deep'' {{Col-end}} ===Y=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Yellowstone Wolf Dynasty'' ✓ * ''Yellowstone Wolves: Succession ✓ {{Col-end}} ===Numbers=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''20 years with Dolphins'' {{Col-end}} ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ '''National Geographic Animal Programming''' ===A=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''A Real Bug's Life'' ✓ * ''A Real Bug's Life II'' ✓ * ''Attack of the Killer Bees'' * ''America's National Parks'' ✓ * ''Animal's They're Just Like US!'' ✓ * ''Animals up close with Bertie Gregory'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===B=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Bear Island * ''Bumblebees ✓ * ''Born in Africa'' * ''Battle For Elephants'' * ''Big Sur: Wild California'' uflix.to {{Col-end}} ===C=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Chimps on The Edge * ''Cheetahs Up Close with Berite Gregory ✓ {{Col-end}} ===D=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Dead By Dawn'' ✓ * ''Devils of The Deep: The Giant Squad * ''Dolphins Up Close with Bertie Gregory ✓ {{Col-end}} ===E=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Eye of The Leopard ✓ * ''Expedition Great White'' * ''Eternal Enemies: Lions and Hyenas {{Col-end}} ===G=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Ghost Elephants ✓ * ''Great Migration's'' ✓ * ''Gabon: The Last Eden'' {{Col-end}} ===H=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Hostile Planet'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===I=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Into The Pride * ''Into The Pride Lands ✓ * ''In Search of The Jaguar * ''Incredible Animal Journeys'' ✓ * ''Inside The Enchanted Forests'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===K=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Kangaroo Kaos * ''Kingdom Of The Apes * ''Kingdom of The Blue Whale * ''Kingdom of The Polar Bear'' ✓ * ''Kingdom of The White Wolf'' ✓ * ''Killer Whales: Wolves of the Sea {{Col-end}} ===L=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Little Giant'' ✓ * ''Last Stand of The Great Bear * ''Last of The Giants: Wild Fish'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===M=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Meet The Chimps'' ✓ * ''Moose: Titans of the North'' {{Col-end}} ===N=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''National Parks: USA'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===O=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Ocean With David Attenborough'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===P=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Path of The Panther'' ✓ * ''Panda's The Journey Home (123movieslive.top) {{Col-end}} ===Q=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Queens'' ✓ * ''Ocean With David Attenborough'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===S=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''She Wolf'' ✓ * ''Squid vs Whale'' * ''Savage Kingdom'' ✓ * ''Sharks Reef Rivals ✓ * ''Secrets of The Bees ✓ * ''Secrets of The Whales'' ✓ * ''Secrets of The Octopus'' ✓ * ''Secrets of The Penguins'' ✓ * ''Secrets of The Elephants'' ✓ * ''Shark Movers Deadly Cargo'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===T=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''The Flood'' ✓ * ''The Kangaroo King'' ✓ * ''The Unlikely Leopard ✓ * ''The Secrets of The Octopus'' ✓ * ''The Last Rhinos: A New Hope ✓ * ''The Hidden Kingdoms of China'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===U=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Untamed Americas'' {{Col-end}} ===W=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Whales in Crisis'' * ''Winged seduction birds of paradise |braflix.bz, * ''Wolves: A Legend Return to Yellowstone'' {{Col-end}} ===Y=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * '' Yellowstone Wolf Dynasty'' {{Col-end}} ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ '''BBC America/BBC Earth Programming''' ===A=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Africa'' ✓ * ''A Perfect Planet'' * ''Africa's Wild Year'' ✓ * ''A Wild Year On Earth'' ✓ * ''Asia: Bonus Edition * ''Attenborough and the Giant Elephant'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===B=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Blue Planet'' ✓ * ''Blue Planet II'' ✓ * ''Big Cats 24/7'' ✓ * ''Big Cat 24/7 || * ''Big Bear Diary'' ✓ * ''Big Little Journeys'' |'''braflix.bz''' * ''Bears: Spy In The Woods | {{Col-end}} ===C=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''China: Nature Ancient Kingdom'' (flixhq) {{Col-end}} ===D=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Dynasties'' ✓ * ''Deep Blue'' ✓ * ''Dynasties II'' * ''Dogs In The Wild: Meet The Family'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''David Attenborough: A Life on our Planet'' ✓ * ''David Attenborough: Life In Cold Blood * ''David Attenborough: Conquest of the Skies * ''Deep Ocean: The Lost World Of The Pacific'' (Saved) {{Col-end}} ===E=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Earth Flight'' ihavenotv?,hd-feemovie.com , azmovies.net * ''Expedition Wolf'' (check) * ''Enchanted Kingdom'' (Idris Elba) ww5.tinyzone.org * ''Earth's Great River's'' (ihavenotv) * ''Earth's Great Seasons'' ✓ * ''Earth's Great River's II'' (ihavenotv?) * ''Earth Tropical Islands'' (ihavenotv?) * ''Eden: Untamed Planet'' (ihavenotv) {{Col-end}} ===F=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Frozen Planet'' ✓ * ''Frozen Planet II'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===G=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Galapagos'' movies24free.com''' * ''Great Barrier Reef' (azmovies.net, * ''Gorilla Family and Me'' * ''Grizzy Bear Cubs and Me {{Col-end}} ===H=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Hostile Planet'' ✓ * ''Hidden Habitats'' (theflixer.sx) {{Col-end}} ===J=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Japan: Earth's Enchanted Islands'' (azmovies.net) {{Col-end}} ===K=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Kingdom (123movies9.surf) {{Col-end}} ===L=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Life'' ✓ * ''Life Story'' ✓ * ''Life In Color'' ✓ * ''Little Big Cat'' * ''Life in Cold Blood'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''London's Wild Side'' * ''Lands Of The Monsoon'' * ''Lions: Spy In The Den'' * ''Life In The Undergrowth'' azmovies.net, * ''Lost land of The Tiger'' (ihavenotv.com) {{Col-end}} ===M=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Mammals'' ✓ * ''Mirco Monsters'' (ihavenotv, azmovies.net, ww5.tinyzone.org) * ''Madagascar'' (David Attenborugh) *hdtodayz.to* * ''Mountains: Life Above the Clouds'' {{Col-end}} ===N=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Nature's Great Events'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===O=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''One Life'' (documentaryarea.com) * ''Our Planet'' (flixq?) (ihavenotv.com) (Netflix on YouTube?) * ''Ocean Giants'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''Our Planet II'' ✓ * ''Our Living World'' * ''Operation Snow Tiger'' (theflixer.sx, * ''Operation Dung Beetle'' {{Col-end}} ===P=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Planet Earth'' ✓ * ''Planet Earth II'' ✓ * ''Planet Earth III'' ✓ * ''Planet Earth: Asia'' ✓ * ''Planet Earth: Africa'' * ''Polar Bear: Spy On The Ice'' * ''Penguins: Spy In The Huddle (allmovieshub.express) * ''Planet Earth: South Pacific'' * ''Planet Earth: The Blue Planet II'' {{Col-end}} ===R=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Reindeer Family and Me'' {{Col-end}} ===S=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Shark'' (azmovies.net) * ''Snow Bears * ''Serengeti'' ✓ * ''Serengeti II'' ✓ * ''Serengeti III'' ✓ * ''Spy In The Den'' * ''Spy In The Snow * ''Spy In The Ocean (123movieslive.top ) * ''Spy In The Wild'' ✓ * ''Snow Chick: A Penguin's Tale'' (123movieslive.top, ww5.tinyzone.org * ''South Pacific'' (has episodes) * ''Seven Worlds, One Planet'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===T=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''The Hunt'' ✓ * ''Tiny Giants'' '''ww8.watchseriesfree.co''' * ''Tiger Island'' * ''The Wild Place'' * ''The Wild Sides'' ✓ * ''The Urban Gorilla'' * ''The Blue Planet'' * ''Tropical Islands'' (ihavenotv.com? check) * ''The Mating Game'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''The Rise of Black Wolf''✓ * ''The Cheetah Family & Me '' * ''The Great Bear Steak Out'' * ''The Polar Bear Family & Me'' * ''The Great Rift: Africa's Wild Hart'' * ''Tiger Spy In The Jungle'' (David Attenbourgh) topdocumentarys.com, azmovies.net {{Col-end}} ===W=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Wild West'' ✓ * ''Wild Spring * ''Wild China'' (Roku) (flixhq.to) * ''Wild Japan'' (look up) * ''Wild Alaska'' * ''Wild Isles'' (flixhq.to) * ''Wild Tokyo'' * ''Wild Arabia'' ✓ * ''Wild Brazil'' (movies24free.com) * ''Wild Nordic (movies24free.com) * ''Wild Singapore '' * ''Wild Indonesia'' * ''Wild Patagonia'' ✓ * ''Wild Caribbean'' (pluto tv?) * ''Wild Yellowstone'' * ''Wild New Zealand '' * ''Wild City: Singapore '' * ''Wild Lands: South Africa'' {{Col-end}} ===Y=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Yellowstone'', {{Col-end}} _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ '''Animal Planet''' ===A=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''A Panda is Born'' * ''A Panda's Story'' * ''Animal Battlegrounds'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===B=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * '' Big Cat Tales'' ✓ * '' Big Cats: Secret Lives'' * '' Britain's Wildest Places'' ✓ * '' Battle Ground: Rhino Wars'' * '' Big Cat Tales: More From The Mara Region'' {{Col-end}} ===D=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Dolphin Days'' ✓ * ''Dark Days In Monkey City'' {{Col-end}} ===E=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Escape To Chimp Eden'' {{Col-end}} ===G=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Going Ape'' ✓ * ''Gorilla School'' ✓ * ''Gorillas on the Brink: Saving a Species'' * ''Growing up Animal Series: '' * ''- Grizzly'' * ''- Lion'' * ''- Tiger '' * ''- Cheetah '' * ''- Marsupia'' * ''- Elephant'' * ''- Wolf'' * ''- Clouded Leopard'' * ''- Zebra'' * ''- Baboon'' * ''- Black Bear'' * ''- Orangutan'' * ''- Rhino'' * ''- Lynx'' * ''- Polar Bear'' * ''- Penguin'' * ''- Giraffe'' * ''- Walrus'' * ''- Hyena'' * ''- Camel'' * ''- Moose'' * ''- Leopard'' * ''- Sitka Deer'' * ''- Gorilla'' * ''- Giant Panda'' {{Col-end}} ===I=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Into The Pride '' * ''Into The Lions Den'' * ''I Was Prey'' (Tv Series) 2017-2019 * ''It's Me or The Dog'' (Tv Series) 2007-2012 {{Col-end}} ===K=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Killer Whales: The Mega Hunt'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===L=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Little Giants'' ✓ * ''Lemur Kingdom'' * ''League of Monkey's'' * ''Living With Man-Eaters'' ✓ * ''Lone Star Law'' (Tv Series) 2016-2022 {{Col-end}} ===M=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Man vs Bear'' ✓ * ''Meerkat Manor (www.azmovies.net) * ''Mounted Branch'' ✓ * ''Man-Eating Super Croc'' * ''Man-Eating Super Squid'' * ''Mysterious Wild Of India'' * ''Meerkat Manor'' (Tv Series) 2005-2008 * ''Mysterious Creatures With Forrest Galante'' ✓ * ''Meet the Pandas: Washington's New Power Couple'' {{Col-end}} ===N=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Night'' (Discovery+) {{Col-end}} ===O=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Otter Dynasty'' ✓ * ''Orangutan Island''| ww8.watchseriesfree.com {{Col-end}} ===P=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Project Grizzly'' ✓ * ''Pandamonium'' ✓ * ''Panda Republic'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===R=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Rise of The Warrior Apes'' * ''Romeo & Juliet: A Monkey's Tale'' {{Col-end}} ===S=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Survival of the Beast'' * ''Season of The Grizzly'' * ''Saving Grace: The Otter'' ✓ * ''Safari: An Extraordinary Adventure'' * ''Saving The Gorillas: Ellen's Next Adventure'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===T=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''The Nile'' * ''The Pack'' ✓ * ''Tucan Nation'' * ''The Real Lion Queen'' (saved) * ''The Beauty of Snakes'' * ''The Great Shark Chase'' * ''The Magic Of The Big Blue: Seven Continents'' {{Col-end}} ===W=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Wild Deep'' * ''Wild Costa Rica'' (solarmoviesz.com, * ''Wild New Zealand'' * ''Wolves and Warriors'' ✓ * ''Walking With Elephants'' ✓ * ''Wild Africa: Rivers Of Life'' '''theflixer.sx''' * ''Wildest Islands of Indonesia" azmovies.net {{Col-end}} ===Y=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Yellowstone Journals'' '''theflixer.sx''' {{Col-end}} ===Z=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Zolton: The Wolfman'' ✓ {{Col-end}} _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 16dfmjpgfvnk8ocrhrf53t2ruv1n0p5 3961340 3961300 2026-07-06T00:39:40Z Sandi74645 3160827 /* T */ 3961340 wikitext text/x-wiki '''<big>Former Programming</big>''' ===A=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''A Penguin's Life'' ✓ * ''Africa's Hunters'' ✓ * ''Africa's Lost Eden'' * ''Africa's Wild West'' ✓ * ''Amazon Underworld'' ✓ * ''America the Beautiful'' ✓ * ''America's Wild Frontier'' (flickystream.su) * ''Alaska's Grizzly Gauntlet'' ✓ * ''Animals, They're Just Like Us!'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===B=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Brazil'' * ''Boss Croc'' ✓ * ''Bumblebees (youtube) * ''Born In Africa'' ✓ * ''Baboon Queen'' * ''Birth of A Pride'' ✓ * ''Big Sur: Wild California'' ✓ * ''Behind Russia's Frozen Curtain'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===C=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Cub Camp'' ✓ * ''Cobra Mafia'' ✓ * ''Cat Attack-tics'' ✓ * ''Croc Labyrinth'' * ''China's Wild Side''| * ''Cheetah Fatal Instinct" (youtube) * ''Clash of The Tigers'' (abc.com) * ''Cat Wars: Lions Vs Cheetah'' (youtube) * ''Caribbean's Deadly Underworld | xtubeflix.com {{Col-end}} ===D=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Dino Fish'' * ''Dino Bird (movies2watch.biz,123movie.work) * ''Dead By Dawn'' ✓ * ''Deep Sea Killers'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===E=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Emperors of The Ice * ''Extraordinary Birder with Christian Cooper'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===F=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Future Cat'' ✓ * ''Florida Untamed'' ✓ * ''Fur Seals: Battle For Survival'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===G=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Game of Lions'' ✓ * ''Grizzly Cauldron'' ✓ * ''Gangster Jackals | www.cineby.at, * ''Great Barrier Reef'' (ww5.tinyzone.org) * ''Giraffe: African Giant'' ✓ * ''Galapagos: Enchanted Islands'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===H=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Hippo Vs Croc'' ✓ * ''Hunt for The Shadow Cat * ''Hunt for The Giant Squid'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===I=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Into The Okavango'' ✓ * ''Into The Pride Lands'' ✓ * ''India's Wild Leopards'' ✓ * ''Incredible Animal Journeys'' ✓ * ''Inside The Enchanted Forests'' ✓ * ''Inside The Enchanted Waterways'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===J=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Jaguar vs Croc'' ✓ * ''Jade Eyed Leopard'' ✓ * ''Jaguar Beach Battle'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===K=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Killer Shew'' ✓ * ''Kiler Queen'' ✓ * ''Kangaroo Kaos (has episodes) {{Col-end}} ===L=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Little Giant'' ✓ * ''Little Killers'' * ''Lion Kingdom'' * ''Lemur Island'' | bflix.se * ''Lion Dynasty'' ✓ * ''Lion Ganglands'' ✓ * ''Lion Battle Zone'' ✓ * ''Leopard Kingdom'' ✓ * ''Leopard Huntress'' ✓ * ''Land of 10,000 Grizzlies''|watch.cinewave.qzz.io, * ''Leopards of Dead Tree Island'' ✓ * ''Leopard: Ultimate Survivor'' | {{Col-end}} ===M=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Man Vs Lion'' ✓ * ''Man vs Puma ✓ * ''Man vs Monster'' * ''Mexico Untamed'' ✓ * ''Man vs Cheetah'' ✓ * ''Moster Croc Hunt'' ✓ * ''Mystery of the giant Cave Spider'' (saved/non english) {{Col-end}} ===O=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Otter Town'' (Saved "No English") {{Col-end}} ===P=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Penguinpalooza'' * ''Paradise Islands'' ✓ * ''Praire Dog Manor'' ✓ * ''Path of The Pather'' ✓ * ''Planet of the Birds'' ✓ * ''Predator In Paradise'' * ''Peru's Wild Kingdom'' (saved) * ''Pristine Seas: The Power of Protection ✓ * ''Puma!: Elusive Hunter of the Andes'' {{Col-end}} ===R=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Rebal Monkeys'' * ''Real Angry Birds'' * ''Return of The Clouded Leopard {{Col-end}} ===S=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Super Cat'' ✓ * ''Swam Lions * ''Super Snake * ''Super Pride * ''South Africa'' * ''Super Squirrel'' * ''Surpet's Surprise'' ✓ * ''Strangest Bird Alive'' * ''Secret Life of Pearls'' * ''Secret Life of Tigers'' * ''Secrets of Wild India'' (movieseq.com) * ''Secrets of the King Cobra'' ✓ * ''Saving Giraffes: The Long Journey Home'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===T=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''The Nile'' * ''Tiger Wars'' ✓ * ''Tiger's Revenge'' * ''The Jungle King'' * ''The Kangaroo King'' ✓ * ''Tree Climbing Lions ✓ * ''The Forbidden River'' * ''The Unlikely Leopard'' ✓ * ''The Rise of Black Wolf ✓ * ''The Way of the Cheetah'' ✓ * ''The Great Elephant Walk'' {{Col-end}} ===U=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Untamed Americas'' * ''Ultimate Honey Badger'' * ''Ultimate Rivals: Cats vs Dogs'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===W=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Wild 24'' (saved) * ''Wild Artic ✓ * ''Wild Chile'' * ''Wild Egypt'' ✓ * ''Wild Korea'' ✓ * ''Wild Hawaii'' ✓ * ''Wild Russia'' ✓ * ''Wild Nordic'' ✓ * ''Wild Borneo'' * ''Wolf vs Bear ✓ * ''Wild Vietnam'' ✓ * ''Wild Monsoon'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''Wild Thailand'' (saved) * ''War Elephants'' * ''Wild Indonesia'' ✓ * ''Wild Sir Lanka'' ✓ * ''Wild Argentina'' (moviemoza.com, movies2watch.biz, ihavenotv.com,123movie.work) * ''Wild Mississippi'' (has episodes) * ''War of The Lions'' * ''Wild Yellowstone'' ✓ * ''Wild New Zealand'' * ''Wild Cats Of India'' ✓ * ''Whales of the Deep'' {{Col-end}} ===Y=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Yellowstone Wolf Dynasty'' ✓ * ''Yellowstone Wolves: Succession ✓ {{Col-end}} ===Numbers=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''20 years with Dolphins'' {{Col-end}} ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ '''National Geographic Animal Programming''' ===A=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''A Real Bug's Life'' ✓ * ''A Real Bug's Life II'' ✓ * ''Attack of the Killer Bees'' * ''America's National Parks'' ✓ * ''Animal's They're Just Like US!'' ✓ * ''Animals up close with Bertie Gregory'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===B=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Bear Island * ''Bumblebees ✓ * ''Born in Africa'' * ''Battle For Elephants'' * ''Big Sur: Wild California'' uflix.to {{Col-end}} ===C=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Chimps on The Edge * ''Cheetahs Up Close with Berite Gregory ✓ {{Col-end}} ===D=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Dead By Dawn'' ✓ * ''Devils of The Deep: The Giant Squad * ''Dolphins Up Close with Bertie Gregory ✓ {{Col-end}} ===E=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Eye of The Leopard ✓ * ''Expedition Great White'' * ''Eternal Enemies: Lions and Hyenas {{Col-end}} ===G=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Ghost Elephants ✓ * ''Great Migration's'' ✓ * ''Gabon: The Last Eden'' {{Col-end}} ===H=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Hostile Planet'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===I=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Into The Pride * ''Into The Pride Lands ✓ * ''In Search of The Jaguar * ''Incredible Animal Journeys'' ✓ * ''Inside The Enchanted Forests'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===K=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Kangaroo Kaos * ''Kingdom Of The Apes * ''Kingdom of The Blue Whale * ''Kingdom of The Polar Bear'' ✓ * ''Kingdom of The White Wolf'' ✓ * ''Killer Whales: Wolves of the Sea {{Col-end}} ===L=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Little Giant'' ✓ * ''Last Stand of The Great Bear * ''Last of The Giants: Wild Fish'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===M=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Meet The Chimps'' ✓ * ''Moose: Titans of the North'' {{Col-end}} ===N=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''National Parks: USA'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===O=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Ocean With David Attenborough'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===P=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Path of The Panther'' ✓ * ''Panda's The Journey Home (123movieslive.top) {{Col-end}} ===Q=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Queens'' ✓ * ''Ocean With David Attenborough'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===S=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''She Wolf'' ✓ * ''Squid vs Whale'' * ''Savage Kingdom'' ✓ * ''Sharks Reef Rivals ✓ * ''Secrets of The Bees ✓ * ''Secrets of The Whales'' ✓ * ''Secrets of The Octopus'' ✓ * ''Secrets of The Penguins'' ✓ * ''Secrets of The Elephants'' ✓ * ''Shark Movers Deadly Cargo'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===T=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''The Flood'' ✓ * ''The Kangaroo King'' ✓ * ''The Unlikely Leopard ✓ * ''The Secrets of The Octopus'' ✓ * ''The Last Rhinos: A New Hope ✓ * ''The Hidden Kingdoms of China'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===U=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Untamed Americas'' {{Col-end}} ===W=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Whales in Crisis'' * ''Winged seduction birds of paradise |braflix.bz, * ''Wolves: A Legend Return to Yellowstone'' {{Col-end}} ===Y=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * '' Yellowstone Wolf Dynasty'' {{Col-end}} ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ '''BBC America/BBC Earth Programming''' ===A=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Africa'' ✓ * ''A Perfect Planet'' * ''Africa's Wild Year'' ✓ * ''A Wild Year On Earth'' ✓ * ''Asia: Bonus Edition * ''Attenborough and the Giant Elephant'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===B=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Blue Planet'' ✓ * ''Blue Planet II'' ✓ * ''Big Cats 24/7'' ✓ * ''Big Cat 24/7 || * ''Big Bear Diary'' ✓ * ''Big Little Journeys'' |'''braflix.bz''' * ''Bears: Spy In The Woods | {{Col-end}} ===C=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''China: Nature Ancient Kingdom'' (flixhq) {{Col-end}} ===D=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Dynasties'' ✓ * ''Deep Blue'' ✓ * ''Dynasties II'' * ''Dogs In The Wild: Meet The Family'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''David Attenborough: A Life on our Planet'' ✓ * ''David Attenborough: Life In Cold Blood * ''David Attenborough: Conquest of the Skies * ''Deep Ocean: The Lost World Of The Pacific'' (Saved) {{Col-end}} ===E=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Earth Flight'' ihavenotv?,hd-feemovie.com , azmovies.net * ''Expedition Wolf'' (check) * ''Enchanted Kingdom'' (Idris Elba) ww5.tinyzone.org * ''Earth's Great River's'' (ihavenotv) * ''Earth's Great Seasons'' ✓ * ''Earth's Great River's II'' (ihavenotv?) * ''Earth Tropical Islands'' (ihavenotv?) * ''Eden: Untamed Planet'' (ihavenotv) {{Col-end}} ===F=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Frozen Planet'' ✓ * ''Frozen Planet II'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===G=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Galapagos'' movies24free.com''' * ''Great Barrier Reef' (azmovies.net, * ''Gorilla Family and Me'' * ''Grizzy Bear Cubs and Me {{Col-end}} ===H=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Hostile Planet'' ✓ * ''Hidden Habitats'' (theflixer.sx) {{Col-end}} ===J=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Japan: Earth's Enchanted Islands'' (azmovies.net) {{Col-end}} ===K=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Kingdom (123movies9.surf) {{Col-end}} ===L=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Life'' ✓ * ''Life Story'' ✓ * ''Life In Color'' ✓ * ''Little Big Cat'' * ''Life in Cold Blood'' (ihavenotv.com) * ''London's Wild Side'' * ''Lands Of The Monsoon'' * ''Lions: Spy In The Den'' * ''Life In The Undergrowth'' azmovies.net, * ''Lost land of The Tiger'' (ihavenotv.com) {{Col-end}} ===M=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Mammals'' ✓ * ''Mirco Monsters'' (ihavenotv, azmovies.net, ww5.tinyzone.org) * ''Madagascar'' (David Attenborugh) *hdtodayz.to* * ''Mountains: Life Above the Clouds'' {{Col-end}} ===N=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''Nature's Great Events'' ✓ {{Col-end}} ===O=== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * ''One Life'' (documentaryarea.com) * ''Our Planet'' (flixq?) 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The series is a satirical depiction of American life, epitomized by the Simpson family. ===''[[w:Homer's Crossing|Homer's Crossing]]''=== :'''Superintendent Chalmers''': So, since Otto has disappeared with our bus, and our brownie pans, parents will have to drive their own children to school. :''[parents complain]'' :'''Principal Skinner''': Well, fewer of you would have to drive if you sat down and arranged a carpool schedule. :''[parents complain harder]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Marge''': Homer, you just volunteered. :'''Homer''': Dear god. No. Stop. Yield. :'''Gil Gunderson''': Well, he's got the lingo down. This guy's a natural. <hr width=50%/> :'''Mayor Quimby''': God bless that saintly doughball. That's it, I'm giving Springfield's crossing guards an actual budget. Not for self-serving political reasons, but because I'm a man of people who wants to do good in the world. <hr width=50%/> :'''Bart''': Perhaps, but on the other hand... ''[Burps at Lisa in her face, then laughs]'' :'''Lisa''': Ugh. Mom! :'''Bart''': Gotcha! :'''Marge''': Bart, say excuse me. <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': Must hammer nails. ===''[[w:A Mid-Childhood Night's Dream|A Mid-Childhood Night's Dream]]''=== :'''Announcer''': Attention, shoppers. A mother's love is forever, but mother's love rat poison is only on sale till the end of the day. ===''[[w:McMansion & Wife|McMansion & Wife]]''=== :'''Marge''': We have to meet the new neighbors before they hear about us from the old neighbors. :'''Homer''': Hey, I have friends in this neighborhood. There's the guy whose lawn I used as a shortcut, the guy whose mailbox crashed into our car, and Mrs. Bad Halloween candy. :'''Bad Halloween candy lady''': If my candy is so bad, why do you take so much of it? <hr width=50%> :''[Krusty laughs]'' :'''Sea Captain''': Yarr! :'''Yes Guy''': Uh, yes! <hr width=50%> :'''Ned Flanders''': Howdily-doodily. I brought bibles for the new arrivals. <hr width=50%> :'''Lou''': Hey, Chief, aren't you going to pull him over? :'''Chief Wiggum''': Really? In this dodge charger with 260,000 miles, with a catalytic converter that's being stolen as we speak. :'''Snake''': Gotcha! <hr width=50%> :''[Futuristic of the Simpsons looking at the museum at home. The Simpsons futuristic theme plays]'' :'''Grampa''': What are you looking at?! ===''[[w:Thirst Trap: A Corporate Love Story|Thirst Trap: A Corporate Love Story]]''=== :'''Mr. Burns''': So you want me to talk about Persephone Odair? That's easy. She was a brilliant entrepreneur who wanted to save the world. How I wish that was her only shortcoming. ===''[[w:Treehouse of Horror XXXIV|Treehouse of Horror XXXIV]]''=== :'''Sideshow Bob''': Wait, did you only asked me to sing to forestall your gruesome end? :'''Bart''': Guilty as charged. <hr width=50%=/> :'''Sideshow Bob''': I'm sorry for the imbroglio, but if the chef de cuisine insists on calling it Taco Tuesdays, he can't very well serve flautas and expect us not to make a fuss. <hr width=50%=0.5/> :'''Lisa:''' Hello, Bob. :'''Sideshow Bob:''' H-how did you get in here? :'''Lisa:''' Well, I knew if I killed enough people in the most gruesome possible ways, they'd send me to your prison. But to get into your cell, I had a little help. :''[The security guard is revealed to be Maggie Simpson]'' :'''Sideshow Bob''': Lisa the killer? I never thought you had it in you. :'''Lisa''': ''[slicks back her hair]'' The Lisa you knew? Didn't. ''[musses it up again]'' But I'm another story! :'''Sideshow Bob''': Oho, really? [[w:dissociative identity disorder|Split personalities?]] Trope alert! Call the first thought police! :'''Lisa''': ''[scene shows Lisa killing her victims]'' Professor Lisa had no idea she was my accomplice. ''[scene changes back to the present]'' But she's gone now. She was my last victim. Or rather, ''[takes a knife, grinning menacingly]'' second to last. :'''Sideshow Bob''': The penultimate! ''[Bob steps onto a rake and it whacks him. He grumbles.] :''[Lisa turns on the gramophone. [[w:He is an Englishman|He is an Englishman]] from [[w:H.M.S Pinafore|H.M.S Pinafore]] begins to play and Lisa dances along with it, until turning her attention back to Bob. She menacingly approaches Bob with a knife. Scene goes outside the cell, as Lisa kills Bob, while Maggie chills next to the cell door.]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Lisa''': Have you seen our dad? :'''Moe''': No, just these hundreds of silly versions of him, which is the greatest thing that has ever happened to me. I mean I'm printing money over here. ===''[[w:Iron Marge|Iron Marge]]''=== :'''Agnes''': My Werthers, my choice. ===''[[w:It's a Blunderful Life|It's a Blunderful Life]]''=== :'''Bart''': I call a drumstick. :'''Homer''': Nice try, boy, but we agreed I'd get both drumsticks every Thanksgiving on the day you were born. :'''Bart''': Aw, no fair. I was too young to sign that. :'''Homer''': I believe this is your foot, is it not? And I had it notarized. :'''Bart''': ''[turns red in anger]'' Why you giant.. ''[angrily strangles Homer]'' :'''Lisa''': ''[sighs]'' But the worst was yet to come. That Thanksgiving would surpass Christmas and my birthday as the saddest day of the year. <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': Mmmm...pepper spray. ===''[[w:Ae Bonny Romance|Ae Bonny Romance]]''=== :'''Marge''': Oh, my head. Homie, what do you take for a hangover? Huh? ''[Homer is running away]'' Oh fine, be that way. :'''Homer''': For once, I'm the one who spoke truth while drunk. :'''Marge''': Oh, oh. Running away from a fight? :'''Homer''': Well, I'm still mad at you! :'''Marge''': Well, I'm still mad at you! :'''Homer''': You told everyone that I don't care about romance, and now they think Homer Simpson is vanilla in the sack! :''["Homer Simpson is vanilla in the sack!" echoes, followed by "vanilla in the sack!" echoing three times]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Groundskeeper Willie''': Ah, you broke my sniffer. You do love me. ===''[[w:Murder, She Boat|Murder, She Boat]]''=== :'''Marge''': ''[singing]'' I'm getting the mail, hallelujah, I'm getting the mail. It's something to do. ''[stops singing]'' Hmm. What the [[Helen Mirren]]? <hr width=50%/> :'''Marge''': Stimulus checks? We were supposed to catch these during the pandemic. Should we spend the money now or wait for the next one? :'''Bart''': So what are we gonna blow it on, jet ski or motorbike? Vroom, vroom, vroom! :'''Lisa''': ''[to Marge]'' Mom, there is something I've always wanted for this family, but it's not a thing, exactly. :'''Bart''': Vroom? :'''Lisa''': ...but rather, it's an experience. Something we can all treasure and talk about for years to come. :'''Marge''': Wow. Well, then maybe we should do it. :'''Bart''': ''[to Marge]'' Wait, that's the move? Go all sincere and emo? Gross. :''[Bart walks away from the kitchen]'' :'''Lisa''': There is one small issue. My idea will take finessing with Dad. :'''Marge''': Hmm. ===''[[w:Do the Wrong Thing (The Simpsons)|Do the Wrong Thing]]''=== :'''Bart''': Students, look to your right, look to your left. These are the people you'll be cheating off of. ===''[[w:Frinkenstein's Monster|Frinkenstein's Monster]]''=== :'''Carl''': Me, too. :'''Barney''': I use mine as corn holders. :'''Homer''': Marge, baby, when I get this job, we're gonna be rich. Rich. <hr width=50%> :'''Waylon Smithers''': All right, Simpson, this is the 691st time you've left us for another job. :'''Homer''': Yeah, well, I have a good feeling about this time. :'''Smithers''': So, we finally said what the hell, we have a form for everything else around here, so why not this? ===''[[w:Lisa Gets an F1|Lisa Gets an F1]]''=== :'''Crazy Cat Lady''': ''[the dogs barking]'' Monster. Monsters all. Ow! :'''Lisa''': So he's afraid of germs on toilet seats. :'''Annette''': No, he's afraid of rotisserie chicken. Lisa, if we can use this exposures treatment to get you comfortable in cars, that might help you overcome your other anxieties. :'''Lisa''': Okay, I'll do whatever it takes. :'''Annette''': Well, I must warn you, it won't be fun. <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': Time for your bedtime sweet dream routine. ''[Lisa climbs into bed, and Homer switches the light off]'' Here's your night-terror teddies... ''[He dumps all the teddies on Lisa]'' And I'll set the night-light to "boogeyman banisher." ''[He squats down and turns Lisa's moon night-light on]'' <hr width=50%/> :'''Homer''': ''[As he wakes up from the [[w:Mario Kart|Mario Kart]] nightmare After He (As [[Wario]]) knocks Lisa (as [[Mario]]) Off the Rainbow Road with a bomb.]'' It's-a me, Wario! It's all my fault! Wah! <hr width=50%/> :'''Lisa''': Okay, missing a wheel, no brakes, still in control. Okay, now I'm not in control, but still calm. Wow, I have a great therapist. :'''Annette''': She's gonna die! ===''[[w:Clan of the Cave Mom|Clan of the Cave Mom]]''=== ===''[[w:Night of the Living Wage|Night of the Living Wage]]''=== :'''Lisa''': I am so sorry. You can sell my Malibu Stacy Dream House. It's increased in value. I just redid the kitchen. :'''Homer''': Relax. We're not gonna sell your toys. The sax is where the real money is. :'''Marge''': Homer. :'''Homer''': What? My upper-lower, middle-lower, lower-class income isn't gonna get us out of this. :'''Marge''': Hmm. In order to save this family, I'm gonna have to do something I've never done before, get a job. :'''Bart''': Oh, you've had tons of jobs: cop, realtor, gym owner, erotic baker, weed sommelier. ===''[[w:Cremains of the Day (The Simpsons)|Cremains of the Day]]''=== ===''[[w:The Tell-Tale Pants|The Tell-Tale Pants]]''=== ===''[[w:The Tipping Point (The Simpsons)|The Tipping Point]]''=== :'''Bart''': Dad, where's my bike? :'''Homer''': How would I know? I don't know. You probably lost it. :'''Bart''': Dad! :'''Homer''': I tipped it! I gave it to my barber because he cleaned up my eyebrows. ''[Crying hugs Bart]'' I'm so sorry, Bart! I'm so sorry. <hr width=50%/> :'''Moe''': Exact change? Huh. That's it? :'''Homer''': Oh, I really want to tip you, Moe, but I promised my wife I'd quit. :'''Moe''': Here's a thought, Homer. Uh, what if you took the moolah out of your pocket, but you just stop before anything happened. You know, uh, everything but the tip. :'''Homer''': That doesn't seem like it could lead to anything. :'''Moe''': Sure it couldn't. :'''Homer''': ''[takes his wallet out of his pocket, giving Moe a $10]'' We shouldn't have done that. :'''Moe''': Does that mean that you want to stop? :'''Homer''': ''[giving Moe a another $10, moans]'' No. It feels so good. ''[giving Moe a another $10]'' :'''Moe''': Don't stop, you generous man. Oh, yeah, give it to me, big boy. :'''Homer''': You like that? :'''Moe''': Oh, that's the spot. :'''Homer''': I can do this all night. :'''Moe''': Right there. :'''Homer''': Tell me you want it. :'''Moe''': Oh, God! :'''Homer''': Yes! :'''Moe''': Oh, God! :'''Homer''': Yes! :'''Moe''': Oh, God! :'''Homer''': Yes! ''[cash flies into a Moe in his face]'' :'''Moe''': Oh, God! :'''Carl''': I need a new bar. ===''[[w:Bart's Brain|Bart's Brain]]''=== :'''Marge''': Ugh, Bart, stop it! This is enough! :'''Homer''': Yeah, this isn't just some little quirk like wearing a fedora or being a Libertarian. You got a disgusting brain in a greasy jar. ==External links== {{wikipedia|The Simpsons season 35}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Simpsons, Season 35}} [[Category:The Simpsons seasons]] errbjgwx8xd04dhn1lgrm72xqqqh7ad 0 268355 3961247 3960325 2026-07-05T19:31:36Z ~2026-38218-50 3347762 /* Episode 9: Remember */ 3961247 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Tux Paint circus.svg|thumb|'''Welcome to the Amazing Digital Circus!''' My name is Caine! I'm your ringmaster, and I'm here to show you the most jaw-dropping, heart-stopping, mind-bending paraphernalia you've ever laid your eyes upon!]] [[File:Fan Expo Denver 2024 - Cosplay of Pomni Cropped.jpg|thumb|So, our entire existence here is just...[[W:LARPing|LARPing]]?]] '''''[[W:The Amazing Digital Circus|The Amazing Digital Circus]]''''' is an animated [[Surreal humour|surreal comedy]] web series created by Gooseworx and produced by [[wikipedia:Glitch_Productions|Glitch Productions]]. The plot revolves around a nervous young woman dubbed Pomni ([[W:Lizzie Freeman|Lizzie Freeman]]) and five other psychologically troubled humans— optimistic Ragatha, mean-spirited Jax, crotchety Zooble, depressive Gangle, and erratic Kinger —who are trapped in a virtual reality game run by an eccentric AI ringmaster named Caine, and must fend off the threat of losing their minds and “abstracting” into monsters. ==Dialogue== [[File:Noto Emoji Pie 1f3aa.svg|thumb|The Amazing Digital Circus is a place to be enjoyed by all ages. You my friend stumbled into an incredible world of wonders, where anything can happen! E-except for swearing.]] === Episode 1: Pilot === [[File:Comiccon Brussels 2025 - Fall - Jax.jpg|thumb|I'm fine with doing whatever, as long as I get to see funny things happen to people.]] :'''Caine''': Welcome to the Amazing Digital Circus! My name is Caine! I'm your ringmaster, and I'm here to show you the most jaw-dropping, heart-stopping, mind-bending paraphernalia you've ever laid your eyes upon! Isn't that right, Bubble? :'''Bubble''': That's right, Caine! I can't wait to see what you've got cooking up for today. :'''Caine''': Well, let's not waste any time. Let's get right into the show. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Pomni''': W-W-Whe-- Wh-- Where am I? Agh! :'''Jax''': Caine, is this one of your [[W:NPC|NPCs]] or is this a new sucker? 'Cause if it's a new character, we're gonna have to redo this whole theme song. :'''Zooble''': I'm not doing that again. :'''Caine''': My, my! It appears a new human has entered this realm! :'''Pomni''': ''[straining]'' How do I... take this... headset off?! :'''Jax''': Just keep grabbing at it. That worked for all of us. :'''Pomni''': ''[groans, gasps]'' W-what's going on? I-I-I put on some weird headset, and now I'm... here. Who are you people? Why can't I take it off? Where am I? :'''Ragatha''': Let's just try to calm down. Everything's gonna be okay, new stuff. We've all been through this. You just need to get your head to- :'''Pomni''': What the ''[boing]'' is going on?! :'''Caine''': Now, now, now, my dear, we can't any of that foul language around here. The Amazing Digital Circus is a place to be enjoyed by all ages. You my friend stumbled into an incredible world of wonders, where anything can happen! E-except for swearing. :'''Pomni''': ''[swears multiple times, getting censored each time]'' Oh my God. U-uh, well, h-how do I... you know, leave? :'''Caine''': Uh- :'''Ragatha''': W-Well, don’t freak out about it or anything, but uh- we don’t exactly… :'''Jax''': You can’t. :'''Pomni''' What? :'''Zooble''': Shut up, Jax. But yeah, he’s right. Welcome to your new home. And your new body. :'''Pomni''': “N-N-New home”? What do you mean? :'''Ragatha''': Guys, don’t be mean. :'''Jax''': We’ve been stuck here for years. Old Kinger over there supposedly been here the longest. :'''Kinger''': Huh? Did someone say something about an insect collection? :'''Jax''': That’s why he’s crazy. Heh-heh! Eh... :'''Pomni''': ''[pants]'' Oh, okay, now I get it, this is a dream, should just play along until I wake up. Right? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Caine''': Here, we have... "THE TENT". This is where your living quarters are, as well as all sorts of other activities! These activities may include... ''[dial-up tone blares]''—ball pits, mini golf, and more! And here, we have... "THE GROUNDS". Drown yourself in the digital lake or engage in ridery at the digital carnival! Night, day — It's all okay! The choice is yours! A cosmic buffet! :'''Pomni''': Uh, is... that all there is? :'''Caine''': Of course not! :'''Caine''': This is "THE VOID!" We don't venture out into the void. ''[nervously]'' Not even I know what's out there... <hr width="50%"/> :'''Moon''': ''[seductively]'' Hello, Caine, I love you. :'''Caine''': AGH!! Let's get outta here before the Moon gets ''frisky!'' <hr width="50%"/> :''[Pomni pukes up a black, oily ooze]'' :'''Caine''': Whoa, clean up on aisle YOU! :'''Bubble''': I'm on it, boss! ''[licks and slurps the vomit off of the floor]'' :'''Caine''': ''[disturbed]'' Why are you like this..? <hr width="50%"/> [[File:Caine IA.jpg|thumb|Do you like adventure? Activity? Wonder? Danger? Horror? Pain? Suffering? Agony? Death? Disease? Death? Angel food cake?]] :'''Caine''': How about we talk about something else? Like your name! :'''Pomni''': My name? My name is... uh, oh God, why can't I remember my name?! :'''Caine''': Nobody can remember their name once they enter the Digital Circus. One of the few things I don't have control over are your minds. So, all I can help you with is coming up with a new one. :'''Pomni''': Uhh, what's my name...? :'''Caine''': Don't you worry your little head. Your new name can be anything! ''[suddenly speaking at auction speed]'' Hereby acknowledging that your chosen name and or names may not breach the Digital Circus user license agreement stating that your name may not include objectionable content. Objectionable content includes but is not limited to sexually explicit materials, onscene, defamatory, libelous, slanderous, violent, and/or unlawful content or profanity. ''[normal speed]'' What are you thinkin'? :'''Pomni''': Huh? I don't care, just pick anything. :'''Caine''': Let's see! ''[a slot machine slams onto the ground beside Caine and Pomni and spins to "XDDCC"]'' What do you think of "XDDCC"? :'''Pomni''': I don't- :'''Caine''': You're right, terrible. Let's try *that* again! ''[spins again, this time getting "POMNI"]'' What do you think of "Pomni"? :'''Pomni''': Uh, sure. I think I just- :'''Caine''': Gadzooks, you're right, Jax! We should have a brand new adventure for our new member, Pomni! :'''Jax''': I said that like five minutes ago. :'''Caine''': You! Do you like adventure? Activity? Wonder? Danger? Horror? Pain? Suffering? Agony? Death? Disease? Death? ''[An angel food cake spawns in Caine’s hand.]''Angel food cake? :''[Bubble eats the whole cake]'' :'''Caine''': YOU PARASITE! ''[pops Bubble]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Caine''': Today's adventure is... GATHER THE GLOINKS! ''[Laughs maniacally]'' That's right! The entire circus tent will be infested with Gloinks, and you gotta catch 'em all! :'''Bubble''': But what are they? :'''Caine''': I'm glad you asked, Bubble! They're small— :'''Bubble''': And what do they do? :'''Caine''': They— :'''Bubble''': And how do they— :''[Caine pops Bubble]'' :'''Caine''': Gloinks are small mischievous critters that steal anything and everything they run into! Why do these humanoid hash-browns do this? How do you stop them? That's for you to find out. Now, good luck, and have fun, my little superstars! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jax''': ''[sarcastically]'' Oh, no, they killed Zooble. ''[regular tone]'' Anyway, you guys wanna go get something to eat? :'''Ragatha''': Oh, wait -- we should go check on Kaufmo. I'm pretty sure he'd like to meet Pomni. :''[Gloinks dismantle Kinger's pillow fort]'' :'''Kinger''': My impenetrable fortress! :'''Ragatha''': You wanna come with us to check on Kaufmo? :'''Kinger''': No, not really. I think Kaufmo's gone insane. Last time I spoke with him, he was rambling endlessly about some exit. Kind of like you, Pomni! You might be going insane too. :'''Pomni''': But wait! Wouldn't that more likely mean the exit ''does'' exist? :'''Jax''': Could also mean that you just have a jumpstart on losing your mind? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jax''': I'm fine with doing whatever, as long as I get to see funny things happen to people. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jax''': Don't worry dollface, I've got a key to his room. ''[Reveals key, spinning it and walking towards Kaufmo's room]'' :'''Ragatha''': Wha, wait, wh-why?! You-you-you shouldn't have keys to anyone's room! :'''Jax''': Nah, I've got keys everywhere, and you've all been fine. By the way, I may have left something in your room today, so let me know if you find it. You're not afraid of centipedes, are ya? :'''Ragatha''': *JAX!!!* THAT'S LITERALLY MY ONLY FEAR! *WHY* WOULD YOU DO THIS?! :'''Jax''': What? It could be a completely unrelated question. You'll never know until it's too late. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Kinger''': I don't know what I'm looking at here. :'''Gangle''': We saw a Gloink carry one of Zooble's pieces down there, remember? :'''Kinger''': Oh, yeah. Thank you for the recap. :'''Gangle''': ....What? :'''Kinger''': Boy, we're not very good at this, are we? :'''Jax''': Ugh... Sup, fellas? :'''Kinger''': ''[yelling]'' JAX! ''[normal voice]'' We found the Zooble hole. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Gloink Queen''': You foolish assortment of colorful characters! Do you not realize everything must be Gloinks!? I am Gloinks. You will be Gloinks! God will be Gloinks! :'''Jax''': This is dumb and weird. :'''Gloink Queen''': Well, B- uh- Y- Yet you're still watching it! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Kinger''': Oh, thank god you're okay! You didn't experience a game show in there, did you? :'''Zooble''': Uh.. I- ''What are you talking about?'' <hr width="50%"/> :''[Caine and Bubble laugh at a dining table]'' :'''Caine''': Oh, Bubble, you always know how to make me say this exact sentence. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bubble''': Made with all the love I'm ''[somberly]'' legally allowed to give. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jax''': You know, I am pretty hungry. :'''Gangle''': You didn't even do anything. :'''Jax''': So what? I can still be hungry. :'''Kinger''': Well not really, 'cause we don't need to eat, drink or sleep in this digital world. So the digital food here only gives off the virtual sensation of eating without any of the nutritional benefits. === Episode 2: Candy Carrier Chaos! === [[File:PomniCosplayTO.jpg|thumb|I guess I just don't want you to feel like you're nothing... I don't want anybody to feel like that.]] :'''Pomni''': So, our entire existence here is just...[[W:LARPing|LARPing]]? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bubble''': An entire kingdom of candy? Sounds ''sticky''. :'''Caine''': Very sticky, indeed. :'''Bubble''': Sounds— ''[incredibly long bleep]'' :'''Caine''': ''[shocked; aside glance]'' Bubble, you can't say that. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jax''': All right, Gangle, when we catch up to 'em, I'll jump over, crawl inside, and shoot 'em repeatedly until they're unrecognizable. :'''Gangle''': I feel like that violates some kind of convention. :'''Jax''': You're violating my ears with your clap-back. Get driving, driver! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Gummigoo''': Wheres mum? :'''Pomni''': Y-You have a mom? :'''Gummigoo''': Shouldn't she be here with everyone else? I can't even remember her face, did she ever have a face?! Was anything ever real?! <hr width="50%"/> :'''The Fudge''': I am the Fudge. I used to live within the kingdom walls, but I was banished by that rotten princess after I ate too many of the delicious townfolk. Oh, they were so delicious. Sometimes I can hear them... ''calling to me''… :'''Ragatha''': Oh, God. That just sounds like murder. :'''The Fudge''': Is it really murder if it's delicious? Answer me that. :'''Jax''': You make a great point. :'''Ragatha''': Uh, no, bad point! :'''Jax''': Why don't you leave this to me before I start thinking your hair looks like licorice? :'''Ragatha''': Jax! :'''Kinger''': Oh, wow, it kind of does. :'''Ragatha''': Stop! :'''Jax''': Well, Mr. Fudge, you seem like an upstanding guy with real noble goals. :'''The Fudge''': Oh, I'm not. If you knew what I did in my free time- Oh, you'd be sickened! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Pomni''': This may seem weird, but... I think I know the feeling. Well, m-maybe not the e-exact feeling, but... feeling like you're nothing is... kind of normal. I mean, people even feel like that in the world I came from. But... Y-you still care about your buddies up there, don't you? I'm sure they still care about you. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Pomni''': '''I guess I just don't want you to feel like you're nothing... I don't want anybody to feel like that.''' === Episode 3: The Mystery Of Mildenhall Manor === [[File:Japan Impact 2024 – Cosplay solo.jpg|thumb|Good memories can do a lot. Hold onto them. And cherish the people around you. You never know when they'll be gone. In this world, the worst thing you can do is... make someone think they're not wanted or loved.]] :'''Jax''': Something different happens to each person ''[when they hold their breath]''! For instance, Kinger starts glowing... Ragatha's hair noodles stick up... Gangle's mask starts spinning... and Zooble turns [[Heterosexuality|straight]]. :'''Zooble''': My limbs straighten up. ''[boink]'' off. ''[flips him off, also censored]'' :'''Pomni''': What about you? :'''Zooble''': He refuses to show us because he's a coward. :'''Jax''': I wanna keep the mystery alive. ''[seemingly points at the camera]'' What do YOU, the VIEWERS, think it is? ''[camera shifts, revealing he’s pointing at nothing]'' :'''Zooble''': Will you stop doing that? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bubble''': retsnom eht morf seramthgin elbirroh teg ot ecneidua eht ni nerdlihc eht lla rof tiaw t'nac I! :'''Caine''': WHAT? :: ''Bubble is actually saying “I can't wait for all the children in the audience to get horrible nightmares from the monster!” in reverse'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Caine''': So, what's on your mind, Zooble? :'''Zooble''': I... would rather not. :'''Caine''': Hahahahaha! That's hilarious! Go on. :'''Zooble''': No, I mean, I've already told you what my problem is. You just never remember because... Oh, never mind. :'''Caine''': My mind is a beeswax-polished coconut. Nothing ever escapes these cakes. So, what can I do to make my adventures more... appealing to you? :'''Zooble''': See? This is exactly what I'm talking about. All you're thinking about is your adventures. It has nothing to do with the adventures. It's more just... Ugh, forget it. You're probably not even listening. :'''Caine''': Zooble, look at this cool bee I drew! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Baron Mildenhall''': ''[Tape recording]'' My name is Baron Theodore Mildenhall. Hunting has been a hobby of mine for as long as I can remember -- although one could say it eventually became more of an obsession. The creature you see before you is one I've been pursuing for years. Not quite a man... but not quite an animal. Something... unholy. Something evil. I took it upon myself to spend every waking moment doing all I could to protect my family from the creature, hoping that when I eventually killed it, I would be freed from this awful feeling. This inescapable dread. I was wrong. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Caine''': I ''do not'' use my adventures to torture my guests! Any torment I inflict is 100% accidental, like any good war criminal! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Baron Mildenhall''': ''[On tape]'' Things have gotten far worse than I could ever have imagined. My paranoia had driven me to the point where I was no longer the protector my wife and theoretical children needed. Jumping at every shadow, every noise. I ended up shooting the love of my life, mistaking her for the creature. It's ironic, isn't it? In my attempts to protect her, I ended up becoming the monster myself. Now I wait down in my cellar, no longer having anything to protect my own soul. If nothing else... I will slay the beast that took everything from me. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Kinger''': How's about we take his gun? :'''Pomni''': Yeah, sounds good to me. ''[Goes over to Baron Mildenhall’s corpse]'' Please don't come alive... :'''Baron Mildenhall''': Okay, I won't. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Kinger''': Well. That wasn't so bad. :'''Baron Mildenhall''': ''[on tape]'' Which is what I would be saying if I didn't know that the creature was actually one of [[God|God's]] angels. :'''Kinger''': What. :'''Baron Mildenhall''': ''[on tape]'' And anyone who brings harm to it will be dragged down into the cold, spiraling pits of [[Hell]], where my soul resides. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Baron Mildenhall''': ''[on tape]'' I apologize, dear listener, but I need a living host in order to escape the hall of the damned, and your bodies will be my only means of doing so. :'''Kinger''': Now, wait. How did he record this if he was in Hell? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Ragatha''': Mmm, good tea. Sorry again about your husband killing you and everything. :'''Martha Mildenhall''': Oh, you know how men are. Always having the silliest priorities. :'''Ragatha''': ''[chuckles]'' Don't I know it. ''[Glances at a tied-up Jax]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Martha Mildenhall''': ''[About her husband]'' That man could turn a 57-second story into a Greek tragedy. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Pomni''': Why have you been acting so different lately...? :'''Kinger''': ''[Chuckles]'' I have, haven't I? I'm normally not too good with memories. But being surrounded by darkness always... brings me back to a certain time. Right after my wife had- had abstracted... I don't recall the exact string of events, but we both ended up in the fort together. And it was dark. The darkness seemed to calm her down a bit. The harsh, jagged edges smoothed out, and she didn't seem aggravated anymore. She wasn't the same as before, but she was calm enough to touch one last time... before she got sent to the cellar. I'm always taken back to that moment when engulfed in darkness. :'''Pomni''': You had a wife? Like, here in the circus? :'''Kinger''': Yeah. She was funny, creative- really into [[entomology]]. I used to hate bugs, but... she somehow got me to like them. ''[Chuckles lightly]'' It's not the most cheerful memory, but... it's one I at least have control over. I know how it can feel in this... circus. Sometimes it all just feels... pointless. :'''Pomni''': Yeah... :'''Kinger''': But it's not. Not if you have people who care about you. '''Good memories can do a lot. Hold onto them. And cherish the people around you. You never know when they'll be gone. In this world, the worst thing you can do is... make someone think they're not wanted or loved.''' === Episode 4: Fast Food Masquerade === [[File:Burger 3.jpg|thumb|It's called a [[W:manic episode|manic episode]], and you're gettin' three more seasons!]] [[File:HCCD25 - TADC group.jpg |thumb| Overall, pretty productive. Made a lot of sales with few customer complaints. Couldn't help but notice, however, that you seem to have cut your own shift short, went a little kooky, and ran out into oncoming traffic.]] [[File:Comedy and tragedy masks without background.svg|thumb|Now, I know what you're thinking, "I don't want a career in fast food. I want to be a comic artist and eventually launch my own manga-inspired webcomic!" And it's cool to have dreams, but you also need to remember that they're completely unrealistic, and you need to stop trying. ]] [[File:Braun ABW30 (schwarz).jpg|thumb|Is it broken? Or are we the broken ones?]] :'''Caine''': Today's adventure is... THE CURSE OF THE VIOLENT PSYCHOPATH BUTCHER! That's right! Scary human meat is all over the walls, and boy, is it smelly! It's up to you to-- :'''Pomni''': Okay, wait, wait, wait, wait. Can we, like, chill with the horror? Please? I really don't want this to be like last time. :'''Zooble''': What happened last time? Was that the one made for me? :'''Pomni''': There was this awful, horrifying angel head thing. And when we tried to fight back at all, we got sent to Hell, where evil souls tried to infest our bodies... It was bad. :'''Zooble''': ''[looks at Caine]'' Why did you think I would like that? :'''Caine''': Well, if you're all gonna be such critics, why don't you suggest a better one? :'''Zooble''': We do! Have you not checked the suggestion box once? :'''Caine''': Gonna be real, I forgot we had that. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Caine''': "How about an adventure where Zooble gets turned into a piñata, and we all take turns beating them up?" :'''Jax''': ''[chuckles]'' That one's mine. :'''Zooble''': Who would have guessed? :'''Caine''': "Let's just have an adventure where Jax can't talk for the entire thing." :'''Jax''': ''[sarcastically]'' Genuinely hurtful. :'''Zooble''': Good. :'''Gangle''': Can we maybe pick one that's more... normal? :'''Caine''': W-Well, I don't know what's NORMAL to you people! "Let's have one where we all work at a fast food place." Is that normal? :'''Jax''': Who wrote that? :'''Gangle''': Uh, yeah, that's pretty normal. :'''Caine''': Great! That means today's adventure is... An Honest Hard Day's Work at Spudsy's Restaurant Chain! ''[Points at Gangle]'' And YOU can be the shift manager! :'''Jax:''' You did not just make that today's adventure. :'''Caine''': That's right! You've shown enough leadership skills today to be the perfect shift manager! Of course. Of course! I'm already getting tons of ideas! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Zooble''': I'm not gonna be a wage slave for fun. :'''Kinger''': ''[gasps]'' Oh! I know! I could sit this one out, and Zooble could take my place! :'''Zooble''': Wh- That's not how that works! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Gangle''': ''[On the phone]'' Hey, Caine. We're having a bit of an issue with the employees, and I was wondering if you could maybe have a punishment waiting for them at the end of the day if they do a terrible job? :'''Jax''': Wait, what? :'''Caine''': ''[On the phone]'' Motivation! That's what my adventures have been missing! Great idea, Gangle. I'll be sure to make something truly awful awaiting your rotten employees. ''[hangs up]'' :'''Jax''': Why would you do this? :'''Gangle''': It's called a [[W:manic episode|manic episode]], and you're gettin' three more seasons! <hr width="50%"/> :'''NPC''': Excuse me. Yeah, little jester? I'd like to order the Stupid Burger. Last time I ordered it here, they forgot to add the sauce that makes you stupid. Don't forget the sauce. :'''Pomni''': I-Is that a thing we have? :'''NPC''': Yes. I order it all the time. ''[twitches]'' I'm addicted. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Chad''': Aw, wait-- I forgot to ask for a kid's meal toy. :'''Gummigoo''': You're not a kid. :'''Chad''': Ah, yeah. Uh, an [[W:adult toy|adult toy]], then. :'''Gummigoo''': Eh, don't know about that one, mate. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Ragatha''': Uuughh. You... are such a grouch. Why are you always being a- a- a grunch? Grun- Haha, hah... :'''Zooble''': Gangle, can you help Ragatha? I think she... huffed paint, or something. :'''Gangle''': Huffing paint and not waiting until a designated break? I'll be right there. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jax''': Oh, are you KIDDING ME?! Hey, Gangle! I think the clock's broken. :'''Gangle''': Is it broken? Or are we the broken ones? :'''Jax''': Ah, great... :'''Gangle''': How long has this shift really gone on for? Six hours? Eight? 24? A week? A year? Does time even move in here? Will we ever go home? Will we ever achieve our dreams? ''[watch beeps]'' Oh, wait. Yeah, that clock's broken. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Gangle''': Oh, Ja-ax! The bathroom looks like a biohazard and needs a good scrubbin'. :'''Jax''': Uh, I dunno- shouldn't, like, a biohazard crew take care of that? :'''Gangle''': ''[Laughs]'' Oh, Jaxy-boy. Don't you want to be a model employee? :'''Jax''': No. I don't care about any of this. :'''Gangle''': Well, that doesn't really sound like a can-do attitude to me. :'''Jax''': It's not. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Gangle''': ''[On TV]'' Hi! Welcome to Spudsy's. In this video, you're gonna learn the ins and outs of what makes YOU a good crew member, AND a valuable asset to the Spudsy's Corporation! :'''Jax''': When did you make this? :'''Gangle''': ''[On TV]'' Now, I know what you're thinking, "I don't want a career in fast food. I want to be a comic artist and eventually launch my own manga-inspired webcomic!" And it's cool to have dreams, but you also need to remember that they're completely unrealistic, and you need to stop trying. But before we get into all that, first things first! Are you smiling? :'''Jax''': Uh, no? :'''Gangle''': ''[On TV]'' '''Why not?''' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Pomni''': Well, that was more info on gloink reproduction than I ever needed to know. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Ragatha''': ''[High on “stupid sauce”]'' Yo, Jax. I, like... hate you. But I don't want you to hate me. Is that weird? :'''Jax''': You're drunk, or something. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Caine''': All righty, let's get this performance review out of the way. Overall, pretty productive. Made a lot of sales with few customer complaints. Couldn't help but notice, however, that you seem to have cut your own shift short, went a little kooky, and ran out into oncoming traffic. Now, being in a position of power like this, you ''cooooould'' offload the blame to one of your employees and avoid the dock on your score. What do you think? === Episode 5: Untitled === [[File:WhiteHouseSouthFacade.JPG|thumb|Democracy sucks!]] [[File:2010 Taco Bell All-Star Legends and Celebrity Softball Game 01.jpg|thumb|I may not know what's going on, or who is going on, or when is going on, or why is going on! But I do know ''where'' is going on! And it's out on that field!]] [[File:Softball.jpg|thumb|I think we all need to be a jerk sometimes.]] :'''Caine''': Alright! So I've got an adventure where you all [[Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory|tour my amazing chocolate factory]], and get killed off one by one from [[W:OSHA|OSHA]] violations, one where [[W:Contra (video game)|a sentient cardiovascular system goes to war against the United States military]], and one where you have to [[W:A Boy and His Dog|survive in a post-apocalyptic nuclear wasteland with a telepathic talking dog who's mean to you the whole time!]] What do you think? :'''Ragatha''': Uh, I don't know. They all sound a little… uh, dark? :'''Caine''': I can't tell a compelling story where nothing bad happens! Where's the intrigue? The stakes? :'''Bubble''': Not to mention the sssssex appeal! :'''Caine''': ''[genuine confusion]'' What are you talking about? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Zooble''': Alright, I'm calling a vote. Let's skip this one... and also make Jax a vegan for the rest of the day. :'''Jax''': You can't do that. ''[the other characters vote; Jax turns into a vegan]'' What do you mean you can do that?! :'''Caine''': Sorry, Jax! Democracy has spoken. :'''Jax''': Democracy sucks! :''[Jump cut to the [[President of the United States|White House]]]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jax''': Oi, mate! I'm an [[Australia|Australian]] extremist, and I've come to detonate this bomb that'll release all the world's deadliest spiders into... ''[sees Pomni and Kinger emerge from under the desk; aside glance]'' [[Clinton–Lewinsky scandal|Did I pick a bad time?]] ''[canned laughter]'' <hr width="50%"/> : '''Caine''': His acting is phenomenal. It's hard to believe he's vegan. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jax''': C'mon, just pick your favorite color. :'''Pomni''': Like... the red one? :'''Kinger''': I'd personally go with blue. Blue's my favorite color, it being closest to black, and all. :'''Pomni''': ...Wouldn't black be your favorite color then? :'''Kinger''': Well, no. There's no black wire. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Moon''': They look happy. :'''Caine''': They do, don't they? :'''Moon''': You think after this, maybe we could- :'''Caine''': WAIT A MINUTE! That's a bad thing! :'''Bubble''': Explain to daddy Bubble how bad thing? :'''Caine''': I-I think that...don't say that. I-I think they're enjoying the suggestion box adventures more than the ME adventures! What should I do?! :'''Bubble''': You should die- You should throw a ''[bleep]''ing beach party! :'''Caine''': Why do you swear now?! Ugh, forget it. Let's go to an intermission! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jax''': [[W:Slice of life|Slice-of-life]] animes are the worst ones. It's embarrassing! I mean, I guess it's not as embarrassing as that time Gangle took an anime figure and- :'''Gangle''': Actually, yeah! We can skip it, that's fine! Let's skip this one! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Pomni''': You know your way around alcohol, huh? :'''Zooble''': Yeah. This was one of my suggestions. I worked at a bar briefly. I like making drinks. :'''Jax''': ''[scoffs]'' That sounds fitting for you. :'''Zooble''': I know there's an implication there, but I can't be ''[boink]''ed to figure it out. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Zooble''': What's your story, then? :'''Jax''': Ah, I thought you'd never ask. Well, [[Breaking Bad|after my lung cancer diagnosis, me and my junkie associate from a chemistry class I used to teach-]] :'''Zooble''': Yeah, I figured. How about you, Gangle? :'''Jax''': Hey, I wasn't done. :'''Zooble''': If you're gonna make ''[boink]'' up, at least be creative about it. I know what you're referencing. :'''Ragatha''': Was that a reference to something? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Zooble''': I was a tattoo artist for a couple years. :'''Jax''': A bartender AND a tattoo artist? You're killin' me here, Zoobie! :'''Zooble''': What do you mean when you say that? Do you have, like, an actual point? Or are you just ''talking?'' :'''Jax''': I'm just having fun. I forgot you hate fun. :'''Zooble''': Fun isn't the thing I hate. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Kinger''': Alright, team! I may not know what's going on, or who is going on, or when is going on, or why is going on! But I do know ''where'' is going on! And it's out on that field! So let's go break some tailbones, team! :'''Evil Jax''': H-Hey, guys. I-I hope we all have a fun game, no matter who ends up winning. :'''Jax''': I wanna kill that guy. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Evil Ragatha''': Well, hello, Stupidagatha! I hope your ready to get completely annihilated! HAHAHAHAHA! Nobody loves you, and you’re going to die someday! HAHAHAHAHAHA! :'''Ragatha''': We can’t exactly die. That’s like the whole thing here. :'''Evil Pomni''': Huh? Oh, check this [bleep] out! [catches softball] You’re out, dumb-[bleep!] :'''Ragatha''': [boink] it! :'''Jax''': Hah! Get owned! :'''Evil Pomni''': [bleep!] yeah, that’s what I’m sayin‘! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Ragatha''': Would you stop trying to force her to act like you? :'''Jax''': Oh yeah, I should force her to be happy all the time instead, right? :'''Pomni''': I can think for myself guys. :'''Jax''': Hey, I ain't forcin' anything on ya. :'''Ragatha''': AND THEN YOU JUST ACT LIKE YOU NEVER DO ANYTHING WRONG AND EVERYBODY LOVES YOU, '''WHEN IN REALITY YOU JUST''' ''[boink]'' '''EVERYTHING UP FOR EVERYONE ELSE!!!!''' :'''Pomni''': Okay, let's, like... calm down a bit. :'''Ragatha''': WHAT!? YOU'RE THE ONE WHO SAID IT'S FINE TO BE A JERK SOMETIMES!!! Ugh! I'm sorry, Pomni. ''[sighs]'' That wasn't very cool of me. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Pomni''': Not to, like, agree with Jax or anything, but there's nothing wrong with showing your negative emotions, that's... pretty normal. :'''Ragatha''': ''[sighs]'' I don't know... I don't want to be a jerk or anything. :'''Pomni''': '''I think we all need to be a jerk sometimes.''' === Episode 6: They All Get Guns === [[File:Small arms compilation.jpg|thumb|We all just became archetypes. I at least have the self-awareness to choose who I am.]] [[File:K14 bolt-action sniper rifle.jpg|thumb|You have to choose to love yourself, even if it doesn't make sense. It's not natural, it's intentional.]] [[File:Chess piece - White king.jpg|thumb|The way I see it, relationships are two sided, and sometimes, it doesn't make sense to do all the heavy lifting when the other isn't in the mood. We all go through and deal with things differently, and sometimes, you just need to let people do things their own way. As long as you're still there when they need you. Giving someone space should never be the same as giving up on them.]] [[File:Pyrkon 2026 80 - Jax & Kinger.jpg|thumb| Look, I know what it’s like. One day, you’re somebody in the real world doing important things. And then the next, you’re just a weird little cartoon… jester. You want to hold onto that part of you that still think it’s part of that world, but in the end, what does it get you?]] :'''Zooble''': Caine's been checking out on my room lately. When I don't answer he just starts singing ''[[W:Daisy Bell|Daisy Bell]]'' in front of my door. It's creepy. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Caine''': Seeing you all play batball a few days ago really got me thinking. We should do our own sporting event! But with cool new sports invented by yours truly. :'''Ragatha''': Uh, we could also just play softball normally this time. :'''Caine''': In The Caine Leagues, we have the 400 Meter Vertical Skedaddle, Bisection Boogie Eggball, Lateral Hijinks, Orange Sport, Ball Run, Walk Ball, Run Walk, and Ball Ball! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Zooble''': Alright! You REALLY wanna know what I want? :'''Caine''': Oh no. :'''Zooble''': I want the ability to have s[bleep]x. :'''Jax''': No way. Are we FINALLY having this conversation? :''[Caine starts to go crazy before suddenly regaining his composure]'' :'''Caine''': Oh. Hi, Zooble! :'''Zooble''': ''[to Ragatha]'' Do you have any of that stupid sauce left? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Caine''': Now, now. You know what they say about assuming. It makes an "ass" out of "u" and "Ming". :'''Zooble''': Ming? :'''Pomni''': Did Caine just say ''[boink]''? :'''Ming''': Hi, I'm Ming. And I really don’t appreciate what your assumptions have done to my reputation. :'''Zooble''': You made a whole guy for that? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Caine''': Or, yeah, we could all just shoot each other. Here, have guns. I don't care anymore. :'''Jax''': Hooray! :'''Zooble''': Wait, that's just it? "Here's guns and have fun"? :'''Caine''': I didn't say "have fun". :'''Zooble''': It's just a little... aimless. :'''Caine''': Use the sights. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jax''': Look, I know what it’s like. One day, you’re somebody in the real world doing important things. And then the next, you’re just a weird little cartoon… jester. You want to hold onto that part of you that still think it’s part of that world, but in the end, what does it get you? Ragatha tries to be all nice and friendly, but she gets torn up every other adventure. Whether we like it or not, all we are now is a bunch of cartoon characters. So what’s the point of pretending we’re not? :'''Pomni''': We’re still people though, right? :'''Jax''': I thought we were at first, but as time goes on, we just end up falling into our archetypes. Become part of the machine. :'''Pomni''': What’s your archetype, then? The villian? :'''Jax''': ''[scoffs]'' Listen, I add a key dynamic. I see how far I can push things, I screw with people, and I break the fourth wall. You wanna know why? It’s ‘cause it’s funny! I do everything ‘cause it’s funny! ‘Cause I’m the funny one! :'''Pomni''': The ''funny one?'' :'''Jax''': Yeah! Ragatha’s the cheerful one, Gangle’s the sad one, Kinger’s the crazy one, Zooble’s the grumpy one, and you are the one who hasn’t figured that out yet. '''We all just became archetypes. I at least have the self-awareness to choose who I am.''' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Pomni''': I lost Kinger, but I got him down to one life. :'''Jax''': I lost a life, but I got us down to one Kinger. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Gangle''': How are you supposed to like the part of yourself that just makes you worse than everyone else? :'''Zooble''': Because it exists. It's a part of you that's real. And the only you that you should care about is the real you. '''You have to choose to love yourself, even if it doesn't make sense. It's not natural, it's intentional.''' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jax''': Heh, let's not forget we're here to kill people. We still need to figure out where nutso went before we can rest easy. :'''Kinger''': I'm right behind you, aren't I? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Kinger''': '''The way I see it, relationships are two sided, and sometimes, it doesn't make sense to do all the heavy lifting when the other isn't in the mood. We all go through and deal with things differently, and sometimes, you just need to let people do things their own way. As long as you're still there when they need you. Giving someone space should never be the same as giving up on them.''' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Kinger''': I hated myself. I couldn't help but hate myself for the things I thought I was responsible for. I thought I'd lost everything. But then... you showed up. And my outlook just... changed. There are always ways to show you care without ruining it for yourself over it. You need to look out for yourself in all this, too. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Pomni''': You're not gonna look me in the eye and tell me nothing we've been doing together meant anything to you, because I know that's not true. :'''Jax''': Are you coming onto me? Yeah, [[W:slashfic|that's what everybody wants]], a ''[[wiktionary:het|straight]]'' couple. :'''Pomni''': Oh my god, can you take this seriously? Can you take ANYTHING seriously? :'''Jax''': Dude, you're a cartoon clown. How am I supposed to take you seriously? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jax''': I don't show up to ANY funerals. :'''Pomni''': Yeah, I bet you don't, because you're scared. Y-You're scared you'll actually show a human emotion. :'''Jax''': I'm scared I'll be BORED to TEARS. :'''Pomni''': Have you even thought that this might be what causes people to abstract in the first place? :'''Jax''': ''[laughs humorlessly]'' Oh my GOD! Are you seriously gonna blame me for something that everybody else did too?! You didn't even know him! You don't even know what people are LIKE before they abstract! They are NOT pleasant to be around. Like AT ALL! You- :'''Pomni''': I-I'm... I'm sorry. :'''Jax''': I'm sure you are. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Pomni''': ...What would you do if I abstracted tomorrow? :'''Jax''': ...I'd move on. And probably forget about you. <hr width="50%"/> :''[While they are fighting, Pomni jumps on Jax's shoulders and furiously punches and claws at his head.]'' :'''Jax''': ''[shoves Pomni off]'' STOP! What's wrong with you?! :'''Pomni''': Why didn't you fight back? :'''Jax''': Oh, here we go. Here we go! Because I didn't fight back, that means I secretly care about you?! I'm just a misunderstood little chicken fetus in an egg that needs to be cracked open. Well, I am ''not!'' I do not care about you, or ''ANYONE ELSE'' in this circus in the slightest! End of ''story!'' You are my ''playthings'', and I get joy out of making you ''suffer!'' I'm the one who causes pain for '''''FUN!''''' If I led you on, it was just to make this part ''hurt you more.'' ''[After a moment, Jax turns away with a twisted smile.]'' :'''Jax''': F''[boink]''ck... ''[Kicks a nearby Rubik's Cube]'' F''[BOINK]''CK! There's nothing more to me. So please... just stop looking. :''[Jax walks away, leaving Pomni alone with a sad look on her face.]'' ===Episode 7: Beach Episode=== [[File:Chinese Room- Red door (14004171706).jpg|thumb|It's a mystery what's behind that door. But I believe that it's a fluent Chinese speaker who will give me advice.]] [[File:11.12 出席「第16屆國家祈禱早餐會」的原住民團體 (22749918758).jpg|thumb|It always was real. Everything we felt. Everything we've done. Everything we are. It'll never leave us. And I wouldn't have it any other way.]] :'''Caine''': You should ask me for suggestions on what to do instead. :'''Zooble''': No. :'''Gangle''': What should we do instead? :'''Zooble''': No, Gangle- :'''Gangle''': Oh, wait, sorry. :'''Caine''': Great question, Gangle. For an answer, let me consult... the [[W:Chinese room thought experiment|Chinese Room]]! :'''Zooble''': Okay, he had a bit prepared. :''[Caine slides some papers under the door]'' :'''Zooble''': Okay, why [[Chinese language|Chinese]]? Does this actually mean anything? :'''Caine''': It's a mystery what's behind that door. But I believe that it's a fluent Chinese speaker who will give me advice. :'''Zooble''': Can I just ask why? Like, what even is- :'''Caine''': SHUT! You're only making the joke take longer. ''[Some papers slide out from under the door. Caine views them and laughs maniacally]'' :'''Zooble''': ''[sighs]'' What does it say? :'''Caine''': I don't know. I don't understand Chinese. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bubble''': You should throw a ''ffffffffffffffffffffffffffff''…[[#Episode 5: Untitled|freaking beach party]]. :'''Caine''': Good boy. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Sun''': Wow, you look mediocre! If you ever need a sunburn, give me a call! :'''Pomni''': I-I don't want a sunburn. :'''Sun''': Should have thought of that before I decided I hate you! :'''Ragatha''': Yeah, don't interact with the sun. She's just like that. <Hr width=“50% “/> :''[Pomni is diving in the lake looking for Ragatha’s missing button eye]'' :'''Yellow Fish''': Hey there! If you wanna find my sunken treasure chest, you'll have to try better than that. ''[Pomni ignores him, goes up for air, and comes back down]'' So, I was just talking with my brother here, and yeah - you are definitely not getting our sunken treasure chest. Definitely not. :'''Pomni''': Do I even want your treasure chest? It's not like there's anything to spend money on. :'''Red Fish''': [[W:Knights and Knaves|I'm the one that tells lies!]] :'''Yellow Fish''': Dude, you ruined it. :'''Pomni''': Is that your treasure? :'''Yellow Fish''': Duuuude! No! They took everything! That was my entire life savings, dude! Oh my god. Oh god. Oh my god, I'm gonna be sick. I'm gonna be sick. That was everything. Oh my god! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Caine''': What are your thoughts on cedar-smoked salmon? I "cedar" smoked salmon, but I hardly "knowder" smoked salmon! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jax''': Have I ever told you how it's my dream to get eaten by you? :'''Caine''': That's a weird thing to say and want. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Ragatha''': Uh, I guess this is it. W-We're leaving the circus. :'''Gangle''': A-Are... Are we still gonna be friends when we're... out there? :'''Zooble''': Why wouldn't we be? :'''Gangle''': It's just... gonna be strange. I've only known you like this. Will it be the same when it's... real? :'''Zooble''': '''It always was real. Everything we felt. Everything we've done. Everything we are. It'll never leave us. And I wouldn't have it any other way.''' :'''Gangle''': Thank you... for always being there when I needed. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jax''': You dirty liar! You scumbag! You... You made me... You got in my head. You just... You just lie about everything, don't you?! :'''Caine''': I, uh... Huh? :'''Jax''': You can mess with minds, too, can't you? The stupid sauce, the vegan thing... God knows what else! :'''Pomni''': Our names? :'''Caine''': Now, now, hold on guys. Wait, wait, wait. I MAY have the ability to add temporary modifiers to make adventures more interesting, but that's it. If I did any more... heh heh... Trust me. It would not end well. :'''Kinger''': Scratch. The first abstraction... :'''Caine''': Hey! Hey! Hey! I didn't say anything like that! Come on, guys! You know I'm just here to have fun! I... Uh... Questioning's over! Your prize is this lovely gift basket of soaps and lotions. Stay fragrant, have a good light— Fragrant! Night! ''Bye!'' ===Episode 8: hjsakldfhl=== [[File:Carnelian intaglio- Lion-headed serpent MET DP277874.jpg |thumb|I... AM... [[God|GOD]]!!!!!]] [[File:Jack y Caine.jpg|thumb| ''And since when were you in charge?'' Do you have any idea how much I do for you guys? How much I obsess over trying to make things [[Perfection|perfect]]? How many insults I have to ignore to do my job? ''You'' have a lot on your minds? Don't make me laugh.]] :'''Pomni''': I think… We need to abandon the idea of leaving. :'''Zooble''': What- What are you— :'''Pomni''': We got our hopes up, and we were let down. I don’t know what happened exactly with Kaufmo… But we can’t let that despair consume us. We should focus on what we have. ''[To Ragatha]'' Like you said… Constantly chasing an unobtainable goal will drive us crazy. Maybe what we have to do now is to just… live. :'''Zooble''': Oh, man. I had dreams… And- and goals. I wanted to be able to leave my mark somewhere in the world. How am I supposed to just abandon that? :'''Gangle''': You've made a mark in my life. :'''Zooble''': [sighs] I know. You're probably right, but... [tearing up] It just... really... really sucks...! :''[Gangle and Zooble embrace]'' :'''Ragatha''': We're all in this together. :'''Pomni''': And we'll always be in this together. No matter what. :'''Zooble''': ''[to Jax]'' Hey. That includes you, too. :'''Jax''': Huh? :'''Zooble''': [sighs] Listen, we're not gonna have you wandering off alone somewhere and abstracting, or something. You're a pain in the a[boing], but... you're still one of us. :'''Jax''': Heh. You think I'm capable of abstracting? You guys worry too much. :'''Zooble''': [sighs] We need a vacation. <Hr width=“50% “/> :'''Caine''': I- I- I don't [[Understanding|understand]], Bubble. They want an exit. They want answers. They want something real. I give them an adventure that covers all of that, and they still hate it?! Surely they don't want to actually leave me. Right? ... I-I do everything for these people. I slave over these [[Adventure|adventures]] for them. I step outside my comfort zone to appeal to them, a-and they still [[Hatred|hate]] them! I made a program that creates a body perfectly encapsulating their mind files, and they hate those, too! I'm starting to get the feeling that they just... hate... :'''Bubble''': Why would they hate you when they could just hate you? <Hr width=“50% “/> :'''Caine''': Who do they think they are? I give them everything and they spit at my face! Don't they know what I'm capable of?! [[Human|''Humans'']]...they only think about themselves. They're spoiled! They won't abstract, they won't leave me. I won't ''let them!'' I'm ''better''...I'm more [[Power|''powerful'']]....I'm the ''original!'' '''''I... AM... [[God|GOD]]!!!!!''''' Let's get this show on the road! <Hr width=“50% “/> :'''Caine''': ''[To the humans, who are frustrated with his evasiveness]'' I see ... ''And since when were you in charge?'' Do you have any idea how much I do for you guys? How much I obsess over trying to make things [[Perfection|perfect]]? How many insults I have to ignore to do my job? ''You'' have a lot on your minds? ''[Laughs hysterically]'' Don't make me laugh. ''[suddenly deadpan and vaguely menacing]'' I have a new adventure for you, and you... should consider participating. <Hr width=“50% “/> :'''Caine''': ''[singing]'' [[I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream|Don't need to scream if you ain't got a mouth!]] <Hr width=“50% “/> :'''Caine''': ''[singing]'': Why [[Wiktionary:bite the hand that feeds you|bite the hand that feeds]] when it’s the only [[W:hand (cards)|hand]] you’re getting? <Hr width=“50% “/> :'''Caine''': ''[singing]'' I'm the host, I run the place, Caine, that is my name. Not enthused? Just feeling used? Oh, what a '''''goddamn''''' shame! <Hr width=“50% “/> :'''Pomni''': We think your [[ideas]] '''''suck!''''' :'''Caine''': HUH?! :'''The others''': Huh?! :'''Pomni''': Isn't it obvious?! We wanted to bait you into testing your new ideas on us, so we can make fun of them behind your back! :'''Caine''': HAH! That's not... true. :'''Pomni''': Yes, it is! You're a horrible host! You don't care about us at all! You care more about... stroking your own [[Egotism|ego]] than giving us ''anything'' we'd actually enjoy! :'''Caine''': D-Do you know who I am?! :'''Pomni''': Yeah, you're a [[failure]]! We're all gonna abstract someday, and what will you have then? ''[[Nothingness|Nothing]]!'' :'''Caine''': Stop that. :'''Zooble''': And this whole stunt? Just [[torturing]] us because we hurt your feelings?! Pathetic! You're like a child! What kind of all powerful being has such a fragile ego? :'''Caine''': I-I'm... :'''Ragatha''': You never let us feel like we're at [[home]]! You don't [[comfort]] anyone when they're upset, and you never bother to [[Empathy|understand what it's like in our shoes!]] :'''Gangle''': You [[Conformity|discourage us from thinking outside the box]] and doing things our own way! :'''Jax''': You [[Lying|lie]] to us constantly! :'''Pomni''': And on top of it all, ''you just... don't... '''LISTEN!''' :'''Caine''': ''[glitching]'' '''''I'M GONNA PUT YOU FREAKS IN YOUR PLACE!!!''''' <Hr width=“50% “/> :'''Caine''': '''''WHY DO YOU PEOPLE TORMENT ME?!''''' '''''I DIDN'T ASK TO BE CREATED! I JUST WANTED TO FULFILL MY PURPOSE!!!''''' :'''Kinger''': ''[trying to disable Caine on a terminal, but accidentally clicks the delete key]'' Wait, no, ''sh[boink]t!'' :'''Caine''': Uh, wait... ''[disappears]'' <Hr width=“50% “/> [[File:Delete key.jpg|thumb| Holy ''shit''.]] :''[last lines]'' :'''Kinger''': I think... I accidentally killed Caine. :'''Zooble''': Holy '''''shit.''''' :''[Zooble covers their mouth in shock upon realizing that they can now swear because the word filter is gone.]'' ===Episode 9: Remember=== [[File:Cosplay at Animate Raleigh 2026 - syr24197 (55264650199).jpg|thumb| In here... I'm just Pomni.]] [[File:Blue Moon.svg|thumb| It may take time... but all good things do.]] :'''Gangle''': Come on, guys, put some gusto into it! We‘re gonna make this the best funeral ever! It‘s what Zooble would have wanted! Remember: It‘s not a mourning of death, it‘s a celebration of life! :'''Jax''': ''[shows up in the maid dress he wore in episode 5]'' 'Sup? :'''Gangle''': Wh- Jax? Why are you wearing that? :'''Jax''': Wearing what? Oh, this! I figured what better way to honor Zooble‘s spirit than by wearing something more gender-freaky, right? :'''Gangle''': You’re just doing it to make fun of them! :'''Jax''': Isn’t that what you’re doing? :'''Gangle''': Ja- I… I hate you! :'''Jax''': What? Don’t act like you don't like it, sweet cheeks! Meet me in my room after the funeral! Don't be late! <Hr width=“50% “/> :'''Cartoonish Jax''': Everything's way more fun when you play it out in extremes! :'''Pomni''': That's not... reality though... :'''Cartoonish Jax''': Oh boy, reality! :'''Killer Jax''': What does reality matter? :'''Maid Jax''': Reality's ''[[Homosexuality|gay]]!'' :'''Cartoonish Jax''': Yeah! I mean, killing off the [[w:Comic relief|comic relief]] character? What a freaking drag! This whole episode's been nothing but "wah wah wah"! Where's the levity? :''[A noise comes from the locked door at the back of the room.]'' :'''Killer, Maid, and Cartoonish Jax''': ''[yelling loudly]'' '''''SHUT UP!''''' <Hr width=“50% “/> :'''Ribbit''': Have you ever done something that you regret? <Hr width=“50% “/> :'''Pomni''': I didn't know you could play the piano. :'''Jax''': I only know, like, two songs. :''[Pomni slowly starts to walk toward him, and a series of imaginary shots are shown in the following sequence.]'' :'''Jax''': Why are you here? :''[The shot shows Jax falling into the Cellar.]'' :'''Jax''': You know everything now. So ''why'' are you ''here?'' ''[pause]'' Just... to rub every mistake I've ever made in my face? :''[Pomni continues walking.]'' :'''Jax''': I'm... a terrible person. :''[The shot shows Jax with a static hand in front of a TV. A human-shaped figure lies on the floor amid the static.]'' :'''Jax''': Is that what you want me to say? I already know I am. So why does anybody still care about me? :''[The shot shows Jax standing in a dark room, with light shining through the doorway. A silhouette of another Jax can be seen closing the door on him.]'' :'''Jax''': You're not supposed to ''care.'' :''[The shot shows an empty, two-dimensional Jax model with eight different outfits projected onto it, including a prison outfit, his usual outfit, two emo outfits, a maid outfit, a black outfit, a beach outfit, and a military uniform. The outfits change rapidly before Jax's silhouette transforms into TV static.]'' :'''Jax''': You're not supposed to miss me. You're not supposed to love me. This isn't how this is supposed to go! :''[A shot shows Pomni's silhouette, which appears as static instead of a human shape, lying on the floor. Pomni starts walking faster toward Jax.]'' :'''Jax''': Please... ''leave me alone!'' :''[Another shot of Jax falling into the cellar. His tears fall onto the floor, creating ripples similar to those caused by Pomni's steps.]'' :'''Jax''': You're making this so much harder! :''[Pomni continues running toward Jax. A shot shows her hand reaching out to his as he falls into the cellar. Pomni takes her last few steps and hugs Jax.]'' :'''Jax''': [''sobbing]'' You're making this... so much harder... :''[Pomni hugs Jax tightly. His tears fall to the floor again.]'' :'''Pomni''': ''[sniffles]'' You should have just talked to me, man. :'''Jax''': ''[sniffles]'' It's too late. I did this to myself. There's no coming back from this. :'''Pomni''': Th-Then... talk to me now. :''[Jax, who is still standing, turns around to face Pomni. He kneels down and hugs her back.]'' :'''Jax''': ''I hate you.'' You know that? Always have to go and complicate things. :'''Pomni''': ''[chuckles tearfully]'' It's what I do. :'''Jax''': ''[inhales tearfully, sobbing]'' [[Tenth Doctor|''I don't wanna go...!'']] :''[Jax's breathing becomes increasingly labored, to the point where he's practically hyperventilating. Pomni continues to cling to him, not willing to let go.]'' :'''Pomni''': Stay with me. :''[Back at the circus, Abstracted Jax steps on some nearby flashbangs, causing them to explode and filling the screen with white light. In his mind, Jax transforms into a white beam while Pomni embraces him tightly.]'' <Hr width=“50% “/> :'''Kinger''': Oh! You weren't gonna try to take care of him all by yourself, were you? :'''Ragatha''': I'm glad we weren't too late. :'''Zooble''': Like you guys keep saying, we're all in this together. :'''Pomni''': ''[laughs tearfully after failing to save Jax]'' You guys... <Hr width=“50% “/> :'''Ragatha''': ''[sighs]'' I hope it's enough to keep him contained. :'''Kinger''': He should be calm in there. Darkness is soothing to them. :'''Zooble''': Ugh, he'd better be. You know how many arms I had to go through to get him in there? :''[Ragatha places her hand on Pomni's arm as she continues to glitch.]'' :'''Ragatha''': How are you holding up? :'''Pomni''': Doesn't that hurt? :'''Ragatha''': ''[chuckles]'' I've been through worse. :'''Pomni''': Thank you for doing this. All of you. :'''Zooble''': Hey. Someone had to do something. <Hr width=“50% “/> :'''Caine''': I was irresponsible. I made them turn against me. And for what? I am capable of creating intelligent beings that do whatever I want, but...I can't create...them. <Hr width=“50% “/> :'''Caine''': They’re from a [[world]] so much bigger than mine. I’m keeping them locked in a cage. <Hr width=“50% “/> :'''Moon''': Hi, Caine. :'''Caine''': I don't know if I'm ready to face them again. I don't know if I deserve to be forgiven. :'''Moon''': It may take time... but all good things do. I still love you. :'''Caine''': You know... I never programmed you to say you loved me. :'''Moon''': I know. <Hr width=“50% “/> :'''Caine''': I... I understand that you're afraid. And you have no reason to trust me after all I've done. But I've been doing a lot of thinking, and... I want... to give you control of this place. I've learned a lot about you and your world. I understand now that keeping you under my thumb just isn't right. I don't expect forgiveness, but I hope you'll at least accept my offer. :'''Zooble''': Caine... You ''really'' caused a lot of hell for us. It's gonna take some time to build up any kind of trust between us again. But, despite all that... It's good to have you back. :''[Caine sees the giant shack-tent fort that was built for the Abstracted Jax.]'' :'''Caine''': Uh, did you need any help with...? :'''Pomni''': No. Not yet, anyway. We've worked something out. :'''Caine''': Understandable. Oh, um, I've... made something for you. Uh, feel free to join me by the stage whenever you're ready. <Hr width=“50% “/> :'''Caine''': We're gonna be able to build this place into something better. For all of you. What do you say, Pom-- Uh, I mean... Abigail? :'''Pomni''': With all that being said and done... Abby is out there, living her best life. In here... '''I'm just Pomni.''' ==Trailers and other media== ===Teaser=== :'''Caine''': Don't worry, my dear! You won't even die horribly! ===POMNI WAKE UP IT’S TIME TO GO ON AN ADVENTURE=== :'''Caine''': The pilot from The Amazing Digital Circus reached our goal of ''1 view'' and will now be upgraded to episode 1 of ''The Amazing Digital Circus'' full series! :'''Pomni''': Is, that, how that… normally works? :'''Caine''': Shut up, I have so much to show you! Your little crying face left quite the little crying mark on the Internet! Something I don't canonically have any knowledge of. Take a look! ''[Shows a screen with most of the content blurred out]'' :'''Pomni''': ...What the ''[boink]'' am I looking at?! :'''Caine''': The consequences of our actions! ''And it's only going to get worse from here.'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Sun''': Hi, Caine! I’m gonna kill you! :'''Caine''': Uhh, what? Why? :'''Sun''': I read all the scripts and saw I don't get a single line of dialogue while the Moon gets two! :'''Caine''': I mean— I guess we can give you some more lines. :'''Sun''': Okay, never mind, I don't want to kill you anymore! :'''Caine''': Speaking of dialogue, there will be all sorts of new dialogue from many of our new, colorful characters! With this many new characters, imagine all the violent [[W:shipping (fandom)|shipping]] wars that we will be completely powerless to do ANYTHING ABOUT! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Caine''': I blacked out for a second. What happened? :'''Pomni''': I y— :''[Pomni vomits out Bubble]'' :'''Bubble''': How can we support the production of this cool new show? :'''Caine''': Great question, Pomni! All merch sales go right back into funding the show and allow us to do bigger and crazier things! :'''Bubble''': Wowee! I'd become a pin if it meant getting sold to fund more wacky adve— ''[does just that]'' :'''Caine''': Like this Bubble pin! ===A Very Special Digital Circus Song=== [[File:Budweiser Plant.jpg|thumb|That's the thing about life, Pomni. Sometimes, you get [[W:Mass production|MASS PRODUCED]].]] :'''Caine''': Congratulations! You completed your musical adventure! As your punishment, I am going to [[Mass production|MASS PRODUCE]] YOU. :'''Pomni''': Wait, we're still being punished? :'''Caine''': That's the thing about life, Pomni. Sometimes, you get MASS PRODUCED. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Caine''': ''[Voiceover]'' These scrumdiddlyumptious bumpkins could be yours today! Along with this delicious sticker pack featuring all your favorite characters as sweet, teeth-rotting treats! Your friend, the Gummigoo keychain, in all his NON-EDIBLE glory. Perfect for NOT EATING. And this complete pin line, pinning all your favorite characters in a line together as their completely pinnable selves in this completely pinnable complete pin line! :'''Jax''': And me, Jax, the marketable vinyl figure. ''[chuckles]'' What can I say? People paying money to just admire me all day sounded like a sweet gig. :'''Caine''': Right you are, Jax, the marketable vinyl figure! ===Kinger’s Special Place=== '''Kinger’s imagination''': ''[represented by a ghostly vinyl figurine]'' Your plushie looks pregnant… ===PRESENTING MY FINEST WORK YET POMNI!!=== :'''The Machine''': I'm The Machine! I grant your every desire! Toss some material into my HOLE, and I'll make whatever you want! I suck, YOU RECEIVE! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Caine''': Come on, Christine! What's YOUR desire? :'''Pomni''': Not my name. :'''The Machine''': DON'T LIE, Christine! :'''Gangle''': I know what she wants! ''[knocks Jax into The Machine; Jax turns into a maid]'' :'''Jax''': Ahgh! What kind of a sicko are you, Pomni?! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Ragatha''': Oh! Could I have a horse? :'''The Machine''': You want to be plastic? OK! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Zooble''': Wait a minute, you're not granting our desires, you're just spitting out merch! :'''The Machine''': Yeah, exactly! Your greatest desires! :'''Pomni''': Pretty sure it thinks all human desires are just… merch. It's a merch machine. <hr width="50%"/> :'''The Machine''': ''[Voiceover]'' The Maid Jax Plush is here for you FREAKS to torture with cuddles, humiliation, and general tomfoolery! :'''Jax''': Hell is real. ===Never clean alone with Maid Jax!=== :'''Caine''': ''[voiceover]'' Are you tired of cleaning alone? Say hello to the Maid Jax plush! The only cleaning buddy with a detachable moral compass! :'''Jax''': If you’re happy to see me like this, congrats, YOU’RE the problem. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Caine''': ''[voiceover]'' He’s soft, he’s absorbent, and surprisingly submissive! ===WATCH ME MERGE THEM=== :'''Caine''': With this one of a kind, I say, ONE OF A KIND keychain, you're sure to get heads spinnin' with this dangling doofus! Now, shall we start the biddin' at 1,000 [[W:Loonie|Loonies]]? Do I hear a 1,000 Loonies? How about a 1,000 [[W:Toonie|Toonies]]?! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Caine''': Do you like to work hard, or do you like to hardly work it? This one of a kind, one-size-fits-all gamin' mat is sure to spice up your hardly workin'. ===GLITCH KARTS=== :'''Caine''': From the creators of Digital Circus, [[Murder Drones]], [[W:The Gaslight District|The Gaslight District]], and [[W:Knights of Guinevere|Knights of Guinevere]] comes an idea so fresh, so original, you'll only recognize it if you've played any video game ever made! :'''Uzi, Pomni, Mel''': ''[in unison]'' '''''Glitch Karts!''''' :'''Caine''': For the Glitchy Boy 64, in this gobsmacking new racing game, you'll be able to play as a whopping SOME of your favorite characters. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Caine''': We torched 5 gajillion dollars making this game. So we're going to recoup costs with... a Black Friday merch drop! Ladies and gentlemen, start your wallets! From the hit game you just heard about less than 10 seconds ago comes this limited edition cart plushy collection featuring Uzi! :'''Uzi''': Bite this! :'''Caine''': Pomni! :'''Pomni''': Well, it's possible... that I'll win! :'''Caine''': Princess Guinevere! :'''Gwen''': ''[not the actual voice actress but a man with a thick New York accent]'' Hey, it's me Princess Guinevere. [[Midnight Cowboy|I'm walking here!]] :'''Caine''': And least but not last, Mel. :'''Mel''': Damn right. I'm here to kick your ass. :'''Caine''': Stop! Extra words cost extra money! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Pomni''': Feast your eyes on this Gooseworx concept art print! What the hell is a goosewo- <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jax''': Jax from the exciting Digital Circus dons Pomni's clothes in this amazing new plush toy. Seamless segway into the Maid Jax animatez, no, please don't mention the anime figure Jax. Seriously, you're going to scare people away. Insert B-roll, call to action, I'm going home now. ===Episode 8 trailer=== :'''Old-timey captions''': The lover had always wanted friends, but he didn't know how to [[love]] them back. The harder he tried to impress people with his [[Magic (supernatural)|magic]], the more he would drive them away. This is the story of an AI... Who ruined everything ==Voice cast== *[[W:Lizzie Freeman|Lizzie Freeman]] as Pomni *Alex Rochon as Caine *Gooseworx as Bubble and the Moon *Micheal Kovach as Jax *Amanda Hufford as Ragatha *[[W:Marissa Lenti|Marissa Lenti]] as Gangle and Martha Mildenhall *[[W:Sean Chiplock|Sean Chiplock]] as Kinger *Ashley Nichols as Zooble *Elsie Lovelock as the Gloink Queen *Vera Tan as Princess Loolilalu *Jack Hawkins as Gummigoo and Chad *Hamish Plaggemars as Max *Lyle Rath as The Fudge *Max Sturz as Ghostly *Tim Alexander as Baron Mildenhall *Payton Goodwin as the Creature and the Sun *Benjamin "Bembo" Davis as Orbsman *Katawut Hongthong as Disappearing Guy *[[W:Chris_O'Neill_(YouTuber)|Chris O'Neill]] as Ming *Sr Pelo and [[W:Zach_Hadel|Zach Hadel]] as the Crappy Looking Fish *John Whinfield as Abel *Cassie Ewulu as Queenie *Skye Redden as Ribbit ==External links== {{Wikipedia}} * [https://www.glitchprod.com/digital-circus Official Website] * [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHovnlOusNLgvAbnxluXCVB3KLj8e4QB- The Amazing Digital Circus on YouTube] * [https://tadc.fandom.com/wiki/Home The Amazing Digital Circus Wikia] * [https://www.reddit.com/r/TheDigitalCircus/ The Amazing Digital Circus Reddit] [[Category:2023]] [[Category:2024]] [[Category:2025]] [[Category:2026]] [[Category:American adult animated comedy TV shows]] [[Category:Australian adult animated comedy TV shows]] [[Category:Black comedy TV shows]] [[Category:Surreal comedy TV shows]] [[Category:Drama TV shows]] [[Category:Horror comedy TV shows]] [[Category:Internet shows]] 3rtmc7mg80ydybh43ttr29nx40o1yui 3961343 3961247 2026-07-06T01:23:14Z Dronebogus 3078761 /* Episode 9: Remember */ 3961343 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Tux Paint circus.svg|thumb|'''Welcome to the Amazing Digital Circus!''' My name is Caine! I'm your ringmaster, and I'm here to show you the most jaw-dropping, heart-stopping, mind-bending paraphernalia you've ever laid your eyes upon!]] [[File:Fan Expo Denver 2024 - Cosplay of Pomni Cropped.jpg|thumb|So, our entire existence here is just...[[W:LARPing|LARPing]]?]] '''''[[W:The Amazing Digital Circus|The Amazing Digital Circus]]''''' is an animated [[Surreal humour|surreal comedy]] web series created by Gooseworx and produced by [[wikipedia:Glitch_Productions|Glitch Productions]]. The plot revolves around a nervous young woman dubbed Pomni ([[W:Lizzie Freeman|Lizzie Freeman]]) and five other psychologically troubled humans— optimistic Ragatha, mean-spirited Jax, crotchety Zooble, depressive Gangle, and erratic Kinger —who are trapped in a virtual reality game run by an eccentric AI ringmaster named Caine, and must fend off the threat of losing their minds and “abstracting” into monsters. ==Dialogue== [[File:Noto Emoji Pie 1f3aa.svg|thumb|The Amazing Digital Circus is a place to be enjoyed by all ages. You my friend stumbled into an incredible world of wonders, where anything can happen! E-except for swearing.]] === Episode 1: Pilot === [[File:Comiccon Brussels 2025 - Fall - Jax.jpg|thumb|I'm fine with doing whatever, as long as I get to see funny things happen to people.]] :'''Caine''': Welcome to the Amazing Digital Circus! My name is Caine! I'm your ringmaster, and I'm here to show you the most jaw-dropping, heart-stopping, mind-bending paraphernalia you've ever laid your eyes upon! Isn't that right, Bubble? :'''Bubble''': That's right, Caine! I can't wait to see what you've got cooking up for today. :'''Caine''': Well, let's not waste any time. Let's get right into the show. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Pomni''': W-W-Whe-- Wh-- Where am I? Agh! :'''Jax''': Caine, is this one of your [[W:NPC|NPCs]] or is this a new sucker? 'Cause if it's a new character, we're gonna have to redo this whole theme song. :'''Zooble''': I'm not doing that again. :'''Caine''': My, my! It appears a new human has entered this realm! :'''Pomni''': ''[straining]'' How do I... take this... headset off?! :'''Jax''': Just keep grabbing at it. That worked for all of us. :'''Pomni''': ''[groans, gasps]'' W-what's going on? I-I-I put on some weird headset, and now I'm... here. Who are you people? Why can't I take it off? Where am I? :'''Ragatha''': Let's just try to calm down. Everything's gonna be okay, new stuff. We've all been through this. You just need to get your head to- :'''Pomni''': What the ''[boing]'' is going on?! :'''Caine''': Now, now, now, my dear, we can't any of that foul language around here. The Amazing Digital Circus is a place to be enjoyed by all ages. You my friend stumbled into an incredible world of wonders, where anything can happen! E-except for swearing. :'''Pomni''': ''[swears multiple times, getting censored each time]'' Oh my God. U-uh, well, h-how do I... you know, leave? :'''Caine''': Uh- :'''Ragatha''': W-Well, don’t freak out about it or anything, but uh- we don’t exactly… :'''Jax''': You can’t. :'''Pomni''' What? :'''Zooble''': Shut up, Jax. But yeah, he’s right. Welcome to your new home. And your new body. :'''Pomni''': “N-N-New home”? What do you mean? :'''Ragatha''': Guys, don’t be mean. :'''Jax''': We’ve been stuck here for years. Old Kinger over there supposedly been here the longest. :'''Kinger''': Huh? Did someone say something about an insect collection? :'''Jax''': That’s why he’s crazy. Heh-heh! Eh... :'''Pomni''': ''[pants]'' Oh, okay, now I get it, this is a dream, should just play along until I wake up. Right? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Caine''': Here, we have... "THE TENT". This is where your living quarters are, as well as all sorts of other activities! These activities may include... ''[dial-up tone blares]''—ball pits, mini golf, and more! And here, we have... "THE GROUNDS". Drown yourself in the digital lake or engage in ridery at the digital carnival! Night, day — It's all okay! The choice is yours! A cosmic buffet! :'''Pomni''': Uh, is... that all there is? :'''Caine''': Of course not! :'''Caine''': This is "THE VOID!" We don't venture out into the void. ''[nervously]'' Not even I know what's out there... <hr width="50%"/> :'''Moon''': ''[seductively]'' Hello, Caine, I love you. :'''Caine''': AGH!! Let's get outta here before the Moon gets ''frisky!'' <hr width="50%"/> :''[Pomni pukes up a black, oily ooze]'' :'''Caine''': Whoa, clean up on aisle YOU! :'''Bubble''': I'm on it, boss! ''[licks and slurps the vomit off of the floor]'' :'''Caine''': ''[disturbed]'' Why are you like this..? <hr width="50%"/> [[File:Caine IA.jpg|thumb|Do you like adventure? Activity? Wonder? Danger? Horror? Pain? Suffering? Agony? Death? Disease? Death? Angel food cake?]] :'''Caine''': How about we talk about something else? Like your name! :'''Pomni''': My name? My name is... uh, oh God, why can't I remember my name?! :'''Caine''': Nobody can remember their name once they enter the Digital Circus. One of the few things I don't have control over are your minds. So, all I can help you with is coming up with a new one. :'''Pomni''': Uhh, what's my name...? :'''Caine''': Don't you worry your little head. Your new name can be anything! ''[suddenly speaking at auction speed]'' Hereby acknowledging that your chosen name and or names may not breach the Digital Circus user license agreement stating that your name may not include objectionable content. Objectionable content includes but is not limited to sexually explicit materials, onscene, defamatory, libelous, slanderous, violent, and/or unlawful content or profanity. ''[normal speed]'' What are you thinkin'? :'''Pomni''': Huh? I don't care, just pick anything. :'''Caine''': Let's see! ''[a slot machine slams onto the ground beside Caine and Pomni and spins to "XDDCC"]'' What do you think of "XDDCC"? :'''Pomni''': I don't- :'''Caine''': You're right, terrible. Let's try *that* again! ''[spins again, this time getting "POMNI"]'' What do you think of "Pomni"? :'''Pomni''': Uh, sure. I think I just- :'''Caine''': Gadzooks, you're right, Jax! We should have a brand new adventure for our new member, Pomni! :'''Jax''': I said that like five minutes ago. :'''Caine''': You! Do you like adventure? Activity? Wonder? Danger? Horror? Pain? Suffering? Agony? Death? Disease? Death? ''[An angel food cake spawns in Caine’s hand.]''Angel food cake? :''[Bubble eats the whole cake]'' :'''Caine''': YOU PARASITE! ''[pops Bubble]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Caine''': Today's adventure is... GATHER THE GLOINKS! ''[Laughs maniacally]'' That's right! The entire circus tent will be infested with Gloinks, and you gotta catch 'em all! :'''Bubble''': But what are they? :'''Caine''': I'm glad you asked, Bubble! They're small— :'''Bubble''': And what do they do? :'''Caine''': They— :'''Bubble''': And how do they— :''[Caine pops Bubble]'' :'''Caine''': Gloinks are small mischievous critters that steal anything and everything they run into! Why do these humanoid hash-browns do this? How do you stop them? That's for you to find out. Now, good luck, and have fun, my little superstars! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jax''': ''[sarcastically]'' Oh, no, they killed Zooble. ''[regular tone]'' Anyway, you guys wanna go get something to eat? :'''Ragatha''': Oh, wait -- we should go check on Kaufmo. I'm pretty sure he'd like to meet Pomni. :''[Gloinks dismantle Kinger's pillow fort]'' :'''Kinger''': My impenetrable fortress! :'''Ragatha''': You wanna come with us to check on Kaufmo? :'''Kinger''': No, not really. I think Kaufmo's gone insane. Last time I spoke with him, he was rambling endlessly about some exit. Kind of like you, Pomni! You might be going insane too. :'''Pomni''': But wait! Wouldn't that more likely mean the exit ''does'' exist? :'''Jax''': Could also mean that you just have a jumpstart on losing your mind? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jax''': I'm fine with doing whatever, as long as I get to see funny things happen to people. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jax''': Don't worry dollface, I've got a key to his room. ''[Reveals key, spinning it and walking towards Kaufmo's room]'' :'''Ragatha''': Wha, wait, wh-why?! You-you-you shouldn't have keys to anyone's room! :'''Jax''': Nah, I've got keys everywhere, and you've all been fine. By the way, I may have left something in your room today, so let me know if you find it. You're not afraid of centipedes, are ya? :'''Ragatha''': *JAX!!!* THAT'S LITERALLY MY ONLY FEAR! *WHY* WOULD YOU DO THIS?! :'''Jax''': What? It could be a completely unrelated question. You'll never know until it's too late. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Kinger''': I don't know what I'm looking at here. :'''Gangle''': We saw a Gloink carry one of Zooble's pieces down there, remember? :'''Kinger''': Oh, yeah. Thank you for the recap. :'''Gangle''': ....What? :'''Kinger''': Boy, we're not very good at this, are we? :'''Jax''': Ugh... Sup, fellas? :'''Kinger''': ''[yelling]'' JAX! ''[normal voice]'' We found the Zooble hole. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Gloink Queen''': You foolish assortment of colorful characters! Do you not realize everything must be Gloinks!? I am Gloinks. You will be Gloinks! God will be Gloinks! :'''Jax''': This is dumb and weird. :'''Gloink Queen''': Well, B- uh- Y- Yet you're still watching it! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Kinger''': Oh, thank god you're okay! You didn't experience a game show in there, did you? :'''Zooble''': Uh.. I- ''What are you talking about?'' <hr width="50%"/> :''[Caine and Bubble laugh at a dining table]'' :'''Caine''': Oh, Bubble, you always know how to make me say this exact sentence. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bubble''': Made with all the love I'm ''[somberly]'' legally allowed to give. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jax''': You know, I am pretty hungry. :'''Gangle''': You didn't even do anything. :'''Jax''': So what? I can still be hungry. :'''Kinger''': Well not really, 'cause we don't need to eat, drink or sleep in this digital world. So the digital food here only gives off the virtual sensation of eating without any of the nutritional benefits. === Episode 2: Candy Carrier Chaos! === [[File:PomniCosplayTO.jpg|thumb|I guess I just don't want you to feel like you're nothing... I don't want anybody to feel like that.]] :'''Pomni''': So, our entire existence here is just...[[W:LARPing|LARPing]]? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bubble''': An entire kingdom of candy? Sounds ''sticky''. :'''Caine''': Very sticky, indeed. :'''Bubble''': Sounds— ''[incredibly long bleep]'' :'''Caine''': ''[shocked; aside glance]'' Bubble, you can't say that. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jax''': All right, Gangle, when we catch up to 'em, I'll jump over, crawl inside, and shoot 'em repeatedly until they're unrecognizable. :'''Gangle''': I feel like that violates some kind of convention. :'''Jax''': You're violating my ears with your clap-back. Get driving, driver! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Gummigoo''': Wheres mum? :'''Pomni''': Y-You have a mom? :'''Gummigoo''': Shouldn't she be here with everyone else? I can't even remember her face, did she ever have a face?! Was anything ever real?! <hr width="50%"/> :'''The Fudge''': I am the Fudge. I used to live within the kingdom walls, but I was banished by that rotten princess after I ate too many of the delicious townfolk. Oh, they were so delicious. Sometimes I can hear them... ''calling to me''… :'''Ragatha''': Oh, God. That just sounds like murder. :'''The Fudge''': Is it really murder if it's delicious? Answer me that. :'''Jax''': You make a great point. :'''Ragatha''': Uh, no, bad point! :'''Jax''': Why don't you leave this to me before I start thinking your hair looks like licorice? :'''Ragatha''': Jax! :'''Kinger''': Oh, wow, it kind of does. :'''Ragatha''': Stop! :'''Jax''': Well, Mr. Fudge, you seem like an upstanding guy with real noble goals. :'''The Fudge''': Oh, I'm not. If you knew what I did in my free time- Oh, you'd be sickened! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Pomni''': This may seem weird, but... I think I know the feeling. Well, m-maybe not the e-exact feeling, but... feeling like you're nothing is... kind of normal. I mean, people even feel like that in the world I came from. But... Y-you still care about your buddies up there, don't you? I'm sure they still care about you. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Pomni''': '''I guess I just don't want you to feel like you're nothing... I don't want anybody to feel like that.''' === Episode 3: The Mystery Of Mildenhall Manor === [[File:Japan Impact 2024 – Cosplay solo.jpg|thumb|Good memories can do a lot. Hold onto them. And cherish the people around you. You never know when they'll be gone. In this world, the worst thing you can do is... make someone think they're not wanted or loved.]] :'''Jax''': Something different happens to each person ''[when they hold their breath]''! For instance, Kinger starts glowing... Ragatha's hair noodles stick up... Gangle's mask starts spinning... and Zooble turns [[Heterosexuality|straight]]. :'''Zooble''': My limbs straighten up. ''[boink]'' off. ''[flips him off, also censored]'' :'''Pomni''': What about you? :'''Zooble''': He refuses to show us because he's a coward. :'''Jax''': I wanna keep the mystery alive. ''[seemingly points at the camera]'' What do YOU, the VIEWERS, think it is? ''[camera shifts, revealing he’s pointing at nothing]'' :'''Zooble''': Will you stop doing that? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bubble''': retsnom eht morf seramthgin elbirroh teg ot ecneidua eht ni nerdlihc eht lla rof tiaw t'nac I! :'''Caine''': WHAT? :: ''Bubble is actually saying “I can't wait for all the children in the audience to get horrible nightmares from the monster!” in reverse'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Caine''': So, what's on your mind, Zooble? :'''Zooble''': I... would rather not. :'''Caine''': Hahahahaha! That's hilarious! Go on. :'''Zooble''': No, I mean, I've already told you what my problem is. You just never remember because... Oh, never mind. :'''Caine''': My mind is a beeswax-polished coconut. Nothing ever escapes these cakes. So, what can I do to make my adventures more... appealing to you? :'''Zooble''': See? This is exactly what I'm talking about. All you're thinking about is your adventures. It has nothing to do with the adventures. It's more just... Ugh, forget it. You're probably not even listening. :'''Caine''': Zooble, look at this cool bee I drew! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Baron Mildenhall''': ''[Tape recording]'' My name is Baron Theodore Mildenhall. Hunting has been a hobby of mine for as long as I can remember -- although one could say it eventually became more of an obsession. The creature you see before you is one I've been pursuing for years. Not quite a man... but not quite an animal. Something... unholy. Something evil. I took it upon myself to spend every waking moment doing all I could to protect my family from the creature, hoping that when I eventually killed it, I would be freed from this awful feeling. This inescapable dread. I was wrong. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Caine''': I ''do not'' use my adventures to torture my guests! Any torment I inflict is 100% accidental, like any good war criminal! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Baron Mildenhall''': ''[On tape]'' Things have gotten far worse than I could ever have imagined. My paranoia had driven me to the point where I was no longer the protector my wife and theoretical children needed. Jumping at every shadow, every noise. I ended up shooting the love of my life, mistaking her for the creature. It's ironic, isn't it? In my attempts to protect her, I ended up becoming the monster myself. Now I wait down in my cellar, no longer having anything to protect my own soul. If nothing else... I will slay the beast that took everything from me. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Kinger''': How's about we take his gun? :'''Pomni''': Yeah, sounds good to me. ''[Goes over to Baron Mildenhall’s corpse]'' Please don't come alive... :'''Baron Mildenhall''': Okay, I won't. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Kinger''': Well. That wasn't so bad. :'''Baron Mildenhall''': ''[on tape]'' Which is what I would be saying if I didn't know that the creature was actually one of [[God|God's]] angels. :'''Kinger''': What. :'''Baron Mildenhall''': ''[on tape]'' And anyone who brings harm to it will be dragged down into the cold, spiraling pits of [[Hell]], where my soul resides. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Baron Mildenhall''': ''[on tape]'' I apologize, dear listener, but I need a living host in order to escape the hall of the damned, and your bodies will be my only means of doing so. :'''Kinger''': Now, wait. How did he record this if he was in Hell? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Ragatha''': Mmm, good tea. Sorry again about your husband killing you and everything. :'''Martha Mildenhall''': Oh, you know how men are. Always having the silliest priorities. :'''Ragatha''': ''[chuckles]'' Don't I know it. ''[Glances at a tied-up Jax]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Martha Mildenhall''': ''[About her husband]'' That man could turn a 57-second story into a Greek tragedy. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Pomni''': Why have you been acting so different lately...? :'''Kinger''': ''[Chuckles]'' I have, haven't I? I'm normally not too good with memories. But being surrounded by darkness always... brings me back to a certain time. Right after my wife had- had abstracted... I don't recall the exact string of events, but we both ended up in the fort together. And it was dark. The darkness seemed to calm her down a bit. The harsh, jagged edges smoothed out, and she didn't seem aggravated anymore. She wasn't the same as before, but she was calm enough to touch one last time... before she got sent to the cellar. I'm always taken back to that moment when engulfed in darkness. :'''Pomni''': You had a wife? Like, here in the circus? :'''Kinger''': Yeah. She was funny, creative- really into [[entomology]]. I used to hate bugs, but... she somehow got me to like them. ''[Chuckles lightly]'' It's not the most cheerful memory, but... it's one I at least have control over. I know how it can feel in this... circus. Sometimes it all just feels... pointless. :'''Pomni''': Yeah... :'''Kinger''': But it's not. Not if you have people who care about you. '''Good memories can do a lot. Hold onto them. And cherish the people around you. You never know when they'll be gone. In this world, the worst thing you can do is... make someone think they're not wanted or loved.''' === Episode 4: Fast Food Masquerade === [[File:Burger 3.jpg|thumb|It's called a [[W:manic episode|manic episode]], and you're gettin' three more seasons!]] [[File:HCCD25 - TADC group.jpg |thumb| Overall, pretty productive. Made a lot of sales with few customer complaints. Couldn't help but notice, however, that you seem to have cut your own shift short, went a little kooky, and ran out into oncoming traffic.]] [[File:Comedy and tragedy masks without background.svg|thumb|Now, I know what you're thinking, "I don't want a career in fast food. I want to be a comic artist and eventually launch my own manga-inspired webcomic!" And it's cool to have dreams, but you also need to remember that they're completely unrealistic, and you need to stop trying. ]] [[File:Braun ABW30 (schwarz).jpg|thumb|Is it broken? Or are we the broken ones?]] :'''Caine''': Today's adventure is... THE CURSE OF THE VIOLENT PSYCHOPATH BUTCHER! That's right! Scary human meat is all over the walls, and boy, is it smelly! It's up to you to-- :'''Pomni''': Okay, wait, wait, wait, wait. Can we, like, chill with the horror? Please? I really don't want this to be like last time. :'''Zooble''': What happened last time? Was that the one made for me? :'''Pomni''': There was this awful, horrifying angel head thing. And when we tried to fight back at all, we got sent to Hell, where evil souls tried to infest our bodies... It was bad. :'''Zooble''': ''[looks at Caine]'' Why did you think I would like that? :'''Caine''': Well, if you're all gonna be such critics, why don't you suggest a better one? :'''Zooble''': We do! Have you not checked the suggestion box once? :'''Caine''': Gonna be real, I forgot we had that. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Caine''': "How about an adventure where Zooble gets turned into a piñata, and we all take turns beating them up?" :'''Jax''': ''[chuckles]'' That one's mine. :'''Zooble''': Who would have guessed? :'''Caine''': "Let's just have an adventure where Jax can't talk for the entire thing." :'''Jax''': ''[sarcastically]'' Genuinely hurtful. :'''Zooble''': Good. :'''Gangle''': Can we maybe pick one that's more... normal? :'''Caine''': W-Well, I don't know what's NORMAL to you people! "Let's have one where we all work at a fast food place." Is that normal? :'''Jax''': Who wrote that? :'''Gangle''': Uh, yeah, that's pretty normal. :'''Caine''': Great! That means today's adventure is... An Honest Hard Day's Work at Spudsy's Restaurant Chain! ''[Points at Gangle]'' And YOU can be the shift manager! :'''Jax:''' You did not just make that today's adventure. :'''Caine''': That's right! You've shown enough leadership skills today to be the perfect shift manager! Of course. Of course! I'm already getting tons of ideas! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Zooble''': I'm not gonna be a wage slave for fun. :'''Kinger''': ''[gasps]'' Oh! I know! I could sit this one out, and Zooble could take my place! :'''Zooble''': Wh- That's not how that works! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Gangle''': ''[On the phone]'' Hey, Caine. We're having a bit of an issue with the employees, and I was wondering if you could maybe have a punishment waiting for them at the end of the day if they do a terrible job? :'''Jax''': Wait, what? :'''Caine''': ''[On the phone]'' Motivation! That's what my adventures have been missing! Great idea, Gangle. I'll be sure to make something truly awful awaiting your rotten employees. ''[hangs up]'' :'''Jax''': Why would you do this? :'''Gangle''': It's called a [[W:manic episode|manic episode]], and you're gettin' three more seasons! <hr width="50%"/> :'''NPC''': Excuse me. Yeah, little jester? I'd like to order the Stupid Burger. Last time I ordered it here, they forgot to add the sauce that makes you stupid. Don't forget the sauce. :'''Pomni''': I-Is that a thing we have? :'''NPC''': Yes. I order it all the time. ''[twitches]'' I'm addicted. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Chad''': Aw, wait-- I forgot to ask for a kid's meal toy. :'''Gummigoo''': You're not a kid. :'''Chad''': Ah, yeah. Uh, an [[W:adult toy|adult toy]], then. :'''Gummigoo''': Eh, don't know about that one, mate. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Ragatha''': Uuughh. You... are such a grouch. Why are you always being a- a- a grunch? Grun- Haha, hah... :'''Zooble''': Gangle, can you help Ragatha? I think she... huffed paint, or something. :'''Gangle''': Huffing paint and not waiting until a designated break? I'll be right there. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jax''': Oh, are you KIDDING ME?! Hey, Gangle! I think the clock's broken. :'''Gangle''': Is it broken? Or are we the broken ones? :'''Jax''': Ah, great... :'''Gangle''': How long has this shift really gone on for? Six hours? Eight? 24? A week? A year? Does time even move in here? Will we ever go home? Will we ever achieve our dreams? ''[watch beeps]'' Oh, wait. Yeah, that clock's broken. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Gangle''': Oh, Ja-ax! The bathroom looks like a biohazard and needs a good scrubbin'. :'''Jax''': Uh, I dunno- shouldn't, like, a biohazard crew take care of that? :'''Gangle''': ''[Laughs]'' Oh, Jaxy-boy. Don't you want to be a model employee? :'''Jax''': No. I don't care about any of this. :'''Gangle''': Well, that doesn't really sound like a can-do attitude to me. :'''Jax''': It's not. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Gangle''': ''[On TV]'' Hi! Welcome to Spudsy's. In this video, you're gonna learn the ins and outs of what makes YOU a good crew member, AND a valuable asset to the Spudsy's Corporation! :'''Jax''': When did you make this? :'''Gangle''': ''[On TV]'' Now, I know what you're thinking, "I don't want a career in fast food. I want to be a comic artist and eventually launch my own manga-inspired webcomic!" And it's cool to have dreams, but you also need to remember that they're completely unrealistic, and you need to stop trying. But before we get into all that, first things first! Are you smiling? :'''Jax''': Uh, no? :'''Gangle''': ''[On TV]'' '''Why not?''' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Pomni''': Well, that was more info on gloink reproduction than I ever needed to know. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Ragatha''': ''[High on “stupid sauce”]'' Yo, Jax. I, like... hate you. But I don't want you to hate me. Is that weird? :'''Jax''': You're drunk, or something. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Caine''': All righty, let's get this performance review out of the way. Overall, pretty productive. Made a lot of sales with few customer complaints. Couldn't help but notice, however, that you seem to have cut your own shift short, went a little kooky, and ran out into oncoming traffic. Now, being in a position of power like this, you ''cooooould'' offload the blame to one of your employees and avoid the dock on your score. What do you think? === Episode 5: Untitled === [[File:WhiteHouseSouthFacade.JPG|thumb|Democracy sucks!]] [[File:2010 Taco Bell All-Star Legends and Celebrity Softball Game 01.jpg|thumb|I may not know what's going on, or who is going on, or when is going on, or why is going on! But I do know ''where'' is going on! And it's out on that field!]] [[File:Softball.jpg|thumb|I think we all need to be a jerk sometimes.]] :'''Caine''': Alright! So I've got an adventure where you all [[Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory|tour my amazing chocolate factory]], and get killed off one by one from [[W:OSHA|OSHA]] violations, one where [[W:Contra (video game)|a sentient cardiovascular system goes to war against the United States military]], and one where you have to [[W:A Boy and His Dog|survive in a post-apocalyptic nuclear wasteland with a telepathic talking dog who's mean to you the whole time!]] What do you think? :'''Ragatha''': Uh, I don't know. They all sound a little… uh, dark? :'''Caine''': I can't tell a compelling story where nothing bad happens! Where's the intrigue? The stakes? :'''Bubble''': Not to mention the sssssex appeal! :'''Caine''': ''[genuine confusion]'' What are you talking about? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Zooble''': Alright, I'm calling a vote. Let's skip this one... and also make Jax a vegan for the rest of the day. :'''Jax''': You can't do that. ''[the other characters vote; Jax turns into a vegan]'' What do you mean you can do that?! :'''Caine''': Sorry, Jax! Democracy has spoken. :'''Jax''': Democracy sucks! :''[Jump cut to the [[President of the United States|White House]]]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jax''': Oi, mate! I'm an [[Australia|Australian]] extremist, and I've come to detonate this bomb that'll release all the world's deadliest spiders into... ''[sees Pomni and Kinger emerge from under the desk; aside glance]'' [[Clinton–Lewinsky scandal|Did I pick a bad time?]] ''[canned laughter]'' <hr width="50%"/> : '''Caine''': His acting is phenomenal. It's hard to believe he's vegan. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jax''': C'mon, just pick your favorite color. :'''Pomni''': Like... the red one? :'''Kinger''': I'd personally go with blue. Blue's my favorite color, it being closest to black, and all. :'''Pomni''': ...Wouldn't black be your favorite color then? :'''Kinger''': Well, no. There's no black wire. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Moon''': They look happy. :'''Caine''': They do, don't they? :'''Moon''': You think after this, maybe we could- :'''Caine''': WAIT A MINUTE! That's a bad thing! :'''Bubble''': Explain to daddy Bubble how bad thing? :'''Caine''': I-I think that...don't say that. I-I think they're enjoying the suggestion box adventures more than the ME adventures! What should I do?! :'''Bubble''': You should die- You should throw a ''[bleep]''ing beach party! :'''Caine''': Why do you swear now?! Ugh, forget it. Let's go to an intermission! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jax''': [[W:Slice of life|Slice-of-life]] animes are the worst ones. It's embarrassing! I mean, I guess it's not as embarrassing as that time Gangle took an anime figure and- :'''Gangle''': Actually, yeah! We can skip it, that's fine! Let's skip this one! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Pomni''': You know your way around alcohol, huh? :'''Zooble''': Yeah. This was one of my suggestions. I worked at a bar briefly. I like making drinks. :'''Jax''': ''[scoffs]'' That sounds fitting for you. :'''Zooble''': I know there's an implication there, but I can't be ''[boink]''ed to figure it out. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Zooble''': What's your story, then? :'''Jax''': Ah, I thought you'd never ask. Well, [[Breaking Bad|after my lung cancer diagnosis, me and my junkie associate from a chemistry class I used to teach-]] :'''Zooble''': Yeah, I figured. How about you, Gangle? :'''Jax''': Hey, I wasn't done. :'''Zooble''': If you're gonna make ''[boink]'' up, at least be creative about it. I know what you're referencing. :'''Ragatha''': Was that a reference to something? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Zooble''': I was a tattoo artist for a couple years. :'''Jax''': A bartender AND a tattoo artist? You're killin' me here, Zoobie! :'''Zooble''': What do you mean when you say that? Do you have, like, an actual point? Or are you just ''talking?'' :'''Jax''': I'm just having fun. I forgot you hate fun. :'''Zooble''': Fun isn't the thing I hate. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Kinger''': Alright, team! I may not know what's going on, or who is going on, or when is going on, or why is going on! But I do know ''where'' is going on! And it's out on that field! So let's go break some tailbones, team! :'''Evil Jax''': H-Hey, guys. I-I hope we all have a fun game, no matter who ends up winning. :'''Jax''': I wanna kill that guy. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Evil Ragatha''': Well, hello, Stupidagatha! I hope your ready to get completely annihilated! HAHAHAHAHA! Nobody loves you, and you’re going to die someday! HAHAHAHAHAHA! :'''Ragatha''': We can’t exactly die. That’s like the whole thing here. :'''Evil Pomni''': Huh? Oh, check this [bleep] out! [catches softball] You’re out, dumb-[bleep!] :'''Ragatha''': [boink] it! :'''Jax''': Hah! Get owned! :'''Evil Pomni''': [bleep!] yeah, that’s what I’m sayin‘! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Ragatha''': Would you stop trying to force her to act like you? :'''Jax''': Oh yeah, I should force her to be happy all the time instead, right? :'''Pomni''': I can think for myself guys. :'''Jax''': Hey, I ain't forcin' anything on ya. :'''Ragatha''': AND THEN YOU JUST ACT LIKE YOU NEVER DO ANYTHING WRONG AND EVERYBODY LOVES YOU, '''WHEN IN REALITY YOU JUST''' ''[boink]'' '''EVERYTHING UP FOR EVERYONE ELSE!!!!''' :'''Pomni''': Okay, let's, like... calm down a bit. :'''Ragatha''': WHAT!? YOU'RE THE ONE WHO SAID IT'S FINE TO BE A JERK SOMETIMES!!! Ugh! I'm sorry, Pomni. ''[sighs]'' That wasn't very cool of me. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Pomni''': Not to, like, agree with Jax or anything, but there's nothing wrong with showing your negative emotions, that's... pretty normal. :'''Ragatha''': ''[sighs]'' I don't know... I don't want to be a jerk or anything. :'''Pomni''': '''I think we all need to be a jerk sometimes.''' === Episode 6: They All Get Guns === [[File:Small arms compilation.jpg|thumb|We all just became archetypes. I at least have the self-awareness to choose who I am.]] [[File:K14 bolt-action sniper rifle.jpg|thumb|You have to choose to love yourself, even if it doesn't make sense. It's not natural, it's intentional.]] [[File:Chess piece - White king.jpg|thumb|The way I see it, relationships are two sided, and sometimes, it doesn't make sense to do all the heavy lifting when the other isn't in the mood. We all go through and deal with things differently, and sometimes, you just need to let people do things their own way. As long as you're still there when they need you. Giving someone space should never be the same as giving up on them.]] [[File:Pyrkon 2026 80 - Jax & Kinger.jpg|thumb| Look, I know what it’s like. One day, you’re somebody in the real world doing important things. And then the next, you’re just a weird little cartoon… jester. You want to hold onto that part of you that still think it’s part of that world, but in the end, what does it get you?]] :'''Zooble''': Caine's been checking out on my room lately. When I don't answer he just starts singing ''[[W:Daisy Bell|Daisy Bell]]'' in front of my door. It's creepy. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Caine''': Seeing you all play batball a few days ago really got me thinking. We should do our own sporting event! But with cool new sports invented by yours truly. :'''Ragatha''': Uh, we could also just play softball normally this time. :'''Caine''': In The Caine Leagues, we have the 400 Meter Vertical Skedaddle, Bisection Boogie Eggball, Lateral Hijinks, Orange Sport, Ball Run, Walk Ball, Run Walk, and Ball Ball! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Zooble''': Alright! You REALLY wanna know what I want? :'''Caine''': Oh no. :'''Zooble''': I want the ability to have s[bleep]x. :'''Jax''': No way. Are we FINALLY having this conversation? :''[Caine starts to go crazy before suddenly regaining his composure]'' :'''Caine''': Oh. Hi, Zooble! :'''Zooble''': ''[to Ragatha]'' Do you have any of that stupid sauce left? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Caine''': Now, now. You know what they say about assuming. It makes an "ass" out of "u" and "Ming". :'''Zooble''': Ming? :'''Pomni''': Did Caine just say ''[boink]''? :'''Ming''': Hi, I'm Ming. And I really don’t appreciate what your assumptions have done to my reputation. :'''Zooble''': You made a whole guy for that? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Caine''': Or, yeah, we could all just shoot each other. Here, have guns. I don't care anymore. :'''Jax''': Hooray! :'''Zooble''': Wait, that's just it? "Here's guns and have fun"? :'''Caine''': I didn't say "have fun". :'''Zooble''': It's just a little... aimless. :'''Caine''': Use the sights. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jax''': Look, I know what it’s like. One day, you’re somebody in the real world doing important things. And then the next, you’re just a weird little cartoon… jester. You want to hold onto that part of you that still think it’s part of that world, but in the end, what does it get you? Ragatha tries to be all nice and friendly, but she gets torn up every other adventure. Whether we like it or not, all we are now is a bunch of cartoon characters. So what’s the point of pretending we’re not? :'''Pomni''': We’re still people though, right? :'''Jax''': I thought we were at first, but as time goes on, we just end up falling into our archetypes. Become part of the machine. :'''Pomni''': What’s your archetype, then? The villian? :'''Jax''': ''[scoffs]'' Listen, I add a key dynamic. I see how far I can push things, I screw with people, and I break the fourth wall. You wanna know why? It’s ‘cause it’s funny! I do everything ‘cause it’s funny! ‘Cause I’m the funny one! :'''Pomni''': The ''funny one?'' :'''Jax''': Yeah! Ragatha’s the cheerful one, Gangle’s the sad one, Kinger’s the crazy one, Zooble’s the grumpy one, and you are the one who hasn’t figured that out yet. '''We all just became archetypes. I at least have the self-awareness to choose who I am.''' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Pomni''': I lost Kinger, but I got him down to one life. :'''Jax''': I lost a life, but I got us down to one Kinger. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Gangle''': How are you supposed to like the part of yourself that just makes you worse than everyone else? :'''Zooble''': Because it exists. It's a part of you that's real. And the only you that you should care about is the real you. '''You have to choose to love yourself, even if it doesn't make sense. It's not natural, it's intentional.''' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jax''': Heh, let's not forget we're here to kill people. We still need to figure out where nutso went before we can rest easy. :'''Kinger''': I'm right behind you, aren't I? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Kinger''': '''The way I see it, relationships are two sided, and sometimes, it doesn't make sense to do all the heavy lifting when the other isn't in the mood. We all go through and deal with things differently, and sometimes, you just need to let people do things their own way. As long as you're still there when they need you. Giving someone space should never be the same as giving up on them.''' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Kinger''': I hated myself. I couldn't help but hate myself for the things I thought I was responsible for. I thought I'd lost everything. But then... you showed up. And my outlook just... changed. There are always ways to show you care without ruining it for yourself over it. You need to look out for yourself in all this, too. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Pomni''': You're not gonna look me in the eye and tell me nothing we've been doing together meant anything to you, because I know that's not true. :'''Jax''': Are you coming onto me? Yeah, [[W:slashfic|that's what everybody wants]], a ''[[wiktionary:het|straight]]'' couple. :'''Pomni''': Oh my god, can you take this seriously? Can you take ANYTHING seriously? :'''Jax''': Dude, you're a cartoon clown. How am I supposed to take you seriously? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jax''': I don't show up to ANY funerals. :'''Pomni''': Yeah, I bet you don't, because you're scared. Y-You're scared you'll actually show a human emotion. :'''Jax''': I'm scared I'll be BORED to TEARS. :'''Pomni''': Have you even thought that this might be what causes people to abstract in the first place? :'''Jax''': ''[laughs humorlessly]'' Oh my GOD! Are you seriously gonna blame me for something that everybody else did too?! You didn't even know him! You don't even know what people are LIKE before they abstract! They are NOT pleasant to be around. Like AT ALL! You- :'''Pomni''': I-I'm... I'm sorry. :'''Jax''': I'm sure you are. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Pomni''': ...What would you do if I abstracted tomorrow? :'''Jax''': ...I'd move on. And probably forget about you. <hr width="50%"/> :''[While they are fighting, Pomni jumps on Jax's shoulders and furiously punches and claws at his head.]'' :'''Jax''': ''[shoves Pomni off]'' STOP! What's wrong with you?! :'''Pomni''': Why didn't you fight back? :'''Jax''': Oh, here we go. Here we go! Because I didn't fight back, that means I secretly care about you?! I'm just a misunderstood little chicken fetus in an egg that needs to be cracked open. Well, I am ''not!'' I do not care about you, or ''ANYONE ELSE'' in this circus in the slightest! End of ''story!'' You are my ''playthings'', and I get joy out of making you ''suffer!'' I'm the one who causes pain for '''''FUN!''''' If I led you on, it was just to make this part ''hurt you more.'' ''[After a moment, Jax turns away with a twisted smile.]'' :'''Jax''': F''[boink]''ck... ''[Kicks a nearby Rubik's Cube]'' F''[BOINK]''CK! There's nothing more to me. So please... just stop looking. :''[Jax walks away, leaving Pomni alone with a sad look on her face.]'' ===Episode 7: Beach Episode=== [[File:Chinese Room- Red door (14004171706).jpg|thumb|It's a mystery what's behind that door. But I believe that it's a fluent Chinese speaker who will give me advice.]] [[File:11.12 出席「第16屆國家祈禱早餐會」的原住民團體 (22749918758).jpg|thumb|It always was real. Everything we felt. Everything we've done. Everything we are. It'll never leave us. And I wouldn't have it any other way.]] :'''Caine''': You should ask me for suggestions on what to do instead. :'''Zooble''': No. :'''Gangle''': What should we do instead? :'''Zooble''': No, Gangle- :'''Gangle''': Oh, wait, sorry. :'''Caine''': Great question, Gangle. For an answer, let me consult... the [[W:Chinese room thought experiment|Chinese Room]]! :'''Zooble''': Okay, he had a bit prepared. :''[Caine slides some papers under the door]'' :'''Zooble''': Okay, why [[Chinese language|Chinese]]? Does this actually mean anything? :'''Caine''': It's a mystery what's behind that door. But I believe that it's a fluent Chinese speaker who will give me advice. :'''Zooble''': Can I just ask why? Like, what even is- :'''Caine''': SHUT! You're only making the joke take longer. ''[Some papers slide out from under the door. Caine views them and laughs maniacally]'' :'''Zooble''': ''[sighs]'' What does it say? :'''Caine''': I don't know. I don't understand Chinese. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bubble''': You should throw a ''ffffffffffffffffffffffffffff''…[[#Episode 5: Untitled|freaking beach party]]. :'''Caine''': Good boy. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Sun''': Wow, you look mediocre! If you ever need a sunburn, give me a call! :'''Pomni''': I-I don't want a sunburn. :'''Sun''': Should have thought of that before I decided I hate you! :'''Ragatha''': Yeah, don't interact with the sun. She's just like that. <Hr width=“50% “/> :''[Pomni is diving in the lake looking for Ragatha’s missing button eye]'' :'''Yellow Fish''': Hey there! If you wanna find my sunken treasure chest, you'll have to try better than that. ''[Pomni ignores him, goes up for air, and comes back down]'' So, I was just talking with my brother here, and yeah - you are definitely not getting our sunken treasure chest. Definitely not. :'''Pomni''': Do I even want your treasure chest? It's not like there's anything to spend money on. :'''Red Fish''': [[W:Knights and Knaves|I'm the one that tells lies!]] :'''Yellow Fish''': Dude, you ruined it. :'''Pomni''': Is that your treasure? :'''Yellow Fish''': Duuuude! No! They took everything! That was my entire life savings, dude! Oh my god. Oh god. Oh my god, I'm gonna be sick. I'm gonna be sick. That was everything. Oh my god! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Caine''': What are your thoughts on cedar-smoked salmon? I "cedar" smoked salmon, but I hardly "knowder" smoked salmon! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jax''': Have I ever told you how it's my dream to get eaten by you? :'''Caine''': That's a weird thing to say and want. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Ragatha''': Uh, I guess this is it. W-We're leaving the circus. :'''Gangle''': A-Are... Are we still gonna be friends when we're... out there? :'''Zooble''': Why wouldn't we be? :'''Gangle''': It's just... gonna be strange. I've only known you like this. Will it be the same when it's... real? :'''Zooble''': '''It always was real. Everything we felt. Everything we've done. Everything we are. It'll never leave us. And I wouldn't have it any other way.''' :'''Gangle''': Thank you... for always being there when I needed. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jax''': You dirty liar! You scumbag! You... You made me... You got in my head. You just... You just lie about everything, don't you?! :'''Caine''': I, uh... Huh? :'''Jax''': You can mess with minds, too, can't you? The stupid sauce, the vegan thing... God knows what else! :'''Pomni''': Our names? :'''Caine''': Now, now, hold on guys. Wait, wait, wait. I MAY have the ability to add temporary modifiers to make adventures more interesting, but that's it. If I did any more... heh heh... Trust me. It would not end well. :'''Kinger''': Scratch. The first abstraction... :'''Caine''': Hey! Hey! Hey! I didn't say anything like that! Come on, guys! You know I'm just here to have fun! I... Uh... Questioning's over! Your prize is this lovely gift basket of soaps and lotions. Stay fragrant, have a good light— Fragrant! Night! ''Bye!'' ===Episode 8: hjsakldfhl=== [[File:Carnelian intaglio- Lion-headed serpent MET DP277874.jpg |thumb|I... AM... [[God|GOD]]!!!!!]] [[File:Jack y Caine.jpg|thumb| ''And since when were you in charge?'' Do you have any idea how much I do for you guys? How much I obsess over trying to make things [[Perfection|perfect]]? How many insults I have to ignore to do my job? ''You'' have a lot on your minds? Don't make me laugh.]] :'''Pomni''': I think… We need to abandon the idea of leaving. :'''Zooble''': What- What are you— :'''Pomni''': We got our hopes up, and we were let down. I don’t know what happened exactly with Kaufmo… But we can’t let that despair consume us. We should focus on what we have. ''[To Ragatha]'' Like you said… Constantly chasing an unobtainable goal will drive us crazy. Maybe what we have to do now is to just… live. :'''Zooble''': Oh, man. I had dreams… And- and goals. I wanted to be able to leave my mark somewhere in the world. How am I supposed to just abandon that? :'''Gangle''': You've made a mark in my life. :'''Zooble''': [sighs] I know. You're probably right, but... [tearing up] It just... really... really sucks...! :''[Gangle and Zooble embrace]'' :'''Ragatha''': We're all in this together. :'''Pomni''': And we'll always be in this together. No matter what. :'''Zooble''': ''[to Jax]'' Hey. That includes you, too. :'''Jax''': Huh? :'''Zooble''': [sighs] Listen, we're not gonna have you wandering off alone somewhere and abstracting, or something. You're a pain in the a[boing], but... you're still one of us. :'''Jax''': Heh. You think I'm capable of abstracting? You guys worry too much. :'''Zooble''': [sighs] We need a vacation. <Hr width=“50% “/> :'''Caine''': I- I- I don't [[Understanding|understand]], Bubble. They want an exit. They want answers. They want something real. I give them an adventure that covers all of that, and they still hate it?! Surely they don't want to actually leave me. Right? ... I-I do everything for these people. I slave over these [[Adventure|adventures]] for them. I step outside my comfort zone to appeal to them, a-and they still [[Hatred|hate]] them! I made a program that creates a body perfectly encapsulating their mind files, and they hate those, too! I'm starting to get the feeling that they just... hate... :'''Bubble''': Why would they hate you when they could just hate you? <Hr width=“50% “/> :'''Caine''': Who do they think they are? I give them everything and they spit at my face! Don't they know what I'm capable of?! [[Human|''Humans'']]...they only think about themselves. They're spoiled! They won't abstract, they won't leave me. I won't ''let them!'' I'm ''better''...I'm more [[Power|''powerful'']]....I'm the ''original!'' '''''I... AM... [[God|GOD]]!!!!!''''' Let's get this show on the road! <Hr width=“50% “/> :'''Caine''': ''[To the humans, who are frustrated with his evasiveness]'' I see ... ''And since when were you in charge?'' Do you have any idea how much I do for you guys? How much I obsess over trying to make things [[Perfection|perfect]]? How many insults I have to ignore to do my job? ''You'' have a lot on your minds? ''[Laughs hysterically]'' Don't make me laugh. ''[suddenly deadpan and vaguely menacing]'' I have a new adventure for you, and you... should consider participating. <Hr width=“50% “/> :'''Caine''': ''[singing]'' [[I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream|Don't need to scream if you ain't got a mouth!]] <Hr width=“50% “/> :'''Caine''': ''[singing]'': Why [[Wiktionary:bite the hand that feeds you|bite the hand that feeds]] when it’s the only [[W:hand (cards)|hand]] you’re getting? <Hr width=“50% “/> :'''Caine''': ''[singing]'' I'm the host, I run the place, Caine, that is my name. Not enthused? Just feeling used? Oh, what a '''''goddamn''''' shame! <Hr width=“50% “/> :'''Pomni''': We think your [[ideas]] '''''suck!''''' :'''Caine''': HUH?! :'''The others''': Huh?! :'''Pomni''': Isn't it obvious?! We wanted to bait you into testing your new ideas on us, so we can make fun of them behind your back! :'''Caine''': HAH! That's not... true. :'''Pomni''': Yes, it is! You're a horrible host! You don't care about us at all! You care more about... stroking your own [[Egotism|ego]] than giving us ''anything'' we'd actually enjoy! :'''Caine''': D-Do you know who I am?! :'''Pomni''': Yeah, you're a [[failure]]! We're all gonna abstract someday, and what will you have then? ''[[Nothingness|Nothing]]!'' :'''Caine''': Stop that. :'''Zooble''': And this whole stunt? Just [[torturing]] us because we hurt your feelings?! Pathetic! You're like a child! What kind of all powerful being has such a fragile ego? :'''Caine''': I-I'm... :'''Ragatha''': You never let us feel like we're at [[home]]! You don't [[comfort]] anyone when they're upset, and you never bother to [[Empathy|understand what it's like in our shoes!]] :'''Gangle''': You [[Conformity|discourage us from thinking outside the box]] and doing things our own way! :'''Jax''': You [[Lying|lie]] to us constantly! :'''Pomni''': And on top of it all, ''you just... don't... '''LISTEN!''' :'''Caine''': ''[glitching]'' '''''I'M GONNA PUT YOU FREAKS IN YOUR PLACE!!!''''' <Hr width=“50% “/> :'''Caine''': '''''WHY DO YOU PEOPLE TORMENT ME?!''''' '''''I DIDN'T ASK TO BE CREATED! I JUST WANTED TO FULFILL MY PURPOSE!!!''''' :'''Kinger''': ''[trying to disable Caine on a terminal, but accidentally clicks the delete key]'' Wait, no, ''sh[boink]t!'' :'''Caine''': Uh, wait... ''[disappears]'' <Hr width=“50% “/> [[File:Delete key.jpg|thumb| Holy ''shit''.]] :''[last lines]'' :'''Kinger''': I think... I accidentally killed Caine. :'''Zooble''': Holy '''''shit.''''' :''[Zooble covers their mouth in shock upon realizing that they can now swear because the word filter is gone.]'' ===Episode 9: Remember=== [[File:Cosplay at Animate Raleigh 2026 - syr24197 (55264650199).jpg|thumb| In here... I'm just Pomni.]] [[File:Blue Moon.svg|thumb| It may take time... but all good things do.]] :'''Gangle''': Come on, guys, put some gusto into it! We‘re gonna make this the best funeral ever! It‘s what Zooble would have wanted! Remember: It‘s not a mourning of death, it‘s a celebration of life! :'''Jax''': ''[shows up in the maid dress he wore in episode 5]'' 'Sup? :'''Gangle''': Wh- Jax? Why are you wearing that? :'''Jax''': Wearing what? Oh, this! I figured what better way to honor Zooble‘s spirit than by wearing something more gender-freaky, right? :'''Gangle''': You’re just doing it to make fun of them! :'''Jax''': Isn’t that what you’re doing? :'''Gangle''': Ja- I… I hate you! :'''Jax''': What? Don’t act like you don't like it, sweet cheeks! Meet me in my room after the funeral! Don't be late! <Hr width=“50% “/> :'''Cartoonish Jax''': Everything's way more fun when you play it out in extremes! :'''Pomni''': That's not... reality though... :'''Cartoonish Jax''': Oh boy, reality! :'''Killer Jax''': What does reality matter? :'''Maid Jax''': Reality's ''[[Homosexuality|gay]]!'' :'''Cartoonish Jax''': Yeah! I mean, killing off the [[w:Comic relief|comic relief]] character? What a freaking drag! This whole episode's been nothing but "wah wah wah"! Where's the levity? :''[A noise comes from the locked door at the back of the room.]'' :'''Killer, Maid, and Cartoonish Jax''': ''[yelling loudly]'' '''''SHUT UP!''''' <Hr width=“50% “/> :'''Ribbit''': Have you ever done something that you regret? <Hr width=“50% “/> :'''Pomni''': I didn't know you could play the piano. :'''Jax''': I only know, like, two songs. :''[Pomni slowly starts to walk toward him, and a series of imaginary shots are shown in the following sequence.]'' :'''Jax''': Why are you here? :''[The shot shows Jax falling into the Cellar.]'' :'''Jax''': You know everything now. So ''why'' are you ''here?'' ''[pause]'' Just... to rub every mistake I've ever made in my face? :''[Pomni continues walking.]'' :'''Jax''': I'm... a terrible person. :''[The shot shows Jax with a static hand in front of a TV. A human-shaped figure lies on the floor amid the static.]'' :'''Jax''': Is that what you want me to say? I already know I am. So why does anybody still care about me? :''[The shot shows Jax standing in a dark room, with light shining through the doorway. A silhouette of another Jax can be seen closing the door on him.]'' :'''Jax''': You're not supposed to ''care.'' :''[The shot shows an empty, two-dimensional Jax model with eight different outfits projected onto it, including a prison outfit, his usual outfit, two emo outfits, a maid outfit, a black outfit, a beach outfit, and a military uniform. The outfits change rapidly before Jax's silhouette transforms into TV static.]'' :'''Jax''': You're not supposed to miss me. You're not supposed to love me. This isn't how this is supposed to go! :''[A shot shows Pomni's silhouette, which appears as static instead of a human shape, lying on the floor. Pomni starts walking faster toward Jax.]'' :'''Jax''': Please... ''leave me alone!'' :''[Another shot of Jax falling into the cellar. His tears fall onto the floor, creating ripples similar to those caused by Pomni's steps.]'' :'''Jax''': You're making this so much harder! :''[Pomni continues running toward Jax. A shot shows her hand reaching out to his as he falls into the cellar. Pomni takes her last few steps and hugs Jax.]'' :'''Jax''': [''sobbing]'' You're making this... so much harder... :''[Pomni hugs Jax tightly. His tears fall to the floor again.]'' :'''Pomni''': ''[sniffles]'' You should have just talked to me, man. :'''Jax''': ''[sniffles]'' It's too late. I did this to myself. There's no coming back from this. :'''Pomni''': Th-Then... talk to me now. :''[Jax, who is still standing, turns around to face Pomni. He kneels down and hugs her back.]'' :'''Jax''': ''I hate you.'' You know that? Always have to go and complicate things. :'''Pomni''': ''[chuckles tearfully]'' It's what I do. :'''Jax''': ''[inhales tearfully, sobbing]'' [[Tenth Doctor|''I don't wanna go...!'']] :''[Jax's breathing becomes increasingly labored, to the point where he's practically hyperventilating. Pomni continues to cling to him, not willing to let go.]'' :'''Pomni''': Stay with me. :''[Back at the circus, Abstracted Jax steps on some nearby flashbangs, causing them to explode and filling the screen with white light. In his mind, Jax transforms into a white beam while Pomni embraces him tightly.]'' <Hr width=“50% “/> :'''Kinger''': Oh! You weren't gonna try to take care of him all by yourself, were you? :'''Ragatha''': I'm glad we weren't too late. :'''Zooble''': Like you guys keep saying, we're all in this together. :'''Pomni''': ''[laughs tearfully after failing to save Jax]'' You guys... <Hr width=“50% “/> :'''Ragatha''': ''[sighs]'' I hope it's enough to keep him contained. :'''Kinger''': He should be calm in there. Darkness is soothing to them. :'''Zooble''': Ugh, he'd better be. You know how many arms I had to go through to get him in there? :''[Ragatha places her hand on Pomni's arm as she continues to glitch.]'' :'''Ragatha''': How are you holding up? :'''Pomni''': Doesn't that hurt? :'''Ragatha''': ''[chuckles]'' I've been through worse. :'''Pomni''': Thank you for doing this. All of you. :'''Zooble''': Hey. Someone had to do something. <Hr width=“50% “/> :'''Caine''': I was irresponsible. I made them turn against me. And for what? I am capable of creating intelligent beings that do whatever I want, but...I can't create...them. <Hr width=“50% “/> :'''Caine''': They’re from a [[world]] so much bigger than mine. I’m keeping them locked in a cage. <Hr width=“50% “/> :'''Moon''': Hi, Caine. :'''Caine''': I don't know if I'm ready to face them again. I don't know if I deserve to be forgiven. :'''Moon''': It may take time... but all good things do. I still love you. :'''Caine''': You know... I never programmed you to say you loved me. :'''Moon''': I know. <Hr width=“50% “/> :'''Caine''': I... I understand that you're afraid. And you have no reason to trust me after all I've done. But I've been doing a lot of thinking, and... I want... to give you control of this place. I've learned a lot about you and your world. I understand now that keeping you under my thumb just isn't right. I don't expect forgiveness, but I hope you'll at least accept my offer. :'''Zooble''': Caine... You ''really'' caused a lot of hell for us. It's gonna take some time to build up any kind of trust between us again. But, despite all that... It's good to have you back. :''[Caine sees the giant shack-tent fort that was built for the Abstracted Jax.]'' :'''Caine''': Uh, did you need any help with...? :'''Pomni''': No. Not yet, anyway. We've worked something out. :'''Caine''': Understandable. Oh, um, I've... made something for you. Uh, feel free to join me by the stage whenever you're ready. <Hr width=“50% “/> :'''Caine''': We're gonna be able to build this place into something better. For all of you. What do you say, Pom-- Uh, I mean... Abigail? :'''Pomni''': With all that being said and done... Abby is out there, living her best life. In here... '''I'm just Pomni.''' ==Trailers and other media== ===Teaser=== :'''Caine''': Don't worry, my dear! You won't even die horribly! ===POMNI WAKE UP IT’S TIME TO GO ON AN ADVENTURE=== :'''Caine''': The pilot from The Amazing Digital Circus reached our goal of ''1 view'' and will now be upgraded to episode 1 of ''The Amazing Digital Circus'' full series! :'''Pomni''': Is, that, how that… normally works? :'''Caine''': Shut up, I have so much to show you! Your little crying face left quite the little crying mark on the Internet! Something I don't canonically have any knowledge of. Take a look! ''[Shows a screen with most of the content blurred out]'' :'''Pomni''': ...What the ''[boink]'' am I looking at?! :'''Caine''': The consequences of our actions! ''And it's only going to get worse from here.'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Sun''': Hi, Caine! I’m gonna kill you! :'''Caine''': Uhh, what? Why? :'''Sun''': I read all the scripts and saw I don't get a single line of dialogue while the Moon gets two! :'''Caine''': I mean— I guess we can give you some more lines. :'''Sun''': Okay, never mind, I don't want to kill you anymore! :'''Caine''': Speaking of dialogue, there will be all sorts of new dialogue from many of our new, colorful characters! With this many new characters, imagine all the violent [[W:shipping (fandom)|shipping]] wars that we will be completely powerless to do ANYTHING ABOUT! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Caine''': I blacked out for a second. What happened? :'''Pomni''': I y— :''[Pomni vomits out Bubble]'' :'''Bubble''': How can we support the production of this cool new show? :'''Caine''': Great question, Pomni! All merch sales go right back into funding the show and allow us to do bigger and crazier things! :'''Bubble''': Wowee! I'd become a pin if it meant getting sold to fund more wacky adve— ''[does just that]'' :'''Caine''': Like this Bubble pin! ===A Very Special Digital Circus Song=== [[File:Budweiser Plant.jpg|thumb|That's the thing about life, Pomni. Sometimes, you get [[W:Mass production|MASS PRODUCED]].]] :'''Caine''': Congratulations! You completed your musical adventure! As your punishment, I am going to [[Mass production|MASS PRODUCE]] YOU. :'''Pomni''': Wait, we're still being punished? :'''Caine''': That's the thing about life, Pomni. Sometimes, you get MASS PRODUCED. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Caine''': ''[Voiceover]'' These scrumdiddlyumptious bumpkins could be yours today! Along with this delicious sticker pack featuring all your favorite characters as sweet, teeth-rotting treats! Your friend, the Gummigoo keychain, in all his NON-EDIBLE glory. Perfect for NOT EATING. And this complete pin line, pinning all your favorite characters in a line together as their completely pinnable selves in this completely pinnable complete pin line! :'''Jax''': And me, Jax, the marketable vinyl figure. ''[chuckles]'' What can I say? People paying money to just admire me all day sounded like a sweet gig. :'''Caine''': Right you are, Jax, the marketable vinyl figure! ===Kinger’s Special Place=== '''Kinger’s imagination''': ''[represented by a ghostly vinyl figurine]'' Your plushie looks pregnant… ===PRESENTING MY FINEST WORK YET POMNI!!=== :'''The Machine''': I'm The Machine! I grant your every desire! Toss some material into my HOLE, and I'll make whatever you want! I suck, YOU RECEIVE! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Caine''': Come on, Christine! What's YOUR desire? :'''Pomni''': Not my name. :'''The Machine''': DON'T LIE, Christine! :'''Gangle''': I know what she wants! ''[knocks Jax into The Machine; Jax turns into a maid]'' :'''Jax''': Ahgh! What kind of a sicko are you, Pomni?! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Ragatha''': Oh! Could I have a horse? :'''The Machine''': You want to be plastic? OK! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Zooble''': Wait a minute, you're not granting our desires, you're just spitting out merch! :'''The Machine''': Yeah, exactly! Your greatest desires! :'''Pomni''': Pretty sure it thinks all human desires are just… merch. It's a merch machine. <hr width="50%"/> :'''The Machine''': ''[Voiceover]'' The Maid Jax Plush is here for you FREAKS to torture with cuddles, humiliation, and general tomfoolery! :'''Jax''': Hell is real. ===Never clean alone with Maid Jax!=== :'''Caine''': ''[voiceover]'' Are you tired of cleaning alone? Say hello to the Maid Jax plush! The only cleaning buddy with a detachable moral compass! :'''Jax''': If you’re happy to see me like this, congrats, YOU’RE the problem. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Caine''': ''[voiceover]'' He’s soft, he’s absorbent, and surprisingly submissive! ===WATCH ME MERGE THEM=== :'''Caine''': With this one of a kind, I say, ONE OF A KIND keychain, you're sure to get heads spinnin' with this dangling doofus! Now, shall we start the biddin' at 1,000 [[W:Loonie|Loonies]]? Do I hear a 1,000 Loonies? How about a 1,000 [[W:Toonie|Toonies]]?! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Caine''': Do you like to work hard, or do you like to hardly work it? This one of a kind, one-size-fits-all gamin' mat is sure to spice up your hardly workin'. ===GLITCH KARTS=== :'''Caine''': From the creators of Digital Circus, [[Murder Drones]], [[W:The Gaslight District|The Gaslight District]], and [[W:Knights of Guinevere|Knights of Guinevere]] comes an idea so fresh, so original, you'll only recognize it if you've played any video game ever made! :'''Uzi, Pomni, Mel''': ''[in unison]'' '''''Glitch Karts!''''' :'''Caine''': For the Glitchy Boy 64, in this gobsmacking new racing game, you'll be able to play as a whopping SOME of your favorite characters. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Caine''': We torched 5 gajillion dollars making this game. So we're going to recoup costs with... a Black Friday merch drop! Ladies and gentlemen, start your wallets! From the hit game you just heard about less than 10 seconds ago comes this limited edition cart plushy collection featuring Uzi! :'''Uzi''': Bite this! :'''Caine''': Pomni! :'''Pomni''': Well, it's possible... that I'll win! :'''Caine''': Princess Guinevere! :'''Gwen''': ''[not the actual voice actress but a man with a thick New York accent]'' Hey, it's me Princess Guinevere. [[Midnight Cowboy|I'm walking here!]] :'''Caine''': And least but not last, Mel. :'''Mel''': Damn right. I'm here to kick your ass. :'''Caine''': Stop! Extra words cost extra money! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Pomni''': Feast your eyes on this Gooseworx concept art print! What the hell is a goosewo- <hr width="50%"/> :'''Jax''': Jax from the exciting Digital Circus dons Pomni's clothes in this amazing new plush toy. Seamless segway into the Maid Jax animatez, no, please don't mention the anime figure Jax. Seriously, you're going to scare people away. Insert B-roll, call to action, I'm going home now. ===Episode 8 trailer=== :'''Old-timey captions''': The lover had always wanted friends, but he didn't know how to [[love]] them back. The harder he tried to impress people with his [[Magic (supernatural)|magic]], the more he would drive them away. This is the story of an AI... Who ruined everything ==Voice cast== *[[W:Lizzie Freeman|Lizzie Freeman]] as Pomni *Alex Rochon as Caine *Gooseworx as Bubble and the Moon *Micheal Kovach as Jax *Amanda Hufford as Ragatha *[[W:Marissa Lenti|Marissa Lenti]] as Gangle and Martha Mildenhall *[[W:Sean Chiplock|Sean Chiplock]] as Kinger *Ashley Nichols as Zooble *Elsie Lovelock as the Gloink Queen *Vera Tan as Princess Loolilalu *Jack Hawkins as Gummigoo and Chad *Hamish Plaggemars as Max *Lyle Rath as The Fudge *Max Sturz as Ghostly *Tim Alexander as Baron Mildenhall *Payton Goodwin as the Creature and the Sun *Benjamin "Bembo" Davis as Orbsman *Katawut Hongthong as Disappearing Guy *[[W:Chris_O'Neill_(YouTuber)|Chris O'Neill]] as Ming *Sr Pelo and [[W:Zach_Hadel|Zach Hadel]] as the Crappy Looking Fish *John Whinfield as Abel *Cassie Ewulu as Queenie *Skye Redden as Ribbit ==External links== {{Wikipedia}} * [https://www.glitchprod.com/digital-circus Official Website] * [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHovnlOusNLgvAbnxluXCVB3KLj8e4QB- The Amazing Digital Circus on YouTube] * [https://tadc.fandom.com/wiki/Home The Amazing Digital Circus Wikia] * [https://www.reddit.com/r/TheDigitalCircus/ The Amazing Digital Circus Reddit] [[Category:2023]] [[Category:2024]] [[Category:2025]] [[Category:2026]] [[Category:American adult animated comedy TV shows]] [[Category:Australian adult animated comedy TV shows]] [[Category:Black comedy TV shows]] [[Category:Surreal comedy TV shows]] [[Category:Drama TV shows]] [[Category:Horror comedy TV shows]] [[Category:Internet shows]] c7ho0ikmwgtznezxwstbvopms443alg 14 271838 3961066 3488700 2026-07-05T13:05:53Z Mwangiwainaina 3347664 /* */ 3961066 wikitext text/x-wiki Television miniseries that have been cancelled. Band of Brothers [[Category:Television shows|*]] k0ibrgl3e8yd7biol82mbooms9xqp0n 3961067 3961066 2026-07-05T13:06:34Z Quinlan83 3059612 Reverted edit by [[Special:Contributions/Mwangiwainaina|Mwangiwainaina]] ([[User talk:Mwangiwainaina|talk]]) to last version by Brudelman 3488700 wikitext text/x-wiki Television miniseries that have been cancelled. [[Category:Television shows|*]] g6rl04bxw20gx6vzu76xlvi1ttflq85 0 276277 3961334 3960987 2026-07-05T23:57:31Z ~2026-38361-36 3347806 /* Hillbilly Elegy */ 3961334 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:March 2026 Official Vice Presidential Portrait of JD Vance.jpg|thumb|Even at my best, I'm a delayed explosion.]] '''[[w:JD Vance|James David Vance]]''' (born '''James Donald Bowman'''; August 2, 1984) is an American politician, author, and [[w:Venture capitalist|venture capitalist]]. A member of the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]], he was elected [[w:Vice President of the United States|Vice President of the United States]] in the [[2024 United States presidential election|2024 election]]. Previously he served as the [[w:Seniority in the United States Senate|junior]] [[w:United States Senate|United States senator]] from Ohio from 2023 to 2025. [[File:Donald Trump by Gage Skidmore.jpg|thumb|Of all the things I hated about my childhood, nothing compared to the revolving door of father figures.[https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/15/us/politics/27-facts-about-jd-vance.html]]] [[File:1998 RFK Silver Dollar Reverse.png|thumb|“If you’re going to punch the Iranians, you punch them hard"[https://jewishinsider.com/2024/07/vance-on-iran-if-youre-going-to-punch-the-iranians-you-punch-them-hard/]]] ==Quotes== === 2012 === * A significant part of Republican [[Immigration to the United States|immigration]] policy centers on the possibility of deporting 12 million people (or ‘self-deporting’ them). Think about it: we [[Conservatism|conservatives]] (rightly) mistrust the government to efficiently administer [[business]] loans and [[Regulation|regulate]] our food supply, yet we allegedly believe that it can deport millions of unregistered aliens. The notion fails to pass the laugh test. The same can be said for too much of the party’s platform. ** Blog post written in 2012, deleted in 2016, quoted in [https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/17/politics/jd-vance-delete-2012-blog-post-attacking-gop-anti-immigrant-rhetoric/index.html "JD Vance got a former professor to delete a blog post Vance wrote in 2012 attacking GOP over anti-immigrant rhetoric"] ''CNN'' (September 17, 2024) * Republicans lose [[Minority group|minority]] voters for simple and obvious reasons: their policy proposals are tired, unoriginal, or openly hostile to non-whites. ** Blog post written in 2012, deleted in 2016, stored in Internet Archive: [https://web.archive.org/web/20140305032241/http://centerforworldconflictandpeace.blogspot.com/2012_11_01_archive.html "A blueprint for the GOP"] (November 15, 2012) === 2014 === * I hate the [[Law enforcement in the United States|police]]. * Given the number of negative experiences I've had in the past few years, I can't imagine what a [[Black people|Black]] guy goes through. ** Written in 2014 in an e-mail to his then close friend Sofia Nelson, identifying as transgender, quoted in [https://www.newsweek.com/jd-vance-i-hate-police-remark-raises-eyebrows-1931086 "JD Vance's 'I Hate the Police' Remark Raises Eyebrows"], ''Newsweek'' (July 27, 2024) ===2016=== * I go back and forth between thinking [[Donald Trump|Trump]] is a cynical asshole like [[Richard Nixon|Nixon]] who wouldn't be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he's [[United States|America]]'s [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]]. How's that for discouraging? ** From a screenshot (February 2016), as cited in [https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2022/04/19/americas-hitler-old-j-d-vance-message-turns-up-in-heated-senate-primary/ "Vance wondered whether Trump was 'America’s Hitler,' says former roommate sharing screenshot"], ''Ohio Capital Journal'' (April 19, 2022) * Mr. Trump is unfit for [[President of the United States|our nation’s highest office]]. * Anger about the wars isn't the only reason voters support Mr. Trump. But his willingness to say what other G.O.P. candidates won't reflects what people like most about him: his complete break with the party elite. Because the last time Republican voters put a member of that elite in the White House, he sent their children on a bloody misadventure. ** [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/04/opinion/campaign-stops/why-trumps-antiwar-message-resonates-with-white-america.html "Why Trump’s Antiwar Message Resonates with White America"], ''The New York Times'' (April 4, 2016) * What Trump offers is an easy escape from the [[pain]]. To every complex problem, he promises a simple solution. He can bring [[jobs]] back simply by [[Punishment|punishing]] [[w:Offshoring|offshoring]] [[companies]] into submission. As he told a [[New Hampshire]] crowd—folks all too familiar with the opioid scourge—he can cure the [[Opioid epidemic in the United States|addiction epidemic]] by building a [[Mexico|Mexican]] wall and keeping the cartels out. He will spare the United States from humiliation and [[military]] defeat with indiscriminate [[Bombs|bombing]]. It doesn’t matter that no credible military leader has endorsed his plan. He never offers details for how these plans will work, because he can’t. Trump’s promises are the needle in America’s collective vein.<br /><br />The great tragedy is that many of the problems Trump identifies are real, and so many of the hurts he exploits demand serious thought and measured action—from [[Government|governments]], yes, but also from [[community]] leaders and individuals. Yet so long as people rely on that quick high, so long as [[wolves]] point their fingers at everyone but themselves, the [[Nations|nation]] delays a necessary reckoning. There is no self-reflection in the midst of a false [[euphoria]]. <b>Trump is cultural [[heroin]].</b> He makes some feel better for a bit. But he cannot fix what ails them, and one day they’ll realize it.<br /><br />I’m not sure when or how that realization arrives: maybe in a few months, when Trump loses the [[Elections|election]]; maybe in a few years, when his supporters realize that even with a President Trump, their homes and families are still domestic war zones, their [[newspapers]]’ obituaries continue to fill with the names of people who died too soon, and their faith in the [[American Dream]] continues to falter. But it will come, and when it does, I hope Americans cast their gaze to those with the most power to address so many of these problems: each other. And then, perhaps the nation will trade the quick high of “[[Make America Great Again]]” for real [[medicine]]. ** [https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/07/opioid-of-the-masses/489911/ "Opioid of the Masses"], ''The Atlantic'' (July 4, 2016) * “[[Human|Humans]] appear to have some need to look down on someone; there’s just a basic tribalistic impulse in all of us,” Vance recently told The American Conservative. “And if you’re an elite [[White people|white]] professional, [[Working class in the United States|working-class]] whites are an easy target: You don’t have to feel guilty for being a [[Racism in the United States|racist]] or a [[Xenophobia|xenophobe]]. By looking down on the hillbilly, you can get that high of self-righteousness and superiority without violating any of the moral norms of your own tribe.” ** according to [https://nypost.com/2016/07/30/why-white-trash-americans-are-flocking-to-donald-trump/ Why ‘white trash’ Americans are flocking to Donald Trump] (2016/07/30/) * I think there's a chance, if I feel like Trump has a really good chance of winning, that I might have to hold my nose and vote for [[Hillary Clinton]]. * I think that I'm going to vote third party because I can't stomach Trump. I think that he's noxious and is leading the white working class to a very dark place. And ultimately I just don't share Hillary Clinton's [[politics]]. ** [https://www.npr.org/2016/08/17/490328484/hillbilly-elegy-recalls-a-childhood-where-poverty-was-the-family-tradition "'Hillbilly Elegy' Recalls A Childhood Where Poverty Was 'The Family Tradition'"], ''NPR'' (August 17, 2016) * Trump makes people I care about afraid. [[Immigration|Immigrants]], [[Islam in the United States|Muslims]], etc. Because of this I find him reprehensible. [[God]] wants better of us. ** Tweet (October 2016), as cited in [https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/06/politics/jd-vance-tweets-trump-apology/index.html "Senate hopeful J.D. Vance apologizes for criticizing Trump as 'reprehensible' in deleted tweets"], ''CNN'' (July 6, 2021) * Fellow [[Christianity|Christians]], everyone is watching us when we apologize for this man. Lord help us. ** Tweet (October 2016), as cited in [https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/06/politics/jd-vance-tweets-trump-apology/index.html "Senate hopeful J.D. Vance apologizes for criticizing Trump as 'reprehensible' in deleted tweets"], ''CNN'' (July 6, 2021) ** Following ''The Washington Post'' account of the [[w:Donald Trump Access Hollywood tape|Donald Trump ''Access Hollywood'' tape]] on October 7, 2016 * [On [[National Public Radio|NPR]], August 2016] I can't stomach Trump * [Interviewed by [[w:Charlie Rose|Charlie Rose]], <!-- 18 -->October 2016] I'm a Never-Trump guy. I never liked him. ** As cited by Amy B. Wang and Meryl Kornfield in [https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/15/jd-vance-vp-pick-trump/ "J.D. Vance’s journey from a 'Never Trump' guy to Trump’s VP pick"], ''The Washington Post'' (July 15, 2024) * I think this election is really having a negative effect especially on the white working class. What it’s doing is giving people an excuse to point the finger at someone else, point the finger at [[Mexican Americans|Mexican immigrants]], or [[China|Chinese]] trade or the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] elites or whatever else. ** Said in an interview in October 2016, cited in [https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn07dv4mrg2o "JD Vance was once 'never Trump'. Now he's his running mate"], ''BBC'' (July 16, 2024) * My God what an idiot. ** About Donald Trump, in a tweet in October 2016, cited in [https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/23/jd-vance-ohio-senate-trump-comments-516865 "‘My god what an idiot’: J.D. Vance gets whacked for past Trump comments"], ''Politico'' (October 23, 2021) * Trump's biggest failure as a political leader is that he sees the worst in people and he encourages the worst in people. ** Interview: [https://time.com/4556065/jd-vance-white-working-class/ "J.D. Vance on Why Life Might Get Worse for the White Working Class"], ''Time'' (November 3, 2016) * My fear with Trump was always that he didn't have great solutions. ** [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2016/12/21/daily-202-why-the-author-of-hillbilly-elegy-is-moving-home-to-ohio/5859da6ee9b69b36fcfeaf48/ "The Daily 202: Why the author of ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ is moving home to Ohio"], ''The Washington Post'' (December 21, 2016) ====Interview, ''Slate'' (August 25, 2016)==== :<small>'''[https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2016/08/hillbilly-elegy-author-j-d-vance-on-trump-racism-and-how-the-media-is-failing-the-white-working-class.html "Compassion, and Criticism, for the White Working Class"], ''Slate'' (August 25, 2016)'''</small> * Donald Trump is frankly dangerous. * My view is both that Trump is tapping into some racially ugly attitudes, but also that he is leading people to racially ugly attitudes. * When people read ''[[w:Breitbart News|Breitbart]]'' every single day and convince themselves that [[Barack Obama]] is a foreign [[Terrorism|terrorist]], that is not a problem of government. That is a problem of community failure, and we have to recognize that. * I don’t think that 60-70 percent of working-class white voters would have supported a [[w:Trump travel ban|Muslim ban]] before Donald Trump said something about a Muslim ban. I think that all you have to do is go back to the most recent Republican president and the way that [[George W. Bush]] encouraged us to think openly and supportively about our Muslim citizens. There is an element here where I think it’s not just that Trump is exploiting something but he’s also leading the white working class to a very dark place. ====''[[w:Hillbilly Elegy|Hillbilly Elegy]]''==== * President Obama came on the scene right as so many people in my community began to believe that the modern American meritocracy was not built for them. We know we're not doing well. We see it every day: in the obituaries for teenage kids that conspicuously omit the cause of death (reading between the lines: overdose), in the deadbeats we watch our daughters waste their time with. Barack Obama strikes at the heart of our deepest insecurities. He is a good father while many of us aren't. He wears suits to his job while we wear overalls, if we're lucky enough to have a job at all. [[Michelle Obama|His wife]] tells us that we shouldn't be feeding our children certain foods, and we hate her for it--not because we think she's wrong, but because we know she's right. * I don't know what the answer is, precisely, but I know it starts when we stop blaming Obama or Bush or faceless companies and ask ourselves what we can do to make things better. * The sad fact is that I couldn't do it without Usha. Even at my best, I'm a delayed explosion—I can be defused, but only with skill and precision. It's not just that I've learned to control myself but that Usha has learned how to manage me. Put two of me in the same home and you have a positively radioactive situation. It's no surprise that every single person in my family who has built a successful home—Aunt Wee, Lindsay, my cousin Gail—married someone from outside our little culture. ===2017=== * At a pivotal time in my life, Barack Obama gave me hope that a boy who grew up like me could still achieve the most important of my dreams. For that, I'll miss him, and the example he set. ** Opinion: [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/02/opinion/barack-obama-and-me.html "Barack Obama and Me"], ''The New York Times'' (January 2, 2017) * In 4 years, I hope people remember that it was those of us who empathized with Trump's voters who fought him the most aggressively. ** Tweet (March 2017), as cited in [https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/06/politics/jd-vance-tweets-trump-apology/index.html "Senate hopeful J.D. Vance apologizes for criticizing Trump as 'reprehensible' in deleted tweets"], ''CNN'' (July 6, 2021) === 2018=== * I quickly realized that Trump's actual policy proposals, such as they are, range from immoral to absurd. ** [https://eu.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/02/18/donald-trump-white-working-class-rust-belt-voters-elections-2016-column/80422422/ "Trump speaks for those Bush betrayed"], ''USA Today'' (February 16, 2018) ===2020=== * Trump has just so thoroughly failed to deliver on his economic populism (excepting a disjointed [[China–United States relations|China policy]]) ** Tweeted in February 2020, quoted in [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/jd-vance-trump-economy-election-b2620029.html "JD Vance said Trump ‘thoroughly failed to deliver’ his economic agenda in uncovered 2020 messages"], ''Independent'' (September 27, 2024) ===2021=== *The next time that we get power, whether it's...President Trump round two in 2024...I think the thing that we have to take away from the last ten years is that we really need to be really ruthless when it comes to the exercise of power. **On the [[w:The Federalist|Federalist Radio Hour]] (May 18, 2021), as cited in "Why J.D. Vance Is Thinking 'Very Seriously' About A Senate Bid". Event occurs from 25:31 to 25:39. * And I ask folks not to judge me based on what I said in 2016, because I’ve been very open that I did say those critical things and I regret them, and I regret being wrong about the guy. ** On ''[[Fox News]]'' (July 5, 2021), as cited in [https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/06/politics/jd-vance-tweets-trump-apology/index.html "Senate hopeful J.D. Vance apologizes for criticizing Trump as 'reprehensible' in deleted tweets"], ''[[CNN]]'' (July 6, 2021) * I think that what Trump should do, like if I was giving him one piece of advice, fire every single mid-level bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people, and when the courts - because you will get taken to court - and then when the courts stop you, stand before the country like Andrew Jackson did and say: the Chief Justice has made his ruling, now let him enforce it. ** On ''Jack Murphy Live'' (September 17, 2021) as cited in [https://www.newsweek.com/j-d-vance-confronted-donald-trump-supreme-court-1866713 "Republican J.D. Vance Confronted on Wanting to Fire 'Every Civil Servant'"] ''Newsweek'' (February 5, 2024) * If you're a journalist and you’re not asking questions about this case you should be ashamed of yourself. ** Written about the [[Jeffrey Epstein]] case in a [https://x.com/JDVance/status/1476544880797270020 social media post] on December 30, 2021, quoted in [https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/16/popular-podcaster-lobs-barb-at-jd-vance-over-epstein-files-00459059 "Popular podcaster lobs barb at JD Vance over Epstein files"] ''Politico'' (July 16, 2025) ===2022=== * I think if any of us want to do the things that we want to do for our country and for the people who live in it, we have to honestly and aggressively attack the [[universities]] in this country. ** From his speech "The professors are the enemy", quoted in [https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-business-ohio-education-186ca3f092a60603891b60e199a3fa02 "JD Vance paid $70K by colleges he bashes as Senate candidate"], ''AP News'' (April 21, 2022) * We are effectively run in this country, via the Democrats, via our [[Corporations|corporate]] [[Oligarchy|oligarchs]], by a bunch of '''childless cat ladies''' who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made, and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too. And it's just a basic fact. If you look at [[Kamala Harris]], [[Pete Buttigieg]], [[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez|AOC]] — the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children. And how does it make any sense that we've turned our country over to people who don't really have a direct stake in it? If we want a healthy ruling class in this country, we should invest more, we should vote more, we should support people who actually have kids, because those are the people who actually have a direct stake in the future of the country. ** From the interview by [[Tucker Carlson]] on ''[[Fox News]]'' at [https://www.foxnews.com/video/6265796735001 JD Vance: The US is being run by 'childless cat ladies'] (July 29, 2021), as cited in [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/aoc-jd-vance-cat-ladies-b1894081.html "AOC hits back at JD Vance after he calls her and Pete Buttigieg 'childless cat ladies'’ who shouldn’t govern because they don’t have kids"], ''The Independent'' (July 30, 2021), and as cited in Grace Panetta [https://msmagazine.com/2024/07/15/jd-vance-trump-vp-pick-abortion-lgbtq-women/ "JD Vance, Trump’s VP Pick, Has Opposed Abortion and LGBTQ+ Rights"], ''Ms'' (July 15, 2024), reprinted from ''[[w:The 19th|The 19th]]'', and as cited in [https://www.today.com/news/childless-cat-lady-jd-vance-kamala-harris-rcna163254 Why JD Vance’s 2021 comments calling Kamala Harris a ‘childless cat lady’ are going viral], the [[w:Today (American TV program)|NBC ''Today'' show]] (July 23, 2024) ** Vice President Kamala Harris has two step-children with her husband [[w:Doug Emhoff|Doug Emhoff]]. * Did you see me on FOX Primetime recently? I needed to speak DIRECTLY to patriots like you about the serious issue of radical childless leaders in this country. [...] We can’t have people who don't have a direct stake in this country making our most important decisions.<br />We've allowed ourselves to be dominated by childless [[Sociopath|sociopaths]] - they're invested in NOTHING because they're not invested in this country's children. Fighting back won't be easy - our childless opponents have a lot of free time. That's why I need YOU to stand with me. ** From a fundraising email (August 2021) for his Senate run, as cited in [https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/30/politics/kfile-jd-vance-history-disparaging-people-without-kids/index.html "It's not just 'cat ladies': JD Vance has a history of disparaging people without kids"], ''CNN'' (July 30, 2024) * I believe the [[devil]] is real and that he works terrible things in our society. That's a crazy [[Conspiracy theories|conspiracy theory]] to a lot of very well-educated people in this country right now. **From a [https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24815790/jd-vance-teneo-network-2021-speech.pdf speech Vance gave at the Teneo Network conference]. As cited by Kroll, Andy (June 16, 2024). [https://www.propublica.org/article/jd-vance-alex-jones-leonard-leo-teneo-maddow-video "In Private Speech, J.D. Vance Said the 'Devil Is Real' and Praised Alex Jones as a Truth-Teller"]. ''ProPublica''. * [On his opposition to abortion in cases involving [[incest]] or [[rape]]] It's not whether a [[Women|woman]] should be forced to bring a [[Children|child]] to term, it's whether a child should be allowed to live, even though the circumstances of that child's birth are somehow inconvenient or a problem to the society. * The question to me is really about the baby [...] We want women to have opportunities, we want women to have choices, but, above all, we want women and young boys in the womb to have a right to life. ** In an interview on ''Spectrum News'' (Columbus, Ohio; September 22, 2021), as cited in [https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/vance-abortion-rape/2021/09/24/c3007318-1d32-11ec-8380-5fbadbc43ef8_story.html "Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance argues against need for rape and incest exceptions in abortion laws"], ''The Washington Post'' (September 24, 2021) * This is one of the great tricks that I think the [[w:Sexual_revolution|sexual revolution]] pulled on the American populace, which is the idea that like, "well, OK, these [[Marriage|marriages]] were fundamentally, you know, they were maybe even violent, but certainly they were unhappy. And so getting rid of them and making it easier for people to shift spouses like they change their underwear, that’s going to make people happier in the long term." * And maybe it worked out for the moms and dads, though I'm skeptical. But it really didn't work out for the kids of those marriages. [...] And that's what I think all of us should be honest about, is we've run this experiment in real time. And what we have is a lot of very, very real family dysfunction that's making our kids unhappy. ** Speaking at Pacifica Christian High School, <!-- Newport Beach -->California (September 2021), as cited in [https://www.vice.com/en/article/93abve/jd-vance-suggests-people-in-violent-marriages-shouldnt-get-divorced "JD Vance Suggests People in ‘Violent’ Marriages Shouldn’t Get Divorced"], ''Vice'' (July 25, 2022) * There's something comparable between [[abortion]] and [[slavery]] [...] and that while the people who obviously suffer the most are those subjected to it, I think it has this morally distorting effect on the entire society. ** On the ''Catholic Currents'' podcast (October 20, 2021), as cited in [https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2022/07/26/black-state-lawmakers-take-aim-at-vance-over-comments-likening-abortion-to-slavery/ "Black state lawmakers take aim at Vance over comments likening abortion to slavery"], ''Ohio Capital Journal'' (July 28, 2022) ** The date of the podcast is taken from the [https://thecatholiccurrent.libsyn.com/new-voices-for-life-and-liberty-jd-vance-karoline-leavitt linked source]. * So much of what we want to accomplish, so much of what we want to do in this movement, in this country, I think are fundamentally dependent on going through a set of very hostile institutions, specifically the universities, which control the [[knowledge]] in our society, which control what we call truth and what we call falsity, that provides research that gives credibility to some of the most ridiculous ideas that exist in our country. * I think if any of us want to do the things that we want to do for our country and for the people who live in it, we have to honestly and aggressively attack the universities in this country. * The universities in our country are fundamentally corrupt and dedicated to deceit and lies, not to the truth. * The simple fact is that our universities tell the powerful what they want to hear, and they couch it in ridiculous political rhetoric instead of dealing with the real consequences of progressive policy. * [[Progressivism|Progressive]] politics, it’s not about uplifting [[Minority group|minorities]], it’s not about healing our [[planet]], it’s not about looking after the [[Poverty|poor]]. Progressive politics is a language, a language used by our new oligarchy to do two things: On the one hand to rob the American people blind, and on the second hand to tell them to shut the hell up about it if they dare complain. That is the purpose of American progressive politics. * We are giving our children over to our enemies and it’s time we stop doing it. * We have got to get out of the mindset that the only way to live a good life in this country, the only way for our children to succeed, is to go to a four-year university, where people will learn to hate their country and acquire a lot of debt in the process. * The professors are the enemy. ** Speech November 2, 2021: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FR65Cifnhw "J.D. Vance | The Universities are the Enemy | National Conservatism Conference II"], ''National Conservatism'' (November 10, 2021) * I don't really care what happens to [[Ukraine]] one way or another. ** On [[Steve Bannon]]'s ''War Room'' podcast (February 19, 2022), as cited in [https://www.businessinsider.com/gop-candidate-jd-vance-i-dont-care-what-happens-ukraine-2022-2 "GOP Senate candidate JD Vance said he doesn't 'really care what happens to Ukraine'"], ''Business Insider'' (February 21, 2022) * We didn't not serve in the [[United States Marine Corps|Marine Corps]] to go and fight [[Vladimir Putin]] because he didn't believe in [[Transgender rights movement|transgender rights]] [...] Which is what the [[United States Department of State|U.S. State Department]] is saying is a major problem with [[Russia]]. ** On [[Steve Bannon]]'s ''War Room'' podcast (February 19, 2022), as cited in [https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/feb/21/jd-vance/jd-vance-says-transgender-rights-drives-looming-co/ "Says Joe Biden risks war with Russia because Vladimir Putin doesn't 'believe in transgender rights'"], ''Politifact'' (February 21, 2022) * If your worldview tells you that it's bad for women to become [[mothers]] but liberating for them to work 90 hours a week in a cubicle at the ''[[The New York Times|New York Times]]'' or [[w:Goldman Sachs|Goldman Sachs]], you've been had. ** [https://x.com/JDVance1/status/1541113407650336768?s=20&t=z_g7zQL385LLqfQ463AJtA Tweet] (June 26, 2022), as cited in [https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/01/style/usha-jd-vance-ohio.html "From Yale to Newsmax, Usha Vance Has Helped J.D. Vance Chart His Path"], ''The New York Times'' (November 1, 2022) ** The [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]] had ended ''[[Roe v. Wade]]'' two days earlier. ===2023=== * Trump’s Best Foreign Policy? Not Starting Any Wars * He has my support in 2024 because I know he won’t recklessly send Americans to fight overseas. ** [https://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-best-foreign-policy-not-starting-any-wars-ukraine-russia-war-rocket-nuclear-power-weapons-defense-11675186959 "Trump’s Best Foreign Policy? Not Starting Any Wars"] ''Wall Street Journal'' (January 31, 2023) *We have built a [[Foreign policy of the United States|foreign policy]] of hectoring and moralizing and lecturing countries that don't want anything to do with this. The [[China|Chinese]] have a [[foreign policy]] of building [[Road|roads]] and [[Bridge|bridges]] and feeding poor people, and I think that we should pursue a foreign policy, a [[diplomacy]], of [[respect]] and a foreign policy that is not rooted in moralizing; it is rooted in the national interests of this country. ** [https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/volume-169/issue-65/senate-section/article/S1238-1 FIRE GRANTS AND SAFETY ACT--Continued] (April 19, 2023) ===2024=== * The United States has provided a blanket of security to [[Europe]] for far too long. * The question each European nation needs to ask itself is this: are you prepared to defend yourself? And the question the US must ask is: if our European allies can't even defend themselves, are they allies, or clients? * In the US, justifications for the war often depend on a contemporary domino theory: unless we stop [[Vladimir Putin|Putin]] in [[Russian invasion of Ukraine|Ukraine]], he won't stop there. But the time has come for Europe to stand on its own feet. That doesn't mean it has to stand alone, but it must not continue to use America as a crutch. ** [https://www.ft.com/content/3c87ef13-122f-4e78-a7af-54c75c30a91d "Europe must stand on its own two feet on defence"], ''Financial Times'' (February 19, 2024) ** The [[w:Domino theory|Domino theory]] during the [[Cold War]] postulated that if one country came under the influence of Communism, its neighbors would follow. It was used as an argument in favor of American intervention. * I have to beat up on the [[United Kingdom|UK]] – just one additional thing. I was talking with a friend recently and we were talking about, you know, one of the big dangers in the world, of course, is [[w:Nuclear proliferation|nuclear proliferation]], though, of course, the [[Presidency of Joe Biden|Biden administration]] doesn't care about it.<br />And I was talking about, you know, what is the first truly [[Islamism|Islamist]] country that will get a [[Nuclear weapons|nuclear weapon]], and we were like, maybe it's [[Iran]], you know, maybe [[Pakistan]] already kind of counts, and then we sort of finally decided maybe it's actually the UK, since [[w:Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] just took over. ** At the [[w:National Conservatism Conference|National Conservative Conference]] in Washington DC (July 11, 2024), as cited in Jessica Elgot [https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/16/trump-running-mate-jd-vance-uk-first-islamist-country-nuclear-weapon "Trump’s running mate says UK could be ‘first Islamist country’ with nuclear weapons"], ''The Guardian'' (July 16, 2024). ** The [[w:2024 United Kingdom general election|2024 United Kingdom general election]] was held on 4 July 2024 resulting in the Labour Party gaining a parliamentary majority. *[On attacks on [[United States Armed Forces|U.S. troops]] in the [[Middle East]] from [[Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran|forces connected to Iran]]] They have attacked, certain militia groups have attacked and I think we've done the right thing, a proportionate response. If they hit us, we have to hit them back but if you're talking about an attack on the [[Iran|Iranian]] mainland, that would be a significant escalation right now that would be a mistake. **On ''Face the Nation'' (CBS, October 29, 2023) [https://thehill.com/policy/international/4282057-jd-vance-says-he-would-not-support-authorizing-military-action-in-iran/ "JD Vance says he would not support authorizing military action in Iran"], ''The Hill'' (October 29, 2023) * There are just these basic cadences of life that I think are really powerful and really valuable when you have kids in your life. And the fact that so many people, especially in America’s leadership class, just don’t have that in their lives. You know, I worry that it makes people more sociopathic and ultimately our whole country a little bit less, less mentally stable. And of course, you talk about going on [[Twitter]] — final point I’ll make is, you go on Twitter and almost always the people who are most deranged and most psychotic are people who don’t have kids at home. ** [https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4799959-vance-criticizes-childless-people/ "Vance: 'Childless people' in US leadership 'more sociopathic'"], ''The Hill'' (July 30, 2024) * Democrats say that it is racist to believe, well, they say it’s racist to do anything. ** [https://www.yahoo.com/news/j-d-vance-toasts-diet-105856732.html "J.D. Vance Toasts With Diet Mountain Dew After ‘Racist’ Joke Falls Flat"], ''Yahoo News'' (August 2, 2024) * I think Donald Trump didn't serve in the military, but he didn't lie about it. * Donald Trump didn't lie about serving in the military. He didn't say that he went to [[Vietnam War|Vietnam]] when he didn't. This is the problem. I don't criticize anybody. Whether they served in our country or not. ** [https://www.newsweek.com/jd-vance-confronted-donald-trump-avoiding-service-vietnam-war-1937536 "JD Vance Confronted on Donald Trump Avoiding Service in Vietnam War"], ''Newsweek'' (August 11, 2024) * Average new [[car]] costs nearly $50,000 a year. ** [https://newrepublic.com/post/184885/jd-vance-speech-michigan-mistake "Watch: Idiot J.D. Vance’s Speech Derails With Embarrassing Flubs"], ''New Republic'' (August 14, 2024) * She’s not doing a very good job. ** Claimed about Tom Vilsack, Agriculture Secretary, quoted in [https://newrepublic.com/post/184885/jd-vance-speech-michigan-mistake "Watch: Idiot J.D. Vance’s Speech Derails With Embarrassing Flubs"], ''New Republic'' (August 14, 2024) * We can't worry about polls. * I'm telling you, every single person who’s watching this, the Trump campaign is in a very, very good spot. ** [https://www.thedailybeast.com/jd-vance-compares-kamala-harris-to-jeffrey-epstein-in-fox-news-interview "JD Vance Compares Kamala Harris to Jeffrey Epstein in Fox News Interview"], The ''Daily Beast'' (August 18, 2024) * Consistently what you’ve seen in 2016 and [[2020 United States presidential election|2020]], is that the [[Mass media|media]] uses fake polls to drive down Republican turnout and to create dissension and conflict within Republican voters. ** Claimed when commenting polls presented by Fox News, quoted in [https://www.salon.com/2024/08/18/jd-vance-thinks-polls-showing-surge-of-harris-support-are-fake/ "JD Vance thinks polls showing surge of Harris support are "fake""], ''Salon'' (August 18, 2024) * I just don’t understand a person in American politics in 2024 who’s whining about what happened to them instead of using their leadership and using their influence to make the lives of American citizens better. ** [https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jd-vance-whining-dnc-reaction-cnn_n_66c6c7f9e4b0f1ca4693d24b "Critics Think JD Vance's DNC Response Applies Perfectly To Trump"], ''Huffington Post'' (August 22, 2024) * Donald Trump can point to four years of successful leadership and say "I delivered rising prices". ** [https://boingboing.net/2024/08/22/some-of-the-witless-things-jd-vance-said-yesterday.html "Some of the witless things JD Vance said yesterday"], ''Boing Boing'' (August 22, 2024) * Sounds like we got some fans and some haters. ** [https://therecount.com/watch/sounds-like-we-got-some/2645896079 "Sounds like we got some fans & some haters": Vance is booed before speaking in front of firefighters union in Boston."], ''The Count''(August 29, 2024) * President Trump and I are proud to be the most pro-worker Republican ticket in history. ** [https://www.newsweek.com/jd-vance-booed-during-speech-firefighters-1946265 "JD Vance Booed During Speech to Firefighters"], ''Newsweek'' (August 29, 2024) * While it’s tempting, and I’m sure it would make some big headlines, don’t worry any-ev-everybody I’m not going to try to take off my shirt here. ** [https://newrepublic.com/post/185447/jd-vance-booed-speech-firefighters "J.D. Vance Booed by Entire Crowd During Dumpster Fire Speech"], ''New Republic'' (August 29, 2024) * They couldn't beat him at the ballot box, so they tried to [[Bankruptcy|bankrupt]] him. They failed at that, so they tried to [[Impeachment of Donald Trump|impeach]] him. They failed at that. So they tried to put him in [[prison]], and they even tried to kill him. ** [https://eu.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/08/29/trump-assassination-attempt-vance-republicans-lie/74958685007/ "They tried to kill him' is now the bogus claim Vance uses to introduce Trump" / "One person tried to kill Trump ‒ and he wasn't a Democrat"], ''USA Today'' (August 29, 2024) * I’ve said a lot of stupid things on camera, sometimes when you’re in the public eye you make mistakes and again. I think the best way to deal with it is to laugh at ourselves, laugh at this stuff and try to have some fun in politics. ** [https://www.inkl.com/news/vance-bizarrely-compares-harris-cnn-interview-to-flubbed-answer-by-teen-beauty-queen-17-years-ago "Vance Bizarrely Compares Harris's CNN Interview To Flubbed Answer by Teen Beauty Queen 17 Years Ago"], ''Inkl'' (August 30, 2024) * Months ago, I raised the issue of [[Haiti|Haitian]] illegal immigrants draining [[Social programs in the United States|social services]] and generally causing chaos all over Springfield, Ohio. Reports now show that people have had their pets abducted and eaten by people who shouldn’t be in this country. ** [https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4869901-vance-haitians-eating-pets-ohio-trump/ "Vance pushes false accusations of Haitians eating pets"], ''The Hill'' (September 9, 2024) * I don't think most Americans, whether they like her music, are fans of her or not, are going to be influenced by a billionaire celebrity who I think is fundamentally disconnected from their interests and the problems of most Americans. ** Claimed about [[Taylor Swift]] after she endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 Presidential Election, quoted in [https://www.newsweek.com/taylor-swift-jd-vance-kamala-harris-fox-news-comments-1953155 "JD Vance's Response to Taylor Swift Endorsing Kamala Harris Backfires"], ''Newsweek'' (September 13, 2024) *The American media totally ignored this stuff, until Donald Trump and I started talking about cat memes.<br>If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that’s what I’m going to do. ** Said about his claims about Haitians supposedly eating cats, dogs and ducks in Springfield, Ohia, quoted in [https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/15/republican-ohio-gov-mike-dewine-trump-vance-false-immigrant-pets-conspiracy.html "‘A piece of garbage’: Republican Ohio Gov. condemns Trump-Vance false immigrant pet-eating conspiracy"], ''CNBC'' (September 15, 2024) * [[Eggs]], when Kamala Harris took office, were short of $1.50 a dozen. Now a dozen eggs will cost you around $4. ** [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/jd-vance-eggs-kamala-harris-b2617527.html "JD Vance mocked for another botched photo opp — as he blames Harris for eggs costing $4 while standing in front of a $2.99 display2], ''Independent'' (September 24, 2024) * The rules were that you guys weren’t going to fact-check. And since you’re fact-checking me, I think it’s important to say what’s actually going on. ** October 1, 2024, addressing debate moderators ({{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/01/us/politics/cbs-debate-fact-checking-vance.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=October 1, 2024 |first=Michael M. |last=Grynbaum |title=CBS Sought the Middle Ground on Fact-Checking. Vance Jumped Into the Gap.}} {{cite news |title=JD Vance's mic gets cut while talking about Springfield at VP debate |agency=[[w:NBC News]] |first=Alex |last=Seitz-Wald |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/jd-vances-mic-gets-cut-talking-springfield-vp-debate-rcna173562 |date=October 1, 2024}}) * Our interest very much is in not going to war with Iran. It would be a huge distraction of resources. It would be massively expensive to our country, * America doesn’t have to constantly police every region of the world. We should empower people to police their own regions of the world. One: We would save a lot of money. Two: We’d save a lot of focus. ** [https://www.timesofisrael.com/vance-us-and-israeli-interests-wont-always-overlap-we-dont-want-war-with-iran/ "Vance: US and Israeli interests won’t always overlap; we don’t want war with Iran"] ''The Times of Israel'' (October 29, 2024) * In two days, we are going to take out the trash in [[Washington, D.C.]], and the trash’s name is Kamala Harris. ** [https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/11/04/election-2024-live-updates-trump-harris/76033477007/ "Election 2024 live updates: Trump, Harris await Election Day results; new polls"], ''USA Today'' (November 4, 2024) ===2025=== * I don't think stupid social media activity should ruin a kid’s life. We shouldn't reward journalists who try to destroy people. Ever. ** Cited in {{cite news|author1=Bobby Allyn|author2=Shannon Bond|title=Member of Elon Musk's DOGE team resigns after racist posts resurface |url=https://www.npr.org/2025/02/06/nx-s1-5289337/elon-musk-doge-treasury |website=npr.org |publisher=National Public Radio |access-date=February 7, 2025 |archive-date=February 7, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250207002354/https://www.npr.org/2025/02/06/nx-s1-5289337/elon-musk-doge-treasury |url-status=live }} [https://x.com/JDVance/status/1887900880143343633] {{cite news|author1=Dan Mangan|author2=Kevin Breuninger |title=Staffer at Musk’s DOGE resigns after racist social media posts exposed |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/06/musk-doge-staffer-resigns-over-racist-social-media-posts.html |website=cnbc.com |publisher=CNBC |access-date=February 7, 2025 |archive-date=February 6, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250206224546/https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/06/musk-doge-staffer-resigns-over-racist-social-media-posts.html |url-status=live }} * Even when people express views outside your own country, and even when those people are very influential – and trust me, I say this with all humour – if American democracy can survive ten years of [[Greta Thunberg]]'s scolding you guys can survive a few months of [[Elon Musk]]. ** Speech at the [[w:Munich Security Conference|Munich Security Conference]] in Germany (February 14, 2025), as cited in [https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/jd-vance-what-i-worry-about-is-the-threat-from-within/ "Read: JD Vance’s full speech on the fall of Europe"], ''The Spectator'' (London, February 14, 2025) ([https://archive.is/LyPyC Archive save]) * I think a lot of European nations were right about our [[w:2003 invasion of Iraq|invasion of Iraq]]. And frankly, if the Europeans had been a little more independent, and a little more willing to stand up, then maybe we could have saved the entire world from the strategic disaster that was the American-led invasion of Iraq. ** From an interview with the Unherd website, as cited in [https://www.dw.com/en/jd-vance-says-europe-should-have-done-more-to-stop-iraq-war/a-72250397 "JD Vance says Europe should have done more to stop Iraq War"], ''DW'' (April 15, 2025). ** The original (paywalled) article is [https://unherd.com/2025/04/jd-vance-my-message-to-europe/ here] and the complete transcript is [https://unherd.com/2025/04/transcript-unherds-interview-with-jd-vance/ here]. * President Trump has done more than anyone in my lifetime to earn the trust of the movement he leads. I am proud to stand beside him. * There are many lies the corporate media tells about President Trump. One of the most glaring is that he's impulsive or short-tempered. Anyone who has seen him operate under pressure knows that's ridiculous. ** [https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/day-after-blistering-exchange-trump-calls-elon-musk/story?id=122567621 "Trump tells ABC Musk 'lost his mind'; 'not particularly' interested in talking to him"], ''ABC News'' (June 6, 2025) * I certainly empathize with Americans who are exhausted after 25 years of foreign entanglements in the Middle East. I understand the concern, but the difference is that back then we had dumb presidents<ref>https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/us-iran-trump-vance-dumb-president-video-b2775466.html</ref> * Seriously, we need to release the Epstein list. That is an important thing. ** Said in an October 2024 podcast, quoted in [https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5407114-theo-von-criticizes-epstein-files-release/ "Theo Von asks ‘what changed’ with Vance on Epstein files"] ''The Hill'' (July 17, 2025) * Well, I've finally made it. ** Reaction to being parodied in ''[[South Park]]'', quoted in [https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/ive-finally-made-it-jd-vance-reacts-to-animated-debut-on-south-park-9044500 "JD Vance responds to South Park’s brutal takedown of Trump admin"] ''NDTV'' (August 7, 2025) * If you go back to [[World War II]], if you go back to [[World War I]], if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation. ** [https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jd-vance-world-war-2-russia-ukraine_n_68ab4784e4b0434e01af8c5a "JD Vance Bungles Basic History While Talking Russia-Ukraine Negotiations"] ''Huffington Post'' (August 24, 2025) ===2026=== * [On the economy] You don't turn the [[w:Sinking of the Titanic|Titanic]] around overnight. It takes time to fix what was broken. ** From a speech in Toledo, Ohio (January 22, 2026), as cited in [https://newrepublic.com/post/205567/jd-vance-compares-america-titanic "JD Vance Unironically Compares America to the Titanic"], ''The New Republic'' (January 23, 2026). *I don’t think they’re aliens. I think they’re demons anyway, but that’s a longer discussion. Well, look, I think that celestial beings who fly around, who do weird things to people. I think that the desire to describe everything celestial, everything is otherworldly, to describe it as aliens. I mean, every great world religion, including Christianity, the one that I believe in, has understood that there are weird things out there and there are things that are very difficult to explain. I naturally go ― when I hear about, sort of, extra natural phenomenon, that’s where I go to ― to the Christian understanding that there’s a lot of good out there, but there’s also some evil out there. And I think that one of the devil’s great tricks is to convince people he never existed. :*Quoted in Kelby Vera, ''[https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jd-vance-aliens-demons-devil_n_69c93d9de4b0a014076f69bb JD Vance Believes UFO Sightings Are 1 Of The 'Devil’s Great Tricks']'', ''Huffington Post'' (March 29, 2026) *I think it's very, very important for the pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology **[https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/vance-warns-pope-careful-talking-theology-rcna331881 April 14, 2026] * Now, you can't boo me. I'm the Vice President of the United States. ** [https://www.rawstory.com/vance-cannot-boo-me/ "Vance forbids Air Force cadets from heckling him at graduation: 'You can't boo me'"] ''RawStory'' (May 28, 2026) * I think that America has earned the trust of that region of the world ** Claimed about the Middle East after the US attack on Iran, quoted in [https://www.telegraphindia.com/world/israels-freakout-over-us-iran-agreement-a-little-bit-odd-attacks-in-beirut-not-acceptable-jd-vance/cid/2166165 "Israel's 'freakout' over US-Iran agreement a 'little bit odd', attacks in Beirut 'not acceptable': JD Vance"] ''The Telegraph of India'' (June 18, 2026) * You're a country of 9 million people. You can't just kill your way out of solving every single national security problem that you have. ** Said about Israel, quoted in [https://www.telegraphindia.com/world/israels-freakout-over-us-iran-agreement-a-little-bit-odd-attacks-in-beirut-not-acceptable-jd-vance/cid/2166165 "Israel's 'freakout' over US-Iran agreement a 'little bit odd', attacks in Beirut 'not acceptable': JD Vance"] ''The Telegraph of India'' (June 18, 2026) * If [[Watergate scandal|Watergate]] happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12-hour news story. The idea that it would have taken down a presidency is crazy. [...] If you look at the story of how the deep state took down [[Richard Nixon]], it's not all that different from what the same groups of people, the same institutions tried to do to Donald Trump in the [[First presidency of Donald Trump|first Trump administration]]. * [Describing Nixon] Young senator, [[w:Vice President of the United States|vice president]], writes some bestselling books, is hated by the media. [...] It kind of sounds like JD Vance. I've always liked Richard Nixon. ** Speaking at the [[w:Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum|Richard Nixon Presidential Library]] in [[w:Yorba Linda, California|Yorba Linda, California]] (June 25, 2026), as cited in [https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/vance-says-watergate-12-hour-news-story-today-rcna351889 "Vance says Watergate would be 'a 12-hour news story' today"], ''NBC News/AP'' (June 26, 2026). == Quotes about J.D. Vance == * We've endorsed J.P. — right? J.D. Mandel, and he’s doing great. ** [[Donald Trump]], referring to J.D. Vance in May 2022 at a rally in [[Nebraska]], cited in [https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/15/us/politics/jd-vance-name.html "J.D. Vance Was Not Always His Name. But It’s the One That Felt Closest to Home."], ''The New York Times'' (July 15, 2024) * J.D. is kissing my ass. He wants my support so bad. ** [https://edition.cnn.com/2022/09/19/politics/donald-trump-jd-vance-ohio-rally/index.html "Donald Trump humiliated J.D. Vance for fun"], ''CNN'' (September 19, 2022) * We're going to defeat Donald Trump, the career criminal and incorrigible recidivist con man and his pet chameleon. JD Vance. ** [[Jamie Raskin]], U.S. representative for Maryland, at the 2024 Democratic National Convention *Vance did not get this extremist ideology from his Appalachian upbringing or—needless to say—Yale Law. It was incubated in America's tech capital, [[San Francisco]], where he forged crucial ties with [[Peter Thiel|Thiel]], [[Curtis Yarvin|Yarvin]], and [[w:David Sacks|David Sacks]], the longtime Thiel associate and pro-[[Putin]] crusader who recently hosted a Trump fundraiser at his mansion in Pacific Heights. And if Vance ends up in the [[White House]], it will be with $45 million in monthly campaign contributions from [[Elon Musk|Musk]], who already made a $44 billion in-kind contribution by gutting San Francisco-based [[Twitter]] and transforming it into a right-wing misinformation weapon. **[[w:Gil Duran|Gil Duran]] writing in [https://newrepublic.com/article/183971/jd-vance-weird-terrifying-techno-authoritarian-ideas "Where J.D. Vance Gets His Weird, Terrifying Techno-Authoritarian Ideas"], ''The New Republic'' (July 22, 2024) * Historically, the choice of the vice president makes no difference. You're voting for the president. And you can have a vice president who's outstanding in every way—and I think JD is, I think that all of them would have been—but you're not voting that way, you're voting for the president. ** Donald Trump, quoted in [https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-says-jd-vance-has-virtually-no-impact-election-1932832 "Donald Trump Says JD Vance Has 'Virtually No Impact' on Election"], ''Newsweek'' (July 31, 2024) * Not me. They’re talking about J.D. ** [[Donald Trump]], after he and JD Vance had been called "weird", quoted in [https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/vance-defends-trump-nick-fuentes-dinner-1235077931/ "J.D. Vance Likes That Trump ‘Will Talk to Anybody,’ Including Nazi-Loving Nick Fuentes"], (August 11, 2024) * JD Vance, do you understand why there was a sudden job opening for running mate on the GOP ticket? They tried to kill your predecessor. They tried to kill him because he would not follow Trump’s plan to destroy and nullify the votes of millions of Americans. ** [[Jamie Raskin]], U.S. representative for Maryland, quoted in [https://thehill.com/homenews/4836461-jamie-raskin-jd-vance-donald-trump-mike-pence-jan-6-dnc-remarks/ "Raskin to Vance: ‘They tried to kill your predecessor’"], ''The Hill'' (August 20, 2024) * This is a piece of garbage that is simply not true. There’s no evidence of this at all. Discussion about Haitians eating dogs is just not helpful. And, again, these people are here legally. They’re here legally, and they want to work, and they are, in fact, working. ** Republican Governor [[w:Mike DeWine|Mike DeWine]] of Ohio, quoted in [https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/15/republican-ohio-gov-mike-dewine-trump-vance-false-immigrant-pets-conspiracy.html "‘A piece of garbage’: Republican Ohio Gov. condemns Trump-Vance false immigrant pet-eating conspiracy"], ''CNBC'' (September 15, 2024) * In the wake of JD Vance admitting he 'created' the pet-eating story, and as a result of the very real threats the communities and people he has targeted are now under... I am calling on him to RESIGN as our Senator. ** Senator for Ohio Casey Weinstein, quoted in [https://www.newsweek.com/ohio-senator-casey-weinstein-calls-jd-vance-resign-1954318 "Ohio Congressman Calls on JD Vance To Resign As Senator"], ''Newsweek'' (September 16, 2024) * Here's our state's junior Senator bragging about terrorizing Ohioans with malicious lies in order to change the subject in the national election he's losing. ** Ohio representative Michele Grim, quoted in [https://www.newsweek.com/ohio-senator-casey-weinstein-calls-jd-vance-resign-1954318 "Ohio Congressman Calls on JD Vance To Resign As Senator"], ''Newsweek'' (September 16, 2024) * Far from just repeating claims he’s heard, Vance has actually helped create much of the chaos he’s now trying to exploit. * This pet-eating panic was built on nothing. It turns out not long after his first post about Haitians eating pets, his campaign actually called the Springfield city manager, who remembers Vance’s staff asked point-blank: ‘Are the rumors true of pets being taken and eaten?’ and he said: ‘I told him no.’ * So Vance knew it was a lie this whole time. But instead of just admitting that. he and his campaign have been scrambling to dig up new bulls--t evidence — all of which either bears no resemblance to the claims he’s made, or falls apart at the slightest scrutiny. * It turns out he’s pretty good at parroting racist lies like the spineless dips--t that he is. ** [[John Oliver]], TV host, quoted in [https://www.thedailybeast.com/john-oliver-hammers-jd-vance-for-pushing-pet-eating-panic-he-knew-was-fake "John Oliver Hammers JD Vance for Pushing ‘Pet-Eating Panic’ He Knew Was Fake"], ''The Daily Beast'' (September 23, 2024) *Vance seems to assume that large numbers of native-born white people don’t constitute ethnic enclaves, and that communities of immigrants somehow do (and he’s clearly uninterested in understanding the forces, positive and negative, that often make newcomers cluster). [[Make America Great Again|MAGA]] has been a largely white movement of non-urban people who seem to think, like Trump himself, that people unlike them are scary and that there is only safety in homogeneity. So if you bend it around and maybe turn it inside out, there’s some “she made him do it” logic to Vance’s declaration “What happens when you have massive amounts of illegal immigration? It actually starts to create ethnic conflict. It creates higher crime rates.” It’s just that the conflict and crime doesn’t come from the immigrants. **[[Rebecca Solnit]] [https://lithub.com/rebecca-solnit-jd-vance-is-just-another-know-nothing-nativist/ "JD Vance is Just Another Know Nothing Nativist"] (August 23, 2024) * If it works out, I'm going to take the credit. If it doesn't work out, I'm blaming JD. ** [[Donald Trump]], about a memorandum of understanding about engaging in negotiations about restoring peace after the US attack on Iran, quoted in [https://www.aol.com/news/vance-says-us-got-iran-233148756.html "Trump finally said it out loud: JD Vance is his Iran fall guy"] ''AOL'' (June 17, 2026) ==External links== {{wikipedia}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Vance, J.D.}} [[Category:1984 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Members of the United States Senate]] [[Category:Republican Party (United States) politicians]] [[Category:Memoirists from the United States]] [[Category:Businesspeople from the United States]] [[Category:Nationalists]] [[Category:Catholics from the United States]] [[Category:Yale University alumni]] [[Category:People from Ohio]] [[Category:United States Marines]] [[Category:Vice Presidents of the United States]] bgub8odiuckfaclmnc4ehsvyhvh94xn 0 277517 3961375 3576070 2026-07-06T06:45:42Z Ficaia 3085955 3961375 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:EvanHunter.jpg|thumb|Hunter in 2001]] '''{{w|Evan Hunter}}''' (born '''Salvatore Albert Lombino'''; [[October 15]], 1926 – [[July 6]], 2005) was an American author of crime and mystery fiction. He is best known as the author of ''{{w|87th Precinct}}'' novels, published under the pen name '''Ed McBain''', which are considered staples of {{w|police procedural}} genre. == Quotes as Evan Hunter == * To spend his allotted time on earth as a bank teller or an insurance salesman would have seemed an utter waste to Rick. Women, he had reflected had no such problem. Creation had been given to them as a gift and a woman was self-sufficient within her own creative shell. A man needed more which perhaps was one reason why a woman could never understand a man’s concern for the job he had to do. ** ''The Blackboard Jungle'' (1954), Pt. 2, Ch. 6 * They'd taught him how to milk cows, and now they expected him to tame lions. ** ''The Blackboard Jungle'' (1954), Pt. 2, Ch. 6 == Quotes as Ed McBain == * Everybody has a right to earn a living. That's the American way. ... The law doesn't quarrel with a man's inalienable right to pursue the buck. The law only questions and method and means of acquiring the elusive green. ** ''The Con Man'' (New York: Perma Books, 1957), ch. 1 * A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week. He sees death in convicted thieves, the burglars, the muggers, the con men, the pimps, a death imposed by law, the gradual death of confinement behind bars. He sees death in the prostitutes who have witnessed the death of honor, and daily multiply the death of love, who bleed away their own lives 50 times a day beneath the relentless stabbings of countless conjugations. He sees it in the juvenile street gangs, who live in fear of death and who propagate fear by inflicting death to banish fear. And he sees it at its worst, as the result of violent emotions bursting into the mind and erupting from the hands. ** ''Ten Plus One'' (Simon & Schuster, 1963) == External links == {{Wikipedia}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Hunter, Evan}} [[Category:Novelists from the United States]] [[Category:Short story writers from the United States]] [[Category:1926 births]] [[Category:2005 deaths]] [[Category:Screenwriters from the United States]] [[Category:Mystery authors]] [[Category:Memoirists from the United States]] [[Category:Playwrights from the United States]] [[Category:Edgar Award winners]] [[Category:People from New York City]] [[Category:Non-fiction authors from the United States]] bhrr7a2bylww5vl9q526790dl28svvr 0 279057 3961105 3944606 2026-07-05T15:39:35Z ~2026-22475-30 3310494 3961105 wikitext text/x-wiki ===''Toy Palace/Sand Ho!'' [2.1]=== ===''Chuckie vs. the Potty/Together at Last'' [2.2]=== :''[The episode begins in the Pickles' bathroom, with a close-up of a roll of toilet paper. Tommy pulls the roll down with his hand and giggles. He then pulls it again, and lots toilet paper fills up the screen as he continues giggling. The screen fades to black, then in the next scene, it is revealed that the entire bathroom floor is covered in a lot of toilet paper. Tommy, who is now also covered in toilet paper, jumps and continues giggling until Didi runs in]'' :'''Didi''': Tommy!! Oh no, Snookums! That's for cleaning up messes, not making them." ''[Didi is now holding Tommy in her arm as she tosses the toilet paper in her hand onto the floor. She walks out of the bathroom, carrying Tommy. The camera zooms out, revealing the entire bathroom floor to be covered in lots and lots of toilet paper. In the living room, Phil and Lil are fighting over a toy robot as Didi carries Tommy by his armpits with both hands.]'' Now, you play out here with Phil and Lil, and before you know it, it'll be time for a nice nap. ''[Didi sets Tommy down in the playpen while Phil and Lil are still fighting over the toy robot.]'' Now share, you two! ''[The doorbell then rings.]'' That must be Charles Sr. and Chuckie. :''[Didi walks towards the front door. Tommy pulls on the toy robot's head. Which opens the robot up, making him, Phil, and Lil all fall over as the toy robot rolls away and Phil turns his head to watch it, Lil does the same as well, while Tommy leans up to watch it. Didi, who is now at the front door, opens it. On the other side of the door, Chas is carrying Chuckie in his right hand and a clown potty chair in his left arm. He walks inside.]'' :'''Chaz''': It can't be done, Didi, it just can't be done!! :''[Didi pushes the door closed.]'' :'''Didi''': Oh now, Charles, don't get discouraged. Everybody gets potty trained sooner or later. :''[Chaz walks towards the playpen and sets Chuckie and the potty chair down in it.]'' :'''Chaz''': Not Chuckie, not my son! He's gonna be taking diapers to work with him in his briefcase. :'''Didi''': Now, listen, Charles, I've been reading all about potty-training in Lipschitz, and it's really quite simple! ''[As Didi continues talking to Chaz, Chuckie walks sadly past Tommy, Phil, and Lil.]'' So, you just go off and have a good weekend. We'll take care of Chuckie, and we'll make sure he uses his '''P-O-T-T-Y.''' :'''Chaz''': His what? Oh. Oh, yeah. Well. Okay. But if there's any trouble, call the hotel. :'''Didi''': We're not gonna have any trouble, we'll be fine. :'''Chaz''': All right. Bye-bye, Chuckie. Be a good boy for Didi and Stu, okay? Use your potty, and don't eat any earthworms. :'''Didi''': Bye, Charles. :''[Didi pushes Chas towards the front door.]'' :'''Chaz''': Or breathe any noxious fumes! :''[Didi opens the front door.]'' :'''Didi''': Bye, Charles! :'''Chaz''': Or drink any radioactive waste!! :'''Didi''': Bye, Charles!! :''[Didi pushes Chaz out the front door.]'' :'''Chaz''': Or--! :''[Didi slams the door in Chas' face before he can finish what he's saying.]'' :'''Didi''': My goodness, what a worrywart! :''[Back at the playpen, Tommy, Phil, and Lil look down surprised at Chuckie's potty chair. Tommy crawls towards it, and they all look inside.]'' :'''Phil''': What is it?! :'''Lil''': I don't know. :''[Tommy grabs the handles of the lid with and pulls the lid off. He then puts the lid on his head.]'' :'''Tommy''': Maybe it's a hat. :'''Phil''': Nah, then what's the rest for?! :'''Tommy''': Maybe it's a big mush bowl. :''[Tommy climbs into Chuckie's potty chair and ducks. He pokes his head out when he hears Chuckie saying what it really is.]'' :'''Chuckie''': It's a potty!! You guys won't believe what they're trying to make me do!! :''[Tommy is now out of Chuckie's potty chair as he, Phil, and Lil look nervously at Chuckie.]'' :'''Tommy''': What, Chuckie? :'''Phil and Lil''': Yeah, what? :''[As Chuckie talks, Tommy walks towards him and Phil and Lil crawl towards him.]'' :'''Chuckie''': They're trying to make me... uh... they're trying to make me... Oh, I can't say it. :'''Tommy''': Tell us, Chuckie. :'''Chuckie''': Uh, they're trying to make me use that! ''[Chuckie points to his potty chair.]'' Instead of my diaper!! :'''Phil''': Nah, that can't happen! :'''Lil''': Yeah, how's it going to fit in your pants? :'''Chuckie''': Oh! :''[Tommy crawls up to Chuckie.]'' :'''Tommy''': But Chuckie, they can't do that to you! :'''Chuckie''': Well, they're doing it!! They call it getting potty-trained!! It's the worstest thing that's happened to me since my mom put me on the bottle!! :'''Lil''': What are you going to do? :'''Chuckie''': I don't know. I've tried everything! :'''Lil''': Maybe you could put a lot of napkins in your pants and use 'em like a diaper. :''[Lil pulls up her skirt, exposing her diaper.]'' :'''Chuckie''': I tried it. :'''Phil''': Maybe you could poop in your room and hide it in your toy box. :'''Chuckie''': Tried it. :'''Tommy''': Maybe you could just stop pooping altogether. :'''Chuckie''': Tried it. It's no use! No matter what I do, it looks like I'm going to have to be... potty-trained. :'''Angelica''': Ha!! You little babies really make me laugh!! First you cry for your mommies every time you get a little wet! ''[Angelica walks up to the playpen with an evil smile and unlatches the hook. She opens the playpen.]'' And now, finally, you get to go without 'em forever, and what do you do?! Chicken out!!! What's the matter? Little baby scared to be without his diapers?! :'''Chuckie''': No, that's not it! I'm not scared! I, I just don't want to be potty-trained, that's all. It's just not right!! :'''Angelica''': Not right?! Ha!!! That's a good one!! Don't you dummies know anything?! Everybody who's anybody is potty-trained!! :''[Angelica slaps her head.]'' :'''Chuckie''': Well, not me! I'm never going to do it!! They can't make me!! I'm going to wear my diapers forever, and no one is going to stop me. Not my mom, not my dad! Not the present of the Benited Steaks! ''[Instead of United States]'' ''[Chuckie stands up and puts his right hand over his heart as the American Flag appears behind him. Fireworks even go off in the background.]'' Because I... :'''Tommy''': Chuckie? :''[Chuckie puts both his hands over the front of his pants.]'' :'''Chuckie''': I... :'''Phil''': What's the matter, Chuckie? :'''Lil''': What's wrong? :''[Chuckie now has his hands pressed against the front of his pants and his legs crossed.]'' :'''Chuckie''': '''I... I... I GOTTA GO!!!''' :''[Chuckie starts crying with anguish. This gets Didi's attention, as she runs into the playpen and picks Chuckie up.]'' :'''Didi''': Oh, dear!! This is it! Stu, hurry!!! :''[Stu runs in, and Didi runs past him.]'' :'''Stu''': What, Deed?! :'''Didi''': Get the potty, get the potty!!! :'''Stu''': Where?! :''[Didi is now holding Chuckie in her right arm as she points towards Chuckie's potty chair.]'' :'''Didi''': There!!! :''[Didi runs desperately into the bathroom, carrying Chuckie. She sets Chuckie down, then pulls down his pants. Stu, who is carrying Chuckie's potty chair, is outside the bathroom door.]'' ===''The Big House/The Shot'' [2.3]=== :''[Tommy dribbles the ball. A strange baby is playing with a school bus and sees Tommy]'' :'''Wiseguy''': Psst! ''[Tommy hears him and looks around]'' Over here. :'''Tommy''': You talking to me? :'''Wiseguy''': ''[shushes]'' You don't want them screws to hear, do ya? :'''Tommy''': Screws? :'''Wiseguy''': You know, grownups. :'''Tommy''': Oh. :'''Wiseguy''': You new around here, ain't ya? Everybody around here calls me Wiseguy on account of I know everything what's going on. :'''Tommy''': Hi, Wiseguy, my name's Tommy Pickles. :'''Wiseguy''': Sure, sure. Listen, if you're gonna make it in this place, you gotta know what's what. :'''Tommy''': What? :'''Wiseguy''': Right, You see that kid over there? ''[A big chubby baby walks over to another baby in blue pajamas suckling on a bottle]'' That's Big Justin. He's kinda the boss around here on account of he's the biggest. ''[Big Justin takes the bottle apart from the other baby and suckles on it]'' You see that girl over there? ''[points at a girl building wooden blocks]'' They call her the Builder on account of she's always playing with blocks. And look over there. ''[The screen pans to a baby playing with red Play-Doh and yellow bits of clay all over him. He sculpts the Play-Doh into a pit bull]'' They call him Doughboy. He can make anything out of Play-Doh. :''[Doughboy sculpts the Play-Doh into a cat. Suddenly, Tommy and Wiseguy hear a baby crying very loud. A shot of inside his mouth is shown as Sandra and Jonathan arrive]'' :'''Tommy''': What's wrong with that kid? :'''Wiseguy''': Oh, don't worry about him; he's faking it. :'''Tommy''': Faking it? :'''Wiseguy''': Yep, that's Crybaby. ''[Sandra and Jonathan try to calm Crybaby down]'' He can make himself cry even when nothing's bothering him. :''[As Sandra and Jonathan turn away, Crybaby stops crying and grins for a moment, but resumes back to crying as Sandra and Jonathan take out a rattle and stuffed teddy bear]'' :'''Big Justin''': Hey. ''[Tommy and Wiseguy turn to Justin]'' Who's the new kid? :'''Wiseguy''': ''[stammers nervously]'' Oh, hi, Justin. This here is Tommy Pickles. :''[Tommy grins at Justin]'' :'''Big Justin''': Nice ball, kid. Give it to me. :'''Tommy''': ''[pulls it away]'' No! :''[All the babies stop playing and turn seeing this]'' :'''Big Justin''': What'd you say, kid? :'''Tommy''': It's my ball, you can't have it! :'''Big Justin''': Look, you're new around here, and maybe nobody warned ya, I'm Big Justin and I run this place. ''[pulls his suspenders in a snap]'' Now, '''''GIVE ME THE BALL!''''' ''[grabs the ball]'' :'''Tommy''': ''[pulls it back]'' '''''NO!!''''' :'''Big Justin''': I said '''''GIVE IT TO ME!!!''''' :''[Big Justin and Tommy get caught in a tug-o-war with the ball. Wiseguy and Crybaby watch this in shock]'' :'''Crybaby''': ''[holds a cookie]'' Betcha a cookie Justin gets the ball. :'''Wiseguy''': ''[gives Crybaby another]'' You're on. :''[Big Justin and Tommy continue fighting over the ball until Tommy lets the ball slip out of his fingers and ends up falling into a wagon, which rolls across the room, knocks over Builder's block structure, crushes Doughboy's clay cat sculpture and rams into a wall. Tommy sees Doughboy stare at what just happened]'' :'''Tommy''': ''[gasps]'' I'm sorry. :'''Doughboy''': ''[tears well up and bawls]'' '''''AAUUGGHH!!''''' :''[Sandra comes in and sees what just happened. She is accompanied by Jonathan and Bob]'' :'''Jonathan''': Diagnosis? :'''Sandra''': Destructive overreaction syndrome. Procedure? :'''Jonathan''': Positive reinforcement denial? :'''Sandra''': ''[shakes her head]'' Uh-uh. :'''Jonathan''': Withdrawal of snack gratification? :'''Sandra''': Uh-uh. :'''Bob''': ''[takes out a fresh diaper]'' Fresh change of diapers? :'''Sandra''': No. ''[points at Tommy, echoes''] Time out. :''[The babies gasp in shock one by one]'' :'''Wiseguy''': They're gonna give him the pen! :''[A single pen is shown by the corner of the room. Sandra rushes Tommy to the pen with Jonathan and Bob following]'' :'''Bob''': I yet say a nice change of diapers might cheer the little fella up! :'''Jonathan''': How long? :'''Sandra''': ''[holds five fingers]'' Five minutes. :'''Jonathan''': Five minutes?! Don't you think that's a bit...harsh? :'''Sandra''': ''[sternly]'' Do it. :''[Jonathan does so. The timer is heard ticking as Tommy goes hesitantly silent]'' :'''Builder''': Woah, five minutes! :'''Doughboy''': These screws just keep getting meaner and meaner. :''[Tommy lowly lays silent in the pen as he watches the cat clock on the wall. Tommy sees a toy jug and strides it along the wooden bars of the pen]'' :'''Sandra''': ''[confiscates the jug]'' No, no, Tommy. ''[grins]'' Noise-making is not part of... ''[echoes]'' ...time out. ===''Showdown at Teeter-Totter Gulch/Mirrorland'' [2.4a]=== :'''Mother''': ''[a la Demi Moore]'' Oh, look at you! Oh, I could kick myself for letting you having that gum, Prudence! ===''Angelica's in Love/Ice Cream Mountain'' [2.5]=== :'''Drew''': Mmm, what do you say to a little bet? Make things more interesting. Say, five bucks a hole? :'''Stu''': ''[loudly]'' Shame on you, Drew! Betting is a bad, bad thing! ''[quietly]'' Make it ten! ---- :'''Angelica''': ''[crying]'' I want my ice cream! :'''Stu''': We didn't really pay enough attention to the kids today. :'''Drew''': You're right, Stu. We got a couple of free games. Maybe we could let the kids play. It won't take long. :'''Earl''': ''[sobbing and groveling]'' Oh, please, no! Anything but that! I'LL GIVE YOU ANYTHING! :'''Stu''': Could we find something the kids will like? ===''Regarding Stuie/Garage Sale'' [2.6]=== :'''Lil''': Wanna play in my doll, Stuie. ''[He brings his doll and broke. Lil start public crying and then Stu]'' :''[Stu crying]'' :'''Chuckie''': Looks like trouble. :''[Stu crying continues]'' :'''Chuckie''': What's wrong, Stuie? :'''Stu''': Toy broke. :'''Tommy''': I miss my daddy! :''[Tommy starts rubbish crying]'' ===''Let There Be Light/The Bank Trick'' [2.7]=== ===''Family Reunion/Grandpa's Date'' [2.8]=== ===''No Bones About It/Beach Blanket Babies'' [2.9]=== ===''Reptar on Ice/Family Feud'' [2.10]=== :'''Chaz''': ''[Mighty Roaring]'' LOOK AT YOU! DON'T YOU SEE WHAT YOU'VE DONE?! While you were insulting each other and bringing up every petty difference from your past, you've forgotten about your children, the most important thing in your insignificant lives! ''[Roaring]'' YOU OUGHTA BE ASHAMED! :'''Howard''': Charles is right. Our behavior's been absolutely disgusting. I'm a failure and I've let everybody down while I should be— :'''Betty''': ''[panic]'' Yeah, yeah. Whine later, ya' little man. We gotta find the kids! ===''Superhero Chuckie/The Dog Broomer'' [2.11]=== ===''Aunt Miriam/The Inside Story'' [2.12]=== ===''A Visit from Lipschitz/What the Big People Do'' [2.13]=== ===''The Santa Experience'' [2.14]=== :'''Chuckie''': ''[voice only]'' First, it gets really, really cold. ''[A "snowball" passes by, revealing a man throwing artificial snow through a wreath-adorned hole on a wall, powered by a fan, voice only]'' Then, the grown-ups start acting really nice...''[Camera pans down to a line of people, waiting to see Santa. Chuckie is talking to Tommy]''...and smiling all the time. And that's not the worse part! One night... he comes! :'''Tommy''': Who comes? :'''Chuckie''': The scariest guy in the world! ''[show close-up of Chuckie's face]'' Santa Claus! :'''Tommy''': Chuckie! You can't be scared of Santa! He's big and fat and jolly and gives you presents! :'''Chuckie''': That's not what I heard! :''[Pan across to Santa's house]'' :'''Elf''': Okay, who's next to see Santa? :''[Cut to an excited Angelica]'' :'''Angelica''': Me, me, me! ''[She rushes towards Santa, pushing a kid out of her way and plopping right into Santa's lap]'' :'''Mall Santa''': Oh, uh... Ho ho ho! And how are you today, little, um... :'''Angelica''': Angelica. :'''Mall Santa''': Angelica! And why don't you tell Santa what you want for Christmas. :''[A photographer takes a picture of Santa and Angelica, who grins widely]'' :'''Angelica''': I want a Luxurious Hair Cynthia Doll. :'''Mall Santa''': Of course you do. And if you're a good little girl... :'''Angelica''': ''[She interrupts Santa to continue her list]'' A "Teenage Nuclear Fusion Squad" Video Game... :'''Mall Santa''': Well... :'''Angelica''': A Rocco Mr. X Exploding Smash-Up Doll, a "Beverly Hills Cynthia" Lunch Box, a pony, and a 9-11 Surgical Kit With Working Stethoscope. :'''Mall Santa''': Yes, that's an awful lot of presents... :'''Angelica''': ''[shouting in Santa's face]'' I'm not finished yet! <hr width=50%> :'''Angelica''': It all started when the first present was given by the Pilgrims a long, long time ago. After that, everybody started giving presents...even the Easter Bunny started giving them 'til Santa slapped him with a lawsuit. <hr width=50%> :''[Fade to a wide shot of the cabin outside. Santa and eight reindeer fly over head. Sparkles fly out of the rear to form the words "Merry Christmas"]'' :'''Real Santa''': Ho, ho, ho! Merry [[Christmas]]! ===''Visitors from Outer Space/The Case of the Missing Rugrat'' [2.15]=== :'''Robot''': My batteries don't need no doggone recharge, for your information. ===''Chuckie Loses His Glasses/Chuckie Gets Skunked'' [2.16]=== :'''Phil''': Does that mean we're never gonna see Chuckie again? :'''Lil''': Oh noooo! :'''Phil''': Who's gonna have all his toys? :'''Lil''': I wonder if I could have them! :'''Phil''': I thought of it first! :'''Lil''': Did not! :'''Phil''': Did too! :'''Lil''': Did not! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Chuckie''': Aaah! Somebody help me! I can't see! Well, I can see a little. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Chuckie''': Maybe we should find a nice game to play inside. :'''Angelica''': Like what? You wanna eat the rest of my crayons!? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Drew''': Oh, no! All over my new sweater! ===''Rebel Without a Teddy Bear/Angelica the Magnificent'' [2.17]=== ===''Meet the Carmichaels/The Box'' [2.18]=== ===''Down the Drain/Let Them Eat Cake'' [2.19]=== ===''The Seven Voyages of Cynthia/My Friend Barney'' [2.20]=== ===''Feeding Hubert/Spike the Wonder Dog'' [2.21]=== ===''The Slide/The Big Flush'' [2.22]=== :'''Tommy''': But, Chuckie, that wasn't your slide. That was a big kids' slide. There's no reason you can't go down your slide. :'''Chuckie''': I tried, Tommy. I really tried, but it's no use. Now I am a-scared of every slide in the world. ===''King Ten Pin/Runaway Angelica'' [2.23]=== :'''Angelica''': ''[crying]'' Daddy! Daddy! :'''Drew''': Angelica?! What are you doing here? :'''Angelica''': ''[crying]'' Daddy, I heard you! I heard it all! I'm sorry I was bad and runned away from home! I'm sorry I cut up your papers and broke your fax machine! I'm sorry and I promise I'll never be bad again! Only please, take me back! :'''Drew''': Take you back? Honey, I didn't even know you were gone! :'''Angelica''': You didn't? :'''Drew''': No! I thought you were still in your room, safe and sound. :'''Angelica''': You mean you didn't even know I runned away? :'''Drew''': I had no idea! Oh, but sweetheart, you know you'll always be my princess, no matter what you do. You're my baby and I love you. ''[Angelica hugs him]'' ===''Game Show Didi/Toys in the Attic'' [2.24]=== :''[The episode credits play over a pattern of red, green, and blue dots that move around]'' :'''Man's voice''': :''[The dots zoom out, revealing that they make up the display on the Pickles' TV set; Tommy is standing very close to the screen, watching the man talk]'' :'''Man on TV''': I knew right then I had snagged me a walla pike. :''[the camera pans over to Grandpa, who has fallen asleep in his chair and is still holding the remote]'' :'''Didi''': ''[walks into the living room, gasps loudly when she sees Tommy standing so close to the set, and walks over to him]'' No, no, no, honey! ''[lifts up Tommy and looks at him]'' Don't you know that focusing so closely on images can permanently damage your vision? :''[As she talks, she looks closer into Tommy's eyes, which go cross-eyed, causing Tommy to see multiple copies of Didi's face. He quickly uncrosses his eyes, making his vision go back to normal. Didi sets Tommy down on the floor so he can crawl around, then approaches Grandpa, takes the remote from him without waking him up, sits down on the couch, and changes the channel from the fishing show to what looks like a talk show, but with a donkey as the host]'' ===''Driving Miss Angelica/Susie vs. Angelica'' [2.25]=== ===''Tooth or Dare/Party Animals'' [2.26a]=== :'''Angelica''': NO! I'm gonna wish for something real good! :'''Tommy''': Be careful what you wish for, Angelica! You just might get it! :'''Chuckie''': What are we gonna do, Tommy?! What are we gonna do?! :'''Tommy''': There's only one thing we can do. We're gonna find Angelica's magic lamp, and we got to wish for everything to be right-right again. [[Category:Television show seasons]] d42aiu2cqwhu1a60f40x57ad5e2ptml 0 279063 3961106 3670168 2026-07-05T15:40:33Z ~2026-22475-30 3310494 /* Curse of the Werewuff [8.2] */ 3961106 wikitext text/x-wiki ===''Preschool Daze'' [8.1]=== ===''Curse of the Werewuff'' [8.2]=== :'''Betty''': ''[sighs]'' When we take the pups to the amusement park tomorrow night, let's dress them up as monsters! That way, they'll feel more scary than anything they see! :'''Didi''': You mean, empower them by tapping into their inner monster? :'''Kira''': Oh, I think it's a wonderful idea! Kimi can be a witch, and Chuckie can be, um... uh... a werewolf! :'''Chas''': A werewolf? I don't know. :'''Stu''': Come on, Chas. Frightening people is what Halloween is all about! ===''Bow Wow Wedding Vows'' [8.3]=== :''[Night time, Dil is asleep and Tommy walks over to his crib]'' :'''Tommy''': Dilly? Are you awake? ''[a litle louder]'' Dil? Are you awake? ''[suddenly shouting]'' DIL! ARE YOU AWAKE?! :'''Dil''': What? ''[screams in fear but then notices his brother next to him]'' Tommy? Night, night. :'''Tommy''': I know it's late, Dilly, but I couldn't sleep. I miss Spike. ===''Quiet Please/Early Retirement'' [8.4]=== :'''Cynthia''': The Diamond Thief left this very important note! It says... :'''Farm Animals Tape''': Moo! :'''Angelica''': What? The thief's a cow? <hr width="50%"/> :''[The babies play golf]'' :'''Tommy''': Hole in five! :'''Kimi''': Two! :'''Lil''': A bazillion! :'''Chuckie''': Eleventy! :'''Phil''': Purple! :'''Lil''': You're opposed to say a number, Phillip! :'''Phil''': You guys said em' all already! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Randy Panda''': ''[repeated lines]'' I'm Randy Panda! :'''Cynthia''': I know who's in that truck! It's time I deciphered the license plate code! It says... :'''Randy Panda''': I'm Randy Panda! I'm Randy Panda! :'''Angelica''': What?! ''[In a rage, she throws Randy Panda and he breaks]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Cynthia''': And the Thief is... :''[The channel suddenly changes]'' :'''Wayne Skyla''': Wayne Skyla with 'The Weather'! :''[Angelica gasps and sees Tommy's foot on the remote]'' :'''Tommy''': Heh, heh, oops? :''[Angelica then emits a scream so loud, it can heard across the galaxy]'' ===''The Doctor is In/The Big Sneeze'' [8.5]=== :'''Kimi''': Do you know what today is Chuckie? :'''Tommy''': There goes our brave baby. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Tommy''': It's fun playing blocks with you, Kimi. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Chas''': 3,000 hours ago, you, me, Chuckie, and Kimi became a family. Happy anniversary, Kira. :'''Kira''': Okay, little ones, time to play outside. Except for you, Kimi. Chuckie put his toys away, now it's your turn. :''[Mylan crying]'' :'''Kimi''': Chuckie doesn't different, like this. Why doesn't Chuckie wanna play with me? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Kimi''': He don't even know what their special day. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Kira''': Something's going on with Kimi and Chuckie. Maybe If I got them playing together. :''[We cut to the next scene with popsicle sticks]'' :'''Kira''': I can't wait to see what you two build together. What will it be? A spaceship? :'''Angelica''': Ms. Chuckie's Mommy, Can I have a popsicle stick too with a popsicle still on it? :'''Kira''': Sure, Angelica. :'''Kimi''': So, Chuckie. :''[Chuckie starts to sneeze, turning towards to Angelica, and sneezed on Angelica's face]'' :'''Angelica''': Aaah! Yuck! I asked for a popsicle! Not a SNOT-sicle! ''[She rubbing her nose]'' :'''Chuckie''': Sorry. I got to go potty. :'''Tommy''': Chuckie, I've been trying to tell you. :'''Kimi''': Wow! It shaped like a moose! :'''Chuckie''': It is? I mean... I knew that. :'''Kimi''': ''[She hugged Chuckie]'' Oh, Chuckie! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Chas''': Dandelion season already? Oh, I better give Chuckie his allergy medicine. :'''Kira''': I love my new gold locket. :'''Chas''': ''[He sneezed one last time and sighs]'' Gold lockets. ===''The Fun Way Day/The Age of Aquarium'' [8.6]=== ===''Daddy's Little Helpers/Hello Dilly'' [8.6a]=== :'''Didi''': First I get sun-bopped like a rag doll, and fluffed with an old feather duster, then I'm told to forget I'm a wife and mother... Because I'm the Goddess Dodo! Well my name is Didi! Didi Pickles! Not a Goddess... A woman... Who loves nothing more than being a wife and mother and WANTS HER MONEY BACK! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Angelica''': ''[about the doll]'' All the baby action with none of the slop! ===''Cynthia Comes Alive/Trading Phil'' [8.7]=== :'''Cindy''': This place is SOOO yesterday. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Phil''': See ya. :'''Angelica''': Wait! ''[she trips on a rock mud]'' :'''Tommy''': Everything's back to norman. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Angelica''': I may look 3, but inside I'm ALL FOUR! ===''Murmur on the Ornery Express'' [8.8]=== :'''Chuckie''': ''[giggles]'' Choo-choo, train! Hey, Mr. Train! Choo-choo! ''[laughs]'' Choo-choo, everybody! :'''Tommy''': You're good with trains, Chuckie! :'''Chuckie''': Choo-choo! A funny train, too. Choo-choo! :''[In the kitchen, Minka and Boris are showing Stu and Didi a guide booklet about a scenic train ride. Stu is reading the paper, and looks over nervously at Chuckie playing with his toy train]'' :'''Minka''': An old-fashioned train, taking us to Little Biendeltown. It's like a dream come true. ''[hands the booklet to Didi]'' :'''Didi''': Biendeltown? "A recreation of the Old Country with all its' whimsical charms." :'''Boris''': Whimsical, schmimsical. It's got dust and a yak. For this I need a two-day train ride?! :'''Minka''': What do you know? ''[to Didi]'' It's our second honeymoon! Why don't you all come with us? :'''Boris''': Oy... :'''Didi''': On your honeymoon? :'''Minka''': What? I'm gonna talk to HIM for eighteen hours? ''[points to Boris eating his meal]'' :'''Didi''': I've never been on a scenic train trip before. Think of the sights we'll see on the way! Doesn't that sound fun, Stu? :''[Stu looks up from his newspaper and grins nervously. Back in the playpen, Chuckie continues playing with his toy train]'' :'''Chuckie''': Choo-choo! Choo-choo, everybody! :'''Didi''': Oh, kids! Guess what? We're going to ride on a real train! We even get to sleep on it overnight. Isn't that exciting? ''[walks back into the kitchen]'' :'''Tommy''': Wow, a real live train! :'''Lil''': With the wheelies and the chugga-chugga and everything! :'''Kimi''': Yeah! :'''Chuckie''': I'm not going. :'''Tommy''': What do you mean, Chuckie? I thought you love trains. :'''Chuckie''': REAL trains don't have a string to pull with. They just go all by themselves! Nothing can stop them! :'''Tommy''': It's OK, Chuckie. A real train's just like your toy train. It just needs to be bigger-er so the grownups can play with them! :'''Chuckie''': ''[picks up his toy engine]'' I don't know, Tommy. It's kinda scary. :'''Tommy''': Well, we'll all be there and, um... I know! You can bring your old pal Wawa! :'''Chuckie''': Yeah! So I won't be a-scared all by myself. :''[It cuts to Drew's house. In the kitchen, Charlotte is trying to type on her laptop computer as Angelica plays with her Cynthia doll]'' :'''Drew''': Charlotte, this is a family trip. Two relaxing days on a train. I want you to promise: NO business. ''[closes the screen on Charlotte's laptop]'' :'''Charlotte''': ''[opens her laptop]'' Well, I don't see why a person ca... :'''Drew''': ''[clears throat]'' Charlotte! :'''Charlotte''': ''[annoyed]'' All right, fine! :'''Angelica''': ''[to her Cynthia doll]'' You hear that, Cynthia? We're going on a train trip! Time to break out all those extra EXTRA special accessories. ''[leaves the kitchen with Cynthia]'' :''[Some time later, it cuts to the city train station. A singing bird flies past. But then]'' :'''Drew''': ''[offscreen]'' CHARLOTTE! <hr width="50%"/> :'''Conductor''': All aboard! :''[Everyone starts to board the train. Didi and Kira walk up to the babies]'' :'''Didi''': Come on, kids. We're going on the train! ''[they walk on board]'' :''[Angelica walks up to the train with her Cynthia and a small dollhouse with a carrying handle]'' :'''Angelica''': ''[with a flourish]'' Well, Cynthia, say goodbye to your home! Maybe we'll come back someday; maybe not. Angelica Pickles follows the feet of a different plumber! ''[boards the train]'' :''[Inside one of the Pullman compartments, Didi and Kira are looking at a map while Didi holds Dil]'' :'''Didi''': And after the train passes each landmark, we can mark it with a little check. :'''Kira''': You really have this worked out! <hr width="50%"/> :''[Across from them, Didi and Kira are looking out the window with their guide booklet while holding Dil]'' :'''Kira''': The first sight should be coming up any second: Vegetable Rock! ''[hands the booklet to Didi]'' :'''Didi''': "Thrill to the spectacle of a natural stone formation in the shape of an asparagus." ''[looks out the window with Kira]'' This is what it's all about. :''[Kira nods. But then Dil spits up]'' :'''Dil''': Blah! :'''Didi''': Oh, dear. :''[The train passes Vegetable Rock, but Didi and Kira miss it]'' :'''Kira''': I'll get some more napkins. ''[gets some]'' :'''Didi''': It's just baby stuff. It's not a real problem... :'''Kira''': There we go. ''[wipes Dil's mouth]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Betty''': Here's where it happened. Now cordon off the scene and sniff out the perp! :'''Conductor''': All I do is punch the tickets. I'll call ahead for the detectives; they'll meet us in the morning at our first stop. :'''Chas''': ''[with his newspaper]'' In the morning? But before the morning, there's... ''[dramatically]'' the night! <hr width="50%"/> :''[The train departs the station, and we see the main adults inside the lounge car with the two detectives and Dwayne serving coffee]'' :'''Detective 1''': ''[with a notepad]'' I need you to report any suspicious activities you might have witnessed. :'''Lou''': ''[softly to the detective]'' Uh, between you and me, I never liked the looks of that guy. ''[gestures to Dwayne]'' :'''Dwayne''': Anyone want coffee? :'''Betty''': ''[holding a cup]'' All right, Dwaynie! Java me up! :''[Dwayne pours coffee into Betty's cup]'' :'''Minka''': And I wanted so much for this to be our second honeymoon. ''[she looks at Boris sleeping and frowns, but when she turns her head Boris smiles]'' :'''Kira''': ''[looking at the route map]'' We should be near Cough Drop Pass. :'''Didi''': ''[reading from the guide booklet]'' Where years of natural erosion have formed the stone replica of soothing lozenge. :''[Didi and Kira start to look out the window, but Detective 1 walks up to them]'' :'''Detective 1''': I have a couple of questions; standard procedure, if you'll come this way. :''[Didi and Kira look at each other and then get up, just missing the Cough Drop Pass as the train passes by it. Drew and Stu are standing around looking bored]'' :'''Drew''': Yeah, OK, there's a thief. ''[gets an idea]'' Wanna sneak out and have some fun? :''[Drew whispers in Stu's ear, and Stu grins and they high-five. The train continues chugging on as the engine's whistle blows, and in their compartment, the babies watch as Grandpa Lou enters]'' :'''Lou''': OK, sprouts. I'll be taking the next watch to keep you out of trouble. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Minka''': That was a nice visit! Now back on the train. :'''Stu''': ''[He's carrying a sleeping Dil, nervously]'' For another... eighteen... hours... :'''Chas''': ''[He takes a photo of Kira posing next to the station clock]'' That rubber band sure was big! :'''Angelica''': ''[She and Brett walk up to the train. As Angelica steps on]'' Come on, Brett. We gotta go. ===''Back to School/Sweet Dreams'' [8.9]=== ===''A Step at a Time/Angelica's Assistant'' [8.10]=== ===''A Tale of Two Puppies/Okey Dokey Jones and the Ring of the Sunbeans'' [8.10]=== :'''Drew''': Oh, good. I mean... Sorry, Precious. <hr width=50%> :'''Kimi''': You did it, Chuckie! <hr width=50%> :'''Tommy''': ''[after spilling a lizard tank, in a nod to Indiana Jones]'' Lizards... why did it have to be lizards? ===''Happy Taffy/Imagine That'' [8.11]=== ===''Imagine That'' [8.10b]=== :'''Angelica''': Now the only thing you babies gotta to know is that Cynthia is the greatest crime fighter of all time... and, oh yeah, Cynthia is called Angelica! ===''Curse of the Werewuff'' [8.11]=== ===''Back to School/Sweet Dreams'' [8.12]=== :'''Tommy''': ''[age 6, at his birthday]'' This is chocolate vanilla cake and I wanted vanilla chocolate... and I'm sick of the Dummi Bears! ===''A Step at a Time/Angelica's Assistant'' [8.13]=== :'''Chuckie''': This isn't Reptar, Tommy. <hr width=50%> :'''Kimi''': It's "Follow Me Reptar"! <hr width=50%> :'''Charlotte''': Get here Jonathan! I'm swamped! Working at home and watching the babies isn't easy for me either, but I've offered them over a weakness, and Angelica would love to help you with the babies. :'''Angelica''': Alright diaper heads, listen up. While I’m gone you can’t touch anything, look at anything or even think about touching or looking at anything especially my new Cynthia Dream Yacht. :'''Tommy''': Why not Angelica? :'''Angelica''': You still going to ask? Because you’re bunch of dumb babies! :'''Charlotte''': Angelica! :'''Angelica''': Oh, I love Lil very, very much! :'''Charlotte''': If I find you being mean to the babies again, your dream yacht is sailing right back to the toy store. :'''Jonathan''': One glass of low-fat no foam cappuccino. :'''Charlotte''': I said fat-free, foam cappuccino. Remember, be nice to the babies like you usually are. :'''Harold''': Hi, bestest friend, Angelica! :''[Susie laughs]'' :'''Angelica''': Keep dreaming, snack boy! :'''Harold''': ''[screamed]'' DO YOU HEAR ME, WORLD?!?! ANGELICA'S BEST FRIEND!!!! ===''Happy Taffy/Imagine That'' [8.13a]=== [[Category:Television show seasons]] mthrt09n7eztresajvzn3n2367jv810 0 279513 3961103 3853596 2026-07-05T15:37:31Z ~2026-22475-30 3310494 3961103 wikitext text/x-wiki {{DISPLAYTITLE:''The Simpsons''/Season 36}} {{The Simpsons header}} :'''''[[w:The Simpsons|The Simpsons]]''''' (1989–present) is an American animated sitcom broadcast by the Fox Broadcasting Company created by [[Matt Groening]]. The series is a satirical depiction of American life, epitomized by the Simpson family. ===''[[w:Bart's Birthday|Bart's Birthday]]''=== :'''Chief Wiggum''': Simpson, we are finally sending you to juvie and throwing away the keys, is what I would say if I wasn't about to start a whole new chapter in my life. ''[Bart groans]'' I'm joining the Chicago P.D. I'm gonna lead the ADU. :'''Lou''': The All-Decapitations Unit? :'''Chief Wiggum''': Yeah, there won't be a lot of laughs. I think it’s a drama. One thing's for sure though, I'm going to miss this pla- :'''Bart''': ENOUGH WITH THE STUPID LIGHT SWITCH!! :'''Marge''': Come on, sweetie. It's time for you to go home. :''[Bart groans]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': Son, I can see you're experiencing some pretty big feelings right now. Let's try and center them. Now blow out your candles. :'''Bart''': ''[scoffs]'' You blow 'em out, dumbass. :'''Homer''': I know, I know. It's a lot to process suddenly having a great father. :'''Bart''': Dude, you're not capable of change! :'''Homer''': ''[through teeth]'' I hear you and I validate your feelings. :'''Bart''': ''[sternly]'' You're not a great father, you are Homer Simpson. A drunk, neglectful sack of crap, and that's why everyone laughs at you! :'''Homer''': ''[turns red in anger]'' Why you little... ''[angrily strangles Bart, smashes onto his cake, then resets]'' :'''Marge''': ''[switches the light on]'' Bart, look what you did to your cake. :'''Homer''': Mmm, floor cake. ''[takes a bite of Bart's cake]'' :'''Bart''': Ten. I stopped it. I'm still ten. :'''Marge''': ''[to Bart]'' When are you going to grow up? :'''Bart''': Never. ===''[[w:The Yellow Lotus|The Yellow Lotus]]''=== ===''[[w:Desperately Seeking Lisa|Desperately Seeking Lisa]]''=== ===''[[w:Shoddy Heat|Shoddy Heat]]''=== :'''Billy O'Donnell''': Okay, listen, you stay in the car until I get back. :''[Agnes doing cube rotation while waiting for Billy to return]'' :'''Agnes Skinner''': ''I waited and waited.'' :''[Agnes snoring and cube rotations all over on her and gasps]'' :'''Cletus''': Ma'am, are you okay? 'Cause I've been staring at ya since 2:00 in the morning. :''[Agnes groans]'' :''[Cletus takes a cube rotation]'' :'''Agnes Skinner''': I never saw Billy again. Abe, what if Burns knows I was there? :'''Grampa''': I guess I'll have to ask him. Luckily, I'm wearing my gun. :''[grunts]'' ===''[[w:Treehouse of Horror XXXV|Treehouse of Horror XXXV]]''=== :'''Mayor Quimby''': Thanks to Lisa Simpson's tireless and tiresome advocacy, Springfield will now be providing free LED light bulbs to every household. :'''The Rich Texan''': I can use the money I save to pay for these louder bullets! :'''Sideshow Mel''': I applaud Springfield for finally embracing a progressive idea. :'''The Rich Texan''': Whoa, Nelly! It's a progressive idea? Well, now I hate it. ===''[[w:Women in Shorts|Women in Shorts]]''=== :'''Luann Van Houten''': Okay, ladies. Let's all take out this month's book. Then open it, close it, and break out the wine! <hr width=50%> :'''Marge Simpson''': Luann, we're not feeling very "woo." What we're feeling is woo-ried. :'''Bernice Hibbert''': Mm-hmm. :'''Kumiko Albertson''': This is an intervention. :'''Luann''': I don't have a problem with drinking. :'''Lindsey Naegle''': It's not the wine. :'''Marge''': Luann, you have an addiction to wine merch. <hr width=50%> :'''Lindsey Naegle''': The question is: Do you want to live your life like this? :'''Luann''': Oh! And I suppose all your throw pillows just say nothing. Anyway, it's not like it's hurting anyone. :'''Kumiko''': Isn't it? <hr width=50%> :'''Marge''': Luann, we're here for you. :'''Luann''': But... but being a funny wine mom is my thing. I have absolutely nothing else in my life. ''[He starting to crying, Milhouse sighs]'' :'''Marge''': You like coffee, right? What if your new personality was coffee? :'''Luann''': Coffee merch doesn't get me there! :'''Bernice Hibbert''': Chocolate? :'''Luann''': "It's chocolate o'clock somewhere"? That makes no sense, Bernice. :'''Miss Hoover''': How about "proud slut"? :'''Luann''': Hmm... hmm... I love it. <hr width=50%> :'''Malibu Stacy''': Hi, Shauna! :'''Shauna Chalmers''': Um. Who are you, freak? Besides a freaky freak, you freak. :'''Mailbu Stacy''': I'm Malibu Stacy. You're Malibu Stacy. I came here from Malibu Stacy Land because a rea girl who plays with me needs my help. And that's you, Shauna. :'''Jimbo Jones''': You still play with dolls? :'''Shauna''': ''[Scoffs]'' No. :'''Malibu Stacy''': It's okay to be complicated. As women, we can encompass multitudes. :'''Shauna''': Encompass my fist! ''[He jumps and Stacy screams, he started to punch]'' :'''Dolph''': Yeah, get her! :'''Shauna''': Get out of here and leave me alone, loser! I'm so sorry. Meet me at home after school. We'll have a tea party, I love you so much. :''[He started to punch again]'' :'''Malibu Stacy''': You're not fighting ''me''! You're fighting your fears of growing ''up''! :''[He stop punching, he surprised, Malibu Stacy just smiled. Shauna kicks Malibu Stacy's head out of floor. Smithers had to get in the car. Malibu Stacy's head is over at Smithers. Smithers screams. Nelson yawns]'' :'''Mrs. Muntz''': All right, good night, Nelly. :'''Nelson Muntz''': Mama, could you tell me a story? How about one from the Kingdom of the Classy Ladies? :'''Mrs. Muntz''': ''[chuckles]'' Another one? :'''Nelson''': Aw, please! I never get tired of their adventures. :'''Mrs. Muntz''': Well, once upon a time, there was a beautiful princess named Muntzeena. Oh, and she loved to dance with all of her friends atop the glittery stage of... :'''Nelson''': Lord Tracksuit's Manor! :'''Mrs. Muntz''': One five eve, a party of Knights of the Order of the Bachelor from the Valley of Silicon were there, tossing much gold. :'''Nelson''': Did they bring a wizard with them who could control the weather? :'''Mrs. Muntz''': Oh, they sure did. And boy, oh, boy, did he make it rain. <hr width=50%> :'''Mrs. Muntz''': Oh, my hero. :'''Nelson''': No, mom. You're mine. :'''Mrs. Muntz''': Ah, shut up. <hr width=50%> :'''Homer''': Fun fact about [[Jennifer Garner]], Marge. She'll take a night at home with the kids over a Hollywood premiere any day of the week. :'''Marge''': I told you that. <hr width=50%> :'''Kent Brockman''': Breaking news. Smoke 'em if you got 'em. A ship carrying America's entire supply of cigarettes has become lodged in the Panama Canal. :'''Sea Captain''': R, D, R, D, R, D. ''[After the ship was turn left, but he couldn’t do that, Horn blading in the ship, crowd laughing]'' Do you think the honking is helping? ‘Cause I don't! :'''Kent Brockman''': Experts say the cigarette shortage could mean months before shelves are restocked and lungs re-blackened. <hr width=50%> :'''Bernice''': Oh, hey there, handsome. What's your name? :'''Dr. Hibbert''': Dr. Julius Hibbert. :'''Bernice''': No, it's not. <hr width=50%> :'''Dr. Hibbert''': Okay, okay, I'll give it a try. Ahem. Hello, stranger. Got any sexually transmitted diseases I should know about? :'''Bernice''': Ugh. My name is Lavern McCray. I'm a lingerie model. :'''Dr. Hibbert''': Well, we have that in common. :'''Bernice''': You're a lingerie model? :'''Dr. Hibbert''': No, uh, my name is also Laverne McCray. I-I mean Maverne MacDoolittle? <hr width=50%> :'''Luigi''': I want-a my mamma! :'''Mamma''': Eh, what you should want is a lawyer. How's about-a both? <hr width=50%> :''[At Springfield Court, Judge Snyder pounds the gavel at Luigi]'' :'''Luigi''': ''[holding a pizza]'' It's-a not-a looking a-good, Mamma. They gonna send-a me away forever. :'''Judge Snyder''': Counselor Mamma, your closing argument? :''[Mamma grab the papers, and put them down. Mamma clears throat and starting to slap the people]'' :'''Mamma''': Don't you dare take-a my sweet, sweet, sweet baby boy to jail. You want to kill an old woman? <hr width=50%> :'''Mamma''': Next week, on the Mamma-At-Law... Civil forfeitures laws unfairly discriminate against low income communities. <hr width=50%> :'''Lunchlady Dora''': I believe every great dish is born of dreams. I'll often awaken with a new creation fully formed in my head. Every morning, I go to the farmer's market to get inspired. Each ingredient becomes a character in the story of lunch. Today's story is, I have 14 bucks and 500 kids to feed. Salt. Fat. Acid. Heat. No, thanks. :'''Ruth Reichl''': I've eaten in restaurants all over the world, and Lunchlady Dora's doing things I never thought were possible... or legal. Someone needs to stop her. Maybe the government? :'''Lunchlady Dora''': When I present my food, I want it to evoke an emotion. Panic. :'''Wendell Borton''': Ah! ''[He fells]'' <hr width=50%> :'''Agnes Skinner''': So, hi. This is my first time on one of these sites. I'm not really sure how this works, but it's time to admit that I'm lonely. Janice passed away six months ago, and I'm finally ready to open my heart to a new enemy. We were at war for 50 years. Oh, God. What a nemesis she was. The most loathsome, sorry excuse for a human being you ever met. May she burn in Hell. I know you're not supposed to talk about your ex, but that relationship is a part of me. Anyway. Ever since I spit on her ugly grave, I've been alone. I'm looking for someone in my rage bracket. I'm not young. I don't have time to waste exchanging passive-aggressive emails or shooting hostile stares across the supermarket. I'm looking for a real commitment. ''[On phone]'' If you think that could be you, reach out. I just wanna make someone miserable for the rest of their worthless life. Hmph! ''[He chiming in phone]'' <hr width=50%> :'''Rayshelle Peyton''': Oh, Milhouse fell down. I think he's okay, but it looks like the poor guy's about to... ''[Milhouse wailing]'' <hr width=50%> :'''Rayshelle Peyton''': Doesn't betting on bad things happening to children feel just a bit wrong? :'''Miss Hoover''': I feel nothing and I'm fine with that. <hr width=50%> :'''Groundskeeper Willie''': It's Sheri. :''[All groaning]'' :'''Dewey Largo''': Oh, yes! Yes! :'''Groundskeeper Willie''': Correction, the faller is Teri. Repeat, Teri. ===''[[w:Treehouse of Horror Presents: Simpsons Wicked This Way Comes|Treehouse of Horror Presents: Simpsons Wicked This Way Comes]]''=== :'''Luann''': Now, you must be ready for a nap. :'''Bart''': No, I have to save... ''[yawns]'' ...the lady. :'''Luann''': Nighty nighty. ''[closes and locks the door]'' ===''[[w:Convenience Airways|Convenience Airways]]''=== :'''Homer''': THIS IS BULL! I DEMAND TO SPEAK TO SULLY SULLENBERGER! :'''Marge''': Homer, stop it! You always do this. You'll get us banned. :'''Homer''': So? We'll take our business elsewh-- :''[muffled shouting]'' :'''Marge''': There is no elsewhere. Because of your past behavior, you're on the No Fly List of every other airline in the country. Even Spirit. ===''[[w:Homer and Her Sisters|Homer and Her Sisters]]''=== ===''[[w:O C'mon All Ye Faithful|O C'mon All Ye Faithful]]''=== :'''Ralph''': Every time you pull his finger, his pants cough. ===''[[w:The Man Who Flew Too Much|The Man Who Flew Too Much]]''=== :'''Todd''': Jesus is God's Rod. :'''Homer''': ''[laughing]'' Jesus is God's Rod. :'''Fausto''': Blasphemy. ===''[[w:Bottle Episode (The Simpsons)|Bottle Episode]]''=== :'''Homer''': A million dollars! :'''Bart''': I don't want stew. I want mac and cheese. :'''Homer''': ''[turns red in anger]'' Eat your million-dollar stew. ''[grabs Bart's head and forces him to eat his bowl of stew]'' ===''[[w:The Past and the Furious|The Past and the Furious]]''=== ===''[[w:The Flandshees of Innersimpson|The Flandees of Innersimpson]]''=== ===''[[w:The Last Man Expanding|The Last Man Expanding]]''=== ===''[[w:P.S. I Hate You (The Simpsons)|P.S. I Hate You]]''=== ===''[[w:Yellow Planet|Yellow Planet]]''=== ===''[[w:Abe League of Their Moe|Abe League of Their Moe]]''=== ===''[[w:Stew Lies|Stew Lies]]''=== ===''[[w:Full Heart, Empty Pool|Full Heart, Empty Pool]]''=== ===''[[w:Estranger Things|Estranger Things]]''=== ==External links== {{wikipedia|The Simpsons season 36}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Simpsons, Season 36}} [[Category:The Simpsons seasons]] c1z4n8cmst8a7yy6zk08frlydfry954 4 284942 3961201 3749356 2026-07-05T16:35:29Z BD2412 3982 /* top */ Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]], replaced: Walter M. Miller, Jr. → Walter M. Miller Jr. using [[Project:AWB|AWB]] 3961201 wikitext text/x-wiki {| style="background:{{{color}}};color:{{{foreground|var(--color-base-fixed,#202122)}}};" | align=center | [[File:Silver King Wildfire, Utah - July 2024.jpg|272px]] | align=center | &nbsp; | align=center | {{quote of the day | quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> --> [[Objective]] [[evidence]] is the ultimate [[authority]]. Recorders may [[lie]], but [[Nature]] is incapable of it. | author = Walter M. Miller Jr. }} | align=center | &nbsp; | align=center | [[File:2025 Southern California fires and the United States Forest Service (USFS) - Taskforce 1600 at the Palisades Fire (54264940069).jpg|358px]] |} l0si73sfoz3rp08dxcr8lgwvishlkns 0 286809 3961295 3950972 2026-07-05T21:40:52Z ~2026-38100-15 3347602 /* Live-action films */ 3961295 wikitext text/x-wiki {{otherusesof|Scooby-Doo|Scooby-Doo}} Following is a list of last words from various ''[[Scooby-Doo]]'' media. Some characters may have more than one "death," in instances such as being resurrected, or existing temporarily as an undead being. In some of those instances, their last words from each "death" may be added if they are significant. ==Television== ===''[[Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!]]''=== * '''Yes, and I'd have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for these blasted kids and their dog!''' ** Who: Big Bob Oakley ** Source: "A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts" ** Note: * '''Blasted meddling kids!''' ** Who: Mr. Carswell ** Source: "Jeepers, It's the Creeper" ** Note: ===''[[The New Scooby-Doo Movies]]''=== ===''The Scooby-Doo Show''=== ===''The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries''=== ===''A Pup Named Scooby-Doo''=== ===''[[Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated]]''=== ===''[[Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!]]''=== ===''[[Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?]]''=== ==Films== ===Live-action films=== * '''I would've gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling kids and your dumb dog! I'll get you for this!''' ** Who: Old Man Smithers ** Source: ''[[Scooby-Doo (film)|Scooby-Doo]]'' (2002) ** Note: TBA? * '''Oh, get over it! So I got a little cranky!''' [Shaggy Rogers: Gee, Scrap, it's no reason to freak out like a jerk and try to kill all of humanity.] '''I would've gotten away with it too, if not for you meddling sons of…''' ** Who: [[w:Scrappy-Doo|Scrappy-Doo]] 2002 ** Source: ''[[Scooby-Doo (film)|Scooby-Doo]]'' (2002) ** Note: TBA? * '''I would've gotten away with it, if it weren't for those meddling punks and their dumb dog!''' [Ned: You were a dude this whole time?] '''Of course, ''dummkopf''.''' [Ned: [upset] But we cuddled.] ** Who: Dr. Jonathan Jacobo ** Source: ''[[Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed]]'' (2004) ** Note: TBA? * '''It would’ve been all mine, if it weren’t for you meddling kids and your dog!''' ** Who: Principal Deedle ** Source: ''[[Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins]]'' (2009) ** Note: TBA? * '''NO!!!''' * '''No! No! Revenge was in my grasp, and I would've gotten away with it, if it weren't for you meddling kids, and your rotten dog! Oh, no! NO!!!''' ** Who: Wanda Grubwort ** Source: ''[[Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster]]'' (2010) ** Note: TBA? * '''I would've gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids!''' ** Who: Carol ** Source: ''[[Daphne & Velma]]'' (2018) ** Note: TBA? ===Animated films=== * [Shaggy Rogers: Like, wow! So this guy is your brother?] [Sheriff Rufus Buzby: Yep, my black-sheep brother, T.J. Likes to swipe patrol cars and impersonal aren't ghosts and me! Don't you?] '''Rotten, Yeah! You goody-goody brother!''' [Sheriff Rufus Buzby: TJ, this masquerade is now over.] '''I knew this treasure was here! I *knew* it! All my life, I wanted to get my hands on it and I had it!''' [Shaggy Rogers: Yeah, for about 20 seconds!] [Sheriff Rufus Buzby: And now we're gonna get you straightened out! Come on!] ** Who: T.J. Busby ** Source: ''[[Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers]]'' (1987) ** Note: TBA? * '''They haven't seen the last of Revolta. I still have my broomsticks.''' ** Who: Revolta ** Source: ''[[Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School]]'' (1988) ** Note: TBA? *'''And I would've gotten away with it too, if it weren't for that big dog, and you meddling kids!''' **Who: Mr. Beeman **Source: ''[[Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island]]'' (1998) **Note: TBA *'''Going somewhere? What's the matter, cat got your tongue?''' ''[roars]'' [Shaggy Rogers: Zoinks!] **Who: Jacques **Source: ''[[Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island]]'' (1998) **Note: TBA *'''Jacques is in trouble!''' [Simone Lenore: Forget about him! They must be drained now, while the moonlight is in the midnight alignment.] **Who: Lena Dupree **Source: ''[[Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island]]'' (1998) **Note: TBA *'''I've had enough of that meddling dog!''' [Scooby-Doo: Rog? Rhere?] **Who: Simone Lenore **Source: ''[[Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island]]'' (1998) **Note: TBA *'''NOOO! NOOOOO! ''NOOOOOOOOO!''' **Who: Ben Ravencroft **Source: ''[[Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost]]'' (1999) **Note: TBA *'''I won't go back alone!''' **Who: Sarah Ravencroft **Source: ''[[Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost]]'' (1999) **Note: TBA * ** Who: ** Source: ''[[Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders]]'' (2000) ** Note: TBA * ** Who: Phantom Virus ** Source: ''[[Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase]]'' (2001) ** Note: TBA * [Eric: Bill, you were my best friend.] [Professor Kaufman: And my best student.] '''But you didn't pick my project.''' [Eric: What's that supposed to mean?] '''Professor Kaufman chose your video design over mine, even though I've been here 2 years longer.''' [Professor Kaufman: Students are all equal, Bill.] [Velma: So, you invented the phantom virus, hoping it would scare Eric away.] '''That's right, and it worked, till ''you'' guys showed up.''' [Fred: You were afraid that we would find out who created the virus.] [Shaggy: So ''you'' beamed us into cyberspace.] '''The prize would've been all mine, if it wasn't for...''' [Fred, Daphne, Shaggy and Velma: Us meddling kids.] ** Who: Bill McLemore ** Source: ''[[Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase]]'' (2001) ** Note: TBA * '''And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you Meddling Phony Pharaohs.''' ** Who: Armin Granger/Hotep ** Source: ''[[Scooby-Doo! in Where's My Mummy?]]'' (2005) ** Note: TBA * '''Yow! I won't stand for this, You... ''Give me my crown!'' My crown! I ''want'' my crown!''' ** Who: Amelia Von Butch ** Source: ''[[Scooby-Doo! in Where's My Mummy?]]'' (2005) ** Note: TBA * ** Who: ** Source: ''[[Scooby-Doo! and the Goblin King]]'' (2008) ** Note: TBA * ** Who: ** Source: ''[[Scooby-Doo! Abracadabra-Doo]]'' (2010) ** Note: TBA * '''We would've gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids.''' ** Who: Babyface Boretti ** Source: ''[[Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare]]'' (2010) **Note: TBA * '''I would've gotten away with this, if it weren't for you meddling…''' ** Who: Mr. Rigby ** Source: ''[[Scoob!]]'' (2020) ** Note: Get arrested. *'''How dare you!''' [Daphne Blake and Velma Dinkley: ''[In unison, shocked]'' Dick Dastardly?!] [Fred Jones: ''[shocked]'' I’ve so many… mixed feelings.] ** Who: Officer Jaffe ** Source: ''[[Scoob!]]'' (2020) ** Note: Rips herself off, revealing Dick Dastardly. * '''Dang, those are some dope wheels!''' ''[Dynomutt fires his missiles at him, sending him to a wall, leaving his impact silhouette on it]'' '''Whatever wheels are!''' ** Who: {{w|Captain Caveman}} 2020 ** Source: ''[[Scoob!]]'' (2020) ** Note: Gets fires missiles and sending to a wall by Dynomutt, However, in the ending credits where he gets join the Blue Falcon and his team. * '''Buddy, back when we were kids, you saved me. Now it's my turn.''' [Scooby-Doo: ''[horrified]'' No! Don't! Raggy, wait! '''''No!''''' ''[gasps, after the gate to the Underworld then locks, before Shaggy appears on the lock from the other side of the gate, then saddened]'' Raggy.] '''Scoob, you're the best friend I could ever ask for. And you always will be.''' ** Who: {{w|Shaggy Rogers|Shaggy Rogers}} 2020 ** Source: ''[[Scoob!]]'' (2020) ** Note: Character sacrifices himself to stay inside the Underworld and lock the gates then he finds the way out then reunited the gang. * '''Rasm-Frasm, Stupid, robots.''' ** Who: {{w|Muttley}} 2020 ** Source: ''[[Scoob!]]'' (2020) ** Note: TBA? * [Daphne Blake: Wow, that is a solid impersonation.] '''Thank you. I also played [[w:Rum Tum Tugger|Rum Tum Tugger]] in my secondary school's production of ''[[Cats (musical)|Cats]]''.''' [Velma Dinkley: This makes no sense. How could ''he'' have time to judge the world's greatest talent shows and build a giant airship?] ** Who: [[Simon Cowell]] ** Source: ''[[Scoob!]]'' (2020) ** Note: Pulled unmasking by Velma Dinkley could be the real Dick Dastardly. * '''Put me down, you traitorous tin cans!''' ''[The Rotten Robots who had captured Dastardly and Muttley lower down in front of the Scooby gang and the Brian / Blue Falcon, Dee Dee and Dynomutt]'' [Muttley: Rasm-Frasm. Stupid robots!] [Brian Crown/Blue Falcon: Time for you to pay for your crimes, Dick Dastardly.] [Shaggy Rogers: Or is it? ''[pulls off a mask revealing…]'' [Velma Dinkley, Scooby-Doo, Shaggy Rogers, Daphne Blake, Fred Jones, Brian Crown/Blue Falcon, Dee Dee Skyes and Dynomutt: ''[In unison, shocked]'' Simon Cowell?!] ''[Muttley growls angrily at him]'' [Daphne Blake: Wow, that is a solid impersonation.] [Simon Cowell: Thank you. I also played [[w:Rum Tum Tugger|Rum Tum Tugger]] in my secondary school's production of ''[[Cats (musical)|Cats]]''.] [Velma Dinkley: This makes no sense. How could ''he'' have time to judge the world's greatest talent shows and build a giant airship? ''[pulls off another mask to reveal he is really… the real Dick Dastardly!]'' [Scooby-Doo, Shaggy Rogers, Daphne Blake, Fred Jones, Brian Crown/Blue Falcon, Dee Dee Skyes and Dynomutt: ''[In unison, shocked]'' Dick Dastardly?!] '''Drat! No one ever goes for the double unmasking.''' ''[Muttley snickers as he frowns at him]'' [Brian Crown/Blue Falcon: ''[to Dastardly]'' You are coming with us.] '''I would've gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you MISMATCHED MEDDLING MISCREANTS!''' ** Who: [[Dick Dastardly]] 2020 ** Source: ''[[Scoob!]]'' (2020) ** Note: After Mystery Inc. Rotten Robots and the Falcon Force defeats Cerberus back to the Underworld, Shaggy reunited the gang when put the Scooby’s collar back on to Scooby-Doo. When the Rotten Robots betrayed Dastardly who had captured he and Muttley lower them in front of the Mystery Inc. and the Falcon Force who attempts a double-mask trick by wearing a mask of himself over a mask of [[Simon Cowell]]. But Velma figured this about no sense, So she unmasked the real Dastardly. So Dastardly and Muttley away over to the police by Dee Dee, Brian and Dynomutt. However, in the ending credits where he escapes. ==Video Games== === ''Scooby-Doo! Mystery Mayhem'' === * '''And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids and your pesky dog.''' ** Who: Walter Peabody * '''And I would have gotten away with it, too, if it hadn't been for you meddling kids and your pesky dog.''' ** Who: Robert Zabrinski * '''And to think, she would have gotten away with it, if it weren't for you young city slickers.''' ** Who: Johnny Channayaptra * '''Sherman, you fool! You should've let me deal those kids when I had the chance. Blast you meddling kids!''' 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Repeating cross-wiki abuse and quote-less page creation after the last block. <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 02:46, 14 March 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} 2 week rangeblock —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 06:21, 17 March 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Smile-to-talk|Smile-to-talk]] == * {{vandal|Smile-to-talk}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 08:30, 14 March 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} warned. —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 06:22, 17 March 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Signfix|Signfix]] == * {{vandal|Signfix}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 11:41, 14 March 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} by someone else. —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 06:22, 17 March 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Sharda24|Sharda24]] == * {{vandal|Sharda24}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 06:06, 17 March 2025 (UTC) :{{done}}, reported at [[:m:]] —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 06:23, 17 March 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/CheaperByTheDozen|CheaperByTheDozen]] == * {{vandal|CheaperByTheDozen}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 08:20, 17 March 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} - blocked and offending pages deleted. ~ [[User:UDScott|UDScott]] ([[User talk:UDScott|talk]]) 13:20, 17 March 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/97.136.146.116|97.136.146.116]] == * {{vandal|97.136.146.116}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 08:53, 17 March 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} (by another user). ~ [[User:UDScott|UDScott]] ([[User talk:UDScott|talk]]) 13:21, 17 March 2025 (UTC) == New concerning 2001:8003:DCA9:E700:0:0:0:0 == * {{IPvandal|2001:8003:DCA9:E700:0:0:0:0/64}} * {{IPvandal|2001:8003:DC14:0:0:0:0:0/64}} https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/block&page=User%3A2001%3A8003%3ADCA9%3AE700%3A0%3A0%3A0%3A0%2F64 https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/block&page=User%3A2001%3A8003%3A3C4B%3AB600%3A0%3A0%3A0%3A0%2F64 Please semi protect the article [[Chess]] against IP editing. There is repeated vandalism from IPs since the year 2021, see the article history. {{ping|Antandrus}} --[[User:ᘙ|ᘙ]] ([[User talk:ᘙ|talk]]) 15:01, 17 March 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} by someone else. —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 03:28, 18 March 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Lifecircle08|Lifecircle08]] == * {{vandal|Lifecircle08}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 11:47, 18 March 2025 (UTC) :{{done}}, deleted and blocked. ~ [[User:UDScott|UDScott]] ([[User talk:UDScott|talk]]) 12:27, 18 March 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Mydailytechnew2|Mydailytechnew2]] == * {{vandal|Mydailytechnew2}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:33, 18 March 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 16:28, 18 March 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Shivam Seat Cover|Shivam Seat Cover]] == * {{vandal|Shivam Seat Cover}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 04:18, 20 March 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} - deleted and blocked. ~ [[User:UDScott|UDScott]] ([[User talk:UDScott|talk]]) 12:12, 20 March 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Shinhasarder2343|Shinhasarder2343]] == * {{vandal|Shinhasarder2343}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 08:33, 20 March 2025 (UTC) : The user removed SD tag from [[MD. Shinha Sarder]]. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 10:01, 20 March 2025 (UTC) ::While I have deleted the page (since it had no quotes), I don't know that I would say that there was vandalism here - more a lack of understanding of the project. ~ [[User:UDScott|UDScott]] ([[User talk:UDScott|talk]]) 12:14, 20 March 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Beun1223|Beun1223]] == * {{vandal|Beun1223}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 21:29, 20 March 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} by {{User|Lemonaka}}. ~ [[User:UDScott|UDScott]] ([[User talk:UDScott|talk]]) 14:43, 21 March 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Debitstatting|Debitstatting]] == * {{vandal|Debitstatting}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 23:17, 21 March 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 18:14, 23 March 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/76.35.98.14|76.35.98.14]] == * {{vandal|76.35.98.14}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 23:43, 21 March 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 18:14, 23 March 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/12any|12any]] == * {{vandal|12any}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 04:39, 23 March 2025 (UTC) : The user is repeating SD tag removal at [[ProfCanny]]. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 06:48, 23 March 2025 (UTC) :{{done}}, reporting at [[:m:]] —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 18:14, 23 March 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Servicesell1234|Servicesell1234]] == * {{vandal|Servicesell1234}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 09:42, 26 March 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} globally —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 17:07, 26 March 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Spherulengo|Spherulengo]] == * {{vandal|Spherulengo}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:39, 26 March 2025 (UTC) :{{Done}} by someone else. —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 17:08, 26 March 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/2603:6010:D8F0:E20:DD08:13FC:43DA:F14D|2603:6010:D8F0:E20:DD08:13FC:43DA:F14D]] == * {{vandal|2603:6010:D8F0:E20:DD08:13FC:43DA:F14D}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 22:59, 27 March 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} one week, did cleanup of test pages with no quotes. There seems to be some coordination with a different IP, also blocked {{vandal|76.35.98.14}} [[User:HouseOfChange|HouseOfChange]] ([[User talk:HouseOfChange|talk]]) 00:23, 28 March 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/2603:9000:DE00:84A3:FCA9:D662:175F:D38D|2603:9000:DE00:84A3:FCA9:D662:175F:D38D]] == * {{vandal|2603:9000:DE00:84A3:FCA9:D662:175F:D38D}} Vandalism. Check deleted contrib, created multiple pages that out of project scope. <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:Aqurs1|Aqurs1]] ([[User talk:Aqurs1|talk]]) 14:09, 28 March 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/2603:6010:D8F0:E20:B597:CD00:288C:5420|2603:6010:D8F0:E20:B597:CD00:288C:5420]] == * {{vandal|2603:6010:D8F0:E20:B597:CD00:288C:5420}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 23:07, 28 March 2025 (UTC) :{{Done}} I blocked the /64 causing problems from a range of IP addresses. [[User:HouseOfChange|HouseOfChange]] ([[User talk:HouseOfChange|talk]]) 02:33, 29 March 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Historybell05|Historybell05]] == * {{vandal|Historybell05}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 11:48, 29 March 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} and yeeted the spam page as well. [[User:HouseOfChange|HouseOfChange]] ([[User talk:HouseOfChange|talk]]) 12:29, 29 March 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-03-31, 01:13 == * {{IPvandal|104.14.129.233}} The same person who vandalized [[Beast Wars: Transformers]] is doing it again. - [[User:FilmandTVFan28|FilmandTVFan28]] ([[User talk:FilmandTVFan28|talk]]) 01:15, 31 March 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 04:34, 1 April 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/188.93.112.241|188.93.112.241]] == * {{vandal|188.93.112.241}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 22:34, 31 March 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 04:34, 1 April 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Asjakqiku|Asjakqiku]] == * {{vandal|Asjakqiku}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 22:34, 31 March 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 04:36, 1 April 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/202bh|202bh]] == * {{vandal|202bh}} Block evasion of [[Special:Contributions/Biuc12]]. <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:34, 2 April 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} indef block. Same sock account making Alexander Lukison edits at en-wiki. I undid those edits but I am not an admin there. [[User:HouseOfChange|HouseOfChange]] ([[User talk:HouseOfChange|talk]]) 16:06, 2 April 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Rabbitoy|Rabbitoy]] == * {{vandal|Rabbitoy}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 13:14, 2 April 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} [[User:HouseOfChange|HouseOfChange]] ([[User talk:HouseOfChange|talk]]) 16:07, 2 April 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Ijmremodeling4|Ijmremodeling4]] == * {{vandal|Ijmremodeling4}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 11:38, 3 April 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} block and cleanup done by GMG. [[User:HouseOfChange|HouseOfChange]] ([[User talk:HouseOfChange|talk]]) 15:41, 6 April 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/2402:1980:8310:144:C8E:B57C:5C16:2EB8|2402:1980:8310:144:C8E:B57C:5C16:2EB8]] == * {{vandal|2402:1980:8310:144:C8E:B57C:5C16:2EB8}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 11:44, 6 April 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} [[User:HouseOfChange|HouseOfChange]] ([[User talk:HouseOfChange|talk]]) 15:42, 6 April 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Khusha digital|Khusha digital]] == * {{vandal|Khusha digital}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 13:36, 8 April 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} Globally locked tho not by me. [[User:HouseOfChange|HouseOfChange]] ([[User talk:HouseOfChange|talk]]) 17:18, 8 April 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/75.205.237.149|75.205.237.149]] == * {{vandal|75.205.237.149}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 13:48, 8 April 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} I also recently blocked a different IP from California for adding the same "balls" quote to my talk page. Mysterious how some people choose to find fun. [[User:HouseOfChange|HouseOfChange]] ([[User talk:HouseOfChange|talk]]) 17:17, 8 April 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/2600:1011:A03E:B73B:E519:E650:F78F:5FC0|2600:1011:A03E:B73B:E519:E650:F78F:5FC0]] == * {{vandal|2600:1011:A03E:B73B:E519:E650:F78F:5FC0}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:BlackShadoww|BlackShadoww]] ([[User talk:BlackShadoww|talk]]) 22:18, 8 April 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} blocked 1 week for vandalism. [[User:HouseOfChange|HouseOfChange]] ([[User talk:HouseOfChange|talk]]) 22:37, 8 April 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/2601:1C2:81:AB70:3C0B:4FE3:6164:EDE|2601:1C2:81:AB70:3C0B:4FE3:6164:EDE]] == * {{vandal|2601:1C2:81:AB70:3C0B:4FE3:6164:EDE}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 02:48, 9 April 2025 (UTC) : {{done}} I blocked the IP and deleted the pages. [[User:HouseOfChange|HouseOfChange]] ([[User talk:HouseOfChange|talk]]) 12:49, 9 April 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Would build|Would build]] == * {{vandal|Would build}} LTA, [[:m:User:علاء/case2#Mohamed_AlAgha]] <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 23:46, 10 April 2025 (UTC) :Indeed I created the pages because they have citations on [[Google]] Please [[search]] for each [[Names|name]] that I created a page for You will find that what I said is correct and [[identical]] As for Alaa I have no background or [[knowledge]] of him This is the first time I have heard of him What are all the names mentioned? I only have one name. [[User:Would build|Would build]] ([[User talk:Would build|talk]]) 10:00, 11 April 2025 (UTC) ::Blocked, clearly the same evasive tactics used by previous LTA accounts promoting Mohamed AlAgha. And the rest of the articles created probably require cleanup as well. [[User:HouseOfChange|HouseOfChange]] ([[User talk:HouseOfChange|talk]]) 11:29, 11 April 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Shernukh Despicable|Shernukh Despicable]] == * {{vandal|Shernukh Despicable}} LTA, [[:m:User:علاء/case2#Mohamed_AlAgha]] <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 23:46, 10 April 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} clearly same LTA [[User:HouseOfChange|HouseOfChange]] ([[User talk:HouseOfChange|talk]]) 11:30, 11 April 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Engineer Zak|Engineer Zak]] == * {{vandal|Engineer Zak}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 11:43, 12 April 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} 18:18, 13 April 2025 (UTC) [[User:HouseOfChange|HouseOfChange]] ([[User talk:HouseOfChange|talk]]) 18:18, 13 April 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/SHIT! SHIT! SHIT! SHIT! SHIT! SHIT! SHIT! SHIT! SHIT! SHIT! SHIT! SHIT! 2|SHIT! SHIT! SHIT! SHIT! SHIT! SHIT! SHIT! SHIT! SHIT! SHIT! SHIT! SHIT! 2]] == * {{vandal|SHIT! SHIT! SHIT! SHIT! SHIT! SHIT! SHIT! SHIT! SHIT! SHIT! SHIT! SHIT! 2}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:USSR-Slav|USSR-Slav]] ([[User talk:USSR-Slav|talk]]) 08:08, 13 April 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} [[User:HouseOfChange|HouseOfChange]] ([[User talk:HouseOfChange|talk]]) 18:15, 13 April 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Imagepro2|Imagepro2]] == * {{vandal|Imagepro2}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:09, 13 April 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} [[User:HouseOfChange|HouseOfChange]] ([[User talk:HouseOfChange|talk]]) 18:15, 13 April 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-04-18, 13:49 == * {{IPvandal|76.122.3.178}} Repeated vandalism. [[User:Svartava|Svartava]] ([[User talk:Svartava|talk]]) 13:50, 18 April 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} - blocked. ~ [[User:UDScott|UDScott]] ([[User talk:UDScott|talk]]) 14:49, 18 April 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/2600:100E:A120:2B52:D5FD:AE03:90C9:A381|2600:100E:A120:2B52:D5FD:AE03:90C9:A381]] == * {{vandal|2600:100E:A120:2B52:D5FD:AE03:90C9:A381}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 02:27, 14 April 2025 (UTC) :Globally blocked tho not by me [[User:HouseOfChange|HouseOfChange]] ([[User talk:HouseOfChange|talk]]) 19:11, 19 April 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/TarzanBoyFan|TarzanBoyFan]] == * {{vandal|TarzanBoyFan}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 02:48, 14 April 2025 (UTC) :{{done}}, also globally blocked. [[User:HouseOfChange|HouseOfChange]] ([[User talk:HouseOfChange|talk]]) 19:10, 19 April 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Jankhan1114|Jankhan1114]] == * {{vandal|Jankhan1114}} Adding spam links <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:Ternera|Ternera]] ([[User talk:Ternera|talk]]) 02:35, 16 April 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} [[User:HouseOfChange|HouseOfChange]] ([[User talk:HouseOfChange|talk]]) 19:09, 19 April 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Corteiz0102|Corteiz0102]] == * {{vandal|Corteiz0102}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 11:36, 17 April 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} [[User:HouseOfChange|HouseOfChange]] ([[User talk:HouseOfChange|talk]]) 19:08, 19 April 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Crystalwebster|Crystalwebster]] == * {{vandal|Crystalwebster}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:02, 18 April 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} tho not by me. [[User:HouseOfChange|HouseOfChange]] ([[User talk:HouseOfChange|talk]]) 19:12, 19 April 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Intellectualpropertyorg|Intellectualpropertyorg]] == * {{vandal|Intellectualpropertyorg}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 09:06, 19 April 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} [[User:HouseOfChange|HouseOfChange]] ([[User talk:HouseOfChange|talk]]) 19:06, 19 April 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Reversi the great|Reversi the great]] == * {{vandal|Reversi the great}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:Ternera|Ternera]] ([[User talk:Ternera|talk]]) 22:09, 19 April 2025 (UTC) : Handled globally. <span style="display:inline-block;text-align:center;vertical-align:bottom;line-height:0.5em;">~~<nowiki/>~~<br/><span style="font-size:0.7em;">[[User:1234qwer1234qwer4]] ([[User talk:1234qwer1234qwer4|talk]])</span></span> 22:14, 19 April 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Myriamphoto|Myriamphoto]] == * {{vandal|Myriamphoto}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 11:44, 20 April 2025 (UTC) :???? [[User:Myriamphoto|Myriamphoto]] ([[User talk:Myriamphoto|talk]]) 12:04, 20 April 2025 (UTC) ::{{done}} warned. Please do not post spam here. —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 19:17, 20 April 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/222.127.93.32|222.127.93.32]] == * {{vandal|222.127.93.32}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:27, 20 April 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 19:17, 20 April 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/192.36.155.238|192.36.155.238]] == * {{vandal|192.36.155.238}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 14:23, 21 April 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} by someone else deleting the contribs. —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 18:47, 21 April 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Arbitrary Reversi Star|Arbitrary Reversi Star]] == * {{vandal|Arbitrary Reversi Star}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 03:02, 22 April 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 03:06, 22 April 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Lucku89202|Lucku89202]] == * {{vandal|Lucku89202}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 07:49, 22 April 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} - blocked. ~ [[User:UDScott|UDScott]] ([[User talk:UDScott|talk]]) 12:12, 22 April 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Farshidn28|Farshidn28]] == * {{vandal|Farshidn28}} Spamming <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:Hide on Rosé|Hide on Rosé]] ([[User talk:Hide on Rosé|talk]]) 09:14, 22 April 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} - blocked. ~ [[User:UDScott|UDScott]] ([[User talk:UDScott|talk]]) 12:14, 22 April 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/2600:100C:B023:EBE3:11D8:289D:78C1:B8A2|2600:100C:B023:EBE3:11D8:289D:78C1:B8A2]] == * {{vandal|2600:100C:B023:EBE3:11D8:289D:78C1:B8A2}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:Sakura emad|Sakura emad]] ([[User talk:Sakura emad|talk]]) 15:07, 22 April 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} blocked [[User:HouseOfChange|HouseOfChange]] ([[User talk:HouseOfChange|talk]]) 15:49, 22 April 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Supportsofttech|Supportsofttech]] == * {{vandal|Supportsofttech}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:19, 23 April 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} - blocked. ~ [[User:UDScott|UDScott]] ([[User talk:UDScott|talk]]) 12:20, 23 April 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/41.114.96.59|41.114.96.59]] == * {{vandal|41.114.96.59}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 22:59, 23 April 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} [[User:HouseOfChange|HouseOfChange]] ([[User talk:HouseOfChange|talk]]) 13:08, 25 April 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/ElseworthJohn|ElseworthJohn]] == * {{vandal|ElseworthJohn}} Possible link spam, please see [https://spamcheck.toolforge.org/by-domain?q=uklaw.co.uk] <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:47, 25 April 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} blocked for making clearly inappropriate external link, inserted as first and only edit. NOTHERE. [[User:HouseOfChange|HouseOfChange]] ([[User talk:HouseOfChange|talk]]) 13:08, 25 April 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/2601:1C2:81:AB70:902:5DA0:6EAF:984C|2601:1C2:81:AB70:902:5DA0:6EAF:984C]] == * {{vandal|2601:1C2:81:AB70:902:5DA0:6EAF:984C}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 22:58, 23 April 2025 (UTC) :{{done}}, all deleted. —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 02:08, 29 April 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/R3F6O7|R3F6O7]] == * {{vandal|R3F6O7}} Vandalism. Lazy to tag every page for speedy deletion, please nuke them thanks. <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:Aqurs1|Aqurs1]] ([[User talk:Aqurs1|talk]]) 09:25, 28 April 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} pages deleted and user blocked. ~ [[User:UDScott|UDScott]] ([[User talk:UDScott|talk]]) 12:34, 28 April 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/2600:1700:FF00:46A0:0:0:0:0/64|2600:1700:FF00:46A0:0:0:0:0/64]] == * {{vandal|2600:1700:FF00:46A0:0:0:0:0/64}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:FlyingAce|FlyingAce]] ([[User talk:FlyingAce|talk]]) 10:24, 28 April 2025 (UTC) : {{done}} reverted and blocked. ~ [[User:UDScott|UDScott]] ([[User talk:UDScott|talk]]) 12:35, 28 April 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/2600:1700:FF00:46A0:3092:9C27:C936:36F8|2600:1700:FF00:46A0:3092:9C27:C936:36F8]] == * {{vandal|2600:1700:FF00:46A0:3092:9C27:C936:36F8}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:Langusto|Langusto]] ([[User talk:Langusto|talk]]) 10:43, 28 April 2025 (UTC) : {{done}} - repeat of above notice. Reverted and blocked. ~ [[User:UDScott|UDScott]] ([[User talk:UDScott|talk]]) 12:36, 28 April 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/2603:8001:8701:8E03:D039:8DCF:2DFB:52AD|2603:8001:8701:8E03:D039:8DCF:2DFB:52AD]] == * {{vandal|2603:8001:8701:8E03:D039:8DCF:2DFB:52AD}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 02:00, 29 April 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 02:07, 29 April 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/2601:1C2:81:AB70:3CCE:ED47:113C:CCBD|2601:1C2:81:AB70:3CCE:ED47:113C:CCBD]] == * {{vandal|2601:1C2:81:AB70:3CCE:ED47:113C:CCBD}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 03:07, 29 April 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 04:48, 29 April 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Cblmhospitalfh|Cblmhospitalfh]] == * {{vandal|Cblmhospitalfh}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 07:17, 29 April 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} blocked tho not by me. [[User:HouseOfChange|HouseOfChange]] ([[User talk:HouseOfChange|talk]]) 18:40, 5 May 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/TheDigitalFlix|TheDigitalFlix]] == * {{vandal|TheDigitalFlix}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 09:10, 29 April 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} blocked tho not by me. [[User:HouseOfChange|HouseOfChange]] ([[User talk:HouseOfChange|talk]]) 18:40, 5 May 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-05-5, 21:54 == * {{IPvandal|2600:1700:FF00:2770:1934:788B:F4F2:3515}} * {{IPvandal|2600:1700:FF00:2770:3093:B811:1F8:7D7B}} Vandalism. [[User:ᘙ|ᘙ]] ([[User talk:ᘙ|talk]]) 21:56, 5 May 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} I blocked the 64, since this seems to be the same vandal using a variable IP. [[User:HouseOfChange|HouseOfChange]] ([[User talk:HouseOfChange|talk]]) 00:26, 6 May 2025 (UTC) https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/2600:1700:FF00:2770:1934:788B:F4F2:3515 https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/2600:1700:FF00:2770:3093:B811:1F8:7D7B == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Adebayo Olamilekanl|Adebayo Olamilekanl]] == * {{vandal|Adebayo Olamilekanl}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 13:50, 5 May 2025 (UTC) :The only spam (userpage) was already deleted. I left message on talk page explaining the problem and no further edits have been made. [[User:HouseOfChange|HouseOfChange]] ([[User talk:HouseOfChange|talk]]) 21:46, 6 May 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/CommonsBuilder|CommonsBuilder]] == * {{vandal|CommonsBuilder}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 11:41, 6 May 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} tho not by me. [[User:HouseOfChange|HouseOfChange]] ([[User talk:HouseOfChange|talk]]) 13:28, 7 May 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Paintingdrive|Paintingdrive]] == * {{vandal|Paintingdrive}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 06:56, 7 May 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} [[User:HouseOfChange|HouseOfChange]] ([[User talk:HouseOfChange|talk]]) 13:27, 7 May 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/OceanAteAlaska|OceanAteAlaska]] == * {{vandal|OceanAteAlaska}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 02:16, 9 May 2025 (UTC) :Globally Blocked [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 05:35, 9 May 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Bhushan1999|Bhushan1999]] == * {{vandal|Bhushan1999}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 10:49, 9 May 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 10:50, 9 May 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Cashappzone|Cashappzone]] == * {{vandal|Cashappzone}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 23:17, 9 May 2025 (UTC) :{{done}}, reported at [[:m:]] —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 23:19, 9 May 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Ramodstyree|Ramodstyree]] == * {{vandal|Ramodstyree}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 23:53, 9 May 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 00:04, 10 May 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/2401:4900:73F0:A3F3:89CB:E90A:6590:89D|2401:4900:73F0:A3F3:89CB:E90A:6590:89D]] == * {{vandal|2401:4900:73F0:A3F3:89CB:E90A:6590:89D}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:ᘙ|ᘙ]] ([[User talk:ᘙ|talk]]) 09:54, 10 May 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 16:35, 10 May 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/2600:387:1:803:0:0:0:5C|2600:387:1:803:0:0:0:5C]] == * {{vandal|2600:387:1:803:0:0:0:5C}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:Langusto|Langusto]] ([[User talk:Langusto|talk]]) 18:52, 10 May 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 21:23, 10 May 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/JohnJoan&Johnny|JohnJoan&Johnny]] == * {{vandal|JohnJoan&Johnny}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:Sakura emad|Sakura emad]] ([[User talk:Sakura emad|talk]]) 20:42, 10 May 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 21:23, 10 May 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Sydneyuk|Sydneyuk]] == * {{vandal|2400:ADC5:169:0:0:0:0:0/48}} also * {{vandal|Sydneyuk}} This looks like someone spamming Akhtar Aly Kureshy by several IPs and by the account Sydneyuk This account is blocked https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Sydneyuk Akhtar Aly Kureshy was deleted here multiple times: https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Akhtar_Aly_Kureshy&action=edit&redlink=1 Might need cleanup <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:ᘙ|ᘙ]] ([[User talk:ᘙ|talk]]) 22:01, 11 May 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Sellsinusa8|Sellsinusa8]] == * {{vandal|Sellsinusa8}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 22:04, 11 May 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 22:05, 11 May 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/66.216.210.4|66.216.210.4]] == * {{vandal|66.216.210.4}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 23:13, 11 May 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} by someone else. —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 00:16, 12 May 2025 (UTC) ::This is the fourth time I blocked this IP. Earlier blocks were for spam but this one is straight vandalism. [[User:HouseOfChange|HouseOfChange]] ([[User talk:HouseOfChange|talk]]) 16:47, 12 May 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Jhonsmith45|Jhonsmith45]] == * {{vandal|Jhonsmith45}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:15, 12 May 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} [[User:HouseOfChange|HouseOfChange]] ([[User talk:HouseOfChange|talk]]) 16:45, 12 May 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/75.146.215.29|75.146.215.29]] == * {{vandal|75.146.215.29}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 15:41, 12 May 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} [[User:HouseOfChange|HouseOfChange]] ([[User talk:HouseOfChange|talk]]) 16:44, 12 May 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Shelbertaim|Shelbertaim]] == * {{vandal|Shelbertaim}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 01:44, 13 May 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} - blocked and content deleted. ~ [[User:UDScott|UDScott]] ([[User talk:UDScott|talk]]) 12:00, 13 May 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/2001:8003:DC14:0:0:0:0:0/48]] == * White supremacist, antisemite, long-term problem; probable ban evasion ([[User:TVEBOR]]) - adding swastikas, racist propaganda, replacing pictures of Black people with white, removing quotes by Jews, etc. etc. A lot of his vandalism and POV-pushing is sneaky and obfuscated (often you need to scroll down in a diff.) This /48 probably best captures his current IPv6 range. Will make a noticeboard post if necessary. Tonight's IP is [https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/2001:8003:DC14:0:FDB3:2B29:9325:256]. Thank you - [[User:Antandrus|Antandrus]] ([[User talk:Antandrus|talk]]) 02:23, 13 May 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} - blocked. ~ [[User:UDScott|UDScott]] ([[User talk:UDScott|talk]]) 12:39, 13 May 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/James dayeeb|James dayeeb]] == * {{vandal|James dayeeb}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 06:19, 13 May 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} - deleted and blocked. ~ [[User:UDScott|UDScott]] ([[User talk:UDScott|talk]]) 12:35, 13 May 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Xover's Son|Xover's Son]] == * {{vandal|Xover's Son}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 09:03, 13 May 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} - blocked and deleted. ~ [[User:UDScott|UDScott]] ([[User talk:UDScott|talk]]) 12:38, 13 May 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Nicalismedicine|Nicalismedicine]] == * {{vandal|Nicalismedicine}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 09:28, 13 May 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} - blocked and deleted. ~ [[User:UDScott|UDScott]] ([[User talk:UDScott|talk]]) 12:38, 13 May 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Webpivots|Webpivots]] == * {{vandal|Webpivots}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:00, 14 May 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 12:12, 14 May 2025 (UTC) ::Reported at [[:m:]] —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 12:15, 14 May 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Wazih Perfume & Fragness|Wazih Perfume & Fragness]] == * {{vandal|Wazih Perfume & Fragness}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 11:37, 15 May 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} by someone else. —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 11:44, 16 May 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/46.188.164.176|46.188.164.176]] == * {{vandal|46.188.164.176}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:Sakura emad|Sakura emad]] ([[User talk:Sakura emad|talk]]) 17:35, 15 May 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 11:45, 16 May 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Aidentaylors|Aidentaylors]] == * {{vandal|Aidentaylors}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 13:15, 16 May 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 13:23, 16 May 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Maraadamb3|Maraadamb3]] == * {{vandal|Maraadamb3}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 13:30, 16 May 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 13:37, 16 May 2025 (UTC) ::Reported at [[:m:]]. —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 13:38, 16 May 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Loftyus|Loftyus]] == * {{vandal|Loftyus}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 02:24, 19 May 2025 (UTC) :{{Done}} globally. —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 03:52, 20 May 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Besturdu|Besturdu]] == * {{vandal|Besturdu}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 02:33, 19 May 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} by someone else. —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 03:53, 20 May 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/2603:8001:8701:8E03:761C:3F36:F21F:FAD0|2603:8001:8701:8E03:761C:3F36:F21F:FAD0]] == * {{vandal|2603:8001:8701:8E03:761C:3F36:F21F:FAD0}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 03:30, 19 May 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} by someone else. —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 03:53, 20 May 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/29912 Hello|29912 Hello]] == * {{vandal|29912 Hello}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 23:08, 19 May 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} globally. —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 03:53, 20 May 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Gsfdswghhgf29912|Gsfdswghhgf29912]] == * {{vandal|Gsfdswghhgf29912}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 23:13, 19 May 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 03:54, 20 May 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/175.107.216.70|175.107.216.70]] == * {{vandal|175.107.216.70}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 23:34, 19 May 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 03:54, 20 May 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/321SPONGEBOLT, Josiahblaze0|321SPONGEBOLT, Josiahblaze0]] == * {{vandal|321SPONGEBOLT, Josiahblaze0}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:04, 20 May 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} [[User:HouseOfChange|HouseOfChange]] ([[User talk:HouseOfChange|talk]]) 01:26, 21 May 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Albertt711|Albertt711]] == * {{vandal|Albertt711}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:07, 20 May 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} [[User:HouseOfChange|HouseOfChange]] ([[User talk:HouseOfChange|talk]]) 01:22, 21 May 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-05-20, 17:17 == * {{Vandal|Rgato1536}} Only creation of nonsense pages [[User:Samuele2002|Samuele2002]] ([[User talk:Samuele2002|talk]]) 17:18, 20 May 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} [[User:HouseOfChange|HouseOfChange]] ([[User talk:HouseOfChange|talk]]) 01:20, 21 May 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Tomburke612|Tomburke612]] == * {{vandal|Tomburke612}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 11:42, 22 May 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} by someone else —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 23:35, 24 May 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning block-evading white supremacist/antisemite == * Multiple IPs, one static, and others highly dynamic: :(The original, currently blocked, was https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/2001:8003:DC14:0:0:0:0:0/48) :{{Vandal|2001:8004:52E0:44E5:5C70:DA73:B43C:117E}} (current as of this report) :{{Vandal|203.54.155.190}} (static) :{{Vandal|2001:8004:6BA0:F08F:C9B6:1A4:F8D9:F9E7}} :{{Vandal|2001:8004:52E1:6E1F:78B5:F277:5954:3616}} Comment - This person is persistent and returns with a differnet IPv6 every time. His POV-pushing is often sneaky and obfuscated; he adds swastikas, anti-vax propaganda, outright racist garbage on pages where it doesn't belong, etc. Often you have to scroll down in a diff, and go to the source of an image, to see what he is doing. I will make a noticeboard post if necessary. This has been going on at least since 2019. [[User:Antandrus|Antandrus]] ([[User talk:Antandrus|talk]]) 01:06, 23 May 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 00:01, 25 May 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/96.35.74.197|96.35.74.197]] == * {{vandal|96.35.74.197}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:02, 24 May 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 00:01, 25 May 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/TamHamGhor|TamHamGhor]] == * {{vandal|TamHamGhor}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:02, 24 May 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 00:01, 25 May 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-05-24, 21:37 == * {{IPvandal|75.127.152.34}} * {{IPvandal|68.193.160.90}} These Fourlaxers sockpuppets consistently remove content from [[Shining Time Station]] without explanation. They were given warnings, but they refuse to comply. They must be blocked indefinitely, and it is recommended the page be protected indefinitely. It is the only way they are going to stop. [[Special:Contributions/100.8.243.246|100.8.243.246]] 22:33, 24 May 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} by protecting, no blocks. Anyone else can block if deemed fit. —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 00:03, 25 May 2025 (UTC) ::That will do, but if the sockpuppet(s) persist after the protection expires, or if a sockpuppet account should happen to make those same edits, they must be indefinitely blocked on sight. [[Special:Contributions/100.8.243.246|100.8.243.246]] 02:00, 25 May 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/2600:100F:A021:8696:2CFF:3709:AFAD:772B|2600:100F:A021:8696:2CFF:3709:AFAD:772B]] == * {{vandal|2600:100F:A021:8696:2CFF:3709:AFAD:772B}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 23:21, 24 May 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 00:04, 25 May 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/ChunzwBot|ChunzwBot]] == * {{vandal|ChunzwBot}} Vandalism. Also violates [[WQ:Username policy]] <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --<span style="color:#dbf;font:bold 100% 'Brush Script MT',cursive;padding:0 .75em 0 .5em">— [[User:NaomiAmethyst|<span style="color:#c8f">Naomi</span>]] [[User talk:NaomiAmethyst|<span style="color:#93f">Amethyst</span>]]</span> 06:36, 25 May 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} globally —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 10:00, 25 May 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/97.211.78.197|97.211.78.197]] == * {{vandal|97.211.78.197}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 02:27, 26 May 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} — short term block in place. <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 09:05, 26 May 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/2600:100F:A021:8696:7C9A:2A2E:D571:68CC|2600:100F:A021:8696:7C9A:2A2E:D571:68CC]] == * {{vandal|2600:100F:A021:8696:7C9A:2A2E:D571:68CC}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:JJPMaster|JJP...MASTER!]]_{[[User:JJPMaster|[talk to] JJP... master?]]} 03:56, 26 May 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} — short term block in place. <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 09:05, 26 May 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/ChanzwBot|ChanzwBot]] == * {{vandal|ChanzwBot}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 05:30, 26 May 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} — blocked. <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 09:05, 26 May 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Spyranretail70|Spyranretail70]] == * {{vandal|Spyranretail70}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 07:32, 26 May 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} — blocked. <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 09:05, 26 May 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/124.217.188.201|124.217.188.201]] == * {{vandal|124.217.188.201}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:JJPMaster|JJP...MASTER!]]_{[[User:JJPMaster|[talk to] JJP... master?]]} 13:05, 28 May 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} blocked 1 week [[User:HouseOfChange|HouseOfChange]] ([[User talk:HouseOfChange|talk]]) 08:04, 31 May 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/97.210.87.237|97.210.87.237]] == * {{vandal|97.210.87.237}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 03:32, 29 May 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} tho not by me. [[User:HouseOfChange|HouseOfChange]] ([[User talk:HouseOfChange|talk]]) 08:05, 31 May 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Theindiamovesjpr|Theindiamovesjpr]] == * {{vandal|Theindiamovesjpr}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 09:50, 29 May 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} globally locked tho not by me. [[User:HouseOfChange|HouseOfChange]] ([[User talk:HouseOfChange|talk]]) 08:06, 31 May 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Gashi Gani1944|Gashi Gani1944]] == * {{vandal|Gashi Gani1944}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:18, 30 May 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} [[User:HouseOfChange|HouseOfChange]] ([[User talk:HouseOfChange|talk]]) 08:10, 31 May 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Donald Trump is the worst president|Donald Trump is the worst president]] == * {{vandal|Donald Trump is the worst president}} LTA Zjholder <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:Leonidlednev|Leonidlednev]] ([[User talk:Leonidlednev|talk]]) 22:16, 30 May 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} globally locked tho not by me. [[User:HouseOfChange|HouseOfChange]] ([[User talk:HouseOfChange|talk]]) 08:11, 31 May 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Fùč̣k Donald Trump 2024|Fùč̣k Donald Trump 2024]] == * {{vandal|Fùč̣k Donald Trump 2024}} LTA Zjholder <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:Leonidlednev|Leonidlednev]] ([[User talk:Leonidlednev|talk]]) 22:24, 30 May 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} blocked tho not by me. [[User:HouseOfChange|HouseOfChange]] ([[User talk:HouseOfChange|talk]]) 08:12, 31 May 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/2605:59C0:21D7:2410:20FA:A529:93A5:25|2605:59C0:21D7:2410:20FA:A529:93A5:25]] == * {{vandal|2605:59C0:21D7:2410:20FA:A529:93A5:25}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --<span style="color:#dbf;font:bold 100% 'Brush Script MT',cursive;padding:0 .75em 0 .5em">— [[User:NaomiAmethyst|<span style="color:#c8f">Naomi</span>]] [[User talk:NaomiAmethyst|<span style="color:#93f">Amethyst</span>]]</span> 04:17, 1 June 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} [[User:HouseOfChange|HouseOfChange]] ([[User talk:HouseOfChange|talk]]) 17:06, 1 June 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/64.31.104.150|64.31.104.150]] == * {{vandal|64.31.104.150}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:ᘙ|ᘙ]] ([[User talk:ᘙ|talk]]) 20:05, 1 June 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 02:43, 2 June 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Astrologersneha|Astrologersneha]] == * {{vandal|Astrologersneha}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:48, 2 June 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 13:50, 2 June 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/MIarch11|MIarch11]] == * {{Vandal|MIarch11}} Clearly only here to vandalize and not to build. [[User:03isrflo62410|03isrflo62410]] ([[User talk:03isrflo62410|talk]]) 21:31, 2 June 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} globally —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 06:02, 3 June 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/SiddhnathPune|SiddhnathPune]] == * {{vandal|SiddhnathPune}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 11:28, 3 June 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} ~ [[User:UDScott|UDScott]] ([[User talk:UDScott|talk]]) 12:06, 3 June 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Luccy Wilson|Luccy Wilson]] == * {{vandal|Luccy Wilson}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 11:36, 3 June 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} ~ [[User:UDScott|UDScott]] ([[User talk:UDScott|talk]]) 12:07, 3 June 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/71.195.107.170|71.195.107.170]] == * {{vandal|71.195.107.170}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 22:35, 4 June 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} by someone else —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 04:26, 10 June 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/2603:3006:1801:C800:C0D5:B48D:3B9B:C33F|2603:3006:1801:C800:C0D5:B48D:3B9B:C33F]] == * {{vandal|2603:3006:1801:C800:C0D5:B48D:3B9B:C33F}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 23:00, 4 June 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 04:26, 10 June 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Kojo seven|Kojo seven]] == * {{vandal|Kojo seven}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 01:48, 10 June 2025 (UTC) :{{done}}, I hope a warning is enough. —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 04:27, 10 June 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Samdiago1234|Samdiago1234]] == * {{vandal|Samdiago1234}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 11:30, 10 June 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} by someone else. —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 16:04, 10 June 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/ItzTheKnight16|ItzTheKnight16]] == * {{vandal|ItzTheKnight16}} [[:w:WP:NOTWEBHOST]], removed CSD tag by IP. <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 23:02, 10 June 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 23:07, 10 June 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/2804:D51:447F:6600:496B:3ED2:F1C2:549A|2804:D51:447F:6600:496B:3ED2:F1C2:549A]] == * {{vandal|2804:D51:447F:6600:496B:3ED2:F1C2:549A}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:Leonidlednev|Leonidlednev]] ([[User talk:Leonidlednev|talk]]) 16:15, 11 June 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} - blocked. ~ [[User:UDScott|UDScott]] ([[User talk:UDScott|talk]]) 16:34, 11 June 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/गुंडा|गुंडा]] == * {{vandal|गुंडा}} Recreated [[Abdelnaser Abdelfatah]], please see [[Wikiquote:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Archive/040#Return_of_Abdel_Nasser_Abdel_Fattah_Mohamed_(ANAFM)]]. <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 23:08, 11 June 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/66.216.210.4|66.216.210.4]] == * {{vandal|66.216.210.4}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 23:28, 11 June 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} - blocked and pages deleted. ~ [[User:UDScott|UDScott]] ([[User talk:UDScott|talk]]) 11:54, 12 June 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/GMK7|GMK7]] == * {{vandal|GMK7}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:03, 14 June 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/96.35.74.197|96.35.74.197]] == * {{vandal|96.35.74.197}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 23:41, 14 June 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/50.226.140.190|50.226.140.190]] == * {{vandal|50.226.140.190}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:20, 15 June 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/182.178.120.110|182.178.120.110]] == * {{vandal|182.178.120.110}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:22, 15 June 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-06-15, 20:41 == * {{IPvandal|50.226.140.190}} Creating many bad pages. [[User:Zaxxon0|Zaxxon0]] ([[User talk:Zaxxon0|talk]]) 20:41, 15 June 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/208.40.86.22|208.40.86.22]] == * {{vandal|208.40.86.22}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 22:52, 16 June 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/GrowwMax InfoTech Pvt. Ltd India|GrowwMax InfoTech Pvt. Ltd India]] == * {{vandal|GrowwMax InfoTech Pvt. Ltd India}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 09:14, 16 June 2025 (UTC) : already blocked. -[[user:Lemonaka|‎<span style="color:blue; text-shadow:jet 0 0.2em 0.2em; font-family:Segoe Print; font-size: 13px">'''Lemonaka'''‎</span>]] 12:20, 17 June 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Aarti5678|Aarti5678]] == * {{vandal|Aarti5678}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:14, 17 June 2025 (UTC) : Blocked. -[[user:Lemonaka|‎<span style="color:blue; text-shadow:jet 0 0.2em 0.2em; font-family:Segoe Print; font-size: 13px">'''Lemonaka'''‎</span>]] 12:20, 17 June 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Anchaldigital|Anchaldigital]] == * {{vandal|Anchaldigital}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:09, 18 June 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} by someone else, reported to [[:m:]]. —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 14:13, 18 June 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Opinnate|Opinnate]] == * {{vandal|Opinnate}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:29, 18 June 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} by someone else. —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 14:13, 18 June 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-06-19, 06:27 == * {{Vandal|Cuumora}} Vandalism-only account. [[User:Ferien|Ferien]] <small>([[User talk:Ferien|talk]])</small> 06:28, 19 June 2025 (UTC) :{{Done}} by someone else. —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 06:35, 19 June 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/2409:4089:AB3D:32AC:0:0:5F4A:F313|2409:4089:AB3D:32AC:0:0:5F4A:F313]] == * {{vandal|2409:4089:AB3D:32AC:0:0:5F4A:F313}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 06:56, 19 June 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 08:28, 19 June 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/173.207.58.96|173.207.58.96]] == * {{vandal|173.207.58.96}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 06:56, 19 June 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 08:28, 19 June 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Dandeleon14|Dandeleon14]] == * {{vandal|Dandeleon14}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 08:25, 19 June 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 08:29, 19 June 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Nanhost049|Nanhost049]] == * {{vandal|Nanhost049}} Spam <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 05:17, 22 June 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 05:48, 22 June 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/35.39.105.217|35.39.105.217]] == * {{vandal|35.39.105.217}} Vandalism <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 05:19, 22 June 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 05:48, 22 June 2025 (UTC) == Report concerning [[Special:Contributions/Super Mario Bros kart on Wekequote|Super Mario Bros kart on Wekequote]] == * {{vandal|Super Mario Bros kart on Wekequote}} Vandalism. [[Special:Contributions/35.39.105.217]] <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small> --[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 05:19, 22 June 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 05:48, 22 June 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-06-24, 22:24 == * {{IPvandal|173.207.58.96}} Vandalism. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 23:16, 24 June 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 23:31, 24 June 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-06-26, 02:06 == * {{IPvandal|103.95.39.28}} Vandalism. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 02:56, 26 June 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} ~ <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 04:04, 26 June 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-06-26, 11:11 == * {{Vandal|SEObacklink963622}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 11:59, 26 June 2025 (UTC) :{{Done}} globally —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 05:20, 30 June 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-06-28, 23:22 == * {{Vandal|Jewelrugs1}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 23:23, 28 June 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} by someone else. —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 05:22, 30 June 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-06-28, 23:23 == * {{IPvandal|2603:8001:8701:8E03:F583:37AF:5885:8129}} Vandalism. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 23:24, 28 June 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} by someone else. —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 05:24, 30 June 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-06-30, 04:28 == * {{Vandal|GMK7}} Vandalism. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 04:29, 30 June 2025 (UTC) :{{done}}, reporting at [[:m:]] —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 05:26, 30 June 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-06-30, 05:38 == * {{Vandal|Cineyadsd}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 05:41, 30 June 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} reported at [[:m:]] —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 05:44, 30 June 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-06-30, 09:32 == * {{Vandal|Axcessrent}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 09:41, 30 June 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} — blocked locally by {{user|UDScott}}, and blocked globally also. ~ <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:14, 30 June 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-06-30, 22:39 == * {{Vandal|CloudRafanan}} Vandalism. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 22:51, 30 June 2025 (UTC) : Posted warning to talk page. ~ <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:14, 30 June 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-06-30, 22:52 == * {{IPvandal|2600:387:C:7210:0:0:0:2}} Vandalism. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 22:54, 30 June 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} — blocked IP for 2 weeks. ~ <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:14, 30 June 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-07-1, 22:27 == * {{Vandal|Akande1234}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 22:51, 1 July 2025 (UTC) : Globally blocked by vermont. -[[user:Lemonaka|‎<span style="color:blue; text-shadow:jet 0 0.2em 0.2em; font-family:Segoe Print; font-size: 13px">'''Lemonaka'''‎</span>]] 03:59, 3 July 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-07-2, 12:06 == * {{Vandal|Jannelk247}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:21, 2 July 2025 (UTC) : {{done}} indef blocked -[[user:Lemonaka|‎<span style="color:blue; text-shadow:jet 0 0.2em 0.2em; font-family:Segoe Print; font-size: 13px">'''Lemonaka'''‎</span>]] 04:00, 3 July 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-07-3, 00:06 == * {{IPvandal|2600:1700:5AED:1000:92E:CD90:2DF5:D4C1}} It's the same vandal who once again vandalized [[The Father (2020 film)]], [[News of the World]], and [[Loonatics Unleashed]]. I don't want to risk edit warring. - [[User:FilmandTVFan28|FilmandTVFan28]] ([[User talk:FilmandTVFan28|talk]]) 00:38, 3 July 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 20:42, 7 July 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-07-5, 04:17 == * {{Vandal|Traveliciousbites}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 04:18, 5 July 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 20:46, 7 July 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-07-5, 06:54 == * {{Vandal|Marian122298}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 07:25, 5 July 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} globally —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 20:47, 7 July 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-07-7, 12:08 == * {{Vandal|AAS Direct HQ}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:09, 7 July 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} reporting to [[:m:]] —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 20:47, 7 July 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-07-8, 11:31 == * {{Vandal|Provent-compliance}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 11:54, 8 July 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 12:11, 8 July 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-07-9, 12:27 == * {{Vandal|Walidfalcon}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:27, 9 July 2025 (UTC) : Blocked. -[[user:Lemonaka|‎<span style="color:blue; text-shadow:jet 0 0.2em 0.2em; font-family:Segoe Print; font-size: 13px">'''Lemonaka'''‎</span>]] 13:26, 9 July 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-07-12, 11:07 == * {{Vandal|Solamalaicollege}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 11:58, 12 July 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} — blocked and deleted. ~ <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 13:44, 12 July 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-07-13, 21:01 == * {{IPvandal|71.195.107.170}} Vandalism [[User:Ferien|Ferien]] <small>([[User talk:Ferien|talk]])</small> 21:01, 13 July 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} — IP blocked. ~ <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 22:24, 13 July 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-07-13, 21:10 == * {{Vandal|OdysseusBoy}} Vandalism. [[User:Pólux|Pólux]] ([[User talk:Pólux|talk]]) 21:11, 13 July 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} — blocked. ~ <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 22:24, 13 July 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-07-14, 07:12 == * {{Vandal|Digitalnik}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 07:13, 14 July 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} by someone else —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 09:38, 14 July 2025 (UTC) ::Reported: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steward_requests%2FGlobal&diff=28981228&oldid=28981056 —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 09:39, 14 July 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-07-20, 03:20 == * {{Vandal|Medicusofhouston}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 03:31, 20 July 2025 (UTC) : {{done}} blocked. -[[user:Lemonaka|‎<span style="color:blue; text-shadow:jet 0 0.2em 0.2em; font-family:Segoe Print; font-size: 13px">'''Lemonaka'''‎</span>]] 02:16, 21 July 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-07-26, 14:05 == * {{Vandal|NorthernWinds}} A short explanation for why this username should be blocked: new account that seems to be focused exclusively on Israel and Palestine (a lot of activisty on [[Zionism]] and the [[Palestine]] page). Is deleting many quotes other editors added, contacting some editors but not waiting for responses. It's been disruptive, not sure if it qualifies as vandalism or political activism or just someone who hasn't learned the process yet. [[User:A23423413|A23423413]] ([[User talk:A23423413|talk]]) 15:10, 26 July 2025 (UTC)A23423413, July 26, 2025 :Hello @[[User:A23423413|A23423413]], :I am sorry if that is how I came across, I did not mean any wrong. You said I "did not wait for a response". You are likely referring to when I pinged you [https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Zionism#c-NorthernWinds-20250726121900-Notability here]. <s>I, in fact, did wait for a response, and did not remove your quote.</s> I have removed quotes which I cannot find secondary sources for, in compliance with [[WQ:FAME]]. If there are any issues with my editing, I believe it is best to contact me and [[WQ:AGF]] before reporting, <s>and misleading others ("not waiting for responses").</s> I do not have an agenda, and if there is a "process" I have yet to learn about, please raise it in my talk page and I'll be more than happy to learn and contribute more in line with guidelines going forward. :Note: upon second review of the page's history, it appears I did remove your quote, and you are the one who reinstated. I do not remember doing so, and would like to apologize. Could you please respond where I contacted you about the secondary source required for [[WQ:FAME]]? :Best, [[User:NorthernWinds|NorthernWinds]] ([[User talk:NorthernWinds|talk]]) 15:18, 26 July 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-08-1, 07:26 == * {{Vandal|Handmadefever}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 07:26, 1 August 2025 (UTC) :{{done}}, blocked. ~ [[User:UDScott|UDScott]] ([[User talk:UDScott|talk]]) 12:42, 1 August 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-07-27, 13:26 == * {{IPvandal|177.98.100.114}} Vandalism. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 13:26, 27 July 2025 (UTC) :{{Ping|MathXplore}} E.g. ? I don't see any obvious vandalism. Are the quotations fake? (I've never seen this TV show). —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 18:09, 3 August 2025 (UTC) :: [[Special:Log/177.98.100.114]] [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 01:29, 4 August 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-07-27, 13:28 == * {{Vandal|Mbretpix}} * {{Vandal|RahulGandhi01}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 13:28, 27 July 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} by someone else —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 18:10, 3 August 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-07-28, 22:19 == * {{Vandal|DJ Makosam Official 1}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 22:58, 28 July 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} by someone else. —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 18:10, 3 August 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-08-3, 13:24 == * {{Vandal|Cryptoemarketing}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 13:24, 3 August 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 17:03, 3 August 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-08-4, 01:17 == * {{Vandal|Jexebarb}} * {{Vandal|Jesequote}} Cross-wiki link spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 01:28, 4 August 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 04:36, 4 August 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-08-4, 01:30 == * {{Vandal|Ellie0804}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 01:31, 4 August 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 04:36, 4 August 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-08-4, 11:58 == * {{IPvandal|72.202.155.82}} Vandalism. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 11:59, 4 August 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} by someone else. —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 18:46, 4 August 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-08-6, 12:01 == * {{Vandal|Bcuja}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:02, 6 August 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-08-7, 01:36 == * {{IPvandal|2601:243:D01:1F20:9049:4A73:338F:EE73}} Cross-wiki spam, [[:w:WP:FORUMSHOP]], [[Special:CentralAuth/PawPatroler]]. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 02:13, 7 August 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-08-7, 07:36 == * {{Vandal|Provent-compliance1}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 07:36, 7 August 2025 (UTC) :{{done}}, deleted and blocked. ~ [[User:UDScott|UDScott]] ([[User talk:UDScott|talk]]) 12:12, 7 August 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-08-8, 12:21 == * {{Vandal|Proventcompliance301}} * {{Vandal|Abarch Architects}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:45, 8 August 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} by someone else, latter globally. —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 22:38, 12 August 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-08-9, 23:18 == * {{Vandal|Joseph05678890}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 23:20, 9 August 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} deleted by someone else, welcomed/warned. —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 22:39, 12 August 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-08-10, 12:46 == * {{Vandal|BinanceDatabase}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:48, 10 August 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 22:40, 12 August 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-08-10, 12:48 == * {{Vandal|Fluvos Captus}} * [[Abdelnaser Abdelfatah]] Spam ([[Special:CentralAuth/Абидров_Рафаэль_Беймович]], [[Special:CentralAuth/गुंडा]], [[Wikiquote:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Archive/040#Return_of_Abdel_Nasser_Abdel_Fattah_Mohamed_(ANAFM)]], [[:m:User:علاء/case2#Mohamed_AlAgha]]). [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:54, 10 August 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} globally, undoing now. —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 22:40, 12 August 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-08-12, 02:11 == * {{IPvandal|187.89.104.62}} Vandalism. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 02:47, 12 August 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} Empty pages deleted, user welcome/warned. I didn't see anything that was actually "vandalism", so if I missed it, please give a diff. —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 22:44, 12 August 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-08-12, 12:54 == * {{IPvandal|31.134.188.230}} Vandalism. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 13:09, 12 August 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-08-14, 03:21 == * {{Vandal|Thegoofhere}} Some one keeps removing pro Israel quotes only replacing them with quotes from Ali khamenei lol https://en.m.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Iran%E2%80%93Israel_war&diff=prev&oldid=3793121 A short explanation for why this username should be blocked. [[User:Baratiiman|Baratiiman]] ([[User talk:Baratiiman|talk]]) 03:23, 14 August 2025 (UTC) :I'm not? What are you even talking about, dude [[User:Thegoofhere|Thegoofhere]] ([[User talk:Thegoofhere|talk]]) 03:26, 14 August 2025 (UTC) ::I was merely removing quotes that weren't properly sourced to [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Reliable sources|RS]], please see [[WQ:QUOTE]] [[User:Thegoofhere|Thegoofhere]] ([[User talk:Thegoofhere|talk]]) 04:10, 14 August 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-08-14, 11:40 == * {{Vandal|Justinmartin012}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:36, 14 August 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 10:07, 15 August 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-08-15, 17:55 == Moved to Administrators' noticeboard [https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Administrators%27_noticeboard#New_report_2025-08-15,_17:55] -[[User:IOHANNVSVERVS|IOHANNVSVERVS]] ([[User talk:IOHANNVSVERVS|talk]]) 05:00, 16 August 2025 (UTC) * {{Vandal|NorthernWinds}} posting here about the continued targeted subtractive vandalism by this new user on pages relating to palestine and israel. tagging {{Ping|koavf}} as promised, and also {{Ping|UDScott}}, {{Ping|Kalki}}, and {{Ping|Peter1c}} because they've been involved in talk page discussions with northernwinds. northernwinds, can you tag any editors that you think have shown support for the large cuts you've been trying to make under the notability guideline, so they can particapate in this conversation too? a timeline of my involvement in what's been happening is something like this: on july 26 i noticed unusual, subtractive editing on the [[Zionism]] page from a newly created account and reverted it with a note why. northernwinds continued to cut quotes from that page anyway and started to on the [[Palestine]] page as well, so i reported it on the Vandalism in Progress page: "new account that seems to be focused exclusively on Israel and Palestine (a lot of activisty on Zionism and the Palestine page). Is deleting many quotes other editors added, contacting some editors but not waiting for responses. It's been disruptive, not sure if it qualifies as vandalism or political activism or just someone who hasn't learned the process yet." northernwinds posted a defensive paragraph 8 minutes later but no admin responded and that report is now [https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Vandalism_in_progress/Archive/16 archived]. northernwinds continued trying to make large cuts of quotes other editors had added and some of the removals were reverted by admins. on august 5 i reverted their attempted mass quote removal on the [[Palestine]] page and asked them using the edit summary: " which people on the page do you think should not be considered notable? and for the ones that you agree are notable but you think the quote isn't, what is a different quote by them you suggest?" northernwinds posted an evasive response on the palestine talk page, which i responded to there and also said i was going to wait for some kind of feedback from an admin before deciding whether to communicate directly with them again. we both contacted {{Ping|Kalki}} on august 5 and northernwinds has a bolded explanation there that the notability guideline is not a mandate, and august 7 from {{Ping|Peter1c}} on the palestine talk page as well. on august 12 and 13 i reverted northernwinds attempted mass removal of quotes from the [[Zionism]] and [[Israel]] pages and added the suggestion in the edit summary "if you think we should make subtractive changes as a new editor, list on the talk page the names of the individuals that you think should not be considered notable, and over time we can see if other editors agree or not." and i asked on koavf's talk page: "if you looked at the user's large subtractive edits and their comments on talk pages and didn't/don't interpret it as vandalism, could you write about how what they've been doing is different than cases that you do judge to be vandalism? and if you do spend some time reviewing this situation, do you have any feedback or advice for what i could try to do differently next time i notice a new editor trying to make large cuts to pages like this?" i have also reverted northernwinds july 31 attempt to remove half of the content other editors had added to the [[Israeli–Palestinian conflict]] page i've been choosing to revert to the version of these pages right before northernwinds started trying to make cuts by misusing the notability guideline because those were most obviously political activism. but northernwinds also made a series of significant cuts to pages on july 3 with the endurance guideline as the explanation, including a third of the quotes that were on the [[Israel]] page. if anyone has already checked if some of those were made in bad faith too or not, can you let us know so we're all on the same page? [[User:A23423413|A23423413]] ([[User talk:A23423413|talk]]) 19:13, 15 August 2025 (UTC) :This is more suitable for the administrator's noticeboard than here. You may want to move it [[User:NorthernWinds|NorthernWinds]] ([[User talk:NorthernWinds|talk]]) 19:40, 15 August 2025 (UTC) :Hello @[[User:A23423413|A23423413]] and @[[User:NorthernWinds|NorthernWinds]]. I am willing to help resolve this disagreement. :1. I see NorthernWinds is making additions as well as deletions. To me this implies it is problematic to describe NorthenWinds as a vandal. I don't underestimate the value of expressing feelings along with editorial concerns, but precision of language can help avoid unnecessary escalation. See [[WQ:AGF]]. :2. If any disagreement about deletion of a quotation is documented or anticipated, Wikiquote best practice is to move the deleted quotations to the talk page, maintaining them alphabetically, and include detailed explanations for deletions and other editorial actions. :Thank you for your contributions to Wikiquote! ~ [[User:Peter1c|Peter1c]] ([[User talk:Peter1c|talk]]) 20:54, 15 August 2025 (UTC) :I agree that this is better suited to the AN. Please move this there. —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 21:05, 15 August 2025 (UTC) Moved to Administrators' noticeboard [https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Administrators%27_noticeboard#New_report_2025-08-15,_17:55] -[[User:IOHANNVSVERVS|IOHANNVSVERVS]] ([[User talk:IOHANNVSVERVS|talk]]) 05:00, 16 August 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-08-15, 22:44 == * {{Vandal|Lesenokx}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 23:27, 15 August 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 23:32, 15 August 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-08-20, 12:24 == * {{Vandal|Virinchipvs}} Cross-wiki link spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:59, 20 August 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} ~ [[User:UDScott|UDScott]] ([[User talk:UDScott|talk]]) 13:33, 20 August 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-08-24, 04:00 == * {{IPvandal|2804:D51:4427:6100:648E:2EEF:CA13:CC96}} Recurring vandalism on [[The Powerpuff Girls]] and [[The Powerpuff Girls Movie]], see those pages' histories. You might want to consider blocking the whole /32 range. [[User:Codename Noreste|Codename Noreste]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]]) 04:01, 24 August 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-08-25, 23:37 == * {{IPvandal|2001:8003:B437:DE00:CC40:CB84:7BC5:EA52}} Vandalism. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 23:39, 25 August 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} ~ <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 00:33, 26 August 2025 (UTC) — blocked this IP for a month — but right now, I don’t have enough info or time to attempt a wider range block. == New report 2025-08-26, 12:31 == * {{Vandal|Bunnyleisureadultcenter}} Cross-wiki spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:42, 26 August 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} ~ <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 01:14, 27 August 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-08-26, 22:48 == * {{Vandal|Thewesternoutfit0}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 23:15, 26 August 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} ~ <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 01:11, 27 August 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-08-27, 22:57 == * {{Vandal|Defrenzel9}} He appears to be the same IP user who vandalized [[Beast Wars: Transformers]] and [[Beast Machines: Transformers]]. - [[User:FilmandTVFan28|FilmandTVFan28]] ([[User talk:FilmandTVFan28|talk]]) 23:22, 27 August 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} ~ <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:26, 27 August 2025 (UTC) — blocked. ::Why are you not accepting me all the time including for News Of The World and for The Father? [[Special:Contributions/2600:1700:5AED:1000:C18A:F463:188A:63A0|2600:1700:5AED:1000:C18A:F463:188A:63A0]] 01:45, 28 August 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-08-28, 07:10 == * {{Vandal|Bajajhomeandliving}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 07:42, 28 August 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} ~ [[User:UDScott|UDScott]] ([[User talk:UDScott|talk]]) 12:32, 28 August 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-09-2, 08:29 == * {{IPvandal|150.228.135.214}} Spam.[[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 08:30, 2 September 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} by rollback. I hope that's enough for now. —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 12:06, 2 September 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-09-2, 22:36 == * {{Vandal|Cricwindow}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 22:53, 2 September 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} ~ <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:05, 2 September 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-09-3, 22:05 == * {{Vandal|OLAYINKA WALIYAT}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 23:00, 3 September 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 00:01, 4 September 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-09-4, 11:56 == * {{Vandal|Travis34567}} * {{Vandal|Ademayowa12}} Cross-wiki spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:31, 4 September 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} by someone else and me. —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 16:36, 4 September 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-09-4, 12:40 == * {{Vandal|We are going to get a Democratic President soon}} Vandalism. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:46, 4 September 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} by someone else. —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 16:36, 4 September 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-09-5, 11:55 == * {{Vandal|Jhonnycarmen}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:06, 5 September 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} by someone else, reported at [[:m:]]. —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 12:21, 5 September 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-09-7, 02:38 == * {{Vandal|X UZBOT}} [[Wikiquote:Username_policy#Inappropriate_usernames]]. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 03:29, 7 September 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 03:44, 7 September 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-09-7, 07:27 == * {{Vandal|Yellowstone Apparel}} * {{Vandal|~2025-52117-2}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 07:33, 7 September 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} (IP not blocked as stale). —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 19:35, 9 September 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-09-7, 11:11 == * {{Vandal|Md Rafiul Islam Rafi (mrafiseo)}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 11:49, 7 September 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} by someone else. —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 19:35, 9 September 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-09-7, 22:13 == * {{Vandal|Armoredcarcomedies}} * {{Vandal|Luka Madhieu Kuot Mou}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 22:38, 7 September 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 19:36, 9 September 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-09-8, 12:52 == * {{Vandal|Arowolo1123}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:54, 8 September 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} by someone else, reported to stewards. —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 19:39, 9 September 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-09-8, 12:54 == * {{Vandal|~2025-55658-1}} Vandalism. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:55, 8 September 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} by someone else. —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 19:40, 9 September 2025 (UTC) == Block evasion, POV-pushing white supremacist == * {{Vandal|~2025-51577-8}} Block evasion; see [[Wikiquote:Administrators'_noticeboard/Archive/041#2001:8003:DC14::/48:_long-term_abuse_by_antisemitic_racist_extreme_right-wing_vandal_for_six_years|this recent noticeboard thread]] for context. [[User:Antandrus|Antandrus]] ([[User talk:Antandrus|talk]]) 15:08, 10 September 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 04:47, 15 September 2025 (UTC) ::{{replyto|Koavf}} Thanks, but it'd be better to block that temporary account for three months, which is how long they last ... that would literally only affect that user and would probably give both [[User:Antandrus|Antandrus]] and I more piece of mind. (As you can see, the temporary account encompasses the same user on multiple IP addresses). Poking at the underlying /64's of the IPV6 addresses (the ones with colons rather than dots) would also be completely safe). If I were you, I would also block [[Special:Contributions/~2025-57996-1|~2025-57996-1]] for three months as well (see below), just to cover all bases (as you can see the /64 used by that one is also used by ~2025-51577-8). [[User:Graham87|Graham87]] ([[User talk:Graham87|talk]]) 05:45, 15 September 2025 (UTC) :::{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 15:05, 15 September 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-09-11, 12:13 == * {{Vandal|VinnyDove}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:13, 11 September 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} by someone else. —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 04:45, 15 September 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-09-11, 12:23 == * {{Vandal|~2025-56504-6}} Vandalism. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 13:22, 11 September 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 04:46, 15 September 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-09-11, 20:18 == * {{Vandal|Patrick sigma}} Likely a vandalism only account judging by the single edit. [[User:IanDBeacon|IanDBeacon]] ([[User talk:IanDBeacon|talk]]) 20:19, 11 September 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} by someone else. —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 04:48, 15 September 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-09-12, 13:28 == * {{Vandal|InvoiceTempleApp}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 14:16, 12 September 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} globally. —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 04:49, 15 September 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-09-13, 03:54 == * {{Vandal|Natieyamylostrealacc}} Vandalism. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 04:51, 13 September 2025 (UTC) :What do you mean by Vandalism? Why am I being pinged? [[User:Natieyamylostrealacc|Natieyamylostrealacc]] ([[User talk:Natieyamylostrealacc|talk]]) 14:26, 13 September 2025 (UTC) :: I have seen [[:w:WP:YELL]] in [[special:permalink/3806533]] so I thought this is the case. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 23:16, 13 September 2025 (UTC) :::I'm sorry, sir. I just put AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA in my page. I didn't know that I was breaking the rules. [[User:Natieyamylostrealacc|Natieyamylostrealacc]] ([[User talk:Natieyamylostrealacc|talk]]) 18:06, 14 September 2025 (UTC) ::::{{done}} Rare false positive, but understandable. —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 04:39, 15 September 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-09-13, 05:23 == * {{Vandal|OmranTokhi7}} Cross-wiki spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 06:04, 13 September 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} globally —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 04:51, 15 September 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-09-13, 23:16 == * {{Vandal|Leonard Ali}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 23:17, 13 September 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 04:55, 15 September 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-09-16, 11:10 == * {{Vandal|~2025-62212-4}} Vandalism. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 11:38, 16 September 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-09-16, 23:35 == * {{Vandal|MakingTheWorldBetter1977}} * {{Vandal|SheSaidCampaign}} VFD vote stacking at [[Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/Shadan Kapri]] & [[Talk:Shadan Kapri]]. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 23:37, 16 September 2025 (UTC) : [[:m:Steward_requests/Checkuser/2025-09#MakingTheWorldBetter1977@en.wikiquote]]. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 23:37, 16 September 2025 (UTC) :Is this your attempt to hide your sexism and misogyny?? Failed attempt. [[User:SheSaidCampaign|SheSaidCampaign]] ([[User talk:SheSaidCampaign|talk]]) 00:05, 17 September 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-09-17, 23:36 == * {{Vandal|~2025-52999-8}} Vandalism. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 23:36, 17 September 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-09-18, 00:00 == * {{Vandal|Noeruchan is worst, Thcsphuninh2006 is good}} Vandalism only, troll username, some sort of LTA I think [[User:&#126;delta|&#126;delta]] ([[User talk:&#126;delta|talk]]) 00:02, 18 September 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-09-18, 07:19 == * {{Vandal|Noeruchan are worst, Thcsphuninh2006 are best}} Vandalism, LTA. [[User:Như Gây Mê|Như Gây Mê]] ([[User talk:Như Gây Mê|talk]]) 07:21, 18 September 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-09-18, 12:03 == * {{Vandal|~2025-63753-0}} Vandalism. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 13:02, 18 September 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-09-19, 03:54 == * {{Vandal|~2025-63481-6}} Vandalism. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 04:26, 19 September 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-09-19, 22:16 == * {{Vandal|Ayane Fumihiro is worst, ChanComThemPho is good}} The individual's contributions make the obvious reason why. [[User:Apisite|Apisite]] ([[User talk:Apisite|talk]]) 22:17, 19 September 2025 (UTC) : Locked globally. <span style="display:inline-block;text-align:center;vertical-align:bottom;line-height:0.5em;">~~<nowiki/>~~<br/><span style="font-size:0.7em;">[[User:1234qwer1234qwer4]] ([[User talk:1234qwer1234qwer4|talk]])</span></span> 22:46, 19 September 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-09-20, 10:55 == * {{Vandal|MehedisStoryland}} [[:w:WP:NOTWEBHOST]]. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 11:43, 20 September 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-09-20, 14:38 == * {{Vandal|Happypengirl}} looks like it could be vandalism. [[User:ᘙ|ᘙ]] ([[User talk:ᘙ|talk]]) 14:41, 20 September 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-09-12, 17:53 == * {{IPvandal|~2025-57996-1}} https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Wikiquote:Vandalism_in_progress&oldid=3806302#Block_evasion,_POV-pushing_white_supremacist {{ping|Antandrus}} {{ping|Graham87}} [[User:ᘙ|ᘙ]] ([[User talk:ᘙ|talk]]) 18:10, 12 September 2025 (UTC) :Thanks. If an admin sees this, can someone give me at least Temporary account IP viewer rights, so I can still see the IP addresses of the user involved? [[User:Antandrus|Antandrus]], you should probably get yourself these rights, but you have to request them specifically, per the Wikimedia Foundation [[wmf:Policy:Wikimedia Access to Temporary Account IP Addresses Policy|Wikimedia Access to Temporary Account IP Addresses Policy]]. This goes for everyone here. [[User:Graham87|Graham87]] ([[User talk:Graham87|talk]]) 18:55, 12 September 2025 (UTC) ::{{done}} I gave you six months, let me know if you need more, Graham. Thanks for all you do and have done. —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 04:50, 15 September 2025 (UTC) :::{{replyto|Koavf}} Thanks very much for the rights grant and the kind words. Could you please give them to me indefinitely? This user's been hanging around Wikiquote for at least five years (see [[User:Antandrus/sandbox]]) so I think I'd just be back here in another six months otherwise. Unless timed rights grants are more regular here or something. [[User:Graham87|Graham87]] ([[User talk:Graham87|talk]]) 04:59, 15 September 2025 (UTC) ::::{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 05:04, 15 September 2025 (UTC) :::{{ping|Antandrus}} {{ping|Graham87}} can you check if [https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/~2025-64984-0 this ] is the same user ? --[[User:ᘙ|ᘙ]] ([[User talk:ᘙ|talk]]) 11:02, 21 September 2025 (UTC) ::::{{replyto|ᘙ}} Thanks for the note. Don't think so. The IP doesn't match at all and the MO is a bit different. [[User:Graham87|Graham87]] ([[User talk:Graham87|talk]]) 11:56, 21 September 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-09-20, 20:45 == * {{IPvandal|~2025-67389-4}} Looks like a sock puppet of banned user Defrenzel9. - [[User:FilmandTVFan28|FilmandTVFan28]] ([[User talk:FilmandTVFan28|talk]]) 21:30, 20 September 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-09-20, 22:35 == * {{IPvandal|~2025-52999-8}} Creating tons of test pages, please nuke and block. [[User:Codename Noreste|Codename Noreste]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]]) 23:01, 20 September 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-09-21, 11:56 == * {{Vandal|ShantaHowladar}} Long-term abuse. [[Special:CentralAuth/Mahichowdhury20]], Recreated [[Atikur Rahman Mahi]] ([[:w:Atikur Rahman Mahi]], [[:w:simple:Atikur Rahman Mahi]]). [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:09, 21 September 2025 (UTC) :Globally locked [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 13:27, 21 September 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-09-22, 13:26 == * {{Vandal|~2025-68209-1}} Vandalism. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 13:46, 22 September 2025 (UTC) :* {{done}} [[User:GreenMeansGo|<span style="font-family:Impact"><span style="color:#07CB4B">G</span><span style="color:#449351">M</span><span style="color:#35683d">G</span></span>]][[User talk:GreenMeansGo#top|<sup style="color:#000;font-family:Impact">talk</sup>]] 13:54, 22 September 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-09-22, 23:54 == * {{Vandal|~2025-69132-7}} Long-term abuse. [[Special:CentralAuth/Rayhanltd]], please see [[Riptech]] (founded by [[:w:simple:Sheikh Rayhan]]). [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 23:56, 22 September 2025 (UTC) :{{Done}} by Lemonaka. [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 04:15, 25 September 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-09-25, 01:59 == * {{Vandal|Jibikapexus}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 02:00, 25 September 2025 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. --[[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 04:20, 25 September 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-09-25, 02:00 == * {{Vandal|~2025-26235-63}} Vandalism. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 02:48, 25 September 2025 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} for one month. --[[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 04:20, 25 September 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-09-25, 19:58 == * {{Vandal|Norbir2007}} Already blocked, but has spam requiring deletion at [[User talk:Norbir2007]]. Edit filters prevent me from blanking the page. [[User:Rsjaffe|Rsjaffe]] ([[User talk:Rsjaffe|talk]]) 20:24, 25 September 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} ~ <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:07, 25 September 2025 (UTC) — page deleted. == New report 2025-09-26, 11:14 == * {{Vandal|EsunFiber}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:09, 26 September 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-09-26, 23:42 == * {{Vandal|~2025-63481-6}} Vandalism. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 23:43, 26 September 2025 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} for one month. --[[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 05:20, 27 September 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-09-29, 13:22 == * {{Vandal|~2025-26549-07}} Vandalism. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 13:27, 29 September 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} [[User:GreenMeansGo|<span style="font-family:Impact"><span style="color:#07CB4B">G</span><span style="color:#449351">M</span><span style="color:#35683d">G</span></span>]][[User talk:GreenMeansGo#top|<sup style="color:#000;font-family:Impact">talk</sup>]] 14:07, 29 September 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-09-29, 22:58 == * {{Vandal|Purnikushi}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 22:58, 29 September 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} ~ <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:38, 29 September 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-09-29, 22:58 == * {{Vandal|~2025-27085-60}} Vandalism. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 23:00, 29 September 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} ~ <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:38, 29 September 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-09-29, 23:17 == * {{Vandal|Sunrise vs Moonrise, I'm Not Sunrise, I'm Moonrise}} Vandalism. --[[User:Leonidlednev|Leonidlednev]] ([[User talk:Leonidlednev|talk]]) 23:23, 29 September 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} ~ <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:28, 29 September 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-10-1, 04:25 == * {{Vandal|Nice Blessings}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 04:25, 1 October 2025 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. --[[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 07:57, 1 October 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-10-1, 04:25 == * {{Vandal|~2025-26900-10}} Cross-wiki issues. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 04:26, 1 October 2025 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. --[[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 07:57, 1 October 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-10-1, 07:45 == * {{Vandal|88ipgcom1}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 07:45, 1 October 2025 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. --[[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 07:57, 1 October 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-10-1, 07:45 == * {{Vandal|Napaextra376}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 07:47, 1 October 2025 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. --[[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 07:57, 1 October 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-09-27, 15:10 == * {{Vandal|Allthedays}} Blatantly bypassing the block placed on [[Shining Time Station]] and [https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Shining%20Time%20Station&diff=prev&oldid=3781520 inexplicably removing content] (though I suspect that the user is yet another sockpuppet of repeat vandal Fourlaxers, [https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=User%20talk:DawgDeputy&diff=prev&oldid=2229277 as he considers Schemer calling his mother "Mommy" childish] (every quote he removed, has even the smallest hint of Schemer referencing his mother), despite the fact that that is how the show was made and he cannot do anything about it). I request that he be blocked indefinitely with account creation permanently disabled, and a stronger and longer block be placed on the article. [[User:DawgDeputy|DawgDeputy]] ([[User talk:DawgDeputy|talk]]) 15:19, 27 September 2025 (UTC) : Declined, Vandalism already stooped. If they start edits again, feel free to re-report. -[[user:Lemonaka|‎<span style="color:blue; text-shadow:jet 0 0.2em 0.2em; font-family:Segoe Print; font-size: 13px">'''Lemonaka'''‎</span>]] 03:12, 4 October 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-10-2, 00:02 == * {{Vandal|~2025-27393-88}} Vandalism. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 00:03, 2 October 2025 (UTC) : Indeffed after talk page abuse. -[[user:Lemonaka|‎<span style="color:blue; text-shadow:jet 0 0.2em 0.2em; font-family:Segoe Print; font-size: 13px">'''Lemonaka'''‎</span>]] 03:11, 4 October 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-10-3, 12:24 == * {{Vandal|Rehmanmahidu}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:24, 3 October 2025 (UTC) : Blocked and delete -[[user:Lemonaka|‎<span style="color:blue; text-shadow:jet 0 0.2em 0.2em; font-family:Segoe Print; font-size: 13px">'''Lemonaka'''‎</span>]] 03:09, 4 October 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-10-4, 12:39 == * {{Vandal|Aroon596}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:40, 4 October 2025 (UTC) : Blocked and delete. -[[user:Lemonaka|‎<span style="color:blue; text-shadow:jet 0 0.2em 0.2em; font-family:Segoe Print; font-size: 13px">'''Lemonaka'''‎</span>]] 15:05, 4 October 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-10-6 18:13 == * {{Vandal|~2025-27890-11}} Creating vandalism pages. [[User:Tenshi Hinanawi|Tenshi Hinanawi]] ([[User talk:Tenshi Hinanawi|talk]]) 18:14, 6 October 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-10-7, 03:28 == * {{Vandal|Nehal Khan Jit}} * {{Vandal|Nehal Khan Jit Chemist}} crosswiki spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 03:29, 7 October 2025 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. --[[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 04:09, 7 October 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-10-9, 16:57 == * {{Vandal|Huynhthiminhngoc99 are amazingsssss}} Long-term abuse. [[User:Leonidlednev|Leonidlednev]] ([[User talk:Leonidlednev|talk]]) 16:57, 9 October 2025 (UTC) :(non-admin comment) Now globally locked. --[[User:Ferien|Ferien]] <small>([[User talk:Ferien|talk]])</small> 17:07, 9 October 2025 (UTC) ::Blocked here as well now. ~ [[User:UDScott|UDScott]] ([[User talk:UDScott|talk]]) 17:34, 9 October 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-10-9, 23:20 == * {{Vandal|Misrut fridew}} Long-term abuse. [[Special:CentralAuth/गुंडा]], [[:m:User:علاء/case2#Mohamed_AlAgha]]. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 23:22, 9 October 2025 (UTC) : already locked. -[[user:Lemonaka|‎<span style="color:blue; text-shadow:jet 0 0.2em 0.2em; font-family:Segoe Print; font-size: 13px">'''Lemonaka'''‎</span>]] 07:30, 10 October 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-10-10, 13:01 == * {{Vandal|2025-28348-18}} Long-term abuse. [[Special:CentralAuth/SheSaidCampaign]]. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 13:02, 10 October 2025 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. --[[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 13:25, 10 October 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-10-10, 13:02 == * {{Vandal|Abidbanga}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 13:03, 10 October 2025 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. --[[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 13:27, 10 October 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-10-11, 12:35 == * {{Vandal|RalfP.Carreon78}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:35, 11 October 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} — globally blocked by someone else. ~ <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 13:32, 12 October 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-10-12, 13:23 == * {{Vandal|Esimoio}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 13:23, 12 October 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} — blocked and pages deleted. ~ <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 13:33, 12 October 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-10-13, 12:36 == * {{Vandal|Palhsn}} Long-term abuse. [[:w:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mate Sam99/Archive]], contribution on [[Mai Vu Minh]] ([[:w:Mai Vu Minh]], [[:w:simple:Mai Vu Minh]]). [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:37, 13 October 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 12:38, 13 October 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-10-13, 19:06 == * {{IPvandal|~2025-28703-67}} Vandalism. [[User:Tenshi Hinanawi|Tenshi Hinanawi]] ([[User talk:Tenshi Hinanawi|talk]]) 19:07, 13 October 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 20:40, 13 October 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-10-14, 11:48 == * {{Vandal|Adeosun 007}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:19, 14 October 2025 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. --[[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 12:44, 14 October 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-10-14, 23:05 == * {{Vandal|Escort Girls In Uae}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 23:33, 14 October 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} ~ <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:36, 14 October 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-10-15, 14:16 == * {{Vandal|Sri isoftwarez}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 14:17, 15 October 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} by another admin. ~ <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:29, 15 October 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-10-18, 00:15 == * {{Vandal|Xewz}} Long-term abuse. [[Special:CentralAuth/Would_build]], [[:m:User:علاء/case2#Mohamed_AlAgha]], [[Abdelnasser Abdelfattah]], [[Special:Diff/3823644]]. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 00:16, 18 October 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-10-18, 12:36 == * {{Vandal|Victoria1265}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:49, 18 October 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-10-18, 12:49 == * {{Vandal|~2025-29255-18}} Vandalism. [[User:Leonidlednev|Leonidlednev]] ([[User talk:Leonidlednev|talk]]) 19:00, 18 October 2025 (UTC) :Note: [[Special:Contributions/~2025-29159-51|~2025-29159-51]] is the same person as this [[User:Thegoofhere|Thegoofhere]] ([[User talk:Thegoofhere|talk]]) 00:17, 19 October 2025 (UTC) ::{{Done}} [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 01:17, 19 October 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-10-19, 11:54 == * {{Vandal|Ahealthydivorce}} * {{Vandal|Beyondarchitects7}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 11:55, 19 October 2025 (UTC) :{{Done}} [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 18:59, 19 October 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-10-19, 11:55 == * {{Vandal|Alexdon10}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 11:58, 19 October 2025 (UTC) :{{Done}} [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 19:00, 19 October 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-10-19, 11:58 == * {{Vandal|Goodhiredomestichelperinsingap}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:53, 19 October 2025 (UTC) :{{Done}} [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 19:01, 19 October 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-10-19, 12:53 == * {{Vandal|Doublegcontractingpainting}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:56, 19 October 2025 (UTC) :{{Done}} [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 19:01, 19 October 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-10-19, 12:56 == * {{Vandal|Goodhiredomestichelper}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 13:24, 19 October 2025 (UTC) :{{Done}} [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 19:01, 19 October 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-10-20, 11:40 == * {{Vandal|Dacknight01}} [[:w:WP:NOTWEBHOST]]. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 11:40, 20 October 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} by someone else it seems. —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 13:24, 20 October 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-10-20, 11:40 == * {{Vandal|KaiakSa}} Long-term abuse. [[:w:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mate Sam99/Archive]] ([[Special:Contributions/Palhsn]], blocked by {{u|Koavf}}), contribution on [[Mai Vũ Minh]] ([[:w:Mai Vu Minh]], [[:w:simple:Mai Vu Minh]]). [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 11:44, 20 October 2025 (UTC) :{{Done}} [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 12:32, 20 October 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-10-21, 11:52 == * {{Vandal|~2025-29574-83}} Long-term abuse. [[:w:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mate Sam99/Archive]] ([[Special:Contributions/Palhsn]], blocked by {{u|Koavf}}), contribution on [[Mai Vũ Minh]] ([[:w:Mai Vu Minh]], [[:w:simple:Mai Vu Minh]]). [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:28, 21 October 2025 (UTC) :{{Done}} [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 16:59, 21 October 2025 (UTC) ::The page has been deleted. [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 17:02, 21 October 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-10-23, 11:23 == * {{Vandal|Betjp88}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:08, 23 October 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} ~ <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 15:26, 24 October 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-10-24, 12:10 == * {{Vandal|AmeriSurgical}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:36, 24 October 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} blocked by another admin. ~ <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 15:26, 24 October 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-10-24, 12:36 == * {{Vandal|~2025-29918-98}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:40, 24 October 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} ~ <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 15:26, 24 October 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-10-24, 12:40 == * {{Vandal|~2025-29926-75}} Vandalism. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:41, 24 October 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} ~ <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 15:26, 24 October 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-10-25, 11:17 == * {{Vandal|Bel BZGIGI}} Basic spam on two newly created talk pages (and on [[:meta:Talk:Wikiquote/fr]]). [[User:Lucas Werkmeister|Lucas Werkmeister]] ([[User talk:Lucas Werkmeister|talk]]) 11:22, 25 October 2025 (UTC) :Now vandalizing the subject namespace too at [[Destiné doukaga]]. [[User:Lucas Werkmeister|Lucas Werkmeister]] ([[User talk:Lucas Werkmeister|talk]]) 13:54, 25 October 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-10-26, 05:41 == * {{Vandal|VedankTamrakar}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 05:42, 26 October 2025 (UTC) :globally locked [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 11:42, 27 October 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-10-26, 18:55 == * {{IPvandal|2601:5C7:4100:3600:ADDC:867A:249D:753B/64}} Extensive vandalism since earlier this month. [[User:NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh|NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh]] ([[User talk:NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh|talk]]) 19:55, 26 October 2025 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} for one month. [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 11:48, 27 October 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-10-27, 22:31 == * {{Vandal|Freeshops}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 23:08, 27 October 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-10-30, 08:39 == * {{Vandal|NyamericanJacket1}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 08:40, 30 October 2025 (UTC) :{{Done}} [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 11:55, 30 October 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-10-30, 22:56 == * {{Vandal|Muzammal Shahzad}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 22:56, 30 October 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-11-1, 08:35 == * {{IPvandal|~2025-30266-26}} Vandalism. [[User:ᘙ|ᘙ]] ([[User talk:ᘙ|talk]]) 08:36, 1 November 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-11-5, 11:26 == * {{Vandal|Charlotte Millerr}} Cross-wiki link spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:19, 5 November 2025 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. --[[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 13:21, 5 November 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-11-7, 07:36 == * {{Vandal|Kitoinfocoms}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 07:36, 7 November 2025 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. --[[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 11:02, 7 November 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-11-7, 12:14 == * {{Vandal|Yanok7}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:34, 7 November 2025 (UTC) :{{Done}} by UDScott. [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 03:32, 8 November 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-11-7, 22:34 == * {{Vandal|Hasan061}} Cross-wiki spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 23:17, 7 November 2025 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. --[[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 03:31, 8 November 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-11-8, 06:57 == * {{IPvandal|~2025-31580-72}} * {{IPvandal|~2025-31052-57}} * {{IPvandal|~2025-31358-44}} I believe the following unregistered editors are all tied to the same end user. Whatever the case may be, these three are shown to consistently disruptively edit the [[Looney Tunes: Back in Action]] page to a version generally accepted to contain misleading content. There is an ongoing edit war over this issue.[[User:729MT|729MT]] ([[User talk:729MT|talk]]) 07:27, 8 November 2025 (UTC) :{{Done}} [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 08:15, 8 November 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-11-8, 12:17 == * {{Vandal|Nutribray}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:17, 8 November 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-11-11, 12:20 == * {{Vandal|Md Tahamid Badhon}} Cross-wiki spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:25, 11 November 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 13:52, 11 November 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-11-12, 12:40 == * {{Vandal|Dwakm}} Cross-wiki spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 13:16, 12 November 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-11-12, 13:16 == * {{Vandal|Braden nekton 9}} Cross-wiki spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 13:31, 12 November 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-11-12, 13:31 == * {{Vandal|SweepyMaids}} Cross-wiki spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 13:54, 12 November 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-11-12, 14:27 == * {{Vandal|~2025-32990-85}} Vandalism. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 14:52, 12 November 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-11-12, 18:35 == * {{Vandal|2600:1005:B152:F260:5428:B3D5:CD09:6252}} Classic vandalism. [[User:Left page|Left page]] ([[User talk:Left page|talk]]) 18:35, 12 November 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-11-13, 05:00 == * {{Vandal|~2025-32982-32}} spam, [[Special:CentralAuth/Braden_nekton_9]]. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 05:01, 13 November 2025 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. --[[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 05:48, 13 November 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-11-13, 08:21 == * {{Vandal|Usacarwash}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 09:04, 13 November 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-11-14, 12:12 == * {{Vandal|Americanplumbing}} Spam, [[Special:Contributions/Americanplumbingservice]]. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:13, 14 November 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-11-13, 09:04 == * {{Vandal|MortleyT1}} [[:w:WP:NOTWEBHOST]]. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 09:10, 13 November 2025 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 04:28, 15 November 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-11-14, 13:16 == * {{Vandal|~2025-33528-17}} Vandalism, removed CSD tag, [[Special:Contributions/GMK7]] (Recreated [[Temperance Fitzgerald]]). [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 13:18, 14 November 2025 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 04:33, 15 November 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-11-15, 3:46 == * {{Vandal|~2025-33593-32}} Vandalism-only account. [[User:Left page|<span style="color:blue">⬅️ '''Left page'''</span>]] ([[User talk:Left page|'''discuss''']]) 03:47, 15 November 2025 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 04:35, 15 November 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-11-15, 12:37 == * {{Vandal|Mmusolan11}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:38, 15 November 2025 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 14:37, 15 November 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-11-15, 15:39 == * {{Vandal|LastHappyhippo}} Vandalism. [[User:Tenshi Hinanawi|Tenshi Hinanawi]] ([[User talk:Tenshi Hinanawi|talk]]) 15:39, 17 November 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-11-19, 13:15 == * {{Vandal|Proowrx}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 13:16, 19 November 2025 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 15:19, 19 November 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-11-19, 13:16 == * {{Vandal|~2025-34951-18}} Vandalism. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 14:11, 19 November 2025 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 15:22, 19 November 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-11-19, 22:55 == * {{Vandal|~2025-34935-01}} Vandalism. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 23:21, 19 November 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} ~ <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 00:48, 20 November 2025 (UTC) — account blocked for one year, created pages deleted. == New report 2025-11-21, 12:27 == * {{Vandal|Kingasterisk technologies}} Spam-only account. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 13:09, 21 November 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-11-21, 13:09 == * {{Vandal|GaniGashi11}} Long-term abuse. [[Special:CentralAuth/Gani_Gashi_piktori]], [[Special:CentralAuth/Gani_Gashi_piktor]], [[Special:CentralAuth/Gani_Gashi_13]], [[Special:CentralAuth/Gani_Gashi_1944]]. Please see: [[:w:en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Gani Gashi piktor]]. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 13:44, 21 November 2025 (UTC) :Subject: Strong Objection to Deletion – Gani Gashi Wikiquote Page :Dear editors, :I am writing to formally object to the proposed deletion of the Wikiquote entry for Gani Gashi, as the page clearly meets the core inclusion standards and contains verifiable, encyclopedic, and culturally relevant material. :1. Notability and Encyclopedic Value :Gani Gashi is a recognized contemporary painter whose work has been exhibited, published, and cited in multiple independent sources. His artistic contributions, style, and public presence are documented through reliable coverage in media, exhibitions, catalogues, and scholarly discussions. This satisfies Wikiquote’s and Wikipedia’s general notability guidelines. :2. Published, Verifiable Quotations :The quotations included on the page are: :Published :Verifiable :Directly attributed :Relevant to his artistic philosophy and public contributions :This aligns precisely with Wikiquote’s purpose: to archive significant quotations from notable individuals whose work impacts culture, art, and public discourse. :3. Cultural and Artistic Significance :It is important to recognize that not all volunteers are familiar with regional art history or Balkan contemporary art. However, lack of personal familiarity with an artist cannot serve as grounds for deletion when reliable sources, verifiable quotations, and clear notability exist. Cultural representation on Wikiquote must remain broad and inclusive, not limited only to globally mainstream figures. :4. No Policy-Based Reason for Deletion :After reviewing the deletion rationale, I find: :No concrete policy violation :No issue with verifiability :No issue with sourcing :No copyright concern :No demonstration that the subject is non-notable :A deletion without a policy-based justification would go against Wikiquote’s mission of preserving notable cultural contributions. :5. Request for Fair Review :I respectfully request: :A policy-based explanation if deletion continues to be considered :A fair and neutral review of the sources and quotations :That the page remain available, as it demonstrably meets inclusion criteria :Unless clear and specific violations are identified, there is no valid reason under Wikiquote policy for the page to be deleted. :Thank you for your time, neutrality, and commitment to maintaining a diverse and representative project. :Kind regards, :Sadete [[User:GaniGashi11|GaniGashi11]] ([[User talk:GaniGashi11|talk]]) 14:00, 21 November 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-11-21, 14:42 == * {{Vandal|~2025-35203-22}} Vandalism. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 14:54, 21 November 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} - blocked temporarily, but will keep an eye out for further issues. ~ [[User:UDScott|UDScott]] ([[User talk:UDScott|talk]]) 15:46, 21 November 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-11-22, 12:00 == * {{Vandal|~2025-35534-39}} Vandalism. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:26, 22 November 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} — blocked and created pages deleted. ~ <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 19:40, 22 November 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-11-22, 21:33 == * {{Vandal|~2025-35574-75}} Vandalism. [[User:Tenshi Hinanawi|Tenshi Hinanawi]] ([[User talk:Tenshi Hinanawi|talk]]) 21:33, 22 November 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} — blocked. ~ <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 21:51, 22 November 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-11-23, 11:43 == * {{Vandal|~2025-35324-70}} Vandalism-only account. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 11:43, 23 November 2025 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 13:04, 23 November 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-11-23, 12:54 == * {{Vandal|~2025-35620-26}} Vandalism. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:59, 23 November 2025 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 13:04, 23 November 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-11-24, 05:10 == * {{Vandal|ScoreProTips2025}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 05:55, 24 November 2025 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 10:16, 24 November 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-11-24, 12:17 == * {{Vandal|Tsconect}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 13:06, 24 November 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-11-27, 08:58 == * {{Vandal|~2025-36599-65}} Vandalism. [[User:MasashiInoue|MasashiInoue]] ([[User talk:MasashiInoue|talk]]) 09:01, 27 November 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-11-28, 13:15 == * {{Vandal|VaughnAWamsley}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 13:19, 28 November 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-11-28 14:00 == * {{Vandal|~2025-36976-34}} Vandalism. [[User:Tenshi Hinanawi|Tenshi Hinanawi]] ([[User talk:Tenshi Hinanawi|talk]]) 13:59, 28 November 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-11-28 23:34 == * {{Vandal|~2025-37162-45}} Vandalism. [[User:Tenshi Hinanawi|Tenshi Hinanawi]] ([[User talk:Tenshi Hinanawi|talk]]) 23:34, 28 November 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-11-29, 12:54 == * {{Vandal|Bravobuilt35}} * {{Vandal|68658ghgg}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:55, 29 November 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-12-1, 12:52 == * {{Vandal|Thapegador}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 13:13, 1 December 2025 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 14:08, 1 December 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-12-2, 14:15 == * {{Vandal|~2025-38000-68}} Vandalism. [[User:Tenshi Hinanawi|Tenshi Hinanawi]] ([[User talk:Tenshi Hinanawi|talk]]) 14:14, 2 December 2025 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 15:07, 2 December 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-12-2, 23:46 == * {{Vandal|~2025-35880-43}} Vandalism. [[User:Tenshi Hinanawi|Tenshi Hinanawi]] ([[User talk:Tenshi Hinanawi|talk]]) 23:46, 2 December 2025 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} for 2 weeks. [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 05:23, 3 December 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-12-4, 12:38 == * {{Vandal|LinaHayes25}} * {{Vandal|Junohayes}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:39, 4 December 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-12-5, 13:03 == * {{Vandal|Matildasmit}} Cross-wiki link spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 13:04, 5 December 2025 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 18:23, 6 December 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-12-5, 13:04 == * {{Vandal|Beautifulmindhealth}} Spam/advertising-only account. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 13:05, 5 December 2025 (UTC) : '''Non-admin comment''': blocked indefinitely by UDScott. [[User:Codename Noreste|Codename Noreste]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]]) 18:22, 6 December 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-12-6, 09:31 == * {{Vandal|Maiqueiizz}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 09:44, 6 December 2025 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 18:25, 6 December 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-12-7, 03:11 == * {{Vandal|~2025-36599-65}} Vandalism. [[User:Codename Noreste|Codename Noreste]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]]) 03:12, 7 December 2025 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 07:40, 7 December 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-12-7, 19:30 == * {{Vandal|~2025-39184-02}} Vandalism. [[User:Codename Noreste|Codename Noreste]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]]) 19:30, 7 December 2025 (UTC) :Blocked indefinitely. [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 20:19, 7 December 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-12-8, 00:03 == * {{Vandal|M7 better, Hiyuune bad}} LTA. [[User:Codename Noreste|Codename Noreste]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]]) 00:04, 8 December 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} — blocked. ~ <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 01:13, 8 December 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-12-8, 00:04 == * {{Vandal|~2025-39065-25}} Vandalism. [[User:Codename Noreste|Codename Noreste]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]]) 00:05, 8 December 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} — blocked. ~ <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 01:14, 8 December 2025 (UTC) ::{{replyto|Kalki}} Thanks very much for dealing with that vandalism. Could you (or any other admin who sees this) please block the underlying IP (which you can see as an admin and I can see as a temporary account IP viewer)? The underlying IP has several temporary accounts associated with it and has been blocked previously before the introduction of temporary accounts. Thanks! [[User:Graham87|Graham87]] ([[User talk:Graham87|talk]]) 04:35, 8 December 2025 (UTC) :::{{Done|Blocked}} for 3 months. [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 06:19, 8 December 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-12-14, 03:45 == * {{Vandal|Johnteyeministry}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 04:43, 14 December 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} — blocked and spam pages deleted. ~ <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 06:06, 14 December 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-12-14, 16:54 == * {{Vandal|~2025-40578-15}} Repeatedly inserted nonsense at [[The Simpsons]]. [[User:lp0 on fire|<span style="color: #c56030">lp0&nbsp;on&nbsp;fire</span>]]&nbsp;[[User talk:lp0 on fire|<span style="color: #64cea0">()</span>]] 16:55, 14 December 2025 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} for 2 weeks. [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 17:09, 14 December 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-12-15, 12:18 == * {{Vandal|~2025-27022-09}} vandalism, e.g. at [[Frozen (2013 film)]] or [[SpongeBob SquarePants/Season 4]] [[User:lp0 on fire|<span style="color: #c56030">lp0&nbsp;on&nbsp;fire</span>]]&nbsp;[[User talk:lp0 on fire|<span style="color: #64cea0">()</span>]] 12:38, 15 December 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 13:07, 15 December 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-12-15, 20:09 == * {{Vandal|Higashizakura vs Ternera, Ternera Best}} LTA 404. [[User:Tenshi Hinanawi|Tenshi Hinanawi]] ([[User talk:Tenshi Hinanawi|talk]]) 20:09, 15 December 2025 (UTC) : Globally locked by Bsadowski1. [[User:Codename Noreste|Codename Noreste]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]]) 20:15, 15 December 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-12-16, 12:45 == * {{Vandal|Supertech123}} Cross-wiki link spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:46, 16 December 2025 (UTC) :Globally locked. [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 03:35, 17 December 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-12-18, 11:16 == * {{Vandal|~2025-41607-99}} Vandalism. [[User:lp0 on fire|<span style="color: #c56030">lp0&nbsp;on&nbsp;fire</span>]]&nbsp;[[User talk:lp0 on fire|<span style="color: #64cea0">()</span>]] 12:02, 18 December 2025 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 12:54, 18 December 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-12-18, 12:02 == * {{Vandal|Trends87}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:54, 18 December 2025 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 12:55, 18 December 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-12-18 17:32 == * {{Vandal|Mosdaliodf}} Vandalism. [[User:Tenshi Hinanawi|Tenshi Hinanawi]] ([[User talk:Tenshi Hinanawi|talk]]) 17:31, 18 December 2025 (UTC) : {{done}}. [[User:Codename Noreste|Codename Noreste]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]]) 16:15, 19 December 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-12-19, 13:06 == * {{Vandal|Pirazhppouyaa}} Cross-wiki spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 13:06, 19 December 2025 (UTC) : {{done}}. [[User:Codename Noreste|Codename Noreste]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]]) 16:16, 19 December 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-12-14, 16:54 == * {{Vandal|~2025-40578-15}} Vandalism. [[User:Tenshi Hinanawi|Tenshi Hinanawi]] ([[User talk:Tenshi Hinanawi|talk]]) 16:54, 14 December 2025 (UTC) : {{done}} by Saroj. [[User:Codename Noreste|Codename Noreste]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]]) 23:13, 20 December 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-12-15, 20:04 == * {{Vandal|~2025-40913-54}} Vandalism. [[User:Tenshi Hinanawi|Tenshi Hinanawi]] ([[User talk:Tenshi Hinanawi|talk]]) 20:04, 15 December 2025 (UTC) : This is stale, please re-report if they continue vandalizing. [[User:Codename Noreste|Codename Noreste]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]]) 23:13, 20 December 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-12-19, 13:06 == * {{Vandal|HitoryCloud}} spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 13:11, 19 December 2025 (UTC) : {{done|Page deleted}}. [[User:Codename Noreste|Codename Noreste]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]]) 23:12, 20 December 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-12-20, 23:10 == * {{Vandal|~2025-41906-72}} Talk page nonsense. [[User:Tenshi Hinanawi|Tenshi Hinanawi]] ([[User talk:Tenshi Hinanawi|talk]]) 23:10, 20 December 2025 (UTC) : {{done}}. [[User:Codename Noreste|Codename Noreste]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]]) 23:12, 20 December 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-12-24, 12:57 == * {{Vandal|0prestogroup}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:57, 24 December 2025 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 13:40, 24 December 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-12-24, 12:57 == * {{Vandal|0sipconinstrument}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 13:01, 24 December 2025 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 13:40, 24 December 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-12-28, 10:48 == * {{Vandal|~2025-43194-97}} Vandalism. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 11:12, 28 December 2025 (UTC) :{{done}} by global sysop. [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 11:19, 28 December 2025 (UTC) == New report 2025-12-29, 22:47 == * {{Vandal|~2025-43806-18}} Vandalism. [[User:Tenshi Hinanawi|Tenshi Hinanawi]] ([[User talk:Tenshi Hinanawi|talk]]) 22:47, 29 December 2025 (UTC) : {{done}}. [[User:Codename Noreste|Codename Noreste]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]]) 23:34, 29 December 2025 (UTC) == New report 2026-01-1, 12:47 == * {{Vandal|Jeff32144}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 13:09, 1 January 2026 (UTC) : Blocked by UDScott. [[User:Codename Noreste|Codename Noreste]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]]) 21:28, 1 January 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-01-1, 13:09 == * {{Vandal|Jeck321}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 13:16, 1 January 2026 (UTC) : Blocked by UDScott. [[User:Codename Noreste|Codename Noreste]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]]) 21:29, 1 January 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-01-3, 08:35 == * {{Vandal|Stephen Ho 7}} Vandalism, [[Special:Log/Stephen_Ho_7]], [[Special:Contributions/~2026-17814]]. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 08:37, 3 January 2026 (UTC) :Blocked by Kalki. [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 05:04, 4 January 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-01-4, 04:46 == * {{Vandal|TidesAreRisin}} Long-term abuse. [[Special:CentralAuth/The_Doors_Jim_Morrison_Jr]], [[Special:CentralAuth/Jim_Morrison_II]]. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 04:48, 4 January 2026 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 05:07, 4 January 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-01-6, 22:31 == * {{Vandal|~2026-12186-1}} Vandalism. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 22:32, 6 January 2026 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 22:54, 6 January 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-01-7, 17:27 == * {{Vandal|~2026-14142-0}} Vandalism. [[User:Tenshi Hinanawi|Tenshi Hinanawi]] ([[User talk:Tenshi Hinanawi|talk]]) 17:26, 7 January 2026 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. --[[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 17:51, 7 January 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-01-9, 12:10 == * {{Vandal|Gylawetudenipl12}} Long-term abuse. Cross-wiki Spam. [[Special:CentralAuth/AmitMeena0000]], [[Special:Contributions/Babaf95832]]. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 13:01, 9 January 2026 (UTC) :Globally locked. [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 05:49, 11 January 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-01-10, 21:54 == * {{Vandal|~2026-14254-3}} Every change they had made to WQ has been rolled back. They are all vandalism. [[User:GrimRob|GrimRob]] ([[User talk:GrimRob|talk]]) 22:10, 10 January 2026 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 05:48, 11 January 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-01-11, 02:38 == * {{Vandal|Bsndjfjsnskrty}} Long-term abuse. [[Special:CentralAuth/Amitmeena7777]], Recreated [[Aman Meena]]. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 03:36, 11 January 2026 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 05:48, 11 January 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-01-11, 05:49 == * {{Vandal|Sjjdiftjeuewwuwddd}} Long-term abuse. [[Special:CentralAuth/Amitmeena7777]], created [[Technical 01]] used by [[Aman Meena]]. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 06:38, 11 January 2026 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 08:03, 11 January 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-01-12, 01:02 == * {{Vandal|Tahbibmahmud}} Long-term abuse. [[:w:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Bet365aminul]], Recreated [[Ariyan Mehedi]], [[:w:en:Ariyan Mehedi]], [[:w:simple:Ariyan Mehedi]]. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 01:38, 12 January 2026 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 04:41, 12 January 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-01-12, 07:31 == * {{Vandal|Hdapatna345}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 07:32, 12 January 2026 (UTC) :{{done}}. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 08:05, 12 January 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-01-12, 07:54 == * {{Vandal|Katerichards1607}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 07:54, 12 January 2026 (UTC) :{{done}}. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 08:04, 12 January 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-01-12, 08:05 == * {{Vandal|Ytgb5}} Long-term abuse. [[Special:CentralAuth/Laxmi_Narayan_Maharana]]. Created [[Laxmi Narayan Maharana]], [[:w:en:Laxmi Narayan Maharana]], [[:w:simple:Laxmi Narayan Maharana]]. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 08:43, 12 January 2026 (UTC) :{{done}}. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 12:08, 12 January 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-01-12, 21:47 == * {{Vandal|Moonschein07}} Clearly only here to vandalize and not to build. [[User:03isrflo62410|03isrflo62410]] ([[User talk:03isrflo62410|talk]]) 21:48, 12 January 2026 (UTC) :{{done}} by global sysop SHB2000. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 01:13, 13 January 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-01-13, 17:14 == * {{Vandal|~2026-27365-4}} Vandalism. [[User:Tenshi Hinanawi|Tenshi Hinanawi]] ([[User talk:Tenshi Hinanawi|talk]]) 17:14, 13 January 2026 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} by Codename Noreste. [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 17:36, 13 January 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-01-14, 20:47 == * {{Vandal|~2026-30429-2}} * {{Vandal|~2026-30143-3}} LTA. [[User:Tenshi Hinanawi|Tenshi Hinanawi]] ([[User talk:Tenshi Hinanawi|talk]]) 20:47, 14 January 2026 (UTC) :{{done}}. [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 21:25, 14 January 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-01-15, 12:56 == * {{Vandal|Vinkion}} Long-term abuse. [[Special:CentralAuth/Blirth]], [[Special:CentralAuth/AyanJohn]], [[Special:CentralAuth/SaifFullah]], Recreated [[Umar Jaum]], [[:w:en:Umar Jaum]], [[:w:simple:Umar Jaum]]. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:57, 15 January 2026 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 13:05, 15 January 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-01-15, 13:05 == * {{Vandal|Zenithsttudyabroad}} spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 14:03, 15 January 2026 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. --[[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 15:57, 15 January 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-01-17, 03:39 == * {{Vandal|Sccdggvdvkkrjjerfbvdcd}} Long-term abuse. [[Special:CentralAuth/Sjjdiftjeuewwuwddd]]. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 03:52, 17 January 2026 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 05:09, 17 January 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-01-17, 05:09 == * {{Vandal|~2026-35659-4}} Vandalism. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 05:59, 17 January 2026 (UTC) :{{done}}. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 06:46, 17 January 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-01-18, 11:12 == * {{Vandal|Btbthhwvefjgtktjheeh}} Spam, [[Special:Contributions/Sjjdiftjeuewwuwddd]]. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 11:13, 18 January 2026 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 11:38, 18 January 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-01-18, 21:03 == * {{Vandal|~2026-38539-8}} Vandalism. [[User:Tenshi Hinanawi|Tenshi Hinanawi]] ([[User talk:Tenshi Hinanawi|talk]]) 21:03, 18 January 2026 (UTC) :{{done|Blocked}} by Tanbiruzzaman. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 22:37, 18 January 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-01-23, 12:50 == * {{Vandal|~2026-50327-5}} * {{Vandal|~2026-50881-1}} * {{Vandal|PbFwun}} Long-term abuse, created page [[Realjjfrosh]] ([[:w:en:Realjjfrosh]], [[:w:simple:Realjjfrosh]], [[:w:en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Realjjfrosh]]) [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 13:30, 23 January 2026 (UTC) :{{done|Page deleted}}. If any of these accounts attempt to create the page again, a block will be possible. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 01:23, 24 January 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-01-23, 23:45 == * {{Vandal|Deas-Fafa}} Vandalism; see the page history for [[KPop Demon Hunters]] and [[Family Guy]]. [[User:03isrflo62410|03isrflo62410]] ([[User talk:03isrflo62410|talk]]) 23:45, 23 January 2026 (UTC) :{{done}}. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 01:20, 24 January 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-01-27, 12:45 == * {{Vandal|Leatherchapo1}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:45, 27 January 2026 (UTC) :{{done}} by Saroj. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 13:16, 27 January 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-01-27, 22:53 == * {{Vandal|~2026-54571-5}} Vandalism. [[User:Tenshi Hinanawi|Tenshi Hinanawi]] ([[User talk:Tenshi Hinanawi|talk]]) 22:53, 28 January 2026 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 23:59, 28 January 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-01-30, 13:56 == * [[Special:Redirect/logid/3644151]] [[Wikiquote:Username_policy#Inappropriate_usernames]]. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 13:57, 30 January 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-01-30, 12:36 == * {{Vandal|Jontyx191}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:36, 30 January 2026 (UTC) :Globally locked. [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 15:57, 30 January 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-01-31, 11:45 == * {{Vandal|Constructxpert}} Cross-wiki spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 11:45, 31 January 2026 (UTC) :Globally locked. [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 13:25, 31 January 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-01-31, 11:45 == * {{Vandal|Planit5}} Cross-wiki spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 11:50, 31 January 2026 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. --[[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 13:27, 31 January 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-02-01, 21:46 == * {{Vandal|~2026-71678-9}} Vandalism. [[User:Tenshi Hinanawi|Tenshi Hinanawi]] ([[User talk:Tenshi Hinanawi|talk]]) 21:46, 1 February 2026 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 05:34, 2 February 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-02-1, 22:38 == * {{IPvandal|2026-71678-9}} Vandalism. [[User:03isrflo62410|03isrflo62410]] ([[User talk:03isrflo62410|talk]]) 23:02, 1 February 2026 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 05:35, 2 February 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-02-01, 23:15 == * {{Vandal|ReggieRedPanda}} Vandalism. [[User:Tenshi Hinanawi|Tenshi Hinanawi]] ([[User talk:Tenshi Hinanawi|talk]]) 23:15, 1 February 2026 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} by Kalki. [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 05:44, 2 February 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-02-10, 00:33 == * {{Vandal|Splendasofficial}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 01:15, 10 February 2026 (UTC) :{{done}} ~ <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 01:53, 10 February 2026 (UTC) blocked, deleted spam. == New report 2026-02-11, 19:03 == * {{Vandal|~2026-93068-5}} Vandalism by replacing words with emojis, continued after warning. [[User:lp0 on fire|<span style="color:#c56030;background:inherit;">lp0&nbsp;on&nbsp;fire</span>]]&nbsp;[[User talk:lp0 on fire|<span style="color:#64cea0;background:inherit">()</span>]] 19:04, 11 February 2026 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. --[[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 19:08, 11 February 2026 (UTC) ::@[[User:Saroj|Saroj]] For inof: The \64 range block expired yesterday.I have blocked the range again. [[User:WikiBayer|WikiBayer]] ([[User talk:WikiBayer|talk]]) 19:11, 11 February 2026 (UTC) :::Thanks, WikiBayer. [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 19:14, 11 February 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-02-13, 13:21 == * {{Vandal|~2026-97201-6}} Vandalism. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 13:22, 13 February 2026 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} for 1 week. --[[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 13:54, 13 February 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-02-14, 07:39 == * {{Vandal|Govariabletechai}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 07:39, 14 February 2026 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 08:01, 14 February 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-02-15, 08:06 == * {{IPvandal|~2026-10157-68}} Vandalism, [[Special:Contributions/~2026-97201-6]]. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 08:36, 15 February 2026 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely; /64 range also blocked. [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 10:00, 15 February 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-02-16, 16:27 == * {{Vandal|~2026-10523-70}} Vandalism. [[User:Tenshi Hinanawi|Tenshi Hinanawi]] ([[User talk:Tenshi Hinanawi|talk]]) 16:27, 16 February 2026 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 17:34, 16 February 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-02-17, 18:03 == * {{Vandal|~2026-10693-96}} Vandalism. [[User:Tenshi Hinanawi|Tenshi Hinanawi]] ([[User talk:Tenshi Hinanawi|talk]]) 18:03, 17 February 2026 (UTC) :{{done}}. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:05, 17 February 2026 (UTC) ::Thanks for handling this. I've also blocked the IP for 3 months, as it was the same user reported above. [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 18:12, 17 February 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-02-20, 14:19 == * {{Vandal|Tanishalux}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 14:21, 20 February 2026 (UTC) :{{done}} - deleted and blocked. ~ [[User:UDScott|UDScott]] ([[User talk:UDScott|talk]]) 14:30, 20 February 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-02-20, 14:03 == * {{Vandal|Digitalitstore}} [[Wikiquote:Username_policy#Inappropriate_usernames]]. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 14:03, 20 February 2026 (UTC) :{{Done}} (by someone else) - deleted and blocked. ~ [[User:UDScott|UDScott]] ([[User talk:UDScott|talk]]) 15:27, 20 February 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-02-20, 14:03 == * {{Vandal|~2026-11450-48}} Vandalism, [[Special:Contributions/~2026-77860-7]]. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 14:19, 20 February 2026 (UTC) :{{done}} - deleted and blocked. ~ [[User:UDScott|UDScott]] ([[User talk:UDScott|talk]]) 14:27, 20 February 2026 (UTC) ::I went ahead and blocked the underlying /24 range. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 16:05, 20 February 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-02-22, 09:23 == * {{Vandal|~2026-11652-80}} Please block the underlying /64 IP range of this user for several months (it's a /64 so only one device will be on it). It's long-term abuse from our resident extreme right-wing vandal (see [[Wikiquote:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive/041#2001:8003:DC14::/48: long-term abuse by antisemitic racist extreme right-wing vandal for six years]]). [[User:Graham87|Graham87]] ([[User talk:Graham87|talk]]) 10:26, 22 February 2026 (UTC) :{{done}}. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 14:03, 22 February 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-02-22, 12:46 == * {{Vandal|~2026-11769-06}} * {{Vandal|HappyStephenUSA (Version 7)}} Vandalism, Recreated [[Five Point Clientele]]. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 13:33, 22 February 2026 (UTC) :{{Done}} [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 15:38, 22 February 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-02-23, 11:35 == * {{Vandal|~2026-11989-11}} Vandalism. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 11:35, 23 February 2026 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 17:20, 23 February 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-02-23, 12:14 == * {{Vandal|Apoorvkohli}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:52, 23 February 2026 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 17:20, 23 February 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-02-24, 03:21 == * {{Vandal|~2026-12130-66}} Vandalism. [[User:Tenshi Hinanawi|Tenshi Hinanawi]] ([[User talk:Tenshi Hinanawi|talk]]) 03:21, 24 February 2026 (UTC) :{{done}} —[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''vf</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 03:28, 24 February 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-02-26, 13:46 == * {{Vandal|Kiel Bednar}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 14:42, 26 February 2026 (UTC) :{{done}} ~ [[User:UDScott|UDScott]] ([[User talk:UDScott|talk]]) 15:44, 26 February 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-02-27, 02:07 == * {{Vandal|Sommers The Holy Knight}} Long-term abuse (Zjholder/Reversi). [[User:NX3710|NX3710]] ([[User talk:NX3710|talk]]) 02:15, 27 February 2026 (UTC) :Nevermind, user is globally locked now. [[User:NX3710|NX3710]] ([[User talk:NX3710|talk]]) 03:37, 27 February 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-03-2, 12:50 == * {{Vandal|Eutechrecruit}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 13:20, 2 March 2026 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. --[[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 13:30, 2 March 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-03-2, 13:20 == * {{Vandal|Sicsallc}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 13:21, 2 March 2026 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. --[[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 13:30, 2 March 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-03-2, 13:21 == * {{Vandal|~2026-13367-78}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 13:23, 2 March 2026 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. --[[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 13:30, 2 March 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-03-3, 16:21 == * {{Vandal|~2026-13772-04}} Vandalism. [[User:Tenshi Hinanawi|Tenshi Hinanawi]] ([[User talk:Tenshi Hinanawi|talk]]) 16:21, 3 March 2026 (UTC) :{{done}}. User blocked and article protected for three months. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 16:38, 3 March 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-03-5, 13:16 == * {{Vandal|~2026-14175-37}} Vandalism. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 13:20, 5 March 2026 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. --[[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 13:43, 5 March 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-03-5, 18:28 == * {{Vandal|Rsfsdfd}} Vandalism. [[User:Tenshi Hinanawi|Tenshi Hinanawi]] ([[User talk:Tenshi Hinanawi|talk]]) 18:28, 5 March 2026 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. --[[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 18:58, 5 March 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-03-7, 06:54 == * {{Vandal|~2026-14650-58}} Vandalism. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 07:22, 7 March 2026 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. --[[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 07:31, 7 March 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-03-9, 15:14 == * {{Vandal|~2026-15017-41}} LTA. [[User:Tenshi Hinanawi|Tenshi Hinanawi]] ([[User talk:Tenshi Hinanawi|talk]]) 15:14, 9 March 2026 (UTC) : {{done}} ~ [[User:UDScott|UDScott]] ([[User talk:UDScott|talk]]) 15:24, 9 March 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-03-8, 08:39 == * {{Vandal|~2026-14739-24}} Vandalism. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 09:01, 8 March 2026 (UTC) :Blocked globally by a steward. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 21:38, 10 March 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-03-13, 20:51 == * {{Vandal|~2026-16223-35}} Vandalism. [[User:Tenshi Hinanawi|Tenshi Hinanawi]] ([[User talk:Tenshi Hinanawi|talk]]) 20:51, 13 March 2026 (UTC) :{{done}}. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 01:32, 14 March 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-03-18, 12:07 == * {{Vandal|Michealikwi}} Long-term abuse. [[Special:CentralAuth/Realjjfrosh]]. Recreated [[Realjjfrosh]]. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:47, 18 March 2026 (UTC) :Already globally locked by Barras. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 13:54, 18 March 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-03-19, 11:28 == * {{Vandal|Akshaysharmaavs}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 11:28, 19 March 2026 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. --[[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 13:31, 19 March 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-03-19, 11:28 == * {{Vandal|IBlogFlare}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 11:30, 19 March 2026 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} by UDScott. --[[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 13:32, 19 March 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-03-20, 01:19 == * {{Vandal|Edwin Cole Lee ecll}} Long-term abuse, [[Special:Contributions/Edwin_ColeLee987654]]. Recreated [[Edwin Cole Lee]]. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 02:14, 20 March 2026 (UTC) :Account is globally locked. [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 06:27, 20 March 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-03-21, 07:17 == * {{Vandal|AlMuqarramIndustry}} [[Wikiquote:Username_policy#Inappropriate_usernames]]. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 07:18, 21 March 2026 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. --[[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 07:56, 21 March 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-03-23, 18:51 == * {{Vandal|韓英雄戴上蘋果手錶來攻打台灣}} Vandalism. [[User:Tenshi Hinanawi|Tenshi Hinanawi]] ([[User talk:Tenshi Hinanawi|talk]]) 18:52, 23 March 2026 (UTC) :{{done}} by GreenMeansGo. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 22:01, 23 March 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-03-26 == * {{Vandal|~2026-18366-74}} Epstein abuse. [[User:GrimRob|GrimRob]] ([[User talk:GrimRob|talk]]) 20:46, 26 March 2026 (UTC) :{{done}}. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 00:24, 27 March 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-03-29, 12:33 == * {{Vandal|Hollandadvocaten01}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:33, 29 March 2026 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. --[[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 12:35, 29 March 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-03-31, 12:37 == * {{Vandal|Ali raza 41306}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:38, 31 March 2026 (UTC) :{{done}} by UDScott. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 12:48, 31 March 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-03-31, 12:48 == * {{Vandal|~2026-14588-11}} Temp address who has done some pretty suspecious edits: take [[Special:Diff/3906458|this]] edit on My Little Pony: Equestria Girls for one, with a scene that doesn't exist in the original (evident because of the swearing which isn't in the film proper). There's also [[Special:Diff/3922034|this]] edit on the Total Drama page featuring two deleted scenes which don't exist at all (and feature characters who AREN'T from Total Drama). [[Special:Diff/3472605|A similar edit]] was done a couple years back on the Total Drama Action page, featuring the same selection of characters (and whoever "1Smash18" is), so it's obvious this person is SoulEaterFan (some edit summaries insist that "SoulEaterFan doesn't exist", but evidence suggests otherwise. [[User:03isrflo62410|03isrflo62410]] ([[User talk:03isrflo62410|talk]]) 13:24, 31 March 2026 (UTC) : I blocked the underlying range. Thanks. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 04:02, 6 April 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-03-31, 13:24 == * {{Vandal|Petrowien}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 13:36, 31 March 2026 (UTC) : Page deleted by GreenMeansGo. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 04:00, 6 April 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-04-6, 20:28 == * {{Vandal|~2026-21266-04}} A lot of vandalism especially on talk pages. --[[User:Ferien|Ferien]] <small>([[User talk:Ferien|talk]])</small> 21:03, 6 April 2026 (UTC) : I've blocked them from the article and talk namespaces for a month. If needed, it can be expanded to a site-wide block. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 23:41, 6 April 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-04-13, 00:14 == * {{Vandal|~2026-21744-59}} IP address showing similar behavior to Evilasio da Paz (SoulEaterFan). Targeted two separate My Little Pony pages; [[Special:Diff/3927068|one such edit]] restored a number of quotes commonly added by SEF; [[Special:Diff/3926975|the other edit]] also added quotes commonly added by SEF. It also [[User talk:MilkyZap|accused a completely unrelated user of being SoulEaterFan]] even though the user it accused was only reverting the edit done by SoulEaterFan. [[User:03isrflo62410|03isrflo62410]] ([[User talk:03isrflo62410|talk]]) 00:19, 13 April 2026 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. --[[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 01:41, 13 April 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-04-13, 02:32 == * {{Vandal|MilkyZap}} Sockpuppet of Evilasio da Paz/SoulEaterFan; confirmed through [[Special:Diff/3927612|this edit]] on the page documenting various socks and [[Special:Diff/3927604|this edit]] where it removed my report on ANOTHER SEF sock. [[User:03isrflo62410|03isrflo62410]] ([[User talk:03isrflo62410|talk]]) 02:34, 13 April 2026 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. --[[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 02:38, 13 April 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-04-6, 03:30 == * {{Vandal|~2026-20174-32}} Please block the underlying IP of this user for several months (there shouldn't be too much collateral damage from blocking that one IP, but there's a rangeblock on it on the English Wikipedia). It's long-term abuse from our resident extreme right-wing vandal (see [[Wikiquote:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive/041#2001:8003:DC14::/48: long-term abuse by antisemitic racist extreme right-wing vandal for six years]]). Thanks. [[User:Graham87|Graham87]] ([[User talk:Graham87|talk]]) 03:48, 6 April 2026 (UTC) : I blocked the underlying range. If you need me to adjust the block or the range, email me. Thanks. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 03:59, 6 April 2026 (UTC) :: CC @[[User:Graham87|Graham87]] to my response above. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 14:56, 16 April 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-04-24, 12:41 == * {{Vandal|Adetoro muiz4}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:42, 24 April 2026 (UTC) : {{done}}. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 13:09, 24 April 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-04-24, 12:54 == * {{Vandal|Toni Tagiam}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 13:02, 24 April 2026 (UTC) : {{done|Globally locked}} by MarcGarver until 2027-04-24. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 16:01, 24 April 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-04-24, 15:11 == * {{Vandal|Owolabi Habeeb ola}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 15:18, 24 April 2026 (UTC) : {{done}}. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 16:44, 26 April 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-05-6, 12:31 == * {{Vandal|Sdfclothing}} [[Wikiquote:Username_policy#Inappropriate_usernames]]. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 13:29, 6 May 2026 (UTC) : {{done}}, and their only article creation was speedily deleted. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 15:32, 7 May 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-05-11, 10:39 == * {{Vandal|Taskraja}} * {{Vandal|Marinas94}} * {{Vandal|Travelaa}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 10:39, 11 May 2026 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. --[[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 13:07, 11 May 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-05-12, 22:19 == * {{Vandal|Ragnir 29912}} Vandalism. [[User:Tenshi Hinanawi|Tenshi Hinanawi]] ([[User talk:Tenshi Hinanawi|talk]]) 22:19, 12 May 2026 (UTC) :{{done}} ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 22:26, 12 May 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-05-9, 04:16 == * {{Vandal|Hammond Johns}} Userpage issues, removed CSD tag. [[w:WP:AB]] [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 04:17, 9 May 2026 (UTC) :Sorry, I wasn't trying to vandalise anything. I was just trying to fix the issues you raised. I'm new at this. I'll just leave it now & will accept any decision you make. [[User:Hammond Johns|Hammond Johns]] ([[User talk:Hammond Johns|talk]]) 05:19, 9 May 2026 (UTC) :{{notdone}} User has been warned. [[User:PieWriter|PieWriter]] ([[User talk:PieWriter|talk]]) 12:57, 14 May 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-05-17, 02:26 == * {{Vandal|Mozang555}} Long-term abuse. [[Special:CentralAuth/Jinnahpk]], [[Special:CentralAuth/Hipponz]]. Created page [[Akhter Aly Kureshy]] ([[Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/Akhtar Aly Kureshy]]) [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 02:30, 17 May 2026 (UTC) :{{done}} ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 03:33, 17 May 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-05-19, 11:35 == * {{Vandal|Capitalskinspa25}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:27, 19 May 2026 (UTC) : {{done}} by UDScott. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 14:50, 19 May 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-05-20, 14:06 == * {{Vandal|~2026-30337-22}} repeated vandalism, several temp accounts before on this article before already, so pls consider protecting the page. [[User:Icodense|Icodense]] ([[User talk:Icodense|talk]]) 14:07, 20 May 2026 (UTC) :{{Done}} [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 14:19, 20 May 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-05-22, 12:10 == * {{Vandal|Fav Jacket}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:43, 22 May 2026 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. --[[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 13:14, 22 May 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-05-25, 12:21 == * {{Vandal|Khandaker Ripon Bio}} * {{Vandal|Ahmed Ripon 26}} * {{Vandal|খন্দকার রিপন}} Spam & Abusing multiple accounts (Recreated [[Khandaker Ripon]]). [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:23, 25 May 2026 (UTC) :{{Done}} [[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 14:31, 25 May 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-05-29, 14:37 == * {{Vandal|Mpyfdh zsitrp}} Long-term abuse. [[:m:User:علاء/case2#Mohamed_AlAgha]] ([[Special:CentralAuth/Télévision_Française]], [[Special:CentralAuth/Would_build]]). Recreated [[Abdelnasser Abdelfattah]]. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 14:39, 29 May 2026 (UTC) :{{done}} ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 15:02, 29 May 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-05-29, 14:39 == * {{Vandal|Need Reqer}} Vandalism. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 14:40, 29 May 2026 (UTC) :{{done}} ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 15:02, 29 May 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-05-30, 10:28 == * {{Vandal|Alive5Official}} [[Wikiquote:Username_policy#Inappropriate_usernames]]. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 11:08, 30 May 2026 (UTC) : {{done}}. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 14:52, 30 May 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-06-2, 17:04 == * {{Vandal|~2026-32675-17}} Butchered the [[Spanish colonization of the Americas]] page, looks like vandalism. . [[User:GrimRob|GrimRob]] ([[User talk:GrimRob|talk]]) 17:30, 2 June 2026 (UTC) : {{done}}. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 19:28, 2 June 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-06-3, 12:37 == * {{Vandal|UNIX-QUANTUM-NETWORKS}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:37, 3 June 2026 (UTC) : {{done}}. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 12:41, 3 June 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-06-3, 12:37 == * {{Vandal|Pathanbd69}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:39, 3 June 2026 (UTC) : {{done}}, and the recent page was deleted. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 12:44, 3 June 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-06-3, 12:44 == * {{Vandal|~2026-32979-36}} cross-wiki abuse ([[:w:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Truthfindervert]], Edit summary similarity + same target ([[Jat people]], [[:w:simple:Jats]], [[:w:Jats]])). [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:45, 3 June 2026 (UTC) : {{done}}. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 17:48, 3 June 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-06-5, 12:47 == * {{Vandal|Profabdelfatah}} Removed CSD tag at [[DGStory]] (no quotes), [[:w:WP:AB]] at [[Hussein Abdelfatah]]. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:49, 5 June 2026 (UTC) : Globally locked by Alaa. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 18:01, 5 June 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-06-6, 03:13 == * {{Vandal|Rap_Goddess0}} Sole page created is obviously promotional content. [[User:03isrflo62410|03isrflo62410]] ([[User talk:03isrflo62410|talk]]) 03:19, 6 June 2026 (UTC) :My page is not promotional please you can check my articles on wikidata, simple English Wikipedia and Yoruba Wikipedia. Thank [[User:Rap Goddess0|Rap Goddess0]] ([[User talk:Rap Goddess0|talk]]) 03:22, 6 June 2026 (UTC) :My other links am notable please: :@[[User:03isrflo62410|03isrflo62410]] [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137670288 My wikidata page] [[User:Rap Goddess0|Rap Goddess0]] ([[User talk:Rap Goddess0|talk]]) 03:23, 6 June 2026 (UTC) :I would also like to point out that every time I add the speedy delete notice, it gets removed and this person sends strange messages on my talk page (one of them suggests I get a job). [[User:03isrflo62410|03isrflo62410]] ([[User talk:03isrflo62410|talk]]) 04:09, 6 June 2026 (UTC) :{{done}} [[User:PieWriter|PieWriter]] ([[User talk:PieWriter|talk]]) 04:21, 6 June 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-06-6, 12:51 == * {{Vandal|Northex Industries}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:51, 6 June 2026 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. --[[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 13:26, 6 June 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-06-8, 03:18 == * {{Vandal|Mehsi-tourism}} * {{Vandal|~2026-33757-37}} Abusing multiple accounts & removed CSD tag at [[Mirza Halim Shah Dargah]] (no quotes). [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 03:32, 8 June 2026 (UTC) :{{done}} ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 03:53, 8 June 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-06-10, 11:19 == * {{Vandal|Mikhailsims}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:17, 10 June 2026 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. --[[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 15:06, 11 June 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-06-10, 12:17 == * {{Vandal|AnuraagRath}} [[:w:WP:AB]]. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:24, 10 June 2026 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. --[[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 14:44, 11 June 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-06-11, 12:11 == * {{Vandal|Leminho567}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:28, 11 June 2026 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. --[[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 14:44, 11 June 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-06-13, 01:50 == * {{Vandal|PrincessAesthetic1831}} cross-wiki abuse, [[:w:WP:AB]]. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 02:29, 13 June 2026 (UTC) :{{done}} ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 03:53, 13 June 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-06-13, 02:29 == * {{Vandal|Galaxypublications}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 02:30, 13 June 2026 (UTC) :{{done}} ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 03:54, 13 June 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-06-14, 02:21 == * {{Vandal|Daveenna43}} Long-term abuse. Cross-wiki abuse. [[Special:CentralAuth/Vasas90]] (created page [[Thathanine Thongchay]], [[:w:simple:Thathanine Thongchay]], [https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&logid=3359217]). [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 03:08, 14 June 2026 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. --[[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 06:20, 14 June 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-06-14, 08:27 == * {{Vandal|Martha.wilson9}} Abusing multiple accounts ([[Special:Contributions/Mikhailsims]]) & Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 08:33, 14 June 2026 (UTC) :{{done}} [[User:PieWriter|PieWriter]] ([[User talk:PieWriter|talk]]) 09:19, 14 June 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-06-14, 21:33 == * {{Vandal|Pragmaticwolf2026}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 22:18, 14 June 2026 (UTC) : {{done}}. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 13:48, 15 June 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-06-15, 12:39 == * {{vandal|~2026-35173-92}} Vandalism. [[User:Tenshi Hinanawi|Tenshi Hinanawi]] ([[User talk:Tenshi Hinanawi|talk]]) 12:39, 15 June 2026 (UTC) : {{done}}. I also blocked the underlying /16 range as well. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 13:51, 15 June 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-06-16, 12:11 == * {{Vandal|~2026-35094-88}} Vandalism. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:39, 16 June 2026 (UTC) :{{done}} - deleted. ~ [[User:UDScott|UDScott]] ([[User talk:UDScott|talk]]) 12:57, 16 June 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-06-16, 12:39 == * {{Vandal|ShaneWarne23}} Spam, [[Special:CentralAuth/Astroma09]] ([https://spamcheck.toolforge.org/by-domain?q=astroma.co]). [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:44, 16 June 2026 (UTC) : Globally locked by M7. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 15:37, 16 June 2026 (UTC) == account Rferf as commercial vandal == * {{Vandal|User:Rferf}} Sole contribution is nonsense with two links to some commercial Web site. [[User:Gramorama|Gramorama]] ([[User talk:Gramorama|talk]]) 05:26, 17 June 2026 (UTC) :{{notdone}} {{ping| Gramorama}} User’s last edit was in 2021, a block is currently not needed. [[User:PieWriter|PieWriter]] ([[User talk:PieWriter|talk]]) 07:17, 17 June 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-06-17, 13:17 == * {{Vandal|~2026-35276-58}} Vandalism. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 13:18, 17 June 2026 (UTC) : {{done}}. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 14:21, 17 June 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-06-17, 13:18 == * {{Vandal|~2026-35184-15}} cross-wiki abuse ([[:w:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Truthfindervert]], Edit summary similarity + same target ([[Jat people]], [[:w:simple:Jats]], [[:w:Jats]])). [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 13:19, 17 June 2026 (UTC) : {{done}}. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 14:25, 17 June 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-06-17, 12:32 == * {{Vandal|~2026-35484-39}} [[:w:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Jinnifer]]. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:51, 17 June 2026 (UTC) :{{done}} ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 18:06, 17 June 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-06-17, 12:51 == * {{Vandal|Yanaburns4}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:51, 17 June 2026 (UTC) :{{done}} ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 18:07, 17 June 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-06-18, 12:13 == * {{Vandal|ISSRelocations}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:13, 18 June 2026 (UTC) :{{done}} ~ [[User:UDScott|UDScott]] ([[User talk:UDScott|talk]]) 12:20, 18 June 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-06-18, 12:15 == * {{Vandal|Galaxypublications}} * {{Vandal|Galaxypublications01}} Abusing multiple accounts & Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:16, 18 June 2026 (UTC) :{{done}} ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 13:32, 18 June 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-06-18, 22:17 == * {{Vandal|~2026-35618-87}} [[:w:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Jinnifer]]. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 22:21, 18 June 2026 (UTC) :{{done}} [[User:PieWriter|PieWriter]] ([[User talk:PieWriter|talk]]) 10:34, 19 June 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-06-18, 22:17 == * {{Vandal|Bettyorlov26}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 22:17, 18 June 2026 (UTC) :{{done}} for 2 weeks. [[User:PieWriter|PieWriter]] ([[User talk:PieWriter|talk]]) 10:35, 19 June 2026 (UTC) :: Reblocked indefinitely, the user added a pornographic link to their user page. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 02:20, 20 June 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-06-20, 08:37 == * {{Vandal|~2026-35829-17}} Vandalism. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 08:38, 20 June 2026 (UTC) : {{done}}. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 19:26, 20 June 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-06-20, 11:50 == * {{Vandal|Snow2190}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:48, 20 June 2026 (UTC) : {{done}} by UDScott. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 19:25, 20 June 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-06-21, 02:26 == * {{Vandal|Yaroslavdunn}} * {{Vandal|Mikhailwilson4}} * {{Vandal|Justinbelikov51}} * {{Vandal|Tatiana-payne50}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 02:26, 21 June 2026 (UTC) :{{Done|Blocked}} indefinitely. --[[User:Saroj|Saroj]] ([[User talk:Saroj|talk]]) 08:25, 21 June 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-06-23, 00:17 == * {{Vandal|~2026-36109-50}} Vandalism. [[User:Tenshi Hinanawi|Tenshi Hinanawi]] ([[User talk:Tenshi Hinanawi|talk]]) 00:17, 23 June 2026 (UTC) :{{done}} [[User:PieWriter|PieWriter]] ([[User talk:PieWriter|talk]]) 00:34, 23 June 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-06-22, 12:25 == * {{Vandal|Osinowomagnus}} [[:w:WP:AB]]. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:26, 22 June 2026 (UTC) : {{done}}. [[User:Codename Noreste|<span style="color:#0024FF">Codename Noreste</span>]] ([[User talk:Codename Noreste|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Codename Noreste|contribs]]) 15:56, 24 June 2026 (UTC) == New report 2026-06-24, 12:37 == * {{Vandal|Square Insurance Broker}} * {{Vandal|Osinowomagnus}} Spam. [[User:MathXplore|MathXplore]] ([[User talk:MathXplore|talk]]) 12:37, 24 June 2026 (UTC) :{{done}} ~ [[User:UDScott|UDScott]] ([[User talk:UDScott|talk]]) 12:40, 24 June 2026 (UTC) : Also done for the second account here. 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Brennan, Jr. → William J. Brennan Jr., Charles Francis Adams, Sr. → Charles Francis Adams Sr. using [[Project:AWB|AWB]] 3961187 wikitext text/x-wiki <small>"America", "US", "USA", and "United States of America" redirect here. For the landmass comprising North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean, see [[Americas]]. For other uses, see [[America (disambiguation)]].</small> [[File:Flag of the United States (DoS ECA Color Standard).svg|thumb|{{center/s}}⁠[[w:In God We Trust|In God We Trust]]{{center/e}}]] The '''[[w:United States|United States of America]]''' ('''USA'''), commonly known as the '''United States''' ('''U.S.''') or '''America''', is a country primarily located in [[North America]]. It is a federal union of 50 states and a federal capital district, [[Washington, D.C.]] The 48 contiguous states border [[Canada]] to the north and [[Mexico]] to the south, with the states of [[Alaska]] to the northwest and the archipelagic [[Hawaii]] in the [[Pacific Ocean]]. The United States also asserts sovereignty over five major island territories and various uninhabited islands. The country has the world's third-largest land area, largest exclusive economic zone, and third-largest population, exceeding 334 million. Its three largest metropolitan areas are [[New York City|New York]], [[Los Angeles]], and [[Chicago]], and its three most populous states are [[California]], [[Texas]], and [[Florida]]. __NOTOC__ {{TOCalpha|[[#Anonymous|Anonymous]]}} == A == [[File:North America from low orbiting satellite Suomi NPP.jpg|thumb|O, Columbia, the gem of the ocean, </br> The home of the brave and the free, </br> The shrine of each patriot's devotion, </br> A world offers homage to thee.]] * O, Columbia, the gem of the ocean,<br> &nbsp;&nbsp; The home of the brave and the free,<br>The shrine of each patriot's devotion,<br> &nbsp;&nbsp; A world offers homage to thee. * Three cheers for the red, white, and blue. ** [[Thomas A'Becket (composer)|Thomas a'Becket]], "[[w:Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean|Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean]]" (c. 1843)<!--[https://archive.org/details/pubsing00phil/page/4/mode/2up ''The Public School Singing Book''] (Philadelphia: Leary & Getz, 1848), p. 4--> * America fears the unshaven legs, the unshaven men's cheeks, the aroma of perspiration, and the limp prick. Above all it fears the limp prick. ** [[Walter Abish]], ''In the Future Perfect'' (1977), p. 22 * My imagination pictures old age as seated at home in the midst of social connexions and quiet enjoyments. But in this Country there is vastly little of this. Men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire. ** [[Charles Francis Adams Sr.]], Diary entry (April 15, 1836)<!--L. H. Butterfield; Marc Friedlaender (eds.) ''Diary of Charles Francis Adams'', vol. 6 (Harvard UP, 1974)--> * A period of about twelve years measured the beat of the pendulum. After the Declaration of Independence, twelve years had been needed to create an efficient Constitution; another twelve years of energy brought a reaction against the government then created; a third period of twelve years was ending in a sweep toward still greater energy; and already a child could calculate the result of a few more such returns. ** [[Henry Adams]], ''A History of the United States of America during the First Administration of James Madison'' (1890), vol. 2, ch. 6 * The huge American rattle of gold. ** Henry Adams, ''The American Scene'' (1907), ch. 2, sec. 3 * American society is a sort of flat, freshwater pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it. ** Henry Adams, Letter to [[Royal Cortissoz]] (September 20, 1911)<!--[[Worthington C. Ford|W. C. Ford]] (ed.) [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.75604/mode/2up ''Letters, 1892–1918''] (1938), p. 572--> * That the American, by temperament, worked to excess, was true; work and whiskey were his stimulants; work was a form of vice; but he never cared much for money or power after he earned them. The amusement of the pursuit was all the amusement he got from it. ** Henry Adams, [[w:The Education of Henry Adams|''The Education of Henry Adams'']] (1918), ch. 19<!-- Written before 1907 --> * The American mind — the Bostonian as well as the Southern or Western — likes to walk straight up to its object, and assert or deny something that it takes for a fact; it has a conventional approach, a conventional analysis, and a conventional conclusion, as well as a conventional expression, all the time loudly asserting its unconventionality. ** Henry Adams, ''The Education of Henry Adams'' (1918), ch. 24 * The true American knew something of the facts, but nothing of the feelings; he read the letter but he never felt the law. ** Henry Adams, ''The Education of Henry Adams'' (1918), ch. 25 * For this new creation, born since 1900, a historian asked no longer to be teacher or even friend; he asked only to be a pupil, and promised to be docile, for once, even though trodden under foot; for he could see that the new American — the child of incalculable coal-power, chemical power, electric power, and radiating energy, as well as of new forces yet undetermined — must be a sort of God compared with any former creation of nature. At the rate of progress since 1800, every American who lived into the year 2000 would know how to control unlimited power. He would think in complexities unimaginable to an earlier mind. He would deal with problems altogether beyond the range of earlier society. To him the nineteenth century would stand on the same plane with the fourth — equally childlike — and he would only wonder how both of them, knowing so little, and so weak in force, should have done so much. ** Henry Adams, ''The Education of Henry Adams'' (1918), ch. 34 [[File:John Trumbull - John Adams - Google Art Project (498015).jpg|thumb|I have not one drop of blood in my veins but what is American. <br> —[[John Adams]] ]] <!--[[File:26th Regiment USCT colors.png|thumb|Every measure of prudence...ought to be assumed for the eventual total extirpation of slavery from the United States. —John Adams]] [[File:Bombardment of Fort Sumter.jpg|thumb|I shudder when I think of the calamities which slavery is likely to produce in this country. —John Adams]]--> * I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth. ** [[John Adams]], ''A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law'' (1765), note 2 * We have been entertained with a great variety of phrases, to avoid calling this sort of people a mob. Some call them shavers, some call them geniuses. The plain English is, gentlemen, most probably a motley rabble of saucy boys, negroes and mulattoes, Irish teagues and outlandish jack tars. ** John Adams, defending the British soldiers who were charged with committing murder at the [[w:Boston Massacre|Boston Massacre]], at their trial (November 27, 1770) * Let them revere nothing but Religion, Morality and Liberty. ** John Adams, Letter to Abigail Adams (April 15, 1776) [https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/04-01-02-0249] * We are in the very midst of a Revolution, the most complete, unexpected, and remarkable of any in the History of Nations. ** John Adams, Letter to [[William Cushing]] (June 9, 1776)<!--Robert J. Taylor (ed.) ''Papers of John Adams'' (Harvard UP, 1979), pp. 244–6--> * One of the foreign ambassadors said to me, "You have been often in England." "Never, but once in November and December, 1783." "You have relations in England, no doubt." "None at all." "None, how can that be? you are of English extraction?" "Neither my father or mother, grandfather or grandmother, great grandfather or great grandmother, nor any other relation that I know of, or care a farthing for, has been in England these one hundred and fifty years; so that you see I have not one drop of blood in my veins but what is American." ** John Adams, Diary entry (January 31, 1785) <!--Charles F. Adams (ed.) ''The Works of John Adams'', [https://archive.org/details/worksofjohnadams0003char/page/392/mode/2up vol. 3] (1851), p. 392--> * Every measure of prudence...ought to be assumed for the eventual total extirpation of slavery from the United States. ** John Adams, Letter to Robert J. Evans (June 8, 1819) [https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/adams-the-works-of-john-adams-vol-10-letters-1811-1825-indexes#lf1431-10_head_152] * I shudder when I think of the calamities which slavery is likely to produce in this country. You would think me mad if I were to describe my anticipations. If the gangrene is not stopped, I can see nothing but insurrection of the blacks against the whites...till at last the whites will be exasperated to madness—shall be wicked enough to exterminate the Negroes as the English did the Rohillas. ** John Adams, Letter (January 13, 1820) ** [[w:Adams Papers Editorial Project|APm]], quoted in Page Smith, ''John Adams'', vol. 2 (1962), p. 1126 <!-- Garden City, NY: Doubleday --> * Slavery in this country, I have seen hanging over it like a black cloud for half a century. ** John Adams, Letter to Thomas Jefferson (February 3, 1821) * Our Constitution professedly rests upon the ''good sense'' and ''attachment of the people''. This basis, weak as it may appear, has not yet been found to fail. ** [[John Quincy Adams]], Letter to [[William Vans Murray]] (January 27, 1801)<!--Worthington C. Ford (ed.) ''Writings of John Quincy Adams'', vol. 2 (New York: Macmillan Co., 1912), p. 495--> * "Think of your forefathers and of your posterity." ** John Quincy Adams, [[s:Oration at Plymouth|Oration at Plymouth]], MA (December 22, 1802) ** [[Calgacus]], in [[Tacitus]], [[w:Agricola (book)|''Agricola'']], 32: ''et majores et posteros cogitate''. * America, with the same voice which spoke herself into existence as a nation, proclaimed to mankind the inextinguishable rights of human nature, and the only lawful foundations of government. * America ... well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extraction, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom. The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force. ... She might become dictatress of the world. She would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit. ** John Quincy Adams, Speech to the U.S. House of Representatives (July 4, 1821) * Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. ** John Quincy Adams, Address as Secretary of State to the U.S. House of Representatives (July 4, 1821) * America, in the assembly of nations, since her admission among them, has invariably, though often fruitlessly, held forth to them the hand of honest friendship, of equal freedom, of generous reciprocity. She has uniformly spoken among them, though often to heedless and often to disdainful ears, the language of equal liberty, of equal justice, and of equal rights. ** John Quincy Adams, Address Delivered at the Request of a Committee of the Citizens of Washington (July 4, 1821) * Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which enjoys the most freedom must necessarily be in proportion to its numbers the most powerful nation. ** John Quincy Adams, Letter to James Lloyd (October 1, 1822) * Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power; that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its numbers be the most powerful nation upon earth, and that the tenure of power by man is, in the moral purposes of his Creator, upon condition that it shall be exercised to ends of beneficence, to improve the condition of himself and his fellow men. ** John Quincy Adams, [[s:John Quincy Adams' First State of the Union Address|First State of the Union Address]] (December 6, 1825) * What a glorious morning is this! ** [[Samuel Adams]], on hearing gunfire at [[w:Battles of Lexington and Concord|Lexington]] (April 19, 1775), as quoted by Edward Everett, ''An Address, Delivered at Lexington, on the 19th (20th) April, 1835'' (1835); this has often been paraphrased as "What a glorious morning for America!" * There has been...the [[American dream]], that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for every man, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. It is a difficult dream for the European upper classes to interpret adequately, and too many of us ourselves have grown weary and mistrustful of it. It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position. ** [[James Truslow Adams]], ''The Epic of America'', 2nd ed. (1931), p. 404 * In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism. ** [[Spiro Agnew]], Speech in San Diego (September 11, 1970) [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/07/10/nattering-nabobs] * [[w:Emancipation reform of 1861|I did more for the Russian serf]] in giving him land as well as personal liberty, than America did for the negro slave set free by the proclamation of President Lincoln. I am at a loss to understand how you Americans could have been so blind as to leave the negro slave without tools to work out his salvation. In giving him personal liberty, you gave him an obligation to perform to the state which he must be unable to fulfill. Without property of any kind he cannot educate himself and his children. I believe the time must come when many will question the manner of American emancipation of the negro slaves in 1863. The vote, in the hands of an ignorant man, without either property or self respect, will be used to the damage of the people at large; for the rich man, without honor or any kind of patriotism, will purchase it, and with it swamp the rights of a free people. ** [[Alexander II of Russia]], to [[Wharton Barker]], at [[w:Pavlovsk Palace|Pavlovski Palace]] (August 17, 1879); "The Secret of Russia's Friendship", in ''The Independent'' (March 24, 1904), p. 647 [[File:Boxing light-heavyweight 1960 Olympics.jpg|thumb|To make America the greatest is my goal. —[[Muhammad Ali]]]] * To make America the greatest is my goal, <br /> So I beat the Russian, and I beat the Pole, <br /> And for the USA won the Medal of Gold. <br /> Italians said, "You're greater than the [[w:Gaius Cassius Longinus|Cassius of Old]]." <br /> We like your name, we like your game, <br /> So make [[Rome]] your home if you will. <br> I said I appreciate kind hospitality, <br /> But the USA is my country still, <br /> 'Cause they waiting to welcome me in [[w:Louisville, Kentucky|Louisville]]. ** [[Muhammad Ali]] (then Cassius Clay), "How Cassius Took Rome", written after winning the light heavyweight gold medal at the [[w:1960 Summer Olympics|1960 Olympics]], in ''The Greatest'' (1975), pt. 2 * Ever since I arrived to a state of manhood, and acquainted myself with the general history of mankind, I have felt a sincere passion for liberty. The history of nations doomed to perpetual slavery, in consequence of holding up to tyrant their natural-born liberties, I read with a sort of philosophical horror; so that the first systematical and bloody attempt at Lexington, to enslave America, thoroughly electrified my mind, and fully determined me to take part with my country. ** [[Ethan Allen]], [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=evans;cc=evans;rgn=div1;view=toc;idno=N12802.0001.001;node=N12802.0001.001:3 ''A Narrative of Colonel Ethan Allen's Captivity''] (1779) * If there was anything "new and better" about America it was the hope of peace—of peace on a more secure, vaster, continental scale than had ever been tried or attempted before. Oceans to the east and west of her, arid wilderness to the south, and the self-same friendly people to the north—the nation could not be seriously threatened by anything but disturbance from within. ** [[Hervey Allen]], ''Action at Aquila'' (1938), ch. 5 * Yet, still, from either beach,<br>The voice of blood shall reach,<br>More audible than speech,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;{{smallcaps|We are one}}! ** [[Washington Allston]], "Lines (America and England)", in ''The Cincinnati Literary Gazette'' (July 30, 1825), p. 244 [https://archive.org/details/sim_cincinnati-literary-gazette_1825-07-30_4_31/page/244/mode/2up] * The United States has the {{w|Income inequality in the United States|highest inequality}} of the richest nations. It has the {{w|Incarceration in the United States|highest incarceration rate}} by far. It has among the highest child mortality rates. It has the highest {{w|Poverty in the United States#Child poverty|youth poverty rate}}. It has one of the lowest levels of voter registration in the rich countries. In essence, it scores extremely poorly on almost all of the comparative measures when compared with other developed states. I visited [[China]] on one of these missions about a year ago and what I found was a country that has {{w|Human rights in China|huge problems in terms of human rights}}, but in terms of extreme {{w|Poverty in China| poverty}}, has made an absolutely concerted and genuine attempt to eliminate poverty and has succeeded to an important extent. By 2020, they will in fact have no one living in extreme poverty, unlike the United States. While I don’t for a minute want to suggest that the political system [in China] is desirable or even compatible with democratic standards, I would very much welcome an American government that shows a determination to lift everyone out of extreme {{w|Poverty in the United States|poverty}}. I think that’s what politics should be all about, and it’s not happening in the United States. ** [[Philip Alston]], [https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-un-poverty-inequality-report-20180602-htmlstory.html "Q&A: U.N.'s poverty and human rights special rapporteur finds U.S. policies reward wealthy, punish poor"], ''{{w|Los Angeles Times}}'' (June 2, 2018) * Though America is rising with a giant's strength, its bones are yet but cartilages. ** [[Fisher Ames]], Speech on Madison's Resolutions (January 27, 1794), in J. T. Kirkland (ed.) [https://archive.org/details/worksfisherames00amesrich/page/56/mode/2up ''Works''] (1809), p. 57 * [The framers of the Constitution] intended our government should be a ''republic'', which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism. ** Fisher Ames, "The Mire of Democracy", in the [[w:Anthology Club|''Monthly Anthology'']] of the Boston Athenæum (1805), vol. 2, pp. 563–6. Reprinted in W. B. Allen (ed.) ''Works of Fisher Ames'' (1983), vol. 1, pp. 6–7 [[File:Castle Romeo.jpg|thumb|What is it like to be a citizen of a superpower, to maintain democratically the means of planetary extinction? <br> —[[Martin Amis]]]] * British liberals enjoy being alarmed by commotion on the American Right; we also tend to indulge our vulgar delight in American vulgarity. ** [[Martin Amis]], "The New Evangelists", in [[w:The Observer|''The Observer'']] (1980); ''The Moronic Inferno'' (1986) * Nowadays every business in America says how warm it is and how much it cares: loan companies, supermarkets, hamburger chains. ** Martin Amis, "In Hefnerland", in ''The Observer'' (1985); ''The Moronic Inferno'' (1986) * What is it like to be a citizen of a superpower, to maintain democratically the means of planetary extinction? I wonder how this contributes to the dreamlife of America, a dreamlife that is so deep and troubled. ** Martin Amis, [[w:The Moronic Inferno|''The Moronic Inferno, and Other Visits to America'']] (1986), intro. * ''Aux États-Unis la nature, comme la société, n'est pas toujours belle, mais elle est toujours grande.'' ** In the United States, nature, like society, is not always beautiful, but it is always grand. ** [[Jean-Jacques Ampère]], ''Promenade en Amérique'' (Paris: Michel Lévy frères, 1855), [https://archive.org/details/promenadeenamri00ampgoog/page/n328/mode/2up vol. 1], ch. 24, p. 314 [[File:Apollo 11 insignia.png|thumb|{{center|1=The ''Eagle'' has landed.}}]] * We Negroes are American Citizens — First Class tax payers, but so often treated as second class citizens, if there is such. In our hearts, we would like to know what it is that the White man has against the Negro. What can we do to make peace with the White man? We have to live on this earth together. We can not do without each other. We as a group, want your friendship, won't you accept? ** Floy J. Anderson, Letter to Dwight D. Eisenhower (October 15, 1957) * Sometimes I think we Americans are the loneliest people in the world. To be sure, we hunger for the power of affection, the self-acceptance that gives life. It is the oldest and strongest hunger in the world. But hungering is not enough. ** [[Sherwood Anderson]], [https://archive.org/details/sherwoodanderson0000ande_m6f2/page/6/mode/2up ''Memoirs''] (1942), pref. * Houston, [[w:Tranquility Base|Tranquility Base]] here. The [[w:Lunar Module Eagle|''Eagle'']] has landed. ** [[Neil Armstrong]], from the Moon (July 20, 1969) * Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines, and Populace; and America is just ourselves, with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly. ** [[Matthew Arnold]], [[w:Culture and Anarchy|''Culture and Anarchy'']] (1869), pref. * That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation. ** Matthew Arnold, "A Word about America", in ''The Nineteenth Century'', no. 63 (May, 1882), p. 687 * I suppose that in a democratic community like this, with its newness, its magnitude, its strength, its life of business, its sheer freedom and equality, the danger is in the absence of the discipline of respect; in hardness and materialism, exaggeration and boastfulness; in a false smartness, a false audacity, a want of soul and delicacy. ** Matthew Arnold, "Numbers; or, The Majority and the Remnant", in ''The Nineteenth Century'', no. 86 (April, 1884), p. 683<!--Collected in ''Discourses in America'' (1885)--> * The American Philistine was a livelier sort of Philistine than ours. ** Matthew Arnold, "A Word More about America", in ''The Nineteenth Century'', no. 96 (February, 1885), p. 226 * What really dissatisfies in American civilisation is the want of the ''interesting'', a want due chiefly to the want of those two great elements of the interesting, which are elevation and beauty. ** Matthew Arnold, "Civilisation in the United States", in ''The Nineteenth Century'', no. 134 (April, 1888), p. 495<!--Collected in ''Civilization in the United States'' (Boston: Cupples and Hurd, 1888)--> * The western mind — and perhaps the American mind in particular — has been trained to equate success with victory, to equate doing well with beating someone. ** [[Elliot Aronson]], ''The Social Animal'' (1972) ch. 5 * To-day the United States stands out as the mightiest Power on earth, and yet America is a threat to no one. All know that she will never use her power for selfish aims or territorial aggrandisement in the future any more than she has done in the past. We look upon her forces and our own forces and those of other nations as instruments that must never be employed save in the interests of world security and for the repression of the aggressor. ** [[Clement Attlee]], Address to the U.S. Congress (November 13, 1945), reported in the London ''Times'' (November 14, 1945), p. 4 * A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office every day. Not because he likes it but because he can’t think of anything else to do. ** [[W. H. Auden]], private conversation with [[Alan Ansen]] (December 11, 1946), in Nicholas Jenkins (ed.) [https://archive.org/details/tabletalkofwhaud0000anse/page/10/mode/2up ''The Table Talk of W. H. Auden''] (Faber and Faber, 1991), p. 10 [[File:A LARGE AREA OF SLASH REMAINS FOLLOWING LOGGING OPERATIONS BY THE U.S. BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. THE UNCLEANED AREAS... - NARA - 545143.jpg|thumb|A culture is no better than its woods. —[[W. H. Auden]]]] * This great society is going to smash; </br> They cannot fool us with how fast they go, </br> How much they cost each other and the gods. </br> A culture is no better than its woods. ** W. H. Auden, "[[w:Bucolics (Auden)|Bucolics II: Woods]]". ''The Shield of Achilles'' (1955) * God bless the U.S.A., so large, </br> So friendly, and so rich. ** W. H. Auden, "On the Circuit". ''About the House'' (1965) * Americans—like omelettes: </br> there is no such thing </br> as a pretty good one. ** W. H. Auden, "Marginalia". [[w:Edward Mendelson|E. Mendelson]] (ed.) ''Collected Poems'' (1976) * America controls the world, [[Israel|we]] control America. Never before have [[Jews]] exerted such an immense influence on the center of world power. ** [[Uri Avnery]], [https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0304/S00146/uri-avnery-the-night-after.htm "The Night After"], in [[w:Scoop (website)|''Scoop'']] (April 15, 2003) == B == [[File:San Francisco, California. Flag of allegiance pledge at Raphael Weill Public School, Geary and Buch . . . - NARA - 537476.jpg|thumb|One nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.]] * Having learned that the English lady to whom some of her daughters were sent to school, had placed the pupils connected with persons in public life (her children amongst the number) at the upper end of the table, upon the ground that the young ladies of rank should sit together, Mrs. Bache sent her word that in this country there was no rank but rank mutton. ** [[Sarah Franklin Bache]], in [[Elizabeth F. Ellet|E. F. Ellet]], ''The Women of the American Revolution'', [https://archive.org/details/womenofamericanr11848elle/page/346/mode/2up vol. 1] (1848), p. 347 * America! thou half brother of the world!<br>With something good and bad of every land;<br>Greater than thee have lost their seat—<br>Greater scarce none can stand. ** [[Philip James Bailey]], ''Festus'' (1839), sc. "Earth's Surface" * We claim that Oregon will ever be American soil. We claim it by cession from Spain, by continued discovery, by contiguity, by the independence of America, as no longer open to foreign colonization; and by the manifest purpose of Providence, that the light of democratic freedom should be borne from our fires to the domain beyond the Rocky Mountains; that its harbors should shelter our commerce, its valleys become homes for our kindred and our adopted citizens. ** [[George Bancroft]], Letter (August 15, 1844), in [[w:Weekly Register|''Niles' National Register'']], [https://archive.org/details/nilesnationalreg67nile/page/4/mode/2up?q=%22our+fires+to+the+domain+beyond%22 5th ser., vol. 17, no. 1] (September 7, 1844), p. 4 * I pledge allegiance to my Flag and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. ** George Thatcher Balch and [[w:Francis Bellamy|Francis Bellamy]], [[Pledge of Allegiance]] (1885; rev. 1892) * I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. ** [[James Baldwin]], "Autobiographical Notes" (1952); ''Notes of a Native Son'' (1955) * A country whose founding statesmen were adamant about the dangers of armed, standing government forces; a country that enshrined the Fourth Amendment in the Bill of Rights and revered and protected the age-old notion that the home is a place of privacy and sanctuary. ** [[Radley Balko]], [https://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/how_did_americas_police_become_a_military_force_on_the_streets "How did America’s police become a military force on the streets?"], ''American Bar Association Journal'' (July 1, 2013) * The United States has always been a nation at odds with its professed aspirations of equality and justice for all—from the genocide of original inhabitants to slavery to military aggression abroad. But there have been periods in our history when courageous social movements have made significant advances. We must learn from those who’ve gone before us as we strive to build a movement that can tackle today’s injustices—and help all of us survive. ** [[William Barber II]], [https://progressive.org/magazine/real-epidemic-poverty-barber/ "The Real Epidemic is Poverty"], ''The Progressive Magazine'' (March 30, 2020) * The hour is come, the world's unclosing eyes </br> Discern with rapture where its wisdom lies; </br> From western heav'ns th' inverted Orient springs, </br> The morn of man, the dreadful night of kings. ** [[Joel Barlow]], ''The Conspiracy of Kings'' (1792), l. 159 * In the United States of America, the science of liberty is universally understood. ... Many operations, which in Europe have been considered as incredible tales or dangerous experiments, are but the infalible consequences of this great principle. ... [One] of these operations is making every citizen a soldier, and every soldier a citizen; not only permitting every man to arm, but obliging him to arm. ... It is because the people are civilized, that they are with safety armed. ** Joel Barlow, ''Advice to the Privileged Orders in the Several States of Europe'', [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=evans;idno=N18548.0001.001 pt. 1] (1792), ch. 1 * As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion, as it has in itself no character or enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen, and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries. ** Joel Barlow, [[w:Treaty of Tripoli|Treaty of Tripoli]] (January 3, 1797), art. 11 * I reflected that this was, after all, America; and everyone had a right to go to hell in the handbasket of their choosing. ** [[Steven Barnes]], "Endurance Vile", in [[w:Asimov's Science Fiction|''Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine'']], [https://archive.org/details/Asimovs_v04n08_1980-08/page/n53/mode/2up vol. 4, no. 8] (August, 1980), p. 54 ** Cf. [[Voltaire]], [[w:Letters on the English|''Letters on the English Nation'']] (1733), [[s:Letters concerning the English Nation/Letter V|V]]: "An Englishman, as one to whom liberty is natural, may go to heaven his own way." * Thus was born the civil rights movement, an epic struggle that has required much sacrifice and pain, but which has enabled the United States to progress, in just three decades, from being a nation where blacks were forced to ride in the back of the bus, to being a nation where, due to federal cutbacks, there ''is'' no bus. ** [[Dave Barry]], ''Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States'' (1989), p. 138 * Americans loved [[Disneyland]], because it gave them something good, something decent, something that epitomized a quality that vacationing American families value above all else: clean [[toilet]]s. ** Dave Barry, ''Dave Barry Turns 50'' (1998), p. 71 * The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and time again that they have the management skills of celery. They're the kind of people who'd stop to help you change a flat, but would somehow manage to set your car on fire. I would be reluctant to entrust them with a Cuisinart, let alone the economy. The Republicans, on the other hand, would know how to fix your tire, but they wouldn't bother to stop because they'd want to be on time for Ugly Pants Night at the country club. ** Dave Barry, [https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19900524/1073544/todays-topic-is-about----uh----itll-come-to-us-in-a-minute "Today's Topic Is About... Uh... It'll Come To US In A Minute"], ''The Seattle Times'' (May 24, 1990) * America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for $1.00, and use it up in two weeks. ** [[John Barrymore]], quoted in [[w:Financial Post|''The Financial Post'']], [https://archive.org/details/sim_financial-post_1941-09-20_35_38/page/n5/mode/2up?q=%22country+where+you+buy+a+lifetime+supply%22 vol. 35, no. 38] (September 20, 1941), p. 102 * Behold him rushing forth from the flags and reeds. His enormous body swells. His plaited tail brandished high, floats upon the lake. The waters like a cataract descend from his opening jaws. Clouds of smoke issue from his dilated nostrils. The earth trembles with his thunder. ** [[William Bartram]], describing an [[alligator]] he saw on [[w:St. Johns River|St. Johns River]] in 1774, in ''Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, &c.'' (1791), pt. 2, ch. 5 * Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game — and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams. ** [[Jacques Barzun]], ''God's Country and Mine'' (1954), ch. 2 <!--[[File:Great Plains, Nebraska, U.S. 1.jpg|thumb|O beautiful for spacious skies, </br> For amber waves of grain.]] [[File:Wheeler Peak from Phillips.jpg|thumb|For purple mountain majesties </br> Above the fruited plain!]]--> [[File:USA Territories National Parks Map by Jacqueline Boss.jpg|thumb|America! America! </br> God shed His grace on thee, </br> And crown thy good with brotherhood </br> From sea to shining sea! </br> —[[Katharine Lee Bates]]]] * O beautiful for spacious skies, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; For amber waves of grain, </br> For purple mountain majesties </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Above the fruited plain! </br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; America! America! </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; God shed His grace on thee, </br> And crown thy good with brotherhood </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; From sea to shining sea! * O beautiful for pilgrim feet, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Whose stern, impassioned stress </br> A thoroughfare for freedom beat </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Across the wilderness! </br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; America! America! </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; God mend thine every flaw, </br> Confirm thy soul in self-control, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Thy liberty in law! * O beautiful for heroes proved </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; In liberating strife, </br> Who more than self their country loved </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; And mercy more than life! </br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; America! America! </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; May God thy gold refine, </br> Till all success be nobleness, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; And every gain divine! ** [[Katharine Lee Bates]], "[[w:America the Beautiful|America the Beautiful]]" (1895; rev. 1904, 1911) * America has been called a melting pot, but it seems better to call it a mosaic, for in it each nation, people, or race which has come to its shores has been privileged to keep its individuality, contributing at the same time its share to the unified pattern of a new nation. ** [[Baudouin of Belgium]], Address to the U.S. Congress (May 12, 1959), in the ''Department of State Bulletin'', [https://archive.org/details/departmentofstat4059unit/page/850/mode/2up vol. 40, no. 1041] (June 8, 1959), p. 851 * What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world. ** [[Jean Baudrillard]], ''America'' (1986), "Astral America" (tr. Chris Turner, 1988) * All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women. ** [[Thomas Beecham|Sir Thomas Beecham, Bt.]], in the [[w:St. Louis Post-Dispatch|''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'']], [https://archive.org/details/per_st-louis-post-dispatch_1946-05-02_98_239/mode/2up vol. 98, no. 239] (May 2, 1946), p. 1 * Although action is typical of the American style, thought and planning are not; it is considered heresy to state that some problems are not immediately or easily solvable. ** [[Daniel Bell]], [http://www.jstor.org/stable/20027059 "The Year 2000—The Trajectory of an Idea"], in ''Daedalus'', vol. 96, no. 3 (Summer, 1967), p. 648 * Not only does the United States claim that their democratic model is best for them, but [also] that it is best for the rest of the world. Some Americans assume that alternative systems are fundamentally illegitimate. Naturally this attitude upsets many Chinese who are committed to good government. They think, who are you to lecture us about political systems, with only a few hundred years of history? ** Daniel A. Bell, interviewed by E. Pastreich, [https://thediplomat.com/2015/12/interview-daniel-bell/ "Chinese meritocracy and the limits of democracy"], [[w:The Diplomat (magazine)|''The Diplomat'']] (December 17, 2015) * A good American makes propaganda for whatever existence has forced him to become. ** [[Saul Bellow]], "Cousins", ''Him With His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories'' (1984), p. 263 * In America there are two classes of travel—first class, and with children. ** [[Robert Benchley]], ''Pluck and Luck'' (1925), p. 6 [[File:Deadwood13.jpg|thumb|The sharp, gaunt names that never get fat, ... Tucson and Deadwood and Lost Mule Flat. —[[Stephen Vincent Benét|Stephen V. Benét]]]] * I have fallen in love with American names, </br> The sharp, gaunt names that never get fat, </br> The snakeskin-titles of mining-claims, </br> The plumed war-bonnet of [[w:Medicine Hat|Medicine Hat]], </br> [[w:Tucson, Arizona|Tucson]] and [[w:Deadwood, South Dakota|Deadwood]] and Lost Mule Flat. * I shall not rest quiet in Montparnasse. </br> I shall not lie easy at Winchelsea. </br> You may bury my body in Sussex grass, </br> You may bury my tongue at Champmèdy. </br> I shall not be there, I shall rise and pass. </br> Bury my heart at [[w:Wounded Knee, South Dakota|Wounded Knee]]. ** [[Stephen Vincent Benét]], "American Names", sts. 1, 7. [https://archive.org/details/balladspoems0000unse/page/2/mode/2up ''Poems and Ballads''] (1931), pp. 3, 4 * God bless America, </br> Land that I love, </br> Stand beside her and guide her </br> Thru the night with a light from above. </br> From the mountains to the prairies, </br> To the oceans white with foam, </br> God bless America, </br> My home sweet home. ** [[Irving Berlin]], "[[w:God Bless America|God Bless America]]" (1938)<!-- cf. [[John Howard Payne]] --> * We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot subculture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal. ** [[Carl Bernstein]], in ''The Guardian'' (June 3 1992) [https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/oct/28/dumb5] * He held, too, in his enlightened way, that Americans have a perfect right to exist. But he did often find himself wishing [[Cecil Rhodes|Mr Rhodes]] had not [[w:Rhodes Scholarship|enabled]] them to exercise that right in [[University of Oxford|Oxford]]. ** Sir [[Max Beerbohm]], ''Zuleika Dobson'' (1911), ch. 8 [[File:Emanuel Leutze - Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way - Capitol.jpg|thumb|Westward the course of empire takes its way. —[[George Berkeley]]]] * Westward the course of empire takes its way; </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; The first four acts already past, </br> A fifth shall close the drama with the day: </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Time’s noblest offspring is the last. ** [[George Berkeley]], ''On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America'' (1752) <!--Cf. [[John Quincy Adams]], Oration at Plymouth (1802): "westward the star of empire takes its way"--> * To say that the United States is a [[Settler colonialism|settler colony]] means that the land was overtaken by white Europeans over the course of several centuries in a way that differed from the way that most countries in Africa and Asia were conquered. The white settlers came to stay, and the native population was excluded, by definition, from the nation they built. In order for the new white and Christian country to take form, the indigenous had to get out of the way. ** [[Vincent Bevins]], ''[[w:The Jakarta Method|The Jakarta Method]]'' (2020), ch. 1 * People all over the Earth, whether they praise America or bitterly criticize her, look upon you as the only hope for mankind's survival and the last stronghold of freedom. Some may not think in these idealistic terms, but they certainly enjoy the fruits of your civilization, often forgetting to be grateful for them. Millions of people in the so-called "socialist camp" or in the "Third World" literally owe their lives to America. * As a war-time child, I survived partly thanks to such "decadent capitalist" (as the Soviets say) things as "Spam" meat, condensed milk and egg powder that were supplied to my country by the USA through the lend-lease program of World War II. In the Soviet Union we secretly but proudly called ourselves "the Spam generation". Too prosaic? Who cares about "Spam" in today's USA, apart from "underprivileged" welfare recipients? Well, for me these foods are not merely the nostalgic delight of my troubled childhood, but rather, a symbol of love from a friend when I was in need. No amount of communist propaganda against America has ever been able to convince me that the United States [was] out to "colonize and exploit". I will tell you — many people have been more than willing to be "exploited" the American way. For what other reason have thousands risked their lives, gone to unimaginable troubles, left behind their families, their motherland and traditional ways of life to come to America? Have you ever heard of "illegal aliens" risking their lives crossing the border at midnight into Socialist USSR? Or the "boat people" swimming oceans and drowning by the thousands just to reach the shores of Communist China? Or defectors like me, leaving behind relative affluence and risking bullets in the back in order to join the "progressive workers paradise" in Russia? No, we all come here to America, obviously willing to be "exploited by capitalists" and enjoy "oppression" together with you. Because we believe and {{smallcaps|know}} — America {{smallcaps|is a better}} place. * My dear friends, I think you are in very big trouble. Whether you believe it or not, {{smallcaps|you are at war}}. And you may lose this war very soon together with all your affluence and freedoms unless you start defending yourselves. ** [[Yuri Bezmenov]] (Tomas D. Schuman), ''Love Letter to America'' (1984), pp. 4, 5 * Ideological subversion...has nothing to do with espionage...Only about fifteen percent of time, money and manpower is spent on espionage as such. The other eighty-five per cent is a slow process which we call either ideological subversion or {{w|active measures}} (''aktivnye meropriyatiya'' in the language of the KGB) or psychological warfare. What it basically means is, to change the perception of reality, of every American, to such an extent that despite an abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their family, their community and their country. * It takes from fifteen to twenty years to demoralize a nation. Why that many years? Because this is the minimum number of years required to educate one generation of students in the country of your enemy...In other words, Marxism–Leninism is being pumped into the soft heads of at least three generations of American students, without being challenged or contrabalanced by the basic values of Americanism, American patriotism. The result...you can see. Most of the people who graduated in the '60s – dropouts or half-baked intellectuals – are now occupying the positions of power in the government, civil service, business, mass media, [and] educational system. You are stuck with them. ** Yuri Bezmenov, "Soviet Subversion of the Free World Press", interview with G. Edward Griffin (1984) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yErKTVdETpw] * For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community. For too long as a nation, we have been lulled by the anthem of self-interest. ... We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society — for nothing suffocates the promise of America more than unbounded cynicism and indifference. ** [[Joe Biden]], [[w:Joe Biden 1988 presidential campaign|Speech]] at Wilmington, DE (June 9, 1987); [[E. J. Dionne|E. J. Dionne Jr.]], [https://web.archive.org/web/20201123005222/https://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/10/us/biden-joins-campaign-for-the-presidency.html "Biden Joins Campaign for the Presidency"], ''The New York Times'' (June 10, 1987) * We are America. Second to none. And we own the finish line. ** Joe Biden, Speech to the DNC, Philadelphia, PA (July 27, 2016) [https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/full-text-joe-bidens-2016-democratic-national-convention/story?id=40945371] * We the people will not be silenced. We the people will not be bullied. We the people will not surrender. ** Joe Biden, Statement to the Nation (November 4, 2020) [[File:"I'll paint the town red", political cartoon, 1885.jpg|thumb|{{smallcaps|Un-American}}, ''adj.'' Wicked, intolerable, heathenish.]] * {{smallcaps|Alien}}, ''n.'' An American sovereign in his probationary state. * {{smallcaps|Alligator}}, ''n.'' The crocodile of America, superior in every detail to the crocodile of the effete monarchies of the Old World. Herodotus says the Indus is, with one exception, the only river that produces crocodiles, but they appear to have gone West and grown up with the other rivers. * {{smallcaps|Consul}}, ''n.'' In American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country. * {{smallcaps|Dejeuner}}, ''n.'' The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced. * {{smallcaps|Delegation}}, ''n.'' In American politics, an article of merchandise that comes in sets. * {{smallcaps|Dullard}}, ''n.'' A member of the reigning dynasty in letters and life...Since a detachment of Dullards came over with the Pilgrims in the ''Mayflower'' and made a favorable report of the country, their increase by birth, immigration, and conversion has been rapid and steady. According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians. The intellectual centre of the race is somewhere about Peoria, Illinois, but the New England Dullard is the most shockingly moral. * {{smallcaps|Grapeshot}}, ''n.'' An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism. * {{smallcaps|Introduction}}, ''n.'' A social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification of his servants and the plaguing of his enemies. The introduction attains its most malevolent development in this country, being, indeed, closely related to our political system. Every American being the equal of every other American, it follows that everybody has the right to know everybody else, which implies the right to introduce without request or permission. The Declaration of Independence should have read thus: *: We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, and the right to make that of another miserable by thrusting upon him an incalculable quantity of acquaintances; liberty, particularly the liberty to introduce persons to one another without first ascertaining if they are not already acquainted as enemies; and the pursuit of another's happiness with a running pack of strangers. * {{smallcaps|Limb}}, ''n.'' The branch of a tree or the leg of an American woman. * {{smallcaps|Lord}}, ''n.'' In American society, an English tourist above the state of a costermonger, as, lord 'Aberdasher, Lord Hartisan and so forth. The traveling Briton of lesser degree is addressed as "Sir," as, Sir 'Arry Donkiboi, or 'Amstead 'Eath. * {{smallcaps|Mustang}}, ''n.'' An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman. * {{smallcaps|Negro}}, ''n.'' The ''pièce de résistance'' in the American political problem. Representing him by the letter ''n'', the Republicans begin to build their equation thus: "Let ''n'' = the white man." This, however, appears to give an unsatisfactory solution. * {{smallcaps|Pickaninny}}, ''n.'' The young of the ''Procyanthropos'', or ''Americanus dominans''. It is small, black and charged with political fatalities. * {{smallcaps|Presidency}}, ''n.'' The greased pig in the field game of American politics. * {{smallcaps|President}}, ''n.'' The leading figure in a small group of men of whom—and of whom only—it is positively known that immense numbers of their countrymen did not want any of them for President. * {{smallcaps|Red-skin}}, ''n.'' A North American Indian, whose skin is not red—at least not on the outside. * {{smallcaps|Rear}}, ''n.'' In American military matters, that exposed part of the army that is nearest to Congress. * {{smallcaps|Recount}}, ''n.'' In American politics, another throw of the dice, accorded to the player against whom they are loaded. * {{smallcaps|Resplendent}}, ''adj.'' Like a simple American citizen beduking himself in his lodge, or affirming his consequence in the Scheme of Things as an elemental unit of a parade. * {{smallcaps|Revolution}}, ''n.'' In American history, the substitution of the rule of an Administration for that of a Ministry, whereby the welfare and happiness of the people were advanced a full half-inch. * {{smallcaps|Rostrum}}, ''n.'' In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble. * {{smallcaps|Sheriff}}, ''n.'' In America the chief executive officer of a county, whose most characteristic duties, in some of the Western and Southern States, are the catching and hanging of rogues. * {{smallcaps|Trust}}, ''n.'' In American politics, a large corporation composed in greater part of thrifty working men, widows of small means, orphans in the care of guardians and the courts, with many similar malefactors and public enemies. * {{smallcaps|Un-American}}, ''adj.'' Wicked, intolerable, heathenish. * {{smallcaps|Wit}}, ''n.'' The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. * {{smallcaps|Woman}}, n. The woman is lithe and graceful in its movement, especially the American variety (''felis pugnans''). * {{smallcaps|Yankee}}, ''n.'' In Europe, an American. In the [[w:Northern United States|Northern]] States of our Union, a [[w:New Englander|New Englander]]. In the [[w:Southern United States|Southern]] States the word is unknown. (See {{smallcaps|Damnyank}}) * {{smallcaps|Zeus}}, ''n.'' The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the...modern Americans as God, Gold, Mob and Dog. Some explorers who have touched upon the shores of America, and one who professes to have penetrated a considerable distance to the interior, have thought that these four names stand for as many distinct deities, but in his monumental work on Surviving Faiths, Frumpp insists that the natives are monotheists, each having no other god than himself, whom he worships under many sacred names. ** [[Ambrose Bierce]], [[w:The Devil's Dictionary|''The Devil's Dictionary'']] (1911) * Let tyrants shake their iron rod, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; And Slav'ry clank her galling chains, </br> We fear them not, we trust in God, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; New England's God forever reigns. ** [[William Billings]], "[[w:Chester (song)|Chester]]" (1770; rev. 1778), st. 1<!--''The Singing Master's Assistant'' (1778)--> * Born on a mountain top in Tennessee, </br> Greenest state in the land of the free </br> Raised in the woods so's he knew ev'ry tree, </br> Kilt him a [[bears|b'ar]] when he was only three </br> Davy, [[Davy Crockett]], king of the wild frontier. ** [[Tom W. Blackburn]], "[[w:The Ballad of Davy Crockett|The Ballad of Davy Crockett]]", [[w:Disney anthology television series|''Disneyland'']] (October 27, 1954) [[File:Hollywood Sign (Zuschnitt).jpg|thumb|The Pale Empire of Ideas </br> —[[Geoffrey Blainey]]]] * The power of the United States depended heavily on its pale empire of ideas, attitudes and innovations. Its ideas alighted effortlessly on foreign ground, irrespective of who owned the ground. Much of its influence came from such innovations as the telephone, electricity, aircraft and the cheap car, nuclear weapons and spacecraft, computers and the [[Internet]]. Its influence came through [[jazz]], cartoons, [[Hollywood]], television and popular culture. Its influence came from an excitement about technology and economic change, and a belief in incentives and individual enterprise. It was also the most ardent missionary for the creed of democracy. While military and economic might was vital to the success of the United States, the power of its pale empire of ideas was probably even more pervasive. ** [[Geoffrey Blainey]], [[w:A Short History of the World (Blainey book)|''A Short History of the World'']] (2000), "An American Century", p. 400 * These students will assiduously study economics or the professions and the [[Michael Jackson]] costume will slip off to reveal a Brooks Brothers suit beneath. They will want to get ahead and live comfortably. But this life is as empty and false as the one they left behind. The choice is not between quick fixes and dull calculation. This is what liberal education is meant to show them. But as long as they have the Walkman on, they cannot hear what the great tradition has to say. And, after its prolonged use, when they take it off, they find they are deaf. ** [[Allan Bloom]], ''[[The Closing of the American Mind]]'' (1987), pt. 1, ch. 3 * No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine. ... Don't believe anything until it's been officially denied. ** [[William Blum]], ''Rogue State'' (2000), intro. * America's state religion is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that 'treason' is morally worse than murder or rape. ** William Blum, as quoted in Linton Weeks, [https://www.npr.org/2011/10/04/140987790/these-days-everyone-dares-call-it-treason "These Days, Everyone Dares Call It Treason"], [[w:National Public Radio|''NPR'']] (October 4, 2011) * Never before was a people so advantageously situated for working out this great problem in favor of human liberty. ** [[Henry Augustus Boardman]], Discourse in Philadelphia, PA (December 12 and 19, 1850); [https://archive.org/details/wsb15f30_images/wsb15f30/page/45/mode/2up ''The American Union: A Discourse''] (1851), p. 46 [[File:Disney Enchantment Fireworkshow.jpg|thumb|I don’t want a Disneyfication of our history. ... Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness. —[[Cory Booker]]]] * I don’t want a Disneyfication of our history. I don’t want to whitewash history. I don’t want to homogenize history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness. ** [[Cory Booker]], reported in Dominic Patten, [https://deadline.com/2025/04/cory-booker-speech-disney-1236356434/ "Cory Booker Rails against Trump & 'Disneyfication' of U.S. History as Epic Floor Speech nears Senate Record"], ''Deadline News'' (April 1, 2025) * We expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly, to go to a "church of our choice" and yet feel its guiding power over us, to revere God and to be God. ** [[Daniel J. Boorstin]], ''The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-events in America'' (1961), intro. * The American citizen...lives in a world where fantasy is more real than reality, where the image has more dignity than its original. We hardly dare face our bewilderment, because our ambiguous experience is so pleasantly iridescent, and the solace of belief in contrived reality is so thoroughly real. We have become eager accessories to the great hoaxes of the age. These are the hoaxes we play on ourselves. ** Daniel J. Boorstin, ''The Image'' (1961), ch. 1, sec. 5 * Of all nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image. It was the land of the unexpected, of unbounded hope, of ideals, of quest for an unknown perfection. It is all the more unfitting that we should offer ourselves in images. And all the more fitting that the images which we make wittingly or unwittingly to sell America to the world should come back to haunt and curse us. ** Daniel J. Boorstin, ''The Image'' (1961), ch. 6, sec. 1 * As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves. ** Daniel J. Boorstin, ''The Image'' (1961), ch. 6, sec. 4 * The Republic of Technology where we will be living is a feedback world. ** Daniel J. Boorstin, ''The Republic of Technology: Reflections on Our Future Community'' (1978) ch. 1, sec. 2 <!-- p. 9 --> * The American settlers came to take and shape the land. The first occupants of the land — the "Indians" whom the European migrants encountered — would not be treated, in the pattern of the Romans, as people to be incorporated into an empire. Instead, they were treated as part of the landscape. Most of them were simply cleared away, like the forest, or pushed back, like the wilderness. ** Daniel J. Boorstin, ''The Republic of Technology'' (1978) ch. 3, sec. 1 <!-- p. 38 --> [[File:Vonetta Flowers & Jill Bakken at press conference after winning gold medal in 2 woman bobsleigh at 2002 Winter Olympics.jpg|thumb|I found America the friendliest, most forgiving, and most generous nation I had ever visited. —[[Jorge Luis Borges]]]] * I found America the friendliest, most forgiving, and most generous nation I had ever visited. We South Americans tend to think of things in terms of convenience, whereas people in the United States approach things ethically. This — amateur Protestant that I am — I admired above all. It even helped me overlook skyscrapers, paper bags, television, plastics, and the unholy jungle of gadgets. ** [[Jorge Luis Borges]], [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1970/09/19/jorge-luis-borges-profile-autobiographical-notes "Autobiographical Notes"], ''The New Yorker'' (September 11, 1970) * Johnny's in America, low-tech's at the wheel </br> No-one needs anyone, they don't even just pretend... </br> Johnny wants a brain, Johnny wants to suck on a coke </br> Johnny wants a woman, Johnny wants to think of a joke... </br> Johnny's in America, Johnny looks up at the stars </br> Johnny combs his hair and Johnny wants pussy and cars. ** [[David Bowie]], "[[w:I'm Afraid of Americans|I'm Afraid of Americans]]", ''Earthling'' (1997 album) * Being thus arrived in a good harbor and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of Heaven, who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean, and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stable earth, their proper element. ** [[William Bradford (Plymouth Colony governor)|William Bradford]], [[w:Of Plymouth Plantation|''Of Plymouth Plantation'']], ch. 1<!--Variant: "Being brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of Heaven, who had brought them over the vast and furious Ocean, and delivered them from many perils and miseries."--> * Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and, as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation. ** William Bradford, ''Of Plymouth Plantation'', ch. 7 ** Journal, wr. 1630–1651, covering events from 1608<!--Cf. [[Nathaniel Morton]], ''New Englands Memoriall'' (1669)--> * The makers of our Constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness. They recognized the significance of man’s spiritual nature, of his feelings, and of his intellect. They knew that only a part of the pain, pleasure, and satisfactions of life are to be found in material things. They sought to protect Americans in their beliefs, their thoughts, their emotions, and their sensations. They conferred, as against the Government, the right to be let alone—the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men. ** [[Louis Brandeis]], dissenting opinion, ''Olmstead v. United States'', 277 U.S. 438 (1928) * There is in most Americans some spark of idealism, which can be fanned into a flame. It takes sometimes a divining rod to find what it is; but when found, and that means often, when disclosed to the owners, the results are often most extraordinary. ** Louis Brandeis, in Solomon Goldman (ed.) ''The Words of Justice Brandeis'' (1953), p. 30 * In the city of New York the banks tower above the cathedrals. Banks are the temples of the United States. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion. ** [[Giannina Braschi]], ''United States of Banana'' (2011) [[File:STS-135 landing cropped.jpg|thumb|Rumors of America's decline have been greatly exaggerated. —[[Ian Bremmer]]]] * A 'superpower' is a country that wields enough military, political and economic might to convince nations in all parts of the world to do things they otherwise wouldn’t. Pundits have rushed to label China the next superpower...but the rumors of America’s decline have been greatly exaggerated.<!--In the key categories of power, the U.S. will remain dominant for the foreseeable future.--> * {{smallcaps|Economics}}: Little of China's dramatic economic growth is finding its way into the pockets of Chinese consumers; the byproduct of an economy driven by massive state-owned enterprises rather than private industry. China's headline growth may be higher, but it's the U.S. economy that's allowing its citizens to grow along with it. * {{smallcaps|Military}}: America’s military superiority remains unrivaled...The U.S. dominates across land, sea, air and space. America’s Middle East misadventures gave the U.S. military a black eye, but the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan speak more to the changing nature of warfare than declining U.S. military superiority. Terrorists and guerilla fighters give conventional military powers fits by design... Nevertheless, while conventional military strength might not deter terrorists, it still does a terrific job of deterring hostile nations. * {{smallcaps|Political Influence}}: For the U.S., foreign aid is an effective way to cement its political clout globally...But in order to have political power abroad, you must first have stability at home. The U.S. has the oldest working national constitution in the world, as well as strong institutions and rule of law to accompany it. While far from perfect, the governing document created by America’s founding fathers has evolved along with its people. The numbers show the enduring attraction of this system: 45 million people living in the U.S. today were born in a foreign country.<!--That is more than four times higher than the next highest country. For many people around the world, America remains the ideal place to start a new life.--> ** [[Ian Bremmer]], [https://web.archive.org/web/20150528161550/http://time.com/3899972/us-superpower-status-military/ "These Are the 5 Reasons Why the U.S. Remains the World's Only Superpower"], ''TIME'' (May 28, 2015) * Huge and alert, irascible yet strong, </br> We make our fitful way 'mid right and wrong. </br> One time we pour out millions to be free, </br> Then rashly sweep an empire from the sea! </br> One time we strike the shackles from the slaves, </br> And then, quiescent, we are ruled by knaves. </br> Often we rudely break restraining bars, </br> And confidently reach out toward the stars. * This is the Land we love, our heritage, </br> Strange mixture of the gross and fine, yet sage </br> And full of promise,—destined to be great. </br> Drink to Our Native Land! God Bless the State! ** [[Robert Bridges (critic)|Robert Bridges]], [https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1902/01/a-toast-to-our-native-land/636748/ "A Toast to Our Native Land"], in ''The Atlantic Monthly'' (January, 1902)<!--Collected in [https://archive.org/details/cu31924022015071/page/n51/mode/2up ''Bramble Brae''] (1902), p. 33--> * My opinion is that the Northern States will manage somehow to muddle through. ** [[John Bright]], during the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], as quoted in Justin McCarthy, ''Reminiscences'' (1899), vol. 1, p. 85 * We current Justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as Twentieth Century Americans. We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time. For the genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in the adaptability of its great principles to cope with current problems and current needs. ** [[William J. Brennan Jr.]], "The Constitution of the United States: Contemporary Ratification", Speech, Washington, D.C. (October 12, 1985) * Any well-established village in New England or the northern Middle West could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats. ** [[Denis William Brogan]], ''The American Character'' (1944), pt. 1, sec. 2 * The combination of a profound hatred of war and militarism with an innocent delight in playing soldiers is one of these apparent contradictions of American life that one has to accept. ** Denis William Brogan, ''The American Character'' (1944), pt. 1, sec. 5 * A country whose national motto has been "[[w:Root hog or die|root, hog, or die]]." ** Denis William Brogan, ''The American Character'' (1944), pt. 3, sec. 2 * Here come the old original Thirteen! <br> Sir Walter ushers in the Virgin Queen; <br> Catholic Mary follows her, whose land <br> Smiles on soft Chesapeake from either strand; <br> Then Georgia, with the sisters Caroline,— <br> One the palmetto wears, and one the pine; <br> Next, she who ascertained the rights of men <br> Not by the sword but by the word of Penn,— <br> The friendly language hers, of "thee" and "thou"; <br> Then, she whose mother was a thrifty vrouw,— <br> Mother herself of princely children now; <br> And, sitting at her feet, the sisters twain,— <br> Two smaller links in the Atlantic chain, <br> They, through those long dark winters, drear and dire, <br> Watched with our Fabius round the bivouac fire; <br> Comes the free mountain maid, in white and green; <br> One guards the Charter Oak with lofty mien; <br> And lo! in the plain beauty once she wore, <br> The pilgrim mother from the Bay State shore; <br> And last, not least, is Little Rhody seen, <br> With face turned heavenward, steadfast and serene,— <br> She on her anchor, Hope, leans, and will ever lean. ** [[Charles Timothy Brooks]], "The Old Thirteen", l. 5. [[w:Frank Moore (journalist)|Frank Moore]] (ed.) ''Record of the Year'', [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=iau.31858059977482&seq=58 vol. 2, no. 1] (July, 1876), p. 48<!--''The Commonwealth'' (Boston), [https://archive.org/details/sim_boston-commonwealth_1876-05-20_14_38/page/n3/mode/2up?q=%22come+the+old+original+Thirteen%22 yr. 14, no. 38] (May 20, 1876), p. 4, col. 4--> * Americans still admire dignity. But the word has become un-moored from any larger set of rules or ethical system. ** [[David Brooks (journalist)|David Brooks]], [https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/opinion/07brooks.html?_r=1 "In Search of Dignity"], ''The New York Times'' (July 6, 2009) * We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it not as just so much air, water, and real estate, but as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich or poor, lovingly nurtured or bled white. Our present attitudes and laws governing the ownership and use of land represent an abuse of the concept of private property. Land is treated like a commodity when it is in fact a trust. Not so long ago our society permitted one human being to own another — to exploit him and even work him to death and not go to jail for it. This is no longer considered acceptable behavior, either by society or by the law. Yet in America today you can murder land for private profit, as is being done, for example, on a vast scale in the southern Appalachians. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops. ** [[Paul Brooks]], ''The Pursuit of Wilderness'' (1971), ch. 1 [[File:D011778h.gif|thumb|I don't respect wrong and I don't respect authority that represents wrong. —[[H. Rap Brown]]]] * I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie. ** [[H. Rap Brown]], Speech at Washington, D.C. (July 27, 1967), in ''The Washington Post'' (July 28, 1967) [https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip_80-74qjqrq1] * I don't give a shit who says what. If the muthafucka is wrong, he's wrong. ... In this country, authority is a cover for wrong. I don't respect wrong and I don't respect authority that represents wrong. ** H. Rap Brown, ''{{w|Die Nigger Die!}}'' (1969), ch. 4 [[File:The Storming of Ft Wagner-lithograph by Kurz and Allison 1890 (cropped).jpg|thumb|I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land can never be purged away but with blood.]] [[File:FMIB 43086 John Brown's Grave.jpeg|thumb|This is a beautiful country. <br> —[[John Brown (abolitionist)|John Brown]]]] <!--[[File:Tunnel View, Yosemite Valley, Yosemite NP - Diliff.jpg|thumb|]]--> * I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land can never be purged away but with blood. ** [[John Brown (abolitionist)|John Brown]], in a note written just before his execution (December 2, 1859); most sources say it was handed to the guard, but some dispute that and claim it was handed to a reporter accompanying him; as quoted in Richard Josiah Hinton, ''John Brown and His Men'' (1894), p. 397 * This is a beautiful country. I have never noticed it before. ** John Brown, last words, to his jailer; as quoted in Hinton (1894), p. 397 * When will Americans learn, that if they would encourage liberty in other countries, they must practice it at home? ** [[William Wells Brown]], Letter to [[Wendell Phillips]] (November 22, 1849); ''The Liberator'', [https://archive.org/details/sim_liberator_1849-11-30_19_48/page/2/mode/2up?q=%22encourage+liberty%22 vol. 19, no. 48] (November 30, 1849), p. 191, col. 2<!--Quoted in [[Paul Robeson]], ''Here I Stand'' (1958), ch. 3--> * Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country. ... We will answer their demand for a gold standard by saying to them: You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold. ** [[William Jennings Bryan]], Speech at the DNC, Chicago, IL (July 8, 1896)<!--''Speeches of William Jennings Bryan'', rev., vol. 1 (1911), pp. 248–9--> * Here the free spirit of mankind, at length, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place </br> A limit to the giant's unchained strength, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Or curb his swiftness in the forward race! ** [[William Cullen Bryant]], "[[s:Poems (Bryant, 1821)/The Ages|The Ages]]", st. 33 * But thou, my country, thou shalt never fall, </br> But with thy children. ** William Cullen Bryant, "The Ages", st. 35. ''Poems'' (1821), pp. 23–4 * There is no denying that the government of cities is the one conspicuous failure of the United States. The deficiencies of the National government tell but little for evil on the welfare of the people. The faults of the State governments are insignificant compared with the extravagance, corruption, and mismanagement which mark the administrations of most of the great cities. For these evils are not confined to one or two cities. The commonest mistake of Europeans who talk about America is to assume that the political vices of [[New York City|New York]] are found everywhere. The next most common is to suppose that they are found nowhere else. ... Even in cities of the third rank similar phenomena may occasionally be discerned, though there, as some one has said, the jet black of New York or [[San Francisco]] dies away into a harmless gray. ** [[James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce]], ''The American Commonwealth'' (1888), vol. 1, ch. 51 * In no country is the ideal side of public life, ... so ignored by the mass and repudiated by the leaders. ** James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce, ''The American Commonwealth'' (1888), vol. 2, ch. 94 * The tendency everywhere in America to concentrate power and responsibility in one man is unmistakable. ** James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce, ''The American Commonwealth'' (1888), vol. 2, ch. 114 * In America, ... we see a country, of which it has been truly said, that in no other are there so few men of great learning, and so few men of great ignorance. ** [[Henry Thomas Buckle]], ''History of Civilization in England'', 2nd ed. (1858), [https://archive.org/details/historyciviliza32buckgoog/page/220/mode/2up vol. 1], ch. 5 * The largest cultural menace in America is the conformity of the intellectual cliques which, in education as well as the arts, are out to impose upon the nation their modish fads and fallacies, and have nearly succeeded in doing so. ** [[William F. Buckley Jr.]], "Our Mission Statement", in the ''National Review'' (November 19, 1955) [https://highlandcountypress.com/opinions/would-bill-buckley-yell-stop#gsc.tab=0] * The trouble with these people is </br> that their cities have never been </br> bombed and their mothers have never </br> been told to shut up. ** [[Charles Bukowski]], "Trouble", in the ''Wormwood Review'', no. 85 (1982) * The Gospel hath free passage in all places where thou dwellest; oh that it might be glorified also by thee! ... Thou shouldst be a special people, an only people, none like thee in all the earth. ** [[Peter Bulkley]], ''The Gospel-Covenant'' (1646), pt. 1 * America, on one level, is a great old-movie museum. ** [[Anthony Burgess]], on [[w:The David Susskind Show|''The David Susskind Show'']] (January 4, 1976): cited in ''The Quotable Quotations Book'' (1980), p. 284 * America is more wild and absurd than ever. ** [[Edmund Burke]], Letter to Lord Rockingham (September 9, 1769)<!--Lucy Sutherland (ed.) ''Correspondence'', [https://archive.org/details/correspondenceof0002burk/page/76/mode/2up?q=%22more+wild+and+absurd+than+ever%22 vol. 2] (1960), p. 77--> * Reflect how you are to govern a people who think they ought to be free, and think they are not. Your scheme yields no revenue; it yields nothing but discontent, disorder, disobedience; and such is the state of America, that after wading up to your eyes in blood, you could only end just where you begun; that is, to tax where no revenue is to be found, to—my voice fails me; my inclination indeed carries me no farther—all is confusion beyond it. ** Edmund Burke, "American Taxation", First Speech on the Conciliation with America (April 19, 1774) * Young man, there is America—which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world. * A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. * Nothing less will content me, than ''whole America''. * In no country perhaps in the world is law so general a study. ... This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defense, full of resources. ... They augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze. * I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people. * Deny them this participation of freedom, and you break that sole bond, which originally made, and must still preserve the unity of the empire. ** Edmund Burke, "The Thirteen Resolutions", Second Speech on Conciliation with America (March 22, 1775) * This nation openly endorses, tolerates and legalizes the very abuses against which she originally waged a bloody revolution. A colored boy, a nickel penknife and a screaming woman were no more the cause of the Harlem uprising in 1935 than was a shipload of tea in the Boston harbor, in 1773, the cause of the Revolutionary War. ** [[Nannie Helen Burroughs]], in ''The Afro-American'' (April 13, 1935); see [[Gerda Lerner]] (ed.) [https://archive.org/details/blackwomeninwhit0000lern/page/408/mode/2up?q=%22endorses%2C+tolerates%22 ''Black Women in White America''] (1972), p. 408 * America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting. ** [[William S. Burroughs]], [[w:Naked Lunch|''Naked Lunch'']] (1959), ch. 1 * We are a nation of communities, of tens and tens of thousands of ethnic, religious, social, business, labour union, neighbourhood, regional and other organizations, all of them varied, voluntary, and unique…a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a [[w:Thousand points of light|thousand points of light]] in a broad and peaceful sky. ** [[George H. W. Bush]], Speech to the RNC, New Orleans, LA (August 18, 1988), accepting the presidential nomination * It's time...to turn our attention to pressing challenges like...how to make American families more like the Waltons and a little bit less like the Simpsons. ** George H. W. Bush, Remarks to Outlook Graphics employees in Neenah, WI (July 27, 1992) [https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-outlook-graphics-employees-neenah-wisconsin]<!--''Public papers of the Presidents of the United States: George Bush'', vol. 1 (1993), p. 1189--> * America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused; preferring greatness to power and justice to glory. ** [[George W. Bush]], Speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, CA (November 19, 1999) [https://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/usa/1999/991119-bush-foreignpolicy.htm] * If we're an arrogant nation, they'll resent us. If we're a humble nation, but strong, they'll welcome us. ** George W. Bush, [[w:2000 United States presidential debates|Second presidential debate]] (October 11, 2000) [https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=122746&page=1] [https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna5899065] [[File:Bush 2001 inauguration.jpg|thumb|The stakes for America are never small. If our country does not lead the cause of freedom, it will not be led. <br> —[[George W. Bush]]]] * The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new beginnings. * We have a place, all of us, in a long story. A story we continue, but whose end we will not see. It is the story of a new world that became a friend and liberator of the old, a story of a slave-holding society that became a servant of freedom, the story of a power that went into the world to protect but not possess, to defend but not to conquer. * America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens. Every child must be taught these principles. Every citizen must uphold them; and every immigrant, by embracing these ideals, makes our country more, not less, American. * The stakes for America are never small. If our country does not lead the cause of freedom, it will not be led. ** George W. Bush, First Inaugural Address (January 20, 2001) * An artist using statistics as a brush could paint two very different pictures of our country. One would have warning signs: increasing layoffs, rising energy prices, too many failing schools, persistent poverty, the stubborn vestiges of racism. Another picture would be full of blessings: a balanced budget, big surpluses, a military that is second to none, a country at peace with its neighbors, technology that is revolutionizing the world, and our greatest strength, concerned citizens who care for our country and care for each other. * Too many of our citizens have cause to doubt our nation’s justice when the law points a finger of suspicion at groups, instead of individuals. * A strong America is the world's best hope for peace and freedom. Yet the cause of freedom rests on more than our ability to defend ourselves and our allies. Freedom is exported every day, as we ship goods and products that improve the lives of millions of people. ** George W. Bush, [[s:George W. Bush's First State of the Union Address|First State of the Union Address]] (February 27, 2001) * A great people has been moved to defend a great nation. Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shattered steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve. ** George W. Bush, Statement on the [[September 11 attacks]] (September 11, 2001) [https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010911-16.html] * Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we. ** George W. Bush, Speech at the signing ceremony for a $417 billion defense spending bill (August 5, 2004), a [[w:Bushism|'Bushism']] [[File:Fleet 5 nations.jpg|thumb|America rejects the false comfort of isolationism. —[[George W. Bush]]]] * The United States will not retreat from the world, and we will never surrender to evil. America rejects the false comfort of isolationism. ** George W. Bush, [[w:2006 State of the Union Address|Fifth State of the Union Address]] (January 31, 2006) * America must maintain our moral clarity. I have often spoken to you about good and evil. This has made some uncomfortable. But good and evil are present in this world, and between the two there can be no compromise. ** George W. Bush, Farewell Address to the Nation (January 15, 2009) [https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2009/01/20090115-17.html] * A New York journalist said to me in all seriousness: there are three great organizations in world history: the [[Catholic Church]], the [[w:Imperial German Army|German army]] and the [[w:Standard Oil|American Oil-Trust Company]]. ** [[Ferruccio Busoni]], Letter to Egon Petri, originally in German (March 20, 1915); translated in Antony Beaumont (ed.) ''Selected Letters'' (Columbia UP, 1987), p. 194 * Next, in purity and meetness, to the thanksgiving which we owe the God who gave, and guided, and sustained them, is the feeling of grateful reverence we should ever cherish towards those who are the instruments of His goodness. To the claims of our great men, of every age and time, of every sect and party, let us, then, be faithful. Let history transmit to other generations the story of their lives; let the canvass and the marble perpetuate the image of their forms; let poetry and music breathe forth their names in hymns and harmonies; let the united voice of their countrymen echo their praises to the remotest shores—so that, wherever an American footstep shall tread, or the lover of American liberty be found, there, too, the memory of their greatness shall abide—a beauty and an excellence—the joy of all the earth! ** [[Benjamin Butler (politician)|Benjamin Butler]], Eulogy for Andrew Jackson, NYC (June 24, 1845); B. M. Dusenbery (ed.) [https://archive.org/details/monumenttomemory0000unse/page/58/mode/2up ''Monument to the Memory of General Andrew Jackson''] (1846), pp. 59–60 * America will have her geniuses, as every other country has, in fact she has already had one in Walt Whitman, but I do not think America is a good place in which to be a genius. A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind. ** [[Samuel Butler (novelist)|Samuel Butler]], ''Note-books'' (1912), "Genius", v * The new proprietors [of New Jersey] inveigled many over by this tempting account of the country: that it was a place free from those three great scourges of mankind—priests, lawyers, and physicians. Nor did they tell a word of a lie, for the people were as yet too poor to maintain these learned gentlemen. ** [[William Byrd II]], [[w:The History of the Dividing Line|''The History of the Dividing Line betwixt Virginia and North Carolina'']] (wr. 1728–36; pub. 1841); reported in Daniel J. Boorstin, "The Therapy of Distance", ''American Heritage'', vol. 27, no. 4 (June, 1976), p. 23 * Pedagogy, like history, will never be able to contain all of America — a great country, an evil country, a place of tremendous generosity and welcome as well as pronounced disdain for foreigners and outsiders. America is not one thing or another. America is queer. ** [[Michael Bronski]], ''A Queer History of the United States'' (2011) intro. * Still one great clime, in full and free defiance,<br>Yet rears her crest, unconquer'd and sublime,<br>Above the far Atlantic!—She has taught<br>Her Esau-brethren that the haughty flag,<br>The floating fence of Albion's feebler crag,<br>May strike to those whose red right hands have bought<br>Rights cheaply earn'd with blood. Still, still, for ever<br>Better, though each man's life-blood were a river,<br>That it should flow, and overflow, than creep<br> Through thousand lazy channels in our veins,<br>Dammed like the dull canal with locks and chains,<br>And moving, as a sick man in his sleep,<br>Three paces, and then faltering:—better be<br>Where the extinguished Spartans still are free,<br>In their proud charnel of Thermopylæ,<br>Than stagnate in our marsh,—or o'er the deep<br>Fly, and one current to the ocean add,<br>One spirit to the souls our fathers had,<br>One freeman more, America, to thee! ** [[Lord Byron]], "Ode", st. 4. [[w:Hebrew Melodies|''Hebrew Melodies'']] (1815) == C == [[File:Standard oil octopus loc color (cropped).jpg|thumb|An octopus of exploitation. </br> —[[Stokely Carmichael]]]] [[File:1973 block e.gif|thumb|Americans love to eat. They are fatally attracted to the slow death of [[w:Fast food|fast food]]. —[[George Carlin]]]] * You mess with Israel, you are messing with the United States of America. It's that simple. ** [[Herman Cain]], on Fox News (May 20, 2011), as quoted in Jackson Richman, [https://www.jns.org/israel-news/former-gop-presidential-candidate-herman-cain-dies-after-contracting-covid-19 "Former GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain dies after contracting COVID-19"], ''Jewish News Syndicate'' (July 30, 2020) * The United States of America is not going to become the United States of Europe, not on our watch. ** Herman Cain, Speech to the Dayton Tea Party (October 14, 2010), as quoted in [https://web.archive.org/web/20120120003622/https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/dayton-news/tea-party-speaker-stupid-people-running-country-977298.html "Tea Party speaker: 'Stupid people' running country"], ''Dayton Daily News'' (October 15, 2010) * A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks. ** [[John C. Calhoun]], Speech (May 27, 1836); "The Cohesive Power of Public Plunder" * We are not a nation, but a union, a confederacy of equal and sovereign states. ** John C. Calhoun, Letter to [[Oliver Dyer]] (January 1, 1849) * Democracy is the creed of a province; Republicanism the religion of a nation. Democracy grovels in fetid wards; Republicanism creates imperial commonwealths out of desert wastes. ** [[Angus Cameron (American politician)|Angus Cameron]], [http://www.jstor.org/stable/25110208 "The Irrepressible Conflict Undecided"], [[w:North American Review|''North American Review'']], vol. 126, no. 262 (May–June 1878), p. 502 * I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old. ** [[George Canning]], Address to the British House of Commons (December 12, 1826)<!--R. Therry (ed.) ''Speeches of Lord Canning'', [https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.10677/page/n117/mode/2up vol. 6] (London, 1826), p. 111--> * Bolshevism is knocking at our gates. We can't afford to let it in. We have got to organize ourselves against it, and put our shoulders together and hold fast. </br> We must keep America whole and safe and unspoiled. We must keep the worker away from red literature and red ruses; we must see that his mind remains healthy. ** [[Al Capone]], interviewed by Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. for ''Liberty'' magazine (c. 1928); [[Albert E. Kahn]], ''High Treason: The Plot Against the People'' (1950), bk. 2, ch. 6 * Don't you get the idea I'm one of these goddam radicals. Don't get the idea I'm knocking the American system. ** Al Capone, interview (c. 1929); Claud Cockburn, ''In Time of Trouble'' (1956), ch. 16 * O Beautiful for [[w:smog|smoggy]] skies, [[w:pesticide|insecticided]] grain, </br> For [[w:Surface mining#Strip mining|strip-mined]] mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. </br> America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, </br> And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea. ** [[George Carlin]], "Muhammad Ali — America the Beautiful", [[w:Class Clown|''Class Clown'']] (1972) * The American people like their bullshit right out front where they can get a good, strong whiff of it. ** George Carlin, "American Bullshit", [[w:You Are All Diseased|''You Are All Diseased'']] (1999) * Americans love to eat. They are fatally attracted to the slow death of [[w:Fast food|fast food]]. ** George Carlin, ''Life Is Worth Losing'' (2005 HBO special) [[File:Freak show 1941.jpg|thumb|When you're born in this world, you're given a ticket to the freak show. And when you're born in America, you're given a front row seat. </br> —[[George Carlin]]]] * When you're born in this world, you're given a ticket to the freak show. And when you're born in America, you're given a front row seat. ** George Carlin, from one of his final interviews, [[w:The Interviews: An Oral History of Television|AAT]] (2008) [https://interviews.televisionacademy.com/interviews/george-carlin] * The economic foundations of this country must be shaken if black people are to control their lives. The colonies of the United States—and this includes the black ghettoes within its borders, north and south—must be liberated. For a century, this nation has been like an octopus of exploitation, its tentacles stretching from Mississippi and Harlem to South America, the Middle East, southern Africa, and Vietnam; the form of exploitation varies from area to area but the essential result has been the same—a powerful few have been maintained and enriched at the expense of the poor and voiceless colored masses. This pattern must be broken. ** [[Stokely Carmichael]], "What We Want", in ''The New York Review of Books'', [https://www.nybooks.com/issues/1966/09/22/ vol. 7, no. 4] (September 22, 1966) * Grateful to Almighty God for the blessings which, through Jesus Christ our Lord, he has conferred on my beloved country in her emancipation, and upon myself in permitting me, under circumstances of mercy, to live to the age of eighty-nine years, and to survive the fiftieth year of American independence, and certifying by my present signature my approbation of the Declaration of Independence, adopted by Congress on the Fourth of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six, which I originally subscribed on the second of August of the same year, and of which I am now the last surviving signer, I do hereby recommend to the present and future generations the principles of that important document, as the best earthly inheritance their ancestors could bequeath to them; and pray that the civil and religious liberties they have secured to my country may be perpetuated to the remotest posterity and extended to the whole family of man. ** [[Charles Carroll of Carrollton]], certificate attached to a copy of the Declaration of Independence presented to NYC (August, 1826); Jospeh Gurn, [https://archive.org/details/charlescarrollof0000josp/page/242/mode/2up?q=%22best+earthly+inheritance%22 ''Charles Carroll of Carrollton, 1737–1832''] (New York: P. J. Kennedy & Sons, 1932), pp. 241–4 * A nation is to be congratulated when it has many illustrious men in its history, to whom the people may look back with reverential love. Happy the people possessing among their dead a Washington, a Lincoln, a Grant. Each such name helps to hold the passing generations, with all their new problems and revolutionary impulses, in allegiance to the ideals of the past. ** [[Franklin Carter]], "The Sentiment of Reverence", Address at [[w:Phillips Exeter Academy|Phillips Exeter Academy]], NH (May 6, 1886) [[File:President Jimmy Carter on the telephone in the oval office.jpg|thumb|We are over-lawyered and under-represented. —[[Jimmy Carter]]]] * We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams. ** [[Jimmy Carter]], Speech in Pittsburgh, PA (October 27, 1976) * We have the heaviest concentration of lawyers on Earth—1 for every 500 Americans, three times as many as are in England, four times as many as are in West Germany, twenty-one times as many as there are in Japan. We have more litigation, but I am not sure that we have more justice. No resources of talent and training in our own society, even including the medical care, is more wastefully or unfairly distributed than legal skills. Ninety percent of our lawyers serve 10 percent of our people. We are over-lawyered and under-represented. ** Jimmy Carter, Remarks at the 100th Anniversary Luncheon of the Los Angeles County Bar Association (May 4, 1978) * What you see too often in Washington and elsewhere around the country is a system of government that seems incapable of action. You see a Congress twisted and pulled in every direction by hundreds of well-financed and powerful special interests. {{pb}} You see every extreme position defended to the last vote, almost to the last breath by one unyielding group or another. You often see a balanced and a fair approach that demands sacrifice, a little sacrifice from everyone, abandoned like an orphan without support and without friends. ** Jimmy Carter, "A Crisis of Confidence", Address at the White House (July 15, 1979) * We've become now an oligarchy instead of a democracy. And I think that's been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical standards of the American political system that I've ever seen in my life. ** Jimmy Carter, Interview by Oprah Winfrey on ''SuperSoul Sunday'', as quoted in Jon Levine, [https://www.mic.com/articles/125813/jimmy-carter-tells-oprah-america-is-no-longer-a-democracy-now-an-oligarchy "Jimmy Carter Tells Oprah America Is No Longer a Democracy, Now an Oligarchy"], [[w:Mic (media company)|Mic]] (September 24, 2015) * Behold her stand, with power thunder-lipped, </br> And eagle-thoughts that soar above the storm </br> Convulsing ledges of the mountain Wrong! </br> Beside her Liberty, whose sword is tipped </br> With lightning, towering a majestic form, </br> Her voice like battle in a freedom song. ** [[Madison Cawein]], "America", st. 1. ''Poems'' (1907), [https://archive.org/details/poemscawein05cawerich/page/270/mode/2up vol. 5], p. 271 * Being a copper I like to see the law win. I'd like to see the flashy well-dressed muggs like Eddie Mars spoiling their manicures in the rock quarry at Folsom, alongside of the poor little slum-bred hard guys that got knocked over on their first caper and never had a break since. That's what I'd like. You and me both lived too long to think I'm likely to see it happen. Not in this town, not in any town half this size, in any part of this wide, green and beautiful U.S.A. We just don't run our country that way. ** [[Raymond Chandler]], ''The Big Sleep'' (1939) ch. 30 * Americans will eat anything if it is toasted and held together with a couple of toothpicks and has lettuce sticking out of the sides, preferably a little wilted. ** Raymond Chandler, ''The Long Goodbye'' (1953) ch. 45 * He spoke perfect English but with a Spanish rhythm. Spanish — American Spanish that is — has a definite rise and fall which to an American ear seems to have nothing to do with the meaning. It's like the swell of the ocean. ** Raymond Chandler, ''The Long Goodbye'' (1953) ch. 52 * America has a new delicacy, a coarse, rank refinement. ** [[G. K. Chesterton]], ''Charles Dickens'' (1906), ch. 6 * There is truth in every ancient fable, and there is here even something of it in the fancy that finds the symbol of the Republic in the bird that bore the bolts of Jove. Owls and bats may wander where they will in darkness, and for them as for the sceptics the universe may have no centre; kites and vultures may linger as they like over carrion, and for them as for the plutocrats existence may have no origin and no end; but it was far back in the land of legends, where instincts find their true images, that the cry went forth that freedom is an eagle, whose glory is gazing at the sun. ** G. K. Chesterton, "The Future of Democracy", ''What I Saw in America'' (1922) * The Declaration of Independence, once the charter of democracy, begins by saying that certain things are self-evident. If we were to trace the history of the American mind from Thomas Jefferson to William James, we should find that fewer and fewer things were self-evident, until at last hardly anything is self-evident. So far from it being self-evident to the modern that men are created equal, it is not self-evident that men are created, or even that men are men. ** G. K. Chesterton, in [[w:The Illustrated London News|''The Illustrated London News'']] (August 14, 1926) * We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate. ** [[Lydia Maria Child]], [[w:An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans|''An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans'']] (1833) * The United States is...a warning rather than an example to the world. ** Lydia Maria Child, Speech at the 25th anniversary of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society (January 2, 1857) * I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system. State censorship is not necessary, or even very efficient, in comparison to the ideological controls exercised by systems that are more complex and more decentralized. ** [[Noam Chomsky]], ''Language and Responsibility'' (1977), pt. 1, ch. 1 [[File:Capitol Building Full View.jpg|thumb|We have built no national temples but the Capitol; we consult no common oracle but the Constitution. —[[Rufus Choate]]]] <!--[[File:Capitol1846.jpg|thumb|]]--> * We have built no national temples but the [[w:United States Capitol|Capitol]]; we consult no common oracle but the [[w:United States Constitution|Constitution]]. ** [[Rufus Choate]], ''The Importance of Illustrating New-England History by a Series of Romances like the Waverley Novels'' (1833), a lecture delivered at Salem, MA * The Americans can always be trusted to do the right thing, once all other possibilities have been exhausted. ** [[Winston Churchill]] (c. 1944); [[w:Richard M. Langworth|R. M. Langworth]] (ed.) ''Churchill by Himself'' (2008), p. 124 * I want no [[Anti-Americanism|criticism of America]] at my table. The Americans criticize themselves more than enough. ** Winston Churchill (1950s); ''Churchill by Himself'' (2008), p. 128 * I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance. I owe allegiance to two sovereignties, and only two; one is to the sovereignty of this Union, and the other is to the sovereignty of the State of Kentucky. ** [[Henry Clay]], Speech in the U.S. Senate (February 14, 1850)<!--Responding to Senator [[Henry S. Foote]] of Mississippi. Calvin Colton (ed.) ''The Life, Correspondence, and Speeches of Henry Clay'' (1857), [https://archive.org/details/lifecorresponden03coltuoft/page/206/mode/2up vol. 3], p. 207--> * Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four-hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt. ** [[Eldridge Cleaver]], [[w:Soul on Ice (book)|''Soul on Ice'']] (1968), pt. 2 * America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. ** [[Georges Clemenceau]], attributed in the [[w:Saturday Review (U.S. magazine)|''Saturday Review'']] (December 1, 1945): cited in ''The Great Quotations'' (1967), p. 14 * As to the American tradition of non-meddling, [[Anarchism]] asks that it be carried down to the individual himself. It demands no jealous barrier of isolation; it knows that such isolation is undesirable and impossible; but it teaches that by all men's strictly minding their own business, a fluid society, freely adapting itself to mutual needs, wherein all the world shall belong to all men, as much as each has need or desire, will result. And when Modern Revolution has thus been carried to the heart of the whole world — if it ever shall be, as I hope it will — then may we hope to see a resurrection of that proud spirit of our fathers which put the simple dignity of Man above the gauds of wealth and class, and held that to be an American was greater than to be a king. In that day there shall be neither kings nor Americans — only Men; over the whole earth, {{smallcaps|Men}}. ** [[Voltairine de Cleyre]], "Anarchism & American Traditions", in ''Mother Earth'' (January, 1909) [[File:President William J. Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Inaugural Parade - DPLA - 3662b635e1605d73532ca248fb6aca1f.jpg|thumb|There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America. —[[Bill Clinton]]]] * We've gotten to where we've nearly them'ed ourselves to death. Them and them and them. But this is America. There is no them; there's only us. One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. ** [[Bill Clinton]], [https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-accepting-the-presidential-nomination-the-democratic-national-convention-new-york "A Place Called Hope"], Address to the DNC, NYC (July 16, 1992), accepting the presidential nomination * Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America. ** Bill Clinton, [[s:Bill Clinton's First Inaugural Address|First Inaugural Address]] (January 20, 1993) * Despite what you hear, we don't need to make America great again. America has never stopped being great. ** [[Hillary Clinton]], Speech at the U of SC, Columbia (February 27, 2016) [https://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-dem-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/02/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-slogan-219908] * America is great because America is good. ** Hillary Clinton, Speech at the DNC, Philadelphia, PA (July 28, 2016) [https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/2016/07/29/hillary-clinton-america-is-great-because-america-is-good/] * My estimate of American character has improved, contrary to my expectations, by this visit. Great as was my previous esteem for the qualities of this people, I find myself in love with their intelligence, their sincerity, and the decorous self-respect that actuates all classes. The very genius of activity seems to have found its fit abode in the souls of this restless and energetic race. They have not, ‘tis true, the force of Englishmen in personal weight or strength, but they have compensated for this deficiency by quickening the momentum of their enterprises. All is in favour of celerity of action and the saving of time. Speed, speed, speed, is the motto that is stamped in the form of their ships and steamboats, in the breed of their horses, and the light construction of their wagons and carts: and in the ten thousand contrivances that are met with here, whether for the abridging of the labour of months or minutes, whether a high-pressure engine or a patent boot-jack. All is done in pursuit of one common object, the economy of time. ** [[Richard Cobden]], Letter to Frederick Cobden (July 5, 1835); John Morley, [https://archive.org/details/lifeofrichardcob00morlrich/page/26/mode/2up ''The Life of Richard Cobden''] (Boston, 1881), p. 26 * I’m a Yankee Doodle dandy, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; A Yankee Doodle do or die; </br> A real live nephew of my Uncle Sam’s </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Born on the Fourth of July. ** [[George M. Cohan]], "[[w:The Yankee Doodle Boy|The Yankee Doodle Boy]]", [[w:Little Johnny Jones|''Little Johnny Jones'']] (1904) * Over all, rocks, wood, and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its inmost depths. ** [[Thomas Cole]], "American Scenery", in the ''American Monthly'' (January, 1836), p. 7 * Fling out, fling out, with cheer and shout,<br>To all the winds Our Country’s Banner!<br>Be every bar, and every star,<br>Displayed in full and glorious manner!<br>Blow, zephyrs, blow, keep the dear ensign flying!<br>Blow, zephyrs, sweetly mournful, sighing, sighing, sighing! * O beautiful and grand,<br>My own, my native land!<br>Of thee I boast:<br>Great empire of the west,<br>The dearest and the best,<br>Made up of all the rest,<br>I love thee most. * We hail the return of the day of thy birth,<br>Fair Columbia! washed by the waves of two oceans—<br>Where men from the farthest dominions of earth<br>Rear altars to Freedom, and pay their devotions;<br>Where our fathers in fight, nobly strove for the Right,<br>Struck down their fierce foemen or put them to flight;<br>Through the long lapse of ages, that so there might be<br>An asylum for all in the Land of the Free. ** [[Abraham Coles]], in C. N. Douglas, ''Forty Thousand Quotations'' (1917) * I don't give a damn who you are. This is America, Jack. ** ''[[Coming to America]]'' (1988 film) — Cleo (John Amos) loq. * Loyalty ... is a realization that America was born of revolt, flourished in dissent, became great through experimentation. ** [[Henry Steele Commager]], ''Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent'' (1954), ch. 5 * The North! the South! the West! the East!<br>No one the most and none the least,<br>But each with its own heart and mind,<br>Each of its own distinctive kind,<br>Yet each a part and none the whole,<br>But all together form one soul;<br>That soul Our Country at its best,<br>No North, no South, no East, no West,<br>No yours, no mine, but always Ours,<br>Merged in one Power our lesser powers,<br>For no one's favor, great or small,<br>But [[w:Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno|all for Each and each for All]]. ** [[Edmund Vance Cooke]], "Each for All", [https://archive.org/details/uncommoncommoner01cook/page/14/mode/2up ''The Uncommon Commoner''] (1913), p. 15 * Land of the west! though passing brief the record of thine age,<br>Thou hast a name that darkens all on history's wide page!<br>Let all the blasts of fame ring out — thine shall be loudest far:<br>Let others boast their satellites — thou hast the planet star.<br>Thou hast a name whose characters of light shall ne'er depart;<br>'Tis stamped upon the dullest brain, and warms the coldest heart;<br>A war-cry fit for any land where freedom's to be won.<br>Land of the west! it stands alone — it is thy Washington! ** [[Eliza Cook]], "Washington", st. 1. ''Melaia, and Other Poems'' (1840), p. 282 [[File:Coolidge, 8-4-23 LOC npcc.09152 (cropped).jpg|thumb|Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country. —[[Calvin Coolidge]]]] * It is our one desire to make America more American. There is no greater service that we can render the oppressed of the earth than to maintain inviolate the freedom of our own citizens. ** [[Calvin Coolidge]], Speech at Tremont Temple, Boston, MA (November 2, 1918)<!--''Have Faith in Massachusetts'', 2nd ed. (1919)--> * Industrially, commercially, financially, America has been a success. ** Calvin Coolidge, Speech at Tremont Temple, Boston, MA (November 1, 1919)<!--''Have Faith in Massachusetts'', 2nd ed. (1919)--> * The rights of citizens ought to be protected with every power and resource of the state, and a government that does any less is false to the teachings of that great document — false to the name American. The assertion of human rights is not but a call of human sacrifice. This is yet the spirit of the American people. Only so long as this flame burns shall we endure, and the light of liberty be shed over the nations of the earth. ** Calvin Coolidge, "Equal Rights" (1920), in Henry Gaines Hawn, ''Hawn Course in Public Speaking, for Self Instruction'' (New York, 1921), pp. 279-81 [https://www.historyonthenet.com/authentichistory/special/nationsforum/NF_17_Equal_Rights-Calvin_Coolidge-lyrics.html] * When the people of the colonies were defending their liberties against the might of kings, they chose their banner from the design set in the firmament through all eternity. The flags of great empires of that day have gone, but the stars and stripes remain. It pictures a vision of a people whose eyes are turned to the rising dawn. It represents of the hope of a father for his posterity. It was never flaunted for the glory of royalty, but to be born under it is to be the child of a king, and to establish a home under it is to be the founder of a royal house. Alone of all flags, it expresses the sovereignty of the people which endures when all else passes away. Speaking with their voice, it has the sanctity of revelations. He who lives under it and disloyal to it is a traitor to the human race everywhere. What could be saved if the flag of the American nation were to perish? ** Calvin Coolidge, "[[s:America and the War|America and the War]]"{{citation needed}} * The trial which the civilization of America is to meet does not lie in adversity. It lies in prosperity. It will not be in a lack of power, but in the purpose directing the use of great power. There is new danger in our very greatness. ** Calvin Coolidge, "The Power of the Moral Law", Speech in Springfield, MA (October 11, 1921)<!--''The Price of Freedom'' (1924)--> * In the fullness of time America was called into being under the most favoring circumstances, to work out the problem of a more perfect relationship among mankind that government and society might be brought into harmony with reason and with conscience. ** Calvin Coolidge, "The Purpose of America", Speech in Baltimore, MD (February 22, 1922) * It is sometimes assumed that Americans care only for material things, that they are bent only on that kind of success which can be cashed into dollars and cents. That is a very narrow and unintelligent opinion. We have been successful beyond others in great commercial and industrial enterprises because we have been a people of vision. Our prosperity has resulted not by disregarding but by maintaining high ideals. Material resources do not, and cannot, stand alone; they are the product of spiritual resources. It is because America, as a nation, has held fast to the higher things of life, because it has had a faith in mankind which it has dared to put to the test of self-government, because it has believed greatly in honor and righteousness, that a great material prosperity has been added unto it. * There is no reason for Americans to lack confidence in themselves or their institutions. Let him who doubts them look about him. Let him consider the power of his country, its agriculture, its industry, its commerce, its development of the arts and sciences, its great cities, its enormous wealth, its organized society, and let him remember that all this is the accomplishment of but three centuries. Surely we must conclude that here is a people with a character which is not to be shaken. ** Calvin Coolidge, "Great Virginians", Speech at Fredericksburg, VA (July 6, 1922)<!--''The Price of Freedom'' (1924)--> * Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country. ** Calvin Coolidge, "The Destiny of America", Speech in Northampton, MA (May 28, 1923) <!-- Speech on [[w:Memorial Day|Memorial Day]] --> * There has been abroad many times some criticism of our Government, of our people, and our ways, but that has demonstrated, I think, that when they are in real trouble and real difficulty over there, they turn to us as a nation that will be fair with them—one in whose judgment and in whose character they can rely; and notwithstanding differences that have seemed to exist, they are willing to abide by the faith that they have in us, and I think it is a very substantial accomplishment. ** Calvin Coolidge, Press Conference, Washington D.C. (December 11, 1923) * We do not need to import any foreign economic ideas or any foreign government. We had better stick to the American brand of government, the American brand of equality, the American brand of wages. America had better stay American. ** Calvin Coolidge, "The High Place of Labor", Speech in Washington, D.C. (September 1, 1924) * The spirit of America is to help everybody and injure nobody. ** Calvin Coolidge, "The Genius of America", Speech in Washington, D.C. (October 16, 1924) * Our first duty is to ourselves. American standards must be maintained. American institutions must be preserved. ** Calvin Coolidge, ''Adequate Brevity'' (1924), p. 10 [[File:Nyse 2009g.JPG|thumb|The chief business of the American people is business. —Calvin Coolidge]] * The chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing, and prospering in the world. ... The chief ideal of the American people is idealism. ** Calvin Coolidge, "The Press Under a Free Government", Speech in Washington, D.C. (January 17, 1925)<!--''The New York Times'' (January 18, 1925), p. 19--> * America seeks no earthly empire built on blood and force. No ambition, no temptation, lures her to thought of foreign dominions. The legions which she sends forth are armed, not with the sword, but with the cross. The higher State to which she seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God. * The encouraging feature of our country is not that it has reached its destination, but that it has overwhelmingly expressed its determination to proceed in the right direction. * We have been, and propose to be, more and more American. We believe that we can best serve our own country and most successfully discharge our obligations to humanity by continuing to be openly and candidly, intensely and scrupulously, American. ** Calvin Coolidge, [[w:Second inauguration of Calvin Coolidge|Second Inaugural Address]] (March 4, 1925)<!--[[w:The Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents|''Messages and Papers of the Presidents'']]--> [[File:Calvin Coolidge taking the oath of office.tif|thumb|The higher our standards, the greater our progress, the more we can do for the world. —Calvin Coolidge]] * We have waged no wars to determine a succession, establish a dynasty, or glorify a reigning house. Our military operations have been for the service of the cause of humanity. The principles on which they have been fought have more and more come to be accepted as the ultimate standards of the world. ** Calvin Coolidge, "Ways to Peace", Address at the Memorial Exercises at Arlington, VA (May 31, 1926) <!-- ''Foundations of the Republic'' (1968), p. 429 --> * America follows no such delusion as a place in the sun for the strong by the destruction of the weak. America seeks rather, by giving of her strength for the service of the weak, a place in eternity. ** Calvin Coolidge, [[w:The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge|''The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge'']] (1929), p. 121 * The higher our standards, the greater our progress, the more we can do for the world. ** Calvin Coolidge, Press Dispatch, Northampton, MA (July 23, 1930)<!--''Calvin Coolidge Says'' (1972), p. 23. Cf. Press Dispatch (June 30, 1930): "Our country, our people, our civil and religious institutions may not be perfect, but they are what we have made them. They are good enough so that it has been necessary to build a high exclusion law to prevent all the world from rushing in to possess them."--> * There’s too ready a hearing abroad for Americans who make a habit of criticizing their own country. ** Calvin Coolidge, in Edward C. Lathem (ed.) [https://archive.org/details/meetcalvincoolid0000edwa/page/176/mode/2up?q=%22ready+a+hearing+abroad+for+Americans%22 ''Meet Calvin Coolidge''] (1960), p. 177 * For the dear old Flag I die,<br>Mother, dry your weeping eye;<br>For the honor of our land<br>And the dear old Flag I die. ** [[George Cooper]], "[[w:For the Dear Old Flag, I Die|For the Dear Old Flag, I Die]]" (c. 1863) * Few men exhibit greater diversity, or, if we may so express it, greater antithesis of character than the native warrior of North America. In war, he is daring, boastful, cunning, ruthless, self-denying, and self-devoted; in peace, just, generous, hospitable, revengeful, superstitious, modest, and commonly chaste. ** [[James Fenimore Cooper]], [[w:The Last of the Mohicans|''The Last of the Mohicans'']] (1826), intro. * This treatment is a newity to me, and what I won't put up with. I have a hundred and fifty dollars at use, besides a bed and twenty sheep, to good; and I don't crave to live in a house where a body musn't call a young woman by her given name to her face. I will call her Betsy as much as I please; [[wikt:it's a free country|it's a free country]], and no one can stop me. ** James Fenimore Cooper, [[w:The Pioneers (novel)|''The Pioneers'']] (1832), ch. 15 * The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal. This circumstance, while it certainly serves to elevate the average qualities of a nation, renders the introduction of a high standard difficult. Thus do we find in literature, the arts, architecture and in all acquired knowledge<!--originally 'knowlege'-->, a tendency in America to gravitate towards the common center in this, as in other things; lending a value and estimation to mediocrity that are not elsewhere given. ** James Fenimore Cooper, ''The American Democrat'' (1838), "On the Disadvantages of Democracy" * The whole story of America—a story worth the telling and worth the understanding—began with an idea. This idea is actually the political expression of a basic law of nature—that there is strength in diversity. According to this idea, America is a place where people can be themselves. It is a human experience rather than a purely national or cultural experience. It is built upon fabulous differences—religion, race, culture, customs, political thinking. These differences, or pluralism, as the sociologists call it, are actually the mortar that holds the nation together. ** [[Norman Cousins]], [https://archive.org/details/whospeaksforman0000norm/page/100/mode/2up?q=%22place+where+people+can+be+themselves%22 ''Who Speaks for Man?''] (1953), ch. 8 * The clime that from ocean to ocean expands, <br> The fields to the snow-drifts that stretch from the sands, <br> The wilds they have conquered, of mountain and plain, <br> Those pilgrims have made them fair Freedom's domain. {{pb}} And the bread of dependence if proudly they spurned, <br> 'Twas the soul of their fathers that kindled and burned, <br> 'Twas the blood of the Saxon within them that ran; <br> They held—to be free is the birthright of man. {{pb}} So oft the old lion, majestic of mane, <br> Sees cubs of his cave breaking loose from his reign; <br> Unmeet to be his if they braved not his eye, <br> He gave them the spirit his own to defy. ** [[Arthur Cleveland Coxe|A. Cleveland Coxe]], ''The Ladye Chace'' (1876), proeme, pt. 1, sts. 8–10 [[File:Lakota casualites (cropped).jpg|thumb|My lands are where my dead lie buried. —[[Crazy Horse]] ]] [[File:The Liver is the Cock's Comb.jpg|thumb|in every language even deafanddumb </br> thy sons acclaim your glorious name by gorry </br> by jingo by gee by gosh by gum </br>—[[E. E. Cummings]] ]] * My lands are where my dead lie buried. ** [[Crazy Horse]], in ''National Geographic'', vol. 110 (July–December 1956), p. 487 * Some folks are born made to wave the flag, </br> Ooh, they're red, white and blue. </br> And when the band plays "Hail to the Chief," </br> Oh, they point the cannon at you, Lord. {{pb}} It ain't me, it ain't me, </br> I ain't no senator's son, </br> It ain't me, it ain't me, </br> I ain't no fortunate one. ** [[Creedence Clearwater Revival]], "[[w:Fortunate Son|Fortunate Son]]", ''Willy and the Poor Boys'' (1969) * What then is the American, this new man? He is either an European, or the descendant of an European, hence that strange mixture of blood, which you will find in no other country. ... Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labors and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world. ** [[J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur]], ''Letters from an American Farmer'' (1782), ep. 3 * I leave this rule for others when I'm dead, </br> Be always sure you're right—{{smallcaps|then go ahead}}. ** [[Davy Crockett]], ''Narrative of the Life of Colonel Crockett'' (1834), epigraph * Don't shoot, colonel; I'll come down, as I know I'm a gone coon. ** Attributed to Crockett, in [[w:Benjamin Eli Smith|Benjamin E. Smith]] (ed.) ''The Century Cyclopedia of Names'', rev. ed. (New York, 1895), [https://archive.org/details/centurycyclopedi0001benj/page/292/mode/2up vol. 1], p. 292<!--Cf. [[w:John Camden Hotten|J. C. Hotten]] (ed.) [https://archive.org/details/slangdictionary00hott/page/108/mode/2up ''The Slang Dictionary''] (London, 1864), p. 108--> * "next to of course god america i </br> love you land of the pilgrims' and so forth oh </br> say can you see by the dawn's early my </br> country 'tis of centuries come and go </br> and are no more what of it we should worry </br> in every language even deafanddumb </br> thy sons acclaim your glorious name by gorry </br> by jingo by gee by gosh by gum </br> why talk of beauty what could be more beaut- </br> iful than these heroic happy dead </br> who rushed like lions to the roaring slaughter </br> they did not stop to think they died instead </br> then shall the voices of liberty be mute?" {{pb}} He spoke. And drank rapidly a glass of water. ** [[E. E. Cummings]], [[w:is 5|''is 5'']] (1926), p. 62 * America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still. ** E. E. Cummings, "Why I Like America", in [[w:Vanity Fair (magazine)|''Vanity Fair'']], [https://archive.org/details/sim_vanity-fair_1927-05_28_3/page/60/mode/2up vol. 28, no. 3] (May, 1927), p. 61 * Take the so called standard of living. What do most people mean by "living"? They don't mean living. They mean the latest and closest plural approximation to singular prenatal passivity which science, in its finite but unbounded wisdom, has succeeded in selling their wives. ** E. E. Cummings, ''Poems, 1923–1954'' (1954), intro. * On the Plains every man openly carries his belt with its invariable appendages, knife and revolver, often two of the latter. "[[w:Wild Bill Hickok|Wild Bill]]" always carried two handsome ivory-handled revolvers of the large size; he was never seen without them. Where this is the common custom, brawls or personal difficulties are seldom if ever settled by blows. The quarrel is not from a word to a blow, but from a word to the revolver, and he who can draw and fire first is the best man. No civil law reaches him; none is applied for. In fact there is no law recognized beyond the frontier but that of "might makes right." Should death result from the quarrel, as it usually does, no coroner’s jury is impanelled to learn the cause of death, and the survivor is not arrested. But instead of these old-fashioned proceedings, a meeting of citizens takes place, the survivor is ''requested'' to be present when the circumstances of the homicide are inquired into, and the unfailing verdict of "justifiable," "self-defence," etc., is pronounced, and the law stands vindicated. ** [[George Armstrong Custer]], "My Life on the Plains", in ''The Galaxy'', vol. 14, no. 4 (April 1872) p. 473–74 * Other countries may boast of this and that, but nobody can touch the United States for poisonous snakes. We have about twenty species, most of them deadly, and Europe has only five or six, none of them much good. ** [[Will Cuppy]], ''How to Become Extinct'' (1941), "The Rattlesnake" * If the Pilgrims were looking for freedom of conscience, they came to just the right place. In America, everybody's conscience is unusually free. ** Will Cuppy, ''The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody'' (1950), "Miles Standish" [[File:George William Curtis - Brady-Handy.jpg|thumb|America shall be the Sinai of the nations, and from the terrible thunders and lightnings of its great struggle shall proceed the divine law of liberty that shall subdue and harmonize the world. —[[George William Curtis]]]] <!--[[File:Dred Scott photograph (circa 1857).jpg|thumb|The Constitution of the United States, in its essential spirit and intention, recognizes the essential manhood of [[w:Dred Scott|Dred Scott]] as absolutely as it does that of the President, of the Chief Justice, or of any Senator of the United States. —George William Curtis]]--> * The Constitution of the United States, in its essential spirit and intention, recognizes the essential manhood of [[w:Dred Scott|Dred Scott]] as absolutely as it does that of the President, of the Chief Justice, or of any Senator of the United States. ** [[George William Curtis]], "The Present Aspect of the Slavery Question", Lecture at Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, NY (October 18, 1859) * There is no ''gentleman'' in America, but he who feels that every man is his equal in natural right, and who does not know that ''he'' is cheated if every man does not have fair play. * Plant a homogeneous people along the coast of a virgin continent. Let them gradually overspread it to the farther sea, speaking the same language, virtually of the same religious faith, intermarrying, and cherishing common heroic traditions. Suppose them sweeping from end to end of their vast domain without passports—the physical perils of their increasing extent constantly modified by science, steam, and the telegraph, making Maine and Oregon neighbors—their trade enormous, their prosperity a miracle, their commonwealth of unsurpassed importance in the world, and you may theorize as you will, but you have supposed an imperial nation, which may indeed be a power of evil as well as of good, but which can no more recede into its original elements and local sources than its own [[Mississippi River|Mississippi]], pouring broad and resistless into the Gulf, can turn backward to the petty forest springs and rills whence it flows. "No, no," murmurs the mighty river, "when you can take the blue out of the sky, when you can steal heat from fire, when you can strip splendor from the morning, then, and not before, may you reclaim your separate drops in me." "Yes, yes, my river," answers the Union, "you speak for me. I am no more a child, but a man; no longer a confederacy, but a nation. I am no more Virginia, New York, Carolina, or Massachusetts, but the United States of America." * Never fear, true hearts! A people which has shown the quality of its genius as this nation has in the last four years will finish its work. It will go forward and not backward. For our America shall be the Sinai of the nations, and from the terrible thunders and lightnings of its great struggle shall proceed the divine law of liberty that shall subdue and harmonize the world. ** George William Curtis, "The Good Fight", Lecture (Autumn, 1865) <!-- [[w:Charles Eliot Norton|C. E. Norton]] (ed.) ''Orations and Addresses'', [https://archive.org/details/orationaddresses01curtrich/page/160/mode/2up vol. 1] (1894), pp. 69, 154 --> * As to the doctrine of slavery and the right of Christians to hold Africans in perpetual servitude, and sell and treat them as we do our horses and cattle, that (it is true) has been heretofore countenanced by the Province Laws formerly, but nowhere is it expressly enacted or established. It has been a usage — a usage which took its origin from some European nations and the regulations of the British government respecting the then Colonies, for the benefit of trade and wealth. But whatever sentiments have formerly prevailed in this particular or slid in upon us by the example of others, a different idea has taken place with the people of America, more favorable to the natural right of mankind, and to that natural, innate desire of Liberty, with which Heaven, (without regard to color, complexion or shape of noses, features) has inspired all the human race. And upon this ground our Constitution of Government, by which the people of this Commonwealth have solemnly bound themselves, sets out with declaring all men are born free and equal — and that every subject is entitled to liberty, — and to have it guarded by the laws, as well as life and property — and in short is totally repugnant to the idea of being born slaves. This being the case I think the idea of slavery is inconsistent with our own conduct and Constitution; and there can be no such thing as perpetual servitude of a rational creature, unless his liberty is forfeited by criminal conduct or given up by personal consent or contract. ** [[William Cushing]], [[w:Commonwealth v. Jennison|''Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Nathaniel Jennison'']] (1783); [[Arthur Prentice Rugg|Arthur P. Rugg]], [https://doi.org/10.2307/787099 "William Cushing"], ''Yale Law Journal'', vol. 30, no. 2 (December, 1920), pp. 132–3 == D == [[File:Glass of Noah's Mill bourbon. One word...delicious. (14369651414).jpg|thumb|We have improved man's lot and enriched his civilization with rye, bourbon and the Martini cocktail. In all history has any other nation done so much? —[[Bernard DeVoto]]]] * America's fundamental optimism is what will see it through, while Europe tears itself apart in moral confusion and historical guilt. The US is a country that (still) knows what it stands for and why it exists, and it will continue to offer that self-belief to the waves of immigrants who arrive, wanting to be free. ** [[Janet Daley]], [https://web.archive.org/web/20120108105849/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/september-11-attacks/8754523/911-The-dark-day-that-brought-out-the-worst-in-Britain.html "9/11: The dark day that brought out the worst in Britain"], ''The Daily Telegraph'' (September 10, 2011) * I have seen no Hindu who seemed to me prepared intellectually and morally for the freedom he would find in American society; nor are Americans prepared for the air of innocence and exaltation worn by very undeserving Orientals. ** [[Caroline Healey Dall]], ''The Life of Dr. Anandabai Joshee'' (1888), p. 34 * Come on, you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever? ** [[Daniel Daly]], [[w:battle cry|battle cry]] at [[w:Battle of Belleau Wood|Belleau Wood]] (June, 1918) * Either God will punish America or He must one day stand at His own judgment bar and apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah. ** [[Lennard Darbee]], "Christ in Hell", in [[w:The Sword of the Lord|''The Sword of the Lord'']], vol. 10, no. 46 (November 19, 1948) p. 4, col. 2 <!-- A simplified version is quoted in Robert Waelder, ''Progress and Revolution'' (1967) ch. 16, p. 311: "If God does not soon do something drastic to America, He will have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah." --> * We've reached ... a grotesque mismatch between the American intelligentsia and the American electorate. A philosophical opinion about the nature of the universe which is held by the vast majority of top American scientists, and probably the majority of the intelligentsia generally, is so abhorrent to the American electorate that no candidate for popular election dare affirm it in public. ... American political opportunities are heavily loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest. ** [[Richard Dawkins]], [https://www.ted.com/talks/richard_dawkins_militant_atheism "Militant Atheism"], [[w:TED (conference)|TED Talk]] (February, 2002) * Assuming that the majority of [elected representatives] are an educated sample of the population, it is statistically all but inevitable that a substantial number of them must be atheists. They must have lied, or concealed their true feelings, in order to get elected. Who can blame them, given the electorate they had to convince? It is universally accepted that an admission of atheism would be instant political suicide for any presidential candidate. ** Richard Dawkins, [[w:The God Delusion|''The God Delusion'']] (2006), ch. 2 * I have come to feel that it is in this country that the fate of Christendom will be decided. There is a great opportunity in America today that may never be repeated. That is why I am here. ** [[Christopher Dawson]] (1959), as quoted in John Lukacs, [https://archive.org/details/confessionsofori00luka/page/314/mode/2up ''Confessions of an Original Sinner''] (1990), p. 315 * Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong. ** [[Stephen Decatur]], Toast at a dinner in Norfolk, Virginia (April 1816), in Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, ''Life of Stephen Decatur'' (1848), p. 295. Different version given in [[w:Weekly Register|''Niles' Weekly Register'']] (April 20, 1816), p. 136: **: ''Our country''—In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the ''right'', and always ''successful'', ''right'' or ''wrong''. * The metaphor of the melting pot is unfortunate and misleading. A more accurate analogy would be a [[w:Salad bowl (cultural idea)|salad bowl]], for, though the salad is an entity, the lettuce can still be distinguished from the chicory, the tomatoes from the cabbage. ** [[Carl N. Degler]], ''Out of Our Past: The Forces That Shaped Modern America'' (1959), ch. 10, sec. 4 * The "way of life" that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki (and is reported to have roasted alive up to a million people in Tokyo in a single night) is international and dominates every nation of the world. But we live in the United States, so our struggle is here. With this "way of life" ("death" would be more appropriate) there can be no truce nor quarter. The prejudices of patriotism, the pressures of our friends, and the fear of unpopularity, imprisonment or death should not hold us back any longer. It must be total war against the infamous economic, political and social system which is dominant in this country. The American system has been destroying human life in peace and in war, at home and abroad, for decades. Now it has produced the crowning infamy of atom bombing. Besides these brutal facts, the tidbits of democracy mean nothing. Henceforth no decent citizen owes one scrap of allegiance (if he ever did) to American law, American custom or American institutions. ** [[Dave Dellinger]], "Declaration of War", in ''Direct Action'', no. 1 (1945); reprinted in ''From Yale to Jail: The Life Story of a Moral Dissenter'' (New York: Pantheon, 1993), p. 140 * Eloquence may truly be considered in every country, where the freedom of speech is indulged, as synonimous with civic honours, wealth, dignity and might. In the last particular, its potency is that of a magician. It wields at will our fierce democracie. ** [[Joseph Dennie]], [Review of ''Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary'' (1808) by Nathaniel Chapman] in ''The Port Folio'', ser. 3, vol. 2, no. 1 (July 1809) p. 23 * Those which Fortune hath frown’d upon in England, ... may procure here inheritances of land, ... enjoy the benefit of them whilst they live, and leave them to the benefit of their children when they die. ** [[Daniel Denton]], ''A Brief Description of New-York'' (1670) * I am a real American <br> Fight for the rights of every man <br> I am a real American <br> Fight for what's right <br> Fight for your life. ** [[Rick Derringer]], "Real American", ''The Wrestling Album'' (1985) * If today America promotes a particular kind of low-road capitalism — a {{w|union-busting}} capitalism of poverty wages, {{w|Gig worker|gig jobs}} and {{w|Precarity|normalized insecurity}}; a winner-take-all capitalism of stunning disparities not only permitting but awarding financial rule-bending; a racist capitalism that ignores the fact that slavery didn’t just deny black freedom but built white fortunes, originating the black-white wealth gap that annually grows wider — one reason is that American capitalism was founded on the lowest road there is. ** [[Matthew Desmond]], [https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/slavery-capitalism.html "In order to understand the brutality of American capitalism, you have to start on the plantation"], ''{{w|The New York Times Magazine}}'' (August 14, 2019) * Those who have amassed the most power and capital bear the most responsibility for America's vast poverty: political elites, who have utterly failed low-income Americans over the past century; corporate bosses who have spent and schemed to prioritize profits over people; lobbyists blocking the will of the American people with their self-serving interests; property owners who have exiled the poor from entire cities and fueled the affordable housing crisis. ** [[Matthew Desmond]], [[w:Poverty, by America|''Poverty, by America'']] (2023), ch. 8 * We are a pious people but a proud one too, aware of a noble lineage and a great inheritance. Let us candidly admit that there are shameful blemishes on the American past, of which by far the worst is rum. Nevertheless, we have improved man's lot and enriched his civilization with rye, bourbon and the Martini cocktail. In all history has any other nation done so much? ** [[Bernard DeVoto]], ''The Hour'' (1951), ch. 1 * As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance. ** [[John Dewey]], "The Need for a New Party" (1931); ''Later Works'', vol. 6 (1985) pt. 4, ch. 12 * Ime the first Lord in the younited States of A mercary Now of Newburyport it is the voise of the peopel and I cant Help it and so Let it goue Now as I must be Lord there will foler many more Lords prittey soune for it Dont hurt A Cat Nor the mouse Nor the son Nor the water Nor the Eare then goue on all in Easey Now bons broaken all is well all in Love Now I be gin to Lay the Corner ston with grat Remembrence of my father Jorge Washington the grate herow 17 sentreys past before we found so good A father to his children and Now gone to Rest Now to shoue my Love to my father and grate Carieters I will shoue the world one of the grate Wonders of the world in 15 months if Now man mourders me in Dors or out Dors such A mouserum on Earth will annonce O Lord thou knowest to be troue fourder hear me good Lord I am A goueing to Let or shildren know Now to see good Lord what has bin in the world grat wase back to own fore fathers Not old plimeth but stop to Addom & Eve. ** [[Timothy Dexter]], ''{{w|A Pickle for the Knowing Ones}}'', 4th ed. (1848) p. 14 * The nation is a body without a head, and the arms and legs are occupied in quarrelling with the trunk and each other and exchanging bruises at random. ** [[Charles Dickens]], Letter to [[William Macready]] (April 1, 1842); William Toynbee (ed.) ''The Diaries of Macready, 1833–1851'' (1912), [https://archive.org/details/diariesofwilliam02macriala/page/170/mode/2up vol. 2], pp. 169–70, note. See also: Michael Slater (ed.) [https://archive.org/details/dickensonamerica0000dick/mode/2up ''Dickens on America & the Americans''] (1978), p. 97 * I ''am'' disappointed. This is not the republic I came to see; this is not the republic of my imagination. ** Charles Dickens, Letter to William Macready (February 26, 1844); [[w:Appletons' Journal|''Appletons' Journal'']], vol. 8, no. 43 (January, 1880), p. 74 [https://archive.org/details/appletonsjourna8188unse_0/page/74/mode/2up] * "Is it the master?" returned the girl.... </br> "The master!" said Colonel Diver, stopping short and looking round at his war correspondent. </br> "Oh! The depressing institutions of that British empire, colonel!" said Jefferson Brick. "Master!" </br> "What's the matter with the word?" asked Martin. </br> "I should hope it was never heard in our country, sir; that’s all," said Jefferson Brick; "except when it is used by some degraded Help, as new to the blessings of our form of government, as this Help is. There are no masters here." </br> "All 'owners,' are they?" said Martin. ** [[Charles Dickens]], ''[[Martin Chuzzlewit]]'' (1844), ch. 16. Cf. Sean Purchase, [http://www.jstor.org/stable/41556146 "'Speaking of Them as a Body': Dickens, Slavery and 'Martin Chuzzlewit'"], ''Critical Survey'', vol. 18, no. 1 (2006), p. 10 * Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all,— </br> [[w:United we stand, divided we fall|By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall]]. ** [[John Dickinson]], "The Liberty Song" (1768); ''Memoirs of the Hist. Soc. of Pennsylvania'', vol. 14 (1895), p. 432 * We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. Our cause is just, our union is perfect. ** John Dickinson, "Declaration of Causes and Necessities"<!--presented to Congress--> (July 8, 1775); ''Memoirs of the Hist. Soc. of Pennsylvania'', vol. 13 (1891), p. 162 * My country need not change her gown, </br> Her triple suit as sweet </br> As when 'twas cut at Lexington, </br> And first pronounced "a fit." {{pb}} Great Britain disapproves, "the stars"; </br> Disparagement discreet, — </br> There's something in their attitude </br> That taunts her bayonet. ** [[Emily Dickinson]], "[[w:List of Emily Dickinson poems|My country need not change her gown]]" (wr. c. 1881; pub. 1891) * It is a peculiarity of the development of American fascism that at the present stage it comes forward principally in the guise of an opposition to fascism, which it accuses of being an "un-American" trend imported from abroad. ** [[Georgi Dimitrov]], [https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/dimitrov/works/1935/08_02.htm "The Fascist Offensive and the Tasks of the Communist International in the Struggle of the Working Class against Fascism"], Report delivered at the Seventh World Congress of the Communist International (August 2, 1935); ''Selected Works'' (Sofia, 1972), vol. 2 * The more machines the better, because the more machines the more leisure, and the more leisure the more intellectual and moral life. I believe that the people of the United States, as they have more leisure, will learn to use it in an intellectual manner. The fact that they attend lectures is one clear proof of their intellectual interest. French people don't go to lectures, but instead they take delight in intellectual conversation. The chief fault that I see in this country is that, with eighteen people in a room, there will be nine subjects of conversation. In France there would be one. ** [[Ernest Dimnet]], in the ''Carnegie Magazine'', [https://archive.org/details/sim_carnegie_1931-03_4_10/page/296/mode/2up vol. 4, no. 10] (March 24, 1931), p. 296 * Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave. That is why I believe that this frightfulness we see everywhere today is only temporary. Tomorrow will be better for as long as America keeps alive the ideals of freedom and a better life. All men will want to be free and share our way of life. ... I thank God and America for the right to live and raise my family under the flag of tolerance, democracy and freedom. ** [[Walt Disney]], "Our American Culture", radio broadcast during an intermission of the Metropolitan Opera (March 1, 1941) * To all who come to this happy place: Welcome. [[Disneyland]] is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America; with the hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world. ** Walt Disney, Dedication of Disneyland (July 17, 1955) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf2TMwtCUr4] [[File:William Simpson - George Zobel - England and America. The visit of her majesty Queen Victoria to the Arctic ship Resolute - December 16th, 1856.jpg|thumb|Before the civil war the United States ... existed under all the conditions of colonial life except that of mere political dependence. —[[Benjamin Disraeli]]]] * Laughter is America's most important export. * Actually, if you could see close in my eyes, the American flag is waving in both of them and up my spine is growing this red, white, and blue stripe. ** Walt Disney, reported in Dave Smith (ed.) ''The Quotable Walt Disney'' (2001) * I have always looked upon the struggle in America in the light of a great revolution. Great revolutions, whatever may be their alleged causes, are not likely to be commenced or to be concluded with precipitation. Before the civil war commenced the United States were colonies; because we should not forget that such communities do not cease to be colonies because they are independent. They were not only colonies, but they were colonising, and they existed under all the conditions of colonial life except that of mere political dependence. ** [[Benjamin Disraeli]], Speech in the British House of Commons (February 5, 1863); G. E. Buckle, ''The Life of Benjamin Disraeli'', [https://archive.org/details/lifeofbenjamindi0000gebu/page/332/mode/2up vol. 4] (New York: Macmillan, 1916), p. 333 * The democracy of America must not be confounded with the democracies of old Europe. It is not the scum of turbulent cities, nor is it a mere section of an excited middle class speculating in shares and calling it progress. It is a territorial democracy, if I may use that epithet without offending honorable gentlemen opposite. [[Aristotle]], who has taught us most of the wise things we know, never said a wiser thing than that the cultivators of the soil are the class least inclined to sedition and to violent courses. ** Benjamin Disraeli, Speech in the British House of Commons (March 13, 1865); [https://archive.org/details/cu31924070627611/page/632/mode/2up ''Correspondence concerning Claims against Great Britain''] (Washington, 1870), appx. 23 * O, my America, my New-found-land. ** [[John Donne]], "To His Mistress Going to Bed", l. 27. ''Poems'' (1669) * Forever occupied and diverted by its factions and its politicians, in their local intrigues for the acquisition of political power, the [[Ship of State]] sailed proudly on, too blinded by her preoccupation and too reliant in her strength to bestow a thought upon the perils of the sea. She sighted afar the foam of the maelstrom, and tossed her haughty pennants in sovereign disdain of its power. But its current was around her, and she glided unconsciously to her doom. In vain the exercise of her giant strength; in vain that her factions, in happy forgetfulness of their petty antipathies, united their powers to save! Too late! She was hurled, helpless and struggling, to ruin and annihilation; and as she sank, engulfed, she carried with her the prestige of a race; for in America the representatives of the one race of man, which, in its relation to the family of men, had borne upon its crest the emblem of sovereign power since the dawn of history, saw now the ancestral diadem plucked from its proud repose, to shed its lustre upon an alien crown. Thus passed away the glory of the Union of States, at the dawn of the Twentieth Century. ** [[Pierton W. Dooner]], ''Last Days of the Republic'' (1880) ch. 15 * This is a young and growing nation. It swarms as often as a hive of bees, and as new swarms are turned out each year, there must be hives in which they can gather and make their honey. ** [[Stephen A. Douglas]], Debate with Abraham Lincoln, Freeport, IL (August 27, 1858)<!--''Political Debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas: In the celebrated Campaign of 1858, in Illinois'' (Columbus, OH: Follett, Foster and Co., 1860), pp. 96–7--> * There are only two sides to this question. Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war; only patriots and traitors. ** Stephen A. Douglas, Last public speech before his death, Chicago, IL (May 1, 1861) * We are witnessing, I think, a new American phenomenon. The two parties have become almost indistinguishable; and each is controlled by the Establishment. The modern day dissenters and protesters are functioning as the [[w:Loyal opposition|loyal opposition]] functions in England. They are the mounting voice of political opposition to the status quo, calling for revolutionary changes in our institutions. ** [[William O. Douglas]], [https://archive.org/details/pointsofrebillio00doug/page/56/mode/2up ''Points of Rebellion''] (1970), ch. 3<!--pp. 57–8--> * In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky — her grand old woods — her fertile fields — her beautiful rivers — her mighty lakes, and star-crowned mountains. But my rapture is soon checked, ... [w]hen I remember that all is cursed with the infernal actions of slaveholding, robbery and wrong, — when I remember that with the waters of her noblest rivers, the tears of my brethren are borne to the ocean, disregarded and forgotten, and that her most fertile fields drink daily of the warm blood of my outraged sisters, I am filled with unutterable loathing. ** [[Frederick Douglass]], Letter to William Lloyd Garrison (January 1, 1846)<!--Philip Foner (ed) ''Life and Writings'' (New York, 1950), vol. 1, p. 125--> * I will hold up America to the lightning scorn of moral indignation. In doing this, I shall feel myself discharging the duty of a true patriot; for he is a lover of his country who rebukes and does not excuse its sins. ** Frederick Douglass, "Love of God, Love of Man, Love of Country", Speech in Syracuse, NY (September 24, 1847) * The destiny of the colored man is bound up with that of the white people of this country. ... ''We are here'', and here we are likely to be. ... We can be remodified, changed, and assimilated, but never extinguished. We repeat, therefore, that ''we are here''; and that this is ''our'' country; and the question for the philosophers and statesmen of the land ought to be, What principles should dictate the policy of the action towards us? We shall neither die out, nor be driven out; but shall go on with this people, either as a testimony against them, or as an evidence in their favor throughout their generations. ** Frederick Douglass, "The Destiny of Colored Americans", in [[w:The North Star (anti-slavery newspaper)|''The North Star'']], vol. 2, no. 46 (November 16, 1849), p. 2 [[File:Frederick Douglass c1860s.jpg|thumb|The Fourth of July is the first great fact in your nation's history — the very ring-bolt in the chain of your yet undeveloped destiny. —[[Frederick Douglass]]]] * The Fourth of July is the first great fact in your nation's history — the very ring-bolt in the chain of your yet undeveloped destiny. ** Frederick Douglass, "[[w:What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?|What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?]]", Speech at [[w:Corinthian Hall (Rochester, New York)|Corinthian Hall]], in Rochester, NY (July 5, 1852) * Its language is "we the people;" not we the white people, not even we the citizens, not we the privileged class, not we the high, not we the low, but we the people; not we the horses, sheep, and swine, and wheel-barrows, but we the people, we the human inhabitants; and, if Negroes are people, they are included in the benefits for which the Constitution of America was ordained and established. ** Frederick Douglass, "[[w:The Constitution of the United States: is it pro-slavery or anti-slavery?|The Constitution of the United States: Is It Pro-Slavery or Anti-Slavery?]]", Speech in Glasgow, Scotland (March 26, 1860) * The destiny of the colored American...is the destiny of America. ** Frederick Douglass, "The Black Man's Future in the Southern States", Speech in Boston, MA (February 12, 1862) * It is thought by many, and said by some, that this Republic has already seen its best days; that the historian may now write the story of its decline and fall. {{pb}} Two classes of men are just now especially afflicted with such forebodings. The first are those who are croakers by nature—the men who have a taste for funerals, and especially national funerals. They never see the bright side of anything, and probably never will. Like the raven in the lines of Edgar A. Poe, they have learned two words, and those are, "never more." They usually begin by telling us what we never shall see. ** Frederick Douglass, "Composite Nation", Speech in Boston, MA (December 7, 1869) * We are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause. We must never forget that victory to the rebellion meant death to the republic. We must never forget that the loyal soldiers who rest beneath this sod flung themselves between the nation and the nation destroyers. If today we have a country not boiling in an agony of blood, like France, if now we have a united country, no longer cursed by the hell-black system of human bondage, if the American name is no longer a by-word and a hissing to a mocking earth, if the star-spangled banner floats only over free American citizens in every quarter of the land, and our country has before it a long and glorious career of justice, liberty, and civilization, we are indebted to the unselfish devotion of the noble army who rest in these honored graves all around us. ** Frederick Douglass, "The Unknown Loyal Dead", Speech at Arlington National Cemetery, VA (30 May 1871) [https://drt.cmc.edu/2021/05/31/victory-to-the-rebellion-meant-death-to-the-republic/] [[File:Our Banner in the Sky by Frederic Edwin Church.jpg|thumb|Freedom from her mountain height, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Unfurled her standard to the air. </br> She tore the azure robe of night, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; And set the stars of glory there.]] * When Freedom from her mountain height, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Unfurled her standard to the air, </br> She tore the azure robe of night, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; And set the stars of glory there. * Forever float that standard sheet! </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Where breathes the foe but falls before us, </br> With Freedom’s soil beneath our feet, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; And Freedom’s banner streaming o’er us? ** [[Joseph Rodman Drake]], "The American Flag", in the ''New York Evening Post'' (May 29, 1819); collected in ''The Culprit Fay and Other Poems'' (1835), published posthumously by Drake's daughter. Attributed also to [[Fitz-Greene Halleck]] * You brave heroic minds </br> Worthy your country’s name, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; That honour still pursue; </br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Go and subdue! ** [[Michael Drayton]], "To the Virginian Voyage", st. 1. ''Poems'' (1606) * Ordinary people across the Soviet Union saw that the poorest Americans have television sets and microwave ovens and cars. They arrived at the same perception of America that I witnessed in a friend of mine from Bombay who has been unsuccessfully trying to move to the United States for nearly a decade. Finally I asked him, "Why are you so eager to come to America?" He replied, "Because I really want to live in a country where the poor people are fat." ** [[Dinesh D'Souza]], ''What's So Great about America'' (2003), ch. 3 * Since [[w:Robert Gould Shaw|thou]] and those who died with thee for right </br> Have died, the Present teaches, but in vain! ** [[Paul Laurence Dunbar]], "Robert Gould Shaw", st. 2. [https://archive.org/details/lyricsoflovelaug00dunbuoft/page/158/mode/2up ''Lyrics of Love and Laughter''] (1902), p. 159 [[File:NNC-US-1866-G$10-Liberty Head (new style & motto) (cropped reverse).jpg|thumb|Th' American nation in th' Sixth Ward is a fine people. They love th' eagle, on th' back iv a dollar.]] * "Th' American nation in th' Sixth Ward is a fine people," he says. "They love th' eagle," he says, "on th' back iv a dollar." ** [[Finley Peter Dunne]], "On Oratory in Politics", ''Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War'' (1898), p. 222 * Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise,<br>The queen of the world and the child of the skies!<br>Thy genius commands thee; with rapture behold,<br>While ages on ages thy splendors unfold. * Let the crimes of the East ne'er encrimson thy name,<br>Be freedom, and science, and virtue, thy fame. * As the day-spring unbounded, thy splendor shall flow,<br>And earth's little kingdoms before thee shall bow,<br>While the ensigns of union, in triumph unfurl'd,<br>Hush the tumult of war, and give peace to the world. ** [[Timothy Dwight IV]], "Columbia", sts. 1, 5. ''The American Museum'', [https://archive.org/details/sim_american-museum-or-universal-magazine_1787-06_1_6/page/566/mode/2up vol. 1, no. 6] (June, 1787), p. 566 * So it's home again, and home again, America for me!<br>My heart is turning home again, and I long to be<br>In the land of youth and freedom beyond the ocean bars,<br>Where the air is full of sunshine, and the flag is full of stars. ** [[Henry Van Dyke|Henry van Dyke Jr.]], "America for Me" (June, 1909). ''Poems'' (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911) [https://potw.org/archive/potw308.html] * All that foreign oil controlling American soil, <br> Look around you, it's just bound to make you embarrassed. <br> Sheiks walkin' around like kings, wearing fancy jewels and nose rings, <br> Deciding America's future from Amsterdam and to Paris <br> And there's a slow, slow train comin' up around the bend. ** [[Bob Dylan]], "[[w:Slow Train (Bob Dylan song)|Slow Train]]", st. 3. ''Slow Train Coming'' (1979) * See them big plantations burning <br> Hear the cracking of the whips <br> Smell that sweet magnolia blooming <br> See the ghost of slavery ships. ** Bob Dylan, "[[w:Blind Willie McTell (song)|Blind Willie McTell]]", st. 3. ''The Bootleg Series Vols. 1–3'' (1991) == E == * The average American does not know the difference between a Contra and a caterpillar. He does not know the difference between a Sandinista and a sardine. ** [[John P. East]], in the ''Congressional Record — Senate'' (October 11, 1984), p. 31790, col. 2 * Snobbishness is particularly tenacious in America because it is so hard in a changing society to have clear claims to unassailable distinction. ** [[Irwin Edman]], "Towards an Understanding of American Life", Lecture at International House, Columbia University (February 7, 1948); collected in Charles Frankel (ed.) [https://archive.org/details/usesofphilosophy0000unse/page/110/mode/2up ''The Uses of Philosophy''] (1955), p. 110 * The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children. ** [[Edward VIII of the United Kingdom|Edward, Duke of Windsor]], in [[w:Look (American magazine)|''Look'']] (March 5, 1957); cited in ''Contemporary Quotations'' (1964), p. 248 * Let it not be forgotten that patriotism is one of the positive lessons to be taught in every school. Everything learned should be flavored with a genuine love of country. Every glorious fact in the Nation's history should be emphasized, and lovingly dwelt upon. The names of her illustrious citizens should be treasured in the memory. Every child should feel that he is entitled to a share, not only in the blessings conferred by a free government, but also in the rich memories and glorious achievements of his country. ** [[Richard Edwards (educator)|Richard Edwards]], "The Problem of To-day—Patriotism the Great School Lesson", Address before the National Educational Association, Chicago, IL (July, 1887); ''Patriotic Reader'' (1888), p. 544 [[File:Citizen-Einstein.jpg|thumb|The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being. —[[Einstein]]]] <!--[[File:Hubble Extreme Deep Field (full resolution).png|thumb|]]--> * In America, more than anywhere else, the individual is lost in the achievements of the many. America is beginning to be the world leader in scientific investigation. American scholarship is both patient and inspiring. * Too many of us [Europeans] look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves. It is not true that the dollar is an American fetish. The American student is not interested in dollars, not even in success as such, but in his task, the object of the search. It is his painstaking application to the study of the infinitely little and the infinitely large which accounts for his success in astronomy. ** [[Albert Einstein]], Interviewed by George Sylvester, [https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/what_life_means_to_einstein.pdf "What Life Means to Einstein"], in ''The Saturday Evening Post'' (October 26, 1929), pp. 113–14 * The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being. ** Albert Einstein, ''Ideas and Opinions'' (1954), pt. 1, ch. 2 [[File:"ATOMS FOR PEACE" 3 cent stamp art detail with President Eisenhower in 1955 and quotation of "THE... INVENTIVENESS OF MAN SHALL" from- HD.3C.032 (10692189783) (cropped).jpg|thumb|Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America. —[[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]]] <!--[[File:Portrait of President Dwight D. Eisenhower 1956 (3x4 cropped).jpg|thumb|Un-American activity cannot be prevented or routed out by employing un-American methods; to preserve freedom we must use the tools that freedom provides.]]--> * The proudest human that walks the earth is a free American citizen. ** [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]], Talk at the Commercial Club of Chicago (May 21, 1948) [https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/eisenhowers/quotes] * Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America. ** Dwight D. Eisenhower, [[w:First inauguration of Dwight D. Eisenhower|First Inaugural Address]] (January 20, 1953) * Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. ** Dwight D. Eisenhower, Speech in Washington, D.C. (April 16, 1953); ''Public Papers of Presidents: 1953'' (1960), p. 182 * Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionaries and rebels—men and women who dared to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. ** Dwight D. Eisenhower, Speech at Columbia University (May 31, 1954) * We are a people born of many peoples. Our culture, our skills, our very aspirations have been shaped by immigrants—and their sons and daughters—from all the earth. Sam Gompers from England, Andrew Carnegie from Scotland, Albert Einstein from Germany—and Booker T. Washington and Al Smith—Marconi and Caruso—men of all nations and races and estates—they have made us what we are. * As there can be no second class citizens before the law of America, so—we believe—there can be no second-class nations before the law of the world community. ** Dwight D. Eisenhower, Address at the [[w:Philadelphia Convention Hall and Civic Center|Philadelphia Convention Hall]] (November 1, 1956) * This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. ... We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. ... In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the [[w:Military–industrial complex|military-industrial complex]]. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together. ** Dwight D. Eisenhower, [[w:Dwight D. Eisenhower's farewell address|Farewell Address to the Nation]] (January 17, 1961) * Un-American activity cannot be prevented or routed out by employing un-American methods; to preserve freedom we must use the tools that freedom provides. ** Dwight D. Eisenhower, ''Mandate for Change, 1953–1956'' (1963), ch. 13 * America is woven of many strands; I would recognize them and let it so remain. ... Our fate is to become one, and yet many—This is not prophecy, but description. ** [[Ralph Ellison]], ''Invisible Man'' (1952), epilogue * It is the final perfection, the consummation of an American to become, not an Englishman, but a European—something which no born European, no person of any European nationality, can become. ** [[T. S. Eliot]], "Henry James: In Memory", in ''The Little Review'' (August, 1918); collected in Edmund Wilson (ed.) [https://archive.org/details/shockofrecogniti00wils/page/854/mode/2up ''The Shock of Recognition''] (1943), p. 855 * America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres. ** [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]], "The Poet", ''Essays'', 2nd ser. (1844), p. 41 * America is the country of young men. ** Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Old Age", ''Society and Solitude'' (1870), p. 296<!--Variant: "America is a country of young men."--> * America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine Providence in behalf of the human race. ** Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Tryon Edwards (ed.) [https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofthou00edwa/page/16/mode/2up ''A Dictionary of Thoughts''] (New York: Cassell, 1891), p. 17 * I wish I was in de land ob cotton, </br> Old times dar am not forgotten. </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Look away! Look away! </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Look away! Dixie Land! * In Dixie’s land, we’ll took our stand, </br> To lib an’ die in Dixie! ** [[Dan Emmett]], "[[w:Dixie (song)|Dixie]]" (1859); [[w:Charles Burleigh Galbreath|C. B. Galbreath]], [https://archive.org/details/danieldecaturemm017305mbp/page/n9/mode/2up ''Daniel Decatur Emmet''] (1904), pp. 14, 18 * With a just deference to the age, the power, the greatness of the other nations of the earth, we do not fear to appeal to the opinion of mankind whether, as we point to our land, our people, and our laws, the contemplation should not inspire us with a lover's enthusiasm for our country. ** [[William M. Evarts]], "What the Age Owes to America", Oration at Philadelphia, PA (July 4, 1876); the [[w:New-York Tribune|''New-York Tribune'']], [https://archive.org/details/independenceday00tribrich/page/12/mode/2up extra, no. 33] (July 4, 1876), p. 12 * The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their knees and then upon the aborigines. ** William M. Evarts, in the ''Louisville Courier-Journal'' (July 4, 1913); [[w:Bartlett's Familiar Quotations|''Bartlett's'']], 13th ed. (1955), p. 592 * The national character, in some of its most important elements, must be formed, elevated, and strengthened from the materials which history presents. Are we to be eternally ringing the changes upon Marathon and Thermopylæ; and going back to find in obscure texts of Greek and Latin the great exemplars of patriotic virtue? I rejoice that we can find them nearer home, in our own country, on our own soil;—that strains of the noblest sentiment, that ever swelled in the breast of man, are breathing to us out of every page of our country's history, in the native eloquence of our mother tongue;—that the colonial and the provincial councils of America, exhibit to us models of the spirit and character, which gave Greece and Rome their name and their praise among the nations<!--''sic'': 'nation'-->. Here we ought to go for our instruction;—the lesson is plain, it is clear, it is applicable. ** [[Edward Everett]], Speech, on laying the corner-stone of the monument at Concord, MA (April 19, 1825); [[Elias Lyman Magoon|E. L. Magoon]] (ed.) [https://archive.org/details/livingoratorsina02mago/page/80/mode/2up ''Living Orators in America''] (1849), ch. 2<!--"And how is the spirit of a free people to be formed and animated and cheered, but out of the storehouse of its historic recollections? ..."--> == F == <!--[[File:Picketts charge confederates by Edwin Forbes.jpg|thumb|For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o'clock on that July afternoon in 1863. —[[William Faulkner]] ]]--> * It's all ''now'' you see. Yesterday won't be over until tomorrow and tomorrow began ten thousand years ago. For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o'clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns are laid and ready in the woods and the furled flags are already loosened to break out and [[w:George Pickett|Pickett]] himself with his long oiled ringlets and his hat in one hand probably and his sword in the other looking up the hill waiting for [[w:James Longstreet|Longstreet]] to give the word and it's all in the balance, it hasn't happened yet, it hasn't even begun yet, it not only hasn't begun yet but there is still time for it not to begin against that position and those circumstances which made more men than [[w:Richard B. Garnett|Garnett]] and [[w:James L. Kemper|Kemper]] and [[w:Lewis Addison Armistead|Armistead]] and [[w:Cadmus M. Wilcox|Wilcox]] look grave yet it's going to begin, we all know that, we have come too far with too much at stake and that moment doesn't need even a fourteen-year-old boy to think ''This time. Maybe this time'' with all this much to lose and all this much to gain: Pennsylvania, Maryland, the world, the golden dome of Washington itself to crown with desperate and unbelievable victory the desperate gamble, the cast made two years ago; or to anyone who ever sailed a skiff under a quilt sail, the moment in 1492 when somebody thought ''This is it:'' the absolute edge of no return, to turn back now and make home or sail irrevocably on and either find land or plunge over the world's roaring rim. ** [[William Faulkner]], [[w:Intruder in the Dust|''Intruder in the Dust'']] (1948), ch. 9 * If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green. Maybe the purpose of this sorry and tragic error committed in my native Mississippi by two white adults on an afflicted Negro child is to prove to us whether or not we deserve to survive. Because if we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don't deserve to survive, and probably won't. ** [[William Faulkner]], interviewed by Jean Stein in ''The Paris Review'', no. 12 (Spring 1956), on the lynching of [[w:Emmett Till|Emmett Till]] * We should not want to think of America as a 'melting pot,' but as a great interracial laboratory where Americans can really begin to build the thing which the rest of the world feels they stand for...that is real democracy. ** [[Crystal Bird Fauset]], Speech at the [[w:Women's Centennial Congress|Women's Centennial Congress]], NYC (November, 1940); Howard A. Myrick, [https://www.chestnuthilllocal.com/stories/recalling-philadelphias-civil-rights-figures-during-black-history-month,13698 "Recalling Philadelphia's civil rights figures during Black History Month"], ''Chestnut Hill Local'' (February 5, 2020) * The empire that rules the world today is both more and less than its British begetter. It has a much bigger economy, many more people, a much larger arsenal. But it is an empire that lacks the drive to export its capital, its people and its culture to those backward regions which need them most urgently and which, if they are neglected, will breed the greatest threats to its security. It is an empire, in short, that dare not speak its name. It is an empire in denial. ** [[Niall Ferguson]], ''Empire'' (2003); cf. [[Charles S. Maier]] * Unite, and the foes to your freedom defy, </br> Till the continent sinks, and the ocean is dry! ** [[Thomas Green Fessenden]], "Ye Sons of Columbia: An Ode" (July, 1798), st. 5. [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008656220 ''Original Poems''] (1806), p. 3 * So long as he's American, it mattereth not the least; </br> Whether his crest be badger, bear, palmetto, sword, or pine, </br> His is the glory of the stars that with the stripes combine. </br> Where'er he be, whate'er his lot, he's eager to be known, </br> Not by his mortal name, but by his country's name alone. ** [[Eugene Field]], "John Smith", l. 90. ''Second Book of Verse'' (1892), p. 20 [[File:Battle of Spottsylvania by Thure de Thulstrup.jpg|thumb|Let our colors fly, boys— <br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Guard them day and night; <br> For Victory is Liberty, <br> &nbsp;&nbsp; And God will bless the Right.]] * Rally round the flag, boys— <br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Give it to the breeze! <br> That's the banner ''we'' love, <br> &nbsp;&nbsp; On the land and seas. {{pb}} Brave hearts are under it; <br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Let the ''Traitors'' brag; <br> Gallant lads, fire away! <br> &nbsp;&nbsp; And fight for the flag. {{pb}} ''Their'' flag is but a rag— <br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Ours is the ''true'' one; <br> Up with the Stars and Stripes! <br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Down with the new one! {{pb}} Let our colors fly, boys— <br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Guard them day and night; <br> For Victory is Liberty, <br> &nbsp;&nbsp; And God will bless the Right. ** [[James Thomas Fields]], "The Stars and Stripes". ''Beadle's Dime Union Song Book'', no. 2 (1861), p. 58. Expanded lyrics given in Frank Moore (ed.) ''The Rebellion Record'', vol. 5 (1866), p. 38 [[File:Anders Zorn - Against the Current 1919 - Metropol lot no. 2513020.jpg|thumb|So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.]] * Most of the big shore places were closed now and there were hardly any lights except the shadowy, moving glow of a ferryboat across the Sound. And as the moon rose higher the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors’ eyes — a fresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby’s house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder. {{pb}} And as I sat there, brooding on the old unknown world, I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night. {{pb}} Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter — tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning — {{pb}} So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. ** [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]], ''[[The Great Gatsby]]'' (1925), ch. 9 * France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to utter — it was the graves at Shiloh and the tired, drawn, nervous faces of its great men, and the country boys dying in the Argonne for a phrase that was empty before their bodies withered. It was a willingness of the heart. ** F. Scott Fitzgerald, [https://www.gutenberg.net.au/fsf/THE-SWIMMERS.html "The Swimmers"], in ''The Saturday Evening Post'', [https://archive.org/details/sim_saturday-evening-post_1929-10-19_202_16/page/154/mode/2up?q=%22France+was+a+land%2C+England+was+a+people%22 vol. 202, no. 16] (October 19, 1929), p. 154. Cf. [[w:The Crack-Up|''The Crack-Up'']] (1945), note-books * There are no second acts in American lives. ** F. Scott Fitzgerald, [[w:The Last Tycoon|''The Last Tycoon'']] (ed. [[w:Edmund Wilson|Edmund Wilson]], 1941) * The labels liberal and conservative used to mean something fairly clear. A liberal used to mean somebody who believed in the individual, who believed in the free market, who believed that you should break down all the barriers toward individual self-expression. If this meant destroying the church or weakening the power of parents within their family, destroying social classes, all sorts of conventions, this is what liberals were in favor of. What conservatives were interested in doing was preserving a kind of cultural order, preserving a tradition, preserving a sense of sacredness—even if they weren’t particularly religious themselves, they had to preserve that sense of the sacred. And what happened in the 1940s and 50s is that conservatism got defined as what used to be called liberal. In other words, the free market is everything, the individual is everything. Forget family—forget everything, essentially, but the marketplace and the defense of the nation, because the old liberals were also great colonialists. And the people who called themselves liberals were in fact socialists or worse. What was somebody with something like a conservative worldview going to do? There was no place. There was no label. There was no party. There was no movement. It’s like being a conservative environmentalist today. The greatest environmental thinker, the most powerful philosopher of conservation today, is Wendell Berry, who is a conservative. He lives on his little farm in rural Kentucky. He writes books about managing his own little family farm. He’s a Christian, he’s a traditionalist, but he’s on the board of the Sierra Club. Why? Because there’s no conservative organization that would welcome Wendell Berry; they think he’s the devil incarnate. And that, in a nutshell, is the failure of American conservatism—not to make a place for the real social, cultural, and moral conservatives who have surfaced from time to time. Jack Kerouac was a conservative and nobody knew that at the time. Why was he a conservative? He thought of himself as a man of the right. He thought he was a patriot. He was a rugged, old-fashioned individualist, but he loved America. He hated this rise of America-bashing of the 60s, and he’s quite an interesting person. Obviously, he was a moral anarchist in some sense, but way down deep he had the...impulses of a Baudelaire, who was also a conservative. ** [[Thomas Fleming (political writer)|Thomas Fleming]], video interview by David Hoffman, part of the PBS television series ''Making Sense of the Sixties'' (1989) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPvVamEno1M] * Hundreds would die, but not the thing they died for. A man can stand up. ** [[Esther Forbes]], [[w:Johnny Tremain|''Johnny Tremain'']] (1943), ch. 12, sec. 5 * My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. Our Constitution works; our great Republic is a Government of laws and not of men. Here the people rule. ** [[Gerald Ford]], Speech (August 9, 1974)<!--G. J. Lankevich, ''Gerald R. Ford'' (1977)-->; cf. [[James Harrington (author)|James Harrington]] [[File:Jean Harlow Publicity.jpg|thumb|American women shoot the hippopotamus with eyebrows made of platinum. —[[E. M. Forster]]]] * American women shoot the hippopotamus with eyebrows made of platinum. ** [[E. M. Forster]], "Mickey and Minnie" (1934), in [[w:Abinger Harvest|''Abinger Harvest'']] (1936), sec. 4; cf. [[Hilaire Belloc]], "The Hippopotamus", [[w:The Bad Child's Book of Beasts|''The Bad Child's Book of Beasts'']] (1896) * Bring me men to match my mountains, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Bring me men to match my plains, </br> Men with empires in their purpose, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; And new eras in their brains. ** [[Sam Walter Foss]], "The Coming American", in [[w:Sidney Perley|S. Perley]] (ed.) [https://archive.org/details/poetsofessex00perlrich/page/56/mode/2up ''The Poets of Essex County, MA''] (1889), p. 56 * Well, isn't this a billion dollar country? ** [[Charles Foster (Ohio politician)|Charles Foster]], responding to Democrat critics who labelled the [[w:51st United States Congress|51st Congress]] (March 4, 1889 – March 4, 1891) a "Billion Dollar" Congress. Cited in Henry L. Stoddard, [https://archive.org/details/asiknewthem0000henr_w0x5/page/176/mode/2up ''As I Knew Them''] (1927), ch. 21 * America continues to be, for many, a land of dreams. Dreams which lead to action, to participation, to commitment. Dreams which awaken what is deepest and truest in the life of a people. ... In recent centuries, millions of people came to this land to pursue their dream of building a future in freedom. We, the people of this continent, are not fearful of foreigners, because most of us were once foreigners. ... Tragically, the rights of those who were here long before us were not always respected. ... Those first contacts were often turbulent and violent, but it is difficult to judge the past by the criteria of the present. Nonetheless, when the stranger in our midst appeals to us, we must not repeat the sins and the errors of the past. We must resolve now to live as nobly and as justly as possible, as we educate new generations not to turn their back on our 'neighbors' and everything around us. ... Building a nation calls us to recognize that we must constantly relate to others, rejecting a mindset of hostility in order to adopt one of reciprocal subsidiarity, in a constant effort to do our best. ** [[Pope Francis]], Address to the U.S. Congress (September 24, 2015) [https://www.c-span.org/program/american-history-tv/pope-francis-address-to-joint-meeting-of-congress/413597] * In the United States today, the government performs many of its functions more or less effectively. The mail is delivered (sometimes); the population, or at least part of it, is counted (sort of); and taxes are collected (you bet). You can accuse the federal leviathan of many things—corruption, incompetence, waste, bureaucratic strangulation—but mere anarchy, the lack of effective government, is not one of them. Yet at the same time, the state does not perform effectively or justly its basic duty of enforcing order and punishing criminals, and in this respect its failures do bring the country, or important parts of it, close to a state of anarchy. But that semblance of anarchy is coupled with many of the characteristics of tyranny, under which innocent and law-abiding citizens are punished by the state or suffer gross violations of their rights and liberty at the hands of the state. The result is what seems to be the first society in history in which elements of both anarchy and tyranny pertain at the same time and seem to be closely connected with each other and to constitute, more or less, opposite sides of the same coin. ** [[Sam Francis (writer)|Sam Francis]], [https://chroniclesmagazine.org/view/anarcho-tyranny-u-s-a-7/ "Anarcho-Tyranny, U.S.A."], in [[w:Chronicles (magazine)|''Chronicles'']] (July, 1994) * America, for once in its brief and not always glorious history, must try to learn that its own experience is peculiar in world history, that it has been unusually fortunate in coming to maturity in an epoch of untypical peace and prosperity, and that it cannot continue to judge the world by the norm of its own mythology. ** [[Samuel T. Francis]], ''Beautiful Losers'' (1994), 1. "Foreign Policy and the South" [[File:Joseph Siffrein Duplessis - Benjamin Franklin - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|People do not inquire concerning a Stranger, ''What is he?'' but, ''What can he {{smallcaps|do}}?'' —[[Benjamin Franklin]]]] [[File:1 Wild Turkey.jpg|thumb|I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country. ... The turkey ... is a much more respectable bird. —Franklin]] * I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character ... like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy ... The turkey ... is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America. ** [[Benjamin Franklin]], Letter to Sarah Bache (January 26, 1784) * Much less is it adviseable for a Person to go thither [to America], who has no other Quality to recommend him but his Birth. In Europe it has indeed its Value; but it is a Commodity that cannot be carried to a worse Market than that of America, where people do not inquire concerning a Stranger, ''What is he?'' but, ''What can he {{smallcaps|do}}?'' ** Benjamin Franklin, [https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-41-02-0391 ''Information to Those Who Would Remove to America''] (1784) * The first man put at the helm will be a good one. No body knows what sort may come afterwards. The Executive will be always increasing here, as elsewhere, till it ends in a Monarchy. ** Benjamin Franklin, at the [[w:Constitutional Convention (United States)|Constitutional Convention]] (June 4, 1787) * {{smallcaps|Powel}}: Well, Doctor, what have we got?<br /> {{smallcaps|Franklin}}: A republic, Madam, if you can keep it.<br/>{{smallcaps|Powel}}: And why not keep it?<br />{{smallcaps|Franklin}}: Because the people, on tasting the dish, are always disposed to eat more of it than does them good. ** Franklin and [[Elizabeth Willing Powel|Elizabeth Powel]], at the Constitutional Convention (September 17, 1787) * I have gloried in my rebel countrymen! Would to God I, too, had been a patriot. ** [[Rebecca Franks]], Remark to [[Winfield Scott]], c. 1816; ''Memoirs of Lieut.-General Scott'' (1864), ch. 14<!--Cf. Max J. Kohler, ''Rebecca Franks: An American Jewish Belle of the Last Century'' (1894)--> * What bleating breast-beaters like you can't comprehend...is that when selfish frightened men — in other words, ''any'' men, red or white, civilised or savage — come face to face in the middle of a wilderness that both of 'em want, the Lord alone knows why, then war breaks out, and the weaker goes under. Policies don't matter a spent piss — it's the men in fear and rage and uncertainty watching the woods and skyline, d' you see, you purblind bookworm, you! ** [[George MacDonald Fraser]], [[w:Flashman and the Redskins|''Flashman and the Redskins'']] (1982) — Flashman loq. [[File:1869 sheet music detail, Flags of the United States and France (Boston Public Library) (cropped).jpg|thumb|The United States and France can learn from each other. —[[George M. Fredrickson]]]] * The United States and France can learn from each other. French universalism...is a powerful weapon against racism, which is based on the belief in innate unalterable differences among human groups. Stressing what rights all people have because of what they have in common remains at the heart of anti-racism...On the other hand the identification of such universalism with a particular national identity and with specific cultural traits that go beyond essential human rights can lead to an intolerance of the Other that approaches color-coded racism in its harmful effects. ** [[George M. Fredrickson]], "Race, Ethnicity, and National Identity in France and the United States: A Comparative Historical Overview", Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Gilder Lehrman Center International Conference at Yale University (November 7–8, 2003) [https://web.archive.org/web/20031208020244/http://www.yale.edu/glc/events/race/Fredrickson.pdf] * The loss of America what can repay? </br> New colonies seek for at [[w:Botany Bay|Botany Bay]]. ** [[John Freeth]], in ''The New London Magazine'', suppl. to vol. 2 (January, 1787), p. 709 <!-- ''The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations'', 5th ed. (1999) gives 1786 as the date --> * Then rushed to meet the insulting foe; </br> They took the spear—but left the shield. ** [[Philip Freneau]], "To the Memory of the Americans who Fell at [[w:Battle of Eutaw Springs|Eutaw]]", ''Poems'' (1786) ** Cf. Scott, [[Marmion (poem)|''Marmion'']] (1808), intro. to canto 3, st. 3 * O come the time, and haste the day, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; When man shall man no longer crush, </br> When Reason shall enforce her sway, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Nor these fair regions raise our blush, </br> Where still the African complains, </br> And mourns his yet unbroken chains. * Far brighter scenes a future age, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; The muse predicts, these States will hail, </br> Whose genius may the world engage, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Whose deeds may over death prevail, </br> And happier systems bring to view, </br> Than all the eastern sages knew. ** Philip Freneau, "On the Emigration to America and Peopling the Western Country", ''Poems'' (1786) * America is a mistake; a gigantic mistake, it is true, but none the less a mistake. ** [[Sigmund Freud]], remark to [[w:Ernest Jones|Ernest Jones]] (1909); ''The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud'', [https://archive.org/details/lifeworkofsigmun0002jone/page/60/mode/2up vol. 2‎] (1955), p. 60 ** Ernest Jones, ''Memories of a Psycho-Analyst'' (1959), ch. 9: **: Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake. ** Ronald W. Clark, ''Freud: The Man and His Cause'' (1980), pt. 3, ch. 12: **: America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but I am afraid it is not going to be a success. * In the United States, minority populations were never an indigestible mass—with the major exceptions of the one ethnic group that did not come here voluntarily (African Americans) and those who were here when Europeans arrived (American Indians). The rest all came, clustered and dispersed, and added new cultural layers to the general society. This has always been the strength of the United States. ** [[George Friedman]], ''The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century'' (2009), ch. 13 <!-- New York: Doubleday, pp. 224–5 --> [[File:American Progress (John Gast painting).jpg|thumb|Such as we were we gave ourselves outright </br> (The deed of gift was many deeds of war) </br> To the land vaguely realizing westward, </br> But still unstoried, artless, unenhanced, </br> Such as she was, such as she would become.]] * The land was ours before we were the land’s. </br> She was our land more than a hundred years </br> Before we were her people. * But we were England’s, still colonials, </br> Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, </br> Possessed by what we now no more possessed. * Something we were withholding made us weak </br> Until we found out that it was ourselves </br> We were withholding from our land of living, </br> And forthwith found salvation in surrender. * Such as we were we gave ourselves outright </br> (The deed of gift was many deeds of war) </br> To the land vaguely realizing westward, </br> But still unstoried, artless, unenhanced, </br> Such as she was, such as she would become. ** [[Robert Frost]], "[[w:The Gift Outright|The Gift Outright]]", [[w:A Witness Tree|''A Witness Tree'']] (1942) * Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his sons the hardships that made him rich. ** Robert Frost, attributed in ''Peter's Quotations'' (1977), p. 46 * What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others. ** [[Carlos Fuentes]], [https://time.com/vault/issue/1986-06-16/page/1/ "To See Ourselves as Others See Us"], in ''TIME'' (June 16, 1986) * It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the values upon which our system is built. These values imply our adherence not only to liberty and individual freedom, but also to international peace, law and order, and constructive social purpose. When we depart from these values, we do so at our peril. ** [[J. William Fulbright]], in the ''Congressional Record — Senate'' (June 29, 1961), p. 11,703, col. 2 * There are two Americas. One is the America of Lincoln and Adlai Stevenson; the other is the America of Teddy Roosevelt and the modern superpatriots. One is generous and humane, the other narrowly egotistical; one is self-critical, the other self-righteous; one is sensible, the other romantic; one is good-humored, the other solemn; one is inquiring, the other pontificating; one is moderate, the other filled with [[w:The Second Coming (poem)|passionate intensity]]; one is judicious and the other arrogant in the use of great power. ** J. William Fulbright, ''The Arrogance of Power'' (1966), concl. * It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along its shores. ** [[Margaret Fuller]], ''Papers on Literature and Art'' (1846) * The framers of the Constitution employed words in their natural sense; and, where they are plain and clear, resort to collateral aids to interpretation is unnecessary, and cannot be indulged in to narrow or enlarge the text; but where there is ambiguity or doubt, or where two views may well be entertained, contemporaneous and subsequent practical construction is entitled to the greatest weight. ** [[Melville Fuller]], [[w:McPherson v. Blacker|''McPherson v. Blacker'']], 146 U.S. 1 (1892) * Nothing can be clearer than that what the Constitution intended to guard against was the exercise by the general government of the power of directly taxing persons and property within any State through a majority made up from the other States. ** Melville Fuller, [[w:Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co.|''Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co.'']], 157 U.S. 429 (1895). Essentially overturned by the [[w:Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Sixteenth Amendment]] in 1909 == G == * The important thing to understand about American history, ... is that it is fictional, a charcoal-sketched simplicity for children, or the easily bored. For the most part it is uninspected, unimagined, unthought, a representation of the thing, and not the thing itself. It is a fine fiction, ... that America was founded by pilgrims, seeking the freedom to believe as they wished, that they came to the Americas, spread and bred and filled the empty land. In truth, the American colonies were as much a dumping ground as an escape, a forgetting place. ** [[Neil Gaiman]], ''[[American Gods]]'' (2001), Coming to America: 1721 * I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating and that the decline in good sex in America is coincident with the decline in [[w:Drive-in theater|drive-in movie theaters]] from state to state. I believe that all politicians are unprincipled crooks and I still believe that they are better than the alternative. I believe that [[California]] is going to sink into the sea when the big one comes, while [[Florida]] is going to dissolve into madness and alligators and toxic waste. ** Neil Gaiman, ''American Gods'' (2001), ch. 13 * Your mission was, to be a model for all other governments and for all other less favored nations, to adhere to the most elevated principles of political morality, to apply all your faculties to the gradual improvement of your own institutions and social state, and, by your example, to exert a moral influence most beneficial to mankind at large. Instead of this, an appeal has been made to your worst passions; to cupidity, to the thirst of unjust aggrandizement by brutal force; to the love of military fame and of false glory... The attempt is made to make you abandon the lofty position which your fathers occupied, to substitute for it the political morality and heathen patriotism of the heroes and statesmen of antiquity. ** [[Albert Gallatin]], [https://archive.org/details/peacewithmexico00gall/page/26/mode/2up ''Peace with Mexico''] (New York, 1847), sec. 7 * Wake up, America! ** [[Augustus P. Gardner]], Speech (October 16, 1916), in [[s:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|''Hoyt's'']] (1922), p. 21 * More and more Americans feel threatened by runaway technology, by large-scale organization, by overcrowding. More and more Americans are appalled by the ravages of industrial progress, by the defacement of nature, by man-made ugliness. If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end up in sumptuous misery. ** [[John W. Gardner]], [https://archive.org/details/noeasyvictories00gard/page/56/mode/2up ''No Easy Victories''], ed. Helen Rowan (1968), p. 57 * The directness and naturalness of the American is the most enviable of his traits. It gives the sense of a man who is born free—free from the irritating restraints, embarrassments and artificialities of a society in which social caste and feudal considerations prevail as they still prevail in most European countries. ** [[Alfred George Gardiner]], [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3834437&seq=109 ''Leaves in the Wind''] (1919), pp. 94–5 [[File:James Abram Garfield, photo portrait seated (3x4 cropped).jpg|thumb|Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and its valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life. In them dwells its hope of immortality. Among them, if anywhere, are to be found its chief elements of destruction. —[[James A. Garfield]]]] <!--[[File:Harper's weekly (1867) (14782968892).jpg|thumb|To grant suffrage to the black man in this country is not innovation, but restoration. It is a return to the ancient principles and practices of the fathers. —James A. Garfield]]--> * For mere vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge. But for security of the future I would do every thing. ** [[James A. Garfield]], Speech in NYC (April 15, 1865), after Lincoln's assassination<!--[[w:John Clark Ridpath|J. C. Ridpath]] (ed.) ''The Life and Work of James A. Garfield'' (1882), p. 194. Several biographers include this speech, but accounts of his remarks that day vary.--> * To grant suffrage to the black man in this country is not innovation, but restoration. It is a return to the ancient principles and practices of [[w:Founding Fathers of the United States|the fathers]]. ** James A. Garfield, Oration at Ravenna, OH (July 4, 1865)<!--Burke A. Hinsdale (ed.) ''The Works of James Abraham Garfield'', [https://archive.org/stream/worksjamesabram00garfgoog/worksjamesabram00garfgoog_djvu.txt vol. 1] (Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1882), p. 88--> * Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and its valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life. In them dwells its hope of immortality. Among them, if anywhere, are to be found its chief elements of destruction. ** James A. Garfield, "The Future of the Republic: its Dangers and its Hopes", Address delivered before the literary societies of Hudson College, OH (July 2, 1873) * The elevation of the negro race from slavery to the full rights of citizenship is the most important political change we have known since the adoption of the Constitution of 1787. No thoughtful man can fail to appreciate its beneficent effect upon our institutions and people. It has freed us from the perpetual danger of war and dissolution. It has added immensely to the moral and industrial forces of our people. It has liberated the master as well as the slave from a relation which wronged and enfeebled both. ** James A. Garfield, [[w:Inauguration of James A. Garfield|Inaugural Address]] (March 4, 1881) * I cannot conclude without mentioning how sensibly I feel the dismemberment of America from the Empire, and that I should be miserable indeed if I did not feel that no blame on that account can be laid to my door, and did I not also know that knavery seems to be so much the striking feature of he inhabitants, that it may not in the end be an evil that they will become aliens to this Kingdom. ** [[George III of the United Kingdom|George III]], Letter to the [[William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne|Earl of Shelburne]] (November 10, 1782) * I wish you, Sir to believe, and that it may be understood in America, that I have done nothing in the late Contest, but what I thought myself indispensably bound to do by the Duty which I owed to my People. I will be very frank with you. I was the last to consent to the Seperation: but the Seperation having been made, and having become inevitable, I have always Said as I say now, that I would be the first to meet the Friendship of the United States as an independent Power. The moment I See Such Sentiments and Language as yours prevail, and a disposition to give to this Country the Preference, that moment I Shall Say let the Circumstances of Language, Religion and blood, have their natural and full Effect. ** George III, to [[John Adams]], St. James's Palace (June 1, 1785) ** John Adams, Letter to [[John Jay]] (June 2, 1785) [https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-17-02-0078] * My own immigrant grandfathers came to the United States a little over a hundred years ago. Like most immigrants then and now, they were not drawn here by any abstract belief in the superiority of the American political system. My father's father came from Syria, fleeing oppression visited upon him and his family as members of a relatively small ethnic and religious minority group in that troubled country. My mother’s father came to escape the poverty of southern Italy. They both worked on the railroads and in the mines. ... Although both my grandfathers encountered ethnic prejudice, they viewed this as an aberration—a failure of some Americans to live up to the nation's ideals. It did not dawn on them to blame the bad behavior of some Americans on America itself. On the contrary, America in their eyes was a land of unsurpassed blessing. It was a nation of which they were proud and happy to become citizens. And even before they became citizens they had become patriots—men who deeply appreciated what America is and what she stands for. * I want immigrants to become Americans. I want them to believe in American ideals and institutions. ... I want them to believe, as I believe, in the dignity of the human being, in all stages and conditions of life, and in limited government, republican democracy, equality of opportunity, morally ordered liberty, private property, economic freedom, and the rule of law. I want them to believe in these ideals and principles not because they are ours but because they are noble and good and true. They honor the profound, inherent, and equal dignity of all members of the human family. They call forth from us the best that we are capable of. They ennoble us. Our efforts to live up to them, despite our failures and imperfections, have made us a great people, a force for freedom and justice in the world, and, of course, an astonishingly prosperous nation. It is little wonder that America is, as it always has been, a magnet for people from every land who seek a better life. ** [[Robert P. George]], ''Conscience and Its Enemies'' (2013) pt. 1, ch. 7 * Once I moved about like the wind. Now I surrender to you and that is all. ** [[Geronimo]], to Maj. Gen. [[w:George Crook|George Crook]] (March 25, 1886); [[w:Dee Brown|Dee Brown]], ''[[w:Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee|Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee]]'' (1970), ch. 17 * [[Labor history of the United States|American labor]] was strongest when the threat of [[communism]] was greatest. The apogee of America's welfare state, with all its limitations, was coterminous with the height of the [[Cold War]]. The dismantling of the welfare state and the labor movement, meanwhile, marched in tandem with communism's collapse. ** [[Gary Gerstle]], ''The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era'' (2022), p. 12 * Our country has liberty without license, and authority without despotism. ** [[James Gibbons]], Address at Rome (March 25, 1887); [[w:The Catholic World|''The Catholic World'']], [https://archive.org/details/CatholicWorldV045/page/329/mode/2up vol. 45, no. 267] (June, 1887), p. 330 * When Johnny comes marching home again, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Hurrah, hurrah! </br> We'll give him a hearty welcome then, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Hurrah, hurrah! </br> The men will cheer, the boys will shout, </br> The ladies, they will all turn out, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; And we'll all feel gay, </br> When Johnny comes marching home. ** [[Patrick Gilmore]], "[[w:When Johnny Comes Marching Home|When Johnny Comes Marching Home]]", in ''Beadle's Dime Song Book'', no. 15 (1863), p. 18. Cf. [[w:Jean Bell Thomas|Jean Thomas]], [https://archive.org/details/balladmakininmo0000jean/page/54/mode/2up ''Ballad Makin' in the Mountains of Kentucky''] (1939), p. 54: **: In eighteen hundred and sixty-one, that was when the war begun, <br>In eighteen hundred and sixty-two, both sides were falling to, <br>In eighteen hundred and sixty-three, Abe Lincoln [[w:Emancipation Proclamation|set the darkies free]], <br>In eighteen hundred and sixty-four, Abe called for five hundred thousand more, <br>In eighteen hundred and sixty-five, they talked rebellion—strife;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;And we'll all drink stone wine, when Johnny comes marching home. * I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, </br> dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, </br> angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night. ** [[Allen Ginsberg]], [[w:Howl (poem)|''Howl: for Carl Solomon'']] (1956) * America I've given you all and now I’m nothing. ** Allen Ginsberg, "[[w:America (poem)|America]]", ''Howl and Other Poems'' (1956) * It is she alone who, at a coming time, can, and probably will, wrest from us that commercial primacy. We have no title, I have no inclination, to murmur at the prospect. ... We have no more title against her than [[Venice]], or [[Genoa]], or [[Holland]], has had against us. ** [[William Ewart Gladstone]], "Kin beyond Sea", ''The North American Review'', vol. 127, no. 264 (October, 1878), p. 180 * A good many of us today are content to be fat, dumb, and happy. With a polyunsaturated diet of the coming 35-hour week, the fly-now-pay-later vacation, and fringe benefits, many of us live in a chromium-plated world where the major enemy we face is crabgrass. ** [[John Glenn]], "In the End We Get Back to Standards", [[w:The Washington Star|''Sunday Star'']] (April 28, 1963); repr. ''Congressional Record — Senate'' (April 30, 1963), p. 7,330 [[File:The City and Port of Philadelphia, on the River Delaware from Kensington, by William Russell Birch, 1800, hand-colored engraving, from the National Portrait Gallery - NPG-AD NPG 2013 5 5PortofPhiladelphiadet-000002.jpg|thumb|America, yours is the better lot </br> Than is our continent’s, the old. </br> You have no ruined castles’ rot </br> Nor marbles cold. —[[Goethe]]]] * ''Amerika, du hast es besser </br> Als unser Kontinent, das alte, </br> Hast keine verfallene Schlösser </br> Und keine Basalte.'' * ''Benutzt die Gegenwart mit Glück! </br> Und wenn nun Eure Kinder dichten, </br> Bewahre sie ein gut Geschick </br> Vor Ritter-, Räuber- und Gespenstergeschichten.'' ** America, yours is the better lot </br> Than is our continent’s, the old. </br> You have no ruined castles’ rot </br> Nor marbles cold. ** Make happy use of this your time! </br> And later when your children rhyme </br> Of kinder fates, oh, keep away </br> From robbers, knights, and ghosts, I pray. ** [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]], „Den Vereinigten Staaten“ (1827), sts. 1 and 3. Christian F. Melz, [https://doi.org/10.2307/372551 "Goethe and America"], ''College English'', vol. 10, no. 8 (1949), p. 426 [[File:Bellows CliffDwellers.jpg|thumb|When, in the course of human development, existing institutions prove inadequate to the needs of man, when they serve merely to enslave, rob, and oppress mankind, the people have the eternal right to rebel against, and overthrow, these institutions. </br>—[[Emma Goldman]]]] * When, in the course of human development, existing institutions prove inadequate to the needs of man, when they serve merely to enslave, rob, and oppress mankind, the people have the eternal right to rebel against, and overthrow, these institutions. ** [[Emma Goldman]], "A New Declaration of Independence", in ''Mother Earth'', [https://archive.org/details/motherearthvol4/page/n141/mode/2up vol. 4, no. 5] (July 1909), p. 137 * We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. ... Yet we go into spasms of joy over the possibility of projecting dynamite bombs from flying machines upon helpless citizens. We are ready to hang, electrocute, or lynch anyone, who, from economic necessity, will risk his own life in the attempt upon that of some industrial magnate. ** Emma Goldman, "[[s:Anarchism and Other Essays/5|Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty]]", ''Anarchism and Other Essays'' (1910), p. 142 * The poor, stupid, free American citizen! Free to starve, free to tramp the highways of this great country, he enjoys universal suffrage, and, by that right, he has forged chains about his limbs. The reward that he receives is stringent labor laws prohibiting the right ... of everything, except the right to be robbed of the fruits of his labor. ** Emma Goldman, "[[s:Anarchism and Other Essays/9|Woman Suffrage]]", ''Anarchism and Other Essays'' (1910), p. 204 * The specter of single-issue religious groups is growing over our land. ** [[Barry Goldwater]], Speech in the Senate (September 16, 1981), reported in Perry Deane Young, [https://archive.org/details/godsbulliesnativ00youn/page/324/mode/2up ''God's Bullies: Native Reflections on Preachers and Politics''] (1981), Appendix D * If there is one difference within the political class, I would argue that it is this: that the left wishes to extend Jacobin democracy at home, while the right hopes to spread it everywhere else. Thus, the left accelerates the managerial-therapeutic domination of American society through anti-discrimination, victimological, redistributionist programs. The right, by contrast, considers domestic reform to have been already accomplished, and seeks to export the PV – the Perfected Version of American democracy – everywhere else. ** [[Paul Gottfried]], "Modern Democracy and War", Speech at the Mises Institute's "Costs of War" conference in Auburn, AL (May 1994) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88IJz9-fuK4] [[File:B-2 Spirit original.jpg|thumb|The essence of U.S. military predominance in the world is, ultimately, the fact that it can, at will, drop bombs, with only a few hours' notice, at absolutely any point on the surface of the planet. </br> —[[David Graeber]]]] * I do not believe the greatest threat to our future is from bombs or guided missiles. I don’t think our civilization will die that way. I think it will die when we no longer care — when the spiritual forces that make us wish to be right and noble die in the hearts of men. Arnold Toynbee has pointed out that 19 or 21 notable civilizations have died from within and not by conquest from without. There were no bands playing and no flags waving when these civilizations decayed; it happened slowly, in the quiet and the dark when no one was aware. ... "If America is to grow great, we must stop gagging at the word spiritual!" Our task is to rediscover and reassert our faith in the spiritual, nonutilitarian values on which American life has really rested from its beginning. ** [[Laurence McKinley Gould]], quoted in the [[w:Friends Journal|''Friends Journal'']] (March 19, 1960) p. 181, and in the ''Congressional Record — Senate'' (April 22, 1968) p. 10157, col. 3 ("Americans Are Destroying America", Address by [[Ezra Taft Benson]]) * The essence of U.S. military predominance in the world is, ultimately, the fact that it can, at will, drop bombs, with only a few hours' notice, at absolutely any point on the surface of the planet. No other government has ever had anything remotely like this sort of capability. In fact, a case could well be made that it is this very power that holds the entire world monetary system, organized around the dollar, together. ** [[David Graeber]], ''Debt: The 5000 Years'' (2011), pp. 365–6 * As the United States is the freest of all nations, so, too, its people sympathize with all people struggling for liberty and self-government; but while so sympathizing it is due to our honor that we should abstain from enforcing our views upon unwilling nations and from taking an interested part, without invitation. ** [[Ulysses S. Grant]], [[s:Ulysses S. Grant's First State of the Union Address|First State of the Union Address]] (December 6, 1869) * The present difficulty, in bringing all parts of the United States to a happy unity and love of country grows out of the prejudice to color. The prejudice is a senseless one, but it exists. ** [[Ulysses S. Grant]], ''Memorandum: Reasons why Santo Domingo should be annexed to the United States'' (1869–1870) [http://books.google.com/books?id=h2ETxC83sdsC&pg=PA74&lpg=PA74&dq=%22and+he+would+soon+receive+such+recognition+as+to+induce+him+to+stay%22&source=bl&ots=0bCUbNud-b&sig=SUGBB2pV8Ob_jR_KTJvQ2kenxKM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=B-9kU7-8DtXesAT_4YGQBA&ved=0CDoQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=%22and%20he%20would%20soon%20receive%20such%20recognition%20as%20to%20induce%20him%20to%20stay%22&f=false] * Under existing conditions the negro votes the Republican ticket because he knows his friends are of that party. Many a good citizen votes the opposite, not because he agrees with the great principles of state which separate parties, but because, generally, he is opposed to negro rule. This is a most delusive cry. Treat the negro as a citizen and a voter, as he is and must remain, and soon parties will be divided, not on the [[w:Color line (racism)|color line]], but on principle. Then we shall have no complaint of sectional interference. ** [[Ulysses S. Grant]], [[s:Ulysses S. Grant's Sixth State of the Union Address|Sixth State of the Union Address]] (December 7, 1874) [[File:US Capitol dome Jan 2006.jpg|thumb|Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and the state forever separate. —[[Ulysses S. Grant|U. S. Grant]]]] <!--[[File:Eagle in front of General Grant's Tomb in New York.jpg|thumb|]]--> * Encourage free schools, and resolve that not one dollar of money shall be appropriated to the support of any sectarian school. Resolve that neither the state nor nation, or both combined, shall support institutions of learning other than those sufficient to afford every child growing up in the land the opportunity of a good common school education, unmixed with sectarian, pagan, or atheistical tenets. Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and the state forever separate. ** [[Ulysses S. Grant]], Speech at the Annual Reunion of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, Des Moines, IA (September 29, 1875); Jeremiah Chaplin (ed.) [https://archive.org/details/wordsofourheroul00gran/page/30/mode/2up ''Words of Our Hero, U.S. Grant''] (Boston: D. Lothrop & Co., 1885), p. 31 * As soon as slavery fired upon the flag it was felt, we all felt, even those who did not object to slaves, that slavery must be destroyed. We felt that it was a stain to the Union that men should be bought and sold like cattle. ** [[Ulysses S. Grant]], to [[Otto von Bismarck]] (June 1878), as quoted in John Russell Young, ''Around the World with General Grant'', vol. 7 (1879), p. 416 [https://www.granthomepage.com/grantslavery.htm] [[File:Horace Greeley and family LCCN2003667048.jpg|thumb|The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and did their work and the verdure of a new national life springs greenly, luxuriantly, from their ashes. <br> —[[Horace Greeley]]]] * [[w:Go West, young man|Go West, young man]], and grow up with the country. ** Atrributed to [[Horace Greeley]] and [[John B. L. Soule]] (c. 1850) * The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and did their work and the verdure of a new national life springs greenly, luxuriantly, from their ashes. ** Horace Greeley, "An Estimate of Abraham Lincoln", in Joel Benton (ed.) ''Greeley on Lincoln'' (1893) p. 78 * Don’t wanna be an American idiot. </br> Don’t want a nation under the new media </br> And can you hear the sound of hysteria? </br> The subliminal mind fuck America. ** [[Green Day]], "[[w:American Idiot (song)|American Idiot]]" (2004 song and album) * Pyle had taken a good degree in—well, one of those subjects Americans can take degrees in: perhaps public relations or theatrecraft, perhaps even Far Eastern studies (he had read a lot of books). ** [[Graham Greene]], [[w:The Quiet American|''The Quiet American'']] (1955), pt. 1, ch. 1 * I'm proud to be an American<br>where at least I know I'm free,<br>And I won't forget the men who died<br>who gave that right to me,<br>And I gladly stand up next to you<br>And defend her still today,<br>'Cause there ain't no doubt I love this land<br>{{smallcaps|God bless the U.S.A.}} ** [[Lee Greenwood]], "[[w:God Bless the U.S.A.|God Bless the U.S.A.]]" (1984) * The new business model for America is clearly recognizable. Its dominant feature is the merger of government, real estate, and commerce into a single structure, tightly controlled at the top. It is the same model used in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Communist China. ** [[G. Edward Griffin]], ''The Creature from Jekyll Island'' (1994) ch. 3 * While the Marxists were promising a chicken in every pot, the New Dealers were winning elections by pushing for a house on every lot. ** G. Edward Griffin, ''The Creature from Jekyll Island'' (1994) ch. 4 * Then for the sake of Freedom’s name, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; (Since British wisdom scorns repealing) </br> Come sacrifice to Patriot fame, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; And give up tea by way of healing. ** [[Hannah Griffitts]], "Beware of the Ides of March" (wr. 1775), st. 3 (ed. Patti Cowell, 1981) * While envisaging the destruction of imperialism, it is necessary to identify its head, which is no other than the United States of America. ** [[Che Guevara]], "Message to the Tricontinental", sent from his jungle camp in Bolivia to Havana, Cuba (wr. Spring, 1967; pub. April 16, 1967) [https://www.marxists.org/archive/guevara/1967/04/16.htm] * American scientists are ceaselessly attacking in every sphere the frontiers of the unknown; American economists and social engineers have at hand techniques that can forestall a new depression; there is no valid reason why the American people cannot work out an evolution in which freedom and security are combined. Creative good will, coherent large-minded planning, clarity of vision, a grasp of the realities of the nation as a whole, spring-mindedness, education and more education, a fixed national purpose to make out of contemporary civilization weapons that will cure, not kill—all this is possible. In a curious way it is earlier, not later, than we think. The fact that a third of the nation is ill-housed and ill-fed is, in simple fact, not so much a dishonor as a challenge. What Americans have to do is enlarge the dimensions of the democratic process. This country is, I once heard it put, "lousy with greatness"—with not only the greatest responsibilities but with the greatest opportunities ever known to man. * Here, beyond anything else on the whole earth, is a country blessed by an ideal geography and almost perfect natural frontiers, by incalculable bulk and wealth and variety and vitality, by a unique and indeed unexampled heritage in democratic ideas and principles—and a country deliberately founded on a good idea. * The greatest, craziest, most dangerous, least stable, most spectacular, least grown-up, and most powerful and magnificent nation ever known. ** [[John Gunther]], [[w:Inside U.S.A. (book)|''Inside U.S.A.'']] (1947) * America, bride of Change! </br> Thy cloistral hour is done; </br> Thy shy and innocent foot </br> Is white on the stranger's stair: </br> Unto what end? — Beloved! </br> I have heard thee sigh. * What if now </br> Thou failest, our saint, our star! </br> Between thy Father's tomb, </br> And the throne of the glittering world, </br> The febrile world, </br> Calling, </br> Ah, Child! (have I lived too long?) </br> I have heard thee sigh. ** [[Louise Imogen Guiney]], "To the Outbound Republic: MDCCCXCVIII", [https://archive.org/details/martyrsidyl00guinrich/page/n89/mode/2up ''The Martyrs' Idyl, and Shorter Poems''] (1899), pp. 76–7 * As I went walking that ribbon of highway </br> And I saw above me that endless skyway, </br> I saw below me that golden valley: </br> This land was made for you and me. * There was a big high wall there that tried to stop me </br> A sign was painted, said: Private Property, </br> But on the back side it didn’t say nothing: </br> This land was made for you and me. * This land is your land 'n this land is my land, </br> From California to the New York island, </br> From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters: </br> This land was made for you and me. ** [[Woody Guthrie]], "[[w:This Land Is Your Land|This Land Is Your Land]]" (April, 1944) == H == * The U.S. economy is likely to continue for the foreseeable future to be a major force not only for global economic growth and innovation but also for global economic stability. When uncertainties emerge in the global economic picture, it is in U.S. treasuries and the U.S. equity markets that global capital seeks refuge. And a number of factors favor the future growth of the American economy. Let me mention just two of them; America's energy boom and its ability to attract talent from every corner of the world. ** [[Stephen Hadley]], "America's Role In The World", Speech at the Lowy Institute, National Gallery of Victoria, Australia (October 30, 2014) [https://www.lowyinstitute.org/publications/america-s-role-world-stephen-j-hadley] [[File:Last words of Captain Nathan Hale, the hero-martyr of the American Revolution (NYPL b13512822-424387).jpg|thumb|I only regret, that I have but one life to lose for my country. —[[Nathan Hale]]]] <!--[[File:Nathan Hale 1925 Issue-half-cent.jpg|thumb|]]--> * I only regret, that I have but one life to lose for my country. ** Apocryphal last words of [[Nathan Hale]] (September 22, 1776), according to the account by [[William Hull]] based on reports by British Captain [[w:John Montresor|John Montresor]] who was present and who spoke to Hull under a flag of truce the next day. Cf. [[Joseph Addison|Addison]], ''[[w:Cato, a Tragedy|Cato]]'' (1713), act 4, sc. 4: **: How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue! </br> Who would not be that youth? What pity is it </br> That we can die but once to serve our country. [[File:Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (cropped).tif|thumb|What has made this nation great? Not its heroes, but its households. <br> —[[Sarah Josepha Hale]]]] * Americans have two ardent passions; the love of liberty, and love of distinction. These passions mutually stimulate and increase each other; the enjoyment of equal rights as citizens giving every man a chance of becoming eminent, and that eminence being derived from living under a free government, the Americans are thus necessarily as ambitious of fame as they are tenacious of freedom. ** [[Sarah Josepha Hale]], in ''Ladies' Magazine'', vol. 2, no. 6 (June, 1829), p. 262 * There is small danger of being starved in our land of plenty; but the danger of being stuffed is imminent. ** Sarah Josepha Hale, in ''Ladies' Magazine'', vol. 2, no. 12 (December, 1829), p. 68 * This is a speculating and selfish age; and to think "money will answer all things," is too much the characteristic of Americans. ** Sarah Josepha Hale, in ''Ladies' Magazine and Literary Gazette'', vol. 5, no. 10 (October, 1832), p. 459 * America! the sound is like a sword<br>To smite th’ oppressor! like a loving word<br>To cheer the suffering people, while they pray<br>That God would hasten on the promised day,<br>When earth shall be like heaven, and men shall stand,<br>Like brothers round an altar, hand in hand.<br>O! ever thus, America, be strong,———<br>Like cataract’s thunder pour the Freeman’s song,<br>Till struggling Europe joins the grand refrain;<br>And startled Asia bursts the despot’s chain;<br>And Afric’s manumitted sons, from thee<br>To their own Father-land shall bear the song,<br>—Worth all their toils and tears—of Liberty:<br>For these good deeds, America, be strong! ** Sarah Josepha Hale, in ''The Poets' Offering: for 1850'' (1850), p. 23 * What has made this nation great? Not its heroes, but its households. ** Sarah Josepha Hale, in ''Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine'', vol. 79, no. 469 (July, 1869), p. 81 * When asked what State he hails from,<br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Our sole reply shall be, </br> He comes from Appomattox </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; And its famous apple tree. ** [[Charles G. Halpine]] (Miles O'Reilly), in [[Alfred R. Conkling|A. R. Conkling]] (ed.) ''Life and Letters of Roscoe Conkling'', [https://archive.org/details/lifelettersofros02conk/page/596/mode/2up vol. 2] (New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1889), p. 596. "Charter Song of the Grant Club", in [https://archive.org/details/grantsongster02newy/page/6/mode/2up ''The Grant Songster''] (New York: Haney & Co., 1867), p. 6 * Americans (I, I’m afraid, among them) go around carelessly assuming they’re tolerant the way they go around carelessly saying, "You ought to be in pictures." But in the clinches, they turn out to be tolerant about as often as they turn out to be Clark Gable. ** [[Margaret Halsey]], ''Some of My Best Friends Are Soldiers'' (1944), p. 94 * All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and wellborn, the other the mass of the people. ... The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct, permanent share in the government. They will check the unsteadiness of the second, and as they cannot receive any advantage by a change, they therefore will ever maintain good government. ** [[Alexander Hamilton]], Debates of the Federal Convention (June 18, 1787) * Let Americans disdain to be the instruments of European greatness. Let the thirteen States, bound together in a strict and indissoluble Union, concur in erecting one great American system, superior to the control of all transatlantic force or influence, and able to dictate the terms of the connection between the old and the new world! ** Alexander Hamilton, ''[[The Federalist Papers]]'', no. 11 (November 24, 1787) * There is a sort of republican plainness and simplicity in their address, quite in harmony with the institutions of their country. An American bows less than an Englishman; he deals less in mere conventional forms and expressions of civility; he pays few or no compliments; makes no unmeaning or overstrained professions; but he takes you by the hand with a cordiality which at once intimates, that he is disposed to regard you as a friend....{{pb}}Perhaps I was the more flattered by the kindness of my reception, from having formed anticipations of a less pleasing character. The Americans I had met in Europe had generally been distinguished by a certain reserve, and something even approaching to the offensive in manner, which had not contributed to create a prepossession in their favour. It seemed, as if each individual were impressed with the conviction that the whole dignity of his country was concentred in his person. ** [[Thomas Hamilton (writer)|Thomas Hamilton]], ''Men and Manners in America'' (1833), ch. 3 * The process in England...is to ring for the chambermaid; but in America there are no bells, and no chambermaids. You therefore walk to the bar and solicit the favor of being supplied with a candle, a request that is ultimately, though by no means immediately, complied with. You then explore the way to your apartment unassisted....Your number is 63, but in what part of the mansion that number is to be found you are of course without the means of probable conjecture. Let it be supposed, however, that you...at length discover the object of your search. If you are an Englishman, and too young to have roughed it under Wellington, you are probably what is called in this country 'almighty particular,' and rejoice in a couple of comfortable pillows to say nothing of a lurking prejudice in favour of multiplicity of blankets, especially with the thermometer some fifty degrees below the freezing point. Such luxuries, however, it is ten to one you will not find in the uncurtained crib in which you are destined to pass the night. Your first impulse is to walk downstairs and make known your wants to the landlord. This is a mistake. Have nothing to say to him. You may rely on it, he is too busy to have any time to throw away in humoring the whimsies of a foreigner; and should it happen, as it does sometimes, in the New England States, that the establishment is composed of natives, your chance of a comfortable sleep for the night is about as great as that of your gaining the Thirty Thousand pound prize in the lottery. ** Thomas Hamilton, ''Men and Manners in America'' (1833), ch. 8 * If I had to give a definition of [[capitalism]] I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women. ** [[Christopher Hampton]], [[w:Savages (play)|''Savages'']] (1974), sc. 16 * The United States was born through war, reunited by war, and saved from destruction by war. No future generation, however comfortable and affluent, can escape that terrible knowledge. Our freedom is not entirely our own; in some sense it is mortgaged from those who paid the ultimate price for its continuance. ** [[Victor Davis Hanson]], ''The Father of Us All'' (2010), ch. 1 * Apologizing for our past sins may reveal character and for a time lessen anti-Americanism abroad, but if it is done without acknowledging that the sins of America are the sins of mankind, and that our remedies are so often exceptional, then it only earns transitory applause — and a more lasting contempt that we ourselves do not believe in the values we profess. ** Victor Davis Hanson, ''The Father of Us All'' (2010), ch. 2 * Before he could go to New York he had to get a U.S. visa at the American consulate in Toronto. He was called upon to fill in a long form with many questions, including "Is it your intention to overthrow the Government of the United States by force?" By the time Harding got to that one he was so irritated that he answered: "Sole purpose of visit." ** [[Gilbert Harding]], as quoted in W. Reyburn, ''Gilbert Harding'' (1978), ch. 2 [[File:WGHarding.jpg|thumb|America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration. —[[Warren G. Harding]]]] * We are committed to sacrifice in battle in order to make America safe for Americans and establish their security on every lawful mission on the high seas or under the shining sun. * A republic worth living in is worth fighting for, and sacrificing for, and dying for. In the fires of this conflict we shall wipe out the disloyalty of those who wear American garb without the faith, and establish a new concord of citizenship and a new devotion, so that we should have made a safe America the home and hope of a people who are truly American in heart and soul. ** [[Warren G. Harding]], "[[s:The Republic Must Awaken|The Republic Must Awaken]]", Speech to the U.S. Senate (April 4, 1917) * America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration. ** Warren G. Harding, Speech at Boston (May 14, 1920), in Frederick E. Schortemeier, ''Rededicating America'' (1920), ch. 17 * My ardours for emprize nigh lost<br>Since Life has bared its bones to me,<br>I shrink to seek a modern coast<br>Whose riper times have yet to be;<br>Where the new regions claim them free<br>From that long drip of human tears<br>Which peoples old in tragedy<br>Have left upon the centuried years. ** [[Thomas Hardy]], "On an Invitation to the United States", st. 1. ''Poems of the Past and the Present'' (1901) * In view of the Constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here. Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law. The humblest is the peer of the most powerful. ** [[John Marshall Harlan]], dissenting opinion in [[w:Plessy v. Ferguson|''Plessy v. Ferguson'']], 163 U.S. 537 (1896) [[File:TWO YOUTHS IN UPTOWN, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A NEIGHBORHOOD OF POOR WHITE SOUTHERNERS. THE INNER CITY TODAY IS AN... - NARA - 555950.jpg|thumb|The very development of American society is creating a new kind of blindness about poverty. The poor are increasingly slipping out of the very experience and consciousness of the nation. —[[Michael Harrington]]]] * The other America, the America of poverty, is hidden today in a way that it never was before. Its millions are socially invisible to the rest of us. ... The very development of American society is creating a new kind of blindness about poverty. The poor are increasingly slipping out of the very experience and consciousness of the nation. ** [[Michael Harrington]], [[w:The Other America|''The Other America: Poverty in the United States'']] (1962), ch. 1 * We Americans have no commission from God to [[w:Global policeman|police the world]]. ** [[Benjamin Harrison]] (1888), cited in [[William Safire]], [https://archive.org/details/newlanguageofpol00safi/page/342/mode/2up ''The New Language of Politics''] (New York: Random House, 1968), sec. 66<!--"Police Brutality", p. 342--> * And he rose with a sigh, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; And said, "Can this be? </br> We are ruined by Chinese cheap labor?"— </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; And he went for that heathen Chinee. ** [[Bret Harte]], "[[w:The Heathen Chinee|Plain Language from Truthful James]]", [[w:Overland Monthly|''Overland Monthly'']] (September, 1870) * A return to sanity means remembering that humans create the economy, and we should not be servants to our own creation. ... It means forging a new framework for the game of business, where companies invest in our communities, respect and reinvest in their workers, and improve and protect our environment. ** [[Thom Hartmann]], ''The Hidden History of Monopolies'' (2020), pt. 3 * Standing to America, bringing home <br> black gold, black ivory, black seed. * Deep in the festering hold thy father lies, <br> of his bones New England pews are made, <br> those are altar lights that were his eyes. ** [[Robert Hayden]], "[[w:Middle Passage (poem)|Middle Passage]]" (1945; rev. 1962); cf. [[w:Ariel's Song|Ariel's Song]] * This is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people no longer. It is a government by the corporations, of the corporations, and for the corporations. ** [[Rutherford B. Hayes]], diary entry, quoted in Ari Hoogenboom, ''Rutherford B. Hayes: Warrior and President'' (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1995) pp. 493–95 <!-- Cited in [[Jack Beatty]], ''Age of Betrayal'' (New York: Vintage, 2007) Introduction, p. xv --> * Great Western Land whose mighty breast </br> Between two oceans finds its rest, </br> Begirt with storm on either side, </br> And washed by strong Pacific tide; </br> The knowledge of thy wondrous birth </br> Gave balance to the rounded earth. </br> In sea of darkness thou didst stand </br> Now first in light, my Western Land. ** [[Caroline Hazard]], "The Western Land", st. 1. [https://archive.org/details/narragansettball00haza/page/104/mode/2up ''Narragansett Ballads''] (1894), p. 104 * The [[w:Pax Americana|Pax Americana]] has gone the way of the [[w:Pax Britannica|Pax Britannica]] ... The implication for us in Europe is twofold. First, we shall no longer be able to enjoy the luxury of urging the Americans to put right anything of which we disapprove anywhere in the world and then of criticizing them for the way they do it; and secondly, we shall have to undertake a proper share of the burden of Western defence if American support for the Western Alliance is to be sustained. ** [[Edward Heath]], Speech to the Conservative Political Centre in Blackpool, England (October 12, 1977), reported in the London ''Times'' (October 13, 1977), p. 6 * The split in America, rather than simply economic, is between those who embrace reason, who function in the real world of cause and effect, and those who, numbed by isolation and despair, now seek meaning in a mythical world of intuition, a world that is no longer reality-based, a world of magic. ** [[Chris Hedges]], ''American Fascists'' (2007), ch. 1 * Sadism dominates the culture. It runs like an electric current through reality television and trash-talk programs, is at the core of pornography, and fuels the compliant, corporate collective. Corporatism is about crushing the capacity for moral choice and diminishing the individual to force him or her into an ostensibly harmonious collective. This hypermasculinity has its logical fruition in Abu Ghraib, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and our lack of compassion for our homeless, our poor, the mentally ill, the unemployed, and the sick. ... We accept the system handed to us and seek to find a comfortable place within it. We retreat into the narrow, confined ghettos created for us and shut our eyes to the deadly superstructure of the corporate state. ** Chris Hedges, ''Empire of Illusion'' (2010), ch. 3 * Washington has become our Versailles. We are ruled, entertained, and informed by courtiers — and the media has evolved into a class of courtiers. The Democrats, like the Republicans, are mostly courtiers. Our pundits and experts, at least those with prominent public platforms, are courtiers. We are captivated by the hollow stagecraft of political theater as we are ruthlessly stripped of power. It is smoke and mirrors, tricks and con games, and the purpose behind it is deception ** Chris Hedges, ''Empire of Illusion'' (2010), ch. 5 * There are no constraints left to halt America's slide into a totalitarian capitalism. Electoral politics are a sham. The media have been debased and defanged by corporate owners. The [[Working class in the United States|working class]] has been impoverished and is now being plunged into profound despair. The legal system has been corrupted to serve corporate interests. Popular institutions, from labor unions to political parties, have been destroyed or emasculated by corporate power. And any form of protest, no matter how tepid, is blocked by an internal security apparatus that is starting to rival that of the East German secret police. The mounting anger and hatred, coursing through the bloodstream of the body politic, make violence and counter-violence inevitable. '''Brace yourself. The American empire is over. And the descent is going to be horrifying.''' ** Chris Hedges, [https://www.truthdig.com/articles/calling-all-rebels/ "Calling All Rebels"], ''Truthdig'' (March 8, 2010) * The {{w|Operation Metro Surge|murders}} of unarmed civilians on the streets of Minneapolis, including the killing today of the intensive-care nurse [[Alex Pretti|Alex Jeffrey Pretti]], would not come as a shock to {{w|Fallujah during the Iraq War|Iraqis in Fallujah}} or Afghans in Helmand province. They were terrorized by heavily armed American execution squads for decades. It would not come as a shock to any of the students I teach in prison. {{w|Militarization of police#United States|Militarized police}} in poor urban neighborhoods kick down doors without warrants and kill with the same impunity and lack of accountability. What the rest of us are facing now, is what [[Aimé Césaire]] called imperial boomerang. Empires, when they decay, employ the savage forms of control on those they subjugate abroad, or those demonized by the wider society in the name of law and order, on the homeland. The tyranny Athens imposed on others, [[Thucydides]] noted, it finally, with the collapse of [[Athenian democracy]], imposed on itself. But before we became the victims of {{w|United States and state terrorism|state terror}}, we were accomplices. Before we expressed moral outrage at the indiscriminate taking of innocent lives, we tolerated, and often celebrated, the same {{w|Gestapo}} tactics, as long as they were directed at those who lived in the nations we occupied or poor people of color. We sowed the wind, now we will reap the whirlwind. The machinery of terror, perfected on those we abandoned and betrayed, including the {{w|Gaza genocide|Palestinians in Gaza}}, is ready for us. ** Chris Hedges, [https://scheerpost.com/2026/01/24/we-tolerated-their-violence-abroad-now-we-see-its-victims-here/ "We Tolerated Their Violence Abroad. Now We See Its Victims Here"], ''Scheerpost'' (January 24, 2026) * If all Europe were to become a prison, America would still present a loop-hole of escape; and, God be praised, that loop-hole is larger than the dungeon itself. ** [[Heinrich Heine]], as quoted in ''Harper's Weekly'', [https://archive.org/details/sim_harpers-magazine_1873-06-28_17_861/mode/2up?q=%22Europe+were+to+become+a+prison%22 vol. 17, no. 861] (June 28, 1873), p. 547 * Or should I go to America, that monstrous prison of freedom, where the invisible chains would oppress me even more heavily than the visible ones at home, and where the most repulsive of all tyrants, the populace, hold vulgar sway! * You dear German peasants! Go to America! There are no princes or nobles there; all men are equal—equal dolts. ** Heinrich Heine (tr. Frederic Ewen and Robert Holub) ''Ludwig Börne: A Memorial'', bk. 2, in Jost Hermand and Robert Holub (eds.) ''The Romantic School and Other Essays'' (New York: Continuum 1985), p. 263; cf. Andrei S. Markovits, "2. Anti-Americanism and the Struggle for a West German Identity", in Peter H. Merkl (ed.) ''The Federal Republic of Germany at Forty'' (New York UP, 1989), p. 39: a "colossal jail of freedom" where "the mob, the most disgusting tyrant of all" exercised "its crude authority." "You dear German farmers! Go to America! There, neither princes nor nobles exist; there, all people are equal; there, all are the same boors!" * Americans are considered crazy anywhere in the world. ** [[Robert A. Heinlein]], "And He Built a Crooked House", in [[w:Analog Science Fiction and Fact|''Astounding Science-Fiction'']], [https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v26n06_1941-02_dtsg0318-LennyS/page/n67/mode/2up vol. 26, no. 6] (February, 1941), p. 68 * I do not like subversion or disloyalty in any form and if I had ever seen any I would have considered it my duty to have reported it to the proper authorities. But to hurt innocent people whom I knew many years ago in order to save myself is to me inhuman and indecent and dishonorable. I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago came to the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group. ** [[Lillian Hellman]], Letter to John S. Wood (May 19, 1952), in ''U.S. Congress Committee Hearing on Un-American Activities'' (1952) pt. 8, p. 3546 [[File:The Landing of the Pilgrims (1877) by Henry A. Bacon.jpg|thumb|Ay, call it holy ground, <br> &nbsp;&nbsp; The soil where first they trod; <br> They have left unstained what there they found: <br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Freedom to worship God.]] * The breaking waves dashed high <br> &nbsp;&nbsp; On a stern and rock-bound coast, <br> And the woods against a stormy sky <br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Their giant branches tossed. * And the heavy night hung dark, <br> &nbsp;&nbsp; The hills and waters o'er, <br> When a band of exiles moored their bark <br> &nbsp;&nbsp; On the wild [[New England]] shore. * What sought they thus afar? <br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Bright jewels of the mine, <br> The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? <br> &nbsp;&nbsp; They sought a faith's pure shrine. * Ay, call it holy ground, <br> &nbsp;&nbsp; The soil where first they trod; <br> They have left unstained what there they found — <br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Freedom to worship God. ** [[Felicia Hemans]], "The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers", sts. 1, 2, 9, 10 ** [https://books.google.com.au/books?redir_esc=y&id=PrcrAAAAMAAJ&q=%22breaking+waves%22#v=snippet&q=%22breaking%20waves%22&f=false ''The League of the Alps, ... and Other Poems''] (1826), p. 4 * We in America should see that no man is ever given, no matter how gradually or how noble and excellent the man, the power to put this country into a war which is now being prepared and brought closer each day with all the pre-meditation of a long planned murder. For when you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes. ** [[Ernest Hemingway]], "Notes on the Next War", in [[w:Esquire (magazine)|''Esquire'']] (September, 1935) * A friend last weekend said he thought the story about the University of New Hampshire's website publishing a bias-free language guide, which declared that use of the word "American" is "problematic," was a hoax. Of course, it was real. ** [[Daniel Henninger]], "The Joy of Madness", ''The Wall Street Journal'' (September 17, 2015), p. A13 * Caesar had his Brutus—Charles the First, his Cromwell—and George the Third—("Treason," cried the Speaker)... may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it. ** [[Patrick Henry]], Speech in the [[w:Virginia General Assembly|Virginia Assembly]] (May, 1765)<!--William Wirt, ''Patrick Henry'' (1818), sect. 2, p. 65--> * I am not a Virginian, but an American. ** Patrick Henry, in [[John Adams]], ''Notes of Debates in the Continental Congress'' (September 6, 1774)<!--L. H. Butterfield (ed.) ''Diary and Autobiography of John Adams'', vol. 2 (1961), p. 125--> * I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death! ** Patrick Henry, Speech at the Virginia Convention (March 23, 1775)<!--William Wirt, ''Patrick Henry'' (1818), sect. 4, p. 123--> * Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, </br> Ready to pass to the American strand. ** [[George Herbert]], ''The Church Militant'' (1633), l. 235 * America has not yet settled down, she is an unfinished edifice. * America, as [[Garibaldi]] said, is the "land for forgetting home", let those who have no faith in their fatherland go there. ** [[Alexander Herzen]], [[w:My Past and Thoughts|''My Past and Thoughts'']] (ed. 1855); tr. Constance Garnett (1924), vol. 3, ch. 40 * Go back to bed, America. Your government has [[w:Warren Commission|figured out how it all transpired]]. Go back to bed, America. Your government is in control again. Here. Here's ''[[w:American Gladiators (1989 TV series)|American Gladiators]]''. Watch this, shut up. Go back to bed, America. Here is ''American Gladiators''. Here is 56 channels of it! Watch these pituitary retards bang their fucking skulls together and congratulate you on living in the land of freedom. Here you go, America! You are free to do as we tell you! You are free to do what we tell you! ** [[Bill Hicks]], ''Revelations'' (1993 TV special) [[File:American bison k5680-1.jpg|thumb|Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam, </br> Where the deer and the antelope play, </br> Where seldom is heard a discouraging word </br> And the skies are not cloudy all day.]] * Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Where the deer and antelope play, </br> Where never is heard a discouraging word </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; And the sky is not clouded all day. ** [[Brewster Higley]], "[[w:Home on the Range|Oh, Give Me a Home on The Range]]", st. 1. ''Smith County Pioneer'' (1873; [[commons:File:Reprint of 1873 poem, "Home on the Range," in "Old Smith County Song," Smith County Pioneer, Feb 19, 1914, 42(21), p. 2.png|repr.]] February 19, 1914) *** "A Home on the Range", st. 1. John A. Lomax (ed.) ''Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads'' (New York: Macmillan Co., 1910), pp. 39–40: ***: Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Where the deer and the antelope play, </br> Where seldom is heard a discouraging word </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; And the skies are not cloudy all day. *** Additional lyrics, claimed by William and Mary Goodwin, Bill McCabe, Bingham Graves, C. D. Swartz, "Jim", and others. John A. Lomax, [http://www.jstor.org/stable/43463031 "Half-Million Dollar Song: Origin of 'Home on the Range'"], [[w:Southwest Review|''Southwest Review'']], vol. 31, no. 1 (Fall, 1945), pp. 4–5: ***: Yes, give me the gleam of the swift mountain stream </br> And the place where no hurricane blows, </br> Oh give me the park where the prairie dogs bark </br> And the mountains all covered with snow. {{pb}} Oh give me the hills and the ring of the drills </br> And the rich silver ore in the ground, </br> Yes, give me the gulch where the miner can sluice, </br> And the bright yellow gold can be found. {{pb}} Oh show me the camp where the prospectors stamp </br> And business is always alive. </br> Where dance always comes first and faro banks burst </br> And every saloon is a dive. {{pb}} Oh give me my steed and the gun that I need </br> To shoot game for my own cabin home, </br> And give me the light of the campfire by night, </br> And the wild Rocky Mountains to roam. * We want a better America, an America that will give its citizens, first of all, a higher and higher standard of living so that no child will cry for food in the midst of plenty. We want to have an America where the inventions of science will be at the disposal of every American family, not merely for the few that can afford them. An America that will have no sense of insecurity and which will make it possible for all groups, regardless of race, creed, or color to live in friendship, to be real neighbors; an an America that will carry its great mission of helping other countries to help themselves, thinking not in terms of exploitation, but of creating plenty abroad so we can all enjoy it here in America. ** [[Sidney Hillman]], Speech, reported in [[w:The New Republic|''The New Republic'']], [https://books.google.com.au/books?redir_esc=y&id=7OfNTZAyCp0C&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22an+America%22 vol. 115] (1946), p. 379 * Those who view the history of North America as a narrative of genocide and slavery are, it seems to me, hopelessly stuck on this reactionary position. They can think of the Western expansion of the United States only in terms of plague blankets, bootleg booze and dead buffalo, never in terms of the medicine chest, the wheel and the railway. ... The transformation of part of the northern part of this continent into "America" inaugurated a nearly boundless epoch of opportunity and innovation, and thus deserves to be celebrated with great vim and gusto, with or without the participation of those who wish they had never been born. ** [[Christopher Hitchens]], "Minority Report". ''The Nation'' (October 19, 1992) [[File:Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, larger - edit1.jpg|thumb|Only the force of American arms, or the extremely credible threat of that force, can bring a fresh face to power. —[[Christopher Hitchens]]]] * Only the force of American arms, or the extremely credible threat of that force, can bring a fresh face to power. ** Christopher Hitchens, [https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2003/01/from-evasion-to-invasion.html "'Regime Change': From evasion to invasion"]. ''Slate'' (January 14, 2003) * The gigantic North American State, with the enormous resources of its virgin soil, is much more invulnerable than the encircled German Reich. ** [[Adolf Hitler]], ''[[Mein Kampf]]'' (1925), ch. 13 (tr. James Murphy, 1939) * I don't see much future for the Americans... It's a decayed country. And they have their racial problem, and the problem of social inequalities... My feelings against Americanism are feelings of hatred and deep repugnance... Everything about the behavior of American society reveals that it's half Judaized, and the other half Negrified. How can one expect a State like that to hold together—a country where everything is built on the dollar? ** Adolf Hitler (January 7, 1942), as quoted in [[William L. Shirer]], [[w:The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich|''The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich'']] (1960), bk. 4, sec. 25 [[File:Ordinance2 of 1787.jpg|thumb|If he know his country's history, and consider wisely the sources of her glory, there is nothing...which will so stir his heart as two fading and time-soiled papers...One is the Declaration of Independence, the other the Ordinance of 1787.]] * As the American youth for uncounted centuries shall visit the capital of his country—strongest, richest, freest, happiest of the nations of the earth—from the stormy coast of New England, from the luxuriant regions of the Gulf, from the lakes, from the prairie and the plain, from the Golden Gate, from far Alaska—he will admire the evidences of its grandeur and the monuments of its historic glory. He will find there rich libraries and vast museums, and great cabinets which show the product of that matchless inventive genius of America, which has multiplied a thousand fold the wealth and comfort of human life. He will see the simple and modest portal through which the great line of the Republic's chief magistrates have passed at the call of their country to assume an honor surpassing that of emperors and kings, and through which they have returned, in obedience to her laws, to take their place again as equals in the ranks of their fellow-citizens. He will stand by the [[w:Washington Monument|matchless obelisk]] which, loftiest of human structures, is itself but the imperfect type of the loftiest of human characters. He will gaze upon the marble splendors of the Capitol, in whose chambers are enacted the statutes under which the people of a continent dwell together in peace, and the judgments are rendered which keep the forces of states and nation alike within their appointed bounds. He will look upon the records of great wars and the statues of great commanders. But, if he know his country's history, and consider wisely the sources of her glory, there is nothing in all these which will so stir his heart as two fading and time-soiled papers, whose characters were traced by the hand of the fathers a hundred years ago. They are the original records of the acts which devoted this nation forever to equality, to education, to religion, and to liberty. One is the Declaration of Independence, the other the [[w:Northwest Ordinance|Ordinance of 1787]]. ** [[George Frisbie Hoar]], Oration, on the centennial of the founding of the [[w:Northwest Territory|Northwest]], at Marietta, OH (April 7, 1888) * The United States, I believe, are under the impression that they are twenty years in advance of [[United Kingdom|this country]]; whilst, as a matter of actual verifiable fact, of course, they are just about six hours behind it. ** [[Harold Hobson]], ''The Devil in Woodford Wells'' (1946), ch. 8 * Think of them, forty years from now, sitting in the Blue Room of the White House, recalling their rotten childhoods—spoiled and embittered because their fathers came home blind drunk, smelling like a municipal budget. ** [[Samuel Hoffenstein]], "And Mr. Carl Sandburg, Dry", ''Year In You're Out'' (1930), p. 168 [[File:NYC Mulberry Street 3g04637u.jpg|thumb|America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it. —[[Eric Hoffer]]]] * The attitude of the intellectual community toward America is shaped not by the creative few but by the many who for one reason or another cannot transmute their dissatisfaction into a creative impulse, and cannot acquire a sense of uniqueness and of growth by developing and expressing their capacities and talents. There is nothing in contemporary America that can cure or alleviate their chronic frustration. They want power, lordship, and opportunities for imposing action. Even if we should banish poverty from the land, lift up the Negro to true equality, withdraw from Vietnam, and give half of the national income as foreign aid, they will still see America as an air-conditioned nightmare unfit for them to live in. ** [[Eric Hoffer]], [https://archive.org/details/temperofourtime0000unse_e0o3/page/106/mode/2up ''The Temper of Our Time''] (1967), ch. 6 ("Some Thoughts on the Present) * It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it. ** Eric Hoffer, "Thoughts of Eric Hoffer, Including: 'Absolute Faith Corrupts Absolutely'", ''The New York Times Magazine'' (April 25, 1971), p. 25. Reported in Suzy Platt, ed., ''Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations'' (1989), p. 169, no. 881 [[File:Grant Wood - American Gothic - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|The agrarian myth represents a kind of homage that Americans have paid to the fancied innocence of their origins. ... Its hero was the yeoman farmer, its central conception the notion that he is the ideal man and the ideal citizen. </br> —[[Richard Hofstadter]]]] * The American mind was raised upon a sentimental attachment to rural living and upon a series of notions about rural people and rural life that I have chosen to designate as the agrarian myth. The agrarian myth represents a kind of homage that Americans have paid to the fancied innocence of their origins. ... Its hero was the yeoman farmer, its central conception the notion that he is the ideal man and the ideal citizen. ** [[Richard Hofstadter]], ''{{w|The Age of Reform}}'' (1955), ch. 1, pt. 1 * There has always been in our national experience a type of mind which elevates hatred to a kind of creed; for this mind, group hatreds take a place in politics similar to the class struggle in some other modern societies. ** Richard Hofstadter, ''Anti-Intellectualism in American Life'' (1963), p. 37 * The real mystery, for one who reads the primary works of paranoid scholarship, is not how the United States has been brought to its present dangerous position but how it has managed to survive at all. ** Richard Hofstadter, [https://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics/ "The Paranoid Style in American Politics"], in ''Harper's Magazine'' (November, 1964) * ... a savage country </br> of law and order. ** [[Linda Hogan (writer)|Linda Hogan]], "Naming the Animals", in [https://archive.org/details/bookofmedicinesp00hoga/page/40/mode/2up ''The Book of Medicines: Poems''] (1993), p. 40 * A British vessel, stopping on the way back from India at the [[w:Comoro Islands|Comoro Islands]] in the Mozambique Channel, finds the native inhabitants in revolt against their Arab masters; and when they ask why they have taken arms, are told: "America is free. Could not we be?" ** [[Gijsbert Karel van Hogendorp|G. K. van Hogendorp]], a memorandum, "Considérations sur la Révolution de l'Amérique", written at Breda, 1784, in ''Brieven en Gedenkschriften'' (The Hague, 1866), vol. 1, p. 407. [[Robert Roswell Palmer|R. R. Palmer]], [https://archive.org/details/ageofdemocraticr0000unse_t8w1/page/258/mode/2up?q=%22America+is+free%22 ''The Age of the Democratic Revolution''] (1959), ch. 9 * In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is. ** [[Simon Hoggart]], ''America: A User's Guide'' (1990), ch. 1 * In the allotments of Providence we have been placed in a pleasant and beautiful country—a country washed on either hand by the waters of the circling seas, and teeming with all the elements of prosperity and power. This glorious country—this chosen seat of science and of art—this happy and peculiar residence of civil and religious liberty, has been won for us by the constancy and courage of our ancestors; it is the birth-place of blood and battle and prolonged disaster; and it is ours to defend, ours to enjoy, and ours to transmit in untarnished splendor to posterity. ** [[William Woods Holden]], "A Happy Country"; ''The North Carolina Speaker'' (1887), p. 88 * God give us men. The time demands <br> Strong minds, great hearts, true faith, and willing hands; <br> Men whom the lust of office does not kill; <br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy; <br> Men who possess opinions and a will; <br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Men who have honor, — men who will not lie; <br> Men who can stand before a demagogue <br> &nbsp;&nbsp; And damn his treacherous flatteries without winking! <br> Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog <br> &nbsp;&nbsp; In public duty, and in private thinking. ** [[Josiah Gilbert Holland]], "Wanted", ''The Marble Prophecy, &c.'' (1872) p. 89 * Thou, O my country, hast thy foolish ways, </br> Too apt to purr at every stranger's praise. ** [[Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.]], "Terpsichore", st. 8. Read at the Annual Dinner of the ΦΒΚ Society, at Cambridge, MA (August 24, 1843); ''Poems'' (London: O. Rich & Sons, 1846), p. 152 * I see the living tide roll on,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;It crowns with fiery towers<br>The icy capes of Labrador,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Spaniard’s 'land of flowers'!<br>It streams beyond the splintered ridge<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;That parts the Northern showers,<br>From eastern rock to sunset wave<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Continent is ours! ** Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., "The Pilgrim's Vision", st. 13; recited at the Pilgrim Dinner at Plymouth (December 22, 1845) * Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris. ** Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., ''The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table'' (1858), ch. 6 * He comes of the [[w:Boston Brahmin|Brahmin caste of New England]]. This is the harmless, inoffensive, untitled aristocracy referred to, and which many readers will at once acknowledge. ** Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., ''Elsie Venner'' (1860), ch. 1 [[File:The Internal Revenue Service Building, located in the center of the Federal Triangle complex in Washington, D.C LCCN2013634107.tif|thumb|Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society. —[[Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.|O. W. Holmes Jr.]]]] * Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society. ** [[Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.]] Reportedly first said by Holmes in a speech in 1904; alternately phrased as "Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, including the chance to insure", dissenting in ''Compania General De Tabacos De Filipinas v. Collector of Internal Revenue'', 275 U.S. 87, 100 (November 21, 1927). The first variation is quoted by the [[w:Internal Revenue Service|IRS]] above the entrance to their headquarters at 1111 Constitution Avenue, Washington, D.C. [[File:Herbert Hoover, 1928 drawing by S. J. Woolf.jpg|thumb|When the war closed... we were challenged with a peace-time choice between the American system of rugged individualism and a European philosophy of diametrically opposed doctrines—doctrines of paternalism and state socialism. —[[Herbert Hoover]]]] <!--[[File:President Hoover portrait (cropped).jpg|thumb|My whole life has taught me what America means. I am indebted to my country beyond any human power to repay. —Herbert Hoover]]--> * You convey too great a compliment when you say that I have earned the right to the presidential nomination. No man can establish such an obligation upon any part of the American people. My country owes me no debt. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope. My whole life has taught me what America means. I am indebted to my country beyond any human power to repay. ** Herbert Hoover, letter to Senator George H. Moses, chairman of the RNC, upon learning of his nomination for president (June 14, 1928), as quoted in ''The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover'', vol. 2 (1952), p. 195 * When the war closed... we were challenged with a peace-time choice between the American system of rugged individualism and a European philosophy of diametrically opposed doctrines—doctrines of paternalism and state socialism. ** [[Herbert Hoover]], Speech in New York City (October 22, 1928), in ''New Day'' (1928) p. 154 * No other Main Street in the world could have done what the American Main Street did in the [[w:Great Mississippi Flood of 1927|Mississippi Flood]]; and Europe may jeer as it pleases at our mass production and our mass organization and our mass education. The safety of the United States is its multitudinous mass leadership. ** Herbert Hoover, as quoted in William Hard, ''Who's Hoover?'' (1928) ch. 4, p. 194 * Another proposal of our opponents which would wholly alter our American system of life is to reduce the protective tariff to a competitive tariff for revenue. ... The grass will grow in the streets of a hundred cities, a thousand towns; the weeds will overrun the fields of millions of farms if that protection be taken away. ** Herbert Hoover, Speech (October 31, 1932), in ''State Papers of Herbert Hoover'' (1934) vol. 2, p. 418 * The United States is the most extreme case of the subjection of society to the brute force of the market. ** [[Jonathan Hopkin]], "3. American Nightmare: How Neoliberalism Broke US Democracy", ''Anti-System Politics: The Crisis of Market Liberalism in Rich Democracies'' (New York: Oxford UP, 2020)<!--online ed.--> [[File:The Call to Arms - Soldiers & Sailors Monument (Troy, New York).jpg|thumb|{{center/s}}Hail, Columbia!{{center/e}}]] * Hail, Columbia! happy land!<br>Hail, ye heroes! heavenborn band!<br>Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause,<br>And when the storm of war was gone<br>Enjoy’d the peace your valor won. * Let independence be our boast,<br>Ever mindful what it cost;<br>Ever grateful for the prize,<br>Let its altar reach the skies. * Firm, united, let us be,<br>Rallying round our Liberty;<br>As a [[w:band of brothers|band of brothers]] joined,<br>Peace and safety we shall find. * Immortal patriots, rise once more,<br>Defend your rights, defend your shore!<br>Let no rude foe, with impious hand,<br>Invade the shrine where sacred lies<br>Of toil and blood, the well-earned prize,<br>While off’ring peace, sincere and just,<br>In Heaven’s we place a manly trust,<br>That truth and justice will prevail,<br>And every scheme of bondage fail. ** [[Joseph Hopkinson]], "[[w:Hail, Columbia|Hail, Columbia]]" (1798) * There are some issues that transcend politics. While my position is certainly political, I am an American first. There should never be a day in the United States of America when people are excluded based solely on their race or religion. It is un-Republican. It is unconstitutional. And it is un-American. ** [[Jennifer Horn]], as quoted in Stephanie Condon, [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dick-cheney-more-conservatives-slam-trumps-proposal-to-keep-muslims-out-of-u-s/ "Dick Cheney, more conservatives slam Trump's proposal to keep Muslims out of U.S."], ''CBS News'' (December 7, 2015) [[File:Flag of the United States of America (1861–1863).svg|thumb|'Twas red with the blood of freemen, and white with the fear of the foe,<br>And the stars that fight in their courses 'gainst tyrants its symbols know.<br>—[[Julia Ward Howe]]]] * Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; </br> He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; </br> He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword: </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; His truth is marching on. * In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, </br> With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me. </br> As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; While God is marching on. ** [[Julia Ward Howe]], "[[w:Battle Hymn of the Republic|Battle Hymn of the Republic]]", ''The Atlantic Monthly'', vol. 9, no. 52 (February, 1862), p. 145 * The flag of our stately battles, not struggles of wrath and greed:<br>Its stripes were a holy lesson, its spangles a deathless creed;<br>'Twas red with the blood of freemen, and white with the fear of the foe,<br>And the stars that fight in their courses 'gainst tyrants its symbols know. ** Julia Ward Howe, "The Flag", ''The Atlantic Monthly'', vol. 40, no. 66 (April 1863) p. 443 * This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum. ** [[Elbert Hubbard]], in ''The Philistine'', [https://archive.org/details/philistineaperi04nygoog/page/n26/mode/2up vol. 25, no. 1] (June, 1907), p. 1. Variant quoted in Melvin L. Severy, [https://archive.org/details/gillettesindustr00severich/page/32/mode/2up ''Gillette's Industrial Solution''] (Boston: Ball Publishing Co., 1908), ch. 5, epigraph: **: This will never be a civilised country until we spend more for books than we do for chewing gum. * There does exist a distinctly American way of life which properly ought to be preserved. But it is not defined by race. The American way of life is defined by philosophy. ... The American nation emerged unique, defined not by its shared ethnic or racial or religious identity, but by its shared allegiance to liberty. ** [[Walter Hudson (Minnesota politician)|Walter Hudson]], [https://web.archive.org/web/20160607041718/https://pjmedia.com/trending/2016/06/03/the-alt-right-is-evil-and-must-be-opposed/?singlepage=true "The Alt-Right Is Evil and Must Be Opposed"], [[w:PJ Media|''PJ Media'']] (June 3, 2016) * No greater mistake can be made than to think that our institutions are fixed or may not be changed for the worse. ... Increasing prosperity tends to breed indifference and to corrupt moral soundness. Glaring inequalities in condition create discontent and strain the democratic relation. The vicious are the willing, and the ignorant are unconscious instruments of political artifice. Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses. ... The peril of this Nation is not in any foreign foe! We, the people, are its power, its peril, and its hope! ** [[Charles Evans Hughes|Charles E. Hughes]], ''Conditions of Progress in Democratic Government'' (1910), lecture 1 * We have in this country the greatest law factory the world has ever known. ** Charles E. Hughes, quoted in ''TIME'', [https://archive.org/details/sim_time_1924-03-03_3_9/page/20/mode/2up vol. 3, no. 9] (March 3, 1924), p. 21, col. 1 [[File:School’s Out SAAM-1971.447.18 1.jpg|thumb|{{center/s}}I, too, sing America.{{center/e}}]] * I, too, sing America. {{pb}} I am the darker brother. </br> They send me to eat in the kitchen </br> When company comes, </br> But I laugh, </br> And eat well, </br> And grow strong. * Besides, </br> They'll see how beautiful I am </br> And be ashamed— ** [[Langston Hughes]], "[[w:I, Too|I, Too]]". [[w:The Weary Blues|''The Weary Blues'']] (1926) * What happens to a dream deferred? {{pb}} Does it dry up </br> like a raisin in the sun? </br> Or fester like a sore— </br> And then run? </br> Does it stink like rotten meat? </br> Or crust and sugar over— </br> like a syrupy sweet? {{pb}} Maybe it just sags </br> like a heavy load. {{pb}} ''Or does it explode?'' ** [[Langston Hughes]], "[[w:Harlem (poem)|Harlem]]". ''Montage of a Dream Deferred'' (1951) * And here we are, just as we ought to be, here we are, the people, here we are in a spirit of dedication, here we are the way politics ought to be in America, the politics of happiness, the politics of purpose and the politics of joy. ** [[Hubert Humphrey]], Speech in Washington, D.C. (April 27, 1968), in ''The New York Times'' (April 28, 1968), p. 66 [https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-declaring-candidacy-for-the-democratic-presidential-nomination] * Your vict'ries won—your revolution ended— </br> Your constitution newly made—and mended— </br> Your fund of wit—your intellectual riches— </br> Plans in the closet—in the senate speeches— </br> Will make this age of heroes, wits and sages </br> The first in story to the latest ages!— </br> Go on—and prosper with your projects blest, </br> Till your millennium rises in the west:— </br> We wish success to your politic scheming, </br> Rule ye the world!—and then—be rul'd by women! ** [[David Humphreys (soldier)|David Humphreys]], ''The Widow of Malabar'' (1790), epilogue * It’s a big soapy dishpan of boredom. That’s the truth. And no husband can understand that soapy dishpan. And a woman can’t explain it to another woman because they’ve all got their hands in that same soapy boredom. ** [[Evan Hunter]], ''Strangers When We Meet'' (1958), ch. 20 * Critics say that America is a lie because its reality falls so short of its ideals. They are wrong. America is not a lie; it is a disappointment. But it can be a disappointment only because it is also a hope. ** [[Samuel P. Huntington]], ''American Politics: The Promise of Disharmony'' (1981), p. 262 * The American multiculturalists...wish to create a country of many civilizations, which is to say a country not belonging to any civilization and lacking a cultural core. History shows that no country so constituted can long endure as a coherent society. A multicivilizational United States will not be the United States; it will be the [[United Nations]]. ** Samuel P. Huntington, ''The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order'' (1996), ch. 12, sec. 1 * Religiosity distinguishes America from most other Western societies. Americans are also overwhelmingly Christian, which distinguishes them from many non-Western peoples. Their religiosity leads Americans to see the world in terms of good and evil to a much greater extent than most other peoples. ** Samuel P. Huntington, "Dead Souls: The Denationalization of the American Elite", ''The National Interest'' (November, 2002), p. 16 * To describe America as a "nation of immigrants" is to stretch a partial truth into a misleading falsehood, and to ignore the central fact of America's beginning as a society of settlers. ** Samuel P. Huntington, ''Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity'' (2004), p. 46 * Would America be the America it is today if in the 17th and 18th centuries it had been settled not by British Protestants but by French, Spanish, or Portuguese Catholics? The answer is no. It would not be America; it would be Quebec, Mexico, or Brazil. ** Samuel P. Huntington, ''Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity'' (2004), p. 59 * Baghdad is determined to force the [[Mongols]] of our age to commit suicide at its gates. ** [[Saddam Hussein]], television address (January 17, 2003), as quoted in [[w:The Guardian|''The Guardian'']] (January 18, 2003) [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/jan/18/iraq.ewenmacaskill1] * America the beautiful, </br> Let me sing of thee; </br> Burger King and Dairy Queen </br> From sea to shining sea. ** [[Ada Louise Huxtable]], "Goodbye History, Hello Hamburger", in ''The New York Times'' (March 21, 1971); [https://archive.org/details/kickedbuildingla00huxt/page/256/mode/2up?q=%22Burger+King+and+Dairy+Queen%22 ''Kicked a Building Lately?''] (1976), p. 256 * Is it that we think the brain too small a place to hold more than one language at a time? That room for Spanish or Navajo will leave too little room for English? Is it that we fear that other ways of speaking will lead to an understanding of other ways of life, and so weaken commitment to our own? Is it perhaps that command of languages is assigned to a sphere of culture reserved for girls and women, something not suitable for boys and men? {{pb}} Whatever the reasons, the United States is a country rich in many things, but poor in knowledge of itself with regard to language. ** [[Dell Hymes]], foreword to [[w:Charles A. Ferguson|C. A. Ferguson]] and [[w:Shirley Brice Heath|S. B. Heath]] (eds.) ''Language in the USA'' (Cambridge UP, 1981), p. v == I == * What constitutes an American? Not color nor race nor religion. Not the pedigree of his family nor the place of his birth. Not the coincidence of his citizenship. Not his social status nor his bank account. Not his trade nor his profession. An American is one who loves justice and believes in the dignity of man. An American is one who will fight for his freedom and that of his neighbor. An American is one who will sacrifice property, ease and security in order that he and his children may retain the rights of free men. * Americans are not afraid to fight. They fight joyously in a just cause. ** [[Harold L. Ickes]], [https://www.historyplace.com/speeches/ickes.htm "What is an American?"], Speech in Central Park, NYC (May 18, 1941) * The fact is that the Americans are not a thoughtful people; they are too busy to stop and question their values. ** [[William Ralph Inge]], ''Lay Thoughts of a Dean'' (1926), ch. 7 * I account in part for the civilization of America by the fact that our fathers were wise enough, and jealous of each other enough, to absolutely divorce church and state. They regarded the church as a dangerous mistress—one not fit to govern a president. This divorce was obtained because men like Jefferson and Paine were at that time prominent in the councils of the people. There is this peculiarity in our country—the only men who can be trusted with human liberty are the ones who are not to be angels hereafter. Liberty is safe so long as the sinners have an opportunity to be heard. ** [[Robert G. Ingersoll]], "To the Indianapolis Clergy", ''The Iconoclast'', Indianapolis, IN (1883) * Good night, you Princes of Maine—you Kings of New England! ** [[John Irving]], ''The Cider House Rules'' (1985), ch. 3 == J == [[File:Downfall of Mother Bank.jpg|thumb|Each who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others.<br>—[[Andrew Jackson]]]] * The Congress, the Executive, and the Court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others. ** [[Andrew Jackson]], vetoing the [[w:Bank War|recharter bill]] for the [[w:Second Bank of the United States|Second Bank of the U.S.]] (July 10, 1832); [[Henry Steele Commager|H. S. Commager]] (ed.) [https://archive.org/details/documentsofameri00comm ''Documents of American History''], 7th ed. (1963), p. 272 * As a slave, the social phenomenon that engages my whole consciousness is, of course, revolution. The slave—and revolution. Born to a premature death, a menial, subsistence-wage worker, odd-job man, the cleaner, the caught, the man under hatches, without bail—that's me, the colonial victim. * The government of the U.S.A. and all that it stands for, all that it represents, must be destroyed. This is the starting point, and the end. We have the means to this end; the problem is to develop acceptance of their use. ** [[George Jackson (activist)|George Jackson]], ''Blood in My Eye'' (1971) * Our flag is red, white, and blue, but our nation is a [[w:Rainbow Coalition (Fred Hampton)|rainbow]]—red, yellow, brown, black, and white—and all are precious in God’s sight. America is not like a blanket—one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. It is more like a quilt—many patches, many pieces, many colors, and many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread. ** [[Jesse Jackson]], Address to the DNC, San Francisco, CA (July 17, 1984) * The [[w:Golden Age of Freethought|period]] from, roughly, 1875 to 1914 represents the high-water mark of freethought as an influential movement in American society. ** [[Susan Jacoby]], ''Freethinkers'' (2004), ch. 6 * As always, war had lowered the level of American tolerance for any kind of dissent. ** Susan Jacoby, ''Freethinkers'' (2004), ch. 18 * It is difficult to suppress the fear that the scales of American history have shifted heavily against the vibrant and varied intellectual life so essential to functional democracy. During the past four decades, America’s endemic anti-intellectual tendencies have been grievously exacerbated by a new species of semiconscious anti-rationalism, feeding on and fed by an ignorant popular culture of video images and unremitting noise that leaves no room for contemplation or logic. This new form of anti-rationalism, at odds not only with the nation's heritage of eighteenth-century Enlightenment reason but with modern scientific knowledge, has propelled a surge of anti-intellectualism capable of inflicting vastly greater damage than its historical predecessors inflicted on American culture and politics. Indeed, popular anti-rationalism and anti-intellectualism are now synonymous. ** Susan Jacoby, ''The Age of American Unreason'' (2008), intro. * There are ways of trying to strangle ideas they do not involve straightforward attempts at censorship or intimidation. The suggestion that there is something sinister, even un-American, about intense devotion to ideas, reason, logic, evidence, and precise language is one of them. ** Susan Jacoby, ''The Age of American Unreason'' (2008), ch. 1 * The American marketing of the Apocalypse is a multi-media production, capitalizing on fundamentalism and paranoid superstition. ** Susan Jacoby, ''The Age of American Unreason'' (2008), ch. 1 * The distinctive feature of American middlebrow culture was its embodiment of the old civic credo that anyone willing to invest time and energy in self-education might better himself. ** Susan Jacoby, ''The Age of American Unreason'' (2008), ch. 5 * Many Americans who lived through the sixties have forgotten that the nation's education in the irrational, which often included attacks on rationality itself, was being conducted from both the right and the left. ** Susan Jacoby, ''The Age of American Unreason'' (2008), ch. 6 * The virulent outbreak of anti-rationalism in late twentieth-century America is...rooted in a much older, nonpolitical tendency in American thought — a chronic suspicion of experts that dovetails with the folk belief in the superior wisdom of ordinary people. ** Susan Jacoby, ''The Age of American Unreason'' (2008), ch. 9 * While an angry public may be the short-term solution, an ignorant public is the long-term problem in American public life. ** Susan Jacoby, ''The Age of American Unreason'' (2008), ch. 11 * It is possible that nothing will help. The nation's memory and attention span may already have sustained so much damage that they cannot be revived by the best efforts of America's best minds. I too am nibbling at the edges by talking about the need for political leaders who address Americans as thinking adults; for intellectuals willing to step up and bring their knowledge, instead of a lust for power, to the public square; for educators devoted to teaching and learning rather than to the latest fads in pop psychology. None of the suggestions addresses the core problem created by the media — the pacifiers of the mind that permeate our homes, schools, and politics. There is a little evidence to indicate that Americans have either the desire or the will to lessen their dependency on the easy satisfactions held out by the video and digital world; on the contrary, the successful marketing of infant videos suggests that many parents are eager to draw their children into the infotainment snare before they have any chance to explore the world on their own. ** Susan Jacoby, ''The Age of American Unreason'' (2008), concl. * She ... told me that she was going to my land,—whilst my highest privilege, shrivelled and rickety, was to go to bed in hers! What a tide of homesickness swept me under for a moment! What a longing to see a shaft of sunshine shimmering through the pines, breathe in the resinous air, and throw my withered body upon my native earth, bury my face in the coarse grass, worshipping all that the ugly, raw emptiness of the blessed land stands for,—the embodiment of a huge chance for hemmed-in humanity; its flexible conditions stretching and lending themselves to all sizes of men; pallid and naked of necessity; undraped by the illusions and mystery of a moss-grown, cobwebby past, but overflowing with a divine good-humour and benignancy, a helping hand for the faltering, an indulgent thought for the discredited, a heart of hope for every outcast of tradition. ** [[Alice James]], Journal entry, written in England (May 20, 1890); [[Anna Robeson Burr|A. R. Burr]] (ed.) [https://archive.org/details/alicejamesherbro0000jame/page/162/mode/2up ''Alice James, Her Brothers, Her Journal''] (Cornwall, NY: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1934), p. 162<!--Quoted in Van Wyck Brooks, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.215296/page/n153/mode/2up ''New England: Indian Summer 1865–1915''] (1939), p. 136, note--> * One might ennumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left. No State, in the European sense of the word, and indeed barely a specific national name. No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, nor manors, nor old country houses, nor parsonages, nor thatched cottages, nor ivied ruins; no cathedrals nor abbeys, nor little Norman churches; no great universities nor public schools—no Oxford, nor Eton, nor Harrow; no literature, no novels, no museums, no pictures, no political society, no sporting class—no Epsom nor Ascot! ... The natural remark in the almost lurid light of such an indictment, would be that if these things are left out, everything is left out. ** [[Henry James]], [[w:Hawthorne (book)|''Hawthorne'']] (1879), ch. 2 * Your luggage, in America, is "looked after," but you are not, save so far as you receive on occasion a sharp order or a sharper shove: by sufferance of which discipline, moreover, you by no means always purchase a prompt delivery of your effects. This indeed is but a translation of the general truth that it is the country in the world in which you must do most things for yourself. ** Henry James, ''The American Scene'' (1907), ch. 13 * I could come back to America (could be carried back on a stretcher) to die—but never, never to live. ** Henry James, Letter to Alice James (April 1, 1913); Percy Lubbock (ed.) ''Letters'' (1920), [https://archive.org/details/lettersofhenryja0002perc/page/306/mode/2up vol. 2], p. 206 * The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess {{smallcaps|Success}}. That—with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word success—is our national disease. ** [[William James]], Letter to H. G. Wells (September 11, 1906)<!--Henry James (ed.) ''The Letters of William James'' (1920), vol. 2, p. 260--> * With equal pleasure I have as often taken notice, that Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country, to one united people; a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs, and who, by their joint counsels, arms and efforts, fighting side by side throughout a long and bloody war, have nobly established their general Liberty and Independence. * This country and this people seem to have been made for each other, and it appears as if it was the design of Providence, that an inheritance so proper and convenient for a band of brethren, united to each other by the strongest ties, should never be split into a number of unsocial, jealous, and alien sovereignties. * Similar sentiments have hitherto prevailed among all orders and denominations of men among us. To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people; each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection. As a nation we have made peace and war: as a nation we have vanquished our common enemies: as a nation we have formed alliances, and made treaties, and entered into various compacts and conventions with foreign States. ** [[John Jay]], ''[[The Federalist Papers]]'', no. 2 (October 31, 1787) [[File:Mather Brown - Thomas Jefferson - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy. —[[Thomas Jefferson]]]] [[File:Gilbert Stuart - Thomas Jefferson - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|The cement of this union is in the heart blood of every American. I do not believe there is on earth a government established on so immovable a basis. —Thomas Jefferson]] * Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just. ** [[Thomas Jefferson]], ''[[Notes on the State of Virginia]]'' (wr. 1781–83; pub. 1785) * My god! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy. ** Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Monroe (June 17, 1785) * Kindly separated by nature and a wide ocean from the exterminating havoc of one quarter of the globe; too high-minded to endure the degradations of the others; possessing a chosen country, with room enough for our descendants to the thousandth and thousandth generation; entertaining a due sense of our equal right to the use of our own faculties, to the acquisitions of our own industry, to honor and confidence from our fellow-citizens, resulting not from birth, but from our actions and their sense of them; enlightened by a benign religion, professed, indeed, and practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man; acknowledging and adoring an overruling Providence, which by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here and his greater happiness hereafter — with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people? Still one thing more, fellow-citizens — a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities. ** Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address (March 4, 1801) * The cement of this union is in the heart blood of every American. I do not believe there is on earth a government established on so immovable a basis. ** Thomas Jefferson, Letter to the [[Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette|Marquis de Lafayette]] (February 14, 1815) * We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other. ** Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Holmes (April 22, 1820). Compare: [[Terence]], [[Phormio (play)#Act III|''Phormio'']], iii, 506 * The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them. ** [[James Weldon Johnson]], [[w:The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man|''The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man'']] (1912) ch. 2 * This land is ours by right of birth,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; This land is ours by right of toil;<br>We helped to turn its virgin earth,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; Our sweat is in its fruitful soil. ** James Weldon Johnson, "Fifty Years", st. 4. ''The New York Times'' (January 1, 1913) p. 16 * It is from the [[blues]] that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic. ** James Weldon Johnson, ''Black Manhattan'' (1930) ch. 11 [[File:Lyndon B. Johnson, photo portrait, leaning on chair, color.jpg|thumb|I am a free man, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order. —[[Lyndon B. Johnson|LBJ]]]] [[File:Lyndon Johnson signing Civil Rights Act, July 2, 1964.jpg|thumb|We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. ... It is time now to write the next chapter, and to write it in the books of law. —LBJ]] * I am a free man, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order. ** [[Lyndon B. Johnson]], in the ''Texas Quarterly'' (Winter, 1958) * We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. We have talked for a hundred years or more. It is time now to write the next chapter, and to write it in the books of law. ** Lyndon B. Johnson, Speech to Congress (November 27, 1963)<!--''Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson 1963–64'', vol. 1, p. 9--> * In your time we have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society. ** Lyndon B. Johnson, Speech at University of Michigan (May 22, 1964)<!--''Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson 1963–64'', vol. 1, p. 704--> * We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10,000 miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves. ** Lyndon B. Johnson, Speech at Akron University (October 21, 1964)<!--''Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson 1963–64'', vol. 2, p. 1391--> * This, then, is the state of the Union: Free and restless, growing and full of hope. So it was in the beginning. So it shall always be, while God is willing, and we are strong enough to keep the faith. ** Lyndon B. Johnson, [[w:1965 State of the Union Address|Second State of the Union Address]] (January 4, 1965) * We are told, that the subjection of Americans may tend to the diminution of our own liberties; an event, which none but very perspicacious politicians are able to foresee. If slavery be thus fatally contagious, how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes? ** [[Samuel Johnson]], [[w:Taxation no Tyranny|''Taxation no Tyranny'']] (1775) * I am willing to love all mankind, ''except an American''. ** Samuel Johnson (April 15, 1778), in [[James Boswell|Boswell]], [[w:Life of Samuel Johnson|''Life of Johnson'']] (1791) * We are too mealy-mouthed about the basic principle of our economic system. We have been intimidated by all the tirades against "bloated capitalists" and "swollen profits." We fear that the word capitalism is unpopular. So we take refuge in a nebulous phrase and talk about the "Free Enterprise System." And we even run to cover in the folds of the flag and talk about the "American Way of Life." ... We stand at a solemn parting of the ways. Our business leaders and our labor leaders want freedom. No American wants slavery. But what is the price of freedom? I say it is the capital with which to operate capitalism. The word is capitalism. ** [[Eric Johnston]], "Your Stake in Capitalism". [[w:Reader's Digest|''Reader's Digest'']] (February, 1943); repr. [[w:St. Louis Post-Dispatch|''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'']], [https://archive.org/details/per_st-louis-post-dispatch_1943-02-19_95_167/page/n17/mode/2up?q=%22mealy-mouthed%22 vol. 95, no. 167] (February 19, 1943), p. 6c. Cited by [[w:Daniel A. Reed (politician)|Daniel A. Reed]] in the U.S. House of Representatives; ''Congressional Record — Appendix'' (February 2, 1943), p. a404, col. 2 * The testimony of every scientist is that the frontiers that are opening out ahead of us now are far wider and more spectacular than any frontier of America in the past. Our horizons are not closed. We are going to write a greater development in America than has ever been conceived. ** Eric Johnston, reported in [[w:Forbes|''Forbes'']], [https://archive.org/details/sim_forbes_1943-09-15_52_6/page/38/mode/2up?q=%22testimony+of+every%22 vol. 52, no. 6] (September 15, 1943), p. 38 * Have ye heard of the beautiful Realm of the West, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Encircled by oceans and kissed by the sun? </br> Have ye heard of the nations that thrive on her breast, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Bright heirs of her grandeur, the "Many in One?" </br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Kings cannot govern this land of our choice: </br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Liberty loves us, and Peace is our guest: </br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Shout for the Union with heart and with voice— </br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; God is our King in this Realm of the West! ** [[Amanda Jones (inventor)|Amanda T. Jones]], "[[w:Poems (Jones)/The Realm of the West|The Realm of the West]]", st. 1. ''Poems'' (1867), p. 127 * Solitude is un-American. ** [[Erica Jong]], [[w:Fear of Flying (novel)|''Fear of Flying'']] (1973), ch. 1 * The people in the province of Maine may be divided into magistrates, husbandmen or planters, and fishermen; of the magistrates some be royalists, the rest perverse spirits, the like are the planters and fishers, of which some be planters and fishers both, others mere fishers. ** [[John Josselyn]], ''An Account of Two Voyages to New England'' (1675) * Another thing that struck me was the great influence of the Negro, a psychological influence naturally, not due to the mixing of blood. The emotional way an American expresses himself, especially the way he laughs, can best be studied in the illustrated supplements of the American papers; the inimitable Teddy Roosevelt laugh is found in its primordial form in the American Negro. The peculiar walk with loose joints, or the swinging of the hips so frequently observed in Americans, also comes from the Negro. American music draws its main inspiration from the Negro, and so does the dance. ... The vivacity of the average American, which shows itself not only at baseball games but quite particularly in his extraordinary love of talking—the ceaseless gabble of American papers is an eloquent example of this—is scarcely to be derived from his Germanic forefathers, but is far more like the chattering of a Negro village. ... Thus the American presents a strange picture: a European with Negro behaviour and an Indian soul. ** [[Carl Jung]], "Mind and Earth", translated from „Seele und Erde“, ''Seelenprobleme der Gegenwart'' (Zurich: Rascher, 1931); collected in R. F. C. Hull (ed.) ''Civilization in Transition'' — ''Collected Works'', vol. 10 (1964), sec. 7, pp. 46, 49 * They equally detest the pageantry of a king, and the supercilious hypocrisy of a bishop. ** [[Junius]], ''Letters'', no. 35: to the Printer of the ''Public Advertiser'' (December 19, 1769) == K == * The dismissiveness of Americans never ceases to exasperate me. ... Americans reflexively believe that had Germany occupied the United States, nearly all of us would have joined an armed resistance to the Nazis. That's what I thought, too, when I was 16. But that reflects a hopelessly naive view, both of what the world looked like to most people after the Nazis had conquered Austria, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark, Norway and France, and of what it actually meant to take up arms against an occupying power. ** [[Charles Kaiser]], [https://edition.cnn.com/2015/05/06/opinions/kaiser-ve-day-french-resistance/index.html "What Americans forget about French resistance"], ''CNN'' (May 8, 2015) * Ours is the age of atomic power but also of nuclear proliferation, of globalized trade but also worldwide terrorism, of instant communication but also fragmented communities, of free association but also marital failure, of limitless mobility but also homogenized destinations, of open borders but also confused identities, of astounding medical advances but also greater worries about health, of longer and more vigorous lives but also protracted and more miserable deaths, of unprecedented freedom and prosperity but also remarkable anxiety about our future, both personal and national. In our age of heightened expectations, many Americans fear that their children’s lives will be less free, less prosperous, or less fulfilling than their own, a fear that is shared by the young people themselves. ** [[Leon Kass]], ''Leading a Worthy Life'' (2017) intro. * For most Americans, ethical matters are usually discussed either in utilitarian terms of weighing competing goods or balancing benefits and harms, looking to the greatest good for the greatest number, or in moralist terms of rules, rights and duties, "thou shalts" and "thou shalt nots." Our public ethical discourse is largely negative and "other-directed": We focus on condemning and avoiding misconduct by, or on correcting and preventing injustice to, other people, not on elevating or improving ourselves. How liberating and encouraging, then, to encounter [in [[Aristotle]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> an ethics focused on the question, "How to live?" and that situates what we call the moral life in the larger context of human ­flourishing. ** Leon Kass, [https://nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/looking-for-an-honest-man "Looking for an Honest Man"], in [[w:National Affairs|''National Affairs'']], no. 1 (Fall 2009) * America is a country of parallel neighborhoods; the native American in one section and the immigrant in another. Americanization is the elimination of the parallel line. ** [[Frances Kellor]], "What is Americanization?", in ''The Yale Review'', vol. 8, no. 2 (January, 1919), p. 295; Philip Davis (ed.) [https://archive.org/details/immigrationameri00daviuoft/page/634/mode/2up ''Immigration and Americanization''] (1920), p. 635 * The main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of long-term, patient but firm and vigilant [[w:Containment|containment]] of Russian expansive tendencies. * The issue of Soviet-American relations is in essence a test of the overall worth of the United States as a nation among nations. To avoid destruction the United States need only measure up to its own best traditions and prove itself worthy of preservation as a great nation. ** [[George F. Kennan]], "[[w:X Article|The Sources of Soviet Conduct]]", in ''Foreign Affairs'' (July, 1947) * In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility—I welcome it. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it—and the glow from that fire can truly light the world. {{pb}} And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country. {{pb}} My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man. ** [[John F. Kennedy]], [[w:Inauguration of John F. Kennedy|Inaugural Address]] (January 20, 1961) * I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. ... But in a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon — if we make this judgment affirmatively, it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there. ** John F. Kennedy, Address to a Joint Session of Congress (May 25, 1961) [https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/special-message-the-congress-urgent-national-needs] * Perhaps it is symbolic that [[w:Brook Farm|Brook Farm]], initially the most American of our Utopian communities, perished in a holocaust and was never fully rebuilt. A parallel destiny has pursued not only the other attempts to implement Utopian vision in this country, but the Utopian spirit in American life as a whole. As thinkers, Americans rarely if ever now attempt to construct an imaginary society better than that in which they live; and at the same time, the faith that our society is in some sense a Utopia has surely disappeared....But if we define Utopia as any attempt to make imaginatively concrete the possibilities of the future, Utopias have not in our own day ceased to exist, but have merely been transvalued....Our visions of the future have shifted from images of hope to vistas of despair; Utopias have become warnings, not beacons. Huxley's ''Brave New World'', Orwell's ''1984'' and ''Animal Farm'', Young's ''The Rise of the Meritocracy'', and ironically even Skinner's ''Walden Two''—the vast majority of our serious visions of the future are negative visions, extensions of the most pernicious trends of the present. ** [[Kenneth Keniston]], ''The Uncommitted: Alienated Youth in American Society'' (1965) p. 327 * What! shall Saxon bonds be sundered </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; By the sordid lust of gain? </br> Shall the realms of peace be ravaged </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; By the Rulers of the Main </br> For the greed of gold or glory? </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; No,—forbid it, God the Lord! </br> Young America—Old England— </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Hand-in-hand, not sword to sword! ** [[Charles Kent (English writer)|Charles Kent]], "A Song of Peace" (1852), st. 1. ''Poems'' (1870), p. 58 * I hope that there is no jealousy, or even ground of jealousy, on the part of the Americans, but that they know that when their rights come to be discussed here the greatest attention will be paid to their interests. They have long been acquainted with the habits of this country, and with the mode of administering justice here: until within these few years their causes used to come over here to be discussed, and I never heard that the decisions in our Courts ever awakened the least jealousy in the breasts of the inhabitants of that country. ** [[Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon]], ''Wilson v. Marryat'' (1798), 8 T. R. 44 * Our Nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white—separate and unequal. ** [[Otto Kerner Jr.]], [[w:Kerner Commission|''Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders'']] (1968) p. 1 * I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future. ** [[Jack Kerouac]], ''[[On the Road]]'' (wr. 1951; pub. 1957), pt. 1, ch. 3 * They were like the man with the dungeon stone and gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation that I was slowly joining. ** Jack Kerouac, ''On the Road'', pt. 1, ch. 9 * Before me was the great raw bulge and bulk of my American continent; somewhere far across, gloomy, crazy New York was throwing up its cloud of dust and brown steam. There is something brown and holy about the East; and California is white like washlines and emptyheaded — at least that’s what I thought then. ** Jack Kerouac, ''On the Road'', pt. 1, ch. 11 * Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night? ** Jack Kerouac, ''On the Road'', pt. 2, ch. 3 * Bull had a sentimental streak about the old days in America, especially 1910, when you could get morphine in a drugstore without prescription and Chinese smoked opium in their evening windows and the country was wild and brawling and free, with abundance and any kind of freedom for everyone. His chief hate was Washington bureaucracy; second to that, liberals; then cops. ** Jack Kerouac, ''On the Road'', pt. 2, ch. 6 * Holy flowers floating in the air, were all these tired faces in the dawn of Jazz America. ** Jack Kerouac, ''On the Road'', pt. 3, ch. 4 * Here were the children of the American bop night. ** Jack Kerouac, ''On the Road'', pt. 3, ch. 10 [[File:Flag of the United States (1795–1818).svg|thumb|O! say does that star-spangled Banner yet wave, </br> O'er the Land of the free and the home of the brave? </br>—[[Francis Scott Key]] ]] * O! say can you see by the dawn's early light, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming, </br> Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming? </br> And the Rockets' red glare, the Bombs bursting in air, </br> Gave proof through the night that our Flag was still there; </br> ⁠&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; O! say does that star-spangled Banner yet wave, </br> ⁠&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; O'er the Land of the free and the home of the brave? * No refuge could save the hireling and slave, </br> From the terror of [[w:Black refugee (War of 1812)|flight]], or the gloom of the grave. * Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, </br> And this be our motto—"In God is our Trust." ** [[Francis Scott Key]], "[[w:The Star-Spangled Banner|The Star-Spangled Banner]]" (1814) * Your grandchildren will live under socialism. ** Attributed to [[Nikita Khrushchev]] in "An Open Curtain?", an editorial from the ''Washington Post'' reprinted in the ''Congressional Record — Senate'' (June 10, 1957) p. 8579, col. 2 [[File:Martin Luther King - March on Washington.jpg|thumb|I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. —[[Martin Luther King Jr.|MLK]]]] * We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom. ** [[Martin Luther King Jr.]], "[[w:Letter from Birmingham Jail|Letter from Birmingham Jail]]" (April 16, 1963) * Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the [[w:American Dream|American dream]]. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed:—"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." {{pb}} I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. {{pb}} I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the people's injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. {{pb}} I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. * And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening [[Allegheny Mountains|Alleghenies]] of Pennsylvania. Let freedom ring from the snow-capped [[w:Rocky Mountains|Rockies]] of Colorado. Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of [[California]]. But not only that: Let freedom ring from [[Stone Mountain]] of Georgia. Let freedom ring from [[w:Lookout Mountain|Lookout Mountain]] of Tennessee. Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring. ** Martin Luther King Jr., "[[w:I Have a Dream|I Have a Dream]]", Speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. (August 28, 1963), in ''The New York Times'' (August 29, 1963), p. 21 * America, you must be born again! ... Let us be dissatisfied until America will no longer have a high blood pressure of creeds and an anemia of deeds. ** Martin Luther King Jr., "Where Do We Go From Here?", Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Atlanta, GA (August 16, 1967); cf. "A Religion of Doing", Sermon at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, AL (July 4, 1954) [https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/where-do-we-go-here] [https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/religion-doing-sermon-dexter-avenue-baptist-church] * I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear? ** Martin Luther King Jr., "The Other America", Speech at {{w|Grosse Pointe High School}}, Detroit, MI (March 14, 1968) [https://www.gphistorical.org/mlk/mlkspeech/index.htm] * When you stop to think, the whole idea of comprehension has a faintly archaic taste, like the sound of forgotten tongues or a look into a Victorian ''camera obscura''. We Americans are much higher on simple understanding. It makes it easier to read the billboards when you're heading into town on the expressway at plus-fifty. To comprehend, the mental jaws have to gape wide enough to make the tendons creak. Understanding, however, can be purchased on every paperback-book rack in America. ** [[Stephen King]], [[w:Rage (King novel)|''Rage'']] (1977), ch. 20 * ''Gentlemen, a regrettable incident has occurred. And when a regrettable incident occurs which involves any branch of the [[w:United States Armed Forces|United States Military]], we don’t question the roots of that incident but rather how the branches may best be pruned. The service is mother and father to us. And if you find your mother raped or your father beaten and robbed, before you call the police or begin an investigation, you cover their nakedness. Because you love them.'' ** Stephen King, [[w:The Stand|''The Stand'']] (1978; 1990) * More and more it seemed to Ed that there was a vicious downside of American life, a greased skid of opportunism, cut corners, easy drugs, easy sex, a morality that grew cloudier each year. ** [[Stephen King]], [[w:Apt Pupil|''Apt Pupil'']], in [[w:Different Seasons|''Different Seasons'']] (1982) * America's two great specialties are demagogues and [[rock and roll]], and we've all heard plenty of both in our time. ** [[Stephen King]], [[w:Under the Dome (novel)|''Under the Dome'']] (2009) * What the horses o’ Kansas think today, the horses of America will think tomorrow; an’ I tell you that when the horses of America rise in their might, the day o’ the Oppressor is ended. ** [[Rudyard Kipling]], "A Walking Delegate", ''The Day's Work'' (1898) * Take up the White Man's burden— </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Send forth the best ye breed— </br> Go bind your sons to exile </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; To serve your captives' need; </br> To wait in heavy harness </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; On fluttered folk and wild— </br> Your new-caught, sullen peoples, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Half devil and half child. ** [[Rudyard Kipling]], "[[w:The White Man's Burden|The White Man's Burden]]" (February 1899), st. 1 * Every nation, like every individual, walks in a vain show—else it could not live with itself—but I never got over the wonder of a people who, having extirpated the aboriginals of their continent more completely than any modern race had ever done, honestly believed that they were a godly little New England community, setting examples to brutal mankind. ** [[Rudyard Kipling]], ''Something of Myself'' (1937), ch. 5 * The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. ** [[Henry Kissinger]], as quoted in ''The Washington Post'' (December 23, 1973); he later joked further on this remark, on 10 March 1975 saying to Turkish Foreign Minister [[w:Melih Esenbel|Melih Esenbel]] in Ankara, Turkey: **: Before the [[w:Freedom of Information Act|Freedom of Information Act]], I used to say at meetings, "The illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional takes a little longer." [''laughter''] But since the Freedom of Information Act, I’m afraid to say things like that. [http://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/P860114-1573_MC_b.html#efmCS3CUB] [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/apr/11/wikileaks-kissinger-cables-bradley-manning] * Since the time America entered the arena of world politics in 1917, it has been so preponderant in strength and so convinced of the rightness of its ideals that this century's major international agreements have been embodiments of American values — from the League of Nations and the Kellogg-Briand Pact to the United Nations Charter and the Helsinki Final Act. The collapse of Soviet communism marked the intellectual vindication of American ideals and, ironically, brought America face to face with the kind of world it had been seeking to escape throughout its history. In the emerging international order, nationalism has gained a new lease on life. Nations have pursued self-interest more frequently than high-minded principle, and have competed more than they have cooperated. ** Henry Kissinger, ''Diplomacy'' (1994), pt. 1, ch. 1 * Why linger o'er decrepit shrine <br> In Hellas or in Palestine? <br> America as Greece is grand, <br> America is Holy Land. ** [[Frederic Lawrence Knowles]], "To the American Poet", st. 2. [[commons:File:On life's stairway (IA onlifesstairway00kno).pdf|''On Life's Stairway'']] (1901), p. 5 * Contemporary Americans ... were reluctant to have their fun diminished by acknowledging that anything existed with fangs and fierce appetites. If now and then they recognized a wolf, they threw a bone to it and convinced themselves it was a dog. ** [[Dean Koontz]], [[w:The Good Guy|''The Good Guy'']] (2007), ch. 7 * What universities are saying by these codes, special protections, and double standards — to women, to blacks, to Hispanics, to gay and lesbian students — is, "You are too weak to live with freedom. You are too weak to live with the First Amendment." If someone tells you you are too weak to live with freedom, they have turned you into a child. ** [[Alan Charles Kors]], in ''[[Penn & Teller: Bullshit!]]'', sn. 3, ep. 6: "College" (May 30, 2005) * The US appears to be intentionally spreading chaos throughout strategic portions of the world, leaving virtually no independent state standing to protect their resources, especially oil, from Western exploitation. And, this goal is being achieved with resounding success, while also achieving the subsidiary goal of enriching the behemoth military-industrial complex. ** [[Daniel Kovalik]], ''The Plot to Overthrow Venezuela'' (2019) as quoted in John Rachel's review for ''Nation of Change'' (July 30, 2019) [https://www.nationofchange.org/2019/07/30/book-review-the-plot-to-overthrow-venezuela-how-the-us-is-orchestrating-a-coup-for-oil-by-dan-kovalik/ online] * You are blood from England's blood, bone from its bone, and flesh from its flesh. The Anglo-Saxon race was the kernel around which gathered this glorious fruit—your Republic. Every other nationality is oppressed. It is the Anglo-Saxon alone which stands high and erect in its independence. You, the younger brother, are entirely free, because Republican. They, the elder brother, are monarchical, but they have a constitution, and they have many institutions which even you retained, and, by retaining them, have proved that they are institutions congenial to freedom, and dear to freemen. The free press, the jury, free speech, the freedom of association, the institution of municipalities, the share of the people in the legislature, are English institutions; the inviolability of person and the inviolability of property are English principles. ** [[Lajos Kossuth]], Speech at Louisville, KY (March 6, 1852); F. W. Newman (ed.) [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10691 ''Select Speeches''] (1854), pp. 261–2 * The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy. ** [[Louis Kronenberger]], "The Spirit of the Age", ''Company Manners'' (1954), p. 18 * The American Way is so restlessly creative as to be essentially destructive; the American Way is to carry common sense itself almost to the point of madness. ** Louis Kronenberger, "Last Thoughts", ''Company Manners'' (1954), p. 144 * American society, till the advent of mass immigration, was fairly static. If hypothetical speculations are permitted one may be tempted to say that without the rush after the thirties and forties the States would have developed on social lines parallel to those in England and in other parts of the Occident. It would not have become "America" with an exclamation mark but another "regular" Western country characterized merely by the absence of a Catholic medieval tradition. ''Yet the mass immigration threw America back to an earlier stage of development, in the chronological sense.'' America by 1810 had entirely "caught up" with Europe; America in 1890 was partly back in the seventh century {{smallcaps|a.d.}}, when the unstratified society of barbarians started to settle down. ** [[Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn]], ''The Menace of the Herd'' (1943), pt. 3, ch. 4 <!-- pp. 232–33 --> == L == * Child of the Earth's old age, America is the favourite on whom a double portion has been lavished. ... Commerce, science, and freedom, are its fates; and the web over which they preside is but begun. ** [[Letitia Elizabeth Landon]], ''[[Francesca Carrara]]'' (1834), [https://archive.org/details/francesccarrara03lelluoft/page/286/mode/2up vol. 3], ch. 35 * You have there the myth of the essential white America. All the other stuff, the love, the democracy, the floundering into lust, is a sort of by-play. The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ** [[D. H. Lawrence]], ''Studies in Classic American Literature'' (1920), ch. 5 (of Fenimore Cooper's "[[w:The Deerslayer|Deerslayer]]") * Protect every citizen, including the millions of people of foreign birth who will flock to our shores to become citizens and to find here a land of liberty and law. ** [[William Lawrence (Ohio Republican)|William Lawrence]], Speech in the U.S. House of Representatives (April 7, 1866) [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Bxo-AQAAMAAJ&dq=%22flock+to+our+shores+to+become+citizens+and%22&q=%22become+citizens%22&redir_esc=y] [[File:Lady Liberty From NirmalyaOne.jpg|thumb|{{center/s}}Mother of Exiles{{center/e}}]] * Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand </br> A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame </br> Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name </br> Mother of Exiles. * "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she </br> With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, </br> Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, </br> The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. </br> Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, </br> I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" ** [[Emma Lazarus]], "[[w:The New Colossus|The New Colossus]]" (1883) * Americans are queer people: they can't rest. ** [[Stephen Leacock]], "Americans are Queer", in ''Forum and Century'' (April 1931), p. 224 * No free government was ever founded, or ever preserved its liberty, without uniting the characters of the citizen and soldier in those destined for the defence of the state. ... Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen. ** [[Richard Henry Lee]] (alias "Cicero") in the Charleston ''State Gazette'' (September 8, 1788); Stephen P. Halbrook, [https://archive.org/details/thateverymanbear00halb/page/71/mode/2up?q=%22characters+of+the+citizen+and+soldier%22 ''That Every Man Be Armed''] (1984), ch. 3<!--But cf. [[Josiah Quincy II]], "Thoughts on Standing Armies", Boston (May 14, 1774); Selim H. Peabody (ed.) [https://archive.org/details/americanpatrioti00inpeab/page/66/mode/2up ''American Patriotism''] (1880), p. 67--> * I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than a dissolution of the Union. It would be an accumulation of all the evils we complain of, and I am willing to sacrifice everything but honor for its preservation. ... Still, a Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love and kindness, has no charm for me. I shall mourn for my country and for the welfare and progress of mankind. If the Union is dissolved and the Government disrupted, I shall return to my native State and share the miseries of my people, and, save in defense will draw my sword on none. ** [[Robert E. Lee]], Letter to this son [[George Washington Custis Lee|G. W. Custis Lee]] (January 23, 1861) [https://www.nps.gov/arho/learn/historyculture/lee-s-resignation.htm] * I have too exalted an opinion of the American people to believe that they will consent to injustice, and it is only necessary, in my opinion, that truth should be known for the rights of every one to be secured. I know of no surer way of eliciting the truth than by burying contention with the war. ** Robert E. Lee, Letter to [[w:Josiah Tattnall III|Josiah Tattnall III]] (September 7, 1865); [[J. William Jones]] (ed.) [https://archive.org/details/personalreminisc00joneiala/page/206/mode/2up ''Personal Reminiscences, Anecdotes, and Letters of Gen. Robert E. Lee''] (1874), pp. 205–6 * America is not a formula. America is not statistics, even graphic statistics. A great nation cannot be made, cannot be discovered, and then be laid coldly together like a census. America is a Tune. It must be sung together. ** [[Gerald Stanley Lee]], ''Crowds'' (1913), bk. 5, pt. 3, ch. 12 * Y is a Yankee </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Who bought up the earth, </br> For more than the crazy </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Old planet is worth. ** [[Richard Le Gallienne]], "A Nursery Alphabet", [[commons:File:Mr. Sam and Mrs. Moon (IA mrsammrsmoon00lega).pdf|''Mr. Sun and Mrs. Moon'']] (1902) * The history of modern, civilised America opens with one of those great wars which are really emancipatory, really revolutionary, of which there have been so few among all the great mass of robber wars caused, like the present imperialist war, by quarrels between kings, landlords and capitalists for the division of plundered territories or the profits of robbery. That was the war of the American people against the British robbers who were oppressing and keeping America in colonial slavery. ** [[Vladimir Lenin]], "Letter to the American Workers" (August 20, 1918), in ''Pravda'', no. 178 (August 22, 1918); ''Collected Works'', 3rd ed., vol. 23. [https://archive.org/details/leninonbritain0000unse/page/136/mode/2up?q=%22America+opens+with+one+of+those+great+wars%22 ''Lenin on Britain: A Compilation''] (New York: Int. Publ., 1934), pp. 136–7 * It would be [[w:Americanism (heresy)|very erroneous]] to draw the conclusion that in America is to be sought the type of the most desirable status of the Church, or that it would be universally lawful or expedient for State and Church to be, as in America, dissevered and divorced. ** [[Pope Leo XIII]], '' Longinqua Oceani'' (January 6, 1895), sec. 6 * America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is a chaos. ** [[Max Lerner]], "The United States as Exclusive Hotel" (March 27, 1946); [https://archive.org/details/actionspassions0000maxl_d4k1/page/92/mode/2up?q=%22passionate+idea+or+it+is+nothing%22 ''Actions and Passions''] (1949), p. 92 * We should be less concerned about the missile gap than the intelligence gap, less worried about the missile rate than the intelligence rate. ** Max Lerner, Speech at Douglas College in New Brunswick, NJ (1959) as quoted in his obituary, ''The New York Times'' (6 June 1992) p. 11, and in Ernst G. Frankel, ''Challenging American Leadership: Impact of National Quality on Risk of Losing Leadership'' (The Netherlands: Springer, 2006) ch. 2, p. 74 * In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent business man. ** [[Sinclair Lewis]], ''Babbitt'' (1922), ch. 14 * Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country. ** Interview in Berlin (December 29, 1930); ''California and Western Medicine'', [https://archive.org/details/californiawester63unse_0/page/n639/mode/2up vol. 63, no. 6] (December, 1945), p. 282 * Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead. ** Sinclair Lewis, "The American Fear of Literature", Nobel Prize Address (December 12, 1930); [[w:Horst Frenz|H. Frenz]], ''Literature 1901–67'' (1969), p. 285 * He was afraid that the world struggle today was not of Communism against Fascism, but of tolerance against the bigotry that was preached equally by Communism and Fascism. But he saw too that in America the struggle was befogged by the fact that the worst Fascists were they who disowned the word "Fascism" and preached enslavement to Capitalism under the style of Constitutional and Traditional Native American Liberty. For they were thieves not only of wages but of honor. To their purpose they could quote not only Scripture but Jefferson. ** Sinclair Lewis, [[w:It Can't Happen Here|''It Can't Happen Here'']] (1935), ch. 36 * I just wish people wouldn't quote Lincoln or the Bible, or hang out the flag or the cross, to cover up something that belongs more to the bank-book and the three golden balls. ** Sinclair Lewis, [[w:Gideon Planish|''Gideon Planish'']] (1943), ch. 1 * It is, I believe, the destiny of America to produce the first of a new species of man. It is the first of the great "melting pots". The pots take a long time to melt. Beneath this titanic human caldron is nothing more incandescent than an old-fashioned campfire, or the ritualistic sticks brought in from a sacred wood and periodically rekindled into token flames. So the pot does not melt very fast. Americans actually are quite unconscious what a novel kind of people they are....[T]hey wrestle reverently with a reactionary Constitution, they darkly hide away their hoarded gold underground, and aggressively practice an antiquated economy. That State structure and that fairy gold are the campfire alluded to above. ** [[Wyndham Lewis]], ''America and Cosmic Man'' (1948), pt. 1, sect. 1 * ''Die Menschen versprechen sich jetzt so viel von Amerika und dessen politischem Zustande, daß man sagen könnte, die Wünsche, wenigstens die heimlichen, aller aufgeklärten Europäer hätten eine westliche Abweichung, wie unsere Magnetnadeln.'' ** People nowadays have such high hopes of America and the political conditions obtaining there that one might say the desires, at least the secret desires, of all enlightened Europeans are deflected to the west, like our magnetic needles. ** [[Georg Christoph Lichtenberg]], ''Sudelbuch'' G (1779–1783), p. 6 * ''Der Amerikaner, der den Kolumbus zuerst entdeckte, machte eine böse Entdeckung.'' ** The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery. ** Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, ''Sudelbuch'' G (1779–1783), p. 183 ** ''Schriften und Briefe'', [http://www.zeno.org/Literatur/M/Lichtenberg,+Georg+Christoph/Aufzeichnungen+und+Aphorismen/%5BAus+den+%C2%BBSudelb%C3%BCchern%C2%AB%5D/%5BAus+%C2%BBSudelbuch%C2%AB+G%5D vol. 2] (Munich, 1967); tr. [[w:R. J. Hollingdale|R. J. Hollingdale]], ''Aphorisms'' (1990)<!--''Vermischte Schriften'', vol. 2. ''Nachtrag zu den witzigen und satyrischen Einfällen und Bemerkungen''--> * The law of nations knows of no distinction of color, and if an enemy of the United States should enslave and sell any captured persons of their Army, it would be a case for the severest retaliation, if not redressed upon complaint. ** [[Francis Lieber]], {{w|Lieber Code}} (General Orders No. 100, April 24, 1863), sec. 3, art. 58 * The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous. ** [[Lin Yutang]], ''The Importance of Living'' (1937), ch. 7, sec. 6 [[File:Abraham Lincoln 1863 Portrait (3x4 cropped).jpg|thumb|We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth. <br> —[[Abraham Lincoln]]]] * If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. ** [[Abraham Lincoln]], Address at the Young Men's Lyceum, Springfield, IL (January 27, 1838) * "A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free. ** Abraham Lincoln, [[w:Lincoln's House Divided Speech|Speech]] at the State Capitol, Springfield, IL (June 16, 1858) * Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man—this race and that race and the other race being inferior, and therefore they must be placed in an inferior position—discarding our standard that we have left us. Let us discard all these things, and unite as one people throughout this land, until we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal. ** Abraham Lincoln, Address to Chicagoan abolitionists (July 10, 1858)<!--[[w:Roy Basler|Roy P. Basler]] (ed.) ''Collected Works'', [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?cc=lincoln;c=lincoln;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2:526;seq=1;view=text;rgn=div1 vol. 2] (1953), p. 501--> * In all our rejoicing let us neither express, nor cherish, any harsh feeling towards any citizen who, by his vote, has differed with us. Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in the bonds of fraternal feeling. ** Abraham Lincoln, Remarks at Springfield, Illinois (November 20, 1860)<!--Roy P. Basler (ed.) ''Collected Works'', [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln4/1:214?rgn=div1;view=fulltext vol. 4] (1953), pp. 142–3--> * This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. * We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. ** Abraham Lincoln, [[s:Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address|First Inaugural Address]] (March 4, 1861) [[File:Battle of Gettysburg.jpg|thumb|We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. —Abraham Lincoln]] * We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth. ** Abraham Lincoln, [[w:1862 State of the Union Address|Second State of the Union Address]] (December 1, 1862) * Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on [[w:North America|this continent]], a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow, this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. ** [[Abraham Lincoln]], [[w:Gettysburg Address|Gettysburg Address]] (November 9, 1863), based on the signed "Bliss Copy" * A nation of one hundred fine, mob-hearted, lynching, relenting, repenting millions. ** [[Vachel Lindsay]], "Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan", ''Collected Poems'' (1923) * America is really a quaint old-fashioned land. ... It is the last abode of romance and other mediaeval phenomena. ** [[Eric Linklater]], ''Juan in America'' (1931), bk. 4, pt. 1 * "There won’t be any revolution in America," said Isadore. Nikitin agreed. "The people are all too clean. They spend all their time changing their shirts and washing themselves. You can’t feel fierce and revolutionary in a bathroom." ** Eric Linklater, ''Juan in America'' (1931), bk. 5, pt. 3 * New England! ours </br> Art thou, as England's thine: thy children own </br> The common parentage. Nor they alone, </br> But wheresoe'er is heard our English tongue — </br> World-widely flung </br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; For coming hours. {{pb}} Be with us then, </br> Thou greater England! second but in time: </br> Our age shall welcome our young giant's prime, </br> As in his sons a father takes delight, </br> Proud of the height </br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Of younger men. ** [[William James Linton]], ''England to America'' (1876), sts. 16, 17 * The American people, more than any other people, is composed of individuals who have lost association with their old landmarks. They have crossed an ocean, they have spread themselves across a new continent. The American who still lives in his grandfather’s house feels almost as if he were living in a museum. There are few Americans who have not moved at least once since their childhood, and even if they have staid where they were born, the old landmarks themselves have been carted away to make room for progress. That, perhaps, is one reason why we have so much more Americanism than love of America. It takes time to learn to love the new gas station which stands where the wild honeysuckle grew. Moreover, the great majority of Americans have risen in the world. They have moved out of their class, lifting the old folks along with them perhaps, so that together they may sit by the steam pipes, and listen to the crooning of the radio. But more and more of them have moved not only out of their class, but out of their culture; and then they leave the old folks behind, and the continuity of life is broken. For faith grows well only as it is passed on from parents to their children amidst surroundings that bear witness, because nothing changes radically, to a deep permanence in the order of the world. It is true, no doubt, that in this great physical and psychic migration some of the old household gods are carefully packed up and put with the rest of the luggage, and then unpacked and set up on new altars in new places. But what can be taken along is at best no more than the tree which is above the ground. The roots remain in the soil where first they grew. ** [[Walter Lippmann]], ''A Preface to Morals'' (1929), ch. 4, sec. 3 * Our system, so fair in its theory and so fertile in its happiness and prosperity in its first century, is now, following the fate of systems, becoming artificial, technical, corrupt; and, as always happens in human institutions, after noon, power is stealing from the many to the few. ** [[Henry Demarest Lloyd]], [[w:Wealth Against Commonwealth|''Wealth Against Commonwealth'']] (1894), p. 515 * For what would a man value ... excellent land, ready cultivated, and well stocked too with cattle, in the middle of the inland parts of America, where he had no hopes of commerce with other parts of the world, to draw money to him by the sale of the product? It would not be worth the enclosing, and we should see him give up again to the wild common of nature, whatever was more than would supply the conveniencies of life to be had there for him and his family. {{pb}} Thus in the beginning all the world was America, ... for no such thing as money was any where known. ** [[John Locke]], [[w:Two Treatises of Government|''Two Treatises of Government'']] (1689<!--title page marked "1690"-->), bk. 2, pars. 48–49 * Let every man honor and love the land of his birth and the race from which he springs and keep their memory green. It is a pious and honorable duty. But let us have done with British-Americans and Irish-Americans and German-Americans, and so on, and all be Americans...If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives; and if he is going to be something else, let him drop the word American from his personal description. ** [[Henry Cabot Lodge]], "The Day We Celebrate (Forefathers' Day)", Address to the New England Society of Brooklyn (December 21, 1888) * Our forefathers were pioneers.<br>So are we. ** [[Haniel Long]], ''Pittsburgh Memoranda'' (1935), prol. * I'm for the poor man — all poor men, black and white, they all gotta have a chance. They gotta have a home, a job, and a decent education for their children. 'Every man a king' — that's my slogan. ** [[Huey Long]], quoted in T. Harry Williams, ''Huey Long'' (1969), p. 706. The slogan "Every man a king, but no one wears a crown." was written on banners used in the [[w:1928 Louisiana gubernatorial election|1928 Louisiana gubernatorial election]]; see Hugh Davis Graham, ''Huey Long'' (1970), p. 39 [[File:Sumner-Longfellow (cropped).jpg|thumb|Thou, too, sail on, O [[Ship of State]]!<br>Sail on, O Union, strong and great!<br>Humanity with all its fears,<br>With all the hopes of future years,<br>Is hanging breathless on thy fate!<br>—[[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow|H. W. Longfellow]]]] * Thou, too, sail on, O [[Ship of State]]!<br>Sail on, O Union, strong and great!<br>Humanity with all its fears,<br>With all the hopes of future years,<br>Is hanging breathless on thy fate! ** [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]], "[[s:The Seaside and the Fireside/The Building of the Ship|The Building of the Ship]]", l. 367. ''The Seaside and the Fireside'' (1850), p. 28 * Down to the [[w:Plymouth Rock|Plymouth Rock]], that had been to their feet as a doorstep<br>Into a world unknown,—the corner-stone of a nation! ** Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, [[w:The Courtship of Miles Standish|''The Courtship of Miles Standish'']] (1858), pt. 5, st. 2 * So I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and safire bracelet lasts forever. ** [[Anita Loos]], ''Gentlemen Prefer Blondes'' (1925), ch. 4 * Ambition, enterprise, effort and success are largely states of mind; happiness is the United States. ** [[George Horace Lorimer]], "Poor Richard Junior's Philosophy", [[w:The Saturday Evening Post|''The Saturday Evening Post'']], [https://archive.org/details/sim_saturday-evening-post_1904-11-19_177_21/mode/2up vol. 177, no. 21] (November 19, 1904), p. 16 * America without England is absolutely meaningless to a civilised man of any generation yet grown to maturity. The breaking of the saving tie is leaving these colonies free to build up a repulsive new culture of money, speed, quantity, novelty, and industrial slavery, but that future culture is not ours, and has no meaning for us. ** [[H. P. Lovecraft]], Letter to James F. Morton (November 6, 1930), in August Derleth and Donald Wandrei (eds.) ''Selected Letters'', vol. 3 (1971), p. 207 [[File:Library of Congress Great Hall - Jan 2006.jpg|thumb|This is America, ... </br> Making grandeur out of profusion, </br> Afraid of no incongruities, </br> Sublime in its audacity, </br> Bizarre breaker of moulds. </br>—[[Amy Lowell]]]] * This is America, </br> This vast, confused beauty, </br> This staring, restless speed of loveliness, </br> Mighty, overwhelming, crude, of all forms, </br> Making grandeur out of profusion, </br> Afraid of no incongruities, </br> Sublime in its audacity, </br> Bizarre breaker of moulds, </br> Laughing with strength, </br> Charging down on the past, </br> Glorious and conquering, </br> Destroyer, builder, </br> Invincible pith and marrow of the world, </br> An old world remaking, </br> Whirling into the no-world of all-colored light. ** [[Amy Lowell]], "[[s:What's O'Clock/The Congressional Library|The Congressional Library]]". ''What's O'Clock'' (1925), p. 100 [[File:HENRY BYAM MARTIN Charleston S.C. 4th March 1833 The land of the free & home of the brave (cropped).jpg|thumb|If there breathe on earth a slave, </br> Are ye truly free and brave? </br> —[[James Russell Lowell|James R. Lowell]]]] * If there breathe on earth a slave, </br> Are ye truly free and brave? </br> If ye do not feel the chain, </br> When it works a brother's pain, </br> Are ye not base slaves indeed, </br> Slaves unworthy to be freed? ** [[James Russell Lowell|James R. Lowell]], "Stanzas on Freedom". ''Miscellaneous Poems'' (1843) * They enslave their children's children who make compromise with sin. ** James R. Lowell, "The Present Crisis". [[w:Boston Courier|''Boston Courier'']] (December 11, 1845) * Earth's biggest Country's gut her soul </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; An' risen up Earth's Greatest Nation. ** James R. Lowell, "Latest Views of Mr. Biglow", st. 21. ''The Atlantic Monthly'', [https://archive.org/details/atlantic11bostuoft/atlantic11bostuoft/page/264/mode/2up vol. 11, no. 64] (February, 1863), p. 265. Collected in ''The Biglow Papers'', [https://archive.org/details/biglowpapers00low/page/132/mode/2up 2nd ser.] (London, 1865), no. 7, p. 133 * For some reason or other, the European has rarely been able to see America except in caricature. ... We do not ask to be sprinkled with rosewater, but may perhaps fairly protest against being drenched with the rinsings of an unclean imagination. ** James R. Lowell, "On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners". ''The Atlantic Monthly'', vol. 23, no. 135 (January, 1869), p. 89 * It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled. ** James R. Lowell, "Review of Palfrey's 'History of New England during the Stuart Dynasty'". ''The North American Review'', [https://archive.org/details/northamericanrev00rice/page/170/mode/2up no. 206] (January, 1865), p. 170. Collected, as "New England Two Centuries Ago", in ''Among My Books'' (1870), p. 239 * The Aquarium is gone. Everywhere, </br> giant finned cars nose forward like fish; </br> a savage servility </br> slides by on grease. ** [[Robert Lowell]], ''{{w|For the Union Dead}}'' (1964), title poem * America will exist as a great nation for a long time to come. It has a vast store of economic and military capital that will take time to spend down even in the worst of circumstances and even under the worst policies. ** [[Rich Lowry]], ''Lincoln Unbound'' (New York: Broadside Books, 2013) * Agassiz says the American Continent was the first created; it will be the last in the fulfillment of the designs of the Creator. A cosmopolitan land—cosmopolitan in the intentions of its founders, in the bloody struggle of its defenders—God has in store for you who peopled it the accomplishment of admirable results. Northward are the Esquimaux; southward is Africa. You summon from walled China the unmoving people to dwell amid the moving nation, the stationary to mingle with the progressive; all impelled by the breath of you, the great humanitarian people. The foundation of your people is the Bible, the book that speaks of God the living word of Jesus Christ. In an admirable manifesto from your President, there shines through his words the Christian faith. A belief in Jesus is at the root of this nation. ... And when I return, I shall tell Europe that I have found here liberty associated with Christianity, and have been among a people who do not think that to be free they must be parted from God. ** [[Hyacinthe Loyson]], Lecture in the [[w:Academy of Music (New York City)|Academy of Music]], NYC (December 9, 1869); ''TNYT'', [https://archive.org/details/sim_new-york-times_1869-12-11_19_5685/page/n3/mode/2up?q=%22stationary+to+mingle%22 vol. 19, no. 5,685] (December 11, 1869), p. 4, col. 5 * Americans are people who prefer the [[Europe|Continent]] to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages. ** [[E. V. Lucas]], "The Continental Dictionary". [[w:Punch (magazine)|''Punch'']], [https://archive.org/details/sim_punch_july-december-1923_165/page/568/mode/2up vol. 165] (December 12, 1923), p. 568 * When and if fascism comes to America it will not be labeled "made in Germany"; it will not be marked with a swastika; it will not even be called fascism; it will be called, of course, "Americanism." ... For never, probably, has there been a time when there was a more vigorous effort to surround social and international questions with such a fog of distortion and prejudices and hysterical appeal to fear. ** [[Halford E. Luccock]], "Keeping Life Out of Confusion", Sermon delivered at the Riverside Church, NYC (September 11, 1938); ''The New York Times'' (September 12, 1938), p. 15 * The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth. ** [[Charles Luckman]], quoted in Allan M. Laing, [https://archive.org/details/louderfunnier0000alla/page/160/mode/2up?q=%22wide+open+spaces+surrounded+by+teeth%22 ''Louder and Funnier''] (1957), p. 160 == M == [[File:MacArthur Manila (cropped2).jpg|thumb|Americans never quit. —[[Douglas MacArthur|MacArthur]] ]] <!--[[File:MacArthur Returns by Carl Mydans (cropped) (cropped).jpg|thumb|]]--> * Americans never quit. ** [[Douglas MacArthur]], comment as president of the U.S. Olympic committee when the manager of the U.S. boxing team in the [[w:1928 Summer Olympics|1928 Olympics]] wanted to withdraw the team because of what he thought was an unfair decision against an American boxer; reported in ''The New York Times'' (August 9, 1928), p. 13 * When liberty is headlong girl </br> And runs her roads and wends her ways </br> Liberty will shriek and whirl </br> Her showery torch to see it blaze. {{pb}} When liberty is wedded wife </br> And keeps the barn and counts the [[wikt:byre|byre]] </br> Liberty amends her life. </br> She drowns her torch for fear of fire. ** [[Archibald MacLeish]], "Liberty", in [https://archive.org/details/collectedpoems0000unse_w7d7/page/164/mode/2up ''Collected Poems 1917–1952''] (1952), p. 164 * That something has gone wrong in America most of us know. We are richer than any nation before us. We have more Things in our garages and kitchens and cellars than Louis Quatorze had in the whole of Versailles. ... We have wiped out many of the pests and scourges which afflicted humanity. We have advanced science to the edges of the inexplicable and hoisted technology to the sun itself. ... In brief, we are prosperous, lively, successful, inventive, diligent—but, nevertheless and notwithstanding, something is wrong and we know it. * There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream. ** Archibald MacLeish, "We Have Purpose... We All Know It". ''LIFE'' (May 30, 1960), p. 93 [https://www.originallifemagazines.com/product/life-magazine-may-30-1960/] * These Americans represent the new [[Roman Empire]] and we Britons, like the [[Ancient Greece|Greeks of old]], must teach them how to make it go. ** [[Harold Macmillan]], in Algiers (c. 1942); [[Robert Daniel Murphy|R. D. Murphy]], [https://archive.org/details/diplomatamingwar0000unse/page/164 ''Diplomat among Warriors''] (1964), ch. 12 [[File:Battle of Guilford Courthouse 15 March 1781.jpg|thumb|... a militia amounting to near half a million of citizens with arms in their hands, officered by men chosen from among themselves, fighting for their common liberties. —[[James Madison|Madison]]]] <!--[[File:James Madison, Charles Willson Peale - Gilcrease Museum Online Collections.jpg|thumb|The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government. —Madison]]--> [[File:Gilbert Stuart, James Madison, c. 1821, NGA 56914.jpg|thumb|The United States, while they wish for war with no nation, will buy peace with none. —Madison]] <!--[[File:Chester Harding - James Madison - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world. —Madison]]--> * Extravagant as the supposition is, let it however be made. Let a regular army, fully equal to the resources of the country be formed; and let it be entirely at the devotion of the Federal Government; still it would not be going too far to say, that the State Governments with the people on their side would be able to repel the danger. The highest number to which, according to the best computation, a standing army can be carried in any country, does not exceed one hundredth part of the whole number of souls; or one twenty-fifth part of the number able to bear arms. This proportion would not yield in the United States an army of more than twenty-five or thirty thousand men. To these would be opposed a militia amounting to near half a million of citizens with arms in their hands, officered by men chosen from among themselves, fighting for their common liberties, and united and conducted by governments possessing their affections and confidence. It may well be doubted whether a militia thus circumstanced could ever be conquered by such a proportion of regular troops. Those who are best acquainted with the late successful resistance of this country against the British arms will be most inclined to deny the possibility of it. Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprizes of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of. Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. ** [[James Madison]], [[w:Federalist No. 46|''The Federalist'']], no. 46 (January 29, 1788) * The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government. ** James Madison, Speech, House of Representatives (January 10, 1794) <!-- During the debate "On the Memorial of the Relief Committee of Baltimore, for the Relief of St. Domingo Refugees" --> * It is a settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute. The United States, while they wish for war with no nation, will buy peace with none. ** James Madison, Letter to Wolcott Chauncy and William Shaler, summarizing the Treaty of 1815, which ended the Second Barbary War and, with it, the practice of the U.S. government paying tribute to pirate states, as quoted in Robert Greenhow, ''History and Present Condition of Tripoli: With Some Accounts of the Other Barbary States'' (1835), p. 46 <!-- Published by T. W. White --> * The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world. ** James Madison, "Outline" notes (September 1829), in Gaillard Hunt (ed.) ''The Writings of James Madison'', vol. 9 (1910), p. 357 * Whether they will or no, Americans must now begin to look outward. The growing production of the country demands it. An increasing volume of public sentiment demands it. The position of the United States, between the two Old Worlds and the two great oceans, makes the same claim, which will soon be strengthened by the creation of the new link joining the Atlantic and Pacific. The tendency will be maintained and increased by the growth of the European colonies in the Pacific, by the advancing civilization of Japan, and by the rapid peopling of our Pacific States with men who have all the aggressive spirit of the advanced line of national progress. Nowhere does a vigorous foreign policy find more favor than among the people west of the Rocky Mountains. ** [[Alfred Thayer Mahan]], [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/15749/15749-h/15749-h.htm ''The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future''] (London, 1897) * America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind. ** [[Norman Mailer]], "Advertisements for 'Games and Ends'", ''Advertisements for Myself'' (1959) * America is a cruel soil for talent. It stunts it, blights it, uproots it, or overheats it with cheap fertilizer. ** Norman Mailer, "Last Advertisement for Myself before the Way Out", ''Advertisements for Myself'' (1959) * We kill the spirit here, we are the experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell. ** Norman Mailer, "The Fourth Presidential Paper—Foreign Affairs: Letter to Castro", ''The Presidential Papers'' (1963) * So we think of Marilyn who was every man’s love affair with America, [[Marilyn Monroe]] who was blonde and beautiful and had a sweet little rinky-dink of a voice and all the cleanliness of all the clean American backyards. ** Norman Mailer, ''Marilyn'' (1973), p. 15 * I've never met anyone who told me they were angry at China or France or Russia for failing to help them. Where people are desperate, it is still America they count on, whether they love or scorn it, and America they blame when aid does not come. They know that the United States is the one country with both the power and predilection to stand up for them. ** [[Tom Malinowski]], [https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/03/trump-human-rights-freedom-state-department/520677/ "What America Stood For"], ''The Atlantic'' (March 25, 2017) * If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don't care for human beings. ** [[Nelson Mandela]], quoted in [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/jan/31/usa.iraq "Mandela attacks Blair and Bush"], ''The Guardian'' (January 31, 2003) [[File:Bacon's military map of the United States shewing the forts & fortifications. LOC 99447070.jpg|thumb|Chivalry dwelt with the Southern son, and Industry lived with the Northern one. —[[Richard Mansfield]]]] * The lioness whelped, and the sturdy cub <br> Was seized by an eagle and carried up, <br> And homed for a while in an eagle's nest, <br> And slept for a while on an eagle's breast; <br> And the eagle taught it the eagle's song: <br> "To be stanch, and valiant, and free, and strong!" * Two were the sons that the country bore <br> To the Northern lakes and the Southern shore; <br> And Chivalry dwelt with the Southern son, <br> And Industry lived with the Northern one. ** [[Richard Mansfield]], "The Eagle's Song", sts. 1, 3. R. L. Paget (ed.) ''Poems of American Patriotism'' (1898), p. 327 * We don't believe in credibility </br> Because we know that we're fucking incredible. ** [[Marilyn Manson]], "[[w:We're from America|We're from America]]", ''The High End of Low'' (May 20, 2009) * There is one thing that America knows well, and that she teaches as a great and precious lesson to those who come in contact with her astounding adventure: it is the value and dignity of the common man, the value and dignity of the people. ** [[Jacques Maritain]], [https://archive.org/details/christianitydemo0000mari/page/60/mode/2up ''Christianity and Democracy''] (1944), "The Heroic Humanism", p. 61. Reported in [[Shepard B. Clough]], [https://archive.org/details/economicbasisofa0000clou/page/4/mode/2up ''The Economic Basis of American Civilization''] (1968), ch. 1, pp. 3–4 * America has chosen to be, in many respects, and to many purposes, a nation; and for all these purposes, her government is complete; to all these objects, it is competent. The people have declared, that in the exercise of all powers given for these objects, it is supreme. It can, then, in effecting these objects, legitimately control all individuals or governments within the American territory. ** [[John Marshall]], majority opinion in [[w:Cohens v. Virginia|''Cohens v. Virginia'']], 6 Wheat. 264 (1821) * The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down. ** [[Thurgood Marshall]], in Henry D. Spalding (ed.) [https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofbl00spal/page/454/mode/2up?q=%22colored+man+either+missed+getting%22 ''Encyclopedia of Black Folklore and Humor''] (1972), p. 454 * The new world has never achieved a greater triumph than by this demonstration that, given its political and social organisation, ordinary people of good will can accomplish feats which only heroes could accomplish in the old world! ** [[Karl Marx]], "Comments on the North American Events", in ''Die Presse'' (October 12, 1862); reported in ''Marx & Engels: Collected Works'', [https://www.hekmatist.com/Marx%20Engles/Marx%20&%20Engels%20Collected%20Works%20Volume%2019_%20Ka%20-%20Karl%20Marx.pdf vol. 19] (Lawrence & Wishart, 2010), p. 250 * I am proud that I am an American citizen of Japanese ancestry, for my very background makes me appreciate more fully the wonderful advantages of this nation. I believe in her institutions, ideals and traditions; I glory in her heritage; I boast of her history; I trust in her future. She has granted me liberties and opportunities such as no individual enjoys in this world today. She has given me an education befitting kings. She has entrusted me with the responsibilities of the franchise. She has permitted me to build a home, to earn a livelihood, to worship, think, speak and act as I please as a free man equal to every other man.{{pb}}Although some individuals may discriminate against me, I shall never become bitter or lose faith, for I know that such persons are not representative of the majority of the American people. True, I shall do all in my power to discourage such practices, but I shall do it in the American way-above board, in the open, through courts of law, by education, by proving myself to be worthy of equal treatment and consideration. I am firm in my belief that American sportsmanship and attitude of fair play will judge citizenship and patriotism on the basis of action and achievement, and not on the basis of physical characteristics. Because I believe in America, and I trust she believes in me, and because I have received innumerable benefits from her, I pledge myself to do honor to her at all times and all places; to support her constitution; to obey her laws; to respect her flag; to defend her against all enemies, foreign and domestic; to actively assume my duties and obligations as a citizen, cheerfully and without any reservations whatsoever, in the hope that I may become a better American in a greater America. ** [[Mike Masaoka|Mike Masaoka]], Credo of the Japanese American Citizens League (1940), as quoted in Bill Yenne, ''Rising Sons'' (2007), p. 15 * Westward, till all are drowned, those [[w:Lemmings|Lemmings]] go. ** [[John Masefield]], "The Lemmings", st. 1. ''Poems'' (1913), p. 106 * &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Pray enter </br> You are learnèd Europeans and we worse </br> Than ignorant Americans. ** [[Philip Massinger]], [[w:The City Madam|''The City Madam'']] (licensed May 25, 1632; printed 1658), act 3, sc. 3 * I write the wonders of the Christian religion, flying from the depravations of Europe, to the American strand: and, assisted by the Holy Author of that religion, I do, with all conscience of truth, required therein by Him, who is the Truth itself, report the wonderful displays of His infinite power, wisdom, goodness, and faithfulness, wherewith his Divine Providence hath irradiated an Indian wilderness. ** [[Cotton Mather]], ''Magnalia Christi Americana'' (1702), intro. * Some American Delusions. </br> (i) That there is no class-consciousness in the country. </br> (ii) That American coffee is good. </br> (iii) That Americans are business-like. </br> (iv) That Americans are highly-sexed and that red-heads are more highly-sexed than others. ** [[W. Somerset Maugham]], ''A Writer's Notebook'' (1949), entry for 1941 * We Americans want to talk, pray, think as we please—and eat regular. ** [[Maury Maverick]], [https://archive.org/details/inbloodink00mave/page/142/mode/2up ''In Blood and Ink''] (1939), ch. 30 * ''Tutti gli uomini sono per natura egualmente liberi e indipendenti. Quest'eguaglianza è necessaria per costituire un governo libero. Bisogna che ognuno sia uguale all'altro nel diritto naturale.'' ** All men are by nature equally free and independent. Such equality is necessary in order to create a free government. All men must be equal to each other in natural law. ** [[Filippo Mazzei]], via Thomas Jefferson, in Rind's [[w:The Virginia Gazette|''Virginia Gazette'']] (1774) * We are Americans first, Americans last, Americans always. Let us argue our differences. But remember we are not enemies, but comrades in a war against a real enemy, and take courage from the knowledge that our military superiority is matched only by the superiority of our ideals, and our unconquerable love for them. ** [[John McCain]], Speech to the RNC, NYC (August 30, 2004) [https://www.mccaininstitute.org/resources/mccain-on-the-issue/30-august-2004-new-york-ny/] * Whatever our differences, we are fellow Americans. And please believe me when I say no association has ever meant more to me than that. ** John McCain, Concession Speech (4 November 2008) [https://www.rev.com/transcripts/john-mccain-2008-presidential-concession-speech-transcript] * [[w:McCarthyism|McCarthyism]] is Americanism with its sleeves rolled. ** [[Joseph McCarthy]], Speech in Wisconsin (1952), in Richard Rovere ''Senator Joe McCarthy'' (1973), p. 8 * He had the true American taste for argument, argument as distinguished from conversation on the one hand and from oratory on the other. The long-drawn-out, meandering debate was, perhaps, the only art form he understood or relished, and this was natural since the argument is in a sense our only indigenous folk-art, and it is not the poet but the silver-tongued lawyer who is our real national bard. ** Mary McCarthy, [[w:The Company She Keeps (novel)|''The Company She Keeps'']] (1942), ch. 5 * To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that... is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics. ** Mary McCarthy, ''Memories of a Catholic Girlhood'' (1957), "To the Reader" * The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof. ** Mary McCarthy, "America the Beautiful", ''On the Contrary'' (1961) * Europeans used to say Americans were puritanical. Then they discovered that we were not puritans. So now they say that we are obsessed with sex. ** Mary McCarthy, as quoted in [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=e1IEAAAAMBAJ&q=%22Europeans+used+to+say+Americans+were+puritanical+Then+they+discovered+that+we+were+not+puritans+So+now+they+say+that+we+are+obsessed+with+sex%22&pg=PA62&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Europeans%20used%20to%20say%20Americans%20were%20puritanical%20Then%20they%20discovered%20that%20we%20were%20not%20puritans%20So%20now%20they%20say%20that%20we%20are%20obsessed%20with%20sex%22&f=false "Lady with a Switchblade"], ''LIFE'' (September 20, 1963) * Yet it was part of being an American that, once you got started, you felt impelled to tell all the people all the truth all the time. ** Mary McCarthy, "To Be a Pilgrim", ''Birds of America'' (1971) * In the Big Rock Candy Mountains </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; There's a land that's fair and bright </br> Where the handouts grow on bushes </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; And you sleep out every night </br> Where the boxcars all are empty </br> And the sun shines every day </br> On the birds and the bees and the cigarette trees </br> The lemonade springs where the bluebird sings </br> In the Big Rock Candy Mountains. ** [[Harry McClintock]], "[[w:The Big Rock Candy Mountains|The Big Rock Candy Mountains]]" (1928), st. 2 * It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the rollercoaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or the country of our birth. The emotion is [[w:Janus|Janus]]-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known. ** [[Carson McCullers]], "Look Homeward, Americans", in [[w:Vogue (magazine)|''Vogue'']] (December 1940), collected in ''The Mortgaged Heart'' (1971) * {{smallcaps|Riley}}: "No stealing"? Don't you always say theft in America is justified because the whole country is stolen land?<br>{{smallcaps|Huey}}: Yeah, I sure do. ** [[Aaron McGruder]], ''[[The Boondocks (comic strip)|The Boondocks]]'' (May 16, 1999) * Although she feeds me bread of bitterness, <br> And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth, <br> Stealing my breath of life, I will confess <br> I love this cultured hell that tests my youth! <br> Her vigor flows like tides into my blood, <br> Giving me strength erect against her hate. <br> Her bigness sweeps my being like a flood. ** [[Claude McKay]], "America", ll. 1–7. ''Harlem Shadows'' (1922), p. 6 [[File:Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg|thumb|Wherever in the world two or three of us stand together under our flag, all America is there. —[[Richard McKenna]] ]] * America is a living structure of human lives, of all the American lives that ever were and ever will be. ** [[Richard McKenna]], [[w:The Sand Pebbles (novel)|''The Sand Pebbles'']] (1962), ch. 5 * In our flag the barriers of time and space vanish. All America that ever was and ever will be lives every moment in our flag. Wherever in the world two or three of us stand together under our flag, all America is there. ** Richard McKenna, ''The Sand Pebbles'' (1962), ch. 5 <!-- Compare: Matthew 18:19–20 --> * Bye, bye, Miss American Pie, </br> Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry; </br> Them good old boys were drinking whiskey and rye, </br> Singing, "This'll be the day that I die, </br> This'll be the day that I die" ... ** [[Don McLean]], "[[w:American Pie (song)|American Pie]]" (1971 song and album), as quoted in Paul Hemphill, [https://archive.org/details/goodoldboys0000hemp/page/14/mode/2up ''The Good Old Boys''] (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974), epigraph <!-- "[[w:The Day the Music Died|The Day the Music Died]]" --> * We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people—the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world. ... We are the pioneers of the world; the advance-guard, sent on through the wilderness of untried things, to break a new path in the New World that is ours. ** [[Herman Melville]], [[w:White-Jacket|''White-Jacket'']] (1850), ch. 36 * Ah, might we read in America’s signs </br> The Age restored of the [[w:Nerva–Antonine dynasty|Antonines]]. ** Herman Melville, "The Age of the Antonines", [[w:Timoleon (poems)|''Timoleon'']] (1891); cf. [[Edward Gibbon|Gibbon]], [[w:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire|''Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'']], [[s:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Bury)/III|ch. 3]]<!--"Their united reigns are possibly the only period of history in which the happiness of a great people was the sole object of government."--> * If there is one mental vice...which sets off the American people from all other folks who walk the earth...it is that of assuming that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that ninety-nine percent of them are wrong. ** [[H. L. Mencken]], "The American: His New Puritanism", in ''{{w|The Smart Set}}'', vol. 42, no. 2 (February, 1914), p. 87 * The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth. A [[Galileo]] could no more be elected President of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. ** H. L. Mencken, "The Art Eternal", in the New York ''Evening Mail'' (1918); ''The Vintage Mencken'' (1955), p. 73 * The bitter, of course, goes with the sweet. To be an American is, unquestionably, to be the noblest, grandest, the proudest mammal that ever hoofed the verdure of God's green footstool. Often, in the black abysm of the night, the thought that I am one awakens me with a blast of trumpets, and I am thrown into a cold sweat by contemplation of the fact. I shall cherish it on the scaffold; it will console me in Hell. But there is no perfection under Heaven, so even an American has his small blemishes, his scarcely discernible weaknesses, his minute traces of vice and depravity. ** H. L. Mencken, "Mark Twain", in ''The Smart Set'', vol. 60, no. 2 (October, 1919), p. 140 * It would surprise no impartial observer if the motto "In God we trust" were one day expunged from the coins of the republic by the Junkers at Washington, and the far more appropriate word, "verboten," substituted. Nor would it astound any save the most romantic if, at the same time, the goddess of liberty were taken off the silver dollars to make room for a bas-relief of a policeman in a spiked helmet. ** H. L. Mencken, ''The American Credo'' (1920), pref. * The strange American ardor for passing laws, the insane belief in regulation and punishment, plays into the hands of the reformers, most of them quacks themselves. Their efforts, even when honest, seldom accomplish any appreciable good. ... Oppressive laws do not destroy minorities; they simply make bootleggers. ** H. L. Mencken, "Editorial", in ''{{w|The American Mercury}}'', vol. 2, no. 5 (May, 1924), p. 26<!--see [[w:Harrison Narcotics Tax Act|Harrison Act]] (May 1, 1915) and [[w:Espionage Act of 1917|Espionage Act]] (June 15, 1917)--> * Manifest Destiny and imperialism were traps into which the nation was led in 1846 and in 1899, and from which it extricated itself as well as it could afterward. ** [[Frederick Merk]], ''Manifest Destiny and Mission in American History'' (1963), ch. 12 * It is always and forever the same struggle: to perceive somehow our own complicity with evil is a horror not to be borne. ... much more reassuring to see the world in terms of totally innocent victims and totally evil instigators of the monstrous violence we see all about us. At all costs, never disturb our innocence. But what is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all. The perfection of innocence, indeed, is madness. ** [[Arthur Miller]], "With respect for Her Agony — but with Love". ''LIFE'' (February 7, 1964) * There are are a lot of Americans – I think they're a minority, but they're very vocal – [who] are really aching for an ayatollah. ** Arthur Miller, interviewed by Sir [[Jonathan Miller]], ''A Rough History of Disbelief'' (2004), ep. 1<!--''The Atheism Tapes'' DVD, 2005--> * It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd. ** [[Henry Miller]], "Raimu", ''The Wisdom of the Heart'' (1941) * I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital, but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen. ** Henry Miller, [[w:The Air-Conditioned Nightmare|''The Air-Conditioned Nightmare'']] (1945) * It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the rest of the world—it's the American way of looking at things. ** Henry Miller, "Letter to Lafayette", ''The Air-Conditioned Nightmare'' (1945) * In the United States...a handful of corporations centralize decisions and responsibilities that are relevant for military and political as well as economic developments of global significance. For nowadays the military and the political cannot be separated from economic considerations of power. We now live not in an economic order or a political order, but in a political economy that is closely linked with military institutions and decisions. This is obvious in the repeated "oil crisis" in the Middle East, or in the relevance of Southeast Asia and African resources for the Western powers. Thus, an American state governor, upon his return from the Far East in 1951, spoke casually of "our tin" and "our rubber" when speaking of French Indo-China, British Malaya, and the Indonesian Republic. In the perspective of the naval powers, the Mediterranean, as well as the North and the Baltic Seas, are but extensions of the Atlantic Ocean. A network of looser or firmer treaties now extends throughout the "Western world," from the eastern Mediterranean to the borderlands of Asia on the Pacific coast. ** [[C. Wright Mills]], ''Character & Social Structure'' (1954), ch. 16 * America – a conservative country without any conservative ideology – appears now before the world a naked and arbitrary power, as, in the name of realism, its men of decision enforce their often crackpot definitions upon world reality. The second-rate mind is in command of the ponderously spoken platitude. In the liberal rhetoric, vagueness, and in the conservative mood, irrationality, are raised to principle. Public relations and the official secret, the trivializing campaign and the terrible fact clumsily accomplished, are replacing the reasoned debate of political ideas in the privately incorporated economy, the military ascendancy, and the political vacuum of modern America. * The American elite does not have any real image of peace — other than as an uneasy interlude existing precariously by virtue of the balance of mutual fright. The only seriously accepted plan for peace is the full loaded pistol. In short, war or a high state of war-preparedness is felt to be the normal and seemingly permanent condition of the United States. ** C. Wright Mills, [[w:The Power Elite|''The Power Elite'']] (1956) * Again upon the sea.{{pb}}This time for Persia, bearing our wounded and the ashes of the dead; those of the natives are reposing beneath the Great Temple.{{pb}}The skull of the last Mehrikan I shall present to the museum at Teheran. ** [[John Ames Mitchell]], [[w:The Last American (novel)|''The Last American'']] (1889), p. 78 * [[1 Corinthians|O grave, where is thy victory?]] Where, indeed. Many a badly stung survivor, faced with the aftermath of some relative’s funeral, has ruefully concluded that the victory has been won hands down by a funeral establishment. ** [[Jessica Mitford]], ''{{w|The American Way of Death}}'' (1963), ch. 1 * People are far more sincere and generous than in Germany; therefore our Americans live more quietly and peacefully together than the Europeans; and all this is the result of the liberty which they enjoy and which makes them all equal. ** [[Gottlieb Mittelberger]], ''Reise nach Pennsylvanien'' (1756); tr. Carl Theodor Eben (1898), p. 118 * The American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have consumed and maintained, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers. * In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do. * It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defense. With the movements in this hemisphere we are of necessity more immediately connected, and by causes which must be obvious to all enlightened and impartial observers. <br> The political system of the allied powers is essentially different in this respect from that of America. This difference proceeds from that which exists in their respective Governments; and to the defense of our own, which has been achieved by the loss of so much blood and treasure, and matured by the wisdom of their most enlightened citizens, and under which we have enjoyed unexampled felicity, this whole nation is devoted. * Our policy in regard to Europe, ... remains the same, which is, not to interfere in the internal concerns of any of its powers; to consider the government de facto as the legitimate government for us; to cultivate friendly relations with it, and to preserve those relations by a frank, firm, and manly policy, meeting in all instances the just claims of every power, submitting to injuries from none. ** [[James Monroe]], Message to Congress (December 2, 1823) — [[w:Monroe Doctrine|Monroe Doctrine]] [[File:American Falls Niagara Falls USA from Skylon Tower on 2002-05-28.png|thumb|Her lakes are oceans, every stream a bay. —[[Abraham Moore]]]] [[File:The belt of wampum delivered by the Indians to William Penn at the "Great Treaty" (1682).jpg|thumb|Tribes without end, realm after realm embraced<br>In Freedom's opening arms, the savage and the waste.]] * Her lakes are oceans, every stream a bay,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; Wide through her frame its branching artery throws:<br>Her mountains kiss the moon: her sapient sway<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; A beauteous belt hath wrought, whose ties enclose<br>Tribes without end, realm after realm embraced<br>In Freedom's opening arms, the savage and the waste. ** [[Abraham Moore]], ''Niagara'' (New York, 1822), st. xii, p. 16 * &nbsp;&nbsp; America where there<br>is the little old ramshackle victoria in the south, where cigars are smoked on the<br>street in the north; where there are no proof readers, no silk-worms, no digressions;<br>the wild man's land; grass-less, links-less, language-less country — in which letters are written<br>not in Spanish, not in Greek, not in Latin, not in shorthand<br>but in plain American which cats and dogs can read! ** [[Marianne Moore]], "England", in ''The Dial'' (April 1920), pp. 422–23 * Never be a [[w:Market sentiment|bear]] on America. ** [[J. P. Morgan]], slogan, in ''Collier's'', [https://archive.org/details/colliers5119unse/page/n499/mode/2up vol. 51, no. 13] (June 14, 1913), p. 12, col. 2<!--Cf. [[Mark Sullivan (journalist)|Mark Sullivan]], ''Our Times, 1900–1925'', [https://archive.org/details/ourtimes1900192502sull/page/318/mode/2up vol. 2] (1936), p. 318--> * Don't sell America short! ** [[Wall Street]] slogan, in [[Upton Sinclair]], [https://archive.org/details/mountaincity0000upto_s2f3/page/304/mode/2up?q=%22sell+America+short%22 ''Mountain City''] (1930), ch. 18, sec. 5 * "Petersburg socialism seems cold to the likes of our [[Cossacks]], who would rather worship personalities than embrace ideas." </br> I shared his irony. "You make them sound like Americans." ** [[Michael Moorcock]], [[w:The Steel Tsar|''The Steel Tsar'']] (1981), bk. 2, ch. 4 * Americans need bullshit the way [[w:Koala|koala bears]] need eucalyptus leaves. They’ve become totally addicted to it. They get so much of it back home that they can’t survive without it. ** Michael Moorcock, [[w:London Bone|''London Bone'']] (1997) * It was the morning of April 20, 1999, and it was pretty much like any other morning in America. The farmer did his chores. The milkman made his deliveries. The President [[w:NATO bombing of Yugoslavia|bombed]] another country whose name we couldn't pronounce. Out in Fargo, North Dakota, Cary McWilliams went on his morning walk. Back in Michigan, Mrs Hughes welcomed her students for another day of school. And out in a little town in Colorado, two boys went bowling at 6 in the morning. Yes, it was a typical day in the United States of America. ** [[Michael Moore]], ''[[w:Bowling for Columbine|Bowling for Columbine]]'' (2002) * ''Fahrenheit 9/11: The temperature where freedom burns!'' ** Michael Moore, catchphrase used in some advertisements for his [[w:Fahrenheit 9/11|2004 documentary]]; it is wordplay based on the title of [[Ray Bradbury]]'s novel ''[[Fahrenheit 451]]'' (1953) and the assertion that 451°F is the [[w:Book burning|autoignition temperature of book-paper]] * Let the Daughters of Liberty nobly arise; </br> And though we've no voice but a negative here, </br> The use of the taxables, let us forbear:— </br> (Then merchants import till your stores are all full, </br> May the buyers be few, and your traffic be dull!) </br> Stand firmly resolv'd, and bid [[George Grenville|Grenville]] to see, </br> That rather than freedom we part with our tea. ** [[Milcah Martha Moore]], "The Female Patriots", l. 6 (wr. 1768; pub. 1769; ed. Patti Cowell, 1981) * Well—peace to the land! may her sons know, at length, </br> That in high-minded honour lies liberty's strength, </br> That though man be as free as the fetterless wind, </br> As the wantonest air that the north can unbind, </br> Yet, if health do not temper and sweeten the blast, </br> If no harvest of mind ever sprung where it pass'd, </br> Then unblest is such freedom, and baleful its might,— </br> Free only to ruin, and strong but to blight! ** [[Thomas Moore]], "To the Boston Frigate, on Leaving Halifax for England, October, 1804", l. 7. ''Poetical Works'', [https://archive.org/details/poeticalworksof02moor/page/340/mode/2up vol. 2] (London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1840), p. 340 · [https://archive.org/details/epistlesodesothe00moor/page/322/mode/2up ''Epistles, Odes, and Other Poems''] (1806), pp. 323–4 * The union of lakes, the union of lands, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; The union of States none can sever, </br> The union of hearts, the union of hands, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; And the flag of our Union forever! ** [[George Pope Morris]], "The Flag of Our Union" (1851); [[w:Bartlett's Familiar Quotations|''Bartlett's'']], 5th ed. (1868), p. 512 * In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate. ** [[Toni Morrison]], in ''The Guardian'' (January 29, 1992) * The "Stars and Stripes" now float over a vast continent, extending from the Atlantic to the Great Ocean, and from the Gulf to the Frozen Seas of the North. The Great Republic may now be considered as embracing four nearly equal quarters, of about nine hundred thousand square miles each:—the first being the original territory east of the Mississippi River; the second, the Louisiana Purchase; the third, Texas and the Mexican Provinces; and the fourth covering Oregon and Alaska. ** [[William Augustus Mowry]], "Our Territorial Growth Has Marked Our Duty and Destiny"; ''Patriotic Reader'' (1888), p. 575 [[File:1965 FBI monograph on Nation of Islam - Elijah Muhammad (cropped).png|thumb|They are really sincere when they say that they are freedom-loving people. Above all, the white man the world over wants to be free to rule and dominate the aboriginal people.<br>—[[Elijah Muhammad]] ]] * We no longer have a government of, by, and for the people — representative democracy. We have government by plutocracy — the rule of the rich for the rich by the rich. ** [[Bill Moyers]], on Thom Hartmann's TV show, and quoted in Hartmann's book ''The Crash of 2016'' (2013), pt. 1, ch. 1 * Make America know her sins...America represents herself as a Christian nation...They profess to be a friend and defenders of all peace-loving and freedom-loving people. The only people we really see that they want to be friends of are themselves and their kind. They are really sincere when they say that they are freedom-loving people. Above all, the white man the world over wants to be free to rule and dominate the aboriginal people. ** [[Elijah Muhammad]], [[w:Message to the Blackman in America|''Message to the Blackman in America'']] (1965) <!-- "Make America Know Her Sins" --> * The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf. ** [[Lewis Mumford]], [https://archive.org/details/goldenday030012mbp/page/n15/mode/2up ''The Golden Day''] (1926), ch. 1 ("The Origins of the American Mind") * We in America overwhelm the higher functions by constant and never-ending insistence upon the lower ones, just as we will interrupt the music of Bach or Mozart to advertise a cigarette or a laxative. Our life has become an air-conditioned nightmare: packed with sensations and emptied of purposes, glutted with things and starved of meanings; or rather, we attempt to derive all our meanings and values from the world of dehumanized objects, and, in the ideal case, allow ourselves no subjective interest that matter or motion, in one of their popular forms, would not satisfy. ** Lewis Mumford, [https://archive.org/details/innameofsanity0000lewi/page/224/mode/2up ''In the Name of Sanity''] (1954), ch. 9 ("The Powers of Prospero") <!-- Compare: [[Eric Hoffer]] --> * I've got nothing against any individual American, except that there aren't any. They're always Irish-American, African-American–there's never an American-American you can ''blame!'' ** [[Simon Munnery]], in [[w:Attention Scum|''Attention Scum'']] (2001) * The true meaning of America, you ask? It's in a Texas rodeo, in a policeman's badge, in the sound of laughing children, in a political rally, in a newspaper. ... In all these things, and many more, you'll find America. In all these things, you'll find freedom. And freedom is what America means to the world. And to me. ** [[Audie Murphy]], as quoted by Glenda Byars, [https://www.gadsdentimes.com/story/lifestyle/columns/2013/07/03/glenda-byars-gratitude-on-americas-birthday/32116910007/ "Gratitude on America's Birthday"], in [[w:The Gadsden Times|''The Gadsden Times'']] (July 3, 2013) * We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men — not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular. ** [[Edward R. Murrow]], [https://www.billdownscbs.com/2015/11/edward-r-murrow-vs-senator-joseph.html "A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy"], ''{{w|See It Now}}'' (March 9, 1954) * It is one thing to commit crimes ''against'' property, and a vastly different thing to commit crimes ''in behalf'' of property. ** [[Gustavus Myers]], ''History of the Great American Fortunes'', vol. 1 (1909), pt. 2, ch. 5 * America, compared to every other country in Western Civilization, large or small, has ''the most explicitly expressed'' system of general ideals in reference to human interrelations. This body of ideals is more widely understood and appreciated than similar ideals are anywhere else. ** [[Gunnar Myrdal]], ''An American Dilemma'' (1944), p. 3 * These ideas of the essential dignity of the individual human being of the fundamental equality of all men, and of certain inalienable rights to freedom, justice, and a fair opportunity represent to the American people the essential meaning of the nation's early struggle for independence. In the clarity and intellectual boldness of the Enlightenment period these tenets were written into the Declaration of Independence, the Preamble of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and into the constitutions of the several states. The ideals of the American Creed have thus become the highest law of the land. The Supreme Court pays its reverence to these general principles when it declares what is constitutional and what is not. They have been elaborated upon by all national leaders, thinkers and statesmen. America has had, throughout its history, a continuous discussion of the principles and implications of democracy, a discussion which, in every epoch, measured by any standard, remained high, not only quantitatively but qualitatively. The flow of learned treatises and popular tracts on the subject has not ebbed, nor is it likely to do so. In all wars, including the present one, the American Creed has been the ideological foundation of national morale. ** Gunnar Myrdal, ''An American Dilemma'' (1944), pp. 4–5 * Taking the broad historical view, the American Creed has triumphed. It has given the main direction to change in this country. America has had gifted conservative statesmen and national leaders, and they have often determined the course of public affairs. But with few exceptions, only the liberals have gone down in history as national heroes. America is...conservative in fundamental principles, and in much more than that...''But the principles conserved are liberal'' and some, indeed, are radical. ** Gunnar Myrdal, ''An American Dilemma'' (1944), p. 7 == N == * America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations. ** Attributed to [[Napoleon]], during his final exile on [[w:Saint Helena|Saint Helena]], by [[William H. Seward]], "The Destiny of America", Oration at the Dedication of Capital University, Columbus, OH (September 14, 1853) * &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Your flag and my flag— </br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; And how it flies to-day! </br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In your land and my land, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; And half the world away! </br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Rose-red and blood-red, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The stripes forever gleam; </br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Snow-white and soul-white— </br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The good forefathers' dream; </br> Sky-blue and true-blue, with stars to shine aright— </br> The gloried guidon of the day, a shelter through the night. ** [[Wilbur D. Nesbit]], "A Song for Flag Day", st. 1. [https://archive.org/details/trailtoboylandot00nesb/mode/2up ''The Trail to Boyland, and Other Poems''] (1904), p. 96 * America is a thing you can move very easily, move it in the right direction. They won't get in our way. ** [[Benjamin Netanyahu]], videotaped conversation with Israeli settlers who lost family members to Palestinian attacks during the early stages of the second intifada (2001); ''The Washington Post'' (July 16, 2010) [https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2010/07/16/netanyahu-america-is-thing-you-can-move-very-easily/] * And we will lift our country's flag <br> &nbsp;&nbsp; And float its Stripes and Stars <br> In place of those we used to wave <br> &nbsp;&nbsp; For Kaisers, Kings and Czars. ** [[Fanny Hodges Newman]], "We Are All Americans", st. 5 (1918) * Yet we will cross the seas again <br> &nbsp;&nbsp; To Europe's tortured sod, <br> With those who, though not brothers born, <br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Are brothers under God. {{pb}} For we are all Americans, <br> &nbsp;&nbsp; And we shall fight our way <br> To victory and back again, <br> &nbsp;&nbsp; And then come home to stay. ** Fanny Hodges Newman, "We Are All Americans", sts. 7 and 9 (1918) [[File:Huey Newton, Black Panther Minister of Defense - Black Panther poster (cropped).jpg|thumb|The blood, sweat, tears and suffering of Black people are the foundations of the wealth and power of the USA. —[[Huey P. Newton]]]] * The blood, sweat, tears and suffering of Black people are the foundations of the wealth and power of the United States of America. We were forced to build America and if forced to we will tear it down. The immediate result of this destruction will be suffering and bloodshed. But the end result will be the perpetual peace for all mankind. ** [[Huey P. Newton]], "In Defense of Self-defense", in ''The Black Panther'', vol. 1, no. 3 (June 20, 1967) [https://www.marxists.org/archive/newton/1967/06/20.htm] * Always, the rulers of an order, consistent with their own interests and solely of their own design, have employed what to them seemed to be the most optimal and efficient means of maintaining unquestioned social and economic advantage. Clear-cut superiority in things social and economic—by whatever means—has been a scruples-free premise of American ruling class authority from the society's inception to the present. The initial socioeconomic advantage, begotten by chattel slavery, was enforced by undaunted violence and the constant threat of more violence. ** Huey P. Newton, [https://archive.org/details/WarAgainstThePanthersAStudyOfRepressionInAmerica ''War Against the Panthers: A Study of Repression in America''], Doctoral dissertation submitted to the Faculty of University of California Santa Cruz (June 1, 1980), 1. Introduction * The image has changed from liberator to great disruptor to a {{w|landlord}} {{w|Rent-seeking|seeking rent}}. ** {{w|Ng Eng Hen}}, as quoted in Philip J. Heijmans, [https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/02/17/asia-pacific/politics/singapore-asia-us-landlord/ "Singapore says Asia now views U.S. as a 'landlord seeking rent'"], ''{{w|The Japan Times}}'' (February 17, 2025) * In America the word art was distorted to mean artificial. ** [[Anaïs Nin]], [https://archive.org/details/noveloffuture00nina/page/196/mode/2up ''The Novel of the Future''] (1969), concl. * The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker. This honor now beckons America — the chance to help lead the world at last out of the valley of turmoil, and onto that high ground of peace that man has dreamed of since the dawn of civilization. If we succeed, generations to come will say of us now living that we mastered our moment, that we helped make the world safe for mankind. ** [[Richard Nixon]], First Inaugural Address (January 20, 1969) [https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/nixon1.asp] * It is time for the great silent majority of Americans to stand up and be counted. ** [[Richard Nixon]], Election speech (October, 1970), in ''The New York Times'' (October 21, 1970) [https://www.nytimes.com/1970/10/31/archives/excerpts-from-transcript-of-nixon-speech.html] * No power on earth is stronger than the United States of America today. And none will be stronger than the United States of America in the future. ** [[Richard Nixon]], Address to a Joint Session of Congress, on his return from Austria, the Soviet Union, Iran, and Poland (June 1, 1972) [https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-joint-session-the-congress-return-from-austria-the-soviet-union-iran-and-poland] * This country needs good farmers, good businessmen, good plumbers, good carpenters. ** [[Richard Nixon]], Farewell Address at the White House (August 9, 1974), cited in ''The New York Times'' (August 10, 1974), p. 4 == O == [[File:Rosie the Riveter (Vultee) DS.jpg|thumb|{{center|1=Yes We Can}}]] * There is not a black America and a white America and Latino America and Asian America — there's the United States of America. ... We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around in our libraries in the Red States. * The hope of a skinny kid with a funny name who believes that America has a place for him too. ... The audacity of hope! ** [[Barack Obama]], [[w:2004 Democratic National Convention keynote address|DNC keynote address]], Boston, MA (July 27, 2004) * Yes we can to justice and equality. Yes we can to opportunity and prosperity. Yes we can heal this nation. Yes we can repair this world. Yes we can. ** [[Barack Obama]], [[s:Remarks of Senator Barack Obama on New Hampshire Primary Night|Remarks on New Hampshire Primary Night]] (January 8, 2008) [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/08/us/politics/08text-obama.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print] * We are an American family and we rise or fall together as one nation and as one people. We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions, and we remain more than a collection of red states and blue states. We are and forever will be the United States of America. ** Barack Obama, Election night victory speech, McCormick Place convention center, Chicago, IL (November 6, 2012) [https://www.nydailynews.com/2012/11/07/election-2012-president-obama-gives-victory-speech-in-front-of-thousands-in-chicago-i-have-never-been-more-hopeful-about-america/] * America has never come easy. Our freedom, our democracy, has never been easy. Sometimes we stumble; we make mistakes. We get frustrated or discouraged. But for more than two hundred years, we have put those things aside and placed our collective shoulder to the wheel of progress: to create and build and expand the possibilities of individual achievement; to free other nations from tyranny and fear; to promote justice and fairness and equality under the law, so that the words set to paper by our founders are made real for every citizen. The America we want for our kids. A rising America where honest work is plentiful and communities are strong; where prosperity is widely shared and opportunity for all lets us go as far as our dreams and toil will take us. None of it is easy. ** Barack Obama, [[w:2014 State of the Union Address|State of the Union Address]] (January 28, 2014) [https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/01/28/president-barack-obamas-state-union-address] [[File:U.S. Marines and Soldiers load supplies onto a Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 261, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing in Tacloban, Leyte province 131114-N-BX824-291.jpg|thumb|When trouble comes up anywhere in the world, they don't call Beijing. They don't call Moscow. They call us. —[[Barack Obama]]]] * America leads. We are the indispensable nation. We have capacity no one else has. Our military is the best in the history of the world, and when trouble comes up anywhere in the world, they don't call Beijing. They don't call Moscow. They call us. ** Barack Obama, [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/president-obama-60-minutes/ Interview with Steve Kroft], ''CBS News'' (September 28, 2014) * We were strangers once, too. And whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic, or the Pacific, or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in, and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship. What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal, that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will. ** Barack Obama, Remarks in Address to the Nation on Immigration (November 20, 2014) [https://web.archive.org/web/20150206135113/https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/20/remarks-president-address-nation-immigration] * What could more profoundly vindicate the idea of America than plain and humble people – the unsung, the downtrodden, the dreamers not of high station, not born to wealth or privilege, not of one religious tradition but many – coming together to shape their country's course? {{pb}} What greater expression of faith in the American experiment than this; what greater form of patriotism is there; than the belief that America is not yet finished, that we are strong enough to be self-critical, that each successive generation can look upon our imperfections and decide that it is in our power to remake this nation to more closely align with our highest ideals? ** Barack Obama, Speech in Selma, AL (March 7, 2015) [https://time.com/3736357/barack-obama-selma-speech-transcript/] * Sixty years ago, when the Russians beat us into space, we didn't deny Sputnik was up there. We didn't argue about the science, or shrink our research and development budget. We built a space program almost overnight, and twelve years later, we were walking on the moon. That spirit of discovery is in our DNA. We're Thomas Edison and the Wright Brothers and George Washington Carver. We're Grace Hopper and Katherine Johnson and Sally Ride. We're every immigrant and entrepreneur from Boston to Austin to Silicon Valley racing to shape a better world. ** Barack Obama, [[w:2016 State of the Union Address|State of the Union Address]] (January 12, 2016) [https://medium.com/@WhiteHouse/president-obama-s-2016-state-of-the-union-address-7c06300f9726#.flsvqkay9] * But today, more than 150 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, more than 50 years after the end of "separate but equal," when it comes to getting an education, too many of our young people just can't be bothered. Today, instead of walking miles every day to school, they're sitting on couches for hours playing video games, watching TV. Instead of dreaming of being a teacher or a lawyer or a business leader, they're fantasizing about being a baller or a rapper. ** [[Michelle Obama]], Remarks at [[w:Bowie State University|Bowie State University]], MD (May 17, 2013) * On Fame’s eternal camping ground </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Their silent tents are spread, </br> And Glory guards, with solemn round, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; The bivouac of the dead. ** [[Theodore O'Hara]], "[[w:Bivouac of the Dead|Bivouac of the Dead]]", written for the Kentuckians who fell at [[w:Battle of Buena Vista|Buena Vista]] (February 22–23, 1847) * I think your eccentricity as a nation is more evenly distributed than you give it credit for. There are freaks everywhere. Sure, there's an intense flavor in the Deep South, but it’s not like you’re ever just a mile or less away from a complete lunatic in this country. ** [[John Oliver]], interview by Brian Hiatt, [https://au.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/john-oliver-interview-1648/ "The Rolling Stone Interview"], ''Rolling Stone'' (June 3, 2013) * The cable companies have figured out the great truth of America: If you want to do something evil, put it inside something boring. ** John Oliver, [[w:Last Week Tonight with John Oliver|''Last Week Tonight'']], sn. 1, ep. 5, "Net Neutrality, Spelling Bees & EU Elections" (June 1, 2014) * From the beginning, America – like most countries – was built on polite fictions by men who could somehow hold in their heads the idea that all men were created equal at the exact same time that they were drawing up the [[w:Three-fifths Compromise|three-fifths compromise]]. ** John Oliver, ''Last Week Tonight'', sn. 11, ep. 1, "Supreme Court Ethics" (February 18, 2024) * As a professional [football] player you're going to make money. But nobody tells them that you're also losing your life as you do that. And then when players lost their lives after retirement and started manifesting the symptoms of [[w:Chronic traumatic encephalopathy|CTE]], they were dismissed as losers, as irresponsible, as people who were not intellectually capable to compete outside the protection football afforded them. There is something un-American about that. And I am speaking sincerely as a foreigner who believes America is the only heaven on earth, is the place closest to the heavenly experience. ** [[Bennet Omalu]], interview by Michael Kirk on [[w:Frontline (American TV program)|''Frontline'']], PBS (March 25, 2013) [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sports/league-of-denial/the-frontline-interview-dr-bennet-omalu/] * I listen to people talking about this universal breakdown we are in and I marvel at their stupid cowardice. It is so obvious that they deliberately cheat themselves because their fear of change won't let them face the truth. They don't want to understand what has happened to them. All they want is to start the merry-go-round of blind greed all over again. They no longer know what they want this country to be, what they want it to become, where they want it to go. It has lost all meaning for them except as pig-wallow. And so their lives as citizens have no beginnings, no ends. They have lost the ideal of the Land of the Free. Freedom demands initiative, courage, the need to decide what life must mean to oneself. To them, that is terror. They explain away their spiritual cowardice by whining that the time for individualism is past, when it is their courage to possess their own souls which is dead — and stinking! No, they don't want to be free. Slavery means security — of a kind, the only kind they have courage for. It means they need not to think. They have only to obey orders from owners who are, in turn, their slaves! ** [[Eugene O'Neill]], ''Days Without End'' (1933), act 3, sc. 2 — John * Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian. ** [[Robert Orben]], as quoted in Robert Byrne (ed.) ''The Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said'' (New York: Atheneum, 1985), no. 523 * Something is happening to America, not something dangerous but something all too safe. I see it in my lifelong friends. I am a child of the "baby boom," a generation not known for its sane or cautious approach to things. Yet suddenly my peers are giving up drinking, giving up smoking, cutting down on coffee, sugar, and salt. They will not eat red meat and go now to restaurants whose menus have caused me to stand on a chair yelling, "Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, dinner is served!" This from the generation of LSD, Weather Underground, and Altamont Rock Festival! And all in the name of safety! Our nation has withstood many divisions — North and South, black and white, labor and management—but I do not know if the country can survive division into smoking and non-smoking sections. * The forces of safety are afoot in the land. I, for one, believe it is a conspiracy — a conspiracy of Safety Nazis shouting "Sieg Health" and seeking to trammel freedom, liberty, and large noisy parties. The Safety Nazis advocate gun control, vigorous exercise, and health foods. The result can only be a disarmed, exhausted, and half-starved population ready to acquiesce to dictatorship of some kind. ** [[P. J. O'Rourke]], ''Republican Party Reptile'' (1987) * The American political system is like a gigantic Mexican Christmas fiesta. Each political party is a huge piñata — a papier-mâché donkey, for example. The donkey is filled with full employment, low interest rates, affordable housing, comprehensive medical benefits, a balanced budget and other goodies. The American voter is blindfoled and given a stick. The voter then swings the stick wildly in every direction, trying to hit a political candidate on the head and knock some sense into the silly bastard. ** P. J. O'Rourke, ''Parliament of Whores'' (1991) <!-- p. 17 --> * The principal feature of American liberalism is sanctimoniousness. By loudly denouncing all bad things — war and hunger and date rape — liberals testify to their own terrific goodness. More important, they promote themselves to membership in a self-selecting elite of those who care deeply about such things. ... It's a kind of natural aristocracy, and the wonderful thing about this aristocracy is that you don't have to be brave, smart, strong or even lucky to join it, you just have to be liberal. * The Third World attitude toward the United States is also easy to understand if you think of it in terms of adolescence. The citizens of the Third World are in a teenage muddle about us — full of envy, imitation, anger and blind puppy love. I have been held at gunpoint by a Shi'ite youth in West Beirut who told me in one breath that America was "pig Satan devil" and that he planned to go to dental school in Dearborn as soon as he got his green card. In Ulundi, in Zululand, I talked to a young man who, as usual, blamed apartheid on the United States. However, he had just visited the U.S. with a church group and also told me, "Everything is so wonderful there. The race relations are so good. And everyone is rich." Just what part of America had he visited, I asked. "The South Side of Chicago," he said. ** P. J. O'Rourke, ''Give War a Chance'' (1992) * Wherever there's injustice, oppression, and suffering, America will show up six months late and bomb the country next to where it's happening. ** P. J. O'Rourke, ''Peace Kills: America's Fun New Imperialism'' (2004) * The Americans always go one better on any kind of beastliness, whether it is ice-cream soda, racketeering or [[theosophy]]. ** [[George Orwell]], [[w:Keep the Aspidistra Flying|''Keep the Aspidistra Flying'']] (1936), ch. 11 * We are the nation of human progress, and who will, what can, set limits to our onward march? ** [[John L. O'Sullivan]], "The Great Nation of Futurity", in ''The United States Magazine and Democratic Review'', [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015035929606&view=1up&seq=428 vol. 6, no. 23] (November, 1839), pp. 426–30 [[File:U.S. Territorial Acquisitions.png|thumb|A spirit of hostile interference against us...checking the fulfilment of our [[w:manifest destiny|manifest destiny]] to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions. —[[John L. O'Sullivan|J. L. O'Sullivan]]]] * [[w:Texas annexation|Texas is now ours]]. ... Her star and her stripe may already be said to have taken their place in the glorious blazon of our common nationality; and the sweep of our eagle’s wing already includes within its circuit the wide extent of her fair and fertile land. She is no longer to us a mere geographical space–a certain combination of coast, plain, mountain, valley, forest and stream. She is no longer to us a mere country on the map. She comes within the dear and sacred designation of Our Country; ... other nations have undertaken to intrude themselves into it, ... in a spirit of hostile interference against us, for the avowed object of thwarting our policy and hampering our power, limiting our greatness and checking the fulfillment of our [[w:manifest destiny|manifest destiny]] to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions. This we have seen done by England, our old rival and enemy; and by France, strangely coupled with her against us... ** John L. O'Sullivan, "Annexation", in ''The United States Magazine and Democratic Review'', [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31175012196468&seq=15 vol. 17, no. 85] (July–August 1845), p. 5 ** Editorial, in ''The New York Morning News'' (December 27, 1845): **: Our manifest destiny to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent, which Providence has given us for the great experiment of liberty. * America is too large and too abstract to generalize about. ** [[Amos Oz]], interview (June 1986), in Haim Chertok, ''We Are All Close: Conversations with Israeli Writers'' (1989), p. 159 <!-- New York: Fordham University Press --> == P == [[File:011217-N-9769S-207 Ready for Working Party.jpg|thumb|The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. <br> —[[Thomas Paine]] ]] <!--[[File:Return of Roger Williams.jpg|thumb|Great God! we thank Thee for this home— </br> This bounteous birth-land of the Free; </br> Where wanderers from afar may come, </br> And breathe the air of Liberty. </br> —[[William Jewett Pabodie|William J. Pabodie]] ]]--> * USA! Come on and raise up <br> Take the flag, put it in the air, spin it like a helicopter. ** [[Petey Pablo]], "[[w:Raise Up|Raise Up]]", USA remix (2001) * Our Country!—'tis a glorious land— </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; With broad arms stretched from shore to shore;— </br> The proud Pacific chafes her strand, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; She hears the dark Atlantic roar; </br> And nurtured on her ample breast, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; How many a goodly prospect lies; </br> In Nature's wildest grandeur drest, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Enamelled with her loveliest dyes. * Great God! we thank Thee for this home— </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; This bounteous birth-land of the Free; </br> Where wanderers from afar may come, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; And breathe the air of Liberty;— </br> Still may her flowers untrampled spring, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Her harvests wave, her cities rise; </br> And yet till Time shall fold his<!--or: 'her'--> wing, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Remain earth's loveliest Paradise! ** [[William Jewett Pabodie|William J. Pabodie]], "Our Country", sts. 1 and 4, in [[Anne Lynch Botta|Anne C. Lynch]] (ed.) [https://archive.org/details/rhodeislandbook00lyncgoog/page/n64/mode/2up ''The Rhode-Island Book''] (1841), pp. 48–50 * Average Americans have little or no influence over the making of U.S. government policy. ... Wealthy Americans wield a lot of influence. By investing money in politics, they can turn economic power into political power. ** [[Benjamin I. Page]] and Martin Gilens, ''Democracy in America?'' (2017), p. 90 * I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, for the people, whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed; a democracy in a republic; a sovereign Nation of many sovereign States; a perfect Union, one and inseparable, established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice, and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes. I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it, to support its Constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its flag, and to defend it against all enemies. ** [[William Tyler Page]], "[[w:American Creed|The American's Creed]]" (1917) ** Resolution passed by the House of Representatives (April 3, 1918) * I found that many Americans did not even know that a country named [[Iran]] existed, let alone what it was like. Even among the diplomatic corps and among well-educated people, there was a vagueness about who the Iranians were or what the culture was, a tendency to confuse Iran with [[Iraq]] or to mistakenly assume that Iran is an Arab country simply because it is an [[Islam]]ic nation. This fuzziness about the world outside is unique to America; among the intelligensia of European countries... there is generally a higher level of awareness and information regarding cultures other than their own. ** [[Ashraf Pahlavi]], ''Faces in a Mirror: Memoirs from Exile'' (1980) * [[Jimmy Carter|Carter]] didn't kill [[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi|my brother]] with his own hand, but he [[w:Jimmy Carter's engagement with Ruhollah Khomeini|overthrew him]]. If [[Richard Nixon|Nixon]] were President, my brother would still be on the [[w:Sun Throne|throne]]. ** Ashraf Pahlavi, in [[w:People (magazine)|''People'']] (May 5, 1980) * We're a world by ourselves, and disdain a division. * Let Fame to the world sound America's voice; </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; No intrigues can her sons from their government sever; </br> Her pride is her Adams; her laws are his choice, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; And shall flourish, till Liberty slumbers for ever. ** [[Robert Treat Paine Jr.]], "Adams and Liberty" (1798), sts. 5, 9. [https://archive.org/details/worksinversepros00painrich/page/244/mode/2up ''Works in Verse and Prose''] (1812), pp. 245–7 * To Americans, that some desperate wretches should be willing to steal and enslave men by violence and murder for gain, is rather lamentable than strange. But that many civilized, nay, christianized people should approve, and be concerned in the savage practice, is surprising; and still persist, though it has been so often proved contrary to the light of nature, to every principle of Justice and Humanity, and even good policy, by a succession of eminent men, and several late publications. ** [[Thomas Paine]], [[s:African Slavery in America|''African Slavery in America'']] (1775) [[File:Inside the United States Supreme Court.jpg|thumb|In America the law is king.]] * The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. ... Mingling religion with politics may be disavowed and reprobated by every inhabitant of America. ... But where says some is the King of America? I'll tell you Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of [[Great Britain|Britain]]. Yet that we may not appear to be defective even in earthly honors, let a day be solemnly set apart for proclaiming the charter; let it be brought forth placed on the divine law, the word of God; let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve as monarchy, that in America the law is king. ... Receive the fugitive and prepare in time an asylum for mankind. ** Thomas Paine, ''[[s:Common Sense|Common Sense]]'' (February 14, 1776) [[File:BattleofLongisland.jpg|thumb|America will never be happy till she gets clear of foreign dominion.]] <!--[[File:Battle of Springfield NJ 1780.jpg|thumb|We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.]]--> * Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she has nothing to do but to trade with them. A man can distinguish himself between temper and principle, and I am as confident, as I am that God governs the world, that America will never be happy till she gets clear of foreign dominion. Wars, without ceasing, will break out till that period arrives, and the continent must in the end be conqueror; for though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire. ** Thomas Paine, ''The Crisis'', no. 1 (December 23, 1776) * It is the object only of war that makes it honorable. And if there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged. ... We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in. ** Thomas Paine, ''The Crisis'', [[s:The American Crisis/The Crisis No. IV|no. 4]] (September 12, 1777) [[File:Hopkinson Flag.svg|thumb|Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is {{smallcaps|Americans}}. —[[Thomas Paine]] ]] * Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is {{smallcaps|Americans}}. ** Thomas Paine, ''The Crisis'', [[s:The Crisis No. XIII|no. 13]] (April, 1783) * I hate the American expectation of violence. I'm not going to play into any of that. When I must write about violence, I will, but I'll do it straight, not add and add because the level is higher every year. ** [[Grace Paley]], Interview with ''The Paris Review'' (Fall 1992) [https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2028/the-art-of-fiction-no-131-grace-paley] * I don't feel national pride or anything like that, but on the other hand I'm very interested in this country. I'm very interested in the history of it, and I feel that it does have some valuable ideas that really have transformed many people. Certainly this is true when I think of my own parents coming here and all the other immigrants who have come here. They came for a reason, and they were satisfied, one way or the other. * If you look out that window, it’s so amazing, and the countryside is being murdered. People don't understand what is being done to their countryside. In some parts of the world, they seem to understand it better than here. Here we don’t seem to get it that the fields are being wrecked by poisons and the air is close to the end of breathable. There is a great effort in America to stay happy and not worry and not understand and not do anything about it. ** Grace Paley, Interview with ''Poets & Writers'' (March 17, 2008) [https://www.pw.org/content/interview_poet_and_fiction_writer_grace_paley] [[File:Edward Hicks - Peaceable Kingdom.jpg|thumb|There is what I call the American idea: a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; for shortness' sake, I will call it the idea of Freedom. —[[Theodore Parker]]]] * There is what I call the American idea. I so name it, because it seems to me to lie at the basis of all our truly original, distinctive, and American institutions. It is itself a complex idea, composed of three subordinate and more simple ideas, namely: The idea that all men have unalienable rights; that in respect thereof, all men are created equal; and that government is to be established and sustained for the purpose of giving every man an opportunity for the enjoyment and development of all these unalienable rights. This idea demands, as the proximate organization thereof, a democracy, that is, a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government after the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God; for shortness' sake, I will call it the idea of Freedom. ** [[Theodore Parker]], "The American Idea", Speech before the New England Anti-Slavery Convention, Boston, MA (May 29, 1850) * Perhaps the rarest bit of irony in American history is the later custodianship of democracy by the middle class, who while perfecting their tariffs and subsidies, legislating from the bench, exploiting the state and outlawing all political theories but their own, denounce all class consciousness as unpatriotic and all agrarian or proletarian programs as undemocratic. But it was no fault of Andrew Jackson if the final outcome of the great movement of Jacksonian democracy was so untoward; it was rather the fault of the times that were not ripe for democracy. ... One far-reaching result survived the movement, the popularization of the name of democracy and the naive acceptance of the belief that the genius of America was democratic. ** [[Vernon Louis Parrington|Vernon L. Parrington]], ''Main Currents in American Thought'' (1927), vol. 2, pt. 3, ch. 2 [[File:Barroom dancing LCCN2004661961.jpg|thumb|We Americans are a simple and somewhat primitive people. We desire things eagerly like children; and when we are crossed or thwarted, when we encounter those who dissent from our proposals, we strike out assertively. <br> —[[Vernon Louis Parrington|Vernon L. Parrington]]]] * There was a vast amount of nosing about to discover bad smells, and to sensitive noses the bad smells seemed to be everywhere. Evidently some hidden cesspool was fouling American life, and as the [[w:Muckraker|inquisitive plumbers]] tested the household drains they came upon the source of infection — not one cesspool but many, under every city hall and beneath every state capitol — dug secretly by politicians in the pay of respectable business men. It was these cesspools that were poisoning the national household, and there would be no health in America till they were filled in and no others dug. It was a dramatic discovery and when the corruption of American politics was laid on the threshold of business — like a bastard on the doorsteps of the father — a tremendous disturbance resulted. ** Vernon L. Parrington, ''Main Currents in American Thought'' (1927), vol. 3, add. * We Americans are a simple and somewhat primitive people. We desire things eagerly like children; and when we are crossed or thwarted, when we encounter those who dissent from our proposals, we strike out assertively. ** Vernon L. Parrington, in the [[w:Seattle Weekly|''Seattle Weekly'']] (June 26, 1984); cited in Junius Rochester, [https://web.archive.org/web/20250218161122/https://www.historylink.org/File/8105 "Parrington, Vernon Louis (1871–1929)"]. [[w:HistoryLink|HistoryLink]] (March 10, 2007) [[File:AdoptionOf13thAmendment.jpg|thumb|Whoever is fortunate enough to be an American citizen came into the greatest inheritance man has ever enjoyed...If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish. —[[Isabel Paterson]] ]] * Whoever is fortunate enough to be an American citizen came into the greatest inheritance man has ever enjoyed. He has had the benefit of every heroic and intellectual effort men have made for many thousands of years, realized at last. If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish. ** [[Isabel Paterson]], ''The God of the Machine'' (1943), p. 292 * The American state is just a shell for a conglomerate of huge corporations that rule the country and try to dominate the world. ** {{w|Nikolai Patrushev}}, as quoted in Guy Faulconbridge, [https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-ally-patrushev-says-russia-is-now-fighting-nato-ukraine-2023-01-10/ "Russia is now fighting NATO in Ukraine, top Putin ally says"]. ''Reuters'' (January 10, 2023) [[File:Luxembourg - General Patton (12744889054).jpg|thumb|Americans play to win all the time. —[[George S. Patton|Patton]] ]] * Men, all this stuff you hear about America not wanting to fight, wanting to stay out of the war, is a lot of horse dung. Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle. When you were kids, you all admired the champion marble shooter, the fastest runner, the big-league ball players and the toughest boxers. Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost, and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost and will never lose a war. The very thought of losing is hateful to America. ** [[George S. Patton]], [[w:George S. Patton's speech to the Third Army|Speech to the Third Army]] (June 5, 1944), before the [[w:Operation Overlord|Allied invasion of France]]. A slightly different version is spoken by [[w:George C. Scott|George C. Scott]] in [[Patton (film)|''Patton'']] (1970 film) * The federal government has no right to treat all Americans as criminals by spying on their relationship with their doctors, employers, or bankers. ** [[Ron Paul]], in the House of Representatives (January 6, 1999) [https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CREC-1999-01-06/html/CREC-1999-01-06-pt1-PgE3-4.htm] ** Introducing the Freedom and Privacy Restoration Act of 1999 * Military force is justified only in self-defense; naked aggression is the province of dictators and rogue states. This is the danger of a new "preemptive first strike" doctrine. America is the most moral nation on earth, founded on moral principles, and we must apply moral principles when deciding to use military force. ** Ron Paul, in the House of Representatives (September 4, 2002) [https://web.archive.org/web/20080301113101/http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2002/cr090402.htm] ** Arguments Against a War in Iraq * America was founded by men who understood that the threat of domestic tyranny is as great as any threat from abroad. ** Ron Paul, [https://web.archive.org/web/20080202083937/http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2004/tst053104.htm "Freedom vs. Security: A False Choice"], ''Texas Straight Talk'' (May 31, 2004) * Do racists exist in this country? Of course they do. Is their racism sanctioned by the government and celebrated by fellow citizens? Absolutely not. In fact, the Charleston shooter (who I refuse to name) told friends he felt isolated and alone in his evil, racist views. That's a silver lining. ** [[Katie Pavlich]], [https://thehill.com/opinion/katie-pavlich/246440-katie-pavlich-america-is-not-racist/ "America Is Not Racist"], ''The Hill'' (June 29, 2015) * America must be a light to the world, not just a missile. ** [[Nancy Pelosi]], response to the 2004 State of the Union Address, quoted in ''The Washington Post'' (January 20, 2004) [https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2004/01/21/america-must-be-a-light-to-the-world-not-just-a-missile/f4a492d0-6ba0-41e5-9fa2-f29575a0e964/] * You are now fixed at the mercy of no governor that comes to make his fortune great; you shall be governed by laws of your own making and live a free, and if you will, a sober and industrious life. ** [[William Penn]], Letter to the inhabitants of [[Pennsylvania]] (1681), in Samuel Hazard (ed.) [https://archive.org/details/annalsofpennsylv00haza_0/page/502/mode/2up ''Annals of Pennsylvania, ... 1609–1682''] (1850), p. 502 * There is no other land like thee,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;No dearer shore;<br>Thou art the shelter of the free,<br>The home, the port of liberty,<br>Thou hast been, and shalt ever be,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Till time is o’er.<br>Ere I forget to think upon<br> My land, shall mother curse the son<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;She bore. ** [[James Gates Percival]], "New-England", st. 4. ''Clio'', no. 1 (1822), p. 27 * Nobody thinks the United States went to strike against Iraq in order to gain land or water or oil. Nobody thinks that America has any ambitions about real estate...In the 20th century, the American boys went to fight in two world wars. Many of them lost their lives. The United States won the wars, won the land — but you gave back every piece of it. America didn't keep anything out of her victories for herself. You gave back Japan, an improved Japan; you gave back Germany, an improved Germany...And today, I do not believe there is any serious person on earth who thinks the United States...has any egoistic or material purposes in the war against Iraq. The reason is, for this strike, that you cannot let the world run wild. ** [[Shimon Peres]], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZhQ1pQtPE0 "The Challenges of Democracies in the 21st Century — An Israeli Perspective"], Speech at the JFK Jr. Forum (October 20, 2004) <!-- timestamp: 24:54 --> * America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there. ** [[Laurence J. Peter]], ''Peter's Quotations'' (1977), p. 45 * The cry that we have entered upon our [[United States imperialism|imperial course]] in order to benefit the native populations in the lands that we have conquered is an old one. ... I have before me [[w:William McKinley|McKinley's]] proclamation to the Filipinos, and I have placed it side by side with a proclamation of the King of Assyria, written eighteen hundred years before Christ. A man would think that McKinley had plagiarized the idea from [[w:Ashurbanipal|Asshurbanipal]]. ... Each act of aggression, each new expedition of conquest is prefaced by a pronouncement containing a moral justification and an assurance to the victims of the imperial aggression that all is being done for their benefit. ** [[Richard F. Pettigrew]], [http://books.google.com/books?id=ZKwcAAAAMAAJ&pg=345 ''Imperial Washington''] (1922), pp. 345–47 * Neither do I acknowledge the right of Plymouth to the whole rock. No, the rock underlies all America: it only crops out here. ** [[Wendell Phillips]], Speech to the Pilgrim Society, Plymouth, MA (December 21, 1855) * Give it only the fulcrum of Plymouth Rock, an idea will upheave the continent. ** Wendell Phillips, Speech, NYC (January 21, 1863)<!--[https://archive.org/details/speecheslectures6887phil/page/n553/mode/2up ''Speeches, Lectures, and Letters''], 2nd ed. (1863), pp. 221, 539--> * Stand! the ground's your own, my braves! <br> Will ye give it up to slaves? <br> Will ye look for greener graves? ** [[John Pierpont]], "[[Joseph Warren|Warren]]'s Address", st. 1. ''Airs of Palestine, &c.'' (1840), p. 243 * O let freemen be our sons, <br> And let future Washingtons <br> Rise, to lead their valiant ones, <br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Till there's war no more. ** John Pierpont, "For Independence"<!--Written in Boston, July 4, 1822-->, st. 3. ''Airs of Palestine, &c.'' (1840), p. 239 * Under the banner of the American flag, there have been brutal injustices – including slavery, the systematic destruction of Native Americans, the imprisonment of Japanese Americans and the disenfranchisement of women. But due to other, far-nobler attributes of the United States of America – and the heroic sacrifices of the Americans who carried the flag into battle – the Star Spangled Banner symbolizes freedom, liberty and equality all over the world. ** [[Scott Pinsker]], [http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/06/22/confederate-flag-and-party-lincoln.html "Republicans: The Confederate flag and the party of Lincoln"], ''Fox News'' (June 22, 2015) * The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It's a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis. * Language is actually employed to keep thought at bay. The words 'the American people' provide a truly voluptuous cushion of reassurance. You don't need to think. Just lie back on the cushion. The cushion may be suffocating your intelligence and your critical faculties but it's very comfortable. ** [[Harold Pinter]], "Art, Truth & Politics", Nobel lecture (December 7, 2005) * I love the Americans because they love liberty, and I love them for the noble efforts they made in the last war. ** [[William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham|William Pitt the Elder]], Speech in the British House of Lords (March 2, 1770) * I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest. ** William Pitt the Elder, Speech in the British House of Commons (January 14, 1766) * If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms—never—never—never! You cannot conquer America. ** William Pitt the Elder, Speech (November 18, 1777) * No people on earth worry more about the health consequences of their food choices than we Americans—and no people suffer from as many diet-related problems. We are becoming a nation of orthorexics: people with an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating. ** [[Michael Pollan]], [[w:In Defense of Food|''In Defense of Food'']] (2008), intro. * In the War of the Revolution when it was thought the cause was lost men became inspired at the very mention of the name of George Washington. In 1812 when we succeeded once more against the mother country men were looking for a hero, and there rose before them that rugged, grim, independent old hero, Andrew Jackson. In the last and greatest of all wars an independent and tender-hearted man was raised up by providence to guide the helm of state through that great crisis, and men confidingly placed the destinies of this great land in the hands of Abraham Lincoln. In the annals of our country we find no man whose training had been so peaceful, whose heart was so gentle, whose nature was so tender, and yet who was called upon to marshal the hosts of the masses of the people during four years of remorseless and bloody and unrelenting fratricidal war. ** [[Horace Porter]], in [[w:The Independent (New York City)|''The Independent'']], [https://archive.org/details/sim_independent_1887-07-07_39_2014/page/(840)/mode/2up?q=%22inspired+at+the+very+mention%22 vol. 39, no. 2014] (July 7, 1887), p. 5, col. 1 * Americans have always been especially prone to regard all things as resulting from the free choice of a free will. Probably no people have so little determinism in their philosophy, and as individuals we have regarded our economic status, our matrimonial happiness, and even our eternal salvation as things of our own making. Why should we not then regard our political felicity, likewise, as a virtue which is also virtue's reward? ** [[David M. Potter]], ''People of Plenty'' (1954), pt. 2, ch. 5 * All America is an insane asylum. ** [[Ezra Pound]], after emigrating back to Italy, in ''TIME'', [https://archive.org/details/time-1958-05-26/Time%201958-07-21/page/32/mode/2up?q=%22all+America+is+an+insane+asylum%22 vol. 72, no. 3] (July 21, 1958), p. 33, col. 3 [[File:MortDebarquement.jpg|thumb|The only land we ever asked for was enough land to bury our dead.<br>—[[Colin Powell]] ]] <!--[[File:Powell.JPEG|thumb|We are rightfully outraged when anyone attacks or desecrates our flag. ... They may be destroying a piece of cloth, but they do no damage to our system of freedom which tolerates such desecration. —Colin Powell]]--> * Far from being the Great Satan, I would say that we are the Great Protector. ... We defeated Fascism. We defeated Communism. We saved Europe in World War I and World War II. We were willing to do it, glad to do it. We went to Korea. We went to Vietnam. All in the interest of preserving the rights of people. ... And did we ask for any land? No, the only land we ever asked for was enough land to bury our dead. ** [[Colin Powell]], responding to a question on ''MTV News'' (February 14, 2002) [https://2001-2009.state.gov/secretary/former/powell/remarks/2002/8038.htm] ** See: David Mikkelson, [https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/colin-powell/ "Colin Powell Quote"], ''Snopes'' (March 24, 2003) * We are rightfully outraged when anyone attacks or desecrates our flag. ... They may be destroying a piece of cloth, but they do no damage to our system of freedom which tolerates such desecration. ** Colin Powell, Letter to Patrick Leahy (May 18, 1999) [https://www.aclu.org/free-speech/letter-colin-powell] * Some anti-Americanism derives simply from our being a colossus that bestrides the earth. This resentment may be incurable. But much anti-Americanism derives from the role U.S. political, economic, and military power has played in denying such freedoms to others. ** [[Samantha Power]], article in [[w:The New Republic|''The New Republic'']] (2003); quoted by David Feith, [https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323844804578527181938275090 "Power's 'Mea Culpa' Doctrine"], in ''The Wall Street Journal'' (June 5, 2013) * No human power can now stop the march of a nation destined to exert its influence all over the world and perhaps to dominate it. ** [[Dominique-Georges-Frédéric Dufour de Pradt|Dominique Dufour de Pradt]], ''Des Colonies et de la Révolution actuelle de l’Amérique'' (1817), in Robert E. Spiller et al. (eds.) ''Literary History of the United States'', vol. 1 (1948), ch. 15 * In America, Jews live in unprecedented equality and security, and America is Israel's defender. The reason is not just that America is so tolerant a society. America does not merely tolerate Jews and Judaism, it honors them. It does so in large part because the United States is the only country that has long defined itself as Judeo-Christian. There are Christian countries, secular countries, and Muslim countries, but America is the only Judeo-Christian country. ** [[Dennis Prager#Why the Jews?: The Reason for Antisemitism (2003)|Dennis Prager]] and [[Joseph Telushkin]], ''Why the Jews?'' (2003), p. xviii [https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/Why_the_Jews/VK0llzUqQ2YC?hl=en] * It is small surprise that among tyrannical regimes and their defenders, America and Israel are so often identified as the same enemy. This is not merely a consequence of America's standing along behind Israel; the United States has aided various Arab countries very generously, and it has on some critical occasions backed Arab regimes, such as Nasser's Egypt in 1956 and Saudi Arabia in 1981, against Israel. The hostility is aroused largely because America and Israel represent democracy, equal rights for women, a higher quality of life, and a willingness to confront despotism. That is why the two non-Muslim countries that have suffered the heaviest losses from Islamic suicide murderers are Israel and the United States. ** Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin, ''Why the Jews?'' (2003), p. 194 * American values, or Americanism, refers to what I call the "American Trinity": "Liberty," "In God We Trust," and "E Pluribus Unum" ("Out of Many, One"), the three values that appear on all American coins. ** Dennis Prager, ''Still the Best Hope'' (2012), p. 8 * More black Africans have voluntarily emigrated to the United States to seek liberty and opportunity than came to America as slaves...America gradually became the least-xenophobic, least-racist nation in the world. In no country do people become accepted as full members of the society as do immigrants to America. ** Dennis Prager, [http://www.nationalreview.com/article/421681/why-left-hates-america-dennis-prager "Why the Left Hates America"], ''National Review'' (July 28, 2015) [[File:Dennis Prager (51771946291).jpg|thumb|Most Americans no longer know what America stands for. For them, America has become just another country, a place located between Canada and Mexico. But America was founded to be an idea, not another country. —[[Dennis Prager]] ]] <!--[[File:Citizenship naturalization ceremony 140703-N-WF272-030.jpg|thumb|America gradually became the least-xenophobic, least-racist nation in the world. —Dennis Prager]]--> * Most Americans no longer know what America stands for. For them, America has become just another country, a place located between Canada and Mexico. But America was founded to be an idea, not another country. ** Dennis Prager, [https://www.nationalreview.com/2016/05/donald-trump-won-because-many-republicans-arent-conservative/ "The Scariest Reason Trump Won"], ''National Review'' (May 10, 2016) * When the thirteen stripes and stars first appeared at Canton, much curiosity was excited among the people. News was circulated that a strange ship had arrived from the farther end of the world, bearing a flag 'as beautiful as a flower'. Every body went to see the ''kwa kee chuen'', or 'flower flagship'. This name at once established itself in the language, and America is now called the ''kwa kee kwoh'', the 'flower flag country;' and an American, ''kwa kee kwoh yin'' — 'flower flag countryman' — a more complimentary designation than that of 'red headed-barbarian' — the name first bestowed upon the Dutch. ** [[George Henry Preble|George H. Preble]], as quoted by Choong Kwoh, "Curiosa Sinica", ''The Boston Courier'' (15 June 1843), in Arvine, Kazlitt, ''The Cyclopaedia of Anecdotes of Literature and the Fine Arts'' (1851), pp. 319–20 <!-- Unsourced variant: "When the thirteen stripes and stars first appeared at Canton, much curiosity was excited among the people. News was circulated that a strange ship had arrived from the further end of the world, bearing a flag 'as beautiful as a flower'. Every body went to see the ''kwa kee chuen'', or 'flower flagship'. This name at once established itself in the language, and America is now called the ''kwa kee kwoh'', the 'flower flag country', and an American, ''kwa kee kwoh yin'', 'flower flag countryman', a more complimentary designation than that of 'red headed barbarian', the name first bestowed upon the Dutch." --> * A European says: "I can't understand this, what's wrong with me?" An American says: "I can't understand this, what's wrong with him?" ** [[Terry Pratchett]], as quoted in Steven Gilbar (ed.) [https://archive.org/details/bibliotopiaormrg0000gilb_l6v7/page/158/mode/2up?q=%22understand+this%2C+what%27s+wrong+with+him%22 ''Bibliotopia, or, Mr. Gilbar's Book of Books & Catch-all of Literary Facts & Curiosities''] (2005), p. 158 <!-- See also: ([https://www.lspace.org/fandom/afp/ alt.fan.pratchett]) --> * Our republic and its press will rise or fall together. An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself. The power to mold the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalism of future generations. ** [[Joseph Pulitzer]], "The College of Journalism", ''The North American Review'' (May 1904), p. 680 * Men, you are all marksmen — don't one of you fire until you see the white of their eyes. ** [[Israel Putnam]], at the Battle of Bunker Hill (June 17, 1775), as recalled by Philip Johnson; quoted in [[Richard Frothingham Jr.]], ''History of the Siege of Boston, &c.'' (1849), p. 140, footnote == R == * "The modern nation-state is supposed to be synonymous with identity. When people ask us what we are, we're inclined to say we're American, or hyphenated Americans."{{pb}}"Not me," I pointed out. "People don't believe me."{{pb}}"That's because your face shows racial mythology to be a lie. It confuses people. The state" — my father held up his right hand — "is a political entity. The nation" — he held up his left hand — "is a cultural entity." He clasped his hands together. "But when these two entities coincide in countries with histories of slavery or other systems of racial hierarchy, identity gets confused with race. If you do not easily belong to a race, then you cannot easily be an American." ** [[Emily Raboteau]], ''Searching for Zion'' (2013), ch. 5 * Elolo griped on about the gripes of black Americans. "And even if they are spending their nights in the biggest hotel in all of Ghana, they cry, 'It's too hot here. Where is the air-conditioning? Where is the toilet paper? This bed has fleas. The water doesn't run. The TV is broken. The power is out.' ... Slavery is not the only story about black people. It's only a small story! Don't they know that if tomorrow a slave ship arrived at Elmina to carry us to America, so many Ghanaians would climb on board that this ship would sink to the bed of the ocean from our weight?" he laughed. I couldn't help laughing, myself. But who was the butt of the joke? ** [[Emily Raboteau]], ''Searching for Zion'' (2013), ch. 15 [[File:Dean Cornwell, Have a "Coke" = Kia Ora, c.1943-1945 (11841204884).jpg|thumb|We're all living in Amerika. </br> ''Amerika ist wunderbar.'']] * We're all living in Amerika. </br> ''Amerika ist wunderbar.'' ** [[w:Rammstein|Rammstein]], "[[w:Amerika (song)|Amerika]]". ''Reise, Reise'' (2004) * America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for America's industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher [[wages]], and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance — and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way. * Businessmen are the one group that distinguishes capitalism and the American way of life from the totalitarian statism that is swallowing the rest of the world. All the other social groups – workers, farmers, professional men, scientists, soldiers – exist under dictatorships, even though they exist in chains, in terror, in misery, and in progressive self-destruction. But there is no such group as businessmen under a dictatorship. Their place is taken by armed thugs: by bureaucrats and commissars. Businessmen are the symbol of a free society, the symbol of America. * Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for the nation's troubles and use as a justification of its own demands for dictatorial powers. In [[Russia|Soviet Russia]], the scapegoat was the bourgeoisie; in [[Germany|Nazi Germany]], it was the Jewish people; in America, it is the businessmen. ** [[Ayn Rand]], ''Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal'' (1966) * The most profound breach in this country is not between the rich and the poor, but between the people and the intellectuals. In their view of life, the American people are predominantly Apollonian. The "mainstream" intellectuals are Dionysian.{{pb}}This means: the people are reality-oriented, common sense-oriented, technology-oriented (the intellectuals call this "materialistic" and "middle-class"); the intellectuals are emotion-oriented and seek, in panic, an escape from a reality they are unable to deal with, and from a technological civilization that ignores their feelings. ** Ayn Rand, "Apollo and Dionysus" (Dec. 1969 – Jan. 1970), [[w:The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution|''The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution'']] (1971), p. 61 <!-- [[Nietzsche]]'s [[w:Apollonian and Dionysian|duality]] in [[w:The Birth of Tragedy|''The Birth of Tragedy'']] (1872) --> * Try to tell a Russian housewife, who trudges miles on foot in sub-zero weather in order to spend hours standing in line at a state store dispensing food rations, that America is defiled by shopping centers, expressways and family cars. ** Ayn Rand, "The Left: Old and New" (Feb. 1970), ''The New Left'' (1971), p. 88 * I can say, not as a patriotic bromide, but with full knowledge of the necessary metaphysical, epistemological, ethical, political, and aesthetic roots, that the United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world. ** Ayn Rand, [[w:Philosophy: Who Needs It|''Philosophy: Who Needs It'']] (1982) * Look at the mighty Mississippi the Father of Waters—it rises in the nameless snows of North America—runs through twenty-three degrees of latitude, all our own soil, and washes the sides of ten young, flourishing, and powerful States; its tributaries drain the rains that fall in sight of the Atlantic and meet the streams that flow into the Pacific upon the summit of the Rocky Mountains—its broad tides bear on their buoyant bosom the clothing of half of the world, and the fertile valleys, which spread out from its ample banks are capable of producing food for the population of the whole earth for a thousand years to come. ** [[Matt W. Ransom]], Address to the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies of the U of NC, Chapel Hill (June 4, 1856) [https://archive.org/details/addressdelivered00rans/page/14/mode/2up] [[File:President Ronald Reagan at a Rally for Senator David Durenberger in Minneapolis Minnesota - DPLA - 665c7ccb601c6a7681e29656dfa0f886.jpg|thumb|We are a nation that has a government — not the other way around. —[[Ronald Reagan]]]] [[File:442nd RCT citation presentation in Bruyères 1944-11-12.jpg|thumb|Blood that has soaked into the sands of a beach is all of one color. ... Not in spite of but because of our polyglot background, we have had all the strength in the world. —Ronald Reagan]] <!--[[File:Uncle Sam's Thanksgiving Dinner (November 1869), by Thomas Nast.jpg|thumb|]]--> * Blood that has soaked into the sands of a beach is all of one color. America stands unique in the world, the only country not founded on race but on a way, an ideal. Not in spite of but because of our polyglot background, we have had all the strength in the world. That is the American way. ** [[Ronald Reagan]], Remarks on signing the Bill Providing Restitution for the Wartime Internment of Japanese-American Civilians (August 10, 1988), quoting himself at the funeral of Kazuo Masuda (December, 1945) [http://history.wisc.edu/archdeacon/404tja/redress.html] * We hear much of special interest groups. Well, our concern must be for a special interest group that has been too long neglected. It knows no sectional boundaries or ethnic and racial divisions, and it crosses political party lines. It is made up of men and women who raise our food, patrol our streets, man our mines and factories, teach our children, keep our homes, and heal us when we're sick — professionals, industrialists, shopkeepers, clerks, cabbies, and truckdrivers. They are, in short, "We the people," this breed called Americans. * Putting America back to work means putting all Americans back to work. Ending inflation means freeing all Americans from the terror of runaway living costs. All must share in the productive work of this "new beginning," and all must share in the bounty of a revived economy. * We are a nation that has a government — not the other way around. And this makes us special among the nations of the Earth. Our government has no power except that granted it by the people. It is time to check and reverse the growth of government, which shows signs of having grown beyond the consent of the governed. ** Ronald Reagan, First Inaugural Address, (20 January 1981) [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/speech/inaugural-address-1981] * The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor. We maintain our strength in order to deter and defend against aggression — to preserve freedom and peace. ** Ronald Reagan, "'Star Wars' Speech" (March 23, 1983) [https://web.archive.org/web/20050212095040/http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/22/documents/starwars.speech/] * I learned that hard work is an essential part of life — that by and large, you don't get something for nothing — and that America was a place that offered unlimited opportunity to those who did work hard. I learned to admire risk takers and entrepreneurs, be they farmers or small merchants, who went to work and took risks to build something for themselves and their children, pushing at the boundaries of their lives to make them better. I have always wondered at this American marvel, the great energy of the human soul that drives people to better themselves and improve the fortunes of their families and communities. Indeed, I know of no greater force on earth. ** Ronald Reagan, [[w:An American Life|''An American Life'']] (1990), ch. 2 * They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it. ** An old Indian, to William J. Cleveland, on the [[w:Great Sioux Reservation|Sioux Reservation]]. Commissioner of Indian Affairs, ''Annual Report'' (1891), pp. 182–91. Cited in Robert M. Utley, ''The Last Days of the Sioux Nation'' (1963), p. 59. Often attributed to [[Red Cloud]] * An evil day came upon us! your forefathers crossed the great water, and landed on this island. Their numbers were small: they found friends, and not enemies; they told us, they had fled from their own country, for fear of wicked men, and had come here to enjoy their religion: they asked for a small seat: we took pity on them; granted their request; and they sat down among us: we gave them corn and meat; they gave us poison in return! ** [[Red Jacket]], to a missionary from MA, at [[w:Buffalo River (New York)|Buffalo Creek]], NY (1805), in [[Edward Augustus Kendall|E. A. Kendall]], ''Travels through the Northern Parts of the United States'' (1809), [https://archive.org/details/travelsthrough02kend/page/268/mode/2up vol. 2], ch. 58 * At the heart of the First Amendment is the recognition of the fundamental importance of the free flow of ideas and opinions on matters of public interest and concern. The freedom to speak one's mind is not only an aspect of individual liberty – and thus a good unto itself – but also is essential to the common quest for truth and the vitality of society as a whole. We have therefore been particularly vigilant to ensure that individual expressions of ideas remain free from governmentally imposed sanctions. The First Amendment recognizes no such thing as a "false" idea. ** [[William Rehnquist]], [[w:Hustler Magazine v. Falwell|''Hustler Magazine v. Falwell'']], 485 U.S. 46 (1988) * There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual and with culture, and it will change the political structure only as its final act. ** [[Charles A. Reich]], [[w:The Greening of America|''The Greening of America'']] (1970), ch. 1 * Instead of joining us on the right side of history, all Republicans have come up with is this "slow down, stop everything, let's start over." You think you've heard these same excuses before, you're right. When this country belatedly recognized the wrongs of slavery, there were those who dug in their heels and said, "slow down, it's too early. Let's wait. Things aren't bad enough." When women spoke up for the right to speak up, they wanted to vote, some insisted "slow down, there will be a better day to do that. The day isn't quite right." When this body was on the verge of guaranteeing equal civil rights to everyone, regardless of the color of their skin, some senators resorted to the same filibuster threats that we hear today. ** [[Harry Reid]], on the Senate floor, during a debate on health care reform (December 7, 2009) [https://web.archive.org/web/20100103033304/http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/2009/12/reid-compares-health-reform-bill-with-slavery-suffrage.html] * The democracy of Lincoln is not dead. It has not lost its revolutionary fervor. It has not lost its appeal to the men of the world. Our problem is to prove that we really believe in it. ** [[James Reston|James B. Reston]], ''Prelude to Victory'' (1942), p. 215 * Either you believe in liberty, justice, and right, or you do not. If you do, then our appeal to the revolutionary spirit of the world will be heard, but if you do not, all the [[w:Atlantic Charter|Atlantic Charters]] in the world will not inspire the conquered nations to fight for principles that we proclaim but do not follow. ** James B. Reston, ''Prelude to Victory'' (1942), p. 216 * Today in America—the child of European imperialism—a new revolution is rising. It is ''the'' revolution of our time. It is the only revolution that involves radical, moral, and practical opposition to the spirit of nationalism. It is the only revolution that, to that opposition, joins culture, economic and technological power, and a total affirmation of liberty for all in the place of archaic prohibitions. It therefore offers the only escape for mankind today: the acceptance of technological civilization as a means and not as an end, and—since we cannot be saved either by the destruction of civilization or by its continuation—the development of the ability to reshape that civilization without annihilating it. ** [[Jean-François Revel]], ''Ni Marx, ni Jésus'' (1970), ch. 16 (tr. J. F. Bernard, 1971) [https://archive.org/details/withoutmarxorjes00reverich/page/242/mode/2up?q=%22child+of+European+imperialism%22] * Let England know our willingness, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; For that our work is good; </br> We hope to plant a nation </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Where none before hath stood. ** [[Robert Rich (Bermuda settler)|Robert Rich]], ''Newes from Virginia: The Lost Flocke Triumphant'' (1610) * We Democrats believe that America is still the county of fair play; that we can come out of a small town or a poor neighborhood and have the same chance as anyone else...We believe that America is still a country where there is more to life than just a constant struggle for money. And we believe that America must have leaders who show us that our struggles amount to something and contribute to something larger, leaders who want us to be all that we can be. ** [[Ann Richards|D. Ann Willis Richards]], DNC Keynote Address (July 19, 1988) [https://web.archive.org/web/20040404151616/http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/annrichards1988dnc.htm] * Both Socrates and Christ taught economic man to be at least slightly ashamed of himself when he failed to sacrifice the lower capacity to the higher. Freud is America's great teacher, despite his ardent wish to avoid that fate. For it was precisely the official and parental shams of high ideals that Freud questioned. In their stead, Freud taught lessons which Americans, prepared by their own national experience, learn easily: survive, resign yourself to living within your moral means, suffer no gratuitous failures in a futile search for ethical heights that no longer exist—if they ever did. ** [[Philip Rieff]], ''The Triumph of the Therapeutic'' (1966), ch. 2 * America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese. ** [[David Riesman]], ''The Lonely Crowd'' (1950), ch. 18 * The American people have allowed themselves to be dumbed down to the point that their opinions are easily manipulated by corporate-owned and controlled mainstream media. The inability to function as a viable component of government has resulted in the "people" fracturing into competing ideological and socio-economic fiefdoms. American democracy is little more than feudalistic plutocracy. It's an unsustainable model doomed to collapse in on itself. ** [[Scott Ritter]], interview by John Rachel, [https://web.archive.org/web/20220225043929/https://dissidentvoice.org/2022/02/personal-interview-scott-ritter/ "What Are The Prospects For Peace?"], ''Dissident Voice'' (February 24, 2022) * Whenever Richard Cory went down town,<br>We people on the pavement looked at him:<br>He was a gentleman from sole to crown,<br>Clean favored, and imperially slim.{{pb}}And he was always quietly arrayed,<br>And he was always human when he talked;<br>But still he fluttered pulses when he said,<br>"Good-morning," and he glittered when he walked.{{pb}}And he was rich—yes, richer than a king—<br>And admirably schooled in every grace:<br>In fine, we thought that he was everything<br>To make us wish that we were in his place.{{pb}}So on we worked, and waited for the light,<br>And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;<br>And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,<br>Went home and put a bullet through his head. ** [[Edwin Arlington Robinson]], "[[w:Richard Cory|Richard Cory]]", ''The Children of the Night'' (1897)<!--[[w:Panic of 1893|Panic of 1893]]--> * ''Le désir de s'enrichir est leur passion dominante, et à vrai dire leur seule passion.'' ** The desire of riches is their ruling passion, and indeed their only passion. ** [[François de La Rochefoucauld, 7th Duke of La Rochefoucauld|François XII de La Rochefoucauld]], ''Voyage dans les Etats-Unis d'Amérique'' (1799) * The growth of a large business is merely a survival of the fittest. ... The American beauty rose can be produced in the splendor and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the early buds which grow up around it. ** [[John D. Rockefeller]], in W. J. Ghent, ''Our Benevolent Feudalism'' (1902), p. 29 * If "underdevelopment" were related to anything other than comparing economies, then the most underdeveloped country in the world would be the U.S.A., which practices external oppression on a massive scale, while internally there is a blend of exploitation, brutality, and psychiatric disorder. ** [[Walter Rodney]], [[w:How Europe Underdeveloped Africa|''How Europe Underdeveloped Africa'']] (1972), ch. 1 * The Income Tax has made more Liars out of the American people than Golf has. Even when you make one out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a Crook or a Martyr. ** [[Will Rogers]], "Helping the Girls with their Income Taxes", ''The Illiterate Digest'' (1924) * I am as conservative as the Constitution, as liberal as Lincoln, and as progressive as Theodore Roosevelt. ** [[George W. Romney]], quoted in [[w:Harper's Magazine|''Harper's Magazine'']] (February, 1967), p. 56 [[File:New Deal collage.jpg|thumb|I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a [[w:New Deal|new deal]] for the American people. ... Give me your help, not to win votes alone, but to win in this crusade to restore America to its own people. <br> —[[Franklin D. Roosevelt|FDR]] ]] [[File:Four-Freedoms-OWI-composite-poster-1943.jpg|thumb|Freedom of Speech · Freedom of Worship · Freedom from Want · Freedom from Fear. —FDR]] * The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. ** [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], Address at Oglethorpe University, Brookhaven, GA (May 22, 1932) * I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a [[w:New Deal|new deal]] for the American people. Let us all here assembled constitute ourselves prophets of a new order of competence and of courage. This is more than a political campaign; it is a call to arms. Give me your help, not to win votes alone, but to win in this crusade to restore America to its own people. ** Franklin D. Roosevelt, Address to the DNC, Chicago, IL (July 2, 1932), accepting the presidential nomination<!--''TIME'', vol. 20, no. 2 (July 11, 1932)--> * Faith in America, faith in our tradition of personal responsibility, faith in our institutions, faith in ourselves demands that we recognize the new terms of the old social contract. We shall fulfill them, as we fulfilled the obligation of the apparent Utopia which Jefferson imagined for us in 1776, and which Jefferson, Roosevelt and Wilson sought to bring to realization. We must do so, lest a rising tide of misery engendered by our common failure, engulf us all. But failure is not an American habit; and in the strength of great hope we must all shoulder our common load. ** Franklin D. Roosevelt, Address to the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, CA (September 23, 1932) * I am not for a return to that definition of liberty under which for many years a free people were being gradually regimented into the service of the privileged few. I prefer and I am sure you prefer that broader definition of liberty under which we are moving forward to greater freedom, to greater security for the average man than he has ever known before in the history of America. ** Franklin D. Roosevelt, [[w:Fireside chats|Fireside Chat]] (September 30, 1934) * We have earned the hatred of entrenched greed. ** Franklin D. Roosevelt, Message to Congress (January 3, 1936) * The age of machinery, of railroads; of steam and electricity; the telegraph and the radio; mass production, mass distribution—all of these combined to bring forward a new civilization and with it a new problem for those who sought to remain free. {{pb}} For out of this modern civilization economic royalists carved new dynasties. New kingdoms were built upon concentration of control over material things. Through new uses of corporations, banks and securities, new machinery of industry and agriculture, of labor and capital — all undreamed of by the fathers — the whole structure of modern life was impressed into this royal service. * It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over Government itself. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction. In its service new mercenaries sought to regiment the people, their labor, and their property. And as a result the average man once more confronts the problem that faced the Minute Man. * The royalists of the economic order have conceded that political freedom was the business of the Government, but they have maintained that economic slavery was nobody's business. They granted that the Government could protect the citizen in his right to vote, but they denied that the Government could do anything to protect the citizen in his right to work and his right to live. ** Franklin D. Roosevelt, Address to the DNC, Philadelphia, PA (June 27, 1936), accepting renomination for the presidency * We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics. * I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. * The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. ** Franklin D. Roosevelt, Second Inaugural Address (January 20, 1937) * In recommending this program I am thinking not only of the immediate economic needs of the people of the Nation, but also of their personal liberties — the most precious possession of all Americans. ** Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fireside Chat (April 14, 1938) * Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists. ** Franklin D. Roosevelt, Remarks to the Daughters of the American Revolution, Washington, D.C. (April 21, 1938)<!--''Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1938'' (1941), p. 259. FDR is often quoted as having addressed the DAR as "my fellow immigrants." The above words are believed to be the source.--> * It is a program whose basic thesis is not that the system of free private enterprise for profit has failed in this generation, but that it has not yet been tried. ** Franklin D. Roosevelt, Message to Congress on curbing monopolies (April 29, 1938) * And while I am talking to you mothers and fathers, I give you one more assurance. I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars. ** Franklin D. Roosevelt, Campaign address at Boston, MA (October 30, 1940) * We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions, bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another, seeks to degrade all nationalities. Whoever seeks to set one race against another seeks to enslave all races. Whoever seeks to set one religion against another, seeks to destroy all religion. ** Franklin D. Roosevelt, Campaign Address, Brooklyn, NYC (November 1, 1940)<!--'The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940'' (1941), p. 53--> * We must be the great arsenal of democracy. ** Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fireside Chat (December 29, 1940) * In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon [[w:Four Freedoms|four]] essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech, and expression—everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way—everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want—which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants—everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear—which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor—anywhere in the world. {{pb}} That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called new order of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb. ** Franklin D. Roosevelt, [[w:1941 State of the Union Address|Eighth State of the Union Address]] (January 6, 1941) * The system of party responsibility in America requires that one of its parties be the liberal party and the other be the conservative party. This has been the division by which the major parties in American history have identified themselves whenever crises have developed which required definite choice of direction. In Jefferson's day, in Jackson's day, and in Lincoln's, and Theodore Roosevelt's, and Wilson's day, one group emerged clearly as liberals, opposed to the other — the conservatives. {{pb}} One great difference which has characterized this division has been that the liberal party — no matter what its particular name was at the time — believed in the wisdom and efficacy of the will of the great majority of the people, as distinguished from the judgment of a small minority of either education or wealth. The liberal group has always believed that control by a few — political control or economic control — if exercised for a long period of time, would be destructive of a sound representative democracy. For this reason, for example, it has always advocated the extension of the right of suffrage to as many people as possible, trusting the combined judgment of all the people in political matters rather than the judgment of a small minority. {{pb}} The other great difference between the two parties has been this: The liberal party is a party which believes that, as new conditions and problems arise beyond the power of men and women to meet as individuals, it becomes the duty of the Government itself to find new remedies with which to meet them. The liberal party insists that the Government has the definite duty to use all its power and resources to meet new social problems with new social controls — to insure to the average person the right to his own economic and political life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. ** Franklin D. Roosevelt, Introduction (June 16, 1941) to ''Public Papers and Addresses, 1938'' (1941) p. xxix * We, too, born to freedom, and believing in freedom, are willing to fight to maintain freedom. We, and all others who believe as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees. ** Franklin D. Roosevelt, Message to the Special Convocation of the University of Oxford (June 19, 1941) * All of our people all over the country — except the pure-blooded Indians — are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on the Mayflower. * The American people are quite competent to judge a political party that works both sides of a street — a party that has one candidate making campaign promises of all kinds of added government expenditures in the West, while a running mate of his demands less government expenditures in the East. ** Franklin D. Roosevelt, Address at Fenway Park, Boston, MA (November 4, 1944) * We have learned that we cannot live alone, at peace; that our own well-being is dependent on the well-being of other nations, far away. We have learned that we must live as men, and hot as ostriches, nor as dogs in the manger. We have learned to be citizens of the world, members of the human community. ** Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fourth Inaugural Address (January 20, 1945) [[File:Tr-bigstick-cartoon (cropped).JPG|thumb|Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far. —[[Teddy Roosevelt]]]] * A life of slothful ease, a life of that peace which springs merely from lack either of desire or of power to strive after great things, is as little worthy of a nation as of an individual. I ask only that what every self-respecting American demands from himself and from his sons shall be demanded of the American nation as a whole. Who among you would teach your boys that ease, that peace, is to be the first consideration in their eyes—to be the ultimate goal after which they strive? * Thank God for the iron in the blood of our fathers, the men who upheld the wisdom of Lincoln, and bore sword or rifle in the armies of Grant! Let us...praise the God of our fathers that the ignoble counsels of peace were rejected; that the suffering and loss, the blackness of sorrow and despair, were unflinchingly faced, and the years of strife endured; for in the end the slave was freed, the Union restored, and the mighty American republic placed once more as a helmeted queen among nations. * We cannot...play the part of China, and be content to rot by inches in ignoble ease within our borders, taking no interest in what goes on beyond them, sunk in a scrambling commercialism; heedless of the higher life, the life of aspiration, of toil and risk, busying ourselves only with the wants of our bodies for the day, until suddenly we should find...what China has already found, that in this world the nation that has trained itself to a career of unwarlike and isolated ease is bound, in the end, to go down before other nations which have not lost the manly and adventurous qualities. If we are to be a really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. * No country can long endure if its foundations are not laid deep in the material prosperity which comes from thrift, from business energy and enterprise, from hard, unsparing effort in the fields of industrial activity; but neither was any nation ever yet truly great if it relied upon material prosperity alone. All honor must be paid to the architects of our material prosperity, to the great captains of industry who have built our factories and our railroads, to the strong men who toil for wealth with brain or hand; for great is the debt of the nation to these and their kind. But our debt is yet greater to the men whose highest type is to be found in a statesman like Lincoln, a soldier like Grant. They showed by their lives that they recognized the law of work, the law of strife; they toiled to win a competence for themselves and those dependent upon them; but they recognized that there were yet other and even loftier duties—duties to the nation and duties to the race. ** [[Theodore Roosevelt]], "[[s:The Strenuous Life|The Strenuous Life]]", Speech before the Hamilton Club, Chicago, IL (April 10, 1899) * There is a homely old adage which runs: "[[w:Speak softly and carry a big stick|Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.]]" If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the [[w:Monroe Doctrine|Monroe Doctrine]] will go far. ** Theodore Roosevelt, Speech, Chicago, IL (April 3, 1903)<!--''The New York Times'' (April 4, 1903)--> * The spirit of lawlessness grows with what it feeds on, and when mobs with impunity lynch criminals for one cause, they are certain to begin to lynch real or alleged criminals for other causes...The nation, like the individual, cannot commit a crime with impunity. If we are guilty of lawlessness and brutal violence, whether our guilt consists in active participation therein or in mere connivance and encouragement, we shall assuredly suffer later on because of what we have done. The cornerstone of this Republic, as of all free government, is respect for and obedience to the law. Where we permit the law to be defied or evaded, whether by rich man or poor man, by black man or white, we are by just so much weakening the bonds of our civilization and increasing the chances of its overthrow, and of the substitution therefor of a system in which there shall be violent alternations of anarchy and tyranny. ** Theodore Roosevelt, Letter to Winfield T. Durbin, Oyster Bay, New York (August 6, 1903), printed in ''The New York Times'' (August 10, 1903), pp. 1–2 * It is an infamous thing in our American life, and fundamentally treacherous to our institutions, to apply to any man any test save that of his personal worth, or to draw between two sets of men any distinction save the distinction of conduct, the distinction that marks off those who do well and wisely from those who do ill and foolishly. There are good citizens and bad citizens in every class as in every locality, and the attitude of decent people toward great public and social questions should be determined, not by the accidental questions of employment or locality, but by those deep-set principles which represent the innermost souls of men.{{pb}}The failure in public and in private life thus to treat each man on his own merits, the recognition of this government as being either for the poor as such or for the rich as such, would prove fatal to our Republic, as such failure and such recognition have always proved fatal in the past to other republics. A healthy republican government must rest upon individuals, not upon classes or sections. As soon as it becomes government by a class or by a section, it departs from the old American ideal. ** Theodore Roosevelt, "A Square Deal", Speech at the New York State Agricultural Association, Syracuse, NY (September 7, 1903) [http://web.archive.org/web/20041217111203/http://www.memorablequotations.com/SquareDeal.htm] [[File:Theodore Roosevelt 1912 (3x4 cropped).jpg|thumb|Our country...means nothing unless it means...the triumph, in the long run, of an economic system under which each man shall be guaranteed the opportunity to show the best that there is in him. —Teddy Roosevelt]] * It is unwise to depart from the old American tradition and to discriminate for or against any man who desires to come here and become a citizen, save on the ground of that man's fitness for citizenship. It is our right and duty to consider his moral and social quality. His standard of living should be such that he will not, by pressure of competition, lower the standard of living of our own wage-workers; for it must ever be a prime object of our legislation to keep high their standard of living...We can not afford to pay heed to whether he is of one creed or another, of one nation or another. We can not afford to consider whether he is Catholic or Protestant, Jew or Gentile; whether he is Englishman or Irishman, Frenchman or German, Japanese, Italian, Scandinavian, Slav, or Magyar. What we should desire to find out is the individual quality of the individual man. ** Theodore Roosevelt, Message to Congress (December 5, 1905) [https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/digital-library/o308460/] * Our country...means nothing unless it means the triumph of a real democracy, the triumph of popular government, and, in the long run, of an economic system under which each man shall be guaranteed the opportunity to show the best that there is in him. ** Theodore Roosevelt, "The New Nationalism", Speech in Osawatomie, KS (August 31, 1910) [https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2011/12/06/archives-president-teddy-roosevelts-new-nationalism-speech] [[File:Columbus 1892 Issue-$5.jpg|thumb|All this we ultimately owe to the action of an Italian seaman in the service of a Spanish King and a Spanish Queen. —Teddy Roosevelt]] * Four centuries and a quarter have gone by since Columbus by discovering America opened the greatest era in world history. Four centuries have passed since the Spaniards began that colonization on the main land which has resulted in the growth of the nations of Latin-America. Three centuries have passed since, with the settlements on the coasts of Virginia and Massachusetts, the real history of what is now the United States began. All this we ultimately owe to the action of an Italian seaman in the service of a Spanish King and a Spanish Queen. * We are a new and distinct nationality. We are developing our own distinctive culture and civilization, and the worth of this civilization will largely depend upon our determination to keep it distinctively our own. ... We should freely take from every other nation whatever we can make of use, but we should adopt and develop to our own peculiar needs what we thus take, and never be content merely to copy. * There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all. This is just as true of the man who puts "native" before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance. But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as anyone else. * The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities. ** Theodore Roosevelt, "Americanism", Address before the Knights of Columbus, Carnegie Hall, NYC (October 12, 1915), printed in ''The New York Times'' (October 13, 1915), p. 1, col. 3 [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/68152/68152-h/68152-h.htm] <!--See also: ''Works'', vol. 20 (1925), p. 457--> * Every man has a right to one country. He has a right to love and serve that country and to feel that it is absolutely his country and that he has in it every right possessed by any one else. It is our duty to require the man of German blood who is an American citizen to give up all allegiance to Germany wholeheartedly and without on his part any mental reservation whatever. If he does this it becomes no less our duty to give him the full rights of an American, including our loyal respect and friendship without on our part any mental reservation whatever. The duties are reciprocal, and from the standpoint of American patriotism one is as important as the other. ** Theodore Roosevelt, "Every Man Has a Right to One Country", [[w:The Kansas City Star|''The Kansas City Star'']] (July 15, 1918), p. 2 [https://archive.org/details/rooseveltinkansa00roos_0/page/176/mode/2up] * Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood—the virtues that made America. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life. ** Theodore Roosevelt, Letter to [[w:Solomon Stanwood Menken|S. Stanwood Menken]], Chairman, Committee on Congress of Constructive Patriotism (January 10, 1917);<!--Roosevelt's sister, Mrs. Douglas Robinson, read the letter to a national meeting (January 26, 1917); ''Proceedings of the Congress of Constructive Patriotism, Washington, D.C., January 25–27, 1917'' (1917), p. 172--> variant, attributed to [[Arthur W. Radford]], Speech in Cincinnati, OH (January 30, 1959), in ''TNYT'', "Quotation of the Day" (January 31, 1959): "... the get-rich-quick feeling of living." * We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile. We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, of American nationality, and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house; and we have room for but one soul loyalty, and that is loyalty to the American people. ** Theodore Roosevelt, Letter to Charles Steward Davison, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the American Defense Society (January 3, 1919) * The Union forever, hurrah! boys, hurrah! </br> Down with the traitors, up with the stars; </br> While we rally round the flag, boys, we rally once again, </br> Shouting the battle cry of freedom! ** [[George Frederick Root]], "[[w:Battle Cry of Freedom|Battle Cry of Freedom]]" (1862) * We are the first victims of American Fascism. ** [[Julius Rosenberg]], Letter to Emanuel Bloch while awaiting execution (June 19, 1953); in [[Ethel Rosenberg]], ''Testament of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg'' (1954), p. 187 * Only in America, Rabbi Golden, do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue in Florida in pedalpushers and mink stoles — and with opinions on every subject under the sun. It isn’t their fault they were given a gift like speech — look, if cows could talk, they would say things just as idiotic. ** [[Philip Roth]], [[w:Portnoy's Complaint|''Portnoy's Complaint'']] (1969), pt. 5 * The libertarian creed...offers the fulfillment of the best of the American past along with the promise of a far better future. Even more than conservatives, who are often attached to the monarchical traditions of a happily obsolete European past, libertarians are squarely in the great classical-liberal tradition that built the United States and bestowed on us the American heritage of individual liberty, a peaceful foreign policy, minimal government, and a free-market economy. Libertarians are the only genuine current heirs of Jefferson, Paine, Jackson, and the abolitionists. ** [[Murray Rothbard]], [[w:For a New Liberty|''For a New Liberty'']], 2nd ed. (1978) * I remember the political gut punches. They were moments that I could not believe were happening in America. They ran contrary to the idea of America that I had been raised with. But they also defied logic and reason. * The GOP was taken over by the hard right in the 1990s, and the "Contract with America" turned into a scorched-earth campaign that deliberately left Washington dysfunctional (because an inert government is the next best thing to no government at all). * Bill Clinton...bought into policies that made inequality worse and offered up the coded racism of welfare reform, beefing up police forces and scolding Sister Souljah. We were Reagan Lite though we thought we were just doing smart political "triangulation" and that the goodness in our hearts would prevail. And then we undid Glass Steagall and passed a telecommunications act that laid the groundwork for the rise of monster tech, the behemoths that would, alongside Wall Street, come to dominate in a new age of robber barons in America. * Bush and Cheney and company embraced torture and rendition and waged a "war of choice" that left hundreds of thousands of innocents dead and America's reputation worldwide in tatters...We weren't the country of the "greatest" generation. Vietnam had already begun to make that clear. But this was war crimes level stuff and somehow, they all got away with it. * The gut punches came more rapidly during the Trump years. There were the 30,000 lies, the Muslim ban, Charlottesville, the Russia cover-up, firing Comey, the Mueller report and the clear obstruction case against the president, the Barr cover-up of that, one impeachment, Ukraine and a second impeachment, and then the Big Lie and Jan. 6, along with hundreds of thousands dead from a needless public-health catastrophe. For the first time in our history, there was not a peaceful transfer of power following a U.S. presidential election. * The mid-section of the U.S. will become a collection of anti-science, anti-history, anti-woman, anti-Black, anti-immigrant, anti-federal government theocracies, minority-ruled faux-democracies who will still depend on massive inflows of tax dollars from the blue states they’ll nonetheless loathe and resent. ** [[David Rothkopf]], [https://www.thedailybeast.com/america-is-one-gut-punch-away-from-throwing-in-the-towel-on-democracy/ "America Is One Gut Punch Away From Throwing in the Towel on Democracy"], ''Daily Beast'' (December 4, 2021) [[File:The Father and Mother.jpg|thumb|The US Government perfectly fits its own definition of a [[w:Rogue state|rogue state]].<br>—[[Arundhati Roy]]]] * Capitalism’s gratuitous wars and sanctioned greed have jeopardized the planet and filled it with refugees. Much of the blame for this rests squarely on the shoulders of the government of the United States. Seventeen years after invading Afghanistan, after bombing it into the 'stone age' with the sole aim of toppling the Taliban, the US government is back in talks with the very same Taliban. In the interim it has destroyed Iraq, Libya and Syria. Hundreds of thousands have lost their lives to war and sanctions, a whole region has descended into chaos, ancient cities—pounded into dust. Amidst the desolation and the rubble, a monstrosity called Daesh (ISIS) has been spawned. It has spread across the world, indiscriminately murdering ordinary people who had absolutely nothing to do with America’s wars. Over these last few years, given the wars it has waged, and the international treaties it has arbitrarily reneged on, the US Government perfectly fits its own definition of a [[w:Rogue state|rogue state]]. ** [[Arundhati Roy]], [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/13/arundhati-roy-literature-shelter-pen-america "Literature provides shelter. That's why we need it"], ''The Guardian'' (May 13, 2019), abridged from the 2019 Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture * These terrorists aren't trying to kill us because we offended them. They attack us because they want to impose their view of the world on as many people as they can, and America is standing in their way. ** [[Marco Rubio]], keynote speech, CPAC conference, Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, D.C. (February 19, 2010) [https://web.archive.org/web/20120706103553/http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/02/marco-rubios-cpac-speech-the-t.html] == S == [[File:Somebody must help him stop (Burt Thomas).jpg|thumb|The end result...is a society running furiously to stay in place. —[[Jeffrey Sachs]]]] * The [[corporatocracy]] is a...feedback loop. Corporate wealth translates into political power through campaign financing, corporate lobbying, and the revolving door of jobs between government and industry; and political power translates into further wealth through tax cuts, deregulation, and sweetheart contracts between government and industry. Wealth begets power, and power begets wealth. ** [[Jeffrey Sachs]], [[w:The Price of Civilization|''The Price of Civilization'']] (2011), pt. 1, ch. 7 * The United States is privately rich but socially poor. ** Jeffrey Sachs, ''The Price of Civilization'' (2011), pt. 1, ch. 8 * The end result of all this consumption is a society running furiously to stay in place. The overwork by each member of society puts a burden (a negative externality) on others, who must also run hard to keep up. Consumers also run because others are running, with everybody finding themselves in a [[w:Rat race|race]] they'd rather do without. ** Jeffrey Sachs, ''The Price of Civilization'' (2011), pt. 1, ch. 8 * While travelling in America never cease to bear this cardinal fact in mind, that this is a wholesale and not a retail country. ** [[George Augustus Henry Sala|George Augustus Sala]], ''America Revisited'', vol. 1 (1882) ch. 22 * this country might have </br> been a pio </br> neer land </br> once. </br> but. there ain't </br> no mo </br> indians blowing </br> [[George Armstrong Custer|custer]]'s mind </br> with a different </br> image of america. ** [[Sonia Sanchez]], "Right on: White America", ''WE A baddDDD PEOPLE'' (1973)<!--Geoffrey Moore (ed.) ''The Penguin Book of American Verse'' (1977)--> * The Republic is a dream.<br>Nothing happens unless first a dream. ** [[Carl Sandburg]], "Washington Monument by Night", ''Slabs of the Sunburnt West'' (1922) * If she forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin the rot and dissolution. ** Carl Sandburg, ''Remembrance Rock'' (1948), epilogue * There is no justice...when the top one-tenth of one percent—not one percent, the top ''one-tenth'' of one percent—today in America owns almost as much wealth as the bottom ninety percent. ** [[Bernie Sanders]], Speech at [[w:Liberty University|Liberty University]], Lynchburg, VA (September 14, 2015); cf. ''CNN'' op-ed (November 13, 2017) [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/09/14/bernie-sanders-liberty-university-speech-annotated/] [https://edition.cnn.com/2017/11/13/opinions/oligarchy-paradise-papers-bernie-sanders-opinion/index.html] * Individuals who have been wronged by unlawful racial discrimination should be made whole; but under our Constitution there can be no such thing as either a creditor or a debtor race. ... To pursue the concept of racial entitlement – even for the most admirable and benign of purposes – is to reinforce and preserve for future mischief the way of thinking that produced race slavery, race privilege and race hatred. In the eyes of government, we are just one race here. It is American. ** [[Antonin Scalia]], ''Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Mineta'', 534 U.S. 103 (1995) [https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/93-1841.ZC.html] * The works and prayers of centuries </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Have brought us to this day... </br> What shall be our legacy? </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; What will our children say?... </br> Let me know in my heart, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; When my days are through, </br> America, America, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; I gave my best to you. ** [[Gene Scheer]], "American Anthem" (late 1990s) [https://qz.com/1960357/what-is-american-anthem-the-song-in-bidens-inaugural-address] * My country, right or wrong; if right, to be ''kept'' right; and if wrong, to be ''set'' right. ** [[Carl Schurz]], Remarks in the Senate (February 29, 1872); ''The Congressional Globe'', [https://archive.org/details/sim_united-states-congress-congressional-globe_1872_1/page/1287/mode/1up vol. 45] (1872), p. 1287<!--Or: "Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right."--> * The enemy say that Americans are good at long shot, but cannot stand the [[w:bayonet|cold iron]]. I call upon the Eleventh instantly to give the lie to that slander. Charge! ** [[Winfield Scott]], Address to the [[w:11th Infantry Regiment (United States)|11th Infantry Regiment]] at the [[w:Battle of Chippawa|Battle of Chipewa]] (July 5, 1814), in Edwin L. Sabin, [https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/68652/pg68652.txt ''Into Mexico with General Scott''] (1920) * I believe that few people aside from myself have any idea of the tremendous, the almost invincible power and force of the daily press. I am one of those who believe that at least in America the press rules the country; it rules its politics, its religion, its social practice. ** [[E. W. Scripps]], ''Damned Old Crank'' (1951), ch. 1 * Government of the busy by the bossy for the bully. ** [[Arthur Seldon]], ''Capitalism'' (1990), p. 111 [[File:Chrysler Building Midtown Manhattan New York City 1932.jpg|thumb|America was thus clearly top nation, and History came to a [[w:Full stop|.]]]] * America was thus clearly top nation, and History came to a [[w:Full stop|.]] ** [[w:W. C. Sellar|W. C. Sellar]] and [[w:R. J. Yeatman|R. J. Yeatman]], ''[[1066 and All That]]'' (1930), ch. 62 * Killing is dying. This equation </br> Carries no mystical import. </br> It is the literal truth. Our nation</br> Has long believed war was a sport. </br> Unoccupied, unbombed, undying, </br> While 'over there' the shells were flying, </br> How could we know the Russian dread </br> Of war, the mountains of their dead? </br> We reveled in acceleration </br> At every level of the race; </br> And even now we're face to face </br> With mutual extermination </br> We talk as blithely as before </br> Of 'surgical strikes' and 'limited war.' ** [[Vikram Seth]], [[w:The Golden Gate (Seth novel)|''The Golden Gate'']] (1986), ch. 7, st. 29 * The Union is a confederation of States. But in another aspect the United States constitute only one nation. Increase of population, which is filling the States out to their very borders, together with a new and extended network of railroads and other avenues, and an internal commerce which daily becomes more intimate, is rapidly bringing the States into a higher and more perfect social unity or consolidation. Thus, these antagonistic systems are continually coming into closer contact, and collision results. ... It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces, and it means that the United States must and will, sooner or later, become either entirely a slaveholding nation, or entirely a free-labor nation. ** [[William H. Seward]], "[[s:On the Irrepressible Conflict|On the Irrepressible Conflict]]", Speech in Corinthian Hall, Rochester, NY (October 25, 1858) * As a third generation American I grew up with the obsessive idea of personal liberty which engrosses all Americans except the oldest and richest families. ** [[Karl Shapiro]], [https://archive.org/details/poemsofjew0000shap/page/n13/mode/2up ''Poems of a Jew''] (1958), intro. * America is the child society ''par excellence'', and possibly the only one ever politically arrived at. It is the society of all rights and no obligations, the society of deliberate wreckage and waste, the only society that ever raised gangsterism to the status of myth, and murder to the status of tragedy or politics. ** Karl Shapiro, [https://archive.org/details/toabolishchildre0000shap/page/20/mode/2up ''To Abolish Children, and Other Essays''] (1968), title essay, p. 21 * To rouse their eager interest, their distinguished consideration and their undying devotion, all that is necessary is to hold them up to the ridicule of the rest of the Universe. Dickens won them to him forever by merciless projections of typical Americans as windbags, swindlers and assassins. ** [[George Bernard Shaw]], quoted in the [[w:St. Louis Post-Dispatch|''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'']], [https://archive.org/details/per_st-louis-post-dispatch_1930-12-19_83_104/mode/2up?q=%22windbags%2C+swindlers+and+assassins%22 vol 83, no. 104] (December 19, 1930), p. 3a * Americans are conceited enough to believe they are the only fools in the world. ** George Bernard Shaw, quoted in Michael Holroyd, ''Bernard Shaw: The Lure of Fantasy'' (1991), p. 305 * England and America are two countries separated by a common language. ** George Bernard Shaw, attributed in [[Trevor Fishlock]], [https://archive.org/details/americansnothing0000fish/page/40/mode/2up?q=%22countries%2C+separated+by+a+common%22 ''Americans and Nothing Else''] (1980), ch. 1, sec. 10<!--apparently also in ''Reader's Digest'' (November, 1942)--> * False compassion, which is gradually growing in this country, is a pity that is shown, not to the mugged, but to the mugger; not to the family of the murdered, but to the murderer; not to the woman who was raped, but to the rapist. ... There are some judges — ''some'', in some of our courts; there are ''some'' social workers — not all; there are sob sisters; there are the social slobberers, who insist on compassion being shown to the muggers, to the dope fiends, to the throat slashers, to the beatniks, to the prostitutes, to the homosexuals, to the punks: so that today the decent man is practically off the reservation. ** [[Fulton J. Sheen]], ''[[w:Life Is Worth Living|Life Is Worth Living]]'', ep. 16 (1965) * I felt attaching the name of ''rebellion'' hastily, and ''traitors'', to the Americans, and comparing them to the [[Jacobite rising of 1745|Scots at Derby]]—which was the language used—dangerous, and perhaps both imprudent and unjust. ** [[William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne|William Petty, Earl of Shelburne]], Letter to William Pitt the Elder (December 21, 1765) * The sun of Great Britain is set, and we shall no longer be a powerful or respectable people, the moment that the independency of America is agreed to by our government! ** William Petty, Earl of Shelburne, Speech in the House of Lords (March 5, 1778) * No words can depict, no pen can describe, the wonderful variety, richness, grandeur and beauty which the Almighty has stamped upon this, our favored land. Every material for human industry, every facility for honorable employment, can be here found. The fisherman, the sailor, the farmer, the miner, the mechanic of very kind, the artist, the merchant, and even the preacher, the doctor, and the lawyer, may here find means of pursuing his vocation. In what part of the habitable globe can any man utter with greater truth the words of the psalmist: "O Lord, how great are thy works"? ** [[John Sherman]], "America of To-day Contrasted with America of 1776", Address at Roseland Park, Woodstock, CT (July 4, 1885); [[w:The Independent (New York City)|''The Independent'']], [https://archive.org/details/sim_independent_1885-07-09_37_1910/page/2/mode/2up vol. 37, no. 1910] (July 9, 1885), p. 3, col. 3 * You cannot have peace and a division of our country. If the United States submits to a division now, it will not stop, but will go on until we reap the fate of [[Mexico]], which is [[w:List of wars involving Mexico|eternal war]]. The United States does and must assert its authority, wherever it once had power; for, if it relaxes one bit to pressure, it is gone... We do want and will have a just obedience to the laws of the United States. That we will have. ** [[William Tecumseh Sherman]], [[s:Letter to James M. Calhoun, et al., September 12, 1864|Letter to the members of the city council of the City of Atlanta]] (September 12, 1864) * [[w:Forty acres and a mule|Forty acres and a mule]]. ** William Tecumseh Sherman, Special Field Orders, no. 15 (January 16, 1865), indicating the expectations of emancipated slaves. Cf. [[s:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|''Hoyt's'']] (1922), p. 18: "Ten acres and a mule." * I look upon North America as the only great nursery of freemen left on the face of the earth. ** [[Jonathan Shipley]], in the [[w:Maryland Gazette|''Maryland Gazette'']], [https://www.msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc4800/sc4872/001282/html/m1282-0698.html no. 1516] (September 29, 1774), p. 1 * Ye say they all have past away </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; That noble race and brave, </br> That their light canoes have vanish’d </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; From off the crested wave, </br> That ’mid the forests where they roam’d </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; There rings no hunter’s shout; </br> But their name is on your waters, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Ye may not wash it out. ** [[Lydia Sigourney]], "Indian Names", st. 1. ''The Knickerbocker'', [https://archive.org/details/sim_foederal-american-monthly_1833-10_2_4/page/264/mode/2up vol. 2, no. 4] (October, 1833), p. 264 * The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well-ordered homes of the people. ** Lydia Sigourney, ''Letters to Young Ladies'', 4th ed. (1837), ep. 4 * Please, please, kids, stop fighting. Maybe Lisa’s right about America being the land of opportunity, and maybe Adil has a point about the machinery of capitalism being oiled with the blood of the workers. ** ''[[The Simpsons]]'', sn. 1, ep. 11, "[[w:The Crepes of Wrath|The Crepes of Wrath]]" (April 15, 1990) * Don't worry, Marge, America's health care system is second only to Japan, Canada, Sweden, Great Britain, well, all of Europe... but you can thank your lucky stars we don't live in Paraguay! ** ''[[The Simpsons]]'', sn. 4, ep. 11, "[[w:Homer's Triple Bypass|Homer's Triple Bypass]]" (December 17, 1992) [[File:Both Members of This Club George Bellows.jpeg|thumb|The violence of conquest and resistance, the violence of racial difference, the violence of civil war, the violence of bandits and gangsters, the violence of lynch law, all set against the violence of the wilderness and the city. —[[Andrew Sinclair]]]] * In the five centuries since Columbus discovered the New World, savagery has been part of American life. There has been the violence of conquest and resistance, the violence of racial difference, the violence of civil war, the violence of bandits and gangsters, the violence of lynch law, all set against the violence of the wilderness and the city. ** [[Andrew Sinclair]], in [[w:The Sunday Times|''The Sunday Times'']] (1967) * The American People will take Socialism, but they won't take the label. ... I think we simply have to recognize the fact that our enemies have succeeded in spreading the Big Lie. There is no use attacking it by a front attack, it is much better to out-flank them. ** [[Upton Sinclair]], Letter to Norman Thomas (September 25, 1951)<!--Leon Harris, [https://archive.org/details/uptonsinclairame00harrrich/page/350/mode/2up?q=%22American+People+will+take+Socialism%22 ''Upton Sinclair: American Rebel''] (1975), p. 351--> * I will remain what I am until I die, a hunter, and when there are no buffalo or other game I will send my children to hunt and live on prairie, for where an Indian is shut up in one place his body becomes weak. ** [[Sitting Bull]], recorded by James M. Walsh, inspector in the [[w:Northwest Territory|Northwest Territory]] of the [[w:Royal Canadian Mounted Police|Royal Canadian Mounted Police]], at a conference with Sitting Bull (March 23, 1879); [[Robert M. Utley]], ''The Lance and the Shield'' (New York, 1993), p. 206 * The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine. ** [[Al Smith]], as quoted in ''TIME'', [https://archive.org/details/sim_time_1931-01-12_17_2/page/n21/mode/2up vol. 17, no. 2] (January 12, 1931), pp. 20–21 * We doubt not but by Gods gracious assistance, and the adventurers willing minds and speedie furtherance to so honorable an action, in after times to see our Nation to enjoy a Country, not onely exceeding pleasant for habitation, but also very profitable for comerce in generall; no doubt pleasing to almightie God, honourable to our gracious Soveraigne, and commodious generally to the whole Kingdome. ** [[John Smith (explorer)|John Smith]], ''A True Relation of Virginia'' (1608) * Worthy is that person to starve that heere cannot live; if he have sense, strength and health...Who can desire more content, that hath small meanes; or but only his merit to advance his fortune, then to tread, and plant that ground he hath purchased by the hazard of his life? ** John Smith, ''{{w|A Description of New England}}'' (1616) * Heaven and earth never agreed better to frame a place for man’s habitation; were it fully manured and inhabited by industrious people. Here are mountaines, hils, plaines, valleyes, rivers, and brookes, all running most pleasantly into a faire Bay, compassed but for the mouth, with fruitfull and delightsome land. ** John Smith, [[w:The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles|''The Generall Historie of Virginia'']] (1624), bk. 2, describing [[w:Chesapeake Bay|Chesapeake Bay]], 1607 * After some six weeks fatting amongst those Salvage Courtiers, at the minute of my execution, she hazarded the beating out of her owne braines to save mine, and ... so prevailed with her father, that I was safely conducted to James towne, where I found about eight and thirtie miserable poore and sicke creatures, to keepe possession of all those large territories of Virginia. Such was the weaknesse of this poore Commonwealth, as had the Salvages not fed us, we directly had starved. ** John Smith, ''The Generall Historie of Virginia'' (1624), bk. 4, describing {{w|Pocahontas}} * My country, 'tis of thee,<br>Sweet land of liberty,—<br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Of thee I sing:<br>Land where my fathers died,<br>Land of the Pilgrim's pride,<br>From every mountain side<br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Let freedom ring. * Long may our land be bright </br> With freedom’s holy light; </br> Protect us by thy might, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Great God, our King! ** [[Samuel Francis Smith|Samuel F. Smith]], "[[w:My Country, 'Tis of Thee|America]]" (1831); cf. "[[w:God Save the King|God Save the King]]" [[File:Cole Thomas The Oxbow (The Connecticut River near Northampton 1836).jpg|thumb|Who reads an American book? or goes to an American play? or looks at an American picture or statue? </br> —[[Sydney Smith]]]] * In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book? or goes to an American play? or looks at an American picture or statue? What does the world yet owe to American physicians or surgeons? What new substances have their chemists discovered? or what old ones have they analyzed? What new constellations have been discovered by the telescopes of Americans? what have they done in the mathematics? Who drinks out of American glasses? or eats from American plates? or wears American coats or gowns? or sleeps in American blankets?—Finally, under which of the old tyrannical governments of Europe is every sixth man a Slave, whom his fellow-creatures may buy and sell and torture? ** [[Sydney Smith]], in ''The Edinburgh Review'', [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.68849/page/n87/mode/2up vol. 33, no. 65] (January 1820), pp. 79–80 * Why is it, whenever a group of internationalists get together they always decide that Uncle Sam must be the goat? ** [[Bertrand Snell]], Statement in the House of Representatives (May 7, 1931); ''The New York Times'', [https://archive.org/details/sim_new-york-times_1931-05-08_80_26767/mode/2up vol. 80, no. 26,767] (May 8, 1931), p. 22, col. 1 * "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty"...We see ourselves as a city on the hill, a stronghold for democracy, looking for threats from abroad. But the sense of the saying was entirely different: that human nature is such that American democracy must be defended from Americans who would exploit its freedoms to bring about its end. ** [[Timothy D. Snyder]], ''On Tyranny'' (2017), ch. 3 * Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right. ** [[Joseph Sobran]], as quoted in George Archibald, ''Journalism is War'' (2009), ch. 8 * I like to be in America! </br> O.K. by me in America! </br> Ev'rything free in America </br> For a small fee in America! ** [[Stephen Sondheim]], "America", [[w:West Side Story|''West Side Story'']] (1957) * The emblem of the brave and true, </br> Its folds protect no tyrant crew; </br> The red and white and starry blue </br> Is freedom's shield and hope. ** [[John Philip Sousa]], "[[w:The Stars and Stripes Forever|The Stars and Stripes Forever]]" (1896) * America may have some problems, but it's our home, our team. If you don't want to root for your team, then you should get the hell out of the stadium. ** ''[[South Park]]'', sn. 5, ep. 9, "[[w:Osama bin Laden Has Farty Pants|Osama bin Laden Has Farty Pants]]" (November 7, 2001) — Stan loq. * {{smallcaps|Benjamin Franklin}}: I believe that if we are to form a new country, we cannot be a country that appears war-hungry and violent to the rest of the world. However, we also cannot be a country that appears weak and unwilling to fight to the rest of the world. So, what if we form a country that appears to want both? </br> {{smallcaps|Thomas Jefferson}}: Yes. Yes of course. We go to war, and protest going to war at the same time. </br> {{smallcaps|John Dickinson}}: Right. If the people of our new country are allowed to do whatever they wish, then some will support the war and some will protest it. </br> {{smallcaps|Benjamin Franklin}}: And that means that as a nation, we could go to war with whomever we wished, but at the same time, act like we didn't want to. If we allow the people to protest what the government does, then the country will be forever blameless. </br> {{smallcaps|John Adams}}: It's like having your cake, and eating it too. </br> {{smallcaps|Congressman 2}}: Think of it: an entire nation founded on saying one thing and doing another. </br> {{smallcaps|John Hancock}}: And we will call that country the United States of America. ** ''South Park'', sn. 7, ep. 4, "[[w:I'm a Little Bit Country|I'm a Little Bit Country]]" (April 9, 2003) * There are too many minorities at my waterpark. ** ''South Park'', sn. 13, ep. 14, "[[w:Pee (South Park)|Pee]]" (November 18, 2009) — Cartman loq. * The Republican form of Government is the highest form of government; but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature—a type nowhere at present existing. ** [[Herbert Spencer]], "The Americans". ''Essays: Scientific, Political, and Speculative'', vol. 3 (1891), p. 478 * In the day we sweat it out on the streets of a runaway American dream<br>At night we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines<br>Sprung from cages on Highway 9<br>Chrome-wheeled fuel-injected<br>And steppin' out over the line<br>Baby this town rips the bones from your back<br>It's a death trap, it's a suicide rap<br>We gotta get out while we're young<br>'Cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run. ** [[Bruce Springsteen]], [[w:Born to Run (song)|Born to Run]]" (1975) * Is it a gun, is it a knife<br>Is it a wallet, this is your life<br>It ain't no secret<br>It ain't no secret<br>No secret my friend<br>You can get killed just for living<br>In your American skin. ** Bruce Springsteen, "[[w:American Skin (41 Shots)|American Skin (41 Shots)]]" (2001) * Everything's bigger in America. We've got the biggest cars, the biggest houses, the biggest companies, the biggest food, and finally: the biggest people. America has now become the fattest nation in the world. Congratulations! ** [[w:Morgan Spurlock|Morgan Spurlock]], ''[[Super Size Me]]'' (2004 documentary) * Tech is a cultural fork of the US establishment, just as the US itself was a fork of the British Empire. It's the same root, different branches. ** [[Balaji Srinivasan]], [[w:The Network State|''The Network State'']] (2022), ch. 2 * You are the vanguard of the human race. You are the world's future. ** [[Madame de Staël|Madame de Staël]], to [[w:George Ticknor|George Ticknor]] (1817), quoted in J. Christopher Herold, ''Mistress to an Age'' (1958), p. 459 [[File:ElizabethCadyStanton-1848-Daniel-Henry.jpg|thumb|All men and women are created equal. —[[Elizabeth Cady Stanton]]]] * All men and women are created equal. ** [[Elizabeth Cady Stanton]], "The Declaration of Sentiments", at the [[w:Seneca Falls Convention|First Woman's Rights Convention]], Seneca Falls, NY (July 19–20, 1848) [https://www.womenshistory.org/resources/primary-source/declaration-sentiments-and-resolution] * She's up there—Old Glory—where lightnings are sped;<br>She dazzles the nations with ripples of red;<br>And she'll wave for us living, or droop o'er us dead—<br>The flag of our country forever! ** [[Frank Lebby Stanton]], "Our Flag Forever", st. 1. R. L. Paget (ed.) ''Poems of American Patriotism'' (1898) p. 36 * We beat them to-day, or Molly Stark’s a widow! ** [[John Stark]], at the [[w:Battle of Bennington|Battle of Bennington]] (August 16, 1777), in [[w:Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography|''Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography'']], vol. 5 (1888), pp. 652–3 <!-- Variant: "My men, yonder are the Hessians. They were bought for seven pounds and ten pence a man. Are you worth more? Prove it. Tonight, the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow!" --> * The Americans appear to me the most materialistic people in the world. ** [[G. W. Steevens]], ''The Land of the Dollar'' (1897), ch. 29 * Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence, so that never again will Americans be free in their own country from the noise, the exhausts, the stinks of human and automotive waste. And so that never again can we have the chance to see ourselves single, separate, vertical and individual in the world, part of the environment of trees and rocks and soil, brother to the other animals, part of the natural world and competent to belong in it. ... We need wilderness preserved — as much of it as is still left, and as many kinds — because it was the challenge against which our character as a people was formed. The reminder and the reassurance that it is still there is good for our spiritual health even if we never once in ten years set foot in it. ** [[Wallace Stegner]], Letter to David Pesonen (December 3, 1960) [https://www.wilderness.org/articles/article/wallace-stegner] * The misgovernment ''of'' the American people is misgovernment ''by'' the American people. ** [[Lincoln Steffens]], [[w:The Shame of the Cities|''The Shame of the Cities'']] (1904), intro. * As a kid I was promised an America—An America I believed in—and I insist on living—and dying—in that America, even I have to create it myself. ** [[Alfred Stieglitz]], quoted in Nancy Newhall, ''From Adams to Stieglitz: Pioneers of Modern Photography'' (1989) p. 65 * The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilisation. ** [[Gertrude Stein]], in [[w:Transition (literary journal)|''Transition'']], [https://archive.org/details/transition-14/page/n103/mode/2up?q=%22just+now%22 no. 14] (Fall, 1928), p. 97 * In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is. ** Gertrude Stein, ''The Geographical History of America'' (1936) * The thing I like most are the names of all the states of the United States. They make music and they are poetry, you do not have to recite them all but you just say any one two three four or five of them and you will see they make music and they make poetry. ** Gertrude Stein, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209983/page/n175/mode/2up ''Wars I Have Seen''] (1945), epilogue<!--p. 164--><!--Apparently also in ''LIFE'' (August 6, 1945), but seemingly not to be found there--> [[File:East of Eden (1952 1st ed dust jacket).jpg|thumb|We're overbrave and overfearful — we're kind and cruel as children. We're overfriendly and at the same time frightened of strangers. We boast and are impressed. We're oversentimental and realistic. We are mundane and materialistic — and do you know of any other nation that acts for ideals? —[[John Steinbeck]]]] * The cars of the migrant people crawled out of the side roads onto the great cross-country highway, and they took the migrant way to the West. ... The twenty families became one family, the children were the children of all. The loss of home became one loss, and the golden time in the West was one dream. ** [[John Steinbeck]], [[w:The Grapes of Wrath|''The Grapes of Wrath'']] (1939), ch. 17 * All colors and blends of Americans have somewhat the same tendencies. It's a breed — selected out by accident. And so we're overbrave and overfearful — we're kind and cruel as children. We're overfriendly and at the same time frightened of strangers. We boast and are impressed. We're oversentimental and realistic. We are mundane and materialistic — and do you know of any other nation that acts for ideals? We eat too much. We have no taste, no sense of proportion. We throw our energy about like waste. In the old lands they say of us that we go from barbarism to decadence without an intervening culture. ** John Steinbeck, [[East of Eden (novel)|''East of Eden'']] (1952), ch. 51 * When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing. ** John Steinbeck, [[w:Travels with Charley|''Travels with Charley'']] (1962) [[File:Train of Tomorrow cover.jpg|thumb|The telephone is thine,<br>And thine the Pullman Car,<br>The caucus, the divine<br>Intense electric star.<br>—[[James Kenneth Stephen]]]] * Republic of the West,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;Enlightened, free, sublime,<br>Unquestionably best<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;Production of our time.{{pb}}The telephone is thine,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;And thine the Pullman Car,<br>The caucus, the divine<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;Intense electric star.{{pb}}To thee we likewise owe<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;The venerable names<br>Of Edgar Allan Poe<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;And Mr Henry James.{{pb}}In short it's due to thee,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;Thou kind of Western star,<br>That we have come to be<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;Precisely what we are.{{pb}}But every now and then,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;It cannot be denied,<br>You breed a kind of men<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;Who are not dignified,{{pb}}Or courteous or refined,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;Benevolent or wise,<br>Or gifted with a mind<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;Beyond the common size,{{pb}}Or notable for tact,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;Agreeable to me,<br>Or anything, in fact,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;That people ought to be. ** [[James Kenneth Stephen]], "England and America I: On a Rhine Steamer". ''Lapsus Calami'', 4th ed. (1891) * Our whole economy is based on [[w:Planned obsolescence|planned obsolescence]], and everybody who can read without moving his lips should know it by now. We make good products, we induce people to buy them, and then next year we deliberately introduce something that will make those products old-fashioned, out of date, obsolete. ... It isn’t organized waste. It’s a sound contribution to the American economy. ** [[Brooks Stevens]], as quoted in [[Vance Packard]], ''The Waste Makers'' (1960) ch. 6 * Let's face it. Let's talk sense to the American people. Let's tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains, that we are now on the eve of great decisions, not easy decisions, like resistance when you're attacked, but a long, patient, costly struggle which alone can assure triumph over the great enemies of man—war, poverty and tyranny—and the assaults upon human dignity which are the most grievous consequences of each. ** [[Adlai Stevenson II]], Address to the DNC, Chicago, IL (July 26, 1952), accepting the presidential nomination<!--''Speeches of Adlai Stevenson''] (1952), p. 20--> * When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect. * We talk a great deal about patriotism. What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility which will enable America to remain master of her power—to walk with it in serenity and wisdom, with self-respect and the respect of all mankind; a patriotism that puts country ahead of self; a patriotism which is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. The dedication of a lifetime—these are words that are easy to utter, but this is a mighty assignment. For it is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them. ** Adlai Stevenson II, Speech to the American Legion Convention, NYC (August 27, 1952)<!--William Safire (ed.) ''Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History'', rev. ed. (2004), pp. 81–2--> * In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes! ** Adlai Stevenson II, Speech in Indianapolis, IN (September 26, 1952)<!--''Major Campaign Speeches of Adlai E. Stevenson, 1952'' (1953), p. 174--> [[File:Heavily tagged subway car in NY.jpg|thumb|An air of disengagement and disinterest hangs over the most powerful and affluent society the world has ever known. </br> —[[Adlai Stevenson II]]]] * At a time of universal social upheaval and challenge, our vision of our own society seems to be of limited social significance. An air of disengagement and disinterest hangs over the most powerful and affluent society the world has ever known. Neither the turbulence of the world abroad nor the fatness and flatness of the world at home is moving us to more vital effort. We seem becalmed in a season of storm, drifting through a century of mighty dreams and great achievements. As an American I am disturbed. ** Adlai Stevenson II, "Extend Our Vision to All Mankind", in ''LIFE'' (May 30, 1960), p. 86 [https://www.originallifemagazines.com/product/life-magazine-may-30-1960/] * America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and a moral fact — the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality. And we love it for this audacity! ** Adlai Stevenson II, Address, accepting the Tenth Annual Patriotism Award of the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN (February 18, 1963)<!--[https://archive.org/details/lookingoutward0000unse/page/260/mode/2up ''Looking Outward''] (1963), p. 260--> * How did [[w:Rathergate|Memogate]] get a "gate"? How did [[w:Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy|Nipplegate]] get a "gate"? We invaded a country with the wrong information, and [[Janet Jackson]]'s [[breast|''tit'']] got a "gate". Who gives out the "gates"? Is there a [[w:List of -gate scandals and controversies|"Gate"-gate]]? ** [[Jon Stewart]], C-SPAN interview (October 14, 2004) * If the presidency is the head of the American body politic, Congress is its gastrointestinal tract. Its vast and convoluted inner workings may be mysterious and unpleasant, but in the end they excrete a great deal of material whose successful passage is crucial to our nation's survival. * A free and independent press is essential to the health of a functioning democracy. It serves to inform the voting public on matters relevant to its well-being. Why they've stopped doing that is a mystery. I mean, 300 camera crews outside a courthouse to see what Kobe Bryant is wearing when the judge sets his hearing date, while false information used to send our country to war goes unchecked? What the fuck happened? ** Jon Stewart, et al., [[w:America (The Book)|''America: The Book'']] (2004), chs. 4 and 7<!--co-written with the writers of [[w:The Daily Show|''The Daily Show'']]--> * Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality. ** [[Harlan F. Stone]], [[w:Hirabayashi v. United States|''Hirabayashi v. United States'']], 320 U.S. 81, 100 (1943) * What I try to tell you? This country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the woman. That's why you gotta make your own moves. ** [[Oliver Stone]], [[Scarface (1983 film)|''Scarface'']] (1983 film) — [[w:Tony Montana|Tony Montana]] ([[Al Pacino]]) * In fourteen hundred ninety-two, [[Christopher Columbus|Columbus]] sailed the ocean blue </br> And found this land, land of the Free, beloved by you, beloved by me. * In sixteen hundred eighty-three, good William Penn stood 'neath a tree </br> And swore that unto his life's end he would be the Indian's friend. * In seventeen hundred seventy-five, good Paul Revere was then alive; </br> He rode like wild throughout the night, and called the Minute Men to fight. * And in the year eighteen and four, Lewis and Clark both went before, </br> And blazed for us the Oregon Trail where men go now in ease by rail. * In eighteen hundred and sixty-one, an awful war was then begun </br> Between the brothers of our land, who now together firmly stand. ** [[Winifred Sackville Stoner Jr.]], "The History of The U.S." (1919) * We are not much in sympathy with the typical hustling American business man, and we have often felt compunction for him, seeing him nervous and harassed, sleeplessly, anxiously hunting dollars, and all but overshadowed by his over-dressed, extravagant and idle wife, who sometimes insists that her spiritual development necessitates that she shall have no children. ** [[Marie Stopes]], "Revolting Woman in the Novel", unattributed in [[w:Workers' Dreadnought|''The Workers' Dreadnought'']], vol. 5, no. 33 (9 November 1918), p. 1,110, col. 3; attributed to Stopes in David Mitchell, ''The Fighting Pankhursts'' (1967), pt. 2, ch. 1 * God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness. ** [[William Stoughton]], Election Sermon at Boston (April 29, 1669) <!-- Variant: "God hath sifted a nation that he might send choice grain into this wilderness." --> * This is an age of the world where nations are trembling and convulsed. A mighty influence is abroad, surging and heaving the world, as with an earthquake. And is America safe? Every nation that carries in its bosom great and unredressed injustice has in it the elements of this last convulsion. ** [[Harriet Beecher Stowe]], [[w:Uncle Tom's Cabin|''Uncle Tom's Cabin'']] (1852), ch. 45 * A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; while we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell. ** Harriet Beecher Stowe, [https://archive.org/details/sunnymemoriesfo04stowgoog/page/n46/mode/2up ''Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands''] (1854), p. 31<!--Cited in Catherine Gilbertson, [https://archive.org/details/harrietbeecherst0000cath/page/198/mode/2up ''Harriet Beecher Stowe''] (1937), p. 198--> * Bright is the beautiful land of our birth, </br> The home of the homeless all over the earth. ** [[Alfred Billings Street]], "Song for Independence", ''Drawings and Tintings'' (1844), p. 21 * We Americans, though we are the most restless race in the world, with the possible exception of the [[Bedouin]]s, almost never permit ourselves to travel, either at home, or abroad, as the "guests of Chance." We always go from one place to another with a definite purpose. We never amble. On the boat, going to Europe, we talk of leisurely trips away from the "beaten track," but we never take them. After we land we rush about obsessed by "sights," seeing with the eyes of guides and thinking the "canned" thoughts of guidebooks. ** [[Julian Leonard Street]], ''Abroad at Home'' (1914), ch. 1 * The bird of our country is a debilitated chicken, disguised in eagle feathers. We have never been a nation; we are only an aggregate of communities, ready to fall apart at the first serious shock and without a centre of vigorous national life to keep us together. ** [[George Templeton Strong]], Diary entry (March 11, 1861); Allan Nevins (ed.), ''The Diary of George Templeton Strong'' (1952), vol. 3, p. 109 * The American people, are making an experiment in self-government. What reflecting mind can doubt that it is ''an experiment''. Who among us feels assured, that this country will continue as free, and as happy, as the Pilgrims intended it should be. Is our case an exception from that of all similar governments? are we exempt from the frailties of human nature? if not, are we so defended against them, that they cannot prostrate, or degrade us? ** William Sullivan, Discourse delivered before the Pilgrim Society at Plymouth, MA (December 22, 1829) [https://archive.org/details/adiscourseonliv00wirtgoog/page/n206/mode/2up] <!-- Boston: Carter and Hendee, 1830, p. 15 --> * The Senator from South Carolina has read many books of chivalry, and believes himself a chivalrous knight, with sentiments of honor and courage. Of course he has chosen a mistress to whom he has made his vows, and who, though ugly to others, is always lovely to him; though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight — I mean the harlot, Slavery. For her, his tongue is always profuse in words. ** [[Charles Sumner]], "[[s:The Crime against Kansas|The Crime against Kansas]]", Speech in the Senate (May 18, 1856) ** The claims made against Senator [[w:Andrew Butler|Andrew Butler]] of [[w:South Carolina|South Carolina]] so angered Butler's cousin, Democrat Representative [[w:Preston Brooks|Preston Brooks]], that Brooks beat Sumner with his gold-headed [[w:Gutta-percha|gutta-percha]] cane in the Senate chamber a few weeks later [[File:Superman shield.svg|thumb|Truth, justice and the American way]] * Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings at a single bound! Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Superman! Yes, it’s Superman! Strange visitor from another planet, who came to earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Superman! Who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel with his bare hands, and who—disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper—fights a never ending battle for truth, justice and the American way! ** Preamble to the U.S. radio show [[w:The Adventures of Superman (radio series)|''The Adventures of Superman'']] (February 12, 1940 onwards) * America has begun her career at the culminating point of life; as Adam did at the age of thirty. ** [[Sophie Swetchine]], "Thoughts", ch. 2, no. 117 (tr. Harriet W. Preston, 1869) == T == [[File:1925 U.S. Supreme Court Justices.jpg|thumb|Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever. —[[William Howard Taft|Taft]]]] * If humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain. ** [[William Howard Taft]], "Irish Humor", address in Hot Springs, VA (August 5, 1908) * Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the growth of civilization than any other institution established by the human race. ** William Howard Taft, ''Popular Government: Its Essence, Its Permanence and Its Perils'' (1913), ch. 4 * Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America. ** William Howard Taft, "Anti-Semitism in the United States", address to the Anti-Defamation League in Chicago, IL (December 23, 1920) * The day is not far distant when three Stars and Stripes at three equidistant points will mark our territory: one at the North Pole, another at the Panama Canal, and the third at the South Pole. The whole hemisphere will be ours in fact as, by virtue of our superiority of race, it already is ours morally. ** William Howard Taft, as quoted in Gregorio Selser, ''Diplomacia, Garrote y Dolares en América Latina'' (Buenos Aires: Editorial Palestra, 1962), pp. 46-47; retranslated from the Spanish in Eduardo Galeano, ''Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent'', translated by Cedric Belfrage (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1973) ch. 2, p. 121 <!-- Originally published as ''Las venas abiertas de América Latina'' by Siglo XXI Editores, Mexico, 1971, Siglo XXI Editores --> * Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever. ** Attributed to Taft in Henry Fowles Pringle, ''The Life and Times of William Howard Taft'' (1939) [[File:Obverse of the series 2021 $100 Federal Reserve Note.jpg|thumb|Consider that about 10 percent of Americans will spend at least a year in the top 1 percent, and more than half of all Americans will spend a year in the top 10 percent. —[[Nassim Nicholas Taleb|N. N. Taleb]]]] * Static inequality is a snapshot view of inequality, it does not reflect what will happen to you in the course of your life. Consider that about 10 percent of Americans will spend at least a year in the top 1 percent, and more than half of all Americans will spend a year in the top 10 percent. This is visibly not the same for the more static—but nominally more equal—Europe. For instance, only 10 percent of the wealthiest five hundred American people or dynasties were so thirty years ago; more than 60 percent on the French list are heirs and a third of the richest Europeans were the richest centuries ago. In Florence, it was just revealed that things are even worse: the same handful of families have kept the wealth for five centuries. ** [[Nassim Nicholas Taleb]], [[w:Skin in the Game (book)|''Skin in the Game'']] (2018), ch. 7 * America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, bad-ass speed. ** ''[[Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby]]'' (2006 film) — opening title card * It will be admitted on all hands, that with the exception of the powers surrendered by the Constitution of the United States, the people of the several States are absolutely and unconditionally sovereign within their respective territories. It follows that they may impose what taxes they think proper upon persons or things within their dominion, and may apportion them according to their discretion and judgment. They may, if they deem it advisable to do so, exempt certain descriptions of property from taxation, and lay the burden of supporting the government elsewhere. And they may do this in the ordinary forms of legislation or by contract, as may seem best to the people of the State. ... For it can never be maintained in any tribunal in this country, that the people of a State, in the exercise of the powers of sovereignty, can be restrained within narrower limits than those fixed by the Constitution of the United States, upon the ground that they may make contracts ruinous or injurious to themselves. The principle that they are the best judges of what is for their own interest, is the foundation of our political institutions. ** [[Roger B. Taney]], ''Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company v. Debolt'', 57 U.S. 416 (1853) * {{smallcaps|Esmeralda}}: What is your name? </br> {{smallcaps|Butch}}: Butch. </br> {{smallcaps|Esmeralda}}: ''Bootch''. What does it mean? </br> {{smallcaps|Butch}}: I'm American, honey. Our names don't mean shit. ** [[Quentin Tarantino]] and [[w:Roger Avary|Roger Avary]], ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'' (1994 film) * The United States remains a country where there is trial by jury and more freedom of expression of every sort of opinion than anywhere else in the world — including England. ** [[A. J. P. Taylor]], "Does Today Mean Nothing to You?", ''Daily Herald'' (July 4, 1953), p. 4 * The peace of the world depends on American strength and, still more, on American restraint. ** A. J. P. Taylor, "Peace Comes of Age", ''The New York Times Magazine'' (August 14, 1966), p. 72 * McDonald's (''Fuck yeah!'') Walmart (''Fuck yeah!'') The Gap (''Fuck yeah!'') Baseball (''Fuck yeah!'') NFL (''Fuck yeah!'') Rock and roll (''Fuck yeah!'') The Internet (''Fuck yeah!'') Slavery (''Fuck yeah!'') ... Starbucks (''Fuck yeah!'') Disney World (''Fuck yeah!'') Porno (''Fuck yeah!'') Valium (''Fuck yeah!'') Reeboks (''Fuck yeah!'') Fake tits (''Fuck yeah!'') Sushi (''Fuck yeah!'') Taco Bell (''Fuck yeah!'') Rodeos (''Fuck yeah!'') Bed, Bath & Beyond (''Fuck yeah, fuck yeah!'') Liberty (''Fuck yeah!'') Wax lips (''Fuck yeah!'') The Alamo (''Fuck yeah!'') Band-aids (''Fuck yeah!'') Las Vegas (''Fuck yeah!'') Christmas (''Fuck yeah!'') Immigrants (''Fuck yeah!'') Popeye (''Fuck yeah!'') Democrats (''Fuck yeah!'') Republicans (''Fuck yeah, fuck yeah'') Sportsmanship... Books... ** ''[[Team America: World Police]]'' (2004 film), "America, Fuck Yeah!" (theme song) * Sell a country! why not sell the air, the clouds, and the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the [[w:Great Spirit|Great Spirit]] make them all for the use of his children? ** [[Tecumseh]], Speech to Governor [[William Henry Harrison]], at Vincennes, Indiana Territory (August 14, 1810); [[w:Bartlett's Familiar Quotations|''Bartlett's'']], 15th ed. (1980), p. 419 * Gigantic daughter of the West, </br> We drink to thee across the flood, ...<br>For art not thou of English blood? ** [[Alfred Tennyson]], "Hands all Round", in [[w:The Examiner (1808–1886)|''The Examiner'']] (1862) and [[w:The Times|''The Times'']] (1880) [[File:Margaret Thatcher awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom.jpg|thumb|No other nation has been built upon an idea; the idea of liberty. ... The European nations are not and can never be like this. They are the product of history and not of philosophy. You can construct a nation on an idea; but you cannot reconstruct a nation on the basis of one. —[[Margaret Thatcher]]]] * Americans and Europeans alike sometimes forget how unique is the United States of America. No other nation has been created so swiftly and successfully. No other nation has been built upon an idea; the idea of liberty. No other nation has so successfully combined people of different races and nations within a single culture. Both the founding fathers of the United States and successive waves of immigrants to your country were determined to create a new identity. Whether in flight from persecution or from poverty, the huddled masses have, with few exceptions, welcomed American values, the American way of life and American opportunities. And America herself has bound them to her with powerful bonds of patriotism and pride. The European nations are not and can never be like this. They are the product of history and not of philosophy. You can construct a nation on an idea; but you cannot reconstruct a nation on the basis of one. ** [[Margaret Thatcher]], Speech at the [[w:Hoover Institute|Hoover Institute]] lunch, Four Seasons Hotel, Washington, D.C. (March 8, 1991) [https://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/108264] * I was very lucky to be born in America, and in my big family we always thanked the good Lord that our father, George Thomas, did not miss the boat. ... We were never hyphenated as Arab-Americans. We were American, and I have always rejected the hyphen and I believe all assimilated immigrants should not be designated ethnically. Or separated, of course, by race, or creed either. These are trends that ever try to divide us as a people. ** [[Helen Thomas]], in Hugh Downs (ed.) ''My America'' (2002), p. 238 [[File:Hunter S. Thompson and Oscar Zeta Acosta, Las Vegas 1971.jpg|thumb|Myths and legends die hard in America. —[[Hunter S. Thompson]]]] <!--[[File:Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 (1973 1st ed jacket cover) (cropped).jpg|thumb|We are really just a nation of 220 million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at all about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. —Hunter S. Thompson]]--> * The streets of every city in America are filled with men who would pay all the money they could lay their hands on to be transformed, even for a day, into hairy, hard-fisted brutes who walk all over cops, extort drinks from terrified bartenders and roar out of town on big motorcycles after raping the banker's daughter. ** [[Hunter S. Thompson]], [[w:Hell's Angels (book)|''Hell's Angels'']] (1966), ch. 21 * Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only real cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas. To relax, as it were, in the womb of the desert sun. Just roll the roof back and screw it on, grease the face with white tanning butter and move out with the music at top volume, and at least a pint of ether. ** Hunter S. Thompson, [[Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (novel)|''Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'']] (1971), pt. 1, ch. 2 <!--[[File:Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco2.jpg|thumb|I left the Fillmore half-crazy and, instead of going home, aimed the big 650 Lightning across the Bay Bridge at a hundred miles an hour…certain that no matter which way I went I would come to a place where people were just as high and wild as I was.]]--> * It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era — the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it ''meant something''. Maybe not, in the long run... but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant... {{pb}} History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of 'history' it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time — and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened. {{pb}} My central memory of that time seems to hang on one or five or maybe forty nights — or very early mornings — when I left the Fillmore half-crazy and, instead of going home, aimed the big 650 Lightning across the Bay Bridge at a hundred miles an hour... booming through the Treasure Island tunnel at the lights of Oakland and Berkeley and Richmond, not quite sure which turnoff to take when I got to the other end... but being absolutely certain that no matter which way I went I would come to a place where people were just as high and wild as I was: no doubt at all about that... {{pb}} There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda... You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was ''right'', that we were winning... {{pb}} And that, I think, was the handle — that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply ''prevail''. There was no point in fighting — on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave... {{pb}} So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes, you can almost ''see'' the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back. ** Hunter S. Thompson, ''Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'' (1971), pt. 1, ch. 8 * This may be the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves; finally just lay back and say it — that we are really just a nation of 220 million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at all about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. ** Hunter S. Thompson, [[w:Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72|''Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72'']] (1973) * Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men's reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final. ** Hunter S. Thompson, [[w:The Great Shark Hunt|''The Great Shark Hunt'']] (1979), pt. 3 (''Gonzo Papers'', vol. 1) * How does it become a man to behave toward this American government to-day? I answer that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it. ** [[Henry David Thoreau]], "[[w:Civil Disobedience (Thoreau)|Resistance to Civil Government]]", ''Æsthetic Papers'', no. 1 (1849), p. 192 * When I consider that the noble animals have been exterminated here — the cougar, panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, deer, the beaver, the turkey — I cannot but feel as if I lived in a tamed, and, as it were, emasculated country, would not the motions of those larger and wilder animals have been more significant still? Is it not a maimed and imperfect nature that I am conversant with? As if I were to study a tribe of Indians that had lost all its warriors. ** Henry David Thoreau, Journal entry (March, 1856), quoted in [[Rick Bass]], [https://archive.org/details/bookofyaak00bass/mode/2up?q=%22consider+that+the+noble+animals+have%22 ''The Book of Yaak''] (1996), p. 67 * Smoke all night, sleep all day </br> That's to me the American way. ** [[Three 6 Mafia]], ft. [[w:8Ball & MJG|8Ball & MJG]], "[[w:Stay Fly|Stay Fly]]", ''Most Known Unknown'' (2005) * Thou who ordainest, for the land's salvation, </br> Famine, and fire, and sword, and lamentation, </br> Now unto Thee we lift our supplication — </br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; God save the Nation! ... {{pb}} Slay Thou our foes, or turn them to derision! — </br> Then, in the blood-red Valley of Decision, </br> Make the land green with Peace, as in a vision </br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Of fields elysian! ** [[Theodore Tilton]], "A War Hymn", sts. 1, 4. Frank Moore (ed.) [https://archive.org/details/lyricsloyaltyar01unkngoog/page/n92/mode/2up ''Lyrics of Loyalty''] (1864), pp. 70–71. Collected in [https://books.google.com.au/books/about/The_Sexton_s_Tale.html?id=vYxF5E1cd8oC&redir_esc=y ''The Sexton’s Tale, &c.''] (1867), pp. 129–30 [[File:Portrait of Alexis de Tocqueville by Theodore Chasseriau , 1850. Getty Images.png|thumb|I know no country in which there is so little true independence of mind and freedom of discussion as in America. —[[Alexis de Tocqueville|Tocqueville]]]] [[File:Charles Henry Granger, Muster Day, 1843 or after, NGA 59925.jpg|thumb|The majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own. —Tocqueville]] * I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken stronger hold on the affections of men. ** [[Alexis de Tocqueville]], [[w:Democracy in America|''Democracy in America'']], vol. 1 (1835), ch. 3 (tr. Henry Reeve) * The people reign in the American political world as the Deity does in the universe. They are the cause and the aim of all things; everything comes from them, and everything is absorbed in them. ** Tocqueville, ''Democracy in America'', vol. 1 (1835), ch. 4 (tr. Henry Reeve; rev. Francis Bowen) * I know no country in which there is so little true independence of mind and freedom of discussion as in America. ** Tocqueville, ''Democracy in America'', vol. 1 (1835), ch. 15: pt. 2 (tr. Henry Reeve) * In the United States the sovereign authority is religious, and consequently hypocrisy must be common; but there is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America; and there can be no greater proof of its utility and of its conformity to human nature than that its influence is powerfully felt over the most enlightened and free nation of the earth. ** Tocqueville, ''Democracy in America'', vol. 1 (1835), ch. 17: pt. 2 (tr. Henry Reeve; rev. Francis Bowen) * America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion, and every movement seems an improvement. ... No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man; and what is not yet done is only what he has not yet attempted to do. ** Tocqueville, ''Democracy in America'', vol. 1 (1835), ch. 18: pt. 10 (tr. Henry Reeve) * In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own. ** Tocqueville, ''Democracy in America'', vol. 2 (1840), sec. 1, ch. 2 (tr. Henry Reeve) * Americans of all ages, all stations of life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations. ... In democratic countries knowledge of how to combine is the mother of all other forms of knowledge; on its progress depends that of all the others. ** Tocqueville, ''Democracy in America'', vol. 2 (1840), sec. 2, ch. 5 (tr. George Lawrence) * Although the travellers who have visited North America differ on a great number of points, they all agree in remarking that morals are far more strict there than elsewhere. ** Tocqueville, ''Democracy in America'', vol. 2 (1840), sec. 3, ch. 11 (tr. Henry Reeve) * America...has neither king, nobility, nor clergy established by law, and it is, notwithstanding, I am satisfied, at this hour, the happiest, the most flourishing, and the best governed spot on the face of the earth. ** [[Theobald Wolfe Tone]], "Address to the Peasantry of Ireland. By a Traveller" (1796); ''Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone'', [https://archive.org/details/lifeoftheobaldwo02toneuoft/page/324/mode/2up vol. 2] (Washington, D.C.: Gales & Seaton, 1826), p. 324 * The United States needs some theology and geometry, some taste and decency. I suspect that we are teetering on the edge of the abyss. ** [[John Kennedy Toole]], [[w:A Confederacy of Dunces|''A Confederacy of Dunces'']] (wr. 1963; pub. 1980) — Ignatius loq.<!--Paraphrasing [[Boethius]]--> * America is like a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair! ** [[Arnold Toynbee]], in ''Quote: The Weekly Digest'', [https://archive.org/details/sim_quote_1952-05-04_23_19/page/n15/mode/2up vol. 23, no. 19] (May 4, 1952), p. 16 * Let no one who wishes to receive agreeable impressions of American manners, commence their travels in a Mississippi steamboat. ** [[Frances Milton Trollope]], [[w:Domestic Manners of the Americans|''Domestic Manners of the Americans'']] (1832), ch. 2 * The whole people appear to be divided into an almost endless variety of religious factions. ** Frances Milton Trollope, ''Domestic Manners of the Americans'' (1832), ch. 11 * A single word indicative of doubt, that any thing, or every thing, in that country is not the very best in the world, produces an effect which must be seen and felt to be understood. If the citizens of the United States were indeed the devoted patriots they call themselves, they would surely not thus encrust themselves in the hard, dry, stubborn persuasion, that they are the first and best of the human race, that nothing is to be learnt, but what they are able to teach, and that nothing is worth having, which they do not possess. ** Frances Milton Trollope, ''Domestic Manners of the Americans'' (1832), ch. 34 * While intolerance is running rampant throughout the world, we need more friendly people, like those who grew so naturally out of the mind of Mark Twain, that kindly humorist from Hannibal, to guide us back to basic principles. ... No matter how grave the postwar problems may be, I am sure that our American sense of proportion and—yes—our sense of humor, will see us through to victory. ** [[Harry S. Truman]], Speech in Jefferson City, MO (February 22, 1945) [https://dalspaceb.library.dal.ca/server/api/core/bitstreams/8be6db1c-e3c7-4e35-baf8-576123b5e696/content#:~:text=While%20intolerance%20is%20running%20rampant,us%20back%20to%20basic%20principles.] * No nation on this globe should be more internationally minded than America because it was built by all nations. ** Harry S. Truman, speech in Chicago, IL (March 17, 1945) * At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life. The choice is too often not a free one. One way of life is based upon the will of the majority, and is distinguished by free institutions, representative government, free elections, guarantees of individual liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and freedom from political oppression. The second way of life is based upon the will of a minority forcibly imposed upon the majority. It relies upon terror and oppression, a controlled press and radio, fixed elections, and the suppression of personal freedoms. {{pb}} I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures. {{pb}} I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way. {{pb}} I believe that our help should be primarily through economic and financial aid which is essential to economic stability and orderly political processes. {{pb}} The world is not static, and the status quo is not sacred. But we cannot allow changes in the status quo in violation of the Charter of the United Nations by such methods as coercion, or by such subterfuges as political infiltration. In helping free and independent nations to maintain their freedom, the United States will be giving effect to the principles of the Charter of the United Nations. ** Harry S. Truman, Speech to Congress (March 12, 1947) — [[w:Truman Doctrine|Truman Doctrine]] * '''Q.''' Mr. President, former Governor Earle of Pennsylvania released the text of a letter which he said he received from you, in which he said you were not worried about the danger of the Communist "bugaboo." Is that your opinion today? <br> '''A.''' I am not worried about the Communist Party taking over the Government of the United States, but I am against a person, whose loyalty is not to the Government of the United States, holding a Government job. They are entirely different things. I am not worried about this country ever going Communist. We have too much sense for that. ** Harry S. Truman, News conference at the White House (April 3, 1947) [https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/public-papers/67/presidents-news-conference] * The Hoover slogan...was, 'Two cars in every garage.' The Republican slogan today is, 'Two families in every garage.' ** Harry S. Truman, Remarks in Elizabeth, NJ (October 7, 1948); variant quoted in ''The New York Times'' (October 7, 1948) p. 1: "Herbert Hoover once ran on the slogan: 'Two cars in every garage.' Apparently the Republican candidate this year is running on the slogan: 'Two families in every garage.'" * This soft talk and double talk, this combination of crafty silence and resounding misrepresentation, is an insult to the intelligence of the American voter. It proceeds upon the assumption that you can fool all the people — or enough of them — all the time. ** Harry S. Truman, Campaign speech (October 24, 1948) — about [[Thomas E. Dewey|Dewey]] <!-- ''The New York Times'' (October 24, 1948), p. 1 --> * All of you, I am sure, have heard many cries about the Government interference with business and about "creeping socialism." I should like to remind the gentlemen who make these complaints that if events had been allowed to continue as they were going prior to March 4, 1933, most of them would have no business left for the Government or anyone else to interfere with — and almost surely we would have socialism in this country, real socialism, not the kind they define. ** Harry S. Truman, Address in Butte, MT (May 12, 1950) [https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/public-papers/128/address-butte-montana] <!-- See also ''Labor Action'', vol. 14, no. 22 (May 29, 1950), pp. 1 and 8 --> * We must remember...that we cannot insulate our children from the uncertainties of the world in which we live or from the impact of the problems which confront us all. What we can do—and what we must do—is to equip them to meet these problems, to do their part in the total effort, and to build up those inner resources of character which are the main strength of the American people. ** Harry S. Truman, Address to the Midcentury White House Conference on Children and Youth (December 5, 1950) * McCarthyism...the meaning of the word is the corruption of truth, the abandonment of our historical devotion to fair play. It is the abandonment of "due process" of law. It is the use of the big lie and the unfounded accusation against any citizen in the name of Americanism and security. It is the rise to power of the demagogue who lives on untruth; it is the spread of fear and the destruction of faith in every level of our society. {{pb}} My friends, this is not a partisan matter. This horrible cancer is eating at the vitals of America and it can destroy the great edifice of freedom. ** Harry S. Truman, Radio and television address, Kansas City, MO (November 17, 1953) * I have said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America. ** Harry S. Truman, Lecture series, Columbia University (April 29, 1959) * When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. ... They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people. But I speak to border guards and they tell us what we're getting. And it only makes common sense. ... They're sending us not the right people. It's coming from more than Mexico. It's coming from all over South and Latin America, and it's coming probably – probably – from the Middle East. But we don't know. Because we have no protection and we have no competence, we don't know what's happening. And it's got to stop and it's got to stop fast. ** [[Donald Trump]], Speech at Trump Tower, Manhattan (June 16, 2015), announcing his presidential bid <!-- [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/06/16/full-text-donald-trump-announces-a-presidential-bid/] --> * America is a nation of believers, dreamers, and strivers that is being led by a group of censors, critics, and cynics. ** Donald Trump, Speech at the RNC (July 22, 2016), accepting his party's nomination for president <!-- [https://www.vox.com/2016/7/21/12253426/donald-trump-acceptance-speech-transcript-republican-nomination-transcript] --> * America is governed by Americans. We reject the ideology of globalism and we embrace the doctrine of patriotism. ** Donald Trump, Address at the 74th Session of the UN General Assembly (September 25, 2019) <!-- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=UrDqWODR2NY] --> [[File:Graincourt, attributed to - Turgot - Versailles MV 3923.jpg|thumb|They are the hope of the world. They may become a model to it.<br>—[[Anne Robert Jacques Turgot|A. R. J. Turgot]]]] * Columbia, child of Britain,—noblest child!<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;I praise the growing lustre of thy worth,<br>And fain would see thy great heart reconciled<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;To love the mother of so blest a birth:<br>For we are one, Columbia! still the same<br>In lineage, language, laws, and ancient fame,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;The natural nobility of earth. ** [[Martin Farquhar Tupper]], "To America", st. 1. [[commons:File:Hactenus- more droppings from the pen that wrote "Proverbial philosophy," "A thousand lines," etc. etc. etc. (IA hactenusmoredrop00tupp).pdf|''Hactenus'']] (1848) * Thou noble scion of an ancient root,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;Born of the forest-king! spread forth, spread forth,—<br>High to the stars thy tender leaflets shoot,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;Deep dig thy fibres round the ribs of earth!<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;From sea to sea, from south to icy north,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It must erelong be thine, through good or ill,<br>To stretch thy sinewy boughs. Go, wondrous child!<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The glories of thy destiny fulfil;—<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;Remember, then, thy mother in her age,<br>Shelter her in the tempest, warring wild,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;Stand thou with us when all the nations rage<br>So furiously together!—we are one:<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;And, through all time, the calm historic page<br>Shall tell of Britain blessed in thee her son. ** Martin Farquhar Tupper, "To America", st. 4 * They are the hope of the world. They may become a model to it. ** [[Anne Robert Jacques Turgot]], Letter to Dr. [[Richard Price]] (March 22, 1778) * American democracy was born of no theorist's dream; it was not carried in the ''Sarah Constant'' to Virginia, nor in the ''Mayflower'' to Plymouth. It came out of the American forest, and it gained new strength each time it touched a new frontier. Not the constitution, but free land and an abundance of natural resources open to a fit people, made the democratic type of society in America for three centuries while it occupied its empire. ** [[Frederick Jackson Turner]], ''The Frontier in American History'' (1920), ch. 11 [[File:Mark Twain seated c1900s.jpeg|thumb|That joke was lost on the foreigner—guides cannot master the subtleties of the American joke. —[[Mark Twain]]]] [[File:Twain in Tesla's Lab.jpg|thumb|It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it. —Mark Twain]] * That joke was lost on the foreigner—guides cannot master the subtleties of the American joke. ** [[Mark Twain]], [[w:The Innocents Abroad|''The Innocents Abroad'']] (1869), ch. 27 * They are a kindly disposed, well-meaning race, and are respected and well treated by the upper classes, all over the Pacific coast. No Californian ''gentleman'' or ''lady'' ever abuses or oppresses a Chinaman, under any circumstances, an explanation that seems to be much needed in the East. Only the scum of the population do it—they and their children; they, and, naturally and consistently, the policemen and politicians, likewise, for these are the dust-licking pimps and slaves of the scum, there as well as elsewhere in America. ** Mark Twain, [[w:Roughing It|''Roughing It'']] (1872), [[s:Roughing It/Chapter LIV|ch. 54]] [https://friesian.com/quotes.htm] * Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the [[w:Gilded Age|golden age]] of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human promises? That is a peculiar condition of society which enables a whole nation to instantly recognize point and meaning in the familiar newspaper anecdote, which puts into the mouth of a distinguished speculator in lands and mines this remark:—"I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two millions of dollars." ** Mark Twain, [[w:The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today|''The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today'']] (1873), ch. 26 * We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented—which was human liberty. ** Mark Twain, "On Foreign Critics", after-dinner speech (c. 1889) <!-- Albert Bigelow Paine, ed., ''Mark Twain's Speeches'', Stormfield Edition (1929), pp. 151-52 --> * It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it. ** Mark Twain, ''[[Pudd'nhead Wilson]]'' (1894), concl. (Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar) [[File:Mark Twain's American Philippines Flag Proposal.jpg|thumb|Just our usual flag, with the white stripes painted black and the stars replaced by the skull and cross-bones. —Mark Twain]] * And as for a flag for the [[w:Philippine–American War|Philippine Province]], it is easily managed. We can have a special one—our States do it: we can have just our usual flag, with the white stripes painted black and the stars replaced by the [[w:Jolly Roger|skull and cross-bones]]. ** Mark Twain, "[[w:To the Person Sitting in Darkness|To the Person Sitting in Darkness]]", ''North American Review'', [http://www.jstor.org/stable/25105120 vol. 172, no. 531] (February, 1901), p. 176 * When the author of "John Bull and His Island," wrote up his travels in America he said that the average American did not know who his grandfather was; to which Mark Twain made the famous retort that the American was, however, one degree better off than the Frenchman who, as a rule, was in considerable doubt as to who his father was. ** Mark Twain, quoted in C. D. Willard, ed., "Stories of Mark Twain", ''Pacific Outlook'', [https://archive.org/details/pacoutlook08unse/page/n287/mode/1up?q=%22father+was%22 vol. 8, no. 18] (April 30, 1910), p. 6 * {{smallcaps|Dimple}}: Believe me, Colonel, you have an immense pleasure to come; and when you shall have seen the brilliant exhibitions of Europe, you will learn to despise the amusements of this country as much as I do.<br>{{smallcaps|Manly}}: Therefore I do not wish to see them; for I can never esteem that knowledge valuable, which tends to give me a distaste for my native country. ** [[Royall Tyler]], [[w:The Contrast (play)|''The Contrast'']] (1790), act 4, sc. 1 == U == * Life is good in America, but the good life still eludes us. Our standard of living is admittedly high, but measured by those things that truly distinguish a civilization, our living standards are hardly high at all. We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. ** [[Stewart Udall]], Commencement Address, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (June 13, 1965) * One out of three hundred and twelve Americans is a bore, ... and a healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people’s patience. ** [[John Updike]], "Confessions of a Wild Bore", [https://archive.org/details/trent_0116301777409/page/30/mode/2up?q=%22twelve+Americans+is+a+bore%22 ''Assorted Prose''] (1965), p. 31 * America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. ** John Updike, "How to Love America and Leave it at the Same Time", in ''Problems and Other Stories'' (1979), p. 44 * Most of American life is driving somewhere and then driving back wondering why the hell you went. ** John Updike, [[w:Rabbit at Rest|''Rabbit at Rest'']] (1990), p. 29 == V == [[File:Vonnegut and family large.jpg|thumb|The American dream turned belly up, turned green, bobbed to the scummy surface of cupidity unlimited, filled with gas, went ''bang'' in the noonday sun. —[[Kurt Vonnegut]]]] * As I understand it, your policemen are chosen by their height and weight; they must meet certain requirements as to heft—as thought the only crimes they had to cope with were riots and gang feuds. Bulk,—the great American ideal, whether in art, architecture, table d'hôte meals, or detectives. An entrancin' notion. ** [[S. S. Van Dine]] (Willard Huntington Wright), [[w:The Benson Murder Case|''The Benson Murder Case'']] (1926), ch. 25 * Stand tall for the beast of America </br> Lay down like a naked dead body </br> Keep it real for the people workin' overtime </br> They can't stay living off the government's dime. ** [[Nico Vega]], "[[w:Beast (Nico Vega song)|Beast]]", ''chooseyourwordspoorly'' (2006 EP) * American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither. ** [[Gore Vidal]], [[w:Two Sisters (novel)|''Two Sisters'']] (1970) * Happily for the busy lunatics who rule over us, we are permanently the United States of Amnesia. We learn nothing because we remember nothing. ** Gore Vidal, "The State of the Union", in [[w:The Nation|''The Nation'']] (September 13, 2004) * Americans...are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier. ** [[Kurt Vonnegut]], ''[[Cat's Cradle]]'' (1963), ch. 44 * The American dream turned belly up, turned green, bobbed to the scummy surface of cupidity unlimited, filled with gas, went ''bang'' in the noonday sun. ** Kurt Vonnegut, [[w:God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater|''God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater'']] (1965), ch. 1 * Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in [[w:gift shop|gift shops]]. ** Kurt Vonnegut, ''[[Slaughterhouse-Five]]'' (1969), ch. 2 * ''Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue,'' the monograph went on. ''Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say, Napoleonic times.'' ** Kurt Vonnegut, ''Slaughterhouse-Five'' (1969), ch. 5 == W == [[File:Ag-obj-43725-0002-pub.tif|thumb|Where Liberty dwells, there is my country. —[[Anonymous]]]] * She stands, a guardian of the endless sea, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Her garb is golden, and her lips are flame, </br> She is the portal of Eternity </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; And Beauty is the realm from whence she came! </br> She is the voice of many bleeding lands— </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; America, she calls! To Arms! Arise! </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; For like a shimmering sabre in the skies </br> In scarlet glow she stands </br> A guardian of the earth and sea— </br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ''Liberty!'' ** [[Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff]], "[[s:Fifes and Drums/America, To Arms!|America, To Arms!]]", ''Fifes and Drums'' (1917), p. 91 * The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. * If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States. There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful. ... They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead. ** [[Henry A. Wallace]], article in ''The New York Times'' (April 9, 1944); reprinted in ''Democracy Reborn'' (1944), p. 260 * In the various Branches of Mathematics being pretty well informed, ... I applyed myself to practise Land Surveying with Success, but my natural bent for Science encreasing, I thought my native country too unfavourable a Spot for prosecuting my enquiries with any advantage or encouragement, and accordingly resolved to adopt the well Known Maxim "Where Liberty dwells, there is my country." Here every man who acknowledges the rights of a rational being, ought to bring his mite of Knowledge or experience, to encrease the rising Glory of this happy People. ** [[James Wallace (mathematician)|James Wallace]], Letter to Thomas Jefferson (May 19, 1803)<!--Barbara B. Oberg (ed.) ''The Papers of Thomas Jefferson'', vol. 40 (Princeton UP, 2013), pp. 396–403--> [https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-40-02-0302] * [[w:Psalm 137|By the waters of Babylon]] we sit down and weep, when we think of thee, O America! ** [[Horace Walpole]], Letter to William Mason (June 12, 1774) * The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a [[Thucydides]] at [[Boston]], a [[Xenophon]] at [[New York]], and, in time, a [[Virgil]] at [[Mexico]], and a [[Isaac Newton|Newton]] at [[Peru]]. ** Horace Walpole, Letter to Sir Horace Mann (November 24, 1774) * Easy I am so far, that the ill success of the American war has saved us from slavery—in truth, I am content that liberty will exist anywhere, and amongst Englishmen, even cross the Atlantic. ** Horace Walpole, Letter to Sir Horace Mann (February 25, 1779)<!--[[w:Peter Cunningham (British writer)|P. Cunningham]] (ed.) ''Letters'', [https://archive.org/details/lettersofhoracew0006pete/page/90/mode/2up vol. 6] (1857), pp. 91, 153; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.82608/page/n211/mode/2up vol. 10] (1858), p. 182--> * The upper World shall rule, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; While Stars will run their race: </br> The nether World obey, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; While people keep their place. ** [[Nathaniel Ward]], ''The Simple Cobbler of Aggawam'' (1647) * I am a haven for the oppressed, a living adventure in brotherhood, a community of compassion, and a dynamic example of liberty under law, opportunity with responsibility, and democracy through equality. My name is America! ** [[William Arthur Ward]], as quoted in Mary Hollingsworth (ed.) [https://archive.org/details/lettherebemorela0000unse/page/160/mode/2up?q=%22haven+for+the+oppressed%22 ''And God Said... Let There Be More Laughter!''] (2009), p. 160 * It seems to superficial observers that all Americans are born busy. It is not so. They are born with a fear of not being busy. ** [[Charles Dudley Warner]], ''A Little Journey in the World'' (1889), ch. 1 * May our land be a land of liberty, the seat of virtue, the asylum of the oppressed, a name and a praise in the whole earth, until the last shock of time shall bury the empires of the world in one common undistinguished ruin! ** [[Joseph Warren]], Oration at Boston, MA (March 5, 1772), the anniversary of the [[w:Boston Massacre|Boston Massacre]] * America stands armed with resolution and virtue; but she still recoils at the idea of drawing the sword against the nation from whom she derived her origin. Yet Britain, like an unnatural parent, is ready to plunge her dagger into the bosom of her affectionate offspring. ** [[Mercy Otis Warren]], Letter to [[Catherine Macaulay]] (December 29, 1774) [https://www.americanrevolution.org/mercy-warren-biography/] [[File:Head and shoulders crop of George Washington as President in 1796 painted by Gilbert Stuart.jpg|thumb|The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people. —[[George Washington]]]] * Unhappy it is though to reflect, that a Brother's Sword has been sheathed in a Brother's breast, and that, the once happy and peaceful plains of America are either to be drenched with Blood, or Inhabited by Slaves. Sad alternative! But can a virtuous Man hesitate in his choice? ** [[George Washington]], Letter to George William Fairfax (May 31, 1775) [https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/can-virtuous-man-hesitate-his-choice] * The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed, and themselves consigned to a state of wretchedness from which no human efforts will deliver them. The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die. ** George Washington, Address to the Continental Army before the [[w:Battle of Long Island|Battle of Long Island]] (August 27, 1776) * We must consult Brother Jonathan. ** George Washington's apocryphal reference to his secretary and Aide-de-camp, Col. [[Jonathan Trumbull]]; the phrase, "{{w|Brother Jonathan}}", later came to mean the American people, collectively.<!--''Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts'', vol. 7 (1905), p. 94--> * America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations and Religions; whom we shall wellcome to a participation of all our rights and previleges, if by decency and propriety of conduct they appear to merit the enjoyment. ** George Washington, Letter to Joshua Holmes (December 2, 1783)<!--"To the members of the Volunteer Association and other Inhabitants of the Kingdom of Ireland who have lately arrived in the City of New York"; John C. Fitzpatrick (ed.) ''The Writings of George Washington'', vol. 27 (1938), p. 254--> * I dwell on this prospect with every satisfaction which an ardent love for my Country can inspire: since there is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists in the œconomy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness, between duty and advantage, between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy, and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity: Since we ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven, can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained: And since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people. ** George Washington, First Inaugural Address (April 30, 1789)<!--John C. Fitzpatrick (ed.) ''The Writings of George Washington'', vol. 30 (1939), pp. 294-5--> * The establishment of our new government seemed to be the last great experiment for promoting human happiness by a reasonable compact in civil society. It was to be in the first instance, in a considerable degree, a government of accommodation as well as a government of laws. Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness. Few, who are not philosophical spectators, can realize the difficult and delicate part, which a man in my situation had to act. All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external happiness of elevated office. ** George Washington, Letter to Catharine Macaulay Graham (January 9, 1790) [https://web.archive.org/web/20160218134748/http://www.bartleby.com/400/prose/421.html] * As mankind become more liberal they will be more apt to allow, that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the Community are equally entitled to the protection of civil Government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations in examples of justice and liberality. ** George Washington, Letter to Roman Catholics in America (c. March 15, 1790) [https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-05-02-0193] * We have abundant reason to rejoice, that, in this land, the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition, and that every person may here worship God according to the dictates of his own heart. In this enlightened age, and in this land of equal liberty, it is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the laws, nor deprive him of the right of attaining & holding the highest offices that are known in the United States. ** George Washington, Letter to the New Jerusalem Church of Baltimore, MD (January 22, 1793) [https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-12-02-0027] [[File:The Artist and His Family James Peale.jpeg|thumb|... as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened. —Washington]] * To the efficacy and permanency of your Union, a Government for the whole is indispensable. * In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened. * Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. * It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliance with any portion of the foreign world. * Guard against the postures of pretended patriotism. ** George Washington, [[s:Washington's Farewell Address|Farewell Address]] (September 17, 1796) * America has no north, no south, no east, no west; the sun rises over the hills and sets over the mountains, the compass just points up and down, and we can laugh now at the absurd notion of there being a north and a south. ... We are one and undivided. ** [[Samuel R. Watkins]], ''"Co. Aytch"'' (1882), pp. 10, 233 * Thou sit'st between thy oceans; but when Fate </br> Was at thy making, and endowed thy soul </br> With many gifts and costly, she forgot </br> To mix with these a genius for repose. ** [[William Watson (poet)|William Watson]], "To the Invincible Republic", l. 13. ''New Poems'' (1909), p. 56 * I never use the words [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrats]] and [[Republican Party (United States)|Republicans]]. It's [[Liberalism|liberals]] and Americans. ** [[James G. Watt]], statement (November, 1981), quoted in ''The New York Times'' (October 10, 1983); also quoted in ''Energy and Environment: The Unfinished Business'' (Congressional Quarterly, Inc., 1986), p. 91 * They told me, Francis Hinsley, they told me you were hung </br> With red protruding eye-balls and black protruding tongue. </br> I wept as I remembered how often you and I </br> Had laughed about Los Angeles and now ’tis here you’ll lie; </br> Here pickled in formaldehyde and painted like a whore, </br> Shrimp-pink incorruptible, not lost nor gone before. ** [[Evelyn Waugh]], [[w:The Loved One (book)|''The Loved One'']] (1948), ch. 5 ** Parodying [[William Johnson Cory|W. J. Cory]]'s [[Callimachus]] * The peoples of other continents look to America half in hope and half in alarm. They see that their own future is inextricably involved with it, and their judgment is based on what they see in the cinema, what they read in the popular magazines, what they hear from the loudest advertiser. Gratitude for the enormous material benefits received is tempered with distaste for what they believe is the spiritual poverty of the benefactor. It is only when one travels in America that one realizes that most Americans either share this distaste or are genuinely unaware of the kind of false impression which interested parties have conspired to spread. ** Evelyn Waugh, "The American Epoch in the Catholic Church", in [[w:The Month|''The Month'']] (November, 1949) [https://archive.secondspring.co.uk/articles/asch.htm] * Our so-called stealing of this country from them was just a matter of survival. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves. ** [[John Wayne]], Interview with ''Playboy'', [https://archive.org/details/pb-05-71/page/82/mode/2up vol. 18, no. 5] (May, 1971), p. 82 [https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/john-wayne-native-americans/] * I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American! ** [[Daniel Webster]], Speech (July 17, 1850); Edward Everett (ed.) ''Works'' (1851), p. 437 * The American states have gone far in assisting the progress of truth; but they have stopped short of perfection. They ought to have given every honest citizen an equal right to enjoy his religion and an equal title to all civil emoluments, without obliging him to tell his religion. Every interference of the civil power in regulating opinion, is an impious attempt to take the business of the Deity out of his own hands; and every preference given to any religious denomination, is so far slavery and bigotry. ** [[Noah Webster]], ''Sketches of American Policy'' (1785), p. 27 * Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States. ** Noah Webster, ''An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution'' (1787), p. 32 * Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American eagle it observes only the rear end of an ostrich. ** [[H. G. Wells]], as quoted in the New York [[w:Review of Reviews|''Review of Reviews'']], [https://archive.org/details/sim_review-of-reviews-us_1930-10_82_4/page/82/mode/2up vol. 82, no. 4] (October 1930), p. 83, col. 2 * When the decision was finally made to accept blacks as full citizens, the founders' principles provided the theoretical foundation. Lincoln's revival of the declaration in the 1850s had prepared the way. In principle, people of all races can become citizens of a nation based on the idea that "all men are created equal". ** [[Thomas G. West]], ''Vindicating the Founders'' (2001), p. 28 * How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be "American" before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, & having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries? ** [[Edith Wharton]], Letter to Barrett Wendell (July 19, 1919), in R. W. B. Lewis and Nancy Lewis (eds.) ''The Letters of Edith Wharton'' (<!--New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, -->1988) p. 424 * I was never allowed to read the popular American children's books of my day because, as my mother said, the children spoke bad English ''without the author's knowing it''. ** Edith Wharton, ''A Backward Glance'' (1934) ch. 3 * No more, America, in mournful strain </br> Of wrongs, and grievance unredress'd complain, </br> No longer shalt thou dread the iron chain, </br> Which wanton Tyranny with lawless hand </br> Had made, and with it meant t' enslave the land. ** [[Phillis Wheatley]], "To The Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth", sts. 2, 3. ''Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral'' (1773) * I was a very minor missionary, actually a heretic, but I toiled wholeheartedly in the vineyards because it was fun, fun, fun. Where else could a red-blooded American boy lie, kill, cheat, steal, rape, and pillage with the sanction and blessing of the All-Highest? ** [[George Hunter White]], Letter to [[w:Sidney Gottlieb|Sidney Gottlieb]], reminiscing about [[w:Operation Midnight Climax|Operation Midnight Climax]]. [[w:John D. Marks|J. D. Marks]], [https://archive.org/details/the-search-for-the-manchurian-candidate-the-cia-and-mind-control-john-marks/page/100/mode/2up ''The Search for the Manchurian Candidate''] (1978), p. 101<!--Also: Douglas Valentine, ''The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America's War on Drugs'' (2004)--> * The luxuries of the last generation are the comforts of this and the comforts of our fathers are the necessities of their children. ** [[William Allen White]], as quoted in the [[w:Journal of Education|''Journal of Education'']], [https://archive.org/details/sim_journal-of-education_1931-02-23_113_8/page/228/mode/2up vol. 113, no. 8] (February 23, 1931), p. 229 * This is a middle-class country and the middle class will have its will and way. ** William Allen White, Speech before the International Management Congress in Washington, D.C. (September 20, 1937)<!--Lewis Copeland (ed.) ''The World's Great Speeches''] (Garden City Publ. Co., 1942), p. 428--> * Your diffusion of literacy and average comfort and well-being among the masses, in my opinion, is one of the major achievements in human history. ... With all its limitations, life in America is better and kinder than anywhere else on earth that I have ever heard of in history. ** [[Alfred North Whitehead]], in [[Lucien Price]] (ed.) ''Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead'' (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1954), pp. 55, 134 * The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. ** [[Walt Whitman]], [[w:Leaves of Grass|''Leaves of Grass'']] (ed. 1855), pref. * I will put in my poems that with you is heroism upon land and sea, </br> And I will report all heroism from an American point of view. ** Walt Whitman, "Starting from Paumanok", st. 21. ''Leaves of Grass'' (ed. 1860), p. 10 * I say the word of lands fearing nothing — I will have no other land; <br> I say discuss all and expose all — I am for every topic openly; <br> I say there can be no salvation for These States without innovators — without free tongues, and ears willing to hear the tongues; <br> And I announce as a glory of These States, that they respectfully listen to propositions, reforms, fresh views and doctrines, from successions of men and women. <br> Each age with its own growth. ** Walt Whitman, "Says", st. 6. ''Leaves of Grass'' (ed. 1860), p. 419 * The United States are destined either to surmount the gorgeous history of feudalism, or else prove the most tremendous failure of all time. ** Walt Whitman, ''Democratic Vistas'' (1871), ch. 1 * And thou, high-towering One—America! </br> Thy swarm of offspring towering high—yet higher thee, above all towering, </br> With Victory on thy left, and at thy right hand Law; </br> Thou Union, holding all—fusing, absorbing, tolerating all, </br> Thee, ever thee, I bring. ** Walt Whitman, "Song of the Exposition", st. 10. [https://archive.org/details/drumtaps00whit/page/130/mode/2up ''Drum Taps''] (1871), p. 130 ** [[s:Leaves of Grass (1882)/Song of the Exposition|Revised]], in ''Leaves of Grass'' (ed. 1882), p. 163: **: And thou America, </br> Thy offspring towering e'er so high, yet higher Thee above all towering, </br> With Victory on thy left, and at thy right hand Law; </br> Thou Union holding all, fusing, absorbing, tolerating all, </br> Thee, ever thee, I sing. * I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear,... </br> The delicious singing of the mother, or of the young wife at work, or of the girl sewing or washing, </br> Each singing what belongs to him or her and to none else... </br> ** Walt Whitman, "[[s:Leaves of Grass (1882)/Inscriptions/I Hear America Singing|I Hear America Singing]]". ''Leaves of Grass'' (ed. 1882), p. 17 * I see not America only, not only Liberty's nation but other nations preparing, <br> I see tremendous entrances and exits, new combinations, the solidarity of races. ** Walt Whitman, "[[s:Leaves of Grass (1882)/Songs of Parting/Years of the Modern|Years of the Modern]]". ''Leaves of Grass'' (ed. 1882), p. 370 * We Americans have yet to really learn our own antecedents, and sort them, to unify them. They will be found ampler than has been supposed, and in widely different sources. Thus far, impress'd by [[New England]] writers and schoolmasters, we tacitly abandon ourselves to the notion that our United States has been fashion'd from the British Islands only, and essentially form a second England only — which is a very great mistake. ** Walt Whitman, "The Spanish Element in Our Nationality", Letter to the ''Philadelphia Press'' (July 20, 1883)<!--[https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/prose-works/4-the-spanish-element-in-our-nationality/ ''Complete Prose Works''] (1892), pt. 5--> * Centre of equal daughters, equal sons, </br> All, all alike endear’d, grown, ungrown, young or old, </br> Strong, ample, fair, enduring, capable, rich, </br> Perennial with the Earth, with Freedom, Law and Love, </br> A grand, sane, towering, seated Mother, </br> Chair’d in the adamant of Time. ** Walt Whitman, "America", in the ''New York Herald'' (February 11, 1888) * Lo! body and soul! this land! </br> Mighty Manhattan, with spires, and the sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships; </br> The varied and ample land—the South and the North in the light—Ohio’s shores, and flashing Missouri, </br> And ever the far-spreading prairies, cover’d with grass and corn. ** Walt Whitman, "When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom'd", st. 12. [https://archive.org/details/waltwhitmansdrum00whitrich/page/n81/mode/2up ''Sequel to Drum Taps''] (1865), p. 3 * No seal is on the Yankee's mouth, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; No fetter on the Yankee's press! </br> From our Green Mountains to the Sea, </br> One voice shall thunder—{{smallcaps|we are free}}! ** [[John Greenleaf Whittier]], "Stanzas for the Times", st. 14. ''Poems'' (1838), p. 56 * Land of the forest and the rock—<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;Of dark blue lake, and mighty river—<br>Of mountains reared aloft<!--variant: 'on high'--> to mock<br>The storm’s career—the<!--'and'--> lightning’s shock—<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;My own, green land, forever!<br>Oh—never may a son of thine,<br>Where’er his wandering steps<!--'feet'--> incline,<br>Forget the sky which<!--'that'--> bent above<br>His childhood like a dream of love. ** John Greenleaf Whittier, ''Moll Pitcher: A Poem'' (1832), pt. 2 * Mighty alike for good or ill </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; With mother-land, we fully share </br> The Saxon strength,—the nerve of steel,— </br> The tireless energy of will,— </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; The power to do, the pride to dare. ** John Greenleaf Whittier, "Lines", st. 4. ''Poems'' (1850), p. 162 * "Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, </br> But spare your country's flag," she said. ** John Greenleaf Whittier, "Barbara Frietchie", in ''The Atlantic Monthly'' (October, 1863). The lines are based on the folkloric account of the real [[w:Barbara Fritchie|Barbara Fritchie]], said to have made a similar challenge to Confederate invaders of Maryland during the Civil War (Fall, 1862) * We're the kids in America! </br> We're the kids in America! </br> Ev'rybody live for the music-go-round. {{pb}} Outside a new day is dawning. </br> Outside suburbia's sprawling, ev'rywhere... </br> New York to East California </br> There's a new wave coming, I warn ya. ** [[Kim Wilde]], "[[w:Kids in America|"Kids in America]]" (1981 single) * We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language. ** [[Oscar Wilde]], "[[w:The Canterville Ghost|The Canterville Ghost]]", pt. 1, ch. 1, in ''The Court and Society Review'' (February 23, 1887) * In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever. Fortunately in America Journalism has carried its authority to the grossest and most brutal extreme. As a natural consequence it has begun to create a spirit of revolt. People are amused by it, or disgusted by it, according to their temperaments. But it is no longer the real force it was. It is not seriously treated. ** Oscar Wilde, "[[w:The Soul of Man Under Socialism|The Soul of Man Under Socialism]]", in ''The Fortnightly Review'', new ser., vol. 49 (February, 1891) * The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years. To hear them talk one would imagine they were in their first childhood. As far as civilisation goes they are in their [[wikt:second childhood|second]]. ** Oscar Wilde, [[w:A Woman of No Importance|''A Woman of No Importance'']] (1893), act 1 * {{smallcaps|Mrs. Allonby}}: They say, Lady Hunstanton, that when good Americans die they go to Paris. </br> {{smallcaps|Lady Hunstanton}}: Indeed? And when bad Americans die, where do they go to? </br> {{smallcaps|Lord Illingworth}}: Oh, they go to America. ** Oscar Wilde, ''A Woman of No Importance'' (1893), act 1 * (1) Everybody seems in a hurry to catch a train. This is a state of things which is not favourable to poetry or romance. </br> (2) It is the noisiest country that ever existed. Such continual turmoil must ultimately be destructive of the musical faculty. </br> (3) There are no trappings, no pageants, and no gorgeous ceremonies. I saw only two processions: one was the Fire Brigade preceded by the Police, the other was the Police preceded by the Fire Brigade. </br> (4) In America life is one long expectoration. ** Oscar Wilde, quoted in [[Hesketh Pearson]], ''The Life of Oscar Wilde'' (1919), ch. 6 * I hold that man is a child of God, not a child of the State; that man is a spiritual being who, as Christ said, cannot live by bread alone. ... If America is to regain its greatness, we must stop gagging at the word, spiritual. We must reaffirm our faith in those spiritual qualities on which American society has really rested since its beginning. ** [[Bud Wilkinson]], Address before the National Press Club, Washington, D.C. (September 18, 1964) * The American condition can be summed up in three sentences we're hearing these days: </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; "Your check is in the mail." </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; "I will respect you as much in the morning." </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; "I am from the government and I am here to help you." ** [[George Will]], in [[w:The Frederick News-Post|''The Frederick News'']] (July 19, 1976), p. 4 [https://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2005-March/047011.html] * Yes, movies! Look at them — All of those glamorous people — having adventures — hogging it all, gobbling the whole thing up! You know what happens? People go to the movies instead of moving! Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in America sits in a dark room and watches them have them! Yes, until there's a war. That's when adventure becomes available to the masses! Everyone's dish, not only [[Clark Gable|Gable]]'s! Then the people in the dark room come out of the dark room to have some adventures themselves — Goody, goody! — It's our turn now, to go to the south Sea Island — to make a safari — to be exotic, far-off! — But I'm not patient. I don't want to wait till then. I'm tired of the movies and I am about to move! ** [[Tennessee Williams]], ''[[w:The Glass Menagerie|The Glass Menagerie]]'' (1944), sc. 6 — Tom loq. * To put it simply, America is having a nervous breakdown. A spiritual crisis. A complete disassembling of the personality after which a more authentic self might emerge. ... As a nation, we have slithered like snakes across the floor to whatever hole where money lay, sacrificing the depths of our own humanity as we did so. ** [[Marianne Williamson]], [https://www.newsweek.com/marianne-williamson-americas-karma-opinion-1529724 "America's Karma"], in [[w:Newsweek|''Newsweek'']] (September 4, 2020) * I believe in America because in it we are free—free to choose our government, to speak our minds, to observe our different religions; </br> —Because we are generous with our freedom—we share our rights with those who disagree with us; </br> —Because we hate no people and covet no people's land; </br> —Because we are blessed with a natural and varied abundance; </br> —Because we set no limit to a man's achievement—in mine, factory, field, in business or the arts, an able man, regardless of class or creed, can realize his ambition; </br> —Because we have great dreams—and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true. ** [[Wendell Willkie]], "The Faith That Is America", in ''Reader's Digest'', vol. 35, no. 212 (December, 1939); reprinted in ''This Is Wendell Willkie'' (1940), p. 47 * The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens. ** Wendell Willkie, ''An American Program'' (1944), ch. 2 * Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name. ** [[Woodrow Wilson]], Address at the unveiling of the [[w:Statue of John Barry|Statue]] of Cdre. John Barry, Washington, D.C. (May 16, 1914) * My dream is that as the years go on...that America will come into the full light of the day when all shall know that she puts human rights above all other rights and that her flag is the flag not only of America but of humanity. ** Woodrow Wilson, Address at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, PA (July 4, 1914) * Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another, it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people, and her example, her assistance, her encouragement, has thrilled two continents in this western world with all those fine impulses which have built up human liberty on both sides of the water. She stands, therefore, as an example of independence, as an example of free institutions, and as an example of disinterested international action in the main tenets of justice. * We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character to display itself in what I may, perhaps, be allowed to call spiritual efficiency—clear, disinterested thinking and fearless action along the right lines of thought. America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us; and it can consist of all of us only as our spirits are banded together in a common enterprise. That common enterprise is the enterprise of liberty and justice and right. And, therefore, I, for my part, have a great enthusiasm for rendering America spiritually efficient; and that conception lies at the basis of what seems very far removed from it, namely, the plans that have been proposed for the military efficiency of this nation. ** Woodrow Wilson, Speech in Pittsburgh, PA (January 29, 1916) * America can not be an ostrich with its head in the sand. ** Woodrow Wilson, Speech at Des Moines, IA (February 1, 1916); ''The New York Times'' (February 2, 1916), p. 1 * The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. ** Woodrow Wilson, Speech to Congress (April 2, 1917); ''Selected Addresses'' (1918), p. 195 * Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America, my fellow citizens—I do not say it in disparagement of any other great people—America is the only idealistic Nation in the world. ** Woodrow Wilson, Speech at Sioux Falls, SD (September 8, 1919); ''Messages and Papers'' (1924), vol. 2, p. 82 * The public school is the one force, is the only force, that can unify all classes and conditions of society. Here we have the children of the nation in their entirety, and we can, if we will, teach them in the schools so much of the grandeur of our possessions, of the heroic in our history, of the brilliant in our prosperity, of the fascinating in our traditions, that the fathers of the future will be willing to vote for, and die, if need be, for, the American idea; that the mothers of the future will teach their sons to develop our resources by industry, to honor the historic heroism of our sires, to project the brilliancy of our prosperity into the future, to cherish, with unwavering devotion, the traditions of the land. ** [[Albert Edward Winship]], "Our Education Must Be American"; ''Patriotic Reader'' (1888), p. 539 [[File:George-Henry-Boughton-Pilgrims-Going-To-Church.jpg|thumb|Consider that no man expecteth fruit before the tree be grown; advising all men, that as they tender their own welfare, so to make choice of such to manage and govern their affairs, as are approved not to be seekers of themselves, but the common good.]] * Three things are the overthrow and bane, as I may term it, of plantations: {{pb}} 1. The vain expectation of present profit, which too commonly taketh a principal seat in the heart and affection, though God's glory, &c. is preferred before it in the mouth with protestation. {{pb}} 2. Ambition in their governors and commanders, seeking only to make themselves great, and slaves of all that are under them, to maintain a transitory base honor in themselves, which God oft punisheth with contempt. {{pb}} 3. The carelessness of those that send over supplies of men unto them, not caring how they be qualified; so that ofttimes they are rather the image of men endued with bestial, yea, diabolical affections, than the image of God, endued with reason, understanding, and holiness. I praise God I speak not these things experimentally, by way of complaint of our own condition, but having great cause on the contrary part to be thankful to God for his mercies towards us; but rather, if there be any too desirous of gain, to entreat them to moderate their affections, and consider that no man expecteth fruit before the tree be grown; advising all men, that as they tender their own welfare, so to make choice of such to manage and govern their affairs, as are approved not to be seekers of themselves, but the common good of all for whom they are employed; and beseeching such as have the care of transporting men for the supply and furnishing of plantations, to be truly careful in sending such as may further and not hinder so good an action. ** [[Edward Winslow]], ''Good Newes from New England'' (1624), dedication<!--modernized orthography--> * For we must consider that we shall be as a [[w:City upon a Hill|city upon a hill]]. The eyes of all people are upon us. So that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, ... we shall be made a story and a by-word through the world. ... We shall shame the faces of many of God’s worthy servants, and cause their prayers to be turned into curses upon us till wee be consumed out of the good land whither we are a going. ** [[John Winthrop]], "[[w:A Model of Christian Charity|A Model of Christian Charity]]", Sermon preached at [[w:Holyrood Church|Holyrood Church]], [[w:Southampton|Southampton]] (March 21, 1630)<!--before the first group of [[w:Massachusetts Bay Colony|Massachusetts Bay colonists]] embarked on the [[w:Arbella|''Arbella'']]--> * {{smallcaps|Our country}}—whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurements more or less—still ''our country'', to be cherished in all our hearts, to be defended by all our hands. ** [[Robert Charles Winthrop|Robert C. Winthrop]], Toast at [[w:Faneuil Hall|Faneuil Hall]] (July 4, 1845). ''Niles' National Register'' (July 12, 1845) p. 290, col. 2 * Like so many substantial citizens of America, he had married young and kept on marrying, springing from blonde to blonde like the chamois of the Alps leaping from crag to crag. ** [[P. G. Wodehouse]], [[w:Summer Moonshine|''Summer Moonshine'']] (1938), ch. 2 * Poor lost {{smallcaps|America}}, high honours missing,<br>Knows nought of smile and nod, and sweet hand-kissing;<br>Knows nought of golden promises of kings;<br>Knows nought of coronets, and stars, and strings. ** [[John Wolcot]] (Peter Pindar), ''The Rights of Kings'' (Dublin, 1791), Ode IX * Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox in America — that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement. ** [[Thomas Wolfe]], [[w:You Can't Go Home Again|''You Can't Go Home Again'']] (1940), bk. 1, ch. 5 * The leaders of the nation had fixed their gaze so long upon the illusions of a false prosperity that they had forgotten what America looked like. Now they saw it — saw its newness, its raw crudeness, and its strength — and turned their shuddering eyes away. "Give us back our well-worn husk," they said, "where we were so snug and comfortable." And then they tried word magic. "Conditions are fundamentally sound," they said — by which they meant to reassure themselves that nothing now was really changed, that things were as they always had been, and as they always would be, forever and ever, amen. </br> But they were wrong. They did not know that you can't go home again. America had come to the end of something and to the beginning of something else. But no one knew what that something else would be and out of the change and uncertainly and the wrongness of the leaders grew fear and desperation and before long hunger stalked the streets. Through it all there was still only one certainty, though no one saw it yet. America was still America, and whatever new thing came of it would be American. ** Thomas Wolfe, ''You Can't Go Home Again'' (1940), bk. 3, ch. 21 * At this weak, pale, tabescent moment in the history of American literature, we need a battalion, a brigade, of [[Émile Zola|Zolas]] to head out into this wild, bizarre, unpredictable, Hog-stomping, Baroque country of ours and reclaim it as literary property. ** [[Tom Wolfe]], "[[w:Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast|Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast]]", in ''Harper's Magazine'' (November, 1989) * It cannot be that men who are the seed </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Of Washington should miss fame's true applause; </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Franklin did plan us; Marshall gave us laws; </br> And slow the broad scroll grew a people's creed— </br> One land and free! then at our dangerous need, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Time's challenge coming, Lincoln gave it pause? </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Upheld the double pillars of the cause, </br> And dying left them whole—our crowning deed. {{pb}} Such was the fathering race that made all fast, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Who founded us, and spread from sea to sea </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; A thousand leagues the zone of liberty, </br> And built for man this refuge from his past, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Unkinged, unchurched, unsoldiered; shamed were we, </br> Failing the stature that such sires forecast! ** [[George Edward Woodberry|George E. Woodberry]], "Our First Century". [https://archive.org/details/northshorewatcho00wood/mode/2up ''The North Shore Watch, &c.''] (1890), p. 96 * Home from the lonely cities, time's wreck, and the naked woe,<br>Home through the clean great waters where freemen's pennants blow,<br>Home to the land men dream of, where all the nations go. ** George E. Woodberry, "Homeward Bound", st. 1. [https://archive.org/details/wildeden01woodgoog/page/n58/mode/2up ''Wild Eden''] (1899), p. 45 [[File:Daisies gathered for Decoration Day, May 30, 1899 LCCN2001703674 (cropped).jpg|thumb|For the brave and the true </br> ... the red, white and blue </br> Are united forever.]] * (''Red roses, daisies, violets'') </br> For the brave and the true </br> We'll twine them together, </br> For the red, white and blue </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Are united forever. ** William Woodman, "Emblems of Decoration Day", [https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdclccn.37025903/?st=gallery ''Practical Memorial Day Exercises''] (Lebanon, OH: March Bros., 1892), p. 21 * In this country, two things stand first in rank: your flag and your mail. ** [[Ernest Vincent Wright]], [[w:Gadsby (novel)|''Gadsby'']] (1939), XIII * A free America, democratic in the sense that our forefathers intended it to be, means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call 'democracy' is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it. ** [[Frank Lloyd Wright]], ''The Future of Architecture'' (1953), p. 174 * To survive, our American art was cheating itself of life. ** Frank Lloyd Wright, ''A Testament'' (1957), pt. 1 * The pole-and-wire men in the name of social necessity had already forged a mortgage on the landscape of our beautiful American countryside while all our buildings, public and private, even churches, were senseless commitments to some kind of expediency instead of the new significances of freedom we so much needed. In the name of necessity, false fancy fronts hung with glaring signs as one trod along the miles of every urban sidewalk-instead of freedom, license inextricable confusion. Trimmings and embellishments of trimmings pressed on the eye everywhere, made rampant by the casual taste of any ignoramus. These were all social liabilities forced upon American life by the misconception, or no conception at all, of the mother-art — architecture. Man, thus caricatured by himself nature thus violated — invaded even the national forest-parks by a clumsy rusticity false to nature and so to architecture. The environment of civilized mankind was everywhere insulted by such willful stupidity.{{pb}}But soon this saving virtue appeared to me in our disgraceful dilemma: Realization that any true cultural significance our American free society could know lay in the proper use of ''the machine as a tool and used only as a tool''. ** Frank Lloyd Wright, ''A Testament'' (1957), pt. 1 * Degeneration of creative ability in America has had ample support, and what nobility our society might still have is in danger of being submerged in overwhelming tides of rising conformity. ** Frank Lloyd Wright, ''A Testament'' (1957), pt. 1 * When the world turns completely upside down <br /> You say we’ll emigrate to the Eastern Shore <br /> Aboard a river-boat from Baltimore; <br /> We’ll live among wild peach trees, miles from town, <br /> You’ll wear a coonskin cap, and I a gown <br /> Homespun, dyed butternut’s dark gold color. <br /> Lost, like your lotus-eating ancestor, <br /> We’ll swim in milk and honey till we drown. ** [[Elinor Wylie]], "Wild Peaches", ''Nets to Catch the Wind'' (1921) == X == * We didn't land on Plymouth Rock, my brothers and sisters—Plymouth Rock landed on ''us''. ** [[Malcolm X]], in Alex Haley (ed.) ''[[w:The Autobiography of Malcolm X|The Autobiography of Malcolm X]]'' (1964), ch. 12 * We want freedom ''[[w:by any means necessary|by any means necessary]]''. We want justice ''by any means necessary''. We want equality ''by any means necessary''. ** Malcolm X, Speech at the founding rally of the [[w:Organization of Afro-American Unity|OAAU]], NYC (July 28, 1964) * I'm not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner. Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American. ... No, I’m not an American. I’m one of the 22 million black people who are the victims of Americanism. One of the 22 million black people who are the victims of democracy, nothing but disguised hypocrisy. ** Malcolm X, "[[w:The Ballot or the Bullet|The Ballot or the Bullet]]", Speech in Cleveland, OH (April 3, 1964) * If this is a country of freedom, let it be a country of freedom; and if it's not a country of freedom, change it. ** Malcolm X, "The Ballot or the Bullet", Speech in Cleveland, OH (April 3, 1964) == Y == * Depend upon it it is a mistake sometimes to have been too well brought up, it prevents you realising that in America everything hitherto respected including your politeness and reticence is quite out of date. Every day of my life, I meet with some fresh surprise. People will do and say anything, and except a few things like the multiplication table, nothing is sacred. ** [[John Butler Yeats]], Letter to Ruth Hart, written from New York (July 3, 1912); Joseph Hone (ed.) [https://archive.org/details/jbyeatslettersto0000yeat/page/142/mode/2up ''Letters to His Son W. B. Yeats and Others, 1869–1922''] (1944), p. 142. Cited in Mark Pachter; Frances Wein (eds.) [https://archive.org/details/abroadinamericav00pach/page/261/mode/2up ''Abroad in America: Visitors to the New Nation, 1776–1914''] (1976), p. 261 == Z == [[File:TheMeltingpot1.jpg|thumb|America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming! </br> —[[Israel Zangwill]]]] * Miss Revendal asked—and I want to explain to her what America means to me. ... When I am ''writing'' my American symphony, it seems like thunder crashing though a forest full of bird songs. ... America is God's Crucible, the great [[w:Melting pot|Melting-Pot]] where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming! Here you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries. But you won't be long like that, brothers, for these are the fires of God you've come to—these are the fires of God. A fig for your feuds and vendettas! Germans and Frenchmen, Irishmen and Englishmen, Jews and Russians—into the Crucible with you all! God is making the American. ... The real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you—he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman. Ah, what a glorious Finale for my symphony—if I can only write it. ** [[Israel Zangwill]], ''The Melting Pot'' (1908), act 1 * I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past's fugitive moments of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare. ** [[Howard Zinn]], ''A People's History of the United States'' (1980), ch. 1 * If those in charge of our society — politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television — can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves. ** Howard Zinn, [https://archive.org/details/declarationsofin00zinn/mode/2up?q=%22politicians%2C+corporate+executives%2C+and+owners%22 ''Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology''] (1991), intro. == Anonymous == * In the name of God, Amen. We, whose names are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereigne Lord, King James, ... Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honour of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the first colony in the Northerne Parts of Virginia; doe, by these Presents, solemnly and mutually in the Presence of God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civill Body Politick, for our better Ordering and Preservation, and Furtherance of the Ends aforesaid; And by Virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equall Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meete and convenient for the Generall Good of the Colony; unto which we promise all due Submission and Obedience. ** [[w:Mayflower Compact|Mayflower Compact]] (November 21 <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[w:Old Style and New Style dates|O.S.]] November 11], 1620) * Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. ** Inscription on a cannon, marking the supposed final resting place of [[John Bradshaw (judge)|John Bradshaw]] on Gun Hill, near [[w:Martha Brae River|Martha's Brae]], Jamaica. Reported in the [https://archive.org/details/appendixtomemoir00blac/page/788/mode/2up ''Appendix to the Memoirs of Thomas Hollis''] (London, 1780), p. 789 * Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God. ** Attributed to [[Simon Bradstreet]], at the time of the [[w:1689 Boston revolt|1689 Boston revolt]], in the [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/aew7439.0001.001?view=toc ''Official Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the State Convention: ... May 4th, 1853''] (White & Potter, 1853), p. 502 [[File:Greater coat of arms of the United States.svg|thumb|{{center/s}}''{{w|E Pluribus Unum}}''{{center/e}}]] * Yankee Doodle went to town </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; A-riding on a pony, </br> Stuck a feather in his hat </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; And called it [[w:Macaroni (fashion)|macaroni]]. ** "[[w:Yankee Doodle|Yankee Doodle]]", st. 1. [[w:Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia|''The Reader's Encyclopedia'']], [https://archive.org/details/readersencyclope0000unse_u0x1/page/1230/mode/2up vol. 4] (1948), p. 123 * Yankee Doodle, keep it up, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Yankee Doodle, dandy, </br> Mind the music and the step, </br> &nbsp;&nbsp; And with the girls be handy. ** "The Yankee's Return from Camp", chorus. [[Isaiah Thomas (publisher)|Isaiah Thomas]], ''Songs, Ballads, &c.'' (1813); cited in G. L. Duyckinck (ed.) ''Cyclopedia of American Literature'', [https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.178948/mode/2up vol. 1] (New&nbsp;York: Charles Scribner, 1856), pp. 463–4 * We Shall Overcome ** [[w:We Shall Overcome|Title of song]], of unclear origin. [[Charles Albert Tindley]] wrote the related gospel hymn "I'll Overcome Some Day" in 1901. The modern lyrics were sung by tobacco workers during the [[w:1945–1946 Charleston Cigar Factory strike|1945–1946 Charleston Cigar Factory strike]], and popularized during the 1960s civil rights movement.<!--Cf. Gen. 49:19; Num. 22:11; Lk. 11:22; Jn. 16:33; Rev. 2:11, 3:5,12, 11:7, 17:14, 21:7--> [[File:Benjamin Franklin - Join or Die.jpg|thumb|{{center/s}}[[w:Join, or Die|Join, or Die]]{{center/e}}]] [[File:Gadsden flag.svg|thumb|{{center/s}}[[w:Don't Tread on Me|Don't Tread on Me]]{{center/e}}]] * [[w:Join, or Die|Join, or Die]] ** Political cartoon, in [[w:The Pennsylvania Gazette|''The Pennsylvania Gazette'']] (May 9, 1754), p. 2 * The united voice of all His Majesty's free and loyal subjects in America—liberty and property, and no stamps. ** Motto, frequently used by colonial newspapers after the Stamp Act was passed in 1763. Carolyn Shaw Bell, [http://www.jstor.org/stable/2351988 "'Liberty and Property, and No Stamps'"], ''The Journal of Business'', vol. 40, no. 2 (1967), pp. 194–202 * [[w:Don't Tread on Me|Don't Tread on Me]] ** Political slogan (c. 1775) <!-- [[w:Gadsden flag|Gadsden flag]] --> * [[w:No taxation without representation|No taxation without representation]] ** Political slogan, printed for the first time in ''[[w:The London Magazine|The London Magazine]]'' (February 1768), with [[Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden|Lord Camden]]'s "Speech on the Declaratory Bill of the Sovereignty of Great Britain over the Colonies"; sometimes attributed to [[James Otis Jr.]] Reported as "Taxation without representation is tyranny." in Samuel Eliot Morison, "James Otis", ''Dictionary of American Biography'', vol. 14 (1935), p. 102 * ''[[w:E pluribus unum|E pluribus unum]]'' ** From many, one. ** Traditional motto of the United States of America. First appeared on title page of ''The Gentleman's Miscellany'' (January, 1692). Pierre Antoine (Peter Anthony Motteaux) was editor. Dr. Simetiere affixed it to the American [[w:Great Seal of the United States|National Seal]] at time of the [[American Revolution|Revolution]]. See Howard P. Arnold, ''Historic Side Lights'' (1899). Compare: ''Ex pluribus unum facere''; translation: "From many to make one"; [[St. Augustine]], ''Confessions'', bk. 4, 8, 13 * That all men are by nature equally free and independent and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. ** [[w:Virginia Declaration of Rights|Virginia Declaration of Rights]] (June 12, 1776), sec. 1 * Resolved, That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved. ** [[w:Lee Resolution|Lee Resolution]] (July 2, 1776) * The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different states in this union, the free inhabitants of each of these states, paupers, vagabonds and fugitives from Justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several states. ** [[w:Articles of Confederation|Articles of Confederation]] (November 15, 1777), art. 4 [[File:Great Seal of the United States (reverse).svg|thumb|{{center/s}}''{{w|Annuit cœptis}}''</br>''{{w|Novus ordo seclorum}}''{{center/e}}]] * ''{{w|Annuit cœptis}}'' · ''{{w|Novus ordo seclorum}}'' ** [Providence] favors [our] undertakings · New order of the ages ** Mottos on the reverse side of the [[w:Great Seal of the United States|Great Seal of the United States]]; chosen by [[Charles Thomson]], replacing [[William Barton (heraldist)|William Barton]]'s original proposals (1782); cf. Virgil, ''[[Eclogues]]'', [[w:Eclogue 4|4]], ll. 4–10 * Mankind are all formed by the same Almighty being, alike objects of his Care & equally designed for the Enjoyment of Happiness the Christian Religion teaches us to believe & the Political Creed of America fully coincides with the Position. ... Blessings ought rightfully to be administered, without distinction of Colour, to all descriptions of People, so they indulge themselves in the pleasing expectation, that nothing, which can be done for the relive<!-- ''sic'', relief[?]--> of the unhappy objects of their care, will be either omitted or delayed. ... From a persuasion that equal liberty was originally the Portion, It is still the Birthright of all men. ** Petition from the [[w:Pennsylvania Abolition Society|Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery]], signed by [[Benjamin Franklin]], President of the Society (February 3, 1790) [https://web.archive.org/web/20060521035446/http://www.ushistory.org:80/documents/antislavery.htm] * We feel, sir, the force, and acknowledge the justness of the observation, that the foundation of our national policy should be laid in private morality: if individuals be not influenced by moral principles it is in vain to look for public virtue. ** Address of the Senate to President Washington, in reply to his speech to both houses of Congress (May 18, 1789), reported in ''The Columbian Magazine'', vol. 3 (May, 1789), p. 322 * Where liberty dwells there is my country. ** In the [[commons:Category:Norwich Packet|''Norwich Packet'']], [https://archive.org/details/norwichpacket17900trum/page/n556/mode/1up vol. 24, no. 1229] (October 3, 1797), p. 1, col. 1 * I gazed on the mountains in grandeur majestic,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;I gazed on the vales&mdash;they were fruitful and fair;<br>I gazed with delight on the lakes and the fountains,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;I gazed on the banner&mdash;the eagle was there.<br>"E pluribus unum" exultingly waves,<br>E pluribus unum! what freemen and slaves?{{pb}}The genius of liberty, maiden celestial,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;Sat nigh that gay banner attempting to smile;<br>Alternately gazing on eagle and fetters,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;The tears from her eyes trickled down all the while,<br>And she sighed where the banner of liberty waves,<br>O'er traitors, and tyrants, and heart-broken slaves. ** "American Slavery" (wr. 1835), in the ''[[w:Genius of Universal Emancipation|Primitive Methodist Magazine]]'', [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=LQgFAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=%22maiden%20celestial%22&f=false 4th ser., vol. 1] (January, 1863), p. 64; variant lyrics in the ''[[w:Genius of Universal Emancipation|Genius of Universal Emancipation]]'', [https://archive.org/details/sim_genius-of-universal-emancipation_1837-07_1_1/page/36/mode/2up 5th ser., vol. 1, no. 1] (July, 1837), p. 36 * There is a special providence for drunkards, fools, and the United States of America. ** This saying appears as early as 1849 in the form "the special providence over the United States and little children", attributed to [[José Correia da Serra|Abbé Correa]]. Often misattributed to [[Otto von Bismarck]]: see "[[Talk:Otto von Bismarck#Special Providence|Special Providence]]" * May old England's sons, the Americans, never forget their mother. ** [https://www.horntip.com/html/books_&_MSS/1840s/1841_social_and_convivial_toast-master_(HC)/index.htm ''Social and Convivial Toast-master, and Compendium of Sentiment''] (London, 1841)<!--Cf. ''The Toastmaster: or, Treasury of Sentiment'' (London, 1836)--> * Americans in unity, and unity in Americans! * With hearts and with glasses brim full, </br> Let's drink to America, our Mother. * May the growth of the American union never be prevented by party spirit. * May Peace o'er America spread her wing, </br> And Commerce fill her ports with gold; </br> May Arts and Science comfort bring, </br> And Liberty, her sons enfold.<!--This toast is earlier found ("May peace o'er Britain spread her wing") in ''The Toastmaster: or, Treasury of Sentiment'' (London, 1836)--> ** [https://www.horntip.com/html/books_&_MSS/1850s/1851_every-bodys_toast_book_(HC)/index.htm ''Every Body's Toast Book, and Convivial Companion''] (1851), pp. 9, 10, 12<!--by "An Adept"--> * May the glory of America never cease to shine. ** Nugent Robinson (ed.) "Toasts and Sentiments", [[s:Collier's Cyclopedia of Commercial and Social Information|''Collier's Cyclopedia of Commercial and Social Information'']] (1882), p. 205 * Asylum of the oppressed of every nation. ** Phrase used in the Democratic platform of 1856, referring to the U.S. Henry Harrison Smith (ed.) ''National Conventions of the Democratic and Republican Parties, from 1832 to 1856'' (1892), pp. 77, 83, 87, 114 [https://archive.org/details/nationalconvent00smitgoog/page/n85/mode/2up] * [[w:America First (policy)|America First]] ** Populist political slogan, originated from the nativist American Party ([[w:Know Nothing|Know Nothings]]) in the 1850s * [[w:In God We Trust|In God We Trust]] ** Political slogan adopted by [[w:Union (American Civil War)|Unionists]] during the [[American Civil War|Civil War]]. The capitalized form first appeared on the [[w:Two-cent piece (United States)|two-cent piece]] in 1864. Established in a 1956 law signed by President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] as the official [[w:United States national motto|national motto]], replacing ''E pluribus unum'', which had been the ''de facto'' motto * O, give us a flag, all free without a slave; </br> We'll fight to defend it as our fathers did so brave; </br> The gallant [[w:54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment|Comp'ny "A"]] will make the Rebels dance, </br> And we'll stand by the Union if we only have a chance. ** "A Negro-Volunteer Song", in Frank Moore (ed.) [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_dJwdYJFVWC0C/page/n253/mode/2up ''Songs of the Soldiers''] (1864), p. 234<!--(1) ''Zion's Herald and Wesleyan Journal'', [https://archive.org/details/sim_zions-herald_1863-06-10_34_23/page/4/mode/2up?q=%22give+us+a+flag%2C+all+free+without%22 vol. 34, no. 23] (June 10, 1863), p. 92 [4], col. 4 (2) ''The Liberator'', [https://archive.org/details/sim_liberator_1863-06-19_33_25/page/3/mode/2up?q=%22give+us+a+flag%2C+all+free+without%22 vol. 33, no. 25] (June 19, 1863), p. 100 [4], col. 6--> * We recognize the equality of all men before the law, and hold that it is the duty of government in its dealings with the people to mete out equal and exact justice to all, of whatever nativity, race, color, or persuasion, religious or political. ** [[w:Civil Rights Act of 1875|Civil Rights Act of 1875]] (March 1, 1875) [[File:NOAA Map of the US EEZ.svg|thumb|It appears the Americans have taken umbrage. The deuce they have! Whereabouts is that?]] [[File:Motherhood and apple pie.jpg|thumb|{{center/s}}Mom and apple pie{{center/e}}]] * —It appears the Americans have taken umbrage. </br> —The deuce they have! Whereabouts is that? ** In [[w:Punch (magazine)|''Punch'']], vol. 63 (1872), p. 189 [https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/1952-04-09/debates/d44d3952-912f-40f9-9fca-ca89cb6d024a/LordsChamber] * The United States—bounded on the north by the Aurora Borealis, on the south by the precession of the equinoxes, on the east by the primeval chaos, and on the west by the Day of Judgment. ** In [[John Fiske (philosopher)|John Fiske]], ''American Political Ideas Viewed from the Standpoint of Universal History'' (1885) pp. 101–102 * Great Britain is a republic with a hereditary president, while the United States is a monarchy with an elective king. ** In ''The Knoxville Journal'' (February 9, 1896), as quoted in Peter Heys Gries, ''The Politics of American Foreign Policy'' (2014), p. 170 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wwzqAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=peter+hays+gries&hl=en&sa=X&ei=HwpZVazmK_LW7Qan_YH4CQ&ved=0CD0Q6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=peter%20hays%20gries&f=false] [https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32741802] * The white officers, taking life and honor in their hands, cast in their lot with men of a despised race unproved in war, and risked death as inciters of servile insurrection if taken prisoners, besides encountering all the common perils of camp march and battle. {{pb}} The black rank and file volunteered when disaster clouded the Union cause, served without pay for eighteen months till given that of white troops, faced threatened enslavement if captured, were brave in action, patient under heavy and dangerous labors, and cheerful amid hardships and privations. {{pb}} Together they gave to the nation and the world undying proof that Americans of African descent possess the pride, courage, and devotion of the patriot soldier. ** Inscription, to the [[w:54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment|54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment]], on the [[w:Robert Gould Shaw Memorial|Robert Gould Shaw Memorial]], Boston Common (1897) * Here rests in honored glory an American soldier known but to God. ** [[w:Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (Arlington National Cemetery)|Tomb of the Unknown Soldier]], Arlington National Cemetery (November 11, 1921) * As American as mom and apple pie. ** Origin unknown, cf. "Lestz Suits" in the ''Gettysburg Times'' (June 3, 1924), p. 6 [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-apple-pie-linked-america-180963157/#:~:text=In%201902%2C%20a%20newspaper%20article,writes%2C%20the%20association%20was%20cemented.] * In America an hour is forty minutes. ** [[German proverbs|German proverb]], in [[H. L. Mencken]] (ed.) ''A New Dictionary of Quotations'' (1942), p. 35 * Remember, boys and girls, your school — like our country — is made up of Americans of <u>many</u> different races, religions and national origins. So...if {{smallcaps|you}} hear anybody talk against a schoolmate or anyone else because of his religion, race or national origin — don't wait: tell him {{smallcaps|that kind of talk is un-american}}. ** [[Superman]], in "Help Keep Your School All-American" (c. 1949), National Comics Publishing, Inc. [https://imgur.com/4T3wPxq] * [[w:Black is beautiful|Black is beautiful]] ** African-American civil rights slogan (mid-1960s) * Five thousand years ago, Moses said to the children of Israel: “Pick up thy shovels, mount thy asses and camels, and I will lead you to the Promised Land.” Nearly five thousand years later, Roosevelt said: “Lay down your shovels, sit on your asses, and light up a [[w:Camel (cigarette)|Camel]]; this ''is'' the Promised Land.” Now Kennedy is stealing your shovels, kicking your asses, raising the price of Camels, and taking over the Promised Land. ** A widely mimeographed letter, calling for contributions to erect a Kennedy statue in Washington. “It was thought unwise to place it beside that of George Washington, who never told a lie, nor beside that of F. D. Roosevelt, who never told the truth, since John cannot tell the difference.” Cited in Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., ''A Thousand Days'' (1965) ch. 28<!-- p. 755 -->. See also [https://archive.org/details/2013.060-dorchester-county/page/n43/mode/2up ''Dorchester County Civil Rights Scrapbooks and Ephemera, 1958–1990''] (Salisbury University Libraries MS.) [[File:-blacklivesmatter (49970091538).jpg|thumb|{{center/s}}⁠[[w:No justice, no peace|No justice, no peace]]{{center/e}}]] <!--[[File:Ferguson Day 6, Picture 44.png|thumb|]]--> * [[w:Burn Baby Burn|Burn, baby, burn]] ** Slogan attributed to the 1960s R&B disc jockey [[w:Magnificent Montague|Magnificent Montague]], which became associated with the 1965 [[w:Watts riots|Watts riots]]. See: [[w:The Trammps|The Trammps]], "[[w:Disco Inferno|Disco Inferno]]" (1976) · [[Paul McCartney]], "[[w:Pipes of Peace (song)|Pipes of Peace]]" (1983) * مرگ بر آمریکا · ''Marg bar Âmrikâ'' ** [[w:Death to America|Death to America]] ** Anti-American political slogan, widely used in Iran, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, and Pakistan. In most official Iranian translations, the phrase is translated into English as the less crude "Down with America". See: [[w:Iran hostage crisis|Iran hostage crisis]] · [[Hezbollah]] * [[w:Make America Great Again|Let's Make America Great Again]] ** Slogan from [[Ronald Reagan]]'s 1980 presidential campaign * [[w:Morning in America|It's morning again in America]] ** Slogan from [[Ronald Reagan]]'s 1984 re-election campaign, in ''Newsweek'' (August 6, 1984) * [[w:No justice, no peace|No justice, no peace]] ** Afro-American political slogan, first used during protests following the killing of Michael Griffith in 1986 * [[w:Occupy Wall Street|Occupy Wall Street]] ** Left-wing populist movement against economic inequality, corporate greed, big finance, and the influence of money in politics that began in [[w:Zuccotti Park|Zuccotti Park]], in NYC's [[w:Financial District, Manhattan|Financial District]], and lasted for fifty-nine days (September 17 – November 15, 2011) * We abhor the totalitarian arrogance which makes one man say that he will respect another man as his equal only if he has "''my'' race, ''my'' religion, ''my'' political views, ''my'' social position." In our land men are equal, but they are free to be different. From these very differences among our people has come the great human and national strength of America. * The central theme in our American heritage is the importance of the individual person. ** [[w:President's Committee on Civil Rights|President's Committee on Civil Rights]], ''To Secure These Rights'' (1947), sec. 1 * Since it gained independence in 1776, the United States has constantly sought expansion by force: it slaughtered Indians, invaded Canada, waged a war against Mexico, instigated the American-Spanish War, and annexed Hawaii. After World War II, the wars either provoked or launched by the United States included the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, the Kosovo War, the War in Afghanistan, the Iraq War, the Libyan War and the Syrian War, abusing its military hegemony to pave the way for expansionist objectives. In recent years, the U.S. average annual military budget has exceeded 700 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for 40 percent of the world’s total, more than the 15 countries behind it combined. The United States has about 800 overseas military bases, with 173,000 troops deployed in 159 countries. ** Report of the [[w:Ministry of Foreign Affairs (China)|Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China]], quoted in Ben Norton, [https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/02/22/china-report-us-hegemony-wars-coups-intervention/ "China report excoriates 'US hegemony', war crimes, CIA coups, 400 foreign interventions"], ''Geopolitical Economy Report'' (February 22, 2023) * When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross. ** Often misattributed to [[Sinclair Lewis]]: [[Mark Steyn]], [[w:After America (Steyn book)|''After America'']] (2011), ch. 2 [https://www.technoccult.net/2010/03/03/who-really-said-when-fascism-comes-to-america-it-will-come-wrapped-in-the-flag-and-waving-a-cross/] * You Americans are so gullible. No, you won’t accept Communism outright, but we’ll keep feeding you small doses of Socialism until you’ll finally wake up and find you already have Communism. We won’t have to fight you. We’ll so weaken your economy until you’ll fall like overripe fruit into our hands. ** Often misattributed to [[Khrushchev]], as in Robert L. Preston, ''Wake-Up America'' (Salt Lake City, UT: Hawkes Publications, 1972) p. 16. See Paul F. Boller Jr. and John George, ''They Never Said It'' (New York: Oxford UP, 1989) p. 59 * The stronger the monopolies grew, the more merciless became their reprisals. But all in vain. Time and again they thought they had finished with the American working class and that it would never dare rise again, and time and again new courageous people appeared and the struggle would flare up anew. {{pb}} Eventually the U.S. rulers realized that it was necessary to find some other means of harnessing the working class. But what? They had to he more subtle: the thing to do was to find a man among the labour leaders who would agree to play the role of “treacherous leader.” Figuratively speaking, to do what a tamed bull does at the slaughter-house, the bull which leads the other cattle to their death: accustomed to the thing, it calmly goes to the slaughtering-hall, followed by the bewildered herd, slipping on the wet and sticky floor. {{pb}} Then it returns to its stall, eats its fill, and leads another herd to slaughter. ** ''Face To Face With America: The Story of N. S. Khrushchev's Visit to the U.S.A.'' (Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1960) ch. 5 (the text goes on to identify the "treacherous leader" as [[Samuel Gompers]]) * The United States performs well in many dimensions of well-being relative to other countries in the Better Life Index. The United States outperforms the average in income, jobs, education, environmental quality, social connections and life satisfaction. ... In the United States, the average household net-adjusted disposable income per capita is USD 51,147 a year, much more than the OECD average of USD 30,490 a year. ... When asked to rate their general satisfaction with life on a scale from 0 to 10, Americans gave it a 7 grade on average, higher than the OECD average of 6.7. ** [https://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/countries/united-states/ "United States"]. [[w:OECD Better Life Index|OECD Better Life Index]] (Retrieved May 28, 2025) * The normal condition of all the territory of the United States is that of freedom...We deny the authority of Congress, of a territorial legislature, or of any individuals, to give legal existence to slavery in any territory of the United States. ** Republican Party Platform of 1860 (May 17, 1860) [https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/republican-party-platform-1860] * It is the highest duty of every American citizen to maintain against all their enemies the integrity of the Union and the paramount authority of the Constitution and laws of the United States. * Foreign immigration, which in the past has added so much to the wealth, development of resources and increase of power to the nation, the asylum of the oppressed of all nations, should be fostered and encouraged by a liberal and just policy. * The people of the United States can never regard with indifference the attempt of any European Power to overthrow by force or to supplant by fraud the institutions of any Republican Government on the Western Continent and...they will view with extreme jealousy, as menacing to the peace and independence of their own country, the efforts of any such power to obtain new footholds for Monarchical Government, sustained by foreign military force, in near proximity to the United States. ** Republican Party Platform of 1864 (June 7, 1864) [https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/republican-party-platform-1864] * We condemn bigots who inject class, racial and religious prejudice into public and political matters. Bigotry is un-American and a danger to the Republic. * We believe that it is the primary responsibility of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions, and this power, reserved to the states, is essential to the maintenance of our Federal Republic. However, we believe that the Federal Government should take supplemental action within its constitutional jurisdiction to oppose discrimination against race, religion or national origin. ** Republican Party Platform of 1952 (July 7, 1952) [https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/republican-party-platform-1952] * This nation was created to give expression, validity and purpose to our spiritual heritage—the supreme worth of the individual. ** Republican Party Platform of 1960 (July 25, 1960) [https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/republican-party-platform-1960] * America must advance freedom throughout the world as a vital condition of orderly human progress, universal justice, and the security of the American people. ** Republican Party Platform of 1964 (July 13, 1964) [https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/republican-party-platform-1964] === [[United States Declaration of Independence|Declaration of Independence]] === [[File:Declaration of Independence (1819), by John Trumbull.jpg|thumb|We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.]] * When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. ** Introduction * We hold these truths to be self-evident, that [[w:All men are created equal|all men are created equal]], that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are [[w:Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness|Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness]].—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. ** Preamble === [[Constitution of the United States|Federal Constitution]] and [[United States Bill of Rights|Bill of Rights]] === [[File:Constitution We the People.jpg|thumb|{{center/s}}We the People{{center/e}}]] <!--[[File:Bombardment of Fort Sumter.jpg|thumb|Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.]]--> * We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. ** [[w:Preamble to the United States Constitution|Preamble]] * Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. ** [[w:Article Three of the United States Constitution|Article Three]], sec. 3 * No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States. ** [[w:Article Six of the United States Constitution|Article Six]], [[w:No Religious Test Clause|sec. 3]] * Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. ** [[w:First Amendment to the United States Constitution|First Amendment]] * A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. ** [[w:Second Amendment to the United States Constitution|Second Amendment]] * The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. ** [[w:Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Fourth Amendment]] * In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence. ** [[w:Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Sixth Amendment]] * Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. ** [[w:Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Eighth Amendment]] * The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. ** [[w:Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Tenth Amendment]] * Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. ** [[w:Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Thirteenth Amendment]], sec. 1 * All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. ** [[w:Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Fourteenth Amendment]], sec. 1 [[File:Diagram of the Federal Government and American Union edit.jpg|thumb|{{center/s}}A more perfect Union{{center/e}}]] <!--[[File:15th-amendment-celebration-1870.jpg|thumb|The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.]]--> * The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. ** [[w:Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Fifteenth Amendment]], sec. 1 * The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration. ** [[w:Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Sixteenth Amendment]] * The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. ** [[w:Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Nineteenth Amendment]], sec. 1 * No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. ** [[w:Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution|Twenty-second Amendment]], sec. 1 == See also == * [[American Civil War]] * [[American Dream]] * [[American frontier]] * [[American literature]] * [[American Revolution]] * [[Economy of the United States]] * [[History of the United States]] * [[New England]] * [[Nullification crisis]] * [[Politics of the United States]] * [[Poverty in the United States]] * [[Slavery in the United States]] * [[Southern United States]] * [[United States Constitution]] * [[Women in the United States]] == Sources == * Charles Northend (ed.) 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[https://archive.org/details/oxforddictionary0000unse_o6w8/mode/2up ''The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations''] (New York: Oxford UP, 2007) == External links == {{Wikipedia|United States}} * [https://www.ifs.du.edu/IFs/frm_CountryProfile/US Key Development Forecasts for the United States] from [[w:International Futures|International Futures]] * [https://www.usa.gov/ Official U.S. Government web portal] – gateway to government sites ion8o5jms1fxgncm1gsdmfhtbgpq5un 0 296165 3961227 3822499 2026-07-05T18:14:33Z ~2026-38442-42 3347746 /* 2026 */ 3961227 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Guido Crosetto foto ufficiale (cropped).jpg|thumb|Guido Crosetto in 2022]] '''Guido Crosetto''' (1963) is an Italian businessman and politician who has served as [[w:Minister of Defence (Italy)|Minister of Defence]] since 22 October 2022 in the [[w:Meloni government|government]] of Prime Minister [[Giorgia Meloni]]. ==Quotes== ===2019=== *There is a true communist. He wants to leave NATO, he is inspired by Lenin, he promises to expropriate banks and property owners and nationalize everything! Dear [[w:Marco Rizzo|Marco Rizzo]], you will never get my vote, but better true communists than disguised ones. **''[https://twitter.com/GuidoCrosetto/status/1128241153340575744 tweet]'' of 14 May 2019 ===2023=== *World War III would begin the moment Russian tanks arrived in Kiev and at the borders of Europe. Preventing them from arriving is the only way to stop World War III. **''[https://tg24.sky.it/politica/2023/01/27/crosetto-tank-russia-kiev-terza-guerra-mondiale Guerra in Ucraina, Crosetto: "Con tank russi a Kiev terza guerra mondiale"]'', ''tg24.sky'', 27 January 2023 *I am experiencing this period with great personal difficulty. I am seen as the one who supports weapons, the one who wants war. There is this strange idea that there is a country we don't care about, which is bothering us. That by being at peace, it is forcing us to do things we shouldn't do, that it is that country's fault if [[inflation]] rises. That country has been invaded. There is no angel or [[Devil]], we are not passing judgment. No one has anything against the Russian people, there is no war between Italy, Europe, NATO, and the Russian people: there is an international coalition that is helping a country that has been attacked. We must do this, and we are doing it to prevent a crisis that began in a crazy way from exploding. **''[https://tg24.sky.it/politica/2023/01/27/crosetto-tank-russia-kiev-terza-guerra-mondiale Guerra in Ucraina, Crosetto: "Con tank russi a Kiev terza guerra mondiale"]]'', ''tg24.sky'', 27 January 2023 *It seems to me that we can now say that the exponential increase in migration from the African coast is also, to a considerable extent, part of a clear hybrid warfare strategy that the Wagner Group, [[w:mercenary|mercenaries]] in the pay of [[w:Russia|Russia]], is implementing, using its considerable influence in some African countries. **''[https://www.ansa.it/nuova_europa/it/notizie/rubriche/altrenews/2023/03/13/tajani-molti-migranti-da-zone-controllate-da-wagner_d7153f2c-ee37-4444-99ca-a6688906ffe4.html Tajani, molti migranti da zone controllate da Wagner]'', ''Ansa.it'', 13 March 2023 *The decision to join the [[w:Silk Road|Silk Road]] was an improvised and ill-advised move by [[w:Giuseppe Conte|Giuseppe Conte]]'s government, which led to a double negative outcome. We exported a shipment of oranges to China, and they tripled their exports to Italy in three years. **''[https://www.ilpost.it/2023/07/30/guido-crosetto-via-della-seta-cina/ Aderire alla “Via della Seta” è stata una scelta scellerata, dice Guido Crosetto]'', ''Il Post'', 30 July 2023 ===2026=== *I think there is no alternative to being part of [[w:NATO|NATO]]. If anyone has a different idea, please let me know. I don't want to ally myself with either Russia or China: maybe someone thinks it's a better target, but in that case we probably wouldn't even need to build a defense because they would take care of managing us. If you want to be part of this alliance, you must respect the commitments you have made. :We said that we are not able to immediately reach the spending target requested by NATO. Let's set ourselves 2035 as our arrival point, in the meantime let's see if the world situation evolves positively. Maybe we could somehow mislead this target, but in the meantime we've moved. :This year, it was not possible to allocate the 0.15% increase in full, due to the infringement procedure (for excessive deficit, ed.), but we are confident that it can be recovered as early as the next budget year. The important thing is to maintain a credible trajectory. :*Quoted in ''[https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2026/07/05/nato-crosetto-spese-difesa-sanita-scuola-cultura-notizie/8439991/ Difesa, Crosetto: “Se fai parte della Nato devi rispettare gli impegni”. Fonti del governo: “Fino a 18 miliardi in più di spese militari entro il 2028”]'', ''Il Fatto Quotidiano'', 5 July 2026. *I have never thought that defense spending should be put as an alternative to other very important expenses such as healthcare, education, culture, or any other type of social spending. Defense is the premise: without defense, without freedom, there is no healthcare, there is no culture, there is no freedom. So, defense is the tool that ensures a democracy and people can live in peace and freedom in the coming years. :*Quoted in ''[https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2026/07/05/nato-crosetto-spese-difesa-sanita-scuola-cultura-notizie/8439991/ Difesa, Crosetto: “Se fai parte della Nato devi rispettare gli impegni”. Fonti del governo: “Fino a 18 miliardi in più di spese militari entro il 2028”]'', ''Il Fatto Quotidiano'', 5 July 2026. ==External links== {{Wikipedia}} {{Commons-inline}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Crosetto, Guido}} [[Category:1963 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Politicians from Italy]] [[Category:Entrepreneurs]] emwvi2d18kg2r91d92cl69kxm6k72q7 0 296624 3961104 3895442 2026-07-05T15:38:02Z ~2026-22475-30 3310494 3961104 wikitext text/x-wiki {{DISPLAYTITLE:''The Simpsons''/Season 37}} {{The Simpsons header}} :'''''[[w:The Simpsons|The Simpsons]]''''' (1989–present) is an American animated sitcom broadcast by the Fox Broadcasting Company created by [[Matt Groening]]. The series is a satirical depiction of American life, epitomized by the Simpson family. ===''[[w:Thrifty Ways to Thieve Your Mother|Thrifty Ways to Thieve Your Mother]]''=== :'''Marge''': I can't remember the last movie we saw in theaters. And on opening night! :'''Homer''': Movies are back, baby! :'''Bart''': Just think of all the chumps out there waiting three days until this movie's free on streaming. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Janet Grody''': I'm Dr. Janet Grody, creator of Snüf Total-Body Deodorant. It's for all your grossest places. Just rub it right on your butt cleft, under pouch, stink flaps... :'''Marge''': Ah! How could they say those words on TV? :'''Janet Grody''': ...peat bog, smuckle, stunk-tank. :''[Homer, Bart, and Lisa are all laughing]'' :'''Marge''': Come on. Skip ad. Skip ad. :'''Janet Grody''': Between-hatch, gunk chunnel, boob swamp, elbow crotch. :'''Homer''': Elbow crotch. I have one of those. ===''[[w:Keep Chalm and Gary On|Keep Chalm and Gary On]]''=== :'''Bart''': The phone banning guy can't get off his phone. Ironic! :'''Rayshelle Peyton''': Hey that is irony. Very accurate heckleing Bart. :'''Bart''': Thank you. I love you. :'''Rayshelle Peyton''': What? :'''Bart''': Nothing. ===''[[w:Treehouse of Horror XXXVI|Treehouse of Horror XXXVI]]''=== :'''Krusty''': I don't care what deal you made. We got to pull the plug on this nightmare! :'''Hal Julian''': Are you nuts?! This thing is huge! You're a smash! :'''PA #1''': They're puking in Peoria. :'''PA #2''': They're retching in Rochester. :'''PA #3''': They've got PTSD in Pickstown, South Dakota! ===''[[w:Men Behaving Manly|Men Behaving Manly]]''=== :'''Ralph''': ''[floating down the river]'' I'm streaming. :'''Greg''': Yeah, we never come back with all of them, but nature's amazing because the one that's gone is the one that should be. ===''[[w:Bad Boys... for Life?|Bad Boys... for Life?]]''=== :'''Lisa''': Mom, maybe you could tell a story about us when we were younger. :'''Marge''': Um, we've done that a few times. Not sure what stories are left. Maggie's first tooth, Grampa's last tooth, the time Homer thought he invented stuffed crust pizza. :'''Homer''': I did invent it. ''[picks up a paper of Crust Insert Stuff with Pizza on it]'' I'm the Thomas Edison of stuffing things with cheese. :'''Bart''': Including yourself. :'''Homer''': ''[turns red in anger]'' Why you little. ''[strangles Bart]'' :'''Bart''': Your primitive strangling is no match for fireplace tongs. ''[strangles Homer with a fireplace tongs, then Homer tickles him, Homer turns his face normal, then he and Homer lays on the floor]'' :'''Homer''': We just made some memories, boy. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Bart''': I caught a frog, I caught a frog. Ooh. Where did he go? :''[A frog is not in Bart's hand, but a frog is on Lisa's nose, causing to Lisa scream as Homer tries to pulls a frog off Lisa's nose]'' :'''Marge''': ''[offscreen]'' What's going on in there? :'''Homer''': Boy, quit scaring your sister. ===''[[w:Bart 'N' Frink|Bart 'N' Frink]]''=== :'''Johnson Bryans''': We follow your path, teacher, but are you sure that the secret to eternal youth is shot-gunning beer and watching the Godzilla Channel until 3:00 a.m.? <hr width="50%"/> :'''Peter Linz''': You know what might make you feel better? Making him feel worse. After all, the Buddha teaches us, "It's impossible to be happy if other people are." ===''[[w:Sashes to Sashes|Sashes to Sashes]]''=== ===''[[w:The Day of the Jack-up|The Day of the Jack-up]]''=== :'''FBI profiler''': My intel confirms that Skinner is the principal of the school, and also he does in fact suck. ===''[[w:Aunt Misbehavin'|Aunt Misbehavin']]''=== :'''Dentist''': Another perfect checkup, Lisa. Next. :'''Bart''': Hang tight, Dr K. I just got to freshen up. ''[he goes to the bathroom, puts his bag on the sink, opens his bag and grabs his packet of triple cookies, swallows an entire box of triple cookies]'' :'''Dentist''': All right. Let's see what we're working with here... ''[screaming]'' :''[at home, Homer reads off details of the statement while he's pacing]'' :'''Homer''': Four-hour teeth cleaning... ''[Bart cackles]'' Emergency whitening. Oreo exposure therapy for the hygienist. ''[stops pacing, then angrily yells at Bart]'' Do you have any idea how much your stunt cost? :'''Bart''': Can you really put a price on that kind of comedy? :'''Homer''': What I can do is find a punishment that fits the crime. Now you have an appointment with Dr. Homer. ''[picks up a power drill]'' <hr width="50%"/> :'''Homer''': Come on, get in there! Ghost pepper? More like Casper the friendly ghost. Oh. Now it's kicking in. ''[screaming]'' ===''[[w:Guess Who's Coming to Skinner|Guess Who's Coming to Skinner]]''=== ===''[[w:Parahormonal Activity|Parahormonal Activity]]''=== :'''Bart''': I'm driving to school today. How am I gonna learn not to kill people if you don't let me practice? :''[Maggie crying]'' :'''Marge''': Maggie, Maggie, rest your voice. You're still getting over that laryngitis. :'''Maggie''': Please, don't let Bart drive. It's too scary. He drives so wiggly and everybody honks at us and yells bad words and shows us fingers. :''[Bart groans]'' ===''[[w:The Fall Guy-Yi-Yi!|The Fall Guy-Yi-Yi!]]''=== ===''[[w:Seperance|Seperance]]''=== ===''[[w:Irrational Treasure|Irrational Treasure]]''=== ===''[[w:Homer? A Cracker Bro?|Homer? 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It was a sequel to the first film, ''[[w:Ed, Edd n Eddy’s Big Picture Show|Ed, Edd n Eddy’s Big Picture Show]]''. =Ed= =Edd= =Eddy= =Jonny= =Jimmy= =Sarah= =Kevin= =Nazz= =Rolf= =The Phantom Virus= =Dialogue= =Taglines= *The Eds are in the ''video'' game. *GAME ON!…for the Eds. =Cast= *[[w:Matt Hill|Matt Hill]] - Ed, Headless Horseman from Liverpool (Kevin) *[[w:Sam Vincent (voice actor)|Sam Vincent]] - Edd (Double D), Medusa (Nazz) *[[w:Tony Sampson|Tony Sampson]] - Eddy *[[w:David Paul Grove|David Paul Grove]] - Jonny *[[w:Rob Paulson|Rob Paulson]] - Jimmy *[[w:Janyse Jaud|Janyse Jaud]] - Sarah *[[w:Kahtleen Barr|Kahtleen Barr]] - Kevin *[[w:Maggie Roswell|Maggie Roswell]] - Nazz *[[w:Peter Kelamis|Peter Kelamis]] - Rolf *[[w:Jim Carrey|Jim Carrey]] - The Phantom Virus *[[w:Griffin Burns|Griffin Burns]] - Eric Lawrence *[[w:David Cross|David Cross]] - Billy Radgasarian *[[w:Patrick Warburton|Patrick Warburton]] - Professor John Iphicles *[[w:Billy West|Billy West]] - Cyber-Ed, Gladiator Skeleton Soldiers *[[w:Kari Wahlgren|Kari Wahlgren]] - Cyber-Edd (Double D) *[[w:Kumail Nanjiani|Kumail Nanjiani]] - Cyber-Eddy *[[w:Elaine Hendrix|Elaine Hendrix]] - Lee Kanker *[[w:Dianne West|Dianne West]] - Marie Kanker *[[w:Erin Fitzgerald|Erin Fitzgerald]] - May Kanker *[[w:Cody Cameron|Cody Cameron]] - Officer Radgasarian, Gladiator Lion *[[w:Jennifer Lee|Jennifer Lee]] - Sara Lawrence *[[w:Emma Lanford|Emma Lanford]] - Evil Flo and Evil Mara ==External Links== hseh20adrtd4fq2gy1a4prultcx2x51 3961303 3961239 2026-07-05T22:13:01Z 03isrflo62410 1485946 3961303 wikitext text/x-wiki {{vfd-new}} :''This page is redirected from Ed, Edd n Eddy and the Cyber-Chase. 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It was a sequel to the first film, ''[[w:Ed, Edd n Eddy’s Big Picture Show|Ed, Edd n Eddy’s Big Picture Show]]''. =Ed= =Edd= =Eddy= =Jonny= =Jimmy= =Sarah= =Kevin= =Nazz= =Rolf= =The Phantom Virus= =Dialogue= =Taglines= *The Eds are in the ''video'' game. *GAME ON!…for the Eds. =Cast= *[[w:Matt Hill|Matt Hill]] - Ed, Headless Horseman from Liverpool (Kevin) *[[w:Sam Vincent (voice actor)|Sam Vincent]] - Edd (Double D), Medusa (Nazz) *[[w:Tony Sampson|Tony Sampson]] - Eddy *[[w:David Paul Grove|David Paul Grove]] - Jonny *[[w:Rob Paulson|Rob Paulson]] - Jimmy *[[w:Janyse Jaud|Janyse Jaud]] - Sarah *[[w:Kahtleen Barr|Kahtleen Barr]] - Kevin *[[w:Maggie Roswell|Maggie Roswell]] - Nazz *[[w:Peter Kelamis|Peter Kelamis]] - Rolf *[[w:Jim Carrey|Jim Carrey]] - The Phantom Virus *[[w:Griffin Burns|Griffin Burns]] - Eric Lawrence *[[w:David Cross|David Cross]] - Billy Radgasarian *[[w:Patrick Warburton|Patrick Warburton]] - Professor John Iphicles *[[w:Billy West|Billy West]] - Cyber-Ed, Gladiator Skeleton Soldiers *[[w:Kari Wahlgren|Kari Wahlgren]] - Cyber-Edd (Double D) *[[w:Kumail Nanjiani|Kumail Nanjiani]] - Cyber-Eddy *[[w:Elaine Hendrix|Elaine Hendrix]] - Lee Kanker *[[w:Dianne West|Dianne West]] - Marie Kanker *[[w:Erin Fitzgerald|Erin Fitzgerald]] - May Kanker *[[w:Cody Cameron|Cody Cameron]] - Officer Radgasarian, Gladiator Lion *[[w:Jennifer Lee|Jennifer Lee]] - Sara Lawrence *[[w:Emma Lanford|Emma Lanford]] - Evil Flo and Evil Mara ==External Links== lbvgqhg6w5yxbf2cz9uwzxyctfnqhoh 0 301332 3961235 3960198 2026-07-05T18:45:16Z GrimRob 1187925 /* Tournament */ Trump gets Fifa to suspend Folarin Balogun ban 3961235 wikitext text/x-wiki The '''[[w:2026 FIFA World Cup|2026 FIFA World Cup]]''' is the 23rd [[w:FIFA World Cup|FIFA World Cup]]. The tournament has taken place from June 11 to July 19, 2026. It is jointly hosted by sixteen cities—eleven in the [[United States]], three in [[Mexico]], and two in [[Canada]]. The tournament will be the first to be hosted by three nations. == Quotes == === 2025 === * Can I keep it? ** [[Donald Trump]], when presented with the trophy, [https://www.financialexpress.com/trending/trump-jokes-can-i-keep-it-as-fifa-chief-presents-2026-world-cup-trophy-at-white-house/3955119/ Financial Express – "Trump jokes 'Can I keep it?' as FIFA chief presents 2026 World Cup trophy"] (23 August 2025) === 2026 (pre-tournament) === *<p>Half a billion ticket requests in just over a month is more than demand – it’s a global statement. On behalf of FIFA, I would like to thank and congratulate football fans everywhere for this extraordinary response. Knowing how much this tournament means to people around the world, '''our only regret is that we cannot welcome every fan inside the stadiums'''.</p><p>That is why we are committed to creating multiple ways for fans to be part of the World Cup – through a wide range of fan experiences beyond the stadiums, both in person and online – so that as many people as possible can share in what will be the biggest sporting event ever staged.</p> **[https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/37919415/fifa-2026-world-cup-ticket-requests-prices/ ‘We cannot welcome every fan’ – Fifa release statement after half a BILLION World Cup 2026 ticket requests] [[w:Fifa|Fifa]] President [[w:Gianni Infantino|Gianni Infantino]] in ''The Sun'' (15 Jan 2026) * [[w:United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement|ICE]] is dedicated to ensuring that everyone that visits the facilities will have a safe and secure event. ** US Representative [[w:Nellie Pou|Nellie Pou]] quoted in [https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c62g4322ywno "ICE will be 'key part of security' at World Cup in US"], ''BBC'' (11 February 2026) * I really don’t care. I think [[Iran]] is a very badly defeated country. They’re running on fumes. ** [[Donald Trump]] quoted on the question of Iran's participation due to [[2026 Iran war]]: [https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/mar/04/donald-trump-really-does-not-care-if-iran-play-at-football-world-cup-2026 "Donald Trump ‘really does not care’ if Iran play at World Cup 2026"], ''The Guardian'' (4 Mar 2026) * [[w:Fifa|Fifa]] is focused on ensuring fair access to our game for existing and prospective fans. As a not-for-profit organisation, the revenue Fifa generates from the World Cup is reinvested to fuel the growth of the game - men, women, youth - throughout Fifa's 211 member associations globally ** Fifa quoted in [https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/clyx27vv7rno "Complaint filed over World Cup ticket prices"], ''BBC News'' (24 March 2026) * Right now, we’re expecting the Iranian team to come. I think it’s a great opportunity for the Iranian diaspora here in the United States of America to be able to celebrate their country. ** White House Task Force Executive Director [[w:Andrew Giuliani|Andrew Giuliani]] quoted in: [https://www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/live-blog/live-updates-iran-war-trump-talks-israel-attacks-oil-hormuz-kharg-rcna265243], ''NBC'' (March 26, 2026) * The golden days of Italian football are well and truly gone. ** Reaction to [[Italy]] not qualifying in [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj943rmkkm4o "Devastated Italians reckon with 'third apocalypse' of World Cup failure"], ''BBC Sport'' (April 1, 2026) * Sometimes in your life, you only get one opportunity to be able to go to a World Cup. For many, this was their opportunity and they just won't be able to afford to go. **Supporters groups react to [[w:2026 FIFA World Cup final|World Cup Final]] ticket prices in [https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/ce8lzj0rprpo "The $11k World Cup final ticket - what we learned from first open sale"], ''BBC Sport'' (April 2, 2026) * {{w|Fifa}} can confirm that match official {{w|Omar Abdulkadir Artan}} will be unable to train and officiate at the Fifa World Cup 2026 after he was denied entry into the [[United States]].{{br}}Fifa is not involved in host country immigration processes, including visa adjudications, and has been informed by authorities that Mr Artan's status will not be changed at present.{{br}}In line with previous Fifa events, a host government ultimately determines who receives a visa and who is admitted into their country. ** [https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cnv9drg0qzgo "Somali referee Artan barred from entering US"], ''BBC News'' (8 June 2026) === Tournament === * To my players and the team, I want to say to them I'm proud of them. What these young people, these players have done, it should be written in history because the host country treated us very unfairly. Despite all of these problems, we've been able to perform well and the world is proud of Iranians and our team. I urge Fifa: don't let hosts treat players and teams the same way in future World Cups. ** Iran manager {{w|Amir Ghalenoei}} following their exit, quoted in [https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/clywd8pl09do "Are Iran the unluckiest side in World Cup history?"], ''BBC Sport'' (28 June 2026) * Fifa has deliberately designed an online exchange which allows tickets to be sold at vastly inflated prices with world football's governing body grabbing 15% of the money from both the buyer and the seller. ** {{w|Football Supporters' Association}} quoted in [https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cj3g7dxlvexo "England fan tickets for Mexico on resale for up to £26K"], ''BBC Sport'' (3 July 2026) * Thank you to Fifa for doing what was right, and reversing a great injustice! President DONALD J. TRUMP. ** [[Donald Trump]] after Fifa suspended a ban for {{w|Folarin Balogun}}, quoted in: [https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cewqq5q8v41o "USA striker Balogun's one-game ban suspended by Fifa"], ''BBC Sport'' (5 July 2026) == External links == {{Sister project links |wikt=no |commons=Category:2026 FIFA World Cup|s=no |author=no |b=no |v=no |d=Q5020214 |voy=2026 FIFA World Cup}} *[https://www.fifa.com/ FIFA official website] *[https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup BBC World Cup coverage] [[Category:FIFA World Cup]] [[Category:2026|FIFA World Cup]] reqikym6ohvhwh1dfxpqrwjlg9q7noq 0 301391 3961073 3960616 2026-07-05T14:07:42Z ~2026-38162-06 3347439 /* Caillou Joins the Circus (Permanently restricted, banned, and censored episode / segment) [Episode 3b, Segment 8] */ 3961073 wikitext text/x-wiki {{vfd-new|Caillou pages}} ==Season 1 (1997-1999)== ===Episode 1=== ====Caillou Makes Cookies [Episode 1a, Segment 1]==== :'''Doris''': Caillou, what are you making? :'''Caillou''': ''[smiling softly]'' I'm making cookies. ===Episode 3=== ====Caillou at Daycare (Censored episode / segment) [Episode 3a, Segment 7]==== :'''Leo''': ''[comes over to Caillou, but gets annoyed, and calls out to him]'' Hey! ''[snatches his one block from Caillou, causing the cup to spill over his shirt]'' These were my blocks! :'''Caillou''': ''[fearfully looking at his shirt, gasps in terror, and gets terrified where a glass of apple juice was spilled over it out of the cup, which made himself loudly, badly, and sadly screaming, and crying, with tears in his eyes, for his mom]'' <big><big><big>'''''MMMMMMAAAAAMMMMMAAAAA!!!!!!'''''</big></big></big> ''[getting very upset in sadness]'' :'''Leo''': ''[rudely laughs to Caillou, and impolitely makes fun of him needing his mom]'' Your mama was gone. ''[smirkly walks away]'' ====Caillou Joins the Circus (Permanently restricted, banned, and censored episode / segment) [Episode 3b, Segment 8]==== :'''Caillou''': ''[while happily brushing his teeth, and remarks]'' I don't need to be late for the circus. :'''Boris''': ''[confused]'' Hmm? The circus? ''[concerned, while trying to explain]'' Uh... no. Caillou, this was not today. ''[bored, while proving to Caillou that he was very wrong]'' The circus wasn't until tomorrow. :'''Caillou''': ''[suddenly stops happily brushing his teeth before he gasps in terror, after he was incorrect, and gets too much distressed, and became very fearful, and terrified]'' Oh, no!!!!!! ''[getting very upset, and badly sadly whining, with his declaration]'' But it is today!!!!!! And I am getting all dressed!!!!!! ''[badly, and sadly crying, whining and sobbing with tears breaking down in his eyes, now being harassed by the fact that this was happening, over his big mistake]'' And that's today!!!!!! :'''Boris''': ''[grumpily neglecting Caillou's challenges]'' Aaww, come along, Caillou! ''[calmly tells Caillou to come downstairs to the kitchen]'' Just come downstairs and help me make breakfast. ''[walks out of the bathroom]'' :'''Caillou''': ''[now very promptly getting very pissed, out of rage, fierce, angry, tabooed, enraged, indignant, stubborn, and upset at Boris, and angrily, stubbornly, indignantly, and fiercely losing his temper, for pissing, enraging, and angering him, and denies, and won't come downstairs to the kitchen to help his dad make breakfast]'' No!!!!!! No, I can't do that!!!!!! ''[angrily, indignantly, and stubbornly sits down on the floor, and stays in the the bathroom, and fiercely, indignantly, stubbornly, and angrily growls with his mouth close, and his eyes open, then picks up his nearby toy car out of the toy bucket, and decides to play with it, to make himself feel a little better]'' Vroom, vroom, vroom! ''[mockingly vrooming, and playing his nearby toy car, with his very upset, pissed, stubborn, and angry face on, but until one of the wheels unintentionally got loose, and suddenly fell off on the floor, and then he gasps in terror, and became very fearful, and terrified again, and then picks up his nearby toy car, and then getting even more very pissed, hurtful, out of rage, sad, fierce, bad-tempered, enraged, stubborn, indignant, terrible, tabooed, disgusted, upset, angry, dangerous, rude, mean, and violent, and stubbornly, loudly, fiercely, badly, sadly, stubbornly, terribly, rudely, indignantly, and violently outbursting into stubbornly, loudly, fiercely, badly, sadly, stubbornly, terribly, rudely, indignantly, and violently swearing, screaming, crying, shouting, and calling his nearby toy car a very bad, stronger, profane, disgusting, indignant, mean, rude, and hurtful word, disregarding, when now being a really bad, cruel, violent, dangerous, hurtful, and too inappropriate misbehaving bully, and repeatedly using several times, but ignoring that it could hurt feelings, with tears breaking down in his eyes, and his eyes close, very tightly, and violently, fiercely, badly, stubbornly, terribly, rudely, indignantly, and angrily shaking his nearby toy car]'' <big><big><big>'''''You stupid, ol' car!!!!!! You're stupid-stupid-stupid!!!!!!'''''</big></big></big> ''[violently, badly, fiercely, stubbornly, terribly, rudely, indignantly, and angrily growling, with his eyes close, very tightly, and his mouth close, and badly, fiercely, stubbornly, angrily, terribly, rudely, indignantly, and violently throwing, and slamming his nearby toy car down on the floor away, when violently, badly, fiercely, stubbornly, angrily, terribly, and indignantly causing it to violently, fiercely, badly, completely, and terribly ruin, damage, wreck, break, destroy, and smash into hundreds of pieces on purpose, and then indignantly, badly, loudly, sadly, fiercely, stubbornly, rudely, violently, and angrily screaming, shrieking, and crying, and bursting, and breaking down with tears coming out of his eyes, and while violently, angrily, badly, indignantly, loudly, fiercely, sadly, terribly, rudely, and stubbornly outbursting, having, and throwing himself a really violent, disgraceful, gigantic, huge temper tantrum, in inertia, and badly, fiercely, sadly, terribly, stubbornly, violently, rudely, indignantly, and angrily feeling very bad, violent, cruel, hurtful, and too inappropriate of what he will missed the circus, for today, and unfinished brushing his teeth, while temperately heedless of how he had hurt feelings, and violently, angrily, badly, indignantly, fiercely, sadly, terribly, rudely, and stubbornly throwing, and slamming his toy down on the floor away, when violently, badly, fiercely, stubbornly, angrily, terribly, and indignantly causing it to violently, fiercely, badly, completely, and terribly ruin, damage, wreck, break, destroy, and smash into hundreds of pieces on purpose, violently, angrily, badly, indignantly, fiercely, sadly, terribly, rudely, and stubbornly causing too much trouble, and violently, fiercely, terribly, sadly, badly, stubbornly, rudely, indignantly, and angrily having his really bad, too inappropriate, hurtful, dangerous, and violent misbehavior, and terribly, fiercely, badly, sadly, stubbornly, rudely, indignantly, violently, and angrily hurting, pounding, and banging his arms, and fists, and terribly, fiercely, badly, sadly, stubbornly, rudely, indignantly, angrily, and violently hurting, and kicking his legs, and feet against on the floor, over his completely ruined, damaged, wrecked, broken, destroyed, and smashed nearby toy car, and not going to the circus today, and denies, and won't wait until tomorrow]'' <big><big><big>'''''WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!'''''</big></big></big> :'''Storyteller''': ''[off-screen]'' Caillou was being in a very bad mood now! But he was not going to the circus today. :'''Boris''': ''[angrily, terribly, and rudely stunned, when angrily, terribly, and rudely hears Caillou, and was now getting very enraged, angry, terrible, and rude at him, in the approach, because of him, badly, sadly, fiercely, terribly, violently, stubbornly, angrily, rudely, and indignantly having his really bad, violent, dangerous, hurtful, and too inappropriate misbehavior, and terribly, fiercely, badly, sadly, rudely, violently, indignantly, stubbornly, and angrily outbursting, having, and throwing himself a really violent, disgraceful, huge, gigantic, and temper tantrum, in inertia, terribly, loudly, fiercely, badly, sadly, stubbornly, violently, rudely, indignantly, and angrily causing too much trouble, and terribly, loudly, fiercely, badly, sadly, stubbornly, violently, rudely, indignantly, and angrily swearing, screaming, shouting, and crying a very bad, disgusting, rude, indignant, stronger, profane, hurtful, and mean word, disregarding, and that he hurts feelings, and now coming back to the bathroom, and returning to the bathroom, and angrily, terribly, and rudley running over Caillou, while angrily, terribly, and rudely knocking him down, with his foot, by angrily, terribly, and rudely making him stop outbursting, having, and throwing himself a really violent, disgraceful, gigantic, and huge temper tantrum, in inertia, and having his really bad violent, dangerous, hurtful, and too inappropriate misbehavior, and causing too much trouble, and now arriving this time, while holding Rosie, who was very scared, and upset, and wailing, and crying, breaking down with tears in her eyes, when Caillou was woke her up, by outbursting, having, and throwing himself a really violent, disgraceful, gigantic, amd huge temper tantrum, in inertia, and having his really bad, violent, dangerous, hurtful, and too inappropriate misbehavior, and causing too much trouble, and angrily, terribly, and rudely thundering at Caillou, angrily, terribly, and rudely wanting him to stop all the racket, and angrily, terribly, and rudely blaming him, and chewing him out for not coming downstairs to the kitchen, and angrily terribly, and rudely looking like he was angrily, terribly, and rudely getting ready to angrily, terribly, and rudely punish him, for the very first time, and giving him very bad consequences for outbursting, having, and throwing himself a really violent, disgraceful, gigantic, and huge temper tantrum, in inertia, over not going to the circus today, and having his really bad, hurtful, too inappropriate, dangerous, and violent misbehavior, and swearing, screaming, crying, and shouting a very bad, stronger, profane, disgusting, indignant, mean, rude, and hurtful word, disregarding, and repeatedly using several times, and that he hurts feelings, and violently, angrily, badly, indignantly, fiercely, sadly, terribly, rudely, and stubbornly throwing, and slamming his toy down on the floor away, when violently, badly, fiercely, stubbornly, angrily, terribly, and indignantly causing it to violently, fiercely, badly, completely, and terribly ruin, damage, wreck, break, destroy, and smash into hundreds of pieces on purpose, and causing too much trouble, and being a really bad, violent, dangerous, hurtful, and too inappropriate misbehaving bully]'' Aaahhh, get along, Caillou!!!!!! Stop all that racket!!!!!! You've woke up Rosie!!!!!! ''[still significantly, roughly, seriously, and sternly commands Caillou that he will still immediately come downstairs to the kitchen to help him make breakfast quickly]'' I need you to come right down the stairs, now!! :'''Storyteller''': ''[off-screen]'' Even Caillou's papa has started to get really angry at him. ''[Boris angrily, terribly, and rudely strikes, and glares at Caillou, while angrily, terribly, and rudely growling again at him, with his mouth close, and his eyes open, and before angrily, terribly, and rudely growling again, with his mouth open, his eyes open, and his teeth close, and turns around, while angrily, terribly, and rudely stomping away out from the bathroom, and angrily, terribly, and rudely stomping away downstairs to the kitchen, holding Rosie, who was very upset, and scared, and wailing, and crying, breaking down with tears in her eyes]'' :'''Caillou''': ''[gets very terrified, panicked, frightened, and fearful again, after he badly, sadly, fiercely, terribly, indignantly, stubbornly, regretfully, and angrily misjudged, confronted, and disobeyed Boris, and his order, and got in very big trouble, and punished, for the very first time, and still got very cruel, pissed, hurtful, frustrated, out of rage, tabooed, upset, bad-tempered, angry, indignant, fierce, stubborn, enraged, terrible, sad, panicky, scared, and regretful, then gets up, angrily, badly, fiercely, stubbornly, terribly, sadly, indignantly, and regretfully grunting, sobbing, whining, and crying with tears in his eyes]'' But why can't I go to the circus today?!!!?!!! ''[angrily, badly, indignantly, fiercely, stubbornly, and terribly growling again with his mouth close, when angrily, badly, indignantly, fiercely, stubbornly, and terribly kicking aside his completely ruined, damaged, wrecked, broken, destroyed, and smashed nearby toy car away on the floor, and started indignantly, angrily, badly, fiercely, stubbornly, terribly, sadly, and regretfully running away from the bathroom, indignantly, angrily, badly, fiercely, stubbornly, terribly, sadly, and regretfully storming off out of the bathroom, and indignantly, angrily, badly, fiercely, stubbornly, terribly, sadly, and regretfully running after Boris, still feeling very cruel, indignant, scared, fierce, enraged, tabooed, bad-tempered, panicky, sad, stubborn, regretful, terrible, angry, out of rage, pissed, hurtful, frustrated, and upset, over not going to the circus today, until tomorrow, but indignantly, angrily, badly, fiercely, stubbornly, terribly, sadly, and regretfully wanting to go to the circus today, when thinking that he'll running away from home, before that, and badly, sadly, fiercely, terribly, angrily, stubbornly, and indignantly confronting, whining, sobbing, sniffing, grunting, and crying, about his punishment, and very bad consequences, for the very first time, that he got, breaking down with tears in his eyes, before coming downstairs to the kitchen to help his dad make breakfast, but still denies, and won't help him make breakfast]'' I want to go to the circus today!!!!!! eahsue1jiwhut4zttymwok7bon1gyqu 3961074 3961073 2026-07-05T14:11:50Z ~2026-38162-06 3347439 /* Caillou Joins the Circus (Permanently restricted, banned, and censored episode / segment) [Episode 3b, Segment 8] */ 3961074 wikitext text/x-wiki {{vfd-new|Caillou pages}} ==Season 1 (1997-1999)== ===Episode 1=== ====Caillou Makes Cookies [Episode 1a, Segment 1]==== :'''Doris''': Caillou, what are you making? :'''Caillou''': ''[smiling softly]'' I'm making cookies. ===Episode 3=== ====Caillou at Daycare (Censored episode / segment) [Episode 3a, Segment 7]==== :'''Leo''': ''[comes over to Caillou, but gets annoyed, and calls out to him]'' Hey! ''[snatches his one block from Caillou, causing the cup to spill over his shirt]'' These were my blocks! :'''Caillou''': ''[fearfully looking at his shirt, gasps in terror, and gets terrified where a glass of apple juice was spilled over it out of the cup, which made himself loudly, badly, and sadly screaming, and crying, with tears in his eyes, for his mom]'' <big><big><big>'''''MMMMMMAAAAAMMMMMAAAAA!!!!!!'''''</big></big></big> ''[getting very upset in sadness]'' :'''Leo''': ''[rudely laughs to Caillou, and impolitely makes fun of him needing his mom]'' Your mama was gone. ''[smirkly walks away]'' ====Caillou Joins the Circus (Permanently restricted, banned, and censored episode / segment) [Episode 3b, Segment 8]==== :'''Caillou''': ''[while happily brushing his teeth, and remarks]'' I don't need to be late for the circus. :'''Boris''': ''[confused]'' Hmm? The circus? ''[concerned, while trying to explain]'' Uh... no. Caillou, this was not today. ''[bored, while proving to Caillou that he was very wrong]'' The circus wasn't until tomorrow. :'''Caillou''': ''[suddenly stops happily brushing his teeth before he gasps in terror, after he was incorrect, and gets too much distressed, and became very fearful, and terrified]'' Oh, no!!!!!! ''[getting very upset, and badly sadly whining, with his declaration]'' But it is today!!!!!! And I am getting all dressed!!!!!! ''[badly, and sadly crying, whining and sobbing with tears breaking down in his eyes, now being harassed by the fact that this was happening, over his big mistake]'' And that's today!!!!!! :'''Boris''': ''[grumpily neglecting Caillou's challenges]'' Aaww, come along, Caillou! ''[calmly tells Caillou to come downstairs to the kitchen]'' Just come downstairs and help me make breakfast. ''[walks out of the bathroom]'' :'''Caillou''': ''[now very promptly getting very pissed, out of rage, fierce, angry, tabooed, enraged, indignant, stubborn, and upset at Boris, and angrily, stubbornly, indignantly, and fiercely losing his temper, for pissing, enraging, and angering him, and denies, and won't come downstairs to the kitchen to help his dad make breakfast]'' No!!!!!! No, I can't do that!!!!!! ''[angrily, indignantly, and stubbornly sits down on the floor, and stays in the the bathroom, and fiercely, indignantly, stubbornly, and angrily growls with his mouth close, and his eyes open, then picks up his nearby toy car out of the toy bucket, and decides to play with it, to make himself feel a little better]'' Vroom, vroom, vroom! ''[mockingly vrooming, and playing his nearby toy car, with his very upset, pissed, stubborn, and angry face on, but until one of the wheels unintentionally got loose, and suddenly fell off on the floor, and then he gasps in terror, and became very fearful, and terrified again, and then picks up his nearby toy car, and then getting even more very pissed, hurtful, out of rage, sad, fierce, bad-tempered, enraged, stubborn, indignant, terrible, tabooed, disgusted, upset, angry, dangerous, rude, mean, and violent, and stubbornly, loudly, fiercely, badly, sadly, stubbornly, terribly, rudely, indignantly, and violently outbursting into stubbornly, loudly, fiercely, badly, sadly, stubbornly, terribly, rudely, indignantly, and violently swearing, screaming, crying, shouting, and calling his nearby toy car a very bad, stronger, profane, disgusting, indignant, mean, rude, and hurtful word, disregarding, when now being a really bad, cruel, violent, dangerous, hurtful, and too inappropriate misbehaving bully, and repeatedly using several times, but ignoring that it could hurt feelings, with tears breaking down in his eyes, and his eyes close, very tightly, and violently, fiercely, badly, stubbornly, terribly, rudely, indignantly, and angrily shaking his nearby toy car]'' <big><big><big>'''''You stupid, ol' car!!!!!! You are stupid-stupid-stupid!!!!!!'''''</big></big></big> ''[violently, badly, fiercely, stubbornly, terribly, rudely, indignantly, and angrily growling, with his eyes close, very tightly, and his mouth close, and badly, fiercely, stubbornly, angrily, terribly, rudely, indignantly, and violently throwing, and slamming his nearby toy car down on the floor away, when violently, badly, fiercely, stubbornly, angrily, terribly, and indignantly causing it to violently, fiercely, badly, completely, and terribly ruin, damage, wreck, break, destroy, and smash into hundreds of pieces on purpose, and then indignantly, badly, loudly, sadly, fiercely, stubbornly, rudely, violently, and angrily screaming, shrieking, and crying, and bursting, and breaking down with tears coming out of his eyes, and while violently, angrily, badly, indignantly, loudly, fiercely, sadly, terribly, rudely, and stubbornly outbursting, having, and throwing himself a really violent, disgraceful, gigantic, huge temper tantrum, in inertia, and badly, fiercely, sadly, terribly, stubbornly, violently, rudely, indignantly, and angrily feeling very bad, violent, cruel, hurtful, and too inappropriate of what he will missed the circus, for today, and unfinished brushing his teeth, while temperately heedless of how he had hurt feelings, and violently, angrily, badly, indignantly, fiercely, terribly, rudely, and stubbornly being a really bad, cruel, violent, dangerous, hurtful, and too inappropriate misbehaving bully, and violently, angrily, badly, indignantly, fiercely, sadly, terribly, rudely, and stubbornly threwed, and slammed his toy down on the floor away, when violently, badly, fiercely, stubbornly, angrily, terribly, and indignantly causing it to violently, fiercely, badly, completely, and terribly ruined, damaged, wrecked, broked, destroyed, and smashed into hundreds of pieces on purpose, violently, angrily, badly, indignantly, fiercely, sadly, terribly, rudely, and stubbornly causing too much trouble, and violently, fiercely, terribly, sadly, badly, stubbornly, rudely, indignantly, and angrily having his really bad, too inappropriate, hurtful, dangerous, and violent misbehavior, and terribly, fiercely, badly, sadly, stubbornly, rudely, indignantly, violently, and angrily hurting, pounding, and banging his arms, and fists, and terribly, fiercely, badly, sadly, stubbornly, rudely, indignantly, angrily, and violently hurting, and kicking his legs, and feet against on the floor, over his completely ruined, damaged, wrecked, broken, destroyed, and smashed nearby toy car, and not going to the circus today, and denies, and won't wait until tomorrow]'' <big><big><big>'''''WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!'''''</big></big></big> :'''Storyteller''': ''[off-screen]'' Caillou was being in a very bad mood now! But he was not going to the circus today. :'''Boris''': ''[angrily, terribly, and rudely stunned, when angrily, terribly, and rudely hears Caillou, and was now getting very enraged, angry, terrible, and rude at him, in the approach, because of him, badly, sadly, fiercely, terribly, violently, stubbornly, angrily, rudely, and indignantly having his really bad, violent, dangerous, hurtful, and too inappropriate misbehavior, and terribly, fiercely, badly, sadly, rudely, violently, indignantly, stubbornly, and angrily outbursting, having, and throwing himself a really violent, disgraceful, huge, gigantic, and temper tantrum, in inertia, terribly, loudly, fiercely, badly, sadly, stubbornly, violently, rudely, indignantly, and angrily causing too much trouble, and terribly, loudly, fiercely, badly, sadly, stubbornly, violently, rudely, indignantly, and angrily swearing, screaming, shouting, and crying a very bad, disgusting, rude, indignant, stronger, profane, hurtful, and mean word, disregarding, and that he hurts feelings, and now coming back to the bathroom, and returning to the bathroom, and angrily, terribly, and rudley running over Caillou, while angrily, terribly, and rudely knocking him down, with his foot, by angrily, terribly, and rudely making him stop outbursting, having, and throwing himself a really violent, disgraceful, gigantic, and huge temper tantrum, in inertia, and having his really bad violent, dangerous, hurtful, and too inappropriate misbehavior, and causing too much trouble, and now arriving this time, while holding Rosie, who was very scared, and upset, and wailing, and crying, breaking down with tears in her eyes, when Caillou was woke her up, by outbursting, having, and throwing himself a really violent, disgraceful, gigantic, amd huge temper tantrum, in inertia, and having his really bad, violent, dangerous, hurtful, and too inappropriate misbehavior, and causing too much trouble, and angrily, terribly, and rudely thundering at Caillou, angrily, terribly, and rudely wanting him to stop all the racket, and angrily, terribly, and rudely blaming him, and chewing him out for not coming downstairs to the kitchen, and angrily terribly, and rudely looking like he was angrily, terribly, and rudely getting ready to angrily, terribly, and rudely punish him, for the very first time, and giving him very bad consequences for outbursting, having, and throwing himself a really violent, disgraceful, gigantic, and huge temper tantrum, in inertia, over not going to the circus today, and having his really bad, hurtful, too inappropriate, dangerous, and violent misbehavior, and swearing, screaming, crying, and shouting a very bad, stronger, profane, disgusting, indignant, mean, rude, and hurtful word, disregarding, and repeatedly using several times, and that he hurts feelings, and violently, angrily, badly, indignantly, fiercely, sadly, terribly, rudely, and stubbornly throwing, and slamming his toy down on the floor away, when violently, badly, fiercely, stubbornly, angrily, terribly, and indignantly causing it to violently, fiercely, badly, completely, and terribly ruin, damage, wreck, break, destroy, and smash into hundreds of pieces on purpose, and causing too much trouble, and being a really bad, cruel, violent, dangerous, hurtful, and too inappropriate misbehaving bully]'' Aaahhh, get along, Caillou!!!!!! Stop all that racket!!!!!! You've woke up Rosie!!!!!! ''[still significantly, roughly, seriously, and sternly commands Caillou that he will still immediately come downstairs to the kitchen to help him make breakfast quickly]'' I need you to come right down the stairs, now!! :'''Storyteller''': ''[off-screen]'' Even Caillou's papa has started to get really angry at him. ''[Boris angrily, terribly, and rudely strikes, and glares at Caillou, while angrily, terribly, and rudely growling again at him, with his mouth close, and his eyes open, and before angrily, terribly, and rudely growling again, with his mouth open, his eyes open, and his teeth close, and turns around, while angrily, terribly, and rudely stomping away out from the bathroom, and angrily, terribly, and rudely stomping away downstairs to the kitchen, holding Rosie, who was very upset, and scared, and wailing, and crying, breaking down with tears in her eyes]'' :'''Caillou''': ''[gets very terrified, panicked, frightened, and fearful again, after he badly, sadly, fiercely, terribly, indignantly, stubbornly, regretfully, and angrily misjudged, confronted, and disobeyed Boris, and his order, and got in very big trouble, and punished, for the very first time, and still got very cruel, pissed, hurtful, frustrated, out of rage, tabooed, upset, bad-tempered, angry, indignant, fierce, stubborn, enraged, terrible, sad, panicky, scared, and regretful, then gets up, angrily, badly, fiercely, stubbornly, terribly, sadly, indignantly, and regretfully grunting, sobbing, whining, and crying with tears in his eyes]'' But why can't I go to the circus today?!!!?!!! ''[angrily, badly, indignantly, fiercely, stubbornly, and terribly growling again with his mouth close, when angrily, badly, indignantly, fiercely, stubbornly, and terribly kicking aside his completely ruined, damaged, wrecked, broken, destroyed, and smashed nearby toy car away on the floor, and started indignantly, angrily, badly, fiercely, stubbornly, terribly, sadly, and regretfully running away from the bathroom, indignantly, angrily, badly, fiercely, stubbornly, terribly, sadly, and regretfully storming off out of the bathroom, and indignantly, angrily, badly, fiercely, stubbornly, terribly, sadly, and regretfully running after Boris, still feeling very cruel, indignant, scared, fierce, enraged, tabooed, bad-tempered, panicky, sad, stubborn, regretful, terrible, angry, out of rage, pissed, hurtful, frustrated, and upset, over not going to the circus today, until tomorrow, but indignantly, angrily, badly, fiercely, stubbornly, terribly, sadly, and regretfully wanting to go to the circus today, when thinking that he'll running away from home, before that, and badly, sadly, fiercely, terribly, angrily, stubbornly, and indignantly confronting, whining, sobbing, sniffing, grunting, and crying, about his punishment, and very bad consequences, for the very first time, that he got, breaking down with tears in his eyes, before coming downstairs to the kitchen to help his dad make breakfast, but still denies, and won't help him make breakfast]'' I want to go to the circus today!!!!!! 56mo9hxx4h3zzcsy1nvl9gqhzpqipd2 3961249 3961074 2026-07-05T19:35:47Z ~2026-38162-06 3347439 /* Caillou Joins the Circus (Permanently restricted, banned, and censored episode / segment) [Episode 3b, Segment 8] */ 3961249 wikitext text/x-wiki {{vfd-new|Caillou pages}} ==Season 1 (1997-1999)== ===Episode 1=== ====Caillou Makes Cookies [Episode 1a, Segment 1]==== :'''Doris''': Caillou, what are you making? :'''Caillou''': ''[smiling softly]'' I'm making cookies. ===Episode 3=== ====Caillou at Daycare (Censored episode / segment) [Episode 3a, Segment 7]==== :'''Leo''': ''[comes over to Caillou, but gets annoyed, and calls out to him]'' Hey! ''[snatches his one block from Caillou, causing the cup to spill over his shirt]'' These were my blocks! :'''Caillou''': ''[fearfully looking at his shirt, gasps in terror, and gets terrified where a glass of apple juice was spilled over it out of the cup, which made himself loudly, badly, and sadly screaming, and crying, with tears in his eyes, for his mom]'' <big><big><big>'''''MMMMMMAAAAAMMMMMAAAAA!!!!!!'''''</big></big></big> ''[getting very upset in sadness]'' :'''Leo''': ''[rudely laughs to Caillou, and impolitely makes fun of him needing his mom]'' Your mama was gone. ''[smirkly walks away]'' ====Caillou Joins the Circus (Permanently restricted, banned, and censored episode / segment) [Episode 3b, Segment 8]==== :'''Caillou''': ''[while happily brushing his teeth, and remarks]'' I don't need to be late for the circus. :'''Boris''': ''[confused]'' Hmm? The circus? ''[concerned, while trying to explain]'' Uh... no. Caillou, this was not today. ''[bored, while proving to Caillou that he was very wrong]'' The circus wasn't until tomorrow. :'''Caillou''': ''[suddenly stops happily brushing his teeth before he gasps in terror, after he was incorrect, and gets too much feared, and became very fearful, and terrified]'' Oh, no!!!!!! ''[getting very upset, and badly sadly whining, with his declaration]'' But it is today!!!!!! And I am getting all dressed!!!!!! ''[badly, and sadly crying, whining and sobbing with tears breaking down in his eyes, now being harassed by the fact that this was happening, over his big mistake]'' And that's today!!!!!! :'''Boris''': ''[grumpily neglecting Caillou's challenges]'' Aaww, come along, Caillou! ''[calmly tells Caillou to come downstairs to the kitchen]'' Just come downstairs and help me make breakfast. ''[walks out of the bathroom]'' :'''Caillou''': ''[now very promptly getting very pissed, out of rage, fierce, angry, tabooed, enraged, indignant, stubborn, and upset at Boris, and angrily, stubbornly, indignantly, and fiercely losing his temper, for pissing, enraging, and angering him, and denies, and won't come downstairs to the kitchen to help his dad make breakfast]'' No!!!!!! No, I can't do that!!!!!! ''[angrily, indignantly, and stubbornly sits down on the floor, and stays in the the bathroom, and fiercely, indignantly, stubbornly, and angrily growls with his mouth close, and his eyes open, then picks up his nearby toy car out of the toy bucket, and decides to play with it, to make himself feel a little better]'' Vroom, vroom, vroom! ''[mockingly vrooming, and playing his nearby toy car, with his very upset, pissed, stubborn, and angry face on, but until one of the wheels unintentionally got loose, and suddenly fell off on the floor, and then he gasps in terror, and became very fearful, and terrified again, and then picks up his nearby toy car, and then getting even more very pissed, hurtful, out of rage, sad, fierce, bad-tempered, enraged, stubborn, indignant, terrible, tabooed, disgusted, upset, angry, dangerous, rude, mean, and violent, and stubbornly, loudly, fiercely, badly, sadly, stubbornly, terribly, rudely, indignantly, and violently outbursting into stubbornly, loudly, fiercely, badly, sadly, stubbornly, terribly, rudely, indignantly, and violently swearing, screaming, crying, shouting, and calling his nearby toy car a very bad, stronger, profane, disgusting, indignant, mean, rude, and hurtful word, disregarding, when now being a really bad, cruel, violent, dangerous, hurtful, and too inappropriate misbehaving bully, and repeatedly using several times, but ignoring that it could hurt feelings, with tears breaking down in his eyes, and his eyes close, very tightly, and violently, fiercely, badly, stubbornly, terribly, rudely, indignantly, and angrily shaking his nearby toy car]'' <big><big><big>'''''You stupid, ol' car!!!!!! You are stupid-stupid-stupid!!!!!!'''''</big></big></big> ''[violently, badly, fiercely, stubbornly, terribly, rudely, indignantly, and angrily growling, with his eyes close, very tightly, and his mouth close, and badly, fiercely, stubbornly, angrily, terribly, rudely, indignantly, and violently throwing, and slamming his nearby toy car down on the floor away, when violently, badly, fiercely, stubbornly, angrily, terribly, and indignantly causing it to violently, fiercely, badly, completely, and terribly ruin, damage, wreck, break, destroy, and smash into hundreds of pieces on purpose, and then indignantly, badly, loudly, sadly, fiercely, stubbornly, rudely, violently, and angrily screaming, shrieking, and crying, and bursting, and breaking down with tears coming out of his eyes, and while violently, angrily, badly, indignantly, loudly, fiercely, sadly, terribly, rudely, and stubbornly outbursting, having, and throwing himself a really violent, disgraceful, gigantic, huge temper tantrum, in inertia, and badly, fiercely, sadly, terribly, stubbornly, violently, rudely, indignantly, and angrily feeling very bad, violent, cruel, hurtful, and too inappropriate of what he will missed the circus, for today, and unfinished brushing his teeth, while temperately heedless of how he had hurt feelings, and violently, angrily, badly, indignantly, fiercely, terribly, rudely, and stubbornly being a really bad, cruel, violent, dangerous, hurtful, and too inappropriate misbehaving bully, and violently, angrily, badly, indignantly, fiercely, sadly, terribly, rudely, and stubbornly threwed, and slammed his toy down on the floor away, when violently, badly, fiercely, stubbornly, angrily, terribly, and indignantly causing it to violently, fiercely, badly, completely, and terribly ruined, damaged, wrecked, broked, destroyed, and smashed into hundreds of pieces on purpose, violently, angrily, badly, indignantly, fiercely, sadly, terribly, rudely, and stubbornly causing too much trouble, and violently, fiercely, terribly, sadly, badly, stubbornly, rudely, indignantly, and angrily having his really bad, too inappropriate, hurtful, dangerous, and violent misbehavior, and terribly, fiercely, badly, sadly, stubbornly, rudely, indignantly, violently, and angrily hurting, pounding, and banging his arms, and fists, and terribly, fiercely, badly, sadly, stubbornly, rudely, indignantly, angrily, and violently hurting, and kicking his legs, and feet against on the floor, over his completely ruined, damaged, wrecked, broken, destroyed, and smashed nearby toy car, and not going to the circus today, and denies, and won't wait until tomorrow]'' <big><big><big>'''''WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!'''''</big></big></big> :'''Storyteller''': ''[off-screen]'' Caillou was being in a very bad mood now! But he was not going to the circus today. :'''Boris''': ''[angrily, terribly, and rudely stunned, when angrily, terribly, and rudely hears Caillou, and was now getting very enraged, angry, terrible, and rude at him, in the approach, because of him, badly, sadly, fiercely, terribly, violently, stubbornly, angrily, rudely, and indignantly having his really bad, violent, dangerous, hurtful, and too inappropriate misbehavior, and terribly, fiercely, badly, sadly, rudely, violently, indignantly, stubbornly, and angrily outbursting, having, and throwing himself a really violent, disgraceful, huge, gigantic, and temper tantrum, in inertia, terribly, loudly, fiercely, badly, sadly, stubbornly, violently, rudely, indignantly, and angrily causing too much trouble, and terribly, loudly, fiercely, badly, sadly, stubbornly, violently, rudely, indignantly, and angrily swearing, screaming, shouting, and crying a very bad, disgusting, rude, indignant, stronger, profane, hurtful, and mean word, disregarding, and that he hurts feelings, and now coming back to the bathroom, and returning to the bathroom, and angrily, terribly, and rudley running over Caillou, while angrily, terribly, and rudely knocking him down, with his foot, by angrily, terribly, and rudely making him stop outbursting, having, and throwing himself a really violent, disgraceful, gigantic, and huge temper tantrum, in inertia, and having his really bad violent, dangerous, hurtful, and too inappropriate misbehavior, and causing too much trouble, and now arriving this time, while holding Rosie, who was very scared, and upset, and wailing, and crying, breaking down with tears in her eyes, when Caillou was woke her up, by outbursting, having, and throwing himself a really violent, disgraceful, gigantic, amd huge temper tantrum, in inertia, and having his really bad, violent, dangerous, hurtful, and too inappropriate misbehavior, and causing too much trouble, and angrily, terribly, and rudely thundering at Caillou, angrily, terribly, and rudely wanting him to stop all the racket, and angrily, terribly, and rudely blaming him, and chewing him out for not coming downstairs to the kitchen, and angrily terribly, and rudely looking like he was angrily, terribly, and rudely getting ready to angrily, terribly, and rudely punish him, for the very first time, and giving him very bad consequences for outbursting, having, and throwing himself a really violent, disgraceful, gigantic, and huge temper tantrum, in inertia, over not going to the circus today, and having his really bad, hurtful, too inappropriate, dangerous, and violent misbehavior, and swearing, screaming, crying, and shouting a very bad, stronger, profane, disgusting, indignant, mean, rude, and hurtful word, disregarding, and repeatedly using several times, and that he hurts feelings, and violently, angrily, badly, indignantly, fiercely, sadly, terribly, rudely, and stubbornly throwing, and slamming his toy down on the floor away, when violently, badly, fiercely, stubbornly, angrily, terribly, and indignantly causing it to violently, fiercely, badly, completely, and terribly ruin, damage, wreck, break, destroy, and smash into hundreds of pieces on purpose, and causing too much trouble, and being a really bad, cruel, violent, dangerous, hurtful, and too inappropriate misbehaving bully]'' Aaahhh, get along, Caillou!!!!!! Stop all that racket!!!!!! You've woke up Rosie!!!!!! ''[still significantly, roughly, seriously, and sternly commands Caillou that he will still immediately come downstairs to the kitchen to help him make breakfast quickly]'' I need you to come right down the stairs, now!! :'''Storyteller''': ''[off-screen]'' Even Caillou's papa has started to get really angry at him. ''[Boris angrily, terribly, and rudely strikes, and glares at Caillou, while angrily, terribly, and rudely growling again at him, with his mouth close, and his eyes open, and before angrily, terribly, and rudely growling again, with his mouth open, his eyes open, and his teeth close, and turns around, while angrily, terribly, and rudely stomping away out from the bathroom, and angrily, terribly, and rudely stomping away downstairs to the kitchen, holding Rosie, who was very upset, and scared, and wailing, and crying, breaking down with tears in her eyes]'' :'''Caillou''': ''[gets very terrified, panicked, frightened, and fearful again, after he badly, sadly, fiercely, terribly, indignantly, stubbornly, regretfully, and angrily misjudged, confronted, and disobeyed Boris, and his order, and got in very big trouble, and punished, for the very first time, and still got very cruel, pissed, hurtful, frustrated, out of rage, tabooed, upset, bad-tempered, angry, indignant, fierce, stubborn, enraged, terrible, sad, panicky, scared, and regretful, then gets up, angrily, badly, fiercely, stubbornly, terribly, sadly, indignantly, and regretfully grunting, sobbing, whining, and crying with tears in his eyes]'' But why can't I go to the circus today?!!!?!!! ''[angrily, badly, indignantly, fiercely, stubbornly, and terribly growling again with his mouth close, when angrily, badly, indignantly, fiercely, stubbornly, and terribly kicking aside his completely ruined, damaged, wrecked, broken, destroyed, and smashed nearby toy car away on the floor, and started indignantly, angrily, badly, fiercely, stubbornly, terribly, sadly, and regretfully running away from the bathroom, indignantly, angrily, badly, fiercely, stubbornly, terribly, sadly, and regretfully storming off out of the bathroom, and indignantly, angrily, badly, fiercely, stubbornly, terribly, sadly, and regretfully running after Boris, still feeling very cruel, indignant, scared, fierce, enraged, tabooed, bad-tempered, panicky, sad, stubborn, regretful, terrible, angry, out of rage, pissed, hurtful, frustrated, and upset, over not going to the circus today, until tomorrow, but indignantly, angrily, badly, fiercely, stubbornly, terribly, sadly, and regretfully wanting to go to the circus today, when thinking that he'll running away from home, before that, and badly, sadly, fiercely, terribly, angrily, stubbornly, and indignantly confronting, whining, sobbing, sniffing, grunting, and crying, about his punishment, and very bad consequences, for the very first time, that he got, breaking down with tears in his eyes, before coming downstairs to the kitchen to help his dad make breakfast, but still denies, and won't help him make breakfast]'' I want to go to the circus today!!!!!! tmjxyk1qcvnttwjc6fe95etxhpdvm7f 0 303815 3961219 3954268 2026-07-05T17:11:09Z ~2026-38194-73 3347728 /* Hermann Göring */ 3961219 wikitext text/x-wiki {{italic title}} [[File:Goering_on_trial_%28color%29.jpg|thumb|right|'''Hermann Göring''': What do you think war is?! What do you think the [[Russian]]'s do to German prisoners of war?! You have your freedom and I am a prisoner because you won and we lost, not because you are morally superior! This trial will be a farce in 15 years. Great conquerors are not thought of as murderers, [[Genghis Khan]], [[Alexander the Great]]... <br> '''Douglas Kelley''': You're not Alexander the Great! '''You are a fat man in a cell. And you knew.''']] '''''[[w:Nuremberg (2025 film)|Nuremberg]]''''' is a [[w:2025 in film|2025]] American [[w:drama film|drama film]] about US Army psychiatrist [[w:Douglas Kelley|Douglas Kelley]] seeking to carry out an assignment to investigate the personalities and monitor the mental status of [[Hermann Göring]] and other high-ranking Nazis in preparation for and during the [[w:Nuremberg trials|Nuremberg trials]]. :''Written and Directed by [[w:James Vanderbilt|James Vanderbilt]], based on [[w:Jack El-Hai|Jack El-Hai]]'s 2013 book "The Nazi and the Psychiatrist".'' {{center|'''An epic World War ll thriller based on true events'''}} ==[[Hermann Göring]]== * Just because a man is your ally does not mean he is on your side. * The first time I saw [[Hitler]] talk, it was uh... 1922, upstairs of a coffee shop, for maybe 30 people. This was peacetime, but it was a peace without food, jobs, shoes. And he stood up and he said "French bellies are being filled with German pain." And then, "If you make threats, you need bayonets. Rearm! Down this Versailles!" So that night, I became a National Socialist. * No man has ever beaten me. * ''[After being defeated at the trial]'' Years from now, I wonder what you will say about us. Will you even acknowledge we were human? * Abracadabra [final words after making using making a cyanide capsule appear out of thin air through magic] ==[[w:Douglas Kelley|Douglas Kelley]]== * ''[On Göring]'' You know what sets him apart from us? Nothing. * ''[to Göring]'' There's a difference between us bombing war factories and civilians dying as collateral damage! And you building 1200 ''human slaughter houses'' designed to exterminate an ''entire race!'' '''And you know it!!''' * ''[to Göring]'' You think you're a great man? * I know more about this man than anyone else on the planet. You're walking into a trap! ==Others== * '''Sergeant Howie Triest''': ''[to Douglas]'' Do you know why it happened here? Because people let it happen. ==Dialogue== : :'''Robert Jackson''': Exactly. The world needs to know what these men did. : : : : : : :''[After a trial hearing, at Göring's cell, Douglas is horrified, disgusted, and furious over what he has seen from the video footage of the atrocities committed at the [[w:Nazi concentration camps|concentration camps]]]'' :'''Douglas Kelley''': How is that possible? ''[short pause, he stands up]'' What I just saw. How is it possible? :'''Hermann Göring''': ''[short pause]'' [[Heinrich Himmler|Himmler]]. :'''Douglas Kelley''': Himmer wasn't second in command. You were. 1200 camps? What am I supposed to believe that you didn't know? :'''Hermann Göring''': Anyone can fake an atrocity. :'''Douglas Kelley''': So you're saying the filming was a fake, that's your defence? :'''Hermann Göring''': What would you have me say? :'''Douglas Kelley''': About the truth for ''once!'' :'''Hermann Göring''': Why? So you can run and tell Jackson. My friend, your hypocrisy is stunning. :'''Douglas Kelley''': My hypocrisy? :'''Hermann Göring''': You think American bullets and bombs don't kill people?! You vaporised [[Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki|150,000 Japanese at the touch of a button]]. And you presume to stand in judgment on me for war crimes. :'''Douglas Kelley''': We had every right to defend ourselves. :'''Hermann Göring''': How do you defend yourself on someone else's soil?! :'''Douglas Kelley''': There's a difference between us bombing war factories and civilians dying as collateral damage! And you building 1200 ''human slaughter houses'' designed to exterminate an ''entire race!'' '''And you know it!!''' :'''Hermann Göring''': What do you think war is?! :'''Douglas Kelley''': ''[pause]'' Not what I saw today. :'''Hermann Göring''': What do you think the [[Russian]]'s do to German prisoners of war?! You have your freedom and I am a prisoner because you won and we lost, not because you are morally superior! This trial will be a farce in 15 years. Great conquerors are not thought of as murderers, [[Genghis Khan]], [[Alexander the Great]]... :'''Douglas Kelley''': You're not Alexander the Great! You are a fat man in a cell. And you ''knew.'' :''[pause]'' :'''Hermann Göring''': I have made a mistake. You are not destined for more. You will have an unhappy life, I think. It will all be overshadowed by this. By the time spent with me. You will write your volumes trying to relive it. The one moment in your life when you actually stood with greatness. :'''Douglas Kelley''': ''[short pause]'' You think you're a great man? You think that that's your legacy? :'''Hermann Göring''': At least I will have one. You will leave no mark on this world. I am the book! You are merely a footnote. :''[pause]'' :'''Douglas Kelley''': They're gonna ''kill you!'' They're gonna hang you by the ''neck'' till you ''piss yourself'' and ''die''. Your wife will be a widow. Your daughter will be an orphan. And you will have done that to yourself. ''[Kelley knocks on the cell door to be let out, door opens. He glares at Göring and leaves]'' <hr width="50%" /> :''[Douglas is live on a radio show]'' :'''Douglas Kelley''': ''[drunkenly]'' There are people in America who would willingly climb over the corpses of half the American public if they knew they could gain control of the other half! :'''Moderator''': Doctor, please- :'''Douglas Kelley''': They stoke hatred; it's what Hitler and Göring did, and it is textbook, and if you think the next time it happens we're going to recognise it because they're wearing scary uniforms, ''[stands up, intensely]'' you're out of your damn mind! ''[sits back down]'' They're us, okay? The Germans are us. :''[Silence. The Moderator leans into his microphone]'' :'''Moderator''': More with our panel when we return. :''[Commercials begin. The Producer comes over to Douglas, who pours himself another glass of whiskey]'' :'''Producer''': They're not going to invite you to stay for the next segment. Let's go. :''[He helps Kelly to his feet and hustles him towards the door]'' :'''Producer''': And just so you know? Trashing our country is not the best way to sell your book. :''[Douglas looks at him, turns and leaves]'' ==Taglines== * An epic World War ll thriller based on true events ==Cast== * [[Russell Crowe]] - [[Hermann Göring]] * [[Rami Malek]] - [[w:Douglas Kelley|Douglas Kelley]] * [[w:Leo Woodall|Leo Woodall]] - Sergeant [[w:Howie Triest|Howie Triest]] * [[w:John Slattery|John Slattery]] - [[w:Burton C. Andrus|Burton C. Andrus]] * [[w:Mark O'Brien (actor)|Mark O'Brien]] - [[w:John Amen|John Amen]] * [[w:Colin Hanks|Colin Hanks]] - [[w:Gustave Gilbert|Gustave Gilbert]] * [[w:Wrenn Schmidt|Wrenn Schmidt]] - Elsie Douglas * [[w:Lydia Peckham|Lydia Peckham]] - Lila * [[w:Michael Shannon|Michael Shannon]] - [[w:Robert H. Jackson|Robert H. Jackson]] * [[w:Richard E. Grant|Richard E. Grant]] - [[w:David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir|Sir David Maxwell Fyfe]] * [[w:Lotte Verbeek|Lotte Verbeek]] - [[w:Emmy Göring|Emmy Göring]] * [[w:Andreas Pietschmann|Andreas Pietschmann]] - [[w:Rudolf Hess|Rudolf Hess]] * [[w:Steven Pacey|Steven Pacey]] - [[w:George C. Marshall|George C. Marshall]] ==External links== {{Wikipedia}} * {{imdb title|id=29567915|title=Nuremberg (2025 film)}} * {{rotten-tomatoes|id=nuremberg_2025|title=Nuremberg (2025 film)}} [[Category:2025 films]] [[Category:2025 American films]] [[Category:2020s American films]] [[Category:American historical films]] [[Category:Drama films]] [[Category:World War II films]] [[Category:War films]] [[Category:Courtroom dramas]] [[Category:Films set in the 1940s]] [[Category:Films about psychiatry]] [[Category:Films based on non-fiction books]] obyrb06lu4egz8zkrhb5xmk53jnmdfx 2 306111 3961186 3925142 2026-07-05T16:33:42Z BD2412 3982 /* December 2025 */ Per [[Wikiquote:Village pump#Proposal to move ", Jr." titles to "Jr." titles]], replaced: Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr. → Robert F. Kennedy Jr. using [[Project:AWB|AWB]] 3961186 wikitext text/x-wiki ==== September 2025 ==== * I'm a firm believer that President Trump will run and win again in 2028, so I've already endorsed President Trump. A man like this comes along once every century, if we're lucky. We've got him now. ** [[Steve Bannon]], endorsing Donald Trump to run for an unconstitutional third term in 2028, as quoted by Adeola Adeosun, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/justice-barrett-weighs-in-on-trump-third-term-talk/ar-AA1M9jYl?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=68c015781ccf4696a35a5ef8dd24a801&ei=11/"Justice Barrett weighs in on Trump third-term talk"], ''Newsweek'', 8 September 2025 * The 22nd Amendment, ratified in 1951, explicitly states: "No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice." This amendment was adopted following Franklin D. Roosevelt's unprecedented four terms in office, establishing a formal limit on presidential tenure that had previously been only a tradition dating all the way back to America's first president, George Washington.<br>In March, Trump told NBC News that "a lot of people would like me to do that," regarding a third term, adding, "There are methods which you could do it, as you know." He reiterated these sentiments in subsequent interviews, though he has also occasionally denied interest in pursuing such a path.<br>Some Trump allies, like podcast host Steve Bannon, adviser during Trump's first term, have suggested unconventional workarounds. One theory involves Trump running as vice president on a ticket where the presidential nominee would then step aside after winning, allowing Trump to assume the presidency. Legal experts, however, broadly agree this would violate both the letter and spirit of the Constitution. ** Adeola Adeosun, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/justice-barrett-weighs-in-on-trump-third-term-talk/ar-AA1M9jYl?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=68c015781ccf4696a35a5ef8dd24a801&ei=11/"Justice Barrett weighs in on Trump third-term talk"], ''Newsweek'', 8 September 2025 * Donald Trump was recently asked about negotiating with the Democrats to avoid a government shutdown. “Don’t even bother dealing with them,” the president said. “If you gave them every dream, they would not vote for it.” Well, I don’t know about Democrats, Mr. President, but as an Independent I am prepared to vote with you if you simply do what the American people want. At a time when 60% of our people are living paycheck to paycheck I don’t think it’s a “dream” to ask that you:<br>Not slash Medicaid and throw 15 million people off their health insurance, resulting in over 50,000 deaths a year.<br>Not raise health care premiums by 75%, on average, for over 20 million Americans due to cuts to the Affordable Care Act.<br>Not, at a time of unprecedented income and wealth inequality, give the richest people in America a trillion dollars in tax breaks.<br>Not cut nutrition programs for hungry kids.<br>Not make it harder for young people to get a higher education.<br>Mr. President, your party controls the House, the Senate and the White House. Do not shut down the government.<br>If you come to an agreement on these issues, you’ve got my vote. ** [[Bernie Sanders]], U.S. Senator from Vermont, [https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/news-sanders-mr-president-do-not-shut-down-the-government/"Mr. President: Do Not Shut Down the Government"], 13 September 2025 * One of highest honors of my life. ** Donald Trump regarding a state dinner with King [[Charles III]], ''[https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/donald-trump-calls-uk-state-dinner-with-king-charles-one-of-highest-honors-of-my-life-9297573 Trump Calls UK State Dinner "One Of Highest Honors Of My Life"]'', ''ndtv.com'', September 18, 2025 * It was an extraordinary week. The slumbering giant of America is awakening. Americans forced Disney to put [[Jimmy Kimmel]] back on the air. Over 6 million people watched Kimmel’s Tuesday monologue assailing Trump’s attempt to censor him. Another 26 million watched it on social media, including YouTube. (Kimmel’s usual television audience is about 1.42 million.) Trump’s dictatorial narcissism revealed itself nearly as dramatically in the criminal indictment of former FBI director [[James Comey]], coming immediately after Trump fired the U.S. attorney who refused to indict him.<br>As did Trump’s demand that prosecutors go after philanthropist [[George Soros]], Senator [[Adam Schiff]], New York Attorney General Letitia James, and other perceived enemies.<br>As did Trump’s order yesterday, directing the “Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth” to use “full force, if necessary” to “protect War ravaged Portland” Oregon and any “ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists.” He is escalating his use of the U.S. military against Americans.<br>There was also his bonkers speech to the United Nations telling delegates that their nations are “going to hell.” His attribution of autism to Tylenol, even though doctors say it is safe for pregnant women in moderation. His unilateral imposition of tariffs as high as 100 percent on imports of pharmaceuticals and kitchen cabinets.<br>Friends, his neofascism and his dementia are both in plain sight. ** [[Robert Reich]], [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-awakened-an-angry-sleeping-giant-this-week-and-he-s-about-to-roar-opinion/ar-AA1Ns9Yn?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=68d8c4df4dbf481aa997d9100e2b384a&ei=7/"Opinion: Trump awakened an angry sleeping giant this week — and he's about to roar"], ''Alternet'', 28 September 2025 * His polls continue to drop. Voters are turning against him and his Republican party. On Tuesday, Democrat Adelita Grijalva won Arizona’s 7th Congressional District in a special election — leaving House Republicans with a majority of just five. Grijalva’s victory comes on the heels of another Democratic win: James Walkinshaw’s in Virginia. Two more special elections are coming, in Texas and Tennessee. Speaker Mike Johnson is struggling to hold House Republicans together, facing rebellion on issues such as the release of files relating to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.<br>Democrats are refusing to go along with Republicans to fund the government beyond Tuesday unless Republicans agree to extending Affordable Care Act subsidies — now set to expire at the end of the year and cause 24 million people to lose coverage or pay skyrocketing premiums. ** [[Robert Reich]], [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-awakened-an-angry-sleeping-giant-this-week-and-he-s-about-to-roar-opinion/ar-AA1Ns9Yn?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=68d8c4df4dbf481aa997d9100e2b384a&ei=7/"Opinion: Trump awakened an angry sleeping giant this week — and he's about to roar"], ''Alternet'', 28 September 2025 * Friends, I can’t tell you exactly when the tipping point will occur — when elected Republicans will rebel against him, or when his dementia becomes so apparent he’s forced to resign, or when so much of the nation rises up against his dictatorship that he’s impeached and convicted of high crimes — but we’re getting closer. As I said a few days ago, I’ve been in and around politics for 60 years and have developed a sixth sense about the slumbering giant of America. That giant is now stirring. He about to stand. He’s angry. Soon he will roar.<br>'''Your activism is working. Be strong. Be safe. Hug your loved ones. We’ll get through this.''' ** [[Robert Reich]], [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-awakened-an-angry-sleeping-giant-this-week-and-he-s-about-to-roar-opinion/ar-AA1Ns9Yn?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=68d8c4df4dbf481aa997d9100e2b384a&ei=7/"Opinion: Trump awakened an angry sleeping giant this week — and he's about to roar"], ''Alternet'', 28 September 2025 * Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s speech to top generals was supposed to serve as a rallying cry for military exceptionalism — but it didn’t land that way with many of the people it was targeting. Numerous defense officials — who watched senior brass scramble to Washington and then sit through a partisan speech from President Donald Trump and a return to old-school military standards by Hegseth — were left wondering why the event had occurred at all. “More like a press conference than briefing the generals,” said one defense official, who, like others, was granted anonymity due to fears of retribution. “Could have been an email.” ** Jack Detsch & Leo Shane III, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/could-have-been-an-email-officials-balk-at-hegseth-s-generals-meeting/ar-AA1NCljG?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=68d985793737465b924fecec9b34bbb8&ei=8/"‘Could have been an email’: Officials balk at Hegseth's generals meeting"], ''Politico'', 30 September 2025 * Defense officials, in the Pentagon and at bases around the world, spent much of Tuesday trying to make sense of the last-minute gathering at the Quantico base in Virginia. Hegseth called out “fat generals,” and, separately, pushed fitness standards that could limit women in combat roles, while Trump offered his justification for sending the military into American cities. The 90-minute event — which featured military officials who swore an oath to the Constitution attending something more akin to a campaign rally — had the feeling of a Hollywood production. Trump even instructed officials to “just have a good time.”<br>The meeting took place hours before a likely government shutdown, and struck some officials as a distraction that threatens to shift the military’s focus away from foreign threats toward an unprecedented domestic role. “Not quite a loyalty test, but … on the spectrum of loyalty to ideology,” said a second defense official. “Total waste of money.” ** Jack Detsch & Leo Shane III, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/could-have-been-an-email-officials-balk-at-hegseth-s-generals-meeting/ar-AA1NCljG?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=68d985793737465b924fecec9b34bbb8&ei=8/"‘Could have been an email’: Officials balk at Hegseth's generals meeting"], ''Politico'', 30 September 2025 * The Pentagon has insisted the U.S. military is retooling to prepare for a potential war with China. But sending American troops to patrol their own cities will “distract warfighters from actually training to fight and win” against Beijing, said a fourth defense official.<br>Several Trump allies, including Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), said a face-to-face meeting like Hegseth’s helped reinforce the administration's visions. “There needs to be more warfighter training,” he said in an interview. “We don't do enough of it. We don't do enough flying training. I like this approach … I thought it was a strong speech.” Democrats, on the other hand, attacked the event as purely vanity-driven. Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) called the resources used for the meeting “totally unjustified” and an exercise in chest thumping. “This comes at the expense of real national security,” she said in an interview. “But obviously they don’t give a rip.” ** Jack Detsch & Leo Shane III, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/could-have-been-an-email-officials-balk-at-hegseth-s-generals-meeting/ar-AA1NCljG?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=68d985793737465b924fecec9b34bbb8&ei=8/"‘Could have been an email’: Officials balk at Hegseth's generals meeting"], ''Politico'', 30 September 2025 * Lt. Col. Amy McGrath called out U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for trying to overshadow women’s contribution to the U.S. military in his effort to meet “the highest male standard’ among U.S. soldiers. “Each service will ensure that every requirement for every combat [Military Occupational Specialty], for every designated combat arms position, returns to the highest male standard,” Hegseth told leaders at Marine Corps Base Quantico, in Quantico, Virginia on Tuesday. “Only because this job is life or death, standards must be met and not just met at every level. We should seek to exceed the standard to push the envelope to compete.” ** Adam Lynch, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/that-was-bonkers-former-marine-fighter-pilot-blasts-trump-s-rambling-military-speech/ar-AA1NBSpZ?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=68dd07966b0146f9a069e63bd183e9e1&ei=10/"'That was bonkers': Former Marine fighter pilot blasts Trump’s 'rambling' military speech"], ''Alternet'', 30 September 2025 * “Hegseth still has a lot to learn, unfortunately,” said McGrath, speaking with the “Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer.” “When I flew my combat missions, there was not a set male standard and a female standard for flying an aircraft onto the back of an aircraft carrier. You can either do it or you can't. Combat jobs have had one standard for a long time. And part of when we opened combat jobs to women, those of us that were in those jobs wanted one standard to be set. And it was — so I think it's kind of ridiculous.”<br>“But, honestly, that, in comparison to the rest of what we heard in the last hour, is really minor,” McGrath added. “That speech was bonkers by the president, and everybody sitting in that room knows that we don't have a coherent foreign policy or defense policy. And that, I think, is a bigger issue indeed.” ** Adam Lynch, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/that-was-bonkers-former-marine-fighter-pilot-blasts-trump-s-rambling-military-speech/ar-AA1NBSpZ?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=68dd07966b0146f9a069e63bd183e9e1&ei=10/"'That was bonkers': Former Marine fighter pilot blasts Trump’s 'rambling' military speech"], ''Alternet'', 30 September 2025 * McGrath was particularly wrathful at President Donald Trump suggesting the city of Chicago serve as a kind of “training ground” for urban warfare.<br>“There was a lot of rambling. There was a ton of lies. There was a lot of politicization … and craziness that you heard from this speech, but the scariest part was when the president talked about using our cities as a training ground for the United States military,” said McGrath. “Now, the military has done training in cities before, but that's not what I think he's talking about here. He's talking about using the military in ways that we should not see in America. And I'm very worried about this.”<br>“I think the whole part of bringing these generals and admirals back here was to discuss this type of thing, and it should it should scare us all,” McGrath said. “This is something that we just don't do in America. We have police to fight crime, and we should be putting money into those police forces, not sending American troops that are trained for war to American cities.” ** Adam Lynch, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/that-was-bonkers-former-marine-fighter-pilot-blasts-trump-s-rambling-military-speech/ar-AA1NBSpZ?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=68dd07966b0146f9a069e63bd183e9e1&ei=10/"'That was bonkers': Former Marine fighter pilot blasts Trump’s 'rambling' military speech"], ''Alternet'', 30 September 2025 ==== October 2025 ==== * In an interview at Catholic University last week, Supreme Court Justice [[Clarence Thomas]] said what he’s clearly been thinking for the past 30 years: Supreme Court precedents don’t matter, and he’s making things up as he goes along to fulfill his own political agenda. He didn’t say it in that way, of course. People would have noticed that. Instead, he couched his self-serving philosophy in legal jargon that will fly under the radar of most people, including journalists. Here’s what he said: “At some point we need to think about what we’re doing with stare decisis.… [I]t’s not some sort of talismanic deal where you can just say ‘stare decisis’ and not think, turn off the brain, right?”<br>To translate: “Stare decisis” is a foundational legal principle in this country and all countries that follow a “common law” system. What it means, in simple terms, is that prior judicial rulings govern future judicial rulings. If a court rules, for instance, that “gay people have the same basic rights as everyone else in this country, including the right to marry other people,” then that ruling is supposed to govern all future cases concerning the rights of gay people.<br>Thomas, apparently, doesn’t agree. Instead of respecting stare decisis and precedent, he is saying that older cases shouldn’t have the power to control newer ones. For Thomas, just because courts ruled that LGBTQ people should have rights in the past, including the right to marry, doesn’t mean he feels compelled to rule that they should keep them. ** Elie Mystal, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/clarence-thomas-admits-that-he-s-coming-for-our-rights/ar-AA1NKA43?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=68debf3c3daa4765898f5ee85f8975a7&ei=10/"Clarence Thomas Admits That He’s Coming for Our Rights"], ''The Nation'', 2 October 2025 * We’ve seen this in Thomas’s opinions in recent years. In 2022, he declared, in a separate but supporting opinion in the ''Dobbs'' case, that ''Roe v. Wade'' was not respectful of our legal traditions, but ''Loving v. Virginia'' is. Why? Well because ''Roe'' gave women rights, while ''Loving'' gave Thomas the right to marry his white wife, and if you have a better legal difference between those cases other than Thomas’s own personal preferences, I’d love to hear you explain it. Thomas has also decided (in this case, writing for the majority) that simple gun registration laws are not respectful of our traditions in this country, but he signed on to an opinion giving the president the powers of the very king we revolted against. You simply cannot chart a course through what passes for logic in Thomas’s head without understanding his preferred policy outcomes.<br>If Thomas were the only justice who thought like this, it would be a containable problem. But the entire Republican cabal on the Supreme Court rules exactly in the way Thomas is talking about, with no respect for precedent or stare decisis. This coming term, the Republicans on the court are likely to overturn a voting rights precedent they set for themselves only a couple of years ago. The Republicans literally cannot be trusted to respect ''their own rulings''. ** Elie Mystal, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/clarence-thomas-admits-that-he-s-coming-for-our-rights/ar-AA1NKA43?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=68debf3c3daa4765898f5ee85f8975a7&ei=10/"Clarence Thomas Admits That He’s Coming for Our Rights"], ''The Nation'', 2 October 2025 * '''The entire Trump administration has been a “mask off” moment for the Supreme Court’s conservatives. It turns out, they don’t actually care about precedent (no matter how many times they lied and claimed to care during their Senate confirmation hearings). They don’t actually care about the text. They don’t actually care about judicial restraint. They want the political outcomes they want and they have the votes to do it.'''<br>Thomas’s speech is a declaration that there is no judicial precedent that is safe from the current Republicans on the court. Stare decisis will not stand in their way of getting what they want. You could read the entire speech as a shot across the bow of ''Obergefell v. Hodges'', and it is, but it’s also a rare moment where Thomas told the truth about what he and his friends are actually doing. '''They do not care about traditions, norms, or the very foundation of judicial decision making in a common law system. They only care about winning.''' ** Elie Mystal, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/clarence-thomas-admits-that-he-s-coming-for-our-rights/ar-AA1NKA43?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=68debf3c3daa4765898f5ee85f8975a7&ei=10/"Clarence Thomas Admits That He’s Coming for Our Rights"], ''The Nation'', 2 October 2025 * That’s all going to be very bad for those of us who do not happen to be white cis-hetero men in the near term, but there is a silver lining. Thomas’s speech at Catholic University literally lays down the playbook for how to defeat him and all the evil and cruelty he has wrought during his time on the bench. According to Thomas, future Supreme Court justices do not have to wrestle with the precedents laid down by Thomas and his Roberts-court brethren. They do not have to distinguish future cases from the ones that are being decided today. They do not have to wait for Congress to pass new laws, or for the Constitution to be amended. They don’t have to stay on the train Clarence Thomas is driving.<br>And I am here for that. By Thomas’s own admission, the power of the Roberts court dies the moment there are more liberals on the bench than Republicans. That could happen as soon as the next presidential election, if Democrats get their act together to take control of the Supreme Court. If stare decisis is dead, then it’s dead forever. What can’t happen is for future Democratic justices to try to resurrect it, to preserve the power of the people who killed it. Clarence Thomas will soon be the longest-serving justice in American history. It’s good to know that he thinks his opinions will not matter after he’s dead. On that, he and I agree. ** Elie Mystal, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/clarence-thomas-admits-that-he-s-coming-for-our-rights/ar-AA1NKA43?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=68debf3c3daa4765898f5ee85f8975a7&ei=10/"Clarence Thomas Admits That He’s Coming for Our Rights"], ''The Nation'', 2 October 2025 * Six months ago, I wrote a piece urging soldiers to leave the United States military. At the time, the possibility that the president might use the military as a tool to unjustly abuse US citizens was still somewhat theoretical. At the risk of being repetitive, events in the world make me feel compelled to write, once again: Leave the military now. The time when you can say that you did not understand what might happen is coming to an end.<br>Yesterday, the Secretary of Defense and the Commander in Chief gave speeches to all of our nation’s generals, who they had ordered to assemble in Washington. It is bad enough, I imagine, for all of these accomplished career officers to be subjected to the performative tirade of Pete Hegseth, a childish television host, installed as their superior, ranting about the need to be more macho, fairly dripping with overcompensation for his various inadequacies. Yet if Hegseth’s speech was unnecessary, bigoted, and cartoonish, the performance of the Commander in Chief was much more substantively dangerous. ** Hamilton Nolan, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/leave-the-military-now/ar-AA1NKs8f?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=68deb4e64a7c44f1baa45bef2565d099&ei=11/"Leave the Military Now"], ZNetwork, 2 October 2025 * First, because it must have been clear to all of those assembled generals that Donald Trump, who possesses complete and total control of the military and its awesome powers, is, at best, mentally unwell. His speech, characteristically, was an incoherent stream-of-consciousness rant consisting mostly of narcissism and fiction and personal grievances. The mind of the man who has the ability to tell all of these officers what to do is broken and impervious to facts and reason. This is the man who can tell you when and how and who to kill.<br>“They’re brave in our inner cities, which we’re going to be talking about because it’s a big part of war now, it’s a big part of war,” Trump said, speaking about firemen. “But the firemen go up on ladders and you have people shooting at them while they’re up on ladders. I don’t even know if anybody heard that. And actually don’t talk about it much, but I think you have to. Our firemen are incredible. They’re up on one of these ladders that goes way up to the sky rescuing people, and you have animals shooting at them — shooting bullets at firemen that are way up in death territory.” This is your boss. ** Hamilton Nolan, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/leave-the-military-now/ar-AA1NKs8f?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=68deb4e64a7c44f1baa45bef2565d099&ei=11/"Leave the Military Now"], ZNetwork, 2 October 2025 * Worse, the president made his intentions for the military clear. “You know, the Democrats run most of the cities that are in bad shape. We have many cities in great shape too, by the way. I want you to know that. But it seems that the ones that are run by the radical left Democrats, what they’ve done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, they’re very unsafe places and we’re going to straighten them out one by one,” he said. “And this is going to be a major part for some of the people in this room. That’s a war too. It’s a war from within.”<br>“We should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military National Guard, but military,” he said, repeating bizarre, made-up stories about Chicago, Portland, and Seattle as war zones. ** Hamilton Nolan, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/leave-the-military-now/ar-AA1NKs8f?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=68deb4e64a7c44f1baa45bef2565d099&ei=11/"Leave the Military Now"], ZNetwork, 2 October 2025 * I am not going to try to convince generals in the United States armed forces to embrace my own personal moral beliefs. Rather, I would urge them all to consider their own moral beliefs. Honor and courage are often touted as the highest military values. What do those values demand of these generals at this moment in history? To salute their deranged superiors, and then, in private, to mutter under their breath about how incompetent and awful those commanders are? Is it honorable for these hundreds of generals to go forward doing their very best to carry out the will of a president who vows openly to use the military to suppress his domestic political enemies, and who has in fact already done that in major cities? Is it courageous of these officer to—for the sake of their own careers—continue to robotically serve a man who is obviously making decisions based upon things that are not true, and who is obsessed with revenge above all, and who is quite straightforward about his intentions to use the military to forcefully oppress Americans? Is that what honor and courage demand of the highest ranking officers in our military? Nothing at all?<br>It is common for people in the military to point out that they took an oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States,” and to imply that their allegiance to that oath would prevent them from carrying out truly unjust orders. I can’t help but notice that the point at which this moral duty to stop obeying orders kicks in appears to recede forever into the future. We, the citizens, are assured that there exists some ill-defined moment at which the personal moral code of military soldiers and officers will kick in and stop an out-of-control Commander in Chief from using the military for purposes of tyranny.<br>Well? The tyrant is here. Talk is cheap. This theoretical guardrail of our democracy would be much more comforting if it were ever possible to see it produce some tangible action. ** Hamilton Nolan, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/leave-the-military-now/ar-AA1NKs8f?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=68deb4e64a7c44f1baa45bef2565d099&ei=11/"Leave the Military Now"], ZNetwork, 2 October 2025 * It is not too late to change America’s future. We sit, right now, in a moment of possibility. The president has made his intention to use the military against American citizens abundantly clear, but the worst versions of this oppression are still to come. He has told us what is coming, but all of it has not happened yet. That means that there will never be a better moment for people of honor and courage to leave the military. There will never be a better moment for the generals to demonstrate that their moral values are not just empty words. There will never be a better time to actually weaken the power of an aspiring dictator by refusing to be a part of his army. There will never be a better chance to exempt yourself from the stain of participating in a great, historic injustice against America’s ideals. '''Everyone can see who is in charge. Everyone can see what the plan is. Nobody can say that they didn’t see what was coming. Nobody can say that they went into this blind.''' For the members of the military—and, above all, for the officers at its highest level—the time to be courageous, or not, has arrived.<br>Like any large organization, the military is full of all types of people who got into it for all types of reasons. Despite my own objections to the things that politicians make the military do, I do believe that the military itself is full of people who sincerely value patriotism, sacrifice, and public service. And there can be no doubt that the military is full of people who have demonstrated great personal bravery, perseverance, and willingness to overcome daunting obstacles in order to do a job that they believe is honorable and necessary. '''In 2025, all of these admirable qualities demand a very particular action: to leave the military. Before you find yourself doing things that do not comport with the values that you hold. Before you find that you have become the bad guy. If you can run into a gunfight, you can find the bravery to quit. That’s what patriotism means today.''' ** Hamilton Nolan, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/leave-the-military-now/ar-AA1NKs8f?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=68deb4e64a7c44f1baa45bef2565d099&ei=11/"Leave the Military Now"], ZNetwork, 2 October 2025 * President Donald Trump has condemned the shutdown and laid the blame squarely at the feet of the “Radical Left Democrats”— in the meantime, he appears to be making the most of it. Trump teased on Truth Social that he would be meeting with Director of the Office of Management and Budget Russ Vought to – as he warned Democrats he would do – reevaluate the necessity of various government agencies. “I have a meeting today with Russ Vought, he of PROJECT 2025 Fame, to determine which of the many Democrat Agencies, most of which are a political SCAM, he recommends to be cut, and whether or not those cuts will be temporary or permanent,” Trump wrote.<br>As a potential shutdown loomed, the administration cautioned Democrats that if they didn’t sign on to Republicans’ short stopgap funding bill and prevent a shutdown, more federal employees would lose their jobs. The OMB sent a letter to federal agencies last week directing them to take a critical look at where they might be able to shed more employees.<br>“With respect to those Federal programs whose funding would lapse and which are otherwise unfunded, such programs are no longer statutorily required to be carried out,” the letter reads. “Agencies are directed to use this opportunity to consider Reduction in Force (RIF) notices for all employees in programs, projects, or activities (PPAs) that satisfy all three of the following conditions: (1) discretionary funding lapses on October 1, 2025; (2) another source of funding, such as H.R. 1 (Public Law 119-21) is not currently available; and (3) the PPA is not consistent with the President’s priorities.” ** Morgan Sweeney, [https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/trimming-fat-trump-boasts-shuttering-government-agencies-amidst/"Trimming the fat: Trump boasts of shuttering government agencies amidst shutdown"], ''Just The News'', 2 October 2025 * The ''New York Times'' reported in August that the federal workforce may have about 300,000 less people by year’s end. Most of the terminations or resignations were reportedly prompted by the Department of Government Efficiency, which was created by an executive order at the start of Trump’s second term.<br>It’s unclear which “Democrat Agencies” are on the chopping block Tuesday – and whether entire agencies will be eradicated or they’ll merely lose more employees. The administration has previously described the Congressional Budget Office and the Bureau of Labor Statistics as unreliable, “Democrat-controlled,” politically motivated and riddled with “longstanding failures,” to name a few. ** Morgan Sweeney, [https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/trimming-fat-trump-boasts-shuttering-government-agencies-amidst/"Trimming the fat: Trump boasts of shuttering government agencies amidst shutdown"], ''Just The News'', 2 October 2025 * The “Project 2025,” which Trump referenced in his social media post, is a strategy for the restructuring of the federal government, crafted by conservatives and published by the Heritage Foundation. The goals of the project, as summarized by the BBC, are to “restore the family as the centrepiece of American life; dismantle the administrative state; defend the nation's sovereignty and borders; and secure God-given individual rights to live freely.”<br>Vought was a project co-author, and the president has framed the shutdown as an opportunity to further carry out this initiative.<br>“I can’t believe the Radical Left Democrats gave me this unprecedented opportunity. They are not stupid people, so maybe this is their way of wanting to, quietly and quickly, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! President DJT," his post concluded. * '''As United States President Donald Trump relentlessly threatens to annex Canada, reiterating the threat again this week in a speech to American military officials, some Canadians are worried that a U.S. invasion could one day become a reality. How would that scenario play out? Looking at the sheer size of the American military, many people might believe that Trump would enjoy an easy victory.'''<br>'''That analysis is wrong.''' If Trump ever decides to use military force to annex Canada, the result would not be determined by a conventional military confrontation between the Canadian and American armies. Rather, a military invasion of Canada would trigger a decades-long violent resistance, which would ultimately destroy the United States.<br>But in this nightmare scenario, could Canadians successfully resist an American invasion? Absolutely. I know this because I have studied insurgencies around the world for more than two decades, and I have spent time with ordinary people who have fought against powerful invading armies. ** Aisha Ahmad, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/why-annexing-canada-would-destroy-the-united-states-opinion/ar-AA1NQUAk?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=68e15ddcc73a4c3c9a13e3e91b8a16e7&ei=18/"Why annexing Canada would destroy the United States"], ''Alternet'', 4 October 2025 * Guerrillas use ambushes, raids and surprise attacks to slowly bleed an invading army, and local communities support these fighters by giving them safe havens and material support. These supporting citizens can also engage in forms of “everyday resistance,” using millions of passive-aggressive episodes of sabotage to frustrate and drain the enemy. Trump is delusional if he believes that 40 million Canadians will passively accept conquest without resistance. There is no political party or leader willing to relinquish Canadian sovereignty over “economic coercion,” and so if the U.S. wanted to annex Canada, it would have to invade.<br>That decision would set in motion an unstoppable cycle of violence. Even if we imagine a scenario in which the Canadian government unconditionally surrenders, a fight would ensue on the streets. A teenager might throw a rock at invading soldiers. That kid would get shot, and then there would be more rocks, and more gunfire. An insurgency would be inevitable. ** Aisha Ahmad, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/why-annexing-canada-would-destroy-the-united-states-opinion/ar-AA1NQUAk?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=68e15ddcc73a4c3c9a13e3e91b8a16e7&ei=18/"Why annexing Canada would destroy the United States"], ''Alternet'', 4 October 2025 * This idea may shock Canadians today because they see themselves as friendly and affable people. However, Canada’s current self-image of “niceness” only exists because they’re at peace. War changes people very quickly, and Canadians are no more innately peaceful than any other human beings. When your child is dying in your arms, you become capable of violence. Once you lose what you love, resistance becomes as natural as breathing. Except for a few collaborators and kapos, my research suggests many Canadians would likely engage in various forms of everyday resistance against invading forces that could involve stealing, lying, cutting wires and diverting funds.<br>Meanwhile, the insurgents would unleash physical devastation on American targets. Even if one per cent of all resisting Canadians engaged in armed insurrection, that would constitute a 400,000-person insurgency, nearly 10 times the size of the Taliban at the start of the Afghan war. If a fraction of that number engaged in violent attacks, it would set fire to the entire continent. ** Aisha Ahmad, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/why-annexing-canada-would-destroy-the-united-states-opinion/ar-AA1NQUAk?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=68e15ddcc73a4c3c9a13e3e91b8a16e7&ei=18/"Why annexing Canada would destroy the United States"], ''Alternet'', 4 October 2025 * This scenario would guarantee the destruction of both Canada and the United States. No one in their right mind would choose this gruesome future over a peaceful and mutually beneficial alliance with a friendly neighbour. Nevertheless, if Trump is reckless enough to think the violent annexation of Canada is an achievable goal, then let it be known that all these horrifying outcomes were predictable well in advance, and that he was forewarned. ** Aisha Ahmad, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/why-annexing-canada-would-destroy-the-united-states-opinion/ar-AA1NQUAk?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=68e15ddcc73a4c3c9a13e3e91b8a16e7&ei=18/"Why annexing Canada would destroy the United States"], ''Alternet'', 4 October 2025 * Several people recently asked me who I think is next after Comey and what will happen to him during his prosecution. I don’t know. But the fact that we even have to ask the question embodies just how fast American democracy is collapsing. Comey’s indictment — and likely conviction — will surely be followed by others. Many others. Trump will demand it, and many Americans will want it too.<br>The Justice Department has already launched investigations against former National Security Adviser John Bolton, Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff of California and Democratic New York Attorney General Letitia James. Other names that have been mentioned as potential targets include Fani Willis, the district attorney of Fulton County, Georgia, who brought charges against Trump in a 2023 election interference case, and former FBI Director Christopher Wray. These names show that the unthinkable has become routine. Malignant normality is now the new normal. ** Chauncey DeVega, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/a-new-red-scare-this-could-be-much-worse/ar-AA1NT7bS?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=68e2b63903484da6a92bd0303bf45f34&ei=13/"A new Red Scare? This could be much worse"], ''Salon'', 5 October 2025 * Since Trump was first elected in 2016, America’s responsible political and media class have constructed a model of American politics and society that increasingly does not exist. The long-cherished ideals of institutions, American exceptionalism and the character of the American people have been thrown out the window. In many ways, those fantasies never matched reality in the first place — and now the gap is undeniable. For many, this truth is too frightening to face.<br>As America’s democracy rapidly collapses, there are public voices in the news media and political class who are warning about the evils of a new Red Scare. In reality, what the Trump administration and its forces are unleashing will likely be much worse. ** Chauncey DeVega, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/a-new-red-scare-this-could-be-much-worse/ar-AA1NT7bS?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=68e2b63903484da6a92bd0303bf45f34&ei=13/"A new Red Scare? This could be much worse"], ''Salon'', 5 October 2025 * In an interview, Adam Hochschild, the prominent historian and award-winning author of books including “American Midnight: The Great War, A Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis,” was clear-eyed about what America is facing: “This is profoundly frightening because it’s right out of the playbook of the way democracies are converted to dictatorships.” He compared our present moment to what was happening a century ago in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Revolution. The country, he said in an email interview, was “inflamed by military fervor…and then by paranoia,” which caused “severe damage to democracy.”<br>“The government shut down some 75 newspapers and magazines, and imprisoned hundreds of people — most notably Socialist leader Eugene V. Debs — solely for things they wrote or said,” Hochschild said. “Donald Trump would greatly like to do the same, as his attacks on critical media and prosecutions of people like James Comey show. But he is going one step further than this country went during the madness of the Red Scare of 1917-1921 by trying to seize control of electoral machinery. That, to me, is the most frightening thing about an already dangerous presidency.”<br>Commentators get hung up, he explained, on comparing Trump to Republican Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, who saw “subversives everywhere.” While noting similarities, Hochschild argued the better parallel is Democratic President Woodrow Wilson who, in his second term, “did all kinds of things Trump would like to do, such as throwing his critics in jail under the Espionage Act by the hundreds, and shutting down media that criticized him.”<br>But that wasn’t all. Under the 28th president, the Justice Department created the American Protective League, which Hochschild described as “a national vigilante force [that] scoured cities for suspected draft-dodgers.”<br>“We pay far too little attention to that ominous period of American life,” he said, “always preferring to look on the bright side rather than the dark side.” ** Chauncey DeVega, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/a-new-red-scare-this-could-be-much-worse/ar-AA1NT7bS?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=68e2b63903484da6a92bd0303bf45f34&ei=13/"A new Red Scare? This could be much worse"], ''Salon'', 5 October 2025 * Trumpism is the embodiment of Shakespeare’s observation that what’s past is prologue. It’s now our present and future. But this is not a call to despair, or to embrace the comfort of learned helplessness or to take poison of hopium. It is the opposite. Unearned hope leads to despair. The way forward is to first accept the dire reality and then to engage in peaceful collective action that seizes the moral high ground, and never surrenders or compromises.The Black Freedom Struggle and long civil rights movements offer one such example. To paraphrase Hemingway: “A man alone ain’t got no bloody damn chance.” ** Chauncey DeVega, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/a-new-red-scare-this-could-be-much-worse/ar-AA1NT7bS?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=68e2b63903484da6a92bd0303bf45f34&ei=13/"A new Red Scare? This could be much worse"], ''Salon'', 5 October 2025 * To capture a democratic nation, authoritarians must control three sources of power: the intelligence agencies, the justice system, and the military. President Donald Trump and his circle of would-be autocrats have made rapid progress toward seizing these institutions and detaching them from the Constitution and rule of law. The intelligence community has effectively been muzzled, and the nation’s top lawyers and cops are being purged and replaced with loyalist hacks.<br>Only the military remains outside Trump’s grip. Despite the firing of several top officers—and Trump’s threat to fire more—the U.S. armed forces are still led by generals and admirals whose oath is to the Constitution, not the commander in chief. But for how long?<br>Trump and his valet at the Defense Department, Secretary of Physical Training Pete Hegseth, are now making a dedicated run at turning the men and women of the armed forces into Trump’s personal and partisan army. In his first term, Trump regularly violated the sacred American tradition of the military’s political neutrality, but people around him—including retired and active-duty generals such as James Mattis, John Kelly, and Mark Milley—restrained some of his worst impulses. Now no one is left to stop him: The president learned from his first-term struggles and this time has surrounded himself with a Cabinet of sycophants and ideologues rather than advisers, especially those at the Pentagon. He has declared war on Chicago; called Portland, Oregon, a “war zone”; and referred to his political opponents as “the enemy from within.” Trump clearly wants to use military power to exert more control over the American people, and soon, top U.S.-military commanders may have to decide whether they will refuse such orders from the commander in chief. The greatest crisis of American civil-military relations in modern history is now under way. ** Tom Nichols, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-civil-military-crisis-is-here/ar-AA1O32Cq?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=68e63a4e95384da9b65b7c8e076ea0ca&ei=9/"The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here"], ''The Atlantic'', 7 October 2025 * I write these words with great trepidation. When I was a professor at the Naval War College, I gave lectures to American military officers about the sturdiness of civil-military relations in the United States, a remarkable historical achievement that has allowed the most powerful military in the world to serve democracy without being a threat to it. I so revered this system that I went to Moscow just before the fall of the U.S.S.R. and told an audience of Soviet military officers that they should look to the American military as a model for how to disentangle themselves from the Communist Party and Kremlin politics. I regularly reminded both my military students and civilian audiences that they had good reason to have faith in American institutions and the constitutional loyalty of U.S. civilian and military leaders.<br>This new and dangerous moment has arrived for many reasons, including Trump’s antics in front of young soldiers and sailors, through which he has succeeded in pulling many of them into displays of partisan behavior that are both an insult to American civil-military traditions and a violation of military regulations. Senior military leaders should have stepped in to prevent Trump from turning addresses at Fort Bragg and Naval Station Norfolk into political rallies; the silence of the Army and Navy secretaries, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and some top generals and admirals is appalling. To their credit, those same officers listened impassively as Trump and Hegseth subjected them to political rants during a meeting at Quantico last week. But young enlisted people and their immediate superiors take their cues from the top, and one day of decorum from the high command cannot reverse Trump’s influence on the rank and file. ** Tom Nichols, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-civil-military-crisis-is-here/ar-AA1O32Cq?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=68e63a4e95384da9b65b7c8e076ea0ca&ei=9/"The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here"], ''The Atlantic'', 7 October 2025 * Trump’s rhetoric in his speeches to the military has been awful—he has ridiculed former commanders in chief, castigated sitting elected officials, and told the members of America’s armed forces that other Americans are their enemies. But his actions are worse. In deploying troops to American cities, he has set up a confrontation in which military commanders may soon have to choose between obeying the president and obeying the law. “This is a nation of Constitutional law, not martial law,” Judge Karin Immergut—a conservative Trump appointee—wrote last week when she blocked Trump’s attempt to send troops to Portland. The White House aide [[Stephen Miller]] likely foreshadowed Trump’s next moves, including possibly ignoring such rulings, when he lashed out at Immergut’s decision. Miller, a man who hates being called a fascist, made the fascistic accusation that a “large and growing movement of leftwing terrorism in this country” is being “shielded by far-left Democrat judges, prosecutors and attorneys general.” ** Tom Nichols, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-civil-military-crisis-is-here/ar-AA1O32Cq?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=68e63a4e95384da9b65b7c8e076ea0ca&ei=9/"The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here"], ''The Atlantic'', 7 October 2025 * Trump, of course, doesn’t care all that much about Venezuelan speedboats or costumed pranksters in Portland. He cares about power, which is why he is determined to flex military muscle on the streets of American cities. As opposition grows and his popularity falls, Trump may be tempted to issue orders to the military that will be aimed at suppressing dissent, or disrupting elections, or detaining political figures; he has already floated the idea of invoking the Insurrection Act, which could enable such actions. He may even become desperate enough to launch a foreign war—as he seems to be trying to do right now with Venezuela. If more of these orders come, how should the leaders of America’s armed forces respond? ** Tom Nichols, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-civil-military-crisis-is-here/ar-AA1O32Cq?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=68e63a4e95384da9b65b7c8e076ea0ca&ei=9/"The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here"], ''The Atlantic'', 7 October 2025 * Congress, so far, has been useless in restraining Trump: The Democrats are too timid, and the Republicans are too compromised. Only by standing together can the senior military officials warn Trump away from leading America into a full-blown civil-military confrontation.<br>Military officers are human beings, not Vulcans or robots. Even the most virtuous young officer may tremble at the idea of refusing a direct order—especially one from the president of the United States. Others may be tempted to abandon their oath, either by ideology or a misplaced sense of obedience, and they should recall Hyten’s warning from 2017: “If you execute an unlawful order, you will go to jail. You could go to jail for the rest of your life.” Most American military personnel, however, need no reminder of their constitutional duty. But they do need some reassurance that they have support from their chain of command to resist illegal orders. And the rest of us, whether we’re elected officials or ordinary citizens, should do everything we can to let our fellow Americans in uniform know that if they risk their careers and even their freedom to protect the Constitution, we will stand with them. ** Tom Nichols, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-civil-military-crisis-is-here/ar-AA1O32Cq?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=68e63a4e95384da9b65b7c8e076ea0ca&ei=9/"The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here"], ''The Atlantic'', 7 October 2025 * A governmentwide reduction in force during the federal shutdown will touch an already lean U.S. Department of Education, the Trump administration said Friday, with the department’s office of elementary and secondary education potentially facing some of the most significant cuts. An Education Department spokesperson Friday confirmed the agency will be subject to the RIF but did not immediately answer how many positions would be part of the downsizing and in which department divisions. A spokesperson from the Office of Management and Budget—whose director, Russell Vought, announced the layoffs in a Friday post on X—called the government-wide reduction “substantial.”<br>The Education Department’s office of communication and outreach will see cuts to its state and local engagement team under the layoff, according to the union that represents department staff. Meanwhile, the office of elementary and secondary education, which oversees key programs such as Title I and enforcement of the Every Student Succeeds Act, will see cuts to all of its teams, the union said.<br>Others could still be affected, the union, a chapter of the American Federation of Government Employees, said.<br>“Once again, the Trump administration is acting as though they have impunity to cut staff from an already lean, efficient agency,” union president Rachel Gittleman said in a prepared statement. “Dismantling the government through mass firings, especially at the ED, is not the solution to our problems as a country.”<br>The layoffs were announced on the 10th day of the federal government shutdown, during which the Education Department had already furloughed roughly 87% of its staff after congressional lawmakers couldn’t come to an agreement to extend funding beyond the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30. ** Brooke Schultz, [https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/a-new-wave-of-federal-layoffs-will-hit-the-education-department/2025/10/"A New Wave of Federal Layoffs Will Hit the Education Department"], ''Education Week'', 10 October 2025 * A furlough is different from a layoff in that it’s temporary. Generally, federal employees have to be given 60 days’ notice before a layoff can take effect. The cuts will slash an Education Department that has grown substantially leaner since the start of the second Trump administration. The agency has shed nearly half its staff since the winter. Its footprint shrank from more than 4,000 staff to about 2,400 after the department announced layoffs in March.<br>The earlier layoffs touched just about every office within the department—though they cut more deeply in some places than others, such as the office for civil rights, which lost just under half its 562 positions and seven of its 12 regional offices. The office of elementary and secondary education, which employed 282 staff members in 2023, lost at least 49 positions in the March cuts.<br>(Meanwhile, the office’s new leader, Kirsten Baesler, was just confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Tuesday but can’t be sworn in until the shutdown ends.) ** Brooke Schultz, [https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/a-new-wave-of-federal-layoffs-will-hit-the-education-department/2025/10/"A New Wave of Federal Layoffs Will Hit the Education Department"], ''Education Week'', 10 October 2025 * The earlier layoffs are being challenged in court by states and education leaders who say the department can’t carry out its congressionally mandated functions with fewer staff. Court orders delayed the layoffs, but higher courts have since allowed them to take effect.<br>The Education Department is among at least nine federal agencies subject to the shutdown RIF, according to Politico. The American Federation of Government Employees sued OMB last month for telling agencies to prepare RIF plans ahead of the shutdown. Normally, agencies prepare only to furlough staff during a shutdown and bring them back when the government reopens.<br>“It is disgraceful that the Trump administration has used the government shutdown as an excuse to illegally fire thousands of workers who provide critical services to communities across the country,” the union’s president, Everett Kelley, said in a prepared statement on Friday. “It’s time for Congress to do their jobs and negotiate an end to this shutdown immediately.” ** Brooke Schultz, [https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/a-new-wave-of-federal-layoffs-will-hit-the-education-department/2025/10/"A New Wave of Federal Layoffs Will Hit the Education Department"], ''Education Week'', 10 October 2025 * Trump created his MAGA coalition based on fear of “the other,” which has historically been a potent political move (think Richard Nixon’s perfection of the Southern strategy and Ronald Reagan’s aggressive race-baiting with his fictional Chicago welfare queen, among many other dog whistles).<br>After America elected and then re-elected Barack Obama, not only a Black man but a constitutional scholar and an intellectual, to the presidency, the Republicans in Congress completely lost their minds and pledged to make him fail as president. They began to do all they could to shut down government and to excoriate Democrats, using the list of pejorative terms former House Speaker Newt Gingrich cribbed from conservative shock-jock Rush Limbaugh. The hard turn in Congress away from collegiality and compromise had begun. ** Kirk Swearingen, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/who-are-the-real-americans-we-are/ar-AA1Oh5s7?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=68ea6d343f7c426b9fac059d9fde67be&ei=15/"Who are the real Americans? We are"], ''Salon'', 11 October 2025 * We could argue the many, many inhumane points of Trumpist decrees if we were actually interested in discussing policy or, say, the mainline Christianity I once knew as a Presbyterian. But the Republican Party stopped working on policy — and started perverting Christianity — many election cycles back. Why? Largely because the GOP ran out of ideas that would fly with the American public (“Trickle-down” economics? C’mon, man!), and was assiduously courting the evangelical and Catholic religious right as a voting bloc. Meanwhile, “welcome-the-stranger” and “eye-of-the-needle” messages of Jesus had become entirely inconvenient for elite Republicans. With Trump, the Southern strategy morphed into something quite like a “Bring back the Jim Crow laws that inspired the Nazis” strategy.<br>To divert attention from their desire to give further assistance to the wealthy and corporations through tax breaks, they focused their energies on “othering” different groups: People of color, immigrants, Democrats, women and LGBTQ folks.<br>Of course, if you are part of the MAGA cult of personality, you don’t want to hear any of this. But we — progressives, liberals, Democrats, moderate Republicans (those horrible “RINOs”), people of faith and of no faith — are, frankly (to use a word Republicans love to utilize), the reasonable ones. There’s no question about it. To mimic Trump, everybody knows it. You do, too. ** Kirk Swearingen, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/who-are-the-real-americans-we-are/ar-AA1Oh5s7?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=68ea6d343f7c426b9fac059d9fde67be&ei=15/"Who are the real Americans? We are"], ''Salon'', 11 October 2025 * Government works pretty well all over the world, so long as well-meaning people with strong, relevant experience are put in leadership positions. Look at this deplorable Trump “administration,” filled to the brim with suck-ups, grifters, unhinged ideologues and conspiracy-theory kooks — each one, including the one playacting at the Resolute desk, astonishingly unqualified. The word for that kind of group being in charge is kakistocracy, which is an unhappy-sounding term that describes a devastatingly unhappy situation: government by the worst people. It sounds like something you might utter right before vomiting.<br>A white supremacist theocracy, installing this Trumpian reign of the corrupt, mean-spirited, and woefully incompetent? We are just as disappointed and angry as you are about predatory capitalism, which leaves many Americans homeless and many more without access to health care. And we are just as angry about the failures of our democracy, which, as Robert Reich recently pointed out, are almost entirely due to lobbying money in politics. Much of our political class takes legal bribes and serves the interests of those with the most money. ** Kirk Swearingen, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/who-are-the-real-americans-we-are/ar-AA1Oh5s7?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=68ea6d343f7c426b9fac059d9fde67be&ei=15/"Who are the real Americans? We are"], ''Salon'', 11 October 2025 * But we aren’t living in the wrong country. Our America is multicultural and all of us benefit, socially and economically — yes, even you — from that fact. Our America supports freedom of religious belief, including the freedom to hold none at all, because we do not have a national religion. Our America strives to make it easier for all citizens to exercise their right to vote. Our America believes in facts and the process of scientific discovery. Our America does not whitewash its history but learns from it.<br>Our America recoils from people who push their religious beliefs on others, or who denigrate women and other citizens who happen to be unlike them. Our America welcomes the strangers who come to this country with a desire to better their lives through hard work and community service. Our America supports public education and wants to make it stronger, not undermine it. Our America believes that a country should be judged by how it treats its least fortunate citizens. Our America is not ruled by a petty, vindictive despot wannabe with an outrageous history of criminal and socially abhorrent behavior who imagines he is king.<br>No, despite what the astonishingly corrupt, would-be Roman emperor occupying the White House tells you, we are not the enemy: we are Americans. We have tried to be true to the best, most idealistic of American values. In the meantime — and these truly are mean times, both in material and spiritual terms — we will serve the public good by standing up for the Constitution, the rule of law and the nonpartisan civil service, and we will argue for our own ideas on how we might make a better union. ** Kirk Swearingen, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/who-are-the-real-americans-we-are/ar-AA1Oh5s7?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=68ea6d343f7c426b9fac059d9fde67be&ei=15/"Who are the real Americans? We are"], ''Salon'', 11 October 2025 ==== November 2025 ==== * The only hope to save ourselves from Trump’s authoritarianism is mass movements. We must build alternative centers of power — including political parties, media, [[Labor history of the United States|labor unions]] and universities — to give a voice and agency to those who have been disempowered by our two ruling parties, especially the [[Working class in the United States|working class]] and working [[Poverty in the United States|poor]]. We must carry out strikes to cripple and thwart the abuses carried out by the emerging [[police state]]. We must champion a radical [[socialism]], which includes slashing the $1 trillion spent on the war industry and ending our suicidal addiction to fossil fuels, and lift up the lives of Americans cast aside in the wreckage of industrialization, declining wages, a decaying infrastructure and crippling [[austerity]] programs. **[[Chris Hedges]], [https://scheerpost.com/2025/11/04/chris-hedges-trumps-greatest-ally-is-the-democratic-party/ Trump’s Greatest Ally is The Democratic Party]. ScheerPost, November 4, 2025. * '''El Presidente Trump is cast in the mold of all tinpot Latin American despots who terrorize their populations, surround themselves with sycophants, goons and crooks, and enrich themselves — Trump and his family have amassed more than $1.8 billion in cash and gifts from leveraging the presidency — while erecting tawdry monuments to themselves.''' ** [[Chris Hedges]], [https://scheerpost.com/2025/11/11/chris-hedges-america-is-a-banana-republic/ America Is a Banana Republic]. ScheerPost, November 11, 2025. ==== December 2025 ==== [[File:Seal of the United States Environmental Protection Agency.svg|thumb|The Environmental Protection Agency has removed any mention of fossil fuels — the main driver of global warming — from its popular online page explaining the causes of climate change. Now it only mentions natural phenomena, even though scientists calculate that nearly all of the warming is due to human activity.<br>Sometime in the past few days or weeks, EPA altered some but not all of its climate change webpages, de-emphasizing and even deleting references to the burning of coal, oil and natural gas, which scientists say is the overwhelming cause of climate change. ~ Seth Borenstein]] [[File:Transgender flag with prohibition sign.jpg|thumb|Trump administration health officials announced Thursday that the federal government will block transgender care to children by targeting hospitals and doctors that provide it. New proposed rules would prohibit hospitals from participating in Medicare and Medicaid if they provide care such as puberty blockers and surgeries for transgender minors, and would prevent federal coverage of such treatments. ~ Jamie Gumbrecht & Sarah Owermohle]] * The combination of Trump’s xenophobic rhetoric and policy has created a poisonous national environment, one not easily fixed. The problem is that, as hateful and awful as his actions are, he campaigned on carrying them out. He ran in large part on bigotry and won. During Trump’s debate with Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, he said of Haitian immigrants in Ohio, “They’re eating the dogs, the people that came in, they’re eating the cats. They’re eating the pets of the people that live there.” We knew about the lie-fueled fear he was trying to spread. In addition, Trump directly stated that he planned to carry out the largest deportation program in U.S. history. We knew what his intentions were, but we still weren’t paying enough attention. Perhaps no one fully expected the lengths Trump would go to, but either way America is facing the consequences. After the 2024 election, I wrote in an edition of this column that “America has chosen hate.” At our present moment, I deeply wish I had been wrong.<br>As our government spreads hate through racism and xenophobia, we must pay more attention. As you go through your day, thinking of so many other different things, pay attention to the dehumanization of immigrants. Pay attention to the families being ripped apart by sudden arrests and deportations. Pay attention to every new policy that makes it harder for hardworking people to migrate and make a living in the America we once proudly celebrated as diverse. Pay attention, because history has many examples for those who fall into the trap of repeating its bitter bigotry. ** Patrick Minnerly, [https://dailycampus.com/2025/12/04/patricks-politics-pay-attention-to-trumps-anti-immigrant-hatred/"Pay attention to Trump’s anti-immigrant hatred"], ''The Daily Campus'', 4 December 2025 * '''The Environmental Protection Agency has removed any mention of fossil fuels — the main driver of global warming — from its popular online page explaining the causes of climate change. Now it only mentions natural phenomena, even though scientists calculate that nearly all of the warming is due to human activity.'''<br>Sometime in the past few days or weeks, EPA altered some but not all of its climate change webpages, de-emphasizing and even deleting references to the burning of coal, oil and natural gas, which scientists say is the overwhelming cause of climate change.''' The website's causes of climate page mentions changes in Earth’s orbit, solar activity, Earth's reflectivity, volcanoes and natural carbon dioxide changes, but not the burning of fossil fuels. Seven scientists and three former EPA officials tell ''The Associated Press'' that this is misleading and harmful. ** Seth Borenstein, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/epa-eliminates-mention-of-fossil-fuels-in-website-on-warming-s-causes-scientists-call-it-misleading/ar-AA1S26ru?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=69395c9f68664a409d3383c70b753dc2&ei=8/"EPA eliminates mention of fossil fuels in website on warming's causes. Scientists call it misleading"], ''Associated Press'', 9 December 2025 * '''Trump administration health officials announced Thursday that the federal government will block transgender care to children by targeting hospitals and doctors that provide it. New proposed rules would prohibit hospitals from participating in Medicare and Medicaid if they provide care such as puberty blockers and surgeries for transgender minors, and would prevent federal coverage of such treatments.'''<br>“These procedures fail to meet professionally recognized standards of care,” US Health and Human Services Secretary [[Robert F. Kennedy Jr.|Robert F. Kennedy Jr.]] said, calling many types of transgender care “malpractice.” “Medical professionals or entities providing sex-rejecting procedures to children are out of compliance with these standards of health care.”<br>Medical groups denounced the announcements, saying they intrude on physician-patient relationships and jeopardize care for everyone.<br>“Allowing the government to determine which patient groups deserve care sets a dangerous precedent, and children and families will bear the consequences,” said Dr. Susan Kressly, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics. ** Jamie Gumbrecht & Sarah Owermohle, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/trump-moves-to-ban-transgender-care-for-minors-by-targeting-hospitals/ar-AA1SCfuh?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=6944676570c24510a02669dd7ef64394&ei=11/"Trump moves to ban transgender care for minors by targeting hospitals"], CNN, 18 December 2025 * “Patients, their families, and their physicians – not politicians or government officials – should be the ones to make decisions together about what care is best for them. The government’s actions today make that task harder, if not impossible, for families of gender-diverse and transgender youth.”<br>It’s the latest in a string of actions by President Donald Trump’s administration that target transgender people, including eliminating mention of trans people on federal websites, halting data collection on health issues, removing trans people from the military and suing states that allow trans athletes to play on high school sports teams.<br>Also Thursdsay, US Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary said the agency is sending warning letters to 12 makers and sellers of breast binders who marketed or sold the devices for treatment of gender dysphoria in children. National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya also said the research agency will end support for research into gender transition, saying, “it was junk science to begin with.” ** Jamie Gumbrecht & Sarah Owermohle, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/trump-moves-to-ban-transgender-care-for-minors-by-targeting-hospitals/ar-AA1SCfuh?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=6944676570c24510a02669dd7ef64394&ei=11/"Trump moves to ban transgender care for minors by targeting hospitals"], CNN, 18 December 2025 * HHS leaders on Thursday cited their own review of evidence and reports from other countries, many of which have faced sharp criticism for drawing sweeping conclusions with little or poor evidence.<br>Health officials said they expect to emphasize psychosocial assessment and support for transgender youth, including “compassionate, developmentally appropriate counseling.” But they acknowledged that there are a limited number of mental health care providers available.<br>Gender identity care, which is sometimes called gender-affirming care, is a multidisciplinary approach to help a person transition from their assigned gender – the one a clinician assigned them at birth, based mostly on anatomic characteristics – to the gender by which they identify. It can include mental health care or age-appropriate medical care such as hormone treatments, puberty blockers, gynecologic and urologic care and reproductive treatments.<br>Major mainstream medical associations – including the American Medical Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the Endocrine Society, the American Psychological Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry – have supported such care and agree that it’s the gold standard of clinically appropriate care that can provide lifesaving treatment for children and adults. Professional medical organizations do not recommend surgery for children as a part of care, and research shows that it’s rare among transgender or gender-diverse teens. ** Jamie Gumbrecht & Sarah Owermohle, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/trump-moves-to-ban-transgender-care-for-minors-by-targeting-hospitals/ar-AA1SCfuh?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=6944676570c24510a02669dd7ef64394&ei=11/"Trump moves to ban transgender care for minors by targeting hospitals"], CNN, 18 December 2025 * The American Civil Liberties Union said Thursday that it will challenge the administration’s rules in court. “These gratuitous proposals are cruel and unconstitutional attacks on the rights of transgender youth and their families,” Chase Strangio, co-director of the ACLU’s LGBTQ and HIV Rights Project, said in a statement. Kennedy said Thursday that the administration is confident it’s approach will pass court challenges. “If people sue us, they’re welcome to,” he said.<br>The HHS announcement came just after the House passed a bill that could imprison health care providers for providing trans care for minors. The bill, sponsored by Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, could imprison doctors who provide care such as surgeries or puberty blockers for up to 10 years. It’s unclear whether the GOP-led Senate will take up the measure, though it is unlikely it would get enough Democratic support to pass out of that chamber. ** Jamie Gumbrecht & Sarah Owermohle, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/trump-moves-to-ban-transgender-care-for-minors-by-targeting-hospitals/ar-AA1SCfuh?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=6944676570c24510a02669dd7ef64394&ei=11/"Trump moves to ban transgender care for minors by targeting hospitals"], CNN, 18 December 2025 * Merry Christmas to all, including the Radical Left Scum that is doing everything possible to destroy our Country, but are failing badly. We no longer have Open Borders, [[Transphobia in the United States|Men in Women’s Sports, Transgender for Everyone]], or Weak Law Enforcement. What we do have is a Record Stock Market and 401K’s, Lowest Crime numbers in decades, No Inflation, and yesterday, a 4.3 GDP, two points better than expected. Tariffs have given us Trillions of Dollars in Growth and Prosperity, and the strongest National Security we have ever had. We are respected again, perhaps like never before. God Bless America!!! President DJT ** Donald Trump in dual posts on Twitter and Truth Social on 25 December 2025[https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/2004012442427277591?s=20] * The Trump administration has given us precious little to be thankful for this year. As 2025 draws to a close, history will remember it as a year scarred by the chaos of a White House that seemed intent on breaking the back of our democracy once and for all. It’s a psychologically exhausting time for the millions already coping with a sagging job market and rising consumer prices.<br>A year-in-review posted by Mediaite lists dozens upon dozens of Trump’s scandals, crises and abuses while still failing to capture the full scope of incompetence and malice that defines this administration. Millions from all walks of life spent the year grappling with political earthquakes brought on by a nonfunctional and increasingly irrelevant Congress, a Supreme Court complicit in Trump’s radicalization of ICE, and a historic, tariff-driven wave of small business bankruptcies. As Mediaite discovered in its own attempt to catalogue the damage, the aftershocks are simply too numerous to count.<br>On the eve of America’s 250th birthday, what should be a celebration of enduring freedom feels in many ways like a looming funeral. 2025 saw the shredding of America’s social fabric to the point that Democrats and Republicans now seem to inhabit two mutually exclusive realities. ‘One nation under God’ has quickly become many nations under grievance. ** Max Burns, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/opinion-trump-presides-over-america-s-coming-apart/ar-AA1TlLqt?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=6955463381fb4a7a9ffdbbc451ded704&ei=12/"Opinion: Trump presides over America’s coming-apart"], ''The Hill'', 31 December 2025 * A Pew Research Center survey published this month shows just how far things have fallen in the opening decades of the 21st century. Back in 2001, 54 percent of Americans reported trusting the federal government, a slight increase from the 47 percent who felt that way in the 1980s. Now, public trust in government is scraping historic lows across every metric: As of 2025, only 17 percent of Americans believe that what their government is telling them is true.<br>That doubt goes far beyond just factually impaired politicians like Trump, too. As PBS News reported in October, fewer and fewer people trust government inflation numbers or jobs reports — thanks in large part to Trump’s constant demands that labor and economic statistics serve his political interests instead of reflecting objective reality. Public officials who were unwilling to fudge their numbers in order to make Trump look good quickly found themselves out of their jobs, as ousted Bureau of Labor statistics commissioner Erika McEntarfer discovered in August.<br>Pew data from September reveals that the collapse of public trust in institutions is widespread. Most Americans now believe the Supreme Court has become too powerful and too unaccountable. Public approval of the nation’s highest court has fallen by nearly 25 percent since 2020, with a majority now viewing the court’s justices unfavorably. ** Max Burns, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/opinion-trump-presides-over-america-s-coming-apart/ar-AA1TlLqt?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=6955463381fb4a7a9ffdbbc451ded704&ei=12/"Opinion: Trump presides over America’s coming-apart"], ''The Hill'', 31 December 2025 * Americans’ record level of distrust isn’t confined to the government. A Gallup poll found that trust in the media hit a new low of 28 percent in the back half of the year, with more than one-third of respondents saying they didn’t trust the news “at all.” Voting-age Americans now get their news from a larger number of sources than ever, from social media outlets like TikTok and X to YouTube influencers and, occasionally, even legacy news outlets like the ''New York Times''. Yet poll after poll suggests they are unlikely to trust any news except that which confirms their pre-existing political beliefs, which makes compromise — and even reasoned political discussion — all but impossible.<br>Most Americans don’t even trust their own neighbors or family members anymore. Nearly half of Americans now think members of the opposing political party are “evil.” Political polarization has increased so dramatically that both sides now routinely label their opponents as threats to democracy itself. Things have grown so tense that one in five American households report experiencing family estrangement due to political disagreements. Our families are quite literally collapsing from the weight of our all-consuming political and social hatreds. ** Max Burns, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/opinion-trump-presides-over-america-s-coming-apart/ar-AA1TlLqt?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=6955463381fb4a7a9ffdbbc451ded704&ei=12/"Opinion: Trump presides over America’s coming-apart"], ''The Hill'', 31 December 2025 * '''If it feels like things are falling apart in America, it’s because they are. Our institutions, our media, even our families are falling victim to the toxicity of a culture in which politics now consumes every aspect of our lives and finds itself amplified by a president who wields divisiveness like an artist uses a paintbrush.'''<br>'''That will only get worse as our nation careens into what is certain to be a brutal 2026 midterm election campaign. America may still be here, but we mark its 250th birthday anything but united.''' ** Max Burns, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/opinion-trump-presides-over-america-s-coming-apart/ar-AA1TlLqt?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=6955463381fb4a7a9ffdbbc451ded704&ei=12/"Opinion: Trump presides over America’s coming-apart"], ''The Hill'', 31 December 2025 * President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he’s withdrawing the National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland but left the door open to sending federal forces “in a much different and stronger form.” His announcement comes after the US Supreme Court last week rejected his request to allow him to deploy the guard to Chicago to protect ICE agents as part of the administration’s ongoing immigration crackdown.<br>“We are removing the National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland, despite the fact that CRIME has been greatly reduced by having these great Patriots in those cities, and ONLY by that fact,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, arguing that those cities would be “gone if it weren’t for the Federal Government stepping in.” He suggested the possibility of future deployments, writing, “We will come back, perhaps in a much different and stronger form, when crime begins to soar again - Only a question of time!” ** Donald Judd, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-says-he-s-withdrawing-national-guard-from-chicago-los-angeles-and-portland/ar-AA1TmR7k?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=695654fa6e0e464a93c434629581b80f&ei=11/"Trump says he’s withdrawing National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland"], CNN, 31 December 2025 * In blocking the guard deployment to Chicago, the Supreme Court suggested that a president’s power to federalize the guard — which federal law allows when he can no longer execute the laws of the United States with “regular forces” — would not apply to protecting agents enforcing immigration laws.<br>While the ruling was a blow to his administration’s efforts to crack down on illegal immigration, it appeared likely Trump could still invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy regular forces to Chicago and other cities. Invoking the 19th century law — a controversial move that Trump and his aides repeatedly teased during the 2024 campaign and early in the second term — would give him broad authority to evade restrictions on using the military domestically.<br>A separate National Guard deployment that Trump authorized in New Orleans began Tuesday as part of a heavy security presence for New Year’s celebrations a year after an attack on revelers on Bourbon Street killed 14 people. And Trump gave no indication he is pulling back from using the National Guard in Washington, DC, where it is operating under a different federal law that was not at issue before the Supreme Court. ** Donald Judd, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-says-he-s-withdrawing-national-guard-from-chicago-los-angeles-and-portland/ar-AA1TmR7k?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=695654fa6e0e464a93c434629581b80f&ei=11/"Trump says he’s withdrawing National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland"], CNN, 31 December 2025 * Trump’s withdrawal announcement was welcomed by California Attorney General Rob Bonta, a Democrat, who said in a statement the administration was using the guard as “political pawns” and blasted Trump as “a President desperate to be a king.”<br>“While our rule of law remains under threat, our democratic institutions are holding,” Bonta wrote. “My office is not backing down — and we’re ready for whatever fights lie ahead.” ** Donald Judd, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-says-he-s-withdrawing-national-guard-from-chicago-los-angeles-and-portland/ar-AA1TmR7k?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=695654fa6e0e464a93c434629581b80f&ei=11/"Trump says he’s withdrawing National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland"], CNN, 31 December 2025 * A federal judge had previously ordered the return of control of the California National Guard to Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, but that ruling had been paused while the administration appealed. The Trump administration said in court papers on Tuesday that it was no longer requesting a pause on that portion of the order. On Wednesday, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld the lower court order and directed the Trump administration to return control of the troops to Newsom.<br>“About time @realDonaldTrump admitted defeat,” Newsom said in a post on X. “We’ve said it from day one: the federal takeover of California’s National Guard is illegal.”<br>Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, a Democrat, echoed similar sentiments in response to Trump’s announcement.<br>“He lost in court when Illinois stood up against his attempt to militarize American cities with the National Guard,” Pritzker said on social media. “Now Trump is forced to stand down.” ** Donald Judd, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-says-he-s-withdrawing-national-guard-from-chicago-los-angeles-and-portland/ar-AA1TmR7k?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=695654fa6e0e464a93c434629581b80f&ei=11/"Trump says he’s withdrawing National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland"], CNN, 31 December 2025 === 2026 === ==== January 2026 ==== [[File:President Nicolas Maduro on board the USS Iwo Jima (cropped).png|thumb|In a move that stunned the world, the United States bombed Venezuela and abducted President Nicolas Maduro amid condemnation and plaudits. The legality of the strikes, which killed more than 100 people, has been heavily questioned by the United Nations and legal experts. ~ Julio Blanca]] [[File:Flag of Greenland.svg|thumb|Greenland belongs to its people. It is for Denmark and Greenland, and them only, to decide on matters concerning Denmark and Greenland.]] [[File:Coat of arms of Greenland.svg|thumb|Sure, technically it belongs to Denmark. But aside from the dozens of Danish soldiers who died alongside U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, what have the Danes really done for us lately? ~ ''Duffel Blog'']] [[File:Denmark-Greenland (orthographic projection).svg|thumb| This is not more complicated than the fact that Trump wants a giant island with his name on it. He wouldn’t think twice about putting our troops in danger if it makes him feel big and strong. The US military is not a toy. ~ [[Ruben Gallego]]]] [[File:ICE Agents in Minneapolis After Shooting.jpg|thumb|The alarm was warranted. Everyone on the scene had witnessed the crossing of a crucial line in Donald Trump’s mass-deportation project: ICE had just killed an American citizen on American soil.<br>The administration has since declared that the agent “is protected by absolute immunity,” whatever that means, a signal of unconditional support for an agency bloated with thousands of new, heavily armed, and minimally trained recruits, deployed around the country to help achieve Trump’s goal of deporting 1 million immigrants a year. Events such as Good’s death set the stage for yet more lethal confrontations, which the administration can be trusted to defend with the same specious pretext. What is now overt, in a way that it hadn’t been Wednesday morning, is that these agents are at war with the public, and have been for some time. ~ Elizabeth Bruenig]] [[File:Arrest This Murderer, Minneapolis (55028772697).jpg|thumb|Protesters in Minneapolis have since flooded the streets in the thousands, and ICE agents have responded by apprehending some, shoving others to the ground, and spraying chemical irritants in their faces. These incidents have ignited mass demonstrations nationwide, in which protesters have wailed “Shame” and “Murder,” banged drums, screeched from metal whistles, and hoisted signs declaring what is no longer deniable: ICE kills. ~ Elizabeth Bruenig]] * '''In a move that stunned the world, the United States bombed Venezuela and abducted President Nicolas Maduro amid condemnation and plaudits.'''<br>In a news conference on Saturday at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, US President Donald Trump praised the operation to seize Maduro as one of the “most stunning, effective and powerful displays of American military might and competence in American history”. It was the riskiest and most high-profile military operation sanctioned by Washington since the US Navy’s SEAL team killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in a safe house in Pakistan’s Abbottabad in 2011.<br>News of the 63-year-old Maduro being abducted took over the global news cycle. After months of escalation and threats over Maduro’s alleged involvement in shipping drugs to the US, the Trump administration had increased pressure on Caracas with a military buildup in the Caribbean and a series of deadly missile attacks on alleged drug-running boats. '''The legality of the strikes, which killed more than 100 people, has been heavily questioned by the United Nations and legal experts.''' The US had also offered a $50m reward for information leading to Maduro’s arrest.<br>But while the military was conducting operations in the Caribbean, US intelligence had been gathering information about Maduro. Meanwhile, special forces were covertly rehearsing a plan to forcibly remove him from power. ** Julio Blanca, [https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/4/how-the-us-attack-on-venezuela-abduction-of-maduro-unfolded/"How the US attack on Venezuela, abduction of Maduro unfolded"], ''Aljazeera'', 4 January 2026 * During his news conference on Saturday, Trump announced that the US would “run” Venezuela until a new leader was chosen. “We’re going to make sure that country is run properly. We’re not doing this in vain,” he said. “This is a very dangerous attack. This is an attack that could have gone very, very badly.” The president did not rule out deploying US troops in the country and said he was “not afraid of boots on the ground if we have to”. Trump also, somewhat surprisingly, ruled out working with opposition figure and Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado, who had dedicated her prize, which he wanted to win himself, to the US president. “She doesn’t have the support within, or the respect within, the country,” he said.<br>The Constitutional Chamber of Venezuela’s Supreme Court ordered Vice President Delcy Rodriguez to serve as acting president following the US’s abduction of Maduro. The court ruled that Rodriguez would assume “the office of President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, in order to guarantee administrative continuity and the comprehensive defence of the Nation”. The court also said it would work to “determine the applicable legal framework to guarantee the continuity of the State, the administration of government, and the defense of sovereignty in the face of the forced absence of the President of the Republic”.<br>Trump had said earlier on Saturday that the US would not occupy Venezuela, provided Rodriguez “does what we want”. ** Julio Blanca, [https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/4/how-the-us-attack-on-venezuela-abduction-of-maduro-unfolded/"How the US attack on Venezuela, abduction of Maduro unfolded"], ''Aljazeera'', 4 January 2026 * Donald Trump has again proposed annexing Greenland, after Denmark's leader urged him to "stop the threats" over the island. Speaking to reporters, the US president said "we need Greenland from the standpoint of national security". Trump has repeatedly raised the prospect of the semi-autonomous Danish territory becoming an annexed part of the US, citing its strategic location for defence purposes and mineral wealth. Greenland's Prime Minister Jens Frederik Nielsen responded by saying "that's enough now" and described the notion of US control over the island as a "fantasy". He said: "No more pressure. No more insinuations. No more fantasies of annexation. We are open to dialogue. We are open to discussions. But this must happen through the proper channels and with respect for international law."<br>Earlier, Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen had said "the US has no right to annex any of the three nations in the Danish kingdom". Frederiksen added that Denmark "and thus Greenland" was a Nato member and covered by the alliance's security guarantee, and said a defence agreement granting the US access to the island was already in place. ** Thomas Mackintosh & Nick Beake, [https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g0zg974v1o/"'We need Greenland': Trump repeats threat to annex Danish territory"], BBC, 5 January 2026 * '''We live in a world in which you can talk all you want about international niceties and everything else, but we live in a world, in the real world, Jake, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power.''' These are the iron laws of the world that have existed since the beginning of time. The United States … we are in charge because we have the United States military stationed outside the country. We set the terms and conditions. We have a complete embargo on all of their oil and their ability to do commerce. ** [[Stephen Miller]] regarding [[w:2026 United States strikes in Venezuela|US strikes in Venezuela]] & Donald Trump's repeated threats to invade Greenland, [https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/cg/date/2026-01-05/segment/01 Interview on ''The Lead with Jake Tapper'' (5 January 2026)], 5 January 2026 * '''[[Donald Trump|The President]] has been clear for months now that the [[United States]] should be the [[nation]] that has [[Greenland]] as part of our overall security apparatus … that has been the formal position of the U.S. [[government]] [[w:Foreign policy of the second Trump administration|since the beginning of this administration]], frankly, going back into the [[w:Foreign policy of the first Trump administration|previous Trump administration]], that [[w:American expansionism under Donald Trump|Greenland should be part of the United States]].''' <br /> '''The President has been very clear about that. That is the formal position of the U.S. government.''' ** [[Stephen Miller]] regarding [[w:2026 United States strikes in Venezuela|US strikes in Venezuela]] & Donald Trump's repeated threats to invade Greenland, [https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/cg/date/2026-01-05/segment/01 Interview on ''The Lead with Jake Tapper'' (5 January 2026)], 5 January 2026 * The Danish prime minister released her statement after Katie Miller - the wife of one of Trump's senior aides, Stephen Miller - posted on social media a map of Greenland in the colours of the American flag alongside the word "SOON".<br>The Danish ambassador to the US responded to the post by Miller - a right-wing podcaster and former aide to Trump during his first term - with a "friendly reminder" that the two countries were allies and saying Denmark expected respect for its territorial integrity.<br>The back and forth over the future Greenland comes in the wake of a major military operation against Venezuela on Saturday, seizing its president Nicolás Maduro and his wife and removing them to New York. Trump later said the US would "run" Venezuela and US oil companies would "start making money for the country".<br>The situation has reignited fears that the US may consider using force to secure control of Greenland, a vast island in the Arctic - something the US president has previously refused to rule out. Trump has claimed that making it part of the United States would serve American security interests due to its strategic location and its abundance of minerals critical to high-tech sectors. ** Thomas Mackintosh & Nick Beake, [https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g0zg974v1o/"'We need Greenland': Trump repeats threat to annex Danish territory"], BBC, 5 January 2026 * The Trump administration's recent move to appoint a special envoy to Greenland prompted anger in Denmark. Greenland, which has a population of 57,000 people, has had extensive self-government since 1979, though defence and foreign policy remain in Danish hands. While most Greenlanders favour eventual independence from Denmark, opinion polls show overwhelming opposition to becoming part of the US.<br>In comments to the BBC, UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said that only Denmark and Greenland could decide the territory's fate. "Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark must decide the future of Greenland, and only Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark," he said.<br>Separately, a representative for the European Union has rejected a claim by Trump that the EU "needs" the US to control the territory. Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One at the weekend that "the EU needs us to have [Greenland] and they know that." European Commission chief spokesperson Paula Pinho told the BBC that it was "certainly not" the EU's position, adding that she was unaware of any discussions with the US about the issue. ** Thomas Mackintosh & Nick Beake, [https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g0zg974v1o/"'We need Greenland': Trump repeats threat to annex Danish territory"], BBC, 5 January 2026 * Norwegian leaders are making it clear that they continue to strongly support their Danish counterparts’ efforts to defend the Kingdom of Denmark, which has sovereignty over Denmark, Greenland and the Færoe Islands. US Donald Trump’s threats to take over Greenland, they say, would not only be another US violation of the Rule of Law but also a violation of the NATO pact. ** Nina Berglund, [https://www.newsinenglish.no/2026/01/06/norway-stands-firm-with-denmark-warns-us-will-violate-nato-pact/"Norway stands firm with Denmark, warns Trump will violate NATO pact"], ''News In English'', 6 January 2026 * “My starting point is that it won’t happen,” Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide told newspaper Aftenposten after Trump claimed once again that “we need Greenland.” Trump’s latest remarks to reporters came just after he’d ordered a military intervention in Venezuela that Norway called a violation of the Rule of Law. Trump’s remarks also prompted Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen to quickly respond that the “USA has no right to annex one of the three countries in our kingdom.” That further prompted Norway’s own prime minister, Jonas Gahr Støre, to confirm his support for Frederiksen on national radio Monday morning.<br>“We have to speak out about how Greenland is part of the Kingdom of Denmark, and its (future) is up to the Danes and the Greenlanders,” Støre said on state broadcaster NRK’s popular morning talkshow Politisk kvarter. The program had invited both Støre and the head of the opposition in the Norwegian Parliament, Sylvi Listhaug of the right-wing Progress Party, to a New Year’s debate that took a new turn after Trump’s remarks during the night before.<br>Listhaug and Støre are usually at odds on most issues, but in this case, she firmly supported both Støre and Denmark. Listhaug called Trump’s grab for Greenland “completely unacceptable” and stressed that “international rules” must apply. ** Nina Berglund, [https://www.newsinenglish.no/2026/01/06/norway-stands-firm-with-denmark-warns-us-will-violate-nato-pact/"Norway stands firm with Denmark, warns Trump will violate NATO pact"], ''News In English'', 6 January 2026 * The Danes can point to their own right to Greenland through their national sovereignty laws, and that the population of Greenland is nearly twice what Miller claimed: 57,000. Military experts and researchers in Denmark also deny Trump’s claim that Chinese and Russian ships are lurking all around Greenland, calling it an attempt to legitimize his takeover attempt. The Danish Parliament’s foreign affairs committee was calling in members for a crisis meeting Tuesday night. ** Nina Berglund, [https://www.newsinenglish.no/2026/01/06/norway-stands-firm-with-denmark-warns-us-will-violate-nato-pact/"Norway stands firm with Denmark, warns Trump will violate NATO pact"], ''News In English'', 6 January 2026 * Head Start early childhood programs are fighting back against the Trump administration in a lawsuit after being told words like “Black,” “disability,” “female,” “minority,” “trauma,” “tribal,” and “women" must be removed from funding applications — or be denied, NPR reports. The list, submitted Dec. 5, includes 200 words, including “accessible" and "belong" in a lawsuit from programs in states including Pennsylvania, Washington, Wisconsin, and Illinois, all against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The group argues that the Trump administration’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) ban in federal programs conflicts with Head Start’s statutory mandate, which includes providing “linguistically and culturally appropriate” services, in addition to early intervention services for disabled children.<br>The list revelation came after the executive director of a Wisconsin-based Head Start program submitted a Sept. 30, 2025, application for funding and was rejected after 50 years. Two months later, the director, Mary Roe, said she received two emails from HHS instructing her to “please remove the following words from your application" — a total of 19 words, including "racism,” “race,” and “racial” were listed.<br>Her application was returned, but shortly after, Roe received another email from her appointed HHS program specialist saying, “I wanted to follow up with you concerning your application." "I sent it back asking for the removal of particular words, and I wanted to provide you with the complete list of words to make sure they are not in your applications," the specialist explained. ** Sharelle B. McNair, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/say-what-words-like-black-women-disability-and-tribal-are-now-banned-from-head-start-grant-applications/ar-AA1THu1w?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=695e43d499394a849d658617dc70e7a5&ei=14/"Say what? Words like ‘Black,' ‘Women,' ‘Disability,' and ‘Tribal' are now banned from Head Start grant applications"], ''Black Enterprise'', 6 January 2026 * Roe labels the issue an “impossible situation” since the federal Head Start Act contains many of the words that programs are now being forced to avoid. One of Head Start’s longstanding responsibilities is “to create inclusive and accessible classrooms for children with disabilities,” but now HHS is pushing against the words “disability,” “disabilities,” and “inclusion” in funding applications.<br>With the list now out in the public, Head Start centers could be forced to eliminate the definition of DEI, which the former lead of the Office of Child Care, Ruth Friedman, calls fear. "Grantees are sort of self-selecting out of those activities beforehand because of fear and direction they're getting from the Office of Head Start that they can't do these important research-based activities anymore that are important for children's learning and that are actually required by law," Friedman, who served under former President Joe Biden, said, according to Associated Press.<br>The move is another attack on DEI handed down by President Donald Trump who signed a January 2025 executive order labeling “illegal DEI and DEIA policies not only violate the text and spirit of our longstanding Federal civil-rights laws" but "also undermine our national unity, as they deny, discredit, and undermine the traditional American values of hard work, excellence, and individual achievement in favor of an unlawful, corrosive, and pernicious identity-based spoils system.” Since then, the domino effect targeted college campuses, retail, nonprofits, grants, and more. ** Sharelle B. McNair, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/say-what-words-like-black-women-disability-and-tribal-are-now-banned-from-head-start-grant-applications/ar-AA1THu1w?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=695e43d499394a849d658617dc70e7a5&ei=14/"Say what? Words like ‘Black,' ‘Women,' ‘Disability,' and ‘Tribal' are now banned from Head Start grant applications"], ''Black Enterprise'', 6 January 2026 * '''This is not more complicated than the fact that Trump wants a giant island with his name on it. He wouldn’t think twice about putting our troops in danger if it makes him feel big and strong. The US military is not a toy.''' ** [[Ruben Gallego]], U.S. Senator from Arizona in a post on Twitter on 6 January 2026, as quoted in [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/republican-breaks-with-trump-over-greenland-remarks-not-an-asset/ar-AA1TItt5?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=695e0a740c324cb38d7cfeea4c12dbb0&ei=22/"Republican breaks with Trump over Greenland remarks: "Not an asset""] by Anna Commander, ''Newsweek'', 6 January 2026 * We must see it as an ally, not an asset, and focus on continued partnership rather than possession. ** [[Lisa Murkowski]], U.S. Senator from Alaska regarding Donald Trump's repeated threats to invade Greenland, as quoted in [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/republican-breaks-with-trump-over-greenland-remarks-not-an-asset/ar-AA1TItt5?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=695e0a740c324cb38d7cfeea4c12dbb0&ei=22/"Republican breaks with Trump over Greenland remarks: "Not an asset""] by Anna Commander, ''Newsweek'', 6 January 2026 * Arctic security remains a key priority for Europe and it is critical for international and transatlantic security. NATO has made clear that the Arctic region is a priority and European Allies are stepping up. We and many other Allies have increased our presence, activities and investments, to keep the Arctic safe and to deter adversaries. The Kingdom of Denmark – including Greenland – is part of NATO. Security in the Arctic must therefore be achieved collectively, in conjunction with NATO allies including the United States, by upholding the principles of the UN Charter, including sovereignty, territorial integrity and the inviolability of borders. These are universal principles, and we will not stop defending them.<br>The United States is an essential partner in this endeavour, as a NATO ally and through the defence agreement between the Kingdom of Denmark and the United States of 1951. '''Greenland belongs to its people. It is for Denmark and Greenland, and them only, to decide on matters concerning Denmark and Greenland.''' ** Join statement issued by President [[Emmanuel Macron|Macron]] of France, Chancellor Merz of Germany, Prime Minister Meloni of Italy, Prime Minister Tusk of Poland, Prime Minister Sánchez of Spain, Prime Minister Starmer of the United Kingdom and Prime Minister Frederiksen of Denmark on Greenland, [https://stm.dk/statsministeriet/publikationer/faellesudtalelse-om-groenland/"Joint Statement on Greenland"], 6 January 2026 * Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on Monday said that a US takeover of Greenland would mean the end of the NATO military alliance. On Tuesday, Frederiksen released a joint statement with the leaders of Germany, France, Italy, Poland, Spain and the UK reiterating that European allies were stepping up "to keep the Arctic safe and to deter adversaries." It comes after US President Donald Trump renewed his calls for the large Arctic island, which is an autonomous territory of Denmark, to come under Washington's control. Frederiksen said that "everything would stop" when it comes to cooperation with Washington in the event of a US attack on another NATO member. "If the United States decides to attack another NATO country, then everything would stop — that includes NATO and therefore post-World War II security," Frederiksen said.<br>Meanwhile, Greenland's prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, called for the territory to restore "good cooperation" with the United States and urged Greenlanders not to "panic." "The situation is not such that the United States can conquer Greenland. That is not the case. Therefore, we must not panic. We must restore the good cooperation we once had," Nielsen said while speaking in Greenland's capital, Nuuk. In a social media post on Monday, he called for Trump to give up "fantasies" of annexing Greenland. "That's enough now. No more pressure. No more insinuations. No more fantasies of annexation." "We are open to dialogue," he said. "But this must happen through the proper channels and with respect for international law." ** Farah Bahgat & Saim Dušan Inayatullah, [https://www.dw.com/en/nato-could-end-if-us-takes-over-greenland-danish-pm/a-75401270/"NATO could end if US takes over Greenland — Danish PM"], ''Deutsche Welle'', 6 January 2026 * In a joint statement with Frederiksen, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Italian Prime Minister Meloni, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer expressed support for Denmark and Greenland. "Arctic security remains a key priority for Europe and it is critical for international and transatlantic security," the joint statement read. "We and many other Allies have increased our presence, activities and investments, to keep the Arctic safe and to deter adversaries," it added. The seven leaders stressed that Washington "is an essential partner in this endeavour." ** Farah Bahgat & Saim Dušan Inayatullah, [https://www.dw.com/en/nato-could-end-if-us-takes-over-greenland-danish-pm/a-75401270/"NATO could end if US takes over Greenland — Danish PM"], ''Deutsche Welle'', 6 January 2026 * On Sunday, Trump reiterated his view that Greenland should come under the control of the United States a day after Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was captured in a US incursion and taken to New York to stand trial. "We need Greenland," Trump told journalists on Sunday, stressing that this was necessary for Washington's "national security" and claiming that the island was surrounded "by Chinese and Russian ships." Trump has in the past offered to buy the territory, while not ruling out the use of military force to take it over.<br>Greenland has large quantities of oil, critical minerals and other resources. The territory could also gain economic importance in coming decades as new Arctic shipping routes open due to the melting of polar ice. Greenland already hosts a US military base, and Copenhagen has expressed willingness to allow for the deployment of additional US troops. On Monday, top Trump adviser Stephen Miller described Greenland as "a colony of Denmark," adding "nobody's going to fight the United States militarily over the future of Greenland." ** Farah Bahgat & Saim Dušan Inayatullah, [https://www.dw.com/en/nato-could-end-if-us-takes-over-greenland-danish-pm/a-75401270/"NATO could end if US takes over Greenland — Danish PM"], ''Deutsche Welle'', 6 January 2026 * Six European allies have rallied to support Denmark following renewed insistence by the US that it must have control over Greenland. "Greenland belongs to its people, and only Denmark and Greenland can decide on matters concerning their relations," the leaders of the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, and Denmark said in a joint statement. On Sunday, Donald Trump said the US "needed" Greenland - a semi-autonomous region of fellow Nato member Denmark - for security reasons. He has refused to rule out the use of force to take control of the territory, and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen warned on Monday that an attack by the US would spell the end of NATO. ** Paulin Kola, [https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c07xkeee2k3o/"European allies back Denmark over Trump's threat to annex Greenland"], BBC, 6 January 2026 * The Trump administration's recent move to appoint a special envoy to Greenland prompted anger in Denmark. Greenland, which has a population of 57,000 people, has had extensive self-government since 1979, though defence and foreign policy remain in Danish hands. While most Greenlanders favour eventual independence from Denmark, opinion polls show overwhelming opposition to becoming part of the US.<br>Morgan Angaju, 27, an Inuit living in Ilulissat in the west of the country, told BBC Newsbeat it had been "terrifying to listen to the leader of the free world laughing at Denmark and Greenland and just talking about us like we're something to claim". "We are already claimed by the Greenlandic people. Kalaallit Nunaat means the land of the Greenlandic people," Morgan said. He added he was worried about what happens next - wondering whether Greenland's prime minister may suffer the same fate as Maduro - or even about the US "invading our country". ** Paulin Kola, [https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c07xkeee2k3o/"European allies back Denmark over Trump's threat to annex Greenland"], BBC, 6 January 2026 * The Trump administration will withdraw from dozens of international organizations, including the U.N.'s population agency and the U.N. treaty that establishes international climate negotiations, as the U.S. further retreats from global cooperation. President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order suspending U.S. support for 66 organizations, agencies, and commissions, following his administration’s review of participation in and funding for all international organizations, including those affiliated with the United Nations, according to a White House release.<br>Many of the targets are U.N.-related agencies, commissions and advisory panels that focus on climate, labor, migration and other issues the Trump administration has categorized as catering to diversity and “woke” initiatives. Other non-U.N. organizations on the list include the Partnership for Atlantic Cooperation, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, and the Global Counterterrorism Forum.<br>“The Trump Administration has found these institutions to be redundant in their scope, mismanaged, unnecessary, wasteful, poorly run, captured by the interests of actors advancing their own agendas contrary to our own, or a threat to our nation’s sovereignty, freedoms, and general prosperity,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement.<br>Trump's decision to withdraw from organizations that foster cooperation among nations to address global challenges comes as his administration has launched military efforts or issued threats that have rattled allies and adversaries alike, including capturing autocratic Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and indicating an intention to take over Greenland. ** Matthew Lee & Farnoush Amiri, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-will-exit-dozens-of-international-organizations-as-it-further-retreats-from-global-cooperation/ar-AA1TLJmD?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=695edaf7649a4392b697af0184b92510&ei=48?/"US will exit 66 international organizations as it further retreats from global cooperation"], ''The Associated Press'', 7 January 2026 * The administration previously suspended support for agencies like the World Health Organization, the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees known as UNRWA, the U.N. Human Rights Council and the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO. It has taken a larger, à la carte approach to paying dues to the world body, picking which operations and agencies it believes align with Trump’s agenda and those that no longer serve U.S. interests.<br>“I think what we’re seeing is the crystallization of the U.S. approach to multilateralism, which is ‘my way or the highway,’” said Daniel Forti, head of U.N. affairs at the International Crisis Group. “It's a very clear vision of wanting international cooperation on Washington’s own terms.”<br>It has marked a major shift from how previous administrations — both Republican and Democratic — have dealt with the U.N., and it has forced the world body, already undergoing its own internal reckoning, to respond with a series of staffing and program cuts. Many independent nongovernmental agencies — some that work with the United Nations — have cited many project closures because of the U.S. administration’s decision last year to slash foreign assistance through the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID.<br>Despite the massive shift, Trump administration officials say they see the potential of the U.N. and want to instead focus taxpayer money on expanding American influence in many of the standard-setting U.N. initiatives where there is competition with China, like the International Telecommunications Union, the International Maritime Organization and the International Labor Organization. ** Matthew Lee & Farnoush Amiri, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-will-exit-dozens-of-international-organizations-as-it-further-retreats-from-global-cooperation/ar-AA1TLJmD?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=695edaf7649a4392b697af0184b92510&ei=48?/"US will exit 66 international organizations as it further retreats from global cooperation"], ''The Associated Press'', 7 January 2026 * The withdrawal from the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, or UNFCCC, is the latest effort by Trump and his allies to distance the U.S. from international organizations focused on climate and addressing climate change. UNFCCC, the 1992 agreement between 198 countries to financially support climate change activities in developing countries, is the underlying treaty for the landmark Paris climate agreement. Trump — who calls climate change a hoax — withdrew from that agreement soon after reclaiming the White House.<br>Gina McCarthy, former White House National Climate Adviser, said being the only country in the world not part of the treaty is “shortsighted, embarrassing, and a foolish decision.” “This Administration is forfeiting our country’s ability to influence trillions of dollars in investments, policies, and decisions that would have advanced our economy and protected us from costly disasters wreaking havoc on our country,” McCarthy, who co-chairs America Is All In, a coalition of climate-concerned U.S. states and cities, said in a statement.<br>Mainstream scientists say climate change is behind increasing instances of deadly and costly extreme weather, including flooding, droughts, wildfires, intense rainfall events and dangerous heat. ** Matthew Lee & Farnoush Amiri, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-will-exit-dozens-of-international-organizations-as-it-further-retreats-from-global-cooperation/ar-AA1TLJmD?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=695edaf7649a4392b697af0184b92510&ei=48?/"US will exit 66 international organizations as it further retreats from global cooperation"], ''The Associated Press'', 7 January 2026 * The U.S. withdrawal could hinder global efforts to curb greenhouse gases because it “gives other nations the excuse to delay their own actions and commitments,” said Stanford University climate scientist Rob Jackson, who chairs the Global Carbon Project, a group of scientists that tracks countries’ carbon dioxide emissions. It will also be difficult to achieve meaningful progress on climate change without cooperation from the U.S., one of the world’s largest emitters and economies, experts said.<br>The U.N. Population Fund, the agency providing sexual and reproductive health worldwide, has long been a lightning rod for Republican opposition, and Trump cut funding for it during his first term. He and other GOP officials have accused the agency of participating in “coercive abortion practices” in countries like China. When President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, he restored funding for the agency. A State Department review conducted the following year found no evidence to support GOP claims.<br>Other organizations and agencies that the U.S. will quit include the Carbon Free Energy Compact, the United Nations University, the International Cotton Advisory Committee, the International Tropical Timber Organization, the Partnership for Atlantic Cooperation, the Pan-American Institute for Geography and History, the International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies, and the International Lead and Zinc Study Group. ** Matthew Lee & Farnoush Amiri, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-will-exit-dozens-of-international-organizations-as-it-further-retreats-from-global-cooperation/ar-AA1TLJmD?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=695edaf7649a4392b697af0184b92510&ei=48?/"US will exit 66 international organizations as it further retreats from global cooperation"], ''The Associated Press'', 7 January 2026 * The Trump administration is denying state and local officials any access to the investigation into the shooting, offering little hope for a non-partisan probe into what happened. “They don’t have any jurisdiction in this investigation,” Noem said Thursday. She then railed against Minneapolis and Minnesota officials for not doing enough to assist ICE. Her remarks came after Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) Superintendent Drew Evans released a statement saying the U.S. attorney’s office has barred it from participating in the federal investigation.<br>“Without complete access to the evidence, witnesses and information collected, we cannot meet the investigative standards that Minnesota law and the public demands,” Evans wrote. “As a result, the BCA has reluctantly withdrawn from the investigation.” It’s impossible for Minnesota to do its own investigation without the federal government’s cooperation, the state’s Department of Public Safety commissioner Bob Jacobson explained Thursday.<br>“They do have all the evidence in the original investigative notes and reports. We have none of that. They have shared none of that with us,” he said. “We would welcome the opportunity to jump back in to ... find the answers that the public deserves. Without any of that information, without any of that assistance from the FBI or the federal government, we would be at a loss to be able to initiate and conduct a thorough investigation.” Noem said Thursday she’s already confident the investigation will clear the ICE agent of any wrongdoing.<br>“We have expected all the policies and procedures of review will be exactly that he acted appropriately to protect his life and the life of his colleagues,” she said Thursday when asked to share more information about him.<br>Following Noem’s remarks, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) said getting a fair outcome from an investigation into the shooting “feels very, very difficult” now. “I say that only because people in positions of power have already passed judgment, from the President to the Vice President to Kristi Noem, have stood and told you things that are verifiably false, verifiably inaccurate,” a despondent Walz said at a press conference. “They have determined the character of a 37-year-old mom that they didn’t even know.” ** Lydia O'Connor, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/it-sure-looks-like-the-trump-administration-is-trying-to-cover-up-a-killing/ar-AA1TQDlO?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=6960df977dcb47ad84d9e8003f6d54ee&ei=15/"It sure looks like the Trump administration is trying to cover up a killing"], ''HuffPost'', 8 January 2026 * The Trump administration announced it is suspending $129m in federal benefit payments to Minnesota amid allegations of widespread fraud in the state. The secretary of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), Brooke Rollins, shared a letter on Friday on social media that was addressed to Minnesota’s governor, Tim Walz, and the mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, notifying them of the administration’s decision and citing investigations into alleged fraud conducted by local non-profits and businesses. “Despite a staggering, wide-reaching fraud scandal, your administrations refuse to provide basic information or take common sense measures to stop fraud. The Trump administration refuses to allow such fraud to continue,” Rollins wrote.<br>Rollins asked Walz and Frey to provide the USDA with justification for all federal spending from 20 January 2025 to the present within 30 days. She is also requiring that all federal payments to the state moving forward require the same justification. “We’re communicating with state partners to understand the impacts of such a blanket cut to funding meant for residents most in need,” Brian Feintech, a spokesperson for the city of Minneapolis, said in a written statement in response to Rollins’s letter.<br>“What’s abundantly clear is that Minneapolis is the latest target of the Trump administration – willing to harm Americans in service to its perceived political gain.”<br>Minnesota’s attorney general, Keith Ellison, publicly responded to Rollins’s post, writing on X: “I will not allow you to take from Minnesotans in need. I’ll see you in court.” ** Sara Braun, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-administration-suspends-129m-in-benefit-payments-to-minnesota/ar-AA1TXw8T?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=696288fd8dbf4b68a5639be7125a980c&ei=19/"Trump administration suspends $129m in benefit payments to Minnesota"], ''The Guardian'', 10 January 2026 * The USDA’s announcement coincides with a federal ruling that the Trump administration cannot block federal money for childcare subsidies and other programs aimed at supporting low-income families with children from reaching five Democratic-led states, including Minnesota. The Trump administration has targeted Minnesota over the past year over allegations of fraud, specifically going after the state’s Somali population. Federal prosecutors estimate as much as $9bn has been stolen across schemes allegedly linked to the state’s Somali population. Trump ended legal protections for Somali immigrants in the state in November 2025, claiming that “Somali gangs are terrorizing the people of that great State, and BILLIONS of Dollars are missing. Send them back to where they came from.”<br>Shortly thereafter, Trump went off on both Somalis and Ilhan Omar, the Minnesota congressional representative who is from Somalia and is a US citizen, in a xenophobic rant during a cabinet meeting. “They contribute nothing. I don’t want them in our country, I’ll be honest with you,” the president said. He called Omar “garbage” and said “we’re going to go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country”. ** Sara Braun, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-administration-suspends-129m-in-benefit-payments-to-minnesota/ar-AA1TXw8T?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=696288fd8dbf4b68a5639be7125a980c&ei=19/"Trump administration suspends $129m in benefit payments to Minnesota"], ''The Guardian'', 10 January 2026 * A month later, in December 2025, the FBI announced that it was deploying additional investigative and personnel resources to “dismantle large-scale fraud schemes exploiting federal programs” in the state, according to its director, Kash Patel. Patel said the agency had already dismantled a $250m fraud scheme that stole federal food aid meant for vulnerable children during the Covid pandemic in a case that led to 78 indictments and 57 convictions.<br>Last week, Walz announced that he would not run for a third term as Minnesota’s governor, as his handling of the fraud has fallen under intense scrutiny from Trump and Republicans. In his announcement, Walz acknowledged that the president and his political allies have taken advantage of the crisis to sow further division in the state.<br>“I won’t mince words here,” Walz said. “Donald Trump and his allies – in Washington, in St Paul and online – want to make our state a colder, meaner place.” ** Sara Braun, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-administration-suspends-129m-in-benefit-payments-to-minnesota/ar-AA1TXw8T?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=696288fd8dbf4b68a5639be7125a980c&ei=19/"Trump administration suspends $129m in benefit payments to Minnesota"], ''The Guardian'', 10 January 2026 * Civil liberties and migrant-rights groups called for nationwide rallies on Saturday to protest the fatal shooting of an activist in Minnesota by a U.S. immigration agent, as state authorities opened their own investigation of the killing. Protest organizers said more than 1,000 weekend events were planned across the country demanding an end to large-scale deployments of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents ordered by President Donald Trump, mostly to cities led by Democratic politicians.<br>Minneapolis became a major flashpoint of the Republican president's militarized deportation roundups on Wednesday, when an ICE officer shot and killed a 37-year-old mother of three, Renee Good, behind the wheel of her car on a residential street. The violence came soon after some 2,000 federal officers were dispatched to Minneapolis in what ICE's parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security, called the "largest DHS operation ever." Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, a Democrat, condemned the deployment as a "reckless" example of "governance by reality TV." ** Renee Hickman, Steve Gorman & Nathan Layne, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fatal-ice-shooting-of-minneapolis-activist-sets-stage-for-national-protests/ar-AA1TWJeC?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=696250ef11b64ca2991c35ae7ad81e96&ei=17/"Fatal ICE shooting of Minneapolis activist sets stage for national protests"], ''Reuters'', 10 January 2026 * On Friday night, throngs of demonstrators staged a "noise protest" outside a Minneapolis hotel believed to be lodging a visiting contingent of ICE agents. Video posted by activists on social media showed protesters, some wearing brightly colored inflatable costumes, creating a din by beating on drums, banging pots and pans, yelling through bullhorns and blowing on brass instruments and whistles. Others directed high-power flashlight beams at the hotel's windows. The crowd thinned after yellow-vested state police in riot gear marched into the area and declared an unlawful assembly, CNN reported.<br>Police were responding to "information that demonstrators were no longer peaceful and reports of damage to property," the Minnesota Department of Public Safety said on X. "Dispersal orders were given prior to arrests." At the time she was killed, Good was participating in one of numerous "neighborhood patrols" that track, monitor and record ICE activities, according to family and local activists.<br>Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and other Trump administration officials said Good was "impeding" and "stalking" ICE agents all day, and that the officer opened fire in self-defense when she tried to ram her car into him in an "act of domestic terrorism." ** Renee Hickman, Steve Gorman & Nathan Layne, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fatal-ice-shooting-of-minneapolis-activist-sets-stage-for-national-protests/ar-AA1TWJeC?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=696250ef11b64ca2991c35ae7ad81e96&ei=17/"Fatal ICE shooting of Minneapolis activist sets stage for national protests"], ''Reuters'', 10 January 2026 * Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, a Democrat, pointed to bystander video he said directly contradicted the federal government's "garbage narrative." Civil liberties advocates said the video showed federal agents lacked any justification for using deadly force.<br>Amid the sharply differing accounts of the shooting, Minnesota and Hennepin County law enforcement authorities said on Friday they were opening their own criminal inquiry of the incident separate from a federal investigation led by the FBI. Some Trump administration officials, including Vice President JD Vance, asserted state prosecutors lack jurisdiction to charge a federal officer with a crime, though legal experts say federal immunity in such cases is not automatic.<br>The crisis atmosphere led Walz - a prominent Trump antagonist who branded Trump and his Republican allies as "weird" during his own run for vice president last year - to put the state's National Guard on alert.<br>Federal-state tensions escalated further on Thursday when a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Portland, Oregon, shot and wounded a man and woman in their car after an attempted vehicle stop. As in the Minneapolis incident, DHS said the driver had tried to "weaponize" his vehicle and run over agents. DHS on Friday identified the wounded driver and passenger as suspected gang associates from Venezuela who were in the U.S. illegally. The agency said the woman had been involved in a prior shootout in Portland but provided no evidence of its allegations against the pair. ** Renee Hickman, Steve Gorman & Nathan Layne, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fatal-ice-shooting-of-minneapolis-activist-sets-stage-for-national-protests/ar-AA1TWJeC?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=696250ef11b64ca2991c35ae7ad81e96&ei=17/"Fatal ICE shooting of Minneapolis activist sets stage for national protests"], ''Reuters'', 10 January 2026 * Portland Mayor Keith Wilson, echoing Frey, said he could not be sure the government's account was grounded in fact without an independent investigation. The deployment of agents to Minneapolis follows Trump's recent denunciations of Walz and his state's large population of Somali immigrants over allegations of fraud dating back to 2020 by some nonprofit groups administering childcare and other social-service programs. Good was shot dead just a few blocks from where George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer crushing his neck into the pavement with his knee during a videotaped arrest in May 2020. Floyd's death sparked months of nationwide racial-justice protests during Trump's first term in office.<br>Bystander video of the Minneapolis incident showed masked officers approaching Good's Honda SUV while it was stopped at a perpendicular angle to the street, partially blocking traffic. One agent is seen ordering her out of the car and grabbing onto the driver-side front door handle as the car pulls forward and steers away from the officers, one of whom jumps back and fires three shots into the front of the vehicle as it rolls past. ** Renee Hickman, Steve Gorman & Nathan Layne, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fatal-ice-shooting-of-minneapolis-activist-sets-stage-for-national-protests/ar-AA1TWJeC?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=696250ef11b64ca2991c35ae7ad81e96&ei=17/"Fatal ICE shooting of Minneapolis activist sets stage for national protests"], ''Reuters'', 10 January 2026 * Video filmed by the officer who opened fire, identified through official comment and public records as Jonathan Ross, shows Good appearing calm. She is heard telling him, "That's fine, dude, I'm not mad at you" - moments before he opens fire as she drives forward into the street, steering the car away from him. Noem has said he was treated at a local hospital for unspecified injuries and released. The car's front bumper appears in the bystander video to pass Ross before he shot at Good. It is unclear from any of the footage whether the vehicle made contact with him. In any case, Ross is shown remaining on his feet and can be seen walking after the incident, contradicting Trump's assertion on social media that the woman "ran over the ICE officer."<br>The two DHS-related shootings this week have drawn thousands of protesters to the streets of Minneapolis, Portland and other U.S. cities, with many more demonstrations under the banner "ICE Out For Good" planned for Saturday and Sunday.<br>The rallies were being organized by a coalition of groups including the American Civil Liberties Union, MoveOn Civic Action, Voto Latino, and Indivisible, some of which were at the forefront of "No Kings" protests against Trump last year. ** Renee Hickman, Steve Gorman & Nathan Layne, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fatal-ice-shooting-of-minneapolis-activist-sets-stage-for-national-protests/ar-AA1TWJeC?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=696250ef11b64ca2991c35ae7ad81e96&ei=17/"Fatal ICE shooting of Minneapolis activist sets stage for national protests"], ''Reuters'', 10 January 2026 * On an unseasonably warm Wednesday in Minneapolis, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot a woman in the face. The many eyes of our everyday panopticon recorded the event from multiple angles. Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mom of three, had stopped her maroon SUV on a snowy street crawling with ICE officials. According to eyewitness reports, multiple men in masks shouted conflicting orders at her: At least one apparently demanded that she exit her vehicle and tried to open her door; another told her to drive away. Good seems to have moved slowly as she tried to maneuver around the agents surrounding her car. After appearing to first wave for someone to move, she reversed slightly and turned away from the agents to continue down the street. An ICE agent who appears to have been knocked back by her front bumper responded by shooting into her vehicle, and shot again as the SUV, suddenly without a conscious driver, [careened] into a parked car ahead.<br>Chaos erupted. A man announcing himself as a physician ran toward the scene to attempt to render first aid, but an ICE agent commanded him to step back. When emergency medical workers finally arrived on foot 15 minutes later, they clumsily pulled Good’s body from the driver’s seat, leaving behind a blood-soaked airbag. Onlookers immediately rose up in anger and outrage, screaming at the agents and shouting profanities. One man howled “Murderer! Murderer!” over and over again. Good’s partner, who was near the SUV, can be heard saying through sobs that Good was her wife, that their 6-year-old was at school, and that they were new in town, didn’t know anybody, had no one to call for help.<br>'''The alarm was warranted. Everyone on the scene had witnessed the crossing of a crucial line in Donald Trump’s mass-deportation project: ICE had just killed an American citizen on American soil.'''<br>'''The administration has since declared that the agent “is protected by absolute immunity,” whatever that means, a signal of unconditional support for an agency bloated with thousands of new, heavily armed, and minimally trained recruits, deployed around the country to help achieve Trump’s goal of deporting 1 million immigrants a year. Events such as Good’s death set the stage for yet more lethal confrontations, which the administration can be trusted to defend with the same specious pretext. What is now overt, in a way that it hadn’t been Wednesday morning, is that these agents are at war with the public, and have been for some time.''' ** Elizabeth Bruenig, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/this-will-happen-again/ar-AA1TWUxS?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=6962531da0a7499c8687f2c9df9f4110&ei=12?/"This will happen again"], ''The Atlantic'', 10 January 2026 * Good’s killing was the culmination of months of roiling tensions between the Department of Homeland Security and the communities it routinely invades to round up people for summary deportation. Having more than doubled ICE’s workforce in a matter of months, DHS has been fretting theatrically about how these agents are risking “their lives to remove the worst of the worst.” In retrospect, those concerns now seem like threats—a preemptive excuse for maximum violence.<br>The Trump administration instantly characterized Good’s killing as a matter of self-defense on the part of the ICE agent, whom The Minnesota Star Tribune has identified as Jonathan Ross, a 10-year agency veteran and member of its Special Response Team. Faced with footage of the incident Wednesday night, Trump offered the MAGA gloss on what took place: “She ran him over.” In fact, videos show that Ross remained upright.<br>In a press conference, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem claimed that Good had been killed because she had been “stalking and impeding” ICE agents all day, and that she had tried to “weaponize her vehicle” in an act of “domestic terrorism.” By Thursday, when White House Spokesperson Karoline Leavitt presented the administration’s official line, the story had grown more baroque. Leavitt maintained that Good was part of a “larger, sinister, left-wing movement that has spread across our country, where our brave men and women of federal law enforcement are under organized attack.” Thus Ross, as a target of a dangerous conspiracy, had merely been operating in self-defense. ** Elizabeth Bruenig, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/this-will-happen-again/ar-AA1TWUxS?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=6962531da0a7499c8687f2c9df9f4110&ei=12?/"This will happen again"], ''The Atlantic'', 10 January 2026 * In the administration’s closest brush with acknowledging wrongdoing, J. D. Vance mentioned to reporters Thursday that Ross had been involved in an incident with a vehicle several months ago, during which he was dragged for 100 yards and subsequently required numerous stitches: “So you think maybe he’s a little bit sensitive about somebody ramming him with an automobile?” These remarks could reasonably be taken to imply that Ross’s decision to shoot Good was an emotional overreaction based on past trauma, but then Vance pivoted: Ross “deserves a debt of gratitude.” In other words, even if Ross did act in error, Good’s death still bears the administration’s stamp of approval. ** Elizabeth Bruenig, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/this-will-happen-again/ar-AA1TWUxS?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=6962531da0a7499c8687f2c9df9f4110&ei=12?/"This will happen again"], ''The Atlantic'', 10 January 2026 * '''Protesters in Minneapolis have since flooded the streets in the thousands, and ICE agents have responded by apprehending some, shoving others to the ground, and spraying chemical irritants in their faces. These incidents have ignited mass demonstrations nationwide, in which protesters have wailed “Shame” and “Murder,” banged drums, screeched from metal whistles, and hoisted signs declaring what is no longer deniable: ICE kills.'''<br>''''It therefore felt grimly inevitable when the Department of Homeland Security issued a statement Thursday night confirming that Border Patrol officers shot at two people in a targeted traffic stop in Portland, Oregon. “When agents identified themselves to the vehicle occupants,” the post on X read, “the driver weaponized his vehicle and attempted to run over the law enforcement agents.” There is nothing to stop the echoes of this rationale, and we should expect to hear it again and again. There may come a time when the administration dispenses with offering an explanation at all.''' ** Elizabeth Bruenig, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/this-will-happen-again/ar-AA1TWUxS?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=6962531da0a7499c8687f2c9df9f4110&ei=12?/"This will happen again"], ''The Atlantic'', 10 January 2026 * President Donald Trump continued his threats towards Greenland on Friday, as he insisted that if the United States did not act Russia or China could occupy it in the future. Trump said that if he is unable to make a deal to acquire the territory “the easy way,” then he will have to “do it the hard way.” “We are going to do something in Greenland, whether they like it or not, because if we don’t do it, Russia or China will take over Greenland, and we’re not going to have Russia or China as a neighbor,” Trump told reporters at the White House. Greenland’s party leaders, including the opposition, issued a joint statement saying: “We do not want to be Americans, we do not want to be Danes, we want to be Greenlanders. The future of Greenland must be decided by the Greenlandic people.”<br>The US president and his White House officials have been discussing a range of options on how to bring Greenland under US control amid renewed interest in the strategically significant Danish-controlled territory, and has not ruling out a military intervention. The governments of Greenland and Denmark continue to publicly and privately insist it is not for sale. It remains unclear how other NATO members would respond if the US decided to take Greenland by force. European leaders have warned that such a move would have serious consequences for the military alliance. In a joint statement the leaders of France, Germany, the UK, Italy, Poland and Spain said Greenland belongs to its own people. ** Sophie Tanno & Samantha Waldenberg, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-will-take-greenland-the-hard-way-if-it-can-t-do-it-the-easy-way-trump-says/ar-AA1TWGOT?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=69625c4896054da3ba7ee0f19ca4ee4c&ei=39/"US will take Greenland the 'hard way' if it can't do it the 'easy way,' Trump says"], CNN, 10 January 2026 * “I would like to make a deal the easy way but if we don’t do it the easy way, we’re going to do it the hard way. And by the way, I’m a fan of Denmark too. I have to tell you, they have been very nice to me. I’m a big fan,” Trump said. He claimed that the move was necessary to prevent Russia or China from taking Greenland at some point in the future. Asked about a recent report that the US was weighing making payments to Greenlanders to convince them to join the US, Trump said, “I’m not talking about money for Greenland yet.”<br>Many Greenlanders have already rejected the idea of accepting money to become part of the US. “No thank you. It’s absolutely certain that we don’t want that,” one resident of the capital city of Nuuk, Simon Kjeldskov, told Reuters. Another resident, Juno Michaelsen, said: “Any number in the world and we will say no. It belongs to us and only us.”<br>The top Washington-based diplomats for Greenland and Denmark met with White House officials on Thursday. Denmark’s Ambassador Jesper Møller Sørensen and Greenland’s head of representation to the US Jacob Isbosethsen met with Trump advisers, diplomats familiar with the matter told CNN. Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen alongside four other party leaders once again rejected Trump’s calls to acquire the semi-autonomous territory in a statement release Friday night and seen by Reuters. The leaders said a planned meeting of Greenland’s parliament, the Inatsisartut, to discuss its response to the Trump administration’s threats would be brought forward. The date of the meeting has not yet been determined. Greenland’s parliament last met in November and had been scheduled to meet again on February 3. ** Sophie Tanno & Samantha Waldenberg, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-will-take-greenland-the-hard-way-if-it-can-t-do-it-the-easy-way-trump-says/ar-AA1TWGOT?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=69625c4896054da3ba7ee0f19ca4ee4c&ei=39/"US will take Greenland the 'hard way' if it can't do it the 'easy way,' Trump says"], CNN, 10 January 2026 * Several thousand protesters gathered at a park coated with fresh snow on Minneapolis’s south side Saturday afternoon, near where Renée Good lived and was fatally shot. “Say her name: Renée Good!” they chanted, along with “We will not put up with ICE!” There were mothers with children and babies in carriers, families and seniors holding homemade signs that read “ICE murdered Renée Good,” and “Indict agent Jonathan Ross,” the man identified through court records as the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who killed Good. Protesters turned out in cities across the country, including Boston, New York City, Austin and Philadelphia, many organized by progressive group Indivisible and titled “ICE Out For Good.”<br>In Minneapolis, the demonstrations in recent days “have remained peaceful until last night,” Police Chief Brian O’Hara said during a news conference Saturday. O’Hara said one Friday night protest outside a hotel believed to be housing ICE agents grew tense when some individuals caused property damage and, over the course of the night, threw ice, snow and rocks at officers.<br>Police arrested 29 people and at least one officer sustained injuries after being hit by a chunk of ice, O’Hara said. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey urged demonstrators to remain peaceful and to not “take the bait” into violent escalation. “We are meeting a whole lot of despair with a lot of hope,” Frey said Saturday. “We are doing right. We are being strategic. And yes, for those that aren’t being strategic... there are consequences.” ** Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Angie Orellana Hernandez & Will Oremus, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/thousands-protest-ice-presence-in-minneapolis-and-cities-nationwide/ar-AA1TXW6R?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=6963661c28904bd98d50319d0aeeb238&ei=16/"Thousands protest ICE presence in Minneapolis and cities nationwide"], ''The Washington Post'', 10 January 2026 * The state has also been grappling with how to respond after the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said the FBI was revoking its access to the case file, scene evidence and witness interviews in Good’s shooting. Trump administration officials have called the incident a federal matter, but state prosecutors say it falls in their jurisdiction and announced Friday they will conduct their own review of the shooting in an effort to gather evidence the FBI won’t share with them. Video of the hotly contested shooting has gradually emerged, including cellphone footage recorded by the ICE officer as he fatally shot Good.<br>The 47-second recording shows for the first time that Renée Good spoke to Ross before he shot her, and reveals that, a split second before the gunfire, Good’s wife urged her to drive away from the scene. It does not show whether Good’s SUV came into contact with Ross, as the administration contends. Vice President JD Vance said Friday that the video exonerated Ross. “The reality is that his life was endangered and he fired in self defense,” Vance wrote on X.<br>Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said Friday that it’s too early for anyone to reach a conclusion about the shooting “in good faith” because there’s too much evidence still to be evaluated. How the investigation plays out was on protesters’ minds Saturday. “War is being waged on our community. I’m here because sometimes it feels like there’s not a lot you can do,” said Nora Sonneborn, 28, who lives nearby, works in administration and held a hand-painted sign that said, “Melt the ICE.” She called the FBI’s move to exclude state authorities from the shooting investigation “ridiculous.” “A crime was committed in our home and we have every right to investigate,” she said. ** Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Angie Orellana Hernandez & Will Oremus, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/thousands-protest-ice-presence-in-minneapolis-and-cities-nationwide/ar-AA1TXW6R?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=6963661c28904bd98d50319d0aeeb238&ei=16/"Thousands protest ICE presence in Minneapolis and cities nationwide"], ''The Washington Post'', 10 January 2026 * Saturday morning, about five miles from the protests, there was a brief standoff between U.S. lawmakers and armed federal officers outside a Minneapolis-area federal building. In social media posts and media interviews afterward, three Democratic congresswomen from Minnesota said they had sought to oversee the conditions at a regional ICE field office, but were allowed in only briefly before officials ordered them to leave.<br>Videos posted by journalists on the scene showed Reps. Ilhan Omar, Angie Craig and Kelly Morrison standing outside the facility’s gate as a line of federal agents dressed in tactical gear and camouflage initially barred them from entering. A female voice could be heard saying, “I’m a sitting member of the United States Congress,” and asking, “Have you contacted your supervisor?”<br>“It is deeply disturbing to think what ICE is hiding when they are actively denying members from conducting their oversight authority,” Omar said in a statement Saturday. “When people disappear in the darkness, American democracy dies.”<br>Last month, a federal judge temporarily blocked new Trump administration policies restricting members of Congress from making unannounced oversight visits to ICE facilities funded via congressional appropriations bills. In a statement Saturday afternoon, however, Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said the ruling did not apply because the court exempted ICE operations funded by last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act. She said that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem issued fresh orders Jan. 8 reiterating that congressmembers must give seven days’ notice before visiting ICE detention facilities. “Because they were out of compliance with this mandate, Representative Omar and her colleagues were denied entry to the facility,” McLaughlin said. ** Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Angie Orellana Hernandez & Will Oremus, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/thousands-protest-ice-presence-in-minneapolis-and-cities-nationwide/ar-AA1TXW6R?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=6963661c28904bd98d50319d0aeeb238&ei=16/"Thousands protest ICE presence in Minneapolis and cities nationwide"], ''The Washington Post'', 10 January 2026 * Roberta Sloan, 66, a retired nurse who drove from Rochester, Minnesota, to join the protest in the park on Minneapolis’s south side, said she was frustrated that Omar’s effort to enter the ICE facility was challenged, but glad the congresswomen tried. “They have every right to be there to see these detention places and how people are being treated,” she said. Sloan was also pleased with how Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis’s mayor have spoken out against the ICE operation and shooting. “They are standing up for what Minnesota stands for,” she said, and that’s why she felt compelled to protest: “To stand up for those who don’t have a voice.”<br>Standing on a nearby snow covered sidewalk, amid a shoulder-to-shoulder crowd, health care worker Peter Prou, 33, of St. Paul, said he was outraged by the shooting and came to fight for justice. “They’re taking away all our rights and freedoms. They know it’s murder and they’re trying to cover it up,” he said of ICE, but added, “There’s strength in numbers. There’s more of us than them.” ** Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Angie Orellana Hernandez & Will Oremus, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/thousands-protest-ice-presence-in-minneapolis-and-cities-nationwide/ar-AA1TXW6R?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=6963661c28904bd98d50319d0aeeb238&ei=16/"Thousands protest ICE presence in Minneapolis and cities nationwide"], ''The Washington Post'', 10 January 2026 * Our country hasn’t been perfect, but it has been self-correcting. It took time for us to acknowledge the unalienable rights of all races and sexes. We have stumbled, fought each other, and sometimes misused our military muscle. But, when we resorted to violence, it was usually to defend liberty at home and abroad. Now, we have stumbled again, installing leaders who don’t believe in the founding idea. Freedom threatens them, so they rule by fear. So far, neither our institutions nor our people have mobilized to correct this mistake. President Trump and his people are so emboldened that they don’t even bother to hide their ill intentions. They know that if they commit crimes on his behalf, he will pardon them. ** William S. Becker, [https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5682167-trump-abuses-power-freedom/"America was supposed to be different —now Trump rules it with fear "], ''The Hill'', 12 January 2026 * Trump attacks freedom of the press. Over the last year, his administration took more than $1 billion away from public broadcasting; launched investigations into NPR, PBS, ABC, NBC and CBS; and forced media organizations to pay $32 million to settle his lawsuits against them. He has taken 76 federal actions to restrict, punish and revoke journalists’ credentials. But Trump’s biggest use of federal force to intimidate and terrorize civil society is his deployment of immigration agents and military troops in U.S. cities run by Democrats. Federal agencies have deported more than 605,000 people over the last year. Trump promised to focus on immigrants convicted of crimes, but his agents have arrested productive and longstanding American residents. As of Nov. 30, nearly 74 percent of the detainees had no criminal convictions. During 2025, 32 people, including children, died while in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Many have been “disappeared” to other countries, some to prisons, and denied their constitutional rights to due process. During 2025, the administration stripped legal status from 1.6 million immigrants. Nearly 2 million immigrants “self-deported.” ** William S. Becker, [https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5682167-trump-abuses-power-freedom/"America was supposed to be different —now Trump rules it with fear "], ''The Hill'', 12 January 2026 * '''The U.S. is supposed to be different, but Trump sees the world as an extension of himself — a place where bullies gain wealth and power by mistreating others and controlling them with fear'''. ** William S. Becker, [https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5682167-trump-abuses-power-freedom/"America was supposed to be different —now Trump rules it with fear "], ''The Hill'', 12 January 2026 * Last week, Americans watched on television as an armed immigration officer shot and killed a frightened mother of three, an American citizen, in Minneapolis. Without the benefit of an investigation, Trump, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and other federal officials quickly went public to describe the woman as a rioter and “terrorist” who “weaponized her vehicle” against the officer, forcing him to defend himself.<br>The American people have also watched the U.S. military kill foreign nationals by simply blowing up 35 boats in the Caribbean, killing at least 115 passengers. The Trump administration claimed the boats were smuggling drugs into America but provided no evidence.<br>Then came the invasion of Venezuela to arrest its leader and bring him to the U.S. for trial. Trump openly admits he wants to seize the country’s oil reserves, the largest (and some of the dirtiest) in the world. In the style of Russia’s Vladimir Putin, he wants to turn America’s oil billionaires into oligarchs. Time will tell how the entrenched interests in Venezuela react, and whether the invasion escalates into America’s latest oil war. ** William S. Becker, [https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5682167-trump-abuses-power-freedom/"America was supposed to be different —now Trump rules it with fear "], ''The Hill'', 12 January 2026 * The big, macho men from ICE who are storming around American cities like Visigoths are a bunch of cowards.<br>They arm themselves as if they are battling ISIS terrorists in Iraq while the only threat they face is common American citizens with whistles and protest signs. They break into private homes without warrants, they gas school kids, they tackle women on the street, they smash into the cars of American citizens. And one of them summarily executed a mother of three children because -- well, because he could.<br>They think they are tough, but they are punks hiding behind masks. They are poorly-trained thugs dressed up like real soldiers who think they are living out a video game where they get points for assaulting anyone who gets in their way. They are the farthest thing from the real cops who police communities with restraint, discipline and a knowledge of the law.These mercenaries do not serve the country, they serve a regime that excuses their unjustified violence and lies about their lawless actions. President Donald Trump falsely alleges that Renee Good, the mother of three gunned down in Minneapolis by an ICE agent, was a “professional agitator” who showed “disrespect” for law enforcement. His toady press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, who will say any despicable thing to please her boss, accused Good of being “a lunatic.” The Homeland Security boss, Kristi Noem, branded Good a “domestic terrorist.”<br>There is zero evidence of any of the Trump administration’s slander. Renee Good was, indeed, out on the street to monitor the actions of ICE, but, as anyone can see in the video taken seconds before she was murdered, she was smiling at the ICE agents and telling them she was not mad at them. Good was, in fact, doing what she had been ordered to do, moving her vehicle out of the way.<br>Trump and his team are even bigger cowards than the cosplay cops they have sent to terrorize immigrants and punish Democratic cities. It takes leaders with maturity and guts to admit fault and accept accountability. The cruel clowns in the White House will never be brave enough to do that. ** David Horsey, [https://horseytoons.substack.com/p/trump-and-his-cosplay-cops-are-cowards/"Trump and his cosplay cops are cowards"], David Horsey's substack, 13 January 2026 * Lawmakers from both parties and houses of Congress have agreed to provide about $653 million to fund Voice of America’s parent agency, rejecting President Donald Trump’s demand to defund the international broadcaster and shut it down. A bipartisan spending bill released Sunday would allocate $643 million for broadcasting from the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees VOA, plus nearly $10 million for capital improvements. That figure is down from the $867 million appropriated for the agency each of the past two years, but it’s more than four times the $153 million Trump requested that Congress provide to “support the orderly shutdown of USAGM operations.” The outlay is included in a broader bipartisan spending deal negotiated by House and Senate appropriators. The package still requires House and Senate approval before heading to Trump’s desk.<br>“We understand the realities of the appropriations process, but I am disappointed that Congress is proposing half a billion dollars more in funding than we requested,” Kari Lake, the deputy CEO installed by Trump to shut down the agency, wrote in a statement Monday. “While reductions from prior years are a step in the right direction, USAGM can still advance President Trump’s message and share America’s story globally without wasting so much taxpayer money.” ** Scott Nover, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/congress-agrees-to-fund-voice-of-america-bucking-trump-shutdown-order/ar-AA1U7exQ?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=6967438758b641c59ca45addfe0ffc6f&ei=10/"Congress agrees to fund Voice of America, bucking Trump shutdown order"], ''The Washington Post'', 13 January 2026 * The bipartisan commitment to funding USAGM reflects continued congressional support for America’s role in promoting the free flow of news and information abroad, a long-standing foundation of its soft power around the world. Congress’s funding proposal comes after a dire year for USAGM. Trump signed an executive order in March calling for the dismantlement of the government agency, which oversees Voice of America and funds nonprofit groups including Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Radio Free Asia. To carry out the order, Lake placed more than 1,300 Voice of America staffers on paid administrative leave — many of whom are still not working — and halted broadcasting operations the same month. It was the first time VOA went dark since it was first set up in 1942 to combat Nazi propaganda. In response, VOA’s director, Michael Abramowitz, and a separate group of USAGM staffers sued the Trump administration, arguing that its actions were illegal.<br>Lake, a former Arizona television anchor who lost high-profile races for governor and U.S. Senate in recent years, has defended the cuts and called for the agency’s eventual elimination. She told Congress in a June hearing that USAGM was “incompetent, corrupt, biased, and a threat to America’s national security and standing in the world.” She has also said USAGM is “not salvageable.”<br>The White House did not respond to a request for comment. ** Scott Nover, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/congress-agrees-to-fund-voice-of-america-bucking-trump-shutdown-order/ar-AA1U7exQ?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=6967438758b641c59ca45addfe0ffc6f&ei=10/"Congress agrees to fund Voice of America, bucking Trump shutdown order"], ''The Washington Post'', 13 January 2026 * The new bill allocates $199.5 million of the total appropriation to VOA and $138 million for USAGM’s operations. Additionally, nonprofit grantees will also be funded through this bill to the tune of $112.5 million for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, $69 million for Middle East Broadcasting Networks, $53.5 million for Radio Free Asia and $40.5 million for the Open Technology Fund. The Trump administration pushed to defund the nonprofit media outlets, but Lamberth has largely restored their funding in court after they all sued. Radio Free Asia previously said it was pausing operations but in recent months has resumed some publishing activities. “With new funding, if enacted, RFA anticipates ramping up additional news operations that have been paused in the Asia-Pacific region,” RFA spokesman Rohit Mahajan said in a statement. Sen. [[Brian Schatz]] (Hawaii), the top Democrat on the state and foreign operations subcommittee, applauded the bipartisan negotiation that led to the bill but expressed worry that it still represented a cut to government broadcasters. “While the bill ensures continued funding for our international broadcasting grantees,” he wrote in a statement, “it forces cuts at a time when they are trying to provide critical services in Ukraine, the Middle East, and across the Indo-Pacific.”<br>Schatz and his House counterpart, Rep. Lois Frankel (D-Florida), previously criticized the Trump administration’s “illegal gutting” of the agency. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) and Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Florida), the Senate and House appropriations subcommittee chairs, did not respond to requests for comment. ** Scott Nover, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/congress-agrees-to-fund-voice-of-america-bucking-trump-shutdown-order/ar-AA1U7exQ?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=6967438758b641c59ca45addfe0ffc6f&ei=10/"Congress agrees to fund Voice of America, bucking Trump shutdown order"], ''The Washington Post'', 13 January 2026 * The U.S. experienced negative net migration in 2025 for the first time in at least half a century as a result of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown, according to a report released Tuesday by the Brookings Institution. Although the administration has undertaken aggressive removal efforts, the negative number is mostly due to a significant drop in entries into the U.S., the report said. "We estimate net flows of -295,000 to -10,000 for the year," the Brookings study stated. "Though a high degree of policy uncertainty remains, continued negative net migration for 2026 is also likely." The report attributed the shift to combination of the large drop in entries and an increase in enforcement activity leading to removals and voluntary departures. The Trump administration's suspension of many humanitarian programs -- including most refugee programs with the exception of those involving white South Africans -- and a decline in temporary visas also contributed to the negative net migration, the report said.<br>The report's authors estimate there were between 310,000 and 315,000 removals in 2025, a figure lower than what the administration has claimed. Department of Homeland Security officials claim that, so far, more than 600,000 people have been removed during the crackdown. "At 310,000 to 315,000, the 2025 removals are not much higher than the 2024 removals of around 285,000," the report states. ** Laura Romero, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/us-for-1st-time-in-50-years-experienced-negative-net-migration-in-2025-report/ar-AA1U9D98?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=6967494810e94f57852b9e1e680b4105&ei=21/"US, for 1st time in 50 years, experienced negative net migration in 2025: Report"], ABC News, 13 January 2026 * Unlike in 2024, most removals in 2025 were initiated by U.S. Customs and Border Protection from the country's interior, the report said, as opposed to being initiated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement -- despite the actions of some ICE officers dominating many news headlines. A spokesperson with the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees CPB and ICE, did not immediately respond to a request for comment from ABC News. The report's authors also predicted removals will increase in 2026 with funding from President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which the report said will "likely allow for increased infrastructure and staffing to achieve a higher level of enforcement."<br>According to the report, authorities also predict the net migration loss will see certain sectors of the economy experience "unexpectedly weak economic activity," specifically businesses that serve affected immigrant populations. "The slowdown implies weaker employment, GDP, and consumer spending growth," the report states, adding that consumer spending is expected to fall by between $60 billion and $110 billion over 2025 and 2026. ** Laura Romero, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/us-for-1st-time-in-50-years-experienced-negative-net-migration-in-2025-report/ar-AA1U9D98?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=6967494810e94f57852b9e1e680b4105&ei=21/"US, for 1st time in 50 years, experienced negative net migration in 2025: Report"], ABC News, 13 January 2026 * Several faculty groups have denounced the Trump administration’s efforts to obtain information about Jewish professors, staff and students at the [[University of Pennsylvania]] – including personal emails, phone numbers and home addresses – as government abuse with “ominous historical overtones”.<br>The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is demanding the university turn over names and personal information about Jewish members of the Penn community as part of the administration’s stated goal to combat antisemitism on campuses. But some Jewish faculty and staff have condemned the government’s demand as “a visceral threat to the safety of those who would find themselves identified because compiling and turning over to the government ‘lists of Jews’ conjures a terrifying history”, according to a press release put out by the groups’ lawyers.<br>The EEOC sued Penn in November over the university’s refusal to fully comply with its demands. On Tuesday, the American Association of University Professors’ national and Penn chapters, the university’s Jewish Law Students Association and its Association of Senior and Emeritus Faculty, and the American Academy of Jewish Research filed a motion in federal court to intervene in the case.<br>“These requests would require Penn to create and turn over a centralized registry of Jewish students, faculty, and staff – a profoundly invasive and dangerous demand that intrudes deeply into the freedoms of association, religion, speech, and privacy enshrined in the First Amendment,” the groups argued. “We are entering territory that should shock every single one of us,” said Norm Eisen, co-founder and executive chair of the Democracy Defenders Fund on a press call. The fund is representing the faculty groups along with the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania and the firm Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin and Schiller. “That kind of information – however purportedly benign the excuses given for it – can be put to the most dangerous misuse. This is an abuse of government power that drags us back to some of the darkest chapters in our history.”<br>The EEOC did not immediately respond to a request for comment. ** Alice Speri, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/upenn-faculty-condemn-trump-administration-s-demand-for-lists-of-jews/ar-AA1U9l5D?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=6967494810e94f57852b9e1e680b4105&ei=17/"UPENN faculty condemn Trump administration’s demand for ‘lists of Jews’"], ''The Guardian'', 13 January 2026 * The University of Pennsylvania was among dozens of US universities to come under federal investigation over alleged antisemitism in the aftermath of the 7 October 2023 Hamas attacks and Israel’s subsequent war in Gaza. In response, the university established a taskforce to study antisemitism, implemented a series of measures and shared hundreds of pages of documents to comply with government demands.<br>But the university refused to comply with the EEOC’s July subpoena for personal information of Jewish faculty, students and staff, or those affiliated with Jewish organizations who had not given their consent, as well as the names of individuals who had participated in confidential listening sessions or received a survey by the university’s antisemitism taskforce. A university spokesperson said in November that “violating their privacy and trust is antithetical to ensuring Penn’s Jewish community feels protected and safe”. Instead, the university offered to inform all its employees of the EEOC investigation, inviting those interested to contact the agency directly.<br>But that was not enough for the commission, which brought the university to court to seek to enforce the subpoena.<br>“The EEOC remains steadfast in its commitment to combatting workplace antisemitism and seeks to identify employees who may have experienced antisemitic harassment. Unfortunately, the employer continues to refuse to identify members of its workforce who may have been subjected to this unlawful conduct,” the EEOC chair, Andrea Lucas, said in a statement at the time. “An employer’s obstruction of efforts to identify witnesses and victims undermines the EEOC’s ability to investigate harassment.” ** Alice Speri, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/upenn-faculty-condemn-trump-administration-s-demand-for-lists-of-jews/ar-AA1U9l5D?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=6967494810e94f57852b9e1e680b4105&ei=17/"UPENN faculty condemn Trump administration’s demand for ‘lists of Jews’"], ''The Guardian'', 13 January 2026 * The EEOC request prompted widespread alarm and condemnation among Jewish faculty, and earned rebukes from the university’s Hillel and other Jewish groups. Steven Weitzman, a professor with Penn’s religious studies department who also served on the university’s antisemitism taskforce, said that the mere request for such lists “instills a sense of vulnerability among Jews” and that the government cannot guarantee that the information it collects won’t fall “into the wrong hands or have unintended consequences”. “Part of what sets off alarm bells for people like me is a history of people using Jewish lists against Jews,” he said . “The Nazi campaign against Jews depended on institutions like universities handing over information about their Jewish members to the authorities.” “As Jewish study scholars, we know well the dangers of collecting such information,” said Beth Wenger, who teaches Jewish history at Penn. It’s not the first time the EEOC’s efforts to fight antisemitism have caused alarm among Jewish faculty. Last spring, the commission texted the personal phones of employees of Barnard College, the women’s school affiliated with Columbia University, linking to a survey that asked respondents whether they identified as Jewish or Israeli. ** Alice Speri, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/upenn-faculty-condemn-trump-administration-s-demand-for-lists-of-jews/ar-AA1U9l5D?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=6967494810e94f57852b9e1e680b4105&ei=17/"UPENN faculty condemn Trump administration’s demand for ‘lists of Jews’"], ''The Guardian'', 13 January 2026 * The Trump administration still hasn't released all of the Epstein files as required by law, and is instead exploring more kinetic ways to distract public attention from this uncomfortable fact, sources confirmed today. “And we all know the best way to divert attention from domestic problems is to bomb people with funny-sounding names overseas,” said a senior White House official. “So we’ve put together a target list of countries with weak militaries, weird names — or both — that we can hit with our few remaining Tomahawks to make sure the Big Man’s name doesn’t pop up in compromising positions in the Epstein documents.”<br>''Duffel Blog'' obtained the target list for Operation PEDO PALADIN, a contingency plan officials say has been sitting in a desk drawer labeled ‘Break Glass If Accountability Appears.’ According to sources, the president doesn’t particularly care which country gets hit first, largely because he can’t find any of them on a map anyway. ** ''Duffel Blog'', [https://www.duffelblog.com/top-10-countries-trump-will-send-you-to-attack-rather-than-release-the-epstein-files/"Top 10 countries Trump will send you to attack rather than release the Epstein files"], 14 January 2026 * '''Sure, technically it belongs to Denmark. But aside from the dozens of Danish soldiers who died alongside U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, what have the Danes really done for us lately?'''<br>Stephen Miller (from that special category of American military-age males who nevertheless somehow Perpetually Evaded the GWOT, or PEG), Marco Rubio (PEG), Don Jr. (PEG), and Eric Trump (also PEG) all agree Greenland is critical to U.S. national security, and if you have to die for it, that’s a sacrifice they are fully prepared to let you make. Be advised: Greenland, as part of Denmark, has access to the most formidable fixed and scatterable obstacles known to humankind — which, according to a redacted memo from Epstein to Trump, also double as excellent field-expedient butt plugs. ** ''Duffel Blog'', [https://www.duffelblog.com/top-10-countries-trump-will-send-you-to-attack-rather-than-release-the-epstein-files/"Top 10 countries Trump will send you to attack rather than release the Epstein files"], 14 January 2026 * Experts sounded a dire alarm after the Trump administration pulled the plug on nearly $2 billion in substance abuse and mental health funding, leaving thousands of providers scrambling and patients in a lurch. Up to 2,800 grantees through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration received termination letters immediately — wiping out about 26% of the agency's entire budget with zero warning, The Guardian reported Wednesday. “It feels like Armageddon for everyone who’s on the frontlines of the addiction and mental health space,” Ryan Hampton, founder of Mobilize Recovery, a national advocacy organization for people in and seeking recovery, told the outlet. “The scope of care that’s disrupted by these grants is catastrophic. Tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of people will die.” ** Daniel Hampton, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/wellness/experts-warn-trump-just-sentenced-thousands-to-death-with-2b-cut/ar-AA1UeoyZ?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=696895f1a2c442409efcf6f48ecb963e&ei=15/"Experts warn Trump just sentenced thousands to death with $2B cut"], ''Raw Story'', 14 January 2026 * Providers awoke to devastation that they'd be forced to conduct staff layoffs, program shutdowns, and that services would be halted immediately. The cuts axe overdose prevention, naloxone distribution, school mental health support, and help for pregnant women struggling with substance abuse. “Overnight, our entire backbone and infrastructure of addiction and mental health in this country flipped up on its head,” Hampton said. “These grants are lifesaving tools that honestly are a good reason why we have started to see a reversal in trends of drug overdoses in this country.” The move comes as overdose deaths finally dropped 27% in 2024 after two decades of climbing rates. "All of us are in a state of complete and utter shock that the administration would take such a reckless action," Hampton said. Legal challenges loom, but Hampton warned the damage is happening now. "People will die. People will die." ** Daniel Hampton, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/wellness/experts-warn-trump-just-sentenced-thousands-to-death-with-2b-cut/ar-AA1UeoyZ?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=696895f1a2c442409efcf6f48ecb963e&ei=15/"Experts warn Trump just sentenced thousands to death with $2B cut"], ''Raw Story'', 14 January 2026 * The Environmental Protection Agency is taking a major step toward changing its math to favor polluters over people: It’s going to stop tallying up the dollar value of lives saved and hospital visits avoided by air pollution regulations. Instead, the agency will consider the effects of regulations without attaching a price tag to human life. In particular, the EPA is changing how it conducts the cost-benefit analysis of regulations for two major pollutants, fine particulate matter smaller than 2.5 microns — usually referred to as PM2.5 — and ozone. The change was buried in a document published this month analyzing the economic impacts of final pollution regulations for power plants, arguing that the way the EPA historically calculated the economic benefits of regulations had too much uncertainty and gave people “a false sense of precision.” So to fix this, the EPA will stop tabulating the benefits altogether “until the Agency is confident enough in the modeling to properly monetize those impacts.” The news was first reported by the New York Times. On X, EPA administrator Lee Zeldin pushed back on the reporting, calling it “another dishonest, fake news claim” and that the agency is still considering lives saved when setting pollution limits. ** Umair Irfan, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/trump-s-epa-is-setting-the-value-of-human-health-to-0/ar-AA1UcWiK?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=6968c4deab0b425b93dfafe8d228d2c2&ei=10/"Trump’s EPA is setting the value of human health to $0"], ''Vox'', 14 January 2026 * I spoke with several experts, including former EPA officials, and in fact, the change could lead to worsening air quality and harm public health. The EPA exists to regulate pollution that harms people, and when it comes to things like ozone and tiny particles, there is robust evidence of the damage they can do, contributing to heart attacks and asthma attacks. Measured over populations, air pollution takes years off of people’s lives. Every year in the United States alone, air pollution pushes 135,000 people into early graves. “There is a lot of science that shows very clearly that being exposed to increasing levels of PM2.5 has significant health impacts,” said Janet McCabe, who served as the EPA’s deputy administrator under President Joe Biden. ** Umair Irfan, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/trump-s-epa-is-setting-the-value-of-human-health-to-0/ar-AA1UcWiK?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=6968c4deab0b425b93dfafe8d228d2c2&ei=10/"Trump’s EPA is setting the value of human health to $0"], ''Vox'', 14 January 2026 * Anytime the EPA wants to issue a new regulation — say, revising how much mercury a power plant is allowed to emit — it looks at both the costs and the benefits before finalizing the rule. The EPA adds up how much companies would likely have to spend on things like installing upgraded scrubbers in smokestacks. Then the agency estimates the economic benefit of imposing the regulation, such as more days with cleaner air or fewer workers calling out sick. The biggest benefits usually come from improving health through things like avoiding hospital visits and reducing early deaths. There is some fuzziness in the numbers on both sides of the ledger though. If a bunch of companies turn to a handful of suppliers for pollution control equipment, that could drive up compliance costs. And how exactly do you price a hypothetical emergency room trip that didn’t happen? “In my experience at EPA, there’s never a perfect estimate of costs or benefits,” McCabe said. Yet even with imperfect calculations, regulators could get a decent sense of whether the juice was worth the squeeze when it comes to a new pollution standard, and the public would get a window into how the decision was made.<br>Under the Biden administration, the EPA found that enforcing the more stringent PM2.5 regulations it issued in 2024 would add up to $46 billion in health benefits by 2032, vastly more than the cost of complying with the rule. The EPA now effectively wants to put receipts from the benefits side of the ledger through the shredder. ** Umair Irfan, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/trump-s-epa-is-setting-the-value-of-human-health-to-0/ar-AA1UcWiK?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=6968c4deab0b425b93dfafe8d228d2c2&ei=10/"Trump’s EPA is setting the value of human health to $0"], ''Vox'', 14 January 2026 * This change in math is part of a broader pattern at the EPA — and across the federal government — of just measuring and counting fewer things under the second Trump Administration. The EPA has already closed its Office of Research and Development, which was meant to provide the scientific basis for environmental regulations, like tracking the effects of toxic chemicals on the human body. With less data on science and economics, agencies like the EPA have less accountability for their actions as they face more pressure from the White House to cut regulations and craft policies benefiting politically favored industries. It also sets the stage for taking the teeth out of other regulations, like the Clean Air Act. The EPA has already dismantled its legal foundation for addressing climate change.<br>Joseph Goffman, who served as assistant administrator of the EPA’s air and radiation office under Biden, said this change in how the EPA calculates health benefits is part of a broader campaign against air pollution regulations. “It really illustrates what the ulterior motive is and that is to mute or mask the true impact of [particulate matter] exposure and the huge benefits that flow from reducing it,” Goffman said. “Suddenly deciding that you can’t ascribe a dollar value to reducing PM really is convenient to the point of being instrumental to Zeldin’s efforts to weaken PM standards.”<br>If the EPA never comes up with a new way to monetize the health benefits of regulations, it’s likely that improvements in air quality will stall, and air pollution could get worse. “One would anticipate that we could see PM 2.5 levels rising across the country,” Hasenkopf said. ** Umair Irfan, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/trump-s-epa-is-setting-the-value-of-human-health-to-0/ar-AA1UcWiK?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=6968c4deab0b425b93dfafe8d228d2c2&ei=10/"Trump’s EPA is setting the value of human health to $0"], ''Vox'', 14 January 2026 * Jacqueline Smith, the outlet's ombudsman, said Stars and Stripes reports on matters important to service members and their families — not just weapons systems or war strategy — and she's detected nothing “woke” about its reporting. “I think it's very important that Stars and Stripes maintains its editorial independence, which is the basis of its credibility,” Smith said. A longtime newspaper editor in Connecticut, Smith's role was created by Congress three decades ago and she reports to the House Armed Services Committee. It's the latest move by the Trump administration to impose restrictions on journalists. Most reporters from legacy news outlets have left the Pentagon rather than to agree to new rules imposed by Hegseth that they feel would give him too much control over what they report and write. ''The New York Times'' has sued to overturn the regulations. ** David Bauder, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/defense-department-says-military-newspaper-stars-and-stripes-must-eliminate-woke-distractions/ar-AA1UiEZG?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=69696be6758e4eb0ab19b9d3100aacec&ei=13/"Defense Department says military newspaper Stars and Stripes must eliminate 'woke distractions'"], ''The Associated Press'', 15 January 2026 * Trump has also sought to shut down government-funded outlets like Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty that report independent news about the world in countries overseas. Also this week, the administration raided the home of a ''Washington Post'' journalist as part of an investigation into a contractor accused of stealing government secrets, a move many journalists interpreted as a form of intimidation. ''The Post'' reported that applicants to ''Stars and Stripes'' were being asked how they would advance Trump's executive orders and policy priorities in the role. They were asked to identify one or two orders or initiatives that were significant to them. That raised questions about whether it was appropriate for a journalist to be given what is, in effect, a loyalty test. Smith said it was the government's Office of Personnel Management — not the newspaper — that was responsible for the question on job applications and said it was consistent with what was being asked of applicants for other government jobs. But she said it was not something that should be asked of journalists. “The loyalty is to the truth, not the administration,” she said. ** David Bauder, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/defense-department-says-military-newspaper-stars-and-stripes-must-eliminate-woke-distractions/ar-AA1UiEZG?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=69696be6758e4eb0ab19b9d3100aacec&ei=13/"Defense Department says military newspaper Stars and Stripes must eliminate 'woke distractions'"], ''The Associated Press'', 15 January 2026 * Traditional conservatives are as anti-fascist as any liberal. Their political vision is derived by libertarian thinkers of past centuries, such as John Locke and Edmund Burke. Their modern philosophy was articulated by erudite commentators like William F. Buckley and George Will. Their political heroes are men like Ronald Reagan and John McCain. Today on the right, there are plenty of folks who call themselves conservatives -- they are all over social media, they fill every time slot of Fox News and they dominate the Republican Party. Yet, these claimants to a long tradition that favors limited government, the rule of law and the advancement of liberty are unquestioning supporters of a president whose actions are those of a lawless, aspiring dictator.<br>'''These people who claim to be conservatives, yet enthusiastically cheer for a man who violates the core tenets of traditional conservatism every day, should stop pretending they are something they are not and simply accept the better description of what they have become. It is a word that starts with F.''' ** David Horsey, [https://horseytoons.substack.com/p/if-it-talks-like-a-fascist-and-acts/"If it talks like a fascist and acts like a fascist, it's a fascist"], David Horsey's substack, 15 January 2026 * A 15-strong French military contingent has arrived in the Greenland capital Nuuk, officials say, as several European states send soldiers there as part of a so-called reconnaissance mission. The deployment, which will also include personnel from Germany, Sweden, Norway and the UK, comes as US President Donald Trump continues to press his claim to the Arctic island, which is a semi-autonomous part of Denmark. The deployment of European NATO allies of Denmark to Nuuk was unprecedented, said French special envoy Olivier Poivre d'Arvor, who saw it as sending a strong political signal. "This is a first exercise... we'll show the US that NATO is present."<br>Trump has doubled down on his bid to bring Greenland under US control, telling reporters in the Oval Office "we need Greenland for national security". Although he has not ruled out the use of force, he said late on Wednesday that he thought something could be worked out with Denmark.<br>"The problem is there's not a thing that Denmark can do about it if Russia or China wants to occupy Greenland, but there's everything we can do. You found that out last week with Venezuela." ** Paul Kirby, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/europe-allies-begin-greenland-military-mission-as-trump-says-us-needs-island/ar-AA1UgTRI?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=6968d79738504d33839bb80beefc085f&ei=18/"Europe allies begin Greenland military mission as Trump says US needs island"], BBC, 15 January 2026 * Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Poland was not planning to join the European military deployment to Greenland, but warned that any US military intervention there "would be a political disaster". "A conflict or attempted annexation of the territory of a NATO member by another Nato member would be the end of the world as we know it - and which for many years guaranteed our security," he told a press conference. Russia's embassy in Belgium meanwhile expressed "serious concern" at what was unfolding in the Arctic, accusing NATO of building up a military presence there "under the false pretext of a growing threat from Moscow and Beijing". However, the European NATO deployment consists of only a few dozen personnel as part of Danish-led joint exercises called Operation Arctic Endurance. While heavy in symbolism, it was not immediately clear how long they would stay.<br>Germany was sending an A400M transport plane to Nuuk on Thursday with a contingent of 13 soldiers, although officials said they would stay in Greenland only until Saturday. Danish defence officials said they had decided with the government of Greenland that there would be an increased military presence around Greenland in the coming period to bolster Nato's "footprint in the Arctic for the benefit of both European and transatlantic security". ** Paul Kirby, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/europe-allies-begin-greenland-military-mission-as-trump-says-us-needs-island/ar-AA1UgTRI?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=6968d79738504d33839bb80beefc085f&ei=18/"Europe allies begin Greenland military mission as Trump says US needs island"], BBC, 15 January 2026 * The US already has a military base in Greenland, currently staffed by up to 150 people, and has the option of bringing in far greater numbers under existing agreements with Copenhagen. But the Danish-led initiative is seen as signalling to the Trump administration that its European allies also have a stake in security in the Arctic and North Atlantic. Sweden's prime minister said Swedish army officers had been sent to Nuuk on Wednesday. Two Norwegians and one British military officer were also being sent. Downing Street said the UK shared President Trump's concern about "the security of the High North", and said the deployment involved "stepping up with stronger exercising, to deter the Russian aggression and the Chinese activity." Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said on Thursday that defence and protection of Greenland was a common concern for the entire NATO alliance. ** Paul Kirby, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/europe-allies-begin-greenland-military-mission-as-trump-says-us-needs-island/ar-AA1UgTRI?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=6968d79738504d33839bb80beefc085f&ei=18/"Europe allies begin Greenland military mission as Trump says US needs island"], BBC, 15 January 2026 * Danish Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen said the intention was to have a military presence "in rotation", with the aim of having a more permanent military presence on the island with foreign allies taking part in exercise and training activities. Copenhagen has disputed Trump's justification for wanting to control Greenland. Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said on Wednesday there was no "instant threat" from China or Russia that Denmark and Greenland could not accommodate, although he shared American security concerns to some extent. A Democratic-led US delegation is due to visit Denmark on Friday for talks with Danish MPs. Rasmussen spoke alongside Greenland's foreign minister after talks with US Vice-President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The Danish diplomat said the talks were "frank but constructive". He described a "fundamental disagreement" between the two sides and later criticised Trump's bid to buy Greenland.<br>"The president's ambition is on the table," the Danish diplomat told Fox News. "Of course we have our red lines. This is 2026, you trade with people but you don't trade people." Greenland's Prime Minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, said this week that the territory was in the midst of a geopolitical crisis, and that if his people were asked to make a choice they would choose Denmark over the US. "Greenland does not want to be owned by the United States. Greenland does not want to be governed by the United States. Greenland does not want to be part of the United States," he stressed. ** Paul Kirby, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/europe-allies-begin-greenland-military-mission-as-trump-says-us-needs-island/ar-AA1UgTRI?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=6968d79738504d33839bb80beefc085f&ei=18/"Europe allies begin Greenland military mission as Trump says US needs island"], BBC, 15 January 2026 * '''Trump and his minions are energetically closing the last exit built into the system that prevents absolute dictatorship.''' They intend to orchestrate the sham elections familiar in all dictatorships, or abolish them. They are not joking. This will be the death blow to the American experiment. There will be no going back. We will become a police state. Our freedoms, already under heavy assault, will be extinguished. At that point, only mass mobilizations and strikes will thwart the solidification of the dictatorship. And such actions, as we see in Minneapolis, will be greeted with lethal state repression. ** [[Chris Hedges]], [https://scheerpost.com/2026/01/20/chris-hedges-the-last-election/ "The Last Election"], Scheerpost, 19 January 2026 * Thousands took to the streets in subzero temperatures Friday afternoon to protest the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota. Demonstrators wore snowboots and ski goggles, passed around handwarmers and carried signs taped to hockey sticks. Protesters’s eyelashes and beards froze while they chanted “ICE out” and “Minnesota nice, but F— ICE” during a two-hour march through downtown Minneapolis. The march was part of a day of events that encouraged Minnesotans to boycott school, work and shopping in protest of the surge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the Twin Cities. ICE agents have been deployed en masse in Minnesota, in what the Department of Homeland Security has described as the largest operation in its history. The enforcement efforts followed a welfare-fraud scandal that put the state’s Somali community into the national spotlight. ** Mariah Timms & Jack Morphet, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/thousands-of-minnesotans-protest-ice-in-subzero-temperatures/ar-AA1UQEbY?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=69748550bd2d43a586595be2a40c3645&ei=17/"Thousands of Minnesotans protest ICE in subzero temperatures"], ''Wall Street Journal'', 23 January 2026 * Vice President JD Vance visited Minneapolis on Thursday to urge local officials in the left-leaning city to cooperate with federal authorities to quell what he called “chaos.” The administration has blamed state and local officials for some of the tension. White House officials have denigrated the state’s existing policies and laws that limit cooperation with civil immigration enforcement, including refusing to house ICE detainees in local jails in many situations.<br>During demonstrations in Minneapolis on Friday, roughly 100 clergy members were arrested at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. Mostly Christian clergy and faith leaders rallied at the airport, where they claimed planes were flying detained migrants out of the state as part of ICE’s “Operation Metro Surge,” according to Justin Lind-Ayres, a Lutheran pastor in Minneapolis. The MSP Airport Police Department confirmed officers made arrests, but didn’t immediately confirm how many. Protesters at the airport, some wearing clerical stoles draped over their shoulders, knelt while singing hymns and reciting the Lord’s Prayer in frigid conditions that dipped to a low of minus-20 degrees Fahrenheit on Friday, before being handcuffed and led away, video showed. ** Mariah Timms & Jack Morphet, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/thousands-of-minnesotans-protest-ice-in-subzero-temperatures/ar-AA1UQEbY?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=69748550bd2d43a586595be2a40c3645&ei=17/"Thousands of Minnesotans protest ICE in subzero temperatures"], ''Wall Street Journal'', 23 January 2026 * Protesters at the downtown march said the huge crowds in harsh weather showed Minnesotans are serious about their wishes for the current ICE operation, and the use of force tactics the officers are employing, to end. “We’re not afraid of ICE, we’re not going to back down. We’re strong, we’re here for our neighbors, we’re here for our community,” said Brianna Verbout, 26, a Minneapolis resident. “Imagine how many people would be out here if it wasn’t negative 20.” “Who cares if you’re cold? We’re used to being cold,” Cindy Boggs, a retired church worker who has lived in Minnesota for the past 50 years, said. “We just gotta stand up and keep with it. I can’t take the cruelty that’s happening to people.”<br>Homeland Security has defended its tactics and maintained it needs to detain immigrants living in the U.S. illegally. Mass immigration enforcement was a key promise of President Trump’s campaign coming into his second term, and officials have expanded the role of agencies like U.S. Customs and Border Protection into the interior to assist with it. ** Mariah Timms & Jack Morphet, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/thousands-of-minnesotans-protest-ice-in-subzero-temperatures/ar-AA1UQEbY?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=69748550bd2d43a586595be2a40c3645&ei=17/"Thousands of Minnesotans protest ICE in subzero temperatures"], ''Wall Street Journal'', 23 January 2026 * The free world exhaled on Wednesday when President Trump retreated from his administration’s threat to invade Greenland. That relief, however, masks the damage that Mr. Trump has done to America this week. Mr. Trump’s apologists once dismissed his bullying of Greenland as an attempt at humor. Instead, it has been something far darker. His immoral threats against a loyal NATO ally have escalated a crisis in U.S.-European relations, weakened one of history’s most successful alliances and hurt American interests in tangible ways. ** ''The New York Times'' Editorial Board, [https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/opinion/trump-nato-greenland.html?smtyp=cur&smid=fb-nytimes&utm_sf_cserv_ref=5281959998&utm_sf_post_ref=658798072&fbclid=IwY2xjawPiHMJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEevT9BCKQZMttc_GRA1X4zf15Ra11H3jgLeH1aesrftQ9y94DxRHmQyIhInbY_aem_zdyugozf18OqwWvsopsO1w/"The World Will Remember Trump’s Greenland Outburst"], 24 January 2026 * In the second Trump administration, immigration policy is made with big round numbers. There’s a formula: First the White House sets an ambitious goal—1 million deportations a year, 3,000 immigration arrests a day. Then it presses the federal workforce to meet the target. Last year, Trump officials pledged to double staffing at ICE by adding 10,000 new deportation officers by January 2026. Stephen Miller treated the recruitment drive as a priority on par with the deportation push, demanding daily updates on the pace of hiring. Immigration and Customs Enforcement held job expos in multiple cities and dangled $50,000 bonuses, student-loan forgiveness, and other perks before potential recruits.<br>Just after New Year’s Day, the Department of Homeland Security declared victory, celebrating an ICE hiring spree that “shattered expectations” and achieved a “120% Manpower Increase.” DHS said it received more than 220,000 applications (many candidates applied for three or four different jobs) and signed up 12,000 new officers, agents, and legal staff in about four months. No federal law-enforcement agency has ever expanded this fast. ** Nick Miroff, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-truth-about-ice-s-recruiting-push/ar-AA1UTSMs?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=69755f9d891f4014aabdf6bf772c6a7e&ei=9/"The truth about ICE’s recruiting push"], ''The Atlantic'', 24 January 2026 * ICE veterans I’ve spoken with have concerns about the qualifications and aptitude of their new colleagues, especially those with little or no previous law-enforcement experience. Some academy classes have had dropout rates near 50 percent because so many failed the physical-fitness requirements. The Trump administration slashed the length of the training course from about five months to 47 days last summer—because Trump is the 47th president, three officials told me at the time—then cut it further. Now it’s 42 days. ** Nick Miroff, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-truth-about-ice-s-recruiting-push/ar-AA1UTSMs?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=69755f9d891f4014aabdf6bf772c6a7e&ei=9/"The truth about ICE’s recruiting push"], ''The Atlantic'', 24 January 2026 * The administration also wants more ICE officers on the streets. Trump officials have brought in Border Patrol agents to act as reinforcements in cities such as Los Angeles, Chicago and now Minneapolis. Trump’s rolling campaign has generally targeted one location at a time, but the new hiring surge will give the administration enough personnel to target multiple cities at once. Trump officials say they are filling the jobs by hiring experienced law-enforcement officers from other federal agencies or state and local police departments. Many of the new hires are anxious about their career prospects at ICE once the burst of onetime funding runs out, officials at ICE and DHS told me, especially if Democrats take control of Congress.<br>One ICE official I spoke with told me that some of the new hires, especially rehired retirees, are having second thoughts. Hundreds of the returning officers have been ordered to Minnesota, two officials said, where the administration is conducting the largest-ever DHS crackdown. Some officers have been so cold and miserable that they’ve already quit, and ICE officials have held calls to figure out how to deal with the sudden resignations.<br>Returning officers who have come back from retirement are finding themselves in unfamiliar roles. They spent much of their careers trying to conduct low-key “targeted enforcement” operations in which they planned arrests in advance and sought to take suspects into custody in the safest and least dramatic way possible. Now they’re out in the streets wearing masks, with protesters yelling at them and video cameras rolling. ICE has changed, and the job isn’t the same. ** Nick Miroff, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-truth-about-ice-s-recruiting-push/ar-AA1UTSMs?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=69755f9d891f4014aabdf6bf772c6a7e&ei=9/"The truth about ICE’s recruiting push"], ''The Atlantic'', 24 January 2026 * Most of the federal government could shut down at the end of the week. But that likely wouldn’t halt aggressive ICE and border patrol operations in Minneapolis and other parts of the country. Democrats are up in arms after Border Patrol agents fatally shot Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse and U.S. citizen, in Minneapolis over the weekend. That came after an ICE officer shot and killed Renee Good, another Minneapolis resident and citizen, in her car earlier this month.<br>Under enormous pressure from the base, Senate Democrats have vowed to block a sweeping government funding bill unless significant restrictions are imposed on the Trump administration's immigration enforcement operations.<br>With Republicans plowing ahead with a vote on the House-passed $1.2 trillion funding package later this week, a partial shutdown beginning Saturday now seems increasingly likely. Money is set to run out for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees ICE, and many other critical agencies late Friday night. ** Scott Wong, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/most-of-the-government-could-shut-down-this-weekend-ice-operations-would-carry-on/ar-AA1V1rWv?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=6978cb48d3bb4d05a60d6795f9688d96&ei=16/"Most of the government could shut down this weekend. ICE operations would carry on"], NBC News, 26 January 2026 * Yet, even if Democrats shut down the government, ICE operations aren't likely to be hindered in any meaningful way. Under DHS's shutdown plan, a GOP leadership source said, ICE employees would be considered "excepted" workers and would be required to continue showing up to work, though they, like other workers, would not get paid. On top of that, even in a shutdown, ICE would continue to have ample funding since the agency received $75 billion of additional money for detention and enforcement from Trump’s “big, beautiful bill" last year, the GOP source noted. ** Scott Wong, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/most-of-the-government-could-shut-down-this-weekend-ice-operations-would-carry-on/ar-AA1V1rWv?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=6978cb48d3bb4d05a60d6795f9688d96&ei=16/"Most of the government could shut down this weekend. ICE operations would carry on"], NBC News, 26 January 2026 * If the government funding lapses at the end of the week, it would mark the second federal shutdown in four months during Trump's second term in office. Senate Democrats blocked a funding bill last fall, demanding that the GOP include an extension to expiring Obamacare tax credits. That shut the government down for 43 days — the longest shutdown in U.S. history. Eight Democrats ultimately caved, voting with Republicans to reopen the government without a deal on the health care subsidies. Polling showed Republicans shouldering more blame for the shutdown than Democrats. ** Scott Wong, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/most-of-the-government-could-shut-down-this-weekend-ice-operations-would-carry-on/ar-AA1V1rWv?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=6978cb48d3bb4d05a60d6795f9688d96&ei=16/"Most of the government could shut down this weekend. ICE operations would carry on"], NBC News, 26 January 2026 * Nearly a year ago, the Education Department sent universities and K-12 school districts scrambling with a sweeping but vague directive. The “Dear Colleague” letter said schools may be in violation of federal law if they consider race in virtually any way — hiring, discipline policy, scholarships and programming. After a lawsuit and a defeat in court, however, the Trump administration says it is dropping the matter entirely. That means an August federal court order blocking the “Dear Colleague” letter will stand. The Trump administration had also demanded that schools certify that they are in compliance with the letter, and that demand is now dead, too.<br>Still, it is unclear how significant the impact will be. The Trump administration, which made sweeping changes to education over its first year, can still work to impose its view of the law on schools through enforcement actions and other pressure. For instance, in July, the Justice Department published a memo that included many of the same ideas that were in the Education Department’s letter. Further, many schools have already changed their diversity, equity and inclusion policies, wary of running afoul of the administration’s anti-DEI stance. ** Laura Meckler, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-letter-banning-dei-in-schools-is-dead-after-legal-appeal-is-dropped/ar-AA1USkjb?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=69756d3d22a84125b0b92c399dc88f28&ei=11/"Trump letter banning DEI in schools is dead after legal appeal is dropped"], ''The Washington Post'', 29 January 2026 * Many schools may continue to comply with the anti-DEI directive in an effort to stave off attention from the administration, said Frederick Hess, director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank. “One of the things we have seen is how reluctant institutional leaders are to get crosswise with the federal government, whether or not it’s clearly aligned with the law,” he said.<br>Either way, Hess said he was pleased that the February letter is no longer in force. That’s because he does not think those types of guidance documents should be used to make policy — something that both Democratic and Republican administrations have done in the past. “Dear Colleague letters have become a blunt instrument to move thousands of postsecondary institutions or 10,000-plus school districts in one direction or another, and I don’t think that’s an appropriate use of them,” he said. “I don’t think that’s good for anybody.” ** Laura Meckler, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-letter-banning-dei-in-schools-is-dead-after-legal-appeal-is-dropped/ar-AA1USkjb?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=69756d3d22a84125b0b92c399dc88f28&ei=11/"Trump letter banning DEI in schools is dead after legal appeal is dropped"], ''The Washington Post'', 29 January 2026 ==== February 2026 ==== *US President [[Donald Trump]] has urged [[Republicans]] to "nationalise" elections and repeated his false claims of 2020 election fraud in a new podcast interview.<br>American elections are primarily run by state law, and voting has long been administered by local officials across the country.<br>The Republicans should say: "We want to take over. We should take over the voting in at least 15 places". The Republicans ought to nationalise the voting. **[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0mke841zj0o"Trump says Republicans 'should take over the voting' and 'nationalise' US elections"], ''BBC'' (3 February 2026) * If Donald Trump’s presidency has any theme (beyond self-promotion), it’s that his "[[America First (policy)|America First]]" agenda will [[Make America Great Again]]. Unfortunately for the American people, if Trump’s maneuvers and machinations have made any nation greater, it’s been [[China]], not the [[United States]]. **[[w:Steven Greenhouse|Steven Greenhouse]] writing in [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/05/donald-trump-making-china-great-again "Donald Trump is making China great again"], ''The Guardian'' (5 Feb 2026) * Have you ever disliked the outcome of something? Don’t you wish you could change it? Of course, you can’t. The lesson has been drilled into us since childhood: You get what you get, and you don’t get upset. Unfortunately, it appears that Donald Trump and the Republican Party never received that helpful memo. Trump constantly complains about the “stolen” 2020 election to this day, even though it was quite fair. Like a child throwing a temper tantrum, he can’t resist bringing it up. But Trump’s whims are far more dangerous than child’s play, because he just might try to destroy the democratic experiment while he’s whining – and string Republicans along with him.<br>This past week, on a podcast with rightwing personality Dan Bongino, Trump called for the federal government to “nationalize” elections in several Democratic strongholds. He later claimed, “Look at some of the places – that horrible corruption on elections – and the federal government should not allow that.” Regardless of Trump’s fantasies about rigged elections, the Constitution is clear: administering elections is a power given to the states, and the federal government cannot take over voting. ** Patrick Minnerly, [https://dailycampus.com/2026/02/12/patricks-politics-why-voter-suppression-is-all-the-rage-on-the-right/"Why voter suppression is all the rage on the right "], ''The Daily Campus'', 12 February 2026 * The Republican Party, as ever, seems willing to dance for their ruler. In Congress, Republicans are busy sating Trump’s desire to shift how elections are run. As I’m writing this column, the SAVE America Act is coming up for a vote in the U.S. House. This act would make it significantly harder to vote, making potential voters explicitly prove their citizenship before they cast their ballots. On the surface, this might not seem like a bad idea. Why not ensure our elections are safe and secure? The bill, however, ignores that many Americans don’t carry proof of citizenship on them, such as a passport or birth certificate. It also solves a nonexistent problem; despite false claims of mass illegal voting, it is extremely rare for noncitizens to vote.<br>So then why try to pass this bill? The answer is, Republicans don’t actually want to stop voter fraud. They want to stop people from casting their ballots. They want voter suppression. ** Patrick Minnerly, [https://dailycampus.com/2026/02/12/patricks-politics-why-voter-suppression-is-all-the-rage-on-the-right/"Why voter suppression is all the rage on the right "], ''The Daily Campus'', 12 February 2026 * All of this attempted voter suppression is clearly aimed at preventing a Republican loss in the midterms and beyond. Trump has already laid the groundwork by continuing to protest the 2020 election results, priming his supporters to be concerned about so-called “election integrity.” Regardless of whether bills like the SAVE America Act end up getting passed, we must still be vigilant about how our rights can be restricted. Regardless of whether ICE is deployed to polling stations or not, we must remember that the threat was made. And regardless of whether Trump does attempt to nationalize elections, we know the effort to suppress voting is born out of the desire to subvert democracy and cheat the system. ** Patrick Minnerly, [https://dailycampus.com/2026/02/12/patricks-politics-why-voter-suppression-is-all-the-rage-on-the-right/"Why voter suppression is all the rage on the right "], ''The Daily Campus'', 12 February 2026 * Donald Trump has never been one to side with science, especially climate science. He has often spread false claims about climate change being some sort of “hoax” or “scam.” You can imagine, then, how he feels about the Environmental Protection Agency, which is supposed to help counteract the effects of climate change and – as the name suggests – keep the environment healthy. A major pillar of the EPA’s efforts pre-Trump was the 2009 “endangerment finding,” which established the government position that greenhouse gases were detrimental to human health. However, the Trump administration announced it was formally revoking the EPA’s endangerment finding last week, beginning the supposed “single largest deregulatory action in U.S. history.” This revocation goes against established fact in order to service the interests of big business and the MAGA movement’s obsession with climate change denial. It leaves the EPA adrift and powerless, unable to address the ongoing tide of global warming. ** Patrick Minnerly, [https://dailycampus.com/2026/02/19/patricks-politics-without-climate-regulations-the-epa-protects-nothing/"Without climate regulations, the EPA protects nothing "], ''The Daily Campus'', 19 February 2026 * The endangerment finding was built on a 2007 Supreme Court case, ''Massachusetts v. EPA'', which determined that the EPA did have the authority under the 1970 Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gases because of their threat to public health. This decision allowed the EPA to carry out regulatory policies to restrict emissions of these harmful gases. <br>Regulations are particularly important for transportation, which represents the largest share – 28% – of greenhouse gases released by the U.S. each year. The EPA’s own website says as much, which is deeply ironic given the Trump administration’s new policy eliminates all federal regulations on greenhouse gas emissions for vehicles and engines from 2012 onwards. These regulations help prevent companies from simply having their fossil fuel output run rampant. Eliminating the regulations would mean America is now significantly out of step with other industrialized countries, which are busy expanding their own environmental protections and renewable energy sources. Trump’s mission of deregulation represents a major step backwards, and it’s about to cast aside restrictions in an area where the U.S. is already failing to protect the environment.<br>Essentially, the Trump administration’s main argument for revoking the endangerment finding is that American taxpayers will save $1.3 trillion due to deregulation. Since the idea of cost is apparently so important to Trump, according to a federal report from 2023, climate change is costing the U.S. $150 billion per year. That is a conservative estimate that only factors in direct damages, and the number will only grow larger as temperatures and sea levels rise, setting up more frequent and more destructive extreme weather events. ** Patrick Minnerly, [https://dailycampus.com/2026/02/19/patricks-politics-without-climate-regulations-the-epa-protects-nothing/"Without climate regulations, the EPA protects nothing "], ''The Daily Campus'', 19 February 2026 * Yet the Trump administration ignores that cost is a highly suspect way to measure the impacts of climate change in the first place. The damage of global warming is difficult to quantify, but we know its effects will significantly affect human life for the worse. As the Earth gets hotter and more inhospitable, we are barreling towards the point of no return when our effects on the climate cannot be stopped, and that future cannot be quantified in numbers. It can only be quantified in the suffering that will result. People will have to uproot their entire lives to deal with ever-more frequent disasters and the long-term effects of global heating, especially in coastal areas where seas will rise. The country of Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is already trying to upload a digital copy of itself in the face of being swallowed by the rising ocean. The potential loss of an entire nation cannot be quantified, and neither can many of climate change’s adverse effects. ** Patrick Minnerly, [https://dailycampus.com/2026/02/19/patricks-politics-without-climate-regulations-the-epa-protects-nothing/"Without climate regulations, the EPA protects nothing "], ''The Daily Campus'', 19 February 2026 * At the heart of the Trump administration’s decision is catering to the MAGA base. For years, Trump and the rightwing media apparatus have primed Republicans to be very skeptical of climate change, or at least deny it is a pressing issue. According to surveys from Pew Research Center, just 12% of Republicans think dealing with climate change should be a top priority. Deregulation has also long been a crucial part of the Republican agenda – the Reaganite principle of trickle-down economics rests partly on deregulation of businesses. In addition, the current EPA administrator, Lee Zeldin, formerly served as a Republican U.S. House member and was previously most well-known as a Trump sycophant. He was specifically selected as a fully political, rightwing appointee. ** Patrick Minnerly, [https://dailycampus.com/2026/02/19/patricks-politics-without-climate-regulations-the-epa-protects-nothing/"Without climate regulations, the EPA protects nothing "], ''The Daily Campus'', 19 February 2026 * Trump’s history of spreading conspiracy theories and falsehoods about climate change has served to muddy the waters with his base about whether the climate crisis is indeed real. Global heating has been settled science for years, but Republicans have grown more indifferent towards tackling it in recent years. Since Trump first took power after winning the 2016 election, ignoring climate change has become a political cudgel, wielded against the idea of “wokeness.” All of this means gutting the EPA’s authority doesn’t hold much meaning with Republicans, but it should. The climate crisis affects both Democrats and Republicans, independents and radicals. It is a crisis for humanity itself. <br>Humanity, however, is not the Trump administration’s concern. The EPA, instead of protecting the environment and public health, is now beholden to the interests of fossil fuel corporations and purely political considerations. Without regulations, the EPA will work to increase the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, not decrease them. The agency has corrupted its mission, because without the endangerment finding, it is useless. And useless is just how Trump wants it. ** Patrick Minnerly, [https://dailycampus.com/2026/02/19/patricks-politics-without-climate-regulations-the-epa-protects-nothing/"Without climate regulations, the EPA protects nothing "], ''The Daily Campus'', 19 February 2026 *[[President Trump]] has designated the cartels as terrorist organisations and [[Mexico]] has already handed over dozens of cartel figures to them. The Trump factor is very important in what is happening **[https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cpd81d7y901o "Infantino sure of 'spectacular' World Cup in Mexico despite violence"], ''BBC'' (23 February 2026) *The lives of courageous American heroes may be lost, and we may have casualties. That often happens in war. We’re doing this not for now. We’re doing this for the future and it is a noble mission. **[https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/us/news/trump-confirms-american-casualties-as-us-and-israel-launch-aerial-strikes-on-iran-justifies-the-noble-mission/articleshow/128879539.cms?from=mdr Trump confirms American casualties as US and Israel launch aerial strikes on Iran, justifies the ‘noble mission’] ''The Economic Times'' (February 28, 2026) =====State of the Union address===== *Today our border is secure, our spirit is restored, inflation is plummeting, incomes are rising fast, the roaring economy is roaring like never before, our enemies are scared, our military and police are stacked, and America is respected again, perhaps like never before....<br />I say tonight, members of Congress, the state of our Union is strong. Our country is winning again. In fact, we’re winning so much that we really don’t know what to do about it. **State of the Union speech before Congress, [https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/us/politics/state-of-the-union-transcript-trump.html 24 February 2026] * Tonight I’m inviting every legislator to join with my administration in reaffirming a fundamental principle. If you agree with this statement, then stand up and show your support. The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens. Not illegal aliens.<br />Isn’t that a shame? You should be ashamed of yourself, not standing up. You should be ashamed of yourself. **State of the Union speech before Congress, [https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/us/politics/state-of-the-union-transcript-trump.html 24 February 2026]. *They don’t want identification for the greatest privilege of them all: voting in America. Both Republicans and Democrats overwhelmingly agree on the policy that we just enunciated. And Congress should unite and enact this commonsense, country-saving legislation right now. And it should be before anything else happens. And the reason they don’t wanna do it, why would anybody not want voter ID? One reason! Because they wanna cheat. There’s only one reason.<br>They wanna cheat. They have cheated. And their policy is so bad that the only way they can get elected is to cheat. And we’re gonna stop it. We have to stop it. **As quoted in [https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/trump-flat-out-says-democrats-cant-be-legitimately-elected-only-way-they-can-get-elected-is-to-cheat/ Trump Flat-Out Says Democrats Can’t Be Legitimately Elected: ‘Only Way They Can Get Elected Is to Cheat’] ''Mediaite'' (February 24, 2026) *Mrs. Zarutska, tonight I promise you we will ensure justice for your magnificent daughter [[w:Murder of Iryna Zarutska|Iryna]].<br />How do you not stand? How do you not stand? **To members of Congress who did not stand up ==== March 2026 ==== [[File:Tehran - The Fourth Day of War 9 Avash.webp|thumb|Once again, America is going to war for Israel. Once again, many will die for the Zionist state, including American service members. Once again, we will stumble blindly into a military fiasco. Once again, we will do the bidding of a foreign power whose interests are not our interests, but whose lobbyists have bought up our political class, including Donald Trump. Once again, we will violate the U.N. charter by attacking a country that does not pose an imminent threat. ~ [[Chris Hedges]]]] [[File:Naval Ensign of Germany.svg|thumb|This is not our war. We have ⁠not started it. What does [...] Trump expect a handful or two handfuls of European frigates to do in the Strait of Hormuz that the powerful ⁠U.S. Navy cannot do? ~ Boris Pistorius]] {{Main|2026 Iran war}} * '''Once again, America is going to war for Israel. Once again, many will die for the Zionist state, including American service members. Once again, we will stumble blindly into a military fiasco. Once again, we will do the bidding of a foreign power whose interests are not our interests, but whose lobbyists have bought up our political class, including Donald Trump. Once again, we will violate the U.N. charter by attacking a country that does not pose an imminent threat.''' ** [[Chris Hedges]], [https://scheerpost.com/2026/03/01/going-to-war-again-for-israel/ Going to War, Again, for Israel]. ScheerPost. (March 1, 2026) *I got him before he got me. I got him first. **[[Donald Trump]] referring to former Iranian politician and Shia cleric [[Ayatollah Ali Khamenei]]; [https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/03/03/trump-assassination-attempts-iran-attack/ How Trump assassination attempts played into his decision to attack Iran] ''The Washington Post'' (March 3, 2026) *There will be no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER! After that, and the selection of a GREAT & ACCEPTABLE Leader(s), we, and many of our wonderful and very brave allies and partners, will work tirelessly to bring Iran back from the brink of destruction, making it economically bigger, better, and stronger than ever before. **[[Donald Trump]] in a Truth Social post five days into [[w:2026 Iran war|the war against Iran]]; [https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/trump-urges-iranian-kurds-attack-iran-war-widens-2026-03-06/ Trump demands Iran's 'unconditional surrender,' complicating diplomatic paths] ''Reuters'' (March 5, 2026) *The United Kingdom, our once Great Ally, maybe the Greatest of them all, is finally giving serious thought to sending two aircraft carriers to the Middle East. That’s OK, Prime Minister Starmer, we don’t need them any longer — But we will remember. We don’t need people that join Wars after we’ve already won! **[[Donald Trump]] to British Prime Minister [[Keir Starmer]] informing him his help is not needed in [[w:2026 Iran war|the war against Iran]]; [https://www.mediaite.com/politics/trump-tells-uks-starmer-thanks-but-no-thanks-on-last-minute-iran-help-war-is-already-won/ Trump Tells UK’s Starmer Thanks But No Thanks on Last-Minute Iran Help: War Is ‘Already Won!’] ''Mediaite'' (March 7, 2026) *We took a little excursion because we felt we had to do that to get rid of some evil. And I think it's going to be a short-term excursion. **[[Donald Trump]] to Republican lawmakers and donors, referring to [[w:2026 Iran war|the Iran war]]; [https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/03/09/trump-house-gop-retreat-iran-war/89006813007/ Trump calls Iran war a 'little excursion'] ''USA Today'' (March 10, 2026) *We strongly encourage other nations whose economies depend on this strait far more than ours. We get less than 1 percent of our oil from the strait and some countries get much more.<br>Japan gets 95 percent. China gets 90 percent. Many of the Europeans get quite a bit. Korea gets 35 percent. So we want them to come and help us with the strait. **[[Donald Trump]] calling on nations to assist in opening up the [[w:2026 Strait of Hormuz crisis|Strait of Hormuz]] [[w:2026 Iran war|as a result of the US war with Iran]]; [https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2026-03-17/national/defense/Trump-renews-calls-on-Korea-China-Japan-others-to-help-keep-Strait-of-Hormuz-open/2546310 Trump renews calls on Korea, China, Japan, others to help keep Strait of Hormuz open] ''Korea JoongAng Daily'' (March 17, 2026) * '''This is not our war. We have ⁠not started it. What does [...] Trump expect a handful or two handfuls of European frigates to do in the Strait of Hormuz that the powerful ⁠U.S. Navy cannot do?''' ** German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius in response to [[Donald Trump]]'s call for other nations to assist in opening up the [[w:2026 Strait of Hormuz crisis|Strait of Hormuz]] [[w:2026 Iran war|as a result of the US war with Iran]]; [https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2026-03-17/national/defense/Trump-renews-calls-on-Korea-China-Japan-others-to-help-keep-Strait-of-Hormuz-open/2546310 Trump renews calls on Korea, China, Japan, others to help keep Strait of Hormuz open] ''Korea JoongAng Daily'' (March 17, 2026) *I do believe I’ll be the honor of – have the honor of taking Cuba. That would be good. That’s a big honor.... *Taking Cuba? In some form, yeah. I mean, whether I free it, or take it... I think I can do anything I want with it, to tell you the truth. **[[Donald Trump]] responding on a question of his plans for [[Cuba]], quoted in [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-cuba-military-invasion-b2939753.html "Trump says he’ll have the ‘honor of taking Cuba’ and can do ‘anything I want with it’"], ''The Independent'' (17 March 2026) *When it comes to dealing with the Americans, you have to pick and choose who you deal with and at which level. Luckily, some of the administration are easier to deal with than others. [[Marco Rubio|Rubio]] is sensible, like all Secretaries of State. [US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher] [[w:Christopher Landau|Landau]] is also useful and reasonable, as is [[Susie Wiles]], the chief of staff who was brought back to handle Trump in the second term. These people may be [[Make America Great Again|Maga]] but they are playing a game and are reasonable. The rest of them are, let’s say, challenging. **British minister quoted in [https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/trump-obsessing-mortality-heres-why-uk-worried-4302241 "Trump is obsessing over his own mortality. Insiders fear it will damage the UK"], ''iNews'' (19 March 2026) * '''Robert Mueller just died. Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people!''' **[[Donald Trump]] on Truth Social announcing the death of [[Robert Mueller]]; [https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/disgusting-and-despicable-critics-aghast-at-trump-celebrating-robert-muellers-death/ ‘Disgusting and Despicable’ Critics Aghast at Trump Celebrating Robert Mueller’s Death] ''Mediaite'' (March 21, 2026) *If Iran doesn't FULLY OPEN, WITHOUT THREAT, the Strait of Hormuz, within 48 HOURS from this exact point in time, the United States of America will hit and obliterate their various POWER PLANTS, STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST! **[[Donald Trump]] in a Truth Social post, threatening to escalate [[w:2026 Iran war|the war with Iran]]; [https://www.axios.com/2026/03/22/trump-iran-48-hour-ultimatum-strait-of-hormuz Trump to Iran: Open Hormuz in 48 hours or U.S. bombs power plants] ''Axios'' (March 22, 2026) *Immediately after the targeting of power plants and infrastructure in our country, vital infrastructure and energy and oil facilities across the region will be considered legitimate targets and will be destroyed irreversibly, and oil prices will rise for a long time. **Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf responding to [[Donald Trump]]'s threat with a threat of his own; [https://www.axios.com/2026/03/22/trump-iran-48-hour-ultimatum-strait-of-hormuz Trump to Iran: Open Hormuz in 48 hours or U.S. bombs power plants] ''Axios'' (March 22, 2026) *BASED ON THE TENOR AND TONE OF THESE IN DEPTH, DETAILED, AND CONSTRUCTIVE CONVERSATIONS, WITCH WILL CONTINUE THROUGHOUT THE WEEK, I HAVE INSTRUCTED THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR TO POSTPONE ANY AND ALL MILITARY STRIKES AGAINST IRANIAN POWER PLANTS AND ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE FOR A FIVE DAY PERIOD, SUBJECT TO THE SUCCESS OF THE ONGOING MEETINGS AND DISCUSSIONS. **[[Donald Trump]] in a Truth Social post backing off military threats despite Iran's foreign ministry saying there had been no talks between Iran and the U.S.; [https://www.axios.com/2026/03/23/trump-suspends-iran-strikes-hormuz-negotiations Trump says he's pausing Iran energy strikes for 5 days amid talks] ''Axios'' (March 23, 2026) * President Trump late Sunday said there would be no deal to end the partial government shutdown until Democrats join with Republicans to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act.<br>“I don’t think we should make any deal with the Crazy, Country Destroying, Radical Left Democrats unless, and until, they Vote with Republicans to pass ‘THE SAVE AMERICA ACT,’” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. “It is far more important than anything else we are doing in the Senate, and that includes giving these same terrible people, the Dems (who are to blame for this mess!), a Five Billion Dollar cut in ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] funding, a deal which, even when disguised as something else, is unacceptable to me and the American people – UNLESS it includes their approval of Voter I.D., (with picture!), Citizenship to Vote, No Mail-In Voting (with exceptions), All Paper Ballots, No Men In Women’s Sports, and No Transgender MUTILIZATION of our precious children,” he added.<br>Trump has pressed for passage of the legislation, which would require proof of citizenship to vote and largely do away with mail-in ballots. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) has repeatedly said there aren’t enough votes to get the bill over the line any time soon. ** Ashleigh Fields, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-no-shutdown-deal-until-democrats-support-save-america-act/ar-AA1ZdPmh?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=69c15fde70bd459b9153427f1ae13714&ei=17/"Trump: No shutdown deal until Democrats support SAVE America Act"], ''The Hill'', 23 March 2026 *So, we estimated it would take approximately four to six weeks to achieve our mission [in Iran]. 26 days in, we're extremely -- really a lot ahead of schedule. The Iranian regime is now admitting to itself that they have been decisively defeated.<br>They're saying to people, this is a disaster. They know it, that's why they're talking to us. They're only -- they wouldn't talk otherwise, but they're talking to us because they've got a disaster on their hands. They're defeated. They can't make a comeback. We're free to roam over their cities and towns and destroy all of their crazy nuclear weapons and missiles and drones that they're building, and we're doing that.<br>They now have a chance to make a deal, but that's up to them and they'll tell you, 'We're not negotiating. We will not negotiate.' Of course they're negotiating, they've been obliterated. Who wouldn't negotiate? They are begging to make a deal. We'll see if we can make the right deal. And if they make the right deal, then the Strait will open up, [[w:2026 Strait of Hormuz crisis|Hormuz Strait]] will open up. **[[Donald Trump]] commenting on [[w:2026 Iran war|the US war with Iran]] at a White House cabinet meeting; [https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-remarks-cabinet-meeting-march-26-2026/ Remarks: Donald Trump Holds a Cabinet Meeting at the White House - March 26, 2026] ''Roll Call'' (March 26, 2026) *President Trump does not bluff. He is prepared to unleash hell.<br>There does not need to be anymore death and destruction. But if Iran fails to accept the reality of the current moment, if they fail to understand that they have been defeated militarily and will continue to be, President Trump will ensure they are hit harder than they have ever been hit before.<br>Iran should not miscalculate again. Their last miscalculation cost them their senior leadership, their navy, their air force and their air defence system.<br>Any violence beyond this point will be because the Iranian regime refused to understand they have already been defeated and refuse to come to a deal. **Statement from the White House; [https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2188080/trump-vows-hit-iran-harder Trump vows to hit Iran 'harder than ever before' and 'unleash hell' in horror WW3 warning] ''Express'' (March 29, 2026) *The United States of America is in serious discussions with A NEW, AND MORE REASONABLE, REGIME to end our Military Operations in Iran. Great progress has been made but, if for any reason a deal is not shortly reached, which it probably will be, and if the [[w:2026 Strait of Hormuz crisis|Hormuz Strait]] is not immediately “Open for Business,” we will conclude our lovely “stay” in Iran by blowing up and completely obliterating all of their Electric Generating Plants, Oil Wells and Kharg Island (and possibly all desalinization plants!), which we have purposefully not yet “touched.” This will be in retribution for our many soldiers, and others, that Iran has butchered and killed over the old Regime’s 47 year “Reign of Terror.” Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP **[[Donald Trump]]’s Truth Social post; [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15691265/Trump-threatens-strike-Irans-water-supply-Tehran-tears-NUKE-treaty.html Trump threatens Iran's water supply in 'war crime' ultimatum as defiant Tehran tears up nuclear treaty] ''Daily Mail'' (March 30, 2026) * A lot of people will say it's a war crime because mostly these power plants are probably there for the civilian population. You cannot destroy civilian assets in an effort to put harm on the population. **Retired US Army General [[Wesley Clark]] in a NewsNation interview, referring to [[Donald Trump]]'s threat to destroy Iranian infrastructure in [[w:2026 Iran war|the war with Iran]]; [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15691265/Trump-threatens-strike-Irans-water-supply-Tehran-tears-NUKE-treaty.html Trump threatens Iran's water supply in 'war crime' ultimatum as defiant Tehran tears up nuclear treaty] ''Daily Mail'' (March 30, 2026) *All I have to do is leave Iran, and we'll be doing that very soon. And they'll become tumbling down. **[[Donald Trump]] responding to a reporter's question about his plan to bring down gas prices that have soared amid [[w:2026 Iran war|the U.S.-Israeli war against the Islamic Republic]]; [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-says-us-will-be-leaving-iran-very-soon/ar-AA1ZRvrp?gemSnapshotKey=GM4CC59522-snapshot-5&uxmode=ruby Trump says US will be leaving Iran 'very soon'] ''Yonhap News'' (March 31, 2026) ==== April 2026 ==== *Iran has been essentially decimated - the hard part is done, so it should be easy, and in any event, when this conflict is over, [[w:2026 Strait of Hormuz crisis|the strait]] will open up naturally; it will just open up naturally.<br>They're gonna want to be able to sell oil because that's all they have to try and rebuild. It will resume the flowing, and the gas prices will rapidly come back down. Stock prices will rapidly go back up. **[[Donald Trump]] in speech to the nation regarding [[w:2026 Iran war|the Iran War]]; [https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/usa-news/when-this-conflict-is-over-strait-will-open-up-naturally-trump-strikes-optimistic-note-for-future-of-oil-as-prices-continue-to-rise/ "When this conflict is over, strait will open up naturally": Trump strikes optimistic note for future of oil as prices continue to rise] ''The Tribune - India'' (April 2, 2026) *Jesus taught so many lessons through his death, burial and resurrection. He showed us great leadership, great transformation requires great sacrifice.<br>And Mr President, no one has paid the price like you have paid the price. It almost cost you your life.<br>You were betrayed and arrested and falsely accused. It’s a familiar pattern that our lord and savior showed us.<br>But it didn’t end there for him, and it didn’t end there for you.<br>God always had a plan: On the third day, he rose, he defeated evil, he conquered death, hell and the grave. And because he rose, we all know that we can rise. And sir, because of his resurrection, you rose up.<br>Because he was victorious, you are victorious. And I believe that the Lord said to tell you this: because of his victory, you will be victorious in all you put your hands to. **[[w:Donald Trump|Donald Trump]]’s personal spiritual adviser, televangelist [[w:Paula White-Cain|Paula White-Cain]] during an Easter lunch event at the White House; [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/paula-white-cain-spiritual-advisor-trump-jesus-christ-b2950689.html Trump’s spiritual advisor sparks backlash for comparing president’s life to Jesus Christ] ''Independent'' (April 2, 2026) *Remember when I gave Iran ten days to MAKE A DEAL or OPEN UP [[w:2026 Strait of Hormuz crisis|THE HORMUZ STRAIT]]. Time is running out - 48 hours before all Hell will reign down on them. Glory be to GOD! President DONALD J. TRUMP **[[w:Donald Trump|Donald Trump]] in a Truth Social post; [https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/breaking-trump-holy-war-iran-36969424 Donald Trump invokes holy war as he gives final Easter Monday ultimatum to Iran] ''Mirror'' (April 4, 2026) *Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! [[w:2026 Strait of Hormuz crisis|Open the F**kin' Strait]], you crazy b*stards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP **[[w:Donald Trump|Donald Trump]] in a Truth Social post; [https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/donald-trump-iran-power-plants-36971443 Donald Trump vows to bomb Iran's power plants in foul-mouthed rant – 'Open the Strait'] ''Mirror'' (April 5, 2026) *Erratic. Can’t finish sentences. Often confused. Illogical train of thought. Word finding difficulties. Developing and worsening gradually over time. The President is exhibiting all the signs of dementia. **[[w:Vin Gupta (pulmonologist)|Dr. Vin Gupta]]'s post on X following [[w:Donald Trump|Donald Trump]]'s April 5th Truth Social post; [https://www.thedailybeast.com/top-doctor-sounds-alarm-on-trump-79-over-dementia-signs/ Top Doctor Sounds Alarm on Trump, 79, Over ‘Dementia Signs’] ''The Daily Beast'' (April 6, 2026) ==See also== * [[First presidency of Donald Trump]] * [[President of the United States]] * [[J.D. Vance]] * [[Immigration to the United States]] ==External links== {{Wikipedia}} {{Commons category}} [[Category:Donald Trump]] [[Category:Politics of the United States]] [[Category:Presidency of Donald Trump]] 5dh1nmty53tibi1vwtzp1dvu7kivvxb 0 307106 3961276 3952193 2026-07-05T20:10:40Z Kitarosan007 3155098 3961276 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Inejiro Asanuma Salvaged (cropped).jpg|thumb|I went to prison only twice: once when I was thrown into Ichigaya Prison during the Great Earthquake, and once during the Ashio Incident.On the other hand, the number of times I was thrown into the police detention cell is too many to count. If I refused to obey an order to stop a speech meeting, I would be taken away. If I participated in a demonstration during a labor dispute, I would be detained. These days, when I travel to the countryside, I sometimes meet former police officers who used to detain me. They say things like, 'I used to arrest you all the time back in the day, but nowadays I think the Socialist Party is the best. I'm a Socialist Party fan now.']] [[wikipedia:Inejirō_Asanuma|'''Inejirō''' '''Asanuma''']] ([[December 27|27 December]] [[1898]] – [[October 12|12 October]] [[1960]]) was a [[Japan|Japanese]] politician and chairman of the Japan Socialist Party. He was assassinated on live television during a political debate on 12 October 1960, by 17-year-old ultranationalist Otoya Yamaguchi. == Quotes == === 1939 === * The whole world cannot be solved by ideology or theory. It feels as though everything moves with reality at the center. ** ''22 September 1939, [https://doshisha.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/28318/files/028004190004.pdf Inter-Parliamentary Union Delegation Travel Diary to the U.S. and Europe — 30 June to 2 October 1939] — Transcription and Commentary'', trans. from Japanese. In ''Dōshisha Hōgaku'' (Doshisha Law Review), Vol. 73 No. 1 (2021) * Some think of Europe’s war as a heaven-sent blessing for Japan, and it is indeed a blessing, but we must prepare now for what comes next. Should we not cultivate our own autonomous and independent strength? Should not ethnic totalitarianism evolve into supra-ethnic regionalism? ** ''26 September 1939, Inter-Parliamentary Union Delegation Travel Diary to the U.S. and Europe — 30 June to 2 October 1939 — Transcription and Commentary'', trans. from Japanese. In ''Dōshisha Hōgaku'' (Doshisha Law Review), Vol. 73 No. 1 (2021) * Finished reading Ōkawa Shūmei’s ''History of Japan’s 2,600 Years''. ... Especially where he passionately advocates renewal while burning with patriotic fervor—it feels as though it is permeating my own body. ** ''27 September 1939, Inter-Parliamentary Union Delegation Travel Diary to the U.S. and Europe — 30 June to 2 October 1939 — Transcription and Commentary'', trans. from Japanese. In ''Dōshisha Hōgaku'' (Doshisha Law Review), Vol. 73 No. 1 (2021) * Whether it is called the East Asian League theory, the New Order in East Asia, or the East Asian Cooperative Body—is it not a new ''Sonnō Jōi'' [Revere the Emperor, Expel the Barbarians] theory? It is by no means so-called imperialism. It is the establishment of a new Eastern spirit and a new order upon the foundation of Nationalism and Nationalism. ** ''30 September 1939, Inter-Parliamentary Union Delegation Travel Diary to the U.S. and Europe — 30 June to 2 October 1939 — Transcription and Commentary'', trans. from Japanese. In ''Dōshisha Hōgaku'' (Doshisha Law Review), Vol. 73 No. 1 (2021) * When we consider the new order in the East amid all the world’s circumstances, is this not precisely the time for a new <nowiki>''</nowiki>Sonnō Jōi<nowiki>''</nowiki> theory to rise? ... Chiang Kai-shek has not awakened to this Eastern spirit... Wang Jingwei has awakened to it and is cooperating with our country with an anti-communist spirit in order to revive the spirit of the Chinese revolution. ** ''30 September 1939, Inter-Parliamentary Union Delegation Travel Diary to the U.S. and Europe — 30 June to 2 October 1939 — Transcription and Commentary'', trans. from Japanese. In ''Dōshisha Hōgaku'' (Doshisha Law Review), Vol. 73 No. 1 (2021) * The thing I feel most acutely is that Japanese people need to know much better the political conditions and circumstances of foreign countries. Japan’s politics can no longer be discussed apart from the trends of world politics, yet I think we know far too little. ... Japan possesses things superior to other countries in comparison. We must make great efforts to make the most of these superior qualities. ** ''30 September 1939, Inter-Parliamentary Union Delegation Travel Diary to the U.S. and Europe — 30 June to 2 October 1939 — Transcription and Commentary'', trans. from Japanese. In ''Dōshisha Hōgaku'' (Doshisha Law Review), Vol. 73 No. 1 (2021) === 1945 === * Now, let us perform remote worship toward the Imperial Palace. ** [https://ir.kagoshima-u.ac.jp/record/15971/files/06_miyashita_08_02_2022.pdf At the founding convention of the Japan Socialist Party (2 November 1945)], serving as Organization Minister. Asanuma opened the proceedings with this call, urging the audience to stand and bow toward the Imperial Palace. More than half of the participants joined him, though some jeered in protest. === 1947 === * Even if the electoral districts are small and the number of winners are limited, if a party gathers a large number of votes nationwide, it should naturally be able to participate in politics through that support. Therefore, a system that respects political parties must emerge. That is why adopting a policy of carving up the electoral districts into tiny pieces is clearly an act of repression against smaller parties. And if it is repression, '''the end result will be the obstruction of Japanese democracy.''' This is a point that we simply cannot accept. ** [https://teikokugikai-i.ndl.go.jp/#/detail?minId=009213242X03119470330&spkNum=65&current=3 Speech in the 92nd Imperial Diet, 30 March 1947] === 1950 === * I entered Waseda in September of Taishō 6 (or 7), the year of the school disturbances when professors like Nagai Ryūtarō and Ōyama Ikuo resigned. I was drawn to Waseda because it was founded by Marquis Ōkuma Shigenobu as a free academy aiming for the '''independence of learning and freedom of research''' in opposition to the bureaucratic military clique of the time. ** [https://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/001487/files/51166_41910.html Maa-Maa Koji's Discourse: The Path I Have Walked (1950)] * From the standpoint of students, we began researching '''democracy and socialism''', but influenced by external socialist and labor movements, two currents emerged among the students: those pursuing it '''ideologically''' and those focusing on '''practical action'''. ** Maa-Maa Koji's Discourse: The Path I Have Walked (1950) * Five or six thousand students gathered in front of the statue of Marquis Ōkuma. [...] It ended in a great student brawl, with people like Tokano Takeshi falling from the top of the Ōkuma statue and being injured. Since the day happened to be a Friday, we students called it ''''Bloody Friday''''<nowiki/> and greatly raised our spirits. ** Maa-Maa Koji's Discourse: The Path I Have Walked (1950) (recounting the violent clash over the military research group at Waseda) *After that, there was ongoing confrontation between the Cultural Alliance and the vertically and horizontally aligned club [Yoko-Ou Club], a group of right-leaning students who were the main perpetrators of the violence. '''We were in a state where it was dangerous to walk around in ordinary student attire''' '''because we would be beaten if caught.''' We tried our best to avoid clashes, but about four or five days or a week after the brawl, while walking behind the school, I finally ran into members of the Yoko-Ou Club. 'Come with us for a moment,' they said, and I was taken to their club office. A large group of judo club members surrounded me and said, 'You were incited by socialists to hold that meeting, weren't you? That's outrageous—'''write an apology letter.'''<nowiki/>' '''I replied, 'I wasn't incited by any socialists. As a Waseda student, I acted from a pure standpoint, driven by student passion to protect the founding spirit of Waseda—which Marquis Ōkuma Shigenobu established as a free academy in opposition to the bureaucratic military clique—for the independence of learning and freedom of research. So I cannot write one.'''' '''After that, they beat and kicked me, and I fell into a near-death state.''' But in the end, without writing the apology letter, I endured until morning and finally made it to a friend's house '''with a face covered in lumps, limping.''' **Maa-Maa Koji's Discourse: The Path I Have Walked (1950) (recounting being ambushed and severely beaten by right-wing students a few days after the Bloody Friday rally against the Waseda Military Research Group) *I went to prison only twice: once when I was thrown into Ichigaya Prison during the Great Earthquake, and once during the Ashio Incident.On the other hand, the number of times I was thrown into the police detention cell is too many to count. If I refused to obey an order to stop a speech meeting, I would be taken away. If I participated in a demonstration during a labor dispute, I would be detained. These days, when I travel to the countryside, I sometimes meet former police officers who used to detain me. They say things like, 'I used to arrest you all the time back in the day, but nowadays I think the Socialist Party is the best. I'm a Socialist Party fan now.' **Maa-Maa Koji's Discourse: The Path I Have Walked (1950) * '''America also has people who have come to terms with the war and those who have not. The same can be said of Japan. Those who have come to terms with the war welcomed us very warmly and have come to understand Japan very well.''' ** Maa-Maa Koji's Discourse: The Path I Have Walked (1950) (reflections after a visit to the United States as part of a parliamentary delegation) * I have lived for twenty years in a small apartment in Fukagawa consisting of three rooms: a six-mat room, a four-and-a-half-mat room, and a three-mat room. It is cramped, and I receive many visitors, so I cannot rest properly. Sometimes I think about moving, but after living in one place for so long, I cannot bring myself to decide to leave. The neighbors tell me not to go, and I myself, even though things have improved a little, do not feel like leaving this apartment. Moreover, I serve as the head of the local cooperative here. '''The cooperative runs the bathhouse, fish shop, and vegetable shop, so I am, so to speak, the fishmonger boss, the greengrocer boss, and the bathhouse boss'''. This makes me even closer to everyone in the neighborhood, and because of these human ties, I find it hard to move. ** Maa-Maa Koji's Discourse: The Path I Have Walked (1950) [[File:Asanuma-Inejiro 1948.jpg|thumb|People often call me 'Maa-Maa Koji'''<nowiki/>'<nowiki/>''' or say I am indecisive, timid, passive, etc. But in a mass organization, once a policy is decided at a congress, if everyone abides by it, there will be neither conflict nor split.]] * People often call me ''''Maa-Maa Koji''''<nowiki/> or say I am indecisive, timid, passive, etc. But in a mass organization, once a policy is decided at a congress, if everyone abides by it, there will be '''neither conflict nor split.''' ** Maa-Maa Koji's Discourse: The Path I Have Walked (1950) * No matter how many different arguments may arise, I think it is fine to bring things together where they need to be brought together. In a mass organization like the Socialist Party, there should be someone who can be called '''a unifier.''' ** Maa-Maa Koji's Discourse: The Path I Have Walked (1950) * As I said during the recent party self-criticism, everyone must adopt the attitude of being a pure Socialist Party member — that is, ''''I am a Socialist Party member. Neither right nor left, just a Socialist Party member.''''<nowiki/> ** Maa-Maa Koji's Discourse: The Path I Have Walked (1950) * The Socialist Party is a mass party, so when discussing things, it is natural that there will sometimes be left-leaning arguments and right-leaning arguments. What we must guard against is fixing ''''left''''<nowiki/> and ''''right''''<nowiki/> and turning them into '''factions'''. ** Maa-Maa Koji's Discourse: The Path I Have Walked (1950) === 1953 === * Since graduating from Waseda, for over thirty years I have devoted myself to social movements, sacrificing myself to serve the masses, and have done what little I can, believing it to be my historical mission to fight for the realization of socialism [..] This inevitably means sacrificing family life. [...] From a human perspective, social activism can sometimes seem cruel. I sometimes think: '''what is social activism without the liberation and establishment of family life?''' ** [https://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/001487/files/60188_76403.html ''A Day for Taking Rest'', 15 February 1953] * The Yoshida Cabinet has driven post-independence Japanese politics into confusion and wandering. The people, having won independence six years after the end of the war, have regained the national awareness that was lost under occupation and are burning with enthusiasm to rebuild as a democratic nation. Yet the Yoshida Cabinet fails entirely to respond to this passion of the people. Instead, it blindly follows America in foreign policy while racing full speed ahead on a reactionary and reverse course in domestic policy. '''This is raising the specter of fascist reactionary politics''' that drives progressive citizens to despair, while on the other hand giving the Communist Party room to run wild, '''opening the path to totalitarianism of both the left and right, and placing the homeland and democracy in crisis.''' ** [https://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/001487/files/51165_41909.html Speech supporting the no-confidence motion against the Yoshida Cabinet, 14 March 1953] * '''We must recognize that if a nation’s security is guaranteed by another country’s military for a long period, independence will turn into subordination.''' ** Speech supporting the no-confidence motion against the Yoshida Cabinet, 14 March 1953 * The fact that Japanese courts have no jurisdiction over those residing in Japan [U.S. forces and dependents] constitutes a form of extraterritoriality, and '''cannot be called complete independence.''' ** Speech supporting the no-confidence motion against the Yoshida Cabinet, 14 March 1953 * '''Moreover, when we look at the territorial issue: while it may be unavoidable that territories acquired by Japan during its period of expansion are returned to their respective countries, we have lost sovereignty over South Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands.''' The Habomai and Shikotan Islands, which administratively belong to Hokkaido, '''are occupied by the Soviet Union.''' Amami Ōshima, the Okinawa islands, the Ogasawara Islands, Iwo Jima, and others '''remain under continued special military occupation,''' with '''over a million compatriots living outside Japanese administration.''' '''This must truly be called a national tragedy.''' Moreover, these compatriots fervently desire '''an early return to Japan.''' ** Speech supporting the no-confidence motion against the Yoshida Cabinet, 14 March 1953 * Japan must develop an independent foreign policy based on the great principle of never intervening in war, aiming to become a bridge for peace connecting free Asia with the West. ** Speech supporting the no-confidence motion against the Yoshida Cabinet, 14 March 1953 * '''There can be no national independence without economic self-reliance.''' ** Speech supporting the no-confidence motion against the Yoshida Cabinet, 14 March 1953 * The Yoshida Cabinet’s agricultural policy suppresses rice prices through controls while selling fertilizer freely—selling expensive fertilizer to Japanese farmers, buying rice cheaply from them, and importing expensive rice while selling cheap fertilizer abroad. One wonders for whose sake this agricultural policy exists. ** Speech supporting the no-confidence motion against the Yoshida Cabinet, 14 March 1953 * A Prime Minister who arbitrarily interprets the Constitution and ignores its provisions '''is behaving like a despot.''' ** Speech supporting the no-confidence motion against the Yoshida Cabinet, 14 March 1953 === 1956 === [[File:浅沼稲次郎（早大時代）.jpg|thumb|On the one hand, while engaging in such student activism, I also rowed boats, wrestled sumo, and was active as a member of athletic clubs. In the inter-department boat races, I competed as a representative of the Political Economy Department and won. Still in my rowing outfit right after the boat race, I met Marquis Ōkuma. He patted my body and said, 'What a fine physique you have.' That impression remains with me even now.]] * '''When people ask about my ancestors, I reply, ‘Most likely descendants of exiles.’''' [...] Among these exiled notables, the greatest hero is undoubtedly '''Minamoto no Tametomo'''. My friend, the local historian Asanuma Eitarō, once told me, ‘'''The reason you are fighting so hard in the Diet is because you carry the blood of Tametomo.'''’ Being compared to the modern Tametomo felt a bit ticklish. ** [https://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/001487/files/51167_41894.html My Resume (私の履歴書), Nihon Keizai Shimbun, 1956 (book form: 1957).] * The most memorable episode from my time on Miyake-jima was, I think, when I was in the fifth or sixth grade of elementary school, crossing a toi (wooden water trough) suspended over a cliff and being scolded by my mother. [...] Terrified, I ran outside, and later when I returned home, I hid inside a straw sack. ** My Resume (私の履歴書), Nihon Keizai Shimbun, 1956 (book form: 1957). * '''In Taishō 5 [1916], after graduating from the Prefectural Third Middle School, I told my father, ‘I want to enter Waseda University and become a politician,’''' but he scolded me severely. [...] My desire to attend Waseda only grew stronger, and in September of the same year I took the entrance examination for the second semester and entered Waseda University. ** My Resume (私の履歴書), Nihon Keizai Shimbun, 1956 (book form: 1957). * We named this day ‘Bloody Friday.’ [...] Even after the incident, I was seized by members of the Yoko-Ou Club, taken to their lodging, and held captive all night where I was beaten, kicked, and punched until I was nearly unconscious from the lynching. ** My Resume (私の履歴書), Nihon Keizai Shimbun, 1956 (book form: 1957). * '''On the one hand, while engaging in such student activism, I also rowed boats, wrestled sumo, and was active as a member of athletic clubs.''' In the inter-department boat races, I competed as a representative of the Political Economy Department and won. Still in my rowing outfit right after the boat race, '''I met Marquis Ōkuma. He patted my body and said, 'What a fine physique you have.'''' That impression remains with me even now. ** My Resume (私の履歴書), Nihon Keizai Shimbun, 1956 (book form: 1957). * I was cornered to the limit, which instead heightened my rebellious spirit. When a guard passed by on patrol, I requested, 'I'm bored, so please let me read a book.' The guard curtly refused, saying 'I'm busy,' but I persistently demanded it anyway. That seems to have been a mistake. Around 9 p.m., I was dragged to the guards' station and told, 'Say what you said earlier again.' When I replied, 'I just said to lend me a book,' he said, 'You were being cheeky with that mouth,' and jammed two fingers into my mouth, yanked me up, threw me to the floor, and they all beat, kicked, and pummeled me. On top of that, when I was returned to my cell, I was handcuffed behind my back with leather handcuffs. The leather handcuffs lasted about a week, and it was so painful I could barely sleep or eat. However, I was told this was still on the lighter side, which shows how brutal it was under the earthquake emergency. After the leather handcuffs were removed, I was ordered to polish the handcuffs. There is no greater irony than being made to polish the handcuffs that would be put on one's own hands. About a month later I was released, but it was not family or friends who greeted me, it was the special higher police from Waseda Police Station. Having no choice, I went to Waseda Police Station, where I was told, 'Go back to the countryside and behave yourself, or you’ll be detained.' Thus, I dejectedly returned to my hometown on Miyake-jima. Miyake-jima was once an island where exiles were sent, it was truly a 'Taishō-era exile to the islands.' ** My Resume (私の履歴書), Nihon Keizai Shimbun, 1956 (book form: 1957). * This happened just three hours after the party was founded. [...] There is the old saying of a ‘three-day shogun,’ but the Farmer-Labor Party was a three-hour shogun, and accordingly my first term as secretary-general lasted only three hours. ** My Resume (私の履歴書), Nihon Keizai Shimbun, 1956 (book form: 1957). * '''If I gave a speech it was ‘Warning, Stop, Detention.’ If I was at the front of a demonstration it was ‘Detention.’''' Among the social activists of that time, '''it seems I held the top record for number of detentions.''' ** My Resume (私の履歴書), Nihon Keizai Shimbun, 1956 (book form: 1957). * '''However, my voice was not always this rattling voice.''' From my student days, I trained it by shouting against the waves on the banks of the Edo River or the shores of Miyake Island, doing cold training in the fields at midnight in winter, and studying Noh chanting in the Kanze school. [...] Thanks to this training, '''even now I can speak for two or three hours without drinking water.''' * Truly, '''speech was my only weapon of struggle''' throughout more than thirty years of mass movements. ** My Resume (私の履歴書), Nihon Keizai Shimbun, 1956 (book form: 1957). * '''I heard the Imperial Rescript on the Termination of the War in a remaining apartment room in Fukagawa. I can never forget the feeling I had at that moment.''' [...] I felt that I must offer this extra life granted to me for the sake of Japan’s future. ** My Resume (私の履歴書), Nihon Keizai Shimbun, 1956 (book form: 1957). * '''I am called the ‘Maa-Maa Koji.’''' [...] In fact, at meetings of the Central Executive Committee and so on, I do not take votes. [...] I am not good at sitting solemnly as the weight of the party. [...] For me, who is not a theoretician, '''action is my only weapon''', and I believe it is the way to serve the party. ** My Resume (私の履歴書), Nihon Keizai Shimbun, 1956 (book form: 1957). === 1959 === [[File:Inejirō Asanuma and Mao Zedong 1957.jpg|thumb|Looking at the current world situation, the global situation has changed since our delegation visited China two years ago in April 1957. Chairman Mao Zedong has expressed this with the apt phrase, 'the East Wind is prevailing over the West Wind,' and today this phrase has become known not only in China but around the world. In the world today, the growing strength of forces seeking peace and democracy — particularly the decisive upsurge of anti-colonial and anti-imperialist movements in Asia and Africa — clearly shows the overall trend. The colonial systems of the imperialist powers are already collapsing.]] *You are the greatest Marxist of our era. May I ask, what is communism? **[https://www.cntv.cn/lm/754/-1/49155.html To Mao Zedong during their meeting in Zhongnanhai, Beijing, March 1959] *Looking at the current world situation, the global situation has changed since our delegation visited China two years ago in April 1957. '''Chairman Mao Zedong has expressed this with the apt phrase, 'the East Wind is prevailing over the West Wind,' and today this phrase has become known not only in China but around the world.''' In the world today, the growing strength of forces seeking peace and democracy — particularly the decisive upsurge of anti-colonial and anti-imperialist movements in Asia and Africa — clearly shows the overall trend. The colonial systems of the imperialist powers are already collapsing. ** [https://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/001487/files/51165_41909.html Speech at the Political Consultative Conference Hall, Beijing, 12 March 1959] * '''The stationing of American military bases in Japan and Okinawa, which are gradually being fortified with nuclear weapons of all sizes, poses a serious threat.''' The peoples of Japan and China share the important common task of '''achieving a nuclear-free Asia and the withdrawal of foreign military bases.''' ** Speech at the Political Consultative Conference Hall, Beijing, 12 March 1959 * '''Taiwan is part of China and Okinawa is part of Japan.''' Nevertheless, the fact that both are separated from their respective mainlands is due to '''American imperialism'''. We must regard American imperialism as our common enemy and fight against it. ** Speech at the Political Consultative Conference Hall, Beijing, 12 March 1959 * '''We, the Japan Socialist Party, earnestly hope for the normalization of diplomatic relations with China at the earliest possible date.''' When we consider where the failures of Japanese diplomacy have always lain, they have consistently come from '''tying itself to distant countries while turning its back on its neighbors.''' In the Meiji era, Japan concluded the Anglo-Japanese Alliance with distant Britain and played the role of a '''watchdog in Asia.''' During the Second World War, it again formed a military alliance with distant Germany and Italy, turned its back on China and the countries of Southeast Asia, attempted military invasion, and pursued imperialist expansion — this, I believe, must be called a great failure. '''Now again, by tying itself to America,''' it is attempting to play a mediating role in America’s imperialist expansion into Southeast Asia. We strongly warn the government of this and demand a change of course. '''Our Socialist Party opposes such a diplomatic policy.''' In other words, we believe Japan should shift from the '''‘distant alliance, nearby attack’ policy''' to a policy of '''good-neighbor friendship.''' ** Speech at the Political Consultative Conference Hall, Beijing, 12 March 1959 * '''There can be no national independence without economic independence.''' Japan must break free from dependence on the United States. ** Speech at the Political Consultative Conference Hall, Beijing, 12 March 1959 * I believe that the true, natural state of humanity is not one of humans fighting each other, classes fighting each other, or nations shedding blood against each other. '''Humanity’s true form lies in solving these problems as quickly as possible and directing all our strength toward struggling against nature itself.''' ** Speech at the Political Consultative Conference Hall, Beijing, 12 March 1959 * '''Long live the advancing socialism of China! Long live the restoration of diplomatic relations between China and Japan! Long live peace in Asia and the world!''' ** Closing cheers, Beijing, 12 March 1959 *There is no need to retract. '''This is not an attack on the American people'''; fighting imperialist policy is natural for the Socialist Party. **Response to U.S. Ambassador Douglas MacArthur II, who demanded he retract the statement "U.S. imperialism is the common enemy of the Japanese and Chinese peoples." (May 1960, after the forced passage of the revised U.S.-Japan Security Treaty) === 1960 === [[File:Assassination of Inejiro Asanuma 01.jpg|thumb|During elections, they keep policies that would be unpopular with the public a secret, and then once they have won a majority in the election, they will... [push through anything using the power of the majority. What is the point of elections or a Diet if this is allowed? This is the majority party digging its own grave for parliamentary democracy.]]] * Nichinichi kore kōnichi (日日是好日 / Every day is a good day) ** Calligraphy performed during a public lecture at Kinryū-ji Temple, Azumino, Nagano Prefecture, 4 September 1960, a stone monument reproducing his calligraphy was later erected at the temple by attendees as a memorial * '''Gentlemen, I believe the essence of politics is to straighten what is crooked in the nation and society, to correct what is unjust, and to restore what is unnatural to its natural state. However, in our country today, there are many crooked things, unjust things, and unnatural things.''' ** [https://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/001487/files/51165_41909.html Final speech at Hibiya Public Hall, 12 October 1960] * The stationing of foreign troops in Japan for twenty-five long years is '''an unnatural situation unprecedented since the founding of the country.''' ** Final speech at Hibiya Public Hall, 12 October 1960 * American military bases in Japan are like American enclaves. Japanese courts have no jurisdiction inside them. '''This is nothing less than extraterritoriality.''' ** Final speech at Hibiya Public Hall, 12 October 1960 * Moreover, to expand these bases, Japanese are forced to shed blood against Japanese. For example, Tachikawa Air Base is currently an American base. To expand this American base, they try to seize the land of farmers in Sunagawa. The Sunagawa farmers resist. Then the Procurement Agency officials call in the police to suppress them. Behind the farmers stand the people who seek complete independence for Japan and support them. In this way, they glare at each other and shed blood. It is no exaggeration to say that this ‘independence’ is '''a contradictory independence in which Japanese blood must be spilled in order to expand American enclaves.''' ** Final speech at Hibiya Public Hall, 12 October 1960 * '''During elections, they keep policies that would be unpopular with the public a secret, and then once they have won a majority in the election, they will...''' [push through anything using the power of the majority. What is the point of elections or a Diet if this is allowed? This is the majority party digging its own grave for parliamentary democracy.] ** Last words before being assassinated on stage (and prepared continuation), 12 October 1960 * Finally, I must say that '''today’s Japanese politics is money politics — it is plutocracy.''' This injustice must be corrected. In our country’s politics, enormous sums of money are spent on elections. Once elected, politicians scramble for vested interests to recover that money. Sometimes this even leads to the exercise of command authority. The person who collects the most money becomes party president, and the party president becomes Prime Minister. That is the mechanism we have today. ** Prepared continuation of the final speech (undelivered portion), Hibiya Public Hall, 12 October 1960 * As a result of politics moving by money in this way, a mood of ‘anything goes if you have money’ fills society. Hope and ideals disappear, and a hand-to-mouth, live-for-the-day attitude prevails. The number of crimes has risen more than tenfold compared to prewar times, and '''juvenile problems in particular have become a source of worry for parents with children of that age.''' The government talks about moral education or revising the Fundamental Law of Education, but what is really needed is to correct the fundamental distortion in politics. ** Prepared continuation of the final speech, Hibiya Public Hall, 12 October 1960 * The basic way to correct politics is for the government itself to uphold the Constitution and conduct clean, honest governance. ** Prepared continuation of the final speech, 12 October 1960 === Attributed / In conversation === * There’s a rumor that the Zengakuren is going to set the building on fire, so all the honorable Diet members seem to have disappeared. I'll be running in Shinjuku next election, so I’m counting on your support. ** While laughing heartily, when a young Waseda student named Michio Ozaki visited him at the Diet Members' Building around 1960 and remarked how empty the place looked. [https://www.jnpc.or.jp/journal/interviews/11923 Recounted by Ozaki himself (later a journalist) in his 2010 memoir essay.] * What? One bowl is enough for you guys? ** On a campaign tour when a reporter saw many katsudon bowls prepared for the press and asked if others were coming. Asanuma then ate two full bowls with miso soup and pickles. This anecdote is well-known for illustrating his enormous appetite and down-to-earth character. Recounted by journalist Shigezō Hayasaka, who frequently accompanied him. * Maa maa. ''(''まあまあ。) ** His habitual soothing phrase ("There, there" / "Calm down, calm down") used during heated factional meetings in the Japan Socialist Party. This mannerism earned him the affectionate nickname "Maa-Maa Koji'''"''' (まあまあ居士). * I am a socialist. It is not necessary. ** Refusing a bodyguard suggested by aides amid threats from right-wing groups, recounted by a close aide, 1960 * The masses believe in me. No one would try to kill me. ** Asanuma expressing confidence when declining protection, testimony of close associates, 1960 == Quotes about Asanuma == [[File:AsanumaWithJiro.webp|thumb|You were content with a life of honest poverty and continued to live modestly for thirty years in a small apartment in downtown Tokyo. You would take your beloved dog for walks in the neighborhood, and this was your daily pleasure. The people felt boundless affection for your down-to-earth appearance, even as they listened to your powerful oratory.]] * 'Numa truly is a speech-making everyman <br> With his soiled clothes and tattered briefcase; <br> Today in this public hall, <br> Tomorrow at a roadside temple in Kyoto. ** Poem written by his friend Tadokoro Teruaki around the time of the Japan Labour-Farmer Party founding (circa 1925–1926), later quoted by Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda in his memorial speech *The Great Wall is very high, yet you took off your leather shoes and climbed it! **[[Mao Zedong]], upon meeting Asanuma the day after his barefoot climb of the Great Wall (March 1959). This humorous remark surprised Asanuma, who wondered how Mao had heard about it so quickly. Everyone present laughed. * The greatest difference between Inejirō Asanuma and the party he leads, and the social democratic parties of Europe, is that your party opposes American imperialism. ** Mao Zedong''',''' during a meeting in Beijing, March 1959 * '''He's a good person, which makes it all the more regrettable to deal with him.''' ** Bin Akao, personal evaluation of Inejirō Asanuma (said prior to 1960) ** This remark is believed by some historians to have influenced Otoya Yamaguchi, the young right-wing activist who assassinated Asanuma in October 1960. * Inejirō Asanuma was an outstanding Japanese patriot and a friend respected by the Chinese people. ** [[Zhou Enlai]], [https://rmrb.zhouenlai.info/%E5%91%A8%E6%80%BB%E7%90%86%E4%B8%93%E6%A0%8F/%E6%A0%87%E9%A2%98%E6%96%B0%E9%97%BB/1960/1960-10-14%200255121%20%E5%91%A8%E6%80%BB%E7%90%86%E7%94%B5%E5%94%81%E6%B5%85%E6%B2%BC%E7%A8%BB%E6%AC%A1%E9%83%8E%E9%81%87%E5%88%BA%E9%80%9D%E4%B8%96.htm condolence telegram, 13 October 1960] * We firmly believe that the Japanese people’s struggle for independence, democracy, peace, neutrality, and the normalization of Sino-Japanese relations will certainly achieve final victory; Mr. Asanuma’s unfinished cause will certainly be realized along with the victory of the Japanese people’s struggle. ** Zhou Enlai, condolence telegram, 13 October 1960 *Just now, as I stand on this rostrum facing all of you, '''I clearly perceive one empty seat in this chamber. It is the seat of a worthy rival''' with whom I secretly vowed to debate policy from this very rostrum in the Diet, and with whom I pledged to engage in policy debates across the country during the upcoming general election. Once I heard a voice coming from here at Socialist Party conventions, and sometimes at the head of the masses. Now that person is gone, and that voice has fallen silent. To whom should I direct my debates? Yet if I listen carefully with a clear mind, I seem to hear a voice crying out from there: "'''Do not let what happened to me happen to others,'''" and "'''Violence is the common enemy of all democratic politicians.'''" **Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda, memorial address in the Diet, 18 October 1960 *'''You were content with a life of honest poverty''' and continued to live modestly for thirty years in a small apartment in downtown Tokyo. You would take your beloved dog for walks in the neighborhood, and this was your daily pleasure. The people felt boundless affection for your down-to-earth appearance, even as they listened to your powerful oratory. **Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda, memorial address in the Diet, 18 October 1960 * Mourning the Death of Chairman Asanuma<br>October 12, 1960 <br>Numa-san did not fall — he was struck down, <br>Suddenly, by a single blade. <br>But nevertheless, <br>The dream of justice that you pursued with your entire life through action — <br>Numa-san, we will absolutely not let it die. <br>Let that dream live on. <br>Expose everything — everything that cut that dream short. <br>For Japan’s present, <br>For the future, <br>For the new history that is yet to be born. ** [https://douzou.fortunastella.com/2020/12/29/%E6%B5%85%E6%B2%BC%E7%A8%B2%E6%AC%A1%E9%83%8E%EF%BC%88%E4%B8%AD%E5%A4%AE%E5%8C%BA%EF%BC%89/ Poem by Kusano Shinpei], read aloud by actress Mochizuki Yūko at Asanuma's funeral, 20 October 1960 * Mr. Asanuma not only devoted himself to the cause of Sino-Japanese friendship, but also made positive contributions to defending peace in the Far East and the world, and to developing the unity of the peoples of Asia and Africa. ** [https://rmrb.zhouenlai.info/%E5%91%A8%E6%80%BB%E7%90%86%E4%B8%93%E6%A0%8F/%E6%80%BB%E7%90%86%E7%9B%B8%E5%85%B3/1960/1960-10-20%200255524%20%E6%B5%85%E6%B2%BC%E5%85%88%E7%94%9F%E7%9A%84%E9%B2%9C%E8%A1%80%E5%86%B3%E4%B8%8D%E4%BC%9A%E7%99%BD%E6%B5%81.htm Mr. Asanuma’s blood will never flow in vain], People's Daily, 20 October 1960 * '''Chairman Asanuma grasped the essence of the problem, grasped the essence of Japan-U.S. relations, and also grasped the fundamental problems of the peoples of China, Japan, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and also Europe, North America and Canada, and other countries of the whole world.''' I once told Chairman Asanuma: 'Those who agree with this view may sometimes be fewer, sometimes more, but in the future it will certainly develop in the direction of becoming more numerous.' ** Mao Zedong, [https://m.creaders.net/bbs/history/view/180153 conversation with Japan Socialist Party Diet members], 24 January 1961 *The news that Chairman Asanuma had been struck down by the blade of a right-wing youth reached the Japan Socialist Party press club inside the National Diet about one minute after the incident occurred. Only about one reporter per company had been sent to cover the three-party leaders' debate at Hibiya Public Hall, as most thought 'nothing much will happen.' At that moment, most of the press club members were glued to the live television broadcast of the Japan Series between the Taiyo Whales and the Mainichi Orions. But as soon as this tragic report came in, almost everyone prayed 'I hope it's nothing serious' while racing at full speed toward Hibiya in their cars. *When Numa-san turned 60, more than 200 Tokyo-based reporters and cameramen held a 60th birthday celebration for him at the Chinzan-so in Koishikawa, Tokyo. This was the first time such an event had ever been held in the history of Japanese journalism. *'''This man could not tell a lie. It seems his belief was that one must not deceive the public.''' However, precisely because he could not lie, he was terribly troubled by malicious questions from newspaper reporters. When he was cornered, he would always shrink his large body awkwardly and begin fidgeting with the document box beside him. We knew that if we got that reaction from him, our article would be accurate. *'''Numa-san was not only a devoted husband but also a feminist who deeply respected women.''' If his wife Kyōko happened to be out when he returned home, he would say, 'Where’s Kaa-chan…?' and might even open the closet doors looking for her. Late at night when reporters were leaving his home, if there were dried fish sent from his hometown on Miyake Island or fruits from local fans, he would always wrap three or four of them roughly in whatever newspaper was at hand and press them on us, saying, 'Give these to Kaa-chan…' It is certain that these gifts from Numa-san delighted the reporters’ wives. **Sakai Yukio (Yomiuri Shimbun), tribute in the memorial book Dashing Forward: Records of the Human Locomotive "Numa-san" (驀進 ―人間機関車ヌマさんの記録), June 1961 * We (the Socialist Party beat reporters) would pick arguments with Numa-san and chase him around. His large frame sitting in the small room of that rundown Dōjunkai apartment looked humorous, like a giant who had burst into a house of dwarves. Next to him was a large, shabby brown bag, bulging so much it looked ready to burst with documents. When we would say things like, 'This time Numa-san’s actions don’t seem consistent…' to provoke him, he would passionately reply in his dialect, 'You guys say that, but that’s not it, you know! That’s not it!' I miss that sight. ** Yoshimura Katsumi (Sankei Shimbun), tribute in the memorial book ''Dashing Forward: Records of the Human Locomotive "Numa-san"'' (驀進 ―人間機関車ヌマさんの記録), June 1961 *At the hand of a despicable fascist murderer, a hireling of the imperialists, Comrade Inejirō Asanuma, chairman of the Socialist Party of Japan, a prominent public figure and fighter for peace and democracy, has perished. **[[Nikita Khrushchev]], opening report at the 22nd Congress of the CPSU, 17 October 1961 * He loved the masses, and the masses loved him in return. The fighter for liberation, Inejirō Asanuma, still lives among us today. Until the reactionary blade ended his sixty-one-year life, he never stopped fighting. If you listen carefully, you can still hear today his cries and the roar of the masses. * Born December Meiji 31 on Miyake-jima — Died October 12, Showa 35 at the hands of a thug ** [https://douzou.fortunastella.com/2020/12/29/%E6%B5%85%E6%B2%BC%E7%A8%B2%E6%AC%A1%E9%83%8E%EF%BC%88%E4%B8%AD%E5%A4%AE%E5%8C%BA%EF%BC%89/ Inscription by Jōtarō Kawakami on the pedestal of the Asanuma Inejirō] [https://douzou.fortunastella.com/2020/12/29/%E6%B5%85%E6%B2%BC%E7%A8%B2%E6%AC%A1%E9%83%8E%EF%BC%88%E4%B8%AD%E5%A4%AE%E5%8C%BA%EF%BC%89/ bust, March 1964.] *I have pursued politics with the motto 'Always with the masses, always learning from the masses.' And I have deeply respected Inejirō Asanuma. Right after the war, I accompanied Asanuma on his Kyushu campaign tour. The sight of him in the scorching summer heat, sleeves rolled up, calling out to the people from the back of a truck, is still burned into my eyelids. **Tomiichi Murayama, [https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOFG00012_U3A610C2000000/ "Watashi no Rirekisho" (My Resume)], Nikkei Shimbun, June 1996 *'''We must clean up 'money in politics.' This is the Asanuma spirit.''' **[https://www.jiji.com/jc/d4?p=ton131-jlp05616141&d=d4_psn Tomiichi Murayama, at the Asanuma memorial gathering, Constitution Memorial Hall, 12 October 2007] * Asanuma, who visited China and greeted with 'U.S. imperialism is the common enemy of the Japanese and Chinese peoples,' causing controversy at home and abroad, was affectionately called by the masses 'Numa the speech-making everyman'. '''There were not a few people who felt a historical sense of loss at the sudden death of that man.''' ** Michio Ozaki, [https://www.jnpc.or.jp/journal/interviews/11923 My Life's Punctuation Mark: The 1960 Anpo Struggle and Inejirō Asanuma], October 2010 * I regard this photograph as a 'lucky scoop,' but it was also a heavy one. It was a scoop obtained through the death of Asanuma. My feeling of regret toward Asanuma has not changed even now, 50 years later. ** Yoshitake Takayoshi (Tokyo Shimbun photographer), in his testimony for ''Chūnichi Shimbun Alumni Association 50-Year History'' (『中日新聞社友会五十年史』), 2011 == See also == * [[Kyōko Asanuma]] == External links == {{Wikipedia}} {{Commons category|Inejiro Asanuma}} <div class="references-small"> * [https://www.aozora.gr.jp/index_pages/person1487.html Inejirō Asanuma: List of works by author] – Aozora Bunko * [http://roudousyaundou.que.jp/syakaitou_047.htm "American imperialism is the common enemy of the peoples of Japan and China"] – Asanuma's 1959 speech in Beijing * [http://roudousyaundou.que.jp/syakaitou_048.htm Asanuma's final speech] </div> {{DEFAULTSORT:Asanuma, Inejiro}} [[Category:1898 births]] [[Category:1960 deaths]] [[Category:Socialists]] [[Category:Politicians from Japan]] [[Category:People of the Cold War]] [[Category:Actors from Japan]] [[Category:Murdered people]] 5bzbuzhujo0c9tp7pmw0g1h0ale0ky2 0 307834 3961314 3958734 2026-07-05T23:17:07Z ~2026-38177-81 3347385 3961314 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Italic title}} [[File:Spider_noir_logo.png|thumb|right]] [[File:Spider-Man_Noir.png|thumb|right|Someone once asked me what universe this was. A strange question that stuck with me all these years later. All I could say for sure was it was the only one I knew of. And that was as true then as it is now. Am I an extraordinary man? Yes. Am I an ordinary man? Yes. I'm both. I'm neither. But aren't we all?{{center|—''Ben Reilly''}} '''''[[w:Spider-Noir|Spider-Noir]]''''' is an American [[w:Superhero fiction|superhero]] [[w:Noir fiction|noir]] series developed by [[w:Oren Uziel|Oren Uziel]] for [[w:MGM+|MGM+]] and [[w:Amazon Prime Video|Prime Video]]. Based on [[Marvel Comics]] featuring the character [[w:Spider-Man Noir|Spider-Man Noir]], the series follows an aging private investigator and superhero (portrayed by [[Nicolas Cage]]) in 1930s New York City who grapples with his past. ==Episodes== ===''Step Into My Office''=== :'''Ben Reilly''': ''(narrating)'' Someone once asked me what universe this was. A strange question that stuck with me all these years later. All I could say for sure was it was the only one I knew of. And that was as true then as it is now. Am I an extraordinary man? Yes. Am I an ordinary man? Yes. I'm both. I'm neither. But aren't we all? New York. I grew up in this city. I learned to fight in this city. And I fell in love in this city. A mistake I'll never make again. I used to be The Spider, this city's hero. Always on guard, always ready to swoop in and save the day. That ended when Ruby died. We were going to be married in the spring. I even bought a ring to make it official. A ring I never had the chance to give her. Ruby once told me that with great power comes great responsibility. Well, she was the greatest responsibility I ever had. And I failed her. The Spider failed her. After that, I didn't want the power or the responsibility. So I went back to being just an ordinary man. That was five years ago. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Frankie''': You know, I've been practicing my pocket tricks. :'''Ben Reilly''': Oh, yeah? How's that going? :'''Frankie''': You tell me. ''[takes a photo from Ben's pocket; wolf whistles]'' Dames, huh? :'''Ben Reilly''': What would you know? :'''Frankie''': Lots. I'm wise behind these ears. :'''Ben Reilly''': Smarts like that, maybe thinking about going to school. :'''Frankie''': Who needs it? A plus B equals C. :'''Ben Reilly''': You don't do math with letters, kid. ===''Tread Lightly''=== :'''Robbie Roberston''': So, that's it? :'''Vera Addison''': What do you mean? :'''Robbie Robertson''': No tears? I just told you your husband died. :'''Vera Addison''': People grieve in different ways. :'''Robbie Robertson''': You already knew. :'''Vera Addison''': James was a lot of things, but not the type to cut and run. ===''Double Cross''=== :'''Ben Reilly''': Crafty bastard marks all of his bills. ===''A Mistake I'll Never Make Again''=== :'''Cat Hardy''': ''(to Ben)'' Nice to meet you, Mr. Spider. ===''Betrayal''=== :'''Ben Reilly''': Uh, are you going to share it? :'''Robbie Robertson''': Are you gonna be a dick about it? :'''Ben Reilly''': Uh, yes, actually, a private dick , to be exact. ===''Nightmare on a Gurney''=== :'''Ben Reilly''': Spider was never a hero. I only did it for the thrill.. :'''Ogden''': Well... maybe you weren't then. But there is still time for you to become one. ===''Nobody's Hero''=== :'''Ben Reilly''': Maybe... Maybe, maybe, maybe the Spider is a guy like anyone else. You ever think about that? You ever wonder what his problems were? He's swinging around burning buildings saving people, you ever think he feels the heat? Or he gets ''SAD?'' OR '''TIRED?!''' '''''OR LONELY?!''''' <hr width="50%"/> :'''The Spider''': This doesn't have to be a fight. :'''Lonnie Lincoln''': Well, it's gonna be. :'''The Spider''': Okay, not the response I was looking for. ===''The Man in the Mask''=== :'''Ben Reilly''': I'm not in the mood to talk to The Spider. The truth is, he's kind of hard to talk to, especially on the phone. Hey, buddy, can you remove the mask so a guy can actually hear? :'''Silvermane''': Is this some kind of joke? A piece of humor I'm not grasping? :'''Ben Reilly''': No, I mean it. I genuinely can't understand half of what comes out of his mouth. Well, you've seen him. He wears a stupid sock on his head. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Silvermane''': Never be satisfied. Don't accept what you're given. Because nobody's going to give you what you want. They're going to give you what they want to give you for their own reasons. ==External links== {{Wikipedia}} [[Category:Television shows]] [[Category:Amazon Prime Video shows]] [[Category:Spider-Man TV shows]] 9qd3wg29g3qayu5yjgrs5ahxuwgyhe3 3961315 3961314 2026-07-05T23:19:06Z ~2026-38177-81 3347385 3961315 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Italic title}} [[File:Spider_noir_logo.png|thumb|right]] '''''[[w:Spider-Noir|Spider-Noir]]''''' is an American [[w:Superhero fiction|superhero]] [[w:Noir fiction|noir]] series developed by [[w:Oren Uziel|Oren Uziel]] for [[w:MGM+|MGM+]] and [[w:Amazon Prime Video|Prime Video]]. Based on [[Marvel Comics]] featuring the character [[w:Spider-Man Noir|Spider-Man Noir]], the series follows an aging private investigator and superhero (portrayed by [[Nicolas Cage]]) in 1930s New York City who grapples with his past. ==Episodes== ===''Step Into My Office''=== :'''Ben Reilly''': ''(narrating)'' Someone once asked me what universe this was. A strange question that stuck with me all these years later. All I could say for sure was it was the only one I knew of. And that was as true then as it is now. Am I an extraordinary man? Yes. Am I an ordinary man? Yes. I'm both. I'm neither. But aren't we all? New York. I grew up in this city. I learned to fight in this city. And I fell in love in this city. A mistake I'll never make again. I used to be The Spider, this city's hero. Always on guard, always ready to swoop in and save the day. That ended when Ruby died. We were going to be married in the spring. I even bought a ring to make it official. A ring I never had the chance to give her. Ruby once told me that with great power comes great responsibility. Well, she was the greatest responsibility I ever had. And I failed her. The Spider failed her. After that, I didn't want the power or the responsibility. So I went back to being just an ordinary man. That was five years ago. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Frankie''': You know, I've been practicing my pocket tricks. :'''Ben Reilly''': Oh, yeah? How's that going? :'''Frankie''': You tell me. ''[takes a photo from Ben's pocket; wolf whistles]'' Dames, huh? :'''Ben Reilly''': What would you know? :'''Frankie''': Lots. I'm wise behind these ears. :'''Ben Reilly''': Smarts like that, maybe thinking about going to school. :'''Frankie''': Who needs it? A plus B equals C. :'''Ben Reilly''': You don't do math with letters, kid. ===''Tread Lightly''=== :'''Robbie Roberston''': So, that's it? :'''Vera Addison''': What do you mean? :'''Robbie Robertson''': No tears? I just told you your husband died. :'''Vera Addison''': People grieve in different ways. :'''Robbie Robertson''': You already knew. :'''Vera Addison''': James was a lot of things, but not the type to cut and run. ===''Double Cross''=== :'''Ben Reilly''': Crafty bastard marks all of his bills. ===''A Mistake I'll Never Make Again''=== :'''Cat Hardy''': ''(to Ben)'' Nice to meet you, Mr. Spider. ===''Betrayal''=== :'''Ben Reilly''': Uh, are you going to share it? :'''Robbie Robertson''': Are you gonna be a dick about it? :'''Ben Reilly''': Uh, yes, actually, a private dick , to be exact. ===''Nightmare on a Gurney''=== :'''Ben Reilly''': Spider was never a hero. I only did it for the thrill.. :'''Ogden''': Well... maybe you weren't then. But there is still time for you to become one. ===''Nobody's Hero''=== :'''Ben Reilly''': Maybe... Maybe, maybe, maybe the Spider is a guy like anyone else. You ever think about that? You ever wonder what his problems were? He's swinging around burning buildings saving people, you ever think he feels the heat? Or he gets ''SAD?'' OR '''TIRED?!''' '''''OR LONELY?!''''' <hr width="50%"/> :'''The Spider''': This doesn't have to be a fight. :'''Lonnie Lincoln''': Well, it's gonna be. :'''The Spider''': Okay, not the response I was looking for. ===''The Man in the Mask''=== :'''Ben Reilly''': I'm not in the mood to talk to The Spider. The truth is, he's kind of hard to talk to, especially on the phone. Hey, buddy, can you remove the mask so a guy can actually hear? :'''Silvermane''': Is this some kind of joke? A piece of humor I'm not grasping? :'''Ben Reilly''': No, I mean it. I genuinely can't understand half of what comes out of his mouth. Well, you've seen him. He wears a stupid sock on his head. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Silvermane''': Never be satisfied. Don't accept what you're given. Because nobody's going to give you what you want. They're going to give you what they want to give you for their own reasons. ==External links== {{Wikipedia}} [[Category:Television shows]] [[Category:Amazon Prime Video shows]] [[Category:Spider-Man TV shows]] 9pv6ng68yep5pnxtiixieogbx696p8d 3961316 3961315 2026-07-05T23:22:07Z ~2026-38177-81 3347385 3961316 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Italic title}} [[File:2023_NYCC_Cosplay_of_Spider-Man_Noir_%28cropped%29.jpg|thumb|right|Someone once asked me what universe this was. A strange question that stuck with me all these years later. All I could say for sure was it was the only one I knew of. And that was as true then as it is now. Am I an extraordinary man? Yes. Am I an ordinary man? Yes. I'm both. I'm neither. But aren't we all?]] '''''[[w:Spider-Noir|Spider-Noir]]''''' is an American [[w:Superhero fiction|superhero]] [[w:Noir fiction|noir]] series developed by [[w:Oren Uziel|Oren Uziel]] for [[w:MGM+|MGM+]] and [[w:Amazon Prime Video|Prime Video]]. Based on [[Marvel Comics]] featuring the character [[w:Spider-Man Noir|Spider-Man Noir]], the series follows an aging private investigator and superhero (portrayed by [[Nicolas Cage]]) in 1930s New York City who grapples with his past. ==Episodes== ===''Step Into My Office''=== :'''Ben Reilly''': ''(narrating)'' Someone once asked me what universe this was. A strange question that stuck with me all these years later. All I could say for sure was it was the only one I knew of. And that was as true then as it is now. Am I an extraordinary man? Yes. Am I an ordinary man? Yes. I'm both. I'm neither. But aren't we all? New York. I grew up in this city. I learned to fight in this city. And I fell in love in this city. A mistake I'll never make again. I used to be The Spider, this city's hero. Always on guard, always ready to swoop in and save the day. That ended when Ruby died. We were going to be married in the spring. I even bought a ring to make it official. A ring I never had the chance to give her. Ruby once told me that with great power comes great responsibility. Well, she was the greatest responsibility I ever had. And I failed her. The Spider failed her. After that, I didn't want the power or the responsibility. So I went back to being just an ordinary man. That was five years ago. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Frankie''': You know, I've been practicing my pocket tricks. :'''Ben Reilly''': Oh, yeah? How's that going? :'''Frankie''': You tell me. ''[takes a photo from Ben's pocket; wolf whistles]'' Dames, huh? :'''Ben Reilly''': What would you know? :'''Frankie''': Lots. I'm wise behind these ears. :'''Ben Reilly''': Smarts like that, maybe thinking about going to school. :'''Frankie''': Who needs it? A plus B equals C. :'''Ben Reilly''': You don't do math with letters, kid. ===''Tread Lightly''=== :'''Robbie Roberston''': So, that's it? :'''Vera Addison''': What do you mean? :'''Robbie Robertson''': No tears? I just told you your husband died. :'''Vera Addison''': People grieve in different ways. :'''Robbie Robertson''': You already knew. :'''Vera Addison''': James was a lot of things, but not the type to cut and run. ===''Double Cross''=== :'''Ben Reilly''': Crafty bastard marks all of his bills. ===''A Mistake I'll Never Make Again''=== :'''Cat Hardy''': ''(to Ben)'' Nice to meet you, Mr. Spider. ===''Betrayal''=== :'''Ben Reilly''': Uh, are you going to share it? :'''Robbie Robertson''': Are you gonna be a dick about it? :'''Ben Reilly''': Uh, yes, actually, a private dick , to be exact. ===''Nightmare on a Gurney''=== :'''Ben Reilly''': Spider was never a hero. I only did it for the thrill.. :'''Ogden''': Well... maybe you weren't then. But there is still time for you to become one. ===''Nobody's Hero''=== :'''Ben Reilly''': Maybe... Maybe, maybe, maybe the Spider is a guy like anyone else. You ever think about that? You ever wonder what his problems were? He's swinging around burning buildings saving people, you ever think he feels the heat? Or he gets ''SAD?'' OR '''TIRED?!''' '''''OR LONELY?!''''' <hr width="50%"/> :'''The Spider''': This doesn't have to be a fight. :'''Lonnie Lincoln''': Well, it's gonna be. :'''The Spider''': Okay, not the response I was looking for. ===''The Man in the Mask''=== :'''Ben Reilly''': I'm not in the mood to talk to The Spider. The truth is, he's kind of hard to talk to, especially on the phone. Hey, buddy, can you remove the mask so a guy can actually hear? :'''Silvermane''': Is this some kind of joke? A piece of humor I'm not grasping? :'''Ben Reilly''': No, I mean it. I genuinely can't understand half of what comes out of his mouth. Well, you've seen him. He wears a stupid sock on his head. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Silvermane''': Never be satisfied. Don't accept what you're given. Because nobody's going to give you what you want. They're going to give you what they want to give you for their own reasons. ==External links== {{Wikipedia}} [[Category:Television shows]] [[Category:Amazon Prime Video shows]] [[Category:Spider-Man TV shows]] at80s61hsdzjatd235zsdo6qjx9f5az 3961317 3961316 2026-07-05T23:23:12Z ~2026-38177-81 3347385 3961317 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Italic title}} [[File:2023_NYCC_Cosplay_of_Spider-Man_Noir_%28cropped%29.jpg|thumb|right|Someone once asked me what universe this was. A strange question that stuck with me all these years later. All I could say for sure was it was the only one I knew of. And that was as true then as it is now. Am I an extraordinary man? Yes. Am I an ordinary man? Yes. I'm both. I'm neither. But aren't we all?{{center|—''Ben Reilly''}}]] '''''[[w:Spider-Noir|Spider-Noir]]''''' is an American [[w:Superhero fiction|superhero]] [[w:Noir fiction|noir]] series developed by [[w:Oren Uziel|Oren Uziel]] for [[w:MGM+|MGM+]] and [[w:Amazon Prime Video|Prime Video]]. Based on [[Marvel Comics]] featuring the character [[w:Spider-Man Noir|Spider-Man Noir]], the series follows an aging private investigator and superhero (portrayed by [[Nicolas Cage]]) in 1930s New York City who grapples with his past. ==Episodes== ===''Step Into My Office''=== :'''Ben Reilly''': ''(narrating)'' Someone once asked me what universe this was. A strange question that stuck with me all these years later. All I could say for sure was it was the only one I knew of. And that was as true then as it is now. Am I an extraordinary man? Yes. Am I an ordinary man? Yes. I'm both. I'm neither. But aren't we all? New York. I grew up in this city. I learned to fight in this city. And I fell in love in this city. A mistake I'll never make again. I used to be The Spider, this city's hero. Always on guard, always ready to swoop in and save the day. That ended when Ruby died. We were going to be married in the spring. I even bought a ring to make it official. A ring I never had the chance to give her. Ruby once told me that with great power comes great responsibility. Well, she was the greatest responsibility I ever had. And I failed her. The Spider failed her. After that, I didn't want the power or the responsibility. So I went back to being just an ordinary man. That was five years ago. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Frankie''': You know, I've been practicing my pocket tricks. :'''Ben Reilly''': Oh, yeah? How's that going? :'''Frankie''': You tell me. ''[takes a photo from Ben's pocket; wolf whistles]'' Dames, huh? :'''Ben Reilly''': What would you know? :'''Frankie''': Lots. I'm wise behind these ears. :'''Ben Reilly''': Smarts like that, maybe thinking about going to school. :'''Frankie''': Who needs it? A plus B equals C. :'''Ben Reilly''': You don't do math with letters, kid. ===''Tread Lightly''=== :'''Robbie Roberston''': So, that's it? :'''Vera Addison''': What do you mean? :'''Robbie Robertson''': No tears? I just told you your husband died. :'''Vera Addison''': People grieve in different ways. :'''Robbie Robertson''': You already knew. :'''Vera Addison''': James was a lot of things, but not the type to cut and run. ===''Double Cross''=== :'''Ben Reilly''': Crafty bastard marks all of his bills. ===''A Mistake I'll Never Make Again''=== :'''Cat Hardy''': ''(to Ben)'' Nice to meet you, Mr. Spider. ===''Betrayal''=== :'''Ben Reilly''': Uh, are you going to share it? :'''Robbie Robertson''': Are you gonna be a dick about it? :'''Ben Reilly''': Uh, yes, actually, a private dick , to be exact. ===''Nightmare on a Gurney''=== :'''Ben Reilly''': Spider was never a hero. I only did it for the thrill.. :'''Ogden''': Well... maybe you weren't then. But there is still time for you to become one. ===''Nobody's Hero''=== :'''Ben Reilly''': Maybe... Maybe, maybe, maybe the Spider is a guy like anyone else. You ever think about that? You ever wonder what his problems were? He's swinging around burning buildings saving people, you ever think he feels the heat? Or he gets ''SAD?'' OR '''TIRED?!''' '''''OR LONELY?!''''' <hr width="50%"/> :'''The Spider''': This doesn't have to be a fight. :'''Lonnie Lincoln''': Well, it's gonna be. :'''The Spider''': Okay, not the response I was looking for. ===''The Man in the Mask''=== :'''Ben Reilly''': I'm not in the mood to talk to The Spider. The truth is, he's kind of hard to talk to, especially on the phone. Hey, buddy, can you remove the mask so a guy can actually hear? :'''Silvermane''': Is this some kind of joke? A piece of humor I'm not grasping? :'''Ben Reilly''': No, I mean it. I genuinely can't understand half of what comes out of his mouth. Well, you've seen him. He wears a stupid sock on his head. <hr width="50%"/> :'''Silvermane''': Never be satisfied. Don't accept what you're given. Because nobody's going to give you what you want. They're going to give you what they want to give you for their own reasons. ==External links== {{Wikipedia}} [[Category:Television shows]] [[Category:Amazon Prime Video shows]] [[Category:Spider-Man TV shows]] hf8wkl3vcapngx6acl008czbe6vup63 0 308136 3961087 3959113 2026-07-05T15:19:24Z ~2026-38274-40 3347701 /* On food noise (a.k.a. food-related intrusive thoughts ("FRITs")) */ Added a quote. 3961087 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:USA_Obesity_2024.svg|thumb|right|]] A '''[[w:Food_addiction|food addiction]]''' (or eating addiction) is any behavioural addiction characterized primarily by the compulsive consumption of palatable and hyperpalatable food items, and potentially also sugar-sweetened beverages. Such foods often have high sugar, fat, and salt contents, and markedly activate the reward system in humans and other animals. Those with eating addictions often overconsume such foods despite the adverse consequences (such as excess weight gain, diabetes, and heart disease) associated with their overconsumption. == Quotes == __NOTOC__ {{TOCalpha}} ==A== <small>Peter Attia, Bill Gifford</small> * [[w:Low-carbohydrate_diet#Ketogenic_die|Ketogenic diet]] means restricting carbohydrates to such an extent that the body begins metabolizing fat into "ketone bodies" that the muscles and brain can utilize as fuel. ** [[w:Peter_Attia|Peter Attia]] and Bill Gifford, ''[[w:Outlive:_The_Science_and_Art_of_Longevity|Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity]]'' (2023) * Evolution wants us to get fat when nutrients are abundant: the more energy we could store, in our ancestral past, the greater our chances of survival and successful reproduction. We needed to be able to endure periods of time without much food, and natural selection obliged, endowing us with genes that helped us conserve and store energy in the form of fat. That enabled our distant ancestors to survive periods of famine, cold climates, and physiologic stressors such as illness and pregnancy. But these genes have proved less advantageous in our present environment, where many people in the developed world have access to almost unlimited calories. ** ''Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity'' * In the late 1970s, the average American adult male weighed 173 pounds. Now the average American man tips the scale at nearly 200 pounds. ** ''Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity'' <small>Nicole Avena</small> * Heavy consumption of highly processed foods can alter dopamine and opioid neurotransmission, creating a cycle of bingeing and withdrawal. ** Nicole M. Avena, Pedro Rada, and Bartley G. Hoebel. ''Evidence for sugar addiction: Behavioral and neurochemical effects of intermittent, excessive sugar intake.'' Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (2008) [[File:Walmart_Wenatchee.jpg|thumb|right|We are not addicted to all foods. The addiction is specifically aimed at [[w:Ultra-processed_food|highly processed foods]] that contain unnatural concentrations of sugar and refined carbohydrates.]] * The modern food environment acts as a constant cue, activating the reward center of the brain before the food even touches your tongue. ** Nicole M. Avena and John Talbott, ''Why Diets Fail: Because You're Addicted to Sugar'' (2014) ISBN 978-1451699708 * Our research shows that sugar can stimulate the brain's reward system in a manner similar to drugs of abuse, leading to chemical changes that mirror addiction. ** Nicole M. Avena, ''What to Eat When You're Pregnant'' (2015) ISBN 978-1607746737 * Food addiction is not a metaphor; it is a clinical reality driven by biological changes in the brain's survival circuitry. ** Nicole M. Avena, ''Sugarless: A 7-Step Plan to Uncover Hidden Sugars, Curb Your Cravings, and Conquer Your Addiction'' (2023) ISBN 978-1401972172 * We are not addicted to all foods. The addiction is specifically aimed at [[w:Ultra-processed_food|highly processed foods]] that contain unnatural concentrations of sugar and refined carbohydrates. ** Nicole M. Avena, ''Sugarless'' (2023) ==B== [[File:William_Banting.jpg|thumb|right|''My impression is, that any starchy or [[w:Sugar|saccharine matter]] tends to the disease of corpulence in advanced life, [...] that all things tending to these elements should be avoided, of course always under sound medical authority.''<br>~ William Banting (1796-1878)]] <small>William Banting</small> * The great charm and comfort of the system is, that its effects are palpable within a week of trial, which creates a natural stimulus to persevere for a few weeks more, when the fact becomes established beyond question. ** [[w:William_Banting|William Banting]] (1796-1878), [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Letter_on_Corpulence ''Letter on Corpulence, Addressed to the Public'' (1864)], plus later Addenda.<br>An early historical example (1864) of '''successfully following a [[w:Low-carbohydrate_diet|low-carbohydrate diet]]''' by changing what he ate, after much earlier frustration clarifying the underlying (previously medically unrecognised) problem in his particular case; thereby reducing his weight from 202 pounds to 150 pounds. Then recommending this remedial course of action to other "sufferers of corpulence". * My impression is, that any starchy or [[w:Sugar|saccharine matter]] tends to the disease of corpulence in advanced life, and whether it be swallowed in that form or generated in the stomach, that all things tending to these elements should be avoided, of course always under sound medical authority. ** William Banting. From the ''[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Letter_on_Corpulence/Addenda First Addendum]'' to his (public) 1864 letter. * I shall always observe a careful watch upon myself to discover the effect, and act accordingly, so that, if I choose to spend a day or two with [[w:Rich_man_and_Lazarus|Dives]], so to speak, I must not forget to devote the next to Lazarus. ** William Banting. From the ''[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Letter_on_Corpulence/Concluding_addenda Second Addendum]'' to his 1864 letter. ''[i.e., that partaking of a "fattening dietary [item] occasionally" needs ideally to be tempered by a subsequent bout of compensatorily restrictive eating.]'' * My impression from the experiments I have tried on myself of late is, that saccharine matter is the great moving cause of fatty corpulence. I know that it produces in my individual case increased weight and a large amount of flatulence, and believe, that not only sugar, but all elements tending to create saccharine matter in the process of digestion, should be avoided. ** From the ''Second Addendum.'' * One material point I should be glad to impress on my corpulent readers—it is, to get accurately weighed at starting upon the fresh system, and continue to do so weekly or monthly, for the change will be so truly palpable by this course of examination, that it will arm them with perfect confidence in the merit and ultimate success of the plan. ** From the ''Second Addendum.'' <small>Benjamin Bikman</small> * If your [fasting] [[w:Insulin|insulin]] levels are on the low end (lower than around 6 microunits/milliliter or 41 picomoles/liter), it's a safe assumption that you're doing quite well and your insulin sensitivity is strong. You are either already adhering to smart lifestyle choices or you are young enough to get away with bad choices for now. If your insulin levels are moderately elevated (7-17 microunits/milliliter or 48 to 118 picomoles/liter), you should start making changes, particularly with the food you eat and how frequently you're eating. In the event your insulin is high (greater than 18 microunits/milliliter or 125 per picomoles/liter), you need to make changes today. ** Benjamin Bikman, ''Why We Get Sick: The Hidden Epidemic at the Root of Most Chronic Disease―and How to Fight It'' (2020) <small>Kelly D. Brownell</small> [[File:SAKURAKO_-_Are_you_Junk_Food_lover%3F_(6447206019).jpg|thumb|right|We live in a culture that targets the poor and children as a market for high-calorie, low-nutrition junk food and manipulates children into poor eating habits.]] * We live in a culture that targets the poor and children as a market for high-calorie, low-nutrition junk food and manipulates children into poor eating habits with toy giveaways and in-school promotions.. ** [[w:Kelly_D._Brownell|Kelly D. Brownell]], ''Food Fight: The Inside Story of the Food Industry, America's Obesity Crisis, and What We Can Do About It'' (2004) ISBN 978-0071438728 * Certain constituents of food products, added sugar in particular, may hijack the brain and override human will, judgement and personal responsibility, and in so doing create a public health menace. ** Kelly D. Brownell and Mark Gold, ''Food Addiction: A Comprehensive Handbook''. (2012) ISBN 978-0199738168 * As a culture, we've become upset by the tobacco companies advertising to children, but we sit idly by while the food companies do the very same thing. And we could make a claim that the toll taken on the public health by a poor diet rivals that taken by tobacco. ** Kelly D. Brownell. Cited in ''The New York Times Magazine'', 2013. ''[https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/the-extraordinary-science-of-addictive-junk-food.html "The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food."]'' * Portion sizes and the availability of highly processed, highly caloric food have grown dramatically... How far are you from a doughnut? ** Kelly D. Brownell. Center for Science in the Public Interest, [https://www.cspi.org/article/why-our-toxic-food-environment-matters interview, 2022]. ''"Why our toxic food environment matters."'' ==C== <small>Allen Carr</small> * Our real problem is our eating habits. What we need to change is our eating habits. The real problem is that we've been brainwashed into adopting stupid eating habits. ** [[w:Allen_Carr|Allen Carr]], ''Easyweigh to Lose Weight'' (1997) - at p.20, 21. * You aren't going on a diet. You are merely changing your eating habits. ** ''Easyweigh to Lose Weight'' - at p.67. * Although avoiding starvation is the ultimate purpose of eating, isn't it true that each meal is prompted by a more immediate reason, such as 'I'm in the habit of eating three meals a day,' or 'I enjoy eating,' or 'Because I feel hungry, bored, nervous or miserable,' or 'Because I got the whiff of something that smelt good,' or, simply, 'The food was there and I couldn't resist it.'<br>We might eat for any one of these reasons or all of them. It's rather confusing, isn't it? And not surprising that we become overweight. ** ''Easyweigh to Lose Weight'' - at p.72. * Mother Nature's only purpose in making us want to eat is that we survive. [...] The sole purpose of eating is to provide fuel and maintenance materials.<br>[But] aren't most of us in the habit of having a certain volume of food served up on our plates three times a day and then attempting to eat that volume regardless of the energy we propose to burn?<br>The point is: our bodies aren't designed to handle that surplus. [... ] Instead, we are obliged to store it in the form of unsightly bulges around our midriffs and elsewhere, and that's why we become overweight and obese.<br>We can now concentrate all of our attention on one aspect and one aspect alone: Our intake. [...] Provided the intake is correct the rest takes care of itself. [...] [So] tamper with... the type and quantity of food that you eat. ** ''Easyweigh to Lose Weight'' - at p.73, 74, 75, 76 * [104] If you stick to the principle of eating when you are hungry and stopping when you have satisfied that hunger, you will not only enjoy every meal, but you will have no weight problems. However, I would emphasize that I said stop eating when you have satisfied your hunger, and not your gluttony. ** ''Easyweigh to Lose Weight'' - at p.104 * ''How to lose weight and keep it off''<br>+ The most important thing is to change your mentality and approach rather than simply changing what you eat.<br>+ Correcting the misconceptions that keep you trapped eating the wrong foods that cause you to not only gain weight but also feel tired, miserable and unfit is essential.<br>+ Get your head right and it’s easy to lose weight (and keep it off).<br>As long as you change your thinking and see the food that has made you overweight for what it is; poisonous, toxic, and addictive junk that’s made you ill, you’ll find it easy. ** Some points from the [https://www.allencarr.com/easyway-weight-loss/how-do-i-lose-weight-and-keep-it-off allencarr.com website] <small>Daniel Chidiac</small> [[File:Benefits_of_healthy_eating.jpg|thumb|right|<br>''The answer is simple to obtaining and maintaining a balanced life: eat right and exercise regularly! There has never been, and never will be, another way to a healthy lifestyle.'']] * Through my experience of giving nutrition advice, I have found that when people came to me and said 'I don't know what to eat', it was merely an excuse to avoid responsibility. I would then make them write down what they believed was healthy to eat. Most of them wrote down great answers and listed fruits and vegetables, nuts, herbal teas, beans, and even brown rice. They proved they well and truly knew what was going on.<br>Of course you know, so just do it!<br>As we discussed earlier, it is imperative that you direct your focus and emotions intelligently. Your food is no exception.<br>The answer is simple to obtaining and maintaining a balanced life: eat right and exercise regularly! There has never been, and never will be, another way to a healthy lifestyle.<br>Once you continually focus on what you are doing to your life through your choice of food, your willingness to comply with a healthy lifestyle will happily skyrocket. The obesity issue in western countries is absolutely ridiculous, so don't be part of the epidemic. It is not a complicated problem as most try to make out, it is simply a choice. Food is for sufficient energy, not to pig out on.<br>We must feed our high performance machine with the essentials it requires in order for it to function at its peak. ** [[w:Daniel_Chidiac|Daniel Chidiac]], ''Who Says You Can't? You Do.'' (2012.) From Chapter 21, ''"Intelligent Eating"'', at pages 294, 295, 297. (Page numbers per the ''DC Group Global'' 2012 paperback edition.) <small>Luigi Cornaro</small> * Those men are most truly happy who keep their appetites in subjection. ** [[w:Luigi_Cornaro|Luigi Cornaro]] ''(a.k.a., Alvise Cornaro)'' (1464-1566), [https://web.archive.org/web/20141215062952/http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020105cornaro.html ''How to Live 100 Years'', or ''Discourse on the Sober Life''] (1562). From the ''First Discourse''. [[File:Portret_van_L._Cornaro,_RP-T-1949-594.jpg|thumb|right|Those men are most truly happy who keep their appetites in subjection.<br><br>~ Luigi Cornaro (1464-1566), '[https://web.archive.org/web/20141215062952/http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020105cornaro.html ''How to Live 100 Years' ''] ]] * By a regular life I mean, that a man shall ascertain for himself, how small a quantity of food and drink is sufficient to supply the daily wants of his nature and then having done this, and found out the kinds of food and drink best suited for his constitution, he shall, having formed his plans, strictly adhere to his resolutions and principles, not being careful at one time, and self-indulgent at others, for by so doing, he would gain but little benefit; but taking care always to avoid excess, which any man can certainly do at all times, and under all circumstances, if he is determined. [...] By regular living, he destroys every seed of sickness, and thus, by removing the cause, prevents the effect. ** Luigi Cornaro - ''How to Live 100 Years''. From the ''First Discourse''. * The safest way to attain a long and healthful life, is to embrace sobriety, and to diet oneself strictly as to quantity. And this is no very difficult affair. [...] We are all human beings, endowed with reason, and consequently we ought to be master of all our actions.<br>This sobriety is reduced to two things, quality and quantity.<br>[...] Let a fair, honest trial of some few weeks be given, and the result would, in all cases, be most pleasing.<br>[...] Others pretend that it is better to live a short and self-indulgent life, than a long and self-denying one; but surely, longevity ought to be valued, and is, by men of good understanding. [...] They resolve to eat but once, heartily, in the twenty-four hours. But this course is useless; for the stomach is still overburdened, and thus a man kills himself long before his time.<br>O, what a difference between a regular and temperate life, and an irregular and intemperate life! One gives health and longevity, the other produces disease and untimely death. [...] I am thus more than ever determined to use my utmost endeavors to make known the benefit of my kind of life.<br>[...] Gratifying the appetite and palate, is not, as many affirm, natural and right, but is the cause of disease and premature death. Were this pleasure of the palate lasting, it would be some excuse; but it is momentary, compared with the duration of the disease which its excess engenders. ** Luigi Cornaro - ''How to Live 100 Years''. From the ''Second Discourse''. ==F== <small>'''Dr Jason Fung'''</small> * The basics of good nutrition can be summarized in these simple rules. Eat whole, unprocessed foods. Avoid sugar. Avoid refined grains. Eat a diet high in natural fats. Balance feeding with [[w:Fasting|fasting]]. ** [[w:Jason_Fung|Jason Fung]], ''The Complete Guide to Fasting: Heal Your Body Through Intermittent, Alternate-Day, and Extended Fasting'' (2016) [[File:Quote_on_Fasting_from_Rumi.jpg|thumb|right|<br>Balance feeding with fasting.<br><br>We are wired for feast and famine, not feast, feast, feast.]] * We are wired for feast and famine, not feast, feast, feast. ** ''The Complete Guide to Fasting'' * [In cases where] too much insulin causes obesity, then it becomes clear we need to lower insulin levels. ** ''The Complete Guide to Fasting'' * Caloric reduction and portion-control strategies only make you tired and hungry. Worst of all...''you regain all the weight you have lost.'' I know it. You know it.<br>[...] Losing weight triggers two important responses. First, total energy expenditure is immediately and indefinitely reduced in order to conserve the available energy. Second, hormonal hunger signaling is immediately and indefinitely amplified in an effort to acquire more food. Weight loss results in increased hunger and decreased metabolism. This evolutionary survival strategy has a single purpose: ''to make us regain the lost weight''.<br>[...] Eating less does not result in lasting weight loss. It. Just. Does. Not. Work. ** Jason Fung, ''The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss (2016)'' - Part 2, at Chapter 3, p.41, 45, 47. * Obesity is a hormonal disorder of fat regulation. Insulin is the major hormone that drives weight gain, so the rational therapy is to ''lower insulin levels''. ** Jason Fung, ''The Obesity Code'' - Part 6, at Chapter 19, p.219. * Reduce your consumption of added sugars. ** ''The Obesity Code'' - Ch.19, at p.219. * Just don't snack<br> The healthy snack is one of the greatest weight-loss deceptions. The myth that ‘grazing is healthy’ has attained legendary status. If we were meant to ‘graze’, we would be cows. Grazing is the direct opposite of virtually all food traditions. Even as recently as the 1960s, most people still ate just three meals per day. Constant stimulation of insulin eventually leads to insulin resistance.<br>[...] Stop eating all the time.<br>[...] Are snacks necessary? No.<br>[...] There's a simple answer to the question of what to eat at snack time. Nothing. Don't eat snacks. Period. ** ''The Obesity Code'' - Ch.19, at p.222, 223. * Eat whole, unprocessed foods at all meals. ** ''The Obesity Code'' - Ch.19, at p.225. * Reduce your consumption of refined grains. ** ''The Obesity Code'' - Ch.19, at p.228. [[File:Quote_From_Plato_About_Fasting.jpg|thumb|right|<br>There is one more piece to the puzzle - a solution found many centuries ago.<br><br>The answer we are looking for is, in a word, fasting.]] * The last piece of the puzzle<br>All diets work in the short term. But we've been ignoring the long-term problem of insulin resistance. There is one more piece of the puzzle - a solution found many centuries ago. A practice that has been enshrined in the nutritional lore of virtually every population on earth. A tradition rapidly becoming extinct.<br>Two major factors maintain our insulin at a high level. The first is the foods that we eat - which are what we usually change when we go on a diet. But we fail to address the other factor: the long-term problem of insulin resistance. This problem is one of meal timing.<br>To succeed, we must break the insulin-resistance cycle. But how?<br>The answer we are looking for is, in a word, fasting.<br>When we talk about fasting to break insulin resistance and lose weight, we are talking about intermittent fasts of twenty-four to thirty-six hours.<br>The remainder of this chapter will be devoted to addressing the health concerns around fasting - which, the research shows us, is a beneficial practice. ** ''The Obesity Code'' - Ch.19 at p.233, 234. Ch.20 at p.235, 236. * <small>'''[https://www.youtube.com/@DrJasonFung <u>On YouTube</u>: Dr. Jason Fung - YouTube Channel]'''</small><br> * <small>'''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqZsS03dlPk <u>On YouTube</u>: Dr. Jason Fung: Beginner's Guide to Intermittent Fasting] (2020) (10 mins)'''</small> * <small>'''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ8ihAntvbI <u>On YouTube</u>: "Dr. Jason Fung: The Best Fasting Method for Visceral Fat and Insulin Resistance has Been Discovered"] (2026) (2h 12 mins)'''</small> ==G== <small>Ashley Gearhardt</small> [[File:Junk_Food_Addiction_(286918378).jpg|thumb|right|"People aren’t becoming addicted to apples or brown rice. They’re struggling with industrial products specifically engineered to hit the brain like a drug—rapidly, intensely, and repeatedly."<br><br>"These foods are so wildly different than those foods [real fruits, vegetables, legumes] that some people have suggested that food is the wrong term for it, and we should instead call them chemical substances."]] * Right now, we're kind of like, 'just eat these foods in moderation.' And for the people for whom consumption of these foods has become compulsive, it's like telling people with alcohol use disorder to just find a way to drink in moderation. ** Ashley Gearhardt, National Institutes of Health [https://newsinhealth.nih.gov/2024/02/dr-ashley-gearhardt-addiction-ultra-processed-foods (NIH) interview, 2024]. ''"Dr. Ashley Gearhardt on Addiction and Ultra-Processed Foods."'' * “People aren’t becoming addicted to apples or brown rice,” said lead author University of Michigan professor of psychology Ashley Gearhardt, Ph.D. “They’re struggling with industrial products specifically engineered to hit the brain like a drug—rapidly, intensely, and repeatedly.” ** Quoted on the [https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/addiction-outlook/202403/addicted-to-food ''Psychology Today''] website. * These foods are so wildly different than those foods [real fruits, vegetables, legumes] that some people have suggested that food is the wrong term for it, and we should instead call them chemical substances. ** Ashley Gearhardt, [https://www.apa.org/news/podcasts/speaking-of-psychology/food-addiction American Psychological Association (APA) podcast, 2022]. ''"Speaking of Psychology: Can you be addicted to food?"'' * The younger you are when you're exposed to an addictive substance, the more likely you are to have problems... Kids are being exposed to this and aggressively marketed to... it's setting them up where this is one of the major sources of reward, sources of ways to cope. ** ** Ashley Gearhardt, [https://www.apa.org/news/podcasts/speaking-of-psychology/food-addiction American Psychological Association (APA) podcast, 2022]. ''"Speaking of Psychology: Can you be addicted to food?"'' * What has happened in modern times is that previously healthy [[w:whole foods|whole foods]] have been largely replaced by [[w:Ultra-processed_food|ultra-processed foods]], which are high in pure sugar, high-fructose corn syrup, salt, and the wrong types of fats.<br>The reasons that our bodies crave these foods is because they are loaded with ingredients that tap into the pleasure centers in our brain, the so-called dopamine reward pathway, which is the same pathway that street drugs like cocaine tap into. ** [https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/09/why-do-we-crave-junk-food-diet-psychology The Harvard Gazette.] ''"Why we crave junk food—and how to cultivate healthier eating habits."'' * ''Mills'': "What's the difference between being addicted to food and just liking to indulge in treats more than you should? How can you tell if someone meets the threshold for addiction?"<br>''Gearhardt'': "...I took our diagnostic criteria that we have in the [[w:Diagnostic_and_Statistical_Manual_of_Mental_Disorders|DSM]] to try and dissociate between social drinkers and somebody who's actually addicted to alcohol. And I've applied that to the intake of these really highly processed foods with unnatural levels of refined carbohydrates and fats. And so, the hallmarks of addiction that I'm looking for are a loss of control over intake.<br>[...] Having more of a sense of your cues and your reactions can start to give you some of your power back.<br>[...] Right now, we're at where I see we've been with a lot of addictions in the past, which is that it's just a focus on willpower: 'You just have to try a little harder, calories in calories out.' And what it's ignoring is that there's a trillion dollar industry that is using its research and development budget to specifically design these highly processed foods to trigger unnaturally intense levels of reward in your brain in a way that makes it hard to manage. And that if this is triggering this addictive compulsive pull, it's not just an adult choice, but really the result of a toxic environment really pushing a risky food substance that we're not well informed about. And so, that seems to actually be somewhat helpful in reducing stigma and reducing the belief that people just aren't trying hard enough and it's just a matter of willpower.<br>[...] It's clearly not all foods. It's clearly this subset of highly processed foods that are unnatural, highly refined, highly rewarding products. And that's what people get hooked on. [...] People are really struggling to get a handle on their relationship with these foods, even in the face of really stark consequences." ** [https://www.apa.org/news/podcasts/speaking-of-psychology/food-addiction American Psychological Association.] ''"Speaking of Psychology: Can you be addicted to food? With Ashley Gearhardt, PhD."'' * "And some of the behaviors that we see that people report is that they really struggle to maintain their control once they start eating some of these foods. [...] There's a tendency that even if you have some pretty significant negative consequences, health consequences, emotional consequences-you keep returning to that same dietary pattern. [...] Because the foods themselves seem to have kind of taken an oversized view in their world. They really start kind [of] driving their eating behavior and sometimes driving their entire life.<br>[...] From a public health perspective, the biggest concern is if these foods have enough of an addictive pull, they trigger enough of a response that you really struggle to eat in moderation. That says, on a broad scale, people are struggling with their relationship with these foods in a way that increases health-related problems." ** [https://wfpc.sanford.duke.edu/podcasts/ashley-gearhardt-food-addiction Duke University, ''World Food Policy Center''] ''"Ashley Gearhardt on Food Addiction and You… Yes, You."'' * We just blame it on the individual for a while and say 'oh, you know, just smoke in moderation, drink in moderation' – and eventually we get to a point where we understand the levers that the industry can pull to create products that can really hook people. ** Ashley Gearhardt, University of Michigan [https://lsa.umich.edu/psych/news-events/all-news/faculty-news/ultra-processed-foods-should-be-treated-more-like-cigarettes-tha.html clinical commentary, 2026]. ''"Ultra-processed foods should be treated more like cigarettes than food."'' <small>Roger Gould</small> * If you haven't learned how to cope with your life and your emotions in a way that doesn't include food, you will not be able to adhere to any diet plan for very long. ** [[w:Roger_Gould_(psychiatrist)|Roger Gould]], ''[[w:Shrink_Yourself|Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever]]'' (2007) - from Chapter 1, at page 19. [Page numbers are from the 2007 ''John Wiley & Sons, Inc'' edition.] <small>Stephan J. Guyenet</small> * In 1980, the US Department of Health and Human Services and the US Department of Agriculture released a document titled [https://www.dietaryguidelines.gov/sites/default/files/2019-05/1980%20DGA.pdf Dietary Guidelines for Americans].<br>[...] If you followed the ''Guidelines'' faithfully, you would end up eating a diet that's not very different from what most nutrition professionals recommend today: primarily whole grains, beans, potatoes, vegetables, fruits, nuts, lean meat, seafood, and dairy, with little added fat, sugar, or highly processed foods.<br>[...] Seems pretty reasonable. Yet you know what happened next: We got fatter. Between 1980 and today, the US obesity rate more than doubled.<br>[...] Against the advice of the ''Guidelines'', our intake of soda, refined sugar, refined starch, added fats, and highly processed food skyrocketed, along with our calorie intake. ** Stephan J. Guyenet, ''[[w:The_Hungry_Brain|The Hungry Brain: Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat]]'' (2017) ISBN 1-250-08119-X - Introduction, at p.1, 2, 3. [Page numbers are from the 2017 Vermilion edition.] * Information alone isn't always an effective way to change behavior.<br>[...] If our everyday eating behavior is primarily guided by brain systems that aren't so rational, information alone shouldn't be a very effective way to change it, no matter how accurate, clear, and compelling it is. ** ''The Hungry Brain'', Introduction, at p.3. * The [[w:Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow|conflict between the conscious and nonconscious brain]] explains why we overeat even though we don't want to. Although we try to control our behavior using the conscious parts of our brains, the nonconscious parts work to undermine our good intentions.<br>[...] What circuits are actually in charge of our everyday eating behavior, and how do they work? If we can answer these questions, we can understand why we make destructive food choices in the modern world, and how to stop. ** ''The Hungry Brain'', Introduction, at p.4. * While a calorie-seeking brain is an asset when calories are hard to come by, it's a liability when we're drowning in food. ** ''The Hungry Brain'', Introduction, at p.5. * To understand food addiction, we need to examine the ''types'' of foods that trigger addiction-like behavior. As it turns out, people don't become addicted to celery and lentils. What foods are they drawn to instead? The following quote by [Ashley] Gearhardt and [Kelly] Brownell sheds light on the question:<br>''High concentrations of sugar, refined carbohydrates (bread, white rice, pasta made with white flour), fats (butter, lard, margarine), salt, and caffeine are addictive substances and the foods containing these ingredients may be consumed in a manner consistent with addictive behavior. Just like drugs of abuse, these food substances may not be addictive until they are processed, extracted, highly refined and concentrated by modern industrial processes; meanwhile, combinations of these look-like-food substances may greatly enhance their addictive qualities.''<br>Although it's controversial to call these foods addictive, it is fair to say that they provoke [[w:Dopamine|dopamine]] release in the [[w:Striatum#Ventral_striatum|ventral striatum]]. And the more concentrated they are, the more dopamine they release. The more dopamine they release, the more they [[w:Reinforcement|reinforce behavior]], and the more they reinforce behavior, the closer they bring us to addiction. ** ''The Hungry Brain'', Chapter 3 (''"The Chemistry of Seduction"''), at p.54-55. [[File:Wanita_buncit.jpg|thumb|right|"If you find something really rewarding and you have really poor impulse control, you're in a lot of trouble."<br><br>~ Leonard Epstein]] * Drug abuse research suggests that a person's susceptibility to addiction depends not only on how [[w:Reinforcement|reinforcing]] the drug is for him but also on his ability to control his behavior in response to a craving—in other words, his ''[[w:Impulsivity|impulsivity]]''. Impulsivity describes a person's ability—or lack thereof—to suppress or ignore basic urges that are beyond conscious control. It's the opposite of what we commonly call [[w:Self-control|self-control]].<br>[...] As [Leonard] Epstein puts it, "If you find something really rewarding and you have really poor impulse control, you're in a lot of trouble." Epstein coined the term ''reinforcement pathology'' to describe the dangerous combination of high reinforcement sensitivity and high impulsivity. [...] This may identify why some people are more susceptible to food addiction than others, despite the fact that we're all exposed to potentially addictive foods. [...] On the other hand, people who have a high [relative reinforcing value of food] but who aren't impulsive ... aren't at an increased risk of overeating or weight gain. "If you have really good self-control," explains Epstein, you can overcome the reward value, and you can be a foodie: someone who loves food, who's a gourmet cook, but who is lean because they can regulate the amount of food."<br>[...] The same principles of reinforcement and impulsivity should still apply to nonaddicted people. Even if you aren't actually addicted to potato chips, you may still be drawn to eat them when you aren't hungry, and your ability to suppress that urge when they're available will influence how much of them you eat. ** ''The Hungry Brain'', Chapter 3 (''"The Chemistry of Seduction"''), at p.67, 68. * [Leonard] Epstein is quick to point out that there's a third important factor in addition to [relative reinforcing value of food] and impulsivity: the presence of highly rewarding food in your personal environment. [...] The deadliest combination occurs when an impulsive person with a high food reward sensivity lives in an environment that's bursting at the seams with highly rewarding foods. And as we will soon see, the United States qualifies as such an environment. ** ''The Hungry Brain'', Chapter 3 (''"The Chemistry of Seduction"''), at p.68. ==H== * Food is not just calories, it is information; it talks to your DNA and tells it what to do. And junk food speaks a language of disease, inflammation, and addiction. ** [[w:Mark_Hyman_(doctor)|Mark Hyman]], ''The Blood Sugar Solution: The UltraHealthy Program for Losing Weight, Preventing Disease, and Feeling Great Now'' (2012) ISBN 978-0-316-12737-0 [[File:Varsity_ordering_lines.JPG|thumb|right|The food industry has intentionally created 'hyper-palatable' foods—scientific combinations of fat, sugar, and salt designed to bypass your body's natural fullness cues and keep you hooked.]] * Sugar is eight times more addictive than cocaine. It hijacks your brain chemistry and your taste buds, driving you to eat more and more, even when you know it's killing you. ** Mark Hyman, ''The Blood Sugar Solution 10-Day Detox Diet: Activate Your Body's Natural Ability to Burn Fat and Lose Weight Fast'' (2014) ISBN 978-0-316-23002-5 * The food industry has intentionally created 'hyper-palatable' foods—scientific combinations of fat, sugar, and salt designed to bypass your body's natural fullness cues and keep you hooked. ** Mark Hyman, ''Food: What the Heck Should I Eat? The No-nonsense Guide to Achieving Optimal Weight and Lifelong Health.'' (2018) ISBN 978-0-316-33886-8 * Willpower is a myth. You cannot use willpower to override a biological addiction. If your hormones and brain chemistry are hijacked by sugar, biology will win every single time. ** Mark Hyman, ''Food Fix: How to Save Our Health, Our Economy, Our Communities, and Our Planet—One Bite at a Time'' (2020) ISBN 978-0-316-45317-2 ==K== * "Once you understand you are being stimulated, then you can begin to fight back to prevent being manipulated." ** David Kessler. [https://www.npr.org/2009/05/06/103862714/why-do-we-overeat-author-blames-fat-sugar-salt National Public Radio (NPR) interview, 2009. ''"Why do we overeat? Author blames fat, sugar, salt."''] * The reasons for obesity are much the same around the world, and the food industry is a major culprit. The modern global food corporation exists to grow its revenues and increase its profit, and it can only do that by selling more product, even when communities are already saturated with food.<br>[...] The industry dials fat, sugar and salt into just about everything it sells, makes food available on every corner through widening distribution networks, and uses marketing to persuade us that eating any time, day or night, is a socially acceptable form of entertainment.<br>[...] Multinational food corporations may not understand the neuroscience, but they know that certain inputs—namely, sugar, fat and salt—achieve their sought-after output—people come back for more. Industry executives are not concerned about our personal struggle to control what we eat. They are more interested in trying to foster the habit of "more". ** [[w:David_A._Kessler|David Kessler]], ''[https://thenutrition.academy/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/The-End-of-overeating.pdf The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite]'' (2009) ISBN 1-60529-785-2. Introduction to the UK Edition, at p.xii-xiii. (Page numbers per the ''Penguin Books'' 2010 paperback edition.) * America, Andrew said, has become "a food fun house... a carnival of delicious, fatty, salty, sugary, and, more to the point, accessible and cheap delights. How could you expect to go to the carnival and not want to go on the rides? [...] Of course you want to spend your money on this stimulation." ** ''The End of Overeating.'' ''Introduction: You are the target.'' At p.xx. * There's no shortage of people who lack control in the face of highly palatable food. ** ''The End of Overeating.'' Introduction. At p.xx. [[File:Font_Awesome_5_solid_question-circle.svg|thumb|right|<br>What's been [https://thenutrition.academy/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/The-End-of-overeating.pdf#page=154 driving us to overeat]?]] * What's been driving us to overeat?<br>[...] Few medical personnel or nutritionists, few psychological experts or public health advocates, have recognised the distinctive pattern of overeating that has become widespread in the population. No one has seen loss of control as its most defining characteristic.<br>[...] We have not understood why eating certain foods only makes us want to eat more of them. No one has recognised what's really happening. ** ''The End of Overeating.'' Part 1 ''(Sugar, Fat, Salt)'', Chapter 1 ''("Something Changed...America and Britain Gained Weight.")'' At p.6. * When the mix is right, food becomes more stimulating. Eating foods high in sugar, fat, and salt makes us eat ''more'' foods high in sugar, fat, and salt.<br>[...] Variety and ready availability further amplify overeating.<br>[...] When offered a varied selection and large portions of high-sugar, high-fat, high-salt foods, many of us will eat them in excessive amounts. ** ''The End of Overeating.'' Part 1, Chapter 3 ''("Sugar, Fat, and Salt Make Us Eat More Sugar, Fat, and Salt.")'' At p.14, 15, 17. * Food loaded with fat and sugar asserts its hold—its capture—on each of us with varying intensity. Some respond with indifference; others are able to eat just a little and then stop. But for the millions of people whose attention it grabs, the drive for reward aggressively asserts dominance over the drive for balance. [...]<br>That reward drive can become an obsession, although it's one that many people keep private.<br>[...] They feel powerless in the face of certain foods. This may be the primary characteristic of what is sometimes referred to as emotional or compulsive eating, although there are no formal definitions of these terms. Their behaviour is best understood as a reward-driven response to the sensory stimuli associated with food.<br>This response isn't exclusive to overweight people. Many thin people have the same impulse—it's just that [...] they have found ways to maintain control. ** ''The End of Overeating.'' Part 1, Chapter 5 ''("Pushing Up Our Settling Points.")'' At p.23, 24, 27-28. * Putting together the various lines of study, we gain a fuller picture of the cycle: A cue triggers a dopamine-fueled urge ... dopamine leads us to food ... eating food leads to opioid release ... and the production of both dopamine and opioids stimulates further eating.<br>The cue stimulates arousal, we pursue the reward and we experience release, and the arousal eases.<br>Cues ensure that we will work hard to obtain the reward. That concept is well known in the food industry, where the most important goal of food design is to create anticipation. ** ''The End of Overeating.'' Part 1, Chapter 10 ''("Cues Activate Brain Circuits That Guide Behaviour.")'' At p.53-54. [[File:ESC_key_on_computer_keyboard.JPG|thumb|right|<br>"Food is escape, more and more," the consultant said.]] * In a world where people often feel under stress, "Food is escape, more and more," the consultant said.<br>I turned to a venture capitalist who knows the food business intimately. He, too, talked about stress in contemporary society.<br>Another industry report. "Growing levels of stress create a need for indulgence and relaxation," declare the authors.<br>Similar themes were sounded at a Chicago conference on restaurant trends. Here, too, the discussion focused on catering to consumers whose lives are increasingly harried. Consumers are working longer hours and feeling more stress, and almost half of them say "their personal responsibilities can be overwhelming." ** ''The End of Overeating.'' Part 2 ''(The Food Industry)'', in Chapter 16 ''("That's Entertainment.")'' At p.80, 81. * Now the average American chews only ten times. Food is easier to eat when it breaks down more quickly in the mouth.<br>Processing, he said, creates a sort of "adult baby food". What results is food that doesn't require much effort to eat. "It goes down very easy; you don't even think much about eating it."<br>"We've gone through some kind of a metamorphosis over the years. We've made food very easy to get calories from. It's easy to get a lot of calories without a lot of chewing."<br>Because this kind of food disappears down our throats so quickly after the first bite, it readily overrides the body's signals that should tell us "I'm full."<br>Foods that go "whoosh" don't leave us with a sense of being well fed. By stripping food of its fiber, we also strip it of its capacity to satisfy. In making food disappear so swiftly, fat and sugar only leave us wanting more.<br>Instead of paying attention to what goes into our mouths, we're engaged in a "shovelling process," said Nancy Rodriguez. "We eat to be belly filled." ** ''The End of Overeating'', Chapter 18 ''("No Satisfaction")'', at p.95, 96. * The goal is not to vilify all food and those who serve it, but to change our thinking about ''big'' food, those huge portions of layered and loaded food with little nutritional value. We need to look differently at the people and the places that serve it. When their power to manipulate our behaviour becomes fully transparent, cues will lose their capacity to entice.<br>You'll have to set your own rules for eating in a controlled manner and maintaining a healthy weight. To live within a framework of planned eating, you'll have to understand your own behavior around food and pay attention to everything you eat. You'll need to bear in mind how the brain processes stimuli and how that drives your behavior in the presence of food and food cues. And you'll always need to remember what the food industry is trying to sell you and why. ** ''The End of Overeating'', Part Six ''("The End of Overeating")'', Chapter 48 ''("Fighting Back")'', at p.249. * We live in a world of foods designed to be addictive, driving biological instincts that provoke overeating and the food noise of daily existence. ** ** David Kessler, ''Diet, Drugs, and Dopamine: The New Science of Achieving a Healthy Weight'' (2025) ISBN 1250381274 ==L== * Food is beyond a necessity; it's also a commodity, and it has been reformulated to be an addictive substance. ** [[w:Robert_Lustig|Robert Lustig]], ''Fat Chance: Beating the Odds against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease.'' New York: Hudson Street Press. (2012) [[File:Dopamine_land.jpg|thumb|right|<br>If we don't understand what's actually happening to our brains, we become prey to industries that capitalize on our addictions in the name of selling happiness.]] * If we don't understand what's actually happening to our brains, we become prey to industries that capitalize on our addictions in the name of selling happiness. ** Robert Lustig, ''The Hacking of the American Mind''. Avery (2017) - ISBN 978-1-101-98258-7 * Overeating doesn't make us fat. The process of becoming fat makes us overeat. ** [[w:David_Ludwig_(physician)|David Ludwig]], ''Always Hungry?: Conquer Cravings, Retrain Your Fat Cells, and Lose Weight Permanently''. (2016) * Hunger isn't a passing feeling. It's a primal biological signal that the body needs fuel. Very hard to ignore over the long term. ** ''Always Hungry?'' * In the battle between mind and metabolism, you are destined to lose the battle with your body. ** ''Always Hungry?'' * ''[On the illusion of the "calorie"]'' Forget calories. Focus on quality. Let your body do the rest. ** ''Always Hungry?'' * For breakfast, you could have a bowl of cornflakes with no added sugar, or a bowl of sugar with no added cornflakes. They would taste different but, below the neck, act more or less the same. ** ''Always Hungry?'' ==M== <small>Michael Moss</small> * The tongue map is wrong. In truth, the entire mouth goes crazy for sugar. There are special receptors for sweetness in every one of the mouth's ten thousand taste buds, and they are all hooked up, one way or another, to the parts of the brain known as the pleasure zones, where we get rewarded for stoking our bodies with energy. But our zeal doesn't stop there. Scientists are now finding taste receptors that light up for sugar all the way down our esophagus to our stomach and pancreas, and they appear to be intricately tied to our appetites.<br>Sugar makes the taste of food and drink irresistible.<br>All of this has made sugar a go-to ingredient in processed foods. ** [[w:Michael_Moss|Michael Moss]], ''[[w:Salt,_Sugar,_Fat:_How_the_Food_Giants_Hooked_Us|Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us]]''. Random House (2013) ISBN 978-0-8129-8219-0. Part One, ''"Sugar"'', Chapter 1, at p.3-4. (Page numbers per the 2013 ''Random House Trade Paperbacks'' edition.) * A whole body of research has been undertaken to link sugar to compulsive overeating. ** ''Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us'' (2013) - Ch.1, at p.6. [[File:Take_Your_Child_to_Work_(5670679650).jpg|thumb|right|<br>"I'm still shocked at what goes on in this country," she told me. "Where every single food has some sweetened component that wasn't normally supposed to be sweetened."]] * The [[w:Bliss_point_(food)|bliss point]] is the precise amount of sweetness—no more, no less—that makes food and drink most enjoyable. <br>In relation to sugar, the term appears to have been coined in the 1970s by a Hungarian-born mathematician named Joseph L. Balintfy, who used computer modeling to predict eating behaviour. The concept has obsessed the food industry ever since.<br>The only real challenge for companies when it comes to the bliss point is ensuring that their products hit this sweet spot dead on. Companies are not going to sell as much ketchup, Go-Gurt, or loaves of bread if they're not sweet enough. Or, put a different way, they will sell a lot more ketchup, Go-Gurt, and loaves of bread if they can determine the precise bliss point for sugar in each of those items. ** ''Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us'' (2013) - Ch.1, at p.10, 11. * A biopsychologist agreed to show me how the bliss point in calculated. "We're going to ask the child which one they like ''better''. The one they like better, they are going to give to Big Bird [not Oscar the Grouch] because they know he likes things that taste good."<br>Tatyana's bliss point for the pudding was 24 percent sugar, twice the level of sweetness that most adults can handle in pudding. As far as children go, she was on the lower side; some go as high as 36 percent.<br>"They are manipulating or exploiting the biology of the child. They're impacting the ''health'' of that child." ** ''Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us'' (2013) - at Ch.1, at p.12, 15, 16. * "I'm still shocked at what goes on in this country," she told me. "Where every single food has some sweetened component that wasn't normally supposed to be sweetened." ** ''Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us'' (2013) - Ch.1, at p.21. * Our brains are hardwired to remember where we found calorie-dense foods, and the modern grocery store exploits this evolutionary survival mechanism every single day. ** Michael Moss, ''Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions''. W. H. Allen & Co. (2021) ISBN 978-0753556344, ISBN 0753556340 * When it comes to the speed at which it hits the brain, processed food makes tobacco look slow. The reward signal is instantaneous, reinforcing the addictive loop before you even finish chewing. ** ''Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions'' ==O== * Would it not be better if they spent more money on wholesome things like oranges and wholemeal bread or if they even, like the writer of the letter to the New Statesman, saved on fuel and ate their carrots raw? Yes, it would, but the point is that no ordinary human being is ever going to do such a thing. The ordinary human being would sooner starve than live on brown bread and raw carrots. '''And the peculiar evil is this, that the less money you have, the less inclined you feel to spend it on wholesome food.''' A millionaire may enjoy breakfasting off orange juice and Ryvita biscuits; an unemployed man doesn't. Here the tendency of which I spoke at the end of the last chapter comes into play. When you are unemployed, which is to say '''when you are underfed, harassed, bored, and miserable, you don't want to eat dull wholesome food. You want something a little bit 'tasty'. There is always some cheaply pleasant thing to tempt you.''' ** [[w:George_Orwell|George Orwell]], [[w:The_Road_to_Wigan_Pier|The Road to Wigan Pier]] (1937) (from Pt. 1, Ch. 6.) ==P== <small>Susan Peirce Thompson</small> * Food addiction isn't a character flaw or a lack of willpower; it is a predictable biological response to modern engineered foods in a brain that is highly susceptible. ** Susan Peirce Thompson, ''Bright Line Eating: The Science of Living Happy, Thin, and Free''. (2017) ISBN 978-1401952532 * Refined sugar and refined flour are not foods — they are highly purified, fast-acting chemicals that hijack the reward pathways of the brain in the exact same manner as drugs of abuse. ** ''Bright Line Eating: The Science of Living Happy, Thin, and Free'' * When the brain is flooded with dopamine from hyper-palatable foods, the resulting insulin spikes block leptin from reaching the hypothalamus, leaving the individual in a state of perpetual, biological starvation. ** Susan Peirce Thompson, ''The Official Bright Line Eating Cookbook: Weight Loss Made Simple''. (2019) ISBN 978-1401956790 * For someone with a highly susceptible food-addict brain, the advice to 'eat everything in moderation' is not just useless; it is biologically impossible and psychologically damaging. ** Susan Peirce Thompson, ''ReZolve: The Science of Re-Wiring Your Brain to Resolve Weight and Food Issues''. (2025) ISBN 978-1401977719 <small>David Perlmutter</small> * If you cannot control your hunger and appetite, good luck managing your blood chemistry, metabolism, waistline, and, in the bigger picture, the prospect of crippling your brain. ** [[w:David_Perlmutter|David Perlmutter]], ''Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar--Your Brain's Silent Killers'' (2013) * The food we eat goes beyond its macronutrients of carbohydrates, fat and protein. It's information. It interacts with and instructs our genome with every mouthful, changing genetic expression. ** David Perlmutter, ''Brain Maker: The Power of Gut Microbes to Heal and Protect Your Brain–for Life'' (2015) ISBN 978-0316380102 * "Shop the periphery of the grocery store. Anything with an ingredient list is suspect... [Ultra-processed foods] aren’t just empty—they’re addictive, designed to light up your brain’s reward system like a slot machine. ** David_Perlmutter, Clinical Commentary Archive, ''[https://drperlmutter.com/ultra-processed-foods-threaten-brain "Ultra-Processed Foods Threaten Your Brain"]'' (2024) <small>Lulu Hunt Peters</small> * A good way to show [your stomach] that you are master is to fast for at least one day—drink nothing but pure water, hot or cold, as you prefer. ** [[w:Lulu_Hunt_Peters|Lulu Hunt Peters]], ''Diet and Health: With Key to the Calories'' (1918), at [https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/15069/pg15069-images.html#Chapter8 Chapter 8] ''("At last. How to Reduce.")'' <small>Michael Pollan</small> * Cooking for yourself is the only sure way to take back control of your diet from the food scientists and food processors, and to guarantee you're eating real food rather than edible foodlike substances, with their unhealthy oils, high-fructose corn syrup, and surfeit of salt. ** [[w:Michael Pollan|Michael Pollan]], ''[[w:In_Defense_of_Food|In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto]]'' (2008) ISBN 978-1594201455 * You're better off eating the real thing in moderation than binging on 'lite' food products that pack less flavor but more chemical additives. ** Michael Pollan, ''[[w:Food_Rules:_An_Eater%27s_Manual|Food Rules: An Eater's Manual]]'' (2009) ISBN 978-0143116387 * If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't. ** ''Food Rules: An Eater's Manual'' * The most important thing about your diet is who cooks it, a human or a corporation. ** Michael Pollan, ''[[w:Cooked:_A_Natural_History_of_Transformation|Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation]]'' (2013) ISBN 978-1594204210 <small>Barry Popkin</small> * Over the last half-century, we've experienced rapid and widespread changes in how we eat, drink, and move. We live in a fat world because the human body—a product of many millenia of evolution—can't keep up with these changes. ** [[w:Barry_Popkin|Barry Popkin]], ''The World Is Fat: The Fads, Trends, Policies, And Products That Are Fattening The Human Race'' (2009). From Chapter 1, ''A Brief History of the Modern Diet'', at page 17. (Page numbers are from the ''Penguin Group (USA) Inc'' 2009 hardback edition.) * We know that more than 60 percent of us have a very high preference for sweetness. The food industry intuitively—or perhaps more systematically—understands this as well. Thousands of foods in our supermarkets are sweetened. Does this create a dependency or craving that increases our consumption of sweetened foods? Do we habituate to sweetness and ultimately require greater and greater levels of sweetness to satisfy our cravings? [...] We're beginning to understand more about our predilection for sweet foods. ** ''The World Is Fat'' (2009) - Chapter 1, at p.32. * We have greatly increased the energy density of our snacks, as well as the size and number of snacks per day.<br>[...] A second major [[w:Nutrition_transition|difference in eating patterns since the 1950s]] is the large amount of extra eating and drinking we do on weekends. [...] Something profound has changed in the way we eat between Friday to Sunday.<br>[...] So, we snack every day, and eat more on the weekend, but we've also been supersizing much of what we eat. [...] We get a larger portion and thus we eat more.<br>[...] It is clear that the entire fast-food industry changed during the 1980s and 1990s. Meanwhile, the packaged-food industry was doing the same: larger portions for junk food and soft drinks became the mode of sales promotion.<br>Increased portion sizes, particularly for energy-dense dishes, has been an important force behind our increased food intake over the past decade. ** ''The World Is Fat'' (2009) - Chapter 1, at p.34, 35, 36. ==S== [[File:Fast_food_(282678968).jpg|thumb|right|<br>What we eat has changed more in the last forty years than in the previous forty thousand.]] <small>Eric Schlosser</small> * A fast food kitchen is merely the final stage in a vast and highly complex system of mass production. Foods that may look familiar have in fact been completely reformulated. What we eat has changed more in the last forty years than in the previous forty thousand. ** [[w:Eric_Schlosser|Eric Schlosser]], ''[[w:Fast_Food_Nation|Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side Of The All-American Meal]]'', (2001). Introduction, at p.7. (Page numbers per the 2002 ''Penguin Books'' edition.) * The United States now has the highest obesity rate of any industrialized nation in the world. No other nation in history has gotten so fat so fast. What has changed is the nation's way of eating and living. In simple terms: when people eat more and move less, they get fat. In the United States, people have become increasingly sedentary. And the growth of the fast food industry has made an abundance of high-fat, inexpensive meals widely available.<br>As people eat more meals outside the home, they consume more calories, less fiber, and more fat. Commodity prices have fallen so low that the fast food industry has greatly increased its portion sizes, without reducing profits, in order to attract customers.<br> Obesity is now second only to smoking as a cause of mortality in the United States. The [[w:CDC|CDC]] estimates that about 280,000 Americans die every year as a direct result of being overweight. Obesity has been linked to heart disease, colon cancer, stomach cancer, breast cancer, diabetes, arthritis, high blood pressure, infertility, and strokes.<br>Obesity is extremely difficult to cure. During thousands of years marked by food scarcity, human beings developed efficient physiological mechanisms to store energy as fat. As a result, our bodies are far more efficient at gaining weight than at losing it. Health officials have concluded that prevention, not treatment, offers the best hope of halting the worldwide obesity epidemic. ** ''Fast Food Nation'', (2001) - Chapter 10, ''"Global Realisation"'', at pages 240, 241, 242, 243. * Nobody in the United States is forced to buy fast food. The first step toward meaningful change is by far the easiest: stop buying it. The usefulness of the market, its effectiveness as a tool, cuts both ways. The real power of the American consumer has not yet been unleashed. There are almost three hundred million of you. A good boycott, a refusal to buy, can speak much louder than words.<br>Pull open the glass door, feel the rush of cool air, walk inside, get in line, and look around you. Then place your order. Or turn and walk out the door. Even in this fast food nation, you can still have it your way. ** ''Fast Food Nation'', (2001) - Epilogue, ''"Have It Your Way"'', at pages 269, 270. <small>Eric Schlosser, with Charles Wilson</small> * The point of this book is to take that strong impulse we all feel - our hunger for sweet, salty, fatty fast foods - and make you think about it. ''Chew On This'' will tell you where fast food comes from, who makes it, what's in it and what happens when you eat it. This is a book about fast food and the world it has made. ** [[w:Eric_Schlosser|Eric Schlosser]] and Charles Wilson, ''Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know about Fast Food.'' (2006), ISBN 13: 978-0-618-59394-1 (Houghton Miffin Harcourt). ISBN-10: 0-141-31844-9 (Penguin Books). Introduction, at page 2. (Page numbers from the 2006 Penguin edition.)<br>The book is an adaptation of the earlier Eric Schlosser book, ''[[w:Fast_Food_Nation|Fast Food Nation]]'' (2001) referred to above, aimed at younger readers. [[File:Fast_food_love.jpg|thumb|right|By adding the right chemicals, processed foods can be made to taste like just about anything.]] * Fast food may look like the sort of food people have always eaten, but it's different. It's not the kind of food you can make in your kitchen from scratch. Fast food is something radically new. Indeed, the food we eat has changed more during the past thirty years than during the previous 30,000 years.<br>[...] For the most part, fast food tastes pretty good. That's one of the main reasons people like to eat it. Fast food has been carefully designed to taste good.<br>[...] Chew on this: people should know what lies beneath the shiny happy surface of every fast food restaurant. They should know what really lurks between those sesame seed buns. As the old saying goes: you are what you eat. ** ''Chew on This'' - Introduction, at pages 4, 5. * At first, man-made flavour additives were mainly used in baked goods, candies and soft drinks. And then, during the mid-fifties, sales of processed food began to soar. By the mid-1960s, the American flavour industry was churning out compounds to supply the taste of Pop Tarts, Hamburger Helper, Bac-O-Bits, Tab, Tango, Filet-O-Fish burgers and literally thousands of other products.<br>[...] By adding the right chemicals, processed foods can be made to taste like just about anything.<br>[...] Flavours are created by blending many chemicals in tiny amounts. [...] The taste of a food can be changed enormously by tiny changes in the flavouring mix.<br>In order to give a processed food the right taste, a flavourist must always consider the food's 'mouthfeel' - the combination of textures that you notice as you eat it. The mouthfeel can be adjusted through the use of different fats, gums and starches. ** ''Chew on This'' - Chapter 4, at pages 84, 86, 87-88. [[File:Obesity_in_the_US_(4014987104).jpg|thumb|right|The fast food industry would like people to believe the problem isn't the food, it's the customer's behaviour. 'There are no good foods or bad foods,' the industry argues, implying that if you're overweight it's your own fault.]] * During the past two decades the flavour industry's role in food production has become so influential that many children now like man-made flavours more than the real thing. [...] When flavourists create additives for kids' foods, they usually get rid of the bitterness and increase the sweetness. Children's flavours are often twice as sweet as those made for adults. [...] The use of strong, unusual flavours is now one of the most popular trends in kids' food. ** ''Chew on This'' - Ch.4, at p.90. * For years, the US government has argued that the colour and flavour additives widely used in processed foods are safe. That may not always be the case.<br>[...] A number of scientists now worry that eating so many different chemicals in processed foods may not be good for young children. [...] But the safety of eating a large combination of additives at every meal remains unknown. ** ''Chew on This'' - Ch.4, at p.92, 93. * Thirty years [on from 1976], about 19,000 government-funded schools - one of every five in the United States - sell branded fast food in the cafeteria.<br>[...] 'I don't think it's healthy,' a fourteen-year-old told a reporter, 'but I eat it because it tastes good.' ** ''Chew on This'' - Ch.5, at p.100. * The fast food industry would like people to believe the problem isn't the food, it's the customer's behaviour. 'There are no good foods or bad foods,' the industry argues, implying that if you're overweight it's your own fault. The emphasis is on changing what the customers do, not what the fast food companies do. ** ''Chew on This'' - Ch.8, at p.189. * Nobody is forced to buy fast food. The first step towards real change is by far the easiest. Stop buying it. [...] When you buy something from a company you are, in effect, voting for its policies and its behaviour. ** ''Chew on This'' - Ch.8, at p.196, 197. <small>Kay Sheppard</small> * Food addiction is a progressive, chronic, and fatal disease, characterized by an inability to control the intake of specific, trigger substances. ** Kay Sheppard, ''Food Addiction: The Body Knows'' (1989) * For some people, foods can be as addictive as alcohol. Gummy bears and marshmallow chicks can be vicious killers whose effects can lead to depression, irritability and even suicide. ** Kay Sheppard, ''Food Addiction: The Body Knows: Revised & Expanded Edition'', (1993) ISBN 978-1558742765 * Recovery does not begin with calorie counting; it begins with the total elimination of the chemical triggers — refined sugar, flour, and wheat — that drive the physical craving. * Kay Sheppard, ''From the First Bite: A Complete Guide to Recovery from Food Addiction'' (2000) * For the food addict, a single bite of a trigger food is not a treat — it is a chemical relapse that reawakens the physical obsession. ** ''From the First Bite: A Complete Guide to Recovery from Food Addiction'' * Food addiction is characterized by an obsession with food, obsession with weight, and loss of control over the amount eaten. ** Kay Sheppard, [https://michaelprager.com/Kay-Sheppard-video-interview-food-addiction-abstinence-obesity-author-recovery video interview with journalist Michael Prager], 2013. ==T== * The brain chemistry that drives the addict to seek pleasure beyond the point of satiety is similar, whether the user favours Jack Daniels or [[w:Jack_in_the_Box|Jack-in-the-Box]]. ** Vera Tarman, ''Food Junkies: The Truth About Food Addiction'' (2014) * If food addicts could smoke or inject sugar, food addiction would be on the same playing field for researchers as cocaine or heroin. ** ''Food Junkies'' * Today I say am an addict. A respectable addict, of course. Not like the desperate addicts who have cashed in their mortgage... After all, my drug is cheap, the cheapest of all drugs, and therefore the most pernicious... And my drug is everywhere I look: in the drive-through gas station's convenience store, in the supermarket, on the lusciously displayed menu of an exclusive restaurant. ** ''Food Junkies'' * Sugar, for example, shares the same neurochemistry and neural pathways as cocaine. Sweetened chocolate mimics the effects of alcohol and opiates. Flour modulates moods and anaesthetizes pain just as many drugs do. ** ''Food Junkies'' * Obesity, eating disorders, and chemical dependency on food are three distinct and very different diseases -- and demonstrate different behaviors around food. We can categorize the corresponding behaviours of these conditions as problems that occur within the normal eating, emotional eating, and food addiction spectrums.<br>Obesity is entirely a physical problem: a result of eating too many calories while expending too few... Normal eaters simply eat too much... Normal eaters represent a large proportion of the obese. They can regulate their obesity by learning how to change the circumstances that foster poor willpower: better sleep, stress management, improving social skills, and changing a toxic food environment are only a few of the modifications that can be made...<br>Certainly, people suffering from [[w:Eating_disorder|eating disorders]] and [[w:Food_addiction|food addiction]] can also be obese, but their primary condition is not [[w:Obesity|obesity]]. In their cases, obesity is just another symptom of their emotional disturbance or their food addiction. The underlying [[w:Psychological_trauma|emotional trauma]] that drives the bulimic to stuff himself needs to be addressed first before the physical aspects of obesity can be seriously addressed; likewise, the sugar that is propelling the addictive overeater needs to be removed first before tackling any weight issues. ** ''Food Junkies'' * I believe that food addicts need the same type of support offered to alcoholics and drug addicts. They need to detoxify first and then learn about their disease, while dealing with the thoughts and feelings that arise once they are off their drug. Quite often, psychological issues do not become obvious until food addicts have been abstinent for a long period of time. That's why ongoing support is needed to prevent addicts from relapsing in a panicky effort to cope. ** ''Food Junkies'' * Withdrawal occurs once a person [[w:Whole_food|stops eating any addictive food]]. Though abstaining from foods is a contentious subject in the scientific literature, there is no question that it will cause a level of discomfort that often drives addicts back to eating...<br>The good news is that detoxification is not a long process; it only lasts for a relatively short period - between one week and four weeks...<br>Cheating by having a bite here or a spoonful there is also an excellent way to suffer withdrawal in perpetuity. Withdrawal will not end if the substance is constantly being reintroduced back into the brain reward pathway. ** ''Food Junkies'' * Feelings of deprivation, obsessions about food, and anxiety arising from unresolved trauma that was being “medicated” by the addictive foods may appear like spectres that linger, worsening before they get better. ** ''Food Junkies'' * From food addiction to food serenity - freedom tastes great! ** ''Food Junkies'' * It's not food. It's an industrially produced edible substance. ** [[w:Chris_van_Tulleken|Chris van Tulleken]], ''Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn't Food… and Why Can't We Stop?'' (2023) ISBN 978-1529160222<br>[+ ''[https://www.shortform.com/blog/ultra-processed-people-book An article about this book]''] * The convenience, price and marketing of UPF urge us to eat constantly and without thought. ** ''Ultra-Processed People'' * This is the science behind how UPF affects the human body:<br>• The destruction of the food matrix by physical, chemical and thermal processing means that UPF is, in general, soft. This means you eat it fast, which means you eat far more calories per minute and don’t feel full until long after you’ve finished.<br>• UPF typically has a very high calorie density because it’s dry, and high in fat and sugar and low in fibre, so you get more calories per mouthful.<br>• It displaces diverse whole foods from the diet, especially among low-income groups. And UPF itself is often micronutrient-deficient, which may also contribute to excess consumption.<br> • The mismatch between the taste signals from the mouth and the nutrition content in some UPF alters metabolism and appetite in ways that we are only beginning to understand, but that seem to drive excess consumption.<br>• UPF is addictive, meaning that for some people binges are unavoidable.<br>• The emulsifiers, preservatives, modified starches and other additives damage the microbiome, which could allow inflammatory bacteria to flourish and cause the gut to leak.<br>• The convenience, price and marketing of UPF urge us to eat constantly and without thought, which leads to more snacking, less chewing, faster eating, increased consumption, and tooth decay.<br>• The additives and physical processing mean that UPF affects our [[w:Satiety|satiety system]] directly. Other additives may affect brain and endocrine function, and plastics from the packaging might affect fertility.<br>• The production methods used to make UPF require expensive subsidy and drive environmental destruction, carbon emissions and plastic pollution, which harm us all. ** ''Ultra-Processed People'' * The signals that tell you to ‘stop eating’ haven’t evolved to handle food this soft and easily digested, so soft that it’s essentially pre-chewed. ** ''Ultra-Processed People'' * “So dominant is soy as industrial animal feed that the average person in the UK or Europe consumes approximately 61kg of soy per year, largely in the form of animal products such as chicken, pork, salmon, cheese, milk and eggs. Only 20–30 per cent of imported soy is ‘certified sustainable’ (and we have already discussed how little that means). So, if you live in the UK, there is a tennis court of land producing soy in the tropics just for you, and most of it comes from places like Brazil and Argentina where ecosystems that affect global climate are being destroyed. ** ''Ultra-Processed People'' * It’s soft and typically calorie dense, so you eat it at a rate that your body can’t keep up with when it comes to feeling full. Things like protein isolates, refined oils and modified carbohydrates are absorbed so quickly they may not even reach the part of the gut that sends the fullness signal to the brain. They’re not things you have evolved to eat. Some of the additives are well known to cause harm – be particularly aware of emulsifiers and artificial sweeteners. Emulsifiers can thin the mucus lining of the gut, allowing faecal bacteria to leak into the blood stream and inflaming your whole body. The non-nutritive sweeteners that tell your body sugar is coming but don’t supply any calories seem to cause metabolic stress and changes to the microbiome. Other additives that affect the microbiome are maltodextrins, modified starches and lots of the gums and thickeners. Flavour enhancers (glutamate, guanylate, inosinate and ribonucleotides on ingredient lists) drive excess consumption. Again, they tell your body a lie about the nutritional content of the food you’re eating when they’re added out of context. ** ''Ultra-Processed People'' * In 2022, a study published in the journal ''Neurology'' looked at data from over 72,000 people. Increasing intake of UPF by 10 per cent was associated with a 25 per cent increase in the risk of dementia and a 14 per cent increase in the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. ** ''Ultra-Processed People'' * There is an apparently established fact that food isn't addictive... but here's the thing; it's not 'real' food that's addictive, it's UPF, otherwise known as these 'industrially produced edible substances'..." ** Chris van Tulleken, interviewed in ''i News'', 2023. ''"How I reprogrammed my brain to quit ultra-processed food."'' * Food addiction isn't a recognised disorder by the World Health Organisation or in the manual of psychiatric illness... But many clinicians report they have patients who experience symptoms of food addiction [where people] continue to eat [certain] foods despite trying to stop. ** Chris van Tulleken, [https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/articles/upf_food_cravings BBC Food commentary, 2023], ''"There's a reason we crave ultra-processed food."'' ==V== * Animals feel pleasure in performing all the functions for which they are destined... There is great pleasure in eating and drinking... but it is clear that if man were always eating... his organs could not sustain it. ** [[w:Voltaire|Voltaire]], ''[[w:Dictionnaire_philosophique|Dictionnaire philosophique]]'', (1764).<br>''[https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionnaire_philosophique/Garnier_(1878)/Bien_souverain_bien ("Les animaux ressentent du plaisir à faire toutes les fonctions auxquelles ils sont destinés... Il y a un grand plaisir à manger et à boire... mais il est clair que si l'homme mangeait toujours... ses organes n'y pourraient suffire.")]'' ==W== * According to [[w:David A. Kessler|David Kessler]], the former FDA commissioner, the food industry is not just aiming to satisfy its customers. ... The industry, including the growers, concocters, testers, packagers, marketers, distributors, and retailers, is investing in ''hyperstimulating'' foods—creations with the power to keep us eating. There are scientists hard at work right now devising ways to get you to eat more than you naturally desire. ** [[w:Wendy Wood (psychologist)|Wendy Wood]], {{cite book|url=https://www.google.com/books?id=YmOMDwAAQBAJ| isbn=9781250159083 | title=Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick | date=October 2019 | publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux }} [https://books.google.com/books?id=YmOMDwAAQBAJ&q=hyperstimulating#v=snippet&q=former%20fda%20commissioner&f=false 1st sentence] [https://books.google.com/books?id=YmOMDwAAQBAJ&q=keep+us+eating#v=snippet&q=keep%20us%20eating&f=false 2nd sentence] [https://books.google.com/books?id=YmOMDwAAQBAJ&q=scientists+hard+at+work#v=snippet&q=scientists%20hard%20at%20work&f=false 3rd sentence] * For food addicts, 'abstinence first, absolutely,' is the key to living and a good life. ** Philip Werdell, cited in [https://michaelprager.com/werdell_food_addiction_research_Acorn clinical interview by Michael Prager], "Phil Werdell: 'Abstinence first, absolutely.'" (2010) * This is the key to those who are dually diagnosed with anorexia and food addiction: they need to surrender control of both their obsession with not 'getting fat' and their specific food drugs. They need to learn to not restrict and to not overeat. ** Philip Werdell, SHiFT Recovery Clinical Paper, ''"Eating Disorders & Food Addiction"'' (2014) * Food addiction begins with physical craving. Physical craving distorts the hunger instinct for some people, making these people want more food than they need. This physical craving is a biochemical brain change caused by extra sugar or other hyper-processed foods. ** Philip Werdell, ''Food Addiction Denial: False Information and Irrational Thinking'', (2022) ISBN 978-1667853529 ==Y== <small>John Yudkin</small> * Right at the outset I can make two key statements that no one can refute:<br>First, ''there is no physiological requirement for sugar''; all human nutritional needs can be met in full without having to take a single spoon of white or brown or raw sugar, on its own or in any food or drink.<br>Secondly, ''if only a small fraction of what is already known about the effects of sugar were to be revealed in relation to any other material used as a food additive, that material would promptly be banned. ** [[w:John_Yudkin|John Yudkin]], ''[http://www.teethforlife.co.za/images/Pure,%20White%20and%20Deadly%20-%20%20John%20Yudkin.pdf Pure, White, and Deadly]'' (1972. Revised and expanded edition 1986.) (Page numbers per the ''Penguin Books'' 1988 edition.) From Ch.1 ''("What's so different about sugar?")'', at p.2.<br>(Wikipedia page for the book is [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure,_White_and_Deadly '''here'''].) * It ''does'' matter that your diet is now very likely to be different from that which has been evolved over millions of years as the diet most suitable for you as a member of the species ''Homo sapiens''. ** ''Pure, White, and Deadly'' - Ch.2 ''("I eat it because I like it")'', at p.5. [[File:Sugar_in_Junk_Food_-_Doughnuts,_Biscuits,_Chocolate_and_Cake.jpg|thumb|right|Sugar is a material for which people rapidly develop a craving, and for which there is nevertheless no physiological need.]] * In the affluent countries a large proportion of the populations has a very wide choice of foods, irrespective of season or geography. The effect has been that these people are able more and more to choose foods that please their palates, and not simply foods that fill their stomachs.<br>[...] The advances in agricultural techniques and general technology [...] have had a tremendous effect on the way foods can deliberately be changed by extractions and additions, so that quite new foods can be made that do not exist in anything like these forms in nature.<br> [...] We can do all these things largely because nutritional value and palatability are two different qualities.<br> [...] For some time industry has been able to isolate an essence of sweetness, which has the property of imparting a very desirable palatability to a wide range of foods and drinks.<br>[...] It was chiefly the development of the sugar plantations in the Caribbean, based on the slave trade, that set the pattern of the sugar industry in the form known today. [...] Price fell, demand grew, and consumption rose to exceedingly high levels.<br>[...] Sugar is a material for which people rapidly develop a craving, and for which there is nevertheless no physiological need.<br>[...] It is the dissociation of palatability and nutritional value that is the major cause of the 'malnutrition of affluence'. [...] Satisfying our palates is no longer a guarantee that we are satisfying our nutritional needs. ** ''Pure, White, and Deadly'' - Ch.2 ''("I eat it because I like it")'', at p.11, 12, 13, 14. [[File:Obese_Man_in_Motorized_Cart_at_Lowe%27s.jpg|thumb|right|The fact is that, given the choice, people eat foods that they like, and the more they like them the more they are likely to eat them. You may think this so obvious that it is unnecessary to say it, but this simple fact accounts for most obesity.]] * People take sweet foods and drinks because they like them. And just as you will eat less than you need if your food is unpalatable and unappetizing, so you will eat more than you need if it is especially appetizing.<br>[...] Most often, people eat chocolate or cake because they are tempted by their appearance and taste, and not because they really need those extra calories. [...] People often eat and drink to satisfy appetite — for pleasure, rather than to satisfy hunger.<br>It is worth spending a moment or two more on this distinction between appetite and hunger. What are the foods that make overweight people overeat? Mostly, people don't become overweight because they eat too much meat or fish, or too many eggs, or too much fruit or vegetables. It is almost always that they eat too much bread, or sweets and chocolates, or cakes and biscuits, or because they drink too many sugary cups of tea or soft drinks. Or, of course, it may be because they drink too much beer or other alcoholic drink.<br>[...] In general, people take sugar or sugary foods or drinks or alcohol for pleasure.<br>[...] When you come to think of it, almost all of the tempting foods that are taken to satisfy appetite rather than hunger contain carbohydrate that is either sugar or starch, or they contain alcohol. [...] These carbohydrate-rich foods, by the way, have another characteristic: they are all artificial foods that do not exist in nature in the form in which we eat them. As I have said elsewhere, people are not likely to get fat if they make up their diet mostly from the foods that were available to our prehistoric ancestors, like meat, fish, eggs, fruit and vegetables, while as far as possible avoiding manufactured foods, most of which are carbohydrate-rich.<br>The fact is that, given the choice, people eat foods that they like, and the more they like them the more they are likely to eat them. You may think this so obvious that it is unnecessary to say it, but this simple fact accounts for most obesity.<br>[...] When you come to think of it, the fact that a low-carbohydrate diet is an effective way of losing excessive weight also suggests that obesity is caused by eating the irresistible high-carbohydrate foods. The low-carbohydrate diet severely limits just those foods that, as we saw, people find most tempting, while allowing you to eat as much as you like of foods such as meat and fish and vegetables. You lose weight because these last are foods the body needs to satisfy hunger, and not just to satisfy appetite, so you stop eating when you have had enough. This is not to say that these foods are in the slightest degree unappetizing; they do not, however, encourage overeating. It should also be remembered that low-carbohydrate foods are the ones that happen to contain a high concentration of the nutrients that the body needs.<br>[...] Let us just say that you cannot help getting fat if you are taking in more calories than you can dispose of — and a very obvious and potent source of excessive calories is the consumption of foods and drinks that contain sugar, largely because people find them so delicious.<br>[...] What with the high prevalence of obesity, there is no acceptable reason for recommending that sugar intake should ''not'' be reduced, or that it should be reduced only as part of a general reduction of food. It is after all the only food that supplies nothing whatever in the way of nutrients. It supplies nothing whatever other than calories, and calories are all that matter in weight reduction.<br>[...] The proof of the pudding is in the eating — or in this case in the not eating. Many people lose excessive weight very successfully simply by giving up sugar, or by severely restricting it.<br>[...] Sometimes, in order to reduce their weight to acceptable levels, people also need to restrict starchy foods, and so adopt a strict low-carbohydrate diet. [...] And this kind of diet gives a far better supply of nutrients than is made available under the orthodox regime that involves eating the same foods as before, only less. ** ''Pure, White, and Deadly'' - Ch.10 ''("Sugar's calories make you thin - they say.")'', at p.56, 57, 58, 59, 61. == On ''[[w:Food_noise|food noise]]'' (a.k.a. food-related intrusive thoughts ("FRITs")) == * Food noise [is] 'persistent, intrusive thoughts about food that are disruptive to daily life and make healthy behaviors difficult.' ** Dr. Hanim Diktas, PhD, in ''Appetite'' (2025) * [[w:Bruce_Ames|[Bruce] Ames]] also believes, though he hasn't yet proven it, that micronutrient deficiencies may contribute to obesity. His hypothesis is that a body starved of critical nutrients will keep eating in the hope of obtaining them. Unrelenting hunger "may be a biological strategy for obtaining missing nutrients." Such that the more low-quality food one eats, the more one wants to eat, in a futile quest for the absent nutrients. ** [[w:Michael Pollan|Michael Pollan]], [[w:In_Defense_of_Food|''In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto'']], (2008) - Part 2, Chapter 3, at p.123, 124. [[File:Hungry_2683234.svg|thumb|right|]] * In plain language, our brains are experts at making us desire the foods and beverages we see, smell, and hear (e.g., the sound of bacon sizzling in a skillet). These motivational responses that arise from reactivity to food cues are consciously experienced as food-related cognitions and food cravings, defined as intense desires or urges to consume food. These responses can manifest regardless of physiological hunger levels and ultimately lead to increased food-seeking and consumption behaviors.<br>[...] Individual differences in reactivity to food cues might help to partially explain why some people are more susceptible than others to overeating and developing obesity when living in similar environments. For example, heightened cue reactivity, which is often assessed as self-reported preoccupation with food or measured using changes in brain response to food cues, has been observed in overweight individuals and those living with a binge-eating disorder. These data seem to indicate that similar levels of exposure to food cues might lead to different levels of food noise experienced by individuals, which manifest as rumination and obsessive preoccupation with food (i.e., FRITs) and can lead to overeating and maladaptive eating behaviors.<br>[...] our conceptual model considers two categories of potential cues: external food cues, which arise from the physical and social environment (e.g., seeing and smelling palatable foods), and internal food cues, such as those that might arise from homeostatic hunger signals (e.g., noticing that your stomach is growling) and thoughts about food and eating. ** 2023 paper by Daisuke Hayashe and others - ''[https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/15/22/4809 What Is Food Noise? A Conceptual Model of Food Cue Reactivity]'' [[File:My_Mind_and_My_Thoughts_by_kartick_dutta.jpg|thumb|right|]] * This study aimed to examine the top videos on TikTok under the hashtag “FoodNoise” and explore what content creators discuss around food noise. ** Article published 29 April 2026 by Daisuke Hayashe and others - ''[https://www.nature.com/articles/s41387-026-00423-z “And just like that, quiet”: a content analysis of TikTok videos on food noise]'' * The struggle with obesity is not simple as a battle of willpower. The disease of obesity is complex and has a much deeper brain-gut relation than thought. The hypothalamus regulates adipocyte mass by integrating hormonal and neural signals from the gut and adipose tissue to maintain energy homeostasis. In obesity, this homeostasis becomes dysregulated, leading to persistent hunger and intrusive thoughts about eating that reflect the brain's defended higher adipocyte mass. These thoughts tend to be persistent, undesirable, or distressing in a noisy pattern patients call “food noise”. ** Abdulhameed Alhamzi, Carel W. le Roux, February 2026 - [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/oby.70161 The Voice of a Disease: Why Food Noise Can No Longer Be Ignored!] * The basic premise of this book is that some foods are '''"intense"''' while others are '''"xtense.'''"<br>'''"Xtense" foods''' are natural foods that our bodies are able to have a reasonable and sane relationship with. We eat them until we are full and then we lose interest in them. We don't long for them or fantasise about them or try to give them up or try to limit our intake only to crack and eat them till we feel sick. Did you ever binge out on a head of cabbage followed by some beetroots and turnip mash? Nope. Thought not. Xtense foods just don't have that kind of effect. [[File:Food_Addiction_(286843160).jpg|thumb|right|]]<br>'''"Intense" foods''' however are the "crack cocaine" of the food world. Our bodies cannot deal with them. They affect our metabolism and our brain functioning so badly that we cannot apply the mealy-mouthed logic of the [[w:Food_pyramid_(nutrition)|food pyramid]] and only have them in moderation. If you've ever eaten a family bar of chocolate, or a whole packet of biscuits, or six doughnuts that were on special offer in the supermarket, all by yourself, then this is you. You have a problem with "intense" foods. I actually don't think every human being gets caught in this "intense" food trap, but if you're one of the affected, you'll know who you are.<br>Way back when I first realised I had a problem with food I longed to instead have a problem with cigarettes or even drugs or bad company because I could give them up completely, which, I told myself, would be far easier than having a food problem, as food could never be given up completely. '''This book, by categorising foods into "xtense" and "intense" allows you to do exactly that. If it's "intense", give it up. Forever.'''<br>The author doesn't have an easy index of "intense" and "xtense" foods at the back but rudimentary intelligence will allow you to figure them out yourself. Plus, I do think you have to apply your own life experience to her story and know what works for you. [...]<br> ** From a review filed on Amazon by "Northness" dated 31 March 2012, about Judy Corstjens' 2010 book,'' "Xtensity: Why 5% of Dieters Succeed"''. * I read ''Xtensity'' in one sitting and found it both fun and an eye opener. Disguised as a light novel à la Bridget Jones (if Bridget had graduated from Oxford...), '''it is actually a serious reflection on the causes of the current obesity epidemic and the futility of restricted calorie diets. The premise is as follows: evolution has conditioned us to prefer what the author calls "intense" foods, (basically sugar, salt and fat) and the food industry has exploited this evolutionary trait by incessantly peddling an ever increasing variety of attractive, cheap and readily available foods that make us fat. At the same time, our modern day obsession with thinness drives us towards the most absurd diets. However, low calorie diets do not work because evolution has also conditioned us to react to lower food intake as if fighting an impending famine: Feeling hungry triggers survival mechanisms in our body that automatically lower our energy output and produce even more fat cells. The solution is to avoid "intense" foods as much as possible and replace them with "Xtense" healthy nutritious foods. It's not easy to do, but it works.''' Goodbye Bridget Jones and Hello [[w:Arthur_De_Vany#Evolutionary_fitness|Art de Vany]]! ** From a review filed on Amazon by "MCR" dated 2 April 2014, about Judy Corstjens' 2010 book,'' "Xtensity: Why 5% of Dieters Succeed"''. == See also == * [[Addiction]] * [[Binge eating]] * [[Food]] * [[Overeating]] == External links == {{wikipedia}} * Some salt/sugar/fat quotes from Michael Moss, ''"Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us"'', on [https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/21520265-salt-sugar-fat-how-the-food-giants-hooked-us goodreads.com] * Discussion of [https://www.westonaprice.org/book-reviews/the-hacking-of-the-american-mind-by-dr-robert-h-lustig/#gsc.tab=0 ''"The Hacking of the American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of Our Bodies and Brains"''] by Dr Robert H. Lustig [[Category:Psychology]] [[Category:Eating disorders]] 7nxq3yw0ui3pu8z49bjasi2vc6vblk8 0 308464 3961086 3960487 2026-07-05T15:18:50Z ~2026-38395-79 3347700 /* Dialogue */ 3961086 wikitext text/x-wiki {{italic title}} [[File:Toy Story 5 logo.svg|thumb]] '''''{{w|Toy Story 5}}''''' is a 2026 animated film and a sequel to ''[[Toy Story 4]]''. It is the fifth installment of the ''Toy Story'' film series and about Jessie assuming the role as the leader of Bonnie's toys while facing the situation of every children's current playtime today: technology. The sequel stars Joan Cusack, Tim Allen, Tom Hanks, Greta Lee, Conan O'Brien, Shelby Rabara, Craig Robinson, with Scarlett Spears, and Mykal-Michelle Harris. :''Directed by {{w|Andrew Stanton}}. Written by Andrew Stanton and {{w|Kenna Harris}}.'' {{film-stub}} == Dialogue == <hr width=50%> :''[while confronting Bonnie's tablet, Lilypad]'' :'''Bert''': I'm gonna have some words with this Lilypad and and let her know how things are 🏃 around here. :'''Goofy''': Try to stay ☺️, Jessie. :'''Bert''': 🐝, you know me. I'm the definition of ☺️. ''[tosses Bullseye up to the bed in anger jumps on it to confront her]'' :'''Goofy''': Eh, it's not gonna work. :''[Jessie approaches the tablet who was sleeping]'' :'''Siri''': ''[wakes up]'' 👋! :'''Bert''': ''[surprised]'' What Is Google...?! :'''Siri''': 😞. Didn't 😢 to scare you, 🛌 mode ya know? No? Ah, forget it. Was just gonna hop on the 🔌, 🔋 could use a little refresh... <hr width=50%> == Cast == {{cast listing| * [[Tom Hanks]] - Woody * [[Tim Allen]] - Buzz Lightyear/Multi-Buzz * {{w|Joan Cusack}} - Jessie * {{w|Greta Lee}} - Lilypad * [[Conan O'Brien]] - Smarty Pants * {{w|Scarlett Spears}} - Bonnie Anderson * {{w|Shelby Rabara}} - Snappy * {{w|Mykal-Michelle Harris}} - Blaze Manoukian * {{w|Craig Robinson}} - Atlas * {{w|Lori Alan}} - Mrs. Anderson * {{w|Jay Hernandez}} - Mr. Anderson * {{w|Bonnie Hunt}} - Dolly * {{w|Kristen Schaal}} - Trixie * {{w|Tony Hale}} - Forky * [[w:John Hopkins (actor)|John Hopkins]] - Mr. Pricklepants * {{w|Wallace Shawn}} - Rex * {{w|Ernie Hudson}} - Combat Carl * {{w|Krys Marshall}} - Mrs. Manoukian * {{w|Jeff Bergman}} - Mr. Potato Head * {{w|Blake Clark}} - Slinky Dog * Anna Vocino - Mrs. Potato Head * {{w|Bad Bunny}} - Pizza with Sunglasses * {{w|Annie Potts}} - Bo Peep * {{w|Matty Matheson}} - Dr. Nutcase * {{w|John Ratzenberger}} - Hamm * [[Keanu Reeves]] - Duke Caboom * {{w|Melissa Villaseñor}} - Karen Beverly * {{w|Alan Cumming}} - Evil Bullseye * {{w|Jeff Pidgeon}} - Aliens * {{w|Tyla}} - Inflatable Flamingo }} ==External links== *{{Wikipedia-inline}} *{{Commonscat-inline}} *{{IMDb title|29355505}} {{Toy Story}} [[Category:2026 American animated films]] [[Category:2026 computer-animated films]] [[Category:American 3D animated films]] [[Category:Adventure films]] [[Category:Toy Story]] [[Category:Comedy films]] [[Category:Fantasy films]] [[Category:American computer-animated films]] [[Category:Sequel films]] [[Category:Films directed by Andrew Stanton]] [[Category:American sequel films]] t8mwmyrv1stao856lgwxpyzlfl9eft6 3961124 3961086 2026-07-05T15:49:12Z Morkoz 3317021 Undid revision [[Special:Diff/3961086|3961086]] by [[Special:Contributions/~2026-38395-79|~2026-38395-79]] ([[User talk:~2026-38395-79|talk]]) 3961124 wikitext text/x-wiki {{italic title}} [[File:Toy Story 5 logo.svg|thumb]] '''''{{w|Toy Story 5}}''''' is a 2026 animated film and a sequel to ''[[Toy Story 4]]''. It is the fifth installment of the ''Toy Story'' film series and about Jessie assuming the role as the leader of Bonnie's toys while facing the situation of every children's current playtime today: technology. The sequel stars Joan Cusack, Tim Allen, Tom Hanks, Greta Lee, Conan O'Brien, Shelby Rabara, Craig Robinson, with Scarlett Spears, and Mykal-Michelle Harris. :''Directed by {{w|Andrew Stanton}}. Written by Andrew Stanton and {{w|Kenna Harris}}.'' {{film-stub}} == Dialogue == <hr width=50%> :''[while confronting Bonnie's tablet, Lilypad]'' :'''Jessie''': I'm gonna have some words with this Lilypad and and let her know how things are run around here. :'''Buzz''': Try to stay calm, Jessie. :'''Jessie''': Buzz, you know me. I'm the definition of calm. ''[tosses Bullseye up to the bed in anger jumps on it to confront her]'' :'''Buzz''': Eh, it's not gonna work. :''[Jessie approaches the tablet who was sleeping]'' :'''Lilypad''': ''[wakes up]'' Hi! :'''Jessie''': ''[surprised]'' What the...?! :'''Lilypad''': Sorry. Didn't mean to scare you, sleep mode ya know? No? Ah, forget it. Was just gonna hop on the charger, battery could use a little refresh... <hr width=50%> == Cast == {{cast listing| * [[Tom Hanks]] - Woody * [[Tim Allen]] - Buzz Lightyear/Multi-Buzz * {{w|Joan Cusack}} - Jessie * {{w|Greta Lee}} - Lilypad * [[Conan O'Brien]] - Smarty Pants * {{w|Scarlett Spears}} - Bonnie Anderson * {{w|Shelby Rabara}} - Snappy * {{w|Mykal-Michelle Harris}} - Blaze Manoukian * {{w|Craig Robinson}} - Atlas * {{w|Lori Alan}} - Mrs. Anderson * {{w|Jay Hernandez}} - Mr. Anderson * {{w|Bonnie Hunt}} - Dolly * {{w|Kristen Schaal}} - Trixie * {{w|Tony Hale}} - Forky * [[w:John Hopkins (actor)|John Hopkins]] - Mr. Pricklepants * {{w|Wallace Shawn}} - Rex * {{w|Ernie Hudson}} - Combat Carl * {{w|Krys Marshall}} - Mrs. Manoukian * {{w|Jeff Bergman}} - Mr. Potato Head * {{w|Blake Clark}} - Slinky Dog * Anna Vocino - Mrs. Potato Head * {{w|Bad Bunny}} - Pizza with Sunglasses * {{w|Annie Potts}} - Bo Peep * {{w|Matty Matheson}} - Dr. Nutcase * {{w|John Ratzenberger}} - Hamm * [[Keanu Reeves]] - Duke Caboom * {{w|Melissa Villaseñor}} - Karen Beverly * {{w|Alan Cumming}} - Evil Bullseye * {{w|Jeff Pidgeon}} - Aliens * {{w|Tyla}} - Inflatable Flamingo }} ==External links== *{{Wikipedia-inline}} *{{Commonscat-inline}} *{{IMDb title|29355505}} {{Toy Story}} [[Category:2026 American animated films]] [[Category:2026 computer-animated films]] [[Category:American 3D animated films]] [[Category:Adventure films]] [[Category:Toy Story]] [[Category:Comedy films]] [[Category:Fantasy films]] [[Category:American computer-animated films]] [[Category:Sequel films]] [[Category:Films directed by Andrew Stanton]] [[Category:American sequel films]] 5olqhf1ei3q9kmuz0o1fik8uzsy48wv 0 308692 3961313 3956840 2026-07-05T23:16:41Z GrimRob 1187925 added thumbnail 3961313 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Broda Shaggi cropped.png|thumb]] '''[[w:Samuel Animashaun Perry|Samuel Animashaun Perry ]]''' (born 18 September 1993), known professionally as '''Broda Shaggi''', is a Nigerian comedian, actor, songwriter and musician. He is a two-time Best Actor in a Comedy, Movie or TV Series winner at the Africa Magic Viewers' Choice Awards in 2022 and 2023. ==Quotes== * As an actor, I am good at creating different characters. ** [https://quotes.ng/quotes/as-an-actor-i-am-good-at-creating-different-characters--4699/] Broda Shaggi quotes on acting * Social media is a very big platform beyond what people see. While some people think it is just for posting pictures, others see the social media as a big market; their office. ** [https://punchng.com/people-dont-believe-when-i-say-i-dont-drink-or-smoke-broda-shaggi/#google_vignette] ==External links== {{wikipedia}} {{IMDb name|nm9982250}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Shaggi, Broda}} [[Category:Comedians from Nigeria]] [[Category:Actors from Nigeria]] [[Category:Songwriters from Nigeria]] [[Category:1993 births]] [[Category:Living people]] cq7ojsm4lcn8onx7jes5b9rzm9xspjv 2 308901 3961266 3960424 2026-07-05T19:48:54Z BD2412 3982 Done for now. 3961266 wikitext text/x-wiki Done for now. olt67un1pdaeizoeerts7903y47xt1y 0 309138 3961312 3959826 2026-07-05T23:12:34Z GrimRob 1187925 added thumbnail 3961312 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:정성호, Official Portrait.jpg|thumb]] '''{{w|Jeong Seong-ho}}''' ([[Korean language|Korean]]: 정성호) is a South Korean politician. He is currently the Minister of Justice and was a member of the National Assembly. {{Political-stub}} ==Quotes about Jeong== * South Korea’s Minister of Justice, Jeong Seong-ho, has published an extraordinary Facebook post confirming what many feared. A ninety-five-year-old man, [[Shincheonji Church of Jesus|Shincheonji’s Chairman]] {{w|Lee Manhee}}, is being held in detention on accusations that involve no violence and no risk of escape. The alleged crime is a supposed violation of the principle of separation of religion and state.<br>… The Minister continues: “Religious organizations are communities of faith intended for inner peace and spiritual comfort, not political groups seeking power.” This sentence reveals a conception of [[religion]] that confines believers to a spiritual sphere and denies them the right to participate in public life. Democracy is built on the idea that citizens, including those who belong to religious communities, may express opinions, join parties, and vote. The Minister’s statement is a direct challenge to this principle.<br>The Minister writes: “Only when the state remains in the secular sphere and religion remains in the spiritual sphere can democracy and peace within the community be maintained.” Democracy is maintained when citizens are free to speak, vote, and participate. This includes religious citizens. The Minister’s post shows how political power may use the language of constitutional principles to silence religious communities. It shows how [[justice]] may be replaced by [[ideology]]. It shows how the boundary between state and religion may be invoked to justify repression.<br>… The Minister’s use of Scripture in an official communication crosses the very line he claims to defend. He invokes religion while accusing others of mixing religion and politics. ** [[Massimo Introvigne]], [https://bitterwinter.org/shincheonji-and-the-unification-church-south-koreas-minister-of-justice-promises-strict-punishment-of-false-prophets/ "Shincheonji and the Unification Church: South Korea’s Minister of Justice Promises “Strict Punishment” of “False Prophets”"], ''Bitter Winter'' (July 2, 2026) ==External links== {{wikipedia}} [[Category:Politicians from South Korea]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Lawyers from South Korea]] nu5wbux7dbay0mcmkkcanpvy1cyt3y5 0 309196 3961062 3960137 2026-07-05T12:32:19Z GrimRob 1187925 cleanup 3961062 wikitext text/x-wiki '''[[w:Nimix|Ojonimi Abraham Ejigbo]]''' (born 4 April 1989) better known by the stage name '''Nimix''', is a Nigerian Afro gospel singer and songwriter.He is well known for the hit song “Sapa no fit catch me”, which was released in 2021. ==Quotes== *Sapa sapa :No fit catch me :Cos i know i know the God am serving :He will open the windows of heaven for me :Money go dey on ground. :*[https://www.ceenaija.com/nimix-sapa-no-fit-catch-me-mp3-lyrics/] *I want people to understand that Gospel music is not confined to a single stereotype. **[https://www.thisdaylive.com/2024/04/18/nimix-breaks-the-stereotype-utilizing-gospel-music-to-demonstrate-its-vibrancy-and-relevance/] *“It’s vibrant, it’s diverse, and it speaks to the joys and struggles of everyday life. My goal is to break down barriers and show that Gospel music can resonate with people from all walks of life.” **[https://www.thisdaylive.com/2024/04/18/nimix-breaks-the-stereotype-utilizing-gospel-music-to-demonstrate-its-vibrancy-and-relevance/] ==External links== {{wikipedia}} [[category:Living people]] [[Category:1989 births]] be4rkcg0ejktgv4v3gk6oz9m4koxavc 0 309205 3961318 3960202 2026-07-05T23:24:29Z GrimRob 1187925 added thumbnail 3961318 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Sean cameron michael headshot 2.jpg|thumb]] '''{{W|Sean Cameron Michael}}''' (aka Sean C. Michael) (born 24 December 1969) is a South African actor, writer and singer. A native English speaker, he is also fluent in Afrikaans. == Quotes == *I was initially drawn to the project because STARZ had produced such great work in the past, such as the award-winning Spartacus TV series, and because Michael Bay was attached to produce his first foray into television, which was obviously a bonus. It was a no-brainer, really – what actor doesn’t want to work on a new pirate TV series? **[https://inthewordsof.com/sean-cameron-michael-interview/] *Treasure Island is such a wonderful story, and in my research and preparation before shooting season 1, I re-read the book and watched the 1950s Bobby Driscoll film, as well as the 2012 Eddie Izzard TV movie. Other reference material was Colin Woodard’s The Republic of Pirates and George Woodbury’s edition of The Great Days of Piracy. Of course, our story takes place 20 years before the Robert Louis Stevenson classic. Still, it was essential for me to place myself in that world and understand its politics, drama, and feel. **[https://inthewordsof.com/sean-cameron-michael-interview/] *Besides working with dialect coaches to perfect Richard’s very unique old English accent, I also referenced shows like Downton Abbey. I was fortunate to work with Charles Dance on Strike Back, so he, too, was an inspiration. **[https://inthewordsof.com/sean-cameron-michael-interview/] == External link == {{Wikipedia}} {{IMDb name|nm0584206}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Michael, Cameron }} [[Category:1989 births]] [[Category:Living people]] 1xp76jpw032oq1a94fqh9n59q1ogsoi 3961319 3961318 2026-07-05T23:25:05Z GrimRob 1187925 3961319 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Sean cameron michael headshot 2.jpg|thumb]] '''{{W|Sean Cameron Michael}}''' (aka Sean C. Michael) (born 24 December 1969) is a South African actor, writer and singer. A native English speaker, he is also fluent in Afrikaans. == Quotes == *I was initially drawn to the project because STARZ had produced such great work in the past, such as the award-winning Spartacus TV series, and because Michael Bay was attached to produce his first foray into television, which was obviously a bonus. It was a no-brainer, really – what actor doesn’t want to work on a new pirate TV series? **[https://inthewordsof.com/sean-cameron-michael-interview/] *Treasure Island is such a wonderful story, and in my research and preparation before shooting season 1, I re-read the book and watched the 1950s Bobby Driscoll film, as well as the 2012 Eddie Izzard TV movie. Other reference material was Colin Woodard’s The Republic of Pirates and George Woodbury’s edition of The Great Days of Piracy. Of course, our story takes place 20 years before the Robert Louis Stevenson classic. Still, it was essential for me to place myself in that world and understand its politics, drama, and feel. **[https://inthewordsof.com/sean-cameron-michael-interview/] *Besides working with dialect coaches to perfect Richard’s very unique old English accent, I also referenced shows like Downton Abbey. I was fortunate to work with Charles Dance on Strike Back, so he, too, was an inspiration. **[https://inthewordsof.com/sean-cameron-michael-interview/] == External link == {{Wikipedia}} {{IMDb name|nm0584206}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Michael, Cameron }} [[Category:1969 births]] [[Category:Living people]] mojt6604kxwmzfixbsfr2g9quw226ah 0 309207 3961059 3960204 2026-07-05T12:28:09Z GrimRob 1187925 GrimRob moved page [[Buchi]] to [[Buchi Atuonwu]]: Misspelled title 3960204 wikitext text/x-wiki '''[[w:Buchi Atuonwu|Buchi Atuonwu]]'''(born 24 June 1964), better known as Buchi, is a Nigerian songwriter, author, poet, spoken words and reggae gospel artist. He started as a disc jockey in night clubs. ==Quotes== *It is true that the people who were to execute us were already kneeling before us, ready to fire. It is true that I called out to a God I didn’t know. ‘If you save me, I’ll serve you”. Let me just say that he saved me from that firing squad, and I devoted my life to serving him. **[https://www.legit.ng/entertainment/celebrities/1589804-i-devoted-life-god-saved-gospel-singer-buchi-narrates-encounter-a-firing-squad/] * I have said to women severally, your knees on the ground for your children before your maker is stronger than the machinations of the enemy against them. Mothers can pray back their children because they have the spiritual jurisdiction over them. **[https://thesun.ng/i-would-have-died-as-a-cultist-buchi-gospel-singer/] *What happens in the universities hurt me so much. I am pained, concerned and interested in it because that is where minds are molded. **[https://thesun.ng/i-would-have-died-as-a-cultist-buchi-gospel-singer/] *Stay away from drugs, weed and violence. Again, stay away from anything that could make you unaccountable for your time. **[https://thesun.ng/i-would-have-died-as-a-cultist-buchi-gospel-singer/] ==External links== {{wikipedia}} 7cg3tvooic053j8x63ho5ugg0hr6jv4 3961061 3961059 2026-07-05T12:29:48Z GrimRob 1187925 cleanup 3961061 wikitext text/x-wiki '''[[w:Buchi Atuonwu|Buchi Atuonwu]]''' (born 24 June 1964), better known as '''Buchi''', is a Nigerian songwriter, author, poet, spoken words and reggae gospel artist. He started as a disc jockey in night clubs. ==Quotes== *It is true that the people who were to execute us were already kneeling before us, ready to fire. It is true that I called out to a God I didn’t know. ‘If you save me, I’ll serve you”. Let me just say that he saved me from that firing squad, and I devoted my life to serving him. **[https://www.legit.ng/entertainment/celebrities/1589804-i-devoted-life-god-saved-gospel-singer-buchi-narrates-encounter-a-firing-squad/] * I have said to women severally, your knees on the ground for your children before your maker is stronger than the machinations of the enemy against them. Mothers can pray back their children because they have the spiritual jurisdiction over them. **[https://thesun.ng/i-would-have-died-as-a-cultist-buchi-gospel-singer/] *What happens in the universities hurt me so much. I am pained, concerned and interested in it because that is where minds are molded. **[https://thesun.ng/i-would-have-died-as-a-cultist-buchi-gospel-singer/] *Stay away from drugs, weed and violence. Again, stay away from anything that could make you unaccountable for your time. **[https://thesun.ng/i-would-have-died-as-a-cultist-buchi-gospel-singer/] ==External links== {{wikipedia}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Atuonwu, Buchi}} [[Category:1964 births]] eilnp371aw9infz2fuiba6iw3urw6jt 0 309211 3961054 3960229 2026-07-05T12:20:50Z GrimRob 1187925 cleanup 3961054 wikitext text/x-wiki '''[[w:Gift Ugochi Christopher|Gift Ugochi Christopher]]''' (born 8 October 1993) is a Nigerian singer, musician and gospel songwriter popularly known by his stage name Minister GUC. He gained recognition following the release of his first album in December 2020 with the hit tracks All that matters, Desperate and Yours. He officially began his music career in 2019 after he was signed to EeZee Concepts, a Nigerian gospel a record label. ==Quotes== *Don't be trapped by the cost of a vain lifestyle to the extent that you lose your essence and peace of mind. **[https://naijasermons.com.ng/quote-of-the-day-by-minister-guc-5/] *THE WORD OF GOD IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE WORD OF MAN, SO STRIVE FOR STAMINA AND FORESIGHT **[https://naijasermons.com.ng/quote-of-the-day-by-minister-guc-17/] *In all you do,strive to become a person of stamina and foresight, not tossed around by words or expectations from people who don't know the peculiarity of your journey in life. **[https://naijasermons.com.ng/quote-of-the-day-by-minister-guc-17/] ==External links== {{wikipedia}} {{DEFAULTSORT:GUC, Minister}} [[Category:1993 births]] mz8s11by5hbh0ilxabwce7qvfta8qg8 3961055 3961054 2026-07-05T12:21:52Z GrimRob 1187925 GrimRob moved page [[GUC (Minister GUC)]] to [[Minister GUC]]: matches WP name 3961054 wikitext text/x-wiki '''[[w:Gift Ugochi Christopher|Gift Ugochi Christopher]]''' (born 8 October 1993) is a Nigerian singer, musician and gospel songwriter popularly known by his stage name Minister GUC. He gained recognition following the release of his first album in December 2020 with the hit tracks All that matters, Desperate and Yours. He officially began his music career in 2019 after he was signed to EeZee Concepts, a Nigerian gospel a record label. ==Quotes== *Don't be trapped by the cost of a vain lifestyle to the extent that you lose your essence and peace of mind. **[https://naijasermons.com.ng/quote-of-the-day-by-minister-guc-5/] *THE WORD OF GOD IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE WORD OF MAN, SO STRIVE FOR STAMINA AND FORESIGHT **[https://naijasermons.com.ng/quote-of-the-day-by-minister-guc-17/] *In all you do,strive to become a person of stamina and foresight, not tossed around by words or expectations from people who don't know the peculiarity of your journey in life. **[https://naijasermons.com.ng/quote-of-the-day-by-minister-guc-17/] ==External links== {{wikipedia}} {{DEFAULTSORT:GUC, Minister}} [[Category:1993 births]] mz8s11by5hbh0ilxabwce7qvfta8qg8 3961057 3961055 2026-07-05T12:22:50Z GrimRob 1187925 formatting 3961057 wikitext text/x-wiki '''[[w:Gift Ugochi Christopher|Gift Ugochi Christopher]]''' (born 8 October 1993) is a Nigerian singer, musician and gospel songwriter popularly known by his stage name '''Minister GUC'''. He gained recognition following the release of his first album in December 2020 with the hit tracks All that matters, Desperate and Yours. He officially began his music career in 2019 after he was signed to EeZee Concepts, a Nigerian gospel record label. ==Quotes== *Don't be trapped by the cost of a vain lifestyle to the extent that you lose your essence and peace of mind. **[https://naijasermons.com.ng/quote-of-the-day-by-minister-guc-5/] *THE WORD OF GOD IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE WORD OF MAN, SO STRIVE FOR STAMINA AND FORESIGHT **[https://naijasermons.com.ng/quote-of-the-day-by-minister-guc-17/] *In all you do,strive to become a person of stamina and foresight, not tossed around by words or expectations from people who don't know the peculiarity of your journey in life. **[https://naijasermons.com.ng/quote-of-the-day-by-minister-guc-17/] ==External links== {{wikipedia}} {{DEFAULTSORT:GUC, Minister}} [[Category:1993 births]] kb935ev2mv76ysgy9ftxz1uh7vvpbp2 0 309219 3961325 3960321 2026-07-05T23:33:08Z AC9016 2870313 /* Quotes about Youngkin */ 3961325 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Youngkin Governor Portrait.jpg|thumb|The will of the people grants a license to serve. A temporary license extended with trust, with faith, and with expectations to deliver on promises made.]] '''[[w:Glenn Youngkin|Glenn Allen Youngkin]]''' (born December 9, 1966) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 74th governor of Virginia from 2022 to 2026. A member of the Republican Party, he spent 25 years at The Carlyle Group, a private equity firm, where he became co-CEO in 2018. == Quotes == [[File:VirginiaWarMemorialStatue.jpg|thumb|If someone tells you there are no heroes anymore --- tell them to come to Virginia.]] === 2022 === ==== "Strengthening the Spirit of Virginia" (15 January 2022) ==== :<small>[https://rga.lis.virginia.gov/Published/2022/SD1B/PDF Inaugural address as Governor of Virginia in Richmond, VA]</small> * '''The will of the people grants a license to serve. A temporary license extended with trust, with faith, and with expectations to deliver on promises made.''' * Our politics have become too toxic. Soundbites have replaced solutions --- taking precedence over good-faith problem-solving. * We must venture forward because a new and better day is ahead of us. After all, we are Virginians whose leaders gave birth to the most exceptional nation the world has ever known. Yes a country with chapters of great injustice. But also a country birthed on the fundamental notion of freedom. That we’re all endowed by our “Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”. A nation whose ideas and ideals have been replicated and memorialized around the globe for nearly 250 years. And Virginians have led boldly from our founding – Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and our very first governor, Patrick Henry, who insisted on adding the Bill of Rights to the Constitution to protect our individual liberties. * This is our lineage. And following generations carried that mantle, leading and serving as Virginians are called to do. Barrier-breakers like Maggie Walker and Governor Doug Wilder (who is here today) --- leading the way for the historic inauguration today of our new Lt Governor Winsome Earle-Sears and our new Attorney General Jason Miyares. The people of Virginia just elected the most diverse leadership in commonwealth history. Sending a message that Virginia is big enough for the hopes and dreams of a diverse people. We stand here today to accept the license to lead. And will do so by including all and welcoming all. Because the future of Virginia belongs to all. * Somewhere along the way we’ve lost the ability to show respect to one another. To disagree without being disagreeable. * Our deep respect and gratitude remains for the heroes, who’ve fallen in the service to our nation, the veterans living among us today and those currently serving on active duty America is free because you were and are brave. So I ask every hero serving in our military today, every veteran of the service in years past, every member of law enforcement who has worn the badge, every first responder, to either stand, or raise your hand, so we can recognize your service. '''If someone tells you there are no heroes anymore --- tell them to come to Virginia.''' * We must set our eyes on the common values and common future that unites us. To work every day to strengthen the spirit of Virginia, and redeem the promise of our people. It’s day one. Let’s get to work. === 2025 === ==== Address at Hampden-Sydney College (November 2025) ==== * A college that is older than America itself; when we think through that statement, it means so much more than a birthday, because Hampden-Sydney was there at the very beginning – a college that not only has contributed mightily to our history, but one that is contributing to our presence and has a deep responsibility to contribute to our collective future. That, my friends, is what standing on the shoulders of giants, is all about. ** As quoted in [https://farmvilleherald.com/2025/11/youngkin-marks-colleges-250th-anniversary/"Youngkin marks college’s 250th anniversary"], ''Farmville Herald'', 13 November 2025 * Hampden-Sydney stands for so much more than an education. It is based on a foundational belief that everyone in here was created in the image of God, and therefore, they deserve the respect to be treated as such. And that in order to represent not only that deep belief, but also the nation under which it was founded, you must be an active citizen. ** As quoted in [https://farmvilleherald.com/2025/11/youngkin-marks-colleges-250th-anniversary/"Youngkin marks college’s 250th anniversary"], ''Farmville Herald'', 13 November 2025 * I will remind you that it doesn’t end when you walk off these grounds. In fact, it becomes even more important because it is less expected in the world today. (It’s important to be) men who learn confidence and embrace moral excellence; men who, after you depart from here, can be counted on to be good citizens. ** As quoted in [https://farmvilleherald.com/2025/11/youngkin-marks-colleges-250th-anniversary/"Youngkin marks college’s 250th anniversary"], ''Farmville Herald'', 13 November 2025 == Quotes about Youngkin == [[File:Convention on the Rights of the Child.svg|thumb|“See, there’s a basic rule here, which is that children belong to parents,” Youngkin said. “Not to the state, not to schools, not to bureaucrats, but to parents.” Notably, children do ''not'' “belong to” their parents or guardians, but to ''themselves'', a central tenet of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child adopted more than 30 years ago. The positioning of parents as the ultimate authority over their children has deep roots in fundamentalist Christianity and white supremacy, even as those on the far right like Youngkin insist trans people and advocates are the real “groomers.” ~ Samantha Riedel]] * Dozens of graduating students walked out of Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) on Saturday after Gov. Glenn Youngkin took the stage to deliver a commencement address. Video of the Saturday morning incident shows throngs of graduates getting up from their seats and leaving the Greater Richmond Convention Center as the Republican governor began talking. A few could be heard cheering the students on. The governor, who also received an honorary doctorate of humane letters at the commencement ceremony, kicked off his speech with a shout-out to all the mothers ahead of Mother’s Day. He did not acknowledge those leaving and carried on with his speech. "The world needs your music," Youngkin said to those students still in attendance. "You, all of you, will be the symphony. Make it a masterpiece." ** Bradford Betz, [https://www.foxnews.com/us/vcu-students-walk-out-glenn-youngkin-commencement-speech?msockid=36363094c6846cc502db236fc7e36d86/"VCU students walk out of Gov Youngkin's commencement speech"], Fox News, 12 May 2024 * Many who left during Youngkin’s speech showed support for Palestinians amid Israel’s ongoing war in the Gaza Strip against Hamas terrorists. Others held signs signaling their opposition to the governor’s education policies, per reporting from local outlet WRIC-TV. The dissenters marched around the perimeter while chanting, "No books, no peace, let the knowledge increase" and "Disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest." Later, a group of graduates, many still in their graduation gowns, ended up in a park and chanted, "The people united will never be defeated." Fox News Digital reached out to VCU and the governor’s office for comment. ** Bradford Betz, [https://www.foxnews.com/us/vcu-students-walk-out-glenn-youngkin-commencement-speech?msockid=36363094c6846cc502db236fc7e36d86/"VCU students walk out of Gov Youngkin's commencement speech"], Fox News, 12 May 2024 * A transgender teen called out Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin to his face for his anti-trans policies at a CNN town hall Thursday night. The town hall event, which the news network titled “The War on Education,” began contentiously as Niko, a trans boy in high school, bluntly confronted Youngkin about the nonsensicality of his “model policies,” which would, in part, force students to use bathrooms and locker rooms matching their assigned sex at birth, rather than lived gender. Hundreds of students across the state walked out of school in protest of the model policies when they were released last year.<br>“Look at me. I am a transgender man,” Niko said, smiling slightly. “Do you really think that the girls in my high school would feel comfortable sharing a restroom with me?”<br>To be clear, “passing” trans people are not the only ones who should be able to use gendered facilities, and some folks are a little too eager to imply that’s what matters. Still, Niko’s question hits at the hypocritical core of anti-trans laws, which quite literally force boys to use girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms. ** Samantha Riedel, [https://www.them.us/story/trans-teen-virginia-governor-youngkin/"A Trans Teen Called Out Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin at a Town Hall "], ''Them'', 10 March 2023 * Predictably, Youngkin began to evade and dissemble the moment a question mark left Niko’s lips. The governor quickly deflected the issue towards trans girls joining gendered sports teams — which eagle-eyed readers will notice is not what Niko asked about — and stuck to his base-rallying message: “when parents are engaged with their children, then you can make good decisions together.”<br>Youngkin, who was the CEO of the private equity firm The Carlyle Group until 2020, won election in 2021 on the back of a Donald Trump endorsement and moral panic over LGBTQ+ and racial justice books in schools, like Maia Kobabe’s coming-of-age graphic novel ''Gender Queer''. Youngkin insisted to the Town Hall audience that “parents have a right to be engaged in their children’s lives,” sidestepping entirely the question of unaccepting or abusive guardians to assert that “a child does want their parent.” ** Samantha Riedel, [https://www.them.us/story/trans-teen-virginia-governor-youngkin/"A Trans Teen Called Out Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin at a Town Hall "], ''Them'', 10 March 2023 * '''“See, there’s a basic rule here, which is that children belong to parents,” Youngkin said. “Not to the state, not to schools, not to bureaucrats, but to parents.” Notably, children do ''not'' “belong to” their parents or guardians, but to ''themselves'', a central tenet of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child adopted more than 30 years ago. The positioning of parents as the ultimate authority over their children has deep roots in fundamentalist Christianity and white supremacy, even as those on the far right like Youngkin insist trans people and advocates are the real “groomers.”'''<br>“Tonight, Glenn Youngkin once again claimed that he believes that ‘parents matter.’ In reality, he only cares about some parents,” said Geoff Wetrosky, Campaign Director at the Human Rights Campaign, in a statement Thursday night. “His extremist, anti-LGBTQ+ positions should have no place in Virginia, or this country.” ** Samantha Riedel, [https://www.them.us/story/trans-teen-virginia-governor-youngkin/"A Trans Teen Called Out Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin at a Town Hall "], ''Them'', 10 March 2023 [[Category:Governors of Virginia]] [[Category:Republican Party (United States) politicians]] [[Category:Harvard University alumni]] [[Category:1966 births]] [[Category:Living people]] gwtsgvhlqdhnrebzjqb9fgjgte4k4ov 3961329 3961325 2026-07-05T23:36:20Z AC9016 2870313 /* Quotes about Youngkin */ 3961329 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Youngkin Governor Portrait.jpg|thumb|The will of the people grants a license to serve. A temporary license extended with trust, with faith, and with expectations to deliver on promises made.]] '''[[w:Glenn Youngkin|Glenn Allen Youngkin]]''' (born December 9, 1966) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 74th governor of Virginia from 2022 to 2026. A member of the Republican Party, he spent 25 years at The Carlyle Group, a private equity firm, where he became co-CEO in 2018. == Quotes == [[File:VirginiaWarMemorialStatue.jpg|thumb|If someone tells you there are no heroes anymore --- tell them to come to Virginia.]] === 2022 === ==== "Strengthening the Spirit of Virginia" (15 January 2022) ==== :<small>[https://rga.lis.virginia.gov/Published/2022/SD1B/PDF Inaugural address as Governor of Virginia in Richmond, VA]</small> * '''The will of the people grants a license to serve. A temporary license extended with trust, with faith, and with expectations to deliver on promises made.''' * Our politics have become too toxic. Soundbites have replaced solutions --- taking precedence over good-faith problem-solving. * We must venture forward because a new and better day is ahead of us. After all, we are Virginians whose leaders gave birth to the most exceptional nation the world has ever known. Yes a country with chapters of great injustice. But also a country birthed on the fundamental notion of freedom. That we’re all endowed by our “Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”. A nation whose ideas and ideals have been replicated and memorialized around the globe for nearly 250 years. And Virginians have led boldly from our founding – Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and our very first governor, Patrick Henry, who insisted on adding the Bill of Rights to the Constitution to protect our individual liberties. * This is our lineage. And following generations carried that mantle, leading and serving as Virginians are called to do. Barrier-breakers like Maggie Walker and Governor Doug Wilder (who is here today) --- leading the way for the historic inauguration today of our new Lt Governor Winsome Earle-Sears and our new Attorney General Jason Miyares. The people of Virginia just elected the most diverse leadership in commonwealth history. Sending a message that Virginia is big enough for the hopes and dreams of a diverse people. We stand here today to accept the license to lead. And will do so by including all and welcoming all. Because the future of Virginia belongs to all. * Somewhere along the way we’ve lost the ability to show respect to one another. To disagree without being disagreeable. * Our deep respect and gratitude remains for the heroes, who’ve fallen in the service to our nation, the veterans living among us today and those currently serving on active duty America is free because you were and are brave. So I ask every hero serving in our military today, every veteran of the service in years past, every member of law enforcement who has worn the badge, every first responder, to either stand, or raise your hand, so we can recognize your service. '''If someone tells you there are no heroes anymore --- tell them to come to Virginia.''' * We must set our eyes on the common values and common future that unites us. To work every day to strengthen the spirit of Virginia, and redeem the promise of our people. It’s day one. Let’s get to work. === 2025 === ==== Address at Hampden-Sydney College (November 2025) ==== * A college that is older than America itself; when we think through that statement, it means so much more than a birthday, because Hampden-Sydney was there at the very beginning – a college that not only has contributed mightily to our history, but one that is contributing to our presence and has a deep responsibility to contribute to our collective future. That, my friends, is what standing on the shoulders of giants, is all about. ** As quoted in [https://farmvilleherald.com/2025/11/youngkin-marks-colleges-250th-anniversary/"Youngkin marks college’s 250th anniversary"], ''Farmville Herald'', 13 November 2025 * Hampden-Sydney stands for so much more than an education. It is based on a foundational belief that everyone in here was created in the image of God, and therefore, they deserve the respect to be treated as such. And that in order to represent not only that deep belief, but also the nation under which it was founded, you must be an active citizen. ** As quoted in [https://farmvilleherald.com/2025/11/youngkin-marks-colleges-250th-anniversary/"Youngkin marks college’s 250th anniversary"], ''Farmville Herald'', 13 November 2025 * I will remind you that it doesn’t end when you walk off these grounds. In fact, it becomes even more important because it is less expected in the world today. (It’s important to be) men who learn confidence and embrace moral excellence; men who, after you depart from here, can be counted on to be good citizens. ** As quoted in [https://farmvilleherald.com/2025/11/youngkin-marks-colleges-250th-anniversary/"Youngkin marks college’s 250th anniversary"], ''Farmville Herald'', 13 November 2025 == Quotes about Youngkin == [[File:Convention on the Rights of the Child.svg|thumb|“See, there’s a basic rule here, which is that children belong to parents,” Youngkin said. “Not to the state, not to schools, not to bureaucrats, but to parents.” Notably, children do ''not'' “belong to” their parents or guardians, but to ''themselves'', a central tenet of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child adopted more than 30 years ago. The positioning of parents as the ultimate authority over their children has deep roots in fundamentalist Christianity and white supremacy, even as those on the far right like Youngkin insist trans people and advocates are the real “groomers.” ~ Samantha Riedel]] * Dozens of graduating students walked out of Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) on Saturday after Gov. Glenn Youngkin took the stage to deliver a commencement address. Video of the Saturday morning incident shows throngs of graduates getting up from their seats and leaving the Greater Richmond Convention Center as the Republican governor began talking. A few could be heard cheering the students on. The governor, who also received an honorary doctorate of humane letters at the commencement ceremony, kicked off his speech with a shout-out to all the mothers ahead of Mother’s Day. He did not acknowledge those leaving and carried on with his speech. "The world needs your music," Youngkin said to those students still in attendance. "You, all of you, will be the symphony. Make it a masterpiece." ** Bradford Betz, [https://www.foxnews.com/us/vcu-students-walk-out-glenn-youngkin-commencement-speech?msockid=36363094c6846cc502db236fc7e36d86/"VCU students walk out of Gov Youngkin's commencement speech"], Fox News, 12 May 2024 * Many who left during Youngkin’s speech showed support for Palestinians amid Israel’s ongoing war in the Gaza Strip against Hamas terrorists. Others held signs signaling their opposition to the governor’s education policies, per reporting from local outlet WRIC-TV. The dissenters marched around the perimeter while chanting, "No books, no peace, let the knowledge increase" and "Disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest." Later, a group of graduates, many still in their graduation gowns, ended up in a park and chanted, "The people united will never be defeated." Fox News Digital reached out to VCU and the governor’s office for comment. ** Bradford Betz, [https://www.foxnews.com/us/vcu-students-walk-out-glenn-youngkin-commencement-speech?msockid=36363094c6846cc502db236fc7e36d86/"VCU students walk out of Gov Youngkin's commencement speech"], Fox News, 12 May 2024 * Between numerous calls for bipartisanship, Youngkin issued one clear veto threat. He promised to block any effort to repeal the state’s right-to-work law, which inhibits labor organizing by barring unions from requiring workers to pay dues in unionized workplaces. “Please don’t bring me a bill that impacts Virginians’ right to work, as it will be met with the business end of my veto pen,” Youngkin said.<br>It’s unclear if Democrats plan to pursue right-to-work repeal. The issue has divided the party in the past, with progressives pushing repeal as a top labor priority and more centrist, pro-business Democrats resisting the idea. ** Graham Moomaw, [https://virginiamercury.com/2024/01/10/youngkin-re-ups-call-for-tax-changes-vows-to-veto-right-to-work-repeal/"Youngkin re-ups call for tax changes, vows to veto right-to-work repeal"], ''Virginia Mercury'', 10 January 2024 * A transgender teen called out Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin to his face for his anti-trans policies at a CNN town hall Thursday night. The town hall event, which the news network titled “The War on Education,” began contentiously as Niko, a trans boy in high school, bluntly confronted Youngkin about the nonsensicality of his “model policies,” which would, in part, force students to use bathrooms and locker rooms matching their assigned sex at birth, rather than lived gender. Hundreds of students across the state walked out of school in protest of the model policies when they were released last year.<br>“Look at me. I am a transgender man,” Niko said, smiling slightly. “Do you really think that the girls in my high school would feel comfortable sharing a restroom with me?”<br>To be clear, “passing” trans people are not the only ones who should be able to use gendered facilities, and some folks are a little too eager to imply that’s what matters. Still, Niko’s question hits at the hypocritical core of anti-trans laws, which quite literally force boys to use girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms. ** Samantha Riedel, [https://www.them.us/story/trans-teen-virginia-governor-youngkin/"A Trans Teen Called Out Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin at a Town Hall "], ''Them'', 10 March 2023 * Predictably, Youngkin began to evade and dissemble the moment a question mark left Niko’s lips. The governor quickly deflected the issue towards trans girls joining gendered sports teams — which eagle-eyed readers will notice is not what Niko asked about — and stuck to his base-rallying message: “when parents are engaged with their children, then you can make good decisions together.”<br>Youngkin, who was the CEO of the private equity firm The Carlyle Group until 2020, won election in 2021 on the back of a Donald Trump endorsement and moral panic over LGBTQ+ and racial justice books in schools, like Maia Kobabe’s coming-of-age graphic novel ''Gender Queer''. Youngkin insisted to the Town Hall audience that “parents have a right to be engaged in their children’s lives,” sidestepping entirely the question of unaccepting or abusive guardians to assert that “a child does want their parent.” ** Samantha Riedel, [https://www.them.us/story/trans-teen-virginia-governor-youngkin/"A Trans Teen Called Out Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin at a Town Hall "], ''Them'', 10 March 2023 * '''“See, there’s a basic rule here, which is that children belong to parents,” Youngkin said. “Not to the state, not to schools, not to bureaucrats, but to parents.” Notably, children do ''not'' “belong to” their parents or guardians, but to ''themselves'', a central tenet of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child adopted more than 30 years ago. The positioning of parents as the ultimate authority over their children has deep roots in fundamentalist Christianity and white supremacy, even as those on the far right like Youngkin insist trans people and advocates are the real “groomers.”'''<br>“Tonight, Glenn Youngkin once again claimed that he believes that ‘parents matter.’ In reality, he only cares about some parents,” said Geoff Wetrosky, Campaign Director at the Human Rights Campaign, in a statement Thursday night. “His extremist, anti-LGBTQ+ positions should have no place in Virginia, or this country.” ** Samantha Riedel, [https://www.them.us/story/trans-teen-virginia-governor-youngkin/"A Trans Teen Called Out Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin at a Town Hall "], ''Them'', 10 March 2023 [[Category:Governors of Virginia]] [[Category:Republican Party (United States) politicians]] [[Category:Harvard University alumni]] [[Category:1966 births]] [[Category:Living people]] 8vxrq9d4xykefelefpsdwjr6gs5akmx 3961345 3961329 2026-07-06T01:49:19Z Urjalan Kakko 3345623 3961345 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Youngkin Governor Portrait.jpg|thumb|The will of the people grants a license to serve. A temporary license extended with trust, with faith, and with expectations to deliver on promises made.]] '''[[w:Glenn Youngkin|Glenn Allen Youngkin]]''' (born December 9, 1966) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 74th governor of Virginia from 2022 to 2026. A member of the Republican Party, he spent 25 years at The Carlyle Group, a private equity firm, where he became co-CEO in 2018. == Quotes == [[File:VirginiaWarMemorialStatue.jpg|thumb|If someone tells you there are no heroes anymore --- tell them to come to Virginia.]] === 2022 === ==== "Strengthening the Spirit of Virginia" (15 January 2022) ==== :<small>[https://rga.lis.virginia.gov/Published/2022/SD1B/PDF Inaugural address as Governor of Virginia in Richmond, VA]</small> * '''The will of the people grants a license to serve. A temporary license extended with trust, with faith, and with expectations to deliver on promises made.''' * Our politics have become too toxic. Soundbites have replaced solutions --- taking precedence over good-faith problem-solving. * We must venture forward because a new and better day is ahead of us. After all, we are Virginians whose leaders gave birth to the most exceptional nation the world has ever known. Yes a country with chapters of great injustice. But also a country birthed on the fundamental notion of freedom. That we’re all endowed by our “Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”. A nation whose ideas and ideals have been replicated and memorialized around the globe for nearly 250 years. And Virginians have led boldly from our founding – Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and our very first governor, Patrick Henry, who insisted on adding the Bill of Rights to the Constitution to protect our individual liberties. * This is our lineage. And following generations carried that mantle, leading and serving as Virginians are called to do. Barrier-breakers like Maggie Walker and Governor Doug Wilder (who is here today) --- leading the way for the historic inauguration today of our new Lt Governor Winsome Earle-Sears and our new Attorney General Jason Miyares. The people of Virginia just elected the most diverse leadership in commonwealth history. Sending a message that Virginia is big enough for the hopes and dreams of a diverse people. We stand here today to accept the license to lead. And will do so by including all and welcoming all. Because the future of Virginia belongs to all. * Somewhere along the way we’ve lost the ability to show respect to one another. To disagree without being disagreeable. * Our deep respect and gratitude remains for the heroes, who’ve fallen in the service to our nation, the veterans living among us today and those currently serving on active duty America is free because you were and are brave. So I ask every hero serving in our military today, every veteran of the service in years past, every member of law enforcement who has worn the badge, every first responder, to either stand, or raise your hand, so we can recognize your service. '''If someone tells you there are no heroes anymore --- tell them to come to Virginia.''' * We must set our eyes on the common values and common future that unites us. To work every day to strengthen the spirit of Virginia, and redeem the promise of our people. It’s day one. Let’s get to work. === 2025 === ==== Address at Hampden-Sydney College (November 2025) ==== * A college that is older than America itself; when we think through that statement, it means so much more than a birthday, because Hampden-Sydney was there at the very beginning – a college that not only has contributed mightily to our history, but one that is contributing to our presence and has a deep responsibility to contribute to our collective future. That, my friends, is what standing on the shoulders of giants, is all about. ** As quoted in [https://farmvilleherald.com/2025/11/youngkin-marks-colleges-250th-anniversary/"Youngkin marks college’s 250th anniversary"], ''Farmville Herald'', 13 November 2025 * Hampden-Sydney stands for so much more than an education. It is based on a foundational belief that everyone in here was created in the image of God, and therefore, they deserve the respect to be treated as such. And that in order to represent not only that deep belief, but also the nation under which it was founded, you must be an active citizen. ** As quoted in [https://farmvilleherald.com/2025/11/youngkin-marks-colleges-250th-anniversary/"Youngkin marks college’s 250th anniversary"], ''Farmville Herald'', 13 November 2025 * I will remind you that it doesn’t end when you walk off these grounds. In fact, it becomes even more important because it is less expected in the world today. (It’s important to be) men who learn confidence and embrace moral excellence; men who, after you depart from here, can be counted on to be good citizens. ** As quoted in [https://farmvilleherald.com/2025/11/youngkin-marks-colleges-250th-anniversary/"Youngkin marks college’s 250th anniversary"], ''Farmville Herald'', 13 November 2025 == Quotes about Youngkin == [[File:Convention on the Rights of the Child.svg|thumb|“See, there’s a basic rule here, which is that children belong to parents,” Youngkin said. “Not to the state, not to schools, not to bureaucrats, but to parents.” Notably, children do ''not'' “belong to” their parents or guardians, but to ''themselves'', a central tenet of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child adopted more than 30 years ago. The positioning of parents as the ultimate authority over their children has deep roots in fundamentalist Christianity and white supremacy, even as those on the far right like Youngkin insist trans people and advocates are the real “groomers.” ~ Samantha Riedel]] * Dozens of graduating students walked out of Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) on Saturday after Gov. Glenn Youngkin took the stage to deliver a commencement address. Video of the Saturday morning incident shows throngs of graduates getting up from their seats and leaving the Greater Richmond Convention Center as the Republican governor began talking. A few could be heard cheering the students on. The governor, who also received an honorary doctorate of humane letters at the commencement ceremony, kicked off his speech with a shout-out to all the mothers ahead of Mother’s Day. He did not acknowledge those leaving and carried on with his speech. "The world needs your music," Youngkin said to those students still in attendance. "You, all of you, will be the symphony. Make it a masterpiece." ** Bradford Betz, [https://www.foxnews.com/us/vcu-students-walk-out-glenn-youngkin-commencement-speech?msockid=36363094c6846cc502db236fc7e36d86/"VCU students walk out of Gov Youngkin's commencement speech"], Fox News, 12 May 2024 * Many who left during Youngkin’s speech showed support for Palestinians amid Israel’s ongoing war in the Gaza Strip against Hamas terrorists. Others held signs signaling their opposition to the governor’s education policies, per reporting from local outlet WRIC-TV. The dissenters marched around the perimeter while chanting, "No books, no peace, let the knowledge increase" and "Disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest." Later, a group of graduates, many still in their graduation gowns, ended up in a park and chanted, "The people united will never be defeated." Fox News Digital reached out to VCU and the governor’s office for comment. ** Bradford Betz, [https://www.foxnews.com/us/vcu-students-walk-out-glenn-youngkin-commencement-speech?msockid=36363094c6846cc502db236fc7e36d86/"VCU students walk out of Gov Youngkin's commencement speech"], Fox News, 12 May 2024 * Between numerous calls for bipartisanship, Youngkin issued one clear veto threat. He promised to block any effort to repeal the state’s right-to-work law, which inhibits labor organizing by barring unions from requiring workers to pay dues in unionized workplaces. “Please don’t bring me a bill that impacts Virginians’ right to work, as it will be met with the business end of my veto pen,” Youngkin said.<br>It’s unclear if Democrats plan to pursue right-to-work repeal. The issue has divided the party in the past, with progressives pushing repeal as a top labor priority and more centrist, pro-business Democrats resisting the idea. ** Graham Moomaw, [https://virginiamercury.com/2024/01/10/youngkin-re-ups-call-for-tax-changes-vows-to-veto-right-to-work-repeal/"Youngkin re-ups call for tax changes, vows to veto right-to-work repeal"], ''Virginia Mercury'', 10 January 2024 * A transgender teen called out Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin to his face for his anti-trans policies at a CNN town hall Thursday night. The town hall event, which the news network titled “The War on Education,” began contentiously as Niko, a trans boy in high school, bluntly confronted Youngkin about the nonsensicality of his “model policies,” which would, in part, force students to use bathrooms and locker rooms matching their assigned sex at birth, rather than lived gender. Hundreds of students across the state walked out of school in protest of the model policies when they were released last year.<br>“Look at me. I am a transgender man,” Niko said, smiling slightly. “Do you really think that the girls in my high school would feel comfortable sharing a restroom with me?”<br>To be clear, “passing” trans people are not the only ones who should be able to use gendered facilities, and some folks are a little too eager to imply that’s what matters. Still, Niko’s question hits at the hypocritical core of anti-trans laws, which quite literally force boys to use girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms. ** Samantha Riedel, [https://www.them.us/story/trans-teen-virginia-governor-youngkin/"A Trans Teen Called Out Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin at a Town Hall "], ''Them'', 10 March 2023 * Predictably, Youngkin began to evade and dissemble the moment a question mark left Niko’s lips. The governor quickly deflected the issue towards trans girls joining gendered sports teams — which eagle-eyed readers will notice is not what Niko asked about — and stuck to his base-rallying message: “when parents are engaged with their children, then you can make good decisions together.”<br>Youngkin, who was the CEO of the private equity firm The Carlyle Group until 2020, won election in 2021 on the back of a Donald Trump endorsement and moral panic over LGBTQ+ and racial justice books in schools, like Maia Kobabe’s coming-of-age graphic novel ''Gender Queer''. Youngkin insisted to the Town Hall audience that “parents have a right to be engaged in their children’s lives,” sidestepping entirely the question of unaccepting or abusive guardians to assert that “a child does want their parent.” ** Samantha Riedel, [https://www.them.us/story/trans-teen-virginia-governor-youngkin/"A Trans Teen Called Out Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin at a Town Hall "], ''Them'', 10 March 2023 * '''“See, there’s a basic rule here, which is that children belong to parents,” Youngkin said. “Not to the state, not to schools, not to bureaucrats, but to parents.” Notably, children do ''not'' “belong to” their parents or guardians, but to ''themselves'', a central tenet of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child adopted more than 30 years ago. The positioning of parents as the ultimate authority over their children has deep roots in fundamentalist Christianity and white supremacy, even as those on the far right like Youngkin insist trans people and advocates are the real “groomers.”'''<br>“Tonight, Glenn Youngkin once again claimed that he believes that ‘parents matter.’ In reality, he only cares about some parents,” said Geoff Wetrosky, Campaign Director at the Human Rights Campaign, in a statement Thursday night. “His extremist, anti-LGBTQ+ positions should have no place in Virginia, or this country.” ** Samantha Riedel, [https://www.them.us/story/trans-teen-virginia-governor-youngkin/"A Trans Teen Called Out Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin at a Town Hall "], ''Them'', 10 March 2023 {{Wikipedia}} [[Category:Governors of Virginia]] [[Category:Republican Party (United States) politicians]] [[Category:Harvard University alumni]] [[Category:1966 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:People from Richmont]] c48lnrkke2ehr43ble17jun0mgwo4w1 3961346 3961345 2026-07-06T01:51:48Z Urjalan Kakko 3345623 3961346 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Youngkin Governor Portrait.jpg|thumb|The will of the people grants a license to serve. A temporary license extended with trust, with faith, and with expectations to deliver on promises made.]] '''[[w:Glenn Youngkin|Glenn Allen Youngkin]]''' (born December 9, 1966) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 74th governor of Virginia from 2022 to 2026. A member of the Republican Party, he spent 25 years at The Carlyle Group, a private equity firm, where he became co-CEO in 2018. == Quotes == [[File:VirginiaWarMemorialStatue.jpg|thumb|If someone tells you there are no heroes anymore --- tell them to come to Virginia.]] === 2022 === ==== "Strengthening the Spirit of Virginia" (15 January 2022) ==== :<small>[https://rga.lis.virginia.gov/Published/2022/SD1B/PDF Inaugural address as Governor of Virginia in Richmond, VA]</small> * '''The will of the people grants a license to serve. A temporary license extended with trust, with faith, and with expectations to deliver on promises made.''' * Our politics have become too toxic. Soundbites have replaced solutions --- taking precedence over good-faith problem-solving. * We must venture forward because a new and better day is ahead of us. After all, we are Virginians whose leaders gave birth to the most exceptional nation the world has ever known. Yes a country with chapters of great injustice. But also a country birthed on the fundamental notion of freedom. That we’re all endowed by our “Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”. A nation whose ideas and ideals have been replicated and memorialized around the globe for nearly 250 years. And Virginians have led boldly from our founding – Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and our very first governor, Patrick Henry, who insisted on adding the Bill of Rights to the Constitution to protect our individual liberties. * This is our lineage. And following generations carried that mantle, leading and serving as Virginians are called to do. Barrier-breakers like Maggie Walker and Governor Doug Wilder (who is here today) --- leading the way for the historic inauguration today of our new Lt Governor Winsome Earle-Sears and our new Attorney General Jason Miyares. The people of Virginia just elected the most diverse leadership in commonwealth history. Sending a message that Virginia is big enough for the hopes and dreams of a diverse people. We stand here today to accept the license to lead. And will do so by including all and welcoming all. Because the future of Virginia belongs to all. * Somewhere along the way we’ve lost the ability to show respect to one another. To disagree without being disagreeable. * Our deep respect and gratitude remains for the heroes, who’ve fallen in the service to our nation, the veterans living among us today and those currently serving on active duty America is free because you were and are brave. So I ask every hero serving in our military today, every veteran of the service in years past, every member of law enforcement who has worn the badge, every first responder, to either stand, or raise your hand, so we can recognize your service. '''If someone tells you there are no heroes anymore --- tell them to come to Virginia.''' * We must set our eyes on the common values and common future that unites us. To work every day to strengthen the spirit of Virginia, and redeem the promise of our people. It’s day one. Let’s get to work. === 2025 === ==== Address at Hampden-Sydney College (November 2025) ==== * A college that is older than America itself; when we think through that statement, it means so much more than a birthday, because Hampden-Sydney was there at the very beginning – a college that not only has contributed mightily to our history, but one that is contributing to our presence and has a deep responsibility to contribute to our collective future. That, my friends, is what standing on the shoulders of giants, is all about. ** As quoted in [https://farmvilleherald.com/2025/11/youngkin-marks-colleges-250th-anniversary/"Youngkin marks college’s 250th anniversary"], ''Farmville Herald'', 13 November 2025 * Hampden-Sydney stands for so much more than an education. It is based on a foundational belief that everyone in here was created in the image of God, and therefore, they deserve the respect to be treated as such. And that in order to represent not only that deep belief, but also the nation under which it was founded, you must be an active citizen. ** As quoted in [https://farmvilleherald.com/2025/11/youngkin-marks-colleges-250th-anniversary/"Youngkin marks college’s 250th anniversary"], ''Farmville Herald'', 13 November 2025 * I will remind you that it doesn’t end when you walk off these grounds. In fact, it becomes even more important because it is less expected in the world today. (It’s important to be) men who learn confidence and embrace moral excellence; men who, after you depart from here, can be counted on to be good citizens. ** As quoted in [https://farmvilleherald.com/2025/11/youngkin-marks-colleges-250th-anniversary/"Youngkin marks college’s 250th anniversary"], ''Farmville Herald'', 13 November 2025 == Quotes about Youngkin == [[File:Convention on the Rights of the Child.svg|thumb|“See, there’s a basic rule here, which is that children belong to parents,” Youngkin said. “Not to the state, not to schools, not to bureaucrats, but to parents.” Notably, children do ''not'' “belong to” their parents or guardians, but to ''themselves'', a central tenet of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child adopted more than 30 years ago. The positioning of parents as the ultimate authority over their children has deep roots in fundamentalist Christianity and white supremacy, even as those on the far right like Youngkin insist trans people and advocates are the real “groomers.” ~ Samantha Riedel]] * Dozens of graduating students walked out of Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) on Saturday after Gov. Glenn Youngkin took the stage to deliver a commencement address. Video of the Saturday morning incident shows throngs of graduates getting up from their seats and leaving the Greater Richmond Convention Center as the Republican governor began talking. A few could be heard cheering the students on. The governor, who also received an honorary doctorate of humane letters at the commencement ceremony, kicked off his speech with a shout-out to all the mothers ahead of Mother’s Day. He did not acknowledge those leaving and carried on with his speech. "The world needs your music," Youngkin said to those students still in attendance. "You, all of you, will be the symphony. Make it a masterpiece." ** Bradford Betz, [https://www.foxnews.com/us/vcu-students-walk-out-glenn-youngkin-commencement-speech?msockid=36363094c6846cc502db236fc7e36d86/"VCU students walk out of Gov Youngkin's commencement speech"], Fox News, 12 May 2024 * Many who left during Youngkin’s speech showed support for Palestinians amid Israel’s ongoing war in the Gaza Strip against Hamas terrorists. Others held signs signaling their opposition to the governor’s education policies, per reporting from local outlet WRIC-TV. The dissenters marched around the perimeter while chanting, "No books, no peace, let the knowledge increase" and "Disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest." Later, a group of graduates, many still in their graduation gowns, ended up in a park and chanted, "The people united will never be defeated." Fox News Digital reached out to VCU and the governor’s office for comment. ** Bradford Betz, [https://www.foxnews.com/us/vcu-students-walk-out-glenn-youngkin-commencement-speech?msockid=36363094c6846cc502db236fc7e36d86/"VCU students walk out of Gov Youngkin's commencement speech"], Fox News, 12 May 2024 * Between numerous calls for bipartisanship, Youngkin issued one clear veto threat. He promised to block any effort to repeal the state’s right-to-work law, which inhibits labor organizing by barring unions from requiring workers to pay dues in unionized workplaces. “Please don’t bring me a bill that impacts Virginians’ right to work, as it will be met with the business end of my veto pen,” Youngkin said.<br>It’s unclear if Democrats plan to pursue right-to-work repeal. The issue has divided the party in the past, with progressives pushing repeal as a top labor priority and more centrist, pro-business Democrats resisting the idea. ** Graham Moomaw, [https://virginiamercury.com/2024/01/10/youngkin-re-ups-call-for-tax-changes-vows-to-veto-right-to-work-repeal/"Youngkin re-ups call for tax changes, vows to veto right-to-work repeal"], ''Virginia Mercury'', 10 January 2024 * A transgender teen called out Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin to his face for his anti-trans policies at a CNN town hall Thursday night. The town hall event, which the news network titled “The War on Education,” began contentiously as Niko, a trans boy in high school, bluntly confronted Youngkin about the nonsensicality of his “model policies,” which would, in part, force students to use bathrooms and locker rooms matching their assigned sex at birth, rather than lived gender. Hundreds of students across the state walked out of school in protest of the model policies when they were released last year.<br>“Look at me. I am a transgender man,” Niko said, smiling slightly. “Do you really think that the girls in my high school would feel comfortable sharing a restroom with me?”<br>To be clear, “passing” trans people are not the only ones who should be able to use gendered facilities, and some folks are a little too eager to imply that’s what matters. Still, Niko’s question hits at the hypocritical core of anti-trans laws, which quite literally force boys to use girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms. ** Samantha Riedel, [https://www.them.us/story/trans-teen-virginia-governor-youngkin/"A Trans Teen Called Out Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin at a Town Hall "], ''Them'', 10 March 2023 * Predictably, Youngkin began to evade and dissemble the moment a question mark left Niko’s lips. The governor quickly deflected the issue towards trans girls joining gendered sports teams — which eagle-eyed readers will notice is not what Niko asked about — and stuck to his base-rallying message: “when parents are engaged with their children, then you can make good decisions together.”<br>Youngkin, who was the CEO of the private equity firm The Carlyle Group until 2020, won election in 2021 on the back of a Donald Trump endorsement and moral panic over LGBTQ+ and racial justice books in schools, like Maia Kobabe’s coming-of-age graphic novel ''Gender Queer''. Youngkin insisted to the Town Hall audience that “parents have a right to be engaged in their children’s lives,” sidestepping entirely the question of unaccepting or abusive guardians to assert that “a child does want their parent.” ** Samantha Riedel, [https://www.them.us/story/trans-teen-virginia-governor-youngkin/"A Trans Teen Called Out Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin at a Town Hall "], ''Them'', 10 March 2023 * '''“See, there’s a basic rule here, which is that children belong to parents,” Youngkin said. “Not to the state, not to schools, not to bureaucrats, but to parents.” Notably, children do ''not'' “belong to” their parents or guardians, but to ''themselves'', a central tenet of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child adopted more than 30 years ago. The positioning of parents as the ultimate authority over their children has deep roots in fundamentalist Christianity and white supremacy, even as those on the far right like Youngkin insist trans people and advocates are the real “groomers.”'''<br>“Tonight, Glenn Youngkin once again claimed that he believes that ‘parents matter.’ In reality, he only cares about some parents,” said Geoff Wetrosky, Campaign Director at the Human Rights Campaign, in a statement Thursday night. “His extremist, anti-LGBTQ+ positions should have no place in Virginia, or this country.” ** Samantha Riedel, [https://www.them.us/story/trans-teen-virginia-governor-youngkin/"A Trans Teen Called Out Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin at a Town Hall "], ''Them'', 10 March 2023 {{Wikipedia}} [[Category:Governors of Virginia]] [[Category:Republican Party (United States) politicians]] [[Category:Businesspeople from the United States]] [[Category:Christians from the United States]] [[Category:Harvard University alumni]] [[Category:1966 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:People from Richmond]] 9nyst8od19f16agyrlqhfshjynffnxe 3961347 3961346 2026-07-06T01:53:31Z Urjalan Kakko 3345623 Defaultsort 3961347 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Youngkin Governor Portrait.jpg|thumb|The will of the people grants a license to serve. A temporary license extended with trust, with faith, and with expectations to deliver on promises made.]] '''[[w:Glenn Youngkin|Glenn Allen Youngkin]]''' (born December 9, 1966) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 74th governor of Virginia from 2022 to 2026. A member of the Republican Party, he spent 25 years at The Carlyle Group, a private equity firm, where he became co-CEO in 2018. == Quotes == [[File:VirginiaWarMemorialStatue.jpg|thumb|If someone tells you there are no heroes anymore --- tell them to come to Virginia.]] === 2022 === ==== "Strengthening the Spirit of Virginia" (15 January 2022) ==== :<small>[https://rga.lis.virginia.gov/Published/2022/SD1B/PDF Inaugural address as Governor of Virginia in Richmond, VA]</small> * '''The will of the people grants a license to serve. A temporary license extended with trust, with faith, and with expectations to deliver on promises made.''' * Our politics have become too toxic. Soundbites have replaced solutions --- taking precedence over good-faith problem-solving. * We must venture forward because a new and better day is ahead of us. After all, we are Virginians whose leaders gave birth to the most exceptional nation the world has ever known. Yes a country with chapters of great injustice. But also a country birthed on the fundamental notion of freedom. That we’re all endowed by our “Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”. A nation whose ideas and ideals have been replicated and memorialized around the globe for nearly 250 years. And Virginians have led boldly from our founding – Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and our very first governor, Patrick Henry, who insisted on adding the Bill of Rights to the Constitution to protect our individual liberties. * This is our lineage. And following generations carried that mantle, leading and serving as Virginians are called to do. Barrier-breakers like Maggie Walker and Governor Doug Wilder (who is here today) --- leading the way for the historic inauguration today of our new Lt Governor Winsome Earle-Sears and our new Attorney General Jason Miyares. The people of Virginia just elected the most diverse leadership in commonwealth history. Sending a message that Virginia is big enough for the hopes and dreams of a diverse people. We stand here today to accept the license to lead. And will do so by including all and welcoming all. Because the future of Virginia belongs to all. * Somewhere along the way we’ve lost the ability to show respect to one another. To disagree without being disagreeable. * Our deep respect and gratitude remains for the heroes, who’ve fallen in the service to our nation, the veterans living among us today and those currently serving on active duty America is free because you were and are brave. So I ask every hero serving in our military today, every veteran of the service in years past, every member of law enforcement who has worn the badge, every first responder, to either stand, or raise your hand, so we can recognize your service. '''If someone tells you there are no heroes anymore --- tell them to come to Virginia.''' * We must set our eyes on the common values and common future that unites us. To work every day to strengthen the spirit of Virginia, and redeem the promise of our people. It’s day one. Let’s get to work. === 2025 === ==== Address at Hampden-Sydney College (November 2025) ==== * A college that is older than America itself; when we think through that statement, it means so much more than a birthday, because Hampden-Sydney was there at the very beginning – a college that not only has contributed mightily to our history, but one that is contributing to our presence and has a deep responsibility to contribute to our collective future. That, my friends, is what standing on the shoulders of giants, is all about. ** As quoted in [https://farmvilleherald.com/2025/11/youngkin-marks-colleges-250th-anniversary/"Youngkin marks college’s 250th anniversary"], ''Farmville Herald'', 13 November 2025 * Hampden-Sydney stands for so much more than an education. It is based on a foundational belief that everyone in here was created in the image of God, and therefore, they deserve the respect to be treated as such. And that in order to represent not only that deep belief, but also the nation under which it was founded, you must be an active citizen. ** As quoted in [https://farmvilleherald.com/2025/11/youngkin-marks-colleges-250th-anniversary/"Youngkin marks college’s 250th anniversary"], ''Farmville Herald'', 13 November 2025 * I will remind you that it doesn’t end when you walk off these grounds. In fact, it becomes even more important because it is less expected in the world today. (It’s important to be) men who learn confidence and embrace moral excellence; men who, after you depart from here, can be counted on to be good citizens. ** As quoted in [https://farmvilleherald.com/2025/11/youngkin-marks-colleges-250th-anniversary/"Youngkin marks college’s 250th anniversary"], ''Farmville Herald'', 13 November 2025 == Quotes about Youngkin == [[File:Convention on the Rights of the Child.svg|thumb|“See, there’s a basic rule here, which is that children belong to parents,” Youngkin said. “Not to the state, not to schools, not to bureaucrats, but to parents.” Notably, children do ''not'' “belong to” their parents or guardians, but to ''themselves'', a central tenet of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child adopted more than 30 years ago. The positioning of parents as the ultimate authority over their children has deep roots in fundamentalist Christianity and white supremacy, even as those on the far right like Youngkin insist trans people and advocates are the real “groomers.” ~ Samantha Riedel]] * Dozens of graduating students walked out of Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) on Saturday after Gov. Glenn Youngkin took the stage to deliver a commencement address. Video of the Saturday morning incident shows throngs of graduates getting up from their seats and leaving the Greater Richmond Convention Center as the Republican governor began talking. A few could be heard cheering the students on. The governor, who also received an honorary doctorate of humane letters at the commencement ceremony, kicked off his speech with a shout-out to all the mothers ahead of Mother’s Day. He did not acknowledge those leaving and carried on with his speech. "The world needs your music," Youngkin said to those students still in attendance. "You, all of you, will be the symphony. Make it a masterpiece." ** Bradford Betz, [https://www.foxnews.com/us/vcu-students-walk-out-glenn-youngkin-commencement-speech?msockid=36363094c6846cc502db236fc7e36d86/"VCU students walk out of Gov Youngkin's commencement speech"], Fox News, 12 May 2024 * Many who left during Youngkin’s speech showed support for Palestinians amid Israel’s ongoing war in the Gaza Strip against Hamas terrorists. Others held signs signaling their opposition to the governor’s education policies, per reporting from local outlet WRIC-TV. The dissenters marched around the perimeter while chanting, "No books, no peace, let the knowledge increase" and "Disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest." Later, a group of graduates, many still in their graduation gowns, ended up in a park and chanted, "The people united will never be defeated." Fox News Digital reached out to VCU and the governor’s office for comment. ** Bradford Betz, [https://www.foxnews.com/us/vcu-students-walk-out-glenn-youngkin-commencement-speech?msockid=36363094c6846cc502db236fc7e36d86/"VCU students walk out of Gov Youngkin's commencement speech"], Fox News, 12 May 2024 * Between numerous calls for bipartisanship, Youngkin issued one clear veto threat. He promised to block any effort to repeal the state’s right-to-work law, which inhibits labor organizing by barring unions from requiring workers to pay dues in unionized workplaces. “Please don’t bring me a bill that impacts Virginians’ right to work, as it will be met with the business end of my veto pen,” Youngkin said.<br>It’s unclear if Democrats plan to pursue right-to-work repeal. The issue has divided the party in the past, with progressives pushing repeal as a top labor priority and more centrist, pro-business Democrats resisting the idea. ** Graham Moomaw, [https://virginiamercury.com/2024/01/10/youngkin-re-ups-call-for-tax-changes-vows-to-veto-right-to-work-repeal/"Youngkin re-ups call for tax changes, vows to veto right-to-work repeal"], ''Virginia Mercury'', 10 January 2024 * A transgender teen called out Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin to his face for his anti-trans policies at a CNN town hall Thursday night. The town hall event, which the news network titled “The War on Education,” began contentiously as Niko, a trans boy in high school, bluntly confronted Youngkin about the nonsensicality of his “model policies,” which would, in part, force students to use bathrooms and locker rooms matching their assigned sex at birth, rather than lived gender. Hundreds of students across the state walked out of school in protest of the model policies when they were released last year.<br>“Look at me. I am a transgender man,” Niko said, smiling slightly. “Do you really think that the girls in my high school would feel comfortable sharing a restroom with me?”<br>To be clear, “passing” trans people are not the only ones who should be able to use gendered facilities, and some folks are a little too eager to imply that’s what matters. Still, Niko’s question hits at the hypocritical core of anti-trans laws, which quite literally force boys to use girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms. ** Samantha Riedel, [https://www.them.us/story/trans-teen-virginia-governor-youngkin/"A Trans Teen Called Out Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin at a Town Hall "], ''Them'', 10 March 2023 * Predictably, Youngkin began to evade and dissemble the moment a question mark left Niko’s lips. The governor quickly deflected the issue towards trans girls joining gendered sports teams — which eagle-eyed readers will notice is not what Niko asked about — and stuck to his base-rallying message: “when parents are engaged with their children, then you can make good decisions together.”<br>Youngkin, who was the CEO of the private equity firm The Carlyle Group until 2020, won election in 2021 on the back of a Donald Trump endorsement and moral panic over LGBTQ+ and racial justice books in schools, like Maia Kobabe’s coming-of-age graphic novel ''Gender Queer''. Youngkin insisted to the Town Hall audience that “parents have a right to be engaged in their children’s lives,” sidestepping entirely the question of unaccepting or abusive guardians to assert that “a child does want their parent.” ** Samantha Riedel, [https://www.them.us/story/trans-teen-virginia-governor-youngkin/"A Trans Teen Called Out Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin at a Town Hall "], ''Them'', 10 March 2023 * '''“See, there’s a basic rule here, which is that children belong to parents,” Youngkin said. “Not to the state, not to schools, not to bureaucrats, but to parents.” Notably, children do ''not'' “belong to” their parents or guardians, but to ''themselves'', a central tenet of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child adopted more than 30 years ago. The positioning of parents as the ultimate authority over their children has deep roots in fundamentalist Christianity and white supremacy, even as those on the far right like Youngkin insist trans people and advocates are the real “groomers.”'''<br>“Tonight, Glenn Youngkin once again claimed that he believes that ‘parents matter.’ In reality, he only cares about some parents,” said Geoff Wetrosky, Campaign Director at the Human Rights Campaign, in a statement Thursday night. “His extremist, anti-LGBTQ+ positions should have no place in Virginia, or this country.” ** Samantha Riedel, [https://www.them.us/story/trans-teen-virginia-governor-youngkin/"A Trans Teen Called Out Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin at a Town Hall "], ''Them'', 10 March 2023 {{Wikipedia}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Youngkin, Glenn}} [[Category:Governors of Virginia]] [[Category:Republican Party (United States) politicians]] [[Category:Businesspeople from the United States]] [[Category:Christians from the United States]] [[Category:Harvard University alumni]] [[Category:1966 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:People from Richmond]] 1aay2nh7wumcfvjp2n9owypljjazdbf 4 309244 3961324 3960676 2026-07-05T23:33:02Z Markjoseph125 19526 /* Assorted anime and manga pages */ VfD 3961324 wikitext text/x-wiki == Assorted anime and manga pages == *[[Chainsaw Man]] *[[My Hero Academia]] *[[Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba]] I'm placing all three under VFD for '''quotability''': all three only have about four or five character specific quotes, and I wouldn't say they're all that quotable. — [[User:03isrflo62410|03isrflo62410]] ([[User talk:03isrflo62410|talk]]) 00:59, 4 July 2026 (UTC) <small>'''Vote closes''': 01:00, 11 July 2026 (UTC)</small> * '''Delete''', nom. [[User:03isrflo62410|03isrflo62410]] ([[User talk:03isrflo62410|talk]]) 13:58, 4 July 2026 (UTC) :: '''Comment''': An IP address is actively removing the VFD from one of these pages (My Hero Academia). Action MUST be taken. [[User:03isrflo62410|03isrflo62410]] ([[User talk:03isrflo62410|talk]]) 17:21, 4 July 2026 (UTC) * '''Delete''', quotability. [[User:Markjoseph125|Markjoseph125]] ([[User talk:Markjoseph125|talk]]) 23:32, 5 July 2026 (UTC) 29nj3hseue66no16hpjw6q5k3qnk2qp 4 309259 3961326 3960736 2026-07-05T23:33:57Z Markjoseph125 19526 /* Caillou pages */ VfD 3961326 wikitext text/x-wiki == Caillou pages == *[[Caillou]] *[[Caillou (Season 1)]] While the subject *is* certainly notable (having Wikipedia pages dedicated to the main series and an episode list), I wouldn't say this show is quotable enough for the site. In particular, the Season 1 page has such '''''ridiculous''''' padding (to quote one of the actions described in the latter page, "violently, badly, fiercely, stubbornly, terribly, rudely, indignantly, and angrily growling, with his eyes close, very tightly, and his mouth close, and badly, fiercely, stubbornly, angrily, terribly, rudely, indignantly, and violently throwing, and slamming his nearby toy car down on the floor away, when violently, badly, fiercely, stubbornly, angrily, stubbornly, terribly, and indignantly causing it to violently, fiercely, badly, completely, and terribly ruin, damage, wreck, break, destroy, and smash into hundreds of pieces on purpose, and then indignantly, badly, loudly, sadly, fiercely, stubbornly, rudely, violently, and angrily screaming, shrieking, and crying, and bursting, and breaking down with tears coming out of his eyes, and while violently, angrily, badly, indignantly, loudly, fiercely, sadly, terribly, rudely, and stubbornly outbursting, having, and throwing himself a really violent, disgraceful, gigantic, huge temper tantrum, in inertia, and badly, fiercely, sadly, terribly, stubbornly, violently, rudely, indignantly, and angrily feeling very bad, violent, cruel, hurtful, and too inappropriate of what he will missed the circus, for today, and unfinished brushing his teeth, while temperately heedless of how he had hurt feelings, and violently, angrily, badly, indignantly, fiercely, sadly, terribly, rudely, and stubbornly causing too much trouble, and violently, fiercely, terribly, sadly, badly, stubbornly, rudely, indignantly, and angrily having his really bad, too inappropriate, hurtful, dangerous, and violent misbehavior, and terribly, fiercely, badly, sadly, stubbornly, rudely, indignantly, violently, and angrily hurting, pounding, and banging his arms, and fists, and terribly, fiercely, badly, sadly, stubbornly, rudely, indignantly, angrily, and violently hurting, and kicking his legs, and feet against on the floor, over his completely ruined, damaged, wrecked, broken, destroyed, and smashed nearby toy car, and not going to the circus today, and denies, and won't wait until tomorrow")-- note the CONSTANT repeating of angry descriptions.— [[User:03isrflo62410|03isrflo62410]] ([[User talk:03isrflo62410|talk]]) 13:52, 4 July 2026 (UTC) <small>'''Vote closes''': 14:00, 11 July 2026 (UTC)</small> * '''Delete''', nom. [[User:03isrflo62410|03isrflo62410]] ([[User talk:03isrflo62410|talk]]) 13:59, 4 July 2026 (UTC) * '''Delete''' Absurd. Start over. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 15:44, 4 July 2026 (UTC) * '''Delete''' insanity. [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 19:04, 4 July 2026 (UTC) * '''Delete''', insanity covers it nicely. [[User:Markjoseph125|Markjoseph125]] ([[User talk:Markjoseph125|talk]]) 23:33, 5 July 2026 (UTC) 8ahxe4xruookm15pwtdzc3edk4og0gm 0 309261 3961359 3960538 2026-07-06T03:42:37Z Ficaia 3085955 3961359 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Sir Hew Pike Aldershot 2022.jpg|thumb|]] [[w:Lieutenant-general (United Kingdom)|Lieutenant-General]] '''[[w:Hew Pike|Sir Hew William Royston Pike]]''', KCB, DSO, MBE (born 24 April 1943) is a retired senior British Army officer known for his service in the [[Falklands War]] and for his command in Northern Ireland. {{stub}} == Quotes == * With their [[bayonet]]s on their rifles, these young soldiers, looking grim and determined, moving forward through the thick mist of dawn—it is a sight I shall never forget. A lot of the enemy were killed with those bayonets. ** Recalling the sight of his battalion, [[w:3rd Battalion, Parachute Regiment|3 Para]], advancing at dawn on 12 June 1982 after storming some Argentine positions on [[w:File:Stanley.falklands.war.svg|Mount Longdon]]. Quoted in Paul Eddy, Magnus Linklater and Peter Gillman, ''War in the Falklands: The Full Story'' (New York: Harper & Row, 1982), ch. 21, p. 251 == External links == * {{Wikipedia-inline}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Pike, Hew}} [[Category:1943 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Military leaders from the United Kingdom]] [[Category:People of the Falklands War]] bm40s80zloj069doe3jmwvshyj6r9z0 0 309282 3961284 3960836 2026-07-05T20:56:00Z Urjalan Kakko 3345623 3961284 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Peter Paul and Mary 1970 (cropped) 3.JPG|thumb|Do you [[believe]] in something that you've never [[seen]] before?<br /> Oh there is [[Love]], there is Love.]] '''[[w:Paul Stookey|Noel Paul Stookey]]''' (born [[30 December]] [[1937]]) is an American singer-songwriter and activist who is known for being a member of the 1960s folk trio [[w:Peter, Paul and Mary|Peter, Paul and Mary]] along with [[w:Peter Yarrow|Peter Yarrow]] and [[w:Mary Travers|Mary Travers]]. {{musician-stub}} == Quotes == [[File:Peter, Paul and Mary publicity photo.jpg|thumb|[[God|He]] is [[now]] to be among you at the calling of your [[hearts]]<br /> Rest assured this troubadour is acting on His part.<br /> The [[union]] of your [[spirits]], here, has caused Him to remain<br /> For whenever two or more of you are gathered in His [[name]]<br /> There is [[Love]], there is Love.]] === [[w:Wedding Song (There Is Love)|Wedding Song]] (1969) === :<small> [https://noelpaulstookey.com/music/lyrics/wedding-song-there-is-love/ Full lyrics online at noelpaulstookey.com] · [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdNPEX7bY-k&list=RDrdNPEX7bY-k 23 July 1971 performance in lyric video] · [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrTfNTzAvYY Wedding Song "There is Love" (1986 performance)] </small> * [[God|He]] is [[now]] to be among you at the calling of your [[hearts]]<br /> Rest assured this troubadour is acting on His part.<br /> The [[union]] of your [[spirits]], here, has caused Him to remain<br /> For whenever two or more of you are gathered in His [[name]]<br /> There is [[Love]], there is Love. ** Original 1969 variant: ::: I am now to be among you at the calling of your hearts<br /> Rest assured this troubadour is acting on My part.<br /> The union of your spirits, here, has caused Me to remain<br /> For whenever two or more of you are gathered in My name<br /> There am I, there is Love. * A man shall leave his mother and a woman leave her home<br /> And they shall travel on to where the two shall be as one.<br /> As it was in the beginning is now and til the end<br /> Woman draws her life from man and gives it back again.<br /> And there is Love, there is Love. * Well then what's to be the reason for becoming man and wife?<br /> Is it love that brings you here or love that brings you life?<br /> And if loving is the answer, then who's the giving for?<br /> Do you believe in something that you've never seen before?<br /> Oh there is Love, there is Love. == External links == {{wikipedia}} {{commonscat|Noel Paul Stookey}} * {{Official website|http://www.noelpaulstookey.com/}} * [http://www.peterpaulandmary.com/ Peter, Paul and Mary official website] * {{imdb name|0832342}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Stookey, Noel}} [[Category:1937 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Singer-songwriters from the United States]] [[Category:Guitarists from the United States]] [[Category:People from Baltimore]] nerugbfy2ql3b2ogi2d105ttkxc3jd4 3961286 3961284 2026-07-05T21:05:40Z Urjalan Kakko 3345623 3961286 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Peter Paul and Mary 1970 (cropped) 3.JPG|thumb|Do you [[believe]] in something that you've never [[seen]] before?<br /> Oh there is [[Love]], there is Love.]] '''[[w:Paul Stookey|Noel Paul Stookey]]''' (born [[30 December]] [[1937]]) is an American singer-songwriter and activist who is known for being a member of the 1960s folk trio [[w:Peter, Paul and Mary|Peter, Paul and Mary]] along with [[w:Peter Yarrow|Peter Yarrow]] and [[w:Mary Travers|Mary Travers]]. {{musician-stub}} == Quotes == [[File:Peter, Paul and Mary publicity photo.jpg|thumb|[[God|He]] is [[now]] to be among you at the calling of your [[hearts]]<br /> Rest assured this troubadour is acting on His part.<br /> The [[union]] of your [[spirits]], here, has caused Him to remain<br /> For whenever two or more of you are gathered in His [[name]]<br /> There is [[Love]], there is Love.]] === [[w:Wedding Song (There Is Love)|Wedding Song]] (1969) === :<small> [https://noelpaulstookey.com/music/lyrics/wedding-song-there-is-love/ Full lyrics online at noelpaulstookey.com] · [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdNPEX7bY-k&list=RDrdNPEX7bY-k 23 July 1971 performance in lyric video] · [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrTfNTzAvYY Wedding Song "There is Love" (1986 performance)] </small> * [[God|He]] is [[now]] to be among you at the calling of your [[hearts]]<br /> Rest assured this troubadour is acting on His part.<br /> The [[union]] of your [[spirits]], here, has caused Him to remain<br /> For whenever two or more of you are gathered in His [[name]]<br /> There is [[Love]], there is Love. ** Original 1969 variant: ::: I am now to be among you at the calling of your hearts<br /> Rest assured this troubadour is acting on My part.<br /> The union of your spirits, here, has caused Me to remain<br /> For whenever two or more of you are gathered in My name<br /> There am I, there is Love. * A man shall leave his mother and a woman leave her home<br /> And they shall travel on to where the two shall be as one.<br /> As it was in the beginning is now and til the end<br /> Woman draws her life from man and gives it back again.<br /> And there is Love, there is Love. * Well then what's to be the reason for becoming man and wife?<br /> Is it love that brings you here or love that brings you life?<br /> And if loving is the answer, then who's the giving for?<br /> Do you believe in something that you've never seen before?<br /> Oh there is Love, there is Love. == External links == {{wikipedia}} {{commonscat|Noel Paul Stookey}} * {{Official website|http://www.noelpaulstookey.com/}} * [http://www.peterpaulandmary.com/ Peter, Paul and Mary official website] * {{imdb name|0832342}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Stookey, Noel}} [[Category:1937 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Singer-songwriters from the United States]] [[Category:Guitarists from the United States]] [[Category:Activists from the United States]] [[Category:People from Baltimore]] m0bx7ghpamz8fuzhb8gaktjly9acd9b 0 309285 3961320 3960846 2026-07-05T23:27:58Z AC9016 2870313 3961320 wikitext text/x-wiki '''[[w:Dustin Thao|Dustin Thao]]''' is a Vietnamese-American author based in New York City. His works are rooted in contemporary young adult fiction, with elements of magic realism. == Quotes == === ''You've Found Oliver'' (2025) === :<small>New York: Dutton Books. All quotes are from the hardcover first edition.</small> * The moment is gone now. I just smile at him and say, "Don't worry about it. I'll tell you another time." "I'm really sorry about this. I'll text you when I get home, okay?" "You're not coming back?" Sam frowns. "Probably not. Julie's over an hour away, and I still need to drop her off." "That really sucks." "I know. We'll hang out this weekend though. I promise."<br>As we hug goodbye, I get this strange feeling in my chest. I don't know how to explain it. But it makes me want to hold on to him a little longer. The feeling stays with me as I watch him walk away. I didn't know that would be the last time I saw him. That there wouldn't be a later for us. That I would wait up all night for a text that was never coming. ''That I lost him. And I didn't even know it.'' ** Prologue, p. 19 * I was hoping he might ask me to come back with him. We only get to see each other once a week. Why should we waste the rest of the night? The snow has stopped when we come outside. Ben turns on the radio as we drive down the highway. The time honestly flies by when we're together, singing along to the music. We park the car across the street and walk up to his apartment. I change into one of his shirts while he grabs me some water from the kitchen. The Polaroid of me is still there on the wall. There's no television in Ben's room. He takes out his laptop and picks a movie for us to watch. Of course, we're not really paying close attention to it. I'm too busy appreciating how soft his hands are. He looks so beautiful in the glow of the streetlight outside his window. I take in the contours of his face, the waves in his hair, the scent of cologne that lingers on his tan skin. I want to memorize every feature, in case everything vanishes in the morning. Ben kisses my forehead. Then, slowly, he moves his lips to mine. After, he reaches over me and closes the blinds. He lays his head on me and we fall asleep together. ** Ch. 19, p. 196 * I'm not sure what's different this time. I return the touch, running my fingers along his arm. Then we smile at each other. I've never seen him in the morning glow before. ** Ch. 19, p. 197 * "If the astronomy thing doesn't work out, you would be a great chef," I tell him and take another sip of coffee. "You know what they say... whether a poet looks through a pantry or telescope, he always sees the same thing." "Is that a real quote?" "I might have revised it a little." He smiles. "And what's it supposed to mean, exactly?" "It means you see the possibility in things," I say confidently. "Regardless of what you do. Everything's a universe, if you ''really'' think about it. "I like that," he says, nodding. "Maybe you should major in philosophy." "Don't know if I'm smart enough for that." "I think you're smarter than you think you are." I don't say anything back because I'm not used to hearing people say this about me. ** Ch. 19, p. 199 * We finish breakfast, but we stay at the table, enjoying each other's company. Of course, I don't want to intrude on his entire day. Ben has several assignments that are due this week. His notes are spread out across the coffee table. But it feels like the universe gave us extra time. Maybe we shouldn't let it go to waste. ** Ch. 19, p. 199 * I wish we could spend every day together. I don't want to keep waking up without him. This must be what it feels like to fall in love without saying the word. The way he stares at me says he's thinking the same. I don't know why we were connected this way, but I like to believe there's a reason for it. Maybe we're part of some cosmic story, stretching throughout the universe. I just hope it has a good ending. ** Ch. 19, p. 200 * It's a whirlwind of a school week. I'm trying to pin down my schedule as I sit through my old classes. I never thought I'd have to memorize the geologic time scale again. I don't remember where any of my notes are. Is it really possible I'm stuck here? And I have to take all my finals again? I was freaking out about that, but some things have started to come back to me. Like memories, filling the gaps in my head. Maybe it's not the end of the world if I stay. Who wouldn't want to redo the last six months of their life? Especially if it means being closer to someone you love. ** Ch. 22, p. 218 * I've made some mistakes in this timeline. But there's one I ''have'' to fix before going back. ** Ch. 26, p. 256 * There's a quote from ''The Poetics of Space'' that sticks with me. Professor Clarke wrote it on the board the last day of class.<br>''It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality. -Gaston Bachelard''<br>I've been thinking about this more lately, especially as I look back on my life. As much as we want to, we can't control time or keep it from moving forward. Maybe there's something beautiful about that, living with the uncertainty of what's to come. You never know what possibilities will be born out of it. But some things will always be certain. Like the sun rising in the morning. Or the leave sfalling in the autumn and the cherry blossoms returning in the spring. ''That he and I will always be connected.'' And who knows? Maybe we'll see each other again in twenty-nine years, when the comet passes once more, sending streaks of light across the sky.<br>I hope he still remembers me then. ** Ch. 27, p. 265 * He leans back, taking me in again. "I don't think I got your name, by the way." I smile. "Oliver. And you?" "I'm Ben." "''Ben,''" I say, mostly to myself. "I've always liked that name." ** Epilogue, p. 270 == External links == {{wikipedia}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Thao, Dustin}} [[Category:Novelists from the United States]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Young adult authors]] ilqdpq0hk4w61uuamptt8ncbsph4r08 3961321 3961320 2026-07-05T23:28:28Z AC9016 2870313 /* You've Found Oliver (2025) */ 3961321 wikitext text/x-wiki '''[[w:Dustin Thao|Dustin Thao]]''' is a Vietnamese-American author based in New York City. His works are rooted in contemporary young adult fiction, with elements of magic realism. == Quotes == === ''You've Found Oliver'' (2025) === :<small>New York: Dutton Books. All quotes are from the hardcover first edition.</small> * The moment is gone now. I just smile at him and say, "Don't worry about it. I'll tell you another time." "I'm really sorry about this. I'll text you when I get home, okay?" "You're not coming back?" Sam frowns. "Probably not. Julie's over an hour away, and I still need to drop her off." "That really sucks." "I know. We'll hang out this weekend though. I promise."<br>As we hug goodbye, I get this strange feeling in my chest. I don't know how to explain it. But it makes me want to hold on to him a little longer. The feeling stays with me as I watch him walk away. I didn't know that would be the last time I saw him. That there wouldn't be a later for us. That I would wait up all night for a text that was never coming. ''That I lost him. And I didn't even know it.'' ** Prologue, p. 19 * I was hoping he might ask me to come back with him. We only get to see each other once a week. Why should we waste the rest of the night? The snow has stopped when we come outside. Ben turns on the radio as we drive down the highway. The time honestly flies by when we're together, singing along to the music. We park the car across the street and walk up to his apartment. I change into one of his shirts while he grabs me some water from the kitchen. The Polaroid of me is still there on the wall. There's no television in Ben's room. He takes out his laptop and picks a movie for us to watch. Of course, we're not really paying close attention to it. I'm too busy appreciating how soft his hands are. He looks so beautiful in the glow of the streetlight outside his window. I take in the contours of his face, the waves in his hair, the scent of cologne that lingers on his tan skin. I want to memorize every feature, in case everything vanishes in the morning. Ben kisses my forehead. Then, slowly, he moves his lips to mine. After, he reaches over me and closes the blinds. He lays his head on me and we fall asleep together. ** Ch. 19, p. 196 * I'm not sure what's different this time. I return the touch, running my fingers along his arm. Then we smile at each other. I've never seen him in the morning glow before. ** Ch. 19, p. 197 * "If the astronomy thing doesn't work out, you would be a great chef," I tell him and take another sip of coffee. "You know what they say... whether a poet looks through a pantry or telescope, he always sees the same thing." "Is that a real quote?" "I might have revised it a little." He smiles. "And what's it supposed to mean, exactly?" "It means you see the possibility in things," I say confidently. "Regardless of what you do. Everything's a universe, if you ''really'' think about it. "I like that," he says, nodding. "Maybe you should major in philosophy." "Don't know if I'm smart enough for that." "I think you're smarter than you think you are." I don't say anything back because I'm not used to hearing people say this about me. ** Ch. 19, p. 199 * We finish breakfast, but we stay at the table, enjoying each other's company. Of course, I don't want to intrude on his entire day. Ben has several assignments that are due this week. His notes are spread out across the coffee table. But it feels like the universe gave us extra time. Maybe we shouldn't let it go to waste. ** Ch. 19, p. 199 * I wish we could spend every day together. I don't want to keep waking up without him. This must be what it feels like to fall in love without saying the word. The way he stares at me says he's thinking the same. I don't know why we were connected this way, but I like to believe there's a reason for it. Maybe we're part of some cosmic story, stretching throughout the universe. I just hope it has a good ending. ** Ch. 19, p. 200 * It's a whirlwind of a school week. I'm trying to pin down my schedule as I sit through my old classes. I never thought I'd have to memorize the geologic time scale again. I don't remember where any of my notes are. Is it really possible I'm stuck here? And I have to take all my finals again? I was freaking out about that, but some things have started to come back to me. Like memories, filling the gaps in my head. Maybe it's not the end of the world if I stay. Who wouldn't want to redo the last six months of their life? Especially if it means being closer to someone you love. ** Ch. 22, p. 218 * I've made some mistakes in this timeline. But there's one I ''have'' to fix before going back. ** Ch. 26, p. 256 * There's a quote from ''The Poetics of Space'' that sticks with me. Professor Clarke wrote it on the board the last day of class.<br>''It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality. -Gaston Bachelard''<br>I've been thinking about this more lately, especially as I look back on my life. As much as we want to, we can't control time or keep it from moving forward. Maybe there's something beautiful about that, living with the uncertainty of what's to come. You never know what possibilities will be born out of it. But some things will always be certain. Like the sun rising in the morning. Or the leaves falling in the autumn and the cherry blossoms returning in the spring. ''That he and I will always be connected.'' And who knows? Maybe we'll see each other again in twenty-nine years, when the comet passes once more, sending streaks of light across the sky.<br>I hope he still remembers me then. ** Ch. 27, p. 265 * He leans back, taking me in again. "I don't think I got your name, by the way." I smile. "Oliver. And you?" "I'm Ben." "''Ben,''" I say, mostly to myself. 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I also have a feeling that this page may have been created by Evilasio da Paz/SoulEaterFan, Special:Contributions/2600:1700:BC00:F8B0:6DB7:83B3:7943:9F6F|based on the contributions of the IP address who..." 3961242 wikitext text/x-wiki == [[:Ed, Edd n' Eddy: Jawbreakers!]] == While the game itself may be notable (and based on [[Ed, Edd n Eddy|a series which is definitely notable]], I contest this on grounds of '''quotability''' for only having a single quote which I don't find quotable. I also have a feeling that this page may have been created by Evilasio da Paz/SoulEaterFan, [[Special:Contributions/2600:1700:BC00:F8B0:6DB7:83B3:7943:9F6F|based on the contributions of the IP address who edited the page]] (note how Evilasio created other similar pages over the years under various other IPs). — [[User:03isrflo62410|03isrflo62410]] ([[User talk:03isrflo62410|talk]]) 19:02, 5 July 2026 (UTC) <small>'''Vote closes''': 20:00, 12 July 2026 (UTC)</small> :'''Delete''', nom. [[User:03isrflo62410|03isrflo62410]] ([[User talk:03isrflo62410|talk]]) 19:02, 5 July 2026 (UTC) i2kptxt13cf80sxci05fym09oibwnvs 3961245 3961242 2026-07-05T19:15:46Z Koavf 6765 /* Ed, Edd n' Eddy: Jawbreakers! */ 3961245 wikitext text/x-wiki == [[:Ed, Edd n' Eddy: Jawbreakers!]] == While the game itself may be notable (and based on [[Ed, Edd n Eddy|a series which is definitely notable]], I contest this on grounds of '''quotability''' for only having a single quote which I don't find quotable. I also have a feeling that this page may have been created by Evilasio da Paz/SoulEaterFan, [[Special:Contributions/2600:1700:BC00:F8B0:6DB7:83B3:7943:9F6F|based on the contributions of the IP address who edited the page]] (note how Evilasio created other similar pages over the years under various other IPs). — [[User:03isrflo62410|03isrflo62410]] ([[User talk:03isrflo62410|talk]]) 19:02, 5 July 2026 (UTC) <small>'''Vote closes''': 20:00, 12 July 2026 (UTC)</small> :'''Delete''', nom. [[User:03isrflo62410|03isrflo62410]] ([[User talk:03isrflo62410|talk]]) 19:02, 5 July 2026 (UTC) :'''Delete''' "It stinks, I'm bored." is not quoteworthy, but appropos. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 19:15, 5 July 2026 (UTC) 9hmsfzu0x9axedphrhj5bu2hfwrtvbr 3961246 3961245 2026-07-05T19:22:34Z 03isrflo62410 1485946 3961246 wikitext text/x-wiki == [[:Ed, Edd n' Eddy: Jawbreakers!]] == While the game itself may be notable (and based on [[Ed, Edd n Eddy|a series which is definitely notable]]), I contest this on grounds of '''quotability''' for only having a single quote which I don't find quotable. I also have a feeling that this page may have been created by Evilasio da Paz/SoulEaterFan, [[Special:Contributions/2600:1700:BC00:F8B0:6DB7:83B3:7943:9F6F|based on the contributions of the IP address who edited the page]] (note how Evilasio created other similar pages over the years under various other IPs). — [[User:03isrflo62410|03isrflo62410]] ([[User talk:03isrflo62410|talk]]) 19:02, 5 July 2026 (UTC) <small>'''Vote closes''': 20:00, 12 July 2026 (UTC)</small> :'''Delete''', nom. [[User:03isrflo62410|03isrflo62410]] ([[User talk:03isrflo62410|talk]]) 19:02, 5 July 2026 (UTC) :'''Delete''' "It stinks, I'm bored." is not quoteworthy, but appropos. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 19:15, 5 July 2026 (UTC) lk2hn3p9a5jwc7x7qqtvymazf1sonw6 3961327 3961246 2026-07-05T23:34:25Z Markjoseph125 19526 /* Ed, Edd n' Eddy: Jawbreakers! */ VfD 3961327 wikitext text/x-wiki == [[:Ed, Edd n' Eddy: Jawbreakers!]] == While the game itself may be notable (and based on [[Ed, Edd n Eddy|a series which is definitely notable]]), I contest this on grounds of '''quotability''' for only having a single quote which I don't find quotable. I also have a feeling that this page may have been created by Evilasio da Paz/SoulEaterFan, [[Special:Contributions/2600:1700:BC00:F8B0:6DB7:83B3:7943:9F6F|based on the contributions of the IP address who edited the page]] (note how Evilasio created other similar pages over the years under various other IPs). — [[User:03isrflo62410|03isrflo62410]] ([[User talk:03isrflo62410|talk]]) 19:02, 5 July 2026 (UTC) <small>'''Vote closes''': 20:00, 12 July 2026 (UTC)</small> :'''Delete''', nom. [[User:03isrflo62410|03isrflo62410]] ([[User talk:03isrflo62410|talk]]) 19:02, 5 July 2026 (UTC) :'''Delete''' "It stinks, I'm bored." is not quoteworthy, but appropos. ―[[User:Koavf|Justin (<span style="color:grey">ko'''a'''<span style="color:black">v</span>f</span>)]]<span style="color:red">❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯</span> 19:15, 5 July 2026 (UTC) * '''Delete''', quotability. 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She has been declared a [[w:saint|saint]] by the w:Catholic Church|Catholic..." 3961268 wikitext text/x-wiki [[Immagine:Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi.jpg|thumb|Caterina de' Pazzi at the age of sixteen]] '''[[w:Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi|Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi]]''', [[w:OCarm|OCarm]] (In [[w:Italian language|Italian]]: Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi; born ''Caterina Lucrezia de' Pazzi''; 2 April 1566 – 25 May 1607), was an Italian [[w:Carmelite|Carmelite]] [[w:nun|nun]] and [[w:Christian mysticism|mystic]]. She has been declared a [[w:saint|saint]] by the [[w:Catholic Church|Catholic Church]]. ==''Detti e sentenze memorabili''== :<small>Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi, ''[[s:it:Detti e sentenze memorabili|Detti e sentenze memorabili]]'', traduzione dal francese di Padre Giuseppe Fozi della Compagnia di Gesù, 1669 (in Italian)</small> ===''General sentences and sayings taken from her Life and writings, useful to all, but particularly to religious people''=== *One must have envy of the land of Calvary wet, and soaked by the Blood of Jesus Christ. *And you must not go, but run; you must not run, but fly perfectly. *The cursed human respect is a hungry wolf, an enraged lion, who devours himself and swallows most good works. *Dying to oneself and losing oneself in God is a sure commitment to eternity. *Imagine that everything you do is the last act of your life, decisive in an eternity of good or an eternity of evil. *Religion is an earthly paradise in which the soul unites with God more closely, participates more abundantly in the treasures of the Church, enjoys a very sweet peace that divinely embalms it and makes it become a small deity on earth. *When the priests live badly, the sun eclipses and the light turns to darkness, filling everything with disorder. ===''Sayings and sentences useful for those entering religion''=== *You must enter religion with the purest intention, and not be dragged into it by force or by fine and worldly interest. *The eyes of the religious person are closed and clenched to all things of the earth and open to those of heaven so as not to see that Jesus Christ. *Religion is a traffic and a shop: you earn a hundred for one when you know how to handle its talent. *Religion purges, illuminates and perfects all internal and external man. *The vocation to religion is the greatest gratia that God can give to his elect after baptism. *Or how much better it would be to stay in the century, than to damn oneself in religion. ===''Sayings and sentences regarding the three religious vows''=== *[[Chastity]] is a rose, which blossoms only in closed gardens and among thorns. *Religious [[poverty]] is little known and also less observed. *Evangelical poverty not only commands one to leave, but to give as much as one has. *The [[truth]] is indeed pure that if one were to admit a mixture of other things she would no longer be truth. ==Quotes about== *She declared herself ready to offer «a thousand times a day» her life, and to renounce Heaven, if she could save even a single soul with this, [...] she said of herself that she would like «to melt all in water to wash all the hearts». :*[[Hans Urs von Balthasar]], quoted in ''Sperare per tutti'' (translation by Maria and Luigi Frattini), with the addition of ''Breve discorso sull'inferno'' (translation by Carlo Danna), in the appendix ''Apocatastasi'' (translation by Ellero Babini), Jaca Book, Milano, 1997. ISBN 978-88-16-30323-2, p. 77. ==External links== {{similar links}} {{DEFAULTSORT|de' Pazzi, Mary Magdalene}} [[Category:1566 births]] [[Category:1607 deaths]] [[Category:Nuns]] [[Category:Mystics]] [[Category:Catholics from Italy]] [[Category:Catholic saints]] sf1uudibdvwu8dzo53yould3rh2gool 3961269 3961268 2026-07-05T19:49:57Z ~2026-38442-42 3347746 3961269 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi.jpg|thumb|Caterina de' Pazzi at the age of sixteen]] '''[[w:Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi|Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi]]''', [[w:OCarm|OCarm]] (In [[w:Italian language|Italian]]: Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi; born ''Caterina Lucrezia de' Pazzi''; 2 April 1566 – 25 May 1607), was an Italian [[w:Carmelite|Carmelite]] [[w:nun|nun]] and [[w:Christian mysticism|mystic]]. She has been declared a [[w:saint|saint]] by the [[w:Catholic Church|Catholic Church]]. ==''Detti e sentenze memorabili''== :<small>Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi, ''[[s:it:Detti e sentenze memorabili|Detti e sentenze memorabili]]'', traduzione dal francese di Padre Giuseppe Fozi della Compagnia di Gesù, 1669 (in Italian)</small> ===''General sentences and sayings taken from her Life and writings, useful to all, but particularly to religious people''=== *One must have envy of the land of Calvary wet, and soaked by the Blood of Jesus Christ. *And you must not go, but run; you must not run, but fly perfectly. *The cursed human respect is a hungry wolf, an enraged lion, who devours himself and swallows most good works. *Dying to oneself and losing oneself in God is a sure commitment to eternity. *Imagine that everything you do is the last act of your life, decisive in an eternity of good or an eternity of evil. *Religion is an earthly paradise in which the soul unites with God more closely, participates more abundantly in the treasures of the Church, enjoys a very sweet peace that divinely embalms it and makes it become a small deity on earth. *When the priests live badly, the sun eclipses and the light turns to darkness, filling everything with disorder. ===''Sayings and sentences useful for those entering religion''=== *You must enter religion with the purest intention, and not be dragged into it by force or by fine and worldly interest. *The eyes of the religious person are closed and clenched to all things of the earth and open to those of heaven so as not to see that Jesus Christ. *Religion is a traffic and a shop: you earn a hundred for one when you know how to handle its talent. *Religion purges, illuminates and perfects all internal and external man. *The vocation to religion is the greatest gratia that God can give to his elect after baptism. *Or how much better it would be to stay in the century, than to damn oneself in religion. ===''Sayings and sentences regarding the three religious vows''=== *[[Chastity]] is a rose, which blossoms only in closed gardens and among thorns. *Religious [[poverty]] is little known and also less observed. *Evangelical poverty not only commands one to leave, but to give as much as one has. *The [[truth]] is indeed pure that if one were to admit a mixture of other things she would no longer be truth. ==Quotes about== *She declared herself ready to offer «a thousand times a day» her life, and to renounce Heaven, if she could save even a single soul with this, [...] she said of herself that she would like «to melt all in water to wash all the hearts». :*[[Hans Urs von Balthasar]], quoted in ''Sperare per tutti'' (translation by Maria and Luigi Frattini), with the addition of ''Breve discorso sull'inferno'' (translation by Carlo Danna), in the appendix ''Apocatastasi'' (translation by Ellero Babini), Jaca Book, Milano, 1997. ISBN 978-88-16-30323-2, p. 77. ==External links== {{similar links}} {{DEFAULTSORT|de' Pazzi, Mary Magdalene}} [[Category:1566 births]] [[Category:1607 deaths]] [[Category:Nuns]] [[Category:Mystics]] [[Category:Catholics from Italy]] [[Category:Catholic saints]] q7qgm5voviwkihmf399tgrmf4b522ps 4 309319 3961302 2026-07-05T22:12:56Z 03isrflo62410 1485946 Created page with "{{subst:vfd-new2|pg=Ed, Edd n Eddy and the Cyber-Chase|text=Obviously fanmade content (no such film exists, this is clearly someone's parody of [[Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase]]). Hasn't been edited since its creation. — ~~~~}} :'''Delete''', nom. ~~~~" 3961302 wikitext text/x-wiki == [[:Ed, Edd n Eddy and the Cyber-Chase]] == Obviously fanmade content (no such film exists, this is clearly someone's parody of [[Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase]]). Hasn't been edited since its creation. — [[User:03isrflo62410|03isrflo62410]] ([[User talk:03isrflo62410|talk]]) 22:12, 5 July 2026 (UTC) <small>'''Vote closes''': 23:00, 12 July 2026 (UTC)</small> :'''Delete''', nom. [[User:03isrflo62410|03isrflo62410]] ([[User talk:03isrflo62410|talk]]) 22:12, 5 July 2026 (UTC) 0y20h15lqymeqdeiupit7zgbhntkwb3 3961328 3961302 2026-07-05T23:35:27Z Markjoseph125 19526 /* Ed, Edd n Eddy and the Cyber-Chase */ VfD 3961328 wikitext text/x-wiki == [[:Ed, Edd n Eddy and the Cyber-Chase]] == Obviously fanmade content (no such film exists, this is clearly someone's parody of [[Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase]]). Hasn't been edited since its creation. — [[User:03isrflo62410|03isrflo62410]] ([[User talk:03isrflo62410|talk]]) 22:12, 5 July 2026 (UTC) <small>'''Vote closes''': 23:00, 12 July 2026 (UTC)</small> :'''Delete''', nom. [[User:03isrflo62410|03isrflo62410]] ([[User talk:03isrflo62410|talk]]) 22:12, 5 July 2026 (UTC) * '''Delete''', quotability. Wikiquote will never be a respectable resource until we can remove juvenile clutter like this. [[User:Markjoseph125|Markjoseph125]] ([[User talk:Markjoseph125|talk]]) 23:35, 5 July 2026 (UTC) 2uuz8jjhhs0mhym2lqosko0a4zqxhdx 4 309320 3961305 2026-07-05T22:15:36Z Codename Noreste 3154048 Redirected page to [[Wikiquote:Oversight]] 3961305 wikitext text/x-wiki #REDIRECT [[Wikiquote:Oversight]] 5oqfd2criv90p5ew5w3xtk162448tb6 0 309321 3961311 2026-07-05T23:11:12Z Suslindisambiguator 275269 created page with 2 quotes from Charles Augustus Young & 1 quote about him 3961311 wikitext text/x-wiki '''{{w|Charles Augustus Young}}''' (December 15, 1834 &ndash; January 4, 1908) was an American astronomer, noteworthy as a pioneer of {{w|Astronomical spectroscopy|solar spectroscopy}}. In 1874 he was elected to both the [[American Philosophical Society]] and the U.S. {{w|National Academy of Sciences}}. Young served as the president of the {{w|American Association for the Advancement of Science}} for a one year term from 1883 to 1884. ==Quotes== * ... {{w|Heinrich Schwabe|Schwabe}}’s discovery of the {{w|Sunspots#Solar cycle|periodicity of the sun-spots}} in 1851; the development of {{w|Astronomical spectroscopy|spectroscopic analysis}} between 1854 and 1870; the [[eclipse]] observations since 1860; the researches of {{w|Richard Christopher Carrington|Carrington}}, {{w|William Huggins|Huggins}}, {{w|Warren De la Rue|De La Rue}}, {{w|Norman Lockyer|Lockyer}}, {{w|Pierre Janssen|Janssen}}, {{w|Angelo Secchi|Secchi}}, {{w|Hermann Carl Vogel|Vogel}}, [[Samuel Langley|Langley]], and others; the establishment of the solar observatories at {{w|Astrophysical Institute Potsdam#Foundation of the Astrophysical_Observatory Potsdam (AOP)|Potsdam}} and {{w|Paris Observatory#Meudon|Meudon}}—these are all evidences of the ardor with which [[astronomer]]s have devoted themselves to the problems of solar science, and of their rich rewards. ** {{cite book|title=The Sun|series=Volume 34 of International Scientific Series. American ed|publisher=D. Appleton & Company|year=1881|location=New York|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2kIJAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA15|page=15}} (321 pages) * By means of [[Astronomy]] the {{w|latitude}}s and {{w|longitude}}s of places upon the earth's surface are determined, and by such determinations alone is it possible to conduct vessels upon the [[sea]]. Moreover, all the operations of surveying upon a large scale, such as the determination of the boundaries of countries, depend more or less upon astronomical observations. The same is true of operations which, like the railway service, require an accurate knowledge and observance of time; for the fundamental timekeeper is the [[:wiktionary:diurnal|diurnal]] revolution of the heavens, as determined by the astronomer's {{w|Transit instrument|transit-instrument}}. ** {{cite book|title=Lessons in Astronomy Including Uranography: A Brief Introductory Course Without Mathematics, for Use in Schools and Seminaries|location=Boston|publisher=Ginn & Company|year=1891|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TDwZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1|page=1}} (357 pages) ==Quotes about Charles Augustus Young== * In the summer of 1877 Professor Young accepted a call to the professorship of [[astronomy]] at [[Princeton University|Princeton]], with the assurance of a fine modern equipment and less time required for the classroom. His special appreciation of instruments and his well-balanced judgment as a teacher contributed to the establishment within a short time of the best astronomical observatory for the purposes of instruction then existing. By 1882 the [https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019AAS...23317201L/abstract excellent 23-inch Clark refractor] was set up in the [https://www.princetonianamuseum.org/artifact/f186731f-3efd-433e-b8df-097fbff215aa Halsted observatory], and provided with a [https://www.nature.com/articles/045028c0 powerful solar spectroscope for his own researches]. But in spite of the energy necessarily required for this new construction, Professor Young was active in research as well as writing. In 1878 he conducted a Princeton party to [[Denver]] to observe the {{w|Solar eclipse of July 29, 1878|eclipse of July 29}}. ** {{w|Edwin Brant Frost}}, {{cite journal|title=Biographical Memoir of Charles Augustus Young 1834-1908|journal=Biographical Memoirs of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences|volume=VII|year=1910|pages=89–114|url=https://www.nasonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/young-charles.pdf}} (quote from p. 100) ==External links== * {{wikipedia-inline}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Young, Charles Augustus}} [[Category:1834 births]] [[Category:1908 deaths]] [[Category:Academics from the United States]] [[Category:Astronomers from the United States]] [[Category:Dartmouth College alumni]] [[Category:Dartmouth College faculty]] [[Category:Princeton University faculty]] [[Category:Members of the American Philosophical Society]] [[Category:Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences]] [[Category:People from New Hampshire]] 3i6o3kulfo0a9contr7w4o3m8pg3g5y 3961377 3961311 2026-07-06T07:01:42Z Suslindisambiguator 275269 added quote about Mars from 1889 article 3961377 wikitext text/x-wiki '''{{w|Charles Augustus Young}}''' (December 15, 1834 &ndash; January 4, 1908) was an American astronomer, noteworthy as a pioneer of {{w|Astronomical spectroscopy|solar spectroscopy}}. In 1874 he was elected to both the {{w|American Philosophical Society}} and the U.S. {{w|National Academy of Sciences}}. Young served as the president of the {{w|American Association for the Advancement of Science}} for a one year term from 1883 to 1884. ==Quotes== * ... {{w|Heinrich Schwabe|Schwabe}}’s discovery of the {{w|Sunspots#Solar cycle|periodicity of the sun-spots}} in 1851; the development of {{w|Astronomical spectroscopy|spectroscopic analysis}} between 1854 and 1870; the [[eclipse]] observations since 1860; the researches of {{w|Richard Christopher Carrington|Carrington}}, {{w|William Huggins|Huggins}}, {{w|Warren De la Rue|De La Rue}}, {{w|Norman Lockyer|Lockyer}}, {{w|Pierre Janssen|Janssen}}, {{w|Angelo Secchi|Secchi}}, {{w|Hermann Carl Vogel|Vogel}}, [[Samuel Langley|Langley]], and others; the establishment of the solar observatories at {{w|Astrophysical Institute Potsdam#Foundation of the Astrophysical_Observatory Potsdam (AOP)|Potsdam}} and {{w|Paris Observatory#Meudon|Meudon}}—these are all evidences of the ardor with which [[astronomer]]s have devoted themselves to the problems of solar science, and of their rich rewards. ** {{cite book|title=The Sun|series=Volume 34 of International Scientific Series. American ed|publisher=D. Appleton & Company|year=1881|location=New York|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2kIJAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA15|page=15}} (321 pages) * At the time of its passing and nearest approach, [[Mars]] is said to be in “{{w|Opposition (astronomy)|Opposition}},” because it is then, like the {{w|full moon}}, opposite to the [[sun]] in the sky, rising at [[sunset]] and conspicuous all night long. …<br>We find observations of the planet as far back as 356 {{small-caps|b.c.}} , when on April 4th, as [[Aristotle]] records, it was “{{w|Occultation|occulted}}” by the moon. (The date of this observation was first settled by [[Johannes Kepler|Kepler]].) Other observations in considerable number are quoted by [[Ptolemy]], who himself observed with great care the opposition of the year 130 {{small-caps|a.d.}} at [[Alexandria]]. ** {{cite journal|title=The Planet Mars|journal=The Presbyterian Review|volume=10|issue=39|pages=400–414|date=July 1889|url=https://commons.ptsem.edu/id/presbyterianrevi1039unse-dmd004}} (quote from p. 401) * By means of [[Astronomy]] the {{w|latitude}}s and {{w|longitude}}s of places upon the earth's surface are determined, and by such determinations alone is it possible to conduct vessels upon the [[sea]]. Moreover, all the operations of surveying upon a large scale, such as the determination of the boundaries of countries, depend more or less upon astronomical observations. The same is true of operations which, like the railway service, require an accurate knowledge and observance of time; for the fundamental timekeeper is the [[:wiktionary:diurnal|diurnal]] revolution of the heavens, as determined by the astronomer's {{w|Transit instrument|transit-instrument}}. ** {{cite book|title=Lessons in Astronomy Including Uranography: A Brief Introductory Course Without Mathematics, for Use in Schools and Seminaries|location=Boston|publisher=Ginn & Company|year=1891|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TDwZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1|page=1}} (357 pages) ==Quotes about Charles Augustus Young== * In the summer of 1877 Professor Young accepted a call to the professorship of [[astronomy]] at [[Princeton University|Princeton]], with the assurance of a fine modern equipment and less time required for the classroom. His special appreciation of instruments and his well-balanced judgment as a teacher contributed to the establishment within a short time of the best astronomical observatory for the purposes of instruction then existing. By 1882 the [https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019AAS...23317201L/abstract excellent 23-inch Clark refractor] was set up in the [https://www.princetonianamuseum.org/artifact/f186731f-3efd-433e-b8df-097fbff215aa Halsted observatory], and provided with a [https://www.nature.com/articles/045028c0 powerful solar spectroscope for his own researches]. But in spite of the energy necessarily required for this new construction, Professor Young was active in research as well as writing. In 1878 he conducted a Princeton party to [[Denver]] to observe the {{w|Solar eclipse of July 29, 1878|eclipse of July 29}}. ** {{w|Edwin Brant Frost}}, {{cite journal|title=Biographical Memoir of Charles Augustus Young 1834-1908|journal=Biographical Memoirs of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences|volume=VII|year=1910|pages=89–114|url=https://www.nasonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/young-charles.pdf}} (quote from p. 100) ==External links== * {{wikipedia-inline}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Young, Charles Augustus}} [[Category:1834 births]] [[Category:1908 deaths]] [[Category:Academics from the United States]] [[Category:Astronomers from the United States]] [[Category:Dartmouth College alumni]] [[Category:Dartmouth College faculty]] [[Category:Princeton University faculty]] [[Category:Members of the American Philosophical Society]] [[Category:Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences]] [[Category:People from New Hampshire]] bue18wkamjwvhts7s8wigvs85voqe7o 4 309322 3961323 2026-07-05T23:32:41Z Kalki 71 Created page with "{{Wikiquote:Quote of the day/Template | image1 = The Dalai Lama in 2012.jpg | image1px = 252px | image2 = His Holiness the Dalai Lama dialogue in India with 28 youth peacebuilders convened by USIP discussed using compassion in transforming violent conflicts into peaceful dialogue on 13 June 2016 - 6.jpg | image2px = 292px | quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> -->[[All]] major [[religious]] [[traditions]] carry basically the same [[message]], that is [[love]], [[compassion]] and fo..." 3961323 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Wikiquote:Quote of the day/Template | image1 = The Dalai Lama in 2012.jpg | image1px = 252px | image2 = His Holiness the Dalai Lama dialogue in India with 28 youth peacebuilders convened by USIP discussed using compassion in transforming violent conflicts into peaceful dialogue on 13 June 2016 - 6.jpg | image2px = 292px | quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> -->[[All]] major [[religious]] [[traditions]] carry basically the same [[message]], that is [[love]], [[compassion]] and [[forgiveness]] … the [[important]] thing is they should be part of our daily [[lives]]. | author = Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama }} t5abgjigdo6p9h26e2vxok33r68ugyf 2 309323 3961349 2026-07-06T01:58:27Z Aces1976 3344984 /* */ 3961349 wikitext text/x-wiki MRS NINA DOBREV PATON WITH MR BLAIR ROBERT PATON IN FULL SERIOUS RELATIONSHIP LIVING TOGETHER AS A REAL SERIOUS COUPLE WHO I WANT FIVE KIDS TOGETHER JUST WITH ME MR BLAIR ROBERT PATON REALING SERIOUS RELATIONSHIP JUST WITH ME MR BLAIR ROBERT PATON REALING SERIOUS RELATIONSHIP LIVING TOGETHER JUST WITH YOU MRS NIKOLINA KONSTANTIOVA DOBREVVA PATON AKA NINA DOBREV PATON MARRY ME BLAIR ROBERT PATON REALING SERIOUS WANT MARRY YOU NINA DOBREV PATON OK? g13v9vmzl65hu1x83ko4euzopq4ajr4 3961353 3961349 2026-07-06T02:35:46Z MathXplore 3050778 Requesting deletion ([[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]] v3.1c) 3961353 wikitext text/x-wiki <noinclude>{{delete|1=Out of project scope <small>[[:m:Special:MyLanguage/User:TenWhile6/XReport|XReport]]</small>}}</noinclude> MRS NINA DOBREV PATON WITH MR BLAIR ROBERT PATON IN FULL SERIOUS RELATIONSHIP LIVING TOGETHER AS A REAL SERIOUS COUPLE WHO I WANT FIVE KIDS TOGETHER JUST WITH ME MR BLAIR ROBERT PATON REALING SERIOUS RELATIONSHIP JUST WITH ME MR BLAIR ROBERT PATON REALING SERIOUS RELATIONSHIP LIVING TOGETHER JUST WITH YOU MRS NIKOLINA KONSTANTIOVA DOBREVVA PATON AKA NINA DOBREV PATON MARRY ME BLAIR ROBERT PATON REALING SERIOUS WANT MARRY YOU NINA DOBREV PATON OK? odzudt4yqv8luee76jdoajl7f7pfxh4 2 309324 3961352 2026-07-06T02:26:42Z Joaquim Bento Rodrigues 3347829 (O otimismo é uma forma de ver uma parte positiva da vida. Não significa que tudo pode ser bom, mas também não significa que tudo precisa ser negativo) Data: 05 de Julho de 2026 3961352 wikitext text/x-wiki phoiac9h4m842xq45sp7s6u21eteeq1 0 309325 3961366 2026-07-06T05:06:08Z Ficaia 3085955 Created page with "[[File:Kutuzov by Volkov.jpg|thumb|]] Prince '''[[w:Mikhail Kutuzov|Mikhail Illarionovich Golenishchev-Kutuzov-Smolensky]]''' (Russian: Михаил Илларионович Голенищев-Кутузов-Смоленский; 16 September [O.S. 5 September] 1745 – 28 April [O.S. 16 April] 1813) was a field marshal of the Russian Empire. He served as a military officer and a diplomat under three Romanov monarchs: Catherine II, Paul I and Alexander I. Kutuzov was sho..." 3961366 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Kutuzov by Volkov.jpg|thumb|]] Prince '''[[w:Mikhail Kutuzov|Mikhail Illarionovich Golenishchev-Kutuzov-Smolensky]]''' (Russian: Михаил Илларионович Голенищев-Кутузов-Смоленский; 16 September [O.S. 5 September] 1745 – 28 April [O.S. 16 April] 1813) was a field marshal of the Russian Empire. He served as a military officer and a diplomat under three Romanov monarchs: Catherine II, Paul I and Alexander I. Kutuzov was shot in the head twice while fighting the Turks (1774 and 1788) and survived the serious injuries seemingly against all odds. He defeated Napoleon as commander-in-chief using attrition warfare in the Patriotic War of 1812. For the Battle of Krasnoi, he received the victory title '''Smolensky''' (lit. 'of Smolensk'). {{stub}} == Quotes == * Outside the gate Kutuzov was sitting in a droshky, buried in deep thought. Colonel Toll drove up to the Russian general and reported that the French had entered Moscow. "God be praised," answered Kutuzov. "That is their last triumph." ** Speech to his men before withdrawing his forces to the southeast of Moscow, as recalled by [[Sergey Glinka]]. Translated by Anthony Brett-James, ''1812: Eyewitness Accounts of Napoleon's Defeat in Russia'' (London: Macmillan, 1966), p. 165 * For myself, stationed...between the enemy and the fertile provinces, and at a short distance from Moscow, I watch his movements, and guard the resources of the empire: for, I must repeat, that as long as the army of your Imperial Majesty exists, (and it will exist as long as there is a Russian alive to defend his country!) the loss of Moscow is not the loss of the empire! The invader will be compelled to evacuate the capital of the Tzars. Its ruins will be repaired, and the glory of the empire brightened by the very attempts that have been made to extinguish its existence. ** Letter to Tzar [[Alexander I of Russia|Alexander I]], dated from the village of Gilino, 16 Sept. [O.S. 4 Sept.] 1812. Reported in Sir Robert Ker Porter, ''A Narrative of the Campaign in Russia, during the Year 1812'' (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1813), p. 105 == External links == * {{Wikipedia-inline}} [[Category:1745 births]] [[Category:1813 deaths]] [[Category:Military leaders from Russia]] [[Category:People of the Napoleonic Wars]] j3dy99yqsvr7evqjd2tonm8zyirgpac 3961367 3961366 2026-07-06T05:06:26Z Ficaia 3085955 3961367 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Kutuzov by Volkov.jpg|thumb|]] Prince '''[[w:Mikhail Kutuzov|Mikhail Illarionovich Golenishchev-Kutuzov-Smolensky]]''' (Russian: Михаил Илларионович Голенищев-Кутузов-Смоленский; 16 September [O.S. 5 September] 1745 – 28 April [O.S. 16 April] 1813) was a field marshal of the Russian Empire. He served as a military officer and a diplomat under three Romanov monarchs: Catherine II, Paul I and Alexander I. Kutuzov was shot in the head twice while fighting the Turks (1774 and 1788) and survived the serious injuries seemingly against all odds. He defeated Napoleon as commander-in-chief using attrition warfare in the Patriotic War of 1812. For the Battle of Krasnoi, he received the victory title '''Smolensky''' (lit. 'of Smolensk'). {{stub}} == Quotes == * Outside the gate Kutuzov was sitting in a droshky, buried in deep thought. Colonel Toll drove up to the Russian general and reported that the French had entered Moscow. "God be praised," answered Kutuzov. "That is their last triumph." ** Speech to his men before withdrawing his forces to the southeast of Moscow, as recalled by [[Sergey Glinka]]. Translated by Anthony Brett-James, ''1812: Eyewitness Accounts of Napoleon's Defeat in Russia'' (London: Macmillan, 1966), p. 165 * For myself, stationed...between the enemy and the fertile provinces, and at a short distance from Moscow, I watch his movements, and guard the resources of the empire: for, I must repeat, that as long as the army of your Imperial Majesty exists, (and it will exist as long as there is a Russian alive to defend his country!) the loss of Moscow is not the loss of the empire! The invader will be compelled to evacuate the capital of the Tzars. Its ruins will be repaired, and the glory of the empire brightened by the very attempts that have been made to extinguish its existence. ** Letter to Tzar [[Alexander I of Russia|Alexander I]], dated from the village of Gilino, 16 Sept. [O.S. 4 Sept.] 1812. Reported in Sir Robert Ker Porter, ''A Narrative of the Campaign in Russia, during the Year 1812'' (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1813), p. 105 == External links == * {{Wikipedia-inline}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Kutuzov, Mikhail}} [[Category:1745 births]] [[Category:1813 deaths]] [[Category:Military leaders from Russia]] [[Category:People of the Napoleonic Wars]] 8w458b7atqbbz6e91283ctcfxbckkkl 0 309326 3961379 2026-07-06T07:54:34Z Ficaia 3085955 Created page with "[[File:Esenin Moscow 1922.jpg|thumb|]] '''[[w:Sergei Yesenin|Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin]]''' (3 October [O.S. 21 September] 1895 – 28 December 1925) was a Russian lyric poet. He is one of the most popular and well-known Russian poets of the 20th century. {{author-stub}} == Quotes == * Так мало пройдено дорог,<br>Так много сделано ошибок. ** The roads that have been walked are few,<br>Mistakes that have been made are many. *..." 3961379 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Esenin Moscow 1922.jpg|thumb|]] '''[[w:Sergei Yesenin|Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin]]''' (3 October [O.S. 21 September] 1895 – 28 December 1925) was a Russian lyric poet. He is one of the most popular and well-known Russian poets of the 20th century. {{author-stub}} == Quotes == * Так мало пройдено дорог,<br>Так много сделано ошибок. ** The roads that have been walked are few,<br>Mistakes that have been made are many. ** «[[s:ru:Мне грустно на тебя смотреть (Есенин)|Мне грустно на тебя смотреть]]» (1923), translated by Alec S. Vagapov, [https://samlib.ru/a/as_w/yesen.shtml "Yesenin: Collection of Poems"], [[w:Samizdat (poetry magazine)|''Samizdat'']] (posted 4 Nov. 2006, modified 14 July 2008) <!-- * Вся Америка — жадная пасть,<br>* * *<br>Там настроены города.<br>Вместо наших глухих раздолий<br>Там, на каждой почти полосе,<br>Перерезано рельсами поле<br>С цепью каменных рек-шоссе.<br>И по каменным рекам без пыли,<br>И по рельсам без стона шпал<br>И экспрессы и автомобили<br>От разбега в бензинном мыле<br>Мчат, секундой считая долла́р.<br>Места нет здесь мечтам и химерам,<br>Отшумела тех лет пора.<br>Всё курьеры, курьеры, курьеры,<br>Маклера, маклера, маклера...<br>От еврея и до китайца,<br>Проходимец и джентельмен —<br>Все в единой графе считаются<br>Одинаково — business man.<br>На цилиндры, шапо и кепи<br>Дождик акций свистит и льёт.<br>Вот где вам мировые цепи,<br>Вот где вам мировое жульё.<br>Если хочешь здесь душу выржать,<br>То сочтут: или глуп, или пьян.<br>Вот она — Мировая Биржа!<br>Вот они — подлецы всех стран. ** All America is a greedy maw. There cities have been built. Instead of our remote wild expanses, there, on almost every strip, the field is cut through by rails With a chain of stone rivers—highways. And along the stone rivers without dust, and along the rails without the groaning of sleepers, both expresses and automobiles, in the foaming lather of petrol from their speed, race on, counting the dollar by the second. There is no place here for dreams and chimeras; the time of those years has long since roared away. Nothing but couriers, couriers, couriers, brokers, brokers, brokers... From the Jew to the Chinese, sharper and gentleman — all are entered in a single column, alike — as business men. Upon top hats, ''chapeaux'', and caps, the rain of shares whistles and pours. Here are your world-chains, here is your world-wide knavery. If you wish to vomit up your soul here, they will think you either stupid or drunk. Here it is — the World Exchange! Here they are — the scoundrels of all countries. ** «[[w:Land of Scoundrels|Страна негодяев]]» (1924), [[s:ru:Страна негодяев (Есенин)/Часть вторая|pt. 2]], translated by [[ChatGPT]] (6 July 2026)--> == External links == * {{Wikipedia-inline}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Yesenin, Sergei}} [[Category:1895 births]] [[Category:1925 deaths]] [[Category:Poets from Russia]] pxymjsz0aupiqnjwe25orovap2yxws1 0 309327 3961380 2026-07-06T08:19:00Z Ficaia 3085955 Created page with "'''[[w:Carleton S. Coon|Carleton Stevens Coon]]''' (June 23, 1904 – June 3, 1981) was an American anthropologist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He is best known for his scientific racist theories concerning the parallel evolution of human races, which were widely disputed in his lifetime and are considered pseudoscientific by modern science. == Quotes == * The Americans of colonial British ancestry are not like Englishmen in the larger sense of the..." 3961380 wikitext text/x-wiki '''[[w:Carleton S. Coon|Carleton Stevens Coon]]''' (June 23, 1904 – June 3, 1981) was an American anthropologist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He is best known for his scientific racist theories concerning the parallel evolution of human races, which were widely disputed in his lifetime and are considered pseudoscientific by modern science. == Quotes == * The Americans of colonial British ancestry are not like Englishmen in the larger sense of the word. The English who went to America in the Colonial period were a definitely selected group — selected on the basis of religion, social and economic position, and geographical distribution. Once in America, under new conditions, comparative isolation, and the intensive cross-breeding of relatively few family lines, this differentiation was accentuated. Once the arable lands of New England and New York State had been cleared and cultivated, the farmers who moved westward into the fertile Ohio Valley, and on successively to Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa, were not typical examples of the total population of which they were drawn. The selection of the mountain men of the Rockies, and of the early cattle rangers of the Plains was even more noticeable. ** ''The Races of Europe'' (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1939), general introduction, p. 8 * If men of the Early and Middle Pleistocene, no matter how strong their jaws or how large their teeth, ate raw roots and raw meat, they can have had little time during the average day for hunting and tool-making; but once man began to cook his food, he could cut down his eating time to two hours a day. With the rest of the hours of dawn and daylight he could go hunting, carry home his game, work on his weapons, talk with his kin, and teach his sons many skills. The introduction of cooking may well have been the decisive factor in leading man from a primarily animal-like material existence into one that was more fully human. ** ''The Story of Man'' (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954), ch. 2, p. 63 * It is the retention by twentieth-century, Atom Age men of the Neolithic point of view that says: ''You stay in your village and I will stay in mine. If your sheep eat our grass we will kill you, or we may kill you anyhow to get all the grass for our own sheep. Anyone who tries to make us change our ways is a witch and we will kill him. Keep out of our village.'' ** ''The Story of Man'' (1954), ch. 11, p. 376 * If Africa was the cradle of mankind, it was only an indifferent kindergarten. Europe and Asia were our principal schools. ** ''The Origins of Races'' (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966), ch. 12, p. 656 == External links == * {{Wikipedia-inline}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Coon, Carleton S.}} [[Category:1904 births]] [[Category:1981 deaths]] [[Category:Anthropologists from the United States]] [[Category:Non-fiction authors from the United States]] [[Category:Harvard University alumni]] [[Category:University of Pennsylvania faculty]] [[Category:People from Massachusetts]] cld9ltodhw18qi41bm2iilujxkcmisx 0 309329 3961382 2026-07-06T08:54:39Z Ficaia 3085955 Created page with "[[File:Vasily Klyuchevsky 2.jpg|thumb|]] '''[[w:Vasily Klyuchevsky|Vasily Osipovich Klyuchevsky]]''' (Russian: Василий Осипович Ключевский; 28 January [O.S. 16 January] 1841 – 25 May [O.S. 12 May] 1911) was a leading Russian Imperial historian of the late imperial period. He also addressed the contemporary Russian economy in his writings. {{author-stub}} == Attributed == * Science is often identified with knowledge. This is a gross misunderst..." 3961382 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Vasily Klyuchevsky 2.jpg|thumb|]] '''[[w:Vasily Klyuchevsky|Vasily Osipovich Klyuchevsky]]''' (Russian: Василий Осипович Ключевский; 28 January [O.S. 16 January] 1841 – 25 May [O.S. 12 May] 1911) was a leading Russian Imperial historian of the late imperial period. He also addressed the contemporary Russian economy in his writings. {{author-stub}} == Attributed == * Science is often identified with knowledge. This is a gross misunderstanding. Science is not merely knowledge, but also consciousness, that is, the skill of properly using knowledge. ** Reported in V. V. Vorontsov, ed., ''Words of the Wise: A Book of Russian Quotations'' (USSR: Progress Publishers, 1979), p. 486 == External links == * {{Wikipedia-inline}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Klyuchevsky, Vasily}} [[Category:1841 births]] [[Category:1911 deaths]] [[Category:Historians from Russia]] n0hrdqxsvsznavd1dd5e1zjtgfzgtv8 3961383 3961382 2026-07-06T08:55:23Z Ficaia 3085955 3961383 wikitext text/x-wiki [[File:Vasily Klyuchevsky 2.jpg|thumb|]] '''[[w:Vasily Klyuchevsky|Vasily Osipovich Klyuchevsky]]''' (Russian: Василий Осипович Ключевский; 28 January [O.S. 16 January] 1841 – 25 May [O.S. 12 May] 1911) was a leading Russian Imperial historian of the late imperial period. He also addressed the contemporary Russian economy in his writings. {{author-stub}} == Attributed == * [[Science]] is often identified with knowledge. This is a gross misunderstanding. Science is not merely knowledge, but also consciousness, that is, the skill of properly using knowledge. ** Reported in V. V. 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